Who are your favorite under-appreciated villains?

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@ exile001 yeah it always annoy when a baddies story is done by the numbers, I don't even mind poor stories as long as they do something different with them (in a way that makes sense) like with Zsasz in Streets Of Gotham where he starts having arena fights to have people hurt each other.

[Penguin Truth]

I've got to start with Hugo Strange. Luckily, he's not that obscure any more thanks to Arkham City. When I first got in to Batman comics in the mid-90's I found a trade of Strange Apparitions and have been a huge fan ever since.

Boy do I ever wish that would get reprinted.

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Boy do I ever wish that would get reprinted.

You could do what I did and buy "Legends Of The Dark Knight: Marshall Rogers" it has the everything from Strange Apparitions apart from the two-part Doctor Phosphorus story.

[Grayson]

Black Mask, and I'd like to see Hush in new 52.

[scary harpy]

Egghead. (How could I have forgotten Egghead for a moment?)

[Penguin Truth]

You could do what I did and buy "Legends Of The Dark Knight: Marshall Rogers" it has the everything from Strange Apparitions apart from the two-part Doctor Phosphorus story.

I will take that under advisement.

I recently bought the Alan Moore DC stories collection just to get The Killing Joke with its original colors, and before that Batman Illustrated by Neal Adams to get some of the early Ra's al Ghul stories by Denny O'Neil, so the concept is far from foreign to me.

[ispacehead]

Cornelius Stirk.

They should bring him back and give every indication that it's Zsasz behind the murders, and maybe have the two of them go head to head. Or maybe bring about a scenerio where the two of them are killing people from the same string, bringing about an eventual confrontation. Stirk and Zsasz in a knife fight over a victim.

[BumbleBecc]

Mouse - Pamela Sweigeld.
Mainly a Robin/Nightwing/Catwoman character.

She was only in a few issues when i was young but she stuck with me, so that when i started to RP, Mouse was my villain of choice.


Never did understand the later crop top version of her costume, it just didn't seem to fit the character

[TheSontaran]

I love the Alice in Wonderland set. Hatter, Twiddles, W. Rabbit. All great characters.

[Flex Mentallo]

Hatter and King Tut as well. Also would be great to see more of some of the Morrison villains like Scorpiana, El Sombrero, or that mime guy

[nepenthes]

Alan Grant and Norm Breyfogle's most famous villain creation is the Venquilotrist, however a few you don't see around anymore are Ratcatcher and Cornelius Stirk. These guys are great. So demented!



He walks around looking like Abraham Lincoln because he's trusted. Nevermind that he's dead ha! Classic Alan Grant.

[swing kinker]

I have quite a few, I'm a big fan of ......I guess you could say throwaway stories so a lot of them are used in them

Big fan of Alan Grant and his detective run. Anarky was a cool character
I always had a soft spot for lock up due to seeing the episode on TAS when I was a kid, wish he was used more
I think Maxie Zeus is a fun villain
KGbeast is very much of it's time but I love ten nights
Love the original ventriloquist.....alan grant again
Amygdala has a nice gimmick
I like humpty dumpty...........so there
Having a brain fart but I had a comic as a kid with a villain I've never seen since. He was obsessed with death and slept in a coffin or something like that, it was a good issue. Someone will no doubt be able to remember

[Mister BoMan]

Hugo Strange, The Monk, Rupert Thorne, Catman.

[Kingcrimsonprog]

I'm seconding Onomatopoeia, Jane Doe, The Mad Monk and Rat Catcher.

Also, I really like Hush. I like the whole weasley whiny thing, and the fact that he failed and basically got hoisted by his own scheme. I like the idea that he keeps getting further and further humiliated and dethroned. It is interesting to see him slowly ground down.

[EdwardNigma]

I really like Mad Hatter and Maxie Zeus. VERY underrated. I would also have said the Riddler but he finally seems to be getting some recognition recently.