10 Comic Book Supervillains Improved Through Retcon

10. The Orb

The unnamed child who would eventually be called the Orb was born with a giant eye for a head. He was abandoned as a child and grew up in a freak show, not learning to speak until adulthood. He eventually became a mercenary for hire and was hired by Daniel Ketch, the second Ghost Rider, to serve the angel Zadkiel.

The Orb formed a group called the Orblings to aid him in committing crimes. They were trying to rob a bank and while searching for jewels, The Orb encountered time diamonds just as Spider-Man and Wolverine arrived to intervene. The diamonds scattered them across the timeline and the Orb lived as a muscle-bound, heavily armed monster before he was forced to the present and jail.

The Orb’s extrasensory powers caused him to have intense visions about the Watcher. With help, he broke into the Watchers Citadel and took his left eye. Eventually captured by Nick Fury, now called the Unseen, Orb was tortured for information on how to activate the right eye of the now-dead Watcher. One of the eyes bonded with the Orb and gave him awareness on a cosmic scale. He decided to become a Watcher after a fashion but was killed by Doom Supreme.