Killer Croc
Killer Croc is a comic character who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Pre-Crisis
Waylon Jones was a male human said to had been born 35 years ago in a Tampa slum area near the 22nd Street causeway. It was said that he had no parents and lived with his aunt who was a deadbeat where he had a hideous skin disease. This resulted in him being called Croc by the time he was 10 years old by all the other children who would repeatedly bully him as a result. One such incident led to him attacking his bully and leaving him badly injured which resulted in his arrest. This occurred in the south around 20 years ago where they responded to Waylon Jones by beating him severely whilst in jail. Since that time, he went in and out of juvenile hall multiple times over the years. When he was 16 years old, he committed his first adult crime where whilst in prison he was finishing a 3-year sentence for robbery when some new prisoner made a joke about his face. In response, Waylon killed the man where it took six guards to restrain the berserk Jones and he received the death penalty. Before the sentence was carried out, the supreme court declared the verdict unconstitutional and intense Croc was commuted to life imprisonment. (Batman v1 #359)
Post-Crisis
Following the Crisis on Infinite Earths, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events. Waylon Jones was a mutant born with scaly skin and a reptilian appearance. His mother died in childbirth, and after his father rejected him he was raised by his aunt. Growing up an outcast he took the name Killer Croc, and turned to crime. (Joker's Asylum: Killer Croc v1 #1)
Going into the undercity, he came to make a home deep underground which he opened up to people who were homeless. Whilst there, he helped steal and provide supplies to them as the community came to rely on his protection. One day, he was in the sewers on an errand and upon his return he found Batman at the shelter. This saw Killer Croc attack the Dark Knight where he warned the people under his protection to not trust the vigilante. The Caped Crusader warned though that the new water tunnels were opening up that night which threatened to flood the entire region. As the walls were light, it meant that they could not offer protection to the people residing there. It was then that the water began to gush through the tunnels with Croc attempting to hold up the walls giving the homeless community enough time to evacuate with Batman. The walls then broke where the waters drew Killer Croc away and it was believed that he was killed. (Batman v1 #471)
Whilst in police custody, he was treated by a doctor named Maria Belleza who was responsible for helping him return back to his 'normal' appearance. (Detective Comics v1 #808)
Killer Croc brooded in his Arkham cell while his new psychologist Dr. Cross tried to converse with him. Cross had noticed the regression of his human characteristics, and asked him about his childhood. Cross suggested that he had never properly grieved for his mother, who died during childbirth, and this enraged Croc to the point where he ripped his own hands off to escape his manacles. Croc ripped the doctor to shreds, broke out of Arkham, and fled into the sewers, but the loss of blood from his wrist stumps caused him to pass out. Criminal Edgar Mason found him and brought him home, promising that if they worked together they could be big shots in the underworld. Edgar's wife Juliette tended to Croc for two weeks while he regrew his hands. With Crocs help murdering his rivals Edgar became crimelord of the Little Orphan Alley families. Edgar had a suspicion that Juliette was cheating on him, so he reassigned Croc from being his muscle to babysitting his wife. Juliette convinced him that Edgar was using both of them, and he allowed her to leave Edgar's house unsupervised. Edgar learned where her lover lived, and sent Croc to kill him, but once Croc got there he had a change of heart and turned around. Juliette had her lover hit her, and played on the connection she had with Croc to convince him that Edgar was responsible and that he was planning on killing them both now that he had no more need of them. Croc killed Edgar for her, but she betrayed him and had her lover shoot him in the stomach. She wanted her lover to be Orphan Alley's new crimelord, and wanted Edgar and Croc gone. Croc recovered and beheaded her lover. Juliette pleaded with him to let her live, telling him he wasn't the monster people made him out to be, but her plea fell on deaf ears, and he murdered her. Batman arrived at the scene of the crime, and Croc asked to be taken back to Arkham, stating that the people outside the asylum were monsters, not him. Joker welcomed Croc back at Arkham, and having heard what happened to him, he recounted the traumatic events in exquisite detail and told Croc to learn to laugh at himself. (Joker's Asylum: Killer Croc v1 #1)
He was among a number of supervillains that included Mr. Freeze that worked to take back Gotham from Intergang. (Batman and the Outsiders v2 #13)
Post-Flashpoint
Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.
During the War of Jokes and Riddlers, Waylon came to side with the Riddler's crew who fought against the Jokers side in a gang conflict that engulfed Gotham. At first, Batman targeted both groups but came to look to end the carnage leading to him allying with Nigma's group. This saw the Riddler's gang corner the Joker at which point Batman betrayed them leading to Croc along with the others being apprehended using Kiteman's kites. (Batman v3 #31)
In the aftermath, the city was devastated as a result of the Joker War with Waylon's neighbourhood being devastated as a result. This led to him becoming tired of denying his animalistic side and he decided to go into the sewers where he could lead his own community of people that would seek shelter within the sewers. During this time, a group of people took shelter in an abandoned section underground where they had hoped to escape the Joker War. At this time, damage to the Ace Chemicals plant caused mutagenic chemicals to go into the sewers. This flooded the section where the people were holed up and exposed them to the chemicals. Killer Croc was able to save those people from drowning but the encounter transformed them giving them hybrid animal features. These people thus became the first citizens of Killer Croc's underground town and he decided to start abducting people from the surface and force them to be exposed to the chemicals thus making more citizens for his new monstertown. This drew the attention of Batman where he knocked out Killer Croc's transformed followers whereupon Waylon made a bet over the abducted people. Batman ultimately defeated Croc where work began on finding a treatment to transform Waylon's followers back to normal with the Dark Knight having a word with Waylon over his recent actions. (Detective Comics v1 #1026)
Overview
Personality and attributes
Seeking to be the head of the Gotham mobs, he looked to become known as King Croc. (Batman v1 #359) He had said that his friends came to call him Waylon. (Batman v1 #471)
It was said that he was alienated from others on account of his hideous skin condition. (Batman v1 #359)
He would claim that there was no one as good as him. (Batman v1 #359) Croc had claimed that he did not feel pain. (Batman v1 #471)
According to him, he never knew his father and that his mother died the day he was born. Instead, he came to be raised by his aunt who was always drunk. (Batman v1 #471)
Waylon had said that he never had any friends as people hated him cause he was different. They had thought that because he had a skin disease that he was a monster. (Batman v1 #471)
Powers and abilities
Batman had said that he could not stand against Croc's strength. (Batman v1 #471)
Notes
- Killer Croc was created by Gerry Conway and Gene Colan where he made a cameo appearance in Detective Comics v1 #523 (February, 1983) before making his first appearance in Detective Comics v1 #524 (March, 1983).
Alternate Versions
In other media
Television
- In the DC Animated Universe, Killer Croc made multiple appearances in the shared continuity setting:
- In Batman: The Animated Series, "Killer Croc" Morgan first appeared in the setting of the animated television series where he was voiced by actor Aron Kincaid.
- In The Batman, Killer Croc appeared in the setting of the animated television series where he was voiced by actor Ron Perlman.
- In Harley Quinn, Killer Croc appeared in the DC Universe animated television series where he was voiced by actor Matt Oberg.
Films
- In Batman Unlimited: Animal Instincts, Killer Croc appeared in the animated film where he was voiced by actor John DiMaggio.
- In Suicide Squad, Killer Croc appeared in the 2016 live-action film where he was portrayed by actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje.
Video games
- In Injustice 2, Killer Croc made a cameo appearance as a non-playable character in the setting of the fighting video game.
Appearances
- Detective Comics v1: (1983)
- Batman v1:
- Suicide Squad:
- Batman Eternal v1:
- Gotham City Monsters v1:
- Detective Comics v1:
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