Shane West Set for Key Role on Final Season of Fox’s "Gotham"
by Nellie Andreeva
Sept. 11, 2018


Is "Gotham" calling on one of Batman’s biggest foes for its swan song? "Nikita" alum Shane West has been tapped for a villainous recurring role on the upcoming fifth and final season of the Batman prequel drama series on Fox.

He will play Eduardo Dorrance, an old Army buddy of Jim Gordon’s (Ben McKenzie). Having lost touch with Jim after the war, Dorrance returns to Gotham years later, leading a team of elite soldiers with the goal of helping Gordon restore order to No Man’s Land.

But as the scales fall from Gordon’s eyes, he realizes Dorrance’s true intentions in Gotham are much darker and more evil than he could have believed.




There is no further information, but Eduardo Dorrance is believed to be related to a well-known villain in the Batman comic universe, Sir Edmund Dorrance, aka King Snake, who is the father of another big bad: Bane.

It is conceivable that Eduardo could be Bane himself. It would make sense for "Gotham" to go out with a bang, bringing in iconic character(s) from the comic book franchise for its last season.

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Batman supervillain Bane is supposed to be Latino, so why did Gotham cast Shane West to play him? (https://www.themarysue.com/stop-casting-white-dudes-as-bane)

Graham Nolan, who co-created the DC Comics supervillain, wrote that "as the designer and co-creator of Bane, allow me to put an end to the argument of Bane's ethnicity. He's Latino. Period. He's speaks with a Spanish/Latino accent. Period." Bane has even animated to be Latino. Yet he has been played by white actors, from Tom Hardy to Shane West. "What’s frustrating about this change," says Princess Weekes, "is that DC is clearly aware that Bane is not a white man and has no problem—in animation, at least—putting him in the mask, slapping an accent on him, and making him fully dehumanized for the sake of his brute force. Yet, in these live-action narratives, where he could have complexities and nuance, for some reason, he’s always cast a white actor."