History VillainTeamUp / ComicBooks

** A strange example in ''ComicBook/WorldsFinest1941 #169: ComicBook/TheSupergirlBatgirlPlot''. It looks like Supergirl and ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} are teaming-up to take Superman and Batman down. However, Batman unmask both women, who turn out to be ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} and Supergirl's enemy Black Flame. But then the real Supergirl and Batgirl arrive just in time to save both heroes from a dimensional trap, and both villains transform back into their real selves, Mxyzptlk and Bat-Mite. It turns out both Imps were teaming up to see if they could trick Superman and Batman into trapping themselves in another dimension.
** ''World's Finest (1941)'' issue #166 "The Danger of the Deadly Duo!", set in the 25th century, has psychic super-villain Muto and Joker XX teaming up against Superman XX and Batman XX, descendants of the original heroes.

** A strange example in ''ComicBook/WorldsFinest #169: ComicBook/TheSupergirlBatgirlPlot''. It looks like Supergirl and ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} are teaming-up to take Superman and Batman down. However, Batman unmask both women, who turn out to be ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} and Supergirl's enemy Black Flame. But then the real Supergirl and Batgirl arrive just in time to save both heroes from a dimensional trap, and both villains transform back into their real selves, Mxyzptlk and Bat-Mite. It turns out both Imps were teaming up to see if they could trick Superman and Batman into trapping themselves in another dimension.

** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2006'': Sarge Steel's odd behavior is finally explained by mind control and a rather surprising team up of ComicBook/{{Cheetah}}, Doctor Psycho, T. O. Morrow, and Ares. Surprising because Doctor Psycho is a rapist, and Cheetah generally murders those when given the chance.

* In ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' storyline ''ComicBook/LegionOfThreeWorlds,'' Comicbook/{{Superboy}}-Prime decides to strike at the 31st century that worships Superman by gathering ''every single Legion foe'' into a massive Legion of Super-Villains. While they may not all like each other, it's clear the LSV are united in their desire to finally see their long-time enemies dead.
* The ''ComicBook/SinestroCorpsWar'' arc of ''Franchise/GreenLantern'' had something similar. While there was plenty of new baddies created as Sinestro Corps members, the main threat was the team up of the major DCU baddies Sinestro, Superboy-Prime, the Cyborg Superman, Parallax, the Manhunters, and the Anti-Monitor.

* The ''Comicbook/FantasticFour'' had to fight Doctor Doom and the Sub-Mariner at once (in one of the earliest examples), and were saved when Doom betrayed the Sub-Mariner a bit too early, causing him to switch sides. Later, the heroes faced the Frightful Four; a revolving-door group of second-string supervillains that always seemed to betray each other.
* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'':

* Comicbook/TheFlash's RoguesGallery is an exception: the villain team, known simply as "The Rogues", works together all the time with practically no problems whatsoever, and is effectively a standing army of super-villains. As the Flash points out to Batman, in Central City the super-villains and organized crime are one and the same.

** The ComicBook/DarkAvengers were in fact a team up of the more villainous members of the ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}} with antiheroes Comicbook/{{Ares|Marvel}} and ComicBook/TheSentry, young and misguided Marvel Boy (who quit the moment he found out what he gotten himself into) and {{ComicBook/Daken}}

** In ''ComicBook/SupermanVsTheAmazingSpiderMan'', ComicBook/LexLuthor and ComicBook/DoctorOctopus team up to destroy Superman and Franchise/SpiderMan.

* Subverted in a ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' story. Franchise/GreenLantern calls into JLA and says that seven supervillains are trying to kidnap the President at the White House and that he and Franchise/TheFlash need support. The others assume it is this trope, but Franchise/GreenLantern quickly cuts them off: they all got the idea independently at the same time, and are currently trying to kill each other for "stealing my idea!" He and Flash need help saving civilians from their crossfire, the president is safe. This turns out to be one of many signs someone has been misusing powers of probability manipulation.

* When ComicBook/TheJoker travelled to the Dreddverse in one of the ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' / ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' crossover comics, he joined the Dark Judges, a group of four undead lawmen dedicated to annihilating all life. After Joker convinces Judge Death that he could be useful and asks for immortality, Death placed his spirit inside a dead body to make him one of them. Eventually though, Joker tires of the arrangement because he found the constant mass slaughter to be getting monotonous.

* A fair portion of DC's ice themed villains--Icicle, [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Mr. Freeze]], [[Franchise/TheFlash Captain Cold]], Killer Frost, [[Franchise/WonderWoman Minister Blizzard]], Cryonic Man and Snowman--teamed up to form the "Ice Pack" in a ''Justice League Adventures'' story titled "Cold War".