Buying Settimana Enigmistica, completing the crossword on the cover and drawing on the face of the unfortunate person in between the black and white spaces is common practice, there’s no denying it.
Settimana Enigmistica Villains, today’s Instagram profile, takes this goliardic activity to the next level because, instead of ruining the faces of the characters on the front page with a few scribbles, it turns them directly into creepy and evil super villains.

“The magazine that boasts countless supervillains.“

If you want to compete with them, put aside banal and mediocre beards, moustaches, goatees, crests and black teeth, because the level here is much higher. Settimana Enigmistica Villains goes into detail, intensifies faces with wrinkles, plays with contrasts and enhances each mark with decisive, ruthless and frightening details.

So Carlo Cracco turns into a cowboy from a Sergio Leone film, Antonino Cannavacciuolo becomes Hagrid from Harry Potter and Checco Zalone takes on the likeness of Denny De Vito. The fact that these are all cinephile references is just a coincidence, because there are hundreds of comparisons that could be made.
What saves us from being brought back to reality in any case are the captions, which in a few words tell us the date, number, year of publication of the magazine and the original name of the character on the cover.

Check out a selection of our favourite super villains here and follow the profile on Instagram to make sure you don’t miss out on any upcoming features.

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