User blog comment:BigSleep/Newsarama's "The 10 Worst X-MEN Villains of ALL TIME!" List/@comment-1895174-20130218232844

If you think bad versions of good characters is lazy, then you must loathe Cassandra Nova and Madelyne Pryor.

Although it does also describe a lot of the choices made for films - Sabretooth, Venom, Iron Monger, Abomination, Red Skull, Ivan Vanko (sorta)