- Not a standard Superhero gig, but the Harry Potter books have a Rogues Gallery of Death Eaters, including (though most definitely not limited to) Draco Malfoy, Lucius Malfoy, Peter Pettigrew, Bellatrix Lestrange, and Voldemort himself. There are essentially the colorful rogues gallery and the Death Eaters who are not fleshed out enough to be more than Mooks. There isn't really an official distinction between these two groups in-universe.
- Richard Sharpe has Obadiah Hakeswill, Pierre Ducos, William Dodd, Sir Henry Simmerson, General Calvet and many others.
- Though each book has its own villains, The Dresden Files does have a number of recurring villains and factions who make trouble for the eponymous wizard, including the Denarians (with their leader Nicodemus having the best claim to being Harry's Arch-Enemy), Cowl, Macrone, Queen Mabnote , Corpsetaker, Mavra, the Red Court, the White Court, the Fomor, the Black Council and the Outsiders (which include Nemesis).
- The Wheel of Time has the thirteen Forsaken, powerful mages with Chronic Backstabbing Disorder practising general villainy and trying to kill the heroes.
- Jess Nevins notes that Dr. Jack Quartz assembled many of Nick Carter's former foes as part of a coordinated effort against Nick Carter.
- Dime Novel hero Nick Carter had quite an assortment of enemies: Dr Jack Quartz, his Arch-Enemy; Dazaar the Arch Fiend, mistress of disguise and master knife thrower; Scylla the Sea Robber, a female pirate with an all female crew; Baroness Latour; Zanoni the Woman Wizard; Praxatel of the Iron Arm, one of the first cyborgs; the gambler Dan Derrington; Burton Quintard, Nick's first recurring foe; Gaston Dupont, a student of Professor Quartz's; the six Dalney Brothers, each one stronger than even Nick himself, etc.
- British detective Sexton Blake also had recurring foes, to include the likes of Baron de Beauremon and the Council of Eleven, Count Ivor Carlac, George Marsden Plummer, Aubrey Dexter, Waldo the Wonderman, Zenith the Albino, Dr. Huxton Rymer, Prince Wu Ling, Professor Francis Kew, and the Criminals' Confederation.
- The Camp Half-Blood Series
- Percy Jackson of Percy Jackson and the Olympians and later The Heroes of Olympus ends up having a rogue's gallery of various Greek (and later Roman) characters, including the Furies, the Minotaur, Medusa, Cerberus, Hyperion, Kronos, Gaea, Polybotes, Ares, Luke Castellan, The Nemean Lion, The Gorgons and Anteus, among others. With the exception of Luke (who dies and is redeemed) and various gods (who are immortal), this gallery is aided by Resurrective Immortality.
- Similarly, the Egyptian heroes of The Kane Chronicles, which take place in the same universe, have a rogues gallery of their own, including Aphophis, Setne, Sobek, and Vladimir Menshikov. Though, due to how there are far less named monsters in Egyptian Mythology, and being a shorter book series, its naturally going to be less than Percy's.
- Despite it being a superhero novel, the concept is mentioned but mostly unseen in Legacy: The Tale of the American Eagle; in American Eagle's hideout in an early chapter, a trophy wall is described and several names are dropped, but since he leaves the country immediately after for the majority of the book, details about them are left in the air upon his return in the final chapter, two are shown; Arsenic (who wasn't mentioned in the tropy wall), and 9 Volt (who was). Both are dispatched quickly and without too much worry, implying that his adventures have made him grow beyond them.
- The Goosebumps franchise has a whole lot of villains (most of them being inhuman) that show up in at least two or more books, and in the 2015 movie many of the franchise's most iconic monsters appear as antagonists, including some of the one-shot monsters. The series' antagonists include the likes of Slappy, the Lawn Gnomes, the Body Squeezers, Big Al, Dr. Maniac, the Giant Cranes and Giant Insects, the Haunted Mask (and the Unloved as well), Jonathan Chiller, the Horrorland Horrors, Lord High Executioner, Monster Blood and The Blob That Ate Everyone, Scarlet Starlet, Jenna the genie, The Werewolf of Fever Swamp (and lots of other werewolves), the Haunted Camera, and a wide assortment of vampires, monster plants, dragons, gargoyles, zombies, robots, and even mirror reflections.
- in Ward, Breakthrough has recurring villains show up often like Paris, Hookline, Nailbiter, and Lord of Loss, but it's taken to Eleven with Rain's own trigger event alongside the rest of his cluster and his association with The Fallen. It has given him a sizable Rogue's Gallery consisting of Love Lost, Cradle, Mama Mathers, and Seir, amongst others.
- Zorro:
- Unlike Batman, who he would later inspire (both on a meta level and within the Dark Knight's own comic book continuity), Zorro doesn't really have a large or recognizable list of recurring enemies, unless you look to adaptations outside of the original pulp novels where he first appeared. As far as the novels are concerned, Zorro's foes consisted largely of one-shot villains, including Captain Ramon and Sergeant Gonzales in the first book, The Curse of Capistrano.
- The 1957 Zorro TV series (starring Guy Williams) had the likes of Captain Monastario, Licenciado Piña, Sergeant García and Corporal Reyes, Andrés Felipe Basilio, and the Eagle and his agents as recurring villains, with García being mostly a Punch-Clock Villain who could be quite a nice guy when he wasn't following Monastario's orders.
- The 1993 Zorro comic book series, published by Topps Comics, gives Zorro a small gallery consisting of Captain Monasterio and Sergeant Garcia (again), Lady Rawhide, Moonstalker, and Lucien Machete.
- Kaiketsu Zorro has Commander Raymond and his second-in-command Gabriel, along with Sergeant Gonzales, Captain Jekyll and Lieutenant Placido as the token good guys in the otherwise corrupt and/or bumbling army, plus Kapital and the various agents of the South India Trading Company, and the local Scorpion gang which appears in two episodes.
- Zorro: The Chronicles, despite being only 26 episodes long, has a far wider line-up of recurring antagonists, consisting largely of characters created specifically for the show. The list includes Captain Monasterio and Sergeant Garcia (once again), Corporal Gonzales, Governor Esteban Parasol, Dona Isabella Verdugo, Chief Yuma, Antonio Ramirez, and Don Rodrigo Malapensa and his hired henchmen La Rana and Dentist.
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