This Batman Villain Has A Camera For A Head | Mister Camera
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- čas přidán 5. 06. 2024
- Batman has one of the most iconic superhero rogues galleries out there. The Dark Knight's villains include many who can stand on there own, but there are also those who have been lost to it. Introducing Mister Camera, an early silver age late golden age villain with a camera for a head (it's a helmet lol). This character pops up as a reference, a deep cut, and oft times a joke, but there is actually a lot of potential for a character like this in the current digital age. We discuss the history of Mister Camera in this retrospective here on Casually Comics!
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Which villain would you pair Mister Camera up with?
Karlo Clayface and Mister Camera
Zebra man
Mirror Master -- although I imagine their crimes would be more upsetting than diabolical.
@@PuzzlingHousing56nice one 👍
Mirror Master...endless selfies!🤣
A villain obsessed with filming themself? You just described 90% of CZcams
Which if used correctly could be a pretty good story for a modern comic
Atleast Mr camera is honest.
Also last time I checked he didn't get any content from the (demonized) forest.
Yeah, which is exactly why it would be a perfect update for Mister Camera, or just a good villain backstory in general imo
Or Instagram. Or Snapchat. Basically 90% of social media.
I didn’t picture a Mister Camera video, but you put a polarizing villain in a good light, you didn’t loose focus, and you didn’t give a lot of negatives, you gave him good exposure, you must have a photographic memory of obscure Silver Age characters.
GOATed
So many goddamn puns, i feel like someone flashed me
This was painful to read.
I approve.
😂. These puns are just fantastic
… two of those references are going over the heads of most people who’ve never used a film camera.
So as early as 1954, Bruce has to go "YET AGAIN I've proven I'm not Batman".
You could give him an arc where he manipulates superheroes into unknowingly participating in his own movie, filming even the secret identity part of their lives as he puts things in motion to play out the way he wants. His downfall can be where he loses it when the shot isn't how he wanted it, because Batman figured out he was being manipulated.
That sounds pretty cool ngl
Love this, you could go very psychological scary but also silly with it
He could also be a surveillance specialist turned evil, using specialty software to datamine public and personal phones/cameras for private information and exploitation. Maybe even the ultrasonic imaging tech that's used in The Dark Knight movie could make a comeback, as a type of non-photonic camera (although writing that out, a surveillance specialist being evil sort of comes off as a given already).
That would actually be a good limited mystery series not gonna lie 😂❤
That first idea of the movie is very similar to "Manhunt"s plot, the video game where you take part in an evil director's insidious snuff film, all being recorded through various CCTV cameras. It wouldn't take much to see a modern Batman take on a similar story line.
I kinda like the idea of Mr Camera in a position kinda like Eraser, where he’s not really a threat on his own, but his existence makes other villains and criminals more dangerous.
Like, he’s someone who has this obsession with recoding images and visual information, and is willing to sell that info on to other criminals to fuel his own (relatively low stakes) criminal activity, while the data he sells would go on to be used to plan future more high stakes crimes.
You could break into the vault if you knew the security access code. If only you knew someone who had tapped into the security cameras and seen them use the code.
There's two directions I can see with him.
1: More lighthearted where he's an influencer that films hidden camera pranks.
2: Somebody who takes photography seriously, and is upset at the rise and ubiquitousness of phone cameras believing pictures taken with phones isn't "real art" so he set out to show them what "real art" is.
Not the most creative interpretations, but still.
Neil Gaiman has discussed in the past about the detached aspect of being a writer. Like someone close to you dies and part of your brain is analyzing the moment to moment experience so you can transcript it later in your next book. Your description of Mr. Camera being obsessed with photographing himself reminded me of that
Yes, he really delves into it in "The Tempest," and has none other than William Shakespeare muse over that. It's a great meditation on what it's like to be artist, there's always a part of you going "Oh, wow, now that I know how this feels, I can *really* capture this..."
I love that you have Bruce deny his Batman identity to reporters in your Batman voice
I find it hilarious that this silver age villains first appearance is basically making Batman’s victories hollow ones: first by hiding the blackmail photos, then by accidentally screwing up his blackmail, rendering Batman’s over complicated alibi pointless.
If he had managed to get the photos to develop, he’d probably be remembered as the mastermind who managed to blackmail Batman for a while. Amazing how one mistake can make people stop taking you seriously- though admittedly the costume does him no favours.
The weird thing about the Brave and the Bold appearance is that they combine him with Huntress’s love interest Harry Sims. To muddle it further, the Mr. Camera billboard in Batman Arkham Knight has the name Sim’s Camera, further pushing that connection.
A bat-universe plays out with the hand it's dealt.
The obscure Batman Trilogy Begins, Mister Camera is first, Zodiac Master, the Dr. Double X.
Dr double x. Is he the guy from the fire storm episode of brave and the bold?
Your idea of his obsession with filming himself, creating a real self that only exists on screen and denying everything else, I think connects super well with the blackmail angle- maybe he does the same for other people against their will, creating a version of their lives, a version of "who they really are" by cutting together candid footage, and threatening to publish it and make everyone think they really are this caricature of them he created.
I have never laughed quite like I did at the reveal of "I made a snow-Batman, Robin!"
These days they just see if Martian Manhunter is free.
@@brettwood1351MM: Bruce, that plan is stupid.
Batman: There's twenty boxes of Chocos in it for you
MM: Deal.
I also believe that mr Camera has untapped potential, because as you said the world today is full of cameras.
Also, i think he is one of the first villains in the comics to put Batman's secret identity at risk. I think the first was either Killer Moth or the Mirror Man.
Sasha acting out the characters voices always makes me smile.
Maybe give him a photographic memory he uses to commit his crimes, might be cool and used in different ways. Memorizing passcodes, the shape of keys, stuff like that.
That last Brave and the Bold video is first time I heard about this guy and I was really hoping we'd get this deep dive into him. The nonsense side of the rogue's gallery needs more love.
Mr. Jameson would pay more than $5.
Now if he could just get pictures proving that Spider-Man is a menace!
Jameson would pay upwards of $40 or even the number what comes after 40.
"...others have been more flash-in-the-pan." I see what you did there, lol! And here I thought my knowledge of early photography would be a waste.
I think a good way to update him is to have a younger person take on his Mantle, maybe his kid or grandkid and them inherit his obsession with cameras, but focuses more on new technology
That is exactly what I was thinking. Like a good idea would be to have him be an older villain that passes it down to a kid that is also obsessed with technology that he takes under his wing. Then you could have it where the old Mr. Camera is still a mentor and willing to teach some older methods of spying to a younger generation so the new person who takes on the mantle basically has both old school and new school methods for spying on people
The angle about him recording his own crimes makes me think of Screwball from Spider-Man comics, who livestreamed her crimes for hits
Why didn't Bruce ask Clark to pretend to be Batman, instead of building a snowman? They found out each other's identities two years earlier in SUPERMAN # 76 (1952) on a cruise ship.
Back then comics weren't concerned with continuity or how many characters sometimes use the simple solution.
It wasn't until many decades later where comics will get more respect and taken more seriously
He seems like a villain similar to the Fisherman. He could be a new main lineup character if he was in an animated series or had a really good depiction in a movie/show.
He needs the puns and jokes though.
Points a gun at Robin "Keep your eye on the birdie Bats."
Runs into Batman after he's just escaped an explosion and is vulnerable "Well, isn't this a Kodak moment."
He wakes Batman up with the flash of his camera to see he's captured and about to be executed. "For posterity."
Batman tires to escape a deathtrap and looks into a familiar camera lense. "I can't let you do that Batman."
I think Sasha’s edgy update would be great for a Question story
I could definitely see mr. Camera being like, the villain's equivalent to oracle: someone who taps into security systems, phone networks, anything with a camera, to keep track of and try and figure out heroes identities, or feeding info on their whereabouts to other villains
Every time I see Sasha go off on brainstorming ideas, I get the feeling she'd be great as a game master for a DC Heroes or Mutants and Masterminds TRPG campaign.
one idea i came up with when seeing the absurd face close-up:
imagine the camera's lens has a display screen and it is used to project cartoonish faces or even other visuals like a large eye when he talks about how he can spy on anything
about how he sees with such a display screen, either it is see through on one side because sci-fi stuff or there are hidden cameras on the helmet that he uses to actually see from the point of view of his head
I had the funny thought that maybe he has different camera heads for different occasions: like he has a Polaroid camera helmet, an old timey film camera helmet, a GoPro helmet, an old camcorder helmet. He wears a different one depending on what sort of criminal mood he’s in
Mr. Camera is one of those forgotten Batman villains that could enter the category "Penguin's henchman" like Eraser.
After all Penguin is Gotham's kingpin, it makes sense he has dirty material on everyone so he could use the help of an expert like Mr. Camera.
I think it could start with a Batman story in which Mr. Camera is the main villain then, when he is defeated at the end of the story, Penguin gives him an offer: working for him and getting paid and obtain Penguin's protection or go to jail and Mr. Camera accepts it.
As for the "discover your true self" kind of story you could make with him i don't know, that's supposed to be Black Mask's entire shtick with all the False Face Society he runs.
Maybe you could merge these 2 ideas by making Black Mask the one hiring Mr. Camera but still you would end up with 2 possible solutions:
A) Mr. Camera being always used as an henchman
B) having 2 Batman villains with the exact same objective
They teased a Nightwing villain a while ago called "The Director" who was all about making a movie of Dick's life and filming crimes. I think Mr. Camera would fit perfectly in that story if they ever continue with it.
Honestly an idea for a modern Mr camera could be a stalker type villain that perhaps blackmails other villains or city politicians especially with how corrupt Gotham is.
He could be like a super sleuth of the criminal underworld, and gather photographic evidence on everyone.
I need an edgy Mr. Camera reboot just to know how it will never stand up to the amazing glory that this is lol
I think that Mr camera could be a genuinely really good villain because I feel like would be interesting if he's a human like Batman but uses gadgets like him as well or even maybe have implants that allow him to hack into cameras and see through them.
Maybe even being an absolutely insanely good detective I like Batman but rather than using these skills for good he uses them to blackmail and maybe even sell information to other villains.
Could even have robots / drones as henchmen that he could see through their cameras
Is it weirder or cooler than the marvel guy that has an eyeball for a head
i love these obscure villains, i like to collect their first appearances, i can’t really afford Mr Cameras though cause he appeared in the same comic that earth one Two Face.
Mister Camera is one of those Bat-foes that I never heard of, but am now interested in, thanks to the research & creative suggestions you always put into your videos. So I'm all for an update on this one! Especially if they find a way to incorporate that press conference scene from the comic book story...at least the way YOU depicted it. What better way for Bruce Wayne to convince the world he's not Batman, then by delivering his statements in Batman's classic sore-throat gruff voice, the way he does at 2:19 here. Nice touch!
I just love when she does these speculation and what you can do with characters
Mr Camera was just a flash in the pan.
That's not a camera pun.
A guy with camera for head, they need to bring him back! Imaged a modern version . Something that similar to Vox from hazbin hotel, a digital camera version or IPhone type that control social media ! Man , the chaos that this man would do !
Only Sasha could pluck a villain who only appeared in canon once and do a full analysis that makes me want to see this character I've never heard of in the current continuity.
A good update for Mr. Camera should like the villain Stefano Vallentini from The Evil Within 2. A murderer that takes pictures of his victims and can warp reality.
Mr camera joins all the charecters with a lot of potental that where not used like roberta the wonder girl, fireworks man and many others
And here i thought Mysterio had the silliest helmet
Video is so big nowadays, everybody filming things on their phones, and uploading videos on social media. "Mr. Camera" might be a hokey name, but the character could certainly be updated in any number of ways for modern usage.
I can see a nightcrawler type disgruntled photographer turned vigilante. Releasing all the dirt they collected from Gotham's eliet/criminals. Creating a man hunt for him with his final reveal being the bats' identity. With a daft punk monitor helmet with modern tech, the lens can be anywhere.
If they bring back Mr Camera. They can make him a part of Calculators crew.
Doorbell cameras, security cameras, car cameras, crooks using camera's to watch people's house's, hidden cameras in bathrooms, surveillance cameras, drone cameras, dash cameras, wildlife cameras, live cameras, body cameras, digital cameras, phone cameras… I think now would be a good time for an updated "Mister Camera". Or how about a child of the camera? And instead of the camera over the head, (though the face peeking out through a cracked lens is a great look,) a re-design: A VR style headset? Camera glasses ("Google-lens"), a camera worn on the chest (body-camera)?
As always, thank you so very much for the videos.
And then there's the whole issue of AI modified pictures and videos... (Oh look, a rabbit hole.)
I could see a modern version being an influencer that fell out of popularity
The Tick called and wants his villain back
Honestly I'm just so very happy you mentioned Scooby Doo and Scooby Doo and Batman the Brave and the Bold. Underrated Scooby movie that was super fun as a Brave and the Bold fan too.
I love the whackiness of the camera but there's also so mich they can do with commentary on photography especially in the modern age.
Yes! On Zodiac Master!
If I wrote an edgy update: He'd be obsessed with memories that pictures preserve after dealing with a family member with Alzheimer's plus insert other edgy stuff here.
If I wrote a more modern update: He'd be an influencer 100%. Obsessed with capturing every moment of his life and to fill that with content by going into more extremes to consistently have his and others' lives captured and recorded by him.
Also a less gimmicky look could simply be adding a camera lens to one of his eyes or have digital eyeballs if you wanna go that far like in that one Black Mirror Episode.
Or all of the above!
LOVE the obscure villain videos btw! SO happy to see one pop up
Closing in on 200k! 🎉🎉🎉
I'm here for the obscure villains!
No crazier than Crazy Quilt.
McFarlane gotta get on that Mister Camera action figure.
He'd put Peter out of a job if he was in the 616.
I love that hes a creep in the comic. His tone did change from just doing camera crimes but, the stalker angle is more current and topical.
Well done as always Sasha! And did that say "I'll explode your career"? haha. Killer idea for an update, drone head or a DSLR or RED cinema camera rig!
Don't know if someone else has already mentioned it, but I have a feeling that the Robin in the Brave and the Bold comic might have been Jason Todd. My only evidence is from Scooby Doo BatB and the Krypto/Scooby Doo animated movies. In the BatB, Aquaman asks Batman "Did you lose another Robin?". In the Krypto movie, the Scooby gang end up using the Justice League's subpar or out of date equipment. One of Batman's smoke pellets goes off and says "Happy Birthday, second Robin" I could very well be wrong but I have now head canoned it. Keep up the good work.
It says, "Explode your secret."
Yeah, feel's like it should be "Expose" to goe with the camera term exposure.
This was a great deep dive into Mr. Camera, I love this dude haha
Your Mister Camera impression, chef’s kiss.
Second video in a row where you implant inside my head the idea of wanting a Mr. Camera revival. Last week I didn't even know the character!
Mr. Camera's mind overwhelmed with images. I flashed😉 on Jim Carrey's Riddler from Batman Forever, his brain ballooned, going 'I can see _everything_!'
Mister camera vs booster gold . Those two would work well I mean they both want to be filmed right . Why isn’t Mr camera one of booster gold main enemies.
Honest to god, i love the videos when you shine a light on these obscure characters and try to suggest ways to modernize them. I love it!
Mr. Camera rebooted as a modern hacker villain would be really interesting. Camera hacking is a very real thing (to a degree, taping over your laptop camera doesn't really do anything). Web-enabled security cameras are a particularly vulnerable target. Having him as a blackmailing antagonist for any DC detective character would be neat for a cyberpunkesque story.
I do like the idea he can see through all cameras. Imagine a version where is able to see through phone cameras and gain blackmail/stalk people through a device someone always has on them. And yes to Zodiac Master!
The growing prevalence of video surveillance, combined with things like facial recognition technology, seems like it should be a constant threat to Batman's secret identity. I'm not sure if that idea has been thoroughly explored, but I could absolutely see Mr. Camera being a part of that.
He has SO MUCH potential. So many different ways you can spin that.
Team up with calendar man, for a monthly Gotham City pin-up! Punchline is March, Poison Ivy is April... I'm waiting for that December Dr. Freeze.
I love your videos but long for the day when you start penning comics yourself; your ideas and perspectives on characters are always super cool.
Harry Sims was the name of the Huntress' love interest in the Wonder Woman backups in the pre-Crisis 80s
What did Harry do to deserve this? lol
@@CasuallyComics actually his comics fate was worse as he was disfigured by an elderly Joker. If I'm not mistaken that was the state he was in during the Convergence event.
Mister Camera seems like the right level of comic book silly and serious enough he could be a good villain.
What I love about these guys is that any one of them could be the next Mr Freeze, there all out their waiting for their Heart of Ice/The Long Halloween/The War of Jokes and Riddles/The Suicide Squad and who's to say who's turn is next.
A Zodiac Master video should focus on how much of a creep he's always been.
Mister Camera: what happens when Jimmy Olsen gets hit with an “evil ray.”
All it takes to get a villain seen as an old joke is for someone to take enough of an interest in them. We've seen it time and again. Mr. Camera might yet have his day!
13:41- I'd like to thank this video for unintentionally giving me my daily dose of Steph and Cass.
I had the idea of that Mister Camera would be a professional stalker for hire to get dirt on people and targets superheroes at some point. He would have an array camera based gadgets and get away plans.
I kind of like the idea of Mr Camera being, like, a subtle, criminal omnipresence over Gotham, where he knows just how to get photos and footage from just about anywhere of anyone, and knows when to capture it. I think he would match well in a more grounded take of Batman silver age villians, alongside The Eraser being a professional clean up criminal. Mr Camera can especially can be retextualized in the modern, photogenic setting
This was seriously good and damn I wish I were half as creative and able to come up with ideas as fast as Casually Comics
Someone at DC needs to update this villain for the tiktok era.
I would love to see this character come back full social media personality style like Screwball from Spider-Man. After filming themselves committing crimes didn’t make them go viral, they’ve decided to capture the true identity of the Batman.
"I'll learn that Bruce, sending me to public school."
I love your batman voice over.. lol
I love all of your "edgy" Mr. Camera update ideas!
Covering 3D would make an interesting video, especially since you could link it directly to comics. Did you know Neal Adams created a 3D effect for comics? It was used for some sort of fast food kids meals. I also believe this same tech was used for the Valiant Vision 3D comics from the '90s, though I'm not 100% certain of that.
Japan has a Mr. Camera character. Before every movie that plays at a theater there's of PSA of man wearing a tuxedo with a camera for a head that runs away from the police while doing parkour.
I think it would be interesting if he were and older villain who eschews digital camera tech. He could be at odds with Ivy for the ecological impact of film, or he mocks the police for their reliance on digital security cameras and their inferior optics. So much so that he sends them analog shots of criminals just to show how much better a real camera is. This makes the cops and criminals and the people making security cameras angry, and Batman has to find him before they do.
You should cover Marvels character Zodiac, hes currently over in the Moon Knight series but his break out role during Dark Reign was insane in ways I cant explain.
His reasoning behind his motive could be due to his cracked lense, a warped version of 'the camera never lies'
There is another villain from the old time that got reused as a Huntress villain: the Bookworm. He was in the 60's Batman show then was reinvented in the Post Crisis Huntress series as a Huntress villain. It got me thinking how Mr Camera and Bookworm could both end up being used as BOP villains.
How did Perry White never kick Jimmy to the curb for Mr. camera ? 🤔 or is Mr.Camera Jimmy in disguise 🤨 Keep Up The Outstanding Work Sasha 🖖🏾
Omg 🎉🎉🎉 ❤ love the hair! Perfect for the camera villain 😅
In the internet age someone who is constantly sharing photos and videos would have a popular TickTock channel.
It’s fascinating that the go to gimmick for a villain is, “has X for a head/face” and they rarely touch on the other body parts. Like, where’s Fishinglore hand man?
Also personally, I feel a modern Mister Camera should have a security camera for a head. I feel that would be very sinister, both from how common those are now and how low-key sinister that would look.
Edgy retcon? I'm waiting for the reveal that it was Mr Camera on the cover of "The Killing Joke" with the Joker. Who do you think really took all those photos of Barbara?
Fun villain with massive potential in this more modern society where everyone and their dog often has a camera and often more than one.
Punchline reinvents herself as Ms. Camera, but have that fact be a reveal.
I love the muffled voice that Sasha brings out for Mr Camera.
How about a Mr Camera who upgrades his helmet with a soul-stealing lens?
I half expected Sasha's Mister Camera pitch for him to be Punchline's brow beaten cameraman/producer, leaning further into her influencer aspect.
The funny thing about 3D is that it comes up every 20 or 30 years and then disappears again. You have it in the 20s, in the 50s, in the 80s and in the 2010s. I wouldn't be surprised if 3D comes back in about seven years
I really like your ideas for Mister Camera. I love the idea of a helmet that allows you to access any camera as well as various vision/sight/photography related gadgets. You could also have him use deepfake tech to pull various pranks and crimes.