* Naturally, absurdly common in [[ComicBookTropes comic books]]. There was even a short-lived [[MarvelUniverse Marvel]] series, ''Super-Villain Team-Up''.
** Super-Villain Team up was actually a NonIndicativeName seeing as most of it was supposed to be one or two villains working together. It mostly came down to DoctorDoom and Namor, though the last couple of issues were about RedSkull and the Hate Monger.
* Comic book example: ''Batman's Gangland Guardians'' featured an assembly of {{Comicbook/Batman}}'s foes. Fearing that a new mysterious supervillain might actually succeed in killing Batman, they act to secretly protect him. The rationale being that [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou only they, who have put in the time an effort, deserve to be in the running for Batman's final defeat]].
* Another one from DC was the shortlived ''Secret Society of Super-Villains'', in which a collection of old school villains form a sort of anti-JusticeLeagueOfAmerica and fight the newly-arrived Darkseid and company. In one memorable scene, Gorilla Grodd has a punchout with a giant club wielding member of the ''New Gods'', and defeats him with the aid of a classic wrestling ploy, the {{heel}}ish [[ISurrenderSuckers mock surrender]]. The Society even had their own series.

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* Naturally, absurdly common in comic books. There was even a short-lived Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}} series, ''Super-Villain Team-Up''.
** Super-Villain Team up was actually a NonIndicativeName seeing as most of it was supposed to be one or two villains working together. It mostly came down to SelfDemonstrating/DoctorDoom and [[Comicbook/SubMariner Namor]], though the last couple of issues were about RedSkull and the Hate Monger.
* ''Batman's Gangland Guardians'' featured an assembly of {{Franchise/Batman}}'s foes. Fearing that a new mysterious supervillain might actually succeed in killing Batman, they act to secretly protect him. The rationale being that [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou only they, who have put in the time an effort, deserve to be in the running for Batman's final defeat]].
* Another one from DC was the shortlived ''Secret Society of Super-Villains'', in which a collection of old school villains form a sort of anti-Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica and fight the newly-arrived {{Darkseid}} and company. In one memorable scene, Gorilla Grodd has a punchout with a giant club wielding member of the ''New Gods'', and defeats him with the aid of a classic wrestling ploy, the {{heel}}ish [[ISurrenderSuckers mock surrender]]. The Society even had their own series.

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* ''KamenRiderDecade'' introduces a particularly large version in the form of Great Shocker, which is an alliance of every single evil organization from ''KamenRider''[='=]s 30-plus-year history united under a single banner and dedicated to conquering the multiverse and destroying all the Kamen Riders. [[spoiler:And their leader is Tsukasa Kadoya, AKA Kamen Rider Decade, one of --- if not --- ''the'' most powerful Rider ever.]] In ''[[GrandFinale Final Chapter]]'', [[spoiler:following Great Shocker's downfall in ''All Riders vs. Great Shocker'', Doctor Shinigami and Narutaki (who reveals himself as Colonel Zol) gather TheRemnant as Super Shocker, hoping to take advantage of the fact that Tsukasa's rampage as Destroyer of Worlds has eliminated all the Kamen Riders. Unfortunately for them, all the Kamen Riders are later brought BackFromTheDead ''because'' Decade destroyed them (it's a complicated story).]] In ''Kamen Rider X SuperSentai: Super Hero Taisen'', Great Shocker has been rebuilt with its leader back into the seat and [[KamenRiderV3 Doctor G]] as his [[TheDragon Dragon]], for a new purpose: the systemic annihilation of all the Super Sentai teams, simply because the Zangyack Empire decided to step on the ''Kamen Rider'' multiverse's toes --- see the ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' section below for their side of the story.
** In a smaller scale, the final episode sees Apollo Geist reviving some of the MonstersOfTheWeek that Tsukasa and company dealt with while travelling through the AR worlds.
** The [[MilestoneCelebration 40th anniversary movie]] ''[[Film/OOODenOAllRidersLetsGoKamenRiders Let's Go Kamen Rider]]'' has Shocker [[BadFuture persisting into the 21st century]] thanks to [[KamenRiderOOO Ankh]] sneaking into [[{{Kamen Rider Den-O}} Den-O]]'s time-traveling train [[ForWantOfANail for want of medals]]; its membership in 2011 includes villains from all over the franchise like [[KamenRiderBlackRX General Jark]] and [[KamenRiderDouble Ryubee Sonozaki/Terror Dopant]].

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* ''KamenRiderDecade'' introduces a particularly large version in the form of Great Shocker, which is an alliance of every single evil organization from ''Franchise/KamenRider''[='=]s 30-plus-year history united under a single banner and dedicated to conquering the multiverse and destroying all the Kamen Riders. [[spoiler:And their leader is Tsukasa Kadoya, AKA Kamen Rider Decade, one of --- if not --- ''the'' most powerful Rider ever.]] In ''[[GrandFinale Final Chapter]]'', [[spoiler:following Great Shocker's downfall in ''All Riders vs. Great Shocker'', Doctor Shinigami and Narutaki (who reveals himself as Colonel Zol) gather TheRemnant as Super Shocker, hoping to take advantage of the fact that Tsukasa's rampage as Destroyer of Worlds has eliminated all the Kamen Riders. Unfortunately for them, all the Kamen Riders are later brought BackFromTheDead ''because'' Decade destroyed them (it's a complicated story).]] In ''Kamen Rider X SuperSentai: Super Hero Taisen'', Great Shocker has been rebuilt with its leader back into the seat and [[KamenRiderV3 Doctor G]] as his [[TheDragon Dragon]], for a new purpose: the systemic annihilation of all the Super Sentai teams, simply because the Zangyack Empire decided to step on the ''Kamen Rider'' multiverse's toes --- see the ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' section below for their side of the story.
** In a smaller scale, the final episode sees Apollo Geist reviving some of the {{monster|OfTheWeek}}s that Tsukasa and company dealt with while travelling through the AR worlds.
** The [[MilestoneCelebration 40th anniversary movie]] ''[[Film/OOODenOAllRidersLetsGoKamenRiders Let's Go Kamen Rider]]'' has Shocker [[BadFuture persisting into the 21st century]] thanks to [[KamenRiderOOO Ankh]] sneaking into [[Series/KamenRiderDenO Den-O]]'s time-traveling train [[ForWantOfANail for want of medals]]; its membership in 2011 includes villains from all over the franchise like [[KamenRiderBlackRX General Jark]] and [[Series/KamenRiderDouble Ryubee Sonozaki/Terror Dopant]].

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** In the ''[[Film/KamenRiderXKamenRiderFourzeAndOOOMovieWarMegaMax Movie War]]'' {{crossover}} with ''KamenRiderOOO'', Foundation X uses the research its agents gathered to build an army consisting of various MonstersOfTheWeek as well as mooks from the three series involved (''Fourze'', ''OOO'' and ''[[KamenRiderDouble W]]''), alongside monsters of the BigBad's own design, called "Mutamids". They are not essentially the same monsters from their original series, but it's an excuse to reuse monster suits.
* In the ''[[Film/KamenRiderXKamenRiderWizardAndFourzeMovieWarUltimatum Movie War]]'' between ''Fourze'' and ''KamenRiderWizard'' there is Monster Army, which consists of revived [[KamenRiderW Dopants]], [[KamenRiderOOO Yummy]], [[KamenRiderFourze Zodiarts]], and [[KamenRiderWizard Phantoms]], led by Akumaizer3.
* The final episodes of ''{{Kamen Rider Den-O}}'' features the BigBad amassing an enormous army of the series' MonsterOfTheWeek in order to outnumber the heroes (two Riders and 5/6 Imagin) and accomplish his plans. This army would later be ressurected in the third movie, ''Final Countdown'', under the movie's BigBad.
* Not wanting to be left out, there is the [[MilestoneCelebration 30th anniversary celebration]] ''GoGoSentaiBoukenger vs. SuperSentai'', where High priest Gajah makes an alliance with the movie's BigBad, Chronos, who in turn revives [[HyakujuuSentaiGaoranger Tsue Tsue]], [[MahouSentaiMagiranger Meemy]] and, in the very last minute, [[NinpuuSentaiHurricaneger Furabijo]]. [[spoiler:Last minute, as in the alliance was quickly short-lived, by Chronos betraying everyone and turning the three sorceresses into a staff to power himself up.]]
* The movies for the ''35th'' anniversary series do something similar - ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' is already a Decade-style-celebration, but its villains are the completely original Zangyack Empire. However, the [[Recap/GokaigerGoseigerSuperSentai199HeroGreatBattle first movie]] involves said empire making an alliance with the Black Cross King, a revived [[PeopleInRubberSuits rubber suit]] form of the Black Cross [[NoSwastikas Fuhrer]] from ''HimitsuSentaiGoranger'', who in turn revives [[TensouSentaiGoseiger Brajira]] and a number of villains from ''MahouSentaiMagiranger'' and ''{{Engine Sentai Go-onger}}''. 
** Among the lackeys of the villain of ''Film/KaizokuSentaiGokaigerTheMovieTheFlyingGhostShip'' is a revived [[TokusouSentaiDekaranger Agent Abrella]], who himself leads an army of nearly every {{Mook}} that has existed in ''Sentai'' history. 
** In ''Film/KamenRiderXSuperSentaiSuperheroTaisen'', Zangyack has been expanded into "Great Zangyack" by the hands of their new emeperor, [[spoiler:who appears to be a {{Face Heel Turn}}ed Captain Marvelous, AKA Gokai Red, who launches an invasion of the ''Kamen Rider'' multiverse to claim the Riders' Grand Powers]]; its membership includes a number of high-level villains from all over the ''Super Sentai'' franchise like [[SamuraiSentaiShinkenger Doukoku]] and [[ChoudenshiBioman Bio Hunter Silva]].
* ''Series/{{Angel}}'' Season 5 makes use of this by taking several minor characters that appeared throughout the season and putting them in a group called the Circle of the Black Thorn, which the heroes spend the last episode combating.
** Sort of an [[InvertedTrope inversion]]--rather being a group of random villains that teamed up, they had ''already'' been working together, though Angel and his friends didn't find out until later.

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** In the ''[[Film/KamenRiderXKamenRiderFourzeAndOOOMovieWarMegaMax Movie War]]'' {{crossover}} with ''KamenRiderOOO'', Foundation X uses the research its agents gathered to build an army consisting of various {{monster|OfTheWeek}}s as well as mooks from the three series involved (''Fourze'', ''OOO'' and ''[[KamenRiderDouble W]]''), alongside monsters of the BigBad's own design, called "Mutamids". They are not essentially the same monsters from their original series, but it's an excuse to reuse monster suits.
* In the ''[[Film/KamenRiderXKamenRiderWizardAndFourzeMovieWarUltimatum Movie War]]'' between ''Fourze'' and ''Series/KamenRiderWizard'' there is Monster Army, which consists of revived [[KamenRiderW Dopants]], [[KamenRiderOOO Yummy]], [[Series/KamenRiderFourze Zodiarts]], and [[Series/KamenRiderWizard Phantoms]], led by Akumaizer3.
* The final episodes of ''Series/KamenRiderDenO'' features the BigBad amassing an enormous army of the series' MonsterOfTheWeek in order to outnumber the heroes (two Riders and 5/6 Imagin) and accomplish his plans. This army would later be resurrected in the third movie, ''Final Countdown'', under the movie's BigBad.
* Not wanting to be left out, there is the [[MilestoneCelebration 30th anniversary celebration]] ''Series/GoGoSentaiBoukenger vs. Franchise/SuperSentai'', where High priest Gajah makes an alliance with the movie's BigBad, Chronos, who in turn revives [[HyakujuuSentaiGaoranger Tsue Tsue]], [[MahouSentaiMagiranger Meemy]] and, in the very last minute, [[NinpuuSentaiHurricaneger Furabijo]]. [[spoiler:Last minute, as in the alliance was quickly short-lived, by Chronos betraying everyone and turning the three sorceresses into a staff to power himself up.]]
* The movies for the ''35th'' anniversary series do something similar - ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' is already a Decade-style-celebration, but its villains are the completely original Zangyack Empire. However, the [[Recap/GokaigerGoseigerSuperSentai199HeroGreatBattle first movie]] involves said empire making an alliance with the Black Cross King, a revived [[PeopleInRubberSuits rubber suit]] form of the Black Cross [[NoSwastikas Fuhrer]] from ''Series/HimitsuSentaiGoranger'', who in turn revives [[Series/TensouSentaiGoseiger Brajira]] and a number of villains from ''Series/MahouSentaiMagiranger'' and ''Series/{{Engine Sentai Go-onger}}''. 
** Among the lackeys of the villain of ''Film/KaizokuSentaiGokaigerTheMovieTheFlyingGhostShip'' is a revived [[Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger Agent Abrella]], who himself leads an army of nearly every {{Mook|s}} that has existed in ''Sentai'' history. 
** In ''Film/KamenRiderXSuperSentaiSuperheroTaisen'', Zangyack has been expanded into "Great Zangyack" by the hands of their new emperor, [[spoiler:who appears to be a {{Face Heel Turn}}ed Captain Marvelous, AKA Gokai Red, who launches an invasion of the ''Kamen Rider'' multiverse to claim the Riders' Grand Powers]]; its membership includes a number of high-level villains from all over the ''Super Sentai'' franchise like [[Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger Doukoku]] and [[ChoudenshiBioman Bio Hunter Silva]].
* ''Series/{{Angel}}'' Season 5 makes use of this by taking several minor characters that appeared throughout the season and putting them in a group called the Circle of the Black Thorn, which the heroes spend the last episode combating. Sort of an {{inver|tedTrope}}sion--rather being a group of random villains that teamed up, they had ''already'' been working together, though Angel and his friends didn't find out until later.

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* In 1995 Wrestling/{{WCW}}, Wrestling/KevinSullivan and his "Father" The Master (King Curtis Iaukea) put together one of the most imposing heel stables of all time called the Wrestling/DungeonOfDoom. The group featured the great [[WrestlingMonster Monster Heels]] Wrestling/{{Kamala}}, [[Wrestling/JohnTenta The Shark (John "Earthquake" Tenta)]] and Haku (now known as Meng)who is generally considered one of if not the most legitimate tough guys in wrestling also joined the group, with the centerpiece being [[Wrestling/TheBigShow The Giant]]. At Halloween Havoc 95 the group really began to hit its stride with the inclusion of former world champion Lex Luger and the legendary Manager Jimmy Hart. The stable would expand over the next several months to include such legends as the Barbarian One Man Gang, Giant Haystacks (billed as the Loch Ness Monster) [[Wrestling/BigBossman Big Bubba (Ray "The Big Bossman" Traylor)]], [[Characters/WWEDivas Jacqueline]] and Wrestling/{{Konnan}}. While the stable may have peaked during the spring of 96 they continued to be force in WCW until they were disbanded in July 97.
* During ''Uncensored '96'', two of the groups above united to create an even ''bigger'' Legion of Doom when the Four Horsemen and the Dungeon of Doom joined forces to become the Alliance to End Hulkamania along with two random wrestlers The Ultimate Solution (the late Robert "Jeep" Swenson, aka "Bane" from ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'') and Z-Gangsta (Tom Lister, Jr., who played Zeus in HulkHogan's 1989 film ''Film/NoHoldsBarred''). They fought Hogan and Wrestling/RandySavage in the "Doomsday Cage Match", a triple-decker cage. However, at the apex of his BoringInvincibleHero status, Hogan was still too much for the eight memebers of the Alliance and he and Savage soundly beat them.

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* In 1995 Wrestling/{{WCW}}, Wrestling/KevinSullivan and his "Father" The Master (King Curtis Iaukea) put together one of the most imposing heel stables of all time called the Wrestling/DungeonOfDoom. The group featured the great [[WrestlingMonster Monster Heels]] Wrestling/{{Kamala}}, [[Wrestling/JohnTenta The Shark (John "Earthquake" Tenta)]] and Haku (now known as Meng) who is generally considered one of if not the most legitimate tough guys in wrestling also joined the group, with the centerpiece being [[Wrestling/TheBigShow The Giant]]. At Halloween Havoc 95 the group really began to hit its stride with the inclusion of former world champion Lex Luger and the legendary Manager Jimmy Hart. The stable would expand over the next several months to include such legends as the Barbarian, One Man Gang, Giant Haystacks (billed as the Loch Ness Monster) [[Wrestling/BigBossman Big Bubba (Ray "The Big Bossman" Traylor)]], [[Characters/WWEDivas Jacqueline]] and Wrestling/{{Konnan}}. While the stable may have peaked during the spring of 96 they continued to be a force in WCW until they were disbanded in July 97.
* During ''Uncensored '96'', two of the groups above united to create an even ''bigger'' Legion of Doom when the Four Horsemen and the Dungeon of Doom joined forces to become the Alliance to End Hulkamania along with two random wrestlers The Ultimate Solution (the late Robert "Jeep" Swenson, aka "Bane" from ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'') and Z-Gangsta (Tom Lister, Jr., who played Zeus in Wrestling/HulkHogan's 1989 film ''Film/NoHoldsBarred''). They fought Hogan and Wrestling/RandySavage in the "Doomsday Cage Match", a triple-decker cage. However, at the apex of his InvincibleHero status, Hogan was still too much for the eight members of the Alliance and he and Savage soundly beat them.

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* In the first ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts'', the villains from various theatrical Disney movies banded together under the command of Maleficent from ''Disney/SleepingBeauty''. As with most of the (relatively rare) video game cases, the villains didn't turn on each other; instead, the heroes [[SortingAlgorithmOfEvil picked them off one by one]]. Though Maleficent was the leader and the last required to fight, Hades was actually the most powerful (being a god and all) and thus, fighting him was left entirely optional until ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII''.
* The premise of ''NicktoonsUnite'' is that JimmyNeutron's nemesis Professor Calamitous steals his plans for a dimensional portal to form an "Evil Syndicate" consisting of him, [[DannyPhantom Vlad Plasmius]], [[SpongebobSquarepants Plankton]], and [[FairlyOddParents Mr. Crocker]]. Naturally, Jimmy pulls the reverse and just like the first ''Kingdom Hearts'' mentioned above, you pick them off one by one 'till the pseudo-BossRush climax. And despite all four members being captured at the end, the syndicate reappeared three games later in ''Globs of Doom'' but with a different lineup of four (Plankton being the only "veteran" out of them) and ''only serving for a EnemyMine situation'' (Well, until the SnapBack). Nevertheless, both incarnations never got to infighting at all.
* ''DissidiaFinalFantasy'' has a Legion made up of the main bosses from the first 10 FinalFantasy games, headed by the god Chaos, and opposed by the heroes of the same. They're not exactly the most cooperative of groups: They seem to have split between the [[OmnicidalManiac Destroyers]], [[TheChessmaster Schemers]], [[HeelFaceTurn Defectors]], and those who are just plain following their own agenda. But really, that's what you get when you assemble people that are ''this'' unhinged and expect them to get along.
* In ''SuperSmashBros Brawl''[='=]s Subspace Emissary story mode, a group of villains, including playable characters Bowser, Ganondorf, and Wario, and [=NPCs=] Petey Piranha, Porky, and Ridley join under Master Hand, [[spoiler: who is secretly being controlled by Tabuu]], to make the Subspace Army. Bowser, Ganondorf, and Wario all end up eventually betraying the army, joining the heroes [[spoiler: once they realize they were just Tabuu's pawns.]] However, Ganondorf planned on overthrowing Master Hand and becoming the army's leader long [[spoiler:before he learned of Tabuu.]] 
* ''MarvelUltimateAlliance'' features a virtual army of supervillains forming a new Masters of Evil, as well as several cutscenes in which Doctor Doom plot his evil schemes along with his flunkies, er, allies, Loki, the Enchantress, Baron Mordo, and Ultron (one assumes Ultron was frequently pinched for forgetting to wear green).

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* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'', various [[Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon Disney Villains]] banded together under the command of Maleficent from ''Disney/SleepingBeauty''. As with most of the (relatively rare) video game cases, the villains didn't turn on each other; instead, the heroes [[SortingAlgorithmOfEvil picked them off one by one]]. Though Maleficent was the leader and the last required to fight, Hades was actually the most powerful (being a god and all) and thus, fighting him was left entirely optional until ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII''.
* The premise of ''VideoGame/NicktoonsUnite'' is that [[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius Jimmy Neutron]]'s nemesis Professor Calamitous steals his plans for a dimensional portal to form an "Evil Syndicate" consisting of him, [[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom Vlad Plasmius]], [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Plankton]], and [[WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents Mr. Crocker]]. Naturally, Jimmy pulls the reverse and just like the first ''Kingdom Hearts'' mentioned above, you pick them off one by one 'till the pseudo-BossRush climax. And despite all four members being captured at the end, the syndicate reappeared three games later in ''Globs of Doom'' but with a different lineup of four (Plankton being the only "veteran" out of them) and ''only serving for a EnemyMine situation'' (Well, until the SnapBack). Nevertheless, both incarnations never got to infighting at all.
* ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' has a Legion made up of the main bosses from the first 10 ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' games, headed by the god Chaos, and opposed by the heroes of the same. They're not exactly the most cooperative of groups: They seem to have split between the [[OmnicidalManiac Destroyers]], [[TheChessmaster Schemers]], [[HeelFaceTurn Defectors]], and those who are just plain following their own agenda. But really, that's what you get when you assemble people that are ''this'' unhinged and expect them to get along.
* In ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Brawl''[='=]s Subspace Emissary story mode, a group of villains, including playable characters Bowser, Ganondorf, and Wario, and [=NPCs=] Petey Piranha, Porky, and Ridley join under Master Hand, [[spoiler: who is secretly being controlled by Tabuu]], to make the Subspace Army. Bowser, Ganondorf, and Wario all end up eventually betraying the army, joining the heroes [[spoiler: once they realize they were just Tabuu's pawns.]] However, Ganondorf planned on overthrowing Master Hand and becoming the army's leader long [[spoiler:before he learned of Tabuu.]] 
* ''VideoGame/MarvelUltimateAlliance'' features a virtual army of supervillains forming a new Masters of Evil, as well as several cutscenes in which Doctor Doom plot his evil schemes along with his flunkies, er, allies, Loki, the Enchantress, Baron Mordo, and Ultron (one assumes Ultron was frequently pinched for forgetting to wear green).

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