In honor of the series GOTHAM coming to FOX, I decided to make animated snippets of the Children of Gotham and what they went through to propel them to the men and woman who terrorized or saved the city. We know what Bruce Wayne went through as a boy, but what about Joker? What about Catwoman, what about Freeze...where were they at the exact same time?
After I finished the rogues, I decided to depict the sidekicks in a continuation series: BEFORE THE COWL.
Monologue will follow each piece depicting what's gone through each childs mind at the time of their inception.
The Link to the villains Origins will be at the bottom of the article.
enjoy
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Two motivated children, with an unrest stirring in them...never to back down from a fight when it means protecting somebody. Both looking up to heroes, neither realizing how much like them they would become.
Barbara:"I heard the gunshot..."
Tim:"I heard the screaming..."
Barbara:"I grabbed a bat and came downstairs..."
Tim:"I picked up a pipe and ran down the alley..."
Barbara:"I heard mom crying, and dad trying to talk someone down...he sounded hurt..."
Tim:"They were standing over a homeless woman, I told them to back off..."
Barbara:"He said for dad to think of his two kids, to think of me...that he should've sat on the case..."
Tim:"They told me I picked the wrong night to care...and to start running..."
Barbara:"I had to worry about someone gunning him down every night on the streets. No one was going to do it a foot from me, not in my own house...not with me there..."
Tim:"I don't care how many times it's done to me, I NEVER run out, on ANYONE..."
Barbara:"...And certainly not for living what he taught us..."
Tim:"I yelled for them come on then, I lied and said I wasn't afraid...and for some reason...they looked scared and backed away..."
Two children, forced to face evil from a young age, both responding in different manners.
One, born into a family of love, virtue, seeing the wonder in the world, looked back into the darkness with a fearlessness that drove him to not let anyone be hurt by the same.
The other, born OUT of the Darkness, spawned from the degradation he came to hate...hate with a passion, with outrage....knowing only savagery, savagery without mercy for they who give none.
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Dick Grayson:"When you're brought up as an Acrobat, you have to learn how to face fear..."
Jason Todd:"When you grow up in the Narrows, chances are you aren't able to go to school..."
Dick Grayson:"And not just on the wires, but in yourself...the fear of being powerless..."
Jason Todd:"But you do grow up learning two things....how to hold a gun...and sex ed...."
Dick Grayson:"I remember it like it was yesterday..."
Jason Todd:"I learned this first hand once..."
Dick Grayson:"They reached for me like I had to them a hundred times..."
Jason Todd:"He had a gun, but didn't see my tire iron...his mistake..."
Dick Grayson:"And there was nothing I could do...it was like I'd climbed up there just to see them fall..."
Jason Todd:"As I took his magazine I looked behind me...three others were trying to get some girl into their van..."
Dick Grayson:"My heart stopped...I couldn't even scream..."
Jason Todd:"My blood boiled..all I saw was red..."
Dick Grayson:"But...they smiled at me...as they fell, as if they wanted me to keep going...even though we both knew what was going to happen..."
Jason Todd:"If no one cared about the monsters in this hell...they'd have one more monster to worry about...one that slaughters the others..and I'd have to enjoy it a little more then they did.."
I hope you enjoyed, the villains parts can be found at the link bellow
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/HiveOfVillainy/news/?a=99920