Character Profiles - Villains - Maxie Zeus
Real Name: Maximillian Zeus
Occupation: Arsonist.
Marital Status: Single
Base of Operations: Gotham
Height: 5ft 6in
Weight: 135 lbs
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Brown
First Appearance: Detective Comics #483 (May 1979)
Created By: N/A
Maxie was originally a history teacher and a married man, but through unrevealed circumstances he lost his wife and went insane. He became a crimelord, and used his cunning and intelligence to rise to power amidst the chaos in Gotham City's underworld caused by the city's numerous insane criminals. He fought Batman on several occasions before ending his operations in Gotham and moving to the West Coast. There, he formed a team of superhuman agents, the New Olympians, and attempted to kidnap Olympic athlete Lacinia Nitocris and force her to marry him and become a mother figure for his daughter Medea. This plot was foiled by Batman and the Outsiders, who beat the Olympians in a series of Olympic-style games. Maxie was sent to Arkham Asylum. He was one of the villains that escaped when Bane brought down the walls of Arkham Asylum until he ran into a tree. When Joker escaped, he ignored Maxie's pleas to release him too since Joker deemed him annoying.
Sometime later however, he was drawn into a plot engineered by the children of Ares — Deimos, Phobos, and Eris to merge Gotham City with Ares' throne capital, the Aeropagus with the intent of re-establishing his rule on Earth. Maxie was killed as a result of that plot and his sacrifice brought about Ares' return. However, their scheme was foiled by Wonder Woman and her allies, and Ares himself banished his children back to Tartarus.
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