Jeremiah and Ecco’s twisted relationship is about to get worse (Picture: Fox)

Fair warning, Gotham fans – the abusive relationship between Ecco and Jeremiah is about to get a hell of a lot worse.

Cameron Monaghan has revealed that the series answer to Joker and Harley Quinn will be reflecting their comic book counterparts in a big, bad way – and Ecco is straight in the evil villain’s firing line.

Speaking to Metro.co.uk, Cameron warned: ‘I think we saw that a little bit when he grabs her around the neck, and I think there’s a little bit more, then we’ll see a very big example of it at some point too.’



So what could lay in store for the most faithful follower of the Church of Jeremiah? (Yup, named a church after himself, he’s that kinda egomaniac.)


Is it possible that she could win him over at some point in the future and we see a softer side of dear old Mr J?

What does the crazed J have planned now? (Picture: Fox)

‘With people that are this bad, I think you don’t want to try and just fully romanticise the relationship,’ Cameron asserted. ‘It should be pretty clear that this is not an ideal situation to be in!’

‘But it’s extremely entertaining nonetheless!’ he laughed.

With only six episodes left to go before the final season comes crashing to an end, the show’s iconic villains have been slowly but surely taking shape.

But a Joker’s not a Joker without a Harley running in his shadow, and Cameron heaped praise on Francesca Roots-Dodson, who plays the hopelessly devoted character.

Jeremiah has already been seen strangling his most devoted follower (Picture: Fox)

He told us: ‘I remember Francesca came on towards the end of last season, and I was talking to John Stevens about how I really wanted her to come back, because she’d disappeared a little bit storyline wise.

‘The last time we saw her we were getting like these generators to create bombs and then she wasn’t in the final episode, so I talked to John, and we wanted to have her in, but unfortunately there just wasn’t room in the script because there was just so much going on in the episodes.

‘So I was really happy we were able to explore her, bring her back at the start of the fifth season.’

What has Ecco got herself into? (Picture: Fox)

On how Joker and Ecco connect, he added: ‘She has that same sort of sense of chaos and sadistic glee that Jeremiah possesses so watching them kind of bounce off of each other is really fun.

‘I think that it is somewhat emblematic of the Harley/Joker relationship, but I think we’ll see also, also see a little bit different.

‘I think that Ecco is much darker than what Harley tends to be, I think she’s a little further into the dark side, and I think you know, while the abusive nature of the relationship is sometimes explored, I think it’s pretty apparent here…he’s not a nice guy to be the girlfriend of! He’s not a nice guy.’



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However, not all hope is lost for the Crown Prince of Gotham.

‘You kind of see the start of, if this is the first relationship for Jeremiah, or J, or whatever, where do you think would go in the future?,’ Cameron teases.

‘Obviously, he has a type is all I’ll say!’

Gotham season 5 airs Thursdays on Fox in the US and in the UK at a later date.

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