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Just stay on him Candice. All men have something to hide. The brighter the picture, the darker the negative.
~ Thorne directing his moll Candice to spy on Harvey Dent.

Rupert Thorne is a crime boss and enemy of Batman in the DC Comics universe. Created by Steve Englehart and Walter Simonson, the character first appeared in Detective Comics #469. Thorne's appearance was based on the likeness of the actor Carroll O'Connor. He is a recurring antagonist, along with his assistant Candice, in the TV series Batman: The Animated Series, a major antagonist in the 2003 movie Batman: Mystery of Batwoman, and a minor character in the TV series The Batman.

Biography[]

Thorne is introduced as the corrupt president of the Gotham City Council and heads of its Tobacconists Club being blackmailed by Doctor Phosphorus into turning the city against Batman due to his vigilantism. According to Commissioner James Gordon and Chief O'Hara, Rupert Thorne has been pressuring the police to arrest Batman for years.

Despite O'Hara being loyal to the law, he was willing to disobey the city government after they declared Batman an outlaw to work with the vigilante in defeating Phosphorous. Even with Phosphorus defeated, Thorne still has Batman remain as an outlaw. He attempts to gain complete control of Gotham City by becoming mayor so he can both Gotham and its criminal underworld.

Thorne's plans are delayed by Hugo Strange, who discovered Batman's secret identity and wanted to sell the information to the highest bidder. Thorne bid with the Joker and the Penguin for that information, but Thorne decided there were other ways of obtaining that information from Strange without payment. Thorne and his men kidnapped Strange where they tortured him down in the basement of City Hall for Batman's identity. Strange refused and Thorne kept having his men beat Strange until Strange stopped breathing. Thorne then had Strange's body disposed of in the river.

Later, Thorne would literally be haunted by strange visions and sounds of Strange. Thorne attempted to escape from the ghost by driving out of Gotham to Ohio until he ran into Silver St. Cloud, who was hitchhiking to escape from Gotham too after ironically discovering her lover Bruce Wayne was Batman. After Silver expressed admiration to Batman's activities, Thorne got angry and kicked her out of the car. Thorne then got tormented by the ghost of Hugo Strange and handed himself over to the Ohio State Police, confessing all of his crimes. The Ohio State Police thought Thorne was insane and had him sent to Arkham Asylum.

After failing in his campaign against Batman and spending time in Arkham Asylum, he secretly returns to Gotham. (Detective Comics #507, October 1981). Thorne is no longer allowed to be in the city council due to being considered as unstable, so Thorne decides to still continue being a politician, but behind the scenes. Thorne makes a deal with Hamilton Hill to make corrupt city councilman Arthur Reeves his successor as mayor, and funds Reeves' campaign, during which Reeves calls Batman a public menace. Thorne gives Reeves fabricated photos of Batman working with the mafia, which brings the heat on Batman and Gordon. When Reeves turns on Thorne, however, Thorne gets back at him by anonymously sending evidence to the media that the photos Reeves provided are fake, ruining his campaign. Thorne has Hill use the police shootings as an excuse to remove Gordon in favor of Peter Pauling, who is on Thorne's payroll.

After Vicki Vale discovers Bruce Wayne is Batman, Thorne acquires those photos of Bruce changing into Batman from her editor and sends Deadshot after Wayne. Deadshot is unsuccessful, however. Alfred Pennyworth, Bruce Wayne's butler, hires Christopher Chance the Human Target to impersonate Bruce. When Thorne learned Bruce Wayne and Batman were seen by witnesses together fighting Deadshot, Thorne destroyed the photos in the fireplace, thinking Vicki just fabricated them just to further her career. Batman would later visit Deadshot in prison and then break him out after Deadshot reveals Thorne ordered the hit on Bruce. Pauling turned that against Batman which pleased Thorne but made Hill paranoid since the press would start asking questions.

Thorne was again being haunted by the ghost of Hugo Strange, who is revealed to have faked his death and tormented Thorne with experiments designed to simulate ghostly phenomena, which Doctor Thirteen discovers right after Thorne pays him to investigate. Thorne then starts to believe that Hill and Pauling are plotting against him by trying to drive him insane. After accidentally burning down his home during a confrontation with Batman, Thorne confronts Hill and Pauling intending to kill them. Thorne kills Pauling, but is shot in the stomach by Sergeant McClosky, a corrupt officer with a grudge against Gordon for suspending him. Thorne then gets arrested and Hill has Thorne sent to Arkham. To make things right with Batman, Hill has the charges against the vigilante dropped for breaking Deadshot out of prison and reinstates Batman as well as Gordon in the GCPD. Thorne makes a return appearance in Detective Comics #825 (cover-dated January 2007, released November 2006). This was his first major comics appearance in decades, and his first appearance in the Post-Crisis DC universe. He is shown incarcerated in Blackgate Penitentiary when Doctor Phophorus makes an attempt on his life, one that Batman prevents.

Thorne appears in Batman: Three Jokers as an inmate of Blackgate who cowers when Batman arrives to visit Joe Chill, his parents' killer, in prison. Thorne eventually loses his entire criminal empire to Carmine Falcone and then Selina Kyle.

Other Media[]

DC Animated Universe[]

Rupert Thorne appears as a recurring antagonist in Batman: The Animated Series voiced by the late John Vernon, who also portrayed Curtis Mooney in Killer Klowns from Outer Space.

He appears at several points throughout the series as the most powerful crime boss in Gotham City. Thorne first appears in the two-part episode "Two-Face", in which he was responsible for district attorney Harvey Dent's transformation into Two-Face (replacing Sal Maroni). Thorne blackmails Dent with his psychological records, threatening to tell the press that the young DA suffers from multiple personality disorder unless he stops prosecuting his henchmen. Enraged, Dent "switches" into his alternate, violent personality and chases Thorne into a nearby chemical processing plant, where an explosion disfigures the left side of Dent's face and leaves his evil personality in permanent control. Dent (now calling himself "Two-Face") later seeks revenge on Thorne. He first attacks fronts for Thorne's criminal activities with his gang, then steals a file with enough information to ruin the crime boss. With Batman's help, Two-Face succeeds in capturing Thorne, although Batman is forced to apprehend Two-Face, as well.

Thorne's next appearance is in the following episode, "It's Never Too Late", in which he is at war with rival mob boss Arnold Stromwell. He invites Stromwell to a sit-down at a restaurant he owns under the pretense of negotiating a ceasefire, only to make an attempt on his life by blowing up the building. Batman saves Stromwell in time and persuades him to give up his life of crime and help to bring Thorne down. Thorne corners Stromwell and his estranged brother Michael and almost kills them before being knocked unconscious by Batman and left for the police.

In "Vendetta", Batman suspects Thorne of abducting "Spider" Conway and interrogates him in his greenhouse, only to discover Thorne did not consider Conway important enough to dispose of him; the kidnapper turns out to be Killer Croc.

In the episode "The Man who Killed Batman", the titular character, small-time criminal Sidney Debris, begs Thorne to smuggle him out of Gotham to escape from people on both sides of the law who are after him for supposedly killing Batman. Sidney recounts his story which started with his role in Thorne's failed drug racket and ended with a near-fatal encounter with the Joker. Thorne refuses to believe that Sidney is a victim of mere circumstance (or that stupid) and believes that he is trying to move his way into his business. Thorne prepares to kill him when Batman (who was alive all along) appears and knocks him out.

The episode "Paging The Crime Doctor" reveals that Thorne employs his younger brother Dr. Matthew Thorne, who lost his license when he was caught performing an unlicensed operation, as a back-alley surgeon, reluctantly treating the wounds that Rupert's goons suffer while working for him. While reluctantly performing medicine on gangsters as the "Crime Doctor," he surgically removes a benign tumor from Rupert's heart, with the help of his colleague Dr. Leslie Thompkins, under the condition that his brother would use his connections to reinstate Matthew's medical license. After the surgery, however, Matthew turns on Rupert when the elder Thorne tries to kill Thompkins to prevent her from going to the police. Matthew turns himself in to the police in the aftermath, leaving Thorne's fate in the episode unknown.

In the episode "Bane", Thorne hires the titular masked criminal to assassinate Batman. Unbeknownst to Thorne, his moll Candice is conspiring with Bane to kill him as well so they can run the city's underworld. After Batman defeats Bane by severing the tubing that pumps the Venom steroids into his body, he sends the hired killer to Thorne, beaten and noticeably smaller, along with an audio recording of his treasonous conversations with Candice.

In "Second Chance," Thorne is one of the primary suspects in Two-Face's kidnapping. Robin plans to interrogate Thorne, but he is captured by Thorne's men and brought before the mob boss himself. While Thorne denies any involvement in Two-Face's kidnapping, he sends his men to throw Robin off a bridge, although Robin breaks free and knocks his would-be murderers into the river.

The Batman[]

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Rupert Thorne in The Batman.

Rupert Thorne is featured in The Batman voiced by Victor Brandt. He appears in "The Bat in the Belfry" as one of Gotham's most powerful gangsters. Batman foils one of his scams, however, and corners him on a rooftop. Thorne nearly falls to his death off the roof, but Batman saves his life before turning him and his henchmen over to the police. He also makes a cameo in the episode "A Matter of Family". In "Rumors", he is shown to be one of the titular character's captives, only to later escape with Hugo Strange and Catwoman. Thorne would later on appear in the Batman Strikes comics where he pays a corrupt police officer to break Mr. Freeze out of Arkham Asylum so Thorne's men would loot the town and rob all the businesses while Batman, Ellen Yin, Chief Alejandro Rojas, and the rest of the GCPD were kept busy with Freeze.

Thorne would also later on manipulate the Ventriloquist and Scarface into trying to kill Batman. Thorne eventually saw his criminal empire was falling apart, so he recruited Dr. Lopez, the scientist who created Bane, to produce an army of supervillains and makes a deal with Bruno Mannheim to manufacture them in order to stabilize his empire. Thorne would eventually use Bane as muscle when operating as a bookie and to protect his shipments from Hotwire.

Film[]

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In the original script for the 1989 film Batman, written by Tom Mankiewicz, Rupert Thorne hires Joe Chill to murder Bruce Wayne's father Thomas (who is running against Thorne for city council). He was replaced by Carl Grissom.

Rupert Thorne's most major appearance in the DC Animated Universe continuity outside Batman: The Animated Series is the direct-to-DVD movie, Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman (based on The New Batman Adventures) with John Vernon reprising his role. He works with Penguin and Carlton Duquesne in an arms deal with the President of Kasnia. The three are also allied with Bane, although there is no mention of Bane's previous allegiance with Thorne. Of the three Batwomen, Thorne shares a personal history with Sonia

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Alcana whose life he ruined when he ordered her parents' shop burned down when she was still a child. Thorne had escaped punishment due to lack of evidence, although everyone knew he was the one behind it. In the end, Thorne is proven guilty for his role in the arms deal and sent to prison, most likely for life.

Video games[]

Rupert Thorne appears in the video game The Adventures of Batman & Robin for the Sega CD, once again voiced by John Vernon. Clayface takes on Thorne's shape while the real Thorne is on vacation using the gangster's money to hire other supervillains in a plot to kill Batman.

Rupert Thorne exists in the 'Arkham' universe, as he is referenced in Batman: Arkham Origins (2013). One of Engima's Datapacks is a phone conversation between Anarky and Commissioner Gordon, in which Anarky bemoans the fact that Gotham is owned by people 'like Rupert Thorne'.

Miscellaneous[]

Rupert Thorne plays a larger role in The Batman Strikes!, a comic book based in the continuity of the show. In one issue, he works with Bruno Mannheim to create an army of supervillains based on Bane, Man-Bat, and Firefly. Rupert Thorn, Mannheim, and their creations are defeated by Batman and Superman.

Relationships[]

Allies[]

  • Hamilton Hill (formerly)
  • GCPD (formerly)
  • Gillian Loeb (formerly)
  • Arnold Flass (formerly)
  • Michael Wuertz (the)
  • Roland Daggett (formerly)
  • Maroni family (formerly)
  • Falcone family (formerly)
  • Riddler (formerly)
  • Penguin (formerly)
  • Black Mask (formerly)
  • Corrupt politicians of Gotham
  • Corrupt cops of Gotham
  • Corrupt business owners of Gotham
  • Mafia's and Mobsters of Gotham
  • Criminals of Gotham

Enemies[]

  • Batman
  • James Gordon
  • Harvey Bullock
  • GCPD
  • Aaron Cash
  • Sarah Essen
  • Batgirl
  • Nightwing
  • Robin
  • Birds of Prey
  • Black Mask
  • Roland Daggett
  • Riddler
  • Two-Face
  • Mr. Freeze
  • Joker
  • Harley Quinn
  • Penguin
  • Bane
  • Killer Croc
  • Victor Zsasz
  • Calendar Man
  • Catwoman
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Batman Unlimited: Monster Mayhem: Joker | Scarecrow | Clayface | Silver Banshee | Solomon Gruny
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Batman and Harley Quinn: Harley Quinn | Poison Ivy | Floronic Man
Batman vs. Two-Face: Two-Face | Hugo Strange | Catwoman | King Tut | Bookworm | Joker | Penguin | Riddler | Clock King | Egghead | Mr. Freeze | Shame | Harley Quinn
Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold: Riddler | Clayface | Joker | Mr. Freeze | Catwoman | Penguin | Harley Quinn | Poison Ivy
Batman: Gotham by Gaslight: Jack the Ripper | Barbara-Eileen Gordon | Selina Kyle | Harvey Dent | Hugo Strange
Batman Ninja: Joker | Harley Quinn | Catwoman | Gorilla Grodd | Bane | Penguin | Poison Ivy | Deathstroke | Two-Face
Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Foot Clan (Shredder & Baxter Stockman) | League of Assassins (Ra's al Ghul & Ubu) | Joker | Penguin | Harley Quinn | Mr. Freeze | Scarecrow | Two-Face | Poison Ivy | Bane
Batman: Hush: Riddler/Hush | Catwoman | Poison Ivy | Bane | Joker | Harley Quinn | Clayface | Scarecrow | Lex Luthor | Lady Shiva | Two-Face | Penguin | Mr. Freeze | Thomas Elliot
Batman: Death in the Family: Jason Todd | Joker | Black Mask | Ra's al Ghul | Riddler | Talia al Ghul | Cheetah | Two-Face
Batman: Soul of the Dragon: Nāga | Kobra (Jeffery Burr, Schlangenfaust, Lady Eve, King Snake & Rip Jagger) | Ben Turner | Shiva | Richard Dragon | Jade
Batman: The Long Halloween: Holiday | Falcone Crime Family (Carmine Falcone, Milos Grapa, Alberto Falcone, Johnny Viti & Sofia Falcone) | Two-Face | Joker | Solomon Grundy | Salvatore Maroni | Poison Ivy | Penguin | Scarecrow | Mad Hatter | San Ho Hui (Mickey Chen) | Calendar Man | Catwoman
Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons: Starro | Lex Luthor | Penguin
Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham: Iog-Sotha | League of Assassins (Ra's al Ghul, Talia al Ghul, Killer Croc and Poison Ivy)
Merry Little Batman: Joker | Poison Ivy | Bane | Penguin | Mr. Freeze | Riddler | Scarecrow | Francine and Terry

Television
Batman (1943)
Prince Daka

Batman and Robin (1949)
The Wizard | Wizards Henchmen

Batman 60s show
Joker | Penguin | Catwoman | Riddler | Mr. Freeze | The Archer | Black Widow | Bookworm | Egghead | Clock King | Queenie Goldstein | Sandman | Dr. Cassandra Spellcraft | Cabala | Minstrel | Shame | False Face | The Siren | Undine | Chandell & Harry | King Tut | Louie the Lilac | Mad Hatter | Cornelia | Baby Jane Towser | Lydia Limpet | Zelda the Great | The Puzzler | Olga, Queen of Cossacks | Marsha, Queen of Diamonds | Lord Marmaduke Ffogg | Lady Penelope Peasoup | Ma Parker | Freddy the Fence | Lola Lasagne | Nora Clavicle | Colonel Gumm | Minerva | Killer Moth | Calamity Jan

1970s Filmation series
Joker | Catwoman | Penguin | Riddler | Clayface | Mr Freese | Sweet Tooth

Batman: The Animated Series/The New Batman Adventures
Joker | Harley Quinn | Poison Ivy | Ra's al Ghul | Talia al Ghul | Two-Face | Penguin | Catwoman | Riddler | Scarecrow | Killer Croc | Clayface | Mr. Freeze | Bane | Mad Hatter | Man-Bat | Ventriloquist and Scarface | Phantasm | Firefly | Clock King | Baby Doll | Rupert Thorne | Boxy Bennett | Buzz Bronski | Carlton Duquesne | Chuckie Sol | Salvatore Valestra | Sidney Debris | Tony Zucco | Cameron Kaiser | Daniel Mockridge | Grant Walker | Maxie Zeus | Roland Daggett | Hugo Strange | Lloyd Ventrix | Kyodai Ken | Emile Dorian | Red Claw | Boss Biggis | Sewer King | Professor Milo | Arkady Duvall | Count Vertigo | Ferris Boyle | Arnold Stromwell | Condiment King | Calendar Girl | Farmer Brown | Lock-Up | Montague Kane | Roxy Rocket | King Barlowe | Barlowe's bodyguard | Klarion | Arthur Reeves | Gil Mason | J. Carrol Corcoran | Mad Bomber | Dr. Gregory Belson | Bud and Lou | Captain Clown | Mo, Lar, and Cur | Murphy | Rocco and Henshaw | H.A.R.D.A.C. | Randa Duane | Batman Clone | Susan Maguire | Michael Vreeland | Crocker | Nitro | Raymond Bell | Candice

The Batman (2004)
Joker | Penguin | Bane | Catwoman | Mr. Freeze | Ethan Bennett | Killer Croc | Man-Bat | Firefly | Riddler | Punch & Judy | Kabuki Twins | Hugo Strange | Cluemaster | Cluemaster's Henchmen | Ragdoll | Temblor | Poison Ivy | Tony Zucco | Count Vertigo | Harley Quinn | Maxie Zeus | Basil Karlo | Gearhead | Francis Grey | Killer Moth | D.A.V.E. | Dracula | Rumor | Toyman | Mirror Master | Lex Luthor | Black Mask | Sinestro | Joker 2.0 | Prank | Killgore Steed | Team Penguin | Julie | Spellbinder | Blaze | The Joining | Cosmo Krank | Marty Slacker | Nolan | Scorn | Wrath | Metallo | Shadow-Thief | Mercy Graves

Batman: The Brave and The Bold
Joker | Music Meister | Catwoman | Penguin | Mr. Freeze | Clayface | Riddler | Poison Ivy | Lex Luthor | Flower Children | Fun Haus | Harley Quinn | Morgaine Le Fey | Sweet Tooth | Queenie Goldstein | Bane | Kite Man | Black Manta | Ocean Master | Gentleman Ghost | Major Force | Mirror Master | Metallo | Brainiac | Flamingo | Mr. Mxyzptlk | Star Sapphire | Toyman | Thinker | Doctor Sivana | Mister Mind | Black Adam | Baby Face | Dee Dee Twins

Beware the Batman
Anarky | Ra's al Ghul | Deathstroke | Harvey Dent | Killer Croc | Simon Stagg | Professor Pyg and Mr. Toad | Man-Bat | Cypher | Magpie | Lady Shiva | Tobias Whale | Phosphorus Rex | Lunkhead | Humpty Dumpty | Silver Monkey | Key | Bethany Ravencroft | Daedalus Boch | Junkyard Dog | Sapphire Stagg | Matatoa | Anatol Mykros

Harley Quinn
Harley Quinn | Poison Ivy | Joker | Scarecrow | Queen of Fables | Darkseid | Parademons | Penguin | Mr. Freeze | Bane | Lex Luthor | Killer Croc | Man-Bat | Riddler | Deadshot | Calendar Man | Condiment King | Solomon Grundy | Kite Man | Doctor Psycho | Clayface | King Shark | Nora Fries | Sy Borgman | Doctor Trap | Frank the Plant | Felix Faust | Toyman | Metallo | Livewire | Parasite | Black Adam | Captain Cold | Gorilla Grodd | Black Manta | Cheetah | Giganta | Sinestro | Maxie Zeus | Eris | KGBeast | Two-Face | Catwoman | Nick Quinzel | Sharon Quinzel | Suicide Squad (Amanda Waller) | Clock King | Firefly | Court of Owls

Batwheels
Joker | Harley Quinn | Catwoman | Penguin | Mr. Freeze | Riddler | Toyman | Poison Ivy | Kitka | The Legion of Zoom (The Badcomputer, Crash, Prank, Ducky, Jestah, Quizz, & Snowy)

Gotham Knights
Court of Owls (Rebecca March, Lincoln March, Cressida Clarke, Hamilton Hill, & Talon) | Mutants (Vernon Wagner) | Two-Face | Gotham City Police Department (Detective Ford) | Dylan McKillen | Arthur Brown | Crystal Brown

Video Games
Gotham Knights
Court of Owls (Jacob Kane, Constance Cobblepot & Talons) | League of Shadows (Ra's al Ghul, Talia al Ghul & Man-Bat Commandos) | Gotham City Police Department (Catherine Kane) | Penguin | Harley Quinn | Mr. Freeze | Clayface

See Also
Arkhamverse Villains | Batgirl Villains | Batman Beyond Villains | Batwoman Villains | Birds of Prey Villains | Catwoman Villains | Gotham Villains | Harley Quinn Villains | Injustice Villains | LEGO DC Villains | LEGO Dimensions Villains | Nightwing Villains | Outsiders Villains | Red Hood Villains | Robin Villains | Telltale Batman Villains | The LEGO Movie Villains

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Comics
Abbadonia | Alice | Amygdala | Bane | The Batman Who Laughs | Black Mask | Bloody Mary | Bruno Mannheim | Catwoman | Christopher Falchion | Court of Owls | Cutter | Deathstroke | Delores Winters | Duela Dent | The Drowned | Firefly | Fright | Green Fairy | Harley Quinn | Hugo Strange | Hush | Intergang | Joker | Killer Croc | Killer Moth | Killshot | Kobra Cult | Kyle Abbot | La Llorona | Lamprey | Mad Hatter | Many Arms of Death | Maro Ito | Medusa | Morgaine Le Fey | Mortician | Mr. Freeze | Nathan Grantham | Nocturna | Night-Thief | Nyx | Penguin | Poison Ivy | Professor Pyg | Ra's al Ghul | Religion of Crime | Riddler | Rush | Scarecrow | Scatter | Scorpiana | Sister Shard | Tahani | Talia al Ghul | Two-Face | Victor Zsasz | Whisper A'Daire | Wolf Spider

Movies
Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman: Penguin | Bane | Rupert Thorne | Carlton Duquesne
Batman: Bad Blood: League of Assassins (Talia al Ghul, The Heretic, Onyx, Firefly, Tusk, Mad Hatter, Electrocutioner, Hellhound, Calculator, & Killer Moth) | Black Mask

Television
Season 1: Wonderland Gang (Alice, Jonathan Cartwright, & Chuck Dodgson) | August Cartwright | Hush | Crows Security (Catherine Hamilton-Kane & Miguel Robles) | Magpie | The Executioner | The Rifle | Anti-Monitor | Monitor | Lex Luthor | Bruce Wayne (Earth-99) | Shadow Demons | Nocturna | Duela Dent | Mabel Cartwright | Johnny Sabatino | Tim Teslow | Safiyah Sohail | Joker
Season 2: Many Arms of Death (Safiyah Sohail, Tatiana, The Pike, & Dire-Flail) | False Face Society (Black Mask, Rudy, & Circe Sionis) | Alice | Enigma | Crows Security (Russell Tavaroff & Miller) | Ethan Rogers | Hush | Victor Zsasz | Candy Lady | Amygdala | Ellis O'Brien | Kilovolt | Cluemaster | Gotham City Police Department | Wonderland Gang (Jonathan Cartwright) | Catherine Hamilton-Kane | Joker
Season 3: Marquis Jet | Alice | Poison Ivy | Mary Hamilton | Liam Crandle | Killer Croc | Professor Pyg | Victor Zsasz | Kiki Roulette | Joker | Jonathan Cartwright | Black Glove Society (Virgil Getty)

Injustice
Superman | Brainiac | Wonder Woman

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