Rhapsodies

Black Mask was another character on this list I was not looking forward to.

For the most part, Roman Sionis is one of the numerous by the numbers villains created in the eighties who somehow lasted beyond their first storyline. Later the writers made him a gang lord in what looks like an attempt to bring the realism of the mob into the costumed world. But ultimately he’s another psycho who’s more of a danger to his own men then he is to Batman and the rest of society. The last two reboots have not done him any favors.

It doesn’t help that in this monochrome format he’s indistinguishable from the Red Skull.

For this setting, I might keep him at the top of the heap if I need a someone to fill in the “King” niche for my Joker as the crown prince of crime idea.