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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Caffeine Free Diet Cherry Goblin.
I've got fanfics for Frozen, Spectacular Spider-Man, Crash Bandicoot, and Spyro the Dragon.Yeah okay
Spidey could stand to have more female villains. Who are not Black Cat.
edited 15th Nov '15 8:39:04 AM by Bocaj
Forever liveblogging the AvengersWell, there was also Stunner
. Who was Doc Ock's girlfriend.
edited 15th Nov '15 9:02:23 AM by alliterator
Actually now that I think about it, female supervillains who don't involve The Vamp or Dating Catwoman are surprisingly rare. Excluding those who actually face female superheroes, obviously.
edited 15th Nov '15 9:04:11 AM by Theokal3
There was also Scorpia. She's incredibly obscure but surprisingly enough she was going to be one of the main characters in the Sinister Six movie.
I think the overuse of Dating Catwoman stems a bit from Positive Discrimination. I've noticed in general there's usually a much greater push to redeem or woobify female villains from the writers for some reason.
edited 15th Nov '15 9:14:11 AM by comicwriter
Thats because she was badly written, hip deep in the clone saga debacle, and her plots were all nonsensical nonsense.
I recall that she worked better as a Spider-Girl villain.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersNo idea, but there is the Hemo-Goblin
. He's from DC and he's an AIDS vampire. I'm not kidding.
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She wanted to merge the internet with reality, if I recall correctly. Also, she was pissed off at her dad, Doc Samson. I don't know why.
For female villains, I nominate Ruby Thursday
◊. She's your average mad scientist, barely used, and has a small, hyper-dense ball of "organic circuitry," that can shoot out tentacles and lasers. She looks creepy as hell, but she's also perfectly sane- as sane as super villains get, anyway.
edited 15th Nov '15 9:50:58 AM by JBC31187
That is such a cool character design! She should totally be brought back from obscurity. (Although it probably doesn't hurt that she's name after one of my favorite Stones songs)
edited 15th Nov '15 10:05:11 AM by nervmeister
Ruby Tuesday is actually part of a group of bizarre supervillains called the Headmen
. And they should totally be used in the MCU.
Spidey also has Shriek and Calypso. And on the topic of Goblins, there's Menace. And I'd love to see Janice Lincoln at some point (though I'd also like to see her in her more general Marvel role than specifically being Spider-Man related).
For hilarity, there's also White Rabbit and Lady Stilt Man.
Yeah, it's an annoying thing about superhero comics that there've been unwritten rules about the character types female villains can have (well, female characters in general) since the beginning, and we're only just started to sorta get out of the rut.
It happens with pretty much all non-white male villains in comics, but it's particularly noticeable with villainesses because it's been traditional for so long.
edited 15th Nov '15 2:23:42 PM by KnownUnknown

I think in Spider-Man 3 he was the "New" Goblin. Y'know, like a supervillain soda flavor.