Janet Van Dorn

Gotham City District Attorney Portrayed by Cassidy Freeman Statistics Full Name Janet Van Dorn Age 33 Height 5'7" Build Slim-ish Eyes Blue Hair Brown Factions Fair Occupation Gotham City District Attorney Alignment Good Claim to Fame District Attorney of Gotham City. The honest DA, too. Incorruptible. Unbribable. Reputation She's known for being unflappable and stone-cold in the courtroom. She's also known for never taking a bribe and never backing down from a challenge. She picks he rbattles, but she's a watchword for honesty in Gotham City. Biography Janet grew up in Gotham City as the daughter of one of the very few honest cops in Gotham before Gordon was the commissioner. He didn't have many friends on the force outside Gordon himself, which is one reason Janet learned self-defense so early. She was always a scrappy kid, and one who saw Jim Gordon as something like a favorite uncle. She always had a strong sense of justice and a great drive for making her city a better place. Her father talked her out of becoming a cop: she had a mind for greater things, he said, and he encouraged her to go to college. She was always both intelligent and studious, ending up graduating with high honors from Harvard Law while interning at the Gotham City DA's office until she returned to be an Assistant DA. She had her choice of firms that would have paid her well into the six figures to start, but she felt an obligation to her hometown. She took over as DA after the last one was removed, and it's proved tough going. She's no friend to the vigilantes of Gotham, and she's pushed more than once for Batman to be found and arrested. Even so, she's not quite sure about the current leadership of Gotham — the strongarm tactics of Commissioner Yindel are sincerely concerning.

Character Details Personality Professionally, Janet is pretty uncompromising when it comes to crime. She isn't hateful or bigoted; she truly believes that the only decent way forward for Gotham is through the law. She's a workaholic and utterly dedicated to making Gotham a better place. Outside the office, if you can get her there, she's friendly and genial if occasionally a little chilly. She is quite capable of dressing with elegance and rubbing elbows with the elite, but she's far happier eating bad Chinese food and working in her garden or chatting with old friends. Abilities I Am The Law Janet is an excellent lawyer — top of her class at Harvard, capable of occasionally actually putting guilty Gothamites away in Stonegate or Gotham, whichever seems appropriate. She's incredibly talented at wringing confessions out of defendants — often by pushing their buttons. She's also generally an intelligent and well-educated woman. Listens to NPR. Self-defense Janet got a gold medal in the Junior Miss Sharpshooter competition when she was 15. She's always been handy at self-defense, including decent skill with firearms and hand-to-hand combat. It's unwise to underestimate her, even in a boxing ring, though she's definitely only a hobbyist. Generally she has bodyguards to take care of the rough stuff. Perceptive She's a pretty good judge of character: she's good at telling when someone's lying to her or hiding something, given how often that happens. She's not quite Sherlock Holmes, but she's a good investigator in her own right. Advantages Power Of Attorney Janet van Dorn is the Gotham City DA. She's probably the second most powerful city official past the mayor, at least on paper. She decides what cases go to trial and can intervene to determine who prosecutes and who judges those cases. Incorruptible Janet's become something of a byword for honesty in Gotham City. She's never taken a bribe and there's no dirt on her. As far as anyone knows, there's just no dirt to be had: no love affairs, no scandals, nothing. She's possibly the rarest of all things: a truly honest politician. Disdvantages Uncompromising She's known for being incorruptible. It's really true. Which means she's not on the side of the Bat-Family, given that they are Vigilantes who are Breaking The Law. She's not all that great on grey areas. She's a bit of a control freak, unsurprisingly, and the fact that vigilantes are in her city beating up criminials without getting arrested for it is not exactly /optimal/. She might not let a vigilante just slide away like Gordon does. Spotlight She's the second most powerful person in Gotham City. That puts her high on the list for People Villains Like To Mess With. She's a big ol' target. Even more so because, given that she has no gangland affiliations, she has only the honest cops of Gotham to rely on. Yup. Relationships Image Name Relation Information Character Name Friend Insert a description of the relationship here. Notes Character Gallery Logs 2015 Log Entries Revenge, Part 2 February 12, 2015: Barry Allen and Janet van Dorn continue to work the case. (log: 20150212-revenge-part-2 | tags: flash janet_van_dorn | posted: 12 Feb 2015 22:14) Revenge, Part 1 February 6, 2015: Barry Allen works a case in Gotham alongside Janet van Dorn. (log: 20150206-revenge-part-1 | tags: flash janet-van-dorn janet_van_dorn jvd | posted: 07 Feb 2015 04:31) 2014 Log Entries Back to: Current Cast