5. Owls > Bats
Because owls aren't scary enough, with their soulless eyes and Linda Blair-esque head mannerisms, they also eat bats. Yes, a rat that has wings and sucks blood and is so upsetting that if it were to land in your hair, you would move like a person possessed and instantly wish that you were never born, is merely fodder for owls. You can see how this would suck for Bruce Wayne. In fact, with the Court having lived in the shadows of Gotham for centuries, they tie in explicitly to why Bruce Wayne decides that spending millions to beat up bad guys in a bat suit is more effective therapy than, you know, actual therapy. In the comics, Bruce Wayne, desperate for answers, gets it in his head that the Court of Owls were the ones who hired Joe Chill to murder his parents. This culminates in Bruce believing that Gotham's boogeymen sent an omen to him in the guise of a nest of owls living in the manor rooftop. Bruce murders the owls, because f*** owls, especially if they're not paying rent. Gotham could have this moment play out exactly as it was in the comics, with Bruce finding out about the myth of the Court and going about trying to unravel their mysteries. Looking further into his family's history, Bruce will research the death of his great grandfather, Alan Wayne, a man who was largely responsible for the creation of Gotham city itself and find that Alan had become obsessed with owls, making him the most sympathetic fictional character in history. Bruce, continuing to hone his detective skills, will investigate the buildings built by a trust established by Alan and finds numerous Owl 'nests', learning that the accidental death of his great grandfather was actually murder. In the twenties, Wayne believed himself to be targeted by the Court, driven insane by the thought that a Talon was coming for him. It turns out that Wayne intuition is genetic, because Alan ends up in the sewers, attacked, tortured and disposed of. With this revelation, the show has the chance to build on the Wayne family history and directly tie it into the Court, keeping Bruce involved in the story without making it feel shoe-horned in.