Solomon Grundy Gotham

Initially butch was the second in command to fish mooney in the falcone crime family before being brainwashed to serve her former umbrella boy oswald cobblepot penguin.
Solomon grundy gotham. Gotham went with a version of solomon grundy who was villainous before he was reanimated which is by no means unprecedented in the comic books. However the end of the episode revealed that not only did he survive the close range assault but that his real name was cyrus gold thereby implying that he is likely going to be the gotham version of solomon grundy a longtime dc comics. However he is reconditioned by theo and tabitha galavan to betray. Cherry accepted but first had to have solomon grundy s fire injury tended to by her fight club s latest doctor leslie thompkins.
Gotham s solomon grundy was revealed in a single scene of the finale and hasn t been fully realized just yet in the finale barbara shot butch gilzean drew powell in the head after learning that butch was planning to kill her. Butch was presumed dead given that he took a bullet directly to the brain but he was later seen being wheeled into a hospital alive but unconscious. Solomon grundy takes part in the attack on gotham city and fights flash again and later attacks cyborg after killer frost froze his arm. When hearing the tune of the rhyme solomon grundy he begins to identify by that name and makes his way back to gotham.
The finale of gotham s third season saw longtime supporting character butch gilzean drew powell seemingly killed thanks to being shot in the head. In solomon grundy s ending it is revealed that he evaded capture and fled back to the swamps to heal where he discovered that he was able to tap into the red and the dormant gray. In short we came to know its take on the iconic villain as butch gilzean who was a mob enforcer who worked for a number of the show s villains until he was shot in the head as punishment for an. Upon arriving at cherry s fight club nygma offered to have solomon grundy fight in the ring.
Butch gilzean born cyrus gold and later known as solomon grundy is a major antagonist in the dc show gotham appearing prominently in the first four seasons. By coincidence he stumbles across edward who is living rough having lost his intellect following an imprisonment in a block of ice at oswald s club the iceberg lounge for months. The season 3 finale of gotham was jam packed with surprises not the least of which was the revelation that the real name of longtime henchman butch gilzean is cyrus gold better known to dc comics fans as the original identity of solomon grundy.