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What can you say about Superman that hasn’t already been said by every newspaper, TV news show, podcast and blog around? He’s the world’s greatest Super Hero, with powers that include super-strength, flight, invulnerability, heat vision, X-ray vision, freezing breath, super-ventriloquism, and a whole lot more. He may have originally come from Krypton, but no hero has saved the Earth more times. He’s friendly, kind, generous and humble…not to mention Batman’s main rival and possible arch-enemy! Bat-Fact: His biggest power is somehow making that red cape not look goofy. No, I take it back. It does look goofy.

The Laughing Lunatic. The Clown Prince of Crime. Batman’s greatest enemy. That’s how The Joker sees himself. With his white skin, green hair and constant grin, this villain has made it his life’s goal to cure Gotham City’s all-so-serious grimness and gloom. He might break the law, but he really just wants to make people smile…and to rule the city…and to get Batman to finally admit that he is his greatest enemy. Is that too much for a super-villain to ask? Bat-Fact: Never laughs at Harley Quinn’s jokes.

Once an actor on the edge of obscurity, Basil Karlo was exposed to an experimental chemical compound that transformed him into the shape-changing Clayface. While his body may resemble a monstrous mass of mud-like clay, he can twist and reshape it to form weapons and other objects, and even imitate the appearances of other people. You never know when the ordinary minifigure next to you might be Clayface in disguise! Bat-Fact: Once played every role in a production of Shakespeare’s “Macbrick”…badly.

Every good super-team should have an animal sidekick, and Wonder Dog is the Justice League’s. This crime-sniffing canine may not have any significant super-powers (beyond the ones a regular dog has, anyway), but when it’s time for the League to party down, he puts his paws up on the turntables and mixes up a mean beat as the world’s most doggedly good DJ! Bat-Fact: I’ve been thinking about getting a dog. I’ll bet he’d be a real ace at helping me catch Catwoman.

Jim Gordon has devoted his entire life to serving and protecting the people of Gotham City. Starting as a simple beat cop, he worked his way up to detective, and finally to Commissioner of the Gotham City Police Department. After a long and celebrated career of cooperation with the city’s top Super Hero, Jim is finally ready to retire and go on a South African jungle safari but he feels confident in leaving the job in his daughter’s capable hands. Bat-Fact: Has had the same mustache since childhood.

Dr. Pamela Isley used to be a botanist, but her obsession with plants led her to become the super-villain Poison Ivy, using her powers over all things green and growing to try to transform Gotham City into a vegetable paradise free of humans and other pesky animals. Her toxin-infused body is immune to all poisons, and the effects of her kiss can range from mesmerizing to worse. Bat-Fact: Her middle name is Daisy.

Hawkgirl’s awesome ability to fly comes from Nth metal, a mystical and otherworldly material that defies gravity and lets this Justice League heroine soar on her bird-like wings. She’s ferocious in battle, swooping in to defeat villains and then carrying them off to prison. As a member of the Justice League, she fearlessly patrols the sky in search of trouble, though she does have to watch out for flocks of passing geese. Bat-Fact: Hawkgirl is the reincarnation of an ancient Egyptian princess. Or maybe she’s an alien space-cop. I can’t keep track of all of these origins.

Night-stalking crime-fighting vigilante. A heavy metal rapping machine. Super Hero. Master Builder. Batman is all of those and so much more. Equipped with a utility belt packed with Batarangs, grappling-guns and other inventions, and backed up by a Batcave full of cutting-edge vehicles and batsuits, Batman has sworn to forever defend the citizens of Gotham City against crooks and super-villains. Batman ALWAYS works alone. He’s also got a really sweet music career going, thanks for asking. Bat-Fact: Batman thinks his roommate, Bruce Wayne, is a super-cool guy.

Silent, mysterious and seemingly identical, the masked Kabuki Twins are employed as bodyguards and enforcers by the Penguin (unusually for him, they are neither bird- nor umbrella-themed). Their martial arts abilities, coordinated attacks and razor-sharp finger-blades make them a dangerous double threat to anyone who wants to reach their squawking boss in one piece. Bat-Fact: Unlike other twins, have never been known to finish each other’s sentences.

Back in the faraway land of Oz, the Wicked Witch had a legion of winged monkeys to carry out her wicked will. Now that she’s free in Gotham City, her simian minions have been unleashed once more to wreak havoc and cause mischief wherever they fly. Completely loyal, they obey the commands of their mistress without question, and also without much brainpower. When the weather forecast calls for flying monkeys, remember to pack an umbrella! Bat-Fact: More dangerous than flying hamsters, less dangerous than flying snake-clowns.

The Laughing Lunatic. The Clown Prince of Crime. Batman’s greatest enemy. That’s how The Joker sees himself. With his white skin, green hair and constant grin, this villain has made it his life’s goal to cure Gotham City’s all-so-serious grimness and gloom. He might break the law, but he really just wants to make people smile…and to rule the city…and to get Batman to finally admit that he is his greatest enemy. Is that too much for a super-villain to ask? Bat-Fact: Never laughs at Harley Quinn’s jokes.

Well-meaning zoologist Dr. Kirk Langstrom was trying to cure deafness when he gave himself an injection of bat DNA. Instead, the experimental serum transformed him into a creature that was half-bat and half-minifigure, giving him wings and extra strength, but the mind and instincts of a wild animal. When on the loose, he can still be a real pest to Batman and the citizens of Gotham City. Bat-Fact: Batman has some concerns about brand-name confusion.