Amadeus Arkham (Arkhamverse)

Amadeus Arkham
Arkhamverse‎
Real Name	Amadeus Arkham
Status
Alignment	Good
Identity	Public Identity
Citizenship	American
Marital Status	Single
Occupation	Psychologist · Psychiatrist
Characteristics
Gender	Male
Height	5' 11"
Weight	175 lbs (79 kg)
Eyes	Blue
Hair	Brown · Grey
Origin
Universe	Arkhamverse
First Appearance	Batman: Arkham Asylum (August 25, 2009)

History

Amadeus Arkham was the patriarch of the wealthy Arkham family in Gotham City several decades ago.

An insane man killed his family, and rather than being outraged, Amadeus was moved to compassion and realized that Gotham City had no facility for the care and treatment of the insane. With some renovations to the huge buildings found there, he donated Arkham Island and its buildings to the city of Gotham, to be Arkham Asylum.

Within a few years, however, Amadeus Arkham himself went insane, and became a patient of his own facility--where he died, still insane, and boding ill for the success of Arkham Asylum.

Powers and Abilities

Abilities

• Psychology

• Psychiatry

Weaknesses

• Mental Disorder

Notes

• "Arkham" is an intentional reference to the name of the fictional Massachusetts town that features in H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos stories, as an inside joke to comic readers who'd also read Lovecraft. Arkham is a deeply unfortunate and ominous name for an insane asylum, something like naming an airport Crashington Field.

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