Toyman
The Toyman is a male comic supervillain who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Pre-Crisis
Winslow Schott, Sr.
Post-Crisis
Following the Crisis on Infinite Earths, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events. Winslow P. Schott
In time, he came to be a world-renowned toymaker who made brilliant designs whilst running his small business. He was then visited by an unscrupulous businessman named Walter Dunhill who was the owner of an arms manufacturer. Dunhill had come to Schott with the position for using his advanced toy designs in the field of weapons development. Winslow was horrified at this suggestion but after his wife Mary died in an automobile incident where he resigned and sold his business. However, he came to find that the man lied to him and had sold Schott's designs as weapons with Winslow furious at finding the truth of the deal. He then wanted his business back but Dunhill refused and instead used their contract to secure Schott's continued work. It was then that Schott built an explosive teddy bear that he sent to Dunhill which detonated and killed the man. (Action Comics v1 #865)
The Toyman later made a failed attempt to assassinate Lex Luthor, whose company LexCorp owned Walter Dunhill's arms manufacturing company as a subsidiary. He came to use an exploding model of a LexCorp flying wing and then a horde of exploding action figures in the attempted murder. Superman later located Toyman's apartment in an attempt to arrest him but the had been kidnapped by Morgan Edge, who brought Toyman into the employ of his crime organization Intergang. (Superman v2 #13) Resurfacing later, Toyman tried to use robotic toys to kidnap the children of LexCorp executives but Superman thwarted this scheme. (Action Comics v1 #657) Toyman was then deceived into helping build the Happyland Amusement Park under the false belief that it was intended for the sole purpose of bringing happiness to children. He would later learn that the amusement park was really a front for an operation headed by the Apokoliptian villain named Sleez who preyed on the children. This led to Toyman assisting his foe Superman in bringing ending the secret activities of the park. (Adventures of Superman v1 #475)
At one point, he created a Toyman duplicate of himself that was to take his place in prison if he was ever caught and sent to Stryker's Island. Schott later found himself in a prison cell where he expected his copy to arrive to trade places with him but the android developed a glitch. It decided to act on its own and leave Schlott in prison where the robotic Toyman developed psychotic and murderous tendencies even to children. (Action Comics v1 #865)
The real Toyman later resurfaced where he abducted Jimmy Olsen in order to convince him and the news by extension that he never killed any children and that the murder of Adam Grant had been the action of his murderous robot duplicate. However, Superman and Batman arrived to arrest Toyman at Jimmy's prompting, leaving him incarcerated in Arkham Asylum. (Action Comics v1 #865)
Post-Flashpoint
Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.
Overview
Personality and attributes
It was said that the name 'Schott' meant something good for children with it being a name associated to the most wondrous toys. (Action Comics v1 #865)
Though capable of murderous acts, Schott had said that he never hurt children. (Action Comics v1 #865)
Winslow wanted to break everyone that had taken a piece of his life with these being the adults who ruined the lives of children. (Action Comics v1 #865)
He was married to a woman named Mary who was said to had been brilliant. The pair had wanted children of their own but nature and science neither allowed this to happen to them. Despite that, the pair accepted this fate and instead made their home as well as store as a place where children could be happy. However, later records indicated that Winslow Schott had never married where it was revealed that 'Mary' was simply another one of his advanced robotic toys disguised as a human woman. (Action Comics v1 #865)
Schott respected Superman and believed in the Man of Steel where he said that the hero told no lies. (Action Comics v1 #865)
His father and his father's father were all toymakers. (Action Comics v1 #865)
Powers and abilities
He was able to create human-like androids some of whom were perfect replicas of himself to the point that not even Superman could tell the difference. Among these included an older version of himself called Grandpa, the slender Jack Nimball, a child-like toy called Toyboy and a copy of Hiro Okamura. (Action Comics v1 #865)
Notes
- The Toyman was created by Don Cameron and Ed Dobrotka where he made his first appearance in Action Comics v1 #64 (September, 1943).
Alternate Versions
In other media
Television
- In Challenge of the Super Friends, Toyman appeared in the animated television series where he was voiced by actor Frank Welker.
- In Supergirl, Toyman appeared in the live-action television series set in the Arrowverse where he was portrayed by actor Henry Czerny. This version was shown to have had a son that was named Winn Schott.
Films
- In Superman: Doomsday, the Winslow Schott Toyman made a brief appearance in the setting of the animated film where he was voiced by actor John DiMaggio.
Video games
Appearances
- Action Comics v1: (1943)
- Superman v2:
- Adventures of Superman v1:
- Action Comics v1:
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