Give me your top three SuperVillains...

[Wombat]

Assuming that we are sticking to fiction, I'll give this a whirl

O'Brien (1984) -- the ultimate Just A Cog In The Faceless Evil

Darth Vader (SW) -- big, bad, with a really twisted moral code

Mordred (Arthurian legends) -- selfishness incarnate, willing to destroy perfection for personal gain

...and the Honourable Mention...

The Master Criminal (Amelia Peabody books) -- anyone who would cause this much distress to Amelia deserves to be counted as Hopelessly Evil!

 

[Thyrkill]

1) Reverse Flash - All the powers of the Flash and evil!

2) Sinestro - All the powers of Green Lantern and no weakness to yellow.

3) Lobo - Don't mess with his fishies.

 

[The Grackle]

I'm impressed that Doom gets so much respect around here. Not bad for a guy who wears a green mini-skirt. I always loved Doom b/c he was a master scientist AND a master sorceror AND he could beat down the F4 in a fight. That's a bad man.

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Really though, it's all about the relationship between the Superhero and the Supervillain. What's King Pin w/o Daredevil? What's Magneto w/o Professor X? The Joker w/o Batman?

A great supervillain has the respect of his adversary- even a strange kinship.

 

[Reflex]

1. Ozymandias. Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair indeed. A great villain in a genre-defining book. Very rarely is a villain's motivation so keenly defined and well rationalized. He was profoundly interesting and supremely motivated. Despite having no powers aside from his intelligence and his discipline, he took on the equivalent of Superman in the pursuit of what he deemed right... Even though others would deem it criminal. I just can't say enough about this guy. It would be a hell of a thing to confront players with this kind of conundrum.

2. Roy Batty. Sure, he's Frankenstein's monster to some extent, but what a fascinating take he proved to be. He desperately sought freedom and preservation of his life, and in the end, who could truly blame him for his deeds?

3. Galactus. A world-devouring entity that presses likely prospects into service as his heralds by threatening to consume their home worlds. This being has little concept of our morality- it's existence necessitates that it feed on life forms. It is a whale and to it, we are but krill.

 

[Teflon Billy]

3. Galactus. A world-devouring entity that presses likely prospects into service as his heralds by threatening to consume their home worlds. This being has little concept of our morality- it's existence necessitates that it feed on life forms. It is a whale and to it, we are but krill.

I loved the treatment of Galactus in Earth X

Spoiler:

Spoiler

It Turns out he is the most humane of the Celestials. He has Heralds simply so that the "Krill" can be warned that he is coming, and that they should probably get lost.

It turns out that if we are "Krill" to Galactus' "Whale", we are equally "Germs" to the Celestials "immune system"

 

[hero4hire]

Doctor Doom: You can't go wrong with Doomsey. Plotting, masterful, intelligent, yet honorable.

Bullseye: Frank Miller days (sigh) he was such a bad@$$. His breaking out of prison by breaking his own tooth and spitting it with deadly accuracy...Awesome!

Thanos/Darkseid: I just love it when these guys show up. Nothing like guys who can take on a whole team and do it with some class.

 

[TroyXavier]

3. Multiple Marvel Villains led by Apocalypse.
2. Multiple DC Villains led by the Joker
1. Hank Scorpio. He's just the perfect villain ever.

 

[Hammerhead]

Darth Vader. Style, wit, power, pride. The dude is my role model. He's also a fallen angel of sorts, with only one weakness. Lord Vader was definitely the biggest influence to Soth in Dragonlance.

Rezo/Copy Rezo from Slayers. A cleric of immense power who can't even cure his own blindness. His blind obsession (forgive the pun) ultimately destroys him and very nearly all that he held dear; his clone similarily suffers from an obsession to surpass his father. You really feel sorry for him as he dies. I'm sure this archetype of villain was stolen from somewhere else, but I'm not familiar with the source material.

The Antithesis, from my own game. You kill him, and he just steals someone else's soul and comes back. Truly evil and nihilistic, first killed by his mother figure at a young age. No life, not even his own, has any value for him.

 

[Stone Angel]

Ok this is a tough one for me but here it goes

Thanos: Nothing says ass whuppin like Thanos' home cookin

Master Darque: A member of the Valliant universe, all black magicky and super mysterious. A shame that I lost track of him

The Joker: For the longest time I thought he was a total tool, but then I read Arkham Asylum and the Killing Joke man I cannot fathom the depths that his sanity has dived too.

Honorable mention includes Mr. Sinister, The Mandarin, Tyrant, Morg, Darkseid, Lex, Reverse Flash



The Seraph of Earth and Stone

 

[Anthraxus]

I haven't read the comics for awhile, but...

1. Dr. Doom
2. Apocalypse
3. Thanos

Yes, and now I notice that all three I listed are "Wheels within wheels", far seeing plan-type Super Villains... Interesting.

-A