Leslie Tompkins is a comic book character in the DC universe. Invented by Dennis O'Neill and Dick Giordano. Appears for the first time in visual short stories called Detective Comics.
Leslie Tompkins. Biography
Almost nothing is known about the early fate of Dr. Tompkins. In the comics, she appears as a person in adulthood. He is a close friend of Bruce Wayne's father, Thomas. She works in his clinic for low-income citizens. After Thomas and his wife are killed by a thief in front of her son in an attempt to remove the necklace, she and the butler Alfred begin to take care of little Bruce.
Bruce Wayne, growing up, turns into an asocial teenager who is obsessed with revenge for his murdered parents. Leslie is very concerned about this and is constantly trying to correct Bruce's worldview, convincing that revenge is a destructive feeling and does not give anything good to a person.
At a more mature age, Bruce Leslie Tompkins learns that he is that mysterious Batman. It makes her feel mixed. On the one hand, she is proud that Bruce Wayne is fighting crime, saving her hometown of Gotham from various disasters over and over again. On the other hand, she is concerned that he is risking his life.
In the main line of comics
In the comics, she is an example of a pacifist-minded person. Bruce Wayne even envies her and regrets that he cannot be as peaceful as Leslie.
The co-education of the young Bruce brings Leslie and Alfred together, and an affair begins between them. This happens when a teenager goes abroad, goes into a kind of hermitage, and the butler with Dr. Tompkins are left alone in a large estate. However, their romance does not last long, and after its completion, Leslie Tompkins decides to leave the estate so as not to see her ex-lover every day.
She opens a clinic in which she treats all patients who come to her. A poor man or a rich man, a murderer or a priest - all find help in her clinic, regardless of their occupation and beliefs. Even such a cruel character in the DC Comics universe as the killer Kroc, who met his enemy Zsas in the walls of her hospital, refuses to fight with him, thus showing respect for Dr. Tompkins and her hospital.
"Gotham Underground"
In addition to the main line of comics, Leslie appears in an alternative universe, a kind of comic mini-series called "Gotham Underground". In this mini-series, Nightwing saves her from trouble, but later it turns out that it was a hallucination created by Riddler.
Batman in "Gotham Underground" dies at the hands of Darkside, and the world is plunged into chaos. The real (not a hallucination) Leslie Tompkins decides to help those in need and opens her own clinic. She helps Robin and Betgerl stop the chaos that fell on Gotham.
James Gordon and Leslie Tompkins in the series "Gotham"
In the new series from Fox "Gotham," the role of Leslie is performed by the talented and attractive actress Morena Bakkarin. Here she is also a doctor, but not at all an elderly woman.
In Gotham, she helps the city police by collaborating with them as a medical expert. She does autopsies, examines crime scenes. Over time, she was hired by Arkham Hospital, where she met a young police officer, James Gordon, who was demoted after he failed the case.
As the story unfolds, the viewer learns that James Gordon is promoted and becomes a detective at the police station. Wanting to be near her husband, Leslie Tompkins gets a job in the same area where he works. She helps him to solve crimes, is the support and support to her husband. In the series, she is an example of a caring and sensitive wife.