59) MR. SINISTER
Whose Fault Is it: Chris Claremont & Marc Silvestri
Categories of Suck:Over-Pushed (x2):
1 (kept showing up in the '90s)
Angsty:
0Boring:
3 (all he ever did was show up, mock some guys, and then be cryptic)
Over-Powered (x2):
3 (waaaayyyy too invincible)
Xeroxed (x2):
0Mysterious/Confusing:
3 (I still don't know what his exact power-set is)
Fanservice:
0Dated:
1 (looks very '90s)
Goofy (x2):
1 (his name could be cool on a Batman-type villain who was insane, but not a big capped bad-ass)
EXTREEEEEEME!:
0Stereotypical:
0SUCK FACTOR: 16 just a big fat boring waste)-Ah, Mr. Sinister. The bastard child of the X-Men "Master Villain" trifecta. Magneto's the personable, agreeable savior of mutantkind, Apocalypse is the super-powerful god, and Sinister... just kinda is there. He's the wheeler-dealer/secret plotter of the three, which makes for some bizarre retcons and even weirder definition of his powers. I always hated stories with him as a kid, because you never got a good fight- he was so invincible (Cyclops & Rogues' best shots do NOTHING, and he just heals right back from any actual damage) that nothing could hurt him, and he was that type of cryptic "I'm not gonna give you any answers" villain that I HATE.
Seriously, who on Earth would take this guy seriously?58) BLACK MANTA
Whose Fault Is it: Bob Haney & Nick Cardy
Categories of Suck:Over-Pushed (x2):
0Angsty:
2 (he was autistic and had a crappy past)
Boring:
1 (the fate of all Aquaman foes)
Over-Powered (x2):
0Xeroxed (x2):
0Mysterious/Confusing:
2 (multiple retcons, as well as changing personas and characterization)
Fanservice:
0Dated:
1 (obviously a plain '60s design)
Goofy (x2):
3 (just look at him. That helmet is RIDICULOUS, and reduces every scene he's in to pure hilarity)
EXTREEEEEEME!:
2 (OMG he killed the Aquababy!)
Stereotypical:
2 (a black guy with "Black" in his codename, and once suggested he was going to make a utopia for oppressed blacks underseas. Ah well, at least he was a black guy who could swim)
SUCK FACTOR: 16 (HE LOOKS LIKE A PEZ DISPENSER!!)-Just an idiotic Aquaman villain, doing stuff For the Evulz and trying to kill everyone around. A mixed of overly-Extreme with the worst villain design I've ever seen. I can't take anyone seriously with a helmet that stupid.
57) M/PENANCE
Whose Fault Is it: Scott Lobdell & Chris Bachalo
Categories of Suck:Over-Pushed (x2):
0Angsty:
3 (a shamed sister of twins)
Boring:
0Over-Powered (x2):
2 (a little TOO invincible)
Xeroxed (x2):
1 (Paragon or Claw Chick. Both are tired)
Mysterious/Confusing:
3 (Easily the worst origin of a character in comic book history. So confusing I have to re-read the whole story every time just to keep track of it)
Fanservice:
0Dated:
0Goofy (x2):
2 (the whole "is actually a combo of twins" origin)
EXTREEEEEEME!:
0Stereotypical:
0SUCK FACTOR: 16 (OK, I just read her origin story, then I forgot it already)-M is the winner of one of the most dubious awards in all of comics: the most inane, bizarre, overly complex origin story in the history of the medium. Seriously, every time I read what it was, I pretty much forget it because it was so complicated. See, she was M, and a teammate was named Penance. Then it turned out that Penance was actually M, and M was actually her two sisters, who had merged to MAKE M. Or something. It was totally retarded, and made the Generation-X book look like a piece of crap. Marvel has calmly resorbed that book into it's X-line, having given up on many members (Jubilee, Skin, Penance & Synch), while adding a few more to short runs on other X-teams (Husk, M, Chamber), which always bugged me, because the far superior in EVERY WAY New Mutants ended up with so few "Graduates".
56) MACHINE-MAN
Whose Fault Is it: Stan Lee & Jack Kirby
Categories of Suck:[/b]
Over-Pushed (x2):
0Angsty:
3 ("why oh why am I a machine?" gets old after a while)
Boring:
2 (a robot with generic powers and a lame personality)
Over-Powered (x2):
0Xeroxed (x2):
2 (the "I want to be human" thing's been done)
Mysterious/Confusing:
0Fanservice:
0Dated:
2 (his design is atrocious, and lacks the modern-type verve of Kirby's characters)
Goofy (x2):
3 (looks stupid as hell- big yellow eyes, a purple costume, and big extendo-arms)
EXTREEEEEEME!:
0Stereotypical:
0
[b]SUCK FACTOR: 17 ("oh, how I wish I were human" zzzzzzzzzzzzz)-Jack Kirby was doing one of his "what is the nature of humanity?" things with Machine-Man, but it just never stuck. His later creations never quite had the impact of his Marvel Silver Age stuff, and the goofy purple X-51 was no exception. Hell, even STEVE DITKO got a run at him on art, and it still failed quickly and badly. Poor guy had a silly look, lame powers, and was your standard Star Trek morality tale, which was totally run into the ground by that point (Vision, for example, did it much better). In recent years with "Nextwave", he's basically been a riff on Futurama's Bender, but a lot more annoying- he reads like that crappy player in a Role Playing Game who always wants to be the crazy asshole who says offensive things (writing Bender-type characters is harder than it looks). My only modern memories of him are in Marvel's HORRIBLE "Technical Guy" run of books under one label, all of which died horrible, horrible deaths.
It looks like Image Comics threw up on him!55) CYBER
Whose Fault Is it: Peter David & Sam Keith
Categories of Suck:Over-Pushed (x2):
1 (was a big anti-Wolvie player for a while)
Angsty:
0Boring:
0Over-Powered (x2):
3 (adamanitum SKIN? And he's supposed to be so tough even LOGAN fears him. I mean, come on)
Xeroxed (x2):
2 (yet another Adamantium-powered Wolverine foe)
Mysterious/Confusing:
0Fanservice:
0Dated:
2 (very 90s)
Goofy (x2):
0EXTREEEEEEME!:
3 (a murderous ex-soldier with POISON AND ADAMANTIUM!)
Stereotypical:
0SUCK FACTOR: 17 (Like something out of fan-fiction)-I hate characters like Cyber. It's like, some writer goes "Hey, y'know what'd be REALLY bad-ass? If Wolverine fought ANOTHER guy with claws! Only... this guy's claws secrete POISON! And his SKIN is made out of Adamantium, too! AWESOME!" Peter David, I'm ashamed of you for creating this fanboy's-wet-dream monstrosity. They were actually good enough to de-push and kill him off in the late-90s (during the "No-Nose Wolverine" arc), but he's since returned with links to Wolverine's son Daken (I'm just amazed they went fourty years of Wolverine being established as older than dirt before giving him a 'son he never knew'- I've seen guys at most in their thirties be pushed down that road).
54) ABRAXAS
Whose Fault Is it: Jeph Loeb & Kevin Maguire
Categories of Suck:Over-Pushed (x2):
1 (got a huge climactic storyline)
Angsty:
0Boring:
3 (ANOTHER Cosmic Entity with weak motivation)
Over-Powered (x2):
3 (Cosmic Entity)
Xeroxed (x2):
3 (see "Boring", above)
Mysterious/Confusing:
1 (bizarre origin story)
Fanservice:
0Dated:
0Goofy (x2):
0EXTREEEEEEME!:
0Stereotypical:
0SUCK FACTOR: 18 (generic cosmic entity)-Yet another big dumb cosmic entity, Abraxas flew in and killed Galactus, the Silver Surfer and a bunch of guys, had no personality, and was just destruction personified. Totally a boring idea, and an excess to Marvel's already top-heavy cosmic scene. He's sorta the embodiment of universal destruction, a counter-point to Eternity. Just a bad story and a lame idea.
53) NERON
Whose Fault Is it: Mark Waid & Howard Porter
Categories of Suck:Over-Pushed (x2):
1 (shows up in various "Big Events" like we're supposed to care)
Angsty:
0Boring:
1 ("Cosmic Villains" tend to go this way- not a lot they can really get involved in physically because they're so mighty, plus the "temptation-based villain" thing has been run into the ground)
Over-Powered (x2):
3 (Cosmic Being)
Xeroxed (x2):
3 (Just a rip-off of Marvel's Mephisto)
Mysterious/Confusing:
0Fanservice:
0Dated:
1 (looks really '90s)
Goofy (x2):
0EXTREEEEEEME!:
1 (he's basically the Devil)
Stereotypical:
0SUCK FACTOR: 17 ("Hey, let's just use Mephisto, but give him blonde hair and a '90s cape" "Why don't we just use Satan and cut out the middle-man?" "Uh... I dunno.")-Neron's just a terrible character, responsible for dozens of boring storylines. A generic Hell Demon Guy, he doesn't do anything Marvel's Mephisto didn't already do, while looking better and having more personality, to boot. This guy BLOWS.
52) THE NEO
Whose Fault Is it: Chris Claremont & Leinil Francis Yu
Categories of Suck:Over-Pushed (x2):
2 (Claremont REALLY wanted us to think his new team was cool- all the others talked about how awesome and powerful they were, ad nauseum)
Angsty:
1Boring:
3 (no personalities)
Over-Powered (x2):
2 (they were supposed to be like mutants, but MORE powerful in general. Not that this was ever SHOWN...)
Xeroxed (x2):
0Mysterious/Confusing:
1 (a hidden past and all that nonsense)
Fanservice:
0Dated:
2Goofy (x2):
0EXTREEEEEEME!:
3 (many uber-extreme powers, including a guy who had gun-hands)
Stereotypical:
0SUCK FACTOR: 18 (Claremont wanted them to succeed SO BAD)-GOD Claremont got bad in his later years. The Neo are right up their with Sage in terms of "he's senile as all hell". These guys showed up as a FanFic-level bad idea of "They're a breed of mutants that are even MORE powerful than regular mutants!" We even got a giant bunch of backstory about how they were famous even in Cable's time, and Apocalypse had referred to his respect for them (this is known as "Shilling the Wesley" in TV Tropes-speak, where the writer puts words in other characters' mouths to express how great his new idea really is), but they were TERRIBLE. Every one of them was this extreme-looking tattooed punker (I hate punkers...) freak with silly powers and a weird Dark Age name. They were nearly all identical, and they utterly failed to live up to all the hype. Claremont's big return to the X-Men having failed, he was dumped off the team, and then the most hilarious thing ever in comics happened.
-Domina (the leader) and her men were sitting around one day, and then Magneto just came flying in and went "KNEEL". Domina talked some smack, and so Mags literally turned his head and WIPED OUT HALF OF THE NEO! He basically said they sucked, offed a swack of them, and demanded they drop this anti-regular mutant crap NOW and join his army! AND THEY DID! Then the writers didn't bother to use them for a long time, and they probably all died in the Sentinel Genocide on Genosha. Yes, they literally devalued the entire team, ripped on them and then PISSED on the ashes! I don't think I've EVER seen a writer disrespect a crappy character this bad since Deathcry was wiped out!
51) CAMERON HODGE
Whose Fault Is it: Bob Layton & Jackson Guice
Categories of Suck:Over-Pushed (x2):
0Angsty:
0Boring:
2 (he had so many powers and abilities that fights featuring him were completely boring)
Over-Powered (x2):
3 (he could phase through things AND was immune to Psionics, in addition to making a deal that left him permanently immortal. This is Dragon Ball Z levels of stupid unkillableness right here)
Xeroxed (x2):
0Mysterious/Confusing:
1 (his whole origin, plus his cybernetics and dealing with demons)
Fanservice:
0Dated:
3 (looks VERY '90s)
Goofy (x2):
2 (tried to do a "whacky crazy villain" thing, but was stupid)
EXTREEEEEEME!:
3 (GIANT KILLER CYBORG AAAAAARGH!!!!)
Stereotypical:
0SUCK FACTOR: 20 (what happens when you add too many powers onto a "Crazy Guy" set-up)-Yeah, I hated Hodge as a kid. And Horsenhero is right, his Suck Factor IS tremendous. I figured my hatred was in the"I want him to die via the heroes" kind of way, but no- in retrospect I don't even like READING about him. He just got made so totally unkillable, and he's that blantant kind of Chaotic Evil villain that's just an insane mass-murderer who drools and acts like the "Whacky Guy" crazy-hero RPG-Gamers (but as a VILLAIN, which makes his scenery-chewing hamminess even WORSE), that he overpowers every story he's involved in, and makes me hate him all the more. Hodge is even worse than Mojo in that regard.
50) CRAPPY GOLDEN AGE CHARACTERS (Captain Wonder, The Crimson Avenger, Midnight, Merlin & Sargon, The Whizzer, The Fin, The Red Torpedo, etc.)
Whose Fault Is it: Various writers
Categories of Suck:Over-Pushed (x2):
0Angsty:
0Boring:
3 (the key to all of their failures, actually)
Over-Powered (x2):
0Xeroxed (x2):
3 (the '40s was a BAD time for this. There was so little regulation or avenues for fans to go down that companies were free to just blatantly steal concepts. Midnight rips off The Spirit. Various patriotic heroes ripped-off The Shield & Captain America. The Crimson Avenger & Wing are so blatant I can't believe the Green Hornet & Kato's creators didn't sue the crap out of DC. The Fin is Bill Everett's knock-off of his own Namor. There were literally a DOZEN "Sorceror" characters stealing from Mandrake the Magician)
Mysterious/Confusing:
0Fanservice:
0Dated:
2 (obviously heroes from this era tend to look it)
Goofy (x2):
3 (A lot of cases, from obvious rip-offs to outright stupid designs- The Fin is particularly bad, but The Red Torpedo and his submarine stand out as well)
EXTREEEEEEME!:
0Stereotypical:
0SUCK FACTOR: 17 (a horde of rip-offs unlike any other)-The Golden Age of Comics was a funny time... guys just really didn't have anything to base all of their stuff on, so it was a giant storm of throwing every possible thing at the wall to see what stuck. The GIANT sales of Superman, Captain Marvel, Captain America and others would lead to an EXPLOSION of crudely-drawn strips with ugly lantern-jawed heroes wearing the most ridiculous primary-coloured costumes in history. And 99% of these comics were lurid TRASH- there is a very good reason why only a tiny amount of these guys are famous these days. Every time a good, successful character would be created, we'd immediately see a score of rip-offs, so blatant they would never pass in ANY other era (save the '90s with junk like Nightwatch). Wildcat was a rip of Batman (but was later properly made cool in later eras), tons of patriotic heroes ripped off The Shield, and later Cap (who kinda ripped off The Shield- hence his old triangular shield), there were a TON of Magician-themed characters ripping Mandrake (even Zatara). Sadly, DC's big "First Superhero Ever" (retroactively, since obviously Superman couldn't be that, Post-Crisis), The Crimson Avenger, was just The Green Hornet with the serial numbers filed off- he even had a small Chinese sidekick (Kato to Wing)! DC's Midnight was the same to The Spirit, because Will Eisner was away at War. A "Wonder Man" came out right after Superman did, and his makers were sued into oblivion- Fawcett was much smarter with Captain Marvel, changing just enough to be different, and even THEY eventually lost their character. The Whizzer is Marvel's rip-off of The Flash, only named and dressed after human piss.
-So this entry supplies a spot for all of these rip-offs and terrible characters. A few became big later on, but most of these guys rightly vanished eons ago. They only lose out by being kind of non-factors in the comic book world. I mean, does The Blue Diamond really matter at all, in the long run?
by Horsenhero » Wed Jan 26, 2011 1:14 pm 
Thanks Jab.
