Tom Petty is Mad Hatter in the Burton/Schumacher Batman Universe

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If you look at the video's for "Don't Come Around Here No More" (1985) and "Last Dance With Mary Jane" (1994) as short film stories, you can connect a pretty cool story as they and the Batman films were chronologically made.

In "Don't Come Around Here No More" (1985), "Alice" is obviously lost and confused by everything going on around her. Tom Petty, clearly the Mad Hatter, focuses on only her until the end. He also doesn't seem insane, he seems in control of the situation and angry. Everyone else in the video seems to be doing things to serve him. Mad Hatter didn't have henchmen in the classic lore He just had a mouse and a rabbit. But Jervis Tetch in the Batman lore did... with mind control. It's not outside the realm of possibility that this could be seen as a short film depicting Jervis Tetch's first (and maybe only) organized crime of drugging and killing the woman he is obsessed with. But it's told from "Alice's" drugged perspective.

Batman wasn't around to stop him because Batman didn't surface until 1989. One could believe that before the time Batman DID show up, Jervis would have been smart enough to lay low and distance himself from his crime. Maybe get a job that wouldn't ask questions when he continues his research on the physical mind. A mortician perhaps? A city with a high death rate like Pre-Batman Gotham would be lucrative and provide many unused brains for a mortician. SO Tom Petty's Hatter is laying low as a mortician in Gotham City while Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, and Kim Basinger have their story in "Batman" (1989).

In Batman Returns (1992), during a conversation between Bruce Wayne (Keaton) and Selina Kyle (Pfeifer), Bruce talks about Vicki Vale (Basinger) in the past tense. He goes on further to imply they didn't work out. They've broken up. So where is Vicki Vale now?
In the music video "Last Dance With Mary Jane" (1993), Tom Petty (Jervis) is a mortician who seems bored and unamused, like he feels above the job of a mortician.

That is until he sees the body of Kim Basinger (Vicki Vale). Wait, Vicki died? Put a pin in that thought for a moment. He becomes obsessed with this long haired blonde corpse with fair skin. Perhaps reminds him of "Alice". He takes her home and has a very creepy "date" with her. It heavily implies an insane obsessive disorder like Jervis Tetch has. During the "date" he wears a hat. It's hard to tell specifically what hat it is because it's black in a dark setting most of the time. But it's definitely a tall hat.

This music video certainly seems like the story of Jervis Tetch's brief revisiting of his obsession with "Alice" through a night with the corpse of Vicki Vale. Even the art direction of the video itself seems like a cross between Burton and Shumaker's style. But that would mean Vicki Vale died, right? How? Well at the very end of the video, Basinger surfaces to the water alive. I choose to believe Vicki Vale, as a investigative reporter of her caliber, was playing dead to uncover very wrong experimentations on corpses. She found Jervis. I would imagine she would write the story and either the police or Batman came to collect him.

Now if we can just get Tom Petty to make a music video where Batman or the police comes to apprehend him wearing a tall dark hat!