| “ | There, now, you gaping fool, you'll feel the agony I suffer every hour, awake, asleep, the fire in my nerves, the excruciating pain. trigeminal neuralgia, tic douloureux - a living nightmare that warps my face like some freak sideshow attraction. But listen to me, ha! Attempting discourse with this human cattle. Not a herd of them is worth one Arthur Harrow. | „ |
| ~
Arthur Harrow during one of his experimental procedures. |
| “ | Good. The subject's nerves are sensitized and inflamed. They didn't go far enough in Auschwitz. The war's end interrupted their brilliant work. Now transcutaneous stimulation... there. But soon... soon I will succeed where Hauptborg and Schold failed. Fame and glittering prizes will be mine. My facial paralysis will be cured. And the raging pain I endure will end. | „ |
| ~ Arthur Harrow speaking out his motivations. |
Dr. Arthur Harrow is a one-shot antagonist of the Moon Knight comics, serving as the main antagonist in "Deadly Knowledge".
He is a medical scientist whose experiments involve surgically lobotomizing his victims through an old research file associated with Nazi scientists, whose work intrigued his interests. Originally nominated for an award, he's revoked when his studies were discovered by Dr. Victoria Grail, and eventually became a member of O.M.N.I.U.M. where he settled operations in Yucatan, Northern Mexico.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- He found old experiment documents belonging to Nazi scientists from a concentration camp in Auschwitz, using it to inspire his life's work of lobotomizing his victims in his experiments under horrifically graphic and painful conditions. These involve piercing electrode implants onto their skin, desensitizing their nerve systems with an unknown serum, and transcutaneous stimulation.
- He falsified his report by feigning his experimental lobotomy as animal research in an attempt to earn his award from the Noble Committee until he was found out by Dr. Victoria Grail.
- He started continuing his experiments upon working for O.M.N.I.U.M. - a mysterious organization - in a Mayan Temple in Yucatan, North Mexico where he routinely abducted and subjected peasant slaves or residents into his experiments. Modifying them into becoming mindless soldiers by dozens, and have a few horde of them bring in new victims, some of which are caged while he tends to the latest.
- He unleashed a caged jaguar onto Dr. Grail when she and Moon Knight entered his base in an attempt to have them attacked and killed.
- Ordered his soldiers to kill Moon Knight and Dr. Grail when he was forced to escape under O.M.N.I.U.M.'s orders.
- Upon escaping, he launched a grenade to the temple in a final attempt to kill Moon Knight and Dr. Grail just to get them off his back before continuing his work in Asuncion, Paraguay. Thus, getting away with everything scot-free.
- Despite his facial paralysis causing him tremendous pain throughout his entire life and part of the reason for his work was to cure himself. This excuse is undermined due to prioritizing his selfish desires like fame and wealth rather than making his well-being an important one to matter most, as well as his heinous actions going too far beyond his cause, taking immense glee on subjecting his victims to pain similar to his and mocked the idea of himself trying to connect with their pain.
- While he worked with O.M.N.I.U.M., he has no genuine loyalty and the only reason as to why is because they have hold over his documents, leaving him no other option than to listen to them.
Trivia[]
- His MCU counterpart doesn't qualify as Pure Evil due to being an anti-villainous extremist whose tragic backstory of being abused by Knoshu drove him into serving Ammit, and genuinely believes his actions will deprive of anything or anyone in the future indulging in heinous acts. Ironically, there are few changes in stark contrast to where the comics Harrow was a scientist taking up Nazi research where he lobotomized his victims by dozens while the MCU Harrow is a cultist who steals the souls of innocent people and tries to help Ammit in her scheme of grand theft animarum onto millions, especially heinous-wise.
External Links[]
- Arthur Harrow on the Villains Wiki