Lane, who had found the laboratory thanks to Killer Frost, blew up the laboratory's security system. Strange attempted to stop the Reaper, Lois Lane, Steve Trevor, Power Girl and Supergirl using his remaining clones. However, they were able to leave the place without a fight, taking Superman with them. In other media Television Live action Hugo Strange makes his live-action debut in season two of Gotham, portrayed by BD Wong. He is depicted as the corrupt and manipulative Chief of Psychiatry at Arkham Asylum and overseer of Indian Hill, a secret division of Wayne Enterprises that experiments on metahumans. His chief project is resurrecting the dead, an endeavor funded by a mysterious council known as the Court of Owls, and which he initiates with Theo Galavan, whom he revives as the warrior Azrael. A friend and colleague of Bruce Wayne's father Thomas, it is revealed that he played a role in the murder of Wayne and his wife Martha by hiring Patrick Malone to kill them. After being investigated by Jim Gordon and the GCPD, he is arrested for numerous crimes. Strange is later placed in federal custody, only to be kidnapped by one of his resurrected experiments, gangster Fish Mooney. Strange cures Mooney of her terminal illness in exchange for his freedom. He is then recruited once more to work for the Court of Owls improving a dispersal method for a virus that would turn people into homicidal maniacs. After giving the dispersal device to the Sensei, Strange tries to escape Gotham before the detonation. Strange becomes the target of a gang war between the League of Assassins, Mooney, the Riddler, and the GCPD because he is the only one who knows how to cure the virus. He ultimately chooses to work with the GCPD in exchange for a pardon for his earlier crimes, and develops the cure. Following his pardon, Strange goes into hiding until Oswald Cobblepot recruits him to cure his minion Butch Gilzean of the illness that has turned him into the zombie-like Solomon Grundy and resurrect the Riddler and Leslie Thompkins following their deaths. Strange succeeds doing all three, only to betray Cobblepot by switching allegiances to the League of Assassins. Under the orders of Nyssa al Ghul, he turns the Riddler and Thompkins into sleeper agents with a microchip that can be controlled remotely. After the Riddler discovers his microchip, he confronts Strange and