What is a Median Super-Villain? It’s a made-up category of character that doesn’t fit into either of the other two made-up categories that I’ve been working from up til now, the Super-Villain and the Minor Super-Villain. <\/p>\n
By my definition, Median Super-Villains are all actually Minor Super-Villains: they have a limited number of appearances and your parents have never heard of them. So what gives them the extra zazz that makes them Median? It’s that they keep on appearing<\/i>, mostly. Some, like Wotan or Ian Karkull, manage to elevate themselves to the status of Super-Villain, but as time goes on we will be encountering more and more characters who recur for a few years or a decade or to this day but are objectively still minor – your Signalmans, say.<\/p>\n
Since this blog started out as a Twitter thread, my original mandate was to condense things down as much as possible – that’s why the early entries are so short and poorly written, because I was adapting a couple hundred tweets into blog posts (the later entries are longer and poorly written because I barely edit). This led to a habit of trying to condense every villain’s career into a single post, but no longer! Since I read comics one year at a time that’s how we’re dealing with villains’ careers as well, and we’ll offer updates as they appear in subsequent years. Huzzah! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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