Gotham Season 3 Episode 5: Anything For You DC Comics Reference Guide

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Gotham Season 3 Episode 5: "Anything For You"

This week saw the return of the Red Hood gang. Of course, the Red Hood identity was first used by the Joker in the Clown Prince of Crime’s origin tale in Detective Comics #168 (1951). The Red Hood was used a number of times since the original Golden Age Joker tale as well, most recently as the new identity of former Robin and former corpse Jason Todd.

This week, the Red Hood Gang was used as an Easter egg just for the sake of being an Easter egg as Butch’s group of hired thugs could have just worn generic ski masks and served the same plot function. But it is kind of cool to see the Red Hoods as an almost urban legend type gang. It also further explains why the Joker would adopt that identity if Gothamever goes that route.

- Edward Nygma looked right smart in that green blazer didn’t he?

- The kiss that Bruce and Selina share on the rooftop is the first of many nighttime rooftop smooches the two will exchange before it’s all said and done. Of course, most of them will be while wearing ludicrous amounts of leather and Kevlar, but hey, those two crazy kids gotta start things small and innocent, you know?

- We saw Ivy with a hapless, brain-addled male patsy this week at Cobblepot’s party. This is a major part of Poison Ivy’s MO. She frequently uses her abilities and looks to manipulate men of means into being her mind controlled sugar daddies. We’ve seen her do this to Harvey Dent in Batman: The Animated Series to great dramatic effect and we saw her do it to Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson to not so dramatic effect in the cinematic suppository that was Batman & Robin. But this week, we saw Ivy use her powers to manipulate some shmuck in a tux for the first time.

- Man, how unsettling is Mad Hatter now? Mad Hatter has always been an important rogue in Batman lore, but other than Jerome, the Hatter is probably the biggest psycho killer Gotham has presented. Way to up the ante on Jervis Tetch, Gotham.

- I think I’m going to stick by my Captain Nathaniel Barnes as Solomon Grundy theory, especially with that story about the rage mice chewing through cages to savage other mice. We already had a sort of Solomon Grundy on Arrowso this would make one of the very few DC characters to pop up in both the Berlanti shows and Gotham. Let’s see if I’m right.

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