History Characters / BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesRoguesGalleryPart3

* CanonImmigrant: He made an appearance during 52, where he is killed by Bruno Mannheim for refusing to join Intergang.

* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler: The reason his plan went off without a hitch is because he knew the Joker long enough to predict with 100% accuracy how the Clown Prince would act in the situation the fake inheritance put him in.]]

* TheChessmaster: We can assume he was such a successful criminal because of his almost superhuman planning abilities, [[spoiler: as evidenced by how he managed to completely screw over the Joker from beyond the grave.]]

* KarmaHoudini: From what we know of him, he successfully evaded the police and Batman his entire life before dying of natural causes with a huge amount of money to his name. [[spoiler: Since he's dead, the Joker can't go after him either]].
* LaughablyEvil: [[spoiler: Let's put it this way: if you can get away with pulling a huge prank on the Joker, you’ve got to have one wicked sense of humor.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler: He successfully tricked the Joker into falling right into his trap by appealing to his short-sighted greed.]]

* TheRival: Apparently, he and the Joker despised one another, which is why the Joker never expected to inherit $250 million from the old man. [[spoiler: It turns out the inheritance was mostly fake, as a final middle finger to King Barlowe’s enemy from beyond the grave.]]

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: While he didn't make life easy for his brother Matthew, he still genuinely cares for him.

* FauxAffablyEvil: He likes to make himself appear pleasant, but he has never been shown to harbor good intentions.

* KarmaHoudini: Whilst defeated by Batman on a regular basis, being arrested doesn't seem to mean that much to him.

* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: He smokes cigarettes and is most certainly ''not'' a good person. In his first flashback appearance, he barges into Carl's office and lights one up.

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* AmbiguouslyEvil: While netural at worst by the time of the episode, Karl apparently had some very sinister plans to innovate humanity through the use of artificial intelligence. While [=H.A.R.D.A.C.=] confirms that its current plan to KillAndReplace all of humanity is more extreme than Karl's had been, it remains unclear as to ''how much'' more extreme it was...
* AntiVillain: So anti, in fact, that the only reason he's on the list at all is that he briefly DID initiate an EvilScheme before snapping out of his funk. By the time of the episode, he's had no idea that [[SpannerInTheWorks [=H.A.R.D.A.C.=]]] was still following his original orders, having believed the project long since cancelled.

* OneShotCharacter: Only appeared once in the TV series, though he did return in an issue of the ''[[ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures Batman: Gotham Adventures]]'' comic series.

* MeaningfulName: A robotics expert who's surname references the play ''[[Theater/{{RUR}} Rossum's Universal Robots]]'', a play credited for coining the word "robot".

* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:Knowing that his time on the earth is nearing it's end, he uses the last of it to prank his mortal enemy, the Joker, and managing to get away with it due to, y'know, being dead and stuff.]]

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: The final arc of the show's tie-in comic ''ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures'' reveals that he had a son named David who was fatally shot by one of Rupert Thorne's goons, which led to Strange conducting memory experiments to try and divest himself of the painful memory of his son's death.

* GenderMisdirection[=/=]SamusIsAGirl: Batman thought "Red Claw" was a man until they met. Apparently so did the authorities, with Gordon complaining that the Feds have been looking for a male Red Claw for years.

* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: He smokes cigarettes and is most certainly ''not'' a good person.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Even [[TheComicallySerious Bruce Wayne]] chuckles at the sheer audacity of Karl's MundaneUtility when combining gadgets. His pet projects include a lamp that makes cappuchino, a footstool that gives massages, and ''[[UpToEleven a washing machine that doubles as a jacuzzi]]''.

* VillainHasAPoint: His actions clearly become criminal when he assaults Victor despite Fries having already backed down and his command to pull the plug on Nora is nothing short of heartless, but his complaint is valid. Victor was using equipment that didn't belong to him and essentially stealing money not just from Boyle, but from the whole company. The project was completely unauthorized, and that's not even going into the legal ethics of using a human subject in a secret experiment.

* Adaptational Villainy: In the comics Lupus was an innocent victim who came to Professor Milo seeking a cure for his strange monthly migraines. In contrast, Romulus was an arrogant jerk and a cheat who asked Milo to make a steroid for him.

->'''Voiced by:''' William Sanderson