Black Mask Shows He Has the Worst Gimmick of Any Batman Villain
Warning: Contains spoilers for DC vs. Vampires: Hunters #1
Gotham crime boss Black Mask has officially been called out for having the worst gimmick of any villain in Batman's rogues' gallery. The Dark Knight has faced villains with some of the most bizarre gimmicks in comics, from iconic mainstays like Two-Face and his two faces to silly one-offs like the Condiment King. No matter how odd though, the gimmicks are what draws fans to having an appreciation for them and recognizing who they are just by looking at them. Black Mask, on the other hand, is a villain who may be brutal, but his calling-card is the worst of the bunch.
Created by Doug Moench and Tom Mandrake in 1985, Roman Sionis aka Black Mask made his first appearance in Batman #386. He's best known as a lethal mobster with a fixation on torture and causing pain. He's murdered countless people since his debut in horrific ways such as poisoning them with handmade masks and cutting off faces. Sionis is certainly not someone a citizen of Gotham would want to get tangled up with in the crime world. The problem though is he has the weakest gimmick of any of his criminal adversaries. The element that makes Black Mask known throughout the criminal underworld is...his black mask. That's it. He dons a black skull mask because of his fixation with masks, but there's very little else that it does. It's just a way to strike fear into his enemies.
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Black Mask's gimmick was recently called out in the one-off special DC vs. Vampires: Hunters by Matthew Rosenberg and Neil Googe. In the main series for the vampiric DC invasion, multiple DC heroes and villains are shown to have their vampire forms
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