List of villains in The Batman

These are villians who have appeared in The Batman. Template:Spoiler

Bane

Voiced by: Jaoquim DeAlmeida

Real name: Unknown

Bane is a south american mercenary. He is said to have undergone experiments in the amazon. Bane is a match for Batman at first, even breaking a few of his bones and fracturing his arm. Unlike the comics version, he doesn't break Batman's back. Bane was stopped at a bank, where Batman constructed a Bat-Bot that could defeat him. However, before Bane totally destroys Batman, electrecutes the tubes of venom on his body, turning him back to normal.

In "Brawn", Bane is mentioned, but not seen when Joker steals his venom.

Appearances:

• Traction

Catwoman

Voiced by: Gina Gershon

Real name: Selina Kyle

Catwoman is a masked thief. In "The Cat and the Bat", she attempts to steal from a yakuza boss, but is caught on security cameras and flees the scene. In a later chase, she is shown to be a rival in hand to hand combat and athletic skills with Batman. She uses this to steal his utility belt. She attempts to steal from the Yakuza boss again, but is nearly killed. However, she and Batman team up to defeat them.

She also reappeared in "The Cat, The Bat and the Very Ugly" when she teams up with Penguin (reminscent of Batman Returns), "Ragdolls to Riches]], when she and Batman are pitted against Ragdoll and "The Laughing Cats", in which she fights Joker.

She is hinted to have a romantic interest with Batman.

Appearances:

• The Cat and the Bat
• The Cat, the Bat and the Very Ugly
• Ragdolls to Riches
• The Laughing Cats

Clayface

Voiced by: Steve Harris

Real name: Ethan Bennet

Clayface is a shape-shifting villain. His human form, Ethan Bennet, appeared a handful of times in Season One. In "The Rubberface of Comedy", the Joker kidnaps Ethan and messes up his mind. However, before he becomes like the Joker, Bennet snaps out of it, but during a fight with the police, Batman accidentally causes Joker to drop a bottle of 'Joker Putty', and subjects it to Ethan. Later at his apartment, the transformation begins. The following episode shows Ethan attempting to kill Chief Rojas, but during a fight at the gym, he melts away. He is seen at the end of the episode, before disappearing again.

In "Meltdown", he is finally captured. At his trial, Ellen Yin, Bruce Wayne and even Dr. Hugo Strange decide to give Ethan therapy. However, when Joker pops up, he continues to turn into Clayface. At the end of the episode, he is defeated again, but before he tells Yin that she will never she the face of Ethan Bennet. He also appeared in "Grundy's Night", where he poses as Solomon Grundy to steal money, but during a fight at the wax museum, he is encased in wax. He is never seen again.

Appearances:

As Ethan Bennet:

• The Bat in the Belfry
• Traction
• Call of the Copplepot
• The Man who would be Bat
• The Big Chill
• The Cat and the Bat (cameo)
• Topsy Turvy
• The Rubberface of Comedy
• The Clayface of Tragedy
• Meltdown

As Clayface:

• The Rubberface of Comedy
• The Clayface of Tradegy
• Meltdown
• Grundy's Night

Cluemaster

Voiced by: Glenn Shadix

Real name: Arthur 'Artie' Brown

Cluemaster is a question themed villain. This version of Cluemaster, instead of being a children's game show host, here he is one of the contestants. Apperantly living with his mother, for twelve weeks he was the champion on 'Think, Thank, Thunk'. However, he was beaten and blamed that the host and the producer had rigged his defeat. He kidnapped them and staged a version of 'Think, Thank, Thunk' in which the losers would be dunked in acid. However, he was defeated by Batman when he caused his over-weight body to collapse onto the floor, knocking him out.

He has never appeared again, due to the fact that Riddler was brought into the show.

Appearances:

• Q&A

Toymaker

Voiced by: Patton Oswalt

Real name: Cosmo Krank

Once the owner of the successful Krank Co., Cosmo Krank was riding high on a wave of successful, but dangerous, toys. Not comfortable with standing by, Bruce Wayne and his board at Wayne Company decided to do something about it and had Krank Co. shut down. Angry, Krank sent his violent toys after Wayne and attempted to kill him, obviously not knowing that he was The Batman.

Krank was stopped in the end by The Batman, with some aid by Cash Tankinson.

Appearances:

• Cash for Toys

Dracula

Voiced by: Peter Stomare

Real name: Unknown

A murderous creature who resided in Transylvania, Count Dracula was killed while sleeping in his coffin one night by the villagers in the town. Driving a stake through his heart, Dracula perished.

His body was shipped far away from Transylvania and buried in Gotham Cemetery. His corpse and heart shriveled up, but the ability for him to come back was always there, if someone gave him just a single drop of blood.

The blood that revived Dracula came from The Penguin. Accidentally cutting himself on his umbrella knife, Penguin dripped his blood onto Dracula’s shriveled corpse. The blood hit the heart and Dracula’s body immediately began to regenerate. After sucking the blood from a nearby cemetery guard, Dracula recruited Penguin to be his “tomb keeper” while he slept during the day. Penguin resisted at first, but after being put under Dracula’s mind control, he was forced to accept.

Dracula became infatuated with the man known as ‘The Batman.’ Thinking that his legacy had gone on long after his death, Dracula eventually confronted The Batman and asked him to join his side to take over Gotham City. The Batman refused and Dracula had nearly killed The Batman before the sun came up and started to burn Dracula’s skin.

Dracula also became obsessed with bringing his dead wife back from the dead. Using the body and life force from Gotham City star reporter Vicki Vale, Dracula nearly succeeded in bringing back his dead wife with her cremated remains. The Batman intervened after defeating Dracula’s minions, known as the “Lost Ones” and interrupted the process, bringing the life back into Vicki and allowing her to escape from Dracula’s clutches.

Dracula had a final showdown with The Batman, which eventually led them to the Batcave. After being nearly killed and Alfred knocked out, The Batman was able to turn on his prototype device that stored energy from the sun. Dracula was caught in the beam of light and his flesh and blood was burned. The Batman delivered a final blow to Dracula that sent his bones scattering around the Batcave, ending Dracula once and for all.

Appearances:

• The Batman Versus Dracula

Firefly

Voiced by: Jason Marsden

Real name: Garfield Lynns

Firefly is a arsonist. In "The Big Heat", he is hired by GothCorp to sabotage different companies. Although defeating Batman two times in a row, he is defeated the third time when Batman destroyed his jetpack. His involvement with GothCorp is revealed to the public, when Batman leaves Firefly unmasked in front of the GothCorp building.

In "Fire and Ice", he teamed up with Mr. Freeze to ice over Gotham, but were defeated by Batman.

Appearances:

• The Big Heat
• Fire and Ice

Gearhead

Voiced by: Will Friedle

Real name: Nathan Finch

Gearhead is able to convert any kind of vehicle (motorcycle, car, anything with wheels) into a high-speed machine for his personal use. His gear is made up of nanotechnology which allows him to convert and move the matter around him, forming the shape and style of vehicle he wants.

Gearhead was stopped by Batman and Batgirl after he tried to jack Batman’s new Batmobile. Unfortunately for Gearhead, the new Batmobile came with nano-defense technology, electrocuting Gearhead and shorting him out.

It is unknown what Gearhead’s alias is or where he got his powers.

Appearances:

• RPM

Hugo Strange

Voiced by: Frank Gorshin

Real name: Dr. Hugo Strange

The morally ambiguous head chief of Psychiatry at Arkham Asylum, who is driven by his keen interest of the criminal mind.

A psychiatrist at Arkham Asylum, Professor Hugo Strange has an interest in the minds of the psychopaths that fill the cells in Arkham. Strange testified at Ethan Bennett's, aka Clayface, court date, giving Ethan a clean bill of health for his mental stasis.

Although he claims to want to help the inmates at Arkham Asylum, Hugo Strange seems more bent on finding out how the criminal mind works, rather than simply curing it.

After being "cured" of his affliction by Professor Hugo Strange, Arnold Wesker was able to resume his life in the real world. Despite being successful in his new life, Professor Hugo Strange wished to "test" his criminal therapy and gave the Scarface puppet back to Wesker, causing him to fold and resume being Wesker and Scarface.

Appearances:

• Meltdown
• Strange Minds
• A Fistful of Felt

Joker

Voiced by: Kevin Michael Richardson

Real name: Unknown

The arch nemesis of The Batman, Joker is a maniacal harlequin whose bizarre appearance and unerring instinct for the absurd have earned him a reputation as "the most dangerous criminal in the annals of crime." For Joker, each transgression he commits is an elaborate joke in which he tries to leave his victims dying with laughter - literally. More than any other enemy, Joker becomes inextricably linked to The Batman, as the crazed clown's plots begin to take increasingly more personal tolls on our crime fighter.

"All it takes is one, rotten, day to transform a normal man into a monster! ...Well in my case, a rotten day AND a chemical bath."

Wanting nothing more than to make people laugh while he was still sane, Joker was born when he fell into a vat of chemicals. Rising out of the vat, he was transformed into the crazy, laughing and white-skinned clown that's a constant thorn in Batman's side.

Appearances:

• The Bat in the Belfry
• Topsey Turvy
• The Rubberface of Comedy
• The Clayface of Tradegy (cameo)
• JTV
• Strange Minds
• The Laughing Bat
• Night and the City
• A Fistful of Felt (cameo)
• Brawn
• The Laughing Cats
• The Apprentice

Killer Croc

Voiced by: Ron Perlman

Real name: Waylon Jones

A half-man, half-reptile, Killer Croc wants to submerge all of Gotham in water in order to facilitate his plundering of the city.

His true origin unknown, Killer Croc is a virtual powerhouse. With the strength of a crocodile (and a tail to boot), Croc is able to chomp and swim his way around Gotham.

After flooding the city so it's banks were easy to pillage, Croc was eventually taken down by The Batman. Though the battle was lengthy, The Batman exploited Killer Croc's weakness for air underwater and half-drowned him, depriving him of oxygen and putting him in an unconscious state.

Appearances:

• Swamped

Man-Bat

Voiced by: Peter McNiol (Kirk Langstrom), SFX (Man-Bat)

Real name: Dr. Kirk Lanstrom

In an effort to become the ultimate "Bat" in Gotham, Dr. Langstrom began working on a mutative serum that would transform him into the extremely powerful and evil Man-Bat. The Man-Bat wreaked havoc throughout Gotham, but was eventually apprehended when his serum wore off. He is currently serving time in Arkham.

When transformed into Man-Bat, Langstrom has increased strength, a sticky mucus that binds specific areas on the victim, razor-sharp claws, a thirst for blood (his first foray into Man-Bat led him to the Gotham Zoo, where he sucked the blood out of a goat), and sees via the means of a "radar." While the world looks solely black-and-white to him, objects emitting heat will show up as solid white.

Appearances:

• The Man Who Would Be Bat
• Pets

Maxie Zeus

Voiced by: Phil LaMarr

Real name: Maximillion Zeus

Despite it looking like Maximillian Zeus would defeat Mayor Grange in the next election, after Zeus unveiled some questionable tactics that he would employ should he become mayor of Gotham, Grange won in a landslide vote. Not wanting to see his metropolis of a city "fall", Zeus overtook Gotham with his aerial fortress, The New Olympus. Batgirl intervened along with Batman and together they took out Zeus and his fortress.

Appearances:

• Thunder

Mr. Freeze

Voiced by: Clancy Brown

Real name: Victor Fries

Mr. Freeze is a villain who uses his ice technology as a means of stealing the objects of his passion: the rarest, most valuable diamonds. Formerly Victor Fries, Mr. Freeze is a ruthless criminal who The Batman thought had met his demise in a cryogenic accident that reduced the villain's body temperature to that of neither living nor dead, creating a walking cryogenic monstrosity! Ice, in all forms, has become his obsession – along with making Gotham Mr. Freeze's very own Kingdom of Ice!

Appearances:

• The Big Chill
• Fire and Ice

Penguin

Voiced by: Tom Kenny

Real name: Oswald Copplepot

Oswald Cobblepot, like Bruce, is an ostensible billionaire in his 20s – but the similarities stop there. Unlike Bruce, "Ozzy" is rude, selfish, arrogant and homely – a grotesque penguin-bodied character – essentially, the “anti-Bruce!” While Gotham’s other villains may have it out for The Batman, Cobblepot is unique in that his scorn is often directed at Bruce Wayne, who serves as a constant reminder of everything Cobblepot is not. Employing the use of highly trained birds and an arsenal of deadly umbrellas, Penguin, as he calls himself, is determined to rebuild the Cobblepot fortune by criminal means.

After being told by a cellmate in Arkham that he hid a ton of cash in the Gotham Cemetery, The Joker and Penguin broke out to look for it. While Joker tussled with The Batman, Penguin searched for the treasure. The Penguin was unsuccessful in his search for the gold, but he did find the tomb of Count Dracula.

Accidentally cutting himself on his umbrella knife, Penguin dripped his blood onto Dracula’s shriveled corpse. The blood hit the heart and Dracula’s body immediately began to regenerate. After sucking the blood from a nearby cemetery guard, Dracula recruited Penguin to be his “tomb keeper” while he slept during the day. Penguin resisted at first, but after being put under Dracula’s mind control, he was forced to accept.

Penguin eventually snapped out of Dracula’s control once Dracula died. He was apprehended by the cops after he was found in a tomb with Vicki Vale and a whole lot of cash and gold.

On top of attempting to kill Alfred after their first meeting, Penguin declared revenge on both The Batman and Bruce Wayne. Despising Wayne's pretty boy image, Penguin went to the manner in an effor to get rid of Wayne once and for all. The Batman interfered with Penguin's plans ("What? How did you know I was here?!" "It's my job to know") and eventually returned Penguin to jail once again.

Upon escaping, Penguin teamed up with Catwoman in an effort to steal two powerful, ancient Egyptian statues that give the holder the ability to expel and use the power of light. Double-crossing Catwoman, Penguin stole both statues, hand-cuffed The Batman and Catwoman, and fled. Though he attempted to destroy Gotham, Penguin was unsuccessful, as the team he created was too deadly for both his Kabuki Twins and Penguin to fight.

Appearances:

• Call of the Copplepot
• Bird of Prey
• The Cat, the Bat and the Very Ugly
• Pets
• Night and the City
• A Dark Knight To Remember
• A Fistful of Felt (cameo)
• Fleurs De Mal

Poision Ivy

Voiced by: Piera Coppla

Real name: Pamela Isely

Pamela Isley, is charming, clever and a quick-tempered schemer, known to go to extreme measures to get her environmental messages heard. After a tragic accident transforms her into the evil half-human/half-plant that she names Poison Ivy, she is able to control anyone who gets a whiff of her plant pheromone 'spores.'

Pamela Isely is still a high school student and obsessed with plants. Anything or anyone that harms Mother Nature is an enemy to Pamela.

In order to carry out her plans against the industries that are harming plants in Gotham City, Isely hires temblor to do her dirty work (since Isely running around with her friend, Barbara Gordon, would certainly turn too many heads). After temblor’s payment for his jobs doesn’t come through and he learns his “boss” is really a teenage girl using a voice scrambler, he attempts to get rid of the annoyance in his life.

During the fight, The Batman shows up to detain temblor, but before he can completely save her, Isley is exposed to a powerful dosage of plant growth accelerator (“Chloro-mulch”) and her transformation to Poison Ivy begins.

For her first act, Ivy captures Commissioner Gordon and attempts to take his life; before she can, The Batman shows up. She quickly puts him under her control with a mind-controlling dust. Batgirl shows up to help free Gordon but finds herself overpowered by The Batman and Poison Ivy; despite this, Batgirl's able to snap The Batman out of the mind control and together they take down Ivy.

Appearances:

• Batgirl Begins, Part One
• Batgirl Begins, Part Two
• Fleurs De Mal

Ragdoll

Voiced by: Jeff Bennet

Real name: Peter Merkel

A master thief and triple-jointed contortionist, capable of bending his body in all sorts of impossible ways.

Able to bend himself in every imaginable (and even some unimaginable) positions, Ragdoll is a formidable opponent for The Batman, but an even bigger adversary of Catwoman. While Catwoman's interests are merely in cat-related fare, Ragdoll's interests lay wherever the money is. To Catwoman's dismay, this is also in rare cat-items: vintage animation cells, priceless artifacts and the main jewel of their battle, two 'Cat's Eyes' emeralds, hidden in a Gotham Clock Tower by a mobster in the 1930's. Though never found, it was enough to pique the interest of Ragdoll and Catwoman, falling into a trap set by The Batman.

After a lengthy and spectacular battle, Ragdoll went to Arkham empty handed, Catwoman back home and The Batman (and Bruce Wayne) with two newly found emeralds.

Appearances:

• Ragdolls to Riches

Riddler

Voiced by: Robert Englund

Real name: Edward Nashton/Nigma

A genius, Riddler is able to stump and confound almost everyone in Gotham--everyone except The Batman. Knowing that he would be helping Detective Ellen Yin to discover his riddles, Riddler moved them across the city, stopping his containers of "explosives." The explosives, in reality, turned out to be nothing more than gelatin desert. Upon discovering this, The Batman and Ellen discovered that inside Riddler's clues he left other riddles to his real plans. Chasing Riddler down, they found him at the site of where the original clue was given.

Though brilliant, Riddler is also sick and twisted. With his inability to not give riddles about everything he does, he always leaves that as a weak spot for The Batman to exploit.

Appearances:

• Riddled
• Night and the City

Scarface and Arnold Wesker

Voiced by: Dan Castellaneta

Real name: Arnold Wesker

When ventriloquist Arnold Wesker and his friend "Scarface" were booed off-stage one night, Wesker returned with Scarface later that night to rob the entire audience. Turning to a life of crime ever since, everyone knew that without Arnold Wesker there was no Scarface...the only problem was, Arnold didn't know that. Believing that Scarface was the true "puppet master", Arnold did whatever Scarface "told" him to do; this ranged from jewel heists to big-time robberies.

Scarface was upgraded with a giant, metal version of himself, in which Wesker was the "Dummy." Scarface "died" when a train hit him and shattered him into shards of metal. Wesker was locked up in Arkham shortly after.

After being "cured" of his affliction by Professor Hugo Strange, Arnold Wesker was able to resume his life in the real world. Before Scarface warped his mind, Wesker was a famous voice actor for a childrens TV show. Once the show ended, Wesker did shows with a new set of puppets, but was unsuccessful. One of these puppets was Scarface and together they became a formidable villain for The Batman. Despite being successful in his new life, Professor Hugo Strange wished to "test" his criminal therapy and gave the Scarface puppet back to Wesker, causing him to fold and resume being Wesker and Scarface.

Wesker was eventually separated from Scarface a third time when he and another one of Wesker's puppets, Mr. Snoots, were ran over by the train on Wesker's old TV show. Wesker was taken back to Arkham.

Appearances:

• The Big Dummy
• A Fistful of Felt

Spellbinder

Voiced by: Michael Massee

Real name: Delbert Billings

Spellbinder is a hyponsis causing villain.

Appearances:

• The Butler Did It

Temblor

Voiced by: Jim Cummings

Real name: Unknown

Temblor is a hired mercenary, like Firefly, but uses gloves that cause sonic temors.

See also

• The Batman
• The World's Finest - The Batman