Recent Examples on the WebBatman, The Riddler, and Catwoman exist because of and in service to a city with unknowable designs, and thus must project their own images, a bat, a cat, a question mark onto it, giving Gotham a totemistic power.—Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Mar. 2022
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