Chief O'Hara

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Police Chief O'Hara (named Miles in some versions and Clancy in others) is a DC Comics supporting character of Batman, introduced as "Chief Miles O'Hara" in the 1960s Batman TV series produced by 20th Century Fox for ABC, where he was played by Stafford Rep. In the 1970s, the character is introduced into the DC Universe pre-Crisis continuity referred to as Earth-One, he was eventually forgotten by writers and in December of 1999 briefly reintroduced as Chief Clancy O'Hara in Batman: Dark Victory by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale.

1 1966 Batman TV series
2 Earth-one pre-Crisis continuity
3 Post-Crisis continuity
4 References

[edit] 1966 Batman TV series



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Chief O'Hara

Played by	Stafford Repp
First appearance	Hi Diddle Riddle
No. of appearances
Current status	Active
Adapted from

Characteristics

Alter ego	Miles O'Hara







Affiliations	Gotham City Police Department

Created by

Bob Kane
Bill Finger

As despiced by Stafford Repp, O'Hara is a merry chubby police man with Irish accent who is always assisting the Police Comissioner James Gordon. He is a the person in control of the Bat-phone and the day-to-day opperations of the police. Although he is a regular supporting character, There is not much revealed about this character.

He is a simple man with and Irish accent and he not particularly intelligent or versed, in fact, he is often the last to follow Batman's line of thinking (this limitation of his is often used as a narration devise that makes Batman or Gordon elaborate on situations the audience might not be aware). The chief is usually merry, however, he is often also short tempered and opinionated towards criminals, which he is the first to outspokenly distrust ^[1]. He is also extremely loyal towards Batman, Robin and Gordon and in the end, he can avoid following his instincts when they ask him to. ^[2]

In The Penguin's Nest the Penguin holds him hostage to escape jail and then set a trap to Batman.

In The Wail of the Siren, the Siren hipnotises him to jump off the river and is stopped by Batgirl.

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[edit] Earth-one pre-Crisis continuity

In the Steve Englehart story arc, when corrupt Council Chairman Rupert Thorne, forbids police contact with Batman and declares him outlaw, as Gordon, O'Hara remains loyal to Batman, using clandestinely the Bat-phone to prevent him.

[edit] Post-Crisis continuity

The post-Crisis version, renamed Clancy O'Hara by Jeph Loeb, reintroduced (and killed) in Batman: Dark Victory chapter one, holds the position of Chief of the Gotham City Police Department before and after James Gordon becomes the Commissioner. He is described as a very honest older cop, one of the few incorruptible, and "as Irish as his name sounds". O'Hara is in the police force for a long time and knows Gordon since he was starting, befriends him and, as Police Chief, supports of him all the way up until he becomes the Police Commissioner. O'Hara support's Gordon's relationship with Batman and believes the Waynes murder to have changed Gotham City and its police for bad.

In this version he wears the same type of uniform Stafford Rep and is interpreted by the series' artist Tim Sale as a tall red haired man with thick eyebrows and a big pointy moustache. Little is known about him but his lines portray him as pacient and routinay, however he shows strong character when talking about the organized crime. He shows a little ignorance when he asks the meaning of Vini, vidi, vici, this mirrors an aspect of the old version of the character in the 1966 TV series.

While still a sergeant years ago, he and then-officer Stan Merkel were noted for capturing then-teenage Mario Falcone, who was prosecuted by then-Assistant District Attorney Harvey Dent. He is the first victim of the serial killer known as Hangman, found on Halloween night hanging from the Westward bridge with a rope around his neck and an incompleted hangman game sheet with the content N_NE _F Y__ _RE S_FE and the letters T, A, D, U, B, M striked.

Later, in chapter six of the same series, it is revealed that prior to his death he is planing to gather a special unit of five agents to work directly under Gordon's command to bring down "to take down the five families once and for all: The Falcones, the Maronis, the Skeevers, the Zuccos and the Skeevers, but given the situation, the unit was rather used to apprehend the Hangman and ironically solve the Chief's death. O'Hara's last action before his final routinary walk through the Gotham City Bridge is giving Gordon the list of detectives he picked for the unit.