Egghead (Batman)
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Egghead was a villain created for the campy 1960s Batman television series. Played by horror film mainstay Vincent Price, the character was identifiable by his pale bald head and white and yellow suit. He believed himself to be "the world's smartest criminal," and his crimes would usually have an egg-motiff to them as well as including egg puns in his speech where appropriate such as "egg-zactly" and "egg-celent". Additionally, he would use a wide assortment of egg-shaped weapons, such as laughing gas eggs and tear gas eggs (laid by chickens on a diet of onions).
Egghead was introduced in the second season two-parter, "An Egg Grows in Gotham" and "The Yegg Foes in Gotham", where he schemed with Chief Screaming Chicken of the Mohican Indian tribe to revert control of Gotham City to the Chief's people. In return, Egghead would also govern the city and enable the criminal underground to run amok. Needless to say, their scheme was foiled by Batman and Robin. Egghead would return numerous times in the third season with his new partner and love interest, Olga, Queen of the Cossacks and in exile from Bessarobia.
Egghead never appeared in other Batman mediums outside of the 1960s series and has never been a part of the comic book continuity (although humorous allusions to him are made from time to time). Along with fellow villain King Tut, he is considered a goofier element of Batman's past that would not fit well with the darker portrayal of the character that has been in effect since the 1980s.
Trivia
- Egghead's diet consists entirely of Triple Grade A Brown eggs
- Egghead's ego is so large, he actually employs a secretary to transcribe every word he says.
- Egghead was one of only two Batman 1960s series villains to deduce the real identity of Batman/Bruce Wayne. Reasoning that the enormous expense involved would point to only one of three Gotham City millionaires who would be of the right age as Batman and deducing that two could not be the Caped Crusader , the last, Bruce Wayne, must be Batman. Before he can confirm this, Bruce Wayne shorts out Egghead's memory egg-straction machine.
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