Batman Symbolism: What 15 Most Famous Villains Really Mean

13. The Ventriloquist - Two Identities, But Expressed Differently

The Ventriloquist (the villainous name of at least two characters in the DC universe, one of whom is a man called Arnold Wesker and the other who is a woman called Peyton Riley) represents a huge exaggeration of the two identities inherent to Batman and Bruce Wayne. With Batman, his identities are that of an American billionaire, industrialist and philanthropist by day and a dark, costumed superhero by night. With the Ventriloquist, his second identity manifests in the form of a ventriloquists dummy that he calls Scarface. The Scarface persona - who carries a trademark Tommy gun - is a highly skilled criminal strategist in the same way that Bruce Wayne's Batman persona is a highly skilled crime fighter and, in that way, they are opposites of each other (with the whole gun thing being a polar opposite to Batman's no gun policy).