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Easiest thing in the world, being a teenager. You get up, you go to school, you come home and you do your homework. How do you mess that up? Yet all of you did, one way or another. And now I have to clean up that mess!
~ Wheeler to the children in his prison.

Dr. David Wheeler is the main antagonist of the Batman Beyond episode "The Last Resort".

He is a child psychologist who runs a rehab clinic that supposedly treats teenagers to teach him how to be better and improve their problematic behaviors. However, this clinic is actually nothing more than a front for the psychological torture of teenagers, whom Wheeler deprives of sleep and isolates them if they refuse to obey him, even mistreating those teens who are not problematic at all.

He was voiced by the late John Ritter.

What Makes Him a Hate Sink?[]

  • Under false pretenses of a rehabilitation center, Wheeler has countless misbehaved teenagers brought to a secret prison at his ranch, effectively conning parents out of their money so he can psychologically torture their children to the point of breaking their wills for his own amusement. Said torture involves being forced to stand up just to listen to his hours-long harangues while being deprived of usual nightly sleep, during which he won't even let them use the bathroom. Chelsea (the best friend of Terry's girlfriend Dana) describes this as "turning us all into little robots" during her time there.
    • Any dissidents to this program are placed in the ISO (short term for "isolation"), a pitch-black solitary confinement room without any sound. A prisoner named Adam was left temporarily blind and deaf due to this form of punishment, although thankfully he was able to recover his senses later on just in time to save Terry.
  • When he finds Terry snooping through his prison, Wheeler has orders him put in the ISO with plans to kill him and then make his death look like an accident right after his senses are depleted.
  • He cowardly begs for mercy, with no remorse for his actions, when Sean Miller, one of his victims, dangles him from atop a high ledge is about to throw him to his death. It's really not too hard to root for Sean in this scene, given that Wheeler abused countless children.
  • Overall, Wheeler is one of, if not the absolute worst villain in the show, with no cool or sympathetic qualities, being nothing more than a greedy coward who takes extreme pleasure in torturing children, and relies on his guards to do all the dirty work.

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