10 Villains Who Used Bad Weather as a Weapon

Every supervillain needs an ultimate weapon — but what could be scarier than a instinctive calamity or a horrible weather emergency ? You do n’t need a death ray if you’re able to manipulate the elements .

Some of the most formidable villains of comics , video and movies have tackle the power of horrendous weather to bring people to their stifle . Here ’s our list of the scariest weather - control villain of all time .

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1 . Dr. Franklin

The heroic three - part Six Million Dollar Man / Bionic Woman crossover voter event “ Kill Oscar ” united Steve Austin and Jaime Sommers to fight Soviet - hired excited scientist Dr. Franklin ( John Houseman ) who tries to seize control of a US - made gimmick open of controlling the weather . Franklin replaces politics personnel office with golem replicas , including female versions with tearaway faces , the now infamous “ fembots ” . ( Classic 70s dialogue : Dr. Franklin : Yes , the girlfriend is worthful . But my Fembots can do anything she can . Russian Money Man : Not quite . As a human being , she can think for herself . Dr. Franklin : Since when is thinking for herself an plus … in a fair sex ? ) Jaime and Steve strain to destroy Dr. Franklin ’s evil island research laboratory with an atomic submarine , despite its being protect by a lethal hurricane and even more fembots . As the island implodes , Jaime rescue Dr. Franklin from his fate quickness , make him to rethink his post on the value of women .

2 . The Weather Wizard

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Debuting in The Flash#110 , Mark Mardon , an escaped convict , return home to discover his scientist brother has snuff it of a heart attack , leaving behind a hugger-mugger formula capable of check the weather . From his brother ’s notes , Mardon constructs a machine in the cast of a wand , and go with the report , call in himself the Weather Wizard , terrify Central City and taking the tip out of the Flash ’s sails in the process . He also face down Batman and hada memorable guest spot in Justice League Unlimited — and was toy by Jeff Altman from The Pink Lady and Jeff , as find out in the time at remaining .

3 . Nicholas Demente

Get Smart , Again ! land back Maxwell Smart and Agent 99 nearly twenty years after the original series ( and nine years after The Nude Bomb ) to struggle a KAOS plot of ground to pressure the US administration via another weather control machine . ( Andas this website points out , the “ weather car ” is really an IBM AN / FSQ-7 central processing unit . ) Max is stymied by a KAOS mole inside CONTROL ( Star Trek ’s Q , John de Lancie ) , but he eventually uncovers the plot ’s mastermind , the publishing house of 99 ’s memoir , Nicholas Demente , played by Harold Gould . The malign publishing company is done in by his own machine , foiling his endeavor to increase readership of his books by making the weather so awful that everyone will last out in and read . Get Smart , Again ! bring in the Hover Cover ( helicopter overhead overwhelm out orphic meetings ) and the Hall of Hush ( spoken words transfer silently into type ) , as the Cone of Silence was now suspended over Max and 99 ’s bed .

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In the James Bond parody Our Man Flint , the vicious GALAXY organization ( it ’s large than SPECTRE ! ) blackmail Earth with a weather condition control motorcar able-bodied to produce all sorts of natural tragedy from volcanoes to earthquakes and hurricanes to tornado . Derek Flint ( James Coburn ) , the macrocosm ’s outstanding mystic agent , must give chase down and destroy the political machine while making time to solicit women , re-start a military man ’s center with a light bulb and karate chop slews of regretful guys . The Jerry Goldsmith grade and distinctive “ ringtone ” of Flint ’s boss are still popular , more than fifty years after Flint blew up GALAXY ’s secluded volcanic island .

5 . Destro

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The 1984 five - part miniseries G.I. JOE : The Revenge of Cobra start with Cobra Command stealing an data-based laser from a G.I. JOE convoy , which Destro use to complete his raw arm , the descriptively identify “ Weather Dominator ” . The JOEs are able to thwart Destro as he shew his mightiness , protecting Washington and destroying the machine in the process , but the contraption splits into three piece , scattering around the satellite . alas , the splintered pieces wreak mayhem on the world ’s

climate organisation , sending the JOEs on a mission to recover them individually . In the final episode , the JOEs successfully destroy the Weather Dominator once and for all , and capture Cobra Commander in the appendage . Destro , though , manages to get out on a helpfully positioned hang glider .

6 . Colonel Cobb

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In the second season of the 1990 ’s revival of the classic 70 ’s ITV series The Tomorrow People , an American breakfast cereal magnate named Colonel Cobb ( played by William Hootkins — Jek Porkins himself — in maybe the unspoilt role of his vocation ) , use a weather condition control condition satellite to plague his competitors ’ maize crop and monopolize the manufacture . Cobb see his end while taunting Megabyte and Ami to captivate him ; his steel - handed cane becomes a lightning rod , electrocuting him with a bolt of his own ego - generated electricity .

7 . Sir August De Wynter

1998 ’s wildy unpopular Avengers movie , asterisk Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman as John Steed and Emma Peel , have Sean Connery as mad scientist Sir August De Wynter who claims “ weather is not in God ’s hands , but in mine ” . De Wynter heads the Prospero Project , which can produce rain , snow or born catastrophe on requirement , and blackmail the man ’s leader with their weather check powers- all the while dressed as multicolored teddy bears . Steed and Peel manage to destroy Prospero , and De Wynter , just as a hurricane nearly devastates London .

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8 . Simon Bar Sinister

In the Underdog instalment , “ Weathering the Storm ” , the villainous Simon Bar Sinister invents a Weather Machine to castrate and endanger Earth ’s weather pattern , but actualise the only means he ’d be able to operate it safely would be to remove himself from the planet alone . Being resourceful , he hijacks a moonshot roquette pilot by Sweet Polly Purebred to expend as a Qaeda of operations , where he plans to bullyrag the Earth with a series of cataclysmal alluvion and tornado . After threatening to press all of the buttons on his machine at once if the leaders of the world do not surrender , Underdog steps in to save the day , foil Bar Sinister ’s plot by merely turning himself unseeable , demolish the machine , and towing his henchmen back down to Earth .

9 . Crimson Cowl

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In Thunderbolts#24 - 25 , the stylish villainess the Crimson Cowl ( Justine Hammer , daughter of Justin ) and the Masters of Evil develop and successfully screen a gimmick called the Weather Modulator . After complete a trial run in Nebraska ( and unleashing a hurricane in the process ) , Crimson Cowl activated machines that the Masters of Evil had placed all over the human race . She demanded a ransom of one trillion buck in exchange for the base hit of Earth , but her plan was ultimately thwarted by the Thunderbolts , who managed to take down her military operation and capture Crimson Cowl in the cognitive operation .

10 . The Weatherman

In the unaired 1997 Justice League of America TV pilot a supervillain call himself “ The Weatherman ” ( Miguel Ferrer ) threatens to destroy the city with a tidal wave , unless he ’s given $ 20 million one dollar bill . He also set on New Metro using giant hailstone , a heat shaft of light and various other weather condition weapons . Eventually , he ’s stopped by his employee Tori , who joins the JLA as Ice . The Weatherman is not to be obscure with Eureka ’s Pete the weatherman , who tamper with a weather - control car to show its unreliability and bring through his job , thus do some weather disasters , in the episode “ irregular . ”

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