Bookworm
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Real Identity: I.N. Kingor
Appearances (Movies): Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders and Batman vs. Two-Face
Powers/Skills: Planning and Engineering
Voiced By: Jeff Bergman
Bookworm is a criminal who devises his schemes from books and literary tropes. He notably once tried to kill Batman and Robin with a giant book. Bookworm was one of the 14 criminals freed from Gotham State Penitentiary by Robin and Catwoman to battle Batman and his Replica Ray clones at Gotham Palace. In the aftermath, he was rearrested and returned to the penitentiary.
Bookworm plotted to raid the Gotham City Library's Irreplaceable Rare Books Vault and add the rare editions to his collection. Two-Face somehow learned of the heist and decided to steal the books himself to help fund his master plan to transform the people of Gotham City with Evil Essence. He sent a world atlas filled with worms to the Gotham City Police Department headquarters with an explicit address to Batman. Batman detected several pages were missing, pages of different world capitals, and deduced the longitudes and latitudes to correspond to the library's classification method, the Dewey Decimal System. Batman used his encyclopedic knowledge of the card catalog to figure out the clue pointed to rare editions of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Man in the Iron Mask, and A Tale of Two Cities.
At the Irreplaceable Rare Books Vault, Bookworm laser cut a circle in the vault door with his hat's device. He couldn't wait to add the priceless leather-bound editions to his eclectic ensemble. Batman cast his shadow and spooked Bookworm. Batman demanded his surrender. Bookworm was amused Batman thought he came without protection. The Worms, his four henchmen, came into the vault behind Batman and Robin. Batman told them wait and asked if they were forgetting something. Bookworm told them to give their glasses to Lydia. The fight resumed. The Worms were all knocked on top of Bookworm. Chief O'Hara and the police entered the vault and rounded up Bookworm and his gang. Batman and Robin helped Bookworm up and the right side of glasses fell off. Bookworm cursed them. Batman asked O'Hara to read him his rights. O'Hara chided Bookworm about Batman figuring out his clue. Bookworm had no idea what he was talking about. Batman and Robin were puzzled and realized the rare books were gone. They soon figured out the truth and saw themes of duality in the books stolen, leading them to Two-Face.