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| “ | Simply put, I made you see what you wanted most. Mm hmmm. What was it? Tell me. Tell me. Tell me! Oh ho ho, so predictable; just like Alice. Never doing what I want without ludicrous amounts of psychoactive controls. Well, if that's what's necessary, it's a good job that you've already taken them. All we need now is a finishing touch. A special new hat just... for... you. You are my soldier now, Batman! You will do everything I say. | „ |
| ~ The Mad Hatter attempting to brainwash Batman |
Jervis Tetch better known as the Mad Hatter is a minor antagonist in the Batman: Arkham series.
He is an insane Alice in Wonderland-themed supervillain and one of Batman's many foes. He is a true product of insanity and schizophrenia, becoming obsessed with the story "Alice in Wonderland" and the incredible ability to control a person's mind through hypnosis techniques. Jervis acts as the Mad Hatter, as well as uses his mind control abilities to recreate other characters as well as kidnapping girls to make them his "Alices".
He was voiced by Peter MacNicol, who also voiced Doctor Octopus in The Spectacular Spider-Man.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
- Kidnapped dozens of thugs and managed to brainwash them via rabbit-themed masks, using them as his puppets, and discarding them when he no longer needed them. What makes it even worse is that the thugs are implied to suffer from Jervis' mind control, as shown when Batman is screaming when trying to resist it.
- He kidnapped young women he called "Alice" and regularily tortured, abused, and killed them. It's implied he also rapes them and was doing the same to minors, which would make him a pedophile.
- After inviting Batman to his hat shop using mind-controlled thugs, he traps him into a Wonderland-like dimension and then threatens one of the women he kidnapped by holding a knife beneath her neck when Batman corners him.
- He helped Hugo Strange brainwash several of his TYGER guards using his mind control to assure their loyalty to Strange.
- After being transferred to Arkham City, he tricked Batman by giving him a fake cure to Joker's blood, using it to knock him out and take him to his hat shop, where he tried to brainwash him and then sent his brainwashed thugs after him when Batman managed to break free from the mind control.
- During the events of Arkham Knight, he became even more insane and started mistaking men for Alice, kidnapping and torturing them as well.
- He kidnapped 3 police officers and locked them up in the car trunk rigged with explosives, and then gave himself in to the GCPD and tasked Batman to rescue the police officers and defuse the explosives.
- When Batman confronted him after finding out they were only 2 police officers, Jervis traps him into a book-like dimension where he tells him this is where he'll find the missing cop, as another attempt to brainwash him.
- He betrays his crew and tortures them mentally so they would then start to kill each other in order for him to be able to escape Arkham Asylum, which worked with all of them except Captain Boomerang.
- While serial-killers in the series like Calendar Man have a higher kill count, the Hatter put people into fates worse than death by painfully brainwashing them, and is also an implied pedophile who abuses and rapes minors, with pedophilia being a unique crime for the series.
- While some could say he cares about "Alice", being willing to "save" her from the Red Queen, this seems to be more out of a perverted obsession rather that geniune love, and is willing to kill and abuse them.
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]
- He has some moral agency issues, as he believes to be the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland and mistakes people to be "Alice". While some could say he's too insane to count by the time of Arkham City and Arkham Knight, he was still master of his own actions in Arkham Origins, being able to scheme and also was aware of the torture he was putting the brainwashed thugs into, and even admits he's homicidal in Arkham Knight, so his moral agency isn't too questionable.
- His level of insanity in Arkham City and Arkham Knight is played for sympathy, as he cries about him missing his Alice and wishing to reunite with her, and also seems to have completely forgotten who he was. However, he was already a bad person in Arkham Origins, so it's a minor prevention.
Trivia[]
- He's one of the two versions of the Mad Hatter to count as NPE along with Jervis Tetch from the Gotham TV series.
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