10 Laziest Comic Book Villains
If you want to be feared, you have to actually do something.
When it comes to supervillains, your mind tends to go to wacky schemes and elaborate contraptions.
Someone like The Riddler is well known for coming up with crazy plans that involve hours, even days of preparation. Even though Eddie rarely comes out on top, the last thing you can accuse him of is laziness.
However, the same can't be said for all villains. With every success comes extra power and extra resources. The cash flow increases, the goon squad grows and most plans can be carried out with next to no effort.
Because of this, some of the biggest bads in the business have grown lazy and rarely leave their hideouts.
On the other side of things, you have the less experienced villains. They tend to have less resources, no game plan and therefore a lack of effort overall. It rarely ends well for these try hards, but it's sure fun to watch them try.
Most of these newbies have one idea in mind and tend not to plan for failure, or plan very much at all for that matter. It's a different type of laziness to the crime lord in his tower, but they do share one similarity: the hero will definitely defeat them.
10. Stilt-Man
Imagine Giant-Man or Goliath, but only their legs grew. If that sounds dumb, it's because, well, it is. Yet somehow, Stilt-Man not only still exists but has three copy-cats throughout the years, including (for some reason) a female iteration who called herself Lady Stilt-Man.
The original Stilt-Man was a man by the name of Wilbur Day. He stole plans for a hydraulic ram and created a battle suit that powered a pair of extremely long, telescopic metal legs.
Why he thought long legs would help him on his robberies is a complete mystery, but the suit worked great, so he stuck at it.
Unfortunately, he picked the wrong neighbourhood and ends up having a long, unsuccessful feud with Daredevil. Day was often hired to assist in kidnapping high profile targets, and was beaten every single time by the Man Without Fear.
Even when enhanced with stolen Stark tech, it was still a breeze to take down the wannabe supervillain.
As with most villains we're about to talk about, Stilt-Man's flaw was his lack of follow through on anything. If he could be bothered to think bigger, he could have created something on the scale of Doc Ock's arms, but instead he just wanted to be tall.