Hangman (DC Comics)

The Hangman is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was an enemy of Batman featured in Batman: Dark Victory. Hangman was created by Tim Sale and Jeph Loeb in May, 1997.

Hangman is a serial killer who murders police officers on a holiday per month of the year, leaving behind a version of the children's word game "Hangman" (with key letters missing) spelled with letters in blood on each new victim. During the events of Batman: The Long Halloween (to which Dark Victory is a sequel), Batman captured and imprisoned Alberto Falcone, the serial killer known as Holiday who murdered members of the Maroni crime family on holidays (although Harvey Dent's wife Gilda claims to have been the first Holiday, and technically, by murdering Alberto's father, Carmine Falcone, in the final issue of The Long Halloween, however, Dent himself is the final Holiday killer). Soon afterwards, the Hangman killings begin during the remaining parts of Year Four and most of Year Five.

The Hangman's identity was Sofia Falcone Gigante, the daughter of Carmine Falcone and the sister of Alberto Falcone and Mario Falcone (who later legally changes her name to Sofia Gigante). Despite being a wheelchair user and wearing a neck brace (even disclosing to Batman she can't use the bathroom without assistance) from the events at the end of The Long Halloween, she somehow regained her strength. She only used the wheelchair as a ruse. When she almost kills Two-Face with the noose, she quotes her father Carmine: "You're never stronger than when your enemies think you're weak." Then telling Two-Face, "Nobody looked beyond the woman in the wheelchair!"

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