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DC Villains Who Are More Terrifying Than Darkseid
DC Villains Who Are More Terrifying Than Darkseid
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Dark Side is DC Comics go-to final boss,
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but is he really the scariest bad guy in
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DC's rogues gallery? Would say these are
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even more unsettling. Dark Side is
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obsessed with the anti-life equation,
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but the anti- monitor wants to destroy
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all positive matter, not just life.
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Every bit of it. He's from the
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antimatter universe and wishes for only
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that universe to exist.
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>> World after world consumed. With every
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death, I steal my mirror strength and
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mine grows ever stronger.
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>> What's really scary is that the anti-
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monitor almost pulls it off in 1985's
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Landmark Crisis on Infinite Earth. He
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manages to seize and manipulate multiple
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universes, leaving only five left to
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fend him off. After the Flash sacrifices
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himself to destroy the anti- monitor's
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ultimate weapon, an antimatter cannon,
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the anti- monitor travels back to the
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dawn of time to destroy all of the
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positive matter universes from the very
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beginning. His plan is only stopped by a
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powered up spectre, but the effects are
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still huge. It essentially wipes out
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DC's multiverse for decades thereafter.
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His body is eventually shattered into
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molecules by the Superman of Earth, too,
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with some help from none other than Dark
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Side. But even what's left of it is
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super powerful. In Infinite Crisis, his
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remains are used as part of a tuning
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fork that recreates the multiverse. With
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the multiverse's rebirth, the anti-
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monitor comes back to life and joins the
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Sinestro, which is the band of yellow
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lanterns. Yellow, of course, represents
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fear in the lantern's emotional
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spectrum. The Joker is scary, sure, but
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imagine a version of the Joker who is
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number one, also Batman. then make him
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the associate of an all powerful demon,
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the killer of his family and the entire
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Justice League and the general in an
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ongoing war between darkness and light.
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That's the Batman who laughs. He's from
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the dark multiverse, specifically its
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Earth negative 22. While his initial
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origin is mostly similar to the mainline
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DCU's Batman, everything goes wrong when
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the Joker paralyzes Batman and forces
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him to watch horrible crimes as they
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happen. Upon recovering, Batman kills
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the Joker, unwittingly releasing Joker
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Venom that makes Batman into the new
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Joker. Essentially, from there, the
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Batman who laughs uses Joker Venom to
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create an army of Robins who fight on
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his behalf. He's eventually chosen by
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the demon Barbatos to spearhead a dark
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multiverse invasion of the regular DCU.
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He only gets more powerful from there,
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eventually becoming a being of pure
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darkness called the Darkest Knight. One
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of the super powerful beings the Batman
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who laughs hitches his wagon to is
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Perpeta. She's not only the original
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creator of the multiverse, but the
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mother of both the anti- monitor and his
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positive energy counterpart, the
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Monitor. Her attempts to create a
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perfect being resulted in the human
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martian hybrid Apex Predators.
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Perpetua's own siblings, the Hands,
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thought that was over the line, and they
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imprisoned her behind what was called
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the Source Wall. The Hands rebuilt the
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multiverse to exist without her
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meddling. The Batman who laughs dark
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multiverse invasion creates enough of a
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shock wave that it breaks the source
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wall, allowing Perpeta to escape after
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billions of years of imprisonment. Her
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main goal, of course, is to rebuild the
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multiverse in her image. She wipes out
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entire universes in the process,
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reducing the total from 52 to just a
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handful. Eventually, Perpeta recruits
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the Batman who laughs as a second in
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command. That proves to be her biggest
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mistake. It's only his rebellion as the
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darkest knight that enables the
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rebuilding of the source wall to
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imprison her again. An evil version of
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the flesh may not sound like all that
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big of a threat, but Eobod Thawn has
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taken that label and really uh ran with
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it.
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>> I became better than you.
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>> I am the one thing you cannot stop,
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Flash.
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>> It's worth noting that Thorne isn't the
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only person to hold the Reverse Flash or
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Professor Zoom title, though. So have
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Iris West's brother Daniel and Hunter
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Solomon. But it was Thorne who killed
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Barry Allen's mom. See, he's from the
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25th century. By that time, Barry's time
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as the Flash has made him a historical
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figure, and Thorne has become obsessed
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with him. He obtains a Flash costume and
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starts setting up situations for him to
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save people as a superhero. At one
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point, Barry comes to the future, but
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sees Thor's fraud. Thorne's obsession
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turns to ruining Barry's life. So, he
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goes back to the past and kills his
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mother, Norah, framing Barry's dad for
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it. With his ability to travel back and
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forth through time via the speed force,
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the reverse Flash can commit crimes in
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the past, change history, even erase
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entire timelines. His influence has been
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immense, even leading to the
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universewide Flashoint reboot. And
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beyond everything, he barely even gets
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noticed when he makes changes. The being
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known as Eclipser has possessed many
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different hosts since his introduction
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back in 1963, but the goal remains the
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same. He's the very embodiment of God's
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wrath, and all he wants is carnage. He
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even calls a biblical great flood in DC
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continuity. Most often, Eclipso has
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inhabited the body of Solar Scientist
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Bruce Gordon, but has taken over the
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bodies of many more, including Superman.
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In one story, he becomes a drug lord and
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president of the fictional South
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American country Paridor. Yet another
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time, Eclipypo poses as billionaire
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Maxwell Lord to seize control of the
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Justice League, thereby taking over a
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huge portion of the world. Eclipso even
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manages to briefly take over Dark Side
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at one point after his capture of the
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Spectre. Above all, Eclipso is a totally
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unpredictable agent of chaos with no
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plans but to spread destruction. If
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you've only seen Staro in the Suicide
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Squad, you might think it's a little bit
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silly.
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And yeah, we'll admit it. Staro is a
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little bit silly. It's a giant starfish
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from space. But think about it just a
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little bit. And Staro is also
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terrifying. The first ever threat that
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the Justice League ever took on all the
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way back in 1960. Staro can launch
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millions of small drones, which look
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exactly like it, to control the minds of
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the inhabitants of planets it hopes to
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conquer. The only thing that makes Stro
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an even somewhat manageable enemy is its
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multiple weaknesses to lime to cold to
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psychic lightning. But good luck
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actually putting any of those to use
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while your mind is being controlled by a
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mini starro that's attached to your
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face. Frankly, the Justice League just
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got lucky. Professor Pig isn't going
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around erasing timelines or destroying
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universes, but for full-on ickactor,
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it's hard to compete with this porign
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master butcher. Vaslo Valentine was an
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agent for the intelligence organization
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Spiral, but drove himself insane with
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drugs he developed. It was after a
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schizophrenic break that he started
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calling himself Professor Pig and
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wearing a pig mask. He formed the circus
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of the strange crime syndicate and
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became obsessed with creating the
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perfect minions, performing grotesque
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surgeries on victims to turn them into
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his army of doatrons. He even makes some
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of them into living bombs. Kind of like
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Perpetua with her apex predators on a
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smaller scale. Pig is usually dealt with
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pretty easily when Batman and Robin face
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off with him. But again, this one isn't
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about his threat level. The guy is just
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unsettling. The way he dances.
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While we're talking about some absolute
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freakos, how about this guy? He's one of
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the magical monsters from the other
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place who came into being not long after
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the creation of the universe. Magic was
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already there from the start. The light
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part of it shaped itself to become
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Hecati. The upside down man is what
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formed from all the dark leftovers.
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Hecati was understandably freaked out
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and created a barrier to keep him away,
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but it only worked for so long. Given
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that he's made of magic, the upside down
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man can alter reality, shoot powerful
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blasts, and heal himself at will. He's
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basically immortal. He liquefied
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Detective Chimp. He pulled all of the
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demon blood out of John Constantine's
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body. He merged the bodies with Zatana
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for a little while. He can only be taken
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down by the mirrored powers of Hecati
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which Wonder Woman wields at one point.
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Otherwise, the upside down man is pretty
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well unstoppable.
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Trigon is a demon whose origin is pretty
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vastly different depending on the
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continuity you look at. In his pre
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flashoint origin, he was created from
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all the dark passions of a cult of peace
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lovers. His new 52 origin involves him
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absorbing the evil of a 100 galaxies
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when a group called the divine came to
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his home planet and made the mistake of
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trying to erase his own evil. Whichever
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origin you choose, Trigon goes on to
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rule countless realms and father Raven,
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who rebelss and becomes a member of the
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Teen Titans. At one point, Trigon
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manages to essentially conquer Earth,
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laying waste to the planet and claiming
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the Teen Titans headquarters as his own.
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He fuses together the bodies of four
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million people just to make a monument
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to suffering. Lucky for everyone else,
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Raven often has Trigon's number and can
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come up with plans to send him back to
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the side corner of hell, which he rules
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over. But it must be terrible for Raven.
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It really sucks to have the worst
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possible dad.
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>> Fathers are kind.
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Fathers protect you.
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Fathers raise you.
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Dark Side has taken on the Justice
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League a whole bunch of times, but only
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one villain is such a threat that it
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took both the JLA and the Avengers to
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take him down. Croner. Croner is a
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member of the alien race that eventually
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becomes a guardians of the universe, the
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founders of the Green Lantern Corp. But
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he didn't get along with his peers
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because of the out there experiments he
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performed in his unending thirst for
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knowledge. At one point, he performed an
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experiment to see the dawn of time, and
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it worked. His machine exploded, thereby
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unleashing evil onto the universe. But
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that's the one who finally got him
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banished. Crona is also responsible for
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the creation of two other pretty scary
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villains. He sabotages the robot
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precursors to the Green Lanterns, the
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manhunters, and they destroy an entire
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section of space. One of the only
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survivors becomes Atrocetus, the first
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red lantern. And the map he leaves
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behind directly leads laughs to the
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orange power battery, making him the
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only orange lantern. When one of the
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other guardians goes back in time to
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stop Croner's experiment, his machine
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also explodes, turning Crona into the
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cosmic being Entropy. That's when Croner
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invades the Marvel universe to both
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destroy and study it. He steals the
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Grandm's knowledge and even kills
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Galactus before the JLA and Avengers
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team up to stop him by imprisoning him
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in a cosmic egg. There aren't many
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things scarier than the literal
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personification of death. That's Nekron,
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whose first encounter with the Green
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Lantern Corps actually involves Croner.
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After Croner is banished to his realm,
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hell, Nekron reforms Croner as a super
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powerful being to kill all the
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Guardians. Their plan is only thwarted
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when Howal Jordan leads some other
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lanterns into hell and rallies the
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spirit of recently killed lanterns to
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stop Croner and Nekron. Nekron's really
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big moment comes in the Blackest Knight
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story line where he creates the Black
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Lantern Core from the corpses of
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numerous dead heroes from DC's past. He
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nearly kills the life entity, the being
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that represents all life in the
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universe. But it's just stopped when the
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white lantern core emerges. It takes the
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power of the anti- monitor to finally
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banish him back to his realm. Of all the
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threats the core ever faced, the gravest
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was an entity of fear known as Parallax.
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>> Lots of superheroes have died or quit
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over the years, but few have pulled off
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a heel turn like Green Lantern How
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Jordan did in the early 1990s. Howal
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went off the deep end and not only
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seemingly killed his longtime nemesis
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Sinestro, but also wiped out the entire
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Green Lantern Corps because he was upset
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about the destruction of Coach City. He
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took on a new name for his villainous
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identity, Parallax. The story line where
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all that happened, Emerald Twilight,
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ended How's run as a Green Lantern and
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brought on the new guy Kyle Rainer. But
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a vocal group of fans wanted Howal back.
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They got this when returned in Green
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Lantern Rebirth in 2005. That series
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revealed that Hal was never actually in
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control of himself during his rampage.
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He was being controlled by the very
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embodiment of fear, a monstrous entity
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that came from inside the yellow lantern
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central power battery. As it turns out,
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that's Parallax and has gone on to
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possess quite a few other characters in
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the years since, including Kyle Raina
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and Barry Allen. The Justice League has
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with considerable difficulty overcome
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the threat of dark side many times. So,
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a super villain with all the combined
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powers of the Justice League must then
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be quite a threat, right? One of the
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league's oldest foes, Amazo, is an
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android with the powers of the Flash,
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Aquaman, Green Lantern, Martian
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Manhunter, and Wonder Woman. It's later
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revealed that he can actually mimic
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powers he has encountered, so he can
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later take on Superman's abilities, too.
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Amazo can even duplicate weapons like
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Hawk Girl's mace. Amazo, both the
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original android and the postnew 52
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version, who is a man infected with a
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virus that gives him powers, has
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defeated the Justice League several
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times, though they've ended up getting
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the better of him in the end. Even so,
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the notion of a single entity with all
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of the Justice League's powers and bad
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intentions to go along with them, h
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pretty scary.
