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* ''{{Franchise/WonderWoman}}''
** [[Characters/WonderWomanCheetah Cheetah]] was just a minor villain back in the day but is now the arch-nemesis of Wonder Woman with the Barbara Minvera version to be the longest one to held the mantle in modern times.

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''{{Franchise/WonderWoman}}'': [[Characters/WonderWomanCheetah Cheetah]] was just a minor villain back in the day but is now the arch-nemesis of Wonder Woman with the Barbara Minvera version to be the longest one to held the mantle in modern times.

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* ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'': Originally exclusive to the show, Ebon became one of the show's most popular villians, and would eventually jump to the comics in ''Static: Shadows of Dakota''; one of the few original villians from the show to do so.
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** In the third [[Characters/BatmanTwoFace Two-Face]] story, Batman persuaded him to turn himself in and submit to any needed psychotherapy and surgery by loading a coin to land on its edge, and he did it and got better. However, the character's visuals proved so memorable that [[http://www.cbr.com/comic-book-legends-revealed-222/ a number of successors popped up in his wake]], until a 1954 story restored the original's scars and insanity (and took away his MoralityPet wife, to boot). Ironically, the UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode would then send the character into a ''fifteen-year'' hiatus (barring the occasional reprint, and ''ComicBook/WorldsFinest1941'' #173 where ''Batman'' got turned into him), until Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams truly canonized him as a top villain in the 1970s.

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** In the third [[Characters/BatmanTwoFace Two-Face]] story, Batman persuaded him to turn himself in and submit to any needed psychotherapy and surgery by loading a coin to land on its edge, and he did it and got better. However, the character's visuals proved so memorable that [[http://www.cbr.com/comic-book-legends-revealed-222/ a number of successors popped up in his wake]], until a 1954 story restored the original's scars and insanity (and took away his MoralityPet wife, to boot). Ironically, the UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode MediaNotes/TheComicsCode would then send the character into a ''fifteen-year'' hiatus (barring the occasional reprint, and ''ComicBook/WorldsFinest1941'' #173 where ''Batman'' got turned into him), until Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams truly canonized him as a top villain in the 1970s.



* ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'': Captain Marvel was such a [[FunPersonified happy, fun, feel-good-superhero series]] at first...then Black Adam came along. Originally intended as a one-shot baddy back in the 40's, Black Adam [[TheBusCameBack came back in force]] several years before the ''Comicbook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', to become the most powerful villain/antihero of not only the Captain Marvel mythos, but also one of the most powerful villains in Franchise/TheDCU. In later years, he's proven to be more popular than the hero he was created to oppose. It is all the more interesting in that Captain Marvel already ''had'' a designated "primary villain" in the form of Dr. Sivana, who debuted alongside him in ''Whiz Comics'' #2, bedeviling the Big Red Cheese with [[CardCarryingVillain a whole deck of Villain cards]] throughout UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks.

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* ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'': Captain Marvel was such a [[FunPersonified happy, fun, feel-good-superhero series]] at first...then Black Adam came along. Originally intended as a one-shot baddy back in the 40's, Black Adam [[TheBusCameBack came back in force]] several years before the ''Comicbook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', to become the most powerful villain/antihero of not only the Captain Marvel mythos, but also one of the most powerful villains in Franchise/TheDCU. In later years, he's proven to be more popular than the hero he was created to oppose. It is all the more interesting in that Captain Marvel already ''had'' a designated "primary villain" in the form of Dr. Sivana, who debuted alongside him in ''Whiz Comics'' #2, bedeviling the Big Red Cheese with [[CardCarryingVillain a whole deck of Villain cards]] throughout UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks.MediaNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks.

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