Poll: Are villians overpowered?

[WolfThomas]

because villians do NOT TRUST OTHERS and must work alone, so they train to multitask.

Unless your the Hood, he's united all of New York's super-villains and managed to keep them in line for a good while, he is (or was it's complicated) also in an Alliance with Dr Doom, Loki and Norman Osborn.

Norman Osborn who has his very own team of avengers made up from villains such as Bullseye, Venom, Moonstone and Daken as well as more morally gray heroes as Sentry and Ares.

Oh and this alliance basically meant both the criminals and the government are/were after the real avengers.

Edit: Well none of those villain's trust anyone, but they do work together.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Villains aren't always overpowered, but to answer your question, I would presume because it makes things more interesting and also esp. climactic when it comes to the final showdown.

 

[no one really]

Villains aren't always overpowered

Well, if you would have bothered to read the whole thing, I used words as: Mostly, sometimes, usually and often.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Villains aren't always overpowered

Well, if you would have bothered to read the whole thing, I used words as: Mostly, sometimes, usually and often.

That was uncalled for, I answered your bloody question, didn't I?

 

[no one really]

Villains aren't always overpowered

Well, if you would have bothered to read the whole thing, I used words as: Mostly, sometimes, usually and often.

Something, something, something...

Bah, sorry. I guess that was uncalled for.
At least you took the time to answear my poll, right?

 

[(whitty name here)]

No matter how overpowerd they seem or are, they always seem to lose at an extremely high rate in an abnormally low amount of time.

Think about it. Think of all the games where the great hero (usually some chosen one, single person to save us all blah blah blah) Defeats the inpossibly over(under)powered evil villain to save the day just in time. How about, I don't know, WIN for once villains?

For example, LOTR books and movies. 2 hobbits go all the way across middle earth to save the day, making at least 4 its-a-good-thing-that-wasn't-any-closer moments, saving the day from the power that everyone was so sure was going to skull fuck existance.

Star Wars too (I'm not going into it. I just can't).

No matter how stacked the villains seem to be, the hero always wins by a womprat sized hole.

Ah here we are, how it should be for villains.

Spoiler

 

[ThatTallGuy]

if everybody was equal the fight would go on forever and the plot would get old really fast. heroes have to work hard and villains control everything until a weakness is discovered

So you mean like Dragon Ball Z? Seriously, they stand there and scream at each other, then disappear across the sky fighting, and it's a complete draw until the hero unleashes his ultra-mega-super-destructo beam thingy.

OT: I believe that the hero is usually depicted as underpowered because deep deep down, everyone loves to root for the underdog. However, Dr. Horrible's Sing-A-Long Blog, one of my favorite skewerings of the whole hero/villain dichotomy flips it the other way. The main hero is an indestructible super-douche, while the villain is the underpowered one. It was refreshing to see a different take on the whole thing.

 

[ethaninja]

But the Heros always win in the end so meh.