#dc character: gentleman ghost

[deeply-unserious-fellow]

Okay, so while I don't think this is actually all that surprising considering the DCU is a mostly live action project and we appearently have confirmation that Phosphorus will show up in liveaction, I do just wanna point out that Dr Phosphorus' design before he became a Glowing Green Skeleton looks almost EXACTLY like his voice actor Alan Tudyk

Idk I just think it's a neat detail :)

[entropius-creacher]

Studies, a James Craddock and my dear DC oc Kestrel back in her prime

[thetrickster-blr-blog]

Gentleman Ghost VS My OC Characters (MK1 Style)

I just felt like drawing a MK1 Clash Pose of Gentleman Ghost. He's such a great character and one of my personal favorite DC characters of all time. He needs to be in more stuff.

[maddnessmadds]

OH THE SILLIES!!! ❤️

thank youuuuu!

[vath-and-such-vinluv-s-stuff]

Gentleman,Ghost

Jim Craddock and Elisa Cameron Redesigned.

[nixotinix]

with the confidence of a squirrel on crack cocaine i offer the request of; A Gentleman’s ghost!

with the hubris of a monkey on adderall i give you; art!

thank you for the request anon!! as well as the mental image of a squirrel on crack. DC character requests still open for any interested parties!

[masterhallmark]

Follow up to this

And this time I remembered to set it for one week

Notes

I'm doing one villain per hero from the previous poll. They're not quite in the same order, though.

I tried to have an even-ish amount of men and women

I decided not to include any of the female members of Gotham's rogues because they tend to already be very highly lusted after in the fandom, meaning the poll probably wouldn't be very balanced, so I went with Bane, and decided to give some other Villainesses some exposure.

[yodeler12]

My thoughts on Batman: Caped Crusader, Season 1.

Spoiler-free

Pros:

-Alfred as per usual.

-Renee Montoya’s characterization and development, trailblazing character.

-Barbara Gordon’s arc and general badassery

-Clayface’s different skillset.

-Gentleman Ghost

-Cameos from other DC and Batman characters

-Harvey Dent’s different characterization and story arc

-Catwoman

-The visible effects of corruption and portrayal of Gotham

Cons or at least areas for improvement:

-Batman/Bruce’s characterization and development over the season.

-The animation style trying too hard to replicate the traditional animation of the ‘90s with computers

- The characterization or lack therof of The Penguin

- The half measures of adapting violence (showing people flying back from a bullet but no blood for instance)

-The half measures of trying the have the best of both worlds of a tv show. (Either have an overarching plot or have episodic villains, trying to have both reduces the screen time both get). This idea did okay but could’ve been better.

-The length of the season (too short for what it wanted to do)

- The voice acting seems rather monotonous.

- The decision to kill off certain characters in definitive ways.

Overall I enjoyed it, but it isn’t long enough for what they wanted to do, several episodes should’ve been two-parters. I liked how it is partly a callback to The Batman’s first season, depicting a Bruce Wayne/Batman who is still new to crimefighting, still working on his skills, and especially his work/life balance and persona.

The recurring side characters, Harvey Dent, Renee Montoya, Harley Quinn, Barbara and Jim Gordon, Detectives Bullock and Flass made the show for me. I got invested in their stories.

Overall, it’s on par with Beware the Batman I think. It’s not as good as BTAS or the DCAU or even The Batman from 2004. It is better than some Batman media I can think of, and is worth a quick watch.

[maxwell-grant]

"porous and easy-to-transplant like Spidey's villains" is it just me does Marvel have more of these guys than DC? Like we can just have random buff list villains go after a a variety of different characters?

Oh yes, Marvel absolutely has the advantage when it comes to rogues gallery transplants, it's not even a contest. That's in large part because Marvel existed as a shared universe from the get-go: DC didn't quite jump on that wagon for a while. For most of the Silver Age, there was little to no cross-pollination between Superman and Batman, the existence of the Justice League not really mattering in their titles, where as Marvel was crossover town from day one. They each offer different kinds of narrative real state for their villains to exist in.

The DCU's defining figures, Superman and Batman, live in opposite cities with opposite tones and opposite casts and everybody else has to occupy the space between their two extremes, and most of the other bigger heroes have their own cities: your Star Cities and Central Cities and Hub Cities and Bludhavens and whatnot. Thus most of their villains and villain casts are centralized, and sometimes they even have formal agreements about this kind of stuff. There's almost like a Venture Bros-esque union thing going on sometimes in the DCU where most of their popular villains and heroes are fairly exclusive to one another, with characters like Killer Frost, Gentleman Ghost and Solomon Grundy who transcend this being mostly such due to their heroes being more absorbed and integrated into ensembles than their own adventures.

The major exceptions for these tend to be villains specifically made or set to menace the entire universe, like Superboy Prime or Perpetua or, Amanda Waller this month I guess, and Event Villains are kind of their own thing (and mostly not very good). DC doesn't have a Doctor Doom, in the sense of a big great iconic villain for the whole universe and specific heroes in it who also can and will fight anyone and it will pretty much always be great no matter who he's fighting. They try to make cosmic baddies like Brainiac into those kinds of figures and it never works as well, it always just makes them too generic, there's no spark to the ensuing dynamic. Vandal Savage is probably the closest to one that works and, love the guy, but he's sporadically great and simply not up to the standard this requires.

Marvel, in turn, has been in the business of regularly loaning out bad guys, maybe ever since Sandman joined up the Frightful Four? He wasn't just a one-off thing like that time Daredevil and Doctor Doom swapped bodies and fought, no he was regularly showing up as a villain in F4, in a new costume even. Marvel already started with all of their major defining characters living in the same sandbox, everybody is within a few blocks away from each other most of the time, and so everybody is everybody's problem most of the time, it's the bastardverse and they are all crammed together, and it's not terribly surprising why they fight all the goddamn time. All the major Marvel villains are shooting to rule the same city/planet and destroy more or less the same people and therefore they kinda have to be on a first-name basis with each other, and all the middle-leaguer/second-stringer baddies are getting beaten up by the same people in the same city. Reverse-Flash and Joker going after anyone other than their respective arch-enemies feels fake and perfunctory, but guys like Ultron and Norman Osborn, who also have specific arch-enemies, can transit between individual problems for different heroes and larger-scale problems for everybody just fine. A DC hero will rarely be in Lex Luthor's line of sight unless they are specifically doing something that will piss him off, where as if you are a Marvel hero, it's a fact that sometimes you'll just randomly orbit Wilson Fisk's business and thus you gotta dodge gunfire for it that day.

This especially applies for the smaller-scale villains, not too strongly attached to the hero they may have started out with to the point they become ensemble villains, the ones that easily and eventually become someone else's problem. Your Mr. Hydes and Absorbing Men and Arcades and High Evolutionaries and whatnot, Spider-Man is stuffed with these. Sometimes these characters will click so well with specific heroes they'll achieve wholly different kinds of stardom or characterization (Kingpin in Miller's Daredevil, Brain Drain and Kraven in Squirrel Girl, etc), and sometimes they'll graduate into the position of supporting character or even main character. The peak example of this is Taskmaster, because while the likes of Loki and Venom can claim greater stardom, they did so by becoming anti-heroes and are generally still attached at hip to their heroes of origin, where as Taskmaster is a midcard villain to the bone and it's extremely easy to forget he was an Avengers villain at first, he is just fully A Guy in his own right who will go anywhere and menace anyone for the right price (except Moon Knight, because he is too scary), he'll scale up and down and be everyone's problem until he's not being paid to do so and then it's cool. DC doesn't really have an equivalent to him (they kinda try with Deathstroke but, pfft, please, that guy is a diehard obsessive Teen Titans villain and that's not even the more embarassing thing about him). They have countless midcarders just picking dust within their respective rogues galleries that could easily be migrated elsewhere.

But on the other hand, Marvel doesn't quite have what you'd call a Legion of Doom/Injustice League, in the sense of being able to pair all of it's biggest villains from the biggest corners of the world together in a team-up and have it work. There's been attempts over the years to make things like the Masters of Evil and the Cabal land as such and they never really stuck, the closest you get to an iconic Big Villain Team is the likes of the Sinister Six and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, groups tailored to menace specific heroes or hero teams, or things like The Black Order and the Dark Avengers, ultimately extensions of bigger villains (the Thunderbolts are their own thing). Maybe it's because Marvel doesn't really have a major concentrated dominant heroic force on the level of the Justice League that would demand all their villains to put everything aside to try and stop it (although DC can't really justify the Legion of Doom/Injustice League as an ongoing thing most of the time, they don't exist as a regular thing). It might be a mismatch of priorities, that it doesn't have a Lex Luthor as a a clear-cut Union Chief to properly call in and command other arch-enemies who would be willing to pay union dues and work together to better destroy the specific guys they individually hate. Marvel's major villains are a clutch of arch-bastards all trying to be king of the world who hate each other as much, if not more, as they hate their heroes and the only one who could rise above them to the top leadership position is Doctor Doom, who has no need to be leading or participating in something like this. Loki had to put on a whole charade of pretending to be subservient to each of them in order to pull off the gathering he did in Acts of Vengeance, and that only worked once.

Another obvious immediate answer for why is that, as Acts of Vengeance and other stories have shown time and time again, you kinda can't gather all of Marvel's biggest villains in one place and not include the Red Skull, and thus other villains jumping over themselves to murder him the second he walks into the room. But they've done attempts without him or a significant Nazi villain in the room, and they still largely didn't land. It might be overall that, the point of the Legion of Doom is to force all the separate characters and domains of the DCU to join forces to oppose it and that's why they have to be a threat to the Justice League, with none of it's villains exactly meeting that standard on their own, but Marvel's heroes are already all crammed together in cliques on the same places and fighting/putting differences aside to tackle bigger threats all the time, and so there's not really a point of forcing that through a especially big villain gathering.

There isn't really a unity among the Marvel heroes comparable to the one that demands Lex Luthor to call in all the other arch-enemies to try and break, and the one time Norman Osborn attempted to call in one at the height of his power, it was repeteadly emphasized how stupid he was to expect to be able to gather and control and command said people (and when Namor tried to revive the Cabal for the sake of succeeding where the Illuminati failed, things went even worse for him). In the end, Marvel is just too chaotic for the villains to exist in a centralized ruling body like that, if the heroes can't agree on anything why would their villains be any different.

[doamarierose-honoka]

Batman is back with a vengeance. Three years after HBO Max and Cartoon Network first announced Batman: Caped Crusader — the adult-oriented animated series that was eventually canceled by the since-renamed Max streaming service, only to then be picked up at Prime Video — the new Batman TV show is about to hit the small screen. Set in 1940s Gotham City, Caped Crusader is described as "a reimagining of the Batman mythology through the visionary lens" of executive producers Bruce Timm (Batman: The Animated Series and Batman Beyond), Matt Reeves (The Batman and The Penguin), and J.J. Abrams (Alias and Lost).

"We are beyond excited to be working together to bring this character back, to tell engrossing new stories in Gotham City," Timm, Reeves, and Abrams said when announcing the series in 2021. "The series will be thrilling, cinematic and evocative of Batman's noir roots, while diving deeper into the psychology of these iconic characters. We cannot wait to share this new world."

Below, ComicBook is shining the Bat-Signal on everything we know so far about Batman: Caped Crusader, including the voice cast, release date, and the rogues who will populate the first solo Batman animated series in more than a decade.

Where Can I Watch Batman: Caped Crusader?

To watch Batman: Caped Crusader on Amazon's Prime Video, you'll need either a Prime Video subscription ($8.99 per month with ads, or $11.98/mo for ad-free) or an Amazon Prime membership ($14.99 per month with Prime Video ads, or $17.98/mo with ad-free Prime Video).

Batman: Caped Crusader Release Date

All episodes of Batman: Caped Crusader will premiere Thursday, August 1st, on Amazon Prime Video.

How Many Episodes Is Batman: Caped Crusader?

Batman: Caped Crusader season 1 consists of 10 episodes. In 2023, Prime Video announced a two-season order for the new series.

What Is Batman: Caped Crusader About?

The official description: "Welcome to Gotham City, where the corrupt outnumber the good, criminals run rampant and law-abiding citizens live in a constant state of fear. Forged in the fire of tragedy, wealthy socialite Bruce Wayne becomes something both more and less than human — the Batman. His one-man crusade attracts unexpected allies within the GCPD and City Hall, but his heroic actions spawn deadly, unforeseen ramifications."

Who Voices Batman in the Batman: Caped Crusader Cast?

The Batman: Caped Crusader voice cast includes Hamish Linklater (Midnight Mass) in the title role as Batman/Bruce Wayne, Christina Ricci (Yellowjackets) as Catwoman/Selina Kyle, Jamie Chung (Gotham) as Harley Quinn/Dr. Harleen Quinzel, and Diedrich Bader — a DC veteran whose credits include episodes of Batman Beyond, 2006's The Batman, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, and the Max adult animated series Harley Quinn — as Two-Face/Harvey Dent.

Announced cast members in as-yet-unrevealed roles include Mckenna Grace (Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire), Toby Stephens (Percy Jackson and the Olympians), Reid Scott (Venom), Dan Donohue (For All Mankind), Gary Anthony Williams (Hailey's on It!), Jason Watkins (The Crown), John DiMaggio (Futurama), Krystal Joy Brown (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power), Michelle C. Bonilla (9-1-1: Lone Star), Eric Morgan Stuart (Fallout 4), Tom Kenny (SpongeBob SquarePants), and Minnie Driver (The Witcher: Blood Origin).

Batman: Caped Crusader Villains

A cast announcement video revealed Linklater's Batman voice and the Dark Knight's rogue's gallery: The Penguin, Catwoman, Two-Face, Harley Quinn, the pyromaniac Firebug, Natalia Knight (in the comics, a reformed career criminal with photosensitive skin known as Nocturna, the mistress of the night), the phantom criminal called Gentleman Ghost, and Clayface (the Golden Age Clayface of the 1940s was Basil Karlo, a once-famous character actor and makeup expert turned costumed killer). Caped Crusader reimagines Dr. Harleen Quinzel as Asian American — and Bruce Wayne's psychologist. Here, her alter-ego as the jester-costumed Harley Quinn is independent from the Joker, who is noticeably absent from the roundup of Batman characters.

Batman: Caped Crusader Characters

Batman – A cold, remorseless avenger of evil, seemingly more machine than man. Forged in the fire of tragedy, every fiber of his being is dedicated to the eradication of crime. (The Batman suit is influenced by the character's earliest appearances in Detective Comics, by creators Bob Kane and Bill Finger, with longer, narrow ears, a collared cape, and with black gloves rather than the original purple.)

Bruce Wayne - To the public at large, Bruce Wayne is a shallow dilettante, apparently wasting his parents' vast fortune on frivolous pursuits and hedonistic pleasures. In fact, he's an elaborate facade, carefully constructed to divert attention from his activities as Batman.

Selina Kyle / "Catwoman" – Selena Kyle is a blithe and pampered heiress whose family lost their fortune after her father was imprisoned for embezzlement. Despite having the silver spoon yanked from her mouth, Selina refuses to quit living in the lap of luxury and becomes Catwoman as a "fun" way to maintain her lavish lifestyle.

Dr. Harleen Quinzel / "Harley Quinn" – Despite a personable and bubbly demeanor, Dr. Harleen Quinzel is a brilliant psychiatrist who treats some of Gotham's elite. However, as Harley Quinn, she is a different person, entirely. A creepy, quiet, calculating menace who secretly dispenses her twisted justice to the truly despicable among her elite clientele.

Commissioner Jim Gordon – Former beat cop close to retirement, Gordon was hired to play along with the corrupt system and run out the clock till he can draw a pension. But they've sorely underestimated Jim Gordon. His unassailable character brings him into conflict with dirty cops and crooked politicians, alike. Not to mention, he has to reckon with a deranged vigilante beating up Gotham's criminals.

Clayface – Thanks to his "unique" facial features, screen actor Basil Karlo has been forever typecast as a B-movie heavy. Frustrated by the limitations his appearance put on both his career and personal life (he fell hopelessly in love with his co-star), Karlo turned to an experimental serum that promised to change his face. However, not only does this serum ultimately disfigure his face, but it ruptures the last of his sanity – creating the tragic, vengeance seeking villain, Clayface.

Batman: Caped Crusader Creators

Batman: Caped Crusader comes from Warner Bros. Animation (My Adventures with Superman, Bat-Family), Abrams' Bad Robot Productions (Lovecraft Country, the Star Trek films) and Reeves' 6th & Idaho (2022's The Batman, The Batman – Part II). Along with Abrams, Reeves and Timm, Batman: Caped Crusader executive producers include head writer Ed Brubaker (DC's Batman comic, Gotham Central), James Tucker (Justice League Unlimited), Daniel Pipski (The Penguin), Rachel Rusch Rich (Castle Rock), and Sam Register (Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths – Part One and Part Two).

[fartemis-crock]

Completely random question. As someone who plays an evil aligned dc character. Are there any particular characters, evil or good aligned, that you wished you saw more or at all in the dc rp community?

hey hi good morning 👋

boy howdy do i have an answer for you

I really really really wish there were more jsa centric characters in the DC rp community. I got really spoiled when I booted this blog up 5 years ago bc st☆rgirl was a big thing, and I had the opportunity to play artemis in a setting that made a bit more sense to her than gotham.

Don't get me wrong, I love love LOVE everyone i interact with but it's 95% gotham rogues which like--- whenever i write her i don't picture her being stationed in gotham. and the same for heroes--- artemis is very grudge motivated, and most of her grudges are limited to jsa members bc they're generational.

I'm gonna put a little list under the cut of who I would personally love to see both hero/villain wise, but obviously---- i love whoever y'all throw my way, this is just a selfish little "I would love to be able to do the things I think about for her specific character arcs every once in awhile"

Icicle - Cameron Mahkent (come on this one is a give in you had to expect this)

Hourman - Rick Tyler

Liberty Belle - Jesse Chambers

Hawkgirl - Kendra Saunders

Green Lantern - Alan Scott

Jade

Gentleman Ghost

Shiv

The Wizard - William Zard

Sportsmaster II - Victor Grover

Wildcat - ALL

Hawkman - Carter Hall - and hear me out I have a lovers to enemies plot in the back of my head somewhere for them

[deeply-unserious-fellow]

Gentleman Ghost concept art because figuring out how to make him look like an actual ghost has been a Struggle and I want to post some art today

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

Batman vs. The Thing

by V (xHailland) Batman typically has a plan for biologically different threats. He can easily dismantle creatures like Gentleman Ghost and Clayface - but the second he comes across an otherworldly creature, he has some challenges to overcome in order to come up with a plan. Words: 979, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics), DC Animated Universe (Timmverse), The Thing (1982) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Characters: Bruce Wayne, The Thing (The Thing) Additional Tags: Crossover, Bruce Wayne is Batman via https://ift.tt/y2zkuhx

[random-movie-ideas]

DC Legends: Jonah Hex

Jonah Hex first appeared in 1972 as a gunslinging cowboy character instead of a superhero. His story changes up here and there, but the biggest thread tends to be "he finds a family, is happy for a while, and then all his family are murdered in horrible ways, rinse and repeat."

Jonah typically has no powers of any kind (barring the movie's Pushing Daisies power), and is instead an excellent marksman who was trained to fight by a combination of Apache and Kiowa Native Americans, Union and Confederate soldiers, and various trappers and bounty hunters over the years.

In adaptation, Jonah's a little hard to do in a larger universe, since he's so temporally disconnected from basically everyone else. He could have his own separate movie or series, which I'm most inclined toward, and he could make random appearances in flashbacks whenever there's a plot point tied to his time period, like the Hawkman and Hawkgirl vs. Gentleman Ghost backstory.

As far as casting goes, Walton Goggins comes first to mind, but that's mainly because of his recent appearance in Fallout, and that might fall into typecasting. Samuel L. Jackson would actually be an interesting take too, and Scott Glenn if he was much older in his portrayal.

[bottomseareef]

So apparently some designs for that Batman Caped Crusader show dropped

This show better be fucking good

1. Two-Face, doesn’t even look like they tried and his fucked face is on the wrong side

2. Gentleman Ghost, it’s alright but there was no reason to change it

3. Clayface, I can excuse it because at least it looks like they’re trying to do his first appearance but I prefer clay monster Clayface

4. Catwoman, this one’s actually good it’s literally just her Silver Age suit

5. Renee Montoya, who is that? Certainly not Renee Montoya. If they make her a journalist I swear to god

6. Harley Quinn, See the design would be a 10/10 if she just had red instead of whatever that yellow or tan shit is. If I had a nickel for every time a show basing their designs off the older DC comics decided to bring Harley Quinn in and instead of using her BTAS suit because she wasn’t apart of that era of comics they completely threw it out for some bullshit I’d have two nickels. Brave and the Bold did the same shit and her suit in that makes her completely unrecognizable.

7. Natalia Knight, I actually didn’t know who this character was before hand but after looking up her design why does she look like Wednesday?

8. Onomatopoeia, I mean yeah that’s definitely him

[wonderfulworldofmichaelford]

Time to vote for the next villain! Bet you didn’t know I read comics! Or maybe you did because I make fun of Ennis and Millar a lot, and poke fun at Moore frequently. Here’s some weird-ass comic villains I could talk about and also some Ennis and Moore villains I can rant about!

1. A child-eating monster from a horror comic. Pretty straight forward, very fucked up.

2. A racist yellow peril villain that DC keeps bringing back. He started as a giant yellow egg with a prehensile mustache and got worse from there.

3. Fat spineless alien TV show host who likes to harass the X-Men and who desperately needs to be in a movie.

4. The ineffectual satanist sorcerer who tried to make Harry Potter the antichrist. Moore’s stand in for Aleister Crowley.

5. Ancient bacteria colony who invented racism against Mutants.

6. Distant relative of that Other Doom. He is a dentist who wishes to conquer the tri-state area.

7. An anime pastiche demonic one-shot villain that Ghost Rider fought. Has caused much debate between dorks online.

8. The most major antagonist in Preacher, and one of the biggest butt monkeys in comic book history.

9. The ultimate villain of Preacher. Something tells me Garth Ennis isn’t a fan of religion!

10. Hey you know how Ennis loves the Punisher and vigilantism and guns? What if he rolled all of that love into an anti-heroic God-mode Gary Stu who reads like a six year old’s idea of a cool character?