Batman: Arkham - Ranking EVERY Villain Worst To Best

31. Deacon Blackfire

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The people of Gotham seem to be rather an impressionable sort, at least within the criminal underworld. And with flocks of aimless people looking for an answer comes an opportunist with the cunning and charisma to indoctrinate them all into his evil cause.

Joseph Blackfire is one such person, using religious ideology to brainwash Gotham City's homeless and underprivileged into crazed, homicidal zealots. His cult capture the investigative reporter, Jack Ryder, and Deacon Blackfire prepares to sacrifice him on an altar before Batman shows up to take care of his horde of followers.

Even when locked up in a GCPD holding cell, Blackfire continues to proselytise like a mad preacher, claiming to be over a hundred years old and knowing the secret to immortality. So convincing are his words that you even start to believe them yourself - but then, with mentions of his name all the way back to the 1920s, could he actually be telling the truth?

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