History Main / RoguesGallery

* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' often brings villains back in new arcs, especially the Linear Guild, with its rotating cast of evil opposites (some of which return each time), and arguably Miko being brought back after her initial "go fetch the Order" arc to participate in the Battle of Azure City. Currently, the Order's rouge's gallery consists of the members of [[BigBad Xykon's]] Team Evil, the Linear Guild, the ThievesGuild (technically), General Tarquin and his team [[spoiler:excluding Malack, who was killed by Nale]], the IFCC (though only V knows about them, and he/she doesn't know the extent of their threat), and Qarr the imp. [[KnightTemplar Miko]] and [[FillerVillain Kubota]] both qualified, but not anymore, due to [[spoiler:both being dead. Given that the current only member of the Linear Guild who hasn't jumped ship (Hilgya, Leeky Windstaff, Pompey) or killed (the various Kobolds, Nale, Zz'dtri, and presumably Thog) is Sabine, it can probably be safely assumed that they no longer pose a threat to the Order]]. [[spoiler:Durkon]] probably also qualifies, due to his brief membership of the Linear Guild following his vampirization, and especially following his FaceHeelTurn when he revealed himself to be the High Priest of Hel.

SuperHero series, borrowing from the comic books, almost always have a Rogues Gallery. Of course, villains can and do appear outside their traditional rogues galleries, fighting heroes they don't usually face. Some even become part of more than one Rogues Gallery, with the Marvel villain ComicBook/TheKingpin being a major enemy of both Comicbook/{{Daredevil}} and Franchise/SpiderMan. When this occurs to such an extent that the villain becomes more identified with the new hero, they become a RoguesGalleryTransplant.

* Franchise/SpiderMan's Rogues are prominently featured all over Creator/{{Gottlieb}}'s ''Pinball/TheAmazingSpiderMan'' pinball. Green Goblin, the Vulture, Dr. Octopus, and the [[AdaptationalVillainy Black Widow]] are on the backglass, while the playfield has the Lizard, the Kingpin, Kraven the Hunter, and the Scorpion.

** [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bats']] rogues are far in the lead: [[ComicBook/TheRiddler Ed]], [[Comicbook/{{Catwoman}} Selina]], [[ComicBook/HarleyQuinn Harleen]], Viktor Fries (Mr. Freeze), and of course '' [[ComicBook/TheJoker The Clown Prince of Crime]] himself all have their own rides; curiously, Bizarro is the first and so far the only other DC villain to be so honored.

** [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]] has been garnering his own group of villains to contend with. Dr. Insano harasses him as much as he does Linkara, and there's also [[Comicbook/BlackestNight Black Lantern Spoony]], The Wrestling/UltimateWarrior, The Gatecleaner, and [[VideoGame/UltimaVI Fucking Chuckles]]. [[spoiler: All of whom seem to be forming an alliance of [[Franchise/GreenLantern Lanterns]] working under [[VideoGame/UltimaVII The Guardian]]]].

* Wrestling/RingOfHonor's tumultuous [[RealLifeWritesThePlot relationship]] with Wrestling/{{TNA}} saw Wrestling/CMPunk gain/create a rogues gallery out of Wrestling/SamoaJoe, Wrestling/ChristopherDaniels, Wrestling/AJStyles and Wrestling/LowKi, the former three he already feuded with but added another layer of personal animosity when willingly played TNA's games instead of forcing the company to honor their contracts and help ROH. This also included Wrestling/{{Raven}}, Wrestling/PrinceNana and Wrestling/RickySteamboat for entirely unrelated reasons. This happened again for Punk in WWE. Wrestling/TheMiz and Wrestling/JohnMorrison already disliked Punk for reasons and then bonded after being forced into a TagTeam over their hatred of Punk. Wrestling/{{Chavo Guerrero Jr}}, Wrestling/SheltonBenjamin, Wrestling/{{Kane}}, Wrestling/DolphZiggler and Wrestling/AlbertoDelRio were also used as pawns by WWE officials against Punk, be it general manager Wrestling/AJLee, COO Wrestling/TripleH, talent relations head Wrestling/JohnLaurinaitis or Wrestling/VinceMcMahon himself. Wrestling/{{Edge}}, Wrestling/RandyOrton, Wrestling/ChrisJericho, and Wrestling/PaulHeyman all antagonized Punk for basically no good reason, giving Punk reason to go after them in revenge, leading to Punk also fighting "Paul Heyman Guy" Wrestling/BrockLesnar, who mericully for him left...only to be replaced with Wrestling/{{Ryback}}. In Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling Punk willingly pursued Darby Allin seeking friendly competition only to be targeted by "Team Wrestling/{{Taz|}}z", putting Punk at odds with Ricky Starks in particular, as well as by Wrestling/EddieKingston, who view Punk as the best representative of everything he disliked about Wrestling/RingOfHonor, Wrestling/{{MJF}} who was a fan that felt Punk didn't give him enough attention, and Wrestling/AdamPage, who cut an incomprehensible promo on Punk out of the mistaken belief Punk tried to get Wrestling/ColtCabana fired and has been a source of Punk's ire ever sense. Then there is Samoa Joe, again, looking to continue his "legacy" of greatness with Punk from ROH. Ricky Starks and Samoa Joe were both using unrelated methods to goad Punk into a rematch ''[[GambitPileup at the same time]]'' CM Punk was trying to goad MJF into one.

* The trolls that regularly call in on ''[[Radio/TrueCapitalist True Capitalist Radio]]'' among other things composed of a guy who pretty much lives on a bathtub, stereotypical African-American welfare fraud who lives "the ghetto way", numerous trans- and homosexuals who want to have sex with Ghost, bronies as well as actual ponies from [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic the show]], African man who likes to read erotic Anne Frank fanfiction, guy who Ghost genuinely liked until finding out that he has a diaper fetish and wrote My Little Pony fan fics about it, guy who keeps drinking his own urine over and over again, former [=McDonalds=] mascot and current white supremacist rapper with a moon for a head, sick twisted version of [[Series/SesameStreet Kermit the Frog]] who wants to have sex with Ghost and [[AnythingThatMoves various other things]] and the list goes on and on.

* Wrestling/RingOfHonor's tumultuous [[RealLifeWritesThePlot relationship]] with Wrestling/{{TNA}} saw Wrestling/CMPunk gain/create a rogues gallery out of Wrestling/SamoaJoe, Wrestling/ChristopherDaniels, Wrestling/AJStyles and Wrestling/LowKi, the former three he already feuded with but added another layer of personal animosity when willingly played TNA's games instead of forcing the company to honor their contracts and help ROH. This also included Wrestling/{{Raven}}, Wrestling/PrinceNana and Wrestling/RickySteamboat for entirely unrelated reasons. This happened again for Punk in WWE. Wrestling/TheMiz and Wrestling/JohnMorrison already disliked Punk for reasons and then bonded after being forced into a TagTeam over their hatred of Punk. Wrestling/{{Chavo Guerrero Jr}}, Wrestling/SheltonBenjamin, Wrestling/{{Kane}}, Wrestling/DolphZiggler and Wrestling/AlbertoDelRio were also used as pawns by WWE officials against Punk, be it general manager Wrestling/AJLee, COO Wrestling/TripleH, talent relations head Wrestling/JohnLaurinaitis or Wrestling/VinceMcMahon himself. Wrestling/{{Edge}}, Wrestling/RandyOrton, Wrestling/ChrisJericho, and Wrestling/PaulHeyman all antagonized Punk for basically no good reason, giving Punk reason to go after them in revenge, leading to Punk also fighting "Paul Heyman Guy" Wrestling/BrockLesnar, who mericully for him left...only to be replaced with Wrestling/{{Ryback}}. In Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling Punk willingly pursued Darby Allin seeking friendly competition only to be targeted by "Team Wrestling/{{Taz|}}z", putting Punk at odds with Ricky Starks in particular, as well as by Wrestling/EddieKingston, who view Punk as the best representative of everything he disliked about Wrestling/RingOfHonor, Wrestling/{{MJF}} who was a fan that felt Punk didn't give him enough attention, and Wrestling/AdamPage, who cut an incomprehensible promo on Punk out of the mistaken belief Punk tried to get Wrestling/ColtCabana fired and has been a source of Punk's ire ever sense. Then there is Samoa Joe, again, looking to continue his "legacy" of greatness with Punk from ROH. Ricky and Roe were both using unrelated methods to goad Punk into a rematch ''[[GambitPileup at the same time]]'' Punk was trying to goad MJF into one.

* Wrestling/RingOfHonor's tumultuous [[RealLifeWritesThePlot relationship]] with Wrestling/{{TNA}} saw Wrestling/CMPunk gain/create a rogues gallery out of Wrestling/SamoaJoe, Wrestling/ChristopherDaniels, Wrestling/AJStyles and Wrestling/LowKi, the former three he already feuded with but added another layer of personal animosity when willingly played TNA's games instead of forcing the company to honor their contracts and help ROH. This also included Wrestling/{{Raven}}, Wrestling/PrinceNana and Wrestling/RickySteamboat for entirely unrelated reasons. This happened again for Punk in WWE. Wrestling/TheMiz and Wrestling/JohnMorrison already disliked Punk for reasons and then bonded after being forced into a TagTeam over their hatred of Punk. Wrestling/{{Chavo Guerrero Jr}}, Wrestling/SheltonBenjamin, Wrestling/{{Kane}}, Wrestling/DolphZiggler and Wrestling/AlbertoDelRio were also used as pawns by WWE officials against Punk, be it general manager Wrestling/AJLee, COO Wrestling/TripleH, talent relations head Wrestling/JohnLaurinaitis or Wrestling/VinceMcMahon himself. Wrestling/{{Edge}}, Wrestling/RandyOrton, Wrestling/ChrisJericho, and Wrestling/PaulHeyman all antagonized Punk for basically no good reason, giving Punk reason to go after them in revenge, leading to Punk also fighting "Paul Heyman Guy" Wrestling/BrockLesnar, who mericully for him left...only to be replaced with Wrestling/{{Ryback}}. In Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling Punk willingly pursued Darby Allin seeking friendly competition only to be targeted by "Team Wrestling/{{Taz|}}z", putting Punk at odds with Ricky Starks in particular, as well as by Wrestling/EddieKingston, who view Punk as the best representative of everything he disliked about Wrestling/RingOfHonor, Wrestling/{{MJF}} who was a fan that felt Punk didn't give him enough attention, and Wrestling/AdamPage, who cut an incomprehensible promo on Punk out of the mistaken belief Punk tried to get Wrestling/ColtCabana fired and has been a source of Punk's ire ever sense.

* Wrestling/RingOfHonor's tumultuous [[RealLifeWritesThePlot relationship]] with Wrestling/{{TNA}} saw Wrestling/CMPunk gain/create a rogues gallery out of Wrestling/SamoaJoe, Wrestling/ChristopherDaniels, Wrestling/AJStyles and Wrestling/LowKi, the former three he already feuded with but added another layer of personal animosity when willingly played TNA's games instead of forcing the company to honor their contracts and help ROH. This also included Wrestling/{{Raven}}, Wrestling/PrinceNana and Wrestling/RickySteamboat for entirely unrelated reasons. This happened again for Punk in WWE. Wrestling/TheMiz and Wrestling/JohnMorrison already disliked Punk for reasons and then bonded after being forced into a TagTeam over their hatred of Punk. Wrestling/{{Chavo Guerrero Jr}}, Wrestling/SheltonBenjamin, Wrestling/{{Kane}}, Wrestling/DolphZiggler and Wrestling/AlbertoDelRio were also used as pawns by WWE officials against Punk, be it general manager Wrestling/AJLee, COO Wrestling/TripleH, talent relations head Wrestling/JohnLaurinaitis or Wrestling/VinceMcMahon himself. Wrestling/{{Edge}}, Wrestling/RandyOrton, Wrestling/ChrisJericho, and Wrestling/PaulHeyman all antagonized Punk for basically no good reason, giving Punk reason to go after them in revenge, leading to Punk also fighting "Paul Heyman Guy" Wrestling/BrockLesnar, who mericully for him left...only to be replaced with Wrestling/{{Ryback}}. In AllEliteWrestling Punk willingly pursued Darby Allin seeking friendly competition only to be targeted by "Team Wrestling/{Taz|}z", putting Punk at odds with Ricky Starks in particular, as well as by Wrestling/EddieKingston, who view Punk as the best representative of everything he disliked about Wrestling/RingOfHonor, Wrestling/{{MJF}} who was a fan that felt Punk didn't give him enough attention, and Wrestling/AdamPage, who cut an incomprehensible promo on Punk out of the mistaken belief Punk tried to get Wrestling/ColtCabana fired and has been a source of Punk's ire ever sense.

* The video {{crossover}} genre, ''WebVideo/PoohsAdventures'' features ''tons'' of villains for Pooh and his friends to face, ranging from an alliance of Disney Villains, to [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Bowser's Family]]. There's even a group called the "Villain [[RougeAnglesOfSatin Leage]]". [[TheWikiRule Its wiki]] [[http://poohadventures.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Pooh%27s_Adventures_villains has a full list of the villains]].

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Having only a single antagonist can work, but as a series goes on it can become boring. On the other hand, audiences can never get attached to villains if they never come back again. The Rogues Gallery is a middle ground.

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[[caption-width-right:255:With this many enemies, who needs friends?[[labelnote:Clockwise from top center]][[Characters/BatmanTheScarecrow The Scarecrow]], [[Characters/BatmanTwoFace Two-Face]], [[Characters/BatmanPoisonIvy Poison Ivy]], [[Characters/BatmanThePenguin the Penguin]], [[Characters/BatmanTheRiddler the Riddler]], Characters/{{Catwoman|SelinaKyle}}, Mr. Freeze, and [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker the Joker]] at the center.[[/labelnote]]]]

** WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic himself has a small group of his own, made up of WebVideo/{{Ask That Guy|WithTheGlasses}}, Doctor Insano (to a lesser extent than Spoony or Linkara), Teddy Ruxpin, Zack the Lego Maniac, [[Series/LostInSpace Dr. Smith]], [[WebVideo/{{Kickassia}} Kevin Baugh]], and [[FanDumb Douchey McNitpick]] (the latter has also harassed other contributors). And [[Film/TheRoom Tommy Wiseau]]. And he also has a SitcomArchNemesis in the form of the WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd, with whom he's a good friend in RealLife, but whose characters are always at loggerheads with each other.
** Other Channel Awesome villains include Spaceguy and the Alien Space Pants of Nash's ''WebVideo/WhatTheFuckIsWrongWithYou'', [[WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown Professor Celluloid]], Luke Mochrie's Inner Serial Killer Ralph, half of the WebVideo/{{Phelous}} clones, [[WebVideo/TheAngryJoeShow Bizarro Joe, Corporate Commander]], [[WebVideo/PawDugan Dark Paw]], a Satan/Devil/Demon allegory played by Y, [[Film/TheRoom Tommy Wiseau]], [[Film/BattlefieldEarth Terl]], the villains of [[Creator/ApolloZHack The Reviewaverse Saga]], and [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick Dark Nella]].

* Usually ObjectShows, if the plot called for it, has this one BigBad trying to win the competition through [[ManipulativeBastard illi]][[ObfuscatingStupidity cit]] [[BitchInSheepsClothing means]]. This is definitely not the case for ''WebAnimation/TheDailyObjectShow'', building up an impressive array of villains that only increase every season. Currently, there's two [[EvilDoppelganger Evil Doppelgängers]], a [[MindManipulation mind-manipulating]] AncientEvil with his CloneArmy, an EvilFormerFriend and two [[DarkChick Dark Chicks]]. All hell-bent on [[TakeOverTheWorld world domination]], attacking the cast and/or enacting {{Revenge}} on the main protagonist.

** [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara's]] getting quite a list as he's the desperate-to-be-a-hero guy of the site.[[note]]Thanks to Apollo, he's no longer alone as a hero, but Linkara is still the main protector.[[/note]] He's fought [[MadScientist Doctor Insano]], [[RobotMe Mechakara]], [[BigBadWannabe Dr. Linksano]], [[HumongousMecha Neutro]], [[DarkChick Dolorem]], [[DarkChick Judas]] [[EvilCounterpart Liz]], [[BigBad Lord Vyce]], [[EldritchAbomination The King of Worms]], [[HarmlessVillain Whatley]], [[EvilCounterpart Mirror Universe Linkara]], [[DealWithTheDevil and the evil ghosts]]. And then there's [[GreaterScopeVillain The]] [[EldritchAbomination Entity]].

* Website/TVTropes has begun acquiring its own Rogues Gallery of sorts, including the Administrivia/DataVampires, the hivemind behind DarthWiki/DarthWiki, that "Q" hacker, DarthWiki/TheWikiWitchOfTheWeb, {{troll}}s on the forums, {{Wiki Vandal}}s, Tropers/TheAdvertisementServer, (though it's more of a TokenEvilTeammate) and our SitcomArchNemesis, [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]] (although [[UnknownRival he doesn't really seem to think]] that TV Tropes is worth much).

* Many an AllAmericanFace in ProfessionalWrestling has developed quite a rogues gallery if one or more of his championship reigns lasted more than a few months. Wrestling/HulkHogan, for example, probably had the most colorful adversaries throughout his career: Wrestling/TheIronSheik, Wrestling/KingKongBundy, "Million Dollar Man" Wrestling/TedDiBiase, Wrestling/AndreTheGiant, "Macho Man" Wrestling/RandySavage, Zeus, Wrestling/SgtSlaughter, and Wrestling/UltimateWarrior to name a few. More recently, Wrestling/JohnCena has had his share of nemeses, the most infamous being [[Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield JBL]], Wrestling/{{Edge}}, Wrestling/RandyOrton, Wrestling/AlbertoDelRio, and Wrestling/CMPunk.

[[caption-width-right:255:With this many enemies, who needs friends?[[labelnote:Clockwise from top center]][[Characters/BatmanTheScarecrow The Scarecrow]], [[Characters/BatmanTwoFace Two-Face]], [[Characters/BatmanPoisonIvy Poison Ivy]], [[Characters/BatmanThePenguin the Penguin]], [[Characters/BatmanTheRiddler the Riddler]], Characters/{{Catwoman|SelinaKyle}}, [[Characters/BatmanCentralRoguesGallery Mr. Freeze]], and [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker the Joker]] at the center.[[/labelnote]]]]

* Wiki/TVTropes has begun acquiring its own Rogues Gallery of sorts, including the Administrivia/DataVampires, the hivemind behind DarthWiki/DarthWiki, that "Q" hacker, DarthWiki/TheWikiWitchOfTheWeb, {{troll}}s on the forums, {{Wiki Vandal}}s, Tropers/TheAdvertisementServer, (though it's more of a TokenEvilTeammate) and our SitcomArchNemesis, [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]] (although [[UnknownRival he doesn't really seem to think]] that TV Tropes is worth much).

[[caption-width-right:255:With [[Characters/BatmanRoguesGallery this many enemies]], who needs friends?[[labelnote:Clockwise from top center]]ComicBook/TheScarecrow, ComicBook/TwoFace, ComicBook/PoisonIvy, ComicBook/ThePenguin, ComicBook/TheRiddler, Comicbook/{{Catwoman}}, ComicBook/MrFreeze, and ComicBook/TheJoker at the center.[[/labelnote]]]]

* The annual villains of ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'' are [[HeelFaceTurn Yellow Demon]], [[CainAndAbel B]][[EvilCounterpart o]][[PlayingWithFire b]], [[EvilOverlord M]][[CardCarryingVillain y]][[GenreSavvy n]][[LethalJokeCharacter d]], [[FaceHeelTurn Me]][[VillainProtagonist ga]][[BrainwashedAndCrazy Man]], [[BigBad Helm]][[TheManBehindTheMan eted]] [[RealityWarper Author]] / [[FanNickname Helmut]] / [[IHaveManyNames Fistandantilus]] / [[ShoutOut Raistlin]], EvilOverlord [[EvilKnockoff Mike]] / [[InSeriesNickname Ninja Ned]] and [[ItMakesSenseInContext Non-Alternate]] [[TheDragon Mynd]], [[AIisaCrapshoot X]] and [[FinalBoss Bob again]]. There's also [[HarmlessVillain Dr. Wily]].

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* Wiki/TVTropes has begun acquiring its own Rogues Gallery of sorts, including the DataVampires, the hivemind behind DarthWiki/DarthWiki, that "Q" hacker, DarthWiki/TheWikiWitchOfTheWeb, {{troll}}s on the forums, {{Wiki Vandal}}s, Tropers/TheAdvertisementServer, (though it's more of a TokenEvilTeammate) and our SitcomArchNemesis, [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]] (although [[UnknownRival he doesn't really seem to think]] that TV Tropes is worth much).

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