關於哥譚市你不知道的十大真相(1)

With a hit Fox TV show named Gotham and a ninth big screen outing planned for Batman, More people are being exposed to his dark city every day. However, with over seven decades of history, there are many facts about Gotham City that even die-hard Bat-maniacs may have missed.

隨着福克斯電視臺美劇《哥譚》的熱播，越來越多的人開始瞭解哥譚這座黑暗之城。儘管因爲時間久遠，有着70多年曆史的哥譚市的一些真相可能鮮爲人知，下面就爲大家揭露10個關於哥譚市你不知道的真相。

Founding Fathers Summoned A Bat Demon In Gotham

10.國父在哥譚召喚了一隻惡魔

Long-time bat fans know that Gotham City has been through much more than the average comic book town. Earthquakes, plagues, and a rotating door on the one asylum. Why, both Gotham's citizens and Batman readers may wonder, is Gotham so messed up?

資深的蝙蝠俠迷都知道哥譚市經歷了比一般漫畫中的城市都要多得多的災難——地震、瘟疫以及那座讓人望而卻步的精神病院。哥譚市的市民和漫畫讀者都想知道：爲什麼哥譚市如此糟糕?

Demons, of course! Well, one specific demon, summoned by no less than Thomas Jefferson. A bat-demon named Barbatos was summoned by Jefferson, an ancestor of Bruce Wayne, and other characters, and imprisoned beneath the city before the Revolutionary War ended. It is implied earlier in Batman's mythology that the town having a literal foundation of evil affected the development of the town and its people, either causing or exacerbating some of the bizarre goings-on of the city.

當然是惡魔！確切地說是一隻被托馬斯·傑斐遜（譯註:美利堅合衆國第三任總統。同時也是《美國獨立宣言》主要起草人，及美國開國元勳中最具影響力者之一）召喚出來的叫做巴巴託斯的惡魔。傑斐遜是布魯斯·韋恩的祖先，其他的惡魔在獨立戰爭結束前都被他囚禁在了哥譚市地下。早期的蝙蝠俠故事中，巴巴託斯對哥譚市的發展和市民產生重要影響，導致並惡化了一系列的離奇事件。

The real explanation provided by Grant Morrison is even more bizarre—the bat-demon was the manifestation of a time-jumping adaptive weapon sent to hunt and torture a time-jumping Bruce Wayne. This means that Batman inadvertently helped to create the demonic mythology of his own city.

格蘭特·莫里森的解釋更加離奇:巴巴託斯是一件可以跳躍時空的武器，是用來追蹤並折磨布魯斯·韋恩的。這讓蝙蝠俠不經意間使得這個傳說更加離奇。

Was Once Declared A 'No Man's Land' By The Government

9.哥譚曾被宣佈爲"無人之境"

Many Batman fans are familiar with the Dark Knight Rises plot point of Bane cutting Gotham City off from the government by threatening to destroy the city if the government intervenes. To make good on his threat, Bane destroyed almost all bridges into the city. What kind of monster, viewers might think, would do this?

許多蝙蝠俠粉絲一定對《黑暗騎士崛起》中班切斷哥譚市與外界的聯繫，以此來威脅如果政府採取干預措施就毀滅這座城市的情節很熟悉。爲了使他的威脅更有說服力，班毀掉了所有通往哥譚的交通要道。觀衆一定在想，到底是哪種惡魔能夠做出這種事情。

In the Batman comics, it was the government itself that cut the city off. After Gotham experienced an earthquake that killed over a million people and destroyed or damaged most of the buildings, the citizens finally got the message the city had been trying to send for years: get out. With the city mostly empty and destroyed, the government destroyed Gotham's bridges and declared it a no man's land with one specific rule: Those with criminal records had to stay in the ruined city.

在蝙蝠俠漫畫中，居然是美國政府切斷了與哥譚的聯繫。在哥譚市經歷了一場導致數百萬死亡和大部分建築損毀的地震後，哥譚市民們最終得到了一條政府一直想發送多年的指示:離開哥譚。因爲哥譚市已經基本成爲廢墟，美國政府摧毀了所有通往哥譚的橋樑，並宣佈哥譚已經成爲無人之境。除此之外，所有有犯罪記錄的人必須待在這座廢墟之城中。

This created an immediate problem as some were too poor or too stubborn to leave the city, and they were now effectively trapped with criminals. Commissioner Gordon and his men decided to stay and protect these citizens along with Batman. For their trouble, everyone who stayed in the city had their citizenship revoked by the government.

這導致了一個問題，那些因爲過度貧困和過於執着而留在哥譚的人們，無可奈何地被困在了一堆罪犯中。高登警監和他的警員們決定留下來，和蝙蝠俠一起保護這些市民。由於他們所帶來的麻煩，所有留在哥譚的人都被美國政府剝奪了美國公民資格。

Is Implied That The City Was Designed To Produce A Batman

8.哥譚是爲創造蝙蝠俠特意設計的

One of the more bizarre bat-moments from the already bizarre Batman was when the R.I.P. storyline included the revelation that Batman had a backup mental identity in the event that the original was compromised. That is, a brightly colored, slightly unhinged, and ultra-violent Batman known as The Batman of Zur-en-Arrh. Because it's Batman, even the seemingly insane things about this Batman—such as conversations with a hallucination—lead to actual revelations, such as a hidden tracker inside Batman's teeth. With this in mind, his conversation with some stone gargoyles was quite interesting. The gargoyles claimed to see with "slow vision" the grids of Gotham City as it grows, giving them insight into how the city shapes its people just as much as its people shape the city.

在已經很離奇的蝙蝠俠的身上發生的更加離奇的事情是，他似乎有精神方面的問題。因爲他是蝙蝠俠，所以發生在他身上的荒唐的事都會得到合理的解答。他看起來似乎經常和幻覺交流，其實他是正在通過內置在牙齒中的追蹤器和同伴交流。知道了這些，他和一些滴水獸石像說話這件事在我們看來就會相當有趣了。這些滴水獸雕塑可以看到哥譚市內每一個座標上發生的一舉一動，這讓人們看到正如這裏的人們改變了這座城市那樣，這座城市也改變了這裏的人們。

By channeling this "slow vision," Batman observes Gotham and says, "A checkerboard. A blueprint, A machine designed to make Batman." This off-hand comment is explosively revelatory, implying that the city may have orchestrated the deaths of Thomas and Martha Wayne in order to create its future savior: Batman.

蝙蝠俠可以通過這些滴水獸石像密切監視哥譚，他說:"一個精準的座標，一幅城市規劃圖，一臺計算機，這些都是爲蝙蝠俠量身打造的。"這種不經意間的感慨似乎暗示着這座城市特意安排了托馬斯和瑪莎·韋恩的死，以此來創造它未來的救星――蝙蝠俠。

ZC：譯 來源：前十網