Overview
- Professor Hugo Strange is a brilliant but insane psychologist who is driven by obsession to defeat Batman as well as gain unlimited resources and power within Gotham City. A genius scientist and criminal mastermind, Strange uses his intelligence as means of corruption and will stop at nothing to achieve his goals.
Background
- Stange's childhood was scarred by trauma and grief, leading him to hone and direct himself, making the most of his ordeals to pursue higher goals. He was raised in an orphanage on Gotham City's lower east side, the neighborhood called Hell's Crucible. Growing up to be a well-respected mind in the scientific community, he became professor of psychiatry at Gotham State University until his tenure was suspended over increasingly bizarre theories in genetic engineering.
- Strange and his assistant Sanjay begin experimenting with genetic manipulation in an attempt to cure disease and imperfection, although this results in a terrible race of cannibalistic Monster Men who require regular feeding. Not taken seriously by the scientific community, he turns to crime boss Sal Maroni for his funding.
- His patients are Arkham Asylum inmates who won't be missed. Eventually he is forced to pay off his debts by sending his creatures to massacre a mob gambling house, stealing several hundred thousand dollars in the process.
Involvement
- Hugo Strange currently does not appear in the game.
Trivia
- Hugo Strange first appeared in Detective Comics #36 (February 1940).
- Strange is famous for having discovered Batman's secret identity independently through deduction and striking at him emotionally, while using genetically engineered Monster Men as his own private army.
- As a master of psychology, Hugo Strange is an expert at mental and emotional manipulation for personal gain. He possesses a thorough understanding of the human mind, and thus human behavior, giving him a major advantage over most foes.
- Hugo Strange exercises intensively and extensively--he has been shown training with weights and performing cardiovascular and gymnastics routines on a regular basis to keep himself in peak condition.
- Strange, despite his best efforts, can never be as physically toned as Batman. Strange himself admitted during his workout that he is "limited by [his] genetics."