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* [[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darkseid]], the top threat of the entire DCAU, is the [[PlanetBaron tyrannical ruler]] of the wasteland planet [[Characters/SupermanTheAnimatedSeriesApokolips Apokolips]], and ultimately desired [[GalacticConqueror total dominion over all life in the universe]]. To achieve this end, he forever seeks the cosmic power of the Anti-Life Equation to use as the ultimate weapon. Incapable of love or empathy, [[AbusiveParents he abused his loyal son Kalibak]], handed over his adopted son Scott Free to be tortured and brainwashed by Granny Goodness, and attempted to [[OffingTheOffspring murder his other son]], Orion, for opposing him. His [[BadBoss servants are likewise subjected to torture or death]] should they fail or even question him. Setting his sights on conquering Earth, Darkseid launched a full-scale invasion, only relenting when the planet was declared off-limits by Apokolips's sister planet, New Genesis. To compensate, Darkseid murdered Dan Turpin solely to spite Superman. He would make numerous more attempts to conquer or annihilate the planet, including attempting to destroy it with a comet and brainwashing Superman into leading an attack on his adopted world, turning the Man of Steel into a pariah for years--but not before Darkseid had the brainwashed Superman basically raped. He later attempted to use Brainiac's programming to collect the Anti-Life Equation, planning to destroy the entire universe and recreate it in his own image, leading to his death in a battle with Superman. [[BackFromTheDead Upon his resurrection]], Darkseid immediately launched another invasion on Earth, not out of a desire for power, but solely to make Superman suffer. Ruthless and tyrannical, Darkseid is Superman's greatest enemy, and [[ThouShaltNotKill one of the few villains]] he has [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness outright tried to kill]].
* [[IronicName Granny Goodness]], the chief of Darkseid's training camps, is a twisted New God who runs the "[[OrphanageOfFear Orphanage]]". [[WouldHurtAChild Children]] are taken, tortured, and conditioned until loyal to Darkseid and Granny, while abused horribly should they resist and implicitly disposed of [[YouHaveFailedMe if they fail]]. Only Scott Free, son of the Highfather and foster child of Darkseid, ever escaped. Vengeful towards Scott, Granny has attempted multiple times to lure him into a situation where he would die with entire cities. To further Darkseid's aims of conquest, Granny attempts to craft a new operation on Earth and even [[ColonyDrop crafts a doom magnet to see a comet wipe out the entire Earth]].

* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanVsTheElite'': [[AtomicSuperpower Atomic Skull]], a psychopath with a grudge against Superman, starts to murder civilians to lure Superman out. Atomic Skull is about to kill 2 women and [[WouldHurtAChild a baby]] when Superman attacks him. Superman defeats Atomic Skull and he is arrested, later escaping and starting to kill more civilians. Superman and the Elite team up to defeat the Atomic Skull, but not before he kills Professor Baxter, a prominent Superman supporter. Atomic Skull is so vile, that he helps [[KnightTemplar the Elite]] gain support for their brutal tactics from the public.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'': The [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority Mutant Leader]] is a vicious gang boss who uses his "mutants" to terrorize Gotham City [[ForTheEvulz for the sheer sake of violence]]. Having his mutant gang commit all sorts of massacres, slayings, and crimes across Gotham, the Mutant Leader eventually has his men begin kidnapping young children for ransom, then brutally [[WouldHurtAChild murder the kids]] even when the ransoms are paid. The Mutant Leader's ultimate plan is to march on Gotham and kill countless people in a quest to [[OffWithHisHead decapitate]] Commissioner James Gordon and [[DecapitationPresentation parade his head through the streets]]. When captured by Batman, the Leader responds by ordering his mutants to raze the entirety of Gotham to the ground while he personally tears out the throat of the city's mayor when he tries to negotiate peace talks with the Leader.

* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanVsTheElite'': [[NuclearNasty Atomic Skull]], a psychopath with a grudge against Superman, starts to murder civilians to lure Superman out. Atomic Skull is about to kill 2 women and [[WouldHurtAChild a baby]] when Superman attacks him. Superman defeats Atomic Skull and he is arrested, later escaping and starting to kill more civilians. Superman and the Elite team up to defeat the Atomic Skull, but not before he kills Professor Baxter, a prominent Superman supporter. Atomic Skull is so vile, that he helps [[KnightTemplar the Elite]] gain support for their brutal tactics from the public.

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* [[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darkseid]] [[labelnote:Appearances]]''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueWar War]]''; ''WesternAnimation/TheReignOfTheSupermen''; ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDarkApokolipsWar Apokolips War]]''[[/labelnote]]: The Lord of Apokolips seeks to conquer the Earth and add it to his dark empire, having [[GalacticConqueror conquered countless worlds]] and massacred the populations. Having many humans abducted to be [[TransformationHorror agonizingly mutated]] into his Parademons, Darkseid launches attacks on the Earth, bombing entire cities before being driven back. [[WesternAnimation/TheDeathOfSuperman Later responsible]] for unleashing [[Characters/SupermanDoomsdayCharacter Doomsday]] to run rampant so it will kill Superman, Darkseid killed the wife of Hank Henshaw and corrupted him into the Cyborg Superman, using him to help Darkseid come to Earth where he intends to obliterate Metropolis and then conquer the world in bloody conquest. Later taking over the world and [[HeroKiller killing most of its defenders]], Darkseid converts others into unholy fusions of machine and later orders a brainwashed Batman to kill his own son, stopping at nothing to add Earth to his empire before he moves on to other worlds and continues the slaughter.

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[[AC:[[WesternAnimation/YoungJusticeOriginalSeries Original series]]]]

* "[[Recap/YoungJusticeS1E15Humanity Humanity]]" & "[[Recap/YoungJusticeS2E14Runaways Runaways]]": [[RoboticPsychopath Red Volcano]] is the ultimate creation of T.O. Morrow and "brother" of Red Tornado. Immediately turning on his creator upon being activated, Volcano continues his plan to erupt the super-volcano under Yellowstone and blanket the world under a cloud of ash, fully aware this will kill billions. When the Team discover Morrow's lair, Volcano sends his brother to [[IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten prove himself]] a "loyal Red" by killing the team, and personally tries to murder the "[[CallAHumanAMeatbag meatbags]]" when Tornado disobeys. Returning after his apparent destruction to attack Star Labs in search of the AMAZO android, Volcano threatens to murder the teenage Runaways when Blue Beetle gets in his way.

* Season 2 (''Invasion''): [[AliensAreBastards Black Beetle]], a member of [[Characters/YoungJustice2010TheReach the Reach]]'s Warrior class in their invasion of Earth, is a thuggish brute who [[AxCrazy revels in the destruction of those he terms as "meat"]]. Black Beetle assists in the abduction and safeguarding of Metahumans for the Reach's experiments; gleefully attempts to murder any hero he comes across; and helps to rig a bomb to wipe out the Team and numerous Kroloteans. When he decides the Ambassador in charge has [[YouHaveFailedMe failed too many times]], Black Beetle usurps his schemes with the singular goal of the [[EarthShatteringKaboom total annihilation of the Earth]] to hide any evidence of the Reach's illegal activities.

* Season 3 (''Outsiders''):

* Season 4 (''Phantoms'') (Episodes [[Recap/YoungJusticeS4E9Odnu 9]] through [[Recap/YoungJusticeS4E13KaerbYmTraeh 13]]): The [[HumanoidAbomination Chaos Lord]] known as [[CuteAndPsycho Child]] shows her cruelty by [[CruelAndUnusualDeath mutilating a security guard]] to study his innards, before focusing her attack on the Witch Boy Klarion, believing he is unsuited to being a Lord of Chaos. Child brutally [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals kills]] Klarion's anchor Teekl, before redirecting her ire at everything nearby and trying to murder the heroes set against her. With a free rein over Earth, Child enacts natural disasters all over, trying to melt the polar ice caps and [[OmnicidalManiac wipe out every living thing on Earth]] with sadistic relish.

* ''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternTheAnimatedSeries'', by first appearance:

** ''ComicBook/TeenTitansGo'''s "Song of the Dead": "The Agent" is a demonic, [[DealWithTheDevil deal]]-making entity from outside the mortal realm who seeks to ravage and [[TakeOverTheWorld conquer the world]]. Choosing the delinquent Johnny Rancid as a stooge, the Agent turns Johnny into a rock star so as to use his {{necromancy}}-laden music to [[ZombieApocalypse unleash zombies]] throughout Jump City that nearly devour entire swathes of innocent people across the city. The Agent then hopes to broadcast Johnny's song across the country until the entire planet is overrun by raised undead who will kill and eat an innumerable number of victims and pave the way for the Agent to [[DespotismJustifiesTheMeans assume control of the broken and diminished humanity]].

** [[Characters/TeenTitans2003Slade Slade]]--never called "Characters/{{Deathstroke}}" here--was a cold, [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] criminal [[DiabolicalMastermind 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 [[WouldHitAGirl 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 ensuring the apocalypse, [[MindRape mind raping]] Raven with visions of her destiny as TheAntiChrist 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.
** [[BigRedDevil Trigon the Terrible]] himself, [[ArchnemesisDad father]] of ComicBook/{{Raven}}, had conceived her solely to serve as a HumanSacrifice to become his portal into the realm of mortals so that he could destroy the Earth and all life on it, just as he did to Raven's homeworld of Azarath; Raven has been repressing her powers and emotions in order to avoid letting this come to pass. After Slade died in season 2, Trigon rescued him from Purgatory and offered him his life back were he to serve him in bringing Raven to her destiny. Trigon later comes to Raven in a vision, [[AbusiveParents emotionally abusing her]] and cruelly attempts to break her will so that she submits to his demands of her. When Slade asks for his promised payment, Trigon calls the deal off because, thanks to Trigon's own manipulations, Raven had come to him willingly [[ExactWords rather than Slade delivering her to him]], and Trigon attempts to incinerate Slade on the spot. Trigon then destroys the world immediately as he arrives, turning all mortal life to [[TakenForGranite stone]] and creating a HellOnEarth for him to reign over. He then plots to [[OmnicidalManiac expand this destruction to all worlds in the dimension so that he could conquer the universe]] and all would worship him as a deity, and when the Titans fight back, he not only brings out their own dark sides to torment them for his amusement, but he tries to [[OffingTheOffspring murder his daughter]], whom he openly deems to be worthless.

* ''WesternAnimation/SonOfBatman'' & ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansTheJudasContract'': [[ProfessionalKiller Slade Wilson]], aka [[Characters/BatmanDeathstroke Deathstroke]] the Terminator, slaughtered many League of Assassin members when [[Characters/BatmanRasAlGhul Ra's al Ghul]] selected Bruce Wayne as his successor instead of Slade. Taking Bruce's son Damian to keep him in line, Slade torments Damian by [[ForcedToWatch making him watch]] his mother be tortured and later tries to kill Bruce's whole Bat-Family. Saved by Brother Blood and recruited to bring him the [[Characters/DCAMUTeenTitans Teen Titans]] to drain their life force for Blood to empower himself, Slade sends Terra Markov--a teen whom he raised as his lover and pet assassin--to infiltrate and betray the Titans, and when Slade's contract requires a Titan sacrifice to replace a lost one, happily tries putting Terra to a painful death.

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* [[AristocratsAreEvil Count Werner Vertigo]] is always second in line to the throne of Vlatava. Having [[SiblingMurder murdered his brother]], Vertigo also assists the Injustice League in destruction to gain a hefty ransom with no regard for the lives of the innocents in the cities he would see leveled. [[WouldHurtAChild Trying to murder]] his 10-year-old [[EvilUncle niece]] Queen Perdita, Vertigo is eventually bested, only to later return as a major figure in the [[SuperhumanTrafficking Bedlam Syndicate]]. Vertigo happily captures teenagers with the metagene, subjecting them to experimentation with a massive fatality rate, all to eventually take the throne of Vlatava, whoever he needs to murder along the way.
* [[RoboticPsychopath Red Volcano]] is the ultimate creation of T.O. Morrow and "brother" of Red Tornado. Immediately turning on his creator [[Recap/YoungJusticeS1E15Humanity upon being activated]], Volcano continues his plan to erupt the super-volcano under Yellowstone and blanket the world under a cloud of ash, fully aware this will kill billions. When the Team discover Morrow's lair, Volcano sends his brother to [[IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten prove himself]] a "loyal Red" by killing the team, and personally tries to murder the "[[CallAHumanAMeatbag meatbags]]" when Tornado disobeys. [[Recap/YoungJusticeS2E14Runaways Returning]] after his apparent destruction to attack Star Labs in search of the AMAZO android, Volcano threatens to murder the teenage Runaways when Blue Beetle gets in his way.

** [[Characters/TeenTitans2003Slade Slade]]--never called "[[Characters/BatmanDeathstroke Deathstroke]]" here--was a cold, [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] criminal [[DiabolicalMastermind 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 [[WouldHitAGirl 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 ensuring the apocalypse, [[MindRape mind raping]] Raven with visions of her destiny as TheAntiChrist 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.

** ''Chronicles''' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP2IERLzgCo Twisted]]" short: [[Characters/HarleyQuinnAndSupportingCharacters Harley Quinn]] stands in [[AdaptationalVillainy stark contrast]] to her mainstream portrayal. An [[AxCrazy utter psychopath]], Harley abducts civilians before mutilating and [[SerialKiller killing]] them, making "toys" out of their mangled corpses. When Batman rescues a teenage girl Harley kidnapped, she tries to kill them both. During their fight, Batman comes across a makeshift "family" of the people Harley has murdered, including [[WouldHurtAChild a young boy]].

* ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond Beyond]]'' (The [[ComicBook/BatmanBeyond comic book]] can be found [[Monster/{{Batman}} here]]): "[[Recap/BatmanBeyondS2E16TheLastResort The Last Resort]]": [[WouldHurtAChild Dr. David Wheeler]] is a corrupt [[PsychoPsychologist child psychologist]] who uses his rehabilitation "ranch" for teenagers as a moneymaking scheme and to satisfy his controlling personality. Wheeler manipulates parents to send their children to his ranch for even minor pranks, then [[JuvenileHell treats the children like prisoners]] who Wheeler deprives of sleep, verbally and psychologically abuses, and even refuses to let go to the bathroom for punishments. Wheeler throws any teenagers who step out of line into "ISO"--short for isolation--cells that deprive them of sight and sound for long periods to [[GoMadFromTheIsolation mentally break them down]], with one boy shown to be left a vacant shell for days following a trip to ISO. When Terry [=McGinnis=] tries to expose Wheeler's crimes, Wheeler plans to throw him in ISO, then murder the boy to keep him quiet.

** Kanjar Ro is a power-hungry SpacePirate who has committed attempted mass murder on a planetary scale solely [[{{Greed}} for the sake of profit]]. Kanjar [[PeopleFarms harvested the Gibbles]] as a source of power, and murdered the first Blue Beetle using a Gamma Gong for trying to protect them. Upon meeting Jaime Reyes, the new Blue Beetle, Kanjar weakens Jaime with the Gamma Gong, forcefully extracting the Blue Beetle Scarab and imprisoning the boy. Kanjar then uses the Scarab on himself, then uses the Blue Beetle suit to attempt to kill Batman. Later, Kanjar attempts to [[EarthShatteringKaboom blow up a planet]] solely for profit. Afterwards, Kanjar attempts to use a neutron bomb to vaporize all sapient life on Adam Strange's homeworld of Rann, so he can then use the empty planet as a base of operations to [[GalacticConqueror conquer the galaxy]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'':

->'''The Flash:''' It's me you want Thawne, you don't have to kill thousands of innocent people to bring me down.\\

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueTheFlashpointParadox'': [[Characters/TheFlashEobardThawne Eobard Thawne]], aka Professor Zoom, is the [[ArchEnemy Reverse-Flash]] and opposes everything [[Franchise/TheFlash Barry Allen]] stands for. Thawne hires various other Flash villains to break into the Flash museum. Thawne straps bombs to the villains he hired after they defeat Flash, planning to blow up the Flash museum and several surrounding blocks, just so the Flash will be tormented knowing that several innocent people will die with him. After his initial defeat, Thawne mocks Flash over the fact his mother died. After Flash uses his speed to travel back in time and save his mother, [[TimeCrash the world is sent to a twisted alternate state]], in which a war between Atlantis and the Amazons has caused massive devastation. 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, as well as himself, solely [[EvilisPetty to satisfy his hatred of Barry]].

Similar to [[Monster/TheDCU the comics]], [[WesternAnimation/DCComicsAnimated DC animated works]] feature some {{Complete Monster}}s.

* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':
** ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries The Animated Series]]'':
*** [[Characters/DCAUJoker The Joker]] is Batman's ArchEnemy. Before becoming a MonsterClown, the Joker was a mobster and hitman who murdered Andrea Beaumont's father, Carl, over money owed to the latter's employers; a murder he committed even after the debt was repaid. This set in motion Andrea becoming the supervillain [[WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskofthePhantasm Phantasm]] and took away Batman's one chance of a normal, happy life. Following his transformation into the utterly psychotic Joker, he now commits crimes more often for fun than he does for any profit. Samples of his crimes include repeatedly abusing his girlfriend Harley Quinn; trying to bomb a child's birthday party; setting up Catwoman to go through a grinder; psychologically tormenting Charles "Charlie" Collins for two years, before using him in a scheme to blow up much if not all of the entire Gotham Police Department, which would kill Charlie as well; murdering countless people with Joker venom; [[Recap/JusticeLeagueS2E21And22WildCards using Ace]] in an attempt to drive 70 million people insane; attempting to nuke Gotham City; and going on a rampage with a KillSat. Perhaps his [[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker most infamous crime]] was when he brutally tortured Tim Drake into insanity and implanted a microchip in the child so that the Joker could take over Tim's body and perform a PostMortemComeback.
*** "[[Recap/TheAdventuresOfBatmanAndRobinE19DeepFreeze Deep Freeze]]": [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Grant Walker]] is a seemingly affable [[MrAltDisney theme park mogul]] who seeks only to prolong his life by way of Mr. Freeze's ice technology, but in truth harbors much darker intentions. Kidnapping Freeze and using his comatose wife as a bargaining chip to convince Freeze to give Walker his icy, undying condition, Walker soon enough reveals his plan to use a massive freeze cannon to plunge the entire world into a new Ice Age for years. Walker hopes to kill off all of humanity except for his "chosen few", then repopulate the planet with his own [[AGodAmI Garden of Eden]], and though his plan is foiled, Walker returns in ''ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures'', where he kidnaps several scientists to cure himself of a lethal condition, planning to kill them all and then restart his scheme to wipe out humankind.
** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' (The [[ComicBook/BatmanBeyond comic book]] can be found [[Monster/{{Batman}} here]]): "[[Recap/BatmanBeyondS2E16TheLastResort The Last Resort]]": [[WouldHurtAChild Dr. David Wheeler]] is a corrupt [[PsychoPsychologist child psychologist]] who uses his rehabilitation "ranch" for teenagers as a moneymaking scheme and to satisfy his controlling personality. Wheeler manipulates parents to send their children to his ranch for even minor pranks, then [[JuvenileHell treats the children like prisoners]] who Wheeler deprives of sleep, verbally and psychologically abuses, and even refuses to let go to the bathroom for punishments. Wheeler throws any teenagers who step out of line into "ISO"--short for isolation--cells that deprive them of sight and sound for long periods to [[GoMadFromTheIsolation mentally break them down]], with one boy shown to be left a vacant shell for days following a trip to ISO. When Terry [=McGinnis=] tries to expose Wheeler's crimes, Wheeler plans to throw him in ISO, then murder the boy to keep him quiet.
* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' (also appearing later in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague''):
** [[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darkseid]], the top threat of the entire DCAU, is the [[PlanetBaron tyrannical ruler]] of the wasteland planet [[Characters/SupermanTheAnimatedSeriesApokolips Apokolips]], and ultimately desired [[GalacticConqueror total dominion over all life in the universe.]] To achieve this end, he forever seeks the cosmic power of the Anti-Life Equation to use as the ultimate weapon. Incapable of love or empathy, [[AbusiveParents he abused his loyal son Kalibak]], handed over his adopted son Scott Free to be tortured and brainwashed by Granny Goodness, and attempted to [[OffingTheOffspring murder his other son]], Orion, for opposing him. His [[BadBoss servants are likewise subjected to torture or death]] should they fail or even question him. Setting his sights on conquering Earth, Darkseid launched a full-scale invasion, only relenting when the planet was declared off-limits by Apokolips's sister planet, New Genesis. To compensate, Darkseid murdered Dan Turpin solely to spite Superman. He would make numerous more attempts to conquer or annihilate the planet, including attempting to destroy it with an comet and brainwashing Superman into leading an attack on his adopted world, turning the Man of Steel into a pariah for years--but not before Darkseid had the brainwashed Superman basically raped. He later attempted to use Brainiac's programming to collect the Anti-Life Equation and bend the universe to his will, leading to his death in a battle with Superman. [[BackFromTheDead Upon his resurrection]], Darkseid immediately launched another invasion on Earth, not out of a desire for power, but solely to make Superman suffer. Ruthless and tyrannical, Darkseid is Superman's greatest enemy, and [[ThouShaltNotKill one of the few villains]] he has [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness outright tried to kill]].
** [[IronicName Granny Goodness]], the chief of Darkseid's training camps, is a twisted New God who runs the "[[WouldHurtAChild Orphanage]]". Children are taken, tortured, and conditioned until loyal to Darkseid and Granny, while abused horribly should they resist and implicitly disposed of [[YouHaveFailedMe if they fail]]. Only Scott Free, son of the Highfather and foster child of Darkseid, ever escaped. Vengeful towards Scott, Granny has attempted multiple times to lure him into a situation where he would die with entire cities. To further Darkseid's aims of conquest, Granny attempts to craft a new operation on Earth and even [[ColonyDrop crafts a doom magnet to see a comet wipe out the entire Earth]].
** [[Characters/SupermanBrainiacCharacter Brainiac]], a threat to the entire DCAU surpassed only by Darkseid, is a RoboticPsychopath and [[TheCollector collector of data]] who views himself as superior to all organic life. Once the [[AIIsACrapshoot supercomputer]] responsible for running Krypton's day-to-day affairs, Brainiac lied to the Council of Elders about the planet's impending doom, prioritizing saving himself over preserving the lives of his creators. Escaping into space, Brainiac roams from world to world, assembling all of a planet's information, and then destroying the original in order to increase the value of his stolen memories; his objective is to repeat the process across the universe until he has "destroyed all of creation". Along the way he murders the crew of a spaceship that was investigating his presence, tries to steal Superman's body for himself, and eventually, after fusing with Lex Luthor, tries to wipe out the entire universe in one fell swoop, aiming to rebuild it [[InTheirOwnImage in his own image]].
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' & ''Unlimited'' (see above for Joker & the ''Superman'' entries):
** "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueS1E6And7TheEnemyBelow The Enemy Below]]": [[AristocratsAreEvil Lord Orm]] is the treacherous and power-hungry [[CainAndAbel half-brother]] of Aquaman. Resenting his brother for having never wiped out the surface-dwellers, [[FantasticRacism whom Orm despises]], Orm seeks to [[TheEvilPrince usurp the throne from his brother and wage a war against the surface-dwellers to eradicate them]]. To achieve this end, Orm hires Deadshot to assassinate Aquaman, blaming the attack on the surface-dwellers and using this as a means to justify war, forcing Aquaman's wife Mera to cooperate by threatening her infant son. When Aquaman returns, Orm reveals his treachery by abducting him and chaining him to a cliff near a volcano. To ensure his place as ruler over Atlantis, Orm attempts to plunge both Aquaman [[WouldHurtAChild and his son]] into the volcano, forcing Aquaman to severe his own hand to save his son. Orm then arms an Atlantean thermal reactor to melt the polar ice caps, thus submerging the entire planet underwater and sentencing all surface-dwellers to death.
** "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueS1E10And11WarWorld War World]]" & "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS1E2ForTheManWhoHasEverything For the Man Who Has Everything]]": [[Characters/DCComicsMongul Mongul]], the cruel dictator of War World, [[GladiatorGames forced warriors to fight to the death]] in order to [[BreadAndCircuses take his people's minds off his oppressing them]]. When Superman refuses to kill the former reigning champion, Draaga, after defeating him, Mongul [[SadisticChoice threatens to destroy Draaga's planet if Superman doesn't allow Mongul to defeat him in his 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 on turning Earth into a second War World. Superman was eventually able to free himself from the dream world--but not before Mongul delivered a brutal beatdown to Wonder Woman--but the emotional pain of doing so was enough to make Superman actually try to kill Mongul before returning to his senses.
** "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueS2E5And6OnlyADream Only a Dream]]": [[FromNobodyToNightmare John Dee]], who also made several cameos as a member of the LegionOfDoom, started out 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, Destiny [[MindRape 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 [[IKnowWhatYouFear use their worst fears]] to kill them one-by-one. These nightmares include making Superman think he killed his friends with out-of-control superpowers; and burying the claustrophobic Hawkgirl alive.
** "The Once and Future Thing" [[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS1E12WeirdWesternTales two]]-[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS1E13TimeWarped parter]]: [[PsychopathicManchild David Clinton]] was once a weird little man who used time travel to steal artifacts throughout history, but after his [[SmallNameBigEgo sensitive ego]] takes one too many blows from his dissatisfied wife Enid, David [[FromNobodyToNightmare transforms himself]] into "Lord Chronos". Altering the future to one where he has killed off the Justice League and its hundreds of members, Chronos conquers Gotham City and empowers the Jokerz with technology to run rampant and terrorize innocents. Having trapped Enid's mother in a "cruel thing" where he has kept her for a long, long time to control and abuse Enid, Chronos further showcases how brutal his control of time can be as he transports his snitch minion Chucko to the exact moment the dinosaurs were wiped out to kill him. Though at first merely uncaring that his actions are tearing apart reality, Chronos decides to further gain power by traveling back to the beginning of time, [[OmnicidalManiac wipe out everything that has ever existed]], and recreate time [[InTheirOwnImage in his own image]].

* ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' continuity:
** ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueCrisisOnTwoEarths Crisis on Two Earths]]'':
*** [[BigBad Owlman]] was already a criminal and founding member of the [[Characters/JusticeLeagueOfAmericaCrimeSyndicate 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 [[ItsAllAboutMe selfish as they come]], Owlman was reviled [[EvenEvilHasStandards even by his compatriots in the CSA]].
*** [[PsychopathicWomanchild Superwoman]] is Owlman's {{sadist}}ic lover, a self-proclaimed "[[AxCrazy psychopathic murderer]]" who gets off on hurting others on both personal and grander scales. Reigning alongside fellow Syndicate members in threatening the entire population of their Earth, Superwoman is eager to aid Owlman in his plot to annihilate all worlds across the multiverse, actually aroused at the idea of ending all life across all realities while betraying the rest of their allies. When confronted by Batman, Superwoman goes about [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beating him brutally]] and torturing him, threatening him with the fate of either dying at her hand, or becoming her personal "[[SexSlave pet]]" to do whatever she wants with.
** ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDoom Doom]]'': [[Characters/DCComicsVandalSavage Vandal Savage]] is a conqueror with genocidal plans for Earth. He manages to steal the protocols that Batman designed to defeat the Justice League in case one or more members 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 TakeOverTheWorld by using a missile that will cause a [[SolarFlareDisaster 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.
* WesternAnimation/DCAnimatedMovieUniverse, by release date:
** ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueTheFlashpointParadox'': [[Characters/TheFlashEobardThawne Eobard Thawne]], aka Professor Zoom, is the [[ArchEnemy Reverse-Flash]] and opposes everything [[Franchise/TheFlash Barry Allen]] stands for. Thawne hires various other Flash villains to break into the Flash museum. Thawne straps bombs to the villains he hired after they defeat Flash, planning to blow up the Flash museum and several surrounding blocks, just so the Flash will be tormented knowing that several innocent people will die with him. After his initial defeat, Thawne mocks Flash over the fact his mother died. After Flash uses his speed to travel back in time and save his mother, [[TimeCrash the world is sent to a twisted alternate state]], in which a war between Atlantis and the Amazons has caused massive devastation. 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, as well as himself, solely [[EvilisPetty to satisfy his hatred of Barry]].
** [[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darkseid]] [[labelnote:Appearances]]''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueWar War]]''; ''WesternAnimation/TheReignOfTheSupermen''; ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDarkApokolipsWar Apokolips War]]''[[/labelnote]]: The Lord of Apokolips seeks to conquer the Earth and add it to his dark empire, having [[GalacticConqueror conquered countless worlds]] and massacred the populations. Having many humans abducted to be [[TransformationHorror agonizingly mutated]] into his Parademons, Darkseid launches attacks on the Earth, bombing entire cities before being driven back. [[WesternAnimation/TheDeathOfSuperman Later responsible]] for unleashing [[Characters/SupermanDoomsdayCharacter Doomsday]] to run rampant so it will kill Superman, Darkseid killed the wife of Hank Henshaw and corrupted him into the Cyborg Superman, using him to help Darkseid come to Earth where he intends to obliterate Metropolis and then conquer the world in bloody conquest. Later taking over the world and [[HeroKiller killing most of its defenders]], Darkseid converts others into unholy fusions of machine and later orders a brainwashed Batman to kill his own son, stopping at nothing to add Earth to his empire before he moves on to other worlds and continues the slaughter.
** ''WesternAnimation/SonOfBatman'' & ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansTheJudasContract'': [[ProfessionalKiller Slade Wilson]], aka [[Characters/BatmanDeathstroke Deathstroke]] the Terminator, slaughtered many League of Assassin members when [[Characters/BatmanRasAlGhul Ra's al Ghul]] selected Bruce Wayne as his successor instead of Slade. Taking Bruce's son Damian to keep him in line, Slade torments Damian by [[ForcedToWatch making him watch]] his mother be tortured and later tries to kill Bruce's whole Bat-Family. Saved by Brother Blood and recruited to bring him the [[Characters/DCAMUTeenTitans Teen Titans]] to drain their life force for Blood to empower himself, Slade sends Terra Markov--a teen whom he raised as his lover and pet assassin--to infiltrate and betray the Titans, and when Slade's contract requires a Titan sacrifice to replace a lost one, happily tries putting Terra to a painful death.
** ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueThroneOfAtlantis'': [[TheChessmaster Black Manta]] readily assists [[BigBad Orm]] with his plan to start a war between Atlantis and the rest of the world, by [[FalseFlagOperation slaughtering Atlantean civilians in sea craft that is disguised to look like a US military sub]]. Near the end of the film, Black Manta revealed he has been [[ManipulativeBastard manipulating]] Orm into starting a genocidal war with the surface world, claiming that the war was his idea. Black Manta [[TheStarscream ultimately plans to kill Orm and take the riches of Atlantis for himself]].
** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBadBlood'': [[Characters/BatmanTaliaAlGhul Talia al-Ghul]], the new leader of the League of Assassins, is a ControlFreak of the highest order, and TookALevelInJerkass from ''Son of Batman''. Her ultimate plan is is to use Bruce Wayne's technology to brainwash the world leaders attending his tech summit, in order to expand the League of Assassins' influence over the planet. Talia assembles a team of villains under the command of [[TheDragon the Heretic]], the adult clone of her and Bruce's ChildByRape Damian Wayne, and orders them to capture Bruce so [[MindRape his mind could be broken]] with Mad Hatter's machine; Mad Hatter has been forced to cooperate by means of an ExplosiveLeash. Later, Talia sends Heretic to attack Wayne Enterprises in order to steal technology necessary for her plan, near-fatally wounding Lucius Fox in the assault. When Heretic breaks down and begs for Talia to love him as a mother, and wishing to have Damian's memories, she shoots him in the head for disobeying her orders regarding Damian. As the brainwashing is taking place, she orders a mind-controlled Bruce to shoot Dick Grayson and [[OffingTheOffspring their son]] Damian dead, coldly proclaiming that she and Bruce could always "make more".
** ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDark'': [[BigBad Destiny]] is a [[EvilSorcerer malevolent sorcerer]] with [[AGodAmI a god complex]]. A former man of science, Destiny became consumed by a lust for power and, using a combination of BlackMagic and [[SoulJar his own soul]], created a magical artifact called the Dreamstone, which had the ability to force its victims to live their worst nightmares, often driving them into a murderous rage. Destiny used the Dreamstone to spread fear and chaos across the land until he was defeated by the demon ComicBook/{{Etrigan}} and Myth/{{Merlin}}, but not before he mortally wounded the knight Jason Blood, resulting in him merging with Etrigan to save his life. His physical form destroyed, Destiny's spirit resided in a fragment of the Dreamstone for centuries until it was uncovered by Ritchie Simpson, who was dying of a magical illness. Playing on the man's desperation for immortality, Destiny manipulates Ritchie into spreading the Dreamstone's dark magic across the world, resulting in casualties on a global scale, while Destiny [[EmotionEater fed off of the negative energy]] of the stone's victims. Upon returning to physical form upon the Dreamstone being united, Destiny possesses Ritchie's body and sets off to continue his worldwide conquest. Affecting a nearby city with the Dreamstone's magic to gain power, Destiny causes mass chaos and destruction, and kills Swamp Thing when he attempts to intervene. Even when defeated, Destiny mortally wounds Jason Blood, resulting in the latter's death.
** ''WesternAnimation/ConstantineCityOfDemons'': [[BigBad Nergal]] is a depraved and sadistic demon from Hell. When [[Characters/HellblazerJohnConstantine John Constantine]] summoned him to save the young Astra from being sacrificed by her father Alex Logue, Nergal not only killed the latter and his followers but then slaughtered the people at the club before tossing Astra into a portal to Hell for nothing but [[ForTheEvulz his own enjoyment]]. Unsatisfied with his work in Hell, Nergal, under the identity of Beroul, settles in Los Angeles to run his own hellish dimension where the damned souls are tortured and gruesomely executed in various ways by demons. He gets his supply of souls from comatose patients in hospitals. He's also a [[ToServeMan man-eater]] who regularly bathes in a pool of liquefied human bodies. The demon abducts the soul of the young Trish Chandler, keeping it inside his own body in order to compel John into getting rid of his five demonic rivals. After John fulfills his demand, Nergal [[ILied doesn't keep his words]] and keeps Trish as a bargaining chip to force the man into working for him. When John turns against him, Nergal strangles Chas Chandler and gloats about his ill intentions for Trish.
** ''WesternAnimation/WonderWomanBloodlines'': {{Medusa}}, upon being freed, murders Dr. Cyber and then [[LiterallyShatteredLives kills Dr. Poison]] before using Poison's serum to strengthen herself. Going on a [[SpreeKiller killing spree]], Medusa [[TakenForGranite petrifies]] and slaughters Amazons, proclaiming her intent to exterminate all of Themyscira, threatening to torture Hippolyta to death before trying to kill Diana in front of her people.
* WesternAnimation/{{Tomorrowverse}}:
** ''WesternAnimation/JusticeSocietyWorldWarII'': The Advisor, this universe's Psycho-Pirate, is Aquaman's EvilChancellor who [[PiggybackingOnHitler allied himself with the Nazis]]. Once a pirate who was rescued by the Atlanteans after his ship sunk, the Advisor [[UngratefulBastard thanked them]] by [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashing Aquaman]], using him to give Atlantean weapons to the Nazis to assist in their [[TakeOverTheWorld world domination scheme]], hoping to betray them once they achieve their goal. After luring the Justice Society into a trap in Atlantis, the Advisor sends Aquaman and his Atlantean army to wreak havoc on American soil, hoping to destroy the entire country to make it easier for the Nazis to conquer. Smugly killing Steve Trevor after Aquaman breaks his control and retreats, the Advisor also reveals to have called in some planes to bomb the entire country should Aquaman fail.
** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheLongHalloween'': [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]], unwilling to let the mysterious Holiday Killer replace him as Gotham's most notorious criminal, escapes from Arkham Asylum to conduct his own reign of terror. Beating [[Characters/BatmanTwoFace Harvey Dent]] in his own house and threatening to murder his wife, the Joker [[SpreeKiller goes on a killing spree]] through Gotham, targeting members of the mob to show he won't tolerate competitors. The Joker caps off his rampage by hijacking a plane and attempting to [[DeadlyGas fatally gas]] everyone in Times Square on New Year's Eve, hoping to kill Holiday and as many people as possible in the process.
* Other Continuities, by release date:
** ''WesternAnimation/SupermanDoomsday'': [[PsychopathicManchild Toyman]] is a criminal with an unhealthy obsession with children who views the entire world as his plaything. Taking advantage of Superman's death, Toyman uses a [[SpiderTank giant robot spider]] to rob banks, then uses the robot to take a [[BusFullOfInnocents school bus full of children hostage]], threatening to [[WouldHurtAChild drop the bus off a building]] if the cops don't let him keep the money. [[Characters/SupermanLoisLane Lois Lane]] manages to save most of the kids, but a robot toy on the bus prevents her and one of the children from leaving. Seeing that most of the children he kidnapped have escaped, Toyman attacks Lois and the child. Toyman's robot throws the bus off the building with Lois and the child on board before being captured. Toyman quickly escapes from the police and attacks a day care center, where he kills a four-year-old.
** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanUnderTheRedHood'': [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]] opens up the film by brutally beating the young [[Characters/BatmanJasonTodd Jason Todd]], the second ComicBook/{{Robin}}, to a bloody pulp with a crowbar, before leaving him to die in an explosion he sets off. After Joker is released by a reluctant Black Mask from Arkham Asylum to kill Red Hood, Joker demonstrates [[AxCrazy his propensity for random violence]] by slitting the throat of one of his guards and shooting the other four dead, and soon after backstabs Black Mask by gagging him and the members of both his and Red Hood's gang, intending to burn them all alive for the purpose of getting Red Hood's attention. Once it's revealed Red Hood is in fact a resurrected Jason Todd and Batman turns the tides against Red Hood in the final confrontation, Joker tries to pin Batman down for the purpose of dying with both his [[ArchEnemy arch-rival]] and Red Hood in an exploding building, absolutely ecstatic that he gets to die getting everything he wants.
** ''WesternAnimation/AllStarSuperman'': [[RoboticPsychopath Solaris the Tyrant Sun]] is a gigantic computer that wanders the cosmos, consuming stars for fuel and leaving the inhabited planets to die. Contacted by [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]] to assist him in his master plan to defeat a dying Superman, Solaris turns the Sun red in an attempt to depower the Man of Steel. Supes counteracts this and leads an army of sapient robots to battle Solaris, but he destroys the army in one blast before announcing his plan to [[TheStarscream betray Luthor]], consume the Sun and force the Earthlings to [[AGodAmI worship him as a deity]] or freeze to death in eternal darkness. Superman then tries to feed the Tyrant Sun to a Sun-Eater, but Solaris destroys it. Before Superman destroys the mad machine, Solaris turns the Sun blue [[TakingYouWithMe to spite Superman by destroying his people]].
** ''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternEmeraldKnights'': [[Characters/GreenLanternAtrocitus Atrocitus]] is a terrorist who has been imprisoned on an abandoned world for 700 years. Killing the first person who crash lands there, he commences a killing spree of [[SpacePolice Green Lanterns]] by making them overuse their [[GreenLanternRing power rings]] so he can butcher them at his leisure. When his fourth target, [[TheHero Abin Sur]], manages to defeat Atrocitus, Atrocitus tries to smash the Lantern's power battery to [[TakingYouWithMe take the planet with him]]. After Atrocitus is captured, he tries to break Abin Sur by prophesying his best friend's fall to evil.
** ''WesternAnimation/SupermanVsTheElite'': [[NuclearNasty Atomic Skull]], a psychopath with a grudge against Superman, starts to murder civilians to lure Superman out. Atomic Skull is about to kill 2 women and [[WouldHurtAChild a baby]] when Superman attacks him. Superman defeats Atomic Skull and he is arrested, later escaping and starting to kill more civilians. Superman and the Elite team up to defeat the Atomic Skull, but not before he kills Professor Baxter, a prominent Superman supporter. Atomic Skull is so vile, that he helps [[KnightTemplar the Elite]] gain support for their brutal tactics from the public.
** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'': The [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority Mutant Leader]] is a vicious gang boss who uses his "mutants" to terrorize Gotham City [[ForTheEvulz for the sheer sake of violence]]. Having his mutant gang commit all sorts of massacres, slayings, and crimes across Gotham, the Mutant Leader eventually has his men begin kidnapping young children for ransom, then brutally [[WouldHurtAChild murder the kids]] even when the ransoms are paid. The Mutant Leader's ultimate plan is to march on Gotham and kill countless people in a quest to [[OffWithHisHead decapitate]] Commissioner James Gordon and [[DecapitationPresentation parade his head through the streets]]. When captured by Batman, the Leader responds by ordering his mutants to raze the entirety of Gotham to the ground while he personally tears out the throat of the city's mayor when he tries to negotiate peace talks with the Leader.
** ''WesternAnimation/SupermanUnbound'': [[Characters/SupermanBrainiacCharacter Brainiac]] is a galactic-scale ControlFreak and genocidal conqueror who seeks the knowledge of the universe, [[CityInABottle shrinking and stealing]] the city of Kandor for his goal while allowing the rest of Krypton to be destroyed by natural disaster. Later attacking another planet, Brainiac takes its capital before using a Solar Aggressor missile to cause its sun to explode, [[EarthShatteringKaboom killing the rest of the population]]. Brainiac also has his drones come to each planet he invades and instructs them to kill inhabitants at random. Stealing Metropolis from Earth, Brainiac [[ColdBloodedTorture tortures]] Superman for information about Kandor before attempting to massacre the rest of Earth's population.
** ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueGodsAndMonsters'':
*** Prequel comic: [[EvilutionaryBiologist Jackson Alpert]], better known as [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr. Psycho]], is an egomaniacal madman who seeks to evolve humanity to the next stage so he may [[AGodAmI lord over it as a god]]. Having taken part in the CIA's [=MKUltra=] experiments, Psycho [[PlayingWithSyringes performed extra tests]] on his subjects to turn them into rampaging mutants who wreaked death and havoc. Years later, Psycho keeps a group of superhumans as his enslaved experiments, threatening to agonizingly end their elongated lives at a moment's notice if they dare question his orders. After a failed attempt to torturously experiment on Superman, Dr. Psycho transforms himself into "Imperiex" and lays siege to Earth with his evolved humans, letting them run rampant while he controls the Justice League in his plan to eradicate the minds of all life on Earth and impose his own will onto them. Uncaring for the dozens who he tortures and experiments on and even less for the hundreds who die by his schemes, Psycho is called out by the League for [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist disguising his blatantly self-serving goals]] as "peace" for humankind.
*** ''Chronicles''' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP2IERLzgCo Twisted]]" short: [[Characters/HarleyQuinnAndSupportingCharacters Harley Quinn]] stands in [[AdaptationalVillainy stark contrast]] to her mainstream portrayal. An [[AxCrazy utter psychopath]], Harley abducts civilians before mutilating and [[SerialKiller killing]] them, making "toys" out of their mangled corpses. When Batman rescues a teenage girl Harley kidnapped, she tries to kill them both. During their fight, Batman comes across a makeshift "family" of the people Harley has murdered, including [[WouldHurtAChild a young boy]].
** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanGothamByGaslight'': UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper--in reality Commissioner James Gordon--is a psychotic KnightTemplar and SerialKiller who believes in ridding Gotham of the "filth" of the streets, especially [[HeManWomanHater women]]. Kicking off a murder spree where he hunts down and slaughters numerous innocent women on the streets, the Ripper later tracks down and kills the kindhearted nun Sister Leslie. When he learns Dr. Hugo Strange has discovered his identity, the Ripper ambushes Strange and throws him to his own asylum's patients, who tear Strange apart. The Ripper then murders an old woman to frame Bruce Wayne for his crimes, and when Selina Kyle tries to prove his innocence, the Ripper targets her as well. The Ripper even regularly tortures his wife by burning the latter to "burn the sin away", until the latter has been utterly DrivenToMadness. Utterly consumed by misogynistic fervor and a fanatic devotion to bloodshed, the Ripper showcases the true evil on Gotham's streets hiding within a human being.
* ''DC Showcase'' shorts, by release date:
** ''[[WesternAnimation/DCShowcaseJonahHex Jonah Hex]]'': [[PredatoryProstitute Madame Lorraine]] is a [[TheVamp seductress]] who makes a practice of enticing rich men and luring them into her clutches. Once she has them, Lorraine [[BlackWidow coldly shoots them dead, takes their money]], and has her flunkies dump their bodies in a mine shaft. Lorraine comes into conflict with ComicBook/JonahHex after she kills one of his bounties and attempts to repeat the process on him. Once Hex forces Lorraine to show him where his bounty's body is, Lorraine shows him into the mine shaft, where the decaying bodies of all the men--at least [[SerialKiller 15 victims]]--Lorraine has killed are seen.
** ''WesternAnimation/SupermanShazamTheReturnOfBlackAdam'': [[Characters/ShazamBlackMarvelFamily Black Adam]] is presented here [[AdaptationalVillainy without any of his more redeemable traits]]. Once chosen as the Earth's savior, Adam's [[FaceHeelTurn power consumed him]] to the point where [[AGodAmI he considered himself nothing less than a god]], forcing Shazam to cast him out in a far point in space. Upon coming to Earth, the [[EstablishingCharacterMoment very first thing Adam does]] is redirect his impact path into an inhabited parking lot, before seeking out and intending to kill Shazam's next candidate, the young Billy Batson. Throughout his appearance, Adam shows glorification in exercising his own power over living beings, attempting to flood all of Fawcett City as a distraction and taking a hostage to force Billy to depower himself--later trying to kill the hostage anyways--while relating his supremacist philosophies to Billy. Once he's beaten, Adam contents himself with smugly trying to goad Billy into killing him. Adam would willingly hurt anyone and anything so long as the result would be to his benefit.
** ''[[WesternAnimation/DCShowcaseCatwoman Catwoman]]'': [[HumanTraffickers Rough Cut]] is a diamond smuggler who has taken up human trafficking. Kidnapping a dozen women at a time, Rough Cut has them placed in crates and sold into {{slavery|Is A Special Kind Of Evil}}. When his gang abducts [[WouldHurtAChild teenager]] Holly Robinson, her friend [[Characters/CatwomanSelinaKyle Catwoman]] pursues them. She finds them [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals trying to kill a cat]] for the jewels on its collar, and ends up chasing them. Rough Cut makes a semi truck crash in the hopes it will kill his enemy, before offering her a 10% cut if she leaves him alone.
** ''[[WesternAnimation/DCShowcaseThePhantomStranger The Phantom Stranger]]'': [[EvilSorcerer Seth]] is a centuries-old sorcerer who looks like an attractive young man. Discovering an ancient amulet that allowed him to [[ImmortalityImmorality retain eternal youth]] by [[LifeDrinker draining the life of others]], Seth would murder many people to keep himself immortal. Taking over one mansion whose previous owner is implied to have been murdered by him, Seth started luring teenagers there to drain their lives, and when he invited his latest victims, he managed to drain nearly all of them, only being stopped by ComicBook/ThePhantomStranger, whom he intended to keep as [[LivingBattery fuel]], due to his large life aura, openly saying that he would slowly and painfully drain him for a hundred years.

* [[WesternAnimation/YoungJusticeOriginalSeries Original series]]:
** [[TheEvilPrince Orm the Ocean Master]] is the [[CainAndAbel treacherous younger brother]] of Aquaman, King of Atlantis. Masquerading as a loyal brother and supporter of the crown, Orm participates in the evil activities of the council known as [[Characters/YoungJustice2010TheLight the Light]], while attempting to seize Atlantis. Using a racist group of Atlanteans known as the Purifiers against the "impure" Atlanteans, Orm attempts to inspire them to wipe out anyone they deem as impure, knowing it will cause a civil war, after which he will take over what's left. He also kidnaps his sister-in-law Mera and tries to drain her powers, slowly killing her, despite knowing that she is pregnant. After the attempted genocide and civil war fail, Orm is eventually exposed and imprisoned for six years until he escapes. [[Recap/YoungJusticeS3E9HomeFires Seeking revenge]], Orm intends to enact the "nuclear option": finding where the heroes' loved ones have their play dates, Orm waits until 18 of them have arrived, including [[WouldHurtAChild babies and children]] alike, before planning to blow the house up and kill them all solely out of spite for being deservedly punished for his crimes.
** [[AristocratsAreEvil Count Werner Vertigo]] is always second in line to the throne of Vlatava. Having [[SiblingMurder murdered his brother]], Vertigo also assists the Injustice League in destruction to gain a hefty ransom with no regard for the lives of the innocents in the cities he would see leveled. [[WouldHurtAChild Trying to murder]] his 10-year-old [[EvilUncle niece]] Queen Perdita, Vertigo is eventually bested, only to later return as a major figure in the [[SuperhumanTrafficking Bedlam Syndicate]]. Vertigo happily captures teenagers with the metagene, subjecting them to experimentation with a massive fatality rate, all to eventually take the throne of Vlatava, whoever he needs to murder along the way.
** [[RoboticPsychopath Red Volcano]] is the ultimate creation of T.O. Morrow and "brother" of Red Tornado. Immediately turning on his creator [[Recap/YoungJusticeS1E15Humanity upon being activated]], Volcano continues his plan to erupt the super-volcano under Yellowstone and blanket the world under a cloud of ash, fully aware this will kill billions. When the Team discover Morrow's lair, Volcano sends his brother to [[IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten prove himself]] a "loyal Red" by killing the team, and personally tries to murder the "[[CallAHumanAMeatbag meatbags]]" when Tornado disobeys. [[Recap/YoungJusticeS2E14Runaways Returning]] after his apparent destruction to attack Star Labs in search of the AMAZO android, Volcano threatens to murder the teenage Runaways when Blue Beetle gets in his way.
** Season 2 (''Invasion''): [[AliensAreBastards Black Beetle]], a member of [[Characters/YoungJustice2010TheReach the Reach]]'s Warrior class in their invasion of Earth, is a thuggish brute who [[AxCrazy revels in the destruction of those he terms as "meat"]]. Black Beetle assists in the abduction and safeguarding of Metahumans for the Reach's experiments; gleefully attempts to murder any hero he comes across; and helps to rig a bomb to wipe out the Team and numerous Kroloteans. When he decides the Ambassador in charge has [[YouHaveFailedMe failed too many times]], Black Beetle usurps his schemes with the singular goal of the [[EarthShatteringKaboom total annihilation of the Earth]] to hide any evidence of the Reach's illegal activities.
* [[WesternAnimation/YoungJusticeRevivalSeries Revival series]]:
** Season 3 (''Outsiders''):
*** [[KnightOfCerebus Frederick DeLamb]] is the security chief and brother to the Queen of Markovia; he is also secretly [[AristocratsAreEvil Baron Bedlam]], leader of the heinous Bedlam Syndicate. Bedlam masterminds the capture and [[SuperhumanTrafficking trafficking]] of countless young metahuman children and teenagers, having them torturously experimented on and drowning them in a thick tar of his own creation to awaken their metagene. Killing enough of them to warrant regular mass burials of failed experiments, those who do survive are mutated and auctioned off as living weapons to the highest bidder. In his own grab for power in Markovia, Bedlam has his own sister and the King assassinated before killing the Quraci assassin himself, throwing pressure onto the Quraci populace as a convenient excuse to screen for more metagenes. [[EvilUncle Bedlam even has his own niece and nephew]], Tara and Brion Markov, subjected to the experiments, mocking them later for how he's orphaned them. Bedlam attempts a coup in the season 3 finale, attempting to have his nephew Gregor's loyalists killed while snidely vowing never to stop trying to kill his family and take Markovia's throne--a sentiment that prompts Brion to kill him.
*** [[FauxAffablyEvil Granny Goodness]], aka Gretchen Goode, is one of [[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darkseid]]'s most powerful followers and a savage sadist underneath her kindly, grandmotherly facade. With a love of "discipline," Granny [[BadBoss abuses and tortures her followers]], conditioning them by forcing them to bear the conditions of her agonizing X-Pits, while operating a massive [[SuperhumanTrafficking trafficking]] business that steals hundreds of young metahumans across the universe to be twisted into slaves for Darkseid. Gretchen uses her persona as Gretchen Goode to further this agenda on Earth by peddling a series of VR goggles that scan wearers for the metagene, repeatedly attempting to torture and break the heroes with a pleasant, cheery smile. Granny, upon discovering Halo is the living personification of the Anti-Life equation, attempts to use her to spread Anti-Life all across the universe, horribly killing off all non-meta life and utterly enslaving the metahuman survivors to Darkseid's will.
** Season 4 (''Phantoms'') (Episodes [[Recap/YoungJusticeS4E9Odnu 9]] through [[Recap/YoungJusticeS4E13KaerbYmTraeh 13]]): The [[HumanoidAbomination Chaos Lord]] known as [[CuteAndPsycho Child]] shows her cruelty by [[CruelAndUnusualDeath mutilating a security guard]] to study his innards, before focusing her attack on the Witch Boy Klarion, believing he is unsuited to being a Lord of Chaos. Child brutally [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals kills]] Klarion's anchor Teekl, before redirecting her ire at everything nearby and trying to murder the heroes set against her. With a free rein over Earth, Child enacts natural disasters all over, trying to melt the polar ice caps and [[OmnicidalManiac wipe out every living thing on Earth]] with sadistic relish.

** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanUnderTheRedHood'': [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]] opens up the film by brutally beating the young Jason Todd, the second ComicBook/{{Robin}}, to a bloody pulp with a {{crowbar|Combatant}}, before leaving him to die in an explosion he sets off. After Joker is released by a reluctant Black Mask from Arkham Asylum to kill Red Hood, Joker demonstrates his random violence by [[SlashedThroat slitting the throat]] of one of his guards and shooting the other four dead, and soon after backstabs Black Mask by gagging him and the members of both his and Red Hood's gang, intending to [[ManOnFire burn them all alive]] for the purpose of getting Red Hood's attention. Once it's revealed Red Hood is in fact a resurrected Jason Todd and Batman turns the tides against Red Hood in the final confrontation, Joker tries to pin Batman down for the purpose of dying with both his arch-rival and Red Hood in an exploding building, absolutely ecstatic that he gets to die getting everything he wants.

** ''WesternAnimation/SupermanShazamTheReturnOfBlackAdam'': ComicBook/BlackAdam is presented here [[AdaptationalVillainy without any of his more redeemable traits]]. Once chosen as the Earth's savior, Adam's [[FaceHeelTurn power consumed him]] to the point where [[AGodAmI he considered himself nothing less than a god]], forcing Shazam to cast him out in a far point in space. Upon coming to Earth, the very first thing Adam does is redirect his impact path into an inhabited parking lot, before seeking out and intending to kill ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'s next candidate, the young Billy Batson. Throughout his appearance, Adam shows glorification in exercising his own power over living beings, attempting to flood all of Fawcett City as a distraction and taking a hostage to force Billy to depower himself--later trying to kill the hostage anyways--while relating his supremacist philosophies to Billy. Once he's beaten, Adam contents himself with smugly trying to goad Billy into killing him. Adam would willingly hurt anyone and anything so long as the result would be to his benefit.
** ''[[WesternAnimation/DCShowcaseCatwoman Catwoman]]'': [[HumanTraffickers Rough Cut]] is a diamond smuggler who has taken up human trafficking. Kidnapping a dozen women at a time, Rough Cut has them placed in crates and sold into {{slavery|Is A Special Kind Of Evil}}. When his gang abducts [[WouldHurtAChild teenager]] Holly Robinson, her friend ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} pursues them. She finds them [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals trying to kill a cat]] for the jewels on its collar, and ends up chasing them. Rough Cut makes a semi truck crash in the hopes it will kill his enemy, before offering her a 10% cut if she leaves him alone.

->'''The Flash''': It's me you want Thawne, you don't have to kill thousands of innocent people to bring me down.\\
'''[[Characters/TheFlashEobardThawne Eobard Thawne/Professor Zoom/Reverse Flash]]''': No, no I don't. But I choose to, knowing it will make your last moments pure agony.

** ''WesternAnimation/SupermanManOfTomorrow'' SharedUniverse:
*** ''WesternAnimation/JusticeSocietyWorldWarII'': The Advisor, this universe's Psycho-Pirate, is Aquaman's EvilChancellor who [[PiggybackingOnHitler allied himself with the Nazis]]. Once a pirate who was rescued by the Atlanteans after his ship sunk, the Advisor [[UngratefulBastard thanked them]] by [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashing Aquaman]], using him to give Atlantean weapons to the Nazis to assist in their [[TakeOverTheWorld world domination scheme]], hoping to betray them once they achieve their goal. After luring the Justice Society into a trap in Atlantis, the Advisor sends Aquaman and his Atlantean army to wreak havoc on American soil, hoping to destroy the entire country to make it easier for the Nazis to conquer. Smugly killing Steve Trevor after Aquaman breaks his control and retreats, the Advisor also reveals to have called in some planes to bomb the entire country should Aquaman fail.
*** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheLongHalloween'': [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]], unwilling to let the mysterious Holiday Killer replace him as Gotham's most notorious criminal, escapes from Arkham Asylum to conduct his own reign of terror. Beating [[Characters/BatmanTwoFace Harvey Dent]] in his own house and threatening to murder his wife, the Joker [[SpreeKiller goes on a killing spree]] through Gotham, targeting members of the mob to show he won't tolerate competitors. The Joker caps off his rampage by hijacking a plane and attempting to [[DeadlyGas fatally gas]] everyone in Times Square on New Year's Eve, hoping to kill Holiday and as many people as possible in the process.

Similar to [[Monster/DCUniverse the comics]], [[WesternAnimation/DCComicsAnimated DC animated works]] feature some {{Complete Monster}}s.

** ''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternEmeraldKnights'': [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Atrocitus]] is a terrorist who has been imprisoned on an abandoned world for 700 years. Killing the first person who crash lands there, he commences a killing spree of [[SpacePolice Green Lanterns]] by making them overuse their [[GreenLanternRing power rings]] so he can butcher them at his leisure. When his fourth target, [[TheHero Abin Sur]], manages to defeat Atrocitus, Atrocitus tries to smash the Lantern's power battery to [[TakingYouWithMe take the planet with him]]. After Atrocitus is captured, he tries to break Abin Sur by prophesying his best friend's fall to evil.

** ''[[WesternAnimation/DCShowcaseCatwoman Catwoman]]'': [[BigBad Rough Cut]] is a diamond smuggler who has taken up HumanTrafficking. Kidnapping a dozen women at a time, Rough Cut has them placed in crates and sold into {{slavery|Is A Special Kind Of Evil}}. When his gang abducts [[WouldHurtAChild teenager]] Holly Robinson, her friend Catwoman pursues them. She finds them [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals trying to kill a cat]] for the jewels on its collar, and ends up chasing them. Rough Cut makes a semi truck crash in the hopes it will kill his enemy, before offering her a 10% cut if she leaves him alone.

->'''The Flash''': It's me you want Thawne, you don't have kill thousands of innocent people to bring me down.\\

** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' (includes the [[ComicBook/BatmanBeyond Comic Book]], besides [[ComicBook/TheNew52FuturesEnd Brother Eye]]):
*** "[[Recap/BatmanBeyondS2E16TheLastResort The Last Resort]]": [[WouldHurtAChild Dr. David Wheeler]] is a corrupt [[PsychoPsychologist child psychologist]] who uses his rehabilitation "ranch" for teenagers as a moneymaking scheme and to satisfy his controlling personality. Wheeler manipulates parents to send their children to his ranch for even minor pranks, then [[JuvenileHell treats the children like prisoners]] who Wheeler deprives of sleep, verbally and psychologically abuses, and even refuses to let go to the bathroom for punishments. Wheeler throws any teenagers who step out of line into "ISO"--short for isolation--cells that deprive them of sight and sound for long periods to [[GoMadFromTheIsolation mentally break them down]], with one boy shown to be left a vacant shell for days following a trip to ISO. When Terry [=McGinnis=] tries to expose Wheeler's crimes, Wheeler plans to throw him in ISO, then murder the boy to keep him quiet.
*** "10,000 Clowns" comic book arc: [[AxCrazy Douglas Tan]] is a disturbed youth obsessed with [[Characters/DCAUJoker The Joker]] and his carnage, and dedicates himself to [[StrawNihilist proving the fundamental meaningless of life]] and becoming the Joker's own SuperiorSuccessor. Fashioning himself "the Joker King", Douglas drugs dozens of Jokerz from around the nation into becoming [[SuicideAttack suicide bombers]], using them to wreak havoc across Gotham and cause thousands of deaths in an attempt to destroy the city, murdering his own best friend on a random whim just before the destruction starts. Douglas eventually decides to murder his entire family too, attempting to kill his comatose father in the hospital and only hesitating when his sister steps in the way--before deciding without another second of hesitation to kill her too.

** [[Characters/SupermanBrainiac Brainiac]], a threat to the entire DCAU surpassed only by Darkseid, is a RoboticPsychopath and [[TheCollector collector of data]] who views himself as superior to all organic life. Once the [[AIIsACrapshoot supercomputer]] responsible for running Krypton's day-to-day affairs, Brainiac lied to the Council of Elders about the planet's impending doom, prioritizing saving himself over preserving the lives of his creators. Escaping into space, Brainiac roams from world to world, assembling all of a planet's information, and then destroying the original in order to increase the value of his stolen memories; his objective is to repeat the process across the universe until he has "destroyed all of creation". Along the way he murders the crew of a spaceship that was investigating his presence, tries to steal Superman's body for himself, and eventually, after fusing with Lex Luthor, tries to wipe out the entire universe in one fell swoop, aiming to rebuild it [[InTheirOwnImage in his own image]].

** ''WesternAnimation/SupermanUnbound'': [[Characters/SupermanBrainiac Brainiac]] is a galactic-scale ControlFreak and genocidal conqueror who seeks the knowledge of the universe, [[CityInABottle shrinking and stealing]] the city of Kandor for his goal while allowing the rest of Krypton to be destroyed by natural disaster. Later attacking another planet, Brainiac takes its capital before using a Solar Aggressor missile to cause its sun to explode, [[EarthShatteringKaboom killing the rest of the population]]. Brainiac also has his drones come to each planet he invades and instructs them to kill inhabitants at random. Stealing Metropolis from Earth, Brainiac [[ColdBloodedTorture tortures]] Superman for information about Kandor before attempting to massacre the rest of Earth's population.

* ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes''' "Message in a Bottle" and "Dark Victory" two-parter finale: [[Characters/SupermanBrainiac Brainiac]] 1.0 was a menace from the past who quickly became one of the most dangerous foes the Legion has ever faced. Brainiac 1.0 was introduced in a flashback, where he shrinks and steals the city of Kandor from Krypton. Within Kandor was a power source that was stabilizing Krypton, but with this power source gone Krypton was soon destroyed. Brainiac 1.0 himself was destroyed long ago, but [[EnemyWithin his programming resided within Brainiac 5]], cut off from the other systems, waiting for a chance to be released. This chance came when Brainiac 5 accessed Brainiac 1.0's programming to gain knowledge to defeat Imperiex. Though Brainiac 1.0's knowledge was useful in defeating Imperiex, every time he used it Brainiac 1.0 was able to gain more control. Brainiac 1.0 slowly [[TheCorrupter corrupted]] Brainiac 5, until eventually he [[GrandTheftMe took control of Brainiac 5's body]]. Then Brainiac quickly [[TheStarscream betrays Imperiex]]--who had [[UngratefulBastard helped Brainiac 1.0 take over Brainiac 5's body]]--[[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness killing him because he was no longer useful to him]]. Brainiac then proceeds with his plan to bring the entire universe under his control, [[OmnicidalManiac by transforming all living beings in the universe into streams of data]]. After digitizing some planets, Brainiac returns to his home planet Colu and reprograms all the inhabitants there to serve as his army and aid in his quest to digitize the universe.

* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanBrainiacAttacks'': [[Characters/SupermanBrainiac Brainiac]] is an alien [[RoboticPsychopath android]] who desires to conquer Earth and drive humanity back to the dark ages. After failing to kill Superman and having his entire body, aside from one chip, destroyed, Brainiac uses [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]] to rebuild himself in a new more powerful body. Tracking down Superman on his date with Lois Lane, Brainiac attacks him in the middle of Metropolis, endangering countless numbers of innocent people in his quest to destroy his hated nemesis. After Superman's apparent death, Brainiac takes over Metropolis, causing more death and destruction. When Superman was revealed to be alive and starts to fight him, Brainiac deliberately targets hundreds of innocent bystanders to gain the edge over Superman in a fight. When the fight started taking too long, a frustrated Brainiac attempts to overload a nuclear reactor near the city to cause a giant explosion. When Superman defeats him, Brainiac follows him to the hospital and smashes the cure for the deathly sick Lois, simply out of spite.

** [[Characters/TeenTitans2003Slade Slade]]--never called "[[Characters/BatmanDeathstroke Deathstroke]]" here--was a cold, [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] criminal [[DiabolicalMastermind 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 [[WouldHitAGirl 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 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.

* [[TheEvilPrince Orm the Ocean Master]] is the [[CainAndAbel treacherous younger brother]] of Aquaman, King of Atlantis. Masquerading as a loyal brother and supporter of the crown, Orm participates in the evil activities of the council known as [[Characters/YoungJustice2010TheLight the Light]], while attempting to seize Atlantis. Using a racist group of Atlanteans known as the Purifiers against the "impure" Atlanteans, Orm attempts to inspire them to wipe out anyone they deem as impure, knowing it will cause a civil war, after which he will take over what's left. He also kidnaps his sister-in-law Mera and tries to drain her powers, slowly killing her, despite knowing that she is pregnant. After the attempted genocide and civil war fail, Orm is eventually exposed and imprisoned for six years until he escapes. [[Recap/YoungJusticeS3E9HomeFires Seeking revenge]], Orm intends to enact the "nuclear option": finding where the heroes' loved ones have their play dates, Orm waits until 18 of them have arrived, including [[WouldHurtAChild babies and children]] alike, before planning to blow the house up and kill them all solely out of spite for being deservedly punished for his crimes.
* [[AristocratsAreEvil Count Werner Vertigo]] is always second in line to the throne of Vlatava. Having [[SiblingMurder murdered his brother]], Vertigo also assists the Injustice League in destruction to gain a hefty ransom with no regard for the lives of the innocents in the cities he would see leveled. [[WouldHurtAChild Trying to murder]] his 10-year-old [[EvilUncle niece]] Queen Perdita, Vertigo is eventually bested, only to later return as a major figure in the [[SuperhumanTrafficking Bedlam Syndicate]]. Vertigo happily captures teenagers with the metagene, subjecting them to experimentation with a massive fatality rate, all to eventually take the throne of Vlatava, whoever he needs to murder along the way.
* [[RoboticPsychopath Red Volcano]] is the ultimate creation of T.O. Morrow and "brother" of Red Tornado. Immediately turning on his creator [[Recap/YoungJusticeS1E15Humanity upon being activated]], Volcano continues his plan to erupt the super-volcano under Yellowstone and blanket the world under a cloud of ash, fully aware this will kill billions. When the Team discover Morrow's lair, Volcano sends his brother to [[IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten prove himself]] a "loyal Red" by killing the team, and personally tries to murder the "[[CallAHumanAMeatbag meatbags]]" when Tornado disobeys. [[Recap/YoungJusticeS2E14Runaways Returning]] after his apparent destruction to attack Star Labs in search of the AMAZO android, Volcano threatens to murder the teenage Runaways when Blue Beetle gets in his way.
* Season 2: [[AliensAreBastards Black Beetle]], a member of [[Characters/YoungJustice2010TheReach the Reach]]'s Warrior class in their invasion of Earth, is a thuggish brute who [[AxCrazy revels in the destruction of those he terms as "meat"]]. Black Beetle assists in the abduction and safeguarding of Metahumans for the Reach's experiments; gleefully attempts to murder any hero he comes across; and helps to rig a bomb to wipe out the Team and numerous Kroloteans. When he decides the Ambassador in charge has [[YouHaveFailedMe failed too many times]], Black Beetle usurps his schemes with the singular goal of the [[EarthShatteringKaboom total annihilation of the Earth]] to hide any evidence of the Reach's illegal activities.
* [[WesternAnimation/YoungJusticeRevivalSeries Season 3]]:
** [[KnightOfCerebus Frederick DeLamb]] is the security chief and brother to the Queen of Markovia; he is also secretly [[AristocratsAreEvil Baron Bedlam]], leader of the heinous Bedlam Syndicate. Bedlam masterminds the capture and [[SuperhumanTrafficking trafficking]] of countless young metahuman children and teenagers, having them torturously experimented on and drowning them in a thick tar of his own creation to awaken their metagene. Killing enough of them to warrant regular mass burials of failed experiments, those who do survive are mutated and auctioned off as living weapons to the highest bidder. In his own grab for power in Markovia, Bedlam has his own sister and the King assassinated before killing the Quraci assassin himself, throwing pressure onto the Quraci populace as a convenient excuse to screen for more metagenes. [[EvilUncle Bedlam even has his own niece and nephew]], Tara and Brion Markov, subjected to the experiments, mocking them later for how he's orphaned them. Bedlam attempts a coup in the season 3 finale, attempting to have his nephew Gregor's loyalists killed while snidely vowing never to stop trying to kill his family and take Markovia's throne--a sentiment that prompts Brion to kill him.
** [[FauxAffablyEvil Granny Goodness]], aka Gretchen Goode, is one of [[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darkseid]]'s most powerful followers and a savage sadist underneath her kindly, grandmotherly facade. With a love of "discipline," Granny [[BadBoss abuses and tortures her followers]], conditioning them by forcing them to bear the conditions of her agonizing X-Pits, while operating a massive [[SuperhumanTrafficking trafficking]] business that steals hundreds of young metahumans across the universe to be twisted into slaves for Darkseid. Gretchen uses her persona as Gretchen Goode to further this agenda on Earth by peddling a series of VR goggles that scan wearers for the metagene, repeatedly attempting to torture and break the heroes with a pleasant, cheery smile. Granny, upon discovering Halo is the living personification of the Anti-Life equation, attempts to use her to spread Anti-Life all across the universe, horribly killing off all non-meta life and utterly enslaving the metahuman survivors to Darkseid's will.

** "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueS1E10And11WarWorld War World]]" & "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS1E2ForTheManWhoHasEverything For the Man Who Has Everything]]": [[GalacticConqueror Mongul]], the [[EvilOverlord cruel dictator]] of War World, [[GladiatorGames forced warriors to fight to the death]] in order to [[BreadAndCircuses take his people's minds off his oppressing them]]. When Superman refuses to kill the former reigning champion, Draaga, after defeating him, Mongul [[SadisticChoice threatens to destroy Draaga's planet if Superman doesn't allow Mongul to defeat him in his 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 on turning Earth into a second War World. Superman was eventually able to free himself from the dream world--but not before Mongul delivered a brutal beatdown to Wonder Woman--but the emotional pain of doing so was enough to make Superman actually try to kill Mongul before returning to his senses.

** [[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darkseid]] [[labelnote:Appearances]]''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueWar War]]''; ''WesternAnimation/TheReignOfTheSupermen''; ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDarkApokolipsWar Apokolips War]]''[[/labelnote]]: The Lord of Apokolips seeks to conquer the Earth and add it to his dark empire, having [[GalacticConqueror conquered countless worlds]] and massacred the populations. Having many humans abducted to be [[TransformationHorror agonizingly mutated]] into his Parademons, Darkseid launches attacks on the Earth, bombing entire cities before being driven back. Later responsible for [[WesternAnimation/TheDeathOfSuperman unleashing Doomsday]] to run rampant so it will kill Superman, Darkseid killed the wife of Hank Henshaw and corrupted him into the Cyborg Superman, using him to help Darkseid come to Earth where he intends to obliterate Metropolis and then TakeOverTheWorld in bloody conquest. Later taking over the world and [[HeroKiller killing most of its defenders]], Darkseid converts others into unholy fusions of machine and later orders a brainwashed Batman to kill his own son, stopping at nothing to add Earth to his empire before he moves on to other worlds and continues the slaughter.

*** ''Chronicles''' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP2IERLzgCo Twisted]]" short: [[AxCrazy Harley Quinn]] stands in [[AdaptationalVillainy stark contrast]] to her mainstream portrayal. A psychopathic SerialKiller, Harley Quinn abducts civilians before mutilating and killing them, [[PsychopathicWomanchild making "toys" out of their mangled corpses]]. When Batman rescues a teenage girl Harley kidnapped, she tries to kill them both. During their fight, Batman comes across a makeshift "family" of the people Harley has murdered, including [[WouldHurtAChild a young boy]].

** ''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternEmeraldKnights'': [[NamesToRunAwayFrom Atrocitus]] is a terrorist who has been imprisoned on an abandoned world for 700 years. Killing the first person who crash lands there, he commences a killing spree of [[SpacePolice Green Lanterns]] by making them overuse their [[GreenLanternRing power rings]] so he can butcher them at his leisure. When his fourth target, [[TheHero Abin Sur]], manages to defeat Atrocitus, Atrocitus tries to smash the Lantern's power battery to [[TakingYouWithMe take the planet with him]]. After Atrocitus is captured, he tries to break Abin Sur by prophesying his best friend's fall to evil.

** ''WesternAnimation/SupermanShazamTheReturnOfBlackAdam'': [[Characters/ShazamBlackAdam Black Adam]] is presented here [[AdaptationalVillainy without any of his more redeemable traits]]. Once chosen as the Earth's savior, Adam's [[FaceHeelTurn power consumed him]] to the point where [[AGodAmI he considered himself nothing less than a god]], forcing Shazam to cast him out in a far point in space. Upon coming to Earth, the very first thing Adam does is redirect his impact path into an inhabited parking lot, before seeking out and intending to kill ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'s next candidate, the young Billy Batson. Throughout his appearance, Adam shows glorification in exercising his own power over living beings, attempting to flood all of Fawcett City as a distraction and taking a hostage to force Billy to depower himself--later trying to kill the hostage anyways--while relating his supremacist philosophies to Billy. Once he's beaten, Adam contents himself with smugly trying to goad Billy into killing him. Adam would willingly hurt anyone and anything so long as the result would be to his benefit.

[[AC:Others]]

* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'':
** [[TheEvilPrince Orm the Ocean Master]] is the [[CainAndAbel treacherous younger brother]] of Aquaman, King of Atlantis. Masquerading as a loyal brother and supporter of the crown, Orm participates in the evil activities of the council known as [[Characters/YoungJustice2010TheLight the Light]], while attempting to seize Atlantis. Using a racist group of Atlanteans known as the Purifiers against the "impure" Atlanteans, Orm attempts to inspire them to wipe out anyone they deem as impure, knowing it will cause a civil war, after which he will take over what's left. He also kidnaps his sister-in-law Mera and tries to drain her powers, slowly killing her, despite knowing that she is pregnant. After the attempted genocide and civil war fail, Orm is eventually exposed and imprisoned for six years until he escapes. [[Recap/YoungJusticeS3E9HomeFires Seeking revenge]], Orm intends to enact the "nuclear option": finding where the heroes' loved ones have their play dates, Orm waits until 18 of them have arrived, including [[WouldHurtAChild babies and children]] alike, before planning to blow the house up and kill them all solely out of spite for being deservedly punished for his crimes.
** [[AristocratsAreEvil Count Werner Vertigo]] is always second in line to the throne of Vlatava. Having [[SiblingMurder murdered his brother]], Vertigo also assists the Injustice League in destruction to gain a hefty ransom with no regard for the lives of the innocents in the cities he would see leveled. [[WouldHurtAChild Trying to murder]] his 10-year-old [[EvilUncle niece]] Queen Perdita, Vertigo is eventually bested, only to later return as a major figure in the [[SuperhumanTrafficking Bedlam Syndicate]]. Vertigo happily captures teenagers with the metagene, subjecting them to experimentation with a massive fatality rate, all to eventually take the throne of Vlatava, whoever he needs to murder along the way.
** [[RoboticPsychopath Red Volcano]] is the ultimate creation of T.O. Morrow and "brother" of Red Tornado. Immediately turning on his creator [[Recap/YoungJusticeS1E15Humanity upon being activated]], Volcano continues his plan to erupt the super-volcano under Yellowstone and blanket the world under a cloud of ash, fully aware this will kill billions. When the Team discover Morrow's lair, Volcano sends his brother to [[IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten prove himself]] a "loyal Red" by killing the team, and personally tries to murder the "[[CallAHumanAMeatbag meatbags]]" when Tornado disobeys. [[Recap/YoungJusticeS2E14Runaways Returning]] after his apparent destruction to attack Star Labs in search of the AMAZO android, Volcano threatens to murder the teenage Runaways when Blue Beetle gets in his way.
** Season 2: [[AliensAreBastards Black Beetle]], a member of [[Characters/YoungJustice2010TheReach the Reach]]'s Warrior class in their invasion of Earth, is a thuggish brute who [[AxCrazy revels in the destruction of those he terms as "meat"]]. Black Beetle assists in the abduction and safeguarding of Metahumans for the Reach's experiments; gleefully attempts to murder any hero he comes across; and helps to rig a bomb to wipe out the Team and numerous Kroloteans. When he decides the Ambassador in charge has [[YouHaveFailedMe failed too many times]], Black Beetle usurps his schemes with the singular goal of the [[EarthShatteringKaboom total annihilation of the Earth]] to hide any evidence of the Reach's illegal activities.
** [[WesternAnimation/YoungJusticeRevivalSeries Season 3]]:
*** [[KnightOfCerebus Frederick DeLamb]] is the security chief and brother to the Queen of Markovia; he is also secretly [[AristocratsAreEvil Baron Bedlam]], leader of the heinous Bedlam Syndicate. Bedlam masterminds the capture and [[SuperhumanTrafficking trafficking]] of countless young metahuman children and teenagers, having them torturously experimented on and drowning them in a thick tar of his own creation to awaken their metagene. Killing enough of them to warrant regular mass burials of failed experiments, those who do survive are mutated and auctioned off as living weapons to the highest bidder. In his own grab for power in Markovia, Bedlam has his own sister and the King assassinated before killing the Quraci assassin himself, throwing pressure onto the Quraci populace as a convenient excuse to screen for more metagenes. [[EvilUncle Bedlam even has his own niece and nephew]], Tara and Brion Markov, subjected to the experiments, mocking them later for how he's orphaned them. Bedlam attempts a coup in the season 3 finale, attempting to have his nephew Gregor's loyalists killed while snidely vowing never to stop trying to kill his family and take Markovia's throne--a sentiment that prompts Brion to kill him.
*** [[FauxAffablyEvil Granny Goodness]], aka Gretchen Goode, is one of [[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darkseid]]'s most powerful followers and a savage sadist underneath her kindly, grandmotherly facade. With a love of "discipline," Granny [[BadBoss abuses and tortures her followers]], conditioning them by forcing them to bear the conditions of her agonizing X-Pits, while operating a massive [[SuperhumanTrafficking trafficking]] business that steals hundreds of young metahumans across the universe to be twisted into slaves for Darkseid. Gretchen uses her persona as Gretchen Goode to further this agenda on Earth by peddling a series of VR goggles that scan wearers for the metagene, repeatedly attempting to torture and break the heroes with a pleasant, cheery smile. Granny, upon discovering Halo is the living personification of the Anti-Life equation, attempts to use her to spread Anti-Life all across the universe, horribly killing off all non-meta life and utterly enslaving the metahuman survivors to Darkseid's will.

** ''[[WesternAnimation/DCShowcaseJonahHex Jonah Hex]]'': [[BigBad Madame Lorraine]] is a [[TheVamp seductress]] who makes a practice of enticing men and luring them into her clutches. Once she has them, Lorraine [[BlackWidow coldly shoots them dead, takes their money]], and has her flunkies dump their bodies in a mine shaft. Lorraine comes into conflict with ComicBook/JonahHex after she kills one of his bounties and attempts to repeat the process on him. Once Hex forces Lorraine to show him where his bounty's body is, Lorraine shows him into the mine shaft, where the decaying bodies of all the men—at least [[SerialKiller 15 victims]]--Lorraine has killed are seen.

* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'':
** [[TheEvilPrince Orm the Ocean Master]] is the [[CainAndAbel treacherous younger brother]] of Aquaman, King of Atlantis. Masquerading as a loyal brother and supporter of the crown, Orm participates in the evil activities of the council known as [[Characters/YoungJusticeTheLight the Light]], while attempting to seize Atlantis. Using a racist group of Atlanteans known as the Purifiers against the "impure" Atlanteans, Orm attempts to inspire them to wipe out anyone they deem as impure, knowing it will cause a civil war, after which he will take over what’s left. He also kidnaps his sister-in-law Mera and tries to drain her powers, slowly killing her, despite knowing well that she is pregnant. After the attempted genocide and civil war fail, Orm is eventually exposed and imprisoned for six years until he escapes. [[Recap/YoungJusticeS3E9HomeFires Seeking revenge]], Orm intends to enact the "nuclear option": finding where the heroes' loved ones have their play dates, Orm waits until 18 of them have arrived, including [[WouldHurtAChild babies and children]] alike, before planning to blow the house up and kill them all solely out of spite for being deservedly punished for his crimes.

** Season 2: [[AliensAreBastards Black Beetle]], a member of [[Characters/YoungJusticeTheReach the Reach]]'s Warrior class in their invasion of Earth, is a thuggish brute who [[AxCrazy revels in the destruction of those he terms as "meat"]]. Black Beetle assists in the abduction and safeguarding of Metahumans for the Reach's experiments; gleefully attempts to murder any hero he comes across; and helps to rig a bomb to wipe out the Team and numerous Kroloteans. When he decides the Ambassador in charge has [[YouHaveFailedMe failed too many times]], Black Beetle usurps his schemes with the singular goal of the [[EarthShatteringKaboom total annihilation of the Earth]] to hide any evidence of the Reach's illegal activities.

*** [[KnightOfCerebus Frederick DeLamb]], is the security chief and brother to the Queen of Markovia; he is also secretly [[AristocratsAreEvil Baron Bedlam]], leader of the heinous Bedlam Syndicate. Bedlam masterminds the capture and [[SuperhumanTrafficking trafficking]] of countless young metahuman children and teenagers, having them torturously experimented on and drowning them in a thick tar of his own creation to awaken their metagene. Killing enough of them to warrant regular mass burials of failed experiments, those who do survive are mutated and auctioned off as living weapons to the highest bidder. In his own grab for power in Markovia, Bedlam has his own sister and the King assassinated before killing the Quraci assassin himself, throwing pressure onto the Quraci populace as a convenient excuse to screen for more metagenes. [[EvilUncle Bedlam even has his own niece and nephew]], Tara and Brion Markov, subjected to the experiments, mocking them later for how he's orphaned them. Bedlam attempts a coup in the season 3 finale, attempting to have his nephew Gregor's loyalists killed while snidely vowing never to stop trying to kill his family and take Markovia's throne-—a sentiment that prompts Brion to kill him.

[[caption-width-right:350:"[[Characters/TeenTitansSlade I]] am the thing that keeps you up at night, the evil that haunts every dark corner of your mind. I will never rest — and neither will you."]]

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*** [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Derek Powers]], CEO of Powers Technology, eventually devolves into the psychotic supervillain [[WalkingWasteland Blight]] after a radioactive accident. Before his accident, Powers cheerfully attempts to sell a bioweapon, that horrifically melts away its victims, to terrorists who would use it on wider scales, unnerving even the Kaznian diplomat after he exposes an employee to it purely to demonstrate its effects. Powers becomes the [[ArchEnemy archnemesis]] of the second Batman, Terry [=McGinnis=], after Powers has Terry's father murdered and the Jokerz framed for it. Powers's deteriorating sanity from the accident only accentuates the monster he is inside, as he experiments on and then attempts to kill Mr. Freeze to harvest his organs; disinherits and then flat-out attempts to murder his own son Paxton; and, upon his vengeful return in the comics, attempts to initiate a nuclear meltdown, heedless of all the downtrodden lives this would consume. Powers has ruined so many lives in the name of self-interest his only reply to Terry's accusation that YouKilledMyFather is to snarl "[[ButForMeItWasTuesday do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?!]]"

** ''WesternAnimation/JusticeSocietyWorldWarII'': The Advisor, this universe's Psycho-Pirate, is Aquaman's EvilChancellor who [[PiggybackingOnHitler allied himself with the Nazis]]. Once a pirate who was rescued by the Atlanteans after his ship sunk, the Advisor [[UngratefulBastard thanked them]] by [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashing Aquaman]], using him to give Atlantean weapons to the Nazis to assist in their [[TakeOverTheWorld world domination scheme]], hoping to betray them once they achieve their goal. After luring the Justice Society into a trap in Atlantis, the Advisor sends Aquaman and his Atlantean army to wreak havoc on American soil, hoping to destroy the entire country to make it easier for the Nazis to conquer. Smugly killing Steve Trevor after Aquaman breaks his control and retreats, the Advisor also reveals to have called in some planes to bomb the entire country should Aquaman fail.
** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheLongHalloween'': [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]], unwilling to let the mysterious Holiday Killer replace him as Gotham's most notorious criminal, escapes from Arkham Asylum to conduct his own reign of terror. Beating [[Characters/BatmanTwoFace Harvey Dent]] in his own house and threatening to murder his wife, the Joker [[SpreeKiller goes on a killing spree]] through Gotham, targeting members of the mob to show he won't tolerate competitors. The Joker caps off his rampage by hijacking a plane and attempting to [[DeadlyGas fatally gas]] everyone in Times Square on New Year's Eve, hoping to kill Holiday and as many people as possible in the process.

** [[Characters/TeenTitansSlade Slade]]--never called "[[Characters/BatmanDeathstroke Deathstroke]]" here--was a cold, [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] criminal [[DiabolicalMastermind 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 [[WouldHitAGirl 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 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.

* ''WesternAnimation/BewareTheBatman'': [[Characters/BatmanAnarky Anarky]] is [[AdaptationalVillainy a far cry]] from his comic version. An utter madman who views himself and Batman as two kings on a chess board, one representing order and peace, the other [[AnarchyIsChaos chaos and destruction]], Anarky commits all of his crimes out of [[FameThroughInfamy a pathological love for attention]] and [[CardCarryingVillain a sheer enjoyment of being evil]]. In his first appearance, Anarky grants two petty crooks high-tech weaponry before sending them on a rampage through Gotham, after which he rigs two gondolas filled with people to explode unless Batman can stop them in time. Later, Anarky pits Batman and the League of Assassins against each other as part of a plan to unleash a lethal plague onto all of Gotham, and attempts to bomb a populated park filled with police officers while trying to frame Batman. At the end of the series, Anarky makes [[TheCorrupter corrupting]] District Attorney [[Characters/BatmanTwoFace Harvey Dent]] into evil his personal pet project, and successfully drives Dent to institute MartialLaw in Gotham while threatening the lives of all those who stand in his way. In the sequel tie-in comic, Anarky unlocks every door in Gotham City for a single night, then tries to spur all of the citizens into a panic-induced riot that he hopes will tear Gotham apart in the ultimate display of chaos. Though [[SoftSpokenSadist soft-spoken]] and [[FauxAffablyEvil eerily polite]], Anarky is the most wicked foe Batman faced in the series, having no empathy, no mercy, and no motive at all except his basic whims.

** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBadBlood'': [[Characters/BatmanTaliaAlGhul Talia al-Ghul, the new leader of the League of Assassins, is a ControlFreak of the highest order, and TookALevelInJerkass from ''Son of Batman''. Her ultimate plan is is to use Bruce Wayne's technology to brainwash the world leaders attending his tech summit, in order to expand the League of Assassins' influence over the planet. Talia assembles a team of villains under the command of [[TheDragon the Heretic]], the adult clone of her and Bruce's ChildByRape Damian Wayne, and orders them to capture Bruce so [[MindRape his mind could be broken]] with Mad Hatter's machine; Mad Hatter has been forced to cooperate by means of an ExplosiveLeash. Later, Talia sends Heretic to attack Wayne Enterprises in order to steal technology necessary for her plan, near-fatally wounding Lucius Fox in the assault. When Heretic breaks down and begs for Talia to love him as a mother, and wishing to have Damian's memories, she shoots him in the head for disobeying her orders regarding Damian. As the brainwashing is taking place, she orders a mind-controlled Bruce to shoot Dick Grayson and [[OffingTheOffspring their son]] Damian dead, coldly proclaiming that she and Bruce could always "make more".

*** "10,000 Clowns" comic book arc: [[AxCrazy Douglas Tan]] is a disturbed youth obsessed with ComicBook/TheJoker and his carnage, and dedicates himself to [[StrawNihilist proving the fundamental meaningless of life]] and becoming the Joker's own SuperiorSuccessor. Fashioning himself "the Joker King", Douglas drugs dozens of Jokerz from around the nation into becoming [[SuicideAttack suicide bombers]], using them to wreak havoc across Gotham and cause thousands of deaths in an attempt to destroy the city, murdering his own best friend on a random whim just before the destruction starts. Douglas eventually decides to murder his entire family too, attempting to kill his comatose father in the hospital and only hesitating when his sister steps in the way--before deciding without another second of hesitation to kill her too.
* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'':
** [[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darkseid]], who later appeared in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' and was the top threat of the entire DCAU, is the tyrannical ruler of the wasteland planet [[Characters/SupermanTheAnimatedSeriesApokolips Apokolips]], and ultimately desired [[GalacticConqueror total dominion over all life in the universe.]] To achieve this end, he forever seeks the cosmic power of the Anti-Life Equation to use as the ultimate weapon. Incapable of love or empathy, [[AbusiveParents he abused his loyal son Kalibak]], handed over his adopted son Scott Free to be tortured and brainwashed by Granny Goodness, and attempted to [[OffingTheOffspring murder his other son]], Orion, for opposing him. His [[BadBoss servants are likewise subjected to torture or death]] should they fail or even question him. Setting his sights on conquering Earth, Darkseid launched a full-scale invasion, only relenting when the planet was declared off-limits by Apokolips's sister planet, New Genesis. To compensate, Darkseid murdered Dan Turpin solely to spite Superman. He would make numerous more attempts to conquer or annihilate the planet, including attempting to destroy it with an comet and brainwashing Superman into leading an attack on his adopted world, turning the Man of Steel into a pariah for years--but not before Darkseid had the brainwashed Superman basically raped. He later attempted to use Brainiac's programming to collect the Anti-Life Equation and bend the universe to his will, leading to his death in a battle with Superman. [[BackFromTheDead Upon his resurrection]], Darkseid immediately launched another invasion on Earth, not out of a desire for power, but solely to make Superman suffer. Ruthless and tyrannical, Darkseid is Superman's greatest enemy, and [[ThouShaltNotKill one of the few villains]] he has [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness outright tried to kill]].
** ComicBook/{{Brainiac}}, who also appeared in ''Justice League'' as a threat surpassed only by Darkseid, is a RoboticPsychopath and [[TheCollector collector of data]] who views himself as superior to all organic life. Once the [[AIIsACrapshoot supercomputer]] responsible for running Krypton's day-to-day affairs, Brainiac lied to the Council of Elders about the planet's impending doom, prioritizing saving himself over preserving the lives of his creators. Escaping into space, Brainiac roams from world to world, assembling all of a planet's information, and then destroying the original in order to increase the value of his stolen memories; his objective is to repeat the process across the universe until he has "destroyed all of creation". Along the way he murders the crew of a spaceship that was investigating his presence, tries to steal Superman's body for himself, and eventually, after fusing with Lex Luthor, tries to wipe out the entire universe in one fell swoop, aiming to rebuild it [[InTheirOwnImage in his own image]].
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' & ''Unlimited'' (see above for Joker, Darkseid, & Brainiac):

** ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDoom Doom]]'': ComicBook/VandalSavage is a conqueror with genocidal plans for Earth. He manages to steal the protocols that Batman designed to defeat the Justice League in case one or more members 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 TakeOverTheWorld by using a missile that will cause a [[SolarFlareDisaster 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.

** ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} [[labelnote:Appearances]]''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueWar War]]''; ''WesternAnimation/TheReignOfTheSupermen''; ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDarkApokolipsWar Apokolips War]]''[[/labelnote]]: The Lord of Apokolips seeks to conquer the Earth and add it to his dark empire, having [[GalacticConqueror conquered countless worlds]] and massacred the populations. Having many humans abducted to be [[TransformationHorror agonizingly mutated]] into his Parademons, Darkseid launches attacks on the Earth, bombing entire cities before being driven back. Later responsible for [[WesternAnimation/TheDeathOfSuperman unleashing Doomsday]] to run rampant so it will kill Superman, Darkseid killed the wife of Hank Henshaw and corrupted him into the Cyborg Superman, using him to help Darkseid come to Earth where he intends to obliterate Metropolis and then TakeOverTheWorld in bloody conquest. Later taking over the world and [[HeroKiller killing most of its defenders]], Darkseid converts others into unholy fusions of machine and later orders a brainwashed Batman to kill his own son, stopping at nothing to add Earth to his empire before he moves on to other worlds and continues the slaughter.
** ''WesternAnimation/SonOfBatman'' & ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansTheJudasContract'': [[ProfessionalKiller Slade Wilson]], aka ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}} the Terminator, slaughtered many League of Assassin members when ComicBook/RasAlGhul selected Bruce Wayne as his successor instead of Slade. Taking Bruce's son Damian to keep him in line, Slade torments Damian by [[ForcedToWatch making him watch]] his mother be tortured and later tries to kill Bruce's whole Bat-Family. Saved by Brother Blood and recruited to bring him the [[Characters/DCAMUTeenTitans Teen Titans]] to drain their life force for Blood to empower himself, Slade sends Terra Markov--a teen whom he raised as his lover and pet assassin--to infiltrate and betray the Titans, and when Slade's contract requires a Titan sacrifice to replace a lost one, happily tries putting Terra to a painful death.
** ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueThroneOfAtlantis'': ComicBook/BlackManta readily assists [[BigBad Orm]] with his plan to start a war between Atlantis and the rest of the world, by [[FalseFlagOperation slaughtering Atlantean civilians in sea craft that is disguised to look like a US military sub]]. Near the end of the film, Black Manta revealed he has been [[ManipulativeBastard manipulating]] Orm into starting a genocidal war with the surface world, claiming that the war was his idea. Black Manta [[TheStarscream ultimately plans to kill Orm and take the riches of Atlantis for himself]].
** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBadBlood'': ComicBook/TaliaAlGhul, the new leader of the League of Assassins, is a ControlFreak of the highest order, and TookALevelInJerkass from ''Son of Batman''. Her ultimate plan is is to use Bruce Wayne's technology to brainwash the world leaders attending his tech summit, in order to expand the League of Assassins' influence over the planet. Talia assembles a team of villains under the command of [[TheDragon the Heretic]], the adult clone of her and Bruce's ChildByRape Damian Wayne, and orders them to capture Bruce so [[MindRape his mind could be broken]] with Mad Hatter's machine; Mad Hatter has been forced to cooperate by means of an ExplosiveLeash. Later, Talia sends Heretic to attack Wayne Enterprises in order to steal technology necessary for her plan, near-fatally wounding Lucius Fox in the assault. When Heretic breaks down and begs for Talia to love him as a mother, and wishing to have Damian's memories, she shoots him in the head for disobeying her orders regarding Damian. As the brainwashing is taking place, she orders a mind-controlled Bruce to shoot Dick Grayson and [[OffingTheOffspring their son]] Damian dead, coldly proclaiming that she and Bruce could always "make more".

** ''WesternAnimation/ConstantineCityOfDemons'': [[BigBad Nergal]] is a depraved and sadistic demon from Hell. When ComicBook/JohnConstantine summoned him to save the young Astra from being sacrificed by her father Alex Logue, Nergal not only killed the latter and his followers but then slaughtered the people at the club before tossing Astra into a portal to Hell for nothing but [[ForTheEvulz his own enjoyment]]. Unsatisfied with his work in Hell, Nergal, under the identity of Beroul, settles in Los Angeles to run his own hellish dimension where the damned souls are tortured and gruesomely executed in various ways by demons. He gets his supply of souls from comatose patients in hospitals. He's also a [[ToServeMan man-eater]] who regularly bathes in a pool of liquefied human bodies. The demon abducts the soul of the young Trish Chandler, keeping it inside his own body in order to compel John into getting rid of his five demonic rivals. After John fulfills his demand, Nergal [[ILied doesn't keep his words]] and keeps Trish as a bargaining chip to force the man into working for him. When John turns against him, Nergal strangles Chas Chandler and gloats about his ill intentions for Trish.

** ''WesternAnimation/SupermanDoomsday'': [[PsychopathicManchild Toyman]] is a criminal with an unhealthy obsession with children who views the entire world as his plaything. Taking advantage of Superman's death, Toyman uses a [[SpiderTank giant robot spider]] to rob banks, then uses the robot to take a [[BusFullOfInnocents school bus full of children hostage]], threatening to [[WouldHurtAChild drop the bus off a building]] if the cops don't let him keep the money. ComicBook/LoisLane manages to save most of the kids, but a robot toy on the bus prevents her and one of the children from leaving. Seeing that most of the children he kidnapped have escaped, Toyman attacks Lois and the child. Toyman's robot throws the bus off the building with Lois and the child on board before being captured. Toyman quickly escapes from the police and attacks a day care center, where he kills a four-year-old.
** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanUnderTheRedHood'': ComicBook/TheJoker opens up the film by brutally beating the young Jason Todd, the second ComicBook/{{Robin}}, to a bloody pulp with a {{crowbar|Combatant}}, before leaving him to die in an explosion he sets off. After Joker is released by a reluctant Black Mask from Arkham Asylum to kill Red Hood, Joker demonstrates his random violence by [[SlashedThroat slitting the throat]] of one of his guards and shooting the other four dead, and soon after backstabs Black Mask by gagging him and the members of both his and Red Hood's gang, intending to [[ManOnFire burn them all alive]] for the purpose of getting Red Hood's attention. Once it's revealed Red Hood is in fact a resurrected Jason Todd and Batman turns the tides against Red Hood in the final confrontation, Joker tries to pin Batman down for the purpose of dying with both his arch-rival and Red Hood in an exploding building, absolutely ecstatic that he gets to die getting everything he wants.
** ''WesternAnimation/AllStarSuperman'': [[RoboticPsychopath Solaris the Tyrant Sun]] is a gigantic computer that wanders the cosmos, consuming stars for fuel and leaving the inhabited planets to die. Contacted by ComicBook/LexLuthor to assist him in his master plan to defeat a dying Superman, Solaris turns the Sun red in an attempt to depower the Man of Steel. Supes counteracts this and leads an army of sapient robots to battle Solaris, but he destroys the army in one blast before announcing his plan to [[TheStarscream betray Luthor]], consume the Sun and force the Earthlings to [[AGodAmI worship him as a deity]] or freeze to death in eternal darkness. Superman then tries to feed the Tyrant Sun to a Sun-Eater, but Solaris destroys it. Before Superman destroys the mad machine, Solaris turns the Sun blue [[TakingYouWithMe to spite Superman by destroying his people]].

** ''WesternAnimation/SupermanUnbound'': ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} is a galactic-scale ControlFreak and genocidal conqueror who seeks the knowledge of the universe, [[CityInABottle shrinking and stealing]] the city of Kandor for his goal while allowing the rest of Krypton to be destroyed by natural disaster. Later attacking another planet, Brainiac takes its capital before using a Solar Aggressor missile to cause its sun to explode, [[EarthShatteringKaboom killing the rest of the population]]. Brainiac also has his drones come to each planet he invades and instructs them to kill inhabitants at random. Stealing Metropolis from Earth, Brainiac [[ColdBloodedTorture tortures]] Superman for information about Kandor before attempting to massacre the rest of Earth's population.

** ''WesternAnimation/SupermanShazamTheReturnOfBlackAdam'': ComicBook/BlackAdam is presented here [[AdaptationalVillainy without any of his more redeemable traits]]. Once chosen as the Earth's savior, Adam's [[FaceHeelTurn power consumed him]] to the point where [[AGodAmI he considered himself nothing less than a god]], forcing Shazam to cast him out in a far point in space. Upon coming to Earth, the very first thing Adam does is redirect his impact path into an inhabited parking lot, before seeking out and intending to kill ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'s next candidate, the young Billy Batson. Throughout his appearance, Adam shows glorification in exercising his own power over living beings, attempting to flood all of Fawcett City as a distraction and taking a hostage to force Billy to depower himself--later trying to kill the hostage anyways--while relating his supremacist philosophies to Billy. Once he's beaten, Adam contents himself with smugly trying to goad Billy into killing him. Adam would willingly hurt anyone and anything so long as the result would be to his benefit.

** ComicBook/TheJoker was once a man who wanted to make people laugh, but after he fell into a vat of chemicals, he 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.

** [[VengefulGhost James "Jim" Craddock]], aka ComicBook/GentlemanGhost, was a notorious highwayman during 19th century England where he made a [[DealWithTheDevil deal with the demon Astaroth]], whereby he would become immortal in exchange for ten human souls. [[YourSoulIsMine Stealing the souls of ten innocents]], Astaroth made it that Craddock's "[[ExactWords soul would never pass from Earth]]" so he would remain as a ghost swearing revenge on Batman. Craddock would return in modern day London where he succeeds in burying Batman alive and summoning an undead army with which he intends to destroy London.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanVsTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'': [[ImmortalitySeeker Shredder]] and ComicBook/RasAlGhul are the [[BigBadDuumvirate leaders]] of the Foot Clan and League of Assassins, respectively, who struck a deal in the past. Shredder would help Ra's build a machine, capable of spreading dangerous mutagen across Gotham City, while Ra's in return would provide Shredder with the location of the Lazarus Pit, which would grant Shredder immortality. Shredder, invading various corporations and killing the staff who happened to be there and stealing technology, was able to nearly complete the machine, only failing to acquire the Cloud Seeder. Hearing about the failure, Ra's Al Ghul changed their plans and took Shredder with him to invade Arkham Asylum, killing all the guards there and freeing prisoners, but not before taking the formula for Joker Venom from ComicBook/TheJoker and giving him mutagen, so that he could mutate the inmates to distract Batman and the Turtles. After Ra's hired ComicBook/ThePenguin to steal the Cloud Seeder, he and Shredder take it away, killing all of Penguin's henchmen and threatening to kill him as well when he demanded a payment. Hoping to combine Joker Venom with mutagen and create a [[PsychoSerum far more dangerous virus]], that would not only painfully mutate people, but make them [[HatePlague homicidal and extremely aggressive]], Ra's and Shredder prepare to spread this to thousands of citizens of Gotham, to create chaos and destruction, before repeating this process around the world.

** [[PsychopathicManchild Prince Ragnar]], brother of Queen Iolande, is an unfathomably petty, spiteful {{narcissist}}. [[AmbitionIsEvil Craving the power of a Lantern]] so as to rule his world, he poisoned his life-long mentor Dulok to get his Lantern ring and later tried to do the same to Kilowog, believing himself the only one worthy of its power, before attempting to [[SiblingMurder slit his own sister's throat]] to ensure if he couldn't rule, neither could she. In his second appearance, [[ThePowerOfHate Ragnar's rage earns him a place in the Red Lanterns ranks]], taking over his world with them and waging war on any resistance. He would then have the Red Lantern Corps plant a "Liberator" on his world, intending to exterminate his own people of 2 billion lives, simply to spite them all for not wanting him as a ruler.

* ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes'': ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} 1.0 was a menace from the past who quickly became one of the most dangerous foes the Legion has ever faced. Brainiac 1.0 was introduced in a flashback, where he shrinks and steals the city of Kandor from Krypton. Within Kandor was a power source that was stabilizing Krypton, but with this power source gone Krypton was soon destroyed. Brainiac 1.0 himself was destroyed long ago, but [[EnemyWithin his programming resided within Brainiac 5]], cut off from the other systems, waiting for a chance to be released. This chance came when Brainiac 5 accessed Brainiac 1.0's programming to gain knowledge to defeat Imperiex. Though Brainiac 1.0's knowledge was useful in defeating Imperiex, every time he used it Brainiac 1.0 was able to gain more control. Brainiac 1.0 slowly [[TheCorrupter corrupted]] Brainiac 5, until eventually he [[GrandTheftMe took control of Brainiac 5's body]]. Then Brainiac quickly [[TheStarscream betrays Imperiex]]--who had [[UngratefulBastard helped Brainiac 1.0 take over Brainiac 5's body]]--[[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness killing him because he was no longer useful to him]]. Brainiac then proceeds with his plan to bring the entire universe under his control, [[OmnicidalManiac by transforming all living beings in the universe into streams of data]]. After digitizing some planets, Brainiac returns to his home planet Colu and reprograms all the inhabitants there to serve as his army and aid in his quest to digitize the universe.

* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanBrainiacAttacks'': ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} is an alien [[RoboticPsychopath android]] who desires to conquer Earth and drive humanity back to the dark ages. After failing to kill Superman and having his entire body, aside from one chip, destroyed, Brainiac uses ComicBook/LexLuthor to rebuild himself in a new more powerful body. Tracking down Superman on his date with Lois Lane, Brainiac attacks him in the middle of Metropolis, endangering countless numbers of innocent people in his quest to destroy his hated nemesis. After Superman's apparent death, Brainiac takes over Metropolis, causing more death and destruction. When Superman was revealed to be alive and starts to fight him, Brainiac deliberately targets hundreds of innocent bystanders to gain the edge over Superman in a fight. When the fight started taking too long, a frustrated Brainiac attempts to overload a nuclear reactor near the city to cause a giant explosion. When Superman defeats him, Brainiac follows him to the hospital and smashes the cure for the deathly sick Lois, simply out of spite.

** [[Characters/TeenTitansSlade Slade]]--never called "ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}}" here--was a cold, [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] criminal [[DiabolicalMastermind 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 [[WouldHitAGirl 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 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.

** [[BrainInAJar The Brain]] is the leader of the Brotherhood of Evil and the final ArcVillain of the series. Compensating for his lack of a body by being one of the most depraved foes the Teen Titans face, the Brain is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] tormenting the Doom Patrol in specialized cages, threatening to slowly crush Elasti-Girl to death while [[ElectricTorture torturing Patrol leader Mento with electricity]]. When his plan to use a quantum generator to wipe out entire cities is thwarted by the Titans, the Brain begins rounding up every young hero across the globe so as to permanently freeze them into trophies, with even powered toddlers not exempt from the Brain's reach. As shown in [[ComicBook/TeenTitansGo tie-in comics]], the Brain also subjects the Titans to horrible MindRape via the villainous Phobia, and threatens the lives of 40,000 people inside a baseball stadium. After the Titans invade his lair to rescue his frozen prisoners, the Brain tries to detonate a bomb and "clear the board completely", willing to murder his dozens of Brotherhood allies while he escapes so long as it ensures the deaths of every last hero who could stop him.

** Season 1 (debut):
*** [[TheEvilPrince Orm the Ocean Master]] is the [[CainAndAbel treacherous younger brother]] of Aquaman, King of Atlantis. Masquerading as a loyal brother and supporter of the crown, Orm participates in the evil activities of the council known as [[Characters/YoungJusticeTheLight the Light]], while attempting to seize Atlantis. Using a racist group of Atlanteans known as the Purifiers against the "impure" Atlanteans, Orm attempts to inspire them to wipe out anyone they deem as impure, knowing it will cause a civil war, after which he will take over what’s left. He also kidnaps his sister-in-law Mera and tries to drain her powers, slowly killing her, despite knowing well that she is pregnant. After the attempted genocide and civil war fail, Orm is eventually exposed and imprisoned for six years until he escapes. [[Recap/YoungJusticeS3E9HomeFires Seeking revenge]], Orm intends to enact the "nuclear option": finding where the heroes' loved ones have their play dates, Orm waits until 18 of them have arrived, including [[WouldHurtAChild babies and children]] alike, before planning to blow the house up and kill them all solely out of spite for being deservedly punished for his crimes.
*** [[AristocratsAreEvil Count Werner Vertigo]] is always second in line to the throne of Vlatava. Having [[SiblingMurder murdered his brother]], Vertigo also assists the Injustice League in destruction to gain a hefty ransom with no regard for the lives of the innocents in the cities he would see leveled. [[WouldHurtAChild Trying to murder]] his 10-year-old [[EvilUncle niece]] Queen Perdita, Vertigo is eventually bested, only to later return as a major figure in the [[SuperhumanTrafficking Bedlam Syndicate]]. Vertigo happily captures teenagers with the metagene, subjecting them to experimentation with a massive fatality rate, all to eventually take the throne of Vlatava, whoever he needs to murder along the way.

*** [[FauxAffablyEvil Granny Goodness]], aka Gretchen Goode, is one of ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}'s most powerful followers and a savage sadist underneath her kindly, grandmotherly facade. With a love of "discipline," Granny [[BadBoss abuses and tortures her followers]], conditioning them by forcing them to bear the conditions of her agonizing X-Pits, while operating a massive [[SuperhumanTrafficking trafficking]] business that steals hundreds of young metahumans across the universe to be twisted into slaves for Darkseid. Gretchen uses her persona as Gretchen Goode to further this agenda on Earth by peddling a series of VR goggles that scan wearers for the metagene, repeatedly attempting to torture and break the heroes with a pleasant, cheery smile. Granny, upon discovering Halo is the living personification of the Anti-Life equation, attempts to use her to spread Anti-Life all across the universe, horribly killing off all non-meta life and utterly enslaving the metahuman survivors to Darkseid's will.

* ''WesternAnimation/BewareTheBatman'': ComicBook/{{Anarky}} is [[AdaptationalVillainy a far cry]] from his comic version. An utter madman who views himself and Batman as two kings on a chess board, one representing order and peace, the other [[AnarchyIsChaos chaos and destruction]], Anarky commits all of his crimes out of [[FameThroughInfamy a pathological love for attention]] and [[CardCarryingVillain a sheer enjoyment of being evil]]. In his first appearance, Anarky grants two petty crooks high-tech weaponry before sending them on a rampage through Gotham, after which he rigs two gondolas filled with people to explode unless Batman can stop them in time. Later, Anarky pits Batman and the League of Assassins against each other as part of a plan to unleash a lethal plague onto all of Gotham, and attempts to bomb a populated park filled with police officers while trying to frame Batman. At the end of the series, Anarky makes [[TheCorrupter corrupting]] District Attorney [[ComicBook/TwoFace Harvey Dent]] into evil his personal pet project, and successfully drives Dent to institute MartialLaw in Gotham while threatening the lives of all those who stand in his way. In the sequel tie-in comic, Anarky unlocks every door in Gotham City for a single night, then tries to spur all of the citizens into a panic-induced riot that he hopes will tear Gotham apart in the ultimate display of chaos. Though [[SoftSpokenSadist soft-spoken]] and [[FauxAffablyEvil eerily polite]], Anarky is the most wicked foe Batman faced in the series, having no empathy, no mercy, and no motive at all except his basic whims.

*** [[KnightOfCerebus Frederick DeLamb]], is the security chief and brother to the Queen of Markovia; he is also secretly [[AristocratsAreEvil Baron Bedlam]], leader of the heinous Bedlam Syndicate. Bedlam masterminds the capture and [[SuperhumanTrafficking trafficking]] of countless young metahuman children and teenagers, having them tortuously experimented on and drowning them in a thick tar of his own creation to awaken their metagene. Killing enough of them to warrant regular mass burials of failed experiments, those who do survive are mutated and auctioned off as living weapons to the highest bidder. In his own grab for power in Markovia, Bedlam has his own sister and the King assassinated before killing the Quraci assassin himself, throwing pressure onto the Quraci populace as a convenient excuse to screen for more metagenes. [[EvilUncle Bedlam even has his own niece and nephew]], Tara and Brion Markov, subjected to the experiments, mocking them later for how he's orphaned them. Bedlam attempts a coup in the season 3 finale, attempting to have his nephew Gregor's loyalists killed while snidely vowing never to stop trying to kill his family and take Markovia's throne-—a sentiment that prompts Brion to kill him.

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'''[[ComicBook/EobardThawne Eobard Thawne/Professor Zoom/Reverse Flash]]''': No, no I don't. But I choose to, knowing it will make your last moments pure agony.

** [[Characters/DCAUDarkseid Darkseid]], who later appeared in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' and was the top threat of the entire DCAU, is the tyrannical ruler of the wasteland planet [[Characters/SupermanTheAnimatedSeriesApokolips Apokolips]], and ultimately desired [[GalacticConqueror total dominion over all life in the universe.]] To achieve this end, he forever seeks the cosmic power of the Anti-Life Equation to use as the ultimate weapon. Incapable of love or empathy, [[AbusiveParents he abused his loyal son Kalibak]], handed over his adopted son Scott Free to be tortured and brainwashed by Granny Goodness, and attempted to [[OffingTheOffspring murder his other son]], Orion, for opposing him. His [[BadBoss servants are likewise subjected to torture or death]] should they fail or even question him. Setting his sights on conquering Earth, Darkseid launched a full-scale invasion, only relenting when the planet was declared off-limits by Apokolips's sister planet, New Genesis. To compensate, Darkseid murdered Dan Turpin solely to spite Superman. He would make numerous more attempts to conquer or annihilate the planet, including attempting to destroy it with an comet and brainwashing Superman into leading an attack on his adopted world, turning the Man of Steel into a pariah for years--but not before Darkseid had the brainwashed Superman basically raped. He later attempted to use Brainiac's programming to collect the Anti-Life Equation and bend the universe to his will, leading to his death in a battle with Superman. [[BackFromTheDead Upon his resurrection]], Darkseid immediately launched another invasion on Earth, not out of a desire for power, but solely to make Superman suffer. Ruthless and tyrannical, Darkseid is Superman's greatest enemy, and [[ThouShaltNotKill one of the few villains]] he has [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness outright tried to kill]].

** ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueTheFlashpointParadox'': ComicBook/EobardThawne, aka Professor Zoom, is the [[ArchEnemy Reverse-Flash]] and opposes everything [[Franchise/TheFlash Barry Allen]] stands for. Thawne hires various other Flash villains to break into the Flash museum. Thawne straps bombs to the villains he hired after they defeat Flash, planning to blow up the Flash museum and several surrounding blocks, just so the Flash will be tormented knowing that several innocent people will die with him. After his initial defeat, Thawne mocks Flash over the fact his mother died. After Flash uses his speed to travel back in time and save his mother, [[TimeCrash the world is sent to a twisted alternate state]], in which a war between Atlantis and the Amazons has caused massive devastation. 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, as well as himself, solely [[EvilisPetty to satisfy his hatred of Barry]].

** The ComicBook/AntiMonitor, the BigBad of the second arc until [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Aya takes over]], is an {{omnicidal|Maniac}} machine obsessed with nothing less than the obliteration of everything in the universe that isn't himself. Built to be a knowledge-gathering robot, the Anti-Monitor quickly realized his superiority to all life in the cosmos, and was banished to another dimension soon after his proclamation to destroy everything in his path. The Anti-Monitor proceeded to turn trillions of planets in this alternate dimension into AntiMatter which he then consumed to make himself stronger, and, though making a deal with the last remaining planet's population to not consume them should they build him a portal back to his own dimension, the Anti-Monitor drained their sun of nearly all its life before he left, [[ExactWords ensuring that the planet would still die soon after he was gone]]. Once back in his home dimension, the Anti-Monitor reactivates the Manhunter robots across the universe and orders them to kill everything they see, and, when confronted by Hal Jordan, the Anti-Monitor tries to [[ForcedToWatch force him to watch]] as first his friends, then entire worlds, are consumed before him. Even when beaten, the Anti-Monitor desperately tries to strike a deal with Aya to assist her in her plans to destroy reality itself to save his own hide. A megalomaniac who couldn't stand anything living except himself, the Anti-Monitor's narcissism was only matched by his petty {{sadis|t}}m.