“ | Look, your father was in trouble. This reporter had some dirt. Some very personal stuff…personal stuff about your mother, her family history. You know, everybody’s got their dirty laundry, that’s just how it is. But he didn’t want none of it coming out, not before after the election. And your father tried to pay the guy off, but he wasn’t going for it. So, he came to me. Well, I never seen him like that. He said, “Carmine, I want you to put the fear of God in this guy.” And when fear isn’t enough…Oof. Hmm. Your father wanted me to handle it, so I did. I handled it. I know. You thought your father was a Boy Scout. But you’d be surprised what even a good man like him is capable of in the right situation. | ” |
~ Carmine revealing to Bruce his father’s involvement in the mystery, which shocks and heartbreaks the latter. |
“ | You don’t think this hurts me? My own flesh and blood? You made me do this…just like your mother. | ” |
~ Falcone attempting to strange Selina Kyle, his own daughter to death, while sadistically revealing and gloating about being the true murderer of her mother. |
Carmine Falcone is the overarching antagonist of the 2022 superhero crime thriller film The Batman and one of the two overarching antagonists (alongside The Riddler) of the 2024 spin-off miniseries The Penguin.
He is the most powerful crime lord and kingpin in Gotham City, who is feared and respected for his reputation of having near-total control of it’s criminal underworld as well as having most of its police and elected officials on his payroll. He is targeted by The Riddler, an enigmatic serial killer whose motives were caused by some of Falcone’s past crimes, along with his conspirators so he could bring an end to his reign of terror. He was also secretly reveled to be a serial killer called The Hangman, who personally strangled numerous women, alongside Selina Kyle’s mother, to death before framing his daughter, Sofia, for the murders, which got her incarcerated, which he never planned to release her as he let the hospital staff torture her.
He is portrayed by John Turturro in The Batman and his younger self by Mark Strong in The Penguin.
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- He is considered the most influential antagonist in this continuity, as he was the shadowy architect who was primarily responsible for the events of The Batman and The Penguin, cause he was the one who kickstarted all of Gotham City’s corruption behind the scenes as he try to maintain complete control over his empire, which would instigate the rise of Batman. He is also responsible for the events of The Penguin, as he is the one who would bring Oswald into power and his rise into becoming the fearsome crime lord he is today. He also serves as a corrupting influence to other characters, such as being responsible for the corruption of Sofia Falcone into becoming the dangerous criminal she is today in The Penguin, which makes him responsible for her crimes and helping further Penguin’s villainy and the Riddler, who would target many high top corrupt officials and elite to put an end to Falcone’s reign of terror and while also causing his illegitimate daughter’s Selina Kyle path into becoming a criminal and sending her on a path of vengeance due to murdering her mother and girlfriend.
- He is the most heinous character in the series, as while he doesn’t have that much of a higher kill count like The Riddler, he easily compensates it with personal cruelty and suffering. As being the leader of all organized crime, he is responsible for all the criminals and despair we see in the continuity, such as stealing money from the orphanage which caused them to live in horrible conditions and feeding his henchman to crocodiles and as well as wiping out their whole families and even them. He is also a serial killer who strangles women to death, who would also possibly rape them too, and framed his daughter Sofia for the murders, which got her sent to Arkham, and had her tortured their by the staff while never planning to bail her out and is responsible for all the crimes committed by most of the villains like The Riddler, Penguin, and Sofia Falcone.
- He is the most evil villain in the entire series, as he is a sadistic crime lord who has caused numerous murders and run multiple drug and prostitution rings and as well as causing political corruption in Gotham, to further his own ends and own schemes, and he is a confirmed serial killer who strangles numerous women to death, which is implied to give him both glee and sexual gratification, and framed his daughter Sofia for the murders and got her sent to Arkham Asylum to be tortured their by the staff who he was bribing on his payroll and never wanted to ever bail her out. Not to mention that he would also hang their corpses to make it seem that they committed suicide, which is what he did to his first wife. When Sofia stumbled upon her corpse, it gave her nightmares from the day she discovered it. He also was abusive to his children, which caused Alberto’s descent into alcoholism and attempts to strangle Selina Kyle, his own biological daughter who he exploited, to death. He is also responsible for the corruption of Sofia Falcone and the Riddler, as he turned the former into the criminal she was today, which caused the Penguin’s fall to villainy as well as the latter whose conditions caused him to become the monster he is today and as well as causing the murders carried out on the corrupt elite on Gotham as well as almost killing Alfred. He has none of the redeeming qualities that most of the characters have, and isn’t even close to being a honorable family man he was in the comics, and he even got his place of power by getting his rival Maroni imprisoned after he ratted him out, showing himself to be a hypocrite in the process.
- He is the most powerful villain in the series, as he was technically the de facto ruler of Gotham as he ruled over it with a tyrannical iron fist and had the highest resources out of anyone in the series. He had nearly total control over all of its criminal underworld and has most of the elite and officials in his hand and having the Mayor and Arkham Asylum on his payroll, he was practically the one who was ruling Gotham and keeping it in his own criminal playground and it was impossible for him to get sent to jail or get caught with his crimes or criminal actions. He was even the one who was leading all of the crimes that all the mobsters would commit and they were all working under him. Being the one who let the Penguin as his right hand man, he was also very much feared and respected among with criminals and having him made him more powerful and feared due to the former's criminal reputation.
Intelligence | 5 / 5 | |
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Skills | 3 / 5 | |
Speed | 3 / 5 | |
Stamina | 3 / 5 | |
Strength | 2 / 5 |
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