Gotham – Character Images

By Reggie's Take on March 28, 2014

The new television series will tell the origin story of Commissioner Gordon beginning with his days as a rookie detective in Gotham City.

The show will begin airing in the fall on Fox and follows one cop’s rise through a dangerously corrupt city and chronicles the birth of one of the most popular super heroes.

Gordon will have encounters with gang boss Fish Mooney, a teenaged Selina Kyle the future Catwoman and Oswald Cobblepot, the Penguin. Plus we will see the beginnings of a friendship with a young Bruce Wayne his butler, Alfred.

Detective James Gordon grew up in Gotham City’s surrounding suburbs and romanticized the city where his late father once served as a successful district attorney as a glamorous and exciting metropolis. Gotham will follow the young detective’s turbulent and singular rise through the Gotham City Police Department as he navigates the multiple layers of corruption that secretly rule Gotham City and will also focus on the unlikely friendship that he forms with the young heir to the Wayne fortune.

Harvey Bullock: Jim Gordon’s partner and mentor, the rough-around-the-edges Detective Harvey Bullock plays loose with police procedure, but gets results — and he does so with old-school, hard-ass panache.

Alfred Pennyworth: A tough as nails ex-marine from East London, Alfred has loyally served the Waynes. Now, in the wake of their tragic deaths, he’s fiercely protective of the young Bruce Wayne

Oswald Cobblepot aka The Penguin has the brains of a chess grandmaster and the morals of a jackal. A low-level psychopath for gangster Fish Moon, he hides his sadistic lust for power behind an exquisitely polite demeanor.

Selina Kyle, the future Catwoman is a teenage orphan who is suspicious and wholly unpredictable. A street thief and skilled pickpocket, she’s dangerous when cornered.