Leslie Tompkins is a character from the comics of the DC universe. Invented by Dennis O "Nill and Dick Giordano. Appears for the first time in visual novels called" Detective comics. "
About the early fate of Dr. Tompkins is almost unknownnothing. In comics, she appears to be a man already 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 kill a thief in front of his son in an attempt to pull the necklace, she, along with the butler Alfred, begins to take care of the little Bruce.
Bruce Wayne, growing up, turns into an antisociala teenager who is obsessed with revenge for his dead parents. Leslie is very concerned about this and is constantly trying to correct Bruce's world view, convincing that revenge is a destructive feeling and nothing good does not give a person.
In the more mature age of Bruce Leslie Tompkinslearns that he is that mysterious Batman. This causes her mixed feelings. On the one hand, she feels proud that Bruce Wayne is fighting crime, saving time and again his hometown of Gotham from a variety of disasters. On the other hand, she is concerned that he is risking his life.
In comics, she is an example of a pacifist-minded person. Bruce Wayne even envies her and regrets that she can not be as peace-loving as Leslie.
Joint education of young Bruce brings togetherLeslie and Alfred, and between them a novel is fastened. This happens when a teenager leaves abroad, goes into a kind of hermitage, and the butler with Dr. Tompkins remain alone in a large estate. However, their romance does not last long, and after it finishes, Leslie Tompkins decides to leave the estate to avoid seeing the ex-lover every day.
She opens a clinic where she treats everyoneof patients who apply to it. A poor man or a rich man, a murderer or a priest, everyone finds help in her clinic, regardless of their occupations and beliefs. Even such a cruel character in the DC Comics universe as the killer Croke, who met his enemy Zsas within the walls of her hospital, refuses to engage in a fight with him, thus showing respect to Dr. Tompkins and her hospital.
In addition to the main line of comics, Leslie appearsin an alternative universe, a kind of comics mini-series called "Gotham Underground". In this mini-series, she is rescued from the trouble of Nightwing, but later it turns out that it was a hallucination created by Riddle.
Batman in "Gotham Underground" dies at the hands ofDarkside, and the world is plunged into chaos. Real (and not hallucinating) Leslie Tompkins decides to help the needy and opens her clinic. She helps Robin and Betgerl to stop the chaos that struck Gotham.
In the new series from the company Fox "Gotham" the role of Leslie is played by the talented and attractive actress Morena Baccarin. Here she is also a doctor, but not an elderly woman.
In Gotham, she helps the city police, cooperatingwith them as a medical expert. She makes autopsies, conducts examination of crime scenes. Over time, she is taken to work at Arkham Hospital, where she meets a young police officer, James Gordon, who was demoted after he failed the case.
As the story unfolds, the viewerlearns that James Gordon is promoted to rank and becomes a detective at the police station. Wanting to be next to her husband, Leslie Tompkins gets a job at the same site where he works. She helps him to solve crimes, is the support and support of his husband. In the series, she is an example of a caring and sensitive wife.
