# Most. Ridiculous. Comic. Villain. Ever. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 27, 2003, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-comic-villain-ever/171507 "2003-04-27T16:33:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-comic-villain-ever/171507/21 "2003-04-28T13:25:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Freyr \* > \*\*Consider, too, some of the villians that were produced for the **Batman** TV series of the '60s and it goes for awful to **WTF!?** I mean, c’mon… Liberace as a piano playing villian? :eek: \*\* It gets worse than that. Do you remember Colonel Gumm, a _stamp-collecting_ villain? ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-comic-villain-ever/171507/22 "2003-04-28T15:53:44Z")
Ugh. Machinesmith was born in Memphis. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-comic-villain-ever/171507/23 "2003-04-28T16:01:51Z")
The Calculator. Appeared in DC comics in the late 70’s, usually fighting the likes of Green Arrow in the back pages of magazines belonging to to other heroes. He wore a god-awful purple and white outfit with a big keypad over his chest and an LED read-out over his eyes. Pocket calculators were the new high-tech thing at the time, you see. His ability, as I recall, was that he would calculate his attacks to exploit his opponent’s weaknesses. Batman eventually got rid of him bytricking him into trapping himself in an escape-proof cage he had calculated would hold Batman forever. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-comic-villain-ever/171507/24 "2003-04-28T16:06:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scumpup \* > \*\*The Calculator. Appeared in DC comics in the late 70’s, usually fighting the likes of Green Arrow in the back pages of magazines belonging to to other heroes. He wore a god-awful purple and white outfit with a big keypad over his chest and an LED read-out over his eyes. Pocket calculators were the new high-tech thing at the time, you see. His ability, as I recall, was that he would calculate his attacks to exploit his opponent’s weaknesses. Batman eventually got rid of him bytricking him into trapping himself in an escape-proof cage he had calculated would hold Batman forever. \*\* I’d have tricked him into keying in “5138008” and then hanging him upside down in a bat-trap. Then when people looked at his eyes, they’d all laugh and point at him until he retired out of humiliation. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-comic-villain-ever/171507/25 "2003-04-28T16:07:48Z")
They’d laugh because it should have been “5318008” of course :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Daniel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Daniel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daniel)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-comic-villain-ever/171507/26 "2003-04-28T17:51:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Max Torque \* > \*\*It gets worse than that. Do you remember Colonel Gumm, a _stamp-collecting_ villain? \*\* And then there was False-Face, whose power was the ability to wear masks. Thing is, his masks made him look _exactly_ like the people he was trying to impersonate, but his actual face looked like _just a really shitty mask!_ ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-comic-villain-ever/171507/27 "2003-04-28T20:39:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lumpy \* > \*\*To be fair, the White Rabbit was absurd even within the context of the stories. A bored rich girl who decided it would be fun to deliberately _make herself_ into a “super-villian”. Her mind was somewhere out in the hinterland between crazy and stupid. \*\* I actually like White Rabbit and I wish they’d bring her back. Marc ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-comic-villain-ever/171507/28 "2003-04-28T21:31:50Z")
Wait a minute! Razorback was a villain? I thought he was the truckin’ superhero! But I don’t have the original issues. (I really want to do a Razorback comic. I really really want to do a Razorback comic.) ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-comic-villain-ever/171507/29 "2003-04-28T21:39:33Z")
For sheer villanous ineptitude, it’s hard to compete with **[Mr. Fish](http://www.seanbaby.com/hostess/mrfish4.htm)**. ---
**Author:** ![Freyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freyr/32/5763_2.png) [@Freyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freyr)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-comic-villain-ever/171507/30 "2003-04-29T01:26:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tracer \* > \*\*For sheer villanous ineptitude, it’s hard to compete with **[Mr. Fish](http://www.seanbaby.com/hostess/mrfish4.htm)**. \*\* Ugh! Looks like th Submariner having a bad scale day! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Freyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freyr/32/5763_2.png) [@Freyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freyr)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-comic-villain-ever/171507/31 "2003-04-29T01:27:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Max Torque \* > \*\*It gets worse than that. Do you remember Colonel Gumm, a _stamp-collecting_ villain? \*\* Unfortunately, yes. Wasn’t that the same actor who played Harcourt Fenton Mudd in the Original _Star Trek_ series? ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-comic-villain-ever/171507/32 "2003-04-29T06:24:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MGibson \* > \*\*I actually like White Rabbit and I wish they’d bring her back. > > Marc \*\* Oh, you’re just saying that because [she](http://www.users.xeroanime.com/~handbook/rtuw/wrabbit.htm) had a short skirt, a long jacket, and bunny ears… What am I saying? Now _I_ want her back! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-comic-villain-ever/171507/33 "2003-04-29T17:49:57Z")
Razorback was a hero who first appeared in Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man, although he and Spidey duked it out at first in the inimitable tradition of early Marvel Team-Ups. He was a hero designed to cash in on the CB craze and he spoke an argot only a trucker could understand. He was stronger than a normal man and had an electrified hood. Razorback was a pretty stupid hero. ---
**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:** [April 29, 2003, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-comic-villain-ever/171507/34 "2003-04-29T18:18:15Z")
I think that **Egg Fu** , the sinister oriental egg that faced Wonder Woman, has to win some kind of prize. I’d forgotten about this thing, until I stumbled across it in an issue of **Ambush Bug** highlighting DC’s most embarrassing moments. Even in 1966 it seemed not only silly but racist. To my utter surprise, John Byrne brought it _back_ in 1997: [http://www.comicboards.com/dcguide/DCP/E.htm](http://www.comicboards.com/dcguide/DCP/E.htm) ---
**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:** [April 29, 2003, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-comic-villain-ever/171507/35 "2003-04-29T18:22:03Z")
Pix of Egg Fu here: [http://members.fortunecity.com/toywonder/SlowDCSilly8.htm](http://members.fortunecity.com/toywonder/SlowDCSilly8.htm) Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!!! ---
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-comic-villain-ever/171507/36 "2003-04-29T18:42:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ranchoth \* > \*\*Oh, you’re just saying that because [she](http://www.users.xeroanime.com/~handbook/rtuw/wrabbit.htm) had a short skirt, a long jacket, and bunny ears… > > What am I saying? Now _I_ want her back! 😃 \*\* You really want to bring back a character who was once defeated by “Gibbon the Boy Monkey”? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-comic-villain-ever/171507.md?page=1)