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Leslie Tompkins is a character from DC comics. Designed by Dennis O'Neill and Dick Giordano. Appears for the first time in visual novels called Detective Comics.
Leslie Tompkins. Biography
On the early fate of Dr. Tompkins almost nothing is known. In the comics, she appears as a person already in adulthood. He is close friends with Bruce Wayne's father, Thomas. She works in his clinic for low-income citizens. After Thomas and his wife are killed in front of their son by a thief in an attempt to steal the necklace, she and her butler Alfred take care of little Bruce.
Bruce Wayne, growing up, turns into an asocial teenager who is obsessed with a thirst for 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 nothing good for a person.
As Bruce Leslie Thompkins comes of age, he learns that he is the mysterious Batman. This gives her mixed feelings. On the one hand, she feels a sense of pride that Bruce Wayne fights crime,saving over and over again his hometown of Gotham from various disasters. On the other hand, she is worried that he is risking his life.
In the main line of comics
In the comics, she is an example of a pacifist person. Bruce Wayne is even jealous of her and regrets that he cannot be the same peace-loving person as Leslie.
The joint upbringing of young Bruce brings Leslie and Alfred closer, and a romance develops between them. This happens when a teenager goes abroad, goes into a kind of hermitage, and the butler and Dr. Tompkins are left alone in a large estate. However, their romance does not last long, and after it ends, Leslie Tompkins decides to leave the estate so as not to see her ex-lover every day.
She opens a clinic where she treats all the patients who come to her. Poor or rich, murderer or priest - everyone finds help in her clinic, regardless of their occupations and beliefs. Even such a cruel character of the DC Comics universe as killer Croc, who met his enemy Zsas within the walls of her hospital, refuses to fight him, thus showing respect for Dr. Tompkins and her hospital.
Gotham Underground
In addition to the main line of comics, Leslie appears in an alternate universe, a kind of comic book mini-series called "Gotham Underground". In this mini-series, Nightwing saves her from trouble, but it is later revealed that it was a hallucination created by the Riddler.
Batman inThe Gotham Underground dies at the hands of Darkseid, and the world is thrown into chaos. The real (not a hallucination) Leslie Tompkins decides to help those in need and opens her own clinic. She helps Robin and Batgirl stop the chaos that has befallen Gotham.
James Gordon and Leslie Tompkins in Gotham
In the new series from Fox company "Gotham" the role of Leslie is performed by the talented and attractive actress Morena Baccarin. Here she is also a doctor, but not an old woman at all.
In Gotham, she helps the city's police force by cooperating with them as a medical examiner. She does autopsies, examines crime scenes. Over time, she is hired at Arkham Asylum, where she meets young police officer James Gordon, who was demoted after failing a case.
As the story unfolds, the viewer learns that James Gordon is being promoted to become a detective at the police station. Wanting to be close to her husband, Leslie Tompkins gets a job at the same station where he works. She helps him solve crimes, is a support and support to her husband. In the series, she is an example of a caring and sensitive wife.
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