The Baddies We'd Love to See in Batman: Arkham Knight

“You are young, but destined for great things,” writes Thomas Wayne in his last will and testament to his son, Bruce, in the trailer for Warner Bros. Interactive and Rocksteady Games’ upcoming “Batman: Arkham Knight.” “Make the most of your opportunities. Use them to give back to a city that has given us so much, to change the lives of millions of people. Do not be frivolous… with this.”

It is a spectacularly dramatic sequence. Spoiler alert: Bruce is Batman, the Caped Crusader of Gotham City. The fact that Bruce has used his father’s fortune to build up a different type of empire — one that fights crime with high-tech gadgetry and expensive battlesuits — seems to hold a significant importance in Rocksteady’s finale for the “Arkham” series, which is on its way to Xbox One.

So, has Bruce made good choices? Was it all a gamble?

There are a few things we know: Its new villain is the titular Arkham Knight. Batman will get to drive the Batmobile for the first time in the series. Gotham City will be at his disposal. Mainstay villains like Penguin, Two-Face, and Harley Quinn are reportedly reuniting to face down Batman one last time (spoiler: they’ll probably lose). But as the series has handily proven, Rocksteady’s “Batman” games are opportunities to bring in all sorts of characters from the titular character’s lore. So, we humbly submit a list of villains that we think would help make “Arkham Knight” a memorable final act.

Clock King

This is a character that can be done well. Don’t be fooled by the fact that his real name is William Tockman, or that he’s sported glasses with clock faces on them, a necktie with clocks on it, and a sword shaped like a clock’s arm. Yes, Clock King likes clocks; dig a little deeper, and you’ll see a criminal mind at play. He’s someone who understands meticulous planning, and can use that to his advantage in the eternal game of chess that rages between hero and villain. Even Batman needed a reboot, so Clock King can get his here. In fact, he recently was shown to be a badass, hardcore opponent in a recent episode of the CW’s “Arrow,” hacking into a train system to create a bus collision — just as a diversion to his greater plan. If Batman has all of Gotham City available to him, so does Clock King. Imagine what he can do with it.

Mad Hatter

This one’s a gimme, and shouldn’t be too much work, since he’s already made appearances in both “Batman: Arkham City” and “Batman: Arkham Origins.” Mad Hatter’s side mission in “Arkham City,” where you’re bound and facing the man down as a spooky silhouette at a tea party, is far more horrifying than… well, most other things in Batman’s universe. The sequence that follows it, where Batman wears a floppy bunny mask and is besieged by muscular bunny-men on a falling clock, is pretty dang bizarre, memorable, and haunting. A full-on boss fight dedicated …read more