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captpackrat posted...

Frank Gorshin as the Riddler. He always had a maniacal kind of energy and seemed to get more into the part than any other actor on the show.

I'm just sad we don't live in a world where they made a movie about the Riddler (played by David Tennant) based on the period/storyline when he wasn't a villain, because he decided that rather than proving his genius by outwitting Batman, he'd do it by becoming a private detective and solving the cases no one else could solve.

There was something really cool about the idea of this very clearly crazy person with obsessive-compulsive tendencies, getting off on beating super-villains solely with his brains and not brawn, and constantly having to fight the urge to just give in to his own insanity and become a villain again.

And then they shat that away like all their other recent good ideas when they did the New 52 reboot.

Of course, I also kind of liked the idea of The Penguin going "legitimate" rather than being a more traditional villain-type, up to and including working with the Birds of Prey (and having a weird creepy crush on one of them).


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