| Villain | First appearance | Description |
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| Maximus Rex | Justice League of America #221 (December 1983) | Rex Rogan's company Repli-Tech Industries was going bankrupt and in a radical move he had himself and his board of directors turned into man-animal hybrids called the Ani-Men. Establishing a venue called the Arena, the Ani-Men slaughtered combatants for the amusement of the ultra-rich. When the League went to shut the operation down, its members were trounced by Rex and his forces. In a second battle, the League learned the process that transformed the Ani-Men was ongoing and inevitably the hybrids turned completely into mindless beasts. |
| Paragon | Justice League of America #224 (March 1984) | Able to duplicate and magnify the metahuman abilities of organic creatures in close vicinity of him, Joel Cochin sought to destroy all those he viewed as being inferior. |
| Fiatlux | Justice League of America #225 (April 1984) | Cult bent on world domination so far as to summon the demon Hellrazer, the deity Set, and genetically engineered dragons. Former leaders include Lords Gravesend, Arsenic, and Claw. |
| Hellrazer | Justice League of America #225 (April 1984) | A demon summoned by the cult of Fiatlux towards world domination that possessed Zatanna. |
| The Marshal | Justice League of America #228 (July 1984) | Leader of the Mars II settlement; upon learning the Earth vessel Viking II had landed on Mars (which he observed as trying to steal Martian resources), the Marshal declared war on Earth. |
| The Cadre | Justice League of America #235 (February 1985) | Formed by the powerful and malevolent Overmaster, they were his puppets to test a world's worthiness to exist. The group would later be called the Cadre of the Immortal. |
| The Anti-Monitor | Crisis on Infinite Earths #6 (September 1985) | The force behind Crisis on Infinite Earths, the Anti-Monitor watched over the Anti-Matter Universe as the Monitor did with the Multiverse created when Krona broke the taboo of watching the universe's creation. It would try to conquer the Multiverse, but meet defeat and return due to the efforts of Alexander Luthor, Jr. during Infinite Crisis and later become the Guardian of the Sinestro Corps and fuel for the Black Central Power Battery. |
| The General | Captain Atom #1 (March 1987) | An important figure in the Atom Project and Task Force X, Wade Eiling would actively engage the League after the Ultramarine Corps assisted him in obtaining one of the Shaggy Man bodies. Transplanting his brain successfully into it, he became the villainous General and faced the heroes repeatedly. |
| Maxwell Lord | Justice League #1 (May 1987) | A high level leader in Checkmate, Lord would have his mind controlled by the entity called Kilg%re to form a new version of the Justice League. He would stay on in his managerial capacity to make the team weak so that his plans to eliminate Earth's metahumans could be hastened. His efforts with the OMAC Project and having Superman slaughter his League teammates was interrupted when Wonder Woman murdered him. |
| The Gray Man | Justice League #2 (June 1987) | A sorcerer given the power to collect the dream energy of those near death by the Laws of Order, but over time began to attack the living and caught the ire of Doctor Fate and his League colleagues. |
| Justice League America #31 (October 1989) | Replacing the original after his death, the second Gray Man decided to initiate suicide on a global scale with the help of Dr. Irwin Teasdale and savor the dream energy for himself to conquer the world and the cosmos. While the League tried to stop him, inevitably it was the intervention from the Lords of Chaos and Order and the Spectre that were able to defeat him. The Lords lobotomized the servant, who would now mindlessly attend to his duties. |
| Kilg%ore | The Flash #3 (August 1987) | An electro-mechano-organic alien lifeform that sought to dominate Earth's electrical systems. When this failed, it controlled Maxwell Lord's mind and sought to dominate the world through cunning by forming and controlling the Justice League. |
| Manga Khan | Justice League International #14 (June 1988) | An intergalactic trader that kidnapped Mister Miracle to open up trade with Apokolips and faced the Justice League who sought their friend. |
| The Macrolatts | The Weird #1 (July 1988) | A race of malevolent beings that enslave and openly feed on the energy of the Zarolatts. When they seek to enter other realms for the purpose of conquest, a Zarolatt escapes, comes to Earth, and animates the dead body of Walter Langley. Dubbed the Weird, he seeks to warn the Justice League; however, two Macrolatts possess Superman and Nuklon, increasing and expanding their already significant powers. With the Weird, the League is able to triumph over the invaders and free their comrades. |
| The Injustice League | Justice League International #23 (January 1989) | Historically, a group of D-list villains led by Major Disaster, but chronologically, a villainous group formed by the alien tyrant Agamemno and made up of some of the League's greatest individual nemeses. The group would later resurface led by Luthor, the Joker, and the Cheetah as a virtual army of villains. |
| The Conglomerate | Justice League Quarterly #1 (Winter 1990) | A version of the Crime Syndicate for the Justice League at the time. Membership included Fiero, Frostbite, Elasti-Man, the Element Man, the Scarab, and Slipstream (analogies for Fire, Ice, the Elongated Man, Metamorpho, the Blue Beetle, and the Flash, respectively). |
| Mr. Nebula | Justice League America #36 (March 1990) | A parody of Galactus (even including a parody of Galactus' Herald the Silver Surfer called the Scarlet Skier), Nebula fancies himself an artist and redesigns entire worlds with his Nebulamobile. |
| The Extremists | Justice League Europe #15 (June 1990) | A powerful group of villains from the planet Angor based on Doctor Doom, Magneto, Dormammu, Doctor Octopus, and Sabretooth. After their demise, Mitch Wacky built robotic duplicates of them for a theme park that became self-aware and traveled to Earth to battle their enemies the Silver Sorceress and the Blue Jay, who had joined the League. They would return repeatedly to face the League (once as part of the Cadre). |
| Doomsday | Superman: The Man of Steel #18 (November 1992) | An artifact of Krypton predating its society, Doomsday is the ultimate weapon that seeks Kryptonians and their demise at his hands. Arriving on Earth, he faces the League and defeats them chiefly. He would return on several occasions, sometimes against the League, much to their chagrin. |
| Dr. Destiny's Justice League | Justice League America #72 (March 1993) | An alternate reality Justice League created by Dr. Destiny that was ruthless in their pursuit of justice (similar to the Justice Lords) and featured the Martian Manhunter, Green Lantern, Hawkman, the Flash, the Atom, the Red Tornado, the Black Canary, Firestorm, and the Green Arrow (who questioned the League's tactics). Batman was a member, but resigned when he saw the direction that the group was taking. |
| The Aryan Nation | Justice League Task Force #10 (March 1994) | A team of white supremacists that faced the League and were later folded into the Cadre. |
| The League Busters | Justice League International #65 (June 1994) | A United Nations sanctioned group composed mostly of villains, not unlike the Suicide Squad, formed in case the government needed to defeat the Justice League. Membership featured the Peacemaker, Ultraa, the Mirror Master, Chromax, and the Spellbinder. |
| The Contessa | Superman: The Man of Tomorrow #1 (July 1995) | Contessa Erica Alexandra del Portenza is the ex-wife of Lex Luthor and mother to his daughter Lena Luthor. She claims to be over 1,900 years old, and the director of the Agenda, a clandestine organization for cloning and DNA modification that absorbed Darkseid's Evil Factory and rivals Project Cadmus. Originally an enemy to Superboy, they became a consistent threat to Young Justice and the Contessa sought to turn the public against the superhero community during Young Justice: Sins of Youth. |
| The Killer Elite | Justice League America #105 (November 1995) | A grouping of some of the greatest assassins on Earth. The membership included Deadshot, Malcolm Merlyn the Dark Archer, Bolt, Deadline, and Chiller. |
| Neron | Underworld Unleashed #1 (November 1995) | A demon that largely acts in the role of the Biblical devil whose machinations, such as those during Underworld Unleashed, have brought him into conflict with the League. |
| Magog | Kingdom Come #1 (May 1996) | Harbinger of a new breed of dark heroes that murdered, he was the target of the reformation of the Justice League formed when Superman returned from retirement. |
| Know Man | Justice League: Midsummer's Nightmare #2 (October 1996) | An enigmatic alien that used Dr. Destiny to make the Justice League forget their past, while activating the metagenes of people on Earth at a rampant rate. |
| The White Martians | JLA #1 (January 1997) | A warlike people of Mars; a group of them survived that planet's destruction and arrived on Earth known as the Hyperclan to usurp the League's status and conquer Earth. Later, the race was revived by the Id and banished to the Phantom Zone, where Fernus slew them. Other White Martians emerged, such as hybrids made by A'monn A'mokk with the DNA of metahumans from Earth, several from some enemies of the League. |
| Asmodel | JLA #7 (July 1997) | Formerly the leader of the Bull-Host of the angels of Heaven, he has allied himself with Neron and faced the League several times. |
| Gog | New Year's Evil: Gog #1 (February 1998) | A man empowered by the Quintessence that traveled to parallel Earths and slayed the Superman therein, generally battling the League as well. |
| Prometheus | New Year's Evil: Prometheus #1 (February 1998) | When his sociopathic parents were gunned down at the end of a car chase before his eyes, the man who became Prometheus dedicated his life to crime, not unlike Bruce Wayne to law in the wake of a similar tragedy. With his Ghost Key to the Phantom Zone and a helmet storing the top 20 martial artists' skills, Prometheus would battle the League several times, including engineering the murder of Lian Harper. For a time, Chad Graham (trained as Prometheus' sidekick) took over his mentor's mantle when he was incapacitated and was murdered by the villain when he returned. |
| Julian September | JLA #18 (May 1998) | A quantum physicist and probability mathematician that discovered how to manipulate luck and used it to become President of the United States, a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, and other such accolades that sowed chaos on Earth in response. |
| Bedlam | JLA: World Without Grown-Ups #1 (July 1998) | An ancient power that feeds on dreams and wishes that possessed Matthew Stuart and would alter Earth to suit its will. |
| The SuperMan | Tangent Comics: The Superman #1 (September 1998) | Harvey Dent developed phenomenal powers on an alternate Earth and uses his abilities to conquer his world and rule it as a tyrant to protect it from disorder and crime. When he learned of the League's Earth, he sought to conquer it as well and crossed swords with its heroes. |
| Malefic | Martian Manhunter #0 (October 1998) | The malevolent twin brother of the Martian Manhunter, he was perverted by Darkseid into becoming his herald and engineered the plague known as H’Ronmeer's Curse that wiped out most of the Martians. When he arrived on Earth, he impersonated his sibling and attacked the League. |
| Solaris the Tyrant Sun | DC One Million #1 (November 1998) | An artificial sun destined to be the nemesis to the Superman Dynasty that was the mastermind behind DC One Million that teamed the Justice League with their future contemporaries in Justice Legion A. |
| Harm | Young Justice #4 (January 1999) | William "Billy" Hayes is a teenage psychotic empowered by the demon Buzz that aspired to be the greatest killer on Earth. To this end, he targeted Young Justice. |
| The Disciple | JLA: Primeval (1999) | Jerome Cox is allergic to the modern world and worships ancient powers, seeking to bring these Elder Gods to Earth. As the League tried to stop him, they were devolved to early versions of their species. |
| Mageddon | JLA #37 (January 2000) | A weapon of the Old Gods, it uses spores to engineer weakness in a world that it targets for destruction before using anti-sun technology to destroy the surrounding galaxy. |
| Imperiex | Superman (vol. 2) #153 (February 2000) | Energy representing entropy, Imperiex controls an army of drones and seeks to destroy the universe and recreate it in its image. It destroyed several worlds like Warworld and Almerac, and its threat forced an alliance among several worlds, including Earth and Apokolips. |
| The Point Men | Young Justice #18 (March 2000) | A group of teenagers that the Agenda made from genetic material and cloned to destroy Young Justice. Membership includes the Gray Lady, Serpenteen, Blockade, Short Cut, the Blank Slate, and Groundswell. |
| Nergal | Green Lantern Annual #9 (September 2000) | An Oan that came to Earth, married his sister Ereskigal, and led an army of abominations crafted by his mother Tiamat. Worshiped as a god in ancient Babylon, he was banished to Kurnugi by the Oan Istar and the Terran Ninurta's army and remained until Istar's descendant Sala Nisaba unwittingly opened the door to the dimension with help from Kyle Rayner. She became trapped, but managed to free Kyle, who returned with the League to defeat Nergal and save Sala. |
| The Queen of Fables | JLA #47 (November 2000) | Powerful sorceress from another dimension trapped in the Book of Fables by Snow White. Freed in modern times, the Queen transforms Manhattan and targets Wonder Woman (who bears a resemblance to Snow White) leading the League to battle the sorceress, trapping her again, but in a book on the United States tax code. |
| Baron Agua Sin Gaaz | Young Justice #24 (October 2000) | Grandfather of the Empress that murdered the heroine's parents, which prompted an invasion by the Young Justice League into Zandia, haven for supervillains, to bring him to justice. |
| The Centurion | JLA 80-Page Giant #3 (October 2000) | Accidentally created by the 100, the Centurion controlled a ghost army of soldiers throughout history and the Erasure Weapon, which would erase something and its entire history. However, when the former turned on him, he and his nemesis the Moon Maiden were wiped from history. The pair would return working together and garnered intergalactic armies to their cause, until the Moon Maiden's memories of her fellow Leaguers shocked her into defeating Centurion again. |
| Jadeth | JLA: Seven Caskets (2000) | An ancient, evil ruler of great mystic power that betrayed seven monstrous kings and went into hibernation for millions of years. Her return was stopped when the Justice League merged with the spirits of the evil kings and Superman took her power, splitting it among his teammates. The act proved shocking to Jadeth, seeing evil power used in such an opposing manner, and she returned to her sleep. |
| The Advance Man | Justice Leagues: JL? #1 (March 2001) | An alien being that is commissioned to prepare planets for invasion by weakening its defenses. Using Hector Hammond, he attempted to make the people of Earth forget the existence of the Justice League. However, Hammond caught on to his scheme and left a suggestion of a 'Justice League of A...' in the minds of the group's charter members. This led to numerous Justice Leagues of different As (Aliens, Arkham, Amazons, Atlantis, Apostles, Anarchy, Adventure, and Air) which inconvenienced the Advance Man until their memories returned and they toppled the alien. |
| Manchester Black | Action Comics #775 (March 2001) | Originally an antihero that formed the Elite, Black's failure to pervert Superman and his ideals led him to suicide. However, perhaps as being a powerful psionic, his mind survived and retreated to his sister Vera Black's mind. He would begin to subvert Vera, until during a mission of the Justice League Elite he took over her body and enslaved the powerful being Eve. Only the combined efforts of the two Justice Leagues were able to defeat him. |
| The Diablos | JLA: Black Baptism #1 (May 2001) | A host of demons that pattern themselves after the Mafia and seek to go up in rank among the demons of Hell. Led by the Enchantress (in the guise of succubus Anita Soulfeeda), they are manipulated by Hermes Trismegistus (in possession of Felix Faust's body) into stealing the magic energies of denizens on Earth in order to cleanse the world of humanity. Membership includes Nicky the Fork, Big Luci, Deuce, Scratch, and Samhein Diablo. |
| Id | JLA #53 (June 2001) | A sentient energy created by the Cathexis able to turn wishes into reality, Id was unleashed on Earth granting wishes in ironic, malevolent ways including making a wish of Superman materialize as separating the League between their dual identities in physical manifestations. |
| Anathema | Haven: The Broken City #1 (February 2002) | A geneticist on Competalia that developed a process to give people superpowers and used it to become their ruler and developed a super army. Her enemies were placed in a prison called Haven, who transformed the facility into a starship and escaped to Earth, where they were given asylum. Anathema followed and began empowering humans to become a power source for a teleportation device to bring her legions to Earth, but her plans were foiled by the League and the Alliance of Haven and she was destroyed by one of her former associates. |
| Rama Khan | JLA #62 (March 2002) | Title to the ruler and protector of Jarhanpur, Rama Khan can bend the elements of the land to his every whim. When an infant was chosen as the successor to the position and kidnapped, the League battled Rama Khan to reclaim the child. |
| Gamemnae | JLA #69 (September 2002) | Born to Atlantis with blond hair, a taboo due to the Curse of Kordax, she was exiled and returned as a powerful sorceress that came to rule her people. She had planned to conquer the world until Aquaman and the people of present-day Atlantis arrived in her time, sent to the past by Tempest during Our Worlds at War to save them from Imperiex. Imprisoning Aquaman and enslaving the future Atlanteans, she formed a League of Ancients to destroy the Justice League in a preemptive strike for when they tried to save their comrade. When the League comes to the past to face her, she does battle in the present with a reserve League established by Batman. |
| The League of Ancients | JLA #70 (October 2002) | Inspired by the Justice League, Gamemnae assembled Rama Khan, Manitou Raven, the Anointed One, the Whaler, Tezumak, and Sela under the false pretense of a peacekeeping force, but really to destroy the League. Inevitably, all save Manitou Raven were absorbed by the sorceress in a quagmire spell. |
| The Cold Warriors | Justice League Adventures #12 (December 2002) | A grouping of cold-themed villains, including Mister Freeze, Captain Cold, Killer Frost, Minister Blizzard, the Icicle, the Snowman, the Cryonic Man, and Polar Lord (General Eklu of the planet Tharr). A similar group appeared in Justice League of America #139 (February 1977), made up of Captain Cold, the Icicle, and Minister Blizzard. Another group called the Ice Pack appeared in Super Friends #16 (August 2009) featuring Mister Freeze, Captain Cold, Killer Frost, Minister Blizzard, the Icicle and the Blue Snowman. In Young Justice , the elder Icicle enlists his son, Mister Freeze, Captain Cold and Killer Frost for a prison break. |
| Lady Zand | Young Justice #50 (December 2002) | Believed to be over 800 years old, Lady Zand claims to have founded the nation of Zandia that can become the very soil of her country and manipulate the land to her whim. |
| Axis Amerika | JLA #81 (July 2003) | Created by the Clockwatchers, this group of fascists operated out of the Safe Haven Children's Home. They were used by Manson in an attempt to reclaim Faith and discredit the League. |
| Fernus | JLA #85 (November 2003) | A genetic backdoor in Martian DNA to their previous experience as the Burning. When the Martian Manhunter overcame his fear of fire, it set free the Fernus persona present in every one of his race's DNA. Nihilistic and seeking to reproduce asexually, Fernus sought to bathe the Earth in fire and death. |
| Crucifer | JLA #94 (May 2004) | Leader of a vampire coven called the Tenth Circle that abducted children from around the globe and came into conflict with the Justice League and the Doom Patrol. |
| Red King | JLA Secret Files and Origins 2004 (November 2004) | Darrin Profitt absconded with Dr. Destiny's Materioptikon, created multiple realities, observed the outcomes to provide himself a direct path to all of his desires (including a technologically advanced suit of armor) and developed metahuman abilities. Seeking to defeat the League and conquer Earth, he maintained three realities of himself to give him good odds, with a fourth dubbed Fallback should all others fail. |
| Aftermath | Justice League Elite #6 (February 2005) | Leader of an intergalactic drug gang of the same name, Aftermath sought power in the Source Wall, but was instead absorbed, freeing Eve. |
| Eve | Justice League Elite #8 (April 2005) | A mysterious being of great power able to alter reality that was sealed in the Source Wall, released when Aftermath entered it and her mind controlled by Manchester Black (who had possessed his sister Vera). The pair went to Earth and created global havoc, laying waste to the JLA. Eve destroyed herself when Vera was able to regain control of her own mind. |
| The Void Hound | JLA #111 (April 2005) | An ancient weapon of Qward built on the legend of the dark god Erdammeru, the Void Hound was so advanced that no crew of Qwardians could pilot it. Instead, when a sentient mind emerged from Qward's vast communication web, they were able to capture it and use it to give their weapon an intellect able to control it, but it proved too powerful for the Weaponers of Qward to tame and was sealed. In the face of mounting threats, including almost being conquered by the Crime Syndicate and Krona carving destruction across the Anti-Matter Universe, a high-ranking Thunderer named Irik T. Roval awoke the weapon and managed to steer it to Earth, destroying entire solar systems in its wake. Earth's heroes, led by the League, were no match for it. One of Roval's underlings learned from the heroes of who the Crime Syndicate was and the weapon was turned on the Anti-Matter Earth. They were equally unable to stop the weapon and asked the League for help, which was granted. Inevitably, John Stewart was able to use his power ring and the Construct to contain the weapon's consciousness in his ring. The weapon's mind proved too much in time and began to take over Stewart and transform him into a cybernetic host. In its new form, it became a servant to Krona and laid waste to entire galaxies for him. However, it would later merge with the soul of Enigma's deceased daughter in S.P.H.E.R.E. to become a force for good on the Anti-Matter Earth. |
| The Power Posse | JLA Classified #8 (August 2005) | Similar to the Crime Syndicate, the Power Posse was an evil version of the Super Buddies based out of a strip club. The group included a gigantic monstrous G'nort, Mary Marvel as a dominatrix named Mistress Mary and her submissive brother Billy, Ice as a sociopathic stripper named Tiffany, bartender Booster Gold, ticket taker Oberon, and bouncer Metamorpho, led by the sleazy Max Lord and his moll Sue (née Dibny). |
| The Hypothetical Army | JLA Classified #16 (March 2006) | Led by General Dvory Tuzik and created by Sybil the Hypothetical Woman, the group defeated the Chinese army and trounced the Justice League until the timely arrival of Superman and the Martian Manhunter. Membership included Ghost Lion, Marieke, Soldat, Jin Si, Dybbuk, and Velocista. |
| Kid Amazo | JLA Classified #37 (June 2007) | The next evolutionary step in Amazo, Ivo created a new model of the android that combined his best-known creation with the DNA of his daughter Sara. Sending the creation to live with human parents as Frank Halloran, Amazo would reclaim his 'progeny', only for the boy to be conflicted with the sudden change in his life. Able to mimic both powers and minds, Kid Amazo was defeated when the League openly bickered and he exploded from the contention. |
| Titus | JLA Classified #51 (March 2008) | A self-styled god that travels between planets seeking out other 'gods' to battle, kill, and earn worship from his triumph. |
| Anansi | Justice League of America #24 (October 2008) | The African spider trickster god residing in Vixen's Tantu Totem able to change reality by weaving stories at his own discretion. Beyond this, he can manipulate those that drawn power from the Red (a.k.a. the Lifeweb, a.k.a. the Morphogenetic Field). |
| The Titans | Titans: Villains for Hire Special #1 (July 2010) | Mercenaries led and organized by Deathstroke the Terminator. After assassinating the Atom (Ryan Choi) on behalf of Dwarfstar, the group is targeted by Ray Palmer and the Justice League. Membership includes Cheshire, the Tattooed Man, Osiris, Cinder, and Arsenal. |
| The Omega Man | Justice League of America #50 (December 2010) | A leftover device of Alexander Luthor, Jr. is spewing dark energy damaging the multiverse, including the Anti-Matter Earth and Earth-9, and the Crime Syndicate hire Doctor Impossible to hijack a Resurrection Machine and return Alexander to life in order to stop it. Instead, he tries to bring back Darkseid, but the machine instead gives the dark energy substance, possessing the body of the Hunter (an evil version of Orion) and creating the Omega Man. With an insatiable thirst for energy, the Omega Man has no choice but to feed on all before him. |
