You've been hired to write a one-shot Batman story. It has to be centered around the development of a particular villain from the rogue's gallery.
And it can't be the Joker, nor can it involve characters that exist outside of Gotham.
Which villain would you make it about ?
>>92318823
I'd introduce the Halle Berry version of Catwoman into main canon. Would call her Tigress instead, but keep the movie origin and character of Patience Phillips.
>>92318823
Killer Croc.
Hard mode: no cannibalism, no animalistic tendencies.
I'd make a story about Mr. Freeze robbing a diamond store.
>>92319474
I'd love it if someone would take him back to his old King Croc days.
Killer moth
I'd make it about whipgirl domming Bruce.
>with all the crime and costumed villainy ceaselessly plaguing Gotham - and seemingly only worsening over time, The Scarecrow's reputation as the so-called "Master of Fear" quickly begins to diminish in the face of the practically-desensitized population, pushing him down into obscurity along with the likes of Killer Moth, Maxie Zeus, and other one-hit wonders
>feeling himself vulnerable to the fantastic depths of the city's horrors, Professor Crane pushes back by fully applying his knowledge of the mind to escalate his feats of villainy from mere revenge schemes and psychological experimentations, to inventive new forms of lone-wolf terrorism
>while initially he holds no real agenda in mind other than to establish a formidably fearsome reputation among his criminal peers, he quickly adapts to capitalize off of the city's hysteria by assigning scapegoats for the city to crucify for him, knowing fully how predictable the media is to thoughtlessly sensationalize shit to the public before it's quietly resolved and life goes on
Killer-Moth,
The story follows him on a few nights of work of being the criminals' Batman. Hitting a crime scene and contaminating evidence before the police get there, breaking into a witness' home to threaten/bribe them, sneaking into police lock-up to take evidence and speak to his corrupt contact. It would revolve around a central plot of Moth solving a series of jewel heists to figure out who is committing them so he can offer his services.
It ends with Moth hearing about a high-speed chase on his monitor, and getting a call on his Moth-Phone, duty calls. Killer Moth, in all his green, orange, purple glory, blazes onto the scene in his Moth-Mobile slamming into a police car, and shooting moth shaped fireworks into the air. The police are compelled to pursue him.
Final panel has Killer Moth seeing the Batmobile in his rear view mirror, and the narration box reading, I love my job.
>>92318823
Riddler, easy. Love the guy.
After a particular incident ends up damaging the Iceberg Lounge beyond repair and making most of his thugs leave him, Penguin is forced to move his operations to somewhere else. In an attempt to gather more money and to relieve stress, he tries to partake in a good old-fashioned jewelry heist, just like in the old days. However, it had been a long time since the last time Penguin pulled off a heist, and, after a quick beatdown and a weekend stay at Blackgate (again), he realizes that he simply lost his touch.
So he embarks on a journey to try and reinvent himself a little bit, to try and modernize his methods, gain stronger tools and catch-up to Batman, to still prove that the Cobblepot name is to be feared and respected.. This will lead him to strengthen his technological resources and to go back on his previous modus operandi when it came to Batman: disarm him and his weapons.
This is essentially another "Penguin hijacks the Batmobile" story but with the added purpose of removing the Iceberg Lounge from him so he can actually go out and be a villain again while retooling him to be a little more effective while remaining truthful to the character.
>>92321030
I need more of my boy Drury Walker
GOTTA DO IT FOR KILLER MOOOOOOOOTTTTTHHHHHHHH
FOR DRRUUUUUUUUUUURRRRYYYYYYYYYY
>>92318823
Can it be /u/shit?
A magic thunderstorm rolls in from Slaughter Swamp for some reason, and strikes Arnold Wesker's grave with lightning. A now animated Scarface crawls his way out of it.
Scarface tracks down a mafia retirement home and transfers a bunch of elderly and comatose mafiosos into puppet bodies, using the storm somehow. They set up in an abandoned underworld nightclub type place, and start planning some crime. Scarface keeps Wesker's body in the main office and talks to it.
All to set the stage for the Puppet Mafia to take over Gotham's underworld.
>>92318823
Re-establish Killer Moth as an actual threat.
>>92318823
Scarface and the Ventriloquist vs a brutal cartel
My favorite Jervis Tetch.
Walk him through a day of intepreting everything he sees as something out of Alice in Wonderland.
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Shame on you /co/
>>92318823
Joker's Daughter fights my new OC, Harley's son.
>>92318823
I'd make Batman the villain--a mad billionaire bat fetishist who collects boys. The rogue's gallery would be reinterpreted as street-level heroes who need to band together to put him down.
The Penguin--scion of what was once Gotham's wealthiest family, born a twisted freak because of Wayne Pharmacuticals' version of thalidomide. His mother committed suicide shortly after his birth due to guilt ("couldn't take the morning sickness!") and his father became a withdrawn husk, running the company into the ground. But Oswald is a business genius, and with a little seed money he made a successful startup...that Wayne Industries is about to crush.
The Riddler--an encryption specialist working for Wayne Enterprises. His work investigating the quantum computing potential of the human brain attracts the attention of the Batman, who wishes to use his research to tap into every network in Gotham with an undetectable BMITM attack. Unbeknownst to Batman, the higher parts of the Nygma's brain are not completely destroyed during his unwilling conversion to a decryption machine, and he remains conscious at the heart of the WayneTel network...a ghost in the machine, privy to every secret.
Catwoman--a woman who Batman regularly abducts as a reward for his Robins, her memory twisted by drugs...but some part of her remembers the Batcave.
Poison Ivy--daughter of the gardener Bruce Wayne beat to death over the accidental death of the white rose bush his mother cherished.
Scarecrow--Wayne's therapist and personal pharmacologist, a man who dug too deep, somehow made him open up about the bats, and now he's gone into hiding. He also made the memory drugs that fucked up Catwoman...and he knows how to reverse the effect and bring back all her memories of the Batcave.
So on, so forth.