James Gunn is the man in charge of the DC cinematic universe. If his work on the Suicide Squad movie is anything to go by, you can expect him to throw some curveballs when it comes to which characters he decides to use and which he does not.
The focus on characters like Polka-Dot Man shows that James Gunn has a love for the more obscure and quirky characters, but there are some that even he’s unlikely to ever bring to the big screen. Read below to see which characters you’ll never see, probably.
The criteria for this is characters too obscure and niche to have any value in the DC cinematic universe, or those who simply wouldn’t translate well to the silver screen.
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Humpty Dumpty
There’s No Putting This Together
The Batman villain Humpty Dumpty never stood a chance, not when his real name is Humphry Dumpler. Being a nursery rhyme themed villain was inevitable at that point. Humphry is a large man obsessed with taking things apart and putting them together again. Including people.
The reason you’re unlikely to see him is that this stems from his diminished mental capacity. Handling a topic like that sensitively isn’t easy, and the risk isn’t worth the reward for a niche character like this.
A televised episode of Humpty Dumpty did appear in an episode of Beware the Batman, but he had none of the signature traits except for the appearance, so he hardly counts as the same character.
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Dogwelder
An Irredeemably Bad Concept
It’s hard to know where to even start with this. Dogwelder, real name unknown, was a so-called superhero who would weld dead dogs to criminals. Yes, you read that correctly, and no it doesn’t even make sense.
Dogwelder was part of the Section Eight team, which was full of questionable characters. Dogwelder has to be one of the most baffling, though. There’s simply no way to make this palatable for a modern audience.
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Egg Fu
Too Racist To Show
The version of the character being discussed here is so racist that his image shouldn’t be shared, so instead you can enjoy the modern take on Edgar Fullerton Yeung who is substantially less problematic.
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The original, dubbed Egg Fu, was a giant egg from China with racist features. He spoke like a racist stereotype, mixed in with awful egg puns, and is a truly baffling character from a different time.
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Penny Plunderer
Think Bigger Buddy
Joe Coyne is a Batman villain who themes his crimes exclusively around pennies and the theft of them, which is both very specific and very difficult to make a decent amount of money doing. He has no other distinguishing features or traits.
With nothing worth showing on screen, you’re unlikely to see Joe Coyne. You may see, however, the giant penny often shown in the Batcave as one of Batman’s many souvenirs, which came from an attempt Joe made to steal it.
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Dumb Bunny
It’s In Her Name
Some character tropes deserve to fade away and never see use again, one of which is the idea of the unintelligent blonde woman. The character Dumb Bunny, real name Athena Tremor, exemplifies that trope.
A woman of incredible strength and an incredible lack of intelligence, she serves as a symbol of a time when interesting female characters effectively didn’t exist in comics, nor were they welcome. Modern audiences would rightfully reject her.
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Ser Percival Orifice
Tape Of The Wyrm
Ser Percival Orifice, Tape of the Wyrm, is a giant sentient tapeworm that identifies as a chivalrous knight who lives inside Guts, a woman who is a living mass of intestines. That might just be the strangest sentence you’ll ever read.
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There’s something bizarrely interesting about Ser Percival, but the steps required to introduce him in a movie for a very uncertain payoff means you’re not likely to see him anytime soon. He’s too strange and not a well-known character at all.
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Mister Camera
Needs Film But No Movies
Mister Camera is the worst thing a character can be—boring. It’s like he was made in a panic as someone needed to come up with a new villain and said the first thing they saw. His gimmick, unsurprisingly, is cameras.
The only really notable thing about him is the giant camera he wears on his head, but that’s not enough to make him worthy of a movie appearance. His camera-themed crimes are almost as dull as he is.
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Mister ZZZ
Putting Audiences To Sleep
You might think a villain called Mister ZZZ had the power to put people asleep, but his whole gimmick is that he has a unique form of narcolepsy. It renders him always asleep, but awake at the same time, so he’s constantly sleepwalking, kind of?
This is such a convoluted concept, and Mister ZZZ is such an obscure character that you’ll never see him in a DC movie. Even if you did, he’s functionally just a normal person who seems to be asleep but isn’t, so there’s nothing to show.
