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* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' has [[Characters/DCAUJoker The Joker]], as usual. He's the most recurring threat out of all the villains, although in terms of scale, he doesn't quite match it. Until he gets his hands on Ace, or later on a government Kill Sat.
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* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' has [[Characters/DCAUJoker The Joker]], as usual. usual per being the ArchEnemy of Batman. He's the most recurring threat out of all the villains, although in terms of scale, he doesn't quite match it. it with his usual penchant for chaotic humor. Until later on in ''Justice League'', he gets his hands on Ace, or later on and a government Kill Sat.satellite.
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** The series featured an ongoing arc of Superman's struggle with the GalacticConqueror [[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darkseid]], and his increasingly daring designs on Earth. (By contrast, Lex Luthor's schemes were almost purely episodic in nature.) Darkseid only first appeared briefly at the end of the first season, however.
** For much of Superman: The Animated Series and Justice League. [[Characters/DCAULexLuthor Lex Luthor]] bankrolled individual supervillains, founded the Injustice Gang, provided secret funding to Cadmus, and eventually usurped the leadership of the Secret Society.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' had Derrek Powers for its first season, being responsible for the murder of Terry's father and his corporate takeover of Wayne-Powers acting as the overarching conflict of the season. However, after his defeat in the season finale, the show's following seasons would lack a main villain.
** For much of Superman: The Animated Series and Justice League. [[Characters/DCAULexLuthor Lex Luthor]] bankrolled individual supervillains, founded the Injustice Gang, provided secret funding to Cadmus, and eventually usurped the leadership of the Secret Society.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' had Derrek Powers for its first season, being responsible for the murder of Terry's father and his corporate takeover of Wayne-Powers acting as the overarching conflict of the season. However, after his defeat in the season finale, the show's following seasons would lack a main villain.
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** The series featured an ongoing arc of Superman's struggle with the GalacticConqueror [[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darkseid]], Darkseid, the ruler of Apokolips, and his increasingly daring designs on Earth. (By By contrast, Lex Luthor's schemes of being a CorruptCorporateExecutive [[VillainWithGoodPublicity hiding in the public]] were almost purely episodic in nature.) nature. Darkseid only first appeared briefly at the end of the first season, however.
however, with the later seasons being what intensified his conflict, eventually culminating in [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashing Superman]], which damaged his reputation.
** For much of Superman: The Animated Series and Justice League. [[Characters/DCAULexLuthor Lex Luthor]] bankrolled individual supervillains, founded the Injustice Gang, provided secret funding to Cadmus, and eventually usurped the leadership of the SecretSociety.
Society, motivated by hatred of Superman and desire to be seen as the hero to everyone else.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' hadDerrek Derek Powers for its first season, being responsible for the murder of Terry's father father, which drives Terry to become the new Batman and his corporate takeover of Wayne-Powers acting as the overarching conflict of the season.season, eventually becoming a supervillain himself as Blight. However, after his defeat in the season finale, the show's following seasons would lack a main villain.
** For much of Superman: The Animated Series and Justice League. [[Characters/DCAULexLuthor Lex Luthor]] bankrolled individual supervillains, founded the Injustice Gang, provided secret funding to Cadmus, and eventually usurped the leadership of the Secret
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** The Big Bad of the Cadmus [[StoryArc Arc]] was constantly being teased. At first it seemed Amanda Waller was the mastermind, then Lex Luthor, until it was finally revealed in the next-to-last episode as [[spoiler:Brainiac, who enters into a BigBadDuumvirate with Luthor]].
** There were several contenders for the title in the final season. At first it looked like Grodd, until he was deposed by [[spoiler:Lex Luthor]] leading to an apparent BigBadDuumvirate between [[spoiler: Lex and the remnants of Brainiac's consciousness]]. In the end, though, the real threat turned out to be [[spoiler:Darkseid. Again]].
** There were several contenders for the title in the final season. At first it looked like Grodd, until he was deposed by [[spoiler:Lex Luthor]] leading to an apparent BigBadDuumvirate between [[spoiler: Lex and the remnants of Brainiac's consciousness]]. In the end, though, the real threat turned out to be [[spoiler:Darkseid. Again]].
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** The Big Bad of the Cadmus [[StoryArc Arc]] was constantly being teased. At first it seemed Amanda Waller was the mastermind, as the head of Cadmus who was trying to protect the world [[CapeBusters by aiming to counter the Justice League]] out of paranoia in response to Superman's earlier brainwashing and the brief visit by [[EvilDoppelganger the Justice Lords]], being revealed to have created Doomsday and the Ultimen and Task Force X as a result, then Lex Luthor, until it who reforged his VillainWithGoodPublicity act and manipulated her to make himself the hero at the cost of demonizing the actual heroes. It was finally revealed in the next-to-last episode as [[spoiler:Brainiac, to be Brainiac, who had reformed from within Lex, was manipulating his earlier actions in the name of restoring himself, and then enters into a BigBadDuumvirate with Luthor]].
him where they fuse together to fight the League.
** There were several contenders for the title in the final season. At first it looked like Grodd,until a sapient KillerGorilla who originally created the Secret Society of Super-Villains and had recently expanded its roster to combat the larger Justice League roster, but when his evil scheme turned out to just be [[DisappointedByTheMotive turning all people]] [[ForcedTransformation into gorillas]], he was deposed from leadership by [[spoiler:Lex Luthor]] leading Lex Luthor, who had recently joined this team. This later lead to an apparent BigBadDuumvirate between [[spoiler: Lex and the remnants of Brainiac's consciousness]]. consciousness, seeking to fully restore Brainiac, which eventually leads to [[EnemyCivilWar infighting among the Secret Society]] when Tala, a sorceress who worked for Cadmus before then joining the Secret Society out of favor to Grodd, frees the gorilla and turns a significant portion of the Society against Lex. In the end, though, when Lex forces Tala to use her magic to restore Brainiac, she instead chooses to revive Darkseid, who retakes power in Apokolips and becomes the real threat turned out FinalBoss of the DCAU's ongoing saga by moving to be [[spoiler:Darkseid. Again]].
conquer Earth, forcing the Society into an EnemyMine with the League.
** There were several contenders for the title in the final season. At first it looked like Grodd,
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** The series featured an ongoing arc of Superman's struggle with the GalacticConqueror [[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darkseid]], and his increasingly daring designs on Earth. (By contrast, Lex Luthor's schemes were almost purely episodic in nature.) Darkseid only first appeared briefly at the end of the first season,however.however.
** For much of Superman: The Animated Series and Justice League. [[Characters/DCAULexLuthor Lex Luthor]] bankrolled individual supervillains, founded the Injustice Gang, provided secret funding to Cadmus, and eventually usurped the leadership of the Secret Society.
** The series featured an ongoing arc of Superman's struggle with the GalacticConqueror [[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darkseid]], and his increasingly daring designs on Earth. (By contrast, Lex Luthor's schemes were almost purely episodic in nature.) Darkseid only first appeared briefly at the end of the first season,
** For much of Superman: The Animated Series and Justice League. [[Characters/DCAULexLuthor Lex Luthor]] bankrolled individual supervillains, founded the Injustice Gang, provided secret funding to Cadmus, and eventually usurped the leadership of the Secret Society.
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!!Western Animation
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' has [[Characters/DCAUJoker The Joker]], as usual. He's the most recurring threat out of all the villains, although in terms of scale, he doesn't quite match it. Until he gets his hands on Ace, or later on a government Kill Sat.
* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' featured an ongoing arc of Superman's struggle with the GalacticConqueror [[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darkseid]], and his increasingly daring designs on Earth. (By contrast, Lex Luthor's schemes were almost purely episodic in nature.) Darkseid only first appeared briefly at the end of the first season, however.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' had Derrek Powers for its first season, being responsible for the murder of Terry's father and his corporate takeover of Wayne-Powers acting as the overarching conflict of the season. However, after his defeat in the season finale, the show's following seasons would lack a main villain.
* ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'' had Ebon, a criminal mutated by the Quantum Vapor who acts as the head of the "The Meta-Breed" Gang, a group of Bang Babies acting under his behalf that are frequently at odds with Static.
* ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]''
** The Big Bad of the Cadmus [[StoryArc Arc]] was constantly being teased. At first it seemed Amanda Waller was the mastermind, then Lex Luthor, until it was finally revealed in the next-to-last episode as [[spoiler:Brainiac, who enters into a BigBadDuumvirate with Luthor]].
** There were several contenders for the title in the final season. At first it looked like Grodd, until he was deposed by [[spoiler:Lex Luthor]] leading to an apparent BigBadDuumvirate between [[spoiler: Lex and the remnants of Brainiac's consciousness]]. In the end, though, the real threat turned out to be [[spoiler:Darkseid. Again]].
!!Films
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm'': The Phantasm, who comes into conflict with Batman after systematically killing several of Gotham's mob bosses. It becomes a BigBadEnsemble when [[Characters/DCAUJoker Joker]] gets involved and tries to kill Phantasm himself.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAndMisterFreezeSubZero'': Mr. Freeze, who kidnaps Barbara Gordon to use as an organ donor in order to save his wife's life.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMysteryOfTheBatwoman'': The Penguin is the unofficial leader of the triumvirate of mob bosses Batwoman is targeting, with Bane eventually being hired as the DragonInChief.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'': The Joker, having seemingly returned from the dead to enact his revenge on Batman.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAndHarleyQuinn'': A BigBadEnsemble between Poison Ivy and the Floronic Man, who work to transform all life on Earth into plants.
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueVsTheFatalFive'': The Fatal Five, led by the Emerald Empress, who go back in time to blow up the sun in order to prevent the existence of superheroes in their future.
!!Western Animation
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' has [[Characters/DCAUJoker The Joker]], as usual. He's the most recurring threat out of all the villains, although in terms of scale, he doesn't quite match it. Until he gets his hands on Ace, or later on a government Kill Sat.
* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' featured an ongoing arc of Superman's struggle with the GalacticConqueror [[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darkseid]], and his increasingly daring designs on Earth. (By contrast, Lex Luthor's schemes were almost purely episodic in nature.) Darkseid only first appeared briefly at the end of the first season, however.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' had Derrek Powers for its first season, being responsible for the murder of Terry's father and his corporate takeover of Wayne-Powers acting as the overarching conflict of the season. However, after his defeat in the season finale, the show's following seasons would lack a main villain.
* ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'' had Ebon, a criminal mutated by the Quantum Vapor who acts as the head of the "The Meta-Breed" Gang, a group of Bang Babies acting under his behalf that are frequently at odds with Static.
* ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]''
** The Big Bad of the Cadmus [[StoryArc Arc]] was constantly being teased. At first it seemed Amanda Waller was the mastermind, then Lex Luthor, until it was finally revealed in the next-to-last episode as [[spoiler:Brainiac, who enters into a BigBadDuumvirate with Luthor]].
** There were several contenders for the title in the final season. At first it looked like Grodd, until he was deposed by [[spoiler:Lex Luthor]] leading to an apparent BigBadDuumvirate between [[spoiler: Lex and the remnants of Brainiac's consciousness]]. In the end, though, the real threat turned out to be [[spoiler:Darkseid. Again]].
!!Films
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm'': The Phantasm, who comes into conflict with Batman after systematically killing several of Gotham's mob bosses. It becomes a BigBadEnsemble when [[Characters/DCAUJoker Joker]] gets involved and tries to kill Phantasm himself.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAndMisterFreezeSubZero'': Mr. Freeze, who kidnaps Barbara Gordon to use as an organ donor in order to save his wife's life.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMysteryOfTheBatwoman'': The Penguin is the unofficial leader of the triumvirate of mob bosses Batwoman is targeting, with Bane eventually being hired as the DragonInChief.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'': The Joker, having seemingly returned from the dead to enact his revenge on Batman.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAndHarleyQuinn'': A BigBadEnsemble between Poison Ivy and the Floronic Man, who work to transform all life on Earth into plants.
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueVsTheFatalFive'': The Fatal Five, led by the Emerald Empress, who go back in time to blow up the sun in order to prevent the existence of superheroes in their future.
