The Clock King

The Clock King  as a villain on Batman The Animated Series

Temple Fugate was a time and efficeny expert who was in the process of appealing a multimillion verdict against his company. Hamilton Hill who meet Fugate on a subway train advised that Fugate change his preplanned schedule for a coffee break in order  that he not appear so tensed up.

Fugate does take the advice...trying to relax in a park..he gets hit by a ball; his appeal papers are literally scattered to the winds and he falls into a fountain by accident. Because he was late, the appeal cannot be filed and he goes bankrupt and loses his mind.

7 years later Hill is Mayor of Gotham City and becomes an object of ridicule when Fugate masterminds a massive traffic tie-up along with a banner ridiculing Hill. When Batman confronts Fugate, the criminal knowledge of train schedules enables him to escape Batman. Batman annlizes the bomb Fugate uses and traces it to Fugates hideout. When the caped crusader hears of a bank robbery, he finds himself in a bank vault with a booby trapped vacuum pump designed by Fugate to kill Batman

Mayor Hill presides at a automated Subway opening which Fugate ruins ..and the Mayor is gone!

Fugate has tied the Mayor to the hands of Gotham Clock Tower so at 3:15 Hill will be killed. Fugate reminds Hill that this is the 7th anniversary of when Hill advised Fugate to take his coffee break at 3:15 and the lawsuit! Batman escaped from the vault trap and engages Fugate in hand to hand combat. During the fight Fugate accidently jams the clock gears and the clock works self destruct. When Batman worns Fugate that he can escape, Fugate laughs madly and proclaims there is always a way out. Batman just manages to save Hill from falling to his doom. Commissioner Gordon wonders how anyone could survive the clock wreckage; Batman   remarks if he could, so could Clock King...and its only a matter of time before they hear from himagain