10 DC Villains To Watch Out For In 2019 On Film & TV

4. Bane - Gotham

Love it or hate it, there's no denying Gotham has taken a unique - shall we say - approach to the DC Universe since its 2014 premiere. Villains have been completely reimagined, and we've seen Bruce Wayne encounter some of his most legendary villains at the tender age of 14. For some Bat-fans these deviations are a little too much to take, but some have actually grown to enjoy its silliness, even if it ends up in complete tonal dissonance.

This brings us to Bane, who will be joining the likes of Joker (sorry, Jerome), Riddler and Penguin with a drastic makeover. Instead of hailing from the island of Santa Prisca, this version of the character will be a veteran who served alongside Jim Gordon back in the character's army days, who returns to Gotham to get up to some evil antics.

As you can see, the character doesn't look anything like the one featured in Batman's comics, with the producers having seemingly elected to borrow elements from the design featured in The Dark Knight Rises, along with a few other random inspirations. It's to be expected though, and with Gotham set to conclude sometime next year, the presence of Bane is sure to shake things up.

Ewan Paterson

WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well. In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.

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