Then, there are the villains that are just too inane to ever live again. There are villains who fight in a ridiculous manner like BrickBat, a Batman knock-off who relies exclusively on bricks as weapon, as well as characters with the most boring names like Generic Man, Ugly Man, and He-She (yep, each one is exactly what their moniker implies).

Some are here because they are generic rip-offs of popular villains, such as The Clown (a Joker wannabe) and Cat Girl (a Catwoman knock-off), while others are included because they sound like they belong on an episode of Criminal Minds rather than comic books, such as Mother Goose, a cross-dressing drag queen that kills people and grinds their bones to make bread. The reason each villain is included varies, of course. In The Legion of Regrettable Supervillains, author Jim Morris explores more than a hundred of the goofiest bad guys ever to make their way onto paneled pages. You know, the criminals, troublemakers, and evil freaks with strange powers that were too ridiculous, too absurd, or just too damn stupid that they’ve since been relegated to comic book oblivion, never to be heard from again. Just like its superhero counterpart, the 256-page book covers the worst of the bad guys in comic book history. If enjoying that left you asking for the supervillain version, well, your wish has been granted in the form of The Legion of Regrettable Supervillains. Remember that book that compiled the goofiest superheroes in comic book history? Yeah, that was hilarious.

The legion of regrettable superheroes