Commissioner James Gordon
"We were in this together, and then you were gone. Now this evil rises. The Batman has to come back." ....only when he is needed. Gordon was the balance of
despair to Blake's hope. After Harvey Dent died, Gordon sacrificed his integrity to be crushed by the guilt of a cover up in order to do his job - protect Gotham. Storywise, as the head of police, he carries some weight in the detainment of criminals and the directing of the police into the sewers. One can even say he was a tool used to make mistakes in order to empower Bane. Once he finally got out of the hospital - with no sign of injury - he took the reigns back from Blake and became a tool for Batman. Gordon is a man of reason. Unlike Blake, he is first and foremost a protector of Gotham, not an allegory. He doesn't stand for something, he
is that something. The reveal of his corruption at the hands of Bane wasn't intended to give Gordon dimension, it was intended to give Bane dimension. Gordon was ridiculed by Blake for a minute....and that was it, he quickly returned as a plot device for Batman's use and the weight of his corruption was lifted. Importance In Story: 6.5/10 Effect Of Character: 3/10