Dicksonberg Estate

The Dicksonberg Estate Hospital is a location from the Project Batman film series and appears in 2 movies. It was owned by the Dicksonberg family and left to Jonathan Dicksonberg in his father's will when he died. Dicksonberg then used it as a base of operations to house his gang soldiers and experiments with the assistance of Alfred. After its destruction, it was refurbished by Alfred and used as a base to store files and other things related to his plan to kill everyone in Gotham.

## History

### Before Project Batman

The Dicksonberg Estate was a piece of land owned by the Dicksonberg Tribe and passed down through their bloodline. At some point, the building there was made into a hospital and passed down to The Gangster Lord. It is not known if he personally made the decision to turn it into a hospital or if it was that way before he received ownership of it.

### After the Gangster Lord's death

In Project Batman 2, the Gangster Lord was murdered by Batman on The Joker's Blimp. Gangster Lord's son, Jonathan, inherited it from his father's will. Meanwhile, Alfred took note of Jonathan's hotheadedness and decided to exploit his grief and anger to further his plans of city-wide genocide and to put Batman through turmoil. Alfred (concealing his identity to prevent him from telling Batman) approached Dicksonberg with proof that Batman was the one responsible for the murder of his father and proposed an alliance with him. Dicksonberg accepted his offer of funding and providing him with men and weapons in exchange for Dicksonberg developing strength enhancing technology for Alfred.

### Jonathan Dicksonberg's Ownership

With proper funding and an army in the palm of his hand, Dicksonberg used the hospital as a way to launder the incoming money and as a base for operations. He kept his closest henchmen as guards while the outsider gang members were stationed near the construction site, under The Riddler's command. Dicksonberg would start research on strength enhancement technology, using the Dicksonberg Tribe Hat's powers as the blueprint. He transformed the operating rooms into experimentation rooms and used various kidnapped construction workers as test subjects and trapped them in his dungeon. At some point, The Joker came to him for aid, since using The Gemstone caused him to suffer a health setback. Dicksonberg accepted this and let him take refuge in the hospital until recovery. Dicksonberg then used the gemstone in his experiments, resulting in the creation of Golerzan. After many failed attempts, he finally created a serum that would grant an invisible increase in power. He gave it to Alfred, who took it and left. Since he didn't need Dicksonberg anymore, Alfred gave an anonymous tip to the GCPD about Dicksonberg's outsourced gang outpost at the construction site to get the ball rolling for Batman to come in conflict with Dicksonberg. The Joker was then released from the hospital with his wounds healed and Dicksonberg made a trade to give him Golerzan in exchange for the gemstone, which The Joker agreed upon. From there on, the events of Project Batman 3 take place, and Dicksonberg goes all out in his revenge scheme against Batman. After knocking Batman out, Dicksonberg retreated to his hospital, which was nearby the construction site, to regroup and prepare for Robin to bring Batman there for treatment as planned by Dicksonberg. Before Batman arrived, Dicksonberg had the gemstone sent to a museum to keep it hidden in plain sight in case of an emergency. When Batman was admitted to the hospital, Dicksonberg attempted to pull the life support on him but accidentally injected some of the prototype strength enhancers into Batman before doing so and resulting in him having a zombie-like state for a brief period until being awoken by Robin, who was taking care of Dicksonberg's guards. Batman did not gain any enhanced strength from this. In a last-ditch effort to stop Batman and Robin, Dicksonberg donned the tribe hat to gain a strength boost, which was able to incapacitate the two, which he tied up in his dungeon. Dicksonberg then decided to blow up the hospital to get rid of any evidence of his experiments and take care of Batman and Robin at the same time. Unfortunately for him, the two escaped just before it exploded.

### Refurbishment

Between the events of Project Batman 3 and Project Batman 5, Alfred bought the Dicksonberg Estate since there was no one to inherit it with Jonathan's death and had it rebuilt to be a base of operations outside of The Batcave, now that the original was destroyed in The Legend of The Lazarus Pit. Alfred used the hospital similarly to how Dicksonberg did, housing experiments, files, and things that would further his plan to commit genocide in Gotham City. During the events of Project Batman 5, Alfred enacted his genocide plan and left the hospital behind while he went on his rampage. Unexpectedly, Batman and Robin survived the blimp crash, so as a contingency, Alfred sent an encrypted email to Aiden Pearce telling him that the truth of what happened to his family resides in the files of the Dicksonberg Estate Hospital.

### Post-Alfred

After receiving the email, Aiden infiltrated the hospital and took down the guards Alfred had posted there and retrieved various files relating to the truth behind his family and various journal entries kept by Alfred. While digging into what little information he had on Alfred, Batman found out he bought out the land that Dicksonberg owned in PB3 and did some digging into it and found that various files were missing. Batman checked security footage to find out that Aiden was responsible for stealing the files and since he was aware of who he was from their encounters in PB5, Batman found out that his base was at DedSec and went there to peacefully retrieve the files from him. Batman then learned the truth about Alfred and it was elaborated more by Aiden during one of their various encounters throughout Project Batman 6.

### Current

With all of the guards dead, the Dicksonberg Estate Hospital is left abandoned, and the various technologies developed there were either taken or destroyed by Alfred and the land eventually went back on the marked presumably and demolished the building.