Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics Page #2
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In the superhero we have this exaggeration
of what our hopes and desires are.
At the same time the
villain has aspects of us...
...that challenge the strengths
that we're admiring in the superhero.
I would like to think that most
people identify with the hero, heh.
But in this day and age there might
be some who identify with the villain.
I understand getting a gun that shoots ice
and going into a bank and trying to rob it.
We understand temptation.
have to do with temptation...
...whether it's Pandora or Adam and Eve.
This very basic quality in human beings
that runs with us throughout our lives.
JOHNS:
Now, there are villainslike the Joker or Black Hand...
...that are so twisted and dark...
...you love seeing them do their
stuff, but you don't relate to them.
At least, you don't admit you do.
Everyone wishes that they could turn
invisible or fly or have x-ray vision.
And I think what's cool about villains is
everyone wishes that they could break bad.
What's the point of having a villain who can't
act out aspects of ourselves that we repress?
I can be evil. I'm gonna give
you my husband's number...
...and you can have a long
chat with him. Heh, heh, heh.
I think there are some people who really
associate themselves with, like, a Superman.
On the other hand, people covet
Lex Luthor's keen intellect.
When I was growing up I loved
the character of Vandal Savage.
DC had relaunched The Flash
with Wally West as the Flash...
...after Crisis on Infinite Earths and his
first villain that he fought was Vandal Savage.
He was immortal. And who
wouldn't want to be immortal?
And who wouldn't want to have
this far reach into history?
He's one of those villains that has nothing
to lose. That's a very dangerous man.
You know, he just knows
he will be resurrected.
How do you defeat that person?
You look good. Been working out?
You could probably use a little sun.
Then again, who am I to talk?
[LAUGHING]
They seem to be happy. Heh.
Most of the heroes,
especially of late...
...they're all broody and sad. They
never seem to be enjoying anything.
You look at villains and they're
having the time of their lives.
Harley became popular
because, in part, she's funny.
She can stand up to the Joker. She
can tell a joke. She can get a laugh.
When I go to conventions and I see
young ladies cosplaying as her...
...I think they just tap into that feeling of
fun and that she can just be kind of whimsical.
Harley Quinn is one of
those characters you love.
Even if she's smashing somebody
with a hammer, you love her.
There's a handful of those
villains, like Larfleeze...
...the Orange Lantern.
He's deadly but he's fun.
He's overwhelmed with greed and he'll kill
for it. He's still funny because of that.
He comes to Earth and finds out
there's a being called Santa Claus...
...who gives people
things that you list.
When Larfleeze finds out there's
...that answers your Christmas
When Santa doesn't show up,
he gets pissed off and says:
"I'm gonna kill him. " And he
goes on a hunt for Santa Claus.
There's very few characters that
you can pull that story off with.
Larfleeze is one of those characters.
NARRATOR:
But while villains canbe fun, as well as fascinating...
...they're also a direct
reflection of our own fears.
deep and personal terrors...
...that we are unable to
face in our everyday lives.
When writers create supervillains...
...when children imagine monsters...
...they're trying to make
sense of a scary world.
They're trying to feel strong.
They're trying to do so many things.
Villains in some ways, you know, should
reflect our fears and our concerns...
...you know, both as
individuals and as a society.
They change over time.
But the more important thing the villains
present is our more global fear...
...our more human fear,
our fear of loss...
...our fear of death,
our fear of the unknown.
The villain represents basically
everything that we fear...
...or everything that
we need to fight against.
Parallax is interesting because the idea that
it's a world-eater, that scares the hell out of us.
At any moment some
universal malevolence...
...can come and take us over.
By the time they were doing the
Superman show, I was an adult.
But whenever you'd watch those
Darkseid episodes, I'd be like:
"Oh, God, this is gonna
be bad. " You know...
...anybody who can
make Superman bleed...
...is somebody that you
Because what are any of us
JOHNS:
I really made Sinestro andthe Sinestro Corps embody fear.
They're cosmic terrorists.
Their mission when they come
"We're gonna make Green
Lantern's town a crater...
...and a symbol of fear, so that
nobody will ever come back here. "
Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps says,
"We're not afraid. We're gonna fight your fear. "
Hal flies to his brother's house and his
brother is there with his wife and his kids.
Hal Jordan says to his brother,
"You have to leave right now. "
His brother says, We're not
going anywhere. We believe in you.
We're not afraid. We're
standing our ground. "
Lantern says, "Hal, look outside. "
And someone's put a green
light in their window...
a green light in their window.
And suddenly there's green
lights all throughout the city...
...as a symbolic gesture to Hal.
And for me, that was a recharge moment
for Hal Jordan overcoming fear...
...but it was also a moment,
emotionally, for me saying, like:
"This is how we deal with
fear. We take a stand. "
They're our personal demons.
Like, they're the fears
we have about ourselves...
...come to life in these
incredibly colorful and bright...
...and sometimes funny,
sometimes terrifying ways.
All of us face those things in our lives,
where you face adversity in some way...
...where you're positive you're
not gonna make it through this one.
And I think we've all been there at some
point where you're just thinking to yourself:
"I am not capable of overcoming this. "
Whether it's a small day-to-day
thing or it's a big thing.
And what villains do is they represent
those fears on this macro way...
...I think, for the hero, who's the
representative of all the things we think...
We hope that humanity is capable
of or we're capable of at our best.
Then when the hero overcomes those
things at the end because they have to...
...it says to us that we can too.
NARRATOR:
Every myth has a creation.Just like our heroes, every
villain must have an origin.
And what qualities do we see
in the most popular villains?
Instilling a sense of
fear simply isn't enough.
Villains must be layered, nuanced.
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Submitted on August 05, 2018
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