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Earl: Wow, Planet Potentates sure do make a lot of enemies, don't they?
Rupert: Oh, that's common among them.

Harley: You've made an enemy out of me, Jake Doyle.
Jake: Yeah, well, there's a whole fraternity of ye. Welcome to the club.

Dev-Em: Oh, Sheol. What a headache. El, tell me. Was that another one of your unending parade of people who want you dead?
Superman: As a matter of fact, it was, Dev. I can lend you a few, if you'd like to take them home with you.

Scrooge: Your new job is with my sworn enemy?!
Donald Duck: I can't keep track of ALL your sworn enemies!

Terry: You know [Shriek]?
Batman: Sorry, not one of mine.

I'd been operating in public, man and boy, for over ten years when you popped out of that rocket in that blue-and-red outfit. I'd made so many enemies I couldn't even count 'em on a computer. And every one of 'em was trying to find a sure-fire way to kill me. A lot of 'em got really close.
Superman, Kara of Rokyn

Catwoman: Who could have had it in for me this badly? I didn't think I made anybody mad enough at me to kill me.
Batman: I don't think it's that, Sel. I think it was a strike at me, through you. I've got enough enemies to fill half the state pens in the Union.

The heists did improve, and he was able to avoid the cops by blasting them with hailstones and lightning or causing ice to form under the wheels of their prowl cars. But being a super-villain brings you to the attention of super-heroes, and since he chose to work near Central City, that brought him into the purview of the Flash.
The Weather Wizard had made a good showing against him during their first fight, but he eventually lost and went back to the joint. Once inside, he learned the tricks of the trade from some of the other elite who had gone up with him. That group, which welcomed him as a brother, included good old Sam Scudder, Henry Darrow, Lenny Snart, and Al Desmond. In their suits, they were known as Mirror Master, Pied Piper, Captain Cold, and Mr. Element or Dr. Alchemy. They'd started an informal group they called the "Rogue's Gallery" and traded tips and information. There were others later on—Captain Boomerang, Heat Wave, the sadly-departed Top, the Rainbow Raider, and a couple whom Mark forgot—but he was the fifth, almost in on the ground floor of it.

Neighbor: Batman has a coterie of supervillains. Joker, Riddler, Mad Hatter...
Peacemaker: So what?
Neighbor: You said you were a superhero, like Batman. Do you have a coterie of supervillains?

"Remember, friends come and go, but enemies accumulate."
Brian Kantor, ASR

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