"Humans, alien, has it not occurred to you I hold your lives in the palm of my hand? I, a god, decides when you will lose your lives, how much you will suffer, and how long you will bathe in the sweet agony of pain before you succumb to oblivion. I offer you one opportunity, bow at my feet…or forfeit your existence."
The DCU and related works based on DC Comics have been around since 1934 and have naturally inspired thousands of fan works. Given the source material, it's only natural that some of the villains are irredeemably evil.
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In General
Batman & Bat-Family
Examples
- Arkham Patient Sessions: The Scarecrow, real name Dr. Jonathan Crane, is obsessed with causing fear in the masses. Inventing a fear gas, Crane proceeds to terrorize the people of Gotham City with hallucinations of their worst fears, committing murders along the way. When Batman captures Scarecrow, the latter spends his days psychologically tormenting the staff, including convincing an orderly to kill himself, while periodically fear-gassing people when he escapes. After fellow supervillain Dr. Death causes a mass breakout in Arkham Asylum, the Scarecrow kidnaps asylum director Jeremiah Arkham and locks him in the asylum's basement in order to drive him insane. Crane spends an extended amount of time drugging and torturing Arkham until he finally breaks, leading to his suicide. Afterwards, Crane escapes and spends a year terrorizing Gotham, culminating in destroying an entire neighborhood.
- The Batman (link
): The Riddler, Edward Nashton, is a Serial Killer who prefers murdering a parent and their child, leaving behind riddles for the police to solve for his next murders. Having killed Black Mask's wife by chopping off her legs and hanging his son, Riddler would go on to kill Jason Todd's mother and brother by making them inject poison into themselves. Later forcing Batman to solve a riddle to prevent the mayor's husband and daughter from dying, Riddler still has the husband murdered despite Batman solving his riddle, having Batman framed for his death. Capturing Bruce Wayne and his ex-girlfriend Julie Madison, Riddler has Bruce and three other rich men fight to the death to decide who's really Batman, threatening to drown Madison should they all refuse. - "The Batman Chronicles" (link): The Joker is the sadistic leader of the Red Hood gang, and is obsessed with making a name for himself. Having his men terrorize Gotham in a way that makes it seem random, at one point, Joker has a couple of men break into an empty warehouse in order to ambush and kill the officer sent to investigate. When one of his men reveals his identity to Batman, the Joker has him tortured and then shoots the man himself. The Joker and his men attack the GCPD, killing three people and kidnapping Commissioner Loeb, with the Joker personally torturing Loeb for information, even after Loeb agrees to cooperate.
- Breaking You (link): Deathstroke is an assassin who has felt humiliated by his previous defeats by Batman and makes a deal with the Court of Owls to make Nightwing their apprentice, in which he plans to betray them by stealing Nightwing as his sole heir. He begins by physically assaulting Nightwing and later kidnapping Damien Wayne, putting the latter through torture in the process. Deathstroke later captures Nightwing and forces him whether to kill Damien or Tarantula, in which Deathstroke takes pleasure when Nightwing accidentally kills the latter through immolation. When the Bat-Family comes to rescue both of them, Deathstroke threatens to kill Batman and every Robin to punish Nightwing for his "disobedience".
- City of Scars & Patient J: The Joker is once again portrayed as an irredeemably wicked monster. Considering himself the Arch-Enemy of Batman, the Joker has committed numerous atrocities just to torture his nemesis, from brutally beating the second Robin, Jason Todd, to death with a crowbar, to targeting Batman's best friend, James Gordon, by murdering the man's wife and paralyzing--and most likely raping--the man's daughter. In Patient J, the Joker is interviewed by a psychologist about his past crimes, all of which he recalls happily, and, when the psychologist begs the Joker to kill him to make himself famous, the Joker instead horrifically maims the man, leaving him alive just to torment him. After escaping from Arkham Asylum in City of Scars, leaving a nurse horrifically scarred in the process, the Joker kidnaps Councilman Johnson and his ten-year-old son, brutally murders the man's wife, then murders a man to steal his ice cream truck. After dousing Johnson with acid to kill him, the Joker plants a bomb on a carnival's ferris wheel, hoping to kill the dozens of children and adults in the surrounding area, before, as a final act of villainy, attempting to gun down Johnson's son. Always an attention-craving showman, the Joker views the mass populace as "puppets" for him to control in his ultimate comedy act, where the punchline is always death for his hundreds of victims.
- The Gotham City Society of Fireproof Women:
- David Cain was a member of the League of Assassins, assigned to the creation of "The One-Who-Is-All" as a bodyguard for Ra's al Ghul. Training his daughter Cassandra since birth to fulfill this role, Cain refused to teach her to read, write, or even speak; he instead taught her how to be the perfect weapon by murdering people in front of her. One of his favorite lessons involved shooting her in a non-vital area, and if she so much as flinched he would shoot her again. When Cassandra ran away after her first assassination at the age of nine, Cain would betray the League as he obsessively tried to hunt her down. Recruited years later by Harmonia, Cain assisted in creating distractions for Batman by massacring Black Mask's forces, later attempting to cause an international incident by assassinating a Kahndaqi diplomat. Cain taunts Cassandra for becoming "a faulty sword" under Batman's tutelage but runs for his life without hesitation in a fair fight, even threatening to shoot a hostage in a vain attempt to avoid defeat. He later tries to draw out Cassandra for a final match, threatening to kill thousands with bombs set around Gotham. Cain ultimately cares for nothing except securing his "immortality" through the creation of the perfect weapon.
- A Faulty Sword: Nemesis is the Greek Goddess of Grudges, Blood Feuds, and the Unjustly Slain. Centuries ago she created the Army of Nemesis, an unstoppable force of evil that horrified the Olympians and caused Zeus to kill her. Possessing Harmonia in modern times, Nemesis hijacks her plan to destroy The Multiverse with the Army, inflicting Jason Todd with horrific visions of the Joker torturing him and forcing him to massacre a bar full of innocents after he raises his voice at her. Nemesis later tricks Wonder Woman into killing both her and Harmonia, activating the Army and sending them to destroy all life on earth so that the Olympians will starve to death, while the alternate versions of Harmonia throughout the multiverse will be eternally trapped in maddening insanity without the Army to end their pain. While her plan is foiled, the Army nevertheless manages to kill hundreds of innocents and four dozen heroes.
- Motherland: Ra's al Ghul is the head of the League of Assassins, an organization dedicated to wiping out ninety percent of all human life in his egotistical desire to save the planet and rule the dwindled population. Killing thousands throughout the centuries in pursuit of his goal, Ra's seeks a male heir in the form of Batman, raising Astrid Arkham to believe Bruce murdered her mother so she'll kill all his friends and sever his ties to Gotham. Once Astrid is old enough to enact this plan, Ra's shifts focus, targeting Cassandra Wayne to become his bride and loosing Astrid to wreak havoc. Now seeking petty revenge on the city that foiled him time and time again, Ra's starts fires in the Amazon to draw out Poison Ivy, intending to use her to disperse Venom throughout Gotham so the populace will tear itself apart. Learning that he has an illegitimate granddaughter through Talia, Ra's also wipes out the entire town of Parisot in an attempt to rid himself of the potential usurper. Even after Cassandra sabotages his plan, Ra's tries to kill Bruce and Selina, revealing himself under his thin veneer of politeness to be a petty narcissist obsessed with continuing his lineage.
- Gotham by Gaslight Fan Film Ripper (link): Jack the Ripper is a vicious serial killer stalking the streets of London. Throughout the film, Jack hunts down and butchers five prostitutes, doing grotesque things to each of them like disemboweling or even outright cannibalization. When caught by Batman while trying to continue his spree by murdering another hooker, Jack gleefully proclaims they're "just whores", and states that he loved seeing the fear in their eyes as they died. The end of the reveals that this Jack the Ripper is in actuality an alternate version of The Joker himself, and Jack ends the film by proclaiming that the only reason he commits his murders is for infamy, and because he can.
- The Last Laugh (link): The Joker is a sadistic psychopath who wants to burn Gotham to the ground. Threatening to murder every child in the Newbury Orphanage before midnight, Joker breaks into Detective Sarah Essen's house and murders her in front of her children. Kidnapping various members of Gotham's elite and placing them in his airship, Joker plans to drop them all, including Mayor Hill and Bruce Wayne's crush Julie Madison, out and watch them die. Shooting Julie's pregnant stomach in front of Batman for laughs, Joker reveals that he has placed his toxins inside the airship, hoping to detonate them, unleash his gas, and kill everybody in Gotham.
- Midnight Madness (link): The Joker is Batman's Arch-Enemy who plots to kick off the new year with a big crime. Breaking out of Arkham Asylum, the Joker takes the guests at a New Year party hostage and kills them all, beginning with the woman who interrupted his monologue. The Joker disguises himself as a construction worker for a New Year's Eve party at Gotham Square, before using Joker Toxin to kill all the workers when the construction chief recognises him. The Joker fills the giant ball meant to commemorate the coming of a New Year with Joker Toxin, planning to drop it on the Square just as the clock strikes midnight and potentially kill the whole city. When The Question tries to distract him, the Joker shoots him and reveals he has a back-up plan to just the drop ball on the crowd of people if Batman stops the release of the toxin, before attempting to kill the Question with the toxin.
- Nightwing fanfic Working Together (link): Catalina Flores, aka Tarantula III, keeps her canon crimes but not her redeeming traits. Returning to her old job in the FBI, Catalina kills 11 blond women by repeatedly stabbing them in the stomach and genitals just to create a case she could work on with her former mentor Richard "Dick" Grayson, aka Nightwing, who she raped 3 years ago and is obsessed with. Sexually assaulting and harassing Grayson as they work on the case together, Catalina fondly reminisces on the time where she raped him, and ultimately drugs him before raping him again, only refraining from kidnapping him because she knows Batman would hunt her down. Killing 3 cops and wounding 5 others when they try to stop her, Catalina also seduced two of her FBI colleagues in order to have them pressure Nightwing into taking the fall for her murders. Beneath her flirtatious, seductive behavior, Catalina is little more than an entitled, petty, and possessive madwoman who wants Nightwing to herself, caring little for the trauma she inflicted on her former mentor.
- Saviour (link): Mr. Zsasz is a deranged Serial Killer with a love of recording his victims with a tally mark scar on his body. With over 150 murders to his name by the start of the story, Zsasz dresses like a street magician and tricks children into revealing their home address, with Zsasz murdering the families, babies included. After being sent to Arkham Asylum, Zsasz stages a breakout, murdering Jeremiah Arkham's assistant and unleashing every criminal from the asylum out onto the streets of Gotham, allowing them to go on a killing spree, with Zsasz himself killing 20 people during the crime wave.
Others
Examples
- The Anti-Life Overture (link) & The Anti-Life Crisis (link): Darkseid is the dreaded tyrant of Apokolips and desires the complete subjugation of the universe by attaining the Anti-Life Equation and thus bringing everyone's will to his own. Having already wiped out or enslaved countless worlds, he supplies his war effort by setting up factories, where prisoners are dropped into a vat of acid, experimented on, and converted into a mindless parademon, with Darkseid disposing of anyone who doesn't survive the process. Setting his sights on Earth, he repeats his invasion process and leads the massacre of countless people. When his son, Orion, tries to confront him, Darkseid beats him and, upon learning that Apokolips's planet core has been destabilized, sacrifices his son to replace it, condemning him to eternal agony.
- Justice League of America:
- Origins (link): Darkseid, the ruler of Apokolips, intends to spread his horrific regime across the universe. Allying with the Thanagarians, Darkseid forces them to attack Earth, leading to hundreds of deaths before the invasion is stopped by Superman. Enraged by Superman daring to defy him, Darkseid massacres thousands of people for rebelling against him as a show of force, then invades Earth to transform it into another Apokolips. When Superman refuses his offer to become a dictator as bad as Darkseid himself, Darkseid stabs him with Nth metal, then begins to use his Terrorformers on Earth so he may feed off of humanity's despair and pain forever; upon his final defeat, he orders his men to die with him out of spite.
- Zack Snyder's Justice League motion comic Project Justice League (link): Darkseid, following his previously foiled conquest of Earth, plans to force Superman to submit to him. With Lex Luthor bringing Darkseid to Earth, the former tells Darkseid that the pregnant Lois Lane is the key to Superman's heart. Darkseid corners and incinerates Lois as Superman arrives to her rescue, forcing Superman into a despair that leaves him susceptible to the Anti-Life Equation. In a dark future, with a brainwashed Superman into his enforcer, Darkseid reduces Earth into another hellish planet in his empire, before sieging the remaining universe. This future is prevented when Batman sacrifices himself to save Lois, and Superman drives Darkseid off. In retaliation, Darkseid leads a final invasion of Earth, with the world united against him.
- Reunion (link): Brainiac started out as a Kryptonian supercomputer who desired to possess perfect data about Krypton. Sabotaging attempts to discover an upcoming catastrophe, Brainiac abandons his dying planet to venture into the cosmos. Collecting all valuable information about civilisations he discovers before destroying the rest, Brainiac eventually comes to Earth. After being defeated by the Justice League, Brainiac attempts to collect data about Apokolips before making a deal with Darkseid. Coming back to the Solar System, Brainiac destroys the Martian civilisation, leaving the Martian Manhunter as the only survivor. Brainiac uses Apokoliptian technology to mind control Superman, planning to hand him over to Darkseid as per their agreement. Brainiac once again attempts to collect valuable relics from Earth before destroying the planet, planning to make the rest of the League his trophies.
- Origins (link
- The Sandman (1989) Fan Film 24 Hour Diner (link): Dr. Dee takes the costumers of a diner hostage with his ruby. Dee makes a kids show host instruct his audience on how to commit suicide, before messing with the diner customers' minds, making them live their deepest darkest desires; attack each other; worship him as a god; reveal their deepest secrets; have sex with each other; punish themselves; and get turned into primitives. Finally, Dee has them kill themselves and attack Morpheus as he tries to reach him to get his ruby back.
- Teen Titans Series Fic Nightweaver (Year One) (link); (Year Two) (link): Black Mask is a minor mob boss in Gotham City and the Arch-Enemy of Nightweaver. Black Mask first teams up with various other supervillains to kill the Teen Titans, including Nightweaver, though he is defeated. Feeling humiliated by this, Black Mask goes after Nightweaver personally by killing his girlfriend, Catgirl, in front of him and then kidnapping Raven and a revived Catgirl before asking Nightweaver who he wants to save. Although Nightweaver chooses to save Kitrina, Black Mask kills them both in front of his eyes to spite him and then uses a shotgun to shoot out both of Nightweaver's legs, crippling him. In the sequel, he uses a false nuclear threat to lure the Teen Titans into a trap, where he plans for them to be ambushed and killed by Chemo.
Batman: Arkham Series
Entire Arkham Series
Examples
- Arkham Trilogy, by Jarol-Tilap (Arkham Asylum; Gotham City Sirens; Arkham Knights):
- Professor Hugo Strange, a scientist who wants to surpass Batman as Gotham's savior, spends his time in Arkham Asylum creating the Titan drug, which turns people into hulking monsters, in order to lure the Joker to the island. Freeing Joker and allowing him to use Titan for his own purposes, Strange has Dr. Sanjay framed for creating Titan. Kidnapping Dr. Langstrom and injecting him with enough Titan to transform him into Man-Bat again, Strange tries to get Batman to kill Langstrom to break his moral code, attempting to kill Batman himself once his plan fails. Sent to Arkham Asylum afterwards, Strange uses Titan to make a test tube baby, with plans to sell it and have it cause havoc across Gotham. Broken out of prison by Mr. Freeze and recruited by the Court of Owls, Strange offers the Titan formula to the Court in return for a high position. Tricking Batman into drinking hallucinogenic water, Strange has a drugged Batman go through a labyrinth while a Titan chases him, getting pleasure from watching a withered Batman struggle.
- Arkham Asylum: The Joker himself, desiring Strange's Titan serum, held the mayor hostage in order to get sentenced to Arkham Asylum. Breaking free and releasing every criminal inside, Joker takes over the facility and threatens Batman with gassing everybody on the island should he and Gordon try and stop him. Regularly abusing his girlfriend Harley Quinn whenever the chance, at one point forcing her to play Russian Roulette to see if she really loves him, Joker had also crippled Barbara Gordon in the past for fun. Seeking to spread Titan across the entirety of Gotham, Joker later wires two missiles, one filled with deadly Joker Venom aimed at the Asylum, and another filled with Titan aimed at Gotham, giving Batman the choice to disarm one over the other. When he finds Harley running off with Poison Ivy, Joker hunts them down and tries to kill them both.
- Arkham Knights: Punchline, real name Alexis Kaye, is a former patient of Harleen Quinzel and a deranged Joker fangirl. A diagnosed sociopath who once presented skinned and crucified rats as a school project, Punchline would go on to commit a wide variety of crimes during her youth. Seeking to resurrect the Joker, Punchline creates several copies of him, killing some for not being perfect. Creating her own Joker Venom, Punchline would test it on homeless people, filming the results and uploading them to the Dark Web. Desiring to get even with Harley for killing Joker, Punchline gasses an entire restaurant and incapacitates Ivy, kills Harley's beloved goons, and slits Harley's throat after the latter tries to save her life. Giving her Joker Venom to Lincoln March knowing that he'll use it to cause terror throughout Gotham, Punchline afterwards threatens to gut Ivy as one final act of spite against Harley.
- Dirty Little Secrets (link): Professor Hugo Strange is a psychiatrist at Arkham Asylum who wants to achieve the same level of fame as Batman by wiping out the criminal element of Gotham. He first tests a mind-control drug on dozens of patients that either get them killed or driven to complete insanity, eventually using said drug to influence Mayor Sharp into authorizing Arkham City, a prison complex to round up every criminal to be exterminated, even those who have rehabilitated. Using Mary's psychic powers to analyze the patients at the asylum, he often abuses her to satiate his inferiority complex. Strange also sends his TYGER guards to combat Batman to analyze his fighting style, usually torturing them for information and killing them. He eventually orders the arrest of those who protest the construction of Arkham City, including Bruce Wayne, planning to exterminate them as well. He then initiates Protocol 10 to wipe out every prisoner in Arkham City, slaughtering countless inmates.
Individual Games, by source work release date
Examples
- Arkham City fanfic The Joker's Circus (link): The Joker is a twisted psychopath bent on ensuring his criminal legacy is never forgotten by the citizens of Gotham. Opening the story being sent to Arkham Asylum after slaughtering everyone in a retirement home, the Joker soon escapes, releasing multiple mentally disturbed teenagers and bringing them into Arkham City, where he has them compete in a twisted tournament to decide who is worthy of becoming his successor. To test their skills, the Joker puts them through a series of torturous challenges that results in nearly all of their brutal deaths, several of them by the Joker's own hand, while also offering up his henchmen to be slaughtered by the contestants. The Joker also has Tim Drake kidnapped and forced to participate, threatening to detonate numerous bombs around Gotham City if he doesn't comply, following through on this threat by bombing a populated park to goad him into killing one of the contestants. Upon growing bored with this, the Joker subjects Tim to weeks of torture and mutilation that temporarily drives him insane. It's later revealed that one of the contestants, Rose, is the Joker's daughter, and he had orchestrated the tournament to drive her insane and mold her into his twisted image.
- Arkham Knight fanfic If He Had Come (link): The Joker is as irredeemably vile as ever. Starting off kidnapping Jason Todd, Joker savagely beats him to a pulp with a crowbar, breaking several of his ribs and fingers. Joker would also try to manipulate Jason into believing that Batman abandoned him to his cruel fate, and even forces Jason to tell him his Secret Identity to personally endanger him and the Bat-Family. Torturing Jason for nine months, Joker eventually burns a "J" insignia into Jason's cheek, to brand him and leave an eternal reminder of his suffering. Months after Batman saves Jason, Joker bombs Gotham Park Mall, killing twelve people and leaving behind a threat to kidnap Jason again. Finding Jason at Gotham High, Joker subjects him to further torture, and maliciously taunts Batman over his failure to save Jason. Once foiled, Joker tries to drag Tim Drake away and threatens to kill him, Jason, and Dick Grayson solely to spite his Arch-Enemy even further.
DC Animated Universe
Examples
- Entire DCAU: Heart of Darkness (link): Doctor Destiny returns years after his original appearances, having developed a God Complex. Wanting revenge against Batman, Doctor Destiny enrages him by influencing Igor Sazuky into killing Gotham's mayor and his wife in front of their two children. This allows Doctor Destiny to enter his mind and exploit his emotions to regain a physical form. After returning with reality-bending powers, Doctor Destiny plans to conquer the universe and destroy numerous worlds to recreate them in his own image. When Batman is about to be rescued from the dream realm, Doctor Destiny spitefully tries to drag Batman down with him and trap him forever.
- Batman Beyond fanfic The Days Beyond (link): Rose Cunningham is a psychopathic high school student with an entitlement complex. After being rejected by every boy at Hamilton High, she proceeds to assault and kidnap several of them, chopping them to pieces and using their organs and limbs to create her "perfect boyfriend". Upon unmasking Batman as Terry McGinnis, she rejects his offer of professional help as "taking her to prison", before deciding to add him to her project, and when he escapes, she decides to kill him, declaring "if you won't be my boyfriend, then I'll make sure you're not good enough for anyone".
Young Justice (2010)
Examples
- Darkness Falls:
- Darkseid is the ruler of Apokolips, who is working with the Light to take over the world. In a Bad Future, Darkseid successfully takes over Earth, destroying most of the cities and killing almost all the heroes. In said future, humans were forced to do backbreaking labor while worshiping Darkseid. Darkseid sentences minions who fail him to 50 lashes or banishes them to a place so horrifying that no one will speak of it, a place where he banished his son Kalibak. Having Kara Zor-El kidnapped as a child and raised as his loyal minion, Darkseid also has the revived Wally West and Victor Stone brainwashed to serve him. When Vandal Savage manages to kill a bunch of superheroes for him, Darkseid vaporizes him because he wanted the heroes brought to him alive so he could torture them first.
- Chapter 5: The Joker tries to gas all of Gotham City to death with Smilex for fun. To this end, he forces men to help him by holding their families hostage, and plans to kill said men when he no longer needs them, with him being uncaring when three of them are killed by his hyenas.
- A Life in Shadow (link) & Into the Darkness (link): Deathstroke is a member of the Light and the abusive father of Shadow. He puts his children through brutal training sessions to turn them into assassins, torturing them if they show weakness and drugging them to make them more submissive. When Drea challenges his authority, Deathstroke kills her. When Shadow escapes, Deathstroke puts dozens of other children through his brutal training, resulting in their deaths. He plans to kidnap Nightwing, until Shadow convinces him to take her instead, where he puts her through the same training. He sends her on missions to aid the Light, beating her if she fails or shows any empathy. When Shadow meets with the Young Justice team in private, Deathstroke "rescues" her by threatening to bomb Blüdhaven and kill hundreds of people if Shadow isn't released. When Shadow rebels against Deathstroke, he gives her a stronger dosage of drugs to make her kidnap various superheroes, planning to have her kill Nightwing in front of his friends and attempting to kill her when she escapes his control. In the sequel, Deathstroke uses drugs to influence Matt into becoming his apprentice as the Watcher and plans to turn Matt's children into his own apprentices as well, while later kidnapping Shadow and torturing her into becoming his assassin again.
Others
Examples
- Arrowverse fanfic To Hell and Back:
- Talia al Ghul is the daughter of the legendary Ra's al Ghul who let the dream of power go to her head. Convinced that she was deserving of power and respect from everyone, Talia once murdered 50 innocent people just because one of them insulted her, making even her own father disown her and remove her from the League. Wanting a Lazarus Pit for her own use, Talia forces Malcolm Merlyn to lead her to one by manipulating his son Tommy into a relationship with Isabel, killing her, and driving him into her own League. After learning that the League has a line of succession, Talia attempts to murder the innocent Iris West to attract the Justice League's attention before assaulting Nanda Parbat, attempting to murder her own father and sister to attain the role of Ra's; Nyssa also reveals that this is not the first time Talia has attempted to kill her out of jealousy. After being handily defeated, Talia abandons her own loyal followers to die while she retreats.
- Hunter Zolomon, aka Zoom, is a Serial Killer from Earth-2 who used his powers to conquer the world. Zoom also doubled as a superhero so that he could "kill" the hero on national TV and further destroy the world's hope. After learning that he was losing his speed, Zoom mercilessly tortured Earth-3 Jay Garrick before killing him; murdered Jesse Wells after forcing her father to help him—a low to which even his own canon counterpart never sank—and then murdered his Earth-1 counterpart to take over his life. Upon entering the story by almost murdering Barry for no reason, Zoom quickly establishes himself as Barry's Arch-Enemy and attempts to take over Earth-1 just because. After attempting to murder Barry's father just to prove they're not so different, Zoom leads an invasion of Earth-1 that leads to hundreds of deaths and thousands of dollars of destruction to the city, all because he believes that he deserves to rule over whatever was left.
- Batman Film Series Script Fic Triumphant (link): Jonathan Crane, better known as the Scarecrow, is a cruel, fear-obsessed supervillain who fakes rehabilitation to be set free from Arkham Asylum. Immediately hypnotizing a class of college students into his slaves, Crane forces one to shoot another to prove his hypnosis worked, then proceeds to have them pull off murders, robberies and riots across Gotham. Able and willing to remotely lobotomize any of these slaves, Crane plans to dispose of them all when his plans are seen through, and uses them to kidnap Mayor Krol and bomb a police squad, killing many of the officers. Keeping Krol in constant agonizing terror with fear gas before dropping him to his death to distract Batman, Crane ultimately plans to stage a breakout of Arkham Asylum and kickstart a chaos-driven riot across Gotham, hoping to wipe out the entire city just to spite Batman for locking him up years ago.
- The Dark Knight Trilogy fanwork The Joker Blogs: The Joker, confined to Arkham Asylum after the events of his film appearance, continues to cause trouble by having Fields, the new DA, murdered and skinned to prevent him from having the Joker be ruled mentally competent and sent to Blackgate. Along with murdering an orderly who helped him escape and electrocuting the brother of psychiatrist Dr. Harleen Quinzel’s fiancé, provoking Dr. Hugo Strange and threatening both a nurse and orderly Lyle Bolton, the Joker threatens a homeless man, only sparing him because the guy has a death wish. The Joker also takes Dr. Jeremiah Arkham and his wife Lisa hostage, threatening them and later blowing up their house, rendering Lisa comatose. Before that, at Harleen's wedding, the Joker kills Father McHale by shooting him in the crotch and then murders Harleen's fiancé, which begins her transformation into Harley Quinn. The Joker also blows up a guard at Arkham and further torments Arkham later on by cruelly shooting Lisa's new heart while it's being transplanted.
- Injustice 2 fanfic Injustice 2: The Novelization (link): Brainiac, The Collector of worlds, arrives at a planet, has his Betas invade, digitizes cities with knowledge he finds useful, and then destroys the rest of the planet to preserve his rare knowledge; billions of victims have succumbed to him. Brainiac is first seen in the a flashback of Kara Zor-El—Supergirl—invading and destroying Krypton; in the present day he had recently heard of Superman, seeing him as a problem that needs to be dealt with. To this end, he has Gorilla Grodd assemble other supervillains and form the Society. After capturing the married Black Canary and Green Arrow, he invades Earth; it is later mentioned that numerous major cities have been digitized. He threatens to render Earth "a barren moon" unless Supergirl is handed over to him, as he wants to study how a yellow sun affects Kryptonian cells. He later brainwashes several of the heroes and kills Doctor Fate.
- Teen Titans (2003) fanfic Gotham Holiday (link):
- The Scarecrow is one of Gotham's most feared criminals, and for good reason. Making his return to Gotham during the Titans' vacation, he hospitalizes six people with his fear dust, then attempts to unleash the same fear dust on two hospitals. In an attempt to kill Batman, Scarecrow blows up a building with his men inside. Taking a father and son hostage, he tortures the father with barbed wire and kills the son in order to frighten Batman. When he momentarily captures Robin, he plans to torture him to death with barbed wire as well. Upon being sprung from police custody by Deathstroke, he injects the police officers with fear toxin, causing them to mistake each other for supervillains. Before the Titans finally recapture him, he enacts a reign of terror in Blüdhaven, specifically targeting schools and hospitals as test sites for his fear toxins.
- Hijack, real name Wade LaFarge, is Deathstroke's even more monstrous half-brother. Resenting Slade for being more successful than him, Hijack steals a Super Serum from LexCorp and then systematically murders everyone Slade might care about, namely his wife and children; the Wintergreens; and his and Slade's mother. After killing Terra while the Titans leave for Gotham, Hijack tracks Robin down and tortures him, carving the word "MINE" into his back solely to taunt Slade. After escaping his confinement in the Batcave, Hijack attempts to kill Alfred and plans to go after Batman and the Titans next for being too loud.
- The Joker, not wanting to be eclipsed by Deathstroke, betrays and tries to murder him, kidnaps Robin, and buys out half of Penguin's men to start a destructive gang war in Gotham. When Gotham's other gangs ally against him, Joker tries to blow up the territory he can't hold. Murdering a newscaster, he issues Batman a challenge on TV, and sends him a video of him trying to torture Robin into insanity. Disguising a hostage as Robin, Joker uses the Mad Hatter's technology to try to force him to kill his other hostages, and when Batman intervenes, forces the hostage to slit his own throat. Escaping in a helicopter, Joker throws four of the hostages, three of them children, out of it to keep Starfire from chasing him. When Harley Quinn tries to help Robin and a young Jason Todd escape, the Joker tries to have Jason Todd killed and beats Harley with a crowbar. Having an artist unveil a statue of Batman, the Joker kills the artist and tries to kill Robin and leave his body in the statue's arms for Batman to find.
