Comments on: Top 10 Lamest DC Comics Villains

By: Batman Images

Batman Images — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:17:20 +0000

Haha love your list. Doctor Spectro is so super lame, I can’t believe anyone thought that was a good idea.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:20:22 +0000

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By: John

John — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 07:37:33 +0000

Good point. I agree that any villain, despite the absurdity, with the right writer can be turned from dud to stud.

I would like to note though that for as much hate as I get for this post, 99% from Flash fans assuming I’ve never picked up a Flash book (if only they knew), only 1 Flash villain made the top 5; 2 Batman villains made it and there are 3 in the whole list, surprised I don’t get hate from the Bat fans (me being a HUGE fan), so I did not intentionally play bias. For future lists though I’ll make sure to highlight the word “diversity” in my notes.

By: Rhydon

Rhydon — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 03:35:22 +0000

Laugh. You obviously don’t follow Flash’s rogues– much of the writing involving them is fantastic. They’re not two-dimensional (they’re actually people) and certainly not take-over-the-world types. The gimmicks are actually secondary– i.e. Mark Madron, Leonard Snart etc. would be interesting characters without ever being a villain at all. I mean, seriously, if you can move at the speed of light, ANYONE you fight is “dead”– superman, batman, green lantern… it doesn’t matter. Pick up a metal bar, accelerate to the speed of light and release on a trajectory with your target.

Thus, Flash villains (some of them, anyway– the rogues certainly) end up trying to avoid the Flash– the gimmicks are really just a chance to get away intact. Accordingly, the writers have to have complex motivations and decent stories to make the book interesting. In a similar manner, one of the more interesting things I saw was Iris Allen traveling back in time to the Fall of Rome to meet up with Zoom to hire him to bushwhack her grandson, Bart Allen. It was a great scene, even though her plot failed. The point is, it’s the writing that makes characters like Iris Allen, Mark Madron (weather wizard), Leonard Snart (Captain Cold), and Digger Harkness (Captain Boomerang, now dead) interesting. They’re great STORIES.

The only villains I’ve seen with as interesting backgrounds and personalities are some of the Batman villains– joker, etc.

Take Captain Boomerang. Absolutely an absurd villain from the beginning. And yet the personality is hilarious (albeit he’s now dead). Ditto for James Jesse (trickster I). Pretty much a con-artist at heart, yet excellently written in Underworld Unleashed.

By: vinidici

vinidici — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 02:24:08 +0000

Most of these “lame villains” hail from a more innocent day and time in the comic book industry, when the principle buyers were KIDS. Later, the kids grew up. Subsequent stories, retcons, etc. on the majority of the characters being trashed in your blog have broght them much more up to date–e.g., the Rogues during the last ten years or so in the Flash series and the Fiddler in a Hawkman annual from the 1990’s. Modern writers have given most of these characters renewed reason to continue making appearances. And you are obviously no fan of the Flash to be making your assesments based on less-than-current portrayals of the Rogues.

By: Mason

Mason — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:00:58 +0000

In hand to hand combat, I would feel pretty confident when it comes to these wannabe’s. I would feel confident going up against 3 or 4 of them even. I can only imagine knocking out Captain Cold, breaking his shades at the same time, freezing him with his own freeze gun then smashing him into pieces with a hammer. Wouldn’t take more then about 30 seconds.

By: John

John — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:14:20 +0000

I don’t care if they live on Apokolips and are the right hand man to Darkseid themselves, if they channel magic through a fiddle or throw boomerangs at the guy who can outrun sound they are lame in my book.

And despite the recent attempts to spice up Clock King, he’ll always be lame in my book.

And I couldn’t stop laughing at Sportsmaster when I was reading up on him.

By: MatthewHex

MatthewHex — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:38:23 +0000

Sportsmaster gets my lamest vote. Hillarious

By: Kello

Kello — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:25:35 +0000

I think if you don’t like one of the Rogues, there’s a good chance you won’t like most of them. As far as the clock king, he looks and sounds lame at first glance, but the fact that he acts as a master tactician and seems to be one step ahead of everyone works in his favor as an interesting villain. But I’ll agree with sportsmaster!

By: Wayland Smith

Wayland Smith — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:46:44 +0000

So… you dislike the Flash Rogues, got it. This Clock King you picture here DOES have powers. He’s a precog, like Ravager. Its why he was so interested in her. Its also how be beat Robin to a pulp. Mayhap a bit more research?