He's the hero Gotham deserves...but he hasn't been made yet.

One thing I do have to admire about Batman is that, mostly (and that's a term that should be used given the abundance of media out there about him and every other superhero in the multiverse of DC/Marvel/WhateverTheComic) he's portrayed as the type of hero that doesn't kill his opposition. Though again, mostly, a lot of his adversaries can wind up brutally smacked down, especially the henchmen (see: every single entry in the Arkham game series).
But for at least the headliners, Batman always tries to land his antagonists behind bars using his skills and gadgets. Unfortunately, one could say that this near-continual cycle of them always getting loose some way or another would push other heroes to just end the threat. But, as his dark persona goes, Batman continues to spare the rod, despite his adversary's goals, and even from some of his allies. While he did have a fortune to back him up (lets face it, that's a biggy contribution), Batman tries to keep to his morals of doing the right thing, and even in circumstance when a long-time enemy of his dies, he's not particularly joyful about it.

While Batman's origin is probably certainly in the comics, and has been touched upon in the Dark Knight trilogy, we hadn't yet gotten a deeper look into the days before Batman...well...became Batman. It's always been just when he's getting started, not the time before when he was just a boy who lost his parents. We don't get to see, along with him, the origins of his antagonists develop along with him, and the steps that led him to becoming a hero.

Enter the series named for one of the craziest cities in all of comic-bookdum....Gotham.

The story begins shortly after the death of Bruce Wayne's parents. But wait---get this---it's not a flashback! Nor is it a little blip that we're going to flash forward from. Nope, we're staying this time, and we're going to see how Gotham is and grows before Bruce ever even touched a cowl.
The plot mainly follows recent transfer James Gordon, a future police commissioner who would one day be accepting of, and assisting, Batman down the line. Now though, he's a somewhat-naive believer in justice...in a city where justice is a crooked scale weighed down by crime and deciet.
With Batman yet to come, it's up to the GCPD, Harvey Bullock, and Gordon's viewpoint of justice to reign in the chaotic world that is Gotham. Contending with a few to-be-antagonists any Batman an knows, Gordon mainly deals with newcomer Fish Mooney and the crime lord Carmine Falcone. From there, we deal with a psychotic mayor, Hugo Strange's experiments to bring the dead to life, the mysterious Court of Owls, and a corrupt-cop-killer, Pyg. That and more in the four seasons so far of this gripping series.

One thing I love about the show is that while Gordon is essentially where most of the story surrounds itself, with Bruce as a secondary...the other mains of the cast are actually the beginnings of some of Batman's future antagonists. And, it seems, they all get a fair enough of the screen time to develop themselves more. away from simple obstacles. I always find it interesting to learn the origins of a so-called "villain", mainly to see what their reasons might be for doing the things they do. And we see these begin at decent points the moment they're introduced. From Penguin's rise as a stooge to a series-created nightclub owner, Fish Mooney, to kingpin and mayor. From Edward Nygma's descent from quirky analyst to riddle-making mastermind. And even the beginnings of Bruce being tampered with by the vision of Ra's al Ghul's intentions.
Of course Bruce himself goes through changes as well, from the uncertain boy who had lost his parents to a confident young man who begins the start of the journey that would eventually form him into one of the greatest heroes in the world. And on the side, we get to see his developing relationship with Selina Kyle, the survivalist who would eventually become Batman's...complicated female adversary.

Overall, Gotham has continued to improve and bulk itself over it's multiple seasons, but sadly will be closing down and saying a farewell for Season 5, which is just beginning. And oh boy, is it going to be getting wild. With Gotham in a state of pure mayhem, several deaths and betrayals, and the city cut off...things are looking grim. And it's in moments like these that heroes would step forward....

....what? Us? Are you kidding?! That place is CRAZY! It was literally RUN by crazies at some point! Honestly who would WANT to live in that place!?
....then again, not like New York doesn't get alien invasions during every Monday morning commute....huih....
Anyway, me and Rigel stopped in at a....less chaotic simulation in the GCPD...though that was year or more ago and didn't really get it to it, but since the final season of Gotham is upon, I figured, what the hey...might as well. Jeez, the camera made our eyes bug out...either that, or we had seen something really horrific, which in Gotham is pretty much daily...