How to Use supervillain in a Sentence

supervillain

noun
  • So ending the year with a supervillain makes a strange sort of sense.
    — Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Swordsman went on to become a supervillain, and fought the Avengers.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 18 Dec. 2021
  • All of this is any easy layup, earning cheap cheers by hitting our real-life supervillains between the legs and eyes.
    — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The untold story of one twelve-year-old’s dream to become the world’s greatest supervillain.
    — Ben Flanagan | [email protected], al, 1 Jan. 2023
  • Things soon go awry, however, when a supervillain plans to take over the planet -- putting the very fate of the young heroes on the line.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Suddenly, there’s dozens of supervillains tearing the place (and each other) apart.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Lewis Pullman, who stars as the bewildered Bob, is new to the supervillain force.
    — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2024
  • One of them used a picture that resembled the supervillain the Joker.
    — Kat Tenbarge, NBC News, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Last season, the room was designed to look like a cave, but it's been revamped to look like a C-list movie supervillain's lair.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 9 Oct. 2024
  • This movie takes it back to the beginning, when the yellow creatures looking for a master cross paths with a wannabe supervillain.
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 10 May 2022
  • Emma Corrin didn’t need big muscles or a black belt in karate to be Marvel’s next big supervillain.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 28 July 2024
  • Winnie’s dream role is to play a Bond girl, or a superhero, or Marvel supervillain.
    — Daniella Midenge, Women's Health, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Robert ends up stopping at The Sardine, the supervillain bar from before, to drown his sorrows.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Remarkably, this also sent the model into its supervillain mode.
    — Quanta Magazine, 13 Aug. 2025
  • This Despicable Me prequel shows how Gru got his his start as a supervillain.
    — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Once touted as a boy genius, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was now seen by many as a supervillain.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2023
  • What's more, she's also set to star as the supervillain in Captain Marvel 2 — talk about couple goals.
    — Jacqueline Saguin, Good Housekeeping, 14 May 2022
  • Steve Carell’s lovable supervillain Gru and his horde of yellow minions have been box-office stars since their debut.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 1 July 2022
  • She’s been found and retrieved by Thurman’s all-purpose bad guy, who goes by the supervillain handle Discord.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2025
  • Maybe this redundant speech by a B-list supervillain will motivate the new Cap to do exactly that.
    — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 14 Feb. 2025
  • After a whirlwind of creative activity, a new supervillain arrived on the scene.
    — Kevin Lewis, IndieWire, 8 Dec. 2025
  • However, things take a turn for the worse when Humdinger and a mad scientist steal their powers and turn themselves into supervillains.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Oct. 2023
  • In the early moments of the game, it’s revealed that Link has saved Zelda, and the rest of the world, from supervillain Ganon once again.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Over the next two years, Jonathan Majors will play a cowboy, a flyboy, a boxer and Marvel’s newest supervillain.
    — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Chris Smith, son of an abusive white nationalist supervillain) being harassed by his pet eagle, Eagly.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2025
  • What if ‘Breaking Bad’ was about Walter White becoming a supervillain?
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 25 Apr. 2026
  • An actual superhero will finally show up to defeat the supervillain and restore everyone to their normal sizes.
    — Eddie Small, New Yorker, 18 June 2026
  • Covering Wilson’s left hand is the golden gauntlet worn by Thanos, the Marvel supervillain.
    — Sean Gregory, Time, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Covering Wilson’s left hand is the golden gauntlet worn by Thanos, the Marvel supervillain.
    — Sean Gregory, Time, 10 Dec. 2025
  • But, at least the comedy in this spinoff, which has the black-and-white foursome on a mission to stop an evil octopus supervillain in a kooky James Bond pastiche, works.
    — James Grebey, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2025

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