Most Overrated Villains

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Doctor Octopus

This guy was actually pretty good for his time, but he long outlived his time. His main problem is that he’s two dimensional, he wants to kill Spider-Man, and everyone else who doesn’t like him. Gee I wonder why….

The movie tried to shake things up by making him sympathetic, but I never sympathized with him, and frankly I never understood why he was so whiny, plus him talking to his arms was beyond weird. The Movie never explained why his arms would have a personality.

Truth is, He’s cool looking, but beyond that, there’s not much to him.

Joker

Ok this is gonna get me flak, but it’s true Joker is overrated. At least, when he’s being the Joker.

The Joker Started out as an angry clown who turned into a weird psychopathic killer. When he’s mostly killing and laughing, he’s creepy cool, but when he’s whacking people with rubber chickens filled with bricks…. He loses that cool factor big time, and actually could be rated as one of the lamest villains ever designed.

Magneto

Magneto has to be one of those villains who always gets treated as if he were cool, but totally isn’t. The truth is that Magneto is an old guy who leads a group of other evil mutants. He’s explained to control magnetism, but can do way more than one could with Magnetic fields, so I guess no one really knows WHAT he is.

For a long time when it was a mental battle between him and Xavier, he was cool, but in recent years he’s taken over his own nation (Hello Doctor Doom anyone?) and Xavier has quit, so Magneto is sorta like a villain with no hero to fight, as a result he is boring, and he’s ripping off successful villains.

Lex Luthor

Oh My goodness there is no version of Lex Luthor that’s even remotely believable! Originally he’s a mad scientist who tries to destroy the world with futuristic weaponry, and then he becomes a mad scientist bent on killing superman so he can take over the world, and THEN he becomes a mad industrialist who becomes bent on killing superman so he can take over the world, and then he becomes a mad industrialist who wears a power armor and fights Superman personally to take over the world… and

See a pattern forming here? He’s got two goals: Kill Superman, and Take over the world. This wouldn't be so bad if people would just CATCH ON!!!!

I mean come on! When he’s out there shooting things down in his power armor you think SOMEBODY would notice and say “Hey Lex Luthor is a bad guy!” but nooooooo nobody ever suspects that Lex Luthor could be a villain, he must be a good man as he promises technological advances, and world peace (world Domination)

He insults the intelligence of the common reader, and as a result: is LAME.

Venom

Ok Yeah, This is the third arch nemesis in a row that I am taking on here, but guess what, I really don’t feel bad about this one. Venom had one good storyline, and that was IT. When he and Spiderman first faced off Spiderman had gotten rid of his uber cool alien Black suit, and an Angry Eddie Brock who had been ruined by a mistake which he blamed Spiderman for: Joined forces. They become the monster known as Venom. A dual Personality inside of one body, but they acted in perfect unison, and they were Spider-man’s equal in every way, but intelligence. Spidey always has to use his brains to overcome Venom.

The problem is that every story since has been the same, Venom wants revenge, he kidnaps someone Peter loves, Peter fights to near death, but beats him with either fire or sonics. This is getting BORING. It’s like rhino but with a cooler suit and better powers. Spiderman always does the same thing, but Venom is never bright enough to try new tricks. He has become boring, and everyone knows the story, everybody is bored with the story, we want something new.