If you were to close your eyes and picture a short man with crazy auburn hair and a ridiculously oversized green hat, who would you see? It's likely you've gone down the rabbit hole and are picturing the notorious Mad Hatter. If that's the case, you're almost right.

In 1948 a villainous character, who bared a striking resemblance to Wonderland's Hatter, made his first appearance in Batman #49. Created by Bill Finger and Lew Sayre Schwartz, Mad Hatter, entered the Gotham scene as a neuroscientist turned criminal. Mad Hatter, a/k/a Dr. Jervis Tetch, although having a genius-level intellect, suffers from immaturity, an obsessive-compulsive disorder and is highly delusional. He identifies so much with Lewis Carroll's character that he often has a hard time discerning between those stories and reality. As if he needed to be creepier, he often uses rhyming as a defense mechanism.

Mad Hatter is best known for using his knowledge as a neuroscientist to create technological mind-controlling devices. With these devices, Mad Hatter can influence and manipulate the minds of his victims to do his bidding. Although typically working alone, on several occasions Mad Hatter has manipulated other villains to assist him in taking down Batman. Naturally, these attempts were unsuccessful and eventually got him locked up in the Arkham Asylum. Despite beginning as a rather whimsical villain over time Mad Hatter took on a darker, seedier tone.

On one horrifying occasion, Mad Hatter actually kidnapped a young Barbara Gordon and forced her to dress up as Alice. It was during this time that Mad Hatter was implied to be a pedophile, although nothing was ever confirmed about that. In addition to Barbara, Mad Hatter kidnapped countless other children and dressed them up as Wonderland characters. Thankfully, Batman and Commissioner Gordon were later able to rescue the children and return them to their families.

Although they'll surely never look at Wonderland the same way again.