Supervillain

A supervillain is a variant of the villain character type common, often found in comic books and action and science fiction films. Supervillains often have colorful names, costumes, and/or other eccentricities, and most concoct complex and ambitious schemes to accumulate vast power and suppress their adversaries.

Well-known supervillains

• Abomination, arch-enemy of the Hulk
• Brainiac, adversary of Superman
• Bullseye, adversary of Daredevil.
• Cobra Commander, main adversary in various G.I. Joe-related animated series
• Darkseid, adversary to the New Gods and the DC Comics superhero community in general.
• Deathstroke (also referred to as Slade), the main adversary of the Teen Titans of the comic and animated series.
• Doctor Doom, adversary of the Fantastic Four and the Marvel Comics superhero community in general
• Doctor Octopus, adversary of Spider-Man
• Doctor Zin, arch-enemy of Jonny Quest and his family
• Dracula, in various incarnations, adversary of the fictional hero community in general.
• Ernst Stavro Blofeld, arch-enemy of James Bond
• Freddy Krueger from the Nightmare On Elm Street series of films
• Fu Manchu, the prototype of the modern supervillain, adversary of the fictional hero community in general.
• Glenn Talbot, rival of Bruce Banner, ex-hubby of Betty Ross and adversary of the Hulk
• Green Goblin, the arch-enemy of Spider-Man
• Hannibal Lecter, the cannibalistic serial killer in Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs, and Hannibal.
• John Sunlight, adversary of Doc Savage, the pulp magazine precursor to Superman
• Khan Noonien Singh, adversary of Captain Kirk on Star Trek
• King Koopa from the Super Mario Bros Video Games and movie
• The Kingpin, adversary of Spider-Man and Daredevil
• The Leader, arch-enemy of the Hulk
• Lex Luthor, arch-enemy of Superman
• Loki, adversary of Thor
• Magneto, adversary of the X-Men
• The Master, adversary of the Doctor
• Megatron, from the Transformers animated series
• Ming the Merciless, adversary of Flash Gordon
• Professor Moriarty, adversary of Sherlock Holmes, and arguably the first supervillain. Holmes described him as “the Napoleon of crime”
• Q, adversary of Captain Picard on and later of Captain Janeway on
• Red Skull, adversary of Captain America
• Riddler, another Batman adversary
• Sabretooth, adversary of Wolverine
• Sandman, adversary of Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four and the Hulk
• The Shredder, main adversary of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• The Sith Lords from the Star Wars film series: Darth Sidious (also known as Palpatine, Galactic Senator, Chancellor and Emperor), Darth Maul, Darth Tyranus (formerly Jedi Master Count Dooku) and Darth Vader (formerly Jedi Anakin Skywalker), adversaries of the Jedi Knights.
• Skeletor, main adversary of He-Man
• Two-Face, adversary of Batman
• Lord Voldemort (also known as "You-Know-Who" and "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named"), main adversary of Harry Potter