10 Most Disturbing Supervillains That You’ve Never Heard Of

At least the Joker never had sex with a meat statue.

The Skinless Man
Marvel Comics

Pretty much every well-known supervillain has their share of disturbing moments, with bad guys like the Joker or the Green Goblin having a rap sheet as long as Plastic Man's fully stretched torso.

But famous villains don't have a monopoly on creepy moments, just well-known ones. Obscure villains have a plentiful collection of moments that are just as sinister, and just as messed up. In fact, a lot of the time, these lesser-known characters end up being even more disturbing, because they can be tailor-made to be as creepy as the writer can physically manage.

With terrifying powers, personalities, and everything in between being provided in ample doses with these characters, it becomes incredibly clear that less well-known characters are just as capable of giving you nightmares as any of the more popular ones. It's also clear that writers often use them to get even more disturbing than usual, as it's rare that you see Magneto or The Riddler with a huge alien mouth protruding from their stomach.

It's maybe for the best that these villains are relatively unknown, as when you do read about them, it'll stick with you for life.

10. Johnny Dee

The Skinless Man
Marvel Comics

Hailing from the wilder side of Marvel's mutants, Johnny Dee has the unusual superpower of having a screeching mouth embedded in his chest, which is capable of using people's DNA to create creepy statuettes of them, that can be used in order to control them to his will.

In an unsolved mystery, we still have yet to find out if this power is properly Johnny's, as he insists that 'the freak' in his chest is a sort of parasitic twin, with a separate brain to him - meaning he doesn't consider himself a mutant.

All this said, it does seem significantly more likely that this is merely Dee's way of dissociating himself from the persecuted mutant race, as the mouth does do whatever Johnny tells it to, implying that it likely is part of him.

While it is an interesting superpower, seeing Johnny use it is never not just a little bit horrifying, in only the way powers that involve removing people's free will can be.

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