Batman Beyond needs an arch enemy

[GothamGirl]

Blight really dosn't fill the shoes in the arch villian area. So I say we make are own.

Rules

1. Make him/her as original as possible. You can't say that an old one came back to life, I know they did it in ROTJ but it's to easy. However you could have like the Riddler's son came to get revenge on batman, so long as the gimmicks are different. In stead of riddles puzzles and mazes

2. You can base them on marvel characters or other comic book characters so long as ther verry diferent. God knows I don't want another "Terrific Trio" but you like take wolverine and base him on a character who likes to slice and dice people.

3. It can be a girl or a guy.

4. If someone posts a villian, you can post a suggestion for the villian, but if they don't like it they don't have to use it.

5. Have them make sence. Somone just dosn't all of the sudden decide to be a super villian. It's gradual so make a propper bio.

6. They can have powers but also, have it make sence and be thouroug about it in the bio.

I may add more later but, this is good for now.

[James Harvey]

BLIGHT was a great enemy until they killed him fof at the finale of the firsts eason. I also noticed he had no real opponent, like how BATMAN had Joker or Two-Face.

[optimal321]

Either Blight or Big Time would have been perfect, but they were both killed off before given that development. But i think that's okay, because i liked how both of them died.

[DerekPowers]

i always thought that was a big thing bb was missing: the arch enemy. Derek Powers/Blight was perfect. he added soo much to the bb setting, and when he never returned it really hurt the over all feel of the show. big time doesnt even come close to filling the shoes of the arch enemy. after blight id say either shriek or spellbinder. even inque would come before big time. and i never thought big time actually died when he fell of the bridge, i assumed he survived, but i guess its really up to the viewer on that one. peace.

[Failure]

I agree, BB really needed an arch enemy. Blight was kind of one, but I dunno, I think it would've been hard to justify keeping him around after everyone found out that Blight was Derek Powers and vice versa. Yeah, yeah I know that villains never die and so on, but the fact that Blight is a 6 foot tall walking glow stick, I think it would've been hard for him to stay in cognito like a Joker or Riddler or Mad Hatter.

Without an arch enemy you had Batman fighting way too many 1 shot villains, and those guys, maybe because they have no depth, almost always suck.

As for Big Time, I thought he could've been one. Terry's version of Two Face I guess. But they needed to develop him more. I never really thought of him as a major villain like Blight or Shriek or etc.

[Calhoun07]

I wanted to see Blight developed as the arch enemy of Batman Beyond, but we all know how that turned out. I thought for sure he would be, as they seemed to paraell him with the Joker right from the beginning, by giving them similar origins. I wonder why they didn't go for an arch enemy type in Batman Beyond?

As for creating an unique villian, I don't think I could ever do the show justice with something I came up with.

[Nightwing]

I've got one. And I think I fulfilled all the guidelines necessary. It's name is KIDSWB!! Aaahh!! Okay okay. Heck, what are they gonna do if I nay say them, fire me? lol.

Anyway, I really think Blight was the one true arch enemy for Terry. It was perfect. Derek Powers (the character, not the WF member) was responsible for showing Terry that the world he's living in largely feeds on greed and apathy. Well Terry wants to change that now. :)

[Maxie Zeus]

Originally posted by Nightwing
I've got one. And I think I fulfilled all the guidelines necessary. It's name is KIDSWB!! Aaahh!!

Hmm. How about this:

Kyle Kellner, owner and president of Gotham Universal Media, a diversified news and entertainment conglomerate. He realizes that his networks are driven by ratings, and ratings are driven by high-profile crime and crises. So, through complicated back-channels, he finances, guides and/or manipulates the various supervillains of Gotham: Inque, Shriek and Spellbinder he can simply hire to do some random job; Mad Stan and the Jokerz he can manipulate. Batman's interventions simply give him more dramatic footage to record. Batman is sure he's behind lots of stuff, but Kellner is too well-insulated to ever get nailed. And since he's behind ALL of it, he's a true "Napoleon of Crime" in Gotham.

I guess Kyle Kellner would be like a combo of Lex Luthor (STAS) and Ian Peak (BB), but with the post-modern twist that he's into crime for the ratings, not the direct loot. His most insidious crime occurs when he collaborates with Spellbinder (using Mad Hatter's tech from "The Worry Men") to mass-produce a line of cute yellow "pocket monsters" to kids, hypnotizing them into spending all their money on crap his company produces.

Whatcha think? Too unbelievable, or all too believable? :D

[James Harvey]

I could never see that happening...:)

I would like to have seen an arch villian in the 4th season, which I bet we would've gotten. Almost all the villians outside of Blight were either one hit wonders, or were just gimmick villians with no real motiviation.