I’m glad the Phantasm made it to the honorable mentions. And I also agree with this list entirely especially Mr. Freeze.

I'm happy Killer Croc was an honorable mention. He may not show it, but he definitely feels lonely and sad with his condition.

Bane

I believe that The Mad Hatter has a sad backstory in the animated Batman series. It’s oddly the most human backstory out of most of the villains in Batman’s rogues gallery

Victor Fries obviously.

Preach i agree I actually got sad when in later episodes he showed 0 emotions but I feel for him because of what had happen

Arkham Series Freeze was also perfect

Then Arkham series made it better

Yes, he's my favorite Batman villain and I love the way they continued his story arc all the way into Batman Beyond. Inque and Ace were also great villains from that show. Ace's story was terribly tragic even though it was just told in a flashback.

I agree

Honestly would’ve been the perfect Batman game if there wasn’t so many tank missions. Other than that I enjoy the game.

@@nonameman7114 I agree they did get a bit tedious, but it was my second best Arkham game. City being the first

Arkham knight or city

@@TheUnamedOne832 The scene described is from Arkham Knight - Season of Infamy DLC (as I guess that's your question).

@@BjornV1994 thank you

and in arkham knight he left to go overthrow the government in his old homeland.

It’s one of the reasons he becomes a father figure to Scandal Savage and is extremely protective of her. Bane is just one of those villains you’re scared of, but you also just wish the world just gave him a break.

Very true

very true

By plaything do u mean his mother was being ... ? God have mercy on all of us

Ong

@@anthonyellison5774God*, God loves y’all ❤️❤️❤️❤️

I agree Baby Doll has the most tragic back story. I believed the producer's of her show purposely humiliated her on TV.

I have a friend with proportionate dwarfism. She doesn't have it as bad as Baby Doll, but someone asked her for her age a couple of weeks ago at a diner. I was kind of convinced they would have thought she was a child, except that she was with three other women who were all over twenty (she's actually the second oldest in our circle). She's also the most adult and mature person in our circle imo (only one living on her own some of the time, studies full-time and has a job in a charity store so gets her pick of the stock), possibly equal with (ironically) the youngest in our circle (the only one of us who can drive, has almost full-time work, and is very patient, unselfish and sweet-natured).

I feel like Mr. Freeze is the most tragic.

@@strawberrysoulforever8336, that's so nice of her. She must be so thankful to have so much going well for her..

@@dafilmqueen556 We actually visited a store together the other day with restricted items (horror-based) and no one asked her for ID. However, the supermarket wouldn't let us buy non-alcoholic cider because I couldn't find my ID (she had hers). Don't ask me why zero alcohol was restricted. She's bought nonalcoholic wine before and didn't get IDed.

Speaking of Jason Todd the poll that determined his fate and gave us Death in the Family, and was the start of what would be his return as the anti-villain turned anti-hero Red Hood wasn't fair as years later after Jason gained popularity as the Red Hood it would later be revealed the actual poll results were a tie meaning Jason's fate at the end of the infamous issue was going to be ambiguous but a Jason Todd hater rigged his phone to call in the number for wanting Jason dead numerous times at various intervals resulting in the infamous result of Jason dying being the winning choice.

Then she finally found a similar soul to love (Killer Croc), only for him to accidentally kill himself.

@@Compucles Up to a point I'll agree, but since... *spoiler space* Croc was only using her, that makes it just as bad, or even worse. Even amongst Batman's other rouges, she's alone.

The ending in that episode was just so beautifully tear-jerking and poetic. Baby Doll eventually gives into reality and embraces the Batman’s leg for comfort. He does by placing a hand on her head. They both share the same pain, like if they had been robbed of their lives. While she was robbed of her adulthood, he was robbed of his childhood.

@@dastemplar9681 YES!!! Oh my gosh that's so true! And Mary"s voice, choking with tears, using her beloved catch phrase from her long-gone tv show: "I didn't mean to." It just breaks my heart every time.

@@dastemplar9681 Mary Louise Dahl needs a get her very own spin-off television series and movie

Bryan Cranston for Freeze

@@rickyrackey7930 that would be amazing

Hell yeah mr freeze deserves another chance.

@@rickyrackey7930 yes for sure

Or what about Patrick Stewart?

Yeah, "The New Batman Adventures" did some interesting things in how they ended some of the villains' stories. As you said, Two-Face developed a 3rd even more contradictory personally. Penguin (nominally) reformed. Killer Croc accidentally killed himself. The Ventriloquist finally freed himself of Mr. Scarface (presumably for good). Mr. Freeze's body deteriorated until he was just a head (which is medically impossible to survive like that, but whatever). Ra's Al Ghul's body breaks down, although we don't learn until "Batman Beyond" that Ra's body actually did die there, but not until he hijacked Talia's body, which of course technically killed her, while Ra's as Talia dies in that latter series.. Speaking of "Batman Beyond," we learn that Mr. Freeze survived locked away as just a head until he was given a chance with a clone body, but when it turns out his new body inherited his old condition and he found himself betrayed, he went on another revenge rampage and was killed by Blight. Bane's body eventually broke down from his Venom addiction and could only survive via medical machinery. Then of course Joker was once killed by Tim Drake (or by accidentally electrocuting himself depending on the version of the film) after brainwashing him.

I liked the way he portrayed Mr. Freeze. The puns were a bit much but that was probably more of a script thing than him being candid.

I hope Arnold Schwarzenegger gets another chance to play mr. Freeze with a better direction and script (i blame the people behind the movie)

he sees the humanity in them. yes they are vile and wicked, but there were days they were smiling or holding on being who people expect: the the plot twist arrives to pull them and those who twisted these villains out of kansas.

There's really no hope for The Joker, Hush, and Mr. Zsasz though.

At some point there is no saving the Joker. Batman refusing to kill has resulted in a crazy amount of other people dying. If you are criminally insane but keep breaking out of prison and kill more people then you just need to be put down.

@@kylebertram9466 But on the real the GDCP or the court should've done that by now.

@@kylebertram9466If Batman kills him that gives reason for the cops to arrest him. The police can get away with shooting him.

Too bad the new batman adventure series ruined everything.

I usually ignore The New Batman Adventures version of Mr. Freeze. The movie was a great coda for the animated version.

@@DarthUmbra Even if you ignore that later episode (and his episode in "Batman Beyond"), he still wasn't able to reunite with Nora, so it still wasn't a happy ending.

Scarecrow was also bullied when he was younger.

@@sarahsims6164 why

@@Nathaniel-ir3yu where do you think he got the name Scarecrow? He was so skinny that others kept calling him that word.

@@sarahsims6164 ok

Indeed, 110 percent!

Faxx

Possibly because she was dangerous to the entire Justice League rather than just Batman. Here it is Batman's rogue gallery that he usually solely fights, usually in Gotham.

@@Keysupersam798 Makes sense, thank you.

It's a shame she wasn't on this list.. I just knew she'd be top 5. That episode had me choked up.

Aka: Top 20 smartest cartoon characters of the century so far.

Suggestion: Top 10 Movie Henchmen who are smarter than the villain

Let's do another one based on anime characters too!

The strange thing about that is the he didn't have a lawyer to take care of those things for him.

Too much time to do so of course!

I heard about Clock King, but I know nothing about him. Can you please explain him to me? I would love to know..

@@dafilmqueen556 his full name is William tockman, he was taking care of his sick sister when he found out that he only had six months to live, he was despite to be able to secure his sisters future when he was gone, so he tried to rob a bank, unfortunately he was caught and incarcerated, and his sister died alone, the worst part was, he was never ill, the doctor mixed his papers up with another patient, and so in true supervillain fashion, he swears vengeance.

@@ironvulture2015, poor sister. Sibling hood is a very understandable reason to turn evil. Not justifiable, but understandable. Can’t argue with a loving brother..

There’s a chance that could happen

Yeah I remember that like as if it was yesterday.

Cool huh? I know what you did there...

@@carlofrancisco1501 it would be cool if that happened

Right! Clay face deserves a chance at live action and Mr.Freeze deserves a serious live action

That sounds interesting. You wouldn't, by chance, remember the name of this book would you?

@@Queen_Kellz_1120 Its actually mentioned in the game Arkham Asylum too.

@@vr8257 nice thanks

Besides, in most depictions he was already a career criminal even before he took his chemical bath.

His multiple choice past is what drives the mystery, maybe parts of them are true, but sifting through what’s truth and what’s lies… maybe even he can’t do that.

I agree absolutely nothing tragic about Joker

True, the only version of the Joker that is even remotely sympathetic is Flashpoint Paradox Joker. Then again, can you blame Martha Wayne for going insane after baby Bruce died in that alley in her universe? Our favorite Bruce is lucky that he doesn't live in Flashpoint universe with his mother being Joker there..

Maybe he’s just an agent of chaos.

He has the better ending possible for him in the Harley Quin show

Yeah

The Justice league unlimited episode “epilogue”. Amanda Waller explaining to Terry McGinnis why the world needed a Batman and how Bruce as Batman did it with sheer will. Batman was the only one to figure through all the illusions she was just a little girl scared to be alone in her final moments.

That hurt so bad

The very end where Terry says to Bruce, "you were right..." and Bruce responds, "we both were."

Poison Ivy isn't that tragic. Her infertility has nothing to do with the fact that she's always been mentally unstable in the way she values plant life more than human life.

Why not a scarecrow movie directed by Tim Burton.

Scarecrow or Mr Frieze would've suit him better.

Mad Hatter

We don't know for a fact that the Killing Joker backstory is even real, or if Joker just made it up like he always makes stuff up. Can we even trust the word of a psychotic sociopath who views killing as a joke?

Thanks!

That is true I notice that when I watched episodes of the 1960s batman show

My first thought as well. The scene where he sits down with her and holds her hand so she doesn’t have to die alone is… rough. She was just a kid

She was really Batman villain tho

And also brings out Batman's most tender side.

Because Ace and the Royal Flush Gang are more general or Justice League villains than Batman villains.