Charles Nigaff (New Earth)

Doctor Charles Nigaff
Mainstream Universe‎, 1986‎-2011‎
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Real Name	Charles Nigaff
Main Alias	Doctor Charles Nigaff
Other Aliases	Batman
Base Of Operations	Arkham Asylum, Gotham City
Status
Alignment	Bad
Identity	Secret Identity
Citizenship	American
Marital Status	Single
Occupation	Psychologist
Characteristics
Gender	Male
Origin
Universe	New Earth
Creators	Eddie Berganza · Carlo Barberi
First Appearance	Batman: Orphans #1 (February, 2011)

Someone has to fight back. The runaways are expendable. Winning this war is what matters.

— Charles Nigaff

Charles Nigaff was a psychologist at Arkham Asylum who also took young adult patients who were looking for therapy.

History

His non-Asylum patients included Jason Todd (briefly), Francisco Ramirez, Chris Ward, Nicholas Ward, Lance Heart, Monica Brennan, and Troy Hubbs-King all of whom excluding the first two Nigaff convinced to run away to join "Batman's soldiers" and then got addicted to Venom.

Powers and Abilities

Abilities

• Psychology
• Psychiatry
  

Paraphernalia

Equipment

• Venom: Charles had somehow acquired a supply of venom which he then had his recruits use, at least in two instances against their will, in order to make them stronger fighters and addicted and therefore dependent on him.

Trivia

Nigaff was not the first Batman villain to use a gang of runaways dressed as Robin to carry out his criminal work. The first was Al Craig in the Earth-One continuity in Detective Comics Vol 1 342.

Related

• 2 Appearances of Charles Nigaff (New Earth)
• 2 Images featuring Charles Nigaff (New Earth)
• 1 Quotations by or about Charles Nigaff (New Earth)
• Character Gallery: Charles Nigaff (New Earth)

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