Every Batman Movie Villain - Ranked From Worst To Best

Riddle me this, riddle me that, who's the best baddie for the big bad Bat?

By Rob Leane / November 18, 2015

Batman is constantly praised for having the best rogues gallery in comic book history. With the likes of the Joker, the Riddler and Catwoman (to name just a few), hes got a better collection of nefarious nemeses than most other superheroes combined. Indeed, the likes of Superman and The Flash can only dream of having quite this many attention-grabbing evildoers to face off against; while most superheroes only have a handful of truly impressive adversaries, Batman could comfortably fill Arkham twice over with his enviable assortment of enemies. At the movies, weve already seen most of Bats main antagonists brought to life in live action form. Across the the gritty realism of The Dark Knight trilogy, the gothic landscape of Tim Burtons films and the outright garishness of Joel Schumachers efforts, weve been treated to a bevy of Batman baddies over the years. But whos the best of the best? And whos the worst of the worst?

16. Bane (Batman & Robin)

Perhaps the greatest mistreating of any comic book character ever committed to the big screen, Batman & Robins take on Bane was a complete catastrophe. The man who broke the Bat was reduced to an unremarkable lackey for reasons that remain unclear to this day. Wrestler Robert Jeep Swensons version of Bane starts the film as a bodyguard to Uma Thurmans Poison Ivy, with his backstory that of child brought up in a prison environment thrown out all together, as is the characters renowned intelligence level. Here, instead of an intimidating baddie worthy of a central role, Bane is reimagined as an inarticulate thug who grunts and growls his way from one fight to the next. Of course, The Dark Knight Rises eventually gave us a better version, but that hasnt erased memories of this massive misstep.