Carmine Falcone

**Carmine Falcone** was the head of the Falcone Crime Family, making him an enemy of Batman and district attorney Harvey Dent.

## History

### Ruling Gotham City

Carmine Falcone was born to the mafia boss Vincent Falcone alias the Roman, who raised him with the intention for him to one day become the Roman, and rule Gotham and its crime syndicates. Carmine was born alongside his sister Carla and, together with a woman named Louisa, also had multiple children over the years, namely Sofia Falcone, Alberto Falcone and a daughter named Selina, who would later scratch the right side of his face under unknown circumstances, scarring him permanently. One day, while his father father was still allive, Carmine was shot multiple times ans injured by the his father's competitor Luigi Maroni. Because they could not go to a hospital in the fear of Maroni tracking them down and finishing the job, they went to the only person they could trust to save Carmine: Vincent Falcone's buisness partner Thomas Wayne. They sought him out in his manor and asked him for aid, which he gave them. After he was able to save Carmine's life, Thomas' son Bruce visited him and they had a conversation, during which Carmine said they were practically family now, and gave Bruce a double headed coin as a gift, which he previously used to keep himself out of dangerous situations. Sometime after, Vincent Falcone either died or retired, leaving Carmine as the heir to the Roman empire. During his reign, he held Gotham in an iron grip and ruled like a king, being called the Roman now himself. One day, his son Alberto wanted to get married to a young lawyer named Gilda who he had met during his time at Oxford University, with her even being pregnant. But Falcone declined and forced them not only to seperate but also to abort the child, because it had been conceived before their marriage. This angered both of them very much, thiugh Alberto accepted it and continued to serve his father, though without being trusted enough to participate fully in his father’s activities. Meanwhile, his daughter Sofia got imprisoned and was only to be released years later. Other notable members of his organization were Johnny Viti, his nephew who mainly worked for Carla in Chicago, Milos Grapa, Carmine's bodyguard and multiple asassins. Though, he also made quite a few enemies for himself, including district attorney Harvey Dent, the vigilante known as the Batman, police captain James Gordon and the mysterious individual known only as the Catwoman, who all wanted to take him down. Ironically, Bruce Wayne, son of his savior Thomas, had become both one of his enemies, as he was unbeknownst to him the secret identity of Batman, as well as a possible business partner, though Wayne declined to work with Falcone because, as he stated,"He believed in Gotham City".

### The Long Halloween

On Halloween night, 2020, the Roman’s nephew, Johnny was murdered. This lead to all kinds of speculations about the possible suspects, including Carmine himself as Dent believed, seeing as Viti was about to testify against his uncle. Carmine though, together with his associates believed Salvatore Maroni, son and heir of Luigi Maroni who had become Carmine's arch rival, to be the killer, even though he wasn’t sure of it. Falcone also stated that no matter who did it, Harvey Dent was the real responsible one, due to him forcing Viti to testify. One of his subordinates, Antoni, became somewhat too passionate and active in the discussion and said that Carmine should attack him directly, or else he would look even weaker than he already did. This insult, along with the fact that he forgot to call Falcone "Godfather", resulted in Carmine ordering his bodyguard Milos to dispose of Antoni by throwing him down the staircase, as a warning to the others to keep respecting him. Later, the Batman and Harvey Dent found one of the Roman's money storage warehouses and burnt multiple billion dollars in order to hurt him as much as possible. On the same night, Carmine ordered Mickey Chen from the San Ho Hui gang to plant a bomb in Dent's house, which blew up right when he and his wife, who ironically was the very same woman he had forced to abort her and his son Alberto's child, were about to enter it, injuring Gilda Dent and nearly killing Harvey. Sometime later, while Chen was being chased by the Batman and following his capture, interrogated by him and Gordon, Falcone and his family would continue to have their annual Thanksgiving dinner as if nothing had happened. Though, Alberto did once again question Carmine’s attitude and decisions, even going so far as to send flowers to mrs. Dent, his former wife, in the name of the Falcone family, in order to show his father that he too was capable of independent thoughts. Falcone, outraged by this, grabbed his son's neck and chocked him, threatening him to never speak on behalf of the family again and reminding him that he would never have a seat at the table with him, before he let him go again. They would later proceed to have their Thanksgiving dinner, mourning the loss of Johnny. Unbeknownst to them, Dent, having escaped his hospital room, stood before the tower they were in and wanted to face Carmine personally, before being calmed down by Jim Gordon. Later that same night, Chen and his gang would end up being murdered by the very same killer that took the Roman's nephew. Months later, on Christmas eve, the criminally insane psychopath known as the Joker had escaped Arkham Asylum once again, this time in order to find out who this "Holiday Killer" as the newspapers called him was. After questioning Dent and Maroni, he paid Carmine a visit in his tower. Carmine though heard him enter his room and pointed with a gun at the clown. Unfortunately for him, the Joker had already removed the ammunition from it, rendering it useless and the Roman defenseless. The Joker did not hurt him though, he merely asked him to report directly to him each and every piece of information he found out about the killer and left him again, although he did kill Falcone's old friend and bodyguard Milos on his way out, or so it seemed. In reality, the Holiday Killer was the one responsible, but Batman, who arrived at the scene shortly after, thought it to be the Joker, based on the Joker cards he left at the crime scene. A week later, on New Year’s Eve, the whole Falcone crime family, and additional important individuals of Gotham City like Bruce Wayne and Salvatore Maroni were on Carmine’s yacht to celebrate into the new year. Carmine, like every year, held a speech to the ones present to encourage them to donate for charity and during his speech, he mentioned one person who was according to him, like a son ti him, although he didn’t show that enough. His real son Alberto felt moved for a second, before ultimately realizing that Bruce Wayne was meant, which visually enraged him. Later that evening, Alberto would end up being killed by the Holiday killer, and Carmine was set under police protection. Some days later, he and other members of his family would burry Alberto, with even Bruce Wayne showing up and offering Falcone everything he could to help him. Falcone asked him hand him over control over the Wayne Foundation, though Bruce declined, not wanting his business to have anything to do with the mob. Falcone accepted and introduced Bruce to a companion of his who he brought with him to his son's funeral. The woman gave Bruce her hand and by doing so, seduced him with the pheromones coming from her and her vines. This was Poison Ivy, who Carmine had hired to "persuade" Bruce into giving Falcone control over his firm. Over the next few months, Carmine's men continued to get gunned down by the mysterious Holiday, while Ivy nearly managed to accomplish her goal of making Bruce sign over Wayne Enterprises to him, though this was prevented by Catwoman, who freed Wayne from her mind control. On Mother's day, Falcone’s daugther, Sofia, returned to Gotha, and freed the insane criminals Jonathan Crane and Jervis Tetch, better known as Scarecrow and the Mad Hatter from the Arkham Asylum. She later met with her father in Falcone tower and asked him to give her more to do in his organization, though he declined, thinking that this would make it seem like he was preparing her to take over, which in turn would onky make him look more weaker and older. As she left his office, he proceeded to give the Scarecrow, who was waiting in his office, his instructions to rob the banks of Gotham, in order to bring him more money for his crime family. Later, he met with an assassin at his son's grave, which was the only place his police guards allowed him to go alone and ordered him to kill Harvey Dent. On Independence Day, he and his escort of bodyguards were present at a festival at the docks. There, he briefly met Harvey and Gilda Dent, along with captain Gordon and his wife, though they the only thing they said to each other were passive aggressive greetings. Later that night, Scarecrow and the Hatter would end up defeated by Batman, while the attack on Dent failed, die to Catwoman, and the asassin ended up being the next Holiday victim. Some weeks later, Dent would end up getting half of his face burnt away with acid by Sal Maroni in court, who actively accused him of being Holiday. This led to Carmine too thinking that Harvey was the one responsible for the deaths of his nephew , son and henchmen. While in the hospital, Dent received a phone call from Falcone, proposing a meeting at the docks, which he accepted, though at this point another personality had overtaken Dent's body. He was brought to the meeting by two of Carmine’s men, who, onde they arrived, handed Dent a phone fro which Carmine spoke to him, making it clear that it was a set up to get him to come alone in order to kill him. Dent though, managed to escape and hid in the sewer system, where he would meet the zombie Solomon Grundy, whith which he would form a friendship and team up on labour day to take revenge on Maroni. Meanwhile, the Roman celebrated his birthday, though it was cut short when his sister, Carla, who had also accused Harvey of being Holiday on Tv, was found dead in the elevator of his tower, being the Holiday victim of her brother’s own birthday. Weeks later, on a Halloween night exactly one year after his nephew's death, Carmine was standing on the balcony of his tower, where he got a visit from the Batman. After a short conversation, in which Carmine told him that normally there were rules like not attacking the family, which Dent broke, he pulled out a gun to shoot the bat, but was ambushed by Catwoman, who had hidden and thereby saved Batman, though he did say that her help was not necessary. After they ledt him alone, his daughter Sofia came up to him with a squad of henchmen. carmine lied to her and said that he merely fell and calmed her down. After the guards had left, the two of them had a talk, in which Sofia told her father that now, with him loosing more and more control and being forced to work with the freaks of the city, it might be time to step down and retire. Meanwhile, Harvey Dent, now calling himself Two-Face, had broken out the criminals of Arkham Asylum and attacked the Falcone tower. He, the Joker, Grundy and the Penguin came in through the elevator and were met with heavy gun fire, though Geundy absorbed all of it and cleared the area, killing each and every one of Falcone’s goons and allowing the other villains to enter. After Carmine saw his own daughter go down as well, he shot at them and fabricated himself in his office, though Poison Ivy, Scarecrow and the Mad Hatter came in through the window and restrained him. After Two-Face held a speech about Carmine teaching him that everyone is both guilty and innocent, he prepared to throw his coin to decide the Roman's fate, which ironically was the exact same one he had given Bruce Wayne all those years ago, who in turn had then biven it to Harvey. Fortunately, Batman and Catwoman came as well and battled the villains. As they were done, Dent, having Carmine at gunpoint, flipped his coin and it landed on tails. The Roman was then shot two times in the neck, letting him bleed out slowly. While Batman treid to save him, Sofia, still allive, entered the room and saw what had been done to her father. She attacked Two-Face, but after realizing she had no ammunition in her gun, she panicked and fell out of the window, to her death. She nearly took Catwoman with her, who then kneeled down to Falcone and took off her mask, revealing herself to be Carmine’s long lost daughter. With his last breath, Carmine both told her the name of her mother, Louisa, as well as had a final heartfelt but short conversation with Batman, who revealed himself as Bruce Wayne, before passong away. Falcone’s death was both the end of the year known as The Long Halloween, as well as the dominance of the organized crime in Gotham City.

## Powers and Abilities

### Abilities

* **Intimidation**:
* **Marksmanship**:
* **Strategy**:

## References

1. ↑ Batman: The Long Halloween - Part One
2. ↑ Batman: The Long Halloween - Part Two