Give me your top three SuperVillains...

[Teflon Billy]

...and feel free to add commentary on why they are your favorite. Marvel, DC, homebrew...I don't care

I'm looking for some inspiration for my upcoming Mutants and Masterminds campaign.

 

[green slime]

Dr Doom, (just too cool, and I really liked how he was potrayed in the now defunct Doom 2079 (IIRC, not too sure on the year)

Can't really think of any other that really stick out as personal favourites above the rest: Lex Luthor, The Skull, Magneto, the Joker, et al.

Dr Moriarty from Sherlock Holmes and Dorian Grey from the movie "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen"? (A great movie!)

So, there, my three:

Dr Doom (of Doom 2079),
Dr Moriarty (of Conan-Doyles books)
Dorian Grey (from tLoEG)

 

[Jeff Wilder]

(1) The Joker. Nobody -- but nobody -- can get into a hero's head and wreak havoc like the clown. See Arkham Asylum.

(2) Magneto. Is he misunderstood? If he the hero of an oppressed people? Is he a terrorist? Is he all three? (Note that currently Magneto is on the side of the angels in Excalibur.) He's an example of a villain with enough personal power to require an entire team of powerful heroes to defeat him.

(3) Lady Shiva. What's not to like about the perfect martial artist? Not even Batman can beat her in a hand-to-hand fight. (Theoretically, Batgirl can (and has), but I have my doubts.)

 

[green slime]

(1) The Joker. Nobody -- but nobody -- can get into a hero's head and wreak havoc like the clown. See Arkham Asylum.

Great book.

(2) Magneto. Is he misunderstood? If he the hero of an oppressed people? Is he a terrorist? Is he all three? (Note that currently Magneto is on the side of the angels in Excalibur.) He's an example of a villain with enough personal power to require an entire team of powerful heroes to defeat him.

And he is smart. Gotta like a smart supervillain.

(3) Lady Shiva. What's not to like about the perfect martial artist? Not even Batman can beat her in a hand-to-hand fight. (Theoretically, Batgirl can (and has), but I have my doubts.)

Who? Sorry, I've lost track of them all. Purchasing priorities and all that. And I thought Electra was the perfect martial artist?

 

[Jeff Wilder]

Who? Sorry, I've lost track of them all. Purchasing priorities and all that. And I thought Electra was the perfect martial artist?

Well, different universe. Shiva is DC. Batgirl fought her and beat her a couple years back -- but not before Shiva killed Batgirl and resuscitated her. Until that fight, Shiva was considered unbeatable in hand-to-hand combat. Batman admits openly that he can't beat her.

Actually, I haven't seen Shiva around in quite a while.

 

[Teflon Billy]

Dr Doom, (just too cool, and I really liked how he was potrayed in the now defunct Doom 2079 (IIRC, not too sure on the year)...

I'm definitely with you on Doctor Doom. He (and to a degree Magneto) are my favorite kind of villain...ones that might have a point.

One of my favorite moments in my comic reading years was when I realized that with Henry Peter Gyrich and the government sponsored Sentinels program, it was pretty clear that the X-Men were saps and Magneto had the right of it. There pretty clearly was a war against Mutantkind, and all of Charles Xavier's wishful thinking didn't change that.

With Doom, it was little less clear cut. since the Comic Code softened, Doom has been portrayed as an absolute despot, but not exactly a cruel or evil one.

I think it's Marvel canon that the people of Latveria were measurably better off after Doom overthrew the communist government there and instituted his rather more simple Doom-ocracy (yes i just mde that term up )

 

[Mark]

Professor Moriarty

Fu Manchu

Ernst Stavro Blofeld


Not necessarily in order, but perhaps, but maybe not, but don't tell them I couldn't decide...

 

[Teflon Billy]

Ernst Stavro Blofeld

Why Blofeld?

 

[ironmani]

Dr Doom.
Lex Luthor.
Deathstroke. The recent issues of Identity Crisis show him kicked the asses of the JLA lite.(Sans Supes Batman, Wonder Woman) Decisively too.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Lex Luthor & Dr Doom:
Masterminds, the Dr more hands on, plots within plots and the ablity to use others to perform in those plots.

Karl Edwards Wagner's Kane:
Not a superhero but Anti-hero, not so good guy, bored with life, inhuman in his thoughts.

JJ Jameson:
I know, you say he is not a bad guy but he is a villian, Anything to sell papers - truth takes a back seat, what spin can you place on a story to make a paper sell. He is a villian for the harm he does and because he feeds a mob, he has power and greed.