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The villains of DC have long been known as some of the most intimidating around, powerful and deadly antagonists who battle against some of the greatest heroes of all time. However, DC has also been known as the weirder of the Big Two comic companies; where Marvel often goes for more real world pastiches, DC has been known to take things in the strangest directions possible and this goes for the villains as well.
In fact, DC’s villains are some of the strangest of all time and that makes fans love them even more. These villains are always interesting when they come around and make the DC Universe such an odd and fascinating place.
10 Funky Flashman Is A Thinly-Veiled Send-Up Of Stan Lee
In 1971, Jack Kirby went to DC and created the Fourth World books, showcasing his greatest creation: The New Gods. These powerful characters would become huge parts of the DC Universe, introducing the likes of Darkseid, Mister Miracle, Orion, Metron, and Big Barda. However, there was one who wasn’t like the others, and that was Funky Flashman.
Flashman was pretty much just Stan Lee, a man who Kirby had a lot of ill will towards at that point. Flashman would constantly try to rip off Mister Miracle— which Kirby felt Lee had done to him— and spoke in the bombastic manner that Lee would become famous for. He even had a sidekick named Houseroy, meant to symbolize Lee’s righthand man at Marvel, Roy Thomas.
9 Glorious Godfrey Is An Evil New God & Manipulative Television Personality
Staying with the New Gods for a moment, the next strange New God Kirby created was Glorious Godfrey. Godfrey wasn’t one of the most powerful New Gods but he served a purpose in Darkseid’s sinister plans. His whole thing was that he was a slick and handsome television host, using his good looks, comedic stylings, and general wiliness to get people to do Darkseid’s bidding.
An evil talk show host is just strange. Over the years, he would also take the guise of an evil political pundit, always using the power of TV to beguile audiences and do Darkseid’s will.
8 Gorilla Grodd Is An Evil Ape With Inexplicable Telepathic Powers
Giant apes aren’t exactly weird in comics in and of themselves; there’s the old Silver Age adage that an ape on the cover causes a book to sell better. From that perspective, Gorilla Grodd isn’t a particularly strange or unusual villain. In fact, he makes a lot of sense— a bloodthirsty outcast from his peaceful culture, he’s super strong and wants to destroy humanity. Pretty standard evil ape stuff.
However, it gets strange in that he has telepathic powers. Why does have have these abilities? What sense does it make for there to be a telepathic ape villain? It boggles the mind.
7 The Brain Is Exactly What His Name Says He Is
The Doom Patrol has long been one of the weirdest teams in comics, with some amazing stories for readers to dig into. Weird heroes need weird villains and one of those weird villains is the Brain. The Brain was once a super smart scientist whose body was destroyed in an explosion (caused by Doom Patrol boss Niles Caulder), with his brain being rescued by Monsieur Mallah, a supersmart French ape he created.
From then on, the Brain would live as a brain in a jar, leading the Brotherhood of Evil and bedeviling the Doom Patrol. Eventually, he and Mallah would fall in love and become an item, a disembodied brain and a supersmart ape.
6 The Beard Hunter Has A Grudge Against Facial Hair
Honestly, this entire list could be Grant Morrison-created Doom Patrol villains but some of them make sense in their weirdness— the Brotherhood of Dada are strange, but they make sense in that Doom Patrol kind of way. However, the Beard Hunter is one of the strangest of them all, since his entire purpose in life is to hunt down men with beards and kill them.
It’s hard to really know what to think about the Beard Hunter or what Morrison was trying to say with the villain, if anything. However, the one thing that is for sure about him is that he’s a wonderfully bizarre bad guy.
5 Shaggy Man Is An Indestructible Bigfoot Robot
Shaggy Man is one of the Justice League’s best B-list villains but he’s also super strange. Composed of plastalloy, Shaggy Man was indestructible and super strong but he looked a giant Bigfoot. For some reason, his creator thought that the best thing to do with his new super strong and indestructible robot was make him look like Bigfoot.
He’s a cool visual but he’s also just a big furry thing and it’s kind of hilarious. Eventually, the brain of General Eiling would be put into the Shaggy Man’s body. The first thing Eiling did? Have it shaved.
4 Dex-Starr Is A Murderous House Cat With A Red Lantern Ring
Dex-Starr is one of the deadliest Red Lanterns, yet he’s also one of the cutest. A cat, Dex-Starr saw his owner murdered before his eyes. His rage at this called a Red Lantern ring to him and he became the Red Lantern of Sector 2814. In a way, it kind of makes sense that Dex-Starr is one of the deadliest members of the Red Lantern Corps— an angry cat would kill everyone in its way if it had the power.
Dex-Starr is a wonderfully strange juxtaposition, a cute house cat with the fiery power of a Red Lantern. He’s probably one of the most famous members of that Corps and is a pop culture idol waiting to happen.
3 Despotellis Is A Sentient Virus Member Of The Sinestro Corps
The Sinestro Corps is one of the most dangerous and deadly groups in the DC Universe and its deadliest member is Despotellis. Despotellis is a sentient virus that has devastated countless worlds, spreading fear and becoming worthy of a Sinestro Corps ring. This made it even more dangerous.
During the Sinestro Corps’ initial attack on the Green Lantern Corps, Despotellis infected multiple Green Lanterns and would have meant the end of many of them if it wasn’t for the intelligent smallpox virus Green Lantern, Leezle Pon, who was able to defeat Despotellis at its own game.
2 Count Vertigo’s Whole Power Is Making People Dizzy
To begin with, Count Vertigo’s real name is Werner Vertigo. He’s an actual count as well, which means that in the DC Universe, there’s been a noble family called the Vertigos for centuries. Count Vertigo had an inner ear defect that he needed an implant to deal with. He was able to use this implant to give others vertigo somehow and he used this skill to fight Green Arrow.
He’d also join up with the Suicide Squad and Checkmate, using his powers to make people dizzy to his advantage. The whole thing is just delightfully bizarre and it’s made all the more unusual when one thinks about the fact that vertigo was probably something named after his ancestors in the DC Universe.
1 Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man Is The Strangest Thing Imaginable
First things first: Anyone named Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man is automatically the strangest villain ever. That’s just the way it goes. A former student of Niles Caulder, Sven Larson fell into a vat of amino acids and gained the ability to transform into an animal, vegetable, or mineral. He’d often transform into combinations of the three in order to fight the Doom Patrol.
The whole thing is both great and completely strange. Everything about Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man is super duper bizarre and the fact that he doesn’t show up every couple of months is a tragedy that DC needs to remedy.
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