I'm not a superhero fan, but I do have a soft spot for supervillains. Dr Doom, the Joker, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Deadshot... I love these guys, when they're handled well. Truth is, while I've almost no interest in Batman or the X-Men, I always kind of wanted to write a comic about a team of supervillains.
Supervillain books seem to be the in thing, now. And, while I'm not planning to pitch a supervillain book any time soon (unless, you know, an awesome spandex artist drops out of the sky and asks me to to), I have here a list of characters I've had floating around in my head for a few years.
TERMAGANT: She's big, she's fat, she's middle aged, she's strong as a team of oxen and she's utterly indestructible.
STEELMARK: He has a living metal skeleton and he can project blades otu of any part of his anatomy--problem is, they have to cut their way otu through all the soft tissue. He uses a lot of band aids. I stole his name from a mining company.
BADFIN: He's a Chtulhu fish-man. Which makes him real ugly, but he doesn't actually have any powers. He is, however, massively juiced up on steroids and martial arts.
MR BURNZ: He has fire powers, but he's not very fireproof.... so his skin is livid with burn scars.
THE (SINISTER) MINISTER: He's left handed.
CHAINSAW: He has a chainsaw.
THE SURGEON
BLOODFIEND: Blood makes him crazy--and everybody bleeds.
JENNY DREADFUL
SCALER: He climbs things
SHADOWSKIN: A sorceror with power over shadows.
SCOPE: A cyborg with a powerful targeting system instead of a head.
HOSS: Has a healing factor of 1. That's right, the ability to heal any wound--but at the same rate as an ordinary person.
GUNSEL: A little man with a whole lot of guns.
THE ARCHITECT: He has no powers. He has no special resources. He's just really really good at manipulating other people into doing what he wants. No matter how elaborate the plans he orchestrates, he always remains invisible--nobody ever realizes that he was behind it.Really, though, he wants to be the megavillain who tears the moon out of the sky.
-- JF
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jasonfranks- September 18th, 2008
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Villains have initiative, that's what I like about them. They initiate the action. They make plans, they author schemes, they go out and do stuff.
Heroes sit around in their headquarters drinking fruit juice and eating rice cakes waiting for a villain to do something bad so they can rush out and squash it.
In other words, heroes are party poopers.
-- JF
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Yes, the villains are the best things in these stories - especially 'superhero' stories (which im no fan of anyway), where the hero has to be 'squeeky-clean' and so ends up being a dull cardboard cutout. About the only 'colour' heroes seem to have are weaknesses so we can identify with them. The villains are the interesting things to me. Thats why batman, hellboy, etc work so well... they have really well written bad guys. The villains are the real 'light' in those stories. The heroes are dull. They're politicians with capes.
-Bobby.N
-Bobby.N
Villains have initiative, that's what I like about them. They initiate the action. They make plans, they author schemes, they go out and do stuff.
Heroes sit around in their headquarters drinking fruit juice and eating rice cakes waiting for a villain to do something bad so they can rush out and squash it.
In other words, heroes are party poopers.
-- JF
Villains...
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2008-09-18 12:28 am (UTC)