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Ra's al-Ghul (Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder): As leader of the League of Shadows (Royal Assassin & Damnable Pact), Ra's is always several steps ahead (Brainstorm) and trying to anticipate his attacks leaves his foe defenseless to deal with other threats (Onslaught). Ra's is motivated by his idea that the world is out of balance and that the best way to restore this balance is to kill off most of humanity (Death Cloud).
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Talia al-Ghul (Etrata, the Silencer): Talia was raised by the League of Shadows and is virtually undetectable. Given enough time, she will bring her enemy to their knees.
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Joker (Chaos Harlequin):Purely an agent of chaos, Joker will do almost anything to get the upper hand. The head games (Jester's Cap) he plays with his enemy are meant to drive them mad.
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Harley Quinn (Massacre Girl): Harley is a force to be reckoned with. Put her in a room full of enemies, and she'll be the only one to walk out alive (Decimate).
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Hugo Strange (Lim-Dul the Necromancer): Given free reign over Arkham Asylum, Mr. Strange is said to conduct experiments (Skullclamp) on patients ranging from genetic mutations to corpse re-animations.
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Killer Croc (Ludevic's Test Subject
): Born with an extremely rare condition, Waylon Jones was an outcast of society, but after a time, his mutation fully took hold, and now, it is unclear if he is more animal or man. He uses the sewers and waterfront to get around often choosing his prey based on their proximity to water from which his evolutionary mutation can be the most advantageous (Coastal Piracy).
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Man-Bat (Dirge Bat): In an attempt to give humans SONAR, Dr. Kirk Langstrom tried to splice bat DNA to his own, but he made a mistake that caused his body to mutate into that of a giant humanoid bat which terrorized Gotham.
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Mister Freeze (Frost Titan): While attempting to cure his wife Nora, cryogenics expert, Victor Fries had a laboratory mishap that caused his core body temperature to drop to sub-zero levels. Wearing a cryogenic suit to keep him alive, he took to a life a crime in order to fund further research into curing Nora. He uses his self-invented freezing rays to stop foes in their tracks (Frozen Solid & Ice Floe).
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Penguin & Butch (Virtus the Veiled & Gorm the Great): Oswald Cobblepot, a powerful mobster in Gotham, is both sneaky and clever. He has been known use his vast resources (Virtus's Maneuver) to spring fellow criminals from Blackgate or Arkham, and he never goes anywhere without his hulking bodyguard Butch.
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Two-Face (Rakdos, the Showstopper): After an accident left him horribly disfigured, former district attorney, Harvey Dent, takes on his own form of justice leaving every individual's fate up to the flip of a coin. However, he doesn't always play fair instead choosing to make his own luck (Crooked Scales).
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Killer Moth (Warkite Marauder): While in prison, inmate #234026 reads a newspaper about the masked vigilante, Batman, and decides to become the "anti-Batman". When he is released, he offers his services to Gotham's villains and amasses a large sum of money while operating as protection for various criminal organizations. Following Batman's lead, he uses his funds to develop gadgets to make escaping the police and the Bat less difficult.
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Ventriloquist & Scarface (Puppeteer & Creepy Doll): Arnold Wesker, the son of a powerful mafia family, suffers from a dissociative personality disorder. Scarface, his dummy, is Arnold's mind's attempt to reconcile seeing his mother assassinated when he was a young boy. Scarface dominates his personality and begs the question of who really call the shots (Puppet Strings).
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Mad Hatter (Rankle, Master of Pranks): Ridiculed and alone as a child, Jervis Tetch had plently of time to himself. He used much of this time to study and would eventually go on to become a genious neuroscientist. He uses his knowledge of the human mind to create a slew of mind control devices (Ray of Command) which he uses to make his victims set and detonate bombs (Pernicious Deed).
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Poison Ivy (Vraska the Unseen): Pam Isley, a promising botanist, had a mixture of powerful toxins, from both plants and animals, injected into her bloodstream. The result of which left her with both an immunity to all known toxins and making her deadly to the touch. She uses these gifts to fight as an ecoterrorist against man's steady degradation of the natural world by both growing nature everywhere she can (Rampant Growth, Explosive Vegetation, Cultivate, Sheltered Aerie) and by killing (Vraska's Contempt) those who won't listen to her (Night's Whisper) and instead continue to destroy the environment.
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Riddler (Riddlekeeper): Edward Nigma, a self-proclaimed intellectual superior, loves to toy with Batman and the police by sending them the elaborate clues (Ponder) telling them the plans for his heists.
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Catwoman (Master Thief): Growing up on the streets of Gotham, Selina Kyle had to grow up fast often having to steal to survive. Bruce Wayne attempts many times to stop Selina from living a life of crime, but she can't see another way to live and enjoys collecting all matter of trinkets and artifacts (Revel in Riches).
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Bane (Stronghold Assassin): Serving out his father's life sentence, Bane spent the early years of his life in a Santa Prisca prison learning to fight and reading every book he could get his hands on. Knowing only prison life, when Bane was released, he used his intelligence and fighting prowess to become on of Gotham's most notorious criminals.
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Catman (Abyssal Hunter): Thomas Reese Blake, a famous big cat trapper, turned his knowledge of poaching to track his victims and set traps (Trip Noose) to ensnare them while he moved in for the kill.
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Victor Zsasz (Notorious Assassin): Zsasz is a nihilistic serial killer who carves a tally mark into his skin for every person he kills.
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Vandal Savage (Vengeful Pharaoh): Vandal Savage is a Cro-Magnon human who was bathed in the radiation of a meteorite giving him the powers of immortality and extreme intelligence. Living millenia, he lost most signs of his inner humanity. Lex Luthor once said he found evidence that Savage was the world's first cannibal (Blasphemous Act), and his utter lack of concern for life would make that sentiment hard to rebuke.
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Clayface (Clay Statue): After accidentally becoming fully submerged in a radioactive pool of protoplasm he found in a cave while looking for treasure, Matt Hagen discovered that his body was now a malleable clay-like substance that he can mold at will.
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Scarecrow (Grim Poppet): Teased as a child, Dr. Jonathan Crane was fascinated by fear and how to it affects the mind. Marrying his studies of biochemistry and psychology, Crane develops a fear gas which he uses to incapacitate his foes.
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Hush (Stalking Assassin): Growing up in a wealthy Gotham family, Dr. Thomas Elliot was a childhood friend of Bruce Wayne. He taught Bruce everything he knew about strategy through their common interest in tabletop war games. Elliot, however, did not have a blessed childhood. As an effort to both rid himself of abuse and inherit his family weatlh (Greed), he cut the brake lines to his parents car resulting in the death of his father and serious injury of his mother. He later envies Bruce for inheriting the Wayne fortune when his parents died like he was hoping to do. Eventually, he suffocates his mother and gets his fortune, and his resentment of Bruce turns into pure hatred.
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Solomon Grundy (Lord of Tresserhorn): Wealthy businessman Cyrus Gold was murdered and his body was dumped in Slaughter Swamp just outside of Gotham. 50 years later, Gold is reanimated and imbued with elemental energy. Through the use of super strength, his reanimated corpse kills two passersby who happened to be humming a children's rhyme about "Solomon Grundy." Grundy proves to be quite formidable and immortal through his many encounters with Batman and other heroes.
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Deadshot (Poison-Tip Archer): Floyd Lawton got his start as a crime fighter in Gotham City, but when he tries to replace Batman and then, subsequently set himself up as the ruler of Gotham's underbelly, Commissioner Gordon and Batman bring him down. From then on, Floyd began hiring out his services as a hitman. During the execution of a plan with his brother and mother to kill their abusive father, Floyd accidentally shoots and kills his brother (Ambition's Cost). From that point forward, Lawton vowed to train so that he would never miss another shot (Deadshot).
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Black Mask (Master of Cruelties): Born to a wealthy family, Roman Sionis was never given any attention as a child due to his parents' obsession with status among the Gotham elite. He eventually burned his childhood home to the ground with his parents inside (Plea for Power). While visiting their mausoleum, Roman is struck by lighting which sent him flying. Taking this as some sort of sign, he enters into the crypt and with great force breaks the lid to his father's ebony coffin shattering it into dozens of pieces. From the shards of ebony, he carves a mask which he dons when committing various crimes.
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(Black Market) is self explanatory. haha
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C&C welcome. Thanks!
