Rogues Gallery / Live-Action TV

• Naturally in the TV Series of Black Scorpion, where the titular heroine faced the likes of Stunner, Flashpoint, Medusa, Inferno, Greenthumb, Slapshot, Fire Arm, Clockwise, Breathtaker, Professor Prophet, and Aerobicide. Ironically, most seem to want to kill the mayor rather than Black Scorpion. Darcy even lampshades it:
  Darcy: It does seem to be a favorite pastime of the supervillains in this city.
• The Cape collected a cadre of creepy criminals to combat, including Chess, Scales, Cain, Goggles and Hicks, Dice, Razer, Kozmo, the Lich, and frienemies Marty Voyt and the Carnival of Crime.
• El Chapulín Colorado rogues gallery is divided in time periods:
  • The Mafia: Tripaseca, Cuajináis, Chory, Bulldog, Enterrador Manzanero, Petizo, Botija, Peterete and La Minina.
  • The Wild West: Rascabuches, Matonsísimo Kid, Matafácil, Rosa la Rumorosa and El Capataz.
  • The Pirates: Alma Negra, Matalote, Sabandija, Panza Loca, Ajonjolí and Gorgojo.
• Doctor Who, being a Long Runner, has accumulated dozens of foes over the decades. The real big name villains are the Daleks and their creator Davros, the Master, the Cybermen, and the Sontarans, along with a slew of less common recurring villains like the Great Intelligence, the Ice Warriors, the Autons and Nestene replicants, the Silurians and their underwater cousins the Sea Devils, the Black Guardian, the Rani, the Valeyard, Rassilon, Omega, the Weeping Angels, the Slitheen, and the Silence. Several of these races would form the Alliance in "The Pandorica Opens" to save the Universe from the Doctor. The BBC has taken to dubbing the Doctor's Rogues Gallery the "Carnival of Monsters", a name derived from the title of a serial in which, strangely, only one of them makes a cameo appearance.
• Though Firefly only ran for a few episodes, the series made a point to have multiple instances of recurring villains, including Adelai Niska, Saffron, the Hands of Blue, and, in the comic series Those Left Behind, Lawrence Dobson.
• In Arrow, while most of the lesser villains are one-offs aside from the Big Bads, there are a few who stick around and keep coming back to give Oliver Queen and Team Arrow trouble, including Deadshot, Count Vertigo, China White, Bronze Tiger, Cupid, Anarky, Lady Cop, and Derek Sampson.
• Naturally happens in The Flash (2014), with recurring foes including Reverse-Flash, Captain Cold, Heat Wave, Golden Glider, Weather Wizard, Pied Piper, Grodd, Wade Eiling, Trickster, Zoom, King Shark, Killer Frost, Dr. Alchemy, Savitar, Abra Kadabra, and The Thinker. The twist is that it's Barry who ends up accidentally calling them "Rogues Gallery", although, at the time, it only includes Captain Cold (Leonard Snart), Heat Wave (Mick Rory), and Golden Glider (Lisa Snart). Cold ends up liking the "Rogues" part and reuses it later. He also later frees some meta-humans and tells Barry they now owe him one, implying that the Rogues Gallery may get new members, with powers this time.
• Gotham already has many members of the Gotham Rogues Gallery, even though it's a prequel show and Bruce Wayne doesn't fully become Batman until the show's distant finale. Bruce still fights against some of them when he's an older teenager/young adult, though, especially Ra's Al Ghul and two characters who could possibly be the future Joker. Penguin and the Riddler are in the show from the first season, and other villains, including the Mad Hatter and Scarecrow, are introduced later, though they mostly act as Jim Gordon's nemeses, while Bruce is young.
• In the same vein as Godzilla, Ultraman and his fellow Ultra heroes have an enormous rogues gallery in their 50-year history. Although the vast majority end up being One Shot Characters, there are quite a few recurring Kaijus and aliens. Among them are Alien Baltan, Gomora (though he's an ally in some series) Red King, Antlar, Zetton, Eleking, King Joe, Alien Metron, Gudon, Birdon, Alien Magma, Alien Valky, Bemstar, Alien Zarab, Alien Guts, Alien Nackle, Vakishim, Velokron, Doragory, Alien Babalou, Ace Killer, Alien Mefilas, Telesdon, Golza, Gan Q, Galberos, Tyrant, Pandon, Bemular, and Black King.
• The Negative Syndicates from GoGo Sentai Boukenger. Negative Syndicate is a collective term used by the SGS Foundation for the four villain groups that frequently plague the protagonists. The four groups can be summarized as lizardmen, ninja, demons (later robotic demons) and the survivor of an ancient civilization.
  • The American adaptation, Power Rangers Operation Overdrive had essentially the same groups, but with a few tweaks—the ancient civilization was changed to the servants of An Ice Person whose brother led the lizardmen, and the demons were turned into alien cats (later robotic alien cats).
• Hawaii Five-O had a number of recurring villains: Chinese terrorist and Magnificent Bastard Wo Fat, gang lords Honore Vashon and Tony Alika, drug kingpin Big Chicken, and Master of Disguise Lewis Avery Filer.
• Santino from the Filipino drama May Bukas Pa has enemies varied as an atheistic reporter out to destroy his reputation to a syndicate leader who abducts children to the corrupt town mayor who is also his father. Santino is only 6 years old.
• Night Man managed to get a fairly formidable Rogues Gallery despite the show lasting only two seasons and the fact that most villains of the week often got killed through the hero's actions. Recurring antagonists included Chang, Chrome, E. Haskell Bridges, Selene, Rachel Lang, and Kieran Keyes.
• Odd Squad has a very sizeable rogues gallery that only seems to grow bigger with each season, especially with the introduction of the Villain University in Season 3. Notable foes the agents have faced include the Shapeshifter, the Noisemaker, Jamie Jam, and William Ocean, among many others. And that's not even including the Big Bads — Odd Todd, Ohlm, The Shadow, and Brutus.
• Odisea Burbujas rogues gallery includes; Ecoloco, Don Mugrovich, Peter Punk, Socapa, Patán and Máximo Smog.
• Surprisingly for a show that initially seems like a Workcom, Parks and Recreation has one. The Pawnee Parks Department do battle with many recurring arch foes on a regular basis, including, but not limited to, other governmental workers (Tammy 2, Councilman Jamm), the media (Joan Callamezzo, Crazy Ira and the Douche), and various others (the Langmans, the Sapersteins, the Newports and Jessica Wicks, Tammy 1, Kathryn Pinewood, Dennis Feinstein, Gryzzl) who they run up against in their efforts to improve their town, or resolve personal problems.
• Person of Interest has been building up an impressive Rogues Gallery in the midst of its we-help-the-helpless-cyberpunk-spy-procedural: Carl Elias, an up-and-coming Mafia don; Agent Snow, a CIA assassin; Root, a super-hacker; "HR", a cabal of corrupt cops inside the NYPD; Special Agent Donnelly, who's in charge of an FBI manhunt; and the unnamed government department tasked with covering up the Machine's existence. Plus there's Zoe Morgan, who's more of a frienemy-with-benefits. Even more are introduced later on, with Reese's sadistic ex-partner Kara Stanton, privacy terrorist Collier, Northern Lights, another group using the Machine, and its leaders: Special Counsel and Control, the leader of another gang called the Brotherhood, Dominic, and, most dangerously of all, another AI called Samaritan and it's followers, with significantly less morals than the Machine. Fortunately, by the time Samaritan becomes a problem, Root has done a Heel–Face Turn, Elias is more an ally than an enemy, HR is destroyed, and Donnelly, Snow, Stanton, Special Counsel, and Collier are dead.
• Star Trek had gotten a progressively larger one as time went on. While The Original Series only had Klingons and Romulans, later series would give us the Ferengi (for a while), the Cardassians, the Breen, the Dominion, and the Borg.
  • The premise of Star Trek: Voyager called for the cast to be antagonized by multiple recurring "bad guy" species, which the crew would tangle with for a few episodes a season until the ship moved past their territory. Beside one-off species and franchise mainstay the Borg, the Voyager would find recurring foes in the Kazon Sects, the Vidiian Sodality, Species 8472, the Hirogens, the Malons and the Hierarchy.
  • Star Trek also had recurring individual villains, namely: Harry Mudd and Khan on The Original Series; Q, Lore, Sela, Tomalak, Daimon Bok, and the Duras Sisters on The Next Generation; Dukat, Kai Winn, Weyoun, Damar, the Female Changeling and Liquidator Brunt on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; Culluh, Seska and the Borg Queen on Voyager, and Silik and Future Guy on Enterprise.
• The PBS game show Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego had a recurring group of criminals, one of whom would feature as the villain the contestants had to capture in any given episode - Double Trouble, Patty Larceny, Eartha Brute, Top Grunge, Vic the Slick...
  • Its successor series, Where In Time Is Carmen Sandiego, had its own rogues gallery: Jacqueline Hyde, Dr. Belljar, Sir Vile, Medeva...
• The NCIS team usually deals with one-episode antagonists, but they've also had to contend with recurring enemies who are either rogue agents from different agencies (including NCIS itself) or members of criminal organizations, and who in some cases harbor grudges against the Navy as a whole or against specific members of Gibb's team. These include Michael Rivkin, Ari Haswari, the Port-to-Port Killer, Jonathan Cole, Harper Dearing, La Grenouille, Sergei Mishnev, Charles "Chip" Sterling, the Brotherhood of Doubt, the Reynosa Cartel, and the Calling.
  • In the spin-off series NCIS: Los Angeles, G. Callen and company have had their own fair share of recurring adversaries, including the Comescu family, Peter Clairmont, Isaak Sidorov, Abdul Habaza, Marcel "The Chameleon" Janvier, Matthias Draeger, and Vakar and the Grozny Emirate terrorist group.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Across the show's seven seasons and its tie-in material (including spin-off series Angel), Buffy and the Scooby Gang defend Sunnydale from a wide and varied list of recurring supernatural enemies. These foes range from vampires (naturally) such as the Master, Spike, Drusilla, Angelus (who happens to be the Enemy Within of Buffy's vampire love interest Angel), the Anointed One, Darla, Mr. Trick, the Turok-Han, and even Dracula himself, to non-vampiric monsters like Adam, Glory, the Judge, Anyanka/Anya (who went through the Heel–Face Revolving Door quite a bit) and the First Evil, to human foes (some of whom are supernaturally powered) such as Faith Lehane, Mayor Wilkins, Amy Madison, Professor Walsh, Caleb, Ethan Rayne, and the Trio.
  • Speaking of Angel, he and his allies at Angel Investigations have their own recurring villains to deal with across their show's five seasons and tie-in comic. Enemies include the agents of the Wolfram and Hart firm, the Circle of the Black Thorn (which serves as The Dragon to Wolfram and Hart), Daniel Holtz, the Beast, Jasmine, Lindsey McDonald (formerly a lawyer working for Wolfram and Hart, though they ultimately fired him), Sahjhan, and Justine Cooper, plus Drusilla and Darla hop over from the Buffy series to cause Angel trouble too. And, of course, Angel still has to grapple with the presence of Angelus.
• Chōjinki Metalder uniquely introduces a large lineup of villains in the first episode who each take turns being the Monster of the Week and often appear more than once.
• Sekai Ninja Sen Jiraiya has a number of recurring villains who challenge our protagonists for the map to the Pako, including Dokusai, Uha, Gyuma, Parchis, Wild, Gamesh, Silver Shark and Demost.
• The Trailer Park Boys are obviously not heroes, but they have a series of recurring adversaries. Their main Arch-Enemy is Jim Lahey, the trailer park supervisor, but they've also had to deal with Lahey's Gonk assistant Randy, greaser criminal Cyrus, crooked veterinarian and Back-Alley Doctor Sam Losco, rival drug dealers Terry and Dennis, Jim's ex-wife Barbara and her efforts to keep them from getting control of the park, and Dirty Cops Ted Johnson and George Green.

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