Changes: Humphry Dumpler (New Earth)

Humphry Dumpler was a pleasantly demeanored man who was very unfortunate in his life. His house was demolished by mistake, his dog run over, his parents had both died when he was a little boy (their Christmas Tree fell and crushed both of them, on Christmas Day), and who had been forced to live with grandmother and work in her shoe factory most of his life. He was frequently beaten by his grandmother with her walking stick and abused by others for his appearance and child-like mental state. However, he had the mindset that with all the bad things that happened to him then something good would happen eventually. Until one day when he missed the subway, which although he admits is insignificant, was the last straw for him. He had a fascination with the way things were put together, which informed his crimes; he would sneak out late at night to disassemble and reassemble mechanical devices which had upset him in some way. As his sole knowledge about their workings came from books borrowed from the public library, the "fixed" devices caused numerous accidents. The first was the same train he missed which then crashed.

Humpty's final crime was when he was late for a boat he was going to take to leave the city when he had been found out due to the nearby clock tower being off by an hour. This resulted in several of the various giant objects situated on Gotham's rooftops collapsing into the streets, which inspired a law banning such devices. When Batgirl tried to apprehend him for this, he fell off the rooftop. She saved him- but dislocated her arms in the process. Humpty, being far from aggressive, promptly slipped her arms back into her sockets and surrendered himself to her. Revealing that she had tracked him by his overdue library withdrawals, her sole request was why he had withdrawn a copy of Grey's anatomy. Humpty placidly took her back to his home and revealed he had killed his abusive grandmother, who he believed had to have been broken and in need of repair, hacked her apart, then attempted to sew her together again with bootlace. It was likely this crime that resulted in his being sentenced to Arkham Asylum.^[1]

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He was a model prisoner at Arkham. There he befriends Warren White, and saved his life from both Death Rattle and Two-Face before Warren became the Great White Shark.

Humpty was seen amongst Luthor's Secret Society of Super-Villains in the attack on the House of Secrets.^[2]

More recently, Humpty had found kids' dead bodies in a river, and was trying to "fix" them

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-Humphry Dumpler was a pleasantly demeanored man who was very unfortunate in his life. His house was demolished by mistake, his dog run over, his parents had both died when he was a little boy (their Christmas Tree fell and crushed both of them, on Christmas Day), and who had been forced to live with grandmother and work in her shoe factory most of his life. He was frequently beaten by his grandmother with her walking stick and abused by others for his appearance and child-like mental state. However he had the mindset that with all the bad things that happened to him then something good would happen eventually. Until one day when He missed the subway, which although he admits that is insignificant was the last straw for him. He had a fascination with the way things were put together, which informed his crimes; he would sneak out late at night to disassemble and reassemble mechanical devices which had upset him in some way. As his sole knowledge about their workings came from books borrowed from the public library, the "fixed" devices caused numerous accidents. First was the same train he missed which then crashed.
+Humphry Dumpler was a pleasantly demeanored man who was very unfortunate in his life. His house was demolished by mistake, his dog run over, his parents had both died when he was a little boy (their Christmas Tree fell and crushed both of them, on Christmas Day), and who had been forced to live with grandmother and work in her shoe factory most of his life. He was frequently beaten by his grandmother with her walking stick and abused by others for his appearance and child-like mental state. However, he had the mindset that with all the bad things that happened to him then something good would happen eventually. Until one day when he missed the subway, which although he admits is insignificant, was the last straw for him. He had a fascination with the way things were put together, which informed his crimes; he would sneak out late at night to disassemble and reassemble mechanical devices which had upset him in some way. As his sole knowledge about their workings came from books borrowed from the public library, the "fixed" devices caused numerous accidents. The first was the same train he missed which then crashed.
 Humpty's final crime was when he was late for a boat he was going to take to leave the city when he had been found out due to the nearby clock tower being off by an hour. This resulted in several of the various giant objects situated on Gotham's rooftops collapsing into the streets, which inspired a law banning such devices. When [[Batgirl (Barbara Gordon)|Batgirl]] tried to apprehend him for this, he fell off the rooftop. She saved him- but dislocated her arms in the process. Humpty, being far from aggressive, promptly slipped her arms back into her sockets and surrendered himself to her. Revealing that she had tracked him by his overdue library withdrawals, her sole request was why he had withdrawn a copy of Grey's anatomy. Humpty placidly took her back to his home and revealed he had killed his abusive grandmother, who he believed had to have been broken and in need of repair, hacked her apart, then attempted to sew her together again with bootlace. It was likely this crime that resulted in his being sentenced to [[Arkham Asylum]].<ref>''[[Arkham Asylum: Living Hell Vol 1 3|Arkham Asylum: Living Hell #3]]''</ref>
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 He was a model prisoner at Arkham. There he befriends Warren White, and saved his life from both [[Erasmus Rayne (New Earth)|Death Rattle]] and [[Harvey Dent (New Earth)|Two-Face]] before Warren became the [[Warren White (New Earth)|Great White Shark]].
-Humpty was seen amongst Luthor's [[Secret Society of Super-Villains III|Secret Society of Super-Villains]] in the attack on the [[House of Secrets]],<ref>''[[Villains United 6|Villains United #6]]''</ref> as shown in the pages of [[Villains United]].
+Humpty was seen amongst Luthor's [[Secret Society of Super-Villains III|Secret Society of Super-Villains]] in the attack on the [[House of Secrets]].<ref>''[[Villains United 6|Villains United #6]]''</ref>
-Most recently Humpty had found kids dead bodies in a river, and was trying to "fix" them
+More recently, Humpty had found kids' dead bodies in a river, and was trying to "fix" them
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 [[Category:Arkham Asylum inmates]]
 [[Category:Secret Society of Super-Villains III members]]
+[[Category:2003 Character Debuts]]

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