BobTheFork said:
Honestly, when you put that list up, it's no wonder they just spinn in endless cricles with these films.
DMczaf said:
I think that list does the opposite of what you wanted.
I'd pick Richard Pryor over at least half of those.
Any one of those villains has the potential to headline or understudy as the villain with the right script.
Brainiac: menacing "strange visitor from another world" whose quest for universal knowledge was the shocking catalyst to Krypton's tragic fate. A Luthor-esque intellectual villain but combined with alien technological might.
Darkseid: THE villain. Evil and chaos personified; an immortal alien god made flesh, subjugating countless worlds in his quest for the answer to the ultimate question that will undue reality and see his purpose fulfilled.
Metallo: a "science gone awry" villain combined with Superman's most obvious weakness. Not a main but a brawny secondary villain best paired with a primary brain (i.e., Luthor or the US military).
Bizarro: another "science gone awry" brawny villain. Purely a physical aberration but with the added significance of being a twisted part of Superman himself.
Doomsday: the unstoppable force of destruction; a curse from the heavens, counterbalancing Earth's celestial gift of Superman himself. The Hulk gone rogue.
Parasite: more "science gone awry" but with darker implications, as in absorbing Superman's powers he also absorbs memories. Superman's private life, his parents loved ones and friends, in peril.
Mongul: a smaller scale version of Darkseid. "Darkseid Lite", if you will, but with a more vindictive and malicious tone.
Ultraman: all those stores about Superman going rogue? Embodied in this guy. A Superman from a parallel Earth, raised to embrace evil instead of good.
Gog: the new brand of superheroics personified. Loads of potential here for an "old versus new" storyline where the world must choose between saviors.
Mr. Mxyzptlk: a hard gag to sell for an entire movie, but think about it -- in terms of power Mxy is to Superman what Superman is to us.
Jimmy Olsen: the Daily Planet's obsession with Superman pushes him over the brink of sanity, and he stalks the Man of Steel in a desperate bid to be closer to his idol. Very dark and somber material.