"Boss" Rupert Thorne: A Substitute For The Mafia | Batman The Animated Series

In this video I look at how Batman the Animated Series got around a restriction placed on them by their network. They weren't allowed to feature The Mafia, and so they took a relatively obscure character from the comic books and made him the Boss of all crime in Gotham. We're going to talk about Rupert Thorne.

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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:48 The History of The Mafia in Batman Comics
01:57 Rupert Thorne's Comic Book Backstory
04:29 BTAS' Rupert Thorne
05:32 Two-Face Part I & II
07:27 It's Never Too Late
08:22 Paging the Crime Doctor
09:52 Thorne's Other Appearances
11:47 Conclusion
12:19 Self-Promotion
12:46 Next Time


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