Barbara Kean (Gotham)

Barbara Kean (Erin Richards) is a former art gallery owner in Gotham City's Art District and the ex-fiancée of Jim Gordon. She was a former inmate at Arkham Asylum and a former member of The Maniax.

Personality

Barbara initially is kind, caring, selfless, and has a moral compass. She risked her own life to save Jim, by going to Carmine Falcone and pleading for Jim's life. She has an addictive personality, as she is shown to have been addicted to alcohol and drugs in the past. She ended her relationship with Jim Gordon, because she did not feel that he included her in his life; and he did not provide emotional support for her after she was held captive by Carmine, as well as the fact that she is afraid of being around the dangers that Jim brings as a police detective. Upon leaving she resumes a relationship with Renee Montoya, who breaks up with her because Barbara has relapsed into abusing drugs. She goes to see Jim at the police precinct but finds him kissing Leslie, and flees. After she was forced to kill her parents by Jason Skolimski, aka the Ogre, Barbara had a psychotic break. She tells Leslie that she killed her own parents, attacks Leslie and tries to kill her with a knife - presumably because Leslie is now Jim's girlfriend. After Barbara comes out of her coma, she apparently has guilt and remorse for her actions, and is apparently horrified at what she had become/done. Although she claimed she was sane after being released from Arkham, she seemed to suffer another psychotic break after Jim rejected her.

Trivia

• Erin Richards also appeared on Crossing Lines as evil femme fatale Nicole Ryan.

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