The Red Hood Gang hit Gotham but the Joker is still haunting the series in an episode packed with Easter Eggs and homages to DC Comics.
This week’s episode adds to the speculation the man who will become the Joker has already made an appearance on the “before Batman” prequel series.
The Red Hood Gang is a group of criminals who take orders from a central figure in a red hood.
After last week’s “could this be the Joker” moment after Jim Gordon solved the Haly’s Circus murder, producers deliver another zinger theory for us to ponder and revisit one Joker hint from an earlier episode.
Before I continue here’s a…
SPOILER ALERT!
If you did not watch this week’s “Gotham” stop reading now.
Ok
Here it comes…
The Red Hood Gang hits a bank led by a skinny, wise-cracking leader with a laugh who tosses money to the crowd to get away claiming to be a Robin Hood.
Just when we think we have our next Joker candidate he’s killed by a fellow gang member who takes the hood and leadership of the gang.
Each leader who puts on the hood becomes quite a joker playing to the crowd and delivering evil laughs like a man possessed. The man in the hood becomes the target and the iconic cover-up seems to be a cursed artifact.
“As long as someone’s willing to put on that red hood, this gang could go on forever!” Jim Gordon declares as the bodies pile up in pursuit of the criminals.
This isn’t the only Joker tease.
The Penguin is now running Fish Mooney’s old club. A really bad comedian is performing in a brief sequence. You may remember a nervous and unfunny comedian was on stage when Fish went to work on Oswald Cobblepot and crippled him. A comedian turned criminal is just one theory of the Joker’s origin from comics.
Back to Fish, turns out she’s being held by Dr. Dulmacher (aka The Dollmaker) who was behind the kidnappings of Gotham’s homeless kids in an earlier episode.
Young Bruce Wayne is a target as Alfred is betrayed and hospitalized and we see a conspiracy against the orphan among the Wayne Enterprises board.
But back to the story that’s twisting our mind…
A failed comedian, a psychotic killer kid, an amateur criminal under a red hood…all we need is a lab worker in a future episode. I wonder if Wayne Enterprises owns Axis Chemicals on Gotham?
If you want to know about the infamous group. A more formal Red Hood Gang was a big part of Batman: Zero Year, Scott Snyder’s arc that revealed the New 52 origin of the Dark Knight. Here’s a link to Batman: Zero Year Secret City, Dark City and Savage City plus what happened to other DC heroes in Zero Year.
By Editor