Everyone knows the name Commissioner Gordon. He is one of the crime world's greatest foes, a man whose reputation is synonymous with law and order. But what is known of Gordon's story and his rise from rookie detective to Police Commissioner? What did it take to navigate the multiple layers of corruption that secretly ruled Gotham City, the spawning ground of the world's most iconic villains? And what circumstances created them – the larger-than-life personas who would become Catwoman, The Penguin, The Riddler, Two-Face and The Joker?
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Spirit of the Goat (S1E6) centers around a serial killer who stalks; Under The Knife (S1E20) shows a character stalking another character outside her home. Stalking also shown in They Who Hide Behind Masks (S4E3).
Kristen Kringle is abused by her boyfriend who is one of the cops at the gcpd. Ed later strangles her to death which I believe could count also. In season four Alfred meets a waitress who is also being abused by her boyfriend, whom later kills her.
A character lies to his mother about his life of crime, despite all evidence. It's not with the intent of gaslighting her, but it's worth noting if this is a relevant trigger. Especially intense in Under The Knife (S1E20). Potentially Beware The Green-Eyed Monster (S3E11) & Light The Wick (S3E18) also qualify.
Shown in Strike Force (S2E4). Mentioned in The Last Laugh (S2E3) & Pinewood (S2E18). Arc involving a child character's ongoing abduction and brainwashing starting in How The Riddler Got His Name (S3E15) & ending in Destiny Calling (S3E21).
Barbara forcefully kisses Jim after he's been beaten pretty badly and is teetering on the edge of consciousness. At this point, they are no longer together. Infected!Lee also gets pretty handsy with him when he doesn't want it.
Cutting shown in Penguin's Umbrella (S1E7). A throat is cut in The Anvil or The Hammer (S1E21), but the victim survives. Throats are also cut in A Bitter Pill To Swallow (S2E9), The Son Of Gotham (S2E10), Pinewood (S2E18), Better To Reign In Hell... (S3E1), These Delicate And Dark Obsessions (S3E16), All Will Be Judged (S3E19), Pretty Hate Machine (S3E20), Destiny Calling (S3E21), The Demon's Head (S4E4). A character hallucinates a loved one who has slit their wrists in The Fear Reaper (S4E2) and is almost baited into cutting their own, the hallucination cuts are shown.
Yes, and more often than not they’re shown on screen and graphic. In S1 E8, a character’s hand is stabbed and pinned to a table with a brooch. In S4 E14 a character gets their hand bashed in with a hammer. Those are two that specifically come to mind, but there are two characters who later on have their hands cut off, etc
What The Little Bird Told Him (S1E12), Damned If You Do (S2E1), The Last Laugh (S2E3), By Fire (S2E6), Mr. Freeze (S2E12), Legion of Horribles (S2E21), Anything For You (S3E5), Blood Rush (S3E8), & The Gentle Art Of Making Enemies (S3E14), These Delicate And Dark Obsessions (S3E16), All Will Be Judged (S3E19), Pretty Hate Machine (S3E20), Destiny Calling (S3E21), The Blade's Path (S4E5)
A burning person appears in a hallucination in The Scarecrow (S1E15). Many people nearly burn to death in Knock Knock (S2E2), but are saved. People are burned to death in Scarification (S2E5) & By Fire (S2E6), & Light The Wick (S3E18). Characters are very briefly on fire in Legion of Horribles (S2E21) & The Blade's Path (S4E5). A body is set on fire in Look Into My Eyes (S3E3).
The Mask (S1E8), Beasts of Prey (S1E19), & Burn The Witch (S3E2), All Will Be Judged (S3E19), Pax Penguina (S4E1). Threatened in The Son Of Gotham (S2E10), This Ball Of Mud And Meanness (S2E14), & New Day Rising (S3E4) but not actually performed.
The Ogre episodes (Season 1 Episodes 19-21) contains torture; implied, only effects shown. Torture also implied but not shown in Season 2 Episodes 4-7. Torture also shown in These Delicate And Dark Obsessions (S3E16), Destiny Calling (S3E21)
Characters fall to their deaths in Beasts of Prey (S1E19), Knock Knock (S2E2), Follow The White Rabbit (S3E6), & Light The Wick (S3E18). In Better To Reign In Hell... (S3E1) a character appears to, but survives with no injuries. In The Primal Riddle (S3E17) a character is pushed out a window and is injured, but ultimately survives. Threatened but not carried out in Pretty Hate Machine (S3E20).
Eye mutilation shown in Selina Kyle (S1E2), The Scarecrow (S1E15), Red Hood (S1E17), The Last Laugh (S2E3), A Bitter Pill To Swallow (S2E9), Mr. Freeze (S2E12), Time Bomb (S3E10). Strongly implied in Scarification (S2E5).
In multiple episodes theres people stitching up skin. Not too gory but definitely worth mentioning. Also in episode 11 of season 5 they show Oswalds messed up eye and it's quite gory.
Oswald Cobblepot has a physical disability and is played by an actor who does not have the same disability. In a different episode or episodes, I think Spirit of The Goat is one, there's a character in a wheelchair played by a non disabled actor, there's possibly more instances of this but I can't remember.
Two parents die in Pilot (S1E1), flashbacks are shown throughout. Parents also die in The Scarecrow (S1E15), The Blind Fortune Teller (S1E16), Everyone Has A Cobblepot (S1E18), The Anvil or The Hammer (S1E21), The Last Laugh (S2E3), Mommy's Little Monster (S2E7), Prisoners (S2E16), The Demon's Head (S4E4)
Shown in By Fire (S2E6), Tonight's The Night (S2E8), Worse Than A Crime... (S2E11), Better To Reign In Hell (S3E1)/Burn The Witch (S3E2), Time Bomb (S3E10), They Who Hide Behind Masks (S4E3), The Blade's Path (S4E5); in these the victims escape/are rescued/are returned. Staged/faked kidnappings in The Son Of Gotham (S2E10) & Smile Like You Mean It (S3E13) but some characters don't know they're fake. Kidnapping also shown in New Day Rising (S3E4). Arc involving a character's ongoing abduction and brainwashing starting in How The Riddler Got His Name (S3E15) & ending in Destiny Calling (S3E21).
Non-evil clowns are shown in The Blind Fortune Teller (S1E16), in the context of a circus. Evil clowns shown in The Gentle Art Of Making Enemies (S3E14), The Fear Reaper (S4E2)
Gordon, and to an extent his friend-cops, are very much "the only good cops in a precinct of bad cops" trope. However, Gordon regularly breaks laws to terrorize and intimidate citizens of Gotham. The framing on this is neutral to positive.
Given the difference between the actions and framing, it's unlikely to persuade anyone critical of policing that cops are actually good. Most critique of policing in the show is focused on how cops are effected by their job, though it does have moments.
Ultimately a Yes for me because it is a police procedural at the end of the day, and consumed completely uncritically Gordon makes at least 3 speeches per season about how cops are good.
Used as torture in Rogues' Gallery (S1E11), What The Little Bird Told Him (S1E12), A Dead Man Feels No Cold (S2E13), This Ball Of Mud And Meanness (S2E14), A Legion Of Horribles (S2E21), Follow The White Rabbit (S3E6), Time Bomb (S3E10), Ghosts (S3E12), Smile Like You Mean It (S3E13), How The Riddler Got His Name (S3E15), Destiny Calling (S3E21), Heavydirtysoul (S3E22)
The Fearsome Dr. Crane (S1E14), The Scarecrow (S1E15), Tonight's The Night (S2E8), A Bitter Pill To Swallow (S2E9), Transference (S2E22), New Day Rising (S3E4), Beware The Green-Eyed Monster (S3E11), Smile Like You Mean It (S3E13), How The Riddler Got His Name (S3E15), These Delicate And Dark Obsessions (S3E16), Light The Wick (S3E18), All Will Be Judged (S3E19), Pretty Hate Machine (S3E20), Heavydirtysoul (S3E22), They Who Hide Behind Masks (S4E3)
Scenes in hospital setting in Red Hood (S1E17), Everyone Has A Cobblepot (S1E18), All Happy Families Are Alike (S1E21), This Ball Of Mud And Meanness (S2E14), Unleashed (S2E20), Follow The White Rabbit (S3E6)/Red Queen (S3E7), The Primal Riddle (S3E17), Light The Wick (S3E18), Heavydirtysoul (S3E22)
A recurring character self-harms, shown explicitly in Penguin's Umbrella (S1E7) though it's mentioned at other points. A cult is shown/said to self-harm in The Son Of Gotham (S2E10). Self-harm also shown in Smile Like You Mean It (S3E13), & The Gentle Art Of Making Enemies (S3E14). Mentioned/evident in How The Riddler Got His Name (S3E15). A character hallucinates a loved one who has slit their wrists in The Fear Reaper (S4E2) and is almost baited into cutting their own, the hallucination cuts are shown.
Edward AKA the Riddler is given an 'alter ego' that is evil and gives Edward 'murderous' thoughts and black outs, it's not as bad as other series but it's still a very stigmatized misconception that they portray as well with other disorders they have in the show.
Man is standing on top of a building about to fall however he quickly comes back to his senses,
while a radio is hijacked a escaped man hypnotizes people to
jump off building
A character narrowly escapes being crushed in a car inside a car compactor in The Fearsome Dr. Crane (S1E14). There are scenes where characters crawl through vents in Scarification (S2E5) & Unleashed (S2E20). A character is buried alive in Pretty Hate Machine (S3E20). A character is trapped in a trunk in Hog Day Afternoon (S4E6).
The Son Of Gotham (S2E10), A Dead Man Feels No Cold (S2E13), This Ball Of Mud And Meanness (S2E14), These Delicate And Dark Obsessions (S3E16). Suicidal impulses discussed in Look Into My Eyes (S3E3) & New Day Rising (S3E4). A character hallucinates a loved one who has slit their wrists in The Fear Reaper (S4E2) and is almost baited into cutting their own, the hallucination cuts are shown. A character requests assisted suicide in The Blade's Path (S4E5), & is killed as they asked.
A canonically LGBT character dies permanently in Destiny Calling (S3E21). Canonically LGBT characters appear to die, or die and are later resurrected, in All Happy Families Are Alike (S1E22), The Gentle Art Of Making Enemies (S3E14), & Heavydirtysoul (S3E22).
A character mentions that another character they have not seen in years has gained weight in The Beginning... (S5E12). It isn't a joke, but it's worth noting.
edward nygma seems to be meant to have D.I.D, however, this is represented extremely poorly, and the disorder is referred to as "multiple personality disorder" in at least one episode.
Theres a kind of relationship between a older man (probably in his like 70's) and a like 20 year old women working for fishmoony. It's in season 1 btw.
Harvey Dent tells a kid to make a promise to God and to take the results of a coin toss as a sign from him to go back to school and to get his life straight.
Relationships, no; however, a recurring character has feelings for his sister. They do not have a romantic relationship, and he is very abusive towards her; she actively wants him dead. Discussed mostly in Look Into My Eyes (S3E3), New Day Rising (S3E4), & Follow The White Rabbit (S3E6).
There are also some iffy comments between a brother and sister in the first half of season 2. Additional iffy moment in Prisoners (S2E16) when a woman tries to seduce her step-sibling (not reciprocated, incest framed as disgusting).
The Son Of Gotham (S2E10), Better To Reign In Hell... (S3E1), & Smile Like You Mean It (S3E13). A child is nearly hit by a truck in Follow The White Rabbit (S3E6), but is saved.
The Fearsome Dr. Crane (S1E14), a character almost drowns but is saved and survives. Characters are implied to have drowned in Better To Reign In Hell... (S3E1)/Burn The Witch (S3E2) & The Gentle Art Of Making Enemies (S3E14), but they survive.
Blood is shown very often, though with varying levels of "realness". Gore not noted in other categories in The Anvil or The Hammer (S1E21), Mr. Freeze (S2E12), Smile Like You Mean It (S3E13)/The Gentle Art Of Making Enemies (S3E14), These Delicate And Dark Obsessions (S3E16), All Will Be Judged (S3E19)