Rogues Gallery: Difference between revisions

|''[[DuckTales (2017)]]''}}

 

 

Having only a single antagonist can work, but as a series goes on it can become boring. On the other hand, audiences can never get attached to villains if they never come back again. The Rogues Gallery is a middle ground.

{{quote|'''Terry''': You know this guy?

'''Bruce''': Sorry, not one of mine. }}

* Similarly, ''[[Superman]]''. Includes earthly villains like [[Lex Luthor]], [[Hollywood Cyborg|Metallo]], [[Evil Knockoff|Bizarro]], [[Evil Twin|Ultraman]], [[Powers as Programs|Parasite]], [[It Amused Me|Prankster]], [[Psychopathic Manchild|Toyman]], [[Make Me Wanna Shout|Silver Banshee]], [[Robot Me|Cyborg-Superman]], and [[The Syndicate|Intergang]], as well as alien foes like [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot|Brainiac]], [[Kneel Before Zod|Zod]], [[Darkseid]], [[Galactic Conqueror|Mongul]], [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Doomsday]], and [[Great Gazoo|Mister Mxyzptlk]].

** The producers of ''[[Superman: The Animated Series|Superman the Animated Series]]'' felt this gallery was really limited; they resorted to using [[Jack Kirby]]'s [[Fourth World]] DC characters, such as Darkseid and his gang, to fill the ranks. They also created a couple of their own villains, most notably [[Canon Immigrant]] [[Psycho Electro|Livewire]].

** The Beagle Boys, Flintheart, and Magica all became regulars on ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]''.

** Interestingly, while both pretty much come from the original canon, Rockerduck and Flintheart rarely if ever are featured in the same canon in modern comics. In America Flintheart is prevalent while in Europe Rockerduck is more famous, and as a result hardly any american fan is aware of Rockerduck and the same applies to european fans for Flinheart, which resulted in their personalities to have evolved over time to basically ''be the same''. Thus, you can basically call Rockerduck's "Europe's Flintheart" and Flintheart "America's Rockerduck".

* ''[[Aquaman]]'' has [[Bad Boss|Black Manta]] and [[Cain and Abel|Ocean Master]] sharing archvillain status, with [[Powered Armor|Carapax]], the [[People Puppets|Fisherman]], the [[Charles Atlas Superpower|Scavenger]], the [[Punch Clock Villain|Human Flying Fish]], [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|King Shark]], [[Making a Splash|the Eel]], [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Marine Marauder]], the [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere|Deep Six]], [[Shadow Archetype|the Thirst]], [[Blond Guys Are Evil|Kordax]], and [[Fish People|Charybdis]] rounding out the ranks.

* Deconstructed in Bates and Weisman's version of ''[[Captain Atom]]'', in which Cap had a fictitious rogues' gallery that the military designed for him as part of his publicly-revealed false origin. Since that origin was, of course, his original, [[The Silver Age of Comic Books|Silver Age]] [[Retcon|Charlton origin]], his fake rogues' gallery, most notably Dr. Spectro, were drawn from his ''actual'' Charlton stories. On top of which, some of these fake villains later ''became'' [[Becoming the Mask|real ones]]. Plus which, they, along with many of his other actual rogues, including, again, Dr. Spectro, as well as Major Force, The Ghost (at one time), and, of course, [[Magnificent Bastard|Wade Eiling]], worked for the same secret military project he himself worked for. Of course, he also had "regular" rogues like [[Dating Catwoman|Plastique]] and the Queen Bee.

== [[Fan Works]] ==

* From the world of [[Alternate Universe Fic]]s, we have ''[[Ultimate Sleepwalker|Ultimate Sleepwalker: The New Dreams]]''. where the titular alien hero has faced off against the likes of [[Bad Guys Play Pool|8-Ball]], [[Alpha Bitch|Lullaby]], [[Who's Laughing Now?|the Bookworm]], [[Driven by Envy|Lightmaster]], [[The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized|Spectra]], [[Knight Templar|the Thought Police]], [[Implacable Man|Hell]][[Knife Nut|razor]], [[Jackass Genie|Mr. Jyn]], the [[Broken Bad|Chain]] [[Inner Dialogue|Gang]], [[Rings of Death|the Ringer]], [[Playing with Fire|Equi]][[An Ice Person|nox]], [[Gang-Bangers|the Nasty Boys]], [[Pyromaniac|Fever]] [[Dark Messiah|Pitch]], [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent|the Serpent Society]], [[Psycho Electro|Electro]], [[Arch Enemy|Cobweb]], [[Jack the Ripper]], the [[The Undead|Dread]][[Blood Knight|knight]], [[Scary Scarecrows|The Scarecrow]], [[Eldritch Abomination|Sh'mballah]], [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|Mr. FX]], the [[Badass Longcoat|Shiver]] [[The Undead|Man]], and [[Complete Monster|Psyko]].

* The Pokemon [[Fanfic]] ''[[Brave New World (fanfic)|Brave New World]]'' has a pretty large one, including [[Generic Doomsday Villain|Oblivion's Shadow]], [[Mad Scientist|Dr. Taranchulus]], [[The Igor|Chobin]], [[Vain Sorceress|Bellum]] (and her daughters), [[Ninja|Paul]]... and those are just the most important ones.

* ''[[Calvin and Hobbes: The Series|Calvin and Hobbes The Series]]'' has [[Mad Scientist|Dr.]] [[Stupid Evil|Brainstorm]], his assistant [[Do-Anything Robot|Ja]][[Snarky Non-Human Sidekick|ck]], [[Hard Light|Holographic Retro]], [[Aliens Speaking English|Rupert and Earl]], and [[Quirky Miniboss Squad|their crew]]...

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

 

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