| “ | What kind of gamesmen wouldn't follow his own rules? | „ |
| ~ Toyman to Lois Lane in "Prophecy". |
Winslow Schott, dubbed the Toyman by the media, is a supporting antagonist in the CW TV series Smallville. He appeared as the secondary antagonist in the Eighth Season episode "Requiem", the main antagonist in both the Ninth Season episode "Echo" and the Tenth Season episode "Prophecy".
He is the leader of Marionette Ventures, a terrorist, and former Queen Industries employee who was hired by Lex Luthor to create Kryptonite bombs around Metropolis to get revenge against their common enemy, Oliver Queen, but was thwarted by "The Blur". Toyman escaped and reappeared a year later using hostages strapped to a bomb to keep The Blur busy while he attempted to exact his revenge on Oliver Queen for framing him for Lex Luthor's murder. However, he is again defeated and incarcerated on Stryker's Island.
He was portrayed by the late Chris Gauthier who also portrayed Mr. Smee in Once Upon a Time.
Personality[]
Even when he was working for Queen Industries as a scientist, Winslow was always child-minded and immature as he was taking toys to work despite being a grown man, and even started putting explosives in them which got him fired. After he got fired, he became very angry and vengeful towards Oliver and was also shown to be quite obssesive towards mechanical objects.
Biography[]
Background[]
Winslow Schott is depicted as a toymaker and former Queen Industries employee with a grudge against Oliver Queen. He was a scientific inventor at STAR Labs who was hired by Oliver to work for Queen Industries. A great mind, though a bit eccentric, he expressed his individuality by bringing toys to work. However, he went too far when he began putting explosives in them, which lead to his immediate termination from the company.
Season 8[]
He is later revealed to be working for Lex Luthor disfigured, partially crippled, and hiding in a mobile base. He speaks to Luthor through a camera and microphone concealed in a wooden doll's head, and used toys such as an exploding Newton's cradle, knockout gas-filled Mylar balloons, and an explosive cymbal-clanging monkey. After he failed twice to kill Oliver, he escaped police custody. Oliver destroyed Lex's mobile base with one of the Toyman's toys in order to frame Schott, which forced him to become a fugitive. While Clark Kent referred to him as the "Toyman", Schott was mostly referred to as the Toymaker and the "Toyboy".
Season 9[]
In the season nine episode, "Echo", referred to as the Toyman by himself, Clark, Chloe Sullivan, and the Daily Planet, Schott attempted to test Clark by saving a group of hostages he had kidnapped from a bomb, which Clark succeeded in doing. Later in the episode, he attempted to kill Oliver once more after being framed for Lex's demise. After Schott is apprehended and faced with solitary confinement, Tess Mercer visited Schott in jail to give him John Corben's kryptonite-powered heart to study. This episode also featured an android version of Schott that was used in his plot.
Season 10[]
The Toyman makes his final appearance in the penultimate episode "Prophecy". Despite still being in jail, he created Marionette Ventures, an organization composed of Metallo, Roulette, the Dark Archer, Black Manta, Captain Cold and Solomon Grundy that worked to control Smallville's waterfront properties. The Toyman used a brainwashed Courtney Whitmore to do his organization's bidding. Following a series of failures with one of them controlling Lois Lane, Clark confronted the Toyman, broke his special cellphone, and assured him he would always stop him.
Season 11[]
Winslow Schott and Hiro Okamura are featured in the Smallville Season 11 digital comic based on the TV series.
At LexCorp R&D, Superman and Lex are all forced to be friendly-like as Lex analyzes the teleportation vest used by some criminals in a hostage situation and admits the technology is his, but that it was stolen during a series of robberies made on Lexcorp and other companies, one of which was foiled way back by the Green Arrow and Superman. Lex surmises that whoever created these teleportation vests using all that stolen technology would have to be very familiar with Lexcorp's patents and proprietary coding. This leads Superman to Stryker's Island prison and Winslow who is still incarcerated and seemingly not a suspect, according to Warden Draper, since he has been under constant supervision in "hyper-solitary".
Lois Lane arrives at Stryker's Island to question the Toyman about the Prankster. The Toyman reveals that the Prankster is just a pathetic imitation of him; they worked together in the Queen Industries Research and Development Department before the Toyman started working for Lex. Winslow then asks Lois if Lex asked about him since his return, which leads Lois to retort that the Toyman must rank pretty low, since his memory has been removed. The Toyman reveals that Oswald has no sense of gamesmanship, would cheat whenever he could and had stolen his idea for kryptonite bullets. It is later revealed Schott modified John Corben's kryptonite heart, giving Corben the power to absorb the kryptonite radiation once Schott has re-installed it.
Quotes[]
| “ | The world moves so fast today, People forget how much better they had it as kids... when hours seemed like days, and a favorite toy could be a child's best friend. | „ |
| ~ Toyman. |
| “ | I don't need your money anymore, Mr. Queen. I've found someone new to work with... someone who appreciates my genius. None other than Lex Luthor himself. | „ |
| ~ Toyman to Oliver Queen. |
| “ | To my esteemed members of Marionette Enterprises I bid you... hello. If you'd be so kind as to pass your mission folders to one another, you'll find pertinent information on each of your targets. Now I know it might feel like cheating to know what cards the other side is holding, but we can ill afford to lose. Not now. Not when we're this close to bringing Metropolis to its knees and getting what we deserve. And with the help of our newest associate, we'll finally take control of the Metropolis aquifer. We will bleed their pockets dry until the parched populace is dancing for us like puppets on a string. In fact, she's taking care of The Blur right now. We are going to have SO MUCH FUN!! | „ |
| ~ Winslow Schott to the assembled Marionette Ventures. |
| “ | What's to say I just don't tell the whole world who you really are? | „ |
| ~ Toyman to Clark Kent. |
External Links[]
- Toyman on the Smallville Wiki
