# Which Super-hero (or team) has the best villains?

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**Created:** [November 30, 2004, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-super-hero-or-team-has-the-best-villains/277259 "2004-11-30T02:07:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-super-hero-or-team-has-the-best-villains/277259/21 "2004-11-30T18:25:58Z")

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> [@CandidGamera](#):
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> Definitely Flash, or Batman. For sheer colorful variety and danger, Batman’s associated lunatics take the cake; for an inventive notion of what it means to be a super-villain, the cliquish Rogues of the Flash are the tops.
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> And you’re listing FF villains and you don’t mention Paste-Pot Pete AKA The Trapster? For shame.

_Technically_, he’s a Human Torch villain since he first appeared in Strange Adventures when it was Torch’s solo book…er…but then so didthe Wingless Wizard. Um. Fenris rolls a saving throw vs weasling—fails! 😉

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**Author:** ![ussentinel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ce7236/32.png) [@ussentinel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ussentinel)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-super-hero-or-team-has-the-best-villains/277259/22 "2004-11-30T20:14:05Z")

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> [@Fenris](#):
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> _Technically_, he’s a Human Torch villain since he first appeared in Strange Adventures when it was Torch’s solo book…er…but then so didthe Wingless Wizard. Um. Fenris rolls a saving throw vs weasling—fails! 😉

Minor nitpick: Paste-Pot Pete, a/k/a the Trapster, first appeared in Strange Tales #104. Strange Adventures was a DC Comics title.

But I’m with Fenris, I vote for the Flash’s rogue’s gallery. I vaguely recall in ‘70s pre-Crisis Flash comics, the gallery would hold annual meetings and awards ceremonies for villainy. I don’t think any other hero or groups’ rogues did anything like that.

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**Author:** ![Doctor\_Who](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Doctor\_Who](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Who)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-super-hero-or-team-has-the-best-villains/277259/23 "2004-11-30T21:01:52Z")

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> [@Fenris](#):
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> Everyone knows that a hero is only as good as his/her villains, so I wanna know, who has the best batch of baddies to fight on a regular basis.

You know if you hadn’t said on a regular basis - I would throw the Authority into the fray. They’ve got some great (albeit one-time) villains:

Kaizen Gamorra  
God  
the evil Doctor  
Regis (Sliding Albion)  
the Americans  
Dr. Krinstein  
the High  
the United States of America

and of course … the original Weatherman Henry Bendix.

Not too shabby, I’d say.

- Peter Wiggen

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**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-super-hero-or-team-has-the-best-villains/277259/24 "2004-11-30T22:41:54Z")

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A slight hijack.

Those of you who mention the Flash’s villains’ tailor, did you know there’s a similar one in Gotham City? The difference is, he also does tailoring for Batman. However, the story I read this in is a novelization and probably isn’t cannon.

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