I don’t necessarily mean unintelligent, but for the stupidest overall concept.
If we get a list, I can do a poll.
I’ll start out with the Kangaroo
That’s gonna be a loooong list. There are 80+ years worth of bad ideas for super-villains out there.
I’ll nominate the Rocket Racer - a jive talkin’ brotha with a FINE skateboard pimped out with a jet pack.
The kind of villain that only a coked-up white (and possibly racist) comic book writer in the 70s could imagine.
Egg Fu, in the Silver Age.
I give you Turner D. Century.
edited to add: Howard The Duck’s nemesis, Dr. Bong.
Damn, you gotta be quick here. I was just copying that same url.
Holy shit, I was coming in here to say Codpiece. So your junk is small, buy a Hummer like everyone else.
The Hypno-Hustler.
Solomon Grundy?
And also in the now. They’ve decided he’s a useful character again.
Do they still have Spidey’s evil Hispanic counter-part, the Tarantula, who’s gimmick was really pointy shoes?
I wouldn’t count Dr. Bong, since he’s a parody and was never meant to be completely serious (though I did love the fact that Beverly willingly married him, turning comic book convention on its ear).
Well, there’s The Swordsman, who lasted all of one issue with his overall concept before getting overhauled.
The guy shows up asking to join the Avengers; he has no powers, or even special equipment; he’s just a wanted crimninal with an ordinary blade, so they of course turn him down. He kidnaps Captain America in hopes of earning a spot on the team, and they of course turn him down again.
In the next issue, one of Iron Man’s villains decides to step in: equipping the guy with high-tech gear and conning the Avengers into letting that crook join up to play sneaky double-agent saboteur with VIP credentials. But the original concept, that he could hope to pull this off on his own, never made an ounce of sense.
8-Ball - complete with rocket-powered cue stick and a giant flying 8-ball to travel around on. Brilliant.
Fisherman - because Aquaman has to fight somebody.
Kite-Man - he’s a criminal …with a kite. Truly history’s greatest monster.
Ba-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! I suspect this might become a profile pic at some point.
Come on! How can Batman have an excuse to use his bat-kite without a Kite-Man to fight?!?!
I always thought Gamecockwas kind of silly.
All the ones I wanted to memntion have been taken already.
So I’ll mention Paste Pot Pete (who later got revamped into The TRapster), who not only bhad the dumbest name for a villain, but at his first appearance the worst appearance, as well, with his exposed bucket of adhesive. You could drefeat him by spilling his bucket, something the superheroes never tumbled to.
Paste-Pot Pete. Even Jack KIrby couldn’t make him look cool:
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Revamped as THe TRapster. At least now he won’t spill his paste bucket:
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Today, he could be The Human Post-It Note!
Darn those Amelicans, anyway.