Best Batman Supervillain

1.

The Joker

By: beej     77 votes

The Joker is a homicidal maniac with a clown-like appearance who takes comedic delight in violent crime and challenging Batman. He is generally acknowledged to be Batman's arch-nemesis and worst enemy, gleefully citing the relationship between the two as being Comedy and Tragedy, Chaos and Order, two sides of the same coin. (Wikipedia)

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2.

Two-Face

By: beej     69 votes

Formerly District Attorney Harvey Dent (a friend of Bruce Wayne's). Dent's latent multiple personality disorder fully took hold when half his face was horrifically scarred by "Boss" Maroni. He became obsessed with committing crimes themed around duality and opposites. He makes major decisions by flipping a two-headed coin on which one of the faces is scarred. (Wikipedia)

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3.

The Riddler

By: beej     74 votes

Edward Nygma is a criminal mastermind who has a strange compulsion to challenge Batman by leaving clues to his crimes in the form of riddles and puzzles. (Wikipedia)

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4.

Catwoman

By: beej     67 votes

Selina Kyle, starting as a criminal who wore a cat-themed costume and often operated as a burglar, has a love/hate relationship with Batman. (Wikipedia)

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5.

Poison Ivy

By: beej     68 votes

Pamela Lillian Isley, a former student of advanced botanical biochemistry, employs plants of all varieties and their derivatives in her crimes. She has the ability to control/manipulate all plant life and is immune to all poisons and toxins. (Wikipedia)

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6.

Ra's al Ghul

By: beej     66 votes

Ra's al Ghul ("Demon's Head" in Arabic), is a world-wide eco-terrorist. He knows Batman's secret identity and trained him in martial arts and ninja skills. He is the founder of The League of Assassins.

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7.

Mr. Freeze

By: beej     66 votes

Dr. Victor Fries was formerly a scientist and is an expert on cryonics. He tried to cryopreserve his stricken wife Nora Fries until a cure was found to her disease. During the process, an accident caused his body to function only below freezing point, requiring he wear a special self-contained refrigeration suit. He uses similar ice technology for weapons. (Wikipedia)

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8.

Harley Quinn

By: beej     30 votes

Harley Quinn (Dr. Harleen Quinzel) is a fictional character, a supervillainess, in the animated series Batman: The Animated Series, later adapted into DC Comics' Batman comic books. As suggested by her name (a play on the word "harlequin"), she is clad in the manner of a traditional harlequin jester. The character is a frequent accomplice of Batman's nemesis the Joker, and is also a close ally of supervillainess Poison Ivy. (Wikipedia)

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9.

Mad Hatter

By: beej     67 votes

Jervis Tetch, formerly a research scientist, is completely smitten with the works of Lewis Carroll. He is an insane neuroscientist and developed hardware that can control the brain and induce hypnotic states, and often uses hats or other headgear for mind control. (Wikipedia)

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10.

Black Mask

By: beej     32 votes

Black Mask is a deranged mob boss in Gotham city who wears a skull-like mask carved from his mother's ebony coffin. Growing up, Black Mask had a parentally forced-friendship with Bruce Wayne, one which he despised and which grew into a deep resentment of the Waynes. Black Mask frequently uses torture not only for personal gain but for personal satisfaction, often resulting in the death of his victims. (omglists)

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11.

The Scarecrow

By: beej     68 votes

Prof. Jonathan Crane, an insane scientist and psychiatrist, specializes in the nature of fear. Dressed symbolically as a scarecrow, he employs special weapons, equipment and techniques designed to use fear to his advantage in his crimes. (Wikipedia)

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12.

Penguin

By: beej     64 votes

Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot, a short round man with a long pointed nose, fancies himself a gentleman of crime. He usually wears a tuxedo, top hat, and monocle, and carries any variety of umbrellas which have various hidden functions such as vehicles or weapons. (Wikipedia)

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13.

Killer Croc

By: murderpunk     25 votes

Killer Croc (Waylon Jones) was born with the medical condition Epidermolytic hyperkeratosis that caused him to grow progressively into the likeness of crocodile. In the comics his intelligence level has varied from competent schemer to berserk monster.

In his original appearances, he resembled a powerfully-built man covered entirely in green scales. However, his disease has slowly robbed him of all identifiable human traits. In his most recent appearances, he has an enlongated snout and tail.

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14.

Bane

By: beej     67 votes

An escaped convict from an island prison in South America, Bane has abnormal strength as a result of having had experiments with a derivative of the drug Venom performed on him. (Wikipedia)

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15.

Ventriloquist & Scarface

By: beej     30 votes

Born into a powerful Mafia Family, Arnold Wesker developed Dissociative Identity Disorder (incorrectly referred to as Multiple Personality Disorder) after seeing his mother murdered by an assassin from a rival Family. Growing up, his only outlet is ventriloquism. A meek, quiet man, the Ventriloquist plans and executes his crimes through a dummy named Scarface, with the dress and persona of a 1920s gangster, complete with pinstripe suit, cigar, and Tommy gun. His name comes from the nickname of Al Capone who Scarface is modeled after. (Wikipedia)

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16.

Joe Chill

By: beej     70 votes

The man who murdered Bruce Wayne's parents.

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17.

Clayface

By: beej     66 votes

The original Clayface, Basil Karlo, was an actor who was driven mad when he heard of a remake of the classic horror film he had starred in, The Terror. Adopting the persona of the film's villain "Clayface", he became a serial killer targeting the cast and crew. (Wikipedia)

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18.

Egghead

By: beej     69 votes

Egghead was a villain created for the 1960s Batman television series. Played by horror film mainstay Vincent Price, the character was identifiable by his pale bald head and white and yellow suit. He believed himself to be "the world's smartest criminal," and his crimes would usually have an egg-motif to them as well as including egg puns in his speech where appropriate such as "egg-zactly" and "egg-cellent." (Wikipedia)

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19.

The Floronic Man

By: beej     68 votes

The former Dr. Jason Woodrue was a corrupt scientist responsible for creating Bane and Poison Ivy.

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