Comic book villains: Part 1
By blog on May. 30, 2009.
I think all boys will at some point read comic books. It’s in the book of average little boy behavior. My main comics of choice were actually Asterix and Obelix, and Tintin, but I did read a little X-Men from time to time. Apart from that though, my comic book experience was rather limited, so when IGN brought out their list of the top 100 comic book villains, I had to take a look, even if I have never encountered the majority of these evil-doers in comic form as yet.
Some of the names are hilarious, I have to say. When you know nothing at all about something, and you hear the name for the first time, you can have this very unbiased opinion, which can often lead to outright belly laughs. For instance, at 100, there is MODOK… which is an acronym for ‘Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing’. That is laugh worthy. I mean sure, if you read a comic with this little fellow in it, you might think MODOK is a perfectly scary villain name, but if you haven’t, it’s entirely absurd. Annihilus fits into this category too, but more of a chagrined chuckle than full on laugh.
Numeber 91, The Adversary… who is Geppetto… from Pinocchio… That earns a full roar of laugh, with some bemusement too. Now 90, Carnage, he is one scary dude. That is a super villain! Then you have Mysterio… this dude needs to learn the importance of appropriate head ware. I mean really, who’s going to take you seriously with that bubble on your head!?
Saint of Killers has a rather jarring name, but actually has an interesting history. Something that many of these top 100 lack, in my humble opinion.
At 65 I’m afraid we have another entry into the silly helmet brigade, with Kang the Conqueror, but I suppose that isn’t quite as bad as The Leader, who has a silly – and somewhat repulsive – looking head… He’s worse off than Kang, because he can’t take it off.
Riddler came in at number 59, and I am happy to see him there. Whilst he isn’t the scariest chap around, he is nonetheless interesting and fun. Right after him is the oh-so-different but still from Gotham, Scarecrow, who I think is awesome in his freakishness. He is an interesting one, and his forays into Batman’s psyche are always interesting to ponder. Hobgoblin comes next, and he just isn’t scary. What are you going to do, Hobgoblin, put me in stripes next to spots? Hobgoblin’s alter ego is a fashion designer, you see, and whilst I could see a nasty remark about my outfit coming from him, there is little else to fear here.
Penguin got number 51, and I am proud of the little slime ball, in a way, I mean, how well do you think you’d do if you looked like a penguin, and not one of those cute ones. Lastly before I sign off on part 1 of my comic book villains expose, at 50 was Cassandra Nova who’s actually a pretty scary piece of work. Anyone that can best Professor Xavier is not someone I’d like to meet.
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