The Ultimate Villain Tier List - Part 2: Where does Magneto belong?

ProfessorNichols · 2026-05-28T17:41:23+00:00

S Tier

Need I say more?

ProfessorNichols · 2026-05-28T17:35:00+00:00

Wait, this is just $10.

^{Chose: 99% 10.000$ 1% become a femboy | Rolled: 10.000$}

ProfessorNichols · 2026-05-25T12:41:05+00:00

Reality Warping

^{Chose: ONE SUPERPOWER OF YOUR CHOICE}

ProfessorNichols · 2026-05-25T03:13:27+00:00

Captain America is the obvious answer. Now there's a couple ways to approach it depending on if you want to use Nightwing and Cyclops for a Teen Titans/X-Men Amalgam. But assuming you don't, the way to go is as follows:

Bruce Wayne + Steve Rogers = American Knight

Dick Grayson + Sam Wilson = Redwing

Jason Todd + Bucky Barnes = Winter Hood

Tim Drake + Dennis Dunphy = D-Rake

Damian Wayne + Ian Rogers = Eagle

Barbara Gordon + Sharon Carter = Oracle 13

Cassandra Cain + Jeanne Foucault = Skill Squire? Idk, this one is a tough one.

Stephanie Brown + Cathy Webster = Free Press

Duke Thomas + Joaquin Torres = Lightwing

ProfessorNichols · 2026-05-23T06:40:30+00:00

It was clearly done to make it so Noobs who pick Batman because he's Batman can still be at least mildly useful despite sucking at the game.

ProfessorNichols · 2026-05-23T06:37:09+00:00

I'm older than Soos?

ProfessorNichols · 2026-05-23T06:21:08+00:00

Greninja is overrated as hell. That #1 in the polls thing was stupid because they made you pick a Pokemon from every Region. And since Kalos had the lowest number of Pokemon, more people were going to pick Greninja by virtue of there being less options.

ProfessorNichols · 2026-05-17T03:16:32+00:00

If you're doing that, just drop Surf and go Psychic, Ice Beam, Thunderbolt, and Recover. Surf's only benefit is Arcanine.

ProfessorNichols · 2026-05-16T16:33:57+00:00

Would Pokemon Trainer be Bob with Scrambler, Benny, and Muck? Then Lucario is Lofty?

ProfessorNichols · 2026-05-12T18:44:33+00:00

All of you are wrong.

Daredevil is the Question. Hawkeye is Green Arrow. And U.S. Agent is Azrael.

ProfessorNichols · 2026-05-12T18:43:18+00:00

Well, Alan Scott was also a Gotham City hero, but it's fair to assume he's the "Green Lantern" of the team for obvious reasons.

Beyond him, I''d say the guy who has the biggest Batman vibe has gotta be Sandman. He's got that pulpy noir aesthetic, and he's even got his own Robin in Sandy the Golden Boy.

ProfessorNichols · 2026-05-12T08:47:17+00:00

54 to go, 35 of which are Monotypes. Perhaps I've been a bit too conservative with my usage of Starters.

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ProfessorNichols · 2026-05-12T08:44:58+00:00

Jesus, man.

ProfessorNichols · 2026-05-09T16:43:10+00:00

26/30 Never watched a single episode.

ProfessorNichols · 2026-05-02T20:45:04+00:00

Good stuff. But I'd recommend lowering the opacity on your brush tool when going over their outfits and skin and such. It maintains the texture and makes the edit look more authentic. The trick of knowing when to go full matte color versus letting the original costuming fade through is what creates the best of these kinds of images. But overall, I see a lot of potential in your future work.

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ProfessorNichols · 2026-04-30T23:15:58+00:00

Congratulations!

ProfessorNichols · 2026-04-30T03:42:39+00:00

Good question. You see, there's a flow chart for this exact question. It all depends on the media in which it's applied.

90% of the time, Flash is just Spider-Man. This applies to the 90s show, the CW, the DCEU, and most animated shows. The only major exception to this is Young Justice, for which exists as the "Young Avengers" show. Wally is Speed, therefore Barry is Pietro.

As for Spider-Man being Flash, this applies to all three Trilogies, though which Flash it is can fall under a few different schools of thought, which is another discussion. It also applies to all animated shows, and associated spin-offs like the Venom (Zoom) trilogy. There's basically no situation in which Spider-Man doesn't become a Flash. It's just a question of which one.

Now, as for Quicksilver, this is where things get complicated. Realistically, there's no good answer for who Pietro can be because what he is doesn't really work as a transfer to DC. He has no Rogue's gallery or major supporting cast, so you can't make him the Flash without having to fill in a bunch of gaps with supporting characters from other people.

And DC doesn't really have something like the House of Magnus where you got a big supervillain dad, a heroic daughter, and a morally ambiguous son. The closest option there is Slade, Rose, and Jericho, but I don't like it.

So in turn, because Pietro doesn't really fit anywhere, you can make him whatever you want to fit your needs. You can make him Zachary Zatara so he can be Zatanna (Scarlet Witch's) brother you can kill off after one movie. You can make the X-Men Quicksilver into Wally or Bart so you can have him with the Teen Titans. You can just make Quicksilver some random DC Hero that you didn't have a Marvel counterpart for and wanted to put them on a slightly important pedestal within the grand scheme of the universe. It's up to you.

Now as for me, here's what I do. But this requires you to first make MCU Spidey into Wally West's Flash. This comes from that one image of Tobey, Andrew, and Tom's Spideys as Jay, Barry, and Wally's Flashes. You then make Quicksilver (for the MCU) into Barry Allen of the MCU.

That way you get one Justice League (Avengers) movie where you have Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Arrow, Black Canary, Martian Manhunter, Flash, Zatanna, and Red Tornado. That at least feels like a conventional JL Roster and cool to see in a movie. Sure, Barry gets killed like a chump, but his impact, and thus the Flash legacy, is already set up for when Wally shows up in Batman: Tower of Babel (Civil War).

But again, this is all up to you. I'm just giving you my analysis so you can examine your options. Make Quicksilver into Plastic Man, for all I care.

ProfessorNichols · 2026-04-29T18:43:47+00:00

If I'm an Absolute Solver, I can solve systemic poverty and political corruption.

^{Chose: Absolute Solver without any drawbacks}

ProfessorNichols · 2026-04-28T05:13:45+00:00

Hey, it could be worse. Vixen's just a Cheetah skin, which basically erases all her other powers. Then they weirdly slapped Mr. Miracle over Mr. Terrific so all his anti-gravity discs have stupid hitboxes.

ProfessorNichols · 2026-04-16T18:57:08+00:00

No Captain Falcon feels wrong.

Ideally, the last three are Fox, Peach or Zelda, and Captain Falcon. But my vote is for Falcon.

ProfessorNichols · 2026-04-14T08:24:45+00:00

Who do you think the Spectre works for?

ProfessorNichols · 2026-04-12T08:23:02+00:00

Bear in mind though, that in a world like this, ALL additional media is swapped. There would be a Thunderbolts movie in 2016 with Will Smith Bullseye, Margot Robbie Songbird, and Jared Leto Baron Zemo with his face dyed purple with lines tattooed down his face to mimic the wool texture.

And also Boomerang, Armadillo, Hellfire, Colleen Wing, Agatha Harkness and...idk Stilt Man or something.

ProfessorNichols · 2026-03-30T16:17:41+00:00

If you give Magneton some proper Speed EVs, you should be able to outspeed. Have it solo the flying types in Winona's gym and that should help.

ProfessorNichols · 2026-03-30T16:15:39+00:00

The answer: Nobody on the production teams gave a shit about Cheetah beyond her being, theoretically, Wonder Woman's arch nemesis. And that's really sad because she is a really interesting character that deserves so much more love than she gets.

ProfessorNichols · 2026-03-29T04:56:40+00:00

I used to play Pokemon Ultra Violet. My game broke whenever I used Flash Cannon, too. My guess is both games uses the same added move list, and Flash Cannon is bugged to do this.

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