Carmine "The Roman" Falcone is a fictional character in DC Comics' shared universe, the DC Universe, who made his debut in the four part story Batman: Year One written by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli in 1987.
In the comics, Falcone is a powerful Mafia chieftain nicknamed "The Roman," where his stranglehold over Gotham City's organized crime is referenced as "The Roman Empire" at least once. In Batman: Year One, the top of his penthouse is ...
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Carmine "The Roman" Falcone is a fictional character in DC Comics' shared universe, the DC Universe, who made his debut in the four part story Batman: Year One written by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli in 1987.
In the comics, Falcone is a powerful Mafia chieftain nicknamed "The Roman," where his stranglehold over Gotham City's organized crime is referenced as "The Roman Empire" at least once. In Batman: Year One, the top of his penthouse is shaped like Roman architecture. Loeb may be using the "Roman" name and idea symbolically, which is mentioned in The Godfather: Part II, when Tom Hagen and Frank Pentangeli are talking how they based their crime families on the old Roman legions. Even at one point discussing how the Corleone Family was as powerful as the Roman Empire. With this in mind, Loeb makes this literal by having the Falcone Family equivalent to the Roman Empire (and even named after the Empire) in Gotham City. Though his role in his debut story was almost non-existent,...
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