History Characters / GothamOther

* OfficialCouple:
** With Gordon.
** Put on [[spoiler:temporary]] hold as of the end of "Arkham", mainly because [[spoiler:Gordon now has trouble trusting her with his secrets now that she let the cat out of the bag once]].
** They recommit their relationship after Gordon agrees to let her share his burdens as a consequence of being a detective in Gotham.

** The change also helps him be in a good position to train Bruce in some basic fighting techniques.

** The change also helps him be in a good position to train bruce in some basic fighting techniques, so this version of bruce doesn't need to wait until his 20's to do so.

** The change also helps him be in a good position to train bruce in some basic fighting techniques, so this version of bruce doesn't need to wait until his 20's to do so.

* BritishAccent: This version of Alfred is from East London and his accent is a rough Cockney, instead of the [[IAmVeryBritish Received Pronoucation]] we've seen in most adaptations (with exceptions for Creator/MichaelCaine's Alfred in the [[Film/TheDarkKnightSaga Nolan films]] who also has a Cockeny accent but softer).

* OfficialCouple: With Gordon.

* OhCrap: In "Penguin's Umbrella", upon realizing that [[spoiler:Gordon and Bullock have him sussed and weren't kidding about arresting him]].

* BattleButler: But of course. This version of Alfred is specifically described in the press materials to a "tough-as-nails ex-marine from East London."
** Case in point: When Gordon, Montoya, and Allen are sneaking up on Wayne Manor, Alfred goes out with a knife and takes down Allen and gets the drop on Gordon and Montoya before Gordon talks him down.

* AdaptationalSexuality: Was straight in the comics and is now bisexual on the show. Possibly a case of CompositeCharacter, combining her with Katherine Kane, the [[TheModernAgeOfComicBooks modern]] and lesbian ComicBook/{{Batwoman}} (who is different from Batgirl).

* AnimalMotif: She may not have taken the mantle of Catwoman up yet, but young Selina is seen moving like a cat as she prowls through Gotham. And feeding a cat. In one scene, she's seen playing with her locket as a cat would.

The son of Thomas and Martha Wayne. [[LastArrivalSpoiler You should know why]] [[Franchise/{{Batman}} he's important]].

The son of Thomas and Martha Wayne. [[YouShouldKnowThisAlready You should know why]] [[Franchise/{{Batman}} he's important]].

* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Previous adaptations of Alfred Pennyworth depict him as being almost always proper and polite in dealing with others and acting as a ServileSnarker in order to be a counterpoint to Batman's intensity and focus. In this series, Alfred is a much coarser character, speaking flippantly to Gordon and even [[AngerBornOfWorry angrily berating Bruce for disobeying him (while still calling the boy "Master")]]. The press materials says he's from the East End, a rough neighborhood.

* GoodIsNotSoft: He is clearly shaken by the Waynes' murder and the first thing he does is embrace and comfort a traumatized Bruce. As they walk away from the crime scene, however, the former military man instructs his young master to stand up straight and to not let the bystanders to see him crying. He is also the most overtly tough adaptation of the character seen in live-action so far, as demonstrated by his extremely blunt manner of speaking - even when it's directly to his master.

* ParentalSubstitute: To Bruce, along with Jim.

* RealityEnsues: He really has no idea how to be a parent to the young and recently traumatized Bruce. He often asks Jim for help.

-->'''Alfred''': Don't look. Head up, eyes front! Don't let them see you cry.

The fiancée of James Gordon. In the comics, the namesake and mother of Barbara Gordon, aka ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}.

* OfficialCouple: With James Gordon.
** Put on [[spoiler:temporary]] hold as of the end of ''Arkham'', mainly because [[spoiler:Gordon now has trouble trusting her with his secrets now that she let the cat out of the bag once]].

* SpiritedYoungLady: [[spoiler: She calls in an anonymous tip to the local newspaper about the mayor's incompetence after James confides in her his frustrations with the GCPD.]]

* BadassAdorable: She's able to escape from a human trafficking ring using her size and stealth.

* {{Delinquents}}: She's been in and out of juvie quite a lot. And she does '''not''' want to go back. She'd rather stay on the streets.

* GenreSavvy: She does not trust ''anyone'' in Gotham who's not Jim Gordon.

* MissingMom: The police think her mom is dead. Selina insists that she's alive....somewhere.
* MythologyGag: Bicondova looks very much like a young Creator/MichellePfeiffer, who was Catwoman in ''Film/BatmanReturns'', right down to a similar hairstyle.

* SatisfiedStreetRat: Selina uses Jim Gordon to stay out of juvie, but has no interest in him finding her kind of better life, and seems quite happy in her career as a pickpocket.
* StalkerWithACrush: After she sees the Wayne murders, she seems to be taken by Bruce Wayne (possibly because he's an orphan) and begins stalking him at a distance throughout the pilot. A later episode shows her breaking into Wayne Manor and watching him sleep.

* TheVoiceless: She doesn't speak at all in the pilot. However she does speak in the subsequent episode.

* AdvertisedExtra: Ivy featured in the show's advertising, meriting one of the fancy posters seen on the main series page, and is listed on TheOtherWiki as a recurring character besides being, you know, the future Poison Ivy and accordingly Significant. Of four released episodes, she has appeared in two scenes in the pilot and IMDB still has Clare Foley credited with a single episode (by contrast, Sara Paxton hasn't even appeared yet and is credited to appear in six episodes), so she's unlikely to return in the near future.

* OfficialCouple: With James Gordon. Put on [[spoiler:temporary]] hold as of the end of ''Arkham'', mainly because [[spoiler:Gordon now has trouble trusting her with his secrets now that she let the cat out of the bag once]].

* HasAType: Based on her current relationship with Gordon and her prior relationship with Montoya, Barbara clearly favors a strong moral compass that doesn't let petty bureaucracy or corruption get in the way of the right thing.

* HasAType: Based on her current relationship with Gordon and her prior relationship with Montoya, Barbara clearly favors a strong moral compass that doesn't let petty bureaucracy get in the way of the right thing.

%%* StalkerWithACrush: After she sees the Wayne murders, she seems to be taken by Bruce Wayne (possibly because he's an orphan) and begins stalking him at a distance throughout the pilot.

* BigBrotherInstinct:

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[[folder:The Balloonman]]
A masked killer vigilante who gains the sympathy of the Gotham public. Named after his method of cuffing his victims to weather balloons and letting them float up until it pops. He's revealed to be Social Services worker Davis Lamond (played by Dan Bakkedahl).

* AntiVillain: A murderer with noble intentions.
* AssholeVictim: His prey are more or less notorious for their misdeeds: a CorruptCorporateExecutive, a DirtyCop and a PedophilePriest.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: His method of killing.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: He tries to make a DirtyCop his second victim, apparently not having considered that a trained law enforcement officer armed with a gun would be a harder target than a CorruptCorporateExecutive. If not for the cop getting distracted, The Balloonman probably would have gotten shot for his trouble.
* FolkHero: Very quickly becomes one to Gotham. After he's arrested, a reporter even says: "Now that the Balloonman is gone, who will defend the people of Gotham?" Bruce, who is watching the news, [[{{Foreshadowing}} ponders...]]
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: As Bruce notes, [[ThouShallNotKill by murdering lawbreakers,]] the Balloonman himself became a criminal.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: When Gordon and Bullock come to arrest him, Bullock cuffs him to his own balloon during a scuffle and he floats off. Bullock invokes the actual phrase. But Gordon grabs onto him, and Bullock is forced to shoot the balloon down before they get too far away. The Balloonman survives, however.
* ItHasOnlyJustBegun: As he's taken into custody, he says to Gordon that [[{{Foreshadowing}} other vigilantes will follow his lead.]]
* MythologyGag: In his first appearance, he wears a toy pig mask, reminiscent of Batman villain Professor Pyg. But it's only part of his disguise as a vendor of party favors, complete with a toy balloon cart.
* RedHerring: Thought to be an employee of a weather balloon factory who stole some balloons (which are expensive), but it turns out that guy sold them on the black market and the real Balloonman acquired them.
* ShoutOut: A reference to ''Franchise/TheShadow'', one of the inspirations for Batman. [[spoiler:The DirtyCop the Balloonman confronts is named Cranston, and his real name is Lamond. The Shadow's real name is Lamont Cranston.]] Plus he also wears a similar getup to the Shadow in that scene - a wide-brimmed hat, a scarf to hide his face and a long coat.
* VigilanteMan: Who in fact helps inspire Bruce Wayne to become you know who.
* YouDontLookLikeYou: The [[http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Balloon_Man_(Earth-One) Balloon Man]] in the comics is a pre-crisis enemy of the ComicBook/MetalMen with the abilities of flight, size-changing, and expelling clouds of smoke. He was also a literal living gasbag. This show's Balloonman is a mundane VigilanteMan who murders corrupt authority figures by strapping them to weather balloons.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Believes the cops are too corrupt to clean up Gotham, despite the rare honest one like Gordon, so he becomes a vigilante.
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[[folder:Stan Ptalsky]]
A former employee for Wellzyn, a subsidiary of Wayne Enterprises that deals in biogenics research. After a falling out with Wellzyn over the research Stan is doing for them, he took to the streets to distribute a dangerous drug, Viper, to strangers. His ear is scarred as a result of self-mutilation done at the lab.

* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:He's trying to raise public awareness of the amoral research being done at Wellzyn, namely the fatal side-effects and human experimentation.]]
* EvilGenius: He's a brilliant chemist who can manufacture weapons-grade biochemical weapons in a personal lab he's put together.
* {{Expy}}: A criminal who kills people with a green toxin, spreads it to the people of Gotham with seeming no goal except to cause chaos, and was disfigured in a biogenics lab? Sounds a lot like ComicBook/TheJoker doesn't he? [[spoiler:Subverted when it turns out he's not all that evil after all.]]
* Foreshadowing: It's mentioned in passing that Viper was just an early prototype formula, but the labs are already working on an improved version without the fatal side-effects, code-named "Venom" - the super-serum that Bane will eventually use.
* NotAfraidToDie: He just wants Gotham to hear his message: when Gordon corners him and holds him at gunpoint, he shows no fear because his work is done.
* PowerDegeneration: Viper gives you incredible strength and endurance, but will eventually kill you - no more than one day after you take it.
* SuperSerum: The Viper he created was intended to be one, but had unfortunate fatal side-effects.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:He was spreading Viper to the public to try and bring light to the amoral research Wellzyn was doing, and resorts to increasingly drastic acts when his initial efforts fail.]]