Carmine Falcone (Bruce Wayne)

Biography
Carmine Falcone controls Gotham City's criminal underworld and floods the city with crime, drugs, and poverty. He is effectively above the law, as most government officials are either on his payroll or afraid of him (examples being two councilmen, James Gordon's employer Commissioner Gillian B. Loeb, and Judge Faden). In Pilot, Falcone has Mario Pepper murdered for threatening to testify against him after framing Pepper for the murder of Thomas and Martha Wayne since Falcone needed to make the people of Gotham see swift justice quickly. Bruce, enraged after knowing the truth about how Pepper was framed from Gordon, confronts Falcone at Fish Mooney's night club and told him how not everyone in Gotham is afraid of him. Falcone told Bruce that real power comes from being feared, and he had his bouncers beat him up. "You always fear, what you don't understand" he told Bruce. That inspired Bruce to travel around the world and learn about fear.

Falcone faced several threats while in power: S.W.A.T team leader Lieutenant Brandon who was taking the law into his own hands, a teenage Bruce Wayne and William Dent who interfered with Falcone's attempts to murder Harvey Dent, Detective James Gordon (Ben Mackenzie) who vowed bring him down, Fish Mooney (Jada Pinkett Smith) who was secretly planning to overthrow him, and his main rival Sal Maroni (David Zayas) and his brother Rolf Maroni (Eric Roberts). "In A Shock To Your System", Falcone was wounded by Maroni's men and Gordon foiled an attempt Commissioner Loeb made to get rid of Falcone since he was switching sides. Gordon and Bullock took Falcone to his safe house where Fish and Rolf were waiting since they wanted to kill them as well as Bruce Wayne and a meta human known as Hotwire. It was because Fish pressured Hotwire into joining her gang and Bruce was trying to make her avoid that sort of life for her. During the meeting, Mooney double-crossed Rolf by shooting him in the head, which leads to a fight between Rolfs men and Mooney's gang. Bruce and Hotwire were fighting Mooney while Gordon, Bullock, and Falcone escaped to Gordon's apartment. Falcone announced he was planning to go to Italy to retire since he felt Gotham now needed a lawman like Gordon and gave Gordon a knife that Gordon's father gave to him. With Fish Mooney and Rolf out of the picture, Salvatore Maroni was able to take over the Falcone Crime Family.