The Fantastic Four are Marvel's first family, but they unfortunately don’t seem to get the credit they deserve. This is due in part to their villain base.
The FF have a great stable of villains, and it includes my pick for all-time greatest comic book villain. But I want to talk about the other guys first – the characters we don't talk about as much because…sigh…they don't have a regularly published comic book, because someone doesn't want to advertise for a movie they don't own.
Let’s start with an honorable mention: The Red Ghost! Red Ghost was a Soviet man with a plan. That plan entailed replicating the flight that gave the Fantastic Four their super powers, but with himself and three test monkeys. I cannot for the life of me figure out why he thought this was a good idea.
But it worked, and Red Ghost gained the power of intangibility, which comes in handy when three superpowered and very scared apes are trying to rip your face off. No, Ghost actually got along pretty well with his super monkeys. They fought together numerous times, and even joined the Intelligencia, an organization composed of the smartest villains in the Marvel Universe. I'm really not sure how he managed to get in there.
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10. Namor
Namor the Sub-Mariner has a complex, complicated history that’s often been intertwined with the Fantastic Four’s.
Namor first appeared way back in the ’40s as one of Marvel's first heroes. The Atlantean allied with the…well…Allies during World War II in an effort to stop the bombings of his undersea kingdom. With his bathing suit and tiny little ankle wings, Namor was a hero for some time.
But when the war ended, he got all pissy with surface dwellers in general and flooded New York. He was defeated by the original Human Torch and eventually wound up as an amnesiac who just wandered around, lost.
Johnny Storm, aka The Human Torch, found him decades later and helped him regain his memory. Namor thanked him by resuming his war on the surface, with the Fantastic Four regularly throwing up roadblocks. But Namor didn't hate the entire team; in fact, he immediately fell in love with Sue Storm, the Invisible Woman. Unfortunately for him, Namor was a total creep, and she wanted nothing to do with him.
Namor once used ocean treasure to buy the film rights to the Fantastic Four, just to mess with them. No further explanation on that one.
