He commits his adulteries in an "altered state".
A cold, emotionless man remains throughout utterly uninterested in his own life story – his mother's death, his neighbour's violent misogyny, his girlfriend, the murder he commits, his trial for that murder, the possibility of redemption or even his own humanity.
All being well, Electro could have been loved and respected and not set off every car alarm on every street he walks down, thereby probably making himself the most hated man in New York before he commits his first crime.
One of the stories, 'Lorraine Goes to Livingston', concerns Freddy Royle, a fictional children's TV presenter described as the nation's "favourite caring, laconic uncle", who turns out to be a child molester and necrophiliac, raising millions for the hospital where he commits his crimes.
The killer in this tale has a yen for fancy cars and is full of spine-tingling audacity when he commits his crimes.
He commits his crime with cold calculation, which makes all the more bitter the revelation (in a "where are they now" sequence during the credits) that he received but a slap on the wrist for a double homicide.
