15 Doctors Crazier Than Hannibal Lecter

13. Dr Victor Van Doom - Fantastic Four

Hannibal NBC
Twentieth Century Fox

As everyone knows, being struck by cosmic waves in outer space grants you superpowers, including invisibility, elasticity and the ability to control and manipulate fire. Or if you’re a Latverian CEO named Van Doom, you might develop an ability to generate electric fields as patches of your body seemingly turn to steel.

Even though he’s able to hurl electric bolts at his enemies and capable of disturbing nearby electrical devices, though, the doc proves disappointingly easy to defeat, brought to his knees by the judicious application of extreme heat followed by extreme cold.

Following that showdown, he’s packed in a box and shipped back to Latveria, but you just know he’ll stage a comeback, and he does. Revived by the military years later, he attempts to steal the Silver Surfer’s surfboard, which will grant him untold power. That's more like it. 

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Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'