DC Villains Who Are More Terrifying Than Darkseid

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0:00Dark Side is DC Comics go-to final boss,

0:03but is he really the scariest bad guy in

0:05DC's rogues gallery? Would say these are

0:08even more unsettling. Dark Side is

0:11obsessed with the anti-life equation,

0:13but the anti- monitor wants to destroy

0:15all positive matter, not just life.

0:18Every bit of it. He's from the

0:20antimatter universe and wishes for only

0:22that universe to exist.

0:24>> World after world consumed. With every

0:27death, I steal my mirror strength and

0:30mine grows ever stronger.

0:33>> What's really scary is that the anti-

0:34monitor almost pulls it off in 1985's

0:37Landmark Crisis on Infinite Earth. He

0:40manages to seize and manipulate multiple

0:42universes, leaving only five left to

0:44fend him off. After the Flash sacrifices

0:47himself to destroy the anti- monitor's

0:49ultimate weapon, an antimatter cannon,

0:51the anti- monitor travels back to the

0:53dawn of time to destroy all of the

0:55positive matter universes from the very

0:58beginning. His plan is only stopped by a

1:00powered up spectre, but the effects are

1:02still huge. It essentially wipes out

1:04DC's multiverse for decades thereafter.

1:07His body is eventually shattered into

1:09molecules by the Superman of Earth, too,

1:11with some help from none other than Dark

1:13Side. But even what's left of it is

1:15super powerful. In Infinite Crisis, his

1:18remains are used as part of a tuning

1:20fork that recreates the multiverse. With

1:22the multiverse's rebirth, the anti-

1:24monitor comes back to life and joins the

1:26Sinestro, which is the band of yellow

1:29lanterns. Yellow, of course, represents

1:31fear in the lantern's emotional

1:32spectrum. The Joker is scary, sure, but

1:35imagine a version of the Joker who is

1:37number one, also Batman. then make him

1:40the associate of an all powerful demon,

1:42the killer of his family and the entire

1:44Justice League and the general in an

1:46ongoing war between darkness and light.

1:48That's the Batman who laughs. He's from

1:50the dark multiverse, specifically its

1:52Earth negative 22. While his initial

1:55origin is mostly similar to the mainline

1:57DCU's Batman, everything goes wrong when

2:00the Joker paralyzes Batman and forces

2:02him to watch horrible crimes as they

2:04happen. Upon recovering, Batman kills

2:06the Joker, unwittingly releasing Joker

2:08Venom that makes Batman into the new

2:11Joker. Essentially, from there, the

2:13Batman who laughs uses Joker Venom to

2:15create an army of Robins who fight on

2:17his behalf. He's eventually chosen by

2:19the demon Barbatos to spearhead a dark

2:22multiverse invasion of the regular DCU.

2:24He only gets more powerful from there,

2:27eventually becoming a being of pure

2:29darkness called the Darkest Knight. One

2:32of the super powerful beings the Batman

2:33who laughs hitches his wagon to is

2:35Perpeta. She's not only the original

2:37creator of the multiverse, but the

2:39mother of both the anti- monitor and his

2:41positive energy counterpart, the

2:43Monitor. Her attempts to create a

2:45perfect being resulted in the human

2:47martian hybrid Apex Predators.

2:50Perpetua's own siblings, the Hands,

2:52thought that was over the line, and they

2:53imprisoned her behind what was called

2:55the Source Wall. The Hands rebuilt the

2:57multiverse to exist without her

2:59meddling. The Batman who laughs dark

3:00multiverse invasion creates enough of a

3:02shock wave that it breaks the source

3:04wall, allowing Perpeta to escape after

3:07billions of years of imprisonment. Her

3:09main goal, of course, is to rebuild the

3:10multiverse in her image. She wipes out

3:13entire universes in the process,

3:15reducing the total from 52 to just a

3:17handful. Eventually, Perpeta recruits

3:20the Batman who laughs as a second in

3:21command. That proves to be her biggest

3:23mistake. It's only his rebellion as the

3:25darkest knight that enables the

3:27rebuilding of the source wall to

3:29imprison her again. An evil version of

3:31the flesh may not sound like all that

3:33big of a threat, but Eobod Thawn has

3:35taken that label and really uh ran with

3:38it.

3:39>> I became better than you.

3:43>> I am the one thing you cannot stop,

3:47Flash.

3:48>> It's worth noting that Thorne isn't the

3:49only person to hold the Reverse Flash or

3:52Professor Zoom title, though. So have

3:54Iris West's brother Daniel and Hunter

3:56Solomon. But it was Thorne who killed

3:58Barry Allen's mom. See, he's from the

4:0025th century. By that time, Barry's time

4:03as the Flash has made him a historical

4:05figure, and Thorne has become obsessed

4:07with him. He obtains a Flash costume and

4:09starts setting up situations for him to

4:11save people as a superhero. At one

4:13point, Barry comes to the future, but

4:15sees Thor's fraud. Thorne's obsession

4:18turns to ruining Barry's life. So, he

4:20goes back to the past and kills his

4:21mother, Norah, framing Barry's dad for

4:24it. With his ability to travel back and

4:26forth through time via the speed force,

4:28the reverse Flash can commit crimes in

4:30the past, change history, even erase

4:32entire timelines. His influence has been

4:34immense, even leading to the

4:36universewide Flashoint reboot. And

4:38beyond everything, he barely even gets

4:40noticed when he makes changes. The being

4:43known as Eclipser has possessed many

4:45different hosts since his introduction

4:47back in 1963, but the goal remains the

4:50same. He's the very embodiment of God's

4:52wrath, and all he wants is carnage. He

4:55even calls a biblical great flood in DC

4:57continuity. Most often, Eclipso has

5:00inhabited the body of Solar Scientist

5:02Bruce Gordon, but has taken over the

5:04bodies of many more, including Superman.

5:07In one story, he becomes a drug lord and

5:09president of the fictional South

5:11American country Paridor. Yet another

5:13time, Eclipypo poses as billionaire

5:15Maxwell Lord to seize control of the

5:18Justice League, thereby taking over a

5:20huge portion of the world. Eclipso even

5:22manages to briefly take over Dark Side

5:24at one point after his capture of the

5:26Spectre. Above all, Eclipso is a totally

5:29unpredictable agent of chaos with no

5:32plans but to spread destruction. If

5:34you've only seen Staro in the Suicide

5:36Squad, you might think it's a little bit

5:38silly.

5:41And yeah, we'll admit it. Staro is a

5:43little bit silly. It's a giant starfish

5:46from space. But think about it just a

5:48little bit. And Staro is also

5:50terrifying. The first ever threat that

5:52the Justice League ever took on all the

5:54way back in 1960. Staro can launch

5:56millions of small drones, which look

5:58exactly like it, to control the minds of

6:00the inhabitants of planets it hopes to

6:02conquer. The only thing that makes Stro

6:04an even somewhat manageable enemy is its

6:07multiple weaknesses to lime to cold to

6:10psychic lightning. But good luck

6:12actually putting any of those to use

6:13while your mind is being controlled by a

6:15mini starro that's attached to your

6:17face. Frankly, the Justice League just

6:20got lucky. Professor Pig isn't going

6:22around erasing timelines or destroying

6:24universes, but for full-on ickactor,

6:27it's hard to compete with this porign

6:29master butcher. Vaslo Valentine was an

6:31agent for the intelligence organization

6:33Spiral, but drove himself insane with

6:36drugs he developed. It was after a

6:38schizophrenic break that he started

6:40calling himself Professor Pig and

6:42wearing a pig mask. He formed the circus

6:44of the strange crime syndicate and

6:46became obsessed with creating the

6:48perfect minions, performing grotesque

6:50surgeries on victims to turn them into

6:52his army of doatrons. He even makes some

6:55of them into living bombs. Kind of like

6:57Perpetua with her apex predators on a

6:59smaller scale. Pig is usually dealt with

7:01pretty easily when Batman and Robin face

7:03off with him. But again, this one isn't

7:05about his threat level. The guy is just

7:07unsettling. The way he dances.

7:11While we're talking about some absolute

7:12freakos, how about this guy? He's one of

7:15the magical monsters from the other

7:16place who came into being not long after

7:19the creation of the universe. Magic was

7:21already there from the start. The light

7:22part of it shaped itself to become

7:24Hecati. The upside down man is what

7:26formed from all the dark leftovers.

7:28Hecati was understandably freaked out

7:30and created a barrier to keep him away,

7:32but it only worked for so long. Given

7:34that he's made of magic, the upside down

7:36man can alter reality, shoot powerful

7:39blasts, and heal himself at will. He's

7:41basically immortal. He liquefied

7:43Detective Chimp. He pulled all of the

7:45demon blood out of John Constantine's

7:47body. He merged the bodies with Zatana

7:49for a little while. He can only be taken

7:51down by the mirrored powers of Hecati

7:53which Wonder Woman wields at one point.

7:55Otherwise, the upside down man is pretty

7:58well unstoppable.

8:00Trigon is a demon whose origin is pretty

8:02vastly different depending on the

8:03continuity you look at. In his pre

8:06flashoint origin, he was created from

8:08all the dark passions of a cult of peace

8:10lovers. His new 52 origin involves him

8:12absorbing the evil of a 100 galaxies

8:14when a group called the divine came to

8:16his home planet and made the mistake of

8:18trying to erase his own evil. Whichever

8:20origin you choose, Trigon goes on to

8:22rule countless realms and father Raven,

8:25who rebelss and becomes a member of the

8:27Teen Titans. At one point, Trigon

8:29manages to essentially conquer Earth,

8:31laying waste to the planet and claiming

8:33the Teen Titans headquarters as his own.

8:35He fuses together the bodies of four

8:37million people just to make a monument

8:40to suffering. Lucky for everyone else,

8:42Raven often has Trigon's number and can

8:44come up with plans to send him back to

8:46the side corner of hell, which he rules

8:48over. But it must be terrible for Raven.

8:50It really sucks to have the worst

8:52possible dad.

8:53>> Fathers are kind.

8:56Fathers protect you.

8:59Fathers raise you.

9:02Dark Side has taken on the Justice

9:03League a whole bunch of times, but only

9:05one villain is such a threat that it

9:07took both the JLA and the Avengers to

9:10take him down. Croner. Croner is a

9:12member of the alien race that eventually

9:14becomes a guardians of the universe, the

9:16founders of the Green Lantern Corp. But

9:18he didn't get along with his peers

9:19because of the out there experiments he

9:21performed in his unending thirst for

9:23knowledge. At one point, he performed an

9:25experiment to see the dawn of time, and

9:27it worked. His machine exploded, thereby

9:30unleashing evil onto the universe. But

9:32that's the one who finally got him

9:33banished. Crona is also responsible for

9:36the creation of two other pretty scary

9:38villains. He sabotages the robot

9:40precursors to the Green Lanterns, the

9:42manhunters, and they destroy an entire

9:44section of space. One of the only

9:46survivors becomes Atrocetus, the first

9:48red lantern. And the map he leaves

9:50behind directly leads laughs to the

9:52orange power battery, making him the

9:54only orange lantern. When one of the

9:56other guardians goes back in time to

9:57stop Croner's experiment, his machine

10:00also explodes, turning Crona into the

10:02cosmic being Entropy. That's when Croner

10:04invades the Marvel universe to both

10:06destroy and study it. He steals the

10:09Grandm's knowledge and even kills

10:11Galactus before the JLA and Avengers

10:14team up to stop him by imprisoning him

10:16in a cosmic egg. There aren't many

10:18things scarier than the literal

10:19personification of death. That's Nekron,

10:22whose first encounter with the Green

10:23Lantern Corps actually involves Croner.

10:26After Croner is banished to his realm,

10:28hell, Nekron reforms Croner as a super

10:30powerful being to kill all the

10:32Guardians. Their plan is only thwarted

10:34when Howal Jordan leads some other

10:35lanterns into hell and rallies the

10:37spirit of recently killed lanterns to

10:39stop Croner and Nekron. Nekron's really

10:42big moment comes in the Blackest Knight

10:43story line where he creates the Black

10:45Lantern Core from the corpses of

10:47numerous dead heroes from DC's past. He

10:50nearly kills the life entity, the being

10:52that represents all life in the

10:54universe. But it's just stopped when the

10:55white lantern core emerges. It takes the

10:58power of the anti- monitor to finally

10:59banish him back to his realm. Of all the

11:03threats the core ever faced, the gravest

11:05was an entity of fear known as Parallax.

11:09>> Lots of superheroes have died or quit

11:11over the years, but few have pulled off

11:12a heel turn like Green Lantern How

11:14Jordan did in the early 1990s. Howal

11:17went off the deep end and not only

11:18seemingly killed his longtime nemesis

11:20Sinestro, but also wiped out the entire

11:23Green Lantern Corps because he was upset

11:25about the destruction of Coach City. He

11:27took on a new name for his villainous

11:29identity, Parallax. The story line where

11:31all that happened, Emerald Twilight,

11:33ended How's run as a Green Lantern and

11:35brought on the new guy Kyle Rainer. But

11:37a vocal group of fans wanted Howal back.

11:40They got this when returned in Green

11:42Lantern Rebirth in 2005. That series

11:45revealed that Hal was never actually in

11:47control of himself during his rampage.

11:49He was being controlled by the very

11:51embodiment of fear, a monstrous entity

11:53that came from inside the yellow lantern

11:55central power battery. As it turns out,

11:58that's Parallax and has gone on to

12:00possess quite a few other characters in

12:02the years since, including Kyle Raina

12:04and Barry Allen. The Justice League has

12:07with considerable difficulty overcome

12:09the threat of dark side many times. So,

12:11a super villain with all the combined

12:13powers of the Justice League must then

12:15be quite a threat, right? One of the

12:17league's oldest foes, Amazo, is an

12:19android with the powers of the Flash,

12:21Aquaman, Green Lantern, Martian

12:23Manhunter, and Wonder Woman. It's later

12:25revealed that he can actually mimic

12:27powers he has encountered, so he can

12:29later take on Superman's abilities, too.

12:31Amazo can even duplicate weapons like

12:33Hawk Girl's mace. Amazo, both the

12:36original android and the postnew 52

12:38version, who is a man infected with a

12:40virus that gives him powers, has

12:41defeated the Justice League several

12:43times, though they've ended up getting

12:45the better of him in the end. Even so,

12:47the notion of a single entity with all

12:49of the Justice League's powers and bad

12:51intentions to go along with them, h

12:54pretty scary.

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