[sleepwalk]

I wanted to do "Top Five," but I'm the long-winded sort. Not the most powerful. Not the most accomplished. Not the most eeeeeevil. Just the top. Post your own.

Marvel Comics-
1) Doctor Doom- Hideously scarred in flesh and in soul, he is the quintessential Marvel villain. Rules the most technologically advanced nation on Earth with an iron fist, because he made it that way. The smartest guy in the room unless Reed Richards is in that room (which irks him just a bit,) he constantly seeks to improve all of reality. . . by making it all about him. And, whereas the aforementioned Richards uses his dizzying intellect to explore science and ward off threatening space-gods, Victor Von Doom uses his to control science and sorcery and kill those space-gods to claim their power for his own.

2) Sabretooth- Wolverine is the roughest, toughest, meanest, leanest, baddest mofo low down ‘round this town. Sabretooth is the guy who takes his lunch money. Victor Creed is the counterpoint to Logan: instead of struggling to keep his grip on humanity, he wants nothing more than to shed the last lingering shreds of it. Bigger, stronger, more driven and less restrained than the X-man, Sabretooth was constantly held in check by Wolverine’s tactical awareness, his adamantium and some good lookin’ out by his friends.

3) Doctor Octopus- Peter Parker gained great power and learned a valuable lesson in responsibility. Dr Otto Octavius was distracted from his by being disgraced as a scientist and deformed as a man. A cyborg with a split personality is always dangerous and I think the wall crawler would agree. One with four super-strong ****l arms that respond with uncanny precision? More so and puts him at the top of an all-time great rogue‘s gallery. But Doc Ock’s real danger to the cunning Spider-man? He is much, much smarter.

4) Magneto- I tried to leave him out to keep this list from being too cliché. Epic fail. He has been compared to both Adolf Hitler and Malcolm X. He has garnered sympathy from readers for over forty years while fighting the most popular team ever to have its own book. He could have been anything, so he became that which he hates most.

5) Absorbing Man- Sure the Rhino is more iconic, the Juggernaut badder and the Abomination has more depth. But when you absolutely need a whole team of Avengers to collectively say, Oh $#@%!, “Crusher” Creel is your illiterate, repeat offending one stop shop for wanton destruction and countless civilian casualties. Accept no substitutes.

DC Comics-
1) Vandal Savage- To paraphrase Alan Scott: “The greatest threat the Justice Society will ever face is Vandal Savage. The others may attempt to control our minds, shoot us with heat rays or beat our brains in. Vandal Savage will eat you. Since before the dawn of civilization, millennia before the concept of “morality,” he has been amassing resources, honing his skills and designing to seize power. He exists outside of our human condition and, should he escape with anything more than a scratch, he will heal himself by consuming the flesh of his own children with as much thought put to it as you or I would give an aspirin or a band-aid.”

2) Two-Face- The Joker is the most dangerous villain of all-time. Bane broke Batman’s back. Hugo Strange fragmented his mind. Harvey Dent is, perhaps, the most frightening for Batman. As Two-Face, Harvey is a mirror image of Bruce Wayne. An eligible bachelor who did in the courtroom what Wayne did with a checkbook for the people of Gotham City, Harvey Dent seemingly had everything taken away in a random act of violence. Like Bruce Wayne, he developed a separate persona. His swung the other way.

3) Deadshot- The best marksman in the world. The best assassin not named Deathstroke. He’s the best there is at what he does. . . and he’s bored to tears by it. Floyd Lawton has just enough human spark left in the nihilistic quicksand of his existence to seek a glorious death at the hands of another. He’d kill himself but he just isn’t worthy enough to be killed by the best.

4) Great White Shark- Tobias Beecher if he had been sent to the one place worse than Oz, Arkham Asylum.

5) Lex Luthor- The smartest, richest man on Earth. The toast of the town. The king of all he surveys. Then Superman came along. Like many other heroes and villains, he created a powered exoskeleton with a battery that can kill the most powerful being in the world. He hardly uses it because he considers it cheating. Anything you can do, he can do better. If he can’t, he’ll take it from you. Even if you’re Superman.

[zane]

Sylar and Darth Vader > Everyone on that list.

[Rampage Rua]

apocalypse
galactus

[hysteria]

I wouldn't have had Harvey Dent in there. Joker is more frightening because he had lost his battle with his personal demons completely. Harvey Dent is a ****phor for Batman and the battles with his past - in the Dark Knight Returns, Bruce Wayne funded the 'rehabilitation' of Dent.

Its a big theme in Batman, especially from Year One onwards. Gordon, Dent, Wayne and Joker are all connected by their mental health. In The Killing Joke, Joker attempts to drive Gordon insane, and in the Dark Knight Returns, attempts to force Batman to break his one rule.

For the fact that Batman cannot comprehend Joker, yet fears having to become him to defeat him, Joker has to be above Dent in the villany chart. At least with Dent, there was always hope.

[hysteria]

I don't have much of an opinion of the others, I'm a Batman person.

Actually quite disappointed that Batman doesn't have some more worthy adversaries. Bane is excellent, due to his physical advantages over Batman, and Joker is fantastic as a polar opposite to Batman - another tragic past but handled completely differently. But Mad Hatter, Scarecrow, Hugo Strange, Penguin - all fail to live up to their examples.

Batman could really do with a Lex Luthor - esque billionaire just trying to kill Batman for a laugh.

[Iron Blade]

Originally Posted by Rampage Rua

apocalypse

Yea, I don't care if there's a shitload of other villains more powerful tha him, Apocalype was the man.

[2short]

Magneto is the number 1 comic book super villan in my book.

Darth Vader is tops for movies.

[Samurai Jack]

most evil mofo of them all:

[Jaydoogan]

venom
carnage
shredder
be-bop and roxsteady
the foot clan
the puttys
the riddler
penguin
king koopa

[DeathNTaxes]

Jesus give the man some props.

Great lists with some nice hyper kinetic blurbs.

I'll add couple more:

1. El Sabah En Nur - AKA Apocalypse: This big blue baddie is just that big blue and one of the baddest dudes ever dreamed up in the universe - He got his own Entire MArvel spin - off Age of Apocalpyse which I reccomend to everyone. This dude takes Darwin and twists it al-la Hitler/Stalin/Alexander the great all rolled up into one. He wants no less then total control. Oh yeah he has some power....what is it I don't really know LOL! I think it's shapchanging/Mass changing/Power suit? Rarely ever see his powers at work rather it's his schemes and alien technology especially the M'Kraan Krystal that seems to make him hip to the hop.

2. Sentinels Everyone's favorite faceless mutant hunters. The Sentinels are the focal point of the Marvel Mutant Witchhunt. Everything to love about robots soulless critical commentary on human fear - programmed to capture the MUTIES. Indelibly burned into my mind and I hope others from the Saturday Morning Fox Cartoon. "HALT MUTANT!!!"

3. Immortalized in the Staurday Morning cartoon and Youtube fame - Oh yes you know who he is "THE JUGGGAANAUT BITCH!"

4. CYBER CYBER Burning Bright in the Forrests of the NIGHT! Out of Wolvies past the man with the Adamantium laced epidermis made an large dent in the mind of one Death N' Taxes in the Blood Hungry Story Arc tracing Wolvie's dark past in a town called Madipoor a Cesspool with style. You owe yourself to read this mini-series AMAZING ART - INcredible writing and some badass action in a must read for any true Wolvie fan. Cyber is the only man to ever have blown Wolvie's mind and left the dust settle. How can you not love a wise cracking hulking Ultra tough skinned pyscho with a retractable fingertip razors that can inject a hallucinogen so strong just smelling it can addict you?