Goofy Villains

[Steve]

Most often used in humor campaigns, but they also show up from time to time in regular campaigns and teen champions sorts of campaigns.

Heck, even Gotham City had the Condiment King, and he fought Robin and Batgirl.

So who are your campaign's most memorable goofy villains?

[phydaux]

Foxbat and Ogre are a regular villain duo in my game world.

I figure Ogre is just smart enough to know he needs someone to do his thinking FOR him, but is in fact too dumb to know that Foxbat is NOT the person who should be doing that thinking.

Foxbat, meanwhile, is MORE than happy to take Ogre "under his wing."

So I have Foxbat running around town trying all kinds of crazy schemes, with Ogre as his enforcer.

And when I role play Foxbat, I use Johnny Depp's voice from the movie Ed Wood. Sometimes when I do that, I think my players heads are going to EXPLOAD!

"That's right, it's a stick-up. And don't bother counting out the money, because I'll be taking the WHOLE VAULT. Oh Ogre..."

[Stephen Mann]

I only used them in one campaign, but my money's on C.L.O.W.N. because .... well, just because. Outside of the Ultimates, they were the only villain group I could stream-of-consciousness wing it without being out of character.

[gojira]

I would think the ninja from The Tick would be good here. Geeze, did these guys have any powers at all? I think they might be negative points, more of a liability than an ally.

Maybe that explains why there are so many of them....

[Rapier]

5 words:

C
L
O
W
N

!!

I've got a couple teams of goofy villains that frequently get involved in "who can pull the better trick" contests with clown.

There's Corporal Punishment, Abu the Ninja Monkey, the HumanSlug, SnotMaster, Jack B. Nimmbel and the Grungy Gorilla.

Get them and Presto and company in the room together and LOOK OUT!

[Worldmaker]

Let's see... there's the Evil Mastermind and his evil organization, Evil Mensa. There's American Tourister and the Luggage Wrack. There's the Five Senses Not Six Because ESP Isn't A Sense Using The Traditional Definition Of The Word, the Capital Gang, the One-Named Bandits, and Slugger and the Seventh Inning Stretch.

[sinanju]

The Murderous Man-Bear! - A nasty-tempered, obnoxious, amoral man was hunting one day when he was attacked and mauled by a radioactive* Kodiak bear. He gained bear powers from the incident. He became huge and hairy and super-strong and bear-like, with nasty, sharp pointy teeth and huge claws. He also has a peg-leg--he was bitten by a Kodiak bear, not a spider, dammit! The peg-leg is high tech, with modular components, including a jumpjet for superleaps or various weapons.

[Worldmaker]

The Murderous Man-Bear! - A nasty-tempered, obnoxious, amoral man was hunting one day when he was attacked and mauled by a radioactive* Kodiak bear. He gained bear powers from the incident. He became huge and hairy and super-strong and bear-like, with nasty, sharp pointy teeth and huge claws. He also has a peg-leg--he was bitten by a Kodiak bear, not a spider, dammit! The peg-leg is high tech, with modular components, including a jumpjet for superleaps or various weapons.

I am so very stealing this for the GGU.

[WhammeWhamme]

The Murderous Man-Bear! - A nasty-tempered, obnoxious, amoral man was hunting one day when he was attacked and mauled by a radioactive* Kodiak bear. He gained bear powers from the incident. He became huge and hairy and super-strong and bear-like, with nasty, sharp pointy teeth and huge claws. He also has a peg-leg--he was bitten by a Kodiak bear, not a spider, dammit! The peg-leg is high tech, with modular components, including a jumpjet for superleaps or various weapons.

That reminds me of a character concept I never fleshed out...

WeWerewolf
Background:
Bitten by a radioactive werewolf...
Powers:
Werewolf Powers. Which add on to the fact that he has all the powers of a werewolf when NOT in Werewolf form...

[Blue Jogger]

In my game:

Armature - The guy drove off with a prototype enclosed forklift that he used at work. "With this suit, I can lift things! I lift things well!" After being soundly defeated twice (the second time, someone bought him a new prototype) he vowed to seek help and to strongly consider being a hero if he managed to somehow get another suit.

Overlord - He would construct these brilliantly complicated plans that wouldn't work because of the heroes. His best defeat was when he designed a dozen attack robots which the players tried to override, "Ha! You can't override them. They sense any attempt to send an invalid command and attack the sender." Which caused one of the heroes to press all the buttons on his wrist which sent an invalid command... "Oh, this could only end badly."

Demon stuck in Horton Plaza - (If you haven't seen this place, it is an outside mall, several levels and designed so people would end up looping several parts of the building). The poor demon just wanted out, but because of its design, he could never get to an exit and he couldn't safely fly because of its strange geometry.

[Rook]

As was mentioned above, Corporal Punishment and his sidekick Whipping Boy, masochistic villians who are just in it to take a beating. Also Shocking Pink, a villainess whose grand schemes revolve around turning major landmarks pink.

[Zeropoint]

Demon stuck in Horton Plaza - (If you haven't seen this place, it is an outside mall, several levels and designed so people would end up looping several parts of the building). The poor demon just wanted out, but because of its design, he could never get to an exit and he couldn't safely fly because of its strange geometry.

No kidding! What is up with that place? Buildings should be designed for simple, easy acess to and from all parts. This place sure isn't.

The big clock down on the lowest level is pretty cool, though.

Zeropoint

[sinanju]

I am so very stealing this for the GGU.

Well, if you change the name, just tell me what you change it to so I can see.

[gewing]

The bun master and the spud king. Evil cooks who use multipowers based on types of bread and potato dishes respectively.


I may use a character "hero" I made once, the telekinetic kid. Imagine scott baio's character from Zapped, with the ability to feel what his telekinesis is touching, and the ability to transform clothes to other clothes.

He likes clown suits for politicians, garter belts for actresses, etc. Psychological age, oh about 14. maybe I'll let him grow up a little.

Imagine how far he would have to run after putting Grond in a Tutu.
comments from others in the area "That's just Wrong."

[Agent 13]

He likes ... garter belts for actresses

Well, who doesn't? Too much Benny Hill will have that effect on a young man.