Other Comic Books
- Alan Ford: Group TNT, an assembly of impoverished crime fighters, has Superciuk, a supervillain who inverts the Robin Hood archetype by robbing the poor and giving his loot to the rich.
- Asterix: Julius Caesar would be this, even though there's a mutual respect between the Gauls and Caesar. Caesar is often seen as a Voice of Reason and above the pettiness of many of the prefects.
- Astro City: Samaritan has Infidel, who have both traveled through time to change history and thwart each others' schemes. They give up the feud once they realize that neither of them will ever be able to destroy the other, even if the Universe itself is destroyed.
- Atomic Robo has the Nazi Baron Heinrich von Helsingard. Dr. Dinosaur may also qualify for Robo in modern times.
- Thomas Edison for Nikola Tesla and, by extension, Robo.
- Majestic 13 for Tesladyne...and again, by extension, Robo, but also former agent and full-time Memetic Badass Jenkins this time.
- The Authority have Henry Bendix, who was the former leader of their predecessor organization Stormwatch. Bendix managed to break up the Authority and take over America, only to by killed by Midnighter when the Authority reorganized.
- The Scorpion to The Banshee.
- In their fictional universe the characters from the two British Comics The Beano and The Dandy are arch enemies with frequent jokes but at the other's expense and infrequent raids between the comics. This arch enemy rivalry has died down quite alot since The Dandy's revamp. Also characters from within the two comics have their own arch enemies as well. Dennis the Menace (UK) has Walter the Softy, Roger the Dodger has Cruncher Kerr The Bash Street Kids had the Blob Street Kids, the Three Bears had Hank and Grizzly Gus (another more evil looking bear who hasnt been in the strip for years) and Desperate Dan had either Cactusman or Dangerous Dan McGroo.
- This arch-enemy comic rivalry was taken further in the Fleetway comic Whizzer and Chips which was one comic which was made up of two comics and these two comics and their characters were archenemies with even more frequent 'raids' in the two comics than with the Beano and Dandy.
- Blake and Mortimer: Blake and Mortimer often face off against Olrik.
- Bone:
- Buck Danny: Lady X.
- Buckskin: America's Defender of Liberty has the Black Buzzard.
- Captain Flash has the Mirror Man.
- Chlorophylle: Anthracite to the titular hero; both take their mutual opposition very clearly, and Anthracite makes it very clear he wishes nothing more than kill him.
- The Crusader has Emil Groff.
- The Crow has Top Dollar, the man who arranged the murder of Eric Draven and his girlfriend.
- De Kiekeboes: Balthazar is the most recurring antagonist in the series, though generally considered to be a Harmless Villain. Far more dangerous are Timothea Triangl- a James Bond type villain who underwent a sex change- and Dédé La Canaille, a criminal who wants to murder Kiekeboe for putting him into jail.
- Disney Mouse and Duck Comics:
- Disney Ducks Comic Universe:
- Scrooge McDuck has several different enemies competing for the title. He often combats the Beagle Boys, though Blackheart Beagle, the oldest member and their founder, is the only one whom Scrooge has a personal vendetta with. His business rivals Flintheart Glomgold and John Rockerduck sometimes function as his own personal arch enemy(ies) too, given their status as Evil Counterparts of Scrooge. However, his most dangerous opponent is the witch Magica Despell, who threatens to steal his lucky dime and melt it in the Vesuvius volcano. One could also add Arpin Lusene, a Gentleman Thief who holds the distinction of being Scrooge's only Worthy Opponent.
- Donald Duck considers both Gladstone Gander and Neighbour Jones his personal arch enemies, though these are of the sitcom variety.
- Interestingly, Donald's superhero identity Paperinik is often seen fighting random crooks or one-shot supervillains without many recurring villains. The two characters being mostly like arch-enemies towards him might be Spectrum in older and Red Duckan in newer comics. He does have an extensive Rogues Gallery in Paperinik New Adventures, but no single bad guy has managed to stand out as his definitive arch-enemy.
- Mickey Mouse as seen in more recent Mickey Mouse Comic Universe stories has his own kind of dynamic with his two arch enemies Pete and the Phantom Blot. Mickey is typically more or less an Amateur Sleuth, naturally opposed to both of them as professional criminals. Pete is generally shown as a more crude but very experienced and enterprising criminal, whereas the Blot is a shadowy criminal mastermind. Pete is not completely evil and has been shown with a kind of affection towards Mickey as an opponent and is more prone to end up in an Enemy Mine situation with him, whereas the Blot is closer to being simply sociopathic. The two can even get contrasted in the same story, with Pete more human and the Blot more effortlessly smooth and evil. It's still Depending on the Writer.
- Disney Ducks Comic Universe:
- Doc Savage has John Sunlight, simply because apart from Sunlight, Savage primarily deals with one-shot villains.
- In Dr. Blink: Superhero Shrink, Night Ranger's most fearsome foe is his Kid Sidekick, Scout."Now when we get downstairs, don't freak out about the dent in the Night Mobile. It was totally not my fault."
- Ex Machina: Mitchell Hundred and Jack Person.
- Rigonie to the Eye in The Eye Sees.
- Both the Hunter Rose and Christine Spar incarnations of Grendel have Argent the Wolf, who dedicated his life to ending their killing sprees.
- Gen¹³ has Ivana Baiul, the leader of DV8.
- Groo the Wanderer had General Taranto, although Groo is dimwitted enough that he often forgets about Taranto's vendetta or past attempts to kill him.
- Nothing can compare to what John Constantine the Hellblazer has. Having Satan, also known as the First of the Fallen, as an arch-enemy is simply the worst. Constantine also has Nergal.
- Hellboy has Grigori Rasputin, who summoned Hellboy to earth and seeks to revive the Ogdru Jahad. Hellboy also has the Odgru Jahad themselves, since he is the Anti Anti Christ rebelling against his destiny to help them destroy the world.
- Invincible:
- Invincible has Thragg, Conquest, and Angstrom Levy
- Thragg, a powerful member and former leader of his father's race, the Viltrumites. Thragg maimed Invincible's half-brother, Oliver. By the end of the serioes, Thragg kills both Invincible's father, Omni-Man, and Oliver.
- Conquest is a bloodthirsty Viltrumite, who, in his first battle with Mark, injures Oliver, breaks Mark's leg, impales Atom Eve, and destroys Mark's arm at the cost of his own cybernetic arm. This experience causes Mark to develop a less merciful attitude towards villains.
- Angstrom Levy is a Dimensional Traveler who blames Invincible for his mutation.
- Omni-Man also has Thragg, his former superior. Thragg wants Nolan deadbecause he betrayed the Viltrumites and because Nolan is the rightful heir to the Viltrum Empire, which Thragg covered up. Upon being recognized by the other Viltrumites as their rightful ruler, Nolan has Thragg exiled.
- Invincible has Thragg, Conquest, and Angstrom Levy
- Irredeemable: The Plutonian to Max Damage. The Plutonian hates Max for knowing about his past as a Wild Child, and Max Damage is a former supervillain who is shocked into a Heel–Face Turn by the Plutonian's Face–Heel Turn.
- Raven Red, an Evil Counterpart of Jet, is the only villain to appear more than once in Jet Dream.
- Jommeke: Jommeke and his friends are often confronted by Anatool, the servant nobody can trust. However, he is somewhat of a Harmless Villain, seeing that Jommeke and his friends can easily thwart his evil schemes. De Koningin van Onderland ("The Queen of Onderland") on the other hand doesn't appear that much in Jommeke's stories, but when she does she is generally considered to be his most frightening and dangerous opponent.
- Judge Dredd: Judge Joseph Dredd has Judge Death, PJ Maybe, Robert L. Booth, and Rico Dredd.
- Judge Death is Dredd's undead Evil Counterpart. Since he is immortal, he is one of Dredd's few enemies with Joker Immunity, and has squared off with Dredd many times. Their differing philosophies on the purpose of law make them natural foils.
- PJ Maybe is a Serial Killer who eluded justice for a long time. Dredd first arrested Maybe when the latter was a youth, and years later he voted to have Maybe executed. Maybe later attempted to murder Dredd's niece Vienna.
- Robert L. Booth is responsible for turning the Earth into the post-apocalyptic wasteland Dredd lives in. Dredd once sentenced Booth to a lifetime of hard labor, only for Booth take over the farm and become the leader of a mutant army with plans to retake America, reemerging to antagonize Dredd thirty years after their previous confrontation
- Rico Dredd is Joseph's Evil Twin. While he has not reappeared since his first story where Joe executed him, their antagonism is fleshed out in later flashbacks. As Joseph's brother, their feud is perhaps the most personal one he's ever had.
- Judge Anderson has Orlok the Assassin.
- Three-Finger Joe to K-Bar Kate, whose father he almost murdered and whom he was the only recurring foe of.
- Lady Death has Lucifer as her greatest enemy, since he is responsible for her current condition and keeps returning from death to torment her time and time again. Other candidates include Purgatori, Sagos and the Death Queen.
- Darkhell is this to the Legendaries, and this on soooo many levels: he was the one who made part of them what they are now, was the first threat they faced, fought them for several years, is the most recurring antagonist in the series and was the most dangerous of their enemies until Anathos shew up. Now that he finally died for real, it seems like his self-proclaimed heir Abyss is taking the mantle.
- Darkhell had his own arch-enemy, Skroa (though more of a Rival than an actual one) before the Legendaries formed, but ended up defeating him.
- The Lone Warrior has the Dictator's Shadow.
- Lucky Luke: Lucky Luke most often faces off against the Dalton brothers. About half of the albums are about the Daltons and the rest about everyone else. Billy the Kid is the second most recurring villain and he still doesn't come close to their approaching Villain Protagonist status. They also show up as major antagonists in most animated adaptations to date, namely Lucky Luke: Daisy Town, Lucky Luke: Ballad of the Daltons (obviously), the Lucky Luke series, The New Adventures of Lucky Luke and Go West! A Lucky Luke Adventure. They even got their own cartoon series, The Daltons.
- The Mad Hatter: The Gargoyle, a criminal resurrected as a Beast Man, was clearly supposed to be this for the Mad Hatter, due to the implication that he'll return, but he debuted in the final issue of the comic, so he didn't get the chance to full come into his evil.
- Major Grom: Sergey Razumovsky, a.k.a. the Plague Doctor.
- The Maxx: The Maxx and Julie Winters have Mr. Gone. The Maxx seeks to protect Julie, and Mr. Gone is a serial rapist stalking Julie.
- The Micronauts and Baron Karza.
- Miracleman has Kid Miracleman and Dr. Emil Gargunza.
- Nemesis the Warlock has Tomas de Torquemada, an Evil Overlord who Nemesis initially opposed because he was a Blood Knight looking for a challenge. However, Torqemada becomes responsible for the deaths Nemesis' wife Chira and son Thoth, and Nemesis becomes responsible for the deaths of Torquemada's children Pandora and Barbarossa.
- Nero: In the early stories this role went to Matsuoka, a Fu Manchu like antagonist. Later Ricardo the Napolitan maffiosi became Nero's most frequent target.
- Paulus de Boskabouter: Paulus the wood gnome has one recuring arch nemesis and that is Eucalypta the Wicked Witch.
- One volume of Powers deconstructs the usual comic treatment of archenemies. It shows what were essentially the world's first superhero and supervillain. The two are immortal and have existed since humanity was still diverging from the ape, and have had a grudge just as long. When they meet for the last time in the present day, the hero, (who has a case of The Fog of Ages) demands to know why he and the villain have been fighting so long. The villain, whose memory is not impaired like the hero's, admits that he can no longer even remember what originally sparked their feud.
- The Phantom: The Phantom is traditionally opposed by the current leader of the Singh Brotherhood; the 21st Phantom first battles Dogai Singh, and later, his daughter Sandal Singh. Other notable enemies include the mercenary Gold Hand and the evil President Lubanga.
- Planetary and the Four, especially their respective leaders, Elijah Snow and Randall Dowling.
- Jesse Custer in Preacher has Herr Starr, the Saint of Killers, and God. Yes, the God.
- Quick and Flupke: Quick and Flupke are often confronted by Agent 15. Seeing that the two boys are brats your mileage may vary whether Agent 15 is actually the hero of the series or not.
- Red Sonja and Kulan Gath.
- Ric Hochet: "Le Bourreau" ("The Executioner") is this to Ric Hochet. No other adversaries come close to being recurring and a match to Ric's wits and skills.
- Savage Dragon had the Overlord.
- Scalped: Dashiell Bad Horse has Lincoln Red Crow.
- Scott Pilgrim has Gideon Gordon Graves.
- The Shadow has Shiwan Khan.
- Sin City villains usually don't live past their initial story but Manute has menaced Dwight McCarthy enough times to count. Manute is dead now but he shows up anyway due to the nonlinear timeline.
- The Yellow Bastard did go up against Hartigan a few times before kicking the bucket. We only ended up seeing two confrontations in the same story, though.
- The Smurfs: Gargamel who, in the comics at least, wants to turn the Smurfs into gold. In the animated series he simply wants to eat them.
- In Sonic The Hedgehog (Archie Comics), Knuckles gets his own Arch Enemy — first, the Mad Scientist Dimitri (and his alter-ego Enerjak), and later Dr. Finitevus (following Dimitri's Heel–Face Turn).
- In Sonic the Comic, Sonic has two archenemies: Doctor Robotnik and Super Sonic. Knuckles' archenemy is Doctor Zachary. Vermin the Cybernik is the archenemy of Shortfuse the Cybernik. And Tails' archenemy is Trogg.
- Sonic's hatred of Robotnik increased after Sonic created Robotnik.
- Spawn has the Violator, Malebolgia, Mammon, and Jason Wynn.
- The Violator is one of Spawn's oldest and most recurring enemies. He was assigned to be Spawn's Evil Mentor, but resents that Spawn was chosen as Malebolgia's general instead of himself. The Violator is eventually responsible for the murder of Wanda Blake.
- Malebolgia is the demon Simmons made a deal with to become a Hellspawn in the first place, as well as the original master of the Violator. Spawn eventually kills Malbolgia, but he comes Back from the Dead anyways.
- Mammon is a demon responsible for manipulating Simmons throughout his mortal life, setting him on the path to evil and becoming a Hellspawn.
- Jason Wynn, Simmons' former boss, is responsible for his death. In addition, Wynn sold Al's soul to Malebolgia.
- The Octopus is the archenemy of The Spirit.
- Strontium Dog: Johnny Alpha has his father, Nelson Bunker Kreelman, a racist politician who abused and ultimately locked his own son up for his mutation, and leads a Nazi-like anti-mutant movement.
- Super-American has Tyrannus.
- Suske en Wiske: Krimson is the main recurring villain. Wicked Witch The Black Madam has also become a recurring villain. They once even did a Villain Team-Up which got the heroes into so much trouble that an Author Avatar had to intervene.
- The Shredder to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and their mentor Master Splinter. Shredder goes down pretty early in the original comics. However, the first issue clearly shows the backstory Splinter and Shredder have, that Splinter and the Turtles owe their origins to Shredder, and that Splinter trained the Turtles for the sole purpose of killing Shredder to avenge Hamato Yoshi. Regardless of how long Shredder was around for, he's still their archnemesis.
- The archenemy dynamic is played interestingly in the story. After Shredder was killed, the Turtles never really had another central enemy. A few issues show that the Turtles aren't really sure what to do with themselves with Shredder gone. In fact, in the City At War arc that capped off the original series, Leonardo argues that killing Shredder was more Splinter's goal than theirs.
- Tex Willer's most prominent foe is the Evil Sorcerer Mefisto.
- The Tick and Chairface Chippendale.
- Tintin: Tintin's arch nemesis is Rastapopoulos.
- In Tomahawk, the British Spy and Master of Disguise Lord Shilling was the arch-enemy of Tomahawk.
- Tomboy (Sterling): Despite being a One-Shot Character, it's heavily implied the Lard Vinsion, crime boss and Big Bad of Captain Flash #3, has tangled with Tomboy many times before, an honour no other villain receives.
- Tom Poes: Bul Super and Hiep Hieper. Even though Joachim Sickbock and Hocus P. Pas are far more dangerous.
- Transmetropolitan: Spider Jerusalem has President Gary Callahan, aka the Smiler.
- Urbanus: Urbanus often fights off against Jef Patat, a sleazy trickster.
- Usagi Yojimbo plays around with this trope a little. At the beginning, there's Lord Hikiji, whose murder of Miyamoto Usagi's Lord Mifune kicks off the entire plot. However, he ends up Demoted to Extra. His Dragon, Lord Hebi, is one of the most prominent villains, and in many ways the Big Bad in his own right. But it's Jei-san, who has no relation to either, who ended up becoming Usagi's arch-enemy, on basis of a personal disdain for the rabbit ronin and being a Serial Killer with a habit of murdering anyone who fails to live up to the standards of the gods he worships.
- V for Vendetta: V has Eric Finch and Adam Susan.
- Vampirella
- Vampirella has Dracula (one of her most recurring enemies), Chaos (who is behind many of Vampirella's other enemies), and the Blood Red Queen of Hearts (who once took Vampirella's eyes and mutilated her ally Pendragon), and Mistress Nyx (who killed Adam Van Helsing, and later Vampirella herself).
- Dixie has Von Kriest, who forced her to kill her father and turned her sister into a vampire.
- The Walking Dead: Rick Grimes had the Governor, Shane, and Negan.
- Michonne also had the Governor.
- Warlord of Mars:
- Joshua Clark to John Carter, with their rivalry going back to the Secession War where they fought in opposite sides.
- Dejah Thoris has Phaidor, a Thern princess that lusts after her husband (at least until her Heel–Face Turn). Before her, Dejah's own brother Kajak Thoris was her arch-enemy.
- On a larger scale, the Therns vs the First-Born, who repeatedly raids their land. Also, the Green Martians vs the Yellow Martians with the latter having created the former as slaves, who eventually rose up and drove them nearly into extinction.
- The Wasp (Lev Gleason): The Professor was clearly supposed to be theist the Wasp, what with being a Diabolical Mastermind who wants revenge for an offscreen prior defeat, and a blatant Sequel Hook indicating that he will return next issue, but the comic got cancelled after his debut.
- The Wild CATS Wild Storm have Helspont, leader of the Cabal and one of the most powerful Daemonites in existence.
- Y: The Last Man: Yorick Brown and Alter Tse'elon.
- Zagor has Hellingen.
