Mr. Freeze And The Ventriloquist Join GOD OF WAR Art Director's Gallery Of BATMAN: TAS Characters

Mr. Freeze And The Ventriloquist Join GOD OF WAR Art Director's Gallery Of BATMAN: TAS Characters

Raf Grassetti continues to share his designs for characters from the classic Batman: The Animated Series, and Mr. Freeze and The Ventriloquist (with Scarface) have now been added to the villainous lineup.

By MarkCassidy - Apr 08, 2020 09:04 AM EST
Filed Under: Batman (Animated)

God of War art director Raf Grassetti has been sharing some awesome designs for characters from the classic Batman: The Animated Series to his Instagram page, and he's now added two more villains to his series of portraits.

Joining Joker, Harley Quinn, Two-Face, Scarecrow, Bane, Killer Croc, Penguin, Clayface, Man-Bat, Catwoman and Phantasm, we have icy Bat-baddie Mr. Freeze, and The Ventriloquist alongside the real criminal mastermind of the operation, Scarface.

Freeze has made it to the small screen in both live-action and animated form, but the only movie version we've seen was Arnold Schwarzenegger's disastrous take in Batman and Robin, so it's fair to say the character is due a revamp. The Ventriloquist has mostly been depicted as a secondary villain over the years, but Matt Reeves seems to be fond of some of The Dark Knight's minor foes, so we may see him on the big screen at some point.

Batman: The Animated Series is an American superhero animated television series based on the DC Comics superhero Batman. Developed by Bruce Timm, Paul Dini, and Mitch Brian, and produced by Warner Bros. Animation, it originally aired on Fox Kids from September 5, 1992, to September 15, 1995, with a total of 85 episodes. For the final fifteen episodes, the series was given the on-screen title The Adventures of Batman & Robin, which was also used for reruns of earlier episodes. The series became the first in the continuity of the shared DC animated universe; spawning further animated TV series, feature films, comic books and video games with most of the same creative talent.

Grassetti has decided to focus on the villains first, but he assures us that there's "just a couple more" to go before he starts on the heroes.

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Saintsinnister
Saintsinnister - 4/8/2020, 10:00 AM
Mr. Freeze has the best story of the animated series.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 4/8/2020, 10:02 AM
@Saintsinnister - shame he hasn't been adapted right on the big screen yet
Nightwing1015
Nightwing1015 - 4/8/2020, 10:05 AM
@Saintsinnister - Yeah Heart of Ice is great.

My personal favourite episode though was always that Mad Hatter dream episode. Love the rage Bruce has at the end.

Saintsinnister
Saintsinnister - 4/8/2020, 10:08 AM
@BlackBeltJones - That would be a good story to tell in a series form. Imagine if someone had the insight to have a show that built up to a movie every few years?
THEDARKKNIGHT1939
THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - 4/8/2020, 10:11 AM
@Saintsinnister - So much so that it won an Emmy.
Origame
Origame - 4/8/2020, 10:01 AM
Look, i love what batman tas did with mr freeze, and the design is classic, but i feel the glass part is too small. Like he wont be able to move his head much.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 4/8/2020, 10:03 AM
Wanna see him done right on the big screen so bad
Moriakum
Moriakum - 4/8/2020, 10:03 AM
Reeds2Much
Reeds2Much - 4/8/2020, 10:05 AM
Arnold Schwarzenegger's disastrous

You spelled "spectacular" wrong.
WaffeX
WaffeX - 4/8/2020, 10:06 AM
Mr. Freeze looks like Mark Strong

great art
Dredd97
Dredd97 - 4/8/2020, 10:08 AM
It's about time we got a tragic Mr. Freeze story. I had this idea for a Batman movie a while back, where it's a bunch of like 15-20 minute vignettes so we could see Batman do a case-by-case thing, and allow it to have smaller stories and villains that can't hold a whole movie. So a Mr. Freeze segment, a Killer Croc one, a Clayface segment, maybe a Two-Face or a Man-Bat one. It's a fun idea, but they'd never do it.
vegetaray
vegetaray - 4/8/2020, 7:12 PM
@SmokingMan - This actually sounds like a great idea...

Though I’d argue both the Mr. Freeze and Clayface could certainly hold a story themselves...
Dredd97
Dredd97 - 4/9/2020, 6:46 AM
@vegetaray - Hey, thanks! Yeah, but my vision for a movie length Mr. Freeze movie is he has some doomsday device where he can turn everything into eternal winter, which is not in character at all lol. I suppose Clayface could
FleischerSupes
FleischerSupes - 4/8/2020, 10:08 AM
IronGenesis
IronGenesis - 4/8/2020, 10:08 AM
I can’t decide

John Malkovich as an old ventriloquist
Or
Ryan gosling as a young ventriloquist
GhostDog
GhostDog - 4/8/2020, 10:15 AM
L0RDbuckethead
L0RDbuckethead - 4/8/2020, 2:39 PM
@BlackBeltJones - THIS
FleischerSupes
FleischerSupes - 4/8/2020, 5:27 PM
@BlackBeltJones - Totally, because the voice is like 90% of his creepy/cool and Drivers got a good voice
THEDARKKNIGHT1939
THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - 4/8/2020, 10:15 AM
Ventriloquist looks great.

A little too much creative liberties on the Freeze one.
KWilly
KWilly - 4/8/2020, 10:16 AM
THEDARKKNIGHT1939
THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - 4/8/2020, 10:17 AM
The two best Batman movies of all time right here:

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