10 DC Supervillains That Vanished Without A Trace

10. The Wringer

In the story, Stop Me Before I Kill Batman, Commissioner Gordon tells Bats that a hooded man called The Wringer jumped on stage at the Welles Theatre and wrung the neck of a marionette doll.

Soon after, this mysterious man enters a club and crushes the neck of the ventriloquist dummy on stage. Later that day, he throttles a walking, talking doll. Since the Wringer's "victims" seem to get progressively more human, Batman assumes he will attack an animatronic at the Bicentennial exhibit. Sure enough, he's right. Batman deduces that the hooded man's next victim will be a real person.

It turns out that the Wringer wants vengeance on a stockbroker whom he blames for losing money after making a bad investment. Luckily, Batman captures the Wringer before he strangles him.

Wait... why was the Wringer attacking dolls in the first place?

It turns out this was the Wringer's way of leaving clues so Batman could stop him because, deep down, he didn't want to commit the murder but felt compelled to do so. And I, deep down, still have no idea what murdering a stockbroker has to do with strangling dolls.

Unsurprisingly, the Wringer never appeared in a comic ever again.