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 Show only: 17 ghost / spirit heroes | 6 ghost / spirit clergy | Show All 

Number of characters in this sub-list: 45 (out of a total of 36,945 in the database).

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Affiliation
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Pub. #
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Charles Grey villain
CBR Scale: M Anglican; spirit
The Hellfire Club
[1757: killed himself when thought he saw Devil]
Marvel UK 2
Hecatomb Hecatomb villain
CBR Scale: I artificial Mummudrai
Mummudrai
[artificial construct made by Shi'ar w/ Mummudrai template]
Marvel 4
Hiroshima spirits villain group
CBR Scale: M Buddhist; Shinto; spirits
Asian
[killed by atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima]
DC 1
Aelfric the Mad Monk Aelfric the Mad Monk villain clergy/religious leader
CBR Scale: D Catholic (former monk); Satanist; ghost
[turned back on God; devoted himself to Satan] Marvel 3
unnamed ghost of Chinese official villain
CBR Scale: D Chinese traditional religion; ghost
[haunted woods at night in Imperial China] Marvel 1
Bailey Briggs villain
CBR Scale: M Christian (denomination unknown); ghost
[aeronautics engineer; wanted to testify in own murder case] Marvel 1
Ghoul (Dennis Malloy) villain
CBR Scale: D demon/spirit
[soul in domain of Cloot (Satannish)] Marvel 1
Deadites villain group
CBR Scale: D demonic zombies/spirits
[1st app: The Evil Dead (1981)] Renaissance Pictures; New Line Cinema 49
Alestar Dunwick villain
CBR Scale: M demonolatry; ghost
[sold soul to dark lords; uncle of Sheila Wittier] Marvel 2
Mordred the Evil Mordred the Evil (Sir Mordred) villain
CBR Scale: M Druid/Celtic pagan; spirit
[was in Royal Court of Camelot] Marvel 29
Fan-Le-Tamen villain
CBR Scale: R Egyptian classical religion; spirit
[Yellow Claw put this evil spirit into his niece Suwan] Marvel 2
Gentleman Ghost Gentleman Ghost (James Craddock) villain
CBR Scale: D ghost
Secret Society of Super Villains; The Injustice Society DC 60
unnamed ghost unnamed ghost villain
CBR Scale: D ghost
[lured travelers to The Room, then to doom in 1616] Marvel Atlas 1
unnamed ghost villain
CBR Scale: U ghost
[attacked Slim Pickins in his dead aunt's house] DC 2
unnamed tengu villain
CBR Scale: D ghost
[trickster ghost Oyabun sent to capture Katana] DC 1
El Condor villain
CBR Scale: S ghost (fake)
[posed as ghost or return of revolution leader] Marvel 2
the "ghost" villain
CBR Scale: S ghost (fake)
[1st app: Batman (vol. 1) #4 (Winter 1941)] DC 1
The Ghost of Midnight Valley (Caleb) villain
CBR Scale: D ghost (fake)
[Caleb and 2 other criminals posed as a ghost] Marvel Atlas 1
Ghost of Ravenlock (Sir Gavin Ravenlock) villain
CBR Scale: D ghost (fake)
[posed as ghost, impersonating his famous ancestor] Marvel 1
The Ghost of Silver City (Johnny Ringo) villain
CBR Scale: D ghost (fake)
Outlaws Marvel 2
Hell-Hound villain
CBR Scale: I ghost (fake)
dog
[hunting dog doused with fluorescent dye]
Marvel 1
The Flying Dutchman (Captain Joost van Straaten) villain
CBR Scale: M ghost; Satanism; Dutch Reformed
Legion of the Unliving Marvel 5
Roadkill villain
CBR Scale: D ghost; vengeance
[fictional ghost given form by Nightmare] Marvel 6
Macbeth Ghouls Macbeth Ghouls villain group
CBR Scale: D ghoul
[attack people who say title "Macbeth" in a peformance space] McClintock High School 1
Naga villain
CBR Scale: M Lemurian religion; worshipped Set; spirit
[emperor of Lemuria] Marvel 11
Ravenstorm (Jedediah Ravenstorm) villain
CBR Scale: S Native American (Cherokee); spirit
[founder of Lawless, AZ; form usurped by demon Kthara] Marvel 1
Dark Angel (Baroness Paula von Gunther) supporting character villain scientist
CBR Scale: M Nazi; spirit
[wandering evil spirit] DC 10
Brad Gutman villain
CBR Scale: D necrophiliac; spirit
[former mortician for X-Statix] Marvel 1
Ogun Ogun villain
CBR Scale: M Ninjutsu; occult; spirit
[former sensei of Wolverine, Kitty Pryde] Marvel 1
Foolkiller Foolkiller (Ross G. Everbest) villain clergy/religious leader
CBR Scale: M Pentecostal; spirit
[vigilante, religious fanatic] Marvel 6
Entity Entity villain
CBR Scale: M psionic entity
[Charles Xavier's dark side, taken on life of its own] Marvel 5
Soul-Eater Soul-Eater (Belaric Marcosa) villain
CBR Scale: M sadist; sorceror; ghost
[as ghost, trapped & tortured many people in his mansion] Marvel 4
Bounty Hunter (Lemuel Haskill) villain
CBR Scale: M Satanism; ghost
[condemned by Mephisto to bring him 50 souls] Marvel 3
Grasscutter Spirits villain group
CBR Scale: D Shinto spirits
[spirits of all those slain by Grasscutter sword] Marvel 2
Malkin Grey villain
CBR Scale: S spirit
The Hellfire Club
[1857: possessed by ancestor's spirt, then became spirit]
Marvel UK 1
The Headless Horseman The Headless Horseman villain
CBR Scale: M spirit
[Hessian; head blown off by cannonball; returned as spirit] Cornelius S. Van Winkle 11
Ulysses Highwater villain
CBR Scale: S spirit
[lived in 1873; now doorman blocking escape from Hell] DC 2
Token supporting character villain
CBR Scale: D spirit
[spirit of the dead] Marvel 6
Tuesday Bird villain
CBR Scale: M spirit
[1st app: Archangel #1 (Feb. 1996)] Marvel 1
Margot Wachsler villain
CBR Scale: S spirit
[died while working as Harley Quinn's henchwoman] DC 4
Wild Huntsman villain
CBR Scale: U spirit
[source of powers of Manhunter (Chase Lawler)] DC 8
Witness Witness (Nelson Kohler) villain
CBR Scale: U spirit
[wandering spirit] Marvel New Universe 3
Zor villain
CBR Scale: M spirit
black
[evil "Anti-Spectre"]
DC 3
Swami River villain clergy/religious leader
CBR Scale: D Spiritism swami (fake); ghost
[fake swami turned into ghost by real spirit] Marvel Atlas 1
The Apparition The Apparition ("Shocks" Marley) villain
CBR Scale: S Vodoun; astral spirit
[1st app: Ghost Rider (vol. 2) #57 (June 1981)] Marvel 1

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