Marvel is more than just superheroes, they’ve done their fare share of horror characters, too.
Halloween isnt just for monsters anymore.
The strange bit of business is that there were threeotherGlobs in Marvel history.
And thats no straw man argument.
Swarm
Swarm is a very obscure villain who made his debut in the pages ofThe Championsof all places.
So why is he on our list?
Because hes a freakin Nazi Scientist MADE OF EVIL BEES!
He tried to enslave a queen bee or something nutty and was devoured by her swarm.
He was such an evil piece of schnitzel that his consciousness dominated the bees and he became Swarm.
So yeah, genocidal Nazi bee man=monster.
Marvel had a Living Mummy so why not aCreature From the Black Lagoonknockoff?
Gosh, is that fun to say.
Manphibian, Manphibian, Manphibian!
Anyway, old Gill Face here was kind of a tragic character.
This It was a 100 foot tale Golem like stature crafted as part of an anti-Communist protest.
As these things go, the stature was animated by an alien intelligence and trashed Moscow.
OBryan was the protagonist of the Isabella/Ayers Bronze Age tales.
Golem
While were on the subject of giant, lumbering stone colossuses, colossi?
We have Marvels very own Golem.
Hannibal King
Long before Angel opened his detective agency in the Whedonverse, Hannibal King was on the case.
Hannibal King was a supporting character in Marvels immortalTomb of Draculaseries.
He was a skilled private detective and also happened to be cursed with vampirism.
Lilith was Draculas first child, the product of an arranged marriage between Dracula and his first wife Zofia.
Zofia was raised by gypsies because of course she was.
A fan can dream, no?
Godzilla, King of Monsters
Yeah, it does too count!
Godzilla was once a legit part of the Marvel Universe.
Godzilla starred in his own comic for about two years.
It was as awesome as it sounds.
Such as the only remembered by Roy Thomas Doctor Demonicus.
Anyway, Godzilla stomped around the Marvel Universe for a few years and it was awesome.
Frankencastle
Remember that time the Punisher died and was resurrected as the Mary Shelley inspired Frankencastle?
It also pissed off hardcore Punisher fans which is probably not the best group to anger.
I was hoping that it would start a whole plethora of Punisher/monster amalgamations.
DracuCastle, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Pun, the Punisher from the Black Lagoon…
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Man-Wolf
Any fictional universe that has not one, buttwogreat werewolves is okay in our book.
Man-Wolf was once John Jameson, son of J. Jonah Jameson, cranky publisher extraordinaire.
John Jameson isnt just your everyday werewolf, hes a cosmic werewolf!
Marvel actually pulled off some batshit insane sci-fi adventures with Man-Wolf in the pages ofCreatures on the Loose.
He still pops up every now and then because space werewolves are never not cool.
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Garth isnt your typical zombie.
He retains a vestige of intelligence and morality which is somehow intensely disturbing.
Imagine, rotting from within, but being completely aware of your desiccated state.
Sauron
Now, get a load of this prehistoric man terror.
Sauron makes his base of operations in the Savage Land and has gone head to beak with theX-Menmany times.
Groot makes our list because in his first appearance, Groot was one evil, monstrous tree.
He stomped around, tried to conquer Earth and did all the things a good evil monster should.
Groots monstrous roots (HA!)
Mephisto first battled the Silver Surfer in the Silver Age (HEY!)
and has bedeviled (hiYO) just about every Marvel hero.
Plus, he is a devil in a cape and that is always awesome.
Marvel Zombies
Its the entire Marvel pantheon of characters- as flesh eating zombies!
Yeah, that Robert Kirkman, the very same bearded dude that created a little thing calledThe Walking Dead.
Marvel Zombies had more mayhem per panel than most mainstream comics do in an entire years run.
But how about a Living Vampire?
Hell be played by Jared Leto in an upcoming Morbius movie, too.
Connors himself was an amputee and he really, really just wanted to help people.
Thats when things went very wrong as Connors formula transformed him into a bipedal, sentient lizard Hitler.
Its alive, indeed.
read more: The Weird History of Monsters vs. Man-Thing has a truly a horrific power as whatever knows fear, burns at the Man-Things touch.
And what wouldnt know fear when gazing upon the misshapen form of ol creamed spinach face here.
Werewolf by Night
Who ever thought a werewolf named Jack Russell could be so awesome?
Awooohhhh!!!!
Blade
By all appearances,Bladeisnt really a monster.
In fact, he might be the greatest monster hunter in comics (sorry Buffy).
Speaking of which,Blade will finally join the MCU as played by Mahershala Ali.
But it was Vlad the Impaler himself that outshined them all with his evil brand of nobility.
Dracula, in his modern incarnation, still stalks the Marvel Universe and remains Marvels greatest classic monster.
Remember whenJack Kirbywould draw Grimm in an oversized coat, with a classic fedora pulled down over his eyes?
So Aunt Petunias favorite nephew makes our list.
