The Justice League is one of the strongest teams of superheroes ever assembled, being made up of some of DC’s biggest and most powerful names. They have the unstoppable bastions of hope and might in Superman and Wonder Woman, the fastest being in the universe with the Flash, a person who can will anything they want into existence with Green Lantern, and much, much more. Individually, each member of the League is capable of fighting world-ending threats on their own, and when they work together, their effectiveness is only multiplied a hundredfold. However, this isn’t to say that the Justice League just walks all over their villains. In fact, it’s quite the opposite.
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Even though the Justice League is populated with the universe’s strongest heroes, the threats they face regularly necessitate that level of power and then some. The Justice League is constantly put on the back foot as they struggle against foes that are capable of rending the universe apart. Often, the villains they fight are so overpowered that it’s impossible to imagine the League ever overcoming them, and yet, they always do. Today, we’re going to take a look at seven of the strongest foes that the Justice League have ever fought that, somehow, still managed to lose to them.
7) Imperiex-Prime
Imperiex was created as DC’s answer to Galactus. He was the living embodiment of entropy, and his ultimate goal was to reset the universe by creating another Big Bang, all in an attempt to wipe away an imperfection he detected at the universe’s core. This monster was a gargantuan suit of armor containing his raw energy form and was so powerful that he earned the title of Destroyer of Galaxies. When everyone learned that Imperiex was going to destroy the Earth and trigger another Big Bang, the entire Earth rallied behind the Justice League, who were joined by Brainiac 13, Doomsday, and Darkseid.
Do you know how big a threat you have to be for the mindless beast of rage that is Doomsday to agree to fight with his mortal enemy to stop you? And yet, even with all of these forces working together, they couldn’t defeat Imperiex and were forced to send him back to the beginning of time itself to be rid of him. As it turns out, the imperfection he detected was himself.
6) Eclipso
Much like how the Spectre is God’s Angel of Vengeance, Eclipso once occupied the role of God’s Angel of Wrath, enacting the lord’s fury on those deemed evil. Even after he was stripped of that position, Eclipso retained a massive amount of his power. He regularly would do battle with the League, and each time, he was an apocalyptic threat all on his own. What truly made him dangerous was his ability to possess nearly anyone he wished, turning them into his agents of chaos. Thankfully, Eclipso has his own Kryptonite in sunlight, so while fighting him is all but impossible, stopping him can be quite easy if the sun is cooperative.
5) Parallax
When Hal Jordan first fell to evil and took this name, he was an unstoppable force of nature. Green Lantern had already been one of the strongest Justice Leaguers, but adding all of the power he drained from the Central Power Battery allowed him to do anything from bending reality to traveling through time. He nearly restarted the entire universe with his unbelievable might, but was defeated by his friends in the League. It’s not that he lacked the power to bring them down. Parallax was always held back from utter villainy by the small remnants of Hal Jordan still inside, which definitely contributed to the League winning the day.
4) Solaris
Solaris was the big bad of the DC One Million event, and it more than proved that it was one of the most powerful threats in existence. Solaris was an artificial sun that gained sentience and dedicated itself to the destruction of the Earth at all costs. This being was so powerful that it tormented the universe for hundreds of centuries. Countless incarnations of the Justice League, Legion of Super-Heroes, and who knows how many of Superman’s descendants all had to repeatedly fight this monstrous threat. It was only stopped by Superman Prime One Million with the aid of Green Lantern’s ring, which goes to show just how absurdly strong this evil star was.
3) Anti-Monitor
The Anti-Monitor is the original threat that decimated the Justice League across not just one, but every universe. As one of the children of Perpetua, the Anti-Monitor is one of the strongest beings in all of existence. His first appearance had him attempt and mostly succeed in destroying the entire multiverse, with only New Earth remaining when he was finally stopped. The multiverse’s strongest heroes all worked together to stand against the Anti-Monitor, but nothing could stop him. Even Earth-Two Superman, Superboy-Prime, and the Spectre, amped by the multiverse’s strongest magicians and Mister Myxzptlk, couldn’t stand up to his antimatter might. The Anti-Monitor is one of the biggest threats in all of DC, and that isn’t changing anytime soon.
2) Darkest Knight
While the Batman Who Laughs originated as just a Jokerized version of Batman, he became so much more. He stole the body of a Dark Multiverse Bruce who had recreated Doctor Manhattan’s experiments, granting him the same powers as the man who literally caused the New 52 with his time alteration. To make matters even worse, he absorbed Perpetua’s strength and all of the Crisis-energy she had gathered, making him stronger than anyone the League had ever fought before. He was only stopped when Wonder Woman absorbed enough Anti-Crisis energy to throw him into the Death Sun, and even then, he nearly destroyed everything.
1) Mageddon
Mageddon was the final villain of Grant Morrison’s revolutionary JLA run, and by far one of the most dangerous villains of all time. It was an armageddon weapon created by the Old Gods, which inevitably led to their destruction and the formation of New Genesis and Apokalips. Mageddon was massive, and I mean massive, to the point where it was visibly larger than the solar system even when twelve light-years away. Its greatest strength was its ability to drag out the darkness and evil within everyone, turning them into bloodthirsty, mindless beasts bent only on destruction.
The monumental weapon nearly destroyed the Earth, but it was discovered that its core was powered by some kind of anti-sun, providing infinite energy to the monster. Thankfully, Superman’s ability to absorb solar energy extended to negative solar energy, letting him take in all of its power and shut the weapon down for good. Without this, it’s very likely that Mageddon would have succeeded in its mission to destroy everything.
So there we have seven of the Justice League’s strongest opponents, who were so strong that it’s frankly a miracle that they were able to come out on top. Which of these overpowered villains is your favorite? Leave a comment in the comment section below and join the conversation on the ComicBook Forums!
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