Ben McKenzie Teases Gotham Season 3 Villains

Gotham has gone mainstream! The comic book based series heading into its third season is seeing more mainstream acceptance, with star Ben McKenzie, who plays the future commissioner (but currently bounty hunter) Jim Gordon on the show, appearing on Live! with Kelly to talk about the new season. Kelly said she "loves the show" and asked immediately about the new villains for the third season.

"There's a Mad Hatter, which is sort of loosely affiliated with Alice in Wonderland, the kind of terrifying guy who gets in your brain and manipulates you to do dastardly deeds," McKenzie teased. The Mad Hatter on Gotham, played by Benedict Samuel, will start out as a hypnotist, but in the pages of DC Comics he graduates to technology-based mind control. "There's nothing but trouble in store for Jim Gordon.

"Fish Mooney! Jada [Pinkett-Smith]'s coming back to play around, so that'll be fun," he said to applause. "Really wild. We have grown-up Poison Ivy, she's all of a sudden an adult, don't ask us how we've done that," he teased. Kelly had the whip-smart response, "She grows like a weed!"

McKenzie knows the villains well for Season 3 of Gotham, as this season sees Jim Gordon completely away from the GCPD once more. Instead, he's become a hard-knocking (and hard-drinking) bounty hunter, whose chief prey is the bus load of monsters that escaped Indian Hill at the hands of Fish Mooney during the season finale last spring. Jumping forward several months, the new season sees the city overrun with these genetically engineered creatures, while also dealing with folks like Penguin, Edward Nygma, and Butch working their way through the underworld. Top it off with Barbara Kean and Tabitha Galivan's new "Sirens" club, and you have a recipe for more dastardly deeds than ever this year on Gotham, and "nothing but trouble" indeed for Jim Gordon.

Gotham Season 3 kicks off Monday, September 19, 2016 at 8 p.m. on FOX.