‘Gotham’ Season 4 Spoilers: Bruce Wayne Will Experience A ‘Teenage Spiral’

Bruce Wayne (David Mazouz) is slowly transitioning into his crime-fighting persona, the Batman, in “Gotham” Season 4, but this will not be an easy process for him since he also has to deal with some teenage angst.

The show’s executive producer John Stephen told Cinema Blend that Bruce is going to delve into his playboy tendencies next season, which would be utilized in the future by an older Bruce. “I’d say visually, when you look at what Bruce is going to be doing this season, it’s gonna look far closer to what our conception of Batman is definitely gonna be. You’re also going to get to see him do very specific things, certain elements like when you watch Bruce Wayne acting like a playboy, we sort of ask the question how did he learn to do that so well,” he said.

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“Well, maybe there’s a time that he wasn’t pretending to be that and we actually play with a little bit of Bruce having a teenage spiral, where he enjoys the elements of being a billionaire with no parents in Gotham, that he can draw from later on to become the fake playboy,” he continued.

When he’s not out wooing the ladies, Bruce will put on a mask and save Gotham citizens from criminals. Stephen said his Batman costume isn’t quite ready yet, so “he will wear body armor and grappling hooks but he will not be Batman. It’s a little more of a ‘Batman: Year One’ in a different setting.”

Another person to have an identity crisis next season is Ed Nygma (Cory Michael Smith), who has chosen the name Riddler for himself. Smith told Screen Rant that the Riddler is going to hit a low point when Season 4 opens, and it’s all because of Oswald Cobblepot (Robin Lord Taylor) getting the better of him.

“You know, we play a lot with Edward having identity issues, and so this is another identity crisis for him. His mind isn’t functioning at the level that it was. Whether that can be cured or fixed, he doesn’t know, but his computation is not as it was. So what does that make him now?” he said.

“Gotham” Season 4 will be released by Fox on Sept. 21, a week earlier than scheduled.