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Mayor Hamilton Hill

Played by	Lloyd Bochner
Appeared in	Batman: The Animated Series Justice League
First appearance	On Leather Wings
No. of appearances	10 episodes
Current status	Active
Adapted from	Hamilton Hill

Characteristics

Alter ego	Hamilton Hill

Created by

Gerry Conway
Don Newton

Major Hamilton Hill, a DC Comics fictional supporting character in the Batman comics, appeared in Batman: The Animated Series. In the animated series, he is portrayed as gutless mild mannered consumed politician only worried about the public opinion and incapable of standing by his beliefs. However, unlike the comic, he is not really a bad person and wants the best for his city.

1 DC animated Universe fictional history
- 1.1 List of personal enemies
2 Appearances
3 See also

[edit] DC animated Universe fictional history

Hill first appeared in On Leather Wings, the first episode of the series, in the Gotham City Hall along with James Gordon, Detective Harvey Bullock and D. A. Harvey Dent, some of the mayor players in the series, taking a decition about a still unfamiliar Batman, who is confused with Man-bat, an actual humanoid bat-creature that was robbing several labs and pharmacies. After determining the public opinion is against Batman, he allows Detective Bullock lead ad SWAT operation to pursue and apprehend Batman. The dynamic with Bullock makes reference to their original relationship in the comics of the bronze erea, however only Bullock has ties with mob boss Rupert Thorne in the series.

In Be a Clown, he prepares a birthday party for his son, Jordan, inviting only the big figures of Gotham City. In rebelion against the Mayor's frivol and careless attitude, the boy runs away hidding in the party's clown van, who turns out to be the Joker in disguise. Batman later saves the boy and returns him to Hill. In Joker's Favor, the Joker and Harley Quinn almost kill him as a colateral in an atempt against Gordon and the Gotham City Police Department durig his birthday party.

Throughout the show, Batman saves him from five kidnappings and one murder attempt. The first time Batman rescues him from Temple Fugit, a. k. a. the Clock King, who had an obsessive grudge against Hill because he believed that he made him late for a court date on purpose and consequently lost his business. At the time of law suit, Hill was a partner at the law firm suing his company, which caused Fugit to believe Hill did it on purpose. Despite all Hill did was told him to relax and take more time for his coffee break, seven years later, in The Clock King, Fuget, going under the alias referenced in the episode title, makes a series of sabotages to the city's public services he inaugures to make him look bad and finally kidnaps and takes him to a clock tower to tie him to the small hand so that when the the big hand gets by at 15:15 (the time Fuget got to the Court back then) he'd get crushed. Batman fought the skilled maniac and managed to rescue Hill.

That same season, in the Heart of Steel two parter episode, HARDAC an ill computer, kidnaps him along with some other important key figures of the city and repaces all with robots, but he is rescued by Batman and Barbara Gordon.

Time later, in Time Out of Joint , Fuget uses time manipulating devices he stole to hide a bomb in order to kill him, but his plans are foiled once again by Batman. That same season (The Adventures of Batman & Robin), in Harlequinade the Joker ties him in his own house places an atomic bomb there, and even defeated Batman, but Harley Quinn saved the city when she realises the bomb would also kill her friends. In Lock-Up, he is kidnaped along with Gordon, Doctor Bartholomew and reporteer Summer Gleeson, by Lock-up a former Arkham Asylum security chief that got fired after the administrative board decided his methods were abusive and had a grudge against authority figures he blames for the existence of insane criminals like the Arkham inmates. And Batman rescues him once again.

In The New Batman Adventures he is still the Mayor, only balder with whiter hair. In Cold Comfort Mr. Freeze tries to ruin his achievements and later in Over the Edge he is held hostage by the Scarecrow along with the staff of the City Hall. In both situations he is rescued by Batman and his partners.

Mayor Hamilton Hill also appeared in the videogame, Batman Vengeance, in which he is blackmailed by Poison Ivy along with other politicians and wealthy socialites.

In the Batman Beyond] cartoon, the high school Terry McGuiness attends is named Hamilton Hill High after him.

In the spin off Batman Adventures comics (specifically in the third series saga), he runs against the Penguin and loses.

[edit] List of personal enemies

The Clock King
The Joker
Harley Quinn
HARDAC
Lock-up
Mr. Freeze
Scarecrow
The Penguin (more in the spin off comics, though)

[edit] Appearances

[edit] See also

Batman: The Animated Series characters
Heroes:	Batman \| Alfred \| Robin / Dick Grayson \| Batgirl \| Robin / Tim Drake
Villains:	The Joker \| Harley Quinn \| The Penguin \| Catwoman \| Two-face \| Poison Ivy \| Rupert Thorne \| The Scarecrow \| Ra's Al Ghul \| Talia \| The Mad Hatter \| The Ventriloquist and Scarface \| Clayface \| Killer Croc \| Mr. Freeze \| The Riddler \| The Phantasm \| Bane \| Man-bat \| Firefly \| The Ninja \| The Clock King \| Baby Doll \| Roxy Rocket \| Hugo Strange \| Doctor Milo \| Maxie Zeus \| The Terrible Trio \| Calendar Girl \| H.A.R.D.A.C. \| Red Claw \| Roland Daggett
Supporting Characters:	James Gordon \| Harvey Bullock \| Summer Gleeson \| Leslie Thompkins \| Lucius Fox \| Renee Montoya \| Earl Cooper \| Hamilton Hill \| Andrea Beaumont \| Carl Beaumont \| Matthew Thorne \| Thomas and Martha Wayne
Other heroes:	The Creeper \| Etrigan the Demon \| Jonah Hex \| Zatanna \| Supergirl \| Batwoman \| The Gray Ghost