Hugo Strange is a recurring villain in Batman: The Animated Series and Justice League Unlimited.
History[]
Hugo Strange was introduced in the Batman: The Animated Series episode, "The Strange Secret of Bruce Wayne". Hugo Strange was a psychiatrist who ran a rest hospital that he used to blackmail Gotham's elite with secrets that he found out with a machine that read minds. Bruce Wayne went to the hospital and underwent the "treatment," which allowed Strange to discover his secret identity. He auctioned off that information to a trio of Gotham's top crime bosses: The Joker, Two-Face, and The Penguin. Two-Face had personally known Bruce Wayne ever since childhood, and later accused Strange of fraud when Batman switched the tape with one that he had created that portrayed Strange as fabricating the secret identity. Strange tried to save his skin by simply telling the villains that Bruce Wayne was Batman, but they simply scoffed at the idea, and thought that he was lying. Two-Face commented that if Bruce Wayne was Batman, then he was the King of England. The trio then tried to kill Strange by throwing him out of an airplane. Batman saved him at the last minute however, and had Robin show up at the crime scene disguised as Bruce Wayne to discredit Strange's claims of knowing the Dark Knight's secret identity. Strange was then taken into police custody.
In Justice League Unlimited, Strange returned as a member of Project Cadmus. Strange's appearance was brief however: he was seated at the Cadmus table in "The Doomsday Sanction" with no lines. However, due to the production of The Batman and the inclusion of Hugo Strange on that series, Warner Brothers withheld most Batman characters from the later episodes of "Justice League Unlimited." With Strange unavailable, he was replaced in Cadmus by Doctor Moon. It was possible that it was he who provided Amanda Waller with Batman's real identity.
Appearances[]
Batman: The Animated Series[]
Justice League Unlimited[]
- The Doomsday Sanction