| “ | The Count may be dead, true, but his glorious narcotic lives on with a few enhancements that will reveal to you your greatest fear. I gaze you upon the truth itself. | „ |
| ~ Werner Zytle to the Arrow. |
Werner Zytle, also known as Vertigo, is a supporting antagonist in Season 3 of the TV series Arrow.
He is a crime lord and former drug dealer who took up the name and mantle of the original Count Vertigo after his death.
He was portrayed by Peter Stormare, who also played Gaear Grimsrud in Fargo, Dino Velvet in 8mm, Meltdown in Transformers: Animated, and The Nazi Officer in the Sabaton's "Uprising" music video.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- Before his rise to power, he was a low-level drug dealer who dealt out Vertigo on the streets.
- Modifying the Count's original Vertigo so it could now reveal the user's greatest fears, psychologically traumatising them as a result.
- Forcefully injecting a criminal with Vertigo to demonstrate his new Vertigo and then killing him, assuming leadership.
- Launching a rocket into an Italian restaurant in an effort to kill the Arrow, all the while killing countless civilians inside as a result.
- Attempting to use a bomb to blow up a stadium and kill all of the rival crime lords, regardless of the many other civilians inside.
- Blackmailing a reporter into helping him escape by threatening his family. He then threatened his family once more and forced him to blow himself up along with the Arrow and Arsenal.
- Seizing a laboratory and forcing all the scientists to manufacture his Vertigo, threatening to kill them if they made minor mistakes and shooting one of them to set an example.
- In an effort to escape, he set the lab on fire with one of his chemicals and left the other scientists to die.
- Whenever confronted, he injects his opponents with Vertigo to psychologically torment them and goes on to repeatedly beat them, including the Arrow and Arsenal.
External Links[]
- Werner Zytle on the Villains Wiki
- Werner Zytle on the Arrowverse Wiki
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