Batman: City Legends hinted {that a} new Nightwing cinema-themed villain has a companion in crime – who could possibly be an unkillable Batman foe.
The next comprises spoilers for Batman: One Dangerous Day – The Riddler #1 and Batman: City Legends #23, each on sale now from DC Comics.
The ultimate situation of Batman: City Legends launched followers to a brand new villain often called the Director, who orchestrated filmed crimes involving Nightwing. Whereas her id was finally found by the hero, resulting in the Director’s arrest, the story ended with a lingering thriller. The Director’s companion remained a thriller. All that was proven of the companion was a quick glimpse of a hand by way of an previous movie projector display screen.
Nonetheless, the Director’s modus operandi appears strikingly much like a Bronze Age Batman villain, somebody who could possibly be a perfect candidate for the Director’s companion and mentor. Though this villain died, it doesn’t rule them out. Time and time once more, this specific legal has a behavior of coming again usually after being seemingly killed. The aptly named Movie Freak is the villain in query and yet one more enemy of the Bat-Household that makes use of excessive motifs in elaborate schemes.
Who Is The Batman Villain Movie Freak?
Movie Freak, aka Burt Weston, is a pastiche of the Nineteen Sixties Batman actors Adam West and Burt Ward. He first appeared in Batman #395 (by Doug Mounch, Tom Mandrake, and Adrienne Roy) as a serial killer who used movie motifs as an inspiration for his varied murders. Movie Freak was a failed actor who tried to faux his dying to realize extra fame and recognition. Nonetheless, Burt turned to Gotham Metropolis after his preliminary scheme failed.
His homicide sprees have been ultimately foiled because of the detective work of Sergeant Bullock and Jason Todd. After his seize, Movie Freak made sporadic appearances all through the years however misplaced a lot of his relevance on Batman’s deep bench of villains. He grew to become so forgotten, that comedian e-book writers stored forgetting at any time when they killed him off. Oftentimes, Movie Freak miraculously reappeared, as if each dying was simply one other stage efficiency.
This Batman Villain Refuses To Keep Lifeless
After a noticeable seven yr disappearance after his first main look, Movie Freak was killed off in the course of the well-known 1993 Batman: Knightfall storyline. In 2006, the Movie Freak returned underneath a false alias and have become a reoccurring antagonist in Catwoman (by Will Pfeifer and David Lopez) comedian e-book collection. Att first, this was considered a wholly new iteration however conformation of Burt Weston’s id appeared on the door of his Arkham cell in future storylines. Movie Freak has even died twice already as a part of DC Comics’ current Infinite Frontier period. One among his extra notable deaths got here when Burt Weston reappeared because the next-door cellmate of the Riddler in Batman: One Dangerous Day – The Riddler (by Tom King and Mitch Gerads). Movie Freak challenged his villainous modern in a quiz of actor names. When Riddler named each actress within the refrain of Gold Diggers of 1933, Burt promptly stabbed himself within the neck with a shiv, as per the situations of the problem.
With Movie Freak’s track-record of inconspicuous resurrection, it is just a matter of time earlier than he returns once more. The story “The Director” in Batman: City Legends #23 (by Jamal Campbell and Adriano Lucas), obsessed information studio intern Christine Eigawa took on the legal moniker of the Director as a way to stalk Nightwing’s exploits. This culminated within the tried creation of a ‘horror movie journey’ stuffed with actual homicide. Finally the Director was stopped earlier than she may create her ‘horror movie’. Nonetheless, the planning and assets required led Nightwing to imagine that the Director was not working alone. With their shared obsession and the Movie Freak’s demonstrated skill to remain alive, they could possibly be a harmful duo for Nightwing and the Bat-Household.