Welcome, welcome, nerd squad.
My name is Amanda McKnight and I'm here to count down with you the top 10 supervillains
who would be useless in a fight.
There seems to be a great scale when it comes to villains and their levels of abilities.
Some sit high on the scale of greatness, great minds, strong physique, most creative and
some sit very very low.
Maybe the have a gimmick or a device that they can use to do something but either way
those who are less super when it comes to villainary are often the ones that are easily
and swiftly defeated by the heroes.
Easily bested in a battle, shall we say.
Today we are going to take a look at some of those villains and some of the reasons
why they struggle so when it comes to finding success in their criminal careers.
What are some of your favourite foolish villain plots and underpowered villains?
Be sure to let us know in the comments below.
Alright, let's get counting.
10 Polka Dot Man
This villain comes to us from DC, another Batman villain gone wrong.
And get ready for a lot more Batman villains cause he's just the beginning of some of the
most useless.
I'm not sure who would win between Batman and Spiderman for most useless villains but
both heroes have their own pretty steep pile of terrible ones.
Polka Dot Man whose real name is Abner Krill is a villain who uses a Polka-Dot suit cause
his mayhem.
He has no superpowers of his own so he relies heavily on this suit.
The suit allows Abner to remove the polka dots which can change size and transform into
a variety of different weapons.
Where the suit came from is unknown.
Did he make it?
Find it?
I'd like to think the ladder because, while you may be thinking this suit sounds pretty
useful, and sure, maybe it does--Abner can't really seem to repair it when it breaks.
Apparently the upkeep on it is so expensive that he sometimes can't afford it.
So I assume it is some kind of alien tech that is ultimately just worn by a regular
joe.
Which means that he's somewhat useful in a fight but if his outfit breaks, he is rendered
useless.
9 The Kangaroo
I love when supervillains are recognized in the comics by being weak.
And that is precisely what happens with Frank Oliver famed jumper, ashamed boxer and Spiderman
villain.
Frank grew up obsessed by kangaroos cause, you know, he's Australian.
It feels like Marvel writers were locked up in a room when they came up with this villain.
And wouldn't be allowed to leave until they had a new villain for Spiderman.
-"What if he's Australian?"
-"And uhm, what makes him Australian?"
-"I don't know, Jim!
I'm starving!
I gotta get out of here!
Uh... kanagroos?"
-"That's it!
Brilliant.
We've got it!"
Needless to say Frank is a former boxer who was fired after he seriously injured a fellow
boxer during a match.
And his quote-unquote power is that he can jump really really well and higher than normal.
Marvel admitted just how weak he was when they decided to give him cybernetic enhancements.
The unfortunate thing for Frank is these enhancements just make him jump even better.
Like, really?
Even these improvements would not stop him from leaping to his doom in the comics.
Though the mantle was later adopted by another villain and he was later resurrected.
8 Stilt Man
What's better than leaping somewhat high?
Walking on stilts.
That's the premise behind this strange Marvel supervillain.
Wilbur Day is scientist who began his life of crime after stealing a coworker's design
and using it to build a pair of armoured stilt legs.
Granted his entire body is covered in metallic armour as well and it is pretty strong.
He even smashed She-Hulk down through the street and into a subway tunnel one time during
a fight.
But being taller than other heroes doesn't mean you're automatically better than them
or that you are going to be helpful in a fight.
One there's that whole knock the legs out from under him strategy and two apparently
his armour has weak spots which have been exposed in the comics before to easily take
him down.
Iron Man at one point even fought armour with armour, by throwing one of Stilt-Man's legs
right back in his face after he detached them to jettison away and knocked Stilt-Man out
as a result.
7 Fisherman
Any rendition is of this supervillain is like a diabolical but less impressive Aquaman.
As to be expected as well he is an Aquaman villain.
His Earth-One rendition was just super into fishing, something Aquaman is not a huge fan
of considering global issues of overfishing and given the fact that he is an ocean conservationist
activist.
Which immediately put him at odds with the Fisherman in the comics.
So what can the Fisherman do to beat his nemesis?
Ummm fish.
And that's about it.
Sure he has a bunch of fancy lures but so does my grandfather.
And I don't think that's enough to allow you to take on Aquaman.
I will say this, the New Earth version of him at least can breathe underwater and attempts
to pull of criminal heists using the ocean and the creatures within it but still that
seems to be his main power.
And even then he is still easily thwarted.
Obviously this villain has been deemed so useless that he hasn't even cropped up in
the new 52 or rebirth.
6 Big Wheel
Ultimately a villain that could be very terrifying if he could actually steer the device that
he uses to terrorize people with.
The Big Wheel is a Spider-Man villain who often gets poked fun at.
Namely because his device is so just ridiculous.
Big Wheel is actually Jackson Wheele who unfortunately came up with the idea to have device built
by the Tinkerer based around his name.
And so he got a giant uncontrollable wheel.
Spider-Man dodges him easily in a fight and Wheele usually meets his demise through being
unable to break and falling off the edge of things.
5 Crazy Quilt
I have to applaud this DC villain for being a supervillain with a disability, something
we don't see as often as not.
Still his being a diverse supervillain was not enough for him to be saved from being
turned into a not so strong supervillain by DC writers.
Paul Dekker was blinded by a gunshot while being captured during a robbery.
He was a former painter turned thief.
While in prison he volunteered for an experimental procedure to help him regain his vision.
This worked but only partially.
Paul could now see but only see crazy bright and blotchy colours, granting him limited
and disoriented vision.
Seeing the world this way eventually drove him insane leading him to adopt the supervillain
alias, Crazy-Quilt.
He built a patchy bright costume and a helmet that flashes blinding lights among other things.
His lack of sanity combined with his lack of powers and true ingenuity when it comes
to his gimmick make him an unfortunately easy villain to defeat.
4 Sportsmaster
Another villain who seems to be masterful at getting away is Sportsmaster.
Not so masterful at fighting though, not even masterful at playing sports.
Lawrence Crock is a DC villain who is known for tangling with Green Lantern.
He used to be a professional athlete and although he did have skills, he always took things
too far and put winning above anything else.
Becoming known for his cheating he was eventually banned from all sports after severely injuring
an opponent on the field.
And once his sports career was over, he decided to turn to a life a crime.
So interesting that people fail in their careers and immediately deflect to this.
Like, crime ain't that easy, you know.
Finding another job might be your best option.
Cause not everyone can pull this off.
Case and point ol Sportsmaster here.
Sportsmaster disguises himself and fights with, well sports equipment.
So you can imagine how successful his career must be.
One of his signature go tos in a fight is to escape by faking his death.
Now that's no way to win a fight.
3 Kite Man
In his original incarnation this supervillain was pretty useless but even within his newer
incarnation, he's pretty useless.
Chuck Brown fights with just what you'd think he fights with, kites.
And just as you'd expect he is handily defeated every time he pops up in the comics.
I feel like a big downfall of some these gimmicky supervillains is that they get too attached
to their gimmick.
For some reason, writers keep bringing the DC villain back as well.
He often tussles with Batman and was at least given a cooler hang glider to fly around on
but still Batman can manages to out hang-glide him.
In the 52, he was given a tragic backstory wherein his son ended up murdered by the Riddler
who poisoned the Charles Jr's kite string that he held onto.
Heartbreaking.
What's even more heartbreaking is they give him this sad story and still no cool way to
avenge it.
2 White Rabbit
I'm talking about Jaina Hudson this time, Batman's nemesis from DC.
Her powers are neat but not really useful if you're looking to battle someone.
Distract them, maybe but that's not how you win a fight.
She might be able to survive one though.
Her powers give her slightly heightened speed and she is pretty good at escaping, in fact
as soon as a hero shows up that's her usual go to move, to run away.
Which gives you an idea as to how powerful she is.
She does have a unique ability which allows her to split herself into two people, separating
her White Rabbit persona and her civilian persona, Jaina Hudson.
However these two personas are quite different, so it isn't even like she can really use her
civilian self to help her take on the good guys even really.
1 Condiment King
The Condiment King originally debuted in the Batman: the Animated series and was created
with the intention of being comic relief.
So you can imagine for this reason alone he's probably not going to be very helpful in a
fight.
In fact in the episode he first appeared in when confronted and chased by Batman, he actually
slips on his own ketchup and tumbles off of a rooftop.
You know you're no match for a hero when you are defeated by your own villainous devices.
He was later revealed to have been a former comedian who was brainwashed by the Joker.
So it's good to know that he isn't an actual villain who takes himself seriously.
Still the brainwashing messed him up and he has since continued to try to take on heroes,
jumping from the animated series to comics like fellow but ultimately more successful
villain, Harley Quinn.
Thanks for watching, nerd squad.
I hope you got a few good chuckles at some of these villains.
They certainly are... something else.
Just goes to show you that a villain can also still be useless in a fight but still great
at entertaining us regardless.
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