Tuesday, August 5, 2008

I am completely fascinated by this current Batman series. 'Batman Begins' was great and the 'Dark Knight' was even greater. The question is: Who will be the next villains for the approximately two movies in the future? I put my fan-boy hat on and did my research. Here are three characters I would love to see.

3-Zsasz


Zsasz is a serial killer who cuts tally marks into his skin after each subsequent murder. He regularly refers to his victims as zombies and he insists that he’s liberating them from pointless existence by slitting their throats. He briefly appeared in Batman Begins as an inmate in Arkham Asylum where he was identified as a hit man for the mob. During the film, his recognizable scars could momentarily be seen during his escape from Arkham. His potential is obviously very high since he has already been imagined and introduced into the film’s universe.


2-The Riddler

The cerebral nature of the character seems to lend itself well to Christopher Nolan's more mature and thoughtful approach, and the character's rich history provides abundant potential. This character can be creepy in so many ways. Of course whatever the director, Nolan, decides to do, would be better than any ideas I have, but I have come up with some. What if his clues made no sense? Maybe he is insane from getting high off of the Scarecrow gas over and over. They alluded to people selling it as a drug. I hope he is even creepier than Joker. So much potential.


1-Black Mask

Black Mask (Roman Sionis) is a deranged mob boss in Gotham city who wears a skull-like mask carved from his mother's ebony coffin. His parents were wealthy, self absorbed elitist. They befriended the Wayne family purely for status reasons. Roman always grew up hating Bruce Wayne. The beauty of this character is Roman hates Bruce while Batman is after the Black Mask. Supposedly, Black Mask has been used a number of times in comics. To the die hard fan he is pretty significant in the Batman canon. Becuase of his dark character, he would make a great addition to the Batman series. Even though I had never heard of the Black Mask before I did some research he is still my number one pick.


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