15 Awesome Batman Characters We Still Haven’t Seen On Film

By Stuart W. Bedford /

6. Alberto Falcone a.k.a Holiday

Perhaps one of the most dramatically brilliant Batman villains of recent years, Alberto Falcone is, perhaps obviously, the son of Gotham€™s primo crime lord Carmine Falcone, who was featured heavily in Batman Begins (played by Tom Wilkinson). Now I don€™t want to include too many comic book spoilers here, so let€™s just say that Alberto Falcone was responsible for leading Batman on potentially the longest investigation of his entire career in Jeph Loeb€™s The Long Halloween graphic novel: a vast murder inquiry that lasted a whole year. Unassuming, intelligent and oddly polite, Alberto Falcone is, according to Nolan€™s own prescribed continuity, already set up, if not quite established. A few quick flashbacks could easily address that though; Alberto is never mentioned in the Dark Knight franchise, but his father is, quite intrinsically in fact. It wouldn€™t be much of a stretch to say that Carmine Falcone had a son who was left essentially fatherless after the events in Batman Begins. And with that stage set, I can totally imagine a Batman movie with Alberto Falcone as the primary antagonist. It€™d be a different movie from Nolan€™s sure; one centred more heavily on Batman€™s detection skills as opposed to his combat prowess. But then you could still preserve Nolan€™s continuity by posing that John Blake is now Batman. And isn€™t it oddly fitting; that Bruce Wayne dealt with the father while Bruce Wayne€™s protégé deals with the son?