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| Real Name: Arnold Wesker | ||||||||
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| Place Of Birth: Unknown | ||||||||
| First Appearance: Detective Comics 583 | ||||||||
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| Group Affiliation: The Society, Leader of the Scarface gang | ||||||||
| Base Of Operations: Gotham City | ||||||||
| Grudges: Batman | ||||||||
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| The Ventriloquist has no superhuman powers and is not a good hand-to-hand combatant. He is a skilled ventriloquist and his Scarface persona is a skilled criminal strategist. | |||||||
| Weapon: The Ventriloquist usually has a handgun of some kind. | |||||||
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| Born into a powerful Mafia Family, Arnold Wesker developed multiple personality disorder after seeing his mother murdered by an assassin from a rival Family. Growing up, his only outlet was ventriloquism as he could not express his feelings and he bottled them all up. Not much is known about him, except that he seems to be a quiet and calm man. As Arnold grew up he could not express his feelings and he bottled them all up. Not much is known about him, except that he seems to be a quiet and calm man. | ||||
| Years later, after a barroom brawl (in which he killed someone during a violent release of his repressed anger), Wesker was sent to Black Gate Penitentiary. He was jailed with a murderer named Donnegan. Donnegan was clearly insane and very dangerous. In the past, inmates where sentenced to death by hanging in the Gallows Tree of Blackgate. In all, 313 men died on that cursed tree before a bolt of lightning brought it down. Donnegan took a piece of the blackened stump of the tree and carved it into a dummy. Then, as Arnold himself recounts, Scarface made him kill Donnegan and escape Blackgate. So began the criminal careers of one of Gotham City’s most ruthless duos the Ventriloquist and Scarface. | ||||
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