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"Now there's no reason to ever be alone in this city again. The Sirens Club is back..."
—Barbara Kean in a commercial for the reopening of the Sirens Club[src]


The Sirens is a former simulational nightclub/base that is located in the Coventry district of Gotham City. It was previously run by Oswald Cobblepot who renamed the club as The Iceberg Lounge. Prior to Oswald's takeover, Barbara Kean owned the original club and had the current title "The Sirens". She maintained the nightclub as a base of operations with the help of Selina Kyle during No Man's Land. After the reunification with the mainland, the club was later abandoned at some point when Barbara became a legit businesswoman. However, she still remained the owner of the establishment.

History[]

As The Sirens[]

Barbara Kean and Tabitha Galavan set up the club together as part the Cobblepot crime family, which became a success. Barbara's acquaintance Oswald Cobblepot turned up at the bar with Tabitha's former business partner and lover Butch Gilzean to talk about a proposition Oswald presented in which he would provide protection to the club, however Barbara turned it down. Oswald then asked the pair of them to put out the word that he would pay a million dollars for Fish Mooney: Alive or Dead.

Later on, a mobster named Boris and his two underlings arrived at the bar, saying that the nightclub is on their territory. Although Boris hits Barbara, she initially feigns distress before letting out an insane laugh. Tabitha murders the two underlings with a knife, and Barbara brutally beats Boris. Believing Oswald sent them, he arrives with Butch and denies any involvement. They deduce Butch was responsible as he hoped the threat of the men would sent Tabitha back to him. Frustrated, Oswald ended Boris' life with a bullet to the head.[1]

The Sirens

The Sirens Club.

The following day Barbara's former fiancé, Jim Gordon, arrives at the bar to ask about the location of Selina Kyle. After trying to play mind games with Jim, Barbara eventually points him in the location of an old bank.[2]

Hypnotist Jervis Tetch became employed at the nightclub and carried out his own show which involved his skills in hypnotism which he demonstrated on a doctor. Barbara was impressed with the act, and the following evening got Tetch to try it on her. He got Barbara to fall madly in love with him, but upon rejecting her advances she held a glass at his throat, which prompted Tabitha to stop her causing further harm, much to Tetch's amusement. Gordon arrived at the bar to meet Tetch (who was his client) to demand why Tetch's sister, Alice, doesn't want to see him. Tetch lured Gordon onto the roof and put him under a hypnotic state and made an attempt to force Gordon to commit suicide, but this was scuppered by the arrival of Alice who shot at her brother and forced him to flee.[3]

After Oswald Cobblepot became the mayor of Gotham City, his victory party was held at the Sirens. However, drama began to soak up quickly at the club when Edward Nygma and Victor Zsasz forced Butch Gilzean to attempt to kill Penguin while wearing a mask of the Red Hood Gang, via threaten to kill Tabitha. However, it turns out that was a setup as there were no bullets and Butch was exposed as being the benefactor of the Red Hood Gang. After Penguin vowed to kill Butch for what he had done, Tabitha escaped her captors allowing Butch to escape as well but not before he nearly chocked Nygma to death.

Jim Gordon would later arrive at The Sirens confronting Barbara and Tabitha over the location of Leslie Thompkins & Valerie Vale, whom Tetch had kidnapped.

Downfall[]

After Nygma formed an alliance with Butch, Barbara, and Tabitha to kill Penguin and take control of his criminal empire, Barbara became the Queen of Gotham and the club became her base of operations. When Barbara once again teamed up with Ed to take down The Court of Owls, she had a fallout with Butch & Tabitha as Nygma cut Tabitha's hand off and exposed Butch to Penguin as the benefactor of the Red Hood Gang. During the Tetch Incident, this would all lead to Barbara's death, Penguin's return as the kingpin of Gotham, Tabitha and Selina Kyle teaming up and the downfall of The Sirens club.

As The Iceberg Lounge[]

Origin[]

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Logo of the Iceberg Lounge.

"That is the logo for my new club."
"What are we gonna call it?"
"The Iceberg Lounge."
"Clever, 'cause you're nicknamed Penguin, right?"
"There's that. And then there's the club's centerpiece attraction...
"
Oswald Cobblepot and Ivy Pepper discussing plans and sketches for the Iceberg Lounge[src]


Thinking forward on the future of his criminal empire, Oswald Cobblepot planned to open a new nightclub, which he dubbed the Iceberg Lounge and unveils the plans to Ivy Pepper. He also plans to display his former ally/second-in-command Edward Nygma, who had been cryogenically frozen by Victor Fries, as a reminder to Oswald to not let love get in the way of his emotions again.[4]

Opening Night[]

"This was the Sirens Club. It is now mine."
—Oswald Cobblepot to a group of journalists[src]
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Iceberg Lounge.

It turns out that Penguin had bought The Sirens from Tabitha Galavan. Using a frozen Edward Nygma as a centerpiece with the cover-up that he was frozen due to a brain disease, Cobblepot promoted the club to the assembled press where James Gordon appeared and tricked him into luring Merton and his gang to the Iceberg Lounge. During opening night, Bruce Wayne and Alfred Pennyworth speak to Cobblepot about his new license of crime while Selina Kyle and Tabatha give in to Victor Zsasz's offer to work for Penguin. While Bruce went to speak to Selina on the roof, Merton and his gang snuck through to the kitchen only to be caught by surprise by Cobblepot and his minions. Alfred went to the roof to notify Bruce what happened downstairs. With Merton's group apprehended by Cobblepot's men, Bruce and Cobblepot discussed on what to do with them. Ivy Pepper turned off all the lights, betraying Oswald, resulting in conflict as James Gordon and Harvey Bullock arrived. While Cobblepot was hit by a fear gas, Merton and his gang were defeated by Gordon, Bullock, Bruce, Alfred, Zsasz, and Tabitha while Grady escaped.[5]

Loss of the Centerpiece Attraction[]

"Kinda opens up the room."
—Victor Zsasz reacting to the disappearance of the frozen Riddler[src]

Five months after Cobblepot's victory over the Riddler, the latter one would finally be released from his icy prison. When Penguin and Victor Zsasz were discussing the former's upcoming auction, Oswald would keep referring to Nygma as if he could hear them. After Victor turned off all of the lights and the two left the club, Myrtle Jenkins entered the room with a blowtorch to free the Riddler from his frozen state. She would then take him to her hideout, leaving only his bowler hat behind in the middle of the melting ice. The Penguin was horrified when he discovered that Riddler was gone from his ice prison and ordered Zsasz to find him and kill the one who unfroze him. Barbara Kean meets with Cobblepot at the Iceberg Lounge to get a certain knife before the auction but is refused. Penguin auctions it off but Barbara loses it in a bidding war with Bruce Wayne. After the auction, Oswald and Zsasz tracked down Myrtle and confronted her at her place for stealing Nygma. When she revealed Nygma's damaged mind, not able to even answer children's riddles, Cobblepot left the room and had Zsasz kill her to make an example. Meanwhile, in the streets, a confused Nygma walked down a street, where he saw a poster of Oswald in the Iceberg Lounge with himself frozen in the background hanging on a window, showing him that Penguin is in control of Gotham again.[6]

As he planned his revenge on Oswald, Nygma spent hours trying to make perfect riddles. He then sent rapping messengers with riddles to the Iceberg Lounge, that Cobblepot was unable to solve. Afterwards, Penguin also confronted Sofia Falcone, threatening her not to contemplate a takeover. He used Sofia to trap Falcone loyalists that were sent to her and left Zsasz to execute the men. Later when the Riddler showed up at the Iceberg Lounge with the intention of killing Oswald, the latter mocked him for his terrible riddles, which took him six hours to come up with and told him that he was not Riddler and not even Edward Nygma anymore. Victor Fries then zapped the gun out of the latter's hand before Oswald told Nygma he was going to freeze him again. However, he had a change of heart and said that he was going to make him live not knowing who he really was, sparing Ed's life for more humiliation.[7]

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"Miss Falcone is here to see you, Sir."
—The Iceberg Lounge's security guard to Oswald Cobblepot[src]


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Downfall[]


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Back to The Sirens[]

Barbara, Tabitha and Selina reopened the club after Oswald was arrested by James Gordon. They change the design of the club with a more red and classy tone.

No Man's Land[]


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Abandoned during the Reunification Era[]

After the end of the No Man's Land crisis and Gotham's reunification with the mainland, Barbara left her criminal life behind and started to invest in real estate. This eventually made her an incredibly successful businesswoman and she decided to close down the Sirens club at some point over the course of the next decade. However, Barbara still remained the owner of the abandoned establishment.

When it became apparent that Jeremiah Valeska had finally awakened from his catatonic state after ten years in Arkham Asylum, Barbara took her daughter Barbara Lee back to the Sirens in order to get a gun hidden in the desk drawer at her old office. As the lights in the main area of the club suddenly turned on, Barbara told her daughter to remain in the office while she searched for an intruder. At the bar, Barbara then discovered Ecco facing the window. Jeremiah appeared behind Barbara and pushed her towards Ecco, who then held a knife to the businesswoman's throat. Despite her mother's previous instructions, Barbara Lee tried to help her by throwing an obejct at Ecco, giving Barbara Kean the opportunity to fatally stab Jeremiah's lover in the stomach. However, Jeremiah reacted by shooting Barbara in the leg, restraining her daughter and then killed Ecco, commenting that "there are other fish in the sea". The maniac then threatened the wounded Barbara and told her to deliver a message to Jim Gordon upon his eventual arrival. He then knocked her out and took Barbara Lee hostage.

Commissioner Gordon and Harvey Bullock later found the unconscious Barbara and Ecco's corpse at the Sirens nightclub. When Jim awakened Barbara, she informed him that Jeremiah wanted to meet him at "the place where he was born again". Jim realized that Jeremiah meant Ace Chemicals and immediately left the club to go there and save his daughter.[9]

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Designs[]


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The Sirens[]

First appearing in Better to Reign in Hell..., The Sirens club features a bar (in the center of the club), a stage (towards the back of the club), a coat check booth, and a kitchen. Its design is heavily inspired by Art Deco architecture and art. The club features a painting in its ceiling - "Young Sick Bacchus" by Caravaggio - as well as other paintings and sculptures of women.

Iceberg Lounge[]

Once Oswald takes over The Sirens, he decides to rename it to the Iceberg Lounge. Now featuring a frozen Ed Nygma as its centerpiece, the club's bar is moved towards the back (where its stage formerly was). While most design elements did not change (namely its Art Deco influence), the Iceberg Lounge does includes an umbrella motif, which was previously used in Oswald's, as well as different paintings and penguin sculptures. The club now has an office towards the right side of the room, which features a large window that looks into the club. There is also staircases in both sides of the bar, which seemingly lead to a second floor.

The Sirens[]

After Barbara, Tabitha, Selina, and Sofia take back the club, it is once more named The Sirens. All of the Iceberg Lounge's umbrella and penguin motifs are removed and instead of Nygma's frozen body as a centerpiece, there is now a sculpture of a woman. Chandeliers are added, curtains are changed, and the office includes more red velvet (as opposed to the Iceberg Lounge's black leather). While most of the design remains influenced by Art Deco, there is also some Art Nouveau elements included. Paintings are once again changed, now including a couple painted by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. In Reunion, both "Der Salon in der Rue des Moulins" and "Marcelle Lender Dancing in the Bolero in Chilperic" are visible.

Appearances[]

Season 3

Season 4

Season 5

Gotham: A City Gone Mad

Novels


Notes[]

  • In the comics, the Iceberg Lounge is a upscale nightclub which serves as a legitimate business front to the Penguin's criminal activities. It was introduced in Detective Comics #683 in 1995.
  • The name of the Sirens Club is a reference to the comic book Gotham City Sirens which focuses on the titular team of Batman villainesses including Catwoman, Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn. Barbara, Tabitha and Selina would later have their own team based on the one from the comics.
  • The Iceberg Lounge is the second nightclub Oswald Cobblepot took over from one of his enemies. The first was Oswald's.
  • The Sirens has a commerical that is broadcasted on the televisons around Gotham City . It features Barbara, Tabitha and Selina posing in the club.

Trivia[]

  • The Sirens features a rendition of the painting "Young Sick Bacchus" by Caravaggio on the ceiling above the stage. Visible in S3E5 at 33:12.

References[]

  1. Stephens, John (writer) & Cannon, Danny (director) (September 19, 2016). "Mad City: Better to Reign in Hell...". Gotham. Season 3. Episode 1. FOX.
  2. Woodruff, Ken (writer) & Cannon, Danny (director) (September 26, 2016). "Mad City: Burn the Witch...". Gotham. Season 3. Episode 2. FOX.
  3. Cannon, Danny (writer) & Bailey, Rob (director) (October 3, 2016). "Mad City: Look Into My Eyes". Gotham. Season 3. Episode 3. FOX.
  4. Hull, Robert (writer) & Bailey, Rob (director) (June 5, 2017) "Heroes Rise: Heavydirtysoul" Gotham. Season 3. Episode 22. FOX.
  5. Stephens, John (writer) & Cannon, Danny (director) (September 21, 2017). "A Dark Knight: Pax Penguina". Gotham. Season 4. Episode 1. FOX.
  6. Lilien, Steven & Wynbrandt, Bryan (writer) & Tonderai, Mark (director) (October 5, 2017). "A Dark Knight: They Who Hide Behind Masks". Gotham. Season 4. Episode 3. FOX.
  7. McKenzie, Ben (writer) & Fink, Kenneth (director) (October 13, 2017). "A Dark Knight: The Demon's Head". Gotham. Season 4. Episode 4. FOX.
  8. Chun, Tze (writer) & White, Scott (director) (October 19, 2017) "A Dark Knight: The Blade's Path". Gotham. Season 4. Episode 5. FOX.
  9. Stephens, John (writer) & Bailey, Rob (director) (April 25, 2019) "Legend of the Dark Knight: The Beginning..." Gotham. Season 5. Episode 12.
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