Lock-Up
Lyle Bolton was Arkham Asylum's former head of security, who eventually became the villain Lock-Up. Knowing Arkham's history of escaped prisoners, Bolton vowed that none would escape as long as he was in charge. Unfortunately, he expressed his hatred of the inmates with cruel punishments, such as denying them privileges even when they behaved, chaining them in their cells every night, and electrifying their cell doors to prevent escape. He even held Arnold Wesker's puppet Scarface over a can filled with termites to terrorize him. His regime managed to cow the inmates into doing whatever he wanted, hoping to escape even more terrible punishment. Even the Scarecrow, the self-proclaimed master of fear, escaped Arkham out of sheer terror of Bolton. When Batman apprehended the Scarecrow and returned him to Arkham, Bolton was present to take the gibbering villain into custody-he thanked the heroic duo and swore that the Scarecrow was the first-and last-prisoner to escape Arkham under his watch. His words and gratitude were sincere, but his menacing demeanor towards Scarecrow and the latter's terrified reactions caused Batman and Robin to become suspicious.
The next day, Bruce Wayne requested an inquiry into Bolton's behavior, leading to a court hearing. During the hearing, Bolton protested the accusations with civil earnestness. Inmates Harely Quinn, Ventriloquist and Scarface, and Scarecrow were questioned, but Bolton intimidated them into silence with a glare. However, Bruce was able to provoke a reaction by suggesting that Bolton's tenure as Arkham's chief of security to be extended for another eighteen months. At that, Harley, Ventriloquist, Scarface, and Scarecrow desperately burst out and accused Bolton of verbally assaulting and physically abusing them. Scarface, being the puppet that he is (even if the Ventriloquist had multiple personality disorder), expressed his terror over the termite torture. Enraged by the prisoners' defiance, Bolton attempted to kill the four, and was restrained and fired from his post. Now blaming the police, the bureaucrats and the doctors for coddling the villains, as well as reporters for making the villains sound like "heroes", Bolton's mind snapped, and decided to punish them all and that's when he became the rogue vigilante, Lock-Up
Trivia[]
- He will become an enemy of Tino Tonitini, Ash Ketchum, Littlefoot, Scooby-Doo, and their friends' in Tino's Adventures of Batman The Animated Series, episode Lock-Up. Upon his court hearing he was also known to torture most of the heroes' insane enemies as well.