Riddler (The Batman)

The following is a list of characters that have appeared in the television series '' The Batman'', which ran from September 11, 2004, to March 22, 2008, as well as the show's tie-in comic called ''The Batman Strikes!''. The animation style bears a strong resemblance to that of ''Jackie Chan Adventures'', since Jeff Matsuda was the chief character designer for both shows. Many of the supervillains who appear in the series, like the Joker, Penguin and Riddler, are very different from their comic counterparts, and notable foes of Batman such as Two-Face, Scarecrow, Ra's al Ghul, and Mad Hatter are absent from the series altogether, though Scarecrow had early concept art made for him before he was barred from appearing, and Two-Face was planned to make an appearance in the tie-in comic, before it was ultimately canceled by issue #50 in October 2008. Other characters that were planned for a guest appearance in the tie-in comic (but ultimately did not appear) were Wonder Woman and Bizarro (who both had concept art made for them), as well as Vigilante and Owlman.

Main characters

* Bruce Wayne / Batman (voiced by Rino Romano) is a billionaire playboy and philanthropist who secretly operates as a vigilante. He is depicted as younger than his comics counterpart and joins the Justice League in the fifth season.
* Dick Grayson / Robin (voiced by Eve Sabara) is a 12-year-old former circus performer who Batman adopts after Tony Zucco murders his parents, the Flying Graysons. Furthermore, he appears as Nightwing in flashbacks depicted in the episode "Artifacts", voiced by Jerry O'Connell.
* Barbara Gordon / Batgirl (voiced by Danielle Judovits) is Jim Gordon's daughter, who becomes a vigilante after being inspired by Batman. Furthermore, she appears as Oracle in flashbacks depicted in the episode "Artifacts", voiced by Kellie Martin.
* Alfred Pennyworth (voiced by Alastair Duncan) is Batman's butler and surrogate father.

Supporting characters

* Ethan Bennett / Clayface I (voiced by Steve Harris) is a police officer and childhood friend of Batman. At the end of the first season, he transforms into Clayface after being exposed to the Joker's putty. In subsequent appearances, Bennett battles Batman before being cured. In a potential future depicted in the episode "Artifacts", Bennett succeeds Angel Rojas as Gotham's chief of police.
* Jim Gordon (voiced by Mitch Pileggi) is the commissioner of the Gotham City Police Department.
* Angel Rojas (voiced initially by Edward James Olmos and subsequently by Jesse Corti) is a police officer who believes Batman to be a criminal and wants to capture him.
* Ellen Yin (voiced by Ming-Na Wen) is a police officer who initially antagonizes Batman before becoming his ally. In a potential future depicted in the episode "Artifacts", Yin succeeds Jim Gordon as Gotham's police commissioner.
* Lucius Fox (voiced by Louis Gossett Jr.), based on the version from Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy, is an employee at Wayne Enterprises, an old friend of Bruce Wayne's father, and knowing Bruce's secret identity as Batman. Though he only briefly appears at the end of season 4 and early in season 5, it is revealed he knows Bruce's secret idenity, and has been helping him behind the scenes for most of the series: having helped him design most of his arsenal, along with the construction of the Batcave.

Antagonists

* Bane (voiced by Joaquim de Almeida in "Traction", Ron Perlman in "Team Penguin", Clancy Brown in "The Batman/Superman Story") is a South American mercenary who derives superhuman strength from the Venom steroid.
* Black Mask (voiced by James Remar) is a meticulous and ruthless crime lord. He has no fingerprints or distinguishing features, making him difficult to identify.
* Blaze / Jane Blaisedale (voiced by Rachael MacFarlane) is a disgraced nuclear physicist and ally of Firefly.
* Selina Kyle / Catwoman (voiced by Gina Gershon) is a professional cat burglar and activist. Catwoman is the only recurring villain in the series who's never arrested and never unmasked by Batman, leaving it unlikely he even knows her true identity.
* Basil Karlo / Clayface II (voiced by Wallace Langham in "Clayfaces" and Lex Lang in "The Batman/Superman Story") is a failed actor who steals a sample of Joker Putty and gains superpowers in a bid to gain attention.
* Arthur Brown / Cluemaster (voiced by Glenn Shadix as an adult and Kath Soucie as a child) is a former game show contestant who seeks revenge on those he believes rigged the show and cost him his title as champion.
* Captain Slash (voiced by Diedrich Bader) is a villain from an in-universe video game.
* Count Dracula (voiced by Peter Stormare) is a deceased vampire who the Penguin accidentally resurrects using his blood.
* Count Vertigo (voiced by Greg Ellis) is a former employee of Queen Industries who uses an eyepiece to induce vertigo.
* D.A.V.E. (voiced by Jeff Bennett) is a robot created by Hugo Strange and programmed with the personalities and knowledge of several of Batman's adversaries.
* John Marlowe / Everywhere Man (voiced by Brandon Routh) is a physicist and friend of Bruce Wayne. He creates a machine that can duplicate matter and uses it to clone himself, only for one of the clones to become evil and take his place.
* Garfield Lynns / Firefly / Phosphorus (voiced by Jason Marsden) is an arsonist who wields a bug-like suit. Late in the series, he steals a phosphorus isotope that transforms him into a metahuman with innate fire abilities.
* Nathaniel Finch / Gearhead (voiced by Will Friedle) is a criminal racer who can hack into vehicles and possesses retractable claws. ''The Batman Strikes!'' reveals him to be a former underground racing celebrity who was injured in an accident and rendered quadriplegic before an unknown doctor gave him cybernetic implants.
* Mercy Graves (voiced by Gwendoline Yeo) is Lex Luthor's bodyguard.
* Francis Grey (voiced by Dave Foley) is a clockmaker and thief who stole a pocket watch and was arrested for a larger crime that he accidentally caused. After being imprisoned for years, Grey develops the ability to rewind time and battles Batman before altering the timeline so that he was never arrested.
* Harleen Quinzel / Harley Quinn (voiced by Hynden Walch) is a television psychiatrist who the Joker recruits to become his sidekick.
* The Joining is an extraterrestrial technology-based collective entity intent on absorbing Earth. They battle Batman in the fourth and fifth season finales, "The Joining" and "Lost Heroes", with "The Joining" seeing Batman form the Justice League to combat them.
* The Joker (voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson) is a villain bent on causing chaos and making people laugh. He wields various gadgets, but is equally skilled in combat, using his feet as dexterously as his hands to increase his mobility.
* Hideo Katsu (voiced by Keone Young) is the head of a Yakuza crime syndicate.
* The Kabuki Twins are Penguin's silent Asian henchwomen.
* Killer Croc (voiced by Ron Perlman) is an anthropomorphic crocodile and crime boss. He rarely works on his own, tending to work with other villains.
* Killer Moth (voiced by Jeff Bennett) is a low-tier servant of the Penguin. He later transforms into a monstrous anthropomorphic moth after being exposed to radiation.
* Lex Luthor (voiced by Clancy Brown) is an amoral businessman and enemy of Superman.
* Dr. Kirk Langstrom / Man-Bat (voiced by Peter MacNicol) is a Wayne Enterprises scientist who transforms himself into a monstrous anthropomorphic bat in an attempt to be feared like Batman. Later in the series, he reforms and becomes Batman's ally when he needs help taking down the Terrible Trio.
* Marty (voiced by Patton Oswalt) is a technician and the Joker's assistant.
* Metallo (voiced by Lex Lang) is a Kryptonite-powered cyborg and enemy of Superman.
* Dr. Sam Scudder / Mirror Master (voiced by John Larroquette) is a mirror-themed villain and enemy of the Flash.
* Victor Fries / Mister Freeze (voiced by Clancy Brown) is a professional thief who previously gained ice-based abilities after being locked in a cryonic freezer. In a possible future depicted in the episode "Artifacts", Freeze's body deteriorates and he begins using mechanical spider-like legs.
* Number One (voiced by Diedrich Bader in "The Breakout" and John Mariano in "What Goes Up...") is the name of several henchmen who serve Black Mask.
* Oswald Copplebot / The Penguin (voiced by Tom Kenny) is an aristocratic member of the Cobblepot family who turns to crime to rebuild his family's reputation and wealth.
* Pamela Isley / Poison Ivy (voiced by Piera Coppola) is an environmental activist and classmate of Barbara Gordon who gains the ability to manipulate plants after being exposed to a plant-based mutagen.
* Donnie / Prank (voiced by Michael Reisz) is a classmate of Barbara Gordon who the Joker temporarily recruits as his sidekick.
* Punch and Judy (voiced by Rino Romano - actually Clayface) are the Joker's silent henchmen. It appears they do seem to finally speak and insult one of his schemes in the episode "Clayfaces", before it's revealed that "they're" speaking because the duo are being impersonated by Clayface I/Ethan Bennett, who (wanting a second chance to reform) then proceeds to capture Joker and turn in both the clown prince and himself to the authorities.
* Rag Doll (voiced by Jeff Bennett) is a thief and contortionist who can bend his body to great lengths.
* Rhino and Mugsy (both voiced by John DiMaggio) are the Ventriloquist's henchmen.
* The Riddlemen are the Riddler's silent henchmen.
* The Edward Nygma / Riddler (voiced by Robert Englund) is a former university scientist who seeks revenge for his prototype memory-enhancing device being sabotaged.
* Mario / Rumor (voiced by Ron Perlman) is a vigilante who seeks to kill all of Gotham's villains. He was created in place of Hush, who could not be used in the series.
* Andy Mallory / Scorn (voiced by Daryl Sabara) is the younger brother and sidekick of William Mallory / Wrath.
* Shadow Thief (voiced by Diedrich Bader) is a thief who can transform into shadows and an enemy of Hawkman.
* Sinestro (voiced by Miguel Ferrer) is a Yellow Lantern with fear-based abilities and an enemy of the Green Lantern Corps.
* Smoke (voiced by Amanda Anka) is the Mirror Master's henchwoman.
* Solomon Grundy (voiced by Kevin Grevioux) is a zombie and the subject of an urban legend stating that he was created to get revenge on Gotham's founders for polluting the environment. Ethan Bennett impersonates Grundy in the episode "Grundy's Night", while the real Grundy appears in ''The Batman Strikes!''.
* Spellbinder (voiced by Michael Massee) is a mystic with a third eye that allows him to create illusions and control the minds of others.
* Hugo Strange (voiced initially by Frank Gorshin and subsequently by Richard Green following Gorshin's death) is the head psychiatrist of Arkham Asylum. He is more interested in discovering how the criminal mind works than helping to cure the inmates.
* Temblor (voiced by Jim Cummings) is a mercenary who wields armored gauntlets.
* The Terrible Trio are university students who use variants of Kirk Langstrom's formula to transform into anthropomorphic animals and terrorize their classmates. They consist of David / Fox (voiced by David Faustino), Justin / Shark (voiced by Googy Gress), and Amber / Vulture (voiced by Grey DeLisle).
* Rupert Thorne (voiced by Victor Brandt) is an aging crime lord who Batman defeats at the beginning of the series.
* Cosmo Krank / Toymaker (voiced by Patton Oswalt) is a toymaker who produces dangerous toys and seeks revenge on Bruce Wayne for shutting down his company. Krank also appears in '' Gotham'', portrayed by Chris Perfetti, while shops bearing his name appear in the '' Batman: Arkham'' series.
* Toyman (voiced by Richard Green) is an evil toymaker and enemy of Superman.
* Arnold Wesker / Ventriloquist (voiced by Dan Castellaneta) is a former ventriloquist who snapped and became a criminal after being booed off stage.
* William Mallory / Wrath (voiced by Christopher Gorham) is the older son of a pair of jewel thieves who were arrested and jailed around the same time Bruce Wayne's parents were killed. He and his younger brother Andy / Scorn become criminals to help other criminals, believing that they have a right to profit as much as heroes and civilians.
* Maxie Zeus (voiced by Phil LaMarr) is an eccentric billionaire and former mayoral candidate who is obsessed with Greek mythology and culture.
* Tony Zucco (voiced by Mark Hamill) is a crime boss and former circus performer who killed the Flying Graysons.

Justice League

* The Flash (voiced by Charlie Schlatter) is a superhero from Central City who possesses superhuman speed. His identity is not stated in the series, but producer Alan Burnett states him to be the Barry Allen incarnation of the character.
* Oliver Queen / Green Arrow (voiced by Chris Hardwick) is a master archer and vigilante from Star City.
* Hal Jordan / Green Lantern (voiced by Dermot Mulroney) is a member of the Green Lantern Corps, an intergalactic police force. He can fly and generate energy constructs using his ring.
* Hawkman (voiced by Robert Patrick) is a police officer from the planet Thanagar who wields an Nth Metal mace. Like with Flash, his real name, Katar Hol, is never mentioned in the series.
* Martian Manhunter / Detective John Jones (voiced by Dorian Harewood) is a Martian superhero with various abilities, namely telepathy and shapeshifting. He invites Batman into the Justice League after defeating the Joining.
* Clark Kent / Superman (voiced by George Newbern) is an alien superhero from the planet Krypton who is based in Metropolis. In an interesting reversal from their usual portrayals, Superman was more of a loner, standoffish and was the one who was reluctant to join the Justice League, with Batman being the more friendly one.

Additional characters

* Bruno Mannheim is a crime boss, the leader or Intergang and an enemy of Superman. He exclusively appears in ''The Batman Strikes!'' #44, in which he works with Rupert Thorne to create an army of super-villains and turns himself into a second version of Metallo only to be defeated by Batman and Superman.
* Cash Tankinson (voiced by Patrick Warburton) is a police officer in the Gotham City Police Department.
* Cat Grant, Ron Troupe and Steve Lombard, are employees of the ''Daily Planet'' who exclusively appear in a brief cameo ''The Batman Strikes!'' #44. They appear with Lois Lane, Perry White, Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent for a photograph taken outside the Daily Planet by Jimmy Olsen.
* The Demons Three are a trio of demons and former enemies of Etrigan. They exclusively appear in ''The Batman Strikes!''.
* Etrigan is a demon who is bound to the human Jason Blood, through which he is influenced to do good. He exclusively appears in ''The Batman Strikes!''.
* Hamilton Hill (voiced by Lex Lang) briefly appears in the two-part episode "The Batman/Superman Story", as the new mayor of Gotham city after Marion Grange's appearent resignation. Unlike his comics counterpart, this version is African-American and does not appear to be corrupt. He would make one further cameo appearance in ''The Batman Strikes!'' #47.
* Harvey Bullock and Renee Montoya make a brief cameo ''The Batman Strikes!'' #47, where they were seen in the briefing room listening to Commissioner Gordon during one of Black Mask's crime spree. They reuse the designs their DCAU-counterparts had in the ''The New Batman Adventures'' cartoon.
* Hotwire / Yvette Brawner is a new young electrokinetic heroine from Gotham City, an original character created for the series, who only appears in ''The Batman Strikes!'' #42. Hoping to prove herself a hero, she investigates a rumor about a shade deal by Rupert Thorne, not realizing Batman and Robin are there as well. After defeating Thorne's thugs, Hotwire accidentally sets off a fuel storage and causes a large explosion. Batman berates her for ruining his own investigation, before Thorne's hired muscle, Bane, reveals himself. After Robin is taken out, Hotwire charges Bane with her powers, impressing Batman. Still considering her a liability due to her inexperience, he sends her to Martian Manhunter for further training.
* Jimmy Olsen (voiced by Jack DeSena) is a young employee at the ''Daily Planet'' and a friend of Superman.
* Lois Lane (voiced by Dana Delany) is a reporter for the ''Daily Planet'' and a friend of Superman.
* Dr. Lopez is a South-American scientist working deep in the Amazon. He only appears in ''The Batman Strikes!'' #12, where it was revealed he was responsible for the creation of the villain Bane. He eventually forms an alliance with Rupert Thorne, who uses his research to create an army of supervillains.
* Marion Grange (voiced by Adam West) is the mayor of Gotham City for the first four seasons of the series.
* Martha Wayne (voiced by Kath Soucie, Kathryn Soucie) is the mother of Batman.
* Perry White is the editor-in-chief of the ''Daily Planet''. Though Lois is heard speaking to him on the phone when Metallo first attacks in the cartoon, he remains unseen and exclusively appears in ''The Batman Strikes!'' #44.
* Thomas Wayne, Dr. Thomas Wayne (voiced by Jeff Bennett) is the father of Batman.
* Vicki Vale (voiced by Tara Strong) is a television reporter whom Dracula attempts to use to resurrect his bride Carmilla.

External links

''The Batman'' at The World's Finest

Notes

References

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