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ExploreEveryone always talks about super heroes. Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, even Aquaman. A bunch of boring do-gooders. They would be nothing if they didn’t have their opposites. I mean, who would want to hear about a super hero who saves the world from kids who play their music too loud? Who would read about the hero who protects humanity by saving cats from trees? No, for a good super hero you need an even better super villain. You need a good challenge for things to be interesting. Here’s some of the best ones the world has seen so far.
Bane
Forget the stupid mask from the movie, where you could barely understand the guy. This super villain once actually broke Batman’s back. With his super intelligence he even found out Batman’s secret identity.
Poison Ivy
I promise it won’t be just Batman villains, but she’s a powerful seductress, with a special ability to turn super heroes against each other.
Mystique
Being over 100 years old and blue isn’t easy. Luckily for this villain, she can change her appearance to look like pretty much anyone she wants, which makes it pretty easy for her to trick pretty much everyone at some point or other.
Professor Zoom
Most famous for killing the wife of the Flash, this super villain started out by traveling through time to become a super hero like the Flash. Matching his speed, but cracking under his own homicidal character, he ultimately turns to evil.
Doomsday
This guy doesn’t really have that cool a story, but he did manage to kill Superman. Or he would have, if super heroes could ever really die. So he put him in a coma at least.
Venom
This guy is basically reverse Spider-man. When a gooey liquid from outer space joins up with Spider-man first and hiss enemy Eddie Brock second, the result is the dark anti-Spider-man.
Doctor Octopus
This super villain actually managed to steal Peter Parker’s body at some point. Spider-man was left hanging in Doc Ock’s dying body.
Bullseye
This is a dude who just loves to kill Daredevil’s girlfriends. When he impaled Elektra it was a complete shock to everyone reading, and it turned him into Daredevil’s archenemy forever.
Loki
Thor’s adopted brother shares some of his super powers. Unfortunately living in his brother’s shadow made him hate the cool super hero, so pretty much everything he does revolves around screwing him over.
Lex Luthor
I don’t really know why Superman wouldn’t just kill the little bald guy, but every time this guy tries to take over the world, he just kinda gets a friendly warning.
Magneto
He used to be a BFF to professor Xavier. He’s not so much a villain, in a twisted way he’s just trying to protect his own people, and even defends human rights. At any cost.
Shredder
The arch enemy of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles knows ninjutsu and has his own army of mutants that he constantly sends to the world to wreak chaos.
The Joker
And of course, everyone’s favorite crazy person. The Joker. He killed Batman’s parents, but that’s just the start of everything. He really just wants people to smile more.
Ultron
Very powerful, completely emotionless and without a soul, he only wishes for one thing. The rise of the machines.
Dark Phoenix
She’s kind of the opposite of Jean Grey. Virtually unstoppable, she uses her psychic powers for evil.
The Riddler
Another one of Batman’s enemies. Insane genius that just can’t resist leaving clues to who did it, for Batman.
Green Goblin
The original Spider-Man super villain. He used a serum to gain super strength but lost his mind in the process.
Sandman
The name says it all, he’s a guy made of sand who can shapeshift into huge monoliths and crush his victims. He did eventually change his ways though and is now helping Spider-man.
Carnage
He’s is released from the blood of the deranged killer Cletus Kassidy. With his viciousness and sharp teeth, Carnage always delivers on his name.
Morbius
He’s a living vampire that is a threat to both Spider-Man and Blade.
Brainiac
He’s an alien with green skin, always trying to get to Superman. His biggest crime was shrinking an entire city from Superman’s home planet Krypton.
Red Skull
He’s Captain America’s greatest enemy. The former soldier under Hitler has a red skull instead of a face after taking a serum. He’s also the guy who killed Peter Parker’s parents.
Two-Face
Harvey Dent used to be a law attorney, but after a criminal burned half of his face with acid, he decided that there was no real justice, so he decides everything based on the flip of a coin.
Apocalypse
He’s a mutant with God like powers, whose only threat is the future grand child of Cyclops.
Doctor Doom
Vince van Doom is the villain who is constantly fighting the fantastic four, but he has also fought most of the superheroes of the Marvel world.
General Zod
He’s a Kryptonian who uses his power to pose a threat to Superman.
Judge Death
Judge Dredd’s enemy uses his undead police to battle all life, as only the living commit crimes.
The Saint of Killers
He’s a badass from the Preacher comic books, who actually killed both the Devil and God so he could sit on the Throne of Heaven.
Darkseid
A god who has killed his own mother and only fears Doomsday.
Galactus
He’s pretty much eternal. But basically he’s just hungry, so he destroys worlds.
Ra’s Al Ghul
He has beaten the entire Justice League, but he’s basically just trying to improve Earth.
Catwoman
Not a villain in the strictest sense, she’s usually on the darker side of the line. She’s also the closest Batman ever came to true love.
Black Adam
He is responsible for the Third World War, clashing with a lot of superheroes along the way.
Juggernaut
He’s Charles Xavier’s step brother who has clashed with the X-Men, the Hulk, Thor and Spider-Man.
Harley Quinn
She’s Joker’s number two. Not the toughest or the most evil, but way up there when she turns on the crazy.
Thanos
He’s kind of a romantic. For love, he was going to destroy all the life in the universe.
The Penguin
This high class society reject turned to life of crime not because he was crazy but simply because he was good at it.
Omega Red
Some scientists had the bright idea of giving a Russian soldier/serial killer/child rapist retractable carbonadium (a more malleable form of adamantium) tentacles instead of his less useful arms. Think Captain America but the opposite.
Electro
An enemy of Spider-Man, he gained the ability to control electricity after being struck by lightning while working on a power line.
Mysterio
Quentin Beck aka Mysterio made it his life goal to piss off Spider-Man, and he’s done a good job of it
