10 Villain Weaknesses In DC Comics You Didn’t Know About

When supervillains begin to terrorize heroes, they often are powerful adversaries that the good guys have to overcome to achieve victory. In DC Comics, many of the heroes are often overpowered themselves. Superman has almost any power a writer could think of. Batman is powerless but can beat anyone he fights if he has enough time to plan.

This means that villains need some sort of Achilles heel in DC Comics. Some villains have obvious weaknesses, but other DC villains have a weakness that many readers don’t think about. Whether this is because it is rarely used or because it is something no one considers, a villain with an obscure weakness can often cause a hero to search hard to find a way to bring him down.

10 Darkseid – Radion

Darkseid is one of the deadliest villains in the DC Universe, and he has committed many evil acts. When he showed up in the New 52, the greatest heroes on Earth had to team up as the Justice League just to stop him, and they couldn’t even beat him.

Before that, in Infinity Crisis, Batman sacrificed his own life to stop the conqueror. He did this with one of Darkseid’s lesser-known weaknesses. All the New Gods have a vulnerability to Radion, and that is what Batman used as a bullet to take him down.

9 Bane – Detox

Bane gains all his powers from a drug known as Venom. He injects it into his body and gains superhuman strength and durability. Bane is also a master strategist, so he knows how to put his opponents in a position where he can overpower them with his enhanced strength.

As shown in The Dark Knight Rises, Batman can stop him by cutting off the source of the drug. All it takes is to detox Bane of his Venom, and he ends up weakened to the point where anyone can beat him.

8 General Zod – Magic

General Zod is a Kryptonian much like Superman. As a result, he shares the same weaknesses as the Man of Steel. The most obvious one is Kryptonite, and a lesser-known one is his weakening when blocked from the energy of a yellow sun.

However, one weakness that few people talk about is his vulnerability to magic. It isn’t that magic hurts Zod worse than others, it is that almost nothing hurts Zod, but he has no defenses against magical attacks.

7 Black Adam – Saying Shazam

Black Adam has the same problem that Shazam has. Whenever Billy Batson turns into Shazam, he yells out the name “Shazam” and turns into the godlike hero. Whenever Shazam yells out the name again, he reverts back into Billy Batson.

This isn’t because Billy is yelling his superhero name. He is yelling the name of the wizard that gave him his powers, with each letter representing the gods whose powers he possesses. Black Adam received the same powers many years ago and so he has the same magic word to change. The problem is that Black Adam is an ancient being and returning to human form can kill him instantly.

6 Two-Face – Luck

Two-Face was once Gotham City’s brightest knight. He was a district attorney named Harvey Dent who believed he could clean up the corrupt town and he did it with a great drive. However, when he had acid thrown in his face, it drove him to madness.

He became the villain Two-Face, but he had one quirk. He only made his decisions based on the flip of a coin. He based his actions on luck, and with a bad luck coin flip, he could instantly fall in battle.

5 Ares – Love

Ares is the Greek God of War, which makes him one of Wonder Woman’s most dangerous enemies. His appearance in the Wonder Woman movie showed that he was concerned with proving the evil that lives in men’s hearts and allowing them to destroy each other.

However, even an all-powerful god has weaknesses and Ares’ weakness is love. Specifically, his weakness is Aphrodite’s love and power, and mere words from her can bend him to her will.

4 Mister Mind – Needs Vocal Device

Mister Mind is one of DC Comics’ strangest villains. He an evil telepathic space-worm from Venus. First appearing in 1943 as a Shazam villain in Captain Marvel Adventures #26 by Otto Binder and C.C. Beck, he uses mind control to make others do what he commands.

However, this also caused a major weakness for the diminutive villain. The only way that Mister Mind can control people’s minds is through casting spells, and he can’t talk without his vocal device. If someone takes this away, he is powerless.

3 The Batman Who Laughs – Nth Metal

The Batman Who Laughs is one of DC Comics’ most powerful new villains. He is Bruce Wayne from the Dark Multiverse, a Batman who watched Joker kill his loved ones and finally killed Joker before he found himself infected by Joker’s toxins. He ended up killing everyone, from the Bat-Family to Superman before targeting the mainstream Earth.

He does have an obscure weakness, though, and that is Hawkman’s Nth Metal because anyone from his Multiverse has a vulnerability to it.

2 Riddler – Obsession

Riddler is a DC villain that mostly focuses on Batman. He is a man who creates elaborate plans and uses riddles to lead the heroes on a journey to solve the riddles and stop the crimes. It seems a bit silly, but it is his method of fighting and it all leads to his mostly unknown weakness.

While people question why he uses riddles when that usually leads to his downfall, it is because he has an obsessive compulsion to leave them. Comics have shown him try not to leave riddles to get away cleanly, and he couldn’t stop himself.

1 Mirror Master – Darkness

Mirror Master is a DC villain from Flash’s rogues’ gallery who uses mirrors to commit his crimes. He invented mirror technology that allows him to use his gun and any mirror to do anything from dimensional travel to teleportation to illusion casting, hypnosis, and clairvoyance.

He can do almost anything with mirrors. However, there is one major weakness that many might not know about. If he is in total darkness, his tech is useless because it relies on light reflection to work.

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