Harvey Dent's alcoholic, abusive father
The Reaper
Kirk Langstrom
Johnathan Crane
Victor Zsasz
Jason Woodrue
The Monk
The Batman villains who I've always wanted to see get more screen time are the Falcone Crime Family, Rupert Thorne, Mayor Hamilton Hill, Commissioner Gillian Loeb, and Professor Hugo Strange. Guys like The Joker and Two Face are the terrifying end result of Gotham being the craphole that it is, but I'd like to see the guys I just listed put at the forefront as the people who are responsible for Gotham being the way it is in the first place, the wealthy power-elite who drained the life and soul out of a once proud community in order to line their own pockets, thus creating an environment where the only sane option for some is crime and madness. They made Gotham the way it is, so they should be the Big Bads early on. The "freak" villains, in my mind, are the side effects of the mess they made, and they should come later.
I'd set it up like this: The Falcones, Thorne, Hill, and Loeb basically run the city. The Falcones are at the heart of all organized crime in the city, Thorne is the richest man in the city who's business holdings employ a third of it's citizens wether they know it or not, and Hill and Loeb run the government. These three camps exist in a long standing and mutually beneficial arrangement. The Falcones facilitate Thorne's off the books dealings and help Loeb and Hill keep crime at a manageable and "acceptable" level. Thorne helps the Falcones launder money and keeps Hill's campaign war chest well stocked. Hill and Loeb look the other way on every crime the Falcones and Thorne commit and help the folks on their respective VIP lists avoid jail time when they get caught committing a crime, as well as supporting local legislation that benefit the Faclones' or Thorne's business. They all help each other out, and sink the people of Gotham deeper and deeper into poverty and despair in the process. The glue holding this whole arrangement together is Professor Hugo Strange. Chief of Medicine at Arkham Psychiatric Hospital, holder of dual PHDs in psychology and biology, published author, and celebrity pop-psychologist to the stars, Strange is the go between in all of these dirty dealings. He greases the wheels, makes sure payments are met and drops are made, and mediates meetings. Since he's everyone's psychiatrist, he knows everyone's secrets, and through blackmail and psychological manipulation he's managed to rig the entire set up in his favor, allowing him to control events to his liking and live comfortably enough to pursue his true passion, his mad and twisted experiments with the human mind and body which he inflicts on the helpless patients under his care.
What I absolutely don't want to see is some scrawny teen psychopath presented as a proto-Joker. The Joker is a response to how ****ed up Gotham is in the same way Batman is, just going down a much more frightening and destructive path. If we're starting off pre-Batman, then we're sure as hell not there yet.
A young Joker shouldn't be a psycho to start with.What I absolutely don't want to see is some scrawny teen psychopath presented as a proto-Joker. The Joker is a response to how ****ed up Gotham is in the same way Batman is, just going down a much more frightening and destructive path. If we're starting off pre-Batman, then we're sure as hell not there yet.
A young Joker shouldn't be a psycho to start with.
And what I'm interested in seeing is something harking back to his original description
"Burning, hate filled eyes".
Joker's evil nature should be due to pure hatred that he has for a messed up society and he takes it on everyone.
It should be slow burnin evil born from a maddening hatred.
If Batman is the response as a cure for Gotham, then Joker is its poison.
The Batman villains who I've always wanted to see get more screen time are the Falcone Crime Family, Rupert Thorne, Mayor Hamilton Hill, Commissioner Gillian Loeb, and Professor Hugo Strange. Guys like The Joker and Two Face are the terrifying end result of Gotham being the craphole that it is, but I'd like to see the guys I just listed put at the forefront as the people who are responsible for Gotham being the way it is in the first place, the wealthy power-elite who drained the life and soul out of a once proud community in order to line their own pockets, thus creating an environment where the only sane option for some is crime and madness. They made Gotham the way it is, so they should be the Big Bads early on. The "freak" villains, in my mind, are the side effects of the mess they made, and they should come later.
I'd set it up like this: The Falcones, Thorne, Hill, and Loeb basically run the city. The Falcones are at the heart of all organized crime in the city, Thorne is the richest man in the city who's business holdings employ a third of it's citizens wether they know it or not, and Hill and Loeb run the government. These three camps exist in a long standing and mutually beneficial arrangement. The Falcones facilitate Thorne's off the books dealings and help Loeb and Hill keep crime at a manageable and "acceptable" level. Thorne helps the Falcones launder money and keeps Hill's campaign war chest well stocked. Hill and Loeb look the other way on every crime the Falcones and Thorne commit and help the folks on their respective VIP lists avoid jail time when they get caught committing a crime, as well as supporting local legislation that benefit the Faclones' or Thorne's business. They all help each other out, and sink the people of Gotham deeper and deeper into poverty and despair in the process. The glue holding this whole arrangement together is Professor Hugo Strange. Chief of Medicine at Arkham Psychiatric Hospital, holder of dual PHDs in psychology and biology, published author, and celebrity pop-psychologist to the stars, Strange is the go between in all of these dirty dealings. He greases the wheels, makes sure payments are met and drops are made, and mediates meetings. Since he's everyone's psychiatrist, he knows everyone's secrets, and through blackmail and psychological manipulation he's managed to rig the entire set up in his favor, allowing him to control events to his liking and live comfortably enough to pursue his true passion, his mad and twisted experiments with the human mind and body which he inflicts on the helpless patients under his care.
What I absolutely don't want to see is some scrawny teen psychopath presented as a proto-Joker. The Joker is a response to how ****ed up Gotham is in the same way Batman is, just going down a much more frightening and destructive path. If we're starting off pre-Batman, then we're sure as hell not there yet.
Gimme the Joker and all the rogues. It's a different continuity. They can do whatever they want.
I'd rather have an altered Joker over no Joker at all. Why not?
Victor Zsasz as a serial killer that the Gotham PD are hunting.
Edward Nygma as a bored genius who decides to play mind games with Gordon and the Gotham PD, for the challenge.
Black Mask, Carmine Falcone, Sal Maroni, Rupert Thorne, etc as up and coming mobsters, Black Mask is particularly sadistic.
Mad Hatter is a psycho with an obsession with Alice in Wonderland. Maybe he targets Selina at some point as his perfect "Alice."
Gimme the Joker and all the rogues. It's a different continuity. They can do whatever they want.
I'd rather have an altered Joker over no Joker at all. Why not?
John Hannah would make for a sweet Jervis I think