When Stickley discovered Nygma's clandestine overtime on the invention he had previously terminated, Nygma knocked him unconscious, tied him to a chair and used him to test his device.

Nygma felt angry and disappointed, but continued to work on it after hours. However he didn't get the answer he was hoping for because Bruce was convinced that mind manipulation was too dangerous and would raise too many questions, so he turned the idea down. When Nygma heard that Bruce Wayne was coming to visit, Nygma was determined to show it to him, so he could have his full permission to make his project a reality. Fred Stickley, the head of the research department was not impressed and put a halt on it, terminating the project. He later developed a device to beam television directly into a person's brain. He idolized the proprietor Bruce Wayne and had several magazines with his face on them all over his work cubicle. Įdward Nygma became a researcher under the employment of Wayne Enterprises. ' I'm sucking up your IQ, vacuuming the cortex, feeding off your brain.' ―Edward Nygma sing-songingly taunting his boss, Fred Stickley, while utilizing his neural energy.

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