DC Comics is renowned for its iconic superhero teams, such as the Justice League and Teen Titans, which protect the universe from the forces of evil. With so many alliances of DC’s greatest heroes, naturally, many villains decided to join forces to combat them. By working together, these superpowered criminals have handed some of the most devastating defeats to the superhero community. Only by working together do superheroes ever have a chance of thwarting their nefarious schemes. The goals of these villainous organizations range from world to multiversal domination. To complete their objectives, these supervillain teams recruit some of the most powerful and deadliest supervillains in the universe. With their powers combined, they are some of the most formidable threats in DC Comics.
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Many of the villains that make up these teams are dangerous enough when they fly solo. However, when they pool their resources together as highly organized alliances, they are practically unstoppable. These are the strongest supervillain teams in the DC Universe.
10) Secret Society of Supervillains
The Secret Society of Super-Villains is a name used by various groups comprising some of the most dangerous supervillains in the world. The leaders of these different incarnations have included Darkseid, Ultra-Humanite, Gorilla Grodd, Vandal Savage, Alexander Luthor Jr., and the Outsider. Almost every version of the Society has had dozens of members, with some incarnations practically being supervillain armies. Some of their strongest members have included Black Adam, Reverse-Flash, Felix Faust, Amazo, Cyborg Superman, and numerous others. The Society’s superior numbers and the diverse abilities of its members have allowed it to defeat the Justice League on several occasions.
9) Legion of Doom
To destroy the Justice League and take over the world, Lex Luthor brought together some of the most notorious supervillains in DC Comics. The Legion of Doom is a highly organized team that enacts complex schemes to outsmart and overpower the Justice League. Unlike the Secret Society of Supervillains, the Legion of Doom has a much more consistent and well-rounded roster of DC’s strongest villains. The archenemies of many of DC’s primary heroes are members of this supervillain team, including the Joker, Brainiac, Cheetah, Gorilla Grodd, Sinestro, and Black Manta. With so many brilliant, powerful, and ruthless members, the Legion of Doom is one of the most consistent and deadliest threats that the Justice League must face.
8) Legion of Supervillains
In the 30th century, the Legion of Supervillains opposes the Legion of Superheroes. The team is comprised of various intergalactic criminals and rejected Legion of Superheroes members who, driven by retaliation, seek to bring chaos to the galaxy. The founding members are Cosmic King, Saturn Queen, and Lightning Lord. The team has expanded over the years to include numerous other supervillains, such as the all-powerful Superboy Prime. The Legion of Supervillains has done everything from attempting to assassinate the President of the United Planets to traveling back in time and abducting Superman when he was a baby. This team of futuristic villains will stop at nothing until the Legion of Superheroes are dead, and the galaxy is plunged into anarchy.
7) Fatal Five
The Fatal Five are the archenemies of the Legion of Superheroes. Ironically, it was the Legion that brought the team together in the first place to help them defeat the world-ending Sun-Eater. Following the defeat of the Sun-Eater, the five villains joined forces to spread chaos and destruction across the cosmos. Their members are some of the strongest the universe has to offer. Emerald Empress possesses the all-powerful Eye of Ekron; Persuader’s axe can cut through anything; Mano can destroy a planet with a touch; Tharok is a cyborg armed to the teeth; and the hulking Validus is stronger than a Kryptonian. It takes the full force of the Legion to stop the Fatal Five’s mission for universal domination.
6) Task Force VII
To rid the world of superheroes, Amanda Waller created Task Force VII. In cahoots with Waller, the evil robot Failsafe designed a team of androids that incorporated the power-stealing and mimicry technology of the villain robot known as Amazo. With this technology, Task Force VII drained the superpowers of every hero on the planet. With the power sets of countless superheroes, the androids quickly apprehended most of Earth’s superpowered population. The members of Task Force VII also possess special devices that counteract any damage they sustain, rendering them practically invincible. In addition to Failsafe, the members included the Last Son, Paradise Lost, Velocity, Jadestone, Depth Charge, and Global Guardian. They were everything Amanda Waller desired: soulless enforcers for her regime.
5) Sinestro Corps
The greatest rivals of the Green Lantern Corps are the menacing Sinestro Corps. Powered by the yellow light of fear, the Corps is made up of hundreds of some of the most sadistic and dangerous serial killers, terrorists, monsters, and tyrants in the universe. The Corps was formed by Green Lantern’s archenemy, Thaal Sinestro. The villain created the Corps to govern the universe through tyranny and fear. Every member of the Corps possesses a ring that gives them the ability to create anything that they can imagine. During the “Sinestro Corps War,” they slaughtered thousands of Green Lanterns. To this day, they remain one of the biggest threats in the DC Universe.
4) Crime Syndicate of America
Hailing from Earth-3, the Crime Syndicate of America is the evil version of the Justice League. All of them possess the League’s abilities but have no sense of morality or mercy. Every member is a textbook sadist and psychopath as they use their powers to murder and torture innocent people for fun. Their members, Ultraman, Owlman, Superwoman, Johnny Quick, and Power Ring, have frequently matched and even outclassed their heroic counterparts. The Crime Syndicate rules their Earth with an iron fist. They easily annihilated any would-be heroes who tried to oppose their reign. They have attempted on many occasions to expand their empire to other universes, leaving millions of people dead in their sadistic lust for power.
3) Black Lantern Corps
Across the various Lantern Corps in the universe, none are deadlier than the Black Lanterns. Fueled by death, the Black Lantern Corps was forged by the god of death known as Nekron. The rings reanimate the corpses of fallen heroes and villains to create an unstoppable army of the dead. The Black Lanterns’ only goal is to exterminate all life in the universe and to add their victims to the Corps’ ranks. Many of DC’s most powerful heroes and villains were converted into undead puppets of Nekron, including Superman, Martian Manhunter, Reverse-Flash, and Anti-Monitor. Only the mythical White Lanterns, who gained mastery over the entire Emotional Spectrum and life itself, stood a chance against the Black Lanterns.
2) Dark Knights
Crawling out from the twisted Dark Multiverse, the Dark Knights consist of the most powerful and sadistic superpowered alternate universe versions of Batman. The team was assembled by the malevolent god Barbatos as part of his invasion of the regular multiverse. The original team consisted of Devastator, the Merciless, Red Death, Dawnbreaker, the Drowned, Murder Machine, and their leader, the Batman Who Laughs. Their leader eventually assembled an army of evil Batmen and successfully took over the world. Upon absorbing the power of an alternate Bruce Wayne with Doctor Manhattan’s reality-warping abilities, the Batman Who Laughs transformed into an all-powerful god called the Darkest Knight. It took the combined might of every hero and villain on Earth to defeat the Darkest Knight and his acolytes from reshaping the multiverse.
1) Dark Army
In Dark Crisis, the Multiversal traveler Pariah went insane after a lifetime of watching universes die. In a mad attempt to restore the original multiverse by destroying the current DC Multiverse, he harnessed the power of the Great Darkness, the source of all evil. Using the Great Darkness’ influence, Pariah assembled the Dark Army, which consisted of some of the most powerful and malevolent entities in the DC Multiverse. Pariah turned Doomsday, Eclipso, the Empty Hand, Neron, the Upside-Down Man, Spectre, Ares, Nekron, and Darkseid into his puppets. Pariah also took control of the entire Secret Society of Supervillains, adding them to his army. The Dark Army is the only supervillain team in DC Comics with numerous members capable of universal and even multiversal destruction.
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