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* Bane decayed into this after breaking Batman's back and ultimately having served his purpose, which is why he got thrashed by Azrael in what almost seemed like a bit of an afterthought. Eventually the writers fixed Bane by giving him an identity beyond being "the guy who broke Batman's back once", as well as a surprisingly sympathetic backstory. Not to mention distancing him from Batman. Unfortunately, there is also a tendency for some of his portrayals to focus entirely on the steroidal "Venom" aspect of his character and nothing else [[Badass Decay|meaning that once someone cuts his tubes, he goes down quick.]]

* Onslaught was more powerful than anything the [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]] had ever faced, took nearly all the Marvel heroes to beat, had no overarching plan other than "blow shit up" and existed solely to set up "Heroes Reborn", which was later retconned back anyway. Onslaught did have a back story as a psychic entity born from the combined mentality of Professor X (mutants and humans should co-exist) and Magneto ([[Humans Are Bastards|humans will never accept mutants]]). So he wanted to turn everyone in the world (and later the universe) into a hive mind with himself in control. However, many of the details behind his character were scattered amongst various Marvel comics titles (requiring someone to read all the comics tied into the Onslaught saga for all the details), or [[All There in the Manual|crammed into a book released solely as a summary for the Onslaught saga]], [[Word of God|complete with notes and information on what was planned for the saga from the writers themselves]]. For some, Onslaught's [[Generic Doomsday Villain]] nature made the writers' attempts to focus on Onslaught's plan changing from "kill all the humans so mutants can prosper" to "kill everyone in the world for no reason" much less dramatic that it was intended to be.

* The [[Crisis on Infinite Earths|Anti-Monitor]] has many of these qualities. No real personality, motivations or backstory, just ridiculous amounts of power in one package. Still, part of the concept is that he's so ridiculously powerful that it's difficult to so much as get his attention so there is some reasoning behind his seemingly [[Generic Doomsday Villain]] nature.

** Similarly [[Final Crisis|Mandrakk the Dark Monitor]] pretty much just wants to kill everything because he wanted to feed on the Bleed and the Multiverse that existed within it. It didn't help that he was also a [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]], unless the reader had already read a particular tie-in.