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** The Hate Monger. With his pointed Hood that made him look like a klansman, this villain could cause a [[Hate Plague]] in his victims. Unfortunately, this villain’s gimmick was the secret identity behind his mask, kind of like a darker version of a crook from [[Scooby-Doo]]. When the heroic foursome took him down and removed his mask (revealing him to be a clone of [[Adolf Hitler]] himself) he lost that edge and there was nothing left. Even the [[Red Skull]] (an actual Nazi) called him lame.
** [[Stan Lee]] once claimed in an interview that the one character he may have regretted creating was Diablo. Yep, this was a [[Card-Carrying Villain]] who was purposely designed as a Card-Carrying Villain, hence his name. He was pretty much Marvel's poster boy for the [[Alchemy Is Magic]] trope, but never really accomplished much. In fact, initially it seemed he was [[Only In It For The Money]], selling his alchemical concoctions to make profit, but failed at that because most of his potions wore off in a few weeks at most.
* As far as [[The Punisher]] is concerned, being regarded as a respectable and competent villain is achieved by surviving more than one story arc. However, one bad guy who stood out for his incompetence was Medallion, from the "Taxi Wars" arc in his ''[[Marvel Knights]]'' title. A crime boss more or less, he was morbidly obese, egotistical, neurotic, and possibly a sufferer of ADD. He gained wealth and influence through a scheme that involved leasing [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_medallion taxi medallions], and then murdering the lease holders so he could reclaim the medallions and gain far more profit. However, he was also involved in a lot of other odd schemes that never got off the ground. According to one of his henchmen he once looked into creating genetically enhanced giant cockroaches, which he quickly abandoned. His current scheme involved building taxi cabs with the durability and offensive power of tanks, intent on starting a war in New York against… [[Step Three: Profit| someone else.]] By the end of the arc, he was set to abandon that idea to, and focus on applying the same idea to ambulances, hoping to start a city-wide plague. Employing a gang of oddball criminals with names like Mr Badwrench and Dr Morphine, all of them thought he was an inept lunatic, only following his delusions because he paid well. As stated, seeing as he was not regarded as competent, neither he nor his gang survived their run-in with the Punisher, who managed to commandeer the prototype taxi tank vehicle, using it to storm Medallion’s headquarters and drive it over them, literally.
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