what was the best story of the following villans

[IamtheRock3]

What was the best


Joker story


Poison Ivy story

Two face story

Riddler story

Ra Al Ghul story

Catwoman story

[IamtheRock3]

oh and feel free to use the cartoon, elseworlds or what ever

[Lubichev]

TWO FACE Faces or Robin:Year One

JOKER Killing Joke or Arkham Asylum

POISON IVY Home and Garden (B:TAS)

RIDDLER When in Rome (I guess. Pickings are slim.)

CATWOMAN Selina's Big Score

RAS AL GHUL Trinity

and I'll add this one because it is SO GOOD....

SCARECROW Year One

[CURSD BLADE]

Joker story
The Man Who Laughs


Poison Ivy story
Batman: Harely & Ivy

Two face story
The Long Halloween

Riddler story
Batman: Hush

Ra Al Ghul story
JLA: Tower of Babel

Catwoman story
Slam Bradley: Trail of the Cat (backups in Detective Comics around 2001)

[Agent0]

These are my favs

Joker:
Return of the Joker

Poison Ivy:
Year One Poison Ivy

Two Face:
Jekyll and Hyde

Riddler:
Riddle Me That

Ra's Al Ghul:
The Demon Lives Again

Catwoman:
When in Rome

[Brack360]

Joker story: The Killing Joke

Poison Ivy story: Fruit of the Earth

Two face story: The Long Halloween

Ra Al Ghul story: Death and the Maidens

Catwoman story: Relentless

[Jonathan]

My faves:

The Joker: The Killing Joke. Detective Comics 475 and 476 are close seconds. Honrable mentions: Arkham Asylum; and from Batman: the Animated Series: Batman: Mask of the Phantasm and Batman Beyond: the Return of the Joker.

Two-Face: "Eye of the Beholder" from Batman Annual 14. An excellent telling of Two-Face's origin.

The Ridder: Detective Comics Annual 8, "Questions Multiply the Mystery." An interesting origin story of the Riddler with a cool ending. I've also always liked Detective Comics 705-707, too. And any episode of the 1960s Batman television show with Frank Gorshin as the Riddler rocks.

Ra's Al Ghul: Birth of the Demon

Don't really have any favorite Catwoman or Poison Ivy stories. Some good ones have already been listed anyway.

[Kirayoshi]

Excluding The Killing Joke and DK, which are too obvious:

Joker: "The Joker's Five-Way Revenge"(O'Neill, Adams), "The Laughing Fish"(Englehart, Rodgers)

Poison Ivy: "Home and Garden"(B:TAS)

Two-Face: "Faces"(Matt Wagner), "Two of a Kind"(Paul Dini, B:B&W)

Riddler: "If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?"(B:TAS)

Catwoman: "The Secret Diary of Bruce Wayne"(O'Barr(I think) and Staton. Set in pre-Crisis Earth 2, Batman has to work with Catwoman to stop Scarecrow, and the two of them end up getting engaged).

Ra's Al Ghul: "Tower of Babel"(JLA), "Batman Begins"(surprised no one nominated this one!)

[Tony Bang]

Joker: Soft Targets (Gotham Central #12-15)

Poison Ivy: "Home and Garden"(B:TAS)

Two-Face: Faces

Riddler: "If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?"(B:TAS)

Catwoman: Relentless

Ra's Al Ghul: Birth of the Demon

[DOVETAILS]

Joker: 3 and 6 of his very own series(from the gosh darn 70's).

Of course: killing joke.

Also an early birds of prey story, I think somewhere in the teens, was a pretty darn good joker tale.

I also dug batman beyond: return of the joker.

A lot of tales from no man's land with joker were good too.

I could go on and on. I dig the joker quite a bit, in case you couldn't tell !


I remember catwoman issue 5 being pretty good. If I dug through my box i'm sure more would come to mind. (But that's cheating ;) )

[TheOnlyXTremeFan]

Joker- The Killing Joke

Mr. Freeze- Batman: TAS, his first episode, can't remember the name.

Ra's Al Ghul- Death and the Maidens, Trinity, Son of the Demon, Tower of Babel.

Two-Face- The Long Halloween

[dancj]

I'm choosing stories where the characters were particularly well handled, even if the stories didn't revolve around them...

Joker story - The Dark Knight Returns
Poison Ivy story - not sure
Two face story - Arkham Asylum
Riddler story - Dark Knight Dark City
Ra Al Ghul story - JLA: Tower of Babel
Catwoman story - something from Ed Brubaker's run

[Mister Mets]

Joker story
The Killing Joke/ The Long Halloween #3-4/ "The Laughing Fish"/ The Dark Knight Returns

Poison Ivy story
Gotham Central #32

Two face story
The Long Halloween/ The Dark Knight Returns

Riddler story
If You're so Smart Why Aren't You Rich (TAS)

Ra Al Ghul story
Son of the Demon

Catwoman story
Dark Victory

[Kirayoshi]

Oh, another Joker story to add to my favorites; JLI Annual #2(Giffen/DeMatteis, Willingham). The dictator of Bialya(a Middle Eastern nation that was exporting terrorists to America in the DCU at that time) hired the Joker to eliminate the Justice League, promising in turn to provide Joker with Batman's secret identity. But everything went wrong with the Joker's scheme to attack the team at a barbecue being held at Scott and Barda Free's home. Falling-down funny stuff. Favorite moment(quoting from memory):

Joker(sitting at the turret of a trashed high-tech tank): Y'know, ladies and germs, I have my foot on the self-destruct switch even as we speak. And it would be just like me to use it. But given the day I've been having it would probably malfunction, leaving me with egg on my face. Again. Well, ladies and germs, I'm crazy, but I'm not that crazy! I WANNA GO BACK TO ARKHAM!

[Selina Quinzel]

Joker story- the story featured in "Mad Love" (I'm cheating because of my unabashed love for Harley Quinn, I'm sorry!!)

Poison Ivy story- Harley & Ivy by Judd Winick

Two face story- The Long Halloween- before this I didn't even know he HAD a wife, it made his story so much more emotional & dramatic

Riddler story- here I go cheating again, him in the monthly Harley Quinn series when he broke in the Wayne mansion.

Ra's Al Ghul story- I'm not overly familiar with him, but I remember a story in a Batman Adventures comic dealing with him and Batman saving Talia with the Lazarus Pit and having her almost kill her dad.

Catwoman story- she's my fave and I love literally dozens of stories with her, but I guess I'll go with the road trip she and Holly took early on in her current solo series, especially when she had Wildcat train Holly and she went to Keystone City & "hung out" with Captain Cold.

[acagle7]

Mr. Freeze- Batman: TAS, his first episode, can't remember the name.




Heart Of Ice is the episode you are thinking about.

[Surt]

What's the name of that Riddler-story by Peter Milligan? It's about a prophecy of some sorts. It's amazing and by far the best Riddler story I've ever read.

Joker - Killing Joke

Ra's - One of the Demon stories. Can't decide, though.

[OverMaster]

What's the name of that Riddler-story by Peter Milligan? It's about a prophecy of some sorts. It's amazing and by far the best Riddler story I've ever read.


I think that's "Dark Knight, Dark City".