Arrowverse: The 'Big Bads' Of Every Season - Ranked

9. Vandal Savage

Vandal Savage's introduction to the Arrowverse was certainly explosive enough, literally destroying Star City and its inhabitants, before a time-travelling Flash saved the day. But once you look past his first appearances on the CW, you realise that there isn't a whole lot more to Savage than just the fact that he likes to destroy stuff.

Strip away the fact that he killed Hawkman, as well as Rip Hunter's wife and child and supposedly cities full of people in the future. What you have left is an immortal tyrant, with centuries of training in martial arts and magic, who loses more or less every time he enters a fistfight.

Separately facing off against White Canary, Heatwave and the Hawks in the Legends season 1 finale, he is fairly easily beaten in all three, and not at any point does he threaten the Legends physically. His appeal is that he is supposedly one step ahead of them at every turn, but you expect more of a threat from a villain who is a hand-to-hand genius in the comics.