Gotham Fish Brought Back to Life Then Dies Again
| Fish Mooney | |
|---|---|
| Gotham character | |
 Jada Pinkett Smith as Fish Mooney | |
| First appearance | "Pilot" September 22, 2014 |
| Terminal appearance | "Destiny Calling" June five, 2017 |
| Created by | Bruno Heller |
| Portrayed by | Jada Pinkett Smith |
| In-universe data | |
| Full name | Maria Mercedes Mooney |
| Nickname | Fish |
| Gender | Female |
| Nationality | American |
Maria Mercedes "Fish" Mooney is a fictional graphic symbol created by producer and screenwriter Bruno Heller exclusively for the television series Gotham, and played past actress Jada Pinkett Smith.
Development [edit]
Pinkett-Smith drew inspiration from various different individuals for taking on the role: the fictional graphic symbol Norma Desmond from the 1950 motion-picture show Dusk Boulevard, played past Gloria Swanson; and Griselda Blanco, a real-life drug lord of the Medellín Cartel.[ane]
Fictional character biography [edit]
Season 1 [edit]
Fish Mooney is mob dominate Carmine Falcone'due south well-nigh trusted lieutenant. Unbeknownst to Falcone, Fish is plotting to usurp his criminal empire, and employs a young woman named Liza, who resembles Falcone's late mother, to distract the lonely, aging mafia chieftain while Fish undermines his control of Gotham Urban center. She has good relations with the Gotham City Police Department, and decides to aid detective Harvey Bullock in investigating the murder of Thomas and Martha Wayne in return for him leaving her alone. When her underling Oswald Cobblepot informs on her to the GCPD, she hobbles him - giving him his trademark "penguin walk" - and orders him killed along with Bullock and his new partner, Jim Gordon. Falcone intervenes, however, and spares their lives. Cobblepot gradually works his style up the ladder of Gotham'due south underworld to go the correct-manus homo of both Falcone and his rival Sal Maroni, and gets revenge on Fish by revealing her treachery to Falcone. Injure and angered by Fish's betrayal, Falcone has her and Butch tortured, however Butch escapes custody and frees Fish. Wanting revenge against Penguin, she goes to her sometime gild to find him there and proceeds to beat him. Before she can do much harm she and Butch are pursued past Zsasz and his crew. Butch helps her escape while staying behind to fend them off to purchase her time. Harvey meets up with her later that dark and helps her flee from Gotham City.
However, she is captured again by unknown peoples and wakes to observe herself held prisoner in a large basement surface area with other random abductees, many of whom have been at that place for years. She learns that they are kept as "spare parts" by the man who owns the large estate and his security staff, with dissimilar prisoners being selected by the guards every few days, taken away, and returning (if at all) with missing body parts. Fish takes control of the basement and organizes a resistance by promising she'll be able to salvage "some" of them (merely not all). She forces a meeting with the homo in charge, Francis Dulmacher, a mad scientist who is running a blackmarket organ transplant farm and recreationally creating human monsters out of his victims' body parts. When Dulmacher tells her he is going to remove her optics, she gouges out her own eye with a spoon and then he tin't employ it in his experiments or sell it. Impressed by her resolve he offers a risk to prove her value as a go-between for himself and the prisoners in the basement, promising her condom equally long as the supply of body parts isn't interrupted once more. She uses this position to prepare an escape and, past sacrificing some of the detainees who had previously been bullying and abusing the weaker prisoners, she uses the ensuing anarchy to escape with the residual and return to Gotham with a minor ring of devoted followers.
In the last episode of the get-go flavor, "All Happy Families Are Alike", Fish recruits the young Selina Kyle into her gang, and makes an brotherhood with Maroni in gild to become rid of Falcone. Fish captures Falcone, Cobblepot, Gordon and Bullock. Fish reveals Cobblepot's treachery to Maroni in exchange for an understanding to divide the urban center between them. When Maroni reveals that he intends to rule the metropolis with Fish as his lieutenant and treats her with sexist condescension, Fish loses her atmosphere and shoots him in the head. An all-out gang war ensues between Fish and Maroni's forces, during which Cobblepot fights her on a rooftop and pushes her into the river beneath.[2]
Season 2 [edit]
During the 2d flavour we encounter that Fish'due south corpse has been sent to Indian Loma, a scientific sectionalization of Wayne Enterprises run past Hugo Strange, who brings her back to life augmented with cuttlefish DNA. The side-effects of the revival gives Fish the ability to take command of anyone who comes in contact with her. She escapes and runs across Cobblepot, who since her death has taken over Gotham's criminal underworld as "The Penguin". Shocked, he passes out.[2] [ failed verification ]
Season iii [edit]
Soon after her rebirth, Fish starts going into rapid concrete decline, and raids every pharmacy in Gotham for drugs to continue herself alive. She forms a new gang with her fellow Indian Loma escapees. She interrogates Strange'due south assistant Ethel Peabody, who tells her that her body is rejecting the cells Strange implanted in her, and that just Strange can save her. Fish has her fellow escapee Marv, who tin can advance or tedious a person's metabolism, deplete the energy from Peabody'southward cells, literally stealing her life.
Fish frees Foreign, intent on making him create more mutants to practise her bidding. By so, notwithstanding, Cobblepot has clustered an angry mob of Gothamites aptitude on killing the mutants. When Cobblepot has her at his mercy, Fish says she is proud of having transformed him into "The Penguin". Moved, Cobblepot tells her to leave Gotham and never come up back. Later, when Gotham is in chaos from the furnishings of a homicidal mania-inducing virus, Fish joins forces with Cobblepot and Strange to create an antidote and hold the city to ransom. An infected Gordon shows up and attacks Mooney, accidentally impaling her with a sword and destroying the antidote. With her dying breath, Fish tells Cobblepot to either have Gotham for his own or burn it to the ground.
Powers and abilities [edit]
After her resurrection by Hugo Strange near the finish of season two of Gotham, Mooney develops the ability to control people with just a touch of her hand.[3]
References [edit]
- ^ Cutter, Jacqueline (September 22, 2014). "'Gotham': Jada Pinkett Smith'due south Fish Mooney part Norma Desmond, office assassinated drug lord". screenertv.com . Retrieved Apr 9, 2018.
- ^ a b Ausiello, Michael (January 29, 2016). "Jada Pinkett Smith Sets Gotham Return". TVLine . Retrieved January xiii, 2018.
- ^ Bucksbaum, Sydney (May 16, 2016). "Gotham Recap: Something Fishy This Way Comes". Nerdist. Archived from the original on March twenty, 2017. Retrieved March 20, 2017.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_Mooney