Who is, in your opinion, the most overrated Batman villain ever? Share your opinions in this thread and bring some arguments to support them.
Who is, in your opinion, the most overrated Batman villain ever? Share your opinions in this thread and bring some arguments to support them.
THE JOKER
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Without a doubt. He has little nuanse whatsoever, but because of his iconicity alone, he is overexposed to death.
It's weird seeing fans complain about Batgod or how overpowered Superman apparently is only to talk about the greatness of The Joker. Once he went from violent criminal with a joke gimmick to absurd psychopath to full blown world destroyer (as much as I liked Emperor Joker) his character jumped the shark for me. The Dark Knight didn't help matters either. That's one character where I wish there would be a moratorium on him until writers figure out something to do with him that doesn't consist of jokes, mass murder, and the same old stuff over and over again. And I don't mean cutting off his face or claiming he's a boogeyman or multiple people or whatever.
He is used to much but that doesn’t mean he’s a bad villain.
I've little interest In two face. I've only really enjoyed one of his stories which is the no man's land issue where he con ducts a trial of himself.
All the others seem to be very similar with the coin and cleches etc.
I'm also not keen on the ventriloquist though I wouldn't say he is overrated in any way. I was surprised he didn't turn up in the batman66 comic as he might have suited the more campy incarnation. I find him too silly to take seriously in the darker stories.
While I consider the Joker to be overused and basically milked dry, I'd have to say the most overrated Batman villain is Black Mask.
There's just really not much to the modern version of the character, He's nasty, one-note and really just not that interesting compared to the other members of Batman's rogue gallery. There's really nothing he can do that the Penguin can't also do just as well of not better.
Yeah, Black Mask just sucks. All the classic villains are rated about exactly where they should be. The Joker is HORRIBLY overused, but he's only slightly overrated. At his core, the concept and iconic dynamic is incredibly strong, it just needs to be given a long break.
Black Mask has nothing going on, Two-Face and the Penguin already kind of cover the roles he could fill.
The Joker and Bane.One has been overrated for years and the other is becoming overrated because of the current push he's getting.
I don't know if they're overrated but I always felt that Hurt,Court of Owls and Black Mask are kind of useless.
There are other rogues in Batman's gallery who do Black Mask's gimmick better.
Hurt and the Court of Owls always felt unnecessary to me.
Last edited by king81992; 11-25-2018 at 04:00 AM.
Hush easily, Court of Owls
Dr Hurt completed his story with in Morrison's run, unlike the Court Morrison didn't force him in to the DCU as some new classic baddie, that honor he gave to Pyg.
Joker and Bane are fine, getting importance from writers or new stories doesn't make you overrated much as I dislike how DC uses Joker and not a fan of King at all.
Court of Owls. Give me the Black Glove.
I'd say the Joker is definitely the most OVERUSED villain. Would you guys say it started with the first Michael Keaton Batman movie? He was just another of the silly overactors before then.