Real Name~Warren White
Current Alias~The Great White Shark
Aliases~Great White, Fish, Flipper, Shark
Alignment~Bad
Affiliation~Gotham Organized Crime
Base Of Operations~Gotham City
Characteristics
Gender~male
Hair~Bald
Unusual Features~Shark-like appearance
Status
Citizenship~American
Marital Status~Single
Occupation~Crimelord
Skills~ The Great White Shark is intelligent, devious, and incredibly manipulative.
History~ First appearing in Arkham Asylum: Living Hell, crooked financier Warren White, known as the "Great White Shark" for his ruthlessness, embezzles millions from his company's pension fund and robs virtually all of the company's clients both working class and upper class of their life savings. A smug White manages to avoid prison by transferring his case to Gotham City and successfully pleading insanity to avoid prison and speed up his chances of freedom, a strategy he is all too familiar with and convinced it will work. But the plea incenses the judge hearing his case, who is disgusted with White.
Realizing that White might have actually set up a trap for himself, the judge simply proclaims that Gotham is the kind of place where a criminal is better off guilty than insane, given Gotham's penchant for the homicidal, psychopathic criminals end up in Arkham Asylum to which the judge sentences White to indefinitely. There, he suffers great indignities as the new inmate, or "fish." His first cellmate is Death Rattle, a cult leader and mass murderer who plans to turn him into a human sacrifice. Early in his stay, Killer Croc slices a set of "gills" into White's neck with his claws, claiming the "fish" needs a set. Realizing his mistake in pleading insanity, White bribes his psychiatrist, Dr. Anne Carver, into having him transferred to a minimum security prison. However, Carver is revealed to have been killed and replaced some months before by the villainess Jane Doe. Her boss, Dr. Jeremiah Arkham, orders all of Dr. Carver's papers filed by Jane Doe be destroyed, including the paperwork that would lead to White's transfer. Dr. Arkham's decision is heavily motivated by the loss of his own pension due to White's corrupt business practices. Arkham proceeds to call White "the worst person I've ever met", a sentiment shared by several individuals, including the Joker.
To survive the harassment and violence in Arkham (i.e., Jonathan Crane, Aka, the Scarecrow, stabs him in the hand with a fork), White allies himself with Two-Face, becoming his "coin boy," but the relationship quickly ends when Death Rattle threatens him and Two-Face, whose coin flip regarding White's predicament came up tails, does nothing to help (as it turns out, Two-Face only helps half the time). White then befriends Humpty Dumpty (who also says that White is the worst person he's ever met), a child-like murderer and genius, who arranges for White to become his cellmate just in time to head off Death Rattle's murder attempt.
During a prison riot caused by the escape of a cadre of demons trapped underneath Arkham (who actually acknowledge that even to them, White is the worst person they've ever met) , White is assaulted and locked in Mr. Freeze's subzero cell by Jane Doe, who was attempting to claim his identity and stolen money and leave him for dead as she had done with Dr. Carver. His injuries, the result of horrific frostbite, leave White deformed: his skin turns a pale white and his nose, lips, ears, hair, and several of his fingers fall off. These deformities, along with his set of "gills," leave him resembling a real great white shark, an effect which he further enhances by filing his teeth to points.
Ironically, White, who was perfectly sane upon entering Arkham, is transformed into one of the "freaks" of Batman's rogues gallery. Driven partially mad, he now uses his business connections to serve as a liaison and fence for many of his fellow inmates.
