Supervillain

A supervillain is a variant of the villain character type common, often found in comic books and action and science fiction films. Supervillains often have colorful names, costumes, and/or other eccentricities, and most concoct complex and ambitious schemes to accumulate vast power and suppress their adversaries.

Parodies of supervillains

Because the supervillain is such a common but distinct character type in modern fiction, several parodies have been created. Some of the most well-known include:

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• Charles Montgomery Burns, Mr. Burns on The Simpsons, in various episodes, as when he builds a device to block out the sun: "He's gone from regular villainy to cartoonish super-villainy!" At least one episode featured a shot of Mr. Burns with the Darth Vader theme playing.
• Stewie Griffin, the talking baby of the TV series Family Guy. In earlier episodes attempted to control the weather to rid the world of broccoli, and his biggest aspiration is to complete his matricidal efforts.
• Dr. Evil, adversary of the comedic spy Austin Powers
• The Brain, from the cartoon series Animaniacs, a diminutive lab mouse bent on global conquest.
• Syndrome, the hyperactive evil genius and superhero-wannabe from the computer animated film The Incredibles
• Christopher Hobson, the incredibly brilliant yet relatively young Mad scientist with remarkably little common sense from the Nevonia series of books.
• Il Palazzo, from Excel Saga, is a stereotypical, self-important anime Evil Overlord who wishes to conquer the world, even though his evil organization consists solely of himself and a rather spastic, incompetent teenage girl.
• Dr.Colossus, who appears briefly in an episode of The Simpsons. A generic supervillain who once dated Stacy Lavelle (creator of Malibu Stacy) and is forbidden to go near Death Mountain (where he keeps all his stuff) as part of his parole. His main tools are his 'Collosso Boots'.
• The Evil Dr. Skull, from obscure underground cult hit Genero Man, is a parody of the typical mad scientist.
• O'Malley, the main villain and common adversary of both sides in the machinima series Red vs Blue, is an over-the-top supervillain caricature who wants to "crush every living soul into dust", and who frequently uses cliche and ridiculous dialogue such as "You foolish fools will never defeat me! You're far too busy being foolish!" and "Prepare for an oblivion, for which there is no preparation!".
• Professor Chaos, the recurring alterego of South Park 4th grader Butters, seeks to spread fear and chaos as revenge upon the world that has forsaken him, i.e., made him socially unpopular, but has a problem with scale. Exploits include attempting to destroy the ozone layer by spraying regular aerosol cans, and flooding the planet by leaving the backyard hose on.