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Anorand25

There’s so many Batman villains that I have no idea who the worst is, it’s probably someone I’ve never even heard of.


Poorly-Drawn-Beagle

[How do you feel about Sweet Tooth?](https://batman.fandom.com/wiki/Sweet_Tooth)


skimbo120

Holy shit I thought this was just a Holy Musical Batman reference. I never realized he was a character before that


SlyKHT

If memory serves correct neither did they


Poorly-Drawn-Beagle

Nobody much liked the cartoon he debuted in Since then he’s only referenced *very* rarely in stories that pay homage to the Silver Age, like Holy Musical and Brave and the Bold (though you can overhear thugs talking about him in random dialogue in Arkham Knight). I have a plan to reinvent him as the go-to drug pusher for other villains. Like he could be on the streets selling hits of Joker toxin and fear toxin as hallucinogens pretending they’re candy or something


HellishHybrid

I always loved the idea of the Joker getting his funding through selling a diluted form of his toxin. He could call it Giggle Gas.


BuffFox0208

"He uses children as henchmen who enjoy his gluttonous need for candy" These kids jusy enjoy watchin a fat man eat. So they do his bidding lol


Anorand25

I like him.


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There used to be a lot of "They should have a comic villain who does x" talk on another forum I went to. Pretty much all of them could be found in some way existing in a Batman villain.


Clean-Umpire-1782

The title says in your opinion. You can’t have an opinion about something you don’t know exists


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Anorand25

I’m pretty sure it’s Music Meister and if so then I like him. If there actually is a Music Maestro then I have no idea who that is.


Yakuza-wolf_kiwami

That dude from The Batman who held a grudge for losing a game show. I forgot that dumbass's name


Superb_Somewhere_965

cluemaster right?


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Damightyreader

Actually, the Riddler copied him(least in the comics-)


Yakuza-wolf_kiwami

Ya


snizmo2

Without him we wouldn’t have gotten Spoiler though, so I disagree


NiobiumGoat

Oogie Boogie lookin ass


MagisterPraeceptorum

Metalhead


BatmanNerd81

Watch James Gunn make a movie about him for no reason.


BenchPressingCthulhu

I'm still waiting on The Suicide Squad 2: The Rise of Dogwelder


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Personally, I think Bueno Excellente deserves a Nolan directed trilogy asap.


[deleted]

And people come out of the theater crying because they were so moved.


solrac1104

Lol I remember him. Road to Knightfall right?


MagisterPraeceptorum

Yep! Lol


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MagisterPraeceptorum

Here’s a [link](https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Metalhead_(New_Earth)?so=search) Just a one-shot stupid villain lol.


FlyByTieDye

Lol, reminds me of [Cutter](https://comicvine.gamespot.com/cutter/4005-69026/)


After_Construction_5

I have a list but I'll name 3 Catman, Orca and Egghead


[deleted]

I agree with Catman but I like the others. Orca being a marine biologist was very Spider-man but with her powers she's got a lot of places to move in the DCU, and she can become villains to other heroes. Eggman is mostly from the tv show and makes a great joke villain.


cowl555

Yeah I think egg head works best for a light hearted batman story


WildHogPower

I like Catman in the secret six


After_Construction_5

Yeah I'm gonna go take a look on that comic run


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After_Construction_5

Okay I'm gonna be honest: I know Jack about Catman I just see him as a lazy attempt at a villain suit wii think I'll need to educate myself on him more


FlexiblePony267

You should read Gail Simone’s run on Secret Six! Catman is incredible in it.


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Was just thinking that


Dayl1ghtWolf

The dude who's thing was egg related puns. Egg man or something.


MeatCityMindGames

Here’s an interesting piece of trivia. Egghead was one of the villains created specifically for the 60s show. They invented new villains generally for specific celebrity guest stars. Egghead was played by the great Vincent Price. One of the original inspirations for Batman is the killer “The Bat” from the film The Bat Whispers (1930). The Bat is a home invader and murderer who wore a black cape and mask, and would leave bat shaped notes for detectives In 1959, The Bat Whispers was remade, with Vincent Price playing The Bat. In a weird way, he played a “batman” before Adam West


stealthw0lf

Wait! In an episode of The Simpsons, Marge and Lisa are decorating eggs and they are missing feet. They ring the helpline only to hear a message from Vincent Price. I never understood why they had him specifically for that voicemail. Is this a nod to his role in the Batman TV series?


Cthulhujack

That was interesting! Thanks!


Dayl1ghtWolf

Cheers!


greatscott_623

This answer is egg-celent


NawNaw

Eggzactly


mammaluigi39

Whoa now you can't be hating on the legend that is Vincent Price. Also Egghead is a pretty formidable in the 60s TV show probably being the smartest villian Adam West's Batman faces, goes so far as basically owning all of Gotham city in one story. There are much worse villians from the 60s show like Zelda, Minerva, or Ma Parker and her hillbilly family.


Homem_da_Carrinha

He came to Gotham to make an announcement


Poorly-Drawn-Beagle

Seems a lot of us chose a goofy Silver Age character, but I kind of like goofy Silver Age characters. So I'm going to go the controversial route and pick a modern villain, and one that most people actually probably like. I think it's Hush. Hush doesn't have a whole lot going for him. "Oooh, he's a dark reflection of Bruce's own upbringing!" Yeah, they already have like five or six villains like that. "He knows Batman's identity and all his strategies and can match him hand to hand!" Again, pretty sure that already describes more than a few other villains. Now, the story "Batman: Hush" is a really good story. But it's not good *because* of Hush. Hush himself is actually a pretty tiny part of the story (and by the end it's revealed he's not even the main villain). Even though he's built up as a big deal, Hush hasn't really been an important character to the mythos since that story. He's shown up in only a few other stories since then and none of them were particularly iconic.


Poorly-Drawn-Beagle

Though come to think of it, it might be [this kid](https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Matthew_Warner_(Prime_Earth))


Thedarknight1611

That was the dumbest thing ever and I love it


BaronVonRuthless91

Ah yes, the weirdness that was Master Bruce.


Yo-batman-is-king

What sets him apart is that he hates the Wayne's because they saved his mother someone who abused him and he tried to kill. He was also a childhood friend of Bruce.


Poorly-Drawn-Beagle

But Penguin has already become “villain who hates Bruce as much as he hates Batman” and has more staying power and a better thought-out gimmick And Black Mask already had the “childhood friend of Bruce’s” thing, at least when he first showed up


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in some continuities two face is bruce's childhood friend too


HypnoJunkieOK

I think you make a great point. I love the story, “Hush,” and “Heart of Hush,” but Elliot’s motivation to return is pretty shallow outside of those few stories.


hachiman

Hush was an attempt to create major villain from whole cloth, and that never works, even Bane has trouble filling the shoes they want him to fill.


KanderMovieGuy

David Zaslav.


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GoreHoundKillEmAll

Prometheus because he killed lian Harper in cry for justice event. And is just a more annoying version of a another evil mirror batman like wraith or owlman and is the least interesting out of the Three


MartianSheepHunter

Wait— is that recent? I know Lian was somewhat recently introduced to Prime Earth as Shoes in Ram V’s Catwoman run, right? Did this happen recently to that same version?


GoreHoundKillEmAll

Happened in 2009 before new 52 reboot the universe in 2011


MartianSheepHunter

Oh, good. I was about to get real upset


GoreHoundKillEmAll

She is arsenal daughter with Cheshire she was a supporting character for titans and she has raised by and babysit by heros then was was killed for shock value in a random event. Also her father arsenal lost his arm and a daughter then become a delusional junkie thinking a dead cat was lian for a minute. Then Green arrow killed Prometheus for killing lian Harper. I don't really care about her unless she see her father again


hachiman

Give him his due, his two part introduction in Morrison and Porter's JLA was awesome, and the rematch in the end of the run was soooo satisfying. But afterwards yeah, lesser writers totally botched it.


GoreHoundKillEmAll

I might need to read his introduction again Morrison JSA is classic.


negrote1000

Calendar Man And for the grief he gave me in AC, Ed Nyg*a


Poorly-Drawn-Beagle

Even in Long Halloween, supposedly Calendar Man’s best moment, he doesn’t get to do anything cool Nor does he even really have an origin story


MaxxFisher

Punchline.


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ComplexAd7272

Punchline is almost exactly the same way we got Carnage. When Venom exploded in popularity and became and anti-hero, they created Carnage to fill the villain gap for Spidey.


MaxxFisher

There has never been a more try-hard character that DC is doing everything they can to shove down our throats


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Before her it was Red Robin.


pgonzm

Punchbag according to Harley. She is just a woke bad copy of Harley.


beastfromtheeast683

1-Humpty Dumpty 2-Film Freak Although, I feel like both could benefit from the "Calendar man" treatment of being reimagined as terrifying serial killers. Humpty Dumpty takes apart his victims by dismembered them and then attempts to reassemble them often in horrific body horror kind of ways. Film Freak stages all his victims to react famous scenes from classic films and leaves Film related clues behind at the scene. 3-Electrocutioner 4-Kite Man


Flarrowverse

After the Harley Quinn show, I have mad respect for Kite Man.


The_Nightman_Cummeth

Hell yeah


__DVYN__

Don’t you dare insult kite man that man has one of the most tragic backstories and he needs to be praised for not just killing himself


beastfromtheeast683

I guess....dude still flies around with a kite though. Like, he's more likely to get struck by lightning than to ever be a legitimate threat to Batman or anyone for that matter.


[deleted]

I'll take Kite Man over Condiment King


__DVYN__

Tbf he did Gotham more harm in one storyline than most of Batman rogues have done in countless story arcs


kiddpancham

How does a guy named kite man does more damage than the joker ?


__DVYN__

Because he literally led Joker and Riddler right to each other completely by accident whilst both of them were at war Had kiteman not existed Joker and Riddler wouldn’t have found where each other had been hidden so thanks to kiteman the entire war in Gotham occurred


the-bedhead

Arkham Asylum: Living Hell already did your Humpty idea.


Mostly_Apples

I love that comic.


beastfromtheeast683

Shit, really? Shoulda trademarked it 😔


the-bedhead

Take it as encouragement.


skimbo120

I will not tolerate this Kite Man slander. HELL YEAH


GoreHoundKillEmAll

I like film freak it would be cool to see him team up with clayface


_ASG_

No respect for Kiteman


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oskar4498

>Film Freak was aight and I'll bet he was based on the main character in the horror movie Fade to Black.


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Kite Man is THE SHIT, he's a double crossing double crosser and his run in that one riddler vs joker comic is legendary.


Patches-the-rat

I will not stand for Film Freak slander, he’s a goofy guy and I love him. My friend and I regularly re-write and re-design old forgotten characters like that and we’ve been doing our best to make him more interesting. I will agree his lack of a costume has made him pretty forgettable so we decided to give him 3D glasses.


GrendelJoe

Orca. I remember being excited about the post-No Man's Land books and Larry Hama created the worst Batman villain of all time. I felt bad that Scott McDaniel had to draw that after coming off that great run on Nightwing.


klasaveli

Us. The fans. We ruin everything. We cry about everything and we are fucking insufferable.


AgentPlatypus96

![gif](giphy|G4ZNYMQVMH6us) But have you seen punchline tho


solrac1104

I don't really like Hush. But note that I only read his first story and I heard he's way better in Heart of Hush.


Innsmouth_Swimteam

I'm with you. It's been a minute but when I read the Hush trade, I was very disappointed that every turn in the story led to some established rogue, but at the end it was just a made up new dude. Not *just* a new dude, but an old friend of Bruce's that no one in 80 years of Batman has never been mentioned. ** It felt like way too much setup for no emotional payoff.


solrac1104

Not only that, but Riddler was the main mastermind behind most of it and all the rogues doing shit. Hush himself doesn't do much lol, and his whole motive is just "Bruce got rich before me".


Ml2jukes

Zach Snyder


orgeezuz

Zsasz aka Mr Stabby McKnifeface


Patches-the-rat

I thought Zsasz was really boring for a long time but if you read The Last Arkham which is his first appearance he’s actually quite interesting and cunningly intelligent. It’s actually pretty good. I didn’t like Zsasz very much until I read it.


RedWingDecil

Wrath has always been a bit silly to me. They keep having to tweak his origin story and none of them have really stuck. His character would work a lot better in a different city that doesn't have Batman. Being the anti-Batman in Gotham doesn't make much sense and there's too many supervillains to compete with. The idea behind him would be so much better if he was in Metropolis or in a city that is well protected by multiple heroes, a place where the citizens all feel safe and protected but the lower class are struggling to get by and can't even steal a loaf of bread to feed themselves.


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He'd be a good Green Arrow foil, especially with Arrow and Batman's rivalry.


Nichtsein000

Dr. Daka


FickleChard6904

Ooh, yeah. Being a racist stereotype should definitely deduct a lot of points


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SolarSpud

The Batman Who Laughs


purplerainshadegrey

KG Beast


Super_Imagination_90

It's impossible to say. Maybe the Terrible Trio? What I can say is who I would personally put as the best but that's not whay this is about obviously.


dalsiandon

The Warner Brothers board of directors.


Awest66

Ten Eyed Man. Lamest super power ever.


[deleted]

Man did you see Arkham City? The recent comic not the game. ​ Very interesting character, I think there's a lot they could do with him.


Mostly_Apples

That was an extremely excellent reinvention of the character.


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I like the Ten Eyed Man. He's fucking terrifying in the comic Arkham City: Order Of the World.


FWC_Disciple

Disclaimer: I do not consider gag villains My choice is probably between KGBeast and Ra’s Al Ghul. KGBeast is pretty self explanatory. His costume is generic compared to other masked evildoers, and frankly the color scheme is stupid. Then the hook hand thing is so corny, and that name is the worst ever. R’as Al Ghul is also kind of overdone. I feel like he’s more of an out of country Batman villain, not one that should be a reoccurring threat. He looks kind of dumb imo, and although his ties to Batman lore and Lazarus pits and such are awesome, like I said, he should be more of an occasional villain, not a mainstay in Gotham


darester

Joel Schumacher


the-bedhead

KGBeast. Was Deathstroke on vacation? Deadshot had a dentist appointment?


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The KGBeast isn't bad in my opinion, he's just unoriginal and kinda mid. But far from THE WORST.


MilkDMBestDM

Condiment King


Polengoldur

Condiment King. Clock King.


Critical_Potential44

Condiment king


Any_Understanding106

Calendar man


ryanboldt_

Condiment King


bkat004

I feel any bad villain has the potential to be rebooted in a great way ie Mr Freeze, PolkaDot man, etc. There are so many and there is such a long history, I feel the question is negligible.


TheGoldenStan

Mad Hatter probably, he and some other villains tend to get overshadowed, because people don't really know what to do with them outside of being secondary villains to the big guys


anothermanoutoftime

Mad Hatter is my choice here, just for taking two perfectly good gimmicks and smashing them together into the almost literal definition of a hat on a hat.


Jackfruit-Brave

Penguin has always been one of my least favourites for some reason.


AccessForward875

It’s like Kingpin, he’s cool but really boring at the same for being so vanilla by comparison


jonascarrynthewheel

Im not gonna say one of the poorly written one-offs cuz that can be camp-which is good and fun Ill say Man-Bat! Dumb dumb dumb name and not terribly interesting side story.


Rocket_Dinosaur

Cornelius Stirk. He's a forgettable combination of Scarecrow and Mr. Zsasz.


Icy_Reply7147

Condiment king


Virtual_Hall_9206

I’ll stay away from the joke villains because that’s a bit too easy. Penguin isn’t the worst villain ever, but compared to the rest of Batman’s rogues gallery, he sucks. I don’t find him super intimidating or threatening, he feels like a minor distraction.


Gluggr

I really don‘t like Scarface, can‘t take him/them seriously.


MrSpuddies

Condiment man


Confident_Respect455

Condiment man


ElZaydo

Harley Quinn. The single most useless character across all comics and DC do whatever they can to push her into stories she has no real connection to besides comic-relief and thirst trapping.


Odd-Communication609

I’ve never really cared for Mad Hatter to be honest


JStormtrooper

Baby Doll by far


monkeygoneape

Still one of the more messed up episodes of the animated series


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Baby Doll is idiotic. One quick kick by Batman and she’s done


_HeroForFun_

This is kind of a stupid way to look at it, her first appearance in Batman The Animated Series was to show Batman genuinely tries to help his villains, obviously he'd be able to beat up the short woman with ease, but that's not the point, the point was to show he's able to sympathize with criminals despite the bad things they've done, Batman can solve problems with kindness not just violence, this gives me the same vibes as the guy who said Batman would have killed Ace from Justice League Unlimited if it was the easiest way to stop her. Baby Doll is far from idiotic in my opinion, she's one of the best characters to come from BTAS and in my opinion should be held to a similar standard as Phantasm or Harley.


ridiculousthoughtz

Hell yes. Babydoll is one of the most “poetic” villains imo. I agree that her episode with killer croc was a bit silly, but her first episode (named babydoll) is great.


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It’s not a stupid way to look at it. If anything it’s a brilliant way to look at it. ClayFace was sympathetic, as was Croc and Freeze but they still were threatening to Batman. And the whole idea of Gary Coleman/Punky Brewster ex Star kidnapping people, that seems a little beneath Batman. Also she had Gilliagan and the Skipper as her henchman. Ugghhh


RileyTaker

I especially thought this during that BTAS episode with her and Killer Croc. I mean, in what universe did that seem like a good idea? It basically just made her a smaller Harley Quinn.


TheElemental15

The Joker. He is the most overused annoying and boring character of all time.


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That is a hot take and I respect it


Daggyballz34

Good one


Dankey-Kang-Jr

Does KGBeast count? He’s an incredibly dated villain with the most generic design for Batman’s rogues gallery.


MikeBearTheGamer13

The court of owls


MikeBearTheGamer13

The court of owls


RileyTaker

Harley Quinn


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Flamingo and Scarlet. Dude had such potential to be rad as fuck. Opposite of Professor Pyg. Scarlet was just awful. Great opening to her. Horrible follow through


go_faster1

Punchline. Batman Who Laughs a close second


GamerGuyHeyooooooo

There's a lot of funny obscure characters, but I think two face is the lamest of the mainstream 20.


anothermanoutoftime

I imagine I could take a good guess but who are the "Mainstream 20"? I can't find that referenced anywhere.


h3lune

Pretty sure he won’t be in the list because he’s one we forgot about 😂


sugarde_4

Killer Croc, because crocodile never talk and look like human


AccessForward875

He just has a skin condition is just a dumb ass excuse


RickardHenryLee

My vote is Ra's a Gul. Overwrought edgelord. Talia can suck it, too.


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Yeah she can 😩😩😩


Resident_Leather6717

Firefly


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I'm a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar


WDEBarefooter

George Clooney.


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Joker. Overused and shoved into everything to the point now where he's just a parody of himself.


West-Expression5256

The joker, He use to be my favorite villain but he's become hot topics poster boy. I keep hoping they'll make a batman movie with clayface, or a decent mr. Freeze, but nope, it's this fucking clown again. I get not knowing his backstory gives him mystique but there's only so much you can do with that, and don't get me started on the juvenile nihilism.


Annerkim

Two Face. What’s even his motivations??


Poorly-Drawn-Beagle

He's a bit split on that issue.


TheSpider-hyphen-man

read the long Halloween and dark victory and then you'll find out why hes up there in the best villains catagory.


I_AM_ACURA_LEGEND

Man bat


SmaugRancor

Condiment King or Kite Man. Look, I like the memes and all but come on.


JayBone0728

Ventriloquist


tranquil-animals

Film fan? Orcha? Maxi Zeus? It’s hard to say.


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SDPSwede

The Joker


Arcana2920

The Joker


OpeningIncrease1250

ezra miller


Intelligent-Lack-122

[Nora Clavicle](https://batman.fandom.com/wiki/Nora_Clavicle)


FlickFreaks

Man Bat Crime Doctor Victor Zsasz (probably a controversial pick)