History Characters / GothamGCPD

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Kidnapped in the second season by Theo Galavan, the businessman running the Maniax!, and subjected to a string of abuses and humiliations by his sister Tabitha. Happens again in "''Heroes Rise: The Primal Riddle''" when he's targeted yet again by Nygma in order to gain information about the Court of Owls-- and again in the final episode where Nygma aims to blow him up to prove a point.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: After becoming corrupted by Alice's blood, he coldly murders both a criminal disposing of bodies in acid and an AxCrazy back alley doctor who tried to escape justice through his connections.

* RageBreakingPoint: Seeing the SmugSnake doctor he'd apprehended for cutting faces from unwilling victims walk into Carmine Falcone's party scot-free finally causes him to snap and [[KickTheSonOfABitch throw the bastard through a wall to his death]].

* AdaptationalJobChange: Prior to getting fired by Michael Akins in the fallout of "Officer Down" in the comics, the highest Bullock ever got in the GCPD totem pole was Lieutenant.[[note]]There were also ''ComicBook/TheNail'', where he replaced Gordon as Commissioner, and ''WesternAnimation/BatmanGothamByGaslight'', where he's a CompositeCharacter with Chief O'Hara from ''Series/Batman1966'' as Gordon's Irish-accented second-in-command, but both of those are {{Elseworld}}s[[/note]] Season 4 sees him briefly as a Captain.[[note]]However, ''after'' the show ended, the event ''ComicBook/DCYearOfTheVillain'' (which saw the Batman Who Laughs corrupt a number of heroes, including Gordon) and the lead-up to ''ComicBook/TheJokerWar'' sees Bullock appointed as acting commissioner in Gordon's stead[[/note]]

* AdaptationalJobChange: Prior to getting fired by Michael Akins in the fallout of "Officer Down" in the comics, the highest Bullock ever got in the GCPD totem pole was Lieutenant.[[note]]There were also ''ComicBook/TheNail'', where he replaced Gordon as Commissioner, and ''WesternAnimation/BatmanGothamByGaslight'', where he's a CompositeCharacter with Chief O'Hara from ''Series/Batman1966'' as Gordon's Irish-accented second-in-command, but both of those are {{Elseworld}}s[[/note]] Season 4 sees him briefly as a Captain.

* {{Hypocrite}}: She breaks into Barbara's home and tries to force her to listen to her about her beliefs of Gordon's corruption. Barbara comes to her in a public street with her information that she is wrong and Montoya tells her "you shouldn't be here" and refuses to listen to her.

* LawfulGood: He does sometimes show that he really wishes he could put the good before the law, but still usually comes down on the side of law before good, much to Gordon and Bullock's frustration.

* NiceHat: Bullock is always wearing a nifty fedora that completes his '50s hard-boiled look.

* {{Expy}}: He shares some striking similarities to [[Videogame/BatmanArkhamAsylum Quincy]] [[KnightTemplar Sharp]]. Albeit, as a police commissioner instead of a politician. Taken UpToEleven when he grows into an AxCrazy KnightTemplar in his SplitPersonality who exacts cruel punishment upon all criminals in Gotham to vent out his frustration in the broken law system ''exactly'' like how Warden Sharp did under his "Spirit of Arkham" persona.

* {{Meganekko}}: Cute, quiet, smart, and wears glasses.

* BaldOfAwesome: He ''is'' played by Michael Chiklis after all.

* KnightTemplar: Begins a one-man crusade against the criminals of Gotham after accepting his insanity.

* TrappedInVillainy: As mentioned, her willingness to let the law slide, especially where Falcone is involved, is more a NecessaryEvil for her position than it is because she's actually corrupt.

* TwoHeadedCoin: Of course he owns one.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Never becomes Two-Face in the show and remains a staunch ally to Gordon in all his appearances, though given that the whole point of the series is that it takes place when Bruce Wayne is still a child (long before he'd start donning the cowl) and Harvey Dent traditionally doesn't become Two-Face until sometime after Batman has been active, it is inordinately plausible that he will end up like his comic book counterpart sometime after Bruce Wayne starts his career as Batman.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Never becomes Two-Face in the show and remains a staunch ally to Gordon in all his appearances, though given that the whole point of the series is that it takes place when Bruce Wayne is still a child (long before he'd start donning the cowl) and Harvey Dent traditionally doesn't become Two-Face until sometime after Batman has been active, it is inordinantly plausible that he will end up like his comic book counterpart sometime after Bruce Wayne starts his career as Batman.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Never becomes Two-Face in the show and remains a staunch ally to Gordon in all his appearances, though given that the whole point of the series is that it takes place when Bruce Wayne is still a child and Harvey Dent traditionally doesn't become Two-Face until some time after Batman has been active, it is likely he ends up like his comic book counterpart sometime after Bruce Wayne starts his career as Batman.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Never becomes Two-Face in the show and remains a staunch ally to Gordon in all his appearances, though it is likely he ends up like his comic book counterpart sometime after Bruce Wayne starts his career as Batman.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Never becomes Two-Face in the show and remains a staunch ally to Gordon in all his appearances.

* ChubbyChaser: In "Penguin's Umbrella", he shows up at Barbara's place when Jim's sent her away, {{BBW}} of the evening dangling off his arm. Short version is that he's on board with Gordon's crusade now (because "I'm dead anyway"), but he and this larger lady are having sex in Barbara's bed. In a later episode, Gordon is able to tell that Bullock frequents a particular brothel because the man fitting his description hires the two largest girls in the place.

* BadassBeard: Has a nice collection of hair on his chin, and the competence as a police officer to match.

* AscendedExtra: Nathaniel Barnes, himself, is a CanonForeigner but the name he takes to judge Gotham is that of the Executioner, who is a one-shot Batman villain from 1953.

* NotSoDifferent: "Spirit of the Goat" shows he was essentially like Gordon 10 years ago, before Gotham got to him. While Gordon never hits rock bottom quite as badly, subsequent seasons see Gordon being ground down by Gotham's corruption and madness just like Bullock was.