Batman villains
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Batman villains
Order by the cover-date year of each villain's first comic appearance. You place all 30 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
30
Cards
3
Lives per run
release years and dates
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How the Batman villains timeline works
The cards are enemies of Batman, each with a real name or a short description underneath, and the order is the cover-date year of each villain's first comic appearance. One villain starts on the line, year showing. Decide where each new card falls among those already placed. Place it right and the year appears. Place it wrong and the villain is moved to the true spot, and you're down one of your three lives.
A big share of the rogues gallery arrived early, in a rush of debuts during the comic's first few years, and the rest trickle in over the long run that followed. The descriptions give real names and gimmicks, which help with tone, but goofy themed crooks and grim, grounded killers both appear and don't sort as neatly by era as you'd think. Fame on screen is a poor guide to age.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 30 cards you might be dealt, with 2 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- Hugo Strange Mad psychiatrist
- Joker Clown Prince of Crime
- Catwoman Selina Kyle, cat burglar
- Clayface (Basil Karlo) Horror film actor
- Scarecrow Jonathan Crane, fear toxin
- Penguin Oswald Cobblepot, umbrella-toting mobster
- Two-Face Harvey Dent, scarred district attorney
- Riddler Edward Nygma, leaves riddles
- Mad Hatter Jervis Tetch, mind-control hats
- Deadshot Floyd Lawton, assassin who never misses
- Firefly Garfield Lynns, pyromaniac
- Calendar Man Julian Day, crimes on holidays
- Mr. Freeze Victor Fries, freeze gun
- Clock King William Tockman, obsessed with time
- Poison Ivy Pamela Isley, toxic plants
- Man-Bat Kirk Langstrom, scientist turned bat creature
- Talia al Ghul Daughter of the Demon's Head
- Ra's al Ghul The Demon's Head, Lazarus Pits
- Lady Shiva Martial arts master and assassin
- Rupert Thorne Corrupt Gotham city councilman
- Killer Croc Waylon Jones, scaly strongman
- Black Mask Roman Sionis, False Face Society
- Carmine Falcone The Roman, Gotham mob boss
- Ventriloquist Arnold Wesker and his dummy Scarface
- Anarky Teenage anarchist
- Victor Zsasz Serial killer who carves tally marks
- Bane Venom-fueled strongman from Santa Prisca
- Harley Quinn Harleen Quinzel, the Joker's partner
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