| “ | No one could withstand this degree of hypothermia. | „ |
| ~ Professor Milo to his henchwoman Jessy about Batman's chances to survive in the frozen lake they have forced him into. |
| “ | Professor Milo: "And I hope he awakens before moon rise. I want him to see the end coming!" Anthony Romulus: "And end you expect me to deliver. Milo, you're a worse animal than anything that I turn into." |
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| ~ Milo to Anthony Romulus about his plans for Batman's execution. |
Professor Milo is a supporting antagonist in the DC Animated Universe, serving as a two-shot antagonist in the Season 1 of Batman: The Animated Series and as the secondary antagonist in the Justice League Unlimited Season 2 episode "The Doomsday Sanction".
He is an unscrupulous and unethical Gothamite scientist with expertise on genetics and splicing always willing to work for whoever can afford him, either for shady businessmen like Roland Daggett or for government officials like Amanda Waller. Early on Batman's career as Gotham City's vigilante, Milo comes across him with some of his questionable legal enterprises and joins Project Cadmus years later to undermine the Justice League.
In Batman: The Animated Series, he was voiced by the late Treat Williams. In Justice League Unlimited, he was voiced by Armin Shimerman.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
Batman: The Animated Series[]
- Invents a toxin for Gotham City businessman Roland Daggett that covers the nervous systems of any animals, subjecting several stray dogs and cats and turning them feral so, if they scratch any Gothamites, they would be infected by a virus that only Daggett Industries has the cure for so Daggett can profit from it.
- Sadistically grabs Catwoman's cat Isis and proceeds to infect her and the other strays Daggett's men kidnapped with his toxin after Daggett gives him his approval.
- Attempts to stop Catwoman with deadly force for meddling with his research, only letting her go after she incapacitated him and Jessy and Paunch, his henchmen, due to her being infected by Isis, leading Catwoman to feel deeply sick and in need of Batman's help to escape from the premises.
- Plans to let go all the infected strays over Gotham so they would spread a plague among all of the city's stray animals, which according to Daggett are 300,000, and citizens within weeks or days so Daggett could sell anti-toxins to the population to make millions and be hailed as a hero.
- Though one can argue that we don't know how dangerous the virus was, a later episode has Catwoman trying to kill Daggett after he tries to kill her and Batgirl by asking him how it feels to feel that death is approaching him like when she was infected by the virus in addition to Catwoman assuring Batgirl that the virus nearly killed her and her pet, proving that Milo's virus was indeed lethal.
- Sends one of his sick dogs after Batman, asking him to rip the Dark Knight to bits.
- Tracks Batman down under Daggett's orders and lets Jessy shoot at the frozen lake where Batman manages to cure the dog, breaking it and sending both the vigilante and the canine into the ice, expecting them to die from hypothermia.
- Invents undetectable and uncontrollable steroids with Timberwolf strogen to allow athletes such as the local Olympian pentathlete Anthony Romulus to cheat in competitions, selling a serum full of it to Romulus so he could win gold medals in the Autumn Games.
- Conveniently doesn't comment about his steroids having the potential to make the consumer suffer from lycanthropy, leading him to use the condition to blackmail Romulus after he refuses to share his profits like they originally agreed, under the condition that Romulus in his werewolf form goes after any of Milo's enemies if he wants to get a cure, not caring at all for the pains Romulus suffers from his formula.
- Though Romulus did betray him and didn't share the profits with him as they originally agreed, even kicking him out of his mansion demeaningly, this doesn't justify Milo's blackmail as he gave Romulus the stereoids long before learning that Romulus wouldn't keep his word.
- Has Romulus go after Gotham Zoo employee John Hamner, who assisted Milo in developing his steroids by allowing him access to the zoo's cage of the Timberwolves, and hunt him down to tie any loose ends.
- Has Romulus abduct Batman and chain him up at his lair in Gotham's docks, intending to leave Batman restrained to the light of the full moon so once transformed, Romulus could kill and possibly devour Batman alive.
- Expresses zero remorse and doesn't even try to help when Romulus finally loses his humanity and becomes a werewolf permanently, leading him to lose all his things and retreat into the wilderness. A The Batman Adventures comic sequel later shows Romulus still seeking a cure, but this eventually leads him to track down Emile Dorian with Tygrus and gets all of them killed in an explosion.
Justice League Unlimited[]
- Seemingly gets off scot free for his crimes and some years later joins Project Cadmus to undermine the Justice League due to his specialty in splicing with animal/human DNA, even getting Kirk Langstrom's notes of his Man-Bat formula for his experiments even though Langstrom's formula endangered several people back in Gotham City.
- Unleashes a powerful wild pig he experimented with on his Cadmus laboratory, which leads the beast to wreck the lab and possibly endanger others, according to Cadmus leader Amanda Waller and Professor Emil Hamilton.
- Fantasizes about shooting all his Cadmus superiors dead just for rightfully demoting him due to his uselessness.
- Frees Doomsday, one of the project's most deadly assets who previously caused a rampage in Metropolis looking for Superman, merely to sic him on Waller and Hamilton out of pure spite for his demotion by informing Doomsday of his origins. Though what Milo told Doomsday about his creation was true, he didn't reveal it to him out of pity, but just to convince him to go after his superiors. Ironically, this gets him karmically killed by Doomsday, who has more interest in going after Superman than obeying him, which leads Doomsday to attack Superman during a rescue evacuation at the San Boquero island that nearly gets everyone there killed when General Wade Eiling sends a missile there.
- His offscreen death, as disturbing as it might have been, wasn't played for sympathy, considering how many lives he was willing to endanger just to settle a petty vendetta.
- He lacks any loyalty to anyone but himself, which is definitely confirmed here. Though in his first appearance he seems to care for Daggett, it's more than likely that it was a professional partnership, as Milo needed Daggett safe to be paid and Daggett himself threatens him if Batman escapes. He does ask Paunch to bring anti-toxins if the animals attack them, but it's evidently for his own safety and doesn't treat Jessy or Paunch with respect, abandoning Paunch to avoid capture and insulting Jessy for shooting at the ice when Batman grabs her instead of helping. His interactions with Anthony Romulus and Amanda Waller show how self-serving and traitorous he can be if it suits him.
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]
- Undoubtedly fails the DCAU's massive Heinous Standards due to there being a few criminals, like Baby-Doll, who endangered Gotham City through different and nearly successful ways with even less resources Milo has despite Milo lacking resources like those of the Joker or Mr. Freeze. Milo's plague isn't fully elaborated on regarding how heinous it can be, his timberwolf serum just hurt two people and he had no way of knowing that Doomsday would go on a rampage at San Boquero nor that such mayhem would lead General Eiling into sending a missile there instead of just going after Amanda Waller and Emil Hamilton. That said, engineering a deadly virus to cause a powerful plague over a city is somewhat unique in the DCAU and Milo did know, like all Cadmus personnel, how destructive Doomsday had the potential to be given his previous rampage in Metropolis, so this is a minor prevention.
Trivia[]
- He is the only version of Professor Milo to be Near Pure Evil.
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