Legion Of Doom / Western Animation

• In Action Man (2000), Dr. X runs a villainous team to further his schemes. In fact, it's literally called "The Council Of Doom".
• The end of the penultimate episode of Adventure Time "Gumbaldia" before the hour-long series finale, Gumbald who is the Big Bad of Season 9 has gathered everyone who hates the Candy Kingdom and fought against Finn and Jake before for war against Princess Bubblegum. These foes include Fern, Ricardio, the Squirrel who hates Jake, Me-Mow, Ash, Bandit Princess, Scorcher, Peace Master, Samantha, Sir Slicer, Pete Sassafras, and... The Ice King and Gunther.
• The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius had the League of Villains, which was formed in what was intended as one of the show's final episodes. Almost all of the show's villains were included, both nemeses and gag characters, but as it was aired before some episodes produced earlier, it even included some villains that hadn't been introduced yet!
• Aqua Teen Hunger Force subverts this trope in the episode "The Last One", in which the Mooninites gather all the..."villains"...that have appeared in the series to form a Legion of Doom. After the group's decimated because of its members' stupidity and annoyance with each other, the survivors dub themselves "Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday" and launch an assault on the ATHF's home — which, of course, goes nowhere.
• Mirroring the comics it is based off of, The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes has the Enchantress gathering up various villains to form the Masters of Evil. And then she gives the reins to Baron Zemo, for some reason.
  Enchantress: Zemo is but a toy. To be discarded when I tire of him.
• Avengers Assemble features the above-mentioned Cabal from Dark Reign as the principal antagonists. Red Skull even explicitly states that he formed them as the villainous equivalent of the Avengers.
• Batfink had in episode 96 out of 100 a conglomeration of villains brought together by Tough Macduff, Batfink's 'Oldest Foe', though this is his first appearance. They consist of Manhole Manny, Big Ears Ernie, Gluey Louie, Stupidman, Skinny Minnie, Whip Van Winkle, Old King Cruel, Cinderobber, Swami Salami, Party Marty, Beanstalk Jack, Queenie Bee, Sporty Morty, Roz The Schnozz, and, to add insult to injury, Hugo A Go Go, the mad scientist. They tell Batfink to be branded a coward and leave town on a train. However, Batfink caches them all in a fishnet.
• The Batman's done this at least twice: "Team Penguin" in the episode of the same name, and briefly in "The Batman/Superman Story, Part One". However, the latter is sort of subverted as it may be members of Bats's Rogues Gallery teaming up, but they were assembled to fight against Superman.
• Batman: The Brave and the Bold:
  • The Legion of Doom is featured in the episode "Triumverate of Terror!" The episode sees The Joker joining forces with Lex Luthor and Cheetah to finally do away with Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman once and for all.
  • The Teaser of that episode was a baseball game between the Justice League International and the Legion of Doom, with Joker, Luthor and Cheetah united with Weather Wizard, Clock King, Chronos, Felix Faust, and Amazo.
  • "Night of the Batmen!" features an instance of a number of Batman's foes teaming up to take advantage of Gotham City while the Dark Knight is in traction.
• Batwheels got the Gotham City version and four-wheeled version of the Legion of Doom; they’re known as the “Legion of Zoom”. They’re the villainous vehicles of Batman’s sinister rogue gallery.
• The Beetlejuice episode "Neitherworld's Least Wanted" has Neitherworld television executive Mr. Monitor orchestrate a ratings stunt by broadcasting a show where he brings together several of Beetlejuice's enemies (Scuzzo the Clown, Jesse Germs, Little Miss Warden from "Snugglejuice", Mr. Big from "Ear's Looking at You", Bartholomew Batt from "Sappiest Place on Earth"...and recurring nuisance Lipscum) to form S.N.O.T.R.A.G. (Society of Neitherworld Outlaws, Thugs, Rogues, Antagonists and Gangsters) and destroy Beetlejuice by tricking him into saying "I'm coming apart at the seams" and separating his pieces to prevent him from putting himself back together before sundown.
• Ben 10:
  • The Negative Ten in the final season of the original series, formed by Forever King Driscoll and consisting of villains Ben has fought (namely Dr. Animo, Charmcaster, the Circus Freaks, Sublimino, Rojo, and Clancy) to steal an energy power unit from Mount Rushmore.
  • Ben 10: Omniverse:
    • The Vengers, consisting of Billy Billions (and his Robot Maid Mazuma), Kangaroo Commando and Captain Nemesis, with backing from Will Harangue, are a group out to destroy Ben's reputation (and himself) while trying to pass themselves off as heroes. Thanks to Brainstorm's calculations, Ben doesn't bother to deal with them at all, and instead pretends to go Achilles in His Tent and waits it out until the team implodes from within because of their clashing egos. Ben's prediction naturally came true.
    • The "And Then There Were-" two-parter featured Vilgax teaming up with Eon and Albedo, and then forming a team of evil alternate Bens from various parallel universes in order to conquer a reality where Ben never received the Omnitrix. Paradox would then summon a group of heroic Bens (Ben 10K, Ben 23, Gwen 10, and Ben from the original universe himself) to even the odds.
• Captain Planet and the Planeteers: In the two part episode "Summit To Save Earth", Zarm forms a team consisting of the Eco Villains such as Sly Sludge, Doctor Blight, Hoggish Greedly, Verminous Skumm, Duke Nukem, and Looten Plunder.
• Codename: Kids Next Door:
  • The very first time it happened in was in "Operation: M.O.V.I.E.", where Numbuh Four tries to get into an R-rated movie, only to find that it's a very large gathering of the KND's Rogues Gallery, summoned by Mr. Boss.
  • A larger scale version happened in Operation: Z.E.R.O., where Father (and later Grandfather) uses every possible villain against the KND. It is even stated early on that the KND had never faced such a coordinated attack from their adult enemies before.
  • Minor example in "Operation: F.L.U.S.H.", where Mr. Boss (again) gathers a group of villains, only for the Toiletnator, rejected from the group, to defeat them on his own, since he mistook them for the KND!
  • Another example would be in "Operation: M.I.S.S.I.O.N.", only it's Numbuh Four who assembles four incarcerated villains...for a bowling match against his father.
• In an episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog, Eustace organizes a team of former villains into a group in order to kill Courage, ranging from recurring (arguably) nemesis Katz to the giant foot fungus, apparently ignoring/forgetting that they've endangered his own life before. They all seek revenge against Courage for being the first who dared to deny them new victims. They then proceed to brutalize Courage in a game of Dodgeball before he buries them in an earthquake caused by his own ability to scream which is ironically what they made him do all the time.
• The enemies of Darkwing Duck join forces to become the Fearsome Five, (NegaDuck, Megavolt, Bushroot, Quackerjack, and Liquidator) forcing Darkwing to create his own team, the Justice Ducks in the episode "Just Us Justice Ducks".
• Used (and made fun of) in the Third Season Premiere Show of Duck Dodgers, where nearly every minor one-or-two-episode villain was brought together (Sometimes from the dead) to form the Legion of Duck Doom, as the primary antagonists, Mars, were currently at peace with Earth. (Though by the end of the episode, the Legion is defeated, and war breaks out again.) There was even a Captain Ersatz of the Black Manta called the Black Eel (who really shouldn't have been there, as he had no quarrel with Dodgers).
• DuckTales (2017):
  • In the season 2 episode "GlomTales", Flintheart Glomgold decides to create his own "family" of villains to defeat Scrooge McDuck and his family. This involves recruiting Ma Beagle and her Beagle Boys, Mark Beaks, Magica De Spell, and Don Karnage.
  • For season 3, the Fiendish Organization of World Larceny aka F.O.W.L. is set up as the new antagonists with the goal of eradicating Clan McDuck after nearly costing them the world with Lunaris' Alien Invasion. The legion is led by High Command which is revealed to be Scrooge's board of directors. And as of now, F.O.W.L.'s members consist of Black Heron, a frozen John D. Rockerduck alongside his zombified butler Jeeves, Gandra Dee, Steelbeak, and the Phantom Blot.
• Earthworm Jim faced a team composed of all the major villains from his cartoon series. The stake? An egg-beater! No, a normal egg-beater, like the kind you have in your kitchen. Don't question the humor!
• Evil Con Carne: Hector once decided to unite all villains and form the "League of Destruction". The villains argued among themselves about who'd be the leader. By the time The Hero arrived at the Headquarters to stop them, the League of Destruction had lived up to the name by destroying itself.
• The Fairly OddParents!:
  • The Crimson Chin webisodes had "The Body of Evil" (consisting of the Bronze Kneecap, the Copper Cranium, the Iron Lung, the Gilded Arches and the Brass Knuckles).
  • In "Escape from Unwish Island", Timmy's vengeful no-longer-imaginary friend Gary assembles several other villains who were brought into existence by one of Timmy's wishes that Timmy had unwished (Super Bike from the episode of the same name, Dark Laser from "Hard Copy" and the Pumpkinator from "Scary Godparents", as well as a Sphinx from Abra-Catastrophe! that Timmy didn't wish away, but adds to the drama) to get payback on Timmy for "abandoning" them. Though they manage to win, Timmy works things out with them.
  • In "The Big Superhero Wish", Timmy makes the world like a comicbook, resulting in superheroes and supervillains. Taking advantage, the Nega Chin (the Crimson Chin's alternate reality evil self) forms a supervillain group out of the now superpowered Mr. Crocker (Doctor Crocktopus), Vicky (The Baby Shredder), and Francis (Bull-E), complete with a swamp-based 'hall of evil'. While they manage to win and take over the world, they're ultimately defeated by Timmy, his powerless friends, and three everyday heroes... a fire fighter, a janitor, and a milkman.
  • The eighth season brought together a smaller gaggle of recurring villains - Denzel Crocker, Dark Laser, Foop, and sometimes Vicky, as the League Of Super Evil Revenge Seekers, or LOSER's. Unlike the previous examples, the unit reappeared a few times more, not only as antagonists but also the primary social group for the villainous characters when they were in greater focus.
• Family Guy mentions the Legion of Doom by name, when during Lois's bid for mayor, she claims they've teamed up with Hitler to assassinate Jesus. Cut to the Legion, with Solomon Grundy admitting he "dropped the ball on this one."
• Generator Rex episode "Enemies Mine".
• Godzilla: The Series "Monster Wars" episodes had a Monster of the Week version of this, complete with a resurrected Zilla, the original American Godzilla, as "Cyber-zilla".
• Harley Quinn (2019): The Trope Namer exists as a club of who's who/Weird Trade Union for supervillains, chaired by Lex Luthor and containing the big shots like Luthor, The Joker, Scarecrow, Black Manta, and Bane^note "Lot of politics involved there...". They are a public institution with HQ in the centre of Gotham City, and have a training video and police their own membership (including expelling Doctor Psycho for using the C-word in public). Getting into the Legion becomes Harley's overarching goal for season 1.
• Johnny Test:
  • Five of Johnny's past foes form the 'Johnny Stopping Evil Force Five' to take their revenge, complete with a 'swamp lair'. Similar to their counterparts, they actually manage to hold together and reappear in several future episodes.
  • A second team is assembled for the finale after the original team has, for various reasons, made up with Johnny himself.
• Justice League featured this thrice: the two versions of the Injustice Gang in the episodes "Fury" and "Injustice For All", and the Secret Society in the episode "Secret Society" (naturally, after the above comic). In the sequel series, Justice League Unlimited, the latter expanded into a much larger and better organized group, the focus of its third-season arc. This incarnation was based off the Legion of Doom, and was called that behind the scenes. The entire third season was basically a homage to the aforementioned Superfriends, complete with Darkseid showing up as the True Final Boss to replace them.
  • The creators have admitted that they considered the massive villain group in JLU to be the Legion of Doom (complete with "Darth Vader head base in a swamp"), and generally referred to the group as such when discussing it, but had been explicitly told by DC that they could NOT use the Legion of Doom term. This is why the group is never actually named in the show, and why Luthor's allusion to the group implies it's related to the prior Secret Society. Note that Grodd corrects Luthor and implies the group ISN'T just a larger Secret Society — but then fails to provide an alternate term. Interestingly, they were referred to as The Legion of Doom on the JLU Season 2 DVD box.
  • Justice League also featured the Superman Revenge Squad, though they were not named as such.
  • The original Secret Society was something of an inversion of this trope. Grodd uses his mental powers to make the heroes more irritable, causing them to give vent to grievances that they normally kept bottled up. This causes the dissolution of the League, much the same way that a normal Legion Of Doom will fall apart. Grodd even lampshades the common fate of Legions Of Doom, and seeks to avert it using trust-building exercises and training.
  • The episode with the Justice Guild has the Injustice Guild, based on the Injustice Society.
  • "Epilogue" briefly features the Iniquity Collective, a small collection of the future Batman's rogues (and Parasite).
• Kim Possible, "A Sitch In Time" (sic), wherein the biggest villains join up in a Time Travel scheme, and get double-crossed by Drakken's sidekick Shego.
• In the Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness two parter "Emperor's Rule", after the new Big Bad takes out the Furious Five, Po breaks Fung, Gah-Ri, Taotie, Tong Fo, Temutai and Hundun out of prison. They capture him before he can convince him this is an Enemy Mine situation, but he eventually talks them round. Taotie calls the group the Brotherhood of Malfeasance, but it doesn't catch on.
• Played with in the The Legend of Korra episode "Remembrances". In it, Varrick explains his idea for a new movie, where the four previous Big Bads, Zaheer, Vaatu, Amon and Evil Unalaq team up to defeat Bolin and take over the world. Varrick almost exactly mentions this trope by name, by suggesting this ensemble should be called the Legion of Darkness.
• The Lion Guard:
  • A resurrected Scar amasses a massive army to try to take over the Pride Lands, with his second-in-command Ushari the cobra, Janja and his hyena pack, Kiburi and his rogue crocodiles, a flock of vultures led by Mzingo and Mwoga, a pack of jackals led by Reirei and skinks led by Shupavu.
  • Makucha of Season 3 also assembles a group to stalk and oppose the Lion Guard in the latter's pilgrimage to find the Tree of Life, consisting of villains of the week that previously fell to the Guard like snow leopard Chuluun and Ora the komodo dragon.
• Used in the Loonatics Unleashed 1st Season Finale where four of the season's villains were gathered by Optimatus.
• The Mask episode "Convention of Evil", where most of the Rogues Gallery attend a therapy session hosted by recurring character, psychologist Dr. Neumann. The climax of the episode reveals that The Mask is in the meeting, disguised as Neumann himself.
• Mickey's House of Villains features Jafar recruiting a team consisting of Captain Hook, Cruella DeVille, Ursula, and Hades to take over the House of Mouse. Eventually nearly all of the Disney Animated Canon villains come to join their army, and some notable additions to the crew post-takeover include Kaa, the Queen of Hearts, the Big Bad Wolf, and Chernabog.
• In My Life as a Teenage Robot episode "Legion of Evil", the titular Legion is made up of Jenny's enemies. The twist is that its membership consists of her least-threatening enemies: The Hammer Bros, Lancer, Mudslinger, and led by Dr. Wakeman's deranged lab rat Vladimir. Jenny was not impressed.
  Jenny: Your name is Mr. Scruffles, your Legion is a bunch of B-list villains, and your secret lair smells like fish.
• In the final season of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Grogar who is actually Discord in disguise forms one of these with Lord Tirek, Queen Chrysalis, and even Cozy Glow being recruited, and King Sombra being resurrected. By the end of the premiere, Sombra defects from the legion, intending to conquer Equestria on his own, and nearly succeeds before being killed once more by the Mane Six. Grogar presents this to show his allies why they must stand united to defeat the heroes. They're even gathered in a skull-shaped cave in a mountain, reminiscent of the Trope Namer. Tirek, Cozy Glow, and Chrysalis betray Grogar/Discord using his own bell to power themselves up, drain his magic, and then go on to become the final antagonists of the series.
• The New Adventures of Superman had A.P.E. (Allied Perpetrators of Evil); consisting of Lex Luthor, the Warlock, Toyman and the Prankster who united in an attempt to take down Superman.
• Ninjago:
  • In the Day of the Departed TV special, Cole accidentally breaks an orb that opens the Departed Realm and releases the spirits of the Ninja's past enemies, these being Samukai, Kozu, Cryptor, Chen, and Morro, with the still-alive Pythor also joining later. Yang unites the villains to give them the chance to get revenge on their respective Ninja enemies, resurrecting them permanently in exchange for managing to defeat the Ninja.
  • During Crystalized, the show introduces the Council of the Crystal King, a group of past villains recruited by the titular Crystal King to serve him. The Council's members include Aspheera, Vangelis/Skull Sorcerer, Pythor, the Mechanic, Mr. F, and Kabuki Mask (a resurrected Harumi). In addition, the Crystal King is eventually revealed to be the Overlord.
• Dr. Doofenshmirtz of Phineas and Ferb attempts to invoke this by gathering the other evil scientists in the Tri-State area and form the League Of Villainous Evildoers Maniacally United For Frightening Investments in Naughtiness. Then one of the scientists points out that the acronym spells L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N.
• The Plastic Man Comedy Adventure Show had an episode, "The Terrible 5 + 1" where a new villain broke a bunch of previous Villain of the Week characters out of jail to form a team with them, but subverted because none of them wants to take orders from another villain, and he ends up interrupting their crimes to steal the take in revenge for being rejected. Instead it becomes an Enemy Mine episode where they ask Plastic Man for help dealing with him.
• The Powerpuff Girls:
  • The episode "Meet the Beat-Alls" had Mojo Jojo, Him, Princess Morbucks and Fuzzy Lumpkins joining together to form the eponymous villain group. The episode was also almost entirely full of Beatles song references and visual idioms.
  • Another episode has one brief part near the ending where to get revenge on Buttercup (for repeatedly attacking them all with no provocation to get teeth in a typical tooth fairy story), a bunch of villains get together and beat her down.
• In Regular Show, the episode "Exit 9B" has a Legion of Doom formed from the bad guys that got killed over the past 3 seasons, all led by the son of Garrett Bobby Ferguson.
• Spoofed briefly in the season 15 episode of The Simpsons "Fraudcast News," where Mr. Burns tells Smithers to "Assemble the League of Evil", a seemingly multi-ethnic team of villains (a samurai warlord, a Nazi SS officer, and an Arab Sheikh, along with a cowboy and a scientist). They were only identifiable by their clothing, as Burns had kept them stored away in a compartment in his office, and they had long since suffocated and died. As Mr. Smithers observed, "even monsters need air."
• South Park:
  • The episode "Krazy Kripples" had Christopher Reeve create a Legion of Doom to counter Gene Hackman in direct homage to the Super Friends cartoon featuring the same lair as the show, featuring various DC and Marvel villains as well as the South Park versions of Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, Kim Jon-gil, David Blaine, Professor Chaos, and General Disarray.
  • The 200th episode did this with Tom Cruise gathering literally dozens of celebrities that the show had made fun of in previous episodes, like Rob Reiner, Paris Hilton, George Lucas, Mel Gibson, etc. The narrator refers to them as "Legion of Doom" in dialogue for the second episode, continuing the Super Friends homage established with the Super Best Friends earlier. Trey Parker and Matt Stone even used the term "Legion Of Doom" when referring to this episode in an interview.
• The Council of Doom was the collective name of Space Ghost's sworn enemies: Brak, Zorak, Moltar, Black Widow, Creature King, and Metallus. It should be noted that the Council of Doom appeared over a decade before the Trope Namer.
• The Spectacular Spider-Man uses the Sinister Six twice. The first time has Doctor Octopus, Electro, Sandman, Rhino, Shocker, and Vulture. The second team up trades Doc Ock and Shocker for Mysterio and Kraven.
• The 1967 Spider-Man animated series in one of the last episodes has three foes who had each appeared in two episodes, Electro, Green Goblin, and the Vulture, being broken out of jail by exclusive-show villain who had already appeared, the Invisible Scientist Dr. Noah Boddy. Spider-Man tricks them into fighting each other with a crash course in ventriloquism, then webs up Noah Boddy.
• Spider-Man: The Animated Series has the Sinister Six, though they were renamed the Insidious Six because of worries over using "sinister" on a kids show. The team first consisted of Doc Ock, Mysterio, Shocker, Chameleon, Rhino and Scorpion. It later returns with Vulture replacing Mysterio.
• An episode of SpongeBob SquarePants features a coalition of The Dirty Bubble, Manray, and the recently-turned-evil Barnacle Boy ("That's Barnacle Man!"), calling themselves "Every Villain Is Lemons" (E.V.I.L.). This being SpongeBob, they accomplish about as much as you'd expect. Of course the IJLSA were even less competent, so...
• Superfriends fought the Trope Namer and the Trope Codifier in the Challenge of the Superfriends era, where Superman's archenemy Lex Luthor banded together with 12 other supervillains (fellow Superman villains Bizarro, Brainiac and Toyman, Wonder Woman villains Cheetah and Giganta, Batman villains Scarecrow, Riddler and Solomon Grundy, Aquaman villain Black Manta, Flash villains Gorilla Grodd and Captain Cold, and Green Lantern villain Sinestro) to routinely hatch plots to defeat the Super Friends and take over the world.
  Narrator: Banded together from remote galaxies are thirteen of the most sinister villains of all time, The Legion of Doom, dedicated to a single objective: the conquest of the universe. Only one group dares to challenge this intergalactic threat: The SuperFriends!
• Apex tried to make one in an episode of Sushi Pack (partly as The Plan), but due to the villains' lack of respect for each other, they barely got past the planning stages.
• SWAT Kats episode "Katastrophe" begins with a chance meeting between Diabolical Mastermind Dark Kat and Mad Scientist Dr. Viper. They recruit Killer Robots the Metallikats to create an "Alliance of Evil" with only one goal: "Destroy the SWAT Kats!"
• Teen Titans (2003):
  • The story arc of the last season concerns the Brotherhood of Evil recruiting most of the villains from previous episodes to wipe out the Titans and all the other young superheroes.
  • The HIVE Five consists of Jinx, Gizmo, Mammoth, See-More, Billy Numerous and Kyd Wykkyd. Private Hive was previously part of the group, but later left to scout out on his own, and was replaced by Numerous and Wykkyd. When Kid Flash wondered why they called themselves the HIVE Five when there are six of them, none of them could come up with an explanation until See-More replied that "it sounded cooler".
• The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) episode "Night of the Rogues" had Shredder gather a number of recurring, one-shot, and brand-new villains, including the Rat King, Leatherhead, Slash, Tempestra, Antrax, Scumbug, and Chrome-Dome to oppose the Turtles, leading to the Turtles allying with a cavalcade of their own recurring supporting allies to defeat them.
• The Tick spoofs this in "The Tick vs. Arthur's Bank Account" with a villain team consisting of villains The Terror, The Human Ton and Handy, The Man-Eating Cow, Joseph Stalingrad ^note "A former-graduate student in Russian studies-turned-supervillain", and the alien Tuun-La.
• Total Drama: In All-Stars, Chris makes a team called the Villainous Vultures that consists of the antagonists from the previous seasons- Heather, Courtney, Duncan, Scott, Lightning, and Jo. He also puts Gwen on the team even though she makes it clear she isn’t as bad as the rest of them. Later, after being freed from the Drama Machine, Alejandro joins the team as well. None of them make it to the finals.
• LAMOS, (League Aiming to Menace and Overthrow Spies), for the fourth season of Totally Spies! Its leader didn't realize what the letters actually spelled until he had all the stationary printed, and refused to change it afterward.
• Transformers: Animated has a slew of B-list villains, and in one episode they come together to form the Society of Ultimate Villainy, to try and not get beaten up for a change. Hilarity ensues. Even all together, they still get upstaged by a Decepticon.
• Turbo F.A.S.T. has this in the episode, The Snailman, where all of Turbo's past enemies want revenge for outmatching them in previous episodes.
• The Grand Finale of Underdog has Simon Bar Sinister gather recurring villain Riff Raff and one-off baddies Battyman and the Electric Eel for a final showdown with the titular canine hero. They all seemingly perish when Underdog uses Simon's vacuum gun on them, after which it explodes. Presumably this explains why Underdog didn't need to keep fighting crime.
• The Venture Bros.:
  • In true fashion for the series, he "Guild of Calamitous Intent," which functions more as a trade guild for organized supervillainy, fitting that the "professional" villains are more Punch-Clock Villain, who do evil as their day to day and not really out of a will to wreak havoc. The villains outside the guild are the ones you really want to fear, as they don't play by "the rules." The series also brings together "The Revenge Society", including rogue villains such as Baron Underbheit, Phantom Limb, Professor Richard Impossible, and Fat Chance, who play this trope straight.
  • A more direct parody later appeared in the form of The Doom Factory a group of supervillains Doing It for the Art. Their leader, Wes Warhammer, was a Composite Character of Lex Luthor and (of all people) Andy Warhol and the other members were similarly mixes of various DC supervillains and members of the Warhol Superstars. They were all killed when their base was accidentally blown up by the Blue Morpho (aka the Monarch in disguise)
• The Knights of Vengeance from W.I.T.C.H. could be seen as one, as it was a gathering of various Phobos cronies united by Nerissa.
• Xiaolin Showdown:
  • The series finale, after getting its own plotline resolved, ended with our heroes facing a Legion composed of every single villain in the series.
  • The second season finale featured a smaller Legion formed by Jack Spicer. They had the heroes on the ropes for a while until Chase Young stepped in and went Eviler than Thou on them.
• Young Justice (2010) put its own spin on the Trope Namer, this version calling itself "The Light". In a neat twist, all the hackneyed hold-the-world-for-ransom-with-our-deadly-space-laser ploys are just for show, a way of distracting from their real goals: building a metahuman army to help Earth conquer as much of the universe as possible, to better prepare us for the inevitable war with, of course, Darkseid.