Profiles in Supervillainy: One-Shot Special

What is simply a superhero without a supervillain? Not much. Some supervillains, however, are worthy a batch much than others. I person truthful decided to spotlight immoderate lesser-known villains. Are they underrated gems oregon irredeemable losers who merit to beryllium forgotten? You decide!

When I’m scouting astir for villains to profile, I marque definite they’ve made a decent fig of appearances truthful I person capable worldly to constitute an absorbing article. But each erstwhile successful a while, I stumble crossed a amusive quality who lone appeared erstwhile earlier vanishing forever. Today, I wage tribute to these eventual losers with the Profiles successful Supervillainy One-Shot Special!

Below you volition find little profiles of 5 villains who had 1 accidental to marque their people and (for the astir part) blew it. Normally successful this series, I extremity by explaining wherefore the spotlighted villain should oregon should not marque a comeback. Today, I’m going to get that retired of the mode early: yes. With 1 imaginable exception, each of these losers merit a 2nd chance. You tin marque that my Christmas contiguous this year, DC and Marvel.

Ferenc Aldebaran

Appeared in: Green Lantern #12

This 58th period magician with the funky sanction erstwhile tried to instrumentality implicit Earth by hypnotizing immoderate generals to bash his bidding. As helium lone appeared once, we tragically ne'er find retired thing astir his past. All we cognize is that helium is truthful jealous of GL being named star manager alternatively of him that helium decided to signifier a rebellion.

What’s that astir a star directorship, you ask? As off-beat arsenic Aldebaran is, helium is overshadowed by the circumstances nether which helium meets our greenish gladiator. This was during a play erstwhile 58th period humans, incapable to find anyone susceptible of starring them successful their ain time, yanked Hal into the future, mind-wiped him, gave him the caller concealed individuality of Pol Manning, and tricked him into defeating each types of villains connected their behalf earlier sending him location nary the wiser.

Green Lantern defeats him by bringing a statue of himself to beingness and having it punch Aldebaran successful the face.

Ding-Dong Daddy

His dialog hurts my eyes and I emotion it.

Appeared in: Teen Titans #3

The sanction unsocial nets this feline a golden star. Ding-Dong Daddy Dowd runs a blistery rod store that pays teens exorbitant amounts to driblet retired of schoolhouse and physique his customized cars, which helium sells to crooks who request tricked-out wheels. After tangling with a robotic state tank, the Titans exposure his crippled and person the teens of Genericville, U.S.A. to enactment successful school. Like, isn’t it marvy, chill cats?

Including this quality is simply a spot of a cheat, arsenic helium reappeared successful the Teen Titans cartoon and Teen Titans: Year One, a retelling of the team’s aboriginal days. He besides popped up successful Titans Hunt nether the sanction D-Daddy, but I garbage to admit this. Either clasp the campy oregon get out.

Sylph

Epic mummy costume, though

Appeared in: Nightwing #48–49

After her father’s look for a caller “miracle cloth” was stolen, Sylvan Scofield took revenge by dressing herself successful that cloth and utilizing it to execution the millionaire-thieves. Said cloth becomes a portion of the wearer, allowing Sylph (or, theoretically, anyone) to usage it arsenic other appendages and adjacent weapons. She’s similar Doctor Octopus, but prettier. (Cue the Alfred Molina stans yelling astatine maine successful my DMs.)

Though she appeared to dice by termination astatine the extremity of her sole adventure, it was aboriginal revealed that she escaped. For each we know, she is inactive retired there, waiting to termination the 1 millionaire who escaped her — oregon Nightwing, who stopped her successful her tracks.

Tuatara

Appeared in: Iron Man #6

A tuatara is simply a benignant of reptile recovered successful Aotearoa (New Zealand). It is this benignant of reptile that Araoha Tepania is bonded with, allowing her to alteration from a quality to a elephantine tuatara that could springiness the Hulk a tally for his money. This comes successful useful erstwhile she is recruited to kidnap and power assorted scientists — including Tony Stark — for villainous purposes.

After she escapes, Iron Man says helium hopes helium sees her again due to the fact that they person “unfinished business.” Tough luck for him — and us, due to the fact that she’s a badass.

One different note: We ne'er larn thing astir Tuatara’s backstory, but fixed her darker tegument tone, the markings (tattoos?) connected her face, and her past name, she seems to beryllium Māori. I confess I cognize thing astir this culture, truthful I don’t cognize however respectful this portrayal is. (Does it mangle immoderate important taste element? Did they disregard the civilization each unneurotic and conscionable smash disparate elements together?) I’d privation to cognize much astir this earlier declaring whether oregon not she deserves to return.

Codpiece

Green Arrow is demanding an apology for each the times you insulted his boxing-glove arrows.

Appeared in: Doom Patrol #70

We’re ending connected a precocious enactment here. Codpiece’s root communicative is precisely what you’d expect: insecure astir his size and aggravated with the deficiency of attraction from women, this genius invents a elephantine codpiece with assorted functionalities and commits crimes with it. You whitethorn besides person seen this dink successful the Harley Quinn cartoon, which seems astir right.

More noteworthy than Codpiece himself is who defeats him: Coagula, DC’s archetypal trans superhero. I person to ideate that having a confident, out-and-proud queer pistillate outsmarting an insecure, entitled, cishet manbaby was an intentional spot of symbolism.

Want to conscionable much overlooked villains? Check retired my profiles connected King Tut, the Matador, Peek-a-Boo, Man-Killer, Mad Mod, Big Wheel, KGBeast, the Living Monolith, Egg Fu, and Mahkizmo!