10 “Big Picture” Manipulators In Comics

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There are some characters who won't be happy with anything less than the entire world to control.
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  • @kingbeauregard
    @kingbeauregard Жыл бұрын

    Nobody but me remembers the absolute coolest thing about Kang: he spent the 20th century introducing future tech from his company "Timely Industries" (under the name Victor Timely), thus shaping the Earth-616 20th century to his liking. Ever wonder how they were building artificial men in 1940, when on our world we hadn't even created transistors? That's Kang. Every implausibly futuristic scientific advancement in the Marvel 20th century, Kang supplied at least some of the materials. This came up in the "Citizen Kang" storyline in the early 90s.

  • @garibaldilebeau

    @garibaldilebeau

    Жыл бұрын

    There’s also the fact that his time as Rama-Tut coincided with the original emergence of Apocalypse and that he was responsible for Apocalypse enhancing himself with Celestial technology. Apocalypse rampage on receiving his powers, bringing down much of his seat of power, was part of what caused Kang/Rama-tut to flee after he encountered a time-travelling fantastic four

  • @alexoblivion9295
    @alexoblivion9295 Жыл бұрын

    Wow, Apocalypse has grown much since the time I read any comics. I'm happy for him.

  • @ferd617

    @ferd617

    Жыл бұрын

    He was a major player in Hickman's early restructuring of the entire mutant society around Krakoa... so much so, they ended up writing him out pretty much completely around 2 years ago.

  • @garibaldilebeau
    @garibaldilebeau Жыл бұрын

    You mentioned the biggest, but didn’t include him…Nathaniel Essex aka Mr Sinister He spent over a century manipulating people to create what he believed was the perfect bloodline, partly to free him from Apocalypse’s control, partly as the (then) ultimate culmination of his work When he lost one of his penultimate pawns, Jean Grey, in 616, he created a clone of her - Madelyn Pryor He ensured he got Scott and Alex Summers assigned to his ‘orphanage’ (secretly housing a lab he used to manipulate his potentially powerful charges), identified Scott as the optimum candidate to father his ‘ultimate mutant’ and sent Alex to a foster home, manipulating Scott with mental blocks and stories (or manipulation - depends on the writer) of brain damage from his fall from the plane for years before ‘allowing’ him to meet Xavier & become his student to ensure he met Jean Even in AoA, he manipulated and experimented other mutants to allow him to create Nate Grey using genetic material from Scott & Jean He cloned every mutant he worked with, and gathered genetic material on any others he could, just to allow him to keep experimenting He arranged the death of the Morlocks in order to remove undesirable mutants from the gene pool (and remove Dark Beast’s rival experiments in later retcons), manipulating Gambit over many years so that he could call in a ‘favour’ when needed He set up the Black Womb project meant to enable him to monitor bloodlines and provide him with test subjects. He also uses this as a chance to genetically manipulate his ‘colleagues’ so that their bloodlines can become host bodies for his consciousness if needed He uses Celestial power to take control of a city, turning it into his Utopia in a disguised attempt to get them to wipe out humanity so he can start again and populate earth with his ‘perfect’ mutants He creates clones of Moura Mactaggart which he uses to reset the timeline after any errors, allowing to repeatedly attempt courses of action which would be ‘problematic’ and, along with corrupting Ressirection, allows him to control other mutants and, eventually, the wider populace In one future, he manipulated the quiet council on Krakoa to allow him to build his breeding pits, helped orchestrate the need for his Chimera then used them to destroy most of the mutants on Krakoa, all to ensure his own survival

  • @SensoriaMaRia

    @SensoriaMaRia

    Жыл бұрын

    With "Sins of Sinister" in full effect, I think we are beginning to learn just how awful it is when Mr. Sinisters long term plans are realized.

  • @amanzeihedioha

    @amanzeihedioha

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@MightyMitoMaria Speak for yourself. The guy's name is associated with misfortune and ill intent.

  • @SensoriaMaRia

    @SensoriaMaRia

    Жыл бұрын

    @@amanzeihedioha What are you saying to me? I was agreeing with your detailed comment that was spot on! I can't win anymore and at this point am glad I'm terminally ill. Sick to death of people and this fucked up planet. Thanks for the tears tonight and congrats on being "the smartest asshole in the room."

  • @hunterrousseau3770
    @hunterrousseau3770 Жыл бұрын

    No. 9, I think James Gunn might bring back Viola Davis as her in the DCU, if her DCEU version survives in season two of "Peacemaker"

  • @Sunprism
    @Sunprism Жыл бұрын

    I'd love to call out Moonstone. She's a sadistic psychiatrist with some Superman level powers. I love the multiple scenes where she would of won if she just came in fists swinging, but she prefers to try to be the manipulator on the battlefield, which often gets her in more trouble

  • @hunterrousseau3770
    @hunterrousseau3770 Жыл бұрын

    No. 10, thankfully he will be done a lot better in the MCU when they actually introduce him

  • @majidmoro3866
    @majidmoro3866 Жыл бұрын

    Great list and thank wish you posted on what culture comics more

  • @jbruning1291
    @jbruning1291 Жыл бұрын

    I mean, I'd personally switch Lex and Darkseid. Lex is brilliant and is always looking to get ahead. But Darkseid rarely loses entirely, his foes always losing something when in conflict.

  • @floridamanknives
    @floridamanknives Жыл бұрын

    Great list 👍

  • @U.S.CyberSoldier50
    @U.S.CyberSoldier50 Жыл бұрын

    You forgot my 2 most favorites Ultron & Brainiac. !

  • @hunterrousseau3770
    @hunterrousseau3770 Жыл бұрын

    No. 1, thankfully he will be done a lot better in DC Studios' DCU after the disappointing portrayal of Jesse Eisenberg in the role from the DCEU

  • @jamalvargas6146
    @jamalvargas6146 Жыл бұрын

    I See These Guys Are Going The Eric Cartman Route but better

  • @mariamiranda111
    @mariamiranda111 Жыл бұрын

    I would like to give a mention to the mutant Moira!

  • @camw369
    @camw369 Жыл бұрын

    I'm like doom but instead of crippling arrogance it's crippling depression hah.

  • @jinglesnig
    @jinglesnig Жыл бұрын

    i love this content so much keep up the good work guys first comment first like and first view 😎😎😎😎

  • @hunterrousseau3770
    @hunterrousseau3770 Жыл бұрын

    No. 2, hopefully he will done a lot better in James Gunn's DCU as the big bad since we were originally suppose to get him in the DCEU with Zack Snyder's Justice League before Joss Whedon came in and instead release he's cut of the film in theaters instead

  • @BlackDragonUSMC
    @BlackDragonUSMC Жыл бұрын

    Ozymandias?

  • @blackknight300
    @blackknight300 Жыл бұрын

    I think you added a zero at the end of Doctor Doom number on this list

  • @Martynde
    @Martynde Жыл бұрын

    I'm getting bored of WhatCulture Comics continually refusing to acknowledge comic book publishers that are not Marvel or DC.

  • @callmealex69
    @callmealex69 Жыл бұрын

    I liked young justice vandal savage. That idea that he's the metagene progenitor is good.

  • @kratoscraken5614
    @kratoscraken5614 Жыл бұрын

    All that matters is Vandal Savage and Darkseid 💪👍💪

  • @chadflanaganCFC
    @chadflanaganCFC Жыл бұрын

    No mention of the -21 Batman/The Batman Who Laughs granted during his time he was oversaturated to death, but he killed everyone on his earth manipulated dozens of evil Batmen to fight with him with the goal being the death of Prime Earth, forced Batman and Joker to work together, manipulated Prime Batman into nearly becoming another Batman who Laughs just so he could use him for a bigger plan, infected several heroes incognito even into jokerized versions of themselves while imprisoned, got one over on Preputua (probably butchered the name) the goddess that created the big bang, and became for a time the strongest being in all of the multiverse by bodyjacking BatManhattan.

  • @ericmiller93
    @ericmiller93 Жыл бұрын

    Open your heart to their suffering.

  • @SensoriaMaRia
    @SensoriaMaRia Жыл бұрын

    Why can't Doctor Doom or Doom God be the next big baddie in MCU Phase 5 instead of Kang? Kang can time travel and ???

  • @grizzlednerd4521
    @grizzlednerd4521 Жыл бұрын

    Ozymandias from Watchmen...who actually succeeded with his plan.

  • @khahinmetameta7826

    @khahinmetameta7826

    Жыл бұрын

    Kane from command and conquer tiberium series takes the cake though

  • @jacobkeim1979
    @jacobkeim1979 Жыл бұрын

    No joker?

  • @yadielenielbellecolon982
    @yadielenielbellecolon982 Жыл бұрын

    😍🥰👌😃

  • @yaboy880
    @yaboy880 Жыл бұрын

    Joker starting injustice alone is enough to put him on this list, and reverse flash is missing

  • @brandonscott5544
    @brandonscott5544 Жыл бұрын

    Joker, and DR.DOOM, THANOS

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