Winn Schott
Winn Schott is a male television character who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Winslow "Winn" Schott Jr. was the human son of Winslow Schott Sr. and Mary McGowan where he was born in the modern age.
During his childhood, Winn was very close to his father and the two would often go to the latter's workshop and build toys. Unbeknownst to Winn, his father was already showing signs of being a paranoid sociopath, but he was shielded from this by his mother. Mary attemped to run with Winn, to a domestic abuse shelter under the pretense they were gong to Disneyland, Winslow ran Mary's car off the road giving Winn a concussion, Winslow threatened Mary if she tried to take his son away from him he would kill Winn.
When Winn was 11 years old, Chester Dunholtz stole his father's toy designs. In retaliation, Winslow sent a teddy bear with a bomb in it to Dunholtz, which killed six people. Winn watched his dad be dragged off to prison and his crimes exposed, which earned him the nickname Toyman. Winn was taken to the police station, where Mary was called to pick him up, fearing Winslow could still hurt Winn even behind bars, she was forced to abandon Winn which hurt her dearly. Winn was then put into the foster system. To avoid the scrutiny of being labelled the son of Toyman, Winn did not reveal his relation to his father to anyone he knew.
Later in his life, Winn moved to National City became employed at CatCo Worldwide Media as an IT programmer. In 2013, Winn first meets Kara Danvers when she comes in to interview for the position of Cat Grant's assistant and wished her good luck. At some point after Kara was employed, she and Winn became close friends. Winn believed in the existence of aliens other than Superman, citing an armored car robber who reportedly had horns, and maintained a website documenting alien sightings. He developed feelings for Kara and has unsuccessfully attempted on several occasions to ask her out or tell her about them. In many ways an archetypal IT geek, Winn nevertheless doesn't believe that everything in life can be modeled by algorithms.
After the rescue of Flight 237, Kara confided in Winn that she was the woman who saved the plane. Winn was skeptical until Kara showed him her powers, and then enthusiastically assisted her, helping to design her costume and alerting her to several crimes and disasters. He was also eager to hear about her first fight with an alien, Vartox. A week later, Winn alerted Kara of a fire raging at the National City Port, and offered her comfort about the mistakes she made in her early superhero career. Winn tried to downplay the importance of Maxwell Lord's public criticism of Supergirl, despite Lord being Winn's personal hero. Winn was surprised when Kara revealed that James Olsen also knew her secret identity, but accepted that she'd need both of their help to prove to everyone that she knew what she was doing. He worked with James to advise Kara while she was responding to a number of lesser emergencies from Kara's apartment, for which Kara was thankful. Winn later converted an abandoned office in the CatCo building into a secret base of operations, showing it to Kara and James. They first used it to discuss their plans to defeat Reactron. When James carelessly refers to 'Clark', Winn quickly works out that Clark Kent was Superman. That night at Cat's launch party, Winn covered for Kara's late arrival, asking her to dance in lieu of any reward — though James cuts in when he arrives. During Reactron's attack, Winn was almost crushed by a falling support beam, but was saved by Kara.
When Cat receives an award and Kara offers to watch her son Carter so she can attend the ceremony, Winn is roped into looking after him when she has to leave the office as Supergirl to deal with a number of suspicious attacks on Lord Technologies. Winn unexpectedly gets along very well with Carter, finding they have much in common, but is distraught when Carter sneaks off to the launch of Maxwell Lord's new superfast train in the hopes of meeting Supergirl. He calls Kara and she trusts him over D.E.O. reports of a bomb at the airport, heading to the train and saving everyone aboard except the bomber. Winn checks on hospital records for Kara, revealing that the bomber's sick daughter was having all of her medical bills paid by Lord, leading Kara to confront him over his involvement in the attacks. At Thanksgiving, Winn reveals he has no plans, and cautiously accepts Kara's invitation to share the holiday with her family, meeting Eliza Danvers for the first time. He leaves after Alex and Eliza have a fight over Alex's work with the D.E.O. Kara later apologizes for the family drama by giving Winn some leftovers, and he reveals that his lack of plans is because his father is deservedly in prison. He kisses Kara on the cheek, but they are interrupted by the arrival of James and Lucy.
Growing more suspicious of Hank, Alex tells Winn that her father Jeremiah was killed while on an assignment working for the D.E.O., and asks him to hack into their servers to see what he can find out. Winn reluctantly agrees. He also joins James in advising Kara that she did not have to fight Red Tornado, but she wants to prove to General Lane she and her cousin can be trusted. He is less than thrilled when Kara reveals James is bringing Lucy to game night; their closeness in a game of Taboo makes Kara even more jealous of Lucy's relationship with James. Later Winn meets with Alex and Kara to reveal that Jeremiah was one of two agents who went missing, presumed dead, while tracking down an alien in South America. The other agent later returned - it was Hank, who has been tampering with Jeremiah's files ever since. When an earthquake hits while Kara is without her powers, Winn helps restore telecommunications to the CatCo offices, earning the notice of Cat, who asks him to hook up a live feed so she can send a positive message of hope to the city. He also walks in on James and Kara sharing a hug and assumes it is romantic, making him even more jealous of James and disappointed in Kara. He criticizes her, reminding her that James has a girlfriend and claiming that when her powers return she won't ever have a normal life or relationship.
He and James are forced to work together the next week when they and Kara are tasked by Cat with the delicate task of damage control when her email is hacked and made public. Though initially, it seems there's nothing too scandalous, Winn eventually finds a series of mysterious payments to Adam Foster, a young man in Opal City. Before this potentially damaging revelation is made public, with the help of James and Lucy, Winn figures out a way to get legally admissible evidence proving the leak came from the Chair of the CatCo board. After spending time together with both of them, James recognizes Winn's feelings for Kara and tells him to take a risk and tell her how he feels. Winn is later informed by Kara that Cat believes her to be Supergirl. Winn later confronts James for lying to Kara about not having a lead on what Maxwell Lord was hiding. Winn agrees to help bypass Maxwell's security systems for James to get in. When Kara notices James' bruises, which he had gotten from Maxwell Lord, Winn notes that Kara is talking like Astra, and instead needs to let him and James investigate and find another way to expose Maxwell. The trio later agrees to stop Maxwell together.
Overview
Personality and attributes
When he was helping Guardian, he came to be known as the Man in the Van. Afterwards, he joined the Legion of Super-Heroes where he was given the name Computer Lad. Upon coming to terms with his father, he decided to rename himself Toyman and reclaim the name as a hero in the far future.
In the future, he came to be married to a woman named Aayla with her becoming pregnant with his child leading to the birth of a daughter that they named Mary.
Powers and abilities
After going into the future, he was provided a Legion Flight Ring that had a number of built-in capabilities.
In the future, he came to be a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes.
Notes
- Winn Schott was created by Greg Berlanti, Ali Adler, and Andrew Kreisberg and was portrayed by actor Jeremy Jordan where he was an original character for the live-action Supergirl television series.
Appearances
- Supergirl:
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