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Originally posted by MrMind
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To those who are unfamiliar with Doctor Hurt, and might as well underestimate him in this fight, please note that he is known to have made the greatest impact on Batman.

Taken from ScreenRant

"Outside of the Joker, you won’t find someone better at screwing up Batman’s life than Simon Hurt. His reason why is simple in its brutality: he hates noble spirits, and seeks to either corrupt or destroy them. To Hurt, there is no one more noble than Batman, so he spent decades slowly planning and implementing his coup de grace. Our unsuspecting hero never saw it coming.

Playing the long game, Hurt instigated the death of Thomas and Martha Wayne. Later, in Bruce’s early years as Batman, he placed a post-hypnotic trigger in his mind during an isolation experiment funded by the Department of Defense. He sold off misleading information about the Wayne family, assassinating their character and tarnishing their legacy by casting them as drug addicts, sexual deviants, and corrupted would-be gangsters. He did the same to Bruce by activating psychotic replacement Batmen to murder, pillage, and destroy the Caped Crusader’s image.

After invading the Batcave and beating Alfred half to death, Hurt destroys Bruce’s mind with the trigger phrase Zur-En-Arrh. Bruce has a complete breakdown, begins hallucinating, and loses most of his memory. Hurt then presents himself as Thomas Wayne to the press, claiming he’d faked his death and lending credence to the claims of Wayne family wrongdoing. Also, he doses Bruce Wayne with street heroin and “weapons-grade” crystal meth, so there’s that.

Of all the characters on the list, Dr. Hurt had the fewest encounters with Batman, but he may well have had the greatest impact."