Barton Mathis

"Everyone loves a pretty doll."

- Barton Mathis

Barton Mathis, also known as The Dollmaker, was a psychotic serial killer who escaped prison during The Undertaking.

Season 2
In "Broken Dolls", Mathis was in jail after being taken down by Quentin Lance. He escapes during the Undertaking and starts his killing spree again. When Quentin and The Arrow work together to take him down, he calls Quentin and talks to him as he kills another girl. The Arrow and Quentin bait a trap for Barton in hopes to capture him, but Barton escapes. He then takes Quentin and Laurel prisoner and plans to kill Laurel in front of Quentin. Before the process begins, The Arrow arrives and stops him. As Barton escapes he is attacked by The Canary. The two fight until Barton uses some pipes to trap her. Before he can kill her, The Arrow intervenes and takes him down with two arrows. He tells Barton that he is going back to jail, but The Canary kills him by impaling him with one of her eskrima sticks before disappearing.

In, it is revealed that Mathis escaped because Count Vertigo gave him the keys to his cell during the earthquake, and the ensuing chaos. The Count did so out of admiration for a 'fellow artist', rather than the thugs he was otherwise surrounded by, and the Dollmaker repaid him with a warning about aftershocks, something the drug dealer guaranteed.