10 Lame Comic Book Villains (Who Are Actually Incredibly Powerful)

Oh, Mandrill. One of Marvel's lamest characters ever. He's so cringy, one of his co-creators has denied ever having anything to do with him. He's so useless, he was killed off-page during Kraven's Hunted storyline.

Infected with radiation since before his conception, Mandrill was born a grotesque freak who was abandoned in the desert and only survived thanks to a partnership with Nekra, who had a similar backstory. As he grew up, he took the distinct form of a mandrill ape, for reasons that have never been explained, and developed the ability to control women through manipulating his own pheromones.

His lameness should be quite obvious. He looked like a monkey. For no real reason. Also he dressed like a mix of Doctor Strange and Etrigan. Also for no real reason. Then there's his success rate. His biggest power play was trying to take control of a trio of African nations. He was thwarted by Shanna the She-Devil, who was just a Jane of the Jungle rip-off in loincloths.

But despite being so lame, his powers allow him to be extremely menacing. He's been able to assemble entire armies and secret societies of women to obey his beck and call and he's never made an effort to hide how much he relishes having control over them. He even enslaved Black Widow to prove he could overpower even the strongest minds.