Adrian Veidt "Ozymandias"

21. Ozymandias

“"I did it 35 minutes ago." With that simple line, Ozymandias cemented his place as a comic book villain to remember. The fact that he himself, and perhaps many reading this, would argue he's not even a villain in the first place makes him all the more fascinating. The Smartest Man in the World, Adrian Veidt felt that the normal kind of physical super heroics he'd engaged in for years were not enough to truly change the world. No, he plotted to do something much grander.The fact that this grand plan involved killing millions of people is of course what makes him such a chilling character. From his perspective, what he did - faking an alien attack in New York that killed all in the path of its psychic shockwave - was the ultimate example of doing something for the greater good. Veidt felt th” read more