History Monster / DCVideoGames

** ''VideoGame/JusticeLeagueHeroesTheFlash'' {{spinoff}}: [[Characters/SupermanBrainiac Brainiac]] is once again portrayed as a sociopathic robot with zero redeeming qualities. Having set his sights on freeing a presence within a meteor in exchange for knowledge and power, he allows [[KillerGorilla Gorilla Grodd]] to wreak havoc in Keystone; sends [[AnIcePerson Killer Frost]] to destroy Gotham; sends [[WickedWitch Circe]] to take over and, eventually, destroy Themyscira; and gives [[Characters/TheFlashHunterZolomon Zoom]] the means to destroy the Pacific Coast, which will flood Coast City in order to distract the Justice League from his plans. After all his subordinates are defeated, Brainiac personally invades Metropolis and, when confronted by Flash, reveals that he has triggered the bomb that will atomize Metropolis.

* ''Film/GreenLantern2011: Rise of the Manhunters'': [[BigBad Amon Sur]] is the son of Abin Sur, [[TheParagon the greatest member]] of the Green Lantern Corps, who died before the game began. Amon presented himself as a kind and dutiful son at his father's funeral, but that was all an act. Amon was secretly [[TheResenter bitter]] that his father's ring was given to Hal Jordan instead of him and planned to exact his revenge. Allying himself with the Green Lantern's old enemies, the [[AIIsACrapshoot Manhunters]], Amon has the Manhunters attack Oa. This attack was a diversion so that the Manhunters could locate the Yellow Fear Battery hidden beneath Oa and steal its power. The Manhunters succeed and with this new power Amon orders them to [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwash]] and enslave another race, the Zamarons, so that they will attack Oa. Foiling this scheme, Hal Jordan heads to the Manhunters' home world, where he discovers Amon's treachery and finds his friend Kilowog trapped in a giant Manhunter that is slowly draining away his life force. After freeing Kilowog, Hal Jordan finds Amon leading the Manhunters in another attack on Oa, with Amon intending to kill everyone on the planet for revenge.

* ''ComicBook/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'' & ''ComicBook/InjusticeVsMastersOfTheUniverse'': [[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darkseid]] is the [[PlanetBaron despotic ruler of the planet Apokolips]] and [[ArchEnemy one of the most sworn and powerful enemies]] of [[Characters/InjusticeSuperman Superman]]. Torturing Black Racer into submission, Darkseid allows his son Kalibak to lead an assault on Earth, killing tens of thousands of people, before his army was destroyed by Superman. Angered at the fact that Superman sullied his reputation by killing Kalibak, Darkseid starts scheming the destruction of Superman more aggressively, first hiring Lobo to take him down and then, when that failed, joining the conspiracy with Ares and Hera, manipulating humans, superheroes, and Olympians into a bloody conflict, with the human government even launching nukes as a result. After this, Darkseid found the weakened Skeletor in the cosmos, and from him, he found the location of the solution to Anti-Life Equation to be in Castle Grayskull. Invading Eternia, Darkseid kills, captures and transforms thousands of people into his obedient slaves, as he tries to uncover Anti-Life Equation, to [[MultiversalConqueror take control of the multiverse]], killing the minds and personalities of every living being aside from himself.

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}: The Man of Steel'' (2002): [[EvilOverlord Mongul]], as usual, is the ruler of Warworld and a galactic tyrant. When Superman discovers [[Characters/SupermanBrainiac Brainiac]] 13 is about to return, Superman decides to go to Warworld to obtain some weapons to defeat Brainiac. Knowing Mongul will not help him, Superman [[SlaveLiberation frees Mongul's slaves]] on Warworld, saving them from Mongul's forces and receiving help from them. When Mongul learns Superman has freed his slaves, he demands compensation. When Superman refuses, Mongul's ship attacks Superman and the escaping slave ships. When Superman defeats Mongul's ship, Mongul launches the ship's reactor at the Earth, telling Superman the reactor is powerful enough to [[EarthShatteringKaboom destroy the world]], with Mongul wanting to [[RevengeByProxy punish Superman for his interference by killing everyone on Earth]].

* ''VideoGame/SupermanReturns'':
** [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]] is [[AdaptationalVillainy worse than his film counterpart]]. Faking reports of Krypton still existing to get rid of Superman, Lex is released from jail and cons an elderly woman out her belongings. Lex steals and experiments on the data crystals, causing a blackout and unleashing multiple criminals and creatures onto the city, including Bizarro and Riot. Lex's ultimate goal is to use the crystals to build a continent that would destroy most of North America and potentially kill billions. Lex later plants the crystals, [[WeatherManipulation causing tornadoes]], and abandons Lois Lane to die. When Superman comes to the island, Lex beats him up and throws him into the ocean to die. Uncaring and out [[ItsAllAboutMe only for himself]], Lex laughs off any of the damage he causes.
** [[EvilOverlord Mongul]] is the sadistic leader of Warworld, where he forces aliens to fight for his amusement. Capturing Superman on his way back to Earth from Krypton. Mongul forces him to fight in GladiatorGames against his will. When Superman beats his opponents, Mongul enters the ring himself, but is beaten. Mongul tries to goad Superman into killing him, and following Superman to Earth, he has his men attack Metropolis. In his final battle with Superman, Mongul attempts to [[ColonyDrop have asteroids crash into the city]] and has his men attack citizens to hurt Superman.

* [[Characters/BatmanArkhamSeriesTheJoker The Joker]] serves as the OverarchingVillain of the series. The ArchEnemy of Batman, Joker regularly commits crimes solely to torture his nemesis throughout the series. When first [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins establishing himself in Gotham]], Joker hijacked Black Mask's organization, and used his influence to torture and murder innocents, along with bombing multiple buildings across the city. In [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum one notable instance]], Joker staged a breakout at Arkham Asylum, ensuring the slaughter of as many people as possible. Left dying of a TITAN overdose in the wake of this incident, Joker [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity forces Batman to find a cure for his condition]] by poisoning more than two thousand people with his infected blood; he also executes Batman's LoveInterest, [[Characters/BatmanTaliaAlGhul Talia Al Ghul]], right in front of him. Caring nothing for his subordinates, The Joker regularly abuses his "girlfriend," Harley Quinn, and tortures and murders his henchmen, along with threatening their family members, for fun. Even after his death, [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight flashbacks further show his wicked deeds]], such as crippling Barbara Gordon and physically and psychologically torturing Jason Todd for months, then sending Batman videotapes of said torture; this torture resulted in Jason becoming the Arkham Knight. Tie-in material only adds to his list of crimes, with his many crimes including [[WesternAnimation/BatmanAssaultOnArkham trying to blow up Gotham City]]; and, in the digital comic, ''Arkham City: End Game'', rigging fireworks with Joker toxin that kills hundreds. A narcissistic sadist with a pathological need for attention, the Joker is determined to make Gotham forever remember him by writing his name in the city with blood.

* [[ThemeSerialKiller Julian Gregory Day, aka the Calendar Man]], is a soft-spoken psychopath who commits crimes during and based on holidays. In ''[[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity Arkham City]]'', he boasts about a sizeable rap sheet over the years, from [[SelfMadeOrphan murdering his parents]] and potential lovers to laying siege to maternity wards and poisoning entire gangs working for him, Day kicks off his next spree in the ''[[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight Arkham Knight]]'' tie-in comic by murdering dozens of people in stores across Gotham on holidays. Later capturing Batman, Day forces him to fight monsters continuously for an entire week while using an infant as a hostage, before revealing he has poisoned over 300 people in Gotham—-many of whom are [[WouldHurtAChild children and toddlers]]--hoping for Batman to tire himself into exhaustion and allow Day to strike the killing blow. Day ultimately flings the hostage infant off a ledge to enable his own escape, successfully evading capture and ending his current spree solely to bask in Batman's coming defeat at the hands of Scarecrow.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' (UsefulNotes/GameBoy): [[Characters/DCAUJoker The Joker]] plots to smuggle a bunch of teddy bears containing bombs filled with [[DeadlyGas Joker Venom]] into Gotham to have them go off and kill many people, openly telling Batman about his plan in advance so as to lure Batman in an attempt to kill him. The Joker later shoots the Batplane out of the sky in an attempt to kill Batman and Robin, not caring about potential collateral deaths caused by the crash.

** [[Characters/SupermanBrainiac Brainiac]], after receiving a telepathic message from a meteorite, promising him great power and knowledge if he can release the power within the meteor, [[TheHeavy launches a complex scheme to get the equipment he needs. He creates a series of disasters to keep the Justice League busy: He has his [[MechaMooks robot minions]] attack random citizens; has Queen Bee transform people into bee creatures; hires the Key and Killer Frost to set off several nuclear weapons; frees the White Martians so they can attack Earth; frees Gorilla Grodd so he will use his EarthquakeMachine, eventually planning to destroy Gorilla City; and uses a Doomsday clone to help him [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs take over the Justice League Watchtower]], imprison Martian Manhunter, and steal a Mother Box. Brainiac is willing to endanger millions of lives just as a distraction tactic, so the Justice League would too busy to stop his quest for power and knowledge.

* ''VideoGame/Injustice2'': [[Characters/InjusticeBrainiac Brainiac]] is TheCollector of worlds and [[BigBad threatens the universe]] in this sequel. Shown in a flashback to have stolen Argo City and Kandor before destroying Krypton, Brainiac arrives on Earth after learning that [[Characters/InjusticeSuperman Superman]] was defeated. Intrigued, Brainiac sends his [[MechaMooks Betas]] to round up, scan and vaporize civilians as well as brainwashing several heroes. Stealing numerous cities, Brainiac smiles as he takes Metropolis, after which he seemingly kills Superman. He declares that unless the heroes give him Supergirl to study how yellow sun radiation affects Kryptonian cells, he will order his Betas to self-destruct, igniting Earth's atmosphere and wiping out all its life; in doing so, he betrays [[Characters/TheFlashGorillaGrodd Gorilla Grodd]] and [[Characters/InjusticeTheSociety the Society]] that were working with him. When Supergirl and Batman infiltrate his Skull Ship they find at least dozens of shrunken cities from different worlds giving a small glimpse of the scale of Brainiac's atrocities. They are captured, Brainiac intending to vivisect Supergirl while dismissively leaving Batman to be killed. Personally murdering Doctor Fate, Brainiac is confronted by Superman, to which Brainiac boasts that he has killed billions of Kryptonians. With countless crimes of theft and genocide, the cold, ruthless Brainiac [[LackOfEmpathy justifies himself]] with this line: "I value knowledge. And like your metal trinkets, knowledge is more valuable when it is rare."

** [[Characters/SupermanBrainiac Brainiac]], after receiving a telepathic message from a meteorite, promising him great power and knowledge if he can release the power within the meteor, launches a complex scheme to get the equipment he needs. He creates a series of disasters to keep the Justice League busy: He has his [[MechaMooks robot minions]] attack random citizens; has Queen Bee transform people into bee creatures; hires the Key and Killer Frost to set off several nuclear weapons; frees the White Martians so they can attack Earth; frees [[Characters/TheFlashGorillaGrodd Gorilla Grodd]] so he will use his EarthquakeMachine, eventually planning to destroy Gorilla City; and uses a Doomsday clone to help him [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs take over the Justice League Watchtower]], imprison Martian Manhunter, and steal a Mother Box. Brainiac is willing to endanger millions of lives just as a distraction tactic, so the Justice League would too busy to stop his quest for power and knowledge.

** ''VideoGame/JusticeLeagueHeroesTheFlash'' {{spinoff}}: [[Characters/SupermanBrainiac Brainiac]] is once again portrayed as a sociopathic robot with zero redeeming qualities. Having set his sights on freeing a presence within a meteor in exchange for knowledge and power, he allows [[Characters/TheFlashGorillaGrodd Gorilla Grodd]] to wreak havoc in Keystone; sends [[AnIcePerson Killer Frost]] to destroy Gotham; sends [[WickedWitch Circe]] to take over and, eventually, destroy Themyscira; and gives [[Characters/TheFlashHunterZolomon Zoom]] the means to destroy the Pacific Coast, which will flood Coast City in order to distract the Justice League from his plans. After all his subordinates are defeated, Brainiac personally invades Metropolis and, when confronted by Flash, reveals that he has triggered the bomb that will atomize Metropolis.

* ''VideoGame/Injustice2'': [[Characters/InjusticeBrainiac Brainiac]] is TheCollector of worlds and [[BigBad threatens the universe]] in this sequel. Shown in a flashback to have stolen Argo City and Kandor before destroying Krypton, Brainiac arrives on Earth after learning that [[Characters/InjusticeSuperman Superman]] was defeated. Intrigued, Brainiac sends his [[MechaMooks Betas]] to round up, scan and vaporize civilians as well as brainwashing several heroes. Stealing numerous cities, Brainiac smiles as he takes Metropolis, after which he seemingly kills Superman. He declares that unless the heroes give him Supergirl to study how yellow sun radiation affects Kryptonian cells, he will order his Betas to self-destruct, igniting Earth's atmosphere and wiping out all its life; in doing so, he betrays Gorilla Grodd and [[Characters/InjusticeTheSociety the Society]] that were working with him. When Supergirl and [[Characters/InjusticeBatman Batman]] infiltrate his Skull Ship they find at least dozens of shrunken cities from different worlds giving a small glimpse of the scale of Brainiac's atrocities. They are captured, Brainiac intending to vivisect Supergirl while dismissively leaving Batman to be killed. Personally murdering Doctor Fate, Brainiac is confronted by Superman, to which Brainiac boasts that he has killed billions of Kryptonians. With countless crimes of theft and genocide, the cold, ruthless Brainiac [[LackOfEmpathy justifies himself]] with this line: "I value knowledge. And like your metal trinkets, knowledge is more valuable when it is rare."

* ''VideoGame/BatmanBegins'': [[PsychoPsychologist Dr. Jonathan Crane]], aka [[Characters/BatmanTheScarecrow the Scarecrow]], is [[AdaptationalVillainy even worse than his film counterpart]]. Helping [[Characters/BatmanRasAlGhul Ras Al Ghul]] by developing the gas needed for his plan, Scarecrow tests it out on innocent people, having them driven insane and using them as attack dogs. Scarecrow [[BadBoss shows no concern when many of his men are infected by the gas and holds the brother of one of his men hostage]]. When Batman reaches his lair, Scarecrow tries to leave his patients to burn to death. When Ra's starts his plan to release the gas into Gotham, Scarecrow tries to lower the bridge to allow the first few people to be infected into the city to start tearing it apart.

** ''VideoGame/JusticeLeagueHeroesTheFlash'' {{spinoff}}: [[Characters/SupermanBrainiac Brainiac]] is once again portrayed as a sociopathic robot with zero redeeming qualities. Having set his sights on freeing a presence within a meteor in exchange for knowledge and power, he allows [[Characters/TheFlashGorillaGrodd Gorilla Grodd]] to wreak havoc in Keystone; sends [[AnIcePerson Killer Frost]] to destroy Gotham; sends [[Characters/WonderWomanCirce Circe]] to take over and, eventually, destroy Themyscira; and gives [[Characters/TheFlashHunterZolomon Zoom]] the means to destroy the Pacific Coast, which will flood Coast City in order to distract the Justice League from his plans. After all his subordinates are defeated, Brainiac personally invades Metropolis and, when confronted by Flash, reveals that he has triggered the bomb that will atomize Metropolis.

** ''[[ComicBook/ScribblenautsUnmasked A Crisis of Imagination]]'' comic: [[Characters/CrisisOnInfiniteEarthsAntiMonitor Anti-Monitor]] is the [[BigBad mastermind]] who sends his Shadow Demons to possess civilians to instigate chaos across the universe while supplying advance weapons to several supervillains to further spread destruction and corrupt heroes into fighting their own allies. The Anti-Monitor later has his Weaponers invade the planet Rann, installing a tower to [[BrainwashedAndCrazy telepathically control the civilians into attacking each other]]. When his fortress has been invaded by the Justice League, Anti-Monitor destroys Brainiac's ship, knocking out almost all of the heroes, and attempts to [[WouldHurtAChild kill Maxwell and his twin sister Lily]] until the Phantom Stranger intervenes, at which point Anti-Monitor murders the latter by erasing him from existence. Anti-Monitor imprisons all of the defeated heroes within his tower until Maxwell and his friends break them out and attack Anti-Monitor, to which he would later activate his tower and successfully [[OmnicidalManiac destroys the multiverse]], leaving nothing but a blank void.

* ''Film/GreenLantern: Rise of the Manhunters'': [[BigBad Amon Sur]] is the son of Abin Sur, [[TheParagon the greatest member]] of the Green Lantern Corps, who died before the game began. Amon presented himself as a kind and dutiful son at his father's funeral, but that was all an act. Amon was secretly [[TheResenter bitter]] that his father's ring was given to Hal Jordan instead of him and planned to exact his revenge. Allying himself with the Green Lantern's old enemies, the [[AIIsACrapshoot Manhunters]], Amon has the Manhunters attack Oa. This attack was a diversion so that the Manhunters could locate the Yellow Fear Battery hidden beneath Oa and steal its power. The Manhunters succeed and with this new power Amon orders them to [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwash]] and enslave another race, the Zamarons, so that they will attack Oa. Foiling this scheme, Hal Jordan heads to the Manhunters' home world, where he discovers Amon's treachery and finds his friend Kilowog trapped in a giant Manhunter that is slowly draining away his life force. After freeing Kilowog, Hal Jordan finds Amon leading the Manhunters in another attack on Oa, with Amon intending to kill everyone on the planet for revenge.

-->--'''[[Characters/BatmanTheScarecrow The Scarecrow]]''', ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight''

* [[Characters/BatmanTheScarecrow The Scarecrow]], [[PsychoPsychologist Dr. Jonathan Crane]], first appears while participating in [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum Joker's plan]] to take over Arkham Asylum, attempting to MindRape Batman several times with his fear toxin; defeated, he threatens to contaminate Gotham's water supply with the toxin simply to spite Batman. Returning in ''[[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight Arkham Knight]]'' as the BigBad, he takes advantage of the [[EvilPowerVacuum power vacuum]] created by Joker's death and to unite the remaining villains against Batman. After his newest fear toxin causes a diner full of people to rip each other apart, Gotham is evacuated, allowing Scarecrow to manufacture an extremely powerful fear bomb; when this is foiled, he steals a superweapon called the Cloudburst to drive all of Gotham temporarily mad with fear. He leads Batman to believe that his toxin caused Barbara Gordon to kill herself. He then manipulates Commissioner Gordon into betraying Batman, later forcing the disobedient Jim to watch as he drops the still-living Barbara off of a building. In the end, he captures Batman and forces Gordon to unmask him on live TV, planning on letting Batman go [[CruelMercy so he can watch]] as Gotham is torn apart and everyone he loves is hunted down and killed. All of this was done to completely destroy the myth of the Batman as a savior, and force everyone to experience true fear by [[HopeCrusher destroying their symbol of hope]].

* ''ComicBook/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'' & ''ComicBook/InjusticeVsMastersOfTheUniverse'': [[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darkseid]] is the [[EvilOverlord despotic ruler]] of the planet Apokolips and [[ArchEnemy one of the most sworn and powerful enemies]] of [[Characters/InjusticeSuperman Superman]]. Torturing Black Racer into submission, Darkseid allows his son Kalibak to lead an assault on Earth, killing tens of thousands of people, before his army was destroyed by Superman. Angered at the fact that Superman sullied his reputation by killing Kalibak, Darkseid starts scheming the destruction of Superman more aggressively, first hiring Lobo to take him down and then, when that failed, joining the conspiracy with Ares and Hera, manipulating humans, superheroes, and Olympians into a bloody conflict, with the human government even launching nukes as a result. After this, Darkseid found the weakened Skeletor in the cosmos, and from him, he found the location of the solution to Anti-Life Equation to be in Castle Grayskull. Invading Eternia, Darkseid kills, captures and transforms thousands of people into his obedient slaves, as he tries to uncover Anti-Life Equation, to [[MultiversalConqueror take control of the multiverse]], killing the minds and personalities of every living being aside from himself.

->''"Do you know what happens now, Mr. Wayne? I'm not going to kill you... I'm going to set you free... Free to see the city you swore to defend tear itself apart. Free to see everyone you love hunted down and killed. Every scream, every death, vengeance for all that Batman has done."''

* [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]] serves as the OverarchingVillain of the series. The ArchEnemy of Batman, Joker regularly commits crimes solely to torture his nemesis throughout the series. When first [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins establishing himself in Gotham]], Joker hijacked Black Mask's organization, and used his influence to torture and murder innocents, along with bombing multiple buildings across the city. In [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum one notable instance]], Joker staged a breakout at Arkham Asylum, ensuring the slaughter of as many people as possible. Left dying of a TITAN overdose in the wake of this incident, Joker [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity forces Batman to find a cure for his condition]] by poisoning more than two thousand people with his infected blood; he also executes Batman's LoveInterest, [[Characters/BatmanTaliaAlGhul Talia Al Ghul]], right in front of him. Caring nothing for his subordinates, The Joker regularly abuses his "girlfriend," Harley Quinn, and tortures and murders his henchmen, along with threatening their family members, for fun. Even after his death, [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight flashbacks further show his wicked deeds]], such as crippling Barbara Gordon and physically and psychologically torturing Jason Todd for months, then sending Batman videotapes of said torture; this torture resulted in Jason becoming the Arkham Knight. Tie-in material only adds to his list of crimes, with [[WesternAnimation/BatmanAssaultOnArkham trying to blow up Gotham City]] and rigging fireworks with Joker toxin that kills hundreds (the latter seen in the digital comic, ''Arkham City: End Game'') being just a few of his extra depravities. A narcissistic sadist with a pathological need for attention, the Joker is determined to make Gotham forever remember him by writing his name in the city with blood.

* ''ComicBook/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'' & ''ComicBook/InjusticeVsMastersOfTheUniverse'': ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} is the [[EvilOverlord despotic ruler]] of the planet Apokolips and [[ArchEnemy one of the most sworn and powerful enemies]] of [[Characters/InjusticeSuperman Superman]]. Torturing Black Racer into submission, Darkseid allows his son Kalibak to lead an assault on Earth, killing tens of thousands of people, before his army was destroyed by Superman. Angered at the fact that Superman sullied his reputation by killing Kalibak, Darkseid starts scheming the destruction of Superman more aggressively, first hiring Lobo to take him down and then, when that failed, joining the conspiracy with Ares and Hera, manipulating humans, superheroes, and Olympians into a bloody conflict, with the human government even launching nukes as a result. After this, Darkseid found the weakened Skeletor in the cosmos, and from him, he found the location of the solution to Anti-Life Equation to be in Castle Grayskull. Invading Eternia, Darkseid kills, captures and transforms thousands of people into his obedient slaves, as he tries to uncover Anti-Life Equation, to [[MultiversalConqueror take control of the multiverse]], killing the minds and personalities of every living being aside from himself.

** ''VideoGame/JusticeLeagueHeroesTheFlash'' {{spinoff}}: [[Characters/SupermanBrainiac Brainiac]] is once again portrayed as a sociopathic robot with zero redeeming qualities. Having set his sights on freeing a presence within a meteor in exchange for knowledge and power, he allows [[Characters/TheFlashGorillaGrodd Gorilla Grodd]] to wreak havoc in Keystone; sends [[AnIcePerson Killer Frost]] to destroy Gotham; sends [[Characters/WonderWomanCirce Circe]] to take over and, eventually, destroy Themyscira; and gives [[ComicBook/HunterZolomon Zoom]] the means to destroy the Pacific Coast, which will flood Coast City in order to distract the Justice League from his plans. After all his subordinates are defeated, Brainiac personally invades Metropolis and, when confronted by Flash, reveals that he has triggered the bomb that will atomize Metropolis.

[[quoteright:350:[[VideoGame/JusticeLeagueHeroes https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/new_hell.jpg]]]] [[caption-width-right:350:"[[ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} I]] will transform [[UsefulNotes/{{Earth}} this world]] into a new Apokolips. Not HellOnEarth. Something far, far worse"]]

-->--'''ComicBook/TheScarecrow''', ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight''

* ComicBook/TheJoker serves as the OverarchingVillain of the series. The ArchEnemy of Batman, Joker regularly commits crimes solely to torture his nemesis throughout the series. When first [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins establishing himself in Gotham]], Joker hijacked Black Mask's organization, and used his influence to torture and murder innocents, along with bombing multiple buildings across the city. In [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum one notable instance]], Joker staged a breakout at Arkham Asylum, ensuring the slaughter of as many people as possible. Left dying of a TITAN overdose in the wake of this incident, Joker [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity forces Batman to find a cure for his condition]] by poisoning more than two thousand people with his infected blood; he also executes Batman's LoveInterest, ComicBook/TaliaAlGhul, right in front of him. Caring nothing for his subordinates, The Joker regularly abuses his "girlfriend," Harley Quinn, and tortures and murders his henchmen, along with threatening their family members, for fun. Even after his death, [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight flashbacks further show his wicked deeds]], such as crippling Barbara Gordon and physically and psychologically torturing Jason Todd for months, then sending Batman videotapes of said torture; this torture resulted in Jason becoming the Arkham Knight. Tie-in material only adds to his list of crimes, with [[WesternAnimation/BatmanAssaultOnArkham trying to blow up Gotham City]] and rigging fireworks with Joker toxin that kills hundreds (the latter seen in the digital comic, ''Arkham City: End Game'') being just a few of his extra depravities. A narcissistic sadist with a pathological need for attention, the Joker is determined to make Gotham forever remember him by writing his name in the city with blood.

* ComicBook/TheScarecrow, [[PsychoPsychologist Dr. Jonathan Crane]], first appears while participating in [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum Joker's plan]] to take over Arkham Asylum, attempting to MindRape Batman several times with his fear toxin; defeated, he threatens to contaminate Gotham's water supply with the toxin simply to spite Batman. Returning in ''[[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight Arkham Knight]]'' as the BigBad, he takes advantage of the [[EvilPowerVacuum power vacuum]] created by Joker's death and to unite the remaining villains against Batman. After his newest fear toxin causes a diner full of people to rip each other apart, Gotham is evacuated, allowing Scarecrow to manufacture an extremely powerful fear bomb; when this is foiled, he steals a superweapon called the Cloudburst to drive all of Gotham temporarily mad with fear. He leads Batman to believe that his toxin caused Barbara Gordon to kill herself. He then manipulates Commissioner Gordon into betraying Batman, later forcing the disobedient Jim to watch as he drops the still-living Barbara off of a building. In the end, he captures Batman and forces Gordon to unmask him on live TV, planning on letting Batman go [[CruelMercy so he can watch]] as Gotham is torn apart and everyone he loves is hunted down and killed. All of this was done to completely destroy the myth of the Batman as a savior, and force everyone to experience true fear by [[HopeCrusher destroying their symbol of hope]].
* [[BadBoss Oswald Cobblepot]], ComicBook/ThePenguin, stands out in this franchise as a calculating and sadistic mob boss, intent on ruling Gotham's criminal underworld through any means necessary. A vicious crime lord who runs illegal gambling rings and fight clubs--where the losers of each are tortured and murdered--Cobblepot engages in [[ArmsDealer weapons trafficking and black arms deals]], supplying Gotham's criminal element with weapons that cause catastrophe all over the city. An absolutely horrendous employer, Cobblepot routinely tortures and murders his own men for failure, feeds them to sharks and hands them off to Solomon Grundy to be ripped to shreds for the most petty of reasons, and leaves an entire gang of them to die in enemy territory to strike a minor blow against his enemy. Cobblepot also sets Wayne Manor aflame during a charity gala, brutally tortures any police officers he gets his hands on in ''[[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity Arkham City]]'', [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOriginsBlackgate forces dozens of Blackgate guards to fight to the death for their survival]], and bombs an entire building filled with his own men. Cobblepot is a ruthless sociopath masquerading as a "gentleman," with no care or concern for anyone but his own selfish desires.

* ''VideoGame/Injustice2'': [[Characters/InjusticeBrainiac Brainiac]] is TheCollector of worlds and [[BigBad threatens the universe]] in this sequel. Shown in a flashback to have stolen Argo City and Kandor before destroying Krypton, Brainiac arrives on Earth after learning that [[Characters/InjusticeSuperman Superman]] was defeated. Intrigued, Brainiac sends his [[MechaMooks Betas]] to round up, scan and vaporize civilians as well as brainwashing several heroes. Stealing numerous cities, Brainiac smiles as he takes Metropolis, after which he seemingly kills Superman. He declares that unless the heroes give him Supergirl to study how yellow sun radiation affects Kryptonian cells, he will order his Betas to self-destruct, igniting Earth's atmosphere and wiping out all its life; in doing so, he betrays Gorilla Grodd and [[Characters/Injustice2TheSociety the Society]] that were working with him. When Supergirl and [[Characters/InjusticeBatman Batman]] infiltrate his Skull Ship they find at least dozens of shrunken cities from different worlds giving a small glimpse of the scale of Brainiac's atrocities. They are captured, Brainiac intending to vivisect Supergirl while dismissively leaving Batman to be killed. Personally murdering Doctor Fate, Brainiac is confronted by Superman, to which Brainiac boasts that he has killed billions of Kryptonians. With countless crimes of theft and genocide, the cold, ruthless Brainiac [[LackOfEmpathy justifies himself]] with this line: "I value knowledge. And like your metal trinkets, knowledge is more valuable when it is rare."

* ''VideoGame/BatmanVengeance'': ComicBook/TheJoker is the true BigBad and [[TheChessmaster the ultimate mastermind]] behind the game's evil. [[FakingTheDead Faking his death]] to keep suspicion off himself, Joker manipulates the supervillains Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy into committing various crimes, from flash-freezing a factory of workers to implanting carnivorous plants inside innocents to blackmail them, and uses the ensuing chaos to initiate his own scheme. Joker plans to pump [[DeadlyGas Joker Gas]] and the highly flammable substance Promethium into Gotham City's sewers, then giddily watch as millions of innocents choke on their own laughter as they burn alive. Even when beaten, Joker attempts to fling himself to his death, hoping to both torment Batman and immortalize himself as the greatest nightmare in Gotham's history.
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}: The Man of Steel'' (2002): [[EvilOverlord Mongul]], as usual, is the ruler of Warworld and a galactic tyrant. When Superman discovers ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} 13 is about to return, Superman decides to go to Warworld to obtain some weapons to defeat Brainiac. Knowing Mongul will not help him, Superman [[SlaveLiberation frees Mongul's slaves]] on Warworld, saving them from Mongul's forces and receiving help from them. When Mongul learns Superman has freed his slaves, he demands compensation. When Superman refuses, Mongul's ship attacks Superman and the escaping slave ships. When Superman defeats Mongul's ship, Mongul launches the ship's reactor at the Earth, telling Superman the reactor is powerful enough to [[EarthShatteringKaboom destroy the world]], with Mongul wanting to [[RevengeByProxy punish Superman for his interference by killing everyone on Earth]].
* ''VideoGame/BatmanBegins'': [[PsychoPsychologist Dr. Jonathan Crane]], aka ComicBook/TheScarecrow, is [[AdaptationalVillainy even worse than his film counterpart]]. Helping ComicBook/RasAlGhul by developing the gas needed for his plan, Scarecrow tests it out on innocent people, having them driven insane and using them as attack dogs. Scarecrow [[BadBoss shows no concern when many of his men are infected by the gas and holds the brother of one of his men hostage]]. When Batman reaches his lair, Scarecrow tries to leave his patients to burn to death. When Ra's starts his plan to release the gas into Gotham, Scarecrow tries to lower the bridge to allow the first few people to be infected into the city to start tearing it apart.

** ComicBook/{{Brainiac}}, after receiving a telepathic message from a meteorite, promising him great power and knowledge if he can release the power within the meteor, [[TheHeavy launches a complex scheme]] to get the equipment he needs. He creates a series of disasters to keep the Justice League busy: He has his [[MechaMooks robot minions]] attack random citizens; has Queen Bee transform people into bee creatures; hires the Key and Killer Frost to set off several nuclear weapons; frees the White Martians so they can attack Earth; frees Gorilla Grodd so he will use his EarthquakeMachine, eventually planning to destroy Gorilla City; and uses a Doomsday clone to help him [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs take over the Justice League Watchtower]], imprison Martian Manhunter, and steal a Mother Box. Brainiac is willing to endanger millions of lives just as a distraction tactic, so the Justice League would too busy to stop his quest for power and knowledge.
** ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} himself, while [[SealedEvilInACan trapped inside an extradimensional prison]], had been [[ManipulativeBastard manipulating Brainiac]] the whole time, communicating telepathically via the meteorite. He makes his actual appearance by vaporizing Brainiac. Darkseid then uses the Mother Box and a Sensory Matrix Field Generator to banish the Justice League, before [[HostileTerraforming transforming the Earth into a new Apokolips]], which he describes as "something far, far worse'' than HellOnEarth; he then incarcerates Superman in a Kryptonite prison.

** ComicBook/LexLuthor is [[AdaptationalVillainy worse than his film counterpart]]. Faking reports of Krypton still existing to get rid of Superman, Lex is released from jail and cons an elderly woman out her belongings. Lex steals and experiments on the data crystals, causing a blackout and unleashing multiple criminals and creatures onto the city, including Bizarro and Riot. Lex's ultimate goal is to use the crystals to build a continent that would destroy most of North America and potentially kill billions. Lex later plants the crystals, [[WeatherManipulation causing tornadoes]], and abandons Lois Lane to die. When Superman comes to the island, Lex beats him up and throws him into the ocean to die. Uncaring and out [[ItsAllAboutMe only for himself]], Lex laughs off any of the damage he causes.

** ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} stands in [[VileVillainSaccharineShow stark contrast]] to the rest of the series. Once again a being desiring perfection, he [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates]] the friendship-seeking Doppelganger into helping other villains cause mayhem and destruction so that he can collect the Star Sprites. Hacking Cyborg into leading the Justice League into a trap, Brainiac steals Lily's globe and reveals his plan: gather up his 52 other versions from the multiverse, for a HiveMind, and [[OmnicidalManiac destroy ever living being in the multiverse so that he remains]], calling them "imperfect" compared to him.
** ''[[ComicBook/ScribblenautsUnmasked A Crisis of Imagination]]'' comic: ComicBook/AntiMonitor is the [[BigBad mastermind]] who sends his Shadow Demons to possess civilians to instigate chaos across the universe while supplying advance weapons to several supervillains to further spread destruction and corrupt heroes into fighting their own allies. The Anti-Monitor later has his Weaponers invade the planet Rann, installing a tower to [[BrainwashedAndCrazy telepathically control the civilians into attacking each other]]. When his fortress has been invaded by the Justice League, Anti-Monitor destroys Brainiac's ship, knocking out almost all of the heroes, and attempts to [[WouldHurtAChild kill Maxwell and his twin sister Lily]] until the Phantom Stranger intervenes, at which point Anti-Monitor murders the latter by erasing him from existence. Anti-Monitor imprisons all of the defeated heroes within his tower until Maxwell and his friends break them out and attack Anti-Monitor, to which he would later activate his tower and successfully [[OmnicidalManiac destroys the multiverse]], leaving nothing but a blank void.

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* ''ComicBook/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'' & ''ComicBook/InjusticeVsMastersOfTheUniverse'': ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} is the [[EvilOverlord despotic ruler]] of the planet Apokolips and [[ArchEnemy one of the most sworn and powerful enemies]] of Superman. Torturing Black Racer into submission, Darkseid allows his son Kalibak to lead an assault on Earth, killing tens of thousands of people, before his army was destroyed by Superman. Angered at the fact that Superman sullied his reputation by killing Kalibak, Darkseid starts scheming the destruction of Superman more aggressively, first hiring Lobo to take him down and then, when that failed, joining the conspiracy with Ares and Hera, [[ManipulativeBastard manipulating]] humans, superheroes, and Olympians into a bloody conflict, with the human government even launching nukes as a result. After this, Darkseid found the weakened Skeletor in the cosmos, and from him, he found the location of the solution to Anti-Life Equation to be in Castle Grayskull. Invading Eternia, Darkseid kills, captures and transforms thousands of people into his obedient slaves, as he tries to uncover Anti-Life Equation, to [[MultiversalConqueror take control of the multiverse]], killing the minds and personalities of every living being aside from himself.
* ''ComicBook/HeManThundercats'' & ''ComicBook/InjusticeVsMastersOfTheUniverse'': [[EvilSorcerer Skeletor]] is a vile warlock and the most relentless enemy of He-Man. Discovering the existence of another universe, Skeletor has made a contact with the Ancient Spirits of Evil, having them bring their world closer to Eternia, causing a cataclysm that destroyed part of the great city of Eternos, before he captured their agent Mumm-Ra and transformed him into a liquid, which he drank, despite Mumm-Ra still being alive and sapient. Later bringing Mumm-Ra back to his original form, Skeletor joined forces with him, enslaving the Ancient Spirits of Evil and having them spread chaos and destruction all over Eternia, killing thousands. [[DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans Desiring to transform Eternia into a horrific place]], where all those who oppose him will die and the rest of the population will be [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil enslaved]], Skeletor transformed himself and Mumm-Ra into Mumm-Ator, before he tried to [[MultiversalConqueror take over the multiverse]]. Failing at that and being banished, [[TheStarscream Skeletor]] starts pretending to serve Darkseid and the brutal version of Superman, using them to get his way into Castle Grayskull again, while assisting Superman in upholding his tyrannical regime and revealing to Darkseid that the answer to Anti-Life Equation was always in Castle Grayskull, leading to Darkseid attacking Eternia, slaughtering thousands and brainwashing thousands more.

** ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} himself, while [[SealedEvilInACan trapped inside an extradimensional prison]], had been [[ManipulativeBastard manipulating Brainiac]] the whole time, communicating telepathically via the meteorite. He makes his actual appearance by vaporizing [[UnwittingPawn Brainiac]]. Darkseid then uses the Mother Box and a Sensory Matrix Field Generator to banish the Justice League, before transforming the Earth into a new Apokolips, which he describes as "something far, far worse'' than HellOnEarth; he then incarcerates Superman in a Kryptonite prison.

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* ComicBook/TheJoker serves as the OverarchingVillain of the series. The ArchEnemy of Batman, Joker regularly commits crimes solely to torture his nemesis throughout the series. When first [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins establishing himself in Gotham]], Joker hijacked Black Mask's organization, and used his influence to torture and murder innocents, along with bombing multiple buildings across the city. In [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum one notable instance]], Joker staged a breakout at Arkham Asylum, ensuring the slaughter of as many people as possible. Left dying of a TITAN overdose in the wake of this incident, Joker [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity forces Batman to find a cure for his condition]] by poisoning more than two thousand people with his infected blood; he also executes Batman's LoveInterest, Talia Al Ghul, right in front of him. Caring nothing for his subordinates, The Joker regularly abuses his "girlfriend," Harley Quinn, and tortures and murders his henchmen, along with threatening their family members, for fun. Even after his death, [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight flashbacks further show his wicked deeds]], such as crippling Barbara Gordon and physically and psychologically torturing Jason Todd for months, then sending Batman videotapes of said torture; this torture resulted in Jason becoming the Arkham Knight. Tie-in material only adds to his list of crimes, with [[WesternAnimation/BatmanAssaultOnArkham trying to blow up Gotham City]] and rigging fireworks with Joker toxin that kills hundreds (the latter seen in the digital comic, ''Arkham City: End Game'') being just a few of his extra depravities. A narcissistic sadist with a pathological need for attention, the Joker is determined to make Gotham forever remember him by [[CardCarryingVillain writing his name in the city with blood]].

* ''ComicBook/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'': [[Characters/InjusticeJoker The Joker]] first appears in the comic when he fatally shoots ComicBook/JimmyOlsen. Worse than that, he is the reason Superman adopts a zero tolerance policy on crime, as he places a detonator in the pregnant Lois Lane, set to trigger a nuke in Metropolis the moment her heart stops, and then uses a Kryptonite-laced version of Scarecrow's fear toxin to trick Superman into seeing Doomsday, so that the deaths of Lois and the millions in Metropolis are on Superman's hands. He does all of this because he was tired of losing to Batman and [[ForTheEvulz wanted to go after an easier target]].

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' (UsefulNotes/GameBoy): ComicBook/TheJoker plots to smuggle a bunch of teddy bears containing bombs filled with [[DeadlyGas Joker Venom]] into Gotham to have them go off and kill many people, openly telling Batman about his plan in advance so as to lure Batman in an attempt to kill him. The Joker later shoots the Batplane out of the sky in an attempt to kill Batman and Robin, not caring about potential collateral deaths caused by the crash.

Given [[Monster/DCUniverse the source material]], it comes as no surprise that video games (and related comics) based on Franchise/TheDCU feature [[CompleteMonster heinous villains]].

* ''VideoGame/BatmanVengeance'': ComicBook/TheJoker is the true BigBad and [[TheChessmaster the ultimate mastermind]] behind the game's evil. [[FakingTheDead Faking his death]] to keep suspicion off himself, Joker manipulates the supervillains Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy into committing various crimes, from flash freezing a factory of workers to implanting carnivorous plants inside innocents to blackmail them, and uses the ensuing chaos to initiate his own scheme. Joker plans to pump [[DeadlyGas Joker Gas]] and the highly flammable substance Promethium into Gotham City's sewers, then giddily watch as millions of innocents choke on their own laughter as they burn alive. Even when beaten, Joker attempts to fling himself to his death, hoping to both torment Batman and immortalize himself as the greatest nightmare in Gotham's history.

* ''Film/BatmanBegins'': [[PsychoPsychologist Dr. Jonathan Crane]], aka ComicBook/TheScarecrow, is [[AdaptationalVillainy even worse than his film counterpart]]. Helping ComicBook/RasAlGhul by developing the gas needed for his plan, Scarecrow tests it out on innocent people, having them driven insane and using them as attack dogs. Scarecrow [[BadBoss shows no concern when many of his men are infected by the gas and holds the brother of one of his men hostage]]. When Batman reaches his lair, Scarecrow tries to leave his patients to burn to death. When Ra's starts his plan to release the gas into Gotham, Scarecrow tries to lower the bridge to allow the first few people to be infected into the city to start tearing it apart.

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* ''ComicBook/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'': ComicBook/TheJoker first appears in the comic when he fatally shoots ComicBook/JimmyOlsen. Worse than that, he is the reason Superman adopts a zero tolerance policy on crime, as he places a detonator in the pregnant Lois Lane, set to trigger a nuke in Metropolis the moment her heart stops, and then uses a Kryptonite-laced version of Scarecrow's fear toxin to trick Superman into seeing Doomsday, so that the deaths of Lois and the millions in Metropolis are on Superman's hands. He does all of this because he was tired of losing to Batman and [[ForTheEvulz wanted to go after an easier target]].

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* ''VideoGame/Injustice2'': ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} is TheCollector of worlds and [[BigBad threatens the universe]] in this sequel. Shown in a flashback to have stolen Argo City and Kandor before destroying Krypton, Brainiac arrives on Earth after learning that Superman was defeated. [[ForScience Intrigued]], Brainiac sends his [[MechaMooks Betas]] to round up, scan and vaporize civilians as well as brainwashing several heroes. Stealing numerous cities, Brainiac smiles as he takes Metropolis, after which he seemingly kills Superman. He declares that unless the heroes give him Supergirl to study how yellow sun radiation affects Kryptonian cells, he will order his Betas to self-destruct, igniting Earth’s atmosphere and wiping out all its life; in doing so he betrays Gorilla Grodd and [[Characters/Injustice2TheSociety the Society]] that were working with him. When Supergirl and Batman infiltrate his Skull Ship they find at least dozens of shrunken cities from different worlds giving a small glimpse of the scale of Brainiac’s atrocities. They are captured, Brainiac intending to vivisect Supergirl while dismissively leaving Batman to be killed. Personally murdering Doctor Fate, Brainiac is confronted by Superman, to which Brainiac boasts that he has killed billions of Kryptonians. With countless crimes of theft and genocide, the cold, ruthless Brainiac [[LackOfEmpathy justifies himself]] with this line: "I value knowledge. And like your metal trinkets, knowledge is more valuable when it is rare."

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* ''Film/BatmanBegins'': [[PsychoPsychologist Dr. Jonathan Crane]], aka ComicBook/TheScarecrow, is [[AdaptationalVillainy even worse than his film counterpart]]. Helping ComicBook/RasAlGhul by developing the gas needed for his plan, Scarecrow tests it out on innocent people, having them driven insane and using them as attack dogs. Scarecrow [[BadBoss shows no concern when many of his men are infected by the gas and holds the brother of one of his men hostage]]. When Batman reaches his lair, Scarecrow tries to leave his patients to burn to death. When Ra's starts his plan to release the gas into Gotham, Scarecrow tries to lower the bridge to allow the first few people to be infected into the city to start tearing it apart.

* ''Film/GreenLantern: Rise of the Manhunters'': [[BigBad Amon Sur]] is the son of Abin Sur, [[TheParagon the greatest member]] of the Green Lantern Corps, who died before the game began. Amon presented himself as a kind and dutiful son at his father's funeral, but that was all an act. Amon was secretly [[TheResenter bitter]] that his father's ring was given to Hal Jordan instead of him and planned to exact his revenge. Allying himself with the Green Lantern's old enemies, the [[AIIsACrapshoot Manhunters]], Amon has the Manhunters attack Oa. This attack was a diversion so that the Manhunters could locate the Yellow Fear Battery hidden beneath Oa and steal its power. The Manhunters succeed and with this new power Amon orders them to [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwash]] and enslave another race, the Zamarons, so that they will attack Oa. Foiling this scheme, Hal Jordan heads to the Manhunters' home world, where he discovers Amon's treachery and finds his friend Kilowog trapped in a giant Manhunter that is slowly draining away his life force. After freeing Kilowog, Hal Jordan finds Amon leading the Manhunters in another attack on Oa, with Amon intending to kill everyone on the planet for revenge.

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}: Man of Steel'' (2002 video game): [[EvilOverlord Mongul]], as usual, is the ruler of Warworld and a galactic tyrant. When Superman discovers ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} 13 is about to return, Superman decides to go to Warworld to obtain some weapons to defeat Brainiac. Knowing Mongul will not help him, Superman [[SlaveLiberation frees Mongul's slaves]] on Warworld, saving them from Mongul's forces and receiving help from them. When Mongul learns Superman has freed his slaves, he demands compensation. When Superman refuses, Mongul's ship attacks Superman and the escaping slave ships. When Superman defeats Mongul's ship, Mongul launches the ship's reactor at the Earth, telling Superman the reactor is powerful enough to [[EarthShatteringKaboom destroy the world]], with Mongul wanting to [[RevengeByProxy punish Superman for his interference by killing everyone on Earth]].
* ''VideoGame/SupermanReturns'':

* ''[[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity Arkham City]]'': [[KnightTemplar Professor Hugo Strange]] is the [[PsychoPsychologist sociopathic psychiatrist]] behind the titular Arkham City project. An amoral monster since his career in Arkham Asylum, during which time he experimented on and lobotomized hundreds of prisoners, Strange harbors an intense, seething desire to become a hero, and begins his quest to fulfill this dream by convincing ComicBook/RasAlGhul to fund his enterprises. Turning Quincy Sharp into a SerialKiller, then mind-controlled puppet, Strange uses him and a supervillain suicide bombing--[[FalseFlagOperation orchestrated by Strange himself]]--as catalysts to build "Arkham City", a super prison designed to house thousands of inmates. In truth a {{hellhole|Prison}} of chaos where rape, torture, and murder abound, Strange not only fuels the fires between gangs, forces several villains into service by threatening their loved ones, and uses his brainwashed TYGER guards to kickstart bloody massacres, but also uses trumped-up charges to throw countless innocent people in with the raving lunatics of the prison to be horrifically killed should they stand in his way, continuing to torture and experiment on prisoners. Strange ultimately plans to wipe out the entirety of Arkham City, slaughtering the thousands of inmates guilty and innocent alike, then build concentration camps just like it in every major city across the globe until the "filth" of all crime is cleansed and Strange rules the world as its "salvation". An utterly self-righteous narcissist who would torture, brainwash, and murder enemy and ally alike, Hugo Strange cared only for becoming a greater hero than Batman ever was and creating for himself a glorious new future to lord over as [[AGodAmI savior to all]].

* ''ComicBook/HeManThundercats'': [[AsLongAsThereIsEvil Mumm-Ra]] is an evil servant of the Ancient Spirits of Evil who aided their attack on Eternia, leading many monsters to attack the great city of Eternos and personally impaling Prince Adam, sadistically mocking him. [[VillainTeamUp Joining forces]] with [[CrossoverComboVillain Skeletor]], Mumm-Ra helped him [[TheStarscream enslave his former masters]], making them spread death and destruction around the planet, openly sharing Skeletor's plan to conquer the world and transform it into a horrific place, where the opposition will be brutally executed and the rest of the population enslaved. Transforming with Skeletor into the powerful [[FusionDance Mumm-Ator]] and trying to take over the multiverse, Mumm-Ra wanted to help Skeletor to create this future for the whole multiverse.

* ''ComicBook/HeManThundercats'' & ''ComicBook/InjusticeVsMastersOfTheUniverse'': [[CrossoverComboVillain Skeletor and Mumm-Ra]] are the evil supernatural beings who decided to [[VillainTeamUp unite]] in order to destroy their sworn enemies and take over all reality. Enslaving the Ancient Spirits of Evil, thus giving them the form of titanic beasts, the two command them to cause chaos all over Eternia in order to take possession of two ancient magic swords, the Sword of Omens and the Sword of Power. As a result, thousands of Eternians were killed, and nearly all Eternia was on the brink of destruction. When the remaining forces of Eternia and the [=ThunderCats=] managed to defeat their beasts, Skeletor and Mumm-Ra [[FusionDance fused into the extremely powerful Mumm-Ator]] and, after destroying the remaining opposition, break into Castle Grayskull to try to take over the multiverse. After Lion-O and He-Man combined their power to separate and banish them, the weakened Skeletor [[TheStarscream pretends to serve]] both Darkseid and the power-mad Superman, manipulating them both, causing Darkseid to invade Eternia, an action which resulted in many more people being killed or brainwashed to be servants of Darkseid.

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* ''Film/SupermanReturns'':

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** ComicBook/{{Brainiac}}, after receiving a telepathic message from a meteorite, promising him great power and knowledge if he can release the power within the meteor, [[TheHeavy launches a complex]] scheme to get the equipment he needs. He creates a series of disasters to keep the Justice League busy: He has his [[MechaMooks robot minions]] attack random citizens; has Queen Bee transform people into bee creatures; hires the Key and Killer Frost to set off several nuclear weapons; frees the White Martians so they can attack Earth; frees Gorilla Grodd so he will use his EarthquakeMachine, eventually planning to destroy Gorilla City; and uses a Doomsday clone to help him [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs take over the Justice League Watchtower]], imprison Martian Manhunter, and steal a Mother Box. Brainiac is willing to endanger millions of lives just as a distraction tactic, so the Justice League would too busy to stop his quest for power and knowledge.

** ComicBook/{{Brainiac}}, after receiving a telepathic message from a meteorite, promising him great power and knowledge if he can release the power within the meteor, launches a complex scheme to get the equipment he needs. He creates a series of disasters to keep the Justice League busy: He has his [[MechaMooks robot minions]] attack random citizens; has Queen Bee transform people into bee creatures; hires the Key and Killer Frost to set off several nuclear weapons; frees the White Martians so they can attack Earth; frees Gorilla Grodd so he will use his EarthquakeMachine, eventually planning to destroy Gorilla City; and uses a Doomsday clone to help him [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs take over the Justice League Watchtower]], imprison ComicBook/MartianManhunter, and steal a Mother Box. Brainiac is willing to endanger millions of lives just as a distraction tactic, so the Justice League would too busy to stop his quest for power and knowledge.