History HateSink / TheDCU

* Eric Wallace's loathed run on ''[[ComicBook/TeenTitans Titans]]'' had every other villain Deathstroke's bastard Titans go up against be this trope, including:

** ''[[Characters/SupermanSuperboyPrime Superboy Prime]]'', a very powerful yet whiny counterpart of Superman responsible for the death of several heroes, as well as numerous civilians. It's always fun to watch him get beaten up. That being said, in ''ComicBook/DarkNightsDeathMetal'' [[spoiler: he sacrifices himself and is redeemed.]]

** Superboy-Prime, a very powerful yet whiny counterpart of Superman responsible for the death of several heroes, as well as numerous civilians. It's always fun to watch him get beaten up. That being said, in ''ComicBook/DarkNightsDeathMetal'' [[spoiler: he sacrifices himself and is redeemed.]]

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' has a few examples examples:

** Wally West faces plenty of sociopathic villains and super-powerful threats, but none manage to be as loathsome and detestable as his own father, Rudy. Aside from just being an abusive parent, [[TheQuisling Rudy sold the earth out to an invasion of genocidal robots]], tried to murder his ex-wife in order to manipulate Wally into joining him, sold fake Durlan (a race of shapeshifting alien invaders) detectors which probably would have gotten people killed, and ran a child slave labor camp in the guise of a reform school. Most frustratingly, he has a tendency to [[FakingTheDead fake his death]] [[KarmaHoudini in order to escape the consequences of his actions]].

** ''ComicBook/SupermanGrounded' has Superman traveling to Illinois and confronts Vincent, a DomesticAbuser and {{Abusive Parent|s}} who just slapped his wife for not making his coffee properly and slapped and threw his son, William down the basement when he tried to intervene and protect his mother. In just a couple of panels, he becomes one of the most loathsome and irredeemable baddies Supes ever faces off against because of just how petty, disproportionate, and unpleasant he is. Superman is absolutely furious upon learning about what Vincent was doing and said anger is something that's only reserved for someone like Darkseid but chooses to take him to the police. To give a demonstration of how much Supes hates domestic abusers, he admits to Lois that he considered tearing Vincent apart, but that would go against [[TheParagon his general]] [[TheCape reputation]].

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' has two examples:
** Superboy Prime, a very powerful yet whiny counterpart of Superman responsible for the death of several heroes, as well as numerous civilians. It's always fun to watch him get beaten up. That being said, in ''ComicBook/DarkNightsDeathMetal'' [[spoiler: he sacrifices himself and is redeemed.]]

** ''Batman: Birth of the Demon'': The nameless King and Prince are responsible for kickstarting Ra's Al Ghul's descent into evil. The Prince was an insensitive, lecherous man who was constantly protected by his father, allowing him to get off scott free for [[ForcefulKiss forcefully kissing]] Ra's' wife, and recklessly trampling an old woman to death during a horse race. After Ra's uses the [[HealingVat Lazarus Pit]] to save the Prince from illness, the Prince murders Ra's' wife in a blind frenzy, [[UngratefulBastard the King using his power to pin the blame on Ra's]]. The Prince decides to mock Ra's when deciding his punishment, ordering him to be buried alive in the desert alongside the company of his dead wife, saying they can be together again. The King then has the nerve to beg Ra's to save the Prince when he falls ill again, even killing one of his own guards in an attempt to appease Ra's. These two royals proved to be embodiments of everything Ra's viewed wrong with the world.

** There have been many incarnations of the bizarre rogue Clayface throughout the franchise, but most of them are sympathetic in some way. After all, [[TragicMonster they didn't 'ask to be disfigured, unstable clay monsters]]. The same cannot be said for Basil Karlo, a monstrously sadistic, [[ItsAllAboutMe self-absorbed]] actor turned SerialKiller with no redeeming qualities whatsoever, and ironically the very first Clayface. Once a normal criminal, Karlo infused himself with the essence of his successors [[OneWingedAngel to become a literal clay monster]] before he was defeated. Upon his return during the ''No Man's Land'' arc, Karlo reached new depths of depravity,capturing and brutalizing Poison Ivy while [[WouldHurtAChild enslaving the children she gave sanctuary in Gotham's Parks]], starting a suicide cult of kids [[MonsterFangirl who idolized him]],and blowing up the Daily Planet for the villain Libra. Though he never dies, it's incredibly satisfying for the time being when Ivy grinds him to mulch.

** Superboy Prime, a very powerful yet whiny counterpart of Superman responsible for the death of several heroes, as well as numerous civilians. It's always fun to watch him get beaten up.

* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'': There have been many incarnations of the bizarre rogue Clayface throughout the franchise, but most of them are sympathetic in some way. After all, [[TragicMonster they didn't ''ask'' to be disfigured, unstable clay monsters.]] The same cannot be said for Basil Karlo, a monstrously sadistic, [[ItsAllAboutMe self-absorbed]] actor turned SerialKiller with no redeeming qualities whatsoever, and ironically the very first Clayface. Once a normal criminal, Karlo infused himself with the essence of his successors [[OneWingedAngel to become a literal clay monster]] before he was defeated and absent from comics for nine years. Upon his return during the ''No Man's Land'' arc, Karlo reached new depths of depravity,capturing and brutalizing Poison Ivy while [[WouldHurtAChild enslaving the children she gave sanctuary in Gotham's Parks]], starting a suicide cult of kids [[MonsterFangirl who idolized him]],and blowing up the Daily Planet for the villain Libra. Though he never dies, it's incredibly satisfying for the time being when Ivy grinds him to mulch. Unsurprisingly the DC rebirth Clayface, [[InNameOnly despite sharing Karlo's name]], has more in common with his original animated series counterpart, is nowhere near as vile, and eventually redeems himself.
** ''Batman: Birth of the Demon'': The nameless King and Prince are responsible for kickstarting [[ComicBook/RasAlGhul Ra's Al Ghul's]] descent into evil. The Prince was an insensitive, lecherous man who was constantly protected by his father, allowing him to get off scott free for [[ForcefulKiss forcefully kissing]] Ra's' wife, and recklessly trampling an old woman to death during a horse race. After Ra's uses the [[HealingVat Lazarus Pit]] to save the Prince from illness, the Prince murders Ra's' wife in a blind frenzy, [[UngratefulBastard the King using his power to pin the blame on Ra's.]] The Prince decides to mock Ra's when deciding his punishment, ordering him to be buried alive in the desert alongside the company of his dead wife, saying they can be together again. The King then has the nerve to beg Ra's to save the Prince when he falls ill again, even killing one of his own guards in an attempt to appease Ra's. These two royals proved to be embodiments of everything Ra's viewed wrong with the world.

** ''ComicBook/SuperboyPrime'', a very powerful yet whiny counterpart of Superman responsible for the death of several heroes, as well as numerous civilians. It's always fun to watch him get beaten up.

* ''Franchise/TheFlash'': ComicBook/WallyWest faces plenty of sociopathic villains and super-powerful threats, but none manage to be as loathsome and detestable as his own father, Rudy. Aside from just being an abusive parent, [[TheQuisling Rudy sold the earth out to an invasion of genocidal robots]], tried to murder his ex-wife in order to manipulate Wally into joining him, sold fake Durlan (a race of shapeshifting alien invaders) detectors which probably would have gotten people killed, and ran a child slave labor camp in the guise of a reform school. Most frustratingly, he has a tendency to [[FakingTheDead fake his death]] [[KarmaHoudini in order to escape the consequences of his actions]].

* Mongul II in ''ComicBook/GreenLantern''. Son of the already unpleasant Superman foe, Mongul II exists as a foil to [[MagnificentBastard Sinestro]]; while both are repressive dictators, Sinestro is the type that at least establishes order at the cost of freedom, while Mongul cares only for himself and merrily runs the planets he conquers straight into the ground. In essence, the character exists so the audience [[ALighterShadeOfBlack feels comfortable rooting for]] [[VillainProtagonist Sinestro]].

* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'': There have been many incarnations of the bizarre rogue Clayface throughout the franchise, but most of them are sympathetic in some way. After all, [[TragicMonster they didn't ''ask'' to be disfigured, unstable clay monsters.]] The same cannot be said for Basil Karlo, a monstrously sadistic,[[ItsAllAboutMe self-absorbed]] actor turned SerialKiller with no redeeming qualities whatsoever, and ironically the very first Clayface. Once a normal criminal, Karlo infused himself with the essence of his successors [[OneWingedAngel to become a literal clay monster]] before he was defeated and absent from comics for nine years. Upon his return during the ''No Man's Land'' arc, Karlo reached new depths of depravity,capturing and brutalizing Poison Ivy while [[WouldHurtAChild enslaving the children she gave sanctuary in Gotham's Parks]], starting a suicide cult of kids [[MonsterFangirl who idolized him]],and blowing up the Daily Planet for the villain Libra. Though he never dies, it's incredibly satisfying for the time being when Ivy grinds him to mulch. Unsurprisingly the DC rebirth Clayface, [[InNameOnly despite sharing Karlo's name]], has more in common with his original animated series counterpart, is nowhere near as vile, and eventually redeems himself.