Villians confirmed for next Batman movie.

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Gryfter

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Dave said:
Here's what I want to know:

Why does it even HAVE to be a known villain? I realize the fan service behind having someone familiar but these sort of things always seem to occur when they do this. Why not make an entirely NEW villain that Batman hasn't met a thousand times and bring them in? You know what I'd like to see? A guy a lot like Batman, just evil. Imagine another guy with seemingly unlimited resources and brilliance then take away his aversion to killing.

He could even dress exactly like the Batman to confuse the authorities and make an enemy out of him. Why always have to retread old paths?
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Because Batman's rogues gallery is almost as popular as he is. He has some of the best known villains in comic history and it would come off as pretentious to suggest that a director/screenwriter could come up with something that one, wasn't a variation on an already existing Batman villain, and two better than any other Batman villain. I really don't think Dark Knight would've been better with just a random new psychopath badguy for Batman to run up against when you have the Joker as his established nemesis. I think Nolan tried what you are suggesting in Batman Begins by using Ra's al Gul and Scarecrow. Both are established Batman villains who the mainstream public didn't really know much about.

Which movie do you remember more, the one with the well known character or the one with the little known character?

But I will also point out that, Nolan is doing a little of both in the new one. He's giving us the long time established Catwoman and the barely known Bane. I am frankly a little disappointed in the choice of Bane (a character created from a Legends of the Dark Night story, whose sole purpose was to fuel a major crossover Summer event for DC's comics) but I am willing to trust Nolan and assume he has good reason for using the character.
 
Ravenpoe

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Depending on what style of bane they go with, he could very well be what dave is asking for. If played correctly, he could be batman's physical and mental superior.
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

Dave said:
Hush? Never heard of him. Hmmm. But you get my point. Don't do the same villains we've always seen. Do something Batman hasn't fought. I know it is nearly impossible to do something totally new, but at least don't use an established Batman villain.
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Read up on Hush then. Once you have, you'll suddenly realize that a Hush/Riddler film would have the potential to be better than even The Dark Knight.
 
Silver Jelly

Silver Jelly

I was telling Tegid a few days ago about an approach to Bane I made up knowing very little of the character. Him could be a young man (or even a teenager) from the slums, extremely intelligent and quite fit, but with a terrible life, a drug addiction and feeling grief stricken from his parent's death by some criminal.
He becomes the first Robin, and everything seems to be working fine until he starts using lethal force to kill Gotham's criminals and abusing an experimental drug that gives him incredible stamina and pain tollerance. Batman's justice and his own collide, and he decides he has to get rid of Bats to really bring justice to Gotham and avoid anything like what had happened to his parents to happen again. This way we have an "evil" batman who is as intelligent as Bruce, or even more, stronger than him and bent on his destruction. And that is actively plotting to kill him.
 
@Li3n

@Li3n

Silver Jelly said:
I was telling Tegid a few days ago about an approach to Bane I made up knowing very little of the character. Him could be a young man (or even a teenager) from the slums, extremely intelligent and quite fit, but with a terrible life, a drug addiction and feeling grief stricken from his parent's death by some criminal.
He becomes the first Robin, and everything seems to be working fine until he starts using lethal force to kill Gotham's criminals and abusing an experimental drug that gives him incredible stamina and pain tollerance. Batman's justice and his own collide, and he decides he has to get rid of Bats to really bring justice to Gotham and avoid anything like what had happened to his parents to happen again. This way we have an "evil" batman who is as intelligent as Bruce, or even more, stronger than him and bent on his destruction. And that is actively plotting to kill him.
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Jason Todd called... he was crying... it's it enough that he got killed by popular vote then resurrected by emo-Superboy punches?! Now you also give his whole stick to a drug addict luchador too.
 
SpecialKO

SpecialKO

ThatNickGuy said:
I was hoping for some Mad Hatter action. :(

Imagine Steve Buschemi. :D
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Nice call.


I would actually like Black Mask, a lot. Stupendously intelligent, machiavellian crime boss with no face. The only problem is they just did Two-Face, and I'm not sure who they could get to do a good Black Mask. John Malkovich, maybe?
 
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