Thread:LucidPigeons/@comment-27586321-20150521010932/@comment-27560932-20150521013623

What an odd question to ask on the Villains Wiki...

I don't really engage in heroes so much as villains, but I have two favorites, those being Batman himself and Randolph Carter.

Batman's, well, Batman. He's more interesting and dynamic than other DC heroes, I feel (my personal opinion is that while DC has the better villains but weaker heroes, Marvel has weaker villains but better heroes, though both are memorable in their own rights), and he's more badass because frankly, he is only human. He doesn't have any fancy powers but his own intellect, and my suspension of belief stands because he's a comic book character and all media which he's presented in doesn't try to push him to otherwise.

Alfred's awesome, though, especially his snarkier incarnations. The saddest scene of The Dark Knight Returns (not Rises, as this one was based off a comic that pushed the dark edge of Batman to its extreme) was I feel Alfred's stroke.

Carter, on the other hand, is actually a human protagonist from Lovecraft. He's essentially an author avatar for the man himself, and he's gone up against some of Lovecraft's supernatural aspects, including visiting dream-worlds. He talked with Nyarlathotep. That alone is worth some points. He also adored cats, which I myself am extremely fond of. Quite frankly, I feel it odd that one of the more memorable characters actually is a human; outside of Herbert West, how many other humans from the Cthulhu Mythos can you name?