Best of the Worst

What could be more threatening than a monocle themed villain? Literally anything? Yeah. Literally anything. Monocle first appeared in Flash Comics #64 -- Check out Season 2 of Multi-Versus and use our code BEST at https://multi.vs/best to get 7% off of their ad-free with ads tier!

The Swarm is a swarm of Nazi bees. No, really. The Swarm first appeared in "The Champions" #14 -- Check out Encase at your local airport for a quick, safe*, and cheap way to fly! *Up to 80% of people now survive the freezing process!

Apparently a sloshing bucket of paste feeding into a super-soaker is a super power now? Paste-pot Pete first appeared in Strange Tales #104 -- Help this non-profit bring back the Ents! Go to https://entees.trees to learn more.

The Eel is an aquarium curator in a greasy purple body suit living his best life. -- Check out SuperBiteBox and let us know which powers you get! https://superbite.thebox/best

We learn that DC Comics actually beat Marvel to the punch and created a villain called Spider Man ten years before Peter Parker made his debut. For some reason, a sad old man with fuzzy feelers and a sack of goo wasn't as much of a hit... Spider Man first appeared in WHIZ Comics #89 -- Sponsor: Get climbing with Plungies at https://plungies.limousine and let them know we sent you. Please. Please let them know we sent you.

The Spot is why we should fund the sciences: so more of our PhDs don't go into super-villainy. The Spot first appeared in "Spectacular Spider-man" #98 -- Sponsor: Check out the Conical Conifer Incognito Cover from TreeTV at https://CCIC.TreeTV/podcast

What better nemesis could there be for Superman than a little guy with a pencil mustache, no super powers, who commits crime by playing pranks (and taking deep dives into U.S. Copyright Law). The Prankster first appeared in Superman #22 -- Utility belts: not just for superheroes anymore! Check out the You-tility Belt at https://youtilitybelt.yb/best and get 2% off all add-ons!

Batman franchises his operation out to a South American country in 1949 and the result (basically the same Batman, but with a mustache and colorful poncho speaking Spanglish) is something that has not aged well. Bat-Hombre's first, and thankfully only, appearance was in Batman #56 The Batman Gambit: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BatmanGambit -- Hold on to your hat! The Haticopter will be slicing its way into your life (but hopefully not your collarbone!) soon. Check it out at https://HaticopterFit.Transport/Now

Look, drugs and tobacco are bad. Don't do them. What you *should* do, according to the 1945 comic featuring Yankee Boy v. Reefer King, is dress up in a star spangled unitard and, without a mask or superpowers, go take on murderous drug dealers. After you finish your homework, of course. Reefer King first appeared in Dynamic Comics #16 -- Trap-Eze: Trap doors made easy! Check out their assortment of floor hole doors at https://trapeze.co.us.hi and use code BEST for a free consultation!

Two brothers had conflicting dreams about how to put their puppet skills to good use. One wanted to bring delight and joy to children everywhere. The other wanted to use them to rob banks and commit secret murders. By the title of the episode you can probably tell which brother's vision won out. Unfortunately, he didn't see Doll Man coming (except he really did because Doll Man, despite the intimidating name, was actually kind of bad at being a superhero). -- Bluetooth* Headsets! Get your $4 rebate on a new Bluetooth Headset by using our code "OF THE" at https://therealbluetooth.tooth *Bluetooth Headsets is in no way affiliated with Bluetooth SIG, the managers of the Bluetooth protocol.

If you big inspiration in life is to be like the guy who wants to be a marsupial, you might want to re-evaluate those goals. "The Kangaroo" is a Spider-man villain who first appeared in "The Amazing Spider-man" #81. The Brian Hibbs version first appeared in "The Spectacular Spider-man" #244. -- Sponsor: Menace on the road with style! Check out Lairbnb and use our code, BEST, for your first night at your lair away from home free! Check it out at https://lair.bnb

Because what shows your genius and mastery of all things super-villainy more than a giant spikey wookie suit that shoots rubber cement from its nipples? -- Tired of your todo list? Get you to do it with Clones4U. Get your 100 day risk-free trial (and support the show!) at http://clones.4.u/botw

Brickbat is the answer to the question: what if Batman was evil...and wore a lime green dress suit...and threw poisonous bricks. -- Check out the first consumer-grade, FDA-approved shrink ray: the Shrink-Sync and get $600 off at https://shrink.sync/botw

Phantasmon the Terrible, who shoots electric snot rockets, has a legion of demons, and comes from the planet Diablor, has met his evil match: corporate America. -- Check out the OK-Ray! Who needs a Death Ray when you can get an OK-Ray! Go to https://ok.ray/botw for a mandatory quote! -- Check out Scoundrel: History's Forgotten Villains at https://myths.link/scoundrel

A cruel and imposing space wizard comes to earth and asserts his own twisted form of justice on us and, of course, that makes him the hero? -- Check out Bow Train Trainer VR at bowtraintrainee.vr/botw for 40% a whole mess of wires that are totally safe to wear while running on a treadmill and shooting a bow. -- Check out our new show, Scoundrel: History's Forgotten Villains at https://myths.link/scoundrel

Because what could be more intimidating than a household appliance? -- Do you want to live forever? If so, try out our code, BOTW, at lifeelixirjuice.boxez.co for a free taste sampler pack of Life Elixir brand juiceboxes with your first order of 18 boxes of the same flavor.

"The Death Throws" is a juggling-based assassin group that is good at branding and bad at crime. -- Get your RocketBooties+ at https://RocketDock.command/bootiesplus and use our code, BOTW, for a free first aid kit!

Uglyman vs. The Web: "Henpecked Hero" is a matchup that you have when you don't care about selling comic books. -- Bat2Go! Visit https://bat2go.co.join for 1% off your 3rd car kit!

The story of Human Flying Fish is a tale of why you shouldn't give up on your dreams, even when those dreams are ridiculous and bad. -- Sponsor: VatBox! The only monthly subscription box that delivers you a vat full of chemicals. Jump in them to maybe get special powers. Construct rickety scaffolding over them to fight your nemesis. The fun is limitless. For 50% off a 22-month subscription, go to https://thatvat.boxamillion/botw

Stilt-man is a lesson in why you should just stop trying to make stilts a thing...unless you want to get beaten up by pretty much all the Avengers. -- Sponsor: Find your next henchman through HenchBench! For a two hour free trial and MANDATORY commitment, go to https://hench.bench/contract -- Try out our new show, Scoundrel: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/scoundrel-historys-forgotten-villains/id1609801925

Outlaws band together, I guess learn California state law, and legally found a town for outlaws. Looks like Batman is going to need to put some miles on the Batmobile and take a visit to sunny California. -- Sponsor: Get the Lightsaber Kitchen Knife 2.0 by going to https://get.lightsaberkitchenknives to get 70% off your first order of five kitchen knives or more!

When Catwoman (Selina Kyle) retires, her brother Karl Kyle decides to step in to become the King of Cats in Gotham city because not only does he not need to get new business cards, but what is more intimidating than a skin-tight hairy purple body suit? -- Check out our new show, Scoundrel: History's Forgotten Villains https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/scoundrel-historys-forgotten-villains/id1609801925 -- Sponsor: Lavish Capes! Get 20% off your first order by going to https://lavish.capes/botw!

Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man is the name you get when you let your enemies do your branding for you. And also when you can't make a decision about what form you want to take so you just jam them all together and become part dinosaur, part rock, and part cabbage. Scoundrel: History's Forgotten Villains: https://kastmedia.com/podcasts/scoundrel-historys-forgotten-villains/ All our other shows: https://nextpod.com

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