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* In the DC miniseries ''[[Identity Crisis]]'' the previously bumbling and mediocre villain Dr. Light is revealed to have raped the Elongated Man's wife, Sue Dibny on the JLA Satellite years earlier. What he was doing there in the first place isn't revealed, nor was it the first time he'd done it. Unfortunately, that wasn't the worst thing that happened to Sue in the book.

* The Purple Man started out as a low-grade ''[[Daredevil]]'' villain. Then came ''Alias'' (not to be confused with the TV show), in which he humiliated, abused, and tortured Jessica Jones in pretty much every non-rape way available. But he does rape people as well. Just in case there was any doubt he's a total scum bag. He kidnapped women and raped them ''[[Forced to Watch|in front of her]]'' as a way to mock her for being an ineffective superhero. Just in case there's any doubt that he's a [[Complete Monster]]''.

* [[The Sandman|Doctor Destiny's Diner of Death]]. JLA Villain John Dee may have [[Kick the Dog|kicked the dog]] when he shot a woman who had been nice to him, but the real proof that he had turned irrevocably evil came next issue. Sure, he would routinely plot to drive the whole world insane back in the silver age, but what he does to those six people over a 24-hour period will keep you awake for days. And the fact that he let the rest of the world tumble into madness at the same time shows that he went for both the macroscopic and microscopic level of sadism. Arguably the cruelest thing he did to those six people was to briefly give them back their minds in the middle of his sick game. When one of his victims demanded to know why he was torturing them, this was his response:

{{quote|'''John Dee:''' ''Because I can.''}}