VILLAINS! Your Thoughts On: DR. PSYCHO!

**Gail Simone** · 09-11-2009, 02:49 AM

Me, I love that little creep. He was the first comic villain to actually SCARE me as an adult in a great Tom Peyer story.

**FeminineMystique** · 09-11-2009, 03:04 AM

Psycho is gloriously sick. It's not often a character makes the Joker seem pleaseant but Psycho really is just a monster in human form.

**Shatagni** · 09-11-2009, 03:37 AM

What better foil against the ultimate feminist than the ultimate misogynist? But I wonder if anyone misses his Pre-Crisis occultist background.

On a side note: Anybody else think a Dr. Psycho/Dr. Poison team-up would be interesting?

**Free-Man** · 09-11-2009, 03:56 AM

Love him. And I wish he had left Cale to die in that closet....he was far better at being her than she ever was...

**ScottyQuick** · 09-11-2009, 05:47 AM

I always wanted to write in and ask if Dr. Psycho ever let those people have feelings again.

Keeripes ;_;

**WillBooth** · 09-11-2009, 06:17 AM

I love Psycho. If anyone should be Diana's Lex Luthor I think it should be him.

**suedenim** · 09-11-2009, 06:22 AM

Originally Posted by Gail Simone

Me, I love that little creep. He was the first comic villain to actually SCARE me as an adult in a great Tom Peyer story.

And he scared the crap out of me in Gail's stories.

Something about mind control has always really creeped me out, especially if the perpetrator is a twisted little sadist like Dr. Psycho.

I'm basically a "law and order" type person, but I think if I were a superhero in the DCU, I'd snap his neck the first opportunity I got. (IMO, this is a bit of a theoretical problem for Wonder Woman, who doesn't hesitate to kill monsters when it's necessary. To me, Psycho's a monster that just needs killing.)

(And yet, he does make a great character, so I don't necessarily want to see that happen....)

**Kevenn** · 09-11-2009, 06:45 AM

Nobody has written Psycho better than Gail. TRUTH. She's able and willing to go to that f***ed-up place in her head to write really horrible people, and he Dr. Psycho shows that.

Marc Andreyko was pretty good at writing him as well, too.

**Schornforce** · 09-11-2009, 06:55 AM

Doctor Psycho's just so perverse... I'd be interested to see if the Joker thinks of him as one of his few equals in depravity...

I remember him torturing Vanessa something fierce by making her dreams absolutely horrific (I think it was Byrne's run). He seems to be one of the few telepaths in the DCU who would really enjoy violating every aspect of peoples' minds, making him a potential force to be reckoned with.

**Stanlos** · 09-11-2009, 07:46 AM

Dr. Psycho is the sickest villain in comics as far as I know. He is perversity walking. I was mortified reading his Post Crisis introductory arc which also lead into WOTG. In that one he was violating Helen's FETUS!!! For KICKS!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think he was giving the fetus horrific nightmares and causing it to lash out at its mother in the womb. The man is a monster.

**buttler** · 09-11-2009, 08:05 AM

I totally love Dr. Psycho. Liked the original version, and I like him even more now. I have to say, thinking about the pre- and post-crisis versions, I'd be interested to see what Gail's take on Captain Wonder would be.

**SJNeal** · 09-11-2009, 08:12 AM

Defintely one of my Top 3 Wonder-Villains; as has already been said, he's truly scary if written properly.

And yes, his Manhunter appearance is actually one of his best!

**cockrumfan** · 09-11-2009, 09:00 AM

I like him, but unless Diana can't defend herself menatlly, he's not that much of a threat to her. He's a big threat to the people around her, but not her. I'd love to see J'onn (if he ever comes back) and Diana deal with/face Dr. Psycho and Cheetah.