Waylon Jones

**Waylon Jones** (ウェイロン・ジョーンズ, *Weiron Jōnzu*), also known as **Killer Croc** (キラークロック, *Kirā Kurokku*), is both a fictional character and antagonist of the *DC* series. He is a menacing human-crocodile hybrid and physically deformed, cannibalistic criminal. Born was born with a form of atavism and a rare and unfortunate genetic body mutation that made his skin green and scaly and actually takes the appearance of a humanoid reptile, he has the strength, speed, agility, fangs & claws, healing rate, amphibian attributes & aggression of an actual reptile.

Waylon Jones was constantly bullied and taunted relentless by his aunt because of his reptilian appearance. In retaliation to his discrimination, Waylon killed her. Waylon's genetic mutation caused his body to grow to grotesque proportions, with his skin becoming hardened and scaly.

For a time, he worked as a carnival freak, but his misanthropy increased along with his bestial, animalistic nature. As his physical condition and mental state deteriorate, Killer Croc becomes a more bestial foe, eventually and increasingly became detached from humanity, pushing him to a life of crime.

"*Tick Tock! Feed the Croc!*"

—Killer Croc's catchphrase.

## Appearance & Biography

*Voice actor:* Steve Blum (English), Not Known (Japanese), Not Known (Italian), Not Known (Spanish), Not Known (German), Not Known (Finnish), Not Known (Korean), Not Known (French), Not Known (Latin American Spanish)

### Biography

Born with a rare mutation that made his skin green and scaly, and which grew his body to grotesque proportions, Waylon Jones was raised in a genetics research facility for study. He briefly worked as a carnival freak under the name Killer Croc, but his misanthropy grew as did his bestial nature, pushing him to a life of crime. As his physical condition and mental state deteriorate, Killer Croc becomes a more bestial foe, increasingly detached from humanity.

### Appearance

#### As Killer Croc

Killer Croc's entire body is much larger, green, scaly skin with a paler, white hue to his arms, belly, and chest, and he towers over the other characters, appearing to be twice the size of Two-Face, Batman and Nightwing. Croc was barefoot (although he had bandages that were wrapped around his feet), and also had them wrapped around his hands and wrists as well. Croc wore black trousers that had faint, white pinstripes. Croc has a large, long tail and wears a black belt around his waist and had loose, red overalls. Croc is shirtless and his physique is more muscular (a trait that he had possibly carried over from his career as a wrestler), and has brighter, yellow eyes with black, slitted pupils, and had sharper teeth and claws.

* Hair Color: N/A
* Skin Color: Green
* Eye Color: Yellow
* Age: Not Known
* Birthday: Not Known
* Height: 11 ft.
* Weight: 580 lb.

### Attributes

* Killer Croc has incredibly thick, tough skin and razor-sharp teeth and claws.
* An expert wrestler, his strength and stamina are at a near-superhuman level.
* Heightened senses, and extremely fast reflexes.
* Able to survive in water for extended periods of time.
* An intense hatred of humanity.
* Cannibalistic.

### Gallery

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## Background

"*Got a lead on your Killer Croc. His name's **Waylon Jones**. He was an inmate at Arkham Asylum. A former test subject of Professor Strange's aversion therapy program. Waylong was a former circus sideshow freak. Suffers from a rare skin disorder and rare mutation. Apparently he filed his teeth to razor points and went on a killing spree. And get this. He had an infant fear that Hugo Strange was working on averting: Bats.*"

—Killer Croc.
Born with a form of atavism and a rare mutation that made his skin green and scaly, Waylon Jones was raised by an alcoholic aunt in a northern Florida slum. Relentlessly bullied because of his appearance, he eventually snapped and was sent to a reform school. With little education and a sociopathic hatred for all "normal" people, Jones became a petty criminal and a fully fledged murderer by his 18th birthday.

## Relationships

### Friends/Allies

* Traveling Circus
	+ Betty

### Familiy

* unnamed mother, desceased
* unnamed father
* unnamed aunt, deceased

### Neutral

* Hugo Strange
* Pamela Isley/Poison Ivy
* False Facers
	+ Roman Sionis/Black Mask
* Antonio Diego/Bane
* Slade Wilson/Deathstroke
* Sandra Wu-San/Lady Shiva
* Floyd Lawton/Deadshot
* Garfield Lynns/Firefly
* Larissa Diaz/Copperhead
* Dr. Jonathan Crane/Scarecrowe

### Enemies

* Humans
* Aaron Cash
* Bruce Wayne/Batman
* Damian Wayne/Robin
* Dick Grayson/Robin/Nightwing
* Gotham City Police
	+ Gillian B. Loeb
	+ Peter Grogan
	+ James Gordon
	+ Harvey Bullock
* Jack Napier/Joker

## Abilities and Powers

### Abilities

* **Hand-to-Hand Combat (Basic)**:
* **Unique Physiology**
	+ **Amphibian**: Although not officially able to breathe under water, Croc is able to hold his breath under water for an incredibly long time and swim at unbelievably fast sppeds.
	+ **Enhanced Senses**: Jones is able to feel movement while under water and find his prey using this movement. He repeatedly states that he has memorized Batman's scent and thus knows when the Dark Knight is near; this prevents Batman from sneaking up on him.
	+ **Claws**: Croc's nails also seemed to alter with him as well, transforming into razor sharp claws. Croc's claws are capable of being able to break through metal, possibly even the TYGER vault.
	+ **Teeth**: Croc's teeth became sharp enough to rend flesh.
	+ **Super-Human Strength**: Croc is capable of lifting things up to the size of a car without much effort. Because of this inhumane strength, Batman never attempts to beat Croc in hand-to-hand combat, often outwitting Croc instead.
	+ **Superhuman Durability**: Thanks to his regeneration ability, it's almost impossible to harm Croc, considering that back in *Origins*, Batman had to trick him into getting in the blast radius of exploding tanks. By the time of *Knight*, it took the combined efforts of Batman and Nightwing to render Croc unconscious.
	+ **Superhuman Speed**: Croc is fast in the water, being able to almost keep pace with Batman, who was running away on platforms on the water.

### Weakness

* **Adaptive Mutation**: As a result of his regeneration ability, Croc's body adapts to whatever harmed him.
* **Shock Collar**: Waylon, although having almost superhuman durability, is extremely vulnerable is the shock collar around his neck. If hit in the collar, he will temporarily get electrocuted by the collar and falls down.

## History

### Past

After the deaths of his mother and his father leaving him, Waylon was sent to live at Arkham Asylum and with is aunt (an Arkham Doctor), who treated him like a son to her, while the staff themselves treated him little better than an animal. He became the first and successful experiment subject for Jonathan Crane's (years before becoming known as the Scarecrow) Fear Aversion therapy program. Every day, for years, young Waylon put up with his time in the asylum with doctors testing and experimenting him until he went on a mindless rampage! He didn't stop attacking until most of the staff were killed, including his aunt (not on purpose). For an unknown amount of time, Waylon escaped from Arkham and lived like an animal in the swamps, until the day he met a young blind girl named Betty, who wasn't afraid of him. Betty took Waylon to her home, a travelling carnival sideshow, and introduced him to the various other freaks and performers. For the first time since he could remember, Waylon found acceptance and friendship.

Calling himself the "Lizard Man", Waylon found a place in the carnival as an alligator wrestler, grappling with the huge reptiles in a tank of water for cheering fans. For a time, Croc was happy. One day, the carnival owner sold out to another man who moved the show to Gotham City. The crowds were a lot worse, and some of the gawkers were openly hostile toward the performers. Croc managed to catch two punks who were harassing Betty and had them hauled off by the GCPD. A few nights later, the punks returned and detonated a bomb! Croc was thrown into the river by the explosion, his thick skin protecting him from the blast. By the time he hauled himself back to the docks, he discovered most of his friends, Betty included, had not been so lucky.

After witnessing his loved ones dead, he finally snapped, literally! Later after thinking humanity was becoming nothing more but a disgusting waste of flesh by his hatred and rage, Jones went berserk around town, killing many people. Now without a home or a job, Waylon began his life of crimes by became a cannibal murderer, and have called himself "Killer Croc".

## External links

* Killer Croc *Wikipedia*
* Killer Croc *DC Database*
* Killer Croc *Batman Wiki*

## Notes & Trivia

* Killer Croc first appeared in Batman #357 (January 1984).
* According to Croc himself it takes him roughly 8 hrs to digest something.
* Joker was heard saying, "Tick-tock, tick-tock, is that a crocodile I hear?" This was a nod to *Peter Pan*, which featured a crocodile that at one point had swallowed a clock, which caused people around it to hear the infamous ticking as it drew near. Aaron Cash's missing hand was also a nod to Captain Hook in Peter Pan.
* In Dr. Young's Notes, Penguin's signature was seen at the top of his page. That could have been a small reference to *LEGO Batman: The Videogame*, in which Penguin, Killer Croc, Catwoman, Bane and Man-Bat teamed up in an evil plan to terrorize Gotham, although this is unlikely.
* At the Medical Facility, an old prison cell was used as a Riddler Challenge puzzle to unlock Croc's Biography. That was most likely Croc's previous cell before he was moved to the sewers. The cell, however, seemed to be too small to fit something as big as Killer Croc.
* After the events of *Arkham City*, Croc could be seen in the Iceberg Lounge Challenge Map teamed up with Penguin and watching Batman fight many enemies while smoking a cigar and sipping a glass of liquor.
* He was one of the few villains in *Arkham City* to not have a game over scene (along with Bane and Hush). However, that could have attributed to the fact that none of those characters could physically kill the player within the game.
* Killer Croc was one of only four villains to appear in all the Arkham games. The other three were: Joker, Riddler, and Harley Quinn. Although the Riddler never physically appeared in *Arkham Asylum*, he still played a big part of the game. Harley only appeared as Dr. Harleen Quinzel in *Arkham Origins*.
* As seen in the "Gallery" of this page, Killer Croc not only killed his victims by hand. Croc also shot them, as he used to own multiple guns. Croc also used to possess a bag of cocaine (and a weed plant according to rumors), which meant that he dealt in or had more likely (given his human side was that of a street thug) used drugs.
* When Killer Croc emerged from the elevator, the P.A. announced his arrival and granted Killer Croc's guards their "Shoot to Kill" permissions. Although Croc's upper body had no actual clothing, his biography mentioned that his skin was so tough that it could even repel gunfire, so shooting was useless. Captain Gordon hit a Joker Henchman Sniper with a baseball bat, and the bullet grazed Croc's right shoulder after he escaped and attacked Batman. That further showed the progression of Croc's mutation.
* Killer Croc's *Arkham Asylum* bio listed his occupation as a "professional criminal" but in *Arkham City*, his bio listed his occupation as an "alligator wrestler, gangster, and murderer".
* Even though his name was on the Joker's Party List, Croc appeared to be the only inmate during Joker's takeover not to be released from his cell as he attacked the door that Batman was behind. However, given his tendency to attack and eat guards and inmates alike, it was likely that Joker's men where afraid to free Croc from his cell, or Joker left him there to guard the plant spores that were needed to create a vaccine to the Titan Formula, as he likely realized that Batman would surely seek out an antidote for the formula.
* When Killer Croc rammed into Batman (which occurred if the player was unable to throw a Batarang in time), it was possibly a very small trait from his wrestling career as wrestling is a full-body contact sport.
* In *Arkham Knight*, it's explained that Croc's mutation was accelerated by trauma. Croc even pointed out to the person who experimented on him, Warden Ranken, that he "made [his condition] worse".
* One of the torturous experiments performed on Croc to study his healing factor, involved sawing off his hand and part of his left arm. Croc's hand and left arm later regenerated and his severed arm was apparently kept for study as it is later recovered from wreckage of Iron Heights Penitentiary, and placed in an Evidence Display case in the West Wing of GCPD Maximum Security (which is a certan portion of the GCPD Building that is only accessible via the *The Season of Infamy* DLC).
	+ Croc having his left hand and arm severed can be seen as a form of both irony and poetic justice considering Croc was responsible for biting off Aaron Cash left hand, forcing him to wear a prosthetic hook. Despite the troubled history between the two, Cash is shown to feel some sympathy for the torture Croc suffered, including the brutal severing of Croc left arm in the name of science. However Cash while a feeling some sympathy for what Croc had gone through, Cash is quick to point out that unlike Croc, his hand didn't grow back.
* Croc was both a victim and a villain in The *Season of Infamy* DLC side mission "Beneath the Surface".
* Croc growing a tail is considered strange by many fans, as a mere skin condition would not result in such changes. Some thus believe that genetic modification (similarily to that of Man-Bat) is somehow involved, despite the fact that Waylon was born with the condition.
* Killer Croc's idle stance in Arkham Asylum is modelled after rapper 50 Cent. This shows that despite his animalistic appearance and tendencies, he still retains the "gangster" aspect of his personality.