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Finding Quincy Sharp Arkham Asylum Finding quincy sharp arkham asylum Continue Comments Deli For three years before Batman: Arkham Asylum, Quincy Sharp was the manager of Arkham Asylum before he was elected mayor of Gotham City. Sharp dedicated his life to healing Gotham and was quite fired from Batman and the criminal sub-rural world. But he was also corrupt, as Sharp was with a divisive personality who shared his mind between himself and the killer. Quincy Sharp's biography came from a wealthy family with a long and proud military history. The only child and the last of the Sharp dynasty, Quincy himself, failed the Military Academy and his application for the army was denied. With that career closed, Sharp then entered the only other job option available for a member of the wealthy Sharp family: city policy. In the end, Sharp became the manager of Arkham, shot by the mayoral candidate of Gotham City one day. The Arkham Origins incident has probably been in place in Gotham politics for some time, although the exact position he had has not been given. The Arkham Origins Incident Sharp approached a woman named Shiva. She explained that she represented a strong man who could help him become mayor of Gotham City. All Sharp had to do was open up asylum for a criminal lunatic called Arkham. At that time, Quincy was just a political activist who reaped power. He immediately agreed and immediately launched an asylum campaign. Sharp was interviewed by Jack Ryder after the events that happened that night. Sharp blamed Blackgate Prison for everything, arguing that mentally ill inmates should be taken somewhere else to be treated for illness. He then vowed to reopen Arkham asylum in an old state to help those with mental illnesses. Cold, Cold Heart Incident Sharp was mentioned at the end of Cold, Cold Heart, where he talked about Mr Freeze's recent attack, and how criminals like him should belong to Arkham Asylum, and used publicity to boost his campaign. Between Arkham origins and Arkham Asylum Incident somewhere between Arkham and Arkham Asylum, Sharp has reopened the aboriginal state and recruited new doctors and security staff (honey to them i: Penelope Young, Aaron Cash, Sarah Cassidy, Hugo Strange, Tom Elliot, William North and Eddie Burlow), pre- accepting new patients: Poison Ivy, Scarecrow, Joker, Harley Quinn, Two-Face, , Killer Croc , Mad Hatter, Calendar Man, Black Mask, Penguin, Clayface, Zsasz, Mr. Freeze and Riddler to be treated for their diseases. The road to Arkham incident warden Sharp, marshaling his forces in Arkham Asylum. A few years later, after he picked up the Joker, Batman called Warden Sharp to tell him he'd be here in 15 minutes. Superintendent Sharp informed Arkham security staff of his disappointment at the Joker escape and would not tolerate any more incompetence among the guards, and was told that: We settle Arkham today, we settle Gotham City tomorrow. I don't know that his guards and doctors, Sharp was mentally ill as prisoners, for which he was in charge. Previously diagnosed as schizophrenic (a condition that went untreated because of Sharp hiding in shame), when he took over the administration of Arkham Asylum, Sharp became obsessed with the hidden writings of Amadeus Arkham. As he read several of those memoirs, Sharp became convinced that Amadeus's spirit was talking to him and had driven him into secretly stalking and killing his patients. Dr. Hugo Strange secretly drugged the tea warden with a serum to control the mind of The Mad Hat, which turned Sharp into Strange's doll and made his condition worse. Arkham Asylum Incident Warden Sharp, side by side with several security guards, watched as Batman delivered the Joker back to Arkham Asylum. Warden Sharp and his staff greeted Batman with his arrival in Arkham. A team of heavily armoured, helmeted, asylum guards did not delay time in mooring the Joker's hand-held elbow and prepared him to take him to his cell. Sharp vocalized disgust towards the Joker and instructed staff to take him to the intensive care unit and twice checked for security. Sharp told William North, the Arkham security guard in charge of protecting the intensive care lobby, that he would lose support for the mayoral campaign because of another Joker's crime spree. North assured Sharp that every guard was on duty and present at Arkham. Sharp, however, clearly had his doubts when he seriously saw North and just told him, I hope that's enough, Officer North, for your own good. Sharp was staying with North and another guard in the upper part of the lobby when the Joker was taken through. He tried to make sure batman would change and said, Don't worry, Batman. Next time you see this reprobate, the man will be changed. Dr. Young is working on a cure. Sharp wasn't late reporting to the safe transfer unit when he heard about the Joker's escape from custody. After taking over the Joker's intensive care center, Harley Quinn took Sharp hostage and contacted Batman via several monitors in the Pacific patient chamber to show the witnessed warden. Soon after, the Joker's men attacked the heavily guarded Arkham East, killing security guards on duty and securing the Arkham House and the Botanic Gardens. They ran into the guards of Aaron Cash and Zach Franklin, who escorted Dr. Penelope Young to her office. When they beat two guards after Young's escape, the clowns contacted Harley Quinn to get into the house to torture dr. Young from Cash and Franklin. Batman saved two guards, though not from Harley. It started behind the house, with Capua Sharp tow. Batman received security codes from Warden Sharp for a cryptographic sequence after finding Sharp in the security control room at the penitentiary. Harley made his way through Arkham East to Arkham Palace with Warden Sharp, where they ran into Batman, stunned on the floor after a large explosion in Sharp's office, triggered by Dr. Sharp's attempt. I need Young to get his security codes. Harley removed the tape over Sharp's mouth before smashing it over the head with her own kayak. Harley took Sharp to the penitentiary, forcing him to read various funny and outrageous statements over Arkham's intercom system and jam him with an electrified stun pole as he refused: All Arkham guards must now unload their weapons immediately. Recommend... unload them in the head!). Batman followed them by tracking Sharp's DNA into the security control room. Sharp watched in horror when a security monitor showed Harley Quinn free Poison Ivy, and the Joker loosened the increasingly risky psychic patients of Arkham all over the island. Batman freed the warden and received a portion of Arkham's security codes, allowing him to bypass previously inaccessible areas. Batman told the wardens to stay there when he went after Harley, and the warden locked the door behind him. Sharp eventually used a rusty fingernail and his own blood to write his latest chronicle, addressed directly to Batman himself. Then he escaped from prison and disappeared into chaos. Clayface was watching him when he left in curiosity. After reniasting the identity of the so-called Ghost of Amadeus Arkham and reading the message left in the security control room of the penitentiary, Batman returned to the Arkham Mansion and discovered a secret chamber in Sharp's office. On the left wall was a detailed plan of Gotham City, where Sharp issued a proposal to buy a large portion of the Gotham districts and build them with reinforced barriers, and create Arkham City, a new prison for both Blackgate inmates and Arkham patients. Between Arkham And Arkham City Incident After the riots, Sharp reappeared and took full credit for stopping the Joker and his plans to destroy Gotham. Sharp was able to use his fame to easily win the mayoral election. In total power and control, one of Sharp's first steps was to implement the Arkham City plan he devised and to set up an unknown psychiatrist, Hugo Strange. Unlike Blackgate and Arkham Asylum, Arkham City was an anarchic prison where inmates were not held in cells and given free reign, the only rule is that attempts to escape will not be tolerant. The penalty for violating this rule was death, That Sharp trusted TYGER, the mercenary organization he hired to patrol the border, to carry out. Although it seemed to be Sharp's way of keeping the prisoners where they belong, Sharp's murderous tendencies may have hinted at a much more insousome motive. Given that any criminal and super-villain would lead in one place to war and rivalry between them, Sharp may have used Arkham City to wage war on criminals to wipe out. The Arkham City Incident Sharp questioned Batman for information about Hugo Strange and how he was involved in Arkham City. Up to this point, a combination of schizophrenia and Strange's mind warping serums have taken their part. Sharp became so sensitive that strange instructed him to do even the most basic tasks, such as going to bed or hanging up his phone. At one point, Sharp also cut off his mental state and tried to trace the source of Strange's funding. But he was caught digging through the files. Realising that his doll was no longer useful and could no longer be trusted, Strange was kidnapped and thrown into his own prison town by Strange. The speakers glittered, Strange told the inmates to greet their new inmate. Batman rushed to the entrance to Arkham City, where the board of five Two-Character Henchmen beat Sharp to the pulp.
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