Comic book villains: Part 3
By blog on May. 30, 2009.
Alright so now time for the final ten villains. Here’s hoping they are actually worthy of being in the top ten!
10: Kingpin. A big, fat, meh! Daredevil has always seemed crap to me, so I don’t really care about his villains. I have never really cared in the slightest about the ’stupidly wealthy, out to screw everyone, evil for no reason’ kind of villains. All they have is money, so they can pay people with actual super villain powers to do their dirty work!
9: Dark Phoenix. There’s no denying she is one scary evil doer, though I have always found that there isn’t any good – or bad – motivation for her. She just destroys stuff… because she feels like it… Well Miss Id-Kid, grow up!
8: Loki. He’s an interesting character in a way, the prankster who will ultimately bring an end to Asgard, but the comic book version is… less interesting to me. Why are there so many high-end villains working for other people?
7: Ra’s Al Ghul. Another interesting, and almost morally ambiguous character, except he is raving mad. I know he’s just after his idea of the perfect world, but even a moron can see that bringing down multiple civilisations isn’t going to get you real far, now is it, Mr Ghul!?
6: Darkseid… Boring! Seriously, I can’t stand the stupidly determined to wipe out all creation for no reason at all villains, they are stupid, pointless, and uninteresting to me.
5: Galactus. A world destroyer… because he is hungry… oh my, oh my that is so stupid. Seriously, I have no patience for this kind of inane super villain. I am pretty sure a group of ten year olds could come up with a villain with more depth than this guy.
4: Lex Luthor. Go back and read what I said for number 10, times my vehemence by 10, and you have what I think of ol’ Lex. Ugh, what a schmoozer, I have always hated this character, and not because he is some evil mastermind, no, because his history stinks and he lacks any kind of substance.
3: Doctor Doom. Maybe that group of ten year olds came up with this guy? I have always thought Doom sucked, stupid character, with a stupid name, with no real reason for being a bad guy, except ‘because’. Ugh!
2: Joker. Finally an interesting villain. Sure he’s nuttier than the packed lunch of your local squirrel, but he embraces that, and his role, and for the most part, a unique and interesting character emerges out of all that. I am absolutely happy to see him locked up, don’t get me wrong, but as villains go, it’s nice to see one that is actually villainous, not just rich.
1: Magneto. He’s an interesting one, his role as a villain is due to persecution of mutants, and yet he obviously takes that past the point of rationality, becoming that which he hates, a genocidal maniac.
So there’s the top ten. I have to say, it lacks luster, if you ask me. There are others that should have been up there.
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