10 The
Joker A combination of resilience, obsession and
pure insanity, The Joker has evaded death on numerous occasions, much to the Bat family’s
disdain.
And while over the years, there has been some instances in which he’s kicked the can (Frank
Miller The Dark Knight Returns), the majority of the time, Batman’s unwillingness to kill
the clown prince of crime has made for some of the most enjoyable conflict in comic book
history.
9 Vandal Savage Being an immortal isn’t easy.
Especially when you’re using your immortality to try to plot the downfall of humankind.
Vandal Savage was the leader of a Cro-Magnon Blood tribe back in the days of cavemen.
He came into contact with a radioactive meteorite, which gave him superhuman enhancements and
immortality.
Ever since, he’s been screwing around with events in history, all while trying to establish
himself as the ruler of Earth.
8 Doomsday When we were first introduced to Doomsday,
he was beating the crap out of Superman, and ‘killed him’, along with seemingly dying
himself.
Which wasn’t the case.
His body was attached to an asteroid and flung into space by a superman imposter, later to
be revealed that, despite being tied to the asteroid, he was alive.
Known as the Destroyer, he’s got regeneration abilities, capable of reactive adaptation,
and is immortal.
Which I guess is what you get when you use cruel evolution experiments on a baby and
then clone it, ultimately trying to forge a more invulnerable, superior clone of it
as a means of accelerated natural evolution.
Fun stuff.
7 Ra’s Al Ghul One of the biggest super villains in the DC
universe, Ra’s is a criminal mastermind who strives to create a world with a perfect
environmental balance.
By ridding it of most of humanity that is.
He’s lived for centuries, due to his Lazarus Pits, which are filled with rejuvenating chemicals
capable of restoring life back into the dead.
He’s also been killed before and then brought back, despite being cremated, all by transferring
his consciousness into the body of another.
6 Silver Surfer Galactus’ herald, Silver Surfer has been
given a tiny portion of Galactus’ power cosmic, and for a long while, he searched
the cosmos looking for planets for Galactus to devour.
Eventually, he ends up on earth and rediscovers his humanity, causing Galactus to exile him.
He’s capable of quite a lot, including turning matter into energy, and the ability to absorb
and manipulate the universes ambient energy, can see through time, and has a nearly impervious
body.
5 Imperiex Prime With the goal of destroying imperfect parts
of the universe and create new ‘perfect’ ones, Imperiex Prime is a galactic being,
who takes the form of pure energy contained inside a humanoid set of armour.
He’s being on this crusade since the dawn of time, and is almost impossible to beat,
causing the forces of both good and evil on Earth to team up to save their planet.
And they managed to kill him with a temporal displacement weapon, sending him and Brainiac
back to the big bang.
After a slew of causalities that is, of course, 8 million of which were on Earth.
4 Parallax Parallax is an entity made up entirely of
fear, on which it feeds.
It’s caused entire civilizations to destroy themselves out of paranoia.
So, as you can imagine, it’s a little hard to kill.
Rather, Parallax is a villain that must be overcome rather than completely eliminated.
Which is a feat in itself, considering how hard it is to squash fear in the first place.
For years, it was imprisoned by the Guardians of the Universe in the Central Power Battery,
with the Guardians keeping it’s true nature a secret in hopes no one would try to free
Parallax.
3 Apocalypse First appearing in 1986, Apocalypse has always
been a terrifying force to be reckoned with, being a class 5 mutant bent on world domination.
He’s got god-like abilities, which include self molecular control, matter manipulation,
augmenting or supercharging the powers of other mutants, telekinesis, shapeshifting,
accelerated healing, energy manipulation, reality distortion, the ability to transfer
his consciousness to another being.
Oh, and he’s immortal, so there’s that.
2 The First From Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The First Evil
is a malicious entity that pre-dated man and demon alike, and is the personification of
evil itself.
It’s non corporeal, so it uses extreme psychological manipulation to get what it wants.
It popped up a few times in the show, with it being the big bad for the final season
of the show, season 7.
After the balance between good and evil is altered when Buffy is resurrected in season
6, it tries to overrun this dimension, by becoming corporeal, but luckily Buffy manages
to defeat its army and destroy the Sunnydale Hellmouth, rendering it powerless.
1 Galactus A cosmic entity who consumes planets in order
to sustain his life force, Galactus has the Power Cosmic at his disposal, allowing him
total manipulation of energy in order to achieve almost any effect he desires.
He does have a weakness, though; that hunger for planets is his downfall – if he doesn’t
consume life force, he’ll fade.
But that doesn’t make his power – or invulnerability – less immense.
Jack Kirby, one of Galactus’ co-creators, has stated, “I had to get something new.
And ... for some reason, I went to the Bible.
And I came up with Galactus.
And there I was in front of this tremendous figure, who I knew very well, because I always
felt him, and I certainly couldn't treat him the same way that I would any ordinary mortal
... and of course the Silver Surfer is the fallen angel.
...[T]hey were figures that have never been used before in comics.
They were above mythic figures, and of course, they were the first gods.”
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