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- n. A fantasy fiction criminal or evil-doer, often with supernatural powers or equipment, in popular children's and fantasy literature who can present a credible challenge for a superhero.
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After reading these, I decided that the first ingredient to being a Marvel supervillain is to be born into a historically persecuted people -- Magneto being a German Jew, and Victor Von Doom who is gypsy/Romany.
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Ragged Boy, your observation about Agent Orange providing blood to the supervillain is genius.
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And at the end, she makes it plain that the only good supervillain is a dead supervillain, even if he's tucked away in a parallel universe prison.
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Come to think of it, La Conquistadora is a completely bitchin 'supervillain name.)
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- I would also recommend against using the word supervillain in-story.
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The Spiderman films make it out to be that Spiderman just fights regular old crime most days of the week and every now and then he fights a supervillain, which is the opposite of the comics where he's usually fighting his small tier villains like Shocker, Scropion, and Rhino whenever there is a lull in an arc.
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And I don't think it's quite right to have a comic where the supervillain is the one to be so pathetic and pitied amd helpless.
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And there's always the classic "Kneel before Zod" covers, wherein the hero is on his knees and the supervillain is about to bash him in the head.
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But I guess becoming a supervillain is the next logical thing to do, just like John Lloyd Cruz, "magle-level up ka na!"
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In short, a supervillain is our worst nightmare-a really bad actor lacking any social inhibitions and armed with very powerful bad stuff.
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