History WMG / Gotham

He's dedicated to the job and honest to a fault, in part because of his AmbiguousDisorder. She was friends with the corrupt Flass and seems a little duplicitous, changing her attitudes depending on whom she's talking to. Factor in her supervillain-sounding name and it's not hard to see. She starts committing crimes and he doesn't want her to be on her own.

** What's more, each of these candidates could embody a different incarnation of the Joker. For example: [[Series/Batman1966 a seemingly (but not in any way) harmless prankster with a mustache]], [[Film/Batman1989 a narcissistic gangster-type and]] MadArtist, [[WesternAnimation/TheBatman an energetic martial artist with a crazy hairstyle]] [[DoesNotLikeShoes who complains that his shoes are too tight]], [[Film/TheDarkKnight a cynical anarchist with messy hair and noticeable scars]], a LargeHam [[Creator/MarkHamill who likes to make bad puns and mentions having a girlfriend]], I can go on all day.

** If her use of [[WhipItGood a whip]] as an adult tells us anything, it's that she's prepared for someone trying to use her own tactics against her.

** If [[WeaponOfChoice her use of]] [[WhipItGood a whip]] as an adult tells us anything, it's that she's prepared for someone trying to use her own tactics against her.

It is Catwoman's WeaponOfChoice, after all. And Selina is definitely being set up as an opponent to the Galavans as they draw Bruce into their clutches. So, perhaps during the season's FinalBattle, she get ahold of the whip somehow, and finds that she has a natural affinity for it.

** [[ActorExistenceFailure Jossed]]

[[WMG:Martin will grow to be the Penguin's right-hand man]]

Bonus points she gets into a relationship with or has unrequited love for Grace and/or Emma's disfigurement and Grace's death at the hands of [[spoiler:Jeremiah Valeska]] lead to her going mad, a la Film/TheDarkKnight.

[[WMG: Barbara Kean would lapse back into insanity]]

* Lee [[ShipSink will break up]] with Jim and [[PutOnABus leave Gotham for good]] (but may return when Bruce becomes Batman).

* Maybe they'll simply have Harleen as the similarly aged daughter of a psychiatric worker at Arkham instead. (It's Gotham. I would not put the prospect of a Bring Your Child to Work Day at the asylum past the city.) That way, whenever she encounters and strikes up a close friendship with Ivy (possibly a RomanticTwoGirlFriendship) as a nod to their on and off relationship in the comics proper, the age gap won't make things uncomfortable. And with Gordon now working at Arkham, this will allow him to interact with a young Harleen as well.

*** [[spoiler: This would be similar to Post-ComicBook/ZeroHour[=/=]Pre-ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis continuity where Batman never found his parents' killer.]]

With Sal Maroni unavailable to gift him with a potent acid-based facial cleanser, Bruce being old friends with Two-Face as a minor plot point, Harvey's handsome face will remain happily unscarred.

I feel that the next Two-Face would be Emma Hsueh, the least noteworthy of Bruce's schoolfriends, who remains friends with him into adulthood and becomes a DA before the origin story kicks in.

Bonus points she gets into a relationship with or has unrequited love for Grace and/or Emma's disfigurement and Grace's death at the hands of [[spoiler:Jeremiah Valeska]] lead to her going mad.

[[WMG:Sharon, Rudy and Norton, Nygma's crack team of thieves in "Azarel", will become criminals after their escape or release]]
Either working for Nygma or adopting supervillain personas. Sharon, Rudy and Norton could be the new incarnations of Magpie, the Ventriloquist and Professor Pyg respectively.