History Characters / JusticeLeagueOfAmericaAntagonist

* FiveManBand: Of the evil variety formerly known as the Five Bad Band. The lineup is:
** BigBad: Lord Havok
** TheDragon: Dreamslayer
** EvilGenius: Gorgon
** TheBrute: Tracer
** DarkChick: Dr. Diehard

* SwissArmySuperpowers: Brain Storm's [[HatOfPower helmet]] can do almost anything.

* GreenLanternRing: Brain Storm's [[HatOfPower helmet]] can do almost anything.

* UnskilledButStrong: The rely more on their diverse range of powers rather than any kind of tactics or teamwork.

* OneWingedAngel: Asmodel is ten feet tall, with a gaze that can sear flesh from bone and whose blood is the universal solvent. One beat of his heart is as thunderous as a thousand atomic bombs.

* [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld Really Several Thousand Years Old]]: No one knows quite how long he's been around, but it is known that he's been around for at least several millennia.

* [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld Really 580 Million Years Old]]: Somewhere in 580 million years old.

* OnlyInItForTheMoney: He isn't trying to [[ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} bottle up cities]] or [[ComicBook/{{Sinestro}} enslave worlds]]. He's not demanding donations [[ComicBook/RasAlGhul for his apocalypse cult]]. He doesn't want the universe to [[ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} surrender their free will]]. He's not trying to [[ComicBook/TheJoker poison anybody's fish]]. He just wants their money, and he's even willing to give them a product in exchange. As DC villains go, he's positively benign.

* AVillainNamedKhan: His last name if it wasn’t a dead ringer already. Although not much of a villain, more like a space car salesman with a different perspective than humans.
* AmbiguousDisorder: He suffers from a condition which causes him to give soliloquies at random intervals, in a parody of comics from the sixties.

* WeaponOfChoice: The Royal Flush Gang habitually uses "card scooters" - hoverboards painted to look like giant playing cards

* EmbarrassingMiddleName: Scarlet Skier's real name is [[{{Nerd}} Dren]] [[{{Geek}} Keeg]].

** His appearances in ''Comicbook/TheSandman'' feature a rather gaunt Destiny. Sam Kieth, the original artist for ''Sandman'', depicted Destiny as completely bald and with horribly rotting, seemingly dripping skin. When Mike Dringenberg replaced Kieth, Doctor Destiny acquired side hair and lost the rotting skin.

* DidYouJustScamCthulhu: He successfully altered the Dreamstone of [[ComicBook/TheSandman Morpheus]] to be attuned to him rather than the Dream King.

* TheBrute: An interesting example in that he clearly revels in his muscle and enjoys taking on the heroes with both the physical and psychic equivalents of overpowering brute force, yet when push comes to shove he shows his true colors as a GeniusBruiser.
* TheDreaded: ''Anything'' involving him is an "oh shit" moment. When he shows up, holding back is not an option, and it always takes multiple teams just to slow his progress. A single team going up against him is a suicide mission.
* ThePowerOfHate: He is driven by unadulterated rage - tempered by a certain amount of cold cunning and pure hatred. Martian Manhunter once defeated him by using his mental powers to make him hallucinate killing all the heroes, at which point he declared he was satisfied and let go of all his hate and anger, regressing to a baby. Unfortunately, when he found out he had been tricked, his hate and anger came back and he returned to normal.
* TheWorfEffect: The ComicBook/New52 fight between him and J'onn is a strange case of this, and really indicative of this trope's effect on the ''hero'' rather than the villain. As mentioned above, Despero has long been used as J'onn's {{Archenemy}}, having a number of clashes with him in the '80s and '90s. A constant of these clashes was the two characters being either near-equal in terms of power, or Despero being stronger but J'onn winning anyway to do outmaneuvering or outwitting him. But after that period came the 2000s, which saw J'onn get hit with '''numerous''' worfings, a small selection of which can be sampled on that trope's page. The long and short of it was that by the time the New 52 came around, the Martian Manhunter's power level had sunk firmly into the depths of InformedAbility. Cue the New 52's version of J'onn dealing Despero an absolutely ''[[CurbStompBattle brutal]]'' defeat to re-establish J'onn's power cred, since unlike him Despero's actual worfings have been very few, and he has remained a consistently team-wrecking power over the years.

* PublicDomainCharacter: She is, of course, adapted from the Morgaine of Myth/KingArthur.

* GeniusBruiser: GeniusBruiser: Originally he was a NonActionBigBad who couldn't come close to holding his own in a fight, but tsince his powerup from the Flame of Py'tar he's a hulking giant with an intellect to match.

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* AmbiguouslyGay: His appearance as a villain in the ComicBook/{{Midnighter}} series had him assume the name of Matt Dell and enter into a relationship with Midnighter. How genuine he is about this relationship is up for debate, as he reveals himself as Prometheus after a few issues and attacks Midnighter viciously, but apparently it was enough evidence for Wiki/ThatOtherWiki to induct him into their listing of LGBT supervillains.

* RealityWarper: Has high-order magical powers that let her effect this, to the point of once transforming all of Manhattan and burning Themyscira to the ground in hours. She also has limitless control over fiction and as such can manifest [[UpToEleven every wicked evil from every story ever written to serve her if she wishes.]]

* DeadpanSnarker: Under Creator/GrantMorrison's pen she became one of these, though once he left she degenerated back into another generic villain with a gimmick.

* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: Amazo has varied between a threat so powerful it takes the entire JLA to defeat him and a threat so minor Batman and Nightwing can dismantle him in a BatmanColdOpen.

* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Way different then the additional ones.

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A fearsomely powerful GalacticConqueror with PsychicPowers strong enough to make him a threat to the entire JLA.

* {{Archenemy}}: To ComicBook/MartianManhunter. Sort of, anyways. While he's not officially J'onn's archenemy, he truly despises him and will go out of his way to kill him first whenever the League shows up. This is largely because J'onn is responsible for some of his more bitter and humiliating defeats.
* TheBrute: An interesting example in that he clearly revels in his muscle and enjoys taking on the heroes with both the physical and psychic equivalents of overpowering brute force, yet when push comes to shove he shows his true colors as a GeniusBruiser.
* TheDreaded: ''Anything'' involving him is an "oh shit" moment. When he shows up, holding back is not an option, and it always takes multiple teams just to slow his progress. A single team going up against him is a suicide mission.

* GalacticConqueror: In his first appearance, and in most later incarnations as well.
* GeniusBruiser: Originally he was just a gangly Genius in the vein of an alien Lex Luthor, but since his powerup from the Flame of Py'tar he's been one of these.

* MotiveDecay: initially he was an alien king looking for escaped rebels hiding on Earth. Then it was because he wanted revenge on the Justice League for humiliating him front of his subjects. As he got more-and-more powerful, this came up less-and-less. By the time [[RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun he stole the United Nations' flag to use as a cape]], it'd been essentially forgotten.
* NighInvulnerability: Wonder Woman once ''hurt her hand'' by punching him in the face.

* PersonOfMassDestruction: It frequently takes ''multiple'' teams to bring him down, and even that isn't always guaranteed.
** According to a dossier Lobo once read on him, he has personally killed almost six billion people.

* ThePowerOfHate: He is driven by unadulterated rage - tempered by a certain amount of cold cunning and pure hatred. Martian Manhunter once defeated him by using his mental powers to make him hallucinate killing all the heroes, at which point he declared he was satisfied and let go of all his hate and anger, regressing to a baby. Unfortunately, when he found out he had been tricked, his hate and anger came back and he returned to normal.

* SuperStrength: Even by DC standards. He's easily one of the single most physically powerful beings in the entire DCU.

* TookALevelInBadass: He originally appeared as a prototypical 98-pound weakling, but became TheJuggernaut after bathing in the mystical "Flame of Py'tar."
* TheWorfEffect: The ComicBook/New52 fight between him and J'onn is a strange case of this, and really indicative of this trope's effect on the ''hero'' rather than the villain. As mentioned above, Despero has long been used as J'onn's {{Archenemy}}, having a number of clashes with him in the '80s and '90s. A constant of these clashes was the two characters being either near-equal in terms of power, or Despero being stronger but J'onn winning anyway to do outmaneuvering or outwitting him. But after that period came the 2000s, which saw J'onn get hit with '''numerous''' worfings, a small selection of which can be sampled on that trope's page. The long and short of it was that by the time the New 52 came around, the Martian Manhunter's power level had sunk firmly into the depths of InformedAbility. Cue the New 52's version of J'onn dealing Despero an absolutely ''[[CurbStompBattle brutal]]'' defeat to re-establish J'onn's power cred, since unlike him Despero's actual worfings have been very few, and he has remained a consistently team-wrecking power over the years.

Following the JLA's decimation in the ''ComicBook/{{Legends|DC}}'' crossover, the smug tycoon Max Lord stepped in to fund the formation of a new UN-sponsored Justice League with an international mandate. He also discovered that he possessed the ability to mentally "push" people. As the manager of ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational'', Max became good friends with many of the members, but his involvement with them caused him great pain, including an unwilling transformation into a cyborg and an extended coma. This led him to believe that superheroes only cause trouble for normal humans, and he set about a plan to eradicate them. Using his mind-control powers to take over Checkmate, he created an army of cyborg [=OMACs=] and even killed his one-time friend Blue Beetle before he himself was killed by Wonder Woman.

* SuperToughness: King from the second team was given invulnerability after the gene-bomb went off in {{ComicBook/Invasion}}.

** He believes metahumans are a threat to humanity, yet is a meta himself. Explained, if not justified, by him spending a significant chunk of his life as an ordinary human until his metagene was forcefully activated by [[MassSuperEmpoweringEvent a gene bomb]] during the ''ComicBook/{{Invasion}}'' CrisisCrossover.

* {{Expy}}: Played with -- his visual design is more than a little reminiscent of [[Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse Skeletor]], but he actual predates He-Man's archnemesis by 20 years, making Skeletor ''his'' Expy.

* AlternateCompanyEquivalent / {{Expy}}: of Galactus and Silver Surfer, respectively.