Look, there’s a never-ending parade of great Batman villains. And even those lists of "obscure" Batman foes usually don't actually reach past the C-List ones. I mean, come on, Man-Bat is not obscure. Underrated? Yes. Obscure? Do some better research. No, HERE'S a list of some truly forgotten Batman villains. The one's too obscure for Lego Batman or any of those lists of people's fave foes. Buckle up, folks, we're venturing into uncharted territory.

                                               Source: multiversitycomics.com

10. Reaper

What if there were a Gotham City vigilante BEFORE Batman?

Judson Caspian was essentially proto-Bruce Wayne. A thief murdered his wife, so he decided to go turn himself into a force for justice as…The Reaper. It will never not be hilarious to me that Reaper was originally envisioned as a character who was supposedly around in the 50s when that is the most late-80s costume I've ever seen.

Unlike Batman, however, Reaper had his own methods for crime fighting. He liked to stab criminals with scythes. Scythes that were also guns. See what I mean about his late 80s-ness? Dude's just missing a skateboard and a Sega Genesis.

If he looks vaguely familiar to you, either A: you've read Batman: Year Two, which puts you in a rare subsection of humanity, or B: you might be thinking of someone else. Along with many more elements of the more successful Year One, Batman: Year Two was riffed off of in the Batman animated movie Batman: The Mask of the Phantasm. I love that movie so, so much. But in the adaptation, The Reaper got changed a bunch and became The Phantasm, a very different character with a very different backstory.

Both look pretty cool, though.