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* VillainDecay: This trope is zigzagged: In ''The Clock King'', the eponymous villain almost kills Batman and then he is able to go hand to hand with him by simply from having studied Batman's tendencies in a fight from news footage about him. In "Time out of Joint", he is captured by a condescending Robin. In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode "Task Force X", he works as a BoxedCrook with clockwork efficiency. Lastly, WesternAnimation/TheBatmanAdventures ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries The New Batman Adventures]]'' shows him [[spoiler: successfully rigging the mayoral election so Hill would lose, and badly injuring the Riddler because he wanted to expose his plan]].
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* MuggingTheMonster: In "Birds of a Feather", a reformed Penguin is out on a lunch date with socialite [[RichBitch Veronica Vreeland]] when a group of muggers (completely unaware of who he is) decide to rob them. Cobblepot may be a short, middle-aged fat guy, but he also frequently crosses [[ItMakesSenseInContext parasols]] with ''Batman''. Even without any [[AbnormalAmmo trick umbrellas]] at his disposal, he easily schools them and likely would have driven them off completely without Batman's intervention.
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** What makes this somehow worse is that it would be the ''second time'' he became wealthy outside of crime! In order to pull off his XanatosGambit scheme in "If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?", he would have had to become independently wealthy, devise his plan, and worm his way into the construction of the "Riddle of the Minotaur" attraction at the amusement park to build his augmented death traps all within the two years between getting canned by Mockridge and making his reappearance as The Riddler. He took [[NiceJobFixingItVillain Mockridge's insult]] as a ''challenge''.
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->"''Think of it, Batman: to never again walk on a summer's day with a hot wind in your face, and a warm hand to hold. Oh yes, I'd'' kill ''for that.''"
A respected cryogenics expert who was once employed by [=GothCorp=], Victor Fries fell into a life of crime when his wife, Nora, grew ill and he was forced to sustain her in cryogenic containment until such time that a cure could be delivered. A freak accident in his lab caused Victor to become doused in cryogenic freezing compound, altering his body's structure. Although the effect of the incident made him very durable physically (he is nigh-immortal as his body's low temperature reduces his aging to a crawl), it left him unable to sustain himself outside of below-freezing temperatures. Fries developed a special suit that allows him to exist at these temperatures in normal climates, becoming "Mr. Freeze" in the process. Mr. Freeze's criminal activities are typically unconcerned with personal gain but instead motivated by vengeance and desperation.
* AdaptationalBadass: He's much more serious and formidable than he previously was in the comics, and he ended up reintroduced in the comics and featured in [[WesternAnimation/BatmanAndMisterFreezeSubZero two]] [[Film/BatmanAndRobin films]] (granted, the latter did not go very well).
* AdaptationalHeroism: He was a stereotypical and unremarkable MadScientist in comics from before the series. Here he's a heartbroken guy who is trying his best to avenge and later save his wife, but takes extreme measures in order to it. That being said, he was actually a good guy in the first couple of episodes, but it was after his wife died, that he became rather evil, but even there he's still easy to sympathize with.
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: Much of his villainry is motivated by his desperate desire to save Nora, often at the expense of his own safety, emotional wellbeing, and the lives of innocent people.
* AndIMustScream: His eventual fate as shown in Batman Beyond.
* AntiVillain: When he's not obsessed with vengeance he just wants to be left alone with his wife.
* AnIcePerson: Thanks to a FreakLabAccident.
* BadassBoast: Has performed more than one over the course of the series:
-->''"Rest well my love. The monster who took you away from me shall soon learn that revenge is a dish, '''best served cold'''."'' \\\
''"Sooner or later, all who stand in my way shall feel the icy touch of death!"''
* BadassBookworm: A former scientist, who created all of the technology he uses.
* BadBoss: He values Nora's life more than anyone else's, even his own henchmen.
* BaldOfEvil: The accident that made him Mr. Freeze caused his hair to fall out.
* BigBad: Of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAndMisterFreezeSubZero''.
* BlackEyesOfCrazy: In place of his goggles in ''The New Batman Adventures''.
* BlessedWithSuck: He is immortal and can survive quite well in subzero temperatures. He'll also die in anything warmer without his suit on, and hates his life.
* BodyHorror: Starts out with a body unable to survive outside of subzero temperatures. Gets even worse in later seasons, when [[spoiler:all of his body, save for his head, has decayed away]].
* ChronicVillainy: After his debut he really just wants to be left alone, but something always seems to drag him back into crime.
* ClingyCostume: His temperature-regulating suit, which can't come off unless he has a place kept roughly the same temperature as a meat locker.
* CreepyMonotone: To enforce the idea that he has no emotions.
* CrusadingWidower: The loss of his wife is the whole reason he became Mr. Freeze.
* DespairEventHorizon:
** Losing his wife. [[spoiler:''Both'' times.]]
** Losing his body to degeneration, reducing him to a disembodied head.
** Gets another one in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond''. Poor guy just can't catch a break.
* {{Determinator}}: "Nora was the only good thing in my life and they took her from me. I don't care what I have to do to get her back!"
* TheDragon: To Grant Walker in ''Deep Freeze''.
* DramaticDeadpan: He usually talks in an emotionless CreepyMonotone.
* EvilIsPetty: Good grief, ''Cold Comfort''! He goes around breaking fossils and paintings just to make people miserable.
* FateWorseThanDeath: He certainly seems to view his new state as this, often citing that he'd prefer death or a life very close to it.
* ForTheEvulz: After apparently [[MotiveDecay losing his wife Nora forever]], Freeze goes around for a while destroying what people love in order to spread his misery.
* FreezeRay: His [[WeaponOfChoice trademark weapon]].
* HateSink: Not one himself, but because his motives are often sympathetic or understandable to the audience every appearance before "Cold Comfort" involved one either working with him or against him.
* HeartbrokenBadass: His suit and abilities are awesome, but that is nothing to think about, when he's giving his life to save his own wife, yet people still think of him as the bad guy.
* TheHeavy: While rarely the worst villain in the episodes he appears in, he's always the most prominent.
* IllGirl: His wife, for whom he commits his crimes.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: In ''[[ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures Gotham Adventures]]'', Nora has remarried, and Freeze is happy to save her husband's life when Grant Walker comes back and kidnaps him.
* {{Jerkass}}: His loss was tragic, but his means always endanger people, and he does not care.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite how his incident has made him even ''litterally'' coldblooded, Freeze just wants to save his wife, Nora, though he would kill anyone just to do it, even if he has to kill an innocent. He even let his soft side out a couple of times.
* KickTheDog: Trying to hit Batman, he accidentally freezes one of his henchmen's legs. He then blames the accident on said henchman and leaves him for dead while the poor guy begs them to help him. It happens the same way to one of his ice maidens in ''Cold Comfort''. But then, ''Cold Comfort'' is a KickTheDog episode.
* LonersAreFreaks: Where Batman has Robin, who he treats as a teammate, Mr. Freeze is completely ruthless when one of his henchmen gets accidentally frozen.
* LosingYourHead: In the show's revamp, as another side effect of his condition.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: His love for his comatose wife, Nora.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: In a comic tie-in to the show, where Nora had remarried. [[spoiler: Though this applies more to Francis D'anjou, who was actually framing Freeze in the hope that Nora would stop loving him.]]
* {{Necromantic}}: Turned to crime for funds to cure his sick, cryogenically frozen wife and revenge on a CorruptCorporateExecutive for pulling the plug on his first attempt.
* NotSoSimilar: Freeze is like Batman personality-wise: Jaded, brooding, not very social, but of good intentions. However, the difference is that Freeze is willing to kill anyone in order to save Nora, and while Batman sympathizes with him, he cannot let him kill people for it.
-->'''Mr. Freeze''': Vengeance! ''Vengeance!''\\
'''Batman''': No... ''Justice.''
* OnlySaneMan: In Arkham--he's only there because he's a special needs prisoner, not insane.
* PeopleJars: Keeps Nora in one until he can find a cure.
* PoweredArmor: His suit, which apparently triples his strength.
* PungeonMaster: He makes some cold-related puns in his debut episode; they are much better than anything from ''Film/BatmanAndRobin''.
-->'''Mr. Freeze:''' I'm beyond emotions. They've been frozen ''dead'' in me.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: His goggles from his first appearances make him look like he has these.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: In "Heart of Ice", towards Ferris Boyle.
* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou: Mr. Freeze fires his freeze gun directly at you. In the commentary, the directors are surprised they got away with it - they wouldn't have been able to with a regular gun, in case some kid decided to try it.
* SilenceYouFool: In ''Deep Freeze'', Mr. Freeze say this twice to Batman.
* SnowMeansLove: His most iconic scene is him talking to the snowglobe that contains a statue of Nora, begging for forgiveness. Sad version of this trope. The comics reveal that in college the two spent much of their courtship outside in the snow.
* TheStoic: But also NotSoStoic when his wife is brought into the equation.
* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs: "Freeze!" "That's ''Mister'' Freeze to ''you''." ''([[PreMortemOneLiner fires]])''
* TinMan: Despite claiming that he can no longer feel any emotion, his despair at losing his wife — and his cold hatred to those who took her — is demonstrable.
* TookALevelInJerkass: While always having been vindictive since his transformation into Mr. Freeze, his crimes were motivated by a devotion towards his wife, whether it be avenging her supposed death or attempting to developing a cure her for her terminal illness. In ''Cold Comfort,'' however, Freeze has become a StrawNihilist who targets innocents for little reason other than to bring them the misery he feels.
* TragicVillain: A desperate man trying to save his dying wife, and whose life was destroyed by an accident and confined into a refrigerated suit to survive. There's a reason he provides the page image.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Any temperatures over freezing; he can't survive them without his suit. In his debut episode Batman defeats him with a ''warm thermos of chicken soup'' (the temperature difference breaking his helmet).
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: "Deep Freeze" states that, even if he's not ''immortal'', he can likely live for thousands of years. And he wants none of it.
** Worse in ''Meltdown'' where he seems to have spent the last few decades as a disembodied head in an isolated room.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Before the accident he's even shown to be a bit soft spoken and reserved, and backs down easily after a brief attempt at stopping Boyle from shutting down the cryonic chamber Nora was in.
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[[folder:The Penguin (Oswald Cobblepot)]]
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->'''Voiced By:''' Music/PaulWilliams (''Batman: The Animated Series'', ''The New Batman Adventures''), David Ogden Stiers (''Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman'') (English), Kosei Tomita (Japanese)
->''"Sorry about the intrusion, sir, but at least you were ransacked by a man of impeccable taste."''
A short, chubby, well-dressed man, who fancies himself a classic GentlemanThief, but his manners leave much to be desired.
* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: In ''Birds of a Feather'' and ''The Mechanic'', he had a hideout in one. Likely a reference to his Film/BatmanReturns counterpart.
* {{Acrofatic}}: Pretty quick for someone so rotund.
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Uses this a lot.
* AffablyEvil: Especially in ''Birds of a Feather''.
* AntiquatedLinguistics: To cultivate a gentlemanly image.
* BigBad: In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMysteryOfTheBatwoman''.
* BodyguardBabes: Jay, Lark, and Raven.
* ChronicVillainy: Chose to abandon crime one day when he was released from Stonegate, deciding that he never wanted to return to jail again, but when he learned that the woman he began to fall in love with was only spending time with him to mock his uncultured ways he relapsed into villainy. However, unlike the other villains, he does manage to stay out of jail in ''The New Batman Adventures.'' He didn't really reform and uses his nightclub as a front for shady deals, but he does a much better job of ensuring his legal safety. Batman is well-aware that Penguin hasn't changed, but keeps him around because he is just as often a [[TheRat good source of information]] about other, more dangerous criminals.
* CivilianVillain: Actually worked better for him when he was faking it.
* DeadpanSnarker: He is TheSnarkKnight when he deals with the lower classes (prison guards, bus drivers, Batman). When he at last deals with the upper classes, he becomes a StepfordSnarker.
* DoomyDoomsOfDoom: Once tried calling a trap he'd set for Batman in a zoo as his "aviary of doom". The other villains he tells the story to are bemused, at best.
-->'''The Penguin:''' ''(narrating)'' Welcome, my ebon-winged adversary. You have taken the bait, just as I knew you would. Now, prepare to meet your end within my Aviary of Doom!\\
'''Poison Ivy:''' ''(interrupting the story)'' Aviary of ''what''?...\\
'''The Joker:''' Sheesh, Pengers. How corny can you get?\\
'''The Penguin:''' Fah! Just because you mundane miscreants have no drama in your souls!... Anyway, there he was in my Av... * Sigh* ... My "big birdhouse"...
* EtTuBrute: A rather depressing example. In the episode, ''Birds of a Feather'', he is released from prison and declares that he's reformed and will become a model member of high society. A group of snobbish aristocrats decide to bring him into their social circle so that they can laugh at his social ineptitude and appearance. He generally doesn't care how life had gotten him down through the rest of the episode, but when he overhears the woman whom he had fallen in love with talking about this plot, he loses it. The real slap in the face is that he had genuinely reformed until this happened.
* EvilBrit: Speaks with a British accent.
* EvilIsNotAToy: In ''Birds of a Feather'', Veronica Vreeland brings him into her social circle as a publicity stunt. He eventually finds out he's being used, and in his true flamboyantly villainous fashion, kidnaps and tries to kill her.
* TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily: In his first appearance, he and his henchmen are continuously foiled by the local children who have [[BatmanInMyBasement Batman in their basement]]. This is one of the reasons that the production team does not think very highly of this episode, since they were hoping the series would avoid kid heroes and bumbling villains.
* FatBastard: It's always been a staple of the Penguin to be overweight and unpleasant.
* FauxAffablyEvil: His default mode, as he has been shown very willing to hurt women and children.
* FeatheredFiend: Has a collection of deadly birds ranging from poison-billed hummingbirds to trained attack-cassowaries.
* GentlemanSnarker: Most of his snarking come with a veil of sophistication.
* GentlemanThief: He invokes this trope, without success, you could say.
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Always has a cigarette holder in his mouth.
* TheGrotesque: Similar to the Burton films, the Penguin is ''almost'' this trope played straight. He's nowhere near as evil as, say, The Joker, but then again he's not even all that ugly. It's implied that deep down he really wants to go straight, [[ChronicVillainy but he just likes stealing priceless artifacts too much]] -- and he just can't keep from lashing out at people who make fun of him when he ''does'' try to reform.
* HiddenDepths: As Veronica Vreeland discovered, if you can stand his SadClown jokes, his JabbaTableManners and his SmallNameBigEgo attitude, Oswald can be quite TheCharmer in a LargeHam way.
* HighClassGlass: Kept from the comics (despite being absent from the movie).
* HonorAmongThieves: Best shown in "Second Chance".
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Umbrellas. Some of them even have live rounds.
* JabbaTableManners: As seen in "Birds of a Feather".
* JustGotOutOfJail: He did try to live a honest life and among Gotham's elites (which he thought possible thanks to Veronica Vreeland). While she cleared a misunderstanding when Batman wrongly thought the Penguin was one of the muggers robbing her, it was eventually revealed to him she just wanted someone to be made a fool of at a party. He was so revolted he returned to a life of crime.
* LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub: The Iceberg Lounge. Though the bar itself is designed around high society and is completely legit he uses it as a front to do illegal smuggling in the back.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Always wears a formal tuxedo, stylistically similar to actual penguins (who look like they're wearing one).
* NiceHat: His top hat.
* OnlySaneMan: Carried over from the comics. He's one of the few Batman villains who goes to jail rather than Arkham. He also sometimes grows annoyed with the other rogues' "eccentricities" when forced to work with them.
* OrphanedPunchline: Has one in ''Birds of a Feather'': "--and I said, 'But, warden--those aren't ''my'' pants!"
* PaidHarem: Jay, Raven, and Lark.
* ParasolOfPain: His parasols can have anything from toxic gas to actual bullets.
** ParasolParachute: One of its uses.
* TheRat: The only reason why Batman lets him operate his nightclub.
* RedemptionFailure: ''Birds of a Feather''
* ReformedButRejected: ''Birds of a Feather''
* SadClown: His delusions of being a GentlemanThief and his SmallNameBigEgo are his way to cope with his crushing loneliness. He is insecure at heart and keeps on running his mouth to fool himself into thinking he's confident or to get people to like him and tends to make jokes at inappropriate times to cope.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: To make himself sound more sophisticated then he actually is. Comes back to bite him in a tie-in comic, where he doesn't know what a word means and makes something up to avoid looking stupid.
* SinisterSchnoz: It has the appearance of a penguin beak.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Despite overwhelming evidence on the contrary, the Penguin really believes he is well liked by the rich Gotham elite (''Birds of a Feather'') and fancies himself as a ladies’ man (he hits on Roxie Rocket on ''The Ultimate Thrill''). Those things didn’t end well for him.
* SmugSnake: He's a pretty arrogant bastard.
* SocietyIsToBlame: In ''Birds of a Feather'', he looks to go straight once he's gotten out of prison, but when resident RichBitch Veronica Vreeland and her snobby friends decide to make him the butt of an exceptionally cruel joke, he reverts to his criminal ways to exact revenge. In the end, he muses, "I guess it's true; society is to blame. ''High'' society." At least Vreeland had the decency to feel bad about her role in it by the end though.
* TerribleTrio: Was part of one with Jay and Raven before leading two sets: one of males then one of females.
* ThenLetMeBeEvil: He could put up with Batman [[ReformedButRejected not believing he really reformed]], but Veronica Vreeland shouldn't have used him for a pig at a pig party.
* VillainBallMagnet: ''Birds of a Feather''
* VillainousValor: In ''Birds of a Feather'' at least, he is a courageous fighter, [[MuggingTheMonster beating back a gang of bullies who are trying to mug him using only his umbrella]]. In ''Second Chance'', when Batman is accusing him of having Two-Face kidnapped, the Penguin declares that he were ever going to mess with another villain, he'd do it the honorable way: face to face.
* WannabeLine: His club, The Iceberg Lounge, has such a line. In ''Joker's Millions'', Barbara and Dick get in by Barbara mentioning her father as the Penguin is walking by. Bruce Wayne is seen in the Lounge later.
* WhosLaughingNow: To Veronica Vreeland and her UpperClassTwit friend Pierce in ''Birds of a Feather''.
* WickedCultured: He tries to be this...
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[[folder:The Riddler (Edward Nygma)]]
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->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/JohnGlover (English), Creator/YoshitoYasuhara (Japanese)
->''"Do you know what happens to gate crashers? They have to match wits with the Riddler."''
A disgraced video game developer-turned-criminal with a knack for very complex and obscure riddles. Unlike most of Batman's rogues, The Riddler typically ''wants'' Batman to pursue him as it gives him an opportunity to use his riddling skills to try to outwit the Dark Knight.
* AffablyEvil: As long as his "outwitted angry guy" mood is not triggered, he keeps a very elegant and formal demeanor. Though considering he rarely ends a sentence without insulting other people's intelligence, he might qualify for full time FauxAffablyEvil.
* AntiHero: [[spoiler: See HeelFaceTurn below]].
* TheBadGuyWins: Even though he actually did not achieve his goal of killing his ex-boss, Nygma escapes justice safely, and terrifies his victim into a permanent mortal fear of his return.
* BaldOfEvil: In the retool, he is bald.
* BerserkButton: The whole reason he wanted revenge on Mockridge was less because he was scammed out of the money of his board game, and more because his boss bruised his ego by saying he had nothing to do with it's success, and called him an idiot to his face.
** By the time of ''Riddler's Reform'', being called crazy is this for The Riddler.
* CallingCard: His riddles.
* ChronicVillainy:
** [[CutLexLuthorACheck Sells his persona for a fortune]] and decides to abandon crime altogether in order to avoid risking his newfound wealth and freedom. However, because he has such a compulsion, he reasons that the only way he can do so is to kill Batman. Naturally, he fails, gets found out and arrested.
** His brief [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn]] in ''Gotham Adventures'' results in Batman catching him anyway. He actually ''inadvertently gives Batman a riddle as to his location''. Despite [[BerserkButton hating being called crazy]], poor Eddie has to concede this one and after a VillainousBreakdown [[DownerEnding dejectedly lets Batman take him back to the asylum]].
--->'''Riddler:''' You don't understand. I ''really'' didn't want to leave you any clues. I really planned ''never'' to go back to Arkham Asylum. But I left you a clue anyway. So I...I have to go back there. Because I might need help. I...I might actually be crazy...
* CivilianVillain: ''Riddler's Reform''
* CivvieSpandex: Before ''The New Batman Adventures'', he wore a suit and tie and a bowler hat with the only unusual features of his attire being question mark patterns and a mask.
* ConsolationPrize: Batman and Robin may have stopped him from killing Daniel Mockridge for cheating him out of his share of royalties for the ''Riddle Of The Minotaur'' game, but ruining Mockridge's life by making him live in fear of the Riddler's return makes for a very satisfying end anyway.
* CriminalMindGames: His M.O.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: In ''Riddler's Reform'', he has sold the license to his persona to a toy developer for a completely legal fortune. However, Batman is convinced that he will continue to commit riddle-crimes, even though it will jeopardize his freedom and financial well-being. When Robin wonders why he would take such a risk, Batman explains that for him it is not about the money, it is an obsession. As it turns out, Batman's right; Riddler is uneasy with his new life, and eventually decides to try to kill Batman once and for all just to remove the temptation to backslide.
* DeadpanSnarker:
--> '''Riddler''': You have 10 minutes, gentlemen-- then, Mr. Mockridge is going to be the only good business shark. A ''dead'' one.
* DeathTrap: Often very elaborately engineered ones that test Batman's intelligence.
* DemotedToExtra: He rarely appeared much, but what episodes he did get were quite excellent and put a refreshing spin on the character. When the sequel series ''The New Batman Adventures'' rolled over, however, ol' Eddie got the shaft, despite getting a new character design more faithful to Frank Gorshin's take on the character. You know that things are bad when the new Riddler's biggest role was in a ''Superman'' episode. Creator/PaulDini admitted in the "Art of..." book that they didn't use the Riddler often because his gimmick of using riddles was pretty hard to pull off in an action cartoon such as theirs. On the other hand, he had some truly spectacular moments in ''ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures'', set in the same universe.
* EngineeredPublicConfession: ''Riddler's Reform''
* EvilGenius: Of all Batman's enemies, he's the one who relies most on his intellect.
* EvilIsPetty: In his debut, he flat out says that he doesn't even care that Mockridge is making money off of his own game--he's out for revenge on him for ego gratification, specifically Mockridge calling him a worthless ancilliary to his company, and also called him an idiot to his face.
* EvilRedhead: Certainly borrowed from the TV series' Frank Gorshin (having usually slick black hair in the comics).
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Inverted when Batman survives his death-trap, but won't tell him how he did it. The episode ends with Riddler ranting and raving as he tries to figure out how it was done.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: He ''hates'' being in Arkham, so when he escaped in ''[[ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures Gotham Adventures]]'', he opts to become a vigilante detective, solving crimes himself while sending riddles to Batman so he can solve other cases. He's still definitely [[AntiHero morally ambiguous]], though, and isn't above ElectricTorture to get the testimony he wants]].
* {{Guyliner}}: In the revamp.
* HisOwnWorstEnemy: Since his ChronicVillainy won't let him stop leaving riddles for Batman to solve.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Was first trapped in his own virtual world then got his confession recorded on his own device.
* HurricaneOfPuns: His hints in "If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich."
--> ''(Batman and Robin come across a sign that says "Loser's Ahead.")''\\
'''Robin''': "Loser's Ahead?"\\
''(The duo turns a corner, two giant shurikens come out of nowhere, and the duo ducks just before the blades lop their heads off.)''\\
'''Batman''': Loses a head. [[LamePunReaction I don't know what's worse, the traps or the puns.]]
* InsufferableGenius: He's a puzzles genius and he wants ''everyone'' to know it.
* [[KarmaHoudini Karma Enigma]]: He gets away scot-free at the end of ''If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?'' The producers have stated that they let the Riddler escape as a testament to his intellect.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: In BTAS, he wears a nice green suit and a tie with a question mark.
* MoodSwinger: he alternates fits of anger with polite interludes.
* NearVillainVictory: Gets allegedly closer to killing Batman than any of the villains in "Almost Got Im". The Caped Crusader manages to save himself by [[BombproofAppliance jumping into a small safe]] [[DeusExMachina that had no reason to be there]], [[MagicCountdown with only two seconds to reach it and get in it]].
* NerdsAreSexy: In ''Riddler's Reform'', he ends up with quite a few women fawning over him. Unless that's an example of AllGirlsWantBadBoys, or PowerIsSexy and/or GoldDigger, due to his newfound fame and wealth from his inventions.
* NiceHat: A green bowler hat.
* ParanoiaGambit: His origin episode revolves around him going after Mockridge, the man who cheated him out of the profits for a game he designed due to him being 'work-for-hire'. Batman and Robin manage to save him, but the Riddler gets away and hints he will eventually return to finish the job. The episode ends with a terrified Mockridge in his mansion, locking every door and window in the place, checking every shadow, and getting into bed with a loaded shotgun at his side while Bruce muses on the situation:
-->'''Bruce:''' [[PyrrhicVillainy Mockridge may have his money, but he won't be sleeping well]]. "How much is a good night's sleep worth?" Now THERE'S a riddle for you.
* PropheticNames: During his StartOfDarkness episode, Batman lampshades this trope when Edward Nygma reveals his new identity, asking him if it's meant to be a joke.
* RedheadInGreen: Probably what made this appearance iconic.
* RiddleMeThis: The trope namer.
* SanityHasAdvantages: In ''Riddler's Reform'', he actually goes straight and makes tons of money by designing puzzles for a toy company and licensing his likeness to market them. However, he just can't stop thinking about matching wits with Batman... so he decides that the only way he'll ever be secure enough in his new life to actually enjoy it is to kill Batman.
* SanitySlippage: Goes from wanting revenge on his ex boss to being unable to stop committing crimes and leaving clues.
* SmugSnake: The mother of all smug depictions of the Riddler.
* StevenUlyssesPerhero: His name, when read as "E. Nygma", is a play on "enigma", which is a synonym for "mystery".
* ThrowTheBookAtThem: In ''Judgement Day'', courtroom-themed vigilante The Judge tells him, "It's about time someone threw the book at you!" and drops a car-sized book on him, nearly killing him.
* UnPerson: ''What is Reality?'' has him erasing all of the records of his existence as Edward Nygma, including birth certificates, drivers licenses, employment records and so on.
* TheVillainMakesThePlot: One of the cited reasons that the writers gave for why the Riddler appeared less than most other villains was that it was hard to make a scheme worthy of such a brain-teasing [[TheChessmaster chessmaster]] villain like him in single half-hour episodes.
* VillainousBreakdown: Has an epic one in ''Riddler's Reform''.
* VillainousCrossdresser: For some reason his TNBA design has him in women's shoes.
* WickedCultured: Has a thing for greek mythology and foreign languages.
* WasItReallyWorthIt: At the end of Riddler's debut episode, Batman states that even though they saved the CorruptCorporateExecutive from Nygma's traps, the experience scarred him for life, and the last scene shows a frightened Mockridge trembling under his bedsheets.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In ''Trial'', he's seen among the villains as a juror in their KangarooCourt. However, he disappears during the second half of the episode and his chair in the jury is even empty.
** ScrewThisImOuttaHere seems to be the answer.
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[[folder:The Scarecrow (Dr. Jonathan Crane)]]
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->'''Voiced By:''' Henry Polic II (''Batman: The Animated Series''), Creator/JeffreyCombs (''The New Batman Adventures'', "Never Fear"), Creator/JeffBennett (''The New Batman Adventures'', "Over the Edge"[[note]]Uncredited.[[/note]]) (English), Creator/RokuroNaya (Japanese)
->''"I am the master of fear! The lord of despair! Cower before me in witless terror!''"
A university psychology professor who has made a career out of studying fear and its effects. In his pursuit of research, he developed a chemical toxin that allows him to induce fear in any subject at his whim, which he later began using as an asset for crime.
* ArtEvolution: His costume went through several major alterations and changes, even before the ArtShift of ''The New Batman Adventures'' (which settled on a design), more or less because his first designs were a tad on the goofy side.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: In ''Fear of Victory'' he starts rigging sports and then betting on the games; he himself points out that chemicals are expensive and his usual crimes of causing wanton terror aren't very lucrative.
* DarkerAndEdgier: In TNBA, he looks less like a scarecrow and more like a zombie. He also now speaks in a raspy whisper and moves in an almost robotic manner, when he was a bombastic LargeHam in the original series.
* EvilRedhead: Underneath his mask.
* EvilTeacher: His experiments - mostly just locking people in small rooms while dousing them with fear gas - go all the way back to his days as a Gotham University professor.
* FixingTheGame[=/=]ThrowingTheFight: ''Fear of Victory'' centered on his plot to raise a lot of money gambling on sporting events ([[TheGimmick Guess]] [[IKnowWhatYouFear how]]). He even drops the title "I fixed the games."
* ForScience: "Dreams in Darkness" in particular.
* AGodAmI: No remotely "godlike" powers aside from his fear gas, but he's got the attitude in spades.
* HiddenDepths: ''Comicbook/TheBatmanAdventures'' reveals that, despite all his sadism, he actually does love to teach. A rehabilitative work-release program at Arkham allows him to teach at the local community college, which he enjoys until he realizes that half his students are too illiterate to spell their own names correctly. This leads him to the scheme he employs in issues 4 and 5, where he holds the city for ransom by rendering everyone illiterate in attempt to show the local government the dangers of not reforming the education system.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Has been exposed twice to his own fear gas.
* IKissYourFoot: In ''Fear of Victory'', Scarecrow mentions using his Fear Toxin to bring the people of Gotham to their knees and in his own words "...Kissing my feet!"
* {{Jerkass}}: Before his redesign, he's a snappy, obnoxious sadist with no tragic backstory to justify his actions or behavior. The [[Comicbook/TheBatmanAdventures tie in comic]] gives him a more nuanced portrayal.
* LargeHam: In BTAS. He transitions to a SoftSpokenSadist in TNBA.
** ColdHam: While not always shouting in character, Jeffrey Combs's stint at Scarecrow as no less grandiose or theatrical in his dialogue or actions; just quieter.
* LeanAndMean: Like an actual scarecrow, Crane is exceptionally thin.
* MadScientist: He claims his crimes are experiments in fear.
* MasterOfIllusion: Particularly the scary kind.
* MasterPoisoner: Makes all of the fear toxins himself.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Following his TNBA redesign. He's never shown unmasked, and the production team has said that they weren't even sure there was actually a man in the costume any more.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Before becoming Scarecrow, he held a doctorate in psychology.
* NiceHat: Just when you thought there was nothing nice about him.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Not that he was really harmless to begin with, just... not that scary.
* PetTheDog: Stops in the middle of one of his raving speeches about being the GOD OF FEAR to say hello to Harley.
* PoisonAndCureGambit In ''Never Fear'', he releases a chemical that takes away all sensation of fear, making people dangerously reckless, with the plan of selling his fear toxin as the "antidote".
* SadistTeacher: His true nature.
* SaveOurStudents: [[ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures The tie-in comic]] gives him HiddenDepths by showing that he actually is concerned about the city's youth getting proper education. The Annual even chronicles his RedemptionFailure trying to be this.
* ScaryScarecrows: His theme.
* SkullForAHead: His mask in the redesign.
* SinisterScythe: Wields one in ''Trial''.
* SoftSpokenSadist: When voiced by Jeffrey Combs.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Scarecrow is the master of using this trope.
* YouGotMurder: ''Fear of Victory'' had him dosing people with contact poison by telegram. It was only his patented "fear toxin", though.
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[[folder:The Mad Hatter (Jervis Tetch)]]
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->'''Voiced By:''' Roddy [=Mc=]Dowall (English), Creator/KeiTomiyama (Japanese/1st voice), Shigeru Ushiyama (Japanese/rest of the series)
->''"You're mighty in Gotham, Batman, but in Wonderland, the Mad Hatter reigns supreme!''"
Obsessed from a young age with Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, the Mad Hatter is always looking for an "Alice" of his own, and primarily uses his hypnotic skills in his crimes.
* {{Adorkable}}: When he's either at war with himself, or prior to his spiral into madness. Tetch had some incredibly adorable moments of complete social ineptitude in his office; talking to people, especially pretty people was not his forte. It didn't stick.
* AffablyEvil: At least in ''Perchance to Dream''. And in ''Trial'' he's one of the only reasonable ones.
* AliceAllusion: He's obsessed with ''Literature/AliceInWonderland''. The other people in his life also mirror the story--he pines after a woman named Alice, and his boss is a stern, redheaded woman who warns him that "[[OffWithHisHead heads will roll]]". His mind-controlled henchmen are also all costumed after ''Alice'' characters.
* AxCrazy: Actually wielded an ax when he tried to off the bat himself in his introductory episode.
* BadassLongcoat: He wears an overcoat as part of his outfit.
* BritishTeeth: Like his Alice in Wonderland counterpart.
* CheshireCatGrin: And probably with that very example in mind.
* DarkSkinnedBlond: Even before he dyed it "school-bus-yellow". He has unusually dark skin for an evil, British blond (as well as an accent that doesn't go with skin tone or teeth). Portrayed as an anti-social, lab-dwelling nerd, it's highly unlikely that he got out often enough to get a tan, either. (In the episode "The Worry Men", where he visits tropical Central America, he covers up with white gloves, sunglasses, and a straw hat.) It's possible the animators darkened his skin just to exaggerate how freakishly blond his hair is.
* DoggedNiceGuy: Though he drops the nice part when it doesn't work.
* EvilBrit: Confirmed to be actually english.
* EvilGenius: Capable of creating mind control chips that can reduce the wearer to a mere puppet.
* FanDumb: InUniverse, Jervis is '''The Monomaniac''' for Literature.AliceInWonderland, and this is a vital trait of his personality: This is the first clue that Jervis is not interested in reality, but his fantasies...
* FauxAffablyEvil: He's pretty sinister in ''The Worry Men'' and ''Animal Act''.
* ForScience: ''Animal Act''
* GadgeteerGenius: He invents mind control devices.
* GrandRomanticGesture: The actions he used to woo his Alice. Including, but not limited to - brainwashing a pair of thugs to go jump off a bridge to impress her with his bravery when they're about to get mugged; brainwashing the Maitre'd of a restaurant (as well as the rest of the staff) into getting them a seat and the romantic usuals (violin/flowers/etc.). After she reconciled with her boyfriend the same night, though, he uses brainwashing to break them up again, then does the "extravagant Flower surprise" in her house... which he didn't have a key for. Alice is, understandably, creeped out - but mostly because Jervis had no way of knowing that the two had broken up.
* HypnoTrinket: Controls minds without spirals, using cards marked 10/6 which he sticks on people's heads. And that's just his stock device; he has been known to use other things when appropriate.
* IControlMyMinionsThrough: He used mind control on his minions, which gave him an advantage over Batman, who wouldn't hit people who weren't willingly causing trouble. Once they were free, however, poor Mad Hatter.
* IronicNurseryTune: Based as he is on the ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' character, he uses these as part of his schtick. In one scene, he taunts Batman from afar with "Twinkle, Twinkle, little Bat! How I wonder what you're at!"
* LoveMakesYouEvil: His unrequited love for Alice is what started the whole thing.
* TheMadHatter: Actually, not that much.
* MadScientist: One who is specialized in mind control.
* MasterOfIllusion: Via his mind control, such as in "Perchance to Dream".
* MindControlDevice: This is his schtick. When he did it to mice, it was cute and scientific. When he did it to a female co-worker named Alice on whom he had a huge unrequited crush, it became creepy and stalkerish, but as he expresses regret about it we can assume it was a last resort.
* MotiveDecay: As Batman pointed out in ''The Worry Men'', he went from socially inept and lovelorn to being just another petty crook.
* NeverMyFault: Blames Batman for losing Alice, even though she didn't want to be with him in the first place.
* NiceHat: Well, duh!
* NotGoodWithRejection: This is part his origin. He had a crush on his secretary, who actually was named Alice, but she didn't reciprocate.
* NotMeThisTime: In "Make 'em Laugh" and (''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'') "Knight Time".
* ObliviouslyEvil: At least at first. He doesn't seem to realize just how bad mind-controlling Alice is, and seems to believe that he's doing her a favor.
* OffWithHisHead: In keeping with all of the Alice references, says this about Batman.
* PetTheDog: In ''[[Comicbook/TheBatmanAdventures Gotham Adventures]]'' he lures Batman into another LotusEaterMachine purely in the hopes of letting Batman have a little happiness for once. Sadly, happiness is apparently so unnatural for the Batman that just the feeling is enough for Batman to realize that he's in a fantasy.
* PyrrhicVillainy: In a milder example, he uses his mind control technology to land Alice, a co-worker he was too shy to talk to, but Batman calls him out on this, asking if a mind-controlled, compliant Alice with no personality was what he really wanted. Tetch has a [[VillainousBreakdown breakdown and rushes Batman]].
* StalkerWithACrush: How the Mad Hatter was first portrayed in his obsession with his co-worker Alice, and being too shy to ask her out.
* TheyCalledMeMad: He briefly mentions it but that didn't play in his descent into villainy.
* TropicalEpilogue: ''The Worry Men'' features the Mad Hatter admitting that he's been thinking of retiring from crime, purchasing an island out in the middle of nowhere, and opening up a sun-bonnet shop.
* VillainousBreakdown: At the end of "Perchance to Dream," he breaks into a sobbing rage when Batman escapes from his [[LotusEaterMachine Dream Machine.]]
* WickedCultured: He sure likes his Lewis Carroll's quotes.
* {{Yandere}}: For Alice.
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[[folder:Clayface (Matt Hagen)]]
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-> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/RonPerlman (English), Creator/MasashiEbara (Japanese)
-> ''"I'm not an actor anymore! I'm not even... A man.''"
* AdaptationalHeroism: Played with. Definitely not a good guy, but his goals are at least understandable, and he's not actively malicious unless someone gets in his way. In the comics, though, Basil Karlo was a murderous asshole even ''before'' becoming a monster, while Matt Hagen was just another superpowered thug.
* AdaptationalBadass: Before this particular incarnation of the character showed off his abilities in rather impressive ways, he'd been written off as too goofy to work because shape-shifting was seen as a gimmicky superpower.
* AdaptationDyeJob: He had black hair as Matt Hagen, who was blond in the comics.
* BarbieDollAnatomy: Even when shifted into the form of a naked human, he has no genitalia.
** He was barely human, just humanoid.
* CompositeCharacter: His character is essentially a combination of the first three versions from the comics. He was an actor like Basil Karlo, he has the name and powers of Matt Hagen, and was disfigured like Preston Payne.
* CosmeticHorror: He used an experimental cosmetic cream to help him look good after a car accident that ruined his face. It was temporary and highly addictive, and when he tried to blow the whistle before it went on the market Daggett's men fed him an overdose, turning him into Clayface.
* FakingTheDead: At the end of his first appearance.
* GenreSavvy: Subverted. Instead of avoiding cliches, he prefers to embrace them knowingly.
* HumanoidAbomination: Although he was once human and retains his personality. Annie is probably a better example.
* {{Irony}}: He's a hot tempered, egotistical ham, but then we meet Annie, his amnesiac duplicate. It seems that stripped of all his ambition, anger, and longing for self fulfillment, Clayface is just a scared and confused child.
* {{Jerkass}}: While he is somewhat sympathetic due to wanting to be normal again, he's still kind of a jerk sometimes.
* TheJuggernaut: He's absurdly powerful for a Batvillain.
* KickTheDog: When he throws his best friend/stunt double across the room when the guy tries to cheer him up and encourage him that all is not lost in living like a regular person
-->"''Don't patronize me! I told you, I don't need to eat! I don't need to sleep! And I'' '''''DON'T NEED YOU!!!'''''"
* LargeHam: He's an actor, so this shouldn't come as a surprise.
--> "[[AStreetcarNamedDesire STELLAAAAAA!]]"
* ManOfAThousandFaces: Due to the Renuyu, he could change his features even before turning into a clay monster.
* NotQuiteDead: in his first appearance he pretends to die from electrocution, but we see at the end of the episode that he's still alive and shifted into the form of a pretty woman on the street.
* NotSoDifferent[=/=]UsedToBeASweetKid: If you consider it canon, an issue of ''ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures'' reveals that when Matt Hagen was a kid, he admired Simon Trent's performance as the Gray Ghost just like Bruce Wayne and it was this very admiration that motivated him to become an actor in the first place, much like how the Gray Ghost served as an inspiration for Bruce Wayne becoming Batman.
* PersonalityPowers: He's an award-winning actor. What power is more fitting than shapeshifting?
* PsychopathicManchild: He's quite self-absorbed and often raises his voice when he doesn't get what he wants.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: His motive in his first appearance, seeking revenge against the men responsible for his transformation.
* ShadowDiscretionShot: The scene of having Renuyu poured on his face provides the trope image.
* ShapeshifterDefaultForm: It's explained that shapeshifting is an acquired skill, or "muscle tensing," so he can't just constantly be in another form.
* ShapeshiftingSeducer: A truly disturbing variation: a portion of his clay body, in the form of an amnesiac young girl. Poor Tim Drake.
* ShapeshifterSwanSong: Though he wasn't actually dying, he was just DoingItForTheArt.
* ThatManIsDead:
-->'''Batman''': Hagen, listen to me.\\
'''Clayface''': There is no Hagen. It's only me now...Clayface.
** A bit later, when Batman shows Clayface videotapes of his former movie and TV roles and tells him "You can play those roles again Hagen, let me help you find a cure." Clayface outright screams "No! Hagen's Gone, make him stop haunting me!"
** He also said something of that effect to Stella Bates who was watching one of his old movies in ''Mudslide''.
* TomatoInTheMirror: Well, a piece of him, anyway, in "Growing Pains."
* TragicVillain: For all his faults, all Matt Hagen really wants is to be normal again.
* TrulySingleParent: He can split his body into multiple shapes, including children. Unfortunately, he doesn't consider them as such.
* TheUglyGuysHotDaughter: Annie, at least to Tim.
* VillainousBreakdown: Invoked.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Can assume human forms, and the blob attack after he was found out.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: [[spoiler: In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', Flash and Hawkgirl rather cheerfully blow him to bits. [[KilledOffForReal He's never seen again after the episode.]]]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: What Dagget ''tried'' to have his men do to Hagen.
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[[folder:Man-Bat (Dr. Kirk Langstrom)]]
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-> '''Voiced By:''' Marc Singer (English), Tetsuo Kaneo (Japanese)
* BioAugmentation: Unfortunately, WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity.
* MagicPants: Every single time Man-Bat appears, it's wearing pants.
* NotMeThisTime: ''Terror in the Sky'' ([[spoiler:it's actually his wife]]) and one issue of the tie-in comic ([[spoiler:it's actually an old rival in his field]]).
* NoTranshumanismAllowed: Subverted. [[spoiler: Langstrom makes a final appearance as the Man-Bat in ''[[ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures The Batman & Robin Adventures'']], where it's revealed that he's perfected the formula so that he stays in control, and decides to become the Man-Bat permanently. Batman may not care for this, or for the Man-Bat lurking in his caves and stealing his food, but he concedes that it's not his right to dictate how Langstrom decides to live his life or modify his body]].
* ProfessorGuineaPig: Drank serum with bat DNA and became the Man-Bat.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: Langstrom is fairly harmless, but the Man-Bat is violent, animalistic, and destructive.
* TragicMonster: He's not actually that bad a person outside of his bat form, but can't control himself when it's happening. [[spoiler: Accidentally infecting his wife couldn't have been a picnic either.]]
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[[folder:Killer Croc]]
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-> '''Voiced By:''' Aron Kincaid (''Batman: The Animated Series''), Brooks Gardner (''The New Batman Adventures'') (English), Creator/BanjoGinga (Japanese)
-> ''"When you grow up lookin' like I do, you gotta learn to go with the flow.''"
* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Typically based himself in one.
* AdaptationDyeJob: His skin goes from green to grey, though when ''B: TAS'' came back as ''The New Batman Adventures'', it returned to the green.
* AdaptationNameChange / NoNameGiven: He is never referred to as Waylon Jones and the only hint at his name is his wrestler alias "Killer Croc Morgan".
* AnimalEyes: Yellow with cat pupils.
* BaldOfEvil: He has no hair.
* BookDumb: Not good with big words, but very cunning.
* TheBrute: He tends to be the most aggressive and formidable of Batman's enemies.
* DumbMuscle: Quickly degenerated into this. [[spoiler:Except it was Batman in disguise.]]
* FangsAreEvil: They even can break metal.
* TheFarmerAndTheViper: He escapes while escorted by train to a prison, Batman in hot pursuit. They fall off a cliff and are knocked out. Croc wakes up in a secluded home owned by former circus performers. It's Croc's perfect chance to start a new life. Naturally Croc claims Batman is evil to get their help in capturing him. Then Croc captures everyone and plans to kill them and run off with their retirement money. When he's eventually foiled, he does seem a little regretful as he's taken away.
-->'''Billy the Seal Boy:''' [Why'd you do it, Croc?]\\
'''Killer Croc:''' You said you could be yourself out here, remember? [[CryForTheDevil I guess that's what I was doing. Being myself.]]
* GeniusBruiser: Made his debut with a pretty clever plan to frame Bullock.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Huge Guy to Baby Doll in ''Love is a Croc''.
* {{Jerkass}}: He doesn't have many likeable qualities.
* SlasherSmile: What's the saying about crocodiles and smiling?
* TakingAdvantageOfGenerosity: ''Sideshow'' had him do this to a bunch of circus freaks who had hidden themselves away from the outside world so they could be themselves. They were willing to let him join them on their farm, but when Killer Croc heard they had $50,000, he couldn't resist. When asked why after he's captured, Killer Croc solemnly admits [[IronicEcho he had to be himself]].
* TookALevelInDumbass: In ''Almost Got 'Im'' he goes from a somewhat clever, or at least street smart, crook into a near idiot. [[spoiler: Justified, since it's actually Batman in disguise likely playing up how others view Croc.]]
* TheWorfEffect: Courtesy of Bane, like in ''Knightfall''.
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[[folder:The Ventriloquist/Scarface (Arnold Wesker)]]
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->'''Voiced By:''' George Dzundza (English), Mitsuru Ogata (Japanese)
* {{Adorkable}}: Arnold can be quite charming and likeable when he's not being manipulated by Scarface.
* BadBoss: Scarface might not be as murderous as the Joker but he makes up for it by being very rude to his henchmen.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: A gangster speaking through a puppet might look pretty stupid, but that's a real gun that Scarface is holding on to.
* BookDumb: Scarface has some trouble saying big words but he's a good planner.
* CigarChomper: Scarface has a cigar in his mouth, though he no longer has it in his appearances on ''The New Batman Adventures''.
* ClockKing: His debut started with an expertly cratfed heist of his.
* CompanionCube: Scarface is this to Arnold, being a supposedly non-sentient ventriloquist dummy.
* DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster: Scarface
* DemonicDummy: Implied on occasion, but never [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane definitively demonstrated]].
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: In "Double Talk", he finally gets fed up with Scarface, and blows him to smithereens.]]
* EvilIsNotAToy: As Rhino and Mugsy bitterly discovered (though Scarface technically is one).
* ExtremeDoormat: Wesker, especially to Scarface.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: For being not technically alive, Scarface got that a lot.
** The creators [[WordOfGod mentioned once]] that, as the censors weren't going to complain about what they did to an inanimate doll, they were free to be as vicious and sadistic to Scarface as they wanted - and it shows!
* GollumMadeMeDoIt: Wesker is a mild-mannered man being bossed around by a loud mouthed blockhead.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: The dummy's are modeled after the ones on Al Capone, the real-life Scarface.
* HairTriggerTemper: Scarface once more.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Arnold is among the only recurring villains to stay redeemed.]]
* HelplessGoodSide: Portrayed in a similar manner in the comics. There's a creepy scene at the end of his first episode that shows him making a new Scarface dummy to replace the one that was destroyed earlier, showing that he still has a problem. [[spoiler:The trope is averted in his last appearance. Unlike other times the doll is destroyed, Wesker finally gathers enough willpower to destroy the Scarface doll himself. The episode ends with Wesker finally moving on with his life and Scarface is never seen again.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Well, Scarface is one, especially towards Wesker.
* LaughablyEvil: A lot of people, like Selina Kyle, laugh when they see the puppet.
* TheManBehindTheCurtain: Even Batman was visibly shocked to see who really was the new master criminal in town.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Carried over from the comics, It's not enterly clear if Wesker is putting an excellent {{Ventriloquism}} act or if Scarface is a truly DemonicDummy: Episode ''Read my Lips'' shows the batcomputer analyzing Wesker and Scarface's voices like ''two different people''. Batman knew the greatest ventriloquist of his time, Zatara (Zatanna's father) and believes Wesker could teach him lessons.
* MisterBig: A frequent source of humor is tiny Scarface bullying gigantic Rhino into total submission.
* TheNapoleon: Scarface's got a typical short tempered short guy behavior.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: When Catwoman refuses to save Scarface from being cut up by a lumber saw, Wesker goes berserk and attacks her [[ItMakesSenseInContext with a stuffed Tasmanian Tiger]].
* OpaqueLenses: In the original design.
* TheParanoiac: Scarface prides himself on plans that no one can guess, and is thus incredibly paranoid about "squealers."
* ScaryShinyGlasses: When the attention is put on Scarface.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: One of many differences between Arnold and Scarface.
* ShrinkingViolet: Poor old Wesker.
* SmarterThanYouLook: Scarface's typical thuggish personality (and his very nature) caused his opponents to cruelly underestimate his actually genuine smarts more than once.
* SplitPersonality: The series unambigously chosed that path.
* TheStoic: Arnold Wesker, the ventriloquist, truly is one, but only when Scarface is talking. When something happens to Scarface, Arnold can emote like any other
* TattooedCrook: Scarface's DumbMuscle henchman Rhino has a tattoo (of a rhino's head, naturally) on his arm
* [[TheyKilledKennyAgain They Killed Scarface Again]]: Justified because he's a puppet. [[spoiler:Subverted in "Double Talk".]]
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[[folder:Bane]]
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->'''Voiced By:''' Henry Silva (''Batman: The Animated Series'', ''The New Batman Adventures'', ''Superman: The Animated Series''), Hector Elizondo (''Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman'')
->''"You cannot do this to me! I am invincible! I AM BANE!"''
* AntiClimacticUnmasking: Batman's unmasking of Bane reveals, not Venom-twisted monstrosity, but simply vaguely handsome, boyish face with nothing really remarkable about it.
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: Incessantly gloats about how he'll best Batman.
* BadassBoast: Has a few.
--> ''"Prepare to meet your master"''\\\
''"I WILL BREAK YOU!"''\\\
''"Toys? You want to fight me with pathetic little toys?"''\\\
''"You cannot do this to me! I am invincible! I AM BANE!"''
* BrokenPedestal: ''[[ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures The Batman & Robin Adventures]]'' reveals that before he was forced into taking Venom, he held Batman as his greatest hero. However, when Batman is forced to take him down--Bane was about to murder Thorne and his lieutenants as a "service" to the Bat--Bane feels betrayed and returns to full bad guy status.
* CombatPragmatist: [[DefiedTrope Defies the trope]], waiting until he knows exactly where Batman is and calling him to point out that, if he were a common sniper, Batman would be dead by then.
* DashingHispanic: A spanish brute.
* DarkLordOnLifeSupport: [[spoiler:His brief appearance in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' shows his Venom abuse has turned him into this.]]
* TheDragon: Though not always a loyal one.
** DragonWithAnAgenda
* DynamicEntry: How he introduces himself to Batwoman/[[spoiler: Kathy]]. By smashing out of the crate she was about to put the bomb on.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Someone wanted to make superwarriors out of prisoners. They got one.
* GeniusBruiser: As Batman and Batwoman could tell, he knows how to lure his targets into nasty traps.
* GrowingMusclesSequence: When injecting himself with Venom.
* HoistHeroOverHead: [[spoiler:''Almost'' gets to break the Bat [[ComicBook/{{Knightfall}} like in the comics]], but gets outsmarted by Batman at the last second]].
* LaughablyEvil: Due to his stereotypical psuedo-hispanic voice, he qualifies.
* LargeHam: Once he gets going.
-->'''Bane''': '''''I MUST BREAK YOU!!'''''
* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: Demands that Batman scream his name for him after he has him dead to rights. Batman doesn't give him the satisfaction.
-->'''Bane''': SCREAM MY NAME! SCREAM!
* MaskedLuchador: His look is inspired by a luchador, although he almost certainly never been inside a Lucha Libre ring.
* PhlebotinumOverdose[=/=]PhlebotinumOverload: When Batman first defeats Bane, he breaks the Venom pump, giving Bane a massive dose. Bane's eyes look ready to pop out of his head before Bats manages to cut the line.
* PsychoSerum[=/=]SuperSerum: Like in the comics, his "Venom" super-steroid. The tie-in comics demonstrate that it's psychoactive and addictive, and ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' shows that [[spoiler:years of Venom abuse turn Bane into a skin-and-bones vegetable]].
* PunchPunchPunchUhOh: To Batman's dismay.
%%* SmugSnake
%%* SmugSuper
* SuperStrength: As a result of his Venom injections.
* TheStarscream: Is this to Thorne.
* TaintedVeins: Whenever he turns on the Venom pump.
* ThisCannotBe: "You can't do this to me!"
* VillainousBreakdown: A nightmarish one.
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[[folder:The Clock King (Temple Fugate)]]
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-> '''Voiced By:''' Alan Rachins (English), Ikuo Nishikawa (Japanese)
-> ''"Well, well. The Batman. It's about time you showed up. I suppose you want to know why I've brought downtown Gotham to a standstill, Batman. Well, let's just say it's because I'm a civic-minded citizen with a lot of time on his hands."''
* AdaptationalBadass: From complete joke in the comics to holding his own against Batman only by virtue of being observant.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Well, most probably extreme OCPD. Notably, his has a strongly externalized locus of control- when changing his schedule results in important papers being lost, he starts begging "Don't do this to me!" as though pleading with an outside force.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Even before his StartOfDarkness, he knew the place where the subway doors will open. 7 years later, he can go hand to hand with Batman just from having studied Batman's tendencies in a fight from news footage about him.
* BadassInANiceSuit: In ''The Clock King'', a brown suit, and in ''Time out of Joint'', a black suit.
* BaldOfEvil: Well, balding.
* BoxedCrook: in a ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' episode, ''Task Force X'', in which he serves as a planner and tactician in the ''"Suicide Squad"''. He guides the team with clockwork efficiency.
* CanonImmigrant: This incarnation of the Clock King was created for the DCAU and later made his way to the comics, as a {{legacy character}}, as the original Clock King's name was William Tockman.
* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: When he breaks his schedule so he can be more relaxed. Notice that when he was at the park at 3:05, instead of in his office as he had planned, he was very nervous and waiting for certain doom. It’s only ''when he dared to relax'' when the DisasterDominoes that would ruin his life started falling.
* ClockKing: Deconstructs this trope somewhat: He is utterly obsessed with order (and schedules!) and is always trying to dominate his environment instead of accepting it, but unlike a straight example, it doesn't usually work out for him. Whenever his schedules don't work out ''exactly'', his plans come crashing down.
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodeNames: A rare example in animation; he is almost always just referred to by his real name.
* ComplexityAddiction: He even surpasses the Riddler as an addict to overly complicated schemes, but he showed this even before becoming a supervillain. As Temple Fugate, he has a chain pocketwatch, a wristwatch, and in his office he has a grandfather clock and another clock at his desk.
* CoolSword: A clock-hand-like sword that also works as a cane.
* CreatureOfHabit: Even before he became the Clock King. It’s implied that he was a middle aged man when he broke his routine ''for the first time in his life''.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: He lost everything in appeal for $20 million against his company 7 years ago, but when he appears at the episode ''The ClockKing'', he has enough money to [[OffscreenVillainDarkMatter buy bombs, maintain a hideout, and can afford to throw away a $6,000 pocket watch]]. Justified because he never suffers MotiveDecay: All he wants is to humiliate Mayor Hill, and then kill him. Notice that after he is arrested, he uses his talents for the government as a BoxedCrook.
* DisproportionateRetribution: He developed an obsessive, murderous grudge against Mayor Hamilton Hill...because when he was a lawyer, Hill suggested Fugate take his coffee break a little later to help him relax for a lawsuit against his company, which resulted in a series of accidents making him late, which resulted in him losing the suit. Fugate reveals that the people who sued his company were represented by Hill's law firm, and thus he believes that Hill was intentionally trying to sabotage him. Thus it's not quite as disproportionate as it sounds initially, but he's still completely off-base and Hill honestly was trying to help.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: At the very beginning of the episode ''The Clock King'', everyone is waiting for the subway. In a crowd with individuals with spaced gazes and relaxed facial expressions, only a SharpDressedMan with a parasol seems alert, with a perfect erect posture. [[AwesomenessByAnalysis The subway stops and opens its doors exactly where this guy is standing]]. He consults his chain pocketwatch and exclaims:
--> ''[[{{Foreshadowing}} "It’s about time!"]]''
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Before his StartOfDarkness, we could see his eyes through his spectacles. After that, they seem like a clock pointing 3 o'clock, or completely opaque at "Task Force X".
* GambitRoulette: As meticulous as he is, there is a LOT that could go wrong with his plans.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In ''The Clock King'', Batman uses the tape Fugate left him to escape his DeathTrap. In ''Time out of joint'', Batman uses the same time device Fugate stole to stop him.
* {{Idiosyncrazy}}: Clocks and time.
* InsufferableGenius: Deconstructed by Fugate, a ScheduleFanatic with NoSocialSkills that is in the middle of a court hearing appeal about a $20 million dollar judgment against his company and is haggard and nervous. Fugate is aware that his personality plays against him, but not of what to do to change that.
* {{Jerkass}}: Even before his StartOfDarkness, he was a MeanBoss with NoSocialSkills.
* JustOneSecondOutOfSync: Did this when he got his hands on time manipulating technology, placing one on the Batmobile then setting it moments out of sync with time so the on-board trap sensors wouldn't find it.
* LackOfEmpathy: As a disciplinarian, he doesn’t know how to accept not only other human beings, but the Universe: He is a BadBoss to his employees and he is sure he will lose an appeal because everyone thinks of him as a JerkAss. Likewise, no one ever displays sympathy for him except, ironically, Mayor Hill.
* LaughingMad: Being TheStoic, when he does this it is very disturbing.
* {{Leitmotif}}: All the music related to him is evocative of clocks, utilizing everything from tick-tocking to the Westminster chime.
%%* MakingASpectacleOfYourself
* MeanBoss: Threatening to fire an employee for being five minutes late seems mean to a normal human being, but Fugate is a ScheduleFanatic who only cares for punctuality. If you’re a punctual employee, Fugate would be civil to you, but never appreciative.
* MeaningfulName / PunnyName / StevenUlyssesPerhero: ''Tempus Fugit'' is Latin for ''time flies.''
* MisplacedRetribution: He goes after Gotham City mayor Hamilton Hill. Why? Years earlier, the Clock King (then Temple Fugate) was put out of business by a lawsuit brought by Hamilton Hill's law firm. While Hill wasn't specifically the lawyer representing the plaintiff, the Clock King does consider him completely responsible because Hill also suggested Fugate take his coffee break at a different time...which led to things getting worse.
* MoralSociopathy: Deconstructed with Fugate--he was a productive member of society with his own efficiency company, but was also a BadBoss with NoSocialSkills and LackOfEmpathy who ends up becoming a villain. Fugate doesn't seem to realize why his LackOfEmpathy plays against him; In his introductory episode, he ''knows'' he will lose an important appeal for his company, but it's sincerely unaware why nobody seems to ''like'' him.
* MotiveDecay: Averted, actually: In "The Clock King", his motivation was simple: to make Mayor Hill look inefficient, and then kill him. In ''Time out of Joint'', he still wants to do that (and destroy the new Judicial building). At the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode "Task Force X", he works as a BoxedCrook, presumably to get on parole. And in a case of AllThereInTheManual, ''ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures'' shows him [[spoiler: successfully rigging the mayoral election so that Hill would lose]]. Batman is no more than a nuisance to him.
* NiceHat: First a brown bowler with his nice brown suit, then a black bowler, to go with his nice black suit.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: In his first appearance, he was thought to have died in that episode's last fight. Batman pointed out that, if ''he'' survived, so could Fugate.
* NoSocialSkills:
** At [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE25TheClockKing "The Clock King"]], he ''knows'' that he will lose the hearing, but he doesn't realize ''why'' (his LackOfEmpathy). He also doesn't realize that Hill patting his back is a sympathy gesture.
** At [[Recap/TheAdventuresOfBatmanAndRobinE8TimeOutOfJoint "Time Out of Joint"]], Temple Fugate trips over a plump woman, both fall down the stairs, she falls on top of him and begins to attack him with her umbrella. Fugate just asks the woman to get up. He has no consciousness of who has been humiliated.
** At [[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS2E4TaskForceX "Task Force X"]], he works as a BoxedCrook and he's eager to DispenseWithThePleasantries and get to the point.
* PrinciplesZealot: Fugate is obsessed with punctuality, and the one moment he broke that obsession coincides with a series of events that ruin his life. This obsession then resulted in a paranoia against the person he deemed responsible for his lateness so strong that he stopped at nothing to destroy him.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: The original comics villain antagonized Comicbook/GreenArrow.
* ScheduleFanatic: Here is an excerpt of Fugate’s screen laptop we see briefly as a FreezeFrameBonus:
-->'''Things to do today – 5/12'''\\
''3:00…………….Coffe break''\\
''3:02…………….Brush teeth''\\
''3.05…………….Check weather''
* TheStoic: [[NotSoStoic Unless you make him late.]]
* SharpDressedMan: Either in brown or in black, his suit is always classy.
* SuicidalGotcha: Doing one of these onto a train, he prefaces it with the following comment:
--> "I don't know what to tell you, Batman, except perhaps that the 9:15 is always 6 minutes early."
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: He is the only self-created supervillain in the series to avoid the tropes in the EvilMakeover indice. Aside from his gadgets, he's just a guy in a nice suit.
-->'''Batman:''' I'm here to clean your clock, Fugate.\\
'''Fugate:''' Don't count on it, Batman. [[MythologyGag When it comes to clocks, I am king]]. [[GratuitousFrench En garde!]]
* TrainEscape: Uses this trick to make a dramatic exit after his first face-to-face encounter with Batman: "I don't know what to tell you, Batman... except that the 9:15 is always six minutes early."
* VillainDecay: This trope is zigzagged: In ''The Clock King'', the eponymous villain almost kills Batman and then he is able to go hand to hand with him by simply from having studied Batman's tendencies in a fight from news footage about him. In "Time out of Joint", he is captured by a condescending Robin. In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode "Task Force X", he works as a BoxedCrook with clockwork efficiency. Lastly, WesternAnimation/TheBatmanAdventures shows him [[spoiler: successfully rigging the mayoral election so Hill would lose, and badly injuring the Riddler because he wanted to expose his plan]].
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[[folder:Baby Doll (Mary Louise Dahl)]]
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-> '''Voiced By:''' Alison Laplaca ("Baby Doll"), Laraine Newman ("Love is a Croc")
-> ''"I didn't mean to...''"
* AdultsDressedAsChildren: Although she also ''looks'' like a child.
* AxCrazy: When going through her VillainousBreakdown
* BadassAdorable: She looks like a child, but is still very dangerous.
* BreakTheCutie: The only time in her life when she was actually happy was when she was acting the part of Baby Doll on her show.
* CanonForeigner: Only appears in the animated series, likely because a villain with the appearance of a child would be too difficult to work with in darker adaptations.
* CatchPhrase: "I didn't mean to."
* CivilianVillain: Tragic version. She really had reformed. Everyone accepted her living a normal life but then that one person was TemptingFate pushing her BerserkButton despite protests to stop.
* ClassicallyTrainedExtra: It backfires.
* ClingyJealousGirl: For Killer Croc.
* CreepyChild: Except she isn't an actual child, which just makes her all the creepier.
* CuteIsEvil: Although she certainly tries to invoke the trope, she's definitely evil, though "cute" is subjective.
* DeliberatelyCuteChild: Tries this on Batman and others. However, because she is actually a woman in her late thirties with a [[NotGrowingUpSucks defect that prevents her from physically aging past 10 years old,]] and is also [[AxCrazy completely out of her mind]], it doesn't work for her.
* FormerChildStar: Subverted--she was in her twenties at the time.
* FriendlyEnemy: She's one of the few of Batman's rogue's that has no personal qualms against Batman and whenever her plans go to waste she surrenders to him without a fight. Though that doesn't stop her from trying to kill him if he gets in the way.
* HappyFunBall: Used by her occasionally.
* HatesTheJobLovesTheLimelight: Starts out this way... and then goes [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds waaaay further]].
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: With Croc.
* HotSkittyOnWailordAction: In ''Love is a Croc'', she falls in love with Killer Croc.
-->'''Batgirl''': What do you suppose they do on a date?\\
'''Batman''': ...I ''don't'' wanna think about it.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Tiny Girl to Croc in ''Love is a Croc''.
* IAmNotSpock: An in-universe example - she is never able to escape the role she first played, so she ultimately decides to really become her. After losing it, she suffers from this herself - beginning to see her ex-costars as the characters they played (and getting violent when they refused to play along).
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: An anti-villainous example. After her life and career fell apart she began to obsess over the perfect (but fake) family life she had in her old sitcom, and began taking on the personality of the character she played so as to reclaim it. The fact that the family she wants never existed in the first place is part of the tragedy.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: One of the few villains in the series to know when to surrender peacefully when odds are she isn't gonna get away with her crimes.
* LaughTrack: As part of her obsession with regaining her former sitcom fame, she carries a laugh track on tape with her everywhere and plays it at moments she thinks are appropriate (along with "Ohhhh..." and "Awww...").
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Luckily it is merely a temporary case of the "GenreBlindness" variety.
* MadLove: Briefly with Killer Croc
* MonsterOfTheWeek: She only ever had 2 appearances, and was limited in both motive and ability compared to other, more menacing Batman villains.
* MoodSwinger: Switches between [[DeliberatelyCuteChild sickeningly cheerful]] to soul-crushingly depressed to [[AxCrazy violently enraged]] with very little warning.
* NiceCharacterMeanActor: One of her co-stars that she kidnapped mentioned she was difficult to work with on the set, always making extreme demands and throwing tantrums if she didn't get her way.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Before her redesign she looked suspiciously like a ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' character (doubtless a ShoutOut by Paul Dini). Her redesign brings her more in line with other Bruce Timm characters.
* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Within-the-show example. She can't age because of a condition she was born with.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Due to a rare aging defect. She's actually in her 40's.
* PantyShot: Her Baby Doll outfit has a nearly horizontal skirt, leaving her underwear visible even from a frontal angle. These kind of clothes were [[OutdatedOutfit once in style]] for very young girls, but Dahl actually being an adult woman makes it [[FanDisservice creepy]].
* PsychopathicManchild: It's stated by other characters that even before the breakdown she was fussy and threw fits when she couldn't have her way.
* RageAgainstTheReflection: Batman chases her through a funhouse, into the Hall of Mirrors. She's caught up short when one of the mirrors shows her as she would have been if she did had not been born with a rare condition that [[OlderThanTheyLook makes her forever look 5 years old]]. Cue VillainousBreakdown during which she empties her gun into the mirror.
* ReunionRevenge: She kidnaps her former costars, but just to force them to go through the motions of the show. Except for [[CousinOliver Cousin Spunky]], whom she tries to kill with [[StuffBlowingUp dynamite]].
* SecretIdentityIdentity: Tries to be this, but it's just pretend.
* SplitPersonality: Of a sort - muddled, in that it was entirely intentional on her part. She snaps between her mature Mary persona and the childish Baby Doll, but when pressed she shows that she was always in control of herself but chose to fall into the Baby Doll personality because she can no longer stand to be herself.
* TheFakeCutie: Was a child actor with a growth deficiency which prevented her from physically aging, and similarly [[NotAllowedToGrowUp prevented her career from advancing as well]]. Years later, she snapped and started kidnapping old cast members, but kept doing so in character as "Daddy's widdle precious". It's only at the end of the episode, when she stumbles in front of a fun-house mirror that seems to show the adult form she could never have, that she breaks character and reveals what she's really like.
-->"Why wouldn't you let me make BELIEVE...?!"
* TomHanksSyndrome: In-universe example; her failure at a straight acting career led to her StartOfDarkness.
* {{Tsundere}}: To Killer Croc in one episode.
* VillainousBreakdown: One of the most [[TearJerker heartbreaking]] you'll ever see.
-->'''Dahl''': ''(Upon seeing an adult version of herself in a Funhouse mirror)'' Look! That's me in there... the real me! There I am... ''(starts to frown as she looks at her real, child-like hand)'' but it's not really real, is it? It's just made-up and pretend like my family, and my life, and everything else! ''(Turns to face Batman) Why couldn't you just let me'' '''''make believe'''''!? ''(Fires at each mirror in turn before facing the one of her adult form and shooting that until her gun runs empty, crying into Batman's leg)'' [[MeaningfulEcho I didn't mean to...]]
* VocalDissonance: Unlike her body, Dahl's natural voice is that of an adult. As Baby Dahl, she uses a painfully cutesy voice and manner of speech [[BadBadActing which is rather transparently affected]].
* WhiteDwarfStarlet: [[NotAllowedToGrowUp With emphasis on "Dwarf"]]. She abducted her long-separated sitcom co-stars to relive her glory days.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Her first appearance has her on the verge of a murder-suicide with her former co-stars (via dynamite "candle" birthday cake), and the second has her attempting to overload a nuclear power plant over [[YourCheatingHeart Killer Croc's infidelity]].
** You know when a villain falls into this category when ''[[TheStoic Batman]]'', of all people, gives them a CooldownHug.
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[[folder:Firefly (Garfield Lynns)]]
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-> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/MarkRolston
First appearing in "Torch Song", Garfield Lynns was a concert pyrotechnician who worked for a popular singer named Cassidy. After being spurned by her, he sabotaged the pyrotechnics at one of her shows and reinvented himself as the pyromaniac supervillain Firefly as he stalked Cassidy.
* CoolHelmet: It even looks like an insect.
* GadgeteerGenius: Made the firefly suit and pyrotechnics himself.
* FlamingSword: His favored weapon in close combat.
* {{Jetpack}}: Wouldn't bring the fly in Firefly without it.
%%* PungeonMaster
* {{Pyromaniac}}: It's his gimmick.
* StalkerShrine: Had one of these for Cassidy. As Detective Bullock noted upon seeing it, "Oh, he's got it bad."
* StalkerWithACrush: To Cassidy.
* StealthPun: As Cass points out herself, he carries...a ''torch'' for her.
* WouldHurtAChild: In ''Legends of the Dark Knight'', he has no problem killing the kids when he sets the blaze.
* {{Yandere}}: For Cassidy.
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[[folder:The Phantasm [[spoiler:(Andrea Beaumont)]]]]
->'''Voiced By:''' Stacey Keach and [[spoiler:Dana Delaney]]
->''"Your Angel of Death awaits."''
* AntiVillain: Falls somewhere between "Well-Intentioned Anti-Villain" and "Vicious Anti-Hero". [[spoiler:Also a Woobie Anti-Villain once her backstory is revealed.]]
* BadassCape: The Phantasm wears a cowl like Batman.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Wields a bladed weapon over the right hand.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Did this to Carl Beaumont concerning his remarkably poor decision to be business partners with guys like Sal Valestra.
* CastAsAMask: Stacey Keach plays The Phantasm, but not [[spoiler:Andrea. Deliberate misdirection since he also plays Andrea's father.]]
* CatchPhrase: "Your Angel of Death awaits."
* CompositeCharacter: The plot was adapted from the ''Batman: Year Two'' storyline. In the comic, the Reaper was Judson Caspian, whose daughter Rachel was in a budding relationship with Bruce Wayne. In the movie, [[spoiler:Andrea Beaumont was both the Phantasm and the love interest.]]
* CoolMask: Which resembles a skull
* CostumeCopycat: A variation: Batman is blamed for the actions of Phantasm who also wears a costume with a black cape and makes a point of attacking from the shadows and being seen only in glimpses; in this case, the confusion is not deliberate, but results from the Phantasm making similar style choices.
* DarkActionGirl[=/=]FemmeFatale: The Phantasm [[spoiler:is actually Andrea Beaumont and is very aggressive and ruthless.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: [[spoiler:Andrea has her moments]].
* {{Expy}}: Heavily inspired by the Reaper, a violent vigilante from ''Batman: Year Two''.
* FieryRedhead: Sometimes.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: [[spoiler:Andrea [[TookALevelInBadass takes a few levels in badass]] and becomes The Phantasm]]
* HeartbrokenBadass: Before becoming a vigilante, the Phantasm [[spoiler:was Bruce Wayne's lover. Needless to say, Batman did not approve of her more extreme crime-fighting methods.]]
* HeroesWantRedheads: Bruce certainly wanted.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: [[spoiler: Trying to justify her actions:]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Andrea''': They took everything from me, Bruce: [[YouKilledMyFather my dad]], my life, you. I'm not saying it's right, or even sane, but it's all I've got left. So, either [[WithUsOrAgainstUs help me or get out of the way!]]]]
* InTheHood: Mandatory if you want to look like the GrimReaper.
* NewOldFlame: [[spoiler: Never spoken of in the series proper.]]
* NotSoDifferent: Thinks this of Batman and [[spoiler:herself]]. Alfred agrees, to a point, see HeWhoFightsMonsters.
* OminousWalk: A favored tactic. It works.
* OffScreenTeleportation: Seems to rely a lot on this trope to get around. A lot of {{smoke out}}s were involved though.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Has this philosophy regarding the crime syndicate in Gotham.
* RevengeBeforeReason:
--> I'm not saying it's right or even sane, but it's all I have left, so either help me or get out of the way!
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler:Andrea's motivation for being the Phantasm is to make the mobsters who ruined her life (and took her father) pay for what they've done]].
* SamusIsAGirl: As part of the big, spoilered reveal.
* [[HeWhoFightsMonsters She Who Fights Monsters]]: Alfred even notes it when consoling Bruce near the end of the movie.
-->'''Alfred:''' Vengeance blackens the soul, Bruce. I've always feared that you would become that which you fought against. You walk the edge of that abyss every night, but you haven't fallen in and I thank heaven for that. But [[spoiler:Andrea]] fell into that pit years ago, and no one, not even you, could have pulled [[spoiler:her]] out.
* SmokeOut: Uses it for both quick entrances and exits and to avoid projectiles, including bullets.
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:After becoming the Phantasm]].
* TragicVillain: [[spoiler: She even admits that she might not be right but vengeance is all what she's got left.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: There isn't much that can be said about the Phantasm without spoiling who it is.
* WhatTheHellHero: After making the move to the larger DCAU, Phantasm calls out Amanda Waller for her plans concerning [[spoiler: Project WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond.]]
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler: Being separated from her true love and her father's murder led her to exert vengeance against the culprits.]]
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[[folder:Roxy Rocket (Roxanne Sutton)]]
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-> '''Voiced By:''' Charity James
A former stuntwoman and a dangerously avid adrenaline junkie.
* AffablyEvil: To a certain extent.
* BikerBabe: Dresses like it, though as the name implies she likes riding rockets. Though she dresses more like an [[AcePilot aviatrix]].
* CanonImmigrant: Twice--she first appeared in ''ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures'' Annual #1, then in the animated series, then in the main DCU.
%%* DarkActionGirl
%%* DeadpanSnarker
* TheDragon: To the Penguin in her debut episode.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: Only worked with the Penguin to sate her need for thrills. When her stunts began to risk exposing him, he decides to get rid of her.
* FieryRedhead: Moved to crime mostly for the kicks.
* GogglesDoNothing: In her case, she wears them whenever she rides.
* HeelFaceTurn: In the tie-in comics--decides that being a vigilante has as much thrill as being a criminal.
* InHarmsWay: She's in it at least as much for the thrills as for the loot.
* MsFanservice: Has a nice figure and provides a cleavage.
* NotMeThisTime: In the tie-in comics. It turns out to be [[spoiler: Catwoman]], trying to frame her.
* NotSoDifferent: Tries to pull this on Batman, saying that he'll let her go because he enjoys the thrill of the chase as much as she does. It doesn't work.
* OrgasmicCombat: Especially in the, er, [[FreudWasRight climax]] of the episode.
* RocketRide: Provides the trope image.
* SexIsViolence: When Batman pursues her, she starts laughing more and more and eventually... well, she shows her O-face.
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[[folder:Mr. Freeze (Dr. Victor Fries)]]
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->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/MichaelAnsara (English), Masaru Ikeda (Japanese)
->"''Think of it, Batman: to never again walk on a summer's day with a hot wind in your face, and a warm hand to hold. Oh yes, I'd'' kill ''for that.''"
A respected cryogenics expert who was once employed by [=GothCorp=], Victor Fries fell into a life of crime when his wife, Nora, grew ill and he was forced to sustain her in cryogenic containment until such time that a cure could be delivered. A freak accident in his lab caused Victor to become doused in cryogenic freezing compound, altering his body's structure. Although the effect of the incident made him very durable physically (he is nigh-immortal as his body's low temperature reduces his aging to a crawl), it left him unable to sustain himself outside of below-freezing temperatures. Fries developed a special suit that allows him to exist at these temperatures in normal climates, becoming "Mr. Freeze" in the process. Mr. Freeze's criminal activities are typically unconcerned with personal gain but instead motivated by vengeance and desperation.
* AdaptationalBadass: He's much more serious and formidable than he previously was in the comics, and he ended up reintroduced in the comics and featured in [[WesternAnimation/BatmanAndMisterFreezeSubZero two]] [[Film/BatmanAndRobin films]] (granted, the latter did not go very well).
* AdaptationalHeroism: He was a stereotypical and unremarkable MadScientist in comics from before the series. Here he's a heartbroken guy who is trying his best to avenge and later save his wife, but takes extreme measures in order to it. That being said, he was actually a good guy in the first couple of episodes, but it was after his wife died, that he became rather evil, but even there he's still easy to sympathize with.
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: Much of his villainry is motivated by his desperate desire to save Nora, often at the expense of his own safety, emotional wellbeing, and the lives of innocent people.
* AndIMustScream: His eventual fate as shown in Batman Beyond.
* AntiVillain: When he's not obsessed with vengeance he just wants to be left alone with his wife.
* AnIcePerson: Thanks to a FreakLabAccident.
* BadassBoast: Has performed more than one over the course of the series:
-->''"Rest well my love. The monster who took you away from me shall soon learn that revenge is a dish, '''best served cold'''."'' \\\
''"Sooner or later, all who stand in my way shall feel the icy touch of death!"''
* BadassBookworm: A former scientist, who created all of the technology he uses.
* BadBoss: He values Nora's life more than anyone else's, even his own henchmen.
* BaldOfEvil: The accident that made him Mr. Freeze caused his hair to fall out.
* BigBad: Of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAndMisterFreezeSubZero''.
* BlackEyesOfCrazy: In place of his goggles in ''The New Batman Adventures''.
* BlessedWithSuck: He is immortal and can survive quite well in subzero temperatures. He'll also die in anything warmer without his suit on, and hates his life.
* BodyHorror: Starts out with a body unable to survive outside of subzero temperatures. Gets even worse in later seasons, when [[spoiler:all of his body, save for his head, has decayed away]].
* ChronicVillainy: After his debut he really just wants to be left alone, but something always seems to drag him back into crime.
* ClingyCostume: His temperature-regulating suit, which can't come off unless he has a place kept roughly the same temperature as a meat locker.
* CreepyMonotone: To enforce the idea that he has no emotions.
* CrusadingWidower: The loss of his wife is the whole reason he became Mr. Freeze.
* DespairEventHorizon:
** Losing his wife. [[spoiler:''Both'' times.]]
** Losing his body to degeneration, reducing him to a disembodied head.
** Gets another one in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond''. Poor guy just can't catch a break.
* {{Determinator}}: "Nora was the only good thing in my life and they took her from me. I don't care what I have to do to get her back!"
* TheDragon: To Grant Walker in ''Deep Freeze''.
* DramaticDeadpan: He usually talks in an emotionless CreepyMonotone.
* EvilIsPetty: Good grief, ''Cold Comfort''! He goes around breaking fossils and paintings just to make people miserable.
* FateWorseThanDeath: He certainly seems to view his new state as this, often citing that he'd prefer death or a life very close to it.
* ForTheEvulz: After apparently [[MotiveDecay losing his wife Nora forever]], Freeze goes around for a while destroying what people love in order to spread his misery.
* FreezeRay: His [[WeaponOfChoice trademark weapon]].
* HateSink: Not one himself, but because his motives are often sympathetic or understandable to the audience every appearance before "Cold Comfort" involved one either working with him or against him.
* HeartbrokenBadass: His suit and abilities are awesome, but that is nothing to think about, when he's giving his life to save his own wife, yet people still think of him as the bad guy.
* TheHeavy: While rarely the worst villain in the episodes he appears in, he's always the most prominent.
* IllGirl: His wife, for whom he commits his crimes.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: In ''[[ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures Gotham Adventures]]'', Nora has remarried, and Freeze is happy to save her husband's life when Grant Walker comes back and kidnaps him.
* {{Jerkass}}: His loss was tragic, but his means always endanger people, and he does not care.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite how his incident has made him even ''litterally'' coldblooded, Freeze just wants to save his wife, Nora, though he would kill anyone just to do it, even if he has to kill an innocent. He even let his soft side out a couple of times.
* KickTheDog: Trying to hit Batman, he accidentally freezes one of his henchmen's legs. He then blames the accident on said henchman and leaves him for dead while the poor guy begs them to help him. It happens the same way to one of his ice maidens in ''Cold Comfort''. But then, ''Cold Comfort'' is a KickTheDog episode.
* LonersAreFreaks: Where Batman has Robin, who he treats as a teammate, Mr. Freeze is completely ruthless when one of his henchmen gets accidentally frozen.
* LosingYourHead: In the show's revamp, as another side effect of his condition.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: His love for his comatose wife, Nora.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: In a comic tie-in to the show, where Nora had remarried. [[spoiler: Though this applies more to Francis D'anjou, who was actually framing Freeze in the hope that Nora would stop loving him.]]
* {{Necromantic}}: Turned to crime for funds to cure his sick, cryogenically frozen wife and revenge on a CorruptCorporateExecutive for pulling the plug on his first attempt.
* NotSoSimilar: Freeze is like Batman personality-wise: Jaded, brooding, not very social, but of good intentions. However, the difference is that Freeze is willing to kill anyone in order to save Nora, and while Batman sympathizes with him, he cannot let him kill people for it.
-->'''Mr. Freeze''': Vengeance! ''Vengeance!''\\
'''Batman''': No... ''Justice.''
* OnlySaneMan: In Arkham--he's only there because he's a special needs prisoner, not insane.
* PeopleJars: Keeps Nora in one until he can find a cure.
* PoweredArmor: His suit, which apparently triples his strength.
* PungeonMaster: He makes some cold-related puns in his debut episode; they are much better than anything from ''Film/BatmanAndRobin''.
-->'''Mr. Freeze:''' I'm beyond emotions. They've been frozen ''dead'' in me.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: His goggles from his first appearances make him look like he has these.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: In "Heart of Ice", towards Ferris Boyle.
* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou: Mr. Freeze fires his freeze gun directly at you. In the commentary, the directors are surprised they got away with it - they wouldn't have been able to with a regular gun, in case some kid decided to try it.
* SilenceYouFool: In ''Deep Freeze'', Mr. Freeze say this twice to Batman.
* SnowMeansLove: His most iconic scene is him talking to the snowglobe that contains a statue of Nora, begging for forgiveness. Sad version of this trope. The comics reveal that in college the two spent much of their courtship outside in the snow.
* TheStoic: But also NotSoStoic when his wife is brought into the equation.
* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs: "Freeze!" "That's ''Mister'' Freeze to ''you''." ''([[PreMortemOneLiner fires]])''
* TinMan: Despite claiming that he can no longer feel any emotion, his despair at losing his wife — and his cold hatred to those who took her — is demonstrable.
* TookALevelInJerkass: While always having been vindictive since his transformation into Mr. Freeze, his crimes were motivated by a devotion towards his wife, whether it be avenging her supposed death or attempting to developing a cure her for her terminal illness. In ''Cold Comfort,'' however, Freeze has become a StrawNihilist who targets innocents for little reason other than to bring them the misery he feels.
* TragicVillain: A desperate man trying to save his dying wife, and whose life was destroyed by an accident and confined into a refrigerated suit to survive. There's a reason he provides the page image.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Any temperatures over freezing; he can't survive them without his suit. In his debut episode Batman defeats him with a ''warm thermos of chicken soup'' (the temperature difference breaking his helmet).
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: "Deep Freeze" states that, even if he's not ''immortal'', he can likely live for thousands of years. And he wants none of it.
** Worse in ''Meltdown'' where he seems to have spent the last few decades as a disembodied head in an isolated room.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Before the accident he's even shown to be a bit soft spoken and reserved, and backs down easily after a brief attempt at stopping Boyle from shutting down the cryonic chamber Nora was in.
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[[folder:The Penguin (Oswald Cobblepot)]]
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->'''Voiced By:''' Music/PaulWilliams (''Batman: The Animated Series'', ''The New Batman Adventures''), David Ogden Stiers (''Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman'') (English), Kosei Tomita (Japanese)
->''"Sorry about the intrusion, sir, but at least you were ransacked by a man of impeccable taste."''
A short, chubby, well-dressed man, who fancies himself a classic GentlemanThief, but his manners leave much to be desired.
* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: In ''Birds of a Feather'' and ''The Mechanic'', he had a hideout in one. Likely a reference to his Film/BatmanReturns counterpart.
* {{Acrofatic}}: Pretty quick for someone so rotund.
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Uses this a lot.
* AffablyEvil: Especially in ''Birds of a Feather''.
* AntiquatedLinguistics: To cultivate a gentlemanly image.
* BigBad: In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMysteryOfTheBatwoman''.
* BodyguardBabes: Jay, Lark, and Raven.
* ChronicVillainy: Chose to abandon crime one day when he was released from Stonegate, deciding that he never wanted to return to jail again, but when he learned that the woman he began to fall in love with was only spending time with him to mock his uncultured ways he relapsed into villainy. However, unlike the other villains, he does manage to stay out of jail in ''The New Batman Adventures.'' He didn't really reform and uses his nightclub as a front for shady deals, but he does a much better job of ensuring his legal safety. Batman is well-aware that Penguin hasn't changed, but keeps him around because he is just as often a [[TheRat good source of information]] about other, more dangerous criminals.
* CivilianVillain: Actually worked better for him when he was faking it.
* DeadpanSnarker: He is TheSnarkKnight when he deals with the lower classes (prison guards, bus drivers, Batman). When he at last deals with the upper classes, he becomes a StepfordSnarker.
* DoomyDoomsOfDoom: Once tried calling a trap he'd set for Batman in a zoo as his "aviary of doom". The other villains he tells the story to are bemused, at best.
-->'''The Penguin:''' ''(narrating)'' Welcome, my ebon-winged adversary. You have taken the bait, just as I knew you would. Now, prepare to meet your end within my Aviary of Doom!\\
'''Poison Ivy:''' ''(interrupting the story)'' Aviary of ''what''?...\\
'''The Joker:''' Sheesh, Pengers. How corny can you get?\\
'''The Penguin:''' Fah! Just because you mundane miscreants have no drama in your souls!... Anyway, there he was in my Av... * Sigh* ... My "big birdhouse"...
* EtTuBrute: A rather depressing example. In the episode, ''Birds of a Feather'', he is released from prison and declares that he's reformed and will become a model member of high society. A group of snobbish aristocrats decide to bring him into their social circle so that they can laugh at his social ineptitude and appearance. He generally doesn't care how life had gotten him down through the rest of the episode, but when he overhears the woman whom he had fallen in love with talking about this plot, he loses it. The real slap in the face is that he had genuinely reformed until this happened.
* EvilBrit: Speaks with a British accent.
* EvilIsNotAToy: In ''Birds of a Feather'', Veronica Vreeland brings him into her social circle as a publicity stunt. He eventually finds out he's being used, and in his true flamboyantly villainous fashion, kidnaps and tries to kill her.
* TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily: In his first appearance, he and his henchmen are continuously foiled by the local children who have [[BatmanInMyBasement Batman in their basement]]. This is one of the reasons that the production team does not think very highly of this episode, since they were hoping the series would avoid kid heroes and bumbling villains.
* FatBastard: It's always been a staple of the Penguin to be overweight and unpleasant.
* FauxAffablyEvil: His default mode, as he has been shown very willing to hurt women and children.
* FeatheredFiend: Has a collection of deadly birds ranging from poison-billed hummingbirds to trained attack-cassowaries.
* GentlemanSnarker: Most of his snarking come with a veil of sophistication.
* GentlemanThief: He invokes this trope, without success, you could say.
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Always has a cigarette holder in his mouth.
* TheGrotesque: Similar to the Burton films, the Penguin is ''almost'' this trope played straight. He's nowhere near as evil as, say, The Joker, but then again he's not even all that ugly. It's implied that deep down he really wants to go straight, [[ChronicVillainy but he just likes stealing priceless artifacts too much]] -- and he just can't keep from lashing out at people who make fun of him when he ''does'' try to reform.
* HiddenDepths: As Veronica Vreeland discovered, if you can stand his SadClown jokes, his JabbaTableManners and his SmallNameBigEgo attitude, Oswald can be quite TheCharmer in a LargeHam way.
* HighClassGlass: Kept from the comics (despite being absent from the movie).
* HonorAmongThieves: Best shown in "Second Chance".
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Umbrellas. Some of them even have live rounds.
* JabbaTableManners: As seen in "Birds of a Feather".
* JustGotOutOfJail: He did try to live a honest life and among Gotham's elites (which he thought possible thanks to Veronica Vreeland). While she cleared a misunderstanding when Batman wrongly thought the Penguin was one of the muggers robbing her, it was eventually revealed to him she just wanted someone to be made a fool of at a party. He was so revolted he returned to a life of crime.
* LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub: The Iceberg Lounge. Though the bar itself is designed around high society and is completely legit he uses it as a front to do illegal smuggling in the back.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Always wears a formal tuxedo, stylistically similar to actual penguins (who look like they're wearing one).
* NiceHat: His top hat.
* OnlySaneMan: Carried over from the comics. He's one of the few Batman villains who goes to jail rather than Arkham. He also sometimes grows annoyed with the other rogues' "eccentricities" when forced to work with them.
* OrphanedPunchline: Has one in ''Birds of a Feather'': "--and I said, 'But, warden--those aren't ''my'' pants!"
* PaidHarem: Jay, Raven, and Lark.
* ParasolOfPain: His parasols can have anything from toxic gas to actual bullets.
** ParasolParachute: One of its uses.
* TheRat: The only reason why Batman lets him operate his nightclub.
* RedemptionFailure: ''Birds of a Feather''
* ReformedButRejected: ''Birds of a Feather''
* SadClown: His delusions of being a GentlemanThief and his SmallNameBigEgo are his way to cope with his crushing loneliness. He is insecure at heart and keeps on running his mouth to fool himself into thinking he's confident or to get people to like him and tends to make jokes at inappropriate times to cope.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: To make himself sound more sophisticated then he actually is. Comes back to bite him in a tie-in comic, where he doesn't know what a word means and makes something up to avoid looking stupid.
* SinisterSchnoz: It has the appearance of a penguin beak.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Despite overwhelming evidence on the contrary, the Penguin really believes he is well liked by the rich Gotham elite (''Birds of a Feather'') and fancies himself as a ladies’ man (he hits on Roxie Rocket on ''The Ultimate Thrill''). Those things didn’t end well for him.
* SmugSnake: He's a pretty arrogant bastard.
* SocietyIsToBlame: In ''Birds of a Feather'', he looks to go straight once he's gotten out of prison, but when resident RichBitch Veronica Vreeland and her snobby friends decide to make him the butt of an exceptionally cruel joke, he reverts to his criminal ways to exact revenge. In the end, he muses, "I guess it's true; society is to blame. ''High'' society." At least Vreeland had the decency to feel bad about her role in it by the end though.
* TerribleTrio: Was part of one with Jay and Raven before leading two sets: one of males then one of females.
* ThenLetMeBeEvil: He could put up with Batman [[ReformedButRejected not believing he really reformed]], but Veronica Vreeland shouldn't have used him for a pig at a pig party.
* VillainBallMagnet: ''Birds of a Feather''
* VillainousValor: In ''Birds of a Feather'' at least, he is a courageous fighter, [[MuggingTheMonster beating back a gang of bullies who are trying to mug him using only his umbrella]]. In ''Second Chance'', when Batman is accusing him of having Two-Face kidnapped, the Penguin declares that he were ever going to mess with another villain, he'd do it the honorable way: face to face.
* WannabeLine: His club, The Iceberg Lounge, has such a line. In ''Joker's Millions'', Barbara and Dick get in by Barbara mentioning her father as the Penguin is walking by. Bruce Wayne is seen in the Lounge later.
* WhosLaughingNow: To Veronica Vreeland and her UpperClassTwit friend Pierce in ''Birds of a Feather''.
* WickedCultured: He tries to be this...
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[[folder:The Riddler (Edward Nygma)]]
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->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/JohnGlover (English), Creator/YoshitoYasuhara (Japanese)
->''"Do you know what happens to gate crashers? They have to match wits with the Riddler."''
A disgraced video game developer-turned-criminal with a knack for very complex and obscure riddles. Unlike most of Batman's rogues, The Riddler typically ''wants'' Batman to pursue him as it gives him an opportunity to use his riddling skills to try to outwit the Dark Knight.
* AffablyEvil: As long as his "outwitted angry guy" mood is not triggered, he keeps a very elegant and formal demeanor. Though considering he rarely ends a sentence without insulting other people's intelligence, he might qualify for full time FauxAffablyEvil.
* AntiHero: [[spoiler: See HeelFaceTurn below]].
* TheBadGuyWins: Even though he actually did not achieve his goal of killing his ex-boss, Nygma escapes justice safely, and terrifies his victim into a permanent mortal fear of his return.
* BaldOfEvil: In the retool, he is bald.
* BerserkButton: The whole reason he wanted revenge on Mockridge was less because he was scammed out of the money of his board game, and more because his boss bruised his ego by saying he had nothing to do with it's success, and called him an idiot to his face.
** By the time of ''Riddler's Reform'', being called crazy is this for The Riddler.
* CallingCard: His riddles.
* ChronicVillainy:
** [[CutLexLuthorACheck Sells his persona for a fortune]] and decides to abandon crime altogether in order to avoid risking his newfound wealth and freedom. However, because he has such a compulsion, he reasons that the only way he can do so is to kill Batman. Naturally, he fails, gets found out and arrested.
** His brief [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn]] in ''Gotham Adventures'' results in Batman catching him anyway. He actually ''inadvertently gives Batman a riddle as to his location''. Despite [[BerserkButton hating being called crazy]], poor Eddie has to concede this one and after a VillainousBreakdown [[DownerEnding dejectedly lets Batman take him back to the asylum]].
--->'''Riddler:''' You don't understand. I ''really'' didn't want to leave you any clues. I really planned ''never'' to go back to Arkham Asylum. But I left you a clue anyway. So I...I have to go back there. Because I might need help. I...I might actually be crazy...
* CivilianVillain: ''Riddler's Reform''
* CivvieSpandex: Before ''The New Batman Adventures'', he wore a suit and tie and a bowler hat with the only unusual features of his attire being question mark patterns and a mask.
* ConsolationPrize: Batman and Robin may have stopped him from killing Daniel Mockridge for cheating him out of his share of royalties for the ''Riddle Of The Minotaur'' game, but ruining Mockridge's life by making him live in fear of the Riddler's return makes for a very satisfying end anyway.
* CriminalMindGames: His M.O.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: In ''Riddler's Reform'', he has sold the license to his persona to a toy developer for a completely legal fortune. However, Batman is convinced that he will continue to commit riddle-crimes, even though it will jeopardize his freedom and financial well-being. When Robin wonders why he would take such a risk, Batman explains that for him it is not about the money, it is an obsession. As it turns out, Batman's right; Riddler is uneasy with his new life, and eventually decides to try to kill Batman once and for all just to remove the temptation to backslide.
* DeadpanSnarker:
--> '''Riddler''': You have 10 minutes, gentlemen-- then, Mr. Mockridge is going to be the only good business shark. A ''dead'' one.
* DeathTrap: Often very elaborately engineered ones that test Batman's intelligence.
* DemotedToExtra: He rarely appeared much, but what episodes he did get were quite excellent and put a refreshing spin on the character. When the sequel series ''The New Batman Adventures'' rolled over, however, ol' Eddie got the shaft, despite getting a new character design more faithful to Frank Gorshin's take on the character. You know that things are bad when the new Riddler's biggest role was in a ''Superman'' episode. Creator/PaulDini admitted in the "Art of..." book that they didn't use the Riddler often because his gimmick of using riddles was pretty hard to pull off in an action cartoon such as theirs. On the other hand, he had some truly spectacular moments in ''ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures'', set in the same universe.
* EngineeredPublicConfession: ''Riddler's Reform''
* EvilGenius: Of all Batman's enemies, he's the one who relies most on his intellect.
* EvilIsPetty: In his debut, he flat out says that he doesn't even care that Mockridge is making money off of his own game--he's out for revenge on him for ego gratification, specifically Mockridge calling him a worthless ancilliary to his company, and also called him an idiot to his face.
* EvilRedhead: Certainly borrowed from the TV series' Frank Gorshin (having usually slick black hair in the comics).
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Inverted when Batman survives his death-trap, but won't tell him how he did it. The episode ends with Riddler ranting and raving as he tries to figure out how it was done.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: He ''hates'' being in Arkham, so when he escaped in ''[[ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures Gotham Adventures]]'', he opts to become a vigilante detective, solving crimes himself while sending riddles to Batman so he can solve other cases. He's still definitely [[AntiHero morally ambiguous]], though, and isn't above ElectricTorture to get the testimony he wants]].
* {{Guyliner}}: In the revamp.
* HisOwnWorstEnemy: Since his ChronicVillainy won't let him stop leaving riddles for Batman to solve.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Was first trapped in his own virtual world then got his confession recorded on his own device.
* HurricaneOfPuns: His hints in "If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich."
--> ''(Batman and Robin come across a sign that says "Loser's Ahead.")''\\
'''Robin''': "Loser's Ahead?"\\
''(The duo turns a corner, two giant shurikens come out of nowhere, and the duo ducks just before the blades lop their heads off.)''\\
'''Batman''': Loses a head. [[LamePunReaction I don't know what's worse, the traps or the puns.]]
* InsufferableGenius: He's a puzzles genius and he wants ''everyone'' to know it.
* [[KarmaHoudini Karma Enigma]]: He gets away scot-free at the end of ''If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?'' The producers have stated that they let the Riddler escape as a testament to his intellect.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: In BTAS, he wears a nice green suit and a tie with a question mark.
* MoodSwinger: he alternates fits of anger with polite interludes.
* NearVillainVictory: Gets allegedly closer to killing Batman than any of the villains in "Almost Got Im". The Caped Crusader manages to save himself by [[BombproofAppliance jumping into a small safe]] [[DeusExMachina that had no reason to be there]], [[MagicCountdown with only two seconds to reach it and get in it]].
* NerdsAreSexy: In ''Riddler's Reform'', he ends up with quite a few women fawning over him. Unless that's an example of AllGirlsWantBadBoys, or PowerIsSexy and/or GoldDigger, due to his newfound fame and wealth from his inventions.
* NiceHat: A green bowler hat.
* ParanoiaGambit: His origin episode revolves around him going after Mockridge, the man who cheated him out of the profits for a game he designed due to him being 'work-for-hire'. Batman and Robin manage to save him, but the Riddler gets away and hints he will eventually return to finish the job. The episode ends with a terrified Mockridge in his mansion, locking every door and window in the place, checking every shadow, and getting into bed with a loaded shotgun at his side while Bruce muses on the situation:
-->'''Bruce:''' [[PyrrhicVillainy Mockridge may have his money, but he won't be sleeping well]]. "How much is a good night's sleep worth?" Now THERE'S a riddle for you.
* PropheticNames: During his StartOfDarkness episode, Batman lampshades this trope when Edward Nygma reveals his new identity, asking him if it's meant to be a joke.
* RedheadInGreen: Probably what made this appearance iconic.
* RiddleMeThis: The trope namer.
* SanityHasAdvantages: In ''Riddler's Reform'', he actually goes straight and makes tons of money by designing puzzles for a toy company and licensing his likeness to market them. However, he just can't stop thinking about matching wits with Batman... so he decides that the only way he'll ever be secure enough in his new life to actually enjoy it is to kill Batman.
* SanitySlippage: Goes from wanting revenge on his ex boss to being unable to stop committing crimes and leaving clues.
* SmugSnake: The mother of all smug depictions of the Riddler.
* StevenUlyssesPerhero: His name, when read as "E. Nygma", is a play on "enigma", which is a synonym for "mystery".
* ThrowTheBookAtThem: In ''Judgement Day'', courtroom-themed vigilante The Judge tells him, "It's about time someone threw the book at you!" and drops a car-sized book on him, nearly killing him.
* UnPerson: ''What is Reality?'' has him erasing all of the records of his existence as Edward Nygma, including birth certificates, drivers licenses, employment records and so on.
* TheVillainMakesThePlot: One of the cited reasons that the writers gave for why the Riddler appeared less than most other villains was that it was hard to make a scheme worthy of such a brain-teasing [[TheChessmaster chessmaster]] villain like him in single half-hour episodes.
* VillainousBreakdown: Has an epic one in ''Riddler's Reform''.
* VillainousCrossdresser: For some reason his TNBA design has him in women's shoes.
* WickedCultured: Has a thing for greek mythology and foreign languages.
* WasItReallyWorthIt: At the end of Riddler's debut episode, Batman states that even though they saved the CorruptCorporateExecutive from Nygma's traps, the experience scarred him for life, and the last scene shows a frightened Mockridge trembling under his bedsheets.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In ''Trial'', he's seen among the villains as a juror in their KangarooCourt. However, he disappears during the second half of the episode and his chair in the jury is even empty.
** ScrewThisImOuttaHere seems to be the answer.
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[[folder:The Scarecrow (Dr. Jonathan Crane)]]
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->'''Voiced By:''' Henry Polic II (''Batman: The Animated Series''), Creator/JeffreyCombs (''The New Batman Adventures'', "Never Fear"), Creator/JeffBennett (''The New Batman Adventures'', "Over the Edge"[[note]]Uncredited.[[/note]]) (English), Creator/RokuroNaya (Japanese)
->''"I am the master of fear! The lord of despair! Cower before me in witless terror!''"
A university psychology professor who has made a career out of studying fear and its effects. In his pursuit of research, he developed a chemical toxin that allows him to induce fear in any subject at his whim, which he later began using as an asset for crime.
* ArtEvolution: His costume went through several major alterations and changes, even before the ArtShift of ''The New Batman Adventures'' (which settled on a design), more or less because his first designs were a tad on the goofy side.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: In ''Fear of Victory'' he starts rigging sports and then betting on the games; he himself points out that chemicals are expensive and his usual crimes of causing wanton terror aren't very lucrative.
* DarkerAndEdgier: In TNBA, he looks less like a scarecrow and more like a zombie. He also now speaks in a raspy whisper and moves in an almost robotic manner, when he was a bombastic LargeHam in the original series.
* EvilRedhead: Underneath his mask.
* EvilTeacher: His experiments - mostly just locking people in small rooms while dousing them with fear gas - go all the way back to his days as a Gotham University professor.
* FixingTheGame[=/=]ThrowingTheFight: ''Fear of Victory'' centered on his plot to raise a lot of money gambling on sporting events ([[TheGimmick Guess]] [[IKnowWhatYouFear how]]). He even drops the title "I fixed the games."
* ForScience: "Dreams in Darkness" in particular.
* AGodAmI: No remotely "godlike" powers aside from his fear gas, but he's got the attitude in spades.
* HiddenDepths: ''Comicbook/TheBatmanAdventures'' reveals that, despite all his sadism, he actually does love to teach. A rehabilitative work-release program at Arkham allows him to teach at the local community college, which he enjoys until he realizes that half his students are too illiterate to spell their own names correctly. This leads him to the scheme he employs in issues 4 and 5, where he holds the city for ransom by rendering everyone illiterate in attempt to show the local government the dangers of not reforming the education system.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Has been exposed twice to his own fear gas.
* IKissYourFoot: In ''Fear of Victory'', Scarecrow mentions using his Fear Toxin to bring the people of Gotham to their knees and in his own words "...Kissing my feet!"
* {{Jerkass}}: Before his redesign, he's a snappy, obnoxious sadist with no tragic backstory to justify his actions or behavior. The [[Comicbook/TheBatmanAdventures tie in comic]] gives him a more nuanced portrayal.
* LargeHam: In BTAS. He transitions to a SoftSpokenSadist in TNBA.
** ColdHam: While not always shouting in character, Jeffrey Combs's stint at Scarecrow as no less grandiose or theatrical in his dialogue or actions; just quieter.
* LeanAndMean: Like an actual scarecrow, Crane is exceptionally thin.
* MadScientist: He claims his crimes are experiments in fear.
* MasterOfIllusion: Particularly the scary kind.
* MasterPoisoner: Makes all of the fear toxins himself.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Following his TNBA redesign. He's never shown unmasked, and the production team has said that they weren't even sure there was actually a man in the costume any more.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Before becoming Scarecrow, he held a doctorate in psychology.
* NiceHat: Just when you thought there was nothing nice about him.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Not that he was really harmless to begin with, just... not that scary.
* PetTheDog: Stops in the middle of one of his raving speeches about being the GOD OF FEAR to say hello to Harley.
* PoisonAndCureGambit In ''Never Fear'', he releases a chemical that takes away all sensation of fear, making people dangerously reckless, with the plan of selling his fear toxin as the "antidote".
* SadistTeacher: His true nature.
* SaveOurStudents: [[ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures The tie-in comic]] gives him HiddenDepths by showing that he actually is concerned about the city's youth getting proper education. The Annual even chronicles his RedemptionFailure trying to be this.
* ScaryScarecrows: His theme.
* SkullForAHead: His mask in the redesign.
* SinisterScythe: Wields one in ''Trial''.
* SoftSpokenSadist: When voiced by Jeffrey Combs.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Scarecrow is the master of using this trope.
* YouGotMurder: ''Fear of Victory'' had him dosing people with contact poison by telegram. It was only his patented "fear toxin", though.
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[[folder:The Mad Hatter (Jervis Tetch)]]
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->'''Voiced By:''' Roddy [=Mc=]Dowall (English), Creator/KeiTomiyama (Japanese/1st voice), Shigeru Ushiyama (Japanese/rest of the series)
->''"You're mighty in Gotham, Batman, but in Wonderland, the Mad Hatter reigns supreme!''"
Obsessed from a young age with Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, the Mad Hatter is always looking for an "Alice" of his own, and primarily uses his hypnotic skills in his crimes.
* {{Adorkable}}: When he's either at war with himself, or prior to his spiral into madness. Tetch had some incredibly adorable moments of complete social ineptitude in his office; talking to people, especially pretty people was not his forte. It didn't stick.
* AffablyEvil: At least in ''Perchance to Dream''. And in ''Trial'' he's one of the only reasonable ones.
* AliceAllusion: He's obsessed with ''Literature/AliceInWonderland''. The other people in his life also mirror the story--he pines after a woman named Alice, and his boss is a stern, redheaded woman who warns him that "[[OffWithHisHead heads will roll]]". His mind-controlled henchmen are also all costumed after ''Alice'' characters.
* AxCrazy: Actually wielded an ax when he tried to off the bat himself in his introductory episode.
* BadassLongcoat: He wears an overcoat as part of his outfit.
* BritishTeeth: Like his Alice in Wonderland counterpart.
* CheshireCatGrin: And probably with that very example in mind.
* DarkSkinnedBlond: Even before he dyed it "school-bus-yellow". He has unusually dark skin for an evil, British blond (as well as an accent that doesn't go with skin tone or teeth). Portrayed as an anti-social, lab-dwelling nerd, it's highly unlikely that he got out often enough to get a tan, either. (In the episode "The Worry Men", where he visits tropical Central America, he covers up with white gloves, sunglasses, and a straw hat.) It's possible the animators darkened his skin just to exaggerate how freakishly blond his hair is.
* DoggedNiceGuy: Though he drops the nice part when it doesn't work.
* EvilBrit: Confirmed to be actually english.
* EvilGenius: Capable of creating mind control chips that can reduce the wearer to a mere puppet.
* FanDumb: InUniverse, Jervis is '''The Monomaniac''' for Literature.AliceInWonderland, and this is a vital trait of his personality: This is the first clue that Jervis is not interested in reality, but his fantasies...
* FauxAffablyEvil: He's pretty sinister in ''The Worry Men'' and ''Animal Act''.
* ForScience: ''Animal Act''
* GadgeteerGenius: He invents mind control devices.
* GrandRomanticGesture: The actions he used to woo his Alice. Including, but not limited to - brainwashing a pair of thugs to go jump off a bridge to impress her with his bravery when they're about to get mugged; brainwashing the Maitre'd of a restaurant (as well as the rest of the staff) into getting them a seat and the romantic usuals (violin/flowers/etc.). After she reconciled with her boyfriend the same night, though, he uses brainwashing to break them up again, then does the "extravagant Flower surprise" in her house... which he didn't have a key for. Alice is, understandably, creeped out - but mostly because Jervis had no way of knowing that the two had broken up.
* HypnoTrinket: Controls minds without spirals, using cards marked 10/6 which he sticks on people's heads. And that's just his stock device; he has been known to use other things when appropriate.
* IControlMyMinionsThrough: He used mind control on his minions, which gave him an advantage over Batman, who wouldn't hit people who weren't willingly causing trouble. Once they were free, however, poor Mad Hatter.
* IronicNurseryTune: Based as he is on the ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' character, he uses these as part of his schtick. In one scene, he taunts Batman from afar with "Twinkle, Twinkle, little Bat! How I wonder what you're at!"
* LoveMakesYouEvil: His unrequited love for Alice is what started the whole thing.
* TheMadHatter: Actually, not that much.
* MadScientist: One who is specialized in mind control.
* MasterOfIllusion: Via his mind control, such as in "Perchance to Dream".
* MindControlDevice: This is his schtick. When he did it to mice, it was cute and scientific. When he did it to a female co-worker named Alice on whom he had a huge unrequited crush, it became creepy and stalkerish, but as he expresses regret about it we can assume it was a last resort.
* MotiveDecay: As Batman pointed out in ''The Worry Men'', he went from socially inept and lovelorn to being just another petty crook.
* NeverMyFault: Blames Batman for losing Alice, even though she didn't want to be with him in the first place.
* NiceHat: Well, duh!
* NotGoodWithRejection: This is part his origin. He had a crush on his secretary, who actually was named Alice, but she didn't reciprocate.
* NotMeThisTime: In "Make 'em Laugh" and (''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'') "Knight Time".
* ObliviouslyEvil: At least at first. He doesn't seem to realize just how bad mind-controlling Alice is, and seems to believe that he's doing her a favor.
* OffWithHisHead: In keeping with all of the Alice references, says this about Batman.
* PetTheDog: In ''[[Comicbook/TheBatmanAdventures Gotham Adventures]]'' he lures Batman into another LotusEaterMachine purely in the hopes of letting Batman have a little happiness for once. Sadly, happiness is apparently so unnatural for the Batman that just the feeling is enough for Batman to realize that he's in a fantasy.
* PyrrhicVillainy: In a milder example, he uses his mind control technology to land Alice, a co-worker he was too shy to talk to, but Batman calls him out on this, asking if a mind-controlled, compliant Alice with no personality was what he really wanted. Tetch has a [[VillainousBreakdown breakdown and rushes Batman]].
* StalkerWithACrush: How the Mad Hatter was first portrayed in his obsession with his co-worker Alice, and being too shy to ask her out.
* TheyCalledMeMad: He briefly mentions it but that didn't play in his descent into villainy.
* TropicalEpilogue: ''The Worry Men'' features the Mad Hatter admitting that he's been thinking of retiring from crime, purchasing an island out in the middle of nowhere, and opening up a sun-bonnet shop.
* VillainousBreakdown: At the end of "Perchance to Dream," he breaks into a sobbing rage when Batman escapes from his [[LotusEaterMachine Dream Machine.]]
* WickedCultured: He sure likes his Lewis Carroll's quotes.
* {{Yandere}}: For Alice.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Clayface (Matt Hagen)]]
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-> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/RonPerlman (English), Creator/MasashiEbara (Japanese)
-> ''"I'm not an actor anymore! I'm not even... A man.''"
* AdaptationalHeroism: Played with. Definitely not a good guy, but his goals are at least understandable, and he's not actively malicious unless someone gets in his way. In the comics, though, Basil Karlo was a murderous asshole even ''before'' becoming a monster, while Matt Hagen was just another superpowered thug.
* AdaptationalBadass: Before this particular incarnation of the character showed off his abilities in rather impressive ways, he'd been written off as too goofy to work because shape-shifting was seen as a gimmicky superpower.
* AdaptationDyeJob: He had black hair as Matt Hagen, who was blond in the comics.
* BarbieDollAnatomy: Even when shifted into the form of a naked human, he has no genitalia.
** He was barely human, just humanoid.
* CompositeCharacter: His character is essentially a combination of the first three versions from the comics. He was an actor like Basil Karlo, he has the name and powers of Matt Hagen, and was disfigured like Preston Payne.
* CosmeticHorror: He used an experimental cosmetic cream to help him look good after a car accident that ruined his face. It was temporary and highly addictive, and when he tried to blow the whistle before it went on the market Daggett's men fed him an overdose, turning him into Clayface.
* FakingTheDead: At the end of his first appearance.
* GenreSavvy: Subverted. Instead of avoiding cliches, he prefers to embrace them knowingly.
* HumanoidAbomination: Although he was once human and retains his personality. Annie is probably a better example.
* {{Irony}}: He's a hot tempered, egotistical ham, but then we meet Annie, his amnesiac duplicate. It seems that stripped of all his ambition, anger, and longing for self fulfillment, Clayface is just a scared and confused child.
* {{Jerkass}}: While he is somewhat sympathetic due to wanting to be normal again, he's still kind of a jerk sometimes.
* TheJuggernaut: He's absurdly powerful for a Batvillain.
* KickTheDog: When he throws his best friend/stunt double across the room when the guy tries to cheer him up and encourage him that all is not lost in living like a regular person
-->"''Don't patronize me! I told you, I don't need to eat! I don't need to sleep! And I'' '''''DON'T NEED YOU!!!'''''"
* LargeHam: He's an actor, so this shouldn't come as a surprise.
--> "[[AStreetcarNamedDesire STELLAAAAAA!]]"
* ManOfAThousandFaces: Due to the Renuyu, he could change his features even before turning into a clay monster.
* NotQuiteDead: in his first appearance he pretends to die from electrocution, but we see at the end of the episode that he's still alive and shifted into the form of a pretty woman on the street.
* NotSoDifferent[=/=]UsedToBeASweetKid: If you consider it canon, an issue of ''ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures'' reveals that when Matt Hagen was a kid, he admired Simon Trent's performance as the Gray Ghost just like Bruce Wayne and it was this very admiration that motivated him to become an actor in the first place, much like how the Gray Ghost served as an inspiration for Bruce Wayne becoming Batman.
* PersonalityPowers: He's an award-winning actor. What power is more fitting than shapeshifting?
* PsychopathicManchild: He's quite self-absorbed and often raises his voice when he doesn't get what he wants.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: His motive in his first appearance, seeking revenge against the men responsible for his transformation.
* ShadowDiscretionShot: The scene of having Renuyu poured on his face provides the trope image.
* ShapeshifterDefaultForm: It's explained that shapeshifting is an acquired skill, or "muscle tensing," so he can't just constantly be in another form.
* ShapeshiftingSeducer: A truly disturbing variation: a portion of his clay body, in the form of an amnesiac young girl. Poor Tim Drake.
* ShapeshifterSwanSong: Though he wasn't actually dying, he was just DoingItForTheArt.
* ThatManIsDead:
-->'''Batman''': Hagen, listen to me.\\
'''Clayface''': There is no Hagen. It's only me now...Clayface.
** A bit later, when Batman shows Clayface videotapes of his former movie and TV roles and tells him "You can play those roles again Hagen, let me help you find a cure." Clayface outright screams "No! Hagen's Gone, make him stop haunting me!"
** He also said something of that effect to Stella Bates who was watching one of his old movies in ''Mudslide''.
* TomatoInTheMirror: Well, a piece of him, anyway, in "Growing Pains."
* TragicVillain: For all his faults, all Matt Hagen really wants is to be normal again.
* TrulySingleParent: He can split his body into multiple shapes, including children. Unfortunately, he doesn't consider them as such.
* TheUglyGuysHotDaughter: Annie, at least to Tim.
* VillainousBreakdown: Invoked.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Can assume human forms, and the blob attack after he was found out.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: [[spoiler: In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', Flash and Hawkgirl rather cheerfully blow him to bits. [[KilledOffForReal He's never seen again after the episode.]]]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: What Dagget ''tried'' to have his men do to Hagen.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Man-Bat (Dr. Kirk Langstrom)]]
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-> '''Voiced By:''' Marc Singer (English), Tetsuo Kaneo (Japanese)
* BioAugmentation: Unfortunately, WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity.
* MagicPants: Every single time Man-Bat appears, it's wearing pants.
* NotMeThisTime: ''Terror in the Sky'' ([[spoiler:it's actually his wife]]) and one issue of the tie-in comic ([[spoiler:it's actually an old rival in his field]]).
* NoTranshumanismAllowed: Subverted. [[spoiler: Langstrom makes a final appearance as the Man-Bat in ''[[ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures The Batman & Robin Adventures'']], where it's revealed that he's perfected the formula so that he stays in control, and decides to become the Man-Bat permanently. Batman may not care for this, or for the Man-Bat lurking in his caves and stealing his food, but he concedes that it's not his right to dictate how Langstrom decides to live his life or modify his body]].
* ProfessorGuineaPig: Drank serum with bat DNA and became the Man-Bat.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: Langstrom is fairly harmless, but the Man-Bat is violent, animalistic, and destructive.
* TragicMonster: He's not actually that bad a person outside of his bat form, but can't control himself when it's happening. [[spoiler: Accidentally infecting his wife couldn't have been a picnic either.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Killer Croc]]
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-> '''Voiced By:''' Aron Kincaid (''Batman: The Animated Series''), Brooks Gardner (''The New Batman Adventures'') (English), Creator/BanjoGinga (Japanese)
-> ''"When you grow up lookin' like I do, you gotta learn to go with the flow.''"
* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Typically based himself in one.
* AdaptationDyeJob: His skin goes from green to grey, though when ''B: TAS'' came back as ''The New Batman Adventures'', it returned to the green.
* AdaptationNameChange / NoNameGiven: He is never referred to as Waylon Jones and the only hint at his name is his wrestler alias "Killer Croc Morgan".
* AnimalEyes: Yellow with cat pupils.
* BaldOfEvil: He has no hair.
* BookDumb: Not good with big words, but very cunning.
* TheBrute: He tends to be the most aggressive and formidable of Batman's enemies.
* DumbMuscle: Quickly degenerated into this. [[spoiler:Except it was Batman in disguise.]]
* FangsAreEvil: They even can break metal.
* TheFarmerAndTheViper: He escapes while escorted by train to a prison, Batman in hot pursuit. They fall off a cliff and are knocked out. Croc wakes up in a secluded home owned by former circus performers. It's Croc's perfect chance to start a new life. Naturally Croc claims Batman is evil to get their help in capturing him. Then Croc captures everyone and plans to kill them and run off with their retirement money. When he's eventually foiled, he does seem a little regretful as he's taken away.
-->'''Billy the Seal Boy:''' [Why'd you do it, Croc?]\\
'''Killer Croc:''' You said you could be yourself out here, remember? [[CryForTheDevil I guess that's what I was doing. Being myself.]]
* GeniusBruiser: Made his debut with a pretty clever plan to frame Bullock.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Huge Guy to Baby Doll in ''Love is a Croc''.
* {{Jerkass}}: He doesn't have many likeable qualities.
* SlasherSmile: What's the saying about crocodiles and smiling?
* TakingAdvantageOfGenerosity: ''Sideshow'' had him do this to a bunch of circus freaks who had hidden themselves away from the outside world so they could be themselves. They were willing to let him join them on their farm, but when Killer Croc heard they had $50,000, he couldn't resist. When asked why after he's captured, Killer Croc solemnly admits [[IronicEcho he had to be himself]].
* TookALevelInDumbass: In ''Almost Got 'Im'' he goes from a somewhat clever, or at least street smart, crook into a near idiot. [[spoiler: Justified, since it's actually Batman in disguise likely playing up how others view Croc.]]
* TheWorfEffect: Courtesy of Bane, like in ''Knightfall''.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Ventriloquist/Scarface (Arnold Wesker)]]
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->'''Voiced By:''' George Dzundza (English), Mitsuru Ogata (Japanese)
* {{Adorkable}}: Arnold can be quite charming and likeable when he's not being manipulated by Scarface.
* BadBoss: Scarface might not be as murderous as the Joker but he makes up for it by being very rude to his henchmen.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: A gangster speaking through a puppet might look pretty stupid, but that's a real gun that Scarface is holding on to.
* BookDumb: Scarface has some trouble saying big words but he's a good planner.
* CigarChomper: Scarface has a cigar in his mouth, though he no longer has it in his appearances on ''The New Batman Adventures''.
* ClockKing: His debut started with an expertly cratfed heist of his.
* CompanionCube: Scarface is this to Arnold, being a supposedly non-sentient ventriloquist dummy.
* DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster: Scarface
* DemonicDummy: Implied on occasion, but never [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane definitively demonstrated]].
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: In "Double Talk", he finally gets fed up with Scarface, and blows him to smithereens.]]
* EvilIsNotAToy: As Rhino and Mugsy bitterly discovered (though Scarface technically is one).
* ExtremeDoormat: Wesker, especially to Scarface.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: For being not technically alive, Scarface got that a lot.
** The creators [[WordOfGod mentioned once]] that, as the censors weren't going to complain about what they did to an inanimate doll, they were free to be as vicious and sadistic to Scarface as they wanted - and it shows!
* GollumMadeMeDoIt: Wesker is a mild-mannered man being bossed around by a loud mouthed blockhead.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: The dummy's are modeled after the ones on Al Capone, the real-life Scarface.
* HairTriggerTemper: Scarface once more.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Arnold is among the only recurring villains to stay redeemed.]]
* HelplessGoodSide: Portrayed in a similar manner in the comics. There's a creepy scene at the end of his first episode that shows him making a new Scarface dummy to replace the one that was destroyed earlier, showing that he still has a problem. [[spoiler:The trope is averted in his last appearance. Unlike other times the doll is destroyed, Wesker finally gathers enough willpower to destroy the Scarface doll himself. The episode ends with Wesker finally moving on with his life and Scarface is never seen again.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Well, Scarface is one, especially towards Wesker.
* LaughablyEvil: A lot of people, like Selina Kyle, laugh when they see the puppet.
* TheManBehindTheCurtain: Even Batman was visibly shocked to see who really was the new master criminal in town.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Carried over from the comics, It's not enterly clear if Wesker is putting an excellent {{Ventriloquism}} act or if Scarface is a truly DemonicDummy: Episode ''Read my Lips'' shows the batcomputer analyzing Wesker and Scarface's voices like ''two different people''. Batman knew the greatest ventriloquist of his time, Zatara (Zatanna's father) and believes Wesker could teach him lessons.
* MisterBig: A frequent source of humor is tiny Scarface bullying gigantic Rhino into total submission.
* TheNapoleon: Scarface's got a typical short tempered short guy behavior.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: When Catwoman refuses to save Scarface from being cut up by a lumber saw, Wesker goes berserk and attacks her [[ItMakesSenseInContext with a stuffed Tasmanian Tiger]].
* OpaqueLenses: In the original design.
* TheParanoiac: Scarface prides himself on plans that no one can guess, and is thus incredibly paranoid about "squealers."
* ScaryShinyGlasses: When the attention is put on Scarface.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: One of many differences between Arnold and Scarface.
* ShrinkingViolet: Poor old Wesker.
* SmarterThanYouLook: Scarface's typical thuggish personality (and his very nature) caused his opponents to cruelly underestimate his actually genuine smarts more than once.
* SplitPersonality: The series unambigously chosed that path.
* TheStoic: Arnold Wesker, the ventriloquist, truly is one, but only when Scarface is talking. When something happens to Scarface, Arnold can emote like any other
* TattooedCrook: Scarface's DumbMuscle henchman Rhino has a tattoo (of a rhino's head, naturally) on his arm
* [[TheyKilledKennyAgain They Killed Scarface Again]]: Justified because he's a puppet. [[spoiler:Subverted in "Double Talk".]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Bane]]
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->'''Voiced By:''' Henry Silva (''Batman: The Animated Series'', ''The New Batman Adventures'', ''Superman: The Animated Series''), Hector Elizondo (''Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman'')
->''"You cannot do this to me! I am invincible! I AM BANE!"''
* AntiClimacticUnmasking: Batman's unmasking of Bane reveals, not Venom-twisted monstrosity, but simply vaguely handsome, boyish face with nothing really remarkable about it.
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: Incessantly gloats about how he'll best Batman.
* BadassBoast: Has a few.
--> ''"Prepare to meet your master"''\\\
''"I WILL BREAK YOU!"''\\\
''"Toys? You want to fight me with pathetic little toys?"''\\\
''"You cannot do this to me! I am invincible! I AM BANE!"''
* BrokenPedestal: ''[[ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures The Batman & Robin Adventures]]'' reveals that before he was forced into taking Venom, he held Batman as his greatest hero. However, when Batman is forced to take him down--Bane was about to murder Thorne and his lieutenants as a "service" to the Bat--Bane feels betrayed and returns to full bad guy status.
* CombatPragmatist: [[DefiedTrope Defies the trope]], waiting until he knows exactly where Batman is and calling him to point out that, if he were a common sniper, Batman would be dead by then.
* DashingHispanic: A spanish brute.
* DarkLordOnLifeSupport: [[spoiler:His brief appearance in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' shows his Venom abuse has turned him into this.]]
* TheDragon: Though not always a loyal one.
** DragonWithAnAgenda
* DynamicEntry: How he introduces himself to Batwoman/[[spoiler: Kathy]]. By smashing out of the crate she was about to put the bomb on.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Someone wanted to make superwarriors out of prisoners. They got one.
* GeniusBruiser: As Batman and Batwoman could tell, he knows how to lure his targets into nasty traps.
* GrowingMusclesSequence: When injecting himself with Venom.
* HoistHeroOverHead: [[spoiler:''Almost'' gets to break the Bat [[ComicBook/{{Knightfall}} like in the comics]], but gets outsmarted by Batman at the last second]].
* LaughablyEvil: Due to his stereotypical psuedo-hispanic voice, he qualifies.
* LargeHam: Once he gets going.
-->'''Bane''': '''''I MUST BREAK YOU!!'''''
* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: Demands that Batman scream his name for him after he has him dead to rights. Batman doesn't give him the satisfaction.
-->'''Bane''': SCREAM MY NAME! SCREAM!
* MaskedLuchador: His look is inspired by a luchador, although he almost certainly never been inside a Lucha Libre ring.
* PhlebotinumOverdose[=/=]PhlebotinumOverload: When Batman first defeats Bane, he breaks the Venom pump, giving Bane a massive dose. Bane's eyes look ready to pop out of his head before Bats manages to cut the line.
* PsychoSerum[=/=]SuperSerum: Like in the comics, his "Venom" super-steroid. The tie-in comics demonstrate that it's psychoactive and addictive, and ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' shows that [[spoiler:years of Venom abuse turn Bane into a skin-and-bones vegetable]].
* PunchPunchPunchUhOh: To Batman's dismay.
%%* SmugSnake
%%* SmugSuper
* SuperStrength: As a result of his Venom injections.
* TheStarscream: Is this to Thorne.
* TaintedVeins: Whenever he turns on the Venom pump.
* ThisCannotBe: "You can't do this to me!"
* VillainousBreakdown: A nightmarish one.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Clock King (Temple Fugate)]]
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-> '''Voiced By:''' Alan Rachins (English), Ikuo Nishikawa (Japanese)
-> ''"Well, well. The Batman. It's about time you showed up. I suppose you want to know why I've brought downtown Gotham to a standstill, Batman. Well, let's just say it's because I'm a civic-minded citizen with a lot of time on his hands."''
* AdaptationalBadass: From complete joke in the comics to holding his own against Batman only by virtue of being observant.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Well, most probably extreme OCPD. Notably, his has a strongly externalized locus of control- when changing his schedule results in important papers being lost, he starts begging "Don't do this to me!" as though pleading with an outside force.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Even before his StartOfDarkness, he knew the place where the subway doors will open. 7 years later, he can go hand to hand with Batman just from having studied Batman's tendencies in a fight from news footage about him.
* BadassInANiceSuit: In ''The Clock King'', a brown suit, and in ''Time out of Joint'', a black suit.
* BaldOfEvil: Well, balding.
* BoxedCrook: in a ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' episode, ''Task Force X'', in which he serves as a planner and tactician in the ''"Suicide Squad"''. He guides the team with clockwork efficiency.
* CanonImmigrant: This incarnation of the Clock King was created for the DCAU and later made his way to the comics, as a {{legacy character}}, as the original Clock King's name was William Tockman.
* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: When he breaks his schedule so he can be more relaxed. Notice that when he was at the park at 3:05, instead of in his office as he had planned, he was very nervous and waiting for certain doom. It’s only ''when he dared to relax'' when the DisasterDominoes that would ruin his life started falling.
* ClockKing: Deconstructs this trope somewhat: He is utterly obsessed with order (and schedules!) and is always trying to dominate his environment instead of accepting it, but unlike a straight example, it doesn't usually work out for him. Whenever his schedules don't work out ''exactly'', his plans come crashing down.
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodeNames: A rare example in animation; he is almost always just referred to by his real name.
* ComplexityAddiction: He even surpasses the Riddler as an addict to overly complicated schemes, but he showed this even before becoming a supervillain. As Temple Fugate, he has a chain pocketwatch, a wristwatch, and in his office he has a grandfather clock and another clock at his desk.
* CoolSword: A clock-hand-like sword that also works as a cane.
* CreatureOfHabit: Even before he became the Clock King. It’s implied that he was a middle aged man when he broke his routine ''for the first time in his life''.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: He lost everything in appeal for $20 million against his company 7 years ago, but when he appears at the episode ''The ClockKing'', he has enough money to [[OffscreenVillainDarkMatter buy bombs, maintain a hideout, and can afford to throw away a $6,000 pocket watch]]. Justified because he never suffers MotiveDecay: All he wants is to humiliate Mayor Hill, and then kill him. Notice that after he is arrested, he uses his talents for the government as a BoxedCrook.
* DisproportionateRetribution: He developed an obsessive, murderous grudge against Mayor Hamilton Hill...because when he was a lawyer, Hill suggested Fugate take his coffee break a little later to help him relax for a lawsuit against his company, which resulted in a series of accidents making him late, which resulted in him losing the suit. Fugate reveals that the people who sued his company were represented by Hill's law firm, and thus he believes that Hill was intentionally trying to sabotage him. Thus it's not quite as disproportionate as it sounds initially, but he's still completely off-base and Hill honestly was trying to help.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: At the very beginning of the episode ''The Clock King'', everyone is waiting for the subway. In a crowd with individuals with spaced gazes and relaxed facial expressions, only a SharpDressedMan with a parasol seems alert, with a perfect erect posture. [[AwesomenessByAnalysis The subway stops and opens its doors exactly where this guy is standing]]. He consults his chain pocketwatch and exclaims:
--> ''[[{{Foreshadowing}} "It’s about time!"]]''
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Before his StartOfDarkness, we could see his eyes through his spectacles. After that, they seem like a clock pointing 3 o'clock, or completely opaque at "Task Force X".
* GambitRoulette: As meticulous as he is, there is a LOT that could go wrong with his plans.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In ''The Clock King'', Batman uses the tape Fugate left him to escape his DeathTrap. In ''Time out of joint'', Batman uses the same time device Fugate stole to stop him.
* {{Idiosyncrazy}}: Clocks and time.
* InsufferableGenius: Deconstructed by Fugate, a ScheduleFanatic with NoSocialSkills that is in the middle of a court hearing appeal about a $20 million dollar judgment against his company and is haggard and nervous. Fugate is aware that his personality plays against him, but not of what to do to change that.
* {{Jerkass}}: Even before his StartOfDarkness, he was a MeanBoss with NoSocialSkills.
* JustOneSecondOutOfSync: Did this when he got his hands on time manipulating technology, placing one on the Batmobile then setting it moments out of sync with time so the on-board trap sensors wouldn't find it.
* LackOfEmpathy: As a disciplinarian, he doesn’t know how to accept not only other human beings, but the Universe: He is a BadBoss to his employees and he is sure he will lose an appeal because everyone thinks of him as a JerkAss. Likewise, no one ever displays sympathy for him except, ironically, Mayor Hill.
* LaughingMad: Being TheStoic, when he does this it is very disturbing.
* {{Leitmotif}}: All the music related to him is evocative of clocks, utilizing everything from tick-tocking to the Westminster chime.
%%* MakingASpectacleOfYourself
* MeanBoss: Threatening to fire an employee for being five minutes late seems mean to a normal human being, but Fugate is a ScheduleFanatic who only cares for punctuality. If you’re a punctual employee, Fugate would be civil to you, but never appreciative.
* MeaningfulName / PunnyName / StevenUlyssesPerhero: ''Tempus Fugit'' is Latin for ''time flies.''
* MisplacedRetribution: He goes after Gotham City mayor Hamilton Hill. Why? Years earlier, the Clock King (then Temple Fugate) was put out of business by a lawsuit brought by Hamilton Hill's law firm. While Hill wasn't specifically the lawyer representing the plaintiff, the Clock King does consider him completely responsible because Hill also suggested Fugate take his coffee break at a different time...which led to things getting worse.
* MoralSociopathy: Deconstructed with Fugate--he was a productive member of society with his own efficiency company, but was also a BadBoss with NoSocialSkills and LackOfEmpathy who ends up becoming a villain. Fugate doesn't seem to realize why his LackOfEmpathy plays against him; In his introductory episode, he ''knows'' he will lose an important appeal for his company, but it's sincerely unaware why nobody seems to ''like'' him.
* MotiveDecay: Averted, actually: In "The Clock King", his motivation was simple: to make Mayor Hill look inefficient, and then kill him. In ''Time out of Joint'', he still wants to do that (and destroy the new Judicial building). At the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode "Task Force X", he works as a BoxedCrook, presumably to get on parole. And in a case of AllThereInTheManual, ''ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures'' shows him [[spoiler: successfully rigging the mayoral election so that Hill would lose]]. Batman is no more than a nuisance to him.
* NiceHat: First a brown bowler with his nice brown suit, then a black bowler, to go with his nice black suit.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: In his first appearance, he was thought to have died in that episode's last fight. Batman pointed out that, if ''he'' survived, so could Fugate.
* NoSocialSkills:
** At [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE25TheClockKing "The Clock King"]], he ''knows'' that he will lose the hearing, but he doesn't realize ''why'' (his LackOfEmpathy). He also doesn't realize that Hill patting his back is a sympathy gesture.
** At [[Recap/TheAdventuresOfBatmanAndRobinE8TimeOutOfJoint "Time Out of Joint"]], Temple Fugate trips over a plump woman, both fall down the stairs, she falls on top of him and begins to attack him with her umbrella. Fugate just asks the woman to get up. He has no consciousness of who has been humiliated.
** At [[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS2E4TaskForceX "Task Force X"]], he works as a BoxedCrook and he's eager to DispenseWithThePleasantries and get to the point.
* PrinciplesZealot: Fugate is obsessed with punctuality, and the one moment he broke that obsession coincides with a series of events that ruin his life. This obsession then resulted in a paranoia against the person he deemed responsible for his lateness so strong that he stopped at nothing to destroy him.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: The original comics villain antagonized Comicbook/GreenArrow.
* ScheduleFanatic: Here is an excerpt of Fugate’s screen laptop we see briefly as a FreezeFrameBonus:
-->'''Things to do today – 5/12'''\\
''3:00…………….Coffe break''\\
''3:02…………….Brush teeth''\\
''3.05…………….Check weather''
* TheStoic: [[NotSoStoic Unless you make him late.]]
* SharpDressedMan: Either in brown or in black, his suit is always classy.
* SuicidalGotcha: Doing one of these onto a train, he prefaces it with the following comment:
--> "I don't know what to tell you, Batman, except perhaps that the 9:15 is always 6 minutes early."
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: He is the only self-created supervillain in the series to avoid the tropes in the EvilMakeover indice. Aside from his gadgets, he's just a guy in a nice suit.
-->'''Batman:''' I'm here to clean your clock, Fugate.\\
'''Fugate:''' Don't count on it, Batman. [[MythologyGag When it comes to clocks, I am king]]. [[GratuitousFrench En garde!]]
* TrainEscape: Uses this trick to make a dramatic exit after his first face-to-face encounter with Batman: "I don't know what to tell you, Batman... except that the 9:15 is always six minutes early."
* VillainDecay: This trope is zigzagged: In ''The Clock King'', the eponymous villain almost kills Batman and then he is able to go hand to hand with him by simply from having studied Batman's tendencies in a fight from news footage about him. In "Time out of Joint", he is captured by a condescending Robin. In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode "Task Force X", he works as a BoxedCrook with clockwork efficiency. Lastly, WesternAnimation/TheBatmanAdventures shows him [[spoiler: successfully rigging the mayoral election so Hill would lose, and badly injuring the Riddler because he wanted to expose his plan]].
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[[folder:Baby Doll (Mary Louise Dahl)]]
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-> '''Voiced By:''' Alison Laplaca ("Baby Doll"), Laraine Newman ("Love is a Croc")
-> ''"I didn't mean to...''"
* AdultsDressedAsChildren: Although she also ''looks'' like a child.
* AxCrazy: When going through her VillainousBreakdown
* BadassAdorable: She looks like a child, but is still very dangerous.
* BreakTheCutie: The only time in her life when she was actually happy was when she was acting the part of Baby Doll on her show.
* CanonForeigner: Only appears in the animated series, likely because a villain with the appearance of a child would be too difficult to work with in darker adaptations.
* CatchPhrase: "I didn't mean to."
* CivilianVillain: Tragic version. She really had reformed. Everyone accepted her living a normal life but then that one person was TemptingFate pushing her BerserkButton despite protests to stop.
* ClassicallyTrainedExtra: It backfires.
* ClingyJealousGirl: For Killer Croc.
* CreepyChild: Except she isn't an actual child, which just makes her all the creepier.
* CuteIsEvil: Although she certainly tries to invoke the trope, she's definitely evil, though "cute" is subjective.
* DeliberatelyCuteChild: Tries this on Batman and others. However, because she is actually a woman in her late thirties with a [[NotGrowingUpSucks defect that prevents her from physically aging past 10 years old,]] and is also [[AxCrazy completely out of her mind]], it doesn't work for her.
* FormerChildStar: Subverted--she was in her twenties at the time.
* FriendlyEnemy: She's one of the few of Batman's rogue's that has no personal qualms against Batman and whenever her plans go to waste she surrenders to him without a fight. Though that doesn't stop her from trying to kill him if he gets in the way.
* HappyFunBall: Used by her occasionally.
* HatesTheJobLovesTheLimelight: Starts out this way... and then goes [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds waaaay further]].
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: With Croc.
* HotSkittyOnWailordAction: In ''Love is a Croc'', she falls in love with Killer Croc.
-->'''Batgirl''': What do you suppose they do on a date?\\
'''Batman''': ...I ''don't'' wanna think about it.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Tiny Girl to Croc in ''Love is a Croc''.
* IAmNotSpock: An in-universe example - she is never able to escape the role she first played, so she ultimately decides to really become her. After losing it, she suffers from this herself - beginning to see her ex-costars as the characters they played (and getting violent when they refused to play along).
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: An anti-villainous example. After her life and career fell apart she began to obsess over the perfect (but fake) family life she had in her old sitcom, and began taking on the personality of the character she played so as to reclaim it. The fact that the family she wants never existed in the first place is part of the tragedy.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: One of the few villains in the series to know when to surrender peacefully when odds are she isn't gonna get away with her crimes.
* LaughTrack: As part of her obsession with regaining her former sitcom fame, she carries a laugh track on tape with her everywhere and plays it at moments she thinks are appropriate (along with "Ohhhh..." and "Awww...").
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Luckily it is merely a temporary case of the "GenreBlindness" variety.
* MadLove: Briefly with Killer Croc
* MonsterOfTheWeek: She only ever had 2 appearances, and was limited in both motive and ability compared to other, more menacing Batman villains.
* MoodSwinger: Switches between [[DeliberatelyCuteChild sickeningly cheerful]] to soul-crushingly depressed to [[AxCrazy violently enraged]] with very little warning.
* NiceCharacterMeanActor: One of her co-stars that she kidnapped mentioned she was difficult to work with on the set, always making extreme demands and throwing tantrums if she didn't get her way.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Before her redesign she looked suspiciously like a ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' character (doubtless a ShoutOut by Paul Dini). Her redesign brings her more in line with other Bruce Timm characters.
* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Within-the-show example. She can't age because of a condition she was born with.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Due to a rare aging defect. She's actually in her 40's.
* PantyShot: Her Baby Doll outfit has a nearly horizontal skirt, leaving her underwear visible even from a frontal angle. These kind of clothes were [[OutdatedOutfit once in style]] for very young girls, but Dahl actually being an adult woman makes it [[FanDisservice creepy]].
* PsychopathicManchild: It's stated by other characters that even before the breakdown she was fussy and threw fits when she couldn't have her way.
* RageAgainstTheReflection: Batman chases her through a funhouse, into the Hall of Mirrors. She's caught up short when one of the mirrors shows her as she would have been if she did had not been born with a rare condition that [[OlderThanTheyLook makes her forever look 5 years old]]. Cue VillainousBreakdown during which she empties her gun into the mirror.
* ReunionRevenge: She kidnaps her former costars, but just to force them to go through the motions of the show. Except for [[CousinOliver Cousin Spunky]], whom she tries to kill with [[StuffBlowingUp dynamite]].
* SecretIdentityIdentity: Tries to be this, but it's just pretend.
* SplitPersonality: Of a sort - muddled, in that it was entirely intentional on her part. She snaps between her mature Mary persona and the childish Baby Doll, but when pressed she shows that she was always in control of herself but chose to fall into the Baby Doll personality because she can no longer stand to be herself.
* TheFakeCutie: Was a child actor with a growth deficiency which prevented her from physically aging, and similarly [[NotAllowedToGrowUp prevented her career from advancing as well]]. Years later, she snapped and started kidnapping old cast members, but kept doing so in character as "Daddy's widdle precious". It's only at the end of the episode, when she stumbles in front of a fun-house mirror that seems to show the adult form she could never have, that she breaks character and reveals what she's really like.
-->"Why wouldn't you let me make BELIEVE...?!"
* TomHanksSyndrome: In-universe example; her failure at a straight acting career led to her StartOfDarkness.
* {{Tsundere}}: To Killer Croc in one episode.
* VillainousBreakdown: One of the most [[TearJerker heartbreaking]] you'll ever see.
-->'''Dahl''': ''(Upon seeing an adult version of herself in a Funhouse mirror)'' Look! That's me in there... the real me! There I am... ''(starts to frown as she looks at her real, child-like hand)'' but it's not really real, is it? It's just made-up and pretend like my family, and my life, and everything else! ''(Turns to face Batman) Why couldn't you just let me'' '''''make believe'''''!? ''(Fires at each mirror in turn before facing the one of her adult form and shooting that until her gun runs empty, crying into Batman's leg)'' [[MeaningfulEcho I didn't mean to...]]
* VocalDissonance: Unlike her body, Dahl's natural voice is that of an adult. As Baby Dahl, she uses a painfully cutesy voice and manner of speech [[BadBadActing which is rather transparently affected]].
* WhiteDwarfStarlet: [[NotAllowedToGrowUp With emphasis on "Dwarf"]]. She abducted her long-separated sitcom co-stars to relive her glory days.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Her first appearance has her on the verge of a murder-suicide with her former co-stars (via dynamite "candle" birthday cake), and the second has her attempting to overload a nuclear power plant over [[YourCheatingHeart Killer Croc's infidelity]].
** You know when a villain falls into this category when ''[[TheStoic Batman]]'', of all people, gives them a CooldownHug.
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[[folder:Firefly (Garfield Lynns)]]
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-> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/MarkRolston
First appearing in "Torch Song", Garfield Lynns was a concert pyrotechnician who worked for a popular singer named Cassidy. After being spurned by her, he sabotaged the pyrotechnics at one of her shows and reinvented himself as the pyromaniac supervillain Firefly as he stalked Cassidy.
* CoolHelmet: It even looks like an insect.
* GadgeteerGenius: Made the firefly suit and pyrotechnics himself.
* FlamingSword: His favored weapon in close combat.
* {{Jetpack}}: Wouldn't bring the fly in Firefly without it.
%%* PungeonMaster
* {{Pyromaniac}}: It's his gimmick.
* StalkerShrine: Had one of these for Cassidy. As Detective Bullock noted upon seeing it, "Oh, he's got it bad."
* StalkerWithACrush: To Cassidy.
* StealthPun: As Cass points out herself, he carries...a ''torch'' for her.
* WouldHurtAChild: In ''Legends of the Dark Knight'', he has no problem killing the kids when he sets the blaze.
* {{Yandere}}: For Cassidy.
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[[folder:The Phantasm [[spoiler:(Andrea Beaumont)]]]]
->'''Voiced By:''' Stacey Keach and [[spoiler:Dana Delaney]]
->''"Your Angel of Death awaits."''
* AntiVillain: Falls somewhere between "Well-Intentioned Anti-Villain" and "Vicious Anti-Hero". [[spoiler:Also a Woobie Anti-Villain once her backstory is revealed.]]
* BadassCape: The Phantasm wears a cowl like Batman.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Wields a bladed weapon over the right hand.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Did this to Carl Beaumont concerning his remarkably poor decision to be business partners with guys like Sal Valestra.
* CastAsAMask: Stacey Keach plays The Phantasm, but not [[spoiler:Andrea. Deliberate misdirection since he also plays Andrea's father.]]
* CatchPhrase: "Your Angel of Death awaits."
* CompositeCharacter: The plot was adapted from the ''Batman: Year Two'' storyline. In the comic, the Reaper was Judson Caspian, whose daughter Rachel was in a budding relationship with Bruce Wayne. In the movie, [[spoiler:Andrea Beaumont was both the Phantasm and the love interest.]]
* CoolMask: Which resembles a skull
* CostumeCopycat: A variation: Batman is blamed for the actions of Phantasm who also wears a costume with a black cape and makes a point of attacking from the shadows and being seen only in glimpses; in this case, the confusion is not deliberate, but results from the Phantasm making similar style choices.
* DarkActionGirl[=/=]FemmeFatale: The Phantasm [[spoiler:is actually Andrea Beaumont and is very aggressive and ruthless.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: [[spoiler:Andrea has her moments]].
* {{Expy}}: Heavily inspired by the Reaper, a violent vigilante from ''Batman: Year Two''.
* FieryRedhead: Sometimes.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: [[spoiler:Andrea [[TookALevelInBadass takes a few levels in badass]] and becomes The Phantasm]]
* HeartbrokenBadass: Before becoming a vigilante, the Phantasm [[spoiler:was Bruce Wayne's lover. Needless to say, Batman did not approve of her more extreme crime-fighting methods.]]
* HeroesWantRedheads: Bruce certainly wanted.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: [[spoiler: Trying to justify her actions:]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Andrea''': They took everything from me, Bruce: [[YouKilledMyFather my dad]], my life, you. I'm not saying it's right, or even sane, but it's all I've got left. So, either [[WithUsOrAgainstUs help me or get out of the way!]]]]
* InTheHood: Mandatory if you want to look like the GrimReaper.
* NewOldFlame: [[spoiler: Never spoken of in the series proper.]]
* NotSoDifferent: Thinks this of Batman and [[spoiler:herself]]. Alfred agrees, to a point, see HeWhoFightsMonsters.
* OminousWalk: A favored tactic. It works.
* OffScreenTeleportation: Seems to rely a lot on this trope to get around. A lot of {{smoke out}}s were involved though.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Has this philosophy regarding the crime syndicate in Gotham.
* RevengeBeforeReason:
--> I'm not saying it's right or even sane, but it's all I have left, so either help me or get out of the way!
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler:Andrea's motivation for being the Phantasm is to make the mobsters who ruined her life (and took her father) pay for what they've done]].
* SamusIsAGirl: As part of the big, spoilered reveal.
* [[HeWhoFightsMonsters She Who Fights Monsters]]: Alfred even notes it when consoling Bruce near the end of the movie.
-->'''Alfred:''' Vengeance blackens the soul, Bruce. I've always feared that you would become that which you fought against. You walk the edge of that abyss every night, but you haven't fallen in and I thank heaven for that. But [[spoiler:Andrea]] fell into that pit years ago, and no one, not even you, could have pulled [[spoiler:her]] out.
* SmokeOut: Uses it for both quick entrances and exits and to avoid projectiles, including bullets.
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:After becoming the Phantasm]].
* TragicVillain: [[spoiler: She even admits that she might not be right but vengeance is all what she's got left.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: There isn't much that can be said about the Phantasm without spoiling who it is.
* WhatTheHellHero: After making the move to the larger DCAU, Phantasm calls out Amanda Waller for her plans concerning [[spoiler: Project WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond.]]
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler: Being separated from her true love and her father's murder led her to exert vengeance against the culprits.]]
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[[folder:Roxy Rocket (Roxanne Sutton)]]
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-> '''Voiced By:''' Charity James
A former stuntwoman and a dangerously avid adrenaline junkie.
* AffablyEvil: To a certain extent.
* BikerBabe: Dresses like it, though as the name implies she likes riding rockets. Though she dresses more like an [[AcePilot aviatrix]].
* CanonImmigrant: Twice--she first appeared in ''ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures'' Annual #1, then in the animated series, then in the main DCU.
%%* DarkActionGirl
%%* DeadpanSnarker
* TheDragon: To the Penguin in her debut episode.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: Only worked with the Penguin to sate her need for thrills. When her stunts began to risk exposing him, he decides to get rid of her.
* FieryRedhead: Moved to crime mostly for the kicks.
* GogglesDoNothing: In her case, she wears them whenever she rides.
* HeelFaceTurn: In the tie-in comics--decides that being a vigilante has as much thrill as being a criminal.
* InHarmsWay: She's in it at least as much for the thrills as for the loot.
* MsFanservice: Has a nice figure and provides a cleavage.
* NotMeThisTime: In the tie-in comics. It turns out to be [[spoiler: Catwoman]], trying to frame her.
* NotSoDifferent: Tries to pull this on Batman, saying that he'll let her go because he enjoys the thrill of the chase as much as she does. It doesn't work.
* OrgasmicCombat: Especially in the, er, [[FreudWasRight climax]] of the episode.
* RocketRide: Provides the trope image.
* SexIsViolence: When Batman pursues her, she starts laughing more and more and eventually... well, she shows her O-face.
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