While it’s not yet known which villains will appear in – save for the return of Colin Farrell’s Penguin, but more on that in a bit – the makeup designer who brought both Penguin and to the big screen in shared his thoughts with IGN about how realistic versions of “weird” characters like Clayface or Two-Face could be brought to life within . While there have been several incarnations of Clayface (who ), the character’s clay-like, grotesque physical appearance and ability to shapeshift have largely remained consistent since the first Clayface, Basil Karlo, appeared in 1940. While such a fantastical ability and countenance may not seem to lend itself to the more grounded approach taken by The Batman and , Mike Marino, the artist who transformed Colin Farrell into the wholly different-looking Oz Cobb, has some ideas of how to do it citing natural occurring elements.
“Since I collect all this stuff, there are so many strange things that happen in nature,” Marino said. "There's so many people that have really weird things that happen to them, to their skin, to their appearance, and their faces swell and they're missing pieces of their face and all of these things that happen, which you would think, if you really saw, what a real dead body looked like, you wouldn't believe that it's real. You'd be like, that looks fake.
That's wrong. But it's real.” Marino added, “There's so many outstanding colors that come out of nature and strange textures and bubbles and al.