Fanboy Prewrites Villains for "The Batman" Universe

I still think a mad hatter / scarecrow pairing would be so cool, have like scarecrow’s fear gas makes Batman hallucinate wonderland scenes

Dude that twist of making “man” bat langstrum’s wife was fucking genius and even in a quick pitch had my jaw on the floor that was absolutely genius

I’ve always thought it would be more interesting for Langstrom to do his experiments on other people. I think it makes the whole “mad scientist” aspect of his character a lot more interesting, but I never even thought about him using it on his wife. That brings this whole extra layer of grossness to it, especially because the subtext implies he married her to cure her, when all it really was is this disgusting savior complex that he hoped would pay off.

I want Mr Freeze,Bane, Deathstroke,Scarecrow and obviously the legend himself-CONDIMENT KING!!!

I absolutely love that pitch for Dick Grayson in the Reeves trilogy, it doesn't seem too forced or outlandish for this version of Bruce. It fits perfectly since he is still finding himself, so he sees this child who is now under his responsibility as a reflection of himself, and it can really nail the father-son relationship that Bruce and Dick have in the comics.

I liked all of these pitches, but I absolutely ADORED your idea for a Man-Bat storyline. I love how you made the narrative so thematically relevant to Batman's character.

I'd LOVE to see Azrael done in this universe. It would have to be a bit later to fit with the whole Knightfall timeline but I want it nonetheless.

I think a great way to ground the Freeze suit in this universe would be to not make him wear it to stay cold, but literally to protect himself from his own weapon while he freezes people. Make it like a specialized low temp hazmat suit or something.

I think Hugo Strange can tie a lot of villains' stories together: Scarecrow and Harley Quinn in particular. They could all be colleagues working at Arkham, and Hugo may have inspired, or even encouraged, Jonathan Crane's experiments with fear, and Harleen Quinzel's study of the Joker. He could even be linked to Kirk Langstrom, with Kirk's Man-bat formula being used in his own experiments with the Monster-men. I could see Hugo Strange as Batman's Lex Luthor: a mastermind working indirectly and above the law, petty and desperate to prove that they are superior to their nemesis.

The flight of the Batman is probably one of if not THE best pre-write you’ve done. Reeves does anything similar I hope it’s something like that.

Scarecrow and Man-Bat could easily be a double feature in one Movie. Pyg, Dollmaker, Zsasz or Cornelius Stirk, Pick 2, and Hugo Strange could also be in one film imo.

I really felt that argument about “realism” in Batman movies and villains. The Nolan movies already went with the hyper realistic angle. There’s so many cool villains that should NOT be grounded. Their outlandish concept is what makes them memorable

If Scarecrow appears in a sequel, I could see him using the “Drops” established in the first film as a starting point for his fear toxin.

I would love to see Michael Fassbender as Mr Freeze, he could land the sympathetic yet unhinged nature of him so well

I personally really like the idea of a Killer Croc origin story. We see the trauma that Waylon has been the victim of, from childbirth, all the way to when he moves to Gotham. How he constantly tries to be better, be good, but how he fails every time. Not because he is an inherently bad person, but because people perceive him as one. This can be used as a metaphor for racism, ableism or classism, as well as highlighting the psychological effects of constant stress, being perceived as a monster by everyone, never knowing what it is like to feel love. We see his mother die at childbirth. With no father in the picture, he gets pawned off to his aunt. As he gets older, scales start to grow on his skin. We see his aunt force him to scrub the scales off with a sponge. We see him be starved and imprisoned in the basement when he doesn't do so. We see him being relentlessly bullied by his peers. He doesn't get a chance at an education. He gets beaten to a pulp on the street by other teenagers. We see how much worse it is at home. Until finally, he snaps. We don't see the act. We see the corpse. Bones are twisted, turned in the wrong direction. A leg is missing. The jaw is only connected on one side. Most of the internal organs are gone. There's a hole in her chest. Where her heart should be, there's nothing. Nothing but a single tooth. In an attempt to find people that accepted him, Waylon started his journey. He started from his home in Florida and started to go north. Along the way, he sees a lot of people. They're not always friendly, but when they are, that stops when they are a good look at him. At a certain point, a policeman approaches him. As soon as he sees Waylon's skin. His eyes. His teeth. As soon as he sees him, he leaps backwards. The policeman pulls his gun out of the holster and points it at him. Waylon puts his hands in the air. He cooperates, but he still gets a bullet in his shoulder. Waylon bleeds. The bullet is stuck in his shoulder, but he doesn't know how to get it out. Everytime he moves his arm, it hurts. The pain becomes unbearable. He decides to dig the bullet out of his shoulder with his bare hand. His fingers are starting to turn into claws. Waylon subjects himself to an incredibly painful procedure to get that bullet out of his shoulder. He manages to get it out, but passes out from the pain. He wakes up the next day. He feels like he should be dead, but he isn't. Jones looks at his shoulder. It's completely healed. Scales cover the places where the bullet had entered his body. It looks as is the bullet wound was never there. A bruise, maybe, but definitely no bullet wound. As Waylon continues his trek, he comes across a circus. With no idea where to go, and no money to buy food, Waylon decides to join the circus. His scales have grown over his entire body. The man spent weeks with the circus, wrestling with crocodiles and alligators. He drew in quite the crowd. At night, however, his fellow circus acts abandoned him. He was lucky if he could sleep in a cage. He didn't enjoy it, but at least he could eat food. At least he wasn't starving. The moment that the director pulls out a whip, Waylon revolts. The burning feeling on his back wasn't new. It wasn't even as bad as the punishments his aunt used to give him for acting out of line. Or maybe he just developed thicker skin (literally). Waylon pulls the director into two pieces. His legs lay over a full meter from eachother. His lungs are in pieces, somewhere in the carnage that used to be the director. The eyes were undamaged. Just empty. Waylon continues making his way north. he keeps getting bigger. Stronger. More like a monster. If people saw him, they got as far away from him as they could. He didn't care. He just kept walking. Eventually, he makes it to Gotham. Waylon doesn't have much money, but decides to go to a cafe. The staff is terrified of him. A man comes to sit across from him. He introduces himself and intimates a conversation. The first real conversation that Waylon has had in years. He wasn't being commanded to do something, he wasn't being insulted or demonized, he was actually just talking to someone. As the conversation continues, the man invites Waylon to meet him the next day. He suggests a time and place and leaves the cafe. The next day, Waylon makes sure to be right on time. The man from the cafe arrives soon after, and they share a conversation as they walk a few blocks. Eventually, the man asks Waylon to help him with something. The man doesn't give any details, but Waylon accepts immediately, captivated by the man's charisma. They turn the corner, and arrive at a bank. The man pulls out a gun and enters the building. Waylon walks in after him, and they take all the money in the vault. The police arrive shortly afterwards. There is no way out. The man from the cafe tells Waylon to walk outside, and he obliges without protest. The man makes his escape through a back alley, while Waylon takes gunfire from the police. The bullets barely puncture his scaly skin. He flees, frightened by the pain and gunfire. The police are everywhere, so Waylon makes his way into the sewers, where he digs out every bullet that the cops shot into him. After days of staying in the sewers, too afraid to come out, his hunger drives him to leave the sewers. He manages to get some food, and always keeps his guard up. That is, until he meets her. She comes up to him and asks him how he's doing. He looked sad, so she wanted to check how he was doing. After their conversation, they go for coffee. They then decide to meet again. Waylon falls for her. He falls hard this is someone that sees him as Waylon, not as Killer Croc. Maybe the first ever. Eventually, she is killed in an botched bank robbery. She is shot in the stomach, while trying to help a child to get away from the robber. Waylon is a wreck. The only person who he had ever loved, the only person that ever loved him. Gone. Jones goes on a killing spree. He rips every murderer, rapist and thief limb from limb. Not for justice. For vengeance. He continues to do so, until he finds someone that confesses to the murder of his one love. The man from the cafe. Right as he is about to get his revenge, the Batman shows up. It was his one chance at revenge. It was his one chance at love. Both were taken away from him. He suffers in the sewers underneath Arkham. He gets no food. He survives on the rats. The garbage. Every now and again the guards throw him the corpse of one of Dr. Strange's failed attempts at monster men. Starving, he accepts it. He eats it. Not it. Him. The film closes with Waylon at his lowest point. He lost everything. He knows he deserves this. He's always been a monster to them. So that's what he became.

A robin or maybe a bat-family pitch would be amazing to see. There’s so many characters from the bat-family who could have interesting and new introductions in a universe like this. I would especially love to see Batwing get his live action debut

I’ve always thought seeing Killer Croc in this universe would be cool, maybe have him do jump scares where he pops out of flooded parts of Gotham or the sewers

I honestly really want to see the Mad Hatter as a main villain. The dude gives me the creeps and would fit perfectly with the horror vibe without doing anything we've already seen before.

I really hope this Batman universe lives long enough for us to see Jason, Tim, Damien, etc.

Seeing how scary this movie made the riddler makes me so excited to see what they could do with some of the other Batman villains