So who is going to be the main villain in Christopher Nolans “The Dark Knight Rises”? Now rumor has it that newly casted Tom Hardy (Inception) will be playing a main villain in the new film. Nolan already confirmed that the main villain will definitely not be the Riddler but that still leaves many choices. I sort of narrowed it down to the most practical villain choices for a Chris Nolan film. I.e. who will fit in as the most realistic characters in Nolans world. Now there is a lot of speculation that he will be playing deranged Psychiatrist Hugo Strange. But it is also very likely that it could be The Disfigured mobster Black Mask, The juiced up venom addict Bane, or even Bruce Waynes childhood friend Tommy Elliot aka Hush.  hit the link to read more!
Is it Hush? Check out a short biography below  and leave your opinion in the comments!

A childhood friend of Bruce Wayne, with similarly wealthy parents and a keen, active mind, Tommy Elliot’s young life was marked with tragedy when his parents were involved in a car crash. Bruce’s father Thomas attempted to save them, but Tommy’s father died in surgery. After Bruce’s parents’ death some time later, Bruce and Tommy drifted apart until Bruce was injured in a car crash (actually the result of a fall while acting as the hero Batman) and Tommy, now a top-class surgeon, was brought in to save his life, which he did, also renewing their friendship. However, this was a cover. Elliot had long harboured a hatred for Bruce because the accident which killed his father had been Tommy’s idea; he wanted his parents to die so that he could inherit their fortune, but Thomas Wayne had ruined that. When his mother finally died of cancer many years later, he had the resources to exact his revenge. Discovering that Bruce Wayne was Batman, he worked with the Riddler to prepare a great game for him involving many of his friends and foes which was only foiled when Harvey Dent, healed by Elliot, turned against them. Elliot was injured in the subsequent firefight, and plunged into Gotham harbour.

He was presumed dead, but soon returned, determined to win Gotham for himself, with the Riddler as his first target. He gained an ally in Prometheus, but found himself up against both Batman and the Joker, a three-way battle which none of them won. He also encountered Poison Ivy, offering to make her human again, but their encounter ultimately ended in her death (though she, too, has recently reappeared on the scene, suggesting that her death was faked by either Hush or Batman). Hush has also found himself on the wrong side of the villainous Society, meaning that he is now a man with a great many enemies.

Is it Black Mask? Check out a short biography below  and leave your opinion in the comments!

Filled with a burning hatred for Bruce Wayne, Roman Sionis donned a mask fashioned from his father’s coffin and set about murdering Wayne employees. He was inevitable confronted by Batman, a confrontation that ended with a large conflagration. In the fire, Roman’s mask was burnt onto his face. He then became one of Gotham‘s most feared crime bosses, running the False Face Society for many years. He recently made an enemy of Catwoman and was thought to have been killed by her, but he resurfaced during Gotham’s gang war, and made himself the head of all Gotham’s criminal activity.
Is it Bane? Check out a short biography below  and leave your opinion in the comments!

From the island of Santa Prisca, Bane came with a grudge against Batman, breaking his will and breaking his back, only to be defeated by Azrael, who was filling in for Batman while he recovered. He then fell in with Ras al Ghul, falling in love with his daughterTalia, though he later grew to hate the two of them.
Is it Hugo Strange? Check out a short biography below  and leave your opinion in the comments!

Professor Hugo Strange he runs a rest hospital where as parto of the treatment, he uses a machine to graphically see whatever is on his pacients minds when he interviews them, recording and using it to blackmail them later. After Judge Maria Vargas a friend of Bruce Wayne is rescued by him as Batman from commiting suicide due to the presure, Bruce decides to the hospital and take the “treatment”, to find out what’s going on. Which allowed Strange to discover his secret identity.

As he does in the comics, instead of just blackmailing Wayne, Strange decides to auction the information ed off this information to a trio of Gotham’s villains: The Joker, The Penguin, and Two-Face(replacing Rupert Thorne). Only in this case, Batman switches the tape with one he had created that portrayed Strange as fabricating the secret identity, outraging the mobsters. Strange tried to save his skin by simply telling the villains that Bruce Wayne was Batman, but since Two-Face knows Bruce Wayne personally, acuses Strange of fraud and they simply scof at the idea, thinking he was lying.

The trio then tried to kill him by throwing him out of an airplane. Batman saved him at the last minute, however, and has Robin showing up at there disguised as Bruce Wayne to discredit Strange’s claims of knowing the Dark Knight’s secret identity.

Now honestly my money is going to be on Hugo Strange. He is the main villain in the new XBox/ Playstation 3 game Batman: Arkham City so it may be a lead up to strange being a big villain in the sequel. It is highly likely but we really don’t know until Nolan decides to quench our thirst for Batman.

Source: DCuguide.com