10 Times Comics Made Terrible Villains Great

This guy, right? A disgraced baseball pitcher, Fred Myers decided to use his incredible aim to become a second-rate Bullseye specialising in an obsolete weapon. While he’s mostly known for being a Spider-Man villain, Bullseye in his first appearance was hilariously mismatched against the Hulk.

For years Boomerang was the definitive D-list villain, a joke character used as a punching bag by half the Marvel universe whose biggest accomplishment was standing in the same group shot as bigger villains.

Unlike most of this list, Boomerang didn’t become a criminal genius or deadly assassin. Instead, he became the lead character in Nick Spencer’s Superior Foes of Spider-Man. This criminally underrated series was a hilarious look at the lives of a group of white-collar criminals as they get involved in the biggest heist of their careers.

Boomerang and the rest of his Sinister Six (which only had five members) will never be on the same level as the Green Goblin or Doctor Doom but that’s what makes them so incredibly likable. They’re underdogs trying to make something of themselves in a world that sees them as nothing more than jokes.