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1. Harold Allnut
Harold who?
To casual comic book fans - or even to casual Batman fans - the character of Harold Allnut is likely a totally unknown one.
Harold was in and around comics for 13 years by the time he was killed off in the brilliant, all-encompassing Hush arc. The thing is, this was someone who was so often kept in the shadows and who rarely made an appearance during those 13 years.
A mute hunchback, Harold was briefly featured alongside The Question, then taken under the corrupt wing of Penguin, before he was then brought into the Bat family by Bruce Wayne. And what did Bruce see in Harold? Why, that was Allnut's genius when it came to engineering.
Those engineering skills were put to work on the Batmobile, with Harold essentially becoming Wayne's personalised mechanic, so much so, that the character actually lived in the Batcave.
Unfortunately for Harold, he would be manipulated by new-rogue-on-the-block Hush in 2002, who was really Bruce's old friend Thomas Elliot.
Swayed by Tommy altering his hunchbacked appearance and miraculously giving him a voice, Harold would be one of the many pawns Hush used to torment the Dark Knight... until Allnut he ended up dead after Tommy shot him in front of Bats.
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