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** Subverted in ''[[Turtles Forever]]'', where the 1987 Shredder tries this with his 2003 counterpart, {{spoiler|only to get kicked out of the Technodrome and have his resources taken over, leading to an [[Enemy Mine]] situation with the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987|1987]], [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003|2003]], and [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mirage|Prime]] Turtles}}.
* [[Daredevil]] actually suffered through this more than once. The first time saw Electro organize a group of villains defeated by Daredevil into the "Emissaries of Evil" to try and get revenge on DD, and the second time would occur a few decades later, when Typhoid Mary would gather several latter-day Daredevil villains into the "Daredevil Revenge Squad".
** It should be pointed out that Typhoid Mary's team was actually a ''subversion'' of this trope in that by cooperating [[The Bad Guy Wins|they actually succeed in taking down Daredevil]], and leave him bloodied and unconscious for Mary.
* 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.
* Marvel had a comicbook series called Super-Villain Team-Up, which despite the name was mostly Doctor Doom hanging out with Namor and fighting every two issues.
* Several of the [[Marvel Universe]]'s [[Big Bad|Big Bads]] 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|Chessmasters]] 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...
* It should be noted that villains can and do form their own teams for reasons beyond simply getting vengeance on a particular hero. The Masters of Evil, one of the [[Marvel Universe]]'s longest-running supervillain teams, has had various incarnations formed over the years by [[Big Bad|Big Bads]] who recruit other villains to share in the profits of the leader's evil scheme. The Serpent Society, long a thorn in the side of [[Captain America (comics)]], was a collection of snake-themed villains who essentially formed their own mercenary business, complete with health care coverage, room and board, and a guaranteed [["Get Out of Jail Free" Card]] from the team leader, who would use his teleportation powers to free any members who were arrested or captured.
** ''[[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.
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** 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.
* [[Justice Society of America|JSA Classified]] had an arc [[Villain Protagonist|focused]] on the Injustice Society. Unlike some cases, they're very professional about teaming up, with the expressed belief that having a competent pro watching your back beats "every man for himself" any day.
* ''[[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 Reign (comics)|Dark Reign]] featured a lot of those
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== Fan Fiction ==
* The Disney Fanfic [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6048380/1/The_Hellbound_Hearts The Hellbound Hearts] consists of several Disney villains forming a loose companionship to get revenge on their enemies, and eventually take over the world. Then there's another group that wants to take advantage of the war to take over the world. And Frollo...he's just...there...
* ''[[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 very similar story happened in the ''Revenge of the Sinister Six" storyarc in which Spidey enlists the aid of Sleepwalker and other heroes in order to fight Doc Ock and the SS.
* ''[[A Dark Knight Over Sin City]]'' has various [[Batman]] villains teaming up with [[Sin City]] villains.
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== Literature ==
* In Lies, the third book of the ''[[Gone (novel)]]'' series, {{spoiler|Caine and Zil team up to burn down Perdido Beach, which acts as a distraction to let Caine escape to the island.}}
* In the [[Star Trek Novel Verse]], [[Villain Team-Up]] is essentially the idea behind the [[Star Trek: Typhon Pact]] series, only with a twist. It's uncertain if the Typhon Pact will be an enemy of the United Federation of Planets or not. Politically, everything is still highly uncertain, following the formation of the Pact in [[A Singular Destiny]] (a novel detailing the aftermath of [[Star Trek Destiny]]). While the Pact members were historically antagonistic, their outlook appears to be changing. The extent to which they will remain "villains" is unclear. The Tholians, at least, look set to remain enemies, whether the rest of the Pact follows their lead or reins them in is anyone's guess.
* The ''Omen Of The Stars'' [[Myth Arc|arc]] of ''[[Warrior Cats]]'' features {{spoiler|all the villains who were killed off except Scourge and Bone teaming up to destroy the clans.}}
* The failure half of this occurs in the Star Wars novel Darth Bane: Path of Destruction due to nature of the Sith's [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]. Bane creates his rule of two to avoid this problem.
* In ''The Warlord of Mars'', third book of the [[John Carter of Mars]] series, Matai Shang (a previously-offscreen but often mentioned [[The Chessmaster|chessmaster]]), Thurid (a minor villain from the previous book) and Salensus Oll (a newly-introduced [[Evil Overlord]]) pull off one of these, {{spoiler|which ends up falling apart messily, since all three hate each other's guts and have only temporarily-related goals}}. Rounding out the partnership is Matai Shang's daughter [[Daddy's Little Villain|Phaidor]], though she's genuinely loyal to her dad and is mostly along for the ride rather than a co-conspirator.
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* ''Mario and Sonic at the Winter Olympics'' has [[Super Mario Bros.|Bowser]] and [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Dr. "Eggman" Robotnik]] scheme to melt all the snow in the world by capturing the Snow Spirits.
** They're at it again in the London 2012 sequel. This time creating an artificial [[Ominous Fog|thick fog]] to ruin the London games.
* Another [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]] game, the Subspace Emissary mode of ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' Brawl, also starts out with one of these, involving [[The Legend of Zelda|Ganondorf]], [[Super Mario Bros.|Bowser]], [[Wario Ware|Wario]], [[Kirby|King Dedede]], Master Hand, and with special guest appearances by Petey Pirahna and [[Metroid|Ridley]]. It quickly unravels though when Ganondorf [[Hijacked by Ganon|attempts to backstab everyone]], Dedede [[Good All Along|turns out to be a good guy]], and then turns into a full-blown [[Enemy Mine]] when the ''[[Man Behind the Man|real]]'' [[Big Bad]] is revealed.
** It also potentially has some lesser versions in event matches and what not. The showdown of Melee has [[Super Mario Bros.|GIGA Bowser]], [[The Legend of Zelda|Ganondorf]] and [[Pokémon|Mewtwo]] as a team vs whatever character you chose. Brawl has the Final Battle (Bowser, Ganondorf and Dedede team up), Two Trouble Kings (Bowser and King Dedede against Mario or Mario and Kirby), and the Final Battle for Two (two chararacters of player choice against Bowser, Ganondorf, King Dedede, Meta Knight, Wolf and Wario).
* Because [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover|of the nature of the game]], this also happens in the [[Super Robot Wars]] series frequently and in nearly every game. [[Super Robot Wars J|For example]], [[Gundam Seed|ZAFT]] can be found helping the [[Martian Successor Nadesico|Jovian army]].
** Who teams up with who and for what reasons often vary, depending on the game. First game has [[Gundam|Principality of Zeon]], [[Mazinger Z|Doctor Hell]] and [[Getter Robo|Dinosaur Empire]] being mind controlled by ancient evil mecha, second game has villains united into Divine Crusaders by Brian Zoldak, an alliance that has fallen apart only in sequel, when Zabi familly took over after Zoldak's death and soon they started fighting each other.From that point different games saw different variations of alliances with varying results, sometimes even fighting other villains.
* ''[[Mega Man X]] 5'' does this by way of implication. He never shows up on screen, but given all the callbacks, and the overall plan Sigma has, it's obvious that [[Mega Man (video game)|Dr. Wily]] is somehow teaming up with him. [[Word of God]] later confirmed he was brought back to live by the Maverick Virus somehow.
* In ''[[Mass Effect]] 2'', the vigilante Archangel was such a royal pain in the ass that Omega's major mercenary groups put their differences aside [[Badass|to hunt just ONE guy.]]
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== Western Animation ==
* "The League of Villains" from ''[[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron]]''.
** unlike other villain team ups however, these villains actually trusted each other (although didn't get along very well) The only reason Tee betrayed them was because they all belittled him, and Zix and Travoltron only left because Tee convinced them to do so. Other than that, the only reason they lost was because Jimmy outsmarted them all one at a time.
* This trope was spoofed MERCILESSLY in the ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'' episode "The Last One Ever" when the "Rogue's Gallery" formed a group called Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday.
* In the "Back With a Vengeance," the second season finale of ''[[Ben 10]]'', Ben's two worst enemies, Kevin 11 and Vilgax, team up. They play this trope as described, getting into two knock-down brawls with each other before ganging up on Ben. In the end, Kevin tries to steal the [[Clingy MacGuffin]] that Vilgax wanted off of Ben and leave Ben and Vilgax [[Trapped in Another World]], [[Bond Villain Stupidity|instead of just killing Ben like he'd wanted to earlier.]] Then he goes right back to trying to kill Ben and, predictably, this is his downfall.
** The next to last episode of the series had a group called the Negative 10 composed of most of the lesser villains Ben, Gwen and Max faced through the series headed by new villain, the Forever King. They actually manage to work together rather well but end up outsmarted in the end.
** Also, in the Alien Force season 3 finale, Vilgax teams up with Albedo in order to steal Ben's Omnitrix, so Albedo can go back to his original form, while Vilgax claims that he isn't interested in the Omnitrix anymore, and just wants to see Ben dead. Predicably, when Vilgax got the Omnitrix, he immediatly betrayed Albedo.
* ''[[Captain Planet]]'' combined this trope with the [[Evil Counterpart]] trope when several members of Captain Planet's [[Rogues Gallery]] stole the Planeteers' rings and created the evil Captain Pollution.
** Actually various villains would team up all the time; Dr. Blight in particular often worked with one or two others on a project. The only time all seven of the main Eco-villains got together was in the two-part "Summit to Save Earth," with Zarm as the de facto boss.
* In an episode of ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'' Eustace decides to take out Courage by gathering a group of villains from previous episodes in an alliance against that stupid dog (ignoring the fact that these villains have also endangered his own life in the past).
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* ''[[Kim Possible]]'' faced [[Harmless Villain|Drakken, Killigan, Monkey Fist]] <s>and Shego</s> during "[[The Movie|A Sitch in Time]]". In the end, Shego betrayed them, but she did end up [[Take Over the World|taking over the world]] after all.
** The page quote comes from the episode "Steal Wheels", where Dr Drakken and Motor Ed team-up. In this partciular case the answer turns out to be 'because they're [[Talking to Himself|cousins]]'.
* The ''[[Powerpuff Girls]]'' had to fight a team-up of Mojo Jojo, Him, Princess Morbucks, and Fuzzy Lumpkins that ultimately broke up because, in the end, they were just a giant parody of The Beatles ("The Beat-Alls"). This is how the Girls actually beat them-the villains actually work very well together and the Girls can't beat them in combat. Instead, they find a female monkey who becomes a literal [[Yoko Oh No]] and causes the team to fall apart on its own after Mojo Jojo falls in love with her.
* Subverted in ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]]'', as the Sinister Six is well-planned, has [[It Only Works Once|removed all their old weaknesses]], and their members go out of their way to avoid intentionally hurting each other. It nearly works, until Spidey's [[Evil Costume Switch]] kicks in.
* The second-string ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' villains Professor Princess, Angry Archer, Nanosec, and first-timer Slo-Mo team up to form the Society of Ultimate Villainy (SUV) in the episode of same name.
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