The funniest possible DC Villain friendship occurred to me when I saw a panel from a comic about Killer Croc that featured him muzzled and chained up;
(Joker’s Asylum: Killer Croc #1)
I mean, it definitely makes sense considering he’s literally a crocodile man and thus has significantly enhanced bite strength, but what that lead me to was remembering that there’s actually another Batman villain that canonically is muzzled when taken into custody;
The Music Meister is, obviously, also a metahuman who has to be muzzled when taken into custody, and most likely when in Arkham as well; his powers are activated by singing, so they can’t exactly let him just hypnotize whoever he wants by letting him speak whenever he wants.
I don’t know, I just find it inherently amusing to imagine that Waylon and Darius could like, be muzzle buddies, lmao.
It’s pretty dark thing to bond over, but honestly, anything involving forced incarceration in Arkham is going to be pretty dark by necessity, y’know?
But there’s just a level of comedy to imagining one of Batman’s campiest villains bonding with one of the more dark and broody ones, and think it’s fun to imagine them being… well, I don’t know if they would necessarily be best friends or anything (though that could be pretty great), but certainly comrades, able to commiserate on their shared humiliation from a world that fears what they were born with, although for different reasons and in different ways.
There’s also some level of me that’s always invested in how Arkham works and deals with their inmates, obviously the answer is terribly, but in what ways they’re terrible, how do they deal with metahumans, etc?
How do you deal with an inmate that’s a human crocodile stronger than ten men? How to deal with a man who could crush your bones in his jaws if given the chance?
How to deal with an inmate who’s got the power to control you with his voice? How to feed an inmate like that without giving him the chance to control you? That kind of thing must be hard, and I’ve got questions!
