The riddler is just a narcissist
The penguin is just short fat and ugly
Harley Quinn is just a ditz
The joker is just a sociopath
Catwoman (more of an anti hero than a villain) is just a dommy mommy
Mr freeze is just a smart dude with a dead wife
I mean, yeah. Like ninety percent of Batmanās rogues gallery are just mob bosses with a gimmick. Heās a street level superhero, thatās about how much you can reasonably take on when your superpowers are martial arts and money.
I dunno, Iron Man is pretty much just the money part without the martial arts, and he fought Thanos.
So its something to do with how tonyās parents raised him vs batman being an orphaned billionaire
Orphans lose again
Hell, Jason Statham was just an activist and singlehandedly took on a megalodon and swam unprotected underneath the Marianaās Trench by holding water in his nose. Bats and Stark really have to step it up as far as raw power.
Riddler is a smart narcissist and in latest versions, apparently a twitch streamer. I find that part hilarious
Penguin is rich as hell and pretty much the only one who could rival Batman in terms of monetary power
Catwoman got athletics. Counts for something I guess.
And Mr Freeze is intensely augmented by his technology to a point of pseudo immortality and having a good mastery over his unique weapons. Honestly Mr Freeze is highly irregular
I think thatās the interesting thing about batman. Heās just a dude.
Granted, he has a lot of money, but at the end of the day, heās just a dude, that enjoys solving mysteries. Heās a hobbyist detective.
So yeah, all his villains are going to have similar abilities (Later they had the clay guy and croc and people with actual super powers). But the idea was for a guy that just liked solving crime.
And you have to make that memorable and go in on whatās vogue at the time - so they made him have this whole bat identity. And ok, that adds an interesting back story, and similarly the villains need to be memorable too, but not super-powered.
So the villains, are some of the most interesting because they canāt just do something because their super-powers granted them the ability, they have to actually think and plan and have interesting motives.
And two-face is either an agent of chaos or presldestination. And to my knowledge they never explore that, itās open to your interpretation.
Edit: batman also came out at a time when mental illness was really starting to affect society. Back in the day if you were mentally ill, they just called it evil, and put you to death. But then people started examining stuff like that and say āHey, we might be able to help these people.ā So then you have the state-run looney bins which is rich soil for batman-type villains.
Nice character analysisation.
Would be a shame if they were to squander all that when they make him team up with a group of justice loving superheroes. We could call them the ājustice Leagueā and then make Batman bullshit OP because he has to keep up with superheroes and supervillains.
Good thing they would never do that to a setting that isnāt based around superpowers, they would neeeveer do such a stupid idea
To be fair, Anton Chigurh also flipped a coin to decide peopleās fate, and that dude was fucking terrifying. And he didnāt even use a gun. Most of the time, anyway.
Heās just having fun and being chaotic. No need to be specifically evil with goals.
Flipping a coin and abiding by its decision seems more rule oriented than chaotic to me
The Riddler is a criminal whose MO is to leave clues behind. That makes him worse than an ordinary criminal.