History VillainsOutShopping / ComicBooks

** One ''Amazing Spider-Man'' comic that takes place during Todd [=McFarlane's=] run has the Chameleon reminiscing about the past while watching old Lon Chaney Sr. flicks on videotape. (He claimed to have been inspired by that actor.)

* {{WesternAnimation/Gargoyles}}: The comics continuation had Xanatos sending 2 drones, Coldsteel and Coyote 5.0 to get the powerful Stone of Destiny from Hudson, Lexington, King Arthur, Macbeth, and the local clan. They wonder what nefarious scheme Xanatos is really up to, and he's buying shoes with his wife. However at the end of the arc he uses the shoe box as a bomb scare and makes off with a stone. [[spoiler: It's all [[ShootTheShaggyDog pointless]] however]].

* While being one of the most horrible villains in the DC universe, {{Darkseid}} has also done some surprisingly normal things, like work at a BurgerFool, buy Earth porn and later watch it (purely for "research" purposes, and to force his adopted son Scott Free to watch it), and was once even mugged, and spent most of the time just analyzing the experience.

** There's also the time during Creator/GrantMorrison's run on ''Comicbook/{{New X-Men}}'' when Wolverine and Sabretooth happened to run into each other in a bar restroom.

* Averted by SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker at ''The laugh after Midnight'' at ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures annual # 1, when [[JokerImmunity after surviving his last fight with Batman]] only wants to come back home, buy some donuts and a paper, call to Harley to pick him... while killing the vendors with Joker Venom.

* In the first issue of ''SelfDemonstrating/DoctorDoom and the Masters of Evil'', the Sinister Six, Spider-Man's main group of villains, casually travel throughout New York, their appearances disguised by Mysterio's illusions. Amongst their daily activities are riding on the bus and buying hot dogs. Somewhat inverted as they do commit some villainy by using Mysterio's illusions to trick the guards of an armored car to give them their cargo, but they maintain their rather friendly banter while doing so.

* {{Gargoyles}}: The comics continuation had Xanatos sending 2 drones, Coldsteel and Coyote 5.0 to get the powerful Stone of Destiny from Hudson, Lexington, King Arthur, Macbeth, and the local clan. They wonder what nefarious scheme Xanatos is really up to, and he's buying shoes with his wife. However at the end of the arc he uses the shoe box as a bomb scare and makes off with a stone. [[spoiler: It's all [[ShootTheShaggyDog pointless]] however]].

* In ''IdentityCrisis #004,'' a number of dangerous assassins [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg (and Mirrormaster)]] play ''Risk'' while discussing the pattern of attacks on the families of heroes.

** [[CountdownToFinalCrisis Sitting on couches.]]

* Marvel Comics has the Bar With No Name, an establishment that caters specifically to super-villains. The Bar's first appearance did ''not'' fit this trope (it was where the mass-murder of several villains occured during the original "Scourge of the Underworld" storyline in ''CaptainAmerica") but since then, the Bar has appeared in many stand-alone stories where groups of villains gather to drink and talk (or commisserate).
* In the Creator/JMichaelStraczynski run of ''Comicbook/{{Spider-Man}}'', Morlun, a villain who absorbs life energy, is out for Spidey. The hero and a mentor wonder what he's plotting and what evil rituals he's performing to prepare himself, cut to...Morlun trying out evil leather pants, and wondering whether they make his butt look big.
** Another Franchise/{{Spider-Man}} example is in [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel's]] Webspinners: Tales of Spider-Man # 1, where Peter goes into a movie theater to catch a screening of an old sci-fi flick, and ends up sitting next to Quentin Beck - aka Spidey's foe [[MasterOfIllusion Mysterio.]] Beck doesn't know who Peter is, and Peter doesn't recognize Beck in the dark, so the two foes wind up chatting back and forth about their mutual appreciation for film.

* In one issue of ''Uncanny Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'' back in the 1990s, {{Wolverine}}, Nightcrawler, and Colossus are out at a bar. TheJuggernaut also happened to be there, just out for a drink and to try and pick up chicks. Peter had just broken up with Kitty Pryde, and Wolvie wanted to teach him a lesson. Cue Wolverine causing Colossus and Juggernaut to get into a BarBrawl. That destroyed the bar. Juggernaut won. He then paid for the damage.

* Averted by SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker at ''The laugh after Midnight'' at TheBatmanAdventures annual # 1, when [[JokerImmunity after surviving his last fight with Batman]] only wants to come back home, buy some donuts and a paper, call to Harley to pick him... while killing the vendors with Joker Venom.

** In ''SuperiorSpiderMan'', the first thing Massacre does after escaping from prison is go to a fast food restaurant.

* ''ComicBook/TransformersRobotsInDisguise'': With the war over, tensions rise to see who will restart it. Instead of scheming, some Decepticons just want to hang out at the (Autobot run) bar, and knock back a few drinks. Squawkbox and Tankor even decide to abandon the cause, because being at Peace is better than going out to die over some half-remembered ideology.

* While [[{{Sub-Mariner}} Namor's]] villain status is [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor in more or less continual dispute]], this does occasionally happen. At one point, he's seen surrounded by tanks protesting that he ''can't'' surrender, he's not here to invade...he just wants a bagel.

* ComicBook/TransformersRobotsInDisguise: With the war over, tensions rise to see who will restart it. Instead of scheming, some Decepticons just want to hang out at the (Autobot run) bar, and knock back a few drinks. Squawkbox and Tankor even decide to abandon the cause, because being at Peace is better than going out to die over some half-remembered ideology.

** Another example occurred when members of the X-Men came across Juggernaut in New York City, where he was nefariously...opening a bank account. The time-traveling uber-sentinel Nimrod showed up and attacked the lot of them.

* Averted by CompleteMonster TheJoker at ''The laugh after Midnight'' at TheBatmanAdventures annual # 1, when [[JokerImmunity after surviving his last fight with Batman]] only wants to come back home, buy some donuts and a paper, call to Harley to pick him... while killing the vendors with Joker Venom.

* Averted by CompleteMonster the Joker at ''The laugh after Midnight'' at TheBatmanAdventures annual # 1, when [[JokerImmunity after surviving his last fight with Batman]] only wants to come back home, buy some donuts and a paper, call to Harley to pick him... while killing the vendors with Joker Venom.

* Averted by CompleteMonster the Joker at The laugh after Midnight at TheBatmanAdventures, when after surviving his last fight with Batman only wants to come back home, buy some donuts and a paper, call to Harley to pick him... while killing the vendors with Joker Venom.

* ComicBook/TransformersRobotsInDisguise: With the war over, tensions rise to see who will restart it. Instead of scheming, some Decepticons just want to hang out at the (Autobot run) bar, and knock back a few drinks. Squawkbox and Tankor even decide to abandon the cause, because being at Peace is better than going out to die over some half-thoughtout ideology.

* ComicBook/TransformersRobotsInDisguise: With the war over, tensions rise to see who will restart it. Instead of scheming, some Decepticons just want to hang out at the (Autobot) run bar, and knock back a few drinks. Squawkbox and Tankor even decide to abandon the cause, because being at Peace is better than going out to die over some half-thoughtout ideology.

** Sitting on couches.

* In ''IdentityCrisis #004,'' [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg a number of dangerous assassins (and Mirrormaster)]] play ''Risk'' while discussing the pattern of attacks on the families of heroes.

* {{Gargoyles}}: The comics continuation had Xanatos sending 2 drones, Coldsteel and Coyote 5.0 to get the powerful Stone of Destiny from Hudson, Lexington, King Arthur, Macbeth, and the local clan. They wonder what nefarious scheme Xanatos is really up to, and he's buying shoes with his wife. However at the end of the arc he uses the shoe box as a bomb scare and makes off with a stone. [[spoiler: It's all [[ShootTheShaggyDog pointless]] however as the spirit of the stone can never be contained within one vessel (the only true success was Macbeth who found out about this before hand and was trying to keep the stone itself, which had much significance in his history, safe]].