#professor hugo strange

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This new Alex Ross print is a HUGE love letter to the Bronze Age Batman!

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a very happy valentine's day to my beloved partner (and number one Hugo Strange fan) @serpentinemalign 💖😊 i love you so much!!

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Just Imagine If Miss Heed Tried To Capture Batman Rogues With Ties To Chemistry

Seriously, I am surprised she didn't try to go after the Batman Rogues gallery in order to help with her formula. A lot of them would have a good history in chemistry.

Gotham Rogues Gallery is teaming with scientists for her to use. We got Poison Ivy who is a botanist with a history in toxicology, Scarecrow who often uses chemistry for his use of his fear toxins, Mr. Freeze who has studied many science fields including chemistry, he's an expert in everything including chemistry, Mad Hatter who dips himself into chemistry as a neuroscientist, and Dr. Milo who despite not being as prominent as them whole focus is chemistry and thus would probably be leading things since that's his expert field.

And funny enough two characters you wouldn't expect that she could pick up would be Joker and Punchline due to their hand in chemistry. Seriously, guy developed that Joker gas all on his own so he must know a thing or two about chemicals. He was mutated after all. Also Punchline is a chemist student so she would know a lot as well so a good candidate to kidnap for her formula.

She could also eye the Riddler, but he's not really a chemist he's more into the engineering and stuff when he's depicted as a scientist. But yeah anyone of these guys could make a whole team to make her formula. However, I could see one problem it's probably the fact that Gotham rogues are probably considered tougher than the average villain and would prevent her from brainwashing her. Seriously, Poison Ivy with her own pheromones might turn her into a love slave (irony). And Joker himself could have something that his madness causes him not to actually be capable of love.

I think another reason why to avoid collecting those guys is that Batman would be suspicious and investigate who is disappearing his rogues. Or even worse, he doesn't take that they were turning a new leaf and investigates and shuts down Heed's operation. Seriously, brainwash anyone of these guys and you will have Batman just coming after you to investigate what's really going on because guy has seen tons of his rogues supposedly go legit and end up back into crime.

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Every Batman villain has a PhD and yet people still act like current post-secondary institutions are a societal good

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Voice Acting for Arkham Files: Flash Rogues

These vignettes, and, more specifically, the characterization of Dr. Hugo Strange, are based on the wonderful Arkham Files YouTube videos produced by Mr. Rogues.

Here's his channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyxNOHiNclZlVpeRhYV2QRQ

Since I am a huge Flash nerd, I decided to use this idea as a jumping-off point to explore how the Rogues would respond to therapy sessions. Again, all credit to the basic format goes to Mr. Rogues.

I wrote this about a year ago, and now I am wondering if anyone would be interested in doing some voice recordings/voice acting of the sessions for the characters.

Here's the list of characters that I'm hoping to eventually cast:

Professor Hugo Strange: This is by far the biggest role, since he's in all the sessions as the psychologist. Strange has a German accent (it seems to fit the character), and he's generally calm and fairly soft-spoken. Strange is intelligent, and he's very good at his job, but there's an undercurrent of menace and obsession in his voice whenever he's discussing superheroes.

Captain Cold (Leonard Snart): Captain Cold grew up poor and relatively uneducated, and he doesn't try to hide it in his speech. He talks tough because he is tough, and those who don't know better might assume that he's a dumb thug. But nothing could be further from the truth. Captain Cold is very intelligent; he's very street smart and an excellent strategist. Bringing in some of the drawl that Wentworth Miller used when playing the character would be nice, but only if it doesn't conflict with the rest of your performance. Midwestern US accent. It's also worth noting that Cold has a tendency to drop the "g" sound from the end of words like "trying" or "calling".

Mirror Master I (Sam Scudder): Midwestern US accent. The first Mirror Master also grew up in poverty, but unlike Captain Cold, he's tried to drop some of the speech quirks that would identify his background, which he is somewhat embarrassed by. Sam is dramatic and prone to theatrics; he talks himself up and likes to present an air of being calm, cool, and collected. He's also a chain smoker (in fact, he's smoking through his whole interview), and, while he hasn't quite developed the horse rasp yet, that's something that should be reflected in his voice.

The Top (Roscoe Dillon): The Top is from the Midwestern US, like most of the Rogues, but he's desperate to sound intelligent and sophisticated, so he puts on a very posh accent that sounds somewhat like the "Transatlantic Accent" that's common in movies and radio broadcasts from the 1930s and 1940s. However, when he gets stressed, excited, or angry, his fake accent does slip a bit and he falls back into his more natural accent. He's also on the autism spectrum (like me), and due to this, he is excessive formal and grammatically correct in speech when talking to people he wants to impress (like Dr. Strange in this interview), since he hopes that this will help him avoid social blunders.

Captain Boomerang (George "Digger" Harkness): Like Captain Cold, Captain Boomerang grew up poor and undereducated, and he doesn't really try to hide it in his speech. Unlike Captain Cold, Captain Boomerang is from Australia, and his accent reflects that. More specifically, he has a "broad" Australian accent (the Australian accent that Americans usually think of when they hear "Australian accent"), and he uses a lot of Australian slang. That being said, don't play up the accent so much that it becomes a caricature. Throughout his interview, Digger is calm and relatively friendly towards Dr. Strange; he's not threatened by him since he's totally happy and content with who he is. Unfortunately, "who he is" is a thug and lowlife.

Weather Wizard (Marco "Mark" Mardon): Even though he was born in Guatemala, Mark came to the US when he was only a year old, so he probably has a Midwestern US accent for the most part. That being said, he does speak Spanish fluently, and since he grew up with parents who likely did have Guatemalan accents to at least some extent, there might be twinges of that in his regular speaking voice. Really, the most important requirement for playing Weather Wizard here is being able to speak Spanish fairly fluently. Other than that, Weather Wizard spends most of his interview in a heightened state of emotion (talking about his brother will do that to him); he's trying and failing to maintain his image as someone powerful and scary for much of the interview.

Heat Wave (Mick Rory): Midwestern US accent. Heat Wave has a very deep and raspy voice (in part because he's damaged his vocal cords due to a lot of smoke inhalation). He's friendly and affable, but he's not the sharpest knife in the drawer, and he knows it. He also has to start crying during his session, so being able to fake-cry with some degree of realism would be helpful too.

The Trickster (James Jesse): Since he grew up in the circus and moved around a lot, he doesn't have any particular accent, although he's an expert mimic of all sorts of accents. He's cheerful and mischievous, and he sees his interview as a game in which he can outsmart Dr. Strange. He's extremely clever and quick-witted, and he has a lot of energy.

Golden Glider (Lisa Snart): Midwestern US accent. Like her brother, Captain Cold, she grew up in poverty, but unlike him, she does make some effort to hide her background (though she might start sounding a bit more like him when she gets stressed). Her overall diction is probably a lot like the first Mirror Master's. Golden Glider has a very intense hatred of Barry Allen and an equally intense love for Roscoe Dillon. While she is very loyal to her friends, she is also terrifying when she's angry, and she is not nice. She also swings between being calm and being angry very quickly and with little warning.

The Pied Piper (Hartley Rathaway): Very upper-class, "posh" accent that he's trying to hide by adopting a more standard Midwestern US accent. His parents were millionaire publishing magnates, and this is reflected in the way he speaks. He's very passionate about helping the poor, but is otherwise rather quiet and soft-spoken (due in part to his extremely sensitive hearing). Pied Piper is also probably suffering from some level of depression in this particular interview, and that should probably be reflected in his voice.

Mirror Master II (Evan McCulloch): Working-class Scottish accent (more specifically, he has a Glaswegian accent). He's endlessly amused by the fact that Americans don't fully understand him and deliberately plays up his accent to confuse people. That being said, I don't want the accent to become a total caricature. McCulloch is a very strange man with a very strange sense of humor, and of all the Rogue, he seems to be the most out-of-touch with reality. He's generally cheerful, but is very dangerous when angered.

Dr. Alchemy/Mr. Element/Albert Desmond: Midwestern US accent. Albert Desmond suffers from a very fantastical, fictionalized version of Dissociative Identity Disorder. All three of his personalities have the same basic voice. Dr. Alchemy is quietly threatening; Albert is sad and horrified; Mr. Element is rougher around the edges. Dr. Alchemy is by far the least human-sounding of the three.

Zoom (Hunter Zolomon): Midwestern US accent. Zoom is prone to stretching out his vooooooowel sounds at random, apparently due to his ability to control his position relative to the timestream. He speaks very quietly and might have a slight rasp; his voice also echoes a bit. He's quietly but menacingly obsessed with his goal of making Wally West a "better" hero through suffering.

Professor Zoom the Reverse-Flash (Eobard Thawne): The Reverse-Flash is from the 25th century, so ideally he should sound somewhat different from the rest of the cast (since word pronunciations tend to change over time). He's pompous and dramatic ("HA-HAAA!!!"), but that doesn't take away from his menace.

The Flash (Wally West): Midwestern US accent. It's hard for me to not simply say "do Michael Rosenbaum's voice from the DCAU", but that's not fair to anyone, so instead I'll just say that Wally should be passionate, a bit hot-headed, and a bit sarcastic. He's a very good guy, but he's not at all happy with the fact that Dr. Strange is treating him like a criminal.

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legally blonde is on tv. you KNOW what it's got me thinking about

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Young Justice 1x11 - Terrors

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At this point I’ll have to start a list of every character who invented fear toxin before Scarecrow

Detective Comics #46 and 247

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I want a professor team up. Were all fictional professor just hang out for a bit.

We have The Professor (from Puppet History), Professor Crane, Professor Strange, Professor Utonium, Professor Girafales (form the mexican sitcom Chavez), Professor Tibúrcio (goth king from brazilian kids program Rá-Tim-Bum), Professor X, Professor Moriarty, Van Helsing. You know just the great guys.

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How many times have a listened to the song Devil’s Food by Alice Cooper, starting at 1:40 and onward, just to have some strange thoughts about some Batman mad scientist villain? …uh…well…how about you mind your business, huh?

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First appearance: Detective Comics #36(February, 1940)

Story: Handpicked by Dr. Jerimiah Arkham himself, Hugo Strange was once the chief of psychology at Arkham Asylum. However he was dismissed when he was caught by the Batman for cruelly manipulating and flat out destroying the patients he swore to help. This Batman rogue though not quite as popular as the Joker, Catwoman, or even the Scarecrow. He has done something that no other rogue had ever done first. He was one of if not the first rogue to deduce Batman's secret identity. Obsessed with replacing the Dark Knight aided by a demented mind and dangerous psychotic episodes, Hugo Strange is never to be underestimated. All he has tormented, he can turn into his personal slaves. Some say he can even bring the dead back to life.

Bio: Real Name: Hugo Strange Occupation: Scientist Base of Operation: Gotham City Eyes: Gray Hair: none (Gray Beard) Height: 5ft 10in Weight: 160lbs

Attributes: Extensive knowledge of genetics Trained to physical perfection (or use to be.) Brilliant psychological analyst Obsessed with Batman and Batman's secret identity Plagued by schizophrenic episodes that leave him confused and dangerous

Dream voice actor: B.D. Wong. Though I'm not a huge fan of the show Gotham, I do have to admit, that B.D. Wong does a very good Hugo Strange, no surprise seeing as he is playing a character that in a sense is similar to Hugo Strange in the Jurassic Park film franchise. Now you may be wondering where is Corey Burton? Trust me, I have a plan for him soon enough.

Featured songs: A dangerous mind by Within Temptation and When you're strange by the Doors. Not much to say about these two. Just listen to them on Youtube.

Notes:

I was originally going to do a different pose for him, but I decided to go with the original one because I personally felt it was best for him.

I changed the spectacle lenses from blue to red. Figured it would make him more intimidating, Also I have decided to give him a turtle neck because a few incarnations have shown him wearing one and I figured that it would be different to see.

The lab coat is sort of a hybrid to his Arkhamverse coat and a traditional coat.

Believe it or not, his head was the hardest part to do. Why? Proportions. He has no hair so I had to be as accurate as possible.

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this took more time then i would like to admit

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First appearance of Professor Hugo Strange!

Detective Comics #36 (February, 1940)

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Herofy Teacher.

I think you and I might have talked at least once about the idea that Teacher is supposed to be a riff on Hugo Strange, but let me float something else. I was recently reading up on the lore of the original Ultimate Marvel universe in order to make sure I wasn't talking out my ass with that recent spate of Ultimate Marvel Posting, and you know whose character bio started ringing a hell of a lot of Teacher alarm bells? Professor X, who, in the Ultimate Marvel continuity, was a through-and-through manipulative son-of-a-bitch, subtly mentally adjusting the X-men as needed in order to keep them a cohesive unit; cavalierly brainwashing, mindreading, mindwiping and personality rewriting in the name of the quote-unquote greater good. A real piece of work!

And with that in mind, you can sort of see a shadier Protectorate department taking a slightly differently aligned Teacher on as their unofficial internal ombudsman; using his power manipulation and personality sanding in a "pro-social" manner to reign in and smooth over internal conflicts, tweaking untoward or regrettable personality traits. This is a version of Teacher whose ambition isn't so much absent as it is differently directed- he doesn't want to build, he wants to garden. He wants access to and influence over as many parahumans as possible, not for the sake of some grand personal project, but for the sake of the PRT's project- sanding down the rough edges of parahuman integration, making everything and everyone operate as smoothly as possible. He's not going to do anything untoward with this influence, of course. Why would he? All he wants is for everyone to get along and be their best selves (as defined by HR and the marketing department.)