24
May
2013
Friday Five – Villains
Welcome to the Friday Five! Each week I help you get to know a me a bit better with the help of a top five list. This weeks category: Comic Book Villains.
A hero is only as good as his rogues gallery. Breaking up muggings and robberies is all well and good, but taking down a super villain and his diabolical machinations is an entirely different story.
I’ve always thought that in the comic book world, Marvel had the better heroes, but DC had the better villains. Batman has villains like the Joker, Two Face, and Scarecrow. Spider Man’s biggest foes for a long time were an old man with wings (Vulture), an old man with 8 arms (Doctor Octopus), and a dude who blends in easily (Chameleon). Not quite the same league. Marvel would eventually start making better villains in the 80’s and 90’s, but a lot of them still just aren’t up to snuff when it comes to villainy.
- Lex Luthor – A smart dude who totally hates Superman, so much so he’d wear a kryptonite ring that eventually killed him, before we went and cloned himself or ended up as or son or whatever crazy shit happened in the 90’s. Any dude that steals 40 cakes is hard core. That’s 4 10’s! And that’s terrible.
- Khan Noonian Singh – Either version will work here. Genetically engineered to be the smartest and strongest man around, who isn’t afraid of dying just to maim his foe and prove his point.
- The Borg – At least pre-Voyager, they couldn’t be bargained with, couldn’t be negotiated with, and simply couldn’t be stopped. All they wanted was to assimilate the human race, no more, no less. Basically they were technological zombies, no individuals, just a teeming horde. Even time travel and the logical paradoxes that entails weren’t off the table as tools to accomplish that goal.
- Darth Vader – I may be a Trekkie now, but in my youth, I couldn’t help but love Star Wars, as it is basically a childs wet dream. Even though Trek is far more sophisticated, I have to admit that Vader is pretty much the baddest man in the universe, a nubian god, even if deep down, he really is a crusty old white dude.
- Green Goblin – Basically Spidey’s only good villain, who knew the best ways to engage with him isn’t necessarily physically, but psychologically. The dude dropped Spider-Man’s girlfriend from the top of a bridge. That’s some total badassery right there.
 JohnScott is the proud owner of a life size replica Captain Kirk Chair. He is a hoarder of Comic Books, Transformers, and Star Trek action figures. He attended Space Camp as an adult. He has taken vacations to the closing of the Star Trek Experience and the final night Shuttle launch. He has been known to yell at his television when the kids can't put together the damn statue in the Shrine of the Silver Monkey. When not writing for InsufficientScotty, he is a Software Engineer for a major healthcare communications company.
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