Jervis Tetch

**Jervis Tetch** also known as the **Mad Hatter,** is a criminal who operates in Gotham City. He is best known as "The Mad Hatter", for his obsession with the character of the same name from "Alice in Wonderland". Currently, he is incarcerated in Arkham Asylum.

## Biography

#### Early Life

According to Tetch, he and his sister lost their parents when young and he became her guardian. It is heavily implied that he was mentally abusive and sexually abusive as Richard Drake refers to it later, saying she killed herself to avoid his touch. Eventually, he decided that her "gift", which was her poisoned blood, was too much.

#### Arriving in Gotham

Upon arriving in Gotham in 2006, Tetch was employed by Wayne Enterprises as a neuroscientist. In 2017, Tetch was fired for messing with the brains that were given to him, this caused him to go crazy.

#### Arriving in Star City

4 years later, Tetch headed to Star City to do some experiments on mind control with the human brain and he thought it got more interesting when Batman, Robin, and Batgirl arrived and thought of it as a perfect opportunity to do some real psychological damage.

#### Incarceration

After Green Arrow breaks out of the mind control, both Team Arrow and the Bat-Team sent Jervis away at Arkham Asylum.

In late April 2021, Tetch along with tons of Arkham inmates escaped. A few weeks later, he returned to his cell.

#### The Reign of Darkseid

During the Reign of Darkseid, Jervis as well as everyone on Earth-0 except for seven specific heroes became affected by the Anti-Life Equation, only to be freed two weeks later after the Justice League stopped Darkseid.

## Personality

Jervis Tetch is shown to be psychopathic and unhinged, and quite sadistic. Prior to his sisters death, he appeared to keep his true personality hidden behind a soft spoken and well mannered demeanor. Following her death, Jervis began to show clear signs of mental instability when he led a crusade against Star City and was willing to endanger the lives of innocent people due to the pain of his sister's death, making clear that her being alive was the only thing that keeping him somewhat in check with reality.

## Powers and Abilities

#### Powers

* Powers via **Mad Hatter's Hat**: Tetch's top hat holds mind-controlling technology within it that enables the wearer to bend the wills of others in his presence.
	+ **Hypnotism:** Jervis's main attribute is his sheer mastery over mesmerism and hypnotism. He is capable of using his hypnotic abilities on individuals without any difficulty and by using a stopwatch.
	+ **Brainwashing:** By using his hypnotic power of suggestion and a ticking stopwatch, Jervis can tap into a person's darkest side so as to implant a hidden impulse in them. He made the Green Arrow fight Batman.
	+ **Mind control:** Jervis can also implant mind control impulses on people.

#### Abilities

* **Keen intellect/Expert Tactician:** Jervis is a highly trained tactician, having created an elaborate revenge plan on Gotham City and Star City while at the same time, managed to avoid being caught by Batman and the Green Arrow.

#### Weaknesses

* **Noise-canceling items:** So long as someone is wearing something over their ears, such as headphones with music being played through them, Jervis cannot control them using his voice.
* **Mental Illness**: The experimental drugs Jervis took for his height not only did not help enough to be considered normal height, but also left him mentally unstable. Due to continuous use, he has become a psychotic sexual deviant.
	+ **Drug Addiction**: Jervis is addicted to the drug that he tried to take to increase his height.

## Equipment

* **Stopwatch** - Jervis used a pocket watch that helped him hypnotize people so long as they looked into it.
* **Mad Hatter's Hat:** Tetch's top hat holds mind-controlling technology within it that enables the wearer to bend the wills of others in his presence.

## Appearances

### Batman

#### Season 1

* Shawshank uproar
* Rouge Time

#### Season 3

* Canaries (mentioned)
* Sub-Zero Chills (mentioned)

## Behind the scenes

* In DC Comics, Jervis Tetch, also known as the Mad Hatter, is a member of Batman's rogues gallery who uses mind-control technology and has an obsession with Lewis Carroll's *Alice's Adventures in Wonderland*, believing himself to being the real life reincarnation of the character Mad Hatter. He was created by Lew Sayre Schwartz and Bill Finger and first appeared in *Batman* #49 (1948).