favorite Marvel bad-guys?

[sgt.null]

The Hate-Monger first appeared in the small fictional nation of San Gusto in South America, and came to the attention of authorities when he took over with the use of storm troopers. The Fantastic Four went to stop a hate rally, but were caught off guard by Hate-Monger's weapon - the Hate-Ray - which instilled hate for others. As a result, the team disbanded and went their separate ways. Nick Fury, at the time a CIA agent, then managed to trick Mr. Fantastic travelling to San Gusto with him to fight the Hate-Monger, knowing the other members would follow. Fury and Reed infiltrated the Hate-Monger's headquarters, followed by the rest of the Fantastic Four. Fury managed to cure Mr. Fantastic, who in turn cured the rest of the team. In the final confrontation, the Hate-Monger was shot and killed by one of his own stormtroopers when a H-Ray beam struck the soldier by mistake. When Mr. Fantastic removed the Hate-Monger's mask, it was revealed that Hate-Monger was Adolf Hitler - who apparently survived World War II.

It was discovered later that the scientist Arnim Zola had perfected a means of transferring the mind to the body of a clone, thereby allowing Hitler to live on in the event of the death of his body. The Hate Monger returned to battle S.H.I.E.L.D, Man-Wolf and his old enemy Captain America. The Hate Monger eventually allied himself with his old pupil the Red Skull, who began plotting against each other when they gained possession of the Cosmic Cube, which could only be wielded by one person. The Hate Monger decided to use his mind-transference powers to gain control of the Cube itself, rather than another clone. It was only after he had transferred his mind into the Cube that he realized that the Cube was not complete and nothing more than an empty shell. With the Hate Monger's mind trapped within a featureless void, he eventually went mad until fading into nothingness.

Years later the Hate-Monger was brought back to physical reality by the Red Skull. The Hate Monger now existed as a being of pure energy, and was able to project the H-Ray at will. Using his new abilities, the Hate Monger caused strikes and revolts in New York under the guise of union representative Adam Hauser. The Hate Monger then stole a mind-amplification device from S.H.I.E.L.D. which allowed him to incite violence and destruction all over the United States. The Hate-Monger then captured his old foes Captain America, Nick Fury and the Sub-Mariner, and boasted that they were powerless to stop him. While Fury and Namor succumbed to the H-Ray, Captain America refused to surrender to his hatred. This failure infuriated the Hate-Monger to such a degree that the mind-amplifier exploded, apparently destroying him for once and for all.

[A Gunslinger]

I always liked:




PROTEUS! I hugley untapped quantity!

[Fist and Faith]

[emotional leper]

Omega Red for the Wi-

*blinks, looks to an Aid*

What is it?

*listens to whisper*

WHAT?! WHEN!?

*listens to whisper*

THE WALL WHAT NOW?!

DAMN YOU, REGAN!

[sgt.null]

Arnim Zola was a biochemist who began his experiments in genetic engineering in the late 1930s upon discovering a cache of ancient scientific papers in his ancestral castle in Switzerland. The documents, brought to the castle by Zola's ancestors during the Crusades, were written in the ancient language of the Deviants, a strange offshoot of mainstream humanity who had been performing genetic research for millennia. After decoding the papers, Zola used the advanced knowledge contained therein to perform experiments to create artificial life. Soon succeeding in fashioning even more sophisticated lifeforms, Zola became the first human genetic engineer in history, his work predating that of the High Evolutionary by about a decade.

Among Zola's original accomplishments was the construction of a brain pattern-imprinting device by which the essence, memories, and personality of the one mind could be totally transferred to another. Soon a completing this device, he went to Adolf Hitler with it, hoping to secure funds from Nazi Germany to expand his research. Hitler was intrigued by Zola's work and submitted himself to Zola's treatment. Consequently, when Hitler was slain in his bunker by the android Human Torch, he was able to project his mental essence into a clone brain in Zola's laboratory.

Born with a frail, dwarfish body, Zola used his scientific skills to genetically fashion a new stronger body for himself. Having done so, Zola used the mind-transferrance technique he devised to project his mind into the cloned brain of his new body, a brain that he situated in the chest cavity where it would be more protected. Since the brains of all of his genetic creations were grown from cells of his own, he can mentally project his intelligence into any of his creations.

Later, Zola cloned various bodies for his patron, Adolf Hitler, to enable the Nazi leader to survive in various guises in the decades since his physical death.

In recent years, Zola's experiments were financed by another master Nazi, the Red Skull. Under the Skull's auspices, Zola produced such advanced genetic creatures as Primus and Doughboy. Despite the nature and scope of his work, Zola managed to keep his existence a secret for decades until he encountered Captain America in the jungles of Central America where he was conducting some experiments for the Skull. Zola abducted Captain America to his stronghold in Switzerland but the Avenger managed to escape. Zola also assisted the Red Skull in his plan to recreate the Cosmic Cube. Finally severing ties with the Skull, Zola recently attempted to raid Northwind Observatory in order to confiscate Dr. Bruce Banner's various scientific discoveries. This effort ended in failure, and Zola was apparently destroyed in an explosion. Whether or not he is truly dead, however, remains to be seen.

[Usivius]

Bullseye.
Kingpin.
Hellfire Club.

[aTOMiC]

Thanos has always been one bad dude. Two of my favorite Thanos related books.

[The Laughing Man]

the only series I ever collected, of which I currently own 1 issue of Weapon X.

[sgt.null]

Ivan Kragoff was born in Leningrad, in what was at the time the Soviet Union. Before becoming the Red Ghost, Ivan was a Soviet scientist bent on beating the Americans to the moon and claiming it for the Communist empire. He assembled a crew of three apes — Mikhlo the Gorilla, Igor the Baboon, and Peotr the Orangutan — which he subjected to specialized training regimens of his own design, then took off on his lunar trip, while on the very next panel, the FF were aiming their own rocket for the same destination.

Kragoff knew enough of the Fantastic Four's history, and he purposefully designed his rocket in such a way that he and his crew would be heavily exposed to the cosmic rays that would, he expected, give them superpowers. This they did: Kragoff gained the ability to become as intangible and invisible as a "ghost", Mikhlo became super-strong and super-durable, Igor gained the ability to shapeshift and could transform into nearly anything, and Peotr gained the ability to control either gravity (like Graviton) or magnetism (like Magneto) (accounts vary by writer). Additionally the apes became smarter. Probably thanks to the similar origins, these superhuman abilities parallel, and even surpass, the Fantastic Four's own.

Kragoff next experimented with a cosmic-ray intensifier to attempt to increase his own superhuman powers but instead unintentionally caused himself to be unable to leave a state of intangibility. He had his supersimians kidnap Anthony Stark and forced him to build a “cosmitronic cannon" and return him to a tangible state. But when next Kragoff became intangible, his atoms began to disperse as a side effect of his treatment with the cannon. Kragoff’s consciousness managed to force his atoms to remain together, although his body remained in an intangible and, at times, invisible state.

Months later, Mister Fantastic went into space to expose himself to cosmic radiation to revitalize his own powers. Unknown to Richards, Kragoff, still intangible, was also aboard the spaceship. Kragoff used his invisibility to hide from Richards for days until he was able to immerse himself into cosmic radiation. The radiation restored his powers to what they originally had been. The Red Ghost could again become tangible or intangible and visible and invisible at will. He even gained the power to make other objects in his vicinity intangible.

The Super-Apes later show up and had divorced themselves from the Red Ghost and had started a life of crime on their own by taking over a private zoo in Salina, Kansas. They had turned the animals against the local population and captured three members of the New Warriors when they enter the complex. Instead of fighting their way out of the situation, they used their intellects and settled on a peaceful co-existence with the people of the town.

Shortly after the Fantastic Four returned from a pocket dimension created by Franklin Richards, the Super-Apes had gained high levels of intelligence and were working on a virus that would take out humans, leaving simians dominant. The Red Ghost, conversely, had degenerated into a child-like mental state and spent most of the time interested in a bunny rabbit.

The Red Ghost and the Super-Apes resurfaced in the with the Red Ghost back to his original intelligence level. They attempted to build a new Communist state in the political vacuum of Niganda - the Socialist Simian Republic of Niganda, "A country where a new form of Marxist-Leninist socialism can grow, based on the purity of the ape world."

[A Gunslinger]

How' bout this badass?

[sgt.null]

Milos Masaryk was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now capital of Slovakia). He was a Soviet intelligence agent who was assigned to track down the original Crimson Dynamo (Anton Vanko) who had defected to America. There, the Unicorn (Masaryk under his new identity) confronted Iron Man (who was in fact responsible for Vanko's defection). The Unicorn escaped capture by Iron Man, and returned home.

He later allied himself with Count Nefaria, joining with Nefaria for financial reasons. After this, however, he returned to Czechoslovakia, where he underwent experimental conditioning to augment his powers. An unfortunate side effect left him with "accelerated cellular deterioration." During this time, the Unicorn was numerously used by his Soviet supervisors, Red Ghost, the Mandarin, and Titanium Man, who would agreed to find a cure for Masaryk in return for various "favors." Iron Man, during one such Titanium Man-"favored" battle, captured Masaryk, and cured him of his disease, unfortunately turning the Unicorn insane. Still later, after another battle with Iron Man, the Unicorn was seen headed out into the sea, where he claimed the Titanium Man waited for him.

It has not been revealed what happened to the Unicorn from that time until being released from some secret Soviet project and used as a pawn by Valentin Shatalov, now the current Crimson Dynamo, as a part of his Remont plan to restore Russia to the days of Stalin. The Unicorn, clearly insane and beyond rationality, was defeated by the People's Protectorate and placed in another Soviet lab, where his eyestalk/third eye was revealed. Going on a subsequent berserker rampage, he was defeated by Synthesizer and Titanium Man and impressed into the service of Remont-4.

The Unicorn apparently got better, even wearing his headpiece again, and returned to Iron Man's life as part of the Stockpile, a group of superpowered villains hired by Morgan Stark, Tony Stark's "evil cousin." After a battle with Iron Man/Iron Boy (after the Avengers battle dubbed "The Crossing," the older Stark was dead, and a young version of Stark was now Iron Man) the group was basically wiped out, with the Unicorn being the only member of the group who definitely escaped to parts unknown. It has been speculated that this Unicorn was not Masaryk, but rather a successor riding on Masaryk's reputation. He bore an accent that suggested that he was Australian or British in origin. This Unicorn was later seen by Deadpool, the Constrictor, and Titania in the chic supervillain restaurant, the Russian Tea Room.

[Creator]

OK ... no pictures ... others are much better finding them!

Thanos is waaaayyyy cool (he would kick Darkeid's ass!)

I thought Onslaught was very good

And of course the way cosmic Beyonder!

[sgt.null]

Arthur Parks was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He fell in love with Lucy Barton until she left him to marry another man with greater wealth. This caused him to lose his mind. Blinded by jealousy, he thought that to win a woman's heart he needed to have power. He created his alter ego The Living Laser. He then met and fell in love at first sight with The Wasp. He captured her and began a battle with the Avengers. He lost this battle, but not his thirst for power. After he had served some time in prison in New York, The Mandarin helped him escape. He began his team up with Mandarin's Minions which allowed him to attempt revenge on the Avengers. Thor and Hawkeye prevented any of his efforts of following through on his plans. This failure led to being a member of Batroc's Brigade led by Batroc the Leaper and then a couple of incarnations of the Lethal Legion. After finding out that Count Nefaria had double-crossed him (Nefaria had offered him, Power-man and the Whirlwind increased powers, but only wanted to copy their power templates), he realized that the laser diodes implanted in his skin had become unstable; the power build-up in his body would eventually cause him to literally explode. He sought out help and found East German agents who offered to help him; the excess energy would be drained off into a network of weapons platform satellites.

His human form was eventually destroyed while battling Iron Man in the East German "Heaven's Hand" base, when their exchange destroyed the installation that was to relieve him of his excess energy. Iron Man threw out the overloading Living Laser out of the base, to avoid the explosion destroying the base's nuclear reactor; Parks indeed exploded in an incredible conflagration of blazing lights. However, several months later, the Living Laser found himself on the streets of a city in California. His energy signal had been "collected" by a satellite, more-or-less as intended, after all; but this was causing malfunctions. Ironically, it was Tony Stark who repaired the satellite, releasing the pattern of energy which zoomed down to Earth and finally coalesced into a confused Arthur Parks, now entirely made up out of light, like a sentient hologram. Although Iron Man approached him peacefully, offering to try to help him, Parks panicked, then broke into fury; finally, Stark was forced to fight and restrain him, trapping his light form in a mirror-sphere. He was taken to the West Coast Avengers compound where Henry Pym was working to restore him to normal.

The Living Laser subsequently escaped, and his increasing confidence and experience with his newfound abilities made him a greater threat than ever before. He sought out and fought Iron Man to a standstill, but only due to the mistaken belief that Iron Man had collapsed from injuries. In their second battle, with the help of Wonder Man and Henry Pym, Iron Man exploited one of the Living Laser's critical weaknesses to temporarily disperse the latter's energy-based body.

Upon reintegrating his energy form, Arthur Parks sought out Jim Rhodes, wanting revenge on Iron Man and Tony Stark; however, Rhodes told him Stark was dead (which he was, at the time) and that he had fired Iron Man. The Laser was confused by these developments, and Rhosed managed to convince him to take an engineering job at the company instead. But when Rhodes became convinced that the Living Laser was too dangerous, he engaged him after all in a specially equipped Iron Man armor, lured Parks into a Laser Focusing Chamber aimed at the Andromeda galaxy, and then activated it, firing the screaming ray of light into space for a projected journey of two million years.

But the Living Laser either returned to Earth, or (part of him) never left Earth (details are sketchy); in any case, he was sold as a computerized laser weapon system and bought as such by Tony Stark, who wanted to attempt to stabilize him mentally and restore his humanity. To this end, dr. Maggie Dillon, a brilliant psychologist equipped by Stark with experimental technology, tried to contact the Laser, who had withdrawn deeply into himself. She managed to coax him out, and he was actually responding to her therapy; but in the end he decided he no longer had any need or desire for a human life. During his escape, dr. Dillon was killed; Iron Man finally apprehended him again, absorbing his energy in his armor, then downloading it into a containment facility. There are no further attempts planned to "treat" the Laser.

Living Laser is currently appearing in MODOK's 11.

[dANdeLION]

Two classic FF villains; The Super-Skrull & Doc Doom.

[sgt.null]

The Mad Thinker made his debut fighting the Fantastic Four. He once attempted to take over New York City using the Baxter Building as his base and all organized crime members as his lieutenants. He trapped the Fantastic Four in the lower quarters of the building but was eventually caught, after being stopped by an unforeseen factor: the building's mailman, Willie Lumpkin.

It seemed that his primary objective had not really been to take over the city but to manipulate organized crime into helping him get into the Baxter building so that he could indulge his intellectual avarice by stealing the technology of Reed Richards. In that sense, the Fantastic Four did not really defeat him, they only defeated his pretext. The Mad Thinker would gladly get sent to prison for a peek at the secrets of what he considered the greatest mind in the world.

Prisons don't do well to hold the Mad Thinker and he escapes from all levels of incarceration with little difficulty. Often he doesn't even bother escaping, but simply transmits his thoughts into a robot body at one of his secret bases. He can not only do his work, but he has the perfect alibi—he's already in prison.

The Mad Thinker became interested in the young super-group called the New Warriors, and posed them a riddle when they first formed. In the final issue of the series, the answer to the riddle was revealed: the Mad Thinker's nephew had accidentally gained uncontrollable superpowers from his lab, killing his mother in the process. Now, the Thinker wanted them to help him. Presumably they did so using the Neo-neutralizer they acquired in that adventure.

Since then, the Mad Thinker has been seen battling She-Hulk in a prison escape attempt. However, this Mad Thinker was revealed to be merely yet another android duplicate of the real Mad Thinker. Following the destruction of this android, the Awesome Android (now calling itself Awesome Andy) took custody of the android's still-functional head until it was stolen by the teenage supervillain Southpaw.

Although willing to kill heroes who get in his way, there are lines the Mad Thinker will not cross. A partnership with the Wizard was cut short after the kidnapping of the child Franklin Richards. The Wizard wished to experiment upon Franklin and learn the secret of his vast powers. The Mad Thinker, however, claimed that this had an almost certain probability of Franklin's death. When the Wizard acknowledged this but decided to continue anyway, an angry Thinker dissolved the partnership and helped lead Franklin's godfather, The Thing, to where the Wizard had the boy hostage. Currently, the Mad Thinker has himself allied with the Puppet Master, planning to strike against the Fantastic Four yet again. Told that he preferred to be called "The Thinker", The Puppet Master asked him why he had been called "The Mad Thinker" in the past. The reply was that he used to have "repressed anger issues". When the Puppet Master asks him about his anger, he replies that "it isn't repressed any more." He has built a device to amplify the Puppet Master's power so that they can escalate a battle between the two rival factions in the Super Hero Civil War.

[Fist and Faith]

Doom really can be as good as it gets. But he suffered from overuse. All those robots... Sheesh!! His best appearances, imo, were:
-Fighting Iron Man that first time, and going to Camelot. Freakin's incredible!!

-In the X-Men, when he turned Storm into a statue. He was SOOO cool then!!!

How' bout this badass?

Some really good stuff from that story. Starhawk was cool back then. (Before they had their own comic, and the did too much stupid stuff with him/Aleta.) And when Korvac killed him, recreated his body, and resurrected him with the inability to perceive him?!? That was pretty cool!

[sgt.null]

Bentley Wittman grew up possessing near-superhuman levels of genius and, as an adult, became an inventor of great renown, selling his futuristic inventions to the wealthy and becoming quite rich. He became known as the Wizard by legally assuming this stage name and using his advanced scientific inventions to perform feats of "magic."

Intellectually bored, however, he decided to defeat Johnny Storm, who had just appeared to the world as the Human Torch. Pretending to be a victim, he was rescued by the Torch and invited him to his high-tech, futuristic mansion on Long Island where he captured the Torch with ease. The Wizard then impersonated the Torch, launching a crime spree to destroy the Torch’s reputation, before being captured by the Fantastic Four and sent to prison. The Wizard clashed many more times with the Human Torch until the conclusion of one encounter sent him flying uncontrollably upward by one of his anti-gravity discs, unable to descend safely. He was rescued by two other adversaries of the Torch: the Sandman and Paste-Pot Pete (soon after, the Trapster). After he suggested they team up, a suggestion by the Trapster inspired him to form a team that would be a criminal counterpart to the Fantastic Four, with himself, his two rescuers, and Medusa, who was then suffering from amnesia; becoming the Frightful Four.

The Frightful Four proved to be one of the most formidable menaces that the Fantastic Four had yet encountered. The Frightful Four raided the Fantastic Four's Baxter Building headquarters, and affixed the Wizard's anti-gravity discs to the four - minus Johnny, but with Alicia Masters, who managed to alert the Torch with the Invisible Girl's flare gun. Johnny soon appeared and forced the Wizard to use his anti-grav ship to free his team members before they floated into airless space. Then, together they beat the Frightful Four until the Wizard and the Sandman exploded the Wizard's ship as a distraction, and escaped. Later, kidnapping the Invisible Girl, they lured the Fantastic Four to a Pacific atoll where they rigged an experimental "Q-bomb" to detonate. The Fantastic Four narrowly escaped. Weeks later, the Frightful Four made their third attempt. Capturing the Thing, the Wizard used his "Id Machine" to simulate the Thing's natural tendencies toward violence and brainwash him into obeying the Wizard's commands. The Fantastic Four finally managed to subdue the Frightful Four, then all but Medusa were turned over to the authorities.

In his continued quest to crush the Fantastic Four, the Wizard has tried many iterations of the Frightful Four. He twice brought Medusa back into the ranks, but, as she was no longer a criminal, having since regained her memories, she betrayed them both times. He also never succeeded in finding a permanent replacement for her. His first choice, Thundra, also ended up allying herself with the Fantastic Four as Medusa did. Others who joined the team for a time included Electro, Llyra, and the Brute (Reed Richards of the original Counter-Earth). When the Sandman appeared to give up his life of crime, the Wizard formed a new team with Hydro-Man, Klaw, and Titania. But however formidable, the Frightful Four have always been thwarted by their heroic counterparts.

Very rarely has the Wizard operated outside of the Frightful Four. Once, he formed a partnership with Mysterio, but was foiled by Spider-Man. Another time, he teamed up with the Plantman to escape prison and ran into a conflict with the Avengers. He was later broken out of prison by Loki to join the inner circle of villains organizing the Acts of Vengeance against the Avengers, but they were sorely defeated. Often avoiding the limelight that he once embraced, the Wizard hoped to hide from authorities using his former name Bentley Wittman. He was found by the Thunderbolts, however, who convinced the Wizard to provide anti-gravity discs in order for them to battle Graviton and, later, to attach to the Magneto Protocol Satellites. Later still, when the Sandman had appeared to reform his criminal ways, the Wizard took it upon himself to subject his former ally to his id machine, re-integrating the Sandman’s mind and restoring him to villainy.

Powers and abilities
Wittman is a scientific genius, particularly in the fields of applied physics and sub-atomic particles. He has constructed a number of devices which he employs in his criminal activities.

His Anti-Gravity Discs can lift several hundred pounds each, and can be remotely controlled via relays in his armor. These give him the ability to fly, which is, contrary to popular belief, accomplished without wings. His gauntlets (alternatively referred to as Power Gloves or Wonder Gloves) can unleash potent electrical blasts or use directed gravitational fields to increase his strength. The strength he can gain from his Wonder Gloves is unknown. When he constructed one for Imus Champion in an appropriate size, the villain was able to hurt both Thor and Hyperion in battle. His armor provides him with protection from assault, and devices in his helmet allow him to control the minds of others.