25 Facts About Professor Pyg

Professor Pyg is a supervillain who appears in comic books published by DC Comics, commonly known as an adversary of the superhero Batman.

Professor Pyg was re-introduced following DC's The New 52 comics relaunch in 2011, appearing throughout the continuity and the subsequent DC Rebirth relaunch that began in 2016.

Morrison intended Professor Pyg to seem disconnected from reality, believing him to be one of the "weirdest, most insane" characters in Batman comic books.

Professor Pyg is an obsessive perfectionist who sees human beings as broken individuals; he commonly kidnaps people and uses surgery and chemicals to permanently change them into mind-controlled automatons known as Dollotrons, and sometimes into human–animal hybrids.

Professor Pyg began making substantial appearances in other media in 2013 with the animated series Beware the Batman and has since appeared in video games, television, and film.

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Batman and Robin learn from interrogating his underlings, members of a gang called the Circus of Strange, that Professor Pyg is planning to spread a mind-control virus across Gotham City to hold the population for ransom.

Professor Pyg is stopped and placed in Blackgate Penitentiary but medics cannot save his infected minions known as Dollotrons.

Professor Pyg had been working for the supervillain Doctor Simon Hurt during the events of "Batman Reborn", and a virus has contaminated the population without Batman or the public realizing it.

Professor Pyg uses the virus as a diversion to escape Blackgate Penitentiary.

Angry his work has been destroyed, Professor Pyg sends his remaining Dollotrons to assault Batman, who persuades Professor Pyg that Falcone was responsible.

Professor Pyg is featured in a chapter of the anthology digital comic series Sensation Comics, featuring Wonder Woman.

Professor Pyg, voiced by Brian George, became a recurring villain in the 2013 animated series Beware the Batman, which was intended to focus on lesser-known members of Batman's rogues' gallery to set it apart from previous Batman television shows.

Professor Pyg is still portrayed as a surgeon, transforming his victims into human–animal hybrids.

Professor Pyg is described as "a gifted scientist who suffered a schizophrenic break" that caused him to develop his persona.

Professor Pyg made minor appearances in the animated series Batman: The Brave and the Bold and the video game Injustice 2.

Police captain James Gordon learns "Professor Pyg" is a persona used by Valentin, a contract murderer who impersonates serial killers.

Grayson and Wayne overcome Professor Pyg, who tells them he created Deathwing and Robintron for Simon Hurt.

Professor Pyg makes his film debut voiced by James Urbaniak in the 2018 animated film Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay, in which he is depicted as an underground surgeon-for-hire for supervillains.

Professor Pyg doesn't follow a pattern or even build up to a punchline.

Professor Pyg is usually characterized in comic books as someone who is suffering from severe mental illness.

Name Pyg is a shortening of Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw's play that was adapted into the musical My Fair Lady starring Rex Harrison, which tells the story of a professor's attempt to convert a street urchin into an educated, high-society woman.

Actor Michael Cerveris said of the faux persona, "Professor Pyg is a brilliant and chameleon-like person who has a highly developed sense of what's right and wrong—it just might not be a sense of right and wrong that corresponds with everybody else's".

Cerveris said Professor Pyg takes delight in his actions and sees himself as a mirror image to James Gordon, who wants to end corruption in the Gotham City Police Department.

In 2017, John Stephens said Professor Pyg is one of his favorite recently-created Batman villains for being demented, grotesque, and funny.

When it was announced Professor Pyg would appear on Gotham, Digital Spy commented, "Gotham season 4 is going to introduce its most disturbing villain ever, so forget about sleeping ever again".

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