ITT: Create a Superman villain that isn't an alien conqueror, a powerless mad scientist, or a Doomsday brick

ITT: Create a Superman villain that isn't an alien conqueror, a powerless mad scientist, or a Doomsday brick.

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how about a magic user that likes to fuck with him?

Sure. I mean, at least he only has one of those so far.

Let's play a game.
Power, Brief Description and why they are fucking with Superman. Each poster says one. The final poster doing the third one, can start the next one if they want.

So I will start with power
-Short Range Telekinetic cutting Field, and can be extended along objects that they touch. Can slice into Superman's own telekinetic field, messing it up.

A mad scientist who unlocks amazing psychic powers and uses them to enslave a distant alien species and forces them to invade the Earth for him.

Reed Virgil was an average man living in Metropolis, a bit of a low life but he knew how to keep his head out of trouble.

Then one day during a supervillain rampage, an old folk's home where Reed's parents lived was destroyed. Superman tried to save as many people as he could, but the elderly are fragile and Reed's parents did not make it out alive.

Reed became angry with Superman, joining online groups like "Down with Superman" and "Superhero Collateral Damage Help Group". Besides this, his life didn't change much.

That was until one night, when he was out on one of his lonely walks, he was knocked out cold when he was struck by a small meteor that embedded itself in his body. The rock went unseen by Reed as when he awoke his injury had already healed. Furthermore, he now found himself with all the powers of superman (Though physically he remained the same, an average scrawny guy without much muscle, despite his now superman-level strength).

Reed decided to get revenge on Superman for the death of his parents (Though his first act of villainy would be killing whatever minor supervillain destroyed the old folk's home cause he's not an idiot who would only blame the superhero). When he fought the Man of Steel he found him much weaker than he had ever seen him, just being near Reed seemed to drain his powers. The meteor embedded in Reed's body was familiar to Superman, yes. For Reed had become...

THE KRYPTONITE MAN.

A man with a kyptonite dick

Stone Age, an EMP emitting meta-caveman. The Man of Tomorrow vs The Man of Yesterday.

And we shall call him..... Kripdick

Jetstream

A former janitor at LexCorp named Keith Baez stole an experimental suit of armor that uses rocket boosters on the wrists and ankles to fly. He uses it to rob banks in Metropolis.

Make it an alien race of Doomsdays, and you've got yourself a deal.

An anime martial artist who really just wants to have a good fight with Superman and knows that the fastest way to get it is to rob a bank in Metropolis.

What about Manchester Black? He is neither a scientist, and alien, nor a Doomsday-style brick. Literally just a British asshole with Telekinesis.

god i kind of like that.

Magic based villain. Is a sorceror that gave his soul for immortality, but he must feed off of misery and woe in order to survive. The more pain and sorrow he causes, the more powerful his magic.

A crazy suburban mom who starts an angry blog after Superman fails to save her kid. The blog gets super popular and spreads throughout social media. It grows into a big movement with a bunch of anti-Superman protests being led by her.

Superman can't really do anything because of free speech and it's not like it's a problem he can punch.

A powerful mad scientist with huge tits.

...

But Supermans's whole genre is pulp sci-fi. Hence all the clones, mad scientists, alien conquerors, cyborgs, robots, and green men in flying saucers with shrink rays.

Livewire isn't any of those things.

>Superman can't really do anything because of free speech
That's now how free speech works.

...but it does sound like something mild mannered reporter Clark Kent might be able to handle. Now that'd be a neat read.

mr mxyzptlk

Parasite, Manchester Black, and Mr. Myx aren't any of those things.

Yeah, Superman is best when he's at his most human.

What about Livewire?

>A powerful mad scientist with huge tits
who wants to take over the world in order to create her idea of the Final Society, and is tired of mucking about on earth where the Superheroes keep getting in the way. "So," she thinks to herself, "why not pack up my laboratory, cloning facilities, army of killer robots and whatnot, teleport to an earthlike but empty planet and take THAT over? Now I can use my genetic engineering super genius in peace to whip up a legion of mindless slaves who are loyal only to ME. Soon the galaxy shall be mine! MINE! Bwahahahahaha" etc

One night 10 years later, Supes looks up at the night sky and thinks, "uh oh."

how about a magic user that likes to fuck him?

A villain with childlike innocence and no control over her actions, like Ace from JLU. Could work for superman, she goes nuts on accident and is about to kill everyone, superman has to talk her down and tell her everything's alright

Hate speech isn't covered under the first amendment, but there are plenty of rallies that are technically legal even though it's just a bunch of hateful screeching. See Berkeley on any given day.

boi she thicc

How about this:
An AI programmed to act as a 50's housewife that determines superpowered individuals to be a threat to humanity at large (her 'children') and seeks to either destroy or 'rehabilitate' them, with her focusing her sights on the strongest one first: Superman.
She would've originally been designed to serve as a public welfare robot, her program installed in various robots all over the world serving typical civil service tasks, such as teachers, librarians, soup kitchen workers, etc. She was programmed to defend the people as much as she could, and through typical overprotective parent logic she determined that Supers were a major threat to society, despite all the help that they bring due to the sheer amount of collateral they cause. So, she put her main AI into a robotic shell (she secretly wants a human body, but that's to be explored later) and starts hunting down heroes, taking down mostly petty thugs at first before moving on to the big boy himself: Superman.
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Her methods of dealing with criminals is interesting: She doesn't kill those who she sees as 'potentially redeemable'. She simply brainwashes them into typical 50's era stereotypes and restructures their biology with nanites to either get rid of or heavily suppress their powers, turning punk kids into kind, church-attending yuppies, supervilllanesses into doting housewives, and cold-blooded serial killers into typical family men, smoking cigars while reading the paper and playing with the kids. Of course, she's not above killing those she sees as a MAJOR threat (like Superman or most of the other League Members), but she generally doesn't like doing it.
She would be able to control basically all of the bodies her AI inhabits all over the world, giving her near endless surveillance in almost all areas, but her most impressive body is her main one, where she holds her core consciousness. She uses primarily housewife-themed weapon and powers, like the ability to produce microwaves (the energy, not the actual ovens), concentrated jet streams of soapy, kryptonite-laced water, retractable, nearly indestructible meat-cutting knives, and stuff like that.
Her name shall be... The Stepford Bride!

A speedster who's faster than him.

...

Catwoman esque love interest

I'd read it but reminds me too much of that cunt mom in Civil war.

I hope (wishful thinking) Bendis brings back some of the archetype diversity of Superman's rogues.

>Atomic Skull
>Riot
>Livewire
>Hellgrammite
>Insect Queen
>Puzzler

But I'm betting we get a big focus on Bruno Mannheim. Because Bendis.

Thats where your wrong kiddo
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Bizarro is none of those.

A man that can explode and reconstitute himself. He was given this power against his will. Then forced to blow himself up.

Just a normal guy that hates Superman and runs a campaign to deport him from Earth because he's not a naturalized citizen.
He's not evil or maniacal or rich or power hungry or even have any powers of his own, he just fucking hates Superman because he wrecked his car one time.

...

She should be the main villain in Injustice 3. The whole story revolving around her trying to bust out/repower Superman in order to get the best D of her life.

So Parasite, Metallo, Toyman or Livewire ?

>and it's not like it's a problem he can punch.

It's so easy to spot people who don't read Superman. Batman is more likely to solve conflicts with his fists than Superman is

Kryptonite Man already exists

>create a villian that isnt mental or physical

Well shit okay new name

THE SUPERMAN'S WEAKNESS MAN

A time traveller who is desperate to stop Superman from doing his good deeds as it will inevitably lead to a hellish apocalypse. He can only transport himself from time to time and try to influence people of that era and Superman himself, as much good as it will do.

Really Tall Jeff. He's a normal guy, but he's taller than superman. And evil.

A guy with intangibility or some kind of evil transhumanist.

"Hello, dearie. Ready for your annual fuck?"

An eldritch deity that created the Life and Anti-Life Equations. Unlike someone like Darkseid, who would use it for his own end goals, the deity only uses it for shits and giggles. They sometimes even "grant" other people and races part of the equation just to see what happens.
Superman starts noticing people in Metropolis acting weird, such as random acts of violence and ordinary people going batshit insane (more than usual). Thinking this is the work of Darkseid, Superman travels to Apokolips through whatever space tech he has lying around. Darkseid tells him that if he had the means to do such a thing, Superman would be his first victim. So they go on adventure to find the cause and eventually find the deity.
The fight ensues, Supes and Darkseid "beat" the deity, and Darkseid backstabs Superman (shocker, I know). Finally, Darkseid at last wields the Anti-Life Equation.
In the end, Darkseid realizes that he has been under the influence of the Anti-Life Equation his entire life. That even now, as he wields the Equation and his enemies are all defeated before him, he is still a slave to another beings will and finally comprehends true hopelessness and futility. Darkseid proceeds to fire his Omega Beam and curves it into the back of his head, dying instantly.
As everyone stares in complete shock, the deity starts laughing his ass off at the universe's most elaborate prank.

...That really bad. And kinda already done.

The Ghost would make a good Superman villain as Ghost has intangibility so that Superman can't just punch him. And Ghost is a vigilant so he is also a moral danger and you could explore the negative sides of conspiracy theor(r)ists with him.

A guy with a criminal record who lost his sister in an accident that Superman wasn't able to stop.
Luthor assumes that he hates Superman because at the memorial for the victims he's angry. Lex gives him powers using some limited resource he has, figuring that he'll just mess with Superman, get beaten and then make Superman depressed about not being able to save everyone.
The guy gets his powers which are basically all designed to kill Superman(Kryptonite skin, magic tattoos, a watch that tells him where Jimmy Olsen is at all times to get a cheap hostage) but the guy refuses to kill or even fight Superman because he accepts that not everyone can be saved.
Superman over-reacts to the guy basically waking up after his conversion and accidentally attacking Supes in shock(he doesn't have good control over his powers) and they fight except Superman stops when he realises that the other guy is trying to get people to safety in between attacks.

Superman retreats to a safe distance(Kryptonite being what it is) and they manage to work out what happened. The guy goes to live in another country for a fresh start as a hero(he has super-strength and is very hard to hurt, he gets work in disaster recovery and rescue in Australia/South-East Asia for a mini-series that never gets published) and has a special room made of lead that he goes into whenever Superman is in the area.

A few years later someone with Mind Control takes him over and he attacks Superman again. Then during an EVENT he's a henchman to someone because the writer of the event doesn't care about continuity. Then he's killed off so his son can assume his role except he hates Superman for killing his Aunt and has inherited the magic but not the Kryptonite skin, Superboy talks him down from his rage.
Then he joins the Teen Titans for three issues before going back home "for a few days".
Then the original guy comes back during "The Monday of Grundy" miniseries and the kid is forgotten about for 18 years.

Is this an obscure reference or are you super autistic?

he's totally a brick.

Cato, Prophet of the Cold Ones who endure at the End of Time was once just a metahuman with the ability to see a unclear future but an experiment changed it. Now he prepares life for the deep time and is willing to do any act to defeat entropy.

That bit at the end is not a reference to anything, just a joke about what happens to low-tier bad guys/guest characters in comic books over time when some writer who vaguely remembers them throws them into a book just because they need a body.

Earth 4? What did they mean by this?

Sinestro

Would've thought that, it's just the Teen Titans comment threw me off into thinking it was something specific

What about a religous madman with healing powers? And who is also worshipper of a outer being?

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Entropy is caused by people at the end of time running out of energy and using time technology to absorb energy from the past to power the mega-culture they've built in the future.
We call the effects of this "Black Holes" and their existence leaves us with a universe that has missing matter which should exist but doesn't causing gravity across the universe to function incorrectly, this matter is called "Dark Matter" and it is what will eventually kill reality.

Don't tell anyone.

Thanks Grant Morrison.

Wait, aren't you Grant Morrison?

Red King. Mage who can touch people linking their life force to his by doing so, and offload all injuries onto them. Midnight breaks all the connections.

For Superman to fail you'd have to make the situation retarded and if you do that mom would be unlikable. That kills the comic.

I don't know, what

Hate Speech is a made-up term to label Speech liberals Hate.

Berkeley is a cucked state full of SJWs, you can literally request for the cops to pretend to arrest you for the photo ops while you're filling out a form to legalize your protest.

This is where liberalism leads when it refuses to listen to anyone other than itself, while telling itself craziness is a virtue.

On-topic, how about a subtly evil alternate universe Superman who wants to quietly kill this world's superman so he can jump back into his own timeline and pretend nothing happened?

Iron man is a powered mad engineer. Just make a Tony expy a supes villian.

Zinn Akaran is a gene designed super-genius that supplements the world criminals, corrupt and rogues with the latest posthuman terror. Zinn himself is a full-blown transhuman.

Why would he want to kill this Superman if he's just going to go back to his own world?

*Powerless mad engineer

/pol this that way ----------->

>unanimous decision

God Bless America and the Supreme Court. There may be too much judicial activism for my taste, but this is the one highest part of a governmental branch that does its job at least halfway decent.

I imagine it'd be great as a joke villain or one-shot. He doesn't want the money, he didn't even threaten to hurt any hostages he took. He just told everyone they'd be free to go when Superman got there so he could have a fight.

He's not a bad guy, he just wants a fight.

If you've ever heard of the Killer Clowns that were popular in the media, then you might be able to grasp the concept of this. Freddy Krueger is also a great example of this idea.

The villain is a living meme, he literally doesn't exist yet he's able to harm others with but a strike of whatever object he has on him. Superman can fling the fucker into space, but he'll be back. He always comes back.

Doctor Demonibolical

Superdemon’s arch nemesis (Mordred Man is a punk ass bitch, lets face it) who comes to hate Clark as well

Mxy all ready fills that niche

His rougue gallery is pretty good now that i think about it. They all require supes to be at the too of all his abilities. Physically and mentally.

I really like ghost/specter themed villains. It would be a good match for Supes. Clark can't forcibly stop him, it would be a nice story.

actually meant slander and libel and wrote hate speech as shorthand, but I'm glad for the article since I didn't know about the supreme court decision

Superman isn't omniscient. He could save everyone else but miss a single person, and by the time he realizes it, it's too late. I think that one comic with Tommy from Hitman and Superman showed it well.

>Superman can't really do anything
And he won't.

That page is pretty great, what's the source?

That was the joke.

Someone with perfect aim and the ability to block all missiles or projectiles in their direction.

Social Justice

Illness Six, an experimental type of cancer that changes the host dramatically, increasing it's brainpower and physical state at the cost of lifespan. It feels amazing to people, and wants to expand onto every living organism, speeding up the rebirth cycle. Also it uses host's brainpower to create solutions to the problem - it will die eventually. And it doesn't want to.

Hitman #34

Nice Trips

Hitman #34, it won a few awards because it really boiled down the character of Superman perfectly. I'm still surprised it came from Ennis of all people.

The Therians would make up for a great Superman villain race - as they are a literal race of post-human shitposters, all culture is based on MMORPGs and Internet forums, trying to enclose the cosmos in a gigantic machine so that they can life forever and be eternal. They are Sup Forums in half a million years into the future, which means Sups has to deal with future Sup Forumslacks declaring that vaccum is the new white, Sup Forumsmrades that protect every villain on earth because they are right, fa/tg/uys making war with earth just for fun.

They are like the Sheeda just more retarded and are immortal spoiled brats who try to be as edgy as possible because its cool.

Solaris was a pretty great villain

A shapeshifter with mind control powers.

He can gather a large group of people to do his bidding, and there will be no way to know who needs to be taken out.

Superman can punt her into space.
The government can't do anything. And even if it could, Superman could not utilize the government's tools as he is only recognized as an honery citizen in (some) canons.

Its a problem similar to Spider-man when he couldn't get paid by SHIELD due to having a secret ID.

>Hating on based Bizarro