History Characters / GothamCriminalGroups

->'''Played By:''' Michael Goldsmith (Gus Floyd), Creator/JonnyCoyne (Clyde Destro)

->'''Played By:''' Michael Buscemi (Merton), Michael Maize (Grady Harris)

* BiTheWay: She has a history with Montoya (like the modern Batwoman) and is involved with Tabitha.

* BiTheWay: She's involved with [[BrotherSisterIncest her brother]] and Barbara. And later Butch.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: Hhe's only in it for one episode, but it's his murder of Officer Parks that really makes Gordon's HeroicBSOD about the futility of the justice system in Gotham hit home - eventually culminating in his supremely bad decision to murder Theo Galavan in cold blood.

* NeverLiveItDown: In-universe, he's been known by the name "Matches" ever since that one hit where he burned someone to death.

** Then she assumes that she's TheVamp and plays off another man, assuming that she's manipulating him. Said man was really a SerialKiller who was intending to kill her. He almost succeeds, but Gordon comes to her rescue once again.

* 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.

* AGodAmI: Has fully bought into this, having [[spoiler:taken Ra's role as the Demon's Head in season 4.]]

* HornedHairdo: Like in the comics, the sides of his hair are always pointed upwards like horns.

* ArcVillain: Of the last two episodes of the third season, as well as [[spoiler:the last few episodes of season 4, alongside Jeremiah]].

* BeardOfEvil: He has one as per tradition.

* AdaptationalJerkass: As god awful as the Flamingo from the comics was, he at least engaged in cannibalise after killing his victims. This Flamingo enjoys eating their flesh ''while'' they are still alive.

* 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", seemingly for good.]]

* HijackedByGanon: In the comics, Ra's has no particular connection to The Court. Here he's TheManBehindTheMan.

* InformedAttractiveness: Barbara’s certainly a pretty girl, but it’s a little strange that so many men fall in love with her so quickly like she’s Aphrodite. She instantly seduces Aaron, a fellow inmate, into protecting her, gets the attention of the millionaire inmate to the point where he sends Jerome to try to win her over for him, and gets both Theo and Tabitha Galavan almost instantly. Not to mention, Theo and the millionaire have a semi-fight over her. And this is all in season 2, episode 1.

* InformedAttractiveness: Barbara’s certainly a pretty girl, but it’s a little strange that so many men fall in love with her so quickly like she’s Aphrodite. She instantly seduces the bald inmate into protecting her, gets the attention of the millionaire guy, and gets both Theo and Tabatha. Not to mention, Theo and the millionaire have a semi-fight over her. And this is all in season 2, episode 1.

!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.

* CharacterDeath: She's killed by Penguin's mob.
* DressedLikeADominatrix: Her costume has some BDSM influences to it.
* 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.

* {{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: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.

* 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. Though in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', he was obsessed with his secretary, named Alice.
* KillItWithFire:
** If she gets so much as a paper cut she'll burn the place to the ground to prevent any possible contamination.
** Defied after death. When her body is stolen from the morgue, the tag with her name on it is shown to also bear strict written orders to not burn her (“DO NOT INCINERATE”).
* 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:Jane Cartwright]]

Please see [[Characters/GothamSerialKillers Serial Killers]].

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!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.

* 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. 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 Merton Gang]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Merton's Cousin Grady Harris]]
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.]]