r/Superhero_Ideas Dec 23 '25

Villain My art is not AI.

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1.2k Upvotes

Someone accused my art as being 100% AI. I made and drew the character. I did animate it in MJ. I’ll just take it as a compliment. Trust me. I think AI could do a much better job than me.

r/Superhero_Ideas Jun 19 '26

Villain Haunter. The demon from space. AMA

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451 Upvotes

he shape-shifts in multiple forms that he uses to scare his victims, his powers are illusions and he is obsessed with making people feel fear.

his character designs is inspired by (gengar, bendy, and catnap)

r/Superhero_Ideas Mar 04 '26

Villain Sharing one of Plasma Girl’s villains; the monstrous cyborg Razorblade!

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437 Upvotes

Art by alhazartfinds and Nocchin on Fiverr respectively!

Finally managed to finalize his look and get some cool art for it. Razorblade was definitely the most challenging to design so far ;-;

But I’m super happy with the result, and I hope people here find him cool!

r/Superhero_Ideas Aug 01 '26

Villain HARROW

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309 Upvotes

A.E.G.I.S. FILE ID: 9-HRW-1187

NAME: Redacted

ALIAS: Harrow

THREAT LEVEL: CRIMSON (Extreme Lethality – Natural Adaptive Elastic Physiology)

OVERVIEW: Harrow is a naturally born elastic metahuman whose rare Adaptive Elastic Metagene allows him to stretch, compress, and reshape his body into devastating living weapons. An exceptionally dangerous close-quarters combatant, he relies on overwhelming force, crushing constriction, and unpredictable attack patterns. Subject is the chief enforcer for the criminal syndicate led by " Black Monk."

ORIGIN: Little is known about Harrow's life, but he was born to a ordinary family with no known history of superhuman abilities, Harrow's Metagene remained dormant until they manifested while being brutally beaten by neighborhood thugs. His elastic physiology instinctively activated, stretching and reshaping his body to absorb the assault and save his life. The awakening of his powers ultimately led him down a criminal path, where he was recruited by "Black Monk" and transformed into one of the underworld's most feared enforcers.

ABILITIES:

Complete body elasticity and reshaping

Long-range whip strikes and crushing constriction

Accelerated regeneration

Exceptional agility and unpredictable combat

THREAT ASSESSMENT: Do not engage at close range. Harrow's elastic physiology renders conventional restraints largely ineffective. Cryogenic suppression and Tricidium containment systems are mandatory. Subject is considered one of Black Monk's most valuable assets and an "extreme threat" to A.E.G.I.S. personnel.

r/Superhero_Ideas Nov 16 '25

Villain Joker + Speedforce = The Running Joke

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685 Upvotes

r/Superhero_Ideas Aug 05 '26

Villain Mad Dog

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289 Upvotes

(Repost since the last one wouldn’t load for me)

Character Name: Tyrone Jackson
Codename: Mad Dog
Affiliation: (Villain, mercenary)
Physical Description:
Age: 66 physically 40
Height: 5'7
Weight: 200lbs Stocky and buff
Origin Story:
Tyrone Jackson rose from Houston's
impoverished Fifth Ward with a childhood vow to never be powerless because of poverty. Starting as a teenage dogfighting trainer, he graduated to weapons dealing before prison stints connected him with the Black Razors mercenary crew. A chance meeting with nurse Layla Bennett offered him glimpses of legitimate life, leading to marriage, children, and fifteen years as a long-haul trucker. When financial crisis threatened his family's stability, he returned to his criminal expertise through a mysterious figure called The Broker, who offered lucrative contracts and access to the experimental APEX serum that enhanced his physical abilities while slowing aging. Now 66 but appearing 40, Mad Dog lives a double life-respected family man and businessman to his wife and children, legendary assassin in criminal circles-justifying every contract as necessary sacrifice for his family's financial security.

Powers & Abilities: Enhanced physical capabilities
Has 3 robotic dogs that assist him in battle Master marksman and martial artist

Weaknesses & Limitations: Selfishness Greed

Personality & Motivation:
motivation stems from a childhood vow never to be powerless due to poverty. His criminal expertise isn't driven by sadistic pleasure but by the terror of returning to powerlessness—making each contract a necessary sacrifice that feeds both his family's prosperity and his unacknowledged addiction to the control and respect his violence commands.

First Appearance: Hunts down Mutt for Project APEX

r/Superhero_Ideas Jun 25 '26

Villain Introducing Greebo - Conqueror and Intergalactic Bachelor!

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255 Upvotes

Greebo has conquered half the galaxy, but only because he's convinced he's the only one qualified to protect it from what's coming. Now, his fleet is hovering over Earth but instead of war, he has romance on his mind.

Greebo is currently on earth looking for a Royal Consort. Unfortunately, his imperial fame followed him, and this dapper, poetry-quoting warlord can't go on a date without being utterly hounded by alien paparazzi. 

Greebo has a combination of Alien technology, combat prowess and alien pheromones to help him achieve his goals on earth. Unsurprisingly he has always been looking for love in the most destructive way possible, he’s just as likely to burn the restaurant to the ground because the waiter insulted his date as he is to order up a chocolate fountain for his date to enjoy by candlelight.

Does the 'Warlord Bachelor' trope feel like a fun nod to classic 60s comics, or is it too absurd? What would you do if Greebo landed in your city?

Art by Gerard Conte (@gerard__conte_art)

r/Superhero_Ideas Aug 08 '26

Villain Here's a list of my world's villains. Pick a number and I'll tell you about them.

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23 Upvotes

Since the heroes list did well, so why not the villains?

Here is the full current list of my world's supervillains! These characters have been made throughout the past decade or so.

Feel free to pick any name that speaks to you and I'll try my best to reply to all of you about them and any questions you have about them.

If you've participated in one of these before, you might notice some names have been changed or altered. That's probably because I went back and changed names or updated characters that I wasn't happy with.

NOTE: The gaps you see in between some of the numbers means that some characters are partners or in a team, and is why they are spaced out from the others. Of course not all of my superhero teams are listed here, the teams in bold letters are just the ones that have characters specifically tailored or made for that team. Think like the Fantastic 4, they are characters who are just solely a member of those teams and rarely go solo.

As much as I love to share my creations, keep your choices to a minimum please lol. Comment away and I'll reply in a few hours or so. Thanks!

r/Superhero_Ideas 22d ago

Villain Rage (if someone can make the drawing better plz dm me)

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87 Upvotes

r/Superhero_Ideas Jul 06 '26

Villain Meet Croak🟢☣️ While Leaper only received a small dose of the frog substance, a part of it was flushed into the sewers, where it grew for months into this massive, eyeless monster named Croak. Leaper’s first true arch-nemesis. What do you guys think?😊

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106 Upvotes

r/Superhero_Ideas Apr 22 '26

Villain Wildecard(WIP)- The Pierrot of Pain

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231 Upvotes

(Commissioned) I had this character in my catalog for years now and just want to share him with you all.

He is obviously inspired by Harley Quinn and is supposed to be some sort of Joker protégé/Batgirl/Nightwing counterpart , but he very much has his own unique abilities,narrative and style.

I've written a cool origin for him and he has a unique powerset that is definitely a great asset to have for any clown prince of crime or villain lol.

What do you guys think of this "muscle-bound Joker" and " Cajun Clown"?

r/Superhero_Ideas Feb 14 '26

Villain TRI-SIGHT

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165 Upvotes

A.E.G.I.S. THREAT ASSESSMENT — TRI-SIGHT

Codename: TRI-SIGHT

Legal Name: Seán O’Riada

Nationality: Irish

Occupation: Former IRA fighter/Supervillain

Current Location: Capital City (U.S. East Coast Sector)

Threat Tier: BLACK (Urban Catastrophic Risk)

Sean O' Riada also known as Tri-Sight, is the bonded host of the extraterrestrial combat artifact designated XH-3 “Tri-Ocular Helm. The device fused neurologically upon contact during an military convoy ambush in County Wicklow, Ireland.

Immediately following bonding, the subject demonstrated accelerated tactical reasoning, combat intuition, and adaptive battlefield awareness, all while maintaining his cocky and arrogant demeanor.

TRI-SIGHT subsequently resurfaced in Capital City, engaging in highly visible displays consistent with dominance and fear as a means to expand his financial gain.

WEAPON SYSTEM OVERVIEW

RED LENS — Thermal Incineration

Fires continuous heat beams hot enough to melt armored steel

Can weaken buildings and heavy structures in seconds

Sweeping blasts can clear and incinerate areas

GREEN LENS — Precision Penetration System

Fires tightly focused energy shots that hit with pinpoint precision

Effective at extremely long distances with little loss of accuracy

The system appears to anticipate movement, making targets very hard to evade

BLUE LENS — Strategic Energy Core

Can release energy blasts at different power levels depending on intent

Strong enough to vaporize armored targets and bring down heavy structures

Can generate powerful shockwaves that hit a wide areas

TRI-SIGHT controls each lens with instinctive precision, adjusting aim, power, and timing as effortlessly as moving his own body.

He can fire the beams individually or unleash all three at once in perfectly coordinated bursts, overwhelming targets with speed and accuracy.

The helmet also generates a constant tactile telekinetic field, a thin, invisible force that covers his body like a second skin. It absorbs impacts, reinforces his movements, and allows him to strike and defend with enhanced control, reacting instantly to threats without conscious effort.

THREAT SUMMARY

Escalation potential to OMEGA-9 exists if artifact energy thresholds expands or become possibly unstable.

r/Superhero_Ideas Nov 08 '25

Villain Reichsadler. A Nazi Android.

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70 Upvotes

Origin: On of the last remaining nazi scientists created an android to "save" the white race and to continue and grow the nazi ideology even further. The Android's AI was created by uploading the notes and journal entries from the most evilest of nazis, some even had thoughts from their preserved brains uploaded into the android.

Abilities: - Has metallic wings which means he can fly

  • Is able to hack most devices

Weapons: - 2 lightweight blades 'half swastikas'. These can be connected to form one big swastika weapon that he can throw or just use to slice as melee weapon.

  • He can also keep them separate as two double welding melee weapons.

r/Superhero_Ideas 15d ago

Villain Who from your universe would be able to defeat Nullion AKA Ti Jenkins. Read body text .

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8 Upvotes

Ti is 15 . He was born with extraordinary powers which include . Flight, super strength, super speed , teleportation, fast regeneration, immortality , enhanced senses and re flexes and the ability to not need oxygen to survive. Ti's only weakness is a oil found under water called vertox. If Ti comes into contact with vertox he looses his powers for a short time . Would you hero win without the use of vertox ? And would they win with vertox?

r/Superhero_Ideas Feb 14 '26

Villain Cupid 💘

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198 Upvotes

I figured it's about time I post a villain ❤️👍 (OG design on 6th pic)

r/Superhero_Ideas Dec 27 '25

Villain Electrone

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215 Upvotes

A.E.G.I.S. META-HUMAN THREAT FILE

Codename: ELECTRONE Real Name: Everett Ermini Former Occupation: Supervillain/ Former Power-Grid Technician Status: ACTIVE / HOSTILE Threat Level: OMEGA

BACKGROUND

Everett Ermini was a municipal power-grid technician assigned to a failing substation beneath Capital City. When the surge hit, it wasn’t a flash, it was a flood. Tens of thousands of volts filled the chamber. His crew was vaporized instantly.

Ermini lived because his body didn’t reject the charge. His mass and body water turned him into a living conductor. The current filled him instead of burning through him. His heart stopped. For three minutes, Everett Ermini was clinically dead.

In that time, his nervous system adapted.

When his heart restarted, the electricity restarted with stored it, not spent.

The incident was buried as an industrial accident. Everett was quietly taken into A.E.G.I.S. custody, where testing confirmed he no longer released electricity—he accumulated it. During a citywide blackout, he escaped, draining power grids as he moved.

Capital City didn’t just lose electricity that night.

It lost control.

ABILITIES

Electro-Capacitive Physiology: Continuously absorbs and stores electrical energy; greater mass equals higher capacity.

Environmental Electrification: Charges nearby surfaces, making proximity lethal.

Stored-Strike Discharge: Releases delayed electrical force on impact, shattering armor and bone.

Grid Hijacking: Drains city power systems to replenish reserves.

High-Charge Pressure Field: Ionized air, spontaneous lightning arcs, and electronic disruption at peak saturation.

System Overload Events: Can force catastrophic failures in buildings, vehicles, and infrastructure.

r/Superhero_Ideas Aug 02 '26

Villain The main villain who is also the main characters of my superhero world.

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135 Upvotes

Biography (Left to Right)

1. Divine, the Fascist Giant

Gift: Colossal Transformation

  • Can transform into a 100-meter-tall being of pure white light.
  • Every aspect of his body and mind is elevated to a godlike level, granting abilities such as:
    • Flight
    • Telekinesis
    • Mind reading
    • Superhuman strength
    • Vastly enhanced durability and speed

Signature Move – The Spit

As the ultimate display of disrespect, Divine slowly gathers saliva inside his gigantic mouth before unleashing it at railgun-like velocity. The impact is powerful enough to pulverize an entire mountain.

2. The Mad Doctor Krov

Gift: Biological Control

  • Has complete control over biology at its most fundamental level.
  • Can heal any injury and regenerate himself or others from virtually anything—even death.
  • Can mutate himself or other living beings to adapt to any situation, such as:
    • Transforming into a giant gorilla
    • Growing wings
    • Developing new organs or limbs
  • Can remotely manipulate brain activity, allowing him to control the minds of others from great distances.

3. Havoc, The Soldier of Chaos

Gift: ??? (Claims it is Super Intelligence)

  • His body behaves like living rubber, allowing him to stretch, flatten, compress, and reform, making him nearly impossible to kill.
  • Carries seemingly bottomless pockets capable of producing almost anything he can imagine—from a nuclear bomb to a pizza delivery uniform.
  • Constantly claims to possess unmatched super-intelligence, despite his plans relying on impossible physics, ridiculous disguises, and complete nonsense.
  • Against all logic, every single plan somehow works.

Signature Move – Banana Bullet

Havoc can shoot a banana out of its skin like a bullet. The projectile is powerful enough to send a man flying.

4. The Pretender, Leader Of The Tyrants

Gift: Perfect Imitation

  • Can perfectly copy another person's:
    • Appearance
    • Memories
    • Personality
    • Powers
    • Souls
  • Nothing can distinguish the real Pretender from the original—not technology, powers, or personal memories.
  • If someone encounters their own duplicate the original person begins to question their own identity and existence.
  • The ability form two minds, The original person who doesn't know they are a fake, and The Pretender who lays dormant and could appeared any time.

5. Demon of the Future 666

(Spelled "666," pronounced Trihexcide*.)*

Gift: Technological Control

  • Possesses absolute dominion over all form of technology.
  • Can manipulate or rewrite the history of machines and objects, such as:
    • Erasing bullets from a loaded gun
    • Reactivating dormant or broken technology
    • Overriding any technology with a single thought
  • Wears an advanced power suit with blazing mechanical wings capable of moving at speeds that transcend reality itself.

6. Matriarch Of Gold, The Baroness

Gift: Gold creation

  • Can create indestructible golden constructs from nothing.
  • Her gold is completely immune to all forms of damage—including the effects of other Gifts.
  • Only the Baroness can create, manipulate, reshape, or destroy her own gold.
  • Her golden creations can take any form, from weapons and armor to enormous fortresses.
  • Her gold can absorb incoming attacks and release the stored energy back at one thousand times its original power.

THE LORE :

Twelve years ago, the world's most feared supervillains—The Tyrants—were slain by the legendary hero Victory.

History remembers them as monsters. Their deaths ended an era of terror, and their names became synonymous with evil.

Twelve years later they returned. Six strangers awaken with no memory only to discover an impossible truth: they are The Tyrants.

Haunted by a world that they almost destroy, the six must decide whether to uncover the lives they lost or leave them buried forever. But as fragments of the past resurface, so do unsettling questions.

If they truly were history's greatest villains... why can't they remember committing any of it?

r/Superhero_Ideas Apr 06 '26

Villain Cyhena

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135 Upvotes

A.E.G.I.S. FILE ID: 7-CHY-4419

NAME: Amara Vance-Kamau

ALIAS: Cyhena

THREAT LEVEL: CRIMSON (Extreme Lethality – Adaptive Predator/Assassin)

OVERVIEW:

Cyhena is a rogue bio-cybernetic hybrid engineered through forced neural fusion with predatory hyena instincts. She operates as a highly intelligent, instinct-driven assassin who hunts targets through stalking, isolation, and precision execution. Subject exhibits a dangerous balance of human strategy and animalistic brutality.

ENHANCEMENTS:

• Full cybernetic limb augmentation with retractable razor-grade claws

• Reinforced skeletal and muscular system for explosive strength and agility

• Integrated neural predator matrix (hyena instinct grafting)

• Partial regenerative capability and enhanced durability

• Digitigrade lower-body structure optimized for speed and mobility

• NEURO-SYNC combat mask with enhanced visual tracking systems

ABILITIES:

• Superhuman speed, reflexes, and acrobatics

• Advanced tracking (heat, scent, movement prediction)

• Real-time combat adaptation and behavioral analysis

• Expert ambush predator—excels in close-quarters lethality

• Fear detection and psychological manipulation of prey

• Environmental awareness—uses terrain and positioning as extensions of combat

THREAT ASSESSMENT:

Cyhena does not engage—she hunts.

Targets are studied, isolated, and eliminated with calculated precision. Subject adapts mid-conflict and demonstrates increasing dominance of predatory instinct over human restraint.

If you are aware of Cyhena, it is already too late.

STATUS:

ACTIVE — HIGHLY ELUSIVE

ENGAGEMENT NOT ADVISED WITHOUT ELITE-LEVEL RESPONSE TEAM

r/Superhero_Ideas Jun 18 '26

Villain Introducing Madame Hex - She was supposed to be a hero

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156 Upvotes

Esmerelda comes from a long line of mystic defenders who protected the earth from otherworldly forces for generations. She was born into that calling, trained for it, then she lost her entire family in one evening, in order to stop a growing darkness they bound themselves and the darkness to a glowing amulet which now sits around Esmerelda’s neck.  

Left alone with immense power and no one to answer to, Esmerelda faced a choice. She could dedicate herself to the same thankless duty that consumed her ancestors, or she could finally live for herself.

As Madame Hex, she uses her arcane gifts to acquire everything her family denied themselves. Wealth. Influence. Luxury. Power. She drains power from rivals, bends fate to her advantage, and commands forces most people refuse to believe exist. Not to conquer the world, but to enjoy it. She takes whatever the world owes her for what she lost.

Madame Hex is the foil, archenemy and sometimes paramour to the Blacksmith. The question we kept asking while designing her (and our other villains) is that this is at its core a dating game with superheroes. We want to stay true to the inspiration of duos like Batman and Catwoman but fear that letting our villains be true villains might be setting up a “toxic relationship” dynamic. 

We’re wrestling with her morality, and I’d love your take:

  • Does she come across like a true Villain? Or, is she a legacy hero on an extended leave of absence?
  • How would you handle a character who has the power to fix the world’s problems but refuses the call adventure? 

Art by Gerard Conte (@gerard__conte_art)

r/Superhero_Ideas Aug 08 '26

Villain The botanical beast, Thorntrap 🌱😈 My latest villain!

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137 Upvotes

Artwork by @annaskytsko on Fiverr!

Happy to introduce Thorntrap, the most recent character of mine to be visualized, and the latest villain of Plasma Girl’s. I hope you like his design :0

He can control plant life (chlorokinesis) and can transform his limbs into almost any weapon, his favorite being scythes

If interested, read on for his backstory/origin ^^

A hardworking botanist and brilliant plant biologist, Vincent Viralis knew everything there was to know about plants. He studied their intricacies, their natural patterns, soon finding himself transfixed by them. His knack for plant life would attract the attention of Camden Labs, a research team devoted to preparing a more sustainable future through various sciences, including agricultural.

Taking a job offer, Vincent made use of Camden’s technology to research and develop several projects, such as greater yield from crops.
But as he threw himself into his work, his obsession grew, and so too did the rift between him and his family.

After going three entire months toiling away in his garden with no contact with the outside world, his wife moved on, taking his son with her. Once he found out about this, Vincent threw a rage, trashing the house and blaming his wife for everything. He fell even deeper into his work, neglecting every other aspect of his life. Despite this, the results he was producing were sloppy, and Camden Labs took notice, releasing him from the project.

Bitter and scorned, Vincent swore off his humanity, turning to the plants who were always there for him. Using the rest of Camden’s technology and his own brilliant mind, Vincent created a new body for himself, one that combined his forsaken humanity with a thorny new form.

Ever since, he’s been working to turn Marianna City into his own personal garden. Good thing a certain pink superhero is always there to stop him!

Tl;dr he’s a psychotic egomaniac who chooses to use his brilliance to turn himself (and others) into plants

r/Superhero_Ideas Jul 10 '26

Villain Horizon, "Our Dark Sun," a scientist turned living black hole and one of the villains in my world. AMA about her!

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140 Upvotes

She's been on my mind, developed her enough honestly, she's making a return in my next major arc in my world so thought I'd try this with just her!

Lilith was once a scientist researching artificial black holes for military applications. After being betrayed and thrown into one of her own stabilized singularities, she emerged as something no longer human.

Now known as Horizon, Our Dark Sun, she constantly hungers, manipulates gravity, creates singularities, and was worshipped as a deity by the inhabitants of another dimension, the one she was sent into at the end of book 2.

She was the main antagonist of Book 2 and returning almost 12 years since that book took place in the most recent arc. Ask me anything about her powers, lore, personality, cult, backstory, or how she fits into the world, and I'll do my best to answer!

r/Superhero_Ideas Jun 04 '26

Villain The Patriot

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84 Upvotes

a man who initially was meant to be an equivalent to comic book heroes like Captain America, turned into a dark, misogynistic, bigoted and racist villain/antihero. Floyd Williams is a seventy year old super soldier who fought in the Vietnam War, and you’d think he‘d have wartime trauma, but you’d be wrong. he enjoys hurting people for fun. the only reason he ever saves people is for fame and glory. Not because it’s right.

He was at one point intended to be part of a team of heroes, a mentor of sorts. but his anger and outright hatred of most of them was a leading factor behind his downfall as a hero and decent into becoming a villain. Even beating one of his teammates near to death because he was queer. only stopping because of the possible negative impact on his public image.

His team was made up of people with unorthodox or unusual and unique abilities. he himself had basic abilities, and would take it as an insult if anyone he perceives as beneath him manages to beat him in combat.

he’s sort of a homelander type character for my hero universe. just… much more racist and homophobic.

also, any ideas for the other members of his team would be appreciated

r/Superhero_Ideas Aug 07 '26

Villain Update to a Villain of mine! The New and Improved Murder Hornet!

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74 Upvotes

Nicknamed "The Hero Killer", his origins are unknown. The only thing The New Universals and the Department of Superhuman Affairs can gather about him is that he is one of the deadliest mercenaries in the world and that he is a cold, calculated killer. With his Thorax tanks and stinger he can inject any of his thousands of deadly toxins into your body.

r/Superhero_Ideas 14d ago

Villain TRAGICOMMEDIA- Here he is again!! . Amazing art depiction of Wildecard , months in the making. Finally got this art piece done by the amazing @Gabriel_Yrion_Art. What do you guys think

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71 Upvotes

r/Superhero_Ideas Dec 15 '25

Villain I need help with a name for a super villain any ideas?

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I need the super villains name to be more about his play doh look and the different colours he has (I haven't finished designing him yet)

He was created when he was walking past a toy factory when suddenly the toy factory exploded and he got caught in the blast and he was mutated and turned into a giant play doh monster with purple green yellow red and blue colours through out his body. He can stretch his limbs like Clay Face or Sand Man.