Real Life Super Villains Hey guys!
Welcome back to Top 10 Nerd, I'm Ron McKenzie-Lefurgey.
Supervillains can be pretty freaky.
Their ruthlessness and lack of morals means that in the real world, they would usually
end up on top.
And as it turns out, there actually ARE a number of real life people who are an awful
lot like super villains, and they often DO end up on top.
Now I know a lot of you are ready to get all angry with me for including Donald Trump,
so to you folks who can't take jokes: don't worry, he's not on the list.
Now get ready, it's time for the Top 10 Real Life Super Villains...
other than Trump!
Ha!
Number 10: Adam Worth.
AKA: The Napoleon of Crime.
Adam worth is pretty awesome.
He's one of the few people on this list that I straight up respect, other than the number
1.
He was so prolific that he's believed to be the inspiration for James Moriarty, the villain
in the Sherlock Holmes novels also dubbed "The Napoleon of Crime".
His exploits began when he engaged in Bounty Jumping, enlisting in several Union regiments
in the civil war by joining one, receiving his bounty, then bailing and joining another
once, thanks to him having been falsely declared dead.
He was an accomplished bank robber, with hilariously complex and creative plans, but my favourite
one that puts him on this list is when he set up a health tonic store next to a bank,
and dug from his store to the bank next door.
Tell me you can't see the Riddler doing that...
Number 9: Martin Shkreli, as Mr. Greed.
Martin Shkreli was, among other things, the CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals.
In his time as CEO, he made the much criticized decision to raise the price of Daraprim, a
treatment for toxoplasmosis also used for people with HIV and AIDS, from 13 dollars
and 50 cents per pill to $750.00 PER PILL.
You heard me right.
He raised it 5000%.
He's basically like Tony Stark when he's all corrupt as Superior Iron Man, but instead
of charging out the nose for amazing but unnecessary perks, he's charging SIGNIFICANTLY MORE for
something that people NEED to survive.
It's pretty despicable, plus just look at him.
You KNOW that guy has a spandex supervillain outfit underneath that suit.
Number 8: Vladimir Putin.
I know that given the current political climate, there might be some people in the comments
saying "Putin isn't so bad, you're exaggerating".
And feel free to do that, but like... you're wrong.
The dude's awful.
He outlawed QQ Gay Propaganda (read: restricted the rights of gay people), which is ironic
given his absolute love of using propaganda with his own people.
He supports the Assad regime in Syria.
He jails journalists and activists who voice disagreement with him.
And that's if they're lucky, because if you really piss him off he'll straight up kill
you.
Allegedly.
While he lacks a cool villain name, his willingness to do anything to maintain power, while attempting
to spread Russia's influence throughout the world, gives him villain status in my books.
Number 7: Ghengis Khan.
Genghis Khan was the founder and Great Khan of the Mongol Empire in the early 13th century.
He led the Khans to become one of the most brutal and successful military groups of all
time.
He was a ruthless leader, with his group killing around 11% of the world's population in their
efforts for domination.
The inhabitants of any city he defeated would be killed, except for any girls he wanted
to keep as a slave.
The guy was an undeniable monster.
He was actually in an issue of Mystic Comics from 1944 starring Angel, although ironically
he was fighting with the good guys.
But hey, a man can change, right?
Well, the next guy sure thinks so.
Number 6: General Butt Naked.
Book of Mormon fans may recognize this name, as he was a character from the show (with
a slight, profane name alteration which I won't utter here).
But as funny as Book of Mormon was, there's nothing funny about this guy.
Well, except his name, which comes from his propensity to fight nude.
He's committed countless foul deeds, killing thousands, enslaving child soldiers, killing
and eating children... he was a monster.
He claims to have seen the light and converted to Christianity, becoming a preacher, but
this change of heart doesn't erase the evil he's committed in his life.
I'm glad he seems to have reformed, but a reformed villain is still a villain in my
books, especially given the brutality of his deeds.
Number 5: Vladimir Kozak: The Hypnoheister.
Okay guys, this one is pretty fun.
A lot of these entries are the kind of supervillains that use political power to meet their needs,
but this one is just a classic supervillain with QQ superpowers.
As you've guessed from his nickname, The Hypnoheister allegedly used hypnosis to rob banks, using
an eye contact technique to cause the tellers to hand him the money.
Now, I've seen enough Derren Brown videos to know that this PROBABLY didn't actually
happen, people generally can't be hypnotized that quickly and do things they don't want
to do.
But it's a great story.
Number 4: Kim Jong Un.
Kim Jong Un in the leader of North Korea, having taken over after the death of his father,
Kim Jong Il.
He's a brutal dictator who rules over North Korea using anything you can imagine.
Violence, threats, absurd propaganda, and extreme restriction of human rights.
He's kind of like Magneto on Genosha, except instead of it being a secluded sanctuary for
mutants, it's a poor, sad country of unhappy slaves.
If I suddenly get superpowers, I'm definitely heading over to North Korea.
Those people need to be free.
Number 3: Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi.
I was going to go with Osama bin Laden, but I think Al-Baghdadi is more relevant nowadays.
Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi is the leader of ISIS; (the terrorist group, not the spy organization
from Archer).
I can't imagine I have to spend much time telling you why the leader of a terrorist
organization is a super villain; spreading fear by killing innocents to increase power
is pretty much the villain creedo.
There were reports of his death in June 2016, but we later learned that he was alive and
in hiding.
So the guy even died and came back; he's checking off pretty much every supervillain box there
is!
Seriously though, fuck this guy.
That's right, I said a swear.
That's how bad this dude is.
Number 2: Adolph Hitler.
I mean... duh.
Hitler is the first person a lot of people think of when they think "super villain",
and for good reason.
The guy was so bad that there are a bunch of supervillains based on him, and his party
is even thoroughly connected with Hydra, one of the best-known criminal organizations in
comics.
He's even literally been a villain in several comics, with heroes like Captain America and
Deadpool fighting against him at some point.
I won't go into details as they're both graphic and incredibly obvious, but the guy tried
to take over the world and caused the deaths of millions of innocent people.
He's a villain.
Number 1: Rex Velvet.
This one had to be number one, even though it's a joke it is way too perfect.
You may have heard of Phoenix Jones, the MMA fighter from Seattle, Washington who became
a QQ superhero and created his own crime prevention brigade.
Well, what's the next logical thing to happen?
A supervillain has to arise.
In response to the presence of these heroes, Ryan Cory became Rex Velvet, the hilariously
named, moustached villain who, naturally, wears a bowler hat.
Of course, he wasn't a real supervillain, with his greatest crime being abducting the
mascot for the Seahawks, but it is just amazing that he stepped up.
He's the villain we deserve... but not the one we need right now.
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Who else do you think would be a real life supervillain?
There are an awful lot of terrible people out there.
Until next time, I'm Ron McKenzie-Lefurgey with Top 10 nerd.
Later nerds!