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NOTE: This article is about the incarnation of Carmine Falcone from The Batman Saga. For other versions of the character, visit this disambiguation page.
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Look, your father was in trouble. This reporter had some dirt. Some very... personal stuff about your mother, her family history. You know, everybody’s got their dirty laundry, that's just how it is. But he didn't want none of it coming out, not right before the election. And your father tried to pay the guy off, but he wasn't going for it. So, he came to me. Well, I never seen him like that. He said, "Carmine, I want you to put the fear of God in this guy." And when fear isn't enough… Oof. Hmm. Your father wanted me to handle it, so I did. I handled it. I know. You thought your father was a Boy Scout. But you'd be surprised what even a good man like him is capable of in the right situation.
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~ Carmine Falcone to Bruce Wayne.
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You think you're gonna scare me with that mask and that cape? I'm gonna start crying, and all of a sudden, some big secret's comin' out? Let me tell you something. Whatever I know, whatever I've done, it's all going with me to my grave.
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~ Falcone to Batman.
Carmine Falcone is the overarching antagonist of the 2022 superhero crime film The Batman, its 2022-2023 tie-in prequel comic book miniseries The Riddler: Year One and one of the two overarching antagonists (alongside the Riddler) of its 2024 spin-off miniseries The Penguin.
He is the most powerful crime lord and kingpin of Gotham City, with near-total control of its criminal underworld as well as having most of its police and elected officials on his payroll. Carmine was also secretly a serial killer and possible rapist known as the Hangman who framed his daughter Sofia for the murders and presumed rapes.
During Batman's second year as Gotham's vigilante, Falcone and everyone connected to him are targeted by a mysterious serial killer called the Riddler - with the latter preying on Gotham's corrupt political elite. Thereafter Batman would also learn of Falcone's involvement with his late parents Thomas and Martha Wayne, including his potential role in their deaths. Falcone is also the employer of the up-and-coming gang boss Oswald Cobb/the Penguin, as well as the father of Sofia and Alberto Falcone, as well as Selina Kyle/Catwoman - whose friend Anika and her mother, Maria Kyle, would become two of his many victims.
Carmine Falcone has a personality of the typical classical crime lord. He is highly intelligent, cunning, devious, egomaniacal, manipulative, ruthless, and utterly disturbing to the core. During his reign as Gotham City's biggest crime lord, he was shown as posh, elegant, luxurious and old-fashioned, even stating that communism failed due to the idea of austerism.
At least during this time he was also very reclusive, because as biggest crime lord he also had a lot of enemies who wanted to kill him for revenge or to take his place. Most of time he couldn't risk being in public places so instead most of time he was in his "fortresses" such as Shoreline Lofts or Falcone Mansion along with numerous bodyguards. Falcone was also a very charismatic individual and can easily make people trust him. His closest associates seem to respect him very much.
Falcone is a power-hungry man. He was willing to steal everything that benefits himself, and exploited corrupt officials who can get him what he wants and everything he needs to ensure that he stays in power for a long time. Carmine also seems to have a particularly nasty preference for strangling women who have personally displeased him, as it is how he killed both Selina Kyle's mother and Annika Kosolov in the past, and is also how he attempted to kill Kyle herself when she tried to assassinate him. Aside from merely being ambitious, it is shown that at his core, Carmine simply enjoys making others suffer. It is revealed in flashbacks that he was a serial killer of women, strangling them to death, with one of his victims being his own wife. This was all done for no other reason then simply liking how it felt to make them suffer and die.
His dismissive attitude towards Selena after he killed her mother and she was taken by social services also shows his selfishness and lack of value for his kin, choosing to leave his daughter to fend for herself. He would later continue this when he framed Sofia for his crimes and ensuring she remained in Arkham, showing that he’s willing to sell out his own children to save his own skin.
Despite his evil, Falcone is capable of putting on an affable, friendly façade. Not hiding that he is a bad man, but being able to give the impression of being an "honorable" type of criminal. He was able to gain the respect and even trust of Thomas Wayne, despite Thomas being a noble man attempting to make a better Gotham, but once he found an opportunity to get dirt on Thomas he took it, having the reporter Thomas asked him to scare killed to blackmail him, and possibly had Thomas killed. In the present day, he acts friendly to Bruce Wayne, and tells him over how he had a mutual respect with Bruce's father, despite having blackmailed said father, and later convincing Bruce that Thomas deliberately asked him to kill the reporter. Falcone is also hedonist and womanizer, usually seen accompanied with beautiful young women.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Carmine Falcone was born to an Italian-American family in Gotham City. He was married, and had two children named Sofia and Alberto. Eventually, he formed his own crime family, and became a rival of mafia boss Salvatore Maroni.
Carmine first met Thomas Wayne after he was shot by a rival gangster. Thomas treated Falcone's wounds while, unbeknownst to him, his young son Bruce watched.
Soon afterwards, Thomas - now running for mayor of Gotham City - asked Falcone to silence a journalist who was writing an expose article about his wife Martha's family history of mental illness. Thomas merely wanted Falcone to scare the reporter into backing off, but Falcone had the man killed. Horrified, Thomas threatened to go to the police. A week later, he and Martha were murdered; it is left ambiguous whether or not Falcone ordered their deaths.
At some point later, Falcone turned the urban renewal fund Thomas started to build housing for the poor into a slush fund used for money laundering and bribery. He was aided by rival crime boss Salvatore Maroni and three corrupt city officials: Mayor Don Mitchell Jr., Police Commissioner Pete Savage, and District Attorney Gil Colson. As a consequence, the Gotham Orphanage was abandoned - leaving it rundown, and leaving orphans like Edward Nashton in poverty, Nashton would seek to punish Falcone and Gotham's corrupt elite in a homicidal rampage as the serial killer dubbed "the Riddler".
In 2020, Falcone secretly became a police informant to put Maroni in prison so he could usurp his rival's drug trafficking operation. He used this influence to bribe virtually the entire Gotham City Police Department; as a result, he ruled Gotham City with an iron fist for the next 2 years. It was during that time Falcone began an affair with a woman at the 44 below named Maria Kyle that became his goomar (moll) who - unbeknownst to him - ended up giving birth to their daughter named Selina Kyle. Falcone murdered Maria 7 years later, and Selina ended up in the foster system, with Falcone not doing anything about it.
Besides his affair, Falcone married a woman named Isabella, the cousin of his henchmen Johnny Viti, and had two children with her: Sofia Gigante and Alberto Falcone. However, Isabella desired to leave Falcone, and one night, attempted to leave with the children. Falcone, furious, strangled his wife to death, with a young Sofia finding her corpse a bit later. Falcone blamed the whole thing on Isabella having secretly suffered from depression and that she took her own life. Later in life, Sofia was confronted by a reporter who had noticed that other women had been killed by hanging, which was publicly dismissed as suicide, despite clues indicating they were attacked. A young Oswald Cobb, then working as Sofia's driver, informed Falcone, who confronted Sofia about her "betrayal", and had her arrested for the murder of the women, causing her to be dubbed "the Hangman" by the media. Sofia then spent 10 years in Arkham Asylum, gradually losing her mind.
The Batman[]
When Mitchell is murdered, Falcone attends his funeral with his right-hand man Oswald Cobb, aka the Penguin. Thereupon he meets Bruce Wayne, unaware that the latter is secretly the vigilante known as "Batman".
Soon enough, Bruce learns about the reporter's murder; he later visits Falcone in his nightclub - the Iceberg Lounge - to find out whether his father was involved. Falcone says that Thomas came to him for help, but neither confirms nor denies that he had the reporter killed or that Thomas asked him to do so for him. Soon afterwards, Bruce - as Batman - investigates Falcone with help from GCPD Lieutenant James Gordon and discovers that Falcone was the rat who informed on Maroni to the police.
When Batman meets Selina, she tells him that Falcone is her father who was never there for her following her mother's death. Selina then reveals that Falcone had murdered both her mother as well as her girlfriend Annika Kosolov, the latter of whom he killed because she had discovered that Falcone was the informant. Selina Kyle, wanting to avenge both her mother and girlfriend, goes to the Iceberg Lounge to kill him. She comes face-to-face with Falcone and reveals her identity to him before attempting to shoot him. However, Falcone evades Selina and overpowers her. He then begins choking her, gloating that her mother had died the same way. Fortunately, Batman arrives just in time to save her and brutally subdue Falcone. It is then Selina attempts to execute her father until Batman convinces her not to throw her life away by becoming just like him; Selina eventually relents and thereupon Falcone gets arrested by Gordon, one of the few police officers in Gotham who is not in the crime lord's pocket.
As he gets apprehended, Falcone gloats to Batman that he will never reveals his secrets. Penguin interrupts by cursing Falcone as "a rat" and obliquely threatening to have him killed in jail and take over his empire. Falcone laughs off the threat, dismissing Penguin as "a gimp in a suit" who will never run Gotham. Enraged, Penguin pulls a gun on Falcone and attempts to shoot him; a gunshot sounds and Falcone slumps to the ground, having indeed been shot despite Penguin saying that he didn't pull the trigger. Falcone then dies in front of Batman, who along with the police learns that it was actually the Riddler who had just killed Falcone with a sniper rifle from across the street. As Batman and Gordon lead the police to apprehend the Riddler to put an end to his killings, Selina walks away after taking a final distasteful look of her late father's dead body.
Gallery[]
Carmine Falcone holding Sofia in his arms while preventing her from seeing her mother's hanging corpse.
Carmine Falcone confronts Sofia for talking to a reporter alongside investigating her mother's murder.
Carmine Falcone makes advances towards Selina Kyle at the 44 Below.
Carmine Falcone and his enforcers in his Shoreline Lofts.
Carmine Falcone arrives at Mayor Mitchell's funeral alongside Selina Kyle.
Bruce Wayne meets Falcone at Mayor Mitchell's funeral.
Carmine Falcone pictured with Thomas Wayne.
Carmine is visited by Bruce Wayne at his Shoreline Lofts.
Carmine's voice recording of admitting to being a police informant alongside murdering Annika Kosolova is played on the news.
Falcone is taken into custody by Batman.
Carmine Falcone is arrested by the GCPD.
Carmine Falcone's death.
A promotional poster for The Penguin featuring a Gotham Gazette article on Falcone's funeral.
Trivia[]
John Turturro accepted the role in The Batman out of his love for Batman and Zorro comics, especially those by Frank Miller (who, ironically, created the character of Carmine Falcone), and because his son works for DC Comics.
John Turturro bought Carmine Falcone's vintage sunglasses of his own volition, rationalizing that Falcone needed to have his own "mask" to contrast with Batman.
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