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** ''[[The Batman]]'' also did a variation of this in the "Team Penguin" episode, when the Penguin recruits several second-tier Bat villains into a criminal gang as a way of evening the odds against Batman and his sidekicks. The idea is [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] at every opportunity, as none of the other villains like the name "Team Penguin" and keep suggesting alternatives, which Penguin shoots down. It's Penguin's vanity that causes the others to abandon the team. {{spoiler|At first.}}
* The ''[[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Fantastic Four]]'' had to fight Doctor Doom and the Sub-Mariner at once (in one of the earliest examples), and were saved when Doom betrayed the Sub-Mariner a bit too early, causing him to switch sides. Later, the heroes faced the Frightful Four; a revolving-door group of second-string supervillains that always seemed to betray each other.
* ''[[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]]'' had to fight the Sinister Six—six of his enemies (Dr. Octopus, Mysterio, Vulture, Sandman, Electro, and Kraven the Hunter) united for the sole purpose of killing him. In a variation, they fail not because they don't trust each other, but because they have such big egos that each one ''has'' to be the one to deliver the killing blow... so they make him [[Run the Gauntlet]] instead of ganging up. A later version did fight Spider-Man as a team, but they
** Another Spider-Man example is the Sinister Syndicate, a group of C-List Spidey villains. The difference between this team and the Sinister Six is that the Syndicate try to focus mainly on making money and would rather avoid having to fight Spider-Man.
** A similar thing happened to [[Spider-Girl]] in the [[Marvel Comics 2]] continuity. It was a [[Run the Gauntlet]] style, and Spider-Girl was both exhausted and (unknown to herself) depowered before the last fight...so she calls in a favor from pretty much every hero she's ever met. The last villain wisely surrenders.
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* The [[Superman]] [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Revenge Squad]]. Originally made up of aliens from planets that Superman had prevented from conquering earth, it later became a team of Metropolis supervillains.
* [[Doctor Strange]]'s enemies Dormammu and Umar are a brother/sister pair of [[Dimension Lord]]s. Usually they don't cooperate, which is good because it goes badly for him when they do. (Subverted in nearly all instances, since Umar is more clever than her brother and wants to see him fall more than she wants to defeat Strange.)
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