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The 10 Greatest Villains From DC Movies

2016 hadn’t been a particularly great year for villains in superhero movies, what with all the hero v hero action going on – at least, until Suicide Squad arrived and starred a team of bad guys forced into becoming heroes. Noting exceptions like Doctor Octopus and Loki, DC have generally produced stronger supervillains than Marvel, so it made a lot of sense that they would be the ones to make the first fully-fledged supervillain movie.

9) The Penguin – Danny De Vito, Batman Returns

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There’s a reason Christopher Nolan didn’t use The Penguin in his Dark Knight films – he often isn’t the most interesting of Batman villains. That’s not the case with the iteration seen in Batman Returns, however. In fact, he’s probably the most detestable but oddly pitiable of the lot.

Thanks to Tim Burton’s gothic direction and a committed performance from the perfectly cast Danny De Vito, Oswald Cobblepot became a literal penguin – a disfigured man warped on the inside, too, from living in the sewers after his high society parents abandoned him.

It is thanks to Penguin’s layered characterization that he remains a great villain despite having such a goofy plan – attempting to destroy Gotham with kamikaze penguins.

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