15 Facts About Simon Hurt

Dr Simon Hurt, commonly known simply as Doctor Hurt, is a fictional character from the DC Comics universe.

Simon Hurt is a brilliant psychologist whose true identity and nature is an enigma; over the course of Morrison's run he has been strongly implied at times to be the devil, the demon Barbatos, a supernaturally-empowered ancestor of Bruce Wayne, Bruce Wayne's long-lost evil twin brother, Bruce Wayne's father, an instrument of Darkseid, and perhaps even Darkseid himself.

Simon Hurt is dedicated to completely destroying Batman in body, mind, and soul, and replacing him with a corrupted, evil counterpart.

Psychiatrist, Doctor Simon Hurt was involved in a program which created three "replacement Batmen" with the participation of the Gotham City Police Department.

Sometime after the three replacements had been trained, Simon Hurt was hired by the Defense Department to oversee an isolation experiment.

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Simon Hurt arranged for the replacements to fight the dazed Batman, but they were defeated; Batman suspected nothing of this.

Many years later, Doctor Simon Hurt was working with the Black Glove when they decided to target Batman and the Dark Knight's allies.

Simon Hurt then, using the Zur-En-Arrh trigger in conjunction with drugs, sent the dazed and confused Bruce Wayne onto the streets of Gotham with no memory.

Simon Hurt was believed to be dead after a helicopter explosion, but somehow survived and reappeared approximately six months later in Mexico, disguised as the drug lord El Penitente, but left to return to Gotham City.

Simon Hurt appears in the Convergence limited series, where a group of Pre-Flashpoint Batman villains, including Riddler and Professor Pyg, attempt to confront the Batman of the modern, reimagined Earth-Two.

Simon Hurt was still considered an ancestor of Thomas Wayne in this continuity and his immortality is because of the Hyper-Adapter that is fused to him.

Simon Hurt recruited Professor Pyg and made him create Dollotrons of Robin and Nightwing, one that becomes the man known as Deathwing.

However, since Simon Hurt was already an adult man when the Waynes met him, it seems unlikely that they would have claimed him to be their son, Thomas Jr.

Dr Simon Hurt, having become a personal advisor to the President of the United States, convinces the president to destroy Gotham with a nuclear weapon.

Doctor Simon Hurt was referenced in the Harley Quinn episode "A Fight Worth Fighting For".