Give me your top three SuperVillains...

[omnimpotent]

Ooh, the Terror, from the Tick. He's old and broken down, but his rep does half of the work. Plus, apparently he's bad just because he likes to be bad. And, from the live action series, "I'm going to fold you into my pocket and spend you on a whore!"

Also, the Hyena, from Mutants and Masterminds. I can't say his powers are all that special, but the story is great. Saddle your worst, killing damage only PC ("why not just kill the villains? If you lock them up, they'll just escape..") with a charming young NPC ally/dependent, who has just recently returned from a trip to Africa. After several sessions, hopefully giving the PC a chance to bond, have the cult kooks following him kidnap and turn him. There's no way that story can turn out badly, except maybe for Killer PC.

And Jei (I think that's him) from Usagi Yojimbo. He's spooky, hates one of your PC's, refuses to die, and has a nice kid in tow for some reason. And no one knows why he exists, or does these things. And when he is finally killed, he remanifests in someone elses body. Someone else you KNOW. And it begins again.

 

[The Grackle]

Some more cool points about Doctor Doom:
-He's out-witted the Devil himself to save his mother's soul.

Really? I thought that every Walpurgis(or something) he would have a mystic battle w/ Satan to win back his mother's soul, and every time he lost. That's what drives him to master the arts of sorcery.

See he's not a villain, he's just a good son.

 

[Robbert Raets]

Bullseye - cause he whacked Electra and let her live long enough for DD to see it. Plus the who pseudo-sexual penetration with the Sai.

It does what now?!

 

[Darth Shoju]

Here's some info I found Doom and his mum:

(Marvel Graphic Novel: Dr. Strange and Dr. Doom: Triumph and Torment) - Having taken second place in the Aged Genghis/Vishanti's contest to determine Sorcerer Supreme of Earth, Doom earned the right to request a boon of the winner, Dr. Strange; Doom requested that Strange help him save his mother's soul. Strange and Doom journeyed to Mephisto's realm of Hell, where they struggled against Mephisto and his legions. Doom appeared to betray Strange by incapacitating him and offering him in exchange for his mother. After Strange was in Mephisto's possession, Mephisto recreated Cynthia's body and placed her soul within it. However, when Cynthia learned what Doom had bargained--reasoning that Doom had as much as forfeited his own soul in the process, she refused to be a part of it, and returned to an inert statue form. Mephisto appeared to possess Cynthia, Doom, and Strange's souls, but then a device of Doom's shattered Mephisto's crystal holding Strange, releasing the sorcerer. They then assaulted Mephisto, who mocked their attacks and unleashed powerful energies to destroy them.
Strange had shielded Cynthia's effigy, but he then allowed Mephisto's attacks to destroy it, releasing her soul. Having refused to leave Hell under Doom's pact, Cynthia had redeemed her own soul, and thus it had become a thing of purity, which Mephisto could no longer tolerate. Cynthia's soul escaped Hell, passing on to a higher plane. Defeated, Mephisto released Doom and Strange from his realm.

That's taken from http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/vondoomcynthia.htm

Here's another tidbit on it:

Doctor Doom was driven by three principal objectives: the destruction of Reed Richards, world domination, and the liberation of his mother's soul from the demon Mephisto's realm. He has so far achieved two of these aims. With the help of Dr. Strange, Master of the Mystic Arts and Earth's Sorcerer Supreme, he wrested his mother's spirit from Mephisto's grasp; a vital step in this process turned out to be tricking his mother into renouncing her love for Victor, and though it was difficult for him he was able to make that necessary sacrifice.

That quote is from http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/v/vi/victor_von_doom_1.html

I haven't been able to find anything on his people being wiped out in the holocaust. His parents seem to have died separately; his mom as a result of a pact with Mephisto and his dad of exposure while fleeing the forces of a local baron. I guess I have an over-active imagination (and I'm bored at work )

 

[The Grackle]

I love it when supervillains and superheroes are forced to team up.

 

[Darth Shoju]

**edit**
Whoops, double-post.

BTW, enjoying your rogue's gallery Grackle. Good work!

 

[driver8]

Mine:

1. Dr. Doom: an intelligent, almost urbane, sophisticated villain.

2. Red Skull: The stereotypical evil mastermind. No real charm, No redeming qualities. Just evil. And nazis are great villains. Nuff said!

3. Crusher Creel, the Absorbing Man: Not a major league villain per se, and no mastermind, but hes often popped up to be enough of a threat to take on the entire Avengers. And the idea of being able to absorb powers is kinda cool.

 

[Felon]

Well, Thanos is obviously at the top of the heap, if you actually still consider him a bad guy. He's consistently beaten every hero to cross him with the exception of Adam Warlock. A lot of folks say Thanos is just pale imitation of Darkseid, but I don't see how they can back that up. Darkseid is pretty much a real clown, with tremendous powers and resources that he never seems to accomplish anything with. Also, he's one of those villains who's constantly written in a way that makes him such an extreme megalomaniac that he constantly screws himself out of victory.

Belasco from The X-Men and Ka-Zar was a villain that had serious potential that was mostly untapped. Marvel had on their hands a sardonic, consummately-cruel demi-demon granted power by lovecraftian elder gods, so damned evil that he does things like turn heroes into deformed pets and freezes innocent kids in crystal then phases their skeletons out of their body, and they really only gave him a handful of appearances in his career. What a shame.

 

[Aexalon]

Sw

hm... Super-villains... I'll stick to my top-2, who actually don't work very well without eachother.

#2: Lord Vader. The ruthlessness ("Asteroids do not concern me!"), the arrogance ("Pray I do not alter [the plan] any further..."), the stick-behind-the-door ("I hope so for your sake, commander... The Emperor is not as... forgiving as I am"). This contrasts sharply with his redemption through taking out the #1, making him one of the most loveable villains out there.

#1: Darth Sidious. In the words of #2: "What is thy bidding, my master..." Palpatine takes much of his credibility from the fact that Vader swears fealty to him. Yet, his own accomplishments should not be wiped under the carpet. Through careful, decade-spanning manipulation, he managed to secure not mere total world domination, but total galactic domination. Pure, unadulterated malice. The fact that, in the end, he failed through overconfidence is just icing on the cake that is the supreme villain.

 

[Sejs]

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.

Agreed. Oh, ever so agreed.