artist/band names that would make great superhero/supervillain names

Captain Beefheart

Special Power: Has a legion of dedicated Superfans who will make you feel uncomfortable in social settings.

Madvillain?

Too obvious?

Maybe.
Also in the obvious category:
Lightspeed Champion
Justice
Ghostface

Fall Out Boy

The Bug. Is that one taken?

Sonic Youth

Haha, yeah. Urge Overkill!

Turbonegro

THE CAN.

captain beyond

I briefly played City of Heroes and my character's name was Jandek.

He hit people with a big ass hammer and could teleport all over the place.

The Undisputed Truth could have been a Watchmen character.

Maxi Priest: a cleric who heals vaginal bleeding.

Little Feat

- Oddball Batman villain from the 40s, known for leaving an apple in the mouth of people he killed while dressed in well worn searsucker suit and porkpie hat.

Jesus Lizard

- Can't think of something yet, but that is a pretty killer name for a supervillain.

Steeleye Span

Coldplay

Freezes his victims before shattering them like glass

Gay Dad

Jesus Lizard

- Can't think of something yet, but that is a pretty killer name for a supervillain.

superpowers: walks on water, turns water into wine, brings people back from the dead.

or, could be part basilisk lizard.

Superchunk: projectile vomits at high speeds
Supergrass: part man, part cannabis, all hero
Supertramp: radioactive vagrant who stands up for the rights of the homeless

Wolf Eyes -- bitten my mutant wolf, gains lupine superpowers. acute senses of hearing and smell.

Joy Division -- superhero team consisting of Happy Man, Masked Mirth, Blue Cheer and Elatogirl

The Flaming Lips - they kiss you and you DIE

The Cure -- right-wing Punisher-style vigilante

Gang of Four -- Marxist equivalent of the Fantastic Four

Hawkwind - psychedelic space warrior with gliding metal wings

Night Ranger -- Cowboy who fights crime at night

Beastie Boys - Raised by bears, subjected to secret experiments giving them super intelligence.

The Flaming Lips - they kiss you and you DIE

emo man-thing

Dr. Octagon - has all the powers of a Chuck Norris movie.

Jesus Lizard

Close enough:

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Dr. Strangely Strange would be a classic supervillain...

the Grateful Dead as zombie bear supervillains?

the Go! Team - youthful crime-fighting unit, fueled on Starbucks coffee, can be distracted with a good community-building volunteering effort...

The Emperor Machine - malevolent AI/computer.
Pink Skull - female vigilante.
Hercules & Love Affair - superduo with combined powers of DISCO.

3-6 Mafia
T. Rex
King Khan & BBQ
Thelonious Monk
Dr. Hook
Harvey Danger
Quintron
Goodie Mob/Dungeon Family/Outkast
Tokyo Electron

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radiohead - due to a freak radio tower accident, can channel high frequency signals into powerful blasts of electromagnetic radiation

method man - incapacitates foes by exhaling massive gas clouds of chronic

The Who - induces Alzheimer's
The The - induces stuttering
Mr. Mister - induces formal stuttering

BOLT THROWER obv

Behold the Spacemen 3, bending reality with their hypo-guitars.

Make that HYPNO-guitars.

No, hypo-guitars works just fine.

Heh!

loooooooooollz

Oasis
Ability to dehydrate others (or maybe the ability to put out the fire in your heart).

Steely Dan

His powers would probably be kinda vulgar.

BURNING SPEAR - Has the ability to shoot fiery darts from his dreads. With his Wolverine-like sidekick Lee "Scratch" Perry, he fights a variety of villains, including the nefarious Yellowman and the Mad Professor.

Ruins - Would stumble around and break stuff like the Hulk OR would be like Galactus

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