100 Greatest Comic Book Villains Of All Time

52. Sandman

SandmanFIRST APPEARANCE: THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #4 (1963) An accident left Flint Marko with the ability to transform himself into a sand-like formation, which he can use to absorb blows from attackers - most often Spider-Man - and quickly reform into another shape. He can grow in size by stretching his sand molecules or absorbing nearby sand, and also form his hands into weapons, or even transform himself into a violent sandstorm which can be used to subdue and even suffocate his foes. When interacting with heat, the Sandman can turn into glass, allowing him to control it as well, though his two major weaknesses are in mixing concrete into his sand (rendering him temporarily immobile) and isolating the single train of sand which contains his consciousness (challenging though that is). He was portrayed by Thomas Hayden Church in the movie Spider-Man 3.

51. Magog

MagogFIRST APPEARANCE: KINGDOM COME #1 (1996) Magog is in every sense a contemporary comic book supervillain, challenging the established, squeaky-clean classical norms of superheroes with his nihilistic level of violence. As David Reid, he was able to, by way of a canon mounted on his arm after coming into contact with the God named Gog, fire plasma blasts, but after being killed in the line of duty by an RPG, he is resurrected by Gog as Magog, and his energy blasts come by way of a staff gifted to him by his saviour. He not only has super strength, but is also capable of flight and teleportation, while the staff is eventually kitted out to emit radiation, and his blind eye is repaired to be able to visualise wavelengths and signals inaccessible to most other humans.

50. William Stryker

William StrykerFIRST APPEARANCE: X-MEN: GOD LOVES, MAN KILLS (1982) The main personality trait of U.S. Army Colonel William Stryker is that he hates mutants, even murdering his own wife and mutant son, believing that his son emerging as a mutant was a ploy by Satan to poison the world. Stryker then became fully committed to the cause of murdering mutants, amassing popularity as a preacher and televangelist, while approving of groups who commited crimes against mutants. Just as in the movie X2, Stryer kidnaps Professor Xavier with the hope of using his abilities to kill every living mutant, at which point the mutants, both good and bad, team up to take Stryker down. Though the second part of God Loves, Man Kills, sees Stryker seemingly abandoning his hate crusade against the mutants, it emerges again in the Decimation comic arc, which concludes with Warren slicing Stryker in half. He was played brilliantly by Brian Cox in X2.
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