History Characters / GothamCourtOfOwls

* CloningBlues: As close as you can get without actually being a clone (probably). He knows he's not Bruce Wayne, but he doesn't know who ''he's'' supposed to be.

* NoNameGiven: While he matches with the exact appearance of Bruce Wayne, the clone himself doesn't have a name outside of designation of 514A.

* KillEmAll: The Shaman orders the Court killed while Ra's al Ghul takes control of the EvilPlan.

* [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Hoist by Her Own Petard]]: She kidnaps Barnes, and later sends him after Jim when the latter betrays the Court. Barnes later kills her when she gets in the way of his own quest.

* [[OffWithHisHead Off with Her Head]]: Courtesy of Barnes when she tries to stop him.

* ThoseTwoBadGuys: With Hugo Strange, under the Court.

->'''Played By:''' Kit Flanagan (Season 2), Leslie Hendrix (Season 3)

->'''Played By:''' Tonya Pinkins

->'''Played By''': David Mazouz

->'''Played By''': Michael Park

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* TheFaceless: She is never seen without her owl mask, preventing anyone from getting a good look at her face.
** As of the start of Season 3, she takes off her mask, and we only see her face from now on.

!![[spoiler:Ra's Al-Ghul]]
->See [[spoiler:his]] entry on the [[Characters/GothamCriminalGroups Criminal Groups]] page under '''[[spoiler:The League of Shadows]]'''.

->'''Played By:''' Raymond J. Barry

* AllForNothing: Kills himself after convincing Jim to join the Court and take them apart from the inside - but while Jjim's dealing with their Tetch virus bomb, a completely unrelated storyline has the Shaman having them all killed to convince Bruce of his destiny with Ra's, rendering Frank's sacrifice moot.

* WalkingSpoiler: Tropes regarding him can't help but contain information about his role in the Court and eventual turning on the.

* IGaveMyWord: Except, according to the leader of the Whisper Gang, she doesn't.

* GreaterScopeVillain: Of most of the major antagonistic plot threads of the first three seasons, including the Wayne's murders and Hugo Strange's experiments at Indian Hill.

* KarmicDeath: They ordered the death of the Wayne behind their leader's back. They all get betrayed by their leader when he has them all stabbed to death in the back.

* WalkingSpoiler: If all these spoiler tags are anything to go by.

** They also secretly controlling Wayne Enterprises.]

!!Leaderhip

!!![[spoiler:Within the Court]]

* AdaptationalOriginConnection: In the comics, the Court has very little connection to [[spoiler:the League of Assassins, let alone being led and manipulated by ComicBook/RasAlGhul himself]].

* BodyguardBetrayal: [[spoiler: The Shaman has the Talons kill the rest of the Court.]]

* ImmortalitySeeker: They are obsessed with immortality. [[spoiler:The whole reason for Hugo Strange’s experiments is to successfully bring the dead back to life with their memories intact.]]
* KarmicDeath: They ordered the death of the Wayne behind their leader's back. [[spoiler: They all get betrayed by their leader when he has them all stabbed to death in the back.]]
* KillEmAll: [[spoiler: The Shaman orders the Court killed while Ra's al Ghul takes control of the EvilPlan.]]

** They’re the ones pulling [[spoiler:Hugo Strange’s strings and providing him backing and protection.]]
** They also [[spoiler:secretly controlling Wayne Enterprises.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:After they create the Tetch weapon, the Shaman has all of them executed.]]

* ArcVillain: Is the main antagonist of the second half of Season 3 as the man who controls the Court of Owls, [[spoiler:is responsible for [[TheCorrupter corrupting Bruce Wayne]], and the orchestrator of the Alice Tetch virus bomb.]] Although the final three episodes of the season reveal [[spoiler:that he and the Court are merely puppets of Ra's Al-Ghul, the true main antagonist of the series.]]
* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler: Alfred shoots him dead when he saves Bruce from his clutches.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Despite Thomas Wayne making trouble for the Court he did ''not'' want him to be killed. [[spoiler: He eventually kills the rest of Court as punishment.]]

* NoNameGiven: He's only credited as "the Shaman" or "Temple Shaman". [[spoiler: Ra's]] calls him "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensei_(DC_Comics) the Sensei]]".
* RedHerring: He was introduced around the same time that [[spoiler:Ra's Al-Ghul]] was announced, so many fans speculated that he's actually [[spoiler:an elderly Ra's, who would eventually find a Lazarus Pit and become younger by the season finale. The ending of "Pretty Hate Machine" confirms that the two are in fact separate people]].
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:The Shaman orders the Talons working under the Court of Owls leadership to assassinate them once the Tetch virus bombs are completed.]]

* ArcVillain: Of the first half of Season 3. [[spoiler:Subverted, as she's merely TheDragon to the Court's real leader, the Shaman]].

** She acts as liaison between the Court and [[spoiler:Hugo Strange, giving him his marching orders.]]
** She also appears to be in charge of [[spoiler:overseeing the Court’s control of Wayne Enterprises.]]
** And she has some sort of deal worked out with [[spoiler: Carmine Falcone, though it appears to be under duress from his end.]]
* HatePlague: [[spoiler:She plans to use Alice Tetch's blood to infect Gotham City.]]

* [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Hoist by Her Own Petard]]: [[spoiler: She kidnaps Barnes, and later sends him after Jim when the latter betrays the Court. Barnes later kills her when she gets in the way of his own quest.]]

* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:The woman whose power came from commanding others is murdered by a psychopath she foolishly believed she could control.]]

* [[OffWithHisHead Off with Her Head]]: [[spoiler:Courtesy of Barnes when she tries to stop him.]]
* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: When Barnes runs in shooting up everyone he sees in sight while assaulting the GCPD, she stupidly runs up to him, calls his beliefs stupid, and demands that he escort her back to her base. Unsurprisingly, she gets killed by the madman she shouted at]].

* AncientConspiracy: [[spoiler:Is an agent for the Court of Owls.]]

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Is killed by Marv, one of the patients she helped experiment on.]]
* NotSoStoic: Her OhCrap moment when Dr. Strange decides to personally tell [[spoiler:Theo Galavan]] his backstory as [[spoiler:Azrael]].
* OhCrap: When Dr. Strange decides to put his life on the line to help [[spoiler:Theo Galavan]] "remember" who he is. It just goes to show, despite her reservations about what he's up to, she does care about him at least to some degree, and her reaction to his doing something at a personal risk, even if towards his own goals, sells it.
* PragmaticVillainy: In her disagreements with Strange she can sometimes sound like his MoralityPet, but really her concerns are driven by being less conspicuous and more valuable as employees of [[spoiler: the Court of Owls.]]
* RapidAging: [[spoiler:This is ultimately how she meets her demise, after Marv (an Indian Hill patient who has the ability to quickly age people until they die) uses his power on her under Fish's orders]].

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:After Alfred has figured him out and then Selina attempts to kill him, 514A departs and is not seen again in any following dealings with either the Court of Owls or the League of Assassins. Considering his health condition, perhaps it doesn't matter anyway.]]
* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler:514A pushes Selina out of a window, nearly killing her, after she threatens to tell Alfred with the truth of him not being Bruce and Bruce himself being kidnapped by the Court of Owls.]]
* YouSeeImDying: [[spoiler:Because of the flaws in his creation, 514A is now slowly dying with DeadlyNosebleed being a factor.]]