History Characters / ArrowverseGothamCityCriminals

** [[spoiler:She agrees to go to the Weiße Kaninchen Sanatorium at Mary's suggestion to work on her mental health at the end of the show. Beth's comic counterpart stayed there between the ''ComicBook/TheNew52'' and ''ComicBook/DCRebirth''.]]

* AdaptationOriginConnection: [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-zagged]], as the Batwoman in question he played a hand in creating is a CanonForeigner, but it was his actions in taking out the original Batwoman that led to Ryan taking on the mantle, whereas other iterations (with the exception of the [[Film/BirdsOfPrey2020 DCEU iteration]]) never had a hand in creating a member of the Bat-family.

* TheCorrupter: He has one of his men get Jacob Kane hooked on Snakebite--a substance that makes anyone see their biggest regret play out better--so he can personally drop off the substance (under the guise of having confiscated it from one of his employees) and keep one of his biggest obstacles distracted by his own failures. He succeeds in getting Jacob hooked, to the point he goes into ''cardiac arrest'' after he overdoses. Then it's revealed he has several high ranking GCPD detectives on his payroll.
* CrazyPrepared: He almost beats Batwoman singlehandedly until Sophie intervenes and is prepared to arrest him. He weasels out of it by showing live footage of Angelique being held hostage, threatening to drop her into a vat of toxic chemicals ([[ComicBook/TheJoker sound familiar?]]) unless he's allowed to walk free. Both Batwoman and Sophie reluctantly let him walk.
* CreateYourOwnHero: He ended up kidnapping and holding the original Batwoman hostage, but his actions led to another woman taking her place--Ryan Wilder, who becomes the biggest thorn in his operations.

* GreaterScopeVillain: He's revealed as the one responsible for kicking off the plot of Season 2 by kidnapping Kate Kane, resulting in Ryan Wilder becoming Batwoman, and leading Tatiana to frame Safiyah as the person responsible for the entire affair, causing Alice to target her in the first place, and land Ryan in the crosshairs as she worked to rescue Kate and stop her sister, little realizing that Kate was in his clutches the whole time. He's also connected with Safiyah in employing the hypnotist Enigma in their employ--Sionis using her to wipe Kate's mind (and implied to have already done so to Julia while she was investigating the plane crash Kate was involved with), and Safiyah using her to remove all traces of Alice's empathy and memories of Ocean.

* NotSoDifferentRemark: He tries pulling this on Ryan. She does acknowledge that he's right in some way--it's just she didn't use the rage and frustration of losing a love one and channel it into something so horrific.

* VillainBall: He grabs this hard in "Kane, Kate" when he finally wins by getting control of Kate Kane in full, taking the Batcave, and making sure that everyone who can possibly oppose him is out of the way...and he doesn't kill them. [[SarcasmMode That wasn't going to bite him back later]]. By the next episode, he's still grasping it hard, leading to his downfall.

* IronicDeath: {{Subverted}}. Barbara wound up turning her son into a vegetable when she tried using chemical treatments to cure his condition, so Marquis decided to do the same. She winds up surviving anyway.

* TruerToTheText: ''Series/{{Gotham}}'' depicted Barbara as an AxCrazy psychopath when Jim Gordon eventually broke off his engagement to her, she was largely out for herself, and was only Barbara Gordon's parent because she and Jim had a one-night stand during the final season. She's much saner in this adaption--well, mostly sane, as she still joins Black Glove--and was trying to help her son.

!! [[ComicBook/TheJoker Jack Napier / The Joker]]

* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: The implied reason that Batman left Gotham, according to Luke, is that he killed the Joker in cold blood--presumably in retaliation for killing his aunt and (apparently) his cousin.

** With the appearance of Marquis Jet and the subsequent revelation of his origins, it seems Joker has created another [[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker "Joker Junior"]] to follow in his footsteps--electric shock and all (though just the one jolt this time, and no genetic remapping)!

* OffscreenVillainy: He killed Robin offscreen. He was also driving the bus that ran Kate's family off the road, but he didn't appear in that scene, nor was the audience shown the actual hijacking of the bus. The painting he made out of someone's guts is not shown during its creation either. Eventually somewhat {{averted}} in Season 3, where we see him at least partially.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: Even though he is a major Batman villain, his only role in Batwoman's story was killing her mother and apparently her sister, which was a pivotal moment in her life. The fact that the Joker was killed so soon before Batman's disappearance implies that said disappearance may have been a result of the killing, making Batman's absence from the story the Joker's fault as well. He's also connected to the entirety of the plot involving Safiyah, as he randomly painted some poor guy's guts all over a painting that contained a secret map to her island--a painting of which Kate was investigating before she was kidnapped by Safiyah, only for her plane to be shot down on its way back to Gotham, leading Ryan Wilder to take up the mantle of Batwoman, and leading her to investigate said painting. His earlier actions that resulted in Beth's apparent death also occurred around the same time that Ryan was being held hostage by a kidnapper, which proved to be highly valuable in the future when said kidnapper continued to strike. His lapel flower also ends up being the key to giving Black Mask a serious case of LaserGuidedKarma, when Alice uses it to fuse the mask to his face. And then Season 3 reveals he caused Marcus Jet, Ryan Wilder's brother, to become a sociopath when he zapped the kid with his electric joy buzzer, leading to Gotham's protector to have a Joker all to herself. For a supposedly dead guy, he's influencing the series outcomes by quite a lot.

!! [[ComicBook/ThePenguin Oswald Cobblepot / The Penguin]]

!! [[ComicBook/PoisonIvy Pamela Isley / Poison Ivy]]

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: {{Subverted}}. Whatever feelings Ivy had for Renee were second only to her crusade, even when Renee revives her over a decade later.

* InterspeciesRomance: {{Downplayed}}, but Ivy is a mutated plant-metahuman hybrid in a toxic relationship with the human Renee Montoya.

* RuleOfSymbolism: Her debut episode features a great deal of Lillies--the symbol of forgiveness.

!! [[ComicBook/TheRiddler Edward Nygma / The Riddler]]

!! [[ComicBook/TheScarecrow Jonathan Crane / The Scarecrow]]

* AdaptationalVillainy: Nora Fries is usually a good woman whose condition became her husband's reason for his StartOfDarkness. Here, she follows the storyline in the ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} story arc ''[[ComicBook/Batgirl2000 Destruction's Daughter]]'' in which she did became a supervillain.

* TakeThat: When discussing Batman and Catwoman's relationship, Alice has some naughty thoughts of what they were doing together, remarking "Heroes don't do that". This mocks DC executives preventing the writing team of ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn'' from allowing a scene where Batman preforms cunnilingus on Catwoman--the quote in question coming from their reasoning as to why they wouldn't allow said scene.

A small time criminal.

* CompensatingForSomething: He gives [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/SaturdayNightLive Guy Who Just Bought A Boat]] a run for his money for world's tiniest package.

* AssholeVictim: {{Deconstructed}}. Kate accidentally kills him in a fit of rage, but while Jacob and Alice point out that he was a horrible man that deserved no sympathy, this fact doesn't absolve Kate of her guilt.

A skilled hypnotist employed by both Safiyah and Black Mask, and the daughter of The Riddler.

* AmbiguouslyRelated: Initially PlayedStraight, then [[SubvertedTrope subverted]]. Her comics counterpart is the daughter of ComicBook/TheRiddler, and while she does employ his trademark pose with a cane and wears a nifty shade of green like him, it was unclear whether or not she's related to the Prince of Puzzles. She is later revealed to be his daughter, but this is only ''after'' she died.
* AreYouSureYouWantToDoThat: When Alice learns Kate is still alive and has been brainwashed into believing she's Black Mask's daughter, she forces Enigma to try and come up with a reversal for the hypnosis. Though Enigma is willing to help, she explicitly warns that what she did to Kate was more extensive than what she did to Alice and Ocean; any efforts to remove the brainwashing could return Kate to normal, but it would make her far more aggressive and hostile towards Alice. Alice doesn't care and wishes to proceed--only for Ocean to snap Enigma's neck.

* CanonForeigner: {{ZigZagged}}. His true name is exclusive to the show, but he does borrow elements from the imposter Mad Hatter from the comics.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Tragically {{Subverted}}. While his father is willing to harm Batwoman herself to keep his son from being locked in a cage, the mindless beast that was once Steven shows no qualms about killing his own parent.

* HeelFaceTurn: ZigZagged between this and FaceHeelTurn. He started out as a criminal, but reformed and became a family man. Then when he got fired and his wife left him, he went right back to being a criminal.

* PayEvilUntoEvil: {{Subverted}}. Given Jada's behavior in the series up to his debut episode, including hiring the Black Glove Society to get Mr. Freeze's formula to put her son on ice, you would think he was doing this when he tries to kill her. However, it turns out that Jada, though willingly to stretch her morality, has a damn good reason to act the way she did: her son is the next iteration of ''THE JOKER''.

The son of industrialist Jada Jet and the brother to Ryan Wilder, Marquis Jet's seemingly charming personality is really a front to a violent and sociopathic man who takes after the most horrific villain Gotham has ever seen--ComicBook/TheJoker.

* ConvenientComa: Overlapping with DeathBySecretIdentity, Ryan jabs him with a cure meant for Mary, causing him to be dehydrated and knocked into a coma, just minutes after he learns who Batwoman really is. This gets {{Subverted}} when he wakes up after Ivy damages the dam enough to expose him to water.

* {{Foil}}: To his sister, Ryan. Both of them lived very different lives--he was born in a wealthy lifestyle before the Joker zapped him on the head and turned him into a sociopath, while she was forced into poverty because of him and was a troubled kid from the get-go until she found a loving foster mother who helped her until she was murdered by Alice. Both are also the successors to the roles of Joker and Batman[=/=]Batwoman that have embraced these roles wholeheartedly, but while Marquis has taken to Joker's legacy whole hog, Ryan is still struggling to balance out her duties as Batwoman with her responsibilities to her friends and allies.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: A hint to his true nature is laid out in "A Lesson From Professor Pyg" when he angrily confronts his would-be-assailant in spite of being paralyzed by a toxin.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: He intends to [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this trope, rising from the nameless son of a wealthy industrialist to the CEO of Wayne Enterprises--and the bringer of absolute chaos.

** His final plan for Jokerizing Gotham City--luring everyone out and then killing them all--is almost exactly like what Creator/JackNicholson's Joker did in ''Film/Batman1989''. Bonus points for both iterations being named Jack Napier.
* NiceGuy: {{Subverted}}. He acts like he's this, but it's a ploy to lure his victims.
* ObviouslyEvil: {{Lampshaded}} by Luke when Marquis returns from his temporary coma. The fact he's dressed like The Joker and has purple hair should have been a warning to the press, yet they completely ignore it.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: He kidnaps all the parents who were a part of the Black Glove Society--a group that went to any lengths to hide their psychotic children's diagnosis and cure them using illicit means--by subjecting them to the same treatments they put their kids through. Burton Crowne, Jeremiah Arkham and Mario Falcone all bite it, but Barbara Kean and his own mother just barley survive.
* PracticallyJoker: Uses knives? Check. A dangerously unhinged sociopath? Check. A skilled manipulator? Check. Has his hair dyed? Check. Gets kicks out of hurting or killing people? Check. Had a blonde psychologist girlfriend that winds up dying and gets forgotten about? Check. Although in this instance, the Joker was responsible for his sociopathy, and he's more of a fanboy of him, so it's {{Justified|Trope}}--plus the added wrinkle that he's the next iteration of the character in the series.

* SelfMadeOrphan: Implied, as one of the videos Jada gives Ryan shows that Marquis deliberately snuck peanut butter into his father's hamburger during a family picnic. Given that his father was allergic to peanuts, he laughs sadistically as his old man starts to have an allergic reaction--and his epipen is conveniently missing.

* WhatTheHellHero: He gives Ryan an earful or two for trying to push him away, but this turns out to be {{Invoked}} on his part, as he's trying to manipulate her to his side.

* BadFuture: He hails from one, courtesy of the Reverse Flash screwing with history so he can spite Barry Allen for becoming faster than him. Becomes {{Subverted}} when Barry undoes the damage.

* RetGone: He is erased from existence when Barry travels back in time to undo Thawne's changes to history...at least for now.

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* YankTheDogsChain: After spending five years rotting in Blackgate for a crime he didn't commit, he is finally granted a retrial and released from prison on his own recognizance. He doesn't even get to enjoy his freedom for a full day before he is murdered by an assassin paid off by Lucius' real killer.

* AdaptationDeviation: Evan is a cisgender man in the comics, while in the show they're non-binary (using both he/him and they/them pronouns).

* {{Catchphrase}}: "Shiny, shiny."
* CelebrityParadox: ''Franchise/{{Frozen}}'' jokes often comes up when Killer Frost appears. Margot's actress is part of ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'''s voice cast.

* MadBomber: Like her comics counterpart, Margot uses explosives disguised as fake jewelery via 3D printer; she even crafts magpie figures as bombs for weapons. She ends up in Arkham Asylum rather than a regular prison, implying that she does have mental issues.

* SiblingTeam: [[spoiler:It's later revealed that Reagan is her sister, scouting the places she intends to rob.]]

* IJustWantToBeFree:
** In Season 3, she's no longer interested in plotting against anyone and simply desires to make a new life for herself away from Gotham. However, no one, especially Ryan, will let her off scot-free for her crimes. This takes a toll on Alice's mental state as she resorts to her former underhandedness in her attempts to escape custody during her parole arrangement with Renee and Ryan. [[spoiler:She makes a last-ditch attempt at freedom by colluding with Poison Mary, but [[WhatYouAreInTheDark gives up her opportunity to flee the country in order to help the Bat-Team save Mary from Poison Ivy's influence]].]]
** In the second half of the third season, she longs to be [[InsaneNoMore free from the trauma and insanity of her Alice persona]] [[spoiler:by using the Joker's ElectricJoybuzzer to reverse her mental condition and be Beth again, even though it's not guaranteed to work. She becomes consumed with self-loathing and goes to increasingly desperate lengths, including telling Marquis about the Batcave as part of a deal, to obtain the joy buzzer. However, Mary and Ryan ultimately make her realize that she needs to face her struggles and reclaim her Beth self of her own will through professional help.]]

* DecompositeCharacter: While his son is strongly implied right from the get-go to be the ''Arrowverse'' equivalent of Batman enemy Jane Doe, it eventually becomes clear that he's ''also'' a take on the character, particularly given the character's traditional KillAndReplace M.O.

* MommyIssues: PlayedForHorror. As shown in flashbacks in 1x15, his mother Mabel was a real piece of work who mistreated her son and constantly demanded things from him. Despite this, August tried to please her to avoid invoking her wrath, even insisting (albeit feebly) to an abused Alice that his mother doesn't hate her and striking her when she insulted the woman. He also couldn't outright refuse giving Gabi Kane's face to Mabel to help her regain her youth despite knowing it wouldn't work. However, it's implied that he also secretly resented his mother, since he doesn't seem too bothered by her murder and tries blaming Alice's entire SanitySlippage on her.

* PredecessorVillain: It's strongly implied his horrific actions in the past are what molded both his son and Beth into the violent criminals they are today, even if the actions seemed to be born out of a twisted kind of love for his son to begin with. Also overlaps with VillainousLegacy. This is eventually [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] when it's revealed he's also alive and well in the present day, and is the BigBadEnsemble of season 1 alongside Alice and Mouse.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He was active fifteen years ago, but his whereabouts in the present day haven't been revealed. It turns out he had previously [[FakingTheDead faked his death]] and had lived under the assumed identity of Ethan Campbell, using a [[LatexPerfection lifelike mask]] he had made.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: [[DownplayedTrope Very downplayed]], as Black Mask is still a psychopathic TortureTechnician and a ruthless mobster, but unlike his depiction in ''Film/BirdsOfPrey'', he's a WellIntentionedExtremist with a case of EvenEvilHasLovedOnes. He's also not a PoliticallyIncorrectVillain this time around, as he lacks his comics counterpart's sexist traits.

* AdaptationOriginConnection: [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-zagged]], as the Batwoman in question he played a hand in creating is a CanonForeigner, but it was his actions in taking out the original Batwoman that led to Ryan taking on the mantle, whereas other iterations (with the exception of the [[Film/BirdsOfPrey DCEU iteration]]) never had a hand in creating a member of the Bat-family.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: His ''Series/{{Gotham}}'' and ''Film/BirdsOfPrey'' counterparts both kicked the bucket in their respective projects. Here, he manages to survive, albeit with a bit of FacialHorror thanks to his mask fusing to his face.

* CompositeCharacter: He is an affable and notorious hitman instead of just a SerialKiller, like in ''Series/{{Gotham}}'', but he follows along his ''Film/BirdsOfPrey'' and comics counterpart with inflicting scars on himself.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Subverted. Alice nearly becomes one of Nocturna's victims, but Alice convinces her to go after Mary instead.

* PayEvilUntoEvil: {{Subverted}}. Given Jada's behavior in the series up to his debut episode, including hiring the Black Glove Society to get Mr. Freeze's formula to put her son on ice, you would think he was doing this when he tries to kill ehr. However, it turns out that Jada, though willingly to stretch her morality, has a damn good reason to act the way she did: her son is the next iteration of ''THE JOKER''.

* CoolMask: Like many non comic versions of the character, he wears an intimidating black skull over his face. [note]Comic Black Mask never wore a skull mask and his SkullForAHead appearance is his actual head.[/note]

* CoolMask: As is typical for the character, he wears an intimidating black skull over his face.

* TheAtoner: [[spoiler: Alice helps bring a Poison Ivy-infected Mary back to her senses to make up for her role in finalizing Mary's transformation.]]

** At the end of Season 1, Alice refuses to leave Gotham with Mouse even though her retribution is technically completed and poisons him so she can continue to destroy Kate. By Season 3, her schemes have resulted in [[spoiler: the rest of the people who still cared about her being dead (Ocean) or out of the picture (Kate, Jacob). However, she has instead achieved peace with her sister and ''now'' desires to leave the city behind, but is forced to contend with being trapped in Arkham with her mental afflictions, and even hallucinates Mouse as a guilty conscience over throwing away her past opportunities to reform.]]
* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler: In Season 3, she initially allies with Poison Mary for purely self-serving reasons, wanting to escape the Bat-Team's custody so she can finally leave Gotham. However, during the latter half of the season, Alice and Mary begin connecting as they help each other out and Alice eventually decides she wants Mary in her life, to the point that she becomes genuinely concerned for her stepsister's safety.]]

** In Season 2, Safiyah Sohail and Black Mask derail Alice's vengeance against Kate, rendering her planning AllForNothing. She's coerced into doing their bidding at the expense of Kate and Ocean, forcing her to confront her emerging conscience. In the midst of all this, the new Batwoman, Ryan Wilder, has a very [[ItsPersonal personal]] vendetta against Alice and tries to straight up kill her, then leaves her to be killed by "Circe". [[spoiler: While she finally abandons her crusade and helps restore Kate, Ocean is killed, Jacob is arrested, and Kate leaves Gotham while Alice is sent back to Arkham.]]
** In season 3, the consequences of her crimes catch up to her as she's plagued by hallucinations from her repressed guilt. And with no one left to entertain her mind games, the Bat-Team is content to let Alice rot in Arkham if it means keeping her out of their lives, only giving a damn about her wellbeing for pragmatic reasons. She's eventually made to work with the heroes in their mission but still tries to run away from her problems [[spoiler: until her developing bond with Mary makes her seriously question her goals.]]

** A more successful one to Mary [[spoiler: after Alice learns about her developing plant powers from Poison Ivy's vines. She personally triggers Mary's final transformation and encourages her stepsister to embrace her new self's dark impulses. However, she soon comes to [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone regret]] this when the OG Poison Ivy comes into the picture.]]

* DyeHard: Her hair used to be brown, but she dyed it light blonde as an homage to ''Alice's Adventures In Wonderland''. [[spoiler: She wears a dark brown wig after making a HeelFaceTurn and planning to go into therapy.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: While she still has a long way to go in coming to grips with her past villainous activities, and her family will never be the same again, Alice takes the first steps towards redemption and self-improvement in the SeriesFinale. Everyone who wronged her and her family is dead or imprisoned, she has begun to let go of her inner turmoil and grudges, and parted ways with Batwoman on civil terms after so long of not being EasilyForgiven. Better yet, she forms a stable, loving bond with Mary, giving Alice someone to lean on as she prepares to heal her mental scars at an overseas hospital.]]

* FauxAffablyEvil: Alice is charming and conducts herself very politely, with a lot of eloquent speech and Lewis Carroll quotes, but it doesn't take long for her to show that she's completely off her rocker; she can barely go five minutes without saying something awful or doing something violent. [[spoiler: However, this later becomes subverted as she is shown to be kind to Mouse and deep down loves her family, secretly not wanting them to give up on or leave her. She even starts to bond with her stepsister Mary when the latter becomes Poison Mary]].

** She has one in "Meet Your Maker" and "Toxic" [[spoiler: about pushing the reluctant Mary into embracing her powers for Alice's own selfish reasons after witnessing her stepsister losing her former compassionate self to become a supervillain. This kickstarts her path to the closest she's come to a HeelFaceTurn.]]

** In Season 3, she's no longer interested in plotting against anyone and simply desires to make a new life for herself away from Gotham. However, no one, especially Ryan, will let her off scot-free for her crimes. This takes a toll on Alice's mental state as she resorts to her former underhandedness in her attempts to escape custody during her parole arrangement with Renee and Ryan. [[spoiler: She makes a last-ditch attempt at freedom by colluding with Poison Mary, but [[WhatYouAreInTheDark gives up her opportunity to flee the country in order to help the Bat-Team save Mary from Poison Ivy's influence]].]]

* {{Irony}}: Kate spent the first half of Season 1 trying to help Alice regain her former identity as Beth. In the second half of season 2, [[spoiler: Alice ends up helping Kate reclaim her memories from her [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashing]] as Circe Sionis. Kate herself lampshades their reversed roles.]]

** As she regains her memories, Alice becomes uncharacteristically conflicted about continuing to hurt the people she knows in a bid to get even. After [[spoiler: Ocean's murder]], she even tries apologizing to Ryan for her indirect role in Cora's death, [[spoiler: now understanding how it feels to live with the loss of the one person who loved and understood her]]. While Alice snaps out a vicious retort when the apology is [[RejectedApology rejected]], her effort is still noteworthy.
** In season 3, Alice's arc is centered on grappling with how she really feels about the pain and death she brought to various people with her actions. [[spoiler: Mary's determination to make amends for the harm she caused as Poison Ivy resonates with Alice, which spurs her to search for a way to regain her empathy and purge her mind of her psychotic impulses.]]

* LoveRedeems: It's a complicated journey but she eventually has a HeelRealization about the futility of her hatred against Kate and Jacob, and resolves to rescue her missing sister instead. Taken further when Mary attempts using her medical expertise to help Alice deal with her visions, causing Alice to become more civil with her. Though this is partly because Mary is all she has left, [[spoiler: with Kate taking a sabbatical from the city and Jacob arrested, they find the sister they always wanted in each other when Mary is possessed by Poison Ivy's vines. It's ensuring her stepsister's wellbeing that causes Alice to work with the Bat Team of her own volition (with ''no'' ulterior motives or betrayals) in getting Mary to abandon her partnership with Pamela Isley.]] Finally, she ends the series by [[spoiler:going on a JourneyToFindOneself with Mary's support to overcome her demons and take back her Beth identity.]]

** [[spoiler: Alice calls out Ryan for not reporting a Poison Ivy-influenced Mary to Montoya immediately, but being perfectly fine with locking Alice in Arkham and throwing away the key. Alice is clearly ignoring that she committed her crimes of her own free will while Mary is explicitly being brainwashed. Never mind the fact that Alice is partly responsible for Mary's situation.]]

** [[spoiler: She agrees to go to the Weiße Kaninchen Sanatorium at Mary's suggestion to work on her mental health at the end of the show. Beth's comic counterpart stayed there between the ''ComicBook/TheNew52'' and ''ComicBook/DCRebirth''.]]

** [[spoiler: Alice initially brushes off hiding Mary's emerging powers from her and the Bat Team, which allows Mary to become the second Poison Ivy, and places the blame on Ryan and Luke for not paying more attention to her. {{Subverted|Trope}}, however, after Mary is brought back to herself and accuses Alice of taking advantage of her new powers, not doing anything to stop her from killing a hunter. Alice is initially hostile and insists she was there for Mary while they were on the run, but she eventually takes the blame for the man's murder to spare her step-sister.]]

** In "Rule #1", she hallucinates Kate's younger self and her dead kitten from captivity while struggling with Kate's supposed death [[YankTheDogsChain just after Alice changed her mind about killing her]]. She eventually decides to forget Kate even ''existed'' to cope with her conflicted feelings. However, [[spoiler: Ocean's return and the revelation of Kate being alive and brainwashed give her a new direction.]]

** [[spoiler: She grows increasingly desperate to obtain the Joker's joy buzzer to shock herself back to sanity while hallucinating Ocean and Mouse as reminders of her past sins. After her betrayal of the Bat-Team lands her back in Arkham, she's breaking down and [[SelfHarm electrocuting herself with any object she can find]] to force her crazed persona out of her head while rejecting Mary's offer to send her to a sanatorium to help her.]] [[spoiler:She comes out of this once and for all when Ryan persuades Alice to work through her trauma and let the buzzer be used on Marquis Jet.]]

** In the present, Alice begins to care for her family again during her search for Kate while remembering her experiences in Coryana. However, [[spoiler: after being led to believe Kate and Ocean are both dead, she loses herself once more until learning they're alive.]] Even after [[spoiler: Ocean dies]], she remains determined to see through her goal of [[spoiler: restoring Kate to her former self]] and succeeds, to her genuine joy.
** Throughout season 3 when not hallucinating, Alice is still unpredictable but has generally shed her over-the-top behavior, being more observant and calculating. [[spoiler: Looking after Poison Mary when they go on the run brings out her hidden caring side and she gets a break from her delusions, acting more mentally sound and grounded. It's to the point that ''Alice'' is the more reasonable of the duo, being rightfully worried about Mary turning into Poison Ivy’s sporeling and accidentally killing an innocent man.]]

* SpannerInTheWorks: Her discovery that [[spoiler: Ryan's birth mother is still alive and divulging this to Ryan]] is what eventually kicks off the Bat-Team's conflict with Jada and Marquis Jet in season 3.

** This is zigzagged and ultimately subverted in Season 3 [[spoiler: as Alice begins regaining her morality and hopes to restore her former self in her mind. In the end, it's acknowledged that Beth isn't gone as Alice is still capable of change.]]

* TragicVillain: Underneath her AxCrazy flamboyance and Creator/LewisCarroll-themed gimmicks, she’s a [[BrokenBird deeply traumatized woman]] who endured years of fear, abuse, isolation, and conditioning until her mind was warped with a psychopathic drive as Alice, and is lashing out over having her life ripped away from her. [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] in seasons 2 and 3, which make clear that while Alice didn't deserve the suffering she went through, she remains in mental agony because she refuses to handle her trauma in a healthy way. Instead, Alice consistently uses her enmities or other questionable solutions, like memory erasure or the Joker's joy buzzer, as a band-aid even when she wants to make a HeelFaceTurn. [[spoiler: It takes Ryan and Mary's urging and belief in her inner strength for her to finally embark on the long road to healing by getting real help.]]

** Zigzagged [[spoiler: with Mary transforming into Poison Mary. [[NeverMyFault While Alice disregards how she kept Mary's powers a secret despite the danger]], she correctly points out that Mary is Ryan and Luke's friend, and they both neglected to pick up on the fact that something was wrong with her for ''weeks''. Alice even previously brought up to Mary how the team only came to her when they needed her expertise.]]

* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: In the comics, Nora's powers as Lazara are fire-based, in contrast to her husband's ice-themed abilities. Here, she seems to have the same condition as he, and needs to be in extreme cold. (This became RetCanon when ''Comicbook/DCYearOfTheVillain'' reinvented her as "Mrs Freeze".)

** [[spoiler: She agrees to go to the Weiße Kaninchen Sanatorium at Mary's suggestion to work on her mental health at the end of the show. Beth's comic counterpart stayed there between ''ComicBook/TheNew52'' and ''ComicBook/DCRebirth''.]]

* BrokenBird: Underneath her AxCrazy flamboyance and Creator/LewisCarroll-themed gimmicks, she’s a deeply traumatized woman who endured years of fear, abuse, isolation, and conditioning until her mind was warped with a psychopathic drive as Alice, and is lashing out over having her life ripped away from her.
** This is [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] in seasons 2 and 3, which show that while Alice didn't deserve the suffering she went through, she remains in mental agony because she refuses to handle her trauma in a healthy way. Instead, Alice consistently uses her enmities or other questionable solutions, like memory erasure or the Joker's joy buzzer, as a band-aid even when she wants to make a HeelFaceTurn. [[spoiler: It takes Ryan and Mary's urging and belief in her inner strength for her to finally embark on the long road to healing by getting real help.]]

** She expected Kate to share her joy that Catherine was dead and Jacob framed for it, as revenge for the latter two fabricating evidence of the former's death and calling off the search for her, respectively. What Alice failed to understand was that, no matter how Kate felt about Catherine, she didn't want her stepmother dead because Catherine was still a person and Mary's mother. Kate, while a little bitter about Jacob giving up on finding Beth too soon, also didn't want anything bad to happen to him, not only because Jacob is her father but because he's a good person who didn't do anything wrong. Even Mouse calls Alice out on still believing that Kate will join her after everything she's done.

* MommyIssues: PlayedForHorror. As shown in flashbacks in 1x15, his mother Mabel was a real piece of work who mistreated her son and constantly demanded things from him. Despite this, August tried to please her to avoid invoking her wrath, even (albeit feebly) defending Mabel to an abused Alice and striking the latter when she insults his mother. He also couldn't outright refuse giving Gabi Kane's face to Mabel to help her regain her youth despite knowing it wouldn't work. However, it's implied he also secretly resented his mother, since he doesn't seem too bothered by her murder and tried blaming Alice's entire SanitySlippage on her.

* MommyIssues: PlayedForHorror. As shown in flashbacks in 1x15, his mother Mabel was a real piece of work who mistreated her son and constantly demanded things from him. Despite this, August tried to please her to avoid invoking her wrath, even (albeit feebly) defending his mother to an abused Alice and striking the latter when she insults Mabel. He also couldn't outright refuse giving Gabi Kane's face to Mabel to help her regain her youth despite knowing it wouldn't work.

* MommyIssues: As shown in flashbacks in 1x15, his mother Mabel was a real piece of work who mistreated her son and constantly demanded things from him. Despite this, August tried to please her to avoid invoking her wrath, even (albeit weakly) defending her to an abused Alice and striking her when she insults Mabel. He also couldn't outright refuse giving Gabi Kane's face to his mother to help her regain her youth despite knowing it wouldn't work.

* PeekABangs: As a child, he used his long hair to cover his facial deformity. As an adult, he still does, but to a lesser degree.