Gotham City, where the people were simple and honest; Arkham, where talent abounded.
Gotham City was a land of remarkable people. Mad Hatter himself had little offensive power, and in Arkham Asylum, where talent was everywhere, he hardly counted as a major player.
Only the Brainwave Control Device in Mad Hatter's hands could barely qualify as a relatively novel and useful villainous gadget, but compared with the powerful freeze weapons, cryogenic armor, and other inventions developed by Mr. Freeze, Victor Fries-
The reason he could just about qualify as a villain who gave even Batman headaches was not that Mad Hatter was particularly powerful or possessed unrivaled intelligence and courage. It was that he always used the ordinary people under his control as hostages, shields, and even weapons.
Villains could disregard those ordinary people's lives and simply kill everyone standing in their way. Vigilantes could not.
Most of those hypnotized and controlled were ordinary civilians. They had no choice in the matter and no control over their own bodies. The villain treated them as playthings in his palm, robbing them of their human dignity and even their lives. They were innocent.
If they could be freed from Mad Hatter's control in time, they would all return to normal.
That was precisely why Batman and the others found themselves constrained at every turn when facing Mad Hatter. Aside from Joker, Mad Hatter had also become one of the supervillains the Bat Family loathed most, to the point that merely hearing his name made them sick.
As everyone in the Batcave mobilized, Barbara was urgently searching for hideouts where Mad Hatter might be hiding.
The red-haired girl in glasses sat at her computer, streams of data reflected in her lenses. Her ten fingers fluttered across the keyboard like butterflies, and the holographic