I mean, I know all about Matt Murdock a.k.a. Daredevil, and Charles McNider a.k.a. Dr.idnight, but the field of visually impaired evil overlord’s seems woefully under represented. I suspect discrimination.
Long time no see. Yes, I still have the key to your super-secret lair. Who did you think was feeding the flying monkeys all this time?
Marvel has Destiny, Mystique’s long-time companion and co-parent, who was blind but had the ability to see the future.
Dr. Idnight-Supershrink!
Skald! Welcome back!
I haven’t seen it, but in the recent Blade Runner 2049, Jared Leto plays a blind villain from what I understand. Also, the next Bond movie is rumored to feature “a blind super-villain”.
King Snake is a recurring Batman villain who does Daredevil’s “has mastered the martial arts to where he can whup sighted folks despite being blind” schtick, except he’s also glad to do the whole “kill the lights first, a-ha-ha-HA-ha-ha” bit.
That would explain all the dead hippies.
The Mole Man was “partially blind”
Thanks for the welcome back. Though I am not sure how appropriate it is. As implied by the OP, I am pretty much blind nowadays, and although technological innovations let me use the Internet somewhat, this has proved to be surprisingly exhausting. But I had occasion to be a trifle nostalgic, and so thought I would swing by and say howdy.
Miller, I don’t know how I forgot about Destiny. Let’s assume I slandered some little-known ethnic group by blaming them.
And the one good thing about legal blindness is that I was spared the blade runner update.
Anyone who tortures me by telling me that the actress who played wonder woman was hot and the movie wonderful will be killed.
Many people questioned the idea of casting Wonder Woman with a CGI’d Ernest Borgnine, who then spent most of the movie punching orphans, but I thought it was a bold take on the character.
Skald!
Don’t worry the new Wonder Woman was nothing special, just terrible casting, wasn’t the best DC movie by far at all. Right everyone?
That’s right. She almost ruined that Batman v. Superman masterpiece.
There’s also Destiny of the Endless from Sandman, who is blind and chained to his book of, well, destiny, but he’s not really a villain as such. There is The Mutant, future Owen Krysler from the early 80s Dredd arc City of the Damned, and man the late great Steve Dillon could draw a cover.
Wonder Woman was a pretty decent movie that unfortunately devolved, per my friend, into an episode of Dragonball Z at the end. I don’t watch Dragonball Z so I’ll take his word for it.
In DC comics, Professor Ojo is a blind super villian. I remember having the Green Lantern and Green Arrow comic with the below panel in it:
So glad you’re back, Skald! Best wishes to you and family!
Czarcasm, having hated man of steel so bitterly, I would not have seen Batman versus Superman (by the same director, I think) even if my eyes still worked.
Apologies if I missed spelled your name. Cutting and pasting is hard and I have to go by memory.
I don’t know if “anime villain” is quite the same as “supervillain”, but one of the eight major enemies in Jubei Ninpucho (English Ninja Scroll or Wind River Ninja) was blind. He, too, did the super-good-at-martial-arts thing, and also had a trick of reflecting the sun off of the edge of his sword to blind his foes.
Getting even further afield from the superhero milieu, there’s a blind murder-mystery villain in The Name of the Rose. But he’s more in the corrupt-others-to-do-his-bidding mold.
(sorry, there’s no good way to spoiler-box that. Don’t open it unless you recognize the work from the vague description)
He’s not a supervillain, but in See no Evil, Hear no Evil Sutherland, played by Anthony Zerbe (who, before the Matrix trilogy, always seemed to play the villain) plays a blind rich villain, sort of counterpoint to Richard Pryor’s blind character and Gene Wilder’s deaf character.
If we want to scrape the bottom of the barrel, the Ten Eyed Man was blind before he got optic nerves grafted to his fingertips
Marvel had Snowblind, a villain who (a) was, in fact, blind – except for when he’d (b) overwhelmed an area with the creepy white effect that only he could see in.