See where Paul Dano’s incel Riddler falls on our ranking of Batman movie villains
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by DC Comics and Warner Bros. The Marvel Cinematic Universe model has become so dominant that it’s easy to forget how effectively it has dismantled a long-held superhero movie paradigm: That the hero with his name in the title would cede scene after scene to the starry, over-the-top antics of the movie’s villains.
Before we get started, let’s lay out the kinds of ground rules that the villains of Gotham City would never abide by. First, the parameters here are live-action Batman and Batman-adjacent theatrically released movies released from 1989 forward. We are not including the 1966 film version of the Batman TV series because most of those villains — indelible as they are — originated on television.
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