Once again, Tetch was stopped by Batman, but not before using his advanced equipment to feed information from Fox's mind into his computer. Tetch has even kidnapped Lucius Fox of Wayne Enterprises and held him for ransom.
In actuality, he had escaped by jumping onto a truck that had been passing underneath the bridge. When Batman overcomes his attackers, Tetch flees and appears to die on a bridge under the wheels of a train. Jervis occasionally allied with other villains in an attempt to kill Batman, using a mind controlling hat on Scarecrow, forcing the villain to fight. Īlong with Wonderland and controlling people's minds, Tetch was obsessed with headgear and wanted above all else attain for his extensive collection of hats Batman's cowl by any means necessary. He used his mind-controlling hats to possess some thugs that would help him against Batman, but in the final battle at the Gotham Park, Batman and Robin managed to capture all the criminals including Hatter.
#The hatter free
When Bane destroyed the walls of Arkham, Mad Hatter went free along with other fellow inmates. Like the other rogues, Tetch managed to escape Arkham on numerous occasions. Jervis in attempts to make friends would be kind to the other inmates like sneaking a pet plant to Poison Ivy. The courts found Jervis insane and sent him to Arkham Asylum.ĭespite Jervis's kind facade he was one of the asylums most dangerous inmates, he would be pleasant at one moment and then homicidal at an other. He started kidnapping young girls to be "Alices" in his tea parties before selling them to slavery but he was stopped Batman and was arrested. Although this was Tetch's first known criminal act, his involvement in the locker room bombing would not be discovered until years later.Īt one point Jervis lost his mind and becoming obsessive, delusional and schizophrenic he went to crime modelling himself after The Mad Hatter his most loved character from his beloved "Alice in Wonderland" and wielding his vast genius and mind control Tech. Tetch agreed to use his mind control technology on a member of the team, making him use a pipe bomb to kill the other players. Ella approached Tetch for help and convinced him that the Gotham Hawks were "bad kids". Fearing the reaction of her extremely strict mother, Connie lied to her and claimed she had been raped by someone on her school's baseball team. A few years later, Connie became pregnant. There he befriended Ella's daughter, Connie Littleton, and her friends in her high school. Jervis lived in a boarding house owned by Ella Littleton. In adulthood he became a neural scientist working for Wayne Enterprises where he invented circuitry that can control minds. His whole life he has been in love with the works of Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through he Looking Glass" especially the "Mad Tea Party" chapter. Tetch, growing up, never had any friends, due to his appearance. His plan was thwarted by Batman and Robin when they found his hideout and Hatter was finally captured by Nocturna. In revenge, Hatter used a large number of hats to control street thugs and sent them out to eliminate Batman. His plan was thwarted by Batman and the new Robin, but once again, Hatter avoided capture. Free to continue his crimes, Hatter came up with a plan to steal from other criminals and using a special mind-controlling hat, he attempted to drain all the memories from Nocturna in order to steal the loot of her previous crimes. As usual, they failed, but Hatter managed to escape. Later, Mad Hatter became part of a large gathering of enemies of Batman and joined their efforts to kill the vigilante. Hatter planned to wipe-out Fox's memories with a machine he created, but his plan was stopped by Batman. He then resumed his Mad Hatter career and during his first crime, he kidnapped Lucius Fox and asked two million dollars ransom from Bruce Wayne. Eventually, the real Jervis Tetch escaped and "disposed" of the imposter.
Meanwhile, an imposter assumed the mantle of "Mad Hatter" and even called himself "Jervis Tetch". įollowing this first encounter with Batman, Tetch was committed to a sanitarium for several years. During his first crime, he was confronted by Gotham's vigilante, Batman and after a few more encounters with the caped crusader, Hatter was finally captured by the Dynamic Duo with help from the intrepid reporter Vicki Vale. The Mad Hatter started his criminal career in Gotham City by stealing from a very important Yacht Club.