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!
If I had ten loose optic nerves just lying around, that’s where I’d put 'em.
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.
Welcome back, Skald!
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.
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.
Things get really interesting, though, if you’ve got ELEVEN.
Yeah, I’m a little surprised it took so long to get the correct answer: “There is now.”
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.
SKALD!
Live Long & Prosper!
Crazy Quilt, a Robin Nemesis, qualifies.
Has a special helmet, that simulates sight.
Are any of these people villians?
There is a Marvel wikia page 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.
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) certainly counts. Also Mike Mignola was born to illustrate Fritz Leiber.
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.
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.
Well, blind and unequivocally a super-villain was alternate universe Maximan 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.
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.
I’ve always gotten the “morally ambiguous” vibe, TBH. Not exactly evil-chuckle-and-hand-wringing evil, just not-bothered-by-conventional-ethics evil.
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.
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.
ISTM there is (or was?) a sorta-superhero called Nighthawk who had a blind lawyer.