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10 DC Characters Neil Gaiman Needs To Write

Neil Gaiman has given fans postmodern heroes like The Sandman but imagine what he'd do with DC heroes like Zatanna or Superman.

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15 Strongest DC Villain Friendships

Even DC's best villains like Poison Ivy or Sinestro need friends, finding strong companionships with fellow villains like Harley Quinn and Black Adam.

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10 DC Villains Stronger Than They Look

Popular DC Comics villains are deceptively strong, with foes like Poison Ivy controlling the Green or Mxyzptlk hailing from the Fifth Dimension.

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10 Weirdest Green Lantern Villains

Hal Jordan, John Stewart and the rest of the Green Lantern Corps battle some of the weirdest villains from Earth to Oa and across the DC Universe.

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10 DC Villains Stronger Than Their Children

DC's strongest and most skilled villains, from assassin Deathstroke to New God Darkseid, are even far stronger than their powerful children.

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10 Best Science Fiction-Based DC Villains

DC's greatest villains spawned from science fiction origins, using sci-fi weapons and technology to combat heroes like Superman and Green Lantern.

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10 Worst Superman Villains With The Best First Impressions

Some of Superman's villains were impressive when they were first introduced in DC Comics but they soon became shells of their initial selves.

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10 Overrated DC Villains (& How To Fix Them)

From the Reverse Flash to Bane, modern DC comics and other media have created overrated villains, but there are solutions to fix them.

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10 Best Supernatural DC Villains

DC Comics has a great lineup of supervillains, and characters like Sinestro and Ra's al Ghul use the strange and supernatural in their villainy.

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10 Powerful DC Villains Who Disappeared Without A Trace

DC has introduced a litany of well-known, powerful supervillains, from Superboy-Prime to Solaris, who have simply disappeared from comics.

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10 Best Superpowers In DC Comics

Superpowers are integral in DC Comics, with the coolest heroes and villains, like Superman and Poison Ivy, showcasing the best powers.

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10 Popular DC Villains (& Their Greatest Victory)

The heroes don't always win, and DC's most popular villains, from the Joker to Darkseid, have actually achieved great, lasting victories.

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10 Best Amalgam Villains

Amalgam created some of the most fearsome villains in all of comics, combining villains from DC and Marvel into all-new evil entities.

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10 Popular DC Villains (& Their Most Useless Power)

Even the most popular DC Comics villains, from the Joker to Darkseid, possess a useless power that doesn't aid them in their villainy at all.

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10 Best DC Comics Starring Joker

The Joker is one of the most popular DC Comics villains, starring in classic books that explore his origins and greatest battles with Batman.

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10 DC Villains Who Should Never Fight The Justice League

Classic DC supervillains like Joker and Reverse-Flash can go against the heroes one-on-one, but they don't stand a chance against the Justice League.

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10 DC Villains Everyone Forgets Are Geniuses

While DC villains like Lex Luthor are world-renowned for their intelligence, there are a few supervillains with brains who are known for their brawn.

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10 Greatest DC Villain Couples, Ranked By Fighting Skills

DC has a few supervillain couples known for their incredible abilities though quite a few made their names for their effectiveness in combat together.

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10 DC Villains Who Are Secretly Brilliant

The DC Universe is full of impressive villains but occasionally a notable antagonist goes overlooked despite their hidden brilliance.

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10 DC Villains Transformed By Their Powers

DC's most iconic villains, from Black Adam to Clayface, were transformed by their powers, creating monstrous new entities, gods and universal threats.

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