Six very strange and highly offensive comic book supervillains
Posted by Josh Taylor / December 30, 2013
We expect previous generations to be, well, politically incorrect, but these comic book supervillains are astoundingly offensive. Take, for example, He-She:
A popular formula for creating a superhero or supervillain is to just grab two different things and combine them: bats and men, ghosts and riders, daring and deviling. Guess what two things the villain He-She was a combination of. Go on, guess.
Yes, He-She is a half-man, half-woman hybrid who uses the power of having both boy and girl parts in deviously criminal ways. How the fuck does that even work, you ask? Well, first the “She” half seduces people using her feminine charms, and then the “He” half kills them with his manly strength and steals their money.
In other words, He-She’s entire strategy depends on being seen only from the right angle and adopting a high-pitched voice — like when he manages to trick Crimebuster after the teenage superhero was just talking to the other side of his face.
Crimebuster realizes what’s going on and tries to apprehend He-She but keeps getting hindered by dudes who will do anything that half a pretty face and a single boob will tell them to do.
After a series of wacky misunderstandings, He-She is finally arrested by the happy-go-lucky Crimebuster and his pet monkey Squeeks, and then immediately fried in the electric chair, because that was the only way comics were allowed to end in the ’40s. Don’t feel bad for him/her, though: The narration to this comic explains that He-She had no soul.
Full story at Cracked.
Photo credit: Cracked
Comments are off for this post.