Victor Zsasz is a minor antagonist in Batman Begins. He is a homicidal murderer who lived in Gotham City and butchered people for the mob as his profession.
History
Early Life
Born into a family of prominent businessmen in Gotham City, Victor Zsasz directed his life to amassing a large personal fortune in addition to his family's wealth. This all changed by putting him into a deep depression when his parents died in a boating accident at a young age, so he tried supporting himself through gambling, which instead lost him all his inherited fortune in every competition. Therefore, Zsasz saw his life as empty while growing up on the city streets, and was driven by desire of making a living in violence, bullying and terror, which many suggested was part of a seemingly unimpaired sense of morality. As a result, he turned to Gotham's organized crime, seeing it as a family he might fit in with when he found a father figure with in it's head mafia boss, Carmine Falcone. To earn Falcone's approval, Zsasz proved himself as an expert assassin among the crime lord's thugs and became one of Gotham's most wanted mob serial killers for each homicidal action he took.
Batman Begins
Rachel Dawes stated that Zsasz murders people for the mob and is one of Carmine Falcone's many thugs. Dr. Jonathan Crane testified in Court that Zsasz was legally insane and should be transferred to Arkham Asylum for rehabilitation.
During both Ra's al Ghul and Scarecrow's reign of terror, Victor Zsasz was released from the asylum alongside the other crazed inmates. In the streets of Gotham, Zsasz almost attacked Rachel and a kid but was stopped by Batman.
It is revealed in one of the promotional websites that at the time of The Dark Knight he is still currently at large.
Trivia
- The version of Zsasz in the film is the only one to have a goatee and brown hair, as in the comics he has blonde hair and no goatee.
- If you look closely when Zsasz turns his head after being released from his cell, he has the trademark tally scars on his neck.
- In the film, Zsasz has no dialogue, and does not appear to be insane, but in the films tie in videogame, he has several lines which indicate that he is.