History Main / VillainTeamUp

* ''FanFic/MyLittleUnicorn'':

** Part of the plot of "Mark of the Rani", wherein [[MagnificentBastard the Master]] and [[EmperorScientist the Rani]] team up against the Sixth Doctor, though it's not really a mutual agreement. The Master [[BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord blackmails]] and [[ArsonMurderAndAdmiration bribes]] the Rani into cooperating with him, and when he eventually botches the entire plan due to his [[FoeYay obsession with the Doctor]], the Rani [[GroinAttack registers]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome her displeasure]].

* ''Fanfic/EarthsAlienHistory'' has a couple of examples:

** Scorponok's [[RenegadeSplinterFaction rogue faction]] of Decepticons end up allying with the [[Literature/TheSagaOfSevenSuns Klikiss robots]] to make war against all organic life.

* {{Spiderman}}

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* All of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse films feature this:
** ''Film/IronMan'' featured the Ten Rings terrorist group teaming up with [[spoiler:Obadiah Stane/Iron Monger]].
** ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk'' had General Ross and Emil Blonsky, before [[spoiler:Blonsky teamed up with Samuel Stern/The Leader to turn into The Abomination, forcing Ross to [[EnemyMine team up with the heroes]] to beat him]].
** ''Film/IronMan2'' had Whiplash team up with Justin Hammer, although their alliance was short-lived.
** ''Film/{{Thor}}'' gets twisty. Loki manages to convince Laufey of Jotunheim that they're working towards the same end [[spoiler:but winds up betraying him so he can justify an attack against Jotunheim]].
** ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' had the ComicBook/RedSkull and Arnim Zola.
** ''[[Film/TheAvengers2012 The Avengers]]'' had Loki and the Chitauri soldiers, later revealed to be an army controlled by [[spoiler:ComicBook/{{Thanos}}]].
** ''Film/IronMan3'' had The Mandarin and [[spoiler:Aldrich Killian]], along with [[TheDragon Coldblood]].
** ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' featured Malekith the Accursed and Algrim, who becomes Kurse.
** ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' had the eponymous Winter Soldier, [[TheDragon Crossbones]] and [[spoiler:a computerized Arnim Zola]] all working for [[spoiler:Alexander Pierce and HYDRA]]. Batroc the Leaper appears to be working with them as well, [[spoiler:though he ends up being just a RedHerring.]]
** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' had Ronan the Accuser allying with Nebula, who's acting as an emissary of [[BiggerBad Thanos]]. [[spoiler:And then they both turn on him once getting the Infinity Stone.]]
** ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' had Ultron team up with [[spoiler:Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch, who work with him under the impression that he can help them get revenge on Tony Stark.]] They [[HeelFaceTurn defect to the heroes' side]] once they find out what Ultron's ultimate goal is.
** ''Film/AntMan'' comes the closest to averting this, but near the end it's revealed that Darren Cross has been knowingly associating with [[spoiler:undercover members of HYDRA]] and is preparing to sell them the Yellowjacket and Ant-Man suits.
** ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' inverts this: the most teaming up that the main antagonist Helmut Zemo does is through coercion with mostly unwilling partners. The main team-ups are done by the opposing groups of heroes, and which side is the more antagonistic one is left up to the viewer.
** ''[[Film/DoctorStrange2016 Doctor Strange]]'' featured the sorcerer Kaecilius and his zealots attempting to contact the cosmic being Dormammu in order for him to bring about the engulfment of earth into the Dark Dimension.
** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' had Nebula team up with a group of rogue Ravagers to overthrow Yondu, and said Ravagers also have dealings with Ayesha of the Sovereigns to help her get revenge on the Guardians. None of them however team up with the film's main villain [[spoiler:Ego the Living Planet]], and [[spoiler:Nebula]] teams up with the Guardians to help take [[spoiler:him]] down.
** ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' featured the Vulture employing the Tinkerer, Montana, and Shocker, and selling weapons to the Scorpion.
** ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' had Hela team up with Skurge to take over Asgard, while on the planet Sakaar, Scrapper 142 [[spoiler:(who is later revealed to be Valkyrie)]] collects prisoners for the Grandmaster. Both underlings end up [[spoiler:rebelling and joining the heroes]]. Loki naturally switches sides a few times before ending the movie on [[spoiler:Thor's]] side. The movie also features an interesting variation on this trope: [[spoiler:to stop Hela, Loki unleashes Surtur to bring about Ragnarok on Asgard and destroy her, in a strange instance of one antagonist teaming up with another to intentionally help the heroes]].
** ''[[Film/BlackPanther2018 Black Panther]]'' had Killmonger teaming up with Klaue to steal some Vibranium and sell it on the black market. Though it later turns out that Killmonger was planning all along to betray Klaue, so that [[spoiler: he can present his corpse as a present to Wakanda, to buy his way into an audience with the elders]].
** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' featured Thanos teaming up with the Black Order (referred to in-film as the "Children of Thanos") in order to retrieve the Infinity Stones. Subverted with Loki, who attempts to re-form his alliance with Thanos from the first ''Avengers'' film; [[spoiler: it ends up just being a ruse so he can get close enough to Thanos and stab him. Thanos ends up seeing through Loki's deception and kills him instead]].
** ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'' had the Ghost and [[spoiler: Goliath]], but neither of them [[spoiler: could be considered outright villains by the end of the movie]]. The film's other major antagonist, Sonny Burch, has contacts within the FBI but beyond that does not team up with any of the other villains.
* In the ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' episode [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E5AHenInTheWolfHouse "A Hen in the Wolf House"]], Cal teams up with Comicbook/{{HYDRA}} head Daniel Whitehall, noting that the two of them have a mutual enemy in Coulson. Their alliance lasts a few episodes, but ultimately [[spoiler: Cal may have his issues with Coulson, but he utterly hates Daniel Whitehall - the man who [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured]] Cal's wife to death and is ultimately responsible for Cal losing his daughter, [[Comicbook/DaisyJohnson Daisy]] - and is simply using Whitehall and HYDRA to get to his daughter, then plans to murder Whitehall the first chance he gets.]].
** Partway through Season 4, [[MadScientist Doctor Radcliffe]] and his [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot robot assistant]] AIDA go rogue from SHIELD and team up with the [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic Watchdogs]], led by Anton Ivanov/The Superior -- the Watchdogs get inside information to use against SHIELD and the Inhumans, while Radcliffe and AIDA get the resources needed to perfect the [[LotusEaterMachine Framework]]. [[spoiler: During the final arc of the season, AIDA [[TheStarscream betrays Radcliffe]] and turns Ivanov into a BrainInAJar controlling a [[MesACrowd series of robot bodies]] in order to aid her own plans for the Framework.]]
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** The [[Anime/CrossAnge World of Mana]] has formed alliances with [[LightNovel/FullMetalPanic Amalgam]], the [[Franchise/GundamSEED Earth Alliance, Logos]], and supports the [[Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico Martian Successors]].

* The final storyline of ''WebComic/TheAdventuresOfDoctorMcNinja'' has [[BigBad King Radical]] team up with some of Doc's older villains; Donald [=McBonald=], Frans Rayner, and Dracula.

* In "Ayla and the Birthday Brawl" of the Literature/WhateleyUniverse, Hekate's unseen master makes her team up with The Necromancer so she has a safe haven from a true Sidhe curse. The same unseen figured gets Don Sebastiano to give them intel, and The Necromancer gets his Children of the Night, the Felonious Four, and Obsession to help him.

* A MassiveMultiplayerCrossover web series example, the Los no Frollos organization in ''WebAnimation/TheFrolloShow'' consists of [[Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt Stocking, Scanty, Kneesocks, Corset]], [[Disney/{{Hercules}} Hades]], [[Series/SpartacusBloodAndSand Batiatus]], Marco Antonio Regil, Hans Frollo [[spoiler:([[BrainwashedAndCrazy not willingly]])]], Achmed Frollo, [[Disney/{{Aladdin}} Jafar]], [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames Gwonam]], Yusuf, [[VideoGame/CarnEvil Umlaut]], [[WebVideo/HitlerRants Hitler, Günsche]], Dmitri Frollo, [[UsefulNotes/JosefStalin Stalin]], [[Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove Yzma]], [[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime Lemongrab]], Wilford Brimley, WebVideo/TheIrateGamer, and Best Hercules. It eventually unravels when [[spoiler: Stocking is revealed to be a WellIntentionedExtremist to minimize consequences]], [[spoiler:half of the members are killed off or KO'd]], and [[spoiler:Wilford backstabs the organization and becomes the biggest threat to the world after absorbing [[VideoGame/YumeNikki Madotsuki's]] sorrows, forcing the remaining members to [[EnemyMine team up with Frollo and his allies]]]].
* Speaking of ''WebVideo/HitlerRants''...

* Villain Team-Ups are a common occurrence in ''Podcast/RedPandaAdventures''. The most prominent in the series is the Red Panda Revenge Squad, consisting of the Crimson Death, the Electric Eel, the Genie, Mordriel the Malevolent, and Professor Zombie. An AlternateTimeline version of this team up successfully killed the Flying Squirrel and information on ''how'' is used to sway the main timeline's Red Panda into helping a traveler from that world. When the group eventually forms in the main timeline, they very nearly succeed in defeating the Red Panda despite the mystery man having had years to work out how to beat them. The episode also brings up some of the issues that plague such team-ups, such as {{Insufferable Genius}}es and {{Large Ham}}s causing clashing egos, past team ups ending on a sour note restricting who to have join. [[/folder]]

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* Tends to happen quite a bit in the Ride/DisneyThemeParks' stage shows.
** ''WesternAnimation/TheDisneyAfternoon Live!'' stage show that ran at [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disneyland]] in 1991 had [[WesternAnimation/TaleSpin Don Karnage]] and [[WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers Fat Cat]] teaming up to steal a top secret plane.
** ''Fantasmic!'' contains one between [[Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Queen Grimhilde]], [[Disney/TheLittleMermaid Ursula]], [[Disney/{{Fantasia}} Chernabog]], and [[Disney/SleepingBeauty Maleficent]] in its original California version. For the Florida version, [[Disney/{{Aladdin}} Jafar]], [[Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Frollo]], [[Disney/{{Hercules}} Hades]], [[Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians Cruella DeVil]], and [[Disney/TheLionKing Scar]] join in as well.
** From 2002 to 2005, Walt Disney World ran a daily stage show in which Disney/{{Cinderella}} hosts a party at her castle and its get crashed and taken over by [[Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Queen Grimhilde]], [[Disney/PeterPan Captain Hook]], [[Disney/{{Aladdin}} Jafar]], and [[Disney/{{Mulan}} Shan-Yu]].
* In the reknowned ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' LetsPlay '{{LetsPlay/Boatmurdered}}', a rather hilarious one occurs, when a group of goblins decide to team up with the elephants who were already holding the fortress under siege:

This is also why they lose; unlike the heroic team they fight, the villains never trust each other. One of them ''will'' {{betray|alTropes}} the rest of the group. Usually after they've captured the heroes, thus letting the heroes escape. Some heroes can even cause a "solid" Villain Team Up to implode with FlawExploitation. Other times, one of the villains has planned the whole team-up as a trap from the start. Cue AnAesop about ThePowerOfFriendship. This is one of few situations where [[StatusQuoIsGod maintaining the Status Quo]] is well {{justified|Trope}}.

->''"How do my foes keep finding each other?"''

** Kabuto and [[spoiler:Tobi]] end up doing this are doing this.

* Being a MassiveMultiplayerCrossover title, ''Videogame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' features one of these involving every main villain from the first ten games of the main series, and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII Gabranth]], in direct opposition to the heroes from their respective games, and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI Shantotto]].

* The PS1 ''VideoGame/SpiderMan'' sees this as its plot, with [[spoiler:ComicBook/DoctorOctopus and ComicBook/{{Carnage}} as the BigBadDuumvirate, and Mysterio, the Rhino, and the Jade Syndicate working with them. The only two villain who weren't were Scorpion, who just decided to seek revenge on Jameson at the same time, and ComicBook/{{Venom}}, who mistook the disguised Mysterio for the real Spider-Man.]]

* ''[[Fanfic/GuardiansWizardsAndKungFuFighters Guardians, Wizards, and Kung-Fu Fighters]]'': When Wong becomes TheStarscream to Phobos, not only does his [[VillainousFriendship buddy]] the Tracker join him in his plotting, but [[DragonWithAnAgenda Cedric]] strikes up an alliance as well.

* In the final act of ''Videogame/SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole'', several of the enemy factions (Sixth Graders, Rednecks, Raisin Girls, Ninjas, Crab People) join forces against you simply because they really hate you. From that point on they'll fight you in regular overworld battles rather than just a single faction.

** ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' featured the Vulture employing Montana and Shocker, and selling weapons to the Scorpion.

** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' featured Thanos teaming up with the Black Order (referred to in-film as the "Children of Thanos") in order to retrieve the Infinity Stones. Subverted with Loki, who attempts to re-form his alliance with Thanos from the first ''Avengers'' film; [[spoiler: it ends up just being a ruse so he can get close enough to Thanos and stab him]]. Thanos ends up seeing through Loki's deception [[spoiler: and kills him instead]].

* ''FanFic/HeroesUnited'' has Bowser, Dr. Eggman, and Dr. Wily teaming up to take on their respective enemies.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin The Return Of Jafar}}'', Abis Mal accidentally becomes Jafar's master and is promised his third wish if they work together to kill Aladdin.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanReturnOfTheCapedCrusaders'', as is based on the 60s series, has The Joker, The Riddle, The Penguin and Catwoman teaming-up. They do [[spoiler:turn against Catwoman at some point]].

** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' subverts this: Loki attempts to re-form his alliance with Thanos from the first ''Avengers'' film, [[spoiler: but it's just a ruse so he can get close enough to Thanos and stab him]]. Thanos ends up seeing through Loki's deception [[spoiler: and kills him instead]]. Otherwise played straight with the Black Order, who team up with Thanos to help him retrieve the Infinity Stones and in the film are referred to as his "children".

** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' subverts this: Loki attempts to reform his alliance with Thanos from the first ''Avengers'' film, [[spoiler: but it's just a ruse so he can get close enough to Thanos and stab him]]. Thanos ends up seeing through Loki's deception [[spoiler: and kills him instead]].

** ''Film/TheAvengers2012'' had Loki and the Chitauri soldiers, later revealed to be an army controlled by [[spoiler:ComicBook/{{Thanos}}]].

** ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'' featured the sorcerer Kaecilius and his zealots attempting to contact the cosmic being Dormammu in order for him to bring about the engulfment of earth into the Dark Dimension.

** ''Film/BlackPanther2018'' had Killmonger teaming up with Klaue to steal some Vibranium and sell it on the black market. Though it later turns out that Killmonger was planning all along to betray Klaue, so that [[spoiler: he can present his corpse as a present to Wakanda, to buy his way into an audience with the elders]].
* In the ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' episode [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E5AHenInTheWolfHouse "A Hen in the Wolf House"]], Cal teams up with Comicbook/{{HYDRA}} head Daniel Whitehall, noting that the two of them have a mutual enemy in Coulson. Their alliance lasts a few episodes, but ultimatly [[spoiler: Cal may have his issues with Coulson, but he utterly hates Daniel Whitehall - the man who [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured]] Cal's wife to death and is ultimately responsible for Cal losing his daughter, [[Comicbook/DaisyJohnson Daisy]] - and is simply using Whitehall and HYDRA to get to his daughter, then plans to murder Whitehall the first chance he gets.]].

[[folder:Films -- Animated]]

* This more or less happens in Don Bluth's ''{{Thumbelina}}'' when StalkerWithACrush {{Determinator}} Grundel blackmails slimy {{Jerkass}} Berkley Beetle to search for the title character.

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[[folder:Web Originals]]

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanReturnOfTheCapedCrusaders'', as is based on the 90s series, has The Joker, The Riddle, The Penguin and Catwoman teaming-up. They do [[spoiler:turn against Catwoman at some point]].

* What might be the biggest villain team-up yet in film happens in ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOBatmanMovie'' first with ComicBook/TheJoker and what is esentially the entire Batman's RoguesGallery, but then after [[spoiler:he escapes from the Phantom Zone he brings back; KingKong, [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Sauron]], [[Literature/HarryPotter Lord Voldemort]], [[Series/DoctorWho the Daleks]], [[Film/{{Gremlins}} the Gremlins]], [[Film/TheMatrix Agent Smith]], [[Film/TheWizardOfOz the Wicked Witch of the West and her flying monkeys]], {{Medusa}}, [[Film/ClashOfTheTitans1981 the Kraken]], [[Film/JurassicPark the T. rex and Velociraptors]], [[Literature/{{Dracula}} Count Dracula]], Film/{{Jaws}}, [[Film/TheMummy1932 the Mummy]], [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Zod]], [[DemBones Skeletons]], and the Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon.]]