While superheroes manage to put on masks and
often successfully keep their civilian identities
hidden, supervillains tend to have a different
approach to their evil work.
Most villains proudly claim their name, full
of pride of their evil deeds.
Like Thanos or Victor Von Doom.
Even if they prefer to act villainous under
the radar, as soon as they find themselves
captured their identities tend to be revealed.
The good Scooby-Doo method of pulling off
that mask to see who was truly to blame.
And see if you the viewer, guessed correctly
and were paying enough attention.
Which means it is very rare that we meet supervillains
who continue to be shrouded in mystery.
Save for a few lucky souls who have successfully
hidden their identities by evading capture
or simply losing themselves in their supervillain
persona.
Today we'll be taking a close look at some
of these rare, villainous gems as we count
down the top 10 super villains whose identity
have never been revealed.
Be sure to stick around till the end of this
video where I will have some bonus content
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Alright, let's get counting.
10
Bane
So Bane's a weird one because we know his
backstory, he grew up in prison.
And worked hard to strengthen his mind and
body.
Eventually he was also injected with venom.
After rising a little to high on the prison
totem, the prison officials decided to use
him has a test subject.
This transformed him and turned him into the
beast we know him as today, aka Tom Hardy.
So while we know who Bane is and know that
he grew up in prison, either taking over for
his father's sentence after his father escaped--cause
yeah, that's how prison works--or being born
in prison and I guess just being forced to
live there...?
The why behind how this all came about is
still remarkably unclear.
Did his family not have any relatives who
could take him in?
Why do prison sentences pass on to the next
generation?
Did his father know this and just not care?
What we know of his back story just begets
more questions.
And he never is really given a birth name,
just Bane.
So his identity remains unknown cause he was
never really permitted to have one.
He was truly born in the dark.
9
Mystique
You think you know who Mystique is but odds
are good, none of us will ever truly know
who she is.
Or at least we won't know if we know, you
know?
Because of her remarkable shapeshifting abilities,
it is impossible to know if the standard blue-skinned
form we are used to seeing her in is her actual
form or not.
It is possible she may not have even been
female at birth.
Mystique often goes by the name Raven Darkholme
but no one even knows how old she truly is.
We know she met her lifetime lover, Irene
Adler destiny early in the 20th century and
that she met Logan around the same time as
well, but we do not know anything of her life
before that.
It is possible that Mystique could be thousands
of years old, could have been born with a
completely different name than Raven and could
have even been born a man.
8
Ruby Thursday
Unsurprisingly Thursday Rubinstein's origins
have yet to be revealed in the comics.
We know that she works for the Headmen and
is a villain but we were never given much
explanation as to why.
Where her head can be, she has a computer
ball.
While we know that Thursday chose to undergo
this transformation in a having a cyborg,
ball head, it's never really explained where
she came from or what her motive is in this
regard.
Her backstory is sorely lacking when it comes
to who she truly is and what her purpose is
other than to be evil and give everyone a
ball head.
The reason why this isn't too shocking though
as her character appears to have been created
as some kind of joke by Steve Gerber, Sal
Busceme and Jim Mooney, to see if they could
create a sexy female character who didn't
have a head.
Based on the male characters reactions in
the comic stories, it would appear they managed
to succeed too.
7
Overdrive
Overdrive is kind of one of the most adorable
mysterious villains.
We know some of Overdrive's past but not truly
who he is.
Namely that he was a skilled motorist who
very much wanted to become a superhero.
He attempted to become a hero but when that
failed ended up joining up with Mr Negative
and turning to a life of crime.
He is able to alter vehicles and some other
forms of tech by using his nano-bacteria.
In other words, he can trick out a ride just
by touching it.
He has been thwarted by Spider-Man on many
occasions, one time accidentally revealed
a bunch of his Spider-Man merch to the hero,
and confessing that he was his biggest fan.
He even begged police to keep the trademark
note that Spider-Man had left behind with
his restrained self, which read the standard,
"courtesy of your friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man."
6
The Orb
This villain was apparently just born that
way.
The Orb is famous for simply having an eyeball
for head.
He's got a similar vibe to Ruby Thursday except
that she was a scientiest who made herself
the way she is and he was just born deformed.
And by born deformed, I mean he was born with
a giant eyeball as a head.
He grew up in a freak show after being abandoned
by his parents.
As such his true identity before his life
as the Orb remains unknown.
5
The Skeleton
The Skeleton was a villain who's story was
short lived.
They were created by Brian K. Vaughan and
Marcos Martin and first appeared in Batman:
Gotham City Secret Files and Origins issue
1.
Appropiate.
They had the ability to transform themselves
into any villain, even appearing able to think
and move like them, perfecting disguised.
I say they because even the gender of the
Skeleton was never confirmed.
All we knew was that they were plotting to
take revenge on Bruce Wayne, who they had
known for a long time and felt slighted by.
However the Skeleton's story got lost in the
shuffle and we never got to find out more
about the villain in terms of who they were
or what they were planning for Bruce.
4
Onomatopeia
Truly a villain I wish we saw more of in the
comics.
Onomatopeia was originally a Green Arrow villain
who was created by Kevin Smith and Phil Hester.
He gets his name from the fact that he only
speaks in onomatopeias, words that represent
sounds.
Snap, buzz, sizzle, squelch.
You get the idea.
He has also gone up against Batman only to
be defeated but managed to escape the Bat
by stabbing Joker in the heart, forcing him
to choose between saving the Joker's life
or catching Onomatopeia.
Batman, being Batman, chose to save the Joker,
allowing Onomatopeia to escape.
Later the villain resurfaced as the vigilante
Baphomet and we appeared to learn much more
about his personal life, but it turned out
that his vigilante persona was all a ruse.
He had used the persona to get closer to Batman
only to betray Bruce and kill his lover at
the time, Silver St Cloud.
Who knows if what we learned of the villain
was part of the ruse or not?
3
The Foreigner
Despite existing since the 1980s, there is
very little we know about Foreigner.
He is a Spider-Man villain who once wanted
to recruit Spider-Man as an assassin for the
1400 Club.
However this didn't end up working out.
He even worked with Black Cat behind Spider-Man's
back in an attempt to do this.
Though Black Cat was not fully privy to his
plans.
She just thought they were working to defeat
Spider-Man.
For anyone who doesn't think Black Cat has
ever been villainous, this plot definitely
did not make her look super heroic.
Despite knowing that the Foreigner was also
formerly married to the Silver Sable, we still
have yet to find out his true name or much
else about him.
2
Kindred
At first this character seemed like they might
be some kind of dark ally.
But no longer.
Kindred is a demonic spirit that was once
a human soul, someone who knew Norman Osborn
and Peter Parker well.
He refers to Spider-Man affectionately as
Pete and help Peter to watch over MJ and protect
her while Spider-Man is stuck in a fight.
However it is then later revealed that Kindred
is really looking to get revenge on Peter
and afterwards, Norman Osborn who also tortured
the spirit in life as both Norman Osborn and
the Green Goblin.
While many have theories as to who the spirit
could belong to, the comics have yet to confirm
whether any of our speculations are true.
1
The Joker
It seems like anything we find out about the
true identity of the Joker just leads to more
mystery.
The Joker has probably had more origins stories
than any comic book villain and has remarked
before that if he must have one, he prefers
it be multiple choice.
Both his name and backstory have yet to be
pinned down and recent information that Batman
received has only led comic book readers and
Batman himself to have even more questions.
Batman asks the Mobius chair about the Joker's
identity and is told about 3 Jokers, leading
to even more intrigue when it comes to the
Joker's true identity and throwing all of
us fans a curveball we were not expecting
in issue 50 of the 2011 Justice League series.
Thank you so much for watching, nerd squad.
I hope you found this list informative.
Was anyone surprised by our number one pick?
Who do you think is the most mysterious villain
ever to come out of a comicbook?
Are there any villains who you feel like have
yet to be revealed and need to come back so
we can find out more?
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