Greetings nerdy list aficionados and welcome back to top 10 nerd it’s that time again
restriction time but for villains now in general villains have less restrictions cause they’re
willing to go to levels other characters aren’t but that doesn’t mean they don’t have
hurdles struggles to overcome.
I’m Sasha and these are the Top 10 Super Villains with weird power restrictions part
2 and no they’re not all from the silver age.
Now like all our lists some of these restrictions will have since been gone but since they existed
we get to talk about them.
Them’s the breaks.
Number 10 - The Ten Eyed Man – this character debuted in Batman #226 (1970) in his first
origin Philip Reardon was injured in name when fragments of a grenade hit his eyes he
returned to Gotham and got a job as a security guard and one night while trying to stop a
robbery he mistakes batman for one of the thieves and is injured losing all his sight
but fear not a brilliant doctor Dr. Engstrom reattaches his optic nerves to his ten fingers
so he can see from his ten fingers so his fingers are now his eyes.
He has 360 periscopic vision but well they’re eyes so super sensitive get dirt in them cover
them with a blanket he grans anything with them.
Touching things is now a problem yeah he’s a great marksmen now but you have to do all
these convoluted hand movements to get things to work and always be really careful is it
a blessing or a curse.
He really should have just done the scientific talk show circuit he would have made money
and avoided batman and made him feel bad for ruining another person’s life.
The best revenge is living well.
Number 9 – Calendar Man he’s low cause well he didn’t have powers at first he first
debuted in Detective Comics #259 (September 1958) and overtime has transitioned from a
gimmicky villain to one who while still gimmicky is more credible and has taken part in some
well received stories.
On top of really needed to plan his heists and other plans around holiday events he also
now ages with the seasons and is reborn each spring so if he is in his winter phase yeah
you can take him out unless he planned ahead which he’s good at great planner calendar
man.
Still having to plan according to hyper aging would be a nuisance you can’t control everything
and if something important happens when you’re down for the count you’re just going to
miss out.
Number 8 – Humpty Dumpty he first debuted in Arkham Asylum: Living Hell #2 (August 2003)
and actually isn’t malicious but that is part of what makes him have a restriction,
he was actually keen on repairing things but he breaks anything he reassembles and this
has actually lead to many deaths.
What he is good at though is fixing things for his fellow arkham inmates which also fuels
their psychoses so he’s helping in all the wrong ways.
If only he understood what he was trying to do he could use his desire to repair for good
and maybe open and watch repair shop or a clock shop or something modern that people
actually need repaired a computer repair shop?
Being able to disassemble and reassemble is a good skill but you have to be able to do
it correctly.
Number 7 Snowflame so he’s a super villain who debuted in New Guardians #2 (October,
1988) and he gets his powers from cocaine.
Yup you heard that right.
He fought them in Columbia because topical also stereotypical he has a power called the
cocaine touch he is so infused with cocaine touch him and get high.
Here’s the thing he’s also an addict so the thing that grants him his powers is killing
him slowly so often that is the way.
He also gains superhuman speed and strength and pain tolerance while on cocaine but is
also pyrokinetic.
He died quite quickly in the same issue he appeared in fact and if he hadn’t yeah he
wouldn’t have been around long.
Somebody somewhere would have a made a case for this glorifying drug use or being offensive
to the people of Columbia.
As it stands snowflame is a blip mocked fondly by those who remember him.
Aren’t you glad you now know about snowflame.
Number 6 – The Infidel my plan to get more and more astro city into these videos slowly
comes to fruition we’re in the endgame now.
So the infidel is the archnemesis of the Samaritan and their existences are intertwined.
Get ready for backstory.
He was an African slave who became an immortal sorcerer and used his powers eventually seize
power and rule a wasteland future in the 36th century ruling over a world that would eventually
end.
He was so powerful he would often times take little zen trips out of the timeline to be
alone and ponder during one of these meanderings he lost everything.
The Samaritan who was just an average person from the dystopian 35th century was selected
to stop the world from ending and in his time travel trip he was imbued with powers and
he succeeded hence erasing the infidels version of paradise but not him since he was outside
the time stream when he realized what happened he tried to create a world without the Samaritan
however they are evenly matched neither can win they have fought each other to the destruction
of reality multiple times but they can never win so now the infidel lives outside of the
main timeline and him and the Samaritan have dinner once a year to see where the others
head is at if he’s getting more good or if the Samaritan is getting more evil cause
that’s the only way anything is going to happen.
His restriction he’s terrible at changing the Samaritan's mind like serving him dinner
prepared by his slave girl harem.
At least pretend to be good play the game a little.
I like that they’re just chill frenemies now it’s very venture bros like cool k we
tried come on over I made tacos.
Speaking of the venture bros in at number 5 Phantom limb so the venture bros is a series
that parodies many things but largely the superhero genre and action genres of the silver
age things like Johnny quest.
There are many villains in the series that I adore but my favourite is Phantom Limb dr
Hamilton g fantomos former boyfriend of doctor mrs the monarch and full time melodramatic
villain.
He’s the most competent villain and the most pretentious but his power set well he
initially had small deformed limbs and was hence an outcast from his family an experiment
to fix them did render them normal sized but also invisible and able to kill with a touch.
He always has to hide them now and wear gloves though he’s most often in his phantom inspired
purple costume.
It’s hard to keep your rep up as a normal person while you have to hide that your limbs
are invisible thankfully for the most part he doesn’t care and he’s a member of the
council of 13 now and has chilled out a lot.
I miss his romance with that shoe though.
Phantom Limbs great I’ll be his girlfriend after Lex, yeah I’m weird and I don’t
apologize for it.
Number 4 The Enchantress Marvel’s so just enchantress.
She has quite the power set but used to have a very wonder womany weakness.
She first appeared in Journey into Mystery #103 (April 1964) and no her weakness isn’t
that she’s in love with Thor or that she initially got her powers from Loki.
On top of the usual Asgardian perks of strength, speed and stamina etc she also has the ability
to manipulate ambient magical energy which she can then project or shoot she can also
perform complex spells , cast illusions levitate, conjure disrupt time use mind control.
She also of course performs enchantments some on herself such as to increase her beauty
to make her literally bewitching so that people are enchanted also she has cast a spell on
her lips so that any many she kisses is her slave for a week we don’t use that as much
anymore.
However way back in the say she had a restriction she couldn’t access her powers if her hands
were bound and she was gagged.
So you get to have your standard bondage panels.
This isn’t a thing so much anymore but I bet some people miss it.
Number 3 - Black Adam he first debuted in Fawcett Comics (1945) cause he was under the
Marvel family umbrella and would be absorbed by DC with all the rest of the Fawcett characters
after Fawcett went bankrupt after years of litigation with DC over superman plagisrism
and copyright issues.
Black Adam is one of the main antagonists for Captain Marvel now known as Shazam he
is Teth-Adam an Egyptian granted powers by the wizard Shazam however he abuses them and
is banished this is the classic origin people he stays in his magical form all the time
which for a time gave him the restriction that he could never change back that his physical
form had aged and if he changed he would turn to dust which has happened and been depicted
and it’s horrifying but there have been subsequent changes in how people view that
logic that has allowed him to change back the question is he actually aging while in
his powered from some say no that his mortal body is in a sort of statis.
He later gained the power of isis that has actually rendered him more powerful than Billy
but again wibbley wobbley timey wimey.
So many retcons and rebirth keeping up with comics can be a lot there’s a lot of a lot.
So much to explore so be sure to check it out for yourself.
Number 2 – Trigon he debuted in The New Teen Titans #2 (February 1981) Trigon is the
father of Raven and initially could not come conquer the earth except for through Raven
who is constantly battling against him and his influences nowawdays this is less of a
thing but Raven being a conduit was a huge part of her first run on the new teen titans
and continues to be everytime they adapt these stories.
Trigon is so powerful that he really could destroy the earth on a whim so he needs this
restriction we need him to have this restriction.
Do you think we’ll ever see full blown monstrous trigon on Titans.
powers he did more than kill Ted Kord and get his neck snapped by wonder woman she twisted
it all the way round front to back.
But it’s rebirth so he’s fine now.
Lord started out normal but gained powers after the dominators invaded earth telepathic
ones that allowed him to influence others minds by making subconscious suggestions to
them.
However if he uses them he elevens all over the place it’s all anime boy seeing a hot
girl for the first time translation his nose bleeds.
So it hurt him but right before his death at the hands of wonder woman he had gotten
so good at controlling his powers he could even control superman.
See practice makes perfect.
In rebirth he has always been a metahuman and can push people to follow their subconscious
desires however now the drawback is he can’t control what those are so he’s not as much
of a threat.
I’ve always liked Maxwell lord as a character that has nothing to do with anything just
fond.
What character that doesn’t get a lot of airtime do you like yes I know he was on Supergirl
but he wasn’t the same.
So those were 10 more villains with weird power restrictions.
I got to put some rare people on here I’m pleased.
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