We ’ve been hearing rumors that a duet of Superman villainswill fight down Supes , Wonder Woman and Batman in the Man of Steel subsequence . But notall Superman villain are really up to the task of crusade Superman , get alonethe Trinity . Here are 10 Superman baddie who really should have pick on alesser hoagie .
The baddie of SupermanIV : The Quest for Peace is sort of a gimme , what with Superman IV achieve the astonishing feat of being bad than Superman III . Nuclear Man is create byLex Luthor to represent for atomic power , and he ’s essentially a kind of BizarroSuperman , only atomic . Except that he run out of power if you cut him offfrom direct sunshine , and he has an unfortunate habit of getting crushes onrandom women and getting his King Kong on with them . He ’s fundamentally a less funversion of Bizarro , who falls aside if you put an umbrella over him . Also worthmentioning : all the villains of SupermanIII , include the wondrously named femme fatale Lorelei Ambrosia .
Remember Terra - Man ? Of of course you do n’t . He ’s anenvironmentalist cowpuncher . That ’s his whole schtick . There are a dozen or sopre - Crisis stories where Terra - Man zoom around on his vaporize horse , trying tolasso Superman , and break the Man of Steel like a broncho . There ’s also apost - Crisis interpretation , who has cool weapon and hooey , but he ’s stillessentially disposable — as shown by the fact that he ’s killed off randomlyduring 52 , meeting the common fate ofa 9th - string character and being shoot down off during an “ event”comic .
Basically , they ’re just mobster . They do get some fancyweapons from Darkseid , via a complicated turn of result that engage dozens ofissues to unspool — but they ’re never really a serious challenge to Superman , see ? They ’re just a bunch of impertinent guys , see ? The comedian have to insert awhole new character to crusade Intergang , the Gangbuster — just so there’ssomeone who can actually be pain by them . In a massively overcomplicated plottwist , Superman himself has a mental partitioning and depart set up as theGangbuster and pretending to be powerless , just so he can be dispute bythese bozo . More recently , Bruno Mannheim has resurface , assay to geteverybody to comply his Bible of Crime , but nobody can ever study past theBegats .
He ’s a former youngster ’s telecasting show master of ceremonies who lose his job andstarted unleashing deadly pranks on Metropolis — but he ’s often portrayedasa very slew - rate sort of Joker , whomakes people express mirth using ultrasonics alternatively of gas . At one item , he makes adeal with the Devil ( or Satanus ) to get extra powers and a new body , but hestill never feels like much more than a cheap Joker knock - off , even down to tryingto draw weird copyright / patent schemes along the lines of “ JokerFish . ”
The villain of several Lois and Clark : The New Adventures ofSuperman episode , Tempus is a time - traveller from a utopian future whereSuperman and Lois have created an ideal high society . He hitchhike a ride on H.G.Wells ’ metre machine and comes back in time , determined to prevent this utopiafrom ever happening . Which is a corking estimation for a villain , to be sure — exceptthat Tempus is a total bumbling cretin . He knows Clark ’s secret identity andtries to reveal it to people over and over , failing every time due to wackymishaps . He has access to a working metre motorcar , but ca n’t manage to changethe timeline at all . Worst of all , we later on teach that Tempus is actually justthe reincarnation of someone who fight back Lois and Clark in a previous life . Bleh .
We never ask to see Clark facing another “ MeteorFreak ” again . The villains of many Smallville episodes , these teenagerswho gain superpowers from the massive concentration of Kryptonite meteoritesfalling on Kansas are by and large one - off baddie who get dealt with inside of asingle 42 - minute installment . And despite having Kryptonite in their organic structure — likeso many other like villains , like Kryptonite Man and Metallo — they’remostly just an infliction to the adolescent Clark . The grown - up Superman wouldbarely lick an eye at them .
essentially a hunter who hunts the most dangerous secret plan : Superman . Sometimes he ’s an African American Vietnam veteran soldier who ’s been trickedinto detest Superman . Sometimes he ’s a white supremacist hunting watch guy who justwants to kill Superman for reasons . Sometimes , he ’s both , and they fight eachother . Generally , Bloodsport ’s main powerfulness admit teleportation and Kryptoniteweapons , but he ’s basically just a hunter / soldier cat with a very 1990sname . Other one - joke human villainsworth mentioning : the Archer , aka Fenton Quigley , who ’s like a weaker versionof Green Arrow . And Deathtrap aka the Master Jailer , who just build up trap thatSuperman has to escape from .
She ’s an evil sorceress who has magical mists , and she sellsfake Kryptonite to people . Not even tangible Kryptonite , fake Kryptonite — eventhough real Kryptonite often looks like more common than rhinestones in theSuperman macrocosm . She ’s mostly a huge femme fatale , who ’s more interested inkissing Supes than in reality doing him any damage . Also notable : the ScarletWidow aka Spider Lady , a crime boss from the 1940s radio / TV serial who sellsKryptonite and schemes against Superman with the avail of her Cockney confederate , Sniggers .
He ’s one of Superman ’s most often recurring scoundrel , andI’m never certain why . Like Lex Luthor , he ’s a technological genius — but unlikeLex , he ’s not passing various and he does n’t peculiarly intend bountiful . Lex Luthorposes a major threat to Superman because he ’s always coming up with huge , crazy schemes and using super - science to back them up . Meanwhile , Toyman prettymuch just creates toy — which are coolheaded robots , to be certain , but still justtoys . There ’s a reason why so many Toyman story have to introduce a littlekid for Toyman to threat , such as Cat Grant ’s son Adam — because Toyman can’tactually pose a believable threat to Superman , or even to the adults in his biography .
Yes , he wipe out Superman . But that ’s because Superman was havingan off mean solar day . I just re - show the Death of Superman graphic novel the other day , and Doomsday does n’t total out looking that well . Doomsday fundamentally has onenote : he walks around smashing stuff . When he first arrive on Earth , a birdlands on his hired man , and he looks at it and then smushes it . And then laughs:“Ha ha ha . ” That ’s basically Doomsday ’s whole deal . He plausibly alsobreaks a minor ’s tricyle and knocks over a lemonade stand . And then Doomsday doestake out the Justice League with one hand tied behind his back ( literally ) — but they ’re the 90s Justice League , so that scarcely counts . In any case , Doomsday’spowers comprise of being really strong and really invulnerable . As Supermannotes , he ca n’t vanish , nor does he have superspeed , passion visual sense , stop dead breath , superintendent - ventriloquism , or any of Superman ’s innumerable other powers . All Superman hasto do is pretermit stuff on Doomsday from a great height . Or tunnel under Doomsday . Or run around Doomsday at superspeed , hitting him too tight for Doomsday toreact . The one affair Superman does n’t have to do is stand there and letDoomsday punch him . scourge , the case enter for the sole purpose ofbreaking Batman ’s spine , has cunning as well as superstrength — but Doomsdaypretty much only has one thing give out for him . Later , Doomsday was retconned tobe an ancient Kryptonian ultimate weapon squall the Ultimate , who was createdby a scientist call Bertron . ( Ernie - tron was meddlesome that day . )
Thanks to Rob for thesuggestions . Sources : Wikia , SupermanHomepageandAMC .
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