@@marctm7614 I mean so did the comics and Batman TAS. Not to defend Suicide Squad, but every adaption seems to forget he's a guy with a skin condition and make him an actual mutant at some point.
Killer Croc in the suicide squad movie is one of the rare times when practical effects actually made a movie worse and would have been better as CGI because hes too small and looks stupid. Same with the Grand Inquisitor in Kenobi and the Oscar Isaac version of Apocalypse
Love that rules are set up at the start only to prevent them getting comments from mad fans and then they put Joker in the lowest tier without hesistation.
I guess the difference is Mr Freezes gun blasts ice and freezes you into a block of ice. Wheras Captain Colds gun shoots a beam that brings the temperature down to absolute zero, it doesn't shoot ice blasts.
yes but Mr Freeze's gun just shoots ice. Captain Cold's gun brings the temperature down to absolute zero. since technically absolute zero (0 degrees Kelvin) is technically only theoretical since it hasn't been observed or achieved in nature, the fact that Captain Cold has mastered absolute zero makes him much more interesting than just a a gimmicky bank robbing thug.
Not really comics hes still usually pretty good,arkham games,batman the animated series,the joker first movie,Heath ledger and lego joker Bad joker content is his second movie,anime suicide squad,injustice 2 game,suicude squad the game and leto joker Now that im seeing this i think we just never have joker touch the suicude squad ip lol. @@li-limandragon9287
I’d never thought about it until they talked about it, but I can totally see it! Especially now that he’s a bit older and has slimmed down - bend be a great choice I think
My favorite thing about the Clock King episode is Batman can't get his hands on him and Clock King is like "Aha! I know it takes you two tenths of a second to throw a punch!" and dodges him, but like... it doesn't work like that. I can know how fast Bruce Lee throws a punch, that doesn't mean I can dodge Bruce Lee lol
Watching the Riddler move from A to S tier brought me no small measure of joy. Also the Joker moving below F tier mainly because of Jared Leto is hilarious.
I am jealous, only around a year for me. While on a Star Wars kick awhile ago, I came across someone mentioning the Caravan of Garbage episodes covering the What If comics, been hooked ever since.
@@davp4435 They were already at episode 100 around 11 years ago!? It will likely take at least 2-3 years to catch up if I ever get around to the podcast. So far I have stuck to the TH-cam content.
I mean Bane's main strength is his physical body, so it makes sense that would be what his final form consists pf, but the game did an amaming job of demonstrating his intelligence and menace as well
I havent even seen the Penguin or sopranos and im already doing that, and I keep saying "its New York babyyyy its all about the Metz, we eata good" I think the show would teleport me to New Jersey
12:14 Putting Black Mask and Hush together in the same category is fitting, as they took what made Black Mask interesting (identity, the theatrics of disguising your face etc.) and essentially gave it to Hush... and then did nothing with any of it, while relegating Black Mask to just being a fancier version of Carmine Falcone.
You forgot the best part of killer croc in the arkham games where each game he gets more croccy. His legs get shorter and stubbier and he gets less cognitive as his condition gets worse. Great stuff
Should've added Victor Zsasz. I just love the way that every time Batman come across him he has one hostage held at knife point. Then Batman just kinda tells him he doesn't have time for him because he's dealing with something actually important, but Zsasz monologues anyway & Batman knocks him out almost immediately, leaves, & tells the cops to take him to Arkham.
I love Bane he's easily in my top five favorite Batman villains and I do agree I think live action and animation always mess up some part of him they forget he's a tactical genius or his origin is just throw away
Problem is, Bane has to be the villain protagonist otherwise it doesn’t really work. He’s supposed to out-Batman Batman. Without the build up, he’s just a guy with steroids. Like Doctor Doom you gotta divorce him from his nemesis just a bit.
I think what he means is mr freeze has an ice gun and it shoots ice, captain cold shoots a beam and turns the victim into ice, he doesn’t just slow down the molecules, he basically stops them completely. I’m Pretty sure at least lol
I feel like Scarecrow has never really gotten his due in movies and TV. There's so much that could be done with him, if the producers are willing to go full psycho-thriller, or full gothic.
Well the thing with Hush was he was supposed to be the antagonist of the final game in the Arkham trilogy before it became Arkham knight, the idea being Scarecrow could attack Batman whilst Hush can target Bruce Wayne. And since the Arkham games had just introduced a mass audience to Hugo strange and made him a more well known Batman antagonist, they Presumably wanted to do the same thing for Hush and massively boost his standing amongst Batmans rogues. But then Paul Dini was dropped by Rocksteady and Jason Todd was introduced last minute (alongside ghost joker) into Arkham knight, with Hush getting demoted to a lame side mission! And I still think to this day that’s one of the biggest missed opportunities in Batman history.
That makes sense considering Dini also wrote the best Hush stories in the comics (Streets of Gotham etc is great and House of Husb was a formative Batman story for me)
my favorite is Solomon Grundy solely because of a cartoon network bumper that ran when i was a kid. it was re-edited and re-dubbed footage from the 70s Super Friends cartoon wherein the Legion of Doom are all making ludicrous demands of Lex Luthor. "SOLOMON GRUNDY WANT PANTS TOO" exists eternally in my inner thoughts
8:40 It's endlessly funny that the only guy who can actually prove Joker's "one bad day" hypothesis right is a guy the future mayor told "take a break in the park" and just that absolutely destroyed his life completely, leading to a meticulous revenge plot. It's like if The Phantom of the Opera was a guy who tripped and fell into an orchestra pit while performing and he swore to make everyone pay.
I don't know why but as a kid watching Batman cartoon I always liked the Ventriloquist. Very interesting villain, would like to see him in a movie. Firefly was cool too
@@cngotham4111Even comic Joker has a colossal amount of BS. From that 3 Joker stuff to creating all the Batman Who Laughs drek. Strip away the adaptations and judging Joker on his own, he’s had more misses than hits.
@@li-limandragon9287 batman who laughs isn't the joker,scott syders batman run with the joker in it was good and just in general he's been either good or decent. The 3 jokers was decent it wasn't that bad lol. So no comics joker generally is good obviously there might be a few comics where he does suck but generally.
Man Bat is good exclusively as a visual representation of what the general public thinks Batman really is. I don't think they properly utilize him that way enough though.
They actually had Black Mask in a season of Batwoman and he was really good. It, again, explored the duality between him in and out of the mask. Which ended up fused to his head rather than just worn.
My favorite Bane is the Bane in the Lego Batman movie because he’s voiced by Doug Benson who has a comedy podcast and he did the Bane impression so often that other actors from the movie and possibly the creators chose him for the part because of it.
I loved the first arc of failsafe, the unstoppable relently terminator who takes away batmans prep time was such a fun read. Its a shame he'll probably never live up to that fear again
Great list. Love the Joker rating. Thought you would change it right at the end but you didn’t. Some people I would have liked you to cover were Professor Pyg (the most disturbing villain when he came out but hasn’t been capitalized on since his debut), The Ventriloquist, (I love Mad Hatter), Jane Doe, etc. Arkham is supposed to be hell. And i like the truly disturbed villains.
Solomon Grundy Born on a Monday, Christened on Tuesday Married on Wednesday Took ill on Thursday, Grew worse on Friday, Died on Saturday, Buried on Sunday, That was the end, Of Solomon Grundy.
If you're leaving out all the villains Batman's kissed then all you're gonna have left is Mr Freeze, because he has that glass bowl over his head which makes him impervious to smooching
I'll always think of the team up between Scarecrow and The Joker during Knightfall, and how the Fear Gas made Batman go ballistic on The Joker. Black Mask used to be interesting, now he's just mobster Red Skull.
No mention for The Reaper? I know a lot of people don't like Batman Year 2, but it was one of my first comics, and I still love it to this day. The design, the brutality, he pushed Batman far enough that he took up a gun. Still a villain who helped mold the Batman we got and loved.
A very fair list! I loved your thoughts on the failsafe robot, I loved reading that into absolute power. Although, I would be a little bit more lenient on Hush 😅. Maybe I'd put him in C, sometimes I need a good old simple villain like that. I do agree, he could be expanded upon
My favorite penguin was uhhhh there was one that essentially went through his day. He stepped on a mans foot and the guy called him a freak because of his hands and he absolutely destroys the guys life. He then offers his mothers live in nurse like 10 million dollars for being kind to his mother and to him and she kist smiles and tells him she did it because she loved his mother not for money and he doesn't understand how to deal with a person who doesnt taunt him, afraid of him or want something from him
the problem with the hush comic imo is that its just a slightly worse version of the original bane comic. Bane gets a bunch of dudes to wear down batman over days/weeks, and then attacks him. Bane actually breaks batmans back and becomes a legend. Hush has the same plan... but then scrubs out without achieving much. Also the comic sorta tries to pretend like Hush can be anyone, but Hush is obviously the guy who was newly introduce in the comic and is getting a lot of face time.
I like this 100% official ranking, because it's exactly how I would rank them. And I like doing the Bane voice, I'm happy you included it in this video.
I hadn't heard of Failsafe, but I was hoping you might mention DAVE from The Batman (2003), the ultimate robotic villain whose unravelling comes when he realises he doesn't have an origin story of his own and shuts down.
I can't believe my boy Ratcatcher isn't on here. I love him, he's fun. That period of Batman history where they went out of their way to use literally any villain except the big six or so was full of random weirdos.
There was an idea floated in the comics a while ago, that when Batman took down the crime families it left a power vacuum that was filled by the "Freaks" aka the crazy costumed villains. And in that mess, Roman Sionis made a grab for power by using the alias Black Mask and pretending he was one of the new breed, and starting a gang that appealed to the "Freaks" And I feel like that could work really well in live action, especially if you pit him against the Penguin, and have Oswald give him a "you aren't one of us speech" before branding the mask to his face to make him fit the role he's been playing by the end. (Penguin takes over the gang, Black Mask ends up in Arkham). I think it could have really worked in The Batman's sequel too, but now it's a bit too close to the Penguin series.
My favorite old comic was when Batman played spin the bottle with all the great villains that didn’t appear on this list. Professor pyg and onomatopoeia may have forgot that night but good old James and Maso didn’t!
8:01 there's actually a really good episode of The Batman where he's got the Time Button from the end of Comedy Central Futurama. Basically he can turn back time for 20 seconds and make Mini Time Loops
Bane is so S tier for me. A part of one of the most iconic comic panels of all time and the ultimate match for Batman in battle and tactically. I love when the venom serum is used in any dc comic as well
Low door frames, an S tier villain of Big Ears Batman
imagine if big ears Batman ever had to face the corn of coblin
@@jesse_reznorasking the real questions
@@jesse_reznor "big ear of corn of coblin"
@@Thatfantasyfootballchickdoor of Coblin?
@@Thatfantasyfootballchick 'ear 'ear!
Solomon Grundy
Started in F-tier
Was raised to D-tier
Mistakenly dragged to C-tier
Slipped into B-tier
Was bumped up into A-tier
Memed into S-tier
Good job my friend. Good job.
Beautiful.
Brain slowly figuring
(Slowing standing up and clapping)
Fan4astic
You forgot the best thing about Killer Croc, when he does that weird little crawl into the water in Suicide Squad. What an odd thing to do.
Especially he's just a guy with a skin condition, like he's not an actual amphibian. I think the movie forgot about that bit of lore halfway in, tbh.
@@marctm7614 I mean so did the comics and Batman TAS. Not to defend Suicide Squad, but every adaption seems to forget he's a guy with a skin condition and make him an actual mutant at some point.
Killer Croc in the suicide squad movie is one of the rare times when practical effects actually made a movie worse and would have been better as CGI because hes too small and looks stupid. Same with the Grand Inquisitor in Kenobi and the Oscar Isaac version of Apocalypse
@@rorylynch7775I think the grand inquisitor looks weird cause his clothes are too big.
"I live underground, y'all just tourists"
Immediately gets choked out underwater.
Point of order: Batman kissed Ras Al Ghul in Batman Beyond, when Ras had taken over the body of his daughter Talia.
Technically correct. The best kind of correct, lol.
Also he has definitely kissed Poison Ivy
I guess I should have watched the full vid before commenting am I right fellas?
that happened
Ew. That is so creepy, taking over your daughter's body, and making out with someone?
Love that rules are set up at the start only to prevent them getting comments from mad fans and then they put Joker in the lowest tier without hesistation.
Blame Jared Leto 🤷
@@nathonso_editsI love Mark, Nicholson and Heath but there’s too much bad Joker stuff at the moment. Put the clown on ice for a decade.
It's not just two bad movies, there's the three joker era, the Batman who laughs, and so much filler. Joker is F- tier
They baited us and here we are 😂
@@li-limandragon9287well said. The prince needs a break
I’ve watched this 5 times, and my favorite villain, The Big Kisser, has not been mentioned.
Must have been cut from the video last minute for copyright reasons😂🎉
they mention him at 24:56
@Sophie_the_Sapphic of course the unrated "directors cut" was a limited number of them produced.
did he kiss batman? Then that's why
6th time he shows, buddy
Not many tier lists are brave enough to forget an entire tier exists
"Captain Cold just slows molecules down, it's not a freeze gun."
THAT'S LITERALLY WHAT FREEZING IS
I guess the difference is Mr Freezes gun blasts ice and freezes you into a block of ice. Wheras Captain Colds gun shoots a beam that brings the temperature down to absolute zero, it doesn't shoot ice blasts.
@@dustinakadustin that is actually the difference. At least when the writers remember it.
yes but Mr Freeze's gun just shoots ice. Captain Cold's gun brings the temperature down to absolute zero. since technically absolute zero (0 degrees Kelvin) is technically only theoretical since it hasn't been observed or achieved in nature, the fact that Captain Cold has mastered absolute zero makes him much more interesting than just a a gimmicky bank robbing thug.
The moment I saw the title I knew Joker would be an F and I was not disappointed lol
The bad Joker content outweighs the good stuff now. He’s a worn out joke.
@@li-limandragon9287it’s eye rolling at this point we know what they are gonna do before they do it lol.
Not really comics hes still usually pretty good,arkham games,batman the animated series,the joker first movie,Heath ledger and lego joker
Bad joker content is his second movie,anime suicide squad,injustice 2 game,suicude squad the game and leto joker
Now that im seeing this i think we just never have joker touch the suicude squad ip lol. @@li-limandragon9287
The idea of a Dave Bautista Hugo Strange going to live rent free in my head now.
I’d never thought about it until they talked about it, but I can totally see it!
Especially now that he’s a bit older and has slimmed down - bend be a great choice I think
He loves himself some tiny glasses.
It’s been talked about for a while. It’s a super good idea and someone should definitely pitch it to Dave
Sorry they're content creators, you need to pay Patreon if it's gonna live in your head.
Especially now that he lost weight and looks even more like him.
Condiment King, S tier for saucy.
REAL Gotham royalty!
You have impeccable taste
M Tier for Mustard
Condiment King isn't a villain, he's who Batman aspires to be
Sounds spicy
The banter between you two never gets old, and the Aussie flare just makes it perfect.
My favorite thing about the Clock King episode is Batman can't get his hands on him and Clock King is like "Aha! I know it takes you two tenths of a second to throw a punch!" and dodges him, but like... it doesn't work like that. I can know how fast Bruce Lee throws a punch, that doesn't mean I can dodge Bruce Lee lol
Watching the Riddler move from A to S tier brought me no small measure of joy. Also the Joker moving below F tier mainly because of Jared Leto is hilarious.
The fact that Ive been watching these guys for 11 years now.......
I am jealous, only around a year for me. While on a Star Wars kick awhile ago, I came across someone mentioning the Caravan of Garbage episodes covering the What If comics, been hooked ever since.
@danielflanard8274 I watched ep 100 of the podcast cause they talked about the prequels. That's around the time I found them
@@davp4435
They were already at episode 100 around 11 years ago!? It will likely take at least 2-3 years to catch up if I ever get around to the podcast. So far I have stuck to the TH-cam content.
@@danielflanard8274managed to do it all during covid, wouldn’t have made it through that 2 years without them
yoo me too that's crazy
Arkham Origins got Baine right. But then they had to turn him into the Hulk at the end to tie it into the rest of the Arkham games.
And Killer Croc
I mean Bane's main strength is his physical body, so it makes sense that would be what his final form consists pf, but the game did an amaming job of demonstrating his intelligence and menace as well
Unfortunately, you didn't get Bane right ("Baine")...
Ever since The Penguin dropped i keep walking around the house saying things like "YOU SHOULDA COME TO ME FOIST".
I keep saying Johnny Viti in a New Joisey accent. That show has broken me
I havent even seen the Penguin or sopranos and im already doing that, and I keep saying "its New York babyyyy its all about the Metz, we eata good"
I think the show would teleport me to New Jersey
The forced accents in the penguin almost made me turn it off
Whenever that falcone girl started stalking more than 30 seconds (often) i skipped ahead
@@adammitchell1290 Sofia? That's Cristin Milioti's actual voice she's actually from New Jersey lmao
@@ZachBobBob He's just accentist 😂
Batman’s biggest enemy will always be the Tax Man
Scariest time of the year
"Who always pays his taxes?
NOT BATMAN!"
@@saadyahschick7560 nananana TAXMAN
nah he's a trust fund kid... they don't pay taxes...
Even the Joker is afraid of the IRS that’s how you know Batman is actually crazier.
12:14 Putting Black Mask and Hush together in the same category is fitting, as they took what made Black Mask interesting (identity, the theatrics of disguising your face etc.) and essentially gave it to Hush... and then did nothing with any of it, while relegating Black Mask to just being a fancier version of Carmine Falcone.
You forgot the best part of killer croc in the arkham games where each game he gets more croccy. His legs get shorter and stubbier and he gets less cognitive as his condition gets worse. Great stuff
I thought the predator was going to be on this list, but I forgot they kissed, so that's on me.
Seeing Jonkler get dunked on is a lot more cathartic than I expected.
He's where he belongs. He knows what he did.
Corn of Coblin is Corn tier
Corn of Coblin is an S tier Spiderman villain but kissed batman so can't be on this list
I liked it when Danny Devito ate that guy's nose
Should've added Victor Zsasz.
I just love the way that every time Batman come across him he has one hostage held at knife point. Then Batman just kinda tells him he doesn't have time for him because he's dealing with something actually important, but Zsasz monologues anyway & Batman knocks him out almost immediately, leaves, & tells the cops to take him to Arkham.
I love Bane he's easily in my top five favorite Batman villains and I do agree I think live action and animation always mess up some part of him they forget he's a tactical genius or his origin is just throw away
Problem is, Bane has to be the villain protagonist otherwise it doesn’t really work. He’s supposed to out-Batman Batman. Without the build up, he’s just a guy with steroids.
Like Doctor Doom you gotta divorce him from his nemesis just a bit.
Bane? why does he wear the mask? if you pull that off, would he die? i know it would be extremely painful, but i mean, he *is* a big guy
Aaron Eckhart as Two Face is worthy of an A on his own
Hugo Strange in Gotham (TV show) was deliciously camp as played by BD Wong.
9:46 That’s how cold works, Maso…
Dammmm, you beat me to it!! I just got to that part and I was about to type it… 😂😂
@ Gabriels know 🤜🏽🤛🏽
I think what he means is mr freeze has an ice gun and it shoots ice, captain cold shoots a beam and turns the victim into ice, he doesn’t just slow down the molecules, he basically stops them completely. I’m Pretty sure at least lol
Gotham series penguin was actually such great character writing imo
Leaving Joker at the bottom is hilariously on-brand!!! I love it
Also kinda predictable
@@Anthonycheesman2024
That is also on-brand.
Scarecrow is S tier and you know it! He makes Batman deal with the stuff that makes him crazy enough to be Batman.
I feel like Scarecrow has never really gotten his due in movies and TV. There's so much that could be done with him, if the producers are willing to go full psycho-thriller, or full gothic.
Goddamn, Dave Batista would absolutely kill it as Hugo Strange
The dog walking in for attention during the podcast is the TRUE villain. But we love that dog so hope it keeps happening.
“It’s dog time everyone.”
Well the thing with Hush was he was supposed to be the antagonist of the final game in the Arkham trilogy before it became Arkham knight, the idea being Scarecrow could attack Batman whilst Hush can target Bruce Wayne. And since the Arkham games had just introduced a mass audience to Hugo strange and made him a more well known Batman antagonist, they Presumably wanted to do the same thing for Hush and massively boost his standing amongst Batmans rogues. But then Paul Dini was dropped by Rocksteady and Jason Todd was introduced last minute (alongside ghost joker) into Arkham knight, with Hush getting demoted to a lame side mission! And I still think to this day that’s one of the biggest missed opportunities in Batman history.
That makes sense considering Dini also wrote the best Hush stories in the comics (Streets of Gotham etc is great and House of Husb was a formative Batman story for me)
3:27 I love that editor Matthew perfectly matched the clip to James' quote "I threw a rock at him one time." It made me laugh.
Jokes on you Mason, freezing *is* just molecules slowing down
I can never get enough of this style of humor. Legitimately makes me laugh on the level of Monty Python or Abbott and Costello.
The first Hush story is, "who could this mysterious person be? Is he Two Face? Jason Todd? A character from Bruce's past introduced in this story?"
0:54 missed opportunity to play seal - kiss from a rose
the way Mason talks about Riddler makes it seem like he's simply a training course and I really love that idea.
I love that the joker gets the F tier treatment, then James transitions, without skipping a beat, to "Man Bat!?"
my favorite is Solomon Grundy solely because of a cartoon network bumper that ran when i was a kid. it was re-edited and re-dubbed footage from the 70s Super Friends cartoon wherein the Legion of Doom are all making ludicrous demands of Lex Luthor. "SOLOMON GRUNDY WANT PANTS TOO" exists eternally in my inner thoughts
3:32 "It was a big rock."
11:07 Perfect editing for this bit.
12:12 That was actually Richard Sionis/The Mask, father of Roman Sionis/Black Mask.
The Batman: Beyond Mr. Freeze episode is one of my favorite episodes of any comic show from the late nineties/early 00s era.
8:40 It's endlessly funny that the only guy who can actually prove Joker's "one bad day" hypothesis right is a guy the future mayor told "take a break in the park" and just that absolutely destroyed his life completely, leading to a meticulous revenge plot.
It's like if The Phantom of the Opera was a guy who tripped and fell into an orchestra pit while performing and he swore to make everyone pay.
I don't know why but as a kid watching Batman cartoon I always liked the Ventriloquist. Very interesting villain, would like to see him in a movie. Firefly was cool too
I was incensed that Joker was put in the lowest tier, but then they mentioned the Jared Leto version, and honestly, fair enough.
Also Joker 2 and Kill the Justice League DLC and the animated Killing Joke.
@li-limandragon9287 Managed to avoid all of these so far, thankfully.
@@li-limandragon9287but comic joker, mark Hamill joker, the first joker movie and heath ledger was all good
@@cngotham4111Even comic Joker has a colossal amount of BS. From that 3 Joker stuff to creating all the Batman Who Laughs drek. Strip away the adaptations and judging Joker on his own, he’s had more misses than hits.
@@li-limandragon9287 batman who laughs isn't the joker,scott syders batman run with the joker in it was good and just in general he's been either good or decent. The 3 jokers was decent it wasn't that bad lol. So no comics joker generally is good obviously there might be a few comics where he does suck but generally.
I did love that episode with Clock King. He memorized Batman’s frame data.
Man Bat is good exclusively as a visual representation of what the general public thinks Batman really is. I don't think they properly utilize him that way enough though.
Cant imagine my life without these two
This is the only content of this sort thst i watch
You transcend your medium
These guys are the funniest TH-camrs of all time
They actually had Black Mask in a season of Batwoman and he was really good. It, again, explored the duality between him in and out of the mask. Which ended up fused to his head rather than just worn.
Scarecrow is my personal favorite. Always loved the design and the method to his madness.
My favorite Bane is the Bane in the Lego Batman movie because he’s voiced by Doug Benson who has a comedy podcast and he did the Bane impression so often that other actors from the movie and possibly the creators chose him for the part because of it.
I loved the first arc of failsafe, the unstoppable relently terminator who takes away batmans prep time was such a fun read.
Its a shame he'll probably never live up to that fear again
Can't believe you'd do my boy Jervis like this...
1:31 I thought Mason was going to say “The perfectly bisexual face” for a moment
Black Mask... underrated. He's just a gangster who will fire an RPG in his office, because he's insane and can't handle the pressure.
That Neal Adams cover is so good, it was used as the cover for a 75th Anniversary hardcover collection of Two-Face stories a few years ago.
I love that original court of owls run but maaaan I haven’t seen anything good outta them since. Very one note I’d say
They haven't been used right is the problem
I know you guys weren't fans but I enjoyed a lot of the Gotham versions of these characters. Riddler, Penguin and Hugo Strange especially.
I can't believe you didn't include Batman's S-Tier arch villain: a bear.
Well observed jurassic koonce.
You can't fight bears forever...
the tv show the bear with bear that eat everyone?
Mr. Freeze's BTAS Design was done by Mike Mignola, creator of Hellboy
I love Mr.Freeze. His motives make sense. Honestly, Batman has the best villain gallery hands down.
Great list. Love the Joker rating. Thought you would change it right at the end but you didn’t.
Some people I would have liked you to cover were Professor Pyg (the most disturbing villain when he came out but hasn’t been capitalized on since his debut), The Ventriloquist, (I love Mad Hatter), Jane Doe, etc.
Arkham is supposed to be hell. And i like the truly disturbed villains.
Solomon Grundy
Born on a Monday,
Christened on Tuesday
Married on Wednesday
Took ill on Thursday,
Grew worse on Friday,
Died on Saturday,
Buried on Sunday,
That was the end,
Of Solomon Grundy.
Mr. Rogue's Gallery did rank every single Batman villain. I recommend that.
Screamed in my car because mason named the two face cover that I own I love this channel
If you're leaving out all the villains Batman's kissed then all you're gonna have left is Mr Freeze, because he has that glass bowl over his head which makes him impervious to smooching
His glass bowl is, however, covered in smooch marks from Batman's many attempts
Whoever keeps misspelling villain in these titles, good job on the engagement bait
2:55 It's weird to hear Maso say "frickin'".
Legit been waiting for him to swear for years, gotta be the closest he's came 😅
I'll always think of the team up between Scarecrow and The Joker during Knightfall, and how the Fear Gas made Batman go ballistic on The Joker.
Black Mask used to be interesting, now he's just mobster Red Skull.
No mention for The Reaper? I know a lot of people don't like Batman Year 2, but it was one of my first comics, and I still love it to this day. The design, the brutality, he pushed Batman far enough that he took up a gun. Still a villain who helped mold the Batman we got and loved.
James is really good at intros, he should write a book on the art of the intro, with the working title of blue harvest
i was waiting for joker to get A. he deserves F. making a second account to like the video twice.
A very fair list! I loved your thoughts on the failsafe robot, I loved reading that into absolute power. Although, I would be a little bit more lenient on Hush 😅. Maybe I'd put him in C, sometimes I need a good old simple villain like that. I do agree, he could be expanded upon
My favorite penguin was uhhhh there was one that essentially went through his day. He stepped on a mans foot and the guy called him a freak because of his hands and he absolutely destroys the guys life.
He then offers his mothers live in nurse like 10 million dollars for being kind to his mother and to him and she kist smiles and tells him she did it because she loved his mother not for money and he doesn't understand how to deal with a person who doesnt taunt him, afraid of him or want something from him
the problem with the hush comic imo is that its just a slightly worse version of the original bane comic.
Bane gets a bunch of dudes to wear down batman over days/weeks, and then attacks him. Bane actually breaks batmans back and becomes a legend.
Hush has the same plan... but then scrubs out without achieving much. Also the comic sorta tries to pretend like Hush can be anyone, but Hush is obviously the guy who was newly introduce in the comic and is getting a lot of face time.
One thing you guys didn't really get, it was a big rock.
The rankings are very generous.
That Joker ranking😂
Exactly where he should be.
Comic books aren't for nerds. Nerds are for comic books.
I like this 100% official ranking, because it's exactly how I would rank them.
And I like doing the Bane voice, I'm happy you included it in this video.
I hadn't heard of Failsafe, but I was hoping you might mention DAVE from The Batman (2003), the ultimate robotic villain whose unravelling comes when he realises he doesn't have an origin story of his own and shuts down.
I can't believe my boy Ratcatcher isn't on here. I love him, he's fun. That period of Batman history where they went out of their way to use literally any villain except the big six or so was full of random weirdos.
He kissed Batman.
He wasn't included because Batman kissed him.
The man bat episode of the animated series is much better than the clock king one. Justice for man bat
There was an idea floated in the comics a while ago, that when Batman took down the crime families it left a power vacuum that was filled by the "Freaks" aka the crazy costumed villains. And in that mess, Roman Sionis made a grab for power by using the alias Black Mask and pretending he was one of the new breed, and starting a gang that appealed to the "Freaks"
And I feel like that could work really well in live action, especially if you pit him against the Penguin, and have Oswald give him a "you aren't one of us speech" before branding the mask to his face to make him fit the role he's been playing by the end. (Penguin takes over the gang, Black Mask ends up in Arkham).
I think it could have really worked in The Batman's sequel too, but now it's a bit too close to the Penguin series.
My favorite old comic was when Batman played spin the bottle with all the great villains that didn’t appear on this list. Professor pyg and onomatopoeia may have forgot that night but good old James and Maso didn’t!
I know these guys so well now that I knew since the beginning that Joker would end at F LOL. Great video and a great time, as always
less than 90 seconds in, and all I can think about is how Drew Barrymore's Never Been Kissed would have made the perfect thumbnail.
I know a casual Batman fan when I smell one
I love watching these videos while falling asleep
Thank you so much for giving me the authority to rank those other villains. It was a horrible mistake to give me that power though
Subbed. You guys are really enjoyable to listen to.
8:01 there's actually a really good episode of The Batman where he's got the Time Button from the end of Comedy Central Futurama. Basically he can turn back time for 20 seconds and make Mini Time Loops
Bane is so S tier for me. A part of one of the most iconic comic panels of all time and the ultimate match for Batman in battle and tactically. I love when the venom serum is used in any dc comic as well
Shame pretty no adaptation has done him justice compared to the comic.
We all know Kiteman is Batman's greatest villain
Who would win: Kite-Man or Stilt-Man?
I hate to be that guy buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut Two Face has gotta be higher purely because of he is a warped reflection of the Dark Knight himself!!! 🦇