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Lazlo Valentin was a gifted scientist who suffered a schizophrenic break, causing him to create a new deranged persona called Professor Pyg. Pyg formed the Circus of Strange and began touring the country, leaving a string of mysterious missing persons cases in his wake. An obsessive perfectionist, Pyg uses identity destroying drugs and invasive surgery on his victims to create genderless, lobotimised humans known as Dollotrons.
~ Professor Pyg's Bio in Batman: Arkham Knight.
Bad... bad... bad... Pyg is like clay! Pyg is like God! Pyg is here to fix us all.
~ Professor Pyg' delusional idea of making people "perfect".

Lazlo Valentin, better known as Professor Pyg, is a minor antagonist in Batman: Arkham Knight, and in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.

He appears as the main antagonist of the Most Wanted mission "The Perfect Crime". He is the insane leader of the Circus of Strange and is responsible for several kidnappings in the places where the circus performed. Pyg experimented on his abductees and turned them into mindless puppets known as Dollotrons. However, Pyg only changed those he deemed "perfect"; the others he killed and displayed throughout Gotham City for Batman to find.

He is voiced by Dwight Schultz, who also voiced Graven in Conan, Circus Trainer in Avatar: The Last Airbender, Aloysius Animo in Ben 10, and Danny Darrow in Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated.

Biography[]

Past[]

Lazlo Valentin was obsessed with making himself and people "perfect" after being berated by his parents that he wasn't "perfect" or "wasn't good enough" to please them. As an adult, he was a gifted scientist, but, after suffering a schizophrenic breakdown, believed that people must have their uniqueness removed if they are to be perfect the way he envisions it. Taking up the deranged persona of Professor Pyg, he became the ringmaster of the Circus of Strange, where he would tour the country, luring victims of all ages to his show, and surgically turning them into his Dollotrons, "perfecting" them as he sees it. The end results are organic robots with doll masks grafted on their faces, genitals presumably removed and unable to feel or think anything. Those he could not "fix" were simply tossed like trash.

Pre-Arkham Knight[]

At some point, Pyg takes over the Pretty Doll Beauty Parlour and uses its basement as his personal experimentation chamber. Eventually, he kidnaps a son, Janosz although it's implied that he was born from a rape victim and Pyg had her either killed or turned into a Dollotron when she refused to be with him. At one point, Pyg turns the young son of a rich man named O'Neil into a Dollotron, and when O'Neil brings a suitcase of money to release him, Pyg refuses to let the boy go and had his Dollotrons, including O'Neil's son, capture him and prep him for surgery.

Due to Pyg's mental illness, anyone that he sees as unable to make perfect (typically through some kind of health problem like a pacemaker or a shrunken kidney), he kills them with an overdose and strings them up across Gotham posed as angels. At these scenes, he also blares his opera music and writes insulting comments on the ground nearby. By the time of Scarecrow's attack at Pauli's Diner, he has done this six times.

Arkham Knight[]

On Halloween night, the GCPD discover the body at the Gotham City Herald building but are unable to do anything because of Scarecrow's attack and the city's subsequent evacuation. Picking up the case, Batman finds his six victims although, because the process of turning them into Dollotrons had corrupted their DNA and destroyed their fingerprints, Batman has to use his Deep Tissue Scanner to look for any distinguishing features to identify them in the Missing Persons Reports.

After investigating the bodies, all the victims had similar traits: they had troubled pasts, had been through surgery prior to being kidnapped, had scars on them from accidents, genetic deformities and they all went missing at fairgrounds and parks around the country; all of which were where the Circus of Strange had stopped on its route. Alfred finds only one associated name involved with the circus: Lazlo Valentin, who leased a beauty salon in Gotham, the Pretty Dolls Parlor, but the lease expired before construction began on Wayne International Plaza. He also tells Batman to proceed with caution with Valentin, because he was mentally unstable, even by Gotham standards.

Eventually, Professor Pyg is interrupted in one of his experiments by Batman, who demands that he release all of his prisoners from his Monster Machine. Pyg refuses and turns his Dollotrons upon Batman before joining in the fight, throwing knives at Batman while singing crazy song lines as the Opera music plays on. After Batman defeats them he arrests Pyg and takes him to the GCPD Lock-up, all the while Pyg bemoans how his mother will be very disappointed in him. Later, Batman confronts Pyg about his experiments and demands that he tell doctors how to fix his victims but Pyg assures the vigilante that he has made them perfect and can do the same for the Dark Knight. Disgusted and realising that Pyg will never be rehabilitated, Batman assures Valentin that he will ensure that he will spend the rest of his life in prison much to Pyg's dismay.

What happened to Professor Pyg after this is unclear as he stays in his cell for the rest of the night. However, it's very likely that, given the brutality of his crimes and how deep his psychosis is, Professor Pyg later receives life imprisonment and will spend the rest of his life in Arkham Asylum.

Personality[]

He's sicker than me and Harley's honeymoon tapes.
~ The Joker calling out Professor Pyg as being nearly as twisted as him.

Professor Pyg is one of the most sick and twisted supervillains that Batman ever faced, having an obsessive compulsive need to "perfect" humans through lobotomy and inhumane experiments. Most dangerous about Pyg however is that his psychosis makes him think that he is doing his victims a genuine favour that he should be thanked for; considering what he does as no more cruel and inhumane than a doctor fixing a broken limb. Due to his twisted nature, the other criminals in Gotham treat him with open discuss and Batman promises Valentin that he would spend the rest of his life behind bars because he is beyond rehabilitation.

Skills and Abilities[]

  • Endurance: Professor Pyg was able to endure having the blunt end of multiple cleavers thrown into his face and being punched through a table hard enough to shatter his mask only momentarily stunned him.
  • Medical Science: Despite his complete lack of sanity, Professor Pyg possesses a great deal of medicinal, psychiatric, biological and surgical knowledge. He was able to surgically alter his victims into genderless humanoids who possess a highly corrupted DNA, no sense of pain and were lobotomised.

Arsenal[]

  • Knives: Professor Pyg used a carving knife to dissect and experiment on his victims.
  • Cleavers: During his boss fight, Pyg threw cleavers at the Batman.

Victims[]

Victims killed by Professor Pyg
  • Anthony Lund
  • Franklin Accardo
  • Robert Kincaid
  • Lisa Mendes
  • Ella Montgomery
  • Allison Wears
  • Several unnamed people
  • Multiple GCPD officers

Quotes[]

*long opera tenor* *snort* Pyg make it all better. *snorting* Pain is just the body's way of saying thank you. Here comes the choo choo! Almost finished my darling. Almost... perfect. *opera singing*
~ Professor Pyg's first words as the Batman watches him torturing a future Dollotron.
Pyg: (Opera singing)
Batman:
(Interrupting Pyg's singing) You're done here, Valentin. Let them go.
Pyg: *indignant porcine snort* Oh no, no, no, no, no! Pyg not ready yet. *snort* She's all unique and wrong. All messed up, inside out. Pyg make her better. Pyg make all of us better!
Batman: It's over.
Pyg: But Pyg can fix you too. Make you perfect. Like all the others. *snort* Hee hee hee hee.
Batman: You're insane.
Pyg: *snort*
And what are you?
Batman: I'm here to stop you.
Pyg: Bad... bad... bad... Pyg is like clay! Pyg is like God! Pyg is here to fix us all.
~ Professor Pyg confronted by the Batman before the fight.
That's it, my darling. Show him how perfect you are!
~ Pyg when a Dollotron is about to fight Batman.
Pyg make you invincible! Pyg make you feel no pain! Dollotron feel no pain.
~ Pyg when his Dollotron fights Batman.
Rise up, my precious! He cannot keep you down!
~ Pyg ordering the Dollotron to get up after its first defeat.
Encore! Encore! Show him how perfect you are.
~ Pyg ordering the second wave of Dollotrons to attack.
Pyg comiiiiiiing for youuuuuu, Bat! Coming to make you perfeeeeeeeect!
~ Professor Pyg joining the fight.
Yes, Yes, Daddy! Perfect!
~ Pyg during the fight.
Destroy hiiiiiiim! So... Daddy can rebuild him!
~ Pyg during the fight.
Just you and Pyg now!
~ Pyg after Batman defeated all of his Dollotrons.
Pyg: Where are you taking me? Pyg go back to his circus.
Batman: I'm taking you where you won't be able to hurt anyone else. I'll make sure of it.
Pyg: Pyg doesn't hurt, Pyg heals, Pyg fixes... My Dollotrons are works of art!
Batman: Those people are living a fate worse than death.
Pyg: Not death. Pyg makes life worth living.
Batman: And the ones you murdered?
Pyg: Too broken for Pyg to make perfect. Too imperfect. They make mother angry, make Pyg feel sick.
Batman: Those things you couldn't change, it's how I identified the bodies, it's how I caught you. It's how you failed.
Pyg:No! Not fail. *pig-like wretching* Pyg show you sick. Hmmm, like to see?
~ Professor Pyg being arrested and being taken by the Batman in his Batmobile, with the latter confronting Pyg about his crimes.
Batman: Out you go, Valentin.
Pyg: Don't-don't lock Pyg away. Mother won't be pleased...
~ Batman taking Pyg to prison.
*Pig-like sobbing* Pyg not good enough. *sad porcine whine* Never good enough! So close until you stopped me. I can do better. *pig-like snorting followed by a sob* So much better! It could have been so perfect!
~ Professor Pyg after being imprisoned.
Batman: I expect you to help your surviving victims. You will tell the police everything you to them.
Pyg: It's not too late for you, Batman. *hogish sniffling* Pyg is an artist. I can make a maiden from a monkey, a model from a miscreant, a beauty from a bat. *excited snorting*
Batman: You're no artist, Valentin. You killed and maimed innocent people. I'll make sure you never see the outside of a cell again.
Pyg: No, no, no! Pyg has some much more to give. Oooooo. Come, show me what's under that mask. I can still fix you. Make you perfect. Pyg can take all the pain away. You'll see!
~ Pyg when Batman confronted him in his cell.
Oh mommy! Are you upset? Pyg tried his best, Pyg tried to help them!
~ One of Pyg's lines whilst in the GCPD lockup.
Where are my Dollotrons? My perfect creations... Are you treating them well? They will be frightened without their Pyg.
~ One of Pyg's lines whilst in the GCPD lockup.
*squeal* Pyg can make Harvey right again! Dent can be a doll-eeeeee!
~ To Two-Face whilst in the GCPD lockup.
Pyg on the cross, Pyg with nail, Pyg on cross, Pyg with nail!
~ Pyg to Deacon Blackfire whilst in the GCPD lockup.
Beauty is Pyg's specialty! Pyg can make you young again! Pyg can soften the scars!
~ To Deathstroke.
Pyg feels sick, no riddles no tricks...
~ Responding to the Riddler whilst in the GCPD lockup.
Mommy! Mommeeeee!
~ In response to Penguin yelling at him whilst in GCPD lockup.
There is no God but mother! Mommy makes everything better!
~ To Azrael, if Batman arrested him.

Game Over Lines[]

Pyg happy, Pyg glad. Pyg gets to play with flesh, make it pretty after death *piggish snorting*

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Trivia[]

  • Unlike the comics, Pyg is the leader of the Circus of Strange rather than simply a member of it.
  • Pyg's creator, Grant Morrison, described him as "one of the weirdest, most insane characters that have ever been in Batman. We hear a lot about Batman facing crazy villains but we tried to make this guy seem genuinely disturbed and disconnected." This was also alluded to in-game twice, first when deducing that Professor Pyg was responsible for the serial killings, where Alfred warns Batman to proceed with caution regarding Pyg as even by Gotham standards, he's unstable; and second when visiting the confinement cell after completing his Most Wanted mission yet before encountering Scarecrow, where a Joker hallucination commented that Pyg was "sicker than his [Joker] and Harley's honeymoon tapes".
  • His mask bears a strong resemblance to the masks from the Saw franchise.

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