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Look around you: you'll see two councilmen, a union official, a couple off-duty cops, and a judge. Now, I wouldn't have a second's hesitation of blowing your head off right here and right now in front of 'em. Now, that's power you can't buy! That's the power of fear.
~ Carmine Falcone to Bruce Wayne.
People from your world, have so much to lose. Now you think, because your mommy and your daddy got shot that you know about the ugly side of life, but you don’t. You’ve never tasted desperate. You’re Bruce Wayne, the prince of Gotham! You’d have to go a thousand miles to meet someone who didn’t know your name. So don’t come down here with your anger, trying to prove something to yourself. This is a world you'll never understand... and you always fear what you don't understand.
~ Carmine Falcone to Bruce Wayne.

Carmine Falcone is a major antagonist in the 2005 superhero film Batman Begins, the first installment of Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight trilogy.

He is the head of the Falcone Crime Family, the most powerful mob in Gotham City, and all but controls the city before Batman's arrival. Falcone serves as Gotham's most powerful criminal before Batman takes him down and cripples his empire.

He was portrayed by the late Tom Wilkinson, who also played Robert Beaumont in The Ghost and the Darkness, Thomas Griffin in Rush Hour, Lord Cornwallis in The Patriot, Lenny Cole in RocknRolla, Friedrich Fromm in Valkyrie, Thomas Pendrew in Sleeping Dogs and Latham Cole in The Lone Ranger.

History[]

Carmine Falcone all but controlled Gotham City, flooding it with drugs and crime. He is above the law, with most of Gotham's politicians and police on his payroll. It was mentioned that he shared a prison cell with Joe Chill, who murdered Bruce Wayne's parents out of desperation due to the economic crisis. He hired a female assassin (disguised as a reporter) to kill Chill for threatening to testify against him, depriving Wayne of the chance to take his own revenge. Bruce confronts him at his restaurant and tells Falcone that not everyone in the city is scared of him. Falcone dismisses the young billionaire as a harmless nuisance and has his thugs to beat him up in order to teach him a lesson. He tells Wayne that every important government official in Gotham is on his payroll, and that true power comes from being feared. He also mocks Wayne's late father, saying that Chill told him that Thomas Wayne "begged like a dog" as Chill killed him.

Seven years later, Falcone goes into business with Dr. Jonathan Crane and Ra's al Ghul, smuggling a fear toxin into Gotham inside toy rabbits. As a form of payment, Crane, who runs Arkham Asylum, diagnoses Falcone's henchmen as insane when they are captured so they can avoid prison. Wayne, who by now has become the vigilante known as Batman, discovers and foils the plan and knocks Falcone out, leaving him tied to a searchlight for the police to find. The trussed-up mobster, covered in a tattered overcoat, projects a bat-like shape into the sky; this impromptu calling card would later evolve into the Bat-Signal. Batman also gives Assistant District Attorney Rachel Dawes evidence of Falcon's crimes and blackmails the trial judge into refusing Falcone's attempts at bribery and rendering an unbiased verdict, ensuring Falcone would finally be brought to justice.

While imprisoned, Falcone tries to blackmail Crane into letting him in on his plans with Ra's al Ghul. Crane instead wears his terrifying Scarecrow mask and uses his toxins on Falcone, literally terrifying the crime lord out of his mind. Falcone is institutionalized in Arkham Asylum, continuously muttering the word "Scarecrow".

In the film's sequel The Dark Knight, it is revealed Falcone remains institutionalized a year later, and that Sal Maroni has taken over his crime family.

Quotes[]

Yeah, Dr. Crane. I can't take it anymore, it's all too much! The walls are closin' in. Yadda yadda yadda. A few more weeks of this food, and it'll be true."
"What do you want?"
"I wanna know how you're gonna convince me to keep my mouth shut."
"About what. You don't know anything."
"I know ya don't want the cops to take a closer look at the drugs they seized. And I know ya don't want em discovering the experiments ya conduct on the inmates of ya nuthouse. Y'see, I don't go into business with a guy without learnin' his dirty secrets first. Those goons you used? I own the muscle in this town. Now, I've been overseeing the shipments and bringin' ya stuff in for weeks, nice and quiet-like. And as for your benefactor? Whatever he's got planned, it's big, and I want in."
"Well, I already know what he'll say: that we should kill you. That'd be a surefire way of ensuring your silence."
"Pssh, ya give him too much credit, Crane. He couldn't get to me. Not in my town."
"Hmm... Would you like to see my mask? I utilize it in my experiments. Now, may not be as frightening to, say, a guy like you. But these crazies'? They can't stand it."
(puts on his Scarecrow mask)
"Huh... So when did the nut take over the nuthouse?"
(Scarecrow gasses Falcone with his fear toxin, causing him to scream in horror)
"THEY SCREAM AND THEY CRY! Much as you're doing right now!"
~ Jonathan Crane/Scarecrown poisoning and driving Carmine Falcone insane to ensure his silence.

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  • Unlike the comics, this Carmine Falcone has no respect towards Thomas Wayne and mocks him. In the comics Falcone paid his respects at Thomas Wayne's funeral for saving his life years prior.

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           The Dark Knight Trilogy Villains

Batman Begins
League of Shadows
Ra's al Ghul | Henri Ducard | Scarecrow

Gotham Mob
Carmine Falcone | Victor Zsasz | Arnold Flass

Others
Joe Chill

The Dark Knight
Gotham Criminal Underworld
Joker | Two-Face
Gotham Mob: Sal Maroni | The Chechen | Gambol | Lau | Bank Manager | Michael Wuertz | Anna Ramirez
Joker's Thugs: Thomas Schiff | Chuckles | Kilson | Happy | Dopey | Grumpy | Bus Driver

Others
Burmese Bandit

The Dark Knight Rises
League of Shadows
Bane | Talia al Ghul | Barsad | Ra's al Ghul

Others
Catwoman | John Daggett | Phillip Stryver | Scarecrow

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