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Action film villains

  • Kylo RenKylo Ren kills his own father, Han Solo, on Starkiller Base. He later turns back and becomes Ben Solo again.
  • UltronUltron first showed up in Marvel Comics in The Avengers #54, dated July 1968, and nobody reading it could have known his name. He appeared only under a borrowed title, the Crimson Cowl, in a brief and unnamed cameo. Within a single issue…
  • Scarecrow (DC Comics)The DC Comics supervillain known as the Scarecrow has given himself a title: the Master of Fear. Behind the stitched burlap mask is Dr. Jonathan Crane, and he is not chasing money or power. His crimes are experiments. He releases a…
  • Rhino (character)The Rhino, whose real name is Aleksei Sytsevich, carries a reputation that writer Mike Conroy summed up in a single phrase: "famously one of Spider-Man's dimmest villains." Writer Stan Lee and artist John Romita Sr. created him, and he…
  • Balrog (Street Fighter)Street Fighter's boxer Balrog is called M. Bison in Japan, where the M stands for Mike.
  • Harley QuinnHarley Quinn, the DC Comics character, first appeared on screen on the 11th of September 1992, in the 22nd episode of Batman: The Animated Series. The episode was called Joker's Favor, and she was supposed to appear in it once and never…
  • ThanosThanos first appeared on a comic book cover dated February 1973, in The Invincible Iron Man #55, and Marvel's heroes have not been rid of him since. He is a warlord from Titan, a moon of Saturn, born into two branches of a superhuman…
  • Lizard (character)In The Amazing Spider-Man #6, published in November 1963, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko introduced the Lizard. He is a Marvel Comics monster whose human side is a scientist named Dr. Curtis Connors, known as Curt. Connors wanted one thing. He…
  • MysterioMysterio is a Marvel Comics supervillain whose greatest weapon was never strength. He first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #13, dated June 1964, created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. He became one of Spider-Man's most enduring enemies…
  • Electro (Marvel Comics)Electro, the Marvel Comics supervillain who first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #9 in February 1964, can throw bolts of roughly 100,000 volts from his fingertips. Yet he is better known for losing than for winning. Stan Lee and Steve…
  • Sandman (Marvel Comics)The Sandman, a Marvel Comics character who can turn his whole body into sand, lost one of his early fights to a household vacuum cleaner. His opponent was Spider-Man, the hero who would shadow his life for decades. The man inside the sand…
  • Red SkullThe Red Skull was dead by the final page of his first appearance, in Captain America Comics #1, cover-dated March 1941. The man under the mask, a businessman named George Maxon, rolled onto his own hypodermic needle in what looked like…

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