5 and 5: New addition to site
I have to thank Facebook. Yesterday, my brothers and I all did one of the “5 favorite childhood toys”. After doing this, it made me think that a good addition to our site is to create a weekly post called “5 & 5″. It will be 5 positive things but I will also add 5 negative or bad things.
The first addition of this weekly post will be the following: 5 Batman villains
5 BATMAN VILLAINS WHO FIT BEST IN THE CHRISTOPHER NOLAN WORLD
Black Mask, Riddler, Catwoman, Hugo Strange, Ventriloquist
I think any of these villains would be great in a new Batman movie. While two of them are well known, I have placed three lesser known villains in there because Nolan is more about reality in his own Gotham.
1. Black Mask: (Roman Sionis) I think this is such an obvious choice for a movie. He was an old friend of Bruce Wayne, former owner of an inherited cosmetic company. Parents died in fire. He dons a mask carved out of his mother’s casket. Now he is a crime lord in Gotham and runs the organization the False Faces.
2. Riddler: (Edward Nigma). This is also a great choice because he uses riddles instead of fear, violence, etc….He is one of the few villains that know the true identity of Batman. He could easily work his way into the third movie as one who tries to out Bruce Wayne while at the same time trying to gain control of the Gotham underworld.
3. Catwoman: (Selina Kyle). Jewel thief. I might like an idea where they try and avoid an origin story and focus on her taking advantage of a disrupted Gotham after Harvey Dent is killed and Batman is blamed.
4. Hugo Strange: criminal genius. Has tried numerous times to capture Batman in order to get into his head. Initially a well respected doctor, he has sense moved to a life of crime and tried to over throw Gotham.
5. Ventriloquist: (Arnold Wesker and Scarface)-His multiple personalities help Wesker to really bring Scarface to life. Scarface speaks and Wesker follows. Even though some people seem to hate this villain, I think it would be so cool to see what Nolan could do with him. Wesker was from a mafia family and saw his mother killed. A lot of repressed memories there and uses ventriloquism to be able to say things without having to say them himself. After a series of crimes, he is sent to prison where a cellmate gives him a dummy carved from the wood of gallows. He escapes and we have Scarface.
5 BATMAN VILLAINS WHO DO NOT FIT IN THE CHRISTOPER NOLAN WORLD
First of all, I am avoiding all of the creatures because they can’t exist in Nolan’s Gotham. (Just like Spiderman was doing until they introduced Sandman and Venom). You will not find the characters Killer Croc, Clayface, Man-Bat, or Mr. Freeze (if they could pull of this one with Patrick Stewart, I will change my mind).
I focused on five of the weakest Batman villains that should never, ever, grace the silver screen. Some are so embarrassing that they don’t even deserve to be on a cartoon show. So here they are.
5. The Penguin: (Oswald Copperpot). I think what ruined this character was Tim Burton. I was never a big fan of him and throughout his “reign of terror”, he seems to always get away with his helicopter hat (Lame). Maybe, MAYBE, if Nolan made him a sidecharacter as a crime boss then it would be ok but I don’t see much use for him in any decent movie.
4. Killer Moth: (Cameron van Cleer). He would aid the criminals like Batman would aid the innocent. Check out the picture below. This is the coolest he gets.
3. Mad Hatter: (Jervis Tetch). Ok now we are getting down to the worst villains one could have. These three are so bad that the writer should have been fired for them. Jervis Tetch was a neuroscientist and loved the Lewis Carroll books. When he turned to a life of crime, he, get this….created hats that controlled people’s thoughts. He also dressed up as the Mad Hatter and even once captured Commissioner Gordon’s neice Barbara to make her play the role of Alice.
2. Calendar Man: (Julian Day)-While a newer version has become slightly more adaptable, the original was quite silly. Now the idea that he used particular holidays to commit crimes is a good premise, but check out the outfit. It is just silly.
1. Tweedledee and Tweedledum: (Dumfree and Deever Tweed): This is it, the bottom of the barrell. These two fat cousins rely on their appearance to trick Batman…is he fighting Tweedledee or Tweedledum? Scared yet? Well I can’t imagine Batman was either.
This concludes my first post of 5 and 5. Be here next week for a new column….same bat time, same bat channel.
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Date: September 9, 2009
Categories: 5 and 5, Comics, Film and Television, Uncategorized
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