News Article Asks: Why Are There So Few Black Supervillains?

[ChiSoxFan]

Moses Magnum

 

[Comicopolis]

Luke Cage was originally a villain.

[Comicopolis]

Does Darkseid count?

 

[kdoginohio]

Did Chunk from Flash start out as a baddie?

[ChiSoxFan]

mister glass from 'unbreakable'.

 

An absolutely great, and rare, example of a black supervillan. Any more?

 

I'd throw in the ASM villian on rocket roller skates....Speed something-or-other.... or RocketRacer or something...but the only thing super about him was that he did not appear very often.

 

Slyde - the guy with the non-stick coating shoes and suit.

 

In addition to Slyde and Rocket Racer in the pantheon of Spider-Man bad guys we can easily forget, I also give you Cardiac.

 

 

Contrary to the cover blurb, he's the villain no one demanded. Ah, the 90's ...

[Comicopolis]

Or his twin, Thanos?

 

[supapimp]

black panther's nemesis the gorilla dude.

[ChiSoxFan]

black panther's nemesis the gorilla dude.

 

[Drakeprimeone]

black panther's nemesis the gorilla dude.

 

Ah yes.. Man Ape

 

Also there is a personal fav of mine, Barracuda from the Punisher series but this may be another "stereotype" even though he kicks all kinds of

 

[kdoginohio]

black panther's nemesis the gorilla dude.

Man-Ape, and most of T'Challa's foes from Wakanda.

[Jeffro.]

mister glass from 'unbreakable'.

 

An absolutely great, and rare, example of a black supervillan. Any more?

 

I'd throw in the ASM villian on rocket roller skates....Speed something-or-other.... or RocketRacer or something...but the only thing super about him was that he did not appear very often.

 

Slyde - the guy with the non-stick coating shoes and suit.

 

In addition to Slyde and Rocket Racer in the pantheon of Spider-Man bad guys we can easily forget, I also give you Cardiac.

 

 

Contrary to the cover blurb, he's the villain no one demanded. Ah, the 90's ...

 

Ugh! The Bagley era

[seanfingh]

 

Moses Magnum is pretty badass. The Black Racer from the New Gods was kind of a death god, so that is sort of like a villain. Chemistro is black (although he started out as a Luke Cage villain and they were almost all black). Black Tom was white. So was the Black Orchid.

[Bruce1971]

black panther's nemesis the gorilla dude.

Man-Ape, and most of T'Challa's foes from Wakanda.

 

Of course, they are African villains.

 

I am South African. While in University in Canada I had a girl say to me, "You're from Africa? But you're white." No wonder recent grads are having trouble finding jobs

 

 

 

[kdoginohio]

I'm sorry, but this a joke. Right? A complaint because there aren't enuff black bad-guys? Isn't Phil Lamarr from MadTV?

[TheLiamSturgess]

There are plenty, guys. Problem is, 90% of the characters sucked Nothing to do with skin colour.

[comix4fun]

How about the most offensive black superheroes and villains.

 

 

Ghetto Man comes to mine.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Dv83BM_5w

[Bruce1971]

In other words, writing about black comic book villains is freighted with either ugly stereotypes about black men or self-conscious reactions against those stereotypes. So it's been tough for comic book writers to break free. But Cunningham says he'd like to see writers move beyond that and write more black supervillains. He concludes by explaining why, odd though it may sound, more black supervillains would actually be a great and long overdo step forward for popular cultural portrayals or black men.

 

So are they complaining that not enough super villains are black? They think comics, which are predominately sold to white males, should have more black villains in them?

[DrWatson]

From Wiki:

 

DC Comics

 

* Black Manta

* Black Mass

* Black Spider

* Crowbar

* Cyborgirl

* Enforcer II (Mica, a female assassin for the 2000 Committee. From Firestorm #14)

* Fatality

* Flare (Fatal Five)

* Freeway (ninja who trained under Asano Nitobe)

* Houngan (Brotherhood of Evil)

* Killer Croc

* Maitresse (enemy of Sovereign Seven)

* Peek-a-Boo

* Power Ring III (Antimatter counterpart to Green Lantern John Stewart)

* Pulsar (Benjamin Day, nuclear powered villain from Brave and the Bold #196)[1]

* Ron Evers (a cyborg and former friend of Victor Stone/Cyborg)

* Shadow Thief (Carl Hammer, the second Shadow Thief, got his "shadow suit" from the Monitor, as seen in Vigilante #14)

* Skorpio (enemy of Steel)

* Tally Man II (One Year Later)

* Tattooed Man III

* Tobias Whale

* Wunda (member of the Female Furies)

 

Milestone Comics

 

* Bubbasaur

* Bulletproof

* Pyre (formerly Holocaust)

 

Wildstorm Comics

 

* Emoticon (from Welcome to Tranquility)

* Infidel (enemy of Samaritan from Astro City)

 

Image Comics

 

* Angstrom Levy

* Killswitch (ShadowHawk foe)

* Titan

 

Marvel Comics

 

* Achebe (Black Panther villain)

* Advisor (comics)

* Aries

* Alex Wilder

* Barracuda

* Baron Macabre

* Bedlam (Member of the Exemplars)

* Black Mariah

* Bolt (Daredevil foe)

* Bushman

* Bushmaster

* Cardiac

* Cardinal

* Catherine Wilder

* Chemistro III

* Chronok

* Cockroach Hamilton

* Coldfire

* Comanche (Power Man (Cage) foe, partner of Shades)

* Condor (Nova (Richard Rider) foe)

* Cottonmouth

* Creaux (Spider-Man/Gambit foe)

* Daddy Long Legs

* Dark Art (She-Hulk villain)

* Darkoth

* Eric Killmonger (Black Panther villain)

* Four (of Eugenix)

* Foxfire (comics)

* Genecide (leader of Eugenix)

* Geoffrey Wilder

* Hairbag

* Hammer (Leroy "Hammer" Jackson, member of the team Hammer and Anvil)

* Hardcore (Luke Cage villain)

* Impala (villainous member of Bad Girls, Inc.)

* Jakarra (Black Panther foe)

* Joanna Cargill

* John M'Butu (enemy of the reimagined Squadron Supreme)

* Kiber the Cruel (Black Panther foe)

* Killjoy (Black Panther/Deathlok foe)

* Locus

* Lord Karnaj

* Madam Slay

* Malice I

* Man-Ape (Black Panther villain)

* Manslaughter

* Menace (comics)

* Midnight's Fire

* Moses Magnum (Black Panther villain)

* Mr. Fish

* Mute (servant of Madam Slay)

* Mubaru

* Nekra

* Nightshade

* Nine (of Eugenix)

* N'Kama (A Zulu Warrior hired by Damon Dran to capture the Black Widow)

* Princess Zanda (Black Panther foe)

* Powerhouse

* Prowler

* Puff Adder

* Rock Python

* Rocket Racer

* Salamander K'Ruel

* Scope

* Shades (Power Man (Cage) foe, partner of Comanche)

* Slyde

* Solomon Prey (Black Panther foe)

* Sombre (Black Panther villain)

* Tempo

* Thunderball

* Tombstone

* Vermin

* Wheeler

* Zambada (leader of the Lightning Lancers)

 

Independents

 

* Africa (12 Comics)

* Baxter Stockman (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

* Darcticus (Blac Ice Comics)

* Dark Widow (Purrsia Press)

* Fixer (Irredeemable)

* Hook (Blokhedz)

* Charles Gunn (IDW Publishing)

* Mr. Bigg (Purrsia Press)

* Nebula (Arcane Comics)

* King Vulture (Blokhedz)

* Sick Sistah (Onli Studios)

* Steven Dark (Guardian UMI)

* Suge Punic (Ronin Studios)

* Troubleman (Hometown Productions)

* Block (Big City Comics)

* Seduction (Big City Comics)

 

[Bruce1971]

From Wiki:

 

DC Comics

 

* Black Manta

* Black Mass

* Black Spider

* Crowbar

* Cyborgirl

* Enforcer II (Mica, a female assassin for the 2000 Committee. From Firestorm #14)

* Fatality

* Flare (Fatal Five)

* Freeway (ninja who trained under Asano Nitobe)

* Houngan (Brotherhood of Evil)

* Killer Croc

* Maitresse (enemy of Sovereign Seven)

* Peek-a-Boo

* Power Ring III (Antimatter counterpart to Green Lantern John Stewart)

* Pulsar (Benjamin Day, nuclear powered villain from Brave and the Bold #196)[1]

* Ron Evers (a cyborg and former friend of Victor Stone/Cyborg)

* Shadow Thief (Carl Hammer, the second Shadow Thief, got his "shadow suit" from the Monitor, as seen in Vigilante #14)

* Skorpio (enemy of Steel)

* Tally Man II (One Year Later)

* Tattooed Man III

* Tobias Whale

* Wunda (member of the Female Furies)

 

Milestone Comics

 

* Bubbasaur

* Bulletproof

* Pyre (formerly Holocaust)

 

Wildstorm Comics

 

* Emoticon (from Welcome to Tranquility)

* Infidel (enemy of Samaritan from Astro City)

 

Image Comics

 

* Angstrom Levy

* Killswitch (ShadowHawk foe)

* Titan

 

Marvel Comics

 

* Achebe (Black Panther villain)

* Advisor (comics)

* Aries

* Alex Wilder

* Barracuda

* Baron Macabre

* Bedlam (Member of the Exemplars)

* Black Mariah

* Bolt (Daredevil foe)

* Bushman

* Bushmaster

* Cardiac

* Cardinal

* Catherine Wilder

* Chemistro III

* Chronok

* Cockroach Hamilton

* Coldfire

* Comanche (Power Man (Cage) foe, partner of Shades)

* Condor (Nova (Richard Rider) foe)

* Cottonmouth

* Creaux (Spider-Man/Gambit foe)

* Daddy Long Legs

* Dark Art (She-Hulk villain)

* Darkoth

* Eric Killmonger (Black Panther villain)

* Four (of Eugenix)

* Foxfire (comics)

* Genecide (leader of Eugenix)

* Geoffrey Wilder

* Hairbag

* Hammer (Leroy "Hammer" Jackson, member of the team Hammer and Anvil)

* Hardcore (Luke Cage villain)

* Impala (villainous member of Bad Girls, Inc.)

* Jakarra (Black Panther foe)

* Joanna Cargill

* John M'Butu (enemy of the reimagined Squadron Supreme)

* Kiber the Cruel (Black Panther foe)

* Killjoy (Black Panther/Deathlok foe)

* Locus

* Lord Karnaj

* Madam Slay

* Malice I

* Man-Ape (Black Panther villain)

* Manslaughter

* Menace (comics)

* Midnight's Fire

* Moses Magnum (Black Panther villain)

* Mr. Fish

* Mute (servant of Madam Slay)

* Mubaru

* Nekra

* Nightshade

* Nine (of Eugenix)

* N'Kama (A Zulu Warrior hired by Damon Dran to capture the Black Widow)

* Princess Zanda (Black Panther foe)

* Powerhouse

* Prowler

* Puff Adder

* Rock Python

* Rocket Racer

* Salamander K'Ruel

* Scope

* Shades (Power Man (Cage) foe, partner of Comanche)

* Slyde

* Solomon Prey (Black Panther foe)

* Sombre (Black Panther villain)

* Tempo

* Thunderball

* Tombstone

* Vermin

* Wheeler

* Zambada (leader of the Lightning Lancers)

 

Independents

 

* Africa (12 Comics)

* Baxter Stockman (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

* Darcticus (Blac Ice Comics)

* Dark Widow (Purrsia Press)

* Fixer (Irredeemable)

* Hook (Blokhedz)

* Charles Gunn (IDW Publishing)

* Mr. Bigg (Purrsia Press)

* Nebula (Arcane Comics)

* King Vulture (Blokhedz)

* Sick Sistah (Onli Studios)

* Steven Dark (Guardian UMI)

* Suge Punic (Ronin Studios)

* Troubleman (Hometown Productions)

* Block (Big City Comics)

* Seduction (Big City Comics)

 

I think you forgot to add badd asss to your super-villain search. That list combined would be lucky to beat Power Pack

[wee_s2e-migration]

Doesn't ASM #583 have a black supervillian on the cover?

 

No politics please, doosh.

 

Dooouche, you say?

 

How is it political if it is on a freakin' ASM cover.

 

Right. I'll assume you're "playing" dumb.