# Are there any blind super-villains? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 1, 2017, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-blind-super-villains/800403 "2017-11-01T17:48:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-blind-super-villains/800403/1 "2017-11-01T17:48:18Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-blind-super-villains/800403/2 "2017-11-01T17:58:07Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-blind-super-villains/800403/3 "2017-11-01T18:04:40Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > 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. Marvel has [Destiny](https://i.pinimg.com/564x/6d/28/ab/6d28ab1d217272a338a23d5e5ab23ec8--irene-adler-mystique.jpg), Mystique’s long-time companion and co-parent, who was blind but had the ability to see the future. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-blind-super-villains/800403/4 "2017-11-01T18:05:57Z")
Dr. Idnight-Supershrink! ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-blind-super-villains/800403/5 "2017-11-01T18:07:00Z")
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”. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-blind-super-villains/800403/6 "2017-11-01T18:15:38Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-blind-super-villains/800403/7 "2017-11-01T18:21:44Z")
That would explain all the dead hippies. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-blind-super-villains/800403/8 "2017-11-01T18:30:36Z")
> **[Mole Man](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole_Man)** > > The Mole Man (Harvey Rupert Elder) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The Mole Man is a recurring foe of the Fantastic Four and was the first villain they ever faced. His schemes usually consist of trying to rule the surface of the Earth with the aid of his "Moloids", subterranean, mole-human hybrids that he rules over. > The character has had numerous appearances in other media, usually on television and video games. > Created by artist/co-writer Jack K... The Mole Man was “partially blind” ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-blind-super-villains/800403/9 "2017-11-01T18:31:20Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > 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”. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-blind-super-villains/800403/10 "2017-11-01T18:42:31Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-blind-super-villains/800403/11 "2017-11-01T18:54:28Z")
**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? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-blind-super-villains/800403/12 "2017-11-01T19:06:25Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > **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. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-blind-super-villains/800403/13 "2017-11-01T19:20:15Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Marvel has [Destiny](https://i.pinimg.com/564x/6d/28/ab/6d28ab1d217272a338a23d5e5ab23ec8--irene-adler-mystique.jpg), Mystique’s long-time companion and co-parent, who was blind but had the ability to see the future. There’s also Destiny of the Endless from _Sandman_, [who is blind and chained to his book of, well, destiny](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e1/3c/f7/e13cf7f7d656305dfe57ca83bc6ed301.jpg), 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](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CW1tn26WoAEwQ1m.jpg), and man the late great Steve Dillon could draw a cover. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-blind-super-villains/800403/14 "2017-11-01T19:28:35Z")
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: [![](https://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/6/60/Professor_Ojo_02.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120912071757) ](https://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/6/60/Professor_Ojo_02.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120912071757) > **[Professor Ojo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_Ojo)** > > Professor Ojo is a DC Comics supervillain. His main enemies are Green Arrow, Green Lantern and Richard Dragon. Ojo is the Spanish word for "eye". > Professor Ojo first appeared in Richard Dragon, Kung Fu Fighter #16 (August 1977) and was created by Ric Estrada and Denny O'Neil. > The son of an assistant in an early atomic energy facility, whose poor safety standards exposed workers to massive doses of hard radiation, Ojo was born without eyes. Brilliant but blind, Ojo eventually created a device al... ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-blind-super-villains/800403/15 "2017-11-01T19:35:17Z")
So glad you’re back, **Skald**! Best wishes to you and family! ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-blind-super-villains/800403/16 "2017-11-01T19:39:13Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-blind-super-villains/800403/17 "2017-11-01T19:39:49Z")
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) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-blind-super-villains/800403/18 "2017-11-01T19:57:41Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > 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”. 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. > **[Three wise monkeys](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/See_No_Evil,_Hear_No_Evil)** > > The three wise monkeys are a Japanese pictorial maxim, embodying the proverbial principle "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil". The three monkeys are > Lafcadio Hearn refers to them as the three mystic apes. > There are at least two divergent interpretations of the maxim: in Buddhist tradition, it is about avoiding evil thoughts and deeds. In the West, however, it is often interpreted as dealing with impropriety by turning a blind eye. > Outside Japan the monkeys' names are sometimes given as ... ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ecks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bcef8e/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ecks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ecks)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-blind-super-villains/800403/19 "2017-11-01T20:02:20Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-blind-super-villains/800403/20 "2017-11-01T20:08:43Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-blind-super-villains/800403.md?page=2)