| “ | Easiest thing in the world, being a teenager. You get up, you go to school, you come home and you do your homework. How do you mess that up? Yet all of you did, one way or another. And now I have to clean up that mess! | „ |
| ~ Wheeler to the children in his prison. |
Dr. David Wheeler is the main antagonist of the Batman Beyond episode "The Last Resort".
He is a child psychologist who runs a rehab clinic that supposedly treats teenagers to teach him how to be better and improve their problematic behaviors. However, this clinic is actually nothing more than a front for the psychological torture of teenagers, whom Wheeler deprives of sleep and isolates if they refuse to obey him, even mistreating those teens who are not problematic at all.
He was voiced by the late John Ritter.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- Under the false pretenses of a rehabilitation center, Wheeler has countless misbehaving teenagers brought to a secret prison at his ranch, effectively conning parents out of their money so he can psychologically torture their children to the point of breaking their wills for his own amusement. Said torture involves being forced to stand up just to listen to his hours-long harangues while being deprived of his usual nightly sleep, during which he won't even let them use the bathroom. According to Bruce Wayne, such tortures are commonly used on prisoners of war and in cults. Chelsea (the best friend of Terry McGinnis' girlfriend Dana) describes this as "turning us all into little robots" during her time there.
- Any dissidents to this program are placed in the ISO (short term for "isolation"), a pitch-black solitary confinement room without any sound. A prisoner named Adam was left temporarily blind and deaf due to this form of punishment, although thankfully he was able to recover his senses later on, just in time to save Terry.
- When he finds Terry snooping through his prison, Wheeler orders him put in the ISO with plans to kill him and then make his death look like an accident right after his senses are depleted.
- While he doesn't kill or physically hurt anyone, he makes up for it with his lack of resources since he's just a normal human who only appears in one episode, and what he does to kids in his prison is a fate worse than death.
- He has no positive qualities to speak of whatsoever.
Trivia[]
- David Wheeler is, along with the Joker, one of the two Batman Beyond villains to be Pure Evil. However, he is also the sole Pure Evil villain from the TV series.
External Link[]
- David Wheeler on the Villains Wiki
[]
 Animated Universe Pure Evils
| ||
|
Batman: The Animated Series: Joker |
Grant Walker | ||
 Pure Evils
| ||
|
Comics Other Earths Movies Direct-to-video Movies Television Novelizations Video Games See Also | ||
