Rotgut is basically a clean freak who at a very young age was raised to think that pretty much all things were poison to the body.One night his mother comes in and catches him eating a burger and she smacks it away.Doesn’t let him finish it.She also claimed that Soda would rot his insides.She showed him what leaving a penny in it would do to the foundation of the penny.He as a child believed it but things got worse as he got older because he never let go of those principles.His exploits begin when he anonymously tries to help a pregnant woman away from her bad habits,pretty much scolding her for smoking while pregnant.One day in a restaurant he gets pissed off at the cow meat on his plate and has a talk with Matt Murdock about it.Murdock doesn’t get it so he just shrugs and laughs.Later he’s seen killing a hooker…for obvious reasons.He feels she’s unclean.He’s saving other people from being infected.Because people in Hell’s Kitchen won’t stop sleeping with hookers his only option was to take the hookers away from them.Most of his dialogue since his first appearance has been in regards to all of the health risks in the world.When Daredevil finds him not only attempting to poison the water in the project building but getting ready to kill a woman things get rocky for Rotgut.Daredevil easily beats him and he is carted off to the mental institution.
Creation
Rotgut was created by Ann Nocenti and Louis Williams in 1987 and first appeared in Daredevil # 239.