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What makes a superhero?
After all, whats the point of all those powers if youre just battling normal crime?
There are cartoon super-crooks, televised tyrants, and, yes, enough Jokers to fill up Arkham Asylum.
(One supervillain youwontfind on this list?
In other words, hes exactly the right jot down of crazy to match Harley.
(YoU mErElY aDoPteD tHe DaRk; I wAs BoRn iN It.)
And, of course, the most verbose.
Jim Carrey, this aint; instead, Danos Riddler is Gotham Citys riff on the Zodiac Killer.
Stryker doesnt have any superpowersthats kind of his whole M.O.
All thatandhes also responsible for Wolverines adamantium skeleton.
Thats worthy of a spot in the supervillain hall of infamy.
Sylar (Heroes)
23.
Ego the Living Planet (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.
2)
In the Marvel comics, Ego the Living Planet is, well, a planet thats alive.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.
2 reimagined Ego as a Celestial who can give himself a human form, played by Kurt Russell.
Revealed to be Peter Quills father, Ego has secret ambitions that threaten all life in the universe.
The Penguin (Batman Returns)
Tim Burton gotweirdwhen he made his second Batman movie, Batman Returns.
Now, if only his supervillain costume hadnt had that cape…
20.
This is not a supervillain who will be stopped.
Sonny Burch (Ant-Man and the Wasp)
Superhero franchises keep raising the stakes.
Ant-Man and the Wasp was so refreshing, then, because it had villains that were fittingly small-scale.
Hes not trying to conquer the globe or beyond.
In that way, the show is kind of like its most powerful supervillain, Apocalypse.
Still, The Monarch and his partner in crime/life, the husky-voiced Dr.
Girlfriend, got plenty of chances to succeed and grow over the course of the show.
And, what better actor to play him than Willem Dafoe?
Freeze (Batman: The Animated Series)
The comic book Mr.
Freeze became a great villain.
Freeze, thats proof of a great take on a baddie.
As played by Vincent D’Onofrio, Fisk is a mass of contradictions.
Hes a thug with high-class aspirations.
Hes a delegator with more than enough strength to get his hands dirty when he needs to.
Those who hate and fear them?
But, as compelling as his case might be, Magneto always takes things too far.
As played by Josh Brolin, thanks to some top-notch motion-capture, the Mad Titan delivers.
You want to hug himandyou want to repeatedly smash his smug face into the pavement, Hulk-style.
The biggest lie The Joker tells in The Dark Knight is when he claims not to have a plan.
And he knows a really, really good magic trick involving a pencil.
Its the greatest take on the greatest villain in one of the greatest superhero adaptations of all time.
