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** Brainiac takes this a bit further than most other villains, in that even ''other Superman-level villains'' such as Mongul, Zod, and Non are terrified of him. In "ComicBook/SupermanDoomed", Mongul even opts to hide in the Phantom Zone if the alternative is being in Brainiac's way.
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** Brainiac takes this originally had the merest touch of humanity, even if it was because he needed to pass himself off as a bit further biological humanoid. In "ComicBook/BrainiacRebirth", Brainiac rebuilds himself into a nighmarish skele-bot android with incredibly superior knowledge, and any semblance of humanity or feelings removed. After narrowly surviving one meeting with him, Superman finds the new Brainiac is more frightening than most any other villains, in that of his enemies.
--->'''Superman:''' ''Besides, this new Brainiac frightens me...He's unlike any enemy I've ever met before. He has no morality, no compassion-- He simply wants to control. And I don't know if even a Superman can stop him!''
** Even ''other Superman-level villains'' such as Mongul, Zod, and Non are terrified of him. In "ComicBook/SupermanDoomed", Mongul even opts to hide in the Phantom Zone if the alternative is being in Brainiac's way.
--->'''Superman:''' ''Besides, this new Brainiac frightens me...He's unlike any enemy I've ever met before. He has no morality, no compassion-- He simply wants to control. And I don't know if even a Superman can stop him!''
** Even ''other Superman-level villains'' such as Mongul, Zod, and Non are terrified of him. In "ComicBook/SupermanDoomed", Mongul even opts to hide in the Phantom Zone if the alternative is being in Brainiac's way.
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*** However, one criminal in ''ComicBook/BatmanTheBlackMirror'' recounted he moved back ''to'' Gotham because when he tried to commit a crime in Metropolis, he suddenly found himself 10,000 feet in the air with [[Franchise/{{Superman}} a friendly voice]] saying "Don't you think you should change your life?"
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*** However, one criminal in ''ComicBook/BatmanTheBlackMirror'' recounted he moved back ''to'' Gotham because when he tried to commit a crime in Metropolis, he suddenly found himself 10,000 feet in the air with [[Franchise/{{Superman}} [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} a friendly voice]] saying "Don't you think you should change your life?"
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* Comicbook/{{Brainiac}} is one of the worst enemies of Franchise/{{Superman}}. An incredibly intelligent -and utterly void of empathy and compassion- alien life-form, strong enough to fight Superman with his fists and smart enough to create absolutely unbreakable force fields, Brainiac is infamous for shrinking and stealing whole cities. Suffice it say, Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} can bench press a mountain. And in ''Comicbook/SupermanBrainiac'' she reveals that she is frightened of Brainiac.
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* Comicbook/{{Brainiac}} ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
** Brainiac is one of the worst enemies ofFranchise/{{Superman}}.Superman. An incredibly intelligent -and utterly void of empathy and compassion- alien life-form, strong enough to fight Superman with his fists and smart enough to create absolutely unbreakable force fields, Brainiac is infamous for shrinking and stealing whole cities. Suffice it say, Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} can bench press a mountain. And in ''Comicbook/SupermanBrainiac'' ''ComicBook/SupermanBrainiac'' she reveals that she is frightened of Brainiac.
** Brainiac is one of the worst enemies of
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** Brainiac takes this a bit further than most other villains, in that even ''other Superman-level villains'' such as Mongul, Zod, and Non are terrified of him. In ComicBook/SupermanDoomed, Mongul even opts to hide in the Phantom Zone if the alternative is being in Brainiac's way.
* ComicBook/AmandaWaller in just about every incarnation of her. That is very remarkable for a woman who, either slender or large, is always depicted as having absolutely no powers or master martial prowess whatsoever, and even the fact that she's the leader of A.R.G.U.S shouldn't say much, as there're incompetent government officials aplenty in the DC Universe. What makes Waller so terrifying is just how ruthless she is when it comes to getting things done. She captures villains, implants bombs in their necks and forces them to work for her ComicBook/SuicideSquad, and has no qualms about blowing them up if she has to. Not only that, but she works against heroes almost as much as she goes against villains, simply because the heroes are mostly out of her control. To put it simply, Cracked described her as "the kind of superspy who emerges from the shadows behind ''Batman'' to tell him when he's being a dick."
* ComicBook/AmandaWaller in just about every incarnation of her. That is very remarkable for a woman who, either slender or large, is always depicted as having absolutely no powers or master martial prowess whatsoever, and even the fact that she's the leader of A.R.G.U.S shouldn't say much, as there're incompetent government officials aplenty in the DC Universe. What makes Waller so terrifying is just how ruthless she is when it comes to getting things done. She captures villains, implants bombs in their necks and forces them to work for her ComicBook/SuicideSquad, and has no qualms about blowing them up if she has to. Not only that, but she works against heroes almost as much as she goes against villains, simply because the heroes are mostly out of her control. To put it simply, Cracked described her as "the kind of superspy who emerges from the shadows behind ''Batman'' to tell him when he's being a dick."
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** Brainiac takes this a bit further than most other villains, in that even ''other Superman-level villains'' such as Mongul, Zod, and Non are terrified of him. In ComicBook/SupermanDoomed, "ComicBook/SupermanDoomed", Mongul even opts to hide in the Phantom Zone if the alternative is being in Brainiac's way.
** Doomsday killed and gave Superman ''nightmares'' after his resurrection. The beast is nothing more than a rampaging force of nature that will kill anything because he's been genetically designed to treat ''anything'' as a threat. He's torn through an iteration of the Green Lantern Corps, two iterations of the Justice League, an iteration of the Suicide Squad, and even ''Darkseid''. When heroes face him, the only thing they can hope for is either Superman showing up or a quick death. When ''Superman'' faces him, he hopes he can put him down fast enough to keep the body count ''very'' low.
** ''ComicBook/SupergirlAdventuresGirlOfSteel'': General Zod "the Conqueror" overthrew the Argo council in a violent coup and began a decade-long which earned him monikers such like "the Merchant of Death" and "the Butcher of Argo" until he was finally captured and thrown into the Phantom Zone. Three hundred years later he is still a boogeyman to Argoans like Supergirl, who flies off when she bumps into him (in order to come up with a working strategy).
* ComicBook/AmandaWaller injust about every incarnation of her. That is very remarkable for a woman who, either slender or large, is always depicted as having absolutely no powers or master martial prowess whatsoever, and even the fact that she's the leader of A.R.G.U.S shouldn't say much, as there're incompetent government officials aplenty in the DC Universe. What makes Waller so terrifying is just how ruthless she is when it comes to getting things done. She captures villains, implants bombs in their necks and forces them to work for her ComicBook/SuicideSquad, and has no qualms about blowing them up if she has to. Not only that, but she works against heroes almost as much as she goes against villains, simply because the heroes are mostly out of her control. To put it simply, Cracked described her as "the kind of superspy who emerges from the shadows behind ''Batman'' to tell him when he's being a dick."
** Doomsday killed and gave Superman ''nightmares'' after his resurrection. The beast is nothing more than a rampaging force of nature that will kill anything because he's been genetically designed to treat ''anything'' as a threat. He's torn through an iteration of the Green Lantern Corps, two iterations of the Justice League, an iteration of the Suicide Squad, and even ''Darkseid''. When heroes face him, the only thing they can hope for is either Superman showing up or a quick death. When ''Superman'' faces him, he hopes he can put him down fast enough to keep the body count ''very'' low.
** ''ComicBook/SupergirlAdventuresGirlOfSteel'': General Zod "the Conqueror" overthrew the Argo council in a violent coup and began a decade-long which earned him monikers such like "the Merchant of Death" and "the Butcher of Argo" until he was finally captured and thrown into the Phantom Zone. Three hundred years later he is still a boogeyman to Argoans like Supergirl, who flies off when she bumps into him (in order to come up with a working strategy).
* ComicBook/AmandaWaller in
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** And of course, Sinestro himself. During ''Green Lantern: Rebirth'', it's mentioned that Guy Gardner, who will mouth off to Batman and Wonder Woman, tends to mock pretty much all of Hal's old enemies. But he never makes a crack about Sinestro.
* A humorous example is Ariella Kent, an alternate universe daughter of Silver Age Comicbook/{{Superman}} and Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} (post-Crisis Linda Danvers, who wasn't related to him). She's a mere 6-year-old girl who obliviously causes chaos and destruction wherever she goes. Several alien civilizations call her [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast R'E'L, the Destroyer of Worlds]].
* Trigon from ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'', Raven's dad and an interdimensional demon lord who can only enter the real world through her psyche. He is this from the perspective of the Titans and the people of Azarath anyway with good reasons.
* A humorous example is Ariella Kent, an alternate universe daughter of Silver Age Comicbook/{{Superman}} and Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} (post-Crisis Linda Danvers, who wasn't related to him). She's a mere 6-year-old girl who obliviously causes chaos and destruction wherever she goes. Several alien civilizations call her [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast R'E'L, the Destroyer of Worlds]].
* Trigon from ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'', Raven's dad and an interdimensional demon lord who can only enter the real world through her psyche. He is this from the perspective of the Titans and the people of Azarath anyway with good reasons.
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** And of course, Sinestro himself. During ''Green Lantern: Rebirth'', "ComicBook/GreenLanternRebirth", it's mentioned that Guy Gardner, who will mouth off to Batman and Wonder Woman, tends to mock pretty much all of Hal's old enemies. But he never makes a crack about Sinestro.
*A humorous example is Ariella Kent, an alternate universe daughter of Silver Age Comicbook/{{Superman}} and Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} (post-Crisis Linda Danvers, who wasn't related to him). She's a mere 6-year-old girl who obliviously causes chaos and destruction wherever she goes. Several alien civilizations call her [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast R'E'L, the Destroyer of Worlds]].
*''ComicBook/TeenTitans'': Trigon from ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'', Raven's dad and an interdimensional demon lord who can only enter the real world through her psyche. He is this from the perspective of the Titans and the people of Azarath anyway with good reasons.
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* Doomsday, [[HeroKiller the one who killed]] Franchise/{{Superman}}. He gave Superman ''nightmares'' after his resurrection. The beast is nothing more than a rampaging force of nature that will kill anything because he's been genetically designed to treat ''anything'' as a threat. He's torn through an iteration of the Green Lantern Corps, two iterations of the Justice League, an iteration of the Suicide Squad, and even ''Darkseid''. When heroes face him, the only thing they can hope for is either Superman showing up or a quick death. When ''Superman'' faces him, he hopes he can put him down fast enough to keep the body count ''very'' low.
* Junior from ComicBook/SecretSix manages to run most of the crime on the west coast because all the other criminals and supervillains in Franchise/TheDCU, even the ones from Gotham, like ComicBook/TheJoker, are terrified of Junior.
* Junior from ComicBook/SecretSix manages to run most of the crime on the west coast because all the other criminals and supervillains in Franchise/TheDCU, even the ones from Gotham, like ComicBook/TheJoker, are terrified of Junior.
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* Doomsday, [[HeroKiller the one who killed]] Franchise/{{Superman}}. He gave Superman ''nightmares'' after his resurrection. The beast is nothing more than a rampaging force of nature that will kill anything because he's been genetically designed to treat ''anything'' as a threat. He's torn through an iteration of the Green Lantern Corps, two iterations of the Justice League, an iteration of the Suicide Squad, and even ''Darkseid''. When heroes face him, the only thing they can hope for is either Superman showing up or a quick death. When ''Superman'' faces him, he hopes he can put him down fast enough to keep the body count ''very'' low.
*''ComicBook/SecretSix'': Junior from ComicBook/SecretSix manages to run most of the crime on the west coast because all the other criminals and supervillains in Franchise/TheDCU, even the ones from Gotham, like ComicBook/TheJoker, are terrified of Junior.
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* Bart Allen, aka ComicBook/{{Impulse}}, serves as this to ''ComicBook/SuperboyPrime'' due to handing the near invincible villain his first defeat. Said defeat doesn't just leave Prime terrified of Bart to the point that he ''will'' flee rather than face the speedster, but he's also moderately phobic about speedsters in general.
* [[ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal The Batman Who Laughs.]] It doesn't get much bleaker than a BadFuture version of Batman who killed the Joker and became a nightmarishly-worse version of him upon his death. When our Joker learns Lex Luthor has been dealing with him behind the scenes, he holds the entire Legion of Doom at his captive mercy and gleefully monologues about how he would [[ChronicBackStabbingDisorder eventually have betrayed them all]] [[NightmareFuel in twisted detail]]... and then bitterly tells Lex that it's still ''nothing'' compared to what the Batman Who Laughs has planned for them [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere before packing up and leaving Luthor to his fate.]] Let that sink in. [[HorrifyingTheHorror The. Joker. Is. Utterly. Terrified. Of. Him.]]
* [[ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal The Batman Who Laughs.]] It doesn't get much bleaker than a BadFuture version of Batman who killed the Joker and became a nightmarishly-worse version of him upon his death. When our Joker learns Lex Luthor has been dealing with him behind the scenes, he holds the entire Legion of Doom at his captive mercy and gleefully monologues about how he would [[ChronicBackStabbingDisorder eventually have betrayed them all]] [[NightmareFuel in twisted detail]]... and then bitterly tells Lex that it's still ''nothing'' compared to what the Batman Who Laughs has planned for them [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere before packing up and leaving Luthor to his fate.]] Let that sink in. [[HorrifyingTheHorror The. Joker. Is. Utterly. Terrified. Of. Him.]]
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* Bart Allen, aka ComicBook/{{Impulse}}, serves as this to ''ComicBook/SuperboyPrime'' ''[[Characters/SupermanSuperboyPrime Superboy-Prime]]'' due to handing the near invincible villain his first defeat. Said defeat doesn't just leave Prime terrified of Bart to the point that he ''will'' flee rather than face the speedster, but he's also moderately phobic about speedsters in general.
*[[ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal [[Characters/DarkNightsMetalTheBatmanWhoLaughs The Batman Who Laughs.]] It doesn't get much bleaker than a BadFuture version of Batman who killed the Joker and became a nightmarishly-worse version of him upon his death. When our Joker learns Lex Luthor has been dealing with him behind the scenes, he holds the entire Legion of Doom at his captive mercy and gleefully monologues about how he would [[ChronicBackStabbingDisorder eventually have betrayed them all]] [[NightmareFuel in twisted detail]]... and then bitterly tells Lex that it's still ''nothing'' compared to what the Batman Who Laughs has planned for them [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere before packing up and leaving Luthor to his fate.]] Let that sink in. [[HorrifyingTheHorror The. Joker. Is. Utterly. Terrified. Of. Him.]]
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** And of course, Sinestro himself. During ''Green Lantern: Rebirth'', it's mentioned that Guy Gardner, who will mouth off to Batman and Wonder Woman, tends to mock pretty much all of Hal's old enemies. But he never makes a crack about Sinestro.
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-->'''Yellow Ring''': You have the capacity to harvest great -
-->'''[[TooSpicyForYogSothoth Batman]]''': Take a deeper look. Let it ''linger''.
-->'''Yellow Ring''': *whispers* Harvesting protocols paused.
-->'''Batman''': That's more like it.
-->'''[[TooSpicyForYogSothoth Batman]]''': Take a deeper look. Let it ''linger''.
-->'''Yellow Ring''': *whispers* Harvesting protocols paused.
-->'''Batman''': That's more like it.
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'''[[TooSpicyForYogSothoth Batman]]''': Take a deeper look. Let it
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** ComicBook/LadyShiva, thanks to her reputation as the WorldsBestWarrior and an insane BloodKnight. Just mentioning that she's in town is usually enough to scare the shit out of any skilled martial artist. Not even ''Batman'' is fond of facing her in a fight.
--->'''Mr. Combustible:''' Oh Oswald... '''you're''' scared of a "mob killer"? '''Really?'''\\
'''The Penguin:''' It's not a mob killer. It's '''Lady Shiva'''.\\
'''Mr. Combustible:''' Come, girls. Let us find better accommodations for tonight.\\
'''Girl #1:''' What? Where?\\
'''Mr. Combustible: Anywhere but Gotham.'''
--->'''Mr. Combustible:''' Oh Oswald... '''you're''' scared of a "mob killer"? '''Really?'''\\
'''The Penguin:''' It's not a mob killer. It's '''Lady Shiva'''.\\
'''Mr. Combustible:''' Come, girls. Let us find better accommodations for tonight.\\
'''Girl #1:''' What? Where?\\
'''Mr. Combustible: Anywhere but Gotham.'''
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** Most villains fear [[BadassNormal Batman]]. Any other hero inspires caution in criminals, Batman inspires superstitious, pants-crapping terror. He's so horrifying, the Sinestro Corps actually tried to recruit him.
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** Most villains fear [[BadassNormal Batman]]. Any other hero inspires caution in criminals, Batman inspires superstitious, pants-crapping terror. He's so horrifying, the Sinestro Corps actually tried to recruit him.him - and the ''Smallville: Season 11'' comics took it up a notch.
-->'''Yellow Ring''': You have the capacity to harvest great -
-->'''[[TooSpicyForYogSothoth Batman]]''': Take a deeper look. Let it ''linger''.
-->'''Yellow Ring''': *whispers* Harvesting protocols paused.
-->'''Batman''': That's more like it.
-->'''Yellow Ring''': You have the capacity to harvest great -
-->'''[[TooSpicyForYogSothoth Batman]]''': Take a deeper look. Let it ''linger''.
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-->'''Batman''': That's more like it.
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** Darkseid's father Yuga Khan is considered ''[[UpToEleven even worse]]'' than he is. When he briefly escapes from his imprisonment in the Source Wall, even Darkseid ''cowers before him''.
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** Darkseid's father Yuga Khan is considered ''[[UpToEleven even worse]]'' ''even worse'' than he is. When he briefly escapes from his imprisonment in the Source Wall, even Darkseid ''cowers before him''.
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* Rorschach from ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', even more so than [[PhysicalGod Dr. Manhattan]]. During the riots people argued with Doc, but the rioters cleared by Rorschach simply walked away once he made his appearance.
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* Rorschach from ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', even more so than [[PhysicalGod Dr. Manhattan]]. During the riots riots, people argued with Doc, but the rioters cleared by Rorschach simply walked away once he made his appearance.
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*** On the other side of the spectrum, there are only two people the Joker is deathly scared of: one is The Batman who laughs, mentioned later, the other is [[Characters/BatmanSupportingCast The Creeper]]
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*** On the other side of the spectrum, there are only two people the Joker is deathly scared of: one is The Batman who laughs, Who Laughs, mentioned later, the other is [[Characters/BatmanSupportingCast The Creeper]]
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* Comicbook/{{Brainiac}} is one of the worst enemies of Franchise/{{Superman}}. An incredibly intelligent -and utterly void of empathy and compassion- alien life-form, strong enough to fight Superman with his fists and smart enough to create absolutely unbreakable force fields, Brainiac is infamous by shrinking and stealing whole cities. Suffice it say, Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} can bench press a mountain. And in ''Comicbook/SupermanBrainiac'' she reveals that she is frightened of Brainiac.
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* Comicbook/{{Brainiac}} is one of the worst enemies of Franchise/{{Superman}}. An incredibly intelligent -and utterly void of empathy and compassion- alien life-form, strong enough to fight Superman with his fists and smart enough to create absolutely unbreakable force fields, Brainiac is infamous by for shrinking and stealing whole cities. Suffice it say, Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} can bench press a mountain. And in ''Comicbook/SupermanBrainiac'' she reveals that she is frightened of Brainiac.
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* ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}. There are '''very few''' people in Franchise/TheDCU who can face him alone, knowing what he is capable of doing, without showing a hint of fear. If he wasn't one of these before ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'', he probably is now. Put it this way for those of you unfamiliar - ''he's the AnthropomorphicPersonification of the Platonic Ideal of Tyranny''. And has the power and influence to match.
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* ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}. There are '''very few''' people in Franchise/TheDCU who can face him alone, knowing what he is capable of doing, without showing a hint of fear. If he wasn't one of these before ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'', he probably is now. Put it this way for those of you unfamiliar - ''he's the AnthropomorphicPersonification of the Platonic Ideal of Tyranny''.Tyranny, that's if a very well done theory video made by Sandbox/TheImaginaryAxis is wrong and he ISN'T'' '''[[GodOfEvil Evil ITSELF]]'''. And has the power and influence to match.
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*** However, one criminal in ''ComicBook/BatmanTheBlackMirror'' recounted he moved back ''to'' Gotham because when he tried to commit a crime in Metropolis, he suddenly found himself 10,000 feet in the air with [[Franchise/{{Superman}} a friendly voice]] saying "Don't you think you should change your life?".
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*** However, one criminal in ''ComicBook/BatmanTheBlackMirror'' recounted he moved back ''to'' Gotham because when he tried to commit a crime in Metropolis, he suddenly found himself 10,000 feet in the air with [[Franchise/{{Superman}} a friendly voice]] saying "Don't you think you should change your life?".life?"
*** Batman is so dreaded, ComicBook/PlasticMan was able to help quash a prison riot he, Green Lantern, Aquaman, and Zauriel were trying to deal with in ''ComicBook/JLA1997'' simply by shapeshifting into a ''silhouette'' of Bats.
*** Batman is so dreaded, ComicBook/PlasticMan was able to help quash a prison riot he, Green Lantern, Aquaman, and Zauriel were trying to deal with in ''ComicBook/JLA1997'' simply by shapeshifting into a ''silhouette'' of Bats.
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* When it comes to the many alien foes the ComicBook/JusticeLeague has faced over the years, few elicit such a guaranteed "oh shit" moment than Despero. He's a bloodthirsty juggernaut with a wide range of PsychicPowers plus [[GeniusBruiser a mind that knows how to use them properly]], all of which is tempered by [[TranquilFury cold, sadistic fury and hatred]]. When he shows up, holding back is not an option, and it always takes multiple teams just to slow his progress. A single team going up against him is a suicide mission.
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* When it comes to the many alien foes the ComicBook/JusticeLeague has faced over the years, few elicit such a guaranteed "oh shit" moment than Despero. He's a bloodthirsty juggernaut with a wide range of PsychicPowers plus [[GeniusBruiser a mind that knows how to use them properly]], all of which is tempered by [[TranquilFury cold, sadistic fury and hatred]]. When he shows up, holding back is not an option, and it always takes multiple teams just to slow his progress. A single team going up against him is a suicide mission.mission.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: During [[ComicBook/WonderWomanCharlesMoulton Marston's run]] the Holliday College Dean terrified friend and foe alike, with General Darnell fearing losing her spy/students on missions mostly because it would bring her anger to his door. With the Holliday Girls--a pseudo sorority espionage and adventure group--their fear of their Dean was usually played for laughs, but the occasional villain that made the mistake of running into her not knowing any better learned their lesson quickly. Many of those scared of her were unaware she was anything more than an old woman and college dean, as her school's spy activities were secret.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: During [[ComicBook/WonderWomanCharlesMoulton Marston's run]] the Holliday College Dean terrified friend and foe alike, with General Darnell fearing losing her spy/students on missions mostly because it would bring her anger to his door. With the Holliday Girls--a pseudo sorority espionage and adventure group--their fear of their Dean was usually played for laughs, but the occasional villain that made the mistake of running into her not knowing any better learned their lesson quickly. Many of those scared of her were unaware she was anything more than an old woman and college dean, as her school's spy activities were secret.
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** ComicBook/{{Bane}} isn’t called that for nothing. He earned his name by murdering another inmate at a young age while growing up within a harsh prison, and he only became more fearsome after that. During Knightfall, Batman himself was afraid of Bane, because he knew Bane had put him at a great disadvantage and was indirectly causing more chaos than any other enemy before. Ever since that incident Batman has known not to take Bane lightly. And by breaking Batman, Bane earned such a reputation that at least most street levelers of DCU are intimidated by him.
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** ComicBook/{{Bane}} isn’t called that for nothing. He earned his name by murdering another inmate at a young age while growing up within a harsh prison, HellholePrison, and he only became more fearsome after that. During Knightfall, Batman himself was afraid of Bane, because he knew Bane had put him at a great disadvantage and was indirectly causing more chaos than any other enemy before. Ever since that incident Batman has known not to take Bane lightly. And by breaking Batman, Bane earned such a reputation that at least most street levelers of DCU are intimidated by him.
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---> On the other side of the spectrum, there are only two people the Joker is deathly scared off: one is The Batman who laughs, mentioned later, the other is [[Characters/BatmanSupportingCast The Creeper]]
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* [[ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal The Batman Who Laughs.]] It doesn't get much bleaker than a BadFuture version of Batman who killed the Joker and became a nightmarishly-worse version of him upon his death. When our Joker learns Lex Luthor has been dealing with him behind the scenes, he holds the entire Legion of Doom at his captive mercy and gleefully monologues about how he would [[ChronicBackStabbingDisorder eventually have betrayed them all]] [[NightmareFuel in twisted detail]]... and then bitterly tells Lex that it's still ''nothing'' compared to what the Batman Who Laughs has planned for them [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere before packing up and leaving Luthor to his fate.]] Let that sink in. [[HorrifyingTheHorror The. Joker. Is. Utterly. Terrified. Of. Him.]]
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* [[ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal The Batman Who Laughs.]] It doesn't get much bleaker than a BadFuture version of Batman who killed the Joker and became a nightmarishly-worse version of him upon his death. When our Joker learns Lex Luthor has been dealing with him behind the scenes, he holds the entire Legion of Doom at his captive mercy and gleefully monologues about how he would [[ChronicBackStabbingDisorder eventually have betrayed them all]] [[NightmareFuel in twisted detail]]... and then bitterly tells Lex that it's still ''nothing'' compared to what the Batman Who Laughs has planned for them [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere before packing up and leaving Luthor to his fate.]] Let that sink in. [[HorrifyingTheHorror The. Joker. Is. Utterly. Terrified. Of. Him.]]]]
* When it comes to the many alien foes the ComicBook/JusticeLeague has faced over the years, few elicit such a guaranteed "oh shit" moment than Despero. He's a bloodthirsty juggernaut with a wide range of PsychicPowers plus [[GeniusBruiser a mind that knows how to use them properly]], all of which is tempered by [[TranquilFury cold, sadistic fury and hatred]]. When he shows up, holding back is not an option, and it always takes multiple teams just to slow his progress. A single team going up against him is a suicide mission.
* When it comes to the many alien foes the ComicBook/JusticeLeague has faced over the years, few elicit such a guaranteed "oh shit" moment than Despero. He's a bloodthirsty juggernaut with a wide range of PsychicPowers plus [[GeniusBruiser a mind that knows how to use them properly]], all of which is tempered by [[TranquilFury cold, sadistic fury and hatred]]. When he shows up, holding back is not an option, and it always takes multiple teams just to slow his progress. A single team going up against him is a suicide mission.
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** The ComicBook/{{New 52}} had Darkseid's first appearance showing him getting his ass kicked by the Justice League in their first team up, which led to fears of VillainDecay...until his personal comic came out as part of Villain's Month during ''ComicBook/ForeverEvil'', and it was revealed that after his first defeat, he systematically invaded other versions of Earth specifically to hunt down and destroy the Justice Leagues of those worlds. At the end of the comic, there's an entire room full of Superman corpses.
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** The ComicBook/{{New 52}} had Darkseid's first appearance showing him getting his ass kicked by the Justice League in their first team up, which led to fears of VillainDecay...until his personal comic came out as part of Villain's Month during ''ComicBook/ForeverEvil'', ''ComicBook/ForeverEvil2013'', and it was revealed that after his first defeat, he systematically invaded other versions of Earth specifically to hunt down and destroy the Justice Leagues of those worlds. At the end of the comic, there's an entire room full of Superman corpses.
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* ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}. There are very few people in Franchise/TheDCU who can face him alone, knowing what he is capable of doing, without showing a hint of fear. If he wasn't one of these before ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'', he probably is now. Put it this way for those of you unfamiliar - ''he's the AnthropomorphicPersonification of the Platonic Ideal of Tyranny''. And has the power and influence to match.
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* The Anti-Monitor. Only rarely seen as an actual BigBad, he's referred to often as a greater threat than whoever is at the moment. How bad is he? Well, after defeating ''Death itself'' in ComicBook/BlackestNight, Ganthet tells the Franchise/{{Green Lantern}}s that they've actually lost because the Anti-Monitor has been freed.
* Franchise/{{Batman}}:
** Most villains fear [[BadassNormal Batman]]. Any other hero inspires caution in criminals, Batman inspires superstitious, pants-crapping terror. He's so horrifying, the Sinestro Corps actually tried to recruit him.
*** And in ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'', we find out that ''our'' Batman (Bruce Wayne) is sunshine and rainbows compared to the one in the timeline where [[spoiler:Bruce was killed in Crime Alley and ''Thomas'' Wayne became Batman.]]
*** The Batman in ''ComicBook/BatmanYearOneHundred'' uses this heavily in his war against corrupt federal agents, going so far as to bring prosthetic vampire teeth on missions to encourage his image as an otherworldly demon.
*** However, one criminal in ''ComicBook/BatmanTheBlackMirror'' recounted he moved back ''to'' Gotham because when he tried to commit a crime in Metropolis, he suddenly found himself 10,000 feet in the air with [[Franchise/{{Superman}} a friendly voice]] saying "Don't you think you should change your life?".
** Sometimes the {{ComicBook/Huntress}} is depicted this way, to an even greater extent than Batman: In ''Huntress/Spoiler: Blunt Trauma'', the Cluemaster tells his daughter that Huntress is "not like that [[{{Franchise/Batman}} overgrown ferret]] and his brat. She's gonna kill your old man if she gets the chance." At other times, Huntress is shown to be less feared by Gotham's criminals than is Batman, even though she is much more likely to kill them.
** Comicbook/TheJoker - just mentioning him to ''any'' superhero ''and'' villain in the DCU other than Franchise/{{Batman}} (even to some of the most powerful villains and heroes in the DCU) instantly kills a conversation, and even supervillains keep a healthy distance from him. Trickster spells it out in Underworld Unleashed:
--->'''Trickster:''' Great going, Neron, bring in the one guy no one wants to be in the same room with. When super-villains want to scare each other, they tell Joker stories.
** ComicBook/{{Bane}} isn’t called that for nothing. He earned his name by murdering another inmate at a young age while growing up within a harsh prison, and he only became more fearsome after that. During Knightfall, Batman himself was afraid of Bane, because he knew Bane had put him at a great disadvantage and was indirectly causing more chaos than any other enemy before. Ever since that incident Batman has known not to take Bane lightly. And by breaking Batman, Bane earned such a reputation that at least most street levelers of DCU are intimidated by him.
** Batman has also been shown to fear Hush, because he knows Batman’s secret identity, [[ItsPersonal but lacks the code of honor]] [[ProperlyParanoid preventing him from hurting Batman’s family]]. Meanwhile, while Hush managed to gather many [[VillainTeamUp allies]] in his debut, he turned very [[EvilVersusEvil hostile toward]] [[EvilerThanThou them afterwards]], so that most of the other Batman enemies generally don’t want anything to do with him. Major exceptions are Scarecrow, who was [[VillainousFriendship Hush’s mentor]], and those that aren’t aware of his reputation or [[MuggingTheMonster identity]].
** ComicBook/TheScarecrow! Even though Dr. Jonathan Crane may appear to be a hapless dweeb or a schmuck villain, he's just as dangerous a threat to Batman himself. There is a reason why he dubs himself the "[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Master]] [[TheDreaded of]] [[NightmareFuel Fear]]", and during ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'', he was recruited by the Sinestro Corps, [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter albeit as their]] [[Franchise/{{Batman}} second choice]].
** Batman villain [[BizarreHumanBiology Killer Croc]], to just about any non-super who isn't Batman, and even he's cautious when dealing with him. Croc switches between Chaotic/Neutral Evil or Chaotic Neutral depending on the writer, but God help the idiots who manage to piss him off and aren't as prepared as the Bat to deal with him.
--->'''[[MoralityPet Jade:]]''' Mr. Waylon!\\
'''Ibanescu''': My God.\\
'''Bone''': [[OhCrap Holy hell, he's real.]]
** Even the non-supervillain Batman villains, such as, for example, [[TheMafia The Falcone family]], is this. Of course, since they’re a powerful criminal empire, it naturally comes with the territory, just like in real life. They’re usually [[OvershadowedByAwesome overshadowed by the supervillains, but when the supervillains aren’t around, you can count on the crime families to easily fill that void and make Gotham’s citizens crap their pants in fear]].
** Then, there’s the [[NebulousEvilOrganization Court Of Owls]]. What’s most impressive about this one is that they manage to be this despite the fact that 99% of Gotham’s citizens aren’t even aware of their existence. By regular Gotham citizens, they’re usually viewed as a fairy tale meant to frighten children, not unlike how Batman is sometimes viewed by Gotham as an urban legend meant to scare crooks.
* Comicbook/{{Brainiac}} is one of the worst enemies of Franchise/{{Superman}}. An incredibly intelligent -and utterly void of empathy and compassion- alien life-form, strong enough to fight Superman with his fists and smart enough to create absolutely unbreakable force fields, Brainiac is infamous by shrinking and stealing whole cities. Suffice it say, Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} can bench press a mountain. And in ''Comicbook/SupermanBrainiac'' she reveals that she is frightened of Brainiac.
-->'''Supergirl:''' I grew up on Krypton, didn't I? Everyone who did knows about Brainiac. He's what kept us from going out after dark.\\
'''Superman:''' You're... scared?\\
'''Supergirl:''' It was the scariest thing that ever happened on Krypton. Next to the day it died. I'll never forget Brainiac.
** Brainiac takes this a bit further than most other villains, in that even ''other Superman-level villains'' such as Mongul, Zod, and Non are terrified of him. In ComicBook/SupermanDoomed, Mongul even opts to hide in the Phantom Zone if the alternative is being in Brainiac's way.
* ComicBook/AmandaWaller in just about every incarnation of her. That is very remarkable for a woman who, either slender or large, is always depicted as having absolutely no powers or master martial prowess whatsoever, and even the fact that she's the leader of A.R.G.U.S shouldn't say much, as there're incompetent government officials aplenty in the DC Universe. What makes Waller so terrifying is just how ruthless she is when it comes to getting things done. She captures villains, implants bombs in their necks and forces them to work for her ComicBook/SuicideSquad, and has no qualms about blowing them up if she has to. Not only that, but she works against heroes almost as much as she goes against villains, simply because the heroes are mostly out of her control. To put it simply, Cracked described her as "the kind of superspy who emerges from the shadows behind ''Batman'' to tell him when he's being a dick."
* ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}. There are very few people in Franchise/TheDCU who can face him alone, knowing what he is capable of doing, without showing a hint of fear. If he wasn't one of these before ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'', he probably is now. Put it this way for those of you unfamiliar - ''he's the AnthropomorphicPersonification of the Platonic Ideal of Tyranny''. And has the power and influence to match.
** Shown brilliantly in the penultimate episode of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'' when the rest of the villains try to resurrect Brainiac but accidentally resurrect Darkseid. The OhCrap faces they all make speak volumes.
** How bad is he? He's so bad that Batman himself is willing to break the [[ThouShallNotKill "one rule"]] to put an end to his reign. In fact, even Superman and other more moral members of the Justice League are fine with using lethal force on him.
** In ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' storyline ''ComicBook/TheGreatDarknessSaga'', the Legionnaires were already frightened of the Master of the Darkness before knowing who he was. After Brainiac figures out the Master is Darkseid, the Legion goes from "Uh-oh" to "Oh, CRAP!".
--->'''Dream Girl:''' "We were frightened of him before we knew who he was, Sun Boy-- unfortunately, there's more reason for fear now."
** The ComicBook/{{New 52}} had Darkseid's first appearance showing him getting his ass kicked by the Justice League in their first team up, which led to fears of VillainDecay...until his personal comic came out as part of Villain's Month during ''ComicBook/ForeverEvil'', and it was revealed that after his first defeat, he systematically invaded other versions of Earth specifically to hunt down and destroy the Justice Leagues of those worlds. At the end of the comic, there's an entire room full of Superman corpses.
** Darkseid's father Yuga Khan is considered ''[[UpToEleven even worse]]'' than he is. When he briefly escapes from his imprisonment in the Source Wall, even Darkseid ''cowers before him''.
* One of the requirements to be part of the [[Characters/GLSinestroCorps Sinestro Corps]] is that you need the ability to inspire great fear (it's their specialty in the emotional spectrum). They aren't kidding. Their ranks include a hulking drill instructor who happily eats those who fail, an [[ColdSniper emotionally numb]] crustacean who can snipe from ''[[ImprobableAimingSkills three space sectors away]]'', an alien who kills parents and takes their children, and an insectoid EldritchAbomination EnergyBeing who possessed the Franchise/{{Green Lantern}}s' greatest hero. And again, ''a Sinestro Corps Ring tried to recruit Batman;'' they settled for the Scarecrow (himself quite a worthy candidate) during ''Blackest Night''.
* A humorous example is Ariella Kent, an alternate universe daughter of Silver Age Comicbook/{{Superman}} and Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} (post-Crisis Linda Danvers, who wasn't related to him). She's a mere 6-year-old girl who obliviously causes chaos and destruction wherever she goes. Several alien civilizations call her [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast R'E'L, the Destroyer of Worlds]].
* Trigon from ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'', Raven's dad and an interdimensional demon lord who can only enter the real world through her psyche. He is this from the perspective of the Titans and the people of Azarath anyway with good reasons.
* Rorschach from ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', even more so than [[PhysicalGod Dr. Manhattan]]. During the riots people argued with Doc, but the rioters cleared by Rorschach simply walked away once he made his appearance.
* Doctor Manhattan has become this in [[spoiler:ComicBook/DCRebirth]], where anyone even remotely able to alter reality is scared shitless of him and will flee at the very idea that he'll show up.
* Doomsday, [[HeroKiller the one who killed]] Franchise/{{Superman}}. He gave Superman ''nightmares'' after his resurrection. The beast is nothing more than a rampaging force of nature that will kill anything because he's been genetically designed to treat ''anything'' as a threat. He's torn through an iteration of the Green Lantern Corps, two iterations of the Justice League, an iteration of the Suicide Squad, and even ''Darkseid''. When heroes face him, the only thing they can hope for is either Superman showing up or a quick death. When ''Superman'' faces him, he hopes he can put him down fast enough to keep the body count ''very'' low.
* Junior from ComicBook/SecretSix manages to run most of the crime on the west coast because all the other criminals and supervillains in Franchise/TheDCU, even the ones from Gotham, like ComicBook/TheJoker, are terrified of Junior.
* Bart Allen, aka ComicBook/{{Impulse}}, serves as this to ''ComicBook/SuperboyPrime'' due to handing the near invincible villain his first defeat. Said defeat doesn't just leave Prime terrified of Bart to the point that he ''will'' flee rather than face the speedster, but he's also moderately phobic about speedsters in general.
* [[ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal The Batman Who Laughs.]] It doesn't get much bleaker than a BadFuture version of Batman who killed the Joker and became a nightmarishly-worse version of him upon his death. When our Joker learns Lex Luthor has been dealing with him behind the scenes, he holds the entire Legion of Doom at his captive mercy and gleefully monologues about how he would [[ChronicBackStabbingDisorder eventually have betrayed them all]] [[NightmareFuel in twisted detail]]... and then bitterly tells Lex that it's still ''nothing'' compared to what the Batman Who Laughs has planned for them [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere before packing up and leaving Luthor to his fate.]] Let that sink in. [[HorrifyingTheHorror The. Joker. Is. Utterly. Terrified. Of. Him.]]
* The Anti-Monitor. Only rarely seen as an actual BigBad, he's referred to often as a greater threat than whoever is at the moment. How bad is he? Well, after defeating ''Death itself'' in ComicBook/BlackestNight, Ganthet tells the Franchise/{{Green Lantern}}s that they've actually lost because the Anti-Monitor has been freed.
* Franchise/{{Batman}}:
** Most villains fear [[BadassNormal Batman]]. Any other hero inspires caution in criminals, Batman inspires superstitious, pants-crapping terror. He's so horrifying, the Sinestro Corps actually tried to recruit him.
*** And in ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'', we find out that ''our'' Batman (Bruce Wayne) is sunshine and rainbows compared to the one in the timeline where [[spoiler:Bruce was killed in Crime Alley and ''Thomas'' Wayne became Batman.]]
*** The Batman in ''ComicBook/BatmanYearOneHundred'' uses this heavily in his war against corrupt federal agents, going so far as to bring prosthetic vampire teeth on missions to encourage his image as an otherworldly demon.
*** However, one criminal in ''ComicBook/BatmanTheBlackMirror'' recounted he moved back ''to'' Gotham because when he tried to commit a crime in Metropolis, he suddenly found himself 10,000 feet in the air with [[Franchise/{{Superman}} a friendly voice]] saying "Don't you think you should change your life?".
** Sometimes the {{ComicBook/Huntress}} is depicted this way, to an even greater extent than Batman: In ''Huntress/Spoiler: Blunt Trauma'', the Cluemaster tells his daughter that Huntress is "not like that [[{{Franchise/Batman}} overgrown ferret]] and his brat. She's gonna kill your old man if she gets the chance." At other times, Huntress is shown to be less feared by Gotham's criminals than is Batman, even though she is much more likely to kill them.
** Comicbook/TheJoker - just mentioning him to ''any'' superhero ''and'' villain in the DCU other than Franchise/{{Batman}} (even to some of the most powerful villains and heroes in the DCU) instantly kills a conversation, and even supervillains keep a healthy distance from him. Trickster spells it out in Underworld Unleashed:
--->'''Trickster:''' Great going, Neron, bring in the one guy no one wants to be in the same room with. When super-villains want to scare each other, they tell Joker stories.
** ComicBook/{{Bane}} isn’t called that for nothing. He earned his name by murdering another inmate at a young age while growing up within a harsh prison, and he only became more fearsome after that. During Knightfall, Batman himself was afraid of Bane, because he knew Bane had put him at a great disadvantage and was indirectly causing more chaos than any other enemy before. Ever since that incident Batman has known not to take Bane lightly. And by breaking Batman, Bane earned such a reputation that at least most street levelers of DCU are intimidated by him.
** Batman has also been shown to fear Hush, because he knows Batman’s secret identity, [[ItsPersonal but lacks the code of honor]] [[ProperlyParanoid preventing him from hurting Batman’s family]]. Meanwhile, while Hush managed to gather many [[VillainTeamUp allies]] in his debut, he turned very [[EvilVersusEvil hostile toward]] [[EvilerThanThou them afterwards]], so that most of the other Batman enemies generally don’t want anything to do with him. Major exceptions are Scarecrow, who was [[VillainousFriendship Hush’s mentor]], and those that aren’t aware of his reputation or [[MuggingTheMonster identity]].
** ComicBook/TheScarecrow! Even though Dr. Jonathan Crane may appear to be a hapless dweeb or a schmuck villain, he's just as dangerous a threat to Batman himself. There is a reason why he dubs himself the "[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Master]] [[TheDreaded of]] [[NightmareFuel Fear]]", and during ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'', he was recruited by the Sinestro Corps, [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter albeit as their]] [[Franchise/{{Batman}} second choice]].
** Batman villain [[BizarreHumanBiology Killer Croc]], to just about any non-super who isn't Batman, and even he's cautious when dealing with him. Croc switches between Chaotic/Neutral Evil or Chaotic Neutral depending on the writer, but God help the idiots who manage to piss him off and aren't as prepared as the Bat to deal with him.
--->'''[[MoralityPet Jade:]]''' Mr. Waylon!\\
'''Ibanescu''': My God.\\
'''Bone''': [[OhCrap Holy hell, he's real.]]
** Even the non-supervillain Batman villains, such as, for example, [[TheMafia The Falcone family]], is this. Of course, since they’re a powerful criminal empire, it naturally comes with the territory, just like in real life. They’re usually [[OvershadowedByAwesome overshadowed by the supervillains, but when the supervillains aren’t around, you can count on the crime families to easily fill that void and make Gotham’s citizens crap their pants in fear]].
** Then, there’s the [[NebulousEvilOrganization Court Of Owls]]. What’s most impressive about this one is that they manage to be this despite the fact that 99% of Gotham’s citizens aren’t even aware of their existence. By regular Gotham citizens, they’re usually viewed as a fairy tale meant to frighten children, not unlike how Batman is sometimes viewed by Gotham as an urban legend meant to scare crooks.
* Comicbook/{{Brainiac}} is one of the worst enemies of Franchise/{{Superman}}. An incredibly intelligent -and utterly void of empathy and compassion- alien life-form, strong enough to fight Superman with his fists and smart enough to create absolutely unbreakable force fields, Brainiac is infamous by shrinking and stealing whole cities. Suffice it say, Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} can bench press a mountain. And in ''Comicbook/SupermanBrainiac'' she reveals that she is frightened of Brainiac.
-->'''Supergirl:''' I grew up on Krypton, didn't I? Everyone who did knows about Brainiac. He's what kept us from going out after dark.\\
'''Superman:''' You're... scared?\\
'''Supergirl:''' It was the scariest thing that ever happened on Krypton. Next to the day it died. I'll never forget Brainiac.
** Brainiac takes this a bit further than most other villains, in that even ''other Superman-level villains'' such as Mongul, Zod, and Non are terrified of him. In ComicBook/SupermanDoomed, Mongul even opts to hide in the Phantom Zone if the alternative is being in Brainiac's way.
* ComicBook/AmandaWaller in just about every incarnation of her. That is very remarkable for a woman who, either slender or large, is always depicted as having absolutely no powers or master martial prowess whatsoever, and even the fact that she's the leader of A.R.G.U.S shouldn't say much, as there're incompetent government officials aplenty in the DC Universe. What makes Waller so terrifying is just how ruthless she is when it comes to getting things done. She captures villains, implants bombs in their necks and forces them to work for her ComicBook/SuicideSquad, and has no qualms about blowing them up if she has to. Not only that, but she works against heroes almost as much as she goes against villains, simply because the heroes are mostly out of her control. To put it simply, Cracked described her as "the kind of superspy who emerges from the shadows behind ''Batman'' to tell him when he's being a dick."
* ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}. There are very few people in Franchise/TheDCU who can face him alone, knowing what he is capable of doing, without showing a hint of fear. If he wasn't one of these before ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'', he probably is now. Put it this way for those of you unfamiliar - ''he's the AnthropomorphicPersonification of the Platonic Ideal of Tyranny''. And has the power and influence to match.
** Shown brilliantly in the penultimate episode of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'' when the rest of the villains try to resurrect Brainiac but accidentally resurrect Darkseid. The OhCrap faces they all make speak volumes.
** How bad is he? He's so bad that Batman himself is willing to break the [[ThouShallNotKill "one rule"]] to put an end to his reign. In fact, even Superman and other more moral members of the Justice League are fine with using lethal force on him.
** In ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' storyline ''ComicBook/TheGreatDarknessSaga'', the Legionnaires were already frightened of the Master of the Darkness before knowing who he was. After Brainiac figures out the Master is Darkseid, the Legion goes from "Uh-oh" to "Oh, CRAP!".
--->'''Dream Girl:''' "We were frightened of him before we knew who he was, Sun Boy-- unfortunately, there's more reason for fear now."
** The ComicBook/{{New 52}} had Darkseid's first appearance showing him getting his ass kicked by the Justice League in their first team up, which led to fears of VillainDecay...until his personal comic came out as part of Villain's Month during ''ComicBook/ForeverEvil'', and it was revealed that after his first defeat, he systematically invaded other versions of Earth specifically to hunt down and destroy the Justice Leagues of those worlds. At the end of the comic, there's an entire room full of Superman corpses.
** Darkseid's father Yuga Khan is considered ''[[UpToEleven even worse]]'' than he is. When he briefly escapes from his imprisonment in the Source Wall, even Darkseid ''cowers before him''.
* One of the requirements to be part of the [[Characters/GLSinestroCorps Sinestro Corps]] is that you need the ability to inspire great fear (it's their specialty in the emotional spectrum). They aren't kidding. Their ranks include a hulking drill instructor who happily eats those who fail, an [[ColdSniper emotionally numb]] crustacean who can snipe from ''[[ImprobableAimingSkills three space sectors away]]'', an alien who kills parents and takes their children, and an insectoid EldritchAbomination EnergyBeing who possessed the Franchise/{{Green Lantern}}s' greatest hero. And again, ''a Sinestro Corps Ring tried to recruit Batman;'' they settled for the Scarecrow (himself quite a worthy candidate) during ''Blackest Night''.
* A humorous example is Ariella Kent, an alternate universe daughter of Silver Age Comicbook/{{Superman}} and Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} (post-Crisis Linda Danvers, who wasn't related to him). She's a mere 6-year-old girl who obliviously causes chaos and destruction wherever she goes. Several alien civilizations call her [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast R'E'L, the Destroyer of Worlds]].
* Trigon from ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'', Raven's dad and an interdimensional demon lord who can only enter the real world through her psyche. He is this from the perspective of the Titans and the people of Azarath anyway with good reasons.
* Rorschach from ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', even more so than [[PhysicalGod Dr. Manhattan]]. During the riots people argued with Doc, but the rioters cleared by Rorschach simply walked away once he made his appearance.
* Doctor Manhattan has become this in [[spoiler:ComicBook/DCRebirth]], where anyone even remotely able to alter reality is scared shitless of him and will flee at the very idea that he'll show up.
* Doomsday, [[HeroKiller the one who killed]] Franchise/{{Superman}}. He gave Superman ''nightmares'' after his resurrection. The beast is nothing more than a rampaging force of nature that will kill anything because he's been genetically designed to treat ''anything'' as a threat. He's torn through an iteration of the Green Lantern Corps, two iterations of the Justice League, an iteration of the Suicide Squad, and even ''Darkseid''. When heroes face him, the only thing they can hope for is either Superman showing up or a quick death. When ''Superman'' faces him, he hopes he can put him down fast enough to keep the body count ''very'' low.
* Junior from ComicBook/SecretSix manages to run most of the crime on the west coast because all the other criminals and supervillains in Franchise/TheDCU, even the ones from Gotham, like ComicBook/TheJoker, are terrified of Junior.
* Bart Allen, aka ComicBook/{{Impulse}}, serves as this to ''ComicBook/SuperboyPrime'' due to handing the near invincible villain his first defeat. Said defeat doesn't just leave Prime terrified of Bart to the point that he ''will'' flee rather than face the speedster, but he's also moderately phobic about speedsters in general.
* [[ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal The Batman Who Laughs.]] It doesn't get much bleaker than a BadFuture version of Batman who killed the Joker and became a nightmarishly-worse version of him upon his death. When our Joker learns Lex Luthor has been dealing with him behind the scenes, he holds the entire Legion of Doom at his captive mercy and gleefully monologues about how he would [[ChronicBackStabbingDisorder eventually have betrayed them all]] [[NightmareFuel in twisted detail]]... and then bitterly tells Lex that it's still ''nothing'' compared to what the Batman Who Laughs has planned for them [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere before packing up and leaving Luthor to his fate.]] Let that sink in. [[HorrifyingTheHorror The. Joker. Is. Utterly. Terrified. Of. Him.]]
