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> "No Victor, she DIES! But I'll keep you alive just long enough to see her go!"
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> Ferris Boyle on Nora Fries while beating her husband to death, *Batman: Arkham Origins*

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As one would expect from games about Superman, Batman, and other DC superheroes, the rogues' gallries run all over the morality spectrum from tragic Anti-Villains to amoral assholes to well-meaning yet destructive visionaries and everywhere in between. And of course, there are outright repulsive monsters that are in a class of their own.

## Batman Arkhamverse

* Surprising no one, The Joker is naturally one of these, committing one atrocity after another throughout the games while cackling madly and cracking jokes at the same time.
	+ During his first canonical appearance in *Batman: Arkham Origins* he plans to cast Gotham into chaos and establish himself as the top dog among the city's criminal underworld. He forces young crime lord Roman Sionis a.k.a Black Mask to kill his beloved girlfriend, then has him hauled off and tortured while he disguises himself as the influential gangster and hires eight dangerous assassins to hunt down Batman which puts a lot of civilians in danger due to their violent antics (such as violent pyromaniac Firefly trying to burn buildings, brutal Knight Templar Shiva putting people in danger to test Batman's resolve, and cannibalistic psycho Killer Croc making meals of his fellow humans to name a few). Not wanting to miss out on the fun himself, the Joker also took an active role in the chaos as he abducts Blackgate Prison's warden and endlessly tortures him and threatens his family with death until he lowers the prison's security then proceeds to slaughter dozens of staff members for the sake of killing *one* man, the corrupt police commissioner Loeb who he wanted out of the way purely because he knew Loeb's death would cause a massive power vacuum. He also has several buildings rigged to explode and attacks a bank and slaughters most of it's staff as other side-activities he had planned. However, once Batman foils his plans to destroy the buildings he had rigged yet saves his life anyway, he grows a psychotic, unhealthy obsession with him and decides that Batman is the one person in Gotham who he can rely on to play his sadistic games with. At the game's climax, he takes over Blackgate Prison and attempts to force Batman into killing either himself or Bane by hooking Bane up to a heart monitor which would power up the electric chair he was sitting in, and had the prison rigged to explode if Batman tried to remove the monitor as a way to force Batman into breaking his one rule.
	+ During the DTV animated film *Batman: Assault on Arkham*, Joker gets his hands on a nuclear bomb and tries to annihilate half of Gotham City with it. And once again, he engages in usual Joker activity such as abusing Harley and slaughtering people for fun.
	+ During the events of *Batman: Arkham Asylum* he lets lose all the dangerous psychopaths and sadistic Blackgate prisoners locked up in the Asylum and traps the staff there, causing most of the guards, doctors, and other innocent civilians to be brutally murdered by all the escaped crazies which would ultimately put all of their blood on his hands. His plan in the game is to get his hands on a special formula called "Titan" which would give him an army of roided-up monsters to take down Gotham City and Batman himself, with the added bonus of trying to bring Batman down to his level and drive him insane from all the havoc he wreaks on the island. Throughout the night it's revealed that he had Bane set up to be tortured and have his powerful drug Venom forcibly siphoned out of his body, he talks freely about being abusive towards his loyal and lovestruck henchwoman Harley Quinn and offers to let his men rape her as a prize for bringing in Batman, injects Poison Ivy and her plants with Titan in order to cause her to go on a dangerous rampage on the island putting even more innocent lives in danger, and then finishes it all up in the climax when he tries to turn Commissioner Gordon into a Titan-fueled monstrosity. It's also worth noting that his Bad Boss tendencies really show in this game, as he has multiple moments where he could alert his mooks to Batman's presence whenever they can't see him, but simply finds it funnier to sit back and watch them all get the stuffing beat out of them. Hell, he even leaves a couple of his henchmen to die in rooms filled with Joker Toxin simply for not escaping fast enough.
	+ In *Batman: Arkham City* Template:Spoiler, he realizes that he's dying due to Titan poisoning and decides have samples of his poisoned blood shipped to Gotham's hospitals which would put thousands of lives in danger, and poisons Batman as well by putting some of his blood in him so he can take the Caped Crusader down with him should he not find a cure in time. It's been revealed that in order to find a cure, he's been having doctors kidnapped and dragged over to his headquarters and has been punishing them for their failures by brutally executing them until he kidnaps Mr. Freeze's beloved wife Nora in order to get force him to create a cure for him, and ends the night's festivities by murdering Batman's on and off again lover Talia Al-Ghul and joking about it for the pleasure of pissing him off.}} It's also worth noting that most of his henchmen are absolutely thrilled by the fact that he could possibly die due to his sickness because they're all sick of working for an unpredictable lunatic who is not only intolerant of failure, but also big on killing mooks of his out of the blue for his own amusement! Template:Spoiler
	+ And even in *Arkham Knight*, the game that takes place Template:Spoiler, the Joker still manages to return as a hallucination that continues to torment the drug-induced Batman to the point of insanity Template:Spoiler
* In *Arkham City*, if Joker hadn't had such a monopoly on the title of Complete Monster, Oswald Cobblepot a.k.a the Penguin would have it since he is also a truly vile man. While the guy is mostly a ruthless, though polite and occasionally helpful enemy of Batman in the comics, this version of him is a nasty, sadistic, and all around disgusting murderer and torturer. All around his museum hideout are display cases where he leaves the corpses of his victims in, and they all have recorded messages that go into detail about how he killed them and why he did it. While it may not seem like a big deal due to a lot of them being criminals, it's hard to say that they really deserve to die in such awful ways like being baked in a hot oven or being worked on with crowbars and blowtorches. And Penguin just doesn't have rivals to his criminal empire or street thugs who got on his bad side on display, he also has Mr. Freeze subjected to this fate and has plans to do this to Bruce Wayne who for all he knows is simply a rich boy whose ancestors were more successful than his! And in Mr. Freeze's case, he wants him out of the way so he can't cure the Joker. This would be understandable, but the Penguin is needlessly sadistic about it: not only is Mr. Freeze kept alive in his display case, but it's a custom-made one that acts as a microwave to fry the poor guy alive in it! And if Penguin's case couldn't be made any worse, he's also a cop killer and has a group of undercover police officers subjected to fates such as being drowned, fed to his pet shark Tiny, and being left to slowly freeze to death. And just in case you didn't hate the little Fat Bastard enough, right before the boss fights with him and Solomon Grundy, he tortures a cop over the museum's intercom by freezing his hand with Freeze's gun and *shatters it off with a hammer* all the while laughing at his screams and describing the pain that he's putting the guy through. Not to mention that like with the Joker, Penguin is also a Bad Boss extraordinaire who constantly threatens his lackeys with a slow death should they fail him, and goes as far as to laugh at a group of henchmen he strands on Joker's territory by blowing up several bridges that led there while saying that they may as well take as many of the clown's henchmen with them before they die.
	+ His brief scene in *Assault on Arkham* shows that he *can* show respect for people such as Deadshot, but not for his personality so much as he respects his skills as an assassin who doesn't botch jobs. Having respect from him ultimately means nothing since he flies into a rage and tries to have Deadshot and the rest of the Suicide Squad killed within seconds after noticing Harley Quinn among the group as she and Joker have gotten under his skin on more than one occasion, only stopping when Deadshot points out that his reputation would be ruined for it, which Penguin needs in order to be as successful as he is. And while he lets them live, he flat out tells Deadshot that he's dead if they ever cross paths again.
* Also from *Arkham City*, Professor Hugo Strange is a different sort of monster than The Joker and Penguin. While those two enjoy killing for fun, Strange is a perfect example of a Knight Templar who goes to horrific extents in order to accomplish his goals, which he believes to be necessary but are laced with unethical selfishness and egomania. A psychiatrist with an unhealthy obsession with punishing the wicked and wanting to become Batman's successor as Gotham's savior, Strange approached Arkham warden Quincy Sharp and agreed to help him win the election for mayor of Gotham City through his "friends in high places" Template:Spoiler, on the condition that Quincy had to look the other way while he had free reign at Arkham Asylum. Taking an interest in inmate Jervis Tetch's hypnotism skills, he took advantage of the mentally ill man and had him help in hypnotizing Quincy into believing that he was possessed by the spirit of Amadeus Arkham, which combined with the schizophrenia Sharp tried to hide, caused him to snap and commit all sorts of atrocities such as violently torturing the inmates to death in the name of "cleaning the filth of Gotham". He rewarded Tetch by giving him "Alices" (innocent assistants) that Tetch would kill and quite possibly rape. After Sharp won the election and became mayor, he allowed Strange to set up Arkham City, which he would basically wall off a section of Gotham and use it as an enormous prison blockade in which to toss in any of Gotham's criminals, whether they belong in Arkham or Blackgate Prison, and have them live in awful living conditions while they tear each other apart. While some of the criminals who end up in Arkham City arguably deserve it, Strange also has innocent people who opposed his views tossed into the city as well, leaving them to fend for themselves against the various terrifying murderers, rapists, and cannibals imprisoned there. And let's not forget that HE is ultimately why the Penguin is able to torture those undercover cops Commissioner Gordon sent in: he personally ratted them out because he didn't like them snooping in his business as revealed in his taped interviews with Penguin. While he appears to treat his TYGER guards well, they are actually brainwashed slaves who were made loyal to Strange through hypnotism and torture methods such as electroshock therapy, and any who resisted the brainwashing were forcibly lobotomized and tossed into Arkham Asylum's holding cells where they were now reduced to animalistic, screaming savages with no resemblance of human thought anymore. And to top it all off, he decided to proceed with the very controversial "Protocol Ten", an event where he has his TYGER guards in helicopters slaughter every last inmate in the City, the ultimate step for him to cleanse Arkham's filth and ascend as Template:Spoiler Even worse, he reveals that he has plans to establish these kinds of facilities in other areas such as Metropolis and Keystone City as well! While Template:Spoiler thinks this is a necessary thing to do in order to make the world a better place, Strange is clearly obsessed with his psychotic ego and wants to be figuratively immortalized in history for his actions, not at all caring about trampling over anyone who gets in the way of his lust for power and glory, and shows no regret whatsoever when watching the carnage that is caused by Protocol 10, claiming that it's a glorious sight.
* From the *Batman: Arkham Origins* DLC *Cold, Cold Heart*, we have Ferris Boyle who is even worse than he was in the award winning Batman: The Animated Series episode *Heart of Ice* from which this DLC is based off of. While appearing to be a kind-hearted philanthropist on the surface, Boyle is really an unethical sociopath who is using his company's legitimate businesses as a front while secretly developing dangerous and highly illegal cryogenic weaponry to be sold on the black market. Hiring the meek cryogenist Victor Fries to do the job for him, he agreed to provide funding for curing Victor's Ill Girl wife Nora's terminal disease. However, Boyle had no intention of actually keeping his word which Fries found out and instead decided to find a cure for Nora himself. When he found this out, Boyle was furious and went to confiscate Nora, going as far as to beat Fries to death despite the fact that Fries was *still* helping make weapons for him! After leaving Fries near death, Boyle tried to finish him off with a cryogenic weapon, but instead caused the accident that permanently disfigured Fries and made it to where he can't survive outside of sub-zero temperatures. Having caught other members of his staff in the blast, Boyle left them all to die in an attempt to cover his ass, which backfired spectacularly when Fries survived and came after him decked out in power armor and a cryo-cannon as the newly christened villain Mr. Freeze. At the DLC's climax when Batman has defeated Freeze and saves Boyle from his wrath, the slimy bastard freezes Batman and leaves him to his death due to him finding out the truth behind his illicit activites, then proceeds to brutally beat Freeze to death while promising that he'd keep him alive just long enough so he could force him to watch his wife die. While Boyle was already a monster in the original episode, he's much worse here thanks to his newfound sadistic streak that wasn't present in the animated series where he was more of a colossal Asshole Victim, which makes punching the son of a bitch out so much sweeter.
* The Scarecrow, Dr. Jonathan Crane, is a Mad Scientist dedicated to the study of fear. First appearing in *Arkham Asylum*, he participates in Joker's plan to take over the titular asylum and attempts to Mind Rape Batman several times with his fear toxin. Upon his final defeat, he threatens to contaminate Gotham's water supply with the toxin simply to spite Batman. Scarecrow returns in *Arkham Knight* as the Big Bad. This time around, he takes advantage of the power vacuum created by Joker's death and unites all the remaining villains against Batman. After a demonstration of his newest fear toxin causes a diner full of people to rip each other apart, Gotham is evacuated, allowing Scarecrow to take over a chemical plant and manufacture a fear bomb powerful enough to take out the eastern seaboard. He even gleefully speculates that the toxin will carry on the air across the county, creating a "nation of fear." Foiled in this, he steals a superweapon called the Cloudburst and uses it to drive all of Gotham temporarily mad with fear. He also has Barbara Gordon kidnapped and leads Batman to believe that his toxin caused her to kill herself. He then manipulates Commissioner Gordon into betraying Batman, and, after the Commissioner goes against orders and seemingly kills him, Scarecrow forces Jim to watch as he drops the still-living Barbara off of a building. In the end, he captures Batman and forces Gordon to unmask him on live TV. He then plans on letting Batman go so he can watch as Gotham is torn apart and everyone he loves is hunted down and killed. All of this was done to completely destroy the myth of the Batman as a savior, and force everyone to experience true fear by destroying their symbol of hope. Arguably, Scarecrow ended up proving to be every bit as evil and heinous as Joker.
* Victor Zsasz from the first two games is a creepy little man who is obsessed with killing innocent people and slashes a tally-mark onto his skin for every life he takes, and he has a *lot* of tallies. While Batman is able to stop most of his crimes before Zsasz can add more tallies to his skin, the intention is still present in the horrifying ways he tries to kill people. In the first game, you first find him having escaped captivity torturing a security guard with electric shocks, creepily threatening to fry him if Batman intervenes. Later on, he's holding Dr. Young at knife-point while taking what's heavily hinted to be sexual pleasure from the thought of ending her life. He's also been to work on other victims as you can find a couple of groups of dead Arkham staff members who are posed in life-like situations. In the second game, he's one of the inmates stuck in Arkham City and spends his time calling various phone booths around the city and kills the unfortunate schmucks who answer them. With Batman however, he makes him run all around the city looking for various phones that Zsasz is calling, giving him a small amount of time to answer them with three hostage's lives on the line should he fail. Here, he tries to justify himself through discussing his Freudian Excuse by talking about how he found that life is meaningless due to losing his parents and squandering away his fortune by gambling, and that he's trying to save people by "liberating" them from their perceived pointless existences. However, upon entering his hideout it's very clear that he really does take a sick pleasure in this due to the fact that he's menacing two of his hostages and creepily telling them about how slowly he's going to kill them, and has already killed the third hostage despite telling Batman that he wouldn't as long as Batman played by the rules. While not one of Batman's bigger foes, he's still among the most terrifying.
* Julian Gregory Day, aka the Calendar Man, is a soft-spoken psychopath who commits crimes during and based on holidays. In *Arkham City*, he boasts about a sizeable rap sheet over the years, from murdering his parents and potential lovers to laying siege to maternity wards and poisoning entire gangs working for him, Day kicks off his next spree in the *Arkham Knight* tie-in comic by murdering dozens of people in stores across Gotham on holidays. Later capturing Batman, Day forces him to fight monsters continuously for an entire week while using an infant as a hostage, before revealing he has poisoned over 300 people in Gotham—-many of whom are children and toddlers—hoping for Batman to tire himself into exhaustion and allow Day to strike the killing blow. Day ultimately flings the hostage infant off a ledge to enable his own escape, successfully evading capture and ending his current spree solely to bask in Batman's coming defeat at the hands of Scarecrow.
* Garfield Lynns, better known as Firefly, stands out among Batman's lesser foes due to his wanton sadism, bottomless avarice, and the psychotic lengths he will go to get his desired results. When Joker puts out a $50 million bounty on Batman, Firefly goes an entirely different route than his fellow assassins, leading an attack on the Gotham Pioneer Bridge and endangering hundreds of people. Taking nearly a dozen people hostage, Firefly uses them as bait to lure in Batman and various squads of the GCPD, planning to blow up the bridge once they are all gathered so as to kill them all. Even when Batman informs Firefly that the bounty is called off, the assassin continues his attempted mass murder just for fun. A decade later, Firefly returns to mass murder by trying to burn alive over a dozen firefighters, leaving them to be tortured and killed by gangs after that fails, and then plans to set Gotham aflame one building at a time until all that is left are ashes of building and citizen alike.
* Simon Stagg is a depraved businessman who turned his philanthropic company into an arms and drug dealing enterprise to satisfy his own greed. As of *Arkham Knight*, Stagg began kidnapping countless people who "wouldn't be missed" and subjecting them to torturous experiments to develop chemical weapons that he then sold off to militaries around the world, profiting from war and death. After allying with Scarecrow, Stagg secretly uses his Fear Toxin to torture dozens of people, keeping them alive and pumped with Fear Toxin for weeks on end to drive them mad, hoping to then sell the Toxin as a new bioweapon for more profit. When Stagg's lifelong co-worker Alex Sartorius tries to expose his evil, Stagg turns him into another experiment, and even after being beaten, Stagg nearly allows Scarecrow to kill millions of people just to evade blame for his own crimes.

## *Injustice*

* The Joker is unsurprisingly quite a nasty piece of work, especially the version of him in the *Injustice: Gods Among Us* universe. He dies very early on in the game, but what he does is more than enough to establish himself as this trope. He put a detonator inside of a pregnant Lois Lane that would cause a nuclear bomb he planted in Metropolis to go off once her heart stopped beating, then he hit Superman with some of the Scarecrow's fear gas laced with kryptonite. This caused Superman to hallucinate Lois as his dreaded foe Doomsday and, as a result, he killed her and the baby by flying her into space, as well as unintentionally setting off the detonator, killing millions of people in the process. Why did Joker do this to him, you ask? He viewed Superman as an easier target than his regular nemesis Batman, and he even taunts Superman about this to his face after being locked up. And that's not all, he even said that he had plans to top this after he makes his inevitable escape... which doesn't happen, thankfully, due to Superman ripping his heart right out his chest. This ends up turning Superman into a cruel tyrant hellbent on oppressing the people of Earth in order to snuff out all crime, making Joker the Bigger Bad of *Injustice*.
* High Chancellor Kal-El himself is quite awful as well. While he does have a genuinely sad backstory, all sympathy for him goes flying out the window the moment he puts his foot down and establishes the One-Earth Regime, a brutal dictatorship that he rules with an iron fist, oppressing citizens and killing off any would-be dissenters who dare to rise against him, making it clear that any semblance of Clark Kent died along with Lois and their unborn child, leaving only the twisted, rage-filled Knight Templar Kal-El. He also has quite the ego problem as well, given how he Template:Spoiler When Regime!Shazam calls him out on this and then makes the mistake of bringing up Lois, Kal-El proceeds to Template:Spoiler Worse still, Kal-El has plans to invade the universe that the Justice League came from and completely obliterate it, all because they got in his way. He also has plans to forcibly abduct Lois Lane from the main DC Universe, which would undoubtedly end poorly for Lois, given his previous track-record (Superman even calls Kal-El out on this, saying that Lois would be disgusted and horrified if she saw all the terrible things he had done in her name). Once all is said and done and Kal-El has been defeated, he serves as a grim reminder that sometimes, when a once-noble hero falls, they fall *hard*... and Superman is quite aware of this by the end, seriously disturbed by just how easily his counterpart completely lost it.
* Brainiac, as cold and ruthless as ever, is the Big Bad of the sequel, *Injustice 2*. Shown in a flashback to have stolen Argo City and Kandor before destroying Krypton, Brainiac arrives on Earth after learning that Superman was defeated. Intrigued, Brainiac sends his Betas to round up, scan and vaporise civilians as well as brainwashing several heroes. Stealing numerous cities, Brainiac smiles as he takes Metropolis, after which he seemingly kills Superman. Claiming that unless the heroes give him Supergirl to study how yellow sun radiation affects Kryptonian cells he will order his Betas to self-destruct, igniting Earth’s atmosphere and wiping out all its life; in doing so he betrays Gorilla Grodd and the Society that were working with him. (Though, it should be noted that Grodd himself was planning on betraying Brainiac himself to get control of his ship and was aware of Brainiac's true ambitions) When Supergirl and Batman infiltrate his Skull Ship they find at least dozens of shrunken cities from different worlds giving a small glimpse of the scale of Brainiac’s atrocities. They are captured, Brainiac intending to vivisect Supergirl while dismissively leaving Batman to be killed. Template:Spoiler, Brainiac is confronted by Superman and Batman, to which Brainiac boasts that he has killed billions of Kryptonians. With countless crimes of theft and genocide, Brainiac justifies himself with this line: “I value knowledge. And like your metal trinkets, knowledge is more valuable when it is rare.” Even centuries later, his influence scars the reputation of all Coluans, as evident in Template:Spoiler's ending.
* Gorilla Grodd is the leader of the Injustice Society and The Dragon to Brainiac. Secretly making a deal with Brainiac that he will turn Earth over to him in exchange for power Grodd uses the Society to subtly advance his master's scheme. When Grodd's rally is attacked by Canary and Arrow, he stalls for time and then alerts Brainiac to their location resulting in them being abducted by the alien. When the Corulan begins his invasion, Grodd puts bombs in the Society's heads and forces them to fight the heroes, getting millions of innocent people killed. When Grodd is sent to Kahndaq, he makes it clear that he will happily sacrifice his fellow apes and pawns to get his desire. Grodd kidnaps Blue Beetle and puts him under his control intending to kill him when his purpose is served. He later admits to Aquaman and Black Adam that he intends to turn on Brainiac when the alien reveals his weakness and concedes that he has no loyalty to anyone but himself. Power hungry, selfish, and misanthropic to the extreme, Grodd shows he will happily allow the death of his people and the destruction of his world if it means he can gain power and satisfy his racism against humans.
* From the spin-off comics, *He-Man/ThunderCats & Injustice vs. Masters of the Universe*: Skeletor and Mumm-Ra are the evil supernatural beings who decided to unite in order to destroy their sworn enemies and take over all reality. Enslaving the Ancient Spirits of Evil, thus giving them the form of titanic beasts, the two command them to cause chaos all over Eternia in order to take possession of two ancient magic swords, the Sword of Omens and the Sword of Power. As a result, thousands of Eternians were killed, and nearly all Eternia was on the brink of destruction. When the remaining forces of Eternia and the ThunderCats managed to defeat their beasts, Skeletor and Mumm-Ra fused into the extremely powerful Mumm-Ator and, after destroying the remaining opposition, break into Castle Grayskull to try to take over the multiverse. After Lion-O and He-Man combined their power to separate and banish them, the weakened Skeletor pretends to serve both Darkseid and the power-mad Superman, manipulating them both, causing Darkseid to invade Eternia, an action which resulted in many more people being killed or brainwashed to be servants of Darkseid.
* Per usual, Darkseid is this trope. Torturing Black Racer into submission, Darkseid allows his son Kalibak to lead an assault on Earth, killing tens of thousands of people, before his army was destroyed by Superman. Angered at the fact that Superman sullied his reputation by killing Kalibak, Darkseid starts scheming the destruction of Superman more aggressively, first hiring Lobo to take him down and then, when that failed, joining the conspiracy with Ares and Hera, manipulating humans, superheroes, and Olympians into a bloody conflict, with the human government even launching nukes as a result. After this, Darkseid found the weakened Skeletor in the cosmos, and from him, he found the location of the solution to Anti-Life Equation to be in Castle Grayskull. Invading Eternia, Darkseid kills, captures and transforms thousands of people into his obedient slaves, as he tries to uncover Anti-Life Equation, to take control of the multiverse, killing the minds and personalities of every living being aside from himself.

## Other

* In the video game of *Batman Begins*, Dr. Jonathan Crane, aka The Scarecrow, is made considerably worse than his film counterpart. Helping Ra's Al-Ghul by developing the gas needed for his plan, Scarecrow tests it out on innocent people, having them driven insane and using them as attack dogs. Scarecrow shows no concern when many of his men are infected by the gas and holds the brother of one of his men hostage. When Batman reaches his lair, Scarecrow tries to leave his patients to burn to death. When Ra's starts his plan to release the gas into Gotham, Scarecrow tries to lower the bridge to allow the first few people to be infected into the city to start tearing it apart.
* The Joker is the true Big Bad and the ultimate mastermind behind all the evil in *Batman: Vengeance*. Faking his death to keep suspicion off himself, Joker manipulates the supervillains Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy into committing various crimes, from flash freezing a factory of workers to implanting carnivorous plants iside innocents to blackmail them, and usss the ensuing chaos to initiate his own scheme. Joker plans to pump Joker Gas and the highly flammable substance Promethium into Gotham City's sewers, then giddily watch as millions of innocents choke on their own laughter as they burn alive. Even when beaten, Joker attempts to fling himself to his death, hoping to both torment Batman and immortalize himself as the greatest nightmare in Gotham's history.
* *Batman: The Animated Series* (Game Boy): In this game, The Joker plots to smuggle a bunch of teddy bears containing bombs filled with Joker Venom into Gotham to have them go off and kill many people, openly telling Batman about his plan in advance so as to lure Batman in an attempt to kill him. The Joker later shoots the Batplane out of the sky in an attempt to kill Batman and Robin, not caring about potential collateral deaths caused by the crash.
* *Green Lantern*: *Rise of the Manhunters*: Amon Sur is the son of Abin Sur, the greatest member of the Green Lantern Corp, who died before the game began. Amon presented himself as a kind and dutiful son at his father's funeral, but that was all an act. Amon was secretly bitter that his father's ring was given to Hal Jordan instead of him and planned to exact his revenge. Allying himself with the Green Lantern's old enemies, the Manhunters, Amon has the Manhunters attack Oa. This attack was a diversion so that the Manhunters could locate the Yellow Fear Battery hidden beneath Oa and steal its power. The Manhunters succeed and with this new power Amon orders them to brainwash and enslave another race, the Zamarons, so that they will attack Oa. Foiling this scheme, Hal Jordan heads to the Manhunters' home world, where he discovers Amon's treachery and finds his friend Kilowog trapped in a giant Manhunter that is slowly draining away his life force. After freeing Kilowog, Hal Jordan finds Amon leading the Manhunters in another attack on Oa, with Amon intending to kill everyone on the planet for revenge.
* *Justice League Heroes*:
	+ Brainiac, after receiving a telepathic message from a meteorite, promising him great power and knowledge if he can release the power within the meteor, launches a complex scheme to get the equipment he needs. He creates a series of disasters to keep the Justice League busy: He has his robot minions attack random citizens; has Queen Bee transform people into bee creatures; hires the Key and Killer Frost to set off several nuclear weapons; frees the White Martians so they can attack Earth; frees Gorilla Grodd so he will use his Earthquake Machine, eventually planning to destroy Gorilla City; and uses a Doomsday clone to help him take over the Justice League Watchtower, imprison Martian Manhunter, and steal a Mother Box. Brainiac is willing to endanger millions of lives just as a distraction tactic so the Justice League would too busy to stop his power-hungry pursuits.
	+ Darkseid himself, while trapped inside an extradimensional prison, had been manipulating Brainiac the whole time, communicating telepathically via the meteorite. He makes his actual appearance by vaporizing Brainiac. Darkseid then uses the Mother Box and a Sensory Matrix Field Generator to banish the Justice League, before transforming the Earth into a new Apokolips, which he describes as "something far, far worse than Hell on Earth" and incarcerating Superman in a Kryptonite prison.
* *Superman Returns*:
	+ Lex Luthor somehow manages to be *even worse* than his film counterpart. Faking reports of Krypton still existing to get rid of Superman, Lex is released from jail and cons an elderly woman out her belongings. Lex steals and experiments on the data crystals, causing a blackout and unleashing multiple criminals and creatures onto the city, including Bizarro and Riot. Lex's ultimate goal is to use the crystals to build a continent that would destroy most of North America and potentially kill billions. Lex later plants the crystals, causing tornadoes, and abandons Lois Lane to die. When Superman comes to the island, Lex beats him up and throws him into the ocean to die. Uncaring and out only for himself, Lex laughs off any of the damage he causes.
	+ Mongul is the sadistic leader of Warworld, where he forces aliens to fight for his amusement. Capturing Superman on his way back to Earth from Krypton. Mongul forces him to fight in Gladiator Games against his will. When Superman beats his opponents, Mongul enters the ring himself, but is beaten. Mongul tries to goad Superman into killing him, and following Superman to Earth, he has his men attack Metropolis. In his final battle with Superman, Mongul attempts to have asteroids crash into the city and has his men attack citizens to hurt Superman.