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It’s been a moment five years in the making: Batman will finally arrive in Gotham City on the series finale of FOX’s Gotham. The episode, titled “The Beginning…” doesn’t air until Thursday, April 25, but with the penultimate episode finishing off the “current” era of Gotham in style, it’s time to jump forward 10 years to the era of The Dark Knight.
Spoilers for tonight’s Gotham past this point, but Bruce Wayne (David Mazouz) left Gotham City at the end of “They Did What?” In comics continuity, he spends the next decade training his body and mind until he can become the hero Gotham deserves: Batman. That’s where we pick up in the finale, with Bruce returned, and his superhero alter-ego along for the ride.
Well, sort of. Since Mazouz is still only 18 years old, he’ll portray the voice of Batman, and the face in close-ups. Otherwise, a larger man was used for the wide shots, to show a bulked out Dark Knight.
But where there’s Batman, there’s — of course — The Joker. Or at least Gotham‘s version of The Joker, Jeremiah Valeska (Cameron Monaghan). We got a glimpse of Jeremiah’s final version of the proto-Joker in an earlier teaser trailer, a horrific version of the classic villain with a horribly scarred face, wisps of scraggly hair, and a rictus smile on his face. After versions of the character inspired by the old, Adam West TV show and calmer comics, this seems to pull more from Arkham Asylum, both the video games and the classic graphic novel by Grant Morrison and Dave McKean.
We also get glimpses of the rest of our surviving cast-members, including Harvey Bullock (Donal Logue), Alfred (Sean Pertwee), and Commissioner James Gordon (Ben McKenzie) who had a decade and still couldn’t bother to grow a goddamn mustache. The trick the finale is going to have to pull off is somehow wrapping up the stories of these characters on the show, while leaving things open; since the point of Gotham is that it’s the beginning of Batman and these villains, not the end.
We’ll find out how well they did when it all goes down next Thursday. Same bat time, same bat place.
