Arkham Asylum
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Real Identity: Pamela Lilian Isley
Appearances:A Better World Part Two
Voiced By: Diane Pershing
A gifted botanist, Pamela Isley formerly worked for a cosmetics company in research and development to create new fragrances. When District Attorney Harvey Dent helped break ground for Stone Gate Prison, an endangered species of rose was needlessly destroyed. Isley managed to take the last rose and disappeared from sight. Several years later, she returned and set forth her plan to get revenge on Dent. Using the rise, Isley synthesized a toxin she applied through lipstick. Dent nearly died but the Batman uncovered her plan and retrieved the antidote. Now calling herself Poison Ivy, her poisonous toxins match her equally warped personality. The authorities label her as an eco-terrorist despite her rants as an avenger of the helpless plant life.
As time passed, Ivy formed a unique friendship with another female psychopath, Harley Quinn. Together, the two went on a crime spree that rocked Gotham City. But it was only a matter of time before Quinn was drawn back to her lover, the Joker, whom Ivy openly despises.
Ivy soon began to create human/ plant hybrids using DNA from her unsuspecting ward. Afterwards, Ivy began experimenting on herself and took on a green pigmentation by replacing her human blood with chlorophyll. Ivy could exact further control of her creations. Ivy also retained her previous immunity to all forms of poisons.
In the Justice Lords' reality, Poison Ivy was designated as Arkham Asylum's resident gardener. Superman's lobotomization of Ivy was reflected in her pruning skills, numbingly cutting roses off of their stems.
Alternate Riddler
Real Identity: Edward Nygma
Appearances:A Better World Part Two
Edward Nygma, a brilliant genius in many fields including computers and electronics, has an obsessive talent for puzzles and games. Nygma formerly worked for Competitron, a software company, where he developed "The Riddle of the Minotaur" game. The coporate chair, Daniel Mockridge, however, had him fired. Two years later when Mockridge was ready to sell out Competitron to Wayne Enterprises, Nygma resurfaced as the Riddler to get his revenge. Nygma had no interest in the multi-million dollar deal but rather in killing Mockridge. Nygma compulsively left clues in the form of riddles to either Batman or the Gotham City Police Department. Riddler held Mockridge in the local amusement park's own "Riddle of the Minotaur" maze but the Batman and Robin arrived in time to save Mockridge from being killed by the Minotaur robot. Since then, Riddler became obsessed with outsmarting Batman only to be defeated over and over. The Riddler once attempted to reform and sell his games but he couldn't resist his criminal dealings and soon returned to crime.
Alternate Two-Face
Real Identity: Harvey Dent
Appearances:A Better World Part Two
Harvey Dent endured child abuse leaving him with a dual personality. Despite that, Dent grew up to become the respected Gotham City District Attorny. However, at times, he would fall victim to his inner fears. Dent carried around a "two-headed" silver dollar that he kept as a good luck charm. It truly reflected his schizophrenic duality. Dent was a close friend of Bruce Wayne, but even Wayne couldn't reach Dent.
The mob boss Rupert Thorne discovered Dent's secret and attempted to blackmail him with it. However, Dent's dark persona took over and in the ensuing struggle, Dent was caught in a chemical explosion that disfigured the left side of his face as well as his ability to contain his other half. Dent scarred one side of his coin and became an underworld figure, Two-Face. For months, he robbed rackets tied to Thorne. But every decision he makes is by the flip of the coin. If the unmarked side came up, he would show mercy; if marked, he would go through with his original decision. That predictability is, perhaps, the only way Batman manages to defeat Two-Face.
Not every act Two-Face committed was theft and murder, he even has a hand in the origins of Batgirl and the second Robin. Two-Face masterminded a plot that involved framing Barbara Gordon's father, the Commissioner and replacing him with one of Two-Face's men. In another plan years later, Tim Drake's father stole a chemical agent from Two-Face. Dent attempted to reform but the Two-Face persona was too strong.
Over time, Two-Face's personality fractured further into a third persona called the Judge. The Judge acted as a vigilante and attacked criminals who routinely escaped justice such as Killer Croc and the Penguin. The Judge came about in response to Two-Face being in control for so long. The Dent persona which represented good was repressed, so a more extreme persona of good formed and took control. Two-Face is now his own collective judge, jury and executioner.
Ventriloquist and Scarface
Real Identity: Arnold Wesker
Appearances:A Better World Part Two
Arnold Wesker was an orphan. Wesker repressed his childhood traumas, slowly developing schizophrenia, a multiple personality disorder. As an adult, Wesker killed a man and was arrested. At Blackgate Penitentiary, Wesker met Donnegan who proudly showed off his ventriloquist's dummy which he carved on his own. Wesker desired the doll and killed Donnegan for it. It was then that Wesker's dominant psychopathic personality manifested in the doll calling itself Scarface. Scarface began speaking through the doll and dressed as a gangster, began ordering Wesker around to commit robberies.
Wesker, calling himself the Ventriloquist, and Scarface became an oddity in Gotham City's underworld and organized timed heists that would net them large monetary gain like bonds and gold bars. The Batman interferred and in the process Scarface was 'killed'. However, despite several attempts to reform, Wesker always succumbed to his dark persona. Scarface refers to Wesker as 'dummy'.
In the Justice Lords' reality, instead of lobotomizing the Ventriloquist, Superman operated on the Scarface dummy, effectively neutralizing the duo.