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Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Jenna Duffy - Batman: Arkham Unhinged

Originally from Keystone City, Jenna Duffy was a skilled carpenter and engineer living in Gotham City. Falling on hard times, she began working for costumed villains, creating secret lairs and death traps. 

Meeting Jervis Tetch, he saw a kindred spirit in Jenna, inviting her to join his Wonderland Gang as his “Carpenter.” Tetch took immense pleasure in the fact that he now had both a Walrus and a Carpenter, pairing them together to commit crimes. 

However, Duffy soon grew bored and quit, leaving the Gang behind. Hoping to go legit she created her own business, J.D. Carpentry, and for a time she was successful. But her criminal past made her a target for Hugo Strange. 

Despite Batman’s help to start over in Keystone City, her former teammates betrayed her, ratting Duffy out and ensuring that she was caught at the bus station. 

Arrested and sentenced to Arkham City, Mad Hatter quickly hunted her down. Held prisoner in his Hat Shop, she and four other women were drugged by Tetch, who proceeded to dress them up like Alice in Wonderland characters, with matching micro-processors built into their headbands. While she was fully conscious of her surroundings, she was unable to fight back, lamenting that if she had her nail gun, she would make her captor pay. 

When Batman entered the Hat Shop in search of the kidnapped Vicki Vale and Pamela Isley, he was gassed by a variant of Scarecrow’s Fear Toxin, altering his perception, and making Tetch’s victims appear to be the characters they were dressed as, turning her into The Carpenter once more. 

After a brief fight, Batman was able to destroy the Hatter’s master transmitter, deactivating the micro-processors and freeing her from Tetch’s control. 

With no chance of escape from Arkham City, Jenna chose instead to focus on the positives; that there were hundreds of buildings that would need repairing. Her first official client was Poison Ivy, who wanted her to repair her flower shop, Baudelaire, after the premises were damaged during Isley’s kidnapping.

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