Well, my “Legion of Doom” thread kinda fizzled, so I’ll take a stab at a Marvel comics version.
You know the rules—any Marvel villain’ll join up if you ask 'em, as long as they’re not completely dead, or too heroic. (So, no true anti-heroes, like the Punisher)
My roster?
•The Red Skull (Evil Nazi mastermind, super-soldier, cool “look”)
•Sinister (Master mad scientist, schemer, general overpowered genetic freak) (These two as higher-ups or co-commanders on the same team would be interesting, if for nothing else, than to try to see who was “playing” who)
•Either Carnage or Venom (Insane, bloodthirsty monster. I assume you’d use them like the Ultimates used the Hulk—just drop him were you need everything slaughtered, and pick him up when you’re through)
•Taskmaster (Peak human, tactician and instructor.)
•Mystique (Shapeshifter, femme fatale) (Yeah, I know I had her for my Avengers lineup, too. But I’m assuming this wouldn’t be at the same time. So nyah. )
I think I still need a gadgeteer, some minions, and a good hideout…but, all in all, not a bad team, I don’t think.
Shouldn’t the Brotherhood of Evil [Mutants] have more mutants on its roster?
My roster, off the top of my head would be:
[ol][li]Magneto [control of magnetism] as the leader[/li][li]Dark Beast [super strength, intelligence, and dexterity] as the lieutenant[/li][li]Absorbing Man [ability to absorb the properties of anything he touches] as the brick[/li][li]Sunspot [ability to absorb solar radiation and rechannel it as concussive blasts or into strength or flight] as the ranged energy type person.[/li][li]Multiple Man [unlimited duplication of self] as the foot soldier[/ol][/li]
…as the core group and
[list=a][li]Mimic [mimicry of others’ powers] because I love teaming him with Multiple Man[/li][li]Puck [super strength, acrobatics, and increased longevity] because it amuses me[/li][li]Tempo [able to control time on an individual basis] because there needs to be a chick.[/li][li]Deadpool as the Wolverine clone because every Marvel team needs one[/list][/li]for the reasons stated.
Mr. Hyde for muscle. He’s got a half decent brain, too.
Whirlwind, since you need a speedster and he fits the bill easily
Tiger Shark for your psycho-he always freaked me out more than Sabertooth, somehow. Maybe because you KNEW somewhere along the way he’d eaten someone and enjoyed it…
Sebastian Shaw, as the moneyman and brains
Mesmero for mental abilities
Vapor of the U-foes as your femme fatal
Molten Man also for muscle and brains, also just I always liked how he looks.
Living Lazer for long range firepower
Bullseye for hand-to-hand.
The Fly, just because I recently watched the movie, and am drunk in celebration of my new job.
And the big gun, the one running the show? One of the most respected and feared supervillians of all time:
MODOK. That’s right, you heard me. MODOK, baby. M to the O to the DOK. I win, because he’s the best ever.
Instead of “Dread Genocidal Legion of Terror and Chaos,” I would use something less likely to attract attention. Say, “North Cleveland Packing and Shipping Services, Inc.”
But Marvel villains seem to have no sense of subtlety.
It’s been a long time since I’ve been an avid comic book reader and have to admit that I don’t even recognize half of the names being thrown around here, but I used to have a mental list of villains I’d have loved to have teamed up, if even for only one hellacious spree of wanton destruction.
Dredging back through years of mental sludge, the only ones on the list I can recall are Juggernaut, Carnage and Omega Red. I’m as sure now as I was then that the group wouldn’t last. They’d tear each other up as quickly and often as the surrounding landscape and do-gooder superheroes.
1)Dr. Doom. Who else has the chutzpa to put together a group of supervillains and keep them together. Only Doom!
2)Absorbing Man. Good powerset and he’s dumb as a really really really dumb rock. That’ll make him easily controlled.
3)Mystique. Every good villain group needs a sneak and she’s the sneakiest.
4)Electro. He’s got power to spare and has sought out groups before. He’ll be a nice blaster.
5)Lady Deathstrike. You wanted a Wolverine clone Aesiron? You got a Wolverine clone.
6)Juggernaut. He’s unstoppable.
Or you can go fully cosmic.
1)Thanos. This guy has destroyed the universe more times than Jean Grey has come back to life. Death is his idea of a love connection. There ain’t nobody badder.
2)Morgue. Former executioner turned high powered herald of Galactus. Just as tough as the Silver Surfer, but not as silly.
3)Terrax. The original axe wielding herald of Galactus.
4)The Destroyer. Tank of all Tanks.
5)The Enchantress. Every group needs a chick right?
Hmm. I’m not sure an organism designed only for killing would be such a good leader. Killer yes. He’s designed to kill. And only to kill. Well, and be mobile. An organism that can only kill, but can’t move around would be kind of silly, so yeah, mobility and killing kind of go together. But that doesn’t leave much room for leading, right? Just moving and killing, like a shark on the back of an elephant just eating and trampling everything.
“I’m goin’ home…And when I wanna go home…I’m goin’ mobile…”
The Brotherhood of Evil, btw, is the name of a DC villain team - The Brain, M. Mallah, Madam Rogue, ad so forth. Fought the Doom Patrol and Teen Titans.
Sometimes when MODOK feels like killing someone, he does a little trick to calm himself down. He’ll go over to the person’s house and ring the doorbell. When the person comes to the door, he’s gone, but you know what He’s left on the porch? A jack-o-lantern with a knife stuck in the side of it’s head with a note that says “You.” After that he usually feels a lot better, and no harm done.
Tengu beat me to the reference to DC’s Brotherhood of Evil (although I think now they go the name Society of Sin)
Soundls like the OP is confusing Magneto’s Brotherhood of Evil Mutants with the Masters of Evil. The Masters of Evil have been Avangers foes since almost Day 1 with a large, ever shifting roster. Traditionally led by Baron Zemo(I & II), they’ve had other leaders as well.
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