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#BATTMAN VILLIANS CRACKED#
Some of Batman's best villains take intrinsic aspects of his personality and methods as a hero and twist them into cracked reflections of the Dark Knight.Ĭase in point, Jonathan Crane AKA the Scarecrow, whose obsession with inflicting fear and understanding its causes resembles Batman's use of intimidation and psychological manipulation against his enemies to its most extreme and destructive ends. Penguin appeared in the upcoming film The Batman, played by Colin Farrell, and will spin off into his own HBO Max streaming series. Like Bruce Wayne, Oswald Cobblepot suffers in a world he feels has left him behind - though whereas Batman takes a heroic, if an occasionally questionable approach to resolving his tragic circumstances, the Penguin has turned those feelings of trauma and rejection into a violent criminal enterprise. The prim and proper (on the surface) Oswald Cobblepot believes himself to be every bit the deserving society darling that Bruce Wayne actually is - though rather than being the scion of one of Gotham City's most prominent families, he's a ruthless gangster whose gentlemanly penchant for tuxedos and gimmicked umbrellas hides his savage criminal heart.Īs a diabolical mastermind and a top-tier gangster, the Penguin lashes out his bitterness at the world around him, who he blames for his inferiority complex, through much more mundanely criminal means than some of his more colorful contemporaries - his collection of trick attack umbrellas notwithstanding. In recent years, that altruism has become a much more prominent part of her character, with Poison Ivy somewhat reforming and operating alongside her friend and occasional lover Harley Quinn, herself a former villain turned full-on hero (well, anti-hero). Poison Ivy is almost a case study of what happens when reasonable, even responsible ideas like preserving and restoring the environment are taken to such an extreme that those who champion them lose sight of the bigger picture beyond their personal mission, perhaps even hurting their own cause in the process.īatman's violent vigilante methods may sometimes be questionable, but Poison Ivy has often operated without regard for the harm she causes - or even with the intent of causing as much harm as possible, despite her arguably altruistic motives. But compared to Poison Ivy, an environmental fundamentalist who believes in the sanctity of plant life and flora above all else, he's practically casual in his hardline morals. Batman is known as the Caped Crusader, thanks to his fanatical one-man-war on crime.