Editing DC Comics (section)

==Notable Villains==
===Lex Luthor===
Superman's archenemy. Started out as a mad scientist, then turned into a corrupt businessman with slimy politician undertones in the 80s. Currently tends to be depicted as a combination of both; he's a legit supergenius in his own right, but unlike other mad scientists, he was business-savvy enough to parlay his inventions into a mostly legal fortune and now he uses his wealth to employ other mad scientists or criminal underlings rather than doing the dirty stuff himself. 
Whilst he likes to delude himself that his vendetta against Superman is a [[Humanity Fuck Yeah|case of normal humans standing up to oppressive alien gods]], the comics make it very clear that he's actually just jealous of Superman being more powerful and/or popular than he is, and/or he resents that Superman's ''actual'' power makes him somebody that Luthor can't bully into submission.

===The Joker===
Batman's archenemy. A crazed criminal who looks like a clown and who commits crimes in accordance with his own insane view of mirth and whimsy. Has actually gone through a number of distinctive phases over the years, from comedy-themed gimmick gangster to a psychotically artistic mass murderer to (most recently) a mentally-ill victim and villain of society. [[Meme|You don't want to know how he got his scars]].

====Harley Quinn====
Joker's chief flunky, who was originally invented with the Animated Series. Harleen Quinzel was a psychiatrist in Arkham who was tasked with the unenviable task of trying to crack the Joker's psyche and instead ended up broken instead. Eventually she threw away her life and became his chief henchman-slash-arm candy, hiding her wits and craftiness with a ditzy demeanor. That said, their relationship's fluctuated a lot over the years from mere puppy love to a seriously fucked-up abusive power dynamic.

A more recent development's seen her breaking away from the Joker, whether forcibly or because she's finally gotten fed up with his shit. This has also resulted in her turning into a criminally-insane antihero more in the vein of Deadpool. Occasionally she might work with any of Gotham's supervillains (including a totally not-straight relationship with Poison Ivy), but other times she'll be a sort of loose cannon aide for Batman.

===Ra's Al Ghul===
Batman's ''other'' archenemy, from the other direction. Runs the League of Assassins, a clandestine organization that essentially works as hired hitmen with a goal of creating a world free from the corruption that ensnares it. Bruce used to train with them at one point, but left because he viewed their policies as too tyrannical considering that the league was the sole arbiter of who was considered corrupt - Despite this, Ra's views Batman as a potential successor for his position if he were more ruthless.

A skilled martial artist and and intellectual, he doesn't exactly have any superpowers besides from access to the Lazarus Pools, which contain mystical properties that can raise the dead - something he has exploited to become effectively immortal, if at the cost of his mind. His daughter is one of the most common love interests for Batman and is the mother of his son, Talia Al Ghul.

===Deathstroke===
Slade Wilson was an American undercover operative who gained low-level regeneration abilities as part of a black ops bio-augmentation experiment. It also drove him kind of cuckoo, but his wife leaving him after he accidentally got his son's throat slashed (which he survived, but he was left mute) drove him deeper over the edge and he became a gun-for-hire, though he sometimes branches out into super-terrorism or other villainous goals too. He's actually the prototype of Marvel's Deadpool, who was created as a parody of the guy. Most remembered for his appearance in the 2003 Teen Titans cartoon, and yes, he was actually the team's archenemy for a while in the comics too.

===Reverse-Flash===
In the far, far flung future, there was a guy who looked up to and admired the Flash. He was such a fanboy he came up with a way to duplicate the Flash's powers, just so he could travel back in time to become the Flash's sidekick. Talk about a nerd. But things went horribly wrong and he came to despise the man he had once admired above all others, and now he has become the Reverse-Flash. As stupid as the name is, he's a twisted son of a bitch who uses his Flash-tier super speed and status as a living temporal paradox to travel freely through space, time and dimensions  to achieve his goal of making the Flash's life ''utterly miserable''. [[meme|"It was me, Barry!"]]

===Brainiac===
An alien artificial intelligence determined to become the ultimate intelligence, usually through some apocalyptic method or another - stealing cities by putting them in bottles or blowing up whole worlds after copying all their data are old favorites. Actually was entirely separate from Superman originally, they just fought each other, but the DCAU in the 90s came up with the idea of making him a Kryptonian invention and it's popped up here and there in pop culture. 

===Doomsday===
A bioengineered super-soldier created in the 90s for the most shocking comic storyline imaginable at the time: killing off Superman himself. And how do you make a Doomsday? Step one: Go to prehistoric Krypton, which is a full-fledged [[Death World]]. Step two: genetically engineer a baby humanoid with the power of Lamarckian evolution. Step three: Yeet said test-tube baby out into the primordial hell-planet and wait to see what kills it. Step four: Harvest the cells from your dead test-tube baby. Step five: Clone a new bio-engineered baby from these harvested cells. Step six: Repeat steps three through five until you create a creature that can regenerate from pretty much anything, and also modifies its own body in response to deal with whatever threat it encountered. Step seven: [[Not As Planned|Get your ass murdered by your perfected Doomsday monster]] because it has been so traumatized by the genetic memory of its millions upon millions of clone-deaths that it has become imprinted with the genetic drive to slaughter every living thing it encounters to preserve its own existence. Step eight: [[Fail|Wonder as you lay dying why the fuck you went through all this without thinking to put some kind of control mechanism on the damn thing.]]

===General Zod===
The idea of an "Evil Superman" is something that DC has experimented with several times. One of the subtler and older efforts is General Zod, a Kryptonian general turned war criminal who had the good fortune to not only get his ass yeeted into the [[Ethereal Plane|Phantom Zone]] before Krypton blew up, but also to have the blueprints for the device that could undo said yeeting be included in Kal-El's digital library of Kryptonian knowledge aboard his rocket-powered lifepod. Cue a younger, more foolish Superman messing with said device and freeing Zod back into this dimension again. He's basically a weaker but nastier Superman, and has sometimes teetered on anti-villain technology.

===Sinestro===
Once a champion of the Green Lanterns, Sinestro became their greatest failure when he argued the Green Lanterns should bring peace to the universe by enforcing draconian law and tyrannical order with violence and intimidation instead of being just super-cops. Expelled from their order, he literally went "screw you guys, I'll invent my own Lantern Corps, with blackjack and hookers!" and created the Yellow Power Rings, which actually draw their power from fear and harness it in yellow light, similarly to how the Green Power Rings harness willpower. It started out with just the one, but eventually he created his own Yellow Lantern Corps made up of terrorists, would-be dictators and sadists, all united by their belief that fear was power.

===Black Adam===
The Anti-Captain Marvel (or "Anti-Shazam" since the 2010s), an ancient empowered mortal who is basically Captain Marvel, but empowered by the Egyptian gods and with a Bronze Age definition of heroism. He's usually depicted as kind of like Marvel's Doctor Doom; initially he was just seen as the evils of a man obsessed with power, but shifting cultural outlooks seen him only caring about is ruling his stomping grounds from when he was a god-king the first time around, he'll ignore the rest of the world so long as they don't attack his nation.

===Darkseid===
The ultimate big bad of the DC universe, the literal god-like embodiment of tyranny and suffering who rules the appropriately-named Apokalips. Wants to find an "Anti-Life Equation" that will disprove the concept of free will and thusly enslave the entire universe to his will, allowing him to force them to suffer just because he's a dick that way.

===Vandal Savage===
A Caveman who became immortal due to a meteorite. He proceeded to wage wars of conquests and build empires or advise them at various points in human history, and he claims to have been several historical figures, such as Julius Caesar and [[Genghis motherfucking Khan]]. Though some of those claims are probably fake and he's just taking credit.

Got his big bump in relevance with a major arc in the 2004 Justice League show where he traveled back in time, shoved Hitler into a cryochamber so he could rule the Third Reich and conquered both [[The World Wars#The Second World War|World War II]] and the rest of the planet with advanced tech.

===Suicide Squad===
A government-sanctioned organization that forcibly recruits supervillains into performing jobs that can't be traced back to them. Each member is [[Penal Company|implanted with some sort of explosive in order to ensure their obedience]], but since the roster is constantly rotating it's uncertain just how effective these are.

====Amanda Waller====
The unfortunate government official whose job it is to corral the extremely dangerous criminals into the Suicide Squad. As such, she's not keen on taking any shit from anybody. That said, she's one of the more "depending on the writer" characters in DC. She's always a tough-as-nails, take-no-shit bitch, but given her definining  character traits are amorality, her devotion to the United States government as a concept, and her belief in hard men (and women) making hard decisions, she can vary from a tough-but-fair leader who has a legitimate point to a dirty-as-sin scheming snake who uses the Suicide Squad as her own personal hitsquad to a "America Fuck Yeah" jingoistic loony.

===Legion of Doom===

===Anti-Monitor===