10 TV Characters Who Would Make Great Batman Villains
2. Frank Reynolds (It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia)
It's not just because Danny DeVito made for an excellent Penguin. Like any good criminal mastermind ought to be, Frank is a perennial schemer, with the bank account to fund any illegal operation he chooses.
Motivated mostly by greed and petty vengeance, there is no act that's too despicable for Frank to attempt, whether it's prostituting his daughter, running a Vietnamese sweatshop or endorsing Boko Haram. He essentially already is a supervillain, he just needs to broaden his murky web of control from Philadelphia to Gotham.
When it comes to the specifics of a Frank Reynolds supervillain persona, he almost has too many potential alter-egos to choose from; the disgusting brute The Trashman; the relentless juggernaut The Warthog; the deceitful and mind-altering Dr Mantis Toboggan; the unsettling weirdo The Frog Kid. This is just to name but four.
He's already perfected the finer points of behaving like a villain, due to his acclaimed performances as The Troll in The Nightman Cometh and Chief Lazarus in Lethal Weapon 5 & 6. Frank is a scumbag of the highest order, and while the comparisons to The Penguin begin at surface level, the characters are equally repugnant and corrupt human beings.
It's not hard to imagine that were Frank simply a resident of Gotham as opposed to Philadelphia, he would constantly be cursing how his schemes were foiled by Batman rather than Mac or Charlie's incompetence.