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[[File:burgess meredith frank gorshin lee meriwether cesar romero batman the movie 001.jpg|link=Batman: The Movie|frame|They all met while [[Villains Out Shopping|shopping for masks.]]]]

If a [[Superhero]] has a [[Rogues Gallery]], it's an obvious plot for the villains to team up. A '''Villain Team-Up''' is almost always for the sole purpose of ganging up on a hero or hero team and finishing them off ''once[[Dramatic Pause|...]] and for all!!!'' Villains will almost never team up to rob a bank together, or commit any other crime together. Which makes sense, because the typical [[Rogues Gallery]] has villains with nothing in common at all, other than hating the hero.

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* [[Spell My Name with an "S"|Malik/Marik]] and Yami Bakura from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]!'' Battle city arc.

* In the episode of ''[[Inuyasha]]'' entitled 'Naraku and Sesshomaru Join Forces'...Take a wild guess.

* A 1960s [[Incredible Hulk|Hulk]] comic had the Mandarin team up with the Sandman. It ended with Mandarin sending Sandman into a molten vat turning him to glass.

* Paste-Pot Pete broke another Human Torch foe the Wizard out of jail, however they conflicted due to the Wizard trying to act as leader while Pete wanted them to be equal. They were captured by the Torch, but didn't seem sorry at the team-up ending.

* Several of the [[Marvel Universe]]'s [[Big Bad]]s all teamed up in the 1980s ''Acts of Vengeance'' [[Crossover]] in a large-scale [[Evil Plan]] to destroy each others' enemies by setting the heroes up against villains they'd never faced before. In effect, this was a Villain Team Up of almost '''all''' the human villains of the Marvel Universe, with a team of [[Chessmaster]]s manipulating dozens of lesser bad guys for their own personal agenda. The whole scheme falls apart for the simple fact that all of the villains behind the plot are so egomaniacal that they can't stand not being totally in charge, and they end up turning on each other while struggling for power.

** Of course, it didn't help that [[Loki]] decided that his inner circle should include an [[Red Skull|UNREPENTANT FORMER NAZI]] alongside a [[Magneto|HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR]]. Seriously, Loki, we thought you were supposed to be one of the ''clever'' Asgardians...

** Technically, if it weren't for the fact that the main plot revolved around the villains stealing Scrooge's entire fortune for various reasons: The Beagle Boys because they want to be rich, Glomgold so that he would then be the richest man (er, duck) in the world instead of Scrooge, and Magica just wanted a single coin: The Number One Dime of the world's richest man; which she would then use in a spell to gain the [[Blessed with Suck|Midas Touch]]. Scrooge strikes a deal with Magica after he convinces her the coin will no longer work now that he is poor, and she teams up with the Beagle Boys to rob Glomgold instead.

** The European comics have a story arc setting up a new [[Big Bad]], who forced the Beagle Boys, Magica and Phantom Bolt to join him by brainwashing them. This actually led to his undoing as Minnie and Daisy convinced Magica to turn against him and Phantom Bolt was just pretenting to be brainwashed so he could [[Hijacked by Ganon|hijack the plot]] and the two atacked him in the middle of his confrontation with Donald and Mickey.

** Not only that, but they apparently worked together for years, and various instances when they fought each other were retconned to be set-up so nobody would suspect a thing.

* ''[[Irredeemable]]'' played with this with members of Plutonian's [[Rogues Gallery]] offering to join him in his new [[Face Heel Turn]]; {{spoiler|being [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]] he decided to test their loyalty, by offering each of them a button that, when pressed, would render him completely powerless. They betrayed him before he could even finish the sentence. He then revealed they just triggered the destruction of the facility they were in}}.

** This is apparently how various supervillains get to know Max Damage from ''Incorruptible'' - in his villainous days they would often team up. One flashback shows Max teaming up with another villain and then them both betraying each other because they just didn't like each other.

** [[Dark Avengers]] were in fact a team up of the more villainous members of the [[Thunderbolts]] with antiheroes [[Ares (Comic Book)|Ares]] and [[The Sentry]], young and misguided Marvel Boy (who quit the moment he found out what he gotten himself into) and [[Daken]]

** Cabal was this between [[Norman Osborn]], [[Loki]], [[The Hood]], [[Doctor Doom]], [[Sub-Mariner|Namor]] and Emma Frost and later Taskmaster, with a lot of betrayals and schemes in it.

* ''[[Ultimate Sleepwalker|Ultimate Sleepwalker: The New Dreams]]'' plays this trope with an unusual spin. Instead of any of Sleepwalker's enemies teaming up, it's [[Spider-Man]]'s enemies that reunite as the Sinister Six to carry out Doctor Octopus's latest diabolical scheme. Sleepwalker and several other heroes are hastily recruited by the web-slinger into an impromptu team to even the odds.

* ''[[A Dark Knight Over Sin City]]'' has various [[Batman]] villains teaming up with [[Sin City]] villains.

* ''[[Fallout Equestria]]'': Red Eye and the Goddess, though both are plotting behind each other's back.