7. Murmur
I wanted at least one super recent Flash villain on this list, and Murmur creeps me out, so on he goes.
Michael Amar was a creepy spindly serial killer who incriminated himself in a serious crime. As a result, he sewed his mouth shut. Seems like overkill to me, but I don’t want to be a Judge-y Jason about it. He took the name Murmur, in reference to his newfound inability to speak clearly. Presumably because “What? Speak up!!†and “Do you have marbles in your mouth or something?†didn’t make for great supervillain names.
Murmur is also immune to many toxins and poisons, which is a nice plus. Look, Ragdoll creeps me out, and Ragdoll didn’t SEW HIS FRIGGIN’ MOUTH SHUT. Jeezum Crow, that’s messed up. That’s messed up for realzies.
Unfortunately, Murmur doesn’t really come up that often. In fact, in all my research, I couldn’t find an instance of him being used after the end of the Geoff Johns run. Well, he showed up on Arrow, but that’s about it.
6. Abra Kadabra
FUTURE MAGICIAN! God, this is why I love Flash villains.
Abra was a magician from the 64th century, where science was so amazing, stage magic was no longer impressive at all. So Abra was out of a job at children’s birthday parties or whatever. Losing gigs to those goshdarn future clowns. So Kadabra stole a time machine and went back in time to the 20th century to find a captive audience. And by captive I mean kidnapped. Because he was also a criminal.
Kadabra menaced the Flash quite a bit, even turned him into a puppet once. That’s a great cover and issue, by the way. All the Abra Kadabra ones are. Seriously, no old school Flash villain is the source of as many great silver age Flash stories as Abra Kadabra.
And he’s back now!!!!!!!!! Yeah, he popped up in the DC Rebirth Titans series (which is pretty good, by the way). Because he menaces Wally West just like the olden times! Good to have you back, Kadabra.
