It's crazy how well villains can both get along when they need to but also not get along
when they need to.
To be a villain truly means that you feel you are more deserving of respect than anyone
or more in the right than anyone else which often leads you to betray anyone that you
consider to be below you.
And to a supervillain, let's be honest, most other people are considered to be below them,
including other villains.
Today we'll be taking a closer look at some of these relationships, where supervillains
can't stand and hate each other.
Usually this stems out of some feeling of betrayal of being slighted, which ultimately
ends up with them doing what villains spend most of their time doing.
Plotting and seeking revenge!
Who are some of your favourite supervillains?
Do you find they work well with others or do they struggle?
Do you think it is a common trait of most villains to be more of a lone wolf and not
get along with other comic book characters?
Let us know in the comments below.
And while you get pondering, let's get counting.
10 Madame Rouge and the Brotherhood of Evil
This is a weird rivalry that is kind of one sided.
After Madame Rouge joined the Brotherhood of Evil she was quote-unquote improved upon.
Actually no quotes needed, she really was improved upon.
She went from being a talented actress who wore disguises to someone who could stretch
her body at will and thereby legitimately shapeshift and change her appearance to imitate
another's appearance.
The Brain gave her surgery to allow this to happen but he had also given her surgery to
help treat her split personality disorder.
The disorder caused her to have a good persona and a villainous persona.
The Brain believed he had eliminated her good persona but it later returned and under that
persona, she fell in love with the Doom Patrol leader, Niles Caulder.
Niles worked hard to help Rouge overcome her villainous persona.
But eventually that also returned.
Feeling betrayed by both groups who she saw as having manipulated her, she set out to
kill off the Brotherhood and ridicule the Doom Patrol.
Her plans instead resulted in her killing both groups.
9 Harley Quinn and Duella Dent
Both could be considered the Joker's girls.
Harley at this point was the Joker's ex girlfriend and Duella calls herself the Joker's daughter.
When the two are forced to work together on the new Suicide Squad they continously bicker
and squabble.
It's clear that neither likes the other.
The hate between these two eventually comes to blows with Harley trying to punch some
sense into Duella who she thinks is an idiot for wanting to be close to or anything like
the Joker.
Duella on the other hand is just trying to gode Harley, thinking that she is just jealous
of her connection to the villain.
The fight results in Harley almost killing Duella showing just how strong the hatred
between these two supervillainesses really is.
8 The Sinister Six
What's better than one Spider-Man villain taking on Spider-Man?
Six of them, obviously.
That was the thought process behind this gruesome gang when Doctor Octopus first formed them.
The original team was formed of Vulture, Electro, Kraven, Mysterio, Sandman and Doc Ock.
However the group would be defeated by Spider-Man and later regroup with some different members
but only to reveal just how dysfunctional they were.
Sandman had reformed at this time and ended up helping Spider-Man to take down his former
teammates.
After an attack on Sandman's foster family was successful, Sandman suspected Doc Ock
as the culprit, who he thought attacked them in order to get revenge upon Sandman for betraying
him last time.
This however ended up not being true.
Sandman rejoined the Sinister Six to exact revenge on Doc Ock and it later turned out
the other members were behind the attack on his family to get Sandman to do just that,
join them once again.
But it Doc Ock was also hoping they'd rejoin and attack him so that he could convince the
rest of the Six to join him once again.
After turning Sandman to glass, he offered the rest of the team just that.
In other words, the Sinister Six work together when it's convenient but they also kind of
can't stand one another and they definitely don't trust each other.
Which also usually ends up being their downfall.
7 Ulysses Klaue and Killmonger
While these two may have less of a beef in the comics, if they really have one at all
there, they have a big beef in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Hence the different spelling of Klaue here.
In the film Black Panther, the two appear to be working together by Klaue does not really
know who Erik is.
He simply thinks they are allied villains who both want the vibranium and wealth of
Wakanda.
When really Erik is N'Jadaka, a former Wakandan who was abandoned and left in America after
the death of his father.
Killmonger shows distaste for Ulysses crude ways and for the fact that is a mercenary
and arms dealer who is willing to exploit Wakanda and take advantage of his people.
Erik there therefore has no qualms with eventually betraying and killing Klaue and using him
as a means to regain the favour of the court back in Wakanda, reveal the deceased King
T'Chaka's dark secrets and fight to take the throne from King T'Challa so that he can finish
his father's work of trying to liberate people of African descent all over
the world.
6 Jack O'Lantern and the Jack'O Lanterns
Some people say that when someone copies you to take it as a compliment, that is meant
as a term of endearment.
It means someone admires you.
I don't think anyone told supervillain Jack O'Lantern that unfortunately.
The killer who often transforms his victims heads into Jack O'Lanterns at one point disappeared
from the comics, prompting a bunch of replacement Jack O'Lanterns to pop up in the comics.
While on a bizarre road trip with Flash Thompson the villain let's Flash know his feelings
on the topic of copycat villains, confessing that he dispatched all of the competing Lanterns,
not even remembering how many killed.
But at least five.
5 Magneto and Apocalypse
You may know the feud between these two villains to be strong in the X-Men Age of Apocalypse
film but in the comic storyline that the film was based off of, the feud was even more intense.
This storyline ended with one really pissed off Magneto taking down Apocalypse by himself.
No help from Jean Grey necessary.
Obviously the hatred between these two makes a lot of sense.
Apocalypse is trying to create a "better" world and as such looks to eliminate all life
on earth, including mutants who will not join him.
Magneto doesn't agree with mutantkind being threatened and so gets in the villain's way.
This of course is in a world where Professor X is dead and so it is up to Magneto to put
a stop to Apocalypse.
At one point in the Age of Apocalypse storyline he even tears him apart.
4 Carnage and Venom
These two have hated each other since day one.
Carnage of course was born from Venom while Eddie was in jail.
His cellmate at the time was Kletus Cassady.
Kletus tried to befriend Eddie Brock somewhat but when Eddie showed nothing but disgust
for him, Kletus decided to kill him.
Right as Kletus was about to shiv Brock, Venom freaked out and went into what could be called
early labour.
This resulted in Carnage being born and bonding to Kletus through his blood because Kletus
was bleeding at the time.
Being that Eddie and Kletus never got along, it is unsurprising that the feud has been
strong between Carnage and Venom as well, even leading to Venom joining his archnemesis
at the time, Spider-Man in an effort to take down Carnage.
3 Black Adam and the Four Horsemen of Apokolips
Black Adam was a reformed villain ruling over Khandaq peacefully with his love Adrianna
Tomaz when the Four Horsemen become active.
They target Black Adam and end up killing Adrianna who was also at this time Isis as
Captain Marvel had granted her the powers for the Egyptian Goddess.
After Pestilence poison Adrianna, she dies in Adam's arms and repents her original stance
on how to rule, claiming that his way had been right all along.
She encourages him to continue on and avenge herself and his Black Marvel Family.
Black Adam does just this, filled with rage.
He goes after the Four Horsemen, brutally killing Death after destroying the country
of Bialya, home of the Four Horsemen, and killing many innocents in the process.
2 The Riddler and Kite Man
I know this seems like a weird one to have so high up on the list but the hatred between
Kite Man and the Riddler is strong.
In DC's Rebirth, the story of Kite-Man aka Charles Brown is retold.
His son, Charles Brown Jr ends up being a victim caught up in a war between the Joker
and Riddler, used as a pawn when Kite-Man is revealed to have been playing multiple
sides, including Batman's.
In the end Charles Jr died when Riddler poisons the young boy's kite string on the kite that
his father gave him.
So sad.
As such, Kite-Man swears vengeance on the Riddler, giving him a much better backstory
and purpose.
Granted Brown is also pretty pissed at Batman too for letting his son die but he still allies
with him in order to take down the Riddler and help Batman take down the Joker as well.
1 Catwoman and Black Mask
The hatred between these two is a brutal one.
And I know what you're all going to say, Catwoman is not a villain.
I feel you.
I love Catwoman, she's done some heroic things but ultimately she is still one bad cat and
still a criminal and thief.
Even if a lot of what she steals ends up getting given away to those that need it.
Such was the case when Selina Kyle stole from Black Mask.
Which was ultimately a bad choice.
Black Mask is not a person you want to mess with.
He sought revenge on Catwoman by kidnapping her sister, Maggie and her sister's husband.
He killed Catwoman's brother in law in front of Maggie and then made her eat his eyeballs,
driving her insane.
Catwoman later sought revenge by killing him.
Yeah, not a thing she does often.
She shot him right in the head.
But he was later resurrected as a Black Lantern and immediately sought revenge on Catwoman
for killing him.
Thankfully the other Gotham City Sirens were there to help her.
Thank you so much for watching, nerd squad.
I hope you enjoyed this list.
What do you think the greatest supervillain rivalry of all time is?
Which supervillains hate each other the most?
Let me know in the comments below if you agree with this list or if there is a pair that
you feel we left out.
The Legion of Doom is another band of villains that often seem to turn on one another.
So many supervillain groups are just so dysfunctional.
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