List of The Batman villains
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The following is a list of the villains who have appeared in the Batman animated series, The Batman , their background in the show and their likely inspirations.
[edit] Bane
Voiced by: Joaquim de Almeida (in Traction); Ron Perlman (in Team Penguin)
[edit] Biography
Real name: Unknown
Bane is a South American mercenary. He is said to have undergone experiments in the Amazon. Bane is a match for Batman at first, even breaking a few of his bones and fracturing his arm. Unlike the comics version, he doesn't break Batman's back. Bane was stopped at a bank, where Batman constructed a Bat-Bot that could defeat him. However, before Bane totally destroys Batman and the Bat-Bot, Batman electrocutes the tubes of venom on his body, turning him back to normal.
In Brawn, Bane is mentioned, but not seen when Joker steals his venom. He appears in the Main Title Sequence for seasons 1 and 2 in his Venom-altered "super-form". He also appears, in both his normal form and his Venom-altered "super-form" in the opening credits for the third season. Bane appeared in Team Penguin, offering to take up the invitation to join Penguin's Injustice Gang. However, he was taken down by Batman and his new partner, Robin while robbing a bank.
[edit] Appearances
- Traction
- Brawn (cameo)
- Team Penguin
Powers: Banes venom gives him enhanced strength and durability. He is an excellent gymnast and is highly intelligent.
[edit] Black Mask
Voiced by: James Remar
[edit] Biography
Real Name: Roman Sionis
Black Mask is a powerful crime boss, who has a vast organization of henchmen working for him. He has managed to steal a powerful shockwave generator, and hold the city ransom. However, Batman stops him form triggering the device, and captures him. Black Mask is held for questioning in Gotham PD, to find out where is the generator, and stop his organization from triggering it again. However, his henchmen manage to break him free from jail. However, Robin and Batgirl managed to battle him and lock him in another jail cell when Batman was captured by the henchmen. Black Mask eventually managed to escape, killed his right-hand man, and got on a helicopter to active the generator and destroy Gotham, but was ultimately beaten by the sidekicks, and was once again arrested.
[edit] Influences
His appearance in this episode is similar to the portrayal of The Joker in the 1989 Batman film. Both villains have disfigured faces and are not alone, but have an organization to back them up. In one scene, he stuns his second-in-command for allowing children to slow down his rescue and gives the title of second-in-command to a random grunt, similar to Jack Nicholson's Joker killing Bob the Goon and then instating a henchmen as his "number one guy" because Batman annoyed him. Also, towards the end of the episode he escapes when his henchmen pilot a helicopter towards him, as the Joker's men did.
[edit] Appearances
- The Breakout
[edit] Catwoman
Voiced by: Gina Gershon
[edit] Biography
Real name: Selina Kyle
Catwoman is a masked thief. In The Cat and the Bat, she attempts to steal from a yakuza boss, but is caught on security cameras and flees the scene. In a later chase, she is shown to be a rival in hand to hand combat and athletic skills with Batman. She uses this to steal his utility belt. She attempts to steal from the Yakuza boss again, but is nearly killed. However, she and Batman team up to defeat them.
She also reappeared in The Cat, The Bat and the Very Ugly when she teams up with Penguin (reminiscent of Batman Returns), Ragdolls to Riches, when she and Batman are pitted against Ragdoll and The Laughing Cats, in which she fights Joker.
She is hinted to have a romantic interest with Batman.
[edit] Appearances
- The Cat and the Bat
- The Cat, the Bat, and the Very Ugly
- Ragdolls to Riches
- The Laughing Cats
[edit] Clayface I
Voiced by: Steve Harris
[edit] Biography
Real name: Ethan Bennett
Clayface is a shape-shifting villain. His human form, Ethan Bennett, appeared a handful of times in Season One. In The Rubberface of Comedy, the Joker kidnaps Ethan and attempts to drive him insane. However, instead of becoming like the Joker, Bennet appears to be able to retain his sanity, but during a fight with the police, Batman accidentally causes Joker to drop a 'Joker Putty'-squirting gun, whose storage compartment breaks, liberating dark fumes which are inhaled accidentally by Ethan. Later at his apartment, the transformation begins. The following episode shows Ethan attempting to kill Chief Rojas, but during a fight at the gym, he melts away. He is seen at the end of the episode, before disappearing again.
In Meltdown, he is finally captured. At his trial, Ellen Yin, Bruce Wayne and even Dr. Hugo Strange decide to give Ethan therapy. However, when Joker pops up, he continues to turn into Clayface. At the end of the episode, he is defeated again, but before he tells Yin that she will never see Ethan Bennett again. He also appeared in Grundy's Night, where he poses as Solomon Grundy to steal money, but during a fight at the wax museum, he is encased in wax. He finally gives up his criminal ways in Clayfaces, and he is cured from his Clayface condition.
[edit] Influences
The decision to make Clayface in this continuity a friend of Bruce Wayne could be based on the character Two-Face, who was originally an ally of Batman before half of his face was scarred, driving him insane. It is also noteworthy that this incarnation of Clayface actually sports powers vastly superior to the anterior version, even capable of forming a crossbow and shooting bolts made of its own clay body, or to transform its arms into wings and fly, in addition to its mass regeneration powers and increased liquidity. Additionally, his clay body does not absorb water, allowing him to resist the impact of rain or small amounts of the liquid, provided it is not delivered at an extremely high pressure.
[edit] Appearances
As Ethan Bennett:
- The Bat in the Belfry
- Traction
- Call of the Copplepot
- The Man Who Would Be Bat
- The Big Chill
- The Cat and the Bat (cameo)
- Topsy Turvey
- The Rubberface of Comedy
- The Clayface of Tragedy
- Meltdown
- Clayfaces
As Clayface:
- The Clayface of Tragedy
- Meltdown
- Grundy's Night
- Gotham's Ultimate Criminal Mastermind (cameo)
- Clayfaces
[edit] Clayface II
Voiced by: Wallace Langham
[edit] Biography
Real Name: Basil Karlo
Basil Karlo was originally an amateur, ugly actor with no acting skills. He was only in one B-movie, and wasn't very famous. When he was turned down from a dog food commercial, Karlo stole a concentrated Clayface formula from a lab, and drank it, thinking it would enhance his acting skills. When he gained shape shifting abilities, he tried to audition again for the commercial, but failed. Angrily, Karlo attacked the auditioners, nearly killing them. When he is identified as a new Clayface, he became addicted to his new fame, and went on a criminal rampage. It finally took Batman, Robin, and the original Clayface, Ethan Bennett, to defeat him.
Karlo and Bennett took a dose from a Clayface cure. However, while Bennett was "cured", Karlo discovered in Arkham that he still has his Clayface abilities It is noteworthy to mention, aside from that, that Karlo has even greater powers than the first Clayface, effectively marking him as the most powerful Clayface to ever be depicted in animation. His powers are so advanced, he can tear bank vaults off of their hinges by sheer brutal force with a sole clay hook, his constructs are far more perfect than Bennett's (though his poor acting skills tend to give him away), can generate massive waves of weapons from his body, can grow in size to become a behemoth threat, and his weapons are more advanced than Bennett's, allowing him to create weapons so advanced as massive rotating drills and other deadly and destructive weapons.
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[edit] Cluemaster
Voiced by: Glen Shadix
[edit] Biography
Real name: Arthur 'Artie' Brown
Cluemaster is a question themed villain. This version of Cluemaster, instead of being a children's game show host, is one of the contestants. Apparently living with his mother, for twelve weeks he was the champion on 'Think, Thank, Thunk'. However, he was beaten and claimed that the host and the producer had rigged his defeat. He kidnapped them and staged a version of 'Think, Thank, Thunk' in which the losers would be dunked in acid. However, he was defeated by Batman when he caused his over-weight body to collapse onto the floor, knocking him out.
He has never appeared again, his role more or less superseded by the Riddler.
[edit] Influences
Cluemaster here is similar to Oogie Boogie, the main villain in The Nightmare Before Christmas. Glenn Shadix appeared in that film in another role, the Mayor of Halloween Town.
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[edit] D.A.V.E.
Voiced by: Jeff Bennett
[edit] Biography
D.A.V.E., an acronym for "Digitally Advanced Villain Emulator" was created by Professor Hugo Strange. It is an artificial intelligence program with the brain patterns of several Gotham villains, including Strange himself. Unfortunately, this proves to be his undoing, as he also has their combined hubris, thus all his plans are needlessly complex. He is clearly based on the HAL 9000, the insane computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey; Bennett previously voiced H.A.R.D.A.C., the insane HAL-inspired computer villain from Batman: The Animated Series.
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[edit] Dracula
Voiced by: Peter Stormare
[edit] Biography
Real name: Unknown
A murderous creature who resided in Transylvania, Count Dracula was killed while sleeping in his coffin one night by the villagers in the town. Driving a stake through his heart, Dracula perished.
His body was shipped far away from Transylvania and buried in Gotham Cemetery. His corpse and heart shriveled up, but the ability for him to come back was always there, if someone gave him just a single drop of blood.
The blood that revived Dracula came from The Penguin. Accidentally cutting himself on his umbrella knife, Penguin dripped his blood onto Dracula’s shriveled corpse. The blood hit the heart and Dracula’s body immediately began to regenerate. After sucking the blood from a nearby cemetery guard, Dracula recruited Penguin to be his “tomb keeper” while he slept during the day. Penguin resisted at first, but after being put under Dracula’s mind control, he was forced to accept.
Dracula became infatuated with the man known as ‘The Batman.’ Thinking that his legacy had gone on long after his death, Dracula eventually confronted The Batman and asked him to join his side to take over Gotham City. The Batman refused and Dracula had nearly killed The Batman before the sun came up and started to burn Dracula’s skin.
Dracula also became obsessed with bringing his dead wife back from the dead. Using the body and life force from Gotham City star reporter Vicki Vale, Dracula nearly succeeded in bringing back his dead wife with her cremated remains. The Batman intervened after defeating Dracula’s minions, known as the “Lost Ones” and interrupted the process, bringing the life back into Vicki and allowing her to escape from Dracula’s clutches.
Dracula had a final showdown with The Batman, which eventually led them to the Batcave. After being nearly killed and Alfred knocked out, The Batman was able to turn on his prototype device that stored energy from the sun. Dracula was caught in the beam of light and his flesh and blood was burned. The Batman delivered a final blow to Dracula that sent his bones scattering around the Batcave, ending Dracula once and for all.
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[edit] Everywhere Man
Voiced by: Brandon Routh
[edit] Biography
Real name: John Marlowe
John Marlowe, a rich friend of Bruce Wayne's, has spent years in his lab. Suddenly, he bursts onto the scene as a social person, throwing a lavish party to show off his art collection. A man in an orange white-striped suit, calling himself the Everywhere Man, comes and tries to steal Marlowe's art, but is chased by Marlowe and Batman into a closet, where he disappears. The next day there is a robbery at the Gotham Art Museum, but again nothing is stolen and Everywhere Man disappears. Finding Marlowe's DNA, Batman begins to suspect his friend and heads to his penthouse to check it out, and discovers several mean wearing the Everywhere Man outfit, all looking like Marlowe. It is discovered while Marlowe was studying quantum physics, he developed a product called a "quantex," which could make copies of a person or object. Marlowe made a copy of himself to aid his research, but the copy rebelled and kept him captive, while the copy took over Marlowe's life. It is revealed all the copies can make copies of themselves, and each copy is more rebellious than the one that created it. Robin frees the real Marlowe, and with his help, they defeat the Everywhere Men and delete the fake Marlowe.
[edit] Influence
Everywhere Man shares several similarities with the original comic interpretaion of Spellbinder. Both villains have a keen interest in art and wear predominately orange costumes (in the comics Spellbinder's costume was orange and yellow as well as having some strange optical design meant to hypnotize). Both villains also used a type of illusions (Everywhere Man had quantum clones, Spellbinder could hypnotize Batman to see what was not there).
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[edit] Firefly
Voiced by: Jason Marsden
[edit] Biography
Real name: Garfield Lynns
In this show, Firefly is an arsonist and a mercenary. In The Big Heat, he is hired by GothCorp to sabotage different companies, forcing them into bankruptcy. Although defeating Batman two times in a row, he is defeated the third time when Batman destroyed his jetpack. His involvement with GothCorp is revealed to the public, when Batman leaves Firefly unmasked in front of the GothCorp building.
In Fire and Ice, he teamed up with Mr. Freeze to ice over Gotham, but their rivalry led to them being defeated by Batman. Firefly reappeared in Team Penguin, as a member of Team Penguin, but, like the other members, was defeated.
[edit] Appearances
- The Big Heat
- Fire and Ice
- Team Penguin
[edit] Gearhead
Voiced by: Will Friedle
[edit] Biography
Real name: Nathan Finch
This show's version of Gearhead is able to convert any kind of vehicle (motorcycle, car, anything with wheels) into a high-speed machine for his personal use. His gear is made up of nanotechnology which allows him to convert and move the matter around him, forming the shape and style of vehicle he wants.
Gearhead was stopped by Batman and Batgirl after he tried to jack Batman’s new Batmobile. Unfortunately for Gearhead, the new Batmobile came with nano-defense technology, electrocuting Gearhead and shorting him out.
It is unknown where he got his powers or if he has the same name as the comics version.
[edit] Appearances
- RPM
[edit] Harley Quinn
Voiced by: Hynden Walch
[edit] Biography
Real name: Harleen Quinzel
Coming Soon.
[edit] Hugo Strange
Voiced by: Frank Gorshin;
Richard Green
[edit] Biography
Real name: Professor Hugo Strange
The morally ambiguous head chief of Psychiatry at Arkham Asylum, who is driven by his keen interest of the criminal mind.
A psychiatrist at Arkham Asylum, Professor Hugo Strange has an interest in the minds of the psychopaths that fill the cells in Arkham. Strange testified at Ethan Bennett's, aka Clayface, court date, giving Ethan a clean bill of health for his mental stasis.
Although he claims to want to help the inmates at Arkham Asylum, Hugo Strange seems more bent on finding out how the criminal mind works, rather than simply curing it.
After being "cured" of his affliction by Professor Hugo Strange, Arnold Wesker was able to resume his life in the real world. Despite being successful in his new life, Professor Hugo Strange wished to "test" his criminal therapy and gave the Scarface puppet back to Wesker, causing him to fold and resume being Wesker and Scarface.
In Gotham's Ultimate Criminal Mastermind Prof. Strange creates D.A.V.E., an A.I. program made with the brain patterns of several Gotham villains, including himself. When D.A.V.E. proceeded to escape and Strange was discovered to have preprogrammed and allowed it, he was determined to be insane and was incarcerated in Arkham.
[edit] Appearances
- Meltdown
- Strange Minds
- A Fistful of Felt
- Gotham's Ultimate Criminal Mastermind
- Strange New World
[edit] Joker
Voiced by: Kevin Michael Richardson
[edit] Biography
Real name: Jack Napier
The arch nemesis of The Batman, Joker is a maniacal harlequin whose bizarre appearance and unerring instinct for the absurd have earned him a reputation as "the most dangerous criminal in the annals of crime." For Joker, each transgression he commits is an elaborate joke in which he tries to leave his victims dying with laughter - literally. More than any other enemy, Joker becomes inextricably linked to The Batman, as the crazed clown's plots begin to take increasingly more personal tolls on our crime fighter.
"All it takes is one, rotten, day to transform a normal man into a monster! ...Well in my case, a rotten day AND a chemical bath."
Wanting nothing more than to make people laugh while he was still sane, Joker was born when he fell into a vat of chemicals. Rising out of the vat, he was transformed into the insane, laughing and white-skinned clown that's a constant thorn in Batman's side. Joker's weapons inculde a set of razor-sharp playing cards, extra-strength laughing gas, and an exploding jack-in-the-box. He is highly agile, and is often accompanied by his two goons, Punch and Judy.
The Batman's version of the Joker has been criticized for it's deep voice and bizarre appearance.
[edit] Appearances
- The Bat in the Belfry
- Topsy Turvey
- The Rubberface of Comedy
- JTV
- Meltdown
- Strange Minds
- Laughing Bat
- Night and the City
- A Fistful of Felt (cameo)
- Brawn
- The Laughing Cats
- The Apprentice
- Gotham's Ultimate Criminal Mastermind (cameo)
- Clayfaces
- Two of A Kind
[edit] Kabuki Twins
[edit] Biography
Real names: Unknown
The Kabuki Twins are the Penguin's assistants. Not much is known about them besides they do not speak and that they are talented as fighters. They use their blade-fingers to attack and block, as well as to climb etc. When they are not fighting, they cloak their red skin-tight costumes with green ceremonial robes similar to that of a kabuki fashion, along with black wigs. Their faces are always hidden behind two white masks. Their origin, like them, is a mystery.
[edit] Appearances
- Call of the Cobblepot
- Bird of Prey
- The Cat, the Bat, and the Very Ugly
- A Dark Knight to Remember
[edit] Killer Croc
Voiced by: Ron Perlman
[edit] Biography
Real name: Waylon Jones
A half-man, half-reptile, Killer Croc wants to submerge all of Gotham in water in order to facilitate his plundering of the city.
His true origin unknown, Killer Croc is a virtual powerhouse. With the strength of a crocodile (and a tail to boot), Croc is able to chomp and swim his way around Gotham.
After flooding the city so it's banks were easy to pillage, Croc was eventually taken down by The Batman. Though the battle was lengthy, The Batman exploited Killer Croc's weakness for air underwater and half-drowned him, depriving him of oxygen and putting him in an unconscious state. In Team Penguin, he joined Team Penguin, but was defeated along with the other members.
[edit] Appearances
- Swamped
- Team Penguin
[edit] Killer Moth
Voiced by: Jeff Bennett
[edit] Biography
Real name: Drury Walker
Killer Moth started out as a wimpy, wannabe. He first joined Penguin's Injustice Gang, in order to prove himself worthy of being a villain, and to serve his idol, Penguin. However, because of his geeky, wimpy and gullible nature, he was usually picked on, teased, and even only being accepted to the gang only to serve as a "Coffee Boy". However, when he and his pet moths were exposed to an unstable chemical the gang had stolen, he mutated into a cocoon, and eventually, was turned into a powerful, gigantic moth monster. However, even if terrorized the rest of the gang, he still had his wimpy personality, and was still bossed around by Penguin. Killer Moth was taken down by Batgirl and Robin.
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[edit] Man-Bat
Voiced by: Peter MacNicol (Kirk Langstrom), SFX (Man-Bat)
[edit] Biography
Real name: Dr. Kirk Langstrom
In an effort to become the ultimate "Bat" in Gotham, Dr. Langstrom began working on a mutative serum that would transform him into the extremely powerful and evil Man-Bat. The Man-Bat wreaked havoc throughout Gotham, but was eventually apprehended when his serum wore off. He is currently serving time in Arkham.
When transformed into Man-Bat, Langstrom has increased strength, a sticky mucus that binds specific areas on the victim, razor-sharp claws, a thirst for blood (his first foray into Man-Bat led him to the Gotham Zoo, where he sucked the blood out of a goat), and sees via the means of echolocation. While the world looks solely black-and-white to him, objects emitting heat will show up as solid white.
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[edit] Maxie Zeus
Voiced by: Phil LaMarr
[edit] Biography
Real name: Maximillion Zeus
Despite it looking like Maximillian Zeus would defeat Mayor Grange in the next election, after Zeus unveiled some questionable tactics that he would employ should he become mayor of Gotham (gladiator style police force and other roman inspired politics), Grange won in a landslide vote. Not wanting to see his metropolis of a city "fall", Zeus overtook Gotham with his aerial fortress, The New Olympus. Batgirl intervened along with Batman and together they took out Zeus and his fortress.
[edit] Appearances
- Thunder
[edit] Mr. Freeze
Voiced by: Clancy Brown
[edit] Biography
Real Name: Victor Fries
Mr. Freeze is a villain who uses his ice technology as a means of stealing the objects of his passion: the rarest, most valuable diamonds. Formerly Victor Fries, Mr. Freeze is a ruthless criminal who The Batman thought had met his demise in a cryogenics accident which instead left him in some sort of undead state in which he freezes everything he comes into contact with. Batman required a special Arctic batsuit to defeat him in his debut episode The Big Chill.
Mr. Freeze reappeared in an alliance with Firefly in Fire and Ice, but their rivalry caused both Freeze and Firefly to be defeated. Freeze appeared in an attempt to steal valuable diamonds in The Icy Depths, but like Penguin, he was defeated.
[edit] Appearances
- The Big Chill
- Fire and Ice
- The Icy Depths
- Gotham's Ultimate Criminal Mastermind (cameo)
- Artifacts
[edit] Penguin
Voiced by: Tom Kenny
[edit] Biography
Real name: Oswald Cobblepot
Oswald Cobblepot, like Bruce, is an ostensible billionaire in his 20s – but the similarities stop there. Unlike Bruce, "Ozzy" is rude, selfish, arrogant and homely as well as being a grotesque penguin-bodied character. While Gotham’s other villains may have it out for the Batman, the Penguin is unique in that his scorn is often directed at Bruce Wayne, who serves as a constant reminder of everything he is not. Employing the use of highly trained birds and an arsenal of deadly umbrellas, as well as two faithful Kabuki assistants, he is determined to rebuild the Cobblepot fortune by criminal means.
On top of attempting to kill Alfred after their first meeting, Penguin declared revenge on both The Batman and Bruce Wayne. Despising Wayne's pretty boy image, Penguin went to the manor in an effort to get rid of Wayne once and for all. The Batman interfered with Penguin's plans ("How'd you find me this time?!" "It's what I do") and eventually returned Penguin to jail once again.
Upon escaping, Penguin teamed up with Catwoman in an effort to steal two powerful, ancient Egyptian statues that give the holder the ability to expel and use the power of light. Double-crossing Catwoman, Penguin stole both statues, hand-cuffed The Batman and Catwoman, and fled. Though he attempted to destroy Gotham, Penguin was unsuccessful, as the team he created was too deadly for both his Kabuki Twins and Penguin to fight.
[edit] Influences
The appearance of the Penguin in this continuity is a younger version of the deformed look created in Tim Burton's Batman Returns. His irritable, rude personality is in direct contrast to his personality in the previous Batman animated series.
[edit] Appearances
- Call of the Cobblepot
- Bird of Prey
- The Cat, the Bat, and the Very Ugly
- Pets
- The Laughing Bat
- Night and the City
- A Dark Knight To Remember
- A Fistful of Felt (cameo)
- Fleurs Du Mal
- The Icy Depths
- Gotham's Ultimate Criminal Mastermind (cameo)
- Team Penguin
[edit] Poison Ivy
Voiced by: Piera Coppola
[edit] Biography
Real name: Pamela Lillian Isley
Pamela Isley is a charming, clever and quick-tempered schemer, known to go to extreme measures to get her environmental messages heard. After a tragic accident transforms her into the evil half-human/half-plant that she names Poison Ivy, she is able to control anyone who gets a whiff of her plant pheromone 'spores.'
Pamela Isley is still a high school student and obsessed with plants. Anything or anyone that harms Mother Nature is an enemy to Pamela.
In order to carry out her plans against the industries that are harming plants in Gotham City, Isley hires Temblor to do her dirty work (since Isley running around with her friend, Barbara Gordon, would certainly turn too many heads). After Temblor’s payment for his jobs doesn’t come through and he learns his “boss” is really a teenage girl using a voice scrambler, he attempts to get rid of the annoyance in his life.
During the fight, The Batman shows up to detain Temblor, but before he can completely save her, Isley is exposed to a powerful dosage of plant growth accelerator (“Chloro-Mulch”) and her transformation to Poison Ivy begins.
For her first act, Ivy captures Commissioner Gordon and attempts to take his life; before she can, The Batman shows up. She quickly puts him under her control with a mind-controlling dust. Batgirl shows up to help free Gordon but finds herself overpowered by The Batman and Poison Ivy; despite this, Batgirl's able to snap The Batman out of the mind control and together they take down Ivy.
[edit] Appearances
- Batgirl Begins, Part One
- Batgirl Begins, Part Two
- Fleurs Du Mal
[edit] Ragdoll
Voiced by: Jeff Bennett
[edit] Biography
Real name: Peter Merkel
A master thief and triple-jointed contortionist, capable of bending his body in all sorts of impossible ways.
Able to bend himself in every imaginable (and even some unimaginable) positions, Ragdoll is a formidable opponent for The Batman, but an even bigger adversary of Catwoman. While Catwoman's interests are merely in cat-related fare, Ragdoll's interests lay wherever the money is. To Catwoman's dismay, this is also in rare cat-items: vintage animation cells, priceless artifacts and the main jewel of their battle, two 'Cat's Eyes' emeralds, hidden in a Gotham Clock Tower by a mobster in the 1930's. Though never found, it was enough to pique the interest of Ragdoll and Catwoman, falling into a trap set by The Batman.
After a lengthy and spectacular battle, Ragdoll went to Arkham empty handed, Catwoman back home and The Batman (and Bruce Wayne) with two newly found emeralds. Ragdoll later turned up in Team Penguin, as a member of Penguin's Injustice Gang, but was defeated like the other members.
[edit] Appearances
- Ragdolls to Riches
- Team Penguin
[edit] Riddler
Voiced by: Robert Englund
[edit] Biography
Real name: Edward Nigma
A genius, Riddler is able to stump and confound almost everyone in Gotham--everyone except The Batman. Knowing that he would be helping Detective Ellen Yin to discover his riddles, Riddler moved them across the city, stopping his containers of "explosives." The explosives, in reality, turned out to be nothing more than gelatin dessert. Upon discovering this, The Batman and Ellen discovered that inside Riddler's clues he left other riddles to his real plans; to steal the information in the city's archive and use it to wreak havoc on Gotham. Chasing Riddler down, they found him at the site of where the original clue was given.
Though brilliant, Riddler is also sick and twisted. With his inability to not give riddles about everything he does, he always leaves that as a weak spot for The Batman to exploit.
[edit] Appearances
- Riddled
- Night and the City
- Gotham's Ultimate Criminal Mastermind (cameo)
- Riddler's Revenge
[edit] Rumor
[edit] Biography
Coming Soon.
[edit] Rupert Thorne
Voiced by: Victor Brandt
[edit] Biography
Rupert Thorne, a Gotham Mob boss, was a major threat to the city. However, The Batman tracked down Thorne and then took out his henchmen, before capturing Thorne and handing him over to the police.
However, he recently has appeared to have got out of prison since he made a cameo appearance at the Ice Pick Club when Batman was looking for Tony Zucco's location.
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[edit] Scarface and The Ventriloquist
Voiced by: Dan Castellaneta
[edit] Biography
Real name: Arnold Wesker
When ventriloquist Arnold Wesker and his friend "Scarface" were booed off-stage one night, Wesker returned with Scarface later that night to rob the entire audience. Turning to a life of crime ever since, everyone knew that without Arnold Wesker there was no Scarface...the only problem was, Arnold didn't know that. Believing that Scarface was the true "puppet master", Arnold did whatever Scarface "told" him to do; this ranged from jewel heists to big-time robberies.
Scarface was upgraded with a giant, metal version of himself, in which Wesker was the "Dummy." Scarface "died" when a train hit him and shattered him into shards of metal. Wesker was locked up in Arkham shortly after.
After being "cured" of his affliction by Professor Hugo Strange, Arnold Wesker was able to resume his life in the real world. Before Scarface warped his mind, Wesker was a famous voice actor for a children's TV show. Once the show ended, Wesker did shows with a new set of puppets, but was unsuccessful. One of these puppets was Scarface and together they became a formidable villain for The Batman. Despite being successful in his new life, Professor Hugo Strange wished to "test" his criminal therapy and gave the Scarface puppet back to Wesker, causing him to fold and resume being Wesker and Scarface.
Wesker was eventually separated from Scarface a third time when he and another one of Wesker's puppets, Mr. Snoots, were ran over by the train on Wesker's old TV show. Wesker was taken back to Arkham.
[edit] Influences
In this continuity, the Scarface dummy bears a resemblance to Al Pacino's character Tony Montana from the 1983 film Scarface, rathen an Al Capone style gangster.
[edit] Appearances
- The Big Dummy
- A Fistful of Felt
[edit] Solomon Grundy
Voiced by: Kevin Grevioux
[edit] Biography
A 150 year old zombie who haunts the architects of Gotham. It was later found out that Grundy was just being impersonated by Clayface. However, at the end of the episode, a loud growl is heard from within Gotham Swamp. This leads to the assumption that the real Solomon Grundy is still there, although he is not seen.
[edit] Appearances
- Grundy's Night
[edit] Spellbinder
Voiced by: Michael Massee
[edit] Biography
Real name: Delbert Billings
A three-eyed mystic with the ability to induce hypnotic visions in whomever he chooses.
Able to induce realistic, in both sight and feeling, hallucinations into his victims, Spellbinder is capable of doing this because he possesses a "third eye." Bruce Wayne explained it to Alfred...
"During my studies in the Far East, I learned of a remote temple, whose monks performed a particularly intense form of meditation, believed to lead to that which only a few could achieve--the mystic power of the third eye. A state of awareness so pure or potent, one could project ones visions into reality."
Possessing the power of the third eye and a criminal mind, Spellbinder controlled Gotham's wealthy into giving up their prized possessions. When he attempted to steal a rare gem that would strengthen his spells, Spellbinder was stopped by The Batman. Despite a difficult fight against Spellbinder's tricks, The Batman was able to escape them with his mind. With a well placed punch, The Batman knocked Spellbinder out cold.
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- The Butler Did It
[edit] Temblor
Voiced by: Jim Cummings
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Real name: Unknown
Temblor is large and tough and combined with his gloves which emit high powered blasts that can rip, tear and take down anything, he’s a force to be reckoned with.
In order to carry out her plans against the industries that are harming plants in Gotham City, Pamela Isely hires Temblor to do her dirty work. After Temblor’s payment for his jobs doesn’t come through and he learns his “boss” is really a teenage girl using a voice scrambler, he attempts to get rid of the annoyance in his life.
Temblor is taken down by The Batman after a long and destructive fight.
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- Batgirl Begins Part 1
[edit] Tony Zucco
Voiced by: Mark Hamill
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Real name: Antonio Zucco
Tony Zucco was part of a knife throwing act in the the circus. However, during of his acts, Zucco missed and cost his fathers life. Later on in life, Zucco became a Gotham mob boss and he and his brothers used their intimidation tactics on all traveling acts and new businesses that came to Gotham. Zucco attempted to coerce the Grayson family to pay him protection money, but John Grayson would not stand for it. John's son, Dick Grayson, had called the police minutes after Zucco first appeared in their big top tent and the call was intercepted by The Batman who quickly took down Zucco and his brothers, even managing to knock one of his brothers out, allowing the police to take him away.
Swearing revenge on The Batman and the Graysons for the loss of his brother, Zucco planned the death of the Graysons by removing two nuts from the railings of the Graysons trapeze act. While swinging back and forth, Mary Grayson noticed the loose bolts and looked at her husband who quickly knew what would happen. The trapeze fell apart before young Dick Grayson's part of the act started and Dick watched his mother and father fall to their death.
The Batman attempted to take down Zucco himself for killing Dick's parents, but he was knocked out and then tied to a knife throwing board. Luckily for Batman, Dick arrived in the guise of Robin and freed Batman. After a fierce battle, Zucco and his brothers were eventually taken down by The Batman and his new partner, Robin, and delivered over to the police.
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[edit] Toymaker
Voiced by: Patton Oswalt
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Real name: Cosmo Krank
Once the owner of the successful Krank Co., Cosmo Krank was riding high on a wave of successful, but dangerous, toys. Not comfortable with standing by, Bruce Wayne and his board at Wayne Company decided to do something about it and had Krank Co. shut down. Angry, Krank sent his violent toys after Wayne and attempted to kill him, obviously not knowing that he was The Batman.
Krank was stopped in the end by The Batman, with some aid by Cash Tankinson. On an interesting note, he is just referred as Cosmo Krank, and not Toymaker during the episode. This villain can be confused with Toyman, a Superman villain, who uses more old-fashioned looking toys. However, Krank's spiky blue hair is very similar to Sonic the Hedgehog's and the designs of his toys are similar to Pokémon, which is Kids WB's most popular shows.
