Batman’s villains are notoriously criminally insane.
And for the ones in his rogue gallery who aren’t, they often end up in the ‘villain
with a point’ category, having some sort of backwards twisted ideology that kind of
makes sense, if they weren’t so homicidal about it.
But today, we’re diving into a pretty clear cut kind of baddie in Batman’s universe,
with our list of the top 10 cannibal Batman villains.
Yeah, there’s no coming back from eating people, is there?
Let’s jump in.
10 Ted Krosby Let’s start off our list with a little fella
who was short lived but totally disturbing!
It’s Ted Krosby!
Ted is from a limited series called Batman: Tenses, which was first published back in
2003.
It takes place roughly after Batman’s first year active in Gotham, and it really tests
the relatively young hero’s psychological will power.
So what is Krosby guilty of?
One night, he murdered a crap ton of people, mostly by stabbing them with a knife, and
then consuming their flesh.
He also skinned his father and wore daddy dearest’s face.
He also ripped out his own eye.
All in all, dude is clearly unhinged.
He’s also one of Batman’s villains who gets away in the end, but because Bruce lets
him, after brutally beating him down, with Ted basically implying he intends on killing
himself.
9 Kirk Langstrom (Justice League: Gods and Monsters)
You might recognize Kirk Langstrom as the fellow behind Man-Bat; a character who first
debuted in Detective Comics issue 400 back in 1970, who was initially a zoology that
developed an extract that was supposed to give humans a bat’s sonar sense.
Testing the formula on himself, he learned of a terrible side effect; it transformed
him into the man-bat hybrid.
But that classic version of Man-Bat isn’t the focus of our number; rather, his Justice
League: Gods and Mosnters counter part is.
In this world, Kirk is a pseudo-vampire, who was attempting to use the saliva of vampire
bats to aid in lymphoma research.
Suffering from the disease himself, he was his own test subject, and while it cured him,
it also turned him into a vampire-esque creature, who has a craving for blood, both animal AND
human.
8 Dracula (Earth 43) Speaking of vampires, let’s move on to a
very notable one for our next number - Dracula of Earth 43!
Yes, of course Batman faced off against Dracula.
In a crossover called Batman & Dracula: Red Rain, the caped crusader tales on a monstrous
version of the famous villain who has fed on human blood for centuries and centuries.
The premise of this one is that Dracula pops up in Gotham, feeding on homeless people,
drug addicts and prostitutes alongside his minions, slashing the throats of their victims
to hide the bite marks on their throats, thus attempting to hide their true identity.
But that ain’t fooling Bruce Wayne!
7 The Penguin The Penguin is typically one of Bruce’s
more classy villains.
He’s done some pretty atrocious stuff over the years, but always manages to pull off
his heinous actions with panache.
That is, in the comics, for the most part.
The version of Oswald Cobblepot that we’re looking at for this number comes out of a
different DC universe; the Gothamverse.
The Penguin, played by Robin Lord Taylor, has a moment in a season two episode titled
Wrath of the Villains: Into the Woods, where he goes full blown Hannibal Lector.
For context, poor Gothamverse Penguin doesn’t have the sweetest of relationships with his
step mother.
She’s a bit of a menace, and is the reason why his daddy dearest is dead.
She also treats him like crap, too.
So what does a grade A criminal psychopath like him do?
He whips up a meal for his step mama, feeds it to her, and then admits that the grub they
are dinning on is actually his two step siblings, that he murdered and then filleted (presumably).
It’s cruel, and sick, and she totally deserves it, but a bit out of the Oswald canon we’ve
come to know from the comics.
But hey, that’s Gotham for you.
6 Solomon Grundy Solomon Grundy doesn’t typically eat humans.
But, in one instance, in what was arguably a show of power and simply the hulking mass
proving a point, he eats a human arm.
For context, this went down in the Justice League of America story arc called Tornado’s
Path.
Red Tornado, who is an android, is tricked by Solomon to occupy a human body.
This is when Solomon attacks, beating the crap out of him, and ending off the fight
by ripping off Tornado’s arm, now human flesh, and then EATING IT.
5 Emperor Joker It should come as no surprise that there’s
an alternate of the Joker who feats on human flesh.
And technically, it’s an alternate who appeared in a Superman title.
In Superman: Emperor Joker, we get to see the clown prince of crime really mess around
after getting his mitts on Mister Mxyzptlk and his powers.
Mxyzptlk can manipulate reality, isn’t bound by third dimensional laws and can break the
4th wall.
He’s also been a useful tool of DC’s when it comes to retconning things.
Anywho, Joker is all like ‘I’M GOING TO CHANGE REALITY TO MY LIKING!”
Which of course, has disastrous effects, including the Joker killing certain individuals daily,
resurrecting them just so he could murder them again.
But there’s one moment in particular that’s not for the light hearted.
Or the politically correct.
Joker, at one point, decides to kill the entire population of China, all so he could make
a classless joke about eating Chinese food, with the food being, well, of course, all
of the dead people in China.
Talk about commitment to the joke.
Eek.
4 King Shark When King shark decides to take a chomp out
of humans or consume a character whole, these days its often used as comedic relief.
Even in the new 52 run of Suicide Squad, King Shark decided to mow down on one of his teammates,
yo-yo, which later proved to have a disturbing conclusion when Yo-Yo re-emerged, still alive.
But it was funny AF.
And that’s because, well, hey, he’s a shark, can you blame him?
King shark initially started off as an antagonist of Superboy’s, but has crossed paths with
Batman, including in the latest DC Rebirth continuity.
Anywho, in his first appearance, the character hit the scene by being connected to a string
of disappearances of swimmers in Hawaii.
You can take a guess as to where they ended up.
3 Killer Croc From a shark to a croc, in at number three
we have Killer Croc!
Waylon Jones is a pretty obvious pick for this list.
Cannibalism is nothing new for Killer Croc, who most memorably starting dining on flesh
after Hush planted a virus in his body which caused him to crave and consume the human
variety of delicacies.
Croc legitimately didn’t want this though.
The virus, which also caused him to mutate more so, was something he sought to cure,
so he went to a scientist by the name of Dr Maria Belleza in hopes that her knowledge
of the virus could help rid him of his condition.
No luck though for Waylon.
In issue 810 of Detective Comics, in an attempt to cope with the fact that he’ll never be
cured, he decides to eat Dr Belleza instead.
2 Flamingo Flamingo first hit the scene in Batman issue
666 in 2007, created by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely.
Despite his flamboyant circus attire and bright colour palette, dude is pretty dead inside.
He’s an emotionless serial killer who eats his victim’s faces after murdering them.
He prides himself on how great he is at removing and eating faces, having initially practiced
on his WHOLE FAMILY.
Flamingo was initially a villain of Dick Grayson’s Batman, but made a comeback in the New 52,
popping up in Arkham Asylum, and a few other appearances where he generally acts as a traditional
villain for Bats to beat down on before the comic gets into the meat of the story.
No pun intended there.
Gross.
1 Cornelius Stirk Stark is down right terrifying.
Similar to Scarecrow, Stirk uses fear in order to get close and incapacitate his victims.
The logic behind why Stirk is a killer is more nerve wracking though.
He firmly believes that he requires the nutrients and hormones from human hearts in order to
stay alive, and that when feasting on those hearts, inducing fear into the victim prior
to death, causing norepinephrine to be emitted is the best way to do that.
Stirk’s story began when he was released from Arkham Asylum in Detective Comics issue
592 back in 1988.
The character had been sent to Arkham originally at the age of 16 after he attempted to murder
a classmate of his.
How did he get released?
Well, Stirk has another trick up his sleeve; he’s got psychic powers.
Yup.
So he fooled his doctors at Arkham and was certified sane, and then stopped taking his
medication, which escalated in him becoming a full blown serial killer, and Batman’s
problem.
There we have it friends!
Which of these cannibals is your favourite?
Or is that a super weird question to ask?
I feel like asking someone hey, which cannibal is the coolest to you, is kind of deranged,
isn’t it?
Well, answer on your own accord in those comments below friends.
Or maybe comment about something that pertains to cannibals?
Let’s keep it in the cannibal subject matter.
If you dug this video, hit that like button!
If it made you hungry, go seek some help!
And be sure to subscribe to our channel for more videos just like this one, except without
the cannibalism!
I can almost guarantee none of our other videos have anything to do with cannibalism as their
main subject matter!
Fun stuff!
We also have a nifty little playlist you should click on thats currently flashing on your
screen for more cannibal free fun times.
Anywho, thanks for watching everyone!
Don’t eat humans!
Bye!