mattperiolat
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Post by mattperiolat on Oct 12, 2011 3:13:46 GMT -5
From movies, television, comics, whatever.
For me... and it's partially because of TAS and just falling in love with the pathos of the character, but I gotta go with Clayface. You cannot help but feel bad for the guy and you get the feeling that the writers on both TAS and the comics love sinking their teeth into the guy.
Shame he is not more well-known, I'd love to see him in one of the Batman movies sometime.
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Post by Cela on Oct 12, 2011 3:15:13 GMT -5
Clayface.
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Post by Spankymac is sick of the swiss on Oct 12, 2011 3:23:29 GMT -5
He's a hard character to bring into a cartoon or a mainstream movie, but Zsasz never gets enough love, in my opinion, for being as honestly horrifying a character as he's been in the past. Likewise, everyone but Gail Simone seems to have forgotten that Bane used to have a brain, and wasn't always just dumb muscle. I hope Chris Nolan fixes that.
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Post by noleafclover1980 on Oct 12, 2011 3:55:37 GMT -5
He's a hard character to bring into a cartoon or a mainstream movie, but Zsasz never gets enough love, in my opinion, for being as honestly horrifying a character as he's been in the past. Likewise, everyone but Gail Simone seems to have forgotten that Bane used to have a brain, and wasn't always just dumb muscle. I hope Chris Nolan fixes that. Zsasz was in Batman Begins, albeit as a mob hitman. The character is like some twisted reverse Batman. Was rich, lost his parents... but went into a depression, lost everything he had and snapped. Now he "saves" people by liberating them from the meaninglessness of life. |
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Post by MrBRulzOK on Oct 12, 2011 4:07:04 GMT -5
The BTAS Clock King. Just an awesome interpretation of the character that sadly didn't see much recognition after the show's run was over aside from a cameo role in Justice League. Definitely a character that I could have seen being used more often than the mere two episodes that he was featured in.
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Post by celticjobber on Oct 12, 2011 4:47:54 GMT -5
I've gotta say Man-Bat.
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Post by BorneAgain on Oct 12, 2011 4:50:08 GMT -5
I always thought you could have gotten a decent run in a series or in comics with Lock Up, especially if you played upon his potential popularity with certain citizens of Gotham. Doubly so if they played him as a counterpart/rival to Batman before he becomes and out and out villain.
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Post by Starshine on Oct 12, 2011 6:33:10 GMT -5
Clock King from Batman TAS was so over the top and goofy he skipped being dumb and went straight into the territory of cool.
I mean, the guy's only power was a ridiculously acute sense of time, and it worked. How frickin' badass is that?
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Post by W?Y on Oct 12, 2011 7:01:26 GMT -5
Everyone hates on The Mad Hatter, but his run on TAS had some of the best episodes of the series.
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Post by mjolnir on Oct 12, 2011 7:08:40 GMT -5
Well damn, all three of the ones I was going to mention got dropped here. I'm sure I could think of others though yeah, my first immediate thoughts were Clayface, Mad Hatter and Clock King (especially TAS version).
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Post by Red Impact on Oct 12, 2011 7:16:58 GMT -5
Honestly, playing through Arkham Asylum gave me a huge appreciation for Zsasz. He's legit one of the most terrifying guys in the rogue's gallery. I don't think the Begins cameo really counts, since it's not his true character.
I'd also like to see more done with Hugo Strange.
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Post by Joe Galt on Oct 12, 2011 7:45:50 GMT -5
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Post by The Ichi on Oct 12, 2011 8:07:13 GMT -5
I liked that you didn't see Clayface in Arkham Asylum, just people he was shifting into. The part where he transforms into Gordon and just laughs anytime you approach him was awesomely creepy.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2011 8:31:22 GMT -5
Victor Zsasz & Bane.
Especially Bane, he's actually intelligent and not just a dumb thug, not to mention he once "broke" the Batman.
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Thaal Sinestro
Hank Scorpio
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Post by Thaal Sinestro on Oct 12, 2011 8:41:24 GMT -5
Firefly
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Post by Citizen Grimm on Oct 12, 2011 9:06:01 GMT -5
Bane.
He's my second favorite Batman villain behind Joker.
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Post by Fiddleford H. McGucket on Oct 12, 2011 9:13:00 GMT -5
Underrated? ......A shortlist
(Yes I admit a LOT of my examples are from Arkham Asylam: Living Hell)
~ Humpty Dumpty: Basically just a morbidly obese man with a wicked case of OCD- Gimmick is that he puts things "Back together" that were broken.....mind you it's usually wrong so that bad things end up happeneing, but It gets a lot creepier when you realize he did it to his own Grandmother....
.....He never did find her broken part though.....
~ Great White: What happens when you send a SANE man into the nuthouse? A man who is for al intents and purposes a Legal Genius? In any "normal" city he's sent in, evaluated, deemed competent and rehabilitated. However....this is Gotham.....nothing is EVER simple in Gotham.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2011 9:17:49 GMT -5
Clock King from Batman TAS was so over the top and goofy he skipped being dumb and went straight into the territory of cool. I mean, the guy's only power was a ridiculously acute sense of time, and it worked. How frickin' badass is that? And just the way he used it. He freaking calculated how fast Batman throws his punches! Like, could Batman even hit him? That's amazing. I love the end part where they're wondering if Clock King survived the collapse and Batman was like "If I could, he could." How badass did they make him. I always put KGBeast on lists like this. |
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Post by Sharpy Snow on Oct 12, 2011 12:27:49 GMT -5
I've always wondered why they never brought back some of the old villains from the Adam West TV Show.
I mean, they remade King Tut and actually did a fairly good job with rebooting him to be darker and less silly. [And then proceded to do nothing with him after]
So why not Egghead? Or Shame? Or The Bookworm? Or The Sandman?
WHAT ABOUT LOUIE THE LILAC?!
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Post by Michael Coello on Oct 12, 2011 12:46:20 GMT -5
I second Bookworm.
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