The Justice League are thওe greatest heroes of the DC Universe - but in the current Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths event, they almost got bested by an old villain named Pariah and a group of some of the deadlie🐼st supervillains in existence who formed The Dark Army.

Almost...

So who can defeat the heroes of the Justice League? The best DC supervillains of all time have come the closest.

Let's take a look at who those are...

10. Anti-Monitor

The Ant🐬i-Monitor is not a 'villain' in the traditional sense. 

He is simply a force of absolute destruction, driven by his very nature to destroy everythin🔜g in his path, up to and including reality itself. 

While the Anti-Monitorꦐ has not appeared often, his arrival heralds something far more nightmar🌸ish than a simple global threat, for the Anti-Monitor signals the arrival of a Crisis between realities, a crucible of metaphysical proportions from which survival is, at best, an uncertain outcome.

The Anti-Monitor debuted as the reality-collapsing villain of , destroying all but o𝄹ne world of the DC Multiverse.

9. Captain Cold

The leader of Flash's Rogues may not b🐼e the most vicious of the Scarlet Speedster's foes, but he is symbolic of an entire contingent of DC's v𝄹illains. 

The ultimate everyman opportunist, Captain Cold is a scoundrel with a code of honor, one that has earned him the respect of many of his fellow villains, as well as a position at the top of the street thug 𝄹hierarchy.

Fans will recognize Len ꧋Snart from CW's Flash, where he occupied a similar 'villain with a heart of gold' role, even into the spin-off show DC's Legends of Tomorrow. 

But in comic books, Captain Cold has never made it out of true villainy, despite brushes with he☂roism and even a very brief stint on the Justice League - though he's o🧸nce again the leader of the Rogues.

8. Deathstroke

Deathstroke has always straddled the line between hero and villain, even teaming with🙈 his arch-enemies the Teen Titans for a time in the old DCU. Though he's occasionally landed on the side of the angels, one thing continues to separate Deathstroke from being an๊ out-and-out hero: his killer instinct.

Deathstroke is DC's ultimate assassin, a master killer with no remorse and no hesitation. He's also been a leading man for the last few years, headlining his own title - and inching ever closer to being a true anti-hero rather than a self-serving crimi𓂃nal.

But despite often fighting against some kind 𒊎of greater evil, Deathstroke remains a cold-blooded assassin, ca𒉰pable of killing and exploiting any and everyone in his path. 

He's leveled up 𒀰in the current Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths event, though seemingly due to being corrupted by The Great Darkness, but we'll see how that lasts.

7. Reverse Flash

Eobard Thawne is, in almost eve🐓ry way, the exact opposite of his pure-hearted nemesis Barry Allen. Vicious and determined, Thawne's goal is no less than the total erasure of the Flash and to see the timeline of the DC Universe remade in his image.

Thawne i✤s well known for having killed Barry Allen's mother (and framed his father for the crime) - a story that has become the set up for the Flash's translation into other media time and time again, and which led to the 'New 52' reboot of DC continuity in .

He also inspired a legacy villain🥀 who may be even worse in Hunter Zolomon (AKA Zoom), an evil speedster from the future with a murderous streak who challenged Barry Allen's protégé Wally West.

6. Brainiac

It would be easy to write Brainiac of𓂃f as the ultimate expression of brains against Superman's brawn, b🍃ut the real nature of their rivalry is far more sinister. 

Brainiac may be possessed of unparalleled intelligence, but what he truly represents to Superman - and the DC Universe at large - is an utter lack of compassion. Alien to the point of being downright inhuman, calculating to the point of sheer ruthlessness, Br💃ainiac has no care for any living thing in his quest for ultimateꦯ knowledge.

Brainiac set the stage for a major relaunch of DC's Justice League titleꦬs a few years ago by organizing a group of heroes and villains to fight an epic cosmic threat in the limited series - before dropping dead and leaving his team unprepared for the fight ahead in the series' first issueꦚ.

He was later rebuilt by Lex Luthor's Legion of Doom, working alongside them for his own purposes in the lead-up to the 2020 event.

DC is teasing Brainiac will be the focus 👍of a large-scale e♌vent during the tail end of 2023.

5. Ra's al Ghul

Other villains might better fit the role of Batman's thematic opposite, but it is Ra's al Ghul🌊 who is the C🐎aped Crusader's true equal. 

Immortal, ancient, and cunning, Ra's is the leader of the League of Assassins, and a manip♚ulator of the highest caliber. While Ra's has most often dealt with Batman, both in manipulating Batman into providing DNA for his daughter Tal🐲ia's cloned son Damian and in attempting to destroy Gotham, he has also proved a threat to the entire world.

Still, Ra's is not above align꧑ing himꦅself with heroes when they align with his own goals, such as when he teamed with Batman to rescue Damian from Darkseid.

He recently appeared to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:have been assassinated as part of the 'Shadow War' story, but immortality/resurrection is kind of Ra's' thing so an eventual return 𝔉is likely. 

4. Sinestro

'In blackest day, in brightest night, beware your fꦕears made into 🃏light!'

Sines𒁏tro is a megalomaniac of the highest order, abusing his power as a Green Lantern to enslave his homeworld of Korugar even before falling from the Green Lantern Corps in disgrace. 

Wielding the power of fear through his yellow power ring, Sinestro has returned to the Green Lanterns from time to time b🦄ut always returns to his own Sinestro Corps, a conglomerate of beings dedicated to spreading terror and ruin throughout the universe.

3. Darkseid

Darkse🅠id is, perhaps, DC's ultimate expression of evil. Obsessed with his quest for the Anti-Life Equation, the mad god and lord of Apokolips is possessed of power beyond measure, and a contempt for all whom he sees 𓃲as beneath his strength. 

In the decades since Jack Kirby created him, Darkseid has squared off countless times against his enemies on New Genesis and gone toe-to-toe with Superman again and again. At the start of the 'Newܫ 52,' . Darkseid was also the main villain of ' which closed t🎉he book on the 'New 52.'

Darkseid is ♛one of the villains who plays role in Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths.

2. Joker

Madness. Chaos. Mayhem.ꩵ These are the facets of Joker's fractur🦋ed personality.

While some of the Batman's enemies have grown int🐽o their more recent, deadly incarnations out of somewhat silly origins, the Joker has always been a murderous agent of anarchy. 

Considered Batm𒁃an's greatest enemy and opposite number, Joker has also challenged the entire DC Universe singlehandedly, both by seizing the power of Mxyzptlk, and more recently seemingly dying alongside Batman – before both apparently returned.

But it's not his occasional forays into global villainy that make Joker one of the most feared and effective villains in comics. It's his willi▨ngness 🔴to go farther, to strike deeper, and to succumb to absolute evil more than any other mortal in the DC Universe.

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1. Lex Luthor

And so we've arr🌠ived at the top of the list. 

Honestly, who else could have filled this slot but the de facto leader and occasional organizer of DC's villains, Superman's greatest ri⛄val, Lex Luthor? 

Whe♛ther he is filling the role of a ruthless politician and corrupt businessman, an infuriati🎐ngly untouchable mad scientist, or an out-and-out mega-powered menace, Luthor owns confidence and an intellect rivaled by none.

But Luthor's greatest strength is also his greatest weakness: his absolute and utter selfishness. 𒉰Where🅠 a more noble man would selflessly use Luthor's gifts to better mankind, Luthor uses his assets to benefit himself at all times, only aiding the world when doing so aligns with his personal goals. 

Recently Luthor tried taking over Batman's worldview crimefighting network Batman, Inc. including wearing a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:new Bat-aওrmor he built for Bruce Wayne.

And what is threatening the DC during its frequent events, Lex is almost always in the mix, aiming to turn any crisis to his advantage.&n𝓰bsp;

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