Editing DC Comics (section)

===Batman===
Batman is most notable as the longest surviving and best known example of the original "costumed vigilante" type of superhero. In many ways, he is a direct continuation of the shadowy avengers and vigilantes that proliferated in pulp fiction; even his backstory as a wealthy man who, traumatized by the murder of his parents by a mugger when was a child, dedicated himself to training body and mind before outfitting himself with useful gadgets to declare war on crime, is straight out of old pulps.

Whilst mostly associated with dark, brooding and depressing almost noir-esque tales from the Bronze and Dark Ages, there is one element of Silver Age Batman which has survived and prospered: his rogue's gallery. Back in the Silver Age, Batman in particular was prone to facing off villains built from what [[TVTropes]] calls "Idiosyncrazy" - weird gimmicks and themes around which an entire criminal identity and motif were formed. Whilst the most overtly silly rogues from this time were quietly shuffled off into retirement, the fact is that a number of villains actually made this trope ''work''<ref>It helps that for the surviving ones, their gimmickry is usually focused on things that real people obsess about (The Mad Hatter takes his Lewis Carroll fandom way too far, Two-Face is obsessed with duality and chance, the Riddler has a complex about needing to prove he's smarter than anybody else, etc.) or are played-up quirks used as, effectively, branding (the Penguin is a standout here)</ref>. Hence the Bat's colorful cast of crazed criminal creeps, from the murderously mirthful mad clown the Joker to the plant-controlling ecoterrorist femme fatale Poison Ivy to the puzzle-spouting Riddler and beyond. Indeed, so many of them survive Bane is notable for being one of the few recognizable Batman rogues ''not'' from that era.

We have a [[Batman|separate article about him]], mainly because he's actually fairly influential on /tg/ stuff.