[1] A prominent enemy of Batman, Clayface has appeared in various forms of non-comics media, and has been voiced by Ron Perlman in the DC Animated Universe (DCAU) and Alan Tudyk in both Harley Quinn and the DC Universe (DCU) animated series Creature Commandos, among others, with live-action versions of the character appearing on the television series Gotham, portrayed by Brian McManamon, and Pennyworth, portrayed by Lorraine Burroughs.

Created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane, the original Clayface, Basil Karlo, appeared in Detective Comics #40 (June 1940) as a B-list actor who began a life of crime using the identity of a villain that he had portrayed in a horror film.

[2] Kane stated that the character was partially inspired by the 1925 Lon Chaney version of The Phantom of the Opera and that his name was derived from Boris Karloff and Basil Rathbone.

[4] In the late 1950s, Batman began facing a series of science fiction-inspired foes, including Matthew Hagen, a treasure hunter given vast shapeshifting powers and resiliency by exposure to a pool of radioactive protoplasm, who became the second Clayface.

Sondra Fuller of Strike Force Kobra used the terrorist group's technology to become the fourth Clayface, also known as Lady Clay.

[10][11] In post-Crisis continuity, Karlo gains shapeshifting abilities similar to his successors after injecting himself with Preston Payne and Sondra Fuller's blood.

[13] In later appearances, he joins the Injustice League and temporarily assumes Donna Troy's form after absorbing her powers.

[14] In The New 52 continuity reboot, Basil Karlo gains his powers from a chemical formula that renders his body malleable.

He is an actor who is disfigured in a car accident, uses the chemical Re-Nu to restore his face, and transforms into a clay-like metahuman after overdosing on it.

[17] Victoria October works to return Karlo to normal, during which Batman has him wear a special wristband that locks him in his human form.

[21] In Infinite Crisis, Hagen resurfaces and joins Alexander Luthor Jr.'s Secret Society of Super Villains.

Labs employee who suffers from hyperpituitarism and transforms into Clayface after using Matt Hagen's blood to cure his condition.

[25] A stunted, emaciated Payne appears in the graphic novel Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth by Grant Morrison and Dave McKean.

Having the power to change into virtually any shape and size, he preys upon prostitutes in Gotham's East End until Catwoman is able to contain his severed head inside of a freezer.

This includes pretending to be Tommy Elliot (Hush's true identity) and Jason Todd to hurt Bruce Wayne.

[39][40] Elliot also takes some samples from Williams to try and determine how he can duplicate the shapeshifting aspects of Clayface without losing his original form, also using these samples to infect Batman's ally Alfred Pennyworth with a virus that allows Hush to exert some degree of control over Alfred, forcing him to commit murder.

John Carlinger was a renowned actor and director who held a film exhibition aboard the yacht Varania III.

Batman punched Carlinger's lights out and exposed his murder scheme, putting the corrupt movie producer's brief stint as Clayface to an abrupt end.

[55] The being known as Clownface began as a stray piece of Clayface's body that became unattached and gained enough sentience to morph itself into a mute old man.

[57] The Matt Hagen incarnation of Clayface, with elements of Basil Karlo, appears in series set in the DC Animated Universe (DCAU), voiced by Ron Perlman.