History MagnificentBastard / Batman1966

** [[PoisonousFriend Eivol Ekdal]] is a shady inventor who makes the death traps Zelda becomes famous escaping from. He helps plan the robberies she uses to pay him. To test a complex trap, he seeks to exploit the Caped Crusaders' reputation for escaping from them. He collects $100,000 from two hitmen who want to kill Batman and has them hide nearby so that they can shoot Batman and Robin as soon as they escape his trap. Ekdal comes dangerously close to killing the heroes through [[SimpleYetAwesome fairly mundane]] means, and only fails due to Zelda's change of conscience.

* "The Bookworm Turns" & "While Gotham City Burns": [[BrainyBrunette Lydia Limpet]] is a devoted lover and accomplice of the literary-themed super villain, the Bookworm. She assists Bookworm in a plan to fake Commissioner Gordon's assassination to lure the heroes to police headquarters and booby trap their car. When this fails, she poses as a hostage to send them on a wild goose chase. When they figure out what she's up to, she realizes that they know she's a DecoyDamsel when Robin calls her by name when she doesn't remember introducing herself. She tricks him into opening a booby-trapped book and warns the Bookworm to abandon his hideout and put Robin in a DeathTrap. Later, she helps trap Batman and Robin inside a giant, magnetized oven that resembles a cookbook. Lydia isn't without charm, and stands out among the season one {{Moll}}s for being resourceful, willing to get her hands dirty, and fully committed to the Bookworm's plans.
* "The Greatest Mother of Them All" & "Ma Parker": [[EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily Ma Parker and her four adult children]] are an infamous outlaw family who have committed bold heists throughout the country without being caught. When they come to Gotham City, they have accomplices inflate the local prison as guards and inmates. They launch a crime wave designed to attract Batman's attention and cause him to arrest them, while acting like they're on the run and gamely resisting arrest. Upon being dropped off at prison, they have a trustee put a bomb in the Batmobile and take the warden prisoner while setting themselves up in a LuxuryPrisonSuite. They plan to use the prison as a hideout while committing robberies. When Batman and Robin survive the attempt on their lives, Ma decides to leave him alone so the more people he arrests, the more recruits their gang gets. When they capture Batman and Robin, they make sure to keep an eye on them so they have no chance to escape the DeathTrap. The family takes defeat with resigned grace, and the last that is heard of them is when flowers that Ma's children ordered for Mother's Day arrive at the prison.

** [[ThePianoPlayer Chandell]] is a renowned pianist who is driven to pull a years-long string of robberies after his brother Harry blackmails him over an incident where Chandell used a self-play piano during a White House concert after injuring his hand. He arranges for robberies to occur during his concerts to make himself look like a victim and make the authorities divert massive numbers of officers as security guards while leaving other locations unguarded. Chandell plans to woo and marry Aunt Harriet to get his hands on money from the Wayne fortune to pay off Harry and end his existence as as blackmailed criminal. He fakes an attack on himself and then tells Batman about Harry and his hideout so that they'll either fall into his brother's trap and stop threatening his plans, or capture Harry and remove the threat he poses. Chandell is poised to win Harriet's heart when he is betrayed by Harry and their confederates and nearly killed. He writes a goodbye letter to Harriet saying he was not worthy of her and is next scene playing a concert for his fellow inmates of the Gotham State Penitentiary.
** [[HyperCompetentSidekick Doe, Rae, and Mimi]] are Chandell's lovers and accomplices. They carry out the robberies that help Chandell pay his blackmailing brother even though they only get a minuscule fraction of the profits to divide among themselves. They use bagpipes with sleeping gas to rob Chandell, Harriet, and Alfred and throw suspicion off Chandell. When Batman and Robin raid Harry's hideout, the three women throw themselves into the middle of the fight to take advantage of Batman and Robin's WouldntHitAGirl tendencies, helping buy time for their associates to turn the tide of the battle and place the heroes on a ConveyorBeltOfDoom. Upon hearing of Chandell's plans to marry Harriet for her money, [[WomanScorned the trio betray and incapacitate Chandell, suspecting that he plans to toss them aside]]. Doe then helps Harry kidnap and nearly kill Harriet, and the three attempt to use their bagpipes against the heroes during the climax before being gassed themselves. The ending shows them listening to Chandell's concert in a way that suggests they are moved by his music and regret their earlier betrayal.

* "The Devi's Fingers" & "The Dead Ringers":
** [[ThePianoPlayer Chandell]] is a renowned pianist who is driven to pull a years-long string of robberies after his brother Harry blackmails him over an incident where Chandell used a self-play piano during a White House concert after injuring his hand. He arranges for robberies to occur during his concerts to make himself look like a victim and make the authorities divert massive numbers of officers as security guards while leaving other locations unguarded. Chandell plans to woo and marry Aunt Harriet to get his hands on money from the Wayne fortune to pay off Harry and end his existence as as blackmailed criminal. He fakes an attack on himself and then tells Batman about Harry and his hideout so that they'll either fall into his brother's trap and stop threatening his plans, or capture Harry and remove the threat he poses. Chandell is poised to win Harriet's heart when he is betrayed by Harry and their confederates and nearly killed. He writes a goodbye letter to Harriet saying he was not worthy of her and is next scene playing a concert for his fellow inmates of the Gotham State Penitentiary.
** [[HyperCompetentSidekick Doe, Rae, and Mimi]] are Chandell's lovers and accomplices. They carry out the robberies that help Chandell pay his blackmailing brother even though they only get a minuscule fraction of the profits to divide among themselves. They use bagpipes with sleeping gas to rob Chandell, Harriet, and Alfred and throw suspicion off Chandell. When Batman and Robin raid Harry's hideout, the three women throw themselves into the middle of the fight to take advantage of Batman and Robin's WouldntHitAGirl tendencies, helping buy time for their associates to turn the tide of the battle and place the heroes on a ConveyorBeltOfDoom. Upon hearing of Chandell's plans to marry Harriet for her money, [[WomanScorned the trio betray and incapacitate Chandell, suspecting that he plans to toss them aside]]. Doe then helps Harry kidnap and nearly kill Harriet, and the three attempt to use their bagpipes against the heroes during the climax before being gassed themselves. The ending shows them listening to Chandell's concert in a way that suggests they are moved by his music and regret their earlier betrayal.

* "The Great Escape" & "The Great Train Robbery": [[BehindEveryGreatMan Calamity Jan]] is introduced using a tank to break [[OutlawCouple her boyfriend Shame]] out of a prison that he thought couldn’t be breached. Jan and her mother, Frontier Fanny, and Shame assembled a gang to rob millions of dollars in old bills from a mail train. She never directly engages in physical combat with the heroes but is no NeutralFemale, throwing things at them, being ready to use her gun, and seemingly fleeing a fight only to return [[CombatPragmatist with a gas that incapacitates the heroes]]. Calamity Jan also [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim urges her boyfriend to shoot Batgirl rather than use her as a hostage]] and tries to convince him not to fall into an obvious trap. Jan also shows a softer side by dreaming of using the train loot to retire from crime and live on a ranch with her mother and Shame, and insists on rescuing Fanny from custody. Jan stands out as one of the few lovers of a villain who is his equal rather than his {{Moll}}.

-->''"[T]he dynamic duo won’t bother with us. We're already in prison… All they’ll be doin’ is rounding up other criminals. More talent for the Gotham state pen gang….The harder they work, the more they help us, so I say long live Batman and Robin."''
-->-- '''Ma Parker'''

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** [[Characters/BatmanTheRiddler The Riddler]] is a stylish thief and kidnapper who has few scruples about his targets. He loves leaving clues about his crimes for Batman but excels at misdirection and isn't above using those clues to lure the heroes into traps or tricking Batman into making a false arrest to sue him in court. He nearly finds the Batcave by having an accomplice impersonate Robin. When an eccentric tycoon hires Riddler to make a silent film of himself fighting Batman, he takes to the task with great enthusiasm, while also planning to rob his employer. Even when he's at his worst and plants bombs to extort money from the city, he is willing to disarm them once he is paid. Elegant, witty, and devilishly clever, this version of the Riddler is responsible for making the character a BreakoutVillain.
** "The Bookworm Turns" & "While Gotham City Burns": [[BrainyBrunette Lydia Limpet]] is a devoted lover and accomplice of the literary-themed super villain, the Bookworm. She assists Bookworm in a plan to fake Commissioner Gordon's assassination to lure the heroes to police headquarters and booby trap their car. When this fails, she poses as a hostage to send them on a wild goose chase. When they figure out what she's up to, she realizes that they know she's a DecoyDamsel when Robin calls her by name when she doesn't remember introducing herself. She tricks him into opening a booby-trapped book and warns the Bookworm to abandon his hideout and put Robin in a DeathTrap. Later, she helps trap Batman and Robin inside a giant, magnetized oven that resembles a cookbook. Lydia isn't without charm, and stands out among the season one {{Moll}}s for being resourceful, willing to get her hands dirty, and fully committed to the Bookworm's plans.
** "The Devi's Fingers" & "The Dead Ringers":
*** [[ThePianoPlayer Chandell]] is a renowned pianist who is driven to pull a years-long string of robberies after his brother Harry blackmails him over an incident where Chandell used a self-play piano during a White House concert after injuring his hand. He arranges for robberies to occur during his concerts to make himself look like a victim and make the authorities divert massive numbers of officers as security guards while leaving other locations unguarded. Chandell plans to woo and marry Aunt Harriet to get his hands on money from the Wayne fortune to pay off Harry and end his existence as as blackmailed criminal. He fakes an attack on himself and then tells Batman about Harry and his hideout so that they'll either fall into his brother's trap and stop threatening his plans, or capture Harry and remove the threat he poses. Chandell is poised to win Harriet's heart when he is betrayed by Harry and their confederates and nearly killed. He writes a goodbye letter to Harriet saying he was not worthy of her and is next scene playing a concert for his fellow inmates of the Gotham State Penitentiary.
*** [[HyperCompetentSidekick Doe, Rae, and Mimi]] are Chandell's lovers and accomplices. They carry out the robberies that help Chandell pay his blackmailing brother even though they only get a minuscule fraction of the profits to divide among themselves. They use bagpipes with sleeping gas to rob Chandell, Harriet, and Alfred and throw suspicion off Chandell. When Batman and Robin raid Harry's hideout, the three women throw themselves into the middle of the fight to take advantage of Batman and Robin's WouldntHitAGirl tendencies, helping buy time for their associates to turn the tide of the battle and place the heroes on a ConveyorBeltOfDoom. Upon hearing of Chandell's plans to marry Harriet for her money, [[WomanScorned the trio betray and incapacitate Chandell, suspecting that he plans to toss them aside]]. Doe then helps Harry kidnap and nearly kill Harriet, and the three attempt to use their bagpipes against the heroes during the climax before being gassed themselves. The ending shows them listening to Chandell's concert in a way that suggests they are moved by his music and regret their earlier betrayal.
** "The Greatest Mother of Them All" & "Ma Parker": [[EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily Ma Parker and her four adult children]] are an infamous outlaw family who have committed bold heists throughout the country without being caught. When they come to Gotham City, they have accomplices inflate the local prison as guards and inmates. They launch a crime wave designed to attract Batman's attention and cause him to arrest them, while acting like they're on the run and gamely resisting arrest. Upon being dropped off at prison, they have a trustee put a bomb in the Batmobile and take the warden prisoner while setting themselves up in a LuxuryPrisonSuite. They plan to use the prison as a hideout while committing robberies. When Batman and Robin survive the attempt on their lives, Ma decides to leave him alone so the more people he arrests, the more recruits their gang gets. When they capture Batman and Robin, they make sure to keep an eye on them so they have no chance to escape the DeathTrap. The family takes defeat with resigned grace, and the last that is heard of them is when flowers that Ma's children ordered for Mother's Day arrive at the prison.
** "The Great Escape/The Great Train Robbery": [[BehindEveryGreatMan Calamity Jan]] is introduced using a tank to break [[OutlawCouple her boyfriend Shame]] out of a prison that he thought couldn’t be breached. Jan and her mother, Frontier Fanny, and Shame assembled a gang to rob millions of dollars in old bills from a mail train. She never directly engages in physical combat with the heroes but is no NeutralFemale, throwing things at them, being ready to use her gun, and seemingly fleeing a fight only to return [[CombatPragmatist with a gas that incapacitates the heroes]]. Calamity Jan also [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim urges her boyfriend to shoot Batgirl rather than use her as a hostage]] and tries to convince him not to fall into an obvious trap. Jan also shows a softer side by dreaming of using the train loot to retire from crime and live on a ranch with her mother and Shame, and insists on rescuing Fanny from custody. Jan stands out as one of the few lovers of a villain who is his equal rather than his {{Moll}}.
** "Minerva, Millionaires, and Mayhem": [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Minerva]] is rare among villains in that she doesn't make her criminal nature known to the public. She picks the brains of her clients to find out how to steal their valuables but remains trusted and respected by Commissioner Gordon and most of the city's millionaires. When Batman and Robin investigate her, she has them trapped in one of her machines and tries to boil them alive. After they survive, she convinces Gordon that it was a freak accident and prepares for one last job before fleeing the city. When that job turns out to be a trap, Minerva escapes from Batman but not the arriving police. [[GracefulLoser An unfazed]] Minerva declares that she will make a magnificent new spa at the prison and lets the police take her away.