History Characters / GothamOther

* DreadfulMusician: Well, singer actually. She doesn't have a good singing voice, but Oswald doesn't seem to care because she's his mother. When one of Oswald's patrons starts badmouthing Gertrud, Oswald decides to "talk" with him, killing the patron as his mother sang in the background.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Her StupidEvil decisions accidentally triggers Oswald's memories, bringing the Penguin back.

* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Discretely withholds Elijah's medication, giving him mints instead, to worsen his condition so she can inherit his money faster. She also poisons a bottle of sherry in hopes of killing Oswald, which Elijah ingested by mistake.

* LikeParentLikeCHild: Informing to the police on your enemies to get them out of the way seems to be a proud Kapelput / Cobblepot family tradition.

* HasTwoMommies: She not only has a father but two mothers: one birth mother (Barbara) and one stepmother (Lee).

->'''Played By:''' Melinda Clarke

* ShesGotLegs: Valerie (similarly to that of Vicki in Tim Burton's Batman) has a lovely pair of legs - and she knows it. She is mostly wearing shorts and miniskirts that highlight them and even manages to seduce Gordon with them.

* TooDumbToLive: Apparently she thought that it was a good idea to keep an emotionally unstable criminal psychopath as an abused servant under her control. Unsurprisingly, she ends up pushing him too far and he strikes back.

* IllGirl: She's sick enough that the only option is to cryogenically freeze her so she'll live long enough for a cure to be developed.

-> '''Played By:''' Damian Young

* [[LikeFatherLikeSon Like Mother, Like Son]]: Informing to the police on your enemies to get them out of the way seems to be a proud Kapelput / Cobblepot family tradition.

-> '''Played By:''' Chelsea Spack

* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: The ultimate authority in Arkham is bald and black.

* {{Meganekko}}: At first not obviously apparent, because she wears contact lenses. When she does wear her glasses one day, Ed suffers vivid hallucinations of Kristen Kringle.

* IAteWhat: Is horrified when Oswald reveals to her that the dinner she was eating was made from none other than her own children, whom Oswald killed in revenge.

* IAteWhat: Is horrified when Oswald reveals to her that the dinner she’s eaten is made from her own children, whom Oswald killed and cooked in revenge.

->'''Played By:''' Mark Margolis

* IAteWhat: Oswald tricks her into eating her own children.

* ItIsPronouncedTroPay: Confirms to Harvey and Jim that her last name rhymes with "ice."

[[folder:Tommy Elliot]]
!!Thomas Elliot
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->'''Played By:''' Cole Vallis (Season 1), Gordon Winarick (Season 4)

Yes, ''that'' Tom Elliot. He's a schoolmate of Bruce Wayne and they don't exactly get along.

* AdaptationalJerkass: Originally, in the comics, Tommy Elliot's parents were friends with the Waynes back when they were still alive. Young Tommy was likewise a good friend of Bruce's at least, initially. It wasn't until after [[spoiler: Tommy's half-successful attempt to make himself a SelfMadeOrphan]] that his friendship for Bruce turned antagonistic. But in ''Gotham'', Tommy and Bruce despise each other right off [[ObligatoryJoke the bat]]. He seems to have mellowed out with age, however.
* TheBully: Literally the first time we him, he's picking on Bruce.
** He ends up BullyingADragon when Bruce later shows up to beat Tommy senseless with his own father's watch for insulting his dead mother.
* TheBusCameBack: Returns in season 4 as a new friend of Bruce.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Like other iconic characters, he hasn't done anything particular yet. But comic fans know that this is the kid who would later become [[SerialKiller Hush]]. Possibly a subversion, in that his relatively young age means he doesn't appear as Hush before Bruce becomes Batman - which he only does in the very last episode.
* {{Jerkass}}: Said bad things about Bruce's mom. This bites him in the ass ''hard''.
* MaliciousMisnaming: To "Brucey". Because, you know, [[InsaneTrollLogic he's an orphan]].
* MockingTheMourner: When Bruce objects to Tommy calling him "Brucey", Tommy counters that he can call Bruce whatever he wants, because Bruce is an orphan.
* NightmareFetishist: Seems to really like talking about the gory aspects of his parents' death.
* TookALevelInKindness: When he makes a return, he has noticeably mellowed out, admitting that he was a jerk and that Bruce "should have punched (him) harder, really."
* TwoFirstNames: Per the Creator/DCComics norm.
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[[folder:Gertrud Kapelput]]
!!Gertrud Kapelput
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/CarolKane

Oswald Cobblepot's mother.
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* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Seems oblivious that his wife only married him for his money.

* CoolAunt: The aunt of Silver Age Batman love interest Vicki Vale.

* CoolAunt: The aunt of regular Batman love interest Vicki Vale.

* HasTwoMommies: She not only has a father but two mothers: one birth mother (Barbara) and one foster mother (Lee).

* NotSoDifferent: From Barbara, interestingly - once their lives go sideways in seasons 1 and 3 respectively both display an utterly irrational hatred of/obsession with Jim, both are unwilling to admit their roles in their own downfalls, both end up becoming gang leaders in their own right - and both [[spoiler:end up redeemed, even sharing the name of Barbara's daughter]].

* FamousLastWords: His final prophecy, which he delivers to Jerome.
-->'''Paul Cicero''': You will be a curse upon Gotham. Children will wake from sleep, screaming at the thought of you! Your legacy will be death and madness!

* InTheBlood: He admits to Oswald that all of the males in the family suffer from violent tendencies and urges his son not to give in to his demons.

!The Wayne Family & Wayne Enterprises

[[folder:Bruce Wayne]]
!![[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne / Batman]]
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/DavidMazouz, Creator/MikhailMudrik (adult)
->'''Voiced by:''' Iván Bastidas (Latin-American Spanish), Creator/MutsumiTamura (Japanese)

-->''"I don’t want revenge. I want to understand how it all works."''

The son of Thomas and Martha Wayne. If you don't know why he's important, you're watching the wrong show.

* ActionHero: Starts to become a skiled fighter somewhere in the third or fourth season. By the fifth season, he can take out an entire gang of regular criminals on his own, and by the series finale, [[ForegoneConclusion has finally]] become [[Characters/BatmanTheCharacter Batman.]]
* AdaptationalWimp: In the comics the killing of his parents sets him on the path of the future Batman almost immediately. Here it takes him a bit longer to grow into this decision, as he's immediately focused on killing whoever killed his parents. The show makes clear this is deliberate, showing it was a series of events, influences and decisions that turned him into Batman. [[TookALevelInBadass By season 5 he's grown into both his combat skills and vigilantism]].
* AffectionateNickname: Alfred sometimes affectionately calls him "Master B."
* AgeLift: Is 8 when his parents are killed in most ''Batman'' media, but he's 12 in ''Gotham''.
** This is also applied to himself in the setting in general. In this continuity Bruce manages to be younger than a good number of his supporting cast by a somewhat more noticeable margin than the comics and other continuities and is even younger than a few characters that he was the same age or ''older'' than in those continuities.
* ArchEnemy: Bruce is the focal nemesis of Jerome Valeska, Ra's al Ghul and [[spoiler: Jeremiah, Jerome's twin brother.]]
* BadassBaritone: His voice is remarkably deep after 10 years in the finale, to the point the gangs he attacks describe him as growling.
* BadassLongcoat: Starts wearing one in season 5.
* BatDeduction: True to form, it's how he finds the entrance to the future Batcave in his father's study. He remembers his father always came in the room to play piano in the evening but kept the door locked at all times, and uses that to deduce his father hid something in the room. He later remembers Lucius Fox called his father "stoic" and remembers a Roman emperor who was described as such; he picks up what is apparently the sole book in the study on said emperor and in it finds a remote control for the cave entrance.
* BattleCouple: Bruce fights alongside Selina, a girl he has long been fond of, particularly in the latter half of season 4 and season 5.
* BatmanGambit: Pulls a spectacular one on Silver St. Cloud with help from Selina and some hired thugs to figure out what her family knows about his parents' killer. He had them kidnap the two of them, fake torturing him and hit him a couple of times, then got them to threaten Silver.
* BecomingTheMask: By the later seasons it's clear the public image of Bruce Wayne is the mask, with the secret vigilante very much the "real" Bruce. However, "Pax Penguina" has Alfred convince him that he can use his public image to stand up to Penguin and do good by influencing the people. But after [[spoiler:he kills Ra's al Ghul he goes down a downwards spiral and turns into a [[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob drunk playboy party animal.]] ]]
* BrattyTeenageSon: Not always, but he can be very rude to people who fail to live up to his ideals or if they are unwilling to help with his goals. Seen most significantly in season 4, when his guilt and depression over [[spoiler:killing Ra's]] sees him abandon any desire to protect people, indulge excessively in drinking and partying and even [[spoiler:fire Alfred]].
* BrainwashedAndCrazy:
** In the second half of season 3 Bruce is kidnapped by the Shaman who offers to remove Bruce's pain of the death of his parents. Unfortunately by removing his pain it makes it easy for the Shaman to shape his mind and make him a weapon for his goals. Subverted, eventually; despite being brainwashed, Bruce's willpower is still strong enough to prevent him from killing people and he eventually breaks through his conditioning by himself.
** Again in season 5, when [[spoiler:Ivy almost makes him shut down Gotham's water purification plant in order to make it a paradise for plant life.]]
* BrokenPedestal: Realizes that his father was in on the corruption in Wayne Enterprises the whole time and adds him to his suspects list. [[RebuiltPedestal Soon he learns his father didn't have a choice in the matter]].
* CallForward: Bruce's observations on the man who murdered his parents showcase his keen attention to detail, a notable sign of his potential and eventual blossoming into a crime fighting detective.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: With Selina Kyle, and they both have a WillTheyOrWontThey relationship. [[DatingCatwoman Naturally.]]
* TheChosenOne: According to Ra's al Ghul, a prophecy has foretold that Bruce will be the one to inherit his throne. He's also the only one capable of wielding the dagger that can kill Ra's, and does so. [[spoiler:Twice]].
* CombatPragmatist: Thanks to Alfred's training (and Selina's influence) Bruce is perhaps the least reserved fighter in the cast. He has no reservations with tackling someone from behind and he doesn't hold back when fighting the likes of Jerome - their battle in the Hall of Mirrors is full of feints, rabbit punches, kidney shots, and elbows to the face.
-->'''Jerome:''' What kind of hero tackles someone from behind?!
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: In the finale, he's never once referred to as "Batman".
* CreateYourOwnVillain: Selina might understand his [[spoiler:abandoning Gotham without even telling her face-to-face]], but it's clear without him around to guide her morals he's pretty much ensured her becoming Catwoman - [[DatingCatwoman not that it's necessarily a bad thing for him...]]
* CreepyChild: In the first few seasons this isn't played for horror, but for tragedy: Bruce engages in ''very'' reckless and self-destructive behavior since his parents' death, including punching a bully hard enough that it could've killed him had Alfred not intervened. It takes the positive influences of Alfred, Gordon and Selina to really get through to him.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Is commonly seen wearing black, a trait that becomes more recognized later in the series to the point where he obtains a suit that is a prototype of the Batsuit, but Bruce is also destined to become Gotham City’s greatest protector.
* DatingCatwoman: Not remotely surprisingly given the particulars of that trope: he falls for Selina early on, and while their relationship is all over the place over the seasons, it's clear he's got a lot of affection for the morally ambiguous thief - and she for him.
* DeadpanSnarker: Suits his relatively emotionless delivery, especially as he gets older.
-->'''Alfred:''' Lucius Fox's armor is bullet-proof; my mask is not.
-->'''Bruce:''' Don't get shot in the face. Got it.
-->'''Alfred:''' ...do I detect a note of sarcasm, Master Bruce?
* DeathGlare: He's really good at this when angry.
* DespairEventHorizon: He refuses to give up the mystical dagger's location to Ra's, even when he has Alex hostage - as a result, Ra's slits the boy's throat. The guilt and shame he feels are enough to push him into breaking his ThouShaltNotKill rule, actually killing Ra's (albeit [[SuicideByCop at his own instigation]]).
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The entirety of the series is a long line of them, showing that unlike other continuities Batman is born of a series of circumstances, encounters and decisions.
** The earliest comes at the end of "The Balloonman", he realizes that a person who kills criminals is still a criminal, and he firmly decides that that is ''not'' who he's going to be.
** Telling Leslie that he hadn't felt frightened or despairing when Galavan was about to kill him, but that he'd never felt more alive.
** His awe and wonder as he sees Azrael pull off moves that will one day [[Characters/BatmanTheCharacter become his signature]].
** His absolute refusal to kill Jerome, and the establishment of his ThouShaltNotKill rule.
** "They Did What?" sees him summon a horde of bats to attack Bane via Lucius' techno-trickery, and looks thoughtfully upon them as one flies in front of the moon to show what looks like the Bat-symbol.
* FaceYourFears: Immediately after his parents' death, he becomes obsessed with never feeling that kind of fear again and starts pulling stunts like standing on the edge of Wayne Manor's roof. Alfred has to get Gordon in to teach him that feeling fear isn't a bad thing - it tells him where the edge is between recklessness and stability.
* {{Foil}}: A rather interesting one to Oswald Cobblepot, which is only fitting with their status as the deuteragonists. They are both scrappy, tough as nails orphans that fight blood, tooth, and nail for the city they love, and they both work outside the law to control it. They both see an ally in Jim Gordon, but Oswald's "relationship" with him is considerably more one-sided. Their [[AnimalMotif Animal Motifs]] are the flying mammal and the flightless bird. They are both traumatized by the murder of their parents and hunt down their killers, but Bruce ends up showing mercy while Oswald exacts brutal revenge. Oswald was the son of a poor Hungarian immigrant, and Bruce was raised in extreme wealth, but they both understand isolation all too well, and people tend to underestimate them. Oswald puts on a servile mask to hide his proud and ambitious nature, while Bruce puts on a cocky demeanor to disguise his kind and humble nature. Both of them are somewhat lonely, but have a select few people they care about deeply. By the end of the series, they’ve both overcome the odds and risen to power. Fittingly, Penguin even seems to see some of himself in Bruce.
-->'''Bruce:''' Let these men go.
-->'''Penguin:''' ''(gently)'' You're young. You have a good heart. No.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: At the start, this little boy inspires only mockery in the evildoers for the awkward questions and observations he makes about them; fast forward to the finale where [[spoiler:as Batman, he takes down Penguin and Riddler, two of the series' most formidable villains, in ''seconds'']].
* GenreBlindness: He tells the Board of Wayne Enterprises that he knows that they are corrupt and that he won't tolerate such actions. The Board then decides to hire a spy and order a hit on Alfred. Astonishingly, Bruce doesn't learn from this; a few seasons later, he does the same thing in hopes of flushing out the Court of Owls. They respond by sending a Talon to kidnap him, then threaten him into dropping his investigation.
* GreatDetective: "Viper" is the start of him becoming ''the'' Greatest Detective as he starts assembling the information to figure out how the Mob was able to take over the Arkham project from Wayne Industries, complete with [[StringTheory a wall of data]]. In subsequent years he proves more than capable of deducing the mysteries of the Court of Owls without any assistance.
* GuileHero: As he doesn't grow into an ActionHero until the end of the series, he's forced to be this, relying on brains over brawn to achieve his goals. Select examples include living on the streets with Selina in order to gain a close-up view of crime, playing on Jerome's AttentionWhore tendencies to convince him to not kill him without an audience (giving Gordon time to find him), and acting like a RichIdiotWithNoDayJob if it suits his plans to be underestimated.
* GuiltComplex: Something he seems to have picked up from Gordon; he takes responsibility for stopping Jerome after he escapes Arkham because he chose not to kill him in their prior encounter - thus whatever Jerome does now is on his head. Selina calls him on the [[InsaneTrollLogic absurdity of this]].
* TheHeart: Played with; in the aftermath of his parents' death, he's very openly emotional, trusting, and honest, even if he needs a push in the right direction sometimes. However, as the series goes on he grows more and more into TheStoic, and while Alfred and Selina especially still see the caring side of him, he becomes far more secretive about what he's doing, especially with Gordon.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Which is why the Wayne Enterprises board of directors wants him dead.
* HeroicBSOD: In season 5 he's hurt and bewildered by Selina's assertion she never changed from the kid who always looked out for number 1 after she [[spoiler:killed Jeremiah Valeska (though she actually hasn't).]] Subsequently he expresses genuine bewilderment to Harvey he can't stop those he cares about slipping into darkness.
* HeroicWillpower: Bruce is able to resist his brainwashing performed on him by the Shaman and doesn't kill even when ordered to do so. In fact the shock of actually fatally stabbing Alfred is enough to break him out of his condition entirely. Ra's al Ghul is delighted by this as Bruce's willpower means that he is truly worthy to become Ra's heir.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Among other things makes it known to the Wayne Enterprises board he's onto them (which directly results in Alfred getting stabbed) and falls hard for [[HoneyTrap Silver St Cloud]]. Selina calls him out on this. The following season it's shown he learns - he immediately sees through Maria Kyle's need for money being the reason she returned to Gotham, where this time it's Selina who's desperately hoping for the best.
* {{Hypocrite}}: More due to his relative inexperience early on than anything, but when Bruce catches Selina stealing wallets at a charity event in "The Last Laugh" and calls her out on it, she correctly reminds him she stole Bunderslaw's safe key for him - something he shamefacedly mumbles "was different".
* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: Definitely has hints of this with Selina. By season 4 he's accepted her randomly popping in and out of his life as a matter of course, because he knows she'll have his back when he truly needs it.
* IWorkAlone: After being burned by Selina and frustrated by Gordon's lack of progress in his parents' case, he develops this mentality. Then RealityEnsues a few episodes later when Bruce goes on a long hike without Alfred, and promptly falls down a hill and sprains his ankle. Some gentle prodding from Alfred makes him realize that sometimes it's good to have people to rely on.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Sometimes he's this, especially whenever he's talking to Selina since he's prone to be disapproving of her lifestyle.
* ItsAllMyFault: Bruce feels guilty over not having done anything to stop his parents' deaths. But as Selina points out, there wasn't much he could do.
--> '''Bruce''': And you saw me? What I did? What I didn't do?
--> '''Selina''': What are you talking about? What could you have done?
--> '''Bruce''': I don't know, ''something''!
--> '''Selina''': You're dreaming, kid. A gun's a gun.
* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: A large-scale version: [[spoiler:Jeremiah almost kills Gordon and Leslie to get at him, while Nyssa al Ghul almost destroys the city to pay him back for the death of Ra's]]. Consequently, [[spoiler:he leaves Gotham to get the training he needs to become Batman]], but also so the people he loves won't be targeted by those gunning for him.
* JustAKid: He has a ''long'' way to go before he becomes the Dark Knight, and he hates being reminded of the fact.
* KidDetective: He investigates his parents' murder, the corruption at Wayne Enterprises and later their links to the Court of Owls and succeeds at all of them with remarkably little outside help, uncovering the murderer and ferreting out the poisonous influences in his family's corporation. He's good enough that the Board at Wayne Enterprises wants him dead.
* LoveHurts: He's really hurt when Selina ends their friendship; it seems to have killed whatever childhood innocence was left in him. They make up, but their relationship thereafter is [[DatingCatwoman complicated, to say the least]].
-->'''Alfred:''' [Upon finding them having a conversation on the edge of a roof] Why can't you two go to the cinema like normal teenagers?!
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: While he and Selina are living together, he cooks, cleans and sews.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: His encounter with [[spoiler:Ivy]] in Wayne Manor and the subsequent hallucinations it causes make him realise what an ass he's been to Alfred.
* NoSocialSkills: Ever since his parents' murder, he's been having trouble talking to kids around his age (aside from Selina, who's not exactly normal). He seems more at ease with adults.
* OddFriendship: With Selina Kyle, a street kid.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In Season 4, [[spoiler: after Bruce kills Ra's al Ghul, he is wracked with guilt, and starts barking at servants, is short with even Alfred, and starts partying at clubs and (under-age) drinking heavily.]]
* OrphansOrdeal: Coping with the loss of his parents was traumatic enough for this trope, in itself; ''also'' coping with Alfred's stabbing, the corruption within his parents' business, and his own growing suspicion that Thomas had secrets of his own takes it UpToEleven - and [[TraumaCongaLine that was just the first season]].
* ParentalAbandonment: His parents were murdered in the first episode.
* PuppyLove: Becomes infatuated with [[ToyShip Selina]] [[LoveAtFirstSight the moment he sets eyes on her]]. She's a lot savvier than he is and much as she grows to care for him, tends to give him the runaround until late season 4.
* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: Picks up a "billionaire brat" persona in "They Who Hide Behind Masks", throwing around money and pretending to be a spoiled brat. He plays it straight later when he drowns his horror at killing Ra's in underage drinking and partying.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: He's able to get out of many scrapes once he starts his vigilante career based on knowing many of the characters in the GCPD; after he's arrested for breaking and entering (he was actually confronting a gang, and they fled before he did) Gordon lets him go without even hearing the details, while Lucius gifts him a prototype Bat-suit based on guessing what he was up to.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney:
** When the government won't fly in the supplies needed to help the Gothamites stranded in No Man's Land, Bruce uses his connections to buy said supplies on the mainland and a helicopter to fly them in.
** Played for laughs in "A Day in the Narrows". When a club won't let him and his friends in to party, Bruce just buys the club on the spot.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: As much as he admires and respects Gordon, by the beginning of season 4 he's convinced that working outside the law is the only way to battle connected threats like Ra's al Ghul.
* SelfHarm: Another part of training himself not to feel fear - much to Alfred's horror.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: He has a very formal way of speaking, even as a ten-year-old boy. This gets him into trouble the first time he tries to pass for a streetwise teen so he can investigate a crime.
* ShipTease: He and Selina are already entering the DatingCatwoman relationship, and embody that trope in full in the DistantFinale as both of them take on their costumed identities.
* SkywardScream: After his parents are killed.
* SpottingTheThread: It's Bruce's observation that the [[ImposterForgotOneDetail killer had shiny shoes]] that causes Gordon to suspect that there was more to the murder than a simple mugging, and then [[PullingTheThread confirm that the supposed killer had been framed]].
* StalkerWithACrush: [[spoiler:He's seen looking in on Selina during one of her thefts after he becomes Batman, and she instantly knows it's him]].
* StealthHiBye: Is already practicing this, apparently, as Alfred mentions that Bruce has done this more than once to him. He pulls it on Selina, and the experienced thief is impressed by how quietly he can move. In the Season 4 premiere he pulls a full Batman-style version on Gordon for the first time, to Gordon's utter confusion, and does it to Bullock midway through season 5. He does it in ''the middle of a crowded room'' in "They Did What?"
-->'''Bullock''': (''impressed'') Kid's fast.
* StiffUpperLip: As advised by Alfred when surrounded by the media after his parents' murder.
* StrongerThanTheyLook: Bruce has taken a gradual [[TookALevelInBadass level in badass]] over the first three seasons, and it shows when he assists Selina in stealing a MacGuffin from the Court Of Owls - there are laser triggers for alarms all over the floor, so in order for Selina to reach the case, she uses a crossbow to fire a cable across the room to act as a tightrope and it's secured by ''Bruce'', holding Selina up and keeping the rope taut enough to walk across ''by himself''.
* SurvivorsGuilt: Made quite clear in "Harvey Dent" he is suffering from this. He asked Selina if she saw how he didn't do anything to protect his parents. Selina is completely baffled, as she knows there was nothing he could have done.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Bruce's attitude towards this is one of the things defining the early evolution of his moral code; he realises early on from the Balloonman killings that killing people, even criminals, just makes you a criminal yourself, and can't bring himself to kill Reggie when he has the chance - with Selina doing the deed for him. When he finds Matches Malone, his parents' killer, he fully intends to kill him, but finds he can't, even when Matches wants him to, and later spares Jerome as well after realizing killing him would make him just like the EvilClown, while stabbing Alfred fatally is enough for him to break out of the Shaman's [[BrainwashedAndCrazy conditioning]]. He finally subverts this trope in "The Blade's Path", where he actually kills Ra's al Ghul out of guilt over letting the latter murder Alex, and after Ra's threatens to kill all his loved ones. [[TheseHandsHaveKilled He reacts exactly as you'd expect.]] In season 4 he's shown to have fallen into a deep depression over it, which sees him pushing Alfred and Selina away.
* TokenGoodTeammate: To Wayne Enterprises, by proxy.
* TookALevelInBadass: Lots of them. He steadily gets more and more physically impressive, with training from Alfred and later the League of Assassins meaning that by [[spoiler: season 5 he's [[CurbStompBattle thrashing near enough the entire Mutant gang by himself]]]]. But we also see his mental transformation, in how he steadily gains more insight and ability into how Gotham really works - going from a clueless child to someone who puzzles out near-enough on his own the goings on at Wayne Enterprises.
* TookALevelInJerkass:
** His obsession with finding his parents' killer grows all-consuming at the start of Season 2, with his actively chewing out Gordon for not taking every measure possible to help him while on the force (which pushes Jim into making a deal with Penguin that ends with Jim killing a man). However, once Jim nearly gets killed in a shoot-out at the GCPD, he makes a point of apologizing.
** Again in season 4 - he experiences severe guilt over [[spoiler:killing Ra's]], leading to his losing himself in partying and underage drinking. He alienates both Alfred and Selina, and even fires Alfred from being his legal guardian once Alfred tries to bring him to his senses. The two reconcile a few episodes once Bruce realizes what an ass he's been (with an assist from [[{{MushroomSamba}} Ivy's hallucinogenic poison]]).
* [[{{Deuteragonist}} Tritagonist]]: Gets the most character development besides Gordon and [[{{Deuteragonist}} Penguin]].
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: In the first season alone he self-harms, listens to heavy metal, draws truly weird artwork in his notebook, repeatedly skips meals, and tries to "conquer fear" by balancing on the roof/top of the stairs and seeing how long he can hold his breath underwater. It takes until Selina arrives at Wayne Manor for him to show some semblance of returning to normality.
* TwoFirstNames: Per the Creator/DCComics characters norm.
* TranquilFury: He rarely loses his cool, but his encounters with Jerome, Ra's and [[spoiler:Jeremiah]] all have him simmering with this.
* UngratefulBastard: Played for laughs at the end of season 2; after being rescued, he tells Alfred and Selina he had a perfectly feasible escape plan (despite being tied up and facing at least a dozen cultists), to their mutual exasperation. Played deadly straight in season 4 when he fires Alfred, after everything his butler had previously done for him.
* UnstoppableRage: Bruce's fury over the apparent murder of Alfred is expressed through a fiery rage that has him hitting Jerome harder than ever and being incredibly brutal in the fight. Then he sees himself in Jerome's clown akeup in the mirror and realises he's NotSoDifferent from the psycho after all.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Even after the death of his parents, he's quite open and trusting in the first couple of seasons. By season three, he's becoming more secretive and suspicious, and season four has him adopting a "spoiled rich brat" public persona to conceal his goals - though it's very much not an act for the first half of the season.
* {{UST}}: With Selina, even by the end of the series.
* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: He suffers from this when he sees his parents' murderer Matches Malone isn't a monster but a sad old man, abandoning his attempt to kill him. Again after he killed Ra's al Ghul, who was indirectly responsible for Thomas and Martha's deaths.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: With [[spoiler:Jeremiah]].
* WhatTheHellHero: After encouraging him to end his affiliation with Selina for her own safety, Alfred explodes at him when Bruce reveals he sent her to Arkham to discover Hugo Strange's secrets. And Alfred gives him a long line of these when calling him on his shitty behaviour after [[spoiler:killing Ra's]].
* WhenHeSmiles: He's usually brooding, so seeing him smile like whenever he's playing around with Selina makes it all the more special.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: While still childish in some ways, he still shows a great level of maturity and intelligence for a child his age. Best exemplified in his [[KidDetective detective skills]]. "The Demon's Head" highlights this, having Bruce console a boy his own age who just lost his grandfather with the wisdom of someone matured by his own grief.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Seems to have Selina pegged as a young FemmeFatale and was (justifiably) suspicious of her offer to let him kiss her. Turns out she just wanted to kiss him.

[[folder:Alfred Pennyworth]]
!!Alfred Pennyworth
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Now, I will raise the boy the way his father told me to raise him."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/SeanPertwee

-->''"Pick your battles. Don't let them pick you."''

The Wayne family butler and Bruce's guardian now that his parents are gone.

* AdaptationalBadass: While he's often portrayed as a badass in the comics, his combat skills are rarely on show as much as here - he's gone toe-to-toe with the likes of Tabitha, Azrael and Zsasz on an even footing. Only Gordon really exceeds him in terms of combat capability.
* AdaptationalDumbass: He's certainly not stupid, but in the comics he's often portrayed as just as skilled as Bruce at using Batman's computers and gadgets. Here, he and Bruce need Lucius Fox for dealing with breaking into Thomas Wayne's computer systems.
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Previous live-action adaptations of Alfred 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.
* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: it's repeatedly brought up that he was in the Special Air Service after the Royal Marines. The [=SAS=] is actually part of the British Army; being part of the Special ''Boat'' Service would be more likely.
* TheAtoner: Revealed in conversation with Tiffany that he saw looking after Bruce as making up for the violence of his past. After Jeremiah [[spoiler:blows up Wayne Manor]] he becomes this in No Man's Land, actively seeking out people to help as a way of making up for letting the Waynes' legacy be destroyed - which ends horribly after he goes up against [[spoiler:Bane]] to save Barbara and Lee, resulting in [[spoiler:his being crippled]].
* 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. In "Lovecraft", he's able to take on professional assassins in a fist-fight, and shoots and kills one from quite a distance as they flee the manor.
-->'''Ivy:''' Who are you, his bodyguard? \\
'''Alfred:''' [[BadassBoast If need be, Miss, yes]].
* BadassInDistress: In season 4, thanks to [[spoiler:Jeremiah Valeska]].
* BadassTeacher: He's realised by season 2 that if he's unable to dissuade Bruce from finding out who killed his parents, he's going to make sure he's as well-prepared for it as can be. Best seen when he fights Cupcake, offering a running commentary to Bruce on the weaknesses in his technique even when he's taking a severe beating and ending the fight in a way that shows Bruce how to take down a larger, stronger opponent.
* BecauseISaidSo: Pulls this when Bruce asks why he has to go back to school.
* BerserkButton: Any hint of Bruce being in danger and he will come after those responsible, no questions asked.
* BreakHisHeartToSaveHim:
** Smashes up Thomas Wayne's computer at the start of season 2, to Bruce's utter horror, because he's sure the information on it will only end up getting Bruce killed - especially after he sees the bullet-riddled Kevlar in Thomas' lair. Interesting variant in that it fails - Bruce (after calming down) tells Alfred he understands exactly why he did it, but he can't let it deter him from the truth, leading Alfred to get the computer fixed.
** Later, he encourages Bruce to do this with Selina, as while he'll support Bruce no matter what he refuses to let their activities put her in danger.
* CareerEndingInjury: [[spoiler:The brutal beating he got from Bane left him walking with a cane ten years later, ending his days of actively assisting Bruce.]]
* CombatPragmatist: He uses whatever he can find to fight off armed assassins assaulting Wayne Manor, including a cane and a dropped pistol. Later, when Tabitha attacks him he immediately targets her injured arm.
* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler:Defeats Zsasz in about 5 seconds in "The Trial of Jim Gordon", though Zsasz has the excuse of being BrainwashedAndCrazy due to Ivy. Is on the receiving end a few episodes later, courtesy of Bane]].
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Implied to have been a POW once. There's also the matter of his meeting Thomas Wayne via the latter covering for him in an incident where he'd woken up covered in blood and with no memory of how it happened.
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: He's visibly unsure what to do with himself once Bruce fires him.
* DoWrongRight: While he's less than thrilled with Bruce's investigations into Wayne Enterprises, he respects Thomas' instructions to let him choose his own path to the letter, and makes sure Bruce receives the combat training he needs.
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: Is a former Special Air Service member.
* EtTuBrute: Alfred gets stabbed and is badly wounded by his old wartime buddy, Reggie, who was ordered by the Wayne Enterprises board of directors to kill Alfred. Luckily, he was only hospitalised as a result.
* FireForgedFriends: With Selina: while they have multiple rocky patches (her killing Reggie, his throwing her out after the fight with Five in season 3) by late season 4 they've both come to accept the other as having Bruce's best interests at heart - in their own way.
* ForeignCurseWord: He's fond of using uniquely British swears like "bloody" and "arse."
* GoodIsNotSoft: He loves Bruce like a son, and is unquestionably one of the good guys - but as a former SAS member, he's far more willing to take extreme courses of action in pursuit of Bruce's safety than Gordon. He was more than willing to let Bruce beat a bullying Tommy Elliot senseless, engaged in ColdBloodedTorture with Kathryn, flat-out killed the Shaman to ensure he didn't make Bruce destroy the city, and has killed numerous mooks in the various scrapes they get into.
* GutturalGrowler: Comes with being played by Sean Pertwee.
* HonorBeforeReason: Thomas' instructions for him if he ended up being Bruce's guardian were to let Bruce choose his own path. That means if Bruce doesn't want to see a psychiatrist, he won't see a psychiatrist - and if Bruce wants to be a crime-fighting vigilante, well...
* {{Hypocrite}}: When Bruce wants to kill the man who killed his parents, Alfred says he'll do it for him [[TheSoulsaver so he won't have a death on his conscience]]. And yet he slugs Selina for [[BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork doing that exact thing]], when she kills Reggie to protect Bruce and keep his hands clean. To be 100% fair, that was likely more because stabbing or no, Reggie was still an old friend.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: We know that he cares about Bruce, but he comes off as extremely abrasive, though this appears to be a sort of tough love approach. This is well exhibited at the beginning of "Selina Kyle", where after learning that Bruce has been burning himself to "test his own strength", he responds by first [[AngerBornOfWorry seizing him and calling him a "stupid boy"]], followed immediately by tightly hugging him and trying to reassure him.
* LikeASonToMe: He clearly cares for Bruce as if he were his own son. He finally straight up says Bruce is the only son he'll ever have in "They Did What?"
* MadeOfIron: Much like Gordon, Penguin and other characters, he's taken ''a lot'' of abuse in the series and kept on trucking. Best seen in season 2 when he's knifed in the back by Tabitha, buried alive and tasered by uncomprehending cops. Only the last keeps him down, and he's back on his feet in a few hours tops.
* TheObiWan: Once he's made up his mind to support Bruce on his quest for justice, he's the one that insists he get the training for it, as well as pushing him to appreciate the value of ThouShaltNotKill. By the start of season 4 he's also teaching Bruce of the value of the good he can do as Bruce Wayne, not just a vigilante.
* OddFriendship: He and Lucius establish an alliance when both realize that they care for Bruce as his guardians. He's also got this with Harvey Bullock.
* OnlyAFleshWound: He takes a bullet to the upper arm but shoos paramedics away and spends the rest of the episode seemingly no worse for wear. Averted when his old friend, Reggie, stabbed him in the chest and put him in the hospital and again when the pasting he takes from Cupcake lands him there again while Bruce hunts down Matches Malone.
* OpenMindedParent: Thomas Wayne's will said that Bruce should choose his own path, so Alfred gives Bruce quite a bit of leeway. He still insists that Bruce go back to school and be around kids his own age, and as seen with his strictness about meal times, he has his limits in how far he'll go.
* PapaWolf: Not even a gunshot wound is enough to slow Alfred down if he thinks Bruce is in danger.
** While at a Wayne Enterprises event, when he sees poison gas about to enter the room, he takes off his jacket and puts it around Bruce's head to protect him.
** When he and Harvey arrive at where Bruce and Selina are being held in "Lovecraft", two goons immediately open fire on them. Bullock takes cover. Alfred ''advances into the ambush.''[[note]]British & American military doctrine for a near ambush calls for troops to immediately assault the ambush position to get out of the killing zone.[[/note]]
* ParentalSubstitute: To Bruce, along with Gordon.
* ParentsAsPeople: There's no doubt that he and Bruce love each other, but Alfred's parenting methods are rather harsh, particularly since Bruce is so sensitive and recently traumatized. While ToughLove is shown to be his default style, it's also indicated that he resorts to it because he's unsure how else to proceed, struggling to provide the father figure Bruce needs in the sudden absence of the Waynes. In the early seasons he often has to ask Gordon for help when it comes to Bruce's more emotional outbursts.
* PromotedToParent: After the Waynes are killed, he becomes Bruce's legal guardian.
* RetiredBadass: An ex-Marine AND SAS member. He's capable of keeping up with and beating much younger assailants.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Goes ballistic when his waitress friend Tiffany is killed by her abusive boyfriend to frame him, immediately tracking him down and kicking the crap out of him regardless of the fact he's a wanted man.
* SemperFi: Alfred is a former Royal Marine. It should be noted that Royal Marines Commandos are different from the American Military branch that share their name. They are amphibious trained and special operations capable. Their nearest equivalent would be Force Recon US Marines.
* ServileSnarker: This version of Alfred is an extremely blatant version of a servile snarker. His voice practically drips with venom as he inserts himself into Gordon and Bruce's conversation at the end of the pilot episode.
-->'''Gordon:''' We killed an innocent man.\\
'''Alfred:''' Riiight... So? Who did it, then?\\
'''Gordon:''' I don't know.\\
'''Alfred:''' I see. Sterling work there then, mate, innit?
* ShellShockedVeteran: Upon meeting an old friend from the army, he quickly grows uneasy reminiscing about their missions and says the faces of everyone he killed still haunt him.
* SherlockScan: In season 4 he can tell from the way a potential assailant is standing that he's out of shape and three drinks in, shortly before kicking his ass.
* ShipTease: Alfred tries hitting on Leslie when attending a charity ball. Doesn't go anywhere in following seasons though, and is likely just a MythologyGag regarding their comics relationship.
* ShipperOnDeck: Zigzagged with his attitude to Bruce and Selina. Although he initially dislikes Selina because of the danger she puts Bruce in, he still encourages Bruce's crush on her (mainly because she's the first one to get him laughing and smiling again). Then she kills Reggie, and he tells her to stay far away from Bruce as possible. Things change though, and by late season 4 he's visibly come to accept it.
* TheSoulsaver:
** When Bruce tells him he wants to kill the man who killed his parents, he merely replies that Bruce is too young to have a death on his conscience....so he'll do it for him.
** Takes a darker turn in season 2 when he adamantly tries to defeat Bruce's efforts to identify his parents' killers, knowing that doing so will just bring greater levels of emotional pain and vengeance.
** Taken to even ''greater'' extremes at the end of Season 3, when [[spoiler: Ra's al Ghul commands brainwashed Bruce to kill Alfred, and the captive butler sincerely insists that he's ''willing to let him'', if that's what it takes to bring Bruce back to himself. Because he knows if he ''doesn't'' say so, Bruce will '''never''' be able to live with what Ra's is compelling him to do.]]
* SourSupporter: His UndyingLoyalty to Thomas' wishes to let Bruce forge his own path often run headlong into his PapaWolf instincts to keep Bruce safe as said path turns out to be a descent into extremely dangerous vigilantism. Consequently, while he'll support Bruce to the bitter end he doesn't have to like it, and is usually the first to point out the flaws in Bruce's actions.
* StiffUpperLip: Alfred instructs Bruce to steel himself and not let the public see him cry as they walk away from where Bruce's parents are lying dead.
* TenMinuteRetirement: He's fired by Bruce in the middle of season 4, but the two mend fences later.
* ThreatBackfire: His promising Lucius Fox he'd tuck him up like a kipper if he betrayed his and Bruce's trust in any way might have gone better if Lucius had any idea what a kipper was.
* ToughLove: It's partly his JerkWithAHeartOfGold personality, but it's also partly because he's struggling to deal with having to act as Bruce's ParentalSubstitute so unexpectedly.
** He gives Bruce a comforting hug after his parents are killed, and then he instructs him to not be seen crying in public.
-->'''Alfred:''' Don't look. Head up, eyes front! Don't let them see you cry.
** He also finds Bruce crying after Selina both rejects him and tells him that she lied about seeing his parents' killer, then asks if Bruce would like to sweep up the mess and move on or if he would like to keep crying.
** Bruce falls on a hike and sprains an ankle, then climbs all the way up the hill only to find Alfred sitting there with a fire, clearly settled in. When Bruce asks why he did nothing to help, Alfred answers, "I didn't put you there, did I?" In this case, Bruce has been pushing everyone away - this is Alfred's way of making him realize he needs help sometimes.
* UndyingLoyalty: To the Waynes, even after their death. He resolves to follow Thomas' instructions for him as Bruce's guardian: "let him choose his own path".
* UngratefulBastard: Openly slaps Selina for her killing of Reggie - despite that being her doing it because Bruce couldn't, so he couldn't expose them to the board of Wayne Enterprises.
* VerbalTic: He addresses people as "mate" instead of "sir" like you would expect from a butler. He does seem to reserve this for people he ''doesn't'' work for, though. He changes his tune by the second episode, though, when he needs help with Bruce.
* WhatTheHellHero: If there's anyone in the cast who'll give Bruce a verbal ripping for his worse decisions/behaviour, chances are good it'll be Alfred. His flipping out when he discovers Bruce sent Selina to Arkham to spy on Hugo Strange is particularly noteworthy.
* WorthyOpponent: Exchanges smiles and nods of wry respect with Victor Zsasz in "Pax Penguina", when the two men draw on each other simultaneously at the opening of the Iceberg Lounge.
* WouldHitAGirl: Rare heroic example.
** Immediately socks a female assassin on the jaw once he realizes that she's at Wayne Manor to hurt the children.
** He slaps Selina for killing Reggie.
** When confronting Kathryn during a police interrogation, he stabs her through the hand without a second thought.
* WouldHurtAChild: Slaps Selina, who can't be more than 14 at that point, for killing Reggie.

[[folder:Molly Mathis]]
!!Molly Mathis
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->'''Played By:''' Sharon Washington

A middle management executive at Wayne Enterprises and former employee of Well Zyn, the developers of Viper.

* AlliterativeName: '''M'''olly '''M'''athis.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: At first she she seems like a nice person, then we find out she's involved in corrupt and unethical business practices, like the creation of Viper. Then she orders a hit on Alfred.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: She's among the corrupt executives working within Wayne Enterprises. Enough to hire a spy to look into Bruce's findings and kill Alfred.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: It looks like she's responsible for the Wayne murders with other corrupt members of Wayne Enterprises - then season 3 reveals they're actually beholden to the Court of Owls.
* OhCrap: She clearly didn't enjoy the news that Bruce was researching "irregularities" in the company.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Mathis is only in the show for two episodes but her impact is vital to Bruce's overall storyline.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Mathis' arc fizzles out once Bruce starts looking into the Court of Owls. There has been no mention of her ever since she put a hit out on Bruce Wayne and become a KarmaHoudini in her actions.
* WouldHurtAChild: She (and the rest of the Board) have no problem killing Bruce so they can continue their illegal activities.

[[folder:Sid Bunderslaw]]
!!Sid Bunderslaw
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->'''Played by:''' Michael Potts

A Wayne Enterprises executive who hired Reggie to look into Bruce's investigation of the company.

* AffablyEvil: Openly admits that Wayne Enterprises subverts regulations every way it can, but comes across as fairly nice despite catching Bruce breaking into his office.
* BreakingSpeech: Gives one to Bruce how every Wayne family member finds out about the company's corruption and tries to stop it only for them just to accept it as normal business practices.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Theo is subjecting him to some brutal torture since he requires his help with his own EvilPlan.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: By his own admission and apparently very proud of it.
* EyeScream: Tabitha rips out his eye so they can pass through his security safe.
* NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine: He is very insistent in offering Bruce a cookie.
* PetTheDog: Seems to genuinely offer Bruce a chance to get out of his troubles with the Board by warning Bruce to just accept the truth and live the life outside of the corruption that his parents wanted him to have.
* UncertainDoom: He has [[EyeScream one of his eyes ripped]] out by Tabitha. Afterwards, there has been no mention of him or his fate.

[[folder:Thomas and Martha Wayne]]
!!Thomas and Martha Wayne
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->'''Played By:''' Grayson [=McCouch=] (Thomas) & Brette Taylor (Martha)


The wealthy leaders of Wayne Enterprises, and the loving parents of Bruce Wayne. They're gunned down in front of their young son during a fateful encounter with a mysterious masked killer.

* AdaptationalBadass: In every other version of the Batman story, Bruce's parents are simply there to get killed in front of him and instill his hatred of crime. This time, Thomas is revealed to have been well on his way to becoming a crime fighter himself when he was killed, and it's clear that Bruce's transformation into Batman will be built on what he started. This seems to be inspired by the comics story ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'', which presented an alternate universe in which Thomas became Batman.
* BrokenPedestal: Bruce is devastated to learn his father was eventually convinced to let the company's sordid dealings continue, and adds him to his board of suspects. But soon realized he didn't have a choice.
* TheBusCameBack: Sort of: In an attempt to become the most important person in Bruce's life, Jeremiah Valeska had Tetch whammy two similar-looking people who then got exacting plastic surgery to look like Thomas and Martha.
* DeathByOriginStory: Whoever killed them is the mystery the main characters are trying to solve. The mystery is solved before the second season is out, but the real story is just beginning, with Bruce's quest to find the killers gradually advancing from corrupt Wayne Enterprises to the Court of Owls and eventually Ra's al Ghul.
* DiesWideOpen: Both Waynes die like this, Martha instantly and Thomas managing to lock eyes with his son for an instant before expiring.
* HappyFlashback: Bruce flashes back to hiking and watching the sunrise with his father in "Scarecrow".
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: You've got to give them credit for trying to improve the quality of life in Gotham City. Thomas in particular hid a lot of secrets that only proved how saintly he was.
* PosthumousCharacter: Considering that it's their murder which kicks off the plot...
* TokenGoodTeammate:
** As far as the Wayne Enterprises management is concerned. They were the only ones who saw Viper and its sequel, Venom, for the bad news they really were.
** Thomas was also this to the Indian Hill team; he was ultimately the only one who cared about those being subjected to its human enhancement project, even sending them into hiding for their own protection.

[[folder:Xander Wilde]]
!! See the [[Characters/GothamRoguesGalleryCellblockA Jeremiah Valeska]] section
[[/folder]]

!Arkham Asylum
[[folder:Dr. Gerry Lang]]
!!Dr. Gerry Lang
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->'''Played By:''' Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

The director of Arkham Asylum.

* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: The ultimate authority in Arkham is bald and black.
* HateSink: He constantly acts as antagonistic as possible to Gordon and ensures that his time at Arkham is a living hell. Absolutely no tears are shed when he's killed by his own inmates.
* {{Jerkass}}: He repeatedly blames Gordon for things that are not his fault and that he couldn't have prevented. When a fight breaks out during a play and there are several guards around, Gordon becomes his scapegoat by virtue of being the one to break it up. Subverted in that once confronted with the facts he does help Bullock with the investigation by explaining the risks of electroshock, and points out that someone Gordon thinks is on his staff really isn't...
* JerkassHasAPoint: He insists the electroshock torture was done by an inmate and not a member of the staff, and the victim was clinically alive, if braindead, and thus no murder had been committed. While he may have done so just to prevent the police from getting involved, he was right.
* KarmicDeath: Killed by inmates that got out due to his flippant disregard for proper security.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: When one of the patients has undergone electroshock therapy that rendered them braindead, he declared that since he was still breathing there was no murder, and so there was no need to call the cops for a simple case of in-house violence.

[[folder:Warden Reed]]
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-> '''Played By:''' Damian Young

Director of Arkham at the start of Season 4. Indifferent and corrupt, he outright ''sells'' Jonathan Crane to the Merton gang, an action for which the Scarecrow makes him pay.

* MonsterClown: The Crane fear-toxin makes Reed hallucinate that demonic clowns were everywhere. After Scarecrow's brainwashing, he applied clown makeup to himself and joins Arkham's other lunatics in menacing Jim Gordon.
* NeverMyFault: Acts like he doesn't know what Gordon and Bullock are talking about when they question him about Jonathan, then ''instantly'' switches to claiming the Merton gang threatened him when he realizes the police have proof the younger Crane was taken by the gang.
* TheShrink: Of the Harmful variety. Reed apparently made no effort to ''cure'' Jonathan of his toxin-induced hallucinations, only to keep his patient "manageable". His methods of doing so consisted of shock treatment, isolation, and exploiting the young man's terror of scarecrow-imagery.

!People of Gotham

[[folder:Leslie "Lee" Thompkins]]
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/MorenaBaccarin

Initially one of the medical staffers at Arkham Asylum, after the medical examiner at the GCPD is fired, she takes his spot in the office. She served as medical examiner for three seasons before leaving the position at the end of Season 3 after a major falling out with Jim after [[ItMakesSenseInContext he killed her fiance]]. Returns to become the de facto ruler of the Narrows, Gotham's slums in season 4 via a shaky alliance with the Riddler before reconciling with Jim in season 5 [[spoiler:and marrying him]].

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Attracts her own in season 4 in the shape of the Riddler, who becomes obsessed with getting her to unleash her inner darkness once more.
* ActionSurvivor: Has survived Barbara trying to kill her numerous times, Jerome taking her hostage and [[spoiler:Eduardo having his men try to execute her]], but she's a lot tougher than she appears and always manages to fight her way out.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the comics, Leslie is an older, matronly mentor figure to Bruce. In this series, it's Morena [[Series/{{Firefly}} "Inara"]] Baccarin!
* AgeLift: Inverted; unlike other characters, she goes in the opposite direction, being younger than Alfred, whereas their comic counterparts are around the same age. Her comics counterpart is also around Thomas Wayne's age, whereas Baccarin is quite a bit younger than Grayson [=McCouch=], who plays Thomas Wayne.
* AgentMulder: Season 1 shows she's a bit more willing to believe in supernatural theories than Jim.
* ArchEnemy:
** She and Barbara are this for the first few seasons due to Barbara's [[InsaneTrollLogic belief she stole Jim from her]] - even after her being cured from the Tetch virus the first thing she does when she sees a resurrected Barbara is punch her in the face. [[spoiler:Cools off in season 5; the two reconcile during the birth of Barbara's daughter, enough that the younger Barbara is given the middle name Lee as a reminder of who's watching her back in Gotham]].
** In season 4 she regards [[spoiler:Sofia Falcone as this after she smashes Lee's hand to get at Gordon.]]
* AscendedExtra: Once a recurring character in Season 1, now a main character in the following seasons.
* TheAtoner: Becomes this as of season 4, in light of her actions while under the influence of the Tetch Virus in season 3. Since she stopped Jim from preventing the virus' release, she has returned to Gotham to help out in the Narrows, the slums of Gotham, which were hit the hardest by the outbreak.
* AllForNothing: Throughout season 4 she tries to make life better for the people of the Narrows by any means necessary - [[spoiler:killing Sofia Falcone, robbing banks and allying with the Riddler]] to keep them all safe. In season 5 the Narrows have gone to the dogs after Jeremiah blew the bridges, and she says this word for word when viewing the Narrows gangs running riot.
* BackAlleyDoctor: [[spoiler: "The Blade's Path" reveals that she became this after returning to Gotham.]]
* BerserkButton: As of "Anything For You", just Nygma's presence is this. She despises him for what he had done to her and Jim, and especially for Kristen's death, but they're in a bizarre Catch-22 position where she can't do anything serious to him (bar [[GoodOldFisticuffs a good right cross]]) due to his position as Mayor Cobblepot's Chief-of-Staff, nor he to her due to her marrying the son of Carmine Falcone.
* BloodSplatteredWeddingDress: After making the mistake of being near Mario when Jim catches him in full "IfICantHaveYou" mode.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Through first her exposure to the Tetch virus, and later [[spoiler:Hugo Strange putting a mind-control chip in her head for Nyssa al Ghul]].
* ButNowIMustGo: After being cured, Lee decides to take a proper leave from Gotham but promises to come back once Gordon makes Gotham better for everyone, including both of them. She does, but it takes another season before [[spoiler:reconciling with Jim, then marrying him]].
* CatFight: With Barbara in the Season 1 finale.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Shows shades of this whenever Barbara's around, or Jim has to go to her for help. More justified than most examples given her [[AxCrazy long history]] with Barbara.
* CommutingOnABus: She's absent for the latter half of season two and a good chunk of early season 3 due to Baccarin's real life pregnancy. She also misses the first half of season 5 due to the actress's other commitments.
* CompositeCharacter: She's obviously got the medical background and caring nature of the comics version of Leslie, but she also shares many traits with comic!Sarah Essen from ''ComicBook/BatmanYearOne'', being she's a close ally of Gordon and has an affair with him. [[spoiler: She also eventually marries Jim, like Sarah.]]
* ConscienceMakesYouGoBack: [[spoiler:Come season 4, she returns to Gotham to help the victims of the virus.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Most notably in season 3 and 4, where she's gotten way more jaded.
-->'''Lee:''' Theo Galavan's dead.
-->'''Jerome:''' No! Who beat me to it?
-->'''Lee:''' [[DeathIsCheap ...which time?]]
* DespairEventHorizon: After a gruelling road, Lee crosses the line in "All Will be Judged;" lost in her hatred of Gordon and deciding that there is no justice or hope to be found in Gotham, she injects herself with the Alice Tetch virus.
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:She and Ed stab each other to death at the end of season 4. They're both back on their feet in season 5, thanks to Hugo Strange]].
* EvilCostumeSwitch: She's fond of wearing all-black outfits, including black eyeliner, once she injects herself with the Tetch virus.
* {{Flanderisation}}: Her season 5 portrayal is much closer to the compassionate but strong-willed doctor she was in season 1 than the morally dubious gang boss of season 4 - likely to make her reconciliation with Jim more plausible.
* HazyFeelTurn: Her portrayal in season 4 is interesting: she's trying to do good by ensuring the people to the Narrows are cared for and protected from the [[spoiler:Penguin/Falcone gang war]] and still helps Jim find Jeremiah's bombs (even strong-arming Riddler into helping), but she's willing to both use dirty tactics (like poisoning a rival gang boss and ransoming the cure for the Narrows' safety) and later ally with the Riddler to rob banks to give them enough money to buy food for themselves.
* HonorBeforeReason: She will never abandon her patient no matter what. [[spoiler:Even if it's a pregnant Barbara]].
* HospitalHottie: She wears some outfits that are probably quite inappropriate for a doctor in a maximum security psychiatric hospital.
* TheILoveYouStigma: She exploits Ed's feelings for her, saving the life of one of the contestants in his lethal gameshow by giving him a riddle where the obvious answer is "I love you". Due to his attraction to her (and aversion to positive feelings in general) he CannotSpitItOut, and she wins.
* IdiotBall: Grabs it firmly with both hands in season 3. OK, so her being furious at Jim for gunning down her husband is reasonable, as she doesn't know the full story. But even after she sees the depths to which the Tetch virus can reduce someone to (in Barnes), she persists in being basically making everything about Jim's life harder. Among other things, she threatens to expose that his uncle Frank killed himself (which would almost certainly lead to the Court killing him), almost gets Bruce killed when her sniping about Gordon killing Mario almost makes her fail to bring up Jerome's mentioning Bruce in time, and finally decides to inject herself and Jim with the virus when burying him underground, ''then'' actually stops him stopping the Court's virus bomb, leading to hundreds of deaths and riots throughout Gotham. Really, it's a minor miracle she's not in jail by season 4.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Shattered her bathroom mirror and used one of the shards to defend herself against a knife-swinging Barbara.
* InSeriesNickname: Most of the characters refer refer to her as "Lee", something notably not present in the comics.
* KarmaHoudini: She willingly steals and injects herself with the Tetch virus, assaults and infects Jim too, screws up his attempts to stop a gas bomb that directly caused dozens or hundreds more to be infected - ''and never gets punished''. Jim [[spoiler:even ends up marrying her a few seasons later]].
** KarmaHoudiniWarranty: In a matter of speaking. The law couldn't get to her, but the weight of her conscience did, so she returned to Gotham to help the victims. She does end up getting some karmic retribution later on in Season 4 when Sofia seizes control of the Narrows from her and brutally mutilates her hand with a hammer.
* TheLostLenore: Regards Mario as this after his death in season 3 - very, very inaccurately.
* ManipulativeBitch: She can't match his intelligence, but takes advantage of Riddler's prior attraction to her, emotionally playing him like a fiddle throughout season 4.
* MsFanservice: She's always wearing short skirts and fancy dresses in most of her appearances.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: She speaks to a Tetch-inflicted Barnes, and has a big one of these when she realises how insane the virus has made him - and that she's had Falcone put out a hit on Jim for his killing Mario for something he was probably right about.
* NeverMyFault: Blames Gordon for everything that goes wrong in her life in season 3, ignoring that she completely blanked Jim's warnings that Mario was infected with the Tetch virus, and Mario's own increasingly sketchy behavior towards her. Tellingly, despite Jim, Harvey, Barnes and even Carmine Falcone all pointing out to her that a. Jim saved her life and b. she obviously still has feelings towards him, she ignores all of them and ends up injecting both herself and Gordon with the virus.
* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: Moves from Arkham to the GCPD as the new coroner almost as soon as Jim is reinstated there.
* NiceGirl: {{Jerkass}} moments aside, Lee is overall a kind, caring and compassionate woman. Gets thrown out the window in season 3 and 4, but comes back in season 5.
* NotSoDifferent: From Barbara, interestingly - once their lives go sideways in seasons 1 and 3 respectively both display an utterly irrational hatred of/obsession with Jim, both are unwilling to admit their roles in their own downfalls, both end up becoming gang leaders in their own right - and both [[spoiler:end up redeemed, even sharing the name of Barbara's daughter]].
* OfficialCouple: While they have their fair share of snags along the way, eventually becomes this with Jim - [[spoiler:getting married late in season 5]].
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: When Eduardo orders his men to [[spoiler:kill her out of sight of Jim, by the time Gordon fights off Eduardo to get to her, she's dispatched her would-be executioner with two pistol rounds.]]
* OnlySaneMan: Frequently, most notably when pointing out the flaws in Jim's alliance with Penguin to take down Galavan.
-->'''Lee:''' You're on the run from the law, you want to attack the mayor with the help of a depraved sociopath, that's not crazy?!
-->'''Penguin:''' [[ImStandingRightHere I can hear you.]]
-->'''Lee:''' Shh! Don't speak!
* ParentalSubstitute: She's not shown interacting with Bruce all that often, but [[spoiler:Jeremiah Valeska regards her as this enough to target her in season 5]].
* PetTheDog: She strongly implies she came to have real feelings for Ed in season 4 [[spoiler:when she stabs him]], but that Ed's psychosis would never let her be the Lee Ed wanted.
* PromotedToLoveInterest: In the comics, Leslie has occasionally been a potential love interest for Alfred, and has rarely, if ever, interacted directly with Gordon or the Gotham Police Department. Here, she's working for them, and is forming a very close bond with Gordon himself.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: As of mid-Season 2, Leslie Thompkins was pregnant with Gordon's baby. In real life, Creator/MorenaBaccarin had her partner Creator/BenMcKenzie's baby around this time. Interestingly, subverted in practice - [[https://eu.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2016/03/10/exclusive-morena-baccarin-ben-mckenzie-welcome-baby-girl/81623128/ interviews indicated]] that the writers had always planned on doing a pregnancy storyline anyway, and real events simply tied into that.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: The comic version of Lee was not married to [[spoiler:James Gordon.]]
* {{Revenge}}: Is determined to gain this on [[spoiler:Sofia Falcone]] after she's forced out of the Narrows, even going so far as to work with Penguin and Riddler to get rid of her. She ends up [[spoiler:shooting her in the head while she's distracted trying to kill Jim]], and crushes the hand of [[spoiler:Sofia's]] underboss Samson as symbolic retribution.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Does this several times, leaving Gotham after Jim chooses his crusade against Galavan over her and their unborn child in season 2, then again in season 3 after the anarchy caused by the Tetch virus unleashes her own dark side (though it turns out she never left, just cut all contact with the rest of the main cast members).
* SuperDoc: Is apparently qualified to do everything from provide trauma counselling to obstetrics.
* SurgeonsCanDoAutopsiesIfTheyWant: Leslie is first seen as a physician at Arkham Asylum. A few weeks afterwards, she takes up the post of medical examiner. Two very different specialties are involved here.
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:She becomes a lot tougher and more self-confident in Season 4 when she takes over the Narrows. She's far more physically capable too, as shown when she takes down Firefly by destroying her fuel tank.]]
* TookALevelInJerkass: Hugely in season 3 when Jim kills her husband Mario (unbeknownst to her, infected with the Tetch Virus) to save her life. She constantly blames and berates him, even after she discovers the truth of Mario's affliction. It ends up with her taking the Tetch virus, then forcing it on Jim too.
* TookALevelInKindness:
** After Gordon cures her in the Season 3 finale, she decides to leave Gotham after all the trauma she's experienced, although she does leave him an uplifting goodbye letter saying that she believes he can save Gotham and that when he does, she'll come back to him, implying that she's finally forgiven him for Mario's death.
** She's a lot nicer in season 5 than the prior season, eventually [[spoiler:marrying Gordon]].
* UngratefulBitch: She hates Jim after he kills Mario who was seconds away from stabbing her. Even after medical examination confirms Jim's claim that he was infected with the Tetch virus, she still treats him with open disdain and later it's shown she STILL refuses to believe Mario was infected and trying to kill her.
* UnscrupulousHero: She gets Dwight's informant to talk simply by injecting him with truth serum, in stark contrast to Bullock's JackBauerInterrogationTechnique. And that's not even getting into the laundry-list of offences she commits as Queen of the Narrows...
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom:
** She innocently asks Jim to look into Kringle's disappearance, which leads to a paranoid Nygma framing Gordon for killing a fellow officer, which kicks off the whole Mario subplot of Season 3 behind the scenes, which ultimately destroys Gordon's truce with Falcone, not to mention his relationship with her.
** Also, while talking with a resurrected Jerome, she confirms for him that Bruce Wayne is still alive, leading Jerome to go after Bruce Wayne to try to finish him off.
* WhatTheHellHero: Gives Jim a LOT of these in the first two seasons, the kicker being when Jim chooses to go after Theo Galavan with Penguin instead of coming with her and their unborn child. Noticeably more so, but with far less justification in season 3 after everyone at the GCPD - Jim, Harvey, Barnes - all get fed up with her constantly blaming Jim for Mario's death.
* {{Yandere}}: Unsurprisingly, Alice's blood turns Lee into one for Gordon. She takes after Barnes's example, seeing the virus as a blessing rather than a curse, and wants Gordon to inject himself too so they can be psychopaths together, so much that she's willing to bury him alive to force it.
* YouAreInCommandNow: [[spoiler:After Cherry's death, Lee finds herself in control of the Narrows, as she was one of the most well-respected members of the community.]]

[[folder:Tommy Elliot]]
!!Thomas Elliot
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[[caption-width-right:350:season one]]
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[[caption-width-right:340:season four]]
->'''Played By:''' Cole Vallis (Season 1), Gordon Winarick (Season 4)

Yes, ''that'' Tom Elliot. He's a schoolmate of Bruce Wayne and they don't exactly get along.

* AdaptationalJerkass: Originally, in the comics, Tommy Elliot's parents were friends with the Waynes back when they were still alive. Young Tommy was likewise a good friend of Bruce's at least, initially. It wasn't until after [[spoiler: Tommy's half-successful attempt to make himself a SelfMadeOrphan]] that his friendship for Bruce turned antagonistic. But in ''Gotham'', Tommy and Bruce despise each other right off [[ObligatoryJoke the bat]]. He seems to have mellowed out with age, however.
* TheBully: Literally the first time we him, he's picking on Bruce.
** He ends up BullyingADragon when Bruce later shows up to beat Tommy senseless with his own father's watch for insulting his dead mother.
* TheBusCameBack: Returns in season 4 as a new friend of Bruce.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Like other iconic characters, he hasn't done anything particular yet. But comic fans know that this is the kid who would later become [[SerialKiller Hush]]. Possibly a subversion, in that his relatively young age means he doesn't appear as Hush before Bruce becomes Batman - which he only does in the very last episode.
* {{Jerkass}}: Said bad things about Bruce's mom. This bites him in the ass ''hard''.
* MaliciousMisnaming: To "Brucey". Because, you know, [[InsaneTrollLogic he's an orphan]].
* MockingTheMourner: When Bruce objects to Tommy calling him "Brucey", Tommy counters that he can call Bruce whatever he wants, because Bruce is an orphan.
* NightmareFetishist: Seems to really like talking about the gory aspects of his parents' death.
* TookALevelInKindness: When he makes a return, he has noticeably mellowed out, admitting that he was a jerk and that Bruce "should have punched (him) harder, really."
* TwoFirstNames: Per the Creator/DCComics norm.

[[folder:Gertrud Kapelput]]
!!Gertrud Kapelput
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/CarolKane

Oswald Cobblepot's mother.

* AdaptationNameChange: In the comics, Oswald's mother was Miranda Cobblepot. As course, his family in the comics has always been upper-class American or possibly even possessing some British ancestry (certain adaptations do depict him being raised in Britain at the very least), whereas here she hails from Soviet-era Hungary.
* BrokenPedestal: Maroni tells her the truth about the Penguin's criminal doings to get back at him. She's devastated at the thought, but insists she'll always stand by Oswald even if he breaks her heart by telling her it's true. Being the Penguin, he lies to her yet again.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: Dies in Oswald's arms.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Selling out someone to the secret police because you have a beef with his daughter certainly qualifies.
* DreadfulMusician: Well, singer actually. She doesn't have a good singing voice, but Oswald doesn't seem to care because she's his mother. When one of Oswald's patrons starts badmouthing Gertrud, Oswald decides to "talk" with him, killing the patron as his mother sang in the background.
* EveryoneHasStandards: It's one thing to get a classmate's father arrested, but her son being a murderer devastated her. She also tries to no avail to convince Oswald against striking her captors, but Oswald assures her he's simply giving them what's coming. Too bad Butch had been released from his control...
* FemaleMisogynist: Implied since she's repeatedly told Oswald that women are nothing but trouble and will only break his heart.
* ImpoverishedPatrician: Set Decorator Andrew Baseman stated that "We think she's a Middle Eastern descendant of great wealth that fell on hard times."
* [[LikeFatherLikeSon Like Mother, Like Son]]: Informing to the police on your enemies to get them out of the way seems to be a proud Kapelput / Cobblepot family tradition.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: She is very much this to her son. Out of all the characters in the show, she is the only one that Oswald genuinely loves (outside of perhaps Edward Nygma), and she provides for him some much needed comfort and affection after a long, violent day in the criminal underworld. Once she is kidnapped (and eventually killed) by the Galavans, Oswald becomes a complete emotional wreck, with Ed eventually convincing him this event can let him become TheUnfettered.
* MyBelovedSmother: Anytime she doesn't see Oswald for more than a day, she believes he's been seduced by some painted hussy and insists that he can trust no one but her... while bathing him.
* RevengeByProxy: On both ends throughout the series. She had a problem with a classmate at school, so she got the girl’s father in trouble. This, of course, makes Maroni getting back at Penguin just as indirectly, by trying to shatter her good impression of her son seem like karma.
* {{Ruritania}}: Her accent shows that she comes from some nondescript Eastern-European country not explicitly said until well after her death.
* TheStoolPigeon: Of the Petty Patty variety, back in [[TheOldCountry the "Old Country"]].
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Her accent is an undefined Eastern European one. It takes until long after her death, but "The Blade's Path" reveals that Gertrude was Hungarian.

[[folder:Paul Cicero]]
!!Paul Cicero
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->'''Played By:''' Mark Margolis

A blind fortune teller in a circus that visits Gotham, as well as father to Jerome and Jeremiah Valeska.

* BlindSeer: In addition to actually being blind, serves as the fortune teller for Haley's Circus. It's left ambiguous as to whether his powers are real or not.
* CanonForeigner: He's the father of the man who will eventually become The Joker - except it eventually turns out it isn't [[RedHerring Jerome]], but his other son, Jerome's twin brother Jeremiah. Whilst The Joker ''has'' alluded to his father in other media before, the man has never made a personal appearance, and [[MultipleChoicePast its never been clear how much of what Joker says about him is true]].
* EyeScream: How Jerome kills him.
* FrameUp: Was intended to be Jerome's fall guy for the Arkham breakout.
* FamousLastWords: His final prophecy, which he delivers to Jerome.
-->'''Paul Cicero''': You will be a curse upon Gotham. Children will wake from sleep, screaming at the thought of you! Your legacy will be death and madness!
* PsychicPowers: Toyed with. While most of his prophecies in his debut episode turn out to be lies to cover Jerome's tracks, his final prophecy turns out to be right on the money.

[[folder:Nora Fries]]
!!Nora Fries
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/KristenHager

The wife of Victor Fries, whose desperation to cure her terminal illness causes him to become the villain Mr. Freeze.

* AscendedExtra: She's typically already frozen and simply serves as Mr. Freeze's motivation, with this show being one of the rare times she gets to be a character in her own right.
* BloodFromTheMouth: Without her medication she starts hemorrhaging a frightening amount.
* DeathByAdaptation: While typically she's still alive and frozen, and Victor's villainous actions are attempts to save her, here she kills herself in remorse for what she drove him to become and her failure to stop him, and he becomes Mr. Freeze by trying to kill himself with his formula afterwards.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: Once she decides to sabotage the cartridge, she holds herself together and says all the loving things she can to her husband without giving away what she did. Then she allows him to freeze her, knowing she will die.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: She was quite regretful of all the "mice" being killed so she could live. When she found out what was actually going on, well...
* HeroicBSOD: Victor told her he was using mice in his freezing experiments, and upon discovering he was actually using people, she simply sits and stares until the cops coincidentally arrive.
* IllGirl: She's sick enough that the only option is to cryogenically freeze her so she'll live long enough for a cure to be developed.
* ItIsPronouncedTroPay: Confirms to Harvey and Jim that her last name rhymes with "ice."
* LivingMacGuffin: The entire motivation for Victor to become a supervillain.
* UndyingLoyalty: Even though she's horrified by what Victor has done, she refuses to betray him since she knows he did it all for her.

[[folder:Valerie Vale]]
!!Valerie Vale
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/JamieChung

A newly arrived reporter who quickly latches onto Gordon as her best source on the fight against the monsters infesting Gotham.

* AlliterativeName
* CoolAunt: The aunt of regular Batman love interest Vicki Vale.
* GoodIsNotNice: She's a {{Jerkass}}, practically manipulating Gordon, but she is morally superior to most of the rest of the cast.
* IntrepidReporter: She'll stop at nothing to get the scoop on Gotham's underbelly; clearly where her niece will learn it.
* PutOnABus: Leaves before the ''Mad City'' arc finishes after Mad Hatter tries to kill her and Lee, but also seeing that Jim loved Lee more.
* RaceLift: Vicki Vale is typically portrayed as white, while her aunt is played by an actress of Korean descent.
* ShesGotLegs: Valerie (similarly to that of Vicki in Tim Burton's Batman) has a lovely pair of legs - and she knows it. She is mostly wearing shorts and miniskirts that highlight them and even manages to seduce Gordon with them.

[[folder:Isabella]]
!!Isabella
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-> '''Played By:''' Chelsea Spack

Ed's librarian love interest who bears more than a passing resemblance to Kristen Kringle.

* DoppelgangerReplacementLoveInterest: Her face looks exactly like Kristen Kringle's.
* DroppedABridgeOnHer: [[spoiler: She was hit by a train and killed]].
* EroticAsphyxiation: She, ahem, ''really'' enjoyed helping Ed get past his fear of choking her to death.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: She really seems to believe that Ed is some kind of tragic hero.
* IdenticalStranger: She's played by the same actress as Kristen, making her this, even more so when she changes her hair and wears glasses to look identical to Kristen.
* TheLostLenore: Isabella learns very quickly of Ed's past relationship and subsequent murder of Kristen, as well as her own resemblance to the dead woman and Ed's reaction to her. As of "Blood Rush", she deliberately invokes this trope, coloring her hair and wearing glasses to resemble Miss Kringle, much to Ed's initial panic.
* {{Meganekko}}: At first not obviously apparent, because she wears contact lenses. When she does wear her glasses one day, Ed suffers vivid hallucinations of Kristen Kringle.
* ReplacementGoldfish: Initially, despite her face resembling Kristen's, Ed seems genuinely interested in her love of riddles as well. After she remakes herself to look like Kristen Kringle, Ed tells her to leave her glasses on, hinting at the start of this.
* StarCrossedLovers: Her favorite stories all invoke this - from Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet to Theatre/AntonyAndCleopatra, she seems drawn to tales of tragic love. Considering her rather extreme enthusiasm for Ed, despite or perhaps ''because of'' his past tragic love story with Kristen Kringle, one wonders if she plans to invoke this for herself and Ed.
* WrongGenreSavvy: She imagines her relationship with Ed as the classic tragic-style love story, with Ed being some kind of tragic hero.

[[folder:Barbara Lee Gordon]]
!![[ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} Barbara Lee Gordon]]
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->'''Played By:''' Jeté Lawrence

The daughter of Jim Gordon and Barbara Kean, who was conceived after a one night stand and born during Gotham's separation from the mainland. We see her as a young girl in the TimeSkip, where she lives happily with her father Jim and stepmother Lee.

* AdaptationalDyeJob: She's a brunette instead of a redhead in this continuity. Ironically, her mother (who herself became blonde for the show) dyes her hair red during the time jump.
* DamselInDistress: She's kidnapped by Jeremiah and left dangling above an Ace Chemicals vat. She's eventually saved by both her father and Batman.
* HasTwoMommies: She not only has a father but two mothers: one birth mother (Barbara) and one foster mother (Lee).
* LittleMissBadass: She saves her mother by chucking a small lamp at Ecco, freeing Barbara from her clutches. This should be expected from the little girl who would grow up to become Batgirl.
* MythologyGag: The colors she wears in the time skip (purple and yellow) is a homage to the color scheme of her original Batgirl outfit.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: Is given the middle name Lee, after her stepmother Lee Thompkins.

!The Van Dahl Family

[[folder:Elijah Van Dahl]]
!!Elijah Van Dahl
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/PaulReubens

Oswald Cobblepot's biological father.

* AdaptationalHeroism: He previously appeared in Film/BatmanReturns (Creator/PaulReubens also previously played him in that movie), where he and his wife abandon Oswald by dumping him in the sewers. That is not the case here, where he genuinely loves Oswald.
* AdaptationNameChange: In the comics, his name is Tucker Cobblepot.
* CastingGag: Not the first time Paul Reubens played the Penguin's father.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: Dies in Oswald's arms, much like Gertrud did.
* GoodParents: He really bonded with Oswald, during the short time they knew each other.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Seems oblivious that his wife only married him for his money.
* InTheBlood: He admits to Oswald that all of the males in the family suffer from violent tendencies and urges his son not to give in to his demons.
* LukeIAmYourFather: Realizes that Oswald's his son when they meet.
* NiceGuy: Doesn't hold Oswald's criminal past against him, in fact he's actually impressed that his son was a famous crime boss.
* TheTeetotaler: His health prevents him from drinking. Tragically, he breaks this once to celebrate and ends up downing a glass of poison meant for his son.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: He's probably one of the very few compassionate people Penguin's encountered in his life and tragically dies completely by accident.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Grace Van Dahl]]
!!Grace Van Dahl
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->'''Played By:''' Melinda Clarke

Oswald Cobblepot's stepmother.
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* ArcVillain: She's pretty much a filler villain for the Penguin's story arc.
* AssholeVictim: You'll probably ''cheer'' upon seeing her death.
* BullyingADragon: Precisely how she thought it would be a good idea to abuse and functionally enslave someone she knows has been an extremely dangerous gang boss and murderer is beyond comprehension.
* DeadGuyOnDisplay: Penguin turns her head into a trophy.
* GoldDigger: Is clearly after Elijah's wealth.
* IAteWhat: Oswald tricks her into eating her own children.
* JerkAss: Is extremely unpleasant to Oswald.
* MummiesAtTheDinnerTable: Penguin leaves her corpse literally at the dinner table for a couple of weeks.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Her StupidEvil decisions accidentally triggers Oswald's memories, bringing the Penguin back.
* OffWithHisHead: Penguin decides to decapitate her and make her head into a trophy to keep in his mansion.
* OhCrap: She's quite shocked to discover that the Penguin fed her Sasha and Charles before learning that she's next on his kill list.
* RichBitch: She's wealthy and a total bitch.
* SlashedThroat: How she dies, courtesy of Oswald.
* StupidEvil: Kept the poisoned sherry instead of disposing of it. Oswald even calls her on it.
* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Discretely withholds Elijah's medication, giving him mints instead, to worsen his condition so she can inherit his money faster. She also poisons a bottle of sherry in hopes of killing Oswald, which Elijah ingested by mistake.
* TooDumbToLive: Apparently she thought that it was a good idea to keep an emotionally unstable criminal psychopath as an abused servant under her control. Unsurprisingly, she ends up pushing him too far and he strikes back.
* WickedStepmother: A textbook case.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sasha Van Dahl]]
!!Sasha Van Dahl
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->'''Played By:''' Kaley Ronayne

Grace's daughter, and Oswald's stepsister.
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* AssholeVictim: You'd probably be more disappointed that you didn't see her death before Penguin confirms it.
* AttemptedRape: Tries to force herself on Oswald.
* CoDragons: She and her brother are this for their mother.
* HoneyTrap: She attempts this on Oswald, but since they're step-siblings he doesn't bite.
* JerkAss: To Oswald, much like her mother.
* KilledOffscreen: Oswald kills her and Charles, then feeds their processed carcasses to Grace.
* RichBitch: She's wealthy and a total bitch.
* TheSecretOfLongPorkPies: Oswald kills her and processes her into food for her mother. According to Oswald, she was more tender than her brother.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Charles Van Dahl]]
!!Charles Van Dahl
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->'''Played By:''' Justin Mark

Grace's son, and Oswald's stepbrother.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: Offers to try to seduce Oswald when Sasha's efforts fail. It's not clear whether this means he's actually homo/bisexual or just willing to attempt the HoneyTrap. Or he might have just been mocking his sister.
* AssholeVictim: You'd probably be more disappointed that you didn't see his death before Penguin confirms it.
* CoDragons: He and his sister are this for their mother.
* JerkAss: To Oswald, much like his mother.
* KilledOffscreen: Oswald kills him and Sasha, then feeds them to Grace.
* PetTheDog: There were a few ''small'' scenes where he genuinely tried to compliment Oswald.
* RichJerk: He's wealthy and a total jerk.
* TheSecretOfLongPorkPies: Oswald kills him and processes him into food for his mother.

[[/folder]]

!Historical Figures

[[folder:Celestine Wayne]]
!!Celestine Wayne
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->'''Played By:''' Sophie Lee Morris

A member of the Wayne Family who lived two hundred years ago.
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* FalseRapeAccusation: When the Wayne men found her in bed with Caleb Dumas she claimed that he had forced himself on her.
* OldMaid: According to Edwige, she never married and died alone. It might be karma for her false accusation.
* WorldsMostBeautifulWoman: Her beauty was such that she was known as the "crown jewel of Gotham".
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Johnathan Wayne]]
!!Johnathan Wayne
->'''Played By:''' TBD

Celestine Wayne’s brother who lived two hundred years ago.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Cutting off the arm of the man who you believe raped your sister is one thing… running his entire family out of town, stripping them of all their property and wiping their very memory from Gotham’s history is a bit much.
* KnightTemplarBigBrother: He cut off half of Caleb Dumas’ arm when he thought he had raped his sister.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Caleb Dumas]]
!! Caleb Dumas
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->'''Played By:''' Bryan Howard Conner

The Galavans’ ancestor who was exiled from Gotham along with the rest of his family.
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* AllForNothing: Throughout season 4 she tries to make life better for the people of the Narrows by any means necessary - [[spoiler:killing Sofia Falcone, robbing banks and allying with the Riddler]] to keep them all safe. In season 5 the Narrow have gone to the dogs after Jeremiah blew the bridges, and she says this word for word when viewing the Narrows gangs running riot.