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* LegacyCharacter: To Jerome as the ''Joker'' figure. Particularly significant in that Jerome ''chose'' him to be his successor, declaring to Jim that he couldn't be killed because he was an idea.
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* MythologyGag: He acts like a brainless brute [[spoiler:when he first becomes Grundy]], but is back to his intelligent old self when Tabitha knocks the memories back into his head. In the comics, Grundy is known to grow more intelligent and less animalistic with every resurrection.
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** He acts like a brainless brute [[spoiler:when he first becomes Grundy]], but is back to his intelligent old self when Tabitha knocks the memories back into his head. In the comics, Grundy is known to grow more intelligent and less animalistic with every resurrection.
** He was given the same SuperEmpowering event that comics Grundy had. Being dumped in "Slaughter Swamp" writhe with chemicals that brought him BackFromTheDead with SuperStrength.
** He acts like a brainless brute [[spoiler:when he first becomes Grundy]], but is back to his intelligent old self when Tabitha knocks the memories back into his head. In the comics, Grundy is known to grow more intelligent and less animalistic with every resurrection.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Extreme paranoia as a child led him to [[spoiler:invent stories about his brother Jerome trying to kill him, which led to Jeremiah being sent to a private school, and Jerome being ostracized by his friends and family, which eventually led to Jerome's criminal career, the invention of the Joker Gas, and Jeremiah's transformation into the Joker.]]
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* DecompositeCharacter: This is how Gotham's version of the Joker is handled. Jerome is the one who first establishes all the major Joker traits, such as the evil laugh, the sick sense of humor, [[JokerImmunity cheating death]], the permanent smile, and the laughing gas. Despite this, he never actually becomes the Joker. After he's truly killed off for real in Season 4, he infects his brother Jeremiah with a special type of gas that drives him insane, bleaches his skin, and gives him a grotesque red smile, essentially transforming him into the true comic book Joker that we all know and love.
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* SoleSurvivor: Of his family. While they weren't all wiped out in one big event, Jeremiah's evil twin brother has systematically killed each member of their family over the course of the series: first their mother, then their father, then their uncle, and then Jerome killed himself. And he spared Jeremiah on purpose: to drive him insane and be Jerome's "revenge" on the world.
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* WorkingForABodyUpgrade: [[spoiler: After regaining his memory, post-Grundy Butch ''very'' reluctantly agrees to work with Penguin again, but solely to track down Hugo Strange in the hope that Strange can undo the transformation inflicted upon him by Indian Hill's discarded chemicals.]]
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: While still a relatively creepy looking fellow, he at least fares better than the giant blob monster that he is in the comics.
* AdaptationalWimp: Naturally. [[StoryBreakerPower Clayface]] at full power would make short work of anything else in this series.
* BaldOfEvil: He can't shapeshift hair, so he does this to make wigs easier.
* IdentityAmnesia: As part of Strange's experiments. By his second appearance, the good doctor's ministrations have erased any unease over this.
* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: Unlike his comic counterpart, he can't just morph his features and has to manually resculpt his features until they look how he wants. As a result, hitting him does to his disguise what it would do to a clump of soft clay.
* RubberMan: His power works because his flesh is extremely malleable, allowing him to sculpt it at will.
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/CameronMonaghan
The reclusive genius identical twin brother of Jerome Valeska. He seems to be a stable, serious young man [[spoiler: until he opens a jack-in-the-box left posthumously by his maniacal brother]].
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* AdaptationalWimp: Naturally. [[StoryBreakerPower Clayface]] at full power would make short work of anything else in this series.
* BaldOfEvil: He can't shapeshift hair, so he does this to make wigs easier.
* IdentityAmnesia: As part of Strange's experiments. By his second appearance, the good doctor's ministrations have erased any unease over this.
* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: Unlike his comic counterpart, he can't just morph his features and has to manually resculpt his features until they look how he wants. As a result, hitting him does to his disguise what it would do to a clump of soft clay.
* RubberMan: His power works because his flesh is extremely malleable, allowing him to sculpt it at will.
* VoicesAreMental: Justified. His power only lets him change his appearance, not his internal structures. He has to rely on old fashioned listen-and-repeat just to get in the ballpark of the voice he should be using.
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/CameronMonaghan
The reclusive genius identical twin brother of Jerome Valeska. He seems to be a stable, serious young man [[spoiler: until he opens a jack-in-the-box left posthumously by his maniacal brother]].
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* FacialHorror: One dose of the laughing gas toxin, and Jeremiah's mouth stretches into a bloody rictus as his skin bleaches and he laughs uncontrollably. Yep, the Joker has been born, painfully.
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/CameronMonaghan
The reclusive genius identical twin brother of Jerome Valeska. He seems to be a stable, serious young man [[spoiler: until he opens a jack-in-the-box left posthumously by his maniacal brother]].
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* CainAndAbel: He is the Abel to Jerome's Cain. His mother favored him, while Jerome made his life a living hell, until his uncle helped him escape the circus.
* FacialHorror: One dose of the laughing gas toxin, and Jeremiah's mouth stretches into a bloody rictus as his skin bleaches and he laughs uncontrollably. Yep, the Joker has been born, painfully.
* PolarOppositeTwins: Jeremiah is straight-laced, academic, serious, and reserved, while Jerome is a psychopathic LargeHam.
* StartOfDarkness: Jeremiah has one hell of a bad day. [[spoiler: First, the police rope him into being a fake hostage for his brother in hopes of rescuing some other hostages, and when the plan goes awry, Jeremiah becomes a hostage for real. Jerome torments him psychologically and then kicks the crap out of him after giving him one shot to stand up to him. Then, Jerome dies, and murderous psychopath or not, his brother's death doesn't weigh lightly on a shell-shocked Jeremiah. Finally, at the end of the day, [[HopeSpot it seems like the worst is over]]: Jeremiah is alone drinking a scotch, his brother is dead and can't hurt him anymore, Bruce Wayne offered him a grant to work for Wayne Enterprises, and it seems he left Jeremiah a nice present... Perhaps things are looking up for Jeremiah? Only it turns out that the gift is from ''Jerome'', and it's LaughingMad gas, which abruptly transforms Jeremiah into the ''true'' Joker of Gotham]].
->'''Played By:''' Creator/CameronMonaghan
The reclusive genius identical twin brother of Jerome Valeska. He seems to be a stable, serious young man [[spoiler: until he opens a jack-in-the-box left posthumously by his maniacal brother]].
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* CainAndAbel: He is the Abel to Jerome's Cain. His mother favored him, while Jerome made his life a living hell, until his uncle helped him escape the circus.
* FacialHorror: One dose of the laughing gas toxin, and Jeremiah's mouth stretches into a bloody rictus as his skin bleaches and he laughs uncontrollably. Yep, the Joker has been born, painfully.
* PolarOppositeTwins: Jeremiah is straight-laced, academic, serious, and reserved, while Jerome is a psychopathic LargeHam.
* StartOfDarkness: Jeremiah has one hell of a bad day. [[spoiler: First, the police rope him into being a fake hostage for his brother in hopes of rescuing some other hostages, and when the plan goes awry, Jeremiah becomes a hostage for real. Jerome torments him psychologically and then kicks the crap out of him after giving him one shot to stand up to him. Then, Jerome dies, and murderous psychopath or not, his brother's death doesn't weigh lightly on a shell-shocked Jeremiah. Finally, at the end of the day, [[HopeSpot it seems like the worst is over]]: Jeremiah is alone drinking a scotch, his brother is dead and can't hurt him anymore, Bruce Wayne offered him a grant to work for Wayne Enterprises, and it seems he left Jeremiah a nice present... Perhaps things are looking up for Jeremiah? Only it turns out that the gift is from ''Jerome'', and it's LaughingMad gas, which abruptly transforms Jeremiah into the ''true'' Joker of Gotham]].
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/BDWong
The Chief of Psychiatry at Arkham Asylum. He forces his patients to undergo brutally-intense treatments and tests, with Penguin being one of his most recent guinea pigs. Behind the scenes, he's secretly running mysterious experiments at Indian Hill.
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* AdaptationOriginConnection: He has direct involvement in Victor Fries's transformation into Mr. Freeze. After [[spoiler:Fries' BungledSuicide]] (which resulted in him becoming a HumanPopsicle), Strange takes him in and recruits him into his "project", heavily modifying the Freeze suit to abide to his new, icy body. He also [[spoiler: was the one who hired Matches to kill Thomas Wayne, making him responsible for turning Bruce into Batman.]]
* AdaptationalWimp: While certainly a credible threat, this Hugo Strange doesn't act DefiantToTheEnd like his original counterpart. Whenever Strange was losing his battles, he [[XanatosGambit always had a backup plan]] and bravely stared down his enemies even when the odds weren't in his favor. The show's version breaks down ''crying'' and loses all hope the minute he's betrayed by the GreaterScopeVillain due to losing to Gordon and Bruce (who's still a child).
* AncientConspiracy: [[spoiler:Is an agent for the Court of Owls.]]
* BaldOfEvil: As usual.
* BeardOfEvil: Strange's signature chinstrap beard only serves to enhance how ObviouslyEvil he is.
* BigBad: For the second half of Season 2. [[spoiler:Professor Strange runs a secretive research facility called Indian Hill where he uses Arkham inmates as test subjects for metahuman or scientific purposes, unleashes a transformed Victor Fries as Mr. Freeze, and brings back and resurrects Theo Galavan as Azrael]]. [[spoiler:And that is not counting his GreaterScopeVillain role as the man behind the killing of Thomas & Martha Wayne.]]
* BlatantLies: Any claim of his that a dead body brought to his facilities had been burnt. He was first known to have told this lie about Victor Fries in "Azrael", and in "Unleashed" Bullock notes that he told the same lie about [[spoiler:Theo Galavan]], too.
* BreakTheHaughty: When Gordon and Bruce eventually get the better of him and [[spoiler: the Court of Owls activates a nuke under his facility]], Strange breaks down ''crying'' and loses all his cool suave characteristics almost immediately.
* ColdHam: He rarely raises his voice, but expect him to make himself known in every scene he's in regardless.
* CompositeCharacter: [[spoiler:By the show going with the Waynes' deaths being an assassination and him being behind it to stop Thomas Wayne, he takes the role of Lew Moxon from the stories where their deaths were an assassination.]]
* CreepyMonotone: It never turns off.
* DirtyCoward: When things don't go his way in the season 2 finale, he breaks down crying and runs away like a coward.
* DragonInChief: In "Wrath of the Villains", it is revealed he directly works for the Court of Owls, but doesn't agree with their methods.
* EtTuBrute: Hugo was a former friend to [[spoiler: Thomas Wayne]] before betraying him.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Just listen to that eerie, baritone voice of his.
-->'''Hugo Strange''': This is an official certificate from the Gotham Board of Health and Hygiene. It states that Oswald Cobblepot has passed all mandated tests, and by the laws of Gotham City, is hereby declared... '''''saaaaaane'''''.
* FalseFriend: He used to be friends with [[spoiler: Thomas Wayne]] but eventually betrayed him.
* ForScience: He doesn't seem to have any reason for torturing Cobblepot using Gerald Crane's fear formula other than to see what will happen. Also his reasoning releasing for releasing Oswald and Barbara from Arkham, literally just to see what would happen.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: He has creepy red-tinted LennonSpecs, used for maximum effect in the closeups of his face, and he [[spoiler: experiments on the "patients" at Indian Hill]].
* GreaterScopeVillain: In "Pinewood", it's ultimately revealed that he was the one who [[spoiler:hired Matches Malone to kill Bruce's parents -- in order to prevent his father from stopping Strange's nightmarish experiments on his patients. This means that he's indirectly the one who ends up creating Batman.]]
* HannibalLecture: Delivers one to Gordon at the start of "Azrael". Gordon is able to see through it and points out that he never believed him for one second when Strange lies that the last remains of Victor Fries had been destroyed after Gordon hands him a court order ostensibly signed by Harvey Dent calling for his exhumation.
* TheHeavy: He's acting as the BigBad of the second half of the season 2 while secretly working under [[spoiler: the Court of Owls.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard:
** He decides to release Barbara from Arkham Asylum, basically just to see what will happen. What does happen is that [[spoiler:Barbara helps Gordon find a major clue to the person behind the Wayne murders -- namely, Strange himself]].
** By [[spoiler:unleashing 'Azrael' on the city to kill Jim to keep him silent, he ends up blowing his secret: not only do the police finally have a strong reason to investigate him, but the Court of Owls order him to move his operations to an upstate facility, which results in all of Strange's experiment patients escaping into Gotham]].
** In the Season 2 finale, [[spoiler:he gets hit by simultaneous blasts from Mr. Freeze and Firefly's weapons, two of his "creations"]].
* InscrutableOriental: Comes off as this due to the RaceLift.
* LightIsNotGood: Wears a white labocoat most of the time, but is very evil.
* MadScientist: His experiments make the Dollmaker look outright sane, and he's particularly fixated on reversing death. [[spoiler:He eventually succeeds in bringing Theo Galavan, Fish Mooney, and others back to life.]]
* MadeOfIron: He gets frozen and burnt at the same time, but he completely shrugs this off.
* ManipulativeBastard: In spades. In under two episodes, his "treatment" of Penguin has left Gotham's King a confused duck-duck-goose-playing BrokenBird. If Nigel's any indicator, he can and has reduced inmates to self-harming incoherent messes. Plus he just added Mr. Freeze to his collection of underground freaks... Freaks who are presumed dead, each with special attributes, that Strange no doubt intends to use.
* NeverMyFault: [[spoiler:He tells Bruce it was Thomas's own fault for forcing Strange to have him killed.]]
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler:By questioning Gordon and Bruce if they knew of a mysterious council that secretly controlled Gotham, he inadvertently put them on the trail of the Court of Owls, though he wasn't really expecting them to survive after the interrogations]].
* NonActionBigBad: He's not really a physical threat.
* ObviouslyEvil: Per the norm for Gotham City, the guy could not be more obviously shady, [[DevilInPlainSight but no one sees him as anything worse than eccentric.]]
* OhCrap: [[spoiler: When he realizes his test subjects have escaped and he's trapped in the asylum with a nuke ready to go off.]]
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: B.D. Wong tends to slip between an American accent and a Chinese one every so often.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: He's both a psychiatrist and a master of biological manipulation.
* PlotArmor: Taken to ludicrous extremes in the second season finale. While Mr. Freeze and Firefly are fighting to the death, Strange [[TooDumbToLive runs right between their crossfire]] getting simultaneously frozen and burnt. Miraculously, this doesn't even faze him in the least.
* PsychoPsychologist: As per usual, he's experimenting on patients. [[spoiler: Specifically the ones at Indian Hill.]]
* RaceLift: Typically a German, here he's played by an Asian actor.
* ScaryShinyGlasses: Red-tinted ones!
* SmugSnake: He releases both Penguin and Barbara, without regard to what it will do to his professional reputation.
* SoftSpokenSadist: He never uses anything but a mild indoor voice, to the point that his speech is strangely hypnotic at times. And yet he enjoys screwing with people's minds in the same way a cruel child might enjoy burning ants with a magnifying glass.
* TooDumbToLive: While Firefly and Mr. Freeze are fighting each other, the doctor ''runs right into their crossfire''. Somehow, [[MadeOfIron this doesn't kill him]].
* VillainousBreakdown: Has one in "Transference", when he [[spoiler:tearfully waits to die in a nuclear explosion, rather than disarm the bomb and let his experiments escape into the world]].
* WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou: Strange admits to feeling this way about [[spoiler:Thomas Wayne, when speaking to Bruce. And before that, he tried to get Thomas to understand the purpose of his experiments.]]
* YouMonster: Quoth Bullock in "Unleashed":
-->'''Bullock''': You stink, Strange--this whole place stinks.
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/BDWong
The Chief of Psychiatry at Arkham Asylum. He forces his patients to undergo brutally-intense treatments and tests, with Penguin being one of his most recent guinea pigs. Behind the scenes, he's secretly running mysterious experiments at Indian Hill.
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* AdaptationOriginConnection: He has direct involvement in Victor Fries's transformation into Mr. Freeze. After [[spoiler:Fries' BungledSuicide]] (which resulted in him becoming a HumanPopsicle), Strange takes him in and recruits him into his "project", heavily modifying the Freeze suit to abide to his new, icy body. He also [[spoiler: was the one who hired Matches to kill Thomas Wayne, making him responsible for turning Bruce into Batman.]]
* AdaptationalWimp: While certainly a credible threat, this Hugo Strange doesn't act DefiantToTheEnd like his original counterpart. Whenever Strange was losing his battles, he [[XanatosGambit always had a backup plan]] and bravely stared down his enemies even when the odds weren't in his favor. The show's version breaks down ''crying'' and loses all hope the minute he's betrayed by the GreaterScopeVillain due to losing to Gordon and Bruce (who's still a child).
* AncientConspiracy: [[spoiler:Is an agent for the Court of Owls.]]
* BaldOfEvil: As usual.
* BeardOfEvil: Strange's signature chinstrap beard only serves to enhance how ObviouslyEvil he is.
* BigBad: For the second half of Season 2. [[spoiler:Professor Strange runs a secretive research facility called Indian Hill where he uses Arkham inmates as test subjects for metahuman or scientific purposes, unleashes a transformed Victor Fries as Mr. Freeze, and brings back and resurrects Theo Galavan as Azrael]]. [[spoiler:And that is not counting his GreaterScopeVillain role as the man behind the killing of Thomas & Martha Wayne.]]
* BlatantLies: Any claim of his that a dead body brought to his facilities had been burnt. He was first known to have told this lie about Victor Fries in "Azrael", and in "Unleashed" Bullock notes that he told the same lie about [[spoiler:Theo Galavan]], too.
* BreakTheHaughty: When Gordon and Bruce eventually get the better of him and [[spoiler: the Court of Owls activates a nuke under his facility]], Strange breaks down ''crying'' and loses all his cool suave characteristics almost immediately.
* ColdHam: He rarely raises his voice, but expect him to make himself known in every scene he's in regardless.
* CompositeCharacter: [[spoiler:By the show going with the Waynes' deaths being an assassination and him being behind it to stop Thomas Wayne, he takes the role of Lew Moxon from the stories where their deaths were an assassination.]]
* CreepyMonotone: It never turns off.
* DirtyCoward: When things don't go his way in the season 2 finale, he breaks down crying and runs away like a coward.
* DragonInChief: In "Wrath of the Villains", it is revealed he directly works for the Court of Owls, but doesn't agree with their methods.
* EtTuBrute: Hugo was a former friend to [[spoiler: Thomas Wayne]] before betraying him.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Just listen to that eerie, baritone voice of his.
-->'''Hugo Strange''': This is an official certificate from the Gotham Board of Health and Hygiene. It states that Oswald Cobblepot has passed all mandated tests, and by the laws of Gotham City, is hereby declared... '''''saaaaaane'''''.
* FalseFriend: He used to be friends with [[spoiler: Thomas Wayne]] but eventually betrayed him.
* ForScience: He doesn't seem to have any reason for torturing Cobblepot using Gerald Crane's fear formula other than to see what will happen. Also his reasoning releasing for releasing Oswald and Barbara from Arkham, literally just to see what would happen.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: He has creepy red-tinted LennonSpecs, used for maximum effect in the closeups of his face, and he [[spoiler: experiments on the "patients" at Indian Hill]].
* GreaterScopeVillain: In "Pinewood", it's ultimately revealed that he was the one who [[spoiler:hired Matches Malone to kill Bruce's parents -- in order to prevent his father from stopping Strange's nightmarish experiments on his patients. This means that he's indirectly the one who ends up creating Batman.]]
* HannibalLecture: Delivers one to Gordon at the start of "Azrael". Gordon is able to see through it and points out that he never believed him for one second when Strange lies that the last remains of Victor Fries had been destroyed after Gordon hands him a court order ostensibly signed by Harvey Dent calling for his exhumation.
* TheHeavy: He's acting as the BigBad of the second half of the season 2 while secretly working under [[spoiler: the Court of Owls.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard:
** He decides to release Barbara from Arkham Asylum, basically just to see what will happen. What does happen is that [[spoiler:Barbara helps Gordon find a major clue to the person behind the Wayne murders -- namely, Strange himself]].
** By [[spoiler:unleashing 'Azrael' on the city to kill Jim to keep him silent, he ends up blowing his secret: not only do the police finally have a strong reason to investigate him, but the Court of Owls order him to move his operations to an upstate facility, which results in all of Strange's experiment patients escaping into Gotham]].
** In the Season 2 finale, [[spoiler:he gets hit by simultaneous blasts from Mr. Freeze and Firefly's weapons, two of his "creations"]].
* InscrutableOriental: Comes off as this due to the RaceLift.
* LightIsNotGood: Wears a white labocoat most of the time, but is very evil.
* MadScientist: His experiments make the Dollmaker look outright sane, and he's particularly fixated on reversing death. [[spoiler:He eventually succeeds in bringing Theo Galavan, Fish Mooney, and others back to life.]]
* MadeOfIron: He gets frozen and burnt at the same time, but he completely shrugs this off.
* ManipulativeBastard: In spades. In under two episodes, his "treatment" of Penguin has left Gotham's King a confused duck-duck-goose-playing BrokenBird. If Nigel's any indicator, he can and has reduced inmates to self-harming incoherent messes. Plus he just added Mr. Freeze to his collection of underground freaks... Freaks who are presumed dead, each with special attributes, that Strange no doubt intends to use.
* NeverMyFault: [[spoiler:He tells Bruce it was Thomas's own fault for forcing Strange to have him killed.]]
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler:By questioning Gordon and Bruce if they knew of a mysterious council that secretly controlled Gotham, he inadvertently put them on the trail of the Court of Owls, though he wasn't really expecting them to survive after the interrogations]].
* NonActionBigBad: He's not really a physical threat.
* ObviouslyEvil: Per the norm for Gotham City, the guy could not be more obviously shady, [[DevilInPlainSight but no one sees him as anything worse than eccentric.]]
* OhCrap: [[spoiler: When he realizes his test subjects have escaped and he's trapped in the asylum with a nuke ready to go off.]]
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: B.D. Wong tends to slip between an American accent and a Chinese one every so often.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: He's both a psychiatrist and a master of biological manipulation.
* PlotArmor: Taken to ludicrous extremes in the second season finale. While Mr. Freeze and Firefly are fighting to the death, Strange [[TooDumbToLive runs right between their crossfire]] getting simultaneously frozen and burnt. Miraculously, this doesn't even faze him in the least.
* PsychoPsychologist: As per usual, he's experimenting on patients. [[spoiler: Specifically the ones at Indian Hill.]]
* RaceLift: Typically a German, here he's played by an Asian actor.
* ScaryShinyGlasses: Red-tinted ones!
* SmugSnake: He releases both Penguin and Barbara, without regard to what it will do to his professional reputation.
* SoftSpokenSadist: He never uses anything but a mild indoor voice, to the point that his speech is strangely hypnotic at times. And yet he enjoys screwing with people's minds in the same way a cruel child might enjoy burning ants with a magnifying glass.
* TooDumbToLive: While Firefly and Mr. Freeze are fighting each other, the doctor ''runs right into their crossfire''. Somehow, [[MadeOfIron this doesn't kill him]].
* VillainousBreakdown: Has one in "Transference", when he [[spoiler:tearfully waits to die in a nuclear explosion, rather than disarm the bomb and let his experiments escape into the world]].
* WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou: Strange admits to feeling this way about [[spoiler:Thomas Wayne, when speaking to Bruce. And before that, he tried to get Thomas to understand the purpose of his experiments.]]
* YouMonster: Quoth Bullock in "Unleashed":
-->'''Bullock''': You stink, Strange--this whole place stinks.
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!!Edward Nygma
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->'''Played By:''' Cory Michael Smith
A crime scene analyst who works for the Gotham City Police Department and often presents his information in riddles.
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* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:His second kill, Kristen.]]
* AdaptationalBadass: [[spoiler:Though the Batman or someone else is always able to solve his riddles eventually, here he's able to defeat Gordon not by stumping him, but by making ''him'' the solution to his riddle.]]
* AdaptationalHeroism: He has NoSocialSkills and is often smug and annoying with his riddles, but in this incarnation, he's a competent and effective police forensic scientist who often provides Gordon and Bullock with critical information. However, given he's going to become The Riddler at some point, it remains to be seen what becomes of him in the future. [[spoiler: Killing Tom was his StartOfDarkness]]
* AdaptationalVillainy: After his [[spoiler:{{Face Heel Turn}}.]] In the comics, he was only an evil mastermind with a quirk for riddles. He was one of Batman's friendliest enemies and even became a rival detective of Batman's for a time. In the show, [[spoiler:he becomes an {{Ax Crazy}} serial killer, murdering several people in an attempt to cover up his tracks. He then frames Gordon for the murder of a fellow officer, sending him to Blackgate. He is shown to have little remorse in retrospect for the murders he commits, saying that they free him.]]
* AdjustingYourGlasses: By the bridge as he [[spoiler:descends into Strange's experimentation facility]].
* AdmiringTheAbomination: His reaction to several people collapsing as their bones turn to dust inside them is an awestruck "Fascinating!" He later shows an interest in crimes beyond the forensics.
* {{Adorkable}}: Nerdy glasses, obsession with riddles, interest and profession in science? He definitely qualifies as this.
* AgeLift: Riddler is now apparently around Gordon's age, while usually he is around Batman's age.
* AmbiguousDisorder: He ''has'' to speak in riddles, is visibly annoyed and disappointed when not taken up on them, and he has a textbook case of NoSocialSkills, which line up on the Asperger's spectrum. He also has signs of SuperOCD, carefully picking onions out of his lunch and reorganizing the station's archives to what he finds a superior structure. This could be a case of ShownTheirWork on the part of the writers, trying to ground character behavior in real-life disorders; "If the Joker is a sociopath, and Two-Face is bipolar, what real-life mental conditions would make someone act like the Riddler of the comics?"
* AttentionWhore: Extremely needy for appreciation. He has a driving need to be seen as the smartest man in the room or to point out interesting, trivial details to other people - apparently in the hope that this will impress them with how intelligent he is. Every time his colleagues fail to appropriately praise him for his discoveries or aid, he looks frustrated.[[spoiler: This comes back to bite him in the ass later on as he realized he compulsively put a clue in the note "from" Tom to Kristen that it was really him who wrote it. At first he was pretty impressed with himself but then when Kristen confronted him, he begins to break down, realizing that she might actually catch on that he murdered Tom.]]
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: After suffering a serious SanitySlippage, Nygma begins killing people left and right while trying to hide his ex-girlfriend's corpse. To the point where he fully embraces the idea of killing others because [[EvilFeelsGood it provides a sense of power to him.]]]]
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: In "Mad Grey Dawn."]]
* BadassInANiceSuit: [[spoiler: Clips from Season 3 show that he's on his way to wearing his trademark green suit and instigating his terrorist spree.]]
* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:Pulls off a spectacular one on Gordon in "Mad Grey Dawn" to disgrace him.]]
* BerserkButton:
** Do not call him crazy, [[spoiler: as Miss Kringle found out the hard way]], or stupid. In fact, don't call him anything disparaging, period. [[SuppressedRage "I don't like being called names, Detective."]]
** He absolutely flips if he even ''thinks'' you're catching on to his crimes.
*** First, [[spoiler:after he admits to killing Tom to Kristen, she makes the aforementioned mistake ''and'' threatens to report him. This results in her strangulation]].
*** Later, [[spoiler:when he thinks Jim is getting close to discovering he killed Kristen, he first frames him for Officer Pinkney's murder, and then ultimately, when he catches on to ''that'', tries to murder ''him'', too]].
** He really didn't like when Lee slapped him in "Anything for You" (which satisfyingly wiped that smile off his face), and tells her she shouldn't have done it. Lee tells him he can't do anything about it, right-hand man of Penguin or not, since she'll be marrying Mario Falcone, which [[TemptingFate might be a mistake]].
** He hates it when people keep getting Isabella's name wrong.
** After becoming the Riddler, being called by his original name qualifies.
* BigNo: [[spoiler:After realizing that he killed Kristen.]]
* BondVillainStupidity: His compulsion with riddles, [[spoiler:which ended up working to his advantage in "Mad Grey Dawn"]], ends up being his downfall when [[spoiler:a riddle about death buys the GCPD enough time to close in on him]].
* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler: He commits his first murder on Miss Kringle's [[BastardBoyfriend Abusive Boyfriend]], triggering his StartOfDarkness.]]
* ButtMonkey: [[spoiler:During the final quarter of the second season, after he had been busted. Not only is he shipped off to Arkham, he also has a foiled escape attempt which results in his being briefly locked up with one of Arkham's most rabid inmates, and then in the season finale he gets used and betrayed by both Strange and Gordon.]]
* CartwrightCurse: Be it by his own hand or just plain bad luck, Nygma can never seem to have a steady girlfriend survive a relationship with him.
* TheCorrupter: Believe it or not, but [[spoiler: he manages to convince the Penguin to ''enjoy'' the fact that his mother is dead because now she can no longer hold him back. Helping make the Penguin ''worse'' than he was before.]]
* CrazyPrepared: As shown in "Into the Woods", [[spoiler:he keeps a chair in his apartment secretly wired to his building's electricity, apparently just on the off chance that he'll ever need to knock out somebody who happens to be sitting there]].
* CreepyCute: InUniverse and out. He's very {{Adorkable}} and not bad-looking in a nerdy way, but even before his SanitySlippage his cheerful scientific curiosity about horrific crimes and awkward expressions of affection toward Miss Kringle can go beyond normal social awkwardness and endearing quirkiness into disturbing territory.
-->'''Miss Kringle''': I think you left this on my desk.
-->'''Edward''': It's a riddle.
-->'''Miss Kringle''': It's a cupcake with a live bullet in it.
-->'''Edward''': It's a riddle.
-->'''Miss Kringle''': It's ''weird'' and ''menacing'' and ''inedible''.
* CurseOfTheAncients: Just before [[spoiler:he's arrested for murder and obstruction and perversion of justice]]: "Aw, crud." In fact, during the final quarter of the second season [[spoiler:he shows a tendency to resort to this when things go to hell]].
* DeadpanSnarker: His split personality has a tendency to snark towards him. For example, in "Damned If You Do", when he appears in a mirror and Nygma accuses him of copying him:
-->'''Split!Nygma''': Dude. It's a mirror, it's how they work.
* DelightingInRiddles: His signature style, which really annoys his colleagues.
* TheDogBitesBack:
** After the ME gets him suspended, Nygma does a little digging. Turns out the ME likes to steal body parts. (Or Nygma planted them to frame him.) One anonymous tip off later...
** [[spoiler: When Nygma discovers that Kristen Kringle's boyfriend Tom is abusing her, he confronts Tom who just blows him off. Later that night, Nygma waits outside Kringle's house when Tom comes around drunk and stumbling. Nygma confronts him again. Tom gut punches Nygma. Nygma retaliates by [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill stabbing Tom AT LEAST a dozen times]]. Afterwards, he has quite the breakdown, simultaneously laughing and freaking out.]]
* DoubleAgent: [[spoiler:He's a murderer who's working for the GCPD's forensics division.]]
* DudeWheresMyRespect: The rest of the police often take his brilliant forensics work for granted, and in particular because they think he's annoying, they often shoo him away as soon as possible or ignore him. WordOfGod is that this is the primary reason he will become the Riddler down the road -- he wants his genius to be appreciated and commits crimes to rub it in the face of the police that he can so easily outsmart them. Gordon starts to subvert this in later episodes, recognizing Nygma's talents and asking him for help more often, but he still has limited patience for the riddles.
* EvilFeelsGood: [[spoiler: After killing Kristen, his split personality tells him that getting away with crime feels good. After tracking down her corpse and disposing of it, he begins embracing this idea.]]
* EvilGenius: [[spoiler: Perfectly orchestrates the arrest of Jim Gordon by playing him at every turn.]]
* {{Expy}}: [[spoiler: His SplitPersonality seems to be a combination of both the Frank Gorshin and Jim Carrey Riddler personalities.]]
* EvilIsHammy: [[spoiler: Once he goes bad, he starts acting much more theatrical than usual (in a creepy sort of way)]].
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: After murdering the girl who he loved, Nygma begins to fully embrace his lust for evil, on his way towards becoming the villain he's destined to become.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The license plate on his car says "RIDL LVR". While it's short for "Riddle Lover", it's also a mere letter away from "RIDDLER".
* FourEyesZeroSoul: He still wears glasses after pulling his FaceHeelTurn.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: [[spoiler:Especially as far as Mayor Cobblepot's staff is concerned, among the GCPD. Barnes even makes it clear that he only tolerates his presence at the station as the mayor's Chief of Staff because he likes his own job tons more than he likes Nygma. Not just that, but Fox is the only one at the GCPD who shows any real willingness to cooperate with him on the Red Hood case, and he too despises Nygma.]]
* HarmlessFreezing: Played with. Being frozen for several months by Mr. Freeze causes muscle atrophy which he recovers from in a few days, but it also causes some sort of brain damage, as he is unable to come up with any good riddles.
* HumanPopsicle: [[spoiler:At the end of "Heavydirtysoul", Penguin has Mr. Freeze turn Nygma into one, which he plans to use as the centerpiece of his new club, the Iceberg Lounge.]]
** That is, until [[spoiler:his LoonyFan Myrtle Jenkins thaws him out in "They Who Hide Behind Masks".]]
* IconicOutfit: In Season 3, he starts wearing dark green suit jackets akin to the Riddler's iconic look. In "How the Riddler Got His Name", [[spoiler:he finally dons his classic bright green suit and bowler hat]].
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: All he wants is respect from his coworkers and to be seen as good guy. Which makes his [[DoomedByCanon inevitable fall from grace]] all the more harsher.
* IKnowYouKnowIKnow: [[spoiler:Regarding Gordon figuring out about his being responsible for the frameup.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While Edward can be an obnoxious know it all who comes off as really creepy at times, he's actually very kind and friendly to those he considers friends like Jim, Sarah, Ms. Kringle, Harvey, etc. Most of his jerkass behavior is directed towards terrible people (Arnold Flass, the medical examiner) or just a side effect of his anti-social disorder.
* KickTheSonOfABitch:
** [[spoiler: Killing Miss Kringle's [[BastardBoyfriend Abusive Boyfriend]].]]
** Shooting [[spoiler: the Penguin]] and dumping his body in the bay for killing his [[spoiler: new girlfriend]] and depriving him a life of happiness.
* LackOfEmpathy: Not overtly malicious, but part of his obsessive behavior, combined with his profession as a forensic investigator - which means that he sees horrific murders as exciting puzzles to solve, not really focusing on the death of another human being. Most of these are within the realm of professional detachment, but in "Viper", Nygma is practically giddy when describing what he has learned about the advanced new super-drug hitting the streets - including how it invariably kills users within a day by destroying the calcium in their bones. A hooker strung-out on the drug then horrifically dies in front of him, her brittle bones snapping under her own weight. Instead of being repulsed by her death, he simply beams "fascinating!" - like a child who just found a really interesting crossword puzzle. [[spoiler: After his FaceHeelTurn, he fully embraces how good it is to make other suffer in order to give himself a sense of power over them.]]
* LeanAndMean: After completing his FaceHeelTurn, he begins his transformation into the Riddler, who was always a NonActionBigBad on account of his lack of muscle mass.
* LoveMakesYouEvil[=/=]LoveMakesYouCrazy: [[spoiler: He killed [[AssholeVictim Tom]] to protect Miss Kringle, but it led to his StartOfDarkness. Then, it gets even worse when he accidentally kills Miss Kringle himself when she rejects him after learning the truth.]]
* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: He tries to [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this by performing an autopsy in "The Mask", and goes through the process just fine until the actual medical examiner comes in and tells him off.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
** [[spoiler: After he kills Tom, he realizes that he won't be coming back to normal anytime soon.]]
** [[spoiler: He accidentally strangles Miss Kringle in a fit of panic, but realizes too late that he killed her.]]
* MythologyGag:
** Nygma is briefly seen holding a coffee mug with the Riddler's trademark question mark on the side.
** He also might be a big walking one to the ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'' version of the Riddler, given that ''[[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins Arkham Origins]]'' revealed that prior to becoming the Riddler or even the pre-Riddler alias of "Enigma", he was a member of the GCPD.
** The [[spoiler:[[https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zFdX0yZ2Vp8/maxresdefault.jpg bright green suit and black bowler hat]] that he sports as the Riddler]] is very much a modernized, updated version of [[http://d1xgwawrm1fpry.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/25082737/riddler.jpg Frank Gorshin's suit]] from the [[Series/{{Batman}} 1960's TV series]].
* NoSocialSkills:
** He's blissfully unaware of how weird he comes across, and is convinced everyone at the station is his buddy. He also doesn't notice basic social cues, often standing around smiling after people have stopped speaking to him, not realizing that they non-verbally want him to leave.
** His attempts to flirt with a co-worker Miss Kringle come off as incredibly creepy and make him seem like a stalker.
** He thinks he knows how to do other people's jobs better than they do, leading him to butt in their work without permission - genuinely believing that they will be grateful to him. Exacerbating matters is that he actually ''is'' smarter than other people at many tasks, reinforcing his belief that they'll appreciate his "help", not realizing that this will only annoy them. He rearranges the police archives without Ms. Kringle's permission, and performs an autopsy without permission from the head medical examiner (granted, he is also a forensic analyst in the department so this isn't that weird in context). He genuinely can't understand why other people think it's annoying to tell them how to do their own jobs, even if his points are entirely valid.
* NotSoDifferent:
** [[spoiler:No matter how much he hates Tom for abusing Kris, he himself ends up violently manhandling and accidentally killing her.]]
** He later also compares himself to [[spoiler: the Penguin. Informing Cobblepot that they are both evil men who should embrace their true murderous intentions now that the people most important to them can no longer hold them back.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When Gordon is desperately trying to get in touch with Leslie Thompkins because he believes the Ogre is after her, he demands to know where she is. Nygma pauses for a second and simply and straightforwardly tells Gordon what he knows.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: [[spoiler: He shoots Penguin and dumps his body in the bay for killing his beloved Isabella, despite the mob boss begging for forgiveness.]]
* RealityEnsues: His attempts at performing the duties of the medical examiner eventually get him suspended when said medical examiner goes to Captain Essen in "The Fearsome Dr. Crane" and threatens to go over her head over the issue. Fortunately, he ends up coming back when the ME's own medical improprieties are revealed.
* SanitySlippage: In the final episode of Season One he realises that he unconsciously left a clue pointing at himself [[spoiler:after killing Tom]], and begins to break at the seams, having fits of paranoia and hearing voices. Come season two he's headed right into Gollum-esque arguments with his own evil urges via a mirror. [[spoiler: Then he accidentally murders his girlfriend Kristen in a fit of blind panic. In Season 2, he deteriorates to the point where he's become an AxCrazy psychopath.]]
* SaveTheVillain: He treats the Penguin after finding him wounded in the forest.
* SlasherSmile: [[spoiler: After transitioning into a villain he starts smirking evilly after embracing his inner darkness.]]
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Speaks in riddles, is a forensic scientist, and wears big browline glasses.
* SmugSnake: Rubs his freedom and position of power in the faces of Lee and Barnes.
* SplitPersonality: He seems to be hallucinating a dark reflection of himself urging him to perform evil by giving in to his inner hate.
* SplitPersonalityMerge: At the end of "Mommy's Little Monster."
* StalkerWithACrush: He comes across this way with Kristen Kringle, since given his NoSocialSkills and love for riddles, it comes off as creepy.
* TheStarscream: [[spoiler:After figuring out that Penguin had put a hit on Isabella.]]
* StartOfDarkness: [[spoiler: Killing Tom was this. Cemented further by his killing Kris when she freaks out over his revealing this.]].
* SuppressedRage: In response to [[BerserkButton being called names (yet again)]] by Bullock, he crushes the cryogenically frozen rose he was holding in one hand. It's the slow sound of the rose cracking apart that really sells it.
* TakingTheBullet: During the [[spoiler:police massacre in "Knock, Knock", he manages to save Kringle this way]]. Fortunately, [[spoiler:it wasn't a fatal shot.]]
* ThrowTheDogABone: [[spoiler:Lampshaded in "Anything for You". When he, as Mayor Cobblepot's Chief of Staff, pulls rank on Captain Barnes, Barnes reminds him how lucky he is to be in his current position after everything in eight simple words.]]
-->'''Barnes''': Every dog has his day, Nygma. ''Enjoy yours.''
* TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler: After he pulls his FaceHeelTurn.]]
* TragicVillain: This version of Nygma is the most sympathetic portrayal of the villain in live action.
* TraitorShot: He gets plenty [[spoiler:after his FaceHeelTurn, including several in "Mad Grey Dawn", one of which takes place when Gordon's arrested]].
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Inverted. He's actually ''overestimating'' badassery when he assumes that Jim Gordon [[spoiler: has caught on to his murders and seeks to eliminate him in order to cover his tracks despite Gordon literally knowing nothing about Nygma's FaceHeelTurn.]]
* TheUnfettered: [[spoiler:Now that Ms. Kringle is dead. He passes along this philosophy to the Penguin as well, convincing him that the Galavans' murder of his (Penguin's) mother has removed his only weakness]].
* VillainDecay: After he escapes from his frozen prison, the Riddler loses his magnificent intelligence and credibility as a once feared villain of Gotham. He's eventually forced to survive on the streets acting as a pathetic mugger before he teams up with Solomon Grundy, who's essentially his meal ticket and the only reason why he's not down under even further.
* VillainousBSOD: [[spoiler: Suffers a serious meltdown upon realizing that he accidentally murdered his girlfriend Kristen.]]
* VillainousFriendship: [[spoiler:With the Penguin, beginning midway through Season 2. Even when it looks like he betrayed the Penguin, it's soon revealed that whatever it was he did, it was to further the Penguin's cause. It's one such revelation that gets him named the Penguin's Chief of Staff upon his election as Mayor of Gotham.]]
* WifeBasherBasher: [[spoiler: Well it's more like "Wife Basher Slasher," when he knifes [[AssholeVictim Tom]] [[KickTheSonOfABitch to death]] [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill over and over and over again.]]]]
* WrongGenreSavvy: He's implied to be deliberately trying to position himself as the PluckyComicRelief of the cops with his line "Everyone needs some humor in their lives." See all the above for how well it works.
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!!Ivy Pepper
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"First I was a seed. Then a sprout. Now I've bloomed."'']]
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Ivy as portrayed by Clare Foley.]]http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/clare_foley_gotham_ivy.jpg]][[/labelnote]]
->'''Played By:''' Clare Foley (Seasons 1-3), Maggie Geha (Season 3-4), Peyton List (Season 4)
The daughter of Mario Pepper, a small-time crook who was framed by the mob as the Waynes' killer. The future Comicbook/PoisonIvy
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* AbusiveParents: Her father was physically abusive to her mother and possibly her, too, though she still hates the cops for gunning him down.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Poison Ivy is typically a redhead. While Clare Foley's Ivy is sort of red, Maggie Geha and Peyton List are brunette.
* AdaptationNameChange: From Pamela Isley in the comics to Ivy Pepper on the show. However, a [[http://gothamchronicle.com/post/106575104731/teen-runaway-spotted-at-the-flea-ivy-pepper Gotham Chronicle article]] states her adoptive family calls her Pamela.
* [[AdaptationalNiceGuy Adaptational Nice Girl]]: This Ivy is ''much'' [[AffablyEvil friendler]] and less [[MisanthropeSupreme misanthropic]] than most versions of the character. [[spoiler:At least until Season 4, where she becomes an eco-terrorist willing to commit murder.]]
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Most versions of Ivy are an eco-terrorist who wants to do all she can to [[WellIntentionedExtremist save the Earth's plant life]] and sometimes displayed an almost [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds sympathetic side]] at times. This version is a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who's mainly looking out for herself by seeking financial gain while her love for plants is downplayed. [[spoiler: Halfway through Season 4, after Ivy's second rebirth, her characterization becomes more in line with her comic version.]]
* AdaptationalDumbass: This incarnation of Ivy is a lot dumber than most versions of the character, who've had scientific backgrounds and a mastery of botany. The show's version of Ivy makes foolish decisions all the time according to Selina. [[spoiler: This changes in Season 4.]]
* AdvertisedExtra: For all her appearances in promo material, she remains little more than a recurring minor character, unlike Nygma. [[spoiler:Her role is greatly expanded in Seasons 3 and 4 after the character is recast.]]
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Despite of being a villain, she seems to be much less evil than the Penguin's enemies [[spoiler:until Season 4, when she becomes more misanthropic and psychotic.]]
* AffablyEvil: She is a Genki girl who helps the Penguin.
* AgeLift: Thanks to her [[spoiler:PlotRelevantAgeUp in Season 3, she's now about 10 years older than Bruce and Selina. In Season 4, she goes through another AgeLift and is now a full-on adult.]]
* BerserkButton:
** When Bruce mentions who he is to her in "Lovecraft", her tone gets harsher and she starts asking him if he killed her father or made her mother cut her wrists.
** As demonstrated in "Burn the Witch", ''never'' mistreat or throw away plant life in front of her, [[spoiler:or she ''will'' concuss you.]]
** Being treated as stupid (she sort of brought it upon herself for saying stupid things at the wrong moment).
* BigEater: In "The Executioner", she wolfs down literally all the food in Selina's home. And judging by Selina's reaction to it, it's not the first time it happened.
* BrainlessBeauty: [[spoiler: After she ages up to an adult she becomes beautiful, but still has the mindset of a naïve child. After her second age-up, she becomes a lot smarter.]]
* TheBusCameBack: Appears in "Mad Grey Dawn" after not showing up for most of Season 2; she's working for a gang that sells magic mushrooms.
* CloudCuckoolander: A really creepy version of one.
* CreepyChild: Hardly ever blinks and speaks in a monotone whisper. Selina, Ivy's friend, even admits she's creepy behind her back.
* TheDragon: Becomes the new one for the Penguin after saving his life and helping him build an army of supervillains.
* DumbassNoMore: After her PlotRelevantAgeUp she somehow becomes considerably smarter and gains a great deal of botanical knowledge, enough to create a mind control perfume. [[spoiler:In Season 4, she goes through a second transformation and grows quite a few more brain cells, including the ability to control plants.]]
* EarlyBirdCameo: While heavily advertised along with the main cast, and appearing in the premiere, she is not seen or mentioned again until the mid-season finale, ten episodes later. She then gets a scene with Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle. The writers have said that she actually is meant to be an important recurring character, it's just that the first story arc needed time to set up the primary cast in the Gotham police department first.
* EvilRedhead: Even discounting her future supervillain status, Selina is already scared of her. And this is [[LittleMissBadass Selina]] [[CombatPragmatist Kyle]] we are talking about.
* FatalFlaw: Ivy's nNumber 1 shortcoming is her impulsiveness, not only when it comes to thievery, but in how she underestimates other people and sticks to these judgements.
* FilleFatale: [[spoiler: Technically, she's still a child, but has the body of an adult temptress while seducing unsuspecting adult men.]]
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: To Selina apparently.
* GeniusDitz: She has an incredible knowledge of botany and chemistry (enough to create a mind control perfume) but is otherwise pretty airheaded. [[spoiler: This trait disappears halfway through Season 4.]]
* GoldDigger: [[spoiler: After aging into an adult woman, she instantly begins using her charms to seduce men into buying her things.]]
* GreenThumb: A strong affinity for plants, which should surprise no one, given who she's meant to become...
* JailBait: [[spoiler: Played with. While she aged up to an adult woman thanks to Marv trying to kill her with RapidAging, she still has the mindset of a naïve child and uses her looks to manipulate men into giving her things.]]
* KindnessButton: Calling her pretty or offering her money is a good way to get on her nice side.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Despite her genki and childish personality, she really managed to create a mind-control perfume [[spoiler:and has the power to control plants and use them as deadly weapons as of Season 4.]]
* TheNthDoctor: Ivy's on her third actress by the time Season 4 rolls around.
* ParentalAbandonment: Her dad is killed in the pilot, and later we learn that her mother slit her wrists.
* PerkyFemaleMinion: Becomes a super cheerful child after befriending the Penguin and becoming his new confidant. She loses much of her perkiness, however, after enduring a heap of emotional abuse from Penguin and being rejected by Tabitha and the Sirens, [[spoiler:and it's completely gone after her second transformation in the second half of Season 4.]]
* PhraseCatcher: "You're so beautiful", or words to that effect, becomes this trope for her third incarnation as an indication that her mind-control pheromones have taken control of someone.
* PsychopathicWomanchild: [[spoiler: Despite aging up to a grown woman, she still has her childish mindset. This pretty much vanishes after her second transformation.]]
* PlotRelevantAgeUp: [[spoiler:When Ivy encounters Fish's gang of superpowered freaks from Indian Hill, one of the goons, Marv (who harnesses the power to [[RapidAging rapidly age]] people just by touching them) grabs her in an attempt to age her to death, but she manages to escape his grasp just in time. However, he held onto her just long enough to age her from a young teenager to an older woman (played by Maggie Geha for the rest of Season 3). In Season 4, Ivy goes through yet another transformation after drinking a cocktail of mystical potions and is now played by Peyton List]].[[note]][[spoiler:According to WordOfGod, the decision to age Ivy up was made in order to allow the character to use her seductive charms like in the comics. For obvious reasons, this could not be done with the young Clare Foley, so an older actress was introduced]].[[/note]]
* PrecisionFStrike: In the pilot, she has a rather choice word for the police who killed her father.
-->'''Ivy''': Bastards...
* RapidAging: [[spoiler:She gets aged from a child into an adult by Marv.]]
* RedheadInGreen: Always dresses in shades of green.
* {{Rewrite}}: In the comics, Poison Ivy wasn't connected to the Wayne murders at all. In the show, both her parents end up dead as a result of the fallout and she finds herself living in the streets.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Ivy's main goal [[spoiler:after her second rebirth in Season 4]] is to kill everyone who's ever hurt her before moving on to everyone else in the city.
* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: Well, she's a future supervillain...
* SlippingAMickey: Slips magic mushrooms into Sonny Gilzean's gang's lunches, knocking them all out.
* TheStarscream: She's grown into this by Season 4 after having enough of Penguin abusing their friendship. She goes behind his back to try to join the Gotham Sirens and also attempts to help the Merton gang succeed at their assassination attempt on her boss.
* StartOfDarkness: Once she [[spoiler:grows up in "Burn the Witch", she realizes that something dark is developing inside her, but eventually, she decides to embrace it head on. This is further solidified when she knocks out and robs a man (who was actually ''helping'' her) for throwing away a plant]].
* StupidEvil: [[spoiler: She stole a valuable jewel from a wealthy man she tried seducing thinking that nobody would ever come back to attack her for it.]]
* TheNotLoveInterest: Some of her interactions with the Penguin seem classic of a DarkMistress or an IgnoredEnamoredUnderling, but they are only friends.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Girly girl to Selina's tomboy.
* TookALevelInBadass: After her [[spoiler: second rebirth, Ivy is no longer the quirky "adult child" or innocent but now determined to use her power to ravage Gotham.]]
* TookALevelInCheerfulness: She becomes much more happy after growing into an adult with plant powers.
* TookALevelInJerkass: After [[spoiler: being aged by Marv. When she next sees Selina, who has been her only friend for months, she doesn't tell Selina who she is and instead derides her for being short and pickpocketing for survival. After her second aging-up, she becomes downright evil and psychotic and plots to kill everyone in Gotham for abusing plants.]]
* {{Troll}}: The very first time she is seen actually having fun is when she's messing with Barbara's head for no good reason (except maybe to get back at Gordon).
** This trait returns in Season 3, when her first encounter with [[spoiler: Selina, after Ivy was aged by Marv]], sees her not telling her friend [[spoiler: who she is]], and instead treating her with notable scorn.
* TwoFirstNames: Per the Creator/DCComics norm.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: She happens to be squatting in Gordon's apartment when a badly spiraling Barbara calls, and, for kicks, pretends to be a woman Gordon is cheating on her with. Turns out it was for the best (unfortunately it's likely Barbara believes it was Leslie).
* VillainousFriendship: With the Penguin. It doesn't last long, though.
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[[folder: Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow]]
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->'''Played By:''' Charlie Tahan (Season 1-4), David W. Thompson (Season 4)
The future Scarecrow. Forced to go along with his father's fear experiments as a teen, he later submits to and adopts the identity of his personal bogeyman: a NightmareFuel scarecrow-demon conjured up by his own fear toxin-addled imagination.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Comic!Jonathan is usually depicted as a lanky [[Literature/TheLegendOfSleepyHollow Ichabod Crane]] lookalike (he was even ''named'' after the guy). Here, he's a handsome young man.
* AdaptationalBadass: Most incarnations of Crane had him be portrayed a scrawny nerd who was bullied all throughout his childhood, but here he's not only already preparing his fear toxins but he also becomes the Scarecrow while still in his teenage years.
* AgeLift: Jonathan Crane looks to be about five years older than Bruce Wayne.
* AloneWithThePsycho: He ends up locked inside a closet [[spoiler: with a scarecrow who he believes is his boogeyman. This results in him going mad and believing that the scarecrow demon he's hallucinated is possessing him.]]
* AndIMustScream: Screaming incoherently is all he can do after [[spoiler: his father overdoses him on adrenaline and everywhere he looks he sees a monstrous scarecrow]]. By his return, it appears his incarceration in a mental hospital has taken a toll on him, and [[spoiler: being locked up overnight with an actual scarecrow by a bunch of brutal crooks]] pushes him over the edge completely.
* AscendedExtra: Was just a very minor character who played second fiddle to his father in his debut, but by Season 4 he's grown into a major ArcVillain.
* AvengingTheVillain: He attempts to kill Gordon at Arkham Asylum to avenge the death of his serial killer father.
* BadassLongcoat: His Scarecrow costume has a large coat holding his weapons.
* BullyingADragon: Some out-of-town thugs retrieve Jonathan from Arkham via bribery, then terrorize him into producing his father's fear gas for use in their own crimes. You just ''know'' it's not going to go well when [[spoiler: they leave him locked up alone with an actual scarecrow that Jonathan perceives as a nightmarish "bogeyman": a product of his damaged mind which more or less ''possesses'' young Crane, subduing and invading his original persona, then turns the gas on his captor.]]
* TheBusCameBack: He was last seen in a coma in the first season, but returns as the Scarecrow in Season 4.
* CoDragons: Becomes one to Jerome alongside Mad Hatter in season 4.
* DarkIsEvil: In contrast with Bruce’s DarkIsNotEvil.
* DemonicPossession: Played with. [[spoiler: Jonathan ''thinks'' that the Scarecrow demon from his hallucinations is possessing him, driving him to become one of Gotham's greatest villains.]]
* EvilCounterpart: To Bruce. Both kids have witnessed their parents killed horribly and were mentally scarred for life as a result, but they vowed to avenge the deaths of their family members by punishing their killer and growing into a force to be feared in Gotham. However, Bruce desires to grow into the hero Gotham deserves and bring peace, but Jonathan craves power and wants to be feared by those lower than him. Both also tend to use stealth-based attacks and theatrics in their fighting, but Bruce has been trained by the seasoned Alfred while Jonathan uses his scythe in a comparatively amateur way, able to be disarmed by Gordon.
* FaceYourFears: Inverted; having surrendered to his "bogeyman" himself, Crane uses fear-toxin and persuasion to convince Arkham's warden to likewise embrace and ''become'' his personal phobia. When Gordon successfully plays this trope straight, fighting off the fear-gas's effect by overcoming fear, Scarecrow outright claims it's impossible.
* ForcedIntoEvil: For a short time in Season 4, as Jonathan is forced to re-create his father's fear serum by a bunch of bank robbers who terrorize the hallucination-hounded young man with an actual scarecrow.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Goes from a total pushover being forced to serve other criminals into Gotham's great master of fear.
* InsaneEqualsViolent: He's gone off the deep end, which in Gotham City also means that he's a violent psychopath.
* KickTheSonOfABitch:
** Upon becoming the Scarecrow, the first victim he uses his fear gas on is one of the {{mooks}} who tormented him and locked him up inside a closet with his "boogeyman."
** He also poisons the corrupt warden at Arkham as revenge for being sold off to abusive gangsters.
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: His father was trying to find a cure for fear. As the Scarecrow, Jonathan will someday be trying to cause as much fear as possible.
* MissingMom: His mother's death in a house fire is what drove Jonathan's dad to research fear, because Gerald couldn't work up the courage to dash through the flames to save her.
* MythologyGag: In Season 4B, he dons a new hooded Scarecrow mask that heavily resembles the one he wore in the ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries''.
* OutOfFocus: His father is the main antagonist of his debut episode, while Jonathan really plays no important part in it himself. [[TheBusCameBack That is until Season 4]] where Crane returns and becomes the Scarecrow.
* OverlordJr: Jonathan acts as a willing accomplice to all his father's crimes, although intimidation does seem to play a part.
* PunchClockVillain: When he first debuts in ''Gotham,'' Jonathan isn't a kid who's malicious at heart. For all the horrible things Jonathan helps his dad do, fear is his father's obsession, not his own. He goes along with what Gerald does out of familial loyalty and a desire to be rid of the fear he believes makes his father ashamed of him.
** Once he becomes the Scarecrow, he embraces that his father was a genius trying to rid the world of fear; he's just "improving" the process by not only having people embrace their fears, but ''become'' them just like he did.
* ScaryScarecrows: His new costume has the raggedy, demonic scarecrow look to intimidate his targets.
* SinisterScythe: He starts wielding a scythe as a weapon in case of physical confrontations.
* StartOfDarkness: Unless ''Gotham'' is your very first exposure to the Batman franchise, you've probably already guessed that this isn't the last we'll be seeing of Jonathan.
* ThatManIsDead: ''"Jonathan Crane isn't here anymore..."''
* ThisCannotBe: He's in utter shock that [[spoiler: Gordon was able to overcome his fear toxin.]]
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: Injected with his father's own formulas, Jonathan's hallucinations of his scarecrow-like personal "bogeyman" are ''terrifying''.
* TookALevelInBadass: Was first introduced as a young accomplice serving his father, but by Season 4 he's evolved into the Scarecrow, one of Gotham's most dangerous villains.
* WeakSauceWeakness: In [[Recap/GothamS4E2TheFearReaper The Fear Reaper]], Gordon figures out that people under the influence of Jonathan's toxin can be cured with a splash of cold water in the face. Justified, as the fear toxin dispenser this time around seems to be the equivalent of a high-tech spritzer, leaving traces of the toxin in their faces.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After his debut episode in Season One, he's never seen or mentioned for the next two seasons, even after Arkham Asylum re-opened. We don't learn what became of him until Season 4, when he becomes the first ArcVillain of the season, the Scarecrow.
* WhosLaughingNow: His assault against the Arkham warden that sold him off as a slave carries shades of this as he's dragging his scythe close to his former handler. He begins recalling the events of his abuse at the hospital before infecting the corrupt jerk with his toxins, then literally turns the warden into a [[MonsterClown clown]] to demean him.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Was forced to be a PunchClockVillain for his father, [[spoiler:ended up losing both said father and his own sanity, and then kept enduring KickThemWhileTheyAreDown from a system that was supposed to treat him instead]]. After all that, you really can't blame him for finally going on a warpath.
* YouKilledMyFather: He has this attitude towards Gordon thanks to his father getting gunned down by the police. This causes him to try and kill the officer to avenge his lost father.
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[[folder: Victor Fries/Mister Freeze]]
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->'''Played By:''' Nathan Darrow
A young cryogenics engineer-turned-criminal who first appears at the end of the Season 2 midseason finale. Armed with a powerful gun that can freeze people solid, he goes through tremendous lengths to save and protect his ill wife, Nora.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the comics, Mr. Freeze is practically has a physiology that he can not live without his suit and looks freakish human with no hair on his head and is blue skinned. On ''Gotham'', he is still relativity normal, with [[EvilAlbino an albino appearance]], his hair turned white, and his eye color and veins now a light blue. His appearance also hearkens back or a ShoutOut to Captain Cold from [[Series/TheFlash1990 The Flash television series]] from 1990, where he is a PsychoForHire and is a EvilAlbino.
* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler: After Nora dies]], he becomes a full-fledged AxCrazy PsychoForHire working under Hugo Strange and taking ''joy'' in killing people for him as opposed to the emotionally scarred TragicVillain who wants no hand in evil whatsoever.
* AffablyEvil: Enough, apparently, to convince some bystanders to help him load one of his victims into his van. He's also considerate enough to shoo them away when the police are about to show up.
* AnIcePerson: His freeze gun lets him freeze people solid. [[spoiler:His suicide attempt alters his physiology so that he can only survive in cold temperatures.]]
* AntiVillain: Like in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' and the comics before the 2011 relaunch, he's trying to help his wife, no matter who else gets hurt in the process. [[spoiler: At least until she dies.]]
* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: The reason for his below-mentioned BungledSuicide; he'd soaked up enough trace elements of his formula that it turned him into the classic Mr. Freeze, only able to survive in sub-zero temperatures, rather than killing him.
* BaldOfEvil: ''Averted'' in this case. While Mr. Freeze is traditionally bald in the comics, here, he has a full head of snow-white hair post-transformation.
* BungledSuicide: Tries to use a faulty batch of cryo-formula to kill himself [[spoiler:just like Nora did, so he can join her in the afterlife]]. But really, were you expecting Victor Fries to die from an accident with his serum at this point?
* CoDragons: Both him and Firefly are this to [[spoiler:Oswald Cobblepot]] in Season 3. Neither of them are happy about it but they make due of it by killing anyone who tries to kill their boss with precision.
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: Averted. He is called Mr. Freeze by the newspapers (despite that his last name actually isn't pronounced that way this time).
* CostumeEvolution: The Mr. Freeze suit starts off as [[https://nerdist.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/gotham-mr-freeze-exclusive.jpg a thick hooded jacket with simple, makeshift armor plating]]. In "A Dead Man Feels No Cold", he ditches this getup for [[http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/y6tb18/picture63153892/ALTERNATES/FREE_640/Gotham-ep213_scn26_5307_f_hires2 a more spaceman-like suit]], and eventually, it evolves into the iconic armored suit (and red goggles) from the comics.
* ColdHam: {{Pun}} aside, this is appropriately how Fries acts throughout his episodes in his attempts to save his wife, even holding TranquilFury as part of his repertoire.
* DeathFakedForYou: Ostensibly, his dead body was burned after a stay at the city morgue. In fact, he'd been transformed into a human popsicle by his BungledSuicide and became one of Hugo Strange's enforcers.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:After failing to save Nora]]. Needless to say, he fails to kill himself, and of course, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger...
* ForegoneConclusion: Victor's plan to reverse his condition and become normal is unlikely to ever happen due to Mr. Freeze being around during Batman's crime fighting career.
* FiveSecondForeshadowing: While the appearance of Victor Fries was already announced for Season 2, viewers were still surprised to see the logo for the show freeze over, and were immediately greeted by this character's appearance.
* {{Foil}}: To Firefly, appropriately. Both are villains themed after elements, both wear bodily-concealing suits and goggles, and both use guns that fire ammunition deriving from said elements. While Freeze goes out of his way to save his wife and ''not'' cause too much collateral damage [[spoiler: until his ultimate tranformation and FaceHeelTurn]], Firefly had already murdered her brothers who were abusive to her. [[spoiler: Both wind up at Indian Hill not soon after their supervillain debuts, and while Firefly is temporarily locked up in the basement, Freeze is out and about as Hugo Strange's errand boy. The two counterparts meet soon enough, and participate in ElementalRockPaperScissors with their guns until Strange is hurt.]]
* HiredGun: What Fries does as a side job. He's really good in what he does.
* HumanPopsicle: What he becomes by the end of his second episode.
* InTheHood: His suit has some resemblance to Firefly's (goggles, gunmetal grey suit, power supply attached to WeaponOfChoice), and features this in place of the familiar dome.
* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: This series decided to go with a different pun on his last name. Instead of making it sound identical to "freeze", it's instead pronounced like "ice".
* LightIsNotGood: Started off with white armor, but becomes a villain later.
* LockedIntoStrangeness: His hair turns completely white after his resurrection.
* MythologyGag: In "A Dead Man Feels No Cold", while holding a man hostage, Fries creates what appear to be ice grenades with the ability to shoot out icicles similar to a nail bomb, for use in saving his wife from Arkham. These are clearly the Freeze Grenades that debuted in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'', except much deadlier and for murderous intent instead of simple stunning.
** His alliance with [[spoiler: Hugo Strange]] is also taken from the game, though the alliance is mutually beneficial and seems to be more friendly, [[spoiler: with Hugo assisting Fries and distracting the police in exchange for a sample of Victor's cryonic formula]]. However, thanks to Victor's BungledSuicide, he receives his own specialized cell in Arkham and will be acting as a mercenary.
** The astronaut-like suit that he wears "A Dead Man Feels No Cold" looks almost exactly like [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RngpqpM59QU/VP97-KTRS1I/AAAAAAAAFdg/qRK0IlLREYQ/s1600/batman%2B7.jpg one of the suits that he wore in the]] [[Series/{{Batman}} Adam West series]].
* PoweredArmor: As mentioned in CostumeEvolution, he ditches his chainmail jacket for a spaceman-like suit. Of course, his first usage of it combined with his ice gun makes him an example of ClothesMakeTheSuperman, but once he becomes AnIcePerson after his BungledSuicide, [[spoiler: Hugo Strange]] has some modifications made to his suit to fit his HumanPopsicle biology.
* PsychoForHire: Becomes a villain for hire working in the Penguin's new army.
* SlasherSmile: He looks like he's enjoying freezing [[spoiler: Karen Jennings to death]] a little too much.
* VillainDecay: He started out as a complex tragic villain who was trying to save his dying wife, but after her death and his transformation, Freeze became the muscle for other arc villains with more power than him. It actually got to the point where he barely even speaks in his appearances despite his intimidating presence.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The last we see of Victor is him [[spoiler: providing covering fire for Strange as he tries to escape, only for their beam lock to hit Strange in round 2. He (along with Gordon, Lucius, Selina, and Bruce) survey the damage before the bomb under Arkham goes off.]]
** [[spoiler: Ends up returning for the second half of season 3 along with Firefly and both are recruited by Oswald Cobblepot.]]
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Ends up with white hair after being frozen and later unfrozen and is obviously going to end up a member of Batman’s Rogues Gallery.
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[[folder: Bridgit Pike/Firefly]]
->'''Played By:''' Michelle Veintimilla (Season 2 and 4) / Camila Perez (Season 3-4)
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The youngest member of a family of arsonists, who is forced into it by her stepbrothers.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Firefly's previous action incarnation on ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' wasn't as horribly burnt like how Firefly is in the comics (who supposedly has his ''entire'' body covered in burns). This incarnation follows suit as Bridgit isn't as horribly burnt. Granted, she is still covered up in a protected suit that covers her body but not her face. Her face, like Arrow's (which had a two-faced appearance), is not as bad as the comics or the [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries the Arkham games]].
* AdaptationalBadass: Compared to Firefly's last live action incarnation on ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', who was a [[SanitySlippage mentally crippled]] TragicVillain who utilized a lighter and a tank of gasoline.
* AdaptationNameChange: Is named Bridgit Pike instead of Garfield Lynns or Ted Carson.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Combined with AdaptationalHeroism. In the comics, Firefly developed a taste for setting fires by himself, while this version is bullied into committing crimes for her brothers before growing into a supervillain. Firefly is also simply a pyro. Bridgit, after becoming Firefly, leans toward PayEvilUntoEvil. Even her attacks on the cops are both more due to blind panic than anything else. However, there are also strong hints that she has developed a liking to the act of burning people alive and choosing [[AssholeVictim asshole victims]] solely because she can.
* AGodAmI: [[spoiler:Due to Strange creating a new persona for her to adapt to, Firefly now believes she is a "Goddess of Fire." By the time Oswald and Ivy find her again in Season 3, the "Goddess of Fire" alter ego went away.]]
* AmbiguouslyGay: She seems to harbor a strong relationship with Selina Kyle. However, it's unknown whether it's a crush or if they're just close friends.
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: After she suffers serious burns, the police assume she's dead and she is taken to Indian Hill for experimentation. The worst part is that she's ''still alive'' and in serious pain already from her burns.]]
* AntiVillain: Is forced into crime by her abusive brothers, and her only victims are either accidental or of the [[AssholeVictim Asshole]] variety [[spoiler:{such as the aforementioned brothers)]].
* ArmorIsUseless: Played with; she builds herself an outfit from "flame-proof" cloth to prevent getting burned after her first night leaves her with fire on her leg. But during her final fight with the cops, her fuel line soaks her suit, catching her on fire... only for it to turn out that the cloth didn't burn, ''[[BodyHorror but fused to her body.]]''
* AxCrazy: After her brainwashing, she just wants to watch the world burn.
* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: Her brothers and Hugo Strange relentlessly abused her to the point of insanity.
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:After her fuel line soaks her flame-proof cloth suit and she is set aflame, the suit fuses to her body, cementing her as Firefly for good.]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler: Thanks to Hugo Strange's treatment on her. It goes away.]]
* BreakTheCutie: The abuse from her brothers and corruption from Selina's influence turn her from a shy, timid young girl into one of Gotham's deadliest arsonists.
* TheBusCameBack: She returns some episodes after her seeming death, now donning her identity as Firefly.
* ButtMonkey: She's abused by her family, seriously burned, has no friends, [[spoiler: and suffers a FateWorseThanDeath after she's mistaken for dead.]]
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: In "By Fire", Barnes and Bullock both call her a firefly, but that's just a MythologyGag. She never actually calls herself Firefly, nor does anyone use the word in the context of a name. [[spoiler: Averted after her return in "Unleashed", where she insists that Firefly is her name, refusing to answer to Bridgit.]]
* CopKiller: Accidentally, after her flamethrower malfunctions.
* CostumeEvolution: Her first suit is a crudely-crafted hoodie and mask made out of fireproof fabric, along with a pair of black goggles that resemble an insect's eyes. After she's [[spoiler:taken into Indian Hill for experimentation]], she sports a [[http://utbgeek.com/home/bradu25/public_html/utbgeek/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/G3-1.jpg darker, sleeker suit]] with a flamethrower that appears to represent her "Firefly wings", as well as a new pair of goggles that look strikingly similar to her ''[[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins Arkham]]'' counterpart's.
* DarkIsEvil: She dons a gray fire-resistant suit upon becoming Firefly.
* DarthVaderClone: After she becomes Firefly, she now has serious burns, metallic armor that keeps her alive, and speaks in a distorted voice.
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: In "By Fire", she kills the Pike brothers by, well... by fire.]]
* DrivenToVillainy: Her brothers and Hugo Strange push her to the point of insanity with their relentless torture; resulting in her becoming the arsonist Firefly.
* DysfunctionalFamily: The Pike brothers force her into becoming an arsonist, calling it "family business", and threaten to expel her if they decide that she is not family.
* EvilFeelsGood: After her first night, she realizes that she enjoyed setting fires.
* EvilIsHammy: After accepting her villainous side, she goes way over the top with her desire to torch everything.
* EvilMakesYouUgly: She was a pretty, innocent girl before suffering from serious burns during her arson crimes.
* FireBreathingWeapon: Progresses to using a flamethrower at the end of "Scarification".
* {{Foil}}: Appropriately enough, to Mr. Freeze. Both are villains themed after elements, both wear bodily-concealing suits and goggles, and both use guns that fire ammunition deriving from said elements. However, while Freeze is trying to rescue the one he loves and ''not'' cause massive collateral damage, Bridgit sets her abusive family ablaze (though it wasn't [[ButtMonkey without reason]]) and goes on a subsequent rampage. [[spoiler: They both end up at Indian Hill and don't see each other until Hugo Strange attempts to activate a bomb to level Arkham. While Freeze stays loyal to the professor, Bridgit (now truly Firefly) immediately dejects Strange's imploring to kill Selina. The two end up in ElementalRockPaperScissors and are evenly matched, only stopping when Strnge gets in the crossfire.]]
* FromNobodyToNightmare: She was just an abused, shy girl before becoming one of the city's most dangerous arsonists.
* GenderFlip: Firefly is traditionally portrayed as male.
* LossOfIdentity: After her time in Indian Hill.
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:Bridgit ends up burnt alive by her malfunctioning flamethrower and is thought to be dead. However, her body is taken to Indian Hill for experimentation, while she's ''still alive'' and [[AndIMustScream completely aware]] to what's going on.]]
* NotSoDifferent: After becoming evil, she's now no longer different from her equally {{jerkass}}, abusive {{pyromaniac}} brothers and their desire to torch others for fun.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: [[spoiler:Barbecues her brothers, who have abused her since childhood, and a pimp auctioning sex slaves.]]
* PsychoForHire: Much like her original counterpart, she becomes a villain for hire recruited as the Penguin's new muscle.
* PutOnABusToHell: After receiving serious burns that the police assumed she dies from, she's sent to Indian Hill [[spoiler: where Hugo Strange commits horrific experiments on her.]]
* {{Pyromaniac}}: Well, she is a villain who bases her gadgets off of flame-inducing technology.
* ShrinkingViolet: Before her StartOfDarkness, Bridgit was a timid girl who was afraid of interacting with people due to her constant abuse.
* SmallNameBigEgo: [[spoiler: After Strange convinces her to act as a fire goddess, she becomes quite full of herself and only spares Selina's life in order to make her a servant.]]
* ReligionOfEvil: [[spoiler: Her Fire Goddess persona desires the burning of the entire world.]]
* ReligiousBruiser: [[spoiler: She truly believes that fire is a religion for her to spread.]]
* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: She and Selina were very close and knew each other on a personal level. However, their friendship has officially severed upon Bridgit's transformation into Firefly.
* ThatManIsDead: When she sees Selena again after Selena sneaks into Indian Hill she maintains that Bridgit is dead and that her name is Firefly.
* TookALevelInJerkass: After she becomes a fully evil villain, she embraces her AxCrazy side.
* VillainDecay: She was once a rogue pyromaniac that went around killing people for fun, but later in the show she gets recruited as the DumbMuscle for more competent villains. To rub salt in the wounds, she once gets taken out by ''Leslie Thompkins'' of all characters with a single bullet igniting her flamethrower.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: She and Selina used to be good friends before she became Firefly and tried to kill her former friend.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Firefly's last appearance had her [[spoiler: in a beam lock with her flamethrower against Freeze's ice gun. Their feud ends up wounding Strange, and she surveys the damage with her counterpart. She comes back, along with Freeze, to help Oswald in his fight against Edward.]]
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[[folder: Jervis Tetch/Mad Hatter]]
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->'''Played By:''' Benedict Samuel
A talented hypnotist who comes to Gotham looking for his younger sister, Alice.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: The youngest, most attractive portrayal of the character, as played by Benedict Samuel.
* AdaptationalBadass: Usually Tetch's mind control is managed via high-tech hats he places on his victims. Here he only needs for his victims to listen to his voice.
* ArchEnemy: To Jim Gordon. Jervis blames Gordon for [[spoiler: Alice's death]], and in turn [[spoiler: turns both of his [[LoveInterest Love Interests]] against him.]]
* AxCrazy: Has no compunctions about harming innocent people.
* BeardOfEvil: A natty goatee.
* BerserkButton: His sister Alice. Or rather, the possibility of losing control over her. Telling him his sister left him out of fear and hatred of him for ''loving'' her is also surefire to get Jervis ready to murder you.
* BlackEyesOfCrazy: Whenever he uses his hypnosis, Jervis's irises turn an eerie black, and what makes it scarier is that they're not even reflective once they become that way.
* BigBad: Served as this for Mad City.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Alice claims that Tetch tried to implant thoughts "a brother should never have" into her head in the past.
* CatchPhrase: "Look into my eyes."
* CoDragons: Becomes one to Jerome alongside Scarecrow in season 4.
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: In spite of the ''Alice in Wonderland'' motifs that accompany him, he has yet to be called the Mad Hatter in-show.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Most depictions of Jervis in the comics imply him to be a sexual predator who kidnaps girls and tries to transform them into "Alice". ''Gotham'' takes this one step further and adds BrotherSisterIncest to this by making the original Alice of his obsessions his own sister. He did however kidnap an unknown girl and dress her up, only to slit her throat afterwards.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: The GCPD and Jim were able to stop Jervis and [[spoiler:his plan to unleash the virus,]] but there are still three episodes left of Mad City allowing the vacant spot of BigBad being filled by [[spoiler: Jerome Valeska.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Horrifically, disturbingly deconstructed. His ''love'' for his sister is very sick and twisted; he [[BrotherSisterIncest abuses]] and terrifies her and calls it love.
* {{Even Evil Has Standards}}: Whilst he is willingly and eagerly helping out Jerome Valeska, he is noticeably disturbed and shocked at the Joker Toxin's affects on the test subject.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Jim gets him to reveal who he has infected with Alice's blood by turning his RhymesOnADime tendency back on him.]]
* TheImmune: [[spoiler:He is immune to Alice's virus, and his blood is necessary to create a cure.]]
* {{Irony}}: Jervis loves watching people fall into madness from Alice's blood as a twisted way of being close to her, but [[spoiler:''his'' blood is the key ingredient of the antidote]].
* MindManipulation: He's a hypnotist.
* NeverMyFault: After [[spoiler:Alice's death]], Jervis blames Jim Gordon for turning her against him, even though she hated Jervis because of his [[BrotherSisterIncest own]] [[{{Yandere}} actions]].
* NiceHat: Though not given much focus, he just wouldn't be ''the'' Mad Hatter without a snazzy topper.[[spoiler:Even after he winds up in Arkham, he makes a cartoonish one out of newspaper.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Normally speaks in a polite, soft-spoken manner, so when he raises his voice, it's a sign that he's ''very'' angry.
** He usually wears a smug smile on his face and speaks with glee when committing crimes and killing people. If he ever drops this, someone's going to die.
* PsychicAssistedSuicide: He's not actually psychic, but he uses his hypnosis to do something similar.
* RhymesOnADime: Tends to speak in this when he's hypnotizing people. It slips into his regular speech the further off the deep end he goes. This is an [[ShownTheirWork actual symptom of schizophrenia]] called [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clanging Clanging]].
* SanitySlippage: He's clearly got some screws loose in his introductory episode, but finding out that Alice wants nothing to do with him, and later [[spoiler:witnessing her death]] doesn't help.
** It's a testament to how off his rocker he is when, after [[spoiler: escaping Arkham]], most of his dialogue is ''screamed'', as opposed to the quiet, polite tone he usually uses.
* SoftSpokenSadist: He has a very calm, low voice, even while he's commanding people to kill themselves.
* {{Yandere}}: Tetch is hunting Alice down even though he terrifies her and she wants nothing to do with him.
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[[folder:Butch Gilzean/Solomon Grundy]]
!!Butch Gilzean[=/=]Cyrus Gold[=/=]Solomon Grundy
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->'''Played By:''' Drew Powell
An experienced member of the Gotham City underworld crime system, Butch was a former underling of Fish Mooney and later, he came to be second-in-command under Oswald Cobblepot before spitting off from him and tries to become the King of Gotham with the help from his girlfriend, Tabitha Galavan, and Barbara Kean, Tabby's ex-lover and former business partner.
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* AdaptationalNameChange: Played with. While his true name is still Cyrus Gold like in the comics, he goes under the name "Butch Gilzean" for the majority of the show.
* AgeLift: Solomon Grundy is [[Really700YearsOld thousands of years old in the comics]] (he was born during the 19th century), but in this show, he's about 30-40 years old [[spoiler:by the time he becomes a zombie]].
* AscendedExtra: He's just Fish's head mook in Season 1, but by "Wrath of the Villains", [[spoiler:he survived through the reigns of both Fish and the Penguin to become 'King of Gotham' on top of the underworld.]]
* AffablyEvil: Butch is a likable guy. When he first meets Gordon, he's nothing but jovial and friendly. Later, he even gives some Maroni men the opportunity to choose whether they get shot or beaten up to send a message to their boss.
* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:Penguin hacks off his hand when he asks him to perform a special infiltration mission against Galavan. He then gains a prosthetic replacement. And his hand is later regained, after he emerged out of Slaughter Swamp.]]
* BackFromTheDead: After a pair of lazy paramedics dump his body in Slaughter Swamp, [[spoiler: some dumped chemicals from Indian Hill bring him back to life.]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: It was revealed that Zsasz did this to him as punishment for his betrayal, so that he would follow Penguin's commands without question. [[spoiler:This becomes problematic during Penguin and Fish's fight where his loyalty to both plays havoc on his mind and he ends up shooting them both. However, Tabitha helps break him of his brainwashing in exchange for his help.]]
* CameBackStrong: After [[spoiler: coming back to life as Solomon Grundy]], he's gained SuperStrength.
* CameBackWrong: He has no memory of his past life as a human.
* CanonCharacterAllAlong: He initially appeared to be a CanonForeigner along with Fish, but the Season 3 finale reveals that his real name is [[spoiler: Cyrus Gold, the true identity of Solomon Grundy in the comics]].
* TheChainsOfCommanding: [[spoiler:He becomes the King of Gotham after Penguin is brought to Arkham. He is effective at first, killing people loyal to Penguin. But when Tabitha becomes his mistress, then Butch becomes lazy and like a dad from a sitcom. He is seen laying around in his robes. This is despite the fact that his nephew who is selling mushrooms is incompetent. Penguin says in Season 2 Episode 20 that he has become "soft" and "sentimental". ]]
* ConflictingLoyalty: [[spoiler:He couldn't decide if he was loyal to Fish or Penguin so he [[KneeCapping kneecapped]] both. However, Penguin still wins.]]
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler:Helps Theo kill Penguin after being freed from his mind control.]]
* TheDragon: For Fish. [[spoiler:And eventually for Penguin, too.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Fish orders that the captive Gordon and Bullock be tortured to death and literally carved to pieces in a meat-packing warehouse, to send a warning to the police. Gilzean earnestly apologizes to Gordon and Bullock that if it were up to him, he'd simply shoot them each in the head execution-style and be done with it - but it's not up to him.
** In "Better to Reign in Hell...", he tells Selina that she's too young to be hanging around in a nightclub.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Has no issue threatening Barbara or Gordon, or using a whole procession of nuns as a roadblock.
* HonorAmongThieves: He makes sure to confess to his old friend Saviano about how when they were teens who had stolen 40 pounds of meat, he had screwed him out of the better cuts, and asks for forgiveness. Saviano does this, [[spoiler:and then Butch shoots him]]
* IronButtmonkey: He has suffered a great deal as a result of being TheDragon to a number of sadistic criminals. [[ColdBloodedTorture Tortured]], [[MindRape brainwashed]], [[AnArmAndALeg lost a hand]], tortured some more...
* LargeHam:
** Although nowhere near the levels of his boss, anyone who uses a dozen kidnapped nuns to hijack a truck definitively qualifies.
** Has a phone rigged to detonate a bomb to kill some loose ends. With "Final Countdown" as the ringtone.
* LonelyAtTheTop: After temporarily becoming TheDon of Gotham, he immediately gets bored with his high position and gets more action with Tabitha dating him.
* MeaningfulName: Called "Butch" and appears to work as a butcher.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: In "Anything For You", he's fed up with the way Penguin treated him, even before Nygma came along.
* MythologyGag: He acts like a brainless brute [[spoiler:when he first becomes Grundy]], but is back to his intelligent old self when Tabitha knocks the memories back into his head. In the comics, Grundy is known to grow more intelligent and less animalistic with every resurrection.
* PervertedSniffing: To Barbara Kean.
* PunchClockVillain: For the most part. Butch seems to take pleasure in doing his job well - his job just happens to be as a mob enforcer. He can have an almost perfunctory tone about doing routine mob work, though. Yes he tied up some nuns to use as a roadblock but he didn't expect them to be actually killed (the point was to make the truck stop). He then goes through the polite, almost boring routine of explaining to the drivers that he needs to send a message to Maroni, so they can choose between a thorough beating or a quick bullet to the leg. His tone is that of a mechanic calmly discussing payment options with a customer. The drivers, also matter-of-factly, ask why he even needs to send a "message" by hurting them, they could just ''tell'' Maroni that he was willing to beat them up. Butch gets mildly annoyed that this would subvert the entire "message", so he casually whips out his gun and shoots them both in the legs. Even his threats against Barbara Kean are more perfunctory, calculated intimidation than they are ForTheEvulz.
* TheReveal: "Heavydirtysoul" reveals, after [[spoiler: Barbara kills him]], that [[spoiler: his original name was "Cyrus Gold", as in ''Solomon Grundy''.]]
* ReverseMole: [[spoiler:Penguin employs him in an infiltration mission against Galavan, but when Galavan offers him a chance to break free of his brainwashing, Butch immediately switches sides and betrays Penguin.]]
* {{Scapegoat}}: [[spoiler:After he betrays Penguin with the whole Red Hood affair, he becomes the easiest person to blame for any underworld dealings with Penguin's involvement, not necessarily at Penguin's initial suggestion, among them Isabella's car accident.]]
* SwissArmyAppendage: Deconstructed when Galavan attempts to set him up with some, but most prove AwesomeButImpractical. Later reconstructed when he's able to pick his own, slightly more practical, attachments, like a mallet attachment for "negotiations".
* UndyingLoyalty: To Fish, big time. [[spoiler:When a childhood friend of his (a boss with seniority to Fish, and better claim to the empire should Falcone be removed) offers him a chance for a much better position within the mob in exchange for killing Fish (namely her territory as his equal partner), he instead kills said childhood friend without a second thought in his usual AffablyEvil manner.]] Exactly ''why'' he has such loyalty to Fish above all else has yet to be revealed. [[spoiler:Though this didn't do him any good at the end of "What the Little Bird Told Him". He personally rescues her from being tortured in the next episode, and sacrifices himself to help her escape.]]
** He proves just as loyal to [[spoiler:Penguin]], even sincerely renouncing Fish. This comes to a head when he has to choose between them. However, [[spoiler:Galavan breaks him out of his brainwashing and he betrays Penguin.]]
* UnholyMatrimony: Briefly with Tabitha in the second half of Season 2, but they break up when she gains interest in [[BiTheWay Barbara.]]
* VillainDecay: Goes from the cunning FauxAffablyEvil NobleDemon he was at the start of the series into the resident StupidEvil IronButtMonkey routinely abused by everyone.
* VillainousCrush: He has one on the more villainous Tabitha Galavan.
* VillainousValor: Sneaky, smart, brave, and strong enough to [[spoiler:escape the van in which he was being transported to an incineration facility, kill his captors, track down and free Mooney, and then help her escape when Zsasz shows up, even willingly staying behind to cover her escape. He even managed to kill one of Zsasz's henchgirls, which surprises them.]]
* VillainsDoTheDirtyWork: Technically speaking. Gordon was more than willing to murder Galavan [[spoiler:again]], but wasn't having much success. Then Penguin and Butch showed up and Butch shot him with a rocket launcher.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Until Season 1 Episode 16, it was unknown what happened to him after he stayed behind to let Fish escape Zsasz's gang. It turned out he was 'conditioned' to be a personal assistant for Cobblepot.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Subverted when he comes back as Solomon Grundy as he’s more of a dimwitted monster defending himself. However, its a ForegoneConclusion that he’ll become a supervillain.
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[[folder:The Joker [[spoiler:/Jeremiah Valeska]]]]
[[/folder]]
!Future Members of Batman's Rogues' Gallery
[[folder:Edward Nygma/The Riddler]]
!!Edward Nygma
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->'''Played By:''' Cory Michael Smith
A crime scene analyst who works for the Gotham City Police Department and often presents his information in riddles.
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* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:His second kill, Kristen.]]
* AdaptationalBadass: [[spoiler:Though the Batman or someone else is always able to solve his riddles eventually, here he's able to defeat Gordon not by stumping him, but by making ''him'' the solution to his riddle.]]
* AdaptationalHeroism: He has NoSocialSkills and is often smug and annoying with his riddles, but in this incarnation, he's a competent and effective police forensic scientist who often provides Gordon and Bullock with critical information. However, given he's going to become The Riddler at some point, it remains to be seen what becomes of him in the future. [[spoiler: Killing Tom was his StartOfDarkness]]
* AdaptationalVillainy: After his [[spoiler:{{Face Heel Turn}}.]] In the comics, he was only an evil mastermind with a quirk for riddles. He was one of Batman's friendliest enemies and even became a rival detective of Batman's for a time. In the show, [[spoiler:he becomes an {{Ax Crazy}} serial killer, murdering several people in an attempt to cover up his tracks. He then frames Gordon for the murder of a fellow officer, sending him to Blackgate. He is shown to have little remorse in retrospect for the murders he commits, saying that they free him.]]
* AdjustingYourGlasses: By the bridge as he [[spoiler:descends into Strange's experimentation facility]].
* AdmiringTheAbomination: His reaction to several people collapsing as their bones turn to dust inside them is an awestruck "Fascinating!" He later shows an interest in crimes beyond the forensics.
* {{Adorkable}}: Nerdy glasses, obsession with riddles, interest and profession in science? He definitely qualifies as this.
* AgeLift: Riddler is now apparently around Gordon's age, while usually he is around Batman's age.
* AmbiguousDisorder: He ''has'' to speak in riddles, is visibly annoyed and disappointed when not taken up on them, and he has a textbook case of NoSocialSkills, which line up on the Asperger's spectrum. He also has signs of SuperOCD, carefully picking onions out of his lunch and reorganizing the station's archives to what he finds a superior structure. This could be a case of ShownTheirWork on the part of the writers, trying to ground character behavior in real-life disorders; "If the Joker is a sociopath, and Two-Face is bipolar, what real-life mental conditions would make someone act like the Riddler of the comics?"
* AttentionWhore: Extremely needy for appreciation. He has a driving need to be seen as the smartest man in the room or to point out interesting, trivial details to other people - apparently in the hope that this will impress them with how intelligent he is. Every time his colleagues fail to appropriately praise him for his discoveries or aid, he looks frustrated.[[spoiler: This comes back to bite him in the ass later on as he realized he compulsively put a clue in the note "from" Tom to Kristen that it was really him who wrote it. At first he was pretty impressed with himself but then when Kristen confronted him, he begins to break down, realizing that she might actually catch on that he murdered Tom.]]
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: After suffering a serious SanitySlippage, Nygma begins killing people left and right while trying to hide his ex-girlfriend's corpse. To the point where he fully embraces the idea of killing others because [[EvilFeelsGood it provides a sense of power to him.]]]]
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: In "Mad Grey Dawn."]]
* BadassInANiceSuit: [[spoiler: Clips from Season 3 show that he's on his way to wearing his trademark green suit and instigating his terrorist spree.]]
* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:Pulls off a spectacular one on Gordon in "Mad Grey Dawn" to disgrace him.]]
* BerserkButton:
** Do not call him crazy, [[spoiler: as Miss Kringle found out the hard way]], or stupid. In fact, don't call him anything disparaging, period. [[SuppressedRage "I don't like being called names, Detective."]]
** He absolutely flips if he even ''thinks'' you're catching on to his crimes.
*** First, [[spoiler:after he admits to killing Tom to Kristen, she makes the aforementioned mistake ''and'' threatens to report him. This results in her strangulation]].
*** Later, [[spoiler:when he thinks Jim is getting close to discovering he killed Kristen, he first frames him for Officer Pinkney's murder, and then ultimately, when he catches on to ''that'', tries to murder ''him'', too]].
** He really didn't like when Lee slapped him in "Anything for You" (which satisfyingly wiped that smile off his face), and tells her she shouldn't have done it. Lee tells him he can't do anything about it, right-hand man of Penguin or not, since she'll be marrying Mario Falcone, which [[TemptingFate might be a mistake]].
** He hates it when people keep getting Isabella's name wrong.
** After becoming the Riddler, being called by his original name qualifies.
* BigNo: [[spoiler:After realizing that he killed Kristen.]]
* BondVillainStupidity: His compulsion with riddles, [[spoiler:which ended up working to his advantage in "Mad Grey Dawn"]], ends up being his downfall when [[spoiler:a riddle about death buys the GCPD enough time to close in on him]].
* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler: He commits his first murder on Miss Kringle's [[BastardBoyfriend Abusive Boyfriend]], triggering his StartOfDarkness.]]
* ButtMonkey: [[spoiler:During the final quarter of the second season, after he had been busted. Not only is he shipped off to Arkham, he also has a foiled escape attempt which results in his being briefly locked up with one of Arkham's most rabid inmates, and then in the season finale he gets used and betrayed by both Strange and Gordon.]]
* CartwrightCurse: Be it by his own hand or just plain bad luck, Nygma can never seem to have a steady girlfriend survive a relationship with him.
* TheCorrupter: Believe it or not, but [[spoiler: he manages to convince the Penguin to ''enjoy'' the fact that his mother is dead because now she can no longer hold him back. Helping make the Penguin ''worse'' than he was before.]]
* CrazyPrepared: As shown in "Into the Woods", [[spoiler:he keeps a chair in his apartment secretly wired to his building's electricity, apparently just on the off chance that he'll ever need to knock out somebody who happens to be sitting there]].
* CreepyCute: InUniverse and out. He's very {{Adorkable}} and not bad-looking in a nerdy way, but even before his SanitySlippage his cheerful scientific curiosity about horrific crimes and awkward expressions of affection toward Miss Kringle can go beyond normal social awkwardness and endearing quirkiness into disturbing territory.
-->'''Miss Kringle''': I think you left this on my desk.
-->'''Edward''': It's a riddle.
-->'''Miss Kringle''': It's a cupcake with a live bullet in it.
-->'''Edward''': It's a riddle.
-->'''Miss Kringle''': It's ''weird'' and ''menacing'' and ''inedible''.
* CurseOfTheAncients: Just before [[spoiler:he's arrested for murder and obstruction and perversion of justice]]: "Aw, crud." In fact, during the final quarter of the second season [[spoiler:he shows a tendency to resort to this when things go to hell]].
* DeadpanSnarker: His split personality has a tendency to snark towards him. For example, in "Damned If You Do", when he appears in a mirror and Nygma accuses him of copying him:
-->'''Split!Nygma''': Dude. It's a mirror, it's how they work.
* DelightingInRiddles: His signature style, which really annoys his colleagues.
* TheDogBitesBack:
** After the ME gets him suspended, Nygma does a little digging. Turns out the ME likes to steal body parts. (Or Nygma planted them to frame him.) One anonymous tip off later...
** [[spoiler: When Nygma discovers that Kristen Kringle's boyfriend Tom is abusing her, he confronts Tom who just blows him off. Later that night, Nygma waits outside Kringle's house when Tom comes around drunk and stumbling. Nygma confronts him again. Tom gut punches Nygma. Nygma retaliates by [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill stabbing Tom AT LEAST a dozen times]]. Afterwards, he has quite the breakdown, simultaneously laughing and freaking out.]]
* DoubleAgent: [[spoiler:He's a murderer who's working for the GCPD's forensics division.]]
* DudeWheresMyRespect: The rest of the police often take his brilliant forensics work for granted, and in particular because they think he's annoying, they often shoo him away as soon as possible or ignore him. WordOfGod is that this is the primary reason he will become the Riddler down the road -- he wants his genius to be appreciated and commits crimes to rub it in the face of the police that he can so easily outsmart them. Gordon starts to subvert this in later episodes, recognizing Nygma's talents and asking him for help more often, but he still has limited patience for the riddles.
* EvilFeelsGood: [[spoiler: After killing Kristen, his split personality tells him that getting away with crime feels good. After tracking down her corpse and disposing of it, he begins embracing this idea.]]
* EvilGenius: [[spoiler: Perfectly orchestrates the arrest of Jim Gordon by playing him at every turn.]]
* {{Expy}}: [[spoiler: His SplitPersonality seems to be a combination of both the Frank Gorshin and Jim Carrey Riddler personalities.]]
* EvilIsHammy: [[spoiler: Once he goes bad, he starts acting much more theatrical than usual (in a creepy sort of way)]].
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: After murdering the girl who he loved, Nygma begins to fully embrace his lust for evil, on his way towards becoming the villain he's destined to become.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The license plate on his car says "RIDL LVR". While it's short for "Riddle Lover", it's also a mere letter away from "RIDDLER".
* FourEyesZeroSoul: He still wears glasses after pulling his FaceHeelTurn.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: [[spoiler:Especially as far as Mayor Cobblepot's staff is concerned, among the GCPD. Barnes even makes it clear that he only tolerates his presence at the station as the mayor's Chief of Staff because he likes his own job tons more than he likes Nygma. Not just that, but Fox is the only one at the GCPD who shows any real willingness to cooperate with him on the Red Hood case, and he too despises Nygma.]]
* HarmlessFreezing: Played with. Being frozen for several months by Mr. Freeze causes muscle atrophy which he recovers from in a few days, but it also causes some sort of brain damage, as he is unable to come up with any good riddles.
* HumanPopsicle: [[spoiler:At the end of "Heavydirtysoul", Penguin has Mr. Freeze turn Nygma into one, which he plans to use as the centerpiece of his new club, the Iceberg Lounge.]]
** That is, until [[spoiler:his LoonyFan Myrtle Jenkins thaws him out in "They Who Hide Behind Masks".]]
* IconicOutfit: In Season 3, he starts wearing dark green suit jackets akin to the Riddler's iconic look. In "How the Riddler Got His Name", [[spoiler:he finally dons his classic bright green suit and bowler hat]].
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: All he wants is respect from his coworkers and to be seen as good guy. Which makes his [[DoomedByCanon inevitable fall from grace]] all the more harsher.
* IKnowYouKnowIKnow: [[spoiler:Regarding Gordon figuring out about his being responsible for the frameup.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While Edward can be an obnoxious know it all who comes off as really creepy at times, he's actually very kind and friendly to those he considers friends like Jim, Sarah, Ms. Kringle, Harvey, etc. Most of his jerkass behavior is directed towards terrible people (Arnold Flass, the medical examiner) or just a side effect of his anti-social disorder.
* KickTheSonOfABitch:
** [[spoiler: Killing Miss Kringle's [[BastardBoyfriend Abusive Boyfriend]].]]
** Shooting [[spoiler: the Penguin]] and dumping his body in the bay for killing his [[spoiler: new girlfriend]] and depriving him a life of happiness.
* LackOfEmpathy: Not overtly malicious, but part of his obsessive behavior, combined with his profession as a forensic investigator - which means that he sees horrific murders as exciting puzzles to solve, not really focusing on the death of another human being. Most of these are within the realm of professional detachment, but in "Viper", Nygma is practically giddy when describing what he has learned about the advanced new super-drug hitting the streets - including how it invariably kills users within a day by destroying the calcium in their bones. A hooker strung-out on the drug then horrifically dies in front of him, her brittle bones snapping under her own weight. Instead of being repulsed by her death, he simply beams "fascinating!" - like a child who just found a really interesting crossword puzzle. [[spoiler: After his FaceHeelTurn, he fully embraces how good it is to make other suffer in order to give himself a sense of power over them.]]
* LeanAndMean: After completing his FaceHeelTurn, he begins his transformation into the Riddler, who was always a NonActionBigBad on account of his lack of muscle mass.
* LoveMakesYouEvil[=/=]LoveMakesYouCrazy: [[spoiler: He killed [[AssholeVictim Tom]] to protect Miss Kringle, but it led to his StartOfDarkness. Then, it gets even worse when he accidentally kills Miss Kringle himself when she rejects him after learning the truth.]]
* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: He tries to [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this by performing an autopsy in "The Mask", and goes through the process just fine until the actual medical examiner comes in and tells him off.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
** [[spoiler: After he kills Tom, he realizes that he won't be coming back to normal anytime soon.]]
** [[spoiler: He accidentally strangles Miss Kringle in a fit of panic, but realizes too late that he killed her.]]
* MythologyGag:
** Nygma is briefly seen holding a coffee mug with the Riddler's trademark question mark on the side.
** He also might be a big walking one to the ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'' version of the Riddler, given that ''[[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins Arkham Origins]]'' revealed that prior to becoming the Riddler or even the pre-Riddler alias of "Enigma", he was a member of the GCPD.
** The [[spoiler:[[https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zFdX0yZ2Vp8/maxresdefault.jpg bright green suit and black bowler hat]] that he sports as the Riddler]] is very much a modernized, updated version of [[http://d1xgwawrm1fpry.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/25082737/riddler.jpg Frank Gorshin's suit]] from the [[Series/{{Batman}} 1960's TV series]].
* NoSocialSkills:
** He's blissfully unaware of how weird he comes across, and is convinced everyone at the station is his buddy. He also doesn't notice basic social cues, often standing around smiling after people have stopped speaking to him, not realizing that they non-verbally want him to leave.
** His attempts to flirt with a co-worker Miss Kringle come off as incredibly creepy and make him seem like a stalker.
** He thinks he knows how to do other people's jobs better than they do, leading him to butt in their work without permission - genuinely believing that they will be grateful to him. Exacerbating matters is that he actually ''is'' smarter than other people at many tasks, reinforcing his belief that they'll appreciate his "help", not realizing that this will only annoy them. He rearranges the police archives without Ms. Kringle's permission, and performs an autopsy without permission from the head medical examiner (granted, he is also a forensic analyst in the department so this isn't that weird in context). He genuinely can't understand why other people think it's annoying to tell them how to do their own jobs, even if his points are entirely valid.
* NotSoDifferent:
** [[spoiler:No matter how much he hates Tom for abusing Kris, he himself ends up violently manhandling and accidentally killing her.]]
** He later also compares himself to [[spoiler: the Penguin. Informing Cobblepot that they are both evil men who should embrace their true murderous intentions now that the people most important to them can no longer hold them back.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When Gordon is desperately trying to get in touch with Leslie Thompkins because he believes the Ogre is after her, he demands to know where she is. Nygma pauses for a second and simply and straightforwardly tells Gordon what he knows.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: [[spoiler: He shoots Penguin and dumps his body in the bay for killing his beloved Isabella, despite the mob boss begging for forgiveness.]]
* RealityEnsues: His attempts at performing the duties of the medical examiner eventually get him suspended when said medical examiner goes to Captain Essen in "The Fearsome Dr. Crane" and threatens to go over her head over the issue. Fortunately, he ends up coming back when the ME's own medical improprieties are revealed.
* SanitySlippage: In the final episode of Season One he realises that he unconsciously left a clue pointing at himself [[spoiler:after killing Tom]], and begins to break at the seams, having fits of paranoia and hearing voices. Come season two he's headed right into Gollum-esque arguments with his own evil urges via a mirror. [[spoiler: Then he accidentally murders his girlfriend Kristen in a fit of blind panic. In Season 2, he deteriorates to the point where he's become an AxCrazy psychopath.]]
* SaveTheVillain: He treats the Penguin after finding him wounded in the forest.
* SlasherSmile: [[spoiler: After transitioning into a villain he starts smirking evilly after embracing his inner darkness.]]
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Speaks in riddles, is a forensic scientist, and wears big browline glasses.
* SmugSnake: Rubs his freedom and position of power in the faces of Lee and Barnes.
* SplitPersonality: He seems to be hallucinating a dark reflection of himself urging him to perform evil by giving in to his inner hate.
* SplitPersonalityMerge: At the end of "Mommy's Little Monster."
* StalkerWithACrush: He comes across this way with Kristen Kringle, since given his NoSocialSkills and love for riddles, it comes off as creepy.
* TheStarscream: [[spoiler:After figuring out that Penguin had put a hit on Isabella.]]
* StartOfDarkness: [[spoiler: Killing Tom was this. Cemented further by his killing Kris when she freaks out over his revealing this.]].
* SuppressedRage: In response to [[BerserkButton being called names (yet again)]] by Bullock, he crushes the cryogenically frozen rose he was holding in one hand. It's the slow sound of the rose cracking apart that really sells it.
* TakingTheBullet: During the [[spoiler:police massacre in "Knock, Knock", he manages to save Kringle this way]]. Fortunately, [[spoiler:it wasn't a fatal shot.]]
* ThrowTheDogABone: [[spoiler:Lampshaded in "Anything for You". When he, as Mayor Cobblepot's Chief of Staff, pulls rank on Captain Barnes, Barnes reminds him how lucky he is to be in his current position after everything in eight simple words.]]
-->'''Barnes''': Every dog has his day, Nygma. ''Enjoy yours.''
* TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler: After he pulls his FaceHeelTurn.]]
* TragicVillain: This version of Nygma is the most sympathetic portrayal of the villain in live action.
* TraitorShot: He gets plenty [[spoiler:after his FaceHeelTurn, including several in "Mad Grey Dawn", one of which takes place when Gordon's arrested]].
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Inverted. He's actually ''overestimating'' badassery when he assumes that Jim Gordon [[spoiler: has caught on to his murders and seeks to eliminate him in order to cover his tracks despite Gordon literally knowing nothing about Nygma's FaceHeelTurn.]]
* TheUnfettered: [[spoiler:Now that Ms. Kringle is dead. He passes along this philosophy to the Penguin as well, convincing him that the Galavans' murder of his (Penguin's) mother has removed his only weakness]].
* VillainDecay: After he escapes from his frozen prison, the Riddler loses his magnificent intelligence and credibility as a once feared villain of Gotham. He's eventually forced to survive on the streets acting as a pathetic mugger before he teams up with Solomon Grundy, who's essentially his meal ticket and the only reason why he's not down under even further.
* VillainousBSOD: [[spoiler: Suffers a serious meltdown upon realizing that he accidentally murdered his girlfriend Kristen.]]
* VillainousFriendship: [[spoiler:With the Penguin, beginning midway through Season 2. Even when it looks like he betrayed the Penguin, it's soon revealed that whatever it was he did, it was to further the Penguin's cause. It's one such revelation that gets him named the Penguin's Chief of Staff upon his election as Mayor of Gotham.]]
* WifeBasherBasher: [[spoiler: Well it's more like "Wife Basher Slasher," when he knifes [[AssholeVictim Tom]] [[KickTheSonOfABitch to death]] [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill over and over and over again.]]]]
* WrongGenreSavvy: He's implied to be deliberately trying to position himself as the PluckyComicRelief of the cops with his line "Everyone needs some humor in their lives." See all the above for how well it works.
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[[folder:Ivy Pepper/Poison Ivy]]
!!Ivy Pepper
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"First I was a seed. Then a sprout. Now I've bloomed."'']]
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->'''Played By:''' Clare Foley (Seasons 1-3), Maggie Geha (Season 3-4), Peyton List (Season 4)
The daughter of Mario Pepper, a small-time crook who was framed by the mob as the Waynes' killer. The future Comicbook/PoisonIvy
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* AbusiveParents: Her father was physically abusive to her mother and possibly her, too, though she still hates the cops for gunning him down.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Poison Ivy is typically a redhead. While Clare Foley's Ivy is sort of red, Maggie Geha and Peyton List are brunette.
* AdaptationNameChange: From Pamela Isley in the comics to Ivy Pepper on the show. However, a [[http://gothamchronicle.com/post/106575104731/teen-runaway-spotted-at-the-flea-ivy-pepper Gotham Chronicle article]] states her adoptive family calls her Pamela.
* [[AdaptationalNiceGuy Adaptational Nice Girl]]: This Ivy is ''much'' [[AffablyEvil friendler]] and less [[MisanthropeSupreme misanthropic]] than most versions of the character. [[spoiler:At least until Season 4, where she becomes an eco-terrorist willing to commit murder.]]
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Most versions of Ivy are an eco-terrorist who wants to do all she can to [[WellIntentionedExtremist save the Earth's plant life]] and sometimes displayed an almost [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds sympathetic side]] at times. This version is a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who's mainly looking out for herself by seeking financial gain while her love for plants is downplayed. [[spoiler: Halfway through Season 4, after Ivy's second rebirth, her characterization becomes more in line with her comic version.]]
* AdaptationalDumbass: This incarnation of Ivy is a lot dumber than most versions of the character, who've had scientific backgrounds and a mastery of botany. The show's version of Ivy makes foolish decisions all the time according to Selina. [[spoiler: This changes in Season 4.]]
* AdvertisedExtra: For all her appearances in promo material, she remains little more than a recurring minor character, unlike Nygma. [[spoiler:Her role is greatly expanded in Seasons 3 and 4 after the character is recast.]]
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Despite of being a villain, she seems to be much less evil than the Penguin's enemies [[spoiler:until Season 4, when she becomes more misanthropic and psychotic.]]
* AffablyEvil: She is a Genki girl who helps the Penguin.
* AgeLift: Thanks to her [[spoiler:PlotRelevantAgeUp in Season 3, she's now about 10 years older than Bruce and Selina. In Season 4, she goes through another AgeLift and is now a full-on adult.]]
* BerserkButton:
** When Bruce mentions who he is to her in "Lovecraft", her tone gets harsher and she starts asking him if he killed her father or made her mother cut her wrists.
** As demonstrated in "Burn the Witch", ''never'' mistreat or throw away plant life in front of her, [[spoiler:or she ''will'' concuss you.]]
** Being treated as stupid (she sort of brought it upon herself for saying stupid things at the wrong moment).
* BigEater: In "The Executioner", she wolfs down literally all the food in Selina's home. And judging by Selina's reaction to it, it's not the first time it happened.
* BrainlessBeauty: [[spoiler: After she ages up to an adult she becomes beautiful, but still has the mindset of a naïve child. After her second age-up, she becomes a lot smarter.]]
* TheBusCameBack: Appears in "Mad Grey Dawn" after not showing up for most of Season 2; she's working for a gang that sells magic mushrooms.
* CloudCuckoolander: A really creepy version of one.
* CreepyChild: Hardly ever blinks and speaks in a monotone whisper. Selina, Ivy's friend, even admits she's creepy behind her back.
* TheDragon: Becomes the new one for the Penguin after saving his life and helping him build an army of supervillains.
* DumbassNoMore: After her PlotRelevantAgeUp she somehow becomes considerably smarter and gains a great deal of botanical knowledge, enough to create a mind control perfume. [[spoiler:In Season 4, she goes through a second transformation and grows quite a few more brain cells, including the ability to control plants.]]
* EarlyBirdCameo: While heavily advertised along with the main cast, and appearing in the premiere, she is not seen or mentioned again until the mid-season finale, ten episodes later. She then gets a scene with Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle. The writers have said that she actually is meant to be an important recurring character, it's just that the first story arc needed time to set up the primary cast in the Gotham police department first.
* EvilRedhead: Even discounting her future supervillain status, Selina is already scared of her. And this is [[LittleMissBadass Selina]] [[CombatPragmatist Kyle]] we are talking about.
* FatalFlaw: Ivy's nNumber 1 shortcoming is her impulsiveness, not only when it comes to thievery, but in how she underestimates other people and sticks to these judgements.
* FilleFatale: [[spoiler: Technically, she's still a child, but has the body of an adult temptress while seducing unsuspecting adult men.]]
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: To Selina apparently.
* GeniusDitz: She has an incredible knowledge of botany and chemistry (enough to create a mind control perfume) but is otherwise pretty airheaded. [[spoiler: This trait disappears halfway through Season 4.]]
* GoldDigger: [[spoiler: After aging into an adult woman, she instantly begins using her charms to seduce men into buying her things.]]
* GreenThumb: A strong affinity for plants, which should surprise no one, given who she's meant to become...
* JailBait: [[spoiler: Played with. While she aged up to an adult woman thanks to Marv trying to kill her with RapidAging, she still has the mindset of a naïve child and uses her looks to manipulate men into giving her things.]]
* KindnessButton: Calling her pretty or offering her money is a good way to get on her nice side.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Despite her genki and childish personality, she really managed to create a mind-control perfume [[spoiler:and has the power to control plants and use them as deadly weapons as of Season 4.]]
* TheNthDoctor: Ivy's on her third actress by the time Season 4 rolls around.
* ParentalAbandonment: Her dad is killed in the pilot, and later we learn that her mother slit her wrists.
* PerkyFemaleMinion: Becomes a super cheerful child after befriending the Penguin and becoming his new confidant. She loses much of her perkiness, however, after enduring a heap of emotional abuse from Penguin and being rejected by Tabitha and the Sirens, [[spoiler:and it's completely gone after her second transformation in the second half of Season 4.]]
* PhraseCatcher: "You're so beautiful", or words to that effect, becomes this trope for her third incarnation as an indication that her mind-control pheromones have taken control of someone.
* PsychopathicWomanchild: [[spoiler: Despite aging up to a grown woman, she still has her childish mindset. This pretty much vanishes after her second transformation.]]
* PlotRelevantAgeUp: [[spoiler:When Ivy encounters Fish's gang of superpowered freaks from Indian Hill, one of the goons, Marv (who harnesses the power to [[RapidAging rapidly age]] people just by touching them) grabs her in an attempt to age her to death, but she manages to escape his grasp just in time. However, he held onto her just long enough to age her from a young teenager to an older woman (played by Maggie Geha for the rest of Season 3). In Season 4, Ivy goes through yet another transformation after drinking a cocktail of mystical potions and is now played by Peyton List]].[[note]][[spoiler:According to WordOfGod, the decision to age Ivy up was made in order to allow the character to use her seductive charms like in the comics. For obvious reasons, this could not be done with the young Clare Foley, so an older actress was introduced]].[[/note]]
* PrecisionFStrike: In the pilot, she has a rather choice word for the police who killed her father.
-->'''Ivy''': Bastards...
* RapidAging: [[spoiler:She gets aged from a child into an adult by Marv.]]
* RedheadInGreen: Always dresses in shades of green.
* {{Rewrite}}: In the comics, Poison Ivy wasn't connected to the Wayne murders at all. In the show, both her parents end up dead as a result of the fallout and she finds herself living in the streets.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Ivy's main goal [[spoiler:after her second rebirth in Season 4]] is to kill everyone who's ever hurt her before moving on to everyone else in the city.
* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: Well, she's a future supervillain...
* SlippingAMickey: Slips magic mushrooms into Sonny Gilzean's gang's lunches, knocking them all out.
* TheStarscream: She's grown into this by Season 4 after having enough of Penguin abusing their friendship. She goes behind his back to try to join the Gotham Sirens and also attempts to help the Merton gang succeed at their assassination attempt on her boss.
* StartOfDarkness: Once she [[spoiler:grows up in "Burn the Witch", she realizes that something dark is developing inside her, but eventually, she decides to embrace it head on. This is further solidified when she knocks out and robs a man (who was actually ''helping'' her) for throwing away a plant]].
* StupidEvil: [[spoiler: She stole a valuable jewel from a wealthy man she tried seducing thinking that nobody would ever come back to attack her for it.]]
* TheNotLoveInterest: Some of her interactions with the Penguin seem classic of a DarkMistress or an IgnoredEnamoredUnderling, but they are only friends.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Girly girl to Selina's tomboy.
* TookALevelInBadass: After her [[spoiler: second rebirth, Ivy is no longer the quirky "adult child" or innocent but now determined to use her power to ravage Gotham.]]
* TookALevelInCheerfulness: She becomes much more happy after growing into an adult with plant powers.
* TookALevelInJerkass: After [[spoiler: being aged by Marv. When she next sees Selina, who has been her only friend for months, she doesn't tell Selina who she is and instead derides her for being short and pickpocketing for survival. After her second aging-up, she becomes downright evil and psychotic and plots to kill everyone in Gotham for abusing plants.]]
* {{Troll}}: The very first time she is seen actually having fun is when she's messing with Barbara's head for no good reason (except maybe to get back at Gordon).
** This trait returns in Season 3, when her first encounter with [[spoiler: Selina, after Ivy was aged by Marv]], sees her not telling her friend [[spoiler: who she is]], and instead treating her with notable scorn.
* TwoFirstNames: Per the Creator/DCComics norm.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: She happens to be squatting in Gordon's apartment when a badly spiraling Barbara calls, and, for kicks, pretends to be a woman Gordon is cheating on her with. Turns out it was for the best (unfortunately it's likely Barbara believes it was Leslie).
* VillainousFriendship: With the Penguin. It doesn't last long, though.
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[[folder: Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow]]
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->'''Played By:''' Charlie Tahan (Season 1-4), David W. Thompson (Season 4)
The future Scarecrow. Forced to go along with his father's fear experiments as a teen, he later submits to and adopts the identity of his personal bogeyman: a NightmareFuel scarecrow-demon conjured up by his own fear toxin-addled imagination.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Comic!Jonathan is usually depicted as a lanky [[Literature/TheLegendOfSleepyHollow Ichabod Crane]] lookalike (he was even ''named'' after the guy). Here, he's a handsome young man.
* AdaptationalBadass: Most incarnations of Crane had him be portrayed a scrawny nerd who was bullied all throughout his childhood, but here he's not only already preparing his fear toxins but he also becomes the Scarecrow while still in his teenage years.
* AgeLift: Jonathan Crane looks to be about five years older than Bruce Wayne.
* AloneWithThePsycho: He ends up locked inside a closet [[spoiler: with a scarecrow who he believes is his boogeyman. This results in him going mad and believing that the scarecrow demon he's hallucinated is possessing him.]]
* AndIMustScream: Screaming incoherently is all he can do after [[spoiler: his father overdoses him on adrenaline and everywhere he looks he sees a monstrous scarecrow]]. By his return, it appears his incarceration in a mental hospital has taken a toll on him, and [[spoiler: being locked up overnight with an actual scarecrow by a bunch of brutal crooks]] pushes him over the edge completely.
* AscendedExtra: Was just a very minor character who played second fiddle to his father in his debut, but by Season 4 he's grown into a major ArcVillain.
* AvengingTheVillain: He attempts to kill Gordon at Arkham Asylum to avenge the death of his serial killer father.
* BadassLongcoat: His Scarecrow costume has a large coat holding his weapons.
* BullyingADragon: Some out-of-town thugs retrieve Jonathan from Arkham via bribery, then terrorize him into producing his father's fear gas for use in their own crimes. You just ''know'' it's not going to go well when [[spoiler: they leave him locked up alone with an actual scarecrow that Jonathan perceives as a nightmarish "bogeyman": a product of his damaged mind which more or less ''possesses'' young Crane, subduing and invading his original persona, then turns the gas on his captor.]]
* TheBusCameBack: He was last seen in a coma in the first season, but returns as the Scarecrow in Season 4.
* CoDragons: Becomes one to Jerome alongside Mad Hatter in season 4.
* DarkIsEvil: In contrast with Bruce’s DarkIsNotEvil.
* DemonicPossession: Played with. [[spoiler: Jonathan ''thinks'' that the Scarecrow demon from his hallucinations is possessing him, driving him to become one of Gotham's greatest villains.]]
* EvilCounterpart: To Bruce. Both kids have witnessed their parents killed horribly and were mentally scarred for life as a result, but they vowed to avenge the deaths of their family members by punishing their killer and growing into a force to be feared in Gotham. However, Bruce desires to grow into the hero Gotham deserves and bring peace, but Jonathan craves power and wants to be feared by those lower than him. Both also tend to use stealth-based attacks and theatrics in their fighting, but Bruce has been trained by the seasoned Alfred while Jonathan uses his scythe in a comparatively amateur way, able to be disarmed by Gordon.
* FaceYourFears: Inverted; having surrendered to his "bogeyman" himself, Crane uses fear-toxin and persuasion to convince Arkham's warden to likewise embrace and ''become'' his personal phobia. When Gordon successfully plays this trope straight, fighting off the fear-gas's effect by overcoming fear, Scarecrow outright claims it's impossible.
* ForcedIntoEvil: For a short time in Season 4, as Jonathan is forced to re-create his father's fear serum by a bunch of bank robbers who terrorize the hallucination-hounded young man with an actual scarecrow.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Goes from a total pushover being forced to serve other criminals into Gotham's great master of fear.
* InsaneEqualsViolent: He's gone off the deep end, which in Gotham City also means that he's a violent psychopath.
* KickTheSonOfABitch:
** Upon becoming the Scarecrow, the first victim he uses his fear gas on is one of the {{mooks}} who tormented him and locked him up inside a closet with his "boogeyman."
** He also poisons the corrupt warden at Arkham as revenge for being sold off to abusive gangsters.
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: His father was trying to find a cure for fear. As the Scarecrow, Jonathan will someday be trying to cause as much fear as possible.
* MissingMom: His mother's death in a house fire is what drove Jonathan's dad to research fear, because Gerald couldn't work up the courage to dash through the flames to save her.
* MythologyGag: In Season 4B, he dons a new hooded Scarecrow mask that heavily resembles the one he wore in the ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries''.
* OutOfFocus: His father is the main antagonist of his debut episode, while Jonathan really plays no important part in it himself. [[TheBusCameBack That is until Season 4]] where Crane returns and becomes the Scarecrow.
* OverlordJr: Jonathan acts as a willing accomplice to all his father's crimes, although intimidation does seem to play a part.
* PunchClockVillain: When he first debuts in ''Gotham,'' Jonathan isn't a kid who's malicious at heart. For all the horrible things Jonathan helps his dad do, fear is his father's obsession, not his own. He goes along with what Gerald does out of familial loyalty and a desire to be rid of the fear he believes makes his father ashamed of him.
** Once he becomes the Scarecrow, he embraces that his father was a genius trying to rid the world of fear; he's just "improving" the process by not only having people embrace their fears, but ''become'' them just like he did.
* ScaryScarecrows: His new costume has the raggedy, demonic scarecrow look to intimidate his targets.
* SinisterScythe: He starts wielding a scythe as a weapon in case of physical confrontations.
* StartOfDarkness: Unless ''Gotham'' is your very first exposure to the Batman franchise, you've probably already guessed that this isn't the last we'll be seeing of Jonathan.
* ThatManIsDead: ''"Jonathan Crane isn't here anymore..."''
* ThisCannotBe: He's in utter shock that [[spoiler: Gordon was able to overcome his fear toxin.]]
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: Injected with his father's own formulas, Jonathan's hallucinations of his scarecrow-like personal "bogeyman" are ''terrifying''.
* TookALevelInBadass: Was first introduced as a young accomplice serving his father, but by Season 4 he's evolved into the Scarecrow, one of Gotham's most dangerous villains.
* WeakSauceWeakness: In [[Recap/GothamS4E2TheFearReaper The Fear Reaper]], Gordon figures out that people under the influence of Jonathan's toxin can be cured with a splash of cold water in the face. Justified, as the fear toxin dispenser this time around seems to be the equivalent of a high-tech spritzer, leaving traces of the toxin in their faces.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After his debut episode in Season One, he's never seen or mentioned for the next two seasons, even after Arkham Asylum re-opened. We don't learn what became of him until Season 4, when he becomes the first ArcVillain of the season, the Scarecrow.
* WhosLaughingNow: His assault against the Arkham warden that sold him off as a slave carries shades of this as he's dragging his scythe close to his former handler. He begins recalling the events of his abuse at the hospital before infecting the corrupt jerk with his toxins, then literally turns the warden into a [[MonsterClown clown]] to demean him.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Was forced to be a PunchClockVillain for his father, [[spoiler:ended up losing both said father and his own sanity, and then kept enduring KickThemWhileTheyAreDown from a system that was supposed to treat him instead]]. After all that, you really can't blame him for finally going on a warpath.
* YouKilledMyFather: He has this attitude towards Gordon thanks to his father getting gunned down by the police. This causes him to try and kill the officer to avenge his lost father.
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[[folder: Victor Fries/Mister Freeze]]
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->'''Played By:''' Nathan Darrow
A young cryogenics engineer-turned-criminal who first appears at the end of the Season 2 midseason finale. Armed with a powerful gun that can freeze people solid, he goes through tremendous lengths to save and protect his ill wife, Nora.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the comics, Mr. Freeze is practically has a physiology that he can not live without his suit and looks freakish human with no hair on his head and is blue skinned. On ''Gotham'', he is still relativity normal, with [[EvilAlbino an albino appearance]], his hair turned white, and his eye color and veins now a light blue. His appearance also hearkens back or a ShoutOut to Captain Cold from [[Series/TheFlash1990 The Flash television series]] from 1990, where he is a PsychoForHire and is a EvilAlbino.
* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler: After Nora dies]], he becomes a full-fledged AxCrazy PsychoForHire working under Hugo Strange and taking ''joy'' in killing people for him as opposed to the emotionally scarred TragicVillain who wants no hand in evil whatsoever.
* AffablyEvil: Enough, apparently, to convince some bystanders to help him load one of his victims into his van. He's also considerate enough to shoo them away when the police are about to show up.
* AnIcePerson: His freeze gun lets him freeze people solid. [[spoiler:His suicide attempt alters his physiology so that he can only survive in cold temperatures.]]
* AntiVillain: Like in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' and the comics before the 2011 relaunch, he's trying to help his wife, no matter who else gets hurt in the process. [[spoiler: At least until she dies.]]
* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: The reason for his below-mentioned BungledSuicide; he'd soaked up enough trace elements of his formula that it turned him into the classic Mr. Freeze, only able to survive in sub-zero temperatures, rather than killing him.
* BaldOfEvil: ''Averted'' in this case. While Mr. Freeze is traditionally bald in the comics, here, he has a full head of snow-white hair post-transformation.
* BungledSuicide: Tries to use a faulty batch of cryo-formula to kill himself [[spoiler:just like Nora did, so he can join her in the afterlife]]. But really, were you expecting Victor Fries to die from an accident with his serum at this point?
* CoDragons: Both him and Firefly are this to [[spoiler:Oswald Cobblepot]] in Season 3. Neither of them are happy about it but they make due of it by killing anyone who tries to kill their boss with precision.
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: Averted. He is called Mr. Freeze by the newspapers (despite that his last name actually isn't pronounced that way this time).
* CostumeEvolution: The Mr. Freeze suit starts off as [[https://nerdist.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/gotham-mr-freeze-exclusive.jpg a thick hooded jacket with simple, makeshift armor plating]]. In "A Dead Man Feels No Cold", he ditches this getup for [[http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/y6tb18/picture63153892/ALTERNATES/FREE_640/Gotham-ep213_scn26_5307_f_hires2 a more spaceman-like suit]], and eventually, it evolves into the iconic armored suit (and red goggles) from the comics.
* ColdHam: {{Pun}} aside, this is appropriately how Fries acts throughout his episodes in his attempts to save his wife, even holding TranquilFury as part of his repertoire.
* DeathFakedForYou: Ostensibly, his dead body was burned after a stay at the city morgue. In fact, he'd been transformed into a human popsicle by his BungledSuicide and became one of Hugo Strange's enforcers.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:After failing to save Nora]]. Needless to say, he fails to kill himself, and of course, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger...
* ForegoneConclusion: Victor's plan to reverse his condition and become normal is unlikely to ever happen due to Mr. Freeze being around during Batman's crime fighting career.
* FiveSecondForeshadowing: While the appearance of Victor Fries was already announced for Season 2, viewers were still surprised to see the logo for the show freeze over, and were immediately greeted by this character's appearance.
* {{Foil}}: To Firefly, appropriately. Both are villains themed after elements, both wear bodily-concealing suits and goggles, and both use guns that fire ammunition deriving from said elements. While Freeze goes out of his way to save his wife and ''not'' cause too much collateral damage [[spoiler: until his ultimate tranformation and FaceHeelTurn]], Firefly had already murdered her brothers who were abusive to her. [[spoiler: Both wind up at Indian Hill not soon after their supervillain debuts, and while Firefly is temporarily locked up in the basement, Freeze is out and about as Hugo Strange's errand boy. The two counterparts meet soon enough, and participate in ElementalRockPaperScissors with their guns until Strange is hurt.]]
* HiredGun: What Fries does as a side job. He's really good in what he does.
* HumanPopsicle: What he becomes by the end of his second episode.
* InTheHood: His suit has some resemblance to Firefly's (goggles, gunmetal grey suit, power supply attached to WeaponOfChoice), and features this in place of the familiar dome.
* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: This series decided to go with a different pun on his last name. Instead of making it sound identical to "freeze", it's instead pronounced like "ice".
* LightIsNotGood: Started off with white armor, but becomes a villain later.
* LockedIntoStrangeness: His hair turns completely white after his resurrection.
* MythologyGag: In "A Dead Man Feels No Cold", while holding a man hostage, Fries creates what appear to be ice grenades with the ability to shoot out icicles similar to a nail bomb, for use in saving his wife from Arkham. These are clearly the Freeze Grenades that debuted in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'', except much deadlier and for murderous intent instead of simple stunning.
** His alliance with [[spoiler: Hugo Strange]] is also taken from the game, though the alliance is mutually beneficial and seems to be more friendly, [[spoiler: with Hugo assisting Fries and distracting the police in exchange for a sample of Victor's cryonic formula]]. However, thanks to Victor's BungledSuicide, he receives his own specialized cell in Arkham and will be acting as a mercenary.
** The astronaut-like suit that he wears "A Dead Man Feels No Cold" looks almost exactly like [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RngpqpM59QU/VP97-KTRS1I/AAAAAAAAFdg/qRK0IlLREYQ/s1600/batman%2B7.jpg one of the suits that he wore in the]] [[Series/{{Batman}} Adam West series]].
* PoweredArmor: As mentioned in CostumeEvolution, he ditches his chainmail jacket for a spaceman-like suit. Of course, his first usage of it combined with his ice gun makes him an example of ClothesMakeTheSuperman, but once he becomes AnIcePerson after his BungledSuicide, [[spoiler: Hugo Strange]] has some modifications made to his suit to fit his HumanPopsicle biology.
* PsychoForHire: Becomes a villain for hire working in the Penguin's new army.
* SlasherSmile: He looks like he's enjoying freezing [[spoiler: Karen Jennings to death]] a little too much.
* VillainDecay: He started out as a complex tragic villain who was trying to save his dying wife, but after her death and his transformation, Freeze became the muscle for other arc villains with more power than him. It actually got to the point where he barely even speaks in his appearances despite his intimidating presence.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The last we see of Victor is him [[spoiler: providing covering fire for Strange as he tries to escape, only for their beam lock to hit Strange in round 2. He (along with Gordon, Lucius, Selina, and Bruce) survey the damage before the bomb under Arkham goes off.]]
** [[spoiler: Ends up returning for the second half of season 3 along with Firefly and both are recruited by Oswald Cobblepot.]]
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Ends up with white hair after being frozen and later unfrozen and is obviously going to end up a member of Batman’s Rogues Gallery.
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[[folder: Bridgit Pike/Firefly]]
->'''Played By:''' Michelle Veintimilla (Season 2 and 4) / Camila Perez (Season 3-4)
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The youngest member of a family of arsonists, who is forced into it by her stepbrothers.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Firefly's previous action incarnation on ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' wasn't as horribly burnt like how Firefly is in the comics (who supposedly has his ''entire'' body covered in burns). This incarnation follows suit as Bridgit isn't as horribly burnt. Granted, she is still covered up in a protected suit that covers her body but not her face. Her face, like Arrow's (which had a two-faced appearance), is not as bad as the comics or the [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries the Arkham games]].
* AdaptationalBadass: Compared to Firefly's last live action incarnation on ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', who was a [[SanitySlippage mentally crippled]] TragicVillain who utilized a lighter and a tank of gasoline.
* AdaptationNameChange: Is named Bridgit Pike instead of Garfield Lynns or Ted Carson.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Combined with AdaptationalHeroism. In the comics, Firefly developed a taste for setting fires by himself, while this version is bullied into committing crimes for her brothers before growing into a supervillain. Firefly is also simply a pyro. Bridgit, after becoming Firefly, leans toward PayEvilUntoEvil. Even her attacks on the cops are both more due to blind panic than anything else. However, there are also strong hints that she has developed a liking to the act of burning people alive and choosing [[AssholeVictim asshole victims]] solely because she can.
* AGodAmI: [[spoiler:Due to Strange creating a new persona for her to adapt to, Firefly now believes she is a "Goddess of Fire." By the time Oswald and Ivy find her again in Season 3, the "Goddess of Fire" alter ego went away.]]
* AmbiguouslyGay: She seems to harbor a strong relationship with Selina Kyle. However, it's unknown whether it's a crush or if they're just close friends.
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: After she suffers serious burns, the police assume she's dead and she is taken to Indian Hill for experimentation. The worst part is that she's ''still alive'' and in serious pain already from her burns.]]
* AntiVillain: Is forced into crime by her abusive brothers, and her only victims are either accidental or of the [[AssholeVictim Asshole]] variety [[spoiler:{such as the aforementioned brothers)]].
* ArmorIsUseless: Played with; she builds herself an outfit from "flame-proof" cloth to prevent getting burned after her first night leaves her with fire on her leg. But during her final fight with the cops, her fuel line soaks her suit, catching her on fire... only for it to turn out that the cloth didn't burn, ''[[BodyHorror but fused to her body.]]''
* AxCrazy: After her brainwashing, she just wants to watch the world burn.
* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: Her brothers and Hugo Strange relentlessly abused her to the point of insanity.
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:After her fuel line soaks her flame-proof cloth suit and she is set aflame, the suit fuses to her body, cementing her as Firefly for good.]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler: Thanks to Hugo Strange's treatment on her. It goes away.]]
* BreakTheCutie: The abuse from her brothers and corruption from Selina's influence turn her from a shy, timid young girl into one of Gotham's deadliest arsonists.
* TheBusCameBack: She returns some episodes after her seeming death, now donning her identity as Firefly.
* ButtMonkey: She's abused by her family, seriously burned, has no friends, [[spoiler: and suffers a FateWorseThanDeath after she's mistaken for dead.]]
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: In "By Fire", Barnes and Bullock both call her a firefly, but that's just a MythologyGag. She never actually calls herself Firefly, nor does anyone use the word in the context of a name. [[spoiler: Averted after her return in "Unleashed", where she insists that Firefly is her name, refusing to answer to Bridgit.]]
* CopKiller: Accidentally, after her flamethrower malfunctions.
* CostumeEvolution: Her first suit is a crudely-crafted hoodie and mask made out of fireproof fabric, along with a pair of black goggles that resemble an insect's eyes. After she's [[spoiler:taken into Indian Hill for experimentation]], she sports a [[http://utbgeek.com/home/bradu25/public_html/utbgeek/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/G3-1.jpg darker, sleeker suit]] with a flamethrower that appears to represent her "Firefly wings", as well as a new pair of goggles that look strikingly similar to her ''[[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins Arkham]]'' counterpart's.
* DarkIsEvil: She dons a gray fire-resistant suit upon becoming Firefly.
* DarthVaderClone: After she becomes Firefly, she now has serious burns, metallic armor that keeps her alive, and speaks in a distorted voice.
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: In "By Fire", she kills the Pike brothers by, well... by fire.]]
* DrivenToVillainy: Her brothers and Hugo Strange push her to the point of insanity with their relentless torture; resulting in her becoming the arsonist Firefly.
* DysfunctionalFamily: The Pike brothers force her into becoming an arsonist, calling it "family business", and threaten to expel her if they decide that she is not family.
* EvilFeelsGood: After her first night, she realizes that she enjoyed setting fires.
* EvilIsHammy: After accepting her villainous side, she goes way over the top with her desire to torch everything.
* EvilMakesYouUgly: She was a pretty, innocent girl before suffering from serious burns during her arson crimes.
* FireBreathingWeapon: Progresses to using a flamethrower at the end of "Scarification".
* {{Foil}}: Appropriately enough, to Mr. Freeze. Both are villains themed after elements, both wear bodily-concealing suits and goggles, and both use guns that fire ammunition deriving from said elements. However, while Freeze is trying to rescue the one he loves and ''not'' cause massive collateral damage, Bridgit sets her abusive family ablaze (though it wasn't [[ButtMonkey without reason]]) and goes on a subsequent rampage. [[spoiler: They both end up at Indian Hill and don't see each other until Hugo Strange attempts to activate a bomb to level Arkham. While Freeze stays loyal to the professor, Bridgit (now truly Firefly) immediately dejects Strange's imploring to kill Selina. The two end up in ElementalRockPaperScissors and are evenly matched, only stopping when Strnge gets in the crossfire.]]
* FromNobodyToNightmare: She was just an abused, shy girl before becoming one of the city's most dangerous arsonists.
* GenderFlip: Firefly is traditionally portrayed as male.
* LossOfIdentity: After her time in Indian Hill.
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:Bridgit ends up burnt alive by her malfunctioning flamethrower and is thought to be dead. However, her body is taken to Indian Hill for experimentation, while she's ''still alive'' and [[AndIMustScream completely aware]] to what's going on.]]
* NotSoDifferent: After becoming evil, she's now no longer different from her equally {{jerkass}}, abusive {{pyromaniac}} brothers and their desire to torch others for fun.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: [[spoiler:Barbecues her brothers, who have abused her since childhood, and a pimp auctioning sex slaves.]]
* PsychoForHire: Much like her original counterpart, she becomes a villain for hire recruited as the Penguin's new muscle.
* PutOnABusToHell: After receiving serious burns that the police assumed she dies from, she's sent to Indian Hill [[spoiler: where Hugo Strange commits horrific experiments on her.]]
* {{Pyromaniac}}: Well, she is a villain who bases her gadgets off of flame-inducing technology.
* ShrinkingViolet: Before her StartOfDarkness, Bridgit was a timid girl who was afraid of interacting with people due to her constant abuse.
* SmallNameBigEgo: [[spoiler: After Strange convinces her to act as a fire goddess, she becomes quite full of herself and only spares Selina's life in order to make her a servant.]]
* ReligionOfEvil: [[spoiler: Her Fire Goddess persona desires the burning of the entire world.]]
* ReligiousBruiser: [[spoiler: She truly believes that fire is a religion for her to spread.]]
* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: She and Selina were very close and knew each other on a personal level. However, their friendship has officially severed upon Bridgit's transformation into Firefly.
* ThatManIsDead: When she sees Selena again after Selena sneaks into Indian Hill she maintains that Bridgit is dead and that her name is Firefly.
* TookALevelInJerkass: After she becomes a fully evil villain, she embraces her AxCrazy side.
* VillainDecay: She was once a rogue pyromaniac that went around killing people for fun, but later in the show she gets recruited as the DumbMuscle for more competent villains. To rub salt in the wounds, she once gets taken out by ''Leslie Thompkins'' of all characters with a single bullet igniting her flamethrower.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: She and Selina used to be good friends before she became Firefly and tried to kill her former friend.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Firefly's last appearance had her [[spoiler: in a beam lock with her flamethrower against Freeze's ice gun. Their feud ends up wounding Strange, and she surveys the damage with her counterpart. She comes back, along with Freeze, to help Oswald in his fight against Edward.]]
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[[folder: Jervis Tetch/Mad Hatter]]
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->'''Played By:''' Benedict Samuel
A talented hypnotist who comes to Gotham looking for his younger sister, Alice.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: The youngest, most attractive portrayal of the character, as played by Benedict Samuel.
* AdaptationalBadass: Usually Tetch's mind control is managed via high-tech hats he places on his victims. Here he only needs for his victims to listen to his voice.
* ArchEnemy: To Jim Gordon. Jervis blames Gordon for [[spoiler: Alice's death]], and in turn [[spoiler: turns both of his [[LoveInterest Love Interests]] against him.]]
* AxCrazy: Has no compunctions about harming innocent people.
* BeardOfEvil: A natty goatee.
* BerserkButton: His sister Alice. Or rather, the possibility of losing control over her. Telling him his sister left him out of fear and hatred of him for ''loving'' her is also surefire to get Jervis ready to murder you.
* BlackEyesOfCrazy: Whenever he uses his hypnosis, Jervis's irises turn an eerie black, and what makes it scarier is that they're not even reflective once they become that way.
* BigBad: Served as this for Mad City.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Alice claims that Tetch tried to implant thoughts "a brother should never have" into her head in the past.
* CatchPhrase: "Look into my eyes."
* CoDragons: Becomes one to Jerome alongside Scarecrow in season 4.
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: In spite of the ''Alice in Wonderland'' motifs that accompany him, he has yet to be called the Mad Hatter in-show.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Most depictions of Jervis in the comics imply him to be a sexual predator who kidnaps girls and tries to transform them into "Alice". ''Gotham'' takes this one step further and adds BrotherSisterIncest to this by making the original Alice of his obsessions his own sister. He did however kidnap an unknown girl and dress her up, only to slit her throat afterwards.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: The GCPD and Jim were able to stop Jervis and [[spoiler:his plan to unleash the virus,]] but there are still three episodes left of Mad City allowing the vacant spot of BigBad being filled by [[spoiler: Jerome Valeska.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Horrifically, disturbingly deconstructed. His ''love'' for his sister is very sick and twisted; he [[BrotherSisterIncest abuses]] and terrifies her and calls it love.
* {{Even Evil Has Standards}}: Whilst he is willingly and eagerly helping out Jerome Valeska, he is noticeably disturbed and shocked at the Joker Toxin's affects on the test subject.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Jim gets him to reveal who he has infected with Alice's blood by turning his RhymesOnADime tendency back on him.]]
* TheImmune: [[spoiler:He is immune to Alice's virus, and his blood is necessary to create a cure.]]
* {{Irony}}: Jervis loves watching people fall into madness from Alice's blood as a twisted way of being close to her, but [[spoiler:''his'' blood is the key ingredient of the antidote]].
* MindManipulation: He's a hypnotist.
* NeverMyFault: After [[spoiler:Alice's death]], Jervis blames Jim Gordon for turning her against him, even though she hated Jervis because of his [[BrotherSisterIncest own]] [[{{Yandere}} actions]].
* NiceHat: Though not given much focus, he just wouldn't be ''the'' Mad Hatter without a snazzy topper.[[spoiler:Even after he winds up in Arkham, he makes a cartoonish one out of newspaper.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Normally speaks in a polite, soft-spoken manner, so when he raises his voice, it's a sign that he's ''very'' angry.
** He usually wears a smug smile on his face and speaks with glee when committing crimes and killing people. If he ever drops this, someone's going to die.
* PsychicAssistedSuicide: He's not actually psychic, but he uses his hypnosis to do something similar.
* RhymesOnADime: Tends to speak in this when he's hypnotizing people. It slips into his regular speech the further off the deep end he goes. This is an [[ShownTheirWork actual symptom of schizophrenia]] called [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clanging Clanging]].
* SanitySlippage: He's clearly got some screws loose in his introductory episode, but finding out that Alice wants nothing to do with him, and later [[spoiler:witnessing her death]] doesn't help.
** It's a testament to how off his rocker he is when, after [[spoiler: escaping Arkham]], most of his dialogue is ''screamed'', as opposed to the quiet, polite tone he usually uses.
* SoftSpokenSadist: He has a very calm, low voice, even while he's commanding people to kill themselves.
* {{Yandere}}: Tetch is hunting Alice down even though he terrifies her and she wants nothing to do with him.
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[[folder:Butch Gilzean/Solomon Grundy]]
!!Butch Gilzean[=/=]Cyrus Gold[=/=]Solomon Grundy
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->'''Played By:''' Drew Powell
An experienced member of the Gotham City underworld crime system, Butch was a former underling of Fish Mooney and later, he came to be second-in-command under Oswald Cobblepot before spitting off from him and tries to become the King of Gotham with the help from his girlfriend, Tabitha Galavan, and Barbara Kean, Tabby's ex-lover and former business partner.
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* AdaptationalNameChange: Played with. While his true name is still Cyrus Gold like in the comics, he goes under the name "Butch Gilzean" for the majority of the show.
* AgeLift: Solomon Grundy is [[Really700YearsOld thousands of years old in the comics]] (he was born during the 19th century), but in this show, he's about 30-40 years old [[spoiler:by the time he becomes a zombie]].
* AscendedExtra: He's just Fish's head mook in Season 1, but by "Wrath of the Villains", [[spoiler:he survived through the reigns of both Fish and the Penguin to become 'King of Gotham' on top of the underworld.]]
* AffablyEvil: Butch is a likable guy. When he first meets Gordon, he's nothing but jovial and friendly. Later, he even gives some Maroni men the opportunity to choose whether they get shot or beaten up to send a message to their boss.
* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:Penguin hacks off his hand when he asks him to perform a special infiltration mission against Galavan. He then gains a prosthetic replacement. And his hand is later regained, after he emerged out of Slaughter Swamp.]]
* BackFromTheDead: After a pair of lazy paramedics dump his body in Slaughter Swamp, [[spoiler: some dumped chemicals from Indian Hill bring him back to life.]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: It was revealed that Zsasz did this to him as punishment for his betrayal, so that he would follow Penguin's commands without question. [[spoiler:This becomes problematic during Penguin and Fish's fight where his loyalty to both plays havoc on his mind and he ends up shooting them both. However, Tabitha helps break him of his brainwashing in exchange for his help.]]
* CameBackStrong: After [[spoiler: coming back to life as Solomon Grundy]], he's gained SuperStrength.
* CameBackWrong: He has no memory of his past life as a human.
* CanonCharacterAllAlong: He initially appeared to be a CanonForeigner along with Fish, but the Season 3 finale reveals that his real name is [[spoiler: Cyrus Gold, the true identity of Solomon Grundy in the comics]].
* TheChainsOfCommanding: [[spoiler:He becomes the King of Gotham after Penguin is brought to Arkham. He is effective at first, killing people loyal to Penguin. But when Tabitha becomes his mistress, then Butch becomes lazy and like a dad from a sitcom. He is seen laying around in his robes. This is despite the fact that his nephew who is selling mushrooms is incompetent. Penguin says in Season 2 Episode 20 that he has become "soft" and "sentimental". ]]
* ConflictingLoyalty: [[spoiler:He couldn't decide if he was loyal to Fish or Penguin so he [[KneeCapping kneecapped]] both. However, Penguin still wins.]]
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler:Helps Theo kill Penguin after being freed from his mind control.]]
* TheDragon: For Fish. [[spoiler:And eventually for Penguin, too.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Fish orders that the captive Gordon and Bullock be tortured to death and literally carved to pieces in a meat-packing warehouse, to send a warning to the police. Gilzean earnestly apologizes to Gordon and Bullock that if it were up to him, he'd simply shoot them each in the head execution-style and be done with it - but it's not up to him.
** In "Better to Reign in Hell...", he tells Selina that she's too young to be hanging around in a nightclub.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Has no issue threatening Barbara or Gordon, or using a whole procession of nuns as a roadblock.
* HonorAmongThieves: He makes sure to confess to his old friend Saviano about how when they were teens who had stolen 40 pounds of meat, he had screwed him out of the better cuts, and asks for forgiveness. Saviano does this, [[spoiler:and then Butch shoots him]]
* IronButtmonkey: He has suffered a great deal as a result of being TheDragon to a number of sadistic criminals. [[ColdBloodedTorture Tortured]], [[MindRape brainwashed]], [[AnArmAndALeg lost a hand]], tortured some more...
* LargeHam:
** Although nowhere near the levels of his boss, anyone who uses a dozen kidnapped nuns to hijack a truck definitively qualifies.
** Has a phone rigged to detonate a bomb to kill some loose ends. With "Final Countdown" as the ringtone.
* LonelyAtTheTop: After temporarily becoming TheDon of Gotham, he immediately gets bored with his high position and gets more action with Tabitha dating him.
* MeaningfulName: Called "Butch" and appears to work as a butcher.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: In "Anything For You", he's fed up with the way Penguin treated him, even before Nygma came along.
* MythologyGag: He acts like a brainless brute [[spoiler:when he first becomes Grundy]], but is back to his intelligent old self when Tabitha knocks the memories back into his head. In the comics, Grundy is known to grow more intelligent and less animalistic with every resurrection.
* PervertedSniffing: To Barbara Kean.
* PunchClockVillain: For the most part. Butch seems to take pleasure in doing his job well - his job just happens to be as a mob enforcer. He can have an almost perfunctory tone about doing routine mob work, though. Yes he tied up some nuns to use as a roadblock but he didn't expect them to be actually killed (the point was to make the truck stop). He then goes through the polite, almost boring routine of explaining to the drivers that he needs to send a message to Maroni, so they can choose between a thorough beating or a quick bullet to the leg. His tone is that of a mechanic calmly discussing payment options with a customer. The drivers, also matter-of-factly, ask why he even needs to send a "message" by hurting them, they could just ''tell'' Maroni that he was willing to beat them up. Butch gets mildly annoyed that this would subvert the entire "message", so he casually whips out his gun and shoots them both in the legs. Even his threats against Barbara Kean are more perfunctory, calculated intimidation than they are ForTheEvulz.
* TheReveal: "Heavydirtysoul" reveals, after [[spoiler: Barbara kills him]], that [[spoiler: his original name was "Cyrus Gold", as in ''Solomon Grundy''.]]
* ReverseMole: [[spoiler:Penguin employs him in an infiltration mission against Galavan, but when Galavan offers him a chance to break free of his brainwashing, Butch immediately switches sides and betrays Penguin.]]
* {{Scapegoat}}: [[spoiler:After he betrays Penguin with the whole Red Hood affair, he becomes the easiest person to blame for any underworld dealings with Penguin's involvement, not necessarily at Penguin's initial suggestion, among them Isabella's car accident.]]
* SwissArmyAppendage: Deconstructed when Galavan attempts to set him up with some, but most prove AwesomeButImpractical. Later reconstructed when he's able to pick his own, slightly more practical, attachments, like a mallet attachment for "negotiations".
* UndyingLoyalty: To Fish, big time. [[spoiler:When a childhood friend of his (a boss with seniority to Fish, and better claim to the empire should Falcone be removed) offers him a chance for a much better position within the mob in exchange for killing Fish (namely her territory as his equal partner), he instead kills said childhood friend without a second thought in his usual AffablyEvil manner.]] Exactly ''why'' he has such loyalty to Fish above all else has yet to be revealed. [[spoiler:Though this didn't do him any good at the end of "What the Little Bird Told Him". He personally rescues her from being tortured in the next episode, and sacrifices himself to help her escape.]]
** He proves just as loyal to [[spoiler:Penguin]], even sincerely renouncing Fish. This comes to a head when he has to choose between them. However, [[spoiler:Galavan breaks him out of his brainwashing and he betrays Penguin.]]
* UnholyMatrimony: Briefly with Tabitha in the second half of Season 2, but they break up when she gains interest in [[BiTheWay Barbara.]]
* VillainDecay: Goes from the cunning FauxAffablyEvil NobleDemon he was at the start of the series into the resident StupidEvil IronButtMonkey routinely abused by everyone.
* VillainousCrush: He has one on the more villainous Tabitha Galavan.
* VillainousValor: Sneaky, smart, brave, and strong enough to [[spoiler:escape the van in which he was being transported to an incineration facility, kill his captors, track down and free Mooney, and then help her escape when Zsasz shows up, even willingly staying behind to cover her escape. He even managed to kill one of Zsasz's henchgirls, which surprises them.]]
* VillainsDoTheDirtyWork: Technically speaking. Gordon was more than willing to murder Galavan [[spoiler:again]], but wasn't having much success. Then Penguin and Butch showed up and Butch shot him with a rocket launcher.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Until Season 1 Episode 16, it was unknown what happened to him after he stayed behind to let Fish escape Zsasz's gang. It turned out he was 'conditioned' to be a personal assistant for Cobblepot.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Subverted when he comes back as Solomon Grundy as he’s more of a dimwitted monster defending himself. However, its a ForegoneConclusion that he’ll become a supervillain.
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