Dawn of the Batman

***Dawn of the Batman*** is an American adult animated action-adventure-thriller superhero television series based on Batman by DC Comics, being developed by TBD. The series is produced by DC Entertainment, Warner Bros. Animation and William Street and it airs on Adult Swim (as part of its Toonami block) since October TBD, 2017.

## Synopsis

After taking up the mantle of the crime-fighting vigilante known as the Batman for nearly a year, billionaire Bruce Wayne continues his hunt for criminals and defending Gotham City from threats as he begin dealing with people seeing him as a hero.

## Cast & Characters

### Main

* **Bruce Wayne/Batman** (voiced by Steven Ogg) - a vigilant yet slightly paranoid billionaire who double his life as a crime-fighting vigilante out of protecting Gotham City from harm.

### Recurring

* **Alfred Pennyworth** (voiced by David Kaye) - Bruce's loyal but protective butler/surrogate father-figure who raised him since his parents' tragic passing as he wants to make sure that he is safe, although he doesn't cares with him of being the Batman.
* **Richard "Dick" Grayson/Nightwing** (voiced by Robbie Daymond) - a brave yet slightly sarcastic young man, in his late-teens, who was inspires by Batman's heroics to become a vigilante superhero out of protecting innocents and often help out Batman on several occasions.
* **Jason Todd/Robin** (voiced by Yuri Lowenthal) - a rebellious yet short-tempered teenager who was raised on the streets of Gotham where he end ups getting picked up by Batman and became his sidekick as he begin attempting of improving himself as a person.
* **Barbara "Barb" Gordon/Batgirl** (voiced by Ashley Johnson) - Jim's geeky yet surprisingly athletic daughter who is a fan of the Batman and ending ups became a heroine out of proving to her idol.
* **Ace the Bat-Hound** (vocal effects by Frank Welker) - a German Shephard dog who founded and pick up by Bruce where he soon became Batman's ally in his crusader.
* **Com. James "Jim" Gordon** (voiced by John DiMaggio) - an experienced police officer who became a ally to the Batman as he wants to make sure that Gotham is safe from harm, eventually becoming the new commissioner of the GPCD following Loeb's death.
	+ **Det. Harvey Bullock** (voiced by Clancy Brown) - a cynical police detective who is rather skeptical of Batman as he doesn't trust masked heroes but does know that Gotham wouldn't be safe without him as he formed an reluctant alliance with Batman.
	+ **Det. Renee Montoya** (voiced by Alanna Ubach) - a spunky police detective TBD
* **Lucius Fox** (voiced by Ernie Hudson) - the COO of Wayne Industries who help Bruce on his crusader by creating arsenal TBD
* **Sasha Bordeaux** (voiced by Claudia Black) - Bruce's stoic bodyguard who is dedicated of keeping him safe since he is the last of the Wayne family where she soon learn that he is the Batman.
* **Selina Kaye/Catwoman** (voiced by Olivia Olson) - a flirtatious and playful yet vigilant socialite who knew Bruce since childhood and moonlights as a cat burglar targeting those who she deem to be corrupt and gives to the poor, eventually forming an on/off-again relationship with Batman.
* **Katherine "Kate" Kane/Batwoman** (voiced by Tara Platt) - an seemingly cynical young woman who was inspires by Batman out of TBD
* **Lucas "Luke" Fox/Batwing** (voiced by Khary Payton) - Lucius' surprisingly studious son who TBD
* **Victoria "Vicki" Vale** (voiced by Erica Lindbeck) - a news reporter who is one of Gotham's best new reporters TBD
* **Dr. Leslie Thompkins** (voiced by Tress MacNeille) - a strict pacifistic psychologist and Bruce's godmother who was friend with his father, before he tragically passed away, as she believes that Bruce should help Gotham outside of being Batman.
* **Carrie Kelly** (voiced by Mae Whitman) - an fun-loving yet surprisingly sarcastic teenager and Barbara's friend who TBD
* **Thomas and Martha Wayne** (voiced by Robin Atkin Downes and Jennifer Hale, respectively) - Bruce's loving and caring parents who tragically died at the hand of a mugger, serving as an inspiration of why Bruce first became the Batman.

### Antagonists

* **The Joker** (voiced by Josh Keaton) - an mysterious yet insane psychopath who has a obsession with both spreading chaos and misery as he soon start developing an obsession with Batman, viewing him as a equal.
	+ **Dr. Harleen Quinzel/Harley Quinn** (voiced by Lacey Chabert) - a delusional former psychologist at Arkham who met and became the Joker's sidekick where she fall in love with him as she attempt of proving herself to him.
* **Oswald Cobblepot/Penguin** (voiced by Kyle Hebert) - a eccentric yet slightly disfigured mob boss who's attempt of ruling Gotham's criminal empire and bring back the Cobblepot family to its "righteous glory".
* **Harvey Dent/Two-Face** (voiced by Travis Willingham) - a distant attorney and Bruce's best friend whose half of his face were sacred by members of the Falcone crime family which causing him to develop a split personality in the form of a vigilante who's obsessed with both the number two and bringing balance in Gotham.
* **Prof. Hugo Strange** (voiced by Christopher Corey Smith) - a calm yet obsessive psychologist at Arkham who's obsessed with the mentally of Gotham's criminal underworld as he soon start to grows a obsession with Batman as he begin attempting of finding of what make him tick.
* **Edward Nashton/"Edward Nygma"/Riddler** (voiced by Roger Craig Smith) - a cocky yet near narcissistic former GCPD forensic analyzer who grows a obsession with Batman and end ups becoming a full-blown terrorist out of proving his intellectual superiority by trying to outsmart Batman.
* **Pamela Isley/Poison Ivy** (voiced by Cissy Jones) - a former botanist who became a full-blown eco-terrorist after a incident which causes her to turn half-plant and believing that humanity have outlived themselves and starting a new era for nature.
* **Dr. Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow** (voiced by Nolan North) - a disgraced psychologist who develop a gas that allow a person's worst fear to life as he now obsessed of spreading everyone fears to life.
* **Bane** (voiced by Matthew Mercer) - a brutal and menacing yet surprisingly calculating mercenary who was born and raised in the prison know as Santa Prisca and is hooked up on a superpowered drug know as Venom as he soon becomes obsessed with Batman, who he views him as a equal rival.
* **Dr. Kirk Langstrom/Man-Bat** (voiced by Rino Romano) - a troubled geneticist and scientist who try to uncovering a cure for cancer but end ups transform into a mutated bat-like creature where he attempt of not hurt or kill anyone.
* **Dr. Victor Fries/Mr. Freeze** (voiced by Tom Kenny) - a cold and tragic former scientist at GothCorp who attempt of curing his wife's illness but end ups caught in a accident, eventually leaving him wearing a suit and wielding a freeze gun, where he now obsessed with finding a cure for his wife's illness.
* **Waylon Jones/Killer Croc** (voiced by Jess Harnell) - an outcast of society who was born with a genetic mutation which make him look a crocodile as he soon became a dangerous criminal.
* **Basil Karlo/Clayface** (voiced by Dan Castellaneta) - a deranged yet near narcissistic former movie star who transform into living clay which allow him to transform into anyone as he became a near deranged criminal obsessed of getting back in the limelight.
* **Ra's al Ghul** (voiced by Paul St. Peter) - the vicious yet manipulating head leader of the League of Assassins who's attempt of making Batman his heir and restoring the world back to its primordial era.
	+ **Talia al Ghul** (voiced by Grey Griffin) - Ra's' daughter and a member of the League of Assassins who is loyal to her father and has formed an complicated relationship with Batman.
* **Carmine Falcone** (voiced by Steven Weber) - a intimidating mob boss who have most of Gotham City under his pocket as he believes himself that he kept order in Gotham City until he soon end ups meting his demise at the hands of Two-Face.
	+ **Alberto Falcone/Owlman** (voiced by Jason Spisak) - Carmine's highly ambitious son whose attempt of gaining his father's approval by running his criminal empire until, following his father's death, he end ups became a owl-themed criminal out of ruling Gotham's criminal underworld and killing Batman, believing it as a way of honoring his father's death.
	+ **Gillian Loeb** (voiced by Christopher MacDonald) - the morally corrupted police commissioner of the GCPD and Carmine's right-hand man who ran the GCPD with an ruthless iron fist and later killed by Two-Face.
* **Roman Sionis/Black Mask** (voiced by Rick D. Wasserman) - a charming and charismatic yet vicious mob boss who has a obsession with masks and believing that everyone is hiding under a false face as he form and lead the False-Face Society out of showing Gotham City its "true face".
* **Garfield Lynns/Firefly** (voiced by Dee Bradley Baker) - a former firefighter who end ups developing pyromania as he became a psychotic pyromaniac out of watching all of Gotham burn into ashes.
* **Jervis Tetch/Mad Hatter** (voiced by Richard Steven Horvitz) - a flamboyant yet mad former scientist at Wayne Industries who became a criminal out of *Alice's Adventure in Wonderland* TBD
* **Victor Zsasz** (voiced by Sam Witwer) - an nightmarish yet misanthropic serial killer who despises humanity, viewing them as unworthy of living in the world, as he want them all to die.
* **Margaret Pye/Magpie** (voiced by Kari Wahlgren) - a mentally ill young thief who is bird-like in her movement and has a obsession with everything shiny as she also end ups forming a rivalry with Catwoman.
* **Lazlo Valentin/Professor Pyg** (voiced by Liam O'Brien) - a mentally deranged scientist who views everyone as imperfect where he attempt of turning everyone into "Dollotrons" and begin his goal of perfecting everyone into their most perfect selves.
* **Lonnie Machin/Anarky** (voiced by James Arnold Taylor) - a deranged yet youthful anarchist who believes the government is the source of Gotham being corrupt as he attempt of overthrowing them where he soon form and lead the Children of Anarky, an anarchist terrorist group, in order to gives him a fighting chance.
* **Floyd Lawton/Deadshot** (voiced by Gideon Emery) - a mercenary who claim himself to be one of the world's greatest marksman where he soon grows a obsession with killing Batman, who made him miss.
* **Dr. Karl Hellfern/Doctor Death** (voiced by Andre Sogluzzio) - a mad scientist and one of Batman's first supervillains who's a former scientist at Wayne Industries TBD
* **Niccolai Tepes/Mad Monk** (voiced by Kevin Conroy) - a mysterious yet near immortal vampire-like occultist who worship a bat-like entity know as Barbatos and using dark arts in order to it as he also believes Batman of disgracing Barbatos' "image" and attempting of killing him.
	+ **Dala** (voiced by Linda Cardellini) - a seductive yet mysterious woman who believes to be the offspring of Barbatos as she attempt of helping the Mad Monk archiving with his goals while also developing an unrequited love for Batman.
* **Arnold Wesker/Ventriloquist and Scarface** (voiced by Jeff Bennett) - an mild-mannered ventriloquist who suffering from a split personality which manifesting onto a dummy know as Scarface, whose begin seeing himself as a mob boss out of ruling Gotham's criminal empire.
* **Eric Needham/Black Spider** (voiced by Phil LaMarr) - a determined and ambitious vigilante who target drug dealers, after losing his younger brother to them, as he wants to make sure that anyone else doesn't fall into any drug dealers while also attempt of wiping them out of the planet.
* **Elliot Cladwell/Wraith** (voiced by Michael Rosenbaum) - a near psychotic young man who believes that Batman is unworthy of calling himself a hero and that he doesn't go far enough of crime fighting, becoming a brutal yet violent vigilante which he begin believing himself to be the hero that Gotham truly deserves.
* **Drury Walker/Killer Moth** (voiced by Lex Lang) - a eccentric yet highly flamboyant criminal who begin viewing himself as the "Batman for criminals" as he begin attempting of proving himself in the city's criminal underworld.
* **Charles "Chuck" Brown/Kite-Man** (voiced by Billy West) - an slightly bumbling criminal who try to proves himself of becoming one of Gotham's greatest criminals by using kite as his motif in order to commit crimes but, despite his slightly bumbling nature, is somewhat resourceful on several occasions.
* **Spellbinder** (voiced by Thom Adcox-Hernandez) - an mysterious yet somewhat extremely eccentric occultist who attempt of ruling Gotham by tapping in the occult and studying the magic arts of sorts in order to do it.

## Episodes

*See List of Dawn of the Batman episodes*.