By any and all measures, Iron Fist’s the guy. If for no other reason than Kraven’s bruised ego. I mean, the dude killed himself out of shame. Swing bigger, man. Because, let’s be real, losing to the latest in an immortal line of flame-fisted punch-gods isn’t going to be nearly as embarrassing.
Mole Man Should Be Fighting Shazam
Debuting in Fantastic Four #1 in 1961, Mole Man is, at his core, a cheeseball villain who probably should have stayed in the Golden Age of Comics. Or maybe not — even then, he was a goofy relic of an earlier time, basically walking out of a Jules Verne novel and into the pages of Marvel’s Atlas-era monster mags.
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Mole Man is a weird-looking dude in a cape who followed a band of intrepid explorers to a mysterious island and then fell into the subterranean kingdom of Subterranea, Marvel’s unimaginatively-named version of the Hollow Earth. After accidentally blinding himself by looking at something too shiny, Moley decided, screw it, I live underground now and set about learning how to control monsters and Moloids — the latter very much modeled after the Morlocks from H.G. Wells’ Time Machine.
Despite being one of Marvel Comics’ oldest characters, no writer has ever really turned him into much of a threat. Sometimes he’s a benevolent ruler, sometimes he’s a revenge-fueled troll, and sometimes he’s easily bribed with a bag of Blu-rays.
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