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The Iron Age of Batman Villains

This is a list of Iron Age Batman Villains. It covers Batman's enemies from 2000-September 2011. Though shorter than most other comic ages, No Man's Land and the New 52 seem like perfect book ends.

I've tried to focus on the characters that are villains rather than just criminals but I've yet to come up with a perfect formula to explain why I exclude some and include others.

I wanted to use Hesoid's 5 ages for the comic book periods, because lumping everything from 1986 until now as the Modern Age seems too much. After all, the Silver Age was 14 years, the Bronze Age was 16, and the Golden Age was 18 years. The Iron Age is the shortest of all the ages, 10 years and 9 months, yet has the most villains.

The list is chronological, based on when Batman first encounters the character as a villain. The focus is on Bat-villains, so if the character is from someone else's rogues gallery (like Weather Wizard) they won't make it in but if the character is a general villain (like Solomon Grundy) they will. I also don't include villains that Batman only encounters when he's part of a team.

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1. Banner

Along the lines of the character from the ugly American, the Banner was the first new adversary introduced after No Man's Land. An anti-big government terrorist, the Banner quickly disappeared after his initial story arc.
2. Whisper A'Daire

Initially an underling of Ra's, A'Daire later became involved with Intergang.
3. Kyle Abbot

Like A'Daire, Abbot was initially an underling of Ra's and later became involved with Intergang. However, he split ways with Intergang and became somewhat of an ally to Batwoman.
4. Skeleton

A villain obsessed with destroying Bruce Wayne. Created by Brian K. Vaughn, the Skeleton only had one appearance.
5. Ekin Tzu

After Abbot and A'Daire got through with Ekin, he went from being a plain clothed criminal to a Gotham Freak show.
6. Orca

A mutated environmentalist.
7. Colonel Brass

Retroactively introduced through Legends of the Dark Knight, Brass appeared in a single story arc.
8. Zeiss

Initially introduced as the loyal bodyguard for Lew Moxon, Zeiss eventually wound up freelancing and then faded into obscurity.
9. Bloodhawks

Batman has a lot of run in with various government agencies and groups, Checkmate, Task Force X, etc. The Bloodhawks however, were specifically tasked with taking out Batman and have only ever appeared with that as their objective. As a result they fall under the Bat-Villain category whereas other government organization do not.
10. Matatoa
11. Kafka
12. Nicodemus
13. The Mortician
14. Rubio Dolar

Dubbed the Colossus though never actual referred to by that name.
15. Network

The second incarnation lead by Athena and includes Bugg, Dr. Excess, Freeway, Mr. Fun, Suicide King, Technician, and the Tracker as its members.
16. Hush
17. Pix
18. Clayface (Williams)

yet another Clayface
19. Death Rattle
20. Doodlebug
21. Great White Shark
22. Humpty Dumpty
23. Jane Doe
24. Junkyard Dog
25. Lunkhead
26. Nyssa Raatko
27. Jason Todd

The Red Hood. Batman first fought a Red Hood in the silver age, but that turned out to be Joker. Later during Hush the story teased the idea of Jason being back from the dead. In Under the Hood Jason was confirmed back and it was revealed that he was part of the conspiracy against Batman in Hush. Whether or not that was the original intention is unclear but retroactively Jason Todd appeared as a Bat-villain at the end of Hush and then became a somewhat prominent adversary a few years later as the Red Hood. Of course the Red Hood is now an ally of Batman.
28. Frank Sharp
29. Purge
30. Rough Justice
31. Prometheus

While Batman encountered Prometheus earlier on as an adversary of the JLA, he later encountered Chad Graham the former sidekick of Prometheus who usurped his mentor's identity and then served as a bodyguard for Hush. Graham's predecessor would be considered a JLA villain rather than a Batman villain but Graham himself fits it nicely.
32. Fright
33. Alexandra Kosov

For the most part, I'd write Alexandra off as just another mob boss and forget about that bionic eye of hers. However, in her later appearances her outfits had become so ridiculous that she looked like a costumed villain. The eye, the outfits and her attitude when she fell in line with Black Mask make Kosov different from the standard heads of Gotham's crime families.
34. Erik Gavlin
35. Vanity
36. Three Ghosts of Batman
37. Roxy Rocket
38. Jezebel Jet
39. Grotesk
40. Aiko
41. Ventriloquist (Riley)
42. VOX

No relation to the previous Vox.
43. Professor Pyg

Pyg first appears in Batman 666 as an enemy of Damian. The issue takes place in the future where Damian is Batman, so I consider this his first appearance as a Bat-villain.
44. Jackanapes

Like Pyg, he first appears in Batman 666 but later finds his way into present day Batman continuity.
45. Max Roboto

Like Pyg, he first appears in Batman 666 but later finds his way into present day Batman continuity.
46. Flamingo

Like Pyg, he first appears in Batman 666 but later finds his way into present day Batman continuity.
47. The Weasel

Like Pyg, he first appears in Batman 666 however he has yet to show up in present day Batman continuity so his place on this list is solid. Also in mentioned in Batman 666, but never appearing in main stream continuity are Loveless and Candyman (unless that referred to the druglord from Keystone city).
48. Phosphorus Rex

Phosphorus Rex is mentioned as having been murdered in Batman 666, and a single panel shows an explosion that may have been the aftermath of his death. Later, he finds his way into present day Batman continuity.
49. Doctor Hurt

Grant Morrison decided to revisit a silver age story and play around with what was originally written. When he did this the doctor in that story went from being a benign character to a villainous foe. However, I consider Batman 667 to be when Hurt joined the list of Batman villains.
50. Black Glove

Under the leadership of Simon Hurt, the Black Glove included Jezebel Jet, Cardinal Maggi, Al-Khidr, Sir Anthony, General Malenkov, and Senator Vine. It employed Wingman, John Mayhew, the Joker and the Club of Villains (Charlie Caligula, King Kraken, Le Bossu, Pierrot Lunaire, Swagman, El Sombrero and Scorpiana). I've grouped all of them under this single listing.
51. Seven Men of Death
52. Johnny Stitches

With the Intergang connections and stitched up face, Johnny Stitches makes the jump from mob boss to Bat-villain.
53. The Globe
54. New Rogues

You would expect the New Rogues to be Flash villains but their short career were mostly spent in Gotham fighting the gang war for Penguin.
55. Wrath (Caldwell)

Turns out the original Wrath had a sidekick.
56. The Wonderland Gang
57. The Fiend With Nine Eyes
58. Gotham Jack
59. Doctor Aesop
60. Midnight
61. The Axeman
62. Onomatopoeia
63. King Tut

Originally debuting in the 60's Batman TV show, a very different King Tut made his way into the Batman comics decades later.
64. Jeremiah Arkham

The second Black Mask. Arkham was introduced in the 90's and often had an adversarial relationship with Batman, but it wasn't until Battle for the Cowl that Jeremiah went full on villain.
65. Bad Cop
66. Mr. Toad
67. Big Top
68. Siam
69. Lyle Blanco
70. Lightning Bug
71. Scarlet

The Red Hood's sidekick.
72. Alyce Sinner
73. Batman Clone
74. Naberius
75. Sebastian Blackspell
76. The Director
77. 2 Face 2
78. Doctor Herbert Combs
79. Mama Ezili
80. Sha
81. Winslow Heath
82. Doctor Kaligari
83. Roundhouse
84. Charger
85. Huairen
86. Bedbug
87. The Heretic
88. Leviathan
89. James Gordon Jr.
90. The Absence
91. Aleister Golden
92. The Dealer
93. Korrigan
94. Dr. Dedalus
95. Roadrunner
96. Son of Pyg
97. White Knight
98. The Architect
99. The Son of Man