#hugo strange

[2-guns-b1tch]

The Arkham staff Halloween parties before Jonathan and Harley turned into rogues was probably a blast

[the-batgirl]

Detective comics #677 / Gotham Knights #10

[nyhti]

Hugo decides to give Jervis a little surprise visit to see how he's doing

[satoshy12]

Danny + Skeletons in Gotham

It had already been two weeks since the Green Skeletons appeared in Gotham. Bruce was sure a necromancer was in his town, and John was too busy to help him with it.

Bruce wasn't sure what to do, while the Skeletons, as far as I know, only appear four times a day to kick the Joker, Victor Zsasz, Professor Pyg, Black Mask, Scarecrow, Hugo Strange, or any Criminal in the nuts(hurt them) and then are gone. He wasn't sure what would happen in the future. It doesn't help that the Police or someone similar don't want to help him! They see it as comedy.

The 14 year old Danny was having fun in this student swap in Gotham; he even met his hero, Dr. Freeze, and talked with him about the books he wrote. Victor really liked the young boy after he helped heal Nora with Yeti Frostbite's help. So he helped the boy, and Batman seemed to be happy to have one less villain.

Yes, Bruce is very happy; 1 is saved!

A/N

Danny is the reason for the skeleton; he just never noticed it. And the souls in Gotham are happy to get their revenge; the villains had killed many people.

[batmanfruitloops]

Another meme with texture practice this time,

-Sarsee

here are the drawings that I referenced: the original and the meme because I think about Shinji's dad every time I see Hugo Strange.

[froot-batty]

Gods worst friend group !

I'm excited to finally be able to talk about them. Venture down there if you beware

These guys are pretty entwined, so just like in the Twobat backstory, It'll just be one big thing. BIIIIIGGG thing, sorry

Viktor Fries was born in Denmark, an only child to two very loving parents. He'd always had a love for the cold, which grew into a love for winter, which grew into a love for cryogenics. His parents couldn't get him enough books or research papers written about the subject, so his eventual decision to pursue it in higher education came as no surprise. At the time, Gotham University and WayneTech were the leading institutions in cryogenic research, so Viktor packed his bags and ventured off to America.

Kirk Langstrom was born a sickly little baby at Gotham General. He was born with Chediak-Higashi syndrome, which not only caused his albinism, but made Kirk very prone to bacterial infections, especially when he was younger. It would also cause motor issues as Kirk aged, resulting in the need of mobility aids like canes or a wheelchair. As a child, Kirk was teased for his appearance, likened to a vampire - or, on one occasion, an albino bat another kid had found and presented to him. Instead of being offended, this moment was what kickstarted Kirk's love for bats, and eventual pursual of chiropterology.

And for Hugo Strange....well, no one really knows where he came from.

The three met when they were all in college, and they became friends almost instantly. They were three smart outcasts who had little to no real friends before this, so naturally they latched onto one another. Hugo a little more than the other two, but I'll get into that.

For the time they were in college, they were good for each other! But as most things go, they drifted a bit after college ended. Viktor by now had fallen in love with Nora and gotten his job at WayneTech, and Kirk had gotten the opportunity to take a research trip to study Bracken Cave (which is where he'd meet his eventual wife, Francine). This left Hugo mostly to his own devices, which he put towards his career at Arkham Asylum and eventually becoming the head of it.

When Kirk eventually returned from his trip, they reconnected with one another. Now here's where I'm gonna talk individually about what happened to Fuck These Guys Up.

Chronologically, Nora getting sick and Fries' accident is what happens first. When Nora started getting really sick, Viktor and her had no idea what it really was, only that it had the potential to kill her if they didn't find a treatment. Viktor's desperation to find it would eventually lead him to Hugo, who agreed to assist Viktor in his research. When Viktor and Nora mutually decided to freeze her to give Viktor more time, Hugo allowed them to build the machine that would freeze her in an abandoned room in the basement of Arkham (which Hugo was using for his own experiments).

Viktor panicked during the process of Nora freezing, and went to turn the machine off in the middle of it, not fully thinking through what he was doing. It caused the machine to malfunction and the chamber (with Nora in it) to explode outward, releasing everything that had been meant to cryogenically preserve Nora out into the room. The injuries and exposure to chemicals should have killed them both, but the temperatures (and medical assistance) managed to preserve the both of them, though it left Viktor as a living but slowly rotting corpse, who is both being killed by the cold and needs it to keep living in whatever state he's in now.

Hugo was actually the one to find the both of them. Though he had personally never cared for Nora, he followed the plan she and Viktor had laid out, making a new chamber to preserve her while he had a suit specially made for Viktor in order to keep him alive. With a tracker installed inside of it so Hugo could know where he was at any time.

This is probably a good time to cut and explain what's wrong with Hugo. He is...insanely devoted to both Kirk and Viktor. They were both his first friends and he loves them very much and he will Keep Them at Any Cost.

So after Viktor awoke, and realized that Nora had been preserved (even though part of him didn't want that anymore), Hugo instructed him to begin working on a cure for her. Hugo couldn't care less if she died he'd get Viktor to himself then, but Viktor had grown dangerously depressed after the accident and the thought of one day being reunited with a cured Nora was the only thing motivating him to stay alive.

Because Nora's chamber is in the basement of Arkham Asylum, Hugo has control of when and for how long Viktor can visit her. If he doesn't make sufficient progress on her cure, he isn't allowed in.

Now, onto Kirk. He had no idea that was all happening, as their contact with one another had been limited, even after reconnecting. One day, though, Kirk had mentioned his interest in changing his current study to focus on his condition, CHS, instead of his bats. Mostly because he was worried about progressing into the accelerated phase, as most people with CHS do. But Hugo suggested instead that he could figure out some sort of treatment for Kirk - and don't worry, you can just go back to your bats! I promise it'll work; in fact, it'll have you feeling like Batman!

So Kirk, suffering from chronic pain and various disabling motor issues, agreed happily. He visited Hugo's lab when the "treatment" was finished and received two injections in the neck, which turned into those two scars. When it didn't work after a couple of days, Kirk was disappointed, and was ready to tell Hugo that he needed to try something else when something...happened.

Kirk blacked out for a couple of hours and woke up shirtless, covered in blood in an empty alleyway. And, strangest of all, he wasn't in pain.

And this kept happening. Every couple of nights he would black out and return home bloody. He attempted to hide this from his wife, but something like that can't stay under wraps forever, so when she found out she urged him to talk to Hugo and figure out what the hell that "treatment" did.

So he did (rather angrily, of course). Hugo would explain that the treatment was actually an experimental chemical he'd developed to be able to turn humans into animals, specially developed for Kirk to turn "at will" instead of being stuck like that permanently. Because of Hugo choosing a vampire bat as the animal for the specific "treatment" developed for Kirk, he would need to feed on blood while in bat-form, thus the reason he was bloody every time he awoke from his blackouts.

There was only one bonus to the transformation. The concoction was, actually, a sort of cure. The bat form didn't have the same chronic pain or issues that Kirk's normal body did. But it came at the cost of being a mindless, bloodthirsty monster.

All he needed to do, Hugo said, was figure out how to become the bat instead of letting it take over, and then he'd practically be the perfect creature!

He would have to keep coming to Hugo for regular injections, though.

Kirk initially, obviously, refused - he wasn't a monster, and he didn't want to hurt anyone or anything just to help himself. But he kept thinking about it. And thinking about it. Could he really tame the bat, and live as something powerful and strong? Something he'd never been?

It weighed on his mind so much that he inevitably returned to Hugo, just to try it. What he didn't know at the time was that the injections were purposefully addictive, growing worse and worse the more he returns to take them.

Hugo Strange friend of the year everybody

[morgangalaxy43]

DC disrespects and underutilizes Batman's villains constantly and they need to stop relying on the Joker so much (Joker is great but he's used way too much)

[bluesfreakingart]

Focus, channel and THEN

DISCARD.

Now, sympathy has no place in a

RIGHTOUS HEART

The only use for a motor

NOT MEANT TO START

is to become an

EXPENDABLE PART

to fill a testing chart.

[sarahreadstoomanycomics]

Every time I see this image tagged as Bruce it hurts my soul not because this is not him which it isn’t. This is Hugo Strange(and I personally think the irony of a psychiatrist dressed as Batman saying this is incredibly humorous) but because Batman: Gotham Knights issues 8-11 is literally one of my favorite 4 part silly stories I’ve read. I’m telling you it’s such a fun little story so please read it is you haven’t. How could you not enjoy a story where Dick and Tim hear about Batman fighting Hugo Strange on a roof, and when Tim asks Dick what they should do he says “Get popcorn” which they then in fact do? Which is only one moment of it.

[mrclownery]

some Oswald doodles from the other day!

I’ll have to collect my thoughts on how I want to go about the s2 Arkham plotline another time. But it’s pretty much same idea, with Strange conditioning Oswald to have an aversion to violence. HOWEVER. It is not using that stupid machine. I’m just gonna lean into the Clockwork Orange angle, which I’m fairly sure is what this plotline was always meant to reference. Being sat and forced and watch violent imagery and films, but unlike how they go about it in Clockwork Orange I think I’m gonna stick with shocks rather than drug induced nausea. That could be subject to change though, I need to do more research on the effectiveness of specific aversion therapies.

ALSO another detail that is changed with this arc is that Galavan is very much still around and involved! Oswald was admitted on ATTEMPTED charges. This entire program of “rehabilitation” with prisoners is going to be apart of Galavan’s mayoral campaign, something about being able to eradicate crime in Gotham. This gives reason for the entire experiment to take place, because the shit with Strange like,,, making monsters in the basement? Gone. That plotline is gone, sorry! To me that whole plotline is when the show started to go downhill. He is still very unethical and does MENTAL experiments and such purely for fun, but this version is just a littleeee more grounded than the show and other iterations. Oswald is essentially the face of the program, being paraded and such by Galavan for his campaign once she’s “cured”, and then subsequently tossed away with no aid. From that point it’s fairly similar to the show when she was in that weird state. Still a tad different though since the entire step family arc is also cut. I’ll have to get into that another time.

One last detail! The drawing at the bottom of her being nauseous is from her post-Arkham era before the breakdown. In this version, Ed does end up letting him actually stay for a bit rather than immediately kick her out (he DOES kick her out later on for being distracting to his work. That whole thing is something I’ll also get into another time). Little thing about her design I find neat there is that of course his hair is more tamed and whatnot, trying to be less crazy. But it’s also more masculine. I NEVER really draw Oswald with squared sideburns, when I think of her hair I think of triangles and such. But I’m leaning into the idea that Gotham is about 20 years stuck in the past, and asylums weren’t all that great for trans people. It’s fucked up but it is a part of the whole “treatment” and reintroduction to society as a functioning, “NORMAL” member of it. That means she’s got to look the part! No more pesky makeup and crazy hair (this does in fact make her mental breakdown haircut when he does eventually snap sooo important).

[momachan]

"You can sleep in if you want, but the early bird gets the worm. -Whoa... -Go ahead, enjoy... I do realize you secretly got your wrists untied before I walked in... -So this is a dinner date? -Well you're my guest, and therefore entitled to my famous hospitality."

Batman: The Audio Adventures (2022). "Interlude: This Is The Way The World Rends."

[humanplaypretend]

felt compelled to do a couple of these ୧( ͡⁠ᵔ⁠ ⁠﹏⁠ ͡⁠ᵔ⁠ )

[toweringclam]

All of Batman's enemies know his secret identity

Personal headcanon of mine. They all know, or st least suspect. They just have their own reasons for not sharing or acting on the info.

Two-Face: We were friends for years. Just because we're on different sides now doesn't mean I don't respect him.

Riddler: What good is a riddle if everyone knows the answer?

Bane: The mask is all that matters. Not the person wearing it.

Harley Quinn: You know I'm a psychiatrist, right? There's only like two dudes in town who fit the profile, and he adopted one of 'em. I just like t' play dumb. It's kinda my whole bit.

Joker: I can't know! It'd ruin the punchline.

Penguin: Are you kidding? Have you SEEN how much Bruce Wayne drops at my casino when he's investigating? A few bat-bugs under the roulette table are just cost of business.

Scarecrow: I'm scared of the answer.

Hugo Strange: Bruce Wayne isn't Batman! *swoops cape* I am Batman!

Mr. Freeze: I prefer to compartmentalize. If I acknowledged they are one in the same, it would make it that much harder to accept his help when needed.

Poison Ivy: Let's be honest, I've had him naked more than Selina has.

(I realize some of these are or have been canon at one point)

[nyhti]

The most stressful thing for Hugo about being admitted to Arkham wasn't the lost of freedom or reputation or anything. No, it was seeing what Jonathan considers a meal.

[feartoxinjelloshot]

saturn devours his son, AKA i just wanted to draw waylon ripping hugo's face off but by nature of this having happened in silence in the basement it became silence in the basement fanart. leftmost text is from the bad doctor by the mountain goats which i associate very heavily w/ hugo in my au

[batmanfruitloops]

Looked through some of my notes and forgot this bonkers statement

So anyway, I can probably catch up the rest of the non-scarebeast asks tomorrow!

-Sarsee