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** [[AntiVillain Joan D'Arcy]] of the Trust stands out as the only one of the Trust members to react proactively in the war against Graves, successfully derailing a LongGame far older than herself. Joan values a peace arrangement that everyone can live with over revenge against Augustus while still trying to ensure that he'll never never have the power to be a threat to anyone again. When Augustus gains the upper hand anyway, Joan makes a somewhat amused comment about being beaten by the best, even as she agrees that they need to counter what he just did. In the final issue, she seems disgusted and angry about Benito's murder even though it does seemingly counter Augustus's plans to retain power. As the Trust's control over the rampaging Minutemen vanishes, Joan is the only person present to see the wisdom of fleeing the Medici mansion.

* ''ComicBook/MortadeloYFilemon'''s "ComicBook/ChapeauElEsmirriau" and "ComicBook/VenganzaCincuentona": [[DastardlyDapperDerby Chapeau el "Esmirriau"]] is a criminal thief who stands out as one of Mortadelo and Filemón's most tenacious enemies thanks to his [[DashinglyDapperDerby big bowler hat]] [[HyperspaceArsenal filled with mechanical gadgets of any kind]]. After stealing from them an ancient egyptian coin by making a hole in their wall and safe, Chapeau evades their capture throughout the story using the large amount of tools in his hat that range from explosives, to mechanical arms, to even living animals, with him being [[SuperReflexes able to activate the one he needs in the exact situation in an instant]]. Even when they managed to take his hat from him, [[CrazyPrepared he just put up another one]]. Many years after his defeat, [[VillainTeamUp he would collaborate with many other previous villains in the series]] to claim revenge on Mortadelo and Filemón, while still using his hat's various devices to end them.

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** Under Edgar P. Jacobs' pen, Colonel Olrik himself is Blake and Mortimer's most frequent foe and a mercenary. A NoNonsenseNemesis: Olrik constantly tried to make sure that Blake and Mortimer were truly dead when they tried to fake their deaths in ''The Secret of the Swordfish''; immediately sent assassins after Mortimer once he learned he was in Japan in ''Professor Sató's Three Formulae'', and immediately kills Kisin once he learns that he is a traitor in ''Atlantis Mystery''. A brilliant MasterOfDisguise, Olrik fools even the observant heroes with his getups, even changing his personality and accent. A master of improvisation, he out-smarted Blake and the police on Paris' roofs in ''S.O.S. Meteors: Mortimer in Paris'' and forcs Blake and the police to let him escape by threatening Mortimer and Sató's lives in ''Professor Sató's Three Formulae''. [[KansasCityShuffle Proficient in the art of distraction]], Olrik triggers an explosion to distract everyone while he steals the necklace in ''The Necklace Affair'' and has his men sabotage Blake and Mortimer's car while he infiltrates Mortimer's apartment in ''Atlantis Mystery''. A charming and cunning character, Olrik is one of the most beloved villains in all Franco-Belgian comics.

** ''The Oath of the Five Lords'': [[BigBadDuumvirate John Hastings (né Lawless) and Lisa Pantry (née Elisabeth Lawless)]] are Allister Lawless' children who blames the TE Spirit Society for [[YouKilledMyFather their father's demise]]. In their quest for revenge, they prove to be brilliant manipulators, with Lisa seducing Alfred Clayton and allowing John to later switching identities with him to create their cover, while Lisa becomes [[BitchInSheepsClothing the seemingly nice assistant]] of Professor Diging in the Ashmolean Museum, and John masquerades as Diging's aide as the [[ObfuscatingInsanity supposedly mentally ill Alfred Clayton]]. Meanwhile, they steal the parts of Lawrence's manuscript hidden by the society in several objects through the museum and kill the Society's members. When Mortimer hides in his room one of the objects, John retrieves it from there, having spied on him. Lisa is even responsible for Mortimer's involvement, convincing Diging to ask for his help regarding the thefts, [[BatmanGambit which would lure out Blake, Mortimer's best friend and a member of the Society]]. By the climax, Lisa's true nature was still unknown and the siblings retrieve all the parts of the manuscript, having killed all but one member of the society, proving to be unexpectedly competent antagonists despite their young age and low resources.

* ''ComicBook/{{KGB}}'' by Valérie Mangin: Ava Kirova is a Polish scientist who secretly seeks revenge on her superior, the German Von Ausch, for his role in UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust. To do that, she regretfully implants explosive mind-controlling devices into supernatural children -- whom she treats as her own family -- to frame Von Ausch. Blackmailing Dimitri and telling him the truth, they successfully manage to cast suspicion on the former Nazi. Discovering Von Ausch's real nature as the demon Beelzebub, Ava manages to stop his plan to kill the Soviet leadership and forces him to escape to Hell. Leading the Soviet invasion of Hell, Ava proves to be a capable leader before revealing her real nature as Lucifer and using a nuke to heavily injure Beelzebub. Trying to reach Heaven, Lucifer confronts Beelzebub again before discovering that her goal is completely impossible and losing Dimitri. Falling again with Beelzebub, Lucifer embraces her nature and allies with Beelzebub to cause chaos in the world. In the end, Ava Kirova is a brilliant scientist that manages to manipulate the ruthless leaders of the URSS and Lucifer shows that despite the cruelty of Beelzebub, she is the actual ruler of Hell.

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** Under Edgar P. Jacobs' pen, Colonel Olrik himself is Blake and Mortimer's most frequent foe and a mercenary. A NoNonsenseNemesis: Olrik constantly tried to make sure that Blake and Mortimer were truly dead when they tried to fake their deaths in ''The Secret of the Swordfish''; immediately sent assassins after Mortimer once he learned he was in Japan in ''Professor Sató's Three Formulae'', and immediately kills Kisin once he learns that he is a traitor in ''Atlantis Mystery''. A brilliant MasterOfDisguise, Olrik fools even the observant heroes with his getups, even changing his personality and accent. A master of improvisation, he out-smarted Blake and the police on Paris' roofs in ''S.O.S. Meteors: Mortimer in Paris'' and forcs Blake and the police to let him escape by threatening Mortimer and Sató's lives in ''Professor Sató's Three Formulae''. [[KansasCityShuffle Proficient in the art of distraction]], Olrik triggers an explosion to distract everyone while he steals the necklace in ''The Necklace Affair'' and has his men sabotage Blake and Mortimer's car while he infiltrates Mortimer's apartment in ''Atlantis Mystery''. A charming and cunning character, Olrik is one of the most beloved villains in all Franco-Belgian comics.

** ''The Oath of the Five Lords'': [[BigBadDuumvirate John Hastings (né Lawless) and Lisa Pantry (née Elisabeth Lawless)]] are Allister Lawless' children who blames the TE Spirit Society for [[YouKilledMyFather their father's demise]]. In their quest for revenge, they prove to be brilliant manipulators, with Lisa seducing Alfred Clayton and allowing John to later switching identities with him to create their cover, while Lisa becomes [[BitchInSheepsClothing the seemingly nice assistant]] of Professor Diging in the Ashmolean Museum, and John masquerades as Diging's aide as the [[ObfuscatingInsanity supposedly mentally ill Alfred Clayton]]. Meanwhile, they steal the parts of Lawrence's manuscript hidden by the society in several objects through the museum and kill the Society's members. When Mortimer hides in his room one of the objects, John retrieves it from there, having spied on him. Lisa is even responsible for Mortimer's involvement, convincing Diging to ask for his help regarding the thefts, [[BatmanGambit which would lure out Blake, Mortimer's best friend and a member of the Society]]. By the climax, Lisa's true nature was still unknown and the siblings retrieve all the parts of the manuscript, having killed all but one member of the society, proving to be unexpectedly competent antagonists despite their young age and low resources.

* ''Comicbook/TheInvisibles'':
** [[BigBad Sir Miles Delacourt]] is the bitterest enemy of the Invisible movement and the spokesman of [[ReligionOfEvil the Outer Church]] and its masters, [[EldritchAbomination the Archons]]. Once an anti-establishment activist himself, his arrest and torture by government agents convinced him that the corrupt system cannot be beaten, only joined. Doing just that, he rose to become [[TheSpymaster Director of MI-6]], a confidant of the Archons, and the caretaker of the Moonchild, a hybrid-being to be used as a vessel to manifest the Archons' leader of Earth. Maintaining the image of a calm, cultured British gentleman in virtually all situations and fearing nothing but his masters, Sir Miles survives a battle that claims the life of the Church's high priestess Ms. Dwyer, securing a promotion in the process, coolly [[YouHaveFailedMe dispatches]] the conspiracy's American commander Colonel Friday after he messes up once too often, and is ultimately revealed to have been PlayingBothSides to prepare the Invisibles' champion, Jack Frost, as the true host body of the Archon leader rather than the frail and hideous Moonchild. Foiled at the last second due to Jack being more powerful than he anticipated, Sir Miles [[GracefulLoser admits defeat]] and ends his life on his own terms.
** John-a-Dreams is the story's biggest WildCard, periodically appearing and disappearing and alternately aiding both the Invisibles and Outer Church for mysterious purposes. Once TheAce among the Invisible movement, he vanishes without a trace during an investigation into a dark ritual, only to return years later as a high-ranking emissary of the Outer Church and close confidant of the Archons themselves. He assists Sir Miles and his henchmen in supervising the Moonchild ritual, but once the final battle begins takes no side at all, [[MysteriousWatcher merely observing]]. As the Outer Church executives begin to fall, John affably greets his old friend Lord Fanny, revealing that he had attained transcendental knowledge of the best possible ending to the Outer Church crisis: Jack Frost achieving his destiny as the new Messiah. Never truly betraying the Invisibles after all, John [[DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent skillfully maneuvered the major players of both sides]] into the positions they needed to be in for Jack to accomplish that goal.

* ''ComicBook/{{KGB}}'' by Valérie Mangin: Ava Kirova is a Polish scientist who secretly seeks revenge on her superior, the German Von Ausch, for his role in UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust. To do that, she regretfully implants explosive mind-controlling devices into supernatural children -- whom she treats as her own family -- to frame Von Ausch. Blackmailing Dimitri and telling him the truth, they successfully manage to cast suspicion on the former Nazi. Discovering Von Ausch's real nature as the demon Beelzebub, Ava manages to stop his plan to kill the Soviet leadership and forces him to escape to Hell. Leading the Soviet invasion of Hell, Ava proves to be a capable leader before revealing her real nature as Lucifer and using a nuke to heavily injure Beelzebub. Trying to reach Heaven, Lucifer confronts Beelzebub again before discovering that her goal is completely impossible and losing Dimitri. Falling again with Beelzebub, Lucifer embraces her nature and allies with Beelzebub to cause chaos in the world. In the end, Ava Kirova is a brilliant scientist that manages to manipulate the ruthless leaders of the URSS and Lucifer shows that despite the cruelty of Beelzebub, she is the actual ruler of Hell.

** [[HitmanWithAHeart Wylie Times]], "[[TokenGoodTeammate The Point Man]]", is the former leader of the Minutemen and the sharpest and most skilled of the Seven. A brilliant fighter whose motto is "[[TheGunslinger My First Shot Is My Last]]", Wylie helps to mastermind the Atlantic City Job, being the one to set fire to Roland Dietrich before allowing his memory to be erased. Wylie keeps some of his signature cleverness even as an amnesiac slacker, until his awakening in New Orleans. Using a quick ruse to obtain access to his gun and kill the corrupt hicks menacing him, Wylie storms the House of Madrid, setting up an ambush for Joseph Shepherd after slaughtering all of the Madrid guards, blaming Shepherd who had Wylie execute [[CrusadingWidower his lover Rose]] after her betrayal of the Trust. Choosing to forgive Shepherd, Wylie guards Dizzy Cordova after his death and even manages to match wits with Graves after figuring out his plans.

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* ''ComicBook/AgeOfReptiles'':
** "Tribal Warfare": The ''Deinonychus'' leader Quetzal and her mate Dark Eye are the most cunning members of their pack. Introduced setting up an ambush to kill a herbivorous dinosaur many times her size, Quetzal is driven away from her kill by the T-Rex Blue Back. Desiring revenge for this and for Blue Back's killings of her fellow pack members, whom she and Dark Eye view as family, Quetzal successfully steals T-Rex eggs, both in retribution and to eat. When the T-Rex leader Long Jaw orders an attack that causes the death of one of Quetzal's loyalest hunters, Dark Eye lures Long Ja's son into a trap, where the pack ambush and kill him. Despite her care for her fellow pack members, Quetzal doesn't hesitate to kill any who challenge her position as pack leader, as she does to the ''Deinonychus'' One Claw when the latter tries to usurp her. When the pack is ambushed by the T-Rexes, Quetzal and Dark Eye both go down fighting, with Dark Eye attempting to avenge Quetzal when she's killed in his last moments.
** "The Hunt": The ''Allosaurus'' seeks vengeance on a pack of ceratosaurs that killed his mother, displaying his first signs of tactical knowledge as an adolescent by luring the pack into a trap, then attempting to kill them by triggering a rockslide. As an adult, the ''Allosaurus'' comes across the pack again and proceeds to hunt them and kill them one by one, taking one out in a surprise attack by using the carcasses left behind by a tidal wave as cover, and countering their ability to change the colour of their skins by luring them into shallow water. Upon learning that the last remaining ceratosaur is a mother, the ''Allosaurus'' abandons his hunt, not wanting the ceratosaur’s babies to grow up motherless like him.

* ''ComicBook/TheEaglesOfRome'': Ermanamer/Arminius is a prince of the Cherusci who is sent as a hostage to Rome to ensure his tribe's loyalty. Growing up among a Roman family, Arminius becomes BloodBrothers with Marcus Valerius Falco, spending their young years [[TheSpartanWay training to be warriors]] and living a carefree life bedding women, getting into fights, and watching horse races. When Marcus is planning to throw away his career by running away with a girl he fell in love with, Arminius arranges to break them up. Becoming an officer in the staff of General Varus at the Rhine frontier, Ermanamer serves Rome's interests while secretly never having lost his sense of patriotism, biding his time by becoming an accomplice in a plot by Varus and one of his other officers, Lepidus, to overthrow Augustus himself. Marcus, who has arrived with instructions to spy on his brother, is found out by Ermanamer within days of his arrival and is later [[FrameUp framed for the murder of Varus' lover Nektarios]]. Ermanamer also takes his beloved Thusnelda away from her disapproving father Segestes, eloping with her and making Segestes appear unreliable to the Romans in the process. Setting out to free Germania from Roman rule and fulfill a prophecy given to him by a woods witch, Ermanamer establishes himself as leader of the tribes before luring the Roman army into a trap at Teutoburg Forest. Having successfully wiped out three legions of the most powerful army in the world, [[AwesomeMomentOfCrowning Ermanamer is crowned King of the Germanii]].

* ''ComicBook/HerculesTheThracianWars'': Rhesus is a rebel leader who opposes King Coyts for trying to conquer the city of Thrace. Setting up a massive trap that kills a majority of Coyts's army, upon losing most of his own men, Rhesus commits suicide, knowing he'll die a true Thracian. Miraculously surviving his suicide attempt, Rhesus bides his time by forming a new army, leading his men to Coyts under the correct assumption that Hercules will attempt to steal his gold. Upon arriving after Hercules kills Coyts and his forces, Rhesus allows Hercules and his friends to live, just as long as they leave the gold behind.

* ''ComicBook/LesAiglesDeRome'': Ermanamer/Arminius is a prince of the Cherusci who is sent as a hostage to Rome to ensure his tribe's loyalty. Growing up among a Roman family, Arminius becomes BloodBrothers with Marcus Valerius Falco, spending their young years [[TheSpartanWay training to be warriors]] and living a carefree life bedding women, getting into fights, and watching horse races. When Marcus is planning to throw away his career by running away with a girl he fell in love with, Arminius arranges to break them up. Becoming an officer in the staff of General Varus at the Rhine frontier, Ermanamer serves Rome's interests while secretly never having lost his sense of patriotism, biding his time by becoming an accomplice in a plot by Varus and one of his other officers, Lepidus, to overthrow Augustus himself. Marcus, who has arrived with instructions to spy on his brother, is found out by Ermanamer within days of his arrival and is later [[FrameUp framed for the murder of Varus' lover Nektarios]]. Ermanamer also takes his beloved Thusnelda away from her disapproving father Segestes, eloping with her and making Segestes appear unreliable to the Romans in the process. Setting out to free Germania from Roman rule and fulfill a prophecy given to him by a woods witch, Ermanamer establishes himself as leader of the tribes before luring the Roman army into a trap at Teutoburg Forest. Having successfully wiped out three legions of the most powerful army in the world, [[AwesomeMomentOfCrowning Ermanamer is crowned King of the Germanii]].

* ''ComicBook/Wytches'', by Creator/ScottSnyder: Clara Poirot is a member of the Irons Wytch hunters. One of the best, driven by a profound hatred of Wytches ever since they ate her legs as a child, Clara hunts burrows and the "sucklers", the human servants of Wytches. Rescuing her son Sebastian from one and its Wytch charge, Clara tests Sebastian by secretly "allying" with two of the highest rank of sucklers who plan to feed their child to a young Wytch. Clara ensures Sebastian and his friend Jackson are betrayed and lurks nearby to ensure her son can kill the two along with the Wytch before testing Sebastian to see if he is prepared to kill her. In the present day, an aged Clara assists father Charlie Rooks locate his daughter Sailor and bring down a deep burrow, hanging herself to die on her own terms when she is poisoned by the Wytches' madness-inducing mites.

** "[[Recap/TintinTheSevenCrystalBalls The Seven Crystal Balls]]" and "[[Recap/TintinPrisonersOfTheSun Prisoners of the Sun]]": Rupac Inca Huaco, or "Chiquito", is an Incan Priest seeking retribution against a team of European explorers for desecrating the tomb of Rascar Capac. Working undercover as Ramon Zarate's assistant, he uses the titular crystal balls to put the explorers in a coma, and uses wax figures to torment them at his own will. He also kidnaps Professor Calculus for putting on a bracelet belonging to the former king, and smuggles him to Peru with the intention of executing him for sacrilege. However, when Tintin tells the Incan Prince that the explorers were well-intentioned people who wanted to educate the world about the Incan Civilization, Chiquito willingly destroys the figures upon the prince's orders, freeing his victims from their curse.
** "[[Recap/TintinFlight714 Flight 714 to Sydney]]": Mik Kanrotikoff (Ezdanitoff in the French version) acts as a middle-man between Earth's scientists and aliens formerly worshipped by the residents of Pulau-pulau Bompa. He uses a telepathic transmitter to communicate with the aliens and instruct Tintin on how to find him. He saves Tintin and company from a volcanic eruption by hypnotizing them into entering a flying saucer, erasing their memory of the events of the story, and depositing them on a dinghy in the ocean, though still leaving them dazed and at the mercy of the volcano.

* ''ComicBook/AliensVsPredator'': [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking Dachande]], known as "Broken-Tusk" is a Blooded Yautja leader known for his charisma and intellect. A strategic hunter and veteran of many hunts, Dachande chooses the world Ryushi as the site of the Predators' hunt before being wounded by a shuttle crash. Saved by humans, Dachande [[NobleDemon repays the favor]] by helping to eliminate the Xenomorphs and rogue Yautja alike, [[EvenEvilHasStandards disgusted]] at his people murdering civilians and children. Helping to trap the Xenomorphs and destroy them before being mortally wounded by the alien queen, Dachande uses his dying moments to mark his human partner Machiko with the sign of his clan, one warrior to another.

* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}/WesternAnimation/ElmerFudd Special'' ("Pway for Me" & "Rabbit Season"), by Kelley Jones & Lee Weeks: [[FakingTheDead Silver St. Cloud]], in this darker reimagining of ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'', was the former lover of both [[Characters/BatmanTheCharacter Bruce Wayne]] and later Elmer Fudd, but upon discovering the violent double lives the men are living, Silver decides she wants no part of it. She hires a lowlife named [[WesternAnimation/BugsBunny Bugs]] to fake her death in order to get away from Elmer, while leaving instructions for Bugs to tell Elmer that Bruce Wayne hired the assassination. This leads Elmer Fudd to attempt assassination on Bruce Wayne, pitting the two men against each other. When they discover they have been played, both seek out Bugs, before Silver reveals she is still alive and explains the truth before departing.

** ''ComicBook/BatmanAndCaptainAmerica'': This incarnation of ComicBook/TheJoker lacks many unsavory traits of other versions. Receiving information from a mysterious figure, he decides to use a nuclear weapon to blackmail Gotham City into paying him $1,000,000. He first plans to build his own nuke, successfully obtaining radioactive material and cleverly escaping from Batman in the process. When this approach fails after ComicBook/{{Batman}} and ComicBook/CaptainAmerica foil an attempt to kidnap UsefulNotes/RobertOppenheimer, he changes tack and decides to steal a prototype atomic bomb. After succeeding, he learns that his informer is ComicBook/RedSkull. Declaring his hatred of Nazism, Joker tries to kill the Skull, and helps foil his plan to nuke Washington, D.C. [[ComicBook/SupermanAndBatmanGenerations Years later]], he helps plot and execute a scheme to permanently DePower Superman, only narrowly failing. Then he spends several years masquerading as his own non-existent successor as part of a long-term ploy to kill Dick Grayson, the second Batman, cheerfully turning himself in after he succeeds. Some time later, tormented by Dick's vengeful ghost, he refuses to break, and when he realizes his death is inevitable, he [[FaceDeathWithDignity accepts it with quiet grace]]. Ruthless, witty, and able to roll with the punches, the Joker demonstrates that he's earned his title of "Clown Prince of Crime".
** ''ComicBook/BatmanAndSpiderManNewAgeDawning'': ComicBook/TheKingpin, aka Wilson Fisk, is the powerful criminal mastermind who controls all criminal organizations within New York City. Providing ComicBook/RasAlGhul with resources that help him to carry out terrorist acts around the world, Kingpin objected when Ra's wanted to cause destruction in New York. Eventually being forced to seemingly submit to Ra's, due to his desire to cure his dying wife, Kingpin then sabotaged Ra's plans by reprogramming his satellite, causing it to blow up and then revealing that he knew all along who Ra's was and what he planned, sneaking ComicBook/{{Batman}} and ComicBook/SpiderMan into Ra's base and outsmarting "The Demon", putting a stop to his plans before they even began.

* ''[[ComicBook/SupermanVsPredator Superman vs. Predator]]'', by David Michelinie & Alex Maleev: The [[BloodKnight Yautja]] of this setting, a cunning Predator only referred to as the "sky devil", staked out its territory in ''La Jungla de Las Sombras'' after crash-landing there. For years the sky devil has meticulously [[GeniusBruiser outwitted and killed]] every soldier who comes to investigate the island, and when its technology is misappropriated by a genocidal scientist and his mercenaries, the Predator begins killing them all. The sky devil is even good enough to take on a depowered Superman, and honorable enough to realize that Superman is not his foe in the end, taking out both the scientist and his [[TheDragon Dragon]] before sacrificing himself to destroy their superweapon.
* ''ComicBook/TerminatorRoboCopKillHuman'': [=RoboCop=] himself is the protagonist of the story and a more villainous take on the character. Upon waking up in the future and seeing that Skynet has completely annihilated humanity, [=RoboCop=] sets out on a mission to prevent it from ever happening. Traveling to the past, when the events of ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' occurred, [=RoboCop=] singlehandedly starts changing the timeline by meeting Dick Jones when he was young and giving him enough data to build a fortune and OCP corporation, which [=RoboCop=] leads through Dick. Setting up the trap for T-1000, [=RoboCop=] quickly puts T-800 out of action, before he captures T-1000 and prepares to destroy all Skynet's technology to erase it from the timeline, including T-800. Demonstrating lack of care for John Connor and eventually getting him killed along with Dick Jones, [=RoboCop=] sacrificed his humanity and life to stop Skynet from ever existing.