w/e you dudes act like it is impossible to reimagine mr freeze WITHOUT A RAY GUN and all that other silly shit and it's not at all.  firstly two-face//the joker//scarecrow are not inherently less ridiculous than mr freeze and without the ice gun/weird suit you still have a compelling and sympathetic villain.  he's a good character, if you ignore the silly shit, and he can definitely BE DONE without all that.

if they make another one i really do hope they pick a good villain.

joker and twoface didn't have powers or anything, just complexes
scarecrow had hallucinogens, which are very much a real thing
raz al ghul was a ninja or something (didn't realize it was him until the end of the movie)

riddler would be a dumb choice: joker was pulling strings the whole movie, i really don't see how setting traps calmly and collected would be much different than setting traps and laughing crazily
everybody else is pretty ridiculous: croc, clayface, ivy, & manbat would be my picks, but they really wouldn't fit with nolan's universe of reality. the penguin pretty much just sucks.
i'd like to see mr. freeze, but again he is very otherworldly. i mean even without the ice ray gun, he's a dude that is frozen alive or what?

honestly it would make a lot of sense to use catwoman, considering that in the dark knight rachel dawes died, leaving no love interest. i don't really like catwoman but she is a pretty important part of batman, and probably the most well known villain outside of joker.

do i????  idk CALM COOL COLLECTED CLEVER but he never struck me as being particularly interesting or even very well motivated.  he's just a cheeseball villain.  riddles!!!  sweet man let's just have a guy who likes riddles.  i don't know the story behind people like bane or the penguin but personally i just want to see freeze because along with two-face and joker i think he's one of the better/more legitimate villains around, and not just some joke of a character.  i thought he had a lot more personality/motivation than other dudes and like i said earlier i think the whole sympathetic/tragic villain is cool.  they blew their load on two-face just for like the last half-hour of this movie which was alright but kinda disappointing because they killed him and now he's just DONE and it was cool but sort of feels like a waste, so i would say freeze is the next best choice.

actually the Riddler could work well if they make him like the Zodiac Killer or John Doe from Seven and he's just this crazy serial killer that leaves behind riddles and clues to fuck with Batman's head. All they have to do is avoid the campy green question mark themed costume and they're set.

b-but thats not canon.....

actually yeah RIDDLER SERIAL KILLER would be okay i guess but just a plain old killer seems kind of uninteresting, although i guess they have not really DONE just a regular murderer yet so much as people with SCHEMES so maybe not.

also i preferred burton's version of the penguin!  GENTRIFIED CRIME never seemed as good as some kind of dejected, deformed human living in the sewers or whatever.

well yeah, Burton's Penguin was good for what he was doing with the films, but it wouldn't work at all with Nolan's renewed films!

why do you say that?  i don't really remember much about batman returns but i dunno the penguin seems like one of the few parts of the earlier movies that would work.

Johnny Depp = Riddler.