History ArchEnemy / ComicBooks

* ComicBook/TheAuthority and ComicBook/{{Stormwatch}} have Henry Bendix and Kaizen Gamorra.

* Literature/DocSavage has John Sunlight.

* Grigori Rasputin and the Ogdru Jahad to ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}.

* ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'' has Jei, Lord Hikiji, and Lord Hebi.

*** Interestingly, Donald's superhero identity Paperinik is often seen fighting random crooks or one-shot supervillains without many recurring villains. The two characters being mostly like arch-enemies towards him might be [[MindControl Spectrum]] in older and [[CorruptCorporationExecutive Red Duckan]] in newer comics. He does have an extensive RoguesGallery in ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'', but no single bad guy has managed to stand out as his definitive arch-enemy.

*** Interestingly, Donald's superhero identity Paperinik is often seen fighting random crooks or one-shot supervillains without many recurring villains. The two characters being mostly like arch-enemies towards him might be Spectrum in older and Red Duckan in newer comics. He does have an extensive RoguesGallery in ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'', but no single bad guy has managed to stand out as his definitive arch-enemy.

*** Donald Duck considers both Gladstone Gander and Neighbour Jones his personal arch enemies, though these are of the [[SitcomArchNemesis sitcom]] variety. He does have an extensive RoguesGallery in ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'', but no single bad guy has managed to stand out as his definitive arch-enemy.

* Franchise/DocSavage has John Sunlight.

* The ComicBook/{{Micronauts}} and Baron Karza.

* ''Radio/TheShadow'' has Shiwan Khan.

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* ComicBook/Agent327: Hendrik I Jzerbroot's most dangerous opponent is Boris Kloris.
* ComicBook/{{Asterix}}: Julius Caesar would be this, even though there's a mutual respect between the Gauls and Caesar. Caesar is often seen as a VoiceOfReason and above the pettiness of many of the prefects.

** This arch-enemy comic rivalry was taken UpToEleven in the Fleetway comic ''ComicBook/WhizzerAndChips'' which was one comic which was made up of two comics and these two comics and their characters were archenemies with even more frequent 'raids' in the two comics than with the Beano and Dandy.

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* The ComicBook/{{WildCATS}} have Helspont, leader of the Cabal and one of the most powerful Daemonites in existence.

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* Comicbook/AdamStrange has Kanjar Ro and Lady Styx.
* ComicBook/AllStarSquadron has Baron Blitzkrieg.
** Johnny Quick has Zyklon.
* Comicbook/AmbushBug has Argh! Yle! the living sock. Yes, his archenemy is a sock.
* Comicbook/AmethystPrincessOfGemworld has Mordru and Dark Opal.
* Comicbook/AnimalMan had Lennox, the man who murdered his family. In the New 52 reboot, Animal Man had the Spider Queen.
* ''Comicbook/{{Aquaman}}'':
** Aquaman's Arch Enemy spot is shared between [[CainAndAbel his brother]] Orm, aka Ocean Master, and ComicBook/BlackManta. Depending on continuity the reasons behind Arthur and Orm's rivalry differs. But it usually revolves around the two brothers fighting over who is more fit to lead Atlantis. With Black Manta, their relationship is just full of mutual hatred.
** Tempest has Slizzath.
** Mera has Siren.
* ComicBook/TheAtom:
** Ray Palmer has Chronos.
** Al Pratt had Cyclotron.
** Ryan Choi has Dwarfstar.
* Comicbook/{{Azrael}}: Jean-Paul Valley had two; Carleton Lehah and Nicholas Scratch. Averted for Michael Lane, who hasn't been active nearly long enough in order to get a real archenemy, though the Crusader came real close.
* Comicbook/{{Aztek}} had the Lizard King, who murdered his girlfriend, and Mageddon, the evil god he is destined to defeat.
* ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}:
** During her Pre-Crisis career, Barbara had Killer Moth. During her time as Comicbook/{{Oracle}}, Barbara had the Calculator and James Gordon Jr.
** Cassandra and Stephanie both have their [[ArchnemesisDad Archnemesis Dads]], David Cain and Cluemaster. Cassandra can also count her mother, Lady Shiva, as one, though their relationship is more complex than the typical archenemy dynamic.
* Franchise/{{Batman}} has the Joker, Rā's al Ghūl, and Two-Face.
** ComicBook/TheJoker is Batman's Arch-Enemy. He's the One, he's the best. His insanity and chaotic nature are the complete opposite of Batman's rigidly, even obsessively ordered intelligence. Though these (intelligence and obsession) are also their similarities. Both were shaped by great tragedy and loss (at least in the Joker's most commonly accepted origin story). Many people have said that Batman is just as insane as ComicBook/TheJoker, he just manifests it in a [[CrazySane different]] and more positive way and keeps control over it. ComicBook/TheJoker himself has pointed this out numerous times and in many adaptations.
----> '''ComicBook/TheJoker:''' [[ComicBook/TheKillingJoke "You had a bad day once, am I right?... Why else would you dress up like a flying rat?"]]
*** ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOBatmanMovie'' plays this for laughs: the Joker calls himself Batman's ArchEnemy, the Dark Knight disagrees, and Joker [[EvilIsPetty spends the rest of the movie trying to prove Batman wrong]] (with as much FoeYay possible!). Batman ultimately is forced to admit Joker's status so both can save Gotham.
*** It's also deconstructed in a guidebook [[LiteraryAgentHypothesis written by Batman.]] Under Joker's images he writes,"Some pictures of Joker throughout the years; [[ItsPersonal it truly bothers me how much he's become a fixture in my life."]]
** [[ComicBook/RasAlGhul Rā's al Ghūl]] has a great deal of respect for Batman, may be even more dangerous, and a far larger scale threat, than the Joker, and is the father of one of Bruce's main love interests and his son's grandfather. If not the Arch Enemy, Ra's is definitely the main BigBad of Batman's enemies.
** ComicBook/TwoFace: Batman sees him, with good cause, as [[MyGreatestFailure his greatest failure]], a point that Two-Face enjoys rubbing in. Every single one of the Robins has also had a reason to put them high on their hit lists. He beat [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]] within an inch of his life on one of his first outings as Robin (handing him his first defeat in the process), orchestrated the murders of Jason Todd's parents, and in "A Lonely Place of Dying" nearly killed [[Comicbook/RobinSeries Tim Drake]] in one of his earliest solo missions as Robin, with Dick having to save him. While the individual Robins have their own enemies, Two-Face is easily the archenemy of the collective Robin identity.
** As far as honorable mentions go, ComicBook/{{Bane}}, ComicBook/TheScarecrow, and ComicBook/TheRiddler also deserve a mention. All three are highly effective [[ShadowArchetype Shadow Archetypes]] of Batman who have pushed him through some severe trials. While they are overshadowed as Archenemy material by the above three, [[Film/TheDarkKnightRises some]] [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries adaptations]] [[Series/Batman1966 have]] played up their mutual hostility with Batman and standing in his Rogues gallery. In the case of Bane, this also happened in the ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'' Batman comics when he decides to get revenge on Batman, culminating in [[spoiler: his brutal murder of Alfred Pennyworth, [[YouKilledMyFather surrogate father]] of Batman]].
** Harvey Bullock has the Mad Hatter, who orchestrated the Gotham High School bombing that ended up being Bullock's [[ThatOneCase one unsolved case]] that haunted him years.
** Batman Inc. had Leviathan and their leader, Comicbook/TaliaAlGhul.
** Damian Wayne has his mother, Comicbook/TaliaAlGhul.
* Batwing has his brother Isaac, now known as the mercenary Massacre.
* ComicBook/{{Batwoman}} has the Religion of Crime and Tahani.
* The ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey have the Calculator and the ComicBook/SecretSix.
* ComicBook/BlackCanary has Lady Shiva and White Canary. Her mother, the original Black Canary, had the Wizard.
* ComicBook/BlackLightning had Tobias Whale, the gangster who ruined his neighbourhood, targeted his students, and convinced him to get into crime fighting in the first place. Whale for his part hated both Black Lightning and his civilian identity of Jefferson Pierce, and went out of his way to dispose of them both.
* ComicBook/BlackOrchid had Carl Thorne and Mr. Sterling. Later, the third Black Orchid had her predecessor, Flora Black, after she went rogue.
* ComicBook/{{Blackhawk}} and his squadron had Killer Shark.
* ComicBook/BlueBeetle has Carapax. Carapax is absolutely determined to destroy Beetle and everything he stands for, regardless of who is holding the identity; he started out fighting Ted, but battled Jaime as well simply because he was using the title Blue Beetle. Even ''death'' couldn't keep him from coming back to torment Beetle.
** Jaime Reyes later developed another contender for archenemy title in the form of Black Beetle, an EvilCounterpart who also uses Reach tech and is motivated by his sister's death, which he blames on the Blue Beetle, thus making their conflict personal.
* After becoming evil, being killed, and then brought back to life, Maxwell Lord has become the Arch Enemy to ComicBook/BoosterGold. Black Beetle is this in Booster Gold's own series.
* ComicBook/BlueDevil has Bolt. He had the demon Nebiros, until he was killed in Day of Judgment.
* ComicBook/CaptainAtom had General Wade Eiling. Although Cap [[MagnificentBastard didn't know that Eiling was his arch-enemy]]. Captain Atom also had Major Force.
* ''ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}'' had Black Mask (the original version) as her arch-enemy in her early-2000s series. In a DarkerAndEdgier twist, she ended up murdering him after he tried to fridge her friends and relatives once too often.
* ComicBook/{{Checkmate}} has Kobra and Bishop.
* Cosmic Entities:
** The Prescence has a few. Decreator the Anti-God is one, being the first shadow cast by The Presence's light. Another would be Lucifer obviously [[spoiler: though played with as the relationship is less enemy and more a complicated one between a distant father and a rebellious prideful son.]]
** Kismet had Imperiex and Dominus.
** The Monitor and the Anti-Monitor.
** Nix Uotan, a.k.a. the Judge of All Evil, had his father, Dax Nova, a.k.a. Mandrakk the Dark Monitor.
** Rao and Cythonna.
* ComicBook/TheCreeper had Proteus, his EvilFormerFriend.
* Cyclone has T.O. Morrow, who kidnapped and experimented on Cyclone at a young age. Morrow infected Cyclone with nanobytes that left her with superpowers.
* ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} is the biggest bad of the DC Universe and is the archfoe of the Justice League, New Genesis, and the DCU itself. On the personal level, he's also the archenemy of his son, Orion, and of New Genesis' leader Highfather, and has pursued lengthy vendettas against Mister Miracle, Superman, and Wonder Woman, to name only a few. Essentially, the moment Darkseid shows up, all other considerations, and all other archenmities go out the window.
** Orion also has Kalibak and Desaad. Kalibak is Darkseid's loyal son, and is resentful that Darkseid favors Orion over him. Desaad has concocted multiple schemes to kill Orion, and Orion eventually vows to kill Desaad after Desaad makes several attempts on Orion's life and masterminds an attack on New Genesis.
** Mister Miracle and Big Barda have Granny Goodness.
* ComicBook/{{Deadman}} has Sensei and the Hook.
* ComicBook/DoctorFate:
** Doctor Fate I (Kent Nelson) had Wotan.
** Doctor Fate II (Eric and Linda Strauss) had Anti-Fate and Typhon.
** Doctor Fate III (Inza Nelson) had T'Giian.
** Fate (Jared Stevens) had Talbot Cantrip and Pharaoh.
** Doctor Fate IV (Hector Hall) had Mordru and the Curse.
** Doctor Fate V (Kent V. Nelson) had Eclipso and Negal.
** The Earth-2 Doctor Fate (Khalid Ben-Hassin) has his Earth's version of Wotan.
* The ComicBook/DoomPatrol has the Brotherhood of Evil. Their respective leaders, the Chief and the Brain also have one another.
* ComicBook/{{Etrigan}} has Morgan le Fey and Klarion the Witch Boy.
* ComicBook/{{Firestorm}} has Killer Frost, Multiplex, and Deathstorm.
* Franchise/TheFlash. This varies from era to era since there are multiple Flashes.
** In UsefulNotes/{{the Golden Age|of Comic Books}} comics, Jay Garrick (Flash I) had the Thinker, who appeared more often than any other villain. The two would eventually become friends in old age, but by that point, Edward Clariss AKA The Rival, Jay's own Reverse-Flash, had been introduced.
** Barry Allen (Flash II) has had a few. In UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}}, it was ComicBook/GorillaGrodd, who was the one exception in his roster of HarmlessVillain antagonists. In UsefulNotes/{{the Bronze Age|OfComicBooks}}, it was ComicBook/EobardThawne AKA the Reverse-Flash and his repeated attempts to outright steal his foe's life, and who eventually killed his wife. In UsefulNotes/{{the Modern Age|of Comic Books}}, after Barry's return, Geoff Johns had promoted Captain Cold to leader of the rogues -- in UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}} it was usually the original Mirror Master or an outside villain in this role -- and brought the Rogues back into prominence. Cold specifically considers Barry to be his Flash nemesis (he's fought all four of them, and in the Modern Age mostly Wally). Later on, it was cemented that Thawne was Barry's archnemesis because he killed Barry's mother and is the most dangerous of Barry's foes.
** Wally West (Flash III) in the Modern Age had Vandal Savage at first, and later the acclaimed Mark Waid run boosted Abra Kadabra to this role by making that villain much DarkerAndEdgier and a much more recurring threat in Wally's life. Later on, Geoff Johns also contributed Zoom/Reverse-Flash II as a contender for the role, an EvilFormerFriend of Wally's who caused Wally's wife to miscarry and is also a villain he feels responsible for creating. In the aftermath of ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'' Kadabra tries to rekindle his rivalry with Wally by taking credit for Wally's [[RetGone disappearance]], although he's thrown into the timestream at the end of the arc, and later down the line, Zolomon was reintroduced and revealed to know the location of Wally's missing children and cemented himself as this too.
** Bart Allen (Flash IV) had Thaddeus Thawne AKA Inertia, his evil clone who sought to have a family like Bart. Another contender would be Superboy Prime, who hates and downright ''fears'' Bart.
** Jesse Quick/Liberty Belle II had Baroness Blitzkrieg.
** Max Mercury had Savitar. Both are old speedsters who interpret the Speed Force differently: Max trains those who can tap into it while Savitar runs an evilc cult around its worship.
* The ComicBook/{{Freedom Fighters|DC}} have Silver Ghost.
* General Glory has Schmidt.
* Merlyn is considered ComicBook/GreenArrow's arch-enemy. Due to both being skilled archers on opposite sides of the law. Count Vertigo can also be seen as this.
** The role of Roy Harper's arch-enemy can be given to Cheshire, which also falls into DatingCatwoman due to their former relationship ''and'' that she's the mother of his daughter. She's consistently proven that, whatever lingering feelings she might have for Roy or their child, she'll do anything to get them out of the picture if they prove a detriment to her freedom.
* ''Franchise/GreenLantern'':
** Golden Age Lantern Alan Scott has Solomon Grundy, who menaced his hometown more than any other villain, and whose wood-infused body was highly resistant to Scott's ring. The New 52's ''Earth 2'' comic has brought this rivalry back in a big way.
** Sinestro is Hal Jordan's archenemy (and EvilMentor depending on the continuity); similarly, the Green Lantern Corps treat the Sinestro Corps as their most dangerous opposing organization. Cyborg Superman and Hector Hammond could also count. While Sinestro is his most frequent and prominent enemy, no one hit Hal harder than Cyborg Superman who destroyed Coast city. This resulted in Hal falling victim to Parallax's possession.
** When Major Force isn't ruining Captain Atom's life, he's probably ruining Guy Gardener's or Kyle Rayner's. Specifically, Force began the StuffedIntoTheFridge trope by killing Kyle's girlfriend and... y'know.
** John Stewart has Fatality, who blamed John for the destruction of her homeworld and killed his girlfriend in retaliation.
** The Guardians of the Universe have Krona.
** The Entity has Nekron.
** Ion has Parallax, as the personifications of Willpower and Fear respectively.
** Jade has Fatality.
** Kilowog has Arkillo.
** Mogo has Ranx, a moon-sized living city who is prophesied to destroy Mogo one day. In the ''ComicBook/SinestroCorpsWar'', he tried and failed.
** Saint Walker has Atrocitus and Larfleeze.
* ComicBook/HarleyQuinn has the vigilante Thorn in her original solo series. In the ComicBook/New52, she has Zena Bendemova and the Red Tool.
* ComicBook/HawkAndDove had Kestrel in UsefulNotes/{{the Modern Age|of Comic Books}}, and Condor and Swan in the ComicBook/New52.
* ComicBook/{{Hawkman}} and Hawkgirl have Gentleman Ghost, the Shadow Thief, Hath-Set, and Byth Rok.
* The ComicBook/{{Huntress}} originally had Omerta the Silencer, Stephen Mandragora, and Santo Cassamento, who are all responsible for the murder of the Bertinellis, driving Helena Bertinelli to become the Huntress. However, Helena killed all three of them in vengeance. More recently, Huntress has grudges against the Penguin, who betrayed the Birds of Prey and severely injured two of her allies, and the Scarecrow, who used fear gas to make her fight Catwoman.
* ComicBook/InfinityInc had Mr. Bones initially, and Harlequin later.
* Katana had Takeo Yamashiro, who murdered her husband and two children because she rejected his advances.
* ComicBook/JimmyOlsen gets his own arch-enemy in the Action Comics backup strip: a young Lexcorp executive called Sebastian Mallory. He aknowledges that "Superman's Pal vs Lex Luthor's protege" might seem a bit obvious, but they really do hate each other.
* ComicBook/JonahHex has Quentin Turnbull.
* The Justice League's arch-nemesis is the Legion of Doom/Injustice League/Injustice Gang whereas The Justice Society's arch-enemy is the Injustice Society of the World.
** Doctor Light III/Kimyo Hoshi has Doctor Arthur Light.
** Zauriel has Asmodel.
* ComicBook/JusticeLeagueDark has Felix Faust.
* ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational and Justice League Europe had Queen Bee.
* Johnny Sorrow is this for the entire ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica. Originally he only had a beef with Sandman, but after Sandy joined up with the Society, Johnny came to hate all of them with equal, massive fury. Now he's not only one of their most personal foes, but he's one of the few villains who's always gunning for the entire team at once.
** Atom Smasher had Kobra and Extant. Kobra who orchestrated a plane crash that killed his mother. Extant murdered Atom Smasher's godfather, Al Pratt, and Atom Smasher later returned the favor by killing Extant in the aforementioned plane crash, which erased his mother's death in the process.
** Damage has Baron Blitzkrieg.
** Hourman I had Psycho-Pirate, Doctor Togg, Doctor Iker, and Doctor Darrk.
** Hourman II had Eclipso, the Wizard, and Extant.
** Hourman III had Amazo.
** [[Comicbook/StarsAndSTRIPE Stargirl]]'s arch foe from is Shiv from Blue Valley. Shiv was a {{Foil}} to Courtney in that, while Courtney was the stepdaughter of an established superhero (Pat Dugan, a.k.a. S.T.R.I.P.E.) and initially became a hero to piss him off, Shiv is the biological daughter of an established supervillain (the Dragon King) and became a villain to make her father proud. However, Shiv fell into limbo for a few years after her last fight with Courtney. The next time they fought Courtney joked about how long it'd been since she saw Shiv.
** The first Doctor Mid-Nite had the Golden-Age Doctor Light and the Shadower.
** The second Doctor Mid-Nite had the Ultra-Humanite, Roulette, and Gog.
* ComicBook/KryptoTheSuperdog has Mechanikat.
* ComicBook/LadyShiva was originally this for ComicBook/RichardDragon, and later her daughter [[ComicBook/Batgirl2000 Cassandra Cain]].
* The ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}} has three: Mordru, the Fatal Five, and the Legion of Super-Villains. The Fatal Five probably win the title for showing up the most often, but the L.S.V. has Lightning Lad's personal arch enemy (and older brother) Lightning Lord, and Mordru is ''certainly'' the most powerful of the three. Pre-Crisis the title would have gone to the Time-Trapper.
** Blok has Mordru.
** Brainiac 5 has Computo.
** Bouncing Boy has the Hunter.
** Chameleon Boy has Chameleon Chief and Composite Man.
** Cosmic Boy has Cosmic King.
** Dream Girl has the Emerald Empress.
** Element Lad has Roxxas.
** Ferro Lad has the Sun-Eater.
** Karate Kid and Princess Projectra have Nemesis Kid.
** Mon-El has the Time Trapper and Glorith.
** Phantom Girl has Glorith.
** R.J Brande has Leland [=McCauley=].
** Rond Vidar has Universo.
** Saturn Girl has Saturn Queen.
** Sun Boy has Doctor Regulus and the Sun Emperor.
** Thom Kallor has Kenz Nuhor.
** Timber Wolf has Tyr.
** Ultra Boy has Glorith and Pulsar Stargrave.
** The White Witch has Mordru.
* SelfDemonstrating/{{Lobo}} has Vril Dox II, the Omegas, and Goldstar.
* ComicBook/MadameXanadu has Morgana le Fey and the Enchantress.
* The ComicBook/MartianManhunter has had several contenders over the years including Commander Blanx and his {{expy}} (and J'onn's EvilTwin) Malefic. The best example, however, may well be GalacticConqueror and [[TheJuggernaut walking engine of destruction]], Despero. While Despero is usually a [[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League]] calibre threat, J'onn is always the one he attacks first, and he takes a [[KickTheDog perverse delight]] in forcing the Martian to telepathically relive the destruction of Mars. At one point, Despero went so far as to MindRape J'onn into believing he was on a Mars that hadn't been destroyed by Blanx and/or Malefic...only to then invade the dream and personally slaughter the psychic constructs of J'onn's family that he had created. J'onn ''hates'' Despero about as much as he hates anyone, and is usually the JLA member who ends up having to put the crazed being down at the end of his rampages.
* The ComicBook/MetalMen have Chemo.
* ComicBook/{{Metamorpho}} has Simon Stagg and Java.
* The First Mr. Terrific had the Spirit King. The Second Mr. Terrific had Kobra. In the reboot, Mr. Terrific had Brainwave.
* ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} had Blockbuster in his solo series, Two-Face as the first Robin and into his time as Nightwing, and ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}} everywhere else.
** And for a brief period, he had Jason Todd during Grayson's time as Batman.
* ComicBook/{{OMAC}}:
** Buddy Blank had Mister Big, Doctor Skuba, and General Kafka.
** Kevin Kho had Maxwell Lord.
* ComicBook/PhantomLady has Silver Ghost.
* ComicBook/ThePhantomStranger has Tala and Tannarak.
* ComicBook/PlasticMan has Doctor Dome.
* ComicBook/TheQuestion had Reverend Jeremiah Hatch, a corrupt preacher and the power behind the throne in Hub City.
* While ''Comicbook/GreenLantern'' ''Rebirth'' and ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'' initially pegged Parallax as the Arch Enemy of ComicBook/TheSpectre, it seems that the Spectre's ''true'' nemesis is actually Butcher the Rage Entity. The Spectre exists to punish murderers, and Butcher is apparently the homicidal spawn of the first murder -- the embodiment of murderous rage. Spectre also has Eclipso, his predecessor as the personification of God's Wrath who turned evil, Azmodus, a demon who seduced the Spectre's first human host, and Zor, another spirit wandering the Earth, who chose to spread evil instead of fight it.
* The Ray has Dr. Polaris.
* ComicBook/RedHoodAndTheOutlaws have Crux, Suzie Su, and the Untitled.
* The ComicBook/RedTornado had Amazo, T.O. Morrow, and Tornado Tyrant.
* ComicBook/RipHunter has Per Degaton.
* In the [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin comics of the 90's]], King Snake (the father of Bane) and then Ulysses "The General" Armstrong filled this role for Tim Drake. As Comicbook/RedRobin, Drake had The General again for a while (this time masquerading as Anarky).
* The Iron Major to Comicbook/SgtRock's.
* ComicBook/TheSandman has Lucifer Morningstar and his sibling, Desire of the Endless.
** Death of the Endless has the Kindly Ones.
** ComicBook/{{Lucifer}} also has his brother, Michael Demiurgos.
* The ComicBook/SevenSoldiers of Victory have the Hand and Black Star in their original incarnation, in their modern incarnation, they have Neh-Buh-Loh, Gloriana Tenebrae, Mister Melmoth.
** The Bulleteer has I, Spyder and Sally Sonic.
** The Crimson Avenger had the Chairman of the Dark Cross, the Echo, the Adder, Methuselah, and Big Caesar.
** The Vigilante had the Dummy.
** The Star-Spangled Kid had the Needle.
** Shining Knight had the Red Dragon.
* ComicBook/{{Shadowpact}} had Doctor Gotham and the Sun King.
* The Shade had Simon Culp for more than a century, until he was finally killed.
* ComicBook/{{Shazam}}: Things get interesting here, and a little complicated. Billy/Captain Marvel has usually considered Black Adam or Dr. Sivana to be his worst enemy. Freddy/Captain Marvel Jr. considers Captain Nazi, who killed his grandfather, to be his worst enemy. Mary Marvel has Georgia Sivana. However, the archenemy of the Marvel family as a whole, and certainly the most dangerous of their foes, is telepathic Venusian worm, Mister Mind, who destroyed their hometown, brainwashed their friends, and murdered their cousin. Whenever Mind shows up, you can bet that the storyline will get darker, and Billy, Mary, and Freddy alike will take it very personally.
** Shazam the Wizard has Blaze and Satanus, his AntagonisticOffspring who are responsible for corrupting Black Adam in the first place.
** Osiris, the brother-in-law of Black Adam, has Sobek.
* ComicBook/{{Starman}} had the Mist. Their respective children, who shared the same codenames, became archenemies too.
* ComicBook/{{Steel}} has Skorpio, a former doctor who became a PsychoForHire.
* The ComicBook/SuicideSquad have Kobra, Major Zastrow, Rustam, and William Hell.
** Rick Flag has Rustam, with their feud ending in a MutualKill.
* Franchise/{{Superman}} has ComicBook/LexLuthor, ComicBook/{{Brainiac}}, and General Zod.
** Lex Luthor is Superman's ultimate Arch Enemy and typically uses his brain against the Man of Steel's brawn, carefully avoiding any actions that could make Superman be justified in attacking him. To the point where only the muckraking [[SecretIdentityIdentity Clark Kent]], not Superman, can even put a scratch on Luthor. In ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', Alexander Luthor Jr. (son of a heroic alternate universe Luthor) eventually becomes convinced that one of the few things every universe has in common is that the resident Luthor and Superman (or Superman analogue) will always be archenemies.
** After Luthor, ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} comes in a close second, being one of the oldest villains in the rogues gallery, and certainly one of the most evil. He can match Superman blow-for-blow, shows up constantly, is [[TheDreaded feared by all Kryptonians]] regularly endangers the world or even the multiverse, holds a Kryptonian city hostage, and once killed Jonathan Kent. As one writer pointed out, he's the alien Superman isn't, an evil [[AlienInvasion otherworldy invader]] instead of a messianic refugee.
** General Zod is the Arch Enemy of Superman's father Jor-El, the one responsible for stopping his coup and imprisoning him in the Phantom Zone, with Superman inheriting the grudge. Following Superman's defeat of Zod in ''Last Son'' and the events of ''ComicBook/NewKrypton'', the rivalry turns very personal for the both of them, and along with Luthor and Brainiac, he's one of the few beings that Superman genuinely hates.
** Kal-L, UsefulNotes/{{the Golden Age|of Comic Books}} Superman, has Alexei Luthor, Lex's Eastern European Earth-2 counterpart.
** ComicBook/{{Superboy}} has King Shark, Knockout, and Match from his solo series.
** Post-Crisis ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} has [[NuclearNasty Reactron]]. A lecherous, bullying thug, Benjamin Krullen craved for getting even at Kara because she had the gall to kick his butt when he attacked her without provocation. Over the course of both [[ComicBook/Supergirl2005 her solo series]] and the ''ComicBook/NewKrypton'' crossover, the two clashed repeatedly, leading to Reactron's murder of Supergirl's father, her mother Alura's ColdBloodedTorture of Reactron upon his capture, and the eventual destruction of New Krypton when Reactron blew up himself, the planet, and Kara's mother. For both of them the conflict was always personal. Needless to say, Supergirl '''hates''' him, and a hallucination looking like Reactron is enough to send her into a murderous rage.
** ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl2011 Post-Flashpoint Supergirl]]'' has the Worldkillers whom she despises because she's a survivor of a dead world and they're Kryptonian biological weapons designed to conquer worlds and slay alien species. It doesn't help that she suspects her father Zor-El was involved in their creation. In ''ComicBook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'' she explains why stopping them is personal to her.
--->'''Supergirl:''' How could anyone make it their mission in life to murder whole worlds? Can you imagine what an abomination that is to an orphan from a dead planet? [...] This world-killing stuff... it hits a nerve. It makes me furious, and the ring just fans the flame!
** Chris Kent and Thara Ak-Var have Jax-Ur.
** Alexander Luthor Sr. has Ultraman.
* Franchise/{{Superman}} [[EvilCounterpart Prime]] possibly sees the fourth [[Franchise/TheFlash Flash]] (Bart Allen), the second [[Comicbook/GreenLantern Ion]] (Sodam Yat) and Kon-El, the cloned Superboy as his archenemies. Prime's new enemies, the WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes might think so, too, [[spoiler:bringing back ''all three'' heroes (two BackFromTheDead, in fact) to combat Prime.]]
* ComicBook/SwampThing has Anton Arcane, his most persistent enemy, who at least deserves credit for [[JokerImmunity simply not staying dead.]]
* Tasmanian Devil has Queen Bee. Queen Bee brainwashed his allies, the ComicBook/GlobalGuardians into serving her, including his close friend Tuatura.
* ComicBook/{{Teen Titans}}:
** ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}} the Terminator is Robin/ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}'s Arch Enemy. Of all the Titans, Slade hated Dick Grayson the most. Whenever Slade and Grayson were in the same fight, regardless of how many others were involved, they nearly always went after each other. This animosity was ramped up immensely when Slade, as part of the Secret Society of Super Villains, orchestrated the destruction of Blüdhaven, Nightwing's "Gotham" so to speak, with the nuclear waste monster Chemo, when he cybernetically hijacked Damian Wayne's body in an attempt to kill Grayson, and when he stole Dick's money for Joker during the events of ''Joker War''. Deathstroke also harbors a grudge against Grayson for "[[HeelFaceTurn stealing his kids]]" from him. Deathstroke is also to the ComicBook/TeenTitans as a whole. Now the Titans have gone through tons of Big Bads, and let's face it, Slade isn't the biggest or baddest. But he is the most persistent and most personal enemy the team has ever faced.
** Trigon to his daughter, Raven. He'd also finish in second place for the team as a whole, since besides Slade, there's nobody the Titans hate or fear more than Trigon, and nobody period who outdoes him in threat level.
** ComicBook/{{Cyborg}} had Brother Blood. In the ComicBook/New52, he has Grid.
** Beast Boy has Terra, his PsychoExGirlfriend turned traitor.
** Starfire has her sister Blackfire, though they're on better terms now.
** Miss Martian has Sun Girl. Sun Girl claims Miss Martian will bring doom to the future that she hails from, so she must kill her to prevent it from happening. But she also claims that she and Inertia have also made Miss Martian their slave to torment. It's implied that because of whatever Miss Martian did, White Martians in the future were now treated as slaves, and Deborah was more or less Miss Martian's owner.
** Rose Wilson despises her father, Deathstroke, for orchestrating her adopted family's murder and for implanting kryptonite in her body, which would have eventually killed her if Nightwing hadn't warned her in time.
* ComicBook/VandalSavage is primarily this to the Immortal Man and later to the Resurrection Man. He'd also finish very highly on the JLA and JSA's hit lists, and has, over the course of his immortal life, pursued vendettas against Green Lantern, Flash, Damage, the Ray, and Rip Hunter, to name only a few.
* ComicBook/{{Vixen}} had Aku Kwesi, the murderer of her mother.
* ComicBook/{{Vibe}} has Rupture.
* ComicBook/TheWarlord has the evil sorcerer Deimos.
* The first Waverider has Monarch in ''ComicBook/Armageddon2001'', and the second Waverider has Extant in ''ComicBook/ZeroHour''.
* Wildcat has the second Tigress, Paula Brooks.
* Franchise/WonderWoman's is generally ComicBook/{{Cheetah}} or ComicBook/{{Circe}}, depending on who's writing. ComicBook/{{Ares|DC}} gets in on the act too. He was, after all, her original [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] arch enemy, and is the biggest bad in her rogues gallery. As of Flashpoint Hera may be stepping into the role.
** Diana's sister, [[ComicBook/WonderGirl Donna Troy]], gained one in Dark Angel by accident. Dark Angel wanted to get revenge for her defeat by Hippolyta by abducting her daughter and making her live through a thousand lifetimes ending in tragedy. But Donna, who was identical to Diana, was grabbed by mistake. Even after the mix-up was cleared, Dark Angel forgot her beef with Hippolyta and is now focused on making Donna's life as miserable as she can, which is not helped by knowing [[spoiler: Dark Angel is the Donna of a dead alternate Earth.]]
** Hippolyta also has Circe, who brainwashed her on multiple occasions. Hippolyta also had Hercules, who once betrayed her trust and raped and enslaved her and her fellow Amazons. Dark Angel also qualifies, since Hippolyta battled her on many occasions.
** Artemis had the White Magician, Dalkriig-Hath, and Mister Smyth.
* ComicBook/{{Young Justice}} has Harm.
* ComicBook/{{Zatanna}} has Brother Night. Her father, Zatara, had the first Tigress.
* ComicBook/{{Static}} and ComicBook/{{Icon}} have Holocaust.
* The ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} has for the whole collective of superheroes [[spoiler: Ozymandias, a former member that wants to save the entire world by destroying some of it.]] Originally, the Minutemen's archenemy was Moloch the Mystic.

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* ComicBook/AdamWarlock consistently has his evil future-self, the Magus. He also has a unique relationship with Thanos - owing to them both being cosmically "outside the influence of Chaos & Order" - which flits between fated foes & best buds depending on the context. Specific [[ResurrectiveImmortality incarnations]] of Adam can even be ascribed specific archenemies, such as Man-Beast or the In-Betweener.
* ComicBook/Agent13 has Dr. Faustus.
* ComicBook/AlphaFlight has The Great Beasts, the Master of the World and Omega Flight.
** Aurora has the Director and Headlok.
** Guardian has Jerome "Jerry" Jaxon, leader of the first Omega Flight.
** Marrina has the Master of the World, far more personally than the rest of the team.
** Sasquatch has Wild Child and Wendigo.
** Shaman has Ranark.
** Snowbird has Pestilence.
** Vindicator & Madison Jeffries have Scramble, the latter's mentally ill brother.
* [[ComicBook/AngelaMarvelComics Angela]] has Hela, who imprisoned the soul of her lover, Sera.
* ComicBook/AntMan's is ComicBook/{{Ultron}}, the rogue robot he created. Though the villain he's most likely to face by himself is probably Whirlwind. Since Ultron's programming is based on Ant-Man's own thought patterns, this also means that Ant-Man is his own worst enemy. Used to be Egghead...but he died.
** As Ultron's origin incorporated several Avengers (and has drawn in even more since then), there is some debate over whether he should be considered "just" Ant-Man's personally. Ant-Man does take it personally for the aforementioned reasons, though, and Ultron certainly considers Pym ''his'' personal nemesis, so it's definitely an interesting play on the trope because of that & a good thought experiment on how we define such things. Storylines where the Avengers take on Ultron tend to be some of the most personal and traumatic experiences as well.
* ComicBook/AnyaCorazon has Amun.
* Comicbook/TheAvengers have Kang the Conqueror, Ultron, and the Masters of Evil, depending on which aspect of the team dynamic most appeals to the reader. Kang is opposed to the fundamental concept of the Avengers as Earth's Mightiest Heroes, Ultron is a dark reflection of the 'family' dynamic several core member have built, and The Masters are a malleable collectivist concept ala the Brotherhood to the X-Men.
** Jocasta has Ultron because he created her to be his mate, only for her to rebel against him and join the Avengers.
** The ComicBook/AvengersAcademy has Jeremy Briggs. Briggs is everything they fear becoming wrapped up in a package of being everything they also want.
** The ''ComicBook/AvengersArena'' survivors had Arcade.
** The ComicBook/WestCoastAvengers have Master Pandemonium.
* ComicBook/BetaRayBill at first had Surtur, who destroyed his people, but in later comics it's Galactus. And unlike the other countless billions that have sworn to destroy the Devourer of Worlds, Bill is a genuine threat to him.
* ComicBook/BettyRoss shares Hulk's archenemy list, with her hatred of Abomination and the Leader being near as personal as his own.
* The Black Knight has Mordred and Exodus.
* The ComicBook/BlackPanther primarily has Klaw, who murdered his father. Also in contention are Erik Killmonger, TheRival who exists to prove that there's AlwaysSomeoneBetter, and M'Baku the Man-Ape, his EvilCounterpart vying for political power within Wakanda.
* ComicBook/BlackWidow has Yelena Belova and Iron Maiden, Russian spies who are jealous of being trapped in Black Widow's shadow.
* ComicBook/{{Blade}} has Count Dracula and Deacon Frost.
* Blue Marvel had the Anti-Man, his EvilFormerFriend. Their GreatOffscreenWar lasted decades before Anti-Man was finally killed.
* ComicBook/CaptainAmerica has the ComicBook/RedSkull (one of the oldest villains) and the [[ComicBook/BaronZemo Barons Zemo]] (both the father Heinrich and son Helmut). In ComicBook/UltimateMarvel, he has Herr Kleiser.
* Baron Wolfgang von Strucker has served this to ComicBook/NickFury. Makes sense seeing as he's the leader of ComicBook/{{HYDRA}}.
** In the miniseries ''ComicBook/FuryMax'', there is Col. Rudi Gagarin.
* ComicBook/CaptainBritain had Slaymaster. Whilst many other arguments can be made ([[TheDragon The Fury]], [[GreaterScopeVillain Mad Jim Jaspers]], [[MyParentsAreDead Mastermind]], [[CainAndAbel Jamie Braddock]] etc.), Slaymaster was both the most recurrant & most competant antagonist of the Captain Britain solo comic run. A run which, coincidentally, ended after he made [[ItsPersonal it personal]] and ensured nobody would ''want'' to be Brian's archenemy ever again.
** Meggan had Mad Jim Jaspers, because he separated her from her father permanently by placing them in concentration camps. Meggan also had Sat-Yr-9, who screwed with her relationship with Brian and tried to have her killed.
** Likewise, The Fury can be attributed to Captain UK of Earth-238, who's reaction to the Fury's murder of her husband evolves over the course of the story (culminating in her definitive Laconic/MomentOfAwesome).
* ComicBook/CaptainMarVell had Yon-Rogg, the commanding officer who competed for [[spoiler:and eventually murdered]] his love interest. However, as Mar-Vell's run is notoriously finite, he is most fondly remembered for the more metaphysical latter half of his career, and thus as the original nemesis of ComicBook/{{Thanos}}.
** Thanos essentially takes on a different cosmic hero as his personal archenemy each time he makes a gambit for universal domination. His first story arc was against Mar-Vell, his second against Adam Warlock, his third the ComicBook/SilverSurfer, etc.. The most consistent factor throughout has been ComicBook/DraxTheDestroyer, but he's something of a FailureHero in that regard. After arcs like ''Infinity Gauntlet'' and other stories on that scale a case could be made that Thanos is the Arch Enemy of the Franchise/MarvelUniverse.
* ComicBook/CaptainUniverse has Chaos, King of the Whirldemons.
* ComicBook/CloakAndDagger have Shriek and D'Spayre.
* Cosmic Entities:
** The One-Above-All has Lucifer.
** The Living Tribunal had Ereshkigal and Protégé. Ereshkigal was a Devinat [[GoMadFromTheRevelation Went Mad From The Revelation]] when she learned about the existence of the Living Tribunal, and devoted her existance to freeing the Multiverse from the Living Tribunal's governance. She eventually accumulated enough power to challenge the Living Tribunal, who agreed to a contest of champions between them once he realized that a battle between the two could destroy the Multiverse. Meanwhile, Protégé managed to copy the powers of the Living Tribunal, nearly usurping its place in Marvel's cosmology before the Living Tribunal defeats and absorbs Protégé to prevent him from endangering all realities again.
** Death has Walker.
** Eternity has Death and Abraxas.
** Infinity has Oblivion.
** Lord Chaos and Master Order have the In-Betweener, their nominal servant who keeps defying them.
** The Stranger has the Overmind.
** The Watchers have the Celestials.
* Daimon Hellstrom has his father, Marduk Kurios.
* ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} has three modern day contenders.
** [[ComicBook/BullseyeMarvelComics Bullseye]]. A PsychoForHire who typically acts as TheDragon to Kingpin, Bullseye's killed two of Matt Murdock's girlfriends, tried to kill his wife, Milla, and has generally dedicated himself to making Matt's life as hellish as possible; he's also inspired the likes of Lady Bullseye. In return, Matt wants Bullseye dead, and is willing to violate ThouShaltNotKill for him in a way he will for nobody else.
** ComicBook/TheKingpin (who would also be an impressive fourth place on Spidey's Arch Enemy list, as well as a contender for ComicBook/ThePunisher's). As the ultimate gang boss, everything that Daredevil fights against can be traced back to him, and he's orchestrated several collapses of Matt's life, during "Born Again", "Devil In Cell Block D" and various other arcs, hurting him worse than anyone else ever has. As practically the {{deuteragonist}} of the series, Kingpin will always be a part of Matt Murdock's life for better or worse, a fact that his late wife Vanessa, comments on in-series.
** The {{ninja}} clan known as the Hand collectively fill the third slot on Matt's hit parade. They're among his most persistent enemies, many of his major foes (Elektra, Lady Bullseye, Kingpin) have either worked for them or tried to gain control of them at one point or another, they're the ultimate adversaries of his mentor, Stick, and worst of all, they want Matt to be their new leader. It's hard to get more personal than that.
** Originally, as written by Creator/StanLee, it was the Owl. These days, he's reduced to second-string status; while still dangerous he just doesn't carry the emotional weight that Bullseye, Kingpin, and The Hand do.
* ComicBook/{{Darkhawk}}
** Mob boss Phillip Bazin, later replaced by Dargin Bokk, creator of the Darkhawk armor.
** And now replaced by Talon and possibly the whole Fraternity of Rapors, real creators of his armor.
* ComicBook/{{Dazzler}} used to have the Enchantress. Now, it’s her sister Mortis.
* ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} has T-Ray, Ajax, Dr. Killbrew, and Black Swan.
** As of his 2015 series, Madcap also fills this role. He's even crazier than Wade, has a much better healing factor than Wade, and has a deep personal hatred of Wade after an incident with Thor ended with him merged with Wade's mind (he was the white text box). The experience harmed Madcap in a way he never felt before and left him obsessed with completely destroying Deadpool's life and loved ones. After very nearly killing his daughter and several of his closest friends, Deadpool hated Madcap to an even greater extent than his past arch enemies and people like the Weapon X program and Sabertooth (who Wade believed murdered his past family). [[spoiler: By the time Deadpool finally gets rid of Madcap, the latter doesn't mind simply because Wade himself has already managed to completely ruin his own life, with Madcap declaring the actual death he was going to give to Wade's family wholly inferior to the spiritual one Wade himself gave them.]]
* ComicBook/TheDefenders have [[IncitingIncident The Nameless One]], [[XanatosGambit Yandroth]] & [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Gorilla-Man's Headmen]] (as well as member-specific villains, like Dormammu and some of the following:)
** Moondragon has the Dragon of the Moon.
** Nighthawk had Nebulon and the Squadron Sinister.
** Valkyrie has the Enchantress, who once trapped her essence inside a soul crystal, kept her there for centuries, and used Valkyrie's superior physical abilities for herself, or to enhance her pawns.
* Devil Dinosaur and Moon Boy had Seven-Scars and the Prime Computer.
* Comicbook/DoctorStrange used to have [[EvilCounterpart Baron Mordo]], at the very start. However, Strange soon became powerful enough to fight the eldritch beings that worked through Mordo directly, and he's been a [[VileVillainLaughableLackey patsy with delusions of grandeur]] ever since. As such, The [[DimensionLord Dread Dormammu]] usurped this role and has firmly cemented himself as Strange's most personal enemy.
** The Ancient One had Kaluu. The two had been enemies for centuries.
** Clea has her mother, Umar.
** Oshtur and the Vishanti have Chthon. They made it their mission to never let him win.
** Wong has Urthona and the Shadowqueen.
* ComicBook/{{Elektra}} has Kirigi.
* The ComicBook/{{Exiles}} have Proteus and Hyperion.
** Hyperion was their arch enemy for the middle of their comic run as the rogue member of their "rivals" weapon X who didn't want to go dimension hopping and just conquer an earth for himself. In fact, his influence was so bad the timebroker ended up having to cut out multiple dimension hopping teams for his meddling, not to mention him killing 2 members of their team and critically injuring 2 others.
** Proteus meanwhile found out about the Exiles mission...by possessing longtime member Mimic who was the leader Blink's boyfriend. Proteus ended up messing up the time stream even more for the exiles, and Morph got it bad as well since Proteus possessed his body for an extended period of time too. Once they could defeat him, it was a great relief for all the exiles.
* ComicBook/TheFalcon shares the Red Skull with Captain America. After all, the Red Skull gave Falcon his powers in a bid to defeat Captain America, only for Falcon to defect to Cap's side help him thwart the Red Skull multiple times. The Red Skull also created the Falcon's "Snap" persona and fake criminal backstory in order to mess with his head and discredit him.
* ComicBook/{{FantasticFour}}:
** The wrathful vengeance of ComicBook/DoctorDoom will never be sated! Never — until the earth runs red with the blood of that accursed '''REED RICHARDS!!'''
** The rest of the Fantastic Four as well, to a lesser extent. After he crushed Doom's hands, ComicBook/{{the Thing}} also jumped pretty high on his list. Doom also has a villainous crush on the ComicBook/InvisibleWoman, but also fears her as the team's most powerful member.
** ComicBook/{{Galactus}} is a close second. Not only were Fantastic Four were the first mortals to defeat and intimidate Galactus, but they also freed Galactus's Herald, the Silver Surfer, from his control.
** ComicBook/InvisibleWoman has specific deep-rooted issues with the Psycho-Man, who's emotional torture led to the abandonment of her "Invisible Girl" moniker.
** ComicBook/{{The Thing}} has been put through more pain by the actions of the Puppet Master than his team-mates, due to his long-term affections for his adopted daughter Alicia Masters.
** The ComicBook/HumanTorch used to have the Wizard in his solo adventures, but he has since gone on to become an enemy for the team in general.
** Uatu the Watcher has Galactus, Aron, and Abraxas.
** Doom himself has, other than Reed, Mephisto. Mephisto has possession of his mother's soul, and after he rescued her, Doom is one of the few people to have outright bested Mephisto.
* Flash Thompson has Jack O'Lantern and the Crime Master.
* The Fabulous Frog-Man is a super zero wearing the PowerArmor of his father (ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} villain Leap Frog) which he cannot control so he just bounces around aimlessly and sometimes gets lucky. The White Rabbit is a ditzy {{Harmless Villain}}ess that read too much ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' when she was a little girl and now dresses like a PlayboyBunny and pretends to be a Super Villainess despite having no powers or skills. They became each other’s arch-enemies because they are so pathetic nobody else would take them seriously.
* The Johnny Blaze/Zarathos incarnation of Comicbook/GhostRider's Arch Enemy is nominatively Mephisto, although [[ContinuitySnarl the ever-changing nature of their relationship]] has made him increasingly irrelevant (and [[ForTheEvulz irreverent]]!) over time. Centurious is a strong contender on paper, but lacks the StayingAlive factor. Frankly, the bane of Johnny Blaze's existence that keeps destroying whatever happiness he can find is [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie Zarathos itself]].
** The Danny Ketch/Noble Kale incarnation of Ghost Rider's Arch Enemy is Deathwatch's hitman Blackout, a prime example of ItsPersonalWithTheDragon.
** The Michael Badilino/Vengeance incarnation of Ghost Rider's Arch Enemy is Anton Hellgate.
* Gladiator has Vulcan and Xenith.
* The Guardians of the Galaxy probably have the most personal hatred of Thanos among any of Marvel's super teams. It's worth noting that over half of it's founding members were already classified as Thanos' arch enemies, while other members later gained very personal reasons to hate the titan. The Universal Church of Truth also ranks high on the list for both Guardians teams. As far as individual members go:
** Star-Lord has Mr. Knife.
** Phyla-Vell has Thanos and Maelstrom
** Rocket Raccoon has Lord D'vyne and Blackjack O'Hare. Ironically the later would end up joining the team.
** Adam Warlock has Thanos, the Magus, and Ultron.
** ComicBook/{{Gamora}} has Thanos, the Magus, and Nebula.
** Drax the Destroyer has Thanos and to a lesser extent Gladiator.
* ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} has Crossfire and Trickshot.
* Matt Fraction's ''Hawkeye'' set up Madame Masque as Kate Bishop's arch-enemy, which continued afterwards. While it's for largely petty reasons (Kate tied her up and stole her identity for an issue), Masque has devoted an absurd amount of time to wrecking Kate's life ever since.
* Amadeus Cho has Pythagoras Dupree.
* ComicBook/HeroesForHire have the Master of the World in their first volume.
** Misty Knight has Celia Ricadonna.
* The ComicBook/IncredibleHulk has the Leader, the Abomination and Gen. Thunderbolt Ross. One could even make a case about Hulk being [[EnemyWithin Banner's.]]
** Doc Samson has Patchwork.
* The original Human Torch, Jim Hammond, has the Mad Thinker. In the Golden Age, he had Adolf Hitler.
* ComicBook/TheInhumans and their king, Black Bolt, have his [[CainAndAbel insane brother]], Maximus Boltagon the Mad, as their ArchEnemy. Currently (July 2012), the two have buried the hatchet, with Maximus loyally, if eccentrically, serving Black Bolt. Afterwards, Vulcan and Lineage became the new arch-foes of the Inhumans.
* [[ComicBook/ImmortalIronFist Iron Fist]] has Steel Serpent, who coveted the Iron Fist power, and Master Khan, a sorcerer who has battled Iron Fist multiple times.
* ComicBook/IronMan's traditional Arch Enemy was The Mandarin, but he's faded a bit over time as the YellowPeril aspect of the character is no longer kosher. Matt Fraction brought him back in big way during his run on ''Invincible Iron Man'' however, nicely cementing The Mandarin's status as the worst that Iron Man's rogues gallery has to offer.
** Seeing as thirteen different people have taken up the mantle, the Crimson Dynamo certainly is one of his most recurring and dangerous enemies, and has the best shot, after The Mandarin, of claiming this title. As a Communist holdout, the Dynamo also makes a useful counterpoint to Stark's capitalist ideology.
** During the '80s and '90s, and up until his apparent death in the early 2000s, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive evil industrialist]] Justin Hammer served as the archenemy of [[SecretIdentity Tony Stark]]. He was the mover and shaker behind "Demon in a Bottle", "Armour Wars I", and several other major arcs, and made repeated attempts to take down Stark Industries and their founder, all in order to increase his own profits. Hammer was one of the few villains Stark always took seriously, their hatred was definitely mutual, and in the end, his legacy lives on to this day in the form of his equally mad daughter and granddaughter.
* ComicBook/JessicaJones has Purple Man, a mind controller that kidnapped her years ago.
* Ka-Zar has his brother, the Plunderer.
* ComicBook/KidColt has Iron Mask, a villain clad in bulletproof armour, who fought Colt more times than any other foe.
* ComicBook/LukeCage has Chemistro, who wants revenge on Cage for imprisoning his older brother, the original Chemistro.
* ComicBook/ManThing has Thog and F.A. Schist.
* ComicBook/{{Mockingbird}} has the Phantom Rider.
* Comicbook/MoonKnight has Raoul Bushman, Marc Spector's commander in his mercenary days. They've both killed one another, come back from the dead for revenge, broken each other mentally etc.. Moon Knight also developed a more symbolic archnemesis in the form of Black Spectre, his EvilCounterpart who's motivated entirely by a desire to be like Moon Knight. Even when the first Black Spectre died, a new one sprung up with a similar motivation to torment Moon Knight barely a year or two later in-universe.
* ComicBook/MilesMorales inherited the Green Goblin from his predecessor, Peter Parker in the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel continuity, but his biggest arch-enemy thus far is his uncle Aaron Davis, aka the Prowler of the Ultimate universe. And unluckily for Miles, Aaron followed him to the main Marvel universe.
* ComicBook/{{Morbius}} has Vic Slaughter and Simon Stroud.
* ComicBook/CarolDanvers aka Captain Marvel hasn't had a consistent RoguesGallery since her rebrand, but ComicBook/{{Mystique}} still stands as her arch nemesis as it's very personal between them. ''Ms. Marvel'' Vol. 2 #48-50 even refers to Mystique as Ms. Marvel's archenemy.
* The newest [[Comicbook/KamalaKhan Ms. Marvel]] has thus-far avoided uneven focus on any one definitive villain, seemingly by design (in her own words; "I don't ''need'' an arch-nemesis. I've got ''real-life'' problems."). Nonetheless there are several promising contenders, such as Kamran and Becky St. Jude aka Lockdown. With Kamran, ItsPersonal as he kidnapped her brother and Kamala knew him when they were children. Lockdown is more of an EvilCounterpart as they share the same heroic aspirations but they're total opposites and mainly because Becky is a sociopath.
* ComicBook/MonicaRambeau has Moonstone and Blackout. [[spoiler:seriously though it's her mom.]]
* The ComicBook/NewAvengers had ComicBook/TheHood and the ComicBook/DarkAvengers.
* The ComicBook/NewWarriors have Terrax and Sphinx. The have the High Evolutionary in their fifth volume.
** Firestar has Emma Frost and Empath.
** Speedball has Nitro. Speedball considers his inability to stop Nitro from killing his teammates and six hundred civilians to be [[MyGreatestFailure His Greatest Failure]].
* Rick Jones and Thanatos, his alternate universe EvilCounterpart.
* The Sphinx and ComicBook/{{Nova}}.
** Though it was short lived due to him dying before anything more could come from it, Nova had a very personal hatred of Annihilus after the Annihilation Wave wiped out every single member of the Nova Corp besides him on the first day of the Annihilation event. Shortly after, Annihilus killed his friend and ally Quasar in front of him. Nova made it abundantly clear from the event to his death that his hatred of Annihilus was very personal. At one point he even went into an violent uncontrolled rage when he found a small surviving segment of the Annihilation Wave attacking a planet weeks after the war ended. He ended up killing all of them in blind rage.
** Nova also had Ego the Living Planet, who once turned to Nova Corps against Rider and had him stripped of his powers. When Rider regained his powers, he had Ego lobotomized.
** Sam Alexander and Warbringer. Warbringer is a Chitauri warlord who tried to destroy the Earth because Sam helped his gladiator slaves escaped him. After being severely injured in a battle with him, Warbringer said he had only survived to kill Sam.
* The Prowler has Nightcreeper.
* Puma has the Beyonder.
* ComicBook/ThePunisher has Jigsaw. In The Punisher's case, "Arch Enemy" just means "enemy who's still alive". In the [[ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX MAX imprint]] one could make a case for Barracuda for similar reasons.
* ComicBook/{{Quasar}} has Maelstrom.
* ComicBook/RomSpaceKnight and the Dire Wraiths.
* Ben Reilly's, aka the ComicBook/ScarletSpider, was Kaine...[[HeelFaceTurn now the current Scarlet Spider.]]
* ComicBook/TheSentry's Arch Enemy is The Void, which is his own alternate personality. Complicated.
* ComicBook/ShangChi had his father, Literature/FuManchu, although his name was changed to Zheng Zu after Marvel lost the rights to the character.
* ComicBook/ShannaTheSheDevil has Mandrill, who murdered her father.
* ComicBook/SheHulk has Titania. And since She-Hulk predominantly employs a self-aware comedy tone, she's possibly the most IneffectualSympatheticVillain on this page.
* ComicBook/SilverSurfer has Mephisto. He was introduced as the recurring BigBad of the Surfer's first comic series, presented as the diametric opposite to everything noble & inspirational the Surfer embodied, and characterized wholly by his ''obsession'' with the Surfer's downfall. Even after becoming Marvel's go-to devil stand-in later on & vastly expanding his villainous responsibilities, Mephisto will still indulge any opportunity to torment the Silver Surfer on principle.
** ComicBook/{{Galactus}}, depending on the day of the week.
** Thanos screwed with the ComicBook/SilverSurfer pretty seriously, too.
** Seriously though, Mephisto. He hates Norrin for just being so danged ''good.''
* ComicBook/{{Silk}} has ComicBook/BlackCat. Silk has foiled Black Cat's schemes to unmask Spider-Man and infiltrated her organization as a mole for S.H.I.E.L.D., and Black Cat has defeated Silk on multiple occasions and hindered Silk's efforts to find her parents.
* ComicBook/{{Sleepwalker}} and Cobweb.
* Franchise/SpiderMan has had no less than ''three'' Arch Enemies: Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus, and Venom. The reason for this is that the Green Goblin, otherwise the uncontested contender, [[ComicBookDeath died in the '70s]] and spent a good 20-odd years dead before he came back to torment his foe, which is probably the record for dead A-list villains to beat. In the meantime, Doctor Octopus and Venom filled the roles in the '70s and '80s/'90s, respectively. This also means the latter two are arguably more famous, even though the Goblin is the greatest overall threat of the three. Another reason is that the Goblin, as Norman Osborn, suffered frequent bouts of amnesia in the run up to his death so he didn't even remember that he was Spidey's arch-enemy, which helped Doc Ock who was the next most formidable villain. Venom appeared in the '80s and made his chops by being in some ways a more personal (and visually stunning) enemy than either of the other two, while Ock was DemotedToExtra. So essentially, Spidey has three arch-enemies because they kept replacing each other. After his return from the dead in the late '90s, the Goblin was for a long time seen to be Spidey's one true Arch-foe, and even became a major player in the Marvel Universe at large. Under Dan Slott's pen, however, Doc Ock has been catching up, with schemes to bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, a FreakyFridayFlip that screwed Peter's life over big time, and eventually [[spoiler:forcing Spidey to give up his company, which Peter considered his life's work.]]
** [[ComicBook/NormanOsborn The Green Goblin]]. Unlike most superhero arch-villains, he actually ''is'' the most dangerous foe of his enemy, possessing far greater resources and deep personal information (he was the first to discover Spider-Man's secret identity) that the other two mostly all lack (though one could argue that, apart from Osborn killing Gwen Stacy, Venom was originally more [[ItsPersonal personal]] with his invasions of Peter Parker's life). Since his return to Spider-Man’s world, Osborn did everything he could to make Peter's life miserable, usually through really nasty RevengeByProxy schemes, including burying Aunt May alive and stealing Peter’s child. Osborn is also firmly convinced he is the single ArchEnemy to Spidey, and was [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou pissed]] Doc Ock, Spidey's "number two" in his opinion, got to kill Spider-Man.
** The Green Goblin of the Ultimate universe is the undisputed archenemy of Spider-Man. He not only created both Spider-Men, he was also the one who killed Peter Parker. This version of Norman is much more insane, having a Messiah complex. He believes God wants him to kill Peter and everyone he loves, and blames him for the death of his son and his own shortcomings. Norman embodies the exact opposite of everything Peter stands for. The worse thing is the OZ formula made him immortal and it's implied that the OZ-affected spider did the same for Peter, so they're stuck fighting each other for eternity.
** ComicBook/DoctorOctopus: What Peter could end up becoming if he abused his intelligence and powers (Peter was even a former student of his in [[WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries the animated series]]). Also the first villain to really defeat Spider-Man, completely shattering his confidence for a while, and is certainly the longest lasting and most recurring. Although the Goblin initially overshadowed Ock after his return, Ock in recent years has performed several [[ThanatosGambit maneuvers]], ''including outright stealing Peter’s life'', putting him back in the race for the ArchEnemy status.
** One important thing to consider in this “contest” is that there are several crucial differences between how both Osborn/Goblin and Ock approach their relationships to Spider-Man. This distinction was thoroughly explored in the ''Superior Spider-Man Team Up'', where the two villains temporarily join forces to defeat their mutual foe.
*** Although initially Green Goblin wanted to kill Spider-Man to earn reputation in the criminal underworld, later their feud turned much more personal as Osborn’s goal shifted to “punish ''Peter Parker'' (not ''Spider-Man'') in the cruelest way possible.” It is telling that “destroying Peter” became pretty much his singular focus in life and his favorite form of entertainment. While for Norman this hatred is mixed with at least some form of secret admiration of Peter, the latter understandably feels nothing but hatred for the former, and repeatedly crossed some of his usual lines to get revenge on Osborn. Notably, Peter’s jokes when fighting Green Goblin or Osborn, if they are present at all, are far colder and drier than with anyone else.
*** With Otto, on the other hand, it is a different story. Unlike Osborn, Octavius has his own code of honor and tries to avoid harming innocents in his feud, even going as far as acting like a gentleman to Peter’s loved ones. Unlike Osborn, Otto prefers to keep his enmity with Peter strictly to "Doc Ock vs Spider-Man", a classic supervillain vs superhero rivalry, and generally just wants to ''defeat Spider-Man'' instead of ruining the person behind the mask. He and Peter actually have a lot of mutual respect for each other, despite all the bad blood between the two and voluntarily joined forces more than once. Peter likes to joke around Otto, probably more than with anyone else.
*** As Stan Lee put it himself: ''"The Green Goblin is Peter Parker's greatest enemy, while Doctor Octopus is Spider-Man's greatest enemy."''
** ComicBook/{{Venom}}: An EvilCounterpart who mainly filled the role in the late '80s and '90s. Not only is he effectively an even stronger version of Spidey himself [[labelnote: note]]In direct combat, he was often the most powerful of the three.[[/labelnote]], but Peter's SpiderSense doesn't work on him, which means Eddie/Venom could be right behind him without Peter knowing, and Eddie played up this ParanoiaFuel for all it's worth while menacing Peter. Being bonded with the symbiote also gave Venom knowledge of Peter's secret identity, which he immediately used to scare Peter by harassing Mary Jane and Aunt May, making Venom far more invasive than the other two were at the time. As Venom became more of an AntiHero and later on a LegacyCharacter, however, he doesn't really fill the spot in the main comics nowadays. He very much does in many adaptations, though. These adaptations make Eddie's grudge against Peter more personal and/or believable, as Venom's initial grudge against Spidey was admittedly a bit weak in hindsight. His overall goal, at least in adaptations, is a combination of Goblin and Doc Ock's - destroy Spider-Man ''and'' ruin Peter Parker simultaneously, and in both ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'', he even tried to unmask him in public. Peter finds Venom's almost encyclopedic knowledge of him [[ParanoiaFuel genuinely terrifying]], and during the climax of Venom's original story, Spidey's fight with him became less of just a hero fighting a villain into more of a man pulling off and coming up with every tactic he can in a desperate act to fight for survival - against a much darker, smarter and stronger mirror of himself. While Goblin and Ock are Peter and Spidey's greatest enemies respectively, Venom, at least pre-AntiHero, could be seen as the greatest foe - and [[NightmareFuel fear]] - of ''both'' identities.
*** In addition to Spidey, Venom has ComicBook/{{Carnage}}, his symbiotic son bonded to a SerialKiller Cletus Kasady, as an arch-enemy, regularly setting aside his grudge with Spider-Man to take Carnage out due to him posing an extreme danger to civilian life.
*** According to ''ComicBook/DonnyCatesVenom'', most if not all symbiotes in existence hate their very creator, Knull, due to his OmnicidalManiac motives. Due to having attacked Earth and performed ColdBloodedTorture on his symbiote, he is also a nemesis to Venom.
* ComicBook/SpiderWoman and Madame Hydra/Viper, due to Jessica being raised by Hydra and possibly becoming the next Madame Hydra. She also had Morgan le Fey during her first series, and Gypsy Moth.
** Julia Carpenter and Manipulator; he murdered Julia's ex-husband, Larry, and was the Big Bad of her four-issue miniseries from the early 1990s.
** Mattie Franklin had Flesh and Bones, though mostly through virtue of being the only recurring baddies in Mattie's predominantly Monster of the Week-based run.
* Spider-Gwen aka Ghost-Spider has Matthew Murdock as Kingpin II.
* The ComicBook/SquadronSupreme has Master Menace, the Scarlet Centurion, the Overmind, and the Institute of Evil.
** Hyperion has Master Menace and 616-Hyperion.
** Nighthawk had Remnant, Mink, Pinball, and the Huckster.
** Power Princess had Master Menace, 616-Hyperion, and Lamprey. During her time with the Exiles, she had Proteus.
** Doctor Spectrum had Quagmire, Shape, and Nuke.
** Whizzer had Rustler and Bollix.
** Amphibian had Lamprey.
** Lady Lark had Doctor Decibel.
** Golden Archer had Ape-X.
* ComicBook/SquirrelGirl has Ratatoskr, and Leather Boy.
* ComicBook/StarLord has Thanos, who betrayed him and forced him to sacrifice himself to stop Thanos from destroying the universe. Although Star-Lord survived, his comrade, Nova, did not. There's also J'Son, his ArchnemesisDad who is also the leader of the Spartax empire.
* [[ComicBook/SubMariner Namor]] has Llyra. Unequivocally, undebatably, unabashedly. She has murdered his father, his cousin, his fiancée (on their wedding day [''whilst posing as her at the altar'']), usurped him, raped him, convinced the world she'd killed him, massacred his subjects, tortured his body & soul, dedicated her life to ruining his, ALL because he brushed off her advances when they first met. Hell. Hath. No. Fury.
** Ironically, the distinction of Namor's archenemy is frequently attributed to Attuma, on account of his constantly trying to usurp the throne of Atlantis. The irony being that Attuma is, and always has been, an absolute joke. A generic, inept, perennial loser, often portrayed as a punchline. Namor himself has ''allowed'' Attuma to rule Atlantis in the past, to convenience himself. The worst things he's ever done to Namor is act as a pawn in other villains' plots.
* ComicBook/{{Taskmaster}} is this to ComicBook/AntMan (specifically Scott Lang)... sort of. They've fought on many occasions and developed an incredibly strong hatred of each other, so Ant-Man has come to consider him his archenemy. However, Taskmaster doesn't share this view and is actually rather annoyed at Ant-Man's insistence that they have any sort of dramatic rivalry; [[ButForMeItWasTuesday to him, their fights were just annoyances brought about by coincidence or money]], and being associated with ''Ant-Man'' could negatively impact his reputation.
** Eric O'Grady has Mitch Carson.
* [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] has Loki, serving as CainAndAbel in a way.
** Thor also has Loki's son, Jormungand. Thor and Jormungand tried to kill each other several times before Ragnarok in part to defy fate. Thor ended up killing the serpent several times, but it always returned for Ragnarok.
** Loki's arch enemy on the other hand is [[HisOwnWorstEnemy Loki]]. And [[EnemyWithin not]] [[EnemyWithout always]] [[TimeTravel metaphorically]] [[MesACrowd either]].
** Odin has Surtur, who killed Odin's brothers and is one of the greatest threats to Asgard in general. Odin is constantly trying to prevent Surtur from causing Ragnarok.
** ComicBook/LadySif has the Enchantress, who is jealous of Thor's affections for Sif.
** Jane Foster, the female Thor, has Malekith, Laufey, and the Minotaur.
** The Warriors Three have Fenris Wolf.
** Balder has Karnilla... although it's really more of a long, drawn out SlapSlapKiss.
* Thunderstrike had Bloodaxe, a vigilante empowered by a cursed Asgardian weapon. His/Her identity is a major plot point in the series.
* Tigra has Kraven and the Hood.
* U.S. Agent had Scourge, Left-Winger, and Right-Winger.
* U.S. Archer and Highwayman, his brother who has sided with demons.
* ComicBook/TheVision has his creator, Ultron.
** The Cancerverse Vision had Lord Mar-Vell.
* ComicBook/WhiteTiger:
** Hector Ayala had Gideon Mace.
** The second White Tiger, a mutated Tigress, had the Man-Beast.
** Kasper Cole had Nigel "Triage" Blacque.
** Angela Del Toro had Piet Voorhees, the second Cobra.
** Ava Ayala also had Gideon Mace.
* ComicBook/WonderMan has his brother Grim Reaper.
* ComicBook/WarMachine has the Advisor.
* ComicBook/TheWasp has Whirlwind, her StalkerWithACrush.
* ComicBook/WerewolfByNight had Doctor Glitternight.
* The ComicBook/XMen have ComicBook/{{Magneto}} who constantly undermines their attempts of peace with humans. With ComicBook/ProfessorX, ItsPersonal though they are often [[FriendlyEnemy friendly enemies]]. Starting through TheNineties, Magneto went through serious VillainDecay to the point where can be seen as an AntiHero most of the time. He still remains the most well known villain.
** After Magneto and on the "evil human" side of things, there's Reverend William Stryker and the Purifiers, religious zealots who have no qualms about killing mutants.
** Professor X also has his stepbrother TheJuggernaut, and his EvilTwin and EnemyWithout Cassandra Nova.
** Angel has Apocalypse and Cameron Hodge. Hodge, on the other hand, was his former friend before he became an anti-mutant supremacist out of jealousy of Angel's powers. At one point, Hodge even had Angel's wings removed.
** Banshee and his cousin, Black Tom Cassidy.
** ComicBook/{{Beast|MarvelComics}} and Dark Beast, his alternate universe counterpart who kidnapped Beast and killed his loved ones to cover it up.
** Bishop has Trevor Fitzroy, a criminal he is pursuing across time.
** ComicBook/{{Cable}} has Apocalypse, Stryfe, and Genesis.
** Cannonball had Donald Pierce and Jetstream.
** Colossus has his older brother, Mikhail Rasputin.
** ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} and his family have Mister Sinister, who is obsessed with gaining control of the Summers bloodline, and has repeatedly used cloning and various other gambits to get said control. Scott takes this very personally.
** Cypher had Magus. Due to his connection with Warlock, Cypher has had multiple encounter with Magus, and Cypher once even turning Magus into an infant.
** Elixir has Wither. Both were in a love triangle with Wallflower before she died, and have the opposite powers to one another. Elixer heals, Whither... whithers things.
** ComicBook/EmmaFrost has her psychotic sister, Adrienne Frost. She also has longstanding enmities with her former Hellfire Club colleagues, including Sebastien Shaw and Selene.
** Fantomex has Sublime, Ultimaton, and Huntsman.
** Forge had the Adversary, for whom he was trained by shamans to defeat.
** For Gambit it’s usually Mr Sinister or the External Candra.
** Hepzibah has Vulcan and D'Ken.
** Havok used to have the Living Monolith, who fed off Havok's power. More importantly, Havok has his younger brother Vulcan.
** ComicBook/HopeSummers and Bastion. Bastion resurrected the X-Men's most dangerous human villains and sent them on a campaign to kill Hope, the Mutant Messiah. Bastion was eventually destroyed by Hope herself.
** ComicBook/JeanGrey has Mastermind and Madelyne Pryor. Mastermind once brainwashed Jean Grey (actually a duplicate, although the real Jean later absorbed memories of the incident) into becoming his pawn, and she left him catatonic after she found out the truth. Madelyne learned that she was a clone of Jean Grey and was abandoned by her husband, Scott Summers (who fell in love with her because of her obvious similarity to Jean, though neither knew she was a clone at the time, assuming it to just be mere coincidence that they looked exactly alike), when he reunited with Jean, after Jean returned from the dead. As a result, a vengeful Madelyne went insane and became consumed by hatred for Jean for ruining her marriage.
** ComicBook/JubileeMarvelComics and Hunter Brawn, the man who killed her parents.
** Karma had the Shadow King and now her older sister.
** ComicBook/KittyPryde and Ogun, who tried to brainwash her into killing Wolverine, and continues to haunt her a a ghost even after his death.
** Lilandra had her sibling, Deathbird and D'Ken, both of whom are out to usurp her throne.
** ComicBook/{{Rogue}}'s arch-nemesis is her adopted mother ComicBook/{{Mystique}}, due to Rogue feeling like she's being used.
** Longshot has Mojo and Spiral.
** ComicBook/{{Magik}} and Belasco. Belasco turned Magik into what she is, and she has never stopped blaming him for this, and usurped him as ruler of Limbo. Eventually, Belasco's daughter took over this role for Magik.
** Magma and Selene. Selene usurped control of Nova Roma from Magma's father, forced Magma into hiding for years, psychically tortured her on multiple occasions, and was revealed to be Magma's ancestor. Magma fears and hates Selene more than any other person.
** Moira [=MacTaggert=] and her AntagonisticOffspring, Proteus.
** Moonstar had the Demon Bear.
** ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}} and his parents, Mystique and Azazel.
** Northstar has Gorgon. Gorgon is responsible for Northstar's death and the hands of a brainwashed Wolverine, and his own subsequent resurrection as an agent of HYDRA. Northstar also has Pestilence and Deadly Ernest.
** The Phoenix Force has the Goblin Force and Le Bete Noir.
** Pixie has her sisters, Lady Mastermind and Martinique Jason.
** Polaris has Malice, who possessed her body.
** ComicBook/{{Psylocke}} has the Shadow King and Matsu'o Tsurayaba. The Shadow King temporarily destroyed her psychic form, nearly killing her, temporarily forced Psylocke to sacrifice her telepathic powers to keep him imprisoned, and once tried to make her his queen.
** ComicBook/RachelSummers has the Beyonder, Ahab and Selene. Rachel made multiple attempts to kill the Beyonder because he was a threat to the multiverse, but the Beyonder made things personal when he gave Rachel a portion of his power, and proceeded to threaten the lives or her friends just to test her. Eventually, Rachel delved into HeWhoFightsMonsters territory and nearly destroyed the universe to free it from the Beyonder's influence. Ahab, on the other hand, was the man who turned her into a Hound, and after she escaped he fixated on getting her back. She's also gone up against Selene a few times and is a thematic Foil (Rachel's a young woman from the future and Selene's an ancient evil). Then there are the Shi’ar Death Commandoes. ‘Nuff said.
** Sage has Elias Bogan.
** Shatterstar has Mojo and Spiral.
** ComicBook/{{Storm}} has the Shadow King. He employed her as a thief when she was a child, but was never able to completely bend her to his will. Her strength of character makes her his favorite target.
** Strong Guy had Damian Tryp. Tryp once brainwashed Strong Guy into becoming a mole in X-Factor and murdering a man he was assigned to protect.
** Sunspot has Gideon.
** Warlock and Magus, his ArchnemesisDad.
** Wolfsbane had Feral, Catseye, and Reverend Craig.
** ComicBook/{{X 23}} and Kimura: Both were victims of physical and emotional abuse and lost the person who could have helped them recover, but while X chose to heal, Kimura uses it as an excuse to hurt others. Kimura is also physically invulnerable, so Laura is unable to defeat her in a direct fight.
** ComicBook/XMan and Apocalypse by design. Thereafter, a case could be made for either Sugar Man or Holocaust.
** ComicBook/GenerationX (specifically M, although he targeted the rest of the team as well) had Emplate.
** The ComicBook/NewMutants had Emma Frost, Sebastian Shaw, Selene, and Donald Pierce.
** The New X-Men had William Stryker and Sean Garrison.
** ComicBook/XFactor had Apocalpyse and Cameron Hodge in its first incarnation, Mr. Sinister and the Nasty Boys for the X-Factor Government Team, and Damian Tryp For X-Factor Investigations.
** ComicBook/XForce had Stryfe and the Mutant Liberation Front.
* Franchise/{{Wolverine}}
** ComicBook/{{Sabretooth}} is Logan's primary one, as he represents Wolverine without any inhibitions, giving into his feral nature. Beyond that, Creed makes it a tradition to find Wolverine on his birthday and kill a woman he is fond of. It was also later retconned that Logan inadvertently got Victor's girlfriend killed by encouraging her to fight an anti-mutant organisation, and Victor blames Logan. There's also a helping of EvilFormerFriend in there, as the two were friends when they had their memories wiped, something Logan recalls with a degree of fondness. All this has created a blood feud that has lasted decades because of the two being borderline immortal.
** An attempt was made to kill off Sabretooth and make new villain Romulus Wolverine's new arch-enemy, but it failed spectacularly. Romus was revealed to have been responsible for almost everything bad to ever happen in Wolverine's past, including the Weapon X program. He also corrupted Daken by having his mother killed and raising the boy. Basically he was forced into the position of archenemy by killing off Sabretooth and making him responsible for pretty much everything bad in Logan's life. Unsurprisingly, it didn't take, and the character has been ignored since.
** Lady Deathstrike has also had a long career as Wolverine's secondary nemesis. Lady Deathstrike despises Wolverine both for "stealing" her father's adamantium, and for defeating her on multiple occasions. Lady Deathstrike even went so far as to upgrade her body with adamantium so she would become a match for Wolverine. The vendetta is personal on Wolverine's side too, because she crippled Wolverine's friend, Yukio.
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* The Panther and ComicBook/AcePowers.
* ComicBook/Agent327: Hendrik I Jzerbroot's most dangerous opponent is Boris Kloris.
* ComicBook/{{Asterix}}: Julius Caesar would be this, even though there's a mutual respect between the Gauls and Caesar. Caesar is often seen as a VoiceOfReason and above the pettiness of many of the prefects.
* ''ComicBook/AstroCity'': Samaritan has Infidel, who have both traveled through time to change history and thwart each others' schemes. They give up the feud once they realize that neither of them will ever be able to destroy the other, even if the Universe itself is destroyed.
* ComicBook/AtomicRobo has the Nazi Baron Heinrich von Helsingard. Dr. Dinosaur may also qualify for Robo in modern times.
** Thomas Edison for Nikola Tesla and, by extension, Robo.
** Majestic 13 for Tesladyne...and again, by extension, Robo, but also former agent and full-time MemeticBadass Jenkins this time.
* ComicBook/TheAuthority and ComicBook/{{Stormwatch}} have Henry Bendix and Kaizen Gamorra.
* The Scorpion to ComicBook/TheBanshee.
* In their fictional universe the characters from the two BritishComics ''ComicBook/TheBeano'' and ''ComicBook/TheDandy'' are arch enemies with frequent jokes but at the other's expense and infrequent raids between the comics. This arch enemy rivalry has died down quite alot since The Dandy's revamp. Also characters from within the two comics have their own arch enemies as well. ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUK has Walter the Softy, Roger the Dodger has Cruncher Kerr The Bash Street Kids had the Blob Street Kids, the Three Bears had Hank and Grizzly Gus (another more evil looking bear who hasnt been in the strip for years) and Desperate Dan had either Cactusman or Dangerous Dan [=McGroo=].
** This arch-enemy comic rivalry was taken UpToEleven in the Fleetway comic ''ComicBook/WhizzerAndChips'' which was one comic which was made up of two comics and these two comics and their characters were archenemies with even more frequent 'raids' in the two comics than with the Beano and Dandy.
* ''ComicBook/BlakeAndMortimer'': Blake and Mortimer often face off against Olrik.
* ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'': Fone Bone and the Hooded one. Thorn Harvester and the Lord of the Locusts.
* ''ComicBook/BuckDanny'': Lady X.
* ''ComicBook/BuckskinAmericasDefenderOfLiberty'' has the Black Buzzard.
* ''ComicBook/CaptainFlash'' has the Mirror Man.
* ''ComicBook/{{Chlorophylle}}'': Anthracite to the titular hero; both take their mutual opposition very clearly, and Anthracite makes it very clear he wishes nothing more than kill him.
* ''ComicBook/TheCrusader'' has Emil Groff.
* ''ComicBook/TheCrow'' has Top Dollar, the man who arranged the murder of Eric Draven and his girlfriend.
* ''ComicBook/DeKiekeboes'': Balthazar is the most recurring antagonist in the series, though generally considered to be a HarmlessVillain. Far more dangerous are Timothea Triangl- a ''Film/JamesBond'' type villain who underwent a sex change- and Dédé La Canaille, a criminal who wants to murder Kiekeboe for putting him into jail.
* ''ComicBook/DisneyMouseAndDuckComics'':
** ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'':
*** Scrooge [=McDuck=] has several different enemies competing for the title. He often combats the Beagle Boys, though Blackheart Beagle, the oldest member and their founder, is the only one whom Scrooge has a personal vendetta with. His business rivals Flintheart Glomgold and John Rockerduck sometimes function as his own personal arch enemy(ies) too, given their status as {{Evil Counterpart}}s of Scrooge. However, his most dangerous opponent is the witch Magica Despell, who threatens to steal his lucky dime and melt it in the Vesuvius volcano. One could also add Arpin Lusene, a GentlemanThief who holds the distinction of being Scrooge's only WorthyOpponent.
*** Donald Duck considers both Gladstone Gander and Neighbour Jones his personal arch enemies, though these are of the [[SitcomArchNemesis sitcom]] variety. He does have an extensive RoguesGallery in ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'', but no single bad guy has managed to stand out as his definitive arch-enemy.
** Franchise/MickeyMouse as seen in more recent ''ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse'' stories has his own kind of dynamic with his two arch enemies WesternAnimation/{{Pete}} and the Phantom Blot. Mickey is typically more or less an AmateurSleuth, naturally opposed to both of them as professional criminals. Pete is generally shown as a more crude but very experienced and enterprising criminal, whereas the Blot is a shadowy criminal mastermind. Pete [[EvenEvilHasStandards is not completely evil]] and has been shown with a kind of affection towards Mickey as an opponent and is more prone to end up in an EnemyMine situation with him, whereas the Blot is closer to being simply sociopathic. The two can even get contrasted in the same story, with Pete more human and the Blot more effortlessly smooth and evil. It's still DependingOnTheWriter.
* Franchise/DocSavage has John Sunlight.
* ''ComicBook/ExMachina'': Mitchell Hundred and Jack Person.
* Rigonie to the Eye in ''ComicBook/TheEyeSees''.
* Both the Hunter Rose and Christine Spar incarnations of ComicBook/{{Grendel}} have Argent the Wolf, who dedicated his life to ending their killing sprees.
* ComicBook/Gen13 has Ivana Baiul, the leader of [=DV8=].
* ComicBook/GrooTheWanderer had General Taranto, although Groo is dimwitted enough that he often forgets about Taranto's vendetta or past attempts to kill him.
* Nothing can compare to what John Constantine the ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'' has. Having {{Satan}}, also known as the First of the Fallen, as an arch-enemy is simply the worst. Constantine also has Nergal.
* Grigori Rasputin and the Ogdru Jahad to ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}.
* ComicBook/{{Invincible}} has Omni-Man, Angstrom Levy, Grand Regent Thragg, and Conquest.
* Raven Red, an EvilCounterpart of Jet, is the only villain to appear more than once in ''Comicbook/JetDream''.
* ComicBook/{{Jommeke}}: Jommeke and his friends are often confronted by Anatool, the servant nobody can trust. However, he is somewhat of a HarmlessVillain, seeing that Jommeke and his friends can easily thwart his evil schemes. De Koningin van Onderland ("The Queen of Onderland") on the other hand doesn't appear that much in Jommeke's stories, but when she does she is generally considered to be his most frightening and dangerous opponent.
* ComicBook/JudgeDredd:
** Judge Joseph Dredd has two Arch-Enemies in ex-Judge Rico Dredd, his EvilTwin, and Judge Death, his undead EvilCounterpart. Only the latter is also a recurring enemy, however.
** Judge Anderson has Orlok the Assassin.
* Three-Finger Joe to ComicBook/KBarKate, whose father he almost murdered and whom he was the only recurring foe of.
* ComicBook/LadyDeath has [[{{Satan}} Lucifer]] as her greatest enemy, since he is responsible for her current condition and keeps returning from death to torment her time and time again. Other candidates include ComicBook/{{Purgatori}}, [[OurLichesAreDifferent Sagos]] and [[TheCaligula the Death Queen]].
* Darkhell is this to [[ComicBook/LesLegendaires the Legendaries]], and this on ''soooo'' many levels: [[CreateYourOwnVillain he was the one who made part of them what they are now]], was the first threat they faced, fought them for several years, is the most recurring antagonist in the series and was the [[BigBad most dangerous]] [[TheDreaded of their enemies until]] [[GodOfEvil Anathos]] shew up. [[spoiler:Now that he finally died for real, it seems like his self-proclaimed heir Abyss is taking the mantle.]]
** Darkhell had his own arch-enemy, Skroa (though more of a [[TheRival Rival]] than an actual one) before the Legendaries formed, but ended up defeating him.
* ComicBook/TheLoneWarrior has the Dictator's Shadow.
* ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'': Lucky Luke most often faces off against the Daltons. About half of the albums are about the Daltons and the rest about everyone else. Billy the Kid is the second most recurring villain and he still doesn't come close to their approaching VillainProtagonist status.
* ''ComicBook/TheMadHatter'': The Gargoyle, a criminal resurrected as a BeastMan, was clearly supposed to be this for the Mad Hatter, due to the implication that he'll return, but he debuted in the final issue of the comic, so he didn't get the chance to full come into his evil.
* The ComicBook/{{Micronauts}} and Baron Karza.
* ComicBook/{{Miracleman}} has Kid Miracleman and Dr. Emil Gargunza.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Nero}}'': In the early stories this role went to Matsuoka, a Literature/FuManchu like antagonist. Later Ricardo the Napolitan maffiosi became Nero's most frequent target.
* ''ComicStrip/PaulusDeBoskabouter'': Paulus the wood gnome has one recuring arch nemesis and that is Eucalypta the WickedWitch.
* One volume of ''ComicBook/{{Powers}}'' deconstructs the usual comic treatment of archenemies. It shows what were essentially the world's first superhero and supervillain. The two are immortal and have existed since humanity was still diverging from the ape, and have had a grudge just as long. When they meet for the last time in the present day, the hero, (who has a case of TheFogOfAges) demands to know why he and the villain have been fighting so long. The villain, whose memory is not impaired like the hero's, admits that he can no longer even remember what originally sparked their feud.
* ComicStrip/ThePhantom: The Phantom is traditionally opposed by the current leader of the Singh Brotherhood; the 21st Phantom first battles Dogai Singh, and later, his daughter Sandal Singh. Other notable enemies include the mercenary Gold Hand and the evil President Lubanga.
* ComicBook/{{Planetary}} and the Four, especially their respective leaders, Elijah Snow and Randall Dowling.
* Jesse Custer in ComicBook/{{Preacher}} has Herr Starr, the Saint of Killers, and God. Yes, '''the''' {{God}}.
* ComicStrip/QuickAndFlupke: Quick and Flupke are often confronted by Agent 15. Seeing that the two boys are brats your mileage may vary whether Agent 15 is actually the hero of the series or not.
* ComicBook/RedSonja and Kulan Gath.
* ''ComicBook/RicHochet'': "Le Bourreau" ("The Executioner") is this to Ric Hochet. No other adversaries come close to being recurring and a match to Ric's wits and skills.
* ComicBook/SavageDragon had the Overlord.
* ''ComicBook/{{Scalped}}'': Dashiell Bad Horse has Lincoln Red Crow.
* ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'' has Gideon Gordon Graves.
* ''Radio/TheShadow'' has Shiwan Khan.
* ''ComicBook/SinCity'' villains usually don't live past their initial story but Manute has menaced Dwight [=McCarthy=] enough times to count. [[spoiler: Manute is dead now but he shows up anyway due to the nonlinear timeline.]]
** The Yellow Bastard did go up against Hartigan a few times before kicking the bucket. We only ended up seeing two confrontations in the same story, though.
* ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'': Gargamel who, in the comics at least, wants to turn the Smurfs into gold. In the animated series he simply wants to eat them.
* In ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'', Sonic has two archenemies: [[BigBad Doctor Robotnik]] and [[EnemyWithout Super Sonic]]. Knuckles' archenemy is [[MadScientist Doctor]] [[OmnicidalManiac Zachary]]. [[EvilCounterpart Vermin]] [[MadeOfIndestructium the Cybernik]] is the archenemy of [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Shortfuse]] [[MadeOfIndestructium the Cybernik]]. And Tails' archenemy is Trogg.
** Sonic's hatred of Robotnik increased after [[CreateYourOwnVillain Sonic created Robotnik]].
* ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'' has the Violator.
* The Octopus is the archenemy of ''ComicBook/TheSpirit''.
* ''ComicBook/StarTrekEarlyVoyages'':
** In "The Fires of Pharos", Commander Kaaj swears a blood debt against Captain Pike for destroying the Pharos siteworld. In "The Flat, Gold Forever", he lures Captain Pike away from the ''Enterprise'' with a ForgedMessage and attempts to kill him so that honor can be satisfied. When he later sees Pike on the Temazi homeworld in "Thanatos", he cannot contain himself. He attacks Pike in the Temazi shrine, thereby blowing both of their covers.
** In the AlternateTimeline story arc "Futures", General Chang has seemingly taken Kaaj's place as Captain Pike's Klingon adversary. In "Now and Then, Part Four", he even compares his conflicts with Chang to "the bad old days with Kaaj."
* ComicBook/StrontiumDog: Johnny Alpha has his father, Nelson Bunker Kreelman, a racist politician who abused and ultimately locked his own son up for his mutation, and leads a Nazi-like anti-mutant movement.
* ComicBook/SuperAmerican has Tyrannus.
* ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske: Krimson is the main recurring villain. WickedWitch The Black Madam has also become a recurring villain. They once even did a VillainTeamUp which got the heroes into so much trouble that an AuthorAvatar had to intervene.
* The Shredder to the Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles and their mentor Master Splinter. Shredder goes down pretty early in the [[ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMirage original comics]]. However, the first issue clearly shows the backstory Splinter and Shredder have, that Splinter and the Turtles owe their origins to Shredder, and that Splinter trained the Turtles for the sole purpose of killing Shredder to avenge Hamato Yoshi. Regardless of how long Shredder was around for, he's still their archnemesis.
** The archenemy dynamic is played interestingly in the story. After Shredder was killed, the Turtles never really had another central enemy. A few issues show that the Turtles aren't really sure what to do with themselves with Shredder gone. In fact, in the City At War arc that capped off the original series, Leonardo argues that killing Shredder was more Splinter's goal than theirs.
* ComicBook/TexWiller and Mefisto.
* ComicBook/TheTick and Chairface Chippendale.
* Franchise/{{Tintin}}: Tintin's arch nemesis is Rastapopoulos.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Tomahawk}}'', the British Spy and MasterOfDisguise Lord Shilling was the arch-enemy of Tomahawk.
* ''ComicBook/TomboySterling'': Despite being a OneShotCharacter, it's heavily implied the Lard Vinsion, crime boss and BigBad of ''Captain Flash'' #3, has tangled with Tomboy many times before, an honour no other villain receives.
* ''ComicBook/TomPoes'': Bul Super and Hiep Hieper. Even though Joachim Sickbock and Hocus P. Pas are far more dangerous.
* ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'': Spider Jerusalem has President Gary Callahan, aka the Smiler.
* ''ComicBook/{{Urbanus}}'': Urbanus often fights off against Jef Patat, a sleazy trickster.
* ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'' has Jei, Lord Hikiji, and Lord Hebi.
* ''ComicBook/VForVendetta'': V has Eric Finch and Adam Susan.
* ''ComicBook/{{Vampirella}}'' has Dracula, the Blood Red Queen of Hearts, Lilith, Mistress Nyx, and Von Kreist.
* ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead'': Rick Grimes had the Governor, Shane, and Negan.
** Michonne also had the Governor.
* ''ComicBook/WarlordOfMars'':
** [[GalacticConqueror Joshua Clark]] to John Carter, with their rivalry going back to the Secession War where they fought in opposite sides.
** Dejah Thoris has Phaidor, a Thern princess that [[VillainessesWantHeroes lusts after her husband]] (at least until her HeelFaceTurn). Before her, Dejah's [[CainAndAbel own brother]] [[TheSociopath Kajak Thoris]] was her arch-enemy.
** On a larger scale, [[ReligionOfEvil the Therns]] vs [[SkyPirates the First-Born]], who repeatedly raids their land. Also, [[BarbarianTribe the Green Martians]] vs [[HigherTechSpecies the Yellow Martians]] [[spoiler: with the latter having created the former as slaves, who eventually rose up and drove them nearly into extinction.]]
* ''ComicBook/TheWaspLevGleason'': The Professor was clearly supposed to be theist the Wasp, what with being a DiabolicalMastermind who wants revenge for an offscreen prior defeat, and a blatant SequelHook indicating that he will return next issue, but the comic got cancelled after his debut.
* The ComicBook/{{WildCATS}} have Helspont, leader of the Cabal and one of the most powerful Daemonites in existence.
* ''ComicBook/YTheLastMan'': Yorick Brown and Alter Tse'elon.
* Zagor has Hellingen.
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** After Luthor, ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} comes in a close second, being one of the oldest villains in the rogues gallery, and certainly one of the most evil. He can match Superman blow-for-blow, shows up constantly, is [[TheDreaded feared by all Krytponians]] regularly endangers the world or even the multiverse, holds a Kryptonian city hostage, and once killed Jonathan Kent. As one writer pointed out, he's the alien Superman isn't, an evil [[AlienInvasion otherworldy invader]] instead of a messianic refugee.

* [[ComicBook/SubMariner Namor]] has Llyra. Unequivocally, undebatably, unabashedly. She has murdered his father, his cousin, his fiancée (on their wedding day [''whilst posing as her at the alter'']), usurped him, raped him, convinced the world she'd killed him, massacred his subjects, tortured his body & soul, dedicated her life to ruining his, ALL because he brushed off her advances when they first met. Hell. Hath. No. Fury.

* ComicBook/SheHulk had Titania. And since She-Hulk predominantly employs a self-aware comedy tone, she's possibly the most IneffectualSympatheticVillain on this page.
* ComicBook/SilverSurfer has Mephisto. He was introduced as the recurring BigBad of the Surfer's first comic series, presented simply as the diametric opposite to everything noble & inspirational the Surfer embodied, and characterized wholly by his ''obsession'' with the Surfer's downfall. Even after becoming Marvel's go-to devil stand-in later on & vastly expanding his villainous responsibilities, Mephisto will still indulge any opportunity to torment the Silver Surfer on principle.

** Thanos essentially takes on a different cosmic hero as his personal archenemy each time he makes a gambit for universal domination. His first story arc was against Mar-Vell, his second against Adam Warlock, his third the ComicBook/SilverSurfer, etc.. The most consistent factor throughout has been MarvelComics/DraxTheDestroyer, but he's something of a FailureHero in that regard. After arcs like ''Infinity Gauntlet'' and other stories on that scale a case could be made that Thanos is the Arch Enemy of the Franchise/MarvelUniverse.

* ComicBook/CaptainBritain had Slaymaster. Whilst many other arguments can be made ([[TheDragon The Fury]], [[GreaterScopeVillain Mad Jim Jaspers]], [[MyParentsAreDead Mastermind]], [[CainAndAbel Jamie Braddock]] etc.), Slaymaster was both the most recurrant & most competant antagonist of the Captain Britain solo comic run. A run which, coincidentally, ended after he made [[It'sPersonal it personal]] and ensured nobody would ''want'' to be Brian's archenemy ever again.

* As with the Brotherhood being the collective Arch Enemy of the X-Men, Comicbook/TheAvengers have Kang the Conqueror, Ultron, and the Masters of Evil, depending on which aspect of the team dynamic most appeals to the reader.

* ComicBook/CaptainBritain had Slaymaster. Whilst many arguments can be made for [[TheDragon The Fury]], [[GreaterScopeVillain Mad Jim Jaspers]], [[MyParentsAreDead Mastermind]], [[CainAndAbel Jamie Braddock]] etc., Slaymaster was both the most recurrant & most competant antagonist of the Captain Britain solo comic run. A run which, coincidentally, ended after he made [[It'sPesronal it personal]] and ensured nobody would ''want'' to be Brian's archenemy ever again.

** Likewise, The Fury can be attributed to Captain UK of Earth-238, who's reaction to the Fury's murder of her husband evolves over the course of the story (culminating in her definitive MomentOfAwesome).
* ComicBook/CaptainMarVell had Yon-Rogg, the commanding officer who competed for [[spoiler:and eventually murderered]] his love interest. However, Mar-Vell is most fondly remembered for the more metaphysical latter half of his career, and thus as the original nemesis of ComicBook/{{Thanos}}.
** Thanos essentially takes on a different cosmic hero as his personal archenemy each time he makes a gambit for universal domination. His first story arc was against Mar-Vell, his second against Adam Warlock, his third the ComicBook/SilverSurfer, etc.. The most consistent factor throughout has been MarvelComicsDraxTheDestroyer, but he's something of a FailureHero in that regard. After arcs like ''Infinity Gauntlet'' and other stories on that scale a case could be made that Thanos is the Arch Enemy of the Franchise/MarvelUniverse.

** ComicBook/{{the Thing}} has been put through more pain by the actions of the Puppet Master than his team-mates, due to his long-term affections for his adopted daughter Alicia Masters.

* ComicBook/SilverSurfer has Mephisto. He was introduced as the recurring BigBad of the Surfer's first comic series, simply presented as the diametric opposite to everything noble & insirational the Surfer embodied, and characterized wholly by his ''obsession'' with the Surfer's downfall. Even after becoming Marvel's go-to devil stand-in later on & vastly expanding his villainous responsibilities, Mephisto will still indulge any opportunity to torment the Silver Surfer on principle.

** Balder has Karnilla.

* ComicBook/AdamWarlock has Thanos, the Magus, and the In-Betweener.

* ComicBook/AlphaFlight has the Master of the World and Jerome "Jerry" Jaxon.

** Guardian has the Master of the World and Jerome "Jerry" Jaxon.
** Marrina has the Master of the World.

** Vindicator has Scramble.

** Despite this, Ultron is primarily the archenemy of the Avengers as a whole, rather than just Ant-Man personally. Ant-Man does take it personally for the aforementioned reasons, though, so it's definitely an interesting play on the trope because of that. Storylines where the Avengers take on Ultron tend to be some of the most personal and traumatic experiences as well.

* As with the Brotherhood being the collective Arch Enemy of the X-Men, Comicbook/TheAvengers have the Masters of Evil.

** Kang the Conqueror would take the number two spot on the Avengers hit list, right below Ultron.

* The ComicBook/BlackPanther has Klaw, who murdered his father, and M'Baku the Man-Ape, his EvilCounterpart and rival for power within Wakanda.

* Blue Marvel had the Anti-Man, his EvilFormerFriend. The feud lasted decades before Anti-Man was finally killed.

* ComicBook/CaptainBritain has the Fury, and its creator, Mad Jim Jaspers.
** Meggan had Mad Jim Jaspers has well, because he seperated her from her father permanently by placing them in concentration camps. Meggan also had Sat-Yr-9, who screwed with her relationship with Brian and tried to have her killed.
* ComicBook/CaptainMarVell had ComicBook/{{Thanos}}. Although Thanos did double duty as Adam Warlock's arch enemy, too. And he screwed with the ComicBook/SilverSurfer pretty seriously, too. After arcs like ''Infinity Gauntlet'' and other stories on that scale a case could be made that Thanos is the Arch Enemy of the Franchise/MarvelUniverse.

* ComicBook/TheDefenders have Dormammu, Nebulon, Gorilla-Man, and the Dragon of the Moon.

* Comicbook/DoctorStrange used to have [[EvilCounterpart Baron Mordo]]. The [[DimensionLord Dread Dormammu]] later usurped this role and has firmly cemented himself as Strange's most personal enemy.

* The Johnny Blaze/Zarathos incarnation of Comicbook/GhostRider's Arch Enemy is Mephisto.
** The Danny Ketch/Noble Kale incarnation of Ghost Rider's Arch Enemy is Deathwatch.

* In his early years, Comicbook/MoonKnight had Raoul Bushman, Marc Spector's commander in his mercenary days. However he later developed a more fitting and lasting archnemesis in the form of Black Spectre, his EvilCounterpart who's motivated entirely by a desire to be like Moon Knight. Even when the first Black Spectre died, a new one sprung up with a similar motivation to torment Moon Knight barely a year or two later in-universe.

* For the newest [[Comicbook/KamalaKhan Ms. Marvel]], Kamran and Becky St. Jude aka Lockdown. With Kamran, ItsPersonal as he kidnapped her brother and Kamala knew him when they were children. Lockdown is more of an EvilCounterpart as they share the same heroic aspirations but they're total opposites and mainly because Becky is a sociopath.
* ComicBook/MonicaRambeau has Moonstone and Blackout.

* ComicBook/SheHulk had Titania.
* ComicBook/SilverSurfer:

** Also Mephisto, who hates Norrin for just being so danged ''good.''

* ComicBook/SpiderWoman and Madame Hydra/Viper, due to Jessica being raised by Hydra and possibly becoming the next Madame Hydra. She also had Morgan le Fey and Gypsy Moth.

* [[ComicBook/SubMariner Namor]] has Attuma. Attuma is constantly trying to usurp the throne of Atlantis from Namor.
* ComicBook/{{Taskmaster}} is this to ComicBook/AntMan (specifically Scott Lang)... sort of. They've fought on many occasions and developed an incredibly strong hatred of each other, so Ant-Man has come to consider him his archenemy. However, Taskmaster doesn't share this view and is actually rather annoyed at Ant-Man's insistence that they have any sort of dramatic rivalry; [[ButForMeItWasTuesday to him, their fights were just annoyances brought about by coincidence or money]].

** One important thing to consider in this “contest” is that there are several crucial differences between how both Osborn/Goblin and Ock approach their relationships to Spider-Man. This distinction was thoroughly explored in the ''"Superior Spider-Man Team Up,"'' where two villains temporarily join their forces to defeat their mutual foe.

** ComicBook/{{Venom}}: An EvilCounterpart who mainly filled the role in the late '80s and '90s. Not only is he effectively an even stronger version of Spidey himself [[labelnote: note]]In direct combat, he was often the most powerful of the three.[[/labelnote]] , but Peter's SpiderSense doesn't work on him, which means Eddie / Venom could be right behind him without Peter knowing, and Eddie played up this ParanoiaFuel for all it's worth while menacing Peter. Being bonded with the symbiote also gave Venom knowledge of Peter's secret identity, which Venom immediately used to scare Peter by harassing Mary Jane and Aunt May, making Venom far more invasive than the other two were at the time. As Venom became more of an AntiHero and later on a LegacyCharacter, however, he doesn't really fill the spot in the main comics nowadays. He very much does in many adaptations, though. These adaptations make Eddie's grudge against Peter more personal and/or believable, as Venom's initial grudge against Spidey was admittedly a bit weak in hindsight. His overall goal, at least in adaptations, is a combination of Goblin and Doc Ock's - destroy Spider-Man, ''and'' ruin Peter Parker simultaneously, and in both ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'', he even tried to unmask him in public. Peter finds Venom's almost encyclopedic knowledge of him [[ParanoiaFuel genuinely terrifying]], and during the climax of Venom's original story, Spidey's fight with him became less of just a hero fighting a villain into more of a man pulling off and coming up with every tactic he can in a desperate act to fight for survival - against a much darker, smarter and stronger mirror of himself. While Goblin and Ock are Peter and Spidey's greatest enemies respectively, Venom, at least pre-AntiHero, could be seen as the greatest foe - and [[NightmareFuel fear]] - of ''both'' identities.

* The ComicBook/FreedomFighters have Silver Ghost.

** Cassandra and Stephanie both have their [[ArchnemesisDad|Archnemesis Dads]], David Cain and Cluemaster. Cassandra can also count her mother, Lady Shiva, as one, though their relationship is more complex than the typical archenemy dynamic.

** Cassandra and Stephanie both have their ArchnemesisDads, David Cain and Cluemaster. Cassandra can also count her mother, Lady Shiva, as one, though their relationship is more complex than the typical archenemy dynamic.

** Cassandra and Stephanie both have their ArchNemesisDads, David Cain and Cluemaster. Cassandra can also count her mother, Lady Shiva, as one, though their relationship is more complex than the typical archenemy dynamic.

** ComicBook/{{Jubilee}} and Hunter Brawn, the man who killed her parents.

** During the eighties and nineties, and up until his apparent death in the early 2000s, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive evil industrialist]] Justin Hammer served as the archenemy of [[SecretIdentity Tony Stark]]. He was the mover and shaker behind "Demon in a Bottle", "Armour Wars I", and several other major arcs, and made repeated attempts to take down Stark Industries and their founder, all in order to increase his own profits. Hammer was one of the few villains Stark always took seriously, their hatred was definitely mutual, and in the end, his legacy lives on to this day in the form of his equally mad daughter and granddaughter.

** ComicBook/{{Venom}}: An EvilCounterpart who mainly filled the role in the late eighties and nineties. Not only is he effectively an even stronger version of Spidey himself [[labelnote: note]]In direct combat, he was often the most powerful of the three.[[/labelnote]] , but Peter's SpiderSense doesn't work on him, which means Eddie / Venom could be right behind him without Peter knowing, and Eddie played up this ParanoiaFuel for all it's worth while menacing Peter. Being bonded with the symbiote also gave Venom knowledge of Peter's secret identity, which Venom immediately used to scare Peter by harassing Mary Jane and Aunt May, making Venom far more invasive than the other two were at the time. As Venom became more of an AntiHero and later on a LegacyCharacter, however, he doesn't really fill the spot in the main comics nowadays. He very much does in many adaptations, though. These adaptations make Eddie's grudge against Peter more personal and/or believable, as Venom's initial grudge against Spidey was admittedly a bit weak in hindsight. His overall goal, at least in adaptations, is a combination of Goblin and Doc Ock's - destroy Spider-Man, ''and'' ruin Peter Parker simultaneously, and in both ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'', he even tried to unmask him in public. Peter finds Venom's almost encyclopedic knowledge of him [[ParanoiaFuel genuinely terrifying]], and during the climax of Venom's original story, Spidey's fight with him became less of just a hero fighting a villain into more of a man pulling off and coming up with every tactic he can in a desperate act to fight for survival - against a much darker, smarter and stronger mirror of himself. While Goblin and Ock are Peter and Spidey's greatest enemies respectively, Venom, at least pre-AntiHero, could be seen as the greatest foe - and [[NightmareFuel fear]] - of ''both'' identities.

* Franchise/SpiderMan has had no less than ''three'' Arch Enemies: Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus, and Venom. The reason for this is that the Green Goblin, otherwise the uncontested contender, [[ComicBookDeath died in the 70s]] and spent a good 20-odd years dead before he came back to torment his foe, which is probably the record for dead A-list villains to beat. In the meantime, Doctor Octopus and Venom filled the roles in the seventies and eighties/nineties, respectively. This also means the latter two are arguably more famous, even though the Goblin is the greatest overall threat of the three. Another reason is that the Goblin, as Norman Osborn, suffered frequent bouts of amnesia in the run up to his death so he didn't even remember that he was Spidey's arch-enemy, which helped Doc Ock who was the next most formidable villain. Venom appeared in the 80s and made his chops by being in some ways a more personal (and visually stunning) enemy than either of the other two, while Ock was DemotedToExtra. So essentially, Spidey has three arch-enemies because they kept replacing each other. After his return from the dead in the late nineties, the Goblin was for a long time seen to be Spidey's one true Arch-foe, and even became a major player in the Marvel Universe at large. Under Dan Slott's pen, however, Doc Ock has been catching up, with schemes to bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, a FreakyFridayFlip that screwed Peter's life over big time, and eventually [[spoiler: forcing Spidey to give up his company, which Peter considered his life's work.]]
** [[ComicBook/NormanOsborn The Green Goblin]]. Unlike most superhero arch-villains, he actually ''is'' the most dangerous foe of his enemy, possessing far greater resources and deep personal information (he was the first to discover Spider-Man's secret identity) that the other two mostly all lack (though one could argue that, apart from Osborn killing Gwen Stacy, Venom was originally more [[ItsPersonal personal]] with his invasions of Peter Parker's life). Since his return to Spider-Man’s world, Osborn did everything he could to make Peter's life miserable, usually through really nasty RevengeByProxy schemes, including burying Aunt May alive and stealing Peter’s child. Osborn is also firmly convinced he is the single ArchEnemy to Spidey, and was [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou pissed]] Dock Ock, Spidey's "number two" in his opinion, got to kill Spider-Man.

** ComicBook/DoctorOctopus: What Peter could end up becoming if he abused his intelligence and powers. (Peter was even a former student of his in [[WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries the animated series]]). Also the first villain to really defeat Spider-Man, completely shattering his confidence for a while, and is certainly the longest lasting and most recurring. Although the Goblin initially overshadowed Ock after his return, Ock in recent years has performed several [[ThanatosGambit maneuvers,]] ''including outright stealing Peter’s life,'' putting him back in the race for the ArchEnemy status.

*** With Otto, on the other hand, it is a different story. Unlike Osborn, Octavius has his own code of honor and tries to avoid harming innocents in his feud even going as far as acting like a gentleman to Peter’s loved ones. Unlike Osborn, Otto prefers to keep his enmity with Peter strictly to "Doc Ock vs Spider-Man", a classic supervillain vs superhero rivalry, and generally just wants to ''defeat Spider-Man'' instead of ruining the person behind the mask. He and Peter actually have a lot of mutual respect for each other, despite all the bad blood between the two and voluntarily joined their forces more than once. Peter likes to joke around Otto, probably more than with anyone else.

** ComicBook/{{Venom}}: An EvilCounterpart who mainly filled the role in the late eighties and nineties. Not only is he effectively an even stronger version of Spidey himself [[labelnote: note]]In direct combat, he was often the most powerful of the three.[[/labelnote]] , but Peter's SpiderSense doesn't work on him, which means Eddie / Venom could be right behind him without Peter knowing, and Eddie played up this ParanoiaFuel for all it's worth while menacing Peter. Being bonded with the symbiote also gave Venom knowledge of Peter's secret identity, which Venom immediately used to scare Peter by harassing Mary Jane and Aunt May, making Venom far more invasive than the other two were at the time. As Venom became more of an AntiHero and later on a LegacyCharacter, however, he doesn't really fill the spot the main comics nowadays. He very much does in many adaptations, though. These adaptation make Eddie's grudge against Peter more personal and/or believable, as Venom's initial grudge against Spidey was admittedly a bit weak in hindsight. His overall goal, at least in adaptations, is a combination between Goblin and Doc Ock's - destroy Spider-Man, ''and'' ruin Peter Parker simultaneously, and in both ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'', he even tried to unmask him in public. Peter finds Venom's almost encyclopedic knowledge of him [[ParanoiaFuel genuinely terrifying]], and during the climax of Venom's original story, Spidey's fight with him became less of just a hero fighting a villain into more of a man pulling off and coming up with every tactic he can in a desperate act to fight for survival - against a much darker, smarter and stronger mirror of himself. While Goblin and Ock are Peter and Spidey's greatest enemies respectively, Venom, at least pre-AntiHero, could be seen as the greatest foe - and [[NightmareFuel fear]] - of ''both'' identities.

* ComicBook/{{All Star Squadron}} has Baron Blitzkrieg.

* ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} is the biggest bad of the DC Universe and is the archfoe of the Justice League, New Genesis, and the DCU itself. On the personal level he's also the archenemy of his son, Orion, and of New Genesis' leader Highfather, and has pursued lengthy vendettas against Mister Miracle, Superman, and Wonder Woman, to name only a few. Essentially, the moment Darkseid shows up, all other considerations, and all other archenmities go out the window.

** Sinestro is Hal Jordan's Arch Enemy (and EvilMentor depending on the continuity); similarly, the [[Comicbook/GreenLantern Green Lantern Corps]] treat the Sinestro Corps as their most dangerous opposing organization. Cyborg Superman and Hector Hammond could also count. While Sinestro is his most frequent and prominent enemy, no one hit Hal harder than Cyborg Superman who destroyed Coast city. This resulted in Hal falling victim to Parallax's possession.

* Comicbook/{{Krypto The Superdog}} has Mechanikat.

* The ComicBook/{{Legion Of Super-Heroes}} has three: Mordru, the Fatal Five, and the Legion of Super-Villains. The Fatal Five probably win the title for showing up the most often, but the L.S.V. has Lightning Lad's personal arch enemy (and older brother) Lightning Lord, and Mordru is ''certainly'' the most powerful of the three. Pre-Crisis the title would have gone to the Time-Trapper.

* The ComicBook/{{Seven Soldiers}} of Victory have the Hand and Black Star in their original incarnation, in their modern incarnation, they have Neh-Buh-Loh, Gloriana Tenebrae, Mister Melmoth.

* The ComicBook/{{Suicide Squad}} have Kobra, Major Zastrow, Rustam, and William Hell.

* Tasmanian Devil has Queen Bee. Queen Bee brainwashed his allies, the ComicBook/{{Global Guardians}} into serving her, including his close friend Tuatura.

** ComicBook/{{Cyborg}} had Brother Blood. In the ComicBook/New52 he has Grid.

* The first Waverider has Monarch in ComicBook/{{Armageddon 2001}}, and the second Waverider has Extant in ComicBook/{{Zero Hour}}.

* ComicBook/{{Agent 13}} has Dr. Faustus.
* ComicBook/{{Alpha Flight}} has the Master of the World and Jerome "Jerry" Jaxon.

** The ComicBook/{{Avengers Academy}} has Jeremy Briggs. Briggs is everything they fear becoming wrapped up in a package of being everything they also want.

** The ComicBook/{{West Coast Avengers}} have Master Pandemonium.

* ComicBook/CaptainAmerica has the ComicBook/RedSkull (one of the oldest villains) and the [[ComicBook/BaronZemo Barons Zemo]] (both the father Heinrich and son Helmut). In ComicBook/{{Ultimate Marvel}}, he has Herr Kleiser.

** The {{ninja}} clan known as The Hand collectively fill the third slot on Matt's hit parade. They're among his most persistent enemies, many of his major foes (Elektra, Lady Bullseye, Kingpin) have either worked for them or tried to gain control of them at one point or another, they're the ultimate adversaries of his mentor, Stick, and worst of all, they want Matt to be their new leader. It's hard to get more personal than that.

* {{ComicBook/FantasticFour}}:
** The wrathful vengeance of Doctor Doom will never be sated! Never — until the earth runs red with the blood of that accursed '''REED RICHARDS!!'''
** The rest of the Fantastic Four as well, to a lesser extent. After he crushed Doom's hands, the Thing also jumped pretty high on his list. Doom also has a villainous crush on the Invisible Woman, but also fears her as the team's most powerful member.

** The Human Torch used to have the Wizard in his solo adventures, but he has since gone on to become an enemy for the team in general.

* The Fabulous Frog-Man is a SuperZero wearing the PowerArmor of his father (ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} villain Leap Frog) which he cannot control so he just bounces around aimlessly and sometimes gets lucky. The White Rabbit is a ditzy {{Harmless Villain}}ess that read too much ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' when she was a little girl and now dresses like a PlayboyBunny and pretends to be a Super Villainess despite having no powers or skills. They became each other’s arch-enemies because they are so pathetic nobody else would take them seriously.

* ComicBook/{{Heroes For Hire}} have the Master of the World in their first volume.

* The Comicbook/IncredibleHulk has The Leader, The Abomination and Gen. Thunderbolt Ross. One could even make a case about Hulk being [[EnemyWithin Banner's.]]

* ComicBook/MilesMorales inherited the Green Goblin from his predecessor, Peter Parker in the Comicbook/UlimateMarvel continuity, but his biggest arch-enemy thus far is his uncle Aaron Davis, aka the Prowler of the Ultimate universe. And unluckily for Miles, Aaron followed him to the main Marvel universe.

* ComicBook/CarolDanvers aka Captain Marvel hasn't had a consistent RoguesGallery since her rebrand, but ComicBook/{{Mystique}} still stands as her arch nemesis as it's very personal between them. ''Ms. Marvel'' Vol. 2 #48-50 even refers to Mystique as Ms. Marvel's Arch Enemy.

* ComicBook/RomSpaceknight and the Dire Wraiths.

* ComicBook/{{Silk}} has ComicBook/{{Black Cat}}. Silk has foiled Black Cat's schemes to unmask Spider-Man and infiltrated her organization as a mole for S.H.I.E.L.D., and Black Cat has defeated Silk on multiple occasions and hindered Silk's efforts to find her parents.

* {{ComicBook/Taskmaster}} is this to ComicBook/AntMan (specifically Scott Lang)... sort of. They've fought on many occasions and developed an incredibly strong hatred of each other, so Ant Man has come to consider him his archenemy. However Taskmaster doesn't share this view and is actually rather annoyed at Ant Man's insistence that they have any sort of dramatic rivalry; [[ButForMeItWasTuesday to him, their fights were just annoyances brought about by coincidence or money]].

** ComicBook/{{Lady Sif}} has the Enchantress, who is jealous of Thor's affections for Sif.

* The ''ComicBook/XMen'' have ComicBook/{{Magneto}} who constantly undermines their attempts of peace with humans. With Professor X, ItsPersonal though they are often [[FriendlyEnemy friendly enemies]]. Starting through TheNineties, Magneto went through serious VillainDecay to the point where can be seen as an AntiHero most of the time. He still remains the most well known villain.

** ComicBook/{{Beast}} and Dark Beast, his alternate universe counterpart who kidnapped Beast and killed his loved ones to cover it up.

** ComicBook/{{X23}} and Kimura: Both were victims of physical and emotional abuse and lost the person who could have helped them recover, but while X chose to heal, Kimura uses it as an excuse to hurt others. Kimura is also physically invulnerable, so Laura is unable to defeat her in a direct fight.

* ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}

* ComicBook/{{Agent327}}: Hendrik I Jzerbroot's most dangerous opponent is Boris Kloris.

* Grigori Rasputin and the Ogdru Jahad to {{ComicBook/Hellboy}}.

* ComicBook/LadyDeath has [[{{Satan}} Lucifer]] as her greatest enemy, since he is responsible for her current condition and keeps returning from death to torment her time and time again. Other candidates include {{ComicBook/Purgatori}}, [[OurLichesAreDifferent Sagos]] and [[TheCaligula the Death Queen]].

* ''Radio/{{The Shadow}}'' has Shiwan Khan.

* In ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'' Sonic has two Arch-Enemies [[BigBad Doctor Robotnik]] and [[EnemyWithout Super Sonic]], Knuckles Arch-Enemy is [[MadScientist Doctor]] [[OmnicidalManiac Zachary]], [[EvilCounterpart Vermin]] [[MadeOfIndestructium the Cybernik]] is the Arch Enemy of [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Shortfuse]] [[MadeOfIndestructium the Cybernik]] and Tails' Arch-Enemy is Trogg.
** Sonic hatred of Robotnik increased after [[CreateYourOwnVillain Sonic Created Robotnik]].

* The Octopus is the Arch Enemy of ''ComicBook/TheSpirit''.

** The Arch Enemy dynamic is played interestingly in the story. After Shredder was killed, the Turtles never really had another central enemy. A few issues show that the Turtles aren't really sure what to do with themselves with Shredder gone. In fact, in the City At War arc that capped off the original series, Leonardo argues that killing Shredder was more Splinter's goal than theirs.

* ''ComicBook/{{The Walking Dead}}'': Rick Grimes had the Governor, Shane, and Negan.