Recaps of the pre-Batman days of James Gordon, GCPD.
Meeting the younger Wayne further compels Gordon to catch the mysterious killer, forming an unlikely friendship with Bruce, one that will help shape the boy's future in becoming Batman. Gordon also becomes involved with Gotham's crime families and associates in the search for the Waynes killer, getting into a Mob War in the process.
- Pilot
- Selina Kyle
- The Balloonman
- Arkham
- Viper
- Spirit of the Goat
- Penguin's Umbrella
- The Mask
- Harvey Dent
- Lovecraft
- Rogues' Gallery
- What the Little Bird Told Him
- Welcome Back, Jim Gordon
- The Fearsome Dr. Crane
- The Scarecrow
- The Blind Fortune Teller
- Red Hood
- Everyone Has a Cobblepot
- Beasts of Prey
- Under the Knife
- The Anvil or the Hammer
- All Happy Families Are Alike
One month later, Gordon deals with a series of events that are being secretly orchestrated by Theo Galavan and his sister Tabitha as part of an elaborate plan to take over Gotham as the new Mayor of Gotham City, which involved Mayor Aubrey James' abduction and exacting revenge against the Wayne Family with help from the Order of St. Dumas.
After Galavan is killed by Gordon during his run for mayor of Gotham, the Gotham City Police Department deals with the actions of Victor Fries. At the same time, the enigmatic Hugo Strange and his assistant Ethel Peabody conduct a series of bizarre experiments underneath Arkham Asylum in the underground Indian Hill facility that is secretly owned by Wayne Enterprises and overseen by the Court.
Rise of the Villains
- Damned If You Do...
- Knock, Knock
- The Last Laugh
- Strike Force
- Scarification
- By Fire
- Mommy's Little Monster
- Tonight's the Night
- A Bitter Pill to Swallow
- The Son of Gotham
- Worse Than a Crime
Wrath of the Villains
Six months later, Gordon has become a bounty hunter as he works to track down Indian Hill experiments that escaped six months earlier as well as a revived Fish Mooney who has recruited some of the Indian Hill experiments to form another version of her gang. While planning to get Leslie Thompkins back, he also encounters Carmine Falcone's son Mario Calvi. Gordon also has to tangle with hypnotist Jervis Tetch who arrives in Gotham City to look for his lost sister Alice Tetch. Meanwhile, Oswald Cobblepot runs against Aubrey James for Mayor of Gotham City after some elected Gotham City officials ran it following Theo Galavan's death and wins in a landslide.
While Jim rejoins the GCPD, the city plunges into a state of corruption: Alice Tetch's poisonous blood drives many crazy, including Captain Nathaniel Barnes and Mario Calvi. The deceased Jerome Valeska's followers led by Dwight Pollard revive him back to life and later attempts to continue his previous vendetta against the city and Bruce until he is defeated by Bruce and Gordon. Meanwhile, Edward Nygma, who slowly was on the path into becoming the Riddler, puts his plans into effect, setting his legacy into place, and Bruce Wayne continues his path into becoming the Batman when he starts to look into the Court of Owls, finding out that one of the Indian Hill experiments was a clone of his.
Mad City
- Better to Reign in Hell...
- Burn the Witch
- Look Into My Eyes
- New Day Rising
- Anything For You
- Follow the White Rabbit
- Red Queen
- Blood Rush
- The Executioner
- Time Bomb
- Beware the Green-Eyed Monster
- Ghosts
- Smile Like You Mean It
- The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
Heroes Rise
Bruce Wayne is now a masked vigilante, patrolling Gotham's streets at night, wearing dark clothes and a hooded black balaclava. Cobblepot begins a campaign to dominate the city's underworld by profiting off licensed crime, Nygma finds his mental faculties diminished as a side-effect of having been flash-frozen, Jonathan Crane is seen embracing his role as the Scarecrow, the League of Shadows begin their next plot involving an ancient embalming knife, Ivy Pepper taking drugs from an apothecary which transform her again, and Butch Gilzean becomes Solomon Grundy after his comatose body was dumped into Slaughter Swamp.
A new criminal known as Professor Pyg shows up putting Gotham into chaos until it is revealed he has been working with Falcone’s daughter Sofia to take down Penguin which she succeeds in doing while having Penguin sent to Arkham where he meets Jerome Valeska. Eventually after Sofia is taken down by Gordon, Jerome Valeska, Jervis Tetch, and Jonathan Crane escape from Arkham along with others and team up with Victor Fries, Bridget Pike, Penguin, and Solomon Grundy to create a supervillain team known as the Legion of Horribles to bring madness and destruction to Gotham which leads to Jerome's brother Jeremiah undergoing a chemical transformation.
In addition, the energies that Ra's al Ghul placed in Barbara Kean called the rest of the League of Shadows to her as the female members pledge their loyalty to her. Eventually, Jeremiah Valeska and Ra's al Ghul's plans plunge Gotham City into a no man's land, causing it to be evacuated while the different villains start claiming their territory.
- Pax Penguina
- The Fear Reaper
- They Who Hide Behind Masks
- The Demon's Head
- The Blade's Path
- Hog Day Afternoon
- A Day in the Narrows
- Stop Hitting Yourself
- Let Them Eat Pie
- Things That Go Boom
- Queen Takes Knight
- Pieces of a Broken Mirror
- A Beautiful Darkness
- Reunion
- The Sinking Ship, the Grand Applause
- One of My Three Soups
- Mandatory Brunch Meeting
- That's Entertainment
- To Our Deaths and Beyond
- That Old Corpse
- One Bad Day
- No Man's Land
Gotham has become a no man's land. Much of the electricity and clean water supply has been cut off and food is scarce. Crime lords such as Penguin and Barbara Kean have taken to running the city's largest zones virtually unchallenged while the remaining territories are being divided up between psychopaths such as the Scarecrow, Victor Zsasz, the mutants and Jeremiah Valeska.
Jim Gordon's GCPD remains the citizens' only beacon of hope as he keeps the searchlight on every night to remind them that there is still a chance that they will survive this ordeal.
Behind the scenes, Edward Nygma struggles with his split personality as he loses his grip on sanity as time goes on, ultimately discovering a truth more ugly than he could imagine.
Selina Kyle, still paralyzed and suicidal after Jeremiah's attack, finds an unlikely cure that will heal and empower her to exact her revenge.
And finally Bruce Wayne, Gotham's future dark knight, sets out on a journey that will change his destiny and the destiny of his beloved city forever.
