Mr. Zsasz

Zsasz or Mr. Zsasz
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Victor Zsasz
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usually a tall fair haired man. Mr. Zsasz cuts his body each time he kills a person the markings are similar to ones seen in prison cells counting days, months etc..... in most comics he is usually topless proudly showing his cuts.
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Mr. Zsasz was created by Alan Grant and Norm Breyfogle
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Character History
Origin story:

Zsasz was the head of his own intergovernmental company and had amassed a large personal fortune in addition to his family's wealth. At the age of 25 his parents died in a boating accident, sending him into a deep depression. He turned to gambling, losing money in competitions around the world. One night, he ended up in a Gotham City casino, where he gambled everything he owned and ended up losing it all to the Penguin; afterwards he saw that his life was empty, driven by desire, and there was no point to his existence. While he was attempting to commit suicide by jumping from Gotham Bridge, a homeless man tried to assault him with a knife after he refused to give him money. Instinctively grabbing the knife, Zsasz saw in the man's eyes that all life is meaningless and that nothing nor anyone matters. He then proceeded to stab the man to death as a "gift" for saving his life. From then on, he dedicated himself to "liberating" others from their pointless existence (Zsasz often refers to victims as "zombies"). He usually preys on young women, but has no qualms over whom he murders. He slits his victims' throats and leaves them in lifelike poses, adding a tally mark to himself each time. He has been diagnosed as insane and is regularly incarcerated in Arkham Asylum courtesy of Batman, breaking out on occasion to carry on killing.

In his debut appearence in comics in 1992. Zsasz bribed a contractor to include a secret passage leading out from his cell during the asylum's reconstruction under its new head, Jeremiah Arkham, who inherited the asylum from his uncle, Amadeus Arkham. Although Zsasz is restrained during the daytime when he is being treated personally by Jeremiah Arkham, he is brought back to his cell at night where he would leave the asylum through the secret passage, unbeknown to the night guards. After murders fitting his modus operandi begin surfacing, Batman and Commissioner James Gordon fake Batman's insanity in order to get him inside the asylum and investigate Zsasz. Jeremiah Arkham is exceptionally brutal towards Batman, who had supposedly murdered a police officer; over the course of the "treatment", Zsasz had warped Jeremiah's mind and turned him into a mere henchman. Due to these continuous conversations with Jeremiah Arkham, Zsasz realises Batman is a plant and subsequently murders both the contractor and another inmate at Arkham who knows of Zsasz's ploy. However, both Nightwing and Batman catch up to Zsasz when he tries to escape for the final time and put him back in Arkham.

Other storylines:

Zsasz later appears in Part 3 and 4 of the Knightfall saga,(the storyline noteable for the debut of the villian bane in which batmans spine get's broken.) In Part 3 of Knightfall, Zsasz takes an all girl's college hostage and holds the students at knife point until Batman arrives, briefly leaving to kill two police officers who were sent to arrest him. Though weakened both physically and mentally, Batman fights with Zsasz and tries to ignore the lunatic's mockery. He finally snaps, however, after Zsasz says that they are really one and the same, prompting Batman to beat on him with an added viciousness. Batman most likely would have killed Zsasz with his bare hands had the police not stopped him.

Zsasz later appears in Detective Comics #796, where he fights Stephanie Brown in her role as Robin. Attempting to slit her throat, he is distracted by her unexpected ferocity and falls back, where he attacks and attempts to kill Batman. However, Stephanie eventually defeats him, by braking his nose which causes batman to lose his temper with stephaine.

Powers and Abilities
Mr. Zasaz has no powers or abillitys he simpily carrys around a knife which he uses to kill his victims and mark his own body keeping score of how many people he has killed.

In other media
Mr Zasaz is seen in the movie batman begins and is portrayed by Tim Booth, the vocalist of British band James.[5] In the movie, Assistant District Attorney Rachel Dawes states that Zsasz butchers citizens for the mob and is one of Carmine Falcone's thugs, implying that he is a hitman instead of a serial killer. He is sent to Arkham Asylum along with many assassins who work for Falcone due to the testimony of Dr. Jonathan Crane (aka the Scarecrow). Nevertheless, when he is let loose from the asylum during Ra's al Ghul's attack on Gotham, tally marks on his neck are clearly visible. Later, Zsasz, along with other inmates under the influence of the fear toxin, attempts to kill Dawes but fails as Batman saves her.