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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2022 12:20:04 GMT -5
While the likes of Batman, Spider-Man, and the Flash are renowned for their impressive rogues galleries, Superman ain't no slouch in that department either. Who are your 2 favorite Superman foes? I picked a bunch of classics for this survey, but no doubt I've left off some that I'll be apologizing for in short order, so also write in those "others" that are getting the short end of the cape here!  |
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Post by tarkintino on May 6, 2022 12:53:26 GMT -5
Luthor and Darkseid.
Honorable mention: Parasite (best villain power ever, like Marvel's Absorbing Man).
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2022 12:57:58 GMT -5
Gotta go with Luthor and Brainiac. I voted Other, with Silver Banshee in mind. Good look, good powers, wish we’d see more of her.
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Post by badwolf on May 6, 2022 12:58:13 GMT -5
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Post by Graphic Autist on May 6, 2022 13:18:47 GMT -5
Luthor and Mister Mxyzptlk
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Post by MWGallaher on May 6, 2022 13:56:31 GMT -5
Brainiac and Terra-Man for me.
Brainiac interests me more than Luthor. It's always a stretch for a villain to try to challenge Superman on a purely physical level, but to even try to do so on an intellectual level requires the villain to be way up there. Brainiac's the acme of intelligence, but his inhumanity is a potential weakness: no matter how smart he is, he can't quite think like a human, and that leaves space for a lesser intelligence like Superman to defeat his schemes. He's got a range of good visuals across several incarnations, provides a novel legacy for one of the Legionnaires, and has a heckuva gimmick with the city-napping habit!
Terra-Man, as I've argued before, is a great premise, with the potential to support his own comic series and even, I would contend, his own tv series. Lawbreaker from the days of the wild west, kidnapped into space by aliens and returned to a different time equipped with unearthly technology, including a genetically-engineered flying horse? Come on, that's some rich material there!
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Post by arfetto on May 6, 2022 14:01:17 GMT -5
I picked Brainiac and Toyman, but mainly for specific incarnations. Ever since I was a kid I loved the Silver Brainiac design:  Any time he gets an action figure or other type of merchandise in this form I purchase it. And for Toyman, I am not familiar with the comic version of him much, but his Superman TAS version was suitably creepy and left a big impression on me:
Edit: Oh, I also liked Toyman's design in Super Friends. I remember Alex Ross did a cool design inspired by that version in Justice:  |
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Post by shaxper on May 6, 2022 14:10:00 GMT -5
I sort of feel like Pre-Crisis Luthor and Post-Crisis Luthor should be treated as two entirely different villains.
That being said, I always took it as a given that Luthor and Brainiac were the big two.
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Post by tonebone on May 6, 2022 15:52:07 GMT -5
Brainiac and Mongul.... Like arfetto, I prefer the Gil Kane Brainiac, specifically. Mongul, if only for "For the Man Who Has Everything", and the 3 part DC Comics Presents. |
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Post by Confessor on May 6, 2022 17:05:42 GMT -5
I went with Lex Luthor and General Zod, the pre-Crisis incarnations.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 6, 2022 17:28:43 GMT -5
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 6, 2022 17:32:29 GMT -5
That being said, I did vote for Mr. Mxyzptlk (one of the better Mego toys) and "Other." Mine owner Thornton Blakely in Action Comics #3 is a far greater villain than anyone else on the list. |
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2022 17:33:59 GMT -5
I went with Lex Luthor and General Zod, the pre-Crisis incarnations. Don’t think I’ve read a pre-Crisis Zod story, so maybe I should. (Oh, and I hate autocorrect, it’s from the Devil. EVERY post I attempt here is autocorrected. Note to autocorrect: get lost, I meant Zod, not Zoe) |
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Post by Confessor on May 6, 2022 17:52:28 GMT -5
I went with Lex Luthor and General Zod, the pre-Crisis incarnations. Don’t think I’ve read a pre-Crisis Zod story, so maybe I should. I don't think there are very many! That said, I'm the opposite of you: I've never read a post-Crisis appearance of Zod. I was primarily thinking of his appearances in Action Comics #473 (1977), the Phantom Zone mini-series (1982), and DC Comics Presents #97 (1986), which were the Zod appearances I knew as a kid. |
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Post by chadwilliam on May 6, 2022 19:16:01 GMT -5
Pre-Crisis Luthor and Mxyzptlk.
Brainiac's redo in Action Comics #544 was fantastic, but was too short lived to make enough of an impact to rank higher than third in my book. Had he been given another five years or so, I might regard him as second to Luthor.
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