Who’s more twisted, the villains of the DC universe or the Masked Singer judges?
The wacky singing competition held its DC Superheroes Night this week, so let's see just how compatible these two universes are
This week, Fox’s The Masked Singer took a break from normalizing monsters to … normalize some fictional monsters with DC Superheroes Night, a special episode in which the regular panel of judges misread the memo and dressed up like DC supervillains (save for Robin Thicke, who put in the least amount of thought and effort possible with his costume choice). The stage was also decorated with Michael Keaton’s Batmobile, Aquaman’s suit, and a few other items from DC movies, and the singer intros and songs were vaguely superhero-themed (yes, a squirrel and a gargoyle sang dueling versions of “Kryptonite,” because this show is deranged).
This was all part of a relatively new format shift for The Masked Singer, which involves doing these Dancing With The Stars-style theme weeks to make the show—which is typically so polite and restrained every other week!—a little more wacky and fun.
But when Dancing With The Stars has everyone grooving to Disney music or whatever on one of its theme weeks, it actually makes sense as vertical integration. They’re all owned by the same mouse, after all. However, DC superheroes have nothing to do with Fox or The Masked Singer, so it just seems like they saw an opportunity to do some built-in advertising for Shazam: Fury Of The Gods and this was the only place that made sense … but it only made sense in a weird anti-sense way, like everything with The Masked Singer. That’s sort of the magic of this goofy show anyway, right? Things happen for no apparent reason, the credits roll, and then you’re left wondering where the last hour of your life went.
Either way, The Masked Singer committed to this gimmick, at least on the fringes of the regular show they do, and now we can’t help but wonder just how compatible these two universes are. Are they more similar than we gave them credit for? And if so, which one has the greater evil villains? In other words, which crew is more nefarious, more cruel, and more mad: The villains of the DC universe, or the judges on The Masked Singer? Let’s put on our Batman detective cowls and try to solve this mystery judge by judge.
Robin Thicke vs. Robin
Robin Thicke is the featureless gray wall of the Masked Singer judges, so it makes sense that everyone else picked a villain who it would be fun to dress up as and he just picked the guy who is also called Robin (and then put an “R” logo on a ketchup-and-mustard suit). Robin in the comics isn’t a bad guy, even the Robin who was raised by Ra’s al Ghul and the League Of Assassins, so that makes this a pretty easy debate. Also: the whole “Blurred Lines” thing.
Who’s more twisted: Robin Thicke