# List of Super Friends villains

The following is an overview of the various villains featured in the long-running Super Friends franchise.

## Legion of Doom

The Legion of Doom is a group of supervillains led by Lex Luthor and introduced in Challenge of the Superfriends. It is based in a swamp outside Gotham City that can fly and travel through time and space.

### Bizarro

Bizarro (voiced by William Callaway in Challenge of the Superfriends, Danny Dark in Super Friends (1980) and The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians) is Superman's evil counterpart. His full name is Tnek Kralc, an inverse of Superman's civilian identity Clark Kent.

### Black Manta

Black Manta (voiced by Ted Knight in The All-New Super Friends Hour, Ted Cassidy in Challenge of the Superfriends) is a member of the Legion of Doom and Aquaman's archenemy.

### Brainiac

Brainiac (voiced by Ted Cassidy in Challenge of the Superfriends, Stanley Ralph Ross in subsequent series following Cassidy's death) is an alien robot and enemy of Superman.

### Captain Cold

Captain Cold (voiced by Dick Ryal) is an enemy of the Flash who wields a cold gun.

### Cheetah

Cheetah (voiced by Marlene Aragon) is a cat-themed criminal and enemy of Wonder Woman.

### Giganta

Giganta (voiced by Ruth Forman) is a member of the Legion of Doom who stole Apache Chief's growth powder, giving her the ability to grow to a massive size.

### Gorilla Grodd

Gorilla Grodd (voiced by Stanley Ralph Ross) is a psychic gorilla and an enemy of the Flash.

### Solomon Grundy

Solomon Grundy (voiced by Jimmy Weldon) is a zombie who was revived by a magic monolith. He speaks in broken English, but is depicted as more intelligent than most versions of the character.

### Lex Luthor

Lex Luthor (voiced by G. Stanley Jones) is Superman's arch-enemy and the leader of the Legion of Doom.

### Riddler

The Riddler (voiced by Michael Bell) is an enemy of Batman who distracts the Super Friends with his riddles.

### Scarecrow

The Scarecrow (voiced by Don Messick in Challenge of the Superfriends, Andre Stojka in The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians) is a villain themed after his namesake who wields fear-inducing gas.

### Sinestro

Sinestro (voiced by Vic Perrin) is a member of the Legion of Doom who can freely travel to and from the antimatter universe.

### Toyman

Toyman (voiced by Frank Welker) is a jester-themed villain and enemy of Superman.

## New Gods of Apokolips

Darkseid, Kalibak, DeSaad, and the planet Apokolips are featured in the final two incarnations of Super Friends, entitled Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show and The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians.

### Darkseid

Darkseid (voiced by Frank Welker) is the tyrannical leader of Apokolips.

### DeSaad

DeSaad (voiced by René Auberjonois) is Darkseid's master torturer.

### Kalibak

Kalibak (voiced by Frank Welker) is Darkseid's son and minion.

### Parademons

The Parademons (voiced by Frank Welker) are winged humanoids who serve as Darkseid's foot soldiers.

## Super Foes

A villainous analogy to the Super Friends featuring major enemies to each of the heroic group's members. The villains also adopted the Justice League's concept of training young heroes by adding youthful counterparts to themselves. They were introduced in the first two issues of the Super Friends (1976) comic.

### Cheetah

Wonder Woman's feline nemesis who joined the Legion of Doom. Cheetah took on Kitten as her younger trainee.

### Human Flying Fish

One of Aquaman's major enemies, the Human Flying Fish was Vic Bragg, a human physically altered to breathe underwater and survive the depths of the ocean while employing a suit which additionally provided flight through the air. His protege was Sardine.

### Penguin

A criminal mastermind and major foe to Batman, the Penguin employed a cache of trick umbrellas in his crimes. He adopted Chick as his youthful apprentice. Penguin later appears in The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians, voiced by Robert Morse.

### Poison Ivy

A brilliant scientist in botany, Pamela Isley turned to crime as Poison Ivy and fought Batman. Her junior partner was Honeysuckle. Ivy was intended to be part of the League of Evil in Battle of the Superheroes, but was licensed to Filmation and left out of Challenge of the Superfriends.

### Toyman

Superman's enemy in the group, Winslow Schott was the Super Foes' Toyman while later his successor Jack Nimball joined the Legion of Doom. Schott's trainee was Toyboy. Schott returned to face the Super Friends with his gang in Super Friends #41 (February 1981).

## Other villains from DC Comics
### Bizarra

Bizarra (voiced by B. J. Ward) is Wonder Woman's Bizarro counterpart.

### Chronos

Chronos is a time-manipulating villain who appears in Super Friends #22 (July 1979).

### The Conqueror

Capturing Kanjar Ro, Queen Bee, Sinestro, Hector Hammond, Time Trapper, and World Beater, the Conqueror gains the power to defeat any foe. First appears in Super Friends #45 (June 1981).

### Joe Chill

Joe Chill (voiced by Michael Rye) is a mugger who killed Batman's parents.

### Crime Syndicate of America

The Crime Syndicate of America are the Super Friends' evil alternate universe counterparts.

### Felix Faust

Felix Faust (voiced by Peter Cullen) is an evil sorcerer.

### Gentleman Ghost

Gentleman Ghost (voiced by Alan Oppenheimer) is a villainous ghost and gentleman thief.

### Grax

Rival to Brainiac and enemy of Superman, Grax plants twelve bombs across Earth. The Wonder Twins come to Earth to warn the Super Friends which prompts the group to team with the Global Guardians to find and defuse the bombs in Super Friends #7-9. He returns in issue #38 empowering gangsters with intangibility.

### Green Thumb

In Super Friends #42 (March 1981), Fargo Keyes employs alien plants to battle the Super Friends as Green Thumb.

### Greenback

Using money as his weapon, Greenback kidnaps Bruce Wayne for ransom. First appears in Super Friends #5 (June 1977).

### Johnny Witts

Johnny Witts and his gang of impersonators assume the guise of the Super Friends to uncover their secret identities. First appears in Super Friends #26 (November 1979).

### The Joker

The Joker (voiced by Frank Welker) is Batman's arch-enemy and the founder of the Royal Flush Gang.

### Kingslayer

An assassin specializing in eliminating world leaders, Kingslayer is hired by the Overlord to kill global rulers in a bid to seize power. His sights become set on Solovar, Nuidis Vulko, Queen Astrid, Prince Ali, Princess Evalina, and Prince Mark. First appears in Super Friends #11 (April–May 1978).

### Menagerie Man

Employing white dwarf star technology, Menagerie Man sports a shrunken zoo of trained animals he can produce seemingly out of thin air. First appears in Super Friends #6 (August 1977).

### Menthruy

An alien that abducts Poseidonis in Super Friends #27 (December 1979).

### Mirror Master

The Mirror Master is a mirror-themed villain and enemy of the Flash.

### Mr. Mxyzptlk

Mister Mxyzptlk (voiced by Frank Welker) is a reality-warping imp and enemy of Superman.

### Monocle

Graeme the Monocle makes people see illusions to break down order in Super Friends #40 (January 1981).

### Overlord

Sandor Fane poses as the Overlord and hires the Kingslayer to eliminate prominent leaders around Earth in order to seize power. Fane later took control of the minds of the Elementals (Salamander, Gnome, Undine, and the Sylph) in order to destroy the Super Friends. Upon his defeat, his henchman Underling assumes his identity. This new Overlord returns to control the minds of the Super Friends into becoming tyrants. Later, this Overlord clones himself and hyper-evolves him to create Futurio. First appears in Super Friends #11 (April–May 1978).

### Royal Flush Gang

In The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians, the Royal Flush Gang appears in the episode "The Wild Cards". They are a quartet of thieves recruited by Ace. Ace is revealed to not only be in league with Darkseid, but also to be the Joker in disguise, as deduced by Batman upon realizing that the Joker's house of cards was missing his namesake card. By the end of the episode, Ten, who feels in over her head, switches sides and the rest of the gang and Joker are captured.

### Shark

Shark is an anthropomorphic shark who appears in The All-New Super Friends Hour episode "The Protector".

### Skyrocket

A high-flying super-villain capable of emitting powerful sparks from his hands that teamed with Riddler. First appears in Super Friends #4 (April 1977).

### Superiorman and Wondrous Woman

Yeltu and Fegla of Exor come to Earth as body-doubles of Superman and Wonder Woman in Superiorman and Wondrous Woman, respectively. They first appear in Super Friends #21 (June 1979).

### Time Trapper

Ty M. Master, the Time Trapper, sabotages Professor Carter Nichols' time machine casting the Wonder Twins through time in Super Friends #17 (February 1979).

### Warhead

Rupert C. Hall, better known as a munitions thief named Warhead, is sought by the Super Friends and Plastic Man. First appears in Super Friends #36 (September 1980).

### Weather Wizard

Weather Wizard battles the Super Friends in Super Friends #37 (October 1980).

### World Beater

Dr. Ihdrom creates the powerful android World Beater from the demise of over 100 super-villains including Spectrum, Anti-Man, Thunderhead, Powerhouse, The Traveler, The Apparition, Turncoat, Ultra-Light, Firelord, Sub-Zero, and Bombshell and pits his creation against Earth's heroes. First appears in Super Friends #3 (February 1977).

### Yarq

A criminal and his gang from Exor that come to Earth and steal the Super Friends memories in Super Friends #44 (May 1981).

### Zond and Zhanra

Ancient Exorian criminals, Zond and Zhanra switch places with the Wonder Twins in Super Friends #24 (September 1979).

## Original villains
### Count Dracula

Count Dracula appears in an episode entitled "Attack of the Vampire". Here, Dracula arises and tries to turn the whole world into vampires. The Super Friends battle Dracula, who transforms Superman and the Wonder Twins into vampires. Dracula uses intense beams from his eyes to transform his victims into vampires.

### Dr. Hiram Gulliver

Using a micro-wave reducer, Dr. Gulliver shrinks the world's adults to reduce the use of resources of the planet and to stand as a giant as the planet's ruler. He appears in the Super Friends episode "Gulliver's Gigantic Goof" (1973).

### Dr. Kathleen Kennedy

A scientist working on a project involving cats, Kennedy is scratched by a cat and becomes an evil cat creature due to the scratch and a gene culture on her hands. After transforming, Kennedy leads a quest to turn people into cat creatures like herself. She appears in the Super Friends episode "Attack of the Cats" (1983).

### Dr. LaBond

Stealing diamonds to power his Planet Splitter, LaBond plans to turn the planet Signus Uno into a second moon to provide more natural resources for Earth. He appears in the Super Friends episode "The Planet Splitter" (1973).

### Dr. Pelagian

Marine biologist Dr. Ansil Hillbrandt adopts the identity of Dr. Pelagian and terrorizes industrialists to topple pollution. Pelagian employs technology that allows him to speak with sea creatures and control the weather and sea. He appears in the Super Friends episode "Dr. Pelagian’s War" (1973).

### Dr. Rebos

Seeking to eliminate the space program, Dr. Rebos builds robot duplicates of Wonder Dog and Superman for sabotage. He appears in the Super Friends episode "The Androids" (1973).

### Dr. Thinkquick

From the bitterly cold continent Glacia, Thinkquick uses a tugboat with a jet nozzle to shift the Gulf Stream to warm his homeland as weather is disrupted around the globe. He appears in the Super Friends episode "The Weather Maker" (1973).

### Dr. Victor Frankenstein

In an episode of The World's Greatest Super Friends, the team battle Dr. Victor Frankenstein and two of his monsters, one with all of the powers of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman.

### Hank and Ben

Hank and Ben are scientists who employ a blue jet that emits a blue beam to destroy the world's gold, believing the material to be the root of all evil. They appear in the Super Friends episode "The Ultra Beam" (1973).

### Holo and Zara

Holo and Zara are aliens trying to strip Earth of its silicon from its oceans to power their space vessel to return to their home planet. They appear in the Super Friends episode "The Watermen" (1973).

### King Plasto

Heisting raw plastic powder, King Plasto creates Frerp. He appears in the Super Friends episode "The Fantastic Frerps" (1973).

### Kolbar

Hailing from the scorching planet Solartararium, Kolbar sought another world for his people when Solartararium begins to cool due to pollution. Trying to heat the Earth for this purpose, the Super Friends stop him and clean Solartararium restoring its temperatures. He appears in the Super Friends episode "Too Hot To Handle" (1973).

### Noah Tall

Noah Tall is an evil genius that sought to capture the Balloon People of Balunia to uncover their powers of teleportation. He appears in the Super Friends episode "The Balloon People" (1973).

### Orville Gump

Orville Gump appears in the episode "Lex Luthor Strikes Back" in World's Greatest Super Friends, talking with Luthor about their new plans against the Super Friends, in the same underground lair in the Metropolis subways from the first Superman film from 1978. He disguised himself as Jimmy Olsen at the beginning of the episode before revealing his true self.

### Phantom Zone villains

The Phantom Zone is an alternate dimension that the Kryptonians used to house criminals. Notable inmates include Hul, Rom-Lok, and Logar.

#### Zy-Kree

A Phantom Zone villain named Zy-Kree, resembling the Superman II-version of General Zod, appears in the Super Friends episode, "The Evil From Krypton" in 1981.

### Power Pirate

Power Pirate, also known as Anthro of the Traum, needing power for his planet, comes to Earth and masquerades as Sir Cedric of Scotland Yard to steal the power he needs. He appears in the Super Friends episode "The Power Pirate" (1973).

### Professor Baffles

Professor Baffles, real name Mr. Mergen, is a chemist that sought to destroy currency so mankind can begin anew with a clean slate. He appears in the Super Friends episode "The Baffles Puzzle" (1973).

### Raven

Raven is a brilliant alien scientist that seeks revenge against Superman for imprisoning him. He appears in the Super Friends episode "The Menace Of The White Dwarf" (1973).

### Sinbad

A humanoid space pirate who resembles a 16th-century pirate captain, not the Middle Eastern Sinbad of lore, he comes to Earth with his crew to steal various treasures, including gold beneath the ruins of Stonehenge. The weapons at his disposal include flying pirate ships that can turn invisible and hypnotic cannons that fire mind-control beams. He appears in season 3 episode "Sinbad and the Space Pirates".

### Doctor Fright

Doctor Fright is a villain that uses a fear gas to paralyse his victims, turning them weak and frightened. He appears in a self-titled episode of the second season.