Batman Villain Terrifying Glow Up! | Ten Eyed Man
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- Batman Villains go through many phases and some start off quite silly. Enter the Ten-Eyed Man a villain with eyes on his fingertips. Can such a silly concept be salvaged? Arkham City: The Order Of The World is giving it a go. Come join Casually Comics as we explore the history of Philip Reardon. From his silver/bronze age origin to his death in Crisis On Infinite Earths to his new 52 form, to rebirth, and now Infinite Frontier? Are you a fan of the Ten Eyed Man?
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In one of the DC animated short, which featured Lois persistently stalking Batman for an interview. One of her question is "Who's the scariest villain you've ever fought?" And his answer was the Ten-eyed Man.
Don't forget the most pathetic, Killermoth
@@GueyDuck13 yeah if your protégé team(teen titans) can beat you then no brainer
That’s why I searched him up because I never hard f him except from that😂
Still why?
@@spider-man5729 I actually remember that shirt bring hilarious to me omg the dejavu
I really like the idea of playing with the different forms of perception in the newest version. It also makes him more logically dangerous as opposed to the previous "trust me he's so big and strong with his weird hand eyes" silver age explanation.
Then you’ll love Eyeboy from the X-men, he’s the concept taken to the best ends.
Yes, I love the concept of the eyes with unique abilities.
Like maybe he studies pressure points because he can use some kind of sonar to target specific joints/veins/etc
"Show, don't tell."
They keep telling us how dangerous he is, yet when it comes time to show it, he gets defeated so easily.
He's like a DBZ character that's been over exaggerated
The eight year old in me is wondering if The Ten Eyed Man would have an easier time picking his nose, or if it would be too dark for him to see 🤔
OK but you bring up a good point
Yes... 8...
The whole thing stops and falls over with a question... "What about going to the toilet?" I don't care what you may think, be honest, toilet paper becomes, at this point, a thing to fear.
Maybe he has a bidet lol
That's was my immediate thought. What would he see/happen to wipe his butt?
@@elizabethw.6154 nothing, the TP would 'blindfold' him... which is a saving grace
.... why did you do this to us?
Many years ago when I first heard of him, that was my very first thought.
I can see ten eyed man's potential if the writers stick to the extrasensory powers route. Just having the ability of seeing trough all of your fingertips would be more of a disadvantage imo.
As a concept I just can't see it, can't see it, can't see it, can't see it, can't see it, can't see it, can't see it, can't see it, can't see it, well maybe.
"The jokes are there...I can see them" I'm guessing one of the middle fingers would detect sarcasm like this!
I absolutely love the concept that each eye has a different perception of reality, allowing him to see thoughts, truth, emotions, etc.
Seeing EVERYTHING. From basic sight, to microscopic, to x-ray, to thoughts and feelings, to the soul, to the very fabric of reality. Maybe even slightly manipulate it as well.
i like actual eyes on his fingers, and the fact that he was experimented on. I feel like they should make him a body horror oriented villain, maybe he could physically make people see like him.
They could solve a lot of problems by just replacing his fingernails with light sensitive panels instead of putting "eyes" on his finger tips. He would still have his vision and grip things. And in true comic book logic, the light panels could also shoot you beams of energy.
I was curious until you said finger lasers. I'm in. Because lasers are cool
Marvel, DC...hire this personn as an editor!
Surprised they haven’t done that to make him useful in combat.
I mean, since currently his only power is 'seeing better, sometimes', they really could've made him into some form of sniper archetype. The could just gave him a gun for very much a similar form of approach to finger lasers (minus the laser fun, I guess).
@@gabrieljoseozanan6989 I’m thinking of him as being a Big Brother is Watching You type of character.
Has anyone considered that the *real* reason Ten-Eyed Man commits crimes, is to pay for all that much-needed Visine?
That's been my idea for his backstory since I first learned about him.
70's kid here. In regards to TEM's (Ten Eyed Man) origins: The way I remember it, Skyjackings were constantly in the News back in the 70's (but not to wartime Vietnam! Freaking loon). Between that and all the Wartime Vietnam references, the writers seemed to really want 70's Batman to be "hip" and "topical". But this was probably after Denny O'neil Batman revamp so that might explain all that. They were trying to keep up a theme.
It also occurrs to me that the Ten Eyed Man is both a Vietnam Vet and a Mercenary. If he was a Marvel character he'd of had a series of mini series in the 80's.
The Highjackers were commies always going to cuba.
@@blackrazer22 Lotta stuff in northern Africa too IIRC
Even while on my deathbed suffering through COVID, I’m still seeing the wacky villains from Batman
Hope you make a fast recovery!
@@monaqq thx, slowly dying but there’s no way in hell I’m going out before the Flash TV show
The new design is like a mixed version Spellbinder and Ragdoll, otherwise without it, he's guy who can see better, with a major cost, because I used to think he could do more stuff with his eyes, like, more mystical stuff.
Soooooo, like... did Dr. Engstrom just commit human right violations with no consequences, that's the biggest injustice I see, or his he the greatest villain in the DC Universe?!
A lot of these silver age villians have potential to be menacing but they never follow through on them.
So I really like this update of the Ten Eye Man.
It's because of the fact that they aren't that well known and dc likes using the more well known characters
Concept wise could've been a really strong horror comic imo focusing on how his new vision would discombobulate and break him down, the body horror of eyes on his fingertips, insomnia, and how it inconvenients him.
I like the potential for a darker take but I also would like to see some of the turmoil he showed in some of the earlier appearances pushed to the forefront.
This reminds me of the old Roger Corman movie "X, the man with the X-ray eyes", about a scientist who tests special eyedrops on himself that cause his eyes to at first see in X-ray, but eventually get more and more powerful until it's insinuated that he may be seeing Lovecraftian horrors beyond our reality. Just being able to have x-ray vision would sell that "Deadliest man alive" angle they're constantly going on about as you'd be able to identify weaknesses on the fly that others would not.
"Flight?" - "No, thanks..." - "Invisibility?" - "Naww..." - "Heat vision, surely!" - "Nope"- "Hmmmm...oh well...TEN EYES!" - "Yes, please".
I give Props too the writer who is trying to make this weird silly character somewhat menacing and eerie…you know the main thing that came too my mind with this vid is “When does Alfred SLEEP “🤔 I mean He’s taking care of the Manor, the Batcave, preparing meals, handling Bruce’s calendar, & has to be ready to jump up at a moment’s notice to go pull Batman out of where ever he’s stranded & become his Emergency room doctor 😳 Keep up the Great Work Sasha
Forgot Chauffeur, & Nanny 😎
Alfred is built different. 🗿
"...but he wasn't brick-proof, was he?" Lol
I see great potential in TEM. Less eyes on his fingers and more vision through his fingers. Training himself to focus through one or two to help aim a gun or pick a lock. Maybe a version working with the Calculator. Given access to the security cameras of Gotham. Watching multiple to help pinpoint where Batman and company are so criminals could know when it was safer to break into places.
Or, have him blame Batman at first out of shock, but slowly realize his mistake. Maybe become the Bat's eyes like above. Or as a Private Eye. Have him slip into investigating the more surreal or supernatural mysteries of Gotham. Looking into the shadows where thing go bump in the night.
Why not transfer him over to another hero’s Rogues Gallery?
When people started talking about how the Suicide Squad movie revitalized some of the d-list villains, I joked about how it was only a matter of time before the Ten Eyed man got his glow-up. Well, now I just need to wait and see what the writers do with Baby-Face, Mrs. Man-Face, Hammer-Toes, and the rest of the cast-offs that got an appearance in BatB. Also, I REALLY want a Haunted Tank movie, though I'm not sure they really CAN do that, what with the ghost being a Confederate officer...
I'm interested in Dr Engstrom. Expanding on him into a villain. Vision based experiments. No morality, but good at faking geniality. misdeeds hidden enough he could pass a Batman background check. Helps Batman out whilst doing messed up stuff. Like a secretly evil Leslie Thompkins.
He could never use hand sanitizer. And he can’t eat Doritos or spicy Cheetos.
So basically they said: "make him more like Voldo from Soul Calibur"
The guy who wrote the original comic is weeping right now, because he finally knows that there is one other person in the world who sees the horror he saw in the concept of the 10 Eyed Man.
I think that mad scientist horror and quasi-supernatural horror both have a place in Gotham. I’m happy to hear about silly horrific characters like the TEM. It really adds to that “why does anyone live there?” vibe.
Everyone is busy talking about Jon but I'm glad we can trust Sasha to deliver the important news
Each finger being able to "see" only a specific plain of reality is a really neat idea.
In one continuity Batman claims this is the scariest villain he's ever fought. He also says Killer Moth is the most pathetic.
I love quirky villains! As for weakness, for a reboot I'd say that he doesn't hurt an eyefinger when he covers it, he just cannot see with that finger. Make the "eyes" mystic tattoos, and ones that he had to train to actually utilize (so not just anyone can get them). I like the idea that the eyes do different things besides seeing (including maybe seeing through things, so...)
I feel like going the mysticism route would just make him more generic. There's already plenty of comic characters with an array of powers, and I don't see how making the "eyes" window dressing would improve him. Personally, I think he's low tier enough that his fingers being an extremely sensitive weak point is unnecessary to some extent, I'd say leave the visual weakness, but not the "fingers are as delicate as eyeballs" bit. Really lean in to his martial prowess, and end up with a character that's as dangerous as Daredevil, and as nutty as Crazy Quilt. And... I basically just described Moon Knight didn't I... Guess that's another reason to keep the "science gone weird" angle as opposed to magic.
I think Ten Eyed Man has a lot of potential to be a unique and creepy horror movie style villain. I'd love to see an exploration of his unique perception and how it not only affects his mind, but his entire way of being. It would probably take months to adjust to such a vastly different way of perceiving the world then adapting his lifestyle to suit.
I'll take this unsettling and darker version over the wacky origins :0
Love the Pan's Labyrinth inspiration
The idea of a person with actual eyeballs on their fingertips is so freaky and horrifying, and I hope they go in that direction for the character.
It's so impractical but the visual is so good!
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I agree
Not that practical, but visually it is pretty 🔥
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All I have to say is...
Stilt Man
I'm stuck on how traumatic this guy's first bathroom trips were, post op. And I'm also having trouble negotiating how he'd go hands-on in a fight.
I remember seeing an episode of brave and the bold with him in it where batman throws a cactus at him and he catches it with his eye hands and gets blinded. Truly threatening
Wow, I'm so in love with that new version with the actual eyes on his fingertips. So perfectly creepy.
His old appearances seemed okay. Not amazing but not bad but that new one. My god. That is the stuff of nightmares and I love it!
I see him, like... Using the sides of his fingers/knuckles to hold things between his fingers, moving doorknobs with his forearm, things like that. And I think "experimented on supervet with a tinge of insanity due to sensory shifts" is super interesting... I don't think we've seen the perfect Ten Eyed Man yet.
Let’s just see if holding anything is still his weakness
There was a Marvel villain called Zodiac that also has just a mess of eyes all over his face, but that comes from messing with the Occult if I remember correctly.
Arkham being Destroyed is getting as frequent as The Xavier Institute, & The Enterprise in films
I find him really interesting. I would love for you to cover more of him. I think the madness snd obession works really well. And the silliness could be reinterpreted as sadness that leads to frustration and to obession.
But he also could have been a civilian sky marshal.
I love seeing realistic and creative recreations of "lame" or "stupid" characters
Polka dot man in the Suicide squad was one of the best characters of that film and the best example at how amazing a good interpretation of these characters can be
So I'm very into this new image for the 10 eyed man and I hope to see more of it like for the eraser or doctor death
They would never hire a blind man to operate a plane first of all. They even need to have perfect vision to be considered no color blindness, partial blindness, or full blindness.
The last time I was this early, Sasha only had one wig.
I feel like a combination of the occult character and the traditional one is totally doable. And I think that the fact that everyone in the DC universe is afraid of him for no obvious reason is really creepy actually.
“Oh no, it’s the Ten-Eyed Man!”
“What’s so scary about that?”
“He had ten eyes!!”
“So?”
“You don’t seem to get it: he has TEN EYES!! Who knows what he could do!?”
The redesign is sooooo good! Im so excited to see where this story takes us:)
There was this "cult of the ten eyed men" in original 52 too (i think issue 30)
Ok is anyone gonna talk about how good your hair looks? Damn 10/10. !
I remember before i read comics and i only read about them online. I used to ready a ton of lists like worst dc villians. He'd always pop up on it. oddly, though most of those villains that were listed in those got rebooted to be cooler. Characters like Calendar man, or cluemaster. The 10 eyed man was one of the last ones that got the glowup. Even Kiteman is well liked now
He's only super deadly to himself in my opinion. How does he do anything?! He's got major weak spots. It's not like he's got higher defenses or shoots swords from his eye fingers.
How would escape have been child's play?!
Squirrel Girl logic: it doesn't need to make sense if it happens off-screen.
I can't stop thinking about how your look changes every episode. I love it every time wondering what you'll look like now, still need to know what type of lipstick you use tho
I vaguely remember having read a comic once where someone had an eye dangling from the socket and they gave you a first person point of view with one panel showing the floor next to another panel showing what was in front of them.
If he wore really long acrylic nails, he could use them as his fingertips for typing a such and just do the awkard no fingertips grab for doorknobs and such.
While typing this I realized that wiping his butt must cause crazy, constant pink-finger unless he washes them super thoroughly everytime. Which would still lead to him blinding himself with soap... this man doesn't win 🤣🤣
I have never heard of this guy but seeing the pictures of the redesign vs the new one is like two different people and I love it. They really managed to make him eerie at just a glance.
I’m kind of shocked Ten Eyed Man was never made into a modern day stalker villain for one of Batman’s allies to fight. Like, he sees everything, but from where or how nobody knows. Basically “A” from Pretty Little Liars. But in Gotham.
Your questions are best answered by Patrick Star: "When in doubt, pinky out."
“Ditko was involved.” So much in those three words... Lol
Reardon just needs a pair of gloves with a finger cut out on each glove so he can see "normally." If he wants to blink, he just clenches his fists.
On how he drinks a cup of tea: I'd assume with his pinky extended, like posh people do. I hate to be the guy who ends a sentence with "duh", but kind of feel its warranted here.
If, as mentioned, he doesn't blink, then let's have a Batman Doctor Who crossover. He'd be perfect for dealing with the Weeping Angels.
I feel like the new take is a little too reminiscent of Ragdoll for me to get too invested in him but I'm always down for some cool body horror Bat villains. I think you could really play with making him a tragic villain honestly; like you said, this would be a completely different way of seeing the world that might well break someone's mind. That and there's an inherent sympathy for the guy since at least in his classic origin he was really a victim of circumstance and not trying to say give himself ten eyes to go commit crimes.
Well actually, his thumb was laying along the axis of the cane, so he had Cane POV for fighting. Heh, I well actuallied, heh.
If you can't well actually here where can you lol
References to from Beyond are always appreciated. Have there been any attempts at making Batman fight a lovecraftian horror?
Yeah it's loosely tied to the gaslight Batman reality I can't remember the name its similar to the shadow over innsmouth
Mnnn, yes, 1994's "The Shadow".
Now, The Shadow is known for many other things, like being the thing which ten-eyed-man desperately needs to be, but that particular movie was "an attempt to make Batman fight a lovecraftian horror".
It remained an attempt.
It's too bad the professional creators botched Ten Eyed Man's delivery so bad. Ten Eyed Man more irritates me only by existing, since it seems SO conceptually half-assed. It really seems they never went back to the drawing board and started from scratch, where they could have reassessed what his deal is, WHY he is necessary and what new does he bring. How important are the fingertip eyes relly? Why not "seeing through his entire skin"?
My immediate idea would be to scrap that and rework it into a theme of man who "sees" everything, who understands everything, but only has a conception for knowledge through the idea of "seeing is believing". This would also mean he can't explain anything, because he can only show by example and nobody else has the vision needed to understand what he sees. And so, instead of being jittery, sleep deprived, in that super lazy spooky maniac trope, I would make him a pragmatist who has given up on explaining anything, and only driven by "I'll MAKE them SEE" kind of supervillain hubris. As a twist I would do it less like Dr. Doom and more, misguidedly sympathetic. One-eyed man in the land of the blind.
But I feel dirty even wasting the effort, because the fact is I have no clue if that aligns at all WHY they wanted to create this character in the first place. And so THIS character doesn't need to be Ten Eyed Man, either.
Gotham by Gaslight
"Please stop. I can only stay out of the gutter for so long!" 😂😂
Sasha, I love your videos and I look forward to them. every day. 🥰🤩
1. Sasha doing his voice was rather tantalizing.
2. Can we see this handsome man you call your husband?
In DCUO there is actually a neutral free clinic that’ll help anyone in Gotham as long as they don’t like act up inside :0 I wonder if this place is supposed to be that.
This is a little paradoxical, because while I do think a darker interpretation of the Ten-Eyed Man works, the original concept of 'oh god he literally has EYES on his HANDS' is actually way creepier than whatever they're doing in the present-day.
I want charismatic cult leader Rearden who has adopted a semi-inhuman worldview thanks to his new wondrous way of seeing.
Maybe sprinkle in a bit of cenobite as well.
He has such sights to show you...
When I read his origin story all those years ago i was really scratching my head pondering how unfeasible the whole idea seemed. But then again I had no problem accepting a man from another world who could fly or another man who ran incredibly fast and yet another who could breath underwater, so yeah I just went with it.
I'm just going to say it...having eyes on ones fingertips would make using the bathroom a very different experience....
The story where he fights Man Bat is a favorite, because of Mike Golden's art! It was the 1st time I saw his work, and blew me away with how much I loved it!
I bought those two issues of ManBat in 1976 and sometimes still think about them. I would be very interested if you did a video about why that series was cancelled. You make it sound rather mysterious!
Ten-Eyed Man was the main antagonist of the second and last issue, so...yeah. That's enough of a reason.
Please, Don't ever stop doing your BATMAN / Christian Bale voice, That raally made my day, It's so Awesome & funny.
That Voiceover You did for Scary Ten Eyed Man was Actually Really Good
That new design looks like it was inspired by the Pale Man from Pan's Labyrinth. That guy only had two eyes (in his palms) but he held his hands up in a similar way and had the same kind of unsettling spindly movement going. Pretty cool.
What if they weren’t necessarily eyes but like sort of ‘antennae’ that could perceive different forms of reality. And had some form of their own personalities. Like having an evil mischievous eye that could see how to kill people, one that will see if people are lying, one that sees the future 10secs ahead but is doubtful of itself so can’t be trusted. Idk but like when they’re covered with a special material they shut off so he can sleep and control his sanity otherwise the different personalities drive him crazy.
The real question is if the ten eyed man needed glasses, how would they look and be put on? And how would they stay on?
Contact lenses in the tips of his gloves?
Laughed so hard at "comma in the wrong place", I had to rewind the video. Brilliant. Right before you described the the sublime nature of how the ten eyes should function, you know before it got silly, and although our minds can process a lot of fractured information, I got a headache thinking about it.
My idea for ten eyed man would be to give him ten robotic eyes that can all float around him and maybe have like lasers or something seems better than having them on your fingers
If each of his fingertips is an eye, I imagine it'd just be a matter of learning to hold things in a way that he he always has a hand or a couple fingers free to see with. That could actually be really cool--an artist could get really creative depicting the way he uses his hands, especially with the contortionist angle.
I like the idea of the character a lot, I think the key is to treat the finger eyes as something strange and disconcerting instead of trying to push it as a genuinely strong superpower.
It should be noted that the Ten Eyed Man doesn't actually "see" through his finger, but instead has his sense of touch enhanced at the fingertip points. It has enhanced his touch to the point that it serves as eyes. He can't tell you what color something is but he can still get a sensation by waving his hands in front of him about where things are.
Anything else is just silly.
"We don't know where we are going. It's really random." Proceeds to yet another Batman video.
Lmao but which Batman video, yeah I'm definitely part of the Batman problem
@@CasuallyComics I'm just glad you seem to have fun doing the Batman voice. And you seem to have fun making these videos in general.
@@CasuallyComics you and me both.
The adult side of me wants to think of the advantages to having eyes on your fingertips but the child side of me is too busy thinking that going to the bathroom would be hell.
I read that Arkham City comic. He's mad creepy. He's one of my favorite batman rogues now cuz of that new design and cult persona.
I dig the super update overall but I feel like making him a contortionist is a bit much, just makes him too similar to Rag Doll and it has nothing to do with the ten eyes gimmick.
Here's a thought. How about you keep the ESP and science angle? Then give him a set of robot arms or something so that he can actually do normal day-to-day things.
There are places you stick your fingers you don't want sight.....
This outfit. Eyeshadow. Wig. Perfection ❤🖤❤
Redesign question: do all the eyes have to be HUMAN eyes?
My eyes are up here. and here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here.Here. Here.
Wizard comic price guide had a field day way they found this one!!
Honestly, even the "silly" Silver Age version is a bit too creepy for me 😬😬😬
Villain concept aside, I really enjoy the art and coloring of Batman from the early 70s. Probably because that is when I started reading comics.
"Is phrasing still a thing? We're calling out phrasing, right?"
Also, Sasha has a great Batman voice.
As he was originally created is silly. But the new interpretations are creepy enough to have him work.
As for obscure characters I like them. My favorites being Creeper and "Firestorm". Yes, Firestorm isn´t technically obscure but barely used even though he´s one of the most powerful characters in DC.
And please, Sasha, do a video on Creeper.
PS
I also wanted to thank you Sasha. I´m a DC fan and, as such, read the comics. But sometimes either I´m not feeling good or have enthusiasm to keep on reading but then you bring that enthusiasm back to me.
About ten years ago, there was a DC short where Batman said that the ten eyed man was his scariest villain
This guy should be an Animal Man villain and they could play up the mystical element as some kind of warped connection to the Red, with super enhanced senses, the ability to see through the eyes of any living thing, perceive things about people in supernatural detail etc.
We're here making fun of the TEM powers and what he can't do, but are neglecting his true power:
*Getting Sasha out of Big Ethel's energy*
I hadn't realized this was an established character
I liked this version a lot. Got real Voldo vibes off this dude