#ventriloquist and scarface

[batmananimated]

Batman's Rogues Gallery by Nicholas Winand

[randomuser678]

I love how most Batman villains have a genderbend version of them, specially bc as a trans woman I want to read into them being trans

Like, the Ventriloquist's design is of a mild mannered boring looking man who contrasts with his puppet Scarface who's much more rude and greedy, it feels like Scarface is a way for his ventriloquist to express his more rude side while distancing himself from them.

Now on my read where she's a trans woman there would be two layers of repression here, Ventriloquist personified her "masculine" side into the puppet who acts like a stereotypical tough guy, a rude bossy mafia leader, and she became a sexy trophy wife for him, this way she separates herself from the undesirable masculine traits, as well as becoming a love interest to a man who makes all the decisions for her, she only exists to support him, she finally made it to cisnormative and heteronormative ideals of femininity! It comes off as a tragic clinging to idealized femininity and male approval on a way I really relate to.

Clayface also has a really good portrayal of Dysphoria since in the versions I've seen they're an actor who hates their own face and got into a drug that would make their face easy to remold, then it went horribly wrong and now their entire body is moldable, Lady Clayface didn't have to change that general backstory for it to work at all, and the theme of beauty is common on female villains, but tbh I love this one specifically because of the trans read being more obvious, and this is the one case where a character didn't have to change backstories at all for the female version, she can still be a former actor with dysphoria that later gains shapeshifting powers, it's almost a happy ending for her now that she can change her shapes even if it's still tragic.

Calendar girl has a similar theme (Although she's both a version of Calendar man but also The Manikin) where she's a former celebrity who's horrified by her appearance under the mask and is "aging out" of her career, her attacking themed on holidays is both a mockery of her job as a model and needing to keep up with trends and also to show her resentment towards the passage of time, it's a really fun mix of characters and my trans read of her would be similar to Clayface. Also how youth and beauty is valued in society as a whole and older trans people in general are ignored on the mainstream.

And because the comic book world is really hostile towards genderbends (see Oswald from the newest Batman cartoon) a lot of them have instead characters who co-exist with their male counterparts, that was the case for the Ventriolquist since she just took the role from the previous one, but sometimes they do what they did here:

Madame Crow is part of the Victim Syndicate, a group of people who were victims of different villains and now resent Batman for not saving them, their powers are now ironic mirrors to the characters they were victimized by, and on Madame Crow's case, where she was a victim of the fear toxins from the Scarecrow, she made toxins that completely rid a person of any fear or self-preservation. And idk the fact that she wants to create something that gets rid of fears and repression just comes off as queer to me even though it was obviously not intentional, it's just that on a version where she IS the Scarecrow I would love how thematically fitting it all is.

I've seen pieces about how Batman is inherently queer bc super heroes and villains as a whole empower themselves through creating an alternative persona on an over the top camp way that's basically drag.

Some male villains have female sidekicks, Sugar and Spice, Query and Echo, and I guess those are harder to read as female personas of the same character like how I've been doing, but idk, you can rewrite the stories however you like to make these work, maybe twoface is bigender and flips a coin to decide which gender they're going with, that would be on theme. You can do anything ever with these characters.

Also I never understood why ppl were mad about Oswalda, every version of Batman changes backstories around, why is changing a character's gender or whatever completely out of line with that they've already been doing for decades? Anyways I'm trans and this is all.

[wanderingmind867]

(Batman Adventures #14): Are we sure Arnold and Scarface aren't some sort of Laurel and Hardy esque comedy duo? Because I really get that vibe from them. The slapstick of a lot of their scenes, the fact that Scarface apparently stole his big masterplan from a movie he watched, there's a lot of silly details that make me think of these two like an old time comedy double act.

Also, I know Scarface is saying he had his lips torn off in prison. But I don't find that very funny. So i'm choosing to believe that's Arnold trying to cover for the fact that he's a horrible, horrible ventriloquist. He throws his voice just fine, but he can't seem to pronounce his words correctly. Because split personality, two separate people or something in between, I still love the comedy of criminal named The Ventriloquist being a...well, being a poor Ventriloquist!

[zatdreamsofcatfish]

Public Domain Batman Part 2

[hahchek]

"Who you callin' dummy?"

[comfort-clubhouse]

My Comfort Characters As GIFS (Part 2)

Part 1

Oggy (Oggy and The Cockroaches)

SpongeBob SquarePants

Blitzø (Helluva Boss)

Neo Cortex (Crash Bandicoot)

Matt (Eddsworld)

Tails (Sonic)

Chococat (Sanrio)

Ventriloquist and Scarface (BTAS)

Doc Ock (Spectacular Spider Man)

Perrito (Puss In Boots)

[hattafan2593]

[pexisnotwell]

my favorite rogues, and two face is there also cuz why not

[labyrinth-guard]

Hehe, my takes for some of my favorite batman villains <3

Tumblr ate the Qualities of these, so here's some smaller individual images

[ravenlynclemens]

the ventriloquist and scarface

[k0zyb0n3rz]

little critters ..

[randomuser678]

Little doodle of The Ventriloquist and Scarface as kids bc I have like a whole backstory for my version of him in the works

[wanderingmind867]

(Batman Adventures Annual #1): Ah, yes. A film noir style story with a speech impediment prone puppet. Also, did Scarface really try to drink some bourbon? I'm sorry, but that's hilarious. I'm imagining Arnold just pouring it into scarface's mouth, and then having it all spill onto the floor. Because a puppet can't drink. So that bourbon is all over the floor now, and I find that hilarious.

[ballpitbee]

Its not a secret that I LOOOOVE mobstas

[nahla-art]

Rudest guy on earth

[paninityl]

Ventriloquist and scarface concept , I'll make a better one ,,,,later