Maroni, Salvatore

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Maroni engaged in a power struggle over territory with The Russian, Yuri Dimitrov. This conflict escalated into a firefight between the Mafia and the Russians, with Detective Anna Ramirez and Crispus Allen caught in the crossfire. Batman intervened to stop the shootout. However, Maroni took Ramirez hostage and threatened to kill her until Batman stopped him, thereby gaining the respect of Detective Allen. Sometime later, Batman hijacked Maroni's boat and drove it alongside a vessel owned by rival gang leader The Russian. Batman attacked both gangs simultaneously, aided by his new device. He attempted to force a truce between the two gang leaders until he could gather evidence against them, but his efforts were disrupted when one of Maroni's henchmen fired at him.
As head of organized crime, Maroni took over Carmine Falcone's crime family. He received assistance from a Chinese mob accountant named Lau, who hid their money in Hong Kong. Maroni stood trial before D.A. Harvey Dent. There was insufficient evidence to imprison Maroni, and he was released. Later, he discussed the matter of Harvey Dent and recent robberies of their mob banks by the Joker. The Joker himself appeared and offered to kill Batman for half of the mob's money, but they refused.
After the Joker introduced himself to the mob, Maroni sent an ex-cop private investigator named Hamlin to find out the Joker's identity and where he lived. A few weeks later, Hamlin returned to Maroni, who was in a restaurant, and asked if the Joker existed, as he could not find anything about him. Hamlin began to laugh uncomfortably and collapsed dead. Maroni discovered that Hamlin's body had traces of a plant from somewhere in Asia.
Later, Maroni and The Chechen agreed to hire the Joker. Soon after, they were both taken to court along with many other criminals at once.
After swiftly making bail, Maroni was captured in a club and interrogated by Batman for the Joker's location. As Batman held him off the side of a building on a fire escape landing, Maroni arrogantly pointed out that the fall would be non-fatal. Batman simply replied: "I'm counting on it" and dropped him, which broke both of Maroni's legs.
Maroni refused to snitch on the Joker, as, despite his theatrics and apparent viciousness, the Joker showed Gotham's criminals that Batman was still a man and was unwilling to kill. With that knowledge, Maroni knew that he should be more afraid of the Joker, who was the real monster.
After the Joker's arrest, Detectives Michael Wuertz and Anna Ramirez sold Harvey Dent and Rachel Dawes to Maroni and tied them up in a warehouse with oil drums and a bomb. Rachel was killed, while Batman rescued Harvey, who was scarred on the left side of his face from the explosion of the warehouse from which he was rescued.
At some point, Maroni's legs recovered from being broken. After Rachel's death and the Joker's escape from the MCU, Maroni, who realized that the Joker was beyond anyone's control, finally told Commissioner Gordon his whereabouts.
Later, Maroni got into his car and, while being driven home to spend time with his Wife, was confronted by the scarred Dent, who went by Two-Face. Two-Face asked Maroni which police officer betrayed Rachel. When Maroni confessed that it was Ramirez, Two-Face flipped his Coin to decide Maroni's fate. It landed in favor of allowing Maroni to live, but Two-Face then moved on to the fate of Maroni's Driver, which landed in favor of his death. Two-Face shot the driver, the car swerved into a small obstruction, violently flipped sideways, and came to a stop upside down.