This looks like it will fit the IMHO forum … now that we have one. Away it goes, SPLAT!! POWIE!! BLAM!!
I agree. Imagine the opportunities for a good filmmaker to create Batman’s nightmares and hallucinations. The Animated Series was pretty good at that. It would be like Batman meets Freddy Krueger.
Hands down, it’s the Batman: The Animated Series version of Mr. Freeze. Anyone who disagrees is welcome to sit down for a half-hour with the Emmy-award-winning episode “Heart of Ice” and be convinced.
Close second and third to the B:TAS versions of The Joker and Harley Quinn.
And as a quick mention, I’m sure I’m not the only one who prefers the B:TAS versions of the villians over the live-action ones? Especially after how the recent bat-movies have completely fsck’d them up…
My this is an old thread…
I want to see Patrick Stewart play the Scarecrow in the next Batman movie. <heh heh heh>
My favorite villan? The Riddler, and not just because of this. 
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Did you know that they considered Patrick Stewart to play Mr. Freeze? But instead of going for a good actor willing to work for less than $25 million, they went with a well-known, but inferior, box-office draw. I don’t think I need to point out how THAT strategy backfired. The movie just might have worked with Stewart. You could have believed Freeze’s torment was genuine. Ah-nuld always looked like he was faking it.
For the animated series, the top two for me are Clayface then Mr. Freeze. I love the animation and the character of Clayface. does he appear in the comics?
Joker is the best in comics. For sure.
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Without a shadow of a doubt: Joker.
That SMILE! That maniacal laugh… the HAIR!
He’s just so darn TWISTED.
As for his past, I can’t remember if it was an Elseworld but I remember a story in which the Joker was a regular, happy man with wife and kid and in financial deficit. Tangles with the underworld ensues for ‘easy’ money thus resulting in the unfortunate loss of his dear family and insanity.
The freakiest rendition of said villian? Hats off to Dave McKean in Grant Morrison’s “Arkham Asylum”. Highly recommended, has a handful of Joker’s buddies too.
Animated: Hearts of Ice is a fantastic Episode. I shivered watching that one. Arnie didn’t do a bad job as Freeze, but yeah, Stewart would have been cool. Arnie does one liners better tho.
Otherwise, you have to give credit to Mark Hamill for having way too much fun as the Joker.
Comicwise, I haven’t paid attention, due to the fact that all of DC’s core hero’s are getting to the “godlike” stage again. But there, I much prefer the Riddler. Though I liked the Batman/Punisher crossover Miller did, with the Joker and Jigsaw. Almost a perfect pair.
I agree. (See my post from the original incarnation of this thread.)
My favourite episode (well, one of 2, tied) is a scarecrow episode. He gasses Barbera Gordon/Batgirl, who then has a hallucination that she falls to her death, starting a feud between her father and Batman. Alfred, Nightwing, Robin - all end up in jail, though Batman manages to avoid capture, so Gordon releases Bane to track him down (O_O). Bats and Jim reconcile, but Gordon, of course, has no control of Bane - who knocks the BOTH of them off the roof of the building they were on, just as Barbera wakes up. She decides she has to tell her father about her night job. It appears, from his ‘In this case, I CAN’T know’ line, that he knows (And really, how could he NOT), but as it is, he has to pretend he doesn’t.
That was a GORGEOUS episode.
(The other favourite was the Creeper’s origin.)
Hmm, so many to choose from, and I have to mention some of the lesser-knows:
• John Astin as the Riddler, although it’s hard to top Frank Gorshin;
• Shelly Winters as Ma Parker,
• Uncle Miltie as Louie the Lilac;
• Victor Buono as King Tut;
• Vincent Price as Egghead;
And, yes, my favorite villian,
• Liberace as Chandel.