10 Crazy Villains The DC Cinematic Universe Will Never Admit Exist
5. Gorilla Grodd
Even some of the DC villains often considered classic aren't just laughable, but are too ridiculous to even garner so much as a laugh. Gorilla Grodd first debuted in The Flash #106 in 1959, and has since remained primarily a villain of the Scarlet Speedster. There have been many animal villains throughout comic history, but none with powers more ludicrous than Gorilla Grodd. Despite being a gorilla, many of his talents are of a psychic nature, including mind control, projecting telekinetic force beams and even absorbing intelligence by consuming human brains (a gorilla zombie? Do they make those?). Grodd was an ordinary gorilla until an alien crashes on his homeland, which prompted a bunch of primates get telekinetic powers, creating a whole race of these psychic zombie gorillas, who are so intelligent and clever that they named their newly constructed home Gorilla City. The guys that thought "Let's make the apes psychic" couldn't even come up with an original city name. He might have been a popular villain, but Gorilla Grodd is the kind of thing you see during a bad acid trip. Creating a psychic zombie gorilla might have been among the most original things DC Comics has ever done, but sometimes the reason your idea is original isn't just because you were so brilliant to think of it first; sometimes it's because nobody else was dumb enough to think of it.
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