History Characters / GothamCriminalGroups

* BoobsOfSteel: To date, the most well-endowed female character in the show, she's also strong enough to pull down a man twice her size.

* KarmaHoudini: Has yet to pay for any of her crimes.

[[folder: Ra's Al-Ghul]]

[[folder: Tabitha Galavan]]

* AdaptationNameChange: The comics' Tigress was named Paula Brooks with her daughter/successor being named Artemis Crock. Combined with a bit of CanonForeigner given that she doesn't seem to be based on either of the above characters.

* RaceLift: The various incarnations of the comics character she's based on have all been Caucasian (or in ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', Vietnamese), but she's played by a black Canadian actress on the show.

* WorthyOpponent: Ra's is absolutely delighted that Bruce is able to break out of his conditioning, as he believes that it is further proof that Bruce is worthy to be his heir. Also seems to have come to think this of Barabara - when she [[spoiler:uses Bruce to stab him with the Kurdish dagger]], he simply responds with a genuine-sounding "well done, Barbara."

* WorthyOpponent: Ra's is absolutely delighted that Bruce is able to break out of his conditioning, as he believes that it is further proof that Bruce is worthy to be his heir. Also seems to have come to think this of Barabara - when she uses Bruce to stab him with the Kurdish dagger, he simply responds with a genuine-sounding "well done, Barbara."

* MajorInjuryUnderraction: His only response to Barbara stabbing him is a wonderfully deadpan "ouch".

* WorthyOpponent: Ra's is absolutely delighted that Bruce is able to break out of his conditioning, as he believes that it is further proof that Bruce is worthy to be his heir.

* FauxAffablyEvil: She puts on a polite façade all the time. Even when she's planning to kill somebody.

[[caption-width-right:330:''"I am tired of sitting at the kids' table. If I'm right, we can have way more than vengeance. We can have it all."'']]

* Walkingspoiler:His ties to the Court of Owls are a surprise.

* KillItWithFire: If she gets so much as a paper cut she'll burn the place to the ground to prevent any possible contamination.

* NotEvenBotherinWithTheAccent: In a weird instance of this, Alexander Siddig, who plays most roles with a Middle-Eastern accent, keeps his natural British accent despite Ra's being from Arabia.

* TallDarkAndHandsome: He stands at six feet tall.

* BigBadDuumvirate: Forms one with [[spoiler: Jeremiah Valeska]] in the Season Four 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".]] [[spoiler: Then he dies again in the season 4 finale "No Man's Land", but again as noted above Ra's has died and come back from the dead in the comics before, so who knows how long that will last.]]

* 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, allowing characters like Professor Pyg, Sofia Falcone, and Jerome to take over as major [[ArcVillain Arc Villains]]. Once they're taken care of, [[BackFromTheDead he comes back]].]]

* WalkingSpoiler: His ties to the Court of Owls are a surprise.

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: [[spoiler: Courtesy of the other prisoners led by Fish during their escape.]]

* 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. ]]

* 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.]]

* 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.]]

* 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.]]

* DemotedToDragon: [[spoiler: She used to be the "queen" of Gotham. Now, as of Season 4, she's Ra's al Ghul's flunky. However, before his supposed death, Ra's passes leadership of the League of Shadows to Barbara.]]

* DiesWideOpen: [[spoiler: After getting electrocuted to death, the last time we see Barbara's face we get a look at her cold, colorless eyes.]]

* 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.]]

* 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.]]

** [[spoiler: Butch and Tabitha's betrayal, especially Tabitha. Never mind that she constantly abused them. She just mocks Tabitha getting her "feelings hurt".]]

* 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.]]

* 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.]]

** 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.]]

* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: She knocks out her brother and gives his parachute to Silver after Theo tries to kill Silver.]]
* {{Dominatrix}}: She uses a whip, has a high pony tail, and wears lots of black leather she's pretty much the embodiment of the trope and that's not even getting into how her relationship with [[spoiler: Butch]] kicked off.

** She also doesn't like the way Theo treats their niece Silver, [[spoiler: and finally turns against him when he attempts to kill the poor girl.]]

* IceQueen: When she's first introduced she's very cold blooded and still remains so in many respects however she's become something of a DefrostingIceQueen since being with [[spoiler: Butch]] she has revealed somewhat of a kind side and even is [[spoiler: visibly upset by learning of his death. Butch even attempted to kill Barbara on his own with the intent of playing dumb because he claimed Tabitha wouldn't have been able to handle killing Barbara. Ironic considering...]]
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Despite being a good shot, [[spoiler: she failed to shoot Penguin as she missed every shot despite him running in a straight line to a window to escape with his limp. During a MexicanStandoff between Gordon, Bullock, and Penguin, she finally shot Penguin but only hit his shoulder and he got out of the situation alive.]]

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite acting like a total bitch and psycho killer in Season 2, [[spoiler: Tabitha had shown some kinder elements to her personality such as when she saved her niece from her brother and objected to his treatment of her, as well as taking in a emotionally broken Barbara after Barbara had been turned away by Jim Gordon.]] Small bits of this continue to be shown in Season 3 [[spoiler: when she's shown saving Butch despite saying he meant nothing to her and later willingly giving up her hand to save him]], she even struggles with her descision to [[spoiler: betray and kill Barbara.]]

* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: She turns against Barbara after her boss abused her trust one too many times [[spoiler: and kills the mob queenpin herself.]]

* ShipSinking: She and Barbara break up in the third season finale [[spoiler: before she murders her ex-girlfriend herself.]]
* TheStarscream: [[spoiler: She stabs Barbara in the back after losing faith in her and personally kills her.]]

* ThickerThanWater: [[spoiler: Despite turning on Theo in the midseason finale, she still wants revenge on Penguin for his death. It's unclear if this trope is still true, considering Theo stabbed her for her betrayal; yet it's possible the reason she briefly broke up with Butch was because for his part in Theo's second death by Penguin.]]

* 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.]]

* BondageIsBad: Her costume has some BDSM influences to it.

* AxCrazy: Crazy enough to not act remotely human, hobbling on all fours and snarling and spitting like a wild dog.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: He murdered a child in cold blood and threatened to kill Bruce's family if he let him live. Downplayed in that [[DeathSeeker he]] ''[[DeathSeeker wanted]]'' [[DeathSeeker to die.]]]]

[[folder:Barbara Kean]]
!!Barbara Kean
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[[caption-width-right:330:''"I am tired of sitting at the kids' table. If I'm right, we can have way more than vengeance. We can have it all."'']]
->'''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. She eventually becomes a major figure in Gotham's underworld and head of the Sirens, seeking to claw her way to the top of Gotham's mob.

[[folder:The Shaman]]

See [[Characters/GothamCourtOfOwls The Court of Owls]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lelia]]
!!Lelia
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->'''Played By:''' Shiva Kalaiselvan

A high-ranking member of the League of Shadows, and the first to pledge loyalty to [[spoiler:Barbara.]]

* UndyingLoyalty: [[spoiler:Barbara impresses her enough that she, along with a small contingent of soldiers, desert the League of Shadows to serve her.]]

!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.

* AbortedArc: He's never brought up again after Season 1.
* AdaptationNameChange: His name is Francis Dulmacher, rather than Anton Schott or Barton Mathis.
* BodyHorror: What he does to people [[YouHaveFailedMe who fail or try to betray him.]] The resulting mismatch of misshapen parts is outright nightmarish, especially since his victim we see is ''[[AndIMustScream still alive]]'' after he works him.
* ChekhovsGunman: An early Season 1 episode vaguely mentioned "The Dollmaker," and he was forgotten until the latter half of the season when he takes center stage in Fish's subplot.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He's a sadistic organ thief, and his unfailing politeness is pretty clearly an act.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: His men abduct Fish, and imprisons her to be organ harvested.
* MadDoctor: While he typically uses his harvested organs to supply his seemingly legitimate private practice, he apparently likes to experiment with people who fail him. See BodyHorror for the result...
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: He's a [[VillainWithGoodPublicity respected]] surgical miracle worker - able to replace whole body parts with an assortment of seemingly unfitting pieces with full functionality. [[OrganTheft Where he]] ''[[OrganTheft gets]]'' [[OrganTheft those parts and pieces]], however, is where the Morally Ambiguous part comes in...
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: [[spoiler: Courtesy of the other prisoners led by Fish during their escape.]]
* OrganTheft: He harvests the organs of people he feels society will not miss, then uses them to run a private surgical practice for the elite.
* SoftspokenSadist: Never loses his mild politeness. It makes the more horrifying aspects of his work that much more unsettling.
* StevenUlyssesPerhero: His real name is Dr. Dulmacher, and he is referred to as the Dollmaker by some of his underlings.
* SuperDoc: So long as he has the parts available, he can treat practically anything that's impossible for modern medicine. Including replacing someone's lost eye and having it work.
* TheSociopath: He has people (including children) abducted and harvested for organs so he could sell them to the wealthy, [[BadBoss not to mention what he does to those who fail him.]] He shows no remorse for his crimes and any emotion he actually shows is just an act.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: His regular practice is luxurious and welcoming, and his upper class patients apparently have no idea about his illegal organ harvesting business.
* WouldHurtAChild: Some of his targets are children.

[[folder:Patti & Doug]]
!!Patti & Doug
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->'''Played By:''' Lili Taylor & Creator/FrankWhaley

Two kidnappers and child traffickers working for the Dollmaker and preying on Gotham's homeless children under the guise of the Mayor's Homeless Outreach Program.

* CoDragons: To the Dollmaker in Gotham.
* GoshDangItToHeck: Their manner of speaking.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Patti.
* FauxAffablyEvil: For all their overtly-polite demeanor they are perfectly willing to injure their victims, and even their collaborators.
* WouldHurtAChild: Was willing to kill Selina Kyle when she rebelled against them.

[[folder:The Catcher]]
!!The Catcher

->'''Played By:''' Phillip James Griffith

The leader of a group of mercenaries that guard Dulmacher's island.

* AxCrazy: He clearly takes a lot of pleasures in his job of killing those who try to escape.
* TheDragon: He's Dulmacher's Dragon in his island
* MookLieutenant: He leads a group of {{Mooks}}.

!The Sirens

[[folder:Selina Kyle]]

See [[Characters/GothamRoguesGallery Batman's future Rogues Gallery]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Tabitha Galavan]]
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->'''Played By:''' Jessica Lucas

Theo Galavan's sister and lead enforcer. After his death, she begins to carve out her own niche in Gotham's criminal underworld, eventually taking Selina Kyle under her wing.

* AdaptationNameChange: The comics' Tigress was named Paula Brooks with her daughter/successor being named Artemis Crock. Combined with a bit of CanonForeigner given that she doesn't seem to be based on either of the above characters.
* AdaptationOriginConnection: Tigress, in the comics, was not Selina's mentor.
* AdaptationalSexuality: The original Tigress was not bisexual.
* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:Gets her right hand chopped off by Nygma. It quickly gets reattached though.]]
* BiTheWay: She's involved with [[BrotherSisterIncest her brother]] and Barbara. And later Butch.
* BoobsOfSteel: To date, the most well-endowed female character in the show, she's also strong enough to pull down a man twice her size.
* {{Chickification}}: She goes from a dark, sadistic assassin into a loving girlfriend towards Butch. This seems to have been taken further in Season Four with [[spoiler:Selina]] who she has a [[spoiler:very sweet and freindly relationship with]] as of season four.
* DarkActionGirl: She acts as her brother's main enforcer, being skilled with guns, whips and knives.
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: She knocks out her brother and gives his parachute to Silver after Theo tries to kill Silver.]]
* {{Dominatrix}}: She uses a whip, has a high pony tail, and wears lots of black leather she's pretty much the embodiment of the trope and that's not even getting into how her relationship with [[spoiler: Butch]] kicked off.
* TheDragon: She does all of Theo's hands-on dirty work.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** She called Barbara "crazy", and did not mean it as a compliment.
** She also doesn't like the way Theo treats their niece Silver, [[spoiler: and finally turns against him when he attempts to kill the poor girl.]]
* EvilMentor: She becomes a role model for Selina Kyle.
* FauxAffablyEvil: She puts on a polite façade all the time. Even when she's planning to kill somebody.
* FreudianExcuse: Before being stabbed by Theo, she attempted to reason with him, reminding him of their home and of life before he was taken by the Order of Saint Dumas, her exact words being "We were happy once." Given that Hugo Strange confirmed her family members learn to memorize every word of their family's sacred text making them sound like more of a {{Cult}} than a family it's not hard to imagine that her upbringing wasn't exactly all sunshine and rainbows. Especially when one considers Theo's treatment of their niece, and the hints of incest between him and Tabitha. It should be noted however that Tabitha has never once attempted to excuse her behavior or blame her childhood.
* GreenEyedMonster: It seems she's getting jealous of Barbara setting her sights on Theo. Or maybe she was jealous of Theo in that scene. Or both. In any case, she's still fond enough of Barbara to send hit men after Jim for hurting her even though Theo ordered her to do nothing.
* HellBentForLeather: Her outfit of choice is a tight leather outfit and jacket that leaves little to the imagination.
* IceQueen: When she's first introduced she's very cold blooded and still remains so in many respects however she's become something of a DefrostingIceQueen since being with [[spoiler: Butch]] she has revealed somewhat of a kind side and even is [[spoiler: visibly upset by learning of his death. Butch even attempted to kill Barbara on his own with the intent of playing dumb because he claimed Tabitha wouldn't have been able to handle killing Barbara. Ironic considering...]]
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Despite being a good shot, [[spoiler: she failed to shoot Penguin as she missed every shot despite him running in a straight line to a window to escape with his limp. During a MexicanStandoff between Gordon, Bullock, and Penguin, she finally shot Penguin but only hit his shoulder and he got out of the situation alive.]]
* InNameOnly: She shares her comic namesake of Tigress, but leans more towards the future Catwoman, as Tabitha favors the whip and uses her sexuality. Fittingly, she becomes Selina's mentor in that regard.
* ItsPersonal: Wants Gordon dead for putting her brother and Barbara behind bars. [[spoiler:Now added vengeance when Theo had been killed and she wants revenge. It's unclear if she still feels that way despite him stabbing her for betraying him.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: When she's interacting with anyone who isn't her brother or Barbara she's nothing but a condescending bitch.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite acting like a total bitch and psycho killer in Season 2, [[spoiler: Tabitha had shown some kinder elements to her personality such as when she saved her niece from her brother and objected to his treatment of her, as well as taking in a emotionally broken Barbara after Barbara had been turned away by Jim Gordon.]] Small bits of this continue to be shown in Season 3 [[spoiler: when she's shown saving Butch despite saying he meant nothing to her and later willingly giving up her hand to save him]], she even struggles with her descision to [[spoiler: betray and kill Barbara.]]
* KarmaHoudini: Has yet to pay for any of her crimes.
* MeaningfulName: Barbara and Butch both refer to her as "Tabby" for short, foreshadowing [[spoiler:her becoming a mentor to Selina]].
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: She turns against Barbara after her boss abused her trust one too many times [[spoiler: and kills the mob queenpin herself.]]
* TheQuietOne: She rarely speaks, allowing to let her actions do the talking. But when she does speak, she is quite affable.
* RaceLift: The various incarnations of the comics character she's based on have all been Caucasian (or in ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', Vietnamese), but she's played by a black Canadian actress on the show.
* ShipSinking: She and Barbara break up in the third season finale [[spoiler: before she murders her ex-girlfriend herself.]]
* TheStarscream: [[spoiler: She stabs Barbara in the back after losing faith in her and personally kills her.]]
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: A DarkActionGirl with a penchant for black leather, killing using an animalistic style, played by a black Canadian woman with a high ponytail? It's like Copperhead returns in all but name.
* ThickerThanWater: [[spoiler: Despite turning on Theo in the midseason finale, she still wants revenge on Penguin for his death. It's unclear if this trope is still true, considering Theo stabbed her for her betrayal; yet it's possible the reason she briefly broke up with Butch was because for his part in Theo's second death by Penguin.]]
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:She's the cause of the climactic showdown at Wayne Manor in "Unleashed" as she reminds her brother of his past life.]]
* VillainDecay: She was previously TheDragon to Galavan and a feared assassin in Gotham who posed as a serious threat. In the second half of Season 2, she gets DemotedToSatelliteLoveInterest for Butch. Now in Season 4 [[spoiler:she's turned into a loving and sweet mentor for Selina.]] All in all she's not even half the villain she use to be.
* WhipItGood: She uses a bullwhip as her WeaponOfChoice. She later passes it on to Selina, implying that it'll become Catwoman's trademark weapon now.

!Indian Hill Escapees
[[folder:Karen Jennings]]
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A product of the original Indian Hill project, she was freed by Thomas Wayne and hidden away.

* AbusiveParents: Her father was a drunk and beat her for her deformity.
* AccidentalMurder: She ended up in Blackgate when she threw her father down the stairs, inadvertently killing him.
* LikeASonToMe: Inverted. She felt like Thomas Wayne was her father due to his treatment of her.
* LiterallyShatteredLives: How Freeze kills her.
* RecruitedFromTheGutter: She went to Indian Hill willingly after they promised to fix her crippled arm.
* RedRightHand: Her stay in Indian Hill left her with a reptilian claw in place of one hand.

[[folder:Marv]]
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A member of Fish's gang capable of accelerating aging through touch.

* TheDragon: To Fish, while she is leading the Indian Hill escapees.
* TheGlovesComeOff: Literally. If he removes his gloves, someone's about to die.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: He doesn't express any regret for the murders he commits.
* KarmaHoudini: Is one of the few villains in Fish's gang to escape completely unpunished for his crimes.
* TouchOfDeath: It only takes a few seconds of skin contact to age someone to the point where their organs fail.

[[folder:Nancy]]
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An Indian Hill escapee and member of Fish's gang.

* BondageIsBad: Her costume has some BDSM influences to it.
* CharacterDeath: She's killed by Penguin's mob.
* FauxActionGirl: When assaulted by a mob, she goes down pretty easily despite appearing to be Fish's top enforcer.
* InformedAttribute: As an Indian Hill patient she had some power, but we never see it before her death.

[[folder:Sid]]
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An Indian Hill escapee and member of Fish's gang.

* AxeCrazy: He takes the time to execute two unconscious police officers for no real reason.
* {{Bishonen}}: Appears to be a good looking, slightly feminine boy.
* CharacterDeath: He's beaten to death by Penguin's mob.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Admittedly, it's very easy to mistake him for a female.
* FlashStep: His preferred method of attack.
* SuperSpeed: His power.
* SquishyWizard: He has amazing super speed, but he can't take a physical beatdown.

[[folder:Tweaker]]
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An Indian Hill escapee and member of Fish's gang.
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* {{Expy}}: Of Batman's future rogue, the Man-Bat (Kirk Langstrom).
* FemmeFatalons: A rare male example.
* WingedHumanoid: He has a pair of bat wings, functional ones if his attempted escape out a window is any indicator.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Alice Tetch]]
!!Alice Tetch
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->'''Played By:''' Naian Gonzalez Norvind
An Indian Hill patient who had her powers before experimentation. The sister of Jervis Tetch.
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* BrotherSisterIncest: Jervis puts "thoughts a brother should never have" into her head ''as a game''. It's why she wants to kill him.
* CanonForeigner: The Mad Hatter never had a sister in the comics.
* KillItWithFire: If she gets so much as a paper cut she'll burn the place to the ground to prevent any possible contamination.
* HatePlague: Exposure to her blood induces short term incapacitation, followed by murderous rage. According to her the effect transfers to the blood of anyone infected as well.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: How she dies.
* NonMaliciousMonster: She even tries to stop a man attacking her from getting exposed to her blood.
* OutsideContextProblem: Unlike the other escapees from Indian Hill, she already had her powers before Strange got to her.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Despite being killed off after two episodes, her poisonous blood has a ''huge'' impact on the rest of Season 3. Nicknamed the "Tetch Virus", it's thoroughly responsible for Barnes's, Mario's , and eventually Lee's SanitySlippage. It also becomes the driving force of the season finale's conflict, as it's weaponized into a bomb by the Court of Owls and used upon the ''entire city'', plunging it into chaos and turning its citizens into complete monsters.
* TyphoidMary: She does her best to stop anyone else from getting infected. Unfortunately, this involves some murder and quite a bit of arson.
[[/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.
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[[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.]]
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* 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".]]

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: How she dies.]]

* SmallRoleBigImpact: Despite being [[spoiler:killed off after two episodes]], her poisonous blood has a ''huge'' impact on the rest of Season 3. Nicknamed the "Tetch Virus", it's thoroughly responsible for [[spoiler:Barnes's]], [[spoiler:Mario's ]], and eventually [[spoiler:Lee's]] SanitySlippage. It also becomes the driving force of the season finale's conflict, as it's [[spoiler:weaponized into a bomb by the Court of Owls and used upon the ''entire city'', plunging it into chaos and turning its citizens into complete monsters]].

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.

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: He wants Bruce to kill him. And he does.]]

* BodyHorror: His reflection shows his true form where he is shown to be decaying.

* GreaterScopeVillain: Of the entire series, as he is the one who controls the Court Of Owls who in turn were responsible for the deaths of the Waynes. He becomes the BigBad personally for the season three finale.

!![[ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} Selina "Cat" Kyle]]
See Characters/GothamRoguesGallery.

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Five minutes on the street, you'll be mincemeat."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Camren Bicondova

A teenage girl with a fondness for theft and cats. The future ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}. She witnessed the murder of the Waynes, and has been keeping an eye on Bruce.

* AnimalMotif: She may not have taken the mantle of Catwoman up yet, but young Selina is seen moving like a cat as she prowls through Gotham. And feeding a cat. In one scene, she's seen playing with her locket as a cat would. And she's nicknamed "Cat" for obvious reasons.
* {{Archenemy}}: She's developed an intense hatred towards Silver after realizing she wants to harm Bruce.
* BadassAdorable:
** She's able to escape from a human trafficking ring using her size and stealth.
** She's able to pick a pair of police handcuffs with a ''pen'' (that she swiped from Bullock).
** As [[spoiler: TheDragon of Fish Mooney]], she [[spoiler: recaptures Gordon, Bullock, and Falcone]] with a shotgun and {{Mooks}} in tow.
* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: [[spoiler:Kills Reggie to keep Bruce's hands clean.]]
* BerserkButton: She hates being compared to her mom.
* BigSisterInstinct: She looks out for younger kids who are in need of comfort or help.
** When she gets sent to juvie in the second episode, she notices the kid sitting next to her on the bus is crying. She gives him hints on how to survive.
** As she observes Bruce's training, she points out it would all be useless on Gotham's streets as to survive you'd have to be ruthless and mean, something Bruce isn't....yet.
** She tells Bruce that there was really nothing he could've done to save his parents, and that he really needs to stop obsessing over his parents' murder and get over it because bad stuff happens all the time.
** She's also the only friend Ivy Pepper has.
** Selina joins Bruce in his search for Reggie, the man who stabbed Alfred. He makes some threats towards Bruce. She helps set him up so that Bruce could push him out of the window. [[TheCowl Bruce couldn't make himself do that.]] [[spoiler: So she pushed Reggie instead.]]
** The trait is present once more upon her association with Bridget Pike, for whom she is willing to fight both the other Pikes and call on Gordon for help.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Alfred finds her a handful, and at first wants her gone.
* BreakHisHeartToSaveHim: She tells Bruce she never saw his parents' killer, it was just a lie to save herself from juvie, because she knows any association with Bruce will ultimately endanger them both.
* BrutalHonesty: Isn't afraid to speak her mind, as Bruce figures out.
* ButNowIMustGo: Selina leaves Wayne Manor on her own accord once she realizes that the danger she's in is too much for Bruce, a rich kid who doesn't know much about the city, to handle at his age.
* ByronicHero: Much like her original counterpart.
* CassandraTruth: Selina figures out [[HoneyTrap Silver]] is manipulating Bruce, but he doesn't believe in her. [[spoiler: At least until he finally sees that she was right all along after they trick Silver into revealing her true colors.]]
* CivvieSpandex: Selina doesn't wear a costume yet, but does sport a black jacket and a pair of goggles.
* CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority: She knows full well that the cops are corrupt, and she won't take any of their bullcrap.
* CombatPragmatist: Knows to go for [[spoiler: the eyes]] first in a fighting situation.
* CompositeCharacter: She replaces Harley Quinn as Poison Ivy's best friend.
* {{Delinquents}}: She's been in and out of juvie quite a lot. And she does ''not'' want to go back. She'd rather stay on the streets.
* TheDragon:
** [[spoiler: To Fish Mooney in the Season 1 Finale.]]
** [[spoiler: She's later one to Penguin as well.]]
** She also gets coerced into becoming one for Firefly.
* DueToTheDead: She removes her hood during Thomas and Martha's funeral.
* EscapeArtist: She's able to pick a pair of police cuffs with a ''pen''. After that Gordon realizes the chances of getting her to stay in police custody are next to nil.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first few minutes of the pilot show how skilled and bold a pickpocket she is, and her connection with cats.
** She's a hardened street kid, yet even she gets creeped out by Ivy Pepper.
* EyeScream: Her method of combat involves clawing out an opponent's eyes.
* FauxPaw: Bats around a locket with her hand curled up like a cat.
* FiveFingerDiscount: Pickpockets people with frequency and aplomb.
* GoForTheEye: Her preferred way of attacking people. [[spoiler: She can do some major damage.]]
* GogglesDoNothing: Selina is usually seen with a pair of green goggles on top of her hood, perhaps as a nod to more modern versions of Catwoman who wears goggles as part of her costume.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: She saw the Waynes' assassin before he covered up his head. [[spoiler: Because of that, whoever hired the hitman wants her dead.]]
* HellholePrison: The juvenile hall upstate she was sent to upstate is this, apparently. She does ''not'' want to go back.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo:
** [[spoiler: How she justifies killing Reggie.]]
** [[spoiler: "It's called surviving."]]
* ImprobableHairstyle: Her hairdo seems a little high maintenance for someone living on the street. Towards the end of season 2, she somehow manages to not only straighten it, but also dye it.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In Bruce's words, she's a good person but she's "not nice". She doesn't appreciate the observation.
%%* JerkassHasAPoint
* KarmaHoudini: Much like her character, [[spoiler: she escapes the finale without facing any punishment.]]
* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:She shows great Chessmaster tendencies when tricking what is believed to be the name of the Wayne killer out of Silver by means of cold-blooded torture at the hands of someone who appears to be an associate of hers. Bruce, who was also subjected to it, played along with Selina's plan, and his role in her torture gambit is only revealed after the name is.]]
* KindheartedCatLover: [[CaptainObvious Duh.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: Selina's {{jerkass}} tendencies finally catch up to her, when she loses all of her friends because of her attitude. Gordon severs his ties with her after she leaves him for dead, Bridgit separates from Selina after arguing over a difference in morals, and Bruce pushes her away in favor of Silver because she actually treats him nicer than Selina ever did. Selina is now alone like she always wanted to be, and she realizes that it wasn't the way she liked it anymore.
* LeParkour: Gotham is one big jungle gym to her.
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The light to Silver's dark, ironically, considering whose side Silver is on.
* LittleMissBadass: Selina may be a child, but she manages to survive in the very hard streets of Gotham and has escaped from criminals and the police several times.
* LittleMissSnarker: Selina does her future counterpart proud with how much sass she exudes. Considering her status as a street kid, she likely uses it to cope with her harsh life, as well as [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold to conceal her feelings and vulnerabilities]]. She snarks at everyone, but [[ServileSnarker Alfred]] in particular seems to [[SnarkToSnarkCombat bring it out of her]] (of course, this could be because [[WouldHitAGirl he punched her in the face]] - she's not happy with him about that).
--> '''Bruce:''' What do you have against the front door?
--> '''Selina:''' Nothing. It's the ape who opens it I could live without.
* LoveableRogue: Her EstablishingCharacterMoment shows her as this: She takes out a switchblade, but only uses it to slash open a grocery bag and steal a jug of milk, which it turns out was not for her, but for a stray cat. The only other thing she steals is a little cash from a passerby. Throughout the scene, she avoids inflicting a single physical injury on anyone.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Starts playing as one to Bruce, once she moves to Wayne Manor. She questions his odd behavior and decisions, and manages to do in a couple of days what Alfred has been trying to do for weeks without success: get Bruce to act like a kid and have some fun.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: The tough street fighter Masculine Girl to Bruce's sensitive, domestic Feminine Boy while they're living together.
* MeaningfulName[=/=]InSeriesNickname: Her name on the streets is Cat, which is what she prefers to be called.
* MissingMom: The police think her mom is dead. Selina insists that she's alive somewhere.
* MythologyGag:
** Bicondova looks very much like a young Creator/MichellePfeiffer, who was Catwoman in ''Film/BatmanReturns'', right down to a similar hairstyle.
** Selina doesn't go by Catwoman yet, but she calls herself Cat. In her very first comic book appearance, Catwoman was just called the Cat.
** She flirts with Bruce non-stop. Flirterer!
** Selina shares the same fate as Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman from ''Film/BatmanReturns'' when she is [[spoiler: pushed out of a window and killed, only to be resurrected by alley cats]].
* NeverHurtAnInnocent: For all her talk about being ruthless and mean, Selina seems to have a strict policy about not harming anyone who hasn't tried to harm her first. Even when stealing from people (as in her EstablishingCharacterMoment), she avoids hurting them.
* OddFriendship: With Bruce, and later [[spoiler: Fish.]]
* PetTheDog[=/=]KindheartedCatLover: Steals a jug of milk to feed a stray cat.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: Despite being only 13 and half the height of most adults, she can easily take down larger opponents in physical combat.
* PuppyLove: She may act mainly as TheTease towards Bruce, but over the course of "Harvey Dent" and "Lovecraft" it's clear she has genuine feelings for him.
** By the end of "The Ball of Mud and Meanness", he's moved in with her.
* RealWomenDontWearDresses: She hates dressing girly, but does so for an undercover mission with Bruce.
* RefugeInAudacity: Averted. She once attempted to rob a fancy department store in broad daylight, and got caught by the cops for her troubles.
* SarcasticDevotee: She points out that Bruce's behavior is either crazy or suicidal, and yet she still helps him in spite of herself.
* SatisfiedStreetRat: Selina uses Gordon to stay out of juvie, but has no interest in him finding her a better life, and seems quite happy in her career as a pickpocket.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Whenever she gets arrested, she immediately asks to see Gordon, hoping to evoke this.
* SheCleansUpNicely: For the Wayne Enterprises Charity Ball in "Under the Knife".
* SlapSlapKiss: The PuppyLove edition. Bruce and Selina alternate between trying to shove one another way and running to help when the other is in danger.
* StalkerWithACrush: After she sees the Wayne murders, she seems to be taken by Bruce, possibly because he's an orphan, and begins stalking him at a distance throughout the pilot. A later episode shows her breaking into Wayne Manor and watching him sleep.
** The crush part is emphasized at the end of "Lovecraft": after two episodes of challenging him to kiss her, ''she'' steals a kiss from ''him''.
* StealthHiBye: She pulls one on Bruce in "Lovecraft": He's balancing on a banister in the mansion, clearly by himself, and then Selina just appears there with him. It's quite a feat, considering [[Franchise/{{Batman}} who she pulled it on.]]
* StreetUrchin: This version of Selina Kyle is already a roof-hopping KindHeartedCatLover stealing milk for a stray.
* TheTease: Downplayed since she's a teenager, but acts this way to Bruce, enticing him to try and earn a kiss from her. Hilariously, Bruce seems to have her pegged as an (age appropriate) FemmeFatale already, and is suspicious of her offer of letting him kiss her!
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Tomboy to Ivy's girly girl. In "Under the Knife," she goes on about how she hates wearing dresses and heels.
* TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler:Goes from morally ambiguous street urchin, to willing flunkie of Fish and later Penguin who was willing to sell out Gordon to be murdered by the former without so much as a shred of regret.]]
* TricksterMentor: To Bruce. She teaches him about keeping his balance and roof jumping, as well as fighting dirty - Gotham's thugs usually don't wear boxing gloves.
* TwoFirstNames: Per the Creator/DCComics norm.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Bruce.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: While their relationship is...[[DatingCatwoman complicated]] and still [[ToyShip relatively innocent,]] Selina does show this towards Bruce. [[spoiler: As both Reggie and Bruce found out when she shoved the former out of a window after the latter hesitated.]]
** [[spoiler: Later she submits Silver to fake ColdBloodedTorture in order to get Bruce to see her dark side and help him gain information out of her.]]
* TheVoiceless: She doesn't speak at all in the pilot. However, she does speak in the subsequent episodes.
* WhatTheHellHero: Receives this from Gordon and Bruce all the time. [[spoiler: Especially when she joins Fish and doesn't immediately help them escape.]]
** Many times, she winds up giving this to Bruce as well, particularly in Season 4 [[spoiler: during Bruce's bratty phase]].
* WhipItGood: She finally gets her hands on a whip (Catwoman's weapon of choice) by the end of Season 3, courtesy of Tabitha.
* WorthyOpponent: She calls [[HoneyTrap Silver]] this after being impressed by how good she is at her innocent act.
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[[folder: Tabitha Galavan]]
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->'''Played By:''' Jessica Lucas

Theo Galavan's sister and lead enforcer. After his death, she begins to carve out her own niche in Gotham's criminal underworld, eventually taking Selina Kyle under her wing.
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* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:Gets her right hand chopped off by Nygma.]]

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