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Independent Criminals
Poison Ivy (Pamela Isley)
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Mister Freeze (Victor Fries)
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Scarecrow (Dr. Jonathan Crane)
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Clayface (Matt Hagen)
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Clayface is a shape-changing supervillain with a monstrous, mud-like appearance.
- The Assimilator: His multiple personalities are due to people he's absorbed over the years. Including Basil Karlo, Ethan Bannet and Sondra Fuller.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Hagen hoped to cure his illness thanks to the Lazarus Pit... but it turned him into a mud monster instead.
- Composite Character:
- Kind of literally. Many of the identities he has taken are people who have become Clayface in the comics. As
Roy puts it: "There were too many Clayfaces". - Matt Hagen being part of League of Assassins, dating Talia and being submerged in a Lazarus Pit as a punishment are nods to Young Justice tie-in comics to the animated series.
- Kind of literally. Many of the identities he has taken are people who have become Clayface in the comics. As
- The Corruption: Hagen's abilities have more recently become this, with him slipping more and more into a dangerous, reactive state if he doesn't apply intense concentration while maintaining form.
- Elemental Shapeshifter: Clayface is a walking mountain of mud, and can use his powers for shapeshifting or brute strength.
- Identity Amnesia: Transforming into so many people has made him difficult to remember who he was.
- Kavorka Man: He slept with both al-Ghul sisters Talia and Nyssa during his time with the League of Assassins.
- Shapeshifter Weapon: Can morph his hands into maces, hammers, or other weapons.
- Sizeshifter: As a shapeshifter, he can change his size to impersonate smaller people.
- Technically Naked Shapeshifter: Can form clothing out of his own substance as part of his disguises.
- Voluntary Shape Shifting: His primary schtick. He can mimic the appearance of anyone.
- Was Once a Man: Being trapped in a Lazarus Pit for months did cure Hagen's illness, as he wanted it to, but it also mutated him into an inhuman monster.
- Woman Scorned: Becomes a victim of this from Talia after he uses her to access the Lazarus Pit.
Solomon Grundy (Cyrus Gold)
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Solomon Grundy is a reanimated corpse stemming from a cursed place near Gotham City called Slaughter Swamp.
- The Brute: In supervillain team-ups he usually plays this role.
- Dumb Muscle: He's not very bright, but very strong.
- Energy Absorption: Grundy has also proven to be able to absorb certain forms of energy and manipulate them at will.
- Feuding Families: His murder over a century ago began a feud between the Gold and Steeplechase families that continues to this day.
- Healing Factor: Regenerates any injury eventually.
- Hulk Speak: Grundy can't handle complex sentences.
- Immune to Bullets: Grundy's power levels range from being unaffected by bullets, to shrugging off the damage they leave and healing almost instantly from it.
- Implacable Man: Nothing stops Grundy, and anything that does only lasts until the next Monday.
- Our Zombies Are Different: Falls under "Type V" (Voodoo). He was created by uncontrolled supernatural forces.
- Nigh-Invulnerability: When confronting Green Lantern or Superman this can usually be counted among his powers, but it's not one his form has every time it leaves the swamp, as he'd more often "only" be Immune to Bullets.
- Really 700 Years Old: Died and was resurrected over a hundred years prior.
- Related in the Adaptation: He's the ancestor of Gilda Gold and her daughter Duela Dent.
- Resurrective Immortality: Assuming that you can get past the Nigh-Invulnerability and the Healing Factor and actually put Grundy down, you still haven't won, because he won't stay dead. By the next Monday he'll have crawled out of Slaughter Swamp again and resumed his rampage.
- Strong as They Need to Be: Justified, since it's part of his Resurrective Immortality powers. Whenever he gets killed off and revived, he can come back as either being a serious physical match for Superman or Green Lantern, or in other cases, a strong but still beatable foe that Batman or Green Arrow can bring down.
- Super-Strength: Solomon Grundy possesses tremendous strength and stamina, the level of which varies with his different incarnations. Sometimes, he can be held by a group of normal humans.
- Swamp Monster: He began life as a deceased criminal, Cyrus Gold, whose body was dumped into Slaughter Swamp, where mutagenic chemicals and mystical energy revived him as a gigantic zombie partly composed of plant matter.
- The Undead: He's a zombie.
- Undeathly Pallor: Grundy has gray skin, white hair and his sclerae is black, all to serve as a reminder he's a zombie.
Hush (Thomas Elliot)
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Thomas Elliot is a renowned surgeon and childhood friend of Bruce Wayne. A meticulous planner, Elliot resents the fact that Bruce's father thwarted his plot to murder his parents. Aware of Bruce Wayne's secret identity, and assuming the identity of criminal mastermind Hush, he sets out to destroy Batman.
- Asshole Victim: Given all the he's pulled in the fic and canon, you'll be forgiven for cheering when Jane Doe cut up his face.
- Badass Longcoat: He wears a black trench coat and is a very credible threat.
- Bandaged Face: Covers his face in bandages.
- The Dreaded: Even Batman himself is afraid of Hush.
- Evil Redhead: Dark auburn hair and he's a deranged doctor with a personal grudge towards Batman.
- Inferiority Superiority Complex: Recognized as having a serious case of this towards Bruce Wayne.
- Mad Doctor: A skilled surgeon, Hush commonly uses his surgical skills for nefarious purposes, whether torturing others or using surgery to impersonate other people. He also commonly uses medical scalpels as weapons.
- Uncertain Doom: His fate after being 'relieved' of his duty by Jane Doe is unknown, but it mustn't have been pretty.
- We Used to Be Friends: From one of Bruce's closest friends to one of his most bitter foes.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Talia al-Ghul has Bane kill him and Jane Doe to impersonate Bruce since he was no longer useful.
Man-Bat (Dr. Kirk Langstrom)
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Afflicted with a disease that threatened to leave him deaf, Dr. Kirk Langstrom devised an experimental cure that merged the DNA of humans and bats. After testing it on himself, however, the cure backfired and transformed him into a giant bat-like creature.
- Adaptation Origin Connection: His work to splice animal DNA served as basis for the mutagen that created the Mighty Mutanimals.
- Bat Out of Hell: He's a Were-Bat.
- Bat People: Following his transformation, he becomes a humanoid bat-monster, capable of flight and all.
- Bio-Augmentation: Unfortunately, With Great Power Comes Great Insanity.
- Flight: One of the few advantages he has over his heroic counterpart.
- Heel–Face Revolving Door: Dr. Langstrom has gotten control of his mutated form several times, becoming an ally of Batman, but always ends up losing control.
- Heroic Neutral: Even when in control of himself, Langstrom is consistently more interested in protecting his family than other people.
- Magic Pants: Whenever Dr. Langstrom transforms it rips his shirt to give room for his wings, but his pants are always fine.
- Superpowered Evil Side: Langstrom is fairly harmless, but the Man-Bat is violent, animalistic, and destructive.
- Tragic Monster: He was just trying to improve his hearing, but ended becoming a monster instead.
Anarky (Lonnie Machin)
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Lonnie Machin is a genius criminal who attempts to subvert the government and establish anarchism, believing it will improve society.
- Ambiguous Situation: It has been heavily hinted that Anarky is the Joker's son.
- Black-and-White Insanity: He has a really quick way to judge who are evil, for example he believes Bruce Wayne owns the city and his parents got killed by karma.
- Democracy Is Bad: Anarky's made several statements denouncing democracy on the basis that it is compromised and corrupt.
- Evil Mentor: Served as this for Zhora Mercer in 2027.
- Look What I Can Do Now!: As a child vigilante, Anarky was no physical threat to anybody, so his early activity involved no fighting.
- Malevolent Masked Man: A creepy white mask to help hide his identity.
- Motor Mouth: He just seems naturally prone to making speeches lamenting the evils of consumerism.
- Teens Are Monsters: As Batman learns after apprehending him, he's just a teenager, despite all of his rhetoric involving anarchy and bombing tactics.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: He really believes tearing down the government and establishing anarchy would be a good thing. He's also gained a reputation as the protector of Gotham's homeless population.
Mr. Zsasz (Victor Zsasz)
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Victor Zsasz is a serial killer with no regard for human life. He carves a mark into his skin for every life he takes, slowly covering his entire body in scars. He's the half-brother of the late Vic Sage.
- Ax-Crazy: A nihilistic Serial Killer with a love for carving tally marks on his body.
- Bald of Evil: Completely bald and completely dangerous and insane.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: Soooooo many evil scars - one for every victim.
- Human Notepad: Zsasz keeps a tally of his kills by carving tally marks into his skin.
- Psycho Knife Nut: His signature weapon is a carving knife and is a dangerous sociopath.
- Related in the Adaptation:
- Here he's the half-brother of Vic Sage.
- He's also a cousin of Cousin Itt of the Addams Family.
- Secret Public Identity: Despite the gimmick, Zsasz chooses to go by his real name.
- Serial Killer: All the carvings indicate he has killed at least 275 people. Gotham police has only been able to pin him 43.
- The Sociopath: He has no regard for human life, seeing those around him as mindless robots.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: Doesn't wear a shirt to display all the tally marks on his body.
Killer Moth (Drury Walker)
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Drury Walker, the Killer Moth is the son of Desire of the Endless and brother of Rose Walker a.k.a Em Parker a.k.a Fangirl who has a central theme of moths and criminal terrorist.
- Action Dad: He has a daughter named Catherine "Kitten" Walker. He's also the father of Jack Walker with his second wife Anna, and of Melanie Walker with his third wife Donna.
- Adaptation Origin Connection: He was accidentally inspired by Mothman to become Killer Moth.
- Adaptation Species Change: In the comics he's a normal human, but in Earth 27 he's a child of one of The Endless.
- And I Must Scream: In Weird Worlds 24, he ends up trapped in Hell by the demon he made a deal with and his former wife, locked inside his soul collection with the being he fears the most, The Corinthian.
- Animal Motifs: A decidedly less sinister take on the Macabre Moth Motif.
- Ascended Extra: In the comics Killer Moth was an infrequent bad guy that wasn't taken very seriously, but here he's part of a major storyline that explores his human side along with his sister Rose.
- Badass Normal: Even without his suit, he's very capable of fighting thanks to his military training.
- Brother–Sister Team: With Rose Walker in their quest to prevent her death at the hands of Dream.
- Cartwright Curse: He has lost all three of his wives; his first wife Candace "Candy" Walker was killed by the Joker during the Cataclysm, his second wife Anna Walker killed herself from a drug overdose, and his third wife Donna Walker died from the McGregor's syndrome.
- Composite Character: Looks like his most recent iteration with some elements from his Teen Titans incarnation. He's also combined with Jed Paulsen, Rose's brother in the comics. Being the father of Jack and Melanie also makes him a composite of King of Hearts of the Royal Flush Gang, which is the nickname his brother Janosz gave to him.
- Cosmic Plaything: The universe is never particularly kind to him, either in love or in his dealings with supernatural beings.
- Deal with the Devil: Made a deal with the demon Charaxes in exchange for his soul at the time of his death. Unfortunately, his soul no longer belonged to him.
- Demonic Possession: Not only he gets possessed by Charaxes, he also gets possessed by The Corinthian.
- Half-Human Hybrid: He's half human, half Endless.
- It Runs in the Family: Like his mother, sister, and half-brother, Drury suffers from mental illness.
- Love Martyr: Like a moth to a flame, Drury is a sucker for love, especially relationships that he should know won't work out for him. He claims to be cursed in this regard.
- Parents as People: While he tried to be a good father for his children, the mess of his personal life made it very difficult to be there for them.
- Related in the Adaptation: Here he's the son of Desire of the Endless and Unity Kinkaid, and the twin brother of Rose Walker. His stepfather happens to be Professor Pyg, making Janosz Valentin/Son of Pyg, his younger half-brother. He's also the father of Jack and Melanie Walker, the Jack and Ten of the Royal Flush Gang from Batman Beyond.
- Secondary Color Nemesis: His Killer Moth outfit is purple and green.
- Sharing a Body: The ending of Hell Hath No Fury has Charaxes, The Corinthian and Byron Lewis trapped inside his mind.
- Tattooed Crook: Has the names of his three wives tattooed on his right shoulder.
- They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: Beneath the suit he's actually rather normal looking.
- Too Much Information: He doesn't want to hear what his sister Rose and her girlfriend Angie did the previous night.
- The Unfavorite: He was neglected by his mother and step-father in favor of his siblings, and while he had great relationships with both of them, he always lacked parental support.
- Weapon Specialization: His signature weapon is the Cocoon Gun, which originally fired a foul fog that would adhere to organic substances and solidify. This proved more lethal than intended when a stiff breeze blew residual cocoon spray onto a young boy, suffocating him. Drury reworked the formula and now uses a non-lethal gas similar to Fear Gas to frighten his prey.
Nocturna (Natalia Mitternacht)
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The alabaster seductress of the evening who calls herself Nocturna, is really Natalia Mitternacht. She suffers from a rare "light sensitivity" disease.
- Black Widow: Has been acquitted of the murders of multiple husbands, although the media, families, and she herself all know she’s a black widow. She's not particularly subtle—she goes from sex, to marriage, to murder with one victim over the course of less than five issues.
- Charm Person: She casually uses her power to get a free newspaper. Her persuasive voice is explicitly confirmed by both herself and Jason to be unable to do anything against someone’s nature.
- Composite Character: She's composed with both Nocturnas, Natalia Knight from Pre-Crisis and Natalia Mitternacht from New 52. The former has her connection to Jason Todd, being an astronomer and the latter has her name and is a vampire.
- Femme Fatalons: Has very long, very sharp fingernails.
- A Glass of Chianti: Drinks red wine.
- Lesbian Vampire: Bisexual vampire, technically.
- Meaningful Name: “Mitternacht” is German for “Midnight”.
- Nigh-Invulnerability: She's invulnerable to most forms of injury (certain exceptions apply). Bullets, blades and blunt objects do little to no damage to a vampire's body.
- Our Vampires Are Different: With a bite, Nocturna is capable of completely changing someone's behavior, both with their own recollection and by controlling them to be increasingly violent and subsequently forget what they did in that state, as if possessed.
- The Sociopath: Selfish, manipulative, and sees other people as toys.
- Spy Catsuit: Wears a black catsuit that highlights her figure.
- Statuesque Stunner: She's 5'10"/178cm tall and very much beautiful.
Gotham's Mobsters
Carmine Falcone
Carmine “The Roman” Falcone was the head of organized crime in Gotham City during the early years of Bruce Wayne’s return to Gotham.
- Crazy-Prepared: Being the top criminal in the city has led him to make his penthouse office a veritable fortress, complete with bulletproof lockdown shutters on the windows, an arsenal of guns, and a button-activated turret that descends from the ceiling.
- Deadpan Snarker: Falcone has a dry, sardonic sense of humor.
- The Don: Of the Falcone crime family.
- In-Series Nickname: The Roman.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: He's the biological father of Selina Kyle/Catwoman.
- Smug Snake: Believes himself to be the untouchable master of Gotham so the shock when Batman pulls the rug out from under him is extreme.
- Villain in a White Suit: Has a nice-looking white tuxedo and he once was the most influential mobster in Gotham.
Sal Maroni
Salvatore "Sal" Maroni is the mobster who's known for scarring Harvey Dent which transformed him into Two-Face. Once a rival of Carmine Falcone, now Sal is content to work as his right-hand man and adviser. Their hatred for one another is nothing compared to their hatred for the Masterminds particularly Black Mask, Penguin, Joker, and Two-Face.
- The Don: Of the Maroni crime family.
- Enemy Mine: He and Falcone might loathe each other, but they hate the Masterminds far more, so they have entered an alliance to try and oppose them.
- Evil Versus Evil: He and Falcone oppose the Masterminds, who include Penguin, Black Mask, Great White Shark and the Joker.
- Faux Affably Evil: If you stay on his good side, he'll play nice and friendly.
- The Rival: He and Falcone were in constant competition with each other for control over Gotham's underworld until Batman arrived.
- Self-Made Man: Claims to have begun with nothing, but through hard work, determination, and knowing when to keep his head down, he became a powerful force in Gotham's crime syndicates.
Scarface and Ventriloquist (Arnold Wesker)
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One of the most bizarre criminals in Gotham City, the Ventriloquist (real name Arnold Wesker) is a crime lord who directs all orders (and executions) through a wooden dummy named Scarface.
- Abusive Parents: His father always berated him for being so meek.
- Beware the Silly Ones: A gangster speaking through a puppet might look pretty stupid, but that's a real gun that Scarface is holding on to.
- Companion Cube: Scarface is this to Arnold, being a supposedly non-sentient ventriloquist dummy.
- Demonic Dummy: But not so much Gollum Made Me Do It.
- Evil Old Folks: Only when Scarface is in control.
- Evil Puppeteer: Until it was taken by Peyton Riley, he always had the murderous dummy named Scarface. Part of the fear factor in the Ventriloquist's character is that nobody knows for sure who's really controlling who - some speculate that the Ventriloquist's meek behavior is just a façade for his bloodlust, while some think that Scarface is actually alive, and forcing the Ventriloquist to commit crimes.
- Freudian Excuse: Arnold's mental breakdown can be attributed to his father abusing him and forcing him to witness the ins and outs of Mafia life.
- Hates Their Parent: Arnold refuses to mourn his parents, since he believe that doing so will bring his dad back to beat him again.
- Insane Equals Violent: Deconstructed, unlike a majority of the rogues gallery, Wesker is pretty harmless by himself and is forced to do evil out of fear that Scarface would hurt him too if he doesn't comply.
- Reluctant Psycho: Wesker doesn't enjoy committing crimes or his insanity, but Scarface keeps pulling him back for more.
- Shrinking Violet: Poor old Wesker.
Scarface and Sugar (Peyton Riley)
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Scarface is taken up by Peyton Riley, the daughter of an Irish gangster, who had worked with Scarface before and grown to like both him and Wesker. Like Wesker, she believes Scarface to be talking to her, although unlike Wesker, she acknowledges this could be a hallucination.
- Composite Character: Her being a former member of the Secret Six make her a composite with Shauna Belzer, the New 52 Ventriloquist who was a member of the Secret Six for a time, before betraying the group.
- Demonic Dummy: But not so much Gollum Made Me Do It.
- Evil Puppeteer: She always carries with her a murderous dummy named Scarface that she took from Arnold Wesker.
- Eye Scream: She was shot and scarred on the right eye, blinding it.
- Hiding Behind Your Bangs: Her hair covers her right eye and scarred face.
- Legacy Character: She's the second Ventriloquist.
- Nightmare Fetishist: She is noted by her ex Elliot to have a "creepy doll fetish".
- One-Steve Limit: Peyton shares moniker with Sugar from the Second Street Gang.
- Perverse Sexual Lust: Unlike Wesker, she is in love with Scarface.
- Silly Reason for War: The conflict over possession of Scarface between Riley and Wesker means a gang war over a doll.
- Woman Scorned: Her driving force is to get revenge on her ex-husband, who wiped out the Riley family.
Bone (Louis Ferryman)
Mob boss who looks to be made out of bones.
- Albinos Are Freaks: He's deathly pale, has red eyes and is not very reassuring to look at.
- Bald of Evil: Bald like a bare bone, and a ruthless member of Gotham's organized crime.
- Villain in a White Suit: His white stripped suit goes well with his bone-like skin texture.
Maxie Zeus (Maximilian Stavropoulos)
Maxie Zeus is a Gotham City crimelord who fights Batman on a regular basis. Formerly a history professor, he is mentally ill and built his persona around an obsession with Greek mythology.
- Adaptation Name Change: In the comics his last name was really 'Zeus', but here his original family name was Stavropoulos before he became Maxie Zeus.
- Badass in a Nice Suit: Wears a nice golden suit and a tie with a lightning design, and he's far more dangerous and capable than his appearance would suggest.
- Beard of Evil: Has a full beard and he's one unstable wacko who believes himself a deity.
- The Chessmaster: With his intelligence, he was able to build his gang among the chaos caused by Gotham's super-villains.
- Composite Character: Maxie Zeus is combined with the Electrocutioner.
- Electric Torture: He loves torturing his victims this way. The shock to his system is what awakened his deranged split personality.
- A God Am I: In this case, he believes himself to be a specific god, the Greek god Zeus.
- In-Series Nickname: Electrocutioner.
- Mugging the Monster: Black Mask thought it would be easy to capture, torture and kill him, only for Maxie's Split Personality to take over, turn the tables on Sionis, leaving strapped naked to a chair in the basement of a partially flooded parking garage with jumper cables clipped to industrial staples in Roman's thighs. The only reason Sionis survived was due to Gotham's power grid going down.
- Napoleon Delusion: Believes himself to be the god Zeus.
- Psycho Electro: He has become addicted to the asylum's electroshock treatment, which makes him even more insane.
- Split-Personality Takeover: His father Jason Stavropoulos sent him away from Gotham to protect those around him from the dangerous split personality he developed. The Maxie Zeus personality took over when he was shocked by Black Mask during the Cataclysm.
Eiko Hasigawa
- Dragon Lady: Japanese, but has all the making.
- Just Like Robin Hood: What she believes Catwoman stands for.
- Mafia Princess: She's the daughter of a Yakuza family in Gotham.
- Related in the Adaptation: She's the cousin of the were-jaguar Ben Daimio of the B.P.R.D., and her great-aunt is the witch and former Axis Agent Yumiko Daimio, better known as the Crimson Lotus.
Carlton Duquesne
- Bald of Authority: Carlton is an African American Mob leader and is bald.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Carlton cares deeply about his daughter Kathy.
- Mouth of Sauron: He serves as representative of his sister in-law at the Chinese Triad of Gotham.
- Related in the Adaptation: Chien Na Wiei, better known as China White, is his sister in-law.
- Scary Black Man: He's a gang leader and an intimidating black man.
Snowflame (Ignatius Nevada)
A metahuman with a secret past as a former Checkmate operative who gains powers from the use of various intoxicants and narcotics (his favorite being cocaine).
- Addiction-Powered: He's the trope image for a reason after all.
- Light 'em Up: His primary powers.
- Man of Wealth and Taste: A fancy red suit and he's a drug dealer who gets high on his own supply.
- Meaningful Name: His name Ignatius means "Set on fire" in latin, and Nevada means "snowed" in spanish.
- Mythology Gag: The pin on his suit has the same symbol that is on his supervillain outfit in the comics.
- Named by the Adaptation: He's given the name of Ignatius Nevada.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Snowflame has strong resemblance of Al Pacino's appearance as Tony Montana from Scarface. His name Ingnatius Nevada is a homage to Montana.
- Required Secondary Power: It's not directly stated, but it is implied he has a natural immunity to negative side-effects of drug usage, like bone degeneration.
- White Hair, Black Heart: Has white hair and is a nasty drug dealer.
Tobacconists' Club
Rupert Thorne
Rupert Thorne stands as Gotham City's long standing top crime boss. With various "business ventures" being undone by the Batman, he has a steady interest in seeing the Bat take a dirt nap.
- Can't Catch Up: Poor bastard wants to run a criminal organization against the likes of The Penguin or the Joker.
- Cigar Chomper: As seen on the picture.
- Fat Bastard: He is an overweight Corrupt Corporate Executive.
- Faux Affably Evil: He likes to make himself appear pleasant, but he has never been shown to harbor good intentions.
- It's Probably Nothing: He dismisses Phosphorus worries that there's something strange in his office, not realizing Batwoman and The Question are hiding in his closet.
- Mood-Swinger: For all his suave attitude, he loses his temper very easily.
- Related in the Adaptation: Besides Malcolm Thorne, he's also the older brother of Carl Thorne, who in the comics was the ex-husband of Black Orchid.
Phosphorus (Alexander Sartorius)
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Phosphorus is a transparent angry wall of fire. Dr. Alex Sartorius got his powers when a nuclear core went unstable and his body was bathed in hot radioactive phosphorous. Now his body combusts when he is in contact with air.
- Adaptation Name Change: Rather than Doctor, he simply goes by Phosphorus instead.
- Badass in a Nice Suit: His red suit, which doesn't catch fire.
- Cassandra Truth: He was concerned something was amiss in Rupert Thorne's office, but his boss dismissed it as paranoia, when in fact Batwoman and The Question were hiding nearby.
- Composite Character: Phosphorus Rex and Dr. Phosphorus are combined, with the former allegiance to the Circus of Strange of Rex and the name and appearance of Dr. Phosphorus.
- Dem Bones: Looks like a skeleton held together by ectoplasmic energy.
- The Dragon: He has become the right hand man of Rupert Thorne.
- Flaming Skulls: More than just a skull, his entire skeleton is on fire.
- Identical Stranger: Because their powers look similar, he can be confused with Blight from 2027.
- The Needless: While he claims he needs to eat and sleep, Arkham doctors believe he actually doesn't.
- Playing with Fire: Phosphorus' body bursts into flame on contact with air.
- Poisonous Person: As his body is composed of phosphorous, coming into skin-to-skin contact with Phosphorous will not only burn you, but poison you as well.
- Secondary Color Nemesis: Wears a purple tie and his body glows ectoplasmic green.
- Token Super: He's the only known superpowered individual working at the Tobacconists' Club.
Johnny Valentine
- Ambition Is Evil: Johnny wants to prove himself to be something. It is likely he will never reach a station in life that he can feel accomplished having attained.
- Beard of Evil: A beard and goatee and he's a man with many criminal connections.
- The Casanova: Johnny is often seen with two or three attractive women at a time whenever he makes public appearances. Of course, he's also known to use escort services.
- The Charmer: Johnny is known to be smooth-talker and people-person.
- Cunning Linguist: He's fluent in English, Markovian, Italian and Vlatavan.
- Fingore: He lost a portion of two fingers of his right hand when his mother attacked him as a child.
- Formerly Fat: In his youth he gained a lot of weight, which led to him being bullied, but now he's pretty fit.
- It Runs in the Family: His father and mother both have mental issues and his siblings also have their own issues, which is why it's not surprising Johnny also has the potential for insanity.
- Man of Wealth and Taste: Unlike his father who dresses like a butcher, Johnny prefers to dress in more elegant clothes to show he's not like his father.
- Old Money: Johnny is wealthy, but he's not quite Gotham levels of wealthy. Still, Johnny comes from a family with ties to Gotham's old money and that goes along way to fit into Gotham's elite high society. Being the grandson of Modesty Sixsmith opens a lot of doors for Johnny and also namedropping his famed architect grandfather also doesn't hurt either... just as long people don't connect the dots and realize he's also the son of the deranged Professor Pyg.
- Past Experience Nightmare: Johnny's sister claims that a young Johnny would sometimes wake up from a nightmare at night and mistake his sister from his mother in the darkness, causing him to flee and become violent if anyone prevented him from fleeing until he collapsed from exhaustion.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: Dresses in a black suit and a red shirt, and while certainly not a lunatic like his father, he's still a man with many shady connections.
- Related in the Adaptation: He's the son of Unity Kincaid, half-brother of Rose and Drury Walker and uncle of Kitten, Jack and Melanie Walker. He's also distantly related to Oswald Cobblepot through his mother.
- Strong Family Resemblance: He inherited most of his father's looks but has his mother's grey eyes.
- The Unfavorite: He always felt neglected by his parents due to their own mental issues. Even if he got along with his half-siblings, he couldn't help but feel ignored.
Sidney Debris/Kenneth McCoy
A low-level criminal and errand boy working at Gotham's Tobacconists Club. He's also the former partner in crime of Barbie back at London.
- Adaptational Attractiveness: He's better looking when compared to how average he appeared on the series.
- Age Lift: He's only 22 years old, making him much younger than in the animated series.
- Author Avatar: Based on the E-27 admin and community member TheBlakeBuz.
- Best Friend: His best friend and the one who introduced him to Rupert Thorne, Eduardo "Eddie G." Guzman.
- Blind Without 'Em: Has poor eyesight so he uses corrective glasses.
- Composite Character: Barbie's ex-husband Ken is combined with DCAU criminal Sidney "Sid the Squid" Debris.
- Drugs Are Bad: He's addicted to painkillers.
- Fun T-Shirt: He has a strange fashion sense, so of course he wears this.
- The Informant: He apparently serves as this for Batman and the Tobacconists' Club, keeping an eye on Rupert Thorne and giving him info against the Penguin and Carlton Duquesne.
- In-Series Nickname: B, Florida Man, Ken, Shugs, Sid, Sid B, Sidious, Siddy.
- I Have Many Names: He's got many aliases; Kenneth Berger, Kenneth Doran, Kenneth Giordano, Kenneth Klein, Kenneth McKean, Kenneth McCoy, Kenneth McManus, Kenneth Pratt, Kenneth Talbot, Kenneth Woch, Kenneth Vozzo
- Le Parkour: He's an expert traceur and practitioner of parkour, which is useful if you want to avoid being captured.
- We Used to Be Friends: He used to be friends with Riley Blue, until he betrayed her to escape London alongside Barbie.
The C-Listers
In General
- Big Bad Wannabe: Their ultimate goal is to be taken seriously as criminals. Unfortunately for them, only Firefly is treated as a serious threat.
- Breaking the Fellowship: Most of the group has been arrested or joined other criminal groups.
- C-List Fodder: They're aware of their low rank within the supervillains of Gotham and they hate it.
- Not-So-Harmless Villain: Together, they killed several Wayne sponsored patients, kidnapped Lucius Fox and nearly burned down both Wayne Tower and Wayne Manor.
Cluemaster (Arthur Brown)
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Cluemaster was once known as Arthur Brown, a failed game show host who turned to a life of crime, leaving trademark clues as to his actions.
- Abusive Parents: He's attempting to kill Stephanie after she walked in on him meeting with several of his supervillain friends and commenting that he would have to do better with his next child.
- Bond Villain Stupidity: He has a few chances to kill Stephanie but keeps screwing it up by monologuing or going about it in a complicated manner.
- Complexity Addiction: Even his daughter thinks the clues he leaves at his crimes are way too complex.
- Fashion-Victim Villain: In-Universe. His choice of colors for his outfit are given an annoyed Lampshade Hanging by his daughter Stephanie, who notes that no one takes her warnings about him seriously partly because of how bad his outfit is.
- Hand Cannon: Wields a large revolver.
- Insistent Terminology: He keeps trying to say that he is not to be called Arthur, but rather Cluemaster. Nobody listens, including his fellow C-list villain friends.
- Jerkass: Unlike Batman's other villains it's not covered by his charismatic personality.
- Justified Criminal: At first. He originally got into crime to support his family. Unfortunately, the crimes took a toll on his sanity and he became a supervillain.
- Offing the Offspring: Tries to repeatedly kill Stephanie, but she keeps spoiling his attempts.
- Papa Wolf: Nearly beat a fellow inmate to death with a chair for threatening his daughter.
- Small Name, Big Ego: This more than anything else drove him to become a villain he seems to have gotten over it as now he's exploiting his C-List villain status for all its worth.
- Villainous Friendship: He is friends with fellow C-List villains like Lock-Up, Ratcatcher, Prankster, and Signalman. They routinely get together to play cards and bemoan their low status on the supervillain totem pole.
Catman (Thomas Blake)
Firefly (Garfield Lynns)
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Garfield Lynns was a former firefighter pilot and "smokejumper" who was eventually driven insane and became obsessed with flames. Lynns adopted the name of Firefly and became a crazed arsonist.
- Ax-Crazy: Enough so to scare away Killer Moth, who was genuinely terrified of him.
- Cool Helmet: It's made to resemble an insect's head.
- Evil Is Petty: Burnt a fellow inmate alive for using the moniker Firebug.
- Fire-Breathing Weapon: Firefly's weapon of choice is a flamethrower.
- Gadgeteer Genius: Made his suit and his whole equipment by himself.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has burn scars over approximately 90% of his body.
- Jetpack: He sometimes uses one to fly.
- Psycho for Hire: He takes some arson jobs to finance his devices and weaponry, but he would gladly burn things for free if he could afford to.
- Powered Armor: He often uses his armor to fly and shoot flames.
- Pyromaniac: The only other person to approach his love of fire is Heat Wave.
- Race Lift: He's african-american here.
- Scary Black Man: African-American as he's a dangerous pyromaniac who's probably the only member of the original C-listers that is truly feared.
- Self-Harm: As part of his pyromaniac obsession, he has burnt himself for
sexual gratification.
Copperhead (Larissa Diaz)
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Roxy Rocket (Roxanne Sutton)
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Jane Doe
See the White Glove page
Kite Man (Chuck Brown)
- Token Good Teammate: By far, the least evil member of the C-Listers.
Wonderland Gang
Mad Hatter (Jervis Tetch)
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Jervis Tetch is obsessed with Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, basing all of his crimes on the novel. Jervis is often seen as a joke-villain but is a serious threat to Batman with his powerful mind-control technology.
- Alice Allusion: The Mad Hatter is obsessed with finding "his" Alice, who likely isn't much more than a figment of his insane imaginings.
- Faux Affably Evil: He fancies himself as a Quintessential British Gentleman, but in reality, he's a cold-hearted criminal.
- Gadgeteer Genius: Builds fully-functional mind control devices that fit inside hats.
- The Gimmick: He likes hats, and does hat crimes.
- Hypno Trinket: All manner of devices really, though the most common would be some form of hat.
- The Leader: He's the leader of the Wonderland Gang.
- Let's Get Dangerous!: You'd think that he's completely ineffective in combat. Hoo-boy, would you be wrong.
- Living Doll Collector: He sometimes kidnaps blonde girls and uses his mind control technology to force them to play at being Alice.
- Mad Scientist: He personally invented all of his mind control technology.
- Meaningful Name: "Tetch" is a variation of "touch", as in "touched in the head".
- More than Mind Control: Some of Tetch's schemes have become very elaborate through this trope.
- Psychopathic Manchild: Pretty par for the course for someone trying to fashion their life after a children's book.
- Reluctant Psycho: As mentioned above, he doesn't enjoy his insanity, he suffers through every second of it.
- Secondary Color Nemesis: Has orange hair and he dresses in green.
- Slipping a Mickey: Expect the Hatter's tea to always be laced with something.
- Unholy Matrimony: Currently dating Red Alice.
- Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Killer Moth wonders why he would be named 'Jervis'. Tetch agrees is uncommon, but it's not like 'Drury' is much better.
- Wicked Cultured: He sure likes his Lewis Carroll's quotes.
Red Alice (Elizabeth Kane)
Alice is Batwoman's long-lost sister thought dead, Elizabeth Kane. Believing herself to be the Alice of Lewis Carroll's famous story, she became the High Madame of the Wonderland Gang.
- Acquired Poison Immunity: She keeps a razorblade with a powerful hallucinogen/opioid in her mouth as the High Madame. When she uses it on Kate, Kate’s biosigns quickly enter critical range, implying that Alice must have at least some degree of poison immunity to keep it in her cheek at all times.
- Alice Allusion: Quotes from Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-glass? Check. Using the nom de guerre Alice? Check. Blonde hair, fantasy Victorian-inspired wardrobe? Check. Madness as a major plot point? Check.
- Break the Cutie: Kate and Jacob remember her as being sweeter than Kate: less prone to confrontation, willing to forgive more than Kate, crying over a dead cat for two days while Kate successfully stifled her emotions.
- Cain and Abel: The Cain of Kate's Abel.
- Duality Motif: One side is her original red hair, while the other is dyed blonde, representing the duality between Elizabeth and Red Alice.
- Mind Rape: Heavily implied to be the reason she went insane and became Alice.
- Quirky Curls: Half her hair is made up of curls, and she's a very eccentric villainess.
- Unholy Matrimony: Currently dating The Mad Hatter.
White Rabbit (Jaina Hudson)
Original (left) and Clone (right)
Jaina Hudson is a Batman villainess who can split herself into two separate bodies, one of whom is her pathological alter-ego the White Rabbit.
- Color Animal Codename: White Rabbit.
- Composite Character: Jaina also takes the role of the March Hare.
- The Empath: Though not able to discern a person's emotions outright, Jaina can get a good feel for a person's current mood and can even glean critical information from a person when in close proximity to them. Jaina almost always such information for her own benefit in one way or another.
- Femme Fatale: Jaina is a skilled seductress who is not above using her physical attractiveness and sexuality to manipulate someone for her own needs.
- The Leader: In the absence of Mad Hatter and Red Alice, she has stepped up as leader of the Wonderland gang.
- Me's a Crowd: Jaina can duplicate herself into two beings: the second version of herself and White Rabbit.
- Playboy Bunny: White Rabbit dresses like one, with the addition of a mask.
- Psychic Powers: Jaina is a powerful psionic capable of tapping into the Odic field and using her aura to convert the Odic energy into psychic energy to perform a variety of paranormal abilities and actions.
- Psychic Link: Jaina is psychically bonded to her psychic clone. This is a very powerful connection and cannot be blocked by inhibitor collars, but can be blocked by a psionic disruption field. When active, Jaina and the White Rabbit are capable of instant communication and coordination; but only in close quarters. At any significant distance, the connection becomes simplistic and vague.
- Racial Transformation: Bizarrely, the White Rabbit has a lighter skin tone than Jaina.
- Sensory Overload: When asserting her powers in excess, Jaina can suffer acute migraines which while may hinder her powers, but do not seem to negate them completely. On occasion, Jaina gets migraines without having pressed herself beyond her usual limits.
- Statuesque Stunner: Both qualify at 5'8"/173cm tall.
- Super-Speed: The White Rabbit can outrun the Batmobile... in high heels.
- The Strategist: Jaina's role in the Wonderland Gang is to think up stratagems.
Circus of Strange
Professor Pyg (Lazlo Valentin)
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A deranged scientist who performs twisted surgeries on his victims to make them into Dollotrons, his idea of perfection. He was the stepfather of Drury Walker and Rose Walker/Em Parker.
- Adaptational Nationality: He's from Markovia in Earth-27 instead of Hungary.
- Alas, Poor Villain: His stepdaughter Rose at least feels pity towards him and his current mental state, since he was the closest she had to a true father.
- Even Evil Can Be Loved: Despite the many crimes he has committed, his stepdaughter and ex-wife still care about him.
- Evil Uncle: One of his many victims was his own niece, Sasha Valentin, who would become Red Hood's sidekick Scarlet.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: He was originally the son of a butcher and a schoolteacher from Markovia who became a scientist that moved to the US to study meteorite fragments, but prolonged exposure to the stuff took a huge toll on his sanity, eventually turning him into one of the most deranged criminals in Gotham.
- Genre Refugee: He far more resembles the villain of a Slasher Movie or Torture Porn than he does a typical Batman villain.
- I Have Many Names: Doctor Dollotron, Ringmaster of Strange, Patient #77666.
- In-Series Nickname: Bacon-Breath, Ham Hocks, Porkchop, and Pyggle.
- Large Ham: Pyg is very much a showman, and is given to espousing his dialogue in a most grandiloquent fashion.
- Living Doll Collector: Pyg turns people into androgynous, puppet-like servants named Dollotrons, who wear doll-like dresses and have doll-like masks fused to their faces.
- Mad Doctor: He uses his surgical skills to twist his victims horribly. His minions the Dollotrons were people horribly disfigured by him.
- Mad Scientist: He is an accomplished scientist and chemist who uses his skills to disfigure his victims. He also has the habit of using power tools to aid in his ghastly surgeries.
- Malevolent Masked Man: He wears a horrifying pig mask, and becomes irrational if forcibly removed.
- Mind Rape: His specialty. He brainwashes his victims into being mindlessly compliant Dollotrons.
- Mommy Issues: He has these, if his drug-based rants are anything to go by.
- No-Sell: Exposure to the meteorites rendered him immune to telepathy.
- Our Zombies Are Different: The Dollotrons, Professor Pyg's mutilated victims, are zombie-like mind-controlled creatures that are obedient to the Professor. They wear doll-like dresses and have doll-like masks that cannot be removed surgically (or rather, can only be removed surgically, and there's not enough face left underneath them to make the effort worthwhile). Their creation is implied to involve brain surgery, genital mutilation, and mind-altering drugs.
- Pig Man: It's just a mask, but he fits the bill.
- Psycho Knife Nut: He's an expert knife fighter and knife thrower and a psychotic Mad Doctor.
- Related in the Adaptation: He's the stepfather of Rose and Drury Walker. He's also the uncle of Sasha Valentin/Scarlet, who became Red Hood's sidekick in the comics.
- Repulsive Ringmaster: He sometimes plays the hype-man for the Circus of Strange, and talks like a ringmaster or carnival barker during some of his attacks on Gotham.
- The Rival: He, Barton Mathis and Jervis Tetch once worked together under the DOD, but now they see each other as rivals.
- Sinister Swine: He's an Ax-Crazy Mad Doctor themed after a pig, wears a pig mask and he even looks pig-like without it.
- Talkative Loon: Even in the presence of family members, it's clear that Pyg is not mentally well and his ramblings prove it.
- Teacher/Student Romance: He was married to his former student Unity Kinkaid.
- Third-Person Person: Pyg occasionally refers to Pyg in this matter.
- Trademark Favorite Food: He likes ham and bacon.
- Wicked Cultured: He's an expert opera singer, but also a Mad Scientist and a deadly criminal mastermind.
Killer Croc (Waylon Jones)
See the A.R.G.U.S. and Task Force X page
Baby Doll (Mary Louise Dahl)
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An ex-actress turned villain diagnosed with rare medical condition.
- Badass Adorable: She looks like a child, but is still very dangerous.
- Can't Grow Up: She can't physically age because of an extremely rare medical condition. She can't age because of a condition she was born with.
- Creepy Child: Except she isn't an actual child, which just makes her all the more creepy.
- Death Seeker: She's noted to have suicidal tendencies, but plans to take "loved ones" with her first.
- Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: She had some sort of relationship with Killer Croc, who is already much taller and heavier than a normal person.
- Older Than They Look: Is in her thirties but looks like a little girl.
- Psychopathic Manchild: It's stated by other characters that even before the breakdown she was fussy and threw fits when she couldn't have her way.
- Tragic Villain: Not to the extent of Mr. Freeze but she has a tragic story of never being allowed to grow up, literally (because she can't) and figuratively as was never seen past her famous role.
- Unholy Matrimony: She's implied to have been in a romantic relationship with Killer Croc.
Mr. Toad
Amygdala (Aaron Helzinger)
Orca (Grace Balin)
- Adaptation Origin Connection: She's the one who procured the alligator Leatherhead for the Foot Clan, and the one who turned her into a mutant humanoid orca was Tiger Shark.
- Artificial Animal People: She was a regular human who was mutated into a humanoid Orca after she was shoved in a tank full of mutagen by Tiger Shark.
- Shameful Strip: She was stripped naked and almost sewed to the corpse of a killer whale by Tiger Shark, but she was saved by Green Arrow.
Dollmaker Family
Dollmaker (Barton Mathis)
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A Gotham serial killer who creates "dolls" out of the skin and limbs of his victims.
- Abusive Parents: It's thanks to him his daughter Mathilda is so messed up. He slashed his daughter's face in her youth in an effort to "cure" her of vanity and beauty.
- Beard of Evil: The goatee certainly adds to his creepiness.
- Composite Character: Beneath the mask he looks like his incarnation from the Arrowverse combined with his New 52 look.
- Evil Mentor: Took Anton Schott under his wing, making him kidnap children and teaching him how to turn them into "dolls".
- Friendly Rivalry: Regards Professor Pyg as a rival and is one of the few people to tolerate him, being they're both depraved surgeons.
- Genuine Human Hide: Dollmaker wears a mask made from his father's skin.
- Patricide: Killed his father and now wears his face as a mask.
- Serial Killer: He creates "dolls" out of the skin and limbs of his victims.
- The Sociopath: He’s a violent sadist with absolutely no empathy for anyone or anything.
Dollhouse (Mathilda Mathis)
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Once Matilda of the Dollmaker's Family, this killer took up her father's cause, and reinvented herself as Dollhouse, abducting transients and harvesting them for their organs.
- Daddy's Little Villain: She has taken up her father's serial killer legacy.
- Honey Trap: She often uses her sex appeal to lure her victims into more vulnerable positions. Some of her doctors think she has nymphomania.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has a nasty scar on her face caused by her father.
- Official Couple: Dating Anton Schott.
- Repetitive Name: Mathilda Mathis.
- Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: She's 5'9"/175cm tall, while her boyfriend Anton is merely 5'4"/163cm tall.
Cult of Days
In General
- Cult: They are literally called the Cult of Days. They are noted to hold Paige up as a sort of god-like figure and appear to think they are bringing forth some sort of cataclysmic event.
- Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: Calendar Man is a Psycho Knife Nut while Holiday and Calendar Girl prefer firearms.
- Loony Fans: They are a bunch of psychos that worship Paige Monroe and commit crimes in her name.
Calendar Girl (Paige Monroe)
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A former supermodel and actress who began to lose work as she aged. Obsessed with maintaining her youthful appearance, she underwent cosmetic surgery after cosmetic surgery, and developed a psychosis where she perceived herself as ugly, leading her to don a white mask to hide her features.
- Adaptational Badass: In terms of influence and career. In canon, she was only a calendar girl, who fell off the map when she turned thirty. Here, she was an A-List celebrity who could turn a flop movie into a block-buster with her mere presence.
- Adaptation Name Change: In the original cartoon, her name was Page Monroe. here It's Paige Monroe.
- Adaptation Origin Connection:
- Lex Luthor, one of her former sponsors, is implied by Roy to have given her her Element Gun and the supplies to get her revenge.
- Her actions inspired Calendar Man, Holiday and Clock King to become villains here.
- Appearance Is in the Eye of the Beholder: To quote Batman: "She's beautiful." "She can't see that anymore. All she sees are the flaws."
- Beautiful All Along: After her Cool Mask is removed, but she can't see how beautiful she is anymore.
- Broken Ace: She was born into a fairly wealthy family, smart enough to get into Gotham State University, and attractive enough to become a highly successful model and actress. Unfortunately, after her modeling career went south, she developed Body Dysmorphic Disorder and cannot accept that she is actually still a very attractive woman.
- Cool Mask: She believes her face is hideous and deformed, and hides it at all times behind a blank white mask.
- Don't Look At Me: Calendar Girl covers her face with a mask at all times, at the risk of her Berserk Button.
- Dude Magnet: She dated a lot of A-list celebrities in her modeling career. Many of her followers of her cult also have a crush on her.
- Even the Girls Want Her: Gilda Gold is one of her fans and leaves her letters at her crimes.
- The Fashionista: She has a costumes for all four seasons.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Mentioning time or seeing mirrors can trigger her wrath.
- Hollywood Old: Once Paige turned thirty, the companies she modelled for dropped her in favor of younger models. Her scummy agent was able to get her a role as a mother in a Dom Com, but that show was quickly cancelled because the network wanted younger demographics. Paige then spent the next ten years dieting, exercising and getting multiple cosmetic surgeries in order to regain her youth and glory, but it didn't work and she developed Body Dysmorphic Disorder, believing herself to be old and ugly even though she looks exactly the same as she did in her twenties.
- I Am Not Pretty: Ageism in Hollywood killed her career, and she keeps her "old, ugly" face hidden from the world because of it. She's not that old and has maintained her youthful appearance.
- I Was Quite a Looker: She was an uncommonly beautiful woman in her prime... and the twist is that she still is. Being told she'd become old and ugly by the media made her actually believe it, and now she can't bear to be seen unmasked.
- Legacy Character: Her criminal career inspired a bunch of Loony Fans of hers to form the Cult of Days.
- Not Me This Time: She was once arrested for mob murders that were actually committed by Holiday and Calendar Man.
- Older Than They Look: Despite being over thirty, she still looks the same as she did during her glory days.
- Related in the Adaptation: She was briefly married to Roland Daggett here.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: The Arkham doctors allow her to receive letters from fans of her modeling career to try and improve her mental state and self-worth.
- White-Dwarf Starlet: She's intent on killing the people who had led to her downfall, wearing full-body covering and a featureless mask to hide what she's become since her fame ran out.
- White Mask of Doom: To cover up her supposedly hideous face.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: She was a former model for calendars and movie star, but constantly failed attempts at rectifying her "hideous appearance" left her with nothing else than a desire of vengeance against the people she perceived took away her beauty. She is later revealed to actually be gorgeous, although she still firmly believes her appearance is repulsive despite this.
- Younger and Hipper: Both deconstructed, as she was a victim of ageism, but ironically an example of this herself, given she's loosely based on the Calendar Man, yet is younger than Julian Day.
Calendar Man (Julian Day)
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A serial killer who is fascinated by dates and calendars; even his real name is a pun on the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
- Bald of Evil: Bald like Luthor and Zsasz and a serial killer.
- Faux Affably Evil: He's very calm and polite when you speak to him. However, hearing about some of his crimes makes you wish you could break some of the other bones in his body.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: He went from a simple custodian to a deranged Serial Killer.
- Loony Fan: He developed an obsession with Paige long before they became criminals. He's even convinced himself they're lovers.
- Mad Love: As many for the tropes in his page should tell you, he is completely obsessed with Paige Monroe.
- Room Full of Crazy: He has a room full of Paige's memorabilia. It is basically a Stalker Shrine.
- Serial Killer: He kills people according to the date.
- The Sociopath: Murder is the only thing he seems to have any passion about.
- Stalker with a Crush: Some of his crimes have this angle.
- Talkative Loon: He's very chatty.
- Tattooed Crook: Has abbreviations of the months of the year tattooed around his head.
- Yandere: His entire reason for becoming a Serial Killer was his fanatical obsession with Paige. He often poses his victims in ways related to Paige's celebrity career.
Holiday (Gilda Gold)
Gilda Gold is a sculptor who was once married to Harvey Dent, the District Attorney of Gotham City who eventually became the criminal Two-Face.
- Alliterative Name: Gilda Gold.
- Related in the Adaptation:
- She's a descendant of Cyrus Gold, who would be reanimated as the zombie Solomon Grundy.
- She's also the mother of Duela Dent here.
- The Rival: She considers Bianca one, due to the rivalry between their families.
- Samus Is a Girl: Julian admits he thought Holiday was a man.
- Serial Killer: She kills criminals and corrupt officials on holidays, occasionally leaving letters to Calendar Girl at the scenes of the crime.
- Villain with Good Publicity: She's a Serial Killer who happens to be a famous attorney. She took advantage of said publicity to break Paige out of prison.
- Violently Protective Girlfriend: Implied, considering all her victims were people Harvey Dent prosecuted.
Clock King (Templeton Fugate)
Head of Logistics Division at A.R.G.U.S., Templeton Fugate is secretly the Clock King, a super-villain obsessed with time who uses clock-related gadgetry to commit crimes.
- Adaptation Name Change: His name is changed from Temple to Templeton.
- The Chessmaster: With help from Holiday, he orchestrated Calendar Man's and Paige's escape from Arkham.
- Clock King: He tries to be one, counting seconds and scheduling, but actually doesn't reach the level to qualify.
- Conspicuous Gloves: He noticeably wears leather gloves in conjunction with his suit.
- Idiosyncrazy: Clocks and time.
- The Leader: Paige may be the symbol they rally around, but Fugate is the true leader of the group.
- Secret Identity: Mostly a figure on the dark web, Clock King has proven to be an elusive figure and even Oracle has been unable to discern his identity.
- Sharp-Dressed Man: He wears a fancy brown suit and a matching hat.
- Scary Shiny Glasses: His glasses have clock designs that obscure his eyes, making him look more shady.
- Villainous Crush: Like Calendar Man, he has a crush on Paige and sends her love letters to her at the scenes of his crimes.
Sons of Batman
In General- Badass Biker: All of them. Which according to Roy he took big influence to Sons of Anarchy with Jean-Paul Valley look a bit like Jax, but the SOBs and SAMCRO have much different ideologies.
- Face–Heel Turn: The Son of Batman were a Anti-Hero vigilante group led by Dumas and Saint until Joseph Blackfire took over the club in and renamed it as the "Sons of Barbatos".
Azrael (Jean-Paul Valley)
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Named after the Angel of Death, Jean-Paul Valley was crafted by the League of Assassins to replace Batman and later a former leader of the Sons of Batman.
- Batter Up!: While not dressed as Azrael he uses a baseball bat.
- Deadpan Snarker: He has his moments.
- Dual Wielding: Jean Paul Valley wields two flaming swords.
- Empowered Badass Normal: Raised in a test tube and put through various DNA experimentation in his fetal state, Jean-Paul's physiology allows him enhanced strength, speed and reflexes, and even durability.
- Flaming Sword: His trademark weapons.
- Good Costume Switch: After becoming the new leader of the Sons of Batman, he changes his red and black outfit for a white and red one.
- In the Hood: His costume comes with a hood.
- No Social Skills: He suffers from this.
- Not Me This Time: When questioned about the new Azrael, he admits he had nothing to do with it.
- Omniglot: Thanks to the System, Jean-Paul is able to understand foreign languages.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: His original Horsemen outfit was red and black. After leaving the League, he switched to a red and white outfit.
- Split Personality: His Azrael persona is significantly different from his civilian identity of Jean-Paul Valley.
- Super-Strength: The LoA messing with Jean-Paul's biology before he was even born seems to have instilled some degree or superhuman strength and agility. At the end of his own series he was experiencing further developments for unclear reasons, which raised his strength to "twist steel rebar into a pretzel with your bare hands" levels.
Black Spider (Eric Needham)
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The gang's Vice president. He tends to use the latest in high tech weaponry such as laser assisted rifles. He is an Olympic level athlete and has trained intensely in many forms of physical combat.
- Animal Motifs: Spiders, obviously enough.
- Color Animal Codename: Black Spider.
- Composite Character: His armored design is based on the Assault on Arkham version.
- The Dragon: Serves as this for Jean-Paul Valley, and later for Deacon Blackfire.
- Knight Templar: Considers himself a hero, but his willingness to kill anyone he views as an enemy pegs him as this.
- Purple Is Powerful: His Black Spider costume is also purple, and he's a pretty dangerous opponent thanks to it.
- Scary Black Man: A mass-murdering Knight Templar who is also African-American.
- Secondary Color Nemesis: His Black Spider outfit is purple.
- Serial-Killer Killer: Black Spider hunts and kills criminals.
Hyper-Adapter (Deacon Joseph Blackfire)
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Joseph Blackfire is the insane leader of the Sons after he usurped Jean-Paul, whose fanatical devotees help him carry out ritualized, Old Testament-like human sacrifices.
- Back from the Dead: After being decapitated by Jean-Paul, he's brought back by the Anti-Monitor, who still has some use for him.
- Composite Character: Deacon Blackfire is merged with Apokalips' agent Barbatos to become a new Hyper-Adapter. This also makes him one to Simon Hurt, who was also a human merged with the Hyper-Adapter.
- Dark Messiah: Claims his is the only path to salvation from Gotham's coming tribulation.
- Faux Affably Evil: As sadistic and cruel as Blackfire is, he's superficially charismatic enough to make his cult members think he's the Messiah.
- Knight Templar: Wants to purge Gotham of crime by taking it over and committing mass murder.
- Magical Native American: He once belonged to a tribe that worshipped Barbatos as a deity, until his tribe realized what he was and sealed him. Blackfire is the only one that remained loyal.
- Misanthrope Supreme: His mission is to purge humanity of those he deems undesirable — and in his warped mind, that's just about everyone.
- Off with His Head!: He's decapitated by Jean-Paul with Azrael's sword. It doesn't stick.
- Sinister Minister: A fire-and-brimstone Christian preacher-style cult leader who shares body with an entity from Apokalypse.
The Court of Owls
In General
- Ancient Conspiracy: Dating back to Pre-Revolution America.
- Animal Motif: Its members wear owl masks when conducting Court business.
- The Dreaded: The most powerful force in Gotham, and those who know of them are very aware of how dangerous they are.
- The Illuminati: They've been manipulating Gotham since olden times.
Owlman
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Talon (William Cobb)
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One of the many assassins of the same name for the Court of Owls, William Cobb was the Talon the Court sent after Bruce Wayne, and Dick Grayson's great-grandfather.
- Badass Abnormal: The Court of Owls has forged William into a master hand-to-hand combatant. He is able to match Batman blow-for-blow.
- The Brute: For The Court of Owls.
- Healing Factor: Due to the synthesized electrum in his blood, William could recover from bodily injuries at a superhuman rate.
- Identical Grandson: He and his great great-grandson Dick Grayson look so much alike, Dick can impersonate him while undercover in Arkham. They're so similar Deathstroke and Ra's al-Ghul do mistake them for each other.
- Improbable Aiming Skills: A trained knife-thrower, William has an uncanny aim with his knives, able to hit specific arteries and veins even in the midst of combat.
- Legally Dead: Looks pretty good for someone who died in the late 1880's.
- Lightning Bruiser: William possesses a degree of enhanced speed, as he was capable of moving out of an elevator and leaving two dead guards in his wake by the time it took Bruce and Lincoln March to turn their heads.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: He happens to be Dick Grayson's great great-grandfather.
- Master Swordsman: William is a highly skilled swordsman.
- Multi-Melee Master: William, like all Talons, uses an arsenal of bladed weapons on his missions, ranging from his signature throwing knives to full-sized broadswords and axes.
- Nigh-Invulnerability: William possesses a degree of superhuman durability, as he was unfazed by Bruce applying ten times the force it would take to collapse a normal man's windpipe.
- Ominous Owl: His motif as Talon.
The Black Light Tribe
Neon (Thomas Chatham)
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Leader of the Black Light Tribe gang.
- Adaptation Origin Connection: He has a connection with the origins of Sugar and Spice, while neither in the comics or the movie he was connected to them.
- Badass Normal: He has no powers but he's highly athletic and skilled fighter who is prone to use violence to get what he wants.
- Canon Immigrant: He was a minor Mook in the Schumacher era of Batman Films in the 90's.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Neon is extremely volatile and prone to bouts hostility and violence, particularly when he's stressed.
- Scars Are Forever: Beneath his body paint he has several scars including a gunshot on his left shoulder, a long cut on his lower back and a circular cut in his right pelvis.
- Skull for a Head: Neon has his face painted to looked liked a skull.
- Small Name, Big Ego: His gang is not particularly large or powerful, but he let his temper get the better of him and attacked Wendy Delacey for not being impressed by him.
- Tattooed Crook: Neon has notable tattoos such as "R.L.D." tattoo on his abdomen, a rose on his left calf and Black Light Tribe on his back.
- Would Hit a Girl: He beat and left for dead Wendy Delacey after she rejected his advances and wasn't impressed at his actions to get an appointment with her.
Children of Arkham
Lady Arkham
The mysterious leader of the terrorist group known as the Children of Arkham.
- Ambiguous Gender: While they call themselves Lady, the mask and outfit hides their true gender.
- Black-and-White Insanity: Adamantly convinced they are justified in their actions.
- Boom Stick: Fights with a staff that can fire concussive blasts.
- Canon Immigrant: Originated in the Telltale games.
- Combat Pragmatist: As good a fighter as Batman is but also has some extra advantage in the form of a staff capable of emitting shockwaves strong enough to send Batman flying a good twenty feet through the air.
- Decomposite Character: Lady Arkham is not Vicky Vale like the Telltale games. For now their real identity is a mystery.
- Evil Sounds Deep: Their voice is distorted by their mask, making them sound very deep.
- Malevolent Masked Men: Sports a very intimidating one that resembles a skull.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Genuinely believes that the Children of Arkham are doing the harsh work that is necessary to purge Gotham of corruption.
