Zeiss
Since I have already written about all of these underrated Batman villains, how about revealing who is my most favorite less-known (if I may say so) one?
It cannot be said that the Batman rogue gallery lacks villains having an obsession with the Dark Knight. After all, the Joker seems to be all about that. Zeiss is just like that. However, Zeiss is nowhere near that kind of perfection – as a matter of fact, the character constantly improves himself in order to take down Gotham’s vigilante.
And this is always interesting to me – what can I do in order to achieve my goal? Because, you know, my secret goal is to defeat the Batman…
Even if he appeared just in 36 issues since 2000, the year when he made his debut, Zeiss is the kind of villain that has the potential to defeat his opponent. And his obsession is the one that can help him – even if it is also the one that prevents him from doing that. This list would be incomplete without such a flawed villain, who always seeks to better himself.
He is so keen to taking down the Batman in hand to hand combat that he has learned all the moves the hero can make. Only with PIS (or, as some might say, because Batman is such a great strategist) he is defeated. For example, Zeiss fought the Dark Knight to a standstill, until Batgirl arrived to the rescue.
Zeiss possesses superhuman abilities, after undergoing a surgical procedure that accelerated his reflexes. For him, Batman actually moves in slow-motion – case in point, the pic above. How cool can that be, making a super-trained ninja look like an old man?
