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Alberto Falcone is an antagonist in the Batman series from DC Comics, and is often believed to be the serial killer known as The Holiday Killer, so named for committing crimes pertaining to holidays. He is the son of mob boss Carmine Falcone and appears as a principal character in both The Long Halloween and Dark Victory.
Alberto Falcone is the second son and youngest child of Gotham City mob boss Carmine Falcone. His father sends him away to Oxford University while grooming his other children, Sofia and Mario, to take over the "family business" when he is gone. Alberto feels slighted by his father, but it is suggested that Carmine simply wants him to have a normal life and does not know how to express how he really feels.
The Long Halloween[]
Beginning on Halloween, a mysterious serial killer known as Holiday starts killing gangsters, criminals, and corrupt officials all connected to Carmine Falcone. Holiday apparently kills Alberto on New Year's Eve during a party on his father's yacht. Carmine's sister Carla Viti investigates her nephew's apparent death, as well as that of her son Johnny, only to be murdered herself by Holiday on the Feast of Luperca, a Roman holiday - a reference to Carmine's nickname, "the Roman". Finally, on Labor Day, Alberto, very much alive, reappears and kills his father's main rival, Salvatore Maroni, after the latter disfigures District Attorney Harvey Dent and turns him into the supervillain Two-Face. As he is arrested, Alberto declares that he is Holiday.
Carmine offers to use his influence to help Alberto beat the charges, if he only admits to killing Maroni "in self-defense". Alberto refuses, however, smugly saying that his new reputation as Holiday makes him much bigger than his father and all the gangsters in the mob put together. He is convicted of the murders and sentenced to the gas chamber. Although Alberto initially receives the death sentence, his unstable mental state allows him to instead plead insanity. He is institutionalized in Arkham Asylum instead, across the hall from the Calendar Man, another holiday-obsessed villain who is afraid that Holiday might overshadow him.
Despite the warnings of GCPD Captain James Gordon, Alberto is released from Arkham with the help of Janice Porter, Dent's replacement as Gotham's district attorney. He is placed under house arrest at the Falcone compound outside Gotham, with a tracking device on his ankle to prevent him from escaping. While he is under house arrest, his father is kidnapped and murdered by Two-Face.
While in the house, Alberto is manipulated by The Scarecrow and Calendar Man into believing that he is being contacted by Carmine's ghost; the Scarecrow, a former psychologist, determines that Alberto is most afraid of his father, and the Calendar Man poses as the Roman's 'ghost' to permanently eliminate his 'rival'. The gun from the Holiday murders is soon left in his possession, which he uses to save Sofia from The Joker. On his father's birthday, Alberto receives another gun to kill Sofia in order to take her place as head of the family; unbeknownst to him, this is part of Two-Face's plan to destroy the Falcone family once and for all. Alberto nearly kills her in a Holiday-style shooting, but ultimately stops himself.
Following Porter's death, Two-Face has her body left in Alberto's bed in order to trick him into thinking he had killed her. This time Scarecrow uses his fear toxins to make Alberto hallucinate that his father's voice is commanding him to commit suicide. Alberto then knows that the voice is not real, as his father did not believe in suicide, and he exposes Calendar Man.
What happens next is never explicitly shown, but later events suggest that Calendar Man shoots and wounds Alberto, at which point Sofia attacks Calendar Man, breaking his jaw and attaching her brother's ankle monitor to him, leaving him unconscious outside the Falcone estate for Batman and the authorities to find. (Gordon and Batman appear doubtful that Alberto could have injured the Calendar Man so badly himself.)
Sofia then takes her wounded brother to a hiding place in the Falcone mausoleum. There Sofia criticizes Alberto for complaining about the pain, recalling how Carmine had survived five shots to the chest. Alberto replies that he is not his father. Sofia, disgusted, agrees with this assessment and smothers him to death.
Other Media[]
Batman: Arkham Origins[]
Alberto appears in a minor role in the video game Batman: Arkham Origins. There, he is kidnapped by Penguin, who tortures him in order to try to convince his father to give up on running the weapons business. Batman defeat’s Penguin’s henchmen, and begins to interrogate him before being attacked by Deathstroke. Alberto then disappears and is not seen throughout the rest of the series.
Gotham[]
Alberto is referenced in the Gotham TV series. In season 4, it is mentioned that Mario and Sofia Falcone had a unnamed, deceased brother.
Batman: The Long Halloween[]
Alberto appears in the two-part animated adaptation of Batman: The Long Halloween as a supporting anti-heroic protagonist in Part 1 and a posthumous protagonist in part 2. He is voiced by Jack Quaid, who also played Marvel in The Hunger Games.
His role is considerably different than in the original comic. He first appears in the beginning writing crossword puzzles while his father tries to get Bruce Wayne to launder money through the Wayne Foundation. He is seen again when his father has a meeting with his organization to discuss about their issues with Holiday, Bruce refusing Falcone, and Harvey Dent’s campaign against them. Carmine humiliates Alberto by kicking him out of the meeting. He is later seen talking to Carmine about the latter letting Dent live and the former not being a part of the family business. He also reveals to his father that he sent flowers to Dent’s hospital room in the Falcone name, angering his father, who calls him weak and says that he will never succeed him as head of the family. Carmine shuns him once again during the Falcone family's New Year's Eve party by calling Bruce Wayne "the son he never had" within earshot of Alberto.
Alberto is last seen talking to Selina Kyle, who asks him what it is like being Falcone's son. He tells her that his father considered him weak because he fell in love with someone (later revealed to be Gilda Dent) who was considered wrong for the family. He laments letting his father “scare” her away; it is later revealed that she had been pregnant with Alberto's child, and that Carmine had forced her against her will to have an abortion. Batman confronts him, accusing him of committing the Holiday murder in order to take control of the Falcone family, but Alberto replies that he only wants a normal life. He is then shot twice by Holiday, killing him. The killer, later revealed to be Harvey Dent, throws Alberto's corpse into the sea.
Trivia[]
Jeph Loeb has said that he tried to model each member of the Falcone family after a member of the Corleone family, from The Godfather. Alberto, the weakest, least intelligent of the Falcone children who envies his siblings and is largely ignored by his father, is based on Fredo Corleone.
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