10 Insanely Creepy Comic-Book Supervillains

After David Tennant ’s sour turn as the mind - controlling Kilgrave on Netflix’sJessica Jones , Season 2 of Netflix’sDaredevil(now streaming ) may seem a little tame on the villain front .

Sure , there ’s an army of ninjas predict the Hand , which can occasionally revive the dead ; a vigilance man named the Punisher , who slay criminals to revenge the death of his family ; and a beautiful assassin named Elektra with ties to Daredevil ’s Matt Murdock : all plenty of fun , but a catnap compared to Kilgrave , or evenDaredevil ’s first - time of year big uncollectible , Kingpin ( Vincent D’Onofrio ) .

Comic leger – and the increasing number of movies and TV show based on them – have given us plenty of supervillains who are sadomasochists with a predilection for cosplay , but notallof the genre ’s bad guys have been head - controlling monstrosity ( though waitress until you converge the Mandrill ) .

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Here ’s a sampling of some seriously dysfunctional reference who have made their path through comics ( and occasionally onto the screen – do n’t get us down , Preacher ) , ranked from pretty creepy to downright terrifying .

10. The Joker (Batman)

There ’s no path you could do a list of aberrant character from mainstream comics without including the Joker . Ever since his first appearance in 1940 , where he began using a lethal gasolene that made his victims die with giant smiles on their face , the signature villain in nearly everyBatman movie , live - natural process TV series , orcartoonhas been a serial killer whale with style .

There ’s probably no purer example of the character’sDexter - time - Hannibal - squared rage thanBatman : The Killing Joke . This controversial comic from 1988 , written byWatchmen ’s Alan Moore and with art by Brian Bolland , included the Joker crippling and violating Batgirl Barbara Gordon ( which call for him taking explicit photos of her naked , bleed body ) and also immure and torturing her sire , Commissioner Gordon . An recreate verbatim - to - video pic base on the comedian is in the works , though the R evaluation the capacity demands may be a unvoiced sell .

9. Golden Glider (The Flash)

flashing comics of the ' 70s could hardly have been more unlike from the CW’sThe Flash , as its titular hero is a dull , marital suburbanite . Efforts to spice up up Flash ’s adventures included his wife being murdered ( she get better ) , Angel Dust , and his Rogues Gallery of supervillains adding some unexpected relationship drama . When the chassis - skating Golden Glider connect the scallywag , she was go steady another Rogue , the Top .

The Top died while fighting the Flash , and GG became wholly unhinged , finally turn a hapless patsy into a superhero called the Ringmaster in promise that Flash ’s wife would dump him for the fresh hero . But Glider out of the blue fall for Ringmaster as well , adding further tortuousness to a story that would have already require years of counseling for everyone involved . Sadly , the CW translation of the Glider lacks both skating imagery and obsessive beloved progeny .

8-7. Dr. Alchemy and Mr. Element (The Flash)

If you mean the problem with the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was that they were n’t both vicious monsters , then this pair introduced during DC Comics ' Silver Age in the late fifties is just for you . Albert Desmond was a human race with a disunited personality who used his knowledge of interpersonal chemistry to send daring criminal offense as Mr. Element .

One mean solar day , he found the fabled Philosopher ’s Stone , which gave him the index to transform elements into other elements . Then he became an entirely different villain named Dr. Alchemy . seemingly , both personalities were characterized by a inclination toward bad aliases .

6. Maxima (Superman)

One of the classic conundrums with the Superman - Lois Lane romance ( once reader were honest-to-god enough to really recall about it ) was whether or not they could consummate their family relationship . Sci - fi source Larry Niven wrote a famous – and deeply disturbing – 1969 essay on the subject,“Man of Steel , Woman of Kleenex . ”Beyond that , jape about Kryptonite rubber and the episodic “ possibly Superman and Wonder Woman should get together alternatively ” reflexion were about as far as that transmission line of enquiry went … until the institution of Maxima . A super - inviolable va - va - voom exotic queen who postulate to find a worthy Paraguay tea to extend her origin , her obsession led her straight to Superman . The character eventually appeared in a Cinemax - worthyturnonSmallville(a show that tastefully dealt with similar issues in other sequence by usingheat vision as a metaphor for untimely interjection ) , but the thought of a baby - crazed superwoman wanting to make Superman an absentee dad was just messed up , in any culture medium .

5. Mastermind (X-Men)

Introduced the same yr as Kilgrave ( 1964 was a good class for mind control , obviously ) in the pages ofThe X - Men , Mastermind earned rank in the “ Brotherhood of Evil Mutants ” with his power to project bright , naturalistic illusions . In the 1980s , an amped - up version of the character – who could institutionalize his head game straight off into his victims ' minds – kicked off the series ' well - selling “ Dark Phoenix Saga ” by using his powers to gradually and all seduce Jean Grey , a.k.a . Phoenix , into a whole range ofromance - novel - typesituations , until he “ persuade ” her to bring together the S&M - inflected “ Hellfire Club ” as its “ Black Queen . ” His tampering would eventually unleash the full extent of her divine power , direct to the destruction of millions of free being around the universe . Smooth .

4. The Mandrill (The Defenders)

puerile - male mind - control fantasies come with a toll in the case of Mandrill . With odour - establish powers that only worked on women and a strong-arm deformity that made him await like his animal namesake , the Mandrill was n’t precisely getting the adept table at the hot restaurants , no matter who he could get to sense him . But the perks of being capable to hop out on hack fare …

… and assemble a " Fem Force " that looked like extras from an aerobic exercise video …

… did n’t make animation easy for the Mandrill , and his own mother eventually shoot him . Family therapy was call for . Lots of it .

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3. Sleez (Superman)

Even in an industry where villain name are as unsubtle as “ Doctor Doom , ” Sleez stands out . A 1980s character connected to the New Gods family of character created by comics fable Jack Kirby in the ‘ 70s , Sleez lived in the sewers of Metropolis , literally prey on citizenry ’s emotions . Upon debut , he falsify Superman and the statuesque New God Big Barda into , um , making a porn film together . Seriously . But since he used brain command , apparently , no harm was done , and it was never mentioned again .

Big Barda has been victimise ( beyond that name ) a few other times , such as that clip the form - shifting Plastic Man disguised himself as her clothes :

But being a superhero gets Plas a pass on the “ perv ” label , as it would most anyone , right ? Well , anyone except …

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2. Bueno Excellente (Hitman)

Just to be vindicated , this character reference is intend to be a antic , a member of the misfit ( at best ) superhero team Section Eight , introduced in the pages of the 1990s DC Comics seriesHitman , and resuscitate as part of the recent All - Star Section Eight miniseries . While his powers are never exactly depict , they fall from a jolly specific place …

Bueno is the creation of creative person John McCrea and writer Garth Ennis , who also pennedPreacher , a mature - readers serial publication whose awesomely depraved fictitious character could have well filled this whole article . But if you could only cite onePreachervillain as a perv , you ’ll have to “ meat ” the terminal accounting entry on our list …

1. Odin Quincannon (Preacher)

Like an NC-17 Boss Hogg , Odin Quincannon was the unelected party boss of a small Southern town – in this case , Salvation , Texas . But Quincannon was n’t merely a toughie , and his rank in the Klan was just a opus of his twisted puzzler . It turn out that Odin ’s possession of a local meat - process plant give him the opportunity to indulge in an unusual fetish , one that it ’s hard to opine will survive the transition to the forthcoming AMCPreacherseries ( though they ’ve castWatchmen ’s Jackie Earle Haley in the role ) , unless I ’ve lose installment ofWalking DeadorBreaking Badwhere characters did anything close to consume profligate - soaked sex with giant statues made of kernel from unlike animals . You ’ll never await at a turkey the same way again .

Ivan Cohen is a freelance pop - culture diarist who has drop a line comic books and cartoons for DC Comics , IDW Publishing , and Warner Bros. Animation . As a child , an installment ofSuper Friends(where the Hero of Alexandria were replaced by villains via time - locomotion roguery ) gave him incubus . He ’s on Twitter@ivanmcohen.com .

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