Not-So-Harmless Villain: Difference between revisions

* The Intelligencia from ''[[Fall of the Hulks]]''. The team is made of [[MODOK]], Leader, Wizard, Red Ghost, and Mad Thinker. Together they have become a pretty deadly force. How deadly, you ask? They managed to [[Out-Gambitted|out gambit]] ''Doctor freakin' Doom''.

* One of the upsides of the ''[[Brand New Day]]'' era of ''[[Spider-Man]]'', to many fans, has been the recasting of C- and D-list loser villains into competent and credible threats. The Spot comes back as a vengeful psychopath who slowly drives his prey insane by stalking him, while the White Rabbit is an [[Ax Crazy]] drug dealer who's willing to commit mass murder to collect the money she's owed. This also applies to classic Lee-Ditko-Romita villains like Electro, the Shocker, and the Rhino, who have all been rehabilitated from the [[Villain Decay]] they've suffered over the last several years.

* Catman has received this treatment in spades, courtesy of [[Gail Simone]] in ''[[Secret Six]]''. Essentially, he went from a fat slob with a cat gimmick to a sociopathic, lion-pride-leading, muscly badass somewhere in the Sahara with his insignia carved into his chest (by his own hand!) and a pair of razor claws.

* Doctor Light was an incompetent villain for a long time. In ''[[Identity Crisis]]'' it was revealed that the League wiped his mind and deliberately turned him into a joke after he raped [[Elongated Man]]'s wife. He recovered, and takes on the Titans. All of them.