Um wow, what happened? I posted this and I just now found out the thing never posted, so here I am writing it again.
5. Doctor Doom
Doctor Doom has to be on this list just because he’s so good at what he does. Most supervillains have tried to take over the world, and then um, well, usually they either A, Die, or B, get thrown in jail.
Doctor Doom not so much, he’s the most successful of his kind, and that’s about it. He’s taken over a country turned it into a futuristic military powerhouse, and can bend other countries to his will by blowing them off the map. The only problem he has is that he’s frequently stopped by a bowl of jello, a pile of rocks, an imaginary friend, and a candle.
Defining moment: Taking over his home country and ruling it. Not only is he successful, but they see him as a super-hero, THAT’S success.
4. Two Face
Harvey Dent, shining hero of Gotham, and only man who will do what’s right no matter what happens to himself. Pour gasoline on half of his body light a match, add a crazy split personality, and you’ve got a great Super Villain.
Two face has two signature traits: Half his face is burned away or scarred up, depends on the artist, and he’s got a two headed coin with one side being damaged, and the other being perfect.
Two face flips this coin to decide someone’s fate. Frequently though; Havey’s psycho alter ego will twist his will on fate to kill someone. Like one time the coin didn’t land the way he wanted it to, so the guy got to not receive bullet in his head, Harvey then flips again, and shoots a crate suspended by rope down on him. Two Face feeds off of chaos, and sees chance as being our only judge in life. Combine that with his obviously creepy looks, and you’ve got one scary villain.
Defining moment: Harvey
3. Iron Monger
Iron man’s best and shortest lived villain. The Iron Monger was made by Obadiah Stane, which actually is the climax of their little battle. Leading up to that Obadiah Stane tried to perform a hostile takeover of Stark Industries, which was at the time fairly easy because Stark had gone just about mad drinking all the time, and had given up being Iron Man.
Obadiah nearly succeeded, but there was one thing he learned that made him even greedier, he found out Iron Man was Tony Stark, so he with the help of a few others, set out to steal the Iron Man tech. He did so successfully, and proceeded to make a giant super weapon version of Iron Man, he literally became a tank on legs. When Tony Stark was facing death, he put back on the suit that he had given up, and the two wound up fighting in a confrontation on Stane Industries’ rooftop. In a lucky Blow Iron Man kills Iron Monger.
Defining Moment: The Entire Story Arc was epic, but unlike other super villains who get an epic first story and then fade, Obediah didn’t have that opportunity, when they killed him, they killed him for good, though his psychotic cyborg son does later vow revenge, and continues the Stark-Stane war. So sadly his defining moment was his death.
2. Bane
ok first, let me tell all you who saw Batman and Robin: THAT WAS NOT BANE!
Ok, I’m calm now. Most people who saw the infamous Batman & Robin Movie would think that Bane is a professional wrestler who has Kool-aid pumped into his brain, and runs around grunting while smashing things that most of us could do anyway. Bane was unimpressive and well, lame.
Bane of the Comic who’s name they tried so hard to tarnish, however stand out as one of Batman’s greatest enemies, and responsible for his greatest story arc: Knightfall
Basically the story boils down to: Bane was a child serving his father’s prison sentence because ehis father either escaped, or died, or both, can’t remember, but basically Bane was born and raised in a prison. That’s just for starters, but this really doesn’t ruin Bane as much as we would think, one would think he would become a psycho, but really he becomes quite intelligent, he taught himself how to read, and he could figure out most problems, one would think he was a nerd, but again he actually built up his body so he was the strongest man there; I know what you are all thinking: so this guy is a jerk right? He’s totally evil right? NO, he’s polite, has a sense of honor, and prefers a fair fight to a one sided match.
Well fast forward to modern times, secret super soldier formula being tested, and Bane is selected because he was seen as expendable. He survives, but the Super Soldier formula known as Venom is required to constantly be feed into his body, he’s extremely addicted, but it gets worse, he’s now freakishly strong. It’s essentially a steraroid though, and it only amplifies his tremendous streangth, it doesn’t turn him into say: the Hulk.
They put Metal plates under his skin, and so by making him bullet proof, they make him the ultimate solder, so he does what any sensible wrongfully imprisoned person does when they are given super strength and invulnerability: he busts out.
He goes in search of Batman who I believe is somehow to blame for some of the previous events, though I don’t know for sure. He like immediately figures out Bruce Wayne is Batman, and does what every Super Villain before him should have tried: Set loose everyone in Arkham Asylum.
So he does, and Batman spends 3 months with barely any rest rounding back up. When Batman returns for the last time, he finds Bane in the Bat cave. The two confront each other, and then they fight for a while, leading up to Bane snapping Batman’s spine.
And That’s how it goes, Batman was beaten by Bane thoroughly, and Bane did it in the simplest most sensible way a super villain could. Unfortunately after Knightfall all the Other Bane Stories got progressively worse, but most anyone who’s heard of the best Dark Knight Stories has heard of Knightfall.
Defining Moment: Breaking Batman’s spine.
1. Green Goblin
The badest villain of them all. He is evil, insane, and a genius, and has been responsible for some of the greatest Spiderman story-arcs.
When Green Goblin first showed up he was just a mad industrialist who preformed the experiment on himself because he ran out of time, and he was one day away from losing everything. The Serum made him go absolutely insane, and he took just every weapon he had, and themed it after a cheesy haunted house. Ok The Green goblin’s Pumpkin bombs, razor bats, and the Bat-glider are all pretty lame, but it’s the man behind the mask that makes it all cool.
Green Goblin tortured Peter By hunting down his loved ones one by one, and kidnapping them and dangling them from high places, he scared the life out of Peter at every turn, and he was one of those few villains that when he got henchmen, he armed them properly. It was oftena lot of work for Peter to fight all the traps and trick Goblin would set up before he could confront Goblin himself.
But it gets worse, Green Goblin has tricked fellow villains into fighting each other, and sometimes other heroes to draw out Spiderman, and take him by surprise. Every time he was pulling out something new, and every time he was doing something more evil than the last.
Finally their one sided battles lead to Goblin tossing Peter’s long time girlfriend, and probably future wife off a bridge, and letting spider-man save her, only he couldn’t and her spine snapped. The green Goblin won that day, and thoroughly broke Peter.
After that the battles got even more personal as Peter was often finding it hard not to kill Goblin until they finally had such a fast paced battle, that Peter leaped out of the way one time as the glider was approaching, and he looked up to see Norman Osborn dead by his own machine.
Later Norman Osborn literally smashes his way out of his grave, and proceeds to go back to his insane ways. He kidnapped his own grandson this time and nearly killed him, along with tricking Peter into thinking his Aunt died.
Defining Moment: It’s hard to choose just one, Norman Osborn is such a brilliantly evil person that almost all of his stories wind up epic, but if I were to choose one, I would choose the Death of Gwen Stacy: Peter’s Girlfriend. It was one of the defining moments in Comic book history, and had the largest impact on the character of Spiderman other than the Death of Uncle Ben.
pretty cool! :-D neat posts..... :3 ^_^
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