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Warning : Contains spoilers forDC vs. Vampires : Hunters # 1
Gotham offence bossBlack Maskhas officially been call out for deliver the unfit catch of any villain inBatman ’s rogues ' gallery . The Dark Knight has faced villain with some of the most flakey gimmicks in comics , from iconic mainstays like Two - Face and his two faces to dizzy one - offs like the Condiment King . No matter how odd though , the thingmabob are what draws fans to having an appreciation for them and recognizing who they are just by look 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 , papistic Sionis akaBlack Mask made his first appearanceinBatman # 386 . He ’s well eff as a deadly mobster with a fixation on torture and cause pain . He ’s murdered countless masses since his first appearance in horrific way such as poisoning them with hand-crafted mask and cutting off faces . Sionis is certainly not someone a citizen of Gotham would want to get tangle up with in the offence humanity . The problem though is he has the weakest catch of any of his criminal opposer . The element that makes Black Mask known throughout the criminal underworld is … his black masquerade party . That ’s it . He put on 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 foeman .
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Black Mask ’s gimmick was late called out in the one - off specialDC vs. Vampires : Huntersby Matthew Rosenberg and Neil Googe . In the main serial for the vampiric DC invasion , multiple DC heroes and villain are testify to have their vampire frame neuter what they ’re known for and used to their advantage . Black Mask , on the other hired hand , is just an ordinary person with a black skull masquerade , so what does he do to show he ’s a lamia ? He just lay vampire teeth on the masquerade . It ’s so absurd that even Robin ca n’t help himself , calling him " a glorified janitor with a sappy mask on . " There ’s just not much to his gimmick that warrants him give birth a cool vampire form .
DC has tried to rectify Black Mask since the New 52 began to make him stand out more . Black Mask has been give superpowerslike hypnosis and the power to take the strain of other heroes minus their powers . Still , it ’s not enough because he does n’t have much to accompany the masquerade that he fag out . To the vampires in the DC universe , he ’s see as less because he does n’t have as much potential drop as a vampiric hero or villain with strong big businessman . They even make him the official receptionist that Damian must get through for speak to Nightwing , bringing him down from his offence boss status and essentially testify that he ’s view more as carom fodder that can warn them of danger . His vampiric abilities ca n’t enhance a gimmick that essentially just makes him a normal lamia with a mask on , so it ’s salutary to make him a pawn rather than something of import .
Later in the one - guesswork , it ’s shown that Nightwing’sreservations about Black Mask being outsmartedare guarantee as Damian manages to punt him without a scrap . Since Black Mask ’s masquerade is principally there to just impress veneration , it does nothing to hold him from being easily stamp out by Robin . Adding some vampire Fang to the masquerade party did n’t stop up help him because it ’s just an accessory . Black Maskmay be an intimidating baddie that is fell and wo n’t let his victims pass away easy , but he still has the worst gimmick of anyBatmanvillain because of his centering on the mask .
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