{"id":2148,"date":"2022-06-09T08:22:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T11:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2148"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:56:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:56:25","slug":"minor-super-villain-028-carl-kruger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2148","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 028: CARL KRUGER"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Detective v1 033, 1939)<\/p>\n

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Carl here is a scientist who is obsessed with Napoleon, something that people used to be when there weren’t so many fictional characters to be consumed with – heck, he appears only a few months before the Joker begins his <\/i>slow crawl to being the one a weird loner would be pictured dressing up as while he makes his Important Plans.<\/p>\n

Since Carl was a scientist he recruited a cabal of other scientists to help him make war machines and since he was a Napoleon Head he recruited an army of dudes and together these formed the backbone of his world domination scheme until he was unexpectedly Batmanned.<\/p>\n

The real notable thing about Carl is that he was basically the last villain that Batman fought before he stopped killing people. In fact, Batman (by my count) kills the most<\/i> people in this incident: at least 14, including Carl himself!<\/p>\n

ADDENDUM: I was wrong about the “stopped killing people” part because I had a Fan Theory about how Batman stopped killing about the same time he adopted Robin. The major flaw in this Fan Theory was that Batman and Robin kept on killing people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Detective v1 033, 1939) Carl here is a scientist who is obsessed with Napoleon, something that people used to be when there weren’t so many fictional characters to be consumed with – heck, he appears only a few months before the Joker begins his slow crawl to being the one a weird loner would be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,60,1557,913,17,44,80,23,1558,101,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-69","category-batman","category-carl-kruger","category-criminal-army","category-dc-comics","category-dead","category-detective-comics","category-minor-super-villain","category-napoleon-complex","category-scientist","category-world-domination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2149,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions\/2149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}