



Sauron Ah, Sauron… No, I don’t mean the ruler of Mordor who created the one ring to rule Middle earth. This eventually led to an obsessive need to collect things just for the sake of it. To keep himself busy, Tivan decided to start collecting interesting and rare items throughout the universe. His wife gave up her own immortality billions of years ago after losing the will to live. Also known by the name Taneleer Tivan, the Collector is a being of immense power who basically picked up the hobby due to boredom. Needless to say, in nearly 75 years of comic appearances, he hasn’t met his goal yet… The Collector Ever met a comic book collector, or any collector for that matter, who has run out of space in their home due to the hobby? The aptly named Collector is representative of what happens when the need to collect goes too far. Rather than moving past this fact, Nygma has become obsessed with proving his intellectual superiority over his foe. Unfortunately for Edward Nygma, he’s always foiled by the world’s greatest detective, Batman. The obsessive-compulsive criminal mastermind is singularly focused on incorporating riddles into all of his criminal activities. His motivations for pursuing crime are less than usual. The Riddler The Riddler is one of Batman’s oldest and most enduring villains. Here are five villains with terrible motives. However, some villains lack a certain sensibility to their own machinations. As a Holocaust survivor, he has seen the worst of humanity, and therefore wants mutant-kind to rule over them. On the other hand, Magneto’s motives are straightforward. Other times, what drives him appears to be far deeper than that, almost like he’s attempting to make a broader statement about humanity itself. At times, they seem simple enough: He’s a psychopath who simply wants to create chaos. The Joker is intriguing because of his motives. Afterall, what’s Batman without the Joker? How about the X-Men without Magneto? The motivations behind the madness of a good villain are also of great importance.

In fact, it can be argued that they are equally if not more important than their heroic counterparts. Villains are a vital part of any good comic book.
