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While most fans of Batman would considerJokerhis most despicable enemy , even the Clown Prince of Crime take he ’s only in second place . To Joker , there ’s only one Arkham baddie who is truly queasy , and a worse person than all the junky and killers who stalk Gotham ’s streets . Despite multiple Gotham villains from the A - list to the Z - lean consider this individual the bad person in Gotham , he ’s had precious few appearance , easily qualifying asthe most underrated of Gotham ’s many evil - doer .
The villain in question is the Great White Shark , aka Warren White . A corrupt stock trader , White first appeared inArkham Asylum : Living Hellby Dan Slott and Ryan Sook . What makes blank unique is that he ’s not a supervillain who was sent to Arkham , but rathera normal person whobecamea villain because of his experience within the twisted psychiatric hospital . Before Arkham , White embezzled millions , wiping out the pensions and investments of thousands of innocent people . Loathed across America , White use some fancy legal footwork to get himself declared insane rather than pass to prison . unluckily for Warren , because the case end up being heard in Gotham , that means he ’s send to Arkham .
At first , Warren White is rightly terrorize of the various baddie within the Asylum , especially because they uniformly loathe him , with everyone from Joker to Killer Croc to Jane Doe declare him"the worst person I ’ve ever met . “When White protests that Joker has belt down countless inexperienced person , the archvillain replies,“Yes . But at least I do n’t take their youngster ' college funds . "
The possessor of the greatest rogues ' gallery in comedian , The Dark Knight has dealt with a raspy crowd over the years . Here are the unspoiled Batman villain .
Batman Villain the Great White Shark Is the Worst Person Joker Ever Met
The Underrated Villain’s Creepy Origin Story Turned Him from White Collar Criminal to Gotham Ghoul
The villains ' attitude to White sends him careening further and further down the ladder , beg Arkham patients like Two - Face to allow him join their gang . finally , White is operate in Mr. Freeze ’s cell by thelethal personal identity thief Jane Doe , withthe extreme temperature stop dead off his olfactory organ , lips and several fingerbreadth , giving him a shark - similar appearance(complemented when he later sharpens his tooth into points . ) While this experience breaks down the last of White ’s sense of world , it does allow him to climb again , now as the Great White Shark .
Thanks to a satanic deal , the Great White Shark will rack all Gotham ’s villains in Hell when they finally die .
White does have one associate in Arkham - the ' scoundrel ' Humpty Dumpty , who is obsess with take matter aside to fix them . While his intentions are innocent , his meddling with object like Gotham ’s train have take many lives , culminate in Batgirl discovering that Humpty began by taking apart his granny to see what made her so abusive . Humpty Dumpty also considers Warren White uniquely malign , accepting him not out of friendship , but to study what is ' improper ' with him .
Great White Shark Isn’t Just Another Gotham Villain
White’s Ties to the Supernatural Make Him Terrifying
Great White Shark has appeared sparingly since , becoming the secret gaffer of Gotham crime in the ' Face the Face ' arc ( from James Robinson and a host of artist ) , after arranging the murders of various other villains . unhappily , this idea did n’t lead to many follow - up stories , and White has more or less become a scope player , with a few alternative exceptions .
Great White Shark ’s Best Comic Appearances
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Creative Team
Year of Release
Arkham Asylum : Living Hell # 1 - 6
Dan Slott and Ryan Sook
2003
Batman : Face the Face(Batman # 651 - 654&Detective Comics # 817 - 820 )
James Robinson , Michael Bair , Keith Champagne , Andy Clarke , Wayne Faucher , Don Kramer and Leonard Kirk
2006
Detective Comics # 832 , ' Triage '
Royal McGraw and Andy Clarke
2007
Gotham Underground # 1 - 9
Frank Tieri and Jim Calafiore
Indeed , previous stories have forget the most interesting affair about the Great White Shark - his major railroad tie to the supernatural . As well as show White ’s downfall , Arkham Asylum : Living Hellreveals a group of demon immobilise in Arkham Asylum . Having become the Great White Shark , White is able to make a deal with the demon ' master - the entity will take back the demons ( who it turns out were banished because of their sympathy for the people they were forced to torment ) , andWhite will be in billing of torture all Gotham ’s villains when they and he finally die .
Due to losing several finger’s breadth in Freeze ’s jail cell , part of White ’s hired hand manifests in a ' ghostwriter ' form when confronting the supernatural . He uses this connection to strike a characteristically cold - hearted pile with the demon ' master .
While the Great White Shark rest an unknown baddie , he ’s also one of Batman ’s most fascinating foes- someone whose vile deeds had nothing to do with madness , but who was nevertheless remold into a ' supervillain ' by Arkham . White is at once one of Gotham ’s scoundrel and the opposite - someone who sees Arkham Asylum not as a prison house , but a secret fort from which he can run a criminal empire , and sleep with he will have the last laugh onJoker , Two - Face and the eternal rest of the A - list . Hopefully , future stories do more with the Great White Shark , because he represents a genuinely unequalled presence in Gotham , and a form of iniquity that Batman actually is n’t used to fighting .
