History VillainTeamUp / ComicBooks

** Not all of Flash's Rogues Gallery falls under "The Rogues" though, Gorilla Grodd won't stand to work with any humans, and the rest of the Rogues REALLY hate Zoom, since he breaks so many of their codes of conduct.

* The image above came from ''[[ComicBook/SpiderManAndBatmanDisorderedMinds Spider-Man and Batman: Disordered Minds]]'', where Carnage, a fanboy of the Joker, teams up with the clown in order to terrorize the world. However, the team-up quickly deteriorates as the Joker detests Carnage's straight-to-the-point murder and Carnage cares not for Joker's theatrics.

* In the Archie ''ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesAdventures'' comic, a time-displaced Shredder teamed up with future supervillains Armaggon and Verminator X (an anthropomorphic shark and cat, respectively), in order to steal and power a time-machine prototype. In the sixth season of the [[TMNT2003 4Kids cartoon]], Big Bads Sh'Okanabo and Darius Dun form a rare successful alliance when they decide to exchange resources.

* Paste-Pot Pete broke another Human Torch foe, the Wizard, out of jail, however they conflicted due to the Wizard trying to act as leader while Pete wanted them to be equal. They were captured by the Torch, but didn't seem sorry at the team-up ending.

** The original ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'' had this as well -- Brainiac and Luthor took advantage of the chaos caused by the Anti-Monitor to gather an army of EVERY known super-villain on the remaining Earths -- and unleashed it on the worlds left unprotected when the heroes went off to battle the Big Bad. They also cut down on unnecessary duplicates (Earth-2 Luthor, anyone?).
* In the storyline ''ComicBook/LegionOfThreeWorlds,'' Superboy-Prime decides to strike at the 31st century that worships Superman by gathering ''every single Legion foe'' into a massive Legion of Super-Villains. While they may not all like each other, it's clear the LSV are united in their desire to finally see their long-time enemies dead.

* The Franchise/{{Superman}} [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Revenge Squad]]. Originally made up of aliens from planets that Superman had prevented from conquering earth, it later became a team of Metropolis supervillains.

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* The image above came from ''Franchise/SpiderMan''[=/=]''Franchise/{{Batman}}'', where Carnage, a fanboy of the Joker, teams up with the clown in order to terrorize the world. However, the team-up quickly deteriorates as the Joker detests Carnage's straight-to-the-point murder and Carnage cares not for Joker's theatrics.
* ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye: When they find out that [[spoiler:Megatron has defected]] Tarn and the Decepticon Justice Division hunt down Deathsaurus and [[TheRemnant his crew]] and offer to stop hunting them if they team-up to hunt and kill [[spoiler:Megatron]]. When the plan comes to fruition and they have their enemy in sight, one of the old [[BigBad Big Bads]] [[spoiler:Overlord]] shows up, wanting to kill their prey himself. After [[LetsYouAndHimFight a scuffle]] he agrees to join Tarn and Deathsaurus in their little mission.

[[caption-width-right:348:You'll make [[SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker me]] blush!]]

* When SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker travelled to the Dreddverse in one of the ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' / ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' crossover comics, he joined the Dark Judges, a group of four undead lawmen dedicated to annihilating all life. After Joker convinces Judge Death that he could be useful and asks for immortality, Death placed his spirit inside a dead body to make him one of them. Eventually though, Joker tires of the arrangement because he found the constant mass slaughter to be getting monotonous.

* In TheDCU, the ''ComicBook/SecretSix'' are a team of supervillains-for-hire (comprising two Bat-villains, two second-generation versions of JSA villains, and two rotating positions). They'd happily not tangle with ''any'' heroes, but don't mind if it happens. They're also usually in the bad books of other villains as well (especially since they won't join [[LegionOfDoom the Society]]). Unusually, they get on reasonably well with each other (mostly), and have a good sense of teamwork.

* ''ComicBook/{{Irredeemable}}'' played with this with members of Plutonian's RoguesGallery offering to join him in his new FaceHeelTurn; [[spoiler: being DangerouslyGenreSavvy he decided to test their loyalty, by offering each of them a button that, when pressed, would render him completely powerless. They betrayed him before he could even finish the sentence. He then revealed they just triggered the destruction of the facility they were in]].

** The ComicBook/DarkAvengers were in fact a team up of the more villainous members of the {{Thunderbolts}} with antiheroes Comicbook/{{Ares}} and ComicBook/TheSentry, young and misguided Marvel Boy (who quit the moment he found out what he gotten himself into) and {{ComicBook/Daken}}

* ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetstheEye: When they find out that [[spoiler:Megatron has defected]] Tarn and the Decepticon Justice Division hunt down Deathsaurus and [[TheRemnant his crew]] and offer to stop hunting them if they team-up to hunt and kill [[spoiler:Megatron]]. When the plan comes to fruition and they have their enemy in sight, one of the old [[BigBad Big Bads]] [[spoiler:Overlord]] shows up, wanting to kill their prey himself. After [[LetsYouAndHimFight a scuffle]] he agrees to join Tarn and Deathsaurus in their little mission.

* It should be noted that villains can and do form their own teams for reasons beyond simply getting vengeance on a particular hero. The Masters of Evil, one of the MarvelUniverse's longest-running supervillain teams, has had various incarnations formed over the years by {{Big Bad}}s who recruit other villains to share in the profits of the leader's evil scheme. The Serpent Society, long a thorn in the side of CaptainAmerica, was a collection of snake-themed villains who essentially formed their own mercenary business, complete with health care coverage, room and board, and a guaranteed GetOutOfJailFreeCard from the team leader, who would use his teleportation powers to free any members who were arrested or captured.

** Of course, it didn't help that SelfDemonstrating/{{Loki}} decided that his inner circle should include an [[ComicBook/RedSkull UNREPENTANT FORMER NAZI]] alongside a [[ComicBook/{{Magneto}} HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR]]. Seriously, Loki, we thought you were supposed to be one of the ''clever'' Asgardians...

** The Cabal was this between ComicBook/NormanOsborn, SelfDemonstrating/{{Loki}}, ComicBook/TheHood, Doctor Doom, [[ComicBook/SubMariner Namor]] and Emma Frost and later Taskmaster, with a lot of betrayals and schemes in it.

* Marvel has published two bad-guy-focused mini-series under the banner of ''Supervillain Team-Up'': The first was called ''ComicBook/{{MODOK}}'s 11'' and revolves around the titular giant floating head hiring a bunch of D-list supervillains to help him steal a MacGuffin. The second is ''Dr. Doom and the Masters of Evil'', where SelfDemonstrating/DoctorDoom [[TheChessmaster manipulates every other supervillain he can find]] into helping him...well, it takes a while to find out exactly ''what'' his goal is. Both involved many, ''many'' villain-on-villain betrayals.

** The Cabal was this between ComicBook/NormanOsborn, SelfDemonstrating/{{Loki}}, ComicBook/TheHood, SelfDemonstrating/DoctorDoom, [[ComicBook/SubMariner Namor]] and Emma Frost and later Taskmaster, with a lot of betrayals and schemes in it.

** These are revivals of the original ''Super-Villain Team-Up'' title that Marvel published between 1975 and 1980, which was primarily a showcase for DrDoom and Namor the ComicBook/SubMariner.

** These are revivals of the original ''Super-Villain Team-Up'' title that Marvel published between 1975 and 1980, which was primarily a showcase for DrDoom and Namor the SubMariner.

** The ComicBook/DarkAvengers were in fact a team up of the more villainous members of the {{Thunderbolts}} with antiheroes Comicbook/{{Ares}} and TheSentry, young and misguided Marvel Boy (who quit the moment he found out what he gotten himself into) and {{ComicBook/Daken}}

** [[IncredibleHercules Hera]] teamed up with Typhon during that arc and tried to team up with Norman Osborn but, after finding out what her plan was about he decided to send [[EvilVersusEvil his team against her]].

** Of course, it didn't help that SelfDemonstrating/{{Loki}} decided that his inner circle should include an [[ComicBook/RedSkull UNREPENTANT FORMER NAZI]] alongside a [[SelfDemonstrating/{{Magneto}} HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR]]. Seriously, Loki, we thought you were supposed to be one of the ''clever'' Asgardians...

* Happens in PaperinikNewAdventures: in issue #30,"Phase Two",we discovered that [[AiIsACrapshoot Two]],had taken control of the evronian computers in order to manipulate them to destroy his arch-enemy One. He is discovered but,since his plan will destroy Paperinik too,the Highest Zotnam chooses to form an alliance with him and let him work. [[spoiler:Of course,when he fails,he decides to kill him.]]

** In the 50th anniversary story that Creator/DonRosa did for Scrooge [=McDuck=], ''ComicBook/ALittleSomethingSpecial'', his three main foes--The Beagle Boys, Magica [=DeSpell=], and Flintheart Glomgold--all join forces, and are led by [[spoiler:Blackheart Beagle]]. Incredibly, the three do ''not'' betray one another, but all live up to the deal they made at the start of the team-up. [[spoiler: Of course, once the team-up is over, nothing prevents the Beagle Boys and Magica from joining forces to plunder Glomgold...]]

* In the 50th anniversary story that Creator/DonRosa did for [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Scrooge McDuck]], ''A Little Something Special'', his three main foes--The Beagle Boys, Magica [=DeSpell=], and Flintheart Glomgold--all join forces, and are led by [[spoiler:Blackheart Beagle]]. Incredibly, the three do ''not'' betray one another, but all live up to the deal they made at the start of the team-up. [[spoiler: Of course, once the team-up is over, nothing prevents the Beagle Boys and Magica from joining forces to plunder Glomgold...]]

** Wouldn't that be a case of [[TheBadGuyWins The Bad Guy Wins, Even Though The Hero Defeated Him]]?
** Technically, if it weren't for the fact that the main plot revolved around the villains stealing Scrooge's entire fortune for various reasons: The Beagle Boys because they want to be rich, Glomgold so that he would then be the richest man (er, duck) in the world instead of Scrooge, and Magica just wanted a single coin: The Number One Dime of the world's richest man; which she would then use in a spell to gain the [[BlessedWithSuck Midas Touch]]. Scrooge strikes a deal with Magica after he convinces her the coin will no longer work now that he is poor, and she teams up with the Beagle Boys to rob Glomgold instead.

** The original ''CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'' had this as well -- Brainiac and Luthor took advantage of the chaos caused by the Anti-Monitor to gather an army of EVERY known super-villain on the remaining Earths -- and unleashed it on the worlds left unprotected when the heroes went off to battle the Big Bad. They also cut down on unnecessary duplicates (Earth-2 Luthor, anyone?).