March 2015 Character of the Month: Batman Villains

It'd be awesome if you guys did a piece about more recent additions to Batman's rogues gallery, like Professor Pyg and the Court of Owls, in addition to the tried and true classics to show how new villains are still being created!

I don't see why they were voted. They're not manly.

Bane vs Cap, Deadshot vs Bullseye, Ra's vs Redskull, Black Mask vs Punisher, Scarecrow vs Daredevil, Man-bat vs Vulture, Kraver vs Killer Croc(yeah I know Croc has no chance but I want to see it anyway), Mr. Freeze vs Shocker, Harley vs Elektra, Trapster vs Firefly, KG Beast vs Bucky, Clayface vs Hyrdoman, Catwoman vs Batroc, Prometheus vs SpOck to name a few.

nice should be some interesting battles.

Catwoman, Clayface, Bane & Mr Freeze vs Black Cat, Sandman, Kraven, & Electro

Joker and Harley Quinn vs ???

Ikari vs Bronze Tiger, Wrath vs Taskmaster, Black Spider vs Black Widow, Nobody vs Kingpin, Deathstroke vs Nuke, Sensei vs Stick, Reaper vs Flag Smasher, The Heretic vs Gladiator(DD's villain),Dr Phosphorus vs Electro, Catman vs Owl, Anarky vs Hatemonger, Hudson Caspian vs Baron Zemo and Hush vs Mister Fear, The Hand vs the Court of Owls, Lady Bullseye vs Talia.

Typhoid Mary vs Hugo Strange, Copperhead vs Cobra(Caps villain), Grundy vs Hyde, Ivy vs Lizard, Ratcatcher vs Vermin, Two-Face vs Scourge, Moon Knight vs Joker and US Agent vs Red Hood.

I'm looking forward to some great bat-villain related articles, but I was hoping against hope that Flash's rogues would take this one.

Oh, well. Maybe next time...

Not surpirsed.

@k4tzm4n: i was wondering would you please use this as a theme again sometime? This is truly the best way to celebrate villains after a long period of celebrating different heroes.

Wait, what? Where specifically did this happen?

I was hoping for the Flash's villains

Bane vs. Kingpin. Ra's Al Ghul vs. Winter Soldier. Killer Croc vs. Kraven the Hunter. Zsasz vs Batroc. Bring it!!

How about Man-Bat (Kirk Langstrom) vs. the Lizard (Curt Connors) since they have similar origins.

@lvenger: I don't know relly, someone posted it on another thread and I saved it!!!!!!

Punisher vs black mask?

In the comments for the John Stewart vs Richard Rider BOTW article I believe.

If you want a better example, someone who runs a blog and popular fan site for John Stewart called me racist for pointing out that Cyborg's presence decreases John Stewart's chances of being GL. And this person is considered a representative of John Stewart fans amongst their circle.

@lvenger: Well, I haven't called you a racist, have I? I doubt that's every fans opinion of the thoughts of people.

And I don't know who this guy you're talking about is, nor do I know what happened. However people's individual actions and words do not dictate or even indicate a group mentality. Not even a majority. If it did we would all be Batfans considering the majority love him, but the comments here say that's not the case.

@scouterv: But Bat fans don't have the level of defensiveness or antagonism that John Stewart fans have I'm afraid. Fair point about individual actions, however unfortunately the individual actions of a large number of John Stewart fans have been incredibly poor from my experience of them on forums. Rude, aggressive and self entitlement seem to go hand in hand with those fans (not you though as you haven't done any of those things) and they were displayed in spades in February.

The Riddler vs. Arcade.

The challenge: Who builds a better death trap?

@lvenger But what would the Batfans ever have to be defensive about or antagonistic?

Batman pretty much always wins when it comes down to popularity. Batman is never in danger of getting killed off or permanently replaced. John Stewart is, and I'm not saying that's defensive to call anyone racist for a valid opinion.

What I'm saying is those traits have a legit basis for at least being defensive. Especially considering how the critics/haters were in full force after seeing Panther take the loss after a big initial lead.

However no fanbase here has any grounds to be antagonistic.

No, dammit! I want to see how much Joker's fighting technique and gun-kata skills have improved!

Catwoman

Ras al Ghul

Joker

(Also a Penquin fan)

I just came up with another couple of battle of the week suggestion:

Talia al Ghul vs Elektra

Hugo Strange vs Owl

Firefly vs Constrictor

Bronze Tiger vs Ikari

Mad Hatter vs Doctor Faustus

Clayface (Karlo) vs Toxin

Black Mask vs Phil Coulson

Catwoman vs Black Widow

what a surprise

Riddler vs. Spock, in a round of 5, chess match?

So, fight I'd love to see:

Bane (non-venom enhanced) vs Crossbones.

On one hand, Bane is a master tactician, strong even without venom boost, and a superb hand to hand fighter. He also isn't above using weapons when needed.

But, Crossbones is also strong, tough, and right at home using knives, guns or his signature weapon. He has gone toe to toe with captain America, with the de-serumed cap winning only by taking advantage of a costume flaw. The merc isn't too shabby on finding his opponents weaknesses either. And Bane won't have the advantages he used when he broke the exhausted Batman the first time.

Think it could make for an awesome brawl.

As for lady shiva, got to go with Electra or Typhoid Mary.

Just in time for my birf day march 9th

More DC character of the month? Ugh.....

@DWrathborne: like the idea but think scarecrow would be a better combatant to a guy named after a psychological test.

Want to see Killer Croc, Bane, William Cobb & Deadshot.

@awesomeperson: There was no way anyones rouges gallery can compete with batmans was a win before it started.

@guru_crack: Which is why I was extremely annoyed when Batman was running...

yay for batman

@awesomeperson: yea like the characters in Batmans rogues, my favourites but would of liked to see a Flash win.

The batman rouges were chosen. What an unexpected surprise. I love batman villains and think they should have their own character month, but was there really any point in making a vote if your going to add batman to the list.

I'm glad to see Bats villians take this, and if they dudn't spideys would have been great...

Batman's rogues are iconic indeed. DId not know so many people hated Batman though.

you must be living in dream world

@lifeofvibe: Must be lol. Though I don't visit many comic sites so that has something to do with it as well.

They are going to lose 100 percent.

I don't think anyone "hates" Batman. They're just worn out by how much content and attention he gets in relation to other characters. And of course the fact that Batman on a poll of any sort is almost an assured victory in terms of popularity, such as Character of the Month. Heck, even being remotely related to Batman puts characters in that family a cut above the rest in terms of popularity.

@scouterv: Ah, makes sense. He is my favorite character but is definitely over exposed.

Lol, there was no way Batman was losing out on this. The second I saw him I knew it was a no contest.

@comicvine_is_jericho529 well to name a few there's sabretooth, wendigo, cyber, daken, omega red, shingen yashida, silver samurai, lady deathstrike to name just a few. You could probably argue that viper and gorgon fall into this category too. But yes, most of them have fought against the xmen too, but primarily consider wolverine their number one enemy from the group.