Manager of Gotham National Bank
General Information
Real name:	Unidentified
Aliases:	Bank Manager
Alignment:	Bad
Affiliation:	Sal Maroni (ties)
Characteristics:	Gender-Male Hair-Brown Eyes-Brown
Portrayed by:	William Fichtner
Appearances:	The Dark Knight

The manager of Gotham National Bank defended himself from The Joker and his thugs with a shotgun during the robbery of Gotham National Bank.

BiographyEdit

The Dark KnightEdit

This man came under the employment of Gotham City's crime lords. He protected their laundered cash as the manager of Gotham National Bank.

He was surprised, but remained collected, when three men donning clown masks charged into his bank in an armed robbery. From a back office, the manager calmly removed his glasses and secured a sawed-off Ithaca M37 pump-action shotgun from underneath his desk. He shot through his office glass window, hitting Chuckles in the back and killing him instantly. Presumably, he also called Sal Maroni and the other Mob Bosses informing them of the robbery.

The manager then made his way through the lobby, taking shots at Grumpy and the Joker (under the alias "Bozo"), who ducked behind counters. In his scheme to kill off his men for all their collected cash, the Joker tricked Grumpy into believing that the manager had run out of ammo. When Grumpy stood to kill the manager he was grazed by buckshot. Discouraged, he ran to the vault.

With the manager's shotgun then unloaded, the Joker sprang up and shot him in the legs. Shortly before the Joker left, the Manager chastised him about how he lacked honor, even by criminal standards, and questioned him what he believed in. The Joker then shoved a canister into the manager's mouth, and revealed his true identity, stating "I believe whatever doesn't kill you simply makes you - stranger". As the Joker drove off with the money and the manager's shotgun, a string attached to the Joker yanked the safety pin out of the canister in the manager's mouth. Instead of exploding, it released fumes of an unknown nature. The manager groaned as his head dropped. It remains unknown if the bank manager was killed or simply knocked out.

Behind the scenesEdit

• Credited as "Bank Manager".
• Going from the Joker's last line to him the Manager was likely not killed, and may have been left in a different mental state, either from a psychotic agent in the canister or from his brush with death.