Black Manta Confirms the Saddest Part of Being a C-List Villain
Warning: contains spoilers for Aquamen #4!
While many C-List villains are beloved by comic fans for their over-the-top nature, Aquaman's nemesis Black Manta just revealed the tragic truth behind them. While Black Manta himself is an influential villain with a seat on the Legion of Doom, the rest of Aquaman's foes are far less threatening, meaning he's familiar with some of DC's least impressive rogues.
C-List villains are generally villains who have an absurd or outdated gimmick and are not viewed as a serious threat by either the heroes they fight or the general audience. Many of these characters originate from the early days of comics, which featured less grounded plots and characters. Despite their over-the-top nature, some of these characters, like Kite Man, have received modern storylines to make them deadlier or lend them pathos, but many are still used just for jokes or as a minor distraction to show various vigilantes hard at work. This doesn’t mean that these sorts of characters aren’t popular, as many are beloved by comic fans for their outlandish costumes and weird obsessions, but it does mean they're rarely seen as significant threats.
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In Aquamen #4, written by Chuck Brown and Brandon Thomas with art by Sami Basri and Vicente Cifuente, the Scavenger, a minor Aquaman villain, is using a magical upgrade to his suit to fight Jackson Hyde and his father Black Manta. At one point in the fight when he thinks he has the upper hand, he gloats that Manta and everyone else won’t be able to laugh at him ever again. However, Black Manta responds by revealing something much more heartbreaking: he doesn’t laugh at Scavenger, because he never even thinks about him. In
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