Originally Posted by
Kuwagaton
I think being afraid of silly is its own problem though. You take his first five villains with staying power, and the only one who's not arguably silly is Luthor.
But when it comes to holding it against him, I think it just shows his versatility. There are street level characters with magical imp rogues, symbiotes, and other things that clash in ways we don't see with Superman. Thor isn't menaced by the likes of Prankster or Funky Flashman, but then he's limited to pretty much the same asgardians and general godlike beings. I mean for the sake of competition we have an Australian guy called Captain Boomerang who throws boomerangs, a guy named Scarecrow who dresses like a Scarecrow and scares people, and a guy with a freeze gun called Mister Freeze. Stay cooool and chiiiiilll.
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