The 10 Greatest BATMAN Villains of ALL TIME!

By Albert Ching, Newsarama Staff Writer and Lucas Siegel, Newsarama Editor

Batman is widely considered to have the greatest rogues gallery in comic books, and just from looking at this list, there is certainly a strong case to be made. Just look at the early marketing for 2012's feature film The Dark Knight Rises, with both the six-minute prologue and teaser poster focused on Tom Hardy's Bane.

In fact, a few of the villains that didn't make the cut are among some of the greatest characters in the history of the medium -- but that's just how deep the bench is when it comes to Batman's bad guys.

The characters on this list have nearly all been translated to movies and TV, and range from debuting in Batman's early history during the Golden Age of comics, to just coming on the scene in the past decade -- showing that Batman's rogues gallery continues to improve as it grows. Most of these characters are of the "even my mom has heard of them" variety -- they're just that enduring and iconic.

In the tradition of our Spider-Man villains list, we've polled our contributors and devised our rankings of the 10 greatest Batman villains of all time.

[Newsarama note: This countdown originally ran on Nov. 16, 2011.]

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