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** While they might be opponents, Batman and Poison Ivy both agree on one thing: they will not allow ComicBook/HarleyQuinn to become a victim of [[ComicBook/TheJoker the Joker's]] abuse again.
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** While they might be opponents, Batman and Poison Ivy ComicBook/PoisonIvy both unquestionably agree on one thing: they will not allow ComicBook/HarleyQuinn to become a victim of [[ComicBook/TheJoker the Joker's]] abuse again.
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** While they might be opponents, Batman and Poison Ivy both agree on one thing: they will not allow ComicBook/HarleyQuinn to become a victim of [[ComicBook/TheJoker the Joker's]] abuse again.
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** ''ComicBook/Batman66'': The crossover miniseries with ''Series/TheManFromUNCLE'' has Batman's enemies Mr. Freeze, Scarecrow, Poison Ivy, Egghead, Siren, Sandman, and Olga, Queen of Cossacks team up with Batman, Robin, Batgirl, Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin against Hugo Strange after Batman reveals to the villains that the heroes will outrank the villains in the T.H.R.U.S.H. hierarchy if the efforts to brainwash the heroes into serving T.H.R.U.S.H. are successful. However, this doesn't prevent the villains from betraying the heroes at the last minute.
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** ''ComicBook/Batman66'': ''ComicBook/Batman66'':
*** "Caught in the Widow's Web"/"Batman Fights the Penguin's Dread" has the Penguin join forces with Batman and Robin to take down the Black Widow after Batman points out to Penguin that Black Widow is likely to kill him once she no longer has use of their partnership.
*** The crossover miniseries with ''Series/TheManFromUNCLE'' has Batman's enemies Mr. Freeze, Scarecrow, Poison Ivy, Egghead, Siren, Sandman, and Olga, Queen of Cossacks team up with Batman, Robin, Batgirl, Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin against Hugo Strange after Batman reveals to the villains that the heroes will outrank the villains in the T.H.R.U.S.H. hierarchy if the efforts to brainwash the heroes into serving T.H.R.U.S.H. are successful. However, this doesn't prevent the villains from betraying the heroes at the last minute.
*** "Caught in the Widow's Web"/"Batman Fights the Penguin's Dread" has the Penguin join forces with Batman and Robin to take down the Black Widow after Batman points out to Penguin that Black Widow is likely to kill him once she no longer has use of their partnership.
*** The crossover miniseries with ''Series/TheManFromUNCLE'' has Batman's enemies Mr. Freeze, Scarecrow, Poison Ivy, Egghead, Siren, Sandman, and Olga, Queen of Cossacks team up with Batman, Robin, Batgirl, Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin against Hugo Strange after Batman reveals to the villains that the heroes will outrank the villains in the T.H.R.U.S.H. hierarchy if the efforts to brainwash the heroes into serving T.H.R.U.S.H. are successful. However, this doesn't prevent the villains from betraying the heroes at the last minute.
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* ''ComicBook/Batman66'': The crossover miniseries with ''Series/TheManFromUNCLE'' has Batman's enemies Mr. Freeze, Scarecrow, Poison Ivy, Egghead, Siren, Sandman, and Olga, Queen of Cossacks team up with Batman, Robin, Batgirl, Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin against Hugo Strange after Batman reveals to the villains that the heroes will outrank the villains in the T.H.R.U.S.H. hierarchy if the efforts to brainwash the heroes into serving T.H.R.U.S.H. are successful. However, this doesn't prevent the villains from betraying the heroes at the last minute.
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* ''ComicBook/DCeased'': The penultimate issue of the concluding miniseries ''[=DCeased=]: War of the Undead Gods'' has Darkseid team up with the heroes against Erebos after he is cured of the Anti-Life Equation and learns that he had been a pawn to Erebos' agenda all along.
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** Superman and Lex Luthor are in conflict almost all the time, and loathe each other with a vengeance, but they share a near-fanatical adoration for and protectiveness of their home city of Metropolis. This has caused them to put aside their differences, abandon their other objectives, and team up to take down villains bent on destroying their beloved city more than once.
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** Superman and Lex Luthor are in conflict almost all the time, and loathe each other with a vengeance, but they share a near-fanatical adoration for and protectiveness of their home city of Metropolis. This has caused them to have put aside their differences, abandon abandoned their other objectives, and team teamed up to take down villains bent on destroying their beloved city Metropolis more than once.
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** ''ComicBook/ThePlanetEaterTrilogy'': Brainiac cannot stop one of his out-of-control creations, so he must team up with Superman to stop the Planet-Eater before it destroys everything.
--->'''Brainiac:''' ''"To think, my own creation nearly destroyed me! And now, to stop it before it destroys all living matter throughout the galaxy-- I must seek the aid of the man who was once my most dreaded foe!"''
--->'''Brainiac:''' ''"To think, my own creation nearly destroyed me! And now, to stop it before it destroys all living matter throughout the galaxy-- I must seek the aid of the man who was once my most dreaded foe!"''
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* In ''ComicBook/AmethystPrincessOfGemworld'', Mordiel ends up joining forces with Graciel and Amaya against Eclipso.
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* In ''ComicBook/AmethystPrincessOfGemworld'', ''ComicBook/AmethystPrincessOfGemworld'': Mordiel ends up joining forces with Graciel and Amaya against Eclipso.
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* This was the driving force behind ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'''s ending, both the original comic and the film adaptation (though the common enemy in each was completely different).
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** ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton2004'': Invoked when Barda declares "Any enemy of Darkseid is a friend of [hers]."
* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'': This was the driving force behind''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'''s ending, both the original comic and the film adaptation (though the common enemy in each was completely different).ending.
* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'': This was the driving force behind
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* ''ComicBook/ForeverEvil'': Lex and his "Legion of Doom"-esque alliance fighting back against the larger, more encompassing threat the Crime Syndicate poses.
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** This was hardly the first or the last time that ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} pulled one of these. In ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', for example, he ended up being instrumental in finally defeating the Anti-Monitor (but making it very clear he was only doing it not to help the heroes or anything, but rather to ensure that the Anti-Monitor wouldn't [[EvilVersusOblivion destroy everything]]).
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** This was hardly the first or the last time that ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} pulled one of these. In ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', for example, he Darkseid ended up being instrumental in finally defeating the Anti-Monitor (but making it very clear he was only doing it not to help the heroes or anything, but rather to ensure that the Anti-Monitor wouldn't [[EvilVersusOblivion destroy everything]]).
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* In ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'':
** In ''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInThe8thGrade'', Supergirl, [[FriendlyEnemy Lena]] and [[EvilTwin Belinda]] join forces momentarily to try to stop Streaky the Supercat's rampage.
** Supergirl had to reluctantly join forces with Blackstarr -- one of her worst enemies -- during the ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths''.
** In ''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInThe8thGrade'', Supergirl, [[FriendlyEnemy Lena]] and [[EvilTwin Belinda]] join forces momentarily to try to stop Streaky the Supercat's rampage.
** Supergirl had to reluctantly join forces with Blackstarr -- one of her worst enemies -- during the ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths''.
** In ''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInThe8thGrade'', ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}, [[FriendlyEnemy Lena]] and [[EvilTwin Belinda]] join forces momentarily to try to stop Streaky the Supercat's rampage.
** Supergirl had to reluctantly join forces with Blackstarr -- one of her worst enemies -- during the ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths''.
** In ''ComicBook/TheGirlWithTheXRayMind'', Supergirl and Lex Luthor are forced to team up twice. First, Luthor warns Supergirl about a criminal gang -who are trying to recruit his little sister so Supergirl can stop them before they ruin Lena's life. Supergirl cannot help but feel surprised by this development. Later, Supergirl talks Luthor into helping her stop the Phantom Zoners by pointing out their scheme is endangering Lena's life.
--->'''Supergirl:''' I never dreamed that some day Luthor would ask my help against the underworld!
** Supergirl had to reluctantly join forces with Blackstarr -- one of her worst enemies -- during the ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths''.
** In ''ComicBook/TheGirlWithTheXRayMind'', Supergirl and Lex Luthor are forced to team up twice. First, Luthor warns Supergirl about a criminal gang -who are trying to recruit his little sister so Supergirl can stop them before they ruin Lena's life. Supergirl cannot help but feel surprised by this development. Later, Supergirl talks Luthor into helping her stop the Phantom Zoners by pointing out their scheme is endangering Lena's life.
--->'''Supergirl:''' I never dreamed that some day Luthor would ask my help against the underworld!
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** Superman and ComicBook/LexLuthor Lex Luthor are in conflict almost all the time, and loathe each other with a vengeance, but they share a near-fanatical adoration for and protectiveness of their home city of Metropolis. This has caused them to put aside their differences, abandon their other objectives, and team up to take down villains bent on destroying their beloved city more than once.
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* This was the [[InvokedTrope driving force]] behind ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'''s ending, both the original comic and the film adaptation (though the common enemy in each was completely different).
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}} unhesitatingly joins up with the heroes to fight Circe and her rather large collection of female villains gathered to hunt men, specifically superhero men, for sport in New York City.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}} unhesitatingly joins up with the heroes to fight Circe and her rather large collection of female villains gathered to hunt men, specifically superhero men, for sport in New York City.
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* This was the [[InvokedTrope driving force]] force behind ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'''s ending, both the original comic and the film adaptation (though the common enemy in each was completely different).
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}} unhesitatingly joins up with the heroes to fight Circe and her rather large collection of female villains gathered to hunt men, specifically superhero men, for sport in New YorkCity.City.
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* In ''ComicBook/AmethystPrincessOfGemworld'', Mordiel ends up joining forces with Graciel and Amaya against Eclipso.
* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':
** In the 1970s, two issues of ''ComicBook/TheBraveAndTheBold'' featured Batman teaming up with ComicBook/TheJoker to solve a crime. In #111, they worked together to solve the mass murder of an upstanding local family, which someone had sloppily tried to pin on the Joker. In the end, it turned out that [[spoiler:the whole thing was an elaborate plot between the Joker and the killer to lure Batman into a {{Deathtrap}}]]. In #191, the Penguin is murdered and it looks like the Joker did it. When Batman catches up to him, he proves that he couldn't have done it. It is eventually revealed that [[spoiler:the whole thing was a FakingTheDead by the Penguin, who used it to kidnap a local cardinal]].
** {{Discussed|Trope}} and then [[StealthPun soundly]] {{defied|Trope}} in ''ComicBook/BatmanBeyond''. When [[spoiler: Man-Bat threatens the city with a sonic weapon]], Terry believes Commissioner Gordon and Dick have called him to suggest he team up with Shriek, the other villainous sound expert, "[[LampshadeHanging just like in the vids]]". They respond by pointing out that Shriek is a madman and a loose cannon, and there's no way they could ever trust him. Terry seems quite disappointed to hear it.
** ''ComicBook/BatgirlAdventures'': ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} reluctantly teams up with Harley Quinn to take down villain Kitsune.
** ''ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal'': Batman teams up with ComicBook/TheJoker to deal with his EvilCounterpart, The Batman Who Laughs.
* In ''Cosmic Odyssey'', [[ComicBook/NewGods Darkseid and Highfather]] team up, recruiting Franchise/{{Superman}}, Franchise/{{Batman}}, and various other DC Universe heroes to prevent the [[EldritchAbomination Anti-Life Entity]] from [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt destroying the entire galaxy]]. Unsurprisingly, ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder betrays his newfound allies]], only to be stopped by Batman's BetrayalInsurance.
** This was hardly the first or the last time that ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} pulled one of these. In ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', for example, he ended up being instrumental in finally defeating the Anti-Monitor (but making it very clear he was only doing it not to help the heroes or anything, but rather to ensure that the Anti-Monitor wouldn't [[EvilVersusOblivion destroy everything]]).
** Darkseid did the same thing with Imperiex.
* ''ComicBook/ForeverEvil'': Lex and his "Legion of Doom"-esque alliance fighting back against the larger, more encompassing threat the Crime Syndicate poses.
* In Year Five of ''ComicBook/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'', Batman recruits several supervillains to help him fight Superman's Regime, choosing them based on their adherence to a [[ThouShaltNotKill no-kill rule.]] After learning of Batman's plan, Superman does the exact same thing, though the villains he chooses are willing to use lethal force and are thus more numerous.
* ''ComicBook/JonahHex'': In #10 of the original series, el Papagayo forces Jonah to aid him in a plan to steal a store of gold from the Mexican government. When the the soldiers uncover the plot, they assume Jonah is a willing participant and Jonah is forced to fight alongside the outlaws to save his own life.
* In the final issue of Creator/PaulCornell's ''ComicBook/KnightAndSquire'', ''everyone'' in the British super-community teams up to take down ComicBook/TheJoker. The heroes, the anti-heroes, the {{Harmless Villain}}s and the killers like Death Dinosaur. He's just that much of a threat.
* In ''ComicBook/TheMultiversity'', Superdoomsday wrecked havoc on several Earths, but because he and his fellow Overcorp stooge are the only champions of Earth-45, Harbinger is forced to summon them in the final battle alongside several superhero teams he had previously wronged. Members of the Earth-10 New Reichsmen and Freedom Fighters are likewise recruited. However, due to the sheer immensity of the conflict, these antagonistic groups have little opportunity to lock horns.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'':
** In ''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInThe8thGrade'', Supergirl, [[FriendlyEnemy Lena]] and [[EvilTwin Belinda]] join forces momentarily to try to stop Streaky the Supercat's rampage.
** Supergirl had to reluctantly join forces with Blackstarr -- one of her worst enemies -- during the ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths''.
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
** At the end of ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'', Superman is facing the Female Furies and the Justifiers. Who saves him and reverses the Anti-Life Equation? Lex Luthor and Dr. Sivana.
--->'''Lex:'''"Not a single word, Superman. We'll call this the Historic First Team-Up of the forces of "Good" and the forces of "Bad". And I'll take the credit for the win"\\
'''Superman:'''"Whatever you say, Lex. Whatever you say."
** ''ComicBook/TheSupermanAdventures'' has Superman forced to go to Lex when ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} falls deathly ill.
** Superman and ComicBook/LexLuthor are in conflict almost all the time, and loathe each other with a vengeance, but they share a near-fanatical adoration for and protectiveness of their home city of Metropolis. This has caused them to put aside their differences, abandon their other objectives, and team up to take down villains bent on destroying their beloved city more than once.
** In ''ComicBook/SupermanDoomsdayHunterPrey'', Superman teams up with Darkseid to stop both Doomsday and Cyborg Superman as they both attack Apokolips.
** ''ComicBook/TheGreatPhantomPeril'': During the final battle, Faora commands the Phantom Zoners to attack Superman. Neither of them likes being ordered around by her, but the Zoners hate Superman more than they despise Faora.
--->'''Faora Hu-Ul:''' "Hear me, males! Kill him where he stands!"\\
'''Kru-El:''' "We're obeying Faora?"\\
'''Dru-Zod:''' "Destroying Superman must not be our first priority!"
** ''ComicBook/TwoForTheDeathOfOne'': When Lord Satanis realizes his power is not enough to beat Syrene, not even after taking over Superman's body, he asks Superman's subsumed consciousness to awaken and help him fight her.
--->'''Lord Satanis:''' "It is no use. I fight... But my powers are not nearly great enough! Superman, whatever part of you that can still think and resist... I call to you now! Aid me now, venerable foe -- Or both of us shall surely perish!"
* This was the [[InvokedTrope driving force]] behind ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'''s ending, both the original comic and the film adaptation (though the common enemy in each was completely different).
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}} unhesitatingly joins up with the heroes to fight Circe and her rather large collection of female villains gathered to hunt men, specifically superhero men, for sport in New York City.
* In ''ComicBook/AmethystPrincessOfGemworld'', Mordiel ends up joining forces with Graciel and Amaya against Eclipso.
* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':
** In the 1970s, two issues of ''ComicBook/TheBraveAndTheBold'' featured Batman teaming up with ComicBook/TheJoker to solve a crime. In #111, they worked together to solve the mass murder of an upstanding local family, which someone had sloppily tried to pin on the Joker. In the end, it turned out that [[spoiler:the whole thing was an elaborate plot between the Joker and the killer to lure Batman into a {{Deathtrap}}]]. In #191, the Penguin is murdered and it looks like the Joker did it. When Batman catches up to him, he proves that he couldn't have done it. It is eventually revealed that [[spoiler:the whole thing was a FakingTheDead by the Penguin, who used it to kidnap a local cardinal]].
** {{Discussed|Trope}} and then [[StealthPun soundly]] {{defied|Trope}} in ''ComicBook/BatmanBeyond''. When [[spoiler: Man-Bat threatens the city with a sonic weapon]], Terry believes Commissioner Gordon and Dick have called him to suggest he team up with Shriek, the other villainous sound expert, "[[LampshadeHanging just like in the vids]]". They respond by pointing out that Shriek is a madman and a loose cannon, and there's no way they could ever trust him. Terry seems quite disappointed to hear it.
** ''ComicBook/BatgirlAdventures'': ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} reluctantly teams up with Harley Quinn to take down villain Kitsune.
** ''ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal'': Batman teams up with ComicBook/TheJoker to deal with his EvilCounterpart, The Batman Who Laughs.
* In ''Cosmic Odyssey'', [[ComicBook/NewGods Darkseid and Highfather]] team up, recruiting Franchise/{{Superman}}, Franchise/{{Batman}}, and various other DC Universe heroes to prevent the [[EldritchAbomination Anti-Life Entity]] from [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt destroying the entire galaxy]]. Unsurprisingly, ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder betrays his newfound allies]], only to be stopped by Batman's BetrayalInsurance.
** This was hardly the first or the last time that ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} pulled one of these. In ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', for example, he ended up being instrumental in finally defeating the Anti-Monitor (but making it very clear he was only doing it not to help the heroes or anything, but rather to ensure that the Anti-Monitor wouldn't [[EvilVersusOblivion destroy everything]]).
** Darkseid did the same thing with Imperiex.
* ''ComicBook/ForeverEvil'': Lex and his "Legion of Doom"-esque alliance fighting back against the larger, more encompassing threat the Crime Syndicate poses.
* In Year Five of ''ComicBook/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'', Batman recruits several supervillains to help him fight Superman's Regime, choosing them based on their adherence to a [[ThouShaltNotKill no-kill rule.]] After learning of Batman's plan, Superman does the exact same thing, though the villains he chooses are willing to use lethal force and are thus more numerous.
* ''ComicBook/JonahHex'': In #10 of the original series, el Papagayo forces Jonah to aid him in a plan to steal a store of gold from the Mexican government. When the the soldiers uncover the plot, they assume Jonah is a willing participant and Jonah is forced to fight alongside the outlaws to save his own life.
* In the final issue of Creator/PaulCornell's ''ComicBook/KnightAndSquire'', ''everyone'' in the British super-community teams up to take down ComicBook/TheJoker. The heroes, the anti-heroes, the {{Harmless Villain}}s and the killers like Death Dinosaur. He's just that much of a threat.
* In ''ComicBook/TheMultiversity'', Superdoomsday wrecked havoc on several Earths, but because he and his fellow Overcorp stooge are the only champions of Earth-45, Harbinger is forced to summon them in the final battle alongside several superhero teams he had previously wronged. Members of the Earth-10 New Reichsmen and Freedom Fighters are likewise recruited. However, due to the sheer immensity of the conflict, these antagonistic groups have little opportunity to lock horns.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'':
** In ''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInThe8thGrade'', Supergirl, [[FriendlyEnemy Lena]] and [[EvilTwin Belinda]] join forces momentarily to try to stop Streaky the Supercat's rampage.
** Supergirl had to reluctantly join forces with Blackstarr -- one of her worst enemies -- during the ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths''.
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
** At the end of ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'', Superman is facing the Female Furies and the Justifiers. Who saves him and reverses the Anti-Life Equation? Lex Luthor and Dr. Sivana.
--->'''Lex:'''"Not a single word, Superman. We'll call this the Historic First Team-Up of the forces of "Good" and the forces of "Bad". And I'll take the credit for the win"\\
'''Superman:'''"Whatever you say, Lex. Whatever you say."
** ''ComicBook/TheSupermanAdventures'' has Superman forced to go to Lex when ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} falls deathly ill.
** Superman and ComicBook/LexLuthor are in conflict almost all the time, and loathe each other with a vengeance, but they share a near-fanatical adoration for and protectiveness of their home city of Metropolis. This has caused them to put aside their differences, abandon their other objectives, and team up to take down villains bent on destroying their beloved city more than once.
** In ''ComicBook/SupermanDoomsdayHunterPrey'', Superman teams up with Darkseid to stop both Doomsday and Cyborg Superman as they both attack Apokolips.
** ''ComicBook/TheGreatPhantomPeril'': During the final battle, Faora commands the Phantom Zoners to attack Superman. Neither of them likes being ordered around by her, but the Zoners hate Superman more than they despise Faora.
--->'''Faora Hu-Ul:''' "Hear me, males! Kill him where he stands!"\\
'''Kru-El:''' "We're obeying Faora?"\\
'''Dru-Zod:''' "Destroying Superman must not be our first priority!"
** ''ComicBook/TwoForTheDeathOfOne'': When Lord Satanis realizes his power is not enough to beat Syrene, not even after taking over Superman's body, he asks Superman's subsumed consciousness to awaken and help him fight her.
--->'''Lord Satanis:''' "It is no use. I fight... But my powers are not nearly great enough! Superman, whatever part of you that can still think and resist... I call to you now! Aid me now, venerable foe -- Or both of us shall surely perish!"
* This was the [[InvokedTrope driving force]] behind ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'''s ending, both the original comic and the film adaptation (though the common enemy in each was completely different).
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}} unhesitatingly joins up with the heroes to fight Circe and her rather large collection of female villains gathered to hunt men, specifically superhero men, for sport in New York City.
