History VillainTeamUp / WesternAnimation

* Although not originally, this happens on occasion on ''WesternAnimation/{{Wordgirl}}''. Tobey and Dr. Two-Brains team up in ''Mousezilla'', but their tandem quickly falls apart due to them mocking each other about Two-Brain's fear of cats and Tobey's love of Wordgirl. The Whammer has teamed up with Chuck (both reluctantly on the latter's part) in ''Thorn in the Sidekick'' and ''Escape Wham.'' And in the recent episode ''Too Loud Crew'' the Whammer & the Butcher joined forces thanks to a supervillain manual.

* "The League of Villains" from ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutron''.

* In ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'''s episode "Gloomtales" Flintheart Glomgold realizes that the reason why Scrooge always win is because he has a family helping him, thus he recruits the Beagle Boys, Mark Beaks, Magica De Spell and Don Karnage to be his "family". They were pretty close to win and in fact [[spoiler:they did win, once Louie joins them and the scheme he designs works, winning the bet. However Glomgold betrays the rest just to find out that due to not using his legal name all the money won in the bet goes to Louie.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'': In "The Neitherworld's Least Wanted", some of BJ's fiercest reoccurring foes (and [[HarmlessVillain Lipscum]]) team up to form [[FunWithAcronyms S.N.O.T.R.A.G.]], and plot to do Beetlejuice in by tricking him into saying "I'm coming apart at the seams" and, when his powers cause this to become a LiteralMetaphor, scattering his body parts across the Neitherworld until sundown, when he'll dissolve completely if they're not reassembled in time.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' has Doctor Octopus form the Sinister Six with the Vulture, Electro, the Rhino, the Shocker, and the Sandman in "Group Therapy". They are well-planned, have [[ItOnlyWorksOnce removed all their old weaknesses]], and their members go out of their way to avoid intentionally hurting each other. It nearly works, until Spidey's EvilCostumeSwitch kicks in.

* A crossover episode of the ''Disney/{{Hercules}}'' television series had Hades team up with a recently deceased [[Disney/{{Aladdin}} Jafar]] in an attempt to kill one another's arch nemesis by pitting them against one another. While it was a deadly alliance (the heroes almost killed each other), the heroes figure out they were being played and Hades drastically underestimated [[KarmicTrickster Aladdin]]'s wit, resulting in Jaffar's staff being broken and him being dragged into the Styx, becoming just another mindless soul swirling in eternity.

* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'': In "Knight Time", with Bruce Wayne and Batman missing, Bane, the Riddler and Mad Hatter were planning to do this before Superman, impersonating Batman, and Robin (Tim Drake) stopped them.

** ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' plays it straight, but justifies it more than most villain teams. While the team does eventually break up in a brutal villain civil war, they're not joined by a hatred of the JLU. Rather, the villain team is a protection racket: since it's impossible to commit a crime against a group as efficient as the JLU, Grodd set up a co-op. All it cost was 25% of your gross criminal profits, and you could expect back-up if the League got in the way of your average bank robbery.

* In ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'''s episode "Gloomtales" Flintheart Glomgold realizes that the reason why Scrooge always win is because he has a family helping him, thus he recruits the Beagle Boys, Mark Beaks, Magica De Spell and Don Karnage to be his "family". They were pretty close to win and in fact [[spoiler:they did win, once Loui joins them and the scheme he designs works, winning the bet. However Glomgold betrays the rest just to find out that due to not using his legal name all the money won in the bet goes to Loui.]]

* WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls:
* One episode had to fight a team-up of Mojo Jojo, Him, Princess Morbucks, and Fuzzy Lumpkins that ultimately broke up because, in the end, they were just a giant parody of The Beatles ("The Beat-Alls"). This is how the Girls actually beat them-the villains actually work very well together and the Girls can't beat them in combat. Instead, they find a female monkey who [[YokoOhNo causes the team to fall apart on its own after Mojo Jojo falls in love with her]].

** In the premiere of Season 9, Grogar forms a team up with Tirek, Crystalis, Cozy Glow, and Sombra. Sombra quickly defects, thinking he can take over Equestria by himself, and promptly dies again, which Grogar uses as an example to his minions as to why they need to team up to defeat the Mane Six.

* WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls had to fight a team-up of Mojo Jojo, Him, Princess Morbucks, and Fuzzy Lumpkins that ultimately broke up because, in the end, they were just a giant parody of The Beatles ("The Beat-Alls"). This is how the Girls actually beat them-the villains actually work very well together and the Girls can't beat them in combat. Instead, they find a female monkey who becomes a literal YokoOhNo and causes the team to fall apart on its own after Mojo Jojo falls in love with her.
** Somewhat HilariousInHindsight as Paul [=McCartney=] has since come out and said that Yoko Ono was not the cause of the Beatles' break-up.

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears'': Igthorn and Lady Bane team-up in two episodes to plan how to get rid of the Gummi Bears, Igthorn's crush on Lady Bane is a running gag, especially because is not mutual.

** Earlier, they had a team-up of old Comicbook/{{Superman}} villains in the Franchise/{{DCAU}} version of the Superman Revenge Squad. Unusually, this Squad was taken out not by Superman himself, but by his fellow Leaguers. Lobo even [[GuestStarPartyMember temporarily joined the League]], and defeated Kalibak by burying him under an ever-growing pile of smashed cars until Kalibak finally said "Uncle".

* ''WesternAnimation/CoolMcCool'': "College of Crooks" featured the show's six villains--The Owl, Hurricane Harry, the Rattler, Jack-in-the-Box, Dr. Madcap and Greta "Green Lips" Ghoul"--joining at a disued college campus to conspire against [=McCool=].

* ''WesternAnimation/CoolMcCool'': "College of Crooks" featured the show's six villains--The Owl, Hurricane Harry, the Rattler, Jack-in-the-Box, Dr. Madcap and Greta "Green Lips" Ghoul"--joining at a disued college campus to conspire against McCool.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Underdog}}'' did this in it's final story, with Simon Bar Sinister teaming up with Riff Raff, Electric Eel, and Batty Man. In that event, Simon lead them to steal all the money in the world with his latest invention, the Vacuum Gun. Unlike most examples, they didn't betray each other, and were instead defeated by Underdog one by one in the final part.

** Earlier, they had a team-up of old Comicbook/{{Superman}} villains in the Franchise/{{DCAU}} version of the Superman Revenge Squad. Unusually, this Squad was taken out not by Superman himself, but by his fellow Leaguers. Lobo even [[GuestStarPartyMember temporarily joined the League]], and defeated Kalibak [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome by burying him under an ever-growing pile of smashed cars until Kalibak finally said "Uncle".]]

** In the revival comic, Negaduck has teamed up with [[spoiler: [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales Magica DeSpell]]]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'', the Beagle Boys were sometimes hired by Magica [=DeSpell=] or Flintheart Glomgold to help pull off their latest evil deed to be done to Scrooge [=McDuck=]. Eventually, all three parties teamed up to really rain on Scrooge's parade in a seven-issue story arc, ''Scrooge's Quest'', that ran in Disney's ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'' comic book (this was done seven years prior to the above-mentioned Creator/DonRosa story). It's a minor case of WhatCouldHaveBeen, though, as the Beagle Boys are just depicted as hired thugs for the other two, not with their traditional knack for over-the-top heists; and Magica and Glomgold don't really ''cooperate'', they just agree to time their attacks on Scrooge at the same time. No real planning or joining of forces.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' Season 4 [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E25TwilightsKingdomPart1 Fin]][[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E26TwilightsKingdomPart2 ale]], Tirek tricks Discord into making a FaceHeelTurn and the two proceed to team up. Of course, their alliance doesn't last [[spoiler: since Tirek [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder betrays Discord in order to steal his powers]], in the process finalizing Discord's HeelRealization[[NiceJobFixingItVillain and inadvertently setting the stage for his own defeat]].]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' Season 4 [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E25TwilightsKingdomPart1 Fin]][[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E26TwilightsKingdomPart2 ale]], Tirek tricks Discord into making a FaceHeelTurn and the two proceed to team up. Of course, their alliance doesn't last [[spoiler: since Tirek [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder betrays Discord for no reason]], finalizing Discord's HeelRealization, [[NiceJobFixingItVillain and inadvertently setting the stage for his own defeat]].]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Captain Planet|and the Planeteers}}'' combined this trope with the EvilCounterpart trope when several members of Captain Planet's RoguesGallery stole the Planeteers' rings and created the evil Captain Pollution.
** Actually various villains would team up all the time; Dr. Blight in particular often worked with one or two others on a project. The only time all seven of the main Eco-villains got together was in the two-part "Summit to Save Earth," with Zarm as the de facto boss.

** Double-subverted and lampshaded example in Evil under the Sea! Orm and Black Manta have teamed up to take Atlantis away from '''AQUAMAN''', and are outrageously gloating over the latter's capture...
-->'''AQUAMAN''': Black manta will betray you at the first opportunity...
-->'''Orm''': [[SubvertedTrope This must be where you try to turn us against each oth-]] ''[[KilledMidSentence UUuuruurururagh! Uhn...]]''
-->'''Black Manta''': [[DoubleSubversion I wanted to do that within five minutes of knowing him.]]

** Earlier, they had a team-up of old Comicbook/{{Superman}} villains in the Franchise/{{DCAU}} version of the Superman Revenge Squad. In a subversion, this Squad was taken out not by Superman himself, but by his fellow Leaguers. Lobo even [[GuestStarPartyMember temporarily joined the League]], and defeated Kalibak [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome by burying him under an ever-growing pile of smashed cars until Kalibak finally said "Uncle".]]

* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'', as the Sinister Six is well-planned, has [[ItOnlyWorksOnce removed all their old weaknesses]], and their members go out of their way to avoid intentionally hurting each other. It nearly works, until Spidey's EvilCostumeSwitch kicks in.

-->'''AQUAMAN''': [[GenreSavvy Black manta will betray you at the first opportunity...]]

* ''BatmanTheBraveAndtheBold'' has several examples.

* The 1960s Franchise/SpiderMan cartoon shows why ganging up on the hero doesn't necessarily work any better than making him or her RunTheGauntlet. When [[CanonForeigner Dr. Noah Boddy]], an invisible man created by the show's writers, busts Electro, the Green Goblin, and the Vulture out of prison to get revenge on Spider-Man, they actually take the time to weaken Spider-Man beforehand by knocking out his spider-senses and reducing his SuperStrength. Unfortunately, the villains are also shown constantly arguing with one another. Spider-Man exploits this by using ventriloquism to make it sound as if they're insulting each other, and the villains end up taking ''each other'' out.