Egghead (DC Comics)
Egghead is a fictional character created for the 1960s "Batman" television series. Played by horror film mainstay Vincent Price, the character was identifiable by his pale bald head and white and yellow suit. He believes himself to be "the world's smartest criminal", and his crimes usually have an egg motif to them; he also includes egg-related puns in his speech ("egg-zactly", "egg-cellent", etc.). Additionally, he would use a wide assortment of egg-shaped weapons, such as laughing gas eggs and tear gas eggs (laid by chickens on a diet of onions). Background. Like  many other villains (e.g., King Tut, Shame, the Siren, Chandell, the Bookworm, and Louie the Lilac), Egghead was created specifically for the 1960s "Batman" TV series. Much like Harley Quinn would decades later after initially being introduced in "", Egghead would go on to be introduced in the comic books and make him an official villain. Fictional character biography. Egghead was introduced in the second season two-parter, "An Egg Grows in Gotham" and "The Yegg Foes in Gotham", where he schemes with Chief Screaming Chicken (Edward Everett Horton) of the Mohican Indian tribe to revert control of Gotham City to  the chief's people. In return, Egghead would also govern the city and enable the criminal underground to run amok. Their scheme is foiled by Batman (Adam West) and Robin (Burt Ward). Egghead would return three times in the third season with his new partner and love interest Olga, Queen of the Cossacks (Anne Baxter), an exile from Bessarovia. The first two third-season appearances, "The Ogg and I" and "How to Hatch a Dinosaur", were actually filmed as one multi-part story, but split into two separate stories (Season 3 episodes 8 and 9) prior to airing. In "How  to Hatch a Dinosaur", Egghead and Olga plan to hatch an egg of a "Neosaurus" and later to try to feed Robin and Batgirl to it. It does not work, however, and the "Neosaurus" - actually Batman in disguise - advances toward Egghead and Olga, causing them to surrender to the police. Egghead and Olga appear for the final time in season three in episode 15, "The Ogg Couple", in which they steal the Sword of Bulbul and the Egg of Ogg. In "The Entrancing Dr. Cassandra", Egghead (alongside the Joker, the Penguin, the Riddler, Catwoman, and King Tut) is freed from  prison by Dr. Cassandra Spellcraft and her husband Cabala. Dr. Spellcraft promises Egghead control over the poultry farms when she takes over Gotham City, even giving him and the other villains her camouflage pills to assist in their crime spree. Egghead is one of only two "Batman" 1960s series villains to deduce Batman's secret identity (and the only one to do so through deductive reasoning instead of trickery). Reasoning that the enormous "egg-spense" involved in producing Batman's various gadgets would point to only one of three Gotham City millionaires, and deducing that two could not be the  Caped Crusader (one has a French accent, which Batman does not have, and the other is left-handed, where as Batman is right-handed), he concludes that the last, Bruce Wayne, must be Batman.