Toyman

Toyman
Debut	Action Comics #64
Portrayed by	see In other media
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AKA	Winslow Schott
Classification	Human
Affiliation	Superman Revenge Squad, The Society, Injustice League, Super Foes
Abilities	Mechanical genius manifests in the form of many violent, destructive, and dangerous toys.

History[]

Toyman, also known as Winslow Schott, is one of Superman's enemies. His gimmick is that all his weapons look like toys.

The Toyman is also a skilled robotics engineer, having built numerous robots, some of which even stood in for Toyman himself.

The second Toyman was a man named Jack Nimball, for a brief period in the 1970s. However, Schott soon killed him and resumed his career as Toyman.

In the series Lois & Clark, Winslow Schott was a chemist prior to having a career in toys. This reason for becoming the Toyman was somewhat more sympathetic, having been fired after children rejected his latest toy, a talking teddy bear. In vengeance, Schott creates a line of vulgar action figures, "Atomic Space Rats", which are filled with a chemical that makes people act like greedy children (but loses its effect when superheated, becoming like orange juice). This Toyman is aided by Margaret Duffy, who was a secretary at the toy company. She morally objects to Schott's actions, but is deeply in love with him. After a public safety alert goes out about the Atomic Space Rats, Schott dumps the chemical into Metropolis' reservoir; however, Superman uses heat vision to nullify it. Schott ultimately repents when a child from the orphanage chooses one of his old teddy bears over the Space Rats, and Superman convinces police to allow Duffy and Schott to give out toys at the orphanage after he takes them in.

In the 2000s, a Japanese boy named Hiro Okamura identified himself as Toyman, providing a high-tech toy-themed spaceship to Superman and Batman. This version was later revealed to be a robot created by the real Toyman, Winslow Schott.

In fact, almost all of the many versions of Toyman to appear in comics over the years have been shown to be robotic toys created by Schott.

Toyman also has a relative named Anton Schott, aka the Dollmaker.