I’d actually like to see Poison Ivy, TBH. I think she could be made to work with the tone, especially if you want an environmentally-themed villain (then again, I know one guy who’s determined it should be Bane). Man-Bat, like Clayface, is an absolute no-go thanks to the “no superhuman” rule they seem to be running with.
Riddler has got two major strikes against him from the start - first, there’s the real name; “E. Nygma”. Second, there’s the gimmick itself - how do you work it so that it’s not camp? (Remembering, of course, that the Riddler was the signature villain of the 60s series. He’s also fallen off the map, with very few uses of him as a proper villain in the last 20 years)
Harley? She’s got a great origin, but under the circumstances she’d be subbing for the unavoidably-absent Joker, yes? I don’t think they want to invite such direct comparisons.
Talking probabilities, I think Catwoman is by far the most likely - Hollywood rules say they need a love interest, and they just killed off the current Bat-movie series’ (I’d like to see a relatively B:TAS-like take on her, with Selina as an “anti-Bruce Wayne” rich-girl-with-a-cause). Talia could have filled that role… but they seemed to write her out of “Ducard’s” backstory in BBegins. Penguin could be the B-villain, though not the A-villain, but I doubt they’d go there if they DID use Catwoman, to avoid direct comparisons to BReturns.
I kind of wonder, incidentally, why they threw away the Scarecrow loose end at the start of TDK…
I’d actually like to see Poison Ivy, TBH. I think she could be made to work with the tone, especially if you want an environmentally-themed villain (then again, I know one guy who’s determined it should be Bane). Man-Bat, like Clayface, is an absolute no-go thanks to the “no superhuman” rule they seem to be running with.
Riddler has got two major strikes against him from the start - first, there’s the real name; “E. Nygma”. Second, there’s the gimmick itself - how do you work it so that it’s not camp? (Remembering, of course, that the Riddler was the signature villain of the 60s series. He’s also fallen off the map, with very few uses of him as a proper villain in the last 20 years)
Harley? She’s got a great origin, but under the circumstances she’d be subbing for the unavoidably-absent Joker, yes? I don’t think they want to invite such direct comparisons.
Talking probabilities, I think Catwoman is by far the most likely - Hollywood rules say they need a love interest, and they just killed off the current Bat-movie series’ (I’d like to see a relatively B:TAS-like take on her, with Selina as an “anti-Bruce Wayne” rich-girl-with-a-cause). Talia could have filled that role… but they seemed to write her out of “Ducard’s” backstory in BBegins. Penguin could be the B-villain, though not the A-villain, but I doubt they’d go there if they DID use Catwoman, to avoid direct comparisons to BReturns.
I kind of wonder, incidentally, why they threw away the Scarecrow loose end at the start of TDK…
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August 15, 2008 @ 9:45 pm
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