Daniel Captio
Daniel Captio is a male comic character who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Daniel Captio
At some point, he came to be contacted on the telephone by Bruce Wayne. The young man had been wandering the world learning various self-improvement techniques. From Dr. Captio, he looked to perfect his mind and sharpen it as a weapon with him wanting to master his emotions. They stayed at Daniel's remote mansion where he pushed Wayne to places he had never been before. In less than two weeks ago, he helped Bruce convince his brain that he was not feeling pain upon any form of injury. However, Daniel came to believe that Bruce was holding himself back. (Batman: The Knight v1 #8)
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Daniel Captio was a bald black male with a beard and moustache. (Batman: The Knight v1 #8)
It was posited that Captio was the smartest man in the world which he confirmed as being the case. Daniel stated that it was not an egotistical claim on his part. This was because he believed that in his standing that he had made it his life's work to unravel the human mind and study humanity. Dr. Captio believed that only he was suited for such a task and thought that one could only study something below them. In his view, his contemporaries that included philosophers, psychologists and anthropologists stumbled in the study of themselves. Thus, he equated them to children that could not understand the complexities of other children. As such, he saw his fellow human beings as simply children and had no desire to help them. (Batman: The Knight v1 #8)
In the course of his life, Daniel had studied every philosophical musing in existence. He claimed to had stared down every 'false god' that humanity had put forth. This had brought him to the view that nothing mattered yet everything mattered in life. Thus, existence was deemed to be a simultaneous cosmic trick with everyone being insignificant. He saw mankind as being specks of dirty in a swirling uncaring universe. It was this reason he cared little for human life as he saw them as akin to motes of dirty and a death meaning nothing. (Batman: The Knight v1 #8)
Powers and abilities
He considered himself to be a mere nomadic academic. Some had claimed Captio to be the smartest man in the world. He could teach a person to become the coldest man in the world and thus the perfect weapon. (Batman: The Knight v1 #8)
Dr. Captio was said to be so far beyond what others were capable of doing and that almost no one else was like him. Bruce Wayne felt that Captio's mind had unlimited potential. His brain was said to be simply a machine that he could manipulate. By pulling a mental 'lever', he could release waves of serotonin. He could trigger any emotion he wished in remarkable feats. A more simpler level was learning to use the mind to affect the body. (Batman: The Knight v1 #8)
Daniel had immense self control and was able to resist pain and fear. (Batman v3 #143)
Captio developed techniques which allowed him to manufacture alternate personalities for specific requirements, and place post-hypnotic trigger phrases in other people's minds. (Batman v3 #143)
It was shown to be somewhat skilled in un-armed combat. In one instance, he was shown to had defeat Victor Zsasz and a group of thugs. (Batman v3 #147) At another point, he was capable of holding his own against the Red Hood. (Batman v3 #148)
Dr. Captio was noted to had authored papers on reshaping the mind and controlling it. (Batman: The Knight v1 #8)
Notes
- Daniel Captio was created by Chip Zdarsky and Carmine Di Giandomenico where he made his first appearance Batman: The Knight v1 #8 (October, 2022).
Appearances
- Batman: The Knight v1: (2022)
- Batman v3:
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