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Has got to be the Penguin. I mean how intimidating is George Costanza with a top hat and an umbrella?
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How can you nominate anyone from Rocky and Bullwinkle?!! Snidely Whiplash is the best. Anyone from Canada who is evil enough to tie women to railroad tracks is almost as evil as the Land Lord who makes you pay the rent.
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"The Riddler" was pretty lame as a super villain. I mean, he'd purposefully leave clues that were always so blatantly obvious it was just dumb. It was like all he really wanted was someone to figure out his riddles. He didn't really want a life of crime at all.
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I htink all supervillians are ultimately equally bad. I mean, when was the last time a supervillian won?
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Well, GeorgeClooney killed off Batman and Robin, and escaped with millions upon millions of dollars. Last I heard, he was living it up in the Italian Riviera.
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in all fairness, it takes at least 2 plumbers to take bowser down, and sometimes even a mushroom person. and they almost always have royalty supporting their quests.
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3) Sadaam Hussein. His power, making people believe he had stacks of WMD's. In his biggest palace was a not addressed to President George W. Bush. It said, "Ha, ha. Made you look."
2)The Chenester. Secret head of the semi-secret organization known as Hell-it-burnin. His biggest puppet master like skill is the ability to prod governmental leaders into doing his bidding, somewhat, and of course, his ability to bleed oil.
3)Ken Lay. Secret head of a very wealthy cartel of stupid business men determined to become very wealthy while destroying the US Economy, the dreams of their investors, and the New York Stock Exchange. His secret power, the ability to spend gobs of money.
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I've got to go with the Riddler, as well. Consider that while the Penguin looks silly and engages in ridiculously elaborate schemes, his "gimmick" does not at least involve giving the good guys clues on how to stop him.
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Those of us who hung out in the DC universe discovered something cool--the lamer the villian, the harder the writers would have to work to make them scary and menacing. And some of the writers did a bang-up job.
There was a penguin origin story where Oswald Cobblepot welded shut the metal teeth of the guy who used to abuse him as a kid using an "umbrella welder," then stripped him down, slathered him in fish oil, and left him for dead in the tiger pit of the local zoo that was crazy. The image of the guy with his teeth welded shut and tears rolling down his cheeks was haunting.
Riddler had a great appearance in Denny O'Neil's "The Question," where he and a floozie took a bus hostage, they were robbing everyone, and killing them, too, if they didn't answer his riddles.
The Question then began to banter with him regarding old Zen riddles, real mysteries of the universe type stuff until he broke down crying and confessing some of those unaswerable riddles had helped drive him to madness.
I don't know how cool they sound here, with me describing them, but the comics themselves were cool to me at the time.
Don't get me wrong--I'm not arguing premises for the villans weren't stupid. I'm just saying that sometimes the worst premises, by inspiring a writer to rise above them, create some of the best product.
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Come on, Chucky, that doll, has got to be worse then The Riddler. Although my name has nothing to do with the Riddler, he's better than a killer doll. ?
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I went through most of my life afraid of chucky, but then I watched the movie a few months ago and now I'm thinking that it was meant to be a comedy.
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Shouldn't this thread be about the most effective, and therefore worse supervillian ever?
Like shouldn't we be saying "Victor Von Doom could have Magneto eating out of the palm of his hand," or some such nonsense? Posts: 1843 | Registered: Aug 2003
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I've changed my mind. I would have to say The Brain, from Pinky and the Brain is the worst. Although I loved it, he tried every night to take over the world and he always failed. He didn't even have a superhero that tried to stop him. He just failed. He never gave up though. That's one good thing. ?
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