The Ten Least Likely Batman Villains For Christian Bale to Punch in the Face

10. The Mad Hatter

Jervis Tetch was a brilliant inventor with two obsessions, both hinted at by his criminal codename: Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and hats. Like many Bat-villains, the Hatter commits crimes along a particular colorful theme, and his is hats. He's the undisputed master of hat-based crimes. Doesn't Batman have better things to do than protect the citizens of Gotham's hats from this mad man, particularly now that hats are out of fashion (the Hatter first appeared way back in the Golden Age in Batman #49, back when hats were common place)? Yeah, probably, but the Hatter has made himself Batman's problem by seeking to add Batman's cowl to his exotic hat collection.

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 Deever and Dumford Tweed were two identical looking, egg-shaped bad guys who became known as Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. So, like the Mad Hatter, the Tweedles are based on Lewis Carroll characters. But unlike the Hatter, they don't even have a theme—as lame as hat-based crimes may be—to their name. They fought Batman and Robin repeatedly in the early 1940s, and have since only appeared in small roles and cameos. I can't imagine why.

8. Clue Master

Everybody knows the Riddler, the criminal mastermind who commits elaborate robberies but is psychotically compelled to leave clues in the form of riddles for Batman and the police. Fewer know of Arthur Brown, a.k.a. Clue Master, a criminal mastermind who commits elaborate robberies but is, gasp, psychotically compelled to leave clues for Batman and the police. For a cheap Riddler Knock-off, Clue Master was rather popular for the last decade or so in the Batman comics, owing to the fact that his daughter Stephanie Brown was a heroic vigilante and love interest for Robin.

7. Catman

Thomas Blake was a big-game hunter with a gambling problem, whose debts drove him to take up super-crime. He modeled himself after Batman to an absurd degree, not only changing one letter in his name to come up with a criminal identity, but also inventing a Catmobile and a Catarang. There have been recent efforts to resuscitate the character in the comics, but don't expect him to appear in the movies any time soon—when it comes to cat-themed crimes, he'll always be a second banana to Catwoman.

6. Calendar Man

Julian Day committed crimes having to do with particular days of the week, months, seasons or holidays. He wore a costume with a cape that looked like a quilt made from discarded day calendar pages.

5. Signalman

Phil Cobb was a Gotham Crook who became convinced that in order to make it big in that city, he'd need a gimmick. He was right of course, and came up with one, just not a very good one—signals! Like the Riddler and Clue Master, he'd telegraph hints about his crimes to Batman and Robin, who would always decode them and take him down in short order. As themes go, telling your opponent how to stop you probably isn't the most inspired.

4. Killer Moth

The name pretty much says it all, doesn't it? Drury Walker set himself up as a sort of reverse-Batman, giving criminals a moth symbol to call for help when they needed to escape the police, then rushing in, dressed like a moth, to save them. Why a moth? Well, all of the good animals were taken by the time he debuted in 1951. In Bat-history, he became notable for being the first villain taken down by Barbara "Batgirl" Gordon, who was on her way to a costume ball dressed like a Bat-girl, happened upon Killer Moth, cleaned his clock, realized how easy crime-fighting was, and became Batman's female sidekick.

3. Charaxes

In an effort to make Killer Moth more formidable (that is, someone who couldn't be beaten up by a girl in her first fight), DC transformed him into a monstrous insect/human hybrid in the mid-90s, and gave him a vaguely threatening Latin name (thus playing down the moth angle). It didn't really work. He used to be lame, but in a funny way. Now he was just lame. They recently turned him back into a guy in a goofy moth costume.

2. Kite-Man

At a certain point in Bat-history, it seems like the writers were simply randomly pulling words out of a hat and attaching the word "Man" at the end to come up with new villains. The perfect example is Charles Brown, a.k.a. Kite Man (Yeah, Charlie Brown, get it?). He would commit, um, kite-based crimes, often using kites and weapons and even attaching himself to a giant kite which he used as a hang glider. The perfect means to evade capture, as long as there wasn't a lightning storm.

1. The Ten-Eyed Man

The Ten-Eyed Man has all the powers of a regular man with one key difference—he has ten eyes! A warehouse security guard who was blinded in an explosion, a mad scientist (or should it just be an insane scientist, in this context?) attached eyes on the ends of his fingers. This occurring in a Batman comic, T.E.M. blamed Batman for his current disfigured state, and sought revenge. He didn't get it.