James Gordon

## Commissioner James "Jim" Gordon

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"The Rules Aren't Weapons Anymore, They're Shackles Letting The Bad Guy Get Ahead." - James Gordon

## History

### Early Life

James Gordon grew up in Gotham from Scottish descent, his parents, Peter and Julia Gordon. As a kid he was interested in the police force, wanting to be a detective and setting up many play agencies as a kid. Despite Gordon’s brilliant mind in childhood, he was picked on by the bigger kids for his fascination in detective work, though, this wasn’t a frequent thing, just a once in a blue moon thing, still, this grew Gordon’s endurance with threats and the occasional punch

Due to the infrequent bullying, James started learning how to fight with his father, His father teaching him all he knew, being a military man. When James grew older, his father suggested many times that he should join the military, like he himself did, after a year of requests James Gordon agreed to join the Marines at age 19.

### There and then gone

James Gordon served in the marines for four years before leaving to pursue his own path with something he would much rather do, leaving the U.S. Marines to return to Gotham, settling down with an apartment and getting to know one Barbara Keane, who he later had a child with.

While James took a few days' absence at the G.C.P.D to be with Barbara and their new child, Barbara Gordon, named after her mother, though he returned to work sooner than he would have liked due to an ongoing case taking a new lead. Being partnered up with Detective Harvey Bullock to investigate.

All was well in James’ life until one night, Barbara Keane didn’t return home and she never would again, leaving James left alone with his daughter, Barbara Gordon. At first James kept a positive mind that Barbara Keane would come back, though after a few months, he started to believe that it might not be true, and then after a few more months, he gave up.

James Gordon took a well needed leave of absence from the G.C.P.D. On this leave, Gordon worked on maintaining his mental health while caring for his child, who was going through a much worse stage of grief, comforting her along the way, teaching and letting her pursue self-defense classes and helping her get hired as an IT intern at Wayne Enterprise.

James Gordon left the G.C.P.D with sadness from his colleagues, but came back with happiness and hope, recently before he came back, the old Commissioner, Commissioner Loeb, Gordon was endorsed and recommended the position, which he gained in a short period of time.

### Rise of The Batman

Around this time is when The Batman started making his appearances in Gotham more wide spread, Gordon immediately found interest in this, trying to work his way to meet the man, who, he originally found as a cold vigilante who needed to be stopped, but quickly grew admiration for the man after seeing him and his outcomes, instantly noting on the fact that The Batman had never killed once in his short time of his vigilante justice.

It wouldn’t take long for the two of them to meet up and develop a small partnership together, they would share their findings on cases and that he would never take any piece of evidence from a scene or the G.C.P.D, though they quickly outgrew this small partnership and Gordon started to let the vigilante take some items from the crime scene, with his permission, however, even offering him to contact the G.C.P.D. when they found something, and vice-versa.

Despite the public’s original hate of The Batman Gordon and a few others that trusted him, started to tell the public to trust him more, eventually the public caved in more, allowing James and the vigilante to work together and make The Bat-Signal, a light that projected a symbol of a bat into the sky to alert The Batman that Gordon needed him.