Politically Incorrect Villain / Comic Books

Politically Incorrect Villains in comic books.

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• Animal Man:
  • "Hour of the Beast" in Grant Morrison's run has Mr. Van de Voort, a racist who takes sadistic pleasure in tormenting Dominic Mndawe after holding him prisoner.
  • In Tom Veitch's run, the Penalizer uses the slur "dinks" when reminiscing on the soldiers he killed in Vietnam.
• Astro City:
  • While Evil Sorcerer Infidel isn't at the level of a Straw Misogynist, he does feel that women are inferior, and that treating them as equal to men is folly.
  • Then there's Dr. Aegyptus, who kidnapped dozens of African-American folks and planned to use time-travel to take them back to before the American Revolutionary War and sell them into slavery.
  • In "Where the Action Is", Manny Monkton publishes a story that said the villain Glowworm was a white supremacist with a scheme to exploit the black teens of the city. Unbeknownst to Manny, Glowworm is African-American, and really resents the implication...
  • The Lawmen are a group of hooded supremacists who attacked a gay pride parade.
  • Dr. Gearbox was a Gadgeteer Genius who refused to allow his daughter follow in his footsteps because he believed that engineering and math were inappropriate fields for girls.
  • Earthpride is a hate group of former white supremacists who've extended their bigotry to aliens.
  • The Master was a Long-Lived evil mastermind who rejoiced in hatred and fed on people's suffering and misery.
• The Authority:
  • If somebody says anything even remotely homophobic in Midnighter's comic book series, they're evil. Period. The sole exception is Kev, who in the end admits to himself that he repeats homophobic slurs because he got his idea how tough guys should act from TV and movies.
  • Seth's status as a laundry list of rural stereotypes evidently includes being homophobic and racist, as he mocks Midnighter and Apollo for being gay and at one point says the N-word while stereotyping black people as "purse-snatchers" when he talks down to Jack Hawksmoor.
  • The G7 version of the Authority gives us the Colonel, who fits this trope to a T. He's a repugnant misogynistic asshole and damn proud of it, and he attempts to rape his teammate Rush when she makes it clear that she isn't attracted to men. Then there's Last Call, a reactionary homophobe who at one point severely beats a captured and depowered Apollo while taunting him over the unlikelihood that Midnighter survived Seth's attack on the Authority.
  • The Renegade Doctor downplays the fact that he killed 12 million people the last time he had his powers by dismissing that most of his victims were "Sambos", addresses Apollo and Midnighter using homophobic slurs, and goes back in time to sexually assault the Engineer when she was a teenager — and the first thing he does when he gets back is to engage in a Post-Rape Taunt.
  • A Corrupted Character Copy of Nick Fury who Jack Hawksmoor deals with during Mark Millar's first arc is openly and proudly racist and xenophobic.
    Soldier: Feels kinda weird torching civilians.
    Nick Fury Expy: Civilians are civilized, soldier. These people are French. As much as I hate Mexicans, Asians and Blacks, no racial group boils my blood more than these sweaty, horse-eating yahoos.
  • The villain of the "Godhead" arc of Robbie Morrison's run is John Clay, an actor who founds a religious movement called the Church of Transcendence. His plan involves wiping out proponents of other religions and attempting to cure Apollo and Midnighter's homosexuality.
  • The Authority: Revolution has the Sons of Liberty (a band of nationalistic reactionaries whose member Johnny Rocketman even refers to the Chinese Swift with racial slurs) and Henry Bendix's henchman Samson (who calls Apollo a certain homophobic slur that rhymes with "maggot").
• The Avengers: Longtime foe Eric Williams, more infamously known as The Grim Reaper, once reformed his "Lethal Legion" criminal organization in a revenge effort against the Vision and his brother Simon (a.k.a. Wonder Man). Counted among them was the Wakandan M'Baku, also known as the Man-Ape. In an early issue of West Coast Avengers, the Reaper violently lashed out at M'Baku, calling him a "black savage", and telling him to "get his stinking gorilla costume out of here!", punctuating his invective with a blast from his energy scythe. What sparked this raging outburst? Man-Ape coming to deliver a status report. Ironically, Williams' lover Nekra, an albino, but nevertheless African American by birth woman, was right by his side and witnessed the entire incident. The Reaper handwaved the seeming hypocrisy by stating that Nekra's pure white skin made her Caucasian in his eyes, and that seemed to satisfy her. But the Reaper got his in the end when both Man-Ape and the Black Talon, another Legion member who was of Creole descent, abandoned Williams and his revenge quest during the climactic battle with the Avengers.
• Batman:
  • In Batman: Heart of Hush, Hush seems to have a misogynistic and classist streak, calling Zatanna a "filthy gypsy" and Selina a "common gutterslut". This could possibly be explained by his issues with his mother, a smothering, snobby woman.
  • The Batman of Arkham has its incarnation of Jonathan Crane depicted as ableist and sexist by showing contempt towards Bruce Wayne's policies of treating Arkham Asylum's inmates with compassion to help cure them of their mental illnesses and dismissing Pamela Isley's complaints about how women are treated as proof that she is insane. This is largely due to Deliberate Values Dissonance from the story taking place during the early 20th century.
  • The Batman '66 story "Showdown with Shame" has Shame, a villain from the live-action show the comic is a tie-in for with the gimmick of acting like a Wild West outlaw, complain when his Native American henchman Thunderhawk breaks out of Tonto Talk to speak more eloquently.
  • The antagonists of Batman: Holy Terror are a cabal of religious extremists called the Star Chamber, whose crimes include subjecting homosexuals to conversion therapy and rampant Antisemitism.
  • Montenegro from Batman/Houdini: The Devil's Workshop is shown to be a misogynist, and he addresses Harry Houdini (who is Jewish) using the K-word.
  • In Batman: Dark Allegiances, Caldecott Pewtie, Milton Biggsley and Reverend Jones (this continuity's versions of Two-Face, the Penguin and the Joker) are affiliated with the White Legion, a stand-in for the Ku Klux Klan.
• Blade: Deacon Frost, the man who bit Blade's mother and caused Blade himself to become a dhampyr as a result, once expresses the belief if he hadn't bit Blade's mom, Blade himself would likely be dead or in jail. A doppelganger at one point even dons a Confederate uniform.
• Blueberry: The comic book is set on the American frontier at the height of the wars with western Native Americans tribes. As a result, this pops up regularly.
  • The original story arc is a war with the Apache Nation that happens almost entirely because of this trope. Major Bascom, a U.S. Cavalry officer with a raging prejudice against all Indians, kicks off the war by attacking an Apache convoy in retaliation for a recent Indian raid (committed by an unrelated tribe), then guarantees it will continue by trying to kidnap all the Apache chieftains after they'd come to negotiate under a flag of truce. Bascom dies early in the story arc, at which point the Big Bad role is taken up by Qanah Lone Eagle, an Apache chieftain and Knight Templar with a similar racial hatred of whites, who works against Blueberry and his friends' attempts to end the war.
  • The next story arc gives us General Allister, who re-starts the war with the Sioux despite a truce having been brokered. In this case, it's equal parts the usual prejudice against Indians, and a Glory Hound desire to make a name for himself as a war hero.
• The Boys: Most of the superpowered people in the Boys universe are either racist, misogynistic or homophobic just to drive home how screwed up they are.
  • Teenage Kix has two teammates consisting of an African-American named Shout Out and an Irish bloke named Blarney Cock. The former doesn't like Irish people and the latter is racist towards black people, to the point that early on Shout Out calls Blarney Cock a "mick" and Blarney Cock retorts by calling Shout Out a racial slur that rhymes with "moon".
  • The Homelander, a twisted Superman Substitute, is a ginormous racist, as well as a misogynist and a rapist. In two separate issues he shouts a racial epithet just before (or just after) killing a minority villain. A flashback even shows him calling The Deep the N-word.
  • Swingwing only pretends to support gay rights for PR purposes and is such a homophobe that he kills a man who confesses to being attracted to him by shoving him off a roof to his demise.
  • Various members of the G-Men are shown to be bigoted, with Five-Oh demonstrating misogyny by calling deceased teammate Silver Kincaid a "prick-teasting bitch", Critter mocking Divine and Flamer using homophobic slurs, both Five-Oh and Critter being racist towards the two African-American spinoff teams G-Coast and G-Style and G-Wiz being a bunch of frat boys who occasionally harass the Seven by prank calling them and addressing them with homophobic slurs.
  • Near the end of the Herogasm miniseries, government agent Godfrey shoots Michael Lucero while calling him a "spic".
  • The Captain Marvel/Thor knock-off, Stormfront, who is an actual Nazi and is mentioned to sponsor numerous white supremacist causes and militias worldwide, in addition to addressing The Female and Mother's Milk using racial slurs. (That Stormfront is also the name of a real-life Neo-Nazi and white supremacist group should be a clue that the character isn't a big fan of diversity.)
  • Malchemical is a misogynist rapist and is also ableist, as he insults the members of Superduper for having special needs and even goes as far as to call them the R-word.
  • During the arc "The Big Ride", Seven member Jack from Jupiter uses transphobic slurs in reference to the transgender prostitutes he hires to anally penetrate him and uses racial slurs towards Shout Out and The Deep during his meltdown in response to facing expulsion from the Seven.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
  • The Swell are highly misogynistic, what with Slayers being their main enemies.
  • Genevieve does not consider anyone who is not nobility to be worth her time and considers anyone from the "colonies" to be worth even less.
  • Dracula refers to Japanese vampires as "filthy yellow swine" and calls Renée "Xander's moor". However, he is portrayed as simply politically incorrect, without malice behind it, his attitudes being mainly a result of extraordinary age.
• A lot of Captain America villains are like this. Besides the Red Skull, there's Arnim Zola, Crossbones, Baron Heinrich Zemo, and Hydra in general. (Hell, on the cover of the hero's first appearance, he was shown punching Hitler himself in the face, even though that never happened.) This is because Captain America's career as a costumed hero began during World War II. There exists more than one cover featuring Cap punching out Hitler or (a racist caricature of) General Tojo. The man was used to sell War Bonds, after all.
  • When first introduced, the Red Skull was indeed a Nazi agent, but was written more as an "enemy of America" than a "Nazi" per se. Over time, however, he has been given more and more racist and eugenic dialogue, making him the rare Marvel villain who became less sympathetic over time. This trend peaked in the late 1980s, when he was portrayed as a lunatic anarcho-capitalist who was explicitly too evil for the Nazis, and then reversed somewhat; now, he is (for the most part) "merely" a Nazi again.
  • One script during Mark Waid's run of Captain America was written from the Red Skull's POV and contained a number of racial slurs. The racially charged comments (among other things) were heavily edited out of the published issue, with the final issue being so radically different that Waid asked his name be taken off the credits. The issue's original script built up to a scene where the Skull, in a roundabout way, equates Cap to Hitler himself. Link here.
  • This massively backfired on the Skull during the Crisis Crossover Acts of Vengeance. Loki was trying to organize a big supervillain team-up to take down the superheroes once and for all. This sounds good on paper, but he proceeded to invite Skull to the group, who is despised by most other villains. This put the Red Skull (who is, again, a Nazi) in the same room as Magneto (a Jewish Holocaust survivor), Doctor Doom (of Romani descent and deeply hates bigotry), the Mandarin (Chinese), the Kingpin (a lover of capitalism who also hates bigotry), and the Wizard (who doesn't have any real ideology but still didn't want anything to do with Skull). Needless to say, the day wasn't even over before the whole plan collapsed in on itself due to in-fighting. The whole thing ended with Magneto burying Skull alive.
  • Averted by the even more evil Ultimate Red Skull, who seems to have lost all his racial supremacist connotations, given that's he's worked for dictators and terrorists of every possible color and creed. He believes in true equality: he wants to kill EVERYONE.
  • It's not uncommon for the Red Skull and others in Hydra to voice their racist views; they are noticeably non-sexist, however, and women such as Madame Hydra/Viper and the Red Skull's own daughter Sin can achieve major positions in the organization.
  • Then there's William Burnside, the Captain America of the 1950s. Politically conservative to begin with, a combination of the established mental degeneration brought on by the replica versions of the Captain America formula and the culture shock of being brought from 1950s to 2000s sent him over the edge; to him, modern America is a Bad Present and he is so desperate to forcibly restore the "true and correct way" that he will work with many of Cap's right-wing-leaning villains, such as the Right-Wing Militia Fanatic organization the Watchdogs and even the Red Skull, to pursue his goals.
• Captain Gravity: Jaeger, the Big Bad of the first four books, is a Nazi who doesn't have a very high opinion of either Jewish people or black people.
• In Circles, Carter Allen holds a meeting with the entire neighborhood and doesn't invite Paulie and the others because he wants to discuss what to do about them. He doesn't want to live near "fags" in his neighborhood.
• Champions: In Champions (2016), the team ends up dealing with a small-town sheriff who was heavily bigoted and (unknown to most people) was actually inspiring various hate crimes by causing them. Gwenpool drops in and attempts to reveal that there's no way someone could be this bigoted without supervillain assistance because this is a comic book, but Kamala Khan attempts to get through the girl's skull that people can be bigoted without supervillain influence.
• In Crimson, the Knights Templar practice Fantastic Racism and Van Helsing Hate Crimes, not only persecuting supernatural monsters whether they are evil or not as well as getting innocents killed in their crusade. However, their leader Barnebau D'Orense verges into this territory by throwing misogynistic remarks towards a female main character, promising that he will make a "breeding slut" out of her to his lesser knights, and that is if she is lucky. He is also vaguely implied to be racist too, since he expresses surprise that their champion Saint George was reincarnated as a black man.
• Implied with Mr. Mxyzptlk's son Mickey Mxyzptlk in Dark Crisis: World Without Young Justice. He's a reactionary Straw Fan character, who not only wants Bart Allen, Conner Kent and Tim Drake to be recognised as the teen heroes again, but he wants them to act exactly the way they did in the nineties. At one point, his fake Batman tells Tim that he's "supposed" to be with Cassie Sandsmark (who was once his main love interest), and Bernard Dowd (his boyfriend established after he came out as bisexual) is just a phase, and at another he rants about all the new characters he doesn't care about and claims have no right to be here, all of them being some minority (including the lesbian Batwoman Katherine Kane, the Hispanic Wonder Girl Yara Flor, the African-American Batman Jace Fox and the Golden Age Green Lantern Alan Scott, who was established to be gay like his son Obsidian and his Earth 2 counterpart at the time). In addition, he demonstrates a flagrantly misogynist attitude towards Cassie Sandsmark.
• In the 2005 graphic novel of The Dead Boy Detectives by Jill Thompson, one of the bullies at the all-girls school insults the German Frederika's Funetik Aksent by remarking that she should learn to speak English properly before attending the school.
• Doom Patrol: Mr. Jones in Grant Morrison's run is a Knight Templar towards maintaining normalcy and wants Danny the Street destroyed because of the sentient street not conforming to what he views as normal, especially seeing Danny's window displays using feminine decorations as an affront.
  Mr. Jones: Gentlemen, this street is a shameless transvestite!
• Dracula (Marvel Comics): Dracula himself is more than a bit of a sexist. He frequently compares men that he views as wimpy or spineless to women. Frank Drake was often the target of such insults. He also refers to Blade as a "savage" upon their first meeting, and addresses Blade as "Black" instead of by his name on some occasions. In Dracula's own defense, he has a healthy respect for Blade and in a later series compares him to a Moor General who he once fought — 'Moor' being another of those outdated terms to refer to non-Caucasians that appear racist to modern readers.

  • In Captain Britain and MI13, Dracula is depicted as a virulent anti-Muslim bigot, which Doctor Doom mocks him for — Doom derides racism, but from a 'mystically created viral package' like Dracula, it's almost funny. May be justified if you identify Dracula with the historical Vlad III Dracula, who fought many wars against the Ottoman Empire. (In the Marvel Universe, this is explicitly the case.)

• Fantastic Four:
  • Writers who don't like presenting Doctor Doom as a Noble Demon will sometimes make him more unsympathetic by having him voice racist and sexist sentiments. This is at odds with Doom's more frequent characterization as having meritocratic views (believing not that all people are equal, but that the elite can come from any background), and specifically loathing ethnic bigotry on account of his Roma ancestry — or else being equally contemptuous of everyone else on account of his ego. Fans tend to conclude that bigoted Dooms were actually malfunctioning Doombots.
    • There was also one instance where a younger Doom used phrenology to insult Ben Grimm. This is more in character for Doom, considering his disdain for anyone that he considers intellectually inferior (though you'd think that Doom, being a brilliant scientist, would know better than to believe in such a discredited science as phrenology).
  • The Wizard became a mild chauvinist after the several failed attempts to find a permanent fourth member for the Frightful Four. He reasoned that because the fourth member was frequently female, that must be the problem. (Of course, he was only making excuses. Medusa was the original fourth member, but only because she had amnesia, and the Wizard foolishly tried to recruit her twice more, but she was no longer a villain, and she only did so both times to double-cross them. Thundra was a mole too, who was the fourth member right after Medusa. And just for the record, the Frightful Four has gone through a lot of fourth members that ended in disasters. In short, male or female, the Wizard's judgment in who he worked with was incredibly poor, he just wanted to blame someone other than himself.)
  • The current trope picture is the Hate-Monger, a villain first fought by the Four and then by Captain America. He not only encourages bigoty, he's the mind of Adolf Hitler himself possessing clone bodies.
• The Flash:
  • Captain Boomerang made a number of racist and sexist remarks during his time on Suicide Squad. Shortly after his death in Identity Crisis, it was implied he also made a number of homophobic remarks to the openly gay Pied Piper.
  • The Trickster was also homophobic to Pied Piper in Countdown to Final Crisis. What makes this baffling to many fans was he wasn't like that before and in fact was the one who implied that Captain Boomerang made similar remarks, wondering why the hell Pied Piper was mourning him.
  • Dr. Alchemy's guest-appearance in Gotham Central has him hurling sexist, racist, and homophobic remarks at almost every character he meets. Although there is the implication that he does not really believe any of the hateful rhetoric he says, instead saying it all just to mess with people. (His whole scene is an extended The Silence of the Lambs Shout-Out with him as a Hannibal Lector-Expy.
• Frank Miller's RoboCop sees the Rehabs emulate stereotypes of Native Americans while torturing an officer in the climax.
• Ghostbusters: Crossing Over has a ghost that insults Handicapped Badass Garrett Miller, from the Extreme Ghostbusters.
  Hungry Manitou: Because you're a fool. An insecure fool who pretends to take pride at being half a man. Laughing off the fact that stairs can defeat you.
  [as Eduardo] We gotta constantly watch to make sure your proton stream didn't knock over your chair.
  [as Roland] You don't bring much to the table besides getting us better parking spots. You're useless.
• The 2012 annual issue of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (IDW) featured a rogue Crimson Guardsman named Ted Bergendorf as the villain. Ted is shown to be very xenophobic, despising immigrants and blaming them for all the good-paying jobs being taken.
• The most defining characteristic of Hugo Von Schwatzenburg, a German officer and the only named villain in the World War I serial "Golden Eyes" and Her Hero "Bill", has got to be his misogyny. Within moments of seeing a battered and frightened American heroine Golden Eyes lost in the woods, he formulates a plan to capture and seduce her, believing that she'll forget he's keeping her as a prisoner of war and instantly fall in love with him- because she'll "worship his 'SUPER'-mannishness" [sic]. The most concentrated dose of this characterization arrives in Von Schwatzenburg's POV installment and immediately following the revelation that Golden Eyes has stolen his communiques and ferried them off to the American side, whereupon he descends into a frothing rage and describes Americans as "the hated who 'honored their women and did not understand that they were servants and slaves and dolls!'"
• Green Lantern:
  • John Stewart's debut had him and Hal Jordan clash with a racist senator with Presidential ambitions named Jeremiah Clutcher, who refers to black people as "darkies" and claims that it's a scientific fact their brains are inferior to those of white people.
  • Volume three, issue 93 has Deadman possess Kyle Rayner to confront a homophobic and misogynistic serial killer who is targeting lesbians due to believing them to be stealing women from men and blaming them for his ex-girlfriend leaving him.
  • Judd Winick's run had a two-part story titled "Hate Crime", where Kyle's openly gay friend Terry Berg is beaten within an inch of his life by a bunch of homophobic punks who saw him kissing his boyfriend David.
  • Frank Laminski is established to be a racist jerk, with the "Secret Origins" arc of Geoff Johns' run that chronicled an updated version of Hal Jordan's origin having Laminski's introduction include him calling Thomas Kalmaku his infamous "Pieface" nickname (and getting called out for it to reflect the changed sensibilities of the time) and the subsequent "Phantom Lantern" arc of Green Lanterns having him resent the Muslim Simon Baz and Hispanic Jessica Cruz for being recruited into the Green Lantern Corps instead of him.
• Jem and the Holograms (IDW):
  • Misfits member Jetta has called both the Misfits' manager Eric Raymond and Jerrica's boyfriend Rio the homophobic slur of "ponce".
  • Minx of the Raptures shares her original cartoon counterpart's xenophobic sentiment towards Americans.
• JLA (1997):
  • In the "World War III" arc that concluded Grant Morrison's run, Prometheus refers to Barbara Gordon as a "ragdoll crip" when she rejects his offer of restoring the use of her legs in exchange for helping him destroy the Justice League.
  • The "Syndicate Rules" arc of Kurt Busiek's run(dealing with the aftermath of JLA/Avengers) had the Crime Syndicate's Flash counterpart Johnny Quick twice demonstrate that he is a racist. The first time, before the CSA's siege on Qward and Krona destroying the antimatter universe, Johnny Quick boasted about defeating a Chinese rebellion and was in the middle of calling the people "yellow" when Owlman started beating the crap out of him (as he'd been funding the rebellion to ultimately relieve the CSA's boredom). The second time, after the universe is restored with some changes, Quick called Power Ring, who was Race Lifted into a John Stewart counterpart by what happened, "Black Power Ring", much to Power Ring's chagrin.
• Kid Eternity: Issue four of the 1993 ongoing had a white supremacist punk named Jimmy try to harass a black woman out of town for having a mixed race child due to believing that interracial relations poisoned white blood. Kid Eternity stops him by possessing him and disabusing him of his racist notions.
• Largo Winch: Multiple times, particularly with the villains of the Burma and China story arcs.
  • In the former case we have General Mah Win, the head of the Burmese secret police. He tries to use Largo and several of his friends as pawns in a cloak-and-dagger scheme whose ultimate goal is to find the location of the Shanh rebel leadership, allowing him to wipe them all out in one strike and ending all hopes for resistance by the persecuted minority.
  • In the latter case, Captain Wong, an officer of the People's Liberation Army stationed in Tibet. The story shows us flashbacks to Largo's travels through the region in his youth, during which the violence by the Chinese against the occupied Tibetan population is on full display. The main story arc in the present day mostly steers away from this, revolving around a more ordinary scheme by one of Largo's Chinese competitors to take over his corporation. However, Wong still returns as The Dragon for the story's main villain.
  • Given the nature of the series, the prejudice that recurs the most often is actually class prejudice. In the ultra-wealthy circles Largo moves in, people tend to have very little time for the plebs, be it their employees or the public in general. Largo himself runs into this attitude repeatedly: many resent the fact that Nerio Winch chose to raise a common orphan (in secret) as his heir instead of trusting his cartel to one of them; the phrase "Yugoslav peasant" is used liberally. (Nerio himself was hardly free of such prejudices, which was one of the many points of contention between them during Largo's childhood and youth).
  • Subverted in one of the later story arcs, where Largo seems to have stumbled into a conflict between an imam leading a jihadist network and a CIA operation led by a rogue officer with no shortage of sexist and islamophobic attitudes. While they really are what they appear to be, they're also both crooks who don't really care about their respective causes, and are being manipulated by one of Largo's rivals in yet another plot to take control of his company.
• Variant in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, the Big Bad of the first book is depicted as a homophobe just to bump up his villain credentials (despite the fact that this would have hardly made him unusual in the Victorian era). Likewise, in the third volume, the more misogynistic qualities of James Bond and the more reactionary qualities of Bulldog Drummond are played up.
• Legion of Super-Heroes: The Justice League of Earth are little more than human supremacists who display appalling levels of bigotry towards aliens and even have some Nazi-esque undertones.
• Whether he's presented as a violent Anti-Hero parody or a snarky bad guy, Lobo is presented as misogynist and a pervert in the same way guys like Archie Bunker are, because it's funny and he's not the type of guy fans are supposed to emulate. He's made lewd comments to most of DC's power players and in one story, ripped Starfire's top off as "payment for services".
• The villain of the Lucky Luke album "A Cowboy in High Cotton", set in reconstruction-era Lousiana as Luke has inherited a cotton plantation there, is Quincy Quarterhouse, who's a rich, racist Jerkass, former slave owner and Grand Wizard of the KKK.
• Another Marvel villain named the Mandrill (who has fought Shanna the She-Devil, The Thing, Daredevil, and many other heroes) has the mutant power to control women using pheromones. He doesn't even try to deny that he's a misogynist, and has often used his female brainwashed henchmen as Sex Slaves.
• The world of Marshal Law is home to several rapists with superpowers. Also, the Public Spirit goes on a homophobic rant during his fight with Marshal Law, the revived Golden Age heroes attack everyone who looks Asian or German, and the Persecutor is a Nazi.
• One of the many, many infamous aspects of Marville was that the miniseries featured unflattering depictions of Iron Man, Black Panther and a Lawyer-Friendly Cameo of Batman where they are mean-spirited lunatics who use superheroics as an excuse to beat up poor people. Iron Man also shows signs of racism by making a derogatory statement about Mexicans and almost saying the N-word before Black Panther cuts him off.
• Milestone Comics
  • Blood Syndicate:
    • Holocaust is a bloodthirsty criminal who fights the Hispanic Tech-9 for the position of leader of the titular team in the second issue, where he calls Tech-9 a "spic". In his spinoff miniseries My Name is Holocaust, he also demonstrates misogynist tendencies and calls Bad Betty a "dyke".
    • The Wise Son: The White Wolf spinoff miniseries has Wise Son fight a group of Neo-Nazis called the Children of the Ivory Fist.
  • Static:
    • Static's enemy Hotstreak is a racist, frequently calling the African-American hero a "monkey". He's later shown in the "What Are Little Boys Made Of" arc to be affiliated with a white supremacist group called the Sons of Odin, where he's also shown to be homophobic and calls Static the N-word. The Milestone Forever miniseries serving as a belated conclusion to the Dakotaverse, where he changes his codename to Firewheel, also has him go full Neo-Nazi by speaking negatively of Jews as well as gay people and black people.
    • The "Louder Than a Bomb" arc has Static fight a terrorist with the power to turn whatever he touches into an explosive named Commando X, who makes several antisemitic remarks and plots to kill everyone who isn't black.
    • In addition to the Sons of Odin being more prominent, "What Are Little Boys Made Of" begins with Virgil Hawkins' friend Rick Stone being beaten by some crooks for being gay, who also call Static the N-word when he intervenes.
  • Hardware (1993):
    • During the "Hunt for Deathwish" arc, the villain Cyber-Bwana calls Hardware the N-word.
    • Near the end of the series, Hardware faces a pair of siblings skilled in surgery named Post-Mortem and Autopsy, who enslave immigrants (mostly Korean ones) to work in a sweatshop and kill those unable to keep working to harvest their organs. Post-Mortem at one point even refers to a family of Korean immigrants as "slants".
  • The "Blood Reign" arc of Icon has Milton St. Cloud refer to Holocaust using the N-word, which nearly gets him fried in retaliation.
• Millennium (1988) features a South African white supremacist named Janwillem Kroef as an antagonist.
• In Miracleman, Johnny Bates, after gruesomely murdering or mutilating half the population of London, still takes a second to Kick the Dog by calling the African-American pyrokinetic hero Huey Moon a "nigger". He also refers to Miracleman as a "fairy".
• The New Guardians featured the titular team of Captain Ethnics going up against the Hemo-Goblin, a white supremacist vampire who went around giving black people AIDS created by a racist South African Nebulous Evil Organization. By Contrived Coincidence he manages to infect the team's token black and token gay before succumbing to the disease himself, killing the former.
• Preacher:
  • One of the first obstacles faced by Jesse Custer and friends on their journey is Sheriff Hugo Root, an unabashed bigot and conspiracy theorist who likes to make homophobic remarks and ramble about the threat of "Martian niggers".
  • During one of his rants, the villain Herr Starr refers to Irish vampire Cassidy as "an unkillable mick".
  • Odin Quincannon, the antagonist of the "Salvation" arc, is incredibly racist, so much so that even The Klan are annoyed by his apparent inability to talk about anything besides how much he hates black people.
• Prez (1973): Senator Ebeneezer derides Prez Rickard's Native American companion Eagle Free as a "young savage".
• The Punisher MAX:
  • Just in case you missed the memo that the clique of generals in "Valley Forge, Valley Forge" arc were evil (we're talking about a group who maintained their own secret jihadists to throw a plane at Moscow and try to weaponize a flesh-eating virus), one of them learns the initial attack on Frank was unsuccessful, flips out and insults the man in charge of the attack (who is totally-not-Morgan Freeman).
  • The Heavy, the MAX version of Punisher's archnemesis Jigsaw, was very racist and misogynistic, referring to Mexican women as "spic bitches," "coozes," and "whores" nearly every time he opens his mouth.
  • The Punisher: Born has Coltrane, the resident drug dealer of Firebase Valley Forge, who is both racist and homophobic, his first line in the series calling Angel, the black friend of Stevie Goodwin, a "jungle bunny". His final scene has him taunting Stevie about Angel, who had just gotten his head blown off by the NVA, as he's trying to kill him for messing up his drug business in order to get Angel out of it, and explicitly uses the N-word. Coltrane promptly gets brained by Castle with a sharpened shovel for his trouble.
• Robin (1993): Edmund Dorrance/King Snake, who was the closest thing Tim had to an archenemy before Edmund's son Bane tracked Edmund down and killed him, was a racist, sexist, fascist drug lord who fantasized about the "good old days" of colonialism and chattel slavery. He tried to slaughter the populace of Hong Kong rather than let it be returned to China, believing that everything great about the city came by way of Britain.
• Otto von Todt in Requiem Vampire Knight was a Nazi before he became a vampire and on top of being a bloodthirsty sadist, he still very much retains his anti-Semitic sentiments, specially towards Rebecca, one of his Jewish victims killed in a concentration camp whom he refers to as "Jewess" in a derogatory manner. He also keeps the heads of his victims on his wall as trophies and says that is the only part of a Jew that will be welcome in his house.
• Runaways:
  • The recurring Marvel villain Swarm is, to quote Runaways, "A super-Nazi... made of bees" (My God). In his appearance in the comic, he takes the time to ask Victor which of the "mongrel races" he belongs to during their fight — Vic's mom was Mexican, his dad Ultron. You'd think someone made out of bees would be open minded.
  • Played with in an arc where the kids are sent back in time to 1907. While the villains naturally make racial slurs towards Nico for being of Japanese descent, even more sympathetic characters like Tristan, Lillie, and Klara express racist views.
• In The Secret Service, James Arnold gives horribly offensive nicknames for his disabled henchmen. For example, his Dragon with leg prosthesis is nicknamed Gazelle.
• Captain Nazi from Shazam!. Really and truly, his name says it all, doesn't it? Although he's apparently some kind of personification of Nazism, so it's integral to his character rather than a gratuitous trait.
• The Colonel a recurring Sin City antagonist assures Esther in Hell and Back while she’s captured that they will surgically make her “less ethnic” before selling her off. Thankfully, he gets his brain blown out not long after.
• Spider-Man: Norman Osborn is very bigoted, as part of his Flanderization into a more villainous character post-The Night Gwen Stacy Died. He is a sexist, violent xenophobe who admires Hitler and the Red Skull. Some in-universe white supremacists believe he is a true hero of white Americans. Just see his one of his lines while fighting Token Good Teammate Songbird in Dark Avengers.
  Green Goblin: Nature’s little joke — giving a woman the super-power of not being able to damn well shut up.
• On a lighter note, Spider-Woman once fought a guy named Turner D. Century, whose goal was to return society to the cultural values it had in The Gay '90s, which was made quite clear that it also included repressing women and minorities, making him both a bigot and a chauvinist. Despite his rather unethical outlook, as a villain, he's regarded as a joke, even in story where he mostly complained about Spider-Woman's outfit not being fit for the 1890s, but did get a Not-So-Harmless Villain moment when he burnt a building in Chinatown for not being like the 1890s. Among the fandom he is considered one of the biggest jokes in Marvel's history and has a following because of it.
• Superman:
  • Following John Byrne's reboot The Man of Steel, the post-Crisis version of Lex Luthor liked to belittle women^* He mocked Supergirl for having a "less than impressive chest" while beating her up in Jeph Loeb's Supergirl #3. or blackmail them into sleeping with him, mocked Maggie Sawyer's sexual orientation and more recently be homophobic to Supes' son Jonathan who is gay. Additionally, many of modern depictions of Luthor have his hatred of Superman expand to extraterrestrials in general, into full-blown Terran supremacism.
  • Following his death and rebirth, Superman faced off against a man named Alex Trent, a racist madman who took up the moniker "Bloodsport" at the behest of a demon seeking to cause as much death and destruction as possible. Ironically, the original holder of this moniker was an African American and when they had a boxing match against each other, the latter won, leading to the former to be killed for this "embarrassment".
  • Manchester Black makes racist remarks towards people of African and Korean descent in "What's So Funny About Truth, Justice & the American Way?". His breakdown, also kept for Superman vs. the Elite, involves calling Superman a homophobic slur after Superman reveals that his Beware the Superman moment was merely an act and how he truly beat the Elite without resorting to their own methods.
  • In the mid-nineties, Vinnie Edge was portrayed as not only the head of Intergang, under cover of running Galaxy Broadcasting, but also as a total creep around women, especially successful women, excusing himself that he was an old man and by his values he was being friendly. Cat Grant ended a Galaxy news broadcast with the announcement that sexual harassment charges were being placed against him, based on statements from herself and many other women, just as the police arrived at the studio.
  • Superman Smashes the Klan, based on an episode of the 1940s The Adventures of Superman, has Superman protecting an Asian-American family from the KKK. Of particular note is a case of division between two Klan leaders over what to be politically incorrect about. Dr. Wilson, the leader of the Klan, freely admits that his racist rhetoric is a bunch of hogwash to scam dumb racists into paying hefty membership fees and buying merchandise so he can fleece them. He gloats that the world is divided by power, and that racism is just a smokescreen that powerful men like him use to control people beneath him. In other words, he's classist. Unfortunately, his right-hand man is a believer in One Nation, One Religion, One Race, and immediately kills him for being a "traitor to the cause".
• Thor: Vikings pitted the God of Thunder against Harald Jakaelsson, an undead Viking raider and a prolific rapist and sexist. The first thing he does when setting foot on New York is try to rape a young woman, is baffled upon seeing a female officer taking up arms against him and calls Sigrid a "whore at arms". Do note that he belongs to a very different time period and his sexism is far from the worst thing about him.
• Tom Strong: Ingrid Weiss is an immortal Nazi, so it's a given she'd be a bigoted enemy of Tom Strong's, but she's especially rotten because she won't stop making racist statements about Tom's dark-skinned wife Dhalua. She also has a son named Albrecht, who was conceived using Tom's sperm without his consent and indoctrinated into accepting Nazism, to the degree that the Robots of Doom miniseries has him use time travel to change history so that the Nazis won World War II and wiped out every group of people considered undesirable by the Nazis (including homosexuals, Jews, the disabled and people of color).
• The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye:
  • Chief Justice Tyrest and Star Saber both believe Transformers that were constructed cold are "predisposed to sin" and thus all evil. While Star Saber is just a straight-up bigot, Tyrest at least has the excuse of having been driven insane prior to the events of the comic. Their Evil Plan is to use a device called the Universal Killswitch to kill every single cold-constructed Transformer in the galaxy (which is about half of the population). It almost succeeds but thankfully the crew stops it.
  • Most of the Decepticons, naturally, aren't exactly thrilled with organic life. Even Fulcrum, who up until that point had been positively portrayed (for a Decepticon) states in a lecture that he sees nothing wrong with exterminating "backwards" organic life-forms. He even sees it as an improvement.
• Les Tuniques Bleues: Constantly. It's an anti-war series and general satire set in The American Civil War, which relentlessly lampoons the absurdities of military life and society in general (often with none-too-subtle Take That! moments implied for modern society). As such, villains like these are common: soldiers on frontier outposts prejudiced against Indians, Confederate soldiers prejudiced against blacks, Union soldiers prejudiced against blacks, Protestant settlers prejudiced against Mormons, and so forth. It's notable, however, that the villains are not unique in their prejudices; those are generally shown as ubiquitous in society, with the villains being at most an extreme example of them. Even Chesterfield, one of the two protagonists, often falls prey to them (Blutch much less so, but that's mostly due to his extreme cynicism towards the entire world).
• Close to all of the villains in Wanted are this. The Future is definitely the worst though, as he is an unapologetic Nazi and misogynist.
• What If?: Issue 9 of the original run features a group of heroes in the 50s forming an Avengers-esque group to battle a Yellow Peril villain, whose right hand man is a prominent Nazi scientist who brags about torturing “verdammt inferiors” in Auschwitz.
• Wonder Woman:
  • Dating back to The Golden Age of Comic Books, Doctor Psycho was considered insanely misogynistic even when he was introduced, and unlike other venerable foes of Wonder Woman, his motivation hasn't really changed. He became a villain because he hates women, and though he doesn't shy away from harming men, either, he makes it a point of interest to Mind Rape, literally rape, torture, terrorize, enslave or eat any woman who catches his attention.
  • As Mars, Ares was a similar Straw Misogynist who thought women should be slaves and regularly beaten as part of their daily routine.
  • Wonder Woman (1942): Red Panzer, being a Nazi through and through, is racist and misogynistic and makes it clear almost every time he opens his mouth. He is quite annoyed at Wonder Woman for fighting him as she's a female and should therefore never argue with men, who are in his mind her betters, and certainly shouldn't fight.
  • During the Silver Age there was the APL, American Patriots League, who hated Wonder Woman for being a foreigner. She considered them crazy, but harmless.
  • In Wonder Woman Vol. 2 the ruling class of the Sangtee Empire — which was based on the many Ares related misogynistic aliens Di fought at the tail end of the Golden Age of Comics — has turned all women within its boundaries into slaves (unless they're kreel nobility and identify as male) and is disgusted by females, instead procreating via cloning and uterine replicators.
  • In the '90s, there was a one-time Wonder Woman villain who called himself the Chauvinist. First thing he is seen doing is leading an army of abusive husbands against a place sheltering their wives, while yelling misogynistic things like he's preaching a gospel. These days the guy is remembered only because he was over the top to the point of hilarity.
  • On the flip side, the conservative Amazon antagonists in Wonder Woman (2011) are (in an infamous case of Adaptational Villainy) flagrant misandrists who see men as only as disposable vessels to reproduce and gain daughters. When Diana at one point progressively sets up a male colony on Themyscira, said Amazons massacre them with impunity, triggering a Roaring Rampage of Revenge from Wondy stricken at the loss of her brothers.
• In Wacky Raceland, a Darker and Edgier Comic-Book Adaptation of Wacky Races, the Red Max (renamed "The Red Baron") is depicted as a Nazi and also makes a homophobic remark toward Rufus Ruffcut as well as some transphobic statements toward Sergeant Blast (who is a transgender woman in this continuity).
• XIII: Dear God, yes.
  • The first story arc involves the title character trying to prevent a conspiracy by high-ranking members of the U.S. government to overthrow the republic and install a fascist regime (largely inspired by various JFK assassination conspiracy theories). Comparisons to previous racist regimes are not subtle, with the False Flag Operation the conspiracy is planning being compared to the way the Nazis seized power in Germany, and one of the people that infiltrates the conspiracy having to swear her allegiance before a full tribunal in white robes and masks.
  • The following story arc involves the amnesiac XIII, searching for his past, coming to the Colorado town of Greenfalls. He finds it run by a Small-Town Tyrant named Dwight Rigby, who he later discovers was the local Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, and the man who presided over the kidnapping and lynching of XIII's father (a progressive journalist that he considered a "red") thirty years earlier. Greenfalls hasn't gotten much better since then, with a small mob trying to lynch Jones when she's suspected of a crime.
  • The small town of Southburg, in Alabama, is a Southern equivalent, which the Rowland family rule as petty tyrants the same way Rigby ruled Greenfalls. So far as we know, they have no Ku Klux Klan or similar affiliations, but they're racist enough that Captain Steve Rowland, the eldest son of the family, became mixed up in the conspiracy to overthrow the government during his time in the military, to the point of faking his death and becoming the assassin that killed the JFK-expy President shortly before the start of the series.
  • After the series renewal in the 2000s, we have the Mayflower Foundation, a reactionary think tank and political organization that turns out to have been among the backers of the XX Conspiracy from the original story arc. They trace their roots back to Plymouth Rock (hence the name) and their leader considers the election of a black man to the Presidency of the United States "a great disgrace," which they're still scheming to remedy by taking power themselves.
• X-Men:
  • A one-shot killer-schoolkid character in New X-Men, in explaining why he killed a mutant and harvested his organs, included the aside "Yes, he was gay, but that's incidental to my cause."
  • If one counts Fantastic Racism, recurring villainous groups the Friends of Humanity and the U-Men (who the aforementioned killer schoolkid was a member of) are based on this; the FoH are the most well-known anti-mutant racist crusaders/human supremacists, whilst the U-men have similar ideologies for explaining their calling of vivisecting mutants to graft organs to themselves to acquire superpowers.
  • Really, most X-Men villains tend to be this in some way or another. It kind of goes hand-in-hand with the anti-bigotry Aesop that forms the backbone of the premise. Hell, even Magneto, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, is depicted as being somewhat bigoted towards non-mutants; this is essentially meant to show that, for all of Magneto's moralizing and bluster, he's ultimately a tremendous hypocrite who's not different from the very people he opposes.
  • Mr. Sinister is both racist and sexist, though this is justified in part, as he was born in the early 19th century. (It is also somewhat variable, as Depending on the Writer.) In Kieron Gillen's run, where this is certainly true, he refers to Emma as Scott's broodmare, good only to "house your seed," and Storm as his "Colonial pet".
  • The Ultimate X-Men (2001) version of Magneto displays, in addition to Fantastic Racism, ableism (calling Professor Xavier a "spastic", a rather charged word in the UK), homophobia (calling Quicksilver "effeminate"), and sexism (calling Polaris a "harlot" — though Polaris isn't much better in this regard, as it is in response to her going the Politically Incorrect Hero route by calling his codename "retarded").
• X-Wing Rogue Squadron: While the Empire's Putting on the Reich tendencies were on full display right from the start of the movies, the X-wing stories were some of the first that really delved at length into human supremacy as a founding pillar of Imperial ideology (something the subsequent X-wing novels would expand on).
  • Sate Pestage (the Emperor's original heir) in the last two story arcs is arguably the most extreme example. He at first appears to be just another scheming Imperial politician rather than a true believer in anything, especially once he starts negotiating for asylum in the Rebel Alliance. Once he's under the stress of traveling and hiding with the Rogues, however, he has several outbursts that reveal a much more nasty side to him, dismissing Wedge's claim that alien sentients deserve equal rights as "merely propaganda" (to the point that he refuses to believe Wedge doesn't think so as well), and indignantly refusing to be stuck in a shuttle with "animal waste" (the body of a dead Quarren pilot).
  • Soontir Fel is a very unusual example. The best fighter pilot in the Empire, he fully supports human supremacy, but in a naive way, truly believing that humans are the most intelligent and advanced species in the galaxy and that their rule is therefore for the benefit of all. Once he's presented with proof that this is not true (being led to success by Grand Admiral Thrawn, an alien, in a battle that few humans could have won), not only does his belief in his species' superiority end, but his faith in the Empire goes with it.
  • And, of course, it isn't just the Empire, and it isn't just inter-species prejudice. The Warrior Princess story arc takes us to the planet Eiattu VI, where the main divide is social class, with the aristocracy horrifically prejudiced towards the common people to the point of having triggered a revolution against them. They're none too happy when their princess-in-exile returns to the planet and announces that she will not be supporting the full restoration of their privileges.

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