2016-05-15

Foes of Batman

The Gotham universe is complicated. This post is designed to help provide some order by listing the foes/adversaries of Batman, the DC Comics creation.


  1. Amygdala (Gotham City, Aaron Helzinger)
  2. Anarky (Gotham City, Sam Young)
  3. Anchoress (in Arkham Asylum).
    She can quantum tunnel, is over 100 yrs old, and can alter her appearance.
  4. Architect (Gotham City, Dillon May)
  5. Azrael (Gotham City)
  6. Bane (in Arkham Asylum)
  7. Big Top (Gotham City)
  8. Black Mask (Gotham City, Roman Sionis)
  9. Black Spider (Gotham City, Eric Needham)
  10. Bone (Gotham City, Louis Ferryman)
  11. Calendar Man (Gotham City, Julian Day)
  12. Catman (Gotham City, Mortimer Drake)
  13. Catwoman (Gotham City)
    Not exactly a foe but ally of some foes of Batman, eg Killer Croc.
  14. Clayface (Gotham City, Basil Karlo)
  15. Cluemaster (Gotham City, Arthur Brown)
  16. Crazy Quilt (Gotham City, Dr Paul Dekker)
  17. Creeper (Jack Ryder)
  18. Crime Syndicate ("evil Justice League" in a parallel dimension
  19. Darkseid (in Apokolips, named Uxas).



















  20. Deacon Blackfire (Gotham City, Joseph B)



















  21. Deadshot (in Belle Reve Pen., Floyd Lawton).



















  22. Deathstroke (Slade Wilson)



















  23. Dr Death (Gotham City, Dr Karl Helfern)


  24. Dr Phosphorus (Gotham City, Alexander Sartorius)



  25. Emperor Blackgate (Gotham City, Ignatius Ogilvy; ally of Penguin)


  26. Firebug (Gotham City)



  27. Firefly(Gotham City, Ted Carson)



  28. Fish Mooney (Gotham City, in Gotham, the TV series)



  29. Flamingo (Gotham City, Eduardo Flamingo)



  30. Fright (Gotham City, Linda Fritawa; ally of Penguin; PhD?)



  31. Great White Shark (Gotham City, Warren White)



  32. Henri Ducard (based in Paris)



  33. Heretic



  34. Humpty Dumpty (Gotham City, Humphry Dumpler)



  35. Hush (Dr Thomas Elliot, as adult)



  36. Hypnotic (Gotham City, ally to Penguin)



  37. Imperceptible Man (Gotham City, ally to Penguin)



  38. Joker (Jason Todd).



  39. KGBeast (Russia, Anatoli Knyazev)



  40. Killer Croc (Gotham City, Waylon Jones)



  41. Killer Moth (Gotham City, Drury Walker; ally of Penguin)



  42. Lark (Gotham City; ally of Penguin)




  43. Lock-up (Gotham City, Lyle Bolton)




  44. Lord Death Man (Japan)




  45. Mad Hatter (Jervis Tetch; commits fairy-tale-based crimes; later incarcerated at Arkham)




  46. Man-Bat (Dr Kirk Langstrom)





  47. Maxie Zeus (Gotham City, Maximilian Z; once in Arkham Asylum)




  48. Merrymaker (Gotham City, Dr Byron Merideth)




  49. Mortician (Gotham City, Porter Vito; escaped Arkham Asylum; can control the dead/create "zombies")




  50. Mr Combustable (Gotham City;ally of the Penguin)




  51. Mr Freeze (Gotham City, Victor Fries)




  52. Mr Toxic (Gotham City, Hugh Marder; ally of the Penguin)




  53. Nobody (Gotham City, Morgan Ducard)




  54. Nocturna (Gotham City, Natalia Mitternach)




  55. Penguin (Gotham City, Oswald Cobblepot)




  56. Poison Ivy (Dr Pamela Lillian Isley).




  57. Prankster (from Chicago, Oswald Loomis)




  58. Prof Hugo Strange




  59. Professor Milo (Gotham City; former chemistry professor at Gotham Academy; Achilles Milo; posed as doctor at Akhham Asylum)




  60. Professor Pyg (Gotham City, Lazlo Valintin)




  61. Ra's Al Ghul




  62. Ratcatcher (Gotham City, Otis Flannegan)




  63. Reaper (Gotham City, Dr Benjamin Gruener)




  64. Red Hood (Jason Todd, was Robin, later Joker)




  65. Riddler (Gotham City, Edward Nygma).




  66. Scarecrow (Dr Jonathan Crane; Fright's one-time boss)




  67. Spyral (gang of criminals based in Britain led by Mir Minos)




  68. Squid (Gotham City, Lawrence Loman)




  69. Sumo (Gotham City, Arkham Asylum, very heavy)




  70. Terminus (Gotham City)




  71. Tiger Shark (Gotham City, offshore pirate and smuggler)




  72. Tusk (Gotham City)





  73. Tweedledee and Tweedledum (Gotham City, Deever and Dumfree Tweed; allied with Mad Hatter)





  74. Two-face (Harvey Dent)





  75. Ventriloquist and Scarface (Peyton Riley)





  76. Ventriloquist (Gotham City, Shauna Belzer)





  77. Vortex (Gotham City)





  78. Wrath (Gotham City, E.D. Caldwell)






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2016-05-10

DGA top 80 vs WGA top 101

The Directors Guild recently released a list of the top 80 films (by DGA members, as voted by fellow DGA members). Likewise, the Writers Guild has a list of top 101 screenplays. This post tries to compare them. The rank in the first column refers to the DGA ranking in their poll. The "WGA top 101?" refers to the WGA ranking in their poll, if it is on their list. The total of these numbers reflects their common respect for the writing and directing. Francis Ford Coppola comes out on top.



rank title director year (co)writer+director? WGA top 101? total
4 2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick 1968 Y N n/a
16 Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Stanley Kubrick 1964 Y 12 28
27 A Clockwork Orange Stanley Kubrick 1971 Y N n/a
46 The Shining Stanley Kubrick 1980 Y N n/a
73 Barry Lyndon Stanley Kubrick 1975 Y N n/a
8 Schindler's List Steven Spielberg 1993 N 49 57
14 Jaws Steven Spielberg 1975 N 63 77
23 ET: The Extra-Terrestrial Steven Spielberg 1982 N 67 90
25 Saving Private Ryan Steven Spielberg 1998 N N n/a
28 Raiders of the Lost Ark Steven Spielberg 1981 N 42 70
29 Vertigo Alfred Hitchcock 1958 N N n/a
32 Psycho Alfred Hitchcock 1960 N 92 124
39 Rear Window Alfred Hitchcock 1954 N 83 122
41 North by Northwest Alfred Hitchcock 1959 N 21 62
1 The Godfather Francis Ford Coppola 1972 Y 2 3
6 The Godfather: Part II Francis Ford Coppola 1974 Y 10 16
7 Apocalypse Now Francis Ford Coppola 1979 Y 55 62
3 Lawrence of Arabia David Lean 1962 N 14 17
40 The Bridge on the River Kwai David Lean 1957 N 48 88
48 Doctor Zhivago David Lean 1965 N N n/a
10 Goodfellas Martin Scorsese 1990 Y 41 51
13 Raging Bull Martin Scorsese 1980 N 76 89
44 Taxi Driver Martin Scorsese 1976 N 43 87
30 Sunset Boulevard Billy Wilder 1950 Y 7 37
50 Some Like it Hot Billy Wilder 1959 Y 9 59
54 The Apartment Billy Wilder 1960 Y 15 69
2 Citizen Kane Orson Welles 1941 Y 4 6
74 Touch of Evil Orson Welles 1958 Y N n/a
9 Gone With the Wind Victor Fleming 1939 N 23 97
12 The Wizard of Oz Victor Fleming 1939 N 25 37
20 Blade Runner Ridley Scott 1982 N N n/a
64 Alien Ridley Scott 1979 N N n/a
26 Seven Samurai Akira Kurosawa 1954 Y N n/a
79 Rashomon Akira Kurosawa 1950 Y N n/a
33 The Searchers John Ford 1956 N 97 130
71 The Grapes of Wrath John Ford 1940 N 98 169
38 The Best Years of Our Lives William Wyler 1946 N 44 82
51 Ben-Hur William Wyler 1959 N N n/a
42 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Milos Forman 1975 N 45 87
47 Amadeus Milos Forman 1984 N 73 120
45 Titanic James Cameron 1997 Y N n/a
55 Avatar James Cameron 2009 Y N n/a
75 Once Upon a Time in America Sergio Leone 1984 Y N n/a
80 Once Upon a Time in the West Sergio Leone 1968 Y N n/a
72 All the President's Men Alan Pakula 1976 N 53 125
58 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Alejandro Inarritu 2014 Y N n/a
66 The Conformist Bernardo Bertolucci 1970 Y N n/a
77 The Usual Suspects Bryan Singer 1995 N 35 112
37 The Third Man Carol Reed 1949 N N n/a
76 Unforgiven Clint Eastwood 1992 N N n/a
21 On the Waterfront Elia Kazan 1954 N 18 39
52 Fargo Ethan Coen, Joel Coen 1996 Y 32 84
36 8 1/2 Federico Fellini 1963 Y 87 123
15 It's a Wonderful Life Frank Capra 1946 N 20 35
17 The Shawshank Redemption Frank Darabont 1994 Y 22 39
19 Star Wars: Episode IV -- A New Hope George Lucas 1977 Y 68 87
69 Cinema Paradiso Giuseppe Tornatore 1988 Y N n/a
49 West Side Story Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise 1961 N N n/a
65 Rocky John Avildsen 1976 N 78 143
57 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre John Huston 1948 Y 46 103
53 The Silence of the Lambs Jonathan Demme 1991 N 61 114
59 All About Eve Joseph L Mankiewicz 1950 Y 5 64
56 The Hurt Locker Kathryn Bigelow 2008 N N n/a
60 The Deer Hunter Michael Cimino 1978 N N n/a
5 Casablanca Michael Curtiz 1942 N 1 6
18 The Graduate Mike Nichols 1967 N 13 31
61 There Will Be Blood Paul Thomas Anderson 2007 Y N n/a
22 Pulp Fiction Quentin Tarantino 1994 Y 16 38
67 Gandhi Richard Attenborough 1982 N N n/a
31 To Kill A Mockingbird Robert Mulligan 1962 N 19 50
43 The Sound of Music Robert Wise 1965 N N n/a
34 Forrest Gump Robert Zemeckis 1994 N 89 123
11 Chinatown Roman Polanski 1974 N 3 14
62 The Sting George Roy Hill 1973 N 39 101
63 The Wild Bunch Sam Peckinpah 1969 Y 99 162
78 Network Sidney Lumet 1976 N 8 86
35 Singin' in the Rain Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly 1952 N 65 98
70 Brazil Terry Gilliam 1985 Y N n/a
68 The Bicycle Thief Vittorio De Sica 1948 Y N n/a
24 Annie Hall Woody Allen 1977 Y 6 30
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