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You all know I love comic book baddies - most especially the baddies of Batman. The Caped Crusader has one of the greatest Rogues Galleries of any hero in any genre and any universe; a cadre of colorful, crazy, and creepy characters - Joker, Harley Quinn, Riddler, Catwoman, Penguin, and Poison Ivy, just to name a few - that have entertained, enthralled, and sometimes terrified fans for decades. But nothing is ever perfect; when you have a character who’s been around for almost 80 years now, not every story will be a gem, and not every antagonist will be as fun or engaging as the rest.
Comic books are a silly place at times - there’s no denying it, let’s face it - but some ideas and characters just go beyond the boundaries of any sense of logic or fascination, and just become too dumb, too bizarre, or just too ridiculous for us to thoroughly enjoy. Now, I won’t be counting “Joke Villains” here; for those who don’t know, these are characters who were either created specifically for the purpose of just being completely absurd and mockable, or else have found their home as characters meant for that purpose, and, as a result, have actually become more fun or interesting as a result. Note the words “fun and interesting;” there are some villains so stupid, they don’t even work as jokes, and that’s what this list is for. All the same, because of this, don’t expect to see characters like Condiment King or Killer Moth here. With that said...prepare to facepalm and ask the Gods of Gotham “Why?!” These are My Top 5 WORST Batman Villains.

5. Ten-Eyed Man.
The sad thing about the Ten-Eyed Man is that he actually has potential. No, seriously. The origins of the Ten-Eyed Man are actually sort of tragic, and start off in a surprisingly promising manner. His real name is Philip Reardon. A Vietnam vet, Phil went to work as a security guard for a fur factory. He’s actually a gifted fighter, and is able to bash any crooks who attack brutally. However, he ends up getting overpowered during a struggle with some thugs, who light a bomb. Batman pops up at just the wrong moment, and mistakes a just-then-regaining-consciousness Reardon for one of the felons, who flee the scene. Batman attacks Phil, somehow not noticing the explosive device, and when the bomb goes off, even though they both survive, poor Reardon ends up blinded. The thieves return later, and kidnap Reardon, planning to use his fighting abilities for their own greedy purposes. Now, at this point, this is actually a pretty compelling backstory. A former soldier, a talented combatant, on the side of law and order, who gets scarred by a tragic misunderstanding with Batman. This is an origin on par with such characters as Two-Face and Mr. Freeze, in my opinion. How could they screw this up? Well, here’s where things just get weird: an eye surgeon SOMEHOW manages to connect Philip’s optic nerves to his fingers, and this SOMEHOW allows him to see in ten different directions, as his fingers act as his eyes. And thus, what could have been a fascinating villain becomes a fascinating KLUTZ. The Ten-Eyed Man’s “power” is really a handicap! You smack his hands, and he can’t see. You throw mud on his hands, and he can’t see. You throw a cactus and he catches it...OH, THE PAIN. He’s a stumbling and manic annoyance rather than anything close to a threat. The pseudo-science behind his “power” is also just a bit too hard to swallow, even in the world of comics. For me, it’s the wasted potential in this guy that really makes me angry. If Philip Reardon had ended up being any villain BUT the Ten-Eyed Man, we might have had one of the greatest Batman rogues of all time. But instead, he ends up being a muckle nuisance and an embarrassment to Blackgate. The agonizing irony speaks for itself.

4. Captain Stingaree.
I love pirates. It’s no secret, nor any sort of surprise. A pirate-themed villain in Batman’s Rogues Gallery could be fun...in fact, he has one already. No, not Stingaree here, but the much-underrated Cavalier, who was made in the early days of Batman’s career, during the Golden Age of Comics. Stingaree, in contrast, came out in the more recent Bronze Age. Talk about being late to the party. Why the guys at DC decided to even concoct this nutball is beyond me; his real name is Karl Courtney, part of a family of quadruplets...and I guess that upbringing must have had some sort of weird effect on his briny brain, because he is under the impression that Batman is not one person, but three different people working together. In fact, he believes them to be his own brothers. His whole motivation is trying to prove exactly that. So...yeah. He’s a conspiracy nut who talks like Captain Hook and for no apparent reason hates his siblings. How intimidating. As if that’s not silly enough, he actually gets his alias from the role he plays at a pirate-themed restaurant, where he basically acts as both the mascot and the owner. Yeah. He doesn’t even have a secret identity; this is literally just the name he gets from being a public eccentric. Lazy, deluded in the most convoluted way, and inexplicably odd, I think many a DC fan is grateful that Batman rarely has to face the cutlass of this goofily-named captain.

3. Penny Plunderer.
Joe Coyne was a newspaper seller who got caught pinching pennies from his customers. This was apparently all it took to drive him off the deep end, and he now commits crimes themed around coins...especially pennies. In fact, almost exclusively pennies. His reasoning? Well...the “coppers” caught him because of “coppers,” so he’ll use “coppers” to steal “coppers.” Yeah. That’s...that’s really stretching the pun there. That’s almost impressive. Almost. There’s not much else to say about this guy; he’s an over-the-top gangster-type of crook, not much else to him. He’s not very smart, he’s not very agile or strong...he’s just a fairly normal guy with a seedy moustache who wears a green pinstripe suit. Even his design is pretty boring! Give the other guys on this list credit, at least they LOOK interesting...not necessarily awesome, but interesting. Perhaps the most telling thing about how bad this guy is comes from his one great achievement...which is no longer even his. You all know about that giant penny in the Batcave right? Well, originally, that was the fault of the Penny Plunderer. Yeah. This guy was the reason Batman has that most epic of trophies. WAS. In the 1980s, the creative staff at DC decided to retcon this, and named Two-Face as the one responsible for it; this was further elaborated on in later stories, and even became a big part of the episode "Almost Got 'Im" from "Batman: The Animated Series." As a result, this guy - very literally - hasn’t even got a penny to his name. How fitting...and, in my opinion, how fortunate.

2. Crazy Quilt.
Real name: Paul Dekker. A former artist-turned-crook, this guy ended up becoming a supervillain when a fight with a rival criminal wound up causing him to go blind. When a surgeon tried to return his eyesight, something went wrong, and Dekker found everything looked blindingly bright and vivid in his eyes; the colors he saw were so garish and so ungodly that he literally went insane. He created a helmet to help him see better, which also allows him to hypnotize people, can shoot laser beams, and create flashes of bright light that blind other people, even though he can see just fine. He also stitched together a gaudy costume, apparently based around what we can only assume he sees 24/7 without that helmet. Using his “vast knowledge of colors” (no, really, that’s what he says), Dekker becomes Crazy Quilt, and things only get more embarrassingly strange from that point on. To make matters worse, Quilt gets defeated not really by Batman, but by Robin. Yes. Robin. As if things weren’t sad enough for the poor doofus. As a result, the flamboyant nut considers Robin his arch-foe. Isn’t it sad that while Batman gets villains like the Joker and Ra’s Al Ghul, his most loyal associate gets THIS dumb-ox for a nemesis? Quilt is a case where, even as a joke villain, the gag just doesn’t work. At least, not for me. Some people may argue differently, and I guess I can understand that; there is something of a “so bad it’s good” quality to the guy, but for me, he’s just too dimwitted, odd, and even obnoxious for me to truly enjoy. Not even “Batman: The Brave & the Bold” could really make him work!

But for as embarrassing as Crazy Quilt is, there's one villain who takes the "Lame Factor" to a whole new level...

1. Kite-Man.
His real name is Charlie Brown-FAIL. Fail. Epic fail. Yeah, there’s...there’s no coming back from that. But, for the sake of morbid curiosity, for all those of you DESPERATE to know who this MAGNIFICENT scoundrel is: Kite-Man (yeah, I won’t be using his alter ego; it’s even worse than his villain name) is a thieving dimwit who uses giant kites to fly around and commit crimes like a wannabe-Vulture-from-Spider-Man. We don’t really know his backstory, so one can only assume - given his real name - that he read way too many Peanuts comics as a kid, thought Batman was the tree that constantly ate the kites in the comics, and decided to take revenge for the papery, leafy slaughter. (I’m doing my best here, if you want to try and come up with a better origin, be my guest.) Kite-Man, much like Crazy Quilt, is another villain where, even as a joke, he just falls flat. He’s so laughably bad and so poorly developed that there’s nothing redeeming there at all. Again, some could argue that he’s one of those “so bad it’s good” cases, and, to a certain extent, I suppose that’s true - just hearing the name is enough to make one facepalm about fifty times. Once again, not even “Batman: The Brave & the Bold” could make him work; indeed, that show treated him as a running gag! WHO HONESTLY THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA?! There have been some bizarre gimmicks villains have come up with over the years - boomerangs, umbrellas, hats...but somehow kites just jump the shark of plausibility, seriousness, and enjoyability. He’s just too ridiculous to work in any way at all. I hear that, apparently, the recent storyline “War of Jokes & Riddles” (which I still need to read as I write this list) features him in a major role, and I can’t help but wonder if the knowledge he’s in that comic is the reason I haven’t read it yet. When the main villains are my top two Batman rogues, it’s the only immediate reason I can come up with...and if nothing else, that, alone, earns poor ol’ Kite-Man the top spot on my list of The Worst Batman Villains of All Time. (UPDATE: Thank you, "War of Jokes & Riddles." You did, in fact, come up with a surprisingly decent origin story for this guy. Doesn't save him from the number one spot, though.) Fly home, Charlie Brown; Snoopy misses you, and you’re hogging up the Red Baron’s airspace. GET OUT!

Dishonorable Mentions Include…
Polka-Dot Man.
Sometimes called Mr. Polka-Dot (which sounds like a children’s birthday clown), and with the real name of Abner Krill. (Whales must love him. For breakfast. I hope.) Not much is known about Krill’s background, but what we DO know is that he somehow got his hands on a very odd costume, covered in polka-dots which are able to come off and do all kinds of things. Now, to be fair...this guy’s powers actually aren’t that bad. Actually, there’s a lot of fun that can be had with colored spots and circles: portals that allow him to teleport, weapons such as buzzsaws and discs, flat hoverboards, circular bubbles, shields, and forcefields...it’s something simple yet offers a surprising amount of creativity. A shame that the guy just looks incredibly goofy, and doesn’t have an interesting origin or personality to back it up, since he’s not very bright, not very developed, and ultimately is just a run-of-the-mill thief. The fact that he tries to commit crimes somehow related to dots, circles, spots, spheres, etc. doesn’t give him much versatility, either. You really get the feeling this is a character who could really only work back in the Silver Age; his powers allow enough inventiveness that artists and writers can have some fun, but he’s just so silly on the whole that it’s really tough to make him anything close to a legitimate threat. I actually feel the guy has a bit of potential, but, perhaps for obvious reasons, it’s never been realized.

Jojo the Flinker.
Haven’t heard of him? There’s a reason. Jojo the Flinker (...just...just drink in that redonculous name...savor it…) was a character who appeared in the 1940s newspaper strips of Batman, in a storyline entitled “The Two-Bit Dictator of Twin Mills.” The story involved Batman & Robin going into Twin Mills - a town just outside Gotham City - which was being ruled by a mobster simply called Boss Tweed Wickham (himself a satire of Boss William M. Tweed, a corrupt politician from New York City), to help out a newspaper editor who was also a friend of Bruce Wayne, and whose life was in terrible danger due to his paper printing the truth about Wickham’s wily workings. While Wickham was the nominal villain of the story, and...yeah, he’s not too great either (he looks like he has a head made of mashed potatoes, and his personality is every pompous cow-brain known to man), it’s his main stooge, Jojo the Flinker, that takes the cake. Jojo is a Peter Lorre caricature (why they decided to make him so, I have no idea) who is basically a poor man’s Deadshot, from before Deadshot was even around. He’s an assassin who is so skilled with a pistol, he can shoot a bird from the hip when it’s flying 500 feet above. (Is that even physically possible with a semi-automatic pistol? I seriously don’t know, so if anyone can clear that up for me, I’d be delighted.) So, yeah, he has some mad skills, and making him look like Peter Lorre, if nothing else, is kind of eye-catching. However, he’s a very short and not very physically fit fellow, and once you take that gun away, he’s a complete coward and screw-up. Not only that, but...well...you’re probably wondering where the whole “Flinker” thing comes from, right? For some reason, he likes to say he “flinks” people when he kills them. “Right between the eyes - Flink!” Or, when talking about target practice, “Watch me Flink it!” Or when talking about a target, “Oughta be a hanger fer the Flink treatment!” WHY?! WHAT IS THE PURPOSE?! As far as I can tell, this isn’t a common slang term, or anything...if they wanted to create their own random slang word, why something as silly as “Flink”? Much like Polka-Dot Man and even the Ten-Eyed Man, Jojo the Flinker is a villain who had some potential, but the inexplicable goofiness around him just ruins it all. Jojo hasn’t appeared since the storyline from the newspaper strips, either, which probably makes him the most unknown villain of all these bozos. To be quite blunt, that’s likely for the best.

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You all know I love comic book baddies - most especially the baddies of Batman. The Caped Crusader has one of the greatest Rogues Galleries of any hero in any genre and any universe; a cadre of colorful, crazy, and creepy characters - Joker, Harley Quinn, Riddler, Catwoman, Penguin, and Poison Ivy, just to name a few - that have entertained, enthralled, and sometimes terrified fans for decades. But nothing is ever perfect; when you have a character who’s been around for almost 80 years now, not every story will be a gem, and not every antagonist will be as fun or engaging as the rest.
Comic books are a silly place at times - there’s no denying it, let’s face it - but some ideas and characters just go beyond the boundaries of any sense of logic or fascination, and just become too dumb, too bizarre, or just too ridiculous for us to thoroughly enjoy. Now, I won’t be counting “Joke Villains” here; for those who don’t know, these are characters who were either created specifically for the purpose of just being completely absurd and mockable, or else have found their home as characters meant for that purpose, and, as a result, have actually become more fun or interesting as a result. Note the words “fun and interesting;” there are some villains so stupid, they don’t even work as jokes, and that’s what this list is for. All the same, because of this, don’t expect to see characters like Condiment King or Killer Moth here. With that said...prepare to facepalm and ask the Gods of Gotham “Why?!” These are My Top 5 WORST Batman Villains.

5. Ten-Eyed Man.
The sad thing about the Ten-Eyed Man is that he actually has potential. No, seriously. The origins of the Ten-Eyed Man are actually sort of tragic, and start off in a surprisingly promising manner. His real name is Philip Reardon. A Vietnam vet, Phil went to work as a security guard for a fur factory. He’s actually a gifted fighter, and is able to bash any crooks who attack brutally. However, he ends up getting overpowered during a struggle with some thugs, who light a bomb. Batman pops up at just the wrong moment, and mistakes a just-then-regaining-consciousness Reardon for one of the felons, who flee the scene. Batman attacks Phil, somehow not noticing the explosive device, and when the bomb goes off, even though they both survive, poor Reardon ends up blinded. The thieves return later, and kidnap Reardon, planning to use his fighting abilities for their own greedy purposes. Now, at this point, this is actually a pretty compelling backstory. A former soldier, a talented combatant, on the side of law and order, who gets scarred by a tragic misunderstanding with Batman. This is an origin on par with such characters as Two-Face and Mr. Freeze, in my opinion. How could they screw this up? Well, here’s where things just get weird: an eye surgeon SOMEHOW manages to connect Philip’s optic nerves to his fingers, and this SOMEHOW allows him to see in ten different directions, as his fingers act as his eyes. And thus, what could have been a fascinating villain becomes a fascinating KLUTZ. The Ten-Eyed Man’s “power” is really a handicap! You smack his hands, and he can’t see. You throw mud on his hands, and he can’t see. You throw a cactus and he catches it...OH, THE PAIN. He’s a stumbling and manic annoyance rather than anything close to a threat. The pseudo-science behind his “power” is also just a bit too hard to swallow, even in the world of comics. For me, it’s the wasted potential in this guy that really makes me angry. If Philip Reardon had ended up being any villain BUT the Ten-Eyed Man, we might have had one of the greatest Batman rogues of all time. But instead, he ends up being a muckle nuisance and an embarrassment to Blackgate. The agonizing irony speaks for itself.

4. Captain Stingaree.
I love pirates. It’s no secret, nor any sort of surprise. A pirate-themed villain in Batman’s Rogues Gallery could be fun...in fact, he has one already. No, not Stingaree here, but the much-underrated Cavalier, who was made in the early days of Batman’s career, during the Golden Age of Comics. Stingaree, in contrast, came out in the more recent Bronze Age. Talk about being late to the party. Why the guys at DC decided to even concoct this nutball is beyond me; his real name is Karl Courtney, part of a family of quadruplets...and I guess that upbringing must have had some sort of weird effect on his briny brain, because he is under the impression that Batman is not one person, but three different people working together. In fact, he believes them to be his own brothers. His whole motivation is trying to prove exactly that. So...yeah. He’s a conspiracy nut who talks like Captain Hook and for no apparent reason hates his siblings. How intimidating. As if that’s not silly enough, he actually gets his alias from the role he plays at a pirate-themed restaurant, where he basically acts as both the mascot and the owner. Yeah. He doesn’t even have a secret identity; this is literally just the name he gets from being a public eccentric. Lazy, deluded in the most convoluted way, and inexplicably odd, I think many a DC fan is grateful that Batman rarely has to face the cutlass of this goofily-named captain.

3. Penny Plunderer.
Joe Coyne was a newspaper seller who got caught pinching pennies from his customers. This was apparently all it took to drive him off the deep end, and he now commits crimes themed around coins...especially pennies. In fact, almost exclusively pennies. His reasoning? Well...the “coppers” caught him because of “coppers,” so he’ll use “coppers” to steal “coppers.” Yeah. That’s...that’s really stretching the pun there. That’s almost impressive. Almost. There’s not much else to say about this guy; he’s an over-the-top gangster-type of crook, not much else to him. He’s not very smart, he’s not very agile or strong...he’s just a fairly normal guy with a seedy moustache who wears a green pinstripe suit. Even his design is pretty boring! Give the other guys on this list credit, at least they LOOK interesting...not necessarily awesome, but interesting. Perhaps the most telling thing about how bad this guy is comes from his one great achievement...which is no longer even his. You all know about that giant penny in the Batcave right? Well, originally, that was the fault of the Penny Plunderer. Yeah. This guy was the reason Batman has that most epic of trophies. WAS. In the 1980s, the creative staff at DC decided to retcon this, and named Two-Face as the one responsible for it; this was further elaborated on in later stories, and even became a big part of the episode "Almost Got 'Im" from "Batman: The Animated Series." As a result, this guy - very literally - hasn’t even got a penny to his name. How fitting...and, in my opinion, how fortunate.

2. Crazy Quilt.
Real name: Paul Dekker. A former artist-turned-crook, this guy ended up becoming a supervillain when a fight with a rival criminal wound up causing him to go blind. When a surgeon tried to return his eyesight, something went wrong, and Dekker found everything looked blindingly bright and vivid in his eyes; the colors he saw were so garish and so ungodly that he literally went insane. He created a helmet to help him see better, which also allows him to hypnotize people, can shoot laser beams, and create flashes of bright light that blind other people, even though he can see just fine. He also stitched together a gaudy costume, apparently based around what we can only assume he sees 24/7 without that helmet. Using his “vast knowledge of colors” (no, really, that’s what he says), Dekker becomes Crazy Quilt, and things only get more embarrassingly strange from that point on. To make matters worse, Quilt gets defeated not really by Batman, but by Robin. Yes. Robin. As if things weren’t sad enough for the poor doofus. As a result, the flamboyant nut considers Robin his arch-foe. Isn’t it sad that while Batman gets villains like the Joker and Ra’s Al Ghul, his most loyal associate gets THIS dumb-ox for a nemesis? Quilt is a case where, even as a joke villain, the gag just doesn’t work. At least, not for me. Some people may argue differently, and I guess I can understand that; there is something of a “so bad it’s good” quality to the guy, but for me, he’s just too dimwitted, odd, and even obnoxious for me to truly enjoy. Not even “Batman: The Brave & the Bold” could really make him work!

But for as embarrassing as Crazy Quilt is, there's one villain who takes the "Lame Factor" to a whole new level...

1. Kite-Man.
His real name is Charlie Brown-FAIL. Fail. Epic fail. Yeah, there’s...there’s no coming back from that. But, for the sake of morbid curiosity, for all those of you DESPERATE to know who this MAGNIFICENT scoundrel is: Kite-Man (yeah, I won’t be using his alter ego; it’s even worse than his villain name) is a thieving dimwit who uses giant kites to fly around and commit crimes like a wannabe-Vulture-from-Spider-Man. We don’t really know his backstory, so one can only assume - given his real name - that he read way too many Peanuts comics as a kid, thought Batman was the tree that constantly ate the kites in the comics, and decided to take revenge for the papery, leafy slaughter. (I’m doing my best here, if you want to try and come up with a better origin, be my guest.) Kite-Man, much like Crazy Quilt, is another villain where, even as a joke, he just falls flat. He’s so laughably bad and so poorly developed that there’s nothing redeeming there at all. Again, some could argue that he’s one of those “so bad it’s good” cases, and, to a certain extent, I suppose that’s true - just hearing the name is enough to make one facepalm about fifty times. Once again, not even “Batman: The Brave & the Bold” could make him work; indeed, that show treated him as a running gag! WHO HONESTLY THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA?! There have been some bizarre gimmicks villains have come up with over the years - boomerangs, umbrellas, hats...but somehow kites just jump the shark of plausibility, seriousness, and enjoyability. He’s just too ridiculous to work in any way at all. I hear that, apparently, the recent storyline “War of Jokes & Riddles” (which I still need to read as I write this list) features him in a major role, and I can’t help but wonder if the knowledge he’s in that comic is the reason I haven’t read it yet. When the main villains are my top two Batman rogues, it’s the only immediate reason I can come up with...and if nothing else, that, alone, earns poor ol’ Kite-Man the top spot on my list of The Worst Batman Villains of All Time. (UPDATE: Thank you, "War of Jokes & Riddles." You did, in fact, come up with a surprisingly decent origin story for this guy. Doesn't save him from the number one spot, though.) Fly home, Charlie Brown; Snoopy misses you, and you’re hogging up the Red Baron’s airspace. GET OUT!

Dishonorable Mentions Include…
Polka-Dot Man.
Sometimes called Mr. Polka-Dot (which sounds like a children’s birthday clown), and with the real name of Abner Krill. (Whales must love him. For breakfast. I hope.) Not much is known about Krill’s background, but what we DO know is that he somehow got his hands on a very odd costume, covered in polka-dots which are able to come off and do all kinds of things. Now, to be fair...this guy’s powers actually aren’t that bad. Actually, there’s a lot of fun that can be had with colored spots and circles: portals that allow him to teleport, weapons such as buzzsaws and discs, flat hoverboards, circular bubbles, shields, and forcefields...it’s something simple yet offers a surprising amount of creativity. A shame that the guy just looks incredibly goofy, and doesn’t have an interesting origin or personality to back it up, since he’s not very bright, not very developed, and ultimately is just a run-of-the-mill thief. The fact that he tries to commit crimes somehow related to dots, circles, spots, spheres, etc. doesn’t give him much versatility, either. You really get the feeling this is a character who could really only work back in the Silver Age; his powers allow enough inventiveness that artists and writers can have some fun, but he’s just so silly on the whole that it’s really tough to make him anything close to a legitimate threat. I actually feel the guy has a bit of potential, but, perhaps for obvious reasons, it’s never been realized.

Jojo the Flinker.
Haven’t heard of him? There’s a reason. Jojo the Flinker (...just...just drink in that redonculous name...savor it…) was a character who appeared in the 1940s newspaper strips of Batman, in a storyline entitled “The Two-Bit Dictator of Twin Mills.” The story involved Batman & Robin going into Twin Mills - a town just outside Gotham City - which was being ruled by a mobster simply called Boss Tweed Wickham (himself a satire of Boss William M. Tweed, a corrupt politician from New York City), to help out a newspaper editor who was also a friend of Bruce Wayne, and whose life was in terrible danger due to his paper printing the truth about Wickham’s wily workings. While Wickham was the nominal villain of the story, and...yeah, he’s not too great either (he looks like he has a head made of mashed potatoes, and his personality is every pompous cow-brain known to man), it’s his main stooge, Jojo the Flinker, that takes the cake. Jojo is a Peter Lorre caricature (why they decided to make him so, I have no idea) who is basically a poor man’s Deadshot, from before Deadshot was even around. He’s an assassin who is so skilled with a pistol, he can shoot a bird from the hip when it’s flying 500 feet above. (Is that even physically possible with a semi-automatic pistol? I seriously don’t know, so if anyone can clear that up for me, I’d be delighted.) So, yeah, he has some mad skills, and making him look like Peter Lorre, if nothing else, is kind of eye-catching. However, he’s a very short and not very physically fit fellow, and once you take that gun away, he’s a complete coward and screw-up. Not only that, but...well...you’re probably wondering where the whole “Flinker” thing comes from, right? For some reason, he likes to say he “flinks” people when he kills them. “Right between the eyes - Flink!” Or, when talking about target practice, “Watch me Flink it!” Or when talking about a target, “Oughta be a hanger fer the Flink treatment!” WHY?! WHAT IS THE PURPOSE?! As far as I can tell, this isn’t a common slang term, or anything...if they wanted to create their own random slang word, why something as silly as “Flink”? Much like Polka-Dot Man and even the Ten-Eyed Man, Jojo the Flinker is a villain who had some potential, but the inexplicable goofiness around him just ruins it all. Jojo hasn’t appeared since the storyline from the newspaper strips, either, which probably makes him the most unknown villain of all these bozos. To be quite blunt, that’s likely for the best.