Rupert Thorne's Gang was a group of henchmen led by Rupert Thorne, an industrialist and crime lord from Gotham City. The gang later disbanded when Doctor Phosphorus murdered Thorne and took over his empire, and was restructured into his own gang.
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Assassination of the Sartorius Family[]
At one point, Rupert Thorne and his gang offered to finance scientist Alex Sartorius' project, which aimed to create a cure for cancer using a nuclear fusion experiment. However, Thorne's organization secretly planned to sell the results to the war-torn nation of Bialya for profit. This plan deeply upset Sartorius, who provided them with falsified results to prevent his work from being exploited. Aware of the deception, Thorne and his three henchmen brutally murdered Sartorius's wife and child in their family home, altering the crime scene to frame Sartorius for the murders.[1]
Afterward, the gang headed to Sartorius lab, where they stole his research and shoved him into his fusion reactor, intending to kill him and stage the incident as a suicide. Unbeknownst to them, Sartorius survived the ordeal, emerging as a skeletal, radioactive metahuman. Transformed and driven by rage, he vowed to exact revenge on Thorne and his men.[1]
Doctor Phosphorus' Revenge and Takeover[]
Alex Sartorius, now known as Doctor Phosphorus, began his quest for revenge by targeting Rupert Thorne at his home, killing the industrialist, his wife, and their two children during dinner. Thorne's death was broadcast on the news the following day. Phosphorus then hunted down the three remaining men responsible for his family's murder, executing them in gruesome ways: setting the first one on fire in his home, decapitating the second in a supermarket, and melting the last man's ankles, causing him to fall to his death from the top of a building.[1]
With Thorne and his lieutenants eliminated, Phosphorus seized control of the late crime lord's organization, rebuilding it into his own empire. However, his reign was cut short when Batman captured him and he was sentenced to Belle Reve, effectively bringing an end to the legacy of Rupert Thorne's gang once and for all.[1]
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