Emile Dorian

Emile Dorian is a minor antagonist in Batman: The Animated Series, serving as the main antagonist of the episode "Tyger, Tyger". He is a rogue scientist specialized in gene splicing, and creates several human-animal hybrids that he intends to use to replace Earth's human population.

He was voiced by the late Joseph Maher.

Biography[]

Emile Dorian was once a geneticist in Gotham City, and was Kirk Langstrom's mentor. Upon creating the T-99 mutigen, Dorian turned to criminal activities. He was quickly found out and was forced to leave Gotham. He decided to move out to an inhabitant island, where he continued his experiments. He had managed to create Garth, a genetically-altered gorilla, and later Tygrus, a half-man, half-tiger hybrid, with cunning and strength augmented attributes.

When Tygrus was feeling lonely, Dorian decided that he should find him a soul mate. He chose Catwoman as Tygrus' new mate and sent Garth to kidnap her. Garth took her to Dorian's island and Dorian subjected her to splicing. As a result, Catwoman was transformed into a half-woman, half-feline. However, Batman suspected Catwoman's appearance and tracked her to Dorian's island. Upon arriving, Batman witnessed Catwoman's transformation and attempted to save her, but Dorian sent Tygrus to kill Batman. When Tygrus learned that Dorian had tricked him, he turned on him. When the laboratory exploded, Tygrus saved Dorian and delivered him to Batman and Catwoman. Dorian was later sent to Arkham Asylum.

Emile Dorian also appeared in the spin-off comic Batman Adventures. In Issue 21, "House of Dorian", Emile escapes Arkham and enlists the unwilling Langstrom (by forcibly turning him into Man-Bat) to capture Batman and Selina Kyle. His act of vengeance is, however, interrupted by the reappearance of Tygrus and the werewolf Anthony Romulus, the latter of whom wants Dorian to cure his lycanthropy. Man-Bat, Tygrus, Dorian and Romulus are all apparently killed in an explosion that ensues, although Langstrom is later seen in "Chemistry" to have survived.

Dorian was also mentioned in the comic, Batman: The Adventures Continue. He created the bird-like beast Mister Wing years earlier, and eventually Wing came into contact with the Penguin, who hired him as his bodyguard.

Appearances outside the DC Animated Universe[]

Dorian appears in the current Prime Earth continuity in the first issue of Harley Quinn: Harley Loves Joker. He and Abel Cuvier were once partners and worked together with a Brazilian doctor named Gabriel Matitias. She volunteered for an experiment which spliced her with DNA of an animal from her home country called the Grison. She later went on to become a henchman of the Joker.

Trivia[]

Dorian's appearance and voice was inspired by Septimus Pretorius, the main antagonist of the 1935 horror film The Bride of Frankenstein.

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