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3. Madder Red

(Bedlam, Image Comics)

When you start off decapitating cardinals and using their heads as especially Catholic sock puppets, you can’t get much crazier.

Madder Red was the most feared and terrifying villain in the city of Bedlam. Until he died. Only, he didn't die; he was kidnapped and mind-controlled into becoming a normal guy with a desire to do good. As Fillmore Press, he helped Bedlam's police department deal with crazy villains, and they never knew just who he was.

Most of Press's time as Madder Red is locked in flashbacks throughout the criminally short run of Bedlam, but every instance of it is bone shatteringly creepy. I mentioned the priest-puppet scene, but even creepier is the opening that shows us what he's like. His supposed death comes right at the pinnacle of the most evil thing ever, and it’s spellbinding to read.

He's a monster, through and through.