This guy makes Joker look sane. Why is he fairly off the radar as a recurring Bat villain?

This guy makes Joker look sane. Why is he fairly off the radar as a recurring Bat villain?

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Too violent for the mainstream.

Can't sell serial killer pyjamas to kids. At least with the Joker you can reimagine him as le wacky society clown man.

Too much of a one note villain. With The Joker you can have him do almost anything.

He's also boring, in comparison.

"bruh life doesn't matter so i'm killing everyone with a knife and then putting a tally on my body look at all my tallies i've killed so many people woah"

The best batman villains either have a really fun gimmick or they're somehow grounded and compelling. Zsasz is the worst of both worlds, a stupis edgelord.

you got that right. This guy is fucking way too scary for a Batman villain.

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Also, Professor Pyg is way worse, both in insanity and inappropriateness.

Because he's boring and generic. It's hard to write a unique and interesting psycho who's obsesssion is interesting, captivating or even disturbing, instead of obnoxious. But maybe it's just that I'm completely numb to these types of characters nowadays so I'm just naturally dismissive of them.

Pyg's gimmick of turning people into "dolls" is so horrifying it makes him more fun to work with, though. He's genuinely scary as opposed to Zsasz who only differentiates himself from a one-shot generic serial killer who only exists to get beaten up by his tally gimmick.

Not to say that it wouldn't be terrifying if you ran into a dude like zsasz, he's just too boring while surrounded by dudes like riddler and joker while being juuust too ridiculous to work as a genuine serial killer.

As usual, it just takes a certain kind of writer to make certain characters work and become popular, because the same was said for most of the A list Bat rouges in the past. I did like how Zsasz was handled in Arkham City, going in that direction of turning his sprees into a race against time for Bats on an increasingly escalating scale could be fun.

Zsasz and Pyg are actually insane whereas Joker isn't. They're too "real" for a widespread audience

Why not skin him so he cant do the marks anymore?

Based on that image, Zsasz might actually have a higher body count than the Joker. He hasn't received the death penalty and nobody has killed him yet, but you don't see any fans whining about why Batman doesn't kill Zsasz.

he'll find a way

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I like Dr. Rot
His enthusiasm is infectious

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Zsasz would be cool if he did something like wear other people's skin for clothing.

I used to follow this chick who wrote a ton of zsasz fanfic that was actually breddy good. Can’t remember her username now though, no clue what happened to her.

Ed Kemper is a lot scarier than this guy.

I agree.
Gordon should rape him instead

because he's literally just a serial killer without any fantastical gimmick

He is beaten easily

user, Joker once gassed an entire broadway magic show in a single issue, he’s killed all the students of 2 different schools in canon and he temporarily killed everyone in the multiverse once.