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* [[Characters/DCAUBatmanTheAnimatedSeriesRoguesGalleryPart1 Part 1]][[note]]The Joker, Harley Quinn (Dr. Harleen Quinzel), Two-Face (Harvey Dent), Catwoman (Selina Kyle), Poison Ivy (Pamela Isley), Ra's al Ghul, Talia al Ghul[[/note]]
* [[Characters/DCAUBatmanTheAnimatedSeriesRoguesGalleryPart2 Part 2]][[note]]Mr. Freeze (Dr. Victor Fries), The Penguin (Oswald Cobblepot), The Riddler (Edward Nygma), The Scarecrow (Dr. Jonathan Crane), The Mad Hatter (Jervis Tetch), Clayface (Matt Hagen), Man-Bat (Dr. Kirk Langstrom), Killer Croc, The Ventriloquist/Scarface (Arnold Wesker), Bane, The Clock King (Temple Fugate), Baby Doll (Mary Louise Dahl), Firefly (Garfield Lynns), The Phantasm, Roxy Rocket (Roxanne Sutton)[[/note]]
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* [[Characters/DCAUBatmanTheAnimatedSeriesRoguesGalleryPart1 Part 1]]
* [[Characters/DCAUBatmanTheAnimatedSeriesRoguesGalleryPart2 Part 2]]

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[[folder:The Joker]]
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--> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/MarkHamill

--> ''"It'd be funny if it weren't so ''pathetic''... Oh, what the heck, I'll laugh anyway!"''

A lowly gangster, known to some as Jack Napier, working for Sal Valestra who, one night, during a mishap encounter with Batman in a chemical factory, falls into a vat of unknown chemicals which stain his skin a sickly white, turn his hair green and leave him with a twisted smile. From then, he rose to become the greatest villain known to the streets of Gotham City (and beyond), SelfDemownstrating/TheJoker. He is the [[ArchEnemy arch-nemesis]] of Batman and has a penchant for turning all his crimes into a game for his own amusement. He developed a strange toxin called "Joker Gas" (or "Laughing Gas" on occasion) that can cause a victim to laugh themselves to death, leaving them with a disturbing grin.

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: A large part of his appeal is that despite being a psychotic sadist, Joker IS actually very funny when he wants to be.
* AndYourLittleDogToo: Threatens Charlie Collins' wife and son.
* AnswersToTheNameOfGod: He pulls of a more family-friendly version on a copyright official.
-->'''Mr. Francis:''' Great Scott!
-->'''Joker:''' ''Actually'', I'm Irish.
* AntagonistInMourning: His reaction to Batman's "death." Because ''[[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou he]]'' [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou wanted to defeat Batman]] and because "[[VictoryIsBoring without Batman, crime has no punchline]]."
* AnythingButThat: He does pick his targets; "I'm crazy enough to take on Batman, but the IRS? ''No'' thank you!!"
* ArchEnemy: To Batman. He ''is'' the Joker after all. In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'', years into the future, Terry [=McGinnis=] noted that, while the retired Bruce Wayne openly discussed his other enemies, he avoided mentioning Joker. Bruce criticized the notion of the Arch-Enemy by pointing out:
-->It wasn't a popularity contest. He was a psychopath, a monster.
* AxCrazy: When ticked off. His general unpredictability is part of what makes him the scariest criminal in Gotham.
* {{Badass}}: You can't be Batman's biggest threat otherwise now can you? [[BadassNormal Bonus points for the fact that he has absolutely ''zero'' superpowers!]] He also came closer to killing Superman than anyone besides Darkseid.
* BadassInANiceSuit / BadAssLongCoat: He does sport a pretty cool one, believe it or not. His long coat is not particularly stylish when compared to his suit, but it still looks good.
* BadBoss: In case you ever forget how much of an asshole he is, just look at the way he abuses Harley sometimes.
* BerserkButton:
** Don't ever pull a prank on this guy. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-rhhbZ6GBI You'll be lucky if you're already dead]].
** [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou Don't try to kill Batman if you work for him]].
** [[DontExplainTheJoke "If you have to explain the joke, there is no joke!!"]]
* BigBad: In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm'' and ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker''. He's also the most recurring threat out of all the villains, although in terms of scale, he doesn't ''quite'' match Ra's.
** BigBadDuumvirate: With SelfDemonstrating/LexLuthor in "World's Finest," though he's technically TheDragon in this case, [[EvilerThanThou until he decides to take a step up]].
* BlackEyesOfCrazy: In the revamp.
* BluntYes: He and Harley Quinn ran out of gas during an escape. When he berated her for not refueling the car, she reminded him they were broke and asked what he wanted her to do: "fill the tank, shoot the guy and drive off?" The Joker silently nodded and she complained he didn't tell her before.
* BondOneLiner: ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm'' has Joker delivering a death threat to a foe's apartment via phone...at the same time as a remote-controlled plane bombed said apartment to smithereens. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, Batman was in said apartment to snoop around and managed to divert the plane with a Batarang, but it ''would'' have been a straight example for the intended recipient.]] The telephone used for the threat is intact enough for the Joker to deliver the following gem:
-->'''Joker:''' (''over the phone'') Hello? Hello, operator? I believe my party's been...disconnected! [[EvilLaugh HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!]]
* BookEnds: In his first appearance in "Christmas With the Joker," he hijacks a television station to air his own personal Christmas special. In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode "Wild Cards," his final {{DCAU}} appearance (in order of release date), the Joker hijacks ''several'' television stations so as to enact a plan involving the Royal Flush Gang and several bombs placed all over Las Vegas.
* BowtiesAreCool: He certainly thinks so, even making a point of adjusting his bowtie while remarking that he's a "much better dresser" than Batman.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: About 2/3 of the way through "Christmas with the Joker," he tells all the Gothamites who are watching that his Christmas special will return after "a word from our sponsor." Both the fictional program and the episode itself then cut to a commercial break in our own world. (The gag is ruined on DVD, where there are no commercial interruptions.)
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: His ultimate response to ruining Charlie Collins' life and then killing him is akin to someone finishing off a collection--he just decides to get a new hobby.
-->'''Joker''': (''casually'') Looks like I'll need to get a new hobby now that Charlie's... ("dead" gesture) ffft.
-->'''Harley''': (''even more casual'') Macramé's nice.
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:''Mask of the Phantasm'' has a mobster that appears in the back of an old photo and is seen when Andrea and Bruce are about to talk to Andrea's father about the engagement. Turns out that's the man that would later become the Joker.]]
* CombatPragmatist: One reason he's so dangerous in a fight.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: Tries to do this in "The Laughing Fish" by infecting all of the fish in Gotham with a toxin that gives them Joker grins, then claiming that that gives him the right to copyright all fish in Gotham. He clearly thinks of this as a great way to get money legally. Unfortunately, copyright law doesn't work even a little bit like that, and he grows quite angry when this is pointed out to him. His "solution" is to start poisoning the staff of the copyright office one-by-one with his smile toxin until they agree to see it his way. Its hinted that he already knew he wouldnt be able to copyright the fish, and was just doing it as an excuse to torture the copyright clerks and draw in Batman for a trap.
* DartboardOfHate:
** A TV example where he throws a pie on his own TV as if he's hitting the Mayor's face.
** He flings darts at a newspaper's front-page photograph of Commissioner Gordon.
** A dartboard with a photo of Batman on it can be seen in his hideout on several occasions.
* DeathDealer: Packs razor-edged playing cards on occasion.
* DisproportionateRetribution: He was guilty of this on more or less a regular basis.
** In "The Laughing Fish," the Joker introduces his smile toxin into the fish supply of Gotham Harbor, hoping to trademark the red-lipped, grinning ichthyoids and sell them in supermarkets. When told that he cannot trademark fish, he retaliates by carrying out an elaborate scheme to murder everyone in the Gotham City patent office until he gets his way. Subverted in that Batman points out that Joker is smart enough to know that the law doesnt work like that, and he's just doing it ForTheEvulz.
** In "The Joker's Wild," an entrepreneur opens a casino in Gotham City based on the Joker's likeness and gimmicks. Joker is so incensed that a complete stranger would try to "cash in on my image" that he plots to blow the casino up. Ironically, [[spoiler:the entire point of the entrepreneur cashing in on Joker's image was that he ''wanted'' Joker to come and trash the place. The entire place was set up for an insurance scam]]. Too bad for him, the Joker eventually decided he would rather kill the guy and run the place himself...
** In "Be a Clown," Mayor Hamilton Hill (who despises Batman) appears on television claiming that Batman and the Joker are equally as bad. Joker finds this comparison so insulting that, disguised as a party clown, he crashes a birthday party held at the mayor's estate for his son, Jordan, and attempts to blow up Jordan's birthday party (along with all the guests) with a stick of dynamite in the cake.
** In "Make 'Em Laugh," the Joker, bitter about being disqualified from an annual stand-up comedy competition (because he hadn't registered as a competitor), steals some mind-control implants from the Mad Hatter, kidnaps the three comedians who serve as judges in the annual competition, fits them with the implants and warps them into becoming costumed criminals who attempt reckless capers (with one of the brainwashed judges winding up in the hospital after falling off a bridge) and replaces the judges with his own men just so he can win the trophy. Batman puts it well: "Only you would ruin three lives for a silly piece of tin."
--->'''Joker''': It's not about the piece of tin! It's about the title!
** The most extreme example, however, had to be that depicted in "Joker's Favor." After rudely cutting off another motorist, Charlie Collins, on the freeway, Joker is yelled at by Collins and retaliates by forcing him off the road and chasing him into the woods, threatening to kill him when he catches him. Collins begs for his life, and Joker agrees to spare him if he will perform "a favor" for Joker sometime in the future. Collins promptly changes his name and relocates his family to Ohio, but Joker obsessively stalks him and finally tracks him down, forcing him to honor the favor owed to him. Once Collins has done this favor (which makes him an unwitting accessory to the attempted assassination of Commissioner Gordon), Joker tries to do him in for good. When Collins survives and finally works up the nerve to confront his tormentor, Joker threatens to kill his family. All this because of a minor altercation on the freeway.
--->'''Charlie Collins:''' Exactly at what point did I become [[CosmicPlaything life's punching bag]]?
** Inverted in "The Last Laugh." After Batman destroys the Joker's pet robot Captain Clown (which Joker considers murder, since Captain Clown was his best friend). Joker retaliates by...[[PokeThePoodle dumping a forklift full of smelly garbage right on top of Batman]].
* DoNotAdjustYourSet: Does this all the time, most notably in "Christmas with the Joker" and "Wild Card."
* DomesticAbuser: The Joker and Harley have what is, beneath the make-up, a classic abusive relationship filled with emotional trauma and physical violence.
* DontTryThisAtHome: Escapes from Arhkam with a rather dangerous-looking stunt--tying a rock around a rope made from bedsheets, using it as a grapple to snag a truck passing by the asylum, and using it to pull himself over the fence. He laughs [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall "Don't try this at home, kiddies!"]] before he pulls it off.
* TheDragon: To Luthor on occasion, notably "World's Finest" and "Injustice For All," in which he strong-arms his position into Lex's right-hand man.
** TheStarscream: Turns out to be ''much'' more dangerous than Luthor in ''World's Finest.''
* TheDreaded: Not so much in the beginning, but once word got out about how frightening he was?
* DrivenToSuicide:
-->'''Batgirl''': Don't be stupid! You can't save that money!
-->'''Joker''': I don't wanna save it! I wanna go ''with'' it!
* ElectricJoybuzzer: A favorite gadget of his.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Joker might crazy enough to take on Batman, but not even he has the guts to take on the [=IRS=]. Plus his meetings with the Creeper.
* EvilGenius: Beneath his makeup, Joker is extremely intelligent with a great knowledge of chemistry which he uses to make his Joker Gas and is a brilliant GadgeteerGenius, capable of building robots like Captain Clown. [[spoiler: He boasts of this, with some justice, in ''Return of the Joker'' by pointing out that he used cutting-edge genetics to orchestrate his GrandTheftMe, claiming that he was "years ahead of his time" in pulling of the nearest thing to a science fiction SoulJar]].
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: Of the "killing people with laughing gas and bombing a whole city is a ''hoot''" variety.
* EvilIsNotAToy: Many people who get him as a PsychoForHire eventually find this out the hard way, often when they've ordered him around one time too many or the game's just gotten boring. Just ask SelfDemonstrating/LexLuthor and [[spoiler:Salvatore Valestra]].
* EvilIsPetty: See DisproportionateRetribution above.
* EvilerThanThou: To Lex Luthor. In "World's Finest," Luthor thought he held his strings the entire time and when the Joker failed to kill Superman (though he came closer than almost anyone previously), tries to betray and kill him. This turned out to be an incredibly '''BAD''' idea.
* EvilLaugh: His most marked feature, which Creator/MarkHamill turned into the most [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb8fWUUXeKM strangely magnificent art form]]. He [[http://youtu.be/_gBWpWwIBKw?t=1m25s talked about practicing said laughs while driving to work]] and remarked about how ''strange'' he had to have looked while doing so.
* EvilSoundsDeep: When Joker's voice gets deep, it's a sign that he's ''not'' amused, at least earlier on. As Hamill got older, his voice gradually got deeper, with ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' having his voice at its deepest.
* EvilSoundsRaspy: In addition to becoming deeper, his voice also got much raspier as time went on.
* FamousLastWords:
** [[spoiler:"That's not funny... that's not..."]]
** [[spoiler:Technically, [[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker his second life]] has "I can't hear you!"]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: A great example is from ''The Laughing Fish''. He politely enters a copyright office and tries getting his fish patented legally, then slaps a copyright bureaucrat with a fish and threatens to murder him when it turns out that's not how it works.
* FedToTheBeast: He threatens to throw people to his hyenas, though whether or not he actually follows through on this threat is rather unclear.
* FirstLawOfResurrection: Appears to die several times in the series proper. Never sticks. [[spoiler:Until ''Return of the Joker''.]]
* FleetingPassionateHobbies: Darkly invoked in Charlie Collins' case; see ButForMeItWasTuesday.
* AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted: Upon coming into possession of $250 million in "Joker's Millions," he immediately blows most, if not all, of it on things like mansions, fast cars and the like. [[spoiler:The guy who willed it to him, mobster "King" Barlowe, anticipated that he would do this and made it the cornerstone of his ThanatosGambit.]]
* ForgotToPayTheBill: "Joker's Millions"
* ForTheEvulz: When he isn't [[PsychoForHire selling his services]].
* FromNobodyToNightmare: His origins are rather meager as a thug working for Sal Valestra (shown during ''Mask of the Phantasm'') but after just one botched job, he rises to become so much more...\\
In the {{DCAU}} MythArc, he starts as a common criminal, becomes a {{supervillain}} with a gimmick, and becomes progressively dangerous. After Batman shuts down his operations in Gotham, he moves to other cities like Metropolis and Las Vegas, and becomes [[SerialEscalation increasingly dangerous]] on a nationwide scale. In BTAS, he shifts from both extremes on a daily basis; some days he'll pull of silly crimes like hijacking a comedy competition, while other days he'll launch a city-scale air strike or hold the city ransom by using a nuclear weapon.
* FunnyAnsweringMachine: Naturally, it's also disturbing.
-->'''Joker''': (''laughs'') Boy, did ''you'' get a wrong number. Leave your message at the sound of the shriek.
-->'''Man's voice''': No! Please! Don't! (''shrieks'')
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy:
** When, in "Joker's Millions," he ''really'' needs to get some cash, he deliberately plans a heist with none of his trademarks so that Batman wouldn't be able to trace it back to him, and has one of his goons put on white makeup and hang out at the Penguin's club so he'll have an alibi. [[spoiler:It doesn't work when Bruce Wayne sees the henchman's makeup sweat off.]]
** He insists that his men try to shoot Bruce Wayne down in "World's Finest" and do so quickly, aware that Superman will interfere quickly.
** In his two-part stint as an ArcVillain in ''Justice League'', [[spoiler:it turns out that he had a second plan after all, and that the first was just a diversion. The second plan in question was made possible because the League played into his hands]].
** When he joins the Injustice Gang, he's the only one to insist that they kill Batman ASAP.
* GigglingVillain: Though often as a prelude to more maniacal laughter.
* GivingThemTheStrip: Batman tries to grab him, only to end up holding his cardigan, complete with a false set of arms.
* HangingJudge: Masquerades as one during "Trial," complete with powdered wig.
* HatesBeingTouched:
-->'''Joker''': Don't ''touch'' me, old man! [[MoodWhiplash ...I don't know where you've been!]]
* HiddenDepths: While the audience knows better and never underestimates him, other villains tend to think he's just a harmless clown at first. The Joker Gas is something of his own concoction and virtually every contribution to the story of ''Return of The Joker'' is methodical and well-thought out. He also seems to have an air of {{Genre Savv|y}}iness about him.
** While generally gleeful and aloof, several episodes delve into just how ''obsessed'' he is with killing Batman. In ''The Man Who Killed Batman,'' the prospect of being unable to do so brings him to tears. In ''Mad Love'', he nearly murders Harley for attempting to kill Batman in his stead. He drops his gleeful façade when Batman notes that Harley came closer to killing him than he ever did, losing his composure and attacking Batman in an much more animalistic fashion than usual. In ''Joker's Favor,'' Joker responds to Charlie Collins' threats by screaming at and violently threatening Collins and his family. His typically lax attitude towards death is dropped when Collins notes that dying then and there would mean never having the chance for a final battle with Batman, at which point Joker starts begging for his life.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In ''Joker's Favor,'' he's ultimately beaten and humiliated by one of his own dud bombs.
* HomemadeSweaterFromHell: Wears a rather subdued example for his [[DoNotAdjustYourSet "Christmas special."]]
* TheHyena: C'mon. It's ''The Joker''.
* {{Hypocrite}}: In "Mad Love," he yells at Harley for suggesting that he just shoot Batman. Then, after Harley captures Batman and she tells him to come over, he throws her out of a window and is about to set Batman free, only to try and just shoot him.
* IHaveManyNames: He's said to have had many alias pre-Joker in "Beware the Creeper". However, it is a retcon as Dr. Bartholomew in "Dreams in Darkness" and a file on Kaiser's desk in "Joker's Wild" both state that, like in the 1989 ''Film/{{Batman}}'' movie, his real name is Jack Napier.
* IgnoreTheFanservice: To Harley in "Mad Love" and "Beware the Creeper."
* ImplacableMan: He manages to find Charlie Collins wherever he goes, no matter Charlie's maneuvers to lose him.
* {{Incoming|Ham}} [[Creator/MarkHamill Hamill]]: He's introduced via singing Christmas songs while escaping from Arkham on a rocket disguised as a tree.
--> Crashing through the roof, in a one-horse open tree...
* InsaneTrollLogic: "The Laughing Fish" revolves around him poisoning all of Gotham's fish so they have creepy Joker smiles, which he then tries to use as a reason to copyright all fish products. When the guy at the copyright office points out that he can't do that because copyright doesn't work that way, he is ''very'' angry.
* InstantSoprano: At the time, a GroinAttack could be included in the show with [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar careful positioning]]. To indicate to the viewer that it actually had happened, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAWvgPO_s7w the Joker's voice got noticeably higher]].
* {{Irony}}: He does want people to laugh, albeit in his own sick, insane way, but as Terry points out in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'', he really sucks at being a comedian in any form.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Any affection he shows towards Harley is merely a means to keep her on his side.
* JokerImmunity: Survives bad incident after bad incident.
* JumpingOutOfACake: "Joker's Favor"
* KarmaHoudini: The madman causes massacre after massacre and rarely receives any real punishment for it. [[spoiler: Subverted in ''Return of the Joker". After gleefully leaping over the MoralEventHorizon by torturing Robin to insanity, he's either electrocuted to death or shot.]]
* KickMePrank: In "The Man Who Killed Batman," the criminals hold a funeral for Batman, who is thought dead. The Joker attaches a "Kick Me" sign to Batman's empty cape and cowl before it is to be sealed in a coffin.
* KickTheDog: Harley and especially [[spoiler:Tim Drake]].
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:In a subversion of [[JokerImmunity the very trope named after him]], the Joker eventually got this treatment in the Franchise/{{DCAU}}. Yes, having proven himself as much of a survivor as his counterpart in the comics, every bit the "no one" in NoOneCouldSurviveThat, ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' took the big leap and put him down once and for all--killing him twice; first his body was destroyed and buried deep within Arkham Asylum in a flashback, then the chip containing a copy of his DNA and memories was burned out, just to make sure he won't be coming back. (In just a bit of a cheat, the event occurs at the far end of the universe-at-large's history, allowing him to show up in stories taking place earlier; ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' took advantage of this.)]]
* KillerYoyo: Has used one at least twice.
* KnightOfCerebus: {{Inverted}}. A lot of his crimes and schemes revolve around comedy, or at least, what he perceives as comedy--which is arguably what makes him one of the most threatening and terrifying villains in the series.
* KnifeNut: Often wields knives when fighting Batman directly.
* LackOfEmpathy: Very clearly feels none of the pain that he causes others.
* LargeHam: Did we mention he's The Joker?
* LaughablyEvil: ZigZagged. His sheer insanity is sometimes PlayedForLaughs as evidenced when he kidnapped three people and threatened to kill them along with several others just for the sake of [[spoiler:throwing a pie in Batman's face]]. Similarly, his propensity for pettiness is also used as a source of comedy in "Make 'Em Laugh" and "Joker's Millions." Nevertheless, despite such occasional moments of levity involving his character, he holds the notorious distinction of being the most sinister and abhorrent of Gotham's Rogues due to his willingness to [[WouldHurtAChild directly target children]], his central role in depriving Bruce Wayne (AKA Batman) of his last chance for happiness in ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm Mask of the Phantasm]]'', his horrific abuse of Harley Quinzel, as well as [[spoiler:his torture of Tim Drake]].
* LaughingMad: C'mon. It's ''The Joker''.
* LaughTrack: In "Christmas with the Joker," he uses a laugh track in grossly inappropriate fashion while discussing violence/terrorism. It's possibly a secondary LampshadeHanging that the "audience" he's using is revealed to be cardboard cutouts.
* LostInACrowd: In "Joker's Wild" and "Holiday Knights."
* LukeIAmYourFather: Averted. WordOfGod stated that Joker is not related to the Dee-Dee twins, although Harley Quinn was.
* MadScientist: At ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'', he claims to be one. FridgeBrilliance if you think that he must have been creating Joker Venom from common chemicals:
-->'''Joker:''' Beneath this puckish exterior lies the mind of a genius years ahead of my time. In the weeks young Robin was under my tutelage, I used him as the subject of my greatest experiment. Using cutting-edge genetics technology which I pinched here and there, I encoded my DNA in a microchip and set it in [[spoiler:Bird Boy's bird brain]].
* ManipulativeBastard: He plays this trope ''very'' well, being able to manipulate police, Batman and the Justice League at one point. It's also the entire reason Harley is in love with him.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Almost always wears a purple tuxedo.
* MasterPoisoner: He makes all of his own toxins.
* MoneyToThrowAway: Hopefully most of the money he was tossing was the counterfeit stuff King Barlowe had tricked him with.
* MonsterClown: Something about the way he's drawn in ''Justice League'' makes him creepy to simply look at.
* MoralMyopia: "You killed Captain Clown. '''[[SeriousBusiness YOU KILLED CAPTAIN CLOWN!!!]]'''" (Captain Clown was a mindless robot.)
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Often animated with more teeth than the human mouth should be able to hold.
* MultipleChoicePast: "Mad Love" demonstrates that he has offered several [[FreudianExcuse tragic backstories]] to those who ask.
* NearVillainVictory: In "World's Finest," he has Superman trapped in a room with Kryptonite and dances around him electrocuting him, with no way out. Had Batman not pulled out a BigDamnHeroes, Superman would have died.
* NerfArm: In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm'', he has the choice to fight the Phantasm with either a [[{{BFS}} giant, menacing, kitchen knife]] or a processed Bologna log. Guess which one he chooses.
* NeverFoundTheBody: Pulled this off often during the series.
* NiceHat: Occasionally dons a fedora when he's outdoors, and wears a top hat in "Harlequinade" (which he then pulls a bomb out of).
* NoOneShouldSurviveThat: He has survived falls and explosions, and seems immortal, hence the term JokerImmunity. [[spoiler:Ironically, he is KilledOffForReal in the ''Batman Beyond'' movie.]]
* NotDistractedByTheSexy: Several times, to Harley's chagrin.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: As both Lex Luthor and Superman found out.
* OffModel: He in particular seemed oddly prone to this in BTAS.
* OffscreenTeleportation: Specifically in the beginning of "Joker's Favor," where he is able to appear in front of Charlie in a forest despite taking a while to start pursuing him.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: There are some episodes that has Joker showcasing this trope towards Batman. For example, "Mad Love," where even Harley is not exempt from this.
* ParanoiaGambit: In "Joker's Millions," he inherits a fortune and uses it to buy his freedom, then spends a montage living it up as a rich man. When asked by Penguin what his scheme is, Joker remarks that he has none; the knowledge that the Bat-family can't touch him and that it's upsetting Batman is good enough.
* PoisonousCaptive: He talked his psychiatrist Harleen Quinzel into becoming Harley Quinn while still in Arkham. And it was implied early in the episode that he compromised the ones before her in a similar fashion.
* PsychoForHire: When he's not {{f|orTheEvulz}}reelancing.
* PsychopathicManchild: Andrea Beaumont, in the comic book sequel to ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm'', hesitated for a second from putting him at the core of the explosion consuming the fairgrounds due to the Joker's transformation turning him into "an insane clown, untouched by fear, incapable of remorse."
* PungeonMaster: Lapses into this on occasion--puns are a form of humor, after all.
* PutTheLaughterInSlaughter: Probably the poster boy for this trope. He'll kill people with laughter on occasion too.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: His design in both the flashback (which was later reused for ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'' and ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'') and the future designs for ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'', which according to WordOfGod, was a deliberate ShoutOut to ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' along with the slicked back hair on the latter design.
* RevengeSVP: In "Joker's Favor," though it's more likely he's just taking the chance to kill Gordon while his guard is down, Joker claims that he plans to attack Gordon's testimonial just because he wasn't invited.
* SarcasmFailure:
** In ''Almost Got 'Im'', the Joker, who is saving his story for last, spends most of the episode quipping at and mocking the other villains' stories. However, Killer Croc's story is so dumb Joker can only stare dumbfounded at him, with this sort of "what-is-this-guy-even-''doing''-here" expression frozen on his face.
** In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'', he spends most of the film quipping, laughing, and generally being his usual MonsterClown self (with a bit of [[SurroundedByIdiots anger on the side]]). The only scene that makes him drop it all is [[spoiler:when Tim Drake shoots him]].
--->'''The Joker:''' That's not funny... That's not...
* SecretIdentityApathy: Surprisingly [[AvertedTrope averted]]. This version of The Joker actually doesn't seem to have a problem with finding out The Batman's true identity as shown in ''The Strange Secret of Bruce Wayne'' when he pools him money together with The Penguin and Two-Face to find out Batman's identity from Hugo Strange. [[spoiler: Or in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' where he [[WouldHurtAChild tortures Tim Drake]] in order to force him to reveal Batman's identity. Although he admits that the truth is a bit anticlimactic in the end]].
* SeriousBusiness: The Joker kidnaps and brainwashes three famous comedians all so that he can rig a comedy competition. As he explains, it is not about the trophy, it is about the ''title''.
* ShamuFu: In ''The Laughing Fish'' The Joker hits an accountant with a fish for interrupting him.
* SharpDressedMan: Mentions this about himself.
-->'''Joker''': '''WHAT?!!''' Compare me to Batman?! I got more style, more brains! I'm certainly a better dresser!
* ShootTheTelevision: In "Joker's Millions", he shoots the VideoWill in which his benefactor reveals [[spoiler:most of the money is fake]].
* SlasherSmile: Wears a permanent one.
* TheSociopath: The most clear-cut example among Batman's major nemeses. [[spoiler:Even his pre-acid dip incarnation who only appears briefly in flashbacks, has shades of this.]]
* StepfordConsumer: One of his schemes involved making a commercial. Even with the Joker's usual level of trademark enthusiasm, the commercial barely seemed out of place.
* SuperWindowJump: Despite being aware enough about the silliness, he does one (from a considerable height) of his own in ''Mask of the Phantasm''. But then again he IS smart enough to be aware of his own JokerImmunity.
* SueDonym: In ''Joker's Millions'', the impoverished Joker is living in a cheap apartment due to money issues. When heading in, he's addressed at the front desk as a "Mr. Ker" implying he signed his name as "Joe Ker" when renting the place.
* TakeAThirdOption: In "Joker's Millions", since he has two choices (either go to jail for tax evasion or admit that he's been fooled and become a laughing stock), he chooses to commit a crime to get his fortune back.
* ThanatosGambit: [[spoiler: How he circumnavigates death at the hands of Tim Drake.]]
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: He assaults Harley for capturing Batman and putting him in a death trap, insisting only he should be the one to end Batman's life.
* ThrowDownTheBomblet: He's used a variety of explosives in combat, including seemingly ordinary-looking marbles and grenades with his own face painted on them.
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:When he goes all "GrandTheftMe" on Tim Drake, he utilises the training that he has available to great effect]]. Even earlier in the Superman/Batman three-part episode ''World's Finest'', he comes perilously close to killing Superman, coming closer than any villain except Darkseid.
* TrainEscape: In "Mad Love" the Joker falls off a ledge onto a train's roof during a chase scene. He tries to taunt Batman, [[StealthHiBye only to find him standing right behind his back]].
* UnexpectedInheritance: "Joker's Millions". [[spoiler:Most of it is fake.]]
* UnexplainedRecovery:
** For examples of him being a master of this kind of thing, see ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm'' and ''The Batman/Superman Movie''.
-->'''Harley:''' ''Puddin'!''\\
'''Batman:''' [[BondOneLiner At this point, he probably is.]]
** [[Recap/TheNewBatmanAdventuresE21MadLove The episode]] (and earlier comic) for the {{Trope Namer|s}} of MadLove features Batman punching him off a moving track and falling directly into a factory's smokestack. He lives, [[JokerImmunity of course]], and by this point his ability to survive anything is so taken for granted not even a cursory attempt is made to explain it.
* UnwittingPawn: Cameron Kaiser builds a casino themed after him. Joker is understandably incensed, breaks out of Arkham to punish this act of image-theft by blowing up the joint. As Batman finds out, Kaiser had spent too much on his building, and gave it a Joker-theme so the Joker would do just that, and then cash in on the insurance.
* VictoryIsBoring: In ''The Man Who Killed Batman'', Joker is clearly unconvinced of his nemesis's demise and goes about robbing a diamond store to force Batman to come thwart him. After a standoff several hours long, he grudgingly admits his greatest foe is gone and that [[AntagonistInMourning crime is no more fun without him.]] He orders his gang to take nothing and leaves empty handed.
* VillainousBreakdown: Has a funny one, being bullied by Charlie Collins and [[EntitledBastard calling Batman for help!]]
** Has a much more straight version in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' after Terry dissects his psyche and [[BreakThemByTalking points out that while he may be a pretty intimidating super villain he's a pathetic comedian]] and then starts laughing at him.
--> '''Joker:''' Don't you laugh at me!
--> '''Terry:''' Why? I thought The Joker always wanted to make the Batman laugh?
--> '''Joker:''' '''YOU'RE NOT BATMAN!!!'''
* VillainousCheekbones: All the better to showcase his enormous smile.
* VillainsOutShopping: After he throws out Harley, we next see him stumbling around his hideout in boxers, [[MenCantKeepHouse forgetting to feed the hyenas and unable find his socks]]. The commentary jokes that there's a good reason [[{{Squick}} we rarely see him in his underwear...]]
* VillainsWantMercy: Hanging over a pit of molten metal:
-->'''Joker:''' Batman! You wouldn't let me fry, would you?\\
'''Batman:''' ''(humorously considers it)''\\
'''Joker:''' BATMAN! ''(Batman pulls him up)''
* WeHaveReserves: In the "Trial" episode:
-->'''Scarface''': Hold on, you'll hit Croc!
-->'''Joker''': [[LackOfEmpathy What's your point?]]
* WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys: Not addressed in the episode, but in "Christmas with the Joker", you have to wonder how and when he managed to get the facilities to broadcast a TV show on every channel, turn an observatory telescope into a giant cannon and construct all those giant toys with his face on them.
* WorthyOpponent: You'd ''think'' he considers Batman one, but in reality it's [[AvertedTrope averted]]: the Joker doesn't respect Batman's habit of being unbreakable, he '''''hates''''' him for it, and only goes through all the complex schemes he does because he wants to defeat Batman completely and utterly. [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou As long as it's by his plotting that Batman falls]], he has zero problems seeing him dead. His line in ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker Return of the Joker]]'' really hammers it home:
-->'''Joker''': "I guess I should salute you as a 'worthy adversary' and all that, but the truth is... I really did ''hate your guts''." *blows raspberry*
* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: The Joker, oddly enough, occasionally peppers his speech with Yiddish, despite his claim in at least one episode of being Irish. He could be of mixed Irish/Ashkenazi descent, or just [[ShoutOut following the example]] of the many famous comedians who had Jewish roots. Knowing the Joker though, he might simply do what entertains him at the moment.
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[[folder:Harley Quinn (Dr. Harleen Quinzel)]]
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--> '''Voiced By:''' Arleen Sorkin

--> ''"You'd think after livin' with Mistah J I'd be used to a little pain...''"

A psychologist who encountered The Joker in Arkham Asylum. She became enamored with her patient, eventually aligning herself with him as his assistant.

* ActionGirl: From time to time.
* {{Adorkable}}: When she tries to interact with the public after her short lived release from Arkham
* AffablyEvil: As opposed to the FauxAffablyEvil Joker
* AfraidOfNeedles: Cries like a little girl when Poison Ivy gives her a shot in ''Harley and Ivy''. Harley even {{lampshade|Hanging}}s this by saying, "You'd think I'd be used to a little pain after hangin' out with Mistah J."
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys [[BiTheWay or Girls]]: Is dating ''The Joker'', and has a quasi-romantic relationship with Poison Ivy.
* AllTakeAndNoGive: Any relationship with Harley Quinn. She invokes this trope being the lover of SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker and Poison Ivy's friend. Justified because those two are [[TheSociopath sociopaths]]. At WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker we see that Harley has this type of relationship with her granddaughters.
* AntiLoveSong: Does a truly demented one in the episode ''Harlequinade'', called "Say That We're Sweethearts Again" from a 1944 movie called ''Meet The People''.
* AntiVillain: Her cheery attitude makes her seem less malicious than most of the rest of the RoguesGallery. When she's at her nicest - such as in ''Harlequinade'' and ''especially'' ''Harley's Holiday -'' she barely seems villainous at all, instead coming off as an sweet but uninhibited kook whose impulsiveness causes chaos. In several episodes she seems only a few steps away from a HeelFaceTurn, if she could ''just'' shake her obsession - [[ChronicVillainy which, naturally, she never does.]]
* AppropriatedAppellation: She's jokingly addressed as Harley Quinn before becoming a villain.
* AscendedExtra: She was originally just a one-time moll character who made such an impression she became the Joker's pseudo-girlfriend/top henchwoman, then began developing relationships with other characters and got her own spotlight episodes, including a comic tie-in detailing her origins that got adapted into an episode. Then she became a CanonImmigrant into the comic universe, so she's ascended twice from one-shot to supporting character, from cartoon to comics, in that order.
* TheAtoner: Implied to become one after [[spoiler:the Joker dies in ROTJ]].
* AxCrazy: when she gets crazy, she gets CRAZY.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: She's very bubbly and goofy, and may be the nicest of Batman's RoguesGallery. She's also a psychotic nutcase who's perfectly willing to shoot you or break your legs.
* TheBigDamnKiss: Goes back for seconds after giving Batman a "Thank You" peck on the lips.
* BiTheWay: About as close as you can get on a family-friendly cartoon. Explicitly in love with SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker, but also has a thing going on with Poison Ivy.
* {{Bowdlerise}}: Her questionable academics in her college days as revealed in ''Mad Love'' aren't mentioned in the episode adapting it for the cartoon.
* BreakTheCutie: All it took was a few sessions with The Joker.
* BreakoutCharacter: Harley Quinn was intended to be a one-off character for "Joker's Favor", but she ended up so popular that not only was she added to Batman's main Rogues Gallery in both the show and the comics (including her own series), but had almost as many appearances in the DCAU as Joker himself.
* BumblingSidekick: She is treated InUniverse like one, but that's because The Joker and Poison Ivy cannot recognize her ConservationOfCompetence. You could say that Harley is a HypercompetentSidekick--she doesn't doom the Joker or Poison Ivy's plans, it's just that Batman is ''that'' good.
* ButtMonkey: Justified, when you seek the company of the Joker and [[TheSociopath Poison Ivy]], this trope is bound to happen.
* CanonImmigrant: Started out as a DCAU character, then became part of the main DC universe.
** Harley Quinn's self-titled comic series was the highest-selling female-led book published by [=DC=] Comics. Meaning she was outselling ''Batgirl'', ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'', ''ComicBook/{{Batwoman}}'', and ''Franchise/WonderWoman''.
* CatchPhrase: One that followed her to the comics and a few future adaptations:
--> (when meeting someone for the first time): "Call me Harley! Everyone does."
* CharacterExaggeration: Depends on the episode, but some episodes - particularly the crossovers - really play up how childishly dimwitted and silly she is, occasionally to the point of making her TheLoad. It's a major character trait in ''Girl's Night Out''.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: You'd never believe it now, but in her debut episode she was actually the calmest person in the room, and seemed anything but immature.
* ChronicVillainy: Every time she feels that the Joker is not for her, it's only temporary, and she goes right back to loving him again.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Joker finds this out the hard way in "Joker's Millions".
* CloudCuckoolander: Even when she does get declared sane, she's still ''weird''.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: In ''Mad Love'', even Batman himself admitted that she came a lot closer to killing him than the Joker ever did.
* CriticalPsychoanalysisFailure: Was a fairly straight laced psychiatrist until she tried to take on The Joker.
* CuteAndPsycho: Easily one of the most adorable rogues on the show. Also likes to pummel people and shoot at them for fun.
* DarkActionGirl: When she's not being Joker's lackey she proves surprisingly capable.
* DarkMistress: Although prominent in many Batman comics today, it was in this series that she was introduced as Joker's girlfriend/henchman in an abusive relationship.
* DartboardOfHate: Keeps a dart-riddled photo of Batman in her cell at Arkham, as shown in "Joker's Millions".
* DecoyDamsel: Plays one in her own plan in "Mad Love".
* TheDogBitesBack: Sometimes Mistah J will push her too far, which leads to...
** {{Yandere}}: ''Fear'' her when she goes into this mode. Even ''the Joker'' is scared of her when she goes into this mode.
* DominoMask: Wears one all the time.
* TheDragon: To the Joker and sometimes Poison Ivy.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: As seen in the crossover with ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' when she replaces Mercy as Lex Luthor's chauffer, causing several dozen wrecks while Lex and the Joker make their deal.
* DropTheHammer: Her trademark mallet
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** She considers her fellow Arkham inmates her friends, and was disgusted with Joker's plan to atomize Gotham once she realized he intended to leave them and their hyenas behind in ''Harlequinade''.
** Fakes this in Mad Love, pretending that she's decided to turn Joker over to the police in horror at a plan to blow up the town as a trap for Batman.
* EvenMooksHaveLovedOnes: Her hyenas. And Joker.
* EvilDetectingDog: Inverted. While Harley Quinn, recently released from Arkham and out trying to start anew, her hyenas immediately start barking at the sight of Bruce Wayne. Harley for her part is clueless that she happens to be standing next to Batman.
* ExpressiveHair: Harley's "hat".
* ExtremeDoormat: Deconstructed--this quality is what makes her an incredibly dangerous character, because she is this to [[TheSociopath sociopaths]] The Joker and Poison Ivy. Harley Quinn is an ExtremeDoormat ''personified'' when it comes to the Joker. Lampshaded in this exchange:
-->'''Harley:''' I'm not a doormat! Am I?
--> '''Poison Ivy:''' If you had a middle name, it would be welcome!
* FluffyTamer: To everyone else the Joker's snarling pet hyenas are a menace; to her, they're her "babies."
* FriendToPsychos: Harley [[MadLove loves]] The Joker and is best friends (maybe something more) with Poison Ivy. Both of them are [[TheSociopath sociopaths]]: By definition, they could ''like'' Harley, but they cannot ''care'' for her.
** She also said hi to a then ranting and raving Scarecrow, who instantly calmed down to pleasantly return the gesture.
* GenkiGirl: Hyper cheerful all the time.
* GirlishPigtails: When out of costume.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: It's implied at the end of BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker that she eventually went straight]].
* HelloAttorney: Her disguise in "The Man Who Killed Batman". She even wears [[{{Meganekko}} glasses]].
* HypercompetentSidekick: SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker treats her like a BumblingSidekick, but in ''Harley and Ivy'' it's revealed he depends on her for his daily life, and ''Joker's millions'' he asks the replacement Harley for an idea, implying he does that with the real one.
* IgnoredEpiphany: In ''Harlequinade'' and ''Mad Love'' regarding her relationship with The Joker.
* ImplausibleDeniability: Harley Quinn [[SubvertedTrope really was trying to go straight]], but after her first day out of Arkham ended with her taking a hostage she pointed out that, with her history, even ''she'' would not believe the story that it was all a big misunderstanding.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Subverted. When she makes an honest attempt at killing Batman without anyone else's help, she very nearly succeeds. The only reason why she doesn't is because The Joker finds out.
* InformedJudaism: It's revealed in the original comic of "Holiday Knights" that she is actually Jewish, another reason for Ivy to find Harley's whining for a Christmas tree bewildering and annoying.
* InsaneForgiveness: She always forgives the Joker no matter what, even when he tortures children and has tried to kill her in the past. In this case, she ''is'' insane, though, and the show makes it clear that [[MadLove this isn't a healthy relationship]].
* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne
-->'''Harley Quinn:''' And here you thought I was just another bubble-headed blond bimbo! Well, the joke's on you, I'm not even a real blond!
* ItsXIHateX: In "The Laughing Fish", she complains at one point, "Again with the fish, I hate fish!"
* JumpingOutOfACake: She slinkily emerged from an oversized lemon custard pie.
* JustGotOutOfJail: ''Harley's Holiday''. Poor Harley even ''paid'' for that dress...
* LapPillow: To Joker during the JokerJury episode, to the disgust of the attorney defending Batman.
-->'''Van Dorn:''' I object to this witness! She's obviously trying to influence the judge.
-->'''Joker:''' (sounding genuinely confused) What makes you say that?
* LimaSyndrome: Harley Quinn's origin is Lima Syndrome turned MadLove.
* LoveMakesYouEvil / LoveMakesYouCrazy
* LoveMartyr: It doesn't matter how many times The Joker hits her or calls her worthless, she has hope the relationship will work.
* LukeIAmYourFather (or Grandmother): Due in part to Paul Dini not bearing to kill Harley Quinn off, she [[spoiler:was revealed to be the grandmother of the Dee-Dee twins, members of the Jokerz gang, nearing the end of Return of the Joker, and was scolding them]].
* MadLove: I smell a {{Trope Namer|s}}...
* MagicSkirt: Gets one at the beginning of the episode ''Mad Love''.
* MasterOfDelusion: Played with in ''Harley's Holiday''. Newly released from Arkham, she's [[VillainsOutShopping out shopping]] when she runs into Bruce Wayne. She stops him, then covers the top half of his face, saying, "I recognize [[LanternJawOfJustice that chin]]..." and then declares, "I knew it! You're Bruce Wayne, boy billionaire!"
* MeaningfulName: Harleen Quinzel, aka Harley Quinn--Harlequin, the clown character.
* {{Meganekko}}: Before her transformation.
* MookPromotion: Was originally supposed to be a minor accomplice of the Joker and ended up a full-blown SuperVillain, making appearances in numerous other adaptations.
* MoralMyopia: In ''Mad Love'' when Harley is reading a newspaper with the front page article titled "Joker Still At Large. Body Count Rises" she is more concerned for the Joker than for the victims.
* MsFanservice: Both as SexyJester and in other outfit (police, lawyer, ecc). Not forgetting the famous JumpingOutOfACake scene and her LesYay relationship with Poison Ivy.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: This is her truly deranged goal: Without [[FoeYay the Batman, the Joker]] could be hers at last!
* NowYouTellMe:
--> '''Joker:''' Didn't you get gas!
--> '''Harley:''' WE'RE BROKE, remember? What was I supposed to do? Fill the tank, shoot the guy, and drive away?!
--> '''Joker:''' Mmhmm.
--> '''Harley:''' * pause* ''NOW'' ya tell me!
* NumberTwoForBrains: Subverted, as you probably figured.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: It's implied that she puts on a ditzy front to keep Joker from thinking she's upstaging him.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: During the flashback in ''Mad Love'', she has a generic American accent instead of her regular thick New Jersey/New York one. The accent is implied to be part of the Harley persona. Alternately, it could be her real accent, which she suppressed for reasons of appearance.
* PaperThinDisguise: She "rescues" Sidney Debris from the cops in plain clothes and using her real name. Bullock thinks there's ''something'' familiar about her, but can't place it.
* PerkyFemaleMinion: Toward the Joker
* PlayingTheVictimCard: Tries this on Batman.
-->'''Harley:''' I know. You're thinking, "What a shame. A pure, innocent little thing like her led astray by bad companions." ''(grabs a knife but Batman stops her)''\\
'''Batman:''' Right. Tell me another. ''(handcuffs Harley and goes after Joker)''\\
'''Harley:''' Beauty school is looking good right about now.
* PrimAndProperBun: Wears one in a flashback when she was a psychiatrist. Also when she was posing as a lawyer to get Sid the Squid out of jail.
* PsychoSupporter: An interesting take in the trope, because without someone to lead her, Harley doesn’t have the motivation to commit crimes. However, we see at MadLove that of all the villains that compose the Batman RoguesGallery, she is the one who was nearer to killing him:
** The Joker abuses her with glee, until his death. After that, is implied she chose a tranquil life.
** Poison Ivy also abuses Harley and doesn’t want to give her enough credit for her part at their heists. In AllThereInTheManual, the [[ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures The Batman Adventures comic book]] offers a reason why Ivy let Harley alone.
** And at ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'', we see that Nanna Harley paid the Delia and Deirdre Dennis (better known as Dee Dee) bail to keep them out of jail. Even when Harley was calling them out, she '' paid their bail''. In an alternate timeline, those two managed to kill all the Justice League.
* PunchClockVillain: The real frightening part about Harley is that she is a person without any reason to kill, but she will do it, and sadistically, only because [[PsychoSupporter someone else tells her it would be fun.]]
* PunnyName: '''Harle'''y '''Quin'''n. Even when not highlighting this out, her name sounds like "Harlequin", and her real name is ''Harleen Quinzel''. The Joker even {{lampshade|Hanging}}d this in ''Mad Love''.
* RealNameAsAnAlias: In ''The Man Who Killed Batman'', she masquerades as the lawyer of the episode's titular character, using the name Harleen Quinzel. Later, the episode ''Trial'' would confirm this as her actual name.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Wears a black and red playing card motif
* RedemptionFailure: In ''Harley's Holiday'', though because it is PlayedForLaughs, this is a borderline HeelFaceDoorSlam example, too.
* ReformedButRejected: In ''Harley's Holiday'', she tried to reform. The chain of events that got her sent back to Arkham started with her panicking after setting off a detector in a department store. The clerk never got a chance to explain that they just forgot to remove the security tag on the dress she just bought.
-->'''Harley''': They won't even let me keep my new dress! And ''I actually paid for it!''
** Though it could be worse - at the end of the episode, her doctor observes that it was all just a misunderstanding and that Harley ''was'' still well on the path to recovery even if she wasn't quite there yet.
* RetiredOutlaw: ''Return of the Joker'' depicts her well into her twilight years, where she has become a grandmother who angrily scolds her grandchildren for getting mixed up in criminal activities.
* SexyJester: Batman may not notice, but the Joker sure does (or at least pretends to, being essentially {{Asexual|ity}}).
* SheFu: One of Batman's most acrobatic foes; natural, since she got into college on a gymnastics scholarship.
* SlipIntoSomethingMoreComfortable: In "Harlequinade", she takes Batman back to the Joker's last hideout to look for clues. Once there, she says, "Have a look around while I slip into something more comfortable," and changes out of her Arkham jumpsuit and into her regular costume.
* SmoochOfVictory: Gives one to Batman of all people. When Batman showed her a bit of kindness by returning a dress she'd bought and told her even though she's going back to Arkham, she should get a little happiness. Touched, she gives him a quick peck. Then, looking playful, gives him a long, long smooch, telling him to call her. Robin and Poison Ivy, watching, seem weirded out.
* SocietyIsToBlame: Recites this trope when [[ReformedButRejected her attempt at a normal life goes awry]] in ''Harley's Holiday'': "I tried to play by the rules, but no, they wouldn't let me go straight! Society is to blame!" PlayedForLaughs because her "crime" was having paid for the dress... but neglecting to let the woman remove the security tag, and not letting the store's guard explain the situation to her before overreacting.
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: Suggested [[JustShootHim just shooting Batman]] to Joker.
* StepfordConsumer: Tries to play one for Joker in "The Laughing Fish". That is until she's expected to eat some of the titular product.
* StevenUlyssesPerhero: '''Harle'''en '''Quin'''zel.
* ThenLetMeBeEvil: In ''Harley's Holiday'', she espouses this after violating her parole barely moments out of being released from the asylum ("I tried to be good. I really did. But if that's not good enough, fine!"). However, after having to be saved by Batman, she seems to reconsider. Subverted in that most of this was Harley thinking people were acting like this to her - a dress she bought still had the tags, so the security guard tried to take them off for her. She thought he was accusing her of stealing the dress, so in a panic she took off accidentally taking Veronica Vreeland hostage and ran.
* TroubleEntendre: Uses this trope before [[TheDogBitesBack exacting revenge]] against SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker by beating him with her nightstick.
--> '''Quinn:''' [[{{Pun}} Welcome to the club.]]
* UnexplainedRecovery: Just ''how'' did she survive the fatal fall in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker''? Reportedly, [[WordOfGod the writers have confirmed]] that Poison Ivy's stamina booster from back in the day is responsible for her survival. It also helps that The Joker himself was a master of this kind of thing.
* UtilityBelt: Wears Batman's utility belt in "Trial".
* UnwillingSuspension: In "Trial".
* VillainousFriendship: With Poison Ivy. Stemming from an early heist, the two develop a rather unexpected big sister-little sister friendship. Numerous episodes show them hanging out and cooperating on heists, as well Harley moving in to Ivy's hideout whenever Harley and Joker have a spat (which is ''very'' often).
* VillainousHarlequin: Probably ''the'' most classic example ever. She even provides the current page picture!
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: A villainous example
* VomitDiscretionShot: In ''The Laughing Fish'' and ''Harley's Holiday''
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Demonstrated in ''Girl's Night Out''. Poison Ivy and Livewire are a bit more subtle when it comes to breaking, entering, and burglary due to their abilities... but all Harley can do is bang things with her mallet.
* WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou: In "Mad Love", [[spoiler: she is tossed out of a third-story window by the Joker, and whispers "My fault... I didn't get the joke.", quietly asserting Battered Spouse Syndrome.]]
* WithCatlikeTread: As she and Batman sneak into Joker's hideout, Harley is behind Batman saying "Sneak - Sneak - Sneak". She stops when Batman turns around and glares at her.
* WomanScorned: She is not going to take well of Joker dumping her for a new hench-girl.
* WouldHurtAChild: For ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'', she (and The Joker) would hurt [[spoiler: Robin]].
* YoureJustJealous: "Trial" gives us this piece of dialogue between Harley Quinn and [=DA=] Janet [=VanDorne=] :
-->'''[=VanDorne=]:''' Sad, isn't it? [[MeaningfulName Harleen Quinzel]] [[StartOfDarkness was a doctor here at Arkham,]] until SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker twisted her mind.
-->'''Harley Quinn:''' HA! You're just jealous, 'cause you don't have a fella who's as [[MadLove lovin' and loyal to you as my puddin' is to me.]]
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[[folder:Two-Face (Harvey Dent)]]
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--> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/RichardMoll

--> ''"Chance is everything. Whether you're born or not, whether you live or die, whether you're good or bad. It's all arbitrary."''

The district attorney of Gotham City with a dark side he's repressed for years. Once a powerful ally of Batman's war on crime, an explosion at a chemical plant caused by Rupert Thorne destroyed the left side of his face with hideous scarring as well as pulled his dark side (called "Big Bad Harv") into the forefront of his mind and dividing it in two. He always makes decisions based on fate, flipping a two-headed coin (where one side is scratched up) before acting.

* AngryEyebrows: During his origin story, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtUBwucBCfQ they present]] Harvey Dent getting pushed to the brink by Thorne... and then entering a TranquilFury as his SplitPersonality, Big Bad Harv, comes out to play.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: This version of Two-Face looks to be a lighter-skinned black man, with fuller lips while not as dark skinned as other characters like Lucius Fox. Apparently, he was supposed to be Italian-American (specifically, Sicilian, which explains the darker skin) and appears to be based on actor Humphrey Bogart.
* AxCrazy: Becomes this when enraged or when in danger of losing his coin.
* BadassNormal: One of the few supercriminals in Gotham who doesn't have any powers, or even use sophisticated weaponry.
* BandagedFace: Right after his accident.
* BrokenAce: Before he becomes Two-Face.
* ChekhovsGunman: Harvey Dent appears twice as a heroic character before becoming Two Face, and in his first appearance he is even shown flipping a coin.
* ChronicVillainy: Makes several attempts at reforming. Sadly, it takes more than just plastic surgery to cure ''his'' problems.
* DoNotCallMePaul: After his transformation, Harvey Dent is very clear that he is now Two-Face, even to his fiance.
* DontLookAtMe: Tries to hide his disfigurement when Grace comes to see him, and gets mad when she removes the cloth covering half his face.
* EnemyWithin: Big Bad Harv started at this before being given occasional control over the body.
* EvilFormerFriend: To Bruce Wayne socially, and, as District Attorney, to Batman as well.
* EvilSoundsDeep: His evil personality is accented with a very gravelly, deep voice.
* FaceHeelTurn: He used to be on Batman's side, but is now one of his greatest enemies.
* FaceRevealingTurn: When Grace visits him in the hospital after his accident.
* FallenHero: Used to be a morally upright and hard hitting District Attorney.
* FatalFlaw: His reliance on the coin. Even setting aside the way it causes him to go into a breakdown, his reliance on it also leads to his downfall. He obviously wanted to reunite with Grace during his 6 month crime spree, but wouldn't because the coin said no. If he had just done that reunion before Candace had the idea of giving Grace the tracking device, who knows how things would have ended? It's certainly less likely that Grace would have unwittingly led Thorne to Two-Face, at least.
* FreudianTrio: [[spoiler:In "Judgement Day", Two-Face gains ''a third personality'', making him a one-man Freudian Trio. Harvey Dent is the Ego, "Big Bad Harv" is the id, and the Judge is the superego.]]
* GrossUpCloseUp: A rare, [[PlayedForDrama non-comedic]] fashion[[note]] considering its use in an animated show[[/note]] when he is unmasked after his surgery
* GunsAkimbo: He needs two of everything.
* HairTriggerTemper: What Two-Face was before actually becoming "Two-Face". His anger is a separate personality that can take even the slightest trigger to incite (such as getting mud kicked onto his jacket by a thug, which almost saw the DA candidate punch someone on live television).
* HeadsTailsEdge: "Second Chance" has Batman switch Two-Face's coin with one that always lands on edge. The main result is not so much an inability to make a decision as the fact that the coin rolls away, and he [[FreakOut freaks right out]] and has to chase after it.
* HisOwnWorstEnemy: As lampshaded in "Second Chance".
* {{Idiosyncrazy}}: Always commits crimes relating to the number two, like stealing two million dollars in two-dollar coins in "Almost Got 'Im". He also bases most decisions on the outcome of a flip of his coin even though it's extremely impractical, and he [[VillainousBreakdown completely loses it]] whenever someone manages to steal it from him.
* JekyllAndHyde: Harvey Dent and Two-Face. In "Judgement Day", [[spoiler:the third personality, called "The Judge", is established.]]
* JudgeJuryAndExecutioner: Becomes one of these under the guise of [[spoiler:the Judge]]. He tries to execute several super-villains [[spoiler: including himself]], as a result of [[spoiler: a third personality developing because of Harvey's former sense of justice, despising that he had become Two-Face]]. It ends with [[spoiler: Two-Face sitting in a cell, and his third voice demanding what he pleads]]. "Guilty. Guilty. Guilty."
* MadnessMantra: At the end of "Judgment Day":
-->'''Two-Face:''' Guilty...guilty...guilty...
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Wears a symbolically split two-tone suit
* ManySpiritsInsideOfOne: [[spoiler:In the last episode, he developed a third persona: the Judge, a ruthless vigilante who was punishing criminals. Both the Harvey Dent and Two-Face personas were unaware of the Judge's existence. It also seems the Judge didn't know he shared a body with them, since he was ruining Two-Face's plans and tried to kill him.]]
* MoralityChain: His fiancee, Grace, tries to be this but eventually Harv strays too far down the path of darkness.
* MulticoloredHair: The hair on the "bad" half of his face is snow-white, evidently as a result of the shock of his scarring.
* MyGreatestFailure: For Batman.
* NumerologicalMotif: He has a predilection for all things binary.
* PowerBornOfMadness: Seems to have this; in the episodes where he snaps, when he transitions to "Big Bad Harv," he is strong enough to lift Rupert Thorne (an obese crime boss) clean off the ground and hurl him into three other thugs. He does something similar in the next episode as Two-Face with yet another thug. Considering this interpretation of Two-Face seems mostly based on being consumed by rage, maybe it is more [[UnstoppableRage "Power Born of Being Really Mad."]]
* RageAgainstTheReflection: Upon awakening after getting caught in an explosion, Harvey Dent demands a mirror. When he sees the grotesque scarring of half his face, he screams with horror and anger, and his transformation into the villain Two-Face becomes complete (except for the occasional HopeSpot that keeps Batman tormented that his old friend might be saved).
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Against Thorne.
* SanityHasAdvantages: It's not his fault that he ''has'' to let a coin flip make his decisions for him, so that, if you toss a ton of coins in as he flips, he can't make a choice anymore! Honest, it's not!! Naturally, Batman exploits this in ''Second Chance'' where he replaces Two-Face's coin with a trick one that always lands on its side. [[spoiler: The ploy backfires on Batman when the [[ThouShaltNotKill coin keeps bouncing towards the edge of the derelict skyscraper]].]]
** Additionally, in some of the side comics, his therapist gives him a weighted coin that is more likely to land on the good heads which prompts Harvey to make good choices. As such Harvey begins to take a lot of heroic actions, such as stopping muggers or turning in members of his old gang. But only after giving them a chance to shoot or attack him first.
* TheScream: Does this at the end of his introductory episode
* SecondSuperIdentity: [[spoiler: The Judge is really a new multiple personality of Harvey Dent.]]
* SplitPersonality:
* SplitPersonalityTakeover: [[spoiler:He eventually gets a ''third'' that puts the other two personalities on trial.]] AndIMustScream indeed.
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: In "Trial", he offhandedly mentions that he suggested "a quick slug between the eyes" rather than all the theatrics. Naturally, he lost the coin toss.
* SuppressedRage: Harvey has this after he thinks that he sent the school bully to the hospital. That is how Big Bad Harv is created.
* ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld: When he threatened to release a binary poison on Gotham, he claimed there would be two kinds of people in Gotham: The dying and the dead.
* TomatoSurprise: [[spoiler:The Judge is Harvey Dent, repressed by Big Bad Harv for so long that he developed into a ''third'' personality.]]
* TragicMonster: A man deformed by repressed anger, stress, and the interference of Gotham's vicious criminal life, to the point of losing everything in his life except the coin.
* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: [[spoiler: In ''Judgment Day'', "The Judge" is revealed to be his new third personality]].
* TwoFaced: Trope Codifier if not namer.
* VillainousBreakdown: Every time Batman manages to take his coin.
* VillainousBSOD: In ''Judgement Day'', after [[spoiler:"The Judge" takes over his mind and puts them on trial]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: After his transformation he leads an extra-legal war on Rupert Thorne's criminal organization, robbing his operations throughout Gotham, but his ultimate plan is to expose Thorne's activities and get him arrested. In ''Judgement Day'', [[spoiler: he's developed a third personality, "The Judge", who is determined to punish the criminals and corrupt of Gotham City.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: If the coin lands on "bad heads".
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[[folder:Catwoman (Selina Kyle)]]
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--> '''Voiced By:''' Adrienne Barbeau

--> ''"I am the cat that walks by herself.''"

An animal rights activist with a thing for cat burglaries on the side. Selina doesn't outright oppose Batman but the two don't see eye to eye due to her hobby. In times of mutual crisis, Catwoman has been known to assist Batman for the shared greater good.

* ActionGirl
** DarkActionGirl: Depending on the episode.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Literal example [[AllThereInTheManual according to the tie-in comics]]. In ''Batman: The Animated Series'' she's blonde instead of her usual black hair, imitating ''Film/BatmanReturns''; her hair is back to black in ''The New Batman Adventures'', and the blonde color is stated to have been bleach all along in an issue of ''[[Comicbook/TheBatmanAdventures Gotham Adventures]]''.
* AffablyEvil: When she actually is a villain. She seems to have a soft spot for both Batman and Batgirl.
* AntiHero: after being released on probation, she becomes what is essentially a female Batman for a little while, helping out Batman or trying to stop various criminals on her own. Unfortunately, it doesn't stick, and she goes back to being a ClassyCatBurglar AntiVillain.
* AntiVillain: Doesn't steal from anyone that she doesn't think deserves it, and despite trending towards personal vendettas does good deeds for the homeless (as seen in a tie-in comic) and endangered wildlife.
* {{Caltrops}}: Has them in the shape of cats, naturally. She uses them in "The Cat and the Claw" to stop Red Claw's men from pursuing her through a ventilation duct.
* CatGirl: Taken to extremes in ''Tyger Tyger'', where Dr. Dorian kidnaps Selina Kyle and mutates her into an ''actual'' catwoman.
* ClassyCatBurglar: Emphasis on "cat".
* ClearMyName: ''Batgirl Returns''
* DamselInDistress: Gets rescued by Batman more than three times in the series.
* DatingCatwoman: She ''is'' the {{Trope Namer|s}}.
* DesignatedVictim: Occasionally, like in ''Almost Got 'Im''.
* TheDragon: Briefly to Scarface in ''Catwalk''.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: In the revamp. Well, only in costume.
* EnemyMine: Teams up with Batman when she's in over her head.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Will only steal from those she thinks deserves it.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: She tries.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Often goes from Batman's enemy to his friend, then to his enemy again in record time.
* LiveMinkCoat: In her first appearance, she is carrying her cat, Isis, around her neck, to help in one of her thefts.
* LovableRogue:: She steals with charm and wit, and has clear principles about it.
* LovesMyAlterEgo: She loves Batman, but only considers Bruce a friend. He knows both her identities and, according to the "perfect world" illusion created by the Mad Hatter, would marry her, if [[DatingCatwoman Batman and Catwoman]] were out of the equation.
* {{Manipulative B|astard}}itch: Moreso in her last appearances.
* MsFanservice: Wears a very form fitting costume and speaks in a flirtatious, sultry voice.
* OutGambitted: In ''You Scratch My Back'', she should have known better that to try and play Nightwing, Batman's protege. He has after all been taught by the best.
* RightHandCat: Isis.
%%* SheFu
* SnowMeansLove: In ''Cat Scratch Fever'', Batman meets her in the snow, and she has to ask, "Are you getting soft on criminals, or just on me?"
* SpyCatsuit: Complete with cat ears.
* TookALevelInJerkass: She's outright vile in ''You Scratch my Back''.
* VillainExitStageLeft: At the end of ''Batgirl Returns'', as the police cart her off, Catwoman somehow forces them out of the squadcar and drives away herself. Robin tries to give chase, but Batgirl ''grabs him by the cape'', reasoning that they'd encounter her again sometime.
* VillainousValor: She takes pride in hardly ever getting scared - and, being a CombatPragmatist, can physically get the best of men twice her size when she really wants to.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: ''Almost Got 'Im''.
* WallCrawl: Catwoman does it by digging in with the claws in her suit.
* WeCanRuleTogether: To Batgirl in ''Batgirl Returns''. Batgirl's response is not exactly unexpected.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Her burglary is half pleasure, half raising money to save endangered cats.
* WhipItGood: Uses a whip rather than a grappling gun.
* WildCard: She could be on any end of the moral spectrum in any given episode.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: With Bats. [[spoiler: They don't.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Poison Ivy (Pamela Isley)]]
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--> '''Voiced By:''' Diane Pershing

--> ''"They can bury me in the ground as deep as they like, but I'll grow back..."''

* ActuallyADoombot: [[spoiler:Ivy is the only character that gets [[TheNthDoctor an explanation for her redesign]] and adjustment in powerset. According to ''[[ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures Batman: Gotham Adventures]]'', ''House and Garden'' is the last appearance of Pamela Isley -- the pale-skinned woman with deeper control over plants that appears in TNBA and onward is actually a plant-based clone, who distracts Batman while the real one is shacking up with [[ComicBook/SwampThing Dr. Alec Holland]]. The canonicity of this is unknown]].
* AntiVillain: Especially later in the series, where she simply wants to settle down and raise a family.
* AxCrazy: in her first episode, at least.
* BeautyIsBad: Her sex-appeal is as dangerous as her plants.
* BerserkButton: Don't hurt her plants.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: ''Pretty Poison''.
* BiTheWay: About as close as you can get on a family-friendly cartoon. She dated Harvey Dent (before he became Two-Face), but occasionally has a thing going on with Harley Quinn whenever she temporarily breaks up with The Joker.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Started as a pretty hammy activist until she met Harley and became more of a DeadpanSnarker as a {{Foil}} to Harley's GenkiGirl.
* CivilianVillain: ''House and Garden''.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: She somehow managed to afford a gigantic mansion with its own power plant and extensive grounds in order to set up a fake health spa for one episode... complete with a staff of women loyal enough to kill on her part ''and'' try fighting the Batman, and a greenhouse full of extremely rare, nearly extinct, fully-grown trees found only in the depths of the Amazon.
* DeadpanSnarker: Being around Harley gives her a ''lot'' of practice.
* DisproportionateRetribution: In the episode which introduces her, she tries to kill Harvey Dent for building a corrections facility on top of a field containing a flower that was endangered. There is no evidence he knew about the endangered flower. She saved the flower before trying to kill him, anyway. Maybe he should've done an ecological survey to check for endangered species and done an environmental impact statement before starting construction, but she could've tried ''telling'' him there was an endangered flower before he started building to see if he would alter his plans in response.
** She gets another one when she runs a spa and send out invitations to millionaires who have done some environmental wrong, turning them into living plants with her treatment. She targets Bruce when his company was planning on tearing down a forest for building space...except Bruce had ''found out and stopped the plans'' long beforehand and she never bothered to look further into this. What's more when Bruce lets his butler Alfred and Alfred's girlfriend go in his place as a vacation, Ivy figures she'll make due with him cause ''someone gotta be punished''.
*** She is, like most of Batman's enemies, a lunatic.
* DruggedLipstick: Uses this against Harvey Dent in "Pretty Poison".
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Poison Ivy herself is disgusted by the Joker, namely her treatment of Harley, and wants Harley to see how horrible he really is.
* EvilIsHammy: Quite the contrast between perfect girlfriend Pamela Isley and supervillainess Ivy.
* EvilRedhead: Violent ecoterrorist with red hair.
* ExpendableClone: Her plant "family" gradually mutates before disintegrating, at which point she grows another to take their place.
* HotScientist: Displays some extensive botanical and bio-engineering knowledge.
* {{Hypocrite}}: In [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE56HarleyAndIvy "Harley and Ivy"]], Pamela insists she and Harley are a team that fights about {{Double Standard}}s at Gotham crime, but her relationship with Harley mirrors the one Harley has with the Joker: Pamela is dominant (albeit not nearly as abusive), Harley is submissive.
* GuineaPigFamily: Her supposed husband in ''House And Garden''. Poor Dr. Carlyle.
* GreenThumb
* KissOfDeath: Her main attack in "Pretty Poison".
* MadScientist: Specializes in botany and chemistry.
* MasterPoisoner: Able to make any kind of plant derived poison.
* MsFanservice: One of her main features as a villain is her seductive ability.
* NotGoodWithPeople: Even the ones she likes, like Harley.
* NotSoDifferent: Tries to pull this on Batman, claiming they both punish "evildoers." Batman doesn't always agree with her definition of "evildoer"...
* PlantPerson: Creates these in "House And Garden" to serve as her "family", and starts to resemble one more and more in the revamped series.
* RedheadInGreen: And constantly surrounded by it, too.
* RevengeByProxy: Of a sort. She transforms Alfred and his girlfriend not to get to Bruce, but because "someone has to pay for [his] crimes."
* RevengeMyopia: In "Eternal Youth". Not only is killing plants not tantamount to killing humans, but also Wayne was only distantly in charge of the operation for which she tries to punish him and was not any more pleased about the ecosystem damage (when he heard of it) than she was.
* {{Sadist}}: All of her crimes have the goal of other people suffering. She is a ControlFreak and while most of her crimes fall into WellIntentionedExtremist territory, at the same time she just enjoys taking revenge on behalf of mother nature. Like Lock-Up, she is a good example of a sadist who truly thinks that their victims had it coming.
* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: She is a rare flower.
* TheSociopath: Outright states that she's immune to "the pain and suffering of others" during a flashback in "Almost Got 'Im".
* StrawFeminist: Sometimes portrayed this way. In ''Harley & Ivy'' she goes on a crime spree with Harley Quinn and claims its all about female empowerment. The episode ends with her being arrested by Detective Montoya and another female cop. At least one comic in the show's continuity implies she adopts this attitude around the other female rogues to get them on her side, pretending to only hate men rather than all human life.
** NotSoAboveItAll: That said, when she and Harley manage to subject Bruce Wayne to Ivy's mind control dust, they go on a stereotypically girly shopping spree on Bruce's tab.
* TrulySingleParent: Her immune system prevents her from bearing children, so she creates some of her own, albeit from one unlucky doctor's DNA.
* TheVamp: Next to her control over plants, her feminine whiles are her favored weapon.
* VillainousFriendship: With Harley. Stemming from an early heist, the two develop a rather unexpected big sister-little sister friendship. Ivy is sometimes frustrated by Harley's dimness, but unlike Joker actually seems to care about her well-being (for instance, repeatedly urging her to break up with him).
* WellIntentionedExtremist: She fights to save plants, in particular endangered species. It's her methods rather than her objectives that are problematic.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ra's al Ghul]]
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--> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/DavidWarner

--> "''Well done, detective. You are worthy of your reputation."''

A centuries-old man who is the head of a vast network of henchmen and wealth. His schemes, some way or another, seek to save the environment from mankind or further his life so he can continue his efforts with the former. The Joker may be Batman's ArchEnemy, but due to his power, agenda, and clever mind, Batman considers Ra's his most dangerous foe.

* AffablyEvil: As his past encounter with Jonah Hex showed, his good manners aren't only reserved for Batman.
* {{Badass}}
** BadassGrandpa: Even older than he looks and he's an accomplished fencer.
** CulturedBadass: And he's always classy no matter the circumstances.
* BigBad: Sort of. He's not ''the'' overriding threat of the series, but his schemes tend most often to be [[AnArc arc]]-based, and Batman regards him as a powerful and dangerous enemy, more than Lex Luthor and The Joker combined.
* CameBackWrong: The Lazarus Pit revives the dying, but at the cost of temporarily being driven violently insane. "The Demon Reborn" in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' also demonstrates that each usage has diminishing returns.
* TheChessmaster: His first meeting and apparent teamup with Batman was just an elaborate way of testing him.
* DisturbingStatistic: He doesn't even blink as he drops one of these on Batman:
--> '''Batman:''' But that will cost countless lives!
--> '''Ra's al Ghul:''' Actually, Detective, we ''have'' counted: [[LudicrousPrecision Two billion, fifty-six million, nine hundred and eighty-six thousand! ]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He's disgusted by the cruelty that [[spoiler:his son]] Arkady Duvall shows towards underlings.
* EvilBrit: Even though English is almost certainly not his first language, he inexplicably has a British accent.
* FriendlyEnemy:
** One-sided. He genuinely likes Bruce and wants him as his heir. Batman disagrees, and as a result Ra's ''will'' use deadly force on him if necessary.
** The respect seems to be somewhat mutual, as evidenced in the Jonah Hex episode. It turns out the old man Ra's "kidnapped" [[spoiler: is his son.]] Batman allows them to leave without a fight.
* GaiasVengeance: Believes he is its harbinger.
* GracefulLoser: If somewhat creepy, as he plunged to his (apparent) demise with a big smile on his face.
* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler: Its eventually revealed in Batman Beyond that Raz took over his daughters body after his finally decayed beyond all use.]]
* HighClassGlass: In 1883.
* {{Immortality}}: Can live forever with the aid of the Lazarus pits...
* ImmortalityImmorality:...But each time he goes in it drives him just a little bit crazier and more extreme.
* KnightTemplar: Seeks to save the world by killing most of the human population.
* MeaningfulName: Arabic for "The Demon's Head."
* MysteriousWatcher: At the end of ''Off Balance''.
* NotSoDifferent: Basically a dark mirror to Batman himself and what he would be like with no moral restraints. Raz is well aware of this.
* OmnicidalManiac: Perfectly willing to cause a chain reaction likely to kill more that ''2 billion'' lives
* ShirtlessScene: Just like in the comics, his first meeting with Batman culminates in this, while he's wielding a...
* SinisterScimitar: ... against Batman.
* StoryboardingTheApocalypse: When he lays out his plan to destroy humanity, it is accompanied by a series of detailed stills showing the world being saturated by the Lazarus Pits, in chaos, and finally at "a blessed peace."
* SwordFight: In the middle of a desert.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: And fully aware of it, too. He himself projects 2,056,986,000 casualties as a result of his plan in ''The Demon's Quest''.
* VillainousValor: Despite being insufferably pompous, self-righteous, megalomaniacal, and a genocidal lunatic, he is a brave man, exposing himself to danger even though most of the time he is a frail old man; he refuses to see himself as a victim, and [[DontYouDarePityMe won't tolerate anyone else thinking that, either]]. When rejuvenated by a chemical pool called the Lazarus Pit, he becomes strong and athletic and is willing to fight anyone. When he challenges Batman to a sword fight in "The Demon's Quest (Part II)" he demands: "Are you man enough to face your better?" - and is immensely pleased that Batman is just that.
* WeCanRuleTogether: Offers Batman a position as TheDragon, several times.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He views his actions as a necessary evil to help repair the damage to the planet that mankind has caused.
* WorthyOpponent: Views Batman as this.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Talia al Ghul]]
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--> '''Voiced By:''' Helen Slater, Creator/OliviaHussey

--> ''"You must understand, beloved. I share my father's vision and seek the same ends but I do not choose his means to those ends.''"

* ArmorPiercingSlap: When Ra's al Ghul is currently in Ax Crazy mode after using the Lazarus Pit to revive himself, she gives him one of these to snap him back to his senses.
* CleavageWindow: In her ''The Demon's Quest'' outfit.
* DatingCatwoman: Ends up being one of Batman's primary love interests.
* EnemyMine: Teamed twice with Batman to choose her father over him at the end.
* EnigmaticMinion: You can never tell if she's on Batman's side or her father's.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: When she discovers that her father's scheme will result in over two billion casualties, she's just as shocked as Batman.
* FemmeFatale: Batman knows getting involved with her is a bad idea every time it happens, but he can't help himself.
* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler: Her body is eventually taken over by her father by the time of Batman Beyond, erasing her mind and effectively killing her]]
* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: Her father is Ra's al Ghul, after all.
* MsFanservice: Especially obvious in ''Demon's Quest''.
* PeekABangs: Her hairstyle.
* SpyCatsuit: In her first appearance
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mr. Freeze (Dr. Victor Fries)]]
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--> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/MichaelAnsara

--> "''Think of it, Batman: to never again walk on a summer's day with a hot wind in your face, and a warm hand to hold. Oh yes, I'd'' kill ''for that.''"

A respected cryogenics expert who was once employed by [=GothCorp=], Victor Fries fell into a life of crime when his wife, Nora, grew ill and he was forced to sustain her in cryogenic containment until such time that a cure could be delivered. A freak accident in his lab caused Victor to become doused in cryogenic freezing compound, altering his body's structure. Although the effect of the incident made him very durable physically (he is nigh-immortal as his body's low temperature reduces his aging to a crawl), it left him unable to sustain himself outside of below-freezing temperatures. Fries developed a special suit that allows him to exist at these temperatures in normal climates, becoming "Mr. Freeze" in the process. Mr. Freeze's criminal activities are typically unconcerned with personal gain but instead motivated by vengeance and desperation.

* AdaptationalBadass: And he ended up reintroduced in the comics and featured in [[WesternAnimation/BatmanAndMisterFreezeSubZero two]] [[Film/BatmanAndRobin films]] (granted, the latter did not go very well).
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: Much of his villainry is motivated by his desperate desire to save Nora, often at the expense of his own safety, emotional wellbeing, and the lives of innocent people.
* AndIMustScream: His eventual fate as shown in Batman Beyond.
* AntiVillain: When he's not obsessed with vengeance he just wants to be left alone with his wife.
* AnIcePerson: Thanks to a FreakLabAccident.
* {{Badass}}: As long as he's inside the suit, which he built himself. He can take Batman on in a straight fight, break through metal and concrete with ease. His usage of the freeze ray also increases his capabilities in battle.
* BadassBoast: --> ''"My suit also triples my strength! Sooner or later, all who stand in my way shall feel the icy touch of death!"''
* BadassBookworm: A former scientist, who created all of the technology he uses.
* BadBoss: He values Nora's life more than anyone else's, even his own henchmen.
* BaldOfEvil: The accident that made him Mr. Freeze caused his hair to fall out.
* BigBad: Of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAndMisterFreezeSubZero''.
* BlackEyesOfCrazy: In place of his goggles in the reboot.
* BlessedWithSuck: He is immortal and can survive quite well in subzero temperatures. He'll also die in anything warmer without his suit on, and hates his life.
* BodyHorror: Starts out with a body unable to survive outside of subzero temperatures. Gets even worse in later seasons, when [[spoiler:all of his body, save for his head, has decayed away]].
* ChronicVillainy: After his debut he really just wants to be left alone, but something always seems to drag him back into crime.
* ClingyCostume: His temperature-regulating suit, which can't come off unless he has a place kept roughly the same temperature as a meat locker.
* CreepyMonotone: To enforce the idea that he has no emotions.
* CrusadingWidower: The loss of his wife is the whole reason he became Mr. Freeze.
* DespairEventHorizon:
** Losing his wife. [[spoiler:''Both'' times.]]
** Losing his body to degeneration, reducing him to a disembodied head
** Gets another one in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond''. Poor guy just can't catch a break.
* {{Determinator}}: "Nora was the only good thing in my life and they took her from me. I don't care what I have to do to get her back!"
* TheDragon: To Grant Walker in ''Deep Freeze''.
* DramaticDeadpan: He usually talks in an emotionless CreepyMonotone.
* EvilIsPetty: Good grief, ''Cold Comfort''! He goes around breaking fossils and paintings just to make people miserable.
* FateWorseThanDeath: He certainly seems to view his new state as this, often citing that he'd prefer death or a life very close to it.
* FreezeRay: His [[WeaponOfChoice trademark weapon]].
* HateSink: Not one himself, but because his motives are often sympathetic or understandable to the audience every appearance before "Cold Comfort" involved one either working with him or against him.
* TheHeavy: While rarely the worst villain in the episodes he appears in, he's always the most prominent.
* IllGirl: His wife, for whom he commits his crimes.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: In ''[[Comicbook/TheBatmanAdventures Gotham Adventures]]'', Nora has remarried, and Freeze is happy to save her husband's life when Grant Walker comes back and kidnaps him.
* {{Jerkass}}: His loss was tragic, but his means always endanger people, and he does not care.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite how his incident has made him even ''litterally'' coldblooded, Freeze just wants to save his wife, Nora, though he would kill anyone just to do it, even if he has to kill an innocent. He even let his soft side out a couple of times.
* KickTheDog: Trying to hit Batman, he accidentally freezes one of his henchmen's legs. He then blames the accident on said henchman and leaves him for dead while the poor guy begs them to help him. It happens the same way to one of his ice maidens in ''Cold Comfort''. But then, ''Cold Comfort'' is a KickTheDog episode.
* LonersAreFreaks: Where Batman has Robin, who he treats as a teammate, Mr. Freeze is completely ruthless when one of his henchmen gets accidentally frozen.
* LosingYourHead: In the show's revamp, as another side effect of his condition.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: His love for his comatose wife, Nora.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: In a comic tie-in to the show, where Nora had remarried. [[spoiler: Though this applies more to Francis D'anjou, who was actually framing Freeze in the hope that Nora would stop loving him.]]
* {{Necromantic}}: Turned to crime for funds to cure his sick, cryogenically frozen wife and revenge on a CorruptCorporateExecutive for pulling the plug on his first attempt.
* OnlySaneMan: In Arkham--he's only there because he's a special needs prisoner, not insane.
* PeopleJars: Keeps Nora in one until he can find a cure.
* PoweredArmor: His suit, which apparently triples his strength.
* PungeonMaster: He makes some cold-related puns in his debut episode; they are much better than anything from ''Film/BatmanAndRobin''.
-->'''Mr. Freeze:''' I'm beyond emotions. They've been frozen ''dead'' in me.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: In "Heart of Ice", towards Ferris Boyle.
* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou: Mr. Freeze fires his freeze gun directly at you. In the commentary, the directors are surprised they got away with it - they wouldn't have been able to with a regular gun, in case some kid decided to try it.
* SilenceYouFool: In ''Deep Freeze'', Mr. Freeze say this twice to Batman.
* SnowMeansLove: His most iconic scene is him talking to the snowglobe that contains a statue of Nora, begging for forgiveness. Sad version of this trope. The comics reveal that in college the two spent much of their courtship outside in the snow.
* TheStoic: But also NotSoStoic when his wife is brought into the equation.
* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs: "Freeze!" "That's ''Mister'' Freeze to ''you''." ''([[PreMortemOneLiner fires]])''
* TinMan: Despite claiming that he can no longer feel any emotion, his despair at losing his wife — and his cold hatred to those who took her — is demonstrable.
* TookALevelInJerkass: While always having been vindictive since his transformation into Mr. Freeze, his crimes were motivated by a devotion towards his wife, whether it be avenging her supposed death or attempting to developing a cure her for her terminal illness. In ''Cold Comfort,'' however, Freeze has become a StrawNihilist who targets innocents for little reason other than to bring them the misery he feels.
* TragicVillain: A desperate man trying to save his dying wife, and whose life was destroyed by an accident and confined into a refrigerated suit to survive. There's a reason he provides the page image.
* {{Troll}}: A very weird example. After apparently [[MotiveDecay losing his wife Nora forever]], Freeze goes around for a while destroying what people love in order to spread his misery. As his actions become increasingly [[EvilIsPetty petty]] (like freezing/smashing a painter's masterpiece), he essentially becomes Gotham's troll.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Any temperatures over freezing; he can't survive them without his suit. In his debut episode Batman defeats him with a ''warm thermos of chicken soup'' (the temperature difference breaking his helmet).
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: "Deep Freeze" states that, even if he's not ''immortal'', he can likely live for thousands of years. And he wants none of it.
** Worse in ''Meltdown'' where he seems to have spent the last few decades as a disembodied head in an isolated room.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Before the accident he's even shown to be a bit soft spoken and reserved, and backs down easily after a brief attempt at stopping Boyle from shutting down the cryonic chamber Nora was in.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Penguin (Oswald Cobblepot)]]
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--> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/PaulWilliams, David Ogden Stiers

--> ''"Sorry about the intrusion, sir, but at least you were ransacked by a man of impeccable taste."''

* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: In ''Birds of a Feather'' and ''The Mechanic'', he had a hideout in one. Likely a reference to his Film/BatmanReturns counterpart.
* {{Acrofatic}}: Pretty quick for someone so rotund.
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Uses this a lot.
* AffablyEvil: Especially in ''Birds of a Feather''.
* AntiquatedLinguistics: To cultivate a gentlemanly image.
* BigBad: In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMysteryOfTheBatwoman''.
* BodyguardBabes: Jay, Lark, and Raven.
* ChronicVillainy: Chose to abandon crime one day when he was released from Stonegate, deciding that he never wanted to return to jail again, but when he learned that the woman he began to fall in love with was only spending time with him to mock his uncultured ways he relapsed into villainy. However, unlike the other villains, he does manage to stay out of jail in ''The New Batman Adventures.'' He didn't really reform and uses his nightclub as a front for shady deals, but he does a much better job of ensuring his legal safety. Batman is well-aware that Penguin hasn't changed, but keeps him around because he is just as often a [[TheRat good source of information]] about other, more dangerous criminals.
* CivilianVillain: Actually worked better for him when he was faking it.
* DeadpanSnarker: He is TheSnarkKnight when he deals with the lower classes (prison guards, bus drivers, Batman). When he at last deals with the upper classes, he becomes a StepfordSnarker.
* DoomyDoomsOfDoom: Once tried calling a trap he'd set for Batman in a zoo as his "aviary of doom". The other villains he tells the story to are bemused, at best.
-->'''The Penguin:''' ''(narrating)'' Welcome, my ebon-winged adversary. You have taken the bait, just as I knew you would. Now, prepare to meet your end within my Aviary of Doom!\\
'''Poison Ivy:''' ''(interrupting the story)'' Aviary of ''what''?...\\
'''The Joker:''' Sheesh, Pengers. How corny can you get?\\
'''The Penguin:''' Fah! Just because you mundane miscreants have no drama in your souls!... Anyway, there he was in my Av... * Sigh* ... My "big birdhouse"...
* EtTuBrute: A rather depressing example. In the episode, ''Birds of a Feather'', he is released from prison and declares that he's reformed and will become a model member of high society. A group of snobbish aristocrats decide to bring him into their social circle so that they can laugh at his social ineptitude and appearance. He generally doesn't care how life had gotten him down through the rest of the episode, but when he overhears the woman whom he had fallen in love with talking about this plot, he loses it. The real slap in the face is that he had genuinely reformed until this happened.
* EvilBrit: Speaks with a British accent.
* EvilIsNotAToy: In ''Birds of a Feather'', Veronica Vreeland brings him into her social circle as a publicity stunt. He eventually finds out he's being used, and in his true flamboyantly villainous fashion, kidnaps and tries to kill her.
* TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily: In his first appearance, he and his henchmen are continuously foiled by the local children who have [[BatmanInMyBasement Batman in their basement]]. This is one of the reasons that the production team does not think very highly of this episode, since they were hoping the series would avoid kid heroes and bumbling villains.
* FatBastard: A staple of the character.
* FauxAffablyEvil: His default mode, as he has been shown very willing to hurt women and children.
* FeatheredFiend: Has a collection of deadly birds ranging from poison-billed hummingbirds to trained attack-cassowaries.
* GentlemanSnarker: Most of his snarking come with a veil of sophistication.
* GentlemanThief: He invokes this trope, without success, you could say.
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Always has a cigarette holder in his mouth.
* TheGrotesque: Similar to the Burton films, the Penguin is ''almost'' this trope played straight. He's nowhere near as evil as, say, The Joker, but then again he's not even all that ugly. It's implied that deep down he really wants to go straight, [[ChronicVillainy but he just likes stealing priceless artifacts too much]] -- and he just can't keep from lashing out at people who make fun of him when he ''does'' try to reform.
* HiddenDepths: As Veronica Vreeland discovered, if you can stand his SadClown jokes, his JabbaTableManners and his SmallNameBigEgo attitude, Oswald can be quite TheCharmer in a LargeHam way.
* HighClassGlass: Kept from the comics (despite being absent from the movie).
* HonorAmongThieves: Best shown in "Second Chance".
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Umbrellas. Some of them even have live rounds.
* JabbaTableManners: As seen in "Birds of a Feather".
* JustGotOutOfJail: He did try to live a honest life and among Gotham's elites (which he thought possible thanks to Veronica Vreeland). While she cleared a misunderstanding when Batman wrongly thought the Penguin was one of the muggers robbing her, it was eventually revealed to him she just wanted someone to be made a fool of at a party. He was so revolted he returned to a life of crime.
* LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub: The Iceberg Lounge. Though the bar itself is designed around high society and is completely legit he uses it as a front to do illegal smuggling in the back.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Always wears a formal tuxedo, stylistically similar to actual penguins (who look like they're wearing one).
* NiceHat: His top hat.
* OnlySaneMan: Carried over from the comics. He's one of the few Batman villains who goes to jail rather than Arkham. He also sometimes grows annoyed with the other rogues' "eccentricities" when forced to work with them.
* OrphanedPunchline: Has one in ''Birds of a Feather'': "--and I said, 'But, warden--those aren't ''my'' pants!"
* PaidHarem: Jay, Raven, and Lark.
* ParasolOfPain: His parasols can have anything from toxic gas to actual bullets.
** ParasolParachute: One of its uses.
* TheRat: The only reason why Batman lets him operate his nightclub.
* RedemptionFailure: ''Birds of a Feather''
* ReformedButRejected: ''Birds of a Feather''
* SadClown: His delusions of being a GentlemanThief and his SmallNameBigEgo are his way to cope with his crushing loneliness. He is insecure at heart and keeps on running his mouth to fool himself into thinking he's confident or to get people to like him and tends to make jokes at inappropriate times to cope.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: To make himself sound more sophisticated then he actually is. Comes back to bite him in a tie-in comic, where he doesn't know what a word means and makes something up to avoid looking stupid.
* SinisterSchnoz: It has the appearance of a penguin beak.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Despite overwhelming evidence on the contrary, the Penguin really believes he is well liked by the rich Gotham elite (''Birds of a Feather'') and fancies himself as a ladies’ man (he hits on Roxie Rocket on ''The Ultimate Thrill''). Those things didn’t end well for him.
%%* SmugSnake
* SocietyIsToBlame: In ''Birds of a Feather'', he looks to go straight once he's gotten out of prison, but when resident RichBitch Veronica Vreeland and her snobby friends decide to make him the butt of an exceptionally cruel joke, he reverts to his criminal ways to exact revenge. In the end, he muses, "I guess it's true; society is to blame. ''High'' society." At least Vreeland had the decency to feel bad about her role in it by the end though.
* TerribleTrio: Was part of one with Jay and Raven before leading two sets: one of males then one of females.
* ThenLetMeBeEvil: He could put up with Batman [[ReformedButRejected not believing he really reformed]], but Veronica Vreeland shouldn't have used him for a pig at a pig party.
* VillainBallMagnet: ''Birds of a Feather''
* VillainousValor: In ''Birds of a Feather'' at least, he is a courageous fighter, [[MuggingTheMonster beating back a gang of bullies who are trying to mug him using only his umbrella]]. In ''Second Chance'', when Batman is accusing him of having Two-Face kidnapped, the Penguin declares that he were ever going to mess with another villain, he'd do it the honorable way: face to face.
* WannabeLine: His club, The Iceberg Lounge, has such a line. In ''Joker's Millions'', Barbara and Dick get in by Barbara mentioning her father as the Penguin is walking by. Bruce Wayne is seen in the Lounge later.
* WhosLaughingNow: To Veronica Vreeland and her UpperClassTwit friend Pierce in ''Birds of a Feather''.
* WickedCultured: He tries to be this...
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Riddler (Edward Nygma)]]
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--> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/JohnGlover

--> ''"Do you know what happens to gate crashers? They have to match wits with the Riddler."''

A disgraced video game developer-turned-criminal with a knack for very complex and obscure riddles. Unlike most of Batman's rogues, The Riddler typically ''wants'' Batman to pursue him as it gives him an opportunity to use his riddling skills to try to outwit the Dark Knight.

* AffablyEvil: As long as his "outwitted angry guy" mood is not triggered, he keeps a very elegant and formal demeanor. Though considering he rarely ends a sentence without insulting other people's intelligence, he might qualify for full time FauxAffablyEvil.
* AntiHero: [[spoiler: See HeelFaceTurn below]].
* TheBadGuyWins: Even though he actually did not achieve his goal of killing his ex-boss, Nygma escapes justice safely, and terrifies his victim into a permanent mortal fear of his return.
* BaldOfEvil: In the revamp.
* BerserkButton: The whole reason he wanted revenge on Mockridge was less because he was scammed out of the money of his board game, and more because his boss bruised his ego by saying he had nothing to do with it's success, and called him an idiot to his face.
** By the time of ''Riddler's Reform'', being called crazy is this for The Riddler.
* CallingCard: His riddles.
* ChronicVillainy:
** [[CutLexLuthorACheck Sells his persona for a fortune]] and decides to abandon crime altogether in order to avoid risking his newfound wealth and freedom. However, because he has such a compulsion, he reasons that the only way he can do so is to kill Batman. Naturally, he fails, gets found out and arrested.
** His brief [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn]] in ''Gotham Adventures'' results in Batman catching him anyway. He actually ''inadvertently gives Batman a riddle as to his location''. Despite [[BerserkButton hating being called crazy]], poor Eddie has to concede this one and after a VillainousBreakdown [[DownerEnding dejectedly lets Batman take him back to the asylum]].
--->'''Riddler:''' You don't understand. I ''really'' didn't want to leave you any clues. I really planned ''never'' to go back to Arkham Asylum. But I left you a clue anyway. So I...I have to go back there. Because I might need help. I...I might actually be crazy...
* CivilianVillain: ''Riddler's Reform''
* CivvieSpandex: in the redesign
* ConsolationPrize: Batman and Robin may have stopped him from killing Daniel Mockridge for cheating him out of his share of royalties for the ''Riddle Of The Minotaur'' game, but ruining Mockridge's life by making him live in fear of the Riddler's return makes for a very satisfying end anyway.
* CriminalMindGames: His M.O.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: In ''Riddler's Reform'', he has sold the license to his persona to a toy developer for a completely legal fortune. However, Batman is convinced that he will continue to commit riddle-crimes, even though it will jeopardize his freedom and financial well-being. When Robin wonders why he would take such a risk, Batman explains that for him it is not about the money, it is an obsession. As it turns out, Batman's right; Riddler is uneasy with his new life, and eventually decides to try to kill Batman once and for all just to remove the temptation to backslide.
* DeadpanSnarker:
--> '''Riddler''': You have 10 minutes, gentlemen. Then, Mr. Mockridge is going to be the only good business shark. A dead one.
* DeathTrap: Often very elaborately engineered ones that test Batman's intelligence.
* DemotedToExtra: He rarely appeared much, but what episodes he did get were quite excellent and put a refreshing spin on the character. When the sequel series ''The New Batman Adventures'' rolled over, however, ol' Eddie got the shaft, despite getting a new character design more faithful to Frank Gorshin's take on the character. You know that things are bad when the new Riddler's biggest role was in a ''Superman'' episode. Creator/PaulDini admitted in the "Art of..." book that they didn't use the Riddler often because his gimmick of using riddles was pretty hard to pull off in an action cartoon such as theirs. On the other hand, he had some truly spectacular moments in ''ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures'', set in the same universe.
* EngineeredPublicConfession: ''Riddler's Reform''
* EvilGenius: Of all Batman's enemies, he's the one who relies most on his intellect.
* EvilIsPetty: In his debut, he flat out says that he doesn't even care that Mockridge is making money off of his own game--he's out for revenge on him for ego gratification, specifically Mockridge calling him a worthless ancilliary to his company, and also called him an idiot to his face.
* EvilRedhead: Certainly borrowed from the TV series' Frank Gorshin (having usually slick black hair in the comics).
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Inverted when Batman survives his death-trap, but won't tell him how he did it. The episode ends with Riddler ranting and raving as he tries to figure out how it was done.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: He ''hates'' being in Arkham, so when he escaped in ''[[ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures Gotham Adventures]]'', he opts to become a vigilante detective, solving crimes himself while sending riddles to Batman so he can solve other cases. He's still definitely [[AntiHero morally ambiguous]], though, and isn't above ElectricTorture to get the testimony he wants]].
* {{Guyliner}}: In the revamp.
* HisOwnWorstEnemy: Since his ChronicVillainy won't let him stop leaving riddles for Batman to solve.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Was first trapped in his own virtual world then got his confession recorded on his own device.
* HurricaneOfPuns: His hints in "If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich."
--> ''(Batman and Robin come across a sign that says "Loser's Ahead.")''
--> '''Robin''': "Loser's Ahead?"
--> ''(The duo turns a corner, two giant shurikens come out of nowhere, and the duo ducks just before the blades lop their heads off.)''
--> '''Batman''': Loser's a head. [[LamePunReaction I don't know what's worse, the traps or the puns.]]
* InsufferableGenius: He's a puzzles genius and he wants ''everyone'' to know it.
* [[KarmaHoudini Karma Enigma]]: He gets away scot-free at the end of ''If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?'' The producers have stated that they let the Riddler escape as a testament to his intellect.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: In BTAS, he wears a nice green suit and a tie with a question mark.
* MoodSwinger: he alternates fits of anger with polite interludes.
* NearVillainVictory: Gets allegedly closer to killing Batman than any of the villains in "Almost Got Im". The Caped Crusader manages to save himself by [[BombproofAppliance jumping into a small safe]] [[DeusExMachina that had no reason to be there]], [[MagicCountdown with only two seconds to reach it and get in it]].
* NerdsAreSexy: In ''Riddler's Reform'', he ends up with quite a few women fawning over him. Unless that's an example of AllGirlsWantBadBoys, or PowerIsSexy and/or GoldDigger, due to his newfound fame and wealth from his inventions.
* NiceHat: A green bowler hat.
* ParanoiaGambit: His origin episode revolves around him going after Mockridge, the man who cheated him out of the profits for a game he designed due to him being 'work-for-hire'. Batman and Robin manage to save him, but the Riddler gets away and hints he will eventually return to finish the job. The episode ends with a terrified Mockridge in his mansion, locking every door and window in the place, checking every shadow, and getting into bed with a loaded shotgun at his side while Bruce muses on the situation:
--> '''Bruce:''' [[PyrrhicVillainy Mockridge may have his money, but he won't be sleeping well]]. "How much is a good night's sleep worth?" Now THERE'S a riddle for you.
* PropheticNames: During his StartOfDarkness episode, Batman lampshades this trope when Edward Nygma reveals his new identity, asking him if it's meant to be a joke.
* RedheadInGreen: Probably what made this appearance iconic.
* RiddleMeThis: The trope namer.
* SanityHasAdvantages: In ''Riddler's Reform'', he actually goes straight and makes tons of money by designing puzzles for a toy company and licensing his likeness to market them. However, he just can't stop thinking about matching wits with Batman... so he decides that the only way he'll ever be secure enough in his new life to actually enjoy it is to kill Batman.
* SanitySlippage: Goes from wanting revenge on his ex boss to being unable to stop committing crimes and leaving clues.
* SmugSnake: The mother of all smug depictions of the Riddler.
* StevenUlyssesPerhero: E. Nygma.
* ThrowTheBookAtThem: In ''Judgement Day'', courtroom-themed vigilante The Judge tells him, "It's about time someone threw the book at you!" and drops a car-sized book on him, nearly killing him.
* UnPerson: ''What is Reality?'' has him erasing all of the records of his existence as Edward Nygma, including birth certificates, drivers licenses, employment records and so on.
* TheVillainMakesThePlot: One of the cited reasons that the writers gave for why the Riddler appeared less than most other villains was that it was hard to make a scheme worthy of such a brain-teasing [[TheChessmaster chessmaster]] villain like him in single half-hour episodes.
* VillainousBreakdown: Has an epic one in ''Riddler's Reform''.
* VillainousCrossdresser: For some reason his TNBA design has him in women's shoes.
* WickedCultured: Has a thing for greek mythology and foreign languages.
* WasItReallyWorthIt: At the end of Riddler's debut episode, Batman states that even though they saved the CorruptCorporateExecutive from Nygma's traps, the experience scarred him for life, and the last scene shows a frightened Mockridge trembling under his bedsheets.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In ''Trial'', he's seen among the villains as a juror in their KangarooCourt. However, he disappears during the second half of the episode and his chair in the jury is even empty.
** ScrewThisImOuttaHere seems to be the answer.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Scarecrow (Dr. Jonathan Crane)]]
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--> '''Voiced By:''' Henry Polic II, Creator/JeffreyCombs

--> ''"I am the master of fear! The lord of despair! Cower before me in witless terror!''"

A university psychology professor who has made a career out of studying fear and its effects. In his pursuit of research, he developed a chemical toxin that allows him to induce fear in any subject at his whim, which he later began using as an asset for crime.

* ArtEvolution: His costume went through several major alterations and changes, even before the ArtShift of ''The New Batman Adventures'' (which settled on a design), more or less because his first designs were a tad on the goofy side.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: In ''Fear of Victory'' he starts rigging sports and then betting on the games; he himself points out that chemicals are expensive and his usual crimes of causing wanton terror aren't very lucrative.
* DarkerAndEdgier: In TNBA.
* EvilRedhead: Underneath his mask.
* EvilTeacher: His experiments - mostly just locking people in small rooms while dousing them with fear gas - go all the way back to his days as a Gotham University professor.
* FixingTheGame / ThrowingTheFight: ''Fear of Victory'' centered on his plot to raise a lot of money gambling on sporting events ([[TheGimmick Guess]] [[IKnowWhatYouFear how]]). He even drops the title "I fixed the games."
* ForScience: "Dreams in Darkness" in particular.
* AGodAmI: No remotely "godlike" powers aside from his fear gas, but he's got the attitude in spades.
* HiddenDepths: ''Comicbook/TheBatmanAdventures'' reveals that, despite all his sadism, he actually does love to teach. A rehabilitative work-release program at Arkham allows him to teach at the local community college, which he enjoys until he realizes that half his students are too illiterate to spell their own names correctly. This leads him to the scheme he employs in issues 4 and 5, where he holds the city for ransom by rendering everyone illiterate in attempt to show the local government the dangers of not reforming the education system.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Has been exposed twice to his own fear gas.
* IKissYourFoot: In ''Fear of Victory'', Scarecrow mentions using his Fear Toxin to bring the people of Gotham to their knees and in his own words "...Kissing my feet!"
* {{Jerkass}}: [[AllThereInTheManual Unless you read the tie-in comic]], he comes off as a nasty little prick, unlike all those tragic villains
* LargeHam: In BTAS. He transitions to a SoftSpokenSadist in TNBA.
* LeanAndMean: Like an actual scarecrow, Crane is exceptionally thin.
* MadScientist: He claims his crimes are experiments in fear.
* MasterOfIllusion: Particularly the scary kind.
* MasterPoisoner: Makes all of the fear toxins himself.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Following his TNBA redesign. He's never shown unmasked, and the production team has said that they weren't even sure there was actually a man in the costume any more.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Before becoming Scarecrow, he held a doctorate in psychology.
* NiceHat: Just when you thought there was nothing nice about him.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Not that he was really harmless to begin with, just... not that scary.
* PetTheDog: Stops in the middle of one of his raving speeches about being the GOD OF FEAR to say hello to Harley.
* PoisonAndCureGambit In ''Never Fear'', he releases a chemical that takes away all sensation of fear, making people dangerously reckless, with the plan of selling his fear toxin as the "antidote".
* SadistTeacher: His true nature.
* SaveOurStudents: [[ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures The tie-in comic]] gives him HiddenDepths by showing that he actually is concerned about the city's youth getting proper education. The Annual even chronicles his RedemptionFailure trying to be this.
* ScaryScarecrows: His theme.
* SkullForAHead: His mask in the redesign.
* SinisterScythe: Wields one in ''Trial''.
* SoftSpokenSadist: When voiced by Jeffrey Combs.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Scarecrow is the master of using this trope.
* YouGotMurder: ''Fear of Victory'' had him dosing people with contact poison by telegram. It was only his patented "fear toxin", though.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Mad Hatter (Jervis Tetch)]]
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--> '''Voiced By:''' Roddy [=Mc=]Dowall

--> ''"You're mighty in Gotham, Batman, but in Wonderland, the Mad Hatter reigns supreme!''"

* {{Adorkable}}: When he's either at war with himself, or prior to his spiral into madness. Tetch had some incredibly adorable moments of complete social ineptitude in his office; talking to people, especially pretty people was not his forte. It didn't stick.
* AffablyEvil: At least in ''Perchance to Dream''. And in ''Trial'' he's one of the only reasonable ones.
* AliceAllusion: He's obsessed with ''Literature/AliceInWonderland''. The other people in his life also mirror the story--he pines after a woman named Alice, and his boss is a stern, redheaded woman who warns him that "[[OffWithHisHead heads will roll]]". His mind-controlled henchmen are also all costumed after ''Alice'' characters.
* AxCrazy: Actually wielded an ax when he tried to off the bat himself in his introductory episode.
* BadassLongcoat: He wears an overcoat as part of his outfit.
* BlondGuysAreEvil: He has blond hair, though it becomes grayish during the retool.
* BritishTeeth: Like his Alice in Wonderland counterpart.
* CheshireCatGrin: And probably with that very example in mind.
* DarkSkinnedBlond: Even before he dyed it "school-bus-yellow". He has unusually dark skin for an evil, British blond (as well as an accent that doesn't go with skin tone or teeth). Portrayed as an anti-social, lab-dwelling nerd, it's highly unlikely that he got out often enough to get a tan, either. (In the episode "The Worry Men", where he visits tropical Central America, he covers up with white gloves, sunglasses, and a straw hat.) It's possible the animators darkened his skin just to exaggerate how freakishly blond his hair is.
* DoggedNiceGuy: Though he drops the nice part when it doesn't work.
* EvilBrit: Confirmed to be actually english.
* EvilGenius: Capable of creating mind control chips that can reduce the wearer to a mere puppet.
* FanDumb: InUniverse, Jervis is '''The Monomaniac''' for Literature.AliceInWonderland, and this is a vital trait of his personality: This is the first clue that Jervis is not interested in reality, but his fantasies...
* FauxAffablyEvil: He's pretty sinister in ''The Worry Men'' and ''Animal Act''.
* ForScience: ''Animal Act''
* GadgeteerGenius: He invents mind control devices.
* GrandRomanticGesture: The actions he used to woo his Alice. Including, but not limited to - brainwashing a pair of thugs to go jump off a bridge to impress her with his bravery when they're about to get mugged; brainwashing the Maitre'd of a restaurant (as well as the rest of the staff) into getting them a seat and the romantic usuals (violin/flowers/etc.). After she reconciled with her boyfriend the same night, though, he uses brainwashing to break them up again, then does the "extravagant Flower surprise" in her house... which he didn't have a key for. Alice is, understandably, creeped out - but mostly because Jervis had no way of knowing that the two had broken up.
* HypnoTrinket: Controls minds without spirals, using cards marked 10/6 which he sticks on people's heads. And that's just his stock device; he has been known to use other things when appropriate.
* IControlMyMinionsThrough: He used mind control on his minions, which gave him an advantage over Batman, who wouldn't hit people who weren't willingly causing trouble. Once they were free, however, poor Mad Hatter.
* IronicNurseryTune: Based as he is on the ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' character, he uses these as part of his schtick. In one scene, he taunts Batman from afar with "Twinkle, Twinkle, little Bat! How I wonder what you're at!"
* LoveMakesYouEvil: His unrequited love for Alice is what started the whole thing.
* TheMadHatter: Actually, not that much.
* MadScientist: One who is specialized in mind control.
* MasterOfIllusion: Via his mind control, such as in "Perchance to Dream".
* MindControlDevice: This is his schtick. When he did it to mice, it was cute and scientific. When he did it to a female co-worker named Alice on whom he had a huge unrequited crush, it became creepy and stalkerish, but as he expresses regret about it we can assume it was a last resort.
* MotiveDecay: As Batman pointed out in ''The Worry Men'', he went from socially inept and lovelorn to being just another petty crook.
* NeverMyFault: Blames Batman for losing Alice, even though she didn't want to be with him in the first place.
* NiceHat: Well, duh!
* NotGoodWithRejection: This is part his origin. He had a crush on his secretary, who actually was named Alice, but she didn't reciprocate.
* NotMeThisTime: In "Make 'em Laugh" and (''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'') "Knight Time".
* ObliviouslyEvil: At least at first. He doesn't seem to realize just how bad mind-controlling Alice is, and seems to believe that he's doing her a favor.
* OffWithHisHead: In keeping with all of the Alice references, says this about Batman.
* PetTheDog: In ''[[Comicbook/TheBatmanAdventures Gotham Adventures]]'' he lures Batman into another LotusEaterMachine purely in the hopes of letting Batman have a little happiness for once. Sadly, happiness is apparently so unnatural for the Batman that just the feeling is enough for Batman to realize that he's in a fantasy.
* PyrrhicVillainy: In a milder example, he uses his mind control technology to land Alice, a co-worker he was too shy to talk to, but Batman calls him out on this, asking if a mind-controlled, compliant Alice with no personality was what he really wanted. Tetch has a [[VillainousBreakdown breakdown and rushes Batman]].
* StalkerWithACrush: How the Mad Hatter was first portrayed in his obsession with his co-worker Alice, and being too shy to ask her out.
* TheyCalledMeMad: He briefly mentions it but that didn't play in his descent into villainy.
* TropicalEpilogue: ''The Worry Men'' features the Mad Hatter admitting that he's been thinking of retiring from crime, purchasing an island out in the middle of nowhere, and opening up a sun-bonnet shop.
* VillainousBreakdown: At the end of "Perchance to Dream," he breaks into a sobbing rage when Batman escapes form his [[LotusEaterMachine Dream Machine.]]
* WickedCultured: He sure likes his Lewis Carroll's quotes.
* {{Yandere}}: For Alice.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Clayface (Matt Hagen)]]
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--> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/RonPerlman

--> ''"I'm not an actor anymore! I'm not even... A man.''"

* AdaptationalHeroism: Played with. Definitely not a good guy, but his goals are at least understandable, and he's not actively malicious unless someone gets in his way. In the comics, though, Basil Karlo was a murderous asshole even ''before'' becoming a monster, while Matt Hagen was just another superpowered thug.
* {{Badass}}
** AdaptationalBadass: Much like Freeze, he'd been written off as too goofy to work. Then BTAS came along...
* BarbieDollAnatomy: Even when shifted into the form of a naked human, he has no genitalia.
** He was barely human, just humanoid.
* CompositeCharacter: His character is essentially a combination of the first three versions from the comics. He was an actor like Basil Karlo, he has the name and powers of Matt Hagen, and was disfigured like Preston Payne.
* CosmeticHorror: He used an experimental cosmetic cream to help him look good after a car accident that ruined his face. It was temporary and highly addictive, and when he tried to blow the whistle before it went on the market Daggett's men fed him an overdose, turning him into Clayface.
* FakingTheDead: At the end of his first appearance.
* GenreSavvy: Subverted. Instead of avoiding cliches, he prefers to embrace them knowingly.
* HumanoidAbomination: Although he was once human and retains his personality. Annie is probably a better example.
* {{Irony}}: He's a hot tempered, egotistical ham, but then we meet Annie, his amnesiac duplicate. It seems that stripped of all his ambition, anger, and longing for self fulfillment, Clayface is just a scared and confused child.
* {{Jerkass}}: But a [[JerkassWoobie pitiable one]].
* TheJuggernaut: He's absurdly powerful for a Batvillain.
* KickTheDog: When he throws his best friend/stunt double across the room when the guy tries to cheer him up and encourage him that all is not lost in living like a regular person
-->"''Don't patronize me! I told you, I don't need to eat! I don't need to sleep! And I'' '''''DON'T NEED YOU!!!'''''"
* LargeHam: He's an actor, so this shouldn't come as a surprise.
--> "[[AStreetcarNamedDesire STELLAAAAAA!]]"
* ManOfAThousandFaces: Due to the Renuyu, he could change his features even before turning into a clay monster.
* NotQuiteDead: in his first appearance he pretends to die from electrocution, but we see at the end of the episode that he's still alive and shifted into the form of a pretty woman on the street.
* NotSoDifferent[=/=]UsedToBeASweetKid: If you consider it canon, an issue of TheBatmanAdventures reveals that when Matt Hagen was a kid, he admired Simon Trent's performance as the Gray Ghost just like Bruce Wayne and it was this very admiration that motivated him to become an actor in the first place, much like how the Gray Ghost served as an inspiration for Bruce Wayne becoming Batman.
* PersonalityPowers: He's an award-winning actor. What power is more fitting than shapeshifting?
* PsychopathicManchild: He's quite self-absorbed and often raises his voice when he doesn't get what he wants.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: His motive in his first appearance, seeking revenge against the men responsible for his transformation.
* ShadowDiscretionShot: The scene of having Renuyu poured on his face provides the trope image.
* ShapeshifterDefaultForm: It's explained that shapeshifting is an acquired skill, or "muscle tensing," so he can't just constantly be in another form.
* ShapeshiftingSeducer: A truly disturbing variation: a portion of his clay body, in the form of an amnesiac young girl. Poor Tim Drake.
* ShapeshifterSwanSong: Though he wasn't actually dying, he was just DoingItForTheArt.
* ThatManIsDead:
-->'''Batman''': Hagen, listen to me.\\
'''Clayface''': There is no Hagen. It's only me now...Clayface.
** A bit later, when Batman shows Clayface videotapes of his former movie and TV roles and tells him "You can play those roles again Hagen, let me help you find a cure." Clayface outright screams "No! Hagen's Gone, make him stop haunting me!"
** He also said something of that effect to Stella Bates who was watching one of his old movies in ''Mudslide''.
* TomatoInTheMirror: Well, a piece of him, anyway, in "Growing Pains."
* TragicVillain: For all his faults, all Matt Hagen really wants is to be normal again.
* TrulySingleParent: He can split his body into multiple shapes, including children. Unfortunately, he doesn't consider them as such.
* TheUglyGuysHotDaughter: Annie, at least to Tim.
* VillainousBreakdown: Invoked.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Can assume human forms, and the blob attack after he was found out.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: [[spoiler: In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', Flash and Hawkgirl rather cheerfully blow him to bits. [[KilledOffForReal He's never seen again after the episode.]]]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: What Dagget ''tried'' to have his men do to Hagen.
[[/folder]]


[[folder:Man-Bat (Dr. Kirk Langstrom)]]
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--> '''Voiced By:''' Marc Singer

* BioAugmentation: Unfortunately, WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity.
* MagicPants: Every single time Man-Bat appears, it's wearing pants.
* NotMeThisTime: ''Terror in the Sky'' ([[spoiler:it's actually his wife]]) and one issue of the tie-in comic ([[spoiler:it's actually an old rival in his field]]).
* NoTranshumanismAllowed: Subverted. [[spoiler: Langstrom makes a final appearance as the Man-Bat in ''[[ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures The Batman & Robin Adventures'']], where it's revealed that he's perfected the formula so that he stays in control, and decides to become the Man-Bat permanently. Batman may not care for this, or for the Man-Bat lurking in his caves and stealing his food, but he concedes that it's not his right to dictate how Langstrom decides to live his life or modify his body]].
* ProfessorGuineaPig: Drank serum with bat DNA and became the Man-Bat.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: Langstrom is fairly harmless, but the Man-Bat is violent, animalistic, and destructive.
* TragicMonster: He's not actually that bad a person outside of his bat form, but can't control himself when it's happening. [[spoiler: Accidentally infecting his wife couldn't have been a picnic either.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Killer Croc]]
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--> '''Voiced By:''' Aron Kincaid, Brooks Gardner

--> ''"When you grow up lookin' like I do, you gotta learn to go with the flow.''"

* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Typically based himself in one.
* AdaptationDyeJob: His skin goes from green to grey, though when ''B: TAS'' came back as ''The New Batman Adventures'', it returned to the green.
* AdaptationNameChange / NoNameGiven: He is never referred to as Waylon Jones and the only hint at his name is his wrestler alias "Killer Croc Morgan".
* AnimalEyes: Yellow with cat pupils.
* BaldOfEvil: He has no hair.
%%* TheBrute
* DumbMuscle: Quickly degenerated into this. [[spoiler:Except it was Batman in disguise.]]
* FangsAreEvil: They even can break metal.
* TheFarmerAndTheViper: He escapes while escorted by train to a prison, Batman in hot pursuit. They fall off a cliff and are knocked out. Croc wakes up in a secluded home owned by former circus performers. It's Croc's perfect chance to start a new life. Naturally Croc claims Batman is evil to get their help in capturing him. Then Croc captures everyone and plans to kill them and run off with their retirement money. When he's eventually foiled, he does seem a little regretful as he's taken away.
--> '''Billy the Seal boy''': [Why'd you do it, Croc?]\\
'''Killer Croc''': You said you could be yourself out here, remember? [[CryForTheDevil I guess that's what I was doing. Being myself.]]
* GeniusBruiser: Made his debut with a pretty clever plan to frame Bullock.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Huge Guy to Baby Doll in ''Love is a Croc''.
%%* {{Jerkass}}
* SlasherSmile: What's the saying about crocodiles and smiling?
* TakingAdvantageOfGenerosity: ''Sideshow'' had him do this to a bunch of circus freaks who had hidden themselves away from the outside world so they could be themselves. They were willing to let him join them on their farm, but when Killer Croc heard they had $50,000, he couldn't resist. When asked why after he's captured, Killer Croc solemnly admits [[IronicEcho he had to be himself]].
* TookALevelInDumbass: In ''Almost Got 'Im'' he goes from a somewhat clever, or at least street smart, crook into a near idiot. [[spoiler: Justified, since it's actually Batman in disguise likely playing up how others view Croc.]]
* TheWorfEffect: Courtesy of Bane, like in ''Knightfall''.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Ventriloquist/Scarface (Arnold Wesker)]]
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--> '''Voiced By:''' George Dzundza

* {{Adorkable}}: Arnold, when he's just being Arnold
* BadBoss: Scarface might not be as murderous as the Joker but he makes up for it by being very rude to his henchmen.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: A gangster speaking through a puppet might look pretty stupid, but that's a real gun that Scarface is holding on to.
* BookDumb: Scarface has some trouble saying big words but he's a good planner.
* CigarChomper: Scarface.
* ClockKing: His debut started with an expertly cratfed heist of his.
* CompanionCube: Scarface is this to Arnold.
* DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster: Scarface
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: The puppet owned the goddamn Batman in his introductory episode, no less.
* DemonicDummy: Implied on occasion, but never [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane definitively demonstrated]].
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: In "Double Talk", he finally gets fed up with Scarface, and blows him to smithereens.]]
* EvilIsNotAToy: As Rhino and Mugsy bitterly discovered (though Scarface technically is one).
* ExtremeDoormat: Wesker, especially to Scarface.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: For being not technically alive, Scarface got that a lot.
** The creators [[WordOfGod mentioned once]] that, as the censors weren't going to complain about what they did to an inanimate doll, they were free to be as vicious and sadistic to Scarface as they wanted - and it shows!
* GollumMadeMeDoIt: Wesker is a mild-mannered man being bossed around by a loud mouthed blockhead.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: The dummy's are modeled after the ones on Al Capone, the real-life Scarface.
* HairTriggerTemper: Scarface once more.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Arnold is among the only recurring villains to stay redeemed.]]
* HelplessGoodSide: Portrayed in a similar manner in the comics. There's a creepy scene at the end of his first episode that shows him making a new Scarface dummy to replace the one that was destroyed earlier, showing that he still has a problem. [[spoiler:The trope is averted in his last appearance. Unlike other times the doll is destroyed, Wesker finally gathers enough willpower to destroy the Scarface doll himself. The episode ends with Wesker finally moving on with his life and Scarface is never seen again.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Well, Scarface is one.
* LaughablyEvil: A lot of people, like Selina Kyle, laugh when they see the puppet.
* TheManBehindTheCurtain: Even Batman was visibly shocked to see who really was the new master criminal in town.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Carried over from the comics, It's not enterly clear if Wesker is putting an excellent {{Ventriloquism}} act or if Scarface is a truly DemonicDummy: Episode ''Read my Lips'' shows the batcomputer analyzing Wesker and Scarface's voices like ''two different people''. Batman knew the greatest ventriloquist of his time, Zatara (Zatanna's father) and believes Wesker could teach him lessons.
* MisterBig: A frequent source of humor is tiny Scarface bullying gigantic Rhino into total submission.
* TheNapoleon: Scarface's got a typical short tempered short guy behavior.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: When Catwoman refuses to save Scarface from being cut up by a lumber saw, Wesker goes berserk and attacks her [[ItMakesSenseInContext with a stuffed Tasmanian Tiger]].
* OpaqueLenses: In the original design.
* TheParanoiac: Scarface prides himself on plans that no one can guess, and is thus incredibly paranoid about "squealers."
* ScaryShinyGlasses: When the attention is put on Scarface.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: One of many differences between Arnold and Scarface.
* ShrinkingViolet: Poor old Wesker.
* SmarterThanYouLook: Scarface's typical thuggish personality (and his very nature) caused his opponents to cruelly underestimate his actually genuine smarts more than once.
* SplitPersonality: The series unambigously chosed that path.
* TheStoic: Arnold Wesker, the ventriloquist, truly is one, but only when Scarface is talking. When something happens to Scarface, Arnold can emote like any other
* TattooedCrook: Scarface's DumbMuscle henchman Rhino has a tattoo (of a rhino's head, naturally) on his arm
* [[TheyKilledKennyAgain They Killed Scarface Again]]: Justified because he's a puppet. [[spoiler:Subverted in "Double Talk".]]
[[/folder]]


[[folder:Bane]]
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--> '''Voiced By:''' Henry Silva, Hector Elizondo

--> ''"You cannot do this to me! I am invincible! I AM BANE!"''

* AntiClimacticUnmasking: Batman's unmasking of Bane reveals, not Venom-twisted monstrosity, but simply vaguely handsome, boyish face with nothing really remarkable about it.
%%* ArrogantKungFuGuy
* {{Badass}}: Everytime he fights against Batman, he almost wins.
* BadassBoast: Has a few.
** --> ''"Prepare to meet your master"''
** --> ''"I WILL BREAK YOU!"''
** --> ''"Toys? You want to fight me with pathetic little toys?"''
** --> ''"You cannot do this to me! I am invincible! I AM BANE!"''
* BrokenPedestal: ''[[ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures The Batman & Robin Adventures]]'' reveals that before he was forced into taking Venom, he held Batman as his greatest hero. However, when Batman is forced to take him down--Bane was about to murder Thorne and his lieutenants as a "service" to the Bat--Bane feels betrayed and returns to full bad guy status.
* CombatPragmatist: [[DefiedTrope Defies the trope]], waiting until he knows exactly where Batman is and calling him to point out that, if he were a common sniper, Batman would be dead by then.
* DashingHispanic: A spanish brute.
* DarkLordOnLifeSupport: [[spoiler:His brief appearance in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' shows his Venom abuse has turned him into this.]]
* TheDragon: Though not always a loyal one.
** DragonWithAnAgenda
* DynamicEntry: How he introduces himself to Batwoman/[[spoiler: Kathy]]. By smashing out of the crate she was about to put the bomb on.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Someone wanted to make superwarriors out of prisoners. They got one.
* GeniusBruiser: As Batman and Batwoman could tell, he knows how to lure his targets into nasty traps.
* GrowingMusclesSequence: When injecting himself with Venom.
* HoistHeroOverHead: [[spoiler:''Almost'' gets to break the Bat [[ComicBook/{{Knightfall}} like in the comics]], but gets outsmarted by Batman at the last second]].
* LaughablyEvil: Due to his stereotypical psuedo-hispanic voice, he qualifies.
* LargeHam: Once he gets going.
-->'''Bane''': '''''I MUST BREAK YOU!!'''''
* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: Demands that Batman scream his name for him after he has him dead to rights. Batman doesn't give him the satisfaction.
-->'''Bane''': "SCREAM MY NAME! SCREAM!"
* MaskedLuchador: His look is inspired by a luchador, although he almost certainly never been inside a Lucha Libre ring.
* PhlebotinumOverdose[=/=]PhlebotinumOverload: When Batman first defeats Bane, he breaks the Venom pump, giving Bane a massive dose. Bane's eyes look ready to pop out of his head before Bats manages to cut the line.
* PsychoSerum[=/=]SuperSerum: Like in the comics, his "Venom" super-steroid. The tie-in comics demonstrate that it's psychoactive and addictive, and ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' shows that [[spoiler:years of Venom abuse turn Bane into a skin-and-bones vegetable]].
* PunchPunchPunchUhOh: To Batman's dismay.
%%* SmugSnake
%%* SmugSuper
* SuperStrength: As a result of his Venom injections.
* TheStarscream: Is this to Thorne.
* TaintedVeins: Whenever he turns on the Venom pump.
* ThisCannotBe: "You can't do this to me!"
* VillainousBreakdown: A nightmarish one.
[[/folder]]


[[folder:The Clock King (Temple Fugate)]]
--> '''Voiced By:''' Alan Rachins

--> ''"Well, well. The Batman. It's about time you showed up. I suppose you want to know why I've brought downtown Gotham to a standstill, Batman. Well, let's just say it's because I'm a civic-minded citizen with a lot of time on his hands."''

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* AdaptationalBadass: From complete joke in the comics to holding his own against Batman only by virtue of being observant.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Well, most probably extreme OCPD. Notably, his has a strongly externalized locus of control- when changing his schedule results in important papers being lost, he starts begging "Don't do this to me!" as though pleading with an outside force.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Even before his StartOfDarkness, he knew the place where the subway doors will open. 7 years later, he can go hand to hand with Batman just from having studied Batman's tendencies in a fight from news footage about him.
* BadassInANiceSuit: In ''The Clock King'', a brown suit, and in ''Time out of Joint'', a black suit.
* BaldOfEvil: Well, balding.
* BoxedCrook: in a ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' episode, ''Task Force X'', in which he serves as a planner and tactician in the ''"Suicide Squad"''. He guides the team with clockwork efficiency.
* CanonImmigrant: This incarnation of the Clock King was created for the DCAU and later made his way to the comics, as a {{legacy character}}, as the original Clock King's name was William Tockman.
* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: When he breaks his schedule so he can be more relaxed. Notice that when he was at the park at 3:05, instead of in his office as he had planned, he was very nervous and waiting for certain doom. It’s only ''when he dared to relax'' when the DisasterDominoes that would ruin his life started falling.
* ClockKing: Deconstructs this trope somewhat: He is utterly obsessed with order (and schedules!) and is always trying to dominate his environment instead of accepting it, but unlike a straight example, it doesn't usually work out for him. Whenever his schedules don't work out ''exactly'', his plans come crashing down.
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodeNames: A rare example in animation; he is almost always just referred to by his real name.
* ComplexityAddiction: He even surpasses the Riddler as an addict to overly complicated schemes, but he showed this even before becoming a supervillain. As Temple Fugate, he has a chain pocketwatch, a wristwatch, and in his office he has a grandfather clock and another clock at his desk.
* CoolSword: A clock-hand-like sword that also works as a cane.
* CreatureOfHabit: Even before he became the Clock King. It’s implied that he was a middle aged man when he broke his routine ''for the first time in his life''.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: He lost everything in appeal for $20 million against his company 7 years ago, but when he appears at the episode ''The ClockKing'', he has enough money to [[OffscreenVillainDarkMatter buy bombs, maintain a hideout, and can afford to throw away a $6,000 pocket watch]]. Justified because he never suffers MotiveDecay: All he wants is to humiliate Mayor Hill, and then kill him. Notice that after he is arrested, he uses his talents for the government as a BoxedCrook.
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Batman traces him thanks to an expensive watch he uses to set a bomb. That leads him to a DeathTrap (one not involving poison gas, since Batman obviously carries a gas mask--instead the trap creates a ''vacuum'') Fugate prepared so Batman could not mess with his real plan to kidnap Hill. And when Batman faces him, [[AwesomenessByAnalysis Fugate manages to avoid his punches, claiming he has studied news footage about Batman]].
* DisproportionateRetribution: He developed an obsessive, murderous grudge against Mayor Hamilton Hill...because when he was a lawyer, Hill suggested Fugate take his coffee break a little later to help him relax for a lawsuit against his company, which resulted in a series of accidents making him late, which resulted in him losing the suit. Fugate reveals that the people who sued his company were represented by Hill's law firm, and thus he believes that Hill was intentionally trying to sabotage him. Thus it's not quite as disproportionate as it sounds initially, but he's still completely off-base and Hill honestly was trying to help.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: At the very beginning of the episode ''The Clock King'', everyone is waiting for the subway. In a crowd with individuals with spaced gazes and relaxed facial expressions, only a SharpDressedMan with a parasol seems alert, with a perfect erect posture. [[AwesomenessByAnalysis The subway stops and opens its doors exactly where this guy is standing]]. He consults his chain pocketwatch and exclaims:
--> ''[[{{Foreshadowing}} "It’s about time!"]]''
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Before his StartOfDarkness, we could see his eyes through his spectacles. After that, they seem like a clock pointing 3 o'clock, or completely opaque at "Task Force X".
* GambitRoulette: As meticulous as he is, there is a LOT that could go wrong with his plans.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In ''The Clock King'', Batman uses the tape Fugate left him to escape his DeathTrap. In ''Time out of joint'', Batman uses the same time device Fugate stole to stop him.
* {{Idiosyncrazy}}: Clocks and time.
* InsufferableGenius: Deconstructed by Fugate, a ScheduleFanatic with NoSocialSkills that is in the middle of a court hearing appeal about a $20 million dollar judgment against his company and is haggard and nervous. Fugate is aware that his personality plays against him, but not of what to do to change that.
* {{Jerkass}}: Even before his StartOfDarkness, he was a MeanBoss with NoSocialSkills.
* JustOneSecondOutOfSync: Did this when he got his hands on time manipulating technology, placing one on the Batmobile then setting it moments out of sync with time so the on-board trap sensors wouldn't find it.
* LackOfEmpathy: As a disciplinarian, he doesn’t know how to accept not only other human beings, but the Universe: He is a BadBoss to his employees and he is sure he will lose an appeal because everyone thinks of him as a JerkAss. Likewise, no one ever displays sympathy for him except, ironically, Mayor Hill.
* LaughingMad: Being TheStoic, when he does this it is very disturbing.
* {{Leitmotif}}: All the music related to him is evocative of clocks, utilizing everything from tick-tocking to the Westminster chime.
%%* MakingASpectacleOfYourself
* MeanBoss: Threatening to fire an employee for being five minutes late seems mean to a normal human being, but Fugate is a ScheduleFanatic who only cares for punctuality. If you’re a punctual employee, Fugate would be civil to you, but never appreciative.
* MeaningfulName / PunnyName / StevenUlyssesPerhero: ''Tempus Fugit'' is Latin for ''time flies.''
* MisplacedRetribution: He goes after Gotham City mayor Hamilton Hill. Why? Years earlier, the Clock King (then Temple Fugate) was put out of business by a lawsuit brought by Hamilton Hill's law firm. While Hill wasn't specifically the lawyer representing the plaintiff, the Clock King does consider him completely responsible because Hill also suggested Fugate take his coffee break at a different time...which led to things getting worse.
* MoralSociopathy: Deconstructed with Fugate--he was a productive member of society with his own efficiency company, but was also a BadBoss with NoSocialSkills and LackOfEmpathy who ends up becoming a villain. Fugate doesn't seem to realize why his LackOfEmpathy plays against him; In his introductory episode, he ''knows'' he will lose an important appeal for his company, but it's sincerely unaware why nobody seems to ''like'' him.
* MotiveDecay: Averted, actually: In "The Clock King", his motivation was simple: to make Mayor Hill look inefficient, and then kill him. In ''Time out of Joint'', he still wants to do that (and destroy the new Judicial building). At the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode "Task Force X", he works as a BoxedCrook, presumably to get on parole. And in a case of AllThereInTheManual, ''ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures'' shows him [[spoiler: successfully rigging the mayoral election so that Hill would lose]]. Batman is no more than a nuisance to him.
* NiceHat: First a brown bowler with his nice brown suit, then a black bowler, to go with his nice black suit.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: In his first appearance, he was thought to have died in that episode's last fight. Batman pointed out that, if ''he'' survived, so could Fugate.
* NoSocialSkills:
** At [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE25TheClockKing "The Clock King"]], he ''knows'' that he will lose the hearing, but he doesn't realize ''why'' (his LackOfEmpathy). He also doesn't realize that Hill patting his back is a sympathy gesture.
** At [[Recap/TheAdventuresOfBatmanAndRobinE8TimeOutOfJoint "Time Out of Joint"]], Temple Fugate trips over a plump woman, both fall down the stairs, she falls on top of him and begins to attack him with her umbrella. Fugate just asks the woman to get up. He has no consciousness of who has been humiliated.
** At [[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS2E4TaskForceX "Task Force X"]], he works as a BoxedCrook and he's eager to DispenseWithThePleasantries and get to the point.
* PrinciplesZealot: Fugate is obsessed with punctuality, and the one moment he broke that obsession coincides with a series of events that ruin his life. This obsession then resulted in a paranoia against the person he deemed responsible for his lateness so strong that he stopped at nothing to destroy him.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: The original comics villain antagonized Comicbook/GreenArrow.
* ScheduleFanatic: Here is an excerpt of Fugate’s screen laptop we see briefly as a FreezeFrameBonus:
-->'''Things to do today – 5/12'''
-->''3:00…………….Coffe break''
-->''3:02…………….Brush teeth''
-->''3.05…………….Check weather''
* TheStoic: [[NotSoStoic Unless you make him late.]]
* SharpDressedMan: Either in brown or in black, his suit is always classy.
* SuicidalGotcha: Doing one of these onto a train, he prefaces it with the following comment:
--> "I don't know what to tell you, Batman, except perhaps that the 9:15 is always 6 minutes early."
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: He is the only self-created supervillain in the series to avoid the tropes in the EvilMakeover indice. Aside from his gadgets, he's just a guy in a nice suit.
-->'''Batman:''' ''I’m here to clean your clock, Fugate.''
-->'''Fugate:''' ''Don’t count on it, Batman. [[MythologyGag When it comes to clocks, I am king]].'' [[GratuitousFrench En garde!]]
* TrainEscape: Uses this trick to make a dramatic exit after his first face-to-face encounter with Batman: "I don't know what to tell you, Batman... except that the 9:15 is always six minutes early."
* VillainDecay: This trope is zigzagged: In ''The Clock King'', the eponymous villain almost kills Batman and then he is able to go hand to hand with him by simply from having studied Batman's tendencies in a fight from news footage about him. In "Time out of Joint", he is captured by a condescending Robin. In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode "Task Force X", he works as a BoxedCrook with clockwork efficiency. Lastly, WesternAnimation/TheBatmanAdventures shows him [[spoiler: successfully rigging the mayoral election so Hill would lose, and badly injuring the Riddler because he wanted to expose his plan]].
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[[folder:Baby Doll (Mary Louise Dahl)]]
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--> '''Voiced By:''' Alison Laplaca, Laraine Newman

--> ''"I didn't mean to...''"

* AdultsDressedAsChildren: Although she also ''looks'' like a child.
* AxCrazy: When going through her VillainousBreakdown
* BadassAdorable: She looks like a child, but is still very dangerous.
* BlondesAreEvil: She has blonde hair.
* BreakTheCutie: The only time in her life when she was actually happy was when she was acting the part of Baby Doll on her show.
* CanonForeigner: Only appears in the animated series, likely because a villain with the appearance of a child would be too difficult to work with in darker adaptations.
* CatchPhrase: "I didn't mean to."
* CivilianVillain: Tragic version. She really had reformed. Everyone accepted her living a normal life but then that one person was TemptingFate pushing her BerserkButton despite protests to stop.
* ClassicallyTrainedExtra: It backfires.
* ClingyJealousGirl: For Killer Croc.
* CreepyChild: Except she isn't an actual child, which just makes her all the creepier.
* CuteIsEvil: Although she certainly tries to invoke the trope, she's definitely evil, though "cute" is subjective.
* DeliberatelyCuteChild: Tries this on Batman and others. However, because she is actually a woman in her late thirties with a [[NotGrowingUpSucks defect that prevents her from physically aging past 10 years old,]] and is also [[AxCrazy completely out of her mind]], it doesn't work for her.
* FormerChildStar: Subverted--she was in her twenties at the time.
* FriendlyEnemy: She's one of the few of Batman's rogue's that has no personal qualms against Batman and whenever her plans go to waste she surrenders to him without a fight. Though that doesn't stop her from trying to kill him if he gets in the way.
* HappyFunBall: Used by her occasionally.
* HatesTheJobLovesTheLimelight: Starts out this way... and then goes [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds waaaay further]].
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: With Croc.
* HotSkittyOnWailordAction: In ''Love is a Croc'', she falls in love with Killer Croc.
-->'''Batgirl''': What do you suppose they do on a date?\\
'''Batman''': ...I ''don't'' wanna think about it.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Tiny Girl to Croc in ''Love is a Croc''.
* IAmNotSpock: An in-universe example.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: One of the few villains in the series to know when to surrender peacefully when odds are she isn't gonna get away with her crimes.
* LaughTrack: As part of her obsession with regaining her former sitcom fame, she carries a laugh track on tape with her everywhere and plays it at moments she thinks are appropriate (along with "Ohhhh..." and "Awww...").
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Luckily it is merely a temporary case of the "GenreBlindness" variety.
* MadLove: Briefly with Killer Croc
* MonsterOfTheWeek: She only ever had 2 appearances, and was limited in both motive and ability compared to other, more menacing Batman villains.
* MoodSwinger: Switches between [[DeliberatelyCuteChild sickeningly cheerful]] to soul-crushingly depressed to [[AxCrazy violently enraged]] with very little warning.
* NiceCharacterMeanActor: Teeter-totters between this and MeanCharacterNiceActor. Unlike most actors, whose excuses were drugs and scandals, she was a very sympathetic character; all she wanted to do was play a serious role but due to her disorder she couldn't, and last of all she wanted her old show back. However some things she does tend to cause sympathy levels to teeter totter. Although one of her co-stars that she kidnapped mentioned she was difficult to work with on the set, always making extreme demands and throwing tantrums if she didn't get her way. Even that though could be contributed to TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Before her redesign she looked suspiciously like a ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' character (doubtless a ShoutOut by Paul Dini). Her redesign brings her more in line with other Bruce Timm characters.
* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Within-the-show example
* OlderThanTheyLook: Due to a rare aging defect.
* PantyShot: Invoked for cuteness but comes off as creepy.
* PsychopathicManchild: It's stated by other characters that even before the breakdown she was fussy and threw fits when she couldn't have her way.
** Considering this would be how a troublesome child acts, this may be due to TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody coming into effect.
* RageAgainstTheReflection: Batman chases her through a funhouse, into the Hall of Mirrors. She's caught up short when one of the mirrors shows her as she would have been if she did had not been born with a rare condition that [[OlderThanTheyLook makes her forever look 5 years old]]. Cue VillainousBreakdown during which she empties her gun into the mirror.
* ReunionRevenge: She kidnaps her former costars, but just to force them to go through the motions of the show. Except for [[CousinOliver Cousin Spunky]], whom she tries to kill with [[StuffBlowingUp dynamite]].
* SecretIdentityIdentity: Tries to be this, but it's just pretend.
* TheFakeCutie: Was a child actor with a growth deficiency which prevented her from physically aging, and similarly [[NotAllowedToGrowUp prevented her career from advancing as well]]. Years later, she snapped and started kidnapping old cast members, but kept doing so in character as "Daddy's widdle precious". It's only at the end of the episode, when she stumbles in front of a fun-house mirror that seems to show the adult form she could never have, that she breaks character and reveals what she's really like.
-->"Why wouldn't you let me make BELIEVE...?!"
* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: She was prone to tantrums and demands during her acting career (she was in her mid 20s doing this) in the same way a child would. While she was still an adult, the fact that she still looked like a child and played the part of one was probably dentrimental to her psychological growth and why she she would act like one when off-stage.
* TomHanksSyndrome: In-universe example; her failure at a straight acting career led to her StartOfDarkness.
* {{Tsundere}}: To Killer Croc in one episode.
* VillainousBreakdown: One of the most [[TearJerker heartbreaking]] you'll ever see.
-->'''Dahl''': ''(Upon seeing an adult version of herself in a Funhouse mirror)'' Look! That's me in there... the real me! There I am... ''(starts to frown)'' but it's not really real, is it? It's just made-up and pretend like my family, and my life, and everything else! ''(Turns to face Batman)'' ''Why couldn't you just let me'' '''make believe'''!? ''(Fires until her gun goes empty, crying into Batman's leg)'' [[MeaningfulEcho I didn't mean to...]]
* VocalDissonance: At times sounds more like she should be 40 than 4. Justified in that she has a condition that stunts her aging, [[NotAllowedToGrowUp never being allowed to grow up]] physically.
* WhiteDwarfStarlet:[[NotAllowedToGrowUp With emphasis on "Dwarf"]], she abducted her long-separated sitcom co-stars.
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[[folder:Firefly (Garfield Lynns)]]
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--> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/MarkRolston

First appearing in "Torch Song", Garfield Lynns was a concert pyrotechnician who worked for a popular singer named Cassidy. After being spurned by her, he sabotaged the pyrotechnics at one of her shows and reinvented himself as the pyromaniac supervillain Firefly as he stalked Cassidy.

* CoolHelmet: It even looks like an insect.
* GadgeteerGenius: Made the firefly suit and pyrotechnics himself.
* FlamingSword: His favored weapon in close combat.
* {{Jetpack}}: Wouldn't bring the fly in Firefly without it.
%%* PungeonMaster
* {{Pyromaniac}}: It's his gimmick.
* StalkerShrine: Had one of these for Cassidy. As Detective Bullock noted upon seeing it, "Oh, he's got it bad."
* StalkerWithACrush: To Cassidy.
* StealthPun: As Cass points out herself, he carries...a ''torch'' for her.
* WouldHurtAChild: In ''Legends of the Dark Knight'', he has no problem killing the kids when he sets the blaze.
* {{Yandere}}: For Cassidy.
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[[folder:The Phantasm [[spoiler:(Andrea Beaumont)]]]]
--> '''Voiced By:''' Stacey Keach and [[spoiler:Dana Delaney]]

--> ''"Your Angel of Death awaits."''

* AntiVillain: Falls somewhere between "Well-Intentioned Anti-Villain" and "Vicious Anti-Hero". [[spoiler:Also a Woobie Anti-Villain once her backstory is revealed.]]
%%* {{Badass}}
%%** BadassCape
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Wields a bladed weapon over the right hand.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Did this to Carl Beaumont concerning his remarkably poor decision to be business partners with guys like Sal Valestra.
* CastAsAMask: Stacey Keach plays The Phantasm, but not [[spoiler:Andrea. Deliberate misdirection since he also plays Andrea's father.]]
* CatchPhrase: "Your Angel of Death awaits."
* CompositeCharacter: The plot was adapted from the ''Batman: Year Two'' storyline. In the comic, the Reaper was Judson Caspian, whose daughter Rachel was in a budding relationship with Bruce Wayne. In the movie, [[spoiler:Andrea Beaumont was both the Phantasm and the love interest.]]
* CoolMask: Which resembles a skull
* CostumeCopycat: A variation: Batman is blamed for the actions of Phantasm who also wears a costume with a black cape and makes a point of attacking from the shadows and being seen only in glimpses; in this case, the confusion is not deliberate, but results from the Phantasm making similar style choices.
%%* DarkActionGirl[=/=]FemmeFatale
* DeadpanSnarker: [[spoiler:Andrea has her moments]].
* {{Expy}}: Heavily inspired by the Reaper, a violent vigilante from ''Batman: Year Two''.
* FieryRedhead: Sometimes.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: [[spoiler:Andrea [[TookALevelInBadass takes a few levels in badass]] and becomes The Phantasm]]
%%* HeartbrokenBadass
* [[HeWhoFightsMonsters She Who Fights Monsters]]: Alfred even notes it when consoling Bruce near the end of the movie.
-->'''Alfred:''' Vengeance blackens the soul, Bruce. I've always feared that you would become that which you fought against. You walk the edge of that abyss every night, but you haven't fallen in and I thank heaven for that. But [[spoiler:Andrea]] fell into that pit years ago, and no one, not even you, could have pulled [[spoiler:her]] out.
* HeroesWantRedheads: Bruce certainly wanted.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: [[spoiler: Trying to justify her actions:]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Andrea''': They took everything from me, Bruce: [[YouKilledMyFather my dad]], my life, you. I'm not saying it's right, or even sane, but it's all I've got left. So, either [[WithUsOrAgainstUs help me or get out of the way!]]]]
* InTheHood: Mandatory if you want to look like the GrimReaper.
* NewOldFlame: [[spoiler: Never spoken of in the series proper.]]
* NotSoDifferent: Thinks this of Batman and [[spoiler:herself]]. Alfred agrees, to a point, see HeWhoFightsMonsters.
* OminousWalk: A favored tactic. It works.
* OffScreenTeleportation: Seems to rely a lot on this trope to get around. A lot of {{smoke out}}s were involved though.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Has this philosophy regarding the crime syndicate in Gotham.
* RevengeBeforeReason:
--> I'm not saying it's right or even sane, but it's all I have left, so either help me or get out of the way!
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler:Andrea's motivation for being the Phantasm is to make the mobsters who ruined her life (and took her father) pay for what they've done]]
* SamusIsAGirl: As part of the big, spoilered reveal.
* SmokeOut: Uses it for both quick entrances and exits and to avoid projectiles, including bullets.
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:After becoming the Phantasm]].
* TragicVillain: [[spoiler: She even admits that she might not be right but vengeance is all what she's got left.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: There isn't much that can be said about the Phantasm without spoiling who it is.
* WhatTheHellHero: After making the move to the larger DCAU, Phantasm calls out Amanda Waller for her plans concerning [[spoiler: Project WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond.]]
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler: Being separated from her true love and her father's murder led her to exert vengeance against the culprits.]]
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[[folder:Roxy Rocket (Roxanne Sutton)]]
--> '''Voiced By:''' Charity James
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A former stuntwoman and a dangerously avid adrenaline junkie.

* AffablyEvil: To a certain extent.
* BikerBabe: Dresses like it, though as the name implies she likes riding rockets.
* CanonImmigrant: Twice--she first appeared in ''ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures'' Annual #1, then in the animated series, then in the main DCU.
%%* DarkActionGirl
%%* DeadpanSnarker
* TheDragon: To the Penguin in her debut episode.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: Only worked with the Penguin to sate her need for thrills. When her stunts began to risk exposing him, he decides to get rid of her.
* FieryRedhead: Moved to crime mostly for the kicks.
* HeelFaceTurn: In the tie-in comics--decides that being a vigilante has as much thrill as being a criminal.
* InHarmsWay: She's in it at least as much for the thrills as for the loot.
* MsFanservice: Has a nice figure and provides a cleavage.
* NotMeThisTime: In the tie-in comics. It turns out to be [[spoiler: Catwoman]], trying to frame her.
* NotSoDifferent: Tries to pull this on Batman, saying that he'll let her go because he enjoys the thrill of the chase as much as she does. It doesn't work.
* OrgasmicCombat: Especially in the, er, [[FreudWasRight climax]] of the episode.
* RocketRide: Provides the trope image.
* SexIsViolence: When Batman pursues her, she starts laughing more and more and eventually... well, she shows her O-face.
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