10 Underrated Supervillains Who Deserved Better

7. Stopwatch

Spider-Man Ezekiel
DC Comics

While villains with cool bits of metal and tech embedded in them aren't an especially rare kind of villain, Stopwatch still makes for an engaging one.

Surprisingly, he seems to actively dislike the golden metal that takes up half his body, and actively apologises for it, which is interesting in that it clearly shows Stopwatch isn't intended to be a particularly intimidating antagonist.

Instead, Stopwatch's twisted sense of morals is what makes him a villain worthy of having a more major role. While the armour he's been fitting his henchmen with kills them after a certian period of time, Stopwatch justifies this with the logic that when the armour does work, it will function as a time machine, meaning he can use it to go back and prevent all of their deaths.

This is great in theory, if not for the fact that firstly: it gets blown up, and secondly; there was no sure sign it would eventually work in the first place.

Stopwatch is a premium example of misplaced morals, and that alone means he deserves being brought back as a villain once more.

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