History Characters / GothamSerialKillers

* SmallRoleBigImpact: He's only in a handful of episodes before being killed, but the personal nature of his feud with Gordon is what leads to Gordon losing much of his naivety of how Gotham operates, becoming much more of a CowboyCop in subsequent seasons as well as becoming far more cynical.

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[[folder:Jane Cartwright/Jane Doe]]
!!Jane Cartwright/Jane Doe

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->'''Played by:''' Sarah Pidgeon

A mentally ill young woman and former test subject for Hugo Strange, who seeks revenge against the detectives who had her mother falsely imprisoned.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the comics, she's [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/batman/images/e/ec/Jane_Doe_-_New_52.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130801182045 skinless and grotesque-looking]]. This version has all her skin intact, and thus looks perfectly normal (though she certainly thinks otherwise). That said, she did still have her skin in her comics debut in ''ComicBook/ArkhamAsylumLivingHell''.
* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: While Comic!Jane relied on masks and costumes to steal her victims' identities, Gotham!Jane has the ability to physically shapeshift.
* AntiVillain: Ultimately just a very frightened young woman who has been mistreated for years.
* CompositeCharacter: Her shapeshifting abilities is similar to Clayface, a character who actually appeared back in season 2 and 3. However unlike that version (who is Basil) Jane can actually shapeshift voluntarily, whereas Basil had to actually reconstruct his face manually. Gordon and Bullock do initially suspect that Jane is Basil due to him pulling a similar stunt back in the second season finale.
* DeathOfPersonality: Jane's original persona has all but disappeared and has been replaced by a bitter and depressed shadow of her former self who is driven purely by revenge. She even says that Jane Cartwright is dead and Jane Doe is all that remains.
* {{Expy}}: Jane's backstory is similar to Karen Jennings from the season 2 episode "Pinewood". The pair of them were locked up for murdering an abusive family member in self defense, only to end up being experimented on by Hugo Strange (in Karen's case it was at Pinewood Farms instead of the then closed Arkham Asylum) and giving an abnormal ability which made them into a "freak". Whilst Karen never went onto try and kill anyone and only lived in hiding, she would eventually end up dead.
* FacialHorror: [[spoiler:Subverted. She ''believes'' she is the victim of this due to her psychosis and the experimentation by Hugo Strange, hence why she wears the mask. However, when she removes it to reveal her true face, she looks perfectly normal.]]
* IAmNotPretty: Played for horror. [[spoiler: Jane's face looks perfectly fine, but she believes she is horribly disfigured, and lost her sanity as a result]]
* NamedByTheAdaptation: She's given the surname '''Cartwright''' here.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Seeks vengeance on the four detectives who rushed the investigation into her mother, after she killed her abusive husband in self-defense.
* SuicideByCop: [[spoiler:Invokes this by forcing Harvey to shoot her, rather than live with her grief any longer.]]
* ThirdPersonPerson: Speaks in third person, due to considering Jane Cartwright to be a different person than who she is now.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: The result of Hugo Strange's experiments on her.

* NotSoDifferent: He claims he's this to Barbara. He's right.

* RealityEnsues: Utter fearlessness + armed cops demanding you drop your weapon = quick death. Glad that anti-fear serum worked out so well for you, Gerald!

* RealityEnsues: Mother is apparently only able to kill her victims after having disoriented them or through ambushes. When she loses the element of surprise, she's subdued with a single punch.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Played with. He tries to make a DirtyCop his second victim, seemingly not having considered that a trained law enforcement officer armed with a gun would be a harder target than a CorruptCorporateExecutive. If not for the cop getting distracted, the Balloonman possibly would have gotten shot for his trouble. However, he quickly manages to exploit the latter's distraction for his own benefit.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: His method of killing.

[[folder:Davis Lamond/The Balloonman]]
!!The Balloonman

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Played with. He tries to make a DirtyCop his second victim, seemingly not having considered that a trained law enforcement officer armed with a gun would be a harder target than a CorruptCorporateExecutive. If not for the cop getting distracted, the Balloonman possibly would have gotten shot for his trouble. However, he quickly manages to exploit the distraction to his own benefit.

[[folder:Lamond Davis/The Balloonman]]

* DidntThinkThisThrough: He tries to make a DirtyCop his second victim, apparently not having considered that a trained law enforcement officer armed with a gun would be a harder target than a CorruptCorporateExecutive. If not for the cop getting distracted, the Balloonman probably would have gotten shot for his trouble. However, he quickly manages to exploit the distraction to his own benefit.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: He tries to make a DirtyCop his second victim, apparently not having considered that a trained law enforcement officer armed with a gun would be a harder target than a CorruptCorporateExecutive. If not for the cop getting distracted, the Balloonman probably would have gotten shot for his trouble.

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* RealityEnsues: Utter fearlessness + armed cops demanding you drop your weapon = SuicideByCop. Glad that anti-fear serum worked out so well for you, Gerald!

[[caption-width-right:350:''"Deep down, we all want to eat the rich."'']]

* MeaningfulName: Her name is obviously a reference to Karl Marx, which appropriate for a serial killer who targets the rich.

A killer who terrifies his victims before killing them, he specifically targets those with phobias. He commits his crimes to harvest the adrenaline glands of his victims, trying to isolate the hormones they produce that cause fear. He works alongside his son, Jonathan.

* PredecessorVillain: To the Scarecrow. While he never uses the identity or costume, many of his methods and an aerosolized version of his fear serum will be used by his son Jonathan when he becomes a supervillain.

->'''Played By:''' Julian Sands

* TragicVillain: He became bad due to the guilt he felt over his wife's unfortunate death. The more so in that [all he really accomplishes is to leave his son deprived of either parent, fear-hounded, locked up and fated to become a ''creator'' of fear.

* TheDreaded: To the GCPD, he will kill the family of any cop who investigates him, and he always succeeds. As such the GCPD spent years to afraid to investigate or even reveal his existence to the public.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the comics, she's [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/batman/images/e/ec/Jane_Doe_-_New_52.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130801182045 skinless and grotesque-looking]]. This version has all her skin intact, and thus looks perfectly normal (though she certainly thinks otherwise).

* InNameOnly: Has no relation to the comics character in the slightest, with his name being more of a ShoutOut if anything.

* PragmaticAdaptation: This Balloon Man is a BadassNormal who uses balloons as his M.O. to kill, rather than a supervillain with balloon based powers.

* AdaptationNameChange: His real name in the comics was Michael Adams.
* AdaptationalVillainy: In the comics he only killed the members of a secret government organization who performed inhuman experiments on him and others. In the end, ''Batman even lets him walk away!''