Batman: Arkham Asylum/Codex/Character Bios

A total of 42 character biographies can be unlocked in Batman: Arkham Asylum. These biographies can be unlocked by solving certain Riddler challenges or through story progression.

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When his parents were gunned down in front of him, young Bruce Wayne resolved to rid Gotham City of the criminal element that took their lives. He trained extensively to achieve physical and mental perfection, in addition to mastering martial arts, detective techniques, and criminal psychology. Dressing as a bat to prey on criminals' fears, Batman fights crime with the aid of specialized gadgets and vehicles, operating out of his secret Batcave below Wayne Manor.

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 * Real Name: Bruce Wayne
 * Occupation: CEO/Philanthropist
 * Base of Operations: Gotham City
 * Eyes: Blue
 * Hair: Black
 * Height: 6 ft 2 in
 * Weight: 210 lb
 * First Appearance: Detective Comics #27 (May, 1939)

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 * Trained to physical and mental peak
 * Arsenal of gadgets, vehicles, and advanced technology
 * Inventor, detective, genius-level intelligence
 * Expert in most known forms of martial arts
 * Trained in all aspects of criminology
 * Mastery of the physical sciences
 * Computer expert
 * Master of disguise
 * Photographic memory
 * Trained in stealth and espionage techniques
 * Expert escape artist

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An insanely homicidal super-villain, the Joker's white skin, green hair, and blood-red lips belie the chaotic nature underlying his cartoonish appearance. The self-style Crown Prince of Crime has no superpowers beyond a capacity for incredible violence and a skill at creating deadly mayhem. He frequently concocts elaborate schemes to entrap his arch nemesis, Batman.

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 * Real Name: Unknown
 * Occupation: Professional Criminal
 * Base of Operations: Gotham City
 * Eyes: Green
 * Hair: Green
 * Height: 6 ft
 * Weight: 160 lb
 * First Appearance: Batman #1 (Spring, 1940)

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 * Unrepentant homicidal maniac, albeit without a precise psychological diagnosis
 * Surprisingly strong hand-to-hand combatant
 * His past is unknown; conflicting, unconfirmed reports state that he was a failed comedian, a petty thief, and a broken family man
 * Employs various deadly weapons, often based on party gag items
 * Frequently uses a toxin that stretches victim's face into a Joker-like grin and causes death

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Quincy Sharp has been running Arkham Asylum for the past three years and has dedicated his life to restoring to sanity the so-called super-villains that plague Gotham City. He is currently campaigning to become the next mayor of Gotham; to facilitate this campaign, he instigated stringent new security and experimental research policies at Arkham.

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 * Real Name: Quincy Sharp
 * Occupation: Warden of Arkham Asylum
 * Base of Operations: Gotham City
 * Eyes: Blue
 * Hair: Gray
 * Height: 5 ft 8 in
 * Weight: 190 lb
 * First Appearance: Batman: Arkham Asylum (Summer, 2009)

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 * Intense dedication to "cleaning up" Arkham
 * Pompous and old-fashioned in demeanor, with a focus on his own political aspirations
 * Contempt for Arkham inmates and disinterest in the specifics of their treatment masks a cowardly nature

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Frank has been working at Arkham for eight years. He has twice been suspended for drinking on the job and regularly holds poker evenings in the guard rooms. Frank is desperate to be the top dog at Arkham; he fails to recognize that he is considered untrustworthy and generally disliked.

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 * Real Name: Frank Boles
 * Occupation: Arkham Asylum Guard
 * Base of Operations: Gotham City
 * Eyes: Brown
 * Hair: Black
 * Height: 6 ft
 * Weight: 185 lb
 * First Appearance: Batman: Arkham Asylum (Summer, 2009)

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 * Arrogant belief that he is the best guard in Arkham Asylum
 * Uses sarcasm to cover up insecurities and failures
 * Violent temper has resulted in many injuries to patients

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Born with a rare mutation that made his skin green and scaly and grew his body to grotesque proportions, Waylon Jones was raised by an alcoholic aunt and bullied relentlessly for his appearance. He briefly worked as a carnival freak under the name Killer Croc, but his misanthropy grew as did his bestial nature, pushing him to a life of crime. As his physical condition and mental state deteriorate, Killer Croc becomes a more bestial foe, increasingly detached from humanity.

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 * Real Name: Waylon Jones
 * Occupation: Alligator Wrestler, Gangster, Murderer
 * Base of Operations: Mobile
 * Eyes: Yellow
 * Hair: None
 * Height: 11 ft
 * Weight: 580 lb
 * First Appearance: Batman #357 (January, 1984)

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 * Killer Croc has incredibly thick, tough skin and razor-sharp teeth and claws
 * An expert wrestler, his strength and stamina are at a near-superhuman level
 * Heightened senses and extremely fast reflexes
 * Able to survive in water for extended periods of time
 * An intense hatred of humanity

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An Arkham Asylum psychiatrist assigned to treat The Joker, Dr. Harleen Quinzel instead became obsessively fixated on her patient, believing herself to be in love with him. She helped him escape confinement and took on her own criminal identity as Harley Quinn. Quinn is a violent and unpredictable felon whose only motivation, beyond general mayhem, is achieving The Joker's approval. Because of his cruel and mercurial nature, this in some ways makes her just another of his victims, albeit a very dangerous one.

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 * Real Name: Dr. Harleen Quinzel
 * Occupation: Professional Criminal
 * Base of Operations: Gotham City
 * Eyes: Blue
 * Hair: Blonde
 * Height: 5 ft 7 in
 * Weight: 140 lb
 * First Appearance: Batman: Harley Quinn #1 (October, 1999)

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 * Surprising strength and stamina
 * Superior gymnastic skills
 * Total disregard for human life
 * Like The Joker, she is a homicidal psychotic who escapes easy classification

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The Penguin, one of Batman's oldest foes, is an eccentric criminal mastermind, known as much for his love of ornithology and trick umbrellas as for his shady business dealings. Gotham's popular Iceberg Lounge serves as Cobblepot's front for a number of illegal financial activities that much of the city's underworld. Despite his short stature, the Penguin is a wily foe whose umbrellas conceal a variety of deadly weapons and gadgets.

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 * Real Name: Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot
 * Occupation: Restaurateur / Racketeer
 * Base of Operations: Gotham City
 * Eyes: Blue
 * Hair: Brown
 * Height: 5 ft 2 in
 * Weight: 175 lb
 * First Appearance: Detective Comics #58 (December, 1941)

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 * Criminal and financial mastermind
 * Expert hand-to-hand combatant
 * Driven by a need to prove himself in spite of his comical appearance
 * Employs various weapons, many based on umbrellas and birds

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District attorney Harvey Dent was one of Batman's strongest allies in Gotham City, until a criminal threw acid in Dent's face, hideously scarring him. The wounds fractured his psyche, and he was reborn as a schizoid criminal mastermind, obsessed with duality. His former good-luck charm, a "two-headed" trick silver dollar, was damaged on one side in the attack, and Dent had seized on it as a reflection of his half-scarred visage. He flips it to decide the fate of his victims. Despite Batman's efforts to reform his former ally, Dent is consumed by his fixation on chance, and his crimes are designed to prove out his diametric philosophy.

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 * Real Name: Harvey Dent
 * Occupation: Professional Criminal
 * Base of Operations: Gotham City
 * Eyes: Blue
 * Hair: Brown / Grey
 * Height: 6 ft
 * Weight: 182 lb
 * First Appearance: Detective Comics #66 (August, 1942)

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 * Hideously scarred on one side of his face, which he plays up with clothing that's differently styled on one side
 * Extremely skilled with his weapon of choice: twin .45 automatics
 * Psychotic obsession with duality, designing crimes around the number two
 * Defers to his half-scarred coin in choices of life or death

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A dark reflection of Batman, Prometheus was raised by criminals, who were gunned down by policemen right in front of him. Dedicating his life to destroying the law, Prometheus traveled the world and trained in the ways of murder. Clad in an armored suit that maximizes his natural skills, he is a master assassin whose physical and mental abilities rival Batman's own.

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 * Real Name: Unknown
 * Occupation: Professional Criminal
 * Base of Operations: Gotham City
 * Eyes: Brown
 * Hair: White
 * Height: 6 ft
 * Weight: 180 lb
 * First Appearance: Prometheus #1 (December, 1997)

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 * Pathological need to kill law officers
 * Trained to peak physical and mental level
 * Arsenal of weapons and deadly gadgets

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A crooked financier who stole millions of dollars, Warren White thought he'd scored a legal victory when his insanity plea went through. But when he got to Arkham Asylum, he realized his mistake; driven insane by the other inmates, he was also disfigured by an encounter with Mr. Freeze that left him without hair, a nose, ears, or lips. Calling himself the Great White Shark, he filed his teeth into fangs to more perfectly resemble his new namesake. Putting his financial skills to use, he has become a major player in Gotham's underground crime scene, running a number of rackets from his cell in Arkham.

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 * Real Name: Warren White
 * Occupation: Professional Criminal
 * Base of Operations: Gotham City
 * Eyes: Brown
 * Hair: None
 * Height: 5 ft 11 in
 * Weight: 180 lb
 * First Appearance: Arkham Asylum: Living Hell #1 (July, 2003)

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 * Brilliant financial skills, which he uses for a variety of criminal purposes
 * Scarred visage that makes him resemble a shark
 * Teeth sharpened to points

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Arnold Wesker was a timid orphan whose deep repression erupted in a barroom brawl, resulting in him being sent to Blackgate Prison. There he encountered the puppet Scarface, and promptly murdered the man who'd carved the puppet. The two are now inseparable, with Scarface directing a series of criminal activities. While most believe that Wesker is simply acting out a second personality through the puppet, Wesker sees himself as a reluctant lackey who merely does his puppet's bidding.

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 * Real Name: Arnold Wesker
 * Occupation: Professional Criminal
 * Base of Operations: Gotham City
 * Eyes: Blue
 * Hair: Brown
 * Height: 5 ft 7 in
 * Weight: 142 lb
 * First Appearance: Detective Comics #583 (February, 1988)

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 * Delusional schizophrenic with multiple personality disorder
 * Obsessed with his puppet, Scarface, whom he puppeteers with unsettling skill
 * When teamed with Scarface, the two operate as a criminal mastermind

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First gaining fame as a psychiatrist who declared that he'd fully analyzed the Dark Knight from afar, Professor Hugo Strange lent credence to his own claims by deducing Batman's true identity as Bruce Wayne. However, his interest in the Batman turned into a deranged obsession, and he's used his medical expertise to hatch a series of bizarre plots based around genetics and mind control in order to defeat the Batman and possibly take his place. Strange's fragile mental state has left him with intermittent knowledge of Batman's true identity, a fact that hangs over Bruce Wayne's head - for if Strange ever snaps completely, Batman's greatest secret might be revealed...

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 * Real Name: Professor Hugo Strange
 * Occupation: Psychiatrist
 * Base of Operations: Gotham City
 * Eyes: Grey
 * Hair: None
 * Height: 5 ft 10 in
 * Weight: 160 lb
 * First Appearance: Detective Comics #36 (February, 1940)

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 * Trained to physical perfection
 * Brilliant psychological analyst
 * Extensive knowledge of genetics
 * Obsessed with Batman and Batman's true identity
 * Plagued by schizophrenic episodes that leave him confused and dangerous

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Following the suspicious death of his multi-millionaire parents in a fire, Roman Sionis inherited their fortune and went on to bankrupt their company. Saved by a buyout by Bruce Wayne, Sionis came to resent and hate Wayne. Fixated on the concept of masks, Sionis carved one from his father's black coffin and sought revenge; the ensuing battle with the Dark Knight caused the mask to be burnt into his skin, remaking him as the Black Mask. Sionis is now a feared gang leader and one of the most powerful mob bosses in Gotham, with a burning hatred of the Batman.

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 * Real Name: Roman Sionis
 * Occupation: Professional Criminal
 * Base of Operations: Gotham City
 * Eyes: Brown
 * Hair: None
 * Height: 6 ft 1 in
 * Weight: 195 lb
 * First Appearance: Batman #386 (August, 1985)

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 * Obsessed with masks
 * Harbors a hatred of Batman and Bruce Wayne
 * Face resembles a black skull
 * Feared and powerful mob boss
 * Skilled marksman, known for his double handguns

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Fixated on the calendar, Julian Day became Calendar Man, a villain who timed and tied his crimes thematically to certain holidays throughout the year, often leaving clues by which he could be caught. Gotham City's hopes for a day off are often clouded by the knowledge that any holiday of note is likely to be shadowed by Calendar Man's presence.

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 * Real Name: Julian Day
 * Occupation: Professional Criminal
 * Base of Operations: Gotham City
 * Eyes: Blue
 * Hair: Brown
 * Height: 6 ft 3 in
 * Weight: 175 lb
 * First Appearance: Detective Comics #259 (September, 1958)

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 * Obsessed with quirks of the calendar
 * Carefully plans and themes crimes around holidays

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Drury Walker was a minor criminal who adopted the identity of Cameron Van Cleer, a master criminal who in turn masqueraded as the costumed super-villain Killer Moth. He is a hired gun for Gotham's gangsters, but his ingenious weaponry, including his cocoon gun, does not protect him from regular defeats at the hands of the Batman.

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 * Real Name: Drury Walker AKA Cameron Van Cleer
 * Occupation: Professional Criminal
 * Base of Operations: Gotham City
 * Eyes: Brown
 * Hair: Brown
 * Height: 5 ft 9 in
 * Weight: 155 lb
 * First Appearance:Batman #63 (March, 1951)

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 * Obsessed with fame and identity change
 * Skilled inventor
 * Amoral, and motivated by feelings of insecurity and inadequacy into criminal activities in an attempt at notoriety

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Once employed as an actual rat catcher in Gotham, Otis Flannegan soon started using his natural gift - an affinity with and ability to control rats - to stage a variety of crimes. Eventually his control over the vermin grew until he threatened Gotham City with a veritable army of rodents. Incarcerated many times at Blackgate, he's able to do as much damage within prison as without, using his loyal pets to relay messages and transport materials inside the maze of ventilation ducts that wind throughout the giant prison.

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 * Real Name: Otis Flannegan
 * Occupation: Professional Criminal
 * Base of Operations: Gotham City
 * Eyes: Blue
 * Hair: Brown
 * Height: 5 ft 11 in
 * Weight: 155 lb
 * First Appearance: Detective Comics #585 (April, 1988)

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 * Through knowledge of Gotham's sewer system and Blackgate Prison's layout
 * Eerie ability to communicate with and command all rats
 * Overvalues rodent life, especially in comparison to human life

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A pyromaniac, Garfield Lynns began as a petty criminal but soon graduated to major crimes centered around arson, torching huge parts of Gotham in the process. But his fires soon blazed out of his control, leaving him horribly scarred by one of his own blazes. His body is almost fully covered in burns, and he now wears a full-body flame-retardant suit when he's out pursuing his criminal interests between bouts of incarceration in Blackgate.

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 * Real Name: Garfield Lynns
 * Occupation: Professional Criminal
 * Base of Operations: Gotham City
 * Eyes: Blue
 * Hair: White with black temples
 * Height: 5 ft 11 in
 * Weight: 165 lb
 * First Appearance: Detective Comics #184 (June, 1952)

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 * Thorough knowledge of flammable agents
 * Extensive arsenal of fire-creating weapons
 * Scarred over 90% of his body
 * Sociopath with intense pyromania

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Amadeus Arkham founded the Elizabeth Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane, naming it after his mother, whom he euthanized as treatment for her dementia. Building it on the old grounds of his family's historic mansion on the outskirts of Gotham, Amadeus personally treated its first patient - Martin "Mad Dog" Hawkins, who had killed Amadeus's wife and daughter. After administering fatal electro-shock treatments to Hawkins, Amadeus lost all grip on his sanity and was admitted to his own institution.

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 * Real Name: Amadeus Arkham
 * Occupation: Psychiatrist
 * Base of Operations: Gotham City
 * Eyes: Blue
 * Hair: Brown
 * Height: 5 ft 11 in
 * Weight: 175 lb
 * First Appearance: Batman #258 (October, 1974)

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 * Highly respected psychiatrist, until his fall to insanity
 * Heir to the Arkham land and fortune
 * Delusional schizophrenic

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