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Fictional supervillain

Calculator (Noah Kuttler) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Originally introduced as an enemy of the Atom, the character was later redeveloped in the 2000s as a master information broker, hacker, and tactical supervisor to other supervillains, and foil to Batman's partner Oracle. The Calculator appeared as a recurring character on The CW's Arrowverse series Arrow, portrayed by Tom Amandes.

Calculator first appeared in Detective Comics #463 (September 1976), and he was created by Bob Rozakis and Mike Grell. As is commonplace in comics, the character was based on a topical event or trend; in this case, Noah Kuttler took his powers and costume design from the recently popular pocket calculator. His costume had a large numerical keypad on the front and an LED display on the headpiece. By typing on the keypad, he could make "hard light" constructs appear from the headpiece, similar to Green Lantern's power ring. While using this modus operandi, the Calculator was defeated by Blue Beetle, Atom, Green Arrow, Black Canary, Elongated Man, Hawkman, Batman and Air Wave. As he was defeated by hero after hero, he began using a special button that analyzes the hero defeating him and prevents him from being defeated by them again by protecting him with a force field. However, he could be defeated by heroes he had not previously encountered, or if his weaponry was turned against him. The Calculator made intermittent appearances in DC titles over the years, such as Blue Beetle and Hero Hotline. In the 2004 miniseries Identity Crisis, he was revamped as a non costumed villainous analogue to Oracle; a source of information for supervillains planning heists, offering suggestions of weaponry, assisting with logistics, etc. — but charging $1,000 per question, unlike Oracle, who works pro bono. He became a major player in the Infinite Crisis crossover Villains United as a core member of Lex Luthor's Secret Society of Super Villains. His allies included such villains as Doctor Psycho, Doctor Light and Deathstroke. Calculator suffers from severe obsessive compulsive disorder, unbeknownst to his peers (even though this was hinted at when he was in charge of monitoring Supergirl), and initially controlled this with medication. However, in Birds of Prey, he became obsessed with finding out the identity of Oracle, and this led him toward a mental breakdown. He stops taking his medication and suffers from nightmares about the green mask that Oracle uses as an avatar. In Birds of Prey issue #111, Noah finally meets the woman behind Oracle face to face at a computer industry conference, but is depicted looking far younger than his previous illustrations in DC titles and his history would indicate. Both are using aliases, and Noah is prevented from learning Oracle's true identity only at the last possible moment through a stratagem devised by Oracle's allies. A year after the Crisis, Calculator led the Society, taking over from the deceased Alexander Luthor Jr. The Society has become a union for super villains, with all major heists being done through the Society itself. The extent of his betrayal is detailed later; he claims to have created an eighth layer of the TCP/IP protocol and used it to set up a hidden Internet, named the Unternet, able to be used by tech savvy supervillains to act undetected by Libra and Darkseid, and then let Oracle and the superheroes use it to coordinate their efforts against the Apokoliptans on Earth. In Teen Titans #66 it is revealed that he is the father of Wendy Harris, when he visits Wendy, who is comatose, in her hospital room. He vows revenge against the Teen Titans. In Birds of Prey #126, the Calculator copies Kilg%re's programming into himself, gaining the ability to control all forms of technology. He then uses this power to launch an attack on the Birds of Prey. Later, the Calculator creates robotic duplicates of himself to attack the Teen Titans. The Teen Titans are able to dispatch all of the robots and find the Calculator's hideout. Once inside the team is captured by the Calculator, who admits that he killed Kid Eternity when he was unable to see Marvin. After Wonder Girl breaks free she attempts to kill him, for the dead Teen Titans member Kid Eternity, but is stopped by Red Robin. Robin, however, attacks Calculator who is revealed to be another robot double.

The Calculator has a genius level intelligence and is a skilled manipulator and superb strategist, possessing numerous criminal contacts. In his early career Calculator has used a battlesuit with a large calculator in the chest area. The computers in the suit can accurately predict the actions of any hero or even the Earth itself. A projector in the helmet is linked to the suit and can create items by solidifying the dust in the air. Calculator no longer uses this battlesuit and its whereabouts are unknown. In the Birds of Prey series, Calculator worked with four other supervillains in his cabal to absorb part of Kilg%re's nanotech into himself and gain technology manipulating abilities.

An original incarnation of the Calculator appears in Batman: The Brave and the Bold, voiced by Armin Shimerman. This version is an overweight, middle aged man named Myron who lives in his mother's basement and wears the classic Calculator costume even though it is several sizes too small for him. Noah Kuttler / Calculator appears in Arrow, portrayed by Tom Amandes. This version is a career cyber criminal and father of Felicity Smoak. Additionally, in flashforwards depicted in the seventh season, which take place in 2040, Smoak becomes the new Calculator to infiltrate Galaxy One / Eden Corps and uncover their plans. The Calculator appears in Justice League Action, voiced by Ely Henry. The Calculator appears in Batman: Bad Blood, voiced by Jason Spisak.