Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics Page #3
- Year:
- 2013
- 99 min
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We must ask ourselves: What
makes a bad guy, a bad guy?
You wanna give your villain idiosyncrasies,
and you want to make him strangely weird...
...and interesting psychologically.
Those kind of characters lend themselves
to having stories told about them...
...because their bones are so strong.
You can put, you know...
You can hang a lot of meat on them.
They have their own path and
they all have their own story.
And, you know, while their
powers may be similar...
...hopefully their
personalities are not.
If a villain is great-looking
or is great just visually...
...but doesn't have a back-story...
from enjoying its run.
Batman:
The Animated Series......is that they not only featured...
...and celebrated a number of
...but introduced a
number of origin stories.
Of course, we have this
back-story of Harvey Dent...
...and his struggles with his anger.
We even get to see this session
he has with a psychiatrist.
And the psychiatrist puts him
into this state of hypnotism...
...and asks him to
draw up his alter ego.
He calls it Big Bad Harvey.
Later in the episode, of course, we
see his full development into Two-Face.
And I'll never forget that moment...
...where he breaks open the
door out of his hospital room.
He then turns at the same
time that there's lightning...
...and we see the image of
the second half of his face.
Black Hand really came into his own...
his origin was revealed.
Taking a character like Black
Hand who was a minor villain...
...and looking at him and saying, "if we have an emotional spectrum..
-...
...and all the colors represent life...
...the absence of color has to represent
death. There's got to be black. "
Black Hand, by becoming the avatar
of death, having a black ring...
...committing suicide to become
...which is one of the best moments
Doug Mahnke's ever drawn in his life.
It's creepy, twisted, dark.
Once people actually got to get inside
his head a little bit and see who he was...
...then it became much
more of a connection.
NARRATOR:
A hero's motiveis usually straightforward:
Save the day, serve
justice, defeat evil.
Villains, however, are
driven by a variety of forces.
It could be as grandiose
as taking over the world...
...or as direct as forcing
They can be much more complex,
personal and often even relatable.
What makes a villain the most memorable is the
reason they're doing whatever it is they do.
It's not the crime. We've
seen a hundred thousand crimes.
We've seen Luthor break into banks.
We've seen all these
characters do weird things.
But why they do it.
Every one of us is driven by, you know,
our own singular, you know, needs and wants.
So are villains.
A character like the Anti-Monitor
from Crisis on Infinite Earths...
...needs to absorb all the universes.
And that's the only
way he could survive.
ANTI-MONITOR:
Behold thedefinition of true power.
WOLFMAN:
He's not doing itbecause he cares at all about life.
And that makes him frightening
because you can't reason with him.
He's not an intellect that
you can talk to and say:
"Don't you realize you're
doing something bad?
Can't we figure out something else to
do?" He's not interested. He has one need.
When I created Clayface llI at the
behest of the late Julius Schwartz...
...I came up with a
character who was a monster...
...because he had screwed up.
He was someone born with acromegaly,
essentially the elephant man disease.
And in trying to fix himself...
...became somebody who basically can
draw the calcium out of your body...
little clay-like masses.
But he didn't want to.
It's just how he survived.
There may also be,
certainly, revenge involved.
A lot of villains feel that
they've been wronged in some way...
...whether it's by society
or a loved one or the police.
With Mr. Freeze, when we developed the
character for Batman: The Animated Series...
...I thought, "Somebody that cold
has to be that cold for a reason. "
Essentially he had some funding to carry
out his research to cure his wife, Nora.
And the man who pulled that funding...
...he then became the focus
of Mr. Freeze's evil-doing.
His mission is to go after the one
man who took away the love of his life.
He actually says to Batman:
"This is my sole purpose, and if you
get in the way, you'll pay for it. "
Which kind of implies, Look, if you
just step aside, I won't harm you. "
LANGLEY:
As a villain, you canargue whether he's a villain or not.
Atrocitus, he was motivated by anger
at the Guardians of the Universe.
the Guardians of the Universe...
...they created these
manhunters, androids...
...which were their predecessors
Atrocitus skips over the
denial stage of grief...
...goes into anger and stays there.
Forget going into the later ones.
The only bargain he
makes is to stay angry...
...and avenge his family by going
after the Guardians however he can.
That's why the Joker is so interesting,
because he sort of doesn't have a motive.
WOLFMAN:
He knows he's crazy.Most of the crazy villains, most of the
villains who in comics, who are insane...
...have no idea they are.
But the Joker is aware
of it and he loves it.
He loves the concept that he is
chaos to Batman's logic and order.
And, obviously, we have the most
recent incarnation on the big screen.
Heath Ledger's Joker is
And he even says it.
He's a dog chasing a car.
And when he catches it, he doesn't...
He doesn't know what he's doing.
He just sort of does things.
With Lex Luthor, he just wants power.
But how does he attain it?
How many ways does he have to go?
Why is he jealous of Superman?
Because he wants to be
more powerful than Superman.
Those self-made men tend to
feel that they have license.
Tend to feel that they're
superior to everybody else.
He has these personality characteristics
that one would consider narcissistic...
...in the sense that he has
this element of superiority...
...that he is more powerful than others.
Thinks that he's more intelligent than others.
And, therefore, believes that he deserves
more than what other people deserve.
He is like the pinnacle of humanity.
He has made himself the best man.
And then there's this alien
that's better than him.
I did the revision of
Luthor back in the 1980s.
I turned him into a character
who brought jobs to Metropolis.
philharmonic orchestras...
...and did all this stuff as long
as everyone knew he was the best.
He wanted the power. He wanted
the control. And he was happy.
He was delighted because
everyone honored him.
And then Superman came
along, who could fly.
It was ego.
"I am the person who looks
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