Some people can put the pieces together so easily...
...but not me Mr.Fish. I try and I try, as hard as I can. But everything I touch falls apart. 
- — Humpty Dumpty src
History
Humphry Dumpler was a pleasantly demeanored man, whose 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 abused by his grandmother and others for his appearance and child-like mental state. 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.
Humpty's final crime 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 Revealing that she had tracked him by his overdue library withdrawals, her sole request was why he had withdrawn a book on human anatomy.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]
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] as shown in the pages of Villains United.
Most recently Humpty had found kids dead bodies in a river, and was trying to "fix" them
Powers and Abilities
Abilities
Knack for piecing together broken or disassembled items.
Related
- 17 Appearances of Humphry Dumpler (New Earth)
- 9 Images featuring Humphry Dumpler (New Earth)
- 2 Quotations by or about Humphry Dumpler (New Earth)
- Character Gallery: Humphry Dumpler (New Earth)
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