Rating best villains in superhero movies 20 Articles

by Kevin Powers

10. Casanova Frankenstein MYSTERY MEN Geoffrey Rush as one of the most humorous villains ever depicted in a superhero film. He has a great fashion sense and he doesn't mind killing his nemesis when it best suits him. ...read more

by Andrew Browers

What makes for a great villain? They must be memorable, dangerous, intriguing, and motivated. Our modern sensibility easily detects what I call moments of "mustache twirling," where someone just loves to be evil. Taking th...read more

by Lori Shevokas

Catwoman? Villain or Victim? How can you hate a villain who was originally the victim? In the Batman series, Catwoman was tormented, not only by her boss, but by her life. She was a social outcast, a total reject. Her c...read more

by Ben Erdrich

When judging and rating the best villains in superhero movies there are several things that have to be taken into consideration. Is the villain evil or a victim? What exactly does he or she do to make them a villain? Memor...read more

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by Chris Chavez

When it coms down to comic books, we all fall in love with the hero. It has been inbeded in our society that the hero captures most of our hearts. When the chips are down we know that he or she will come to the rescue. But...read more

by Tyrone Livingston

The best villain is only as good as the hero that he is facing, with that being said Lex Luthor is surely number one. Superman is indeed the greatest superhero ever. He has all of these great powers is virtually unstoppa...read more

by Chloe Fraser

Rating villains in superhero movies has always been hard for me. I fall in love with a new one every time I see a new movie, from Magneto to the Green Goblin to Doctor Octopus to Kevin Spacey's Lex Luthor. I have to confes...read more

by Bill Boland

I think this question is a double-edged sword, because superhero movies are, at this very moment, coming into their own for the first time. Those of the past, the Tim Burton's Batman and Richard Donner's Superman, never t...read more

by Troy Knihnitski

In thinking about the best villains in super hero movies; one always thinks about the main guys like Luthor, Magneto, Joker, etc. These are the big guys so they always come to the top of the list so they are in fact a litt...read more

by Dugan Mcshain

The best evil villans in my opinion are those that are completley normal. Everyday people that went confronted with evil accept it without remorse or compassion. The gentlemen from "In the Company of Men" for exa...read more

by Brandon Huigens

The best villain in superhero movies? That distinction falls into the bumbling hands of Joel Schumaker - "director" of 1997's atrocious Batman & Robin. Over the years, there have been several disastrous superhero movie...read more

by Brenda Hall

The best villain in a superhero movie? Jack Nicholson hands down. The Joker was very silly and colorful, but at the same he was creepy. Even with all the jokes and pranks and silliness of the character you knew that this...read more

by Rolando Cruz

From the campy over the top acting on Batman: The Movie (1966), to the more recent CG versions, villains have always been the backbone of any comic book superhero movie. Each villainous role by its nature lends itself to a...read more

by Frank Babrove

My favorite villain in a superhero movie is an unlikely one. In Shyamalan's Unbreakable, Samuel L. Jackson portrays Elijah Price, AKA Mr. Glass. He is a very human villain with many differences than most super villains. ...read more

by Nico Durham

The best villains in superhero movies, man talk about a long thought. Most people would say Lex Luther in the Superman movies or Joker for Batman. But me my first pick for supervillain of all time would be the James Bond s...read more

by Kade Herbert

The best movie super-villain of all time is...Kevin Spacey playing Lex Luthor. I know Superman Returns wasn't action-packed or met its insanely high budget in the box office, but the acting wasn't really that bad. Kevin Sp...read more

by Joe Ryan

I think it would be very hard to rate all of the villains in superhero movies. Joker, from the original Batman film was a spectacular villain, but the Scarecrow from Batman Begins was also great, albeit in a different way...read more

by tHe GrinGO gEnTiLE

Let's be honest here. First of all, when you make a superhero movie you have to assume that everyone involved and everyone in the audience understands what's being made. I think that's where Ang Lee went wrong in trying to...read more

by Rosario Moreno

Saint Valentine..a super hero? February is just around the corner. Candy, flower and card retailers know their sales will boost considerably in the name of Saint Valentine (although most of us would prefer diamonds)...read more

by Larry Bess

I always felt that the best characters are the ones you can relate with, weather they are villains or hero's, and in keeping with that fact I would say that the best villain is Elijah Price from " UNBREAKABLE ". The thing ...read more