10 Crazy Villains The DC Cinematic Universe Will Never Admit Exist
9. Catman
Catwoman is sly, seductive, and an interesting antihero. Catman, on the other hand, is a bit creepy. A creation of Jim Mooney and Batman co-creator Bill Finger, Catman first appeared in Detective Comics #311 in 1963. Under the suit he's a man named Thomas Blake, a world-famous trapper of jungle cats who turned to crime because he got bored with hunting. Despite the fact that Batman already had a catlike nemesis in Catwoman, Catman was introduced as an enemy of Batman, and at the time was pretty campy, even for the Golden Age Batman stories. Even surpassing the fact that old cat men are a lot weirder than old cat ladies, this is embarrassing for DC first and foremost because it's the most laziness any comic company has ever shown in creating a villain. It's as if someone in the board room was running out of ideas, so he looked at a picture of Catwoman on the wall and said "How about Catman?" - what's even worse is that no one fired him for it. And of course, being DC Comics, they couldn't resist turning his life into a soap opera. As time went on, the stories involving Catman only grew more ridiculous, including him impregnating Cheshire and an awkward transition to an antihero role. His standalone series was cancelled in 2011.
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