Iron Man Marvel Superhero Store and Stories

For many years, The Batman has tackled some truly dangerous criminals in his native city. It is interesting to note that villains that fight The Batman are of a starkly different flavor from the villains that other superheroes face. Unlike the villains of other heroes, such as Superman and Spider-man, The Batman’s collection of villains are less known for their superhuman abilities and more for being reflections of a variety of mental health disorders. In this vein, they echo The Batman himself. By his own admission, The Batman has “issues, lots of issues.” Indeed, aside from a few notable exceptions, they’re all fairly regular human beings. Once one gets past the fractured state of mental health, at least. Some of these characters, albeit being fictional, make for excellent studies into both the criminal psyche and how people with mental health disorders might act in some circumstances.

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To be ranked as some of the best villains in marvel comics they have to be dastardly, cool, clever, or just plain evil.  And the marvel universe is filled with plenty of villains that fit the bill.  But only a select few of the villains in marvel comics are the baddest of the bad.  Not all the villains in marvel comics could hold the distinction of the absolute best, but these are among the ones that can.

First up we have the Green Goblin, Norman Osborn.  He may not be the most powerful of all the villains in marvel comics, but he’s definitely one of the vilest.  Terrorizing Spider-Man until Osborn’s death, and then terrorizing him again when he came back from the dead, Osborn is vicious, depraved and unpredictable.  And now that he sits in a seat of power over the entire marvel universe that unpredictability and his psychopathic tendencies just shot him up to the top of the list of the greatest villains in marvel comics. Read the rest of this entry »

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