Fictional character biography
Humphry Dumpler is a hulking man with an egg-shaped head who speaks in rhyme and has a compulsive desire to "repair" that which he considers to be broken. He is shown in flashback to have been the victim of inexplicable, almost supernaturally bad luck almost since birth, illustrated by countless tragedies through his life — culminating with both of his parents being crushed by their Christmas tree, leaving him in the custody of his abusive grandmother. Eventually, he became determined to understand the mechanics of the world around him in an attempt to see what made things go wrong for him and attempt to fix them. In his crimes, Humphry disassembles and reassembles mechanical devices that upset him in some way. The devices he "fixes" cause numerous accidents, such as a subway train he had once missed derailing after he its brakes, crippling several. After finding out that the news media has begun to call him "Humpty Dumpty, Super Saboteur of Gotham", he attempts to flee Gotham on a boat, but misses the departure by an hour; he proceeds to blame the clock tower outside his window, and in adjusting the gears causes one of its hands to fly off, provoking a chain reaction in which dozens of enormous signs crashed to the streets, killing dozens of people. When Batgirl tries to apprehend him, she dislocates her arms rescuing him from falling off the clock tower. Humphry slips her arms back into their sockets and surrenders to her. She asks why he had borrowed a copy of Gray's Anatomy , and he reveals that he had dissected his grandmother and sewn her back together in an attempt to "fix" her. [2]
He is a model prisoner at Arkham Asylum and is given various small projects to pass the time, such as repairing a broken mirror (uncovering that a large shard had been stolen as a weapon) or fixing Ventriloquist's Scarface dummy. He befriends the financial fraudster Warren White, and saves his life from Death Rattle and Two-Face. [3]
In Villains United , Humpty Dumpty joins Alexander Luthor Jr.'s Society. [4] [5]
He is one of the villains sent to retrieve the Get Out of Hell free card from the Secret Six. [6]
In the Batman: Battle for the Cowl storyline, Humpty Dumpty is recruited by Black Mask as part of a group of villains aiming to take over Gotham. [7]
In the Batman: Leviathan storyline, Humpty Dumpty masquerades as Santa Claus on Christmas Eve to bring stolen toys to the children "residing" at Rainbow House Shelter, who in actuality are deceased. He is followed and consoled by Batman and Robin, to whom he explains that he found their bodies in river; the children were victims of a street fighting ring held by Victor Zsasz. [8]
In The New 52 reboot, Humpty Dumpty appears as an inmate of Arkham Asylum. [9]
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