Okay trying something a little different with these last 3 because Superman, the Justice League and Batman have big rouges galleries. Again, say who you think the most underrated villain is for the character or team in the title.
Silver Banshee. Access to the dead, magic, and loud noises. She’s got a high potential to be much MUCH worse if someone wrote her that way.
And if my man Toyman ever actually does get to kill any children he’ll be much worse and other people will finally realize just how underrated he is 😈.
Skyhook? That Fagin-like (Oliver Twist) demon that kidnaps children.
Maybe 2nd-string E-One and NE Phantom Zoners like Quex-Ul and Jax-Ur, who prolly don’t deserve to be in the Phantom Zone, yet are not greatful that - in Jor-El’s superpowered irony - their imprisonments meant their survival while the rest of Krypton died.
Despair of the Endless....
Wait. What? Anybody want to tell us what DOTE has to do with under-rated Superman Villains??😉
How about Oswald Mandius? Awesome name. One appearance as a “billionaire industrialist” comparable to Bruce Wayne. He kidnaps Jimmy Olsen (rookie mistake) and stows away on the space shuttle; like you do.
Mandius would be unremarkable except that he becomes the conduit for King Kosmos’s spirit and takes on Superman; who just happens to find the “Sword of Superman” at that exact moment - made of what we would now prolly call Tenth Metal - and defeats Oswald.
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I always wondered what had become of Mandias. He ran a rival media company to Morgan Edge (Galaxy Broadcasting) but after his televised actions as King Kosmos, we never saw him again. It would have been interesting to see his fate