Humour: 7 football players who would make great super villains
Not every bad guy and villain can be labelled a supervillain. You have to be bad - very bad and very evil. You have to be famous, or infamous in this case, to qualify as one. And you have to become the stuff of legend, or pop culture as the kids call it these days. When you think of super villains you should immediately be conjuring up the image of Darth Vader or Voldemort or Sauron in your mind.
If you know him, you either love him (because you’re crazy) or you hate him. You don’t have to stretch your imagination too far to see the parallels between master villains and certain football players. Their identities will not come as a surprise.
In fact, some of these players would make very good super villains themselves. They are fiendish enough to pull off an alternate career as any one of our favourite evil villains.
Here’s a look at seven players who would make great super villains:
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7. Nigel de Jong as Bane
We’d have to change focus from the Marvel universe to DC to find a super villain Dutch football player Nigel de Jong could play. Remember Bane, a mercenary and Batman’s enemy? The role of such a formidable villain is best suited for De Jong – a man well known for his career-ending tackles.
If you’re aware of your comic lore, or just seen Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Dark Night Rises’ you have a fair idea of who Bane is – a physically enhanced and trained killing machine due to his brute strength.
He is famed as the only one of the Bat’s enemies to have ‘broken’ him. Bane literally broke the Dark Knight’s back when he picked him up and threw him on his knee, turning Batman into a paraplegic. If this sounds familiar, it’s because De Jong has done something similar, not once but twice in his career.
In 2010, he broke the leg of Stuart Holden of Bolton Wanderers after a horribly late and reckless challenge. Later that year itself, in October another one of his rash challenges resulted in Hatem Ben Arfa fracturing his left tibia and fibula. He also kicked Xabi Alonso straight in the chest during the 2010 FIFA World Cup but was unable to cause much damage.
The Dutch midfielder continues to play football to this day in search of more bones to break and fracture. Who else can play the man who broke Batman except a ‘breaker of bones’ like Nigel de Jong himself?
