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| Gerald Tech | |
| Biographical Information | |
| Aliases | Mad Hatter, The Mad Hatter, Hattah', Gerry, Mr. Tech, Freak |
| Gender | Male |
| Born | 14 August, 1976 Manchester, England, UK |
| Affiliation |  Cuneo crime familyJoker's Gang The Joker Alice (forced) |
| Title(s) | Capo Soldato (formerly) |
Gerald Ludwig Tech was obsessed from a young age with Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland story, and being an insane neuroscientist and psychologist, embraced a delusion that he was the incarnation of the Mad Hatter from the said story. Using his hypnotic skills for world domination, Mad Hatter has committed many crimes, often themed around the book that inspired him and his love of hats and headgear, going so far as to plant his hats, ranging from straw hats, to aluminium tin hats to bowlers, with mind-control chips to amplify his hypnosis skills, way before Elon Musk got the idea. Because of this, The Joker saw him as a perfect man who could serve in his organistion.
Biography[]
Gerald Tech, formerly a research scientist and online psychologist, born to George and Bethany Tech in England, is completely smitten with the works of Lewis Carroll. As his famous nickname indicates, he takes the appearance of the Mad Hatter from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and sees himself as something of a milliner. He wasn't always insane, but he sure did become insane when he tried one of the mind-control chips he was working on on his own self. This happened around the late 1990's and it rot his brain and now he's 100% sure he's the Mad Hatter from the book.
After sometime Hatter decided to try his luck in the United States and moved there, to New York City (the Victorian part) where the buildings and the architecture was pleasing to the senses. Buying specific clothes to replicate the famous Lewis Carroll character, in one of his first crimes, in the name of greed, Mad Hatter attempted to steal a trophy from the Gotham Yacht Club, but was foiled by Bruce Ultor while he tried to rob from spectators from a high society horse show as Bruce's job is to defend his capitalist buddies and their workers. The trophy was taken from him as well and Tech was in custody for a while, until his first hearing in that famous court in NY. In the courtroom he was found to be insane and was send to the Arkham Asylum.
In Arkham, he meet the future don of the Cuneo crime family, the Joker and the two hang out. Soon Hatter, Joker and his buddies (Harley Queen and Jesse Lynch) were joined by Killer Moth and a couple of other goons who worked for Phillip Cuneo, thus making Joker able to create the Joker's Gang.
One night after intensive planning, Joker's gang was joined in their escape plan from the asylum and Long Island by Mayer Cobblepot and Riddler. After a bomb exploded at the mental institution, Joker and his men (and gal) wait for their chopper to come and Joker throws his poor sap of a goon out, while his gang climbs on it, with Gerald barely hanging onto it. Cuneo Jr.'s goon then gets slammed into a building while trying to climb up the ladder while the heli flies away to the Cuneo Mansion.
Hatter is next seen at the mansion's basement, playing cards, like poker, whore poker and blackjack with Scarecrow (Jesse Lynch) and Killer Moth. During the BJ part of the gambling process, Mad Hatter managed to score blackjack or 21 thrice, Jesse kept to his 17's and 20's and Killer Moth kept busting. This could imply Hatter counted the cards and was something of a cheat at the game. During poker, Jesse likes to scare the Moth with his bagged-up creepshow of a face, but Hatter in the meantime cheats again and replaces his card with a better one he had hidden behind his hat. When the Joker calls the trio up after slamming his television set to the ground, he explains his terrorist plan to destroy the entire New York with his poisonous waste, gas (fart or otherwise) and toxic, they all agreed with it and nodded like good boys. Joker sends Hatter to search his chemical factory at the end of town to get him some more toxic material for his plan, as Harley Queen claims they ran out of it after they sold it all to the Stracci crime family.
Mad Hatter and his goons, all Cuneo men, ofc, enter the Ace Chemicals factory to get the much needed waste, but just then, Bruce in his bat suit once again shows up and his kid sidekick Dick, aka Robin. When Bruce and Robby enter the last room in the place, Mad Hatter is seen coming unto a leverage (knocking an associate down a pool of chemicals while we're at it), laughing at the two and is then fought by the two when all of his soldatos get beat by the two, mostly Brucie. Despite using his mind-controlling abilities and almost making Robin his sex slave while Batman was beating off his soldiers, Hatter was defeated when Bruce punched Robin down to save him while Hatter was complaining about the bat ruining his plans. Not wishing to go down that easily Hatter charged at the Bat, but Bruce uses his large-ass hat to put the sucker over his eyes, making Gerald not be able to see anything. Robin and Batman then throw him out of the plant like a ragdoll and the NYPD comes to handcuff the unseeing Hatter, who swears revenge on the two and claims that the Cuneos will one day be above Bruce's wealth status.
Aftermath[]
After the rest of the gang is defeated and imprisoned in Dixmor Asylum, as Arkham didn't have the necessary safety precautions to held them in and their medical staff lacked the knowledge on how to deal with them, Gerald is happily sipping tea in his cell while petting a rabbit, feeling like the original Mad Hatter from Alice's Adventures. As of today, he is still imprisoned at Dixmor's, but is making some progress according to Dr. Henri Dixmor himself.
Trivia[]
- Gerald Tech's short stature and physical resemblance seemed to rather help his Mad Hatter gimmick, as he is constantly wearing a fitting outfit that resembles Johnny Tenniel's original illustration of the Mad Hatter in Carroll's book, complete with the hairstyle and buck teeth.
- Like Jesse Lynch, Hatter instantly got promoted to the rank of a Caporegime after The Joker and his cronies' escape from Arkham, as he saw both Scarecrow and Hatter's genius and potential in his organisation and the Cuneo crime family as a whole (who appeared to be lacking members), unlike with Killer Moth, who got promoted sometime after Hatter's capture.
- On Hatter's hat it says "this style 10/6", meaning that this style is so good it goes over its ranking of six by 4 points.
- Gerald Tech is the second reincarnation of the Mad Hatter character on this Wiki, the first being Jervis Tetch.
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