History Characters / GothamCriminalGroups

* BackFromTheDead: He's comes back alive in well [[spoiler:just in time for the the Season 4 finale]].

* DeathByAdaptation: Subverted. [[spoiler:He's killed by Bruce Wayne and stays dead for the majority of Season 4 (but occasionally pops up in a flashback or vision during Barbara's story. However, with the show's knack for bringing back dead characters and Ra's's immortality in the comics, you'd better believe it doesn't last, as he indeed comes BackFromTheDead in "To Our Deaths And Beyond".]]

[[folder:The Dollmaker/Dr. Francis Dulmacher]]

The leader of the League of Assassins and the enigmatic person behind The Court of Owls.

* BigBad: Of the fourth season. [[spoiler: Or not.]]

* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler: Killed by Bruce Wayne before he even becomes Batman. However, knowing the show's knack for bringing back dead characters and Ra's's immortality in the comics, who knows how long this will last. Indeed, he comes BackFromTheDead in To Our Deaths And Beyond.]]
* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler: After being set up as the BigBad in the final two episodes of Season 3 for the next season, he's killed five episodes in.]]

* OutOfFocus: Despite being billed as a regular, he receives very little attention after the first half of Season 4 [[spoiler: that's because he's been killed off. Despite this, he's still given a credit in most episodes.]]

!The Order of St. Dumas
[[folder: Theo Galavan/Azrael]]
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->'''Played By:''' James Frain

A billionaire newly arrived at Gotham City. He has plans for the city that will cause the rise of several villains.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Azrael was more of an AntiHero instead of a psychotic SerialKiller.
* AintTooProudToBeg: He tries to FaceDeathWithDignity, but Oswald's beatings ultimately gets desperate enough to beg for a MercyKill.
* ArcVillain: For the first half of Season 2.
* AssholeVictim: Halfway through Season 2, [[spoiler:Gordon and Penguin are fed up with his ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections and ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney, and decide on a long and brutal VigilanteExecution -- to the point where he's actually begging to die faster.]]
* BackFromTheDead: At the end of "Pinewood", thanks to Hugo Strange. As with Mr. Freeze, his dead body was supposed to have been burnt, but Strange just happened to be running a resurrection program and chooses him to be his working prototype.
* BrotherSisterIncest: It's strongly implied that he and his sister Tabitha are lovers, with Tabitha referring to him as a "monster in the sack" in "The Last Laugh".
* CameBackStrong: His resurrection as Azrael makes him super-strong and super-fast, and can survive being repeatedly shot at and falling from a roof.
* CameBackWrong: On the other hand, it does a number on his psyche, which latches onto the Order of St. Dumas' religious teachings rather than his actual identity. Strange uses this to manipulate Galavan into believing he is a 12th century knight.
* CanonCharacterAllAlong: While he's still a completely new character made specifically for the show, he eventually becomes the show's version of Azrael in ''Wrath of the Villains''.
* TheChessmaster: He organized the Arkham breakout, used Jerome and company to cause mass panic throughout the city, killed Jerome to make himself look like a hero so he could run for mayor, and blackmailed Cobblepot to murder his political rivals. He is even smart enough to have Cobblepot to pretend to try to kill him so he wouldn't be suspected of murdering them.
* CompositeCharacter: Galavan's family history has elements of [[Comicbook/{{Azrael}} Jean-Paul Valley]] (connection to the Order of St Dumas) and Zachary Gate from ''Gates of Gotham'' (vengeful descendant of a forgotten Gotham founding family).
* DarthVaderClone: :When he becomes Azrael, he wears heavy black leather, black armor, and speaks in a distorted voice while wielding a blade.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: {{Subverted}}. His whole evil plan is about avenging his family's honor but he has no personal love for his sister or niece. He also wounds his sister for leaving him at Gordon's mercy.
** A perhaps more straight example could be his greeting Father Creel like an old friend, caring about his words and later dismissing Gordon's claim that the Order of Saint Dumas worked for him, by calling them his family's friends and protectors.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: A very weak and downplayed case, but Theo was visibly and at least on an instinctive level, disgusted by Tabitha tearing Bunderslaw's eye off.
* EvilIsPetty: He kidnaps Penguin's mother to force him to do his bidding and then later kills her.
** The Waynes accused his ancestor of attempted rape 200 years ago and removed the family name from the city records, so the honor of a man his grandfather never met has to be avenged with a lot of murder.
* {{Expy}}:
** To the ''Film/BatmanReturns'' version of Penguin. An outcast from a wealthy family who suddenly returns to Gotham and plans to take it over by [[VillainWithGoodPublicity attracting enough good publicity to run for Mayor of Gotham]], hires a bunch of freaks to do his dirty work, accelerates his plans at top speed after his "hero" facade shatters... ironically, he and this continuity's Penguin are sworn enemies thanks to [[RelativeButton a rather personal issue]].
** In ''Wrath of the Villains'', he is one to Jean Paul-Valley, the original Azrael in the comics.
* FalseFriend: He's pretending to be friends with Bruce Wayne, but obviously hides sinister motives underneath.
* FatalFlaw: He usually improvises if a plan goes wrong but doesn't plan ahead in the case that his sister would betray him for threatening his step-niece.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Speaks in a fairly polite, refined manner, and is unrepentant about his plan to kill a child.
* HiddenAgendaVillain: Unlike the villains of the first season, who wore their motivations on their sleeves, the audience is completely in the dark about what he wants. It's revealed in "Scarification" that he is a member of the Dumas family, and is seeking revenge for a slight by the Wayne family.
* HiddenBadass: While he usually leaves the fighting to his underlings, he is in fact more than capable in hand-to-hand combat (as Gordon learns the [[CurbStompBattle hard way]] in "The Son of Gotham"). This [[{{Foreshadowing}} foreshadows]] [[spoiler:his return as Azrael]].
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He gets arrested because Barbara, the tool he wanted to use to kill Gordon, gives the police vital information against him.
** He stabbed his sister, giving her lover Butch a motive to ally with Penguin to kill him for good.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Wants to avenge his family against the Waynes, but has no qualms about ruining other families (such as when he abducts-and eventually kills-Penguin's mother) in the process.
* IronicName: After his resurrection, he is dubbed Azrael, the ''Redeemed One''.
* ItsPersonal: According to him, his family built Gotham including the very foundations upon which the city rests but they were cheated out of their credit. Now he's back wanting revenge.
* KilledOffForReal: Penguin and Butch blow him up with an RPG after the former threatens to shove his umbrella in a different part of him this time around.
* LaserGuidedKarma: According to Bullock, he's supposed to be a pile of ashes, not a supervillainous ninja who had just put Captain Barnes in critical condition. Later in "Unleashed", he actually does meet a fiery end--albeit not in an incinerator, but at the hands of an RPG-wielding mobster.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Fueling speculation of who he is, whatever he did to Zaardan either involved ''very'' precise chemistry and technology, or was outright magical.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Nice job killing Penguin's mother to punish him for trying to take matters into his own hands -- despite him only doing so because you refused the pragmatic alternative of simply releasing her and possibly keeping him as an (uneasy) ally! Now not only is he out for your blood, but he also ruins your VillainWithGoodPublicity act in front of Jim and Bullock!
* NobodyCallsMeChicken: Done subtly in "Mommy's Little Monster" when Penguin tells him he comes from "a long line of cowards". This comes back to bite him in the ass several times over.
* NotEnoughToBury: The ''second'' time around he gets shot at point blank range with ''a bazooka'' and his body is [[LudicrousGibs completely disintegrated]].
* ObviouslyEvil: He's such a SmugSnake and his good reputation is built entirely on events that would be ContrivedCoincidence even if we didn't already know he staged them.
* OhCrap:
** He has this reaction when Gordon reveals that he knows that he had Penguin's mother killed.
** And again when Penguin shows up at Wayne Manor to save Bruce, Jim and Alfred.
--> '''Galavan''': Ooooh.
* PreMortemOneLiner: Before his sister ices Sionis, after the latter had just asked Barbara to accompany him: "She doesn't want to go where you're going."
* RealityEnsues: Even as the nigh-invulnerable Azrael, he can still be blown to pieces by an RPG, and as Alfred notes in "Anything for You", the mess that ensues ends up being quite the cleanup job for the Wayne family's gardener.
* RevengeByProxy: "Scarification" reveals that his family, formerly a ruling family in Gotham, was removed from the records by the Waynes after Caleb Dumas, his ancestor, was accused of raping Celestine Wayne. Centuries later, Theo orders a series of arson attacks on Wayne buildings, and seeks to kill Bruce, who most likely had never heard of the Dumas.
* RevengeMyopia: The Waynes were the ones who destroyed his family two centuries ago, but he sees nothing wrong with unleashing untold suffering upon the people of Gotham who had absolutely nothing to do with the original feud.
* SmugSnake: He tends to torture high profile people like senators and Mayor James in person. It bites him the back because James' testimony is what allows Gordon to arrest him.
* TheSociopath: He has no problem plotting the murder of a child and doesn't even care about his own immediate family, even threatening to kill Tabitha and Silver on different occasions.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: He ends up blown to pieces by Butch's RPG.
* TookALevelInBadass: While he's already proven to be quite the badass when he takes down Gordon in a fight, he becomes an even ''bigger'' threat once he becomes Azrael in Season 2B.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: An interesting case in that while Theo's plan involving the Maniax did involve murder and chaos, ''no one'' could have had any idea that his actions would indirectly bring about the [[ComicBook/TheJoker worst monster]] that Gotham would ever see.
* VillainBall: When he decides to kill Penguin himself, instead of shooting him on the spot he decides to give him an AnyLastWords moment which allowed Penguin to slash his throat and then escape.
** In the Season 2 Fall finale, after getting apprehended, Gallavan decides to taunt Gordon on the fact that he will most likely get out of jail again quickly. Gordon decides to kill him knowing this fact.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Even though he's only recently arrived to Gotham, he is already well regarded enough to stand in for the Mayor in public events. But nobody knows he is secretly a villain. He even stages himself to be a hero, by "saving" the city in killing Jerome to make him appear to be the hero.
* WouldHurtAChild: His ultimate plan is to kill Bruce Wayne and he has absolutely no problem threatening the same to Silver.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Once Sionis rejects his proposal Theo wastes no time ordering Tabitha to kill him in a most gruesome way. The same goes for Jerome, whom he killed to make himself look to be a hero.

[[folder:Aaron Helzinger]]
!!Aaron Helzinger
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-> '''Played By:''' Stink Fisher

An Arkham patient and former member of the Maniax.

* TheBigGuy: He towers over the other members of the Maniax.
* TheBrute: He's the one who lifts the bodies of the shipyard workers over the ledge to throw them off the roof. He's also able to dish out a savage beating to Gordon without sustaining so much as a scratch.
* DumbMuscle: There's a trend with these tropes... Barbara chooses him to be her "friend" in Arkham because he's easily the biggest guy there and could protect her from harm. He also falls for her charms relatively easily.
* HairTriggerTemper: When he sees Oswald has ice cream and no one else does, he doesn't take it well.
* PsychopathicManchild: Like Amygdala in the comics, he has the mind of a child. He also killed his whole family with his bare hands.
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:Aside from Barbara, he's the only one of the six inmates that Galavan broke out of Arkham who's not dead.]]

[[folder:Silver St. Cloud]]
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!!Silver St. Cloud
->'''Played By:''' Natalie Alyn Lind

Theo Galavan's niece and ward.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: In the comics, she is a good person, but on the show she's a willing accomplice of the Galavans. [[spoiler: She has a change of heart in the Winter Finale.]]
* ArchEnemy: She's become a major enemy towards Selina.
* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler:Seeing Bruce willingly risk his own life to save hers in exchange even after her various emotional manipulations, Silver comes to care for him during the Season 2 winter finale, this time for real.]]
* BigBadWannabe: She thinks that she's a chessmaster like her uncle, but Selina proves that she's not as capable at being a villain as she thinks she is.
* BirdsOfAFeather: Invoked by Galavan. Silver is a {{socialite}} in the making who comes from a wealthy, high-class family like Bruce, and both have yet to acclimate to Anders Preps for similar reasons (he's been predominantly {{homeschooled|Kids}}, she was studying abroad in Geneva for two years). A good impression in their first few meetings and [[PuppyLove Bruce is]] [[LoveAtFirstSight instantly hooked]].
-->'''Silver''' (''on being the new kid at school''): [[YouAreNotAlone "Then we shall brave it together."]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Seems like a convincing NiceGirl around Bruce, but alone with her aunt and uncle or with Selina, she shows her true colors.
** [[spoiler:Silver might actually be [[DoubleSubversion a sheep in bitch's clothing wearing sheep's clothing over that]], as indicated by her desperate attempt to [[WellDoneSonGuy stay within her uncle's good graces]] (and thus stay alive) throughout "Worse Than a Crime" as well as her subsequent HeelFaceTurn. In the previous episode, she also cries out for Bruce when [[MassiveMultiplayerScam it appears he's about to be executed by a hitman]], which may or may not have been genuine alarm and concern for his well-being.]]
* BreakTheHaughty: [[spoiler:Selina hires a fake hitman to submit her to torture in order to get information out her that would help Bruce. After realizing she's been outsmarted by Bruce and Selina, they point out how pathetic of a villain she was. She breaks down crying out Bruce's name after he severs his ties with her for good.]]
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:She becomes this to Bruce. He reveals that he truly did love her, but after listening to Selina, he learns of her dark side.]]
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: She was last seen escaping a building with Tabitha, then never again afterwards.
* DarkChick: A secondary one within Galavan's inner circle, she's nonetheless an instrumental tool in his plans to wrestle control of Wayne Enterprises away from Bruce and the current board members as part of his greater scheme to take over Gotham.
* DidntSeeThatComing: [[spoiler:She never knew that Bruce and Selina were smart enough to trick her into giving them information and uncovering her villainy.]]
* EvilCounterpart: To Selina. Both are young girls with an interest in Bruce Wayne; but while Selina is a LoveableRogue who cares for Bruce, Silver is a BitchInSheepsClothing who manipulates Bruce for her uncle's gain.
* FalseFriend: She's acting as a friendly girl with a crush on Bruce, but is really toying with his emotions.
* FauxAffablyEvil: As we see in her "girl talk" with Selina, she nonchalantly threatens to kill her if she interferes in her plans for Bruce.
* FilleFatale: She's sent by her uncle to seduce Bruce.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:After trying to fake one doesn't get Bruce's trust, she simply tells him the truth, that her uncle will cut her off or kill her if she doesn't get a kiss from him. Bruce plays along when Theo shows up to save her, and [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe Silver is so touched]] that she interrupts the ceremony to kill Bruce, buying a precious few seconds for the cavalry to show up.]]
* HighHeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Discounting her aunt, who [[TheDogBitesBack turns on Theo]] [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal for her]] [[EvenEvilHasStandards own reasons]], Silver is the only known member of the Order of St. Dumas to wash her hands clean of the cult and repent.]]
* HoneyTrap: Her role in her uncle's plan is to serve as [[FilleFatale a kid-friendly version]] for Bruce. She's quite proud of her success.
-->'''Silver:''' "See this finger?" (''raises her left little finger'') "I have little Bruce wrapped tight around it."
* KickTheDog: As if threatening Selina's life wasn't bad enough, she coldly mocks her for the fact that she has no mother and says nobody will care about Selina at all if she were to die.
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The dark to Selina's light, ironically, considering whose side she's on.
* LightIsNotGood: Usually dresses in light colors when not in school uniform and is a BitchInSheepsClothing.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: {{Invoked}} in-universe, as she is introduced dancing barefoot on a restaurant’s fountain, and from them on is all quirky and beautiful and friendly towards Bruce, but it's later shown to all be an act.
* [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]]: She's toying with Bruce's feelings under her uncle's orders and clearly doesn't care the least about him.
* MuggingTheMonster: She taunts and threatens Selina, who among other things, is an experienced cat burglar and armed robber, has clawed out a grown man's eyes, and killed at least one person by this point in the series.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Her comic counterpart has no connections whatsoever to the Order of St. Dumas, much less being a relative of one of his descendants.
* ShutUpHannibal: [[spoiler:She tries telling Bruce that he's not capable of enacting such heroics in Gotham, but he coldly tells her that she doesn't know him at all.]]
* SmugSnake: She practically brags about how villainous she is.
* TheSociopath: Bruce is nothing but a target for her to trick and she doesn't care what her uncle has planned for the kid.
** [[spoiler:Subverted in "Worse Than a Crime" -- she gradually grows remorseful and ultimately pulls a HeelFaceTurn, making her more of a pragmatist than this.]]
* TeensAreMonsters: She's just as monstrous as her family. [[spoiler:Subverted when she pulls a HeelFaceTurn.]]
* UnderestimatingBadassery: It turns out that she shouldn't have viewed Bruce and Selina as weak because [[spoiler:they kidnap her, submit her to fake torture, and dupe her into confessing information for them]].
* VillainBall: When alone with Selina, she drops her phony nice girl act and reveals her true colors while nonchalantly threatening her. Because of this, Selina is now fully aware of her intentions for Bruce and is now working to stop her. Subverted when it's revealed that Selina never fell for her act in the first place and knew the type of person she is.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: She hasn't been seen since escaping a building with Tabitha.
* WomanInWhite: She wears a white dress when Bruce first sees her.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Following the above VillainBall moment, Selina tries to out Silver, but between her lack of evidence and Silver's ability to [[CrocodileTears cry at the drop of a dime]], Bruce's trust in Selina is damaged, allowing Silver to better wedge herself between them.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Father Creal]]
!!Father Creal
->'''Played By:''' Ron Rifkin

Leader of the Order of St. Dumas and an associate of Theo Galavan.
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* AllMonksKnowKungFu: His and the other brothers' fighting style owes a lot to the East.
* BadassGrandpa: This rather scrawny looking old man is a terror in hand-to-hand combat.
* EvilOldFolks: His particular order seems to be something of a ReligionOfEvil.
* SinisterMinister: Evil monk, to be specific.
* UndignifiedDeath: [[spoiler:He might have been aiming for SuicideByCop by attacking Gordon, but Bullock shoots and kills him just as Creal jumped into the air, causing his body to be blown backwards, sliding across the floor.]]
[[/folder]]

!Other Criminal Gangs

[[folder: The Red Hood]]
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A gang of small-time robbers who hit banks, but only steal from the registers instead of the vault so they can get out in time before the cops arrive. A Red Hood, which ends up becoming the symbol of the gang, is passed among them.
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* ArtifactOfDoom: Whoever wears the hood is compelled to follow the example of the original owner -- hammy, addresses the people, throws money at them, stands on desk to command the robbery, etc. However, it also marks them for death in the imminent future.
* IconicOutfit: The red hood becomes a symbol of the gang.
* InTheHood: The red hood itself.
* LegacyCharacter: The first person to wear the hood is killed by the leader of the gang for trying to take over, and he takes it in turn only to be killed and have it taken by another member. As Gordon notes, anyone could put the hood on to become the Red Hood, it doesn't have to be the same person. [[spoiler:By the end of the episode the gang is all dead, but another person finds the hood, implying its legacy will continue.]]
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Though the hood is ostensibly just a piece of red cloth with holes cut in it, it ''does'' seem to have a curious power over those who wear it -- such as the fact everyone who wears it gets shot. It's left ambiguous if it's just a combination of [[MagicFeather psychological power]] and coincidence, or something more.
* ShadowArchetype: To Batman, as a cloaked figure that the people end up championing. However, Batman is a billionaire trying to stop criminals, the Red Hood is a guy who steals from rich banks and gives some back to the people. The original wearer proclaiming the hood is a symbol is particularly striking.
* StartOfDarkness: Given how ComicBook/{{the Joker}} started out as the Red Hood in the comics, the random kid who picks the hood up after the gang is wiped out is another candidate for the role.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: The Merton Gang]]
Bank robbers from "the sticks" who appear in Season 4, intending to operate in Gotham without one of Penguin's licenses. They abscond with Jonathan Crane to force him to weaponize his father's fear serum, but their abuse of Crane and defiance of the Penguin come back to bite them ''hard''.
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* AssholeVictim: All of them suffer serious comeuppances by the end of their debut.
* BigBadWannabe: They seeks to take over Gotham's criminal underworld despite not being as threatening as they think they are.
* {{Fingore}}: Merton gets one of his fingers shot off by Victor Zsasz for holding up a wedding without a license.
* GasMaskMooks: How they dress for the bank robbery. Justified because they're deploying the Crane fear-toxin with gas-sprayers.
* KickTheDog: They frequently torment Jonathan Crane by mocking his fear of the scarecrow, but they really go too far when they lock the kid inside a closet with a grotesque scarecrow to torture him ForTheEvulz.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: The gang leader manages to infect Penguin with fear toxin. Grady, his second-in-command, becomes the S.O.B. target of this trope when he confronts Jonathan - now Scarecrow - at the end.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: They accidentally turn Jonathan Crane from this weak, timid boy into the master of fear thanks to their abusive behavior towards him.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The gang leader looks vaguely similar to Christopher Walken in his [[Film/BatmanReturns Max Shreck]] look.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: They're pretty much filler villains, but they accidentally cause Crane to become the Scarecrow.
* StupidEvil: They come to Gotham to grow as the most powerful gang, but they do so by challenging [[TheDon The Penguin]], a well-known mob boss who owns the town and makes it clear that his forces are unstoppable.
* TooDumbToLive: After torturing Crane for days, one of the {{mooks}} tries to force him to make more fear toxin to help bust his buddies out of prison. [[spoiler: However, when he sees that Crane has gone off the deep end now donning a deformed scarecrow costume, the thug just stares at the villain completely dumbstruck before Scarecrow infects him with fear toxin instead of getting away from the obviously deranged psychopath.]]
[[/folder]]

* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler: Killed by Bruce Wayne before he even becomes Batman. However, knowing the show's knack for bringing back dead characters and Ra's's immortality in the comics, who knows how long this will last. Indeed, he comes BackFromTheDead in To Our Deaths And Beyond]]

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler:Ultimately decides to saving Tabbby is more important than the power of the Demon's Head.]]

* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler: Killed by Bruce Wayne before he even becomes Batman.]] [[spoiler: However, knowing the show's knack for bringing back dead characters and Ra's's immortality in the comics, who knows how long this will last.]]

The leader of the League of Assassins and the enigmatic person behind The Court.

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[[caption-width-right:250:''"Five minutes on the street, you'll be mincemeat."'']]

[[folder: The Pike Brothers]]
->'''Played By:''' Leo Fitzpatrick (Joe), Ari [=McKay=] Wilford (Cale), Noah Robbins (Evan)

Bridgit Pike's abusive stepbrothers, a group of arsonists loyal to Fish Mooney.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: They were all pyromaniacs who ended up killed by their own foolishness.]]
* BigBrotherBully: They relentlessly abuse Bridgit.
* BullyingADragon: Taunting Bridget while she was equipped with a flamethrower and pointing said flamethrower in their direction was their last mistake.
* DysfunctionalFamily: Force Bridgit to join them after [[spoiler:Evan dies]], threatening to expel her otherwise
* {{Jerkass}}: Their treatment of Bridgit firmly cements them as this. [[spoiler: Even in his dying moment, Joe calls Bridgit a "bitch" despite her not being in the room.]]
** Joe just scoffed at Selina when she gives him a DeathGlare for the way he treated Bridgit in front of her.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Evan gets blown up when he gets in a firefight with Barnes and Gordon while carrying C4. Joe and Cale get barbecued by Bridgit.]]
* MythologyGag: These boys are sometimes collectively referred to as "firebugs" by Harvey Bullock. Firebug is the name of another Batman arsonist.
* TooDumbToLive:
** [[spoiler:Engaging two trained cops with guns while carrying explosives was not one of Evan's brighter ideas.]]
** [[spoiler: Joe and Cale see a deranged Bridget coming at them with her full arsenal of pyrotechnics, and they...mock her. Unsurprisingly, she kills them both.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder: The Merton Gang]]
Bank robbers from "the sticks" who appear in Season 4, intending to operate in Gotham without one of Penguin's licenses. They abscond with Jonathan Crane to force him to weaponize his father's fear serum, but their abuse of Crane and defiance of the Penguin come back to bite them ''hard''.
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* DragonTakesTheHelm: [[spoiler:Has been given leadership of the League of Shadows by Ra's al Ghul.]]

!The Order of St. Dumas
[[folder: Theo Galavan/Azrael]]
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->'''Played By:''' James Frain

A billionaire newly arrived at Gotham City. He has plans for the city that will cause the rise of several villains.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Azrael was more of an AntiHero instead of a psychotic SerialKiller.
* AintTooProudToBeg: He tries to FaceDeathWithDignity, but Oswald's beatings ultimately gets desperate enough to beg for a MercyKill.
* ArcVillain: For the first half of Season 2.
* AssholeVictim: Halfway through Season 2, [[spoiler:Gordon and Penguin are fed up with his ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections and ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney, and decide on a long and brutal VigilanteExecution -- to the point where he's actually begging to die faster.]]
* BackFromTheDead: At the end of "Pinewood", thanks to Hugo Strange. As with Mr. Freeze, his dead body was supposed to have been burnt, but Strange just happened to be running a resurrection program and chooses him to be his working prototype.
* BrotherSisterIncest: It's strongly implied that he and his sister Tabitha are lovers, with Tabitha referring to him as a "monster in the sack" in "The Last Laugh".
* CameBackStrong: His resurrection as Azrael makes him super-strong and super-fast, and can survive being repeatedly shot at and falling from a roof.
* CameBackWrong: On the other hand, it does a number on his psyche, which latches onto the Order of St. Dumas' religious teachings rather than his actual identity. Strange uses this to manipulate Galavan into believing he is a 12th century knight.
* CanonCharacterAllAlong: While he's still a completely new character made specifically for the show, he eventually becomes the show's version of Azrael in ''Wrath of the Villains''.
* TheChessmaster: He organized the Arkham breakout, used Jerome and company to cause mass panic throughout the city, killed Jerome to make himself look like a hero so he could run for mayor, and blackmailed Cobblepot to murder his political rivals. He is even smart enough to have Cobblepot to pretend to try to kill him so he wouldn't be suspected of murdering them.
* CompositeCharacter: Galavan's family history has elements of [[Comicbook/{{Azrael}} Jean-Paul Valley]] (connection to the Order of St Dumas) and Zachary Gate from ''Gates of Gotham'' (vengeful descendant of a forgotten Gotham founding family).
* DarthVaderClone: :When he becomes Azrael, he wears heavy black leather, black armor, and speaks in a distorted voice while wielding a blade.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: {{Subverted}}. His whole evil plan is about avenging his family's honor but he has no personal love for his sister or niece. He also wounds his sister for leaving him at Gordon's mercy.
** A perhaps more straight example could be his greeting Father Creel like an old friend, caring about his words and later dismissing Gordon's claim that the Order of Saint Dumas worked for him, by calling them his family's friends and protectors.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: A very weak and downplayed case, but Theo was visibly and at least on an instinctive level, disgusted by Tabitha tearing Bunderslaw's eye off.
* EvilIsPetty: He kidnaps Penguin's mother to force him to do his bidding and then later kills her.
** The Waynes accused his ancestor of attempted rape 200 years ago and removed the family name from the city records, so the honor of a man his grandfather never met has to be avenged with a lot of murder.
* {{Expy}}:
** To the ''Film/BatmanReturns'' version of Penguin. An outcast from a wealthy family who suddenly returns to Gotham and plans to take it over by [[VillainWithGoodPublicity attracting enough good publicity to run for Mayor of Gotham]], hires a bunch of freaks to do his dirty work, accelerates his plans at top speed after his "hero" facade shatters... ironically, he and this continuity's Penguin are sworn enemies thanks to [[RelativeButton a rather personal issue]].
** In ''Wrath of the Villains'', he is one to Jean Paul-Valley, the original Azrael in the comics.
* FalseFriend: He's pretending to be friends with Bruce Wayne, but obviously hides sinister motives underneath.
* FatalFlaw: He usually improvises if a plan goes wrong but doesn't plan ahead in the case that his sister would betray him for threatening his step-niece.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Speaks in a fairly polite, refined manner, and is unrepentant about his plan to kill a child.
* HiddenAgendaVillain: Unlike the villains of the first season, who wore their motivations on their sleeves, the audience is completely in the dark about what he wants. It's revealed in "Scarification" that he is a member of the Dumas family, and is seeking revenge for a slight by the Wayne family.
* HiddenBadass: While he usually leaves the fighting to his underlings, he is in fact more than capable in hand-to-hand combat (as Gordon learns the [[CurbStompBattle hard way]] in "The Son of Gotham"). This [[{{Foreshadowing}} foreshadows]] [[spoiler:his return as Azrael]].
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He gets arrested because Barbara, the tool he wanted to use to kill Gordon, gives the police vital information against him.
** He stabbed his sister, giving her lover Butch a motive to ally with Penguin to kill him for good.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Wants to avenge his family against the Waynes, but has no qualms about ruining other families (such as when he abducts-and eventually kills-Penguin's mother) in the process.
* IronicName: After his resurrection, he is dubbed Azrael, the ''Redeemed One''.
* ItsPersonal: According to him, his family built Gotham including the very foundations upon which the city rests but they were cheated out of their credit. Now he's back wanting revenge.
* KilledOffForReal: Penguin and Butch blow him up with an RPG after the former threatens to shove his umbrella in a different part of him this time around.
* LaserGuidedKarma: According to Bullock, he's supposed to be a pile of ashes, not a supervillainous ninja who had just put Captain Barnes in critical condition. Later in "Unleashed", he actually does meet a fiery end--albeit not in an incinerator, but at the hands of an RPG-wielding mobster.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Fueling speculation of who he is, whatever he did to Zaardan either involved ''very'' precise chemistry and technology, or was outright magical.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Nice job killing Penguin's mother to punish him for trying to take matters into his own hands -- despite him only doing so because you refused the pragmatic alternative of simply releasing her and possibly keeping him as an (uneasy) ally! Now not only is he out for your blood, but he also ruins your VillainWithGoodPublicity act in front of Jim and Bullock!
* NobodyCallsMeChicken: Done subtly in "Mommy's Little Monster" when Penguin tells him he comes from "a long line of cowards". This comes back to bite him in the ass several times over.
* NotEnoughToBury: The ''second'' time around he gets shot at point blank range with ''a bazooka'' and his body is [[LudicrousGibs completely disintegrated]].
* ObviouslyEvil: He's such a SmugSnake and his good reputation is built entirely on events that would be ContrivedCoincidence even if we didn't already know he staged them.
* OhCrap:
** He has this reaction when Gordon reveals that he knows that he had Penguin's mother killed.
** And again when Penguin shows up at Wayne Manor to save Bruce, Jim and Alfred.
--> '''Galavan''': Ooooh.
* PreMortemOneLiner: Before his sister ices Sionis, after the latter had just asked Barbara to accompany him: "She doesn't want to go where you're going."
* RealityEnsues: Even as the nigh-invulnerable Azrael, he can still be blown to pieces by an RPG, and as Alfred notes in "Anything for You", the mess that ensues ends up being quite the cleanup job for the Wayne family's gardener.
* RevengeByProxy: "Scarification" reveals that his family, formerly a ruling family in Gotham, was removed from the records by the Waynes after Caleb Dumas, his ancestor, was accused of raping Celestine Wayne. Centuries later, Theo orders a series of arson attacks on Wayne buildings, and seeks to kill Bruce, who most likely had never heard of the Dumas.
* RevengeMyopia: The Waynes were the ones who destroyed his family two centuries ago, but he sees nothing wrong with unleashing untold suffering upon the people of Gotham who had absolutely nothing to do with the original feud.
* SmugSnake: He tends to torture high profile people like senators and Mayor James in person. It bites him the back because James' testimony is what allows Gordon to arrest him.
* TheSociopath: He has no problem plotting the murder of a child and doesn't even care about his own immediate family, even threatening to kill Tabitha and Silver on different occasions.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: He ends up blown to pieces by Butch's RPG.
* TookALevelInBadass: While he's already proven to be quite the badass when he takes down Gordon in a fight, he becomes an even ''bigger'' threat once he becomes Azrael in Season 2B.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: An interesting case in that while Theo's plan involving the Maniax did involve murder and chaos, ''no one'' could have had any idea that his actions would indirectly bring about the [[ComicBook/TheJoker worst monster]] that Gotham would ever see.
* VillainBall: When he decides to kill Penguin himself, instead of shooting him on the spot he decides to give him an AnyLastWords moment which allowed Penguin to slash his throat and then escape.
** In the Season 2 Fall finale, after getting apprehended, Gallavan decides to taunt Gordon on the fact that he will most likely get out of jail again quickly. Gordon decides to kill him knowing this fact.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Even though he's only recently arrived to Gotham, he is already well regarded enough to stand in for the Mayor in public events. But nobody knows he is secretly a villain. He even stages himself to be a hero, by "saving" the city in killing Jerome to make him appear to be the hero.
* WouldHurtAChild: His ultimate plan is to kill Bruce Wayne and he has absolutely no problem threatening the same to Silver.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Once Sionis rejects his proposal Theo wastes no time ordering Tabitha to kill him in a most gruesome way. The same goes for Jerome, whom he killed to make himself look to be a hero.

[[folder:Aaron Helzinger]]
!!Aaron Helzinger
-> '''Played By:''' Stink Fisher

An Arkham patient and former member of the Maniax.

* TheBigGuy: He towers over the other members of the Maniax.
* TheBrute: He's the one who lifts the bodies of the shipyard workers over the ledge to throw them off the roof. He's also able to dish out a savage beating to Gordon without sustaining so much as a scratch.
* DumbMuscle: There's a trend with these tropes... Barbara chooses him to be her "friend" in Arkham because he's easily the biggest guy there and could protect her from harm. He also falls for her charms relatively easily.
* HairTriggerTemper: When he sees Oswald has ice cream and no one else does, he doesn't take it well.
* PsychopathicManchild: Like Amygdala in the comics, he has the mind of a child. He also killed his whole family with his bare hands.
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:Aside from Barbara, he's the only one of the six inmates that Galavan broke out of Arkham who's not dead.]]

[[folder:Silver St. Cloud]]
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!!Silver St. Cloud
->'''Played By:''' Natalie Alyn Lind

Theo Galavan's niece and ward.

* AdaptationalVillainy: In the comics, she is a good person, but on the show she's a willing accomplice of the Galavans. [[spoiler: She has a change of heart in the Winter Finale.]]
* ArchEnemy: She's become a major enemy towards Selina.
* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler:Seeing Bruce willingly risk his own life to save hers in exchange even after her various emotional manipulations, Silver comes to care for him during the Season 2 winter finale, this time for real.]]
* BigBadWannabe: She thinks that she's a chessmaster like her uncle, but Selina proves that she's not as capable at being a villain as she thinks she is.
* BirdsOfAFeather: Invoked by Galavan. Silver is a {{socialite}} in the making who comes from a wealthy, high-class family like Bruce, and both have yet to acclimate to Anders Preps for similar reasons (he's been predominantly {{homeschooled|Kids}}, she was studying abroad in Geneva for two years). A good impression in their first few meetings and [[PuppyLove Bruce is]] [[LoveAtFirstSight instantly hooked]].
-->'''Silver''' (''on being the new kid at school''): [[YouAreNotAlone "Then we shall brave it together."]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Seems like a convincing NiceGirl around Bruce, but alone with her aunt and uncle or with Selina, she shows her true colors.
** [[spoiler:Silver might actually be [[DoubleSubversion a sheep in bitch's clothing wearing sheep's clothing over that]], as indicated by her desperate attempt to [[WellDoneSonGuy stay within her uncle's good graces]] (and thus stay alive) throughout "Worse Than a Crime" as well as her subsequent HeelFaceTurn. In the previous episode, she also cries out for Bruce when [[MassiveMultiplayerScam it appears he's about to be executed by a hitman]], which may or may not have been genuine alarm and concern for his well-being.]]
* BreakTheHaughty: [[spoiler:Selina hires a fake hitman to submit her to torture in order to get information out her that would help Bruce. After realizing she's been outsmarted by Bruce and Selina, they point out how pathetic of a villain she was. She breaks down crying out Bruce's name after he severs his ties with her for good.]]
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:She becomes this to Bruce. He reveals that he truly did love her, but after listening to Selina, he learns of her dark side.]]
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: She was last seen escaping a building with Tabitha, then never again afterwards.
* DarkChick: A secondary one within Galavan's inner circle, she's nonetheless an instrumental tool in his plans to wrestle control of Wayne Enterprises away from Bruce and the current board members as part of his greater scheme to take over Gotham.
* DidntSeeThatComing: [[spoiler:She never knew that Bruce and Selina were smart enough to trick her into giving them information and uncovering her villainy.]]
* EvilCounterpart: To Selina. Both are young girls with an interest in Bruce Wayne; but while Selina is a LoveableRogue who cares for Bruce, Silver is a BitchInSheepsClothing who manipulates Bruce for her uncle's gain.
* FalseFriend: She's acting as a friendly girl with a crush on Bruce, but is really toying with his emotions.
* FauxAffablyEvil: As we see in her "girl talk" with Selina, she nonchalantly threatens to kill her if she interferes in her plans for Bruce.
* FilleFatale: She's sent by her uncle to seduce Bruce.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:After trying to fake one doesn't get Bruce's trust, she simply tells him the truth, that her uncle will cut her off or kill her if she doesn't get a kiss from him. Bruce plays along when Theo shows up to save her, and [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe Silver is so touched]] that she interrupts the ceremony to kill Bruce, buying a precious few seconds for the cavalry to show up.]]
* HighHeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Discounting her aunt, who [[TheDogBitesBack turns on Theo]] [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal for her]] [[EvenEvilHasStandards own reasons]], Silver is the only known member of the Order of St. Dumas to wash her hands clean of the cult and repent.]]
* HoneyTrap: Her role in her uncle's plan is to serve as [[FilleFatale a kid-friendly version]] for Bruce. She's quite proud of her success.
-->'''Silver:''' "See this finger?" (''raises her left little finger'') "I have little Bruce wrapped tight around it."
* KickTheDog: As if threatening Selina's life wasn't bad enough, she coldly mocks her for the fact that she has no mother and says nobody will care about Selina at all if she were to die.
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The dark to Selina's light, ironically, considering whose side she's on.
* LightIsNotGood: Usually dresses in light colors when not in school uniform and is a BitchInSheepsClothing.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: {{Invoked}} in-universe, as she is introduced dancing barefoot on a restaurant’s fountain, and from them on is all quirky and beautiful and friendly towards Bruce, but it's later shown to all be an act.
* [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]]: She's toying with Bruce's feelings under her uncle's orders and clearly doesn't care the least about him.
* MuggingTheMonster: She taunts and threatens Selina, who among other things, is an experienced cat burglar and armed robber, has clawed out a grown man's eyes, and killed at least one person by this point in the series.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Her comic counterpart has no connections whatsoever to the Order of St. Dumas, much less being a relative of one of his descendants.
* ShutUpHannibal: [[spoiler:She tries telling Bruce that he's not capable of enacting such heroics in Gotham, but he coldly tells her that she doesn't know him at all.]]
* SmugSnake: She practically brags about how villainous she is.
* TheSociopath: Bruce is nothing but a target for her to trick and she doesn't care what her uncle has planned for the kid.
** [[spoiler:Subverted in "Worse Than a Crime" -- she gradually grows remorseful and ultimately pulls a HeelFaceTurn, making her more of a pragmatist than this.]]
* TeensAreMonsters: She's just as monstrous as her family. [[spoiler:Subverted when she pulls a HeelFaceTurn.]]
* UnderestimatingBadassery: It turns out that she shouldn't have viewed Bruce and Selina as weak because [[spoiler:they kidnap her, submit her to fake torture, and dupe her into confessing information for them]].
* VillainBall: When alone with Selina, she drops her phony nice girl act and reveals her true colors while nonchalantly threatening her. Because of this, Selina is now fully aware of her intentions for Bruce and is now working to stop her. Subverted when it's revealed that Selina never fell for her act in the first place and knew the type of person she is.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: She hasn't been seen since escaping a building with Tabitha.
* WomanInWhite: She wears a white dress when Bruce first sees her.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Following the above VillainBall moment, Selina tries to out Silver, but between her lack of evidence and Silver's ability to [[CrocodileTears cry at the drop of a dime]], Bruce's trust in Selina is damaged, allowing Silver to better wedge herself between them.

[[folder:Father Creal]]
!!Father Creal
->'''Played By:''' Ron Rifkin

Leader of the Order of St. Dumas and an associate of Theo Galavan.

* AllMonksKnowKungFu: His and the other brothers' fighting style owes a lot to the East.
* BadassGrandpa: This rather scrawny looking old man is a terror in hand-to-hand combat.
* EvilOldFolks: His particular order seems to be something of a ReligionOfEvil.
* SinisterMinister: Evil monk, to be specific.
* UndignifiedDeath: [[spoiler:He might have been aiming for SuicideByCop by attacking Gordon, but Bullock shoots and kills him just as Creal jumped into the air, causing his body to be blown backwards, sliding across the floor.]]

!Other Criminal Gangs

[[folder: The Red Hood]]

A gang of small-time robbers who hit banks, but only steal from the registers instead of the vault so they can get out in time before the cops arrive. A Red Hood, which ends up becoming the symbol of the gang, is passed among them.

* ArtifactOfDoom: Whoever wears the hood is compelled to follow the example of the original owner -- hammy, addresses the people, throws money at them, stands on desk to command the robbery, etc. However, it also marks them for death in the imminent future.
* IconicOutfit: The red hood becomes a symbol of the gang.
* InTheHood: The red hood itself.
* LegacyCharacter: The first person to wear the hood is killed by the leader of the gang for trying to take over, and he takes it in turn only to be killed and have it taken by another member. As Gordon notes, anyone could put the hood on to become the Red Hood, it doesn't have to be the same person. [[spoiler:By the end of the episode the gang is all dead, but another person finds the hood, implying its legacy will continue.]]
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Though the hood is ostensibly just a piece of red cloth with holes cut in it, it ''does'' seem to have a curious power over those who wear it -- such as the fact everyone who wears it gets shot. It's left ambiguous if it's just a combination of [[MagicFeather psychological power]] and coincidence, or something more.
* ShadowArchetype: To Batman, as a cloaked figure that the people end up championing. However, Batman is a billionaire trying to stop criminals, the Red Hood is a guy who steals from rich banks and gives some back to the people. The original wearer proclaiming the hood is a symbol is particularly striking.
* StartOfDarkness: Given how ComicBook/{{the Joker}} started out as the Red Hood in the comics, the random kid who picks the hood up after the gang is wiped out is another candidate for the role.

[[folder: The Pike Brothers]]
->'''Played By:''' Leo Fitzpatrick (Joe), Ari [=McKay=] Wilford (Cale), Noah Robbins (Evan)

Bridgit Pike's abusive stepbrothers, a group of arsonists loyal to Fish Mooney.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: They were all pyromaniacs who ended up killed by their own foolishness.]]
* BigBrotherBully: They relentlessly abuse Bridgit.
* BullyingADragon: Taunting Bridget while she was equipped with a flamethrower and pointing said flamethrower in their direction was their last mistake.
* DysfunctionalFamily: Force Bridgit to join them after [[spoiler:Evan dies]], threatening to expel her otherwise
* {{Jerkass}}: Their treatment of Bridgit firmly cements them as this. [[spoiler: Even in his dying moment, Joe calls Bridgit a "bitch" despite her not being in the room.]]
** Joe just scoffed at Selina when she gives him a DeathGlare for the way he treated Bridgit in front of her.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Evan gets blown up when he gets in a firefight with Barnes and Gordon while carrying C4. Joe and Cale get barbecued by Bridgit.]]
* MythologyGag: These boys are sometimes collectively referred to as "firebugs" by Harvey Bullock. Firebug is the name of another Batman arsonist.
* TooDumbToLive:
** [[spoiler:Engaging two trained cops with guns while carrying explosives was not one of Evan's brighter ideas.]]
** [[spoiler: Joe and Cale see a deranged Bridget coming at them with her full arsenal of pyrotechnics, and they...mock her. Unsurprisingly, she kills them both.]]

[[folder: The Merton Gang]]
Bank robbers from "the sticks" who appear in Season 4, intending to operate in Gotham without one of Penguin's licenses. They abscond with Jonathan Crane to force him to weaponize his father's fear serum, but their abuse of Crane and defiance of the Penguin come back to bite them ''hard''.

* AssholeVictim: All of them suffer serious comeuppances by the end of their debut.
* BigBadWannabe: They seeks to take over Gotham's criminal underworld despite not being as threatening as they think they are.
* {{Fingore}}: Merton gets one of his fingers shot off by Victor Zsasz for holding up a wedding without a license.
* GasMaskMooks: How they dress for the bank robbery. Justified because they're deploying the Crane fear-toxin with gas-sprayers.
* KickTheDog: They frequently torment Jonathan Crane by mocking his fear of the scarecrow, but they really go too far when they lock the kid inside a closet with a grotesque scarecrow to torture him ForTheEvulz.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: The gang leader manages to infect Penguin with fear toxin. Grady, his second-in-command, becomes the S.O.B. target of this trope when he confronts Jonathan - now Scarecrow - at the end.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: They accidentally turn Jonathan Crane from this weak, timid boy into the master of fear thanks to their abusive behavior towards him.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The gang leader looks vaguely similar to Christopher Walken in his [[Film/BatmanReturns Max Shreck]] look.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: They're pretty much filler villains, but they accidentally cause Crane to become the Scarecrow.
* StupidEvil: They come to Gotham to grow as the most powerful gang, but they do so by challenging [[TheDon The Penguin]], a well-known mob boss who owns the town and makes it clear that his forces are unstoppable.
* TooDumbToLive: After torturing Crane for days, one of the {{mooks}} tries to force him to make more fear toxin to help bust his buddies out of prison. [[spoiler: However, when he sees that Crane has gone off the deep end now donning a deformed scarecrow costume, the thug just stares at the villain completely dumbstruck before Scarecrow infects him with fear toxin instead of getting away from the obviously deranged psychopath.]]

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!The Dollmaker's organization

[[folder:The Dollmaker/Dr. Francis Dulmacher]]
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/ColmFeore

A mysterious figure involved in child trafficking that acts in Gotham through his lackeys Patti and Doug. Later appears as the head of the pirates that abduct Fish Mooney, revealing the full extent of his influence and plans.

[[folder:Barbara Kean]]
!!Barbara Kean
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->'''Played By:''' Erin Richards

The ex-fiancée of James Gordon. Throughout the first season, the stress of Gordon's cases gradually reveal her as a selfish hypocrite who is unable to take the strain and breaks up with him. The events of the last several episodes of Season 1 concerning The Ogre finally break her emotionally and mentally, turning her into a murderous psychopath who seeks to kill Leslie and take back Gordon for herself.

* AbusiveParents: She claims this as an excuse for murdering them. Like so many things she claims it should probably be taken with a grain of salt. Though, in their first appearance, things seem awkward between them when Barbara came to visit; they seem more concerned about when she would be leaving than about her emotional state.
* AdaptationalOriginConnection: In this continuity, Barbara is fully-responsible for [[spoiler:the death of Cyrus Gold, and subsequently, the creation of Solomon Grundy]].
* AdaptationalSexuality: She was assumed straight in the comics and is now bisexual on the show. Possibly a case of CompositeCharacter, combining her with Katherine Kane, the [[UsefulNotes/TheModernAgeOfComicBooks modern]] and lesbian ComicBook/{{Batwoman}} who also had a romance with Renee Montoya.
* AdaptationalVillainy: At first, Barbara comes off as more of an AdaptationalJerkass, as she willingly cheats on Gordon with Renee Montoya (in the comics, it was Gordon who cheated on Barbara, while she was pregnant no less!), and overall acts much more deceiving than her comic book counterpart. However, after getting involved with the Ogre (who completely shatters her psyche during their time together), she becomes a murderous, psychopathic criminal, and serves as one of the show's recurring antagonists.
* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: [[spoiler:In "Tonight's The Night", she tries to forcefully marry Jim. She went as far as getting people to "attend" the wedding, getting a priest to perform the ceremony and even bringing Leslie so that she can rub it in her rival's face.]]
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Absolutely nobody mourned for her when she lost her mind and tried to kill her girlfriend Tabitha out of petty villainy, resulting in Tigress electrocuting the mob queenpin to death. Subverted, as in "The Fear Reaper", she's alive again thanks to the Ra's al Ghul. ]]
* AxCrazy: She turns into a sadistic and psychotic {{Yandere}} after The Ogre gets through with her.
* BadBoss: Treats her own loyal followers Butch and Tabitha with much disdain. [[spoiler: This ultimately leads to her executing Butch and getting killed herself while trying to murder Tabitha.]]
* BaitAndSwitch: At first, she seems like a strong, confident young woman who is willing to stand by Jim thick and thin and even helps him out a little. Then she starts making stupid mistake after stupid mistake [[spoiler:and eventually becomes a murderous, psychotic villain.]]
* BerserkButton:
** She hates knowing she's not the one on top when she learns about the Court of Owls controlling Gotham.
** She lost her cool when Butch says she didn't deserve Tabitha.
* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler: She ''still'' thinks she's superior to everyone else even as a villain. Gordon frequently points out that Galavan is using her, but she doesn't believe a word he says...as always. Eventually, she gets killed by Tabitha when Barbara thinks she can kill her ex-girlfriend as punishment for betraying her.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: The Season 1 finale revealed that she was a psychopath the whole time.
* BiTheWay: She has a history with Montoya (like the modern Batwoman) and is involved with Tabitha.
* BreakTheHaughty: After acting like an UngratefulBastard and a total {{Jerkass}} all season, [[spoiler: her time with the Ogre seems to have ''shattered'' her completely when she's tortured by him.]]
* CatFight: With Leslie in the Season 1 finale. She loses. It happens again in the Season 3 finale, this time with Tabitha, [[spoiler: who kills her.]]
* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler: She ends up killed in the Season 3 finale after Tabitha electrocutes her to death. Subverted as of "The Fear Reaper".]]
* CompositeCharacter: Some elements of her personality seem to be lifted from her son in the comics, James Jr. [[spoiler: Namely, her rocky relationship with her family and her murderous tendencies.]]
* TheConfidant: To Gordon, regarding his frustrations and disgust with Gotham's choking-level of corruption. Not anymore.
* ConvenientComa: After falling from a great height, she goes into a coma and is kept in the medical wing of Arkham Asylum for a brief period of time.
* DarkActionGirl: Gets very physical when trying to kill Leslie in the Season 1 finale, even smacking her around a few times. She also gets into a brutal fight with Tabitha in the Season 3 finale.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: When Montoya catches her smoking marijuana, she demands to know if Barbara is going back to how they used to be and if Barb is using anything else.
* DemotedToDragon: [[spoiler: She used to be the "queen" of Gotham. Now, as of Season 4, she's Ra's al Ghul's flunky. Her dragon status is even debatable given she simply is given orders and carries them out, all without knowing her boss's plan. It's more likely Barbara's just a mook in Ra's al Ghul's vast organization.]]
* DepravedBisexual: She's fully transitioned to this early in the second season, making out with both Tabitha and Theo.
* DidntSeeThatComing: [[spoiler:Tabitha ends up killing Barbara by electrocuting her to death with a lamp entangled to her whip, a move Barbara did not see coming at all, thinking Tabitha was just dumb bringing a whip to a gunfight.]]
* DiesWideOpen: [[spoiler: After getting electrocuted to death, the last time we see Barbara's face we get a look at her cold, colorless eyes.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: Suggested she killed her own parents because they were "strict".
* EvilAllAlong: The first season finale revealed that she was secretly a repressed psychopath the whole time.
* EvilFeelsGood: "You're wrong, James. I'm not sick. I'm free."
* FaceHeelTurn: The Ogre leads Barbara to kill her own parents, releasing her repressed murderous tendencies.
* ForegoneConclusion: Subverted. In the comics, she's Commissioner Jim Gordon's wife and Batgirl's mother and namesake. As she is a murderous psychopath in this continuity, it's unlikely that that will come to pass.
* HasAType: Based on her relationships with Gordon and Montoya, Barbara clearly favored a strong moral compass that doesn't let petty bureaucracy or corruption get in the way of the right thing. Given both of their profession as police officers she probably also had a thing for authority figures. After she goes crazy, her type becomes murderous psychotics...and James Gordon, who she insists is just as dark as she is.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: She dumps both of her cop lovers and dates a SerialKiller, who clearly demonstrated that there was something ''off'' about him, but she thought he was a good man.
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** She tells Gordon that she won't stand for him to keep secrets from her, while in the same conversation keeping her past drug use a secret when telling him about her relationship with Montoya.
** She gets angry when she believes Jim to be cheating on her after a woman (actually Ivy after she and Selena broke in) answers the phone when she calls his apartment...after ''just'' having cheated on Jim with Montoya and telling her "I'm over him." Then she tries to get back with Gordon again.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial
* IntendedAudienceReaction: Fans and critics alike hated her throughout most of Season 1, citing her hypocrisy, selfishness, brashness, and generally being unsympathetic. Come the Season 1 finale, it's obvious this was intended; when Barbara admits she killed her parents and then tries to kill Leslie, it seems the writers were intentionally building her up as a repressed AxCrazy killer that just needed the Ogre to set her true self free.
* ItsAllAboutMe: She does some incredibly stupid things and then ''complains'' the stress from the fallout of her own actions is causing her problems. Even as a villain, all she cares about is herself.
** Taken UpToEleven in the Season 1 finale where she kills her own parents solely because she believed ''they'' stifled her creativity and never ''understood'' her. Then she tries to kill Leslie because she took Gordon from her.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: The most punishment she gets for her killing spree is being put in a coma. After waking up, she is set free, faces no legal repercussions, and is apparently forgiven by everyone except Jim.]]
** KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler: However, she ends up electrocuted to death by Tabitha when Barbara eventually turns on her. [[SubvertedTrope But then she comes back...]]]]
* LateArrivalSpoiler: After the Season 1 finale, the show makes no attempt to hide that Barbara's an AxCrazy murderer.
* LethallyStupid: In Season 1, her incredibly stupid decisions either cause a lot of problems or nearly get herself and Gordon killed. Even when she becomes a villain, this trait never completely goes away, and it comes back to bite her in the ass big-time when [[spoiler: she tries to kill Tabitha in the Season 3 finale.]]
* TheLoad: In Season 1, nearly everything she does just causes problems for others.
* LoveMakesYouStupid: Her devotion to Gordon causes her to make some very unwise decisions such as [[spoiler: coming back to Gotham without telling him, which means she gets captured by Falcone as a bargaining chip.]]
* ManChild: Nearly all she does in Season 1 is play around her apartment. This trope doesn't become obvious until she starts hanging out with Selina and Ivy.
* MsFanservice: Wears a lot of revealing clothes and provides most of the MaleGaze in the show.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: She tried to murder Leslie and apparently still plans to so that she can have Jim all to herself again.
* NeverMyFault: Never takes any responsibility for the problems caused by her own actions, and often states how any fall out is causing her stress. This becomes pretty clear when she blames their relationship problems on Gordon not telling her anything, despite the fact that the last time he did, she blabbed and caused a ''lot'' of trouble.
** Then in "Under the Knife," when she is talking to the Ogre, her tone makes it sound like she blames Gordon for the breakup.
** In "Knock Knock", she chews out Gordon on this: "[[SarcasmMode Yeah sure, everything is my fault.]]"
** After she goes loose, it's implied that she might have a mental block preventing her from taking blame, as whenever she would try to break Gordon, she instead just imprints her issues on him. Unfortunately, Lee seems to be the only one that recognizes this.
** [[spoiler: Butch and Tabitha's betrayal, especially Tabitha. Never mind that she constantly abused them. She just mocks Tabitha getting her "feelings hurt".]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Has been the source of a lot of grief for Gordon.
* NotSoDifferent: She lies to Gordon's girlfriend to try to break up their relationship, a tactic used by Renee earlier in the season.
** With Ra's al Ghul, as revealed in "One of My Three Soups". Which is the reason why he chose her as the new Demon's Head.
* OfficialCouple: {{Zigzagged}} with Gordon. First they're engaged, then they temporarily separate, then they get back together. She leaves ''again'' at the end of "The Mask" because she couldn't take the pressure of being targeted by Falcone's and Mooney's people and apparently has no problem soothing her stress by cheating on him with her ex-girlfriend, Renee Montoya. But then in "Rogues' Gallery", Montoya realized it was a mistake, which Barbara didn't take very well. Once she becomes a full-fledged villain, it's unlikely they'll ever get back together.
* OneHourWorkWeek: She lives in a very expensive apartment, but we never see her work in the gallery she's supposed to own. In fact most of the time she is just seen hanging out in her apartment with Selina and Ivy. It's heavily implied that her parents pay for everything. [[spoiler:By Season 3, as a criminal figurehead, she, Butch, and Tabby own their own club, the Sirens.]]
* PsychopathicManchild: She reveals that she was turned into this while trying to kill Leslie.
* PutOnABus: Butch threw her out for some reason between "Azrael" and "Unleashed". She also spent a part of Season 2 in a coma.
* SanitySlippage: The first season very subtly shows this up until the finale, where she becomes a fully-fledged crazy villainess. Arguably it starts when first Butch and then Zsasz hold her hostage in "Penguin's Umbrella". Before then, despite her troubled past, she is unquestionably loyal to Gordon, refuses to have anything to do with her obsessive ex, and acts pretty normal. Post-kidnapping, she can't handle the flashbacks, leaves Gordon because she feels he's not being supportive enough, and from there, it's just one bad decision after another.
* SelfInflictedHell: True, her life goes to hell throughout Season 1, but a huge amount of it is her own fault.
* SelfMadeOrphan: She killed her own parents.
* ShesGotLegs: The camera sure does love to focus on them, and she's never shown in clothes that would cover more than the bare minimum of them. Unless she's wearing [[ZettaiRyouiki Thigh High Boots]], which she does for most of Season 3.
* SymbolMotifClothing: She is always seen wearing clothing that is black and/or white.
* TooDumbToLive: This is almost her defining characteristic. She begs Don Falcone to spare Gordon's life while he is searching for a way to hurt him and took her hostage earlier in the same episode. [[spoiler: Her stupidity finally does lead to her death in the Season 3 finale when Barbara gets the bright idea to kill Tabitha, who is a trained assassin and weapons master, all by herself. This results in her former best friend killing her easily. However, her death turns out to be temporary thanks to the Lazarus Pit.]]
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: In Season 1, after being gone for a couple weeks, she returns home to find Ivy and Selina squatting in it. Instead of asking who they are or telling them to get out, she grabs a box of crackers and asks if they have seen Jim. Being drunk probably helped.
* VillainessesWantHeroes: [[spoiler: As much as she wants Gordon to suffer for leaving her, she's still very much obsessed with him. She even tells Lee in Season 2 that he and she are meant to be together because they both have 'the same darkness' inside them.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: She loses it when she tries to kill Tabitha for abandoning her.]]
* WildCard: After awaking from her coma and being released from Arkham, she's continued to work with criminals like Cobblepot, but she's also helped Jim dig into the Wayne murder and exposed Clayface as a fake Jim. Her allegiances seem whimsical so far.
* WrongGenreSavvy: By "Red Hood", Barbara has managed to convince herself that she is a cunning and cynical FemmeFatale type. Selina quickly calls her on this.
-->'''Barbara:''' Your appearance can be a weapon. As powerful as any knife or gun.
-->'''Selina:''' What good's it done [[BrainlessBeauty you]]?
** Then she assumes that she's TheVamp and plays off another man, assuming that she's manipulating him. [[spoiler: Said man was really a SerialKiller who was intending to kill her. He almost succeeds, but Gordon comes to her rescue once again.]]
** In the Season 1 finale, she tries to poison Leslie and Gordon's relationship, but unlike when Renee tried it on her, Leslie saw through it. Barbara then tries to go the other route and kill Leslie in her house but didn't count on Leslie being stronger than she and capable of beating her unconscious.
* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler:After dropping her MaskOfSanity, Barbara is just as eager to kiss Gordon as she is to see him writhe in agony.]]
* YourCheatingHeart: Tells Gordon that they need to take a breather, then promptly sleeps with her ex. (Interestingly, in ''Batman: Year One'', it was the other way around: Gordon and Barbara were married, she was pregnant, and he cheated on her with Det. Sarah Essen.)
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!The Order of St. Dumas
[[folder: Theo Galavan/Azrael]]
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->'''Played By:''' James Frain

A billionaire newly arrived at Gotham City. He has plans for the city that will cause the rise of several villains.
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