Wasn’t the Toyman reinvented to be a murderer and a pedophile, only to be killed in that Lex Luthor miniseries?
Askeptic, are you really Anya from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, who recommended the following course of action in fighting the bad guy: “We should drop a piano on her. It always works for that creepy cartoon rabbit when he’s running from that nice man with the speech impediment.”
No, but I always hated Buggs because he was a liar and he cheated. That and he was soooo full of himself.
Any brain in a jar.
Daphne had a lovely hairstyle, thank you very much.
M.O.D.O.K. It’s just a big floating head, served by guys who wear helmets like wastepaper baskets.
If we are including “monsters” among villains, I hereby nominate the “whatever-it-was” from Split Second (1992), a film set in the far-flung future year of 2008 (when most of London is submerged by rising sea levels, just as it is today) and starring Rutger Hauer as a detective investigating the disappearance of his once-promising film career.
If they ever gave the beastie a name in the film, I can’t recall; nor does it really matter, as the critter was one of the most generic PredAlien clones to ever receive a theatrical release. The one bit of memorable trivia I do remember is that the critter was identified as being somehow descended from genetically engineered rats-- thus apparently explaining its predilection for soggy urban areas (though somewhat glossing over its complete lack of any rodential features whatsoever).
Anyhoo, after a series of ostensibly harrowing encounters, Rutger finally confronts the thing in its sewer lair. Face-to-face with the seven-foot-tall, ravening, armor-plated monstrosity, Rutger [spoiler]tears its heart out. No, honestly, he just reaches through its exoskeleton and yanks out its heart. Then it dies.
This movie was the final nail in the coffin of the once-popular “hero defeats villain by pulling his heart out” ending. Oh no, wait a minute, my mistake; that ending was never popular! Because it’s STUPID! [/spoiler]
The aliens from Signs. Seriously: good one, guys. That was a brilliant idea. What could possibly go wrong?
The “Jigsaw Killer” from Saw. By all rights, this turd’s killing spree should have been foiled during his first movie’s opening credit sequence. The only reason his goofy-ass Rube Goldberg plots work at all is that every other person in the film is even dumber than he is.
Bah! M.O.D.O.K. is so geeky he circles back and mento-blasts cool from the other side.
The lamest comic villain of all time is the one who is so terrible even Paste Pot Pete (the Trapster made one appearance with that name and he’ll never live it down) wouldn’t team up with him. I give you The Ten-Eyed Man! When he was blinded in a tragic accident doctors attached his optic nerves to his fingers making him the most dangerous man alive because he can see through his fingertips! Fortunately Batman was around to stop his ten-eyed rampage otherwise we would all now have those malevolent digits watching over us…
Ok. Now you are going deep into Cool McCool territory.
Excellent choice, one of the worst films I’ve seen since the remake of Planet of the Apes.
I nominate The Emperor Tod Spengo, played by Jon Lovitz in Mom and Dad Save the World.
I loved that movie. 
Not Batman. Manbat.
I’m waiting to hear the answer to this, too. crosses arms and taps foot
In the first appearance it was Batman who stopped the Ten-Eyed Man while blinded, though you are correct that old Ten Eyes did attack the Man-Bat.
Oh Marge, oh Marge, my love for you is… large…
I need to order that on Netflix…
I second Ten Eyed Man. It was my first thought when I read the thread title.
Oh come on, any brain in a jar that’s also a villain logically must already be more than merely a brain in a jar-- it’s likely superintelligent, or has telepathic powers, or commands an army of Nazi cyborg apes, or any combination of the above. You’re missing the whole significance of being a villainous brain in a jar: it means you’re such a good villain that the fact that you’re a brain in a jar isn’t an undue handicap to your villainy. Obviously if you’re a successful villain, and also a brain in a jar, you must therefore be a really good brain. In a jar.
Presumably for every formidably villainous brain in a jar, there are dozens if not hundreds of ordinary brains in jars who are unable or simply unwilling to take up the mantle of villainy. But are brains in jars really all that different from unjarred brains in that respect?
I suppose you may be using the definition of “lame” that connotes “unable to walk,” in which case I concede that you have a point. But that’s what psychically dominated minions and Nazi apes are for!
Here’s another thread from earlier this year: Lamest villain evah! It’s pretty much all comic book villains. Check out post 15 in particular, wherein yours truly mercilessly lambastes Batman’s entire Rogues’ Gallery. I thought this topic seemed familiar.
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.
Dr Sun and The Brain seem to do pretty well despite being brains in jars. Though, Dr Sun has been known to implant himself in robot bodies. I do not understand why the Brain, who seems to be both intelligent in general and is a qualified neurosurgeon, didn’t seem to use a robot body.
Re Ten Eyed Man
I actually own the issue of Man Bat in which they fight. I’m proud in a sick way.
That was actually explained at one point…it came down to various alterations to his brain since getting jarred making any mechanical body, but the jar, impossible. (Not sure how that works, but…there you go.) He might also be a little wary of them after his last known attempt at it blowing him and Mallah sky high.