Whats the difference between a villian and a super villian?

[dynastystar]

what makes a villian "super"? I'm just curious what the criteria is that makes the difference as plenty of people seem to use the term "super villian"? I thought the criteria would be that the villian has superpowers, but alot of people refer to characters with super powers as villians more often than not, where as Somebody like the Joker(who as far as I know, doesn't have any superpowers, just goons and things that can produced).

[🦜Cloud Boy🦜]

Villian is any bad guy who stands against the hero. A Super villian is a Main bad guy in the movie or series who stands against a Super Hero. Joker is a Super Villian in Batman.

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Villain steals kid`s lollipop, super villain builds giant death ray in space and holds the world ransom.

[Devsman]

Postat inițial de Dxpress:

The villain is the bad guy.
The super villain is the bad guy with super-powers.

Same goes for hero and super hero.

Supervillains don't necessarily have superpowers, just like superheroes don't.

It's more about genre and storytelling elements. If he opposes a superhero, he's probably a supervillain. Unless he's a joke villain.

Hero and villain are more or less interchangeable with protagonist and antagonist. Not always, but it's a decent enough rule of thumb. Meanwhile, superheroes and supervillains are in some way beyond your standard heroes and villains. Sure, one way they can be so is by being super strong, super fast, etc, like Superman/Doomsday, but also they can be super smart, like Batman/Lex Luthor, or super techy, like Cyborg/Brainiac.

[Radene]

Super powers. Access to unlimited money/resources is a superpower.

Which means regular villains are more interesting.

[Z]

Is real election right now. The example.

[Xero_Daxter]

Aren’t super villains villains with powers?

[☎need4naiim☎]

When a villain becomes popular enough, it becomes Super Villain:

Nazi Regime was a villain in 1933, but became a Super Villain in 1940.

Bolsheviks was a villain in 1917, became a Super Villain under Stalin's rule.

Covid-19 was a villain in 2019, but became a Super Villain in 2020.

Mao's Regime was a villain in 1948.

[Masque]

If you have an action figure in your likeness.

[🍋 Lemonfed 🍋]

super vilains have super evil plans.

[76561199232962720]

Postat inițial de Blargo:

The villain is the bad guy.
The super villain is the bad guy with super-powers.

Same goes for hero and super hero.

I wish I could award you but I'm poor as hll

[Caldari Ghost]

A villain is evil. A super villian is evil and has an evil laugh

[kbiz]

Love to see young DarkCrystalMethod, Swek, Masque, Irene, Lemonfed, Dax, and, of course, Devsman.

The difference is one is super.

[Blargo]

Postat inițial de s:

Postat inițial de Blargo:

The villain is the bad guy.
The super villain is the bad guy with super-powers.

Same goes for hero and super hero.

I wish I could award you but I'm poor as hll

Here, take my points then. I'm not really using them anyway, lol.

[DarkCrystalMethod]

Postat inițial de kbiz:

Love to see young DarkCrystalMethod, Swek, Masque, Irene, Lemonfed, Dax, and, of course, Devsman.

The difference is one is super.

I'm not evil, I'm just drawn that way.

[Will be deleted]

I'm evil but probably not a villian or super villian.