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!!The following have their own pages:
[[index]]
* ArchEnemy/TheDCU
* ArchEnemy/MarvelUniverse
* ''ArchEnemy/StarTrek''
* ArchEnemy/StarWars
* {{ArchEnemy/Whoniverse}}
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!!Other Comic Books
%%* The Panther and ComicBook/AcePowers.
%%* ''ComicBook/Agent327'': Hendrik I Jzerbroot's most dangerous opponent is Boris Kloris.
* ''ComicBook/AlanFord'': Group TNT, an assembly of impoverished crime fighters, has Superciuk, a supervillain who [[InvertedTrope inverts]] the [[JustLikeRobinHood Robin Hood archetype]] by robbing the poor and giving his loot to the rich.
* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'': Julius Caesar would be this, even though there's a mutual respect between the Gauls and Caesar. Caesar is often seen as a VoiceOfReason and above the pettiness of many of the prefects.
* ''ComicBook/AstroCity'': Samaritan has Infidel, who have both traveled through time to change history and thwart each others' schemes. They give up the feud once they realize that neither of them will ever be able to destroy the other, even if the Universe itself is destroyed.
* ComicBook/AtomicRobo has the Nazi Baron Heinrich von Helsingard. Dr. Dinosaur may also qualify for Robo in modern times.
** Thomas Edison for Nikola Tesla and, by extension, Robo.
** Majestic 13 for Tesladyne...and again, by extension, Robo, but also former agent and full-time MemeticBadass Jenkins this time.
* ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'' have Henry Bendix, who was the former leader of their predecessor organization ''ComicBook/{{Stormwatch}}''. Bendix managed to break up the Authority and take over America, only to by killed by Midnighter when the Authority reorganized.
* The Scorpion to ComicBook/TheBanshee.
* In their fictional universe the characters from the two BritishComics ''ComicBook/TheBeano'' and ''ComicBook/TheDandy'' are arch enemies with frequent jokes but at the other's expense and infrequent raids between the comics. This arch enemy rivalry has died down quite alot since The Dandy's revamp. Also characters from within the two comics have their own arch enemies as well. ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUK has Walter the Softy, Roger the Dodger has Cruncher Kerr The Bash Street Kids had the Blob Street Kids, the Three Bears had Hank and Grizzly Gus (another more evil looking bear who hasnt been in the strip for years) and Desperate Dan had either Cactusman or Dangerous Dan [=McGroo=].
** This arch-enemy comic rivalry was taken further in the Fleetway comic ''ComicBook/WhizzerAndChips'' which was one comic which was made up of two comics and these two comics and their characters were archenemies with even more frequent 'raids' in the two comics than with the Beano and Dandy.
* ''ComicBook/BlakeAndMortimer'': Blake and Mortimer often face off against Olrik.
* ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'':
** The Bone cousins have the Hooded One, who seeks to sacrifice Phoney.
** Thorn Harvester has the Hooded One ([[spoiler:her [[EvilUncle Evil Aunt]]]]), the Lord of the Locusts (who Thorn becomes a SoulJar for), and Kingdok (who killed her parents).
* ''ComicBook/BuckDanny'': Lady X.
* ''ComicBook/BuckskinAmericasDefenderOfLiberty'' has the Black Buzzard.
* ''ComicBook/CaptainFlash'' has the Mirror Man.
* ''ComicBook/{{Chlorophylle}}'': Anthracite to the titular hero; both take their mutual opposition very clearly, and Anthracite makes it very clear he wishes nothing more than kill him.
* ''ComicBook/TheCrusader'' has Emil Groff.
* ''ComicBook/TheCrow'' has Top Dollar, the man who arranged the murder of Eric Draven and his girlfriend.
* ''ComicBook/DeKiekeboes'': Balthazar is the most recurring antagonist in the series, though generally considered to be a HarmlessVillain. Far more dangerous are Timothea Triangl- a ''Film/JamesBond'' type villain who underwent a sex change- and Dédé La Canaille, a criminal who wants to murder Kiekeboe for putting him into jail.
* ''ComicBook/DisneyMouseAndDuckComics'':
** ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'':
*** Scrooge [=McDuck=] has several different enemies competing for the title. He often combats the Beagle Boys, though Blackheart Beagle, the oldest member and their founder, is the only one whom Scrooge has a personal vendetta with. His business rivals Flintheart Glomgold and John Rockerduck sometimes function as his own personal arch enemy(ies) too, given their status as {{Evil Counterpart}}s of Scrooge. However, his most dangerous opponent is the witch Magica Despell, who threatens to steal his lucky dime and melt it in the Vesuvius volcano. One could also add Arpin Lusene, a GentlemanThief who holds the distinction of being Scrooge's only WorthyOpponent.
*** Donald Duck considers both Gladstone Gander and Neighbour Jones his personal arch enemies, though these are of the [[SitcomArchNemesis sitcom]] variety.
*** Interestingly, Donald's superhero identity Paperinik is often seen fighting random crooks or one-shot supervillains without many recurring villains. The two characters being mostly like arch-enemies towards him might be [[MindControl Spectrum]] in older and [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Red Duckan]] in newer comics. He does have an extensive RoguesGallery in ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'', but no single bad guy has managed to stand out as his definitive arch-enemy.
** Franchise/MickeyMouse as seen in more recent ''ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse'' stories has his own kind of dynamic with his two arch enemies WesternAnimation/{{Pete}} and the Phantom Blot. Mickey is typically more or less an AmateurSleuth, naturally opposed to both of them as professional criminals. Pete is generally shown as a more crude but very experienced and enterprising criminal, whereas the Blot is a shadowy criminal mastermind. Pete [[EvenEvilHasStandards is not completely evil]] and has been shown with a kind of affection towards Mickey as an opponent and is more prone to end up in an EnemyMine situation with him, whereas the Blot is closer to being simply sociopathic. The two can even get contrasted in the same story, with Pete more human and the Blot more effortlessly smooth and evil. It's still DependingOnTheWriter.
* ''Literature/DocSavage'' has John Sunlight, simply because apart from Sunlight, Savage primarily deals with [[MonsterOfTheWeek one-shot villains]].
* In ''ComicBook/DrBlinkSuperheroShrink'', Night Ranger's most fearsome foe is his KidSidekick, Scout.
-->"Now when we get downstairs, don't freak out about the dent in the Night Mobile. It was ''totally'' not my fault."
* ''ComicBook/ExMachina'': Mitchell Hundred and Jack Person.
* Rigonie to the Eye in ''ComicBook/TheEyeSees''.
* Both the Hunter Rose and Christine Spar incarnations of ComicBook/{{Grendel}} have Argent the Wolf, who dedicated his life to ending their killing sprees.
* ComicBook/Gen13 has Ivana Baiul, the leader of [=DV8=].
* ComicBook/GrooTheWanderer had General Taranto, although Groo is dimwitted enough that he often forgets about Taranto's vendetta or past attempts to kill him.
* Nothing can compare to what John Constantine the ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'' has. Having {{Satan}}, also known as the First of the Fallen, as an arch-enemy is simply the worst. Constantine also has Nergal.
* ComicBook/{{Hellboy}} has Grigori Rasputin, who summoned Hellboy to earth and seeks to revive the Ogdru Jahad. Hellboy also has the Odgru Jahad themselves, since he is the AntiAntiChrist rebelling against his destiny to help them destroy the world.
* ComicBook/{{Invincible}}:
** Invincible has Thragg, Conquest, and Angstrom Levy
*** Thragg, a powerful member and former leader of his father's race, the Viltrumites. Thragg maimed Invincible's half-brother, Oliver. [[spoiler:By the end of the serioes, Thragg kills both Invincible's father, Omni-Man, and Oliver.]]
*** Conquest is a [[BloodKnight bloodthirsty Viltrumite]], who, in his first battle with Mark, injures Oliver, breaks Mark's leg, impales Atom Eve, and destroys Mark's arm at the cost of his own cybernetic arm. This experience causes Mark to develop a less merciful attitude towards villains.
*** Angstrom Levy is a DimensionalTraveler who blames Invincible for his [[BodyHorror mutation]].
** Omni-Man also has Thragg, his former superior. Thragg wants Nolan deadbecause he betrayed the Viltrumites [[spoiler:and because Nolan is the rightful heir to the Viltrum Empire, which Thragg covered up. Upon being recognized by the other Viltrumites as their rightful ruler, Nolan has Thragg exiled.]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Irredeemable}}'': [[BewareTheSuperman The Plutonian]] to Max Damage. The Plutonian hates Max for knowing about his past as a WildChild, and Max Damage is a former supervillain who is shocked into a HeelFaceTurn by the Plutonian's FaceHeelTurn.
* Raven Red, an EvilCounterpart of Jet, is the only villain to appear more than once in ''Comicbook/JetDream''.
* ComicBook/{{Jommeke}}: Jommeke and his friends are often confronted by Anatool, the servant nobody can trust. However, he is somewhat of a HarmlessVillain, seeing that Jommeke and his friends can easily thwart his evil schemes. De Koningin van Onderland ("The Queen of Onderland") on the other hand doesn't appear that much in Jommeke's stories, but when she does she is generally considered to be his most frightening and dangerous opponent.
* ComicBook/JudgeDredd: Judge Joseph Dredd has Judge Death, PJ Maybe, Robert L. Booth, and Rico Dredd.
** Judge Death is Dredd's undead EvilCounterpart. Since he is immortal, he is one of Dredd's few enemies with JokerImmunity, and has squared off with Dredd many times. Their differing philosophies on the purpose of law make them natural foils.
** PJ Maybe is a SerialKiller who eluded justice for a long time. Dredd first arrested Maybe when the latter was a youth, and years later he voted to have Maybe executed. Maybe later attempted to murder Dredd's niece Vienna.
** Robert L. Booth is responsible for turning the Earth into the post-apocalyptic wasteland Dredd lives in. Dredd once sentenced Booth to a lifetime of hard labor, only for Booth take over the farm and become the leader of a mutant army with plans to retake America, reemerging to antagonize Dredd thirty years after their previous confrontation
** Rico Dredd is Joseph's EvilTwin. While he has not reappeared since his first story where Joe executed him, their antagonism is fleshed out in later flashbacks. As Joseph's brother, their feud is perhaps the most personal one he's ever had.
** Judge Anderson has Orlok the Assassin.
* Three-Finger Joe to ComicBook/KBarKate, whose father he almost murdered and whom he was the only recurring foe of.
* ComicBook/LadyDeath has [[{{Satan}} Lucifer]] as her greatest enemy, since he is responsible for her current condition and keeps returning from death to torment her time and time again. Other candidates include ComicBook/{{Purgatori}}, [[OurLichesAreDifferent Sagos]] and [[TheCaligula the Death Queen]].
* Darkhell is this to [[ComicBook/LesLegendaires the Legendaries]], and this on ''soooo'' many levels: [[CreateYourOwnVillain he was the one who made part of them what they are now]], was the first threat they faced, fought them for several years, is the most recurring antagonist in the series and was the [[BigBad most dangerous]] [[TheDreaded of their enemies until]] [[GodOfEvil Anathos]] shew up. [[spoiler:Now that he finally died for real, it seems like his self-proclaimed heir Abyss is taking the mantle.]]
** Darkhell had his own arch-enemy, Skroa (though more of a [[TheRival Rival]] than an actual one) before the Legendaries formed, but ended up defeating him.
* ComicBook/TheLoneWarrior has the Dictator's Shadow.
* ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'': Lucky Luke most often faces off against the Dalton brothers. About half of the albums are about the Daltons and the rest about everyone else. Billy the Kid is the second most recurring villain and he still doesn't come close to their approaching VillainProtagonist status. They also show up as major antagonists in most {{animated adaptation}}s to date, namely ''WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeDaisyTown'', ''WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons'' (obviously), the ''WesternAnimation/{{Lucky Luke|1983}}'' series, ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfLuckyLuke'' and ''WesternAnimation/GoWestALuckyLukeAdventure''. They even got their own cartoon series, ''WesternAnimation/TheDaltons''.
* ''ComicBook/TheMadHatter'': The Gargoyle, a criminal resurrected as a BeastMan, was clearly supposed to be this for the Mad Hatter, due to the implication that he'll return, but he debuted in the final issue of the comic, so he didn't get the chance to full come into his evil.
* ''ComicBook/MajorGrom'': Sergey Razumovsky, a.k.a. the Plague Doctor.
* ''ComicBook/TheMaxx'': The Maxx and Julie Winters have Mr. Gone. The Maxx seeks to protect Julie, and Mr. Gone is a serial rapist stalking Julie.
* The ComicBook/{{Micronauts|MarvelComics}} and Baron Karza.
* ComicBook/{{Miracleman}} has Kid Miracleman and Dr. Emil Gargunza.
* ''ComicBook/NemesisTheWarlock'' has Tomas de Torquemada, an EvilOverlord who Nemesis initially opposed because he was a BloodKnight looking for a challenge. However, Torqemada becomes responsible for the deaths Nemesis' wife Chira and son Thoth, and Nemesis becomes responsible for the deaths of Torquemada's children Pandora and Barbarossa.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Nero}}'': In the early stories this role went to Matsuoka, a Literature/FuManchu like antagonist. Later Ricardo the Napolitan maffiosi became Nero's most frequent target.
* ''ComicStrip/PaulusDeBoskabouter'': Paulus the wood gnome has one recuring arch nemesis and that is Eucalypta the WickedWitch.
* One volume of ''ComicBook/{{Powers}}'' deconstructs the usual comic treatment of archenemies. It shows what were essentially the world's first superhero and supervillain. The two are immortal and have existed since humanity was still diverging from the ape, and have had a grudge just as long. When they meet for the last time in the present day, the hero, (who has a case of TheFogOfAges) demands to know why he and the villain have been fighting so long. The villain, whose memory is not impaired like the hero's, admits that he can no longer even remember what originally sparked their feud.
* ComicStrip/ThePhantom: The Phantom is traditionally opposed by the current leader of the Singh Brotherhood; the 21st Phantom first battles Dogai Singh, and later, his daughter Sandal Singh. Other notable enemies include the mercenary Gold Hand and the evil President Lubanga.
* ComicBook/{{Planetary}} and the Four, especially their respective leaders, Elijah Snow and Randall Dowling.
* Jesse Custer in ComicBook/{{Preacher}} has Herr Starr, the Saint of Killers, and God. Yes, '''the''' {{God}}.
* ComicStrip/QuickAndFlupke: Quick and Flupke are often confronted by Agent 15. Seeing that the two boys are brats your mileage may vary whether Agent 15 is actually the hero of the series or not.
* ComicBook/RedSonja and Kulan Gath.
* ''ComicBook/RicHochet'': "Le Bourreau" ("The Executioner") is this to Ric Hochet. No other adversaries come close to being recurring and a match to Ric's wits and skills.
* ComicBook/SavageDragon had the Overlord.
* ''ComicBook/{{Scalped}}'': Dashiell Bad Horse has Lincoln Red Crow.
* ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'' has Gideon Gordon Graves.
* ''ComicBook/TheShadow'' has Shiwan Khan.
* ''ComicBook/SinCity'' villains usually don't live past their initial story but Manute has menaced Dwight [=McCarthy=] enough times to count. [[spoiler: Manute is dead now but he shows up anyway due to the nonlinear timeline.]]
** The Yellow Bastard did go up against Hartigan a few times before kicking the bucket. We only ended up seeing two confrontations in the same story, though.
* ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'': Gargamel who, in the comics at least, wants to turn the Smurfs into gold. In the animated series he simply wants to eat them.
* In ''[[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics Sonic The Hedgehog (Archie Comics)]]'', Knuckles gets his own Arch Enemy -- first, the MadScientist Dimitri (and his alter-ego [[PhysicalGod Enerjak]]), and later Dr. Finitevus (following Dimitri's HeelFaceTurn).
* In ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'', Sonic has two archenemies: [[BigBad Doctor Robotnik]] and [[EnemyWithout Super Sonic]]. Knuckles' archenemy is [[MadScientist Doctor]] [[OmnicidalManiac Zachary]]. [[EvilCounterpart Vermin]] [[MadeOfIndestructium the Cybernik]] is the archenemy of [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Shortfuse]] [[MadeOfIndestructium the Cybernik]]. And Tails' archenemy is Trogg.
** Sonic's hatred of Robotnik increased after [[CreateYourOwnVillain Sonic created Robotnik]].
* ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'' has the Violator, Malebolgia, Mammon, and Jason Wynn.
** The Violator is one of Spawn's oldest and most recurring enemies. He was assigned to be Spawn's EvilMentor, but resents that Spawn was chosen as Malebolgia's general instead of himself. The Violator is eventually responsible for the murder of Wanda Blake.
** Malebolgia is the demon Simmons [[DealWithTheDevil made a deal with]] to become a Hellspawn in the first place, as well as the original master of the Violator. Spawn eventually kills Malbolgia, but he comes BackFromTheDead anyways.
** Mammon is a demon responsible for manipulating Simmons throughout his mortal life, setting him on the path to evil and becoming a Hellspawn.
** Jason Wynn, Simmons' former boss, is responsible for his death. In addition, Wynn sold Al's soul to Malebolgia.
* The Octopus is the archenemy of ''ComicBook/TheSpirit''.
* ComicBook/StrontiumDog: Johnny Alpha has his father, Nelson Bunker Kreelman, a racist politician who abused and ultimately locked his own son up for his mutation, and leads a Nazi-like anti-mutant movement.
* ComicBook/SuperAmerican has Tyrannus.
* ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske: Krimson is the main recurring villain. WickedWitch The Black Madam has also become a recurring villain. They once even did a VillainTeamUp which got the heroes into so much trouble that an AuthorAvatar had to intervene.
* The Shredder to the Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles and their mentor Master Splinter. Shredder goes down pretty early in the [[ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMirage original comics]]. However, the first issue clearly shows the backstory Splinter and Shredder have, that Splinter and the Turtles owe their origins to Shredder, and that Splinter trained the Turtles for the sole purpose of killing Shredder to avenge Hamato Yoshi. Regardless of how long Shredder was around for, he's still their archnemesis.
** The archenemy dynamic is played interestingly in the story. After Shredder was killed, the Turtles never really had another central enemy. A few issues show that the Turtles aren't really sure what to do with themselves with Shredder gone. In fact, in the City At War arc that capped off the original series, Leonardo argues that killing Shredder was more Splinter's goal than theirs.
* ComicBook/TexWiller's most prominent foe is the EvilSorcerer Mefisto.
* ComicBook/TheTick and Chairface Chippendale.
* Franchise/{{Tintin}}: Tintin's arch nemesis is Rastapopoulos.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Tomahawk}}'', the British Spy and MasterOfDisguise Lord Shilling was the arch-enemy of Tomahawk.
* ''ComicBook/TomboySterling'': Despite being a OneShotCharacter, it's heavily implied the Lard Vinsion, crime boss and BigBad of ''Captain Flash'' #3, has tangled with Tomboy many times before, an honour no other villain receives.
* ''ComicBook/TomPoes'': Bul Super and Hiep Hieper. Even though Joachim Sickbock and Hocus P. Pas are far more dangerous.
* ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'': Spider Jerusalem has President Gary Callahan, aka the Smiler.
* ''ComicBook/{{Urbanus}}'': Urbanus often fights off against Jef Patat, a sleazy trickster.
* ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'' plays around with this trope a little. At the beginning, there's [[EvilOverlord Lord Hikiji]], whose murder of Miyamoto Usagi's Lord Mifune kicks off the entire plot. However, he ends up DemotedToExtra. His [[TheDragon Dragon]], [[SnakesAreSinister Lord Hebi]], is one of the most prominent villains, and in many ways the BigBad in his own right. But it's [[KnightTemplar Jei-san]], who has no relation to either, who ended up becoming Usagi's arch-enemy, on basis of [[ItsPersonal a personal disdain for the rabbit ronin]] and [[AxCrazy being a]] SerialKiller [[AxCrazy with a habit of murdering anyone who fails to live up to the standards of the gods he worships]].
* ''ComicBook/VForVendetta'': V has Eric Finch and Adam Susan.
* ''ComicBook/{{Vampirella}}''
** Vampirella has Dracula (one of her most recurring enemies), Chaos (who is behind many of Vampirella's other enemies), and the Blood Red Queen of Hearts (who once took Vampirella's eyes and mutilated her ally Pendragon), and Mistress Nyx (who killed Adam Van Helsing, and later Vampirella herself).
** Dixie has Von Kriest, who forced her to kill her father and turned her sister into a vampire.
* ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead'': Rick Grimes had the Governor, Shane, and Negan.
** Michonne also had the Governor.
* ''ComicBook/WarlordOfMars'':
** [[GalacticConqueror Joshua Clark]] to John Carter, with their rivalry going back to the Secession War where they fought in opposite sides.
** Dejah Thoris has Phaidor, a Thern princess that [[VillainessesWantHeroes lusts after her husband]] (at least until her HeelFaceTurn). Before her, Dejah's [[CainAndAbel own brother]] [[TheSociopath Kajak Thoris]] was her arch-enemy.
** On a larger scale, [[ReligionOfEvil the Therns]] vs [[SkyPirates the First-Born]], who repeatedly raids their land. Also, [[BarbarianTribe the Green Martians]] vs [[HigherTechSpecies the Yellow Martians]] [[spoiler: with the latter having created the former as slaves, who eventually rose up and drove them nearly into extinction.]]
* ''ComicBook/TheWaspLevGleason'': The Professor was clearly supposed to be theist the Wasp, what with being a DiabolicalMastermind who wants revenge for an offscreen prior defeat, and a blatant SequelHook indicating that he will return next issue, but the comic got cancelled after his debut.
* The ComicBook/WildCATSWildStorm have Helspont, leader of the Cabal and one of the most powerful Daemonites in existence.
* ''ComicBook/YTheLastMan'': Yorick Brown and Alter Tse'elon.
* Zagor has Hellingen.
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