| “ | There's a point, far out there, where the rules aren't weapons anymore - they're shackles, helping the bad guys get ahead. Someday, you may face such a moment of crisis. And when that moment comes, I hope you have a friend like I did - who plunges his hands into the filth so you can keep yours clean. | „ |
| ~ Jim Gordon's most famous monologue. |
Commissioner James "Jim" Gordon Sr. is the tritagonist of Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy.
He is an officer within the Gotham City Police Department, renowned for being one of the few who weren't corrupt, and later become Commissioner. He works with Batman to eradicate crime from Gotham City.
He is portrayed by Gary Oldman.
What Makes Him Pure Good?[]
- When a child Bruce Wayne is in police custody after his parents were murdered at the hands of Joe chill, he provides Bruce comfort by putting his coat on his shoulders and assuring him he will be okay.
- As revealed in The Dark Knight Rises the impact this had on young Bruce Wayne turned out to be significant too, as he grew to idolize Gordon for doing this. Indicating that this helped shape Bruce Wayne into the hero he became.
- He continues to serve in the GCPD for years while many of the cops were corrupt, refusing to let himself be corrupt as well, and berating Flass for doing so.
- He defends Batman's actions for incapacitating Carmine Falcone for the police to arrest him, to Comissioner Loeb, who insists that no vigilante should take the law into their own hands.
- He assists Batman in rescuing Rachel Dawes from Scarecrow, who had just poisoned her with fear toxin, allowing him to carry her out of Arkham Asylum.
- He saves two teenagers from getting shot by Arnold Flass, while all three were under the influence of fear toxin.
- He helps Batman stop Ra's al Ghul by blowing up the train route towards Wayne Tower, blocking the microwave emitter from evaporating Gotham's water supply and spreading the fear toxin on a massive scale.
- During Commissioner Loeb's memorial, he saves Mayor Garcia from getting assassinated by taking the bullet whilst wearing a bulletproof vest.
- After saving Garcia, he fakes his death to save Batman and Harvey Dent from the Joker during a chase sequence.
- He protects Coleman Reese, who the Joker placed a bounty on by threatening the lives of hospital inhabitants.
- While he ignored Harvey Dent's advice about working with corrupt officials in his unit, it is only because he has limited reliable officers considering the GCPD as a whole is still corrupt, as well as the fact that he wanted to focus on wiping out the mob.
- He didn't mean to cause Rachel's death, despite the fact that he made some bad decisions which he regretted in later on (not to mention that he never knew at first that the Joker had purposefully misled Batman into saving Harvey instead of her, and that Gordon never got there in time to save Rachel from being killed by the explosion).
- Once he got to the building which had exploded instantly, believing that Harvey was in there, he tried to run towards it in attempts to save him before being physically held back by surrounding police officers (though he didn't know at the time it wasn't Harvey inside but Rachel instead, considering the Joker had revealed but lied and switched their true locations, it's still admirable for trying to save someone else as an honorable cop).
- While Gordon did briefly threaten Batman at gunpoint before the latter jumped off a building to rescue the hostages and stop the Joker, it was only out of intense desperation, as he wanted to save the hostages and Harvey, whom he genuinely assumed was held hostage, before realizing that he had actually kidnapped his entire family.
- He (and Batman) tried to convince Harvey that he was sorry for not getting Rachel to safety and begs him not to punish his son, as he offered himself to be punished instead.
- After Harvey shot Batman, he expressed horror assuming that his ally had died from the gunshot, though Batman survived thanks to his bulletproof armor.
- When Batman saves his son, Gordon thanks him, and when Batman insists that Gordon doesn't need to thank him, he reiterates that he does.
- He reluctantly agrees to pin Two-Face's crimes on Batman to maintain hope in Gotham and to keep the prosecuted mob in prison, at the cost of his marriage.
- He feels incredibly guilty over forcing Batman to bear the weight of Harvey Dent's crimes. This guilt eventually drives him to attempt to publicly reveal the truth about Batman, but he reluctantly decides against it in order to preserve the eight years of hard-earned peace in Gotham.
- He works as the Police Commissioner for eight years, keeping Gotham free of crime.
- He rewards John Blake for his initiative by promoting him to detective.
- After Bane takes over Gotham, he leads the resistance group formed to retake Gotham for several months. His words also have an effect on Peter Foley, who while earlier not willing to save Gotham, took part in the effort for liberation of Gotham.
- After Batman returns to Gotham, he assists in blocking the detonator signal to the nuclear bomb.
- Doesn't reveal Batman's true identity even after he was deceased (supposedly), to honor Bruce Wayne and his sacrifice for the city.
Trivia[]
- This is the only version of DC's Jim Gordon to be Pure Good.
- Gary Oldman has previously played a fellow official from another action-based production, that being Norman Stansfield from Léon: The Professional, who is ironically a Pure Evil.
External Links[]
- James Gordon on the Heroes Wiki
- James Gordon on the Batman Wiki
- James Gordon on the DC Database Wiki
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