List of Batman family enemies
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This is a list of fictional characters from DC Comics who are enemies of Batman. Batman has been considered by many in the comic book industry and fanbase to have the most unique and recognizable rogues gallery in all of comics, with many writers of other superheroes attempting to replicate some of the traits that these characters possess in their own villains. The majority of Batman's foes do not possess super powers, being organized crime bosses or insane costumed criminals.
Super-villains and themed criminals
Classic rogues' gallery
In alphabetical order (with issue and date of debut appearance).
| Villain | First appearance | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Anarky | Detective Comics #608 (November 1989) | Anarky (Lonnie Machin), a teenage prodigy, creates improvised gadgets in order to attempt to subvert government - hence his alias. His violent methods set him, Batman, and Robin at odds. |
| Bane | Batman: Vengeance of Bane #1 (January 1993) | Masked villain Bane's immense strength comes from a steroid called Venom. His power and intellect make him one of Batman's most feared adversaries, and he once succeeded in breaking Batman's back. |
| Black Mask | Batman #386 (August 1985) | Black Mask (Roman Sionis) was a former businessman who hated both Bruce Wayne and Batman, wore a black mask (hence his alias), and led a vast organization of henchmen dubbed "the False Face Society" until Catwoman killed him. During Batman: Battle for the Cowl, Dr. Jeremiah Arkham (the former owner of Arkham Asylum) was driven insane and subsequently became the second Black Mask. |
| Blockbuster | Detective Comics #345 (November 1965) | Mark Desmond was a weak-bodied chemist until he experimented on himself and subsequently became a mindless brute who possesses super-strength dubbed "Blockbuster." However, he was eventually killed by a henchman of Darkseid after joining the Suicide Squad. Later, Roland Desmond (the original Blockbuster's older brother) was mutated into the second Blockbuster when he was treated with experimental steroids that gave him super-strength. He became a crime boss in Bludhaven, home of Nightwing. |
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| Calendar Man | Detective Comics #259 (September 1958) | Calendar Man (Julian Day) is known for committing crimes that correspond with holidays and significant dates (hence his alias). He often wears costumes to correlate with the date of the designated crime. His best-known latter day appearance is in the miniseries Batman: The Long Halloween, where he is portrayed as a Hannibal Lecter-like figure, offering insight in Batman's search for Holiday, a vigilante who uses holidays as his modus operandi. Calendar Man knows that Alberto Falcone is the Holiday Killer and keeps this information to himself, as he decides to taunt the heroes with cryptic clues instead. |
| Catman | Detective Comics #311 (January 1963) | Catman (Thomas Blake) was a world-famous trapper of jungle cats who turned to crime because he had grown bored with hunting and squandered most of his fortune. He became a burglar who committed his crimes in a cat-suit made out of an ancient African cloth he believes gives him a "cat's nine lives." |
| Catwoman | Batman #1 (Spring 1940) | Catwoman (Selina Kyle) is an accomplished jewel-thief with a taste for luxury. She is extremely agile and acrobatic. Although traditionally considered a villain, she has been portrayed more as an "anti-hero" in later publications. |
| Clayface | Detective Comics #40 (June 1940) | Actor Basil Karlo went mad when he learned that there would be a remake of one of his films with another actor in the lead role. Adopting the alias of the film's villain, "Clayface," his role, he attacked several of the remake's cast and crew at the points in filming when they were supposed to die before being stopped by Batman and Robin. Later he gained shapeshifting powers and became the Ultimate Clayface. |
| Detective Comics #298 (December 1961) | Treasure-hunter Matt Hagen was transformed into the monstrous Clayface II by a pool of radioactive protoplasm. He now possesses super-strength and can change his claylike body into any form. | |
| Detective Comics #478 (July 1978) | Preston Payne suffered from hyperpituitarism, so he worked at S.T.A.R. Labs to search for a cure. He obtained a sample of the then-living Matt Hagen's blood, isolating an enzyme which he introduced into his own bloodstream. However, his flesh began to melt, so he built an anti-melting exoskeleton to not only preserve himself, but to also prevent him from touching anyone, as he also gained the ability to melt people with a touch (although he soon learned that he needed to spread his melting contagion onto others to survive). He later met and fell in love with Sondra Fuller, and the two had a son named Cassius "Clay" Payne (who later became the fifth Clayface). | |
| Outsiders (vol. 1) #21 (July 1987) | Lady Clay (Sondra Fuller) has superpowers similar to that of the second Clayface. She met and fell in love with the third Clayface, and gave birth to Cassius "Clay" Payne (who later became the fifth Clayface). | |
| The Cluemaster | Detective Comics #351 (May 1966) | The Cluemaster (Arthur Brown) was a game show host until he turned to a life of crime. He is also the father of Stephanie Brown, also known as the Spoiler. The Cluemaster apparently died during the time that he was in the Suicide Squad. |
| Deadshot | Batman #59 (June/July 1950) | Deadshot (Floyd Lawton) is a suicidal assassin. He is considered to be the second greatest assassin in the DC Universe, the first being Deathstroke. |
| Firefly | Detective Comics #184 (June 1952) | Firefly (Garfield Lynns) is an orphan who became a pyromaniac, developing a fireproof suit with a flamethrower to further pursue his "hobby." He was originally known as a cunning criminal who invented numerous weapons that involve light to commit crimes with. |
| Harley Quinn | Batman: The Animated Series "Joker's Favor" (September 11, 1992) | Dr. Harleen Quinzel was the Joker's psychiatrist at Arkham Asylum until she fell in love with him and subsequently reinvented herself as his madcap sidekick, Harley Quinn. She first appeared in Batman: The Animated Series, before appearing in the comics. |
| Professor Hugo Strange | Detective Comics #36 (February 1940) | Professor Hugo Strange is an insane psychologist who uses his mastery of chemistry to create a serum that turns his victims into mindless brutes who obey his every command. It has also been implied that the idea for the Scarecrow's "fear-gas" came from Professor Hugo Strange. He has succeeded in deducing Batman's identity. |
| Hush | Batman #609 (November 2002) | Hush (Dr. Thomas Elliot) targets both Batman and Bruce Wayne (despite the fact that they were friends in childhood). Although his alias originates from a nursery rhyme, Hush lives up to it by using manipulation and guile instead of "noisy signatures." |
| The Joker | Batman #1 (Spring 1940) | The Joker's clownish appearance and big smile hide a devious mind bent on creating as much trouble as possible for his archenemy, Batman. His arsenal of weapons includes razor-cards, acid-spewing flowers, and laughing-gas. He is Batman's greatest enemy as well as the most famous and recurring. |
| KGBeast | Batman #417 (March 1988) | While ruthless assassin KGBeast (Anatoli Knyazev) was on a mission to assassinate Ronald Reagan, Batman caught his left wrist in a loop of the bat-rope, but KGBeast cut off his own hand with an axe in order to escape. He later returns with a cybernetic gun prosthetic attached to his wrist. He was amongst the villains who were executed by the second Tally Man in Batman: Face the Face. |
| Killer Croc | Detective Comics #523 (February 1983) | Killer Croc (Waylon Jones) has a medical condition that warped his body into a massive crocodile-like form. He possesses super-strength and is immune to toxins. |
| Killer Moth | Batman #63 (February 1951) | Cameron Van Cleer was a minor criminal who adopted the alias of Killer Moth, a Batman-like villain-helper. He is also famous for being the first villain defeated by Batgirl. Later he made a deal with the demon Neron, and became a monstrous, insect-like creature. |
| Lock-Up | Batman: The Animated Series "Lock-Up" In comics: Robin (vol. 2) #24 (January 1996) |
Lyle Bolton is a man specializing in incarceration and high tech security systems. He was discharged from the police academy for being too gung-ho, and dismissed from several security jobs (the animated version had worked at Arkham Asylum). He once set up a private prison for costumed villains. |
| The Mad Hatter | Batman #49 (October/November 1948) | The Mad Hatter (Jervis Tetch) was inspired by the lunacy of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to commit crimes. He uses his mind-control technology to bend people to his will, and is never seen without a large and fantastic hat. He desires Batman's cowl, even if it means killing him. |
| Man-Bat | Detective Comics #400 (June 1970) | Dr. Kirk Langstrom invented a serum to give him echolocation (a sonar that bats use to guide them in the dark) to cure his growing deafness. Unfortunately, the serum had an unforeseen side-effect, transforming him into the monstrous Man-Bat. |
| Maxie Zeus | Detective Comics #483 (May 1979) | Maxie Zeus (Maximillian Zeus) was a former history teacher until he became an insane mob-boss with an obsession for Greek mythology. He usually used electricity-based weaponry to emulate the Greek god Zeus and at one point formed the New Olympians consisting of characters based on Greek Mythology characters. Later he was slain as a sacrifice to the god Ares by one of their sons. He popped up alive in later comics. |
| Mr. Freeze | Batman #121 (February 1959) as "Mr. Zero" (designation changed in the 1960s TV series) |
Mr. Freeze (Dr. Victor Fries) is a scientist whose invention of a freeze-gun went terribly wrong when it accidentally caused cryogenic chemicals to spill on himself. He now uses frozen weaponry and must wear a refrigerated ice-suit to survive. In The Animated Series and later in the comics it was revealed this was due to him trying to help his wife, who was frozen due to a terminal illness. |
| Owlman | Justice League of America #29 (August 1964) | Originally, Owlman is an unnamed superintelligent supervillain who was created as an evil counterpart to Batman and is a member of the criminal organization known as the Crime Syndicate of America who originated and operated on the reverse Earth-Three. In the New 52 continuity he was a Talon for the Court Of Owls until he betrayed them. |
| The Penguin | Detective Comics #58 (December 1941) | The Penguin (Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot) is a devious crime-boss who is seldom seen without one of his trick-umbrellas, and performs crimes based on birds. The Penguin uses his nightclub, the Iceberg Lounge, as a front for his criminal activities, which Batman tolerates for the sake of having him as an informant. |
| Poison Ivy | Batman #181 (June 1966) | Poison Ivy (Pamela Lillian Isley), a former student of advanced botanical biochemistry, employs plants of all varieties and their derivatives in her crimes. She has the ability to control all plant life and can create new henchmen with her mutated seeds. She is immune to all plant-based poisons. Her powers also enable her to control the minds of men. |
| Professor Pyg | Batman #666 (July 2007) | Professor Pyg is a deranged gang leader who wears a pig mask and grafts synthetic doll faces onto his victims, whom he uses as henchmen called Dollotrons. He is also the leader of the Circus of the Strange. He also appears as an enemy of Damian Wayne in the future. |
| Prometheus | New Year's Evil:Prometheus Issue 1 | Prometheus is the son of two hippie criminals who committed murder and theft, Prometheus travelled across the USA with them until they were cornered and shot by local law enforcement. His hair turns white because of this experience, and he makes a vow to “annihilate the forces of justice” in revenge for the death of his parents. He has incredible skill and intelligence on various heroes. |
| Ra's al Ghul | Batman #232 (June 1971) | Ra's al Ghul ("demon's head" in Arabic) is a centuries-old eco-terrorist. He knows Batman's secret identity. He utilizes special pits known as Lazarus Pits which enable him to evade death, and live for centuries. He is the founder of the worldwide League of Assassins, though exactly when this occurred is unknown. |
| Red Hood | Detective Comics #168 (February 1951) | Red Hood was a petty criminal until he fell into a vat of chemicals. The toxic brew turned his skin white, his hair green, and his lips bright-red, giving him the appearance of a crazed clown. Adopting the alias of "the Joker," he henceforth started committing crimes that involve jokes and puns. Later a much younger crook stole the costume and impersonated the original, but was soon caught by Batman.[1][2] |
| Batman #635 (December 2004) | Jason Todd, the second Robin, was killed by the Joker, who beat him half to death and left him in an exploding warehouse. Jason Todd was resurrected years later as the second Red Hood (which was ironically the Joker's old alias). Notoriously brutal in his run as Robin, he has proved the fact that he unsurprisingly does not have any problem with brutally punishing criminals whatsoever. | |
| The Riddler | Detective Comics #140 (October 1948) | The Riddler (Edward Nigma) is a criminal mastermind who has a strange compulsion to challenge Batman by leaving clues to his crimes in the form of riddles, puzzles, and word-games. He often carries a question-mark cane around with him. He recently learned Batman's identity, but kept it a secret to prevent Ghul from learning he had used the Lazarus pits without permission. |
| Simon Hurt | Batman #156 (June 1963) | Was originally an unnamed scientist in the story "Robin Dies at Dawn" and was later revived as Doctor Simon Hurt over 40 years later claiming to be Thomas Wayne (Batman's father) and leads the Black Glove and later the Club of Villains. It is later revealed he is an ancestor of Thomas Wayne also named Thomas Wayne who has become immortal due to an encounter with Hyper-Adapter. |
| The Scarecrow | World's Finest Comics #3 (Fall 1941) | The Scarecrow (Professor Jonathan Crane), an insane psychologist/biochemist who lost his job for his methods, specializes in the nature of fear. Dressed symbolically as a scarecrow, he employs special weapons, equipment, and techniques designed to use fear to his advantage in his crimes. His "fear-gas" stimulates the phobias of his victims. Coincidentally, he has a fear of bats. |
| Solomon Grundy | All-American Comics #61 (October 1944) | Cyrus Gold was a Gotham City merchant who was murdered and thrown into Slaughter Swamp, where he was transformed into an undead, superstrong zombie-like creature. Solomon Grundy was initially an enemy of the Golden Age Green Lantern, the large amount of wood in his body giving him protection against the power ring, and the Justice Society, but has both battled and aided various heroes during his multiple resurrections. He has battled Batman on a number of occasions, notably in The Long Halloween and Dark Victory. |
| Tweedledum and Tweedledee | Detective Comics #74 (April 1943) | Tweedledee and Tweedledum (Dumfrey and Deever Tweed) are a pair of cousins whose similar looks often have them mistaken for identical twins. Fat, lazy, and cowardly, the pair prefer to have henchmen do all their dirty work while they retire to a safe haven. The pair often wear costumes modeled on their namesakes from Lewis Carrol's Through the Looking-Glass. They are sometimes depicted as being henchmen of the Joker. |
| Two-Face | Detective Comics #66 (August 1942) | Former district-attorney Two-Face (Harvey Dent) has an obsession with committing crimes themed around duality and opposites. He makes major decisions by flipping a two-headed coin on which one of the faces is scarred. One side of his face was scarred by a gangster in court throwing acid at him. Over the years, he has reformed at various times, with his face being surgically repaired, only to later adopt the alias of Two-Face again. |
| The Ventriloquist | Detective Comics #583 (February 1988) | The Ventriloquist (Arnold Wesker) is a small, mild-mannered ventriloquist. Under his dummy Scarface's psychological influence, the Ventriloquist is a dangerous crime-boss. It has been implied that the Ventriloquist suffers from Multiple Personality Disorder. He was amongst the villains who were executed by the second Tally Man in Batman: Face the Face. However, the Ventriloquist eventually became a villainous Black Lantern foe for the Green Lantern. |
| Detective Comics #827 (March 2007) | The second Ventriloquist (Peyton Riley), called "Sugar" by Scarface, has surfaced in the pages of Detective Comics and has apparently been thought to be deceased (as part of her face is shown to be scarred). She is a more compatible partner than the original Ventriloquist was, since Scarface does not substitute the letter "B" with "G" anymore and is much more compliant with the dummy's brutal strategies. She and Scarface seem to have a relationship similar to that of the Joker and Harley Quinn. She is the former fiancee` of Hush (Dr. Thomas Elliot). | |
| Victor Zsasz | Batman: Shadow of the Bat #1 (June 1992) | Victor Zsasz, known as just Zsasz, is a serial killer. For nearly all of the murders he commits he uses a knife, and after his brutal stabbings, cuts a tally mark on to his own body. He took pleasure in liberating people from a "pointless existence" and was eventually diagnosed as insane by Arkham Asylum. |
Ra's al Ghul's League of Assassins
| Villain | First appearance | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Doctor Darrk | STRANGE ADVENTURES #215 #2 (December 1968) | Has no superhuman abilities. |
| Lady Shiva | Richard Dragon, Kung Fu Fighter #5 (December 1975) | A deadly martial artist and a foe of Batman. |
| Nyssa Raatko | Detective Comics #783 (August 2003) | She is a daughter of Ra's al Ghul. |
| Kirigi | STRANGE ADVENTURES #215 #2 (December 1968) | Top Martial Artist. League of Assassins Trainer. |
| Sensei | STRANGE ADVENTURES #215 #2 (December 1968) | Top Martial Artist. |
Morrison era super villains (2007-2011)
Introduced under writer Grant Morrison, in alphabetical order (with issue and date of first appearance)
| Villain | First appearance | Description |
|---|---|---|
| The Absence | Batman and Robin #18 (January 2011) | A former girlfriend of Bruce Wayne, Una Nemo received a bullet in her head, and survived. Now, she is stalking and killing other of Bruce' former mistress. |
| Big Top | Batman and Robin #2 (September 2009) | Big Top is a morbidly obese bearded lady in a tutu. She is part of the Circus of the Strange. |
| Flamingo | Batman #666 (July 2007) | Flamingo is a psychotic hitman. He was lobotomized by the mob and was recruited by them. Despite his name, as well as his pink uniform and vehicles, he is a sociopathic, mindless, killing machine, nicknamed "the eater of faces", a title he has lived up to. He appears as an enemy of Damian Wayne in the future. He appears in the present in issues #5-6 of the 2009 Batman and Robin series. His appearance is heavily inspired by the cover artwork for the Prince album Purple Rain. |
| The Id | Batman and Robin #26 (August 2011) | French supervillain, he could awake hidden desires in any human being with a mere touch. Sister Crystal turned his head into glass, with his brain always visible. |
| Jackanapes | Batman #666 (July 2007) | Jackanapes is a gorilla in a clown costume that wields a machete and submachine gun. He appears as an enemy of Damian Wayne in the future. |
| Max Roboto | Batman #666 (July 2007) | Max Roberto is a cyborg with a partially cybernetic face. He appears as an enemy of Damian Wayne in the future. |
| Mr. Toad | Batman and Robin #1 (August 2009) | Mr. Toad is a mutated frog man. He is part of the Circus of the Strange. |
| Phosphorus Rex | Batman and Robin #1 (August 2009) | A member of the Circus of the Strange. He is a man with an ability to set himself on fire receiving no harm. |
| Ray Man | Batman and Robin #26 (August 2011) | A French supervillain. Ray Man could create visual illusions out of a hole in his head. While creating mass illusion, Ray Man pretends to be a reality-warping god-like superbeing, Paradox. |
| Siam | Batman and Robin #2 (September 2009) | Siam is a name used by conjoined triplets with a specialized fighting style. They are part of the Circus of the Strange. |
| Sister Crystal | Batman and Robin #26 (August 2011) | A French supervillain. She has an ability to turn everything she touches into glass. |
| Skin Talker | Batman and Robin #26 (August 2011) | A French supervillain. Skin Talker has a unique skin disease that make words appear on his body. He is fully in control of this ability, and the words on his skin have hidden hypnotic effects. |
| The Son of Man | Batman and Robin #26 (August 2011) | A French supervillain and an enemy of Nightrunner. As an infant, Norman S. Rotrig was mutilated by his insane father to be a living masterpiece of art. He broke four dangerous criminals out of Jardin Noir in order to make Paris an abstract art, no matter the casualties. He has his lips and cheeks removed, his face stuck in permanent "smile". Son of Man is considered a French counterpart of the Joker. |
| The Son of Pyg | Batman Inc. #4 (March 2011) | Janosz Valentin is the son of infamous Lazlo Valentin (more known as Professor Pyg). Janozs wears a similar pig mask to his father, but it is heavily damaged and have red eyes. He appears to be masochist and claims he could teach to feel no pain. |
| The Weasel | Batman #666 (July 2007) | The Weasel is a man with all canine teeth. He appears as an enemy of Damian Wayne in the future. |
| White Knight | Batman and Robin #21 (April 2011) | A mysterious being of light who seeks to battle darkness of Gotham City. White Knight targeted the relatives of Arkham Asylum inmates in order to save their souls by dressing them as angels and forcing them to commit suicide. A very resourceful and inventive serial killer, White Knight's ultimate goal is to kill Arkham inmates. |
The New 52 relaunch villains
| Dollmaker | Detective Comics Vol. 2 #2 (October 2011) | The leader of his "Family", Dollmaker is a twisted doctor who specializes in organ transplantation. He is responsible for the creation of twisted abominations made of several different limbs and organs, stitched into one. He is also responsible for cutting Joker's face off. Dollmaker is not to be confused with Toyman's son of the same name. |
| Jack-in-the-Box | Detective Comics Vol. #2 (October 2011) | Member of Dollmaker's family, Jack has mutilated, surgically enhanced body with arms seemingly made of rubber. |
| Bentley | Detective Comics Vol. 2 #2 (October 2011) | Member of Dollmaker's family, Bentley is his master's main muscle. |
| Matilda | Detective Comics Vol. 2 #2 (October 2011) | Member of Dollmaker's family, Matilda dresses as a nurse and has a ceramic mask stitched into her face. She is the closest ally of Dollmaker. |
| Sampson | Detective Comics Vol. 2 #2 (October 2011) | Member of Dollmaker's family, Sampson is small man made to look like a toy monkey. |
| Talon | Batman Vol. #2 (October 2011) | An agent of the Court of Owls, as well as the court itself, was part of a city myth in Gotham City. The Talon, William Cobb, is the main antagonist of the Night of Owls storyline and is sent by the Court of Owls to assassinate Bruce Wayne. |
| Morgan DuCard | Batman and Robin #1 (September 2011) | This powerful assassin has almost telekinetic powers seemingly based on sound waves. Morgan Ducard, son of Henri Ducard, the one detective who once trained Bruce. He seeks to destroy Batman Inc. and believes that killing criminals could save more lives. Nobody tries to ally himself with Damian Wayne. |
| The White Rabbit | Batman: The Dark Knight #1 (September 2011) | This mysterious yet sexy woman is the current mastermind behind the toxin known to obliterate all fear from one's mind. She is seen only in a few panels but has not been caught yet, but due to her involvement with Bane and the Scarecrow, manages to defeat Batman. |
| Jill Hampton | Detective Comics Vol. 2 #6 (April 2012) | She works for The Penguin and is Charlotte Rivers sister. |
| Snakeskin | Detective Comics Vol. 2 #6 (April 2012) | A shapeshifter and Jill Hampton boyfriend. |
| Mister Toxic | Detective Comics Vol. 2 #6 (April 2012) | Is a rookie villain just starting out. To learn the ways of being a criminal, he decided to join an alliance with the Penguin. Cobblepot promised to keep his money safe along with the other rookie criminals, but this is revelead to be a ruse. He as first called Gas Man. |
Foes of lesser renown
In alphabetical order (with issue and date of first appearance)
| Villain | First appearance | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Abattoir | Detective Comics #625 (January 1991) | Arnold Etchison is a serial killer who killed his family members. He is killed by Jean Paul Valley (Azrael) during his tenure as Batman. He appears in four issues: Detective Comics #625 (January 1991), Batman #505 (March 1994), Batman: Shadow of the Bat #27 (May 1994), and Batman #508 (June 1994). He was reanimated to appear in Blackest Night: Batman #1-3 in 2009.[3][4] |
| Actuary | Detective Comics #683 (March 1995) | A mathematical genius who applies formulas to aid the Penguin in committing crimes. |
| Alpha | Batgirl #35 (November 2003) | One of the world's most dangerous assassins and a terrorist-for-hire, Alpha would go on to join the League of Assassins under Lady Shiva. |
| Amba Kadiri | Batman #274 (April 1976) | An Indian thief and leader of the Afro-Asian block of Underworld Olympians, she crossed paths with Batman only to be captured so that her team may go on in the competition. She is an accomplished thief and martial artist whom bears steel-clawed fingertips. |
| Amygdala | Shadow of the Bat #3 (August 1992) | Aaron Helzinger is a powerful behemoth with a childlike temper. He is quick to anger and turns into a murdering monster. He has been stopped by Batman in the past by applying a severe blow to the back of the neck, |
| The Answer | Batman Villains Secret Files #1 (October 1998) | Mike Patten was an engineer in Gotham City that believed a civilization 15,000 years ago was wiped out due to a massive earthquake. During the events of Cataclysm, his wife and daughter perished leading Mike to believe the end of humanity was nigh and became the costumed Answer to prove his theory to society through robbery and murder. |
| Atomic-Man | Detective Comics #280 (June 1960) | Paul Strobe is a scientist who can shoot beams from his eyes that can transmute matter into another and focuses them through the special lenses of his goggles. |
| Axel Alex | Untold Tales of the Batman #1 (June 1994) | Alex Farland was a mechanic who hated his job, and his cheap boss. In order to earn some quick cash for his son, Farland worked for the mob and tried to kill the mayor by cutting his brakes. |
| Bad Samaritan | Outsiders #3 (January 1986) | A highly trained agent of the USSR that became an independent contractor in espionage, terrorism, and assassination working for virtually all major governments. |
| Bag O'Bones | Batman #195 (September 1967) | Radioactivity transforms Ned Creegan into a skeletal-looking "living x-ray photo" who calls himself Bag O'Bones and battles Batman and Robin. Creegan later returns as the Cyclotronic Man fighting Black Lightning and Superman. Still later, he adopts the name One Man Meltdown and battles the Outsiders. After getting the medical treatment he needs, Creegan goes back to prison, content to do his time in jail and then reform. |
| Batzarro | A bizarro version of Batman. | |
| Benedict Asp | Batman #486 (November 1992) | Asp is the brother of Shondra Kinsolving, the trained physiotherapist who meets Bruce Wayne when he is dealing with exhaustion and helps to look after him after he is injured by Bane. He kidnaps her and turns her abilities to evil uses. Asp reveals Shondra's healing powers and, along with his own psychic abilities, uses her to telekinetically kill an entire village. Bruce eventually defeats Benedict, but the events traumatize Shondra. |
| The Baffler | Titus Samuel Czonka is a villain that leaves riddles for Batman to solve similar to Cluemaster and Riddler. | |
| Billy Numerous | Catwoman #78 (April 2008) | Originally a character from the Teen Titans animated series, he has the ability to make copies of himself and takes on Slam Bradley and Catwoman. |
| Bird | Batman Vengeance of Bane #1 (January 1993) | Bird helped Bane establish himself in Gotham. |
| Black Spider | Detective Comics #463 (September 1976) | Black Spider is the name of several DC Comics villains; the first two are both primarily the enemies of Batman. The first Black Spider debuted in 1976, created by Gerry Conway. His real name is Eric Needham. The second is Johnny LaMonica. He is later killed by Crispus Allen during a gang shooting. A third Black Spider appears named Derek Coe and battles the Birds of Prey. Since he survives a large fall, it is implied he may be a metahuman. |
| Black and White Thief | Batman Gotham Knights #12 (February 2001) | A minor villain of Batman |
| The Blue Bat | Batman #127 (October 1959) | In an alternate universe, the Blue Bat was a criminal who wore the Batman costume. |
| The Bouncer | Detective Comics #347 (January 1966) | A metallurgist who discovers "an alloy of rubber, steel, and chrome" called "Elastalloy", which he uses to create a suit that allows him to bounce "tremendous distances or from great heights – yet not be harmed at all!" The Bouncer fights Batman twice, once alone and once as a minion of the Monarch of Menace. |
| Bonaventure Strake | Batman #514 (1995) | A villain that is incarcerated at Blackgate Penitentiary for murder. |
| "Brains" Beldon | Detective Comics #301 (March 1962) | A criminal genius who pulls off a twenty million dollar heist in Gotham City before being defeated by Batman. He is the father of Teen Titans foe The Disruptor. |
| Brand | Batman #137 (February 1961) | A cowboy-themed criminal. |
| Brutale | Nightwing #22 (July 1998) | Guillermo Barrera was a top-level interrogator/torturer for the secret police in the Latin American country Hasaragua, until a revolution forced him to flee. He began a new career as a mercenary/assassin and eventually began working for Blockbuster in Blüdhaven, battling against Nightwing on several occasions. Brutale is an expert with all forms of knives and blades, being able to both fight superbly and inflict horrible pain on his victims. |
| Calculator | Detective Comics #463 (September 1976) | Noah Kuttler is a highly intelligent criminal who fights Batman and the Justice League wearing a costume designed like a pocket calculator. The costume has a large numerical keypad on the front and a flashlight-like device on the headpiece, which can make "hard light" constructs. The device analyzes the powers or tactics of the hero defeating him, and inoculates him from ever being defeated by that hero ever again. In spite of his powerful arsenal, Calculator never makes it big as a costumed villain. Now relying solely on his intellect, he works as a successful information broker, a source of information for supervillains planning heists, charging $1,000 per question. He sees Oracle as his nemesis and opposite number. |
| Captain Stingaree | Detective Comics #460 (June 1976) | Karl Courtney is a criminal who commits crimes using a pirate motif. |
| The Cavalier | Detective Comics #81 (November 1943) | A swordsman who speaks in Shakespearean English and dresses in a French musketeer costume. His real name is Mortimer Drake. |
| Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #32 (June 1992) | A second Cavalier, Hudson Pyle, shows up in the story "Blades." In this version, the Cavalier is a swashbuckling hero who becomes a media darling. | |
| Charlatan | Detective Comics #777 (February 2003) | In the Pre-Crisis comics as seen in Batman #68 (with every comics at that time taking place on Earth-Two), Paul Sloan was an actor who was hired to play Two-Face (after the real one had retired from criminal activity) in a movie. A prop man swapped out the water that was used for the acid with the actual acid after Paul stole his girlfriend. Sloan was disfigured because of that and ended up following in Two-Face's footsteps. Sometime later, Harvey Dent would try to redeem Paul Sloan but failed.
In the Post-Crisis comics, Paul Sloan is a successful actor who is persuaded to impersonate Two-Face by a number of Gotham's villains when Two-Face refused to join their scheme with Two-Face's coin landing with the unscarred side up. Paul ends up encountering Batman briefly in the process. He is then tortured and disfigured by Two-Face and experimented on by Scarecrow. Paul returned years later and attacking the various villains who had recruited him, all in an attempt to get to Batman. He is currently incarcerated at Arkham Asylum. |
| Clock King II | Teen Titans #57 (May 2008) | While the original Clock King was an enemy of Green Arrow, the Temple Fugate version of the character leads the group Terror Titans, which antagonizes Robin and the Teen Titans.[5] The name and appearance of this character are the same as the Clock King in Batman: The Animated Series and Justice League Unlimited. |
| Club of Villains | Batman #679 (November 2007) | A group of villains organized by Simon Hurt to assist the Black Glove in taking down Batman and the Club of Heroes. Its members are Le Bossu, Pierrot Lunaire, King Kraken, Charlie Caligula, Scorpiana, El Sombrero, the Swagman, and eventually the Joker. |
| Colonel Sulphur | Batman #241 (May 1972) | A self-styled warrior with a vast knowledge of psychological terror who fights Batman four times in the comics of the 1970s and 1980s. Sulphur also encounters Superman and Supergirl and puts together an Army of Crime. |
| Composite Superman | World's Finest Comics #142 (June 1964) | An out-of-work scuba-diver, Joseph Meach gained the combined powers of the Legion of Super-Heroes after being struck by the energy discharge of their statues while he slept. He then desired to defeat Superman and Batman. Later the effect wore off with his memory, but his powers were restored by an alien whose father had been imprisoned by Batman and Robin. Joe sacrificed himself to save the superheroes. |
| Condiment King | Batman: The Animated Series "Make 'Em Laugh" (November 5, 1994) | The Condiment King is a D.C. Comics villain who makes use of various condiments, sometimes capable of causing anaphylactic shock. Chronologically, the Condiment King first appeared in Batgirl: Year One, written by Chuck Dixon and Scott Beatty. Much like his animated counterpart, he is a comic relief villain that is easily defeated by Robin and Batgirl. |
| Copperhead | The Brave and the Bold #78 (June 1968) | The villain known as "Copperhead" first appears in Gotham City in a snake-costume. He commits numerous thefts before finally being apprehended by Batman and the first Batgirl. He eventually becomes a hired assassin and would later sell his soul to the demon Neron in exchange for more power, being transformed into a deadly snake/man hybrid. A second Copperhead, Nathan Prince, is a member of the Terror Titans. |
| Corrosive Man | Detective Comics #587 (June 1988) | A convicted murderer, Derek Mitchel escapes from jail seeking vengeance on Mortimer Kadaver, but is involved in an unfortunate accident on the way that turns him into a literally corrosive man, his entire skin burned with chemical fire which can eat through walls and floors or maim human flesh. His encounter with Kadaver leaves the latter with a handprint burned onto his forehead and leaves Mitchell inert, although he surfaces at least twice more. |
| Cornelius Stirk | Detective Comics #592 (November 1988) | An Arkham Asylum inmate who possesses latent psychic abilities, specifically the ability to induce fear and hallucinations in others. A delusional psychotic, Stirk believes that he will die unless he regularly consumes human hearts. |
| Crazy Quilt | Boy Commandos #15 (May/June 1946) | An ex-painter who leads a double life as a master thief, he is blinded by a gunshot wound during a botched robbery. While in prison, he volunteers for an experimental procedure that would restore his vision. There is a side-effect, however: even though he can see, he can only see in blinding, disorienting colors. This drives him insane, and he adopts the identity of Crazy-Quilt. |
| Villains United #2 (August 2005) | Apparently, the new Secret Society of Super Villains, led by Alexander Luthor, Jr., has in its roster a new version of Crazy Quilt; a female with the characteristic costume and vision-helmet of the previous villain. Only glimpsed in the background, she has yet to resurface. | |
| Crime Doctor | Detective Comics #77 (July 1943) | Matthew Thorne, the go-to surgeon for all criminals and a criminal mastermind in his own right, but he would stop his crimes to minister to the sick or injured. He later appears under a new name, Bradford Thorne, in Detective Comics #494 (September 1980). He is an expert in torture. |
| Crimesmith | Batman #443 (January 1990) | Dr. Ryan Smith is a brilliant scientist and media personality. He gives detailed plans for robberies to gangs of crooks with the understanding that they would give him a large percentage of the loot. |
| Crimson Knight | Detective Comics #271 (September 1959) | The Crimson Knight, whose real name is Dick Lyons, is a mysterious, metal-clad crime fighter who appears in Gotham City as an apparent aide to Batman and Robin. The Caped Crusaders suspect the new arrival may have illegal motives. |
| Cryonic Man | Batman and the Outsiders #6 (January 1984) | Philip was a lab assistant for professor Niles Raymond that developed a cryogenic chamber. Fearful of the threat of nuclear war, Raymond froze himself, Philip, and their wives in 1947 in hopes of surviving any oncoming conflict. Decades later, Philip was chosen to be woken up to determine if the world had become a safe place again. However, Philip's wife was inflicted with a debilitating disease and he subjected themselves to the freeze in hopes of waking up in a time with the medical advances to save her life. Becoming Cryonic Man, Philip sought organs to replace those of his wife which were failing bringing him into conflict with Batman and the Outsiders. Cryonic Man would be part of the "Cold Warriors" in Justice League Adventures #12 (December 2002). |
| Cyber Cat | Catwoman (vol. 2) #42 (February 1997) | Christina Chiles, a skilled assassin hired by Talia al Ghul to steal a prized artifact from the Gotham Museum. Talia wants it for her father, Ra's al Ghul, so he can use it to power a superlaser that can destroy an entire city. Catwoman is initially hired, but when Ra's al Ghul sees that she only wants it for herself, he secretly hires Cyber Cat to kill Catwoman and take the artifact. |
| Dagger | Detective Comics #174 (August 1951) | Ned Brann is an elusive, knife-throwing criminal, his true identity concealed by a red hood, who commits his crimes aided by a gang of red-hooded henchmen. He only meets Batman once. |
| Batman #343 (January 1982) | David Rennington is the owner of a blade manufacturing company called Rennington Steel. When facing hard times, Rennington starts masking himself as the Dagger, running an old-fashioned protection racket until being apprehended by Batman. He is later recruited by Ra's al Ghul in Batman #400 (October 1986). | |
| Deacon Blackfire | Batman: The Cult #1 (August 1988) | A religious fanatic who forms an army in the sewers beneath Gotham, largely composed of the homeless. Blackfire begins a violent war on crime, which escalates into him taking over the entire city, isolating it from the rest of the country. He appears in the four-issue miniseries The Cult, at the end of which he is killed by his followers. |
| Doctor Death | Detective Comics #29 (July 1939) | Dr. Karl Hellfern is a typical mad scientist who made a few appearances in the earliest days of Batman and is typically considered Batman's first supervillain. Doctor Death developed lethal chemical gases and threatened wealthy citizens, demanding money and tribute to him in exchange for their safety. He was apparently destroyed in his first appearance when he caused a fire to destroy Batman, but returned next issue. In more recent years, he has been reimagined as a dealer in black market biological weapons. |
| Doctor Double X | Detective Comics #261 (November 1958) | Dr. Simon Ecks discovers that human auras could be enhanced to function outside of the body. When Ecks creates an energy-duplicate of himself, the introverted scientist's unstable mind becomes dominated by the doppelganger Double X. |
| Doctor No-Face | Detective Comics #319 (September 1963) | Bart Magan tried to use a device that would erase a facial scar, but ended up erasing his face. |
| Doctor Phosphorus | Detective Comics #469 (May 1977) | Alexander Sartorius is a mad criminal with radioactive powers. |
| Doctor Tzin-Tzin | Detective Comics #354 (August 1966) | Doctor Tzin-Tzin is a Fu Manchu-inspired Asian-looking (but actually American) crime lord who battles Batman several times and once encounters Jonny Double and Supergirl (Power Girl in current continuity). Tzin-Tzin is seemingly killed on an airship during a battle with Peacemaker. |
| Doctor Zodiac | World's Finest Comics #160 (September 1966) | Theodore B. Carrigan is a carnival mystic who turns to crime, basing his robberies on horoscopes. In his first outing, he is apprehended by Batman, Robin, and Superman. Later, he steals a dozen coins from Atlantis, each bearing a Zodiac symbol, which bestow him with various powers. Once again, Batman and Superman thwart his plans.[6] Still later, he allies himself with Madame Zodiac to obtain a different set of Zodiac coins, but the two of them are defeated by Batman, Superman, and Zatanna.[7] (Doctor Zodiac should not be confused with the Zodiac Master.) |
| Dodge | Robin #160 (March 2007) | Michael Lasky was just a kid who wanted to be a hero. He ran into Robin a few times and tried become Robin's partner, but Robin refused since he just got in the way and told him to go home. One night as Robin was trying to stop some kidnappers, Dodge interfered and his teleportation belt got damaged. Dodge was left in a coma after the battle and Robin took him to a hospital. Robin, feeling responsible for Dodge's condition, visited regularly until one day he disappeared. In the future, Dodge would return, but not as his former self; his skin had been turned to a shimmering red and he was furious with Robin. He had fallen into a life of crime, selling a dangerous drug that turned normal people into meta-human murderers. His criminal enterprise built upon the hope that he would eventually meet Robin again and kill him. During a battle with Robin, Zatara and Rose Wilson his body inexplicably vanished and he is pressumed dead. |
| Doodlebug | Arkham Asylum: Living Hell #1 (July 2003) | Daedalus Boch is an artist who believes he receives visions of inspiration and then compulsively recreates them on whatever canvas they indicate, including people. |
| The Dummy | Batman #134 (September 1960) | Danny the Dummy, a pint-sized ventriloquist in a top hat and suit, has a hit act in which he plays the dummy to a normal sized "ventriloquist," Matt, who is revealed as the real dummy at the end of each show. The fact that people invariably refer to Danny as "the Dummy" infuriates him, and inspires him to use dummies for crime to make dummies out of the law. |
| Egghead | Batman (TV series) "An Egg Grows in Gotham" (October 19, 1966) | Egghead is a fictional character, portrayed by Vincent Price, created for the 1960s Batman television series. He believes himself to be "the world's smartest criminal," and his crimes usually have an egg-motif to them as well as including egg puns in his speech where appropriate (e.g., "egg-zactly", "egg-cellent", etc.). |
| Eivol Ekdal | Detective Comics #346 (December 1965) | Eivol Ekdal is a bald, slightly hunchbacked criminal scientist who is described as a "master craftsman, builder of escape gadgets and tantalizing traps for the criminal underground of America." He encounters Batman twice, in Detective Comics #346 (December 1965) and #361 (March 1967), before meeting his death at the hands of a couple of his criminal "customers". He was portrayed by Jack Kruschen in the 1960s Batman television series. |
| Electrocutioner | Batman #331 (January 1981) | A vigilante who kills criminals with electricity. He is later killed by Adrian Chase. Two successors later appear, one a hit man for the mob and the other, Lester Buchinsky, the younger brother of the original. |
| Elemental Man | Detective Comics #294 (August 1961) | John Dolan was exposed to a leak from an experiment the professor he assisted was working on, leaving him randomly turning into different elements. Designing a belt to control these transformations, he took to a life of crime as the Elemental Man before Batman was able to restore him. Strike Force Kobra had a member fashioned after Dolan named Elemental Woman. |
| Eraser | Batman #188 (December 1966) | Leonard Fiasco is a professional at covering the tracks of other crimes. For a 20 percent cut, the Eraser will "erase" the evidence of another crime. |
| Facade | Detective Comics #821 (July 2006) | Erik Hanson is a former employee at a trendy Gotham City nightclub for the city's popular socialites. He organizes a gang to replace them as a ploy to enter Gotham's elite. |
| False-Face | Batman #113 (February 1958) | A criminal make-up artist and master of disguise who uses his skill to impersonate wealthy people. In reality, he is white-haired and toothless. In the comics, Batman encountered him just once, but False Face later became a villain in the 1960s TV series (False Face should not be confused with Clayface, and has no ties to Black Mask's False Face Society). |
| The Fearsome Foot-Fighters | Detective Comics #372 (February 1968) | Experts in a French form of kickboxing, these acrobatic martial artists hail from the fictional Balkan country of Karonia. |
| Film Freak | Batman #395 (May 1986) | Burt Weston is a wannabe actor who dreams of getting a big break by playing quirky villains. When each of his plans fails, he fakes his death similar to the movie The Sting. He is later killed by Bane. |
| Catwoman (vol. 2) #54 (June 2006) | A second Film Freak that answers to the surname of "Edison" has recently surfaced as an antagonist to Catwoman. | |
| Firebug | Batman #318 (December 1979) | An African American former soldier and demolitions expert, Joseph Rigger returned to find his family dead due to substandard housing in three separate buildings: his baby sister died from nibbling at peeling paint, his father from a fall through rotted flooring, and his mother while trapped in a malfunctioning elevator. As the Firebug, Rigger insanely sought revenge, not on landlords or manufacturers, but on the buildings themselves, destroying them regardless of how many innocents died. With all three destroyed, he later turned to more straightforward crime. His weapons of choice are explosive bombs. After two apparent deaths, he is still alive. |
| Gotham Central #3 (March 2003) | A new Firebug debuts in Gotham Central #3. At first, his identity is a mystery, and he is wanted in the murder of a teenage girl who was killed after a baby-sitting job. Eventually, the Gotham police deduce that the culprit is Harlan Combs, the father of the child she was sitting. Combs had purchased the Firebug costume and armor from Rigger. He is injured fleeing the police and quickly arrested. | |
| Deadshot: Urban Renewal #1 (February 2005) | An unnamed character using the name Firebug debuts shortly thereafter. He had won the name and costume from an internet auction. After taking on the Firebug name, he enters the costume business. He later appears in a flashback revealing that he teams up with Mr. Freeze, but is defeated by the team of Batman and Harvey Dent prior to the "One Year Later" storyline. | |
| Frederick Rhino | Detective Comics #583 (February 1988) | Frederick Rhino is the enormous, towering, muscular, but not very intelligent henchman of the original Ventriloquist. He starts out as a bouncer at the Ventriloquist Club on Gotham’s Electric Street. |
| Fright | Batman #627 (early July 2004) | Linda Friitawa is an albino geneticist who was stripped of her medical license for her unauthorized, gruesome experiments on human beings. She assisted the Scarecrow with his experiments; however, oblivious to Scarecrow, she was secretly hired by the Penguin to corrupt Scarecrow's toxins and infect Scarecrow with them, causing him to transform into a creature dubbed "the Scarebeast". In contrast to her deeds and the Penguin, Friitawa always treated Scarecrow with kindness. |
| Gearhead | Detective Comics #712 (August 1997) | Nathan Finch had lost his arms and legs when frostbite affected him after a fight with Batman. An unnamed underworld doctor replaces them with cybernetic limbs. |
| The General | Detective Comics #654 (December 1992) | Ulysses Hadrian Armstrong, a psychotic child with the mind of a military genius, dresses himself and his henchmen in historical attire as they act out crimes based on military history. |
| Gentleman Ghost | Flash Comics #88 (October 1947) | Primarily a Hawkman foe, the specter once named James Craddock also battles Batman several times, in Batman #310 (April 1979) and #319 (January 1980), and Detective Comics #326 (April 1964). |
| Getaway Genius | Batman #170 (March 1965) | The Getaway Genius (Roy Reynolds) is a criminal and getaway mastermind who encounters Batman several times in stories from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. |
| The Globe | Detective Comics #840 (March 2008) | Hammond Carter is obsessed with maps and "plots crimes by latitude, longitude, time zones, and the shape of landmasses."[8] |
| Gorilla Boss | Batman #75 (February/March 1953) | Mobster George "Boss" Dyke is executed in the gas chamber, but has his brain transplanted into the body of a huge gorilla. The Gorilla Boss of Gotham fights Batman twice. Later, the alien villain Sinestro steals the Boss' cerebellum, expands it to planet-size, and uses it as a power source. This unnatural abomination is destroyed by Superman.[9] Later, however, the Boss is returned to his gorilla body and is used as a pawn by Gorilla Grodd.[10] |
| The Great White Shark | Arkham Asylum: Living Hell #1 (July 2003) | Formerly crooked investor Warren "The Great White Shark" White, who avoids prison time by pleading insanity and is sentenced to Arkham Asylum. There, among other indignities and torture, White is assaulted and locked in a refrigeration unit by Jane Doe, who is attempting to take over his identity. His injuries, compiled with excessive frostbite, leaves White deformed. His skin turns a pale white, and the frostbite claims his nose, ears, lips, hair, and several of his fingers, leaving him very much resembling a great white shark and driven partially insane. He now uses his business connections to serve as a liaison and fence for many of his fellow inmates. |
| Gorilla Gang | A group of criminals who dress up in gorilla suits and commit crimes. Batman recently did a virtual reality test in which he imagined himself going to a different planet and Robin being killed. He starts confusing reality with the dream, enabling the Gorilla Gang to escape him, before finally he decides to stay out of crime-fighting briefly to stop more trouble. Robin visits a Doctor to ask about Batman's mind. But while eaving, he is captured by the Gorilla Gang, who send a note saying Robin die's at dawn, prompting Bruce to become Batman to stop Robin really dying. Robin is tied up and gagged and placed in a giant bubble attached to the ground with ropes, when it is cut he will float into space. Batman finds the Gang and battles them, but an axe is thrown from one of them and cuts the bubble loose. Batman comes into contact with the ropes, but overcomes it reminding him of the dream (at one point he met a plant with tendrils that tried to grab him), stops the bubble floating upwards, saves Robin, and defeats the Gorilla Gang, who are probably jailed. | |
| Gunhawk | Detective Comics #674 (May 1994) | Liam Hawkleigh is a highly paid mercenary who has encountered Batman and Robin several times. He had a female companion named Gunbunny, later Pistolera, who is a member of the Ravens. After the death of Pistolera, Gunhawk gets himself a new female partner, the second Gunbunny.[11] |
| Gustav DeCobra | Detective Comics #455 (January 1976) | Gustav DeCobra is a vampire, very much in the classic Dracula mold, whom Bruce Wayne and Alfred stumble upon in a seemingly abandoned house after their car overheats in the countryside. The artwork depicting Gustav DeCobra appears very reminiscent of actor Christopher Lee, who is famous for having played Dracula in a number of films during the 1960s and 1970s. |
| Harpy | Batman #481 (July 1992) | Iris was Maxie Zeus's girlfriend when he was in Arkham Asylum. She fought Batman after gaining super-strength and agility, but was bested by him. |
| Headhunter | Batman #487 (December 1992) | Headhunter is an assassin who attempts to kill James Gordon in Batman #487, but is thwarted by Batman. Headhunter is accustomed to eliminating his targets by shooting them twice in the head. |
| Humpty Dumpty | Arkham Asylum: Living Hell #2 (August 2003) | Humphrey Dumpler, a large, portly, well-mannered man, is obsessed with putting broken things back together again, even if he has to take them apart. Thinking she is broken, Dumpler dismembers and reassembles his abusive grandmother in an attempt to fix her.[12] |
| Jane Doe | Arkham Asylum: Living Hell #1 (July 2003) | Jane Doe is a cipher who obsessively learns her victims' personality and mannerisms, then kills them and assumes their identity by wearing their skin, eventually becoming that individual even in her own mind. |
| Jackie Glee | Untold Tales of Batman #3 (August 1994) | Jackie Glee was a man working for Sal Maroni, but failed him for not killing a police officer named James McDouget. He told Maroni that he could kill Batman, but killed a reporter, Brian Townsend, instead, believing he was the Batman. His failure cost him his life. |
| Johnny Stitches | Gotham Underground #3 (February 2008) | Johnny Denetto was the right-hand man of Tobias Whale. After Whale moved his operations from Metropolis to Gotham, Denetto ran afoul of his boss and had his skin peeled off while being kept alive. Denetto was saved by Bruno Mannheim, his skin sown together and reattached by Desaad, becoming Mannheim's contractor in Intergang's bid to take over organized crime in Gotham. |
| Johnny Warlock | Robin (vol. 2) #121 (February 2004) | A cruel enforcer working for mob boss Henry Aquista in Gotham City, Johnny Warren is fused with a demonic artifact, gaining tremendous power, but also losing a certain amount of will. He encounters Robin and Spoiler in his attempt to take over Aquista's operation, but burns his energy out. He then heads to Istanbul, determined in time to return to Gotham and get his revenge on the Boy Wonder. |
| Johnny Witts | Detective Comics #344 (October 1965) | Johnny Witts is the self-proclaimed "Crime-Boss Who's Always One Step Ahead of Batman!" (He self-proclaims this a lot.) Johnny Witts employs quick-thinking and quick-reflexes to outwit Batman. He has countered Batman in disguise as "The Swami." He also encounters the Super Friends in a 1979 story. |
| Junkyard Dog | Arkham Asylum: Living Hell #1 (July 2003) | Tucker Long is completely obsessed with scavenging prizes and treasures from garbage. He apparently has the ability to create all manner of functional items — especially weapons — from junk. He is killed by fellow Arkham inmate Doodlebug. |
| The Key | All Star Comics #57 (February 1951) | The Key was the head of a major crime syndicate and used various agents around the world in his misdeeds. He presumably perished after he leaped out of a cable car moving over a gorge. |
| Justice League of America #41 (December 1965) | The Key was originally a chemist with Intergang. He develops mind-expanding "psycho-chemicals" that help activate his senses and allow him to plan crimes mere humans can never hope to understand. Being an enemy of the Justice League as a whole, Batman is his primary enemy. In one of his most famous encounters with the Dark Knight he tries to provoke Batman into murdering him so he could escape life itself, but the plan proves unsuccessful. | |
| King Cobra | Batman #139 (April 1961) | A crime lord that is dressed like a cobra. |
| King Snake | Robin #4 (February 1991) | Sir Edmund Dorrance is a martial artist who becomes a mercenary, offering his professional expertise to various anti-communist rebels, and apparently made a great deal of money in doing so. While in Santa Prisca working with local rebels, his camp is taken by surprise by government commandos and he is blinded by gunfire. He flees to Hong Kong and becomes a businessman and the leader of the feared Ghost Dragons. He eventually gravitates to Gotham where he seizes control of the Chinatown district from the Triad gangs. This does not last long, however, and he loses control of the gang, sending him to join the terrorist cult Kobra. It is later revealed that he is the biological father of Bane. Bane tracks his father down, where Snake tries to have his son help him in taking over Kobra. The struggle results in Snake's apparent death. |
| King Tut | Batman (TV series) "The Curse of Tut" (April 13, 1966) | Professor William Omaha McElroy is the name of a Batman villain in the 1960s Batman television series. His criminal theme is based around Ancient Egypt the same way that Ancient Greece is the theme for Maxie Zeus.
He did not appear in a comic book until Batman Confidential #26 (February 2009) with the name of Victor Goodman. He leaves behind clues at the scene of his crimes in similar fashion to the Riddler. In his first comic appearance, this ironically leads to him fighting not only Batman, but also the Riddler, who does not appreciate his modus operandi being stolen. The morbidly obese character from the television show is in stark contrast to the physically fit representation in the comic books. |
| Kite Man | Batman #133 (August 1960) | Charles "Chuck" Brown commits crimes by arming himself with kite weapons and hang-gliding on a large kite. He is among the villains who was killed by Bruno Mannheim in 52 #25 (October 25, 2006). |
| Lady Vic | Nightwing #4 (January 1997) | Lady Elaine Marsh-Morton is a woman hailing from a rich British family. She becomes a hired assassin in order to prevent foreclosure on her family estate. |
| Lark | Batman #448 (June 1990) | Lark is the Penguin's personal chauffeur and bodyguard. She was noted as having remarkable strength by Batman, and managed to keep Penguin alive when Black Mask was after him. |
| Lazara | Batman: The Animated Series "Heart of Ice" | Nora Fries, Mr. Freeze's wife, is resurrected by a Lazarus Pit by Nyssa Raatko and now possesses the ability to manipulate flame and reanimate the dead. |
| Lord Death Man | Batman #180 (May 1966) | Is a Japanese criminal that wears a skeleton outfit. Originally he could put himself into a yoga trance to trick people into thinking he's dead but when the character was revived he received "upgrades". Was a one issue villain but was adapted into the Batman manga and many years later appears in Superman/Batman #68 and Batman Inc.. (sometimes he is also called Death-Man) |
| Lunkhead | Arkham Asylum: Living Hell #1 (July 2003) | Lunkhead is a large, imposing, somewhat deformed bruiser of a man. He is killed by demons tricked by the Ventriloquist as revenge for destroying his Scarface puppet. |
| Lynx | Robin #1 (January 1991) | Ling is a beautiful martial artist and a member of the Parisian branch of the Ghost Dragons, a Chinese youth gang that serves King Snake. For failing to kill Tim Drake, King Snake takes out her left eye. Eventually, she takes control of the Ghost Dragons and attempts to expand their Gotham territory. She is later killed during an encounter with Batgirl. |
| Mabuse | Batman: Gotham Knights #3 (May 2000) | Mabuse is a common street criminal, a "geek" in a suit of armor made from a trashcan, who faces a young Batman early in the Dark Knight's career. He is responsible for breaking Batman's nose in a fight. The story is told in "Broken Nose", written and illustrated by Paul Pope, as part of the Batman Black and White series; its canonicity is uncertain. |
| Madame Zodiac | Batman Family #17 (April/May 1978) | Madame Zodiac first appears committing horoscope-themed crimes in Gotham City, but is defeated by Batgirl, Batwoman, and the Earth-Two Huntress. Later, she allies herself with Doctor Zodiac to obtain a set of Zodiac coins, but the two of them are defeated by Batman, Superman, and Zatanna.[7] Recently, she reappeared helping the Riddler in solving a mystery.[13] |
| Magpie | Batman #401 (November 1986) | Margaret Pye is a jewel thief who targets only jewels named after birds and then replaces the jewels with booby-trapped replicas. She is named for the Magpie, who in folklore is attracted to bright, shiny things. She is among the villains who was killed by the second Tally Man. |
| Metalhead | Batman #486 (November 1992) | During his search for Black Mask, an exhausted Batman comes across a series of waterfront taverns filled with mauled, bloody inhabitants. After interrogating one of many severely injured victims, he finds the whereabouts of the so-called "Metalhead" at the local cemetery in the Sionis Family Crypt, resting place of Black Mask's family. |
| Mime | Batman #412 (October 1987) | Camilla Ortin is a girl who commits crimes dressed as a mime. She seldom speaks, which leads people to think she is mute. |
| Mirage | Detective Comics #511 (February 1982) | "Mike" (alias Kerry Austin) is a common man who takes a course at the Academy of Crime and starts using illusions as a gimmicked villain. He fights Batman twice and Manhunter Mark Shaw once. He is killed in 52 #25 (October 25, 2006) by Bruno Mannheim, who bashes Mirage's head into the "Crime Bible"; then sends his body to the kitchen. |
| Mirror Man | Detective Comics #213 (November 1954) | Floyd Ventris is a criminal scientist who uses mirrors in his crimes, in a fashion similar to Mirror Master. In both his meetings with Batman, Ventris tries to expose Batman's secret identity. Years later, Mirror Man returns briefly in the pages of H.E.R.O. #7-9 (October – December 2003). |
| Mister Esper | Detective Comics #352 (June 1966) | Mister Esper (or ESPer), later known as Brainwash and Captain Calamity, is a red-haired mentalist and plainclothes criminal who uses his mental abilities against Batman at least three times. He resurfaces as a costumed villain called Captain Calamity who battles the Teen Titans. |
| Mr. Camera | Batman #81 (February 1954) | A camera-headed villain that uses cameras in his crimes. |
| Mr. ZZZ | Detective Comics #824 (June 2008) | A Gotham City gangster. Appears to be half-asleep all the time. |
| Mr. Polka-Dot | Detective Comics #300 (February 1962) | Abner Krill is a minor Batman comic book villain from the Silver Age of Comic Books. As Mr. Polka-Dot (sometimes called the Polka-Dot Man), he turns the polka dots covering his costume into a variety of weapons. |
| The Mole | World's Finest Comics #80 (January/February 1956) | A minor criminal named Harrah, nicknamed "the Mole", tries to tunnel into the Gotham City Bank, but is stopped by Batman and Superman. Years later, during a tunnel prison break, Harrah almost drowns in a wave of toxic sewage that mutates him into a mole-like creature. During a second clash with Batman, the Mole is knocked into a flooded cavern of the Batcave and washed away, his ultimate fate still unknown.[14] |
| Monarch of Menace | Detective Comics #350 (April 1966) | In the earliest days of Batman’s career, the Monarch of Menace represented the Dark Knight’s only failure, being the first criminal ever to defeat Batman and leave Gotham with a fortune in stolen goods. Years later, however, the Monarch's teenage son tries to prove himself using his father's outfit in a crime spree. The young Monarch is defeated by Robin, while his father is lured out of hiding by Batman, who then finally defeats his old nemesis. The original Monarch later returns in Batman #336 (June 1981), but is once again defeated by Batman. |
| The Monk | Detective Comics #31 (September 1939) | The Monk is one of the earliest Batman villains. He wore a red cassock, with a hood that bore a skull and crossbones on it. The Monk turned out to be a vampire, who has hypnotic powers and the ability to turn into a wolf, and was killed after being shot with a silver bullet along with his vampiric assistant Dala. His battle with Batman was the first multi-part Batman adventures. The Monk's hood has been in a glass display case in the Batcave ever since, in all subsequent official continuities. |
| The Mortician | Batman: Gotham Knights #28 (June 2002) | The Mortician was trying some reanimation techniques to raise his dead parents, but when one of his zombies killed someone, he felt remorse and gave up his plans. |
| NKVDemon | Batman #445 (March 1990) | Gregor Dosynski is the protégé of KGBeast who tries to kill a list of ten Soviet government officials in Moscow, considering them traitors to the cause of communism. He is killed by police gunfire in an attempt to assassinate the tenth person on his list, then-president Mikhail Gorbachev. |
| Aquaman (vol. 4) #8 (July 1992) | An assassin named Nicodemus (not to be confused with Thomas Hart who is also known as Nicodemus) takes up the mantle and costume of the original NKVDemon, and is hired to kill Aquaman. He is defeated by Aquaman and Batman, and eventually killed while in jail. | |
| Robin (vol. 2) #47 (November 1997) | The third NKVDemon initially works for Ulysses "The General" Hadrian. More recently, he served as the bodyguard to the head of the Gotham Odessa family, and was killed in the shootout that incited the Gotham gang war. | |
| Narcosis | Batman: Shadow of the Bat #50 (May 1996) | Real name unknown, he uses dream-inducing gasses to rob his victims of their sense of reality. His mother was a lush and his father was a thief. They were both sent away and he was neglectfully passed around the city. At the age of five his face was horrifically burned in a kitchen accident and, coupled with his family being split up, he began having chronic nightmares. He hates Gotham for being neglectful and wishes to plunge the city into an ever-lasting nightmare. |
| Nicodemus | Batman #601 (May 2002) | Thomas Hart is a masked figure in Gotham City who kidnaps corrupt city officials and burns them to death. He, just like the Batman, had lost his parents to a Gotham crime at an early age. |
| Nite-Wing | Nightwing #8 (May 1997) | Tad Ryerstad is a sociopathic petty criminal. The similarities between his name and Nightwing's has gotten him in trouble in the past, and nearly leads to him being murdered on two different occasions. |
| Nocturna | Detective Comics #529 (August 1983) | Natalia Knight is a thief and manipulator. Her Adopted half-brother and lover is the Nightslayer, Anton Knight, who first appears in the same issue. |
| Ogre and Ape | Batman #535 (October 1996) | Ogre (Michael Adams) is a genetically altered man, whose brother is a genetically experimented ape. The Ogre has increased strength and the Ape has increased intelligence. Ogre tracks and murders the scientists who had collaborated with the experiment, only to be tracked by Batman himself. In the end, the Ape dies and Ogre wanders aimlessly through Gotham City. |
| Onomatopoeia | Green Arrow #12 (March 2002) | Onomatopoeia is a serial killer who targets non-powered, vigilante superheroes. He earned his name because he imitates noises around him, such as dripping taps, gunshots, etc. No personal characteristics are known about Onomatopoeia, including his real name or facial features. Onomatopoeia is a superb athlete, martial artist, and weapons expert. He carries two semi-automatic handguns, a sniper rifle, and an army knife. |
| Orca | Batman #579 (July 2000) | Grace Balin is a marine biologist who transforms herself into a monstrous orca, first attempting to steal a valuable necklace. She is among the villains who was killed by the second Tally Man. |
| The Outsider | First speaks a message, unseen, to Batman in Detective Comics #334 (December 1964); appears in Detective Comics #356 (October 1966) | In Detective Comics #328 (June 1964), Bruce Wayne's butler, Alfred Pennyworth, is seemingly killed saving the Dynamic Duo from a falling boulder. (It is subsequent to this event that the character of Dick Grayson's aunt, Harriet Cooper, is first introduced to look after Bruce and Dick at home in Alfred's stead.) It is later learned that Alfred was revived by a scientist named Brandon Crawford, which results in a dramatic change: Alfred awakes from his apparent death with pasty white skin with circular markings, superhuman powers (including telekinesis), and a desire to destroy Batman and Robin. Calling himself the Outsider, he indirectly and directly battles the Dynamic Duo on a number of occasions before being cured (This turn of events is possibly not part of the current continuity). |
| Panara | Catwoman #37 (September 1996) | Ms. Dorsey is a young woman that is diagnosed with an incurable disease. She seeks the aid of a geneticist who specializes in radical cures for illnesses. He traps Catwoman, believing her to be a werecat and thinking her to have special DNA, to use in Ms. Dorsey's cure, but finds that she was a "mere human." |
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| Penny Plunderer | World's Finest Comics #30 (September/October 1947) | Joe Coyne, a thief obsessed with penny-oriented crimes, starts his career selling newspapers for pennies. He is later caught stealing pennies and gets the electric chair. The giant penny on display in the Batcave, which has been a longtime staple of Batman's lair, was originally one of the Penny Plunderer's devices. |
| Pix | Batman: Gotham Knights #34 (December 2002) | Ariadne Pixnit is an avant-garde tattoo artist who used "nanite-ink" — a nanobot-filled color matrix that she could program to form itself into designs on her subjects. After being beaten and raped by a street gang, Pixnit works undercover at her attackers' favorite tattoo shop, designing lethal tattoos (swords, scorpions, etc.) that she brings to "life" via computer in order to dispatch the gang members one by one. She later injects a large amount of the nanite-ink into her skull, giving her the ability to create creatures and weapons on her skin that she could animate and send against Batman. |
| Planet Master | Detective Comics #296 (October 1961) | Professor Norbert starts a crime wave using gimmicks based on the nine planets after inhaling a strange gas which turns him into a "Jekyll and Hyde"-like character. After the gas' effect wears off, it is revealed that Norbert's assistant, Burke, is the one who has manipulated him into committing crimes. A Planet Master (who may or may not be the same as the original) later appears as a member of Kobra's Strikeforce Kobra, and still later as part of The Society during the Infinite Crisis. |
| Professor Carl Kruger | Detective Comics #33 | A man recently released from an asylum with a Napoleon Complex who invents a destructor ray, which is released from a dirigible, killing thousands, and causing people to think this is an alien attack. He assembles an army of men who he calls the Red Horde, with which he plans world domination. Batman investigates Kruger, but a glass wall stops his batarang. He is knocked out from behind by a gun blow from someone hiding behind the Napoleon portrait. Batman is tied up, and left in the house with a bomb set to go of in five minutes, as the leader hopes to fake his death using Batman's death, as a burnt body will be found in the house. But Batman frees himself using a knife in his boot and escapes. He fakes his death by dressing a crook in his uniform before the destruction ray is used on him, and finally he defeats the Red Army by coating the Bat-Plane with a formula that makes it immune to the rays, and Kruger is killed. |
| Professor Milo | Detective Comics #247 (September 1957) | Professor/Doctor Achilles Milo is a scientist who uses chemicals to battle Batman. |
| Professor Radium | Batman #8 (December 1941 / January 1942) | Professor Henry Ross is a scientist who is accidentally transformed into "a human radium ray." In need of an expensive antidote, Ross uses his newfound powers to commit crimes in Gotham; anxious not to hurt anyone, but accidentally killing his girlfriend Mary Lamont. Going insane, Professor Radium finds himself battling Batman and Robin. He seems to drown in his first appearance, but returns in recent times and is revealed to have joined a subgroup of the villainous Society known as the Nuclear Legion. |
| Proteus | Beware the Creeper #2 (July 1968) | Offalian immigrant Remington Percival Cord escapes an environment of fear and violence of his home country to America but finds the same brutality he escaped. Becoming a shape-shifting figure in the Gotham underworld, Proteus emerges as the nemesis of the Creeper. |
| Puppet Master | Batman vol 1 #3 | Not to be confused with Marvel Comics Puppet Master. A criminal who uses his thought waves and puppets to control people after an injection from a chemical weakens their will. He uses his controlled people to commit robberies and even takes over Batman's mind after one of his thugs stratches Batman with the needle, but help from Robin enables Batman to break free and defeat him. |
| Rainbow Beast | Batman #134 (September 1960) | After helping the president of a small South American republic against a dictatorial rebel, Batman and Robin are confronted with another menace — a Rainbow Beast. Spawned from a fiery volcano, the Rainbow Beast radiates four separate power-auras from different areas of its body. However, after using a power, the section of the Beast's body used becomes white, and it must leach color to regain its power. Batman and Robin trick the Rainbow Beast into expending all of its auras, leaving it entirely colorless. They ram it with a log and the Beast shatters into fragments. |
| Ratcatcher | Detective Comics #585 (April 1988) | Otis Flannegan is a one-time actual rat catcher who turns to a life of crime. He has the ability to communicate with and train rats, and uses them to plague Gotham many times. Shortly after the Infinite Crisis began, Ratcatcher is killed by an OMAC agent in hiding who identifies the Ratcatcher as a gamma level threat and vaporizes him. |
| The Raven | Detective Comics #287 (January 1961) | Joe Parker was given the identity Raven as a pawn for aliens Kzan and Jhorl that seek a meteorite. |
| Batman Family #18 (July 1978) | Dave Corby is an agent for MAZE that battled Robin and Batgirl on occasion. | |
| The Reaper | Detective Comics #575 (June 1987) | Judson Caspian is a socialite by day and an ultra-violent vigilante by night. After losing his wife to a robbery, he becomes the Reaper. He prowls Gotham during the 1950s before returning in Batman: Year Two to do battle with the Dark Knight. The Reaper has been essentially written out of the Batman mythos, seeing as the only storyline and one-shot follow up that he appeared in have been declared outside of the canon due to rewrites involving Joe Chill. |
| Rob Callender | World's Finest #11 (1943) | A laboratory assistant from the Future who is accidentally drawn to 1943 by a Time Warp in an experiment. Seeing Batman and Robin fighting some crooks, he steals the clothes of one who is knocked out. Using his knowledge of Future events, who tries to steal objects worth very little in 1943, but worth a fortune in his time, knowing he will soon be drawn back. He creates a device that sends a darkness ray, which special goggles are needed to see in. Rob steals $10,000 from a bank using the ray, saying if he accidentally takes more he will send it back, then assembles a gang of criminals to commit the robberies. Batman realises how to see through the darkness ray, but he is tripped up by a criminal, who wants to shoot him. But Callender does not want them killed and uses a paralysing ray on the two. Batman and Robin are then bound and gagged. Callender places the Dynamic Duo in a pit at the waterfront, not realising the tide will soon come into the hole, which Batman cannot tell him due to his gag. Batman, however, is able to free himself using the sharp shells on the wall. He and Robin escape, but find a coin from 2043, however it is well-worn, meaning it is not certain which time Rob is from. The two stop Rob's last robbery of a painting by a warehouse guard who was about to throw it out anyway, and he is then drawn back to his era. Batman and Robin, discovering the stolen items are not wanted back, place them in the Batcave. In the future, Rob Callender sees them in the Batman museum, and remarks that he could not change the past. |
| Savage Skull | Batman #360 (June 1983) | Jack Crane is a rogue cop that is fired from the Gotham City Police Department due to his illegal activities. Disfigured in an accident that burns off his skin, Crane seeks revenge as the Savage Skull, but is defeated by Batman. |
| Sewer King | Batman: The Animated Series "The Underdwellers" (October 21, 1992) | The Sewer King is a staff-carrying, sewer-dwelling villain with an army of runaway children he uses as pick-pockets. He recently appeared among other "lame" villains slain at the hands of Intergang boss Bruno Mannheim, but was unidentified in the actual comic.[15] |
| Shrike | Nightwing Secret Files and Origins #1 (October 1999) | As a teenager, the boy known only as Boone is a friend of Dick Grayson, who would grow up to become Nightwing. As Grayson is learning under the tutelage of Batman, Boone is traveling throughout the Pacific Rim, learning martial arts from a number of teachers, including several former members of Ra's al Ghul's League of Assassins. |
| Signalman | Batman #112 (December 1957) | Phil Cobb is a small-time criminal in Gotham who is convinced that he needs a gimmick to hit it big. Inspired by the Bat-Signal, he becomes the Signalman, using signals, signs, and symbols in his crimes; but is inevitably defeated by Batman and Robin, time and again. He is also a member of the Secret Society of Super Villains. For a brief time, Cobb changes his modus operandi and, inspired by Green Arrow, commits crimes as the Blue Bowman. Signalman is kidnapped and tortured by Dr. Moon and Phobia, and is presumed deceased, but later appears as a drug-addicted informant to Black Lightning. |
| The Snowman | Batman #337 (July 1981) | Klaus Kristin is the son of a male yeti and a human woman. In his first appearance, he comes to Gotham City to freeze it over, but encounters Batman in the process. |
| Spellbinder | Detective Comics #358 (December 1966) | Delbert Billings (also known as Keith Sherwood) is a painter who uses optical illusions and hypnotic weapons to commit crimes. Spellbinder is on the run from the law with his new girlfriend, Fay Moffit, when he is confronted by the demon-lord Neron, who makes an offer of immense power in exchange for his soul. Spellbinder declines, but Fay shoots Spellbinder in the head and accepts the offer for herself. |
| Justice League International (vol. 2) #65 (June 1994) | A genuine mystic takes the name and appears as a member of the government sanctioned "League-Busters". | |
| Detective Comics #691 (November 1995) | During the Underworld Unleashed crossover, Delbert Billings turns down Neron's offer and is shot by his girlfriend, Fay Moffit, who then takes up the name Lady Spellbinder.[16] | |
| Spinner | Batman #129 (February 1960) | Swami Ygar is a villain in a metal-clad outfit that is lined with metal discs. |
| The Spook | Detective Comics #434 (April 1973) | Val Kaliban is one of the world's greatest escape-artists, and uses his extraordinary abilities together with special effects to commit spectacular crimes and make people believe he was a real ghost. After several battles with Batman, he is killed by Damian Wayne. |
| Steeljacket | Detective Comics #681 (January 1995) | Steeljacket is a bio-engineering experiment, a cross between man and bird. His hollow bones give him extremely light weight, allowing him to fly. However, he must wear metallic armor to protect his frail body. |
| Stranger | Batman vol 1 #78 | Really a Martian criminal Quork, who steals a spaceship and comes to Earth to steal weapons with his incredible technology, as weapons are outlawed on Mars. He is pursued by the First Lawmen of Mars, who teams up with Batman and Robin, having observed them from Mars. The Stranger mets the lawmen, but kidnaps Robin, but is tracked down by a bug the Martian Manhunter (yes this story is thought to have inspired that character) has placed in his pocket, and which Batman recognises the sounds of a rocket base from. Robin is tied to a missile which is launched but is saved, and Quork is taken back to Mars. |
| Sylph | Nightwing #48 (October 2000) | Sylvan Scofield is the daughter of an inventor of a micro-thin fabric that can be manipulated into shooting out from around the wearer. Her abilities including gliding and wrapping others with the cloth. When others try to steal this invention, her father commits suicide and she goes after those she believe caused it in Blüdhaven. It was believed that she had committed suicide after her encounter with Nightwing, but that was later proven to not be the case. |
| The Synaptic Kid | Detective Comics #633 (August 1991) | The Synaptic Kid is a deformed metahuman telepath who attempts to enter Batman's mind and learn his secret identity for the purpose of blackmailing him, only to be rendered comatose when the attempt backfires. |
| Tally Man | Batman: Shadow of the Bat #19 (October 1993) | The Tally Man is a serial killer who murders around 60 people. He is a hired killer who wears a mask over his face, a long purplish smock with ruffled sleeves, and an oversized top hat. |
| Detective Comics #819 (July 2006) | A hitman using the same name appears in Batman: Face the Face working for Great White. | |
| Ten-Eyed Man | Batman #226 (November 1970) | Philip Reardon is a former Vietnam War veteran/warehouse guard who is blinded in a warehouse explosion that burns his retinas. Doctor Engstrom reconnects them to his fingers. Reardon blames Batman for his blindness. He is killed during the Crisis on Infinite Earths. |
| The Terrible Trio | Detective Comics #253 (March 1958) | Warren Lawford, Armand Lydecker, and Gunther Hardwicke are a trio of magnates and scientists who wear masks of cartoon animals to commit crimes as the Fox, the Shark, and the Vulture, and have obsessions with Earth, Water, and Air. |
| Thanatos | Batman #305 (November 1978) | Thanatos is the masked leader of the gang of terrorists known as the "Death's Head", devoted to the destruction of capitalism. The Death's Head is defeated by Batman and Thanatos is unmasked as Sophia Santos, also known as "Lina Muller", a reporter who had associated with Batman. |
| Thor | Batman #127 (October 1959) | Henry Meke is proprietor of a small museum featuring replicas of mythological curios. One night, a meteorite smashed through a window, hit the Hammer of Thor, and disintegrated. The hammer began to glow and Meke reached out to examine it. After touching the hammer, he was transformed into the mighty Thor himself. The metamorphosis is repeated during thunder storms. Thor then began a quest to finance the building of a temple to Odin by robbing banks. |
| Tiger Shark | Detective Comics #147 (May 1949) | Dr. Gaige is a famous oceanographer turned gang leader. He operates at sea and at Gotham's waterfront. |
| Tobias Whale | Black Lightning #1 (April 1977) | Ofttimes nemesis of Black Lightning, Tobias Whale moved his Metropolis-based operations to Gotham becoming a figurehead in organized crime after the demise of the Black Mask. This accomplishment is short-lived when the likewise Metropolis-based Intergang follows suit and Whale is forced to join their organization. |
| Trigger Twins | Detective Comics #666 (December 1993) | The Trigger Twins (Thomas and Tad Trigger) are two cowboys that grew up apart without knowing they were twins. They discover they share a great skill as gunslingers and become bandits, taking their motif from their heroic Wild West namesakes. They are seemingly killed during the Infinite Crisis. |
| Torque | Nightwing #1 (October 1996) | Inspector Dudley "Deadly" Soames is the most corrupt cop working in the Blüdhaven Police Department. He first meets Nightwing when he is ordered by Redhorn, the Police Chief, to execute the young vigilante. Soames, however, betrays Redhorn and allows Nightwing to live, with the intention to pit various factions in Blüdhaven against one another. After Soames' scheme to use Scarecrow against Nightwing fails disastrously, Blockbuster grows weary of his underling, and attempts to have him killed. Soames responds with surprising cunning and ultimately tries to take Blockbuster's invalid mother hostage as part of a last bid for power. Nightwing attempts to intervene, but is forced to save innocent bystanders as Blockbuster twists the dirty cop's head 180 degrees, leaving Soames for dead. Soames survives thanks to a breakthrough medical technique and retrains himself to move normally, "seeing through the back of his head" with the use of glasses with a built-in array of mirrors. Soames brutally kills the doctor who had saved his life, and renamed himself Torque. He then gains the support of Intergang and starts a new gang war for the control of Blüdhaven and revenge against Blockbuster, Nightwing, and the city he now feels he owns. |
| The Wasp | Detective Comics #287 (January 1961) | Willie Blaine was given the identity Wasp as a pawn for aliens Kzan and Jhorl that seek a meteorite. |
| Wa'arzen | The Brave and the Bold #180 (November 1981) | In feudal Japan there were two mighty wizards, a good wizard named Kwan-yin and an evil wizard Wa'arzen, who served the barbaric dragon god in the marshes around what is now Shizuoka prefecture of Japan. Kwan-yin finally cornered his adversary in the dragon god's temple. there was a fierce battle that claimed the lives of both men with the body of Wa'arzen being cremated and his ashes sealed in a bronze burial urn which ultimately found its way to the metropolitan museum. the source of his arcane power, the scepter of the dragon god was separated into three component parts and moved away. Unfortunately one of the scepter pieces found its way into the new shipment for the museum and the fragment had enough power to bring Wa'arzen back to life. when a museum night guard was checking around and was swayed by the staff fragment making him carry the it and use it to break the vase seal. Wa'arzen spirit took the staff and animated one of the samurai armor on display to take care of the night guard however Batman was there and defeated the armor (Who he originally thought was a crook.) The second piece of the Dragon Scepter was in the Kristy-Barnett Auction House were Lt, Corrigan was providing security. When Wa'arzen appeared and gain the second piece, Jim Corrigan change to the spectre to battle Wa'arzen with Batman appearing shortly thereafter but the evil wizard prove to be a match for both of them before disappearing to get the last piece which is buried somewhere in the vicinity of the dragon god temple with the hero appearing shortly there after thank to traveling through the astral planes. he took down batman before battling the Spectre and was able to overpower him using the power of the fully restored Scepter, however he quickly forgot batman who destroy the scepter using a batarang cover in liquid explosive. without the power of the scepter keeping him alive, he was reduce back to a pile of ash. |
| Weasand | Batman: Blackgate - Isle of Men #1 (April 1998) | Weasand is referred to as one of the prisoners who escape from Blackgate Penitentiary in the aftermath of the earthquake in Batman: Cataclysm. He is shown as tall and extremely thin. |
| The Werewolf | Batman #255 (March 1974) | Anthony Lupus is a former Olympic Decathlon champion who is turned into a werewolf by a drug given to him by Professor Milo. |
| Wrath | Batman Special #1 (1984) | The Wrath is an anti-Batman whose criminal parents are killed by then-rookie policeman Jim Gordon in self-defense. As an adult, the Wrath becomes a cop-killer who copies many of Batman's methods, except for a readiness to use both lethal force and firearms to accomplish his goals. He perishes in his first appearance. A second Wrath, Elliot Caldwell, later appears in Batman Confidential, revealed to be the first Wrath's sidekick, a twisted version of Robin. |
| Zebra-Man | Detective Comics #275 (January 1960) | Zebra-Man is a high-tech scientist named Jake Baker whose body is irradiated, granting him "magnetic" powers to attract or repel metal, wood, stone, and human flesh. His name comes from the black and white stripes on his body. A second Zebra-Man (probably not the same as the original) is later created by Kobra. |
| Zeiss | Batman #582 (October 2000) | Philo Zeiss possesses surgically enhanced speed, reflexes, vision-enhancing goggles, and extensive martial arts training. Brought up by the Sicilan mafia, Zeiss eventually becomes a contract killer and bodyguard. He fights Batman to a standstill and nearly kills Catwoman. |
| Zodiac Master | Detective Comics #323 (January 1964) | The masked villain known as the Zodiac Master makes his presence known in Gotham by predicting a succession of disasters, all of which he has secretly orchestrated. Having cemented his reputation, he starts offering odds on the relative success or failure for the plans of various criminals, all in exchange for 25% of the take. |
| Zombie | Batman Vengeance of Bane #1 (January 1993) | One of the villains that helped Bane jump start his criminal career in Gotham |
Teams
In alphabetical order (with issue and date of first appearance)
| Villains | First appearance | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Batman Revenge Squad | World's Finest Comics #175 (May 1968) | Cash Carew, Barney the Blast, and the Flamethrower don similar costumes to Batman with purple in place of gray and their symbol a skull with bat wings in a bid to destroy their nemesis. |
| Circus of the Strange | Batman and Robin #1 (August 2009) | Circus-themed group of criminals led by Professor Pyg. |
| Club of Villains | Batman #676 (June 2008) | Villains led by Dr. Hurt as an antithesis to the Club of Heroes. Membership includes Joker, Le Bossu, Pierrot Lunaire, King Kraken, Charlie Caligula, El Sombrero, Jezebel Jet, Scorpiana, and Swagman. |
| Court of Owls | Batman #2 (December 2011) | The subjects of a popular Gotham City nursery rhyme, this shadowy group is supposedly composed of some of the most powerful men and women of Gotham. They use assassins known as Talons to eliminate threats. |
| League of Assassins | Strange Adventures #215 (November–December 1968) | Team of killers that was founded by Ra's al Ghul and has often swayed from working under his organization to working independent of it. The group has been led at times by Dr. Ebeneezer Darrk, the Sensei, Lady Shiva, and Cassandra Cain (under Deathstroke's influence). Notable members of its vast membership included Hook, Merlyn, Professor Ojo, Dr. Moon, Bronze Tiger, David Cain, Onyx, Shrike, Alpha, and Mad Dog. |
| Masters of Disaster | Batman and the Outsiders #9 (April 1984) | A group of mercenaries with an elemental theme. |
| Misfits | Batman: Shadow of the Bat #7 (December 1992) | A group of Batman's enemies led by Killer Moth that includes Catman, Calendar Man, and Chancer. |
| The Network | Batman: Family #1 (December 2002) | A crime family led by Athena that includes Bugg, Dr. Excess, Freeway, Mr. Fun, Suicide King, Technician, and the Tracker as its members. |
| New Olympians | Batman and the Outsiders #14 (October 1984) | Maxie Zeus' group of mercenaries selected to represent Greek and Roman gods in order to disrupt the 1984 Olympics. Formed by the Monitor, the group includes Antaeus, Argus, Diana, Nox, and Vulcanus. |
| Strike Force Kobra | Outsiders #21 (July 1987) | A group of super-powered operatives created by Kobra based upon some of Batman's most powerful rogues in an operation against Stagg Enterprises. Kobra operative Eve would form another incarnation that would menace the Outsiders led by Eradicator. The original group included Lady Clayface, Planet Master, Elemental Woman, Zebra-Man, and Spectrumonster. Eve's group included Windfall, Syonide, Fauna Faust, Dervish, and Spectra. |
| Underworld Olympics | Batman #272 (February 1976) | An organization that hosts an international contest of the best criminals in the world separated by South American, North American, European, and Afro-Asian branches to see what region has the most accomplished villains on Earth. |
Mobsters and plainclothes criminals
Besides his infamous rogues gallery of supervillains, Batman has also faced more "ordinary" enemies, such as assassins, mobsters, and terrorists.
In alphabetical order (with issue and date of first appearance)
| Villain | First appearance | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Alfred Stryker | Detective Comics #27 (May 1939) | The first criminal Batman faced. |
| Brainy Walker | Detective Comics #242 (April 1957) | Brainy Walker was paroled after three years for counterfeiting and immediately set out to commit fresh crimes. This time though, he used counterfeit thousand-dollars in bills as a distraction. He first planted the phony bills around Gotham City and broadcast clues to there whereabouts. The streets were choked as citizen sought the money. This kept the police occupied with crowd control and traffic control, allowing Walker to commit robberies in relative peace. Walker then tricked Robin into accidentally telling the location of the Batcave. Batman worked with Alfred Pennyworth to make Walker believed Robin's slip of the tongue was part of a plan to trap Walker and his men. When Walker gave up seeking the secret headquarters, he and his gang were finally apprehended. |
| Bruno Groft and Lekkey | Batman #128 (December 1959) | Bruno Groft was a foreign agent and assassin-for-hire whose gang kidnapped the Prince, Princess, and Ambassador of Morania. Batman and Robin defeated the gang and prevented Lekkey from assassinating the royal couple. |
| Catfoot Regan and Beetles Branagan | Batman #134 (September 1960) | Batman and Robin apprehend Catfoot Regan trying to rob jewels from the movement of a huge clock at a clock fair. Clues on Regan's clothes lead them to the thief's boss, Beetles Branagan, operating a crime-ring from above the city in a huge advertising balloon. |
| Falcone Crime Family | Batman #404 (March 1987) | Led by Carmine Falcone (also known as The Roman) and prominent in the storylines of Batman's early years, including Year One, The Long Halloween, and Dark Victory. In the comics, as well as the feature film Batman Begins, the Falcone family and Carmine Falcone, in particular, are portrayed as all but completely controlling Gotham City before Batman's arrival. Falcone was killed in The Long Halloween by Two-Face. |
| Ernie Chubb | ' #134 | Ernie Chubb is a criminal currently incarcerated at Blackgate Penetentiary. |
| Gentleman Jim Jansen | Batman #134 (September 1960) | Gentleman Jim Jansen was an orchid fancier and smuggler whom Batman and Robin discover trying to smuggle hot diamonds inside orchids. |
| Graham | Batman #130 (March 1960) | Graham was an expert builder of replicas of ancient weapons for movies. He begins leading a gang that uses ancient weapons such as ballistas and caltrops to loot banks. |
| Gregorian Falstaff | Batman #317 (November 1979) | A reclusive billionaire and business rival of Bruce Wayne who time and again tries to put Wayne Enterprises out of business. He once tried to kill Batman with an energy gun, but was pushed by Talia al Ghul into the gunfire, which instantly killed him. |
| Henri Ducard | Detective Comics #599 (April 1989) | Henri Ducard was once one of Batman's teachers in the art of crimefighting. Years later, however, Batman learns that his former mentor is a master criminal. He appears in the three-part miniseries "Blind Justice" in Detective Comics and a few other times later on.[17] |
| Joe Chill | Detective Comics #33 (November 1939) | Joe Chill is the mugger who murdered Thomas and Martha Wayne in front of a young Bruce Wayne, inspiring Bruce to become Batman. He first appears in Detective Comics #33, but is not named until Batman #47 (June/July 1948). |
| Matt Thorne | Batman #62 (December 1950/January 1951) |
An American criminal that brought several fellows felons with him to England to search of hidden Nazi treasure. They were thwarted in there efforts by the United Kingdom protectors, The Knight and Squire, aided by the Dynamic Duo. |
| Mr. Lyon | A criminal who frames the Joker for placing people in animal enclosures that echo their names. He claims the Joker sent him a note threatening to place him in a lion cage, and uses this as an excuse to get bodyguards inside a secure area, which he uses to commit a robbery. The Joker hears of his framing, and places Lyon, Batman, and Robin inside a lion cage, but the Dynamic Duo are able to escape with Lyon, who is arrested along with the Joker. | |
| Lew Moxon | Detective Comics #235 (November 1956) | A mob boss who hired Joe Chill to kill Thomas Wayne, which sparked Bruce Wayne into becoming Batman, as well as bringing the villain Zeiss to Gotham City. |
| Maroni Crime Family | Detective Comics #66 (August 1942) | Led by Sal "The Boss" Maroni, the Maroni family are a prominent crime family in Gotham. In the early years of Batman's career, the Maronis often vied for power and control of the Gotham underworld with the Falcone family. In the majority of Batman's incarnations, Sal Maroni is widely known as the mob boss who threw acid onto the face of District Attorney Harvey Dent during a trial. The resulting injuries and scarring transformed Dent into Two-Face. In The Dark Knight, Maroni plays the role of one of Gotham City's mob bosses. In The Long Halloween, Maroni is shot in the head and killed by Alberto Falcone, the Holiday killer. |
| Ruby Ryder | The Brave and the Bold #95 (April/May 1971) | The world’s richest woman and top female tycoon, based in Gotham City, Ruby Ryder is also a femme fatale and a full-fledged big time criminal. Three meetings with Batman ended in defeat and prison. She also encounters Metamorpho, Green Arrow, the Metal Men, and Plastic Man (the latter of whom falls in love with her). |
| Rupert Thorne | Detective Comics #469 (May 1977) | Prominent head of one of Gotham City's top smuggling gangs. He is also the boss of "Matches" Malone, the criminal whose identity was taken over by Batman. |
| The Squid | Detective Comics #497 (December 1980) | The Squid (Lawrence Loman, also known as Clement Carp) is a Chinese crimeboss in Gotham City. He takes control of the underworld and almost succeeds in defeating Batman before apparently being killed by Killer Croc, a former member of the Squid's gang. However, the Squid returns alive in the pages of 52 #25 (October 25, 2006), only to die again as one of the crime bosses killed by Bruno Mannheim. |
| Sterling Silversmith | Detective Comics #446 (April 1975) | Sterling T. Silversmith (alias The Sterling Silversmith) has been obsessed with silver since childhood and now, as a silver-haired older man, has amassed a fortune in stolen goods. Bullets bounce off Silversmith thanks to a silver alloy woven into the fabric of his white suit. Batman has fought him twice, and once prevented Silversmith from murdering the Crime Doctor. |
| Tony Zucco | Detective Comics #38 (April 1940) | Tony Zucco is a mob boss (or simple low-level thug, depending on the continuity) who is responsible for the death of Dick Grayson's parents. Despite some variation, the basic recurring themes are that Zucco tries to extort the circus the Graysons work for. When the ringmaster refuses to pay him, he sabotages the act causing the highwire ropes to break and sending Dick's parents falling to their deaths. Dick Grayson heard him before, and becomes Robin to defeat him. |
| Wylie | Detective Comics #42 (August 1940) | Wylie was a millionaire who was suffering from bankruptcy. He was vacationing in Europe when he fell in love with the artwork of one Pierre Antal. He purchased a number of the paintings at relatively inexpensive prices, despite his shaky finances. Wylie then concocted a scheme to bring Antal to America, get his work noticed, and let the value of his Antal collection appreciate so that he could sell the works and restore his lost wealth. He took the plan a step further by letting Antal paint a series of portraits of Gotham wealthiest citizens. After each painting was finished, Wylie would desecrate each image in a specific way that depicts a murder. Disguising himself with a green skull mask, Wylie then murdered the painting's subject in the way that was shown in the desecrated portraits, in the process creating great notoriety for Antal. To make sure the trail doesn't connect to him he made it seem as if the murderer try to kill him (and barely escaping with a shot arm.) When he tried to kill his fourth victim he was stopped by Robin. Meanwhile, Batman (suspicious of Wylie) laid a trap in the form of Bruce Wayne to get a self-portrait done by Antal. When Wylie broke into the mansion, he placed a gun on Bruce Wayne's head and fired point blank just asBbatman arrived and captured him (The Bruce Wylie shot was just a dummy.) Rather than be tried for his crimes, Wylie shot himself to death. Batman would later note that he considered this to be the Dynamic Duo's first major case. |
Two of Batman's mobster foes have donned costumes and crossed over to become supervillains:
- The Hangman: A serial killer (during the Dark Victory storyline) who murders police officers on every holiday of the year, leaving behind a version of the children's word game "Hangman" (with key letters missing) with each new victim. All of the victims are police officers who, in one way or another, helped Harvey Dent rise to his position of District Attorney. In the end, the Hangman is revealed to be Sofia Falcone Gigante, daughter of the late crime boss, Carmine Falcone.
- Holiday: Mysterious serial killer who murders mobsters and others over a year (during The Long Halloween storyline). The killer's weapon is a .22 pistol (using a baby bottle nipple as a silencer) with the handle taped and the serial number filed off. Also, every crime takes place on a holiday and a small trinket representing each holiday is left behind at the scene. Alberto Falcone, youngest son of Carmine Falcone, admits to be the Holiday killer, but then Harvey Dent says there were two holiday killers. Batman deduces that since he killed Vernon on Halloween with a .22 pistol, he was in fact the second holiday, however later in a lone monologue Gilda reveals herself as the second or technically first Holiday, who was responsible for the first three murders.
Corrupt cops and government officials
In alphabetical order (with issue and date of first appearance)
| Villain | First appearance | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Frank Boles | Batman: Arkham Asylum | A corrupt guard, that helped the Joker. Was later killed by the Joker. |
| Harvey Bullock | Detective Comics #441 (June 1974) | Prior to the 1984–85 DC maxi-series Crisis on Infinite Earths, Bullock is a crooked police detective under instructions from Gotham City's Mayor Hamilton Hill to sabotage Commissioner Gordon's career. His method of doing so is to pretend to be exceedingly clumsy, thereby spoiling whatever Gordon is trying to do, seemingly accidentally. After inadvertently giving Gordon a heart attack, however, Bullock turns over a new leaf and develops into a well-meaning cop. |
| Mayor Daniel Danforth Dickerson III | Detective Comics #743 (April 2000) | Corrupt mayor of Gotham beginning after No Man's Land and remaining in office until his assassination by the Joker in Gotham Central #12 (December 2003). |
| Detective Flass | Batman #404 (February 1987) | Then Lieutenant Jim Gordon's partner, upon his arrival in Gotham, Arnold John Flass was in the pocket of drug dealer Jefferson Skeevers, crime boss Carmine Falcone, and corrupt Commissioner Gillian Loeb. He was apparently killed by Hangman in Dark Victory #3 (February 2000), but had previously appeared in Legends of the Dark Knight Annual #2 (1992), in a story set years after the Hangman killings (however, this later appearance may not be in continuity). |
| Commissioner Grogan | Catwoman Annual #2 (1995) | Loeb's replacement as commissioner, first mentioned in Batman #407 (May 1987), the final part of the Year One storyline. Grogan is described by Gordon as being even more crooked than his predecessor. His first name was said to be "Peter", "Jack", and "Edward". |
| Mayor Hamilton Hill | Detective Comics #511 (February 1982) | A corrupt politician who became mayor of Gotham City thanks to Rupert Thorne. He helped Thorne oppose Batman, notably by firing Commissioner James Gordon. |
| Adolf Hitler | Green Lantern (vol. 1) #3 (Spring 1942) | A character based on the historical figure of the same name, Hitler appeared as an enemy of many members of the Justice Society, including Batman. |
| Mayor David Hull | Gotham Central #13 (January 2004) | David Hull was Deputy Mayor under Dickerson and was his replacement. |
| Mayor Armand Krol | Detective Comics #647 (August 1992) | More incompetent than malicious, Krol had a strong dislike of Commissioner Gordon, demoting and replacing him with his wife, Sarah Essen Gordon. During Krol's last days in office, Gotham descended into near anarchy after Ra's al Ghul released the "Clench" virus during the Contagion story arc. He died after contracting the virus. |
| Commissioner Gillian B. Loeb | Batman #404 (February 1987) | The commissioner of police when Bruce Wayne first returns to Gotham and becomes Batman. He is on the payroll of Carmine Falcone and is later murdered by serial killer Hangman in Dark Victory #2 (January 2000). |
| President Lex Luthor | Action Comics #23 (April 1940) | Though Superman's primary foe, Luthor attempted to illegally acquire a vast percentage of Gotham's property during the No Man's Land incident, but he was stopped by the efforts of Bruce Wayne and Lucius Fox. Later, when Luthor became President, he framed Bruce Wayne for murder. Eventually, Luthor was revealed as a criminal and deposed from the Presidency by Superman and Batman. |
| Commissioner Peter Pauling | Batman #341 (November 1981) | Puppet commissioner instated by Mayor Hill, on the behest of Rupert Thorne. He is later killed by Rupert Thorne during his paranoia that involved the "Ghost of Hugo Strange." |
Goons and henchmen of Batman enemies
The following henchmen appear in the comics in alphabetical order (with issue and date of first appearance)
| Villain | First appearance | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | Batman #32 | Joker's henchman who assisted Joker in a college initiation-themed jewelry heist. |
| Achilles | Batman #30 | Maxie Zeus' henchman. |
| Ajax | Batman #4 | Joker's henchman who was a part of Joker's crime circus. |
| Antaeus | Batman and the Outsiders #14 | Maxie Zeus' henchman who is a member of the New Olympians. His powers are based off the actual Antaeus. He was defeated by Geo-Force who used his powers to lift Antaeus from the ground. |
| Argus | Batman and the Outsiders #14 | Maxie Zeus' henchman who is a member of the New Olympians. He has telekinetic powers that enables him to see great distances and was a poor fight as he was easily defeated by Batman. His talents make him similar to the actual Argus Panoptes. |
| Beefy | Detective Comics #99 | Penguin's henchman. |
| Billy | Detective Comics #610 | A henchman of the Ventriloquist that was imprisoned at Blackgate penitentiary. |
| Black Queenie | Batman #5 | A member of Joker's gang when it came to operating a smuggling operation on board a gambling ship. |
| Bruiser | Batman #13 | Joker's henchman assisted Joker into stealing people's signatures so that Joker can commit greater crimes. |
| Carmichael | Batman #33 | Penguin's henchman. |
| Craven | Batman #22 | Catwoman's henchman. |
| Diana | Batman and the Outsiders #14 | Maxie Zeus' henchman who is a member of the New Olympians. She is superb archer and a fierce swordswoman who also commands. Diana was defeated in a sword fight against Katana. Her talents make her similar to Artemis. |
| Deuces | Batman #32 | Joker's henchman who assisted Joker in a college initiation-themed jewelry heist. |
| Duke Wilson | Batman #55 | Member of Joker's team of 48 Jokers. |
| Echo | Detective Comics Annual #8 (1995) | Echo's real name is Nina Damfino, and she is a henchwoman of the Riddler. |
| Eddie | Detective Comics #514 | Maxie Zeus' henchman. |
| Fred Britt | Detective Comics #491 | Maxie Zeus' henchman. |
| Hammer | Batman #30 | Penguin's henchman. |
| Hector | Robin Vol. 4 #30 | Maxie Zeus' henchman. He was killed by Maxie Zeus for questioning why he had Robin contact Oracle. |
| Heracles | Robin Vol. 4 #30 | Maxie Zeus' henchman. |
| Jack of Diamonds | Batman #5 | Diamond Jack Duggan is a member of Joker's gang when it came to operating a smuggling operation on board a gambling ship. |
| Jay | Detective Comics Vol. 2 #5 | Penguin's henchman. |
| Jim Jones | Batman #15 | Catwoman's henchman. |
| Joe | Batman #47 | Catwoman's henchman. |
| Joe | Detective Comics #66 | Two-Face's henchman. |
| Joey | Detective Comics #514 | Maxie Zeus' henchman. |
| Julie Caesar | Robin Vol. 4 #19 | A henchmen of Maxie Zeus who believes that he is Julius Caesar. He teamed up with Anarky once. |
| King of Clubs | Batman #5 | Clubsy is a member of Joker's gang when it came to operating a smugling operation on board a gambling ship. |
| Kite | Batman #16 | Joker's henchman who assisted Joker into robbing a fortune in jewels. |
| Lark | Detective Comics Vol. 2 #5 | Penguin's henchwoman who he sends to target a disguised Charlotte Rivers. |
| Lefty | Batman #53 | Joker's henchman who assisted Joker into stealing the golden golf clubs of the Maharajah of Nimpah. |
| Lewis | Batman #44 | Joker's henchman who assisted Joker in a plot to abduct two radium thieves and make Batman gamble for their lives. |
| Lion-Mane | Wonder Woman Vol. 1 #278 | Lion-Mane was a human with feline features and heightened strength. He was initially a henchman of Earth-2's Catwoman who betrayed him and buried the loot in the forest. Lion-Mane was captured after that. Years later, Lion-Mane orchestrated a prison riot and took the guards hostage. Huntress infiltrated the prison and challenged Lion-Mane into 1-on-1 fight. If she could win, Lion-Mane would release the hostages, or if Lion-Mane won, she would have to reveal the location of the treasure Catwoman buried in the forest. The fight was tough and almost a draw, but eventually Huntress was able to defeat Lion-Mane. This Lion-Mane has no connection to the Hawkman villain of the same name. |
| Louie | Batman #27 | Penguin's henchman. |
| Morris | Detective Comics #514 | Maxie Zeus' henchman. |
| Mousery Mager | Batman #35 | Catwoman's henchman. |
| Mike | Batman #35 | Catwoman's henchman. |
| Moose | ??? | Rhino's sister and Ventriloquist's henchman. |
| Mugsy | Detective Comics #583 | The Ventriloquist's henchman. |
| Needles | Batman #25 | He assisted Joker and Penguin into committing a crime spree. |
| Nitro | Batman #16 | Joker's henchman who assisted Joker into robbing a fortune in jewels. |
| Nox | Batman and the Outsiders #14 | Maxie Zeus' henchman and member of the New Olympians. She controls a mysterious dark force that enables her to fly and can manipulate it to take on different shapes. She was defeated in a gymnastics match against Halo. Her abilities make her similar to the actual Nyx. |
| Pete | Batman #35 | Catwoman's henchman. |
| Proteus | Batman and the Outsiders #14 | Maxie Zeus' henchman and member of the New Olympians. Besides shape-shifting, he can also elongate his limbs and even grow bird-like wings. Proteus first used his shape-shifting powers to make himself look handsome (since he dislike his previous appearance). He and Vulcanus were defeated in a deadly soccer match against Black Lightning and Metamorpho. His abilities are similar to the actual Proteus. |
| Query | Detective Comics Annual #8 (1995) | Query's real name is Diedre Vance, and she is a common henchwoman of The Riddler. |
| Raven | Detective Comics Vol. 2 #5 | Penguin's henchman. |
| Rhino | Detective Comics #583 | Frederick Rhino is a former bouncer at the Ventriloquist Club who is a henchmen of the Ventriloquist. |
| Slapsy | Batman #12 | Joker's henchman. |
| Slim | Batman #46 | Joker's henchman who assisted Joker in a crime spree that involved leaving greeting card clues for Batman. |
| Slug | Batman #42 | Catwoman's henchman. |
| Snipes | Batman #23 | Joker's henchman who assisted Joker in an upside down crime spree. |
| Sparky | Batman #16 | Joker's henchman who assisted Joker into robbing a fortune in jewels. |
| Street Demonz | Batman #475 | A criminal gang that works for the Ventriloquist. |
| Tino | Batman #4 | Joker's henchman who was a part of Joker's crime circus. |
| Tongs | Batman #30 | Penguin's henchman. |
| Turk | Batman #17 | Penguin's henchman who assisted Penguin at the time when he changed his arsenal to guns and fishing poles. |
| Volcanus | Batman and the Outsiders #14 | Maxie Zeus' henchman and member of the New Olympians. He wields a powerful hammer and can hurl high-temperature fireballs. He and Proteus were defeated in a deadly soccer match against Black Lightning and Metamorpho. His abilities are similar to the actual Hephaestus. |
Allies in conflict
Some characters originally conceived as heroes have come into conflict with Batman.
In alphabetical order (with issue and date of first appearance)
| Ally | First appearance | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Bat-Mite | Detective Comics #267 (May 1959) | Bat-Mite is an imp similar to the Superman villain Mister Mxyzptlk. Appearing as a small childlike man in an ill-fitting costume, Bat-Mite possesses near-infinite magical powers and comes from another dimension. Bat-Mite idolizes Batman, and thus he has visited Batman on various occasions, often setting up strange events so that he could see his hero in action. Bat-Mite is arguably more of a nuisance than an enemy to Batman, and often leaves the hero alone when he realizes he has angered his idol. |
| Jason Todd | Batman #357 (March 1983) | Jason Todd became the new Robin, sidekick to the superhero Batman, when the previous Robin, Dick Grayson, went on to star in the New Teen Titans under the moniker of Nightwing. After the character was killed off, he was resurrected as an enemy of Batman, eventually becoming the second Red Hood and assuming a new role as an anti-hero. |
See also
- List of Batman enemies in other media
- List of Superman enemies
- List of Wonder Woman enemies
- List of Flash enemies
- List of Green Lantern enemies
- List of Aquaman enemies
References
- ^ Hunt, Matt. "How the Joker works". HowStuffWorks. Retrieved May 2, 2008.
- ^ Phillips, Daniel (December 14, 2007). "Why So Serious? – The Many Faces of Joker". IGN. Retrieved May 2, 2008.
Sure, the basics have always been there: The Joker's maniacal grin, his green hair, red lips and purple suit.
- ^ Blackest Night: Batman #2 (November 2009)
- ^ Blackest Night: Batman #3 (December 2009)
- ^ Rogers, Vaneta (January 23, 2008). "Sean McKeever on The Terror Titans". Newsarama.
- ^ World's Finest Comics #268 (April/May 1981)
- ^ a b World's Finest Comics #285-288 (November 1982 – February 1983)
- ^ Detective Comics #840 (March 2008)
- ^ World's Finest Comics #254 (December 1978 / January 1979)
- ^ Swamp Thing Annual #3 (1987)
- ^ "Modern Age (Year Fourteen) Part One". The Real Batman Chronology Project. October 27, 2009.
- ^ "Modern Age (Year Twenty-Two) Part Three". The Real Batman Chronology Project. June 24, 2010.
- ^ Trinity #12 (August 20, 2008)
- ^ Batman #340 (October 1981)
- ^ "5.2 or so About 52 #25 with Michael Siglain". Newsarama. October 27, 2006.
- ^ Detective Comics #691-692 (November – December 1995)
- ^ "Modern Age (Year Twelve)". The Real Batman Chronology Project. October 13, 2009.
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