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* [[Cliché Storm]] - D.A.V.E is a very cliched villain, but considering the fact [[Fridge Brilliance|he's made from most of Gotham's criminals]], [[Justified Trope|this is the point.]]
* [[Complete Monster]] - [[The Joker]]. Once a man who wanted to make people laugh, he fell into a vat of chemicals and became an insane, murderous [[Monster Clown]] and Batman's [[Arch Enemy]]. [[Lack of Empathy|Devoid of any empathy]], Joker commits crimes he views as "jokes" at the expense of Gotham. Terrible things he's done include poisoning people with his deadly laughing gas; putting people in various death traps; torturing Detective Ethan Bennett for hours and causing Bennett's mutation into Clayface; impersonating Batman and gassing people for minor crimes; using Bane's venom to go on a rampage; attempting to [[Would Hurt a Child|drop a teenage boy]] into a vat of chemicals; frequently [[Bad Boss|mistreating his henchmen]] [[Bastard Boyfriend|and his girlfriend Harley Quinn]], as well as abandoning them to be arrested or even to die; and filling the abandoned tunnels and mine shafts beneath Gotham with miles of dynamite to collapse the city. That he manages to qualify despite being toned down to all get-out is a testament to how twisted a character Joker is.
** Professor Hugo Strange is an [[Psycho Psychologist|amoral psychiatrist]] who slowly graduates to [[Big Bad|one of the most wicked villains Batman ever faced.]] His stint as a psychiatrist ending after he toyed with his patients' well-being just out of curiosity, notably curing Arnold Wesker of his split personality Scarface only to break his mind again and [[Driven to Suicide|drive him to nearly killing himself]], Strange [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope|became a full-fledged supervillain]] when he created D.A.V.E (Digitally Enhanced Villain Emulator), a machine that ran on data of all of Gotham's worst villains and acted out to become Gotham's "ultimate criminal mastermind", putting the city and many human lives in jeopardy, which Strange intended so that he could observe how Batman responded and possibly figure out his true identity. Strange later infected Batman with a hallucinogen that made him [[Unwitting Pawn|attempt to transform the entire population of Gotham]] into [[Zombie Apocalypse|zombies]] under Strange's control. In his [[Moral Event Horizon|grandest moment of depravity]], Strange, having gone pure [[Mad Scientist]], allied himself with the alien race known as the Joining, selling out humanity to be destroyed by the Joining and assisting the aliens in incapacitating the Justice League in order to steal their powers, all for nothing more than the promise of ultimate knowledge of the universe. As corrupt as they come, Hugo Strange repeatedly showed himself to be among the very worst of Gotham's criminals.
** Black Mask is a thoroughly nasty crime boss who claims to control several crime syndicates in Gotham City, meaning that he's had influence in who-knows-how-many acts of crime and villainy that have gone on in the show. He also [[Would Hurt a Child]], as he demonstrates with Robin and Batgirl. When he passes the [[You Have Failed Me]] sentence to his Number 1 henchman, [[Bad Boss|he shoots him dead]] and demonstrates a [[We Have Reserves]] mentality by telling another member of his gang "You're my new Number 1!"
** Tony Zucco in this show is portrayed as [[The Sociopath|one of the most cold-blooded and heartless individuals]] in Gotham City. He not only arranged for Robin's parents to be killed because they couldn't pay him the amount of money he wanted, but when he has Batman at his mercy, he ties him to a wall and starts throwing knives at that wall for fun. During this, Zucco admits to having [[Self-Made Orphan|killed his own father]] with chilling causality - according to him, he and his father used to always practice knife-throwing together, and when asked by Batman about what became of his father, he sums it up with "Well one day...''I missed.''" Oh, and to top it off, he's voiced by [[Mark Hamill]].
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