Greetings nerdy list afficionados and welcome back to top 10 Nerd today we are continuing
our trend of examining some new creations in comics.
Today villains and specifically those involved with Batman.
Now Batman has such a core rogues gallery it can at times be difficult for new people
to break in but it still does happen.
So here on Top 10 Nerd we’re going to take a look at some notable occurrences.
There may be some who don’t make this list but there’s always hope for a part 2.
I’m Sasha and these are the Top 10 Newest Batman Villains.
Number 10 - King Tut - Now you may be saying hold on King Tut has been around since the
60s enjoying hijinks with Adam West and Burt Ward a professor who gets a head injury that
makes him believe he is King Tut which also for some reason makes him commit crimes.
Despite being described as the only successful character created for the tv show by Adam
West the character didn’t make his comic debut til 2009 in Batman Confidential No.
26.
Here he has a bit of a different backstory he is a criminal egyptologist who robs the
wealthy and leaves riddles so he’s kinda veering into riddler territory which led to
a cute plot where the two were kinda friends.
He really isn’t too used and has never regained the lovability he had in the 60s.
Number 9 - The Heretic - The heretic appeared during the grant morrison era in 2010 and
was plaguing Batman but in particular Damien Wayne.
The heretic would actually kill Damien in one of the more controversial moments of the
early 2010s pre new 52 would just skewer him like a kabob.
The Heretic would turn out to be a clone of Damien Wayne one who had been hyperaged and
was also bitter and jealous over the fact that their mother Talia Al Ghul clearly cared
more about Damien than him.
This all would push batman briefly over the edge and he’d take some man bat serum.
He would but like so many people he would get better but transition to being a foe for
mostly Damien.
Number 8 - Dollmaker - The dollmaker is the leader of the dollmaker family family being
in quotation marks he debuted in 2011 in detective comics he is Barton Mathis a mad doctor rather
than a scientist who one can imagine has a penchant for turning people into dolls if
this sounds very familiar it’s because characters like this have appeared frequently in media.
The dollmaker is also famous for cutting off the Joker’s face.
He runs an organ trade business but considers the toy man a father figure which is kinda
confusing cause he’s not the toyman’s biological sun that instead is anton schott
who also went by the dollmaker cause why not make things as confusing as possible.
Number 7 - Talon - With this we can also include the court of owls which has gone down as one
of the most memorable and the Talon’s have stuck around and made a lasting impression.
The court of owls is a secret society made up of Gotham’s elite that has operated in
the shadows and has it;s own league of assassins known as Talons.
These agents have set their sights not only on Batman but also Dick Grayson who was supposed
to be a talon before his life was derailed by the mob.
I mean you can predict a lot of things but it’s really hard to predict that the two
rich parents you have killed will die in front of their son causing him to become a vigilante.
The talons also have a very cool look very evil owl man.
Number 6 - The Son Of Pyg - Professor Pyg is arguably one of Gotham’s grossest villains
he is a scientist who suffered a nervous breakdown and became a sueprvillain wearing a pig mask
he would kidnap people and perform surgery on them which would somehow result in them
becoming mind controlled puppets called dolotrons.
He’s actually got some interesting ties to literature with pygmalion and the like
it works.
His son also adopts a pig mask and kidnaps victims but he is a masochist who tells them
that he will teach them to not feel anymore pain.
The son of Pyg appeared in 2011 while his father appeared in 2007.
His father has been much better remembered.
Number 5 - The Absence - The absence is one of those villains who just at first glance
you might be like ok come on what is this.
The absence first appeared in 2011 she was una nemo one of Bruce Wayne’s many girlfriends
and by that it just means a girl he went out with but she was real into it and Alfred liked
her.
Anyway she got shot through the head but magically survived despite there being a giant hole
where her brain should be and she became a supervillain murdering Bruce Wayne’s exes.
So why is she called the absence well not only because of the giant hole in her head
but also because she is showing Bruce what he is missing.
Yeah the absence appeared 7 times.
Number 4 - Mr Bloom - Mr Bloom got quite the write up when he first appeared in 2015 the
design helped it was a pretty cool look.
He had a bit of a slender man thing going on but with a giant flower on his face.
It made him quite visually unqiue, so mr bloom stole some high tech seeds in order to experiment
upon himself he then decided it was his job to prune Gotham as he felt the city had lost
its way.
I mean he’s not wrong but that’s also not the way to do it.
Again super cool look but he didn’t prove to have the staying power.
Number 3 - Mr. Bygone - Now he appeared in 2014 in Batman eternal and was meant to be
a physical manifestation of the insanity inside of Arkham Asylum he seemingly was one of the
early patients at the hospital who witnessed it’s decline he was meant to be mysterious
and he was so mysterious that he essentially vanished after the batman eternal storyline
which is a mixed bag for many readers.
Number 2 - Victim Syndicate - Here’s a depressing concept coming at us from 2016.
Here we have what started off kind of like a support group for people who had been affected
by Batman and his Rogues those poor people who live in Gotham who are perpetually caught
in the crossfire well they don’t want to take it anymore.
And they want to rid the city of Batman a bit more than the rogues subscribing to the
they exist because of him mentality they eventually took up criminal aliases to accomplish this.
See just depressing, depressing stuff.
Number 1 -The Batman Who Laughs - The dark knights metal event gave the world many evil
alternate batmen and women but the one who stood out the most and earned himself a place
inside dc comics history.
It’s gotten to the point where some would even say he could potentially be being overused.
The Batman who laughs was a fusion in a way of Batman and the Joker after Batman killed
the joker and inhaled a joker toxin emitted from his body he slowly began to transform
into the Joker and by midway through the transformation he had completely embraced it