Location » Arkham Asylum appears in 1360 issues.
Security Guard at Arkham Asylum who has a hook in place of his missing left hand that was bitten off by Killer Croc. He also has a wallet made of Killer Croc's skin that he took as payback.
Arnold Etchison was convinced that his family was evil. He killed them, and believed he had absorbed some of their life force at their demise. Seemingly drawing strength from each death he tended to go for overkill in his murders which followed a ritual of skinning them.
Supposedly a series of people who became the killer for different reasons.
Formerly Jeremiah Arkham's assistant, Alyce Sinner is now Director of Arkham Asylum. She claims to be the only survivor of a cult suicide, but in reality murdered her parents fellow cult members. Sinner wears hair ribbons to represent the 7 Deadly Sins.
Amadeus created the infamous Arkham Asylum out of his family estate, and eventually became an inmate himself.
Amygdala is frequent inmate of Arkham Asylum, he has no amygdala resulting in him having inhuman rage and super human strength. He was once a resident in Dick Grayson's apartment building while working at Lockhaven Prison.
Born sentenced to life in prison for the crimes of his father, the boy who would be come Bane learned that the strong survive, and the strongest become king. Forging himself into the pinnacle of physical and mental potential and becoming "king" of his prison, he learned of the Batman, "king" of Gotham City . Escaping and studying his quarry, Bane challenged and defeated Batman, becoming known as "The Man Who Broke the Bat".
A ruthless Gotham mob boss and leader of the False Face Society known for his extreme hatred for Bruce Wayne and sadistic talent for torturing his victims.
Calendar Man is known for committing crimes that relate to holidays, and significant dates. He is fascinated by dates and calendars; even his real name is a pun on the Julian and Gregorian calendars. He used to be thought of as a joke but has gotten more serious in some issues.
Two people have taken up the mantle of the Cavalier. The first being a superhero and the other being a villain.
Drury Walker was always a second rate villain, he took on the identity of Killer Moth and clashed with Batman many times. But one day, Neron came and offered him something and he became Charaxes.
An actor hired to play Two-Face, Paul Sloane/Sloan was himself horrifically scarred and became a costumed criminal. In Pre-Crisis, he became another Two-Face. In Post-Crisis, he became the Charlatan, master of disguise.
Matthew Hagen is a shapeshifter, and one of the many people to use the name Clayface.
Basil Karlo was an actor who upon discovering that a remake of one of his classic horror movies was being made went insane and began killing the cast and crew, wearing the mask of the film's villain Clayface, until stopped by Batman. Initially having no superpowers, Karlo joined with a group of other "Clayfaces" and stole their combined powers, allowing him to shapeshift into any forms he wants.
Preston Payne is the 3rd Clayface to fight Batman.
A delusional serial killer that feeds on people's hearts to survive and has the psychic ability to make people see him as someone else.
Crazy Quilt is an artist gone mad, and one-time member of the Secret Society of Super Villians.
A psychotic cult leader currently locked up in Arkham Asylum.
A super-villain who uses his superior mind and dreaming powers, centered on an invention called the Materioptikon, to commit crimes.
Doctor Simon Ecks' greatest weapon is his energy duplicate known as Double X an entity living in a symbiotic relationship with Ecks and possessed of extraordinary power.
Doctor Phosphorus is a transparent angry wall of fire. Dr. Alex Sartorius got his powers when a nuclear core went unstable and his body was bathed in hot radioactive phosphorous. Now his body combusts when he is in contact with air. He now seeks revenge on the men that caused his fatal accident.
Doodlebug is a Batman rogue.
An enemy of Batman.
Egghead is an arch-criminal created specifically for the 1960's Batman TV show: a technological genius but recklessly impatient, his theme is trick eggs and "so bad they're good" egg-based Puns.
Eric Strauss was a reincarnation of a sage who has existed since the Stone Age. In his lifetime as Eric, he was a strange ten-year-old who was chosen as the next agent of the Lords of Order under Nabu and gifted the ability to become the second Doctor Fate alongisde his partner and step-mother, Linda Strauss, inheriting the legacy of the premier, heroic sorcerer ofthe DC Universe.
A film obsessed villain. Burt Weston debuted in the same month in Batman #395 and Detective Comics #562 .
Garfield Lynns was a special effects expert who was eventually driven insane and became obsessed with flames. Lynss adopted the name of Firefly and became a crazed arsonist. Firefly's main foe is Batman but has been known to clash with Batgirl on several occasions.
A crooked financier who pleaded insanity to escape a prison sentence, Warren White was sent to Arkham Asylum where he was scarred, mutilated, and gradually driven insane by the other inmates.
Harleen Quinzel was a psychiatric resident at Arkham Asylum, where she met the incarcerated Joker. Falling in love with her patient, she conspired to break him out of prison and eventually became his lover and loyal sidekick, Harley Quinn. She eventually left him to be her own woman, and has been enemy and ally of Batman, and various other heroes.
Dr. Hugo Strange is a brilliant but disturbed psychologist with an obsessive vendetta against Batman. In addition to being one of Batman's earliest foes, preceding even the Joker and Catwoman, he is also one of the first & few to successfully deduce that Batman and Bruce Wayne are one and the same.
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