Razgriz-Specter
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Same.
People hate Burton's Penguin for how weird he was but man he might be my favorite pre-Nolan Batman movie villain.
Just fun as hell and had an incredible theme accompanying him.
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Isn't it kind of weird that The Penguin is so famous? (Batman)
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People hate Burton's Penguin for how weird he was but man he might be my favorite pre-Nolan Batman movie villain.
Just fun as hell and had an incredible theme accompanying him.
UncleSporky
Member
I really don't understand why he had a duck car when everything else about him had such a heavy focus on penguins.
But it's been a long time since I've seen the movie and maybe it was explained some way in the story.
But it's been a long time since I've seen the movie and maybe it was explained some way in the story.
Coriolanus
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All the A-listers (aside from Ra's if he hasn't bathed recently) are touched in the head tho. Oswald ain't.
BKatastrophe
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Bane is relatively sane if he isn't hitting the Venom
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[img]http://www.dadsbigplan.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/secret-six-bane-goes-crazy.jpg[/img]Well they do know Apocalypse. Next X-Men film should be an adaption of the Savage Land arc, with Sauron and the Living Monolith as the big bads.
Silent Chief
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So, what's the Marvel equivalent of the Penguin?
Like the Jester is obviously inspired by the Joker.
The Owl?
Like the Jester is obviously inspired by the Joker.
The Owl?
BKatastrophe
Member
Kingpin. Aside from a bird gimmick, Owl is pretty different.
Mr_Antimatter
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Well, actually Xmen is pretty well known, as most of them used multiple villains per movie. You also had a very popular animated series with a slew of villains.
Spiderman had the same benefit: multiple movies, and TV shows.
TheGreatDirector
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BKatastrophe
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No one knew the Hellfire Club before FC, and no one gives a fuck about them now. Maybe Emma Frost MAYBE, but not Shaw, Mastermind, Pierce, or Leland. Apoc, Magneto, William Stryker (in name only and without the Purifiers), and very specific Brotherhood members (Sabretooth, Mystique, Blob, Juggernaut, Toad) are really all anyone knows. Cassandra Nova? Mr. Sinister and the Marauders? Omega Red? The Shi'ar (depending)? Phalanx? Bastion? Purifiers? And those are only some of the biggest. That's not bringing in Vulcan, Exodus, Emplate, Kavita Rao, Ord and the Breakworld, Danger, Dark Beast, Belasco, Stryfe, Shadow King, Selene, Genocide, and there's a few others that I know I'm missing.
Like, maybe they know some of them from the cartoon and maybe a couple stuck from the movies (again, Stryker or the Hellfire Club or Shadow King or Bolivar Trask), but by and large the X-Men villains gallery is not well known.
Coriolanus
Banned
One that's cunning enough to know how to interact with those crazies and survive.
Plus he's the one that launders the money for all of them.
A fair point. Is a non-roided Bane an A-lister tho?
More_Badass
Member
The one that doesn't seen insanity or crazed criminals, but opportunities to use to his advantage and rungs to climb
Bane in general is, doesn't really matter the version
BKatastrophe
Member
You don't need to be effective to be an A-lister. You just need one memorable story. But in terms of a threat? Yes. He's still a master strategist, skilled hand-to-hand combatant, and extremely strong, even when not on Venom. Like, freakishly strong, which I personally believe could be a sort of perma-boost from the Venom.
Purple Cheeto
Member
"First he was a strange sewer mutant who lead an army of robotic penguins in Tim Burton's Batman Returns."
He existed a long time before that.
He existed a long time before that.