He knows what he wants. I imagine him saying it very slowly, like he's talking to a particularly dumb child, because to him, why wouldn't you want to forcibly mutate people into dinosaurs?
@@dmgroberts5471 except he's the one sounding like a kid Adult: Timmy, when you're older you will cure cancer Timmy: I don’t want to cure cancer, I want to turn people into dinosaurs.
Reimagining old ridiculous villains to be tragic and profound is genuinely my favorite new comic trend. Villains like Mindworm and Polka-Dot Man have become some of my favorite because of their genius glow-ups
@@WildBluntHickok Amen to that. Although I would prefer to have more than just "let's make this silly villain into a creepy psycho" because it gets stale after a while. Not everything silly has to be turned dark to be good.
You forgot to mention the best part of dog welder: the title serves as a mantle passed on from a possessed blow torch, and he canonically has the power to weld stars together, which the second dog welder did to save the universe
He is also CURSED to weld dogs into people faces Its not like he likes it he just cant stop himself from doing it so he just tries to make the best of his situation and be as much of a hero as possible
I like what Batman: the Animated Series did with their version of the Clock King, Temple Fugate. Instead of just doing clock-themed crimes, his gimmick is based on extremely precise timing. His getaways all hinged on things like the train always running five minutes late, he could go toe-to-toe with the Caped Crusader because he learned the precise rhythm of Batman's attacks. Hell, his entire motivation is because he lost everything over running late for a court meeting to defend his business. He lost everything because he took the advice of his opposition's attorney to try and relax by deviating from his extremely strict schedule for once, a decision that led to his documents getting ruined in the park fountain and his business going under because of it. Convinced that the attorney - who is now Gotham's mayor, Hamilton Hill - deliberately sabotaged him, he seeks to ruin Hill's life just like Fugate believes Hill ruined his.
I watched that episode a few days ago, and a point of clarification: Mayor Hamilton worked for the same Law firm, but he wasn't directly involved with the case. If he did, any conversation outside of court would have been seen as a conflict of interest. He and Temple Fugate were just two guys who knew each other because the took the same train. But, Fugate preferred to believe Hamilton set him up rather then he was the victim of a string of really bad luck. Which is what happened. Hamilton only wanted Fugate to relax since he was...tightly wound ;)
I could totally see Asbestos Lady/Man used fully seriously nowadays as a sort of "Lex Luthor got cancer from kryptonite exposure" parallel - they know their suits are killing them but they are so obsessed with revenge they put them on anyway.
Unless they were either making their suits or cutting them open and sniffing the interior I don't how they could get cancer. Firemen used asbestos suits for decades without problems. It's not like it's plutonium it only causes problems if you inhale the fibers or saw through a fire brick made with the stuff and get it into the air. It's not even a chemical carcinogen the microscopic fiberdamage lung tissues over a long period.
@@atomicskull6405 Firemen didn't usually go brawling in their suits, especially against people with super powers. And hell, they could've easily get cancer while making them as you say. Point is, you could make use of this set up in a pretty typical comicbook story about supervillainous obsession.
Or, flip it and have them resurface as tragic heroes, knowingly killing themselves hoping to somehow change something dear to them rather than just showing up to I don't know, beat up the human torch again
Asbestos Lady is a great example of my personal favorite trope. Zeerust. Sci-Fi tech that used to be sound, cool supertechnology, but now, it's been eclipsed by modern tech. In the 60s, Maxwell Smart's secret shoe phone was impossible spy tech. Now, it's the most inconvenient cellphone ever, with a rotary dial. The huge, monochrome pixel computer monitors in the original Alien movie. I adore the trope.
I actually think Mirror Master is a pretty decent villain. Think about it, he can manipulate mirrors and reflective surfaces, escaping into the mirror dimension and even trapping people inside it. Thats quite a scary concept, he can go anywhere that has a mirror, the white house, any millionaires mansion, the bat-cave, the watch tower, and he can easily escape back into it after. You could genuinely write some terrifying stories with a concept like that.
Yeah I absolutely don't think Mirror Master deserves to be on this list of stupid super villains. His outfit might look goofy but both Mirror Masters are incredibly great characters.
@@blacksun3185 I also liked the clock King, especially batman the animated series version, only appearing in two of those, but he presented quite a threat, having such perfect timing he could predict batman's moves down to nano second, and his second appearance using a time distortion device was such a great episode
There's no such thing as a stupid character, there are SILLY characters, but every character has some ability to be used in good stories. It just takes the right writer and the right idea.
True! Once I created a character who I felt was pretty useless... If they wear someone else's clothes they look like that person... If they have multiple clothing from different people then they can chose which they become but if the clothing goes they go normal again... I soon realised this will make a good villain since they can desguise themselves as anyone as long as they have something worn by someone else
To be fair, the Living Eraser sounds pretty scary. I mean, someone who can just straight up erase matter from the universe at will? That's a super dangerous power.
I find Sauron interesting since in the Silver Age when he was introduced, he was genuinely presented as a serious villain. Well, as serious as character with his story could be. The presented him very much of as a Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde sort. Karl Lykos was a doctor that cared about people. Sauron was his persona that took over and was a murderous monster that thirsted for power. At some point, he just became goofy.
"Curt Connors was a geneticist researching the ability of certain reptiles to regrow missing limbs. He developed a lizard DNA-based serum that would allow humans to do the same, and tested it on himself, hoping to regain his missing right arm; instead, he transformed into a feral anthropomorphic lizard. Although Spider-Man was able to undo the transformation, the Lizard remained a part of Connors' subconscious, and would resurface time and time again; often retaining Connors' intelligence and attempting to replace mankind with a race of reptilian creatures like himself."
I still think Dr. BONG deserves more attention. My dude literally has a giant bell on his head, and fights by HITTING HIMSELF ON THE HEAD and creating vibrations that somehow hurt others and not himself despite the fact that the bell is LITERALLY ON HIS HEAD.
"The only way you can make good things is by making bad things, and you can't make bad things, if you don't make anything." That is such a simple yet brilliant line. I need tor keep that in mind more often. Also my favorite villain is Condiment King! Surprised he didn't get a mention, but maybe it's because he is one of the more well known odd ball villains.
I may or may not have an entire book titled The Legion of Regrettable Supervillains, so I’m pretty much an expert. My personal favorite was always Brickbat, a man dressed up as a bat who throws poisoned bricks at people. (EDIT: Just finished the video, happy to see my man get the rep he deserves)
I LOVE what you said about deadlines and just basically being forced to make something, because that idea gave rise to my favorite movie ever, The Emperor's New Groove. Basically it was planned to be an epic musical in the same vein as Lion King, but halfway through production, practically everything was scrapped, but the creators had the same deadline. Obviously a crappy thing for Disney to do, but the end result is amazingly hilarious. I highly recommend The Sweat Box, a documentary on the making of the Emperor's New Groove. It was never officially released because it paints Disney in such a bad light, but you can find it online.
I remember Clock King in Justice League Unlimited, he was the operator for the Suicide Squad/Task Force X. Him becoming an operator for a heist because of his ability to calculate time and plan the operation extremely accurately was such a cool idea, Timmverse had the best iterations of almost every character.
I was running a superhero table top game for some friends, and I like to throw out a goofy villain for them to fight every few sessions. It helps break the tension when, after a tough fight with a giant robot or something, they fight The Centinal, a man who can telekinetically control coins, but clearly doesn't know how to properly use his powers.
Would he still be able to control them if they were melted down and used to create something else? Say... Like a gun... ...Wait shit that's just a better Hol Horse or Mista
@@no64256 No, he can only control things he views as coins. If you melt a coin down into a bullet, even if you do it right in front of him, he won't recognize it as a coin anymore and thus can't control it.
@@Ilias2 I love it when a joke or lower rank villain comes back as an actual threat! It can feel cool to see how they improve and get their day, and interesting to see how the heroes respond since they likely underestimate the threat.
“The only way to create good things is to create bad things, and you can’t create bad things if you don’t make anything” definately not expecting such an inspirational speech at the end of a silly video exploring golden age comicbook villains, thank you for those words
Yeah, but that still.doesn't explain the creation of Armless tygerman because someone must have seen this and said 'Wait a minute, Tygerman? Make him armless, itbwould make him a better villain'
This "moral of the story" clashes with the earlier hypothesis proposed in the video that all these ridiculous villains were probably created with the sheer power of "fuck it, I gotta meet deadlines" rather than out of inability to create something good with sufficient time. Clearly they could have made good villains with enough effort, after all most of the golden age super heroes aged well because thanks to them being the main stars (as opposed to disposable villains of the week) they were given enough thought and care to make them be able to carry an entire serialization. I don't know why Alex suddenly went all philosophical on us in the end, if he really needed to make some thought provoking point to conclude a video about janky ass villains that wasn't it.
I remember liking how Batman: TAS handled Clock King. In fact, I think the so-called "Bat Embargo" forced them to use a lot more of the obscure ones. Or was that later?
@@no64256 I forget the exact details, but at some point, they didn't allow certain Batman villains on the show as much because they were being featured in the upcoming movies. But it must have worn off, because all the main ones show up, even a bunch. It's completely possible that I'm mixing this up with something else.
@@bsharpmajorscale The Bat-Embargo mainly affected the non Batman shows the most. That was why way more Superman villains reappeared in Justice League and JLU than Batman villains, because the “The Batman” TV show was using them. This did also result in that show not being able to use Robin for a while, since he was on Teen Titans at the time. What you might be thinking of is Brave and the Bold, which used a ton of non-Batman characters, probably partially to avoid running into problems with the embargo.
Best villain I've ever seen was that one old dude who turned his hands into rotating blades, calling himself No. 1 fan. He accidentally loocked himself into an indestructible fortress and because of the lack of hands couldn't press the buttons to get out. The one page he appears on ends with him face-palming to... predictable results, what with the rotating ceiling fan hands.
This video is what I value in character creation. I absolutely love just making wacky characters based off something obscure. The joy is deepening their character and somehow making it seem less stupid if you don't think about it. Humanity's creativity is amazing.
My favorite "stupid" comic villain is Satanus, a Judge Dredd villain. It's a cloned, time-traveling t-rex who freaking _HATES_ cops and became a wizard's familiar for a bit before becoming the "king" of the Cursed Earth and went back in time to be worshipped as a god, later becoming the god of violence. It's actually so cool.
If I ran a major movie studio and had millions and millions of dollars at my disposal, the very first project I would greenlight is a completely played straight psychological drama film starring Nicolas Cage as Brick Bat.
I feel like you could easily make Big Wheel look super cool in a movie. If you look at real monowheels, going top speed, doing spins, etc. and then you extrapolate that to make it bigger, more futuristic, more stable, and with some big guns on it, that'd make for an awesome action scene. You can even do this thing where you brake in such a way that the wheel continues to move forward while the driver essentially does a frontflip inside of it, which could visually be a cool way for him to shoot at a pursuer behind him during a chase scene by going upside down inside the wheel. And you could probably do more cool looking gyroscope-like movements I'm not even thinking of. He may not be the most compelling to base a movie plot around, but I really think with some good design choices he could make for an awesome secondary villain or like a mercenary working for the main villain or something.
I love Calendar Man because he's the reason Batman is paranoid about his future and creates the Knightfall protocol in Arkham Knight after Calendar Man almost killed him in a tie-in comic.
Sincerely thank you for making this video. The last message was definitely something I needed to hear. I really like to write but the last few months it was quite hard to even start because I just want it to be perfect. However, i just need to start writing and see what ends up good. I love your videos man
yeah I guess it can be applied to pretty much anything. My first video was absolute dogwater but I kept making them and now here we are. In order to be good at something, you have to accept you'll be terrible for a long time
@@alexlennen Yea, I think in a lot of cases, creatives just need to give themselves permission to be bad at stuff. So, thanks. I can't hear that message enough.
"Could a sober mind really have invented animal vegetable mineral man?" Yes, they could've, and you can too I'f yall want to. You don't need drugs to make something weird and goofy.
I still love what they did with Clock King in the Justice League cartoon (and also in Arrow, I think, probably) with him now being obsessively meticulous about timing and planning things out so that he coordinates the rest of the team from behind the scenes.
As shown with Peacemaker, making a good show with an underused villain as the main protagonist isnt impossible, so i really hope we get to see someone like Kiteman in a tv show. He's one of my favorite villains and I think a show centered around him would be nice to see
I actually enjoy creating villains as stupid as possible and doing it on the spot while trying to do it fast which results in me creating some interesting ones and often they are weird because they use the smallest details that I remember from dreams and/or are created on the spot such as but no where limited to: -Unhappy Birthday looks like an entertainer for a child's birthday but then he can teleport anything out of a wrapped present so when the kid opens their gifts they get nothing! Then he uses their toys as weapons... -Box Man, a man dressed in a costume made fully out of cardboard boxes... He has a car made of boxes, a house made of boxes, even a toilet roll tube gun that shoots cardboard bullets... He really loves cardboard... -The Unbed... Like a bed but it acts like a zombie once it's unknowing victim gets too close then it stands up on its back legs and chances them to eat their brains... -The Mother Wet Floor Kitty...half cat and half wet floor sign... It looks like a wet floor sign but with a cat face and cat ears but then it grows into a super buff version and then poops out little versions of itself... -Copycat... An antho blue and yellow cat with the power to be able to perfectly mimic any action...
I remember reading Cap America/Black Panther team up book and how terrifying they depicted Armless Tiger Man, a feral cannibal let loose. Not a fan of darker and edgier stuff usually but I feel that the context and art in the book twisted the bizarreness to absolute nightmare fuel quite well.
1. You’ve gotta appreciate how creative these villains are, I mean slide literally uses cooking oil to slide around. 2. Hope the comic book comes out good, ideas can be hard to perfect. And 3. Kite Man Hell Yeah.
Fun fact, according to the blue whale cancer paradox, larger animals are less prone to getting cancer, up to the point where a blue whale can't even get cancer. So, by turning everyone into dinosaurs, he has an actual fair chance of also curing cancer.
As a big fan of this channel, very excited to see that we're finally getting Alexander and Jacob in the coming months. Genuinely more excited for this than most movies releasing next year.
Love your videos as always. The message at the end is inspiring to all of us stuck at writers block. Trying too hard focusing on perfectionism, and thus burning out before we actually create anything. Much love, and good luck on your continued journey. I'll keep following every video!
Why are you such a good content creator. These videos are so silly yet perfectly thought through. It’s such genius and extremely entertaining. Good job man.
How could you forget Big Dix from the origonal Dan Jarret blue beetle run? Sure he was a mobster and not a full on supervillain but he deserved at least a passing mention.
Hey, Alex. I don’t know how helpful this might be, but I wanted to say that every time I write I don’t expect perfection. Otherwise I don’t get past the first chapter. I try and push through and when I’m done, at least I have something to work with. Then I read everything over, analyse it, close my word document and start writing the whole thing again from scratch without looking at the first draft. It’s a process that really works for me.
Sometimes when designing characters I Google search for inspiration and sometimes I end up coming across some weird villains from comics. I remember one was named White Rabbit and she of course took inspiration from Alice In Wonderland but the fun y part was that nobody took her seriously so she had no choice but to hirer actors to make it look like she's actually got friends working with her when she commits crimes. Sometimes the villains nobody takes seriously in the comics as well as real life turn out really funny like that
Clock King got a bit of a resurgence thanks to Batman: the Animated Series, where he was reworked into a time obsessed genius. He also popped up on the Justice League cartoon working with the Suicide Squad.
Sauron is the greatest comic book villain. His motivations are extremely relatable. If I could turn people into dinosaurs I would absolutely turn people into dinosaurs, because that's fucking rad as hell.
the thing you said at the end about writing your story and just writing and not being caught up in what you might be lacking or failing at really resonated with me as im writing my own spiderman comic rn, thank you for that
I feel you when it comes to comic ideas. I’ve been writing and drawing concepts for two years. I’ve also come to the realization that I’ll only have about a month to create each idea. Good luck and happy Thanksgiving.
As silly as Brick Bat may be, he got two pretty cool references in modern media. One is in Venture Bros, in the form of supervillain Brick Frog. Second one is in One Piece of all places, where the villain Gecko Moria uses an attack called "Brick Bats". Not the grandest of homages, if one even realizes they're references in the first pla e, but it's still something ^^
Alex for a "filler video" this was really entertaining and made a pretty good retrospective of silly comic book villains. Thank you for making this and continue making what you like man :)
Superhero and supervillain identities are a lot like pro wrestling gimmicks. A good one can really make you stand out and even a bad one can make you memorable. Also you can keep the identity but tweak it to become more serious.
Supervillains turned Anti Heroes are some of my favorite stories. Seeing the internal conflict of characters that arent quite all collected up there is something that can always lead to interesting outcomes. Yea, super villains can be a bit nutty, but always grabs my attention. Whats a thought provoking peice without a bit of comedic relief?
One of my favorites is the Rainbow Raider, a color blind artist turned criminal by the name ROY G. BIVolo who shot hard light in the form of rainbows through specialized glasses. He wore one of the most ridiculous get ups even by supervillain standards, but at the same time, he found a way to manipulate people's emotions through his colored beams. That ironically could make him quite a threat if you used him smartly.
@@keithharrissuwignjo2460 This is pretty much something common in superhero books. Characters are often silly and have cartoony powers, but they could be legitimately dangerous in the hands of a true maniac. But as many writers have shown, taking them 'seriously' is not always an automatically good thing. Take what they did with the comical Killer Moth in the 90's, when he was turned into a giant moth monster for some reason.
I’m bringing this back, the joke villain cinematic universe! Phase 1: Big Wheel The Unstoppable Wall Big Wheel 2: The Bigger Wheel (With The Bad Samaritan and Rocket Racer.) Kite Man (Cod Piece cameo.) Polka Dot Man The Demeaned (Big Wheel, The Wall, Kite Man, Polka Dot Man, Codpiece, The Bad Samaritan.) Phase 2: Big Wheel 3: Bigger, Faster, and Broken Kite Man: Hell Yeah Polka Dot Man: Black Spot (Eyescream and Walrus intro) Serpent Society Demeaned 2 (Condiment King, Signalman, Captain Stingaree intro.) Calendar Man Phase 3: Polka Dot Man: Bad Friends (Polka Dot Man, Codpiece, Eye Scream, Walrus, Calendar Man, Condiment King VS Big Wheel, Bad Samaritan, Rocket Racer, Signalman, Armless Tiger Man, Paste Pot Pete.) Crazy Quilt Serpent Society Ssssssequel Paste Pot Pete: Sticky Man Kite Man: Torn Wings Armless Tiger Man Demeaned: Gang War Calandra Man and The Eraser Stilt Man Demeaned: Endshame Paste Pot Pete: The Unstuck World Phase 4: Condiment King/Signalman Series Eyescream and The Walrus Series Batmite Series Bad Samaritan Why? Series Egg Fu Super Apes Eyescream Series Paste Pot Pete: A Sticky Situation Ten Eyed Man Sauron (Not LOTR) Crazy Quilt in the Manyverse of WTF Lady Stilt Man Series Kite Man: Nice and Wind Asbestos Series Armless Tiger Man 2 Serpent Society Sssssssaves Christmas Phase 5: Calendar Man and The Eraser: Pencilmania Angle Man Series Morbius (2022) The Clock King Eyescream: New Yummy Flavors Serpent Society 3 Tightface Series Stilt People Slide Series Paste Pot Pete: Stuck Together Batmite Season 2 Danny Devito Penguin From Batman Returns Funny Bunny Series Gorilla Man Series Blue Snowman Series Brickbat The Tickler Jackal: Cloned Again Series Codpiece: New Boss in Town Suicide Squad (2016) Phase 6: Rocket Racer Series Paste Pot Pete: Torn Apart Why? Season 2 The Frightful Four The Matador The Animal Vegetable Mineral Man The Living Eraser The Demeaned: Time Warped The Demeaned 6 Just as a note, if anything is missing. Tell me and I still add it.
"Eye-Scream, whose power was that he could turn into any flavor of ice cream that he wanted-" Wow what an awful villain lmao "-including banana-split." Absolutely broken, not even Onslaught could beat this guy.
I suggest looking up Lord Death Man: the self-resurrecting, debatably-immortal, skeleton-costume-clad, yakuza boss, who's a yoga master, canonically a pokemon nerd, a Harley Quinn simp, and was written to be BATMAN'S GREATEST VILLAIN in Japan in the 60's BatManga. As you can imagine, he was too incredible to include in the video.
Within the realm of fiction, there's no such thing as bad ideas, only bad writers. Even the most stupid, seemingly unworkable ideas can be made into masterpieces in the hands of a good writer, and good writers also know when something isn't broken and not to try to fix it. Sometimes you don't need a deep, relatable character that resonates with the viewer to strike gold. Sometimes you just need a dinosaur with his priorities straight.
ALEXANDER AND JACOB! Can't wait to see what you do with the new series! I found this channel because of the Alexander and Jacob video and now, I'm hooked
Side note: Spoilers for Batman: Killing Time In the recent comic series Batman: Killing time ,which is a 6 issue comic series written by Tom King, Clock King is rebooted as a man who is obsessed with time (similar to calendar me but more specific) He plans a bank heist. he plans everything down to the second he even turn the government against batman as part of his plans.(It’s not cannon but it should be)
there's also wacky comic book heroes haha anyways, i like the idea of reusing these so called funny characters into actual interesting and intriguing characters. calendar man for example, the concept works in more serious and darker stories. and that there are real people who use odd ways of doing crimes makes them more grounded, which also makes them more terrifying. funny concepts, if used properly, will work well. like just thinking of a man wearing a bat costume seems funny and weird (and has been sometimes used in jokes), but they were able to create an iconic character who can be seen as a hero and taken seriously.
2:58 I find it funny how they it’s clarified that asbestos man is the man of asbestos, like they’re giving an example of two similar sentences that mean the same thing or trying to reach a required word count.
Absolutely one of the best and most interesting breakdowns of comic book related characters I've seen in years - ComicPop and Comic Tropes beware, this lad has knowledge! :P
Honestly I really needed a reminder like this about deadlines. I’ve got a project I’ve been putting off so much, because I don’t feel like I have the proper time or materials to do it. But, you don’t need all that time. Deadlines remind me of my mortality. I can’t achieve perfection, but I can make something. And if that product turns out being silly and stupid, I can try again the next time. But I don’t need my work to be perfect, I need it to exist. If it’s bad, then at least I can look at it, tell what is bad about it, and improve, as opposed to just worrying about it maybe being bad. Thank you for making this video! It was good.
Angle man and the Mirror Master are underrated. The angler could fold space. And the Mirror Master the original was version was a really layered character when Geoff Johns wrote him in the mid 2000s.
„I don’t want to cure cancer, I want to turn people into dinosaurs.“ has to be the greatest line in fiction.
That discount lizard has his prioritys straight. Truly a sigma male lol
He knows what he wants. I imagine him saying it very slowly, like he's talking to a particularly dumb child, because to him, why wouldn't you want to forcibly mutate people into dinosaurs?
@Chandler Burse the socialist we need.
@@dmgroberts5471 except he's the one sounding like a kid
Adult: Timmy, when you're older you will cure cancer
Timmy: I don’t want to cure cancer, I want to turn people into dinosaurs.
I'd give anything to have the power to infect living creatures turning into dinosaurs
Imagine Sauron and Asbestos Lady teaming up. One causes cancer, the other refuses to cure it, that's a dream team
“I don’t see any of you not curing cancer
Well I guess technically you all are”
Armed tiger man, he just has a gun at all times.
she should get the power to spread cancer as a mutation since shes in the marvel universe
@@birdmcturd1626Solid JJ?
@@keithharrissuwignjo2460 Yep
>puts on bat mask
>kills people with bricks
>refuses to elaborate
>dies
based
Probably Joel Miller's ancestor
Made me think of Metal Bat from One Punch Man. He’s just a dude with a Fonzie haircut and an aluminum bat.
@@thomasjames7568 not really, he almost ended the story if you know what I mean
@@thomasjames7568"what did you say about his hair?"
Reimagining old ridiculous villains to be tragic and profound is genuinely my favorite new comic trend. Villains like Mindworm and Polka-Dot Man have become some of my favorite because of their genius glow-ups
Not a new trend. It was an 80s thing that kind of never fully died off.
@@WildBluntHickok
Amen to that. Although I would prefer to have more than just "let's make this silly villain into a creepy psycho" because it gets stale after a while. Not everything silly has to be turned dark to be good.
And im still waiting for dc to make a spinoff show and solo comicbook for polkadot man 😔
But I don’t want tragic and profound villains. I wanna turn villains into dinosaurs
KITE MAN
You forgot to mention the best part of dog welder: the title serves as a mantle passed on from a possessed blow torch, and he canonically has the power to weld stars together, which the second dog welder did to save the universe
He is also CURSED to weld dogs into people faces
Its not like he likes it he just cant stop himself from doing it so he just tries to make the best of his situation and be as much of a hero as possible
@@valletas holy crap thats epic and wack and I love it so much xD
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Some people have actually dressed up as Dogwelder at conventions!
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"I dont want to cure cancer, I want to turn people into dinosaurs" is an incredible line, one of the best single sentences Ive ever read or heard
That line is also fitting for Mesogog.
@@nicholaslienandjaja1815the guy from Power Rangers Dino Thunder?
Instantly reminded of the far negative side of this spectrum with Dr Light and Identity Crisis
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@@alexlennen hey handsome
@@alexlennen New Alex and Solid jj lore!! They’re lovers!?!!?
Why has nobody seen this comment lol
The lorrrrrrreeeeee!!!!!!
I like what Batman: the Animated Series did with their version of the Clock King, Temple Fugate. Instead of just doing clock-themed crimes, his gimmick is based on extremely precise timing. His getaways all hinged on things like the train always running five minutes late, he could go toe-to-toe with the Caped Crusader because he learned the precise rhythm of Batman's attacks.
Hell, his entire motivation is because he lost everything over running late for a court meeting to defend his business. He lost everything because he took the advice of his opposition's attorney to try and relax by deviating from his extremely strict schedule for once, a decision that led to his documents getting ruined in the park fountain and his business going under because of it.
Convinced that the attorney - who is now Gotham's mayor, Hamilton Hill - deliberately sabotaged him, he seeks to ruin Hill's life just like Fugate believes Hill ruined his.
I watched that episode a few days ago, and a point of clarification: Mayor Hamilton worked for the same
Law firm, but he wasn't directly involved with the case. If he did, any conversation outside of court would have been seen as a conflict of interest. He and Temple Fugate were just two guys who knew each other because the took the same train. But, Fugate preferred to believe Hamilton set him up rather then he was the victim of a string of really bad luck. Which is what happened. Hamilton only wanted Fugate to relax since he was...tightly wound ;)
I could totally see Asbestos Lady/Man used fully seriously nowadays as a sort of "Lex Luthor got cancer from kryptonite exposure" parallel - they know their suits are killing them but they are so obsessed with revenge they put them on anyway.
Oh i love the idea of that
Unless they were either making their suits or cutting them open and sniffing the interior I don't how they could get cancer. Firemen used asbestos suits for decades without problems. It's not like it's plutonium it only causes problems if you inhale the fibers or saw through a fire brick made with the stuff and get it into the air. It's not even a chemical carcinogen the microscopic fiberdamage lung tissues over a long period.
@@atomicskull6405 Firemen didn't usually go brawling in their suits, especially against people with super powers. And hell, they could've easily get cancer while making them as you say. Point is, you could make use of this set up in a pretty typical comicbook story about supervillainous obsession.
This, this right here. This is why I read comments.
Or, flip it and have them resurface as tragic heroes, knowingly killing themselves hoping to somehow change something dear to them rather than just showing up to I don't know, beat up the human torch again
And sometimes, those goofy villains get reimagined into something truly special as well. Mister Freeze and Clock King were amazing additions to BTAS.
Funny he mentioned "Angal Man" because he actually as Super Powers .
Plus they can have cool redesigns
Brave and tge bold had a great clock king design
Learning that Brick Bat is in the public domain really makes me want someone to make a game about him or something.
DEWIT
@@mechanwhal6590I'm gonna dewitt...
I’m gonna make an entire movie trilogy about him
Asbestos Lady is a great example of my personal favorite trope. Zeerust. Sci-Fi tech that used to be sound, cool supertechnology, but now, it's been eclipsed by modern tech. In the 60s, Maxwell Smart's secret shoe phone was impossible spy tech. Now, it's the most inconvenient cellphone ever, with a rotary dial. The huge, monochrome pixel computer monitors in the original Alien movie. I adore the trope.
I actually think Mirror Master is a pretty decent villain. Think about it, he can manipulate mirrors and reflective surfaces, escaping into the mirror dimension and even trapping people inside it. Thats quite a scary concept, he can go anywhere that has a mirror, the white house, any millionaires mansion, the bat-cave, the watch tower, and he can easily escape back into it after.
You could genuinely write some terrifying stories with a concept like that.
Yeah I absolutely don't think Mirror Master deserves to be on this list of stupid super villains. His outfit might look goofy but both Mirror Masters are incredibly great characters.
@@blacksun3185 I also liked the clock King, especially batman the animated series version, only appearing in two of those, but he presented quite a threat, having such perfect timing he could predict batman's moves down to nano second, and his second appearance using a time distortion device was such a great episode
@@MrOrcshaman Also mad they never used him in any future adaptations of the Suicide Squad when he worked so well in the DCAU's version
I remember the justice league doom movie they made mirror master threatening
Not just mirrors, but ANY reflection! He could travel across the universe!
R.I.P. Asbestos Lady. Gone, but also definitely forgotten.
Goodbye asbestos lady, your death was entirely avoidable and it was 100% your fault
There's no such thing as a stupid character, there are SILLY characters, but every character has some ability to be used in good stories.
It just takes the right writer and the right idea.
As a good man once said
"F*ck yeah"
Rocket Racoon, Polka Dot man, Bloodsport.
Thanks James Gunn 🙏
True! Once I created a character who I felt was pretty useless... If they wear someone else's clothes they look like that person... If they have multiple clothing from different people then they can chose which they become but if the clothing goes they go normal again...
I soon realised this will make a good villain since they can desguise themselves as anyone as long as they have something worn by someone else
Marvel's Combo Man
F that guy
@@DreamingNightmares So basically the main gimmick from the Hitman games?
To be fair, the Living Eraser sounds pretty scary. I mean, someone who can just straight up erase matter from the universe at will? That's a super dangerous power.
ZA HANDO
I find Sauron interesting since in the Silver Age when he was introduced, he was genuinely presented as a serious villain. Well, as serious as character with his story could be. The presented him very much of as a Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde sort. Karl Lykos was a doctor that cared about people. Sauron was his persona that took over and was a murderous monster that thirsted for power.
At some point, he just became goofy.
So he wasnt like mr Hyde or jekyll at all
"Curt Connors was a geneticist researching the ability of certain reptiles to regrow missing limbs. He developed a lizard DNA-based serum that would allow humans to do the same, and tested it on himself, hoping to regain his missing right arm; instead, he transformed into a feral anthropomorphic lizard. Although Spider-Man was able to undo the transformation, the Lizard remained a part of Connors' subconscious, and would resurface time and time again; often retaining Connors' intelligence and attempting to replace mankind with a race of reptilian creatures like himself."
Sauron is just a knockoff Lizard let's be real...
the guy from the lord of the rings? he was pretty terrifying wym
@@newt2120 pfft. he was just a big eye. nothing scary about that.
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„Watch out for Calendar Man, every time a game‘s release is delayed, it’s his doing“
~Zanny, Batman Arkham City
I still think Dr. BONG deserves more attention. My dude literally has a giant bell on his head, and fights by HITTING HIMSELF ON THE HEAD and creating vibrations that somehow hurt others and not himself despite the fact that the bell is LITERALLY ON HIS HEAD.
to be fair that dude is SUPPOSED to be ridiculous,he's the villain of a satirical comedy character
@@sarafontanini7051 I mean, so was Codpiece, but he was on here.
And he's the archenemy of Howard the Duck of all people
He ends up becoming a therapist if I remember right.
@@megaman9393Now all we need is a Doom Patrol villain based on a condom (just call him “The Condom”).
"The only way you can make good things is by making bad things, and you can't make bad things, if you don't make anything."
That is such a simple yet brilliant line. I need tor keep that in mind more often.
Also my favorite villain is Condiment King! Surprised he didn't get a mention, but maybe it's because he is one of the more well known odd ball villains.
@TxtMeOnTelegrm--alexLennen
oh, cool. Seems legit. Let me get right on that.
I may or may not have an entire book titled The Legion of Regrettable Supervillains, so I’m pretty much an expert. My personal favorite was always Brickbat, a man dressed up as a bat who throws poisoned bricks at people. (EDIT: Just finished the video, happy to see my man get the rep he deserves)
Legit one of my favorite books of all time, wouldn't be surprised if that's part of what inspired this video.
Wait, the bricks are *poisoned*? Why? Its already a brick!
my favorite is the Dog welder, who welds dogs to people. edit: ayy my boy got a mention too
Oh, the bricks are POISONED, that makes much more sense, 10/10, best villain.
I think he's in the public domain so I'd really love for someone to make a game about him.
I LOVE what you said about deadlines and just basically being forced to make something, because that idea gave rise to my favorite movie ever, The Emperor's New Groove.
Basically it was planned to be an epic musical in the same vein as Lion King, but halfway through production, practically everything was scrapped, but the creators had the same deadline. Obviously a crappy thing for Disney to do, but the end result is amazingly hilarious.
I highly recommend The Sweat Box, a documentary on the making of the Emperor's New Groove. It was never officially released because it paints Disney in such a bad light, but you can find it online.
The real question is, can these obscure villains take on the monstrosity that is Mr.Bean?
Short answer no long ABSOLUTELY NOT
They would die in milliseconds at the hands of Mr Bean
@@heathermontrose1084 Did you watch the video?
It says: there are a lot of "mr.bean"s and you can't unalive all of them in a finite period of time.
Maybe with prep time
Maybe armed tiger man can do it,
(Yes I said armed he just always has a gun)
I remember Clock King in Justice League Unlimited, he was the operator for the Suicide Squad/Task Force X. Him becoming an operator for a heist because of his ability to calculate time and plan the operation extremely accurately was such a cool idea, Timmverse had the best iterations of almost every character.
I was running a superhero table top game for some friends, and I like to throw out a goofy villain for them to fight every few sessions.
It helps break the tension when, after a tough fight with a giant robot or something, they fight The Centinal, a man who can telekinetically control coins, but clearly doesn't know how to properly use his powers.
Have you ever brought any of them back, only for them to be an actual threat to the players?
Would he still be able to control them if they were melted down and used to create something else? Say... Like a gun...
...Wait shit that's just a better Hol Horse or Mista
@@no64256 No, he can only control things he views as coins. If you melt a coin down into a bullet, even if you do it right in front of him, he won't recognize it as a coin anymore and thus can't control it.
@@Ilias2
I love it when a joke or lower rank villain comes back as an actual threat! It can feel cool to see how they improve and get their day, and interesting to see how the heroes respond since they likely underestimate the threat.
Ooh! Give him the Coin Gun from Terraria and feed it from one of those cartoon sacks of cash with $ on the side.
I love the "turning silly super villains into tragedies" thing, it's so good!!
“The only way to create good things is to create bad things, and you can’t create bad things if you don’t make anything” definately not expecting such an inspirational speech at the end of a silly video exploring golden age comicbook villains, thank you for those words
Yeah, but that still.doesn't explain the creation of Armless tygerman because someone must have seen this and said 'Wait a minute, Tygerman? Make him armless, itbwould make him a better villain'
This "moral of the story" clashes with the earlier hypothesis proposed in the video that all these ridiculous villains were probably created with the sheer power of "fuck it, I gotta meet deadlines" rather than out of inability to create something good with sufficient time. Clearly they could have made good villains with enough effort, after all most of the golden age super heroes aged well because thanks to them being the main stars (as opposed to disposable villains of the week) they were given enough thought and care to make them be able to carry an entire serialization. I don't know why Alex suddenly went all philosophical on us in the end, if he really needed to make some thought provoking point to conclude a video about janky ass villains that wasn't it.
I remember liking how Batman: TAS handled Clock King. In fact, I think the so-called "Bat Embargo" forced them to use a lot more of the obscure ones. Or was that later?
Bat embargo?
@@no64256 I forget the exact details, but at some point, they didn't allow certain Batman villains on the show as much because they were being featured in the upcoming movies. But it must have worn off, because all the main ones show up, even a bunch. It's completely possible that I'm mixing this up with something else.
@@bsharpmajorscale The Bat-Embargo mainly affected the non Batman shows the most. That was why way more Superman villains reappeared in Justice League and JLU than Batman villains, because the “The Batman” TV show was using them. This did also result in that show not being able to use Robin for a while, since he was on Teen Titans at the time. What you might be thinking of is Brave and the Bold, which used a ton of non-Batman characters, probably partially to avoid running into problems with the embargo.
@@megaman9393 Gotcha. I guess I confused B:TAS having to sub in different villains with them just being adventurous.
Best villain I've ever seen was that one old dude who turned his hands into rotating blades, calling himself No. 1 fan.
He accidentally loocked himself into an indestructible fortress and because of the lack of hands couldn't press the buttons to get out. The one page he appears on ends with him face-palming to... predictable results, what with the rotating ceiling fan hands.
This video is what I value in character creation. I absolutely love just making wacky characters based off something obscure. The joy is deepening their character and somehow making it seem less stupid if you don't think about it.
Humanity's creativity is amazing.
My favorite "stupid" comic villain is Satanus, a Judge Dredd villain. It's a cloned, time-traveling t-rex who freaking _HATES_ cops and became a wizard's familiar for a bit before becoming the "king" of the Cursed Earth and went back in time to be worshipped as a god, later becoming the god of violence. It's actually so cool.
Judge Dredd is insane
I have never heard of this character before, but they sound genuinely AWESOME!
I should read Judge Dredd
@@negative6442 I never Really finished because I got lazy
difference is that 2000ad stories do not take themselves seriously at all, so silly villains don’t feel out of place
If I ran a major movie studio and had millions and millions of dollars at my disposal, the very first project I would greenlight is a completely played straight psychological drama film starring Nicolas Cage as Brick Bat.
Armless Tiger Man vs Arm Fall Off Boy is the Marvel/DC crossover we all need
10:26 Matador: "and I would've gotten away with it too- "
I feel like you could easily make Big Wheel look super cool in a movie. If you look at real monowheels, going top speed, doing spins, etc. and then you extrapolate that to make it bigger, more futuristic, more stable, and with some big guns on it, that'd make for an awesome action scene. You can even do this thing where you brake in such a way that the wheel continues to move forward while the driver essentially does a frontflip inside of it, which could visually be a cool way for him to shoot at a pursuer behind him during a chase scene by going upside down inside the wheel. And you could probably do more cool looking gyroscope-like movements I'm not even thinking of. He may not be the most compelling to base a movie plot around, but I really think with some good design choices he could make for an awesome secondary villain or like a mercenary working for the main villain or something.
he also reminds me twisted metal characters
We had this sequence in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.
But it wasnt as fleshed out as it could have been.
He actually nade an appearance in the spider man cartoon from the 90s. The Gyro texh was emphasised and he was welded on yo The Rocket Racer.
@Chandler Burse that's why its one of my favorite franchise
He also has an in-universe explanation for being over-the-top, though you'd have to reverse the timeline
asbestos mans story was actually really sad
I love Calendar Man because he's the reason Batman is paranoid about his future and creates the Knightfall protocol in Arkham Knight after Calendar Man almost killed him in a tie-in comic.
I never realized how desensitized I was to DC supervillains, I was aware of every one mentioned in this video and never questioned them
Sincerely thank you for making this video. The last message was definitely something I needed to hear. I really like to write but the last few months it was quite hard to even start because I just want it to be perfect. However, i just need to start writing and see what ends up good. I love your videos man
yeah I guess it can be applied to pretty much anything. My first video was absolute dogwater but I kept making them and now here we are. In order to be good at something, you have to accept you'll be terrible for a long time
@@alexlennen Yea, I think in a lot of cases, creatives just need to give themselves permission to be bad at stuff. So, thanks. I can't hear that message enough.
Good luck bro. I'm sure at least some of your stuff will be good.
@@alexlennen i drink dogwater for breakfast!
"Could a sober mind really have invented animal vegetable mineral man?" Yes, they could've, and you can too I'f yall want to. You don't need drugs to make something weird and goofy.
Special mention to Dog Welder's Section 8 team mate, The Defenestrator. A dude who carries around a glass window and throws bad guys through it🙂
Ah, so in Soviet Russia, window defenestrates YOU!
I still love what they did with Clock King in the Justice League cartoon (and also in Arrow, I think, probably) with him now being obsessively meticulous about timing and planning things out so that he coordinates the rest of the team from behind the scenes.
This man is quickly climbing my favorite TH-camr ranking. Every single video he has made has never missed and has been so entertaining imo
As shown with Peacemaker, making a good show with an underused villain as the main protagonist isnt impossible, so i really hope we get to see someone like Kiteman in a tv show. He's one of my favorite villains and I think a show centered around him would be nice to see
We did
I actually enjoy creating villains as stupid as possible and doing it on the spot while trying to do it fast which results in me creating some interesting ones and often they are weird because they use the smallest details that I remember from dreams and/or are created on the spot such as but no where limited to:
-Unhappy Birthday looks like an entertainer for a child's birthday but then he can teleport anything out of a wrapped present so when the kid opens their gifts they get nothing! Then he uses their toys as weapons...
-Box Man, a man dressed in a costume made fully out of cardboard boxes... He has a car made of boxes, a house made of boxes, even a toilet roll tube gun that shoots cardboard bullets... He really loves cardboard...
-The Unbed... Like a bed but it acts like a zombie once it's unknowing victim gets too close then it stands up on its back legs and chances them to eat their brains...
-The Mother Wet Floor Kitty...half cat and half wet floor sign... It looks like a wet floor sign but with a cat face and cat ears but then it grows into a super buff version and then poops out little versions of itself...
-Copycat... An antho blue and yellow cat with the power to be able to perfectly mimic any action...
I was sufficiently inspired by this to draw my own Box Man
The Unbed sounds both humorous and horrifying at the same time
@@bzztbzztboy good idea XD
@@supaluigifan that's exactly how it was in the dream I had...
Boxman is fire just watch the Smosh videos
0:35 this literally sounds like a typical villain backstory in the One Punch Man universe lmao
I remember reading Cap America/Black Panther team up book and how terrifying they depicted Armless Tiger Man, a feral cannibal let loose. Not a fan of darker and edgier stuff usually but I feel that the context and art in the book twisted the bizarreness to absolute nightmare fuel quite well.
I remember Armless Tiger Man from a forum post back in the day. It was titled Charles Xavier Vs Armless tiger man: Cripple Fight!
@@galanakagalactus903 Even funnier considering their powerset and their disabilities are complete opposites. Their battle will be legendary
I love how the matador wants to make it so that the blind man can’t see. Sheer genius
1. You’ve gotta appreciate how creative these villains are, I mean slide literally uses cooking oil to slide around. 2. Hope the comic book comes out good, ideas can be hard to perfect. And 3. Kite Man Hell Yeah.
Fun fact, according to the blue whale cancer paradox, larger animals are less prone to getting cancer, up to the point where a blue whale can't even get cancer. So, by turning everyone into dinosaurs, he has an actual fair chance of also curing cancer.
Simple: Just turn everyone into Godzillas
As a big fan of this channel, very excited to see that we're finally getting Alexander and Jacob in the coming months. Genuinely more excited for this than most movies releasing next year.
Love your videos as always.
The message at the end is inspiring to all of us stuck at writers block. Trying too hard focusing on perfectionism, and thus burning out before we actually create anything.
Much love, and good luck on your continued journey. I'll keep following every video!
In short, making a ridiculous Armless Tigerman will be more memorable than your typical Tigerless armed man.
But imagine 'e is jus' an animal lovin' sooper 'ero with an accent, rescueing poor innocent big cats
This was way more meaningful than I anticipated. I love the personal spin you put to all your videos. Your recent success is definitely well deserved.
I love how the wacky and stupid sounding villains often have the most heart and depth to them. Unlike Electro who lame as balls.
Electro is funny though because he has the capacity to be a god but is too stupid too realise it
Electro in NWH: 😂
Kite man:Son murdered with poisoned kite string
Polka dot man:Suprisingly dangerous power
Mirror master:Goofy name scary powers
@@keithharrissuwignjo2460 Well Mirror Master is a serious and Major flash villain. Honestly, he shouldn't be there in the first place.
@@bradenmerriman5206 I think i got the last 2 mixed up
Why are you such a good content creator. These videos are so silly yet perfectly thought through. It’s such genius and extremely entertaining. Good job man.
How could you forget Big Dix from the origonal Dan Jarret blue beetle run? Sure he was a mobster and not a full on supervillain but he deserved at least a passing mention.
Ah, yes! Big Dix!
Hey, Alex. I don’t know how helpful this might be, but I wanted to say that every time I write I don’t expect perfection. Otherwise I don’t get past the first chapter. I try and push through and when I’m done, at least I have something to work with. Then I read everything over, analyse it, close my word document and start writing the whole thing again from scratch without looking at the first draft. It’s a process that really works for me.
Sometimes when designing characters I Google search for inspiration and sometimes I end up coming across some weird villains from comics. I remember one was named White Rabbit and she of course took inspiration from Alice In Wonderland but the fun y part was that nobody took her seriously so she had no choice but to hirer actors to make it look like she's actually got friends working with her when she commits crimes. Sometimes the villains nobody takes seriously in the comics as well as real life turn out really funny like that
Isn't she a batman villain?
@@gaminganimators7000 actually she's a marvel villain in the comics
@@DreamingNightmares There is also a DC character with the same name. Course there's also a villain named "Scarecrow" in both universes.
@@astralman yeah both can be unoriginal at times
@@astralman
Scarecrow can be a dangerous Villian. The DC one of course, I don't know about marvel version
Clock King got a bit of a resurgence thanks to Batman: the Animated Series, where he was reworked into a time obsessed genius. He also popped up on the Justice League cartoon working with the Suicide Squad.
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It’s funny because if he did use his talents for curing cancer, asbestos woman and asbestos man wouldn’t have died.
Sauron is the greatest comic book villain. His motivations are extremely relatable. If I could turn people into dinosaurs I would absolutely turn people into dinosaurs, because that's fucking rad as hell.
Simple: Just turn people into Godzilla or Gomora.
Half of these could totally just be random crazy people, especially the ones without any real powers. Big wheel is pretty much the killdozer.
the thing you said at the end about writing your story and just writing and not being caught up in what you might be lacking or failing at really resonated with me as im writing my own spiderman comic rn, thank you for that
I feel you when it comes to comic ideas. I’ve been writing and drawing concepts for two years. I’ve also come to the realization that I’ll only have about a month to create each idea. Good luck and happy Thanksgiving.
As silly as Brick Bat may be, he got two pretty cool references in modern media.
One is in Venture Bros, in the form of supervillain Brick Frog. Second one is in One Piece of all places, where the villain Gecko Moria uses an attack called "Brick Bats".
Not the grandest of homages, if one even realizes they're references in the first pla e, but it's still something ^^
You didn’t mention how Big Wheel fixed the New York transit system.
Alex for a "filler video" this was really entertaining and made a pretty good retrospective of silly comic book villains. Thank you for making this and continue making what you like man :)
I didn’t know paste pot Pete was the
Trapster and knowing that now my brain feels violated
Superhero and supervillain identities are a lot like pro wrestling gimmicks. A good one can really make you stand out and even a bad one can make you memorable. Also you can keep the identity but tweak it to become more serious.
Supervillains turned Anti Heroes are some of my favorite stories. Seeing the internal conflict of characters that arent quite all collected up there is something that can always lead to interesting outcomes. Yea, super villains can be a bit nutty, but always grabs my attention. Whats a thought provoking peice without a bit of comedic relief?
Commenting just in case someone replies.
One of my favorites is the Rainbow Raider, a color blind artist turned criminal by the name ROY G. BIVolo who shot hard light in the form of rainbows through specialized glasses.
He wore one of the most ridiculous get ups even by supervillain standards, but at the same time, he found a way to manipulate people's emotions through his colored beams. That ironically could make him quite a threat if you used him smartly.
Kinda like polka dot man since his powers seem pretty dangerous but his name and costume just make him look ridiculous
@@keithharrissuwignjo2460 This is pretty much something common in superhero books. Characters are often silly and have cartoony powers, but they could be legitimately dangerous in the hands of a true maniac. But as many writers have shown, taking them 'seriously' is not always an automatically good thing. Take what they did with the comical Killer Moth in the 90's, when he was turned into a giant moth monster for some reason.
@@keithharrissuwignjo2460Both comic and movie Polka Dot Man are threatening in their own way
My day is made now that there’s a new Alex lennen video
Nah, no way. That must be photoshopped, if not let me have a piece please
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careful, those are hot cakes
I’m bringing this back, the joke villain cinematic universe!
Phase 1:
Big Wheel
The Unstoppable Wall
Big Wheel 2: The Bigger Wheel (With The Bad Samaritan and Rocket Racer.)
Kite Man (Cod Piece cameo.)
Polka Dot Man
The Demeaned (Big Wheel, The Wall, Kite Man, Polka Dot Man, Codpiece, The Bad Samaritan.)
Phase 2:
Big Wheel 3: Bigger, Faster, and Broken
Kite Man: Hell Yeah
Polka Dot Man: Black Spot (Eyescream and Walrus intro)
Serpent Society
Demeaned 2 (Condiment King, Signalman, Captain Stingaree intro.)
Calendar Man
Phase 3:
Polka Dot Man: Bad Friends (Polka Dot Man, Codpiece, Eye Scream, Walrus, Calendar Man, Condiment King VS Big Wheel, Bad Samaritan, Rocket Racer, Signalman, Armless Tiger Man, Paste Pot Pete.)
Crazy Quilt
Serpent Society Ssssssequel
Paste Pot Pete: Sticky Man
Kite Man: Torn Wings
Armless Tiger Man
Demeaned: Gang War
Calandra Man and The Eraser
Stilt Man
Demeaned: Endshame
Paste Pot Pete: The Unstuck World
Phase 4:
Condiment King/Signalman Series
Eyescream and The Walrus Series
Batmite Series
Bad Samaritan
Why? Series
Egg Fu
Super Apes
Eyescream Series
Paste Pot Pete: A Sticky Situation
Ten Eyed Man
Sauron (Not LOTR)
Crazy Quilt in the Manyverse of WTF
Lady Stilt Man Series
Kite Man: Nice and Wind
Asbestos Series
Armless Tiger Man 2
Serpent Society Sssssssaves Christmas
Phase 5:
Calendar Man and The Eraser: Pencilmania
Angle Man Series
Morbius (2022)
The Clock King
Eyescream: New Yummy Flavors
Serpent Society 3
Tightface Series
Stilt People
Slide Series
Paste Pot Pete: Stuck Together
Batmite Season 2
Danny Devito Penguin From Batman Returns
Funny Bunny Series
Gorilla Man Series
Blue Snowman Series
Brickbat
The Tickler
Jackal: Cloned Again Series
Codpiece: New Boss in Town
Suicide Squad (2016)
Phase 6:
Rocket Racer Series
Paste Pot Pete: Torn Apart
Why? Season 2
The Frightful Four
The Matador
The Animal Vegetable Mineral Man
The Living Eraser
The Demeaned: Time Warped
The Demeaned 6
Just as a note, if anything is missing. Tell me and I still add it.
You really threw morbius in there. Thought we wouldn't notice, huh?
Underrated lol 😂
Big wheel= tony stark/Iron man
Unstoppable wall = incredible hulk
Kite man = thor
Polka dot man = captain America
Better than MCU NGL.
Morbius is not even a joke villain he's literally just a vampire with blood cancer
To be fair Kite man got a killer villain redemption arc in Batman's "War of Jokes and Riddles."
"Eye-Scream, whose power was that he could turn into any flavor of ice cream that he wanted-"
Wow what an awful villain lmao
"-including banana-split."
Absolutely broken, not even Onslaught could beat this guy.
I suggest looking up Lord Death Man: the self-resurrecting, debatably-immortal, skeleton-costume-clad, yakuza boss, who's a yoga master, canonically a pokemon nerd, a Harley Quinn simp, and was written to be BATMAN'S GREATEST VILLAIN in Japan in the 60's BatManga.
As you can imagine, he was too incredible to include in the video.
Isn't Saurons motivation the exact same as the Lizard, a main villain who is taken seriously? They both want to turn humans into reptiles.
Lizard does it to create a new world where he can be among others like him and reign supreme.
Sauron does it literally because its fun.
And both of them are the inspiration for Mesogog.
It's all in the motive and execution.
Lizardman wants to push humanity to the next level of evolution.
Sauron thinks dinosaurs are neat.
6:20 Sounds like the Green Arrow really...cleaned his clock.
Within the realm of fiction, there's no such thing as bad ideas, only bad writers. Even the most stupid, seemingly unworkable ideas can be made into masterpieces in the hands of a good writer, and good writers also know when something isn't broken and not to try to fix it. Sometimes you don't need a deep, relatable character that resonates with the viewer to strike gold. Sometimes you just need a dinosaur with his priorities straight.
ALEXANDER AND JACOB! Can't wait to see what you do with the new series! I found this channel because of the Alexander and Jacob video and now, I'm hooked
Side note:
Spoilers for Batman: Killing Time
In the recent comic series Batman: Killing time ,which is a 6 issue comic series written by Tom King, Clock King is rebooted as a man who is obsessed with time (similar to calendar me but more specific) He plans a bank heist. he plans everything down to the second he even turn the government against batman as part of his plans.(It’s not cannon but it should be)
Its basically the Batman: Animated Series version of CK but pushed to the extreme
@@camil3545 absolutely
there's also wacky comic book heroes haha
anyways, i like the idea of reusing these so called funny characters into actual interesting and intriguing characters. calendar man for example, the concept works in more serious and darker stories. and that there are real people who use odd ways of doing crimes makes them more grounded, which also makes them more terrifying.
funny concepts, if used properly, will work well. like just thinking of a man wearing a bat costume seems funny and weird (and has been sometimes used in jokes), but they were able to create an iconic character who can be seen as a hero and taken seriously.
2:58 I find it funny how they it’s clarified that asbestos man is the man of asbestos, like they’re giving an example of two similar sentences that mean the same thing or trying to reach a required word count.
He's sand guardian, guardian of a sand.
@@Artemas_16 He's man, man of man
Absolutely one of the best and most interesting breakdowns of comic book related characters I've seen in years - ComicPop and Comic Tropes beware, this lad has knowledge! :P
This ended much more profoundly than anyone was expecting
9:10 It looks so stupid, ridiculous and horrendous...
I want to order a thousand of those things good sir
Every one of these characters would be right at home in the Venture Bros.
Honestly I really needed a reminder like this about deadlines. I’ve got a project I’ve been putting off so much, because I don’t feel like I have the proper time or materials to do it. But, you don’t need all that time. Deadlines remind me of my mortality. I can’t achieve perfection, but I can make something. And if that product turns out being silly and stupid, I can try again the next time. But I don’t need my work to be perfect, I need it to exist. If it’s bad, then at least I can look at it, tell what is bad about it, and improve, as opposed to just worrying about it maybe being bad. Thank you for making this video! It was good.
I'm a simple man, I see a new video from alex, I click like.
Angle man and the Mirror Master are underrated. The angler could fold space. And the Mirror Master the original was version was a really layered character when Geoff Johns wrote him in the mid 2000s.
As someone struggling with writing at the moment, the core message of the video means a lot to me
That measuring dude seems actually kinda op because he practically made wonder woman’s hands cease to exist
Did not expect Smiling Friends to be brought up here. Bravo Alex, once again with a great video.
5:50 WHY IS HIS FACE SO TINY
I like that Animal Vegetable Mineral Man became a thing on the Doom Patrol series XD
I feel so bad for The Matador. Any other hero, and that plan would've worked perfectly.
I wasn’t expecting that message at the end, but I wish you well in your writing, and I am sure that, even if it’s bad, it’ll still be fun to read.
*dresses as a bat
*Kills people with a brick
*refuses to elaborate
*is instantly killed in one punch