This isn't a list of villains with the highest body count, it's a list of the most brutal villains. Think of it this way: 100 people could die peacefully in your sleep, or one person could die by tripping head-first into a woodchipper. Which one is "brutal?" Thanos was cold and calculating and his victims disappeared in a blink. Not brutal at all, just...a lot of them.
@@underdogpunk6250 It's okay to be a DC mark, as long as you realize how full of shit you are: imgix.bustle.com/inverse/74/ec/80/7e/a457/4447/83b0/603248b497f1/thanos-brutally-murders-sam-wilsons-captain-america-in-jeff-lemires-thanos.jpeg
Should've put Kevin from Sin City. Dude was a cannibal who "ate people's souls" and smiled pleasantly as Marv cut him to pieces while still breathing. He also listened to his victims screams from outside their cell.
I think that Willy Pete should be pronounced as it is spelled, is likely a euphemism for male genitalia and thus a thinly veiled hint towards the character's raping tendencies as well as being an alternate apellation for White Phosphorus.
You're definitely right about the pronunciation and association with white phosphorus. Willy Pete is a nickname for white phosphorus grenades commonly used by the US military.
Magneto as a "villain" makes sense, but the truth is his willingness to be such for the greater good. Anti-hero maybe, villain, no. More like chaotic justice
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions." No matter what Magneto believes in, that doesn't change the pain and misery he has visited upon homo sapiens and superior alike.
@@Tboss8910 Indeed he is. He's like a dark reflection of Judge Dredd. He's just as passionate about enforcing the law...he just thinks that life is the root of all crime.
Two movies at the very least. One to introduce him, show what he can do...and at the end of the movie, reveal that he is a spirit that can possess any corpse he pleases (Dredd thinking him simply dead by the end) and releasing the other Dark Judges into the world. The sequel can be sort of based on the Necropolis story arc...minus a few things, like Judge Kraken and such.
I agree... I know Thanos can be brutal from time to time, but Darksied embodies the very word “brutal”. He is brutality incarnate. Thanos wants to wipe out half the universe... Darksied wants to wipe out the entire universe. In my humble opinion, that comparison alone makes this a no-brainer.
[SPOILER WARNING] I think the name for the number one on the list is Willy the same way the Orca is named in Free Willy and not like the coyote The name seems to stem from a slang term for White Phosphorus, which was used in the Vietnam war to horrifying effect and highlighted in Spec Ops: The Line
I would given a spot to Nemesis. Despite his short career as a villain (as the title character in a 4 issue mini-series), he was incredibly vicious and basically a proto-"Batman Who Laughs"...
Hard to argue that he doesn't belong on this one. We're talking about the guy who made someone swallow crushed glass. Another time he cooked a baby into a stew and had the father eat it. Personally, I prefer the old Joker. The one who did things that he found funny, like stealing a kid's report card.
He has raped and assaulted a ton of people. He has killed children woman elderly and reanimated them. He has killed more people then most dictators irl. I dont even need to list much, Just that alone makes him fit most lists about big bads. He beat a child to death with a crowbar... like hes literally one of the worst. The joker is the poster boy for "Quirky toxic crazy love" And it really gets to me. But thats a side rant.
@@FeedMeSalt When did he stoop to rape? That just goes against decades of character development! Joker used to pride himself on being an artist as well as a genius at crime. Now it seems like all he does is just try to shock people. Sure, some say he raped Barbara Gordon during The Killing Joke, but that just seems to be an assumption. She's certainly never mentioned it. I swear, if there really are three Jokers, I want the silver age one to kill the modern one for tainting his image. This is not the man who tried to copywrite fish.
@@Bluesit32 In the killing Joke it wasnt out right said, but the art work of Gordon's wife and the goal of the joker for the story make it seem the case. Its 50-50 for people i find. Myself i believe he did. There was also a scene in which he shoots batgirl point blank and then unbuttons her top while they cut away to something else. Implying he did it there as well. i think actual confirmation would tank the sales. I lied slightly sorry about that. Id LOVE for there to be 3. Your idea is good
It was like that in the graphic novels too - Empowered started as the artist got bored of doing skeevy Damsel-in-Distress pictures and wondered what it would be like for the damsel in question, so it starts out quite light and silly following this struggling heroine with a reputation for getting caught and tied up. Willy Pete comes in almost out of nowhere, as this repulsive terrifying force of nature. You know her boyfriend has a dark history, but you didn't think it was pure, distilled and concentrated nightmare fuel. The first two volumes start out as being mostly short sketches but as the series progressed the volumes become much more coherent narratives. If you want to read them, they are being serialised online if you search for 'Empowered Comic', and it is currently part way through volume 7 (out of 11 volumes in print, and a few side stories). It's not going to be for everyone, it plays up to and satirises superhero tropes, but in amongst the goofiness, you get moments of heartbreak and drama, and pieces of real beauty too
The odd thing about Willy Pete is that he doesn't feel gratuitous like the Game of Thrones villains. I can't quite explain it, but to me they feel like the GRR Martin has gone out of his way to make them be evil, but WP is just unrestrained appetite. He just seems more honest than Ramsey's wife's forced bestiality, and more frightening because of it (along with his incredible power level)
My favorite comic book villain is Mystique. My husband BJ's favorite comic book villain is Darkseid. My son Jesse's favorite comic book villain is Scarecrow. My son Jared's favorite comic book villain is Kraven The Hunter.
You guys missed "Preus" in Action Comics #822. That dude has the same powers as Superman, and raped women to death perhaps even pieces. Defiantly, "10 Most Brutal Comic Book Villains" material!
You'd think the villains in this count down were disturbing enough. Think about the actual minds that created these villains. Truly disturbing indeed...
Deathstroke in comics: Absolute mad lad, would murder you for fun and do it all again the very next day Deathstroke in Arrow: "Oi Ol-ie-vere- you gotta help me son! We 'er friends ain't we?"
Oh not you too Jules. Not you too! You were seemingly the only staff member without pronunciation issues. Bane broke Batman’s “bat”? Does nobody ever listen back and do edits on the audio recordings? And Willy Pete is not pronounced Wiley. I know this seems picky, but surely you guys WANT to get this stuff right, as a matter of professional pride. The video is only 15 mins long.
Tboss Fair point. I mentioned video duration to point out that it isn’t a mammoth effort to listen to it and edit out mistakes. If the video is barely over 10mins long, there is even less excuse for it not to be reviewed properly before publication. This is the video equivalent of a magazine not proof reading, and printing a load of spelling mistakes.
@@originalkangarootoo to be fair. I got a little pissed off myself at the bat thing too. But we all make mistakes, hopefully they'll do better next time. Looking at you Scott
Tboss If it were a one off it wouldn’t matter, but it’s a running issue with the channel. As someone who works in a different creative industry, the lack of quality control is galling. Literally, how hard would it be to listen back to the recording, and go “ah, fluffed that sentence” and re-record it? It isn’t like these go out live. It isn’t like the issues are in the script. It is literally a person recording a line again. Of course mistakes happen, but fixing those mistakes should just be part of the process. How can What Culture not have a process for reviewing and fixes mistakes, as part of the basic business of doing the job? It isn’t like its infrequent, it is about 70% of the videos. Honestly, it makes no difference to my life. The lack of quality control just makes me sad.
Agenda? Read more Empowered...most of her villains are pants shittingly terrifying and WP is definitely the scariest. As in he bones the eye sockets of human skulls and promised not threatened to do so to one of the main characters and did to a friend of his.
DEATHSTROKE IS THE GARY STU OF VILLAINS! Sigh, there, I said it. I feel better. Don't get me started on Sabertooth, btw, IMOHO, the novelty with him wore off about a decade ago.
There is no such thing as power over magnetisms. Either he’s capable of manipulating electromagnetism, and that makes more sense judging by the way he’s controlled matter in certain situations more believable. However there is no such thing as strong and weak nuclear forces, gravity and “magnetism”, it has to be a, albeit limited in range, a capacity to manipulate electromagnetic forces.
The most brutal thing i've seen here is the censorship for the word bastard. You talk about rape, eating people alive and showcase graphic imagery of the comics themselves but will go to the extra extent to edit a mild word such as bastard. Come on...
No Lobo?!?!?! The definition of hyper violent comics. His wespon of choice was a fucking jagged hook on a chain. Should be top 3 or at least on this list. Damn it
OK, do you people even read comics??? The fact that Kid Miracleman didn't make your list--near the top--indicates to me that you don't. Most of the villains you listed were trivial compared to his body count and the sheer EVIL of what he did. (Hint: Get a copy of Miarcalman #15 and get an education.)
@@calebmufcthompson that's right out of wedlock, but I still believe bastard is not a "curse word" and shouldn't be censored. It'd be like censoring the words unpleasant or despicable.
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Thanos - mass genocide on a universal scale = #10
Bane - broke Batman's back, snapped Alfred's neck = #6
This isn't a list of villains with the highest body count, it's a list of the most brutal villains. Think of it this way: 100 people could die peacefully in your sleep, or one person could die by tripping head-first into a woodchipper. Which one is "brutal?"
Thanos was cold and calculating and his victims disappeared in a blink. Not brutal at all, just...a lot of them.
@@wickideazy You're only familiar with Thanos because of MCU, aren't you -_-
its about brutality not body counts
example: Bats doesn't kill but his brutality
@@underdogpunk6250 It's okay to be a DC mark, as long as you realize how full of shit you are:
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@@dahakaguardianofthetimelin4780 He's nothing w/o his little blue helicopter
Magneto didn't remove Wolverine's adamantium skeleton, he removed the adamantium from his skeleton
ikr, know the difference dammit!
I think it was the skeleton, since jean had to hold him together
How did he get the adamantium back eventually? And recover his healing factor because iirc it was trashed after that.
Not to mention shorting out his healing factor in the process
@@davidjsaul That was courtesy of Apocalypse
Who thinks Judge Death has that "cenobite" like feel?
This is a spoiler for the boys
Noir from the boys is pretty brutal
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Hi, I exist to plan an execution for when the worst of the supes goes wrong. Welcome the supes counter measure
Would spoil the show tho.
Should've put Kevin from Sin City. Dude was a cannibal who "ate people's souls" and smiled pleasantly as Marv cut him to pieces while still breathing. He also listened to his victims screams from outside their cell.
I am so happy you included a character from Empowered! 😄
I think that Willy Pete should be pronounced as it is spelled, is likely a euphemism for male genitalia and thus a thinly veiled hint towards the character's raping tendencies as well as being an alternate apellation for White Phosphorus.
You're definitely right about the pronunciation and association with white phosphorus. Willy Pete is a nickname for white phosphorus grenades commonly used by the US military.
Magneto as a "villain" makes sense, but the truth is his willingness to be such for the greater good. Anti-hero maybe, villain, no. More like chaotic justice
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions." No matter what Magneto believes in, that doesn't change the pain and misery he has visited upon homo sapiens and superior alike.
And concentration camps definitely had a thing or two to do with it, especially since Hitler loved encouraging experiments on advanced humans
One of the best Sin City lines ever- "And than I took his other gun." (Rips balls off)
"I take his weapon away.
Both of them"
@@thelivingjed9676 fucking brutal.
Really surprised Judge Death never made it on film. A proper *R* rated *"Judge Dredd"* film.
So. Is Judge Death from Judge Dredd? He confused me in the video
@@Tboss8910 Indeed he is. He's like a dark reflection of Judge Dredd. He's just as passionate about enforcing the law...he just thinks that life is the root of all crime.
Two movies at the very least. One to introduce him, show what he can do...and at the end of the movie, reveal that he is a spirit that can possess any corpse he pleases (Dredd thinking him simply dead by the end) and releasing the other Dark Judges into the world. The sequel can be sort of based on the Necropolis story arc...minus a few things, like Judge Kraken and such.
@@Tboss8910 main nemesis to the Dredd himself.
Dredd was R rated.
Should of had The Governor or Negan on here.
I’m surprised that none of twd villains were on here
That such a thing as Willy Pete can even get published is disturbing by itself. Wow.
I was surprised to see him, but agreed with him being at the top of the list, most of Empowered's actual foes are terrifying.
Willy Pete, a villain who burns enemies alive, is named after White Phosphorus. It's a damn fitting name if I say so myself
Megatron also ought to be included on this list.
Where’s Darkseid?!? He’s much worse than thanos, thus shouldn’t be compared to him or even replaced by him. Definitely deserves a place on the list
I agree... I know Thanos can be brutal from time to time, but Darksied embodies the very word “brutal”. He is brutality incarnate.
Thanos wants to wipe out half the universe... Darksied wants to wipe out the entire universe.
In my humble opinion, that comparison alone makes this a no-brainer.
love both 'em ( except in comics since his motives are dumb )
but darkseid doesn't deserved to be in this list
He deserved a list of his own
[SPOILER WARNING]
I think the name for the number one on the list is Willy the same way the Orca is named in Free Willy and not like the coyote
The name seems to stem from a slang term for White Phosphorus, which was used in the Vietnam war to horrifying effect and highlighted in Spec Ops: The Line
That yellow bas... sometimes connections can...
What about Professor Pyg? One word: Dollotrons
Kid Marvelman/Kid Miracleman makes my list. Look him up.
It's a bit hard to top what he did in Olympus, isn't it?
You mispronounced Willy. It rhymes with Billy. A reference to White Phosphorous.
I would given a spot to Nemesis. Despite his short career as a villain (as the title character in a 4 issue mini-series), he was incredibly vicious and basically a proto-"Batman Who Laughs"...
I swear, the Joker is in ever other list.
Hard to argue that he doesn't belong on this one. We're talking about the guy who made someone swallow crushed glass. Another time he cooked a baby into a stew and had the father eat it.
Personally, I prefer the old Joker. The one who did things that he found funny, like stealing a kid's report card.
He has raped and assaulted a ton of people.
He has killed children woman elderly and reanimated them.
He has killed more people then most dictators irl.
I dont even need to list much, Just that alone makes him fit most lists about big bads.
He beat a child to death with a crowbar... like hes literally one of the worst.
The joker is the poster boy for "Quirky toxic crazy love" And it really gets to me. But thats a side rant.
@@FeedMeSalt When did he stoop to rape? That just goes against decades of character development! Joker used to pride himself on being an artist as well as a genius at crime. Now it seems like all he does is just try to shock people. Sure, some say he raped Barbara Gordon during The Killing Joke, but that just seems to be an assumption. She's certainly never mentioned it. I swear, if there really are three Jokers, I want the silver age one to kill the modern one for tainting his image. This is not the man who tried to copywrite fish.
@@Bluesit32 In the killing Joke it wasnt out right said, but the art work of Gordon's wife and the goal of the joker for the story make it seem the case. Its 50-50 for people i find. Myself i believe he did. There was also a scene in which he shoots batgirl point blank and then unbuttons her top while they cut away to something else. Implying he did it there as well. i think actual confirmation would tank the sales.
I lied slightly sorry about that. Id LOVE for there to be 3. Your idea is good
Wiley who?(3 mins later)...
👀!!!
It was like that in the graphic novels too - Empowered started as the artist got bored of doing skeevy Damsel-in-Distress pictures and wondered what it would be like for the damsel in question, so it starts out quite light and silly following this struggling heroine with a reputation for getting caught and tied up. Willy Pete comes in almost out of nowhere, as this repulsive terrifying force of nature. You know her boyfriend has a dark history, but you didn't think it was pure, distilled and concentrated nightmare fuel.
The first two volumes start out as being mostly short sketches but as the series progressed the volumes become much more coherent narratives. If you want to read them, they are being serialised online if you search for 'Empowered Comic', and it is currently part way through volume 7 (out of 11 volumes in print, and a few side stories). It's not going to be for everyone, it plays up to and satirises superhero tropes, but in amongst the goofiness, you get moments of heartbreak and drama, and pieces of real beauty too
@@ishoottheyscore8970 A Sexy Superhero Comedy (except when it isn't). I don't think he could have come up with a better tag-line than that!
I googled Willy Pete and started to read Empowered - comics that has him. >_>
Hope you're enjoying the journey, they're somewhat eccentric, so I can see them not being to everyone's taste
"that yellow bah"
The odd thing about Willy Pete is that he doesn't feel gratuitous like the Game of Thrones villains. I can't quite explain it, but to me they feel like the GRR Martin has gone out of his way to make them be evil, but WP is just unrestrained appetite. He just seems more honest than Ramsey's wife's forced bestiality, and more frightening because of it (along with his incredible power level)
Griffith from berserk comes to mind for me, or most berserks villains to be honest
Manga does not count.
Empowered 😍remember reading it when I was teenagers
So, even though he's not a proper "villain," why wasn't The Mask included with how many innocents he (or she) killed?
I would have tossed The Smiler from Warren Ellis' Transmetropolitan on here for good measure
Gonna drop another call out for Alex Merkle Jr here
Yeah, pretty nice list of whole hearted baddies here...
Clarence bodeker from Robocop kurtwood smiths performance says a lot about the criminal also I liked T1000 from terminator 2 judgement day
Judge Death looks a lot like The Marquis of Death 👀
The Marquis of Death mixed with a little Batman who Laughs
It's not Wiley Pete. It's Willy Pete. It's what soldiers called white phosphorus in Vietnam.
Green Goblin is my favorite comic book villian
@Lawrence Rodriguez Both 90s & Dafoe
My favorite comic book villain is Mystique.
My husband BJ's favorite comic book villain is Darkseid.
My son Jesse's favorite comic book villain is Scarecrow.
My son Jared's favorite comic book villain is Kraven The Hunter.
Fun little fact, Deadpool (Wade Wilson) was based on Deathstroke (Slade Wilson)
Surprised Homelander and some of the other supers in The Boys didn't make the cut, but still a very solid list.
Im thinking there is Definitely gonna be a part 2 of this list. LoL
You guys missed "Preus" in Action Comics #822. That dude has the same powers as Superman, and raped women to death perhaps even pieces. Defiantly, "10 Most Brutal Comic Book Villains" material!
I was scrolling fast and I thought this was the thumbnail for a new Epic Rap Battles of History
Judge Death sounds awesome! Def gonna read up on him.
Saber tooth sounds pretty legit, too!
And Carnage is the GOAT!
The Guardians from the Green lantern comics seem like villains to me. They literally destroy whole civilizations
On your next video can you do alternate version M.O.D.O.K. please
Awesome that you went outside Marvel/DC.
Haven't you said bastard before?
Why censor it now?
Bastard is censored but not balls??? W T F
I would have added bullseye 🎯 to the list
What about Billy Kincaid from Spawn?
Where is Homelander from the boys?
First comment lol. Love the what culture channels!
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No your not your comment is 8 mins old while the others are earlier
@Lawrence Rodriguez true
You'd think the villains in this count down were disturbing enough. Think about the actual minds that created these villains. Truly disturbing indeed...
Nice to see outside marvel/dc
Deathstroke in comics: Absolute mad lad, would murder you for fun and do it all again the very next day
Deathstroke in Arrow:
"Oi Ol-ie-vere- you gotta help me son! We 'er friends ain't we?"
I thought number 1 would be DC Crisis ominous baddie. It destroyed hundred of earth and their famous heroes and villians.
Pretty much every character created by Garth Ennis (Homelander from the boys) or Mark Millar (Seth from the authority) would fit into this list.
Oh not you too Jules. Not you too! You were seemingly the only staff member without pronunciation issues. Bane broke Batman’s “bat”? Does nobody ever listen back and do edits on the audio recordings?
And Willy Pete is not pronounced Wiley.
I know this seems picky, but surely you guys WANT to get this stuff right, as a matter of professional pride. The video is only 15 mins long.
I hate to be that guy but, the video is approximately 11 minutes and 18 seconds long
Tboss Fair point. I mentioned video duration to point out that it isn’t a mammoth effort to listen to it and edit out mistakes. If the video is barely over 10mins long, there is even less excuse for it not to be reviewed properly before publication. This is the video equivalent of a magazine not proof reading, and printing a load of spelling mistakes.
@@originalkangarootoo to be fair. I got a little pissed off myself at the bat thing too. But we all make mistakes, hopefully they'll do better next time. Looking at you Scott
Tboss If it were a one off it wouldn’t matter, but it’s a running issue with the channel. As someone who works in a different creative industry, the lack of quality control is galling. Literally, how hard would it be to listen back to the recording, and go “ah, fluffed that sentence” and re-record it? It isn’t like these go out live. It isn’t like the issues are in the script. It is literally a person recording a line again. Of course mistakes happen, but fixing those mistakes should just be part of the process. How can What Culture not have a process for reviewing and fixes mistakes, as part of the basic business of doing the job? It isn’t like its infrequent, it is about 70% of the videos.
Honestly, it makes no difference to my life. The lack of quality control just makes me sad.
Surely Megatron belongs on this list? WhatCulture Comics never considers Transformers for their lists.
Top 5 best Gi Joe heroes
This is a really good list guys
And number 1 had to be an agenda one huh guys?
Agenda? Read more Empowered...most of her villains are pants shittingly terrifying and WP is definitely the scariest. As in he bones the eye sockets of human skulls and promised not threatened to do so to one of the main characters and did to a friend of his.
Thanos is one nasty dude.
Donovan, Berserk
Conquest from Invincible belongs on this list.
Whatculture: 10 Most Brutal Villains
Saint Of Killers: Hold my beer.........
DEATHSTROKE IS THE GARY STU OF VILLAINS!
Sigh, there, I said it. I feel better.
Don't get me started on Sabertooth, btw, IMOHO, the novelty with him wore off about a decade ago.
Let's be honest here. Sabertooth's novelty wore off in his second ever appearance.
Why are you not just saying bastard?
There is no such thing as power over magnetisms. Either he’s capable of manipulating electromagnetism, and that makes more sense judging by the way he’s controlled matter in certain situations more believable. However there is no such thing as strong and weak nuclear forces, gravity and “magnetism”, it has to be a, albeit limited in range, a capacity to manipulate electromagnetic forces.
That Yellow Bas....
I think it's time for an updated list with more obscure baddies.
No bullseye? He blew up a building daredevil was standing on just so he'd feel what it was like to have a hundred people die under his feet!
Frank Castle has some work to do
did he really just say thanos was more brutal than darkseid? come on jules no way
I would have added Violator on this list.
The most brutal thing i've seen here is the censorship for the word bastard. You talk about rape, eating people alive and showcase graphic imagery of the comics themselves but will go to the extra extent to edit a mild word such as bastard. Come on...
How come Lobo wasn't in this list
No Lobo?!?!?! The definition of hyper violent comics. His wespon of choice was a fucking jagged hook on a chain. Should be top 3 or at least on this list. Damn it
Lobo is more of an anti hero
Judge death reminds me of the batman who laughs
Any villain from the crossed series tops everyone on this list.
Major Force killing GL's Girlfriend or the Ultimate Blob killing Wasp.
Judge Death remind me of Batman who laugh 🤔
Y'all forgot about Onslaught from X-Men
You can say all that stuff about bodies being torn in half or amputating limbs but can’t say the word bastard.
Where is Violator???
Mephisto should make the list.
You can't even say the word bastard in a most brutal villains list? What is this disneyland?
Gi Joe Snake eyes vs. Storm Shadow
Why the hell is bastard censored?
Is there a reason he's not saying "Bastard"?
Censorship for the offended people.
Judge Death vs Batman who laughs
I thought that was Homer on the thumbnail.
5:37 Bane broke Batman's bat????
Judge death look similar to the batman who laughs
Cuts out the word "Bastard," shows molestation and nuts being ripped off. Logic?
Why doesn't Zoe present anymore? :(
OK, do you people even read comics???
The fact that Kid Miracleman didn't make your list--near the top--indicates to me that you don't.
Most of the villains you listed were trivial compared to his body count and the sheer EVIL of what he did. (Hint: Get a copy of Miarcalman #15 and get an education.)
Umm... There's a reason Thanos and Darkseid are often compared...
I just accidentally farted to the beat of your video
Did you really just censor "bastard"?
What's next? "Butt"?
The more brutal the villain, the most iconic the villain becomes
*more *more
Bane is sure one
Most brutal villain is the Chainsaw Vigilante.
For the record a BASTARD is a child without a parent, an ORPHAN is a child without 2 parents.
Bastard is not a curse word.
That’s wrong, a bastard a child is born out of wedlock, or, a term used to describe an unpleasant or despicable person...
@@calebmufcthompson that's right out of wedlock, but I still believe bastard is not a "curse word" and shouldn't be censored.
It'd be like censoring the words unpleasant or despicable.