Rogues Gallery / Film

Animation

• Disney villains, in general, serve as this for the entire franchise, even if the movies are mostly self-contained. You'll see them grouped together as bad guys almost as often as you'll see the princesses grouped together.
• The LEGO Batman Movie parodied Batman's absurdly large rogues gallery. The Joker's evil plot at the beginning featured dozens of Batman villains, including more common villains like Joker himself, Harley Quinn, the Riddler, the Scarecrow, Bane, Two-Face, Catwoman, the Penguin, Mr. Freeze, Poison Ivy, Killer Croc, and Clayface, but also obscure and frankly absurd villains including Crazy Quilt, Eraser, Polka-Dot Man, Calculator, Tarantula, King Tut, Egghead, Orca, Killer Moth, Zodiac Master, Gentleman Ghost, Clock King, Calendar Man, Zebra Man, and Condiment King. Lampshaded when Joker assures the pilot of the plane he's hijacking that they are, in fact, all real villains, and recommending that he google them. The Joker then goes on to create an even more absurd rogues gallery for Batman featuring villains from other franchises, whose members consist of the Eye of Sauron, Voldemort, King Kong, the Kraken, Medusa, a horde of skeletons, the Daleks, a T-Rex and some Raptors, the Gremlins, Agent Smith and his clones, the Wicked Witch of the West and her flying monkeys, a "Swamp Monster", a Vampire, and Bruce the Shark.

Live-Action

• Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi has a pretty consistent and personal series of foes throughout the franchise's various (post-Disney) media, most notably in the movies and the show Star Wars: The Clone Wars. The core ones include General Grievous,^note An INCREDIBLY strong and tough cyborg warrior, skilled lightsaber duelist, experienced tactician, and de facto generalissimo of the entire Confederacy's armies and fleets Darth Maul,^note A warrior from Dathomir and Sith Lord with the standard Psychic Powers and lightsaber skills of Force users, to very great extents; started out as a subordinate of Palpatine's Confederacy, but eventually founded his own independent criminal syndicate, Death Watch. Savage Oppress,^note A Dathomiri subordinate of Maul; nearly as powerful as him in the Force, in possession of massive superhuman strength and toughness, and loyal, but not too bright. Cad Bane,^note Ruthless, murderous, and highly skilled gunslinging bounty hunter who Obi-Wan keeps getting the way of. Hondo Ohnaka,^note A notorious space pirate in charge of a large and well-equipped raider gang who comes into conflict with both Obi-Wan's Republic and the Confederacy over his career, often liberally switching sides. Asajj Ventress,^note Similar to Maul, but is also a Fallen Jedi who eventually abandons the Sith to become a bounty hunter and anti-hero and Darth Vader.^note Needs no introduction.
• Austin Powers both uses and subverts the trope: Most of the villains in the piece are already part of a single organization, and most of them are killed off by the Big Bad, Dr. Evil, at the beginning of the movie. However, a few new ones are introduced throughout the series, and since they aren't killed, they comprise a sort of Rogues Gallery—until most of them turn good, leaving only one as truly evil and the other imprisoned.
  • And most of them seemed to be based on ethnic stereotypes. There was a Turk, and an Irishman, and an Italian, The Baroness, a Violent Glaswegian Fat Bastard, and The Dragon with the Eyepatch of Power.
• Mystery Team: Their database seems to contain a large number of children, people their age, and Old Man McGinty.
• Godzilla has a vast Rogues Gallery which, in addition to the Japanese Self-Defence Force, includes countless other Kaiju. Notable among them are King Ghidorah / Mecha-Ghidorah (and his expy, Kaiser Ghidorah), MechaGodzilla, Mothra (although she's prone to Enemy Mines), Gigan, Ebirah, Hedorah, and Kamacuras & Kumonga. That, by the way, is without getting into one shot villains like SpaceGodzilla, Megalon, Biollante, Orga, or the utterly horrific Destoroyah who recur many times within the videogames based on the series, or former enemies turned allies like Anguirus and Rodan, plus the two MUTOs of the Legendary Pictures reboot. There are also a number of recurring alien races, such as the Xiliens, the Nebulans, the Simians, the Bilusaludo and the Exif (many of which are associated with some of the aforementioned Kaiju).
  • And that’s not even getting into the enormous amount of comics, books, video games and other media to wear the Big G’s name which include original monsters, with the Marvel Comics giving him Doctor Demonicus, Batragon, Ghilaron, Centipor and Lepirax, the Megans and their Mega Monsters, Red Ronin (though he eventually becomes Godzilla’s ally) and even Marvel superheroes such as the Avengers and the Fantastic Four, Godzilla: Rulers of Earth giving him the Trilopods, the Dark Horse comics giving him Kamerus, Bagorah and the Dianii, the Pipeworks Atari games giving him the Vortaak, Obsidius and Krystalak, and all of those examples are just scratching the surface (and don’t even count some of the one-off monsters!).

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