Lock-Up (comics)
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Lock-Up is a DC Comics villain and an enemy of Batman, featured in one episode Batman: The Animated Series, in which he was 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].
[edit] History on Batman: The Animated Series
Lyle Bolton is a large, muscular man specializing in incarceration and high tech security systems.
Bolton was head of security at Arkham Asylum — and almost too good at his job. Following a visit to Arkham to drop off the escaped Scarecrow (who was 'shaking with fear') Bruce Wayne became suspicious about how Bolton was keeping the Arkham inmates in check so well, and about the complete terror Bolton had instilled in Scarecrow, so he set 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 was relieved of his post at Arkham.
After his release, Bolton became convinced that the press was supporting crime by glorifying criminals on television. Bolton then created a costume and tools, started calling himself Lock-Up and began to arrest the people he deemed to be at the root of Gotham's problems. He imprisoned Mayor Hill, Commissioner Gordon, reporter Summer Gleeson, and Dr. Bartholomew, and held them hostage aboard USS Halsey F-84, a decommissioned battleship. The hostages were freed by Robin while Batman defeated Lock-Up. Lock-Up is currently in a cell in Arkham.
[edit] DC Universe Comic History
Lock-Up appeared during the No Man's Land storyline, having taken control of Blackgate Prison in the aftermath of the earthquake. He had enlisted KGBeast and the Trigger Twins to act as wardens for his prison, and ruled with an iron fist; Batman only tolerated his presence because he required Lock-Up to keep captured criminals in check to prevent Gotham being overrun, although Lock-Up was under strict orders to treat the prisoners well. Towards the end of the storyline, Batman enlisted Dick Grayson's help in overthrowing Lock-Up so Blackgate could be used for the lawful side once again.
Lockup makes a very brief appearance in Villains United: Infinite Crisis Special where it seems the Society made use of Lockup's expertise to break metas and humans out of prisons all over the world, leading to the big fight in the final issue of Infinite Crisis.
Lock-Up also appeared in Detective Comics #697-699. Having recently captured Charaxes, Two Face, Robin, and several gangsters and taken them to his private prison, Lock-Up planned to drown them all in an underwater death-trap. Batman intervened and defeated Lock-Up, saving the villains and Robin.
[edit] In Other Media
Lyle Bolton and his fierce temper were supposed to appear in a fifth Batman movie script, but the script was never made into a film, and instead, Batman Begins became the fifth film. [citation needed]
