I loved that sequence too, but I liked them because they didn't seem like "vicious old-school bastards". They're professional criminals, with the risks that that entails, but you pays your money and you takes your choices. They seemed to me the way the Rogues are now, they probably won't TRY to kill you but won't shed any tears if they do, and they'd buy you a beer (or in the case of the Monocle, a glass of a nice claret) with their ill gotten gains. And Rag Doll and Monocle make a great "odd couple"
The Mist on the other hand WAS a sick bastard and started me thinking about what an unspeakably COOL power intangibility and/or a gaseous form could be.