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* ''[[Sinestro]]'', post-''[[Green Lantern]]: Rebirth''. The guy organised a war between his new corps and the Green Lanterns. He manipulated [[Emotion Eater|Para]][[Eldritch Abomination|llax]], the [[Technopath|Cyborg]] [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|Superman]], [[Ax Crazy|Super]][[Physical God|boy]]-[[Trapped in TV Land|Prime]] and ''the freaking [[Eldritch Abomination|An]][[Omnicidal Maniac|ti]]-[[Crisis on Infinite Earths|Monitor]]''. And when he's beat? He reveals that, all this time, [[Xanatos Gambit|he was using it]] [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|so that the Green Lanterns become a better police force]], by getting them to subvert their [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]] rule. ''Brilliant!''
** Before that, in ''Tales of the Green Lantern Corps Annual'' #2 (1986), Sinestro was able to manipulate the omnipotent Sector 3600 into breaking the Sciencells, allowing Sinestro and the sector to escape.
* {{spoiler|Ozymandias}} from ''[[Watchmen]]''. {{spoiler|Right up until the end, he's the most beloved man on the planet, seemingly admired by everyone but Rorschach and the Comedian. Rich, handsome, a star gymnast well into middle age, and the smartest man in the world, the man's got style and class. And his master plan, which involved manipulating hundreds of scientists and artists and gets both [[Cold War]] superpowers to lay down their arms, succeeds, at least for the time being. And he survives the story, despite an assassination attempt at almost point blank range - he catches the bullet - and getting on the bad side of a virtual god's bad side.}}
{{quote|[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Do you seriously think I'd explain my masterstroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.]]}}
* Amanda Waller in ''[[Suicide Squad]]'' and Greg Rucka's ''[[Checkmate]]''. Though she's occasionally played as a [[Smug Snake]] elsewhere, nobody can deny she's one of the few people capable of putting Batman against the wall. She is a heavy-set, nigh-menopausic black woman who escaped the Cabrini-Green area well after she had her children. And she is the leader of the very seriously titled [[Suicide Squad]], capable of commanding both the fear and respect of the supervillains in her employ and staying on top of the pile in the politics game and as a vicious field agent by sheer force of personality, brute intellect, and this trope. [[Determinator|This should]] [[Good Is Not Nice|tell you]] [[Da Chief|what kind]] [[Sassy Black Woman|of person]] Amanda is. To put it in perspective, both [[Lex Luthor]] and Batman have ''long'' since decided not to fuck with Waller. ''By personal experience''.
* Greg Pak's [[Incredible Hulk|Bruce Banner]] is this after [[Took a Level In Badass|taking a level in Badass]].
** To illustrate that point, during the [[Dark Reign]] storyline, Norman Osborn tried to turn Banner(who had been [[Brought Down to Badass]]) back into the Hulk, because he felt that Banner was more of a threat to his plans than the Hulk could possiblyever be.
* A somewhat obscure one, but recurring Cenobite [[Faux Affably Evil|Hunger]] the ''[[Hellraiser]]'' comics by Epic.
* Maxwell Lord in the [[Brightest Day]] tie-in Generation Lost. Just go look at the page.
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