Benny

## Extra Info

### Personality

sadistic, petty, and prone to vice. This is a psychological coping mechanisim. Underneath is a very tired and very angry man lost in the portayal of a character.

### Habits

Exaggerated cartoon and hollywood studio mannerisms. Often acts as if he's playing a part. Heavy drinker to cope with stress (it doesn't work), insomniac due to nightmares.

### Weaknesses

High pressure water, Acetone. Cannot harm children. Props are made of the same substance he is, and vulnerable to the same things.cannot blend into crowd.

### Strengths

physically resistant, immune to toxins, can squash to an absurd degree through tight spaces, capable of generating props from his body made of the same chemicals.

### Dislikes

doubters, the mob, police, corporate studio system

## Bio

"Benny" Tomas Fleischer, owner and lead animator of Joyous Visions Studio based out of Gotham. Founded in 1891 on a lot purchased Gotham's western side facing slaughter swamp. Had a long string of success until the establishment of Pax Studios in Hollywood. Eventually Pax Entertainment. Obsessed with the success of his studio and working ever harder as the debt built up. Tom drove his brother and family away investing in anything and everything illicit to get a leg up on the competition. The studio's dacing demon and it's popularity faded in 1949. The studio never really made the transition to television. Limped along trying to keep costs down with automation until it finally collapsed in 1962. Tomas's workaholic balance became a nosedive, pushing the machinery and himself past the limit. Churning out increasingly incoherent animations in the hope something would be a hit. The machines broke down. The explosion buckled the retaining wall. The facilities flooded with water from the upstream swamp and printing chemicals. Edward Eliot purchased the rights for a couple thousand dollars from Tomas's brother. The facilities were bulldozed to make way for affordable housing in the 80s.

Things in slaughter swamp have a way of not remaining dead, and so it was with Tomas. Pulling his addled self together in the decrepit basement of an apartment complex. Surrounded by his decayed artwork and rotten film reels. He took on the appearance of his star-character.

After escaping his prison and running into a pair of carmine's thugs. He got the lay of the land. Discovering the holders of his intellectual property are among some of the now wealthiest moguls in gotham. He's turned to crime both to make a living, and to get revenge on them.

## History

### Joker

He has a close affinity for The Joker. Who lent him money to get him started in criminal enterprise. Since then he's been a stain on gotham, conflicts resulting in chemical spills and contamination.

### Harley

He showed up to break Harley out of her jail cell.

### The Ball

Benny desired to attend the Saint Patrick's Day Ball, so he had his men bring him a victim. He intended to use the human to create a disguise so that he could attend the Ball without attracting attention. The Ball was ultimately crashed by Two-Face, however, this led to Benny discovering that Batgirl and Barbara Gordon are the same person. He promised to keep this a secret. Later he corners her in an alley and says he wants her to change into Batgirl because all Bats have a bounty on their heads. Barbara tells him she is no longer Batgirl, and after a brief talk they go their separate ways.

## Weapons

props, radio baton, over-sized firearms, improvised chemical weapons.