Gotham: 10 Things You Need To Know About Professor Pyg

3. He Was A Part Of The Same Spy Agency Dick Grayson Was

Grayson Agent of Spyral
DC Comics

Although this will likely come as a surprise to folks who haven't been keeping up with the comics recently, Dick Grayson (the original Robin) was actually a super-spy for a few years, operating under Spyral, a UN-backed agency designed to subvert the Cold War paradigm by recruiting exclusively from non-partisan elements.

Spryal, despite having Grayson in their ranks for some time, wasn't an organisation to write home about. Pyg was actually a member for a while, and drove himself mad through the creation of a powerful hallucinogenic, which he then ingested.

It's interesting to think what might've been if Lazlo had just avoided experimenting on himself, but hey ho, at least we have a brilliant Bat-villain to enjoy now.

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