Jason Woodrue (John Glover)

"I'm afraid you'll just have to die. AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!"

- Jason Woodrue

Dr. Jason Woodrue was the scientist who created Venom.

Creating Bane
Dr. Jason Woodrue was a corrupt scientist who worked in a South American lab. He used plant toxins to create Venom, a super-serum that enhanced the proportions of a human subject. His first subject was Antonio Diego, who was turned into Bane. Woodrue planned on selling similar "Super Soldiers" to members of the "Un-United Nations".

Death
Pamela Isley, who worked for Dr. Woodrue, discovered his illegal experiments, and Woodrue offered her to join him. But she was appalled by his experiments and threaten to report this so he wouldn't even teach high school chemistry, and called him a "psycho". Woodrue, not "good at rejections", attacked her by throwing her into a shelf full of plant chemicals. Isley arose hours later, having been transformed into Poison Ivy by the chemicals and Venom. Ivy killed Woodrue with a poisonous kiss and destroyed the lab.

Behind the scenes
In the comics continuity, Jason Woodrue became Floronic Man, although it hasn't been established that Woodrue in Batman & Robin became him since he appears to have died.

Played by John Glover, who was the voice of another Batman villain, the Riddler of Batman: The Animated Series. He became famous for playing Lionel Luthor, the father of Lex Luthor, from Smallville.

See

 * Floronic Man