Dick Tracy: Angel Delight
The Villain: Angeltop Jones, Flattop’s daughter. Her gorgeous locks of golden hair wrapped around her head hide the hereditary squashed noggin.
The Possible Plot: As Tracy’s marriage to Tess Truehart hits the rocks (she thinks it’s time he retired, he’s adamant he’s not ready for the boneyard yet), Angeltop Jones enters Tracy’s life.
Dick Tracy: Big Boy Strikes Back
The Villain: Big Boy, a thuggish crime boss who failed to kill Dick Tracy.
The Possible Plot: Though his plummet inside the drawbridge at the climax of Dick Tracy seemed to have silenced Big Boy forever, he’s been quietly recuperating for years, waiting for a moment to get his own back on Dick Tracy.
He falls in with Madam Parfum, and uses her fake perfumery shop as a front for his operations, then recruits Mr Bribery (who beheads his victims and shrinks their heads) to kill Tracy once and for all.
Actor Hidden Under Prosthetics: Al Pacino, reprising his role.
Dick Tracy: Prunes The Boss?
The Villain: Pruneface, a sadistic German who plots to bring America to its knees.
The Possible Plot: A dramatic opening scene has Pruneface fighting Dick Tracy’s father back in the day, only to be accidentally frozen by a cryogenic chamber during a shootout.
Years later, when Dick Tracy Jr is a grown man, Pruneface is finally unfrozen by Nazi compadre Dr Cyros Freezedrei. Together, the two plot to sell the secret of immortality to America by mass marketing a substance that will actually kill any unfortunate customers.
Actor Hidden Under Prosthetics: Viggo Mortensen
Dick Tracy: Mumblecorps
The Villain: Mumbles, a criminal guitar player who steals jewellery and murders on a whim.
The Possible Plot: With Big Boy gone, Mumbles has become the new crime lynchpin. He’s set up his own criminal empire, Mumble Corps, and funds his ventures by stealing and murdering with gleeful abandon.
Dick Tracy: Capitol Punishment
The Villain: Al Kinda, a swindler with big ideas.
The Possible Plot: Kinda earns his keep by robbing and kidnapping. After that starts to get a bit boring, he embarks on a crackpot scheme to blow up the US Capitol building, recruiting other gangsters to his cause. Can Dick Tracy and Tracy Jr stop him before it’s too late?
Actor Hidden Under Prosthetics: Tom Cruise
Dick Tracy: Redrum
The Villain: Faceless Redrum, a gang leader.
The Possible Plot: Breathless Mahoney used his identity in the first Dick Tracy , but now the real Faceless Redum is in town, and he’s pissed that some lounge singer posed as him.
He kills everybody in his gang after they abandoned him, leaving a trail of bodies across the city that Tracy ends up investigating. Is there a pattern to the killings?
Actor Hidden Under Prosthetics: Jackie Earle Haley
Dick Tracy: Blowtop
The Villain: Flattop Jones’ brother, who possesses a spectacularly fiery temper.
The Possible Plot: Tracy and Tess Trueheart are married and have a baby. Unbeknownst to them, the villainous Blowtop’s been scheming to make their life a misery, and kidnaps their baby. When they refuse to pay him a ransom, he burns their home to the ground…
Actor Hidden Under Prosthetics: Christoph Waltz
Dick Tracy: Grey Matters
The Villain: Brain, who wears a hat that looks like a brain, and Broadway Bates, a renowned kidnapper.
The Possible Plot: A nutso gang leader, Brain is content in his bubble of petty crime and small-time looting, until the penguin-like Broadway Bates busts into his headquarters, escaping from Dick Tracy and co.
Dick Tracy: Street Smart
The Villain: Steve The Tramp, an opportunistic thug.
The Possible Plot: Steve The Tramp makes his money assaulting people and nicking their wallets. Eventually, Dick Tracy catches him and he’s thrown in jail.
Ten years later, Steve’s released and appears to be a changed man. He even opens his own fruit stall. But has he really seen the light? Or are a spate of new crimes his doing?
Actor Hidden Under Prosthetics: Jack Nicholson
Dick Tracy: We Are Family
The Villain: Flattop Jones’ family, all endowed with big bonces crammed with devilish criminal schemes.
The Possible Plot: With so many renowned gangsters dead or 'inside' thanks to Dick Tracy, the Flattop family members have become the world’s most influential crime mongers.
Dick Tracy: The Player
The Villain: 88 Keyes, a piano player and the leader of a guns-for-hire murder gang.
The Possible Plot: It’s been years since 88 Keyes helped frame Dick Tracy for Big Boy, and 88 Keyes is now the leader of his own gang.
When a surge in murders across the city occurs, Tracy starts to investigate who’s responsible. As people from both sides of the law turn up dead, Tracy is led into a dark web of conspiracy and corruption.
Actor Hidden Under Prosthetics: Mandy Patinkin
