# Who are the Lamest Villains? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 24, 2007, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-lamest-villains/427594 "2007-11-24T09:06:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-lamest-villains/427594/41 "2007-11-25T07:39:24Z")
I thought the Brain and Monsieur Mallah were both killed in that explosion. Did Byrne bring them back? ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-lamest-villains/427594/42 "2007-11-25T07:49:07Z")
[QUOTE=DocCathode] I thought the Brain and Monsieur Mallah were both killed in that explosion. Did Byrne bring them back? [/QUOTE] No, they were brought back before Byrne’s Doom Patrol…first Mallah appearance I can find after it was in the JLApe event in '99. They also appeared in Young Justice a couple times. It’s never been explained, so far as I know, WHY they’re currently alive - they might have survived the blast (no sign was found of them), they might have been resurrected in the temporal chaos of Zero Hour, Sup…er… Prime might have knocked them back into existence, like he did the Doom Patrol. Either of the latter two may have wiped the blast from history, for that matter. ---
**Author:** ![Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boozahol_Squid_P.I)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-lamest-villains/427594/43 "2007-11-25T08:36:34Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] Any [brain in a jar.](http://davidszondy.com/future/Dystopias/superbrain.htm) [/QUOTE] You’ve got to be [kidding](http://icepod.blog.ocn.ne.jp/icepod/images/krang_thumb.jpg) me! ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-lamest-villains/427594/44 "2007-11-25T09:12:22Z")
[QUOTE=Diomedes] You’ve got to be [kidding](http://icepod.blog.ocn.ne.jp/icepod/images/krang_thumb.jpg) me! [/QUOTE] I was just about to comment on Krang, one of the greatest villains EVAR. 🆒 Oh, and before I forget, how about Robocop 2? A brain in a robotic, heavily armed jar? ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-lamest-villains/427594/45 "2007-11-25T09:47:10Z")
[QUOTE=askeptic] No, but I always hated Buggs because he was a liar and he cheated. That and he was soooo full of himself. [/QUOTE] Yeah, but . . . ummm . . . did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played a girl bunny? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-lamest-villains/427594/46 "2007-11-25T13:25:03Z")
[QUOTE=Mosier] At least those aliens didn’t just eventually die all on their own, like the ones Tom Cruise was running away from. You had to actually TRY to kill the Signs aliens, even though it was as easy as watering your lawn. [/QUOTE] That was more of a coincidence. The next heavy rain would have taken care of them, but the lawn sprinklers came on first. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-lamest-villains/427594/47 "2007-11-25T13:51:49Z")
[QUOTE=Raguleader] I was just about to comment on Krang, one of the greatest villains EVAR. 🆒 Oh, and before I forget, how about Robocop 2? A brain in a robotic, heavily armed jar? [/QUOTE] And the [Clockwork King](http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/index.php/Clockwork_King) from City of Heros; an insane psychic brain in a jar, on top of a giant telekinetically powered robot. With his very own army of telekinetically powered robots. And, he’s crazy, and if he regains his sanity he’ll kill humanity. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-lamest-villains/427594/48 "2007-11-25T17:17:55Z")
Boba Fett. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-lamest-villains/427594/49 "2007-11-25T17:32:58Z")
[QUOTE=Alessan] Boba Fett. [/QUOTE] And yet people thought he was cool. Go figure. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-lamest-villains/427594/50 "2007-11-25T19:45:36Z")
I read the threat title and came in to name **Richard the III** ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-lamest-villains/427594/51 "2007-11-25T21:26:44Z")
[QUOTE=outlierrn] I read the threat title and came in to name **Richard the III** [/QUOTE] Please, he still had one good leg and two good arms. Brains in jars just by definition are much lamer. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-lamest-villains/427594/52 "2007-11-25T22:12:53Z")
I nominate [Slyde](http://en.marveldatabase.com/Slyde). He’s covered in teflon! ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-lamest-villains/427594/53 "2007-11-25T22:23:46Z")
Damn! Now I have Electric Slide stuck in my head! Blast you **Johnny Angel**! ---
**Author:** ![percussion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/43a26b/32.png) [@percussion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percussion)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2007, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-lamest-villains/427594/54 "2007-11-26T04:13:24Z")
The Vulture from Spider-Man decrepit old man in a bird costume…enough said! The only scary thing about him is that he was butt ugly ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2007, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-lamest-villains/427594/55 "2007-11-26T06:19:43Z")
Every single character in the Daredevil movie was lame as hell. Actually, the dart guy was cool. Sort of. (My first memory of that movie is from seeing the Super Special San Diego Sneak-Peek of it during a panel interview at Comic-Con the year before it came out; it got to where Daredevil ate something in his apartment, with his mouth open, and I and a girl two rows up both said “Ewwww!” at the same time. 😃 ) > [@Raguleader](#): > > I was just about to comment on Krang, one of the greatest villains EVAR. The highlight of the SNES’s entire game library is the battle against Krang in TMNT IV. (Man, I wish I had my SNES! I still have that game!) ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2007, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-lamest-villains/427594/56 "2007-11-26T10:35:42Z")
Who the fuck is **Hostile Dialect**? ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2007, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-lamest-villains/427594/57 "2007-11-26T13:34:20Z")
[QUOTE=bbs2k] Who the fuck is **Hostile Dialect**? [/QUOTE] Some dude. We seem to like him, though. He is ok for a one year old. It is hard to imagine that just a few days ago, he used to be a fetus. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2007, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-lamest-villains/427594/58 "2007-11-26T16:39:23Z")
Considering he was able to get so many thousands of people to worship him and move to Las Vegas, **Randall Flagg** from _The Stand_ was super lame, and in the end Samantha’s Aunt Clara could have handed him his ass. Stephen should have taken an extra week or so in fleshing him out. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2007, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-lamest-villains/427594/59 "2007-11-26T16:54:11Z")
[QUOTE=bbs2k] Who the fuck is **Hostile Dialect**? [/QUOTE] Dude, you were in my name-change thread talking to me about it last night. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2007, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-lamest-villains/427594/60 "2007-11-26T17:43:18Z")
[Tapping Tommy](http://marvunapp.com/Appendix/tappingt.htm) I win. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-lamest-villains/427594.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-lamest-villains/427594.md?page=4)