Lock-Up

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Lock-Up
Played by Bruce Weitz Appeared in First appearance Lock-Up No. of appearances 1 episode Current status Aprehended Adapted from
Characteristics
Alter ego Lyle Bolton Affiliations Gotham city underworld
Created by
Bob Kane Bill Finger

Lock-Up (Lyle Bolton), is a DC Comics villain and an enemy of Batman, created for Batman: The Animated Series, voiced by Bruce Weitz. He was incorporated into mainstream comics continuity even before the more popular Harley Quinn in Robin (2nd series) #23 (December 1995) [1].

Contents 1 Appearances 2 DC animated universe biography 3 Design 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] Appearances

1. Lock-Up

[edit] DC animated universe biography

Lyle Bolton is a large, muscular man specializing in incarceration and high tech security systems. Bolton is the strict and abusive head of security at Arkham Asylum. In the episode Lock-Up, following a visit to Arkham to drop off the escaped Scarecrow, who to Batman and Robin's shock, was begging and shaking afraid of Bolton, so as Bruce Wayne, Batman so he sets up a hearing with Mayor Hamilton Hill, Commissioner Gordon, and Dr. Bartholomew, chief doctor at Arkham. After questioning the uneasy inmates of Arkham, including Ventriloquist and Scarface, Harley Quinn and Scarecrow, Bruce Wayne discovered that Bolton had been torturing, threatening, and assaulting the inmates. Following a blowup at the hearing, where he assaulted several Arkham orderlies and attempted to attack Quinn, Scarecrow, and the Ventriloquist, Bolton is relieved of his post at Arkham.

After his release, Bolton becomes convinced that the press is supporting crime by glorifying criminals on television. Bolton then creates a costume and tools, starts calling himself Lock-Up and begin to arrest aboard the USS Halsey F-84, a decommissioned battleship, the people he deemed to be at the root of Gotham's problems: Mayor Hamilton Hill, Commissioner James Gordon, reporter Summer Gleeson, and Dr. Bartholomew. They are freed by Robin while Batman defeats Lock-Up. Bolton is apprehended and taken to Arkham Asylum.

[edit] Design

[edit] See also

• Lock-Up (comics)
• Rumor (The Batman), a villain with a striking similarity in background and modus operandi.

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

[edit] External links

• The World's Finest, a site with a complete guide to the DC animated universe. It's the source of a great deal of the related images in Pop-Cult Guides.
  • Lock-Up Batman: The Animated Series bio
• DCAUResource.com, a very well documented site when it comes to DC fictional biographies.
  • Lock-Up at DCAUResource.com
• The Animated Batman, an Unofficial Guide, a site with a complete guide to Bruce Timm's Batman. It's the source of a great deal of the related images in Pop-Cult Guides.