# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-blind-super-villains/800403/21 "2017-11-01T20:18:31Z")
I have no blind supervillains to add to the list. I just want to say: SKALD!!! You, your wit, and your sense of humor have been missed. I was so thrilled to read your post! ---
**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, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-blind-super-villains/800403/22 "2017-11-01T20:41:49Z")
> [@Johnny\_Ecks](#): > > 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 If I had ten loose optic nerves just lying around, that’s where I’d put 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-blind-super-villains/800403/23 "2017-11-01T21:05:18Z")
> [@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? What do you mean? She is strikingly beautiful. I couldn’t help but fall in love with her like a lovesick schoolb… oh right, yes. I mean what a dog. Woof woof. And that big hairy mole on her face? Yuck. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-blind-super-villains/800403/24 "2017-11-01T21:09:49Z")
Welcome back, Skald! ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-blind-super-villains/800403/25 "2017-11-01T21:29:25Z")
Another welcome back! IMHO just hasn’t been the same without your imaginative polls. If I were rich instead of so damn good looking I’d hire someone to interface with SD for you. re: blind villains. Sorry, but I’ve got nuthin. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-blind-super-villains/800403/26 "2017-11-01T21:33:55Z")
Well, there’s always Rhymer Industries’ visually challenged, genius, devastatingly handsome and charismatic, evil I mean morally ambiguous chairman and lead super power ubermensch. Just sayin’. Welcome back, Skald. ---
**Author:** ![TimeWinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@TimeWinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimeWinder)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-blind-super-villains/800403/27 "2017-11-01T21:36:19Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > If I had ten loose optic nerves just lying around, that’s where I’d put 'em. Things get really interesting, though, if you’ve got ELEVEN. > [@gnoitall](#): > > Well, there’s always Rhymer Industries’ visually challenged, genius, devastatingly handsome and charismatic, evil I mean morally ambiguous chairman and lead super power ubermensch. Just sayin’. Yeah, I’m a little surprised it took so long to get the correct answer: “There is now.” ---
**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, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-blind-super-villains/800403/28 "2017-11-01T21:41:20Z")
For what it’s worth, I have no idea how beautiful Gal Gadot is, because I’ve never had the opportunity to feel the contours of her body, nor to smell her distinct fragrance. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-blind-super-villains/800403/29 "2017-11-01T21:54:20Z")
**SKALD!** Live Long & Prosper! [Crazy Quilt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Quilt), a Robin Nemesis, qualifies. Has a special helmet, that simulates sight. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-blind-super-villains/800403/30 "2017-11-01T22:00:42Z")
Are any of these people villians? > **[Blind Characters](https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Blind_Characters)** > **[Blind Characters](https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Blind_Characters)** ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-blind-super-villains/800403/31 "2017-11-01T22:30:17Z")
There is a Marvel wikia [page](http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Blind_Characters) of “Blind Characters.” Half of it is multiple versions of Matthew Murdock and Stick from different universes. Nothing really in the way of a super-villain. It notes that Bullseye was blinded at some point late in his career, but he was not much of a super-villain at that point. ---
**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 2, 2017, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-blind-super-villains/800403/32 "2017-11-02T01:28:28Z")
Since there was a comic of Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser, Sheelba of the Eyeless Face [{pictured next to colleague and rival Ningauble of the Seven Eyes]]([http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wILJck-Td7g/UJsIKyZe38I/AAAAAAAACgc/jcEBccB1aJs/s1600/Mignola+Leiber.jpg](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wILJck-Td7g/UJsIKyZe38I/AAAAAAAACgc/jcEBccB1aJs/s1600/Mignola+Leiber.jpg)) certainly counts. Also Mike Mignola was born to illustrate Fritz Leiber. ---
**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 2, 2017, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-blind-super-villains/800403/33 "2017-11-02T01:32:59Z")
Are Sheelba and Ningauble quite precisely villains, though? And is Sheelba necessarily blind? Seeing despite a lack of eyes is the sort of thing powerful Leiberian sorcerers might do. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2017, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-blind-super-villains/800403/34 "2017-11-02T02:47:47Z")
Glad you’ve stopped by! I’ll think on the blind supervillain thing. I know little about comics, but I’m a big old fantasy novel nerd, and maybe I can come up with someone there. ---
**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 2, 2017, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-blind-super-villains/800403/35 "2017-11-02T03:48:15Z")
Well, blind and unequivocally a super-villain was [alternate universe Maximan](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-00Ek-Vh2H1Y/Vm4ziLyN-jI/AAAAAAAAD8g/tt7ROyWKljI/s1600/zenithphasethree3.jpg) from Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell’s old 2000AD strip _Zenith_. Unlike his good counterpart, Maximan/William Whitlock survived the atomic bombing of Berlin which killed Nazi supervillain Masterman, but became evil, tore out his own eyes, and began speaking in Grant Morrisonese. ---
**Author:** ![nachtmusick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ac91a4/32.png) [@nachtmusick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nachtmusick)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2017, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-blind-super-villains/800403/36 "2017-11-02T17:53:53Z")
It’s great to see your name again Skald. You once sent some throttlebots after me. They were delicious. Speaking for the lurkers, welcome back. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2017, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-blind-super-villains/800403/37 "2017-11-03T15:18:38Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Glad you’ve stopped by! I’ll think on the blind supervillain thing. I know little about comics, but I’m a big old fantasy novel nerd, and maybe I can come up with someone there. I’ve always gotten the “morally ambiguous” vibe, TBH. Not exactly evil-chuckle-and-hand-wringing evil, just not-bothered-by-conventional-ethics evil. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2017, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-blind-super-villains/800403/38 "2017-11-03T15:36:45Z")
What about Gordon the Inhuman from _Agents of SHIELD_? He didn’t have any eyes, therefore he was technically blind, and he was definitely a Baddie. ---
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2017, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-blind-super-villains/800403/39 "2017-11-05T04:40:20Z")
Surprised I have a few no one thought of yet… Marvel: Libra, from the original Zodiac Cartel. He was also the father of Mantis. Madame Web. Although she was more of a Figure of Mystery rather than a villain. DC: Omen, from LSH. Had no eyes on his face. Dr. Regulus, from the LSH post-Zero Hour reboot (aka Archie Legion). He was blinded but discovered he could “see” through heat signatures. In the Goodwin/Simonson Manhunter run in Detective Comics, Manhunter fought blind Zen archers. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2017, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-blind-super-villains/800403/40 "2017-11-05T04:48:25Z")
ISTM there is (or was?) a sorta-superhero called Nighthawk who had a blind lawyer. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-blind-super-villains/800403.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-blind-super-villains/800403.md?page=3)