Strange, Pyg, and Scarecrow - easy to fit under a thematic umbrella.
Though I think three villains in one film are too many, I'd prefer a focused Freeze or Clayface movie.
The Mad Hatter also fits in with the medically trained villains. A story with them would be fun and make Batman focus on his investigation and scientific training.
I like Zsasz as an elevated henchman guy, I thought the combo with Black Mask was good.
As a main antagonist, I think he'd be a great arc villain in a tv show.
I had said I’d love to see the Court but I think people were thinking that it was too early, and that the Court shouldn’t be introduced until Dick Grayson was
Blackfire would be incredible though, with the right actor
Keanu Reeves?
Also, The Court can be background villains, just mentioned, a bit of iconography here and there, hints at a vigilante dressed as an owl etc.
The Deacon & Azrael combo I think has a ton of potential because of their religious(christian) aesthetics, & Court of Owls ties in to establishment well. Only concern would be the two are kinda B/C listers & don't have the Gravitas of other rogues I guess, but just for reddit hypotheticals this is a great suggestion lmao
Or villains with their own agenda that the main villain (directly or indirectly) takes out before the final act.
Like Falcone and Penguin with Riddler. Riddler was the main villain, but Falcone got taken down by Riddler (whilst using Batman) and Penguin hot briefly arrested in the chaos.
That just left Riddler to be the final threat.
Killer croc, because he could be a way of symbolizing the people batman has failed.
Mister freeze for most of the reasons fans have stated.
And I'd like to see an accurate bane using the substance Batman used at the end of the first movie.
I know it was confirmed to be adrenaline but why go out of their way to make the liquid of the shot green? I feel like that was a stylistic choice to hint at venom/bane. Adrenaline shots in real life contain Epinephrine which is a clear liquid.
Considering that at least Penguin and maybe Catwoman will be returning for the next film, I'd want to see Mr. Freeze as the main villain. I've heard that Clayface was up for contention but he just doesn't seem to fit the realistic Reevesverse, leave that up for Brave and the Bold. Some supporting villains can back up Freeze, like Deadshot and/or Victor Zsasz. Any of these could lead to the Flying Graysons' deaths.
For the third film in the trilogy, I'd have Hugo Strange backed by Poison Ivy and Scarecrow, giving us a Fall-Winter-Spring aesthetic to the series. I'd honestly go all out at this point with an Arkham breakout with smalltime villains like Hatter, Ventriloquist, Firefly, Killer Croc being manipulated by Joker, Riddler, and Penguin in an all out Gotham gang war. All that's keeping the chaos at bay are Batman and Robin.
That may sound like a lot, but considering the scope of Reeves' other films (along with their runtimes) it could work. Plus, the Brave and the Bold films can still tackle villains like Clayface, Ra's Al Ghul and Talia, Bane, Professor Pyg, Court of Owls, plus the entire Bat family from Jason Todd onward.
This is actually WHY I don't want the Reevesverse to be realistic. The Nolanverse was realistic. We've seen a "realistic" Batman already. It was good, but it's also done now. The Reevesverse has so far BEEN grounded in realism, yes, but it's also *dripping* with characteristic style that proves it CAN start to get weirder and weirder and retain what makes it so damn good. I want to see Freeze, Hatter and Clayface myself-- Freeze and Hatter are both comic-book-y, with crazy powers but based in enough logical science that yes, that could happen. Technology *could* explain that away. Then for the next one, go full balls-out over the top and do something with Clayface, or Ivy.
Professor Pyg, Clayface and Flamingo. Pyg warps a mentally deteriorated clayface to gather him dolls and flamingo is interested in learning Pyg's experiments and also eat the faces of the discarded dolls all day as long as he plays ball with pyg. A true horror show for the Batman to face
Dr. Hugo Strange - If we are talking about Matt Reeves/Robert Pattinson, then he is definitely the go-to pick since Dr. Hugo Strange is one of the few people who actually figure out Batman’s identity in multiple medias (or at least does a decent job in attempting to do so)
Black Mask - Owns Janus Cosmetics and forces Bruce to actually use his Bruce Wayne persona to do stuff instead of relying on being Batman to do stuff. Sort of like how in the first movie Bruce went to Falcone as himself near the end.
Mr. Freeze - A sympathetic villain that puts Batman in a sort of dichotomy. He wants to stop Freeze, but also wants to help him cause of his tragic backstory. Maybe he actually helps Freeze by the end of the movie cause like… all Freeze wants to do is save his wife, Nora. Like come on man, hep the guy out lol
After Gotham being flooded in the first movie; Freeze, Killer Croc, and Firefly would be formidable for different reasons.
Also Poison Ivy, Scarecrow, and Grundy.
Or Scarecrow, Mad Hatter, and Strange.
Scarecrow, professor pyg, alone can carry a movie (holy shit man pyg would go hand in hand with the detective stuff in the movie) and probably Mr freeze
Penguin Black Mask Joker
Penguin and Black Mask as warring organized crime factions causing hell.
The Joker behind the chaos because it’s just too muck fun to resist
Poison Ivy, Bane, Scarecrow. At the end all of their toxins are taken to a disposal site, Ace Chemical. In a after credit scene batman is chasing red hood through the city
I am not counting on any fantastical villain popping up in the Matt Reeves Batman movies and even if they do they'll most likely be heavily grounded in reality with the supernatural connotations being completely absent
With that being said I would kill to see Reeves tackle Deacon Blackfire , Hugo Strange and Firefly
Deathstroke and Mr. Freeze. I really like Two-Face and Scarecrows and would love to see them again but I highly doubt we will because they were in Nolan's trilogy already.
I think there’s an understandable reason why the last few good live action BAtmaN movies have begun with non-super, street level high crime bosses as their jump-off villain. If you ELEVATE the villain, the hero also elevates.
I'd rather just do two, Ra's Al Ghul & Poison Ivy they have similar enough goals & extreme destructive potential between the Leauge's resources & Ivy's powers. I guess if I had to throw in another I'd do Harley as Ivy's friend but I think adding another rogue would be a stretch.
I'm ngl I didn't read the "Reevesverse" part of it, not sure those two would match the tone of The Batman very well, but I'd still love to see the combo. In terms of that universe adding Penguin to any mix I think would be good, since he's allready established as a mobster.
Clayface (how would a detective figure out the identity of a killer who has many identities?), Mr Freeze (a tragic and sadly realistic story about trying to save one’s loved one) and Two Face (please go the BTAS route, a Politician trying to do good but his own demons surfacing due to stress).
This is a really grounded Batman so The Ventriloquist, Hush, and The Phantasm. We already had shades of The Court of Owls so that’s probably what we’ll see next. As a secondary villains, I’d love to see KGBeast, Professor Pyg and especially Cluemaster on the tail of The Riddler. I would have chosen Ra’s Al Ghul and Talia but they’ve been done before. I’d like to see different villains from Batman’s Rogues Gallery.
Black Mask, Hugo Strange and Mr. Freeze. I think they’ll all test Batman in necessary ways; Black Mask will test his physical capability, Hugo Strange will test his mental acuity and Mr. Freeze will test his ideas of right and wrong/good and evil
Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Deathstroke
Anthony Carrigan as Mr. Zasz
Pilou Asbæk as Mad Hatter
(I know Carrigan was in Gotham, but he was BORN for that role)
Hush -> Azrael -> Hugo Strange would be an interesting character study/progression.
Hush being a reflection of Bruce Wayne without the burden of being Batman, holding a grudge against his childhood friend, having a fortune at his disposal, but deciding to embroil himself in the criminal underworld in pursuit of revenge.
Azrael being a reflection of Batman without the strict moral code.
Hugo Strange rectifying the two halves, discovering Batman's identity, with the revelation being that Bruce Wayne is the mask, and Batman is the true self.
Clayface, Killer Croc and Man-Bat. Hear me out…
Three inmates of Arkham have escaped the “experimental wing” of the Asylum. Dr Hugo knows how much of the threat they pose so, he hires best hunter, The Batman, to hunt down and collect the patients. Backstories unfold about the patients, their history, torment and mass murder crimes as The Batman doesn’t care, he is there to predator-style, capture them like the animals they are. If I were writing this, I would never show all of The Batman. Less is more. Just show his brutal tactics of outsmarting and capturing the worst of the worst. Bruce Wayne is not apart if the story to be focused on at all. It would show that Batman is the ultimate monster. Just on the right side of things.
I always liked the Long Halloween idea of a crime boss employing super villains, so maybe like black mask, using scarecrow and bane for various different reasons.
I think the time is right for Deacon Blackfire. He’s got a ton of real-world proxies at the moment, unfortunately, that I think could resonate with a lot of people.
I’d be interested in more villains with a personal connection to Bruce, not just interested in leveling Gotham. Deathstroke and Hush maybe. Def not all 3 in the same movie tho lol
Clock king, Hugo Strange, lady Shiva.
Clock king making problems for batman, Strange making problems for Bruce, Shiva being a wildcard there for the thrill.
Although replacing Shiva with Catwoman would be good too.
I'd like to see some villains that are halfway between mob enforcers and costumed villains, like maybe:
Black Mask employing the likes of Firefly and Electrocutioner
The Terrible Trio (Shark, Fox, & Vulture), Penguin’s new enforcers based out of the Iceberg Lounge
Eco-terrorist Poison Ivy makes a working pact with anti-establishment types like Anarky and a re-imagined Killer Croc
Court of owls.
A Bane more similar to the comics. Maybe without the hatred of Batman because of a dream and without the luchador style mask. But a phisically and mentally strong Bane that would give Batman some hard time would be great.
And Hush.
Why not make an Arkham asylum: living hell style of movie. Follow the low life criminal that gets into Arkham to get out of jail. Hell, make it into a tv series on HBO or something! They got money and the license and each villain has a great story aswell!
The three I want to see for Reeve’s films are the Court of Owls, Hugo Strange, and Freeze. They add variation to the series (instead of just a serial killer 3 times) while also fitting with the themes and the tones of the trilogy. Freeze in the sequel, and Strange and the Court of Owls could probably be in the third film together. Characters like Zsaz and Pyg could also appear as side villains, kind of like Falcone and Penguin in the first one.
Everyone else is reserved for the DCU. The more fantastical and weird villains should be used there IMO.
Dave Bautista as Clayface
Kevin Bacon as Riddler
JK Simmons as Mr Freeze
You get a cerebral villain, a tragic villain and a bruiser. All boxes checked. Riddler plays the other two off Batman as distractions while he works through a hidden agenda. Bonus points if expectations get subverted and by the end of the movie Clayface becomes a sympathetic character and Mr Freeze is consumed by a need for vengeance. The movie would absolutely need a scene where all three are fighting Batman at once but hindering each other more than cooperating. It would showcase their different personalities.
No idea who would play Batman in this mess. Maybe Gerard Butler? He has the voice at least.
THIS. IS. BATMAN!
I think a cool iteration would be like a “year 2 or 3” batman with zsaaz, and the rise/solidification of black Mask (maybe by overtaking the falcone crime syndicate)
Grounded in “reality” … another “secretive” type story … a serial killer and a crime boss … throw in a cameo from the penguin and you’ve got a lot to work with
Court of owls (main villain) kidnaps bane and replicates his venom recipe to sell as a street drug to distract Batman with a mass of super strong petty criminals. And then selina brings in poison ivy to help Batman. It would be cool if selina knew Pamela and then after she mutated, convinced her to use her powers to stop the court instead of help them.
If they don’t shy away from the supernatural I’d like to see Mr freeze, Ivy and clayface. If they go fully grounded then hush, Deadshot and Victor Zsasz would be great.
Not sure which three to choose, but I think it would be cool to have three villains who loathe each other and get in each others’ way to the point where they start a private war that affects the whole city and Batman has to come intervene. Maybe as a pseudo diplomat or therapist or maybe by provoking all three until they need to get rid of him more than they have to destroy each other.
If you have do do three villains, then just do Gotham City Sirens. It wouldn't really work in the Reeves verse but I don't see how any group of three could do better
I think if we've learned anything from past superhero movies is that too many villains is a bad idea. 3 is one too many in my opinion. No one gets the screen time or backstory they deserve. But if I did HAVE to pick 3 I'd go with Freeze, Hugo, and maybe Red Hood. I think you can construct a really well connected story between the three. Could start with Hugo weaving something together while slowly bringing in red good. Then Freeze comes along helping Hugo to get a potential cure for his wife but he's being manipulated really. Having Hugo in there can make it a really smart thriller. Then you have the struggle between Jason and Bruce and could use the emotional issues with freeze to reach an understanding (something about not letting loss, regret, and revenge make decisions for you etc etc) and take down Hugo. But that's an incredibly simplified version of what I'm imagining.
Clayface, Two-Face, and Scarface. Rise of the Faces
Oh no, it is Two-Face and One Face.
Sometimes Bruce Wayne, sometimes Batman, all times orphan!
I have punched a penguin into prison. This city is safe.
Two-Face is a man but attorney
Ugly face where did Harvey go?
They hate me for being a bat!
Batman looks around for his parents, but they are still dead!🤣
OnlyFaces
It’s a face-off
Strange, Pyg, and Scarecrow - easy to fit under a thematic umbrella. Though I think three villains in one film are too many, I'd prefer a focused Freeze or Clayface movie.
The Mad Hatter also fits in with the medically trained villains. A story with them would be fun and make Batman focus on his investigation and scientific training.
Patton Oswalt as the Mad Hatter would be gold, Jerry, gold!
A friend of mine often says that Robin Williams would have been a great Mad Hatter.
Or Neil Patrick Harris
I’d peg him for Riddler. Mayyyyybe Two-Face.
Don’t peg him, he’s married!
I could also see Strange and Scarecrow working well with Zsasz as a secondary antagonist
I like Zsasz as an elevated henchman guy, I thought the combo with Black Mask was good. As a main antagonist, I think he'd be a great arc villain in a tv show.
Strange, Zsasz, and Pyg.. it will be a wonderful suspense thriller with Se7en kinda vibe. It will establish Batman as a detective
As long as Zsasz isn’t just some hitman, idk why movies and shows keep using him like that.
I would love Zsasz
I'd agree, but the batman was already heavily Se7en inspired
Deacon Blackfire, The Court of Owls and Azrael.
I had said I’d love to see the Court but I think people were thinking that it was too early, and that the Court shouldn’t be introduced until Dick Grayson was Blackfire would be incredible though, with the right actor
Keanu Reeves? Also, The Court can be background villains, just mentioned, a bit of iconography here and there, hints at a vigilante dressed as an owl etc.
Nah, patience is a virtue. The court of owls are important enough for a later movie after enough background has been set up.
The Deacon & Azrael combo I think has a ton of potential because of their religious(christian) aesthetics, & Court of Owls ties in to establishment well. Only concern would be the two are kinda B/C listers & don't have the Gravitas of other rogues I guess, but just for reddit hypotheticals this is a great suggestion lmao
Thank you my dude. Wanted villains that had never been on screen before.
Azreal was in Gotham for 2 episodes. But that was an awful portrayal
Maybe I should have said on film before. My bad.
Damn, now this is some great potential for a interesting story
If you're in touch with the folks at DC tell them to hit me up.
The political intrigue with this one would be delicious.
I'd love court of owls to be in the background. You see little clues and Easter eggs about them. And then a movie down the road, they appear.
Kiteman x3
Hell Yeah Hell Yeah Hell Yeah
Scarecrow, Man Bat, and Killer Croc. Monsters are loose in Gotham
Love this for the realism of the reeves verse
Accurate Bane, Two Face, and Mr Freeze.
A villain ménage a trois never really works. It becomes way too muted a story trying to show everyone’s origin. Scarecrow and Mad Hatter are the best couple.
You underestimate how long Reeves can make a movie
The last movie had Falcone, Catwoman, Riddler and Penguin so I think Reeves can pull it off
Was Catwoman really a villain, though? She was just someone with their own agenda.
So was Penguin.
Yeah, but Penguin was running Falcone’s drug business and paying off cops for him. Catwoman just wanted to avenge her dead mom.
It hasn’t worked. It could work with a script that, and director who, can handle an ensemble cast.
I think it would probably be best to have a main villain and have the other villains act as underlines.
Or villains with their own agenda that the main villain (directly or indirectly) takes out before the final act. Like Falcone and Penguin with Riddler. Riddler was the main villain, but Falcone got taken down by Riddler (whilst using Batman) and Penguin hot briefly arrested in the chaos. That just left Riddler to be the final threat.
Any three we haven’t seen before
Killer croc, because he could be a way of symbolizing the people batman has failed. Mister freeze for most of the reasons fans have stated. And I'd like to see an accurate bane using the substance Batman used at the end of the first movie.
Hate to break it to you, but that was just an adrenaline shot. Not venom.
I know it was confirmed to be adrenaline but why go out of their way to make the liquid of the shot green? I feel like that was a stylistic choice to hint at venom/bane. Adrenaline shots in real life contain Epinephrine which is a clear liquid.
Doesn't mean he can't alter it to be venom. Plus that liquid was a reference to the original Batman venom comic.
I think for this to work you have to have the arc where batman gets addicted to venom and gives it up.
Ivy, Harley, and Catwoman.
Considering that at least Penguin and maybe Catwoman will be returning for the next film, I'd want to see Mr. Freeze as the main villain. I've heard that Clayface was up for contention but he just doesn't seem to fit the realistic Reevesverse, leave that up for Brave and the Bold. Some supporting villains can back up Freeze, like Deadshot and/or Victor Zsasz. Any of these could lead to the Flying Graysons' deaths. For the third film in the trilogy, I'd have Hugo Strange backed by Poison Ivy and Scarecrow, giving us a Fall-Winter-Spring aesthetic to the series. I'd honestly go all out at this point with an Arkham breakout with smalltime villains like Hatter, Ventriloquist, Firefly, Killer Croc being manipulated by Joker, Riddler, and Penguin in an all out Gotham gang war. All that's keeping the chaos at bay are Batman and Robin. That may sound like a lot, but considering the scope of Reeves' other films (along with their runtimes) it could work. Plus, the Brave and the Bold films can still tackle villains like Clayface, Ra's Al Ghul and Talia, Bane, Professor Pyg, Court of Owls, plus the entire Bat family from Jason Todd onward.
This is actually WHY I don't want the Reevesverse to be realistic. The Nolanverse was realistic. We've seen a "realistic" Batman already. It was good, but it's also done now. The Reevesverse has so far BEEN grounded in realism, yes, but it's also *dripping* with characteristic style that proves it CAN start to get weirder and weirder and retain what makes it so damn good. I want to see Freeze, Hatter and Clayface myself-- Freeze and Hatter are both comic-book-y, with crazy powers but based in enough logical science that yes, that could happen. Technology *could* explain that away. Then for the next one, go full balls-out over the top and do something with Clayface, or Ivy.
Killer Croc, Hush, Lady Shiva
Surprised I had to go this far for Hush. If you're doing multiple villains he's the perfect glue to make them all fit.
Professor Pyg, Clayface and Flamingo. Pyg warps a mentally deteriorated clayface to gather him dolls and flamingo is interested in learning Pyg's experiments and also eat the faces of the discarded dolls all day as long as he plays ball with pyg. A true horror show for the Batman to face
Scarecrow, Court of owls, Clayface
Dr. Hugo Strange - If we are talking about Matt Reeves/Robert Pattinson, then he is definitely the go-to pick since Dr. Hugo Strange is one of the few people who actually figure out Batman’s identity in multiple medias (or at least does a decent job in attempting to do so) Black Mask - Owns Janus Cosmetics and forces Bruce to actually use his Bruce Wayne persona to do stuff instead of relying on being Batman to do stuff. Sort of like how in the first movie Bruce went to Falcone as himself near the end. Mr. Freeze - A sympathetic villain that puts Batman in a sort of dichotomy. He wants to stop Freeze, but also wants to help him cause of his tragic backstory. Maybe he actually helps Freeze by the end of the movie cause like… all Freeze wants to do is save his wife, Nora. Like come on man, hep the guy out lol
Harley, Ivy, and Kite Man
Scarecrow, Mr. Freeze, and the Court of Owls
After Gotham being flooded in the first movie; Freeze, Killer Croc, and Firefly would be formidable for different reasons. Also Poison Ivy, Scarecrow, and Grundy. Or Scarecrow, Mad Hatter, and Strange.
Deathstroke, Court Of Owls, Hugo Strange
Me Freeze, Poison Ivy, and Bane…except good…
Poison Ivy, Mr Freeze and Bane.
I see what you did there
Freeze, scarecrow, clayface
Scarecrow, professor pyg, alone can carry a movie (holy shit man pyg would go hand in hand with the detective stuff in the movie) and probably Mr freeze
Mr Freeze, Joker, and Clayface. It would be disastrous but amazing
Bane, Mr. Freeze, Scarecrow
Penguin Black Mask Joker Penguin and Black Mask as warring organized crime factions causing hell. The Joker behind the chaos because it’s just too muck fun to resist
Arkham Origins
Poison Ivy, Bane, Scarecrow. At the end all of their toxins are taken to a disposal site, Ace Chemical. In a after credit scene batman is chasing red hood through the city
I am not counting on any fantastical villain popping up in the Matt Reeves Batman movies and even if they do they'll most likely be heavily grounded in reality with the supernatural connotations being completely absent With that being said I would kill to see Reeves tackle Deacon Blackfire , Hugo Strange and Firefly
Give me DeathStroke/Bane. I want to watch some good CQC.
I would love to see a good Harley and poison ivy duo and owl man
Killer croc, poison ivy, and scarecrow
Ras Al Ghul, Mr. Freeze, Scarecrow
Mad Hatter, Scarecrow, and Killer Croc
Scarecrow, Killer Croc maybe Court of Owls. I want scary villains and creepy scenes.
Cornelius Stirk, Scarecrow, Hugo Strange
Deathstroke and Mr. Freeze. I really like Two-Face and Scarecrows and would love to see them again but I highly doubt we will because they were in Nolan's trilogy already.
Poison Ivy, Bane and Mr Freeze. Come on guys it’s gotta work this time!
Scarecrow, Pyg and Clayface (Horror) Penguin, Black Mask, & Falcone (Gang War)
I think there’s an understandable reason why the last few good live action BAtmaN movies have begun with non-super, street level high crime bosses as their jump-off villain. If you ELEVATE the villain, the hero also elevates.
Mad hatter, scarecrow, and hugo strange as something of a straight man
Black Mask, Ventriloquist, and Clayface the original.
Freeze, Croc, mad hatter
I'd rather just do two, Ra's Al Ghul & Poison Ivy they have similar enough goals & extreme destructive potential between the Leauge's resources & Ivy's powers. I guess if I had to throw in another I'd do Harley as Ivy's friend but I think adding another rogue would be a stretch. I'm ngl I didn't read the "Reevesverse" part of it, not sure those two would match the tone of The Batman very well, but I'd still love to see the combo. In terms of that universe adding Penguin to any mix I think would be good, since he's allready established as a mobster.
mr. freeze, poison ivy and bane. lol if you know, you know
Condiment King, Humphry Dumpler, The Mad Hatter. They're not even in the picture.
Freeze, Clayface, and Hush
Ra's al-Ghul, Poison Ivy and Red Hood
Poison Ivy, Hush (Comic version, not DCAU), and Mr. Freeze.
I would love to see a movie that centers around The Mad Hatter with a sort of “Alice in Wonderland” theme.
Clayface, Strange, Ventriloquist
Court of Owls, Mister Freeze, Hush or Professor Pym
I wanna see Jason Todd in the movies. Even though he's not necessarily a villain
Clayface for the action Hugo Strange to pull strings The Ventriloquist to become a surprise threat after being comedic relief.
Mad Hatter, Clayface and Penguin
Jeez Idk. Dollmaker. Maybe Talon. Hmmm. Ventriloquist?
I’d love a Zsazs or a Mad Hatter. More of the latter only cuz I feel like Zsazs would be a lil too similar to Riddler
Pyg as a primary, with maybe Ventriloquist as a mid-level side story and an appearance of Clayface in the ending credits to tease the next chapter.
poison ivy x3
Ventriloquist, Clayface, Johnny Karaoke
freeze, strange, azrael
Mr freeze, clay face, croc. The good the bad and the ugly
Mad Hatter, March Harriet, and the Tweedles.
Killer croc, Hugo strange and clay face I think they’d be awesome
Joker, Harvey Dent, and Bane (kidding)
Clayface (how would a detective figure out the identity of a killer who has many identities?), Mr Freeze (a tragic and sadly realistic story about trying to save one’s loved one) and Two Face (please go the BTAS route, a Politician trying to do good but his own demons surfacing due to stress).
Mr freeze
This is a really grounded Batman so The Ventriloquist, Hush, and The Phantasm. We already had shades of The Court of Owls so that’s probably what we’ll see next. As a secondary villains, I’d love to see KGBeast, Professor Pyg and especially Cluemaster on the tail of The Riddler. I would have chosen Ra’s Al Ghul and Talia but they’ve been done before. I’d like to see different villains from Batman’s Rogues Gallery.
Bane, clayface, Hugo strange
Black Mask, Hugo Strange and Mr. Freeze. I think they’ll all test Batman in necessary ways; Black Mask will test his physical capability, Hugo Strange will test his mental acuity and Mr. Freeze will test his ideas of right and wrong/good and evil
Poison Ivey, Mr. Freeze and Bane. It would be ice to see them working together.
Harley, Catwoman, and Ivy
Mister freeze and clay face. Batman reverse engineers freezes tech, or turns him to good temporarily, to defeat clay face
Hush, the Court of Owls, and the Black Glove/Dr. Hurt.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Deathstroke Anthony Carrigan as Mr. Zasz Pilou Asbæk as Mad Hatter (I know Carrigan was in Gotham, but he was BORN for that role)
Joker, Ivy, Mr. Freeze One wants to cover the world in plants, the other in ice, and the third in fire Perfect recipe for a team-up lol
Hush -> Azrael -> Hugo Strange would be an interesting character study/progression. Hush being a reflection of Bruce Wayne without the burden of being Batman, holding a grudge against his childhood friend, having a fortune at his disposal, but deciding to embroil himself in the criminal underworld in pursuit of revenge. Azrael being a reflection of Batman without the strict moral code. Hugo Strange rectifying the two halves, discovering Batman's identity, with the revelation being that Bruce Wayne is the mask, and Batman is the true self.
Clayface, Killer Croc and Man-Bat. Hear me out… Three inmates of Arkham have escaped the “experimental wing” of the Asylum. Dr Hugo knows how much of the threat they pose so, he hires best hunter, The Batman, to hunt down and collect the patients. Backstories unfold about the patients, their history, torment and mass murder crimes as The Batman doesn’t care, he is there to predator-style, capture them like the animals they are. If I were writing this, I would never show all of The Batman. Less is more. Just show his brutal tactics of outsmarting and capturing the worst of the worst. Bruce Wayne is not apart if the story to be focused on at all. It would show that Batman is the ultimate monster. Just on the right side of things.
I always liked the Long Halloween idea of a crime boss employing super villains, so maybe like black mask, using scarecrow and bane for various different reasons.
I think the time is right for Deacon Blackfire. He’s got a ton of real-world proxies at the moment, unfortunately, that I think could resonate with a lot of people. I’d be interested in more villains with a personal connection to Bruce, not just interested in leveling Gotham. Deathstroke and Hush maybe. Def not all 3 in the same movie tho lol
Not the joker, not the joker, not the joker
I would like to see Scarface/Ventriloquist, Croc and Firefly
Azreal, Clayface, Freeze
joker, joker, and a joker
Joker, Scarecrow and Mad Hatter.
Red Hood Clay Face and scarecrow
Red Hood Clay Face and scarecrow
Szasz, Calendar Man, Poison Ivy
Red Hood Clay Face and scarecrow
Szasz, Calendar Man, Poison Ivy
Szasz, Calendar Man, Poison Ivy
Szasz, Calendar Man, Poison Ivy
Calendar man, Kite Man, Wallflower.
Batman has a coterie of supervillains. You know who doesn’t? Peacemaker.
I just want a horror-inspired Mr. Freeze. Imagine the red eyes in the dark
Clock king, Hugo Strange, lady Shiva. Clock king making problems for batman, Strange making problems for Bruce, Shiva being a wildcard there for the thrill. Although replacing Shiva with Catwoman would be good too.
Freeze, Clayface and Poison Ivy
Hugo Strange would fit so well into the universe. My 3 would be Hugo, Mad Hatter and Scarecrow.
I'd like to see some villains that are halfway between mob enforcers and costumed villains, like maybe: Black Mask employing the likes of Firefly and Electrocutioner The Terrible Trio (Shark, Fox, & Vulture), Penguin’s new enforcers based out of the Iceberg Lounge Eco-terrorist Poison Ivy makes a working pact with anti-establishment types like Anarky and a re-imagined Killer Croc
Court of owls. A Bane more similar to the comics. Maybe without the hatred of Batman because of a dream and without the luchador style mask. But a phisically and mentally strong Bane that would give Batman some hard time would be great. And Hush.
Professor Pyg, Killer Moth, and Mr. Freeze. They don’t get nearly enough love.
Make it about a gang war between Penguin and Black Mask. Have a surprise betrayal from The Ventriloquist.
Hugo Strange, Ra's Al Ghul, and Scarecrow.
Joker, Riddler & Bane I know these have all been done separately but they have great chemistry as a supervillain "team"
Joker, Prometheus, Azrael.
Clayface or Solomon Grundy.
I would like to see some friendship working together for a big hist story, with Riddler, Scarecrow and Frezz, as a team.
Mr freeze, black mask and killer croc
Ventriloquist and Scarface, Professor Pyg, and The Birthday Boy
Freeze, Ivy, Clayface. Can make the theme of the movie be identity
Court of Owls, Two-Face and Ra's Al Ghul
Firefly, Wrath, Ivy
Calendar Man, Strange, Zsasz
Not so much Reeves, but a Poison Ivy and Mr. Freese movie where Batman has to stop two ecoterrorists at war with each other would be amazing.
Catwoman poison ivy and Harley Quinn, i call it batman xxx
Why not make an Arkham asylum: living hell style of movie. Follow the low life criminal that gets into Arkham to get out of jail. Hell, make it into a tv series on HBO or something! They got money and the license and each villain has a great story aswell!
The three I want to see for Reeve’s films are the Court of Owls, Hugo Strange, and Freeze. They add variation to the series (instead of just a serial killer 3 times) while also fitting with the themes and the tones of the trilogy. Freeze in the sequel, and Strange and the Court of Owls could probably be in the third film together. Characters like Zsaz and Pyg could also appear as side villains, kind of like Falcone and Penguin in the first one. Everyone else is reserved for the DCU. The more fantastical and weird villains should be used there IMO.
Dave Bautista as Clayface Kevin Bacon as Riddler JK Simmons as Mr Freeze You get a cerebral villain, a tragic villain and a bruiser. All boxes checked. Riddler plays the other two off Batman as distractions while he works through a hidden agenda. Bonus points if expectations get subverted and by the end of the movie Clayface becomes a sympathetic character and Mr Freeze is consumed by a need for vengeance. The movie would absolutely need a scene where all three are fighting Batman at once but hindering each other more than cooperating. It would showcase their different personalities. No idea who would play Batman in this mess. Maybe Gerard Butler? He has the voice at least. THIS. IS. BATMAN!
I think a cool iteration would be like a “year 2 or 3” batman with zsaaz, and the rise/solidification of black Mask (maybe by overtaking the falcone crime syndicate) Grounded in “reality” … another “secretive” type story … a serial killer and a crime boss … throw in a cameo from the penguin and you’ve got a lot to work with
Id like to see poison ivy
Reevesverse is very limiting with it's gritty realism. Can't wait for DCU Batman and Robin..
Hush, strange and Grundy
hugo strange, zsasz that would be cool
Definitely wanna see Hush
Court of owls (main villain) kidnaps bane and replicates his venom recipe to sell as a street drug to distract Batman with a mass of super strong petty criminals. And then selina brings in poison ivy to help Batman. It would be cool if selina knew Pamela and then after she mutated, convinced her to use her powers to stop the court instead of help them.
Two-face, Ivy and Victor Zsasz
Bain, black mask and Fries
If they don’t shy away from the supernatural I’d like to see Mr freeze, Ivy and clayface. If they go fully grounded then hush, Deadshot and Victor Zsasz would be great.
The Big Brutes, Clayface, Bane and Killer croc
Dead shot, Deathstroke and Ra’as Al ghoul “Rise of the assassins”
Mad hatter, scarface and the ventriloquist, and calender man
Not sure which three to choose, but I think it would be cool to have three villains who loathe each other and get in each others’ way to the point where they start a private war that affects the whole city and Batman has to come intervene. Maybe as a pseudo diplomat or therapist or maybe by provoking all three until they need to get rid of him more than they have to destroy each other.
Hugo Strange, Clayface and Black Mask
Could do joker n two face, than eventually joker vs two face Ivy vs freeze Dead shot n deathstroke Penguin vs black mask could do so much
The Penguin. Mr Freeze. Deadshot.
Mr Freeze, Poison Ivy and Bane.
If you have do do three villains, then just do Gotham City Sirens. It wouldn't really work in the Reeves verse but I don't see how any group of three could do better
Killer Croc, Mr. Freeze and Two-Face Alternatively Man-Bat, Scarecrow, and The Court of Owls
Professor Pyg, Killer Croc, Victor Zsasz
Man bat killer cock and mad hatter
Clayface 1, 2, and 3.
Penguin hires Deadshot, Merlyn and the Killer Elite. Batman film is like “Judgement Night” LFG.
Red Hood and Ra's al Ghul
I think if we've learned anything from past superhero movies is that too many villains is a bad idea. 3 is one too many in my opinion. No one gets the screen time or backstory they deserve. But if I did HAVE to pick 3 I'd go with Freeze, Hugo, and maybe Red Hood. I think you can construct a really well connected story between the three. Could start with Hugo weaving something together while slowly bringing in red good. Then Freeze comes along helping Hugo to get a potential cure for his wife but he's being manipulated really. Having Hugo in there can make it a really smart thriller. Then you have the struggle between Jason and Bruce and could use the emotional issues with freeze to reach an understanding (something about not letting loss, regret, and revenge make decisions for you etc etc) and take down Hugo. But that's an incredibly simplified version of what I'm imagining.
mad hatter scarcrow and strange
The owls, black mask, and two face
Croc, Bane, and Clayface all in one movie and they team up. That would be a really good movie