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	* '''Mr. Freeze:''' ''"This is how I'll always remember you. Surrounded by winter, forever young, forever beautiful. Rest well, my love; the monster who took you from me will soon learn that revenge is a dish best served '''cold'''."'' After brief stints as a mad scientist and an aggressively German bank robber in other media, the Animated Series rewrote this space-suited villain with a tragic backstory so awesome it immediately displaced the originals. Victor Fries was a scientist specializing in cryogenics until a lab accident mutated him into a being who can only survive at sub-zero temperatures. Obssessed with reviving his terminally-ill wife Nora from suspended animation and getting revenge on whoever caused the accident, Fries builds a cryogenic suit to keep himself alive and weaponizes his freezing technology to strike back at his enemies. He's set apart from the other Batman villains by being [[Iron Hands\|calculating and filled with cold rage]] rather than manic, and often lashes out in nihilistic spite in stories where he succeeds in curing Nora only to be rejected for what he's become. He also had a rather ''cool'' appearance in the otherwise-awful Batman & Robin movie, where he was played by the Governator himself.		* '''Mr. Freeze:''' ''"This is how I'll always remember you. Surrounded by winter, forever young, forever beautiful. Rest well, my love; the monster who took you from me will soon learn that revenge is a dish best served '''cold'''."'' After brief stints as a mad scientist and an aggressively German bank robber in other media, the Animated Series rewrote this space-suited villain with a tragic backstory so awesome it immediately displaced the originals. Victor Fries was a scientist specializing in cryogenics until a lab accident mutated him into a being who can only survive at sub-zero temperatures. Obssessed with reviving his terminally-ill wife Nora from suspended animation and getting revenge on whoever caused the accident, Fries builds a cryogenic suit to keep himself alive and weaponizes his freezing technology to strike back at his enemies. He's set apart from the other Batman villains by being [[Iron Hands\|calculating and filled with cold rage]] rather than manic, and often lashes out in nihilistic spite in stories where he succeeds in curing Nora only to be rejected for what he's become. He also had a rather ''cool'' appearance in the otherwise-awful Batman & Robin movie, where he was played by the Governator himself.
	* '''Poison Ivy''': Pamela Isley is a botany expert turned ecoterrorist with a natural immunity to all toxins, making her a natural poisoner of Gotham's elite industrialists; post-Crisis this was upgraded into being an actual plant person with nature-themed superpowers. Frequently characterized as a seducer in the vein of the psuedo-mythical [[Wikipedia:Alraune\|Alraune]], complete with perfumes or pheromones powerful enough to count as mind control. When that doesn't cut it she can fall back on her botany expertise and plant powers, turning trees into something out of [[Catachan]] and Venus flytraps into a passable imitation of one [[Wikipedia:Little Shop of Horrors\|mean green mother from outer space]]. After the Animated Series she became associated with Harley Quinn, as both of them tend to have big issues with men and aggressive personalities.		* '''Poison Ivy''': Pamela Isley is a botany expert turned ecoterrorist with a natural immunity to all toxins, making her a natural poisoner of Gotham's elite industrialists; post-Crisis this was upgraded into being an actual plant person with nature-themed superpowers. Frequently characterized as a seducer in the vein of the psuedo-mythical [[Wikipedia:Alraune\|Alraune]], complete with perfumes or pheromones powerful enough to count as mind control. When that doesn't cut it she can fall back on her botany expertise and plant powers, turning trees into something out of [[Catachan]] and Venus flytraps into a passable imitation of one [[Wikipedia:Little Shop of Horrors\|mean green mother from outer space]]. After the Animated Series she became associated with Harley Quinn, as both of them tend to have big issues with men and aggressive personalities.
	* '''The Mad Hatter''': Jervis Tetch is a quite wacky old chap who was obssessed with ''Alice in Wonderland'' as a child, became a neuroscientist, and discovered a way to control people's minds with easily concealed microchips. Because this is a comic book, he promptly snaps and becomes a super-criminal styled after the classic Mad Hatter instead of doing something sensible like joining the Illuminati. While he's a pretty generic mind-controller in the comics outside of the gimmick of putting his devices in old-timey price cards and hat bands, his portrayal in the animated series is notable for being a textbook case of "incel rage" decades ahead of its time: he falls in love with an Alice-like secretary, tries to catch her on the rebound by using his devices to orchestrate a "perfect" date for her, only to be shattered when she goes for Chad Thundercock instead. This version is more of a tragic figure; he has the presence of mind to not go straight to mind-controlling his "Alice" from the beginning, and in subsequent stories Tetch only goes after Batman because he's a constant reminder of his ruined life.
	* '''The Riddler:''' Perhaps the most "Silver Age" of the enduring Batman villains, the Riddler is a smug asshole obsessed with brainteasers who sees Batman (being "The World's Greatest Detective") as his only peer. His habit of leaving clues to his crimes for do-gooders to solve is actually a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder, [[Tzeentch\|explaining why he constantly sabotages himself with impractical schemes and fallible deathtraps]]. The writers tend to alternate between treating him as a genuine challenge for Batman's intellect and a prancing egomaniac whose most dangerous aspect is his terrible fashion sense.		* '''The Riddler:''' Perhaps the most "Silver Age" of the enduring Batman villains, the Riddler is a smug asshole obsessed with brainteasers who sees Batman (being "The World's Greatest Detective") as his only peer. His habit of leaving clues to his crimes for do-gooders to solve is actually a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder, [[Tzeentch\|explaining why he constantly sabotages himself with impractical schemes and fallible deathtraps]]. The writers tend to alternate between treating him as a genuine challenge for Batman's intellect and a prancing egomaniac whose most dangerous aspect is his terrible fashion sense.
	* '''Bane''': The man who broke the Bat. Taken to a prison island at an early age for his father's crimes, Bane was raised by his fellow political inmates (making him a criminal version of pulp icon Doc Savage) before being used as a test subject for the experimental "super-steroid" called Venom. Now ''totally fucking ripped'', he breaks out and decides his next step is to defeat Batman and rule Gotham, having been haunted by a fear of bats his whole life and with no ties to lawful society. Realizing Batman is still human with human limits, he manipulates Gotham's villains into wearing the Bat down before ambushing him outside the Batcave, breaking Batman's spine over his knee in one of the most iconic images of modern comics. After being defeated by a recovered Batman he continues to strive for a foothold in Gotham's underworld, occasionally taking time off to brutalize anyone trying to sell Venom as an illegal drug. How much of his super-strength comes from Venom varies; initially he used it continuously to stave off withdrawal and was helpless without it, but in later stories he goes cold turkey and is still a big guy without the Venom. Typically flavored as Latin American and dressed as a luchador, signaling that if you tried to take his mask off it would be extremely painful (for you).		* '''Bane''': The man who broke the Bat. Taken to a prison island at an early age for his father's crimes, Bane was raised by his fellow political inmates (making him a criminal version of pulp icon Doc Savage) before being used as a test subject for the experimental "super-steroid" called Venom. Now ''totally fucking ripped'', he breaks out and decides his next step is to defeat Batman and rule Gotham, having been haunted by a fear of bats his whole life and with no ties to lawful society. Realizing Batman is still human with human limits, he manipulates Gotham's villains into wearing the Bat down before ambushing him outside the Batcave, breaking Batman's spine over his knee in one of the most iconic images of modern comics. After being defeated by a recovered Batman he continues to strive for a foothold in Gotham's underworld, occasionally taking time off to brutalize anyone trying to sell Venom as an illegal drug. How much of his super-strength comes from Venom varies; initially he used it continuously to stave off withdrawal and was helpless without it, but in later stories he goes cold turkey and is still a big guy without the Venom. Typically flavored as Latin American and dressed as a luchador, signaling that if you tried to take his mask off it would be extremely painful (for you).
			* '''Gotham City''': It's a popular pastime for DC writers to figure out how to make Gotham City a place where putting on a bat costume and punching crime in the face can actually make things better. For one thing, it's usually located in New Jersey. This would be bad enough in itself but it ''also'' suffers from corrupt government, organized crime, crooked businesses and anything else you care to name. The architecture is typically a blend of New York City and Chicago, with a hefty dose of Art Deco and Art Nouveau after the 1989 movie and animated series.

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	== Major Incarnations ==		== Major Incarnations ==
	Batman has been around for a ''long'' time, old enough that he was invented as a direct reaction to [[Superman]]'s obscene popularity. Generations of comics creators have tried to put their own spins on the character make their names and keep the franchise fresh; ~~here are some~~ of the ~~most culturally important versions~~.		Batman has been around for a ''long'' time, old enough that he was invented as a direct reaction to [[Superman]]'s obscene popularity. Generations of comics creators have tried to put their own spins on the character make their names and keep the franchise fresh, and they've mostly succeeded; the idea of a vigilante who's been hurt by the criminal element and wants to make it hurt back without becoming what he hates is so mythically resonant that it takes serious effort to screw it up, not that some people haven't tried.

	* '''Golden Age''': The original version of Batman was ripped straight from the pulps, a vigilante in the vein of the Phantom, the Shadow and the Spider. He would kill criminals without remorse and fought crime rings, mad scientists and vampires, but at the same time this version introduced his trademark utility belt and bat-themed gadgets. This is also the era that introduced Robin, Alfred, the Joker (initially just a serial killer with a gimmick) and Catwoman.		* '''Golden Age''': The original version of Batman was ripped straight from the pulps, a vigilante in the vein of the Phantom, the Shadow and the Spider. He would kill criminals without remorse and fought crime rings, mad scientists and vampires, but at the same time this version introduced his trademark utility belt and bat-themed gadgets. This is also the era that introduced Robin, Alfred, the Joker (initially just a serial killer with a gimmick) and Catwoman.

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	Despite usually being portrayed as a socially awkward and bitter loner, Batman ironically has the largest "family" of trainees and spin-off heroes in DC comics, if not in comics as a whole:		Despite usually being portrayed as a socially awkward and bitter loner, Batman ironically has the largest "family" of trainees and spin-off heroes in DC comics, if not in comics as a whole:

	* '''Alfred Pennyworth:''' Bruce Wayne's butler, ala Zorro's Bernardo but capable of hearing and speech. At first just a butler with a vague background in intelligence, post-Crisis ~~who~~ raised Bruce after Thomas and Martha's death ~~that was in on the secret identity, his~~ past has gradually been expanded to the point he might as well be a retired James Bond. Occasionally plays Batman when Bruce needs to in two places at once, and often the voice of reason due to ''not'' being motivated by childhood trauma. Whenever Robin isn't part of the story, Alfred plays a much larger role so that Batman has a "Watson" figure to talk to for the benefit of the audience.		* '''Alfred Pennyworth:''' Bruce Wayne's butler, ala Zorro's Bernardo but capable of hearing and speech. At first just a butler with a vague background in intelligence who figured out the secret himself, post-Crisis he raised Bruce after Thomas and Martha's death. His past has gradually been expanded since to the point he might as well be a retired James Bond. Occasionally plays Batman when Bruce needs to in two places at once, and often the voice of reason due to ''not'' being motivated by childhood trauma. Whenever Robin isn't part of the story, Alfred plays a much larger role so that Batman has a "Watson" figure to talk to for the benefit of the audience.

	* '''Robin:''' The original Kid Sidekick, a brightly colored and cheerful youth who was introduced to add some contrast to the dark and brooding Batman. There have been at least ''five'' official Robins in mainstream continuity. While child sidekicks that aren't a character's biological child have largely gone away, Batman gets to keep his due how ancient and iconic Robin is.		* '''Robin:''' The original Kid Sidekick, a brightly colored and cheerful youth who was introduced to add some contrast to the dark and brooding Batman. There have been at least ''five'' official Robins in mainstream continuity. While child sidekicks that aren't a character's biological child have largely gone away, Batman gets to keep his due how ancient and iconic Robin is.
	** ''Dick Grayson:'' The original and for most people the most iconic Robin. Orphaned son of a circus acrobat family called the Flying Graysons, adopted by Batman and then became the first Robin. Eventually split to become an adult superhero named ''Nightwing''. Founder of the Teen Titans. The greatest acrobat in the "Batfamily", fan-favorite and bigger ladies' man than Batman proving "charm > money".		** ''Dick Grayson:'' The original and for most people the most iconic Robin. Orphaned son of a circus acrobat family called the Flying Graysons, adopted by Batman and then became the first Robin. Eventually split to become an adult superhero named ''Nightwing''. Founder of the Teen Titans. The greatest acrobat in the "Batfamily", fan-favorite and bigger ladies' man than Batman proving "charm > money".
	** ''Jason Todd:'' The second Robin, a former teen delinquent with a vicious streak who flirted with killing more than once. Fans found him ~~unlikeable~~ and Batman writer Jim Starlin found the kid-sidekick idea absurd, so they had Joker beat him to a pulp with a crowbar and staged a call-in vote (inspired by an SNL sketch of all things) ~~to let~~ the fans take the heat. ("Kill" won by just 72 votes, and anyone who's been on 4chan long enough knows how easy polls are to rig.) Then he was brought back from the dead as a vengeful vigilante called the ''Red Hood'', who is kind of like DC's Punisher, except he doesn't have anybody on the staff trying to push him as a [[Humanity Fuck Yeah]] ~~style~~ badass like Punisher does.		** ''Jason Todd:'' The second Robin, a former teen delinquent with a vicious streak who flirted with killing more than once. Fans found him unlikable and Batman writer Jim Starlin found the kid-sidekick idea absurd, so they had Joker beat him to a pulp with a crowbar and staged a call-in vote (inspired by an SNL sketch of all things) so the fans would take the heat. ("Kill" won by just 72 votes, and anyone who's been on 4chan long enough knows how easy polls are to rig.) Then he was brought back from the dead as a vengeful vigilante called the ''Red Hood'', who is kind of like DC's Punisher, except he doesn't have anybody on the staff trying to push him as a [[Humanity Fuck Yeah]] badass like Punisher does.
	** ''Tim Drake:'' The third Robin, who originally was ''not'' an orphan and instead saw his Robin-ing as a part-time thing to snap Batman out of his funk after Jason Todd was killed. Then his parents were killed and he became Batman's ward and permanent Robin. Founder of the Young Justice team. Was rebooted slightly in the New 52, where the biggest change was that he always called himself by the seperate identity of ''Red Robin'' ([[Derp\|yumm]]) whilst sidekicking for Batman before going independent to ''Drake''. Voted most likely to inherit the role of "World's Greatest Detective", able to deduce Batman's secret identity from his introduction.		** ''Tim Drake:'' The third Robin, who originally was ''not'' an orphan and instead saw his Robin-ing as a part-time thing to snap Batman out of his funk after Jason Todd was killed. Then his parents were killed and he became Batman's ward and permanent Robin. Founder of the Young Justice team. Was rebooted slightly in the New 52, where the biggest change was that he always called himself by the seperate identity of ''Red Robin'' ([[Derp\|yumm]]) whilst sidekicking for Batman before going independent to ''Drake''. Voted most likely to inherit the role of "World's Greatest Detective", able to deduce Batman's secret identity from his introduction.
	** ''Stephanie Brown:'' Notable as the only female teen sidekick of Batman to go by Robin instead of Batgirl. Highly controversial becase she was treated with incredible unfairness by Batman, including literally only being recruited in an attempt to make Tim Drake jealous and return to being Robin, and then seemingly killed off.		** ''Stephanie Brown:'' Notable as the only female teen sidekick of Batman to go by Robin instead of Batgirl. Highly controversial becase she was treated with incredible unfairness by Batman, including literally only being recruited in an attempt to make Tim Drake jealous and return to being Robin, and then seemingly killed off.
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	** ''Betty Kane:'' The original Batgirl (or "Bat-Girl", as she was called), she was the niece of Kathy Kane, aka Batwoman, and was introduced as DicK Grayson's would-be love interest. Dropped in the Bronze Age alongside her aunt, and hasn't really come back since.		** ''Betty Kane:'' The original Batgirl (or "Bat-Girl", as she was called), she was the niece of Kathy Kane, aka Batwoman, and was introduced as DicK Grayson's would-be love interest. Dropped in the Bronze Age alongside her aunt, and hasn't really come back since.
	** ''Barbara Gordon:'' The second Batgirl, the first to use the name without the hyphen, and the one everybody actually remembers. Daughter (sometimes niece) of Batman's ally, Police Commissioner James Gordon; created her own parody of Batman's costume for a masquerade ball, ended up using it and her acrobatic & judo training to take down a bunch of crooks who had attacked it. Thrilled by it all, she took up vigilantism herself. Had the longest run of any Batgirl, but was crippled by being shot in the back by the Joker in the 80s and became the heroic hacker and information broker ''Oracle''. Took up the cowl again after getting her spine healed in 2011 in one of the rare examples of comic book science ''not'' being ignored outside of the conflict of the issue.		** ''Barbara Gordon:'' The second Batgirl, the first to use the name without the hyphen, and the one everybody actually remembers. Daughter (sometimes niece) of Batman's ally, Police Commissioner James Gordon; created her own parody of Batman's costume for a masquerade ball, ended up using it and her acrobatic & judo training to take down a bunch of crooks who had attacked it. Thrilled by it all, she took up vigilantism herself. Had the longest run of any Batgirl, but was crippled by being shot in the back by the Joker in the 80s and became the heroic hacker and information broker ''Oracle''. Took up the cowl again after getting her spine healed in 2011 in one of the rare examples of comic book science ''not'' being ignored outside of the conflict of the issue.
	** ''Helena Bertinelli:'' A mobster's daughter turned Punisher-style vigilante known as the ''Huntress''. She briefly took up the Batgirl mantle during the "No Man's Land" event, before Batman forced her to go back to being Huntress because he couldn't stomach her willingness to use lethal force~~. The Huntress identity was originally used for the daughter of Batman and Catwoman, but she was first moved to another dimension and then removed from continuity entirely around the 2000s~~.		** ''Helena Bertinelli:'' A mobster's daughter turned Punisher-style vigilante known as the ''Huntress''. She briefly took up the Batgirl mantle during the "No Man's Land" event, before Batman forced her to go back to being Huntress because he couldn't stomach her willingness to use lethal force.
	** ''Cassandra Cain:'' Generally considered the second "real" Batgirl after Barbara Gordon. A mute assassin's daughter whose father brought her up to read body language with unparalleled skill, only for this to cause her first kill to so traumatize her that she foreswore killing ever again. Batman took her under his wing out of sympathy, making her the most Robin-like of the Batgirls.		** ''Cassandra Cain:'' Generally considered the second "real" Batgirl after Barbara Gordon. A mute assassin's daughter whose father brought her up to read body language with unparalleled skill, only for this to cause her first kill to so traumatize her that she foreswore killing ever again. Batman took her under his wing out of sympathy, making her the most Robin-like of the Batgirls.

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	* '''The Joker:''' You know who this guy is. Originally inspired by Conrad Veidt's appearance in the drama ''The Man Who Laughs'', the Joker's backstory is in constant flux (described as "multiple-choice" by the man himself) but boils down to a man down on his luck who fell into a vat of chemicals, giving him a permanent clown-like face and driving him insane. Reinvented almost more often than Batman himself; he's been a Fantomas-like mastermind, a true "Clown Prince of Crime" with funhouse-themed gadgets and capers that seem more like pranks, a sadistic monster, and most recently a downtrodden nihilist seeking revenge on society.		* '''The Joker:''' You know who this guy is. Originally inspired by Conrad Veidt's appearance in the drama ''The Man Who Laughs'', the Joker's backstory is in constant flux (described as "multiple-choice" by the man himself) but boils down to a man down on his luck who fell into a vat of chemicals, giving him a permanent clown-like face and driving him insane. Reinvented almost more often than Batman himself; he's been a Fantomas-like mastermind, a true "Clown Prince of Crime" with funhouse-themed gadgets and capers that seem more like pranks, a sadistic monster, and most recently a downtrodden nihilist seeking revenge on society.
	** '''Harley Quinn:''' The Joker's henchwench from the 1990s animated series who proved popular enough to stitch into the comics. A former psychiatrist who made the mistake of trying to rehabilitate the Joker, he twisted her around his little finger and turned her into his lovestruck slave. And for a doctor, she's surprisingly acrobatic and tough in a fight. Notable for the fact that, from her first appearance in what was nominally a kids show, her relationship with the Joker has ''always'' been creepy and abusive. This was once celebrated as a more intimate window to the Joker's insanity, it proved far too interesting for [[SJW\|the modern comics industry]], and she was made more violent and separate from the Joker in the 2010s in an attempt to copy the blockbuster Deadpool movie. Depending on the continuity, she's either implicitly bisexual, very explicitly bisexual, or an out-and-out lesbian; this was hinted at going back to the 90s, and the original cartoon's "Harley and Ivy" scenes are masterpieces in in saying it without saying it.		** '''Harley Quinn:''' The Joker's henchwench from the 1990s animated series who proved popular enough to stitch into the comics. A former psychiatrist who made the mistake of trying to rehabilitate the Joker, he twisted her around his little finger and turned her into his lovestruck slave. And for a doctor, she's surprisingly acrobatic and tough in a fight. Notable for the fact that, from her first appearance in what was nominally a kids show, her relationship with the Joker has ''always'' been creepy and abusive. This was once celebrated as a more intimate window to the Joker's insanity, it proved far too interesting for [[SJW\|the modern comics industry]], and she was made more violent and separate from the Joker in the 2010s in an attempt to copy the blockbuster Deadpool movie. Depending on the continuity, she's either implicitly bisexual, very explicitly bisexual, or an out-and-out lesbian; this was hinted at going back to the 90s, and the original cartoon's "Harley and Ivy" scenes are masterpieces in in saying it without saying it.
	* '''Catwoman:''' A burglar (duh) who regularly both goes against Batman (when stealing) and works with him (when they're after the same crook). For a long time, the closest thing Bats ever had to an official love interest, since she married him, became his crimefighting partner, and had a daughter who grew up to become the costumed superheroine Huntress in a parallel universe back before the 2000s, and in the 2010s he and she ''almost'' got married in a big comic event before fan backlash forced DC to ''actually'' let them tie the knot... in yet another spinoff multiverse because it's not allowed to happen in the mainline one.		* '''Catwoman:''' A cat burglar (duh) who regularly both goes against Batman (when stealing) and works with him (when they're after the same crook). For a long time, the closest thing Bats ever had to an official love interest, since she married him, became his crimefighting partner, and had a daughter who grew up to become the costumed superheroine Huntress in a parallel universe back before the 2000s, and in the 2010s he and she ''almost'' got married in a big comic event before fan backlash forced DC to ''actually'' let them tie the knot... in yet another spinoff multiverse because it's not allowed to happen in the mainline one.

	* '''The Penguin''': Oswald Cobblepot is a wannabe crime lord taking his name from his short, waddling gait and old-fashioned tuxedo costume. In some stories he's just the black sheep of some old money family, while in the film ''Batman Returns'' and several stories after that he's also a deformed mutant with flipper-like fingers; in any case he's defined by his use of trained birds, gadget-filled umbrellas, and being relatively sane by supervillain standards. In modern comics he gets out of supervillainy and turns to more mundane organized crime, working as a racketeer and info broker from a nightclub called the Iceberg Lounge.		* '''The Penguin''': Oswald Cobblepot is a wannabe crime lord taking his name from his short, waddling gait and old-fashioned tuxedo costume. In some stories he's just the black sheep of some old money family, while in the film ''Batman Returns'' and several stories after that he's also a deformed mutant with flipper-like fingers; in any case he's defined by his use of trained birds, gadget-filled umbrellas, and being relatively sane by supervillain standards. In modern comics he gets out of supervillainy and turns to more mundane organized crime, working as a racketeer and info broker from a nightclub called the Iceberg Lounge.
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	* '''The Mad Hatter''': Jervis Tetch is a quite wacky old chap who was obssessed with ''Alice in Wonderland'' as a child, became a neuroscientist, and discovered a way to control people's minds with easily concealed microchips. Because this is a comic book, he promptly snaps and becomes a super-criminal styled after the classic Mad Hatter instead of doing something sensible like joining the Illuminati. While he's a pretty generic mind-controller in the comics outside of the gimmick of putting his devices in old-timey price cards and hat bands, his portrayal in the animated series is notable for being a textbook case of "incel rage" decades ahead of its time: he falls in love with an Alice-like secretary, tries to catch her on the rebound by using his devices to orchestrate a "perfect" date for her, only to be shattered when she goes for Chad Thundercock instead. This version is more of a tragic figure; he has the presence of mind to not go straight to mind-controlling his "Alice" from the beginning, and in subsequent stories Tetch only goes after Batman because he's a constant reminder of his ruined life.		* '''The Mad Hatter''': Jervis Tetch is a quite wacky old chap who was obssessed with ''Alice in Wonderland'' as a child, became a neuroscientist, and discovered a way to control people's minds with easily concealed microchips. Because this is a comic book, he promptly snaps and becomes a super-criminal styled after the classic Mad Hatter instead of doing something sensible like joining the Illuminati. While he's a pretty generic mind-controller in the comics outside of the gimmick of putting his devices in old-timey price cards and hat bands, his portrayal in the animated series is notable for being a textbook case of "incel rage" decades ahead of its time: he falls in love with an Alice-like secretary, tries to catch her on the rebound by using his devices to orchestrate a "perfect" date for her, only to be shattered when she goes for Chad Thundercock instead. This version is more of a tragic figure; he has the presence of mind to not go straight to mind-controlling his "Alice" from the beginning, and in subsequent stories Tetch only goes after Batman because he's a constant reminder of his ruined life.
	* '''The Riddler:''' Perhaps the most "Silver Age" of the enduring Batman villains, the Riddler is a smug asshole obsessed with brainteasers who sees Batman (being "The World's Greatest Detective") as his only peer. His habit of leaving clues to his crimes for do-gooders to solve is actually a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder, [[Tzeentch\|explaining why he constantly sabotages himself with impractical schemes and fallible deathtraps]]. The writers tend to alternate between treating him as a genuine challenge for Batman's intellect and a prancing egomaniac whose most dangerous aspect is his terrible fashion sense.		* '''The Riddler:''' Perhaps the most "Silver Age" of the enduring Batman villains, the Riddler is a smug asshole obsessed with brainteasers who sees Batman (being "The World's Greatest Detective") as his only peer. His habit of leaving clues to his crimes for do-gooders to solve is actually a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder, [[Tzeentch\|explaining why he constantly sabotages himself with impractical schemes and fallible deathtraps]]. The writers tend to alternate between treating him as a genuine challenge for Batman's intellect and a prancing egomaniac whose most dangerous aspect is his terrible fashion sense.
			* '''Bane''': The man who broke the Bat. Taken to a prison island at an early age for his father's crimes, Bane was raised by his fellow political inmates (making him a criminal version of pulp icon Doc Savage) before being used as a test subject for the experimental "super-steroid" called Venom. Now ''totally fucking ripped'', he breaks out and decides his next step is to defeat Batman and rule Gotham, having been haunted by a fear of bats his whole life and with no ties to lawful society. Realizing Batman is still human with human limits, he manipulates Gotham's villains into wearing the Bat down before ambushing him outside the Batcave, breaking Batman's spine over his knee in one of the most iconic images of modern comics. After being defeated by a recovered Batman he continues to strive for a foothold in Gotham's underworld, occasionally taking time off to brutalize anyone trying to sell Venom as an illegal drug. How much of his super-strength comes from Venom varies; initially he used it continuously to stave off withdrawal and was helpless without it, but in later stories he goes cold turkey and is still a big guy without the Venom. Typically flavored as Latin American and dressed as a luchador, signaling that if you tried to take his mask off it would be extremely painful (for you).

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	* '''Poison Ivy''': Pamela Isley is a botany expert turned ecoterrorist with a natural immunity to all toxins, making her a natural poisoner of Gotham's elite industrialists; post-Crisis this was upgraded into being an actual plant person with nature-themed superpowers. Frequently characterized as a seducer in the vein of the mythical [[Wikipedia:Alraune\|Alraune]], complete with perfumes or pheromones powerful enough to count as mind control. When that doesn't cut it she can fall back on her botany expertise and plant powers, turning trees into something out of [[Catachan]] and Venus flytraps into a passable imitation of one [[Wikipedia:Little Shop of Horrors\|mean green mother from outer space]]. After the Animated Series she became associated with Harley Quinn, as both of them tend to have big issues with men and aggressive personalities.		* '''Poison Ivy''': Pamela Isley is a botany expert turned ecoterrorist with a natural immunity to all toxins, making her a natural poisoner of Gotham's elite industrialists; post-Crisis this was upgraded into being an actual plant person with nature-themed superpowers. Frequently characterized as a seducer in the vein of the mythical [[Wikipedia:Alraune\|Alraune]], complete with perfumes or pheromones powerful enough to count as mind control. When that doesn't cut it she can fall back on her botany expertise and plant powers, turning trees into something out of [[Catachan]] and Venus flytraps into a passable imitation of one [[Wikipedia:Little Shop of Horrors\|mean green mother from outer space]]. After the Animated Series she became associated with Harley Quinn, as both of them tend to have big issues with men and aggressive personalities.
	* '''The Mad Hatter''': Jervis Tetch is a quite wacky old chap who was obssessed with ''Alice in Wonderland'' as a child, became a neuroscientist, and discovered a way to control people's minds with easily concealed microchips. Because this is a comic book, he promptly snaps and becomes a super-criminal styled after the classic Mad Hatter instead of doing something sensible like joining the Illuminati. While he's a pretty generic mind-controller in the comics outside of the gimmick of putting his devices in old-timey price cards and hat bands, his portrayal in the animated series is notable for being a textbook case of "incel rage" decades ahead of its time: he falls in love with an Alice-like secretary, tries to catch her on the rebound by using his devices to orchestrate a "perfect" date for her, only to be shattered when she goes for Chad Thundercock instead. This version is more of a tragic figure; he has the presence of mind to not go straight to mind-controlling his "Alice" from the beginning, and in subsequent stories Tetch only goes after Batman because he's a constant reminder of his ruined life.		* '''The Mad Hatter''': Jervis Tetch is a quite wacky old chap who was obssessed with ''Alice in Wonderland'' as a child, became a neuroscientist, and discovered a way to control people's minds with easily concealed microchips. Because this is a comic book, he promptly snaps and becomes a super-criminal styled after the classic Mad Hatter instead of doing something sensible like joining the Illuminati. While he's a pretty generic mind-controller in the comics outside of the gimmick of putting his devices in old-timey price cards and hat bands, his portrayal in the animated series is notable for being a textbook case of "incel rage" decades ahead of its time: he falls in love with an Alice-like secretary, tries to catch her on the rebound by using his devices to orchestrate a "perfect" date for her, only to be shattered when she goes for Chad Thundercock instead. This version is more of a tragic figure; he has the presence of mind to not go straight to mind-controlling his "Alice" from the beginning, and in subsequent stories Tetch only goes after Batman because he's a constant reminder of his ruined life.
			* '''The Riddler:''' Perhaps the most "Silver Age" of the enduring Batman villains, the Riddler is a smug asshole obsessed with brainteasers who sees Batman (being "The World's Greatest Detective") as his only peer. His habit of leaving clues to his crimes for do-gooders to solve is actually a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder, [[Tzeentch\|explaining why he constantly sabotages himself with impractical schemes and fallible deathtraps]]. The writers tend to alternate between treating him as a genuine challenge for Batman's intellect and a prancing egomaniac whose most dangerous aspect is his terrible fashion sense.

	== Batman Miniatures Game ==		== Batman Miniatures Game ==

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	* '''Mr. Freeze:''' ''"This is how I'll always remember you. Surrounded by winter, forever young, forever beautiful. Rest well, my love; the monster who took you from me will soon learn that revenge is a dish best served '''cold'''."'' After brief stints as a mad scientist and an aggressively German bank robber in other media, the Animated Series rewrote this space-suited villain with a tragic backstory so awesome it immediately displaced the originals. Victor Fries was a scientist specializing in cryogenics until a lab accident mutated him into a being who can only survive at sub-zero temperatures. Obssessed with reviving his terminally-ill wife Nora from suspended animation and getting revenge on whoever caused the accident, Fries builds a cryogenic suit to keep himself alive and weaponizes his freezing technology to strke back at his enemies. He's set apart from the other Batman villains by being [[Iron Hands\|calculating and filled with cold rage]] rather than manic, and often lashes out in nihilistic spite in stories where he succeeds in curing Nora only to be rejected for what he's become. He also had a rather ''cool'' appearance in the otherwise-awful Batman & Robin movie, where he was played by the Governator himself.		* '''Mr. Freeze:''' ''"This is how I'll always remember you. Surrounded by winter, forever young, forever beautiful. Rest well, my love; the monster who took you from me will soon learn that revenge is a dish best served '''cold'''."'' After brief stints as a mad scientist and an aggressively German bank robber in other media, the Animated Series rewrote this space-suited villain with a tragic backstory so awesome it immediately displaced the originals. Victor Fries was a scientist specializing in cryogenics until a lab accident mutated him into a being who can only survive at sub-zero temperatures. Obssessed with reviving his terminally-ill wife Nora from suspended animation and getting revenge on whoever caused the accident, Fries builds a cryogenic suit to keep himself alive and weaponizes his freezing technology to strke back at his enemies. He's set apart from the other Batman villains by being [[Iron Hands\|calculating and filled with cold rage]] rather than manic, and often lashes out in nihilistic spite in stories where he succeeds in curing Nora only to be rejected for what he's become. He also had a rather ''cool'' appearance in the otherwise-awful Batman & Robin movie, where he was played by the Governator himself.
	* '''Poison Ivy''': Pamela Isley is a botany expert turned ecoterrorist with a natural immunity to all toxins, making her a natural poisoner of Gotham's elite industrialists; post-Crisis this was upgraded into being an actual plant person with nature-themed superpowers. Frequently characterized as a seducer in the vein of the mythical [[Wikipedia:Alraune\|Alraune]], complete with perfumes or pheromones powerful enough to count as mind control. When that doesn't cut it she can fall back on her botany expertise and plant powers, turning trees into something out of [[Catachan]] and Venus flytraps into a passable imitation of one [[Wikipedia:Little Shop of Horrors\|mean green mother from outer space]]. After the Animated Series she became associated with Harley Quinn, as both of them tend to have big issues with men and aggressive personalities.		* '''Poison Ivy''': Pamela Isley is a botany expert turned ecoterrorist with a natural immunity to all toxins, making her a natural poisoner of Gotham's elite industrialists; post-Crisis this was upgraded into being an actual plant person with nature-themed superpowers. Frequently characterized as a seducer in the vein of the mythical [[Wikipedia:Alraune\|Alraune]], complete with perfumes or pheromones powerful enough to count as mind control. When that doesn't cut it she can fall back on her botany expertise and plant powers, turning trees into something out of [[Catachan]] and Venus flytraps into a passable imitation of one [[Wikipedia:Little Shop of Horrors\|mean green mother from outer space]]. After the Animated Series she became associated with Harley Quinn, as both of them tend to have big issues with men and aggressive personalities.
			* '''The Mad Hatter''': Jervis Tetch is a quite wacky old chap who was obssessed with ''Alice in Wonderland'' as a child, became a neuroscientist, and discovered a way to control people's minds with easily concealed microchips. Because this is a comic book, he promptly snaps and becomes a super-criminal styled after the classic Mad Hatter instead of doing something sensible like joining the Illuminati. While he's a pretty generic mind-controller in the comics outside of the gimmick of putting his devices in old-timey price cards and hat bands, his portrayal in the animated series is notable for being a textbook case of "incel rage" decades ahead of its time: he falls in love with an Alice-like secretary, tries to catch her on the rebound by using his devices to orchestrate a "perfect" date for her, only to be shattered when she goes for Chad Thundercock instead. This version is more of a tragic figure; he has the presence of mind to not go straight to mind-controlling his "Alice" from the beginning, and in subsequent stories Tetch only goes after Batman because he's a constant reminder of his ruined life.

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	*'''Lucius Fox''': CEO of Wayne Enterprises, who takes care of the day-to-day business dealings to free up Bruce for his caped crusades. Depending on the story, Lucius is also actively involved in the Batman side of things, usually acting as Batman's version of Q and providing him with many of his gadgets.		*'''Lucius Fox''': CEO of Wayne Enterprises, who takes care of the day-to-day business dealings to free up Bruce for his caped crusades. Depending on the story, Lucius is also actively involved in the Batman side of things, usually acting as Batman's version of Q and providing him with many of his gadgets.
	[[File:Detective_Batman.jpg\|thumb\|right\|250px\|Their relationship summed up...]]		[[File:Detective_Batman.jpg\|thumb\|right\|250px\|Their relationship summed up...]]
	*'''Superman~~/Clark Kent~~''': Even in pre-JLA stories, Batman and Superman would collaborate (and sometimes fought each other) several times, representing the two extremes of superhero; one who's an all-powerful superhuman, the other who's just an ordinary human but highly skilled with incredible intellect. Batman and Superman usually figure out each other's identities pretty quickly on their first meeting, and tackle problems that neither can handle on their own; they usually have a good personal relationship despite their obvious differences. In stories where the two share spotlight, Batman takes on more of a "detective" role so as not to strain disbelief fighting the same things as Superman.		*'''[[Superman]]''': Even in pre-JLA stories, Batman and Superman would collaborate (and sometimes fought each other) several times, representing the two extremes of superhero; one who's an all-powerful superhuman, the other who's just an ordinary human but highly skilled with incredible intellect. Batman and Superman usually figure out each other's identities pretty quickly on their first meeting, and tackle problems that neither can handle on their own; they usually have a good personal relationship despite their obvious differences. In stories where the two share spotlight, Batman takes on more of a "detective" role so as not to strain disbelief by having him fighting the same things as Superman.

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	* '''Catwoman:''' A burglar (duh) who regularly both goes against Batman (when stealing) and works with him (when they're after the same crook). For a long time, the closest thing Bats ever had to an official love interest, since she married him, became his crimefighting partner, and had a daughter who grew up to become the costumed superheroine Huntress in a parallel universe back before the 2000s, and in the 2010s he and she ''almost'' got married in a big comic event before fan backlash forced DC to ''actually'' let them tie the knot... in yet another spinoff multiverse because it's not allowed to happen in the mainline one.		* '''Catwoman:''' A burglar (duh) who regularly both goes against Batman (when stealing) and works with him (when they're after the same crook). For a long time, the closest thing Bats ever had to an official love interest, since she married him, became his crimefighting partner, and had a daughter who grew up to become the costumed superheroine Huntress in a parallel universe back before the 2000s, and in the 2010s he and she ''almost'' got married in a big comic event before fan backlash forced DC to ''actually'' let them tie the knot... in yet another spinoff multiverse because it's not allowed to happen in the mainline one.

	* '''Penguin''': ~~AKA~~ Oswald ~~Copplepot~~, ~~owner~~ of the Iceberg Lounge. ~~Less an ally~~, ~~more~~ a ~~highly pragmatic enemy who~~'~~s willing to work~~ with ~~Batman against~~ a ~~common foe,~~ the ~~current most popular version of Penguin is~~ a ~~crime boss~~ who ~~emerged after the fall of the pre~~-~~Batman Gotham crime families~~. ~~Depending~~ on the ~~continuity~~, ~~Batman tolerates~~ his ~~presence because while he~~'s ~~a vicious monster~~, he's a ''~~rational~~'' ~~vicious monster~~, ~~who~~ is ~~more than happy~~ to ~~snitch on his enemies~~, ~~and either isn~~'~~t that important~~ in the ~~grand scheme~~ of ~~things~~, or ~~tries~~ to ~~keep~~ a ~~lid on violence in the city~~. ~~Penguin also has~~ the ~~benefit of being semi-legitimate~~ with ~~his Iceberg Lounge~~, ~~which happens to attract plenty~~ of ~~criminals for backroom deals; an ideal place for Batman~~ to ~~keep an eye on criminal activity~~.		* '''The Penguin''': Oswald Cobblepot is a wannabe crime lord taking his name from his short, waddling gait and old-fashioned tuxedo costume. In some stories he's just the black sheep of some old money family, while in the film ''Batman Returns'' and several stories after that he's also a deformed mutant with flipper-like fingers; in any case he's defined by his use of trained birds, gadget-filled umbrellas, and being relatively sane by supervillain standards. In modern comics he gets out of supervillainy and turns to more mundane organized crime, working as a racketeer and info broker from a nightclub called the Iceberg Lounge.
			* '''Mr. Freeze:''' ''"This is how I'll always remember you. Surrounded by winter, forever young, forever beautiful. Rest well, my love; the monster who took you from me will soon learn that revenge is a dish best served '''cold'''."'' After brief stints as a mad scientist and an aggressively German bank robber in other media, the Animated Series rewrote this space-suited villain with a tragic backstory so awesome it immediately displaced the originals. Victor Fries was a scientist specializing in cryogenics until a lab accident mutated him into a being who can only survive at sub-zero temperatures. Obssessed with reviving his terminally-ill wife Nora from suspended animation and getting revenge on whoever caused the accident, Fries builds a cryogenic suit to keep himself alive and weaponizes his freezing technology to strke back at his enemies. He's set apart from the other Batman villains by being [[Iron Hands\|calculating and filled with cold rage]] rather than manic, and often lashes out in nihilistic spite in stories where he succeeds in curing Nora only to be rejected for what he's become. He also had a rather ''cool'' appearance in the otherwise-awful Batman & Robin movie, where he was played by the Governator himself.
			* '''Poison Ivy''': Pamela Isley is a botany expert turned ecoterrorist with a natural immunity to all toxins, making her a natural poisoner of Gotham's elite industrialists; post-Crisis this was upgraded into being an actual plant person with nature-themed superpowers. Frequently characterized as a seducer in the vein of the mythical [[Wikipedia:Alraune\|Alraune]], complete with perfumes or pheromones powerful enough to count as mind control. When that doesn't cut it she can fall back on her botany expertise and plant powers, turning trees into something out of [[Catachan]] and Venus flytraps into a passable imitation of one [[Wikipedia:Little Shop of Horrors\|mean green mother from outer space]]. After the Animated Series she became associated with Harley Quinn, as both of them tend to have big issues with men and aggressive personalities.

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	== Other /tg/ Relevance ==		== Other /tg/ Relevance ==
	~~[[File:Alignments Batman.jpg\|thumbnail\|220px\|Also comes in [[Lawful Stupid]], [[Stupid Evil]] and [[Stupid Good]] AU flavors!]]~~
	* There exists a meme that "Batman could take anyone, with enough prep time" (in the comics, among other places, he's defeated a mind-controlled Superman several times). Thus, among other things, the "Batman [[Wizard]]" of [[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]], who had a spellbook large enough to have a spell for every situation... presuming he had time to prepare spells. That being said, the meme doesn't take into account that, while definitely someone who goes into fights with some preparation, he's also ''extremely'' good at improvisation when the situation demands it.		* There exists a meme that "Batman could take anyone, with enough prep time" (in the comics, among other places, he's defeated a mind-controlled Superman several times). Thus, among other things, the "Batman [[Wizard]]" of [[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]], who had a spellbook large enough to have a spell for every situation... presuming he had time to prepare spells. That being said, the meme doesn't take into account that, while definitely someone who goes into fights with some preparation, he's also ''extremely'' good at improvisation when the situation demands it.
	* Responsible, almost single-handedly, for players wanting to play "a guy without superpowers who can fight on par with the guys with powers" in [[Supers]] RPGs.		* Responsible, almost single-handedly, for players wanting to play "a guy without superpowers who can fight on par with the guys with powers" in [[Supers]] RPGs.
	* Notable for having many, many continuities and versions, each with their own interpretation of the character, to the point that a D&D [[Alignment]] chart exists, filling in all 9 positions with different versions of Batman. ''(Pictured right)''

	== ~~Footnotes~~ ==		== Gallery ==
			<gallery>
	<~~references~~ />		File:JokerTrollface.jpg\|The Joker is famous for his ability to put on a cool face no matter the situation.
			File:Alignments Batman.jpg\|Batman is a morally complex fellow.
			</gallery>

	== See Also ==		== See Also ==

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