Comic book villains: Part 2
By blog on May. 30, 2009.
First thing I want to say before I pick up again on my critique of comic book villains, is that the villains of Batman, kick the ass of the villains of Spider-Man. Seriously, the are nearly all so ridiculous! There are a few exceptions, but by and large, Gotham is a much scarier place.
Okay, on with the show. This guy, Thanos, looks like a thug, but is actually a pretty scary, psychotic fellow, and they are nearly never any good. I do enjoy when comic book villains are actually unique and creepy, I think it adds a more adult touch often missing from villains. At 46 we have Doomsday, who is the only creature to best Superman. I am glad that it didn’t turn out to be for good, because frankly, if Superman dies, then something in this world is wrong. I don’t care overly for Superman, I just like knowing he is out there in comic book land.
Another Batman villain makes it in at 45, Harley Quinn. I don’t know why, but there is something endearing about her in Batman: The Animated Series, she’s a nut-job, but one that loves her man. Awwwww.
Shredder made it in at number 39, and I have to say, I have never been impressed by the villain. He is more one of those villains that falls into the irritating category, rather than actually any real threat. 38 is a whole different story. Sentinel is one scary foe, these guys have always been creepy, for their lack of compassion and humanity, which is so clearly represented in their machine forms.
Number 34 is Bane. He who stopped The Batman, the original Batman, Bruce Wayne. I know there is a new Bat, and that Bruce couldn’t keep it up forever, but I really want this guy to receive some serious ass-whopping for breaking Bruce’s back!
I have to mention Bizarro at number 25 just because I like the The Bizarrow Jerry episode of Seinfeld. At 24 there is Apocalypse, and interesting character pulling a great many strings unseen in the X-Men world. You can really see this list start to ramp up now, with number 23, Ultron (silly name aside) being another scary foe. Venom is one of the few exceptions to my ruling about Spider-Man villains being unscary and crud, he’s a real nasty looking fellow.
Number 21, Ozymandias, actually has a very interesting, and morally ambiguous back-story, something very refreshing to see! 19 is Juggernaut, and I have to say, I always hated this guy, he is just an annoying git, really.
Brianiac, stupid name and all, is another of the Sentinal styled foes. The unfeeling, compassion lacking, machine-like villain. I find him really annoying too, actually. Number 13 proves that Spider-Man has the lamest villains, there is just something about the Green Goblin that screams crappy.
Before I leave off for part 3 – there really has to be three parts, you see, because the top ten deserve a good entry! – number 11 is Catwoman, and I am glad she made it up there. She really isn’t all that bad, too many times has she actually tried to help, but she has a certain style, as with most of the Batman villains, that is unmistakably her own.
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