Richard Sionis (Gotham)

The Mask
Gotham‎ and Pennyworth
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Real Name	Richard Sionis
Main Alias	The Mask
Base Of Operations	Gotham City
Status
Alignment	Bad
Identity	Secret Identity
Citizenship	American
Marital Status	Single
Occupation	Businessman
Characteristics
Gender	Male
Eyes	Green
Hair	Brown
Origin
Universe	Gotham (TV Series)
Creators	Bruno Heller
First Appearance	"The Mask" (November 10, 2014)
Appearance of Death	"Rise of the Villains: Damned If You Do..." (September 21, 2015)

A mask hides the face, but frees the soul. A mask speaks the truth.

— Richard Sionis

Richard Sionis was an unscrupulous businessman who ran an involuntary fight club with his employees.

History

Richard Sionis, to the average person, is the owner of a successful financial firm with an office filled with historical masks, his interest. However, Sionis is secretly the operator of an underground fighting arena, forcing some of his employees to fight in an office building against their wills.

When Det. Jim Gordon began to investigate the death of one of the unlucky fighters, his investigations lead him to Sionis, who kept his cool as the officers questioned him. While he investigated further into the case, Sionis captured Gordon and forced him to fight in the arena against the other detainees. Gordon defeated his opponents and was eventually pitted against Sionis himself, wearing a black warrior's mask and wielding a sword. Again, Gordon beat his aggressor and arrested him.

Sionis was later broken out of Arkham Asylum along with other fellow prisoners by Theo Galavan. Theo wanted to create a team of villains to cause chaos and destruction in Gotham City. However Sionis turned down the proposal, which led to being strangled and then stabbed to death by Theo's sister Tabitha.

Powers and Abilities

Abilities

• Business Management
• Swordsmanship

Notes

• The Mask was portrayed by Todd Stashwick.
  

Trivia

• Richard Sionis shares the same surname and a similar alias and mask to Roman Sionis, a supervillain in the comics known as Black Mask.
  • Sionis was later integrated into the comics as Black Mask's father and the founder of the False Face Society in The New 52 / Rebirth continuity. Previously, Charles Sionis acted as his father, with Black Mask himself having created the Society.

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