VOTE FOR THE BEST SUPERVILLAIN OF 2006!

There was one guy who, in my mind, was WAY more evil than the rest.

I'd actually place Black Adam in the superhero category this year, personally. But as he's been typically portrayed as a villain, I can't argue with his inclusion in this category, and he's definitely been fascinating to watch.

I can't comment on Ultimate Doom, as I don't read Ultimate titles.

Alexander Luthor and Superboy Prime are both big candidates, considering their effect on the DCU and their attitudes. Either of them could have gotten my vote.

But for this one, I have to give it to the superhero who has basically turned into a fascist. Fascism is a cold, calculating form of evil, and it's far worse when it comes from someone who is supposed to be holding up the ideals. Kind of ironic... Tony Stark got his start fighting against a totalitarian government...

Hooray for Tony!

Ultimate Doom pretty much all he's done this year and feel free to correct me those who read the Ult. Fantastic Four regularly. Okay what I know of is that he personally infested Johnny Storm with a creature from the Negative Zone just so he could get one up on Reed Richards. When Richards' was forced to ask for Doom's help he asked that in return they change bodies.
Then when saving Johnny he drew the creature into himself (being Doom's body) so that he could gain more power. It being trapped in Doom, what with him having no flesh to consume. Afterward quickly he despatched of the zombie Fantastic Four and cast himself into the Zombie dimension where I believe he's currently stuck.

Yeah, that's all he did. But he did it with a badassity that few can. But Tony takes the cake.

Wow, I'm not reading Civil War but has Tony really done villainous deeds? I'm sure he's the antagonist, I just didn't realize he'd turned into a villain.

Yup. EEEE-vil. Not 'mustache-twirling, strapping penelope to the railroad tracks' evil, but a much more sinister, quasi-rationalized villain, which to me is much scarier.

Well, I'd be inclined to view the whole registration and "you-must-work-for-the-government-or-go-to-jail" thing as being a pretty good start towards villainy in and of itself. But there's more, of course.

[spoilerof=Civil War]He cloned Thor, providing Stark with a barely-controlled Asgardian-strength being without a conscience who is filled with rage, which led to the death of Goliath, and nearly to the deaths of the Young Avengers and several other heroes.

Additionally, he's hunting down heroes by using serial killers such as Bullseye, Venom, and the Green Goblin. He's "keeping them in line" by having explosives planted in them, but still... that's not a good thing by itself, let alone the obvious concerns that SHIELD may not activate it fast enough to prevent a death, and a genius like the Green Goblin has quite probably already figured out a way to circumvent it. If a hero is caught, and refuses to switch sides, Tony exiles them to the Negative Zone.
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Ah, but wasn't it SHIELDs idea about hunting down non-registered peeps. I thought he just got carried away with it all.

I still agree with the Registration act principle, just not SHIELDs method of enforcing it.

Yes...yes. Would you like a cup of tea?

Keeping this in spoiler tags...

[spoiler]Hunting them down was part of the act... which Tony Stark supported. Forcing them to join the government or be imprisoned was part of the act... which Tony Stark supported. The gulag was directly his idea. The Thor-clone was his idea. It's unclear whether the new T-Bolts were his idea, but he was very clearly in support of them.

He's a villain.
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And I'll disagree about the registration in principle as well; but I acknowledge that is in part due to the American/British divide in mentality.

But how many people did he kill in 2006? Superboy Prime and Black Adam clearly have a much larger bodycount. Black Adam has been following a fairly facist ideal for this year as well. Although e is softening due to the influence of Isis but still. He ripped at least one person in half!

I'd definitely argue that the bodycount is not the primary factor of villainy. After all, the Punisher's body count is quite high, but he's considered a superhero. It's the total actions, and for me, Iron Man's non-killing actions outweigh the handful of deaths Black Adam has done (which has been pretty small).

Superboy and Alexander Luthor, of course, both killed quite a few people and had a lot of other villainous actions. And both were strong contenders for my personal vote.

In what sense - I didn't get what you meant here?

Well I'd totally agree about Iron Man being a villain. Forcing his fellow heroes to sign up with the government or locking them up. Turning on his life long friends to boot.