Gotham (2017 TV Series)

Gotham is a 2013 American Crime-Drama Television Series, based off of the origin of DC Comic's Batman and the 2001 TV Series Smallville. The series premiered on September 22, on the CW Television Network and stars Dylan Sprayberry as a young Bruce Wayne in Gotham City before becoming the vigilante crimefighter known as Batman.

Overview
After witnessing his parents murder, 10 year old Bruce Wayne forms an unlikely friendship with Gotham PD's new recruit, James Gordon, to find his parents murderer. Four years later as Gotham City continues to plunge into a darker age of crime, a teenage Bruce Wayne is under the care of his butler Alfed Pennyworth, and continues to train and test himself, in order to become stronger, and involves himself in Gordon's investigations, to help stop the rising criminal underworld, caused by the death of Gotham's White Knight, Thomas Wayne. The series sees Bruce Wayne coping with adolescence as he begins exploring the secrets that his father left behind, making new allies and enemies along the way, and ultimately moving towards his destiny as Gotham's Caped Crusader and Dark Knight, The Batman

Gotham has been shown to be a three chapter series; Chapter 1 (Seasons 1-4) being Bruce's teenage years in high school, involving himself in basic GCPD cases. Chapter 2 (Seasons 5-7) is the beginning of his adulthood and his more intense training. Chapter 3 (Seasons 8-10) is the beginning of his crime fighting career, and his final trials, leading to his destiny as the Dark Knight.

The series also focuses on the people in Bruce's life; his loyal butler and caretaker, Alfred Pennyworth. His partner and friend, James Gordon. His peers, Renee Montoya and Ethan Bennete. His on-again off-again love interest, Selina Kyle. His allies Leslie Thompkins and Lucious Fox. And most importantly his friendship turned arch-rivalry with Jerome Valeska.

Main Cast
• Dylan Sprayberry as Bruce Wayne, the orphaned son of Thomas and Martha Wayne, who is now under the care of the Wayne family butler, Alfred Pennyworth. As a 10 year old boy, Bruce witnessed the murder of his wealthy and powerful parents, which began a dark age in Gotham, and befriended new detective, James Gordon. As a teenager, Bruce began puttung himself through physical and mental training, while exploring the secrets left behind by his parents and involving himself in James' cases. At the end of Season 4, after graduating, Bruce found a secret cave under Wayne Manor, which contained a computer holding all of his father's secrets. In Season 7, Bruce began undergoing more intense training and eventually left Gotham to begin further training in multiple skills, in which he met Ra's Al Ghul and John Zatara. Upon returning to Gotham in Season 8, Bruce began crimefighting, using his skills and array of gadgets, as he takes back Wayne Industries and faces a series of trials that are leading him to become Gotham's Dark Knight, The Batman.

• Sean Pertwee as Alfred Pennyworth, the Wayne's loyal and trusting butler and Bruce's caretaker after the Waynes' murder. The Waynes treat Alfred as family, in which Alfred was the only family Bruce had left after the Waynes' murder. As an ex-Special Air Service Operative, Alfred began training Bruce in basic combat, and helped him with his secret work on Gordon's GCPD cases, bandaging and caring for his wounds. Alfred went with him on his journey across the world, and although he often disapproves of Bruce's vigilante actions, he stays by his side no matter what and is a large part of Bruce's future as the caped crusader.

• Ben McKenzie as Det. James Gordon, a detective in the Major Crimes Unit of the Gotham City Police Departmemt, who before the main course of season 1, was a new recruit, with the Wayne's murder as his first case. Gordon initially has a relationship with Barbara Kean, who in Season 5, was murdered shortly after giving birth to their baby daughter, whome James names after Barbara. Throughout the series, James must deal with constant rise of the criminal underworld and the beginning of numerous villains, and forms an unlike friendship and partnership with Bruce Wayne, a friend ship that will shape his future as commissioner of the GCPD and ultimately, Bruce's future as the Dark Knight.

• Donald Logue as Det. Harvey Bullock, Gordon's loyal partner and ally, who is a seemingly corrupt and brutish detective who has gradually become a loyal friend to James Gordon, but still questions and confronts Gordon about giving Bruce information on their cases. Although he often doesn't approve of the vigilante, he stands by James in the decision to work with him.

• Moren Baccarin as Dr. Leslie Thompkins, a former physician at Arkham Asylum, who was a good friend to Martha Wayne. After enlisting as a medical examiner at Gotham City Police Department, Leslie enters a relationship with Jim Gordon. Proving herself an observant and energetic partner at the GCPD, she often persists in trying to keep actively involved as a means to further Jim's work, making him uncomfortable with potentially endangering her. Although she doesn't approve of Bruce's crimefighting, she assists him and Alfred with medical care, due to her long friendship with Waynes, and also goes with Bruce every year to visit the alley his parents were murdered in. • Sammi Hanratty as Renee Montoya, one of Bruce's best friends, who is very interested in criminology, and often helps Bruce with research on the cases, but also questioned his true intentions for researching the cases, unaware he planned to stop the criminals. Due to Bruce's feelings for Selina, Renee never told Bruce of her secret feelings for him, which faded over the years, especially after discovering Bruce's secret and finding the Batcave. Renee is shown to be bisexual, due to her feelings for both Bruce and Kate Kane. In Season 6, dedicated to fighting police corruption, after working her way up from traffic police to an officer, she finally became a detective in the Major Crimes Unit of the GCPD, and often works with Gordon to fight corruption, hiding Bruce's secret and always stays by Bruce's side no matter what.

• Amir Mitchell-Townes as Ethan Bennett, Bruce's best friend since nursery school, who, like Renee, is interested in criminology, and also plays basketball. He eventually learns about Bruce's involvement in Gordon's cases, and helps him keep his secret, but moves to Metropolis with his father near the end of Season 3. While in Metropolis, he becomes a detective in the MPD. In Season 7, he transferred to the GCPD, becoming Renee's new partner, but in Season 8 Jerome kidnaps him and infects him with a gas form of his Joker Putty chemical, tragically transforming him into a putty-like creature with the ability to shape into anything or anyone, calling himself "Clayface".

• Emilia McCarthy as Selina Kyle, a young street orphan and skilled thief. After witnessing the murder of Thomas and Martha Wayne, Selina was lingering around the borders of Wayne Manor which leads to her befriending Bruce. Often visiting Bruce at the school and the mansion, becoming close to Bruce and his friends, Renee and Ethan. Her relationship with Bruce is very strained, due to his nature of justice and her nature of crime, and he often confronted her on her thefts, so she leaves, deciding they aren't meant to be. When she returns, a confrontation with the Vigilante leaves her to choose who she wants to be and ultimately chooses her destiny as the criminal, "Catwoman".

• Jadin Gould as Julie Madison, a good friend of Renee's, who came to Gotham in order to investigate Renee's presumed, finding an amnesiac Bruce in the process. After getting his memory back, Bruce discovered Renee is alive and worked with Julie to find her. Afterwards, she stayed in Gotham, residing at Wayne Manor, where she and Bruce became close friends and eventually becoming more

• Cameron Monaghan as Jerome Valeska/Red Hood, the son of a snake dancer in Haly's Circus, who became close friends with Bruce, after Bruce saved him. Jerome wanted to be a comedian in the circus, but abuse from his mother lead him to killing her and covering up her death, but the combination of his trustless friendship with Bruce and murdering his mother lead him to insanity, and he became a criminal, using a suit, with a red cape and helmet. The long over do confrontation in battle between Bruce and Jerome at Ace Chemicals ended with Jerome falling into a vat of chemicals, and he was presumed dead, but in the Season 10 Finale, Jerome confronted Bruce, revealing his new appearance, white skin, green hair, red lips, a purple clown suit, and a deadly smile, with his usual deadly laugh. Afterwards, Morgan Valeska used nanotechnology to erase the last few years of his life. Noticing himself as Batman's very antithesis, he eventually claimed himself as Batman's arch rival, unaware the Dark Knight is his former friend, "The Clown Prince of Crime, The Joker"

• Chris Chalk as Lucius Fox, junior executive and tech genius at Wayne Enterprises who in the shadow of the company's corrupt activities emerges as a moral beacon for Bruce Wayne as he attempts to help him uphold the legacy of his parents Thomas and Martha Wayne. Fox was an ally to the Waynes and is one of the few people to know that the Waynes aren't as corrupt as they pretended to be to save face in the eyes of Wayne Industries' corrupt board of directors. After Bruce returned in Season 7, Lucius created a majority of Bruce's gadgets, his vehicles, and his body armor suit and eventually created the batsuit, according to Bruce's designs.

Recurring Cast
• Uriah Shelton as Harvey Dent/Two-Face, a childhood friend of Bruce's, who after traveling with his parents, returned to Gotham in Season 4, and became a Gotham District Attorney, starting a relationship with Pamela Isley, until she developed her powers and turned to a life of crime. In Season 5, Harvey was kidnapped by Jerome, and got caught in the psychopath's explosion, scarring half of his body, and causing him to become a criminal. As a district attorney, Harvey has a two-headed coin, that he uses to trick teenage delinquents into choosing a better life, but as Two-Face, he used it to determine whether or not to be good or evil.

• Robert Gorrie as John Grayson, a member of the Flying Graysons at Haly's Circus, who gets engaged to Mary Lloyd after a dispute is resolved between their two families. Returning in Season 7, John helps Bruce go undercover at Haly's Circus, when another murder at Haly's Circus occured.

• Abbi Snee as Mary Lloyd-Grayson, a member of a family of clowns at Haly's Circus and the rivals to the Flying Graysons. After the dispute between the two families was resolved, she and John got engaged. In Season 7, Mary is married to John and is pregnant with a baby boy (who will grow up to be Dick Grayson/Robin), in which she had Bruce replace her in the act so he can investigate a murder.

• Haley Ramm as Katherine "Kate" Kane, a friend and college classmate of Bruce's. When she was young, Kate, her twin sister, Beth, and her mother, Gabe, were kidnapped, in which her father Colonel Gabe Kane led a rescue mission, but Beth and Gabe were killed in the dispute. After Highschool she began attending the U.S. Army Academy, in which she ranked top of her class, but she was kicked out due to her sexuality. Returning to Gotham, she attended College with Bruce Wayne, becoming good friends with him. She has a growing attraction to Renee Montoya, whome she met when a then traffic cop Renee pulled her over. Afterward, Bruce introduced them to eachother, and they began dating. After an encounter with the vigilante in Season 8, she was inspired to fight crime herself, using military body armor and weaponry. After being confronted by Jake, Kate accepts her fathers offer for assistance and begins an intense two years of training across the globe. Upon returning to Gotham near the end of Season 10, Kate discovers that her father has created a suit for her, along with an arsenal of experimental weaponry, and a hidden bunker outside of Gotham.

• Zabryna Guevera as Captain Sarah Essen, the Captain of the Gotham City Police Department's homicide squad and the boss of James Gordon and Harvey Bullock. She is an honest cop that wants to do something about the rampant corruption in her department, but fears for her family's safety.

• Robin Lord Taylor as Oswald Cobblepot, a cunning, well-spoken, criminal, who will lie and inform on criminal gangs to earn high respect, all so he can betray them and become Gotham's sole criminal mastermind. After he is discovered to be an informant for the GCPD's Major Crimes Unit regarding the Thomas and Martha Wayne's murder, he is brutally beaten leaving him with an odd way of walking furthering the usage of the nickname "The Penguin". Cobblepot is known for keeping an umbrella with him at all times, and eventaully begins using tricked out umbrella's with a built in gun and glider.

• Cory Michael Smith as Edward Nygma, A coroner and forensics operative who works for the Gotham City Police Department and often presents his information in riddles. After being constantly mistreated by his fellow co-workers, Nygma murdered a fellow officer who was also Kringle's abusive boyfriend resulting in a mental breakdown that slowly drives him over the edge, and eventually becomes the criminal mastermind, The Riddler.

• Charlie Tahan as Jonathan Crane, the son of Gerald Crane''', who, before dying, forced Jonathan to take the fear inducing hallucinogen toxin to wipe his ability to feel fear, causing him to constantly struggle with images of living scarecrow creatures. After losing his fears and loses the hallucinations, he is freed from Arkham Asylum. Though he began seeming like a normal physician, he began wearing a scarecrow costume and using the fear gas to infect people, becoming the fearful criminal, "The Scarecrow".

• Bella Thorne as Pamela Isley, the abused daughter of Mario Isley. Pamela is a vegan, cares for a small green house garden and constantly wears green. She met Bruce and Selina when they spoke to her, after her father was framed for the Wayne murder. While trying to vandalize a fertilizer plant, she gets infected by the chemicals in an experimental excellerated growth fertilizer, giving her the ability to manipulate plants, and used her powers to attack Harvey Dent, becoming the seductive "Poison Ivy"

• Cassidy Alexa as Harleen Quinzel/Harley Quinn, the host of pop psychology television show, who does more harm than good for her clients, causing a lot of controversey in the media that Jerome finds amusing, calling the show under the name "Mr. J". After ambushing Bruce Wayne, who thought he was there to talk about her charity foundation, her show was cancelled, causing a mental breakdown, which Jerome took advantage of, making her his romantic partner in crime.

• Chris Gauthier as Professor Hugo Strange, a young psychiatrist at Arkham Asylum who is connected to many criminals, and often uses psychology to keep Bruce and the GCPD off his trail, but Bruce never loses suspicion to the fact that Strange is a dangerous criminal mastermind.

Allies
• Ross Lynch as Arthur Curry "A.C."/Aquaman/Prince Orin, a superpowered teenager that can breathe underwater, swim at superhuman speeds, and gain superhuman strength when wet. He was confronted by Bruce when trying to destoy an underwater Wayne Industries' marine lab, working on weapons that are killing fish, and the two teamed up to stop it.

• Peyton Meyer as Clark Kent, a superpowered farm boy in Smallville, Kansas. As an infant, Kal-El was sent to Earth, before the destruction of his planet, Krypton. Crashing on Earth, he was found and raised by Jonathan and Martha Kent, renaming him Clark and helping him control his powers. One day, when driving home, Clark came across Bruce trying to fix his motorcycle, and offered him a place to stay for a night and the tools in the barn. Before leaving, Bruce helped Clark deal with a human infected by the meteors that followed him to Earth. In their next encounter, Bruce was contacted by a friend of Clark's, in which Bruce had to face a red kryptonite infected Clark. Clark eventually met Bart, Oliver, A.C., and Victor, forming a yet to be named team.

• Dane Dehaan as Oliver Queen/Green Arrow, another young billionaire, like Bruce, who is secretly a vigilante, wearing a green leather hoodie, and using a bow and an array of different arrows to fight crime, after returning home from being stranded on an island for five years.

• Jonny Gray as Bart Allen/Impulse, an orphaned street thief, who used his super speed to steal. When first meeting Bruce he was rash and impulsive, until Bruce convinced him to take a better path, eventually joining Clark's team

• Ray Fisher as Victor Stone/Cyborg, a young half-human half-robot, who was nearly killed in a car crash that killed his family, needing to have multiple limbs replaced with mechanical ones, giving him superhuman strength, and after an upgrade from Lucius Fox, he gained the ability to interface with any computer and project shockwaves of energy.

• Phil Morris as Jonn' Jonn'zz/John Jones/Martian Manhunter,

• Sabrina Carpenter as Dinah Lance/Black Canary,

Guest Cast
• Makayla Jade Bolkin as Barbara Gordon, the daughter of James Gordon and Barbara Kean. Shortly after she was born, Barbara was murdered, leaving James to raise her alone, in which his job causes him to leave her at a day care center a majority of her childhood. She has little appearances in Season 10
 * • Liliana Mumy portrays a Teenage Barbara Gordon/Batgirl, in visions of the future, in which, Barbara, Dick, and Bruce are in Wayne Manor, before before the batwave signals crime in Gotham and they head to the Batcave. Though her suit is seen in containment, she is not seen wearing it.

• Cameron Boyce as Dick Grayson/Robin, the son of John and Mary Grayson. When Bruce went undercover at Haly's circus, Mary was pregnant with him. In visions of the future, John and Mary appear to already be deceased, with Dick adopted by Bruce as his partner, in which he, Barbara, and Bruce are in Wayne Manor, before before the batwave signals crime in Gotham and they head to the Batcave. Though his Robin suit is seen in containment, he is not seen wearing it.

• Julian Sands as Gerald Crane, a serial killer posing as "Todd," a member of a support group for people with severe phobias. Crane kidnaps members of the support group and extracts their adrenal glandswhile exposing them to their greatest fear before killing them. Crane uses the adrenal glands to create a fear-inducing toxin that he uses to eradicate his own fear. Before dying in a gun fight with Gordon and Bullock, he injects the toxin into his son, Jonathan, causing Jonathan's future as the Scarecrow.

• James Monroe Iglehart as Mr. Haly, the owner and ringmaster at Haly's Circus.

• Alex Corrado as Gabriel, a mob thug who works as Oswald Cobblepot's assistant.

Season 1
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