10 Unused Villains Who Should Be In The Next Batman Video Game
2. Scarface
One of Batman’s most compelling adversaries, the Ventriloquist – Arnold Wesker – and his dummy, Scarface, is a love-hate duo fans of the Batman games have begged Rocksteady and Warner Bros. to include since seeing Joker’s ‘knock-off’ replica in Arkham Asylum.
What makes the Ventriloquist such an alluring nemesis is the mystery surrounding his complicated relationship with his offensive and destructive partner-in-crime he believes he cannot escape.
In the comics, the tortured subject is Wesker until Peyton Riley finds the abusive doll next to his corpse, a changing of the guard the Arkham series has mirrored with its references in City and Knight. Neither the comics or The Animated Series have definitively confirmed if Scarface is alive, so regardless if it’s Wesker or Riley with their fist up his backside, what matters most is that the developers portray the psychological torment the Ventriloquist suffers from.
Since his birth in Detective Comics #583, Scarface has become more than the 1920s gangster caricature he started as, and it would be a real misstep for Warner Bros. to not repeat the gripping threads already woven by the pile of comics he has starred in and - most prominently - Batman: The Animated Series.