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DC 30 Days Meme
Day Two: Favourite Villain
It all depends whether you consider Jason a villain or not, now, doesn't it? I tend not to. I see him as an antagonist and an anti-hero, and certainly, someone who fills the villain role in most things he appears in, but for some reason I'm still reluctant to call him an all out and out villain. I wouldn't call him a hero either, for what it's worth. Word of God sez he's a villain, though, so maybe I'm just in denial, but comics are a media where differing interpretations are part of canon, so...

Ruling Jason out, I don't know how to answer this question at all. I like most villains just fine, either as villains either as characters in their own right, and I'm much more invested in the good guys. The Batfamily gets enough ambiguity as it is without me needing to go look for it in the villains, you know? I love most of the Bat rogues. Joker, Two-Face, the Penguin, Riddler... Out of the Gotham villains, I haven't read enough to be one hundred percent certain, but I like Luthor a lot. I like Deathstroke, as well. I like Ra's and Talia when she's not written as an evil rapist.

I'm probably going to go with the Joker, because I'm original like that and I like the symbol.

Generally speaking, though, I prefer stories where the enemy to be defeated isn't one villain, but some other, less definable force: the corruption and loneliness of Blühaven, the cold and slow madness of No Man's Land, Bruce's most recent crisis of unhelpfulness, the difficulty of being a cop in Gotham, time ticking down the clock to the next murder, the one-time non-costumed bad guy who is so hard to find and whose acts resonate like horror in the protagonist's mind. The most striking among this last sort of villain that I can remember off the top of my mind are the villain in Batman: Gotham Knights #1 and the one in the Dead Robin arc of Gotham Central.

the rest of the days:
Day One: Favourite Character
Day Three: Favourite Team
Day Four: Favourite Family
Day Five: Favourite Civilian/Non-Masked Character
Day Six: Favourite Title
Day Seven: Favourite Writer
Day Eight: Favourite Artist
Day Nine: First Title You Were Hooked On
Day Ten: A Title You Wish You Could Bring Back
Day Eleven: Favourite Romance
Day Twelve: Favourite Friendship
Day Thirteen: Favourite Enmity/Rivalry
Day Fourteen: Favourite Legacy Character
Day Fifteen: Team-Up You'd Like To See
Day Sixteen: Favourite Live-Action Adaptation
Day Seventeen: Favourite Animated Adaptation
Day Eighteen: Favourite TV Episode
Day Nineteen: Favourite Game
Day Twenty: Favourite Fanwork
Day Twenty-One: Favourite Power
Day Twenty-Two: Favourite Costume
Day Twenty-Three: Favourite Weapon
Day Twenty-Four: Favourite Vehicle/Method Of Transportation
Day Twenty-Five: Favourite Crossover Event
Day Twenty-Six: Favourite Mini or OGN
Day Twenty-Seven: Favourite Elseworld
Day Twenty-Eight: Most Memorable Death
Day Twenty-Nine: Most Welcomed Retcon
Day Thirty: If I Could Undo Anything...