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* ''GreenLanternTheAnimatedSeries'': [[NamesToRunAwayFrom Atrocitus]], the BigBad of the first half, is dedicated to the destruction of the Green Lantern Corps, having many of them murdered by his Red Lantern followers. First showing his ruthlessness in ordering a colony world full of innocent civilians destroyed, Atrocitus later revealed he had destroyed worlds to fill survivors with rage and recruit them as Red Lanterns. Unlike his comics counterpart, a TragicVillain at worst and an AntiHero at best, Atrocitus in the show delighted over the pain he caused innocents and took sadistic pleasure in his actions. Even though he himself had once lost a homeworld, he gloated over inflicting the same agony on others like Razer.

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* SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker is the only supervillain of [[Characters/{{DCAU-BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesRoguesGallery}} Batman's rogues gallery]] who possesses no sympathetic or redeeming qualities whatsoever. Before becoming a supervillain, the Joker was a mobster and hit man who murdered [[spoiler:Carl Beaumont, the father of Andrea]], over money owed to his employers. He committed this murder even ''after'' the debt was repaid. This set in motion [[spoiler:Andrea]] becoming the supervillain [[WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskofthePhantasm Phantasm]] and took away Batman’s one chance of a normal, happy life. Following his transformation into the AxeCrazy Joker, he now commits crimes more often ForTheEvulz than he does for any profit. Samples of his crimes include repeatedly abusing his girlfriend [[AntiVillain Harley Quinn]], trying to bomb a child’s birthday party, setting up Catwoman to go through a grinder, psychologically tormenting Charlie Collins for two years, murdering countless people with Joker venom, attempting to drive 70 million people insane by having [[WoobieDestroyerofWorlds Ace]] MindRape them, attempting to [[NukeEm nuke Gotham City]], and going on a rampage with a KillSat. His most widely recognized crossing of the MoralEventHorizon was from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' when he tortured [[spoiler:Tim Drake]] into insanity and [[spoiler:implanted a microchip in the child so the Joker could take over Tim's body and perform a PostMortemComeback]].
* Besides Joker, we have one-shot villain Arkady Duvall from "[[Recap/TheAdventuresOfBatmanAndRobinE13Showdown Showdown]]". The [[TheDragon lieutenant]] [[spoiler:and son]] of Ra’s Al Ghul in 1883, he had a reputation for [[DuelToTheDeath starting duels]] and hurting women, earning himself a $200 bounty back east on account of what he did to one girl, and a barmaid at the beginning of the story informs Hex that Duvall hurt one of her girls “real bad.” When we first see Duvall in person, [[BadBoss he's whipping one of his workmen for slacking, when all the man had done was stopped to pick up something he'd dropped]]. When Jonah Hex is caught spying on them, Duvall orders the workers to lower him head first into a vat of molten lead, only stopping because Ra's intervened. While Ra’s tried to bomb the Transcontinental Railroad and take over the United States to [[WellIntentionedExtremist help restore ecological balance to the world]], Duvall only seemed interested in gaining an empire for himself. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Being repulsed by Duvall’s cruelty and instability]], and having recognized him to be [[spoiler:an unworthy heir]], Ra’s abandons him to his FateWorseThanDeath.

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* Besides SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' (mentioned above), the series itself has one in Blight, AKA Derek Powers, a CorruptCorporateExecutive and the ArchEnemy of Terry. In order to test his latest chemical weapon, Powers purposefully infected Harry Tully, a member of his staff, with it. When Tully leaks the information to Terry’s father, Warren, Powers had Warren murdered to cover it up. Later, Powers sold the weapon to a Kaznian diplomat who wanted to wipe out resistance on his border. To promote his product, Powers showed the diplomat pictures of [[BodyHorror Tully’s gradual death at the hands of the chemical]]. Other crimes include committing industrial sabotage, [[AbusiveParents exiling his son Paxton and causing Paxton to be corrupt and treacherous like him]], and polluting the ocean by dumping radioactive waste into it. He played a part in [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Mr. Freeze]]'s tragic demise as well; he used Freeze as a guinea pig to cure his own condition and when Freeze wanted revenge, Blight brutally crippled Freeze with his radiation. He’s also responsible for the creation of the super villain, Shriek, who he hired to assassinate Bruce Wayne for getting in the way of his plans to bulldoze Gotham's historical district for profit. There's also his response to Terry's use of YouKilledMyFather as a hint to Batman's real identity:

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* [[FromNobodyToNightmare John Dee]] started as a minor convict who only fantasized of killing the Justice League to make a name for himself among super villains, but after an experimental machine gives him ESP, Dee quickly decides to make his fantasy a reality. Becoming [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Doctor Destiny]], his first action is to take revenge on the wife who left him while he was in prison. As she’s sleeping, [[MindRape Destiny goes into her dream and begins to torture her for hours]]. Eventually the nightmare causes her to have a cardiac arrest and die of terror. Destiny then invades the dreams of each member of the Justice League, trying to use [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes their worst fears]] to kill them one-by-one. These nightmares include making Superman think he killed his friends with [[PowerIncontinence out-of-control super powers]], and [[BuriedAlive burying Hawkgirl alive]].
* [[TheEvilPrince Lord Orm]] attempted to [[CainandAbel kill his brother, Aquaman]], steal his brother’s throne, and use an Atlantean super weapon to kill every surface-dweller on the planet. [[MoralEventHorizon His worst act]] is the attempted murder of his infant nephew. Not only did he try to throw both his brother and nephew into a volcano, he purposefully arranged it so that Aquaman would be ForcedToWatch as his son died.
* Mongul, the EvilOverlord of War World, forced warriors to fight to the death in gladiatorial matches in order to [[BreadAndCircuses take his people’s minds off his oppressing them]]. When Superman refuses to kill the former reigning champion, Draaga, Mongul threatens to destroy Draaga’s planet if Superman doesn’t allow Draaga to kill him in their next match. After his efforts were foiled, Mongul returned for revenge against Superman, using a plant called the Black Mercy to [[LotusEaterMachine trap Superman in a perfect dream world]]. With Superman out of the picture, Mongul planned to turn earth into a second War World. Superman was eventually able to free himself from the dream world, but the emotional pain of doing so was enough to make Superman actually try to kill Mongul before returning to his senses.

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* {{Darkseid}}, the EvilOverlord of Apokolips and the UltimateEvil of the DCAnimatedUniverse, turned his home planet into a hellhole and seeks to do the same with Earth. He is a being utterly incapable of love or empathy for anyone. He handed over his adopted son, Scott Hall, to be tortured and brainwashed by Granny Goodness, treated his loyal son, Kalibak, [[AbusiveParents like garbage]], and attempted to outright [[OffingTheOffspring kill his other son, Orion]] while joking about it. Darkseid is also fond of conducting ColdBloodedTorture and [[YouHaveFailedMe killing minions for failing him]], or even for [[DisproportionateRetribution questioning him]]. Over the course of ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' and ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'', Darkseid tried to conquer earth no less than three times. The first time he’s defeated he compensated by personally murdering [[spoiler:Dan Turpin]] just to cause Superman pain. The second time, he brainwashed Superman into leading Darkseid’s armies against his adopted world, turning the Man of Steel into a pariah for years. His third and final attempt stems not for a desire for power, but solely to make Superman suffer. There’s a reason why Darkseid is one of the only villains [[AllLovingHero Superman]] outright tries to kill.

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* SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker is the only supervillain of [[Characters/{{DCAU-BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesRoguesGallery}} Batman's rogues gallery]] who possesses no sympathetic or redeeming qualities whatsoever. Before becoming a supervillain, the Joker was a mobster and hit man who murdered [[spoiler:Carl Beaumont, the father of Andrea]], over money owed to his employers. He committed this murder even ''after'' the debt was repaid. This set in motion [[spoiler:Andrea]] becoming the supervillain [[WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskofthePhantasm Phantasm]] and took away Batman’s one chance of a normal, happy life. Following his transformation into the AxeCrazy Joker, he now commits crimes more often ForTheEvulz than he does for any profit. Samples of his crimes include repeatedly abusing his girlfriend [[AntiVillain Harley Quinn]], trying to bomb a child’s birthday party, setting up Catwoman to go through a grinder, psychologically tormenting Charlie Collins for two years, murdering countless people with Joker venom, attempting to drive 70 million people insane by having [[WoobieDestroyerofWorlds Ace]] MindRape them, attempting to [[NukeEm nuke Gotham City]], and going on a rampage with a KillSat. His most widely recognized crossing of the MoralEventHorizon (pictured) was from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' when he tortured [[spoiler:Tim Drake]] into insanity and [[spoiler:implanted a microchip in the child so the Joker could take over Tim's body and perform a PostMortemComeback]].

* One-shot villain Arkady Duvall from "Showdown." The [[TheDragon lieutenant]] [[spoiler:and son]] of Ra’s Al Ghul in 1883, he had a reputation for [[DuelToTheDeath starting duels]] and hurting women, earning himself a $200 bounty back east on account of what he did to one girl, and a barmaid at the beginning of the story informs Hex that Duvall hurt one of her girls “real bad.” When we first see Duvall in person, [[BadBoss he's whipping one of his workmen for slacking, when all the man had done was stopped to pick up something he'd dropped]]. When Jonah Hex is caught spying on them, Duvall orders the workers to lower him head first into a vat of molten lead, only stopping because Ra's intervened. While Ra’s tried to bomb the Transcontinental Railroad and take over the United States to [[WellIntentionedExtremist help restore ecological balance to the world]], Duvall only seemed interested in gaining an empire for himself. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Being repulsed by Duvall’s cruelty and instability]], and having recognized him to be [[spoiler:an unworthy heir]], Ra’s abandons him to his FateWorseThanDeath.

* One-shot villain Arkady Duvall from "Showdown". The [[TheDragon lieutenant]] [[spoiler: and son]] of Ra’s Al Ghul in 1883, he had a reputation for [[DuelToTheDeath starting duels]] and hurting women, earning himself a $200 bounty back east on account of what he did to one girl, and a barmaid at the beginning of the story informs Hex that Duvall hurt one of her girls “real bad.” When we first see Duvall in person, [[BadBoss he's whipping one of his workmen for slacking, when all the man had done was stopped to pick up something he'd dropped]]. When Jonah Hex is caught spying on them, Duvall orders the workers to lower him head first into a vat of molten lead, only stopping because Ra's intervened. While Ra’s tried to bomb the Transcontinental Railroad and take over the United States to [[WellIntentionedExtremist help restore ecological balance to the world]], Duvall only seemed interested in gaining an empire for himself. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Being repulsed by Duvall’s cruelty and instability]], and having recognized him to be [[spoiler:an unworthy heir]], Ra’s abandons him to his FateWorseThanDeath.

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* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'' shows that age has not dulled SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker's AxCrazy tendencies. Joker was catatonic for a decade until Batman returned, which snapped him out of it and resulted in Joker going on a massive killing spree. Joker kills his therapist with a broken coffee mug and then kills a studio audience at a talk show with poisonous gas. He then tries to sell poisoned cotton candy [[WouldHurtAChild to kids at an amusement park]]. After Batman foils that scheme, Joker takes a gun and begins to shoot random civilians at the amusement park. After Batman defeats Joker in combat, Joker commits suicide and attempts to frame Batman for his death.
* SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanUnderTheRedHood'' is once again presented as an AxCrazy Psychopath. He beats Batman's young sidekick Jason Todd with a crowbar, leaves him broken and battered in a warehouse and then proceeds to blow up the warehouse. Later in the film, Joker kills four of Black Mask's mooks for no reason, after Black Mask ([[EvenEvilHasStandards very reluctantly]]) [[UngratefulBastard freed Joker from Arkham]]. Joker then attempts to kill both the Red Hood's and Black Mask's gangs by covering them with gasoline and using a lighter to try to set them on fire. Also throughout the movie, Joker taunts Batman about Jason Todd's death.
* Owlman from ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueCrisisOnTwoEarths'' was already a criminal and founding member of the Crime Syndicate of America. Upon discovering the existence of the multiverse, Owlman became enraged by the fact that, with every choice a person makes, they create another world in which they made the opposite choice. Determined that his choices had to affect not only his world, but all existence, Owlman journeyed to Earth-Prime, the Earth that supported the existence of all other Earths, planning to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy all reality in a fit of existential angst.]] About as selfish as they come, Owlman was reviled even by his compatriots in the CSA.
* VandalSavage from ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDoom'' is a conqueror with genocidal plans for the planet. He manages to steal the protocols that Batman designed to defeat the Justice League in case one or more members of the Justice League turn evil. Savage makes these protocols more lethal and sadistic and then uses them to take out the Justice League. After his LegionOfDoom seemingly triumphs over the Justice League, Vandal Savage informs them he plans to conquer the world by using a missile that will cause a solar flare that will kill half the world's population. This event will also render the rest of the world's population so weak and helpless that they will naturally accept his leadership.
* Eobard Thawne (AKA Professor Zoom) from ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueTheFlashpointParadox'' is [[EvilTwin the Reverse-Flash]] and opposes everything [[TheFlash Barry Allen]] stands for. After the world is sent to its twisted alternate state where the world is devastated between a war between Atlantis and the Amazons, Thawne delights in Barry's agony at the new world and enjoys the carnage as it makes his nemesis suffer. When Barry tries to fix the realities, Thawne tries to stop him, meaning he is willing to cause and allow the deaths of countless innocents solely to satisfy his hatred of Barry.
* ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} from ''WesternAnimation/SupermanUnbound'' is a ControlFreak and genocidal psychopath on a galactic scale. Brainiac seeks knowledge and feels the best to do that is to shrink and then steal a major city from a planet and then destroy the planet. He stole Kandor from Krypton (he didn't bother blowing up Krypton because he knew that Krypton would soon be destroyed by natural causes). Then he attacks another planet, again shrinking and stealing a city and then uses a device that causes the planet's Sun to go Nova, thus killing the remaining inhabitants on the planet. Brainiac also sends his drones to the planets he is attacking and the drones proceed to kill random inhabitants of the planet. He later steals Metropolis and tries to destroy Earth in a similar manner. He also tortures Superman for information and tries to experiment on Supergirl.

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* SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker from ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman''. Once a man who wanted to make people laugh, he fell into a vat of chemicals and became an insane, murderous MonsterClown and Batman's ArchEnemy. Devoid of any empathy, Joker commits crimes he views as "jokes" at the expense of Gotham. Terrible things he's done include poisoning people with his deadly laughing gas; putting people in various death traps; [[MindRape torturing Detective Ethan Bennett for hours]] and causing Bennett's mutation into Clayface; impersonating Batman and gassing people for minor crimes; using Bane's venom to go on a rampage; [[WouldHurtAChild attempting to drop a teenage boy into a vat of chemicals]]; frequently mistreating his henchmen and his girlfriend Harley Quinn, as well as abandoning them to be arrested or even to die; and filling the abandoned tunnels and mine shafts beneath Gotham with miles of dynamite to collapse the city to oblivion. That he manages to qualify despite being toned down to all get-out is a testament to how twisted a character Joker is.
* [[NamesToRunAwayFrom Atrocitus]], the BigBad of the first half of ''GreenLanternTheAnimatedSeries'', is dedicated to the destruction of the Green Lantern Corps, having many of them murdered by his Red Lantern followers. First showing his ruthlessness in ordering a colony world full of innocent civilians destroyed, Atrocitus later revealed he had destroyed worlds to fill survivors with rage and recruit them as Red Lanterns. Unlike his comics counterpart, a TragicVillain at worst and an AntiHero at best, Atrocitus in the show delighted over the pain he caused innocents and took sadistic pleasure in his actions. Even though he himself had once lost a homeworld, he gloated over inflicting the same agony on others like Razer.
* Slade was one of the {{Big Bad}}s of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' and was a cold, manipulative criminal mastermind. Slade's main goal throughout the series was to find himself an apprentice whom he could mold into being just as cruel and ruthless as he was. First targeting Robin, Slade came up with various schemes to test the Boy Wonder's mettle before finally infecting Robin's friends with nanobots that would destroy them from the inside out should Robin not follow Slade's every command. When his plans for Robin were thwarted, Slade next turned his attention to Terra. Taking advantage of her status as an outsider who would never be accepted because of her destructive powers, Slade manipulated her into joining and befriending the Titans, betraying them and finally trying to kill them. After Terra finds herself in over her head while fighting the Titans and retreats, Slade physically abuses her for defying his orders. When Terra tries to quit her apprenticeship, Slade reveals that the suit he gave her to enhance her powers also gave him [[PeoplePuppets complete control over her body]] and vowed that he would never let her go. Though Slade dies when Terra rebels against him, he is eventually resurrected by the demonic OmnicidalManiac, Trigon, to act as the demon's [[TheDragon dragon]]. Slade took a vicious pleasure in his work towards the ensuring the apocalypse, [[MindRape mind raping]] Raven with visions of her destiny as the AntiChrist and selling out all of humanity to Trigon in exchange for Trigon giving him back his soul. Even when Slade rebels against Trigon, it isn't out of altruism, but because Trigon refused to honor their bargain.

* SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker is the only supervillain of [[Characters/{{DCAU-BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesAntagonists}} the show's antagonists]] who possesses no sympathetic or redeeming qualities whatsoever. Before becoming a supervillain, the Joker was a mobster and hit man who murdered [[spoiler:Carl Beaumont, the father of Andrea]], over money owed to his employers. He committed this murder even ''after'' the debt was repaid. This set in motion [[spoiler:Andrea]] becoming the supervillain [[WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskofthePhantasm Phantasm]] and took away Batman’s one chance of a normal, happy life. Following his transformation into the AxeCrazy Joker, he now commits crimes more often ForTheEvulz than he does for any profit. Samples of his crimes include repeatedly abusing his girlfriend [[AntiVillain Harley Quinn]], trying to bomb a child’s birthday party, setting up Catwoman to go through a grinder, psychologically tormenting Charlie Collins for two years, murdering countless people with Joker venom, attempting to drive 70 million people insane by having [[WoobieDestroyerofWorlds Ace]] MindRape them, attempting to [[NukeEm nuke Gotham City]], and going on a rampage with a KillSat. His most widely recognized crossing of the MoralEventHorizon (pictured) was from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' when he tortured [[spoiler:Tim Drake]] into insanity and [[spoiler:implanted a microchip in the child so the Joker could take over Tim's body and perform a PostMortemComeback]].

* ComicBook/Brainiac from ''WesternAnimation/SupermanUnbound'' is a ControlFreak and genocidal psychopath on a galactic scale. Brainiac seeks knowledge and feels the best to do that is to shrink and then steal a major city from a planet and then destroy the planet. He stole Kandor from Krypton (he didn't bother blowing up Krypton because he knew that Krypton would soon be destroyed by natural causes). Then he attacks another planet, again shrinking and stealing a city and then uses a device that causes the planet's Sun to go Nova, thus killing the remaining inhabitants on the planet. Brainiac also sends his drones to the planets he is attacking and the drones proceed to kill random inhabitants of the planet. He later steals Metropolis and tries to destroy Earth in a similar manner. He also tortures Superman for information and tries to experiment on Supergirl.

* Brainiac from ''WesternAnimation/SupermanUnbound'' is a ControlFreak and genocidal psychopath on a galactic scale. Brainiac seeks knowledge and feels the best to do that is to shrink and then steal a major city from a planet and then destroy the planet. He stole Kandor from Krypton (he didn't bother blowing up Krypton because he knew that Krypton would soon be destroyed by natural causes). Then he attacks another planet, again shrinking and stealing a city and then uses a device that causes the planet's Sun to go Nova, thus killing the remaining inhabitants on the planet. Brainiac also sends his drones to the planets he is attacking and the drones proceed to kill random inhabitants of the planet. He later steals Metropolis and tries to destroy Earth in a similar manner. He also tortures Superman for information and tries to experiment on Supergirl.

* SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker is the only supervillain from Batman’s RoguesGallery who possesses no sympathetic or redeeming qualities whatsoever. Before becoming a supervillain, the Joker was a mobster and hit man who murdered [[spoiler:Carl Beaumont, the father of Andrea]], over money owed to his employers. He committed this murder even ''after'' the debt was repaid. This set in motion [[spoiler:Andrea]] becoming the supervillain [[WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskofthePhantasm Phantasm]] and took away Batman’s one chance of a normal, happy life. Following his transformation into the AxeCrazy Joker, he now commits crimes more often ForTheEvulz than he does for any profit. Samples of his crimes include repeatedly abusing his girlfriend [[AntiVillain Harley Quinn]], trying to bomb a child’s birthday party, setting up Catwoman to go through a grinder, psychologically tormenting Charlie Collins for two years, murdering countless people with Joker venom, attempting to drive 70 million people insane by having [[WoobieDestroyerofWorlds Ace]] MindRape them, attempting to [[NukeEm nuke Gotham City]], and going on a rampage with a KillSat. His most widely recognized crossing of the MoralEventHorizon (pictured) was from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' when he tortured [[spoiler:Tim Drake]] into insanity and [[spoiler:implanted a microchip in the child so the Joker could take over Tim's body and perform a PostMortemComeback]].

* Arkady Duvall was the [[TheDragon lieutenant]] [[spoiler:and son]] of Ra’s Al Ghul in 1883. He had a reputation for [[DueltotheDeath starting duels]] and hurting women, earning himself a $200 bounty back east on account of what he did to one girl, and a barmaid at the beginning of the story informs Hex that Duvall hurt one of her girls “real bad.” When we first see Duvall in person, [[BadBoss he's whipping one of his workmen for slacking, when all the man had done was stopped to pick up something he'd dropped]]. When Jonah Hex is caught spying on them, Duvall orders the workers to lower him head first into a vat of molten lead, only stopping because Ra's intervened. While Ra’s tried to bomb the Transcontinental Railroad and take over the United States to [[WellIntentionedExtremist help restore ecological balance to the world]], Duvall only seemed interested in gaining an empire for himself. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Being repulsed by Duvall’s cruelty and instability]], and having recognized him to be [[spoiler:an unworthy heir]], Ra’s abandons him to his FateWorseThanDeath.

* Besides SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' (mentioned above), the series itself has one in Blight, AKA Derek Powers, a CorruptCorporateExecutive and the ArchEnemy of Terry. In order to test his latest chemical weapon, Powers purposefully infected Harry Tully, a member of his staff, with it. When Tully leaks the information to Terry’s father, Warren, Powers had Warren murdered to cover it up. Later, Powers sold the weapon to a Kaznian diplomat who wanted to wipe out resistance on his border. To promote his product, Powers showed the diplomat pictures of [[BodyHorror Tully’s gradual death at the hands of the chemical]]. Other crimes include committing industrial sabotage, exiling his son, and polluting the ocean by dumping radioactive waste into it. He played a part in [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Mr. Freeze]]'s tragic demise as well; he used Freeze as a guinea pig to cure his own condition and when Freeze wanted revenge, Blight brutally crippled Freeze with his radiation. He’s also responsible for the creation of the super villain, Shriek, who he hired to assassinate Bruce Wayne for getting in the way of his plans to bulldoze Gotham's historical district for profit. There's also his response to Terry's use of YouKilledMyFather as a hint to Batman's real identity:

[[caption-width-right:330:[[MoralEventHorizon You tortured a child until he went insane?]] [[SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker You're joking, right?]] ''[[OhCrap Right?]]'']]

* {{Darkseid}}, the EvilOverlord of Apokolips and the UltimateEvil of the DCAnimatedUniverse, turned his home planet into a hellhole and seeks to do the same with Earth. He is a being utterly incapable of love or empathy for anyone. He handed over his adopted son, Scott Hall, to be tortured and brainwashed by Granny Goodness, treated his loyal son, Kalibak, [[AbusiveParents like garbage]], and attempted to outright [[OffingTheOffspring kill his other son, Orion]] while joking about it. Darkseid is also fond of conducting ColdBloodedTorture and [[YouHaveFailedMe killing minions for failing him]], or even for [[DisproportionateRetribution questioning him]]. Over the course of WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries and WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited, Darkseid tried to conquer earth no less than three times. The first time he’s defeated he compensated by personally murdering [[spoiler:Dan Turpin]] just to cause Superman pain. The second time, he brainwashed Superman into leading Darkseid’s armies against his adopted world, turning the Man of Steel into a pariah for years. His third and final attempt stems not for a desire for power, but solely to make Superman suffer. There’s a reason why Darkseid is one of the only villains [[AllLovingHero Superman]] outright tries to kill.

->'''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond Terry]]''': I know about all your other major enemies, but you never mentioned him. [[SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker He was the worst, wasn't he]]?

* [[NamesToRunAwayFrom Atrocitus]], the BigBad of the first half of ''GreenLanternTheAnimatedSeries’’, is dedicated to the destruction of the Green Lantern Corps, having many of them murdered by his Red Lantern followers. First showing his ruthlessness in ordering a colony world full of innocent civilians destroyed, Atrocitus later revealed he had destroyed worlds to fill survivors with rage and recruit them as Red Lanterns. Unlike his comics counterpart, a TragicVillain at worst and an AntiHero at best, Atrocitus in the show delighted over the pain he caused innocents and took sadistic pleasure in his actions. Even though he himself had once lost a homeworld, he gloated over inflicting the same agony on others like Razer.

* The aptly-named [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Atrocitus]] from ''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternTheAnimatedSeries'' is the leader of the Red Lanterns and the reason that Razor's wife is dead--causing the civil war that led to her death, [[MoralEventHorizon just so he'd become a Red Lantern]]. While he still has the same tragic backstory as his comic counterpart, any sympathy ends with the fact that he has [[ManipulativeBastard hypocritically been responsible for many of his converts]].

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'' shows that age has not dulled SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker's AxCrazy tendencies. Joker was catatonic for a decade until Batman returned, which snapped him out of it and resulted in Joker going on a massive killing spree. Joker kills his therapist with a broken coffee mug and then kills a studio audience at a talk show with poisonous gas. He then tries to sell poisoned cotton candy [[WouldHurtAChild to kids at an amusement park]]. After Batman foils that scheme, Joker takes a gun and begins to shoot random civilians at the amusement park. After Batman defeats Joker in combat, Joker commits suicide and attempts to frame Batman for his death. * SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanUnderTheRedHood'' is once again presented as an AxCrazy Psychopath. He beats Batman's young sidekick Jason Todd with a crowbar, leaves him broken and battered in a warehouse and then proceeds to blow up the warehouse. Later in the film, Joker kills four of Black Mask's mooks for no reason, after Black Mask ([[EvenEvilHasStandards very reluctantly]]) [[UngratefulBastard freed Joker from Arkham]]. Joker then attempts to kill both the Red Hood's and Black Mask's gangs by covering them with gasoline and using a lighter to try to set them on fire. Also throughout the movie, Joker taunts Batman about Jason Todd's death.

* The aptly-named [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Atrocitus]] from ''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternTheAnimatedSeries'' is the leader of the Red Lanterns and the reason that Razor's wife is dead--causing the civil war that led to her death, [[MoralEventHorizon just so he'd become a Red Lantern]]. While he still has the same tragic backstory as his comic counterpart, any sympathy ends with the fact that he has [[ManipulativeBastard hypocritically been responsible for many of his converts]].

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* {{Darkseid}}, the EvilOverlord of Apokolips and the UltimateEvil of the DCAnimatedUniverse, turned his home planet into a hellhole and seeks to do the same with Earth. He is a being utterly incapable of love or empathy for anyone. He handed over his adopted son, Scott Hall, to be tortured and brainwashed by Granny Goodness, treated his loyal son, Kalibak, [[AbusiveParents like garbage]], and attempted to outright [[OffingTheOffspring kill his other son, Orion]] while joking about it. Darkseid is also fond of conducting ColdBloodedTorture and [[YouHaveFailedMe killing minions for failing him]], or even for [[DisproportionateRetribution questioning him]]. Over the course of WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries and WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited, Darkseid tried to conquer earth no less than three times. The first time he’s defeated he compensated by personally murdering [[spoiler:Dan Turpin]] just to cause Superman pain. The second time, he brainwashed Superman into leading Darkseid’s armies against his adopted world, turning the Man of Steel into a pariah for years. His third and final attempt stems not for a desire for power, but solely to make Superman suffer. There’s a reason why Darkseid is one of the only villains [[AllLovingHero Superman]] outright tries to kill.
-->“I hope you appreciate, Kal-El, that everything that happens from this point is on your head. The skies will rain fire, the oceans will boil, the streets will run red with the blood of billions. Only then, after your last pitiful hope is extinguished, will I end your life.”

* SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanUnderTheRedHood'' is once again presented as an AxCrazy Psychopath. He beats Batman's young sidekick Jason Todd with a crowbar, leaves him broken and battered in a warehouse and then proceeds to blow up the warehouse. Later in the film, Joker kills four of Black Mask's mooks for no reason, after Black Mask ([[EvenEvilHasStandards very reluctantly]]) [[UngratefulBastard freed Joker from Arkham]]. Joker then attempts to kill both the Red Hood's and Black Mask's gangs by covering them with gasoline and using a lighter to try to set them on fire. Also throughout the movie, Joker taunts Batman about Jason Todd's death.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'' shows that age has not dulled SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker's AxCrazy tendencies. Joker was catatonic for a decade until Batman returned, which snapped him out of it and resulted in Joker going on a massive killing spree. Joker kills his therapist with a broken coffee mug and then kills a studio audience at a talk show with poisonous gas. He then tries to sell poisoned cotton candy [[WouldHurtAChild to kids at an amusement park]]. After Batman foils that scheme, Joker takes a gun and begins to shoot random civilians at the amusement park. After Batman defeats Joker in combat, Joker commits suicide and attempts to frame Batman for his death.

** Slade was one of the {{Big Bad}}s of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' and was a cold, manipulative criminal mastermind. Slade's main goal throughout the series was to find himself an apprentice whom he could mold into being just as cruel and ruthless as he was. First targeting Robin, Slade came up with various schemes to test the Boy Wonder's mettle before finally infecting Robin's friends with nanobots that would destroy them from the inside out should Robin not follow Slade's every command. When his plans for Robin were thwarted, Slade next turned his attention to Terra. Taking advantage of her status as an outsider who would never be accepted because of her destructive powers, Slade manipulated her into joining and befriending the Titans, betraying them and finally trying to kill them. After Terra finds herself in over her head while fighting the Titans and retreats, Slade physically abuses her for defying his orders. When Terra tries to quit her apprenticeship, Slade reveals that the suit he gave her to enhance her powers also gave him [[PeoplePuppets complete control over her body]] and vowed that he would never let her go. Though Slade dies when Terra rebels against him, he is eventually resurrected by the demonic OmnicidalManiac, Trigon, to act as the demon's [[TheDragon dragon]]. Slade took a vicious pleasure in his work towards the ensuring the apocalypse, [[MindRape mind raping]] Raven with visions of her destiny as the AntiChrist and selling out all of humanity to Trigon in exchange for Trigon giving him back his soul. Even when Slade rebels against Trigon, it isn't out of altruism, but because Trigon refused to honor their bargain.

* SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker from ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman''. Once a man who wanted to make people laugh, he fell into a vat of chemicals and became an insane, murderous MonsterClown and Batman's ArchEnemy. Devoid of any empathy, Joker commits crimes he views as "jokes" at the expense of Gotham. Terrible things he's done include poisoning people with his deadly laughing gas; putting people in various death traps; [[MindRape torturing Detective Ethan Bennett for hours]] and causing Bennett's mutation into Clayface; impersonating Batman and gassing people for minor crimes; using Bane's venom to go on a rampage; [[WouldHurtAChild attempting to drop a teenage boy into a vat of chemicals]]; frequently mistreating his henchmen and his girlfriend Harley Quinn, as well as abandoning them to be arrested or even to die; and filling the abandoned tunnels and mine shafts beneath Gotham with miles of dynamite to collapse the city to oblivion. That he manages to qualify despite being toned down to all get-out is a testament to how twisted a character Joker is.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'' shows that age has not dulled SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker's AxCrazy tendencies. Joker was catatonic for a decade until Batman returned, which snapped him out of it and resulted in Joker going on a massive killing spree. Joker kills his therapist with a broken coffee mug and then kills a studio audience at a talk show with poisonous gas. He then tries to sell poisoned cotton candy [[[WouldHurtAChild to kids at an amusement park]]. After Batman foils that scheme, Joker takes a gun and begins to shoot random civilians at the amusement park. After Batman defeats Joker in combat, Joker commits suicide and attempts to frame Batman for his death.

* Brainiac from ‘’WesternAnimation/SupermanUnbound’’ is a ControlFreak and genocidal psychopath on a galactic scale. Brainiac seeks knowledge and feels the best to do that is to shrink and then steal a major city from a planet and then destroy the planet. He stole Kandor from Krypton (he didn't bother blowing up Krypton because he knew that Krypton would soon be destroyed by natural causes). Then he attacks another planet, again shrinking and stealing a city and then uses a device that causes the planet's Sun to go Nova, thus killing the remaining inhabitants on the planet. Brainiac also sends his drones to the planets he is attacking and the drones proceed to kill random inhabitants of the planet. He later steals Metropolis and tries to destroy Earth in a similar manner. He also tortures Superman for information and tries to experiment on Supergirl.

* SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanUnderTheRedHood'' is once again presented as an AxCrazy Psychopath. He beats Batman's young sidekick Jason Todd with a crowbar, leaves him broken and battered in a warehouse and then proceeds to blow up the warehouse. Later in the film, Joker kills four of Black Mask's mooks for no reason, after Black Mask ([[EvenEvilHasStandards very reluctantly]]) freed Joker from Arkham. Joker then attempts to kill both the Red Hood's and Black Mask's gangs by covering them with gasoline and using a lighter to try to set them on fire. Also throughout the movie, Joker taunts Batman about Jason Todd's death.

* VandalSavage from ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDoom'', is a conqueror with genocidal plans for the planet. He manages to steal the protocols that Batman designed to defeat the Justice League in case one or more members of the Justice League turn evil. Savage makes these protocols more lethal and sadistic and then uses them to take out the Justice League. After his LegionOfDoom seemingly triumphs over the Justice League, Vandal Savage informs them he plans to conquer the world by using a missile that will cause a solar flare that will kill half the world's population. This event will also render the rest of the world's population so weak and helpless that they will naturally accept his leadership.