![]() ![]() Later, he attempts to kill Selina Kyle when she tries to stop him. In the animated film adaptation, Jack the Ripper is first seen murdering prostitute Pamela "Ivy" Isley. The Dark Knight strongly considers killing him, but decides not to, and Jacob Packer is then shot dead by Chief Constable James Gordon. ![]() His tale complete, Jacob Packer is at Batman's mercy. Once Bruce Wayne came back into his life, Jacob knew he had to frame him to both complete his revenge against Martha Wayne by eliminating her son, and also get his costumed alter-ego off his trail. However, the killing of Martha Wayne and her husband brought Jacob Packer no peace, as he continued to hear her "laughing" at him whenever he looked at a woman, and so resolved to kill as many as he could both in England and in Gotham to "silence" it. It comes to light that the man who had been an old friend of Bruce Wayne's family had in fact had his parents killed in vengeance for Martha rebuffing his romantic feelings for and even cruelly laughing in his face. From this, Bruce realizes who the killer is.Īfter escaping from prison and becoming Batman once more, he confronts and unmasks the killer as his life-long friend Jacob Packer. Just when it looks like Bruce is about to give up, he realizes that the symbol on a knife used by Jack is identical to a symbol used by his late father and his old Civil War buddies. Later, evidence is planted in Bruce Wayne's home that pins the Jack the Ripper murders on him.ĭesperate to discover the killer's identity, Bruce Wayne pores over all of the evidence in his cell, but finds nothing that the police who Jack has already fooled did not already find. Soon, Batman happens upon him and begins trying to stop him. Jack first appears in Gotham hunting women, apparently to stop "her" from laughing at him, as he finds this unidentified woman's laughter unbearable, and something that he can only silence by killing various prostitutes. He was voiced by Scott Patterson in the film. In both, however, he comes to Gotham City to continue his murders of prostitutes. ![]() He is a fictionalized version of the infamous real life serial killer of the same name, though his true identity differs between the comic and film versions. ![]() Jack the Ripper is the main antagonist of the DC Elseworlds comic book story Gotham by Gaslight and its animated film adaptation Batman: Gotham by Gaslight. ~ Jack the Ripper to Selina Kyle after drugging her and revealing his true identity, right before trying to kill her. Shall we begin? This may take quite some time. Your corruption and decay will spill down over this carnival as a warning to all your kind. Your blood shall christen this fair, woman. But on the inside.(.) Yes, sadly your death will exonerate Wayne. All rosy cheeked, soft, and round on the outside. But it's WHORES, you painted whores, that are the worst. Thieves, murderers, confidence men, immigrants, illiterates, anarchists. I promised the people of Gotham to clean the scum off the streets. But for every one of you I eradicate, two more arrive. But what does a light in the darkness do? It draws flies. Wayne promised this world's fair would be a paradise of cleanliness and light. ~ Jack the Ripper in a letter "from hell". And I could fool them anywhere, even in Gotham City, if that's where I chose to appear. ![]()
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