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Who are some gangsta ass street level villians?

 
 
Jack Denfeld
16:47 / 08.05.07
Let's list some thuggish street level supervillians, the kinda guy that'd rob a bank, or snatch your chain, not really a takeover the world type o guy.

Flash's rogues come to mind, and they might also be at the top of the power and ambition lot in this group of villians I'm thinking about. Crusher Creel, the wrecking crew, the more famous the better.
 
 
grant
17:24 / 08.05.07
Well, Joe Chill is often used as a figure for anonymous street criminal. Who wrote that story where Batman tracked him down and discovered he'd become a truck driver and was actually kind of a pathetic loser?
 
 
Elijah, Freelance Rabbi
17:48 / 08.05.07
I think that Chill story was really early wasn't it? I seem to remember it from a hardbound "Secret Origins of the JLA" book i had as a kid that was all Silver Age origin stories. I could be wrong though.

As far as street level criminals go, I know Spiderman had quite a few low level guys with powers of some kind. Ghettoblaster had sound powers, there was Rhino, some guy with a rocket skateboard, my fav though is Big Wheel, because he is just rolling around in a giant wheel.

DC always seemed more content with generic 'bad guys' when it wasn't about taking over the world, though Batman has had quite a few enemies like Killer Moth who haven't tried more then stealing something vaguely related to their own psychosis.
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
18:31 / 08.05.07
Rocket Racer, the Eel, Ox and the other Enforcers (?), original Cobra, Mr. Hyde (mostly), the Gladiator, Blue Streak, Leap Frog, Constrictor, and sort of Electro off the top of my head.
 
 
The Falcon
18:38 / 08.05.07
I think you want to be looking at Spidey primarily there, then, Jack: guys like Shocker and the Rhino (Scorpion too, prior to Venom power upgrade) are exactly what you're talking 'bout - basically bankrobbers with some high-tech costumes. They're also the most famous of that type, I'd think - you should check out Punisher War Journal #4 for a whole mess of low-end villains attending another, Stilt-Man's, funeral. Prowler, Will O' the Wisp, those kinda dudes. It's also a friggin' sweet comic.
 
 
The Falcon
18:40 / 08.05.07
Yeah, Rocket Racer is the skateboard guy; I think I remember both he and Prowler turning over a leaf sometime during DeMatteis/Buscema's Spectacular Spider-Man era. They're not really bad bad guys.
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
18:43 / 08.05.07
Daredevil also deals with a lot of low-end thuggery. All my list above was Spidey- and DD-based.
 
 
The Falcon
19:00 / 08.05.07
Yeah, totally - in fact Electro gets me thinking, you know, Vulture and Sandman (another one who reformed at some point) while being involved in the more ambitious plans of Doc Ock/Osborn in their Sinister Six/Twelves were always just basically and largely hired hands too for whoever - Kingpin, the Rose, Hammerhead, Chameleon and Silvermane. There was that 'Gang War' thing in like '85-86 with guys like Hobgoblin and Jack O' Lantern.

Sandman is in a movie = teh famous.
 
 
Haus of Mystery
19:48 / 08.05.07
Two Words.

Killer

Croc.
 
 
This Sunday
20:44 / 08.05.07
Wait, they killed Stiltman?

Anyhow, presuming they still live, you can add: The Riddler (in his own special way), The Gladiator, and most of the badguys from The Savage Dragon except that the classic models are all dead and the newfangled may not have been reintroduced yet (or have the same deal).
 
 
This Sunday
20:46 / 08.05.07
Of course, I see now the summary says 'dc and marvel' so ignore the Dragon stuff unless you want to make a case for it through the Superman crossovers. I would, because I like my continuity muddy as hell and twice as heady. In a tall glass.
 
 
The Falcon
21:16 / 08.05.07
The Punisher killed Wilbur Day, aka Stiltman, yes, DD.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
22:16 / 08.05.07
One word: Turk!
 
 
Benny the Ball
08:22 / 09.05.07
Good call Flyboy - didn't Turk get ahold of stilman's suit for a while and just sort of stumble about and fall over a lot?

The Kingpin, for all his bluster, is pretty lowlevel too.
 
 
This Sunday
08:34 / 09.05.07
Nah, the Kingpin ran The Hand. That's technically up there as worldclass or something.

So far The Wrecking Crew have been my fave suggestions, even if they did get to do the whole bust up the Avengers thing.

Turk's a real good one, though. And, yeah, he was Stiltman for a few minutes of comedy and error. But, then, so was Flash Thompson.

The Vanisher, unless I'm forgetting something really big, has generally been pretty low-class in these matters. He's tried to rob the U.S. Gov and military, yes, but still, robbery and blackmail. And rather than turn out a school of mutants under a political ideology of mass destruction, he trained them to steal stuff.

How big-time was the Black Cat's dad (who may've been also, the Black Cat)?
 
 
Janean Patience
09:56 / 09.05.07
There was an issue of the Ann Nocenti Daredevil where he got beaten up by a succession of street-level villains. Bullet, who could like ram shit, Bushwacker who had a gun arm, Ammo who'd led a street gang for a while and the Wildboyz who were just a couple of punks. Good issue. Came just before the whole Inferno crossover bit.
 
 
Benny the Ball
10:30 / 09.05.07
around the Typhoid Mary time, wasn't it? Wolverine guest starring and gosh, i've forgotten the artists name, Leonardi?
 
 
This Sunday
10:41 / 09.05.07
Rick Leonardi. Later drew Spider-Man 2099, which had a number of just-jobbing-it villains.
 
 
Janean Patience
10:54 / 09.05.07
Bushwacker got introduced in the obligatory Wolverine crossover just before #250, IIRC, Bullet came just after JRjr took over the very next issue, and Ammo was in the Fall Of The Mutants tie-in a few issues later. The mass assault was orchestrated by Typhoid Mary. I love that Nocenti/JRjr run.
 
 
Benny the Ball
11:01 / 09.05.07
Whatever happened to the young blind black kid that Matt was training up during that run? It was a great series around that time.
 
 
Janean Patience
11:16 / 09.05.07
Most of the regular characters, including Karen Page, got left behind when Matt fled New York after the superlative Inferno issues. I don't remember what happened to the blind kid particularly. He didn't want to learn radar sense.
 
  
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