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    Don Mitchell Jr. 

Mayor Don Mitchell Jr.

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Portrayed by: Rupert Penry-Jones

Appears In: The Batman (2022)

The mayor of Gotham City.


  • Canon Foreigner: Created specifically for the movie.
  • Corrupt Politician: He uses Thomas Wayne's billion-dollar urban renewal fund to line his own pockets, and allows Falcone to run the city.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: While he's a Corrupt Politician who allows a crime lord to control the city, he clearly loves his son, as seen when he plays with and hugs him before the family goes trick-or-treating on Halloween night.
  • Fingore: The Riddler severs his left thumb as part of one of his riddles. Batman notes that Mitchell was still alive when the thumb was severed.
  • Good Parents: He's seen playing with his son on Halloween night moments before his murder. His kid very clearly misses him after he's killed.
  • Hypocrite: Publicly presented himself as a staunch adherent of family values, but cheated on his wife with Annika.
  • Karmic Death: The Riddler kills him, then wraps his head with duct tape written with the words "No More Lies" while leaving a "What does a liar do when he's dead?" riddleAnswer to Batman. Then, when Gordon and Batman discover the thumbdrive containing photos of Mitchell's affair with Annika, the Riddler leaks these photos to the press, destroying Mitchell's reputation as a respected mayor overnight... and right when everyone is giving their eulogies of what a good man he was.
  • Loose Lips: He let slip to Annika the truth behind the renewal fund and Falcone.
  • No Historical Figures Were Harmed: Mitchell's last name is based on John Mitchell, who worked for the Nixon Administration.
  • Not Quite Dead: Despite the scene ending with him prone on the floor with a gaping skull wound after Riddler violently smashed his head in, Batman later deduces that he was still alive based on the clotted blood and bruising from having his thumb cut off for Riddler's clue. Instead, whilst he was unable to defend himself, Riddler smothered him beneath a 'mask' of duct-tape he wrapped around his head, though it's implied the head wound would have been ultimately fatal in any case.
  • Pet the Dog: While he cheats on his wife and secretly works with Falcone, the love he has for his son is truly genuine.
  • Puppet King: While Mitchell may be mayor, it's made very clear that Carmine Falcone is the true ruler of Gotham. Particularly once it's revealed Mitchell and the rest of his administration are lackeys bought off by the mob.
  • Shadow Archetype: He's one to Thomas Wayne, having political aspirations to be mayor and a son around Bruce's age when he lost his father. This even extends to their ties to the mob boss Carmine Falcone. The key difference between them is that Thomas realizes he made a big mistake asking Falcone's favor and tries to walk it back (only to end up killed), while Mitchell willingly remains under Falcone's thumb.
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: His only scene in The Batman is the night he becomes the Riddler's first victim.

    Bella Reál 

Bella Reál

Portrayed by: Jayme Lawson

Appears In: The Batman (2022) | The Penguin

"We will rebuild, but not just our city. We must rebuild people's faith — in our institutions, in our elected officials, in each other. Together, we will learn to believe in Gotham again."

A candidate running for mayor who wants better days for her city.


  • Canon Foreigner: Created specifically for the movie.
  • Foil: To her opponent, Don Mitchell. Mitchell, a middle-aged white man with a wife and son, is a hypocritical and corrupt politician, while Bella, a young and single black woman, is sincerely well-meaning and honest. Mitchell trades on the faked takedown of Sal Maroni to improve his standing in the polls, while Bella proves herself a genuine hero at the climax. Both become targets of the Riddler (Mitchell for his genuine corruption, Bella out of raw spite), but Mitchell dies quickly and brutally, while Bella survives to fight for a better Gotham.
  • Honor Before Reason: Upon realizing there are assassins after her, Gordon urges her to find a place to hide. She refuses, opting to try and calm the panicking crowd and manage the crisis as best as she can, feeling it's her duty as mayor-elect. She's promptly shot, but fortunately the bullet misses anything vital and paramedics are close by, so she survives.
  • Improbable Age: Is the leading mayoral candidate at only 28, and her actress is even a few years younger. Justified as the rampant corruption in Gotham makes her the only viable candidate who can't be bought or intimidated and her age may have made her appealing compared to long time incumbents like Mitchell.
  • Meaningful Name: A mayoral candidate whose name can simultaneously mean "True Beauty", "Royal Beauty" and "Beautiful Royal".
  • No Celebrities Were Harmed: As an idealistic African-American politician running on a platform of making major reforms to a deeply broken system, she brings to mind Barack Obama, or more generally, a progressive politician (who's a young woman of colour) challenging a more conservative incumbent, such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
  • Punny Name: Her surname name is a spelled as "Real" reflecting how she is an honest politician. Her campaign slogan plays on this, with promise of making "A Real Change". There's also the case of Meaningful Name with Bella which means "beautiful" symbolizing her idealism and vision of a better Gotham.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: She seeks to become one in her campaign for mayor out of a genuine desire to do better for the city.
  • Spanner in the Works: Subverted. The beginning of the movie implies that she's leading Mayor Mitchell in the polls. An idealistic, honest politician replacing Carmine Falcone's stooge would have likely massively upended the delicate power balance between Falcone and the corrupt Gotham city officials and potentially put the whole cover-up involving the Sal Maroni drug bust at risk. Except once the Riddler gets involved the stakes get much higher regardless even though she goes on to win the election.
  • Stupid Sacrifice: Subverted. Despite Gordon urging her to go into hiding due to the armed assassins up on the stadium rafters, Reál insists on doing her part to calm down the populace from her end regardless, which prompts an exasperated eye roll from Gordon. Sure enough, Reál is indeed shot, but after Batman saves the day, she comes away with little more than a flesh wound, and appears before Gotham the day after bandaged and as determined as ever.

    Sebastian Hady 

Sebastian Hady

Portrayed by: Rhys Coiro

Appears In: The Penguin

A crooked city councilman.
  • Butt-Monkey: He benefits from the Penguin's machinations, but almost every scene he shares with Oz has him suffer some humiliation or another.
  • Corrupt Politician: He was one of the men responsible for diverting electricity away from the areas of the city hardest hit by the Riddler's Flood and towards the wealthier suburbs.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: He points out that if Oz wants to be accepted in City Hall, he's going to have to clean up his act. Oz takes the advice to heart and his final scene has him adopting his dapper dress from the comics.
  • Villain with Good Publicity: When the city government is under fire for the bombing at Crown Point, Oz persuades him to pitch himself as a Man of the People who restored power to that district (only because Oz forced him to) and is now going to crack down on organised crime by having Sofia incarcerated.

Gotham City District Attorney's Office

    Gil Colson 

District Attorney Gil Colson

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Portrayed by: Peter Sarsgaard

Appears In: The Batman (2022)

Gotham's corrupt district attorney.
  • Affably Evil: Despite being a crooked District Attorney who takes bribes from the mob, he seems like an amiable guy and is genuinely polite to Selina and the rest of the Iceberg Lounge staff.
  • Amoral Attorney: He's an attorney under the thumb of Falcone.
  • Better to Die than Be Killed: He'd rather die by the Riddler's Explosive Leash than answer his final riddle (the name of the rat who sold out Salvatore Maroni). This is because said rat is Carmine Falcone, who will not only kill Colson for blabbing, but Colson's family as well.
  • Canon Foreigner: Created specifically for the movie.
  • Drowning My Sorrows: Selina finds him in the VIP section of Penguin's Iceberg Lounge, drunk and high, trying to deal with his fear that the Riddler will murder him for his role in the Maroni drug bust.
  • Foregone Conclusion: The fact that Gotham's DA in this movie is not named Harvey Dent is a good indicator that this guy ain't lasting too long.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite trying at first to save his own skin Gil decides he'd rather die by having the Riddler's explosive collar around his neck being set off by refusing to say the Rat's name than endanger his family by revealing it.
  • Explosive Leash: Riddler kidnaps and fits him with an explosive collar, forcing Colson and Batman to answer a timed series of riddles/questions to get the combination to unlock it.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: For a corrupt attorney, his death is surprisingly altruistic. Though scared for his life willingly allows himself to die so that his loved ones would not be harmed.
  • Hookers and Blow: He's hanging out at Penguin's club, high as a kite on "drops" with one of Falcone's "hostesses" on his arm.
  • Karmic Death: Since he refuses to give up the name of the rat despite being Mr. Loose Lips, Colson loses his head (and the rest of him too) to the Explosive Leash.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: Being the district attorney of Gotham, his job is to bring criminal charges against Gotham's corrupt individuals, like Maroni in the drug bust. But since he uses his position to protect other notorious criminals like Carmine Falcone, Colson is put through a public mock trial by the Riddler, forced to answer for his corruption.
  • Loose Lips: Justified. He chooses to die rather than give away the identity of the rat, and otherwise lasted the last two decades without major incident. But when high and drunk on a bender, he gives away a good chunk of the conspiracy to a random girl he had just met.
  • Nervous Wreck: He's introduced drunk off his ass and terrified that the Riddler is going to come after him. It gets worse after Riddler straps a bomb to his neck, and the only option to survive is to rat out a man who will kill him and his family if he snitches.
  • No Historical Figures Were Harmed: Colson's last name is based on Charles Colson, who worked for the Nixon Administration.
  • Oh, No... Not Again!: From the part-annoyed, part-resigned reaction of the police chief on learning that Colson has disappeared, it's implied that the events we see in the film aren't the first time that he's gone on an inconvenient Hookers and Blow-fueled bender.
  • Properly Paranoid: He's holed up in the Iceberg Lounge, terrified that the Riddler will be coming after him next. And he's absolutely right to be afraid, since Riddler kidnaps him just after he leaves the club.
  • Sadistic Choice: Riddler forces him to answer questions on threat of explosive death that require that he publicly out himself as a Corrupt Cop. Riddler's last question asks him who is the informant for the Sal Maroni case, but Colson refuses to answer because he knows that whether or not he answers, he's dead either way (because the informant is Falcone, who will doubtlessly kill Colson for ratting him out), but if he does answer, his loved ones will be killed too.
  • Villainous Valor: He genuinely loves his family and is willing to sacrifice himself for their sake.

    Cromwell & Beckett 

Travis Cromwell & Richie Beckett

Portrayed by: Jack Bennett (Travis Cromwell) & Andre Nightingale (Richie Beckett)

Appears In: The Batman (2022)

A pair of crooked attorneys who work in the DA's office.
  • Amoral Attorney: They work in the DA's office and have no problem consorting with hookers at a mob-owned club and talking about the hidden corruption behind the Maroni bust.
  • The Dividual: Personality and plot-wise, they are as identical as the Twins.
  • Shout-Out: They're both named after advisors to King Henry VIII, Thomas Cromwell and Thomas Beckett.

Gotham City Police Department (GCPD)

    Pete Savage 

Commissioner Pete Savage

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"Happy fuckin' Halloween."

Portrayed by: Alex Ferns

Appears In: The Batman (2022)

The GCPD's commissioner.
  • Asshole Victim: Downplayed. Given that he's a corrupt commissioner who takes bribes from criminals and is on Falcone's payroll, you'd expect no one to really mourn him, but Gordon (his former partner) is still furious at the Riddler for Savage's death.
  • Canon Foreigner: While he has elements of Harvey Bullock and Gillian Loeb, the Pete Savage identity was an original creation for the movie.
  • Composite Character: Of Harvey Bullock (as an overweight Dirty Cop who distrusts Batman, and an old partner of Gordon in some continuities), and Gillian Loeb (as a corrupt prior commissioner to Gordon). These parallels also make him similar to Lt. Eckhardt, being in the pocket of the ruling mob and its active agent in the police department, using his resources to eliminate criminals that threaten their empire — in this case, Maroni.
  • Cruel and Unusual Death: Riddler kills Savage by having rats gnaw on his face.
  • Dirty Cop: He's really just one of Falcone's stooges who got his position in the GCPD through illegitimate means.
  • Facial Horror: Commissioner Gordon gets The Penguin to talk by showing him a picture of Savage's face after it was eaten by rats, and the results aren't pretty.
  • Fake Ultimate Hero: One of many people who were in on the drug bust of Sal Maroni orchestrated by Carmine Falcone.
  • Fat Bastard: He's overweight, kind of a jerk, and he's on the take, having worked with Carmine Falcone on the Maroni drug bust. Ironically, it's him trying to lose weight by going to the gym at night when no one is around that gets him easily captured by Riddler.
  • Hypocrite: He calls out Gordon for letting a vigilante like Batman into a crime scene and accuses Batman of being involved with the crime given the Riddler's letter addressed to him. He himself turns out to be a Dirty Cop.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: He has a point in chewing out Gordon for letting Batman (a vigilante) investigate a crime scene. Then we find out he's just a Hypocrite when he himself is revealed to be taking bribes.
  • Karmic Death: The Riddler invokes this by having Savage's deathtrap involve rats finding their way to his face and feast on his flesh, symbolizing how he let Gotham be feasted on by criminals and drug dealers. Additionally, the Riddler also injected him with rat poison, so that the rats would die shortly after consuming his face, symbolizing what the Riddler plans to do with the titular "rat" of his riddles.
  • Killed Offscreen: The only one of the Riddler's victims who's killed between scenes, likely because his fate is far more gruesome than any of the other murders, and would've been too graphic to show.
  • Mythology Gag:
    • His name is actually a reference to the first Batman television series — it's identical to the name of one of Gotham's three wealthy founders.
    • He fills the role that Gillian B. Loeb does in the comics, as the corrupt Commissioner prior to Jim Gordon who gets murdered, allowing Gordon to fill the spot.
  • Precision F-Strike: He tells Batman "Happy fuckin' Halloween."
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: He gets one scene before being abducted and killed by Riddler.
  • We Used to Be Friends: Savage and Gordon used to be detectives together, and seem to have been close, given Savage brings up their former partnership. Gordon working with Batman against Savage's wishes has soured their relationship. Gordon is similarly disgusted to learn Savage was a corrupt cop stealing money from the city.

    Mackenzie Bock 

Chief Mackenzie Bock

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Portrayed by: Con O'Neill

Appears In: The Batman (2022) | The Penguin

The GCPD's chief of police.


  • Adaptational Villainy: The Bock of the comics was an honest cop. Here, he might be corrupt, and The Penguin confirmed he at least used to be.
  • Adaptational Wimp: Bock is a Genius Bruiser homicide detective with the occasional A Day in the Limelight in the comics, but is more of a bureaucrat in the film.
  • Ambiguously Evil: It's left unclear if he's as corrupt as the rest of the officers in the GCPD, or simply a gruff By-the-Book Cop with no tolerance for vigilantism. His anger when Batman indicates he is dirty could be interpreted as genuine disgust at such as accusation, but conversely, he isn't among the trusted officers Gordon brings to arrest Falcone, though given how aggressive Bock was with Batman just being in a room with him it's likely Gordon decided his presence wouldn't help matters. His appearance in The Penguin settles matters a little more, with Sofia Falcone referencing to his face the fact that he at least used to be on the take.
  • Da Chief: Of Gotham police and like his boss, he's not very pleased with Gordon cooperating with a vigilante.
  • In Name Only: The Mackenzie Bock of the comics was an honest African-American Badass Bookworm (his In-Universe nickname of "Hardback" was due to his love of reading, not his muscular build). This guy is white, a bureaucrat, and pretty far from an honest man, with no real indications of intellectualism.
  • The Napoleon: He's visibly shorter than Batman (Con O'Neill is 5'8" compared to Robert Pattinson's 6'1"), but that doesn't stop him from getting up in Batman's face when he's in police custody.
  • Race Lift: In contrast with Jeffrey Wright's take on Jim Gordon, Con O'Neill's Mackenzie Bock is a white actor portraying a character traditionally depicted as African-American.
  • Tranquil Fury: When Batman accuses him of being corrupt, Bock lowers his voice to a whisper, each word oozing with seething rage:
    Bock: You son of a bitch. You have any idea what kind of trouble you're in?
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: Disappears from the movie after the scene where Batman escapes from GCPD. We never learn if he was as corrupt as the rest of the police force, or if he was as blindsided by the reveal as Gordon and Batman were. Semi-Justified, as one of his two scenes with dialogue has him revealed to be very against the vigilante's presence (he gets in Batman's face and calls him a son of a bitch), so when Gordon brings in as many trusted officers as he can to arrest Falcone, he's obviously excluded, and it's clear that Gordon and his officers are doing their best to keep as much distance as they can between him and Batman until the Riddler crisis is over. He returns in The Penguin, however.

    James Gordon 

Lieutenant James Gordon

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"Does this mean anything to you?"

Portrayed by: Jeffrey Wright

Appears In: The Batman (2022) | The Batman: Part II

A lieutenant in the GCPD and Batman's main ally on the force.


  • Affectionate Nickname: Gordon usually refers to Batman exclusively as "man", expressing how much he trusts him.
  • Badass Normal: He doesn't have Batman's extraordinary physique, but he doesn't shy away from the action that comes with the detective work.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: He's a genuinely good cop who lets Batman get away with a lot because of how corrupt the GCPD is, but his patience has its limits. He lets it be known that he's not happy that Batman still doesn't let him know who he really is despite their close working relationship.
  • Catchphrase: When something strange or disturbing comes up, he has the tendency to remark, "Jesus..."
  • The Commissioner Gordon: Being yet another incarnation of the trope-naming uncorrupted cop who trusts the vigilante Batman where most other cops and city officials wouldn't.
  • Et Tu, Brute?: He's angered when he and Batman discover pictures of his former friend and partner accepting bribes from drug dealers.
  • Friend on the Force: He's the only cop who really trusts Batman and doesn't mind working with him, even letting him handle evidence at active crime scenes. Batman in turn regards him as a good cop.
  • Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!: Gordon slams Batman against the cage of an interrogation room during a confrontation with GCPD officers after they try to remove his mask while he was rendered unconscious from a bomb blast and he wakes up swinging.
  • Hyper-Competent Sidekick: Unlike previous live-action incarnations of Commissioner Gordon who typically just handed their Batman a case file then let the vigilante do all of the investigative leg work, this incarnation of Gordon is practically joined at the hip with the titular superhero for the majority of the movie as his unofficial partner. Even the GCPD in-universe refer to Gordon and Bats as Those Two Guys, with how frequently they're seen working together on active crime scenes.
  • Nice Guy: Jim is a truly pure-hearted cop who's respectful and professional to everyone. He's nice enough that he's gotten a noticeably colder Batman to see him as a friend.
  • Only Sane Man: One of the most upstanding men in Gotham, and despite his hectic surroundings, he manages to be quite stable.
  • Race Lift: Jeffrey Wright portrays James Gordon, who had never been depicted as black before this film in live-action, but had a similar white-to-black Race Lift in The LEGO Batman Movie. Like Selina, the casting call for him was open ethnicity.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: He's a clean cop on a corrupt police force, and at the start of The Batman, he's one of the few people who actually trusts Batman — to the point where he sees him as a friend. Despite the legal ambiguity of the actions the two men take, it's clear that Gordon is doing his best to uphold the spirit of the law even if his actions run counter to the letter of it, and the system is simply so corrupt that working with somebody like Batman outside the law is the only way he can make a difference.
  • Token Good Teammate: Batman sees him as this to the Gotham police department, not because he's the only person willing to work with him, but because Gordon is the only cop there he fully trusts is not corrupt. Gordon himself admits he can't fully trust any of his coworkers. It turns out there are some other honest officers on the payroll, but most if not all of the people above him on the chain of command appear to be compromised in some way.
  • The Watson: He acts as Batman's crime-solving partner throughout the film, investigating scenes and decoding the Riddler's clues together.
  • Wounded Gazelle Gambit: A rare heroic version; at one point, after the two discuss police corruption while other cops are nearby, Batman slugs Gordon to make it seem as if they were arguing, so as to protect Gordon from suspicion from his potentially corrupt colleagues.

    William Kenzie 

Detective William Kenzie

Portrayed by: Peter McDonald

Appears In: The Batman (2022) | The Penguin

A detective working for the GCPD.
  • Adaptational Badass: Kenzie is an enforcer in the movie, but is merely a thief and facilitator in Gotham Central.
  • Butt-Monkey: He suffers numerous injuries and nearly dies because Batman and Selina hone in on him as a major lead in the case; it's hard to say he doesn't deserve it, though.
  • Chekhov's Gunman:
    • He's introduced as Penguin's enforcer before being identified as an off-duty detective. He makes a few cameos afterwards as the man with the broken nose, a reminder to Batman and Gordon that no cop is to be trusted. He becomes important to the plot after Selina catches him and finds her stolen cellphone on him. On her cellphone is the last message of Annika revealing that the "rat" of the Maroni drug bust is none other than Carmine Falcone. Kenzie then spills the whole truth regarding Falcone, the Renewal funds, and the fake drug bust operation, tying all the clues and riddles together.
    • In The Penguin, Carmine reveals that he has been keeping tabs on Summer Gleeson, and is implied to have murdered her so Carmine can frame Sofia for it.
  • Dirty Cop: He works as an enforcer for Penguin at the Iceberg Lounge. Batman even notes that Kenzie "moonlights as a cop," rather than moonlighting as a bouncer.
  • Disney Villain Death: Subverted. Selina tries to knock Kenzie off of a ledge, but Batman and Gordon manage to catch the crooked detective before he plummets to his death.
  • Save the Villain: Is on the receiving end of a mook variant, thanks to Batman and Gordon, when Selina kicks him off a ledge.

    Marcus Wise 

Detective Marcus Wise

Portrayed by: Craig Walker

Appears In: The Penguin

A corrupt GCPD detective.


  • Addled Addict: Wise has an addiction to Drops, rendering him even more of a puppet to the Falcones than the average corrupt cop in Gotham.
  • Affably Evil: Self-interested to the point of ruthlessness he might be, but he's still fairly jovial. He beams like a kid trying to please his parents when he brings a Maroni capo to Sofia.
  • Back for the Finale: Shows up in the penultimate episode to knock Oz out and bring him to Sofia.
  • Boom, Headshot!: Oz pays him back in the finale episode this way, while he's distracted indulging in Drops.
  • Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Played With: He might be a disheveled addict, but he did successfully bring a Maroni capo right to Sofia's door, in the most literal sense of the word. He also fails to see anything wrong with bringing an interrogation suspect to a funeral home, forcing Sofia to come up with a plan to keep him hidden.
  • Dirty Cop: He was on Carmine Falcone's payroll, and is then hired by Sofia to find the mole within the Falcone Syndicate.

    Martinez 

Martinez

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"Oh hey! Mister Wayne!"

Portrayed by: Gil Perez Abraham

Appears In: The Batman (2022)

An officer working for the GCPD.


  • Canon Foreigner: Created specifically for the movie.
  • Chekhov's Gunman: He initially appears to be just a regular face in the GCPD and the closest thing Jim Gordon has to a Number Two, but at the climax of the film, his presence at Nashton's apartment aids Batman with locating the final message detailing Riddler's plan to flood the city, as he identifies the murder tool he used to kill Don Mitchell Jr. as a carpet-tucker tool, inspiring Batman to look underneath the flooring carpet. However, by the time they find this out, the bombs start going off — but it isn't too late to stop Riddler's goons from gunning down hundreds of survivors.
  • Likes Clark Kent, Hates Superman: Martinez strongly dislikes and distrusts Batman at first because of his vigilantism, though he does grow to begrudgingly accept him after seeing that he is on their side. Ironically, he is very excited to meet reclusive billionaire Bruce Wayne and treats him as if he's meeting a local celebrity.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Downplayed. His first scene in the movie has him acting rather aggressive and distrustful toward Batman and even call him a "goddamned freak" under his breath, but he is one of the few honest cops in Gotham. While still wary of him, he does slowly start to begrudgingly accept Batman and later awkwardly tries to engage in small talk with him in Riddler's apartment (which incidentally provides Batman with the detail he overlooked to Nygma's next riddle, being that Mayor Mitchell's murder weapon weapon is a carpeting tool).
  • Oh, Crap!: When he's watching Riddler's last video with Batman and realizes that Riddler plans to flood the city and massacre the people who seek refuge at Gotham Square Garden. And it gets worse when he finds himself unable to contact Gordon because the lines are down.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: He's visibly furious and barely restraining his anger when arresting Edward Nygma for the first time.
  • Small Role, Big Impact: Batman has no idea what the intended function of the Riddler's murder weapon is, and Martinez is the one who tells him it's a carpet tucker, leading directly to the climax as per the Chekhov's Gunman entry above.

Alternative Title(s): Gotham City Government And Law Enforcement

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