Honestly, I think they should've kept the air walking shoes. It could've been a trademark gadget in his arsenal of tricks and something about walking on air is so fitting for the character. Like, he's such a good trickster that he can even fool physics itself! "I'll Take Manhattan" is my favorite Trickster story. It made me a Selina x Jesse fan.
5:35 I love this story for the Trickster; but they ruined Killer Moth, which ruined my childhood. I hate Charaxes he was just a mindless monster, if they wanted to do something like that it could’ve been the Teen Titans version. But I would’ve written Killer Moth much better. Also Jesse is BACK!!! Read Rebirth
I’m so glad you’re doing top 5’s again! Your reviews are my favorite part of the channel. You’ve brought me to so many great comics I never would have known about!
I remember an episode of Justice League where Wally West finds Trickster drinking in a bar and Wally asks him if he's still taking his meds and they just have a nice friendly chat.
Love the original Trickster! By the way I noticed that your favourite Trickster story features the Jim Ballant beautiful illustrations of Catwoman. I think that this may be more than a coincidence.
So so SOOOOOO HAPPY to see Underworld on this list! Has one of the most iconic lines (to me at least in DC comics); "When super-villains want to scare each other, they tell Joker stories." So sad to see James gone with Owen Mercer (my favorite DC character of all times) which was also thanks to Goeff Johns. (I seriously have a love/hate relationship with his writing)
My favorite Trickster story is probably the episode "Flash and Substance" on JLU, I'm sure you've seen it. Mark Hamill manages to nail another jester - type rogue without ever copying his own Joker (probably because he played Trickster on the live action Flash show earlier!). Also, great video, I hope to see some more Top 5 Animated Appearances videos someday as well. Happy Thanksgiving!
Gravity You mean Rogues’ top 5 best cartoon episodes series? I loved it too! Shame we only got one for Catwoman. I would have loved to see one for Two-Face and Joker!
@@goblintributemaker2539 I'd love to see him talk about Batman: Brave and the Bold at some point, that show was so broad-reaching that pretty much any DC villain he did would show up!
Gravity Yes, now that you mention it, Rogues never did talk about that show, I wonder what he thinks of it. I personally really like it though the main Bat rogues weren’t used very much, they mostly only appeared in small roles or cameos besides Joker in favor of other villains
I love BBATB; it's a great homage to silver and bronze age DC, and a great showcase of lesser known characters. It's the only Batman show I REALLY like besides TAS. I've been thinking about doing some more top 5 cartoon videos, but I'm having some issues getting ahold of some episodes. I gotta have em so I can take screen shots. We'll see how it goes with that.
@@mr.rogues4145 That's awesome! I never would have thought that you liked BBATB this much! I just wish the show could have used the main Bat rogues more, though I understand that it was to give the spotlight to some other rogues for a change. Also, if you don't mind me asking what do you think of Beware the Batman? I find their idea of using obscure Bat-rogues very interesting and this made it a lot cooler when big Bat rogues like Ra's al Ghul actually did show up. While I didn't really like their version of Harvey Dent, I feel like he could have been a very intimidating Two-Face if the show wasn't canceled
Yeah I'm excited about this. He appears to be the mastermind of some new criminal network. To use wrestling teerminology- I hope this is the beginning of a big push for the character.
I can't wait to watch this. I have a Top 5 Stories List tomorrow for Thanksgiving. I love Flash Rouges and Trickster is such a great character. I'm so glad you make these videos and have inspired me. RU-vid is one of the greatest decisions I've ever made. I'm almost at 500 subs!
Great choice for the number 1! I remember in The Batman animated series they paired Catwoman with the Ragdoll... I wonder if was a nod to Catwoman and Trickster storyline... you know... because they are both Flash villains...
I have read three out of the five stories here; his first appearance, his Catwoman story, and Underworld Unleashed. I'm actually tempted to say that Underworld Unleashed might be my choice for number one. The other two...I love 'em, don't misunderstand, but I'm not sure if they'd be in my top five. Almost certainly they'd both be in my top ten, however. The odd two out are "The Trickster Strikes Back!" and the Blue Devil series. I had never heard of the Blue Devil till recently, and I haven't read his series yet. However, just based on what you have shown us in the video, it really looks like my kind of Trickster, if that makes sense, so I am DEFINITELY going to look it up in the very near future. As for the Trickster Strikes Back...I've been meaning to read THAT one for a long time, and just haven't yet. I should probably get on that soon. :P Anyway, fantastic work again!
@@mr.rogues4145 It just might be. In any case, I'll need time to come up with an answer to that. Especially since it seems I have at least two or three new things to add to my "Must Read' List. XD
Hello Rogues ! Great seeing one of your Top 5s :D I'm glad you talk about Flash Rogues, I really do love his gallery of villains. Are you planning on doing more ? There are a lot of interesting and cool characters to review ;) Have a nice day !
One weird thing i found about The Tricksters is the inconsistency in his design....like in the cover its Red and blue shirt with Red and Black Pants & Cape but in the actual story its orange and blue with Orange and Black Pants & Cape.....what does he just have 2 versions of his suit just in case he doesn't like the other.
As much as I love Geoff johns I agree with you! I hope your happy with what they did with him in recent flash stories even bringing his old origin back.
0:35 - N°5 - Danger in the air 2:30 - N°4 - The trickster strikes back 3:50 - N°3 - The blue devil 5:35 - N°2 - Underworld unleashed 7:40 - N°1 - I'll take Manhattan
I would like to see a Trickster and Joker story, maybe as a villian verus villian tale that could be used to have Batman and the Flash partner up once again like it was the Brave and the Bold. If only to prove once and for all that the Trickster is not a Joker knock-off.
Anti-grav air shoes no harder to swallow than a high school Peter Parker inventing magic webbing with so many uses, that dissolves into nothing after an hour or so.
YES! Finally we get another top 5 stories video from Mr. Rogues! This is the series that introduced me to many of my favorite comics and your channel as well! Unfortunately I must admit that Trickster is a character that I know next to nothing about. I don't read a lot of Flash comics and he hasn't had a lot of starring roles in other media. I did like Mark Hamill's portrayal of him in the Flash tv show(even though he seems a lot more bloodthirsty in it than how Trickster is apparently usually depicted) and I'll be sure to check out all the stories on this list. In the future, after you finish off the 5 best stories videos for the remaining "big" Bat-rogues I was wondering if you could do either a top 5 best stories video or a Complete History of Video for Brainiac. He's one of my favorite Superman villains... and one of yours as well if I remember correctly!
I just noticed that the first cover for The Trickster has him in blue and RED but its orange in the story same for his pants instead of RED and black its ORANGE and blue
Great video. Now sorry to sound off topic, but I wasn't sure where else to put this. I've got a couple of Forgotten Super Villain suggestions. From Marvel, Cat (last name unknown) aka Lady Caterpillar (who in Britain is for some reason renamed Lady Earthmover): A fairly unique Spider-Woman foe who never got a chance to be fully explored. And from DC, Peter Mortimer aka Scavenger: an Aquaman villain who was nearly interesting until he was ruined by what might be the worst character revamp ever. Take your pick. Both involve giant mech suits, so there's a plus.
Same here. I've looked him up though and thought he'd make a decent video topic. As for Lady Caterpillar, I actually own the comics she appeared in, the "New Duds" storyline from Spider-Woman, which BTW contains appearances from many more minor marvel miscreants so it'll probably be right up your street.
I like this guy. I don't think he's the poor man's Joker. BTW, there's a DC hero called the Heckler. Just throwing that name out there for a future video.
Oh yeah, I already have plans for Heckler ;) It seems like I've been doing a lot of these "comedy" characters lately though, so he'll probably have to wait a while.
I have only read underworld unleashed, but thanks to your list, I have more trickster stories to look up. Also, I must agree about what Geoff did to Jesse during his flash run. I really don't know why he did it, but it was stupid and went against everything James is known for. I like the Geoff Johns flash run, but it has many flaws. If possible, do you think you could do a top 5 best stories for Captain Boomerang? Like Trickster, Boomerang had some great stories outside of the flash and grew more as a character.
And then Geoff ruined Jesse's entire reform by blaming it on some brainwashing by the Top, or something. I may do Boomerang at some point, but he's not exactly a priority to me.
The Trickster is a great villain, one of the best in fact. It's a shame that the best takes on the character never got represented outside of comics, as it would be amazing to have Mark Hamill truly bring life to this competent yet clownish conman (the CW version, from what I remember at least, was a quirky goofball terrorist, which is...weird (what happened to the no-killing rule?), but could be worse, & the DCAU version was enjoyable but limited by being such a minor character, so yeah - we still haven't seen him at the height of his potential onscreen).
Honestly, I'm not a big fan of Hamill's CW Trickster - he's too much like the Joker. I know a lot of people like it, but to me it aint really the Trickster. It's a good live action Joker though haha.
In the current Flash comics, James Jesse came back to life (I don't know how, because I haven't read the next issues, maybe it's not him and it was just a robot, or something like that)
Mr. Rogues....I have some good news for you! I hope you see this. DC just brought the Trickster back....And it's James Jesse. And his origin has been changed very little. It's in Flash #66, the new series. You should seriously check it out. It's almost as if someone saw this video...
Based on what I've read of the two, I have to say I prefer Axel over Jesse. I don't really know why, neither are really my favorite flash rogues, but I just like his attitude slightly more as a villain, though Jesse works kind of well as a neutral side character, at least in my mind. I think they could and should bring him back, not really as a full out villain, but more so like that version of Prankster where you could hire him to distract from actual crimes. Basically I just mean more how he is in the Catwoman story really. Side thing, do you plan on doing a top 5 for Abra Kadabra ? I really want to know what some of his best stories are as I love the character. Also do you ever plan on doing a video, maybe a top 5 of Gorilla Grodd? I'm not sure if you like the character or not, but if you do I'd really like to know some of his best stories as he is my second favorite flash rogue, and I find it kind of tough to find info on what good stories he has in the comics.
@Rubin Ivory-Rodriguez Axel sucks and if any of you fhcking bothered to read the first trickster stories you would have a better appreciation 4 J!ames Jesse
I remember UNDERWORLD UNLEASHED -- an interesting idea, plus it showed more respect for the classic Captain Marvel than his own series at the time was giving him*, as the Trickster talking Cap into bargaining for his soul in exchange for a wholly altruistic wish is what busted Neron's scheme in the end. Sadly, old JJ couldn't do the same for his old co-star, the Blue Devil, in that storyline. Just FYI, but the SECRET ORIGINS series from the late '80s had an all Rogues Gallery issue. It didn't explain how he invented shoes that defied gravity any better than his Silver Age stories did, but they had the interesting retcon that Jesse's acrobat family were immigrants from Italy, so "James Jesse" was an Americanized version of his birth name. Not sure if that remained official beyond that story, however. *I'm sorry, but Jerry Ordway can draw, but he cannot write.
It wasn't (insert Rob Liefeld project here) bad, but it was poorly written and Jerry's choice for internal art was no where near his level... otherwise at least the book would have looked good. Mostly it was not very well thought out adaptations of classic Fawcett characters and storylines, a large odor of "Tom Hanks' BIG with super-powers" p.o.v. of the character which pervades most automatic assumptions of the character, plot points that were almost automatically left hanging lines (for example, Beautia Sivana took a job with WHIZ tv as Billy Batson's private tutor... and the three panels where that was introduced was literally the one time that was ever mentioned nor was she really seen again after that), and the series acted as if it had already been around for awhile ever since the latest revamping of Cap's origin in the POWER OF SHAZAM graphic novel, so the reader is left with hinted at events and character development that really wasn't there. There were a few interesting ideas, but all in all, a bland series. Oh, another bad thing -- Ordway kind of treated it as a dumping ground for characters he'd created while working on the Superman titles that succeeding creative teams hadn't used, so for no real reason we have the demon twins Blaze and Satanus pop up, the reappearance of Gangbuster, and the introduction of Popey--er, I mean, Bibbo's long lost science professor brother *yeeeeesh!*
Wow. I thought the Geoff Johns run was rubbish but this sounds just as terrible. If you want to read a better captain marvel story, I reccomend captain marvel and the monster society of evil by Jeff Smith.
Thanks for offering, but other than ACTION COMICS #768 and the SHAZAM one-shots during the Convergence and Multiversity events, nothing that features DC's take on the Marvel Family has satisfied me in the past 25 years.
@@mr.rogues4145 okay if you do this is the issue to find him in the flash issue 54 at the very end you'll find him there I think he's going to pop up in issue 55 but I don't know for sure anyway he's back thanks for the video next time do you think you can do the five best Captain Boomerang stories I would really appreciate it
why don't you lie Axel also have you heard they are making a animated movie of batman hush I never been a fan of the book what your thought on the book
I don't find him interesting and he's very "bratty". Also, he replaced one of my favorite DC rogues, which certainly doesn't help... Yeah I heard, and don't really care - I'm not a big fan of the book either. Wish they'd adapt some other stories instead, but of course they go for the really famous ones.
Tao Jones T.jones agreed honestly I just wanted them to make a batman movie without Damien I don't hate him but he is my least favorite out of all the robins
@@ezekielrayfield1512 I dislike Damian too, not just because he's a pretty annoying character but also because every time he appears, the crappy Grant Morrison Talia has to appear with him. All of DC's recent animated Batman movies revolve around Damian now which is why I don't like those movies.
