Gotham City (Earth-1)


 * For Gotham on Earth Thirty-Eight, see Gotham (Earth Thirty-Eight).

"Has Bruce Wayne left Gotham to hang out in Star City recently? No."

- Oliver Queen

Gotham City, simply known as Gotham, is a major city in the United States. One of the main economic centers within the country, the metropoly is home to several important businesses and corporations such as Wayne Enterprises, despite being deeply rife with poverty, corruption and crime to the point that is known to have one of the contry's highest crime rates and is considered sort of a "ghost city" that nobody ever talks about. It is mentioned to have a population of 576,000 people.

Business

 * Wayne Enterprises: After Bruce Wayne left Gotham, his board of directors were presumably scammed by get-rich-quick deals, causing the company to go bankrupt. Bruce Wayne's cousin, Kate Kane, saw this opportunity to develop the building into a real-estate firm.
 * GC Jitters: A café located in Gotham City.

Crime
Gotham City is widely notorious as a breeding ground of crime, especially when Batman mysteriously disappeared in around 2015. According to Kate Kane, Batman's absence made the residents of Gotham go through five different kinds of hell. This was evident when five men claiming to be from the Gotham Tourism Bureau tried to mug Oliver, Barry, and Kara.
 * Arkham Asylum: A psychiatric asylum "for the criminally insane", Arkham Asylum is where criminals suffering from mental illnesses are incarcerated, presumably because most of the patients are considered to be very dangerous. Some patients admitted to the asylum are presumably meta-humans, as shown when Kara successfully sneaked inside when Caitlin Snow showed her cryogenic powers to a nurse, who then stated that there are others with cases similar to hers.

Vigilantism
Gotham is known to have registrated the first case of vigilantism ever in the figure of Batman a brutal individual who dressed like a bat fighted against evil and striked terror into the hearts of criminals everywhere. Altough his very existence has always sparked debate, with many arguing he was created by the Gotham City Police Department to instill fear in criminals. The mysterious figure however disappeared sometime around 2015 and, sinc then, the equally mysterious Batwoman has taken his place.

History
Bruce Wayne lived in Gotham until 2015. This is the same time that Batman had left. After surviving the explosion on Lian Yu, Talia al Ghul went to Gotham to pay an old foe a visit which had her land in Slabside Prison.

Due to Batman's absence, Kate Kane became the new vigilante of Gotham City known as "Batwoman".

Current residants

 * Kate Kane
 * Arkham Asylum nurse
 * Arkham Asylum orderly
 * Nora Fries

Incarcerated residants

 * O. Cobblepot
 * P. Isley
 * B. Karlo
 * E. Nigma
 * M. Guggenheim
 * Roger Hayden/Psycho Pirate
 * S. Kyle
 * J. Crane
 * Victor Fries
 * John Deegan

Former residants

 * Bruce Wayne
 * Batman

Known visitors

 * Talia al Ghul
 * Mar Novu
 * Oliver Queen
 * Barry Allen
 * John Diggle
 * Caitlin Snow
 * Cisco Ramon
 * Cisco Ramon

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Behind the scenes

 * In DC comics, Gotham City is better known as the home of the hero Batman. Gotham City is located in the Northeastern United States, in close proximity to Metropolis, with the majority of DC comics references placing Gotham City specifically in New Jersey.
 * The filming og Gotham in Elseworlds takes place in Chicago.