Heartless (DC)
Heartless is a male comic supervillain who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Shelton Lyle was a male human born the only child of a wealthy Gotham City family with his parents being Charles Lyle and Jane Lyle. His father was a ruthless insurance executive who made his money by denying payments to those entitled to their claims. From a young age, Shelton showed signs of being a budding psychopath with him setting fires and torturing and murdering animals. A more apparent trait was that he showed no emotion and never spoke. His parents were unable to handle him and so gave responsibility for raising him to the family's butler Gerald Chamberlain. Unbeknownst to them, 'Gerald Chamberlain' was himself a sociopathic murderer who had killed the real Gerald Chamberlain and stolen his identity to infiltrate the household. Initially, 'Chamberlain' looked to murder the Lyle family to claim their fortune. However, Gerald recognised Shelton as a kindred spirit and decided to nurture his psychopathic tendencies, taking him to slaughterhouses and zoos where he could watch animals being eviscerated. One day, Gerald took Shelton to Haly's Circus, where they saw the Flying Graysons fall to their death. This finally provoked a reaction from Shelton, who was exhilarated at seeing the Graysons die, and by the misery that their deaths had caused to those around them, particularly their son Dick Grayson. (Nightwing 2022 Annual v4 #1)
Overview
Personality and attributes
Shelton Lyle was the son of insurance executive Charles Lyle and his wife Jane Lyle. (Nightwing 2022 Annual v4 #1)
Powers and abilities
Notes
- Heartless was created by Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo where he made his first appearance in Nightwing v4 #78 (May, 2021).
Appearances
- Nightwing v4: (2021)
- Nightwing 2022 Annual v4:
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