Top 5 Villains I Identify With
Inspired by facebook’s Living Social which I am unabashedly addicted to. What is it about lists and making lists and having pictures to go along with those lists and being able to comment on lists that just brings out the best/worst in people. I’m always amazed at the instant camaraderie when someone agrees with your list or the instant irritation when they don’t. Case in point, a list revealed that a friend of mine doesn’t like pancakes. THE HELL? Who doesn’t like pancakes! So of course, being a good facebook user I gave her a public flogging.
Anyway, here’s my list of Top 5 Villains I Identify With:
I chose villains because the best villains have motivations that we all can get behind. How they carry out those motivations, usually involving carnage, we don’t agree with but we can totally get why they would want to. My favorite villains are the ones who do it because they are trying to set things right, just like the hero. Ultimately, it is both the hero’s and the villain’s burden to make the decision to act, to suffer the consequences.
Villain #1 – Poison Ivy I don’t really love plants. I mean, they are nice and all but they bring bees, require “tending” and usually mean a trip to Lowe’s which… *barf* However, I do have a child (ren – well almost!). So I know the feeling of wanting to protect him at all costs. Of believing that this world needs to treat him kindly.
Villain #2 – Magneto Say what you will about his choice of headwear but this mutant understands something that X has yet to figure out. “Peaceful assimilation”? Yeah, that’s an oxymoron.
Villain #3 – Ramona Flowers’ Exes (sorry couldn’t find any decent pictures of the exes) Technically this is a crop of villains but I relate to them all. I think at one point we’ve all wanted to bust the head of the ex-girlfriend/boyfriend’s new flame.
Villain #4 – Alex Wilder I love my mom and dad.
Villain #5 – The Joker Yes, he’s bat**** crazy. He 
treats his decision to commit homicide as lightly as picking out ice cream flavors but come on. Who hasn’t wanted to skip raging against the machine and just work on making the machine pay?
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Yep! Reverse Flash! Everything on the Flash’s costume that was red, was yellow on Reverse Flash’s costume. The Flash costume’s yellow accents were red on the bad guy’s clothing.I was never crazy about this particular villain, but he certainly had his fans.
Just to show you what a nerd I was (and am), when I was growing up, I loved tops. I used to pretend to be Flash’s nemesis, The Top, running down my drive way, throwing a top, pretending to unleash all kinds of mayhem on The Flash. How a guy throwing tops (even super, specialized, deadly tops) could keep up with the Fastest Man Alive, is beyond me. But we’re talking about a superhero comic book, which already asks for a big willing suspension of disbelief.
Now, as to why I played the villian, and not the hero; I’ll leave that to your analysis. 
I love super vilians! Across the comic book universe, I would have to say The Flash has the best rogues’ gallery: Captain Cold, The Trickster, Abracadabra, Mirror Master, The Top, Reverse Flash. I don’t know why this superhero had such a good cast of enemies, but he did.