Most Ridiculous Characters
Hero and villain don’t always have to be grim, brooding, and serious. Sometimes, it can just be outright funny. We have sarcastic heroes, dimwitted heroes, and just downright goofy villains. With that in mind, here are 20 of the most amusing heroes and villains.
1. Deadpool
Deadpool is the wisecracking, fourth-wall-breaking superhero also known as the “Merc with a Mouth.” Deadpool possesses a quick wit, healing factor, and mastery of violent combat. Full of chaos and brimming with mayhem, Deadpool delivers gags, one-liners, and jokes on villains and heroes alike.
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2. Flash
The Flash is a comic book superhero appearing in publications by DC Comics. He is a speedster known for his quick wit and humorous quips. He is incredibly fast and agile, making him a dangerous opponent as well as an amusing one.
3. Plastic Man
Plastic Man is a rubbery, contortionist superhero in DC Comics. He has a humorous, prankster personality, and his powers let him stretch and mold his body into any shape or form. Plastic Man is known for using his shape-shifting abilities for comedic purposes in addition to crime-fighting.
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4. Bouncing Boy
Bouncing Boy is a silly and comedic superhero in the DC Comics universe and a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes. His power lets him inflate himself into a ball and spring into the air like a super-powered ball, which he uses in often humorous ways. A genuinely happy-go-lucky character, he is able to bring levity to any superhero team with his boyish charm and playful uses of his power.
5. Human Torch
The Human Torch is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. A founding member of the Fantastic Four, the Human Torch is a superhero with the powers of flame control and flight. In addition to his superhuman abilities, he is well known for his wisecracking and brash attitude towards both friends and enemies.
6. Squirrel Girl
Squirrel Girl is a bizarre, sardonic, cheerful, and seemingly one-dimensional superhero of Marvel Comics with squirrel-related powers. She can talk to squirrels, has squirrel-like agility, and can fight off numerous supervillains using oddly facile and humorous tactics. She is often considered one of Marvel's most amusing and entertaining heroes.
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7. Megamind
Megamind is a fictional character and the protagonist of the 2010 animated film Megamind. He is a comedic supervillain-turned-hero characterized by his highly intelligent but showboating and sarcastic personality. He is well-known for often inadvertently turning his plans to take over the world into comedy routines and is both funny and lovable.
8. Booster Gold
Booster Gold is a time-traveling superhero in the DC Comics universe. He is a flashy costumed character with an ego and a thirst for fame, and he has the ability to become very funny while mixing fighting crime with his own personal goals for publicity. Booster is also a very arrogant character, and his personal interests often involve creating a bigger, better, and more popular image, even though he is secretly a very smart and somewhat heroic character.
9. The Tick
The Tick is the immensely strong and dim-witted superhero at the center of The Tick comic book series. The Tick's heightened, often violent heroism, straight-man delivery, and tendency to battle foes in the silliest of fashions lampshade the clichés of superhero comics. The Tick is a parody of superhero stereotypes, and his blend of brawn, innocence, and earnestness has made him one of the funniest and most well-known heroes in comics.
10. Spider-Man
Spider-Man, the masked vigilante with spider-like powers and incredible agility, first appeared in Marvel Comics and quickly became an international pop culture icon. Known for his acrobatic fighting style and wall-crawling abilities, Spider-Man fights crime while also cracking jokes and delivering one-liners. His combination of humor, relatability, and heroic actions has made him one of the funniest and most beloved superheroes of all time.
Now that we’ve talked about 10 of the funniest heroes, here are 10 hilarious, but also terrifying, villains.
1. Joker
The Joker is the insane trickster criminal from DC Comics who is best known for being Batman's arch-enemy. He is a humorous villain with a warped sense of humor, elaborate pranks, evil laughter, and often turns crime into a wild circus. His insane pranks, unpredictable evil, and witty comic brutality have made him one of the most famous and disturbingly humorous villains of all time.
2. Harley Quinn
DC Comics' Joker's sidekick, Harley Quinn, is a zany, mischievous villain. She's a clownish trickster who uses acrobatics, speed, and wit to cackle through her crimes. The psychopathic clown can get away with her antics due to her comedic charisma, quirky demeanor, and outrageous slapstick humor, making her one of DC's most hilarious villains.
3. Lobo
Lobo is a fictional comic book antihero character published by DC Comics. He is an outrageously strong, intergalactic space brawler with a penchant for dark and violent humor and morbid sarcasm.
4. Condiment King
Condiment King is a villain appearing in DC Comics known for using condiments such as ketchup and mustard as his weapons. Condiment King is a very silly villain, and his use of condiments as weapons along with his goofy appearance makes him more humorous than villainous. He isn't a particularly threatening villain, but his wacky humor and bizarre imagination make him a fun and humorous character.
5. Kite Man
Kite Man is a foolish villain in DC Comics who fights (more like commits crimes) with kites as his weapon of choice. His incompetence, silliness, and catchphrase-filled overtures make him a comedic foil rather than a menace. As one of Gotham's goofiest and most dedicated villains, Kite Man has been made out to be an icon of hilarity in his own right.
6. Loki
Loki is a trickster Norse god and Marvel villain known for his deceit, scheming, and theatrics. He frequently employs jokes, snark, and pranks to fool heroes and cause mischief. His charisma, humor, and mischievous villainy make him one of the funniest and most capricious characters in the Marvel universe.
7. MODOK
MODOK is a grotesquely humorous Marvel Comics supervillain in the tradition of characters like the big-headed Gargantos. His giant head and minuscule body house a personality that is as paranoid and megalomaniacal as it is ridiculous. He is an absolutely delusional character, hatching grandiose schemes and going on long, bitter rants.
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8. Leap-Frog
Leap-Frog is a zany, obscure DC Comics villain known for employing spring-loaded devices and frog-themed escapades in his schemes. His absurd gimmick and bumbling attempts at villainy make him more ridiculous than intimidating. With his over-the-top theme and clownish failures, Leap-Frog adds a playful, humorous element to Gotham's rogues gallery.
9. Crazy Quilt
Crazy Quilt is a costumed DC Comics criminal who is known for his crimes committed while wearing a patchwork, kaleidoscopic, and ostentatious costume of bright colors and patterns and for employing numerous light- and color-based gadgets in his often silly and visually cacophonous schemes. He is an extremely eccentric, over-the-top, and theatrical character.
10. Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man
Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man is a supervillain in DC Comics who is known for his absurd, silly, and over-the-top gimmick. He is a character who can transform into any animal, plant, or mineral at will. His unpredictable and outlandish transformations into random animals, plants, and minerals often result in humorous and wacky scenarios.
