30 Days of Marvel: Day 11: Best villain
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fajrdrakoDay 11: Best villain
No doubt about it, there are many good villians at Marvel. In fact, some of my very favourite characters have sometimes been villains - Magneto, Emma Frost, Gambit, Rogue - and these days, in spectacular fashion, Loki. I won't say any of them, because in all cases, I like them better as heroes.
My favourite villain, who has never been anything but a villain? Norman Osborn, who started his life as a theatrically silly Spider-Man villain, throwing pumpkins and cackling in a green mask on a flying a skateboard. But he gained in gravitas as the years went by - especially when he killed Gwen Stacey, in one of the more moving comics of the day.
And then came Civil War and Dark Reign, and in the past decade, Norman Osborn has become an interesting and complicated character. Evil? Oh, yes, and nicely convincing.
It's all in the writing, oh yes.
No doubt about it, there are many good villians at Marvel. In fact, some of my very favourite characters have sometimes been villains - Magneto, Emma Frost, Gambit, Rogue - and these days, in spectacular fashion, Loki. I won't say any of them, because in all cases, I like them better as heroes.
My favourite villain, who has never been anything but a villain? Norman Osborn, who started his life as a theatrically silly Spider-Man villain, throwing pumpkins and cackling in a green mask on a flying a skateboard. But he gained in gravitas as the years went by - especially when he killed Gwen Stacey, in one of the more moving comics of the day.
And then came Civil War and Dark Reign, and in the past decade, Norman Osborn has become an interesting and complicated character. Evil? Oh, yes, and nicely convincing.
It's all in the writing, oh yes.
