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* In a story in the ''[[Batman: Streets of Gotham]]'', third-rate villain Jennifer Duffy (aka the Carpenter) is hired by the Director to build a [[Death Trap]] complex with the intent to use it on Batman and ''film'' it, intending to market the footage as a [[Snuff Film]]. And he doesn't plan to stop there either, having "scripted" similar films with [[Superman]] and [[Wonder Woman]] as victims. He even ''advertises'' these movies. One movie poster shows Diana's dead body hanging from a gallows. Duffy's own opinion of this is, [[Captain Obvious|Batman is going to curb-stomp him]], and she hopes to be paid and get miles away before that happens.
* During the ''[[Acts of Vengeance]]'' arc, a [[Red Skies Crossover]] originating in ''[[The Avengers]]'', [[Loki (comics)|Loki]] has an idea that looks good on paper. He gathers together a group of villains with a lot of influence among other villains - Dr. Doom, Magneto, the Kingpin, the Wizard, the Mandarin, and the Red Skull - and has them trade enemies, directing their minions against heroes other than the ones they usually fight. (For example, Spider-Man ends up fighting Gravaton and the Brothers Grimm, among others, while Daredevil has to deal with Ultron.) With the advantage of total surprise, this ''seems'' like a valid plan, but Loki's obvious mistake was putting the Red Skull (a Nazi) and Magneto (a Holocaust survivor) on the same team, or for that matter, putting them in the same room. (In fact, the other villains all had reason not to cooperate with the Skull, Doom is Romani, Mandarin is Chinese, the Kingpin is a capitalist CEO of a large conglomerate, ''not'' a big fan of fascism, and the Wizard, well, no conflicting background there, but he ''still'' isn't one who would associate with Nazis.) His plan is foiled ''not'' by the Avengers, but by the infighting among his intended pawns that his poor choices cause.
* Speaking of the Red Skull, in [[Captain America]]'s new title [[Milestone Celebration| (released for his 75th birthday)]], {{spoiler|the Skull befriends a little girl [[Physical God| who is actually]] [[Reality Warper| an evolved Cosmic Cube]]; the exact same one he used to own when she was just a Cube. Seeing as she remembers him and has the naiivette of the little girl she resembles, she trusts him as she would a father. The Skull now effectively has the ability to alter reality ''any way he wants''. But rather than change history so that, say, the Nazis won World War II or something like that, he chooses to alter history so that Cap was his disciple, making Cap [[The Mole| a sleeper agent]] and a loyal member of HYDRA. Seriously, he's ''that'' obsessed with revenge that he delays his chance to rule the world. He doesn't seem to realize that making Cap into his pawn ''does not'' ensure loyalty (Cap quickly becomes [[The Starscream]] as a result, something the Skull intended to do to Hitler but never got around to) and also doesn't seem to realize that whatever the Cube does, she can just as easily undo, which she does when she discovers he's a liar.}}
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