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15* ''ComicBook/SevenPsychopaths'': Boom Studio's [[FrancoBelgianComics French import]] chronicled a group of army-sanctioned crazies who are trained and parachuted into Germany to kill UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler. The group included a sociopathic mimic, a bloodthirsty maniac who shrugged off pain, a man who believed Hitler to be an actual demon, and a mother with impeccable sniper skills.
16* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'':
17** The finale of ''ComicBook/BatmanNoMansLand'' has a variation when ComicBook/TheJoker goes against [[WellIntentionedExtremist Billy]] [[SlowlySlippingIntoEvil Pettit]]. Oracle calls it "madness vs madness", which means it's inevitably a CurbStompBattle in the Joker's favour.
18** In ''ComicBook/DeathOfTheFamily'', the story pits ComicBook/TheJoker against [[spoiler: ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}, ComicBook/ThePenguin, ComicBook/PoisonIvy, and ComicBook/HarleyQuinn. All four of them try to flee Gotham City to get away from the Joker... but their attempts fail]].
19** In [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker the Joker's]] [[ComicBook/TheJoker2021 2021 miniseries]], the conflict ultimately boils down to a three-way version of this. On one side, you have The Joker, the infamous mass-murdering Clown Prince of Crime, who wants to kill everybody around him just because it's funny. On the second side, you have the Sampsons; an extended family of [[HillbillyHorrors deformed, inbred, cannibal Texan hillbillies]] who became filthy rich when they accidentally discovered oil on their land, sacrificed their most [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre Leatherface-esque]] member to take the fall for the clan's collective misdeeds, then used their wealth to carry on abducting and eating people, only this time [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney with the cash to buy blind eyes]]. Finally, there's Lady Bane; the [[OppositeSexClone clone-daughter]] of Bane and a genetically programmed assassin. The Sawyers want Joker dead becase he killed their imprisoned kinsman in one of his latest Arkham rampages - that said, they're not averse to eating Lady Bane as well. Lady Bane has been literally programmed to kill the Joker, but also wants the Sawyers dead just on principle, as she finds them repellent. The Joker couldn't care less about what either of them wants, but is more than happy to kill them for laughs and self preservation.
20* ''ComicBook/BlackScience'': The multiverse of the series offers many opportunities for evil entities to face off:
21** The zirites are a gaseous lifeform that enslaves every species they encounter as hosts. The draln are telepathic millipedes dedicated to the annihilation of all life. Either is an existential threat to life in the multiverse, but they eventually clash.
22** Mr. Block and his alternate dimension selves are out for economic control of the multiverse. Their headquarters is attacked by Har'Logh the Defiler, a monster out for physical subjugation of the multiverse.
23* ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'': The ComicBook/RedSkull is involved in this pretty regularly, mostly due to 1) him being a Nazi and 2) [[EvenEvilHasStandards most comic-book villains at the very least having enough humanity remaining to hate Nazis]]; even ''ComicBook/TheJoker'' opened fire on him when he found out that the Skull was not wearing those swastikas to be Edgy(TM) and actually meant them. The best example, though, has to be the VillainTeamUp CrisisCrossover ''Acts of Vengeance'', in which he came up against ComicBook/{{Magneto}}. For the uninitiated, Magneto is, when his time in the HeelFaceRevolvingDoor deposits him on the "heel" side, a SuperSupremacist whose hatred of non-mutant humans was born when he was a terrified Jewish kid in a Nazi concentration camp. That he would prioritise beating the shit out of the Skull and ultimately [[BuriedAlive burying him alive]] over facing off against any of the actual ''heroes'' was only a surprise to Loki, who apparently neglected to do a background check.
24* ''ComicBook/CleanRoom'': The series shows the conflict between Astrid Mueller (who uses bribery, blackmail, coercion, and force to wage war with frequent collateral civilian damage and attrition within her own ranks) and literal demons. The horror of the series hinges on how it's a tossup which is worse.
25* ''ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis'': ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}, [[MultiversalConqueror Monarch]], [[AxCrazy Superboy-Prime]], and [[StupidEvil The Monitor]] are all gunning for each other for various convoluted reasons, mostly having to do with their [[UnwittingPawn superhero enemies]] and said heroes' [[ShaggyDogStory bizarre, fragmented, mixed-up]] parallel plotlines running throughout the series.
26* ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'': Deadpool is recurrently made of this trope.
27* ''ComicBook/{{Eclipso}}'': Eclipso had this, as the Comics Code meant that Eclipso could never succeed in his villainous plans. To keep him from seeming too easy to defeat, some stories would have him go up against another villain and defeat their plans before being sealed away again.
28* ''ComicBook/TheFlash'': Creator/GeoffJohns' ''Rogue War'', which pitted two teams of Rogues (one led by Captain Cold, the other by the original Trickster) going up against each other, (over the body of Captain Boomerang, among other things) soon joined by a third group (brought together by the Top). This leads up to a [[Awesome/TheDCU CMOA]] where Captain Cold, almost the epitome of EvenEvilHasStandards, freezes then kills the Top, the whole time berating him why this shouldn't have happened.
29-->'''Captain Cold''': Forgot one of the rules, Top. Rogues shouldn't fight each other. 'Cause when they do... [[LiterallyShatteredLives shatters the frozen Top]] bad things happen.
30* ''ComicBook/ForeverEvil2013'': It's ComicBook/LexLuthor and his LegionOfDoom against the Crime Syndicate. This is also present in the side stories -- ''Rogues Rebellion'' features the Flash's enemies [[EvenEvilHasStandards the Rogues]] fighting against the Crime Syndicate's forces, while ''Arkham War'' features the inmates of Arkham Asylum (led by ComicBook/TheScarecrow) fighting the prisoners of Blackgate (led by ComicBook/{{Bane}}) fighting for control of Gotham.
31* ''ComicBook/TheFoxHunt'': Thanks to [[BigBad Mr. Smile's]] million dollar bounty for The Fox's head, the villains he's brought in for the "contest" inevitably attack each other as seriously as they attack The Fox. As a matter of fact, this is the only reason he and The Ghost Fox get out of their first scrape with them alive.
32* ''Franchise/GIJoe'': The Creator/LarryHama-written ''[[ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroMarvel G.I. Joe]]'' comics by Marvel had the Cobra Civil War storyline, where Serpentor and [[spoiler:the Crimson Guardsman masquerading as]] Cobra Commander fought over control of Cobra. Destro and his Iron Grenadiers represented a third villain faction in the conflict. The Joes didn't have much to do but bear witness to events [[spoiler:though Serpentor's faction had bought their support from corrupt elements within the Pentagon]].
33** The revival comic also had a storyline or three about Cobra factions gunning for each other, including one named... Cobra Civil War.
34* ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'': In the limited miniseries ''B.P.R.D. 1947'', lone vampire nobleman Baron Konig vows revenge against the Nazis and spends the aftermath of World War II being a NaziHunter, butchering anyone he can find. He doesn't do it out of goodness or any sense of justice on his heart, but for revenge due to the Nazis backstabbing a fellow vampire lord and experimenting on his family which [[EvenEvilHasStandards Konig found abominable]]. He makes it clear that he wants mankind to pay for the Nazis' crimes, he is only getting started with them.
35* ''ComicBook/{{Irredeemable}}'': Desperate to end [[BewareTheSuperman the Plutonian's]] mad rampage across the globe and fearing that [[HeroesRUs the Paradigm]] may [[HeWhoFightsMonsters become just as big a threat in their efforts to fight him]], the US government performs a ritual that summons Orian, [[TheDreaded the most feared supervillain in this setting]] and a nightmarishly powerful demon that was once the Paradigm's most dangerous enemy, and make a DealWithTheDevil with him by asking him to go kill Plutonian and the heroes alike. Orian is just as evil and monstrous as Plutonian is now, arguably even more so, and he's fully intending to get right back to trying to conquer Earth like usual once his hated enemies are finally destroyed. The government has no illusions about any of this. They're just hoping, vainly, that either Orian and Plutonian will [[MutualKill kill each other]] or whoever wins the battle will be weakened enough to finish off easily. It's not exactly a great plan, [[GodzillaThreshold but considering the threat]]…
36* ''ComicBook/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac'': The [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin titular]] [[AxCrazy homicidal maniac]] is pitted against ''some'' kind of [[DemonicPossession possessive demon]] controlling [[PsychologicalTormentZone his]] [[LivingLabyrinth house]]. Of course, this may or may not be ThroughTheEyesOfMadness, so the conflict might not exist at all.
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38* Even though it was called Super-Villain Team Up, Marvel's comic series featured [[ComicBook/SubMariner Namor]] and ComicBook/DoctorDoom (Namor being an AntiHero of sort during those days. And yes, nowadays again as well.) fighting mostly each other and other supervillains. Only the occasional hero would show up and get involved.
39* ''ComicBook/NikolaiDante'': The series has a long-running feud, later exploding into full-on {{civil war}}, between the [[FeudingFamilies Makarovs and Romanovs]]. Tsar Vladimir Makarov is more powerful; Lord Dmitri Romanov is more evil.
40* ''ComicBook/{{Plush}}'' pits sadistic cops eager for a chance to hunt humans against cannibal furries in a death cult.
41* ''ComicBook/ThePowerpuffGirls'': In Issue #33 of the DC run, Mojo Jojo tries to retrieve a device of his from Fuzzy Lumpkins' land. Easier said than done as Fuzzy claims the device as his as it's on his property in spite of the fact that Mojo's brand is on it.
42* ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'': The sidestory ''The Good Old Boys'' has Jody and T.C. take on a bunch of goons and their leader, a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed rendition of UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein.
43* ''ComicBook/{{Raptors}}'': The French comic chronicles the fight between TheMasquerade of vampires who have decided to give up their days of slaughter so they could replace humanity in the long run but found their powers diminishing through the ages, and a renegade vampire brother and sister who retained their powers and pledged to [[HunterOfHisOwnKind hunt down all the others]] while being unapologetic monsters themselves.
44* ''ComicBook/RedRobin'': Tim gets stuck in the middle of an ongoing fight between the League of Assassins and the Council of Spiders, two organizations of remorseless murderers who make money through assassination.
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46* ''ComicBook/ReignInHell'': The DC crossover event pitted the half-demon children of Shazam, Blaze and Satanus, against Neron (who was {{retcon}}ned into being ''the'' ruler of Hell instead of being just another demon lord) in a bid to control all of Hell. A few of the magic-using DC heroes got involved in the conflict because the fallout of the infernal struggle was screwing up magic in general. It ultimately ended with [[spoiler: Satanus defeating Neron by transforming ''all'' the demons of Hell into humans (which had the side effect of stripping Neron of most of his power that was absorbed from other demons over the millenia), Neron's head on a pike, and Blaze betraying Satanus in a moment of weakness making her the new Queen of Hell]].
47* ''ComicBook/RequiemVampireKnight'': The series thrives on this. There is a huge struggle for control between various factions of the damned, of which most are just various flavors of evil. Even the protagonist [[AntiHero is not particularly good]]. The only "good" faction in Resurrection is the Lemures (incorrectly translated to Lamias in English) and ghosts, who have not committed any crimes [[CrapsackWorld and are just stuck there because they were killed by someone evil]]. Even then, they make use of evil creatures (centaurs, who are reincarnated [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rapists]], and werewolves, who are reincarnated [[KnightTemplar religious fanatics]]) simply because they would stand no chance against the other factions otherwise.
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49* ''ComicBook/SecretSix'': Balancing them fighting bad guys with occasional suggestions of just how brutal they really are is a large part of the series.
50* ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'': One of the earliest examples may be a 1952 issue, in which King Kull tried to destroy the Earth only to end up fighting with Doctor Sivana, who needed it saved....so he can conquer it.
51* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'': Happens ''all the time'', due to [[BigBadEnsemble the sheer number of villainous factions in the series]].
52* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': This is a surprisingly common occurrence. Spidey's RoguesGallery tend to not get along very well with each other:
53** In ''ComicBook/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' #157, [[PsychoElectro Electro]] is getting the security blueprints of the banks he planned to rob from a crooked sales representative. Unfortunately, the representative was selling Electro out to the Shocker, who would get to the banks before Electro did and empty the vault. When Electro realizes that he's being double-crossed, he goes back to the crooked sales rep with the intention of frying him, only for the Shocker to interrupt and [[PetTheDog save the sales rep]]. Electro and the Shocker then fight for all the loot they both intended to steal. [[spoiler:Electro wins but Shocker manages to escape with his life thanks to Spider-Man]].
54** In ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManJMichaelStraczynski'', one story arc had a man named Luke Carlyle stealing an experimental copy of Doctor Octopus's tentacle-harness, using them to commit crimes. When Doc found out, he was ''pissed'' at the fact someone had dared to steal his gimmick/identity and went hunting for Carlyle. By the end of the arc, [[EnemyMine Otto and Spidey are]] [[TeethClenchedTeamwork forced to team up]] in order to defeat Carlyle after he takes May Parker hostage.
55** In ''[[ComicBook/BrandNewDay The Gauntlet]]'', one issue had Rhino battling a man who was trying to steal his gimmick.
56** In ''ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan2013'', Rodrick Kingsly/The Hobgoblin had to deal with the insane Phil Urich/Goblin Knight, who was trying to kill Hobby so he could steal the Hobgoblin title as his own.
57** ComicBook/GreenGoblin makes a real habit out of this:
58*** Half the time that he appears, he's gunning for not just Spider-Man but also fellow supervillain Hobgoblin; Norman hates Hobby for stealing prototypical gear of his and "ripping off" his gimmick. He hasn't yet succeeded in killing Hobgoblin, but has come dangerously close on a few occasions.
59*** In ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManLeeAndDitko, one well-remembered story arc had the Crime Master accidentally incur Goblin's wrath, an experience that nearly cost him his life.
60** ComicBook/{{Venom}} is almost as bad as Goblin in this regard. Since he views himself as a "lethal protector" of the innocent, is [[MoodSwinger severely mentally unstable]], and [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou is obsessed with being the one who kills Spider-Man]], he tends to lash out at any fellow bad guy that gets on his nerves. Doc Ock and the rest of the Sinister Six no longer invite him to team-ups after one particularly disastrous incident in ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderMan1999''; the Six nearly had Spider-Man beat when Sandman made a small insult directed at Venom, at which point Venom lost his shit and ''bit'' Sandman, poisoning and nearly killing him.
61*** And of course, he's also gunning for ComicBook/{{Carnage}} too. [[AxCrazy Considering who Carnage is]], [[JustifiedTrope Venom has a perfect reason for it.]]
62* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'':
63** ''ComicBook/StarWarsInvasion'': The Dark Jedi Dray opposes the Yuuzhan Vong, but only because he can't take over the galaxy if they raze it to the ground first.
64** ''ComicBook/StarWarsTales'': Issue #9, "Resurrection", features a battle between two Dark Lords of Sith, [[MascotVillain Darth Vader]] and [[Film/ThePhantomMenace Darth Maul]], to prove who is worthy to be the Emperor's right hand.
65* ''ComicBook/StreetFighter'': In UDON's comic series, [[spoiler: Bison meets his end at the hands of Akuma after a sound thrashing and TheReasonYouSuckSpeech]].
66* Franchise/TheDCU has the ComicBook/SuicideSquad, a US government black ops unit made up primarily with [[BoxedCrook jailed supervillains]] who agree to undertake dangerous missions against other supervillains with promised clemency if they survive.
67** Creator/MarvelComics' {{Alternate Company Equivalent}}s are [[ComicBook/XMen Freedom Force]] and the ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}.
68* ''ComicBook/TheSuperiorFoesOfSpiderMan'' the main characters don't fight Spider Man, because of his power. They attack other Supervillains, like the Owl.
69* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
70** During the events of ''ComicBook/LastSon'', General Zod and his army manage to take over most of Metropolis. Superman recruits Luthor and the Superman Revenge Squad (composed of Bizarro, Metallo, and Parasite) to take Zod on. It works, largely because Zod and his men don't know Superman's enemies, and therefore have no idea that they shouldn't get close to Parasite, that the pretty green rock in Metallo's chest is lethal to them, or that Luthor is far smarter than any of them.
71** ''ComicBook/TheBlackRing'' is entirely based around this premise, and features Lex Luthor going up against [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Mister Mind]], [[ComicBook/TheFlash Gorilla Grodd]], ComicBook/VandalSavage, ComicBook/{{Larfleeze}}, and ComicBook/{{Brainiac}}.
72** In ''ComicBook/TwoForTheDeathOfOne'', Satanis and Syrene, two evil and power-hungry sorcerers, fight each other over a cosmic keystone.
73* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':
74** In the Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}} UK ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformersMarvel Transformers Generation 1]]'' story "Target: 2006", Galvatron travels back in time and kicks everybody's arses, trapping Megatron and Soundwave under a pile of rocks. With the Autobots badly beaten, Ironhide decides to free Megatron in a desperate bid to defeat Galvatron. Oh, and while that's going on, [[TheStarscream Starscream]] is acting against them ''both''.
75** Happens a lot in the comics, actually. Shockwave frequently faced off against Megatron; Starscream manipulates Scorponok and Ratbat into sending their respective armies into combat in the Underbase Saga; Jhaixus kicks Megatron's arse in ''ComicBook/TransformersGeneration2'' to solidify his position as the real BigBad of the storyline; etc.
76** In the IDW continuity, the Great War started as this. In the red corner, a security force for the corrupt, tyrannical Senate. In the blue, or rather purple, corner, a rag-tag rebel movement that opposed the Senate and the manipulative Functionist Council, but also endorsed fascist ideals and sought the genocide of all non-Cybertronian life. These two sides were known as the Autobots and the Decepticons, and it took [[BigGood Optimus Prime]] to make the Autobots more of a positive force.
77** In the ''Devastation'' arc of ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMegaseries'', the evil Decepticons are attacked by the equally evil Reapers. Before that, Starscream tried to stage a coup against Megatron and seize control of the Decepticons.
78* ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'': The presidential election. The incumbent, [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname the Beast]], is a UsefulNotes/RichardNixon {{Expy}} who firmly believes that he has done his job if, at the end of the day, a majority of his constituents are still alive, and whose major accomplishments in office consist of abusing his powers to punish demographics that support his opponents and getting the Supreme Court to rule that campaign contributions are personal gifts. Over in the Opposition, meanwhile, the race for the nomination has come down to two men: [[TheSocialDarwinist Bob Heller]], who ''would'' be ANaziByAnyOtherName if the characters didn't keep openly referring to him as a Nazi, and [[TheSociopath Gary Callahan]], who confides to the protagonist that he wants to be President ForTheEvulz. In the end, [[spoiler:Callahan cuts a backroom deal with Heller to win the nomination, goes on to defeat the Beast, and becomes a poster boy for PresidentEvil]].
79* ''ComicBook/{{Wanted}}'': The series is one of the quintessential comic book example, as the story of the son of one of the world's most skilled supervillains in a world where a much, much more grotesque, inhuman villain is waging war with -- yes -- other supervillains, for control of the world, which has fallen under the control of -- hey, you guessed it! -- supervillainy.
80* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'': Wonder Woman is often placed in the middle of the centuries long fight between the blood thirsty WarGod Ares, and his misogynistic serial rapist totalitarian father Zeus. They are both terrible people, but Ares at least respects free will, and generally warns people who are making deals with him that will strip them of it, on the other hand he's got a much higher body count than Zeus. While Ares has tried to kill off the entirety of the human race on at [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 least one occasion]] Zeus has had [[ComicBook/WonderWoman2006 similar]] [[ComicBook/TheLegendOfWonderWoman2016 plans]], though always with the intent of leaving a handful of survivors who are required to worship him in order to keep breathing.
81* ''ComicBook/XMen'': In ''X-Men: Apocalypse vs Dracula''; on one side we have [[ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}} a social darwinist megalomaniac with godlike powers that has plagued mankind since the time of the Pharaohs and would like nothing more to see the weak culled so that the strong may prosper]] and against him, we have [[{{Dracula}} the deadliest vampire to ever walk the Earth and sees mankind as nothing more than prey for him and his undead ilk]]. Neither side is better than each other in this conflict: Dracula seeks revenge against Nur for his past defeat ages ago by turning his descendants into vampires, and Apocalypse executes his own descendant responsible for awakening him to settle this problem, since they were too weak to handle it on their own. At the end, Dr Van Helsing, who saves Apocalypse at a critical moment by distracting Dracula (who'd been about to kill him) and gave him an opening that allows Apocalypse to win (and, despite his pride, grudgingly spare Van Helsing), even wonders out loud to Jack Starsmore (ancestor of Jono Starsmore a.k.a. Chamber) if he didn't just end up delivering the world from one monster to another.
82* ''[[ComicBook/DCYearOfTheVillain Year Of The Villain: Hell Arisen]]'' involves a battle between the forces of Perpetua and the Batman Who Laughs; a version of ComicBook/{{Batman}} infected with Joker venom from the dark multiverse. Perpetua is the original creator of the multiverse and wants to restructure it to favor evil over good. The dark multiverse similarly corrupts the multiverse into a darker state, but this is still a corruption and would mess with Perpetua's plans.
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