#6 Other Batman Villains Who Deserve Their Own HBO Max Series

R’as al Ghul is probably the scariest and most powerful Batman villain aside from The Joker. While his story has been told in part on the big screen in “Batman Begins” in 2005 where he was played by Liam Neeson, his full arc is only explored in the comics and animated television series. R’as al Ghul is a criminal mastermind who founds the League of Assassins, which later splinters into other groups including the League of Shadows. R’as uses the Lazarus Pits to make himself nearly immortal, and as such, has lived for hundreds of years. He is a martial arts and military tactical expert, and a born leader. 

The Pitch: While many of these supervillains are best served by taking them back to their origins, an ideal R’as al Ghul series begins with him already as the leader of the League of Assassins, trying to keep balance in the world through whatever means necessary. Within the organization, rumors swirl about a League of Shadows secretly organized by R’as al Ghul to do the work too dirty for even the Assassins. Tensions within the League rise, and soon R’as finds himself fighting for power with Shiva, his former acolyte turned head of the League of Shadows. 

Highlight Episode: Sandra Wu-San, one of R’as’s closest allies and confidants, discovers that the League of Shadows is real and that R’as intends to use it to stop mankind from its path of repeated destruction. She begins taking over the League from the inside, revealing herself at the end of the episode as Shiva, a supervillain based on the Hindu god of destruction and chaos.