While Dr. Quartz is suave, charming and sophisticated, he is also a raging psychopath who revels in death, blood, torture and atrocity. He enjoys cutting people up, especially beautiful women, and creating grotesque art out of bodies and body parts. He is essentially evil incarnate. Dr. Quartz was highly intelligent, well versed in all fields. He could hypnotize people and knew a number of magic tricks. He also developed a solution that caused a person to go into a state of suspended animation. Somehow, he managed to survive certain death a number of times.