The next article accommodates spoilers from Nightwing #93, on sale now.
Not a lot is understood about Bludhaven’s most annoying serial killer, Heartless. Nightwing #93 (by Tom Taylor, Bruno Redundo, Wade von Grawbadger, Adriano Lucas, and Wes Abbott) shed a little bit gentle on the thriller by revealing that Heartless really has some mechanical enhancements. That shocker apart, there may be one other implication revealed by his enhancements and even the tools he used to restore himself: that Heartless should be very rich.
It is the one clarification to elucidate how he is ready to keep himself. Heartless has not as soon as been proven to steal cash or any sort of monetary assets. The one logical conclusion is that Heartless is rich, that is definitely supported by the existence of his butler, Gerald. His monetary state of affairs nonetheless, additionally provides context to his most well-liked sufferer pool: Bludhaven’s homeless inhabitants. It is doable that, as a rich man, Heartless believed he may simply get away with killing Bludhaven’s at-risk inhabitants as a result of nobody would care about them.
Heartless supposedly targets victims who’ve individuals that may be left behind after he kills. In a approach, Heartless feeds off the data that the murders he commits can even be inflicting somebody or a number of individuals, emotional hurt. It is a sadistic excessive he appears to wish, and one which was confirmed when he refused to kill Blockbuster as a result of nobody would mourn him. Nonetheless, such killings would undoubtedly achieve an excessive amount of consideration if he began killing extra properly off individuals.
Heartless may by no means goal somebody with connections. For instance, if he focused somebody whose checking account had seven digits or larger, he ran the danger of angering the individuals left behind. Individuals who would undoubtedly use their wealth to trace Heartless down. So, the homeless appear to be the proper sufferer. There’s an abundance of them in Bludhaven, and because the metropolis paid little consideration to them earlier than Dick Grayson got here alongside, it is sensible that he would see them as the best goal. After all, there can also be a extra disgusting motivation to him focusing on them past mere comfort.
There are a variety of billionaires who’re corrupt, and look at anybody not within the higher class as beneath their discover. It is solely doable that Heartless falls into this class. Whereas his urges could be uncommonly twisted, his perspective could be ordinarily horrible. He may genuinely suppose that even when one of many bereaved had been to come back after him, he could be fantastic, as a result of he has cash, and they don’t.
That definitely provides one more disgusting depth to Heartless’ motivations if true. The truth that he needs to kill Dick Grayson, for the act of attempting to assist the homeless, appears to assist this perception. There’s even a touch of entitlement when he threatened to remove Bludhaven from Blockbuster, as if this was one thing he may simply do. The proof is there, all that’s left is a affirmation of higher class standing for Heartless. Regardless, he’s nonetheless the identical murdering monster that Nightwing must confront quickly.