Becoming a god for many people already drives them to evil deeds.
Look at how awful the Greek gods of myth are in stories as an example.
So you can just imagine when you take an already inherently evil character like a supervillain
and add some god-like powers, just what you get.
Today we’ll be talking about how some of the villains when from super to god mode,
what brought them there, and in some cases what took them down as we count down the top
10 supervillains who became gods, part 2.
That’s right, part 2.
So if you haven’t seen my girls, Kelly’s part one, be sure to check that out after
as well.
And be sure to stick around till the end of this video where we will have some bonus content
coming your way.
Alright, let’s get counting.
10 Black Hand
The Black Hand is William Hand a notable Green Lantern villain.
His backstory was retconned to make him better fit into the events of the Blackest Night
story arc.
In that story he is also a Green Lantern villain but one who is obsessed with death.
He works at his family’s funeral home and is an implied necrophiliac.
He ends up killing his family after Death calls to him, urging him to destroy the superheroes
who have thwarted both William and Death itself by living.
After killing his family he commits suicide and is rewarded with the first Black Lantern
ring.
This ring and his new role as a Black Lantern helped him to cast the spell raise dead by
granting others Black Lantern rings and adding their strength to that of the Black Lantern
Corps.
Eventually the Black Lanterns killed enough to then give Black Hand the power to summon
the Guardian of Death, Nekron who went on to threaten the very existence of all heroes
on earth.
However using the white light of creation, Black Hand is forcefully resurrected breaking
his ties to the Black Lantern Corps and to Nekron who was using Black Hand as it’s
link to the realm of the living.
Wonh wonh woooonnnh.
9 Poison Ivy
In the Everyone Loves Ivy story arc, Poison Ivy ends up finding a way to take over the
world.
Being one of the more relatable villains, she argues that she is working to do so in
order to protect the world and humanity with it.
The way she looks at it, humanity left to their own devices would destroy everything.
Batman finds out about this motive after he and Selina Kyle get free and discover that
Poison Ivy is controlling everyone through their consumption of veggies, which has allowed
her to infiltrate the entire world’s mind.
While this doesn’t make her god on a universal scale, on a more local and somewhat biblical
scale, this could be considered a godhood.
She does eventually decide to relinquish control of the planet but not because Batman and Catwoman
beat her.
She gives it up when they are able to free Harley long enough to have Poison Ivy’s
best friend and sometimes love interest, coax out Pamela the real motive behind this whole
world domination plot and convince her that she doesn’t need to control the world any
longer.
Harley’s there to take care of Ivy and Ivy can finally rest.
8 Carnage
Carnage had appeared to die in the comics after slamming back down into the earth and
burning up in orbit after being discarded by an alternate symbiotic obsessed alien race
known as the Poisons.
Though Cletus appeared deceased after this trip, despite his symbiotes hearty attempts
to keep it’s host alive, he found himself revived by the hands of a Knull worshiping
cult.
Beyond that he also found himself momentarily connected to Knull, granting him even more
strength than he once had.
He set out to collect the codexes of all those who had ever bonded with a symbiote, stored
in their spines to help free the god Knull.
Everytime he consumes a codex he appears to get even stronger, allowing him to regain
the Grendel symbiote’s godlike powers.
7 The Orb
The Orb is a strange Marvel villain who boasts of enhanced senses and an eye for a head.
He ended up managing to get his hands on one of Uata’s eyes after dreams of the Watcher’s
base inspired him to rob the Watcher.
Eventually after losing the eye and regaining an eye, he bonded with it, giving him the
ability to see as a Watcher does.
The Orb now a second-rate villain now has god-like omniscience.
While he claims to uphold the Watcher’s vow of non-interference he also believes he
should be allowed to help along any events which would simply help others to reach their
full potential.
Not limiting this, well ultimately interference to just those with good intentions but also
helping to advance the plots of more insidious individuals such as murderers.
6 Apocalypse
Before Apocalypse was Apocalypse, he was just En Sabah Nur.
Born disfigured, before he was even Nurr, he was simply a small baby abandoned and left
to die.
Fortunately Baal of the Crimson Sands, a raider found him and decided to raise him as his
own.
He gave him the name En Sabah Nur.
Nur gained much strength and wit already as a child simply from training.
But he wasn’t quite a god level yet.
He wouldn’t really gain much power until his mutant abilities surfaced, after his adoptive
father died leaving his son with a prophecy to fulfill.
Baal believed that Nur was destined to be a great conqueror and defeat Pharoah Rama-Tut
who was in actuality time-travelling Kang.
Nur came after Tut, aka Kang and defeated him, Kang escaping through time travel.
During his battle Nur would have died but his mutation activated, making him immortal
and saving him.
He would go on to receive telepathic communication from the Celestials and discover an alien
ship that would make even stronger than before and allow to become god-like being he is in
comics today that we know as Apocalypse.
A dude who literally modified and forced other mutants into becoming his deity-like Horsemen.
5 Kratos
That’s right for this one we are turning to the video game, God of War.
It’s not a comicbook but hey, supervillains don’t just exist in comics.
And you know me, I like to sprinkle in some different nerd content every now and then.
Sneak something a little different in for you.
Keep you on your toes.
Now fans of the God of War video game saga may argue that Kratos is not a supervillain
though, he is an antihero.
And while at this point in time, in the new God of War, with his son Atreus, I would agree
with you.
He used to be a really terrible dude whose actions were often more self-serving.
Which honestly makes him sometimes even worse than some of the supervillains on this list,
who at least appear to be working toward their own twisted greater good at least.
I mean, Poison Ivy just thinks she is helping.
It was his obsession with power and lust for war that led him to become Ares’ ward and
ended up being his own undoing.
This sets him on a path for vengeance but even then his path of vengeance is kind of
self-serving.
He only goes after Ares because Athena promises that the death of his family by his own hands,
which Ares tricked him into doing, and all of his other sins will be absolved.
And Kratos believes this also means they will be forgotten and he will no longer be haunted
by the memories of his family’s death.
Yet when he does kill Ares, Athena reveals that his sins are forgiven but can never be
forgotten.
Jk, lol.
Basically his selfish attitude makes him a misguided villain for most of the games who
becomes imbued with godpowers before eventually turning on the gods and the titans and then
just unleashing a bunch of plagues on humanity.
So… yeah.
4 Galactus
Following the path of Apocalypse, Galactus before he went godmode, was a simple space
explorer named Galan, who ended up sort of giving up on his mission and killing a bunch
of people.
While he wasn’t inherently evil before his ascension, he also wasn’t really an inherently
evil god-like being even after getting his powers so…
Galactus is supervillain simply because of the fact that he is such a large threat.
But ultimately he’s just a really really hungry dude.
As Galan he was tasked with saving one of the last surviving world’s, his homeworld
of Taa.
However Galan tried to solve the problem but ultimately gave up, thinking the universe
was simply at its end and there was nothing that could be done.
He encouraged the last survivors to fly into the centre of all the chaos, that all energy
and matter was gravitating towards, a radioactive ball known as the Cosmic Egg and just get
it all over with.
He joined them in the ship and they all sailed into the centre of Cosmic Egg, dying.
Except that Galan somehow survived and was chosen to be reborn.
He was revitalised and merged with the cosmic entity known as the Sixth Infinity, the Sentience
of the Multiverse.
This transformed Galan into Galactus.
Who was so powerful and eventually had lived so long that he needed to devour worlds to
survive.
3 Brainiac
In the Justice League Unlimited animated series in the episode Divided We Fall, Brainiac goes
god mode after deciding to fully merge with Lex Luthor.
Brainiac's goal is to record all information ever known and destroy the original source
material for that information.
That doesn’t sound that bad until you realize that you are going to be recorded and deleted
yourself.
Which is not so great.
Lex adds to this plan his imagination, feeling that Brainiac is limited by his programming.
His goal is to reshape the universe after accruing all information in their own image.
The two almost succeed, creating androids of the Justice Lords to stop the Justice League.
Unfortunately they ended up defeated when the Flash uses the speed force to separate
them, and almost phases out of existence as a result.
2 Surtur
In the MCU Surtur goes from being god-like to just your average flame giant to god-like
again.
Odin successfully banished him and the rest of his race to Muspelheim after defeating
Surtur and separating him from his power source, the Eternal Flame.
But there is a prophecy that Surtur will bring about the end of Asgard through the event
known as Ragnarok, wherein Asgard’s empire was fated to fall and be destroyed.
To prevent Surtur from rising up again, Thor defeats him but foolishly keeps his remains,
err… his skull really, in Odin’s vaults where the eternal flame is also kept.
Which really seems a little too close for comfort to me but comes in handy when Loki
needs to evoke Ragnarok in order to defeat Hela, by dropping Surtur’s remains into
the eternal flame and resurrecting Surtur who is now bigger and stronger than ever.
While Hela is the goddess of death she appears no match for Surtur, the god of being big
and on fire.
1 Nebula
What we often tend to forget when it comes to the Infinity Gauntlet storyline was that
it wasn’t just Thanos that was managed to wield the Gauntlet.
There was a villain actually far worse than him who stole it from him before being stopped,
Nebula.
Nebula who was basically a corpse at this point after almost being completely obliterated
by Thanos--a story for another time--managed to get the Gauntlet off of her supposed grandfather.
Following in her grandfather’s footsteps she goes all mad and decides instead of just
getting revenge on Thanos, she should rule the world with the Gauntlet.
This causes Adam and Thanos to team up to take her down, thus ending her godhood with
the Gauntlet.
Thanks for watching, nerd squad.
Who do you think are some of the most powerful supervillains?
Who do you think didn’t make the cut for our part 1 or 2 but should have?
If you could give any supervillain god powers who has yet to receive them who would you
give them to?
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top 10 superheroes who became gods part 2.
Chris David comments, “God damn did you butcher pronouncing the world serpent’s
name.
Lol.”
Hahaha, I know!
I tried so hard.
It’s a tricky one.
Nailing pronunciation for so many complex comic book character’s and entity’s names
is harder than it looks.
Let’s try that again, Yor-muun-gand (Jormungand).
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Love that shirt.”
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