Gotham's season 2 promises a full-scale war as its embattled cops led by the idealistic, Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie), fight to contain a rising wave of more dangerous villains, such as a more power-hungry Penguin (Robin Taylor Lord), a resurrected Joker, and the secretive, scheming Dr. Strange who is the puppet-master pulling everyone's strings.
According to Christian Today, showrunner Bruce Heller says that Penguin's emotional and mental instability, triggered by Galavan's (James Frain) mother, will get worse and even tilt him to the point of insanity. Penguin's power hunger will degenerate into an even stronger blood lust, and he will stop at nothing to become Gotham's number one crime lord.
Another madman will return to torment Gotham, and McKenzie hints that the deranged but dead Jerome will find a second lease on his unhappy life. Many fans believe that Jerome, with the creepy smile and love for chaos, is the young incarnation of Batman's ultimate arch-enemy, the Joker. Latino's Health reports McKenzie as saying that nobody truly ever stays dead in Gotham.
Orchestrating this explosion of madness is Dr. Strange, played by B.D. Wong. The comics pictures Strange as a manipulative psychiastrist who can bend will and shape minds. In this Gotham, he might be the only one who has the knowledge and the skill to push people's buttons to get them to do what he wants. International Business Times cobbles up from years of Batman comics to come up with a composite of Strange: he is both a madman and a genius who is a natural in teaming up with his fellow supervillains. Finding a warm welcome in Gotham, he will start with an alliance with Penguin, "making a man out of him," according to Heller.
Gotham Season 2 returns to Fox this February.
