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The Coolest Comic Book Villains Created by Marvel

<p>Since it&&num;8217&semi;s birth in 1939 as Timely Comics &lpar;the name change occurred in 1961&rpar;&comma; Marvel has created&comma; and occasionally killed off&comma; thousands of different characters&period; Some are heroes&comma; some are normal people caught-up in a super-powered world&comma; and the rest are villains&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Every story needs a good villain and&comma; after nearly eight decades and over 12&comma;000 characters&comma; Marvel has produced some pretty awesome ones&period; Whether they&&num;8217&semi;re super-powered or ultra-intelligent&comma; diabolically evil or just morally ambiguous&comma; here are some of Marvel&&num;8217&semi;s best bad guys&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><b>Magneto<&sol;b><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>With the power to control magnetic fields &&num;8212&semi; allowing him to fly and control metal &&num;8212&semi; Max Eisenhardt &lpar;common aliases include Erik Lehnsherr and Magnus&rpar; has one of the most enviable mutant-based powers in the Marvel universe&comma; especially when you consider how common metal is in today&&num;8217&semi;s world and what you could do with a car-sized chunk of it&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s enough to make anyone think they can take over the world&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But Magneto&&num;8217&semi;s villainous lifestyle isn&&num;8217&semi;t rooted in such superficial ambitions&colon; after experiencing the cruelty of humans during the Holocaust&comma; he wanted to protect mutants from the same fate&period; Unfortunately&comma; his method of doing so involves killing humans&comma; massive acts of destruction&comma; separatism&comma; and general terrorism&period; However&comma; Magneto is capable of good&comma; and has occasionally allied himself with the heroic X-Men to fight true evil&period; Between his tragic back-story and shifting alliances&comma; Magneto has run the ethical gamut from super-villain to anti-hero&comma; but his powers have always been mag-<i>neat<&sol;i>-o&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><b>Amora the Enchantress<&sol;b><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>An extremely powerful sorceress from Asgard&comma; Amora is driven by her thirst for power and her desire for revenge&period; She doesn&&num;8217&semi;t mind taking the backseat to other villains if it means they underestimate her and she can manipulate them for her own ends&period; But&comma; with Amora&comma; the proverb &&num;8220&semi;an enemy of an enemy is a friend&&num;8221&semi; has never applied&comma; and even when she betrays another villain&comma; the heroes know better than to trust her&period; Her only weakness is Thor&comma; and she&&num;8217&semi;s proven she&&num;8217&semi;ll go to any lengths to control him &lpar;she&&num;8217&semi;s not obsessive at all – nope – and love potions totally aren&&num;8217&semi;t creepy&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><b>Norman Osborn<&sol;b><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Power-hungry&comma; obsessive&comma; and insane&comma; Norman Osborn was the head of the powerful Oscorp company and secretly the Green Goblin – one of Spider-Man&&num;8217&semi;s most dangerous antagonists&period; Though Osborn was at one point unmasked and imprisoned&comma; he eventually managed to take advantage of the aftermath of the superhero civil war and an alien invasion to discredit Tony Stark&comma; gain control of the powerful military organization S&period;H&period;I&period;E&period;L&period;D &lpar;which he renamed H&period;A&period;M&period;M&period;E&period;R&period;&rpar;&comma; and become the Iron Patriot&colon; a hero in the eyes of the nation&comma; but just as villainous as ever&period; He also created the Dark Avengers&comma; a group of supervillains dedicated to carrying out his orders&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><b>Mystique<&sol;b><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>International terrorist&comma; assassin&comma; skilled hand-to-hand combatant&comma; and sometimes Magneto&&num;8217&semi;s right-hand woman&comma; Mystique &lpar;a&period;k&period;a&period; Raven Darkhölme&rpar; can change her form to resemble any person&comma; mutant&comma; or even animal&comma; she wants&period; Her mutation also includes super-strength&comma; agility&comma; rapid healing&comma; agelessness&comma; and blue skin&period; A mutant supremacist and a former leader of the Brotherhood&comma; Mystique has allied with and betrayed numerous people and institutions&comma; including the American government&comma; Professor X&comma; and Norman Osborn&comma; leading to some questions about where her loyalty really lies&period; &lpar;Hint&colon; it&&num;8217&semi;s to herself&period;&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><b>Doctor Doom<&sol;b><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Victor Von Doom&comma; the genius&comma; long-time rival of Mr&period; Fantastic&comma; and one-time Dark Avenger rules the fictional country of Latveria with a literal iron fist&period; When he&&num;8217&semi;s not making evil robots called Doombots&comma; and sending them to attack other countries or the Fantastic Four&comma; Victor likes practicing black magic&period; Doom&&num;8217&semi;s mastery of both science and magic is very impressive&comma; but his moral code isn&&num;8217&semi;t&colon; beyond the whole dictator-of-a-small-country-and-super-villain thing&comma; when given an opportunity to go back in time and kill Hitler&comma; he decided it would be too much of a hassle and didn&&num;8217&semi;t bother&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>Jonathan Melville writes on a variety of topics including comic books&comma; Star Wars conventions&comma; video games&comma; magic the gathering&comma; board games and other similar matters&period; Jonathan recommends Card Kingdom Magic Cards for those looking to build their MTG collection&period;<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>Image credit goes to Asso Pixiel&period;<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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