Paul Dini might be my favourite Batman writer.
Here Paul Dini is attempting to move the most recent major bat baddie from the latter category into the former. Very occasionally these are succesful – Bane is a fairly well-known addition to the ensemble, despite only arriving about fifteen years ago, and Victor Zsasz remains the most recent bad guy to be featured in Nolan’s movies – but mostly these are failures – like Orca or KGBeast. However, once every few years the powers that be will attempt to introduce a new major villain into the character’s life – for example Grant Morrison populated his own run on the title with new enemies (and the Joker). He has tonnes of opponents who are easily recognised by the public and are wide and diverse, many that any other comic book character would kill for. Thanks to the character’s absorption into popular culture (by the live action series, the cartoons, the movies), he has a fantastically strong and well-recognised selection of villains – to the point where people who haven’t picked up a comic book wonder whether The Riddler will be the villain in the next Batman film. Batman’s rogues gallery is a strange one.
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