Villains are used to losing but sometimes they get pushed over the edge.
Of a cliff!
In some cases.
Today we are going to be taking a look at those moments where supervillains got pushed
to far either by their own expectations or by heroes constantly raining on their parade.
Come on, heroes!
Give these supervillains a break.
Everyone deserves their day in the sun.
Right?
Today we’ll be counting down the top 10 supervillain freakouts we’ll never forget.
Those times when supervillains just couldn’t deal and resorted to a toddler-like ultra
supervillain tantrum.
Or just reacted very poorly to a situation out of instinct or intense emotion.
Who are your favourite supervillains?
What instances have noticed them behave like the sorest loser?
Let us know in the comments below.
Alright, let’s get counting.
10 Doctor Doom Loses His Cool and His Cape
In Marvel Super-Heroes vol 2, issue 8 out of the 90s, we get to see the brilliant Doctor
Doom take on Iron Man and Squirrel Girl.
While he handily manages to defeat Iron Man, he underestimates Squirrel Girl, just like
Iron Man does earlier in the comic.
This turns out to be a big mistake as she gets a bunch of squirrels to sneak onto his
ship and attack him, nibbling away at his armor.
Not only does he start freaking out, trying to fling squirrels off of himself which is
admittedly pretty funny but he then loses it to the point that he decides to open his
emergency hatch on his ship and so that he can escape by plummeting to the ground.
I love how when supervillains get embarrassed they just say screw it to their own safety
and do whatever they can to get out of the situation.
Poor Doctor Doom also loses his cape in the process.
How embarrassing.
9 Dormammu Gets Trapped in a Time Loop
Dormammu gets annoyed into losing his cool, in the MCU’s film Doctor Strange.
This is a huge villain for Doctor Strange to be going up against, especially in his
origins.
But Doctor Strange is kind of mystical progeny.
As he proves when he goes up against Doctor Dormammu.
He causes Dormammu to give into his frustration when he continues to time loop his defeat
to Dormammu, continuing to come back and asking Dormammu to bargain with him.
The villain’s response to kill Doctor Strange each time in anger out of being trapped.
Finally Dormammu is so annoyed that he demands to be set free to have this stop.
Doctor Strange is willing to do so in exchange for his world being free of Dormammu’s torment
forever.
Surprisingly the supervillain is so bothered by the loop that he agrees.
8 Lex Luthor’s Plan Backfires
In the original Action Comics series, Lex Luthor comes up with a brilliant and deranged
plan to try and trap Superman in another dimension.
The plot involves having him fall in love with a clone of Angela Blake, and then having
Superman kiss her on his wedding day, whereby both will be transported to the L-Zone, trapped
forever.
This plan gets set in motion after wiping his memories of the actual plot so that Superman
will never suspect Luthor.
Unfortunately Superman escapes, leaving Lex to mourn uncontrollably the loss of the terminally
ill woman that he still loves.
Normally, I’m looking to blame superheroes for these freakouts but really Lex has no
one to blame but himself.
7 Harley Quinn Snaps at Duella Dent
In the new 52 we were introduced to a character who claimed to be Joker’s daughter, despite
the fact that her name more makes you think of Two-Face, Duella Dent.
When Harley Quinn and Duella are forced to work together on the Suicide Squad, the two
constantly bump heads and show a distaste for one another.
This fued comes to a boiling point when in the New Suicide Squad series, Harley is accused
of being too weak for the Joker by Duella, who wears the Joker’s old skinned face on
top of her own.
Harley tackles her threw a wall and throws her into oncoming traffic before pummelling
her into unconsciousness, warning Duella that the Joker isn’t a game and showing that
she snapped as a result of thinking Duella is basically a fool for liking him at all.
This fight ends with Harley victorious and declaring to Manta that she is helping Duella
and that she is a psychiatrist.
This might be one of my favourite freak outs of Harley’s as it feels so deserved.
Duella can be majorly annoying.
6 Edward Nygma Becomes a Killer in Gotham
Get ready because this one is a sad freak-out.
In the television series Gotham we get to explore the backstory of many of Gotham’s
dark characters.
One such character is supervillain the Riddler who is Edward Nygma at the time, a forensic
investigator.
He loves a woman named Kris Kringle who is being abused by her boyfriend.
When Nygma finds this out he tries to put a stop to it.
The effort results in a fight with Kringle’s boyfriend,Tom Dougherty, whom Edward Nygma
kills.
Feeling pretty good about what he’s done he confesses this to Kris as well as his love
for her.
She does not take this information well and calls him a murderer, stalker and psychopath.
Nygma does not take well to being called a psychopath and he snaps.
The two get into toa fight and Nygma accidentally suffocates and chokes KrisKris, simply trying
to get her listen while he attempts to explain his actions, resulting in her death.
himself, resulting in her death.
5 Carnage All Day Every Dad
Cletus Kassady is a deranged serial killer who is basically constantly freaking out,
all day every day.
One of the biggest buttons you can push for the psychotic serial killer is trying to cure
him.
He really does not respond well to people trying to understand his mind.
Let’s just say if he were a killer featured on Netflix’s Mindhunter, it would not end
well for the FBI.
One particular example of this is when a psychiatrist tries to understand Cletus’ thoughts and
mind in the comic Carnage: Mind Bomb.
This does not end well for the psychiatrist who Cletus infects with his own mind, giving
him a taste of what he wants and turning the psychiatrist into a cannibal as a result.
And when guards come to save him from Carnage, he attempts to eat them.
4 Kingpin’s Fury
Kingpin’s anger problems are well documented but especially highlighted in the Daredevil
series where we see Kingpin freakout as a result of some severe PTSD.
As a young boy his mocked by his abusive father, who also often beats his mom.
One day he snaps.
While his dad is furiously beating his mother, he grabs a hammer.
His dad looks on it him in disappointment, asking what he plans to do with that hammer.
When his son gives him no response he turns back to Wilson’s mom to resume the beating.
It’s then that young Wilson Fisk snaps and smashes the back of dad’s head in with the
hammer.
Feeling a surge of confidence and anger, he continues to break down, frantically dealing
blow after blow to his father’s already smashed skull.
And so the crime lord was born and you almost feel bad for him.
3 Mysterio in Far From Home
In Spiderman Far From Home, Quinten Beck seems to be a supervillain who has everything figured
out.
That is until anything in his plan begins to go wrong.
We then see just how fragile and frantic Mysterio is.
He desperately wants to be seen as a hero and though he is a charismatic genius who
can fortunately find a way to spin anything in his favour, when he faces off with Peter’s
Spider-Man we seem him lose it to the point that he risks his own safety.
He taunts Spider-Man with the EDITH tech glasses, forcing him to walk down a hallway filled
with illusions.
But Spider-Man closes his eyes and we see just how powerful of a power his spidey-sense
can be.
Frustrated as Spider-Man gets closer and destroys his drones, Quinten questions as to why the
drones are not firing at Spider-Man.
The system responds, saying that Quinten himself is in the strike zone.
He yells, urging them to strike anyways.
As a result he gets shot and we see him die.
But does he?
It’s Mysterio, so who really knows.
2 Magneto in X-Men Age of Apocalypse
While I’ll be the first to admit that Age of Apocalypse had it’s issues, like this
scene where Jean Grey shouts Apocalypse to death, there are a few things that the movie
did well.
One I really love Michael Fassbender as Magneto and the backstory they gave his character
in the film was heartbreaking.
Erik saves a man in the mines with his mutant powers and is found out.
As a result he is captured when soldier threatens his family, giving himself up.
Turns out his daughter has some mutant abilities too and sends a flock of birds to attack the
soldiers.
In the chaos, one of the soldiers accidentally releases an arrow which ends up hitting and
killing both daughter and wife.
Erik loses it, shouting up to the heavens, and uses a locket to single handedly kill
all of the soldiers.
1 Joker in Death of the Family
In Death of the Family, Batman gets the best of Joker for once.
Now, you have to remember that the Joker is a character who has been shown to take on
Scarecrow’s fear toxin without seemingly any problem.
Revealing that he’s really not afraid of anything.
In fact he enjoyed his exposure to the fear toxin.
Eerily enough.
But there is one thing that Joker seems unable to deal with: himself.
Or more specifically his true identity.
In Death of the Family, Joker plots to take out the entire Bat family, in an effort to
mess up Batman and obviously bring the two arch nemesis closer.
This plot however ends in his ultimate demise.
Joker is about to fall off a cliff when Batman grabs a hold of him, saying he can’t go
like that, by accident.
Batman then confesses he knows Joker’s true origins and whispers the name of his former
self into Joker’s ear.
This results in Joker full on flipping out.
Putting his shock buzzer on Batman’s mouth and causing himself to be dropped to his demise
below as his former face also falls off.
This is during the time that Joker had his face skinned and then wore it around just
to look even more terrifying.
Ick.
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What are your favourite freakout moments?
Are they sad, do they come from rage, or do they just come from supervillains unable to
handle the defeat that is thrust upon them?
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