Wednesday 19 July 2017

Anthony Lund - Batman: Arkham Knight (2015)

Born with "minor ear agenesis", Anthony Lund was formerly married to a woman called Ophelia, but there marriage did not last, resulting in them splitting up. He was a sufferer of alcoholism, which was believed to have been caused by the divorce, seeking medical help for the condition.

In some unknown circumstance, Lund ingested the ring, which got lodged in his lower intestine. Whilst at some point close to the time of his kidnapping, Lund needed a hip replacement, successfully getting it completed.


Interested in attending The Circus of Strange in Albuquerque New Mexico, Anthony Lund was kidnapped by the ringmaster Lazlo Valentin and rounded up with at least five other kidnapped men and women.

Brought back to his operating theatre in the Pretty Dolls Parlour - located in Gotham City - Lund forcibly underwent agonising and traumatic surgery; with his kidnapper removing his sexual organs, burning his finger prints off with acid and grafting a doll's mask to his face. Realising however that he could not do anything more to make him into a uniform member of the Dollotrons, Pyg killed Lund with an overdose of painkillers, causing him to have cardiac arrest.

His body was discarded, left to be found much later by the police and the vigilante Batman.


"Batman: Arkham Knight"

Shortly before the emergency evacuation of Gotham City on the thirty first of October, members of the G.C.P.D came across the dead corpse of Anthony Lund strung up on Merchant's Bridge with the word "flawed" painted on the ground at his feet with white spray paint. Nearby was also a speaker playing loud opra music on a loop, which became part of Professor Pyg's calling card. Due to short notice of Scarecrow's chemical bomb threat, they did not have time to make serious investigations of the crime scene, however those present on the scene found it all disturbing.

Having agreed to take on the case, Batman went to the crime scene himself, learning of Lund's location from Aaron Cash at the G.C.P.D Building. Arriving at bridge, Batman extracted a sample of the corpse's blood, to determine how Lund had died.

Due to various techniques used during the conversion process, Lund's DNA was unable to be cross-referenced by the G.C.P.D, leading Batman to use the Deep Tissue Scanner function within his cowl to determine the identity through birth and medical records.

Coming across scar tissue from a recent hip replacement, a wedding ring in his lower intestine to a woman called Ophelia, and a minor birth defect on his left ear, the Dark Knight successfully narrowed down Lund's record on the Missing Person Database.


Appearances:

  1. "Batman: Arkham Knight" (First and Only Appearance)

The First Dollotron - Batman: Arkham Knight (2015)

One of Professor Pyg's Dollotrons, they were once an unnamed person who was kidnapped by Pyg and the Circus of Strange on their American Tour, forcibly undergoing a painful and graphic conversion therapy to take away their uniqueness and make them (in the eyes of their creator) "perfect".

Their finger tips and toes were dipped in acid that stripped and destroyed their finger prints, before their hands and head were wrapped in bandages. Pyg then surgically attached a porcelin dolls mask to each of their faces, removing sexual organs with a butchers knife.

They were the first living (and successful) Dollotron that Batman ever faced (having come across six dead corpses of those that Pyg deemed as being inferior and failures), walking in on Professor Pyg whilst he was making the finishing touches to them.


"Batman Arkham Knight"

Strapped to the table of Pyg's operating table, the unnamed person begged for Valentin to stop the procedure, unable to take the pain anymore, whilst being driven to insanity by the loud opera music being pumped throughout the operating theatre and shop - Pretty Dolls Parlour. Screaming as Pyg made random inscissions into their flesh - testing their ability to feel pain - the villain replied that he was making them better, adding that their body is "saying thank you" with the agony. Finally succumbing to the numerous chemicals they had been forced to ingest, they thanked Pyg, before falling silent.

Confronting Valentin for the murders, Batman told him it was over, however Pyg remarked argued that he wasn't since "she" (the Dollotron) wasn't ready yet. Telling the Caped Crusader that "she" still was not perfect and still had parts that made them "unique" (and "wrong"). Picking up their limp hand and dropping it back on the table, he added that "she was all messed up" and "inside out", but would soon no longer need to worry about that once the operation was finished.

Checking their pulse, the Dollotron became frantic, attacking Batman and pushing him back. Knocking them down with relative ease, the vigilante is surprised to see them get back up, noting that they seemed to "Immune to pain". Fighting with them again, Batman managed to overpower and incapacitate them, leaving them unconscious for the police to collect with the other Dollotrons.

They were kept in the G.C.P.D holding cells, in a state of terror.


Appearances:

  1. "Batman: Arkham Knight (First and Only Appearance)