History EvilIsCool / ComicBooks

---> '''[[WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers Le Tueur]]''': I have a confession to make: I only like the Batman because he has the best villains!

* ''{{ComicBook/Spawn}}: Some Spawn's recurring enemies have this like Violator,Disruptor,Sinn,Malebolgia,Freak,Curse,and many more.

** He has willpower strong enough to effortlessly resist commands from an extremely powerful mind controller (who was at that same time controlling ''everyone else on Earth''), has gone toe to toe with ''Celestials'', became a physical god and almost single-handedly saved the multiverse, and many other things, even more if you count his appearances in elseworlds. His life is a series of escalating [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome moments of awesome]], and is so confident and competent that many fans end up agreeing that the Fantastic Four should just go ahead and let him conquer the world, since he probably would succeed in making it the utopia he claims it could be. In fact, in at least one elseworld, that's exactly what happens.

* The titular character of ''ComicBook/{{Lucifer}}'' is a horrible, destructive person, but (likely in reference to ''Literature/ParadiseLost'') is incredibly awesome all the same.

* ComicBook/VandalSavage. An immortal supervillain who practically invented evil, has fought virtually every great superhero in DC's canon and lived to tell the tale, and makes every move with style. He is also an exceptional MagnificentBastard, willing to commit every form of crime (and probably already has throughout history), is on par with sadism with Victor Zsasz and the Joker, or all people, has an intellect matching that of Luthor and Ra's al Ghul, and manages to look menacing or otherwise badass in any outfit he wears. Who else could possibly make an 18th century Victorian outfit look cool in modern times?

%% * The titular character of ''ComicBook/{{Lucifer}}'' is a horrible, destructive person, but (likely in reference to ''Literature/ParadiseLost'') is incredibly awesome all the same.

** It doesn't matter whether he's a giggling, goofy clown prince of crime (e.g. the 60's ''Series/Batman1966'' television series), a mass-murdering sociopathic MonsterClown (e.g. ''Film/TheDarkKnight''), or a seemingly impossible mixture of the two (e.g. ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''), he will inevitably overshadow every other character, have all the best lines, and, while Batman will always have the best toys (he's the goddamn Batman, after all), the Joker will find the most creative and spectacular ways to use the tools at his disposal. No matter what he does or who he does it to, he ''will'' make you laugh, because of the simple fact that he's just that good.

** Torquemada is in the running for most evil villain in all fiction, but he's ''not'' a coward by any stretch of the imagination, tending to [[VillainousValor fight his much stronger foes like Nemesis hand to hand]]. When Nemesis ripped out his heart, Torquemada's undead body killed the monster that ate it and restored his soul through sheer willpower. Plus, [[http://villains.wikia.com/wiki/File:20120701-213153.jpg his menacing fashion sense]].

** Discussed in an issue of ''Batman: Black and White'', a short-story anthology. In this story, Batman and the Joker are actors playing their comic book roles as if they were roles in a movie. The Joker brings up the fact that Batman always gets to make a big, dramatic, splash-panel entrances, complaining that he never gets to look that good. Batman then points out that the Joker always gets the best lines, while he just has generic crime-fighting hero lines.

** It doesn't matter whether he's a giggling, goofy clown prince of crime (e.g. the 60's ''Series/{{Batman}}'' television series), a mass-murdering sociopathic MonsterClown (e.g. ''Film/TheDarkKnight''), or a seemingly impossible mixture of the two (e.g. ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''), he will inevitably overshadow every other character, have all the best lines, and, while Batman will always have the best toys (he's the goddamn Batman, after all), the Joker will find the most creative and spectacular ways to use the tools at his disposal. No matter what he does or who he does it to, he ''will'' make you laugh, because of the simple fact that he's just that good.

* ComicBook/TheJoker, in most incarnations. It doesn't matter whether he's a giggling, goofy clown prince of crime (e.g. the 60's ''Series/{{Batman}}'' television series), a mass-murdering sociopathic MonsterClown (e.g. ''Film/TheDarkKnight''), or a seemingly impossible mixture of the two (e.g. ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''), he will inevitably overshadow every other character, have all the best lines, and, while Batman will always have the best toys (he's the goddamn Batman, after all), the Joker will find the most creative and spectacular ways to use the tools at his disposal. No matter what he does or who he does it to, he ''will'' make you laugh, because of the simple fact that he's just that good.

* The titular character of ''ComicBook/{{Lucifer}}'' is a horrible, destructive person, but (likely in reference to ''Literature/ParadiseLost'') is incredibly awesome all the same.

* Bronies seem to really like the idea of [[spoiler:Rarity going evil]] in ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW'' given all the fanart Nightmare Moon II has gotten.

* ''ComicBook/NemesisTheWarlock'': Torquemada is in the running for most evil villain in all fiction, but he's ''not'' a coward by any stretch of the imagination, tending to [[VillainousValor fight his much stronger foes like Nemesis hand to hand]]. When Nemesis ripped out his heart, Torquemada's undead body killed the monster that ate it and restored his soul through sheer willpower. Plus, [[http://villains.wikia.com/wiki/File:20120701-213153.jpg his menacing fashion sense]].

* Comicbook/{{Daredevil}} villain Bullseye; even if he's a PsychoForHire, he still has enough style that it's gained him many fans.

* Archangel from the X-Men. He's the SuperPoweredEvilSide of Angel, whose power is... [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway flight]] and decent (not great) healing. Archangel has metal retractable wings which are dipped in poison and can be launched. Said wings are also razor sharp. Also, Archangel just looks cool. Needless to say, ''a lot'' of fans prefer Archangel.

** ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' in general is a magnet for this. When your main character is a traumatized billionaire dressed as a bat and you have villains drawing your attention far away from ''that'', it really says something.

* ''ComicBook/BlackMoonChronicles'': Make no mistakes about it, Haazheel Thorn is pure evil, but there's something to be said for an archmage who had enough will of mind to build an entire religon around himself, effortlessly slaps around giant demons, has a succubi harem, can resurrect people from the dead, transforms into either a hulking behemoth or a four-armed {{Kaiju}} monster, and lives in a fantasy moonbase.

* ''ComicBook/LokiAgentOfAsgard'': [[spoiler:Old!]]Loki, evil dick though he may be, is definitely considered cool. The fact that in his first full outing they successfully manipulated history itself and got away with it might be a factor.

* ''ComicBook/LokiAgentOfAsgard'': [[spoiler:Old!]]Loki, evil dick though they may be, is definitely considered cool. The fact that in their first full outing they successfully manipulated history itself and got away with it might be a factor.

* The titular character of ''ComicBook/{{Lucifer}}'' is a horrible, destructive person, but (likely in reference to ''Literature/ParadiseLost'' below) is incredibly awesome all the same.

* ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}. He's a badass that can go to head to head with Superman, and on occasions has beaten him. But he's also a {{Chessmaster}} that rules over an entire planet and can come up with schemes that leave the universe trembling before he even bothers to get off his throne.