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    Formerly known by names including "Atlas" and "Timely", Marvel Entertainment is the publisher of comic books featuring iconic characters and teams such as the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, the Avengers, the X-Men, Iron Man, the Hulk, Thor, Captain America and Daredevil. Currently owned by the Walt Disney Company, Marvel is one of the "Big Two" comic publishers along with DC Comics.

    yup its true marvel has better villains

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    SuperDrummer

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    Joker maybe but Luthor no. I've personally never found him all that interesting.

    Pfft, Luthor is a mean businessman, there are millions of those on Earth right now. To say he's more interesting than anything Marvel ever created is underestimating Marvel. Either way, I do think the OP underestimated DC. Despero, Deathstroke, Gorilla Drodd, Sinestro, Cheetah... those are some pretty impressive villains.

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    DC has just as many great villains as Marvel.

    Joker, Riddler, Penguin, Hush, Bane, Catwoman, Lex Luthor, Zod, Bizarro, Brainiac, Doomsday, Ares, Cheetah, Circe, Sinestro, Atrocitus, Professor Zoom, Captain Cold, Deathstroke, Darkseid...

    All of those are fantastic villains when they're written properly. Sure, sometimes they're not well written, but when they are they're great.

    But the exact same thing applies to Marvel. Green Goblin, Doctor Doom, Magneto, Mandarin, Red Skull, Loki... sure they're great villains, but again, only when they're written properly. There have been many times when those villains have been written completely wrong and they sucked.

    The point I'm making is that yes, Marvel's villains are indeed more realistic and flawed like their heroes, whereas DC's are more bizarre and all-powerful. This doesn't mean that either way is the right way, or any better than the other. It just means the two companies are different, and that's a good thing. At least we get more variety and can choose what we want to read.

    So let's just call it a tie, yeah?

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    DC

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    Bizzaro.....should I go on???

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    DC

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    Darkseid

    Deathstroke

    Entire batman rogues gallery

    Entire flash rogues gallery

    First born

    Black manta

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    Bizzaro.....should I go on???

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    The thing is, people assume Marvel has a more varied collection of villains because DC tends to mainly promote certain villains more than others.

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