Best and Worst Villain Names

Michael A. Chary

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Aug 13, 1992, 1:20:38 PM8/13/92

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What are the best names of villains in comics?
What are the worst? Five choices of each from MHO.

BEST: Vandal Savage, I just love this name and the concept.
Victor von Doom, I think it's better than Doctor Doom which is
also okay.
Two-Face, good name for a guy who used to be a lawyer.
Lex Luthor, the name just sings menace!
Pulsar Stargrave, idiosyncratic selection but it's my favorite.

WORST: Parasite, nice concept for a villain, but the name sounds
like he's some sort of liver fluke.
Terra-Man, again I like the concept, but the name does nothing for
me.
The Fixer, sounds like a boxing promoter.
The Owl, why would anyone, regardless of appearance call himself
this?
Satannus, just because.
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David VanDomelen

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Aug 13, 1992, 1:57:12 PM8/13/92

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Here's some more:
BEST: Leader Desslok (it's a comic now, so fair game) of Starblazers. It just
sounds soooooo cool.
Junior from Dreadstar. Nice "underplayed menace" thing there.
Bela Okmyx (who thanks to PAD is in the comics too) from ST.
Pulsar Stargrave (I think he's so good I wanna mention him too)
WORST: Mikado from Question.
Radiation Roy from LSV
Occulus from recent FF. Embodies all that is hokey and dumb about
the Kirby FF without any of the good stuff from the Kirby FF
Zaniac. Goes without need of explanation

Dave Van Domelen, pushing thumbtacks into his computer bulletin board

Michael A. Chary

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Aug 13, 1992, 3:27:36 PM8/13/92

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Thought of a couple more.
BEST: Galactus, for no particular reason
Brainiac, nostalgia
J. Jonah Jameson, he just sounds like a newspaper guy
The Foreigner, just like it
Ambush Bug, started as a Supes villain, would be one of
the worst if he wasn't so deliberately silly.
Ra's al Ghul, meanacing and neat

WORST:Killer Moth, do me a favor;)
Any Marvel character after 1975 who's name ends in "o"
Mr. Freeze, sounds like he's selling ice cream;)

Howard Cheng

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Aug 13, 1992, 8:28:05 PM8/13/92

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In article <1992Aug13.1...@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> ma...@po.CWRU.Edu (Michael A. Chary) writes:
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>What are the best names of villains in comics?
>What are the worst? Five choices of each from MHO.
>

There's a whole list of great hero names in the back of DOOM FORCE #1. Some
examples:
The Crying Boy (tm)
Shasta, the Living Mountain (tm)
Toejam (tm)
TM (tm)
Lock (tm) and Load (tm)
Pinata (tm)

I can't remember them at this time... ah well.

Also along the lines of best names:
Fortress Lad
Ambush Bug
Stone Boy

Speaking of Stone Boy, I was at a convention a long time ago and one of the
speakers on a panel was George Perez, when he was working on LSH. And, as
mysterious as he always was, he answered almost all the questions put to him
with, "You'll find out." Anyway, at one point in the conference, this group
of people stand up all at once, and shout in unison, "STONE BOY--DON'T TAKE
HIM FOR GRANTED!"

It was great.

h.

Bart Gold

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Aug 15, 1992, 10:47:35 AM8/15/92

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Best: The beige hairnet- kind of like green lantern except she was
powerless against anything chartreuse.
The Hatstand- Not very powerful, but useful when you don't
have closet shelves
RED CHOWDER- Another classic. Didn't go over very well except in
manhattan, where he beat the hell out of the
steel flounder in TICB #26

Worst: Mexicorn Man- He didn't actually have any mexicorn power, he
just projected powerbolts and liked to eat
mexicorn.
The Steve. Another irrelevant name. Yeah, his secret
identity was 'steve', but his ability to make
anyone think his name was 'frank' made it work.
Le Vache This canadian book was stolen by the sidekick
anyway, a boy named 'le cochon'.