Every story has two sides.
Or multiple, depending on whose involved in that story.
And these days, with the story arc that are appearing in comics, there’s a whole lot
of characters with a whole lot of opinions.
So today, we’re taking a look at the perspective of those who we normally deem as the bad guys.
And their intentions, that when one analyzes them, can see that they’re not from a selfish
or nefarious place, but rather, in the interest of a certain races survival.
Here are our picks for the top 10 supervillains who actually had
a point.
10 Galactus Galactus is a character that has appeared
as both an antagonist and protagonist over the years.
He’s an entity that wields such immense cosmic power that he’s required to devour
entire planets in order to sustain himself.
He’s a living force of nature whose goal is to correct the imbalances between Eternity
and Death.
He’s the first, and therefore oldest living entity in the universe, and all he really
wants to to be fed.
His stories bring up questions of natural versus necessary existence, and while his
intensions may be selfish, they’re not inherently evil, making his actions constantly morally
ambiguous, especially when considering the idea that he balances out the universe.
9 Sinestro Sinestro started the Sinestro Corps in an
attempt to improve the Guardians of the Universe and the Green Lantern Corps.
While that unfortunately involved forcing the Green Lantern Corps to use lethal force,
inevitably making them invoke fear, their declining success rate wasn’t just a biased
opinion of Sinestro - the Guardians tried to eliminate free will during the Rise of
the Third Army story arc, and were indirectly responsible for the genocide that destroyed
Atrocitius’ sector.
To an extent, one could view Sinestro as more of a revolutionary at times.
8 The Lizard Taking a look at a Spiderman villain here,
the Lizard first appeared in 1963’s Amazing Spider-Man 6 as Curt Connors, a man who had
lost his arm from war, and was obsessed with trying to replace the limb.
Through some mad science, he turns himself into a half lizard half human, and regrows
his arm.
So he wants to do humanity a favour so they never have to suffer like he did.
By turning them all into lizards too.
7 Prince Nuada Diving into films based on comic books here,
lets take a look at the antagonist from Hellboy 2 The Golden Army, Prince Nuada.
While the Prince did release a bunch of practically indestructible mechanical soldiers that threaten
humanity big time, his intentions were rooted in a pretty logical place.
Nuada’s goal is to prevent his own species, the Elves, from going extinct, along with
other magical creatures, and to preserve the nature on Earth.
And, to be fair, humans broke their treaty with the magical creatures a long time ago,
so he’s not entirely unwarranted here.
While most of his family have recognized that it is the end of days for their civilization,
Nuada refuses, and fights for their survival, seeing that his race is unable to live while
humans are alive.
6 Ra’s Al Ghul Ra’s mission is to achieve the perfect environmental
balance in the world - except he plans on achieving that by eliminating most of humanity.
Maybe not the most positive way to go about getting what you want, especially when trying
to knock out the world’s population with biological warfare.
5 Poison Ivy Speaking of environmentalists, Poison Ivy
is a self described “eco-terrorist of global importance”.
She’s one of the villains on this list who actually has a lot of activism under her belt,
and in recent years has become more of an anti-hero than bad guy.
Most of her criminal past revolves around preventing ecological extinction and protecting
endangered species.
4 Doctor Doom While yes, Doctor Doom is a bit of a megalomaniac
with the desire to take over the world, his reasons are rooted in logic; however delusional
that logic may be.
Oxymoron, anyone?
Doom believes that if he takes over the world, the world would be a better place.
And he’s not totally wrong - he was able to look into the future, and saw that the
only one free of suffering was the one where he dominated over humanity.
But unfortunately his methods of governance involve taking away much of humanity’s free
will.
Note that during the Emperor Doom story, he does succeed, but got bored, and ultimately
conceded by throwing a fight with Wonder Man.
3 The Joker The Joker is an anarchist, but psychological
goes much further than that.
Peter Coogan, a comics scholar, has described the character as trying to reshape reality
to fit himself by imposing his face on his victims in an attempt to make the world comprehensible
by creating a twisted parody of himself.
Many perceive Joker’s main goal is to make Batman the best that he can be.
The Joker doesn’t want to kill Batman - winning is pointless to him.
He is the chaos balance to Batman’s order and discipline - the two cannot exist without
the other.
2 Magneto Magneto has always been in defence of mutant
rights.
And he has good reason to be - mutants have been oppressed by humans for decade.
While Magneto does tend to take things to an extreme - believing mutants are the superior
race and humans deserve the kinds of treatment they’ve hashed out in the first place, or
worst - there’s been many a time where he’s aligned himself with the X-Men in order to
fight for the preservation of mutants, and sometimes ends up saving both mutants and
humans alike from extinction.
1 Ozymandias Ozymandias aka Adrian Veidt is the smartest
man on earth in the Watchmen universe.
So it should come as no surprise that he was capable of devising a plan, put into motion
over the course of several years, to deceive the entire world into uniting together against
a common enemy, therefore eliminating the threat of nuclear war.
While the comic version and the film version vary, both depict Ozy as highly intelligent
and cunning, revealing his masterplan thirty five minutes after he set its final phase
in motion.
The problem with this scheme?
It annihilates New York City.
Acting out of the great good - the loss of one city is the price to pay to avert nuclear
genocide on an international scale - and it’s a sacrifice Adrian is willing to make; one
that his fellow superheroes, minus Rorschach, have no choice but to comply with.
There we have it friends!
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