11 Famous Supervillains Who Started Out Way Different
Please pour one out for Dracula's luscious mustache.
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We all have a mental image of classic monsters and villains, but not all of them arrived fully formed to haunt our dreams. Many bad guys have evolved into the cultural touchpoint they are today. Here are 11 monsters with very different origins.
The Evil Queen's Physique
![Early designs of the Evil Queen made her stout Snow White Disney designers instead settled on scarier, thinner character. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/7/7/825277.jpg)
Source: Disney Wiki
Frankenstein's Monster Color
![Frankenstein's monster wasn't always green Mary Shelley only describes Frankenstein as enormous with black hair and yellow eyes. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/7/4/825274.jpg)
Source: New York Times
King Kong's Ever-Changing Size
![King Kong keeps getting bigger The 1933 movie has King Kong at only 18 feet to 24 feet tall. In 2021's Godzilla vs. Kong he stands at 335 feet. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/2/825412.jpg)
Source: ScreenRant
The Phantom of the Opera's Physical Apperance
![The Phantom of the Opera was basically a corpse In the original novel, Erik is described as skeleton thin with basically just human skull for a head ... sunken yellow eyes and no nose. Hardly Gerard Butler in a half-mask. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/1/825411.jpg)
The Mummy's Not-So-Scary Build
![The Mummy was an inbred teen The Mummy as a monster was inspired by 1922's opening of Tutankhamen's tomb. The real King Tut stood 5'6, had several health issues and a club foot that probably made him walk with a cane. Не died when he was 18. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/0/825410.jpg)
Source: Gladstone Library and CNN
Mr. Freeze's Name
![Mr. Freeze was originally Mr. Zero Mr. Zero was a throw-away villain who got a new name and a bigger storyline from the 1960s TV show. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/0/9/825409.jpg)
Source: ScreenRant
Green Goblin's Mask
![The Green Goblin had a terrifying mask Spider-Man (2002) would have hid Willem Dafoe's acting behind an emotive mask, if it wasn't quickly scrapped after test footage. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/7/9/825279.jpg)
Source: ScreenRant
Catwoman's Costume
![Catwoman didn't always wear spandex 'The Cat' first appeared in a Batman #1 in a classy green dress, but, by her third apperance, gained a creepy cat face. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/7/8/825278.jpg)
Source: Book Riot
Dracula's Mustache
![Count Dracula had a mustache In Bram Stoker's novel, Count Dracula is described as an old man with a long white mustache who grows younger with a dark beard. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/7/6/825276.jpg)
Source: Bram Stroker's Dracula
The Wicked Witch of the West's One Eye
![The Wicked Witch of the West had only one eye. In the 1910 book, she isn't described as having green skin but, instead, as SO wicked that all the blood in her body dried up long ago, along with one eye with special powers. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/7/2/825272.jpg)
Lex Luthor's Hair
![Lex Luthor had luscious locks Superman's archnemesis wasn't always bald. An artist accidentally drew the ginger without hair, and it stuck. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/7/1/825271.jpg)
Source: ScreenRant