Which super villains do you think are broken and how would you fix them?

[The Overlord]

Which super villains do you think are broken and how would you fix them? Which super villains do think are in rut, story wise and how would you get them out of it?

Personally I think the Wizard's in a real rut, forming Frightful Four to defeat the Ff for the past 40 years, he should set his sights a little lower, he would be a dangerous street level villain, but the FF seem out of his league. He should at least get a clue and try to form an Evil Eight next time.

 

[runawayboulder]

Kang for sure. He was MIA for most of the last decade and when he came back finally it was with a whimper.

Magneto is second on the list. He's lurking around Utopia doing absolutely nothing. He's just there scaring the new students with his scowl and following Rogue around wherever she goes. There have been a few hints dropped occasionally that he's got his own shady purpose for being around (as always) but it's going nowhere.

 

[sandwraith]

I feel like a number of X-Villains are truly overpowered with no real reason. A few come to mind:

- Legion
- Strafe
- Exodus

I'm not even sure what the nature of their powers are. Most times its just weird energy blasts or reality warping gibberish. Strafe I can guess has Cable's psionic powers but the rest?

 

[fifthfiend]

Cyclops.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSH

 

[Scourge2099]

I feel like a number of X-Villains are truly overpowered with no real reason. A few come to mind:

- Legion
- Strafe
- Exodus

I'm not even sure what the nature of their powers are. Most times its just weird energy blasts or reality warping gibberish. Strafe I can guess has Cable's psionic powers but the rest?

Legion is powerful because he has multiple personality syndrome and for some reason each one , which started off with 3 and now is in the thousands , has a different powerset.

Stryfe is a clone of Cable. He's way more powerful because he doesn't have to use his TK to hold back the techno organic virus infesting his body like Cable does. He's Cable without one armed tied behind his back.

Exodus was one of the first mutants Apocalypse enhanced with Celestial tech. Exdous has TK , telepathy , immortality , teleportation and some other abilities.

 

[runawayboulder]

Stryfe is also very dead. At least physically. He hasn't been a factor in a long time.....

 

[sandwraith]

Legion is powerful because he has multiple personality syndrome and for some reason each one , which started off with 3 and now is in the thousands , has a different powerset.

Stryfe is a clone of Cable. He's way more powerful because he doesn't have to use his TK to hold back the techno organic virus infesting his body like Cable does. He's Cable without one armed tied behind his back.

Exodus was one of the first mutants Apocalypse enhanced with Celestial tech. Exdous has TK , telepathy , immortality , teleportation and some other abilities.

They all sound way too powerful, especially Exodus.

 

[Scourge2099]

All their powers pail in comparison to mutants like Franklin Richards , Proteus , Mr M and Psylocke and Captain Britain's brother whose name escapes me at the moment.

 

[runawayboulder]

Jamie Braddock

 

[Scourge2099]

That dude's powers were insane.

Makes you wonder how Days of the Future Past even happened when you had godlike mutants running around.

 

[roach]

Franklin was invovled with the sequel Days of Future Present

 

[Scourge2099]

Yeah I know that. I'm just saying , with all the godlike muties in Marvel , how could the Sentinels overwhelm them ? Franklin alone could just will them away.

 

[runawayboulder]

Well folks like Jamie Braddock and David Haller are too insane to control their powers to the extent where they can be an unbeatable opponent. It's how they've always been beaten at the end, oldest trick in the book.

 

[IFryKids]

Apocalypse could use a good fix. While Blood of Apocalypse was a pretty mediocre story, the end was interesting with the Celestials coming for "repayment". I think that's a nice thread that could be used to make him a credible threat again. Maybe make him some sort of avatar for the Celestials.

 

[SuperFerret]

Apocalypse has been ass forever it seems. He needs a good revamp.

I'd personally like to see some of the Z-list villains get (believable) upgrades that make them more credible threats. Like if Stilt-Man beefed up his armor a bit and actually learned some sort of fighting skill to use it with, he could be less of a joke.

 

[random_havoc]

I think Doom has had some good stuff lately. In the Thor arc that featured him, i thought he played a really good role.
However I think he should play a major role yet. As mentioned in an earlier post, he needs to make some big move/have some big victory that isn't immediately reversed. He should play a major role like osborn did imo.

 

[runawayboulder]

Have you guys been reading Uncanny X-Force? Remender brought him back as a 5yr old and it's been real solid so far.

 

[roach]

Mr Sinister:The guy who choked out Sabretooth with one hand just isnt bad ass lately

 

[runawayboulder]

Mr Sinister:The guy who choked out Sabretooth with one hand just isnt bad ass lately

That's because he's a chick now and still technically dead.

 

[roach]

That's because he's a chick now and still technically dead.

hence the need for a fix

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Sinister, Dark Beast, and the High Evolutionary need to get together and start f***ing with mutants' genes again. You'd think it's a no-brainer, what with M-Day making mutants an endangered species and all, but nope, the X-Men are too busy fighting vampires and being colossal *****ebags instead.

 

[WolfCypher]

I thought Marvel was going somewhere with the Leader after the Loeb-craptic Hulkfest, but nothing panned out for him. Really? The Leader could easily be a serious, universal threat, instead of just being "that other Hulk villain."

 

[Dread]

Sinister, Dark Beast, and the High Evolutionary need to get together and start f***ing with mutants' genes again. You'd think it's a no-brainer, what with M-Day making mutants an endangered species and all, but nope, the X-Men are too busy fighting vampires and being colossal *****ebags instead.

All are evil/psychopaths. And to be fair, there was a back-up strip that ran through the X-Books for a while, I forget which year, that had Beast travel around the world looking for an egghead who could basically fix M-Day, and I believe High Evolutionary and Dark Beast were included. Neither seemed able to do so, although High Evolutionary would later repower Magneto. Beast was also unable to locate Wanda Maximoff, but thanks to AVENGERS: THE CHILDREN'S CRUSADE, that would have been moot anyway. The entire strip was basically a "this is why M-Day can't be hand waved away" exercise, although writers will do so if it is convenient - such as to repower Magneto, or Pete Milligan literally repowering Iceman about 1-2 months after Bendis deliberately depowered him at the end of HOUSE OF M, because Iceman was on his roster of X-Men (back when X-Men books actually had set rosters instead of Cyclops & The Hordes).

M-Day has been partly halted, as in at least 5 new mutants have manifested since Hope came around. Unofficially, there are other new mutants around - a few of the cadets in AVENGERS ACADEMY are mutants in all but name (Veil and Mettle especially). But to be fair there have been a slew of characters capable of repowering others. Apocalypse was personally responsible for Polaris and Chamber getting their powers back (or new ones). Iceman literally got his back via willpower. The Collective tried to repower Magneto, and in theory it could be possible to try to "extract" the powers from the new Omega (Mike Porter) to try to repower people, if the Collective genuinely believed he could have repowered Magneto. The bottom line is that M-Day has been editorially supported, though, so I doubt it is ending any faster.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

No one cares about Beast's consultation with people. I'm sure they could throw in a line about how they withheld information from him so he wouldn't get in the way of their morally dubious experiments or something.

Basically, the X-Men just need good villains again rather than random-ass vampires and politics.

 

[Dread]

That would require, like, the X-Men going out and being heroes. Anole & Rockslide just tried to be super heroes, and that was suddenly taboo for X-Men.