In the premiere episode of The Forgotten Files of Hugo Strange, we turn the lens inward. Not on a rogue. Not on a masked vigilante. But on the man behind the mirror—Doctor Hugo Strange himself. Long forgotten yet quietly foundational, Strange isn’t just another villain in Gotham’s orbit. He’s the one taking notes. Watching. Obsessing.
Gotham isn’t built on stone. It’s built on secrets.
That’s the idea we chase in this week’s episode of The Gotham and Beyond Podcast. No punchline. No villain of the week. Just a question: what’s underneath? Not under the GCPD. Not under the subways. Beneath all of it.
You can hear the snow before you see it. That soft hiss that trails behind the landing gear as Gordon's plane descends. You can feel the burn in his stomach when he says he's been hungry for five hours, but the hunger goes deeper. Into the bones. Into regret.
There’s something about Gotham in the snow.
It’s not just the white rooftops or the swirling flakes over Crime Alley. It’s how the city seems to go quiet. The usual chaos? Muted. The shadows get softer. But they also get colder. Somehow… meaner.
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The Cleaner of Crime Scenes
Real Name: Lenny Fiasco
Dex: 5 Str: 2 Body: 3
Int: 6 Will: 4 Mind: 4
Infl: 3 Aura: 3 Spirit: 3
Initiative: 16 Hero Points: 20
So today I was cleaning out my book cases, doing some "Spring cleaning" so to speak a little early. Trying to organize books around so that things can actually be found, instead of a having books here and there and then it hit me that I never did a write up. Looking at the TV I had on, it was going through its cycle of cartoons in the background, GI Joe happened to be on as well, so I picked as today's write up, Cobra Rattler.
While there isn't great rules in the Batman RPG for Vehicles, it does talk about it under the Gadgetry chapter, p102 of the book on how to design one. So without further ado, I give you the Cobra Rattler.
