A Lowcountry-themed Batman villian?

Tag : invisible sandals

The opening of "The Dark Knight" todaygot us thinking about anumber of things: 1. We need to get our tickets for that; 2. Boy,we are hungry, and; 3. What sort of Lowcountry-themed Batmanvillains could we come up with over lunch?
POISON BUCKEYE
A distant cousin to Gotham's Poison Ivy, Poison Buckeye lurks atthe region's outlet malls and Red Lobsters. She is emboldened bythe fate of the Buckeye, which she tries to plant in nearly everystate outside its native land, regardless of climate or othernative species.
Transportation: Minivan (of evil)
Summoning Call: "O-H ..."
Weapons: Call-ahead reservations; socks with sandals
NO-SEE-HIM
Invisible to the naked eye, No-See-Him isn't so much an evildoer ashe is really, really annoying, like houseguests who stay too longor the young cousin who always wants to know what you're doing.We'd go into more detail about what he looks like, but, seriously,we can't see him.
Strength: Ability to hang around your barbecue until you give inand go inside.
Weakness: A good slap
Arch-Nemesis: Captain Deet
THE OLIVE GOBLIN
A butter-covered menace who establishes small empires in smallcommunities, from which he unleashes evil via highly butteredbreadsticks. The Olive Goblin looks Italian. A little.
Weapons: Irritating commercials, forced atmosphere of community,spice (but not too much spice). Nanorobots baked into breadstickscommand those who've consumed them to write bizarrely enthusiasticLetters to the Editor about how "we're finally a real town."
Arch-nemeses: the Outbackbot, the Apple Bee, people who've ownedfamily restaurants for longer than nine months.