Gotham is possibly the city in the world with the most villains per square meter, at least within the DC Universe. Living there is not easy or safe if you want to do it at night, when more thugs populate its streets. Luckily for its inhabitants there is someone who protects them, although it is not easy to clean up when there are so many thieves, murderers and criminals of all kinds. These are all the villains of batman
if something is missing to Batman are enemies. The Batman has been hanging around the streets of Gotham for a long time and that has led him to make numerous acquaintances, of course they are not the kind of "friends" that we all want. These are the worst that can be found on the streets of the city.
The dangerous city of Gotham
Beyond Batman's own personality, much of his success is also due to a long list of villains who have been at a great level. And it is that no superhero is important if his enemies are not up to it.
You may know many of them thanks to all the stories that you have been able to know both in the cinema and on television. But there are many more and some are downright dangerous. So if you want to meet those characters that are not even the Joker, The Penguin, Enigma, Catwoman or Dr. Freeze (to name some of the most popular), you will surely like this collection. These are Batman's great villains.
Batman's Most Popular Enemies
Let's start with the archenemies, with those characters who became great batman villains for various reasons. So let's go with it.
Joker
One of Batman's oldest enemies (and the most representative) is the Joker. Not only that: he is also one of the most popular and even loved by those who are fans of DC and his work. With a very changeable character, the goal is to drive the bat man crazy and even anyone who crosses his path. He is quite a lover of chaos and destruction.
In the cinema, this bad batman He has had countless great actors playing him and such is his charisma that we have even enjoyed him in a movie with him as the absolute protagonist.
Ra's al Ghul
Leader of the League of Assassins, this enemy has lived for many years and has cultivated both his body and mind. He is what makes him even more dangerous, but above all he is responsible for promoting crime in the city.
Enigma
Obsessed with riddles and puzzles, Edward Nigma is Enigma. This villain is in a continuous fight against Batman, whom he wants to show that he is much smarter than him. Hence, he does not stop leaving clues in the form of all these kinds of things that force you to constantly think.
The Penguin
Along with Joker, it is possible that The Penguin is one of the best known and beloved by Batman fans. Behind the name Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot III hides a strange-walking guy who went from being an ordinary thief to a Gotham City crime lord.
The Penguin does not have great physical abilities, but he makes up for it with a mind capable of quick thinking and without compassion. Or almost, because deep down there was someone with whom he was very close: his mother.
Two faces
Harvey Dent is the one behind Two-Face. He ex-Gotham prosecutor He's both friend and foe of Batman, of course he's hard to trust. Actually, of anyone who goes with a two-sided coin and is always leaning on it to make decisions that he already knows perfectly well if they are going to come out or not when he presents them as a duality between which to choose.
The cinema has shown us this random-loving character on several occasions.
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Jonathan Crane is a psychiatrist who takes advantage of his knowledge to play with people, with his own fears and thus bring them to a situation that favors their manipulative abilities. For this, normally, it uses a gas that releases its victims.
Like Batman, many villains that we find in the stories of the bat man are villains after experiencing very different traumatic situations. This time, Crane was a teacher who ends up getting fired after firing a gun in class, which leads him to completely lose his mind.
Harley Quinn
Harley Quinn is one of those surprises that appear without really knowing how. The first time she saw her was as Joker's partner -he had been her psychiatrist and after falling in love with him, she decides to leave everything good behind and embrace the criminal world-, her popularity being such that she inevitably ended up having own series. Now that we have seen several performances on the big screen by Margot Robbie, her fame has grown even more. And that's okay, because she's a great villain.
Dr Freeze
Victor Fries was about to lose his wife and decided cryogenicize it That caused him to start experimenting and doing tests that would allow him to bring her back to life when he had a cure for his dangerous and deadly disease. Among her powers is the use of cold and everything that it allows her.
We have come to see Mr. Freeze on the big screen, although we cannot say that the film where he appeared was one of the most memorable in the saga.
Catwoman
Although it may seem otherwise, Catwoman is one of Batman's most famous villains. It is true that there are times when she helps Bruce, possibly when she is more conditioned by Bruce's personality. Selina Kyle. However, when she forgets who she is and adopts the role of catwoman, things change and she comes out of that darker side of her love-hate relationship with the batman.
The mad Hatter
A neuroscientist skilled enough to create hats able to control the mind of other users. That's what makes Jervis Tetch, the town known to everyone as the Mad Hatter, dangerous.
Carmine Falcone
One of the great leaders of the mafia Gotham. Carmine Falcone ran crime in the city for years and was one of the first enemies he had in The Dark Knight.
Deathstroke
Like other Batman villains, only the most comic book fans will know him since his beginnings were in Teen Titans. His powers were obtained after a failed attempt at a project that sought to achieve a super soldier.
This is a mercenary with a lot of strength and other physical abilities that fit very well to be a great enemy of Batman, especially since he is capable of replicate many of his combat moves as well as that of other rivals. That makes it difficult to fight him.
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Waylon Jones is a former wrestler who, after a mutation, for which his skin became scaly, he ended up becoming a criminal - he added to his record a life victim of abuse. A psychopathic cannibal and murderer whose story had the potential to have evolved further into the role according to some fans.
clayface
Clayface is one of those characters who have had different faces -pun intended- throughout his relationship with Batman, which makes the story of how he became Clayface change. Yet most have had similar traits, with the possibility of change shaped at will as the most striking feature.
Hugo strange
One of Batman's most dangerous villains and one of the first to know who was behind the mask. He is a scientist, who through various experiments of his in the mental hospital of Arkham, becomes responsible for shaping some of the worst beings that swarm Gotham.
Poison Ivy
There are several women who have faced Batman over time, Poison Ivy being one of the most remembered and popular. Poison Ivy she has the ability to confuse and lure any man into doing her bidding, as well as being able to do whatever she wants with plants.
Said power is achieved, according to the vision of each writer, in a different way. For some, she did it by chance, after being forced to consume a poisonous plant, and for others after consciously injecting it. Be that as it may, her obsession with defending plant life (which at first could be respectable) is what leads her to commit all kinds of harmful actions, being a real danger to the citizens of Gotham.
black mask
Of rich and self-centered parents -of those concerned more about their social position than about the well-being of their own son-, Roman Sionis ended up killing them by building the black mask that he wears with his father's coffin. He is a real potential sadist.
Other Batman Villains
Although the above are the most popular enemies, as we said at the beginning, Batman's villains are quite numerous. Throughout the countless comics, graphic novels, television series, anime, and movies, many others have appeared. Logically, not all have had the same weight and some will only be known and remembered by the very fans of the bat man. Still, knowing their names never hurts, but not everyone has the same story.
In addition, to all of them we must add possible versions of other multiverses, like even the other Batmans that exist in parallel universes and that have crossed paths at some point. Something similar to what happened with Spider-Man. These are the other villains of batman:
- Slaughterhouse, Arnold Etchison is a serial killer
- alfred stryker, is said to be the first Batman villain
- Anarchy, a young prodigy who believes she has good intentions, but bad methods
- arkham knight, is the daughter of Jeremiah Arkham and is similar to Batman in terms of wearing armor that also protects her
- batzarro, in a distorted clone of Batman
- Bird
- doctor hurt
- The Hunchback, a French villain dressed as a hunchback and with some henchmen dressed as gargoyles
- The Kraken King, with a diving suit this character uses an electric rifle as a weapon
- CandymanGotham crime boss
- catgirlBehind the mask is Kitrina Falcone, daughter of the criminal Falcone and partner of Catwoman.
- Professor Pig, a deranged man who wears a pig mask as a sign of identity
- Doctor Death, one of the first supervillains that Batman has
- Duela Tooth, who is also known as the daughter of Joker
There is more? Yes, there are many more. Many were lucky in a comic and quickly. Hence, it is not very important or not that they appear on this list. What you should be clear about is that all the important villains are these. What's more, the first ones are really the ones that have had a great weight in the Batman plot throughout all these years.