Dollmaker (character)

Additionally, a character based on Dollmaker named Dr. Francis Dulmacher appears in Gotham, portrayed by Colm Feore.

His father saw little interest in his son, whom he considered uninteresting, despite Anton showing great promises as a skilled toymaker.

Anton later became obsessed with Daily Planet reporter Cat Grant, who was the mother of a victim killed by the Toyman, and planned on becoming her son.

Grant, along with Supergirl, initially mistook the Toyman as being responsible for the missing children and confronted him at his incarceration in Arkham Asylum.

But Cat violently rejected him, infuriating Anton and causing him to decide on shutting down all his enslaved doll-children, which would kill them.

Despite the ambiguity surrounding his whereabouts, it would later be revealed that Barton Mathis sees the Toyman as a father figure, who was at one point a member of the Dollmaker "family".

[5] The Dollmaker first appeared in current continuity during the Faces of Death storyline when he visited the Joker in Arkham Asylum.

[6] Upon tracking Ray Quimby, a serial killer associated with Wesley Mathis, to a location while believing Quimby kidnapped Commissioner James Gordon, Batman is ambushed by the members of the Dollmaker's "family" (members including Matilda Mathis, Bentley, Jack-in-the-Box, Sampson, Olivia Carr, and Orifice).

Naturally, Batman resists and is forced to fight all of the Dollmaker's family with rapidly spreading paralysis in his body.

With Jack-in-the-Box clinging to his back, Batman desperately leaps out a window to escape becoming too vulnerable in front of his enemy.

At an abandoned hospital, a kidnapped Commissioner Gordon overhears his captor, the Dollmaker, explaining that he plans to remove his liver before beginning the doll process, because he must save a life before his can be taken.

Raju's client is the Penguin, who plans to pay the Dollmaker some gold bars in exchange for Batman's body.

The Dollmaker and Matilda make their escape, while his thugs, Bentley and Sampson, gather all the organs and body parts they can salvage.

[8] During the Death of the Family storyline as Batman travels through the Joker-controlled Arkham Asylum, he discovers a twisted "royal tapestry" created for him as a "tribute from [his] faithful", made entirely of living bodies sewn together, kept alive via tubes in their stomachs.

[10] During the "Forever Evil" storyline, the Dollmaker is among the supervillains that are recruited by the Crime Syndicate of America to join the Secret Society of Super Villains.

[5] Prior to taking up the name "Dollhouse", Matilda had a doll mask grafted on top of her face and wore a nurse's outfit, killing her victims with a sledgehammer.

[8] In the Faces of Death story arc, Matilda is shown to be quite agile and in possession of a sledgehammer that she wields against her opponents.

[21][22] This version is identified as Anton Schott, has elements of Barton Mathis, and wears a broken doll mask.

Additionally, he was almost killed by his serial killer father as a child and is based in an abandoned toy factory in Gotham, where he kidnaps children and turns them into cyborgs so that they, according to him, can never be hurt again.