Ulysses Armstrong

Ulysses Hadrian Armstrong, also known as "The General" is a sociopathic killer who had been in and out of a juvenille detention center, and gone on his very own crime spree, at the age of twelve. As his alias suggests, Armstrong is a child obsessed with war. As a small child, he collected many costumes, books, paraphanelia, toys, and even weapons relating to war. Rather than fixate on a specific section of war, Armstrong has a vast knowledge of war from all times and places including weaponry, tactics, events, and other such subjects.

Using this dangerous knowledge, "The General" made his criminal debut in Gotham City, where he lived with his family. At just twelve years old, he yearned for war. While on a field trip to an art museum, Armstrong came across an insane man calling himself to be Caesar. Later revealed to be a member of Maxie Zeus's gang, Caesar operated with Ulysses for a short time. Recognizing an easily manipulated chance at action, the General appealed to Caesar's insanity, speaking in an "old fashioned" form. Donning a Roman Centurion costume, the General and Caesar went to work; stealing a circus lion from a German lion tamer. They brought the lion (named Nero) with them when they went to recruit their gang (a biker gang they used the lion to threaten into teaming up). They then dug a hole in the basement of Ulysses's house, stuck Nero inside, and covered it with a tarp. When Robin III (see Timothy Drake) came to investigate, he fell into the hole and found him trapped with an angered lion. Ulysses, Caesar and the gang mocked him, but left to attend to other business. Robin barely escaped, using the german phrase "sitzen seich" to calm the lion. He was helped out of the pit by Ulysses's younger sister. She gave him some insight into the General's psyche, then showed him a little model of a section of Gotham that Ulysses made. One such building in this model was labelled "Al & Rick's". Robin figured out that this meant "Alaric" (the barbarian chieftan who stormed Rome). Robin left to get some help from his ally, Sheriff Shotgun Smith. Meanwhile, the General and his gang get into a gang fight in the "Al & Rick's" bar, home to a warring bike gang. Robin and the Sheriff use regurgative gas to take out the gang, and proceed to the back room, where the General has already murdered a man to get money (the purpose of the visit to the bar). Then, Armstrong and Caesar steal a cop car and proceed to get away. Shotgun and Robin hopped in the Redbird and overtake the criminals. Their is a minimal-damage car crash, the General is caught, and Caesar jumps off a bridge, seemingly to his death. The General is then put once again in a juvenille detention center. However, Robin has a foreboding feeling he will see the little sociopath again.