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This page is for all the people involved in the administration of Gotham City, be they involved in politics, lawkeeping, or any other such business.

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!Gotham City Police Department

[[folder:James Gordon]]
!!''Commissioner James "Jim" Gordon (previously Lieutenant, previously Sergeant)''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"There's nothing wise in what [[DirtyCop you do, Flass.]]"'']]
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/GaryOldman (in ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'')
!!!'''Dubbed by:''' Creator/VincentViolette (European French)
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JimMeskimen (in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanGothamKnight'')
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Film/BatmanBegins'' | ''WesternAnimation/BatmanGothamKnight'' | ''ARG/WhySoSerious'' | ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' | ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''

Intelligent, thoughtful and a believer in real justice, Jim Gordon is one of the few honest cops in Gotham. These qualities make him a close and valuable ally of Batman. With Batman's help, he rises steadily through the ranks of the GCPD, eventually becoming Commissioner.
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* AccompliceByInaction: How Dent sees him in regards to the corrupt cops in his department. He himself is not corrupt, but he did nothing to stop Wuertz and Ramirez. This is the reason he later targets Jim's family.
* AdaptationalJobChange: ''Begins'' sees him as a Sergeant before being promoted to Lieutenant. In one of the main influences of the series, ''ComicBook/BatmanYearOne'', he was already a Lieutenant and got promoted to Captain in the end. Additionally, he goes from Lieutenant directly to Commissioner, as opposed to going from Captain to Commissioner.
* BadassLongcoat: He wears one more after becoming commissioner, though he wears them before that as well.
* BeingGoodSucks: A MotiveRant in ''Rises'' describing to Blake the police force's rules as "shackles" that "let the bad guy get ahead".
* BenevolentBoss: As DaChief he is uncorrupted and working to enforce the law.
* BerserkButton: If you're going to bicker about whose part of the administration is more corrupt, he'd be more than happy to oblige.
-->'''Harvey Dent''': You're sitting down there with scum like Wuertz and Ramirez, and you're talking to... ''[pauses as he sees Gordon’s reaction]'' oh yeah, Gordon... I almost had your rookie cold on a racketeering beef!\\
'''Lt. James Gordon''': Don't try to cloud the fact that clearly Maroni's got people in your office, Dent!
* ByTheBookCop: As by the book as you can get in Gotham, anyway.
* TheCommissionerGordon: TropeNamer.
* {{Determinator}}: Does getting shot stop him from opposing Bane? NO.
* EtTuBrute: Naturally his reaction when he discovers that Harvey had becomes Two-Face.
* ExplainExplainOhCrap: After the Joker marks city officials, including the police commissioner, for death. [[INeedAFreakingDrink Loeb pours himself a whisky]] while Gordon tries to figure out how the assasination attempt will go down.
--> '''Loeb''': How did they get my DNA?
--> '''Gordon''': Somebody with access to your office or house must have lifted a tissue or a...glass..wait! WAIT!
--> ''(Loeb collapses as the glass begins to smoke)''
* ExactWords: It comes back to bite him in the ass in ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', because [[spoiler:the text of his confession about the truth behind Harvey Dent's demise only mentioned that the Batman was charged with murdering Harvey Dent despite the death being an accident caused by a key miscalculation on Batman's part of the force sufficient to subdue him, and that he took the blame for Harvey's crimes, not that Batman agreed to let Gordon charge him with Dent's death in the first place, nor that Gordon only went along with it because he had to prevent the Joker's victory against the Batman-Gordon-Dent triad from being set in stone. When Gordon stumbles upon Bane's lair, Bane naturally acquires the speech papers searching Gordon's pockets, then uses it to justify the mass breakout at the prison.]]
* FaceDeathWithDignity: In ''Rises'', when [[spoiler:Scarecrow]] gave him the choice of death or exile, and he was surrounded by League of Shadows members, he chose death. Fortunately, [[BigDamnHeroes Batman intervened]].
* FriendOnTheForce: Is this for Batman; especially in ''Batman Begins'' when most of the police do not trust Batman at all.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Unlike Batman, he's got no problems using guns or lethal force.
* GoodParents: Shown to be one for his son in ''The Dark Knight'', which Harvey Dent uses against him by threatening to kill his son if his coin toss tells him to. The problem this leaves is that Gordon's wife left him and took the kids after the events in ''The Dark Knight'' as noted by Foley to the congressman in ''The Dark Knight Rises'', partially for covering up Harvey Dent's crimes. WordOfGod said this was also done to keep his daughter from becoming Batgirl in an attempt to further pacify Christian Bale, who explicitly didn't want Robin the Boy Wonder to appear (though officer John Blake ends up playing a similar role).
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: In true Commissioner Gordon fashion. He's described as one of the few honest cops in Gotham during ''Batman Begins''.
* InternalReformist: His target is Gotham PD.
* KnightInSourArmor: See his page quote. He's not an idealist but he's trying to improve Gotham with what he has available.
* MilesToGoBeforeISleep: He's visibly weary in ''Rises'', but he presses on in trying to save the city yet again when Bane attacks. Relief from the burdens is brought about by eight years of secrets comes only after [[spoiler:the nuke is flown a safe distance over the waters]].
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Everything he does, from working hand-in-hand with corrupt cops like Flass, Wuertz, and Ramirez [[spoiler:([[PunchClockVillain the latter who only joined the mob to help pay her mother's medical bills]])]] to supporting the severely anti-crime Dent Act, he believes is for the good of his people, and he does what he does at a personal cost which is made much more explicit in ''Rises''.
* MyGreatestFailure: Two. [[spoiler:Allowing Rachel and Harvey to be kidnapped by the Joker, and pinning the blame for Two-Face's murders on Batman.]]
* OverRankedSoldier: Promoted from Lieutenant to Police Commissioner literally overnight.
* PapaWolf: He jumps into action when [[spoiler:Two-Face]] naps his son.
* ParentalSubstitute: To some of his cops, especially Blake.
* PrecisionFStrike: After [[spoiler:Loeb]] is poisoned.
-->'''Gordon''': OH SHIT--!
* PrideBeforeAFall: Downplayed. He doesn't die, but after succeeding in bringing the Joker in, he is applauded for it by the department, unaware that the Joker wanted to be arrested. Needless to say, this shortly comes to bite him '''hard'''.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: In ''Begins'' Bruce calls him a "good cop; one of the few".
* SayMyName: Inverted. He pushes Gordon to tell him what the police called him back when he was in internal affairs (Harvey Two-face), he does shout [[SuddenlyShouting SAY IT!!]].
* SecretKeeper: Of Dent's [[spoiler:murders after going insane.]] And [[spoiler:Batman reveals his identity to Gordon near the end of ''The Dark Knight Rises''.]]
* SpecsOfAwesome: They certainly don't decrease his badass-ery.
* StoicSpectacles: He keeps his cool at all times except for one notable scene in ''Rises''. However, in ''The Dark Knight'', he lost his cool when arguing to Harvey about Lau on the rooftop of MCU and also him trying his best to keep his cool while [[spoiler:Two-Face held his family hostage at gun point.]]
* ThereAreNoCoincidences: Firmly believes this and picks up the strange events in Rises, and further warns Blake to follow this trope as well. Detectives aren't allowed to believe in coincidences.
* TwoFirstNames: Much like in the comics.
* TokenGoodCop: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Gordon means well, but Gotham is such a hardcore WretchedHive that he has made some really awful decisions to try and bring order to it:
** In ''Film/BatmanBegins'' he is seemingly the one officer of the Gotham Police that has not sold out to the gangs, but he can't really do jack about it until Batman comes along. [[AllThereInTheManual The visual dictionary]] even states that his superiors stuck him with the blatantly crooked Detective Flass (who openly moonlights as a low-level enforcer for TheMafia) as a partner in order to keep him in check.
--->'''Gordon:''' I'm no rat! In a town this bent, who's there to rat to anyway?
** In ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' he is forced to have crooked cops in his task force just to have ''some'' personnel. When two of them inevitably sell out to the Joker and cause [[spoiler:the death of Rachel Dawes and disfigurement of Harvey Dent]], a very irate [[spoiler:Dent, now turned into Two-Face]] comes gunning for him in a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
** In ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', Gordon kept quiet [[spoiler:about Harvey Dent having gone deranged thanks to the Joker and dying trying to kill Gordon's family so Gordon [[TargetedToHurtTheHero would really know how Rachel's death felt to him]]]] to create support for the Dent Act, which put enough criminals behind bars to bring Gotham to its all-time high level of tranquility. However, [[spoiler:the guilt ate at him deep enough for him to write a speech denouncing the lie, that he kept in his pocket at all times waiting for the proper time to say it, and was retrieved by Bane and broadcasted publicly to put Gotham deeper into anarchy.]] Result: a big BrokenPedestal for [[spoiler:Detective Blake.]]
* UnwittingPawn: Practically all his choices in ''The Dark Knight'', from using corrupt cops to putting Lau in the MCU to shipping the convicts across in the ferries (and possibly even Dent's death day anniversary), play right into the Joker's hands and, by proxy, into Bane's hands.
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[[folder:Gillian Loeb]]
!!''Commissioner Gillian B. Loeb''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"No one takes the law into their own hands in my city. Understand?"'']]
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/ColinMcFarlane
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Film/BatmanBegins'' | ''ARG/WhySoSerious'' | ''Film/TheDarkKnight''

The bullheaded and no-nonsense Gotham City Police Commissioner. Loeb is an honest man, but views Batman as a dangerous vigilante. He is eventually killed by the Joker with a poisoned glass of alcohol.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the books, Loeb's a fairly homely white guy.
* AdaptationalHeroism: In the comics, Loeb is disgustingly corrupt. Here, he is an honest albeit jaded cop.
* TheAlcoholic: A lot of death threats lead to a lot of alcohol. Proves to be his FatalFlaw
* CompositeCharacter: He's Michael Akins with Loeb's name.
* DaChief: Gordon's predecessor as head cop.
* DamnedByFaintPraise: [[spoiler: At his funeral, from what we hear of his speech, the Mayor is struggling to find nice things to say about him, given that he says many of Loeb's policies were unpopular and that his own office was flooded with angry calls -- again, he says this AT LOEB'S FUNERAL -- and the most he can say about him was that he dedicated his life to law enforcement and didn't like to mince words.]]
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: [[spoiler:In ''ComicBook/BatmanDarkVictory'', Loeb was killed by Sofia Falcone hanging him during her killing spree as [[SamusIsAGirl the Hangman]]. Here, he's poisoned by the Joker tampering with his alcohol.]]
* DrinkingOnDuty: It's {{implied}} that his answer to people making death threats is by drinking alcohol on duty. Unfortunately, [[spoiler:that answer ends up failing him in that the Joker has arranged to poison his bottle to ensure that the exact opposite reaction happens]].
* HumbleHero: In the ARG, Loeb admits he doesn't really care about his negative reputation as he didn't get into police work for self-gratification. It is played with, as he does take credit for Gordon and Batman's work, but it wouldn't have gotten off the ground if Loeb hadn't given the former leeway.
* InNameOnly: Other than preceding Gordon as Commissioner, as noted in "Composite Character", the name (and being at odds with the vigilante Batman) is the only thing he was in common with the comics' Loeb as the comic character was a white, old, CorruptCop, hence resembling Michael Akins more (a young, honest, black cop, hence the aforementioned AdaptationalHeroism and AdaptationalAttractiveness, as well as the below-mention RaceLift).
* JerkassHasAPoint: In the ARG, he actually has a very reasonable explanation for his condemnation of Batman regardless of how he's helping the city.
--> '''Loeb:''' The simple answer is Batman is a criminal, and as a criminal he should be arrested. Anyone with any training at all in law enforcement - from a judge to a file clerk to a beat cop - can tell you that Batman's actions are against the law. Batman himself would tell you this. But that's not the real reason for the 'arrest on sight' policy. Batman is an unknown quantity going out there with sophisticated technology and a complete lack of restraint. Has he helped arrest a few 'bad guys'? Yes. But what happens to a citizen caught in the crossfire? It hasn't happened yet, but it will, and it's going to be a lot worse than what happened to Mary Breitup.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He can be pretty snarky and snide to his employees, but he's not a bad guy by any stretch of the imagination. And he's one of the few cops that isn't hopelessly corrupt.
* RaceLift: Loeb was actually a white man in the original comics. Now he's Colin [=MacFarlane=], the opposite skin color.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: {{Downplayed}}. On the one hand, he is seemingly one of the few cops who isn't excessively corrupt. On the other, ''rampant'' corruption has happened under his watch and it only starts to be cleared up once Batman comes on the scene- and even then, he's opposed to Batman on the principle that he is a vigilante regardless of him capturing a notorious mob boss red-handed. He's more reasonable at the end of ''Begins'' when the city is under attack, but he doesn't do much at all in ''The Dark Knight'' other than basically insult Gordon by saying [[{{Irony}} he's unlikely to ever become Commissioner]] and refusing to take the Joker's threat on him too seriously before [[spoiler: dying from poison in his drink.]]
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: The Joker kills him in a targeted attack against important Gotham figures.]]
* SuddenNameChange: In the novelization of ''The Dark Knight'', his first name is Perry.
* UnfitForGreatness: Unlike his comic counterpart, Loeb is actually an honest man. However, he’s unable to effectively take a stand against Gotham’s crime problem.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Arnold Flass]]
!!''Detective Arnold Flass''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Maybe you'd like to see some excessive force!"'']]
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/MarkBooneJunior
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Film/BatmanBegins'' | ''ARG/WhySoSerious''

A highly corrupt cop and Gordon's partner. He works on Carmine Falcone's payroll, to the point where he acts as muscle for the mobster.
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* AdaptationalUgliness: ''Heavily''. While the Flass from ''Year One'' was well-groomed and muscular, this one looks positively derelict.
* BeardOfEvil: Not very well kept.
* TheBrute: He offers to kill Rachel himself.
* CompositeCharacter: Although he is named after a character from the comics (who is also a corrupt cop), and his personality is about the same, his appearance and manners are more reminiscent of Harvey Bullock.
* DeadpanSnarker: Comments like "What, they don't like falafel?" come to mind. He doesn't care.
* DirtyCop: This cop is so corrupted he's more like a gangster that puts on a police uniform.
* DirtyCoward: Batman found it easy to make him talk.
* EvenEvilHasStandards[=/=]PragmaticVillainy: When he hears about the price on Rachel's head, even ''he'' questions if it's a wise move.
* FatSlob: A messy beard, clothing as dirty as he is and a big belly.
* FateWorseThanDeath: The ARG reveals exposure to the fear toxin left Flass a vegetable and he was permanently interred in a mental hospital.
* HateSink: There's nothing remotely likable about this guy. He's a DirtyCop who steals from a falafel vendor, and later threatens a citizen for calling out his PoliceBrutality. It's incredibly satisfying when Batman scares the shit out of him and when he's knocked out by Gordon.
* JabbaTableManners: That falafel goes everywhere.
* {{Jerkass}}: The example under Kick The Dog is implied to be a regular occurrence.
* KickTheDog: He pickpockets money from a poor falafel vendor, even after the vendor says he has kids to feed. "What, they don't like falafel?"
* LaserGuidedKarma: He is jumped by the Batman after the above KickTheDog moment. Later, he is driven insane by the hallucinogens he helped​ sell into Gotham.
* PoliceBrutality: He is willing to invoke this, word for word, when someone is being uncooperative.
-->'''Narrows resident:''' Harassment! I see harassment!\\
'''Flass:''' ''(points his gun at him)'' You wanna see some excessive force?
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[[folder:Gerard Stephens]]
!!''Detective Gerard Stephens''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"That's nice... I'm a twenty year man. I can tell the difference between punks who need a little lesson in manners, and the freaks like you who would just enjoy it."'']]
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/KeithSzarabajka
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Film/TheDarkKnight''

An experienced GCPD detective, Stephens is an honest cop and has a place among Gordon's most trusted.
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* CowboyCop: He roughs up punks that need to be taught manners in order to make them better citizens.
%%* DrowningMySorrows
* {{Expy}}: He's Gordon's NumberTwo at Major Crimes and has a similar, rough demeanor to Harvey Bullock, albeit without being a slob. Supposedly, the main reason the creators did not simply give him Bullock's name was because they didn't want to confuse viewers with [[OneSteveLimit two major characters named "Harvey"]]. Also like Bullock, he was suspected of being a DirtyCop (see Red Herring).
* GoodIsNotSoft: He can be violent when pushed which The Joker uses against him.
* KnightInSourArmor: He's like a knight that doesn't have time for spit and polish idealism because he's too busy putting bad guys away, or teaching them manners.
* TheLancer: {{Implied}} to be it for Gordon as the veteran that is more physical.
* LetsGetDangerous: He pulls his sleeves up after the Joker asks if he wants to know which of his dead friends were cowards.
-->"I know you're gonna enjoy this, so I'm gonna have to try and enjoy it even more."
* MomentOfWeakness: His decision to give into his anger and inflict a beating on the Joker results in him being taken hostage and unwittingly aiding in Joker's escape. He lampshades it, telling Murphy to just shoot the Joker because it was his own fault.
* PoliceBrutality: Though [[ComicBook/TheJoker the guy]] [[PayEvilUntoEvil deserved it]].
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: One of the few cops who isn't corrupt and will listen to reason.
* RedHerring: Outside of his midfilm sequence with the Joker, he gets a decent amount of lines and camera attention for such a minor figure, which is probably meant to stoke viewer suspicions that he might be one of the mob's inside men. Not so: Stephens is an honest cop, and just about the only character in Gordon's inner circle in either of the first two movies whom he's right to trust (not counting a couple of other honest characters who fall victim to the Joker).
* TranquilFury: When about to attack The Joker, he still keeps a calm tone to his voice.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Gordon.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Anna Ramirez]]
!!''Detective Anna Ramirez''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"You're the reason these men are dead!"'']]
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/MoniqueGabrielaCurnen
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AnaOrtiz
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''WesternAnimation/BatmanGothamKnight'' | ''Film/TheDarkKnight''

A rookie officer and one of Gordon's most trusted cops. She later proves to have been corrupted long before the Joker's SadisticChoice, to help with her mother's medical bills. She turns Rachel Dawes over to the Joker's men.
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* BadCopIncompetentCop: [[spoiler:Quite possibly on purpose given her corruption]].
* BeneathSuspicion: [[spoiler:She's used to kidnap Rachel (and later Gordon's wife) because they trust her.]]
* CanonForeigner: Has similarities to Renee Montoya, but it was decided to create a new character instead.
* DirtyCop: [[spoiler:Mostly because that was the only thing she could do to allow her mom's medical bills to work. It's also foreshadowed earlier with her looking guilty when letting Dent into the car that would hold him hostage.]]
* {{Expy}}: Of Renee Montoya, [[spoiler:albeit also a crooked and far less competent version]].
* FairCop: She's pretty attractive, and one of Gordon's most trusted cops.
* HealthCareMotivation: Claims to be struggling to pay for her mother's hospital bills [[spoiler:as her defense for turning DirtyCop and feeding information to the Gotham mob.]]
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Despite corrupt and responsible for Rachel's death and Harvey's descent into madness, she survives thanks to the coin-flip sparing her and may not even see jail. Although Harvey does wallop her in the head, knocking her out cold.]]
* SortingAlgorithmOfMortality: [[spoiler:Ramirez only took bribes to fund her mother's hospital treatment. She survives Harvey's coin toss while her AssholeVictim partner Wuertz dies.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It's not explained how they are able to cover up Dent's actions while Ramirez is still alive, knowing what she knows and [[spoiler:the lengths she will go for money. On the other hand, she had every reason to cover up her own role.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Gives one to Batman. [[spoiler:She does it to cover up for her own responsibility.]] Even though she praised him in ''Batman: Gotham Knights'' (though admittedly [[spoiler:the canon of it is debatable and she didn't appear to be crooked in that particular work]].
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[[folder:Michael Wuertz]]
!!''Detective Michael Wuertz''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"The investigation is on-going."'']]
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/RonDean
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Film/TheDarkKnight''

An older detective and a member of Gordon's Major Crimes Unit. He later proves to be corrupt, turning Harvey Dent over to the Joker's men, and is subsequently shot in the head by Harvey in a bar.
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* AintTooProudToBeg: [[spoiler:Not that it does him any good]].
-->'''Wuertz''': [[spoiler:Listen, Dent, I swear to God I didn't know what they were gonna do to you!]]\\
'''[[spoiler:Harvey Dent]]''': [[spoiler:That's funny, 'cause I don't know what's gonna happen to you]].
* AssholeVictim: Is shown drinking in a bar because it's his day off, indifferent to the idea that he should return to duty at a time when every cop is needed to evacuate the city. The [[http://www.whysoseriousredux.com/thegothamtimes/careful.htm promotional]] materials discuss this mentality among day-shift cops.
* BadCopIncompetentCop: He seems incredibly lazy more than anything.
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:Possibly, given that Dent appears to be aiming that revolver right at his head when we hear the shot.]]
* CanonForeigner: He has no comic counterpart.
* ChekhovsGunman: He's no background character but he looks the part at first.
* DirtyCop: [[spoiler:He works for Maroni, and thus the Joker.]]
* {{Expy}}: Of Harvey Bullock. [[spoiler:Until it's learned that he's crooked and sent Rachel to the mob. He gets killed by Two-Face for it.]]
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:He betrays Harvey, causes his transformation into Two-Face, and is then shot in the head.]]
* KickedUpstairs: He has apparently been promoted to finding Batman's true identity early in the film. Although the "suspects"[[note]]Elvis Presley, Sasquatch, and Abraham Lincoln[[/note]]were completely bogus, implying that Gordon or one of the higher ups ensured he wouldn't bundle any cases.
* NoSell: [[spoiler:Tries to pin the blame for Rachel's abduction on Maroni. Dent doesn't buy it]].
* OhCrap: When he looks up and see [[spoiler:it's not the bartender but an extremely pissed off Harvey in front of him]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Detective Murphy]]
!!Detective Murphy
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/PhilipBulcock
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Film/TheDarkKnight''

Another of Gordon's detectives.
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* ByTheBookCop: He tries to be honest like Gordon.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: It is through his actions of passing his phone to the Joker and allowing him to dial the cell phone bomb that the Joker escapes along with Lau - [[DownplayedTrope in Murphy's defense]], his only other choice was to shoot the Joker and risk getting Stephens killed.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:John Blake]]
!!''Officer / Detective ComicBook/{{Robin}} John Blake''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Don't you want to know who [[Franchise/{{Batman}} he]] was?"'']]
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JosephGordonLevitt
!!!'''Dubbed By:''' Creator/AlexisVictor (European French)
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''
->''"When you cleaned up the streets, you've cleaned them good. Pretty soon we'll be chasing down over-due library books."''

A young cop who Gordon takes under his wing, seeing him as representative of the idealism that people like him and Batman have lost.
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* AllLovingHero: Blake's not perfect, but he's an honest cop without all the baggage that people like Gordon have had to carry (or at least, not as much). In one scene, he leads the orphans of St. Swithins to safety accompanied by a GoodShepherd.
* BatDeduction: Appropriately enough. Unlike Gordon, who didn't know or care about Batman's secret identity, Blake had instantly figured out that Bruce Wayne is Batman. Years ago, Wayne had visited his orphanage, and Blake recognised him as a fellow StepfordSmiler who lost a parent (or parents) to violence at a young age. In the present day, as soon as Jim Gordon needs the Batman, Blake takes it upon himself to go to Wayne Manor and introduce himself as a cop who knows that he is the Batman.
* BrokenPedestal: He follows Gordon's instructions to the letter until [[spoiler:it is revealed that Gordon knew Batman was innocent all along. Blake cannot understand why Gordon would pin the blame for five murders on an innocent man, especially Batman, and leaves in anger.]]
* ByTheBookCop: At the beginning of the film. He is displeased when the officers switch from chasing Bane to Batman during the car chase that follows Bane's attack on the Stock Exchange floor, and [[spoiler:extremely angry when it is revealed that Gordon knowingly lied in charging Batman with murder, rather than Batman framing himself]].
* CallingTheOldManOut: A variant. [[spoiler:When he discovers that Gordon played a part in protecting Dent's legacy and putting the blame on Batman, he's horrified.]] Later, he grows to understand the complex moral quandary.
* CanonCharacterAllAlong: [[spoiler:Just like Miranda Tate is Talia, he appears to be a new character, only for it to turn out he's a {{composite|Character}} of various Robins from the comics.]]
* TheCape: It's {{implied}} that he goes on to be one, due to his frustrations with police procedure throughout the film. [[spoiler:Leading to him becoming Batman's successor at the conclusion.]]
* CassandraTruth: He initially refuses to accept that he will one day find out that the rules can become shackles, mainly because he's too pissed off with [[spoiler:Gordon]] for apparently betraying his own ideals. [[spoiler:It comes back to bite him in the ass when one of Gotham's finest strands him and a BusFullOfInnocents on what could very well have soon become a death trap, despite his warnings that the city will be destroyed by the fusion reactor anyway.]]
* CharacterDevelopment: Blake is first a [[BlackAndWhiteMorality highly idealistic rookie]] who follows orders even if he doesn't agree with them. After witnessing the shortcomings of the police force after Bane takes over, and participating in the resistance, he acknowledges the validity of more ambiguous morals and pursues crime-fighting beyond the rigid structure of the force [[spoiler:as the next Batman]].
* CompositeCharacter: [[spoiler:Of the first three Robins, Blake has: witnessing his parent's early deaths, a police background from Dick Grayson, and independent discovery of Batman's secret identity from Tim Drake. And like Dick, he also succeeds Bruce as Batman. There's also his troubled childhood like Jason Todd's, and the anger that came with it. He is also similar to Terry [=McGinnis=], both appearance-wise and because he becomes the next Batman instead of becoming a Robin.]]
* CowboyCop: {{Averted}}. Everyone calls him one with varying degrees of seriousness, but he does what anyone tells him to.
* DeadpanSnarker: "Sir, what about the ''armed robbers?''"
* {{Deuteragonist}}: He has screen time rivaling Batman and Gordon.
* EmbarrassingFirstName: The poor guy's first name is [[spoiler:[[GenderBlenderName Robin]], which would explain why he never uses it until the denouement.]]
* FriendToAllChildren: As an orphan himself, he's on great terms with those at St. Swithin's orphanage, even overseeing their baseball practice.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Like Gordon, Blake is willing to use guns and lethal force, even if he clearly doesn't like it. When he ends up shooting the truck driver and the foreman at the cement plant while checking up information on what Bane's plans are, he is [[TheseHandsHaveKilled visibly shaken]] and throws his handgun away in disgust, but he later picks up and is prepared to use a shotgun when he has to go to Gordon's aid. [[spoiler:With the equipment he inherits from Bruce at the end of the movie, he might not have to resort to lethal force so often.]]
* HonorBeforeReason: Blake follows orders to chase Batman (whom he knows was innocent all along), because Foley tells him to and won't be persuaded otherwise. And possibly because he wants to see the Batman for himself.
* HotBlooded: Invoked, but averted. Foley frequently accuses him of being a "hothead" due to his youth and snarkiness (in the bar shootout, after Gordon goes into the sewers and an explosion happens, Foley refuses to send anyone down, only for Blake to protest that Gordon is down there, Foley says, "Someone get this hothead out of here. And where's that DWP guy?"), but Blake thinks logically and never actually disobeys orders despite some protesting. The one time Blake ''does'' lose his cool is [[spoiler:when a fellow officer orders the last remaining bridge out of Gotham blown up, stranding everyone he was trying to evacuate.]]
* TheLancer: To Gordon, a role which he grows out of, and to some extent to Bruce Wayne and Batman. As such, he acts as the main connection to police groundwork and the streets of Gotham in ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''.
* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:Robin was an ally of Batman here.]]
* MythologyGag: His full name, [[spoiler:Robin John Blake. "Robin," of course, is Batman's traditional partner. "John" is the middle name of the first Robin, Richard John "Dick" Grayson. "Blake" rhymes with "Drake," surname of Robin III, Tim Drake.]]
* NervesOfSteel: He advances on policemen who are shooting at his feet to dissuade him, with the additional threat of having the bridge explode beneath him if he doesn't back down.
* NiceGuy: He's one of the few unambiguously good and kind-hearted characters in the series.
* OhCrap: After unintentionally having to shoot the cement truck driver, Blake is leaving a message for Gordon when he notices barrels of motor oil and PSB, which makes him realize that Bane has been pouring explosives-laced concrete around the city. He jumps in his car, and looks at the map he's been using to mark locations Daggett's cement plants have been pouring for underground construction, and you can see an expression of raw horror on his face as he realizes Bane is about to trap the police force in the sewers to get them out of the way.
* OrphansOrdeal: When he was young, Blake's father was shot dead over a gambling debt right in front of him.
* PassingTheTorch: [[spoiler:After Bruce Wayne's [[FakingTheDead death]], Blake is given the tools to take up the mantle of Batman.]]
* ReimaginingTheArtifact: Many of the film crew, including Christian Bale, were against including Robin in the series, feeling that a acrobatic KidSidekick in a colorful costume to be too outlandish for the series' grounded, realistic take on the Batman mythos. Blake being a young cop who admires Batman who Bruce takes on as something of a protégé [[spoiler: while also grooming him to be a successor]] ends up filling the niche while still fitting in to the setting.
* TheReliableOne: To both Gordon and Batman. Gordon handpicks him to be his eyes and ears on the street after Gordon is shot and hospitalized trying to escape from Bane's underground lair. Batman entrusts Blake with evacuating Gotham "in case we fail [to stop Bane's plan]".
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Blake ultimately quits the police force because he sees the institution as being far too limiting for him. [[spoiler:It seems that Batman bequeathed him many of his resources, not the least of which was the Batman mantle, to kickstart his career into superheroics.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After seeing both the practical and moral limitations of the police force, he throws his badge off a bridge.
* SecretSecretKeeper: He knew [[spoiler:Bruce was Batman]] from a young age just by meeting him both in and out of costume, and never revealed that fact to anyone but [[spoiler:Bruce]]. Though he does consider revealing it to the people after [[spoiler:Batman moved the fusion reactor clear of Gotham]], Gordon convinces him not to, saying, "They know [who saved them]. It was the Batman."
* SupportingLeader: With Gordon out of commission for most of the first 90 minutes of the film (after he is shot multiple times while escaping from Bane's lair), and Batman out of commission for much of the middle part (due to Bane breaking his spine and throwing him in the Pit), Blake handles a lot of the detective work.
* StepfordSmiler: He describes this as a symptom of having undergone the OrphansOrdeal, as a way of appeasing people who don't understand why he hasn't moved on and let go of his anger. [[spoiler:It's one of the reasons how he deduces that Batman is Bruce Wayne--something he uses to convince Bruce to visit Gordon in hospital--as he saw that Bruce has gone through this as well.]]
* SuperheroOrigin: [[spoiler:He get his in ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''.]]
* TheseHandsHaveKilled: Notice how Blake tosses his pistol away, disgusted, after the truck driver and his colleague at the cement plant try to stab him and he is forced to shoot them.
* ToBeLawfulOrGood: He ultimately leaves the police to pursue Good.
* TookALevelInBadass: Progressively more so as he takes on mooks and uncovers Bane's operation. [[spoiler:Bruce deemed him badass enough as the next Batman.]]
* WideEyedIdealist: He ultimately opens up to the weaknesses of the police, but this only inspires him to find a better way to serve the people of Gotham.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Peter Foley]]
!!''Deputy Commissioner Peter Foley''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"There's only one police in this town!"'']]
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/MatthewModine
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''

The aggressive Deputy Commissioner, who jumps at the chance to be the one who arrests Batman for Harvey Dent's death.
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: "What, there's a masked terrorist living in the sewers? Pfft, ''sure.''" Strange sentiments from a man currently tracking down a vigilante who dresses up as a bat, who happens to live in a city which has been attacked over the last ten or so years by; a mask-wearing doctor armed with fear gas, an army of international ninjas, and a psychotic mass-murdering clown. And Foley had to have been serving on the force when those events happened. Granted, it's been years since a new masked "freak" has surfaced, so maybe Foley assumed that no one else would be crazy enough to make themselves such an obvious target. Naturally, he's proven wrong.
* BadassInANiceSuit: Wearing his dress blues to lead the assault on Bane's army.
* CanonForeigner: Foley has no equivalent in the original comics.
* CastingGag: Meta-example. Matthew Modine was Private "Joker" in ''Film/FullMetalJacket''.
* CharacterDevelopment:
** While he doesn’t have a major role, he does grow a fair bit over the course of the movie. While he seems like a hotheaded control freak at first, he clearly cares about his unit and fellow policemen. He eventually apologizes to Blake for brushing him off, and starts taking him more seriously.
** Once Bane traps Gotham’s police force underground, executed the special forces sent to assist Gotham, and takes over Gotham entirely, Foley loses his bravado and goes into hiding. But when Batman returns, especially after implicitly learning the truth of Harvey Dent, instead of a ruthless vigilante, Foley sees a symbol of hope alongside his family, and decides to fight for Gotham.
* CowardlyLion: Foley loses his bravery during Bane's regime, rebuffing Gordon's pleas to join the rebellion, even with Gordon chewing him out in front of his own wife. [[spoiler:But his courage returns when he sees Bruce's flaming Bat insignia, and the next morning he leads the police's charge in full uniform.]]
* AFatherToHisMen: Implied, including his so-called hotheaded ones. During a hostage situation, he refuses to assault Gotham’s stock exchange, not wanting to put his men (as well as the hostages) at risk.
* HotBlooded: Zigzagged. First he makes a spur decision to pursue Batman in the midst of pursuing Bane, but later he shows a more cautious side, only to come out anyway.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Foley dismisses Blake as a mere hothead, but proves to be far more zealous, especially in his pursuit of Batman.
* InspectorJavert: His pursuit of a dangerous and repeat offender vigiliante, i.e. Batman.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Zealous, hotheaded, but his targets are vigilantes and bank robbers. He also doesn’t want to unnecessarily put his men put in harm’s way.
* LookBothWays: [[spoiler:Foley gets run over by Talia's Tumbler.]]
* PreAssKickingOneLiner: At the final battle, Foley delivers this epic one:
-->'''Mercenary on Megaphone:''' Disperse! Disperse or be fired upon!
-->'''Peter Foley:''' There's only one police in this town!
* RememberTheNewGuy: Foley has apparently been on the force since before Batman first showed up, but he didn't appear in either ''Batman Begins'' or ''The Dark Knight''.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:When he comes out to fight Bane.]]
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Not at first, but later in the film during the climax.
* SmugSnake: When he's dealing with Batman. Like when the cops think they've trapped him in an alleyway:
-->'''Peter Foley:''' Like a rat in a trap, gentlemen! ''[The Bat starts up]''
-->'''Officer Kelly:''' You might have the wrong animal there, sir!
* TookALevelInBadass: For the finale. It's implied Foley just lost it over the years. Gordon helps him find it again.
* TookALevelInKindness: He eventually apologizes to Blake for not taking him seriously, and agrees to start working with him on equal terms.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Gordon.
[[/folder]]

!Gotham City Judiciary

[[folder:Rachel Dawes]]
!!''Rachel Dawes''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Bruce... don't make me your only hope of a normal life."'']]
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/KatieHolmes (''Batman Begins''), Creator/MaggieGyllenhaal (''The Dark Knight'')
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Film/BatmanBegins'' | ''ARG/WhySoSerious'' | ''Film/TheDarkKnight''

Bruce's childhood friend turned attorney, Rachel is a crusader for justice on the strictly legal side of the law. She's eventually murdered by the Joker and his henchpeople.
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* AwfulTruth: Rachel leaves a letter with Alfred, shortly before [[spoiler:she dies.]] The letter reveals that Rachel would rather [[spoiler:be with Harvey than Bruce.]] Alfred burns the letter to hide this from Bruce [[spoiler:but admits to what he did in ''Rises'' shortly before leaving Bruce]].
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: She wants to know what Dr. Crane, whom she suspected of being corrupt, of what drugs he used on Falcone and his thugs as she believed neither of them have mental illness. Well, she got more than what she bargained for.
* BrainyBrunette: Rachel is smart, capable and intelligent. She is an attorney.
* CanonForeigner: She doesn't exist in the comics, but she has strong similarities to Rachel Caspian from the ''Batman: Year Two'' storyline and Andrea Beaumont from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm''. Her role as Harvey Dent's love interest is similar to Gilda Dent.
* ChildhoodFriends: To Bruce. Bruce and Rachel have been friends since Bruce's younger years. They remained close throughout their adulthood and eventually, their romantic feelings for each other strengthened and deepened over time.
* CynicismCatalyst: [[spoiler:To both Bruce and Harvey in ''The Dark Knight''. She's kidnapped by the Joker's henchmen, tied up in a room rigged to explode and blown up while Harvey and Batman can only listen helplessly; there was a 50/50 chance of her being rescued over Harvey, but the Joker switched the locations unbeknownst to Batman and the police. Her death is one of the catalysts for Harvey becoming Two-Face, while Bruce spends eight years as a depressed recluse]].
* DamselInDistress: Once in ''Batman Begins'' and again in ''The Dark Knight''. [[spoiler:The second time doesn't end well.]]
* DamselOutOfDistress: Moreso in ''Film/BatmanBegins'', where she tried to tase a mob thug coming after her in the subway, tased ''Batman'' ([[NoSell to no avail]] due to his insulated armored suit), investigated Crane on her own, tased the Scarecrow, and then was prepared to shoot a fear toxin-addled Victor Zsasz. In ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', this was downplayed, but she still [[GroinAttack kicked the Joker in the balls.]]
* ExactWords: A sad example. When Bruce brings up that at the end of ''Batman Begins'' she said she would [[IWillWaitForYou wait for him]] until he stopped being Batman, he asks her if she really meant it. She looks a bit uncomfortable and says "yes", because at the time she ''did'' intend to wait. But then she met Harvey Dent. [[spoiler: In the letter she gave to Bruce - which he never read before her death - she tells him that while she still loves him, she can't wait for him anymore and she intends to marry Harvey]].
* {{Expy}} / CompositeCharacter: Of Rachel Caspian and Andrea Beaumont as stated above. The second film makes her one of Gilda Dent as well.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:When she hears that the police rescue Harvey, she is devastated but completely calm and reassuring at the face of her impending death.]]
* FalseSoulmate: [[spoiler: To Bruce. Despite them being childhood friends with a mutual attraction, Rachel says she wants to be with Bruce rather than Batman. She initially says she will wait until Gotham City no longer needs Batman, but as time goes on she starts to believe Bruce will never be able to stop being Batman and enters a relationship with Harvey Dent. Bruce is under the impression that she will still choose to be with him, but then she's murdered so it's rendered moot. Prior to her death, she wrote Bruce a letter saying she was in love with Harvey and intended to marry him, while still caring for Bruce [[LetsJustBeFriends more as a friend]]. Alfred initially kept this from Bruce to spare him further pain, but he eventually tells Bruce the truth when he feels Bruce's grief is consuming him. Bruce ultimately gets a happy ending with Selina Kyle (after a false start with Miranda Tate)]].
* FinalSpeech: [[spoiler:Rachel tries to comfort Harvey over a phone line...[[KilledMidSentence and then the building she is in explodes]].]]
* GroinAttack: Gives ComicBook/TheJoker one, but the Joker [[TooKinkyToTorture enjoys it]].
* HelloAttorney: She's quite hot, and a lawyer. Do the maths.
* {{Hypocrite}}: In ''The Dark Knight'', when Rachel learns Bruce is turning himself in to reveal himself as Batman and stop the Joker's killings, she begs him not to but Bruce says he's already made up his mind. However, in a shocking twist, Harvey [[TheScapegoat falsely admits to being the vigilante]] to allow the real Batman to capture the clown. Rachel overreacts at this and her response is to complain to Alfred about this "unheroic" move (as she calls it), making it seem as if Bruce forced Harvey to take his place despite Alfred trying to convince her otherwise. Nonetheless, Rachel decides that she's had enough with Bruce's role as Batman and is more than sure to marry Harvey while asking Alfred to give Bruce a letter about the predicament, but "when the time is right".
* IdiotBall : Despite being an intelligent prosecutor in a city known for crime, after Rachel tells Dr. Crane to his face she knows he has ties to the mafia and essentially threatens him, she still follows him into the dark, seedy basement of his asylum ''alone'' after he takes her to a different floor than the one she pushed on the elevator.
* JerkassHasAPoint: At the end of ''Batman Begins'', Bruce admits she was right to [[WhatTheHellHero call him out on his intention to murder Joe Chill]].
-->'''Rachel''': Bruce, the day Chill died, I said terrible things...
-->'''Bruce''': But ''true'' things. I was a coward with a gun, and justice is about more than revenge, so thank you.
* TheLostLenore: [[spoiler:For both Wayne and Dent.]]
* LoveInterest: For Bruce in ''Batman Begins'' but Rachel can't fully get over Bruce being Batman and not as she remembered him when they were young. In ''The Dark Knight'', she's moved on and is now Harvey Dent's LoveInterest. [[spoiler:Then she is blown up by ComicBook/TheJoker, making Harvey go on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge at least partly due to her.]]
* LoveTriangle: Rachel was the object of affection for both Bruce Wayne and Harvey Dent in ''The Dark Knight''. Rachel [[spoiler:chooses Harvey over Bruce but is tragically killed before Bruce discovered that Rachel had chosen Dent over him. Alfred keeps the truth from Bruce for eight years, becoming one of the reasons why he turns into a recluse.]]
* NoPlaceForMeThere: [[spoiler: Why she chooses never to be with Bruce. ]]
* NoSympathyForGrudgeholders: In ''Begins'', when Bruce confesses that he had intended to kill Joe Chill as revenge for his parents' deaths, Rachel is offended and slaps him. Although in this case, it's less that she was upset just because he still nursed a grudge over it and more that he was planning to commit murder over it, and thus end up becoming just like Joe Chill.
-->'''Rachel''': You're just another coward with a gun. Your father would be ashamed of you.
* PatientChildhoodLoveInterest: To Bruce. Rachel has always loved Bruce (and vice versa) but she didn't start to pursue Bruce romantically until adulthood, although Bruce and Rachel were very close during childhood.
* PluckyGirl: Despite her grim surroundings, she's determined to clean up Gotham.
* SatelliteCharacter: Nearly all of her actions are centered around either Bruce Wayne or Harvey Dent and she barely gets to show off any of her own personal traits.
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Played with towards Bruce. Bruce has loved Rachel since they were children and were close friends since childhood. However, [[spoiler:Rachel somewhat subverts this in that she dies realising that she loved Harvey and planned to marry him, but she still loved Bruce, she just knew that he was needed elsewhere.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Harvey Dent]]
!!''Harvey "ComicBook/TwoFace" Dent''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"You either die a hero..."'']]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nolanverse_two_face.png]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"...or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain."'']]
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/AaronEckhart
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''ARG/WhySoSerious'' | ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' | ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' (archival footage)
->''"I make my own luck."''

A high powered district attorney that is trying to help bring down the criminal empire in Gotham. However, a tragic incident caused by the Joker in the middle of the film changes his mindset and causes Harvey to go after those he deems responsible for his misfortune. While trying to kill Gordon's son, Batman intervenes and causes them all to fall from a building. Batman and Gordon's son are able to hang on, but Harvey is killed outright.
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* AbledInTheAdaptation: In the comics, the scarring of Harvey's face led to him developing a split personality. This version doesn't develop one after his transformation, and his evil actions stem purely from revenge.
* AbusiveParents: According to the novelization, his father was very abusive towards him. In fact, the [[spoiler:[[TwoHeadedCoin Double-headed]]]] coin he inherited from his father was the same one his father often used to decide whether to give him a beating or not. [[spoiler:[[ForegoneConclusion As it was actually a double headed coin, it's obvious that he was never given any sense of mercy.]]]]
* TheAce: He's like Bruce+Batman-trauma and scariness. Even when he becomes a BrokenAce, he only gets even ''scarier.''
* AdaptationalUgliness: Two-Face was more cartoony-looking in the comics. In ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', the scarred side of his face is given ''much'' more detail.
* AdaptationDyeJob: He's black-haired or brunet in the comics. Creator/AaronEckhart went blonde.
* AllLovingHero: He's noble, heroic, and has wide spread public support. His campaign slogan is "I believe in Harvey Dent."
* AllThereInTheManual: The novelization expands on why Harvey became who he is: Batman decides to do some sleuthing on Harvey Dent to see whether the DA is as perfect as the public thinks. What he learns is that Harvey was beaten as a child by his abusive father, a former cop who, through his police connections, could avoid being arrested for his domestic violence. This manifests itself in Harvey's hatred of dirty cops like Wuertz and Ramirez.
* AlternateSelf: He has four, one on [[Series/Batwoman2019 Earth-Prime]], one on [[Series/Titans2018 Earth-9]], one on [[WesternAnimation/BatmanVsTwoFace Earth-66]] and another on [[Film/BatmanFilmSeries Earth-97]].
* AmbiguousStartOfDarkness: While he goes off the deep end and becomes Two-Face after [[spoiler:Rachel is killed]], his vicious interrogation of Thomas Schiff, the fact that he was nicknamed "Two-Face" long before the events of the film, and the backstory given to him by the novelization hint that he was a lot closer to the edge than one would guess.
* AntiVillain: Of the WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds variety. Harvey was called Gotham's "White Knight" and genuinely wanted to do the right thing to help rid Gotham of crime. Then the Joker came along, [[spoiler:murdered the woman he loved and disfigured him]], causing him to undergo a psychotic break and become a nihilist focused on revenge.
* ArtisticLicenseAnatomy: To put it mildly, there is no way in ''hell'' that he should still be alive after what happened to his face. Even disregarding the extremely likely possibility of a systemic infection resulting from all of the exposed muscle and bone, he shouldn't be able to speak half as well as he does with half of his lips and pretty much all of his cheek gone, the teeth on that side of his mouth should've been blown out at best and shattered at worst, and with the lack of an eyelid, tear ducts, and a majority of his ocular muscles his left eye should be dangling out of its socket even if it miraculously didn't implode from the force of the explosion or melt from the resulting burns, to say nothing of how his skull remained perfectly intact after the explosion and he didn't suffer any lingering brain damage (barring his descent into villainy which can be more chalked up to rage and vengeance than neurological damage). [[RuleOfScary But he sure does look terrifying with all of that damage and scarring, doesn't he?]]
* AwfulTruth: [[spoiler:No one knows it was Harvey who murdered 4 people (at least 2 of whom died onscreen) and tried to kill a child... until [[TheUnmasquedWorld Bane spills the beans eight years later]] in ''Rises''.]]
* AxCrazy: Became one after his transformation as Two-Face, where he practically lost his mind and becomes an unhinged killer that has taken his killing spree way too far.
* BatmanGambit: Waving the WhiteFrag at a press conference in order to lure the Joker into a police trap.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Revenge turns even the nicest person into something they never thought they would ever become.
* BeyondRedemption: [[spoiler:A tragic example. Batman and Gordon try to reason with him, but Harvey is too far gone to be reasoned with]]
* BigShutUp: He delivers these to the DirtyCops that sold out him and [[spoiler:Rachel]].
** He delivers one directly to [[spoiler:Wuertz]] when he tries to evade Dent's interrogation.
** When [[spoiler:Ramirez]] tries to justify her actions, Dent shoots her down with a sharp "Don't!"
* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: Deconstructed. Harvey's rigid moral code tends to make him insufferable to work with because he can't handle shades of grey and ''everyone'' in Gotham is Grey, [[spoiler:including him in the end.]]
* BreakTheBadass: [[spoiler:When he learns that Rachel died.]]
* BrokenAce: To the public, Harvey Dent is the handsome, perfect, legally operating DA. But Harvey is actually disliked by the rest of the police force due to his unrealistically high standards and the level of corruption in Gotham. Even Gordon finds working with Harvey difficult. Batman and Rachel are the only people who like him as both a person and as a colleague. [[spoiler:And, you know, that whole "going insane and becoming Two-Face" thing. That puts a damper on the image a bit.]]
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler: His posthumous reputation as a hero to the people of Gotham is destroyed when Bane publicly reveals his crimes.]]
* CassandraTruth: Harvey warns Gordon that there are corrupt people in his department, name-dropping Wuertz and Ramirez specifically, but Gordon deflects the issue. [[spoiler:Not only was Harvey right about both of them being corrupt, they're the ones who delivered him and Rachel to the Joker on Maroni's orders, resulting in Harvey's disfigurement and Rachel's death. Unlike most examples, Harvey calls Gordon out for this later on, specifically telling him that he doesn't understand why he had to lose everything when he was right all along while Gordon, the man who never believed him, gets to keep his family]].
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: The name "Two-Face" is only mentioned once, as a derogatory nickname given to Harvey ''before'' his transformation (though for the sake of {{Symbolism}}, the nickname is revealed just before the audience sees his disfigured face).
* CompositeCharacter: He takes a few character traits from Jason Todd. He was a heroic person with a close relationship with Bruce until a bad experience with the Joker caused him to snap and become a murderous vigilante. Ironic since Harvey killed Jason's father in the comics.
* DarkSecret: Harvey embodies this trope [[PlayingWithATrope in a way]]; [[spoiler:if Gotham ever found out their [[AllLovingHero "White Knight"]] had murdered 4 people (2 onscreen) and tried to kill a child, it could let hundreds of criminals back on the street and destroy the city's spirit. Which is exactly what Bane has in mind.]]
* DarkMessiah: After the Joker's BreakThemByTalking he takes the law into his own hands. His new form of justice is brutal.
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:He doesn't die in the comics.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Rachel's death is what causes him to take justice into his own hands.]]
* DeathSeeker: There are some light implications he becomes this after [[spoiler:Rachel's death and his descent into madness.]]
-->'''Two-Face''': You think I want to ''escape'' from this? There ''is'' no escape from this!
** Not to mention how during the stand-off between him, Gordon, and Batman, Harvey has no problem [[spoiler:putting his gun to his own head after he's convinced to point his gun at the three people responsible for Rachel's death and it's strongly implied if the coin had come up the other way, he'd have shot himself without any hesitation.]]
* {{Deuteragonist}}: In ''Film/TheDarkKnight''. He gets just as much focus as Batman and has the more dynamic character arc, to the point WordOfGod referred to him as the film's ''real'' protagonist.
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:How he dies at the end of the second film.]]
* DragonTheirFeet: Subverted as he doesn't actually work for the Joker, but his is the final confrontation after the Joker has been captured. Also downplayed as the Joker would have won [[spoiler:had Batman not decided to take the fall for Dent's crimes, thus making Dent's defeat also ''the Joker's'' defeat]].
* EnemyEatsYourLunch: He guzzles down Wuertz's whiskey shot before shooting him.
* EvilFormerFriend: Towards Batman and Gordon.
* EvilVirtues: Honor. Despite his anger at those involved in Rachel's death, he will spare them if the coin tells them to. [[spoiler:Ramirez could vouch for that, and Maroni would have too...if Harvey didn't shoot the driver.]]
* EvilIsVisceral: His burned face.
* EyesAreUnbreakable: He doesn't even have a left eyelid anymore, and yet the eye remains there seemingly unfazed and unblinded.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:After Rachel dies, he [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge kills four people (at least two of whose deaths were confirmed onscreen)]] and [[MisplacedRetribution nearly kills Gordon's son]] all on the basis of coin flips.]]
* FacialHorror: After an explosion caused by ComicBook/TheJoker burns half his face off.
* FallenHero: After [[spoiler:he loses Rachel, half his face and is visited by the Joker in the hospital for [[MindRape a little therapeutic talk]]]].
* FashionableAsymmetry: A dark variant when he goes back for his half-burned suit.
* TheFatalist: [[spoiler:After Rachel kicks the bucket and Joker encourages his FaceHeelTurn]], the newly christened Two-Face firmly believes this. Sure, he does have a right to hate [[spoiler:the dirty cops who sent him and Rachel to their fates]], but in the end, in his eyes, ''fate'' is the operative word. Fate can be unpredictable and illogical, but Two-Face sees it as ultimately fair. After all, [[spoiler:he said himself that his and Rachel's lives hung on a 50/50 chance - so to him, it's only fair to give everyone else those odds. Even when Maroni offers him info on who picked up Rachel in exchange for his life, Two-Face only says "[[ExactWords Can't hurt your chances]]", and only manages to kill him by coin-judging the driver.]]
-->'''Two-Face''': The world is cruel, and the only morality in a cruel world is chance. Unbiased, unprejudiced, fair. His son's got the same chance she had. 50/50.
* {{Foil}}: To Batman/Bruce, Gordon, and The Joker.
** He is the white Knight to Batman's dark Knight. Bruce himself sees him as a superior successor. But the truth is, between both of them, the truly incorruptible one is Batman. They both lose what is most valuable to them, but Bruce manages to hold on into doing the right thing, and instead of becoming a murderer, he brings the Joker in alive. By contrast, Harvey goes completely insane and goes forth in a rampage.
* ForegoneConclusion: Harvey Dent's transformation into Two-Face is inevitable in every adaptation, but it's still a major revelation about two-thirds into the film and much of the film's runtime is spent building up to it.
* FourIsDeath: [[spoiler:Of the "five dead, two of them cops", he killed four of them, including the two cops. He was the fifth and final casualty of his rampage.]]
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Choleric (Shares this with Bane.)
* FreudianExcuse: The reason why he is so determined to root out corruption within the Police Department was because he was beaten as a child by his father; since his father was an ex-cop, the police never did anything about it.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: [[spoiler:The realization that all of his efforts to save Gotham have only led to more terror raining down on the city and the death of his fiancée, combined with seeing his horrifically scarred face reflecting his fractured worldview, all coalesce into a desire to [[HeWhoFightsMonsters take matters into his own hands]].]]
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Half of his face ends up like a very big scar and yet is still less than the scars that he suffers inside.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: At first, before his FaceHeelTurn.
* HeartbrokenBadass: [[spoiler:After Rachel's death]].
* HelloAttorney: Played by Creator/AaronEckhart, this was inevitable.
* HeroicBSOD: All the scenes in the hospital after he finds out what happened are just him on his bed, staring blankly at the ceiling.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: He {{Foreshadow|ing}}s this with the aforementioned quote above. In the end, his quest to end the mob's reign over Gotham City results in him losing everything and becoming exactly the kind of man he once tried to bring down.
* IdealHero: To the point both Batman and Gordon admit that Harvey was the hero Gotham needed. He's idealistic, noble, charismatic, and capable of taking down the mob by working within the law rather than resorting to vigilante work to do it. [[spoiler:It's deconstructed once he has a FaceHeelTurn; the two decide that the ideal he stood for was worth protecting and frame Batman for his crimes.]]
* IAmSpartacus: Did this to save Batman's skin in the middle of the film; was eventually released after they found out it was part of a gambit to bait and capture the Joker.
* IconicItem: The coin he flips to make major decisions. Both sides are heads, so he always knows the outcome -- up until the explosion that burns off half his face and damages one side. He then starts flipping it to decide which of victims to kill.
* IgnoredEpiphany: Batman explains to Harvey at the climax that the Joker picked on him because "he wanted to prove that even someone as good as you could fall." For a brief moment, Harvey has horror flash across his face, as he replies, "And he was right." Then he goes on anyway to try and kill his former three allies by coin toss. Although to be fair to him, he does judge Batman and himself first before going after Gordon's son, so that could be seen as the last goodness of Harvey trying to stop himself from killing the boy.
* InternalAffairs: He was formerly a member, which is the reason his reputation as shot amongst the GCPD. It's implied his efforts as an InternalReformist there helped propel him to being District Attorney.
* InternalReformist: He's working inside the Justice Department to help stop Gotham's corruption from within. He was also formerly a member of InternalAffairs, having attempted to serve as this in the GCPD which helped worsen his reputation amongst the mostly corrupt department.
* JadeColoredGlasses: [[spoiler:Courtesy of Rachel's death.]]
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: When he becomes a KnightTemplar his sense of morality gets screwy. [[spoiler:First he goes after Wuertz, who was an asshole, and kills him. Ok, brutal, but understandable. Then he goes after Maroni and Ramirez, who had a part on it, but they weren't that evil (Maroni rats out the Joker, and Ramirez only did it because her mother was in the hospital and threatened). Both of them get face (although Dent shoots Maroni's driver and knocks Ramirez out). Until there, his actions are more or less what you might expect of him after all he went through... But then he decides to target Gordon's family, who are innocent in the matter (Rachel was Harvey's number 2, and well, with her relation with Batman, she was inside the conflict one way or the other), and threatens to shoot his son, all because he wants to make Gordon suffer like he did (he claims that it is about fairness...but there is nothing fair in what he is doing). While the first three acts can be considered the actions of a WellIntentionedExtremist or a vigilante, the last one falls square into villainy.]]
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:Going after Gordon's family. While Wuertz and Ramirez were corrupt cops and Maroni was a mob boss, these people are completely innocent and had no involvement in what happened to him and Rachel.]]
* KnightInShiningArmor: Discussed, as he's referred to as "Gotham's white knight", but ultimately becomes a KnightTemplar after giving in to his desires for revenge along with a twisted nihilistic point of view.
* LanternJawOfJustice: That square heroic chin. Highlighted when Natascha holds a menu over his face while speculating how he could be Batman.
* LargeHam: He's hardly bombastic and loud by default, but he does have a noticeable tendency to have sudden fits of SuddenlyShouting when he gets riled up. It tends to come off as just a ''tad'' melodramatic.
-->''(Harvey is interrogating one of the Joker's thugs by threatening to shoot him if he doesn't talk)''
-->'''Joker's Thug:''' You wouldn't.
-->'''Harvey:''' (''suddenly screaming'') I WOULDN'T!!

-->''(Batman has just confessed that he's turning himself in so that no more people will get killed by the Joker to flush him out)''
-->'''Harvey:''' You can't. You can't give in. YOU ''CAN'T GIVE IN''!!

-->'''Harvey:''' Who picked up Rachel, Wuertz?
-->'''Wuertz:''' Must have been Maroni's men.
-->'''Harvey:''' (slams the table) SHUT UP!

-->'''Batman:''' You don't want to hurt the boy, Harvey.
-->'''Harvey:''' It's ''not'' about what I ''want'', '''IT'S ABOUT WHAT'S''' '''''FAIR!!!''''' YOU THOUGHT WE COULD BE ''DECENT MEN''! IN AN '''''INDECENT TIME!''''' ... But you were wrong.
* LawmanGoneBad: After the Joker is done with him. Mayor Garcia warns him about the fallout of this happening: the 549 mobsters he nailed would walk, and it is subtly hinted that afterwards, Dent would be fired and Mayor Garcia would resign in disgrace.
-->'''Mayor Garcia''': If they get anything on you, those criminals will be back on the streets, followed swiftly by you and me.
* LoopholeAbuse: This short exchange sums it up:
-->'''Two-Face''': (''flips "heads"'') ...You're a lucky man.
-->'''Maroni''': (''smiles'')
-->'''Two-Face''': (''flips again, landing on "tails"'') But he's not.
-->'''Maroni:''' Who?
-->'''Two-Face''': (''fastens seat-belt'') [[WhamLine Your driver.]] ''[shoots the driver [[BoomHeadshot in the back of his head]] through the headrest]''
* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler:Rachel's death is what causes him to become Two-Face.]]
* MadeOfIron: Along with heavy doses of determination and [[ThePowerOfHate hate]]. [[spoiler:As Two-Face, Harvey has insane levels of endurance and could shrug off any sort of pain from his current exposed facial injuries, even downing a shot glass full of alcohol, and later survives a car crash with worse for wear. What kills him, in the end, is Batman knocking him over a building.]]
* MisplacedRetribution: His entire deal throughout the film. After [[spoiler:flipping the coin and letting the Joker (who actually orchestrated his tragedy) live, he goes after everyone who was involved in the events, no matter how weakly or by how many degrees of separation. On the one hand, he declares that luck should decide who lives and who dies while he picks out who will be tried on the other, even to the point of threatening Gordon's son (so Gordon will understand what it's like to lose the person he loves most). He reasons that the Joker was "a mad dog" and he's going after the ones who let him off the leash and the people who failed in their job to stop him before the tragedy.]]
* MythologyGag:
** Was the subject of one in ''Film/BatmanBegins'' before he actually appeared, as Bruce pretends to go on a drunken rant about "two-faced friends".
** He's nearly shot by a Mob goon on the witness stand, but the gun misfires and he punches the guy out. This is [[NotHisSled a fakeout twist]] on his traditional supervillain origin, where he gets a jar of acid thrown in his face in the same setting. And the man who did it in the comics, Maroni, is in the same scene as the defendant.
* NiceGuy: As Harvey Dent, he's a charming and affable guy, as long as you don't have to work with him.
* NoHeroToHisValet: He berates Gordon, one of the only honest cops in Gotham, for working with the rest of the corrupt police force even though the only other alternative is Batman.
* TheParagon: Harvey is a genuinely good and idealistic man who seeks to cleanse Gotham through legitimate means. Unfortunately, he's such a good person that Joker decides that making him fall from grace would make for great fun.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: His entire M.O. post-SanitySlippage is killing people who have committed evil, such as when he [[spoiler:shoots Wuertz.]]
* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler:In ''Rises''.]]
* PostFinalBoss: He's this for ''The Dark Knight''. [[spoiler: As Two-Face, he doesn't have an army of goons like the Joker and doesn't have any weapon more powerful than a handgun. Nonetheless, the tension is kept in the film's last encounter because he's holding Gordon's family hostage and Batman has to break his one rule to stop him]].
* ThePowerOfHate: [[spoiler: Harvey's rampage is powered by this. He's not in pain at all despite half his face being burned off, and survives a car crash no worse for the wear. The man is determined to kill everyone who ever worked with the mob and contributed to Rachel's death.]]
* ThePowerOfLegacy: [[spoiler:Batman takes the blame for Harvey's crimes]] so Gotham can still have a hero who will inspire hope and faith.
-->'''Batman:''' Gotham needs its true hero.
* ProperlyParanoid: Throughout the entirety of ''The Dark Knight'', Dent doesn't trust Gordon's men at all, mostly because they are mostly made of {{Corrupt Cop}}s and he warns Gordon to get rid of them. [[spoiler:Wuertz and Ramirez turn out to have assisted The Joker in abducting Dent and Rachel.]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: After his [[spoiler:disfigurement and Rachel's death]], Dent delivers these to ''everyone'' he deems responsible.
** He gives Gordon ''two'' (one in the hospital, and one during the final confrontation) for refusing to listen to him about the corrupt cops in his unit.
** He calls Wuertz out on his refusal to rat out [[spoiler:Ramirez]] when he clearly had no qualms about turning over Dent to Maroni.
** When he confronts Maroni, he taunts him by mockingly threatening to harm his wife.
** He ''really'' lets [[spoiler:Ramirez]] have it for betraying [[spoiler:Rachel's]] trust in her to Maroni, and refuses to listen to her explanation.
** Finally, after spending two-thirds of the movie openly idolizing Batman for his drive to rid Gotham of the crimewave that had "created" him, he ultimately shoots Batman down (plus Gordon and even ''[[SelfDeprecation himself]]''), stating that no matter what they do, the world will always be cruel, coarse, and corrupt.
* RedRightHand: His mutilated, half-burned face.
* RevengeBeforeReason: After [[spoiler:Rachel's death]] he forgets all of his noble ambitions and focuses on revenge.
* RevengeByProxy: [[spoiler:And the guy who actually caused her death convinces him to go after the "others responsible" - first, the corrupt cops. Then, Gordon for supposedly letting her die. And even worse, it isn't Gordon himself he goes after, but Gordon's son, because Harvey wants him to know what it feels like to lose the one he most loved, even going as far as to tell Gordon to tell the kid it's going to be all right before the end]].
* RevolversAreForAmateurs: He's an attorney first, so his weapon of choice is a snubnosed revolver; incidentally, the same gun Bruce had before adopting his ThouShaltNotKill policy.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Four people and collateral damage.
* SanitySlippage: Following The Joker's BreakThemByTalking, he decides to take justice into his own hands.
* ShadowArchetype: Harvey represent what Bruce could turn into if he ever lost his grip on sanity.
* SlasherSmile: [[spoiler:Owing to his facial scarring, he ended up doing this when holding Gordon's son hostage.]]
* SplitPersonality: Averted; unlike other incarnations of the character, this Two-Face doesn't have one. Instead, he becomes more unhinged after Joker's had his fun with him. There is wrath inside of him that violently comes out, but not to the extent of developing as an alternate personality.
* SpreeKiller: [[spoiler:After becoming Two-Face, he tracks down every person involved with Rachel's deat one-by-one and uses his coin to determine their fates. Two of them got lucky… four others didn't.]]
* TooCoolToLive: Invoked and subverted. Harvey is more or less perfect... but, instead of killing him, [[spoiler:the Joker burns half his face off and kills his fiancee]].
* TragicHero: He is Gotham's White Knight who desires to get rid of all corruption and crime of Gotham. However, he has a FatalFlaw in the form of his love for Rachel, which is shown when he would rather die than Rachel, despite all the innocent people who are relying on him to clean up Gotham's streets. He also has another in his black and white morality. After [[spoiler: her death at the hands of The Joker]] he turns into a [[spoiler: cop-killing murderer obsessed with avenging Rachel's death, using a coin flip to determine who lives or dies]] regardless of morality or other factors which would have affected his decisions before.
* TragicVillain: His fall from grace is the end result of one tragedy after another until his mind broke.
* TwoFaced: He had the nickname Harvey "Two-Face" at Gordon's department, even though most people consider him Gotham's "White Knight." There are signs he's more unstable underneath, like when he threatens to murder a suspect in cold-blood, it's only after he literally gets half his face burned off that he becomes completely psychotic and villainous.
* VigilanteMan: Runs around killing people connected to [[spoiler:Rachel's death]].
* VillainByProxyFallacy: [[spoiler:During his rampage post-FaceHeelTurn, he goes around antagonizing the people he felt were culpable in Rachel's death. Including Commissioner Gordon, who was just about to save her had it not been for the building ''literally blowing up in his face''. Jesus Christ, Harvey. Can't you be a ''little'' more forgiving?]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Even after his FaceHeelTurn he's all about fairness but there's no arguing that 'live or die' based on a coin toss is extreme.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Even before the Joker got his hands on him, he had a hard life as he was being abused by his dad and the police secretly treated him like dirt when he finally got his job as DA. THEN the film starts.
* WouldHitAGirl: Knocks out [[spoiler:Anna Ramirez]] with a pistol smack to the face when she [[spoiler:gets a "good" coin toss]].
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:It was pretty obvious that he was thinking of doing this to Gordon's son at the end of ''The Dark Knight'' if the coin toss came up bad.]]
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[[folder:Carl Finch]]
!!''Carl Finch''
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/LarryHolden
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Film/BatmanBegins''

Harvey Dent's predecessor as Gotham City's District Attorney and Rachel's boss. Though honest, he's aware that the corruption of the city prevents him from successfully going against mob bosses like Falcone.
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* DoggedNiceGuy: Implied to have been in a relationship with Rachel, and that she's the one who broke it off.
* InTheBack: [[spoiler:He's downed by two shots to the back.]]
* LeaveNoWitnesses: [[spoiler:He's shot dead by a member of the League of Shadows infiltrated in the police after finding the missing Wayne Enterprises Microwave Emitter.]]
* KnightInSourArmor: Despite knowing that Falcone is untouchable, he still tries to enforce law and order.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: It's hard to be an honest DA in Gotham but he tries his best nonetheless.
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[[folder:Judge Faden]]
!!''Judge Faden''
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/GerardMurphy
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Film/BatmanBegins''

A corrupt Gotham City judge, on Carmine Falcone's payroll.
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* CorruptBureaucrat: A city judge paid for by a mob boss.
* DirtyOldMan: Has a fondness for what appears to be prostitutes.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He seemed somewhat unnerved by Falcone's taunting of Bruce, but never does anything about it.
* FatBastard: He has grown big on Falcone's dirty money.
* KarmaHoudini: He is never seen facing justice for his abuses of power, though it's hinted that he got deposed after Rachel turned in leverage to the D.A.'s office.
* LargeAndInCharge: A fat judge.
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[[folder:Janet Surillo]]
!!''Judge Janet Surillo''
!!!'''Played by:''' Nydia Rodriguez Terracina
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''ARG/WhySoSerious'' | ''Film/TheDarkKnight''

A Gotham City judge who is one of the few people who dare stand up against the mob.
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* DeathByLookingUp: She is given an envelope with instructions for where she should drive to, after the Joker was indicating who he was targeting next. She gets to her car and opens her envelope, which only says, "''Up''." This causes her to look directly up, then her [[ExternalCombustion car promptly explodes]].
* TheLongList: She reads the list of charges when the criminals are mass-rounded up
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The mob can groan all they want; she's going to be a fair judge.
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!Gotham City Politicians

[[folder:Anthony Garcia]]
!!''Mayor Anthony Garcia''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nolanverse_garcia.png]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"Go home, Gordon. The clown'll keep till morning."'']]
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/NestorCarbonell
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''ARG/WhySoSerious'' | ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' | ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''

Gotham City's young and cynical mayor. He's targeted for assassination by ComicBook/TheJoker in ''The Dark Knight'', though he survives. However, he is successfully assassinated by Bane in ''The Dark Knight Rises''.
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* CorruptPolitician: Averted. Despite the high levels of corruption in Gotham, the Mayor seems pretty clean if justifiably cynical.
* TheCynic: In a town like Gotham, can you blame him?
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: In ''The Dark Knight Rises'', the mayor is unceremoniously assassinated when the games begin after one of Bane's detonators sets off a bomb in his viewing box.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: In ''The Dark Knight'', he approves of Gordon's decisions after the Joker blows up the hospital.
* SharpDressedMan: Being Nestor Carbonell, you'd probably be more surprised if he wasn't.
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: In the third film, he perishes in an explosion set by Bane.
* TemptingFate: Does this a few times. For example, in ''The Dark Knight Rises'', he plans to fire Gordon, given the decorated hero cop who made his name fighting crazed terrorists isn't really necessary in the now-peaceful climate. [[TooDumbToLive He then swaggers into Heinz Field]] to watch the Gotham Rogues play off against the Rapid City Monuments, blowing off reporters asking him about the thousands of cops heading down into the sewers as part of a "[[BlatantLies training exercise]]". As soon as kickoff occurs, Bane and his men set off their detonators, triggering the single most devastating terrorist attack in U.S. history, and one of these charges sets off a blast in the mayor's viewing box that blows him and his aides to pieces.
* UltimateAuthorityMayor: He must be if he can do something like the Harvey Dent act. Where's the city council?
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[[folder:Byron Gilly]]
!!''Congressman Byron Gilly''
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/BrettCullen
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''

A Congressman who tries to pick up Selina Kyle, and gets picked up by her instead.
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* AllThereInTheManual: In the film, he's mostly referred to as 'the Congressman' which is also what he's known as in the credits. In the novelisation, his full name is given as 'Byron Gilly'.
* DirtyOldMan: He's over his fifties and trying to get into the pants of Selina Kyle, who is young enough to be his daughter.
* SleazyPolitician: Cheating on his wife for one.
%%* {{Slimeball}}:
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