Batman Villains - Blog Posts

My favourite Batman movie is The Lego Batman movie and you might think that it’s childish BUT

My second favourite is The Batman because that is Batman. The scene in the crime scene is spot on! And Selina?! The cat woman suit, the backstory, the casting. And the Riddler? The only criticism I can come up with is that I like the classic green three piece suit with question marks. Only reason it’s not my favourite is that that is not Bruce Wayne. It’s too much wet cat and not enough Brucie Wayne.

Christian Bales Batman on the other hand is too much Bruce Wayne and not enough Batman.

BUT LEGO BATMAN? He is a party animal who flirts his way through life and at the same time a lonely guy who needs to let people in. It’s a comedy and a Lego movie which means we wouldn’t get a creepy Batman who lurks in the shadows and disappears when you look away.

A perfect Batman movie would have a Brucie Wayne who trows a party every week, funds half the city and who you would believe every scandal story about. A Batman who cares about his villains, who is great with kids, who is a detective and not a superhero, who lurks in the shadows and appears and disappears in the blink of an eye. And a Bruce Wayne who sleeps a maximum of three hours a night, is incredibly lonely, adopts any and all kids who he sees himself in and who loves his butler over everything(except his kids).

A Batman Villans tier list based on how much I would want to talk to them

Me and gang

look at my prosecutor dawg i’m going to jail

bro is that fucking jason todd

Doodling on my iPad and end up drawing Harvey Coins lol

And here’s the black and white version of my last drawing. And I prepared to make some pins

Me Frfr

two sides of the same old coin.

This was my design for the Riddler, please ignore the fact that he has no hands 😭 I thought I would get around to drawing them but I didn't. Pretend he's smoking or holding a loaf of bread or something.

ANYWAYS I didn't have an idea on what I wanted to do for him until I came across a documentary on the Enigma code in WW2 and was like "huh I forgot about that" - all I have on my 1940s-ish version of him so far is that he was born poor but accumulated wealth, and adopted the guise of a bored rich socialite to cope with the fact he grew up dirt poor. Germany was left pretty much starved of resources after the treaty that ended WW1 so that's probably why. The Enigma code was developed in Germany shortly after WW1 but in my universe I like to think he invented it because haha. Inventing a nearly unbreakable code and then naming it after yourself sounds like something Riddler would do lol

I think he'd wear a lot of military inspired clothing, he seems like he'd be really into bomber jackets. I gave him a tiny mustache because I think it's funny that all the bad guy gangster thugs in old movies have one

I made this drawing last September I think?? in a mad frenzy after I saw the trailer for Caped Crusader, and even though I'm not the biggest fan of the colors I still liked Harley's design and her involvement in the series :)

I had a rough week so I just wanted to sit down and sketch some batman characters lol. I don't draw Johnathon that much rip but this is what he looks like in my head, sort of

I lied, I did draw something yesterday lol. Take this 🫴 I love btas mad hatter I feel like he was such an interesting character!! This drawing also looks a bit like gene wilders' willy wonka I can't stop seeing it HELP

1947 Catwoman drawing from last year :))) she was just SO cool in the golden age

Here's Scarecrow... I'm not entirely happy with him but I did this in a hurry so he'll have to do lol. I had a weird idea of making have a short pointy hat but like,, the edge functioned like a 40s fedora?? Idk if that actually worked but there you go.

I'm definetely a little obsessed with the relation of old horror movies with the fears of society at that time/the current events they were inspired by, and I tried to design Scarecrow with that in mind. Kind of obviously war in the 40s so I gave him a military inspired trenchcoat, but I also heard a take once that the scarecrow idea represents poverty, raggedy clothes and poor farmers and the like, and the Great Depression was fresh in the back of everyones minds at this point. Rationing during the war as well!! I'm using my last brain cell to write this so I hope this makes sense lol. That's it bye :)

happy Halloween!!!! Here's the sketch for the vintage scarecrow design I did since I don't have the finished product to offer lol

Here they are... the final set (for now!) of vintage rogues.... they slowly declined in quality lmao

Firefly was based off of mainly WW1 flamethrower gear, he's just a weird amalgamation of stuff. If I were actually writing a story here I had the idea of him being a kid in Germany during WW1, maybe something tramatic happened involving fire and by the time WW2 electric boogaloo came around he was old enough to dress up and set things on fire....idk folks the two world wars tie in to each other a lot and I think thats some wasted potential!!!!

Roxie Rocket was just based on 1930s flight uniforms, and her rocket was inspired by those vintage sci-fi illustrations of what people though the future would look like. She never made it past sketch phase rip

The Mad Hatter!! Boy I was sad I didn't finish this one. I wanted to do a simple historically accurate 1860s look, since that's what most of the versions of him are based off of, as Alice in Wonderland was published 1865. While researching clothing I discovered that plaid pants were a thing in the mid 1800s?? I think a lot of designs give him checkered pants but that feels too modern to me... I had to give him plaid pants I feel like he would love plaid pants. He would eat them up.

So yeah!! I have a few more ideas for Scarecrow and Riddler sketched out so you might see them around :)

More vintage batman villains!! here's Harley and Babydoll, Babydoll was based on Shirley Temple and Harley wasn't really based on anything in particular, just vintage clowns and 1930s clothing :)

Here's a drawing I did last year!! this was the first of a bunch of redesigns I did of Batman villains, I wanted to make them more vintage and add some of the l original inspirations in there. As well as more old horror movie tie ins because I'm a nerd lol. Here goes

I based Two-Face off of the 1931 Dr. Jeykll and Mr. Hyde, as well as the purple and orange suit he originally wears in the comics. I gave him pinstripes and a hat because they would do that to all the goons in old movies and I think it's really funny lol.

Catwoman was based sort of on a lady from The Cat People (1942), she's kinda cool, I would def redo her now but it is what it is!

Last one is Clayface!! This one was actually my favorite, he's got a looooot of old movie inspo, I based him off of the villain in Dr. X (1932), who was a guy who slapped "synthetic flesh" on his face and molded it to look grotesque. That was basically the premise of the original comic Clayface! I put him in the clothes that Lon Chaney wears as the Phantom because Clayface was inspired by the man the myth the legend himself, the man of a thousand faces. Two Phantom posts in a row yeesh you guys are getting it all. No idea what he's doing with his hand lmao. Also not saying I predicted Caped Crusader's Clayface buuuuut.....

Have a great day everybody go watch an old horror movie~