Lex Luthor Is NOT Superman's Only Good Villain 

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Superman unironically has one of the most underrated rogue’s galleries in comics and no I’m not joking

Lobo and Mongul are probably the most underrated

Kind of sad that one of the oldest superheroes in existence has so many great villains that never get used. Ah well, at least it's not as forgotten as Wonder Woman's.

Personally my favorite Superman villain group is The Elite. They had 1 comic but it was a great examination of Superman’s moral philosophy. They did a PEAK animated movie about it.

Atomic Skull, while not my favorite villain, has always been interesting to me, because think about it, the guy gives off massive amounts of dangerous radiation, and it’s harmless to Superman, but it’s deadly against bystanders, and it’s interesting seeing Superman try to save as many people as he can while fighting him.

Parasite, Toyman, and Mongul are also pretty good. I hope James Gunn will expand Superman's rogues gallery in the dcu! Instead of just using Lex luthor.

I’ve always loved Metallo and The Atomic Skull.

Hear me out. World's Finest Movie with Superman and Batman fighting Toy Man. He's a villain that can truly match both our their tones and themes.

I think Parasite is a pretty sick villain. Great design and power set for countering Superman, often requiring Superman to outsmart him rather than relying on brute force.

General Zod has so much potential. I'd imagine him showing up early in Superman's story and he would tell him about Krypton's culture and Kal-Els parents, but he would twist the truth so he would look like the good guy, so that Superman would become his loyal pawn, just for Superman to somehow find out that he's not as benevolent as he seems and then Zod would drop the facade and essentially go full Omni-Man on Clark. And everytime they face off Clark would have conflicted feelings about fighting him, since he's on one hand extremely evil, but on the other hand, he's the only connection he has to Krypton (at least before Supergirl arrvies to earth)

Metallo and parasite

Absolutely agreed. Although one villain that has been used very often that I have never been a fan of his General Zod.

I love bizarro as a villain and a antihero in the outlaws

I feel Atomic Skull has a lot of potential and nobody's done a storyline with him as the main villian but could.

THANK YOU Also Brainiac is great, but he shouldn’t be Kryptonian. He’s from Colu, and he’s a mirror to Jor-El. Bizarro I like him because he’s embodying Superman’s heroism where he has good intentions but because of how he is twosted into being the reverse he can only do evil so he’s trapped inside his own body.

Y’all haven’t even scratched the surface😭erradicator, cyborg Superman, silver banshee, Manchester black, imperiex. Those imo r the real underrated villains

I love all of Superman’s Villains for different reasons, there’s just so much Potential in them that the can work, even the Bad Ones like Nuclear Man can be Fixed.

I've always argued that Superman has the most underrated rogues gallery in all of comics. Spider-Mans are well known but let's be honest, majority are B/C teir. You can even argue the same for Batman but I have his rogues over Spider-Mans.

Manchester black. Both his appearances in "what so funny about truth, justice and the American way?" And "ending battle" were awesome. Also parasite. I wish they used him more often.

I feel like mongul is also underatted

Basically Lex Luthor has become the joker of the Metropolis/Superman villain gallery rogue (Popularity aleast, like when they immediately think Joker as Batman main villain while forgetting others Batman villain like Bane, Penguin, The Riddler, Killer Croc, Two Face/Harvey Dent, Poison Ivy and many others Batman villains, is that people only think of Lex Luthor forgetting Doomsday, Brainiac, Bizarro Superman [I don't know if Bizarro is consider a villain or a anti hero], Metallo, General Zod and many others [Darkseid is debatable if he is a Superman villain or a Justice League villain])

my fav sups villain gotta be parasite, he's such a threat, really powerful and dangerous if not handled correctly (but from the talked about in this, i love livewire)

My favorite is toyman. He’s got a lot of untapped potential. He could make mech suits and atonomus robots like Ironman suits for him and others to wear so they could actually fight Superman themselves or just make more powerful robots the only thing holding him back is his childish mind that makes him want to make everything toy like. Heck, he accidentally created a time machine in the justice league show

We so need a playlist for this, Batman & Superman are the only ones so far.

Honestly you guys are big part of me getting back into comics, thank you

What’s great about Superman being busted in stats for his rogues gallery is that they’ll naturally rely more on Hax. Such as with Mr. Mxyzptlk. They have to be wacky or esoteric to counter Superman.

Aside from Lex Luthor and Brainiac, my favourite Superman villain by far is Mister Mxyzptlk. He had by far some of the best issues of the Superman Adventures tie-in comics.

I think manchester black is a really underated villian of superman. Very distinct in comparison to other villians. Could also work well as a suicide squad member. He was so dope in superman vs the elite.

I personally think Zod and Lobo are criminally underused. Lobo especially, he's great.

love the duo commentary, so refreshing

My favourite is Mr. Mxyzptlk because the sort of fifth dimension fairy tale magic is so at odds with the normal hero universe

One villain I wish would get a bigger spotlight is the Eradicator

I can’t decide who my favorite is. It’s probably Lex but I really like Brainiac,Mr.Mxyzptlk, and Darkseid.

Great video guys! Love to see recognition to Supermans phenomenal rogues gallery.

A few other villains that come to mind, Silver Banshee, Rampage, Conduit, Mongul, Ultra Humanite, and Parasite.

Lobo, Mongul, Parasite, Metallo, Livewire. Really from Superman TAS. Lol. I've always wanted to see Metallo on screen. I thought the BvS had a perfect set up for him. The character that lost his legs in the Superman-Zod battle had the perfect motivation.

Supes has one of the best rogues gallery out there period! I don't even know if I have a favorite cause most of them are really impressive but Doomsday is absolutely brutal & ruthless & came to killing blows with Supes

I’ve never really been that interested in Superman but you guys make him so much more interesting

Finally someone giving superman some love Great video🤙

My favorite underrated Superman villains are Parasite and Metallo. I love Metallo’s design and Parasite has really cool powers. Also, Mxy’s episode in TAS is my favorite and I rewatch it a lot.

Bizarro is my favorite Superman villain, especially when he’s with the Outlaws

I have to say too by the way, I like the super chill vibe your channel has, it's like listening to just your two friends talking about stuff and it just works

Have you guys seen Brainiac in the show Krypton? It's the only time I've ever seen him in live-action, and they did a great job with him.

I also love the Brainiac Kryptonian A.I. stories. It makes their feud more personal than any other of his A-tier villains.

Here my favorite villains that aren’t Lex, Doomsday, Darkseid, or Zod (Superman might have my fav rogue’s gallery tbh): 1: Bizzaro (Honestly my fav Superman villain. Bizzaro>Lex) 2: Brainiac (Ik he’s famous, but he’s still a goated villain) 3: Mr. Mxyzptlk (People need to start respecting Mr. Mxyzptlk) 4: Mongul (I would love to see him as a main villain in a film) 5: Metallo (So glad you guys gave Metallo some attention) 6: Parasite (Had some of the best episodes in Superman: The Animated Series) 7: Cyborg Superman (I mean, he’s a Cyborg Superman🐐) 8: Toyman (You wouldn’t expect it, but he’s pretty creepy)

Also The Flash Rouges Gallery is underrated asf it’s very colorful and the only villain team that gets along they work together on certain occasions.

My favorite Superman villain is Metallo

Brainiac is so cool, I didn’t know he was a superman villain, I only remember him from Lego Batman 3. Also that outlaws comic sounds really good

I completely agree Superman's Rogue's Gallery is INSANELY underrated. There is so much potential with all of them and yet they always use General Zod or Doomsday who are some of the least interesting members of his rogues gallery. Lex Luthor is of course his best villain and such a fantastic villain, but other villains like Metallo, Brainiac, Livewire, Parasite, Toyman, Bizarro, Silver Banshee, Mr Myxzpltk, Manchester Black and the Elite etc... are all interesting characters and complex villains that acts as polar and moral opposites to Superman and everything he stands for and I wish that more adaptations and media explore them in interesting and unique ways

Malcolm McDowell as Metallo is one of the best voice castings for a comic book character.

I love what they've done with Brainiac in My Adventures with Superman animated series season 2. He was Krypton's A.I. He thinks his role is to preserve the empire. He has that personal touch because he manipulates Super Girl because he saved her as a baby and raised her as his daughter.

Manchester Black is Superman most underrated villain. He challenges Superman philosophy which something no other villain does.

If Mr. Mxyztplk/Mxyzptlk (the spelling changes) is ever properly in live action instead of the low budget TV shows, they *have* to do him Who Framed Roger Rabbit style. The realistic old man in spandex always bugged me. The point of him was that he's a cartoon in a realistic world which enhances his outlandishness and antics.

For real it's the same problem they keep running into with Batman and Joker , with almost every live action Movie, live action TV show and Animated Series Lex Luthor always has to be immediately brought in , I mean at least with Superman and Lois they waited until the final season to bring Lex in which I don't mind you have to bring Lex in at some point same with Joker you can't just completely not ever use Joker like Lex but I want to see Superman and Batman's other smaller rogue gallery get love before bringing in Lex and Joker which is why I'm a little disappointed James Gunn is already immediately bringing in Lex like every other director has done because I was for sure he would wait to use Lex and bring in lesser smaller Superman villains in this movie, but I'll withhold judgement until I actually watch Superman (2025).

A Superman villain that I find super interesting. Conduit: Kenneth Braverman, born near the crash site on the same day and time Kal-el's ship crashed on Earth which caused the newborn to be eradicated by kryptonite energy, which caused him to have poor health in childhood but would later develop kryptonite powers. Since childhood Kenneth and Clark have been childhood rivals and Clark always managed to com out on top whether it was sports, Boy Scouts, or in love. Kenneth would have a deep hatred for Clark Kent and would eventually plan his revenge as the super powered mercenary Conduit.

I honestly I don't think Lex Luthor gets shoved down like Batman writers or DC in general does with Joker to where other heroes on Superman's rogue feel like they are getting slept on thanks to the Arch Enemy getting the spotlight. I wish Batman writers could take note of that.

My favorite is Brainiac. He makes more sense as Superman’s arch-nemesis. Especially with the origin of being the villain who blew up Krypton

The Bruce Timm universe needs to be used more for villian choices. They managed to make so many villians interesting, threatening, and different foils for superman to develop as a character.

Superman unironically has one of the most underrated rogue’s

That one promo image of Superman Legacy with Superman pulling his boot on looks like it has brainiac in the background

How do we still not have at the least a made for tv halloween movie special, Superman vs Silver Banshee. She has an iconic look that hasn't really changed. Her halloween special comics are really scary and fun. We need a Silver Banshee movie where we can see her scary ghost powers challenge Superman.

Mixy was in Supergirl which is indeed a live action tv show

Livewire was a character created for Superman the animated series that like Harley Quinn and Mercy Graves become so popular that they brought her in to comic book continuity so she hasn't been in any major stories

Superman possibly has the most overlooked and underrated rogues gallery in the history of comics. Lex Luthor; Zod; Brainiac; Bizarro; Pixy; Doomsday; Darkseid; Metallo (my favourite); Parasite; Cyborg Superman; etc

Toyman fascinates me. Especially the version where he just thinks it's all a game. No one's being hurt in Toyman's mind

Superman and Lois I thought had a great Bizarreo. I loved he white cracked skin, glowing blue eyes, backwards S and ripped cape. That was definitely Bizarreo.

Favourite Superman villain: Brainiac. He's like an alien Ultron and I love him. Plus, as Supergirl once said: "Lex Luthor represents the worst about humanity. Brainiac is the worst about aliens." It's like the perfect mirror to Superman's alien side. Also, to a lesser extent, Parasite, because I love the body horror involved and his ability to copy powers. And I also really like Metallo because cool Kryptonite-powered Terminator.

Bizarro has been adapted in many Superman shows: Superboy (1988-1992) he was basically Silver Age era Bizarro in this show. L&C The New Adventures of Superman (1993-1997) (although in that episode he never changed visually into the imperfect clone) Smallville (2001-20117) Superman & Lois (2021-) in that show their Bizarro eventually was turned into Doomsday

You guys should do a podcast! You have great chemistry

My favorites: Brainiac, Zod, Bizarro, Hank Henshaw/Cyborg Superman. Another one I really loved and seems to be forgotten about is Conduit (Kenny Braverman). As far as I can remember, I think he was only used in the comics once or twice but the storyline of him finding out Superman's identity and leaving the cryptic "I Know" messages for Clark and then the telling of his origin where he was a childhood friend that was jealous of Clark was excellent. Would love to see some version of that in live action. Check out the "The Death Of Clark Kent" storyline from 1995, it's really good.

I want to see Superman fight Metallo, or Parasite, Livewire, Brainac, or Toyman for a Superman movie.

Great job man

Here are some other rogues from the man of steel's adventures. -Ultra-Humanite: Superman's first villain, he was originally a frail human scientist who would later transplant his brain into other bodies until he got to the albino gorilla body we all know. -Microwave man: learned about this guy from casually comics, old man asking alien friends for super powers to prove said aliens friends exist. -Volcana: Pryokinetic woman who was created for the 90s Superman cartoon and does have a comic book appearance. -Galactic Golem: A weapon Lex made from science-fiction space matter and hyperstellar energy, it was powerful enough to Superman on the ropes when battling him. -Ignition: A cyborg conjured into existence by the Joker who had the powers of Mr.Mxyzptlk for a time. -Bruno Mannheim: The most known leader of Intergang and a devout worshiper of the religion of crime and servant of Darkeid.

My personal favorite Superman villain is Metallo, it's like, he's a terminator with a kryptonite heart who can hide his identity and it's the coolest thing, plus the whole thing about how he went insane because he can't feel is so interesting

Look Mr Mxyzptlk is the one chance we have for Danny Devito to be a supervillian. We need to take this shot while we can James

Brainiac is only from Krypton in the series, in comics, he usually is known for stealing the city of Kandor from Krypton which also connects him personally with Supergirl

6:13 I like the Supergirl origin for live wire where you know she was some radio jockey podcast type deal and while being saved by Supergirl Supergirl is hit with lightning or something electric while holding on to Leslie so the electric current pass through Supergirl and went right into Leslie so her powers kind of come from Supergirl in that iteration

I love Bizzaro honestly, just a reverse Superman and really odd character riding that line of Frankenstein's monster and a kid trying to figure the world out.

Livewire in My Adventures with Superman is so cool. I knew nothing about her before that show but they make her awesome

If Mr Myxzptlk was in live action, it’d have to be Wallace Michael Shawn or Danny Devito imo

Loved the video, definitely won a subscription from me

Mongul would be cool. The movie could be how he threatens Earth with War World and challenges Superman.

My favorite underrated Superman rogues are Parasite and Atomic Skull. But if we're talking just my favorite... Darseid is.

Bizarro is my favorite. He is good at heart but he doesn't know how to do good, he is such a menace but at the same he is indearing

Lex is my favourite character in comics because he’s a comic version of my favourite literary character (Milton’s Satan). But I feel like Braniac may work better in a comic setting.

Toyman could actually make a great villain in live action form. No one thought Polkadot Man was gonna be a great character in the suicide squad. And he became a fan favorite.

Bizarro is probably my favorite. As a kid I played some super man game and I can’t remember what it was exactly so my memory is foggy but you could play as Bizarro and I thought it was fun blowing shit up

My favorite Superman villain is Ultraman, tied between the antimatter and the more recent version from the Crime Syndicate mini series

If you want a good live action Bizarro, then you've got the show Superman and Lois. He's from another universe in said show, but he makes an excellent opponent/foil/character in relation to Superman

GREAT video, would like to read a good story superman and braniac

I would like to see this type of video for Wonder Woman, Aquaman and Green Lantern 👍

this channel is awesome

I’m loving this series! I would be thrilled to see a “Reverse Flash is not Flash’s only good villain.” Personally, he’s got a better rogues gallery than Superman. Some of the Rogues are so interesting, particularly Captain Cold, Mirror Master, and Captain Boomerang. Furthermore Gorilla Grodd is THE DC monkey. Also, so many of the speedster villains are overshadowed by Thawne, Zoom and Godspeed in particular.

Honestly kinda wild no one is talking about about lobo he’s so slept on

I feel like these guys would like my adventures with Superman and Superman and Lois

Yo is this footage from a fan game? This looks sick

No Hank Henshaw, Eradicate, Parasite, Tolman, Mongol, Lobo, The Elite/Manchester Black, Dominus, and Rolgol Zaar

My favorite Superman villains: 3: livewire 2: toyman 1: Lex Luther

Parasite is a underrated superman villain too he was great in the dcau