Hugo Strange is a recurring villain in Gotham.
History[]
Hugo Strange is obsessed with understanding and manipulating the human mind, he is a professor and Chief of Psychiatry at Arkham Asylum who is connected to the asylum's creation and uses it for his personal experiments on patients, which often results in the worsening of their mental conditions. He is the main antagonist of the second half of season 2 Wrath of the Villains, for his involvement with the secret underground Indian Hill facility owned by Wayne Enterprises that performs inhumane medical experiments on super-powered beings, later revealed to have been an overseer of the abandoned Pinewood program that Thomas Wayne started years ago. After Thomas disapproved of the project, Strange contracted Patrick Malone to kill the Waynes to keep his continued project a secret. While his scientists use experimental reprogramming on Oswald Cobblepot, Strange manages to win Victor Fries's assistance in his experiments of reviving corpses of recently killed criminals. After having Victor kill a former Pinewood patient named Karen Jennings in an attempt to conceal his involvement, Strange manages to fully resurrect Theo Galavan and reinvents him into Azrael to have him kill Gordon. Later, Strange shredded all his documents to avoid suspicion from the GCPD. Strange then managed to resurrect Fish Mooney, also giving her the ability to get people to do her bidding just by making contact. In the final battle at the Indian Hill facility, Hugo Strange was caught in the crossfire between Victor Fries and Bridgit Pike only to be resuscitated by Gordon. After the bomb was deactivated, Hugo Strange was arrested by the police.
Six months later, Fish freed Strange from his cell to help find a cure for her disease. When Strange said he couldn't do it, Penguin allowed the two of them to flee Gotham, telling them to never come back. Kathryn later brought Hugo Strange back to Gotham City so that he can extract Alice Tetch's poisonous blood from Nathaniel Barnes into weaponizing it. Gordon and Bullock later found the secret lab where he was working. After tranquilizing the test subject, Hugo Strange gave them the research on the weaponized blood and a sample that he secretly kept from the Court of Owls in exchange that they don't arrest him and cause the Court of Owls to go ahead with their plans. After telling Alfred about the Court of Owls plans, Hugo Strange tried to leave Gotham City only to be intercepted by Fish Mooney's men in order to find the earlier antidotes for the Alice Tetch Virus which he kept at a slaughterhouse as he also still promised Fish Mooney an army of monsters. They did run into some resistance from the League of Shadows' ninjas. After Fish Mooney was accidentally killed by James Gordon, Strange was arrested again by the police. Though he did agree to help in the development of the antidotes. Penguin later enlisted Hugo Strange to cure Butch Gilzean which he managed to do. Later on, Strange is instructed to work on a wounded Leslie Thompkins and Riddler.
Theresa Walker and Delta Force later used Hugo Strange in planting mind-control chips in Leslie and Riddler as he is still experimenting on dead bodies. Gordon finds Riddler and Hugo Strange in his hideout until Delta Force arrives and takes Hugo Strange away. Upon finding Eduardo wounded, Theresa plans to have Hugo Strange fix him up.
Appearances[]
Season 2[]
- "Rise of the Villains: Worse Than A Crime" (mentioned)
- "Wrath of the Villains: Mr. Freeze"
- "Wrath of the Villains: A Dead Man Feels No Cold"
- "Wrath of the Villains: This Ball of Mud and Meanness"
- "Wrath of the Villains: Mad Grey Dawn" (mentioned)
- "Wrath of the Villains: Into the Woods"
- "Wrath of the Villains: Pinewood"
- "Wrath of the Villains: Azrael"
- "Wrath of the Villains: Unleashed"
- "Wrath of the Villains: A Legion of Horribles"
- "Wrath of the Villains: Transference"
Season 3[]
- "Mad City: Better to Reign in Hell..." (mentioned)
- "Mad City: Burn the Witch..."
- "Mad City: Look Into My Eyes" (mentioned)
- "Mad City: New Day Rising" (mentioned)
- "Mad City: Smile Like You Mean It" (mentioned)
- "Heroes Rise: The Primal Riddle" (mentioned)
- "Heroes Rise: Light The Wick"
- "Heroes Rise: All Will Be Judged" (mentioned)
- "Heroes Rise: Pretty Hate Machine"
- "Heroes Rise: Destiny Calling"
Season 4[]
- "A Dark Knight: Mandatory Brunch Meeting" (mentioned)
- "A Dark Knight: That's Entertainment" (mentioned)
- "A Dark Knight: That Old Corpse" (mentioned)
- "A Dark Knight: One Bad Day" (mentioned)
- "A Dark Knight: No Man's Land"
Season 5[]
- "Legend of the Dark Knight: Pena Dura"
- "Legend of the Dark Knight: 13 Stitches" (mentioned)
- "Legend of the Dark Knight: Ace Chemicals" (mentioned)
- "Legend of the Dark Knight: Nothing's Shocking" (mentioned)
- "Legend of the Dark Knight: I Am Bane"
Novels[]
- Gotham: Dawn of Darkness
- Gotham: City of Monsters (mentioned)