Characters / Batman (1966): Rogues Gallery

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In General

• Beware the Silly Ones: Part 1 episodes almost invariably end on a cliffhanger in which the Caped Crusaders are stuck in some ridiculous contraption or situation themed after the villain's gimmick or pet project. While these traps are silly, they're almost always lethal, often posing the risk of an especially abnormal, gruesome, or even gory death for the Dynamic Duo.
• Canon Character All Along: The final story of the main Batman '66 series, "Main Title", achieved the impressive feat of retroactively identifying the generic criminals in the original show's title sequence as established characters from the comics. The three crooks Batman and Robin punch at the start of the intro are revealed to be the Terrible Trio, the man with a sheet over his face is The Shiner, the green villain is identified as King Cobra, the red-haired mad scientist with a beard is identified as Professor Achilles Milo (with one panel where he's knocked over revealing that he's wearing a wig and a fake beard, exposing his traditional black-haired look), the bald, bespectacled man is the Atom-Master, the mustached man in a brown suit holding a gun is Deadshot and the man in a blue shirt and cap is revealed to be this continuity's Signalman. It's particularly noteworthy that unlike the tie-in comic's use of characters that didn't exist until after the TV show ended production like Bane and Killer Croc, these villains actually predated the 1966 television series.
• Canon Foreigner: The majority of them (especially the one-shots) were original to the show, as the Batman comics of the time had a much shallower Rogues Gallery to draw from. The villains who aren't are a decidedly small list: Riddler, Penguin, Joker, Catwoman, Mr. Freeze, Mad Hatter, the Clock King and False-Face. In recent years they've gotten more references and cameos in "mainstream" Batman media, but none have become outright Canon Immigrants like Harley Quinn.^note Given all the rights and likeness negotiations with their actors' estates, any adaptation would probably be In Name Only anyhow.
• Card-Carrying Villain: The lot of them love being bad, and only about one or two have given even semi-serious thought to reforming.
• Complexity Addiction: Not just in their love of oversized deathtraps, but also in most of their criminal schemes. Do you really need to dig up a store of gunpowder from the American Revolution just to blast your way into the Federal Reserve? Even Lampshaded by the villains themselves.
  Joker: Oh why don't we just heist a bunch of dynamite?
  Catwoman: Far too simple, Joker. And not half as much fun as being devilishly clever... after all, we're not common thieves.
• Criminal Mind Games: In true Silver Age tradition, many of them love sending taunting clues to Batman and/or the police. Really, on this show every villain is an honorary Riddler.
• Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Zany, physics-breaking inventions are practically their stock-in-trade (seriously, the Joker once invented pills that could rewind time), but none of them ever even consider using their intelligence legally (or, indeed, using it for anything meatier than petty extortion and bank robbery).
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Almost all of them are known solely by their supervillain handles (Penguin even ran for Mayor with nothing but "Penguin" on the ballot). Even the ones who do have real names only get it brought up once or twice.^note The main exception is the Mad Hatter, whose real name and villain handle are used almost interchangeably.
• Gang of Hats: How their Mooks are inevitably tailored (usually with monikers to match). Some of the more iconic ones — Joker's guys are usually in white berets and red vests, Catwoman's wear cat-eared beanies, and tiger-striped shirts, and Penguin's wear bowler hats and black jumpers.
• Genre Blindness: Every week they trap the Dynamic Duo in what they think is an inescapable death trap, certain they are done for. And then they are completely shocked when they turn up alive.
• Paid Harem: Rare is the arch-villain who doesn't have at least one pretty little moll hanging by at all times (even some of the villainesses got in on it!). Indeed, the '66 Gotham may well be the Trope Codifier, at least where Batman works are concerned.
• Remember the New Guy?: The series frequently regarded villains as having already been encountered before by the Dynamic Duo, even when it was the villain's debut episode.
• Special Guest: 99% of the villains were given a "Special Guest Villain(ess)" or "Extra Special Guest Villain(ess)" credit. The lone exception to this was Roger C. Carmel's Colonel Gumm — guest heroes Green Hornet and Kato, got the special guest star credit instead and Carmel was included with the supporting cast in the closing credits.
• Villain Team-Up: Most famously in the movie, where the main four became a full-blown Legion of Doom. The four would later reunite in Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders; though, unlike the last time, Catwoman found herself betrayed by her male comrades in crime. Subsequent seasons featured several smaller ones:
  • Season 2 had Joker and Penguin, Catwoman and the Sandman, and finally Penguin and Marsha, Queen of Diamonds.
  • Season 3 had Riddler and Siren, Penguin and Lola Lasagne, Egghead and Olga, Queen of the Cossacks, and finally Joker and Catwoman.
  • The digital comic really picked up the ball and ran with it, since there's no more need to worry about casting budgets.
• Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?: Batman may be a millionaire, but it's a complete mystery where the villains get funds for their gadgets, deathtraps, furnishings for their lairs, etc. Special mention goes to Penguin in the movie, where he somehow finds the funds to buy war surplus submarines directly from the military.
• Would Hurt a Child: None of these guys (and girls) have any compunction about sticking high-schooler Robin in their deathtraps right alongside Batman (and they're certainly not unaware of his age, since most of them almost exclusively call him "Boy Wonder").

Main Villains — aka "The United Underworld"

In General

"Today Gotham City, tomorrow the world!"

"United Underworld? Ha! We're about as united as the members of the United World Headquarters on Gotham East River."

— Catwoman

The most recurring adversaries of the Dynamic Duo — the Riddler, the Penguin, the Joker, and Catwoman. Normally they work independently, but on one occasion they teamed to take over the world with the help of an instant dehydrator, developed by Big Den Distilleries and designed to be an instant whiskey maker that they decided to put to — in Riddler's words — "more universal use".

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• The Chessmaster: All of them are prone to coming with plans that begin with odd but legal actions which turn out to be cover for another, larger scheme. Occasionally the plots even involve their own temporary capture at the hands of Batman and Robin. For example, the Joker rigs up a phony vending machine in a local high school, seemingly as a prank, only to later rig the machine to dispense the answers to a nationwide college exam; he then makes sure that the school's basketball team uses the machine and photographs the boys holding the test answers, ensuring that they'll be suspended for cheating, meaning that they won't be able to play in a major game that night—a game where the Joker has placed a huge bet against them.
• Domino Mask: Standard issue for both Catwoman and Riddler.^note At least, when he's wearing spandex. The movie also saw Joker and Penguin donning them.
• Falsely Reformed Villain: A very common scheme with all of them (unlike the one- or two-shot villains, who are much more likely to be full-on outlaws). Penguin is especially fond of pretending he's "gone straight" for the millionth time.
• Four Is Death: In the Movie, the one time they team up they rake up a rather disturbing body count thanks to the instant dehydrator (don't worry: most of the victims get better — except those poor guinea pigs...). Especially jarring considering the fact that they hardly ever had any kind of count to speak of on the show itself, frequent attempts to murder the Dynamic Duo non-withstanding.
• Ham-to-Ham Combat: With four unbalanced criminal psychopaths in close proximity, ham will be sliding down the crooked walls of the slanted lair.
• Take Over the World: Their goal in the movie.
  Batman: They're working together to take over...
  Chief O'Hara: Take over what, Batman? Gotham City?
  Batman: Any two of them would try that!
  Commissioner Gordon: The whole country?
  Batman: If it were three of them I would say yes. But four? Their minimum objective must be... the entire world.
• Villainous Friendship: Clash of egos aside, they get along quite well ... when things are going their way. The minute things turn south they immediately argue and bicker.
• Xanatos Gambit: Most of their plans involve Batman and Robin "foiling" them in a small way, which turns out to be a part of their larger plots. Luckily, Batman and Robin are skilled at Xanatos Speed Chess and inevitably outplay the villains.

The Riddler

The Riddler

"Outwitting Batman is my sole delight, my joy, my heaven on earth, my very paradise."

^{Click here to see him portrayed by John Astin}

Played by: Frank Gorshin (S1, The Movie, S3), John Astin (S2), Wally Wingert (voice in Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders and Batman vs. Two-Face)

The very first villain of the show to be introduced. Riddler is a criminal genius who loves riddles and mind-games.

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• Arch-Enemy: Notably, in this version Riddler is a far more prominent foe of Batman and holds just as much claim to the title as the Joker, being depicted as Batman's most cunning and (early on) most persistent foe, leading to Riddler becoming the show's Breakout Villain.
• Badass Boast: In the 1960s episode "A Riddle a Day Keeps the Riddler Away"
  Riddler: Royalty? You've never met royalty? Just whom do you think stands before you, my cherub? I am the Prince of Puzzlers, the Count of Conundrums, the KING OF CRIME! I hold court here! NO ONE ELSE!
• Badass in a Nice Suit: Gorshin hated wearing the spandex and personally designed the Riddler's question-mark suit, which became a trademark of the character.
• Breakout Villain: Not only was Gorshin's performance responsible for making the character an A-list villain (after previously being only a minor foe in the comics), but he was the rogue with the most appearances in the first season.
• Classy Cane: John Astin's Riddler marked the very first time the character ever carried a cane.
• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: He'd often act so weird that even the Joker thought he was nuts.
  Joker: You're mad, Riddler!
• Corrupted Character Copy: Gorshin said he based his Riddler persona off Richard Widmark's iconic portrayal of the psychotic giggling gangster Tommy Udo in the classic noir film, Kiss of Death. This would have been akin to someone today doing a comedic portrayal of Hannibal Lecter.
• Demoted to Extra: After the first season, because Gorshin was holding out for more money. One second-season story was rewritten for a Suspiciously Similar Substitute called the Puzzler^note Also the name of a minor Superman villain, though it's doubtful the producers knew that, and then the producers replaced Gorshin with John Astin for one story. Gorshin came back for one final episode in Season Three. As such, despite his huge prominence in the first season, he ultimately ends up having the fewest appearances of the main four overall.
• Evil Laugh: A famous high-pitched out-of-control giggle.
• Eviler than Thou: Let's put it this way; even the Joker openly thought this guy was a bit on the extreme side.
  Joker: You're mad, Riddler! Mad!
• The Friend Nobody Likes: The last issue of the digital comic indicates he's become this to the other villains, who refuse to invite him to their big convention because they expect him to leak everything to Batman. He does it anyway.
• Giggling Villain: His hysterical, unhinged giggle as he taunts the dynamic is one of the most famous aspects of this version of the character, to the point Frank Gorshin often talked about it during interviews:
  Frank Gorshin: I developed the Riddler’s fiendish laugh at Hollywood parties. I listened to myself laugh and discovered that the funniest jokes brought out the high-pitched giggle I use on the show. With further study I came to realize that it wasn't so much how I laughed as what I laughed at that created a sense of menace.
• Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Astin's version of the Riddler smoked slender cigars, much like Astin's other most famous role of the time.
• I Gave My Word: Astin's version of the Riddler doesn't try to double-cross a scientist who sells him a weapon for three million dollars, and tells his accomplices that he will indeed tell the police how to disarm the weapon if they pay the requested ransom.
• Iconic Item: The John Astin version introduced the question-mark cane.^note Though note that it wasn't really codified as a must until Batman: The Animated Series and Batman Forever.
• Iconic Outfit: The question mark three-piece suit; designed by Gorshin himself since he hated wearing the spandex and wanted an alternate outfit when possible.
• Large Ham: Completely off his rocker, being more clownish and maniacal than The Joker himself.
• Near-Villain Victory: Out of all the villains, Riddler came the closest to defeating Batman. All he had to do was trick Batman into making a false arrest and then proceed to file a wrongful arrest lawsuit, not for the money but because Batman would be forced to reveal his identity in court. The lawsuit was eventually dismissed because Riddler didn't show up to court for personal reasons, but damn if he didn't come close. And this was all in the first episode.
• Oral Fixation: Had a habit of chewing on his knuckle or finger when he was nervous or thinking.
• Practically Joker: Various comic book writers have noted that when Batman was retooled circa 1970, the Joker was retooled based on Frank Gorshin's depiction of the Riddler. The constant swings from manic giggling to homicidal seriousness are all Gorshin's Riddler rather than Romero's more prankish and kooky Joker. Thus, the Joker since the 1970s is more accurately "Practically Riddler."
• The Rival: In the Movie, to the Penguin, constantly butting heads with him and is openly contemptuous of his leadership direct in contrast to Joker and Catwoman:
  "That miserable, waddling mountebank of a bird! He couldn't finish a bag of popcorn!"
• Sharp-Dressed Man: Occasionally dresses in a fairly stylish, if pretty garish suit.
• Symbol Motif Clothing: Interestingly, his spandex outfit is relatively light on the question marks; it's his suit that's really dotted with them.
• Trope Codifier: Gorshin's performance heavily set the tone of the character for decades, including the now-iconic question mark suit.

The Penguin

The Penguin

Played by: Burgess Meredith, William Salyers (voice in Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders and Batman vs. Two-Face)

Dubbed by: Roger Carel (French)

The second villain to be introduced. Penguin is a self-styled "aristocrat of crookery" fixated on umbrellas and birds.

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• Adaptational Attractiveness: Taller, better looking, and far less round than the almost balloon-shaped Penguin of the comics.
• Affectionate Nickname: Many of Penguin's molls and admirers call him "Pengy."
• Animal Motifs: Take a wild guess.
• Arch-Enemy: Any of the big four would be a contender for this to Batman, but the Penguin is matched only by the Joker for the most (on-screen) battles with Batman. He's more indisputably this to Batgirl, being her Starter Villain. Later episodes also show that he holds a grudge against Barbara Gordon for "spurning" him.
• Batman Gambit: In his first appearance, Penguin launches a fake crime spree, then spies on Batman and Robin as they debate about what audacious crime they think he's planning next, with Penguin taking his cues from their theorizing. This strategy causes Batman to plan the Penguin's crime for him without even realizing it.
• Big Bad: Of the Big Damn Movie, with the Evil Plan mostly, if not entirely, was of his making.
• The Captain: An evil variant. In the Movie, the United Underworld are equal partners on land, but in the submarine, Penguin is the one in charge.
  Joker: Don't sound so bossy, if you please!
  Penguin: My dear sir, as the poet says: "On land, you may command, at sea it is me!"
• Character Name Alias: His real name is never mentioned in the series, but in the film, he goes by the alias P.N. Gwynn to avoid detection. Batman is exasperated that everyone else fell for it as easily as they did.
  • He's also gone by the aliases K.G. Byrd (Fine Feathered Finks) and Knott A. Fish (Fine Finny Fiends), monikers Robin has little trouble figuring out.
• Composite Character: He takes Killer Moth's role from the original comics as the first villain faced by Batgirl (while both the comic and television incarnations of Barbara Gordon were developed around the same time and Killer Moth was still depicted as Batgirl's first adversary in seven-minute test footage, the test footage isn't considered canon).
• Cool Boat: In the movie, his pre-atomic submarine is modified to look like a penguin complete with war surplus torpedoes.
• Crazy-Prepared: One episode deals with Batman infiltrating Penguin's store as Bruce Wayne to plant a bug to spy on him. Said bug looks like a common spider, but Penguin had his entire store prepped to detect said bugs, spotting it and landing Bruce in trouble.
• Enemy Mine: In the tie-in comic story "Caught in the Widow's Web"/"Batman Fights the Penguin's Dread", he does a Villain Team-Up with Black Widow, but later joins forces with Batman and Robin to take her down after Batman points out to him that the Black Widow is likely to kill him once she no longer has any use for their partnership.
• Evil Laugh: His signature squawking, thought up by Meredith to cover up his adverse reaction to smoking cigarettes.
• Fat Bastard: As usual, he's notably portly. But not nearly as much as he's usually depicted in the comics and other media.
• Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Like his comic-book counterpart, rarely seen without his signature cigarette holder.
• High-Class Glass: He wouldn't be the Penguin without a monocle.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: In the comic continuation, he creates an entire empire out of an iceberg called "Penguinia," which blocks Gotham Harbor, and won't let any ships pass unless they pay him a fee to get through. He ensures that the GCPD can't destroy the iceberg by having it legally declared as its own country, and hiring Mr. Freeze to keep it together in the summer heat. Unfortunately for him, this bites him twofold, as him using his submarine to move said iceberg results in his declaration being voided (since it's now considered a vehicle), but the money he did get is forgotten since Mr. Freeze had to carry his freeze-ray!
• The Leader: Of the villains in the Movie, he fit the "leader" archetype the most, providing the henchmen, the hideout, the equipment, and the submarine for a quick getaway — though Riddler often challenged his leadership.
• Loophole Abuse: In Season 3, he breaks into a money factory and is arrested almost immediately. He quickly sues the police for wrongful arrest because, surprisingly, he didn't take any of the money. Unfortunately for him, Batman is quick to point out that Penguin still could be charged with breaking and entering, and only agrees to drop the charges if he drops the suit, which he begrudgingly does. However, it doesn't stop his real plan from going forward: using the deadly toxin of a fruit fly to taint Gotham's supply of money.
• Man of Wealth and Taste: Well, he certainly does his best to cultivate the image and unlike other incarnations, he does manage to pull it off.
• Master Actor: He mentions that he used to be an actor before taking up crime, and he's put these skills to use in some of his Falsely Reformed Villain schemes.
• Parasol of Pain: Well, he'd hardly be the Penguin without one (or twelve) of these on hand like in "Fine Finny Fiends".
• Purple Is Powerful: What made this Penguin stand out from other incarnations is rather than wear all black he wears a purple top hat and a matching bowtie.
• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Befitting his image of a man of wealth and culture, he always talks elaborately.
• Sinister Schnoz: His moniker comes in part from his beak-like nose.
• Social Climber: A lot of his "gone straight" schemes (especially the "marry into rich/important family" ones) seem baked into this mindset, fitting his snobbish demeanor.
• Trope Codifier: Just like Gorshin, Meredith's Penguin influenced the character for decades — interpretations of Penguin being a deformed social outcast is a fairly modern idea.
• Verbal Tic: His signature "waugh waugh" — another byproduct of Meredith's reaction to all those cigarettes.
• Wicked Pretentious: He puts on airs of refinement, but he's a cruel, callous thug through-and-through.

The Joker

The Joker

"I'll have it! By all the saints of wicked mirth, I'll have it! The last laugh will still be mine!"

Played by: Cesar Romero (1960s series and film), Jeff Bergman (voice in Return of the Caped Crusaders and Vs. Two-Face)

The third villain to be introduced. A crazy harlequin with a love of demented pranks.

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• Adaptational Attractiveness: While it was covered up by makeup, he was played by handsome leading man Cesar Romero, who definitely didn't have the freakishly elongated features comic Joker had, and still has.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Unlike modern incarnations, and how he was originally portrayed in the 1940's, this Joker is relatively harmless, with most of his criminal acts being elaborate pranks, very in-line with how he was in the then-current Silver Age comics.
• Alternate Self: Has counterparts on Earth-9, Earth-89 and a unknown reality.
• Arch-Enemy: As mentioned above, he's tied with the Penguin for the most (on-screen) battles with Batman. Modern-day continuations like the digital comic and Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders take this for granted and go out of their way to make things more personal between him and Batman. That being said, this version of the character isn't quite as malicious or personally involved with Batman as later incarnations and the Penguin, Catwoman, and especially the Riddler hold just as much claim to the title as him.
• Ax-Crazy: Averted, this Joker may have a few screws loose but he's not considered criminally insane and as such is sent to Gotham State Penitentiary for 10-20 years whenever he's arrested. ^note  Arkham Asylum wouldn't be introduced to the comics until 1974, though the tie-in comic for this show would eventually have Batman's enemies incarcerated at the Arkham Institute, Joker included.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Outwardly the goofiest and approachable of the big four, but he'll go to some truly horrible lengths just to spring his henchmen from jail (a fact that, funnily enough, subverts the character's usual Bad Boss reputation). And that's not even getting into how the comic continuation saw him break into the Batcave, give Alfred a good enough of a scare that he died, and led Batman into killing him.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: When Robin calls him out on not knowing which of his victims could be the true identity of the Red Hood in the tie-in comic story "The Joker Sees Red/Batman Hunts the Dead", the Joker gives the defense that he's tormented so many people that it's hard to narrow it down.
• The Cameo: His laughter can be heard as the camera passes by Earth-66 during the climax of The Flash (2023).
• Death by Adaptation: In the comic crossover with Wonder Woman (1975), Joker broke into the Batcave and gave poor Alfred good enough of a scare that he died. Batman was so enraged that the Clown Prince of Crime paid with his life, forcing the Caped Crusader to retire from crimefighting, convinced he could never wear the cowl again.
• Decomposite Character: The tie-in comic introduces an interpretation of his mainstream counterpart's original identity the Red Hood, but makes him a separate villain from the Joker who turns out to be Professor Overbeck brainwashed from donning his brain regulator helmet after it had been corrupted by the Joker's insanity.
• Dirty Coward: He's perfectly willing to threaten Batman with a pounding he'll never forget...until he realizes they're in the same room.
• Evil Counterpart: His solution to beat Batman's insufferable utility belt? Invent his own! It was so effective, it had the Dynamic Duo on the ropes... until Joker got cocky enough to switch a replica of his belt with Batman's as a prank. Cue the Dynamic Duo reverse-engineering to discover its secrets leading to his defeat.
• Evil Old Folks: It's hard to see through the makeup, and his official age is never stated, but Cesar Romero was pushing sixty during his tenure as Joker.
• The Fagin: "The Joker Goes to School" has him manipulating high schoolers into joining his gang and even trying to murder one of them, when she was no longer useful.
• For the Evulz: Most of the villains will have some monetary goal in their schemes, but the Joker is the one who will do evil schemes... just because. Best shown with his counterfeit currency scheme: he goes to the trouble of buying a comic book publishing house so he'll have ready access to ink and printing presses, he builds an elaborate human-like robot to infiltrate Gotham's main bank as a teller so he can pass out counterfeit cash .... that's intentionally left blank on one side.
• Giggling Villain: Practically every moment he isn't talking, he's laughing himself silly.
• Good Angel, Bad Angel: The Wonder Woman '77 crossover has him serve as the shoulder devil to Alfred's shoulder angel when Bruce Wayne in the late 1970s ponders over whether he should come out of retirement. The Joker gloats that the fact Bruce resorted to killing him makes it clear that he's no longer fit to fight against evil.
• Insane Troll Logic: Most of his crimes run on this, be it rigging vending machines to put out money in the apparent belief that anybody this happens to automatically turns to a life of crime, or turning Gotham's water supply into gelatine for a gag.
• Knows the Ropes: One of his more frequent gadgets is the "trick streamer" — party confetti that instantly knots itself around any unfortunate victim.
• Large and in Charge: If Batman's Bat-slide from "The Joker Goes to School" is to be believed, he stands a monstrous six-foot-six.^note In Real Life Romero stood six-foot-three; the only member of the cast to approach six-six was Alan Napier (Alfred).
• Large Ham: It's The Joker. He doesn't really go more than a few seconds before finding some scenery to chew on.
• Mad Scientist: This incarnation of the Joker is a lot more scientific than most, with nearly all of his schemes involving a new invention, from exact duplicates of the Dynamic Duo's utility belts to the ability to mess with time itself.
• Monster Clown: Zig-zagged. While he does put the Dynamic Duo in the obligatory death trap, this Joker isn't really into mindless killing as part of his schemes (except that one time he tried to murder a high schooler hench girl), preferring elaborate capers based on whatever gimmick takes his fancy.
• Out of Focus: In the Movie; all of the villains get a chance to shine except Joker, who's just sort of there because he's one of the main four.
• Pet the Dog: Joker tells his moll to stay somewhere safe before a fight in "The Joker Trumps An Ace." In the next episode, he dismantles a Death Trap that he thinks just killed the Caped Crusaders so it won't kill any innocent bystanders nearby.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Of course, none of the arch-villains can be accused of being especially mature (or stable), but some of Joker's schemes — like turning all of Gotham's main water supply into jelly or beating Batman in a surfing competition — are just flat-out weird.
• Pungeon Master: He loves to pepper his speeches with jokes (what else?) about clowns and jesters.
• Real Men Wear Pink: Wears clown makeup and a bright pink suit.
• Rules Lawyer: In one episode, it's revealed that he's memorized Gotham's penal code down to the exact wording so he can get away with small schemes without technically breaking any laws. In this example, he avoids a loitering charge by not standing in the same place for two minutes. Batman lampshades this by calling him a "jailhouse lawyer."
• Trope Codifier: Zig-zagged. While no one would dare say that Romero gave a bad performance, his successors in the role (namely: Jack Nicholson, Mark Hamill, and the late Heath Ledger) with their more sardonic and darker takes on the character are more entrenched in the public consciousness.
• Villainous Friendship: With Eartha Kitt's Catwoman. The two are on friendly terms and seem to genuinely enjoy each other's company.

Catwoman

Catwoman

"Pur-fect"

^{Click here to see her portrayed by Lee Meriwether}

^{Click here to see her portrayed by Eartha Kitt}

Played by: Julie Newmar (S1 & S2, Return of the Caped Crusaders, Batman Vs. Two Face), Lee Meriwether (The Movie), Eartha Kitt (S3)

The last of the main four to be introduced. Catwoman is a world-class burglar with an insatiable greed for wealth and riches, and much to her chagrin finds herself hopelessly in love with the Caped Crusader.

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• Adaptational Name Change: Her comics alter-ego Selina Kyle is never mentioned once in the series. In fact, the movie has her alter-ego being a Russian paparazzi named Kitka.
• Adaptational Villainy: In contemporary comics, Catwoman was an unrepentant thief and gang-boss but not especially violent or sadistic about it (on several occasions she even saved Batman's life). Here, she's a Deathtrap-happy arch-criminal with the occasional humanizing moment, as exemplified by one exchange from "Scat! Darn Catwoman":
  Batman: A wife, no matter how beauteous or affectionate, would severely impair my crimefighting!
  Catwoman: But I could help you in your work! As a former criminal, I'd be invaluable. I can reform, honestly, I can!
  Batman: What about Robin?
  Catwoman: (Disgusted) ROBIN?! (Beat; gleefully) Oh, I've got it! We'll kill him!
  Batman: ...I see you're not really ready to assume a life in society.
• Ascended Extra: Only one appearance in the first season, she was given significantly more stories in the follow-up seasons.
• Cats Have Nine Lives: She seemingly died twice, but always managed to come back.
• Child Hater: On two separate occasions (three if you count Return of the Caped Crusaders), she casually proposes killing Robin after tying the knot with Batman.
• Classy Cat-Burglar: Sometimes (especially in her debut episode), but more often than not subverted, as this take on the character was a lot more thuggish and never really above straight-up extorting or mugging people.
• Colorblind Casting: African-American actress, Eartha Kitt was brought in to play Catwoman in the last season, the character having been previously played by white actresses. There was no comment on this, but since it was The '60s, it meant Batman could have no romantic interest in her whatsoever.
  • The digital comic uses the Newmar and Kitt incarnations interchangeably, depending on the writers' whims.
• Death by Materialism: Famously in her first appearance, she refused to give up her loot and fell into a chasm inside a cave.
• Driven to Suicide: In Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders, Catwoman, wishing for no more jail time, throws herself down a factory smokestack after Batman turns her offer down to relocate to Europe.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Catwoman is briefly mentioned as a suspect for the bank robbery in "Zelda the Great," ten episodes before her first actual appearance in the show.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: When asked by Batman what would happen to Robin if she became his crime-fighting partner instead (see above), she not only suggests that he be killed, but excitedly proposes it to Batman as if she thinks he might enjoy doing the deed together. Batman, predictably, does not take her up on the offer.
• Greed: Her most defining trait.
  Catwoman: [after double-crossing her sole henchman left after the Dynamic Duo arrested the others] There's never enough for two!
• Heel–Face Turn: In Batman vs. Two-Face.
• Honey Trap: In the Movie, she successfully seduces Bruce Wayne in the guise of a Russian reporter, Kitka as part of the United Underworld's scheme to lure Batman into a trap by kidnapping Bruce Wayne. It cuts pretty deep when he unmasks her.
• Iconic Outfit: Her Spy Catsuit, made of jet-black Sensual Spandex. This was the first take on the character to wear black, and like the Riddler example above, it was eventually ported into the comics (as well as Alternate Company Equivalent Black Cat).
• Legacy Character: Implied in Batman vs. Two-Face. Julie Newmar from the series plays Catwoman in the film who goes through a Heel–Face Turn at the end, while Lee Meriwether (who portrayed the character in the live-action movie) voices a character named Lucilee Diamond. Catwoman swaps clothing with Diamond to escape prison and Diamond is last seen enjoying herself being in Catwoman's outfit, implying that she is the Catwoman in the live-action film.
• Never Going Back to Prison: She's demonstrated this attitude several times, which often leads to her leaping off tall ledges rather than give herself (and her current loot) up to the law. Good thing Batman and company never find the body and Cats Have Nine Lives...
• No Honor Among Thieves: In her partnership with Sandman she was fully intending to double-cross Sandman ... and was indignant when he beat her to it.
• No Name Given: The name Selina Kyle is never used once in the series, so her true identity is never revealed and we get no glimpses into her personal life.
• Pungeon Master: Not quite as bad about it as Egghead, but she rarely passes up the chance to cram in a cat pun (or a "purr"). One episode had her running a nightclub where everything on the menu had "cat" somewhere in the name.
• Sexy Cat Person: As in every version of Batcanon.
• Statuesque Stunner: Even without the heels, Newmar stood almost six feet; Yvonne Craig was reportedly terrified of facing her in a fight scene and relieved to face the much-smaller Eartha Kitt.
• Token Female: The only main female villain on the show.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Okay, she was never particularly good, but her feelings for Batman did a lot to humanize more than the other villains. But when Eartha Kitt was cast — the romantic angle between the two was dropped and Catwoman became nastier to the heroes. This was an Enforced Trope, due to Executive Meddling preventing the romantic angle between the two from returning.
• Tragic Dropout: In "Catwoman Goes to College" she claims that her life of crime is due to her being a dropout. Not surprisingly, it's quickly made very clear she doesn't have any genuine plans to turn that around.
• Villainesses Want Heroes: Not that she hasn't tried dating people on her moral spectrum... it's just that for the most part, they're all Gonks: she can't stand Joker's green hair, and Penguin's too... erm, small. Note also that unlike most versions of the character, she's perfectly fine with brainwashing or even killing Batman if she's not in a pining mood.
• Villainous Friendship: Eartha Kitt's Catwoman seems genuinely friendly with the Joker.
• Whip of Dominance: Fitting her domineering personality, this version of Catwoman occasionally had a Cat O' Nine Tails whip with her, though she mostly used it as a prop. One episode did show she had Knock Out Gas inside the whip which she could spray from the handle.
• Woman Of Wealth And Taste: Her lairs are always opulently decorated.

Recurring Villains

Dr. Schivel / Mr. Freeze

Dr. Schivel / Mr. Freeze

L to R: Sanders, Preminger, Wallach

Played by: George Sanders (S1), Otto Preminger (S2), Eli Wallach (S2)

"Poor devil, forced to live in an air-conditioned suit that keeps his body temperature down to 50 degrees below zero! No wonder his mind is warped."

— Batman

A Mad Scientist forced to live in sub-zero temperatures after Batman accidentally spills cryogenic chemicals on him. He appeared three times and was notably played by a different actor in each appearance.

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• Adaptation Name Change: At the time, his comics counterpart (who had all of one story under his belt) was called Mr. Zero. The "Mr. Freeze" moniker stuck and was quickly back-ported to the comics.^note  This supposedly led to the writer of his debut episode looking to claim royalties.
  • This also applies to his true identity. In the Pre-Crisis comics, he had none. Here, he's Dr. Art Schivel, whereas all adaptions since have gone by Dr. Victor Fries thanks to Batman: The Animated Series. However, the tie-in comic gives his civilian name as Victor Fries in the crossover with The Man from U.N.C.L.E..
• Adaptational Attractiveness: The George Sanders version.
• Adaptational Backstory Change: Zig-zagged, as he didn't have much of a backstory in the Pre-Crisis continuity, simply described as having his physiology altered to the point he was unable to survive outside of sub-zero temperatures. Here, his origin hinged on Batman accidentally spilling freeze fluid on him during an attempt to arrest Freeze during a robbery. The comic continuation, which was published years after Batman: The Animated Series gave him his popular origin story that the comics quickly introduced, revealed he was trying to continue his work in cryogenic experiments through illegal means after his funding had been pulled. Batman attempted to stop him but accidentally hit a frozen canister with a Batarang, exposing Freeze to the substance and altering his body.
• Adapted Out: Since he was created before Batman: The Animated Series put him back on the map, this version never had a Nora Fries to call his own, even in the show's official comic-based continuation.
• Affably Evil: Sanders and Wallach; the Sanders even notes that he really doesn't want to kill the Dynamic Duo, considering them fine people, but feels he has no choice because he needs revenge because of the accident that made him the way is.
  • Faux Affably Evil: The Preminger version has a thin veneer of politeness, but he's nothing more than a cold, cruel bully.
• Bad Humor Truck: He's very fond of using ice-cream trucks (and factories) as bases of operation. The tie-in comic story "Mr. Freeze Breaks the Ice"/"Batman Doesn't Play Nice" even has him posing as an ice cream man to sell the citizens of Gotham his you-cooler devices in order to faciliate his plan to freeze over Gotham.
• Bald of Evil: Otto Preminger's portrayal is bald, as George Sanders and Eli Wallach's portrayals had full heads of hair.
• Costume Evolution: The George Sanders version was a handsome middle-aged man forced to wear a special suit. The subsequent incarnations looked inhuman with their ghastly blue skin and freeze collar making him look closer to modern incarnations of the character.
• Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Invoked by Freeze in the comic continuation when he sets his newest evil scheme into motion. When Gotham is gripped by a heatwave, he sells small, personal cooling devices designed to give the user a personal cold shield to keep them from overheating. Selling the devices across all of Gotham, they would have undoubtedly been as helpful in the real world as much as it was in the comic world. Unfortunately, said devices turn out to be little more than transponders to help him turn Gotham into a blizzard-stricken city, paving the way for jumpstarting the next ice age. In this way he makes a small profit and gets his revenge.
• Enemy Mine: He and the other villains work with Batman, Robin, Batgirl, Napoleon Solo, and Illya Kuryakin against Hugo Strange in Batman '66 Meets The Man from U.N.C.L.E., but not without eventually betraying the heroes at the last minute.
• Evil Genius: He's smart enough to be able to create a multitude of devices not only designed to help him survive his environment but has a good grasp of technology and communications devices to be able to broadcast entire cold waves across Gotham.
• Freudian Excuse: He was just a Mad Scientist, until Batman spilled those chemicals on him.
• Herr Doktor: Sanders and Wallach gave him a German accent. Preminger used his natural Austrian accent.
• Man of Wealth and Taste: The George Sanders version had upscale tastes in suits, liquor, and home decor.
• Revenge: His primary motivation for what Batman did to him — even if it was an accident.
  "You must pay for what you did to me. For forcing me to live like this. Never again to know the warmth of a summer breeze. Never to feel the heat of burning logs in wintertime. Revenge. That is what I need. Revenge! I will have revenge!"
• Tragic Villain: Out of all the villains, it's hard not to pity him considering he can't survive in normal temperatures without his special refrigerator suit or freeze collar. Even Batman pities him, and in part believes himself responsible for Mr. Freeze's current state. And keep in mind, this is decades before Nora Fries would be introduced and Mr. Freeze's entire backstory was re-written.
• Verbal Tic: The Preminger version, for reasons known only to him, often tacked "Wild!" in-between his sentences.
• Villain Forgot to Level Grind: His only gimmick is his Freeze Ray. By his last appearance, the Dynamic Duo has invented special thermal underwear to No-Sell it, leaving Mr. Freeze helpless.
• Wicked Cultured: The George Sanders version definitely enjoyed the finer things in life. When in his lair he would lounge around in a fine dressing gown or a full suit; he even timed how quickly it took his subzero skin to chill different liquors!
• Wolverine Publicity: In modern continuations and merchandising the Preminger version is the one that's used, possibly because he's the one more in tune with how the character is modernly portrayed; ironic since Preminger was so rude and unprofessional that the production team brought in somebody else for Mr. Freeze's last appearance.

Jervis Tetch / The Mad Hatter

Jervis Tetch / The Mad Hatter

Played by: David Wayne

A particularly nasty thief obsessed with hats, who's dedicated his entire career to trying to add Batman's cowl to his collection.

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• Alice Allusion: Averted. Tetch is obsessed with hats and just hats, per his characterization in the comics of the time.
• Ax-Crazy: As bad as Gotham's other arch-villains can be, not one of them looked forward to skinning people alive and making hats out of the resulting Genuine Human Hide. Subverted as while he did plan on using the equipment of his hat factory on Batman, he had no plans to actually make a hat out of him, explaining it as a idle daydream.
• Collector of the Strange: Hats. It's a rather unhealthy obsession.
• Darker and Edgier: Arguably the least silly villain on the show. David Wayne plays him pretty much completely straight and the scripts don't give him many jokes either. His plans (i.e., skinning people alive to make them into hats) are grislier than the other villains, too.
• Determinator: He will do anything to get his hands on Batman's cowl — he even made it radioactive just to get Batman to take it off; ignoring the health risks of manhandling a radioactive cowl himself.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Despite being obsessed with getting Batman's cowl, even he wouldn't steal from what appears to be a dead man. He even mentions he finds it morbid.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": A rare aversion for this show; he is referred to as "Jervis Tetch" and "Mad Hatter" in about equal measure.
• Jerkass: The Mad Hatter is one of the meanest and most humorless villains on the show.
• Rage Against the Legal System: In his first appearance, he kidnapped the members of the jury that convicted him at his last trial.
• Related in the Adaptation: The comic continuation reveals he's the brother to the Clock King.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: He always wears a very dapper gray morning suit to go with his top hat.

Prof. William McElroy / King Tut

Prof. William McElroy / King Tut

Played by: Victor Buono, Wally Wingert (voice in Vs. Two-Face)

A mild-mannered Egyptology professor who whenever he gets bumped on the head is convinced he's the reincarnation of King Tut and that Gotham is Thebes. The only villain outside of the main four to appear in all three seasons.

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• Adipose Rex: He's quite large and fancies himself the reincarnation of an Egyptian pharaoh. Interestingly, though, in his debut episode, he refused to eat "unclean" food like hot dogs, insisting instead on grapes, figs, and ambrosia fit for a king.
• Berserk Button: Referencing Batman is sure to get him riled up. Interestingly, in his first episode, he also loses his temper if anyone mentions that he's a professor of Egyptology who got bonked on the head and subsequently went mad; when his moll Nefertiti does so, Tut tortures her to the point of utterly breaking her mind.
• Beware the Silly Ones: While he's one of the goofiest villains in terms of personality, he's also an utterly ruthless would-be tyrant (once torturing his moll into permanent insanity for daring to bring up his alter-ego), and in some respects came closest to unearthing Batman's secret identity.
• Breakout Character: Within the show itself; while most of the villains created for the show only appeared once or twice, Tut was so popular among both fans and Victor Buono himself that he became the only villain outside of the big four to appear in every season, amassing a total of eleven appearances (counting cameos and two-part episodes).
• Canon Foreigner: King Tut was created exclusively for the series, but became popular enough to make appearances in later Batman media.
• Contrived Coincidence: No matter how many times he was defeated and returned to sanity, poor Professor McElroy always managed to be bonked on the head again, turning him back into the crazed King Tut. It was particularly blatant when he revealed that he'd had a reinforced bowler hat specially made to prevent head injuries...and the instant he took it off for a single moment, a flowerpot fell from a nearby window and knocked his noggin.
• Deadpan Snarker: Not only with his flunkies and Batman but even with Chief O'Hara the time he uses his beetle brew to mesmerize him.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: In “Tut’s Case Is Shut,” he outright cries when he has to kill all his scarabs to complete his scheme.
• Evil Is Hammy: Tut has to be the most bombastic villain on the show.
• Fat Bastard: Victor Buono was not a slender fellow, and King Tut was a remorseless villain. Professor MacElroy averted the "bastard" part, though.
• Hold Your Hippogriffs: When frustrated, he tends to swear—but given his obsessions, he invokes the names of Egyptian gods and pharaohs (who were considered deities themselves) to rant. For instance, when Batman and Robin escape one of his traps, Tut lets out a mighty "CURSES OF AMENHOTEP!"
• Insistent Terminology: He's "Your Highness" or "King Tut", not "boss." Anyone who fails to call him by his royal names gets a Death Glare.
• Jekyll & Hyde: Tut is only a villain when he gets bumped on the head. Another bump and he's back to his mild-mannered self.
• Large Ham: He couldn't be any hammier if he tried, for he is as boastful and loud as any other villain, befitting his grandiose personality and choice of themes. Victor Buono enjoyed the feast he was presented every time he played the character, saying that it gave him the golden opportunity to do that which actors were carefully trained not to do: overact.
• Near-Villain Victory: He figures out that Batman and Bruce Wayne are the same, and is just about to announce it to the world. Unfortunately for him, he pronounces it a little too loud...just as Batman was counting on, for a mine support beam falls loose from his screaming and clonks him on the head, reverting him to Professor McElroy in the nick of time.
• Nepharious Pharaoh: He presented himself as the reincarnation of King Tut, though he mixes this gimmick with others as necessary.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Is up there with The Joker as one of the least mature supervillains in the show, throwing tantrums and calling his opponents childish names regularly.
• Self-Harm: Played for Laughs, but in Batman vs. Two-Face, he deliberately clubs himself on the head to forcibly revert himself to Professor McElroy to prevent himself from talking.
• Split-Personality Takeover: His Season 3 appearances (perhaps inadvertently) hint at this — the justice system has started treating him as a full-blown criminal, even locking him up in the Arch Criminal Wing alongside the likes of Joker and Penguin. The digital comic makes it even worse, confirming that Tut has, at the very least, learned how to masquerade as his civilian side.
• Suddenly Shouting: Tut tended to go from quietly musing about his greatness to outright screaming about Batman.
• Took a Level in Badass: Tut starts out as a Non-Action Big Bad but is taking part in brawls by season 3. In Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders he even manages to take down three clones of Batman with nothing but his staff!

Egghead

Egghead

Played by: Vincent Price

An eggceptionally smarmy — and pun-loving — Evil Genius who will stop at nothing to prove himself the greatest mind in Gotham (and the world).

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• Arch-Enemy: In the comic continuation, he flat out admits in the story "Eggolution" that Batman is the Val Jean to his Javert.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: Out of all the villains, Egghead is the only one to realize that Batman would have to be a millionaire to fund his super-heroics. After a simple process of elimination of Gotham's elite (one is too old, one has a French accent, one is left-handed, etc.) he concludes that Bruce Wayne is the only candidate.^note Note that he's beaten Ra's al Ghul to it by a good five years! Though for some reason, when the mind-reading machine he was going to use to check frizzes out, Egghead just drops the whole thing.
  • Batman fools him by focusing on the most shallow and self-absorbed thoughts he can manage when the mind-reading machine is working. Egghead is disgusted by the emptyheaded thoughts and refuses to believe that anyone as intelligent as Batman would be capable of faking that level of tripe.
• Bald of Evil: He gets his name from his unnaturally large, pale bald head.
• Berserk Button: as the comic's continuation revealed, he hates when anyone questions his methods. He drops the Dynamic Duo and a poor henchman of his out his blimp—the former for questioning how low he would go to capture them (having tricked the heroes into attending a false charity event), and the latter for (rightly) suggesting that they take Batman's utility belt.
• Canon Immigrant: Along with King Tut, Egghead's the only other Rogue created for the series to be brought over (albeit in minor appearances) to the main comics canon and other Batman media separate from the series canon, all happening nearly five decades since the series.
• Dirty Coward: This could apply to most if not all of the arch-criminals, but Egghead is the only one who flat-out admits his cowardice — to Batgirl, no less!
• Enemy Mine: He and the other villains work with Batman, Robin, Batgirl, Napoleon Solo, and Illya Kuryakin against Hugo Strange in Batman '66 Meets The Man from U.N.C.L.E., but not without eventually betraying the heroes at the last minute.
• Evil Brit: Downplayed— Vincent Price plays Egghead with a Mid-Atlantic accent which has a touch of Britishness.
• Evolution Power-Up: In the comic's continuation, he creates a device that evolves his body to that of a 40th-century human. While he doesn't physically change (aside from his costume and glowing eyes), he does gain the ability to manipulate matter in any way he pleases, place others under mind control, and forcibly devolve Batman and Robin into cavemen.
• Idiot Ball: When he has Batman and Robin held hostage in a comic-continuation story, one of his henchmen suggests they should take off Batman's utility belt, just in case. As demonstrated multiple times, Batman's belt can do just about anything and holds nearly everything he needs to escape death traps. All this does is trigger Egghead's Berserk Button and lead him to drop both the henchman and the Dynamic Duo out of his blimp. Of course, the henchman is right, as Batman calls the Batcopter over and save them from certain doom, allowing them to commandeer Egghead's blimp and send him right back to prison. For a supposed genius, he didn't think that one through.
• Informed Ability: While he does have some occasional very smart moments, all of his schemes are fundamentally flawed. Had the mayor been smart and hired an army of lawyers to read through the Gotham City charter, Egghead's control over the city wouldn't have lasted a day. And he should have known there was no way he was going to hatch a fossilized dinosaur egg. Nor should he have eggnored his henchman's suggestion to get rid of Batman's utility belt.
• Insufferable Genius: One smarmy smart guy.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: Played straight in “The Yegg Foes in Gotham”. Egghead succeeds in taking control of Gotham thanks to the charter he stole, but the charter itself also becomes his undoing. As Batman finds out, no criminal has any legal authority to run the city.
• My Brain Is Big: With a chrome-dome like that, what would you eggspect?
• Pungeon Master: Belts out a truly eggcessive number of egg puns whenever he gets the chance. The only one to come even close would be Batman & Robin's version of Mr. Freeze with ice puns.
• Pyrrhic Victory: In the comic's continuation, his successful evolution into an all-powerful being gives him complete and utter control of Gotham, but he finds such petty drivel meaningless, especially as he reduced the Dynamic Duo into mindless cavemen (or so he thinks). He mentions this trope outright when discussing it with his henchman, and has to eggsplain to one of them what it means.
• Related in the Adaptation: The Legion of Super-Heroes comic crossover reveals him to be the ancestor of the Legion's enemy Universo.
• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Sometimes, but often uses simpler terms.
• Trademark Favorite Food: According to Batman, his diet consists eggsclusively of grade triple-A white eggs.
• Unholy Matrimony: With Olga in the third season (though she's always quick to remind him he's only a prospective consort). This led to some serious Badass Decay for him, though he still had his moments.

Marsha, Queen of Diamonds

Marsha, Queen of Diamonds

Played by: Carolyn Jones

A world class-thief obsessed with diamonds, usually assisted by her Wicked Witch aunt Hilda. Her ultimate goal is to steal the Bat-Diamond that Batman uses to power his Batcomputer.

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• And I Must Scream: One of her defeats in the comic continuation ends this way, when a perpetual slow-motion potion made by Aunt Helga accidentally gets on Marsha, trapping her in a state where she's staring in awe at the Bat-Diamond.
• And Now You Must Marry Me: When she uses her love potion on Robin, he falls so madly in love with her, that she forces Batman to marry her—and thus give her legal access to the Bat-Diamond powering his computers—if she is to break the spell on the Boy Wonder. Batman reluctantly goes through with it—only for Alfred and Aunt Harriet to show up with a fake marriage license claiming that Batman is already married to the latter, forcing her to call it off.
• Loves Only Gold: Nothing but diamonds are good enough for her.
• Serial Spouse: The tie-in comic establishes that she's had no less than 52 husbands.
• The Vamp: She seduces men to do her bidding thanks to love potions brewed by her Aunt Hilda. Batman was barely able to resist it, and only by sheer Heroic Willpower. Robin, however, was not so lucky.

Shame & Calamity Jan

Shame & Calamity Jan

Played by: Cliff Robertson and Dina Merrill

Thick as a brick but always handy with his six-shooters, the modern-day Outlaw known as Shame loves himself every Wild West cliché in the book... but not as much as he loves some easy loot.

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• Deadpan Snarker: A lot more prone to this than the other villains, since his default mood is very laid-back and dry. That said, he also gets snarked a lot, thanks to his slow wit and temper flareups.
• Disco Dan: He's almost as over-the-top with his gimmick as Tut's, but he's sane enough to realize it's not 1866... he just really, really wishes it was.
• The Family That Slays Together: He and his fiancée Calamity Jan make a pretty faithful Outlaw Couple, and while Jan's mother Frontier Fanny nags him a lot, she is otherwise a fairly obedient and competent member of his gang.
• Girlish Pigtails: Jan is normally calm and pleasant-natured despite her criminal temperament and has pigtails tied with bandanas.
• The Gunslinger: Keeping in with their Wild West theme, he and his gang are always armed to the teeth (not that it does them much good against the heroes' Plot Armor). He even keeps a Little Useless Gun in his hat as a last resort.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: His henchman Thunderhawk, whom Shame forces to act like a stereotypical Native American, is quick to turn on his boss when Batman offers him a chance to clear his name (as Daniel Greyhawk, his true identity, was framed for fabricating fission research, something that Batman points out may have been committed by an ex-colleague of Greyhawk's that was recently found to be a foreign spy).
• Nobody Calls Me "Chicken"!: A rare villainous example — in his second appearance, this is how Batman draws him out of hiding. When Batman uses sky-writing to insult Shame and call him out, Shame insists on meeting him for a showdown despite Calamity Jan warning him that it's a trap.
• Obnoxious In-Laws: Downplayed with Calamity Jan's mother, Frontier Fanny. She certainly nags Shane a lot, but she's nevertheless loyal to him.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Shame doesn't steal items, at least not ones that he can easily afford to pay for, whenever he has a job coming up and doesn't want to attract the attention of the authorities.
• Outlaw Couple: Shame and Calamity Jan are engaged.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: A deliberately childish and silly version in the digital comic story "Showdown with Shame", where he's frustrated that his henchman Thunderhawk keeps slipping out of stereotypical broken English and into more flowery and erudite language because it's ruining the gang's mystique. (This is also because Thunderhawk happens to be a former Yale physics student, and Shame is not a fan of "book-learnin'" in general.)
• Remember the New Guy?: Calamity Jan is established as Shame's long-term girlfriend even though, in his previous appearance, he had a different female accomplice and implied lover, who is never mentioned in season 3.
• The Rustler: His debut episode played him as a modern-day version of this, an evil cowboy going around "rustling" cars and car parts.
• Shout-Out: His name is a reference to the eponymous hero of the western Shane. And of course one of his appearances features a kid yelling "Come back Shame!"
• Train Job: Appropriate to his gimmick, Shame pulled this off twice. First, in the show itself, he stages a robbery of a train full of money being pulled out of circulation. Then, in the comic continuation, he robs a vintage train that had been converted to tourist service. They initially think it's All Part of the Show until he subverts this by revealing his bullets are as real as they come.

Olga, Queen of the Cossacks

Olga, Queen of the Cossacks

Played by: Anne Baxter

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• Abhorrent Admirer: In the comic's continuation, she decides that Batman shall be her new husband (with Batman lampshading how quickly she moved on from Egghead once he ended up in jail). Naturally, Batman refuses.
• Bears Are Bad News: She employs a pair of trained Ursas in the comic's continuation, but Batman and Robin can sway the bears onto their side. Being the heroes they are, however, they won't use the bears against her.
• Enemy Mine: She and the other villains work with Batman, Robin, Batgirl, Napoleon Solo, and Illya Kuryakin against Hugo Strange in Batman '66 Meets The Man from U.N.C.L.E., but not without eventually betraying the heroes at the last minute.
• Evil Redhead: Often obscured by her trademark fur hat, but it's there.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Olga was washing dishes before Egghead convinced her to become a criminal, at which point she is arguably Eviler than Thou toward Egghead.
• Funny Foreigner: Complete with an over-the-top accent^note Baxter even learned how to swear in Russian! and cultural quirks that range from the funny ("Cossack queen is permitted up to six husbands!") to the horrifying ("wedding borscht made from captured prisoners!").
• Sensual Slavs: Played surprisingly straight, given the time period. What's more, she doesn't even pretend to have thoughts of a High-Heel–Face Turn.
• Unholy Matrimony: With Egghead.

Louie the Lilac

Louie the Lilac

Played by: Milton Berle

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• Back for the Dead: After a brief cameo in the comic continuation, he ends up being killed by Poison Ivy when he appears next. Subverted near the end of the comic, as Ivy reveals that poison she gave Louie only put him in a near death state.
• Cigar Chomper: In classic gangster style.
• Foul Flower: In the form of a nickname, Louie also makes use of mutant plants (including a carnivorous lilac bush) and gives his henchmen flower-themed names.
• Real Men Wear Pink: Despite Milton Berle's masculine appearance, Louie centers his whole gimmick around flowers... he makes the Joker look like a regular John Wayne.

Minor Villains

Zelda the Great

Zelda the Great

Played by: Anne Baxter

One of Gotham's cleverest magicians — who also moonlights as the April Fool's Thief, stealing $100,000 every April Fools' Day to pay the unscrupulous inventor that comes up with most of her equipment.

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• Adaptational Motive Change: In order to keep her as a villain, the Batman 66 comic series changes Zelda's motivation from paying for her magic tricks to trying to prove she is a better escapologist than Batman and Robin.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Zelda is one of the least dangerous and malicious villains in the show, but she figures out Batman's plans to trap her when a valuable jewel is conveniently on display. Instead, she kidnaps Harriett Cooper while Batman and Robin are staking out the jewel store. She also shows up at the jewelry store and uses smoke bombs and trick mirrors to make Batman and Robin charge off in the wrong direction.
• Escape Artist: Her biggest draw as a performer, though she's also capable of smaller magic tricks.
• Forced into Evil: While there were, perhaps, more ethical ways of solving her predicament, she's not happy about her life of crime and draws the line at killing.
• Gender Flip: Her debut episode was loosely adapted from a comic ("Batman's Inescapable Doom Trap") that featured a male magician named Carnado the Great.
• High-Heel–Face Turn: The only Special Guest Villain(ess) on the show who promised to reform at the end, and meant it. Note that the digital comic completely ignores this.

False Face

Basil Karlo / False Face / Clayface

Played by: Malachi Throne

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• Adaptational Job Change: While Basil Karlo is traditionally an actor, False-Face's origin given in the tie-in comic story "The Quagmire of Clayface" establishes that he was a career criminal before drinking the formula that enabled him to change his appearance.
• Clothing Appendage: His first story as Clayface and his appearance in the Wonder Woman '77 crossover depict portions of his clay-like body forming the impressions of a suit and tie.
• Composite Character: Already a lesser-known villain from the comics, Batman '66 makes him into this continuity's Clayface by revealing that his real name is Basil Karlo and having him consume a potion that turns him into a claylike being with shape-shifting powers.
• Early-Bird Cameo: A retroactive example as of the tie-in comics. The comics have him become this continuity's Clayface, and he appears among the assembled villains in the final issue's story due to it being a deliberate homage to the original show's title sequence, where Clayface was among the villains shown.
• Frame-Up: He disguises himself as Bruce Wayne in the comic continuation and pawns off fake jewelry, forcing Bruce to don the mantle of Batman a bit longer than he'd planned that day.
• Given Name Reveal: Issue 59 of the digital comic (issue 23 in the print version) gives his true name as Basil Karlo, in the process making him double as this continuity's Clayface.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Disguising himself as Bruce Wayne to pawn off fake jewelry might have worked, had he not bumped into Batman and Robin chasing down the Riddler at the same time. While he doesn't know that Batman and Bruce Wayne are the same, Robin spotting Bruce walking down the street in broad daylight picking up Riddler's stolen loot tips him off that something's wrong, since Bruce is right beside him attempting to fight off Riddler. This helps Bruce piece together that False Face is framing him.
• Master of Disguise: Other villains dip into this now and then, but only he makes it his stock-in-trade.
• Monumental Damage: His first story in the Batman '66 tie-in comic, "The Fiend is False", ends with him attempting to blow up Mt. Rushmore.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: He appears as Clayface in Wonder Woman '77, where the second Cheetah tries to get him to defeat Wonder Woman and he attempts to get more powerful by absorbing the clay on Paradise Island. The closest the story gets to acknowledging Clayface's history with Batman is Wonder Woman remarking that he's a long way from Gotham City.
• Shapeshifter Guilt Trip: In the tie-in comic story "The Fiend is False", he tries to deter Batman from knocking him out by assuming the likeness of Abraham Lincoln. This of course doesn't fool Batman at all.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: Despite being an evil scumbag, he does get a little treat in the comic continuation. He makes a gritty and downright gruesome Batman TV series, hoping that it would eventually lure the real deal out to the tv studio where it was filmed so he could make the finale about the real Batman's demise. Naturally, Batman escapes, but the episode is so well-received by the public, it wins major awards, especially for False-Face and Batman (though neither are available to claim it). He's very ecstatic.

The Bookworm

The Bookworm

Played by: Roddy McDowall

A failed author turned super crook.

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• Awesomeness by Analysis: As with Egghead in the show, the comic continuation sees him stake out Batman and analyze everything he does to determine his true identity. He almost succeeds, but Batman catches on and makes it seem as if Alfred is the Caped Crusader.
• Batman Gambit: He steals a massive check from a crowdfunding effort, knowing that Batman and Robin's attempts to track him down will give him enough clues to deduce Batman's true identity. Unfortunately for him, Batman figures it out and dupes him.
• Berserk Button: Don't bring up his failed attempts at literary greatness.
• Buffy Speak: At one point, Bookworm refers to his intelligence as "my brain-drenched mind".
• Creative Sterility: The reason behind said failed attempts — despite being magnificently well-read, he doesn't have an ounce of creativity in his body and is forced to pilfer schemes wholesale from classic literature instead of coming up with new ones.
  Bookworm: Books, books — that's the secret of my success. Books. Ohh, I read them all... I inherit the wisdom of the ages; every plot, ever devised, is here, inside my head.
  Lydia: Oh, Bookworm — with a mind like yours, I wonder why you don't write your own best-seller.
  Bookworm: [Furious] SHUT UPPP! Oh, don't you DARE say that to me!
  Lydia: B-but Bookworm, I —
  Bookworm: NO, you, you, you, you're TAUNTING me, aren't you?!
  Lydia: NO, Bookworm!
  Bookworm: YES, YESYOUARE, YOU'RE TAUNTING, MOCKING ME! AND WHY?! Why, because I have no ORIGINALITY, that's why! WHY, BECAUSE I'M ONLY THE MASTER OF STOLEN PLOTS!
• Elite Mooks: The Bookworms minions are surprisingly competent compared to the lackeys of other arch-criminals in the series. Lydia figures out from a few verbal clues that Robin knows who she is and successfully captures him for Bookworm all on her own, then sensibly lets Bookworm known what is going on. The other minions prove equally competent at their activities. Bookworm actually comes close to achieving his plot before end.
• Evil Brit: He is played by Roddy McDowall after all.
• A Father to His Men: No matter how many tantrums The Bookworm throws, his minions adore him and BIRG [Bask In Reflected Glory] off his self-confidence and intelligence. At one point, he threatens his cowering moll with an enormous book only to become distracted by its title instead; she immediately forgives and forgets his interrupted attack and goes back to idolizing him.
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Wears some of the biggest specs in the series, and is also one of the most violently unstable crooks.
• Hell-Bent for Leather: His suit and fedora are made from book leather.^note Although Roddy McDowall loved appearing on the show, he mentioned later that wearing the costume got "incredibly hot", and given that he spent four films playing a chimpanzee under heavy makeup and full hair...
• Hoist by His Own Petard: In the digital comic, he's eventually trapped in the same spell book that he tries to use against Batgirl, who knows the incantations better than he does. Whether this proves to be permanent (or even fatal) remains to be seen.
• Know-Nothing Know-It-All:
  • He fancies himself quite the bibliophile, but naturally Batman (and Bruce Wayne) outclasses him.
    Bookworm: I'm so much cleverer than all of you, you see. Oh, as the poet says, "They who lose today may win tomorrow".
    Bruce Wayne: Wrong, Bookworm. Not the poet. That line's from Cervantes' Don Quixote. Part One: Book One: Chapter Seven.
    Bookworm: Poof! That devil. This fellow is almost as obnoxious as Batman.
  • In the digital comic, he attempts an Egghead-style Awesomeness by Analysis (though with different observations) to crack Batman's secret identity. Ultimately, he concludes that Alfred is Batman.
• Mood-Swinger: Bookworm flies into a rage twice during his episodes, and he snaps out of it both times in a matter of seconds.
• New Media Are Evil: The comic continuation reveals he thinks television rots people's brains.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: Despite his mood swings, Bookworm is one of the most pragmatic villain Batman has faced. When a deathtrap fails, he explodes in a momentary temper tantrum, then calms down and decides that "facts are stubborn things" and so the only thing to do is to shrug and accept the loss. When he encounters a locked glass case with a rare book in it, he glances at the lock, shrugs, and then sensibly smashes the glass to get at the item. A few anger management classes, and he could have become one of Batman's most dangerous foes.
• Super-Speed Reading: Bookworm is capable of reading and memorizing an entire Door Stopper book in seconds.

The Archer

The Archer

Played by: Art Carney

Styling himself a modern-day Robin Hood, the Archer is dedicated to stealing from the rich and giving to the poor... and, later on, stealing from them as well.

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• Master Archer: He is an evil modern-day Robin Hood clone and is an expert shot with the bow and arrow.
• Never Hurt an Innocent: While his "altruism" definitely isn't selfless, he holds himself to this standard, as his threat to kill Alfred if Batman won't give up his secret identity was just a bluff.
• No Name Given: Unlike many of the other villains, we never find out his real name.
• Robin Hoodlum: He styles himself as a distorted modern counterpart to the Robin Hood myth.
• Trick Arrow: A big part of his arsenal.

The Minstrel

The Minstrel

Played by: Van Johnson

Rarely seen without his trusty mandolin, this deceptively foppish arch-villain knows everything there is to know about music — including the exact frequency needed to vibrate a city into dust.

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• Blackmail: His plan during his only appearance is to force Gotham's stock exchange to pay a large ransom each weak, or he will throw the stock market into chaos.
• Do Not Adjust Your Set: Does this in his first appearance, hijacking Gotham’s television sets to deliver his threat to the city's stock exchange.
• Gadgeteer Genius: The Minstrel is an electronic genius, and his inventions make up a large chunk of his arsenal.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: The comic continuation sees him steal Bruce Wayne's Shakespeare bust from his study, hoping Batman and Robin would find it and realize where he is. He intended to use his melodic talents to turn the Batmobile's frequency against it, thereby destroying the car (and the Dynamic Duo along with it) with his special weapon. Unbeknown to him, stealing the bust physically prevented the heroes from getting into the Batcave...right where the Batmobile was parked!
• Revenge: Is dead set on this in Batman '66, as he wishes Batman and Robin destroyed for arresting him.
• We Will Meet Again: His episode ends with him vowing to eventually break out of prison to get even with Batman, a promise he wouldn't make good on until the tie-in comic story "To Be or Not to Be".

Ma Parker

Ma Parker

Played by: Shelley Winters

Proud mother — and manager — of four infamous bank robbers, Ma Parker has terrorized countless cities across the nation but finds Gotham and its clan of crimefighters a decidedly tougher nut to crack.

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• Evil Matriarch: Evil to the core, but loves her children to near-smothering levels... as long as they're following orders, that is.
• Female Misogynist: Dotes on her sons, but she has nothing but contempt for her daughter; she openly hates girls believing they have no business doing crime.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: A pretty blatant parody of Ma Barker, alleged ringmaster of the Barker Gang during The Great Depression. All of her children are likewise named after famous gangsters of the era: Pretty Boy, Machine Gun, Mad Dog, and — most interestingly — Legs.

The Clock King

The Clock King

Played by: Walter Slezak

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• Adaptational Name Change: His name here is Morris Tetch, rather than William Tockman, Tem, or Temple Fugate.
• Clock King: Played with. He talks a big game about planning his crimes down to the second, but in practice, he's just really fond of stealing (and wearing) timepieces.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: In the digital comic, he's shown to genuinely care for his brother, who's the Mad Hatter.
• God-Created Canon Foreigner: His debut story was the last script penned by Bill Finger, in what was almost certainly the first time poor Finger received any official credit on a Batman story.
• Pragmatic Villainy: When his brother fails to steal the Crown Jewels of England, he points out to his henchman that the only mistake Jervis made was trying to commit the crime of the century, rather than play it safe.
• Related in the Adaptation: The digital comic reveals he's Morris Tetch, the Mad Hatter's brother.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: A Green Arrow villain transferred to Batman's rogues.

Chandell and Harry

Chandell

Played by: Liberace

A well-loved celebrity pianist, Chandell hides quite a few dark secrets — and a less-than-sterling conscience — behind his talented fingers while helping his brother Harry commit robberies.

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: The digital comic ^note presumably not wanting to shell out to Liberace's estate portrays Chandell as a blonde.
• Affably Evil: Chandell's a supervillain with Liberace's legendary charisma and humor.
• Blackmail: Harry is subjecting Chandell to this, threatening to reveal that the skilled pianist injured his hand and forced Harry to play for him during a prominent concert.
• Cain and Abel: Subverted. While Chandell is being blackmailed by Harry, in the end, they're pretty much equally rotten. It's played straight in the comic continuation, as Chandell makes a genuine attempt to reform.
• The Casanova: Chandell is a well-known lady-killer — and he puts it to good use by having a trio of ladies as henchmen.^note Yes, standards of the time mean they can't throw a punch, but on the other hand, Batman and Robin Wouldn't Hit a Girl...
• Evil Is Hammy: They are supervillains on this show and played by Liberace. "Hammy" doesn't even begin to describe them.
• Large Ham: It's Liberace so naturally both twins are this.
• Pet the Dog: The one moment where Harry is more than an Ax-Crazy Jerkass is when he ushers Doe, Rae, and Mimi out the exit ahead of him while fleeing from Batman.
• Reformed Criminal: The comics continuation reveals that Chandell has been putting on charity concerts to help pay for his crimes. He even helps Batman when the Siren attacks the concert and is freed from her control, upset this might hurt his efforts to reform.
• Temporary Love Interest: Chandell to Aunt Harriet.

The Puzzler

The Puzzler

Played by: Maurice Evans

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• Even Evil Has Standards: Stealing plans for a prototype plane? Acceptable. Selling it to a foreign government? Unthinkable!
  "Have you taken leave of your senses?! I may be an arch-villain, but I'm a naturalized American arch-villain."
• Evil Brit: He speaks with a British accent, though he mentions being a naturalized US citizen.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: For the Riddler, due to Gorshin sitting out Season Two due to a contract dispute.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: A Superman villain transferred to Batman's rogues, fitting since the Superman villain was originally an imitation of The Riddler in the first place!
• Villain Respect: When Puzzler, an endless font of Shakespeare quotes, is corrected on the placement of a line from Hamlet by Batman, he gives his nemesis an earnest salute.
• Wicked Cultured: Has a propensity for dropping Shakespeare quotes, a nod to his actor's classically trained background.

The Sandman

The Sandman

Played by: Michael Rennie

A master thief from Europe, the Sandman can put just about anyone down for forty winks with one pinch of his chemically treated sand — and in the process, turn them into sleepwalking Slave Mooks.

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• Beard of Evil: He is depicted with a goatee in the tie-in comic.
• Enemy Mine: He and the other villains work with Batman, Robin, Batgirl, Napoleon Solo, and Illya Kuryakin against Hugo Strange in Batman '66 Meets The Man from U.N.C.L.E., but not without eventually betraying the heroes at the last minute.
• Gold Digger: His Evil Plan was seducing noodle queen, Pauline J. Spaghetti posing as a doctor to cure her of insomnia so he could get his hands on her vast fortune.
• No Honor Among Thieves: He teamed up with Catwoman but had no intention of sharing the loot with her, but on the flipside, Catwoman was intending to do the same.
• Secret Identity Apathy: In the tie-in comic story "The Sandman Says Goodnight", his underling Aurora questions why he isn't taking the opportunity to unmask Batman after using his sand to put him to sleep. The Sandman responds that he has no desire to find out Batman's secret identity and prefers to think of his enemy as the disguise rather than the man who is wearing it.

Colonel Gumm

Colonel Gumm

Played by: Roger C. Carmel

The crooked foreman of the Pink Chips Stamp Factory.

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• Adaptation Name Change: Downplayed — in Batman '66 Meets the Green Hornet, he gives himself a "battlefield promotion" to General.
• Bad Job, Worse Uniform: His work uniform is bright pink because his employer, Pinky Pinkston is a girly girl who demands it.
• Malevolent Masked Men: Gumm's return in Batman '66 Meets the Green Hornet features his face and hands covered in a thick white epoxy of flexible but irremovable Gumm Glue, the result of a lab accident after getting out of prison. ^note All of which is a tidy but very contrived way to say that DC and Dynamite either didn't have or didn't want to pay for, the rights to Carmel the actor's likeness.
• Mundane Made Awesome: His entire Evil Plan revolves around the manufacture and circulation of ... counterfeit rare postage stamps. Yes really.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: Since his story was the crossover with The Green Hornet, Gumm has the dubious distinction of being the only villain not to be given a "special guest villain credit".
• Pragmatic Villainy: Unlike many of the villains Gumm didn't try to trick or outwit Batman directly but was operating in secret. It was only the arrival of the Green Hornet that alerted Batman to him.
• Real Men Wear Pink: In Batman '66 Meets the Green Hornet, he wears a pink army uniform.
• Shout-Out: The idea of a villain having his face permanently disfigured by a super-strong adhesive of their own making is also shared by Captain America villain Baron Zemo.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Alphabet soup. He goes so far as to add extra letters.
  "This alphabet soup needs more consonants in it."
• Villain Team-Up: He conspires with the Joker in Batman '66 Meets the Green Hornet.

Black Widow

Black Widow

Played by: Tallulah Bankhead

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• Age Lift: In the comic continuation, she looks noticeably younger.^note Presumably so the creators didn't have to pay Tallulah Bankhead's estate.
• Ambiguous Situation: The comic continuation sees her purposely slip spiders into a scientist's brain shortly after he manages to create a formula that would render fossil fuels obsolete. She tells him that she had well-paying clients that hired her and her partner, the Penguin, to ensure that things stayed the same, but it's never made clear who exactly paid her.
• Brainwashing for the Greater Good: Black Widow and her henchmen end up getting a taste of their own medicine when Batman uses a mind control device disguised as a hair dryer to alter her personality into a good person.
• Deadpan Snarker: She is, after all, played by Tallulah Bankhead!
• Fate Worse than Death: A scientist creates a revolutionary new formula that would replace fossil fuels. She's paid to take him out, but rather than kill him, she effectively lobotomizes him by having spiders lay eggs in his brain. Though Batman notes that the doctor will live and that his mind could be retrained to function again, it's very unlikely he'll ever be able to recreate the formula.
• Hoist by Her Own Petard: Batman and Robin used her own mind control device on her, allowing to comply with the police without complaint.
• I Work Alone: Robin notes in the comic's continuation that it's unusual for her to team up with other villains like The Penguin, finding it against her style. Batman agrees and can use this information to convince Penguin to help them.
• Pest Controller: Sometimes employs live spiders to help finish off her victims. The digital comic shows she eventually managed to breed one the size of a tank.
• Meaningful Name: Batman deliberately invokes this on the Penguin in the comic continuation when the slippery fiend teams up with her. He notes that, sooner or later, she will eventually tire of and dispose of the Penguin, much like her namesake. This gets Penguin scared enough to set the Dynamic Duo free.
• Ms. Fanservice: Despite being a heavy drinker and smoker in her late 60s by the time she appeared in the series, Tallulah Bankhead is still The Vamp as this episode shows. The comic continuation plays this up even further, showcasing her as looking a lot younger.
• Wicked Cultured: Again, she is, after all, played by Tallulah Bankhead!

Lorelei Circe / The Siren

Lorelei Circe / The Siren

Played by: Joan Collins

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• Compelling Voice: Her voice can hypnotize people, but it only works on men.
• Enemy Mine: She and the other villains work with Batman, Robin, Batgirl, Napoleon Solo, and Illya Kuryakin against Hugo Strange in Batman '66 Meets The Man from U.N.C.L.E., but not without eventually betraying the heroes at the last minute.
• Evil Diva: Chanteuse by day, mind-controlling supervillainess by night.
• Godiva Hair: In the tie-in comic story "Chandell's Chanteuse", she exposes Batman to a hallucinogen that causes him to see her as a topless mermaid whose breasts are obscured by her long hair.
• Light Is Not Good: Almost exclusively wears silver-white dresses; in her case, it's definitely a warning sign.
• Logical Weakness: Her powers are practically useless if she can't sing properly. That's why, when she appears in the comic continuation, Kathy Kane can shut her up with a good splash of water. Well, that and Chandell knocking her out when he breaks loose from her mind control.
• Making a Splash: In the comic's continuation, she appears as a mermaid before Batman, when she uses her new hallucination-based powers to try and take him down. It only lasts for a few panels before she appears as a devil.
• Meaningful Name: She's named after the mythical Lorelei, whose singing was said to entrance sailors. Circe was also a character from Greek myth known for enchanting men.
• Ms. Fanservice: She spends most of her scenes in a very skimpy silver outfit.
• Squishy Wizard: The one genuine metahuman among Gotham's criminals, but useless in direct combat (so it's a good thing our heroes Wouldn't Hit a Girl...).
• Took a Level in Badass:
  • In her comic continuation appearance, she gains a new set of abilities to induce hallucinations like a real siren, courtesy of the Sandman.
  • Siren is a Non-Action Big Bad in her episode of the show but in Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders, she's shown exchanging punches with an evil Batman clone in the background in addition to using her Compelling Voice and is one of the last Rogues to be subdued.
• Villain Forgot to Level Grind: Played straight, then averted. When she returns in the comic's continuation, she attempts to use her siren song on Batman, but he had specifically prepared for her return by listening to short bursts of her mind-control frequency for some time, rendering him immune to her powers. However, she is still able to place other men under her control and reveals she can now generate hallucinations to drive Batman insane. Though she still can't control women with her voice.

Drury Walker / Killer Moth

Drury Walker / Killer Moth

Played by: Tim Herbert

Appearances: Batman (1966) (test footage only) | Batman '66

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• Decomposite Character: Because the test footage ultimately never aired and he wasn't officially integrated into the canon of the 1966 show until the Batman '66 tie-in comic, the Penguin takes his role as the first villain faced by Batgirl.
• Unseen No More: In the tie-in comic, he is first mentioned by the Joker during his stand-up routine at Arkham Institute in "The Joker's Big Show"/"Gotham Goes Ho Ho Ho"/"The Dynamic Duo & Batgirl Say Hello", but doesn't physically appear until Ma Parker breaks him out of prison along with Killer Croc and Solomon Grundy in the comic's antepenultimate story "Parker Breaks Out".

Lulu Schultz / Lola Lasagne

Lulu Schultz / Lola Lasagne

Played by: Ethel Merman

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• Gold Digger: Her main — if not only — modus operandi as a solo crook. People getting wise to this was what forced her to team up with Penguin.
• Old Friend: To Penguin; they were childhood playmates.
• Satellite Character: Penguin is pretty much the only character she ever interacts with; she doesn't even get to stick the Dynamic Duo in a deathtrap!

Lord Marmaduke Ffogg & Lady Penelope Peasoup

Lord Marmaduke Ffogg & Lady Penelope Peasoup

Played by: Rudy Vallée and Glynis Johns

A pair of aristocratic siblings from across The Pond. Rather high-handed and snobbish on the surface, but deep down... they're much, much worse.

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• Affably Evil: Mostly in Lady Peasoup, who affects the mannerisms of a kindly old aunt or grandmother, but it's only a very well disguised veneer that covers the worst evils of aristocracy incarnate.
• Aristocrats Are Evil: Complete with their Big Fancy House ("Ffogg Place"), cricket pavilion, and servants that double as Mooks.
• Bee Afraid: They keep African killer bees on the property to kill any intruders. Robin ends up tripping the wire and gets stung by one, but fortunately, he had the anti-venom for such a sting on hand.
• Evil Brit: And how!
• The Fagin: Apart from direct burglaries, they also run a "finishing school" teaching young girls how to steal and rob.
• Obfuscating Disability: In his "civilian" guise, Lord Ffogg usually keeps his leg in a cast, claiming to be suffering from gout.
• Siblings in Crime: Why they have different last names is never commented on.
• Smoke Out: Lord Ffogg's primary gimmick, produced by chemicals in his Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Up until the Terrific Trio nabbed them, they were considered some of Her Majesty's noblest subjects, with reputations beyond reproach.

Nora Clavicle

Nora Clavicle

Played by: Barbara Rush

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• Eek, a Mouse!!: She invokes this trope for her gain. After successfully manipulating Gotham's mayor into ditching all the male members of its police department and replacing them with women, she sends out an army of robots mice armed with bombs to travel across the city while she robs it blind, as the female police officers will be too scared to deal with them. Justified as she had Mrs. Linseed choose stereotypical women who would be scared of the mice.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Her scheme involved getting Commissioner Gordon and Chief O'Hara retired so she can take over the GCPD. It ends with both men using the power of citizens arrest on her, ensuring they get their jobs back.
• Manipulative Bitch: She's able to successfully force the mayor of Gotham to forcibly retire Commissioner Gordon by using her very ideology. The mayor's wife (who is a big fan of Clavicle) refuses to do anything for her husband until he removes Gordon and makes Clavicle his replacement; she then proceeds to purge the police department of all-male officers, allowing her to staff it with all-female officers she can scare with robotic mice armed with bombs.
• Punny Name: Her name is a pun on that of feminist activist Gloria Steinem (Steinem -> Sternum -> Clavicle).
• Straw Feminist: Her main gimmick. Interestingly, despite the militancy of her demands, she's a lot more level-headed (and good-looking) than you'd expect from the '60s take on this trope. It's implied that while she does believe women are superior to men, she just using this as a way to get rich.

Dr. Cassandra Spellcraft & Cabala

Dr. Cassandra Spellcraft & Cabala

Played by: Ida Lupino and Howard Duff

An evil alchemist and her soppy husband.

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• Alchemy Is Magic: Cassandra is an alchemist and her work blurs the two.
• Foolish Husband, Responsible Wife: Villainous example — Dr. Spellcraft drives and plans all their schemes, while Cabala mostly stands around, takes orders, and makes wisecracks.
• Outlaw Couple: A somewhat bumpier one than Shame and Calamity Jan.
• Totally Radical: For some reason, their dialogue is peppered with Beatnik slang.

Minerva

Minerva

Played by: Zsa Zsa Gabor

• Verbal Tic: She habitually calls people "dahling" as her actress was famous for doing so in real life.

Continuation and Spin-Off Villains

In General

• Canon Immigrant: They're all prominent Batman rogues who were never in the original show because a) they simply didn't exist yet (Harley Quinn, Killer Croc, and Bane) or b) they did exist but weren't used for a variety of reasons (the Two-Face script was rejected for being too gruesome, Hugo Strange and Scarecrow wouldn't become prominent until after the show ended, Poison Ivy was just created when the show was airing, etc).
• Knight of Cerebus: Given the nature of their characters, they are a lot darker than the majority of the previous members of the rogues' gallery.

Dr. Holly Quinn / The Harlequin

Dr. Holly Quinn / The Harlequin

Voiced by: Sirena Irwin

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• Adaptational Heroism: The DC Animated Universe and the comics have gone back and forth on it over the years, but most of them agree that pre-villain Harley wasn't an especially nice or moral person, and mostly went to Arkham hoping to cash in on the inmates' fame. This version seems genuinely dedicated to helping her charges and only becomes evil after a Heroic Sacrifice to stop the Joker from driving the rest of Gotham insane.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Most versions of the character depict her as having been manipulated into becoming the Joker's girlfriend, and she ends up being poorly abused in the process. Here, Joker certainly dupes her, but he never actually goes so far as to physically abuse her, and while it's implied she does have a mild crush on him (at least before her accident), she never acts on it in the comic continuation. The Stinger of Batman vs. Two-Face, however...
• Adaptation Name Change: A downplayed example, but her pre-accident name in the comic is Holly Quinn, rather than Harleen Quinzel. Batman vs. Two-Face, however, retains "Quinzel" as her surname (we never learn her first name).
• "Bang!" Flag Gun: Her spotlight story in the tie-in comic at one point shows her robbing someone at gunpoint with a gun that extends a "BANG" flag from the barrel.
• Mattress-Tag Gag: Her crime spree includes tearing the tags off couch cushions.
• Punny Name: Somewhat downplayed. Her civilian name in the comic continuation is much more mundane than "Harleen Quinzel", as is her villain handle.
• Rollerblade Good: Her villain costume is Roller Derby-themed, much like the New 52 take at the time.
• Villainous Harlequin: Even after going evil, she's a lot softer and sweeter than your average supervillain.

Harvey Dent / Two-Face

Harvey Dent / Two-Face

Voiced by: William Shatner

Once Gotham's crusading District Attorney, Harvey Dent fell prey to his evil Split Personality when the left half of his face was horrifically disfigured. Now, he stalks the streets of Gotham as one of its most unpredictable — and deadly — villains, staking his every moral judgment on the flip of a coin.

Note that there are essentially two mutually exclusive versions of Harvey in the '66 continuity — one from the Lost Episode comic^note adapted from an unproduced Harlan Ellison treatment and one from the Batman vs. Two-Face animated film. While comparable in some respects, they have decidedly different origins and ultimate fates.

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• Actor Allusion: Given William Shatner's connection to another famous tv show running the same as the original Batman show, his role as Two-Face is similar to that of "The Enemy Within", in which Captain Kirk was split into two separate beings—a purely good and noble half that's kindhearted but spineless, and a violent and vicious evil half who's nothing but an immoral monster. It helps that Harvey is effectively helpless against his evil side and that Ink-Suit Actor makes Harvey look like Shatner did during TOS.
• Adaptation Origin Connection: The incarnation in the animated film eschews his traditional origin of being disfigured by Sal Maroni throwing acid in his face and is instead birthed (albeit by accident) by Hugo Strange and Harleen Quinzel, having made an evil extractor device that was supposed to suck the evil out of Joker, Riddler, Penguin, Mr. Freeze, and Egghead. Said villains overload the machine, causing the accident that leads to his creation, meaning no less than seven villains played a direct role in his Start of Darkness.
• Adaptational Backstory Change: While the comic version goes with the standard origin of Harvey Dent becoming a criminal after being disfigured by Sal Maroni throwing acid in his face, his counterpart in the animated film Batman vs. Two-Face instead has an evil-extracting machine created by Professor Hugo Strange and Dr. Harleen Quinzel overload from trying to suck out the evil of Joker, Riddler, Penguin, Mr. Freeze and Egghead, the explosion resulting in Harvey Dent being mutated into a partially deformed supervillain.
• Adapted Out: Any mental issues that Harvey typically is struggling with before his transformation are removed in favor of a science experiment gone wrong, unleashing his evil side.
• As You Know: The comic version has Batman remind Robin of Two-Face's origin for the benefit of the reader.
• Beauty to Beast: He's quite a looker until his accident, and even then, he's not nearly as ugly as other Two-Faces have been.
• Companion Cube: His coin, per usual, which came from his first case as DA.
• Composite Character: His animated iteration is heavily based on the version of the character from Batman: The Animated Series, being Gotham's district attorney who was very good friends with Bruce Wayne before his transformation, but also has elements of his comics version and his iteration from The Dark Knight, being Batman's ally in the war on crime.
• Crusading Lawyer: As Gotham's district attorney, he holds a perfect track record on getting criminals locked away where they belong, allowing them to repay their debt to society and get the help they need.
• Deal with the Devil: Or rather, the devil within. Harvey makes a reluctant agreement with his evil side to restore his damaged reputation, by allowing Two-Face to frame various super-criminals that Batman and Robin would capture, and in turn, allow Harvey to prosecute them.
• Diabolical Mastermind: A rather cunning and resourceful foe, Two-Face proves himself a fearsome fiend by cleverly framing other criminals for his crimes.
• Dice Roll Death: If his coin lands on the scarred side, chances are you won't make it out alive.
• Duality Motif: In true Two-Face fashion, everything he does is obsessed with duality and the number two. This allows Batman and Robin to piece together that he's back in action.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: The animated version is one of the only incarnations of Two-Face who can conquer his inner demons and resume civilian life.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Despite being one of the vilest foes Batman ever faced, he doesn't argue against doing the right thing when the coin lands on the good side.
• Evil Former Friend: His transformation into Two-Face left Batman without one of his closest allies in the war on crime, and Bruce Wayne without his oldest friend. Fortunately, his unwavering faith in Harvey allows him to return to the side of good in the animated film.
• Face–Monster Turn: Harvey is not an evil man by any means, but his evil side forces him to do such horrendous things that he has no choice but to comply. As said evil side gets stronger, it saps him enough to the point he's even more powerless to stop it.
• Fair-Play Villain: His coin decides what he's going to do. If it lands good side up, he'll do the right thing. If it lands scarred-side up, he won't hesitate to do the wrong thing.
• Fallen Hero: One whose fall this particularly idealistic version of Batman never stops lamenting. In the animated film, said idealism is ultimately rewarded.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: His Harvey Dent side wears a brown suit, while his Two-Face side uses a bright purple and green for his half of the suit.
• Fatal Flaw: His Pride is what ultimately sets the plot of the film in motion. After Two-Face is caught and surgically healed, the GCPD informs Harvey that all is forgiven and he can have his old job back—as the assistant to the assistant District Attorney. Though he understands the need to rebuild the public's trust in him, a brief moment of anger appears on his face, which is implied to cause Two-Face to reemerge inside his body, framing other criminals for various robberies so Harvey can prosecute them.
• Green and Mean: He's a villain and both his incarnations in the "Lost Episode" comic book one-shot and the Batman vs. Two-Face animated film depict the disfigured portion of his face as being colored green.
• Guns Akimbo: His preferred method of dealing with his enemies.
• Heads or Tails?: Any serious action he undertakes—good or bad—is determined by the flip of his coin.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With his oldest friend Bruce Wayne, whose unwavering faith in him allows Harvey to redeem himself.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: When Harvey's evil side completely takes over his body, "One-Face" almost kills Batman before the hero points out that any execution has to be decided by the flip of a coin. One-Face grumbles that the hero is right, but finds his coin replaced with a blank. In this confused state, Harvey manages to reclaim his body.
• Honor Before Reason:
  • When he has Batman and Robin pinned under some rubble, his goons try to get him to bump off the heroes. One flip of a coin later, and the fact it lands on the unscarred side leads him to spare the two. The goons beg him to do the Dynamic Duo in, arguing he has an obligation to every criminal in Gotham. Two-Face responds by telling them he'll use the coin to decide their fate if they argue with him further.
  • As One-Face, he's about to kill Batman when the Bright Knight invokes this trope, pointing out that no decision can be made without the coin. One-Face begrudgingly concedes but finds the coin he's using is a blank, allowing Harvey to bury him for good (at least for now).
• "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: When the evil side of Two-Face takes over completely, Batman gets Harvey to retake his body with this trope.
• Ink-Suit Actor: He is drawn to look like Shatner during his Captain Kirk days.
• Involuntary Shapeshifting: Downplayed, but Harvey's evil side can manifest itself at will, and even take control of his entire body, without Harvey's consent.
• Jekyll & Hyde: Harvey's good-natured and lawful side is the Jekyll to Two-Face's violent and evil Hyde. One of the books he swipes from Gotham Library happens to be The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which helps Batman and Robin deduce his return.
• Numerological Motif: The number two.
• Reluctant Psycho: Harvey does not want to be a criminal. Two-Face doesn't give him much choice.
• Remember the New Guy?: Harlan Ellison's treatment, and the "Lost Episode" comic one-shot adapting said treatment, establishes Two-Face as an adversary Batman and Robin had already clashed with in previous off-screen encounters.
• Secret Secret-Keeper: Because of Two-Face, Harvey learns Batman and Robin's identities. After defeating his evil side, the trauma he experiences causes him to suppress this knowledge.
• Split Personality: Like with all iterations of the character, his good half represents the honorable, good-natured Harvey Dent, while the bad half represents the evil and twisted side of him. At one point, the bad half takes over completely, creating "One-Face" until Batman can get Harvey to break out of this.
• Tragic Villain: Two-Face is an absolute scum of a bad guy, arguably the darkest of the rogues on Earth-66 that Batman ever fought. Yet beneath it all, Harvey Dent is little more than an innocent victim, caught between his desire to do good in the world, and the evil side that won't have any of it. It's especially worse that, unlike other previous iterations, this Harvey is powerless against his evil side, and has to watch as Two-Face turns the city into his playground.
• Two-Faced: Well, duh. The digital comic opts for the classic acid-in-the-courtroom origin, while the animated movie goes the more fantastical route of him getting scarred by a machine that just extracted the evil from five of Gotham's worst supervillains.
• Two-Headed Coin: Per usual, his lucky coin has two heads; one side scarred, and the other unscarred. Whichever side it lands on determines what he'll do next.
• Undying Loyalty: Both he and Bruce hold unwavering faith in their friendship. It's why Bruce doubts that Harvey has returned to his old ways, as he believes in Harvey Dent.
• Villain Has a Point: Well, Unknown Villain has a point, but when Harvey puts Batman on the witness stand at King Tut's trial (as Tut had been explicitly framed by Two-Face for the point of helping Harvey to regain his reputation), he asks Batman if he believes that Tut's actions (not that of his usual persona as William McElroy) require proper rehabilitation. Batman does agree, but before he can word it differently, Harvey hammers this point home to the jury, and when he effectively points out that McElroy's knowledge of Egyptology is what allows Tut to commit his crimes, Batman does not attempt to push a counterargument.

Lord Death Man

Lord Death Man

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• Disney Villain Death: His story has him fall to his death, but ends with evil laughter being heard near his grave.
• Unseen No More: He is first mentioned in "The Tail of the Tiger Topaz", but doesn't physically appear until "The Garden of Death".

Solomon Grundy

Cyrus Gold / Solomon Grundy

Played by: Mickey Morton

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• Adaptation Origin Connection: In this continuity, Cyrus Gold is a former fling of Marsha, Queen of Diamonds, who died and was resurrected by her aunt. Since Marsha was a Canon Foreigner to the 1966 series, and never appeared in the comics, she never played a role in Grundy's creation until now, as most stories depicted him as being resurrected in the swamps of Gotham without her help.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: His entire deal, beyond being a zombie. When he lived, he was hypnotized by Marsha, Queen of Diamonds, who told him to wait for him outside and forgot about him — in the winter. As Grundy, he was resurrected, but forced to want nothing but to kill Batman.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: In life, this version of Cyrus Gold was an Olympic wrestling champion. This accounts for much of his strength, though it's unclear whether or not becoming a zombie made him even more powerful.
• Continuity Snarl: Grundy's appearance in Wonder Woman '77 is contradictory towards his introductory story in the Batman '66 comic, considering that the later crossover between the two comics would retroactively establish that the shows they're based on are in a Shared Universe. The Wonder Woman '77 story establishes Solomon Grundy as a decades-old legend who turns out to be Real After All in order to defend a female descendant from domestic abuse, which doesn't mesh at all with Grundy's story in Batman '66 giving him the origin of Cyrus Gold being a former husband of Marsha, Queen of Diamonds who ended up freezing to death when Marsha told him to wait outside the house during winter and was subsequently revived as a zombie by Marsha's Aunt Hilda.
• Liminal Being: Since Grundy is neither alive nor dead, Batman manages to defeat him by hooking him up to the Batmobile's atomic battery and partially reviving him.
  Robin: Gosh... you electrocuted him!
  Batman: No, I jumpstarted his body, Robin — using the atomic batteries of the Batmobile as a defibrillator! I reasoned kicking his body into having a living person's heart rate and metabolism would conflict with his undead chemistry.
• Perpetual-Motion Monster: Grundy gloats that, while Batman and Robin are slowed down by human limits such as fatigue, Grundy is The Needless by his undead nature and thus will never stop coming.
  Grundy: Run, Bat Man, run! Will do you no good! You have to stop sometime... rest. Eat. Sleep. But Grundy keeps coming, searching. Can't escape... Dead Man Walking.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: He makes an appearance in Wonder Woman '77, with the story making no acknowledgment whatsoever of his history with Batman.
• Voodoo Zombie: Of the "reanimated to serve the whims of a sorceress" variety.
• Wife-Basher Basher: His story in Wonder Woman '77 has him showing up to protect a female descendant by attacking her abusive boyfriend.

Dr. Pamela Isley / Poison Ivy

Dr. Pamela Isley / Poison Ivy

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• Adaptation Origin Connection: Ivy is established here as being a former underling of Louie the Lilac.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Post-Crisis Ivy was never particularly close to her parents, and her New 52 iteration had a particularly abusive father who killed her mother and buried her in the backyard. Here, this Ivy loved her father deeply and was motivated to get revenge on the university for not helping him after he died.
• Adaptational Name Change: Zig-zagged, but the comics version these days is known as Dr. Pamela Lillian Isley, with this version using this identity. Her Pre-Crisis version, which was created around the same time as the original series, was Dr. Lillian Rose.
• Affably Evil: Very charming, playfully flirty lady who'll nonetheless drop you into the jaws of her Man-Eating Plant.
• Childhood Friend Romance: She knew Bruce Wayne as a child and there seemed to be some level of attraction between them.
• Enemy Mine: She and the other villains work with Batman, Robin, Batgirl, Napoleon Solo, and Illya Kuryakin against Hugo Strange in Batman '66 Meets The Man from U.N.C.L.E., but not without eventually betraying the heroes at the last minute.
• Genki Girl: Unlike most versions of the character, this Ivy is extremely lively — perky, even — and mostly spends her first night as a supervillain running around the city having as much fun as she can. She's even excitable upon defeat.
• Graceful Loser: Takes losing to Batman during their first encounter in stride, even sharing a deep, smoldering kiss with him without any of the strings you'd typically expect from someone named Poison Ivy.
• Evil Redhead: With a pretty big mane, to boot.
• Forceful Kiss: Unhesitatingly steals Batman's lips for a big, romantic smooch.
• Ms. Fanservice: True to form, Ivy is a very well-endowed and curvaceous woman, dressed in a low-cut outfit that highlights her figure.
• Southern-Fried Genius: This version grew up in the South — complete with Funetik Aksent, sugah.
• The Tease: An unapologetic flirt who loves to sweettalk to those she's taken a fancy to.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: What little we see of her as a child — growing a flower to give to a young Bruce — implies she was very kind.
• Villainesses Want Heroes: Like her comic!counterpart, she has a fondness for Batman.

Bane

Bane

Ruling a small Mexican village with an iron fist, the man known only as Bane has never been bested in combat, thanks to the strange green serum his most loyal lieutenants brew in the mysterious pyramids just outside his homeland. But eventually, inevitably, his ambitions turn to a certain city abroad... and to breaking its precious protector.

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• Adapted Out: Bane doesn't use his Venom tank to distribute the substance; rather, he drinks it outright.
• Carpet of Virility: He's got quite the hairy chest.
• Doing in the Scientist: Played with; Venom has a slightly more supernatural connection here, being a holdover from ancient Aztec rituals with a crystal skull needed to brew it properly, and Bane's henchman Zombie is shown reading a book by Albert Desmond, A.K.A. Doctor Alchemy, as it's made — but, like other examples of Fantastic Science in the series, the elixir itself is still just a chemical.
• Laser-Guided Karma: After depriving Bane of Venom, Batman fights him as a distraction until Batgirl can handcuff Riddler, then leaves him to his fate of being pummeled and subdued by a tag-team of assembled Lucha legends (El Santo, Blue Demon, Mil Mascaras) who were there to challenge his cruel reign.
• Logical Weakness: As he drinks the Venom this time around, all it takes to stop him is to keep him from being able to consume it. That's why Batman uses a device that clamps Bane's mouth shut during their rematch.
• Masked Luchador: Per usual. His lieutenants Bird, Trogg, and Zombie are all shown in similar gear, though they never fight on his behalf.
• Mythology Gag: Bane's clamping gag invokes his Dark Knight Rises counterpart, but serves as a hindrance rather than a life-support device.
• Not His Sled: Downplayed — Bane uses the famous Bat-Breaker on Batman's spine, only this time, it doesn't break his back, as Batman had placed a Batarang there to keep Bane from being able to break it.
• Shout-Out: The source of his powers in this series is called the crystal skull.

Prof. Jonathan Crane / The Scarecrow

Prof. Jonathan Crane / The Scarecrow

An orphan abandoned and raised in hillbilly country, his constant subjugation to bullying led him to turn his vengeance on Gotham by exposing them to their greatest fears, becoming The Scarecrow.

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• Big Brother Bully: His adoptive older brother relished in terrifying him. Batman ultimately took him down by convincing him his brother had returned to torment him some more.
• Doorstop Baby: When he was a baby, his parents left him in a potato sack hanging on a fencepost near the Crane farm.
• Enemy Mine: He and the other villains work with Batman, Robin, Batgirl, Napoleon Solo, and Illya Kuryakin against Hugo Strange in Batman '66 Meets The Man from U.N.C.L.E., but not without eventually betraying the heroes at the last minute.
• Evil Genius: He's certainly intelligent, at least enough to create a hallucinogenic toxin that brings people's worst fears to life.
• Freudian Excuse: He was abandoned by his parents and bullied by his adoptive brother throughout their youth, which may explain why he became evil.
• Hillbilly Horrors: Crane himself is not a hillbilly, being very genteel and intelligent, but he grew up dirt-poor in a rural area, and his family and neighbors certainly fit several redneck stereotypes. It was his traumatic childhood here that triggered his transformation into a fear-based villain.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Batman and Robin defeat Scarecrow by using his worst fears against him just like he tried to do to them.
• Nightmare Weaver: Scarecrow's Fear Gas causes people to hallucinate that their worst fears are coming to life.
• Noose Necktie: Like other versions of the character, he wears a noose around his neck, but in a clever twist, his noose is tied up like a bowtie.
• Ominous Opera Cape: He wears a brown opera cape that makes him look quite threatening.
• Parental Abandonment: His biological parents abandoned him and left him in the care of Miss Crane and her son.
• Scary Scarecrows: He was terrified of scarecrows as a child, and his older brother would use this fact to torment him to no end. As an adult, he has taken on the image of the Scarecrow to symbolize that he will now spread fear to others.
• Southern-Fried Genius: He grew up in the rural South, and is an Evil Genius.
• Waistcoat of Style: He wears a waistcoat made from a patchwork of autumnal colors.

Waylon Jones / Killer Croc

Waylon Jones / Killer Croc

Once a mere Mook for King Tut, Waylon Jones greedily drank a magic potion during a time-travel caper to Ancient Egypt — and in doing so, turned himself into a super-strong human-crocodile hybrid.

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• Adaptation Origin Connection: Here, he's established as one of King Tut's henchmen before becoming Killer Croc. It's because of Tut traveling through time to Ancient Egypt (long story) that Waylon gulps down a potion meant to endow the user with increased strength, which triggers his transformation.
• Adaptational Personality Change: In the original comics and some other media, Croc hates his monstrous form because it's caused people to single him out as a freak, and he wishes to become a normal human. Not so here; Batman offers to conduct scientific experiments into turning this Croc human again, but he rejects the offer, reveling in his new form because of how much power it gives him.
• Drunk on the Dark Side: He loves the strength and durability his new form gives him so much that he doesn't want to be a human again.
• Dumb Muscle: He's too powerful for Batman to beat in a head-to-head fight, so the Caped Crusader defeats him by outthinking him.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: From a disposable goon in King Tut's gang to a dangerous villain all on his own.
• Never Smile at a Crocodile: He's a humanoid crocodile and a dangerous villain.
• Scaled Up: Notably, while other versions of the character were born looking like human-shaped crocodiles, this version of Croc was a human who became a crocodile-man after drinking an ancient Egyptian potion.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers!: Like many other incarnations of the character, Croc takes what he wants, and for a chemically transformed reptile-man, his wants aren't particularly ambitious; Batman '66 Meets Wonder Woman '77 shows that by the 1970s, he's taken up rackets as mundane as smuggling contraband beer into Gotham City.
• Super-Strength: His transformation has left him exceptionally strong.
• Super-Toughness: While he's not invincible, his thick scales leave him Immune to Bullets and other forms of harm.
• Unskilled, but Strong: He doesn't have much in the way of strategy or combat tactics, so he tries to compensate with brute strength.

Prof. Hugo Strange

Prof. Hugo Strange

Voiced by: Jim Ward

An unassuming, learned gentleman that runs the Arkham Institute, devoting himself to containing and reforming Gotham's countless arch-villains. Or so he'd have you think. In truth, the man who styles himself "Professor Hugo" is one of Europe's most wanted criminal masterminds, who seeks nothing less than world domination. To this end, he's allied himself with several of the aforementioned arch-villains and an international terrorist syndicate... but still, he hungers for more...

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• Adaptational Hairstyle Change: His depiction in the tie-in comic has a full head of hair and is clean-shaven, in contrast to Hugo Strange traditionally being bald and bearded (which was the case for his depiction in the Batman vs. Two-Face direct-to-DVD film).
• Adaptational Origin Connection: In Batman vs. Two-Face he is indirectly to blame for turning Harvey Dent into Two-Face.
• Big Bad: He turns out to be the central antagonist in the comic crossover with The Man from U.N.C.L.E..
• Death by Secret Identity: A non-fatal variant in Batman '66 Meets The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. Not long after discovering Batman's secret identity, he's left an insane, babbling wreck who thinks he's Batman.
• Mythology Gag: The aforementioned fate is what happened to the Riddler in Batman Forever.
• Psycho Psychologist: True to the source material. While it's not clear if he ever abused Arkham's patients this way, once he's captured Batman, Robin, and Batgirl (as well as Solo and Kuryakin) for THRUSH he takes his time peeling apart all of their motivations and psychological makeup.

Ra's Al Ghul

Ra's Al Ghul

The primary antagonist of a crossover comic with Wonder Woman (1975), he serves as the immortal head of the ancient organization known as the League of Shadows.

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• Be Careful What You Wish For: He uses the Lazarus Pits to restore his youth. Unfortunately for him, his desire to keep his youth backfires when he uses it a little too soon, causing him to regress into a 10-year-old. Robin uses this phrase almost verbatim to describe what had happened.
• Fountain of Youth: Per usual, he restores his youth by bathing in the waters of the Lazarus Pits every so often. It's what ultimately does him in since bathing in it too soon causes him to regress into a 10-year-old.
• Hired Guns: Due to his tendencies to let others do his work for him, he's hired a multitude of Batman and Wonder Woman's foes for his purposes.
• Older Than They Look: He's centuries-old, despite appearing to be middle-aged.
• Orcus on His Throne: He usually hires other criminals to do his dirty work, mostly so he can claim the power of the Lazarus Pits soley for himself.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Zig-zagged, as he's still Batman's foe in this continuity, but he also ends up facing Wonder Woman and the entire Amazon population.

Legion of Doom

In General

A villainous team that appears in the Legends of the Superheroes specials.

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• Adapted Out: All but Giganta, Sinestro, Solomon Grundy and the Riddler are absent in this version of the team.

Doctor Sivana

Thaddeus Sivana

Played by: Howard Morris

The arch enemy to Captain Marvel and genius scientist.

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• Team Member in the Adaptation: At the time Sivana and Captain Marvel existed on Earth-S separate from the other DC heroes, and neither appeared in the Super Friends cartoon.

Sinestro

Thaal Sinestro

Played by: Charlie Callas

The archenemy to Green Lantern who uses the power of fear instead of will.

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• Coconut Superpowers: Because of the limitations special effects had in 1970s live-action media, Sinestro is never shown using his ring to create constructs and only uses it to fire energy blasts and turn invisible/teleport.

Giganta

Doris Zuel

Played by: Aleshia Brevard

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• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: This version is getting married to the Atom, while in the comics the two are enemies.
• Dating Catwoman: Is the "Catwoman" in her relationship with the superhero Atom.
• Secret Relationship: Was in one with Atom until they decide to go public.
• Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Exaggerated, as the interview keeps bringing up that having kids naturally would likely kill the Atom, with neither him or Giganta truly understanding what she is getting at.

Weather Wizard

Mark Mardon

Played by: Jeff Altman

One of the Flash's enemies with the power to control the weather.

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Mordru

Mordru the Merciless

Played by: Gabriel Dell

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• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: He is depicted as the leader of the Justice League's enemies the Legion of Doom, when in the comics he was a Legion of Super-Heroes villain.
• Villain Song: "The Roast" has him sing a parody of "That's Entertainment" by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz, the lyrics changed to have him describe the kinds of havoc and disaster he enjoys causing with his magic.

Notable Molls, Moles, Mooks, and Other Secondary Criminals

Molly

Molly

Played by: Jill St. John

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• Evil Redhead: She has red hair and actively assists Riddler in his plans against the heroes.
• Killed Off for Real: She falls to her death while running away from Batman.
• Sweet Polly Oliver: Molly disguises herself as Robin in one scene, using his costume and a Latex Perfection mask.

Queenie

Queenie

Played by: Nancy Kovak

The Joker's original girlfriend and assistant.

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• Affably Evil: She is friendly enough and enjoys performing a mock game show to taunt Batman, but she is an active helper in the Joker's criminal schemes and has been for some time, as she mentions being present for at least one of his previous run-ins with Batman.
• Dumb Blonde: She has blonde hair and thinks the Joker is being literal when he compares a weapon to a magic lamp.
• Knock Out Gas: She uses knockout gas on a TV studio employee, and later on Batman and Robin.

Eivol Ekdal

Eivol Ekdal

Played by: Jack Kruschen

A Hungarian designer of Death Traps who supplies Zelda the Great's magic acts, and who conspires with her to commit robberies so she can afford his services.

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• Alliterative Name: Eioval Ekdal.
• Mad Artist: He's a little too cheery about one of his traps being poised to kill Batman and Robin.
• Toxic Friend Influence: He acts friendly to Zelda, but he's the one egging her into increasingly illegal schemes.

The River Rat Gang

Whitey, Whiskers, and Fangs

Played by: Roy Jenson, Tim Herbert, and Marc Cavell

A group of sewer-dwelling crooks who work for Riddler.

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• Animal Motifs: To rats, unsurprisingly. They love eating cheese, have animal names, and live underground.
• Chromatic Arrangement: They wear red, blue, and green outfits.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Befitting their motif, they're often seen munching on cheese.

Lisa

Lisa

Played by: Diane McBain

Mad Hatter's first female accomplice. She works at a women's fashion shop and acts as a spy for him in his plans to kidnap a customer and mislead Batman and Robin with a fake clue.

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• Faux Affably Evil: She acts very polite and helpful to people but might be the cruelest moll in the series, given her Nightmare Fetishist tendencies.
• Nightmare Fetishist: She is positively thrilled as Mad Hatter describes how he plans to have a death trap horribly dismember the Caped Crusaders.

Blaze

Blaze

Played by: Myrna Fahey

False-Face's assistant.

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• Hyper-Competent Sidekick: She's just as skilled in disguise as False-Face and is also more resourceful than him.
• Kaleidoscope Hair: She has a different color of wig or hair dye (red, blonde, green, purple, etc.) in each scene she's in.
• Worthy Opponent: She respects Batman and Robin as impressive enemies, which leads to her saving them from a Death Trap.

Burns, Brinks, and Pinkerton

Burns, Brinks, and Pinkerton

Played by: Billy Curtis, Joe Brooks, and Chuck Fox

Falseface's Mooks, who are named after security companies and detective agencies.

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• Caper Crew: They act as one in the climax, with Burns crawling under a laser alarm system and Brinks blowing open a cage with dynamite. Batman foils the robbery before it's revealed whether Pinkerton has a special skill.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Burns has dwarfism but takes part in multiple fist fights and is evenly matched with Chief O'Hara for almost a minute when they struggle in the aftermath of a failed robbery.

Felix and Leo

Felix and Leo

Played by: Ralph Manza and Jock Mahoney

Catwoman's first two goons.

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• Big Guy, Little Guy: Felix is almost two heads shorter than Leo and is rarely seen without him, although he's also a bit of a Pint-Sized Powerhouse in a fight.
• Demolitions Expert: Leo is capable of mining a road to try and take out the Batmobile.
• Fake Faint: After being knocked down in a fight, Leo lies down with his eyes closed like he's out cold but carefully moves his arm to grab the door knob, then yanks the door open and flees through it.
• Karma Houdini: Leo apparently recovers from being knocked out and escapes before Batman and Robin return to where Catwoman left him.
• Matchstick Weapon: Felix tries to hit Robin with a torch during a fight.
• No Honor Among Thieves: Leo isn't upset when Felix is captured because it means one less way to split the loot. He then ends up being betrayed and knocked unconscious by Catwoman so she can have it all.

Nefertiti

Nefertiti

Played by: Ziva Rodann

King Tut's "Queen" during his first appearance.

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• Empty Shell: Her sanity is at least temporarily destroyed when King Tut subjects her to pebble torture after she reminds him that he isn't the real King Tut.
• Mouth of Sauron: She records the tapes that announce Tut's next crimes and dare the police to stop him.

The Grand Vizier and the Scrivener

The Grand Vizier and the Scrivener

Played by: Don "Red" Barry and Frank Christi.

Tut's main thugs during his first appearance.

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• Bantering Baddie Buddies: The two are close friends who share a lot of humorous dialogue, some of which pertains to how whacky Tut's cult is.
• No Name Given: Their real names are never mentioned.
• Not So Above It All: They quietly deride the gang's Egyptian trappings, but they take one ominous tarot card seriously enough to whack a seemingly unconscious Bruce Wayne over the head.
• Only in It for the Money: They don't buy into Tut's mindset and mainly follow him because his plans promise monetary rewards.

Lydia Limpet

Lydia Limpet

Played by: Francine York

A member of the Bookworm's gang.

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• Alliterative Name: Lydia Limpet.
• Brainy Brunette: She's dark-haired and is quite observant and crafty.
• Decoy Damsel: She poses as a kidnapping victim to feed the Dynamic Duo false information. They see through her deception, but she figures out that they've seen though her and adapts the plan to counter to this.
• Sexy Sweater Girl: Lydia's shirt wardrobe seems to consist solely of tight sweaters that make it apparent that she isn't wearing a bra.

Riddler's one-time employer (SPOILERS)

Mr. Van Jones

Played by: Francis X. Bushman

A collector of silent films who is seemingly a victim of Riddler, but is really employing the villain to make a silent film of himself fighting Batman.

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• Anti-Villain: He endangers the heroes' lives by hiring Riddler, but he just wants to make another silent movie, doesn't seem to think that the heroes are truly in danger, and happily congratulates and pays Riddler after nostalgically watching the finished film.
• Casting Gag: Bushman, himself one of the top stars of early Hollywood, plays an elderly silent film aficionado.
• Evil Is Not a Toy: He hires a super villain to produce a piece of entertainment for him and ends up being robbed for real at the end of the episode.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Whether Batman figures out that Van Jones hired Riddler is unclear, and his fate is unknown.

Pauline

Pauline

Played by: Sherry Jackson

A failed actress who acts as the Riddler's main assistant during his movie-making caper.

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• Decoy Damsel: She wears a Little Bo Peep costume and runs up to Robin, talking about how her brother has been kidnapped. Then, once Robin drops his guard, she gasses him into unconsciousness.
• Defiant Captive: After being captured, she refuses to tell Batman anything that might help him catch Riddler or rescue a captive Robin. Batman has to use a form of truth serum on her to get any information.
• Leg Focus: One of her costumes bares her legs, something the camera pays attention to.

Finella

Finella

Played by: Julie Gregg

One of the Penguin's many molls, who appears in the first season finale.

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• My God, What Have I Done?: After helping Penguin rob a charity fundraiser, Finella is overcome with guilt and tries to help Batman when he shows up to capture the criminals and retrieve the money.
• Proud Beauty: She's proud of her looks and is mainly interested in helping with Penguin's scheme because it means she'll get to infiltrate a beauty pageant.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: During a fistfight, she ignores what's going on to keep practicing her pageant walk.
• Walking Swimsuit Scene: Finella spends almost all of her screen time modeling swimsuits.

Bluebeard

Bluebeard

Played by: Gil Perkins

A pirate thug from The Movie.

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• Dressed to Plunder: He's a modern-day pirate with a Seadog Beard and a wardrobe that includes a bandana and a vest.
• Mook Lieutenant: He has more screen time and authority than the other United Underworld goons.

The last member of The Archer's gang (SPOILERS)

Alan A. Dale

Played by: Robert O. Cornthwaite

An officious Wayne Foundation employee who is secretly in league with the Archer.

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• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Dale is introduced smugly urging Bruce Wayne not to donate some money to charity, but claiming that this is because he's concerned the Archer will steal it in transit. Dale is in league with the Archer and is happy to help rob both the rich and the poor.
• Shout-Out: Like the rest of the Archer's gang, his name is inspired by a Robin Hood character, specifically Alan-a-Dale. This foreshadows his true nature to anyone familiar with Robin Hood's supporting cast.

A secret Catwoman ally (SPOILERS)

Jack O'Shea

Played by: Jack Kelly

A gossip columnist helping Catwoman steal two valuable violins.

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• Villain with Good Publicity: He's nationally famous and the Caped Crusaders ask for his help on a case, but he's working for Catwoman.

King Tut's second moll (SPOILERS)

Cleo Patrick

Played by: Marianna Hill

A temp filling in for Gordon's secretary. It turns out that she's working for King Tut.

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• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She acts dutiful and caring while bringing Commissioner Gordon his daily medications, but it turns out that she's helping Tut with a nefarious plan and got the temp job to slip Gordon a mind-control pill.
• Meaningful Name: Her full name sounds like Cleopatra, and she turns out to be part of an Egypt-themed cult.
• Sexy Secretary: She wears form-fitting tops and bends over while bringing Gordon his medication tray.

The Parker Siblings

Pretty Boy, Machine Gun, Mad Dog, and Legs Parker

Played by: Robert Belleller, Peter Brooks, Michael Vanderver, and Tisha Starling

Ma Parker's accomplices, her four grown children.

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• Badass Longcoat: They wear long gangster overcast while robbing banks and firing machine guns in one or two scenes.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: The four care deeply about their mother (although she's a criminal too) and get her flowers for Mother's Day.
• The Hyena: They're prone to sinister laughter, often for the purpose of taunting Batman as they prepare to kill him.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Legs sneaks out the nearest door as soon as the Caped Crusaders defeat her brothers. Unfortunately for her, the building is already locked down and dialogue in the final scene of the episode implies the whole Parker family is in custody.
• Slouch of Villainy: They're gangsters, and Pretty Boy and Mad Dog have noticeable stoops.
• The Unfavorite: Legs is the only girl of the four and her mother is a Female Misogynist (or perhaps just is engaging in failed Shoo the Dog efforts) who thinks that girls have no place in crime and constantly says so.

Ms. Bacon

Ms. Bacon

Played by: Gail Hire

Egghead's secretary, who is helping him write an autobiography about what an Evil Genius he is.

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• Covert Pervert: Flirtations with Egghead aside, she seems prim and professional for the most part. However, when talking about what she plans to do with her share of the gang's loot, Ms. Bacon announces her intent to purchase the services of a Buckingham Palace guard who "doesn't blink when you tickle [him]."
• The Unapologetic: After the gang is arrested, she's neither frightened nor remorseful when Batman confronts her about helping Egghead.

Benedict and Foo Yung

Benedict and Foo Yung

Played by: Gene Dynarski and Ben Welden

Two thugs who work for Egghead.

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• Badass in a Nice Suit: They're good fist-fighters who wear fancy suits.
• Bald of Evil: Both men are bald thugs who help Egghead try to turn Gotham City into a crime-ridden hellhole.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Benedict thinks that "dames" have no place in crime.
• Theme Naming: They have egg-based names and work for a guy named Egghead.

Eenie

Eenie

Played by: Sharyn Winters

A member of a band that Catwoman forms while pretending to be reformed.

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• Commander Contrarian: Most of Eenie's dialogue is questioning Catwoman's plans.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: She flees during the climactic fight rather than stick around to watch it.

Doe, Rae, and Mimi

Doe, Rae, and Mimi

Played by: Marilyn Hanold, Edy Williams, and Sivi Aberg

Three women who commit several robberies on behalf of Chandell and Harry.

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• Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Doe is a redhead, Rae is a brunette, and Mimi is blonde.
• Even Evil Has Standards: The three women flinch and two of them cover their ears when they think they hear Batman and Robin screaming from Harry's Conveyor Belt o' Doom.
• Evil Redhead: Doe, the redhead, is the most assertive and ruthless of the three.
• Fair-Weather Friend: They act sympathetic toward Chandell as he's blackmailed by his brother for most of their two-parter. However, as soon as they think Chandell is "going straight" and might leave them behind to marry Aunt Harriet, they drug him and switch their allegiance to Harry. They only side with Harry out of convenience, though, and their facial expressions as they listen to the prison concert in the final scene hint that they might regret betraying Chandell.
• Go Through Me: A variant occurs when the three women leap between the Caped Crusades and various Mooks during a fight, gambling on being able to exploit how the crime fighters Would Not Hit a Girl.
• Punny Name: They work for a pianist, and their names sound similar to musical notes.

Cornelia

Cornelia

Played by: Kathy Kersh

A vain woman who assists Joker in his plot to stop the flow of time to make committing crimes easier.

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• Even Evil Has Standards: She's fine with helping stick Batman and Robin in a Death Trap, but she doesn't want to stick around and watch it kill them.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: She seems like a non-malicious ditz right up until she pulls a lever to drop Batman and Robin into a Death Trap.
• Proud Beauty: Cornelia's favorite activity is admiring herself in the mirror.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In the climax of her two-part episode, Cornelia ducks out an exit and escapes as Batman and Robin start fighting her male associates.
• Spy Catsuit: Cornelia wears a shiny, purple, and very tight catsuit (albeit one lacking sleeves for her arms) while accompanying the Joker on his crime spree.

Latch and Bolt

Latch and Bolt

Played by: Louis Quinn and Larry Anthony Paul

Two goons who accompany the Joker and Cornelia during the Joker's Zany Scheme to control time.

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• Bantering Baddie Buddies: They’re close friends capable of having a long conversation without including their boss in it while they set up a Death Trap.
• Big Guy, Little Guy: Bolt is much taller than Latch.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Latch feels that Joker's particularly bloody Death Trap "don't strike me as being too funny."
• Undying Loyalty: They follow the Joker even when they disagree with him due to how he once saved them from a prison term by kidnapping, and in one case possibly killing, the court officials at their trial.

Aunt Hilda

Aunt Hilda

Played by: Estelle Windwood

Marsha's elderly aunt and accomplice, a former chemistry teacher who is convinced that she has the power of witchcraft.

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• Beware the Silly Ones: Hilda is ineffectual and silly for the most part, but her final episode has her firing tank shells for the fun of it when the villains flee in a tank.

Okie Annie

Okie Annie

Played by: Joan Staley

Shame's original love interest and lieutenant.

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• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She approaches Bruce and Dick while they're buying woman's underwear for Harriet and pleasantly offers them some advice and help. However, she's trying to lure them into a trap to steal their car.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: She isn't seen or mentioned during Shame's second appearance.
• Combat Pragmatist: Annie helps Shame defeat Batman and Robin but does so by shooting the rope holding up a chandelier (they're standing under it) rather than fighting them directly.
• Perky Female Minion: Annie is an efficient criminal, but is more upbeat than Shame. Her wardrobe includes a red cowboy hat and polka-dot patterned clothing.
• Shout-Out: Her name is a reference to the Wild West sharpshooter Annie Oakley.
• Tomboyish Ponytail: Okie Annie is a female gunfighter who has a ponytail tied back with a pink ribbon.
• Villains Out Shopping: Annie spends a while goofing off and pretending to play a self-playing piano while Shame's gang is laying low in a ghost town.

Chickadee

Chickadee

Played by: Grace Gaynor

The ex-convict cigarette girl at a nightclub Penguin opens as part of a Get into Jail Free scheme.

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• Combat Pragmatist: The only thing that keeps her from shooting Batman and Robin during a round of Good Old Fisticuffs is that they're too close to her partners for her to aim at them. To make them give up, she settles for taking Chief O'Hara hostage when he wanders in.
• Cute, but Cacophonic: Chickadee is a moll whose voice can come across as a bit jarring.
• Of Corsets Sexy: Chickadee's outfit is a corset with sleeves for her arms, and the Fanservice is played straight.
• Stocking Filler: Her outfit shows off all of her stockinged legs.
• Tap on the Head: Chickadee has the dubious honor of being the only female villain to be knocked unconscious in the series (by Aunt Harriet), but is shown to be fine in the next scene.

Blimpy

Blimpy

The most prominent of the three aviation-themed thugs working for the Puzzler.

• Stout Strength: He’s quite plump (and sensitive about it), but is a decent brawler. Blimpy also takes advantage of his girth by sitting on Robin after knocking him down.
• This Is Gonna Suck: During the climax, he is the first villain to notice that the heroes have arrived and resignedly points at them without saying a word, while sporting an unhappy expression.

Polly

Polly

Played by: Jean Hale

A hat-check girl working for the Mad Hatter.

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• Minion with an F in Evil: Polly is sad and guilty when it seems as if her boss has succeeded in killing Batman, and she shows genuine concern for both parties as they fight on top of a water tower, rather than fleeing the area.

Pussycat

Pussycat

Played by: Lesley Gore

An aspiring singer who is recruited for one of Catwoman's gangs.

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• The Apprentice: Catwoman hires her because she wants a younger sidekick to mentor like Batman does with Robin.
• Cat Girl: Catwoman has her wear a headband with imitation cat ears.
• Extreme Doormat: She never does much as Catwoman belittles her or drags her into criminal activity she has little interest in.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: She's a former singer at a go-go joint and despite her Minion with an F in Evil status, she helps Catwoman turn Robin evil with a chemical agent, causing Batman quite a bit of difficulty.
• Minion with an F in Evil: She goes along with Catwoman's schemes, but occasionally makes it clear that she was happy in her old, honest life. That being said, she does refuse to give the police any information on the rest of the gang when they arrest her and is intrigued when Catwoman puts Batman in a Death Trap.
• Pink Means Feminine: Most of her clothing and accessories are pink, and she's one of the girlier female Catwoman accomplices.
• Villains Out Shopping: Pussycat prefers singing for her friends to helping out with Catwoman's schemes.

Professor Charm

Professor Charm

Played by: Martin Kosleck

An inventor who sells Riddler a dangerous weapon.

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• Karmic Jackpot: After Charm's conscience makes him return stolen charity funds that Riddler paid for his invention, Bruce promises to help him achieve his dream of scientific recognition by getting the local institution to lower its educational standards and let him in despite his lack of a diploma.
• Tragic Dropout: Charm is a brilliant scientist, but his career has been stalled for decades because he never finished high school.

Ana Gram

Ana Gram

Played by Deanna Lund

A woman who assists the Riddler in his sole season 2 appearance. She wears a costume with a puzzle pattern.

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• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She acts nice and has a good enough reputation for the city officials to make her a prominent part of a big ceremony. Nonetheless, she helps Riddler with his plans to steal from charity and extort the city with a bomb threat.
• Cowardly Lion: She watches her boss fight the heroes without lifting a finger to help and tries to run the moment he loses, but also puts up a fierce struggle when she's seized by the arriving police.
• Meaningful Name: Her name is Ana Gram, or anagram (a word that can spell another word if the letters are rearranged), and she works for a man who loves riddles and wordplay. This also counts as Five-Second Foreshadowing since she spends most of her first scene acting like an innocent citizen.

Josie Miller

Josie Miller

Played by' Phyllis Douglas

A woman who helps Joker and several robots in a plan to take over the city's banks.

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• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She acts meek and innocent, but is excited about watching Robin get put in a Death Trap, orders the robots to attack the heroes, and has been in trouble with the law since long before falling in with her boss.
• Pet the Dog: After being arrested for a plot that involves trying to force Bruce Wayne to marry her so Joker can gain control of his fortune, she asks Batman to tell Bruce it would have been fun if the two had been married.

Freddy "The Fence" Touché

Freddy the Fence

Played by: Jacques Bergerac

A fencing instructor who also fences stolen goods.

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• Affably Evil: He maintains a charming demeanor even as he's fighting the heroes or trying to back lopsided deals to dispose of stolen goods.
• Back for the Finale: He's the only minor villain to show up working for two separate villains. The first is Catwoman in season 2. The second is Minerva in the series finale.

Neila

Neila

played by: Grace Lee Whitney

One of King Tut's handmaidens and accomplices.

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• Hazy-Feel Turn: She tries to help Tut's kidnapping victim escape, but mainly does this to remove a romantic rival.
• Ignored Enamored Underling: She's open about loving Tut in spite of his flaws, and he's equally open about not returning her feelings.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: She asks what will happen to her after the defeat of Tut's gang and the rescue of her prisoner. Robin tells her not to worry, but doesn't answer her question.

Royal Jester and Lord Chancellor

Royal Jester and Lord Chancellor

Played by: Tim O'Kelly and Lloyd Haynes

Two amnesiac Yale students who join King Tut's gang.

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• Ambiguous Situation: They seemingly suffer the same delusions as King Tut after the three of them are hit on the head by falling flowerpots. However, their advice to Tut seems greedy and clear-headed rather than delusional and subservient, raising the question of whether they're faking it.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: If they really were amnesiac, they aren't brought back to normal at the end of their two-parter, leaving their fate unclear.

Glacia Glaze

Emma Strunk/Glacia Glaze

Played by: Leslie Parrish

A famous figure skater who is in love with Mr. Freeze and assists him in his final appearance.

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• Do Not Call Me "Paul": She loathes being called her birth name, Emma Strunk.
• Pretty in Mink: She's a glamorous moll who spends several scenes in fur coats.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Her Affably Evil demeanor and status as a glamorous celebrity athlete make it hard for anyone besides the Dynamic Duo to see her in a bad light.

Shirley

Shirley

Played by:Played by: Patti Gilbert

One of King Tut's molls, and not the brightest of the bunch.

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• Brainless Beauty: Shirley might be one of Tut's prettier molls, but she's not the brightest of them and is prone to making silly comments. She does have a Not-So-Harmless Villain moment and is smart enough to realize that Bruce Wayne is Batman without any prompting when a tracking device shows the Batmobile going to Wayne Manor, but there's no indication that she's Obfuscating Stupidity the rest of the time. When Tut says he'll need to see Batman and Bruce Wayne simultaneously before he'll believe they aren't the same person, Shirley adds "Or at the same time. Whichever comes first." Tut even lampshades her ditziness a couple of times.
  King Tut: (to Batgirl) I could always use a smart girl in my line of work. The ones I've had lately are rather inferior.
• Cute, but Cacophonic: Her voice is less attractive than the rest of her.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: She seems like The Load and The Ditz at first, after Batgirl defeats Tut's male goons, Shirley she sneaks up behind her after she defeats Tut's male goons and whacks her over the head with a vase.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: She sneaks off as Tut and his gang fight with all three heroes. She doesn't get far though, as she's seen handcuffed in Commissioner Gordon's office in the next scene.

A hidden ally of Olga, Queen of the Cossacks (SPOILERS)

Omar Orloff

Played by: Alfred Dennis

A foreign ambassador who seemingly works with the heroes to thwart the evil schemes of Olga and Egghead but secretly views Olga as his legitimate queen and is helping her.

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• Alliterative Name: O is the first letter of both of his names.
• The Mole: He acts like a flustered diplomat who wants to help the heroes, when he’s really spying on them and luring them into a trap.

Undine

Undine

Played by: Sivi Aberg

A woman who helps Joker with his plan to corrupt the youth of Gotham by becoming a surfing champion.

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• Light Is Not Good: She's a pale, blonde woman with a white swimsuit, but she's one of Joker's more ruthless molls.
• Shoe Phone: She contacts Joker by using a phone disguised as a hot dog. Deconstructed when Batman and Robin pick up on this after a scene or two.
• Walking Swimsuit Scene: She spends all of her screen time in a two-piece bikini, although she does work at the beach.

A disloyal associate of Lord Ffogg (SPOILERS)

Lady Prudence Ffogg

Played by: Lyn Peters

Lord Ffogg's ambitious daughter.

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• Faux Action Girl: The school she attends teaches judo, but Lady Prudence never uses it against anyone.
• Insistent Terminology: Her father and aunt always call her Lady Prudence instead of just Prudence.
• Manipulative Bitch: She pretends to be an innocent teenager who dislikes her father and aunt's criminal actions, but she's really just trying to get her relatives arrested so their wealth and lands will pass to her.
• Villainesses Want Heroes: While she's using Robin, she does seem to show some genuine affection for him during her arrest.

Basil

Basil

Played by: Monte Landis

Lord Ffogg's butler and enforcer.

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• Battle Butler: Basil is Ffogg's butler and is also a thug who repeatedly clashes with Batman.
• Exact Eavesdropping: He's constantly eavesdropping (or at least attempting to eavesdrop) on friends and enemies alike.
• Murder Is the Best Solution: Basil's first reaction to hearing that Batman is visiting the family mansion is to suggest having the chauffeur and footman dig a grave out back.
• Perpetual Frowner: Scowls and sneers are the only facial expressions Basil seems to know.

Fred

Fernando Ricardo Enrique Dominguez aka Fred

Played by: Barry Dennen

One of Shame's henchmen, a well-spoken snarker.

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• Sarcastic Devotee: Fred follows Shame loyally, but constantly uses big words to dryly insult his plans and intelligence.

Suleiman the Great

Suleiman the Great

Played by: Joe E. Tata

A member of Tut's final gang.

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• Cool Shades: He's a flashy thug who wears very dark glasses.
• Professional Butt-Kisser: He and Tut's moll Florence get into a competition trying to come up with more flowery honorifics to shower upon King Tut. Suleiman comes out on top with "Don Juan of Aswan."

Florence of Arabia

Florence of Arabia

Played by: Victoria Vetri

A belly dancer who works for Tut in his last episode.

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• Grew a Spine: After Tut's gang discovers Batman and Robin's secret identities, Florence cowers during the fight but then cockily says the heroes will have to kill her to keep their secret. They just spray her with amnesia gas instead.
• Paid Harem: Even more openly than most female accomplices in the show. She doesn't do much to help Tut's schemes, but he makes a quip about her "assets outnumbering your liabilities."

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