The Green Arrow Blacklist

Having listed yesterday what I consider some prime candidates for re-entry into Green Arrow's rogues gallery, I want to balance it with a list of villains who should NOT be brought back.

1. The Cat

Really? "Look, a mouse?"  smh.  Be better, Golden Age.

Look, Bull's-Eye vis-à-vis the Joker is one thing. But a female villain in a dark cat costume, named "The Cat"? No; absolutely not.

2.  The Question Mark

Despite his name, the villain wasn't ACTUALLY Riddler-like at all. 

He's colorblind and has weak ankles; he is remarkably unimpressive. 
Even for a Green Arrow villain.

But the name is still a disqualifier.  Even if he weren't a feeb hiding out among the staff at a Green Arrow -themed hotel.

3.  The Skylark

The Skylark was actually a villain who appeared more than once, which argues strongly for updating him.  But...

This may seem odd to say about a supervillain, but...
this guy is weird.

A bird-themed villain with a prophetic given name? Urk.  If we "approve" him (or these others), Green Arrow's Rogues Gallery starts to look like Bob Kane and Al Brodax developed them.

We all remember Cool McCool,  don't we?

You COULD argue the opposite. That these villains seeming like Batman villain knock-offs could work in their FAVOR. You could lean into it and have them be conscious imitators of the Gotham originals; it would make them a deliciously painful embarrassment for Ollie, who is sensitive about being a Batman knockoff.

4.  The Wind

Now, at first glance, you'd think I would be 100% behind The Wind (World's Finest #38.)

Nothing says "confidence" like wearing a weathervane on your head.

He looks like a Doom Patrol villain.  But he's barely a villain at all. He's just an arrow-obsessed zillionaire who fakes being a villain so he can *sigh* add Green Arrow's arrows to his collection.

"It is also the ONLY collection of arrows in the world, because arrow-collecting is NOT a thing."

I'm SURE he could have just hired Bull's-Eye to get him some.  Yer a poseur, Wind.  And you could tell his heart wasn't really in it.

How do you FAIL to say
"Run like The Wind!"
under these circumstances?
smh again.

5. Homer Lampe

Really, what else would you expect?

Homer Lampe was a scientist of the "They laughed at me and my inventions! Well, I'll show THEM!" type.

This is what the world was like before GoFundMe.

Naturally, he turns his inventions to crime.

Specifically, pickpocketing facilitated by hypnotic lights.
Crime was a LOT easier where people still had CASH.

Okay, points for the appropriately villainous use of "Confound!", but this guy is no Dr. Light.

What on earth are you going to do with a mink scarf?  Take it to a consignment shop?

He takes no codename (then again, where can you go from "Mr. Lampe"?).  He devises no costume.

Even though he definitely had some easy options.

Then once he's caught, he goes all GOODY-GOOD just because someone shows him some RESPECT.

BAH! Confound you, Green Arrow, and Star City's advanced techniques of penology.

What good is a someone who becomes a villain to gain respect then becomes a not-villain when he gains it?  

6. St Louis Louie

Oh, you remember him; he's the guy who took on the three lieutenant Arrows (Fat Arrow, Tall Arrow, and Hillbilly Arrow).

He also looks DISTURBINGLY like Ally Babble.

Time has been kind to the Batman mythos.
VERY kind.

This is the pinnacle of St. Louis Louie's career and always will be:

He's the man who almost killed Green Arrow by bouncing an empty revolve off his empty skull.

Any additional appearances or attempts to revitalize him would pale in comparison to that one perfect moment.

7. Greenface

Exists there a sadder excuse for a villain than Greenface?

He looks like the Composite Humphrey Bogart / Don Knotts.

His origin is so absurd -- some industrial dye blew up in his face, permanently discoloring it-- that they refused to depict it on-panel.

Any villain whose origin is THAT stupid is clearly marked as Z-grade, permanently.

He talks like a thug, droppin' his Gs and talkin' 'bout Dis and Dat.  The Joker may have the same stupid origin, but the Joker wouldn't hire someone that inarticulate even as a disposable goon.

Even Rocky Grimes was more eloquent.

His only shown crime is making off with some gold leaf his gang managed to SCRAPE off the walls of a museum.

Pathetic.  Might as well fish coins out of a public fountain or mug a pencil-selling blind man.

Which he then has to waste on some pipe-dream of getting in the Criminal Hall of Fame by killing Green Arrow.

"Corny" isn't the word I'd use, Greenface.  I see why they gave you a green face;
it's the only way to tell you apart from your own goons.

Even Greenface's delusions of grandeur are pathetic ones:

I think this would even sadden Killer Moth, and HE's got an EMPTY Hall of Trophies.

Face it, Greenface; you'll never reach the exalted status of someone like The Flag:

It's actually rather sad that there is only ONE Green Arrow villain in the Criminal Hall of Fame.  No justice for St. Louis Louie!

And then, like an ultimate putz, you STAB YOURSELF in the process of fleeing from Green Arrow.

Where is Rocky Grimes when we need him?

Then it manages to get WORSE.

I mean, REALLY, though. What kind of Z-grade imbecile stabs HIMSELF nearly-fatally while trying to get away from the good guy?

Because the Greenface does an Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge bit (*sigh* or The Squid, if you are not well enough read) and imagines himself framing Green Arrow for his murder, leading to his triumphant ghost exulting at his inclusion in the Criminal Hall of Fame.

I wish he had died, because the GHOST of Greenface might be a viable character.

Goober that he is, he couldn't even die properly.  

You just know they waited there HOURS for him to wake up, simply so that they could rub it in.  The archers are petty people, with a lot of time on their be-gloved hands.

What kind of idiot can't even die right?