All that mustache-twirling leads to some intelligent plays! Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the most cunning moves that villains made in animated DC movies. This list will get into spoilers, so consider this your warning.
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00:00 Alfred get the Batwing ready the Justice League is under attack by whom?
00:03 By me!
00:05 Welcome to WatchMojo and today we're counting down our picks for the most cunning moves that villains made in
00:11 Animated DC movies this list will get into spoilers. So consider this your warning
00:17 Why would you want to destroy the world? Because it's the only action one could take
00:21 Number 10 Darkseid empowers normal citizens reign of Superman
00:28 Darkseid's nothing if not methodical after Superman seemingly died after a battle with Doomsday a creature who was also
00:35 Strategically sent by Darkseid the world was in mourning to capitalize
00:39 He then set cyborg Superman up to pretend to be the real Superman brought back from the dead
00:45 Once the cyborg won over the masses the cyber corpse was soon born
00:50 The same technology that saved me can save us all
00:54 It was a replacement to the Justice League made up of citizens who were given superpowers
00:59 But the mysterious means in which they got them was revealed to be from apocalyptic tech open the gates
01:06 prepare for my arrival
01:09 Tech that allowed Darkseid to take over the corpse and invade earth via a boom tube
01:14 Darkseid was stopped but moral of the story if someone offers to give you superpowers don't trust them
01:21 For Apocalypse!
01:23 Number 9 Starro takes over the world's finest Batman and Superman battle of the super sons
01:30 This is one alien starfish do not want to cross in fact
01:35 They don't call him Starro the conqueror for nothing during the battle of the super sons movie Batman and Superman
01:42 Investigate a disturbance at the Justice League watchtower once there a possessed Martian Manhunter attacks Batman and Superman
01:50 infecting them with Starro spores in the process
01:53 When it comes to world domination
02:00 Starro's approach was pretty genius. He didn't just bend the world's finest to his whim
02:05 He also controlled other members of both the Justice League and Teen Titans
02:18 Not a lot of villains can do that and make it look easy
02:21 While John Kent and Damian Wayne were able to stop Starro. It was definitely a challenge
02:27 Number 8 Joker gets sent to the Phantom Zone the Lego Batman movie. Why doesn't Joker get since of the Phantom Zone?
02:38 That's it the Phantom Zone
02:40 It's a question many fans have asked over the years and in the Lego Batman movie
02:45 We get to see how that scenario plays out. We're all
02:48 Surrendering right guys. We are when Batman steals Superman's Phantom Zone projector
02:54 He sends Joker into the prison dimension
02:57 But it turns out to be exactly what the clown prince wanted because when Harley steals the projector and frees him
03:02 He comes back with an entire
03:04 Multiverse worth of bad guys the swarm of villains who invade Gotham are a wide variety of power players
03:11 We're talking Sauron Voldemort even King Kong
03:15 Joker's crazy to want to go into other Phantom Zone
03:23 But the payoff to that plan proves that there's a method to his madness
03:28 Number seven Veronica Kell is the true mastermind Wonder Woman bloodlines
03:34 Veronica Kell has often been considered to be Wonder Woman's own Lex Luthor
03:39 I'm gonna be real honest and in Wonder Woman bloodlines
03:42 We saw a side of her that justified all those comparisons
03:46 Maybe she deserves to stay the way she is while Wonder Woman spent the movie fighting villainy, Inc
03:51 It was revealed in a mid-credits scene that Veronica Kell was the one in charge of the supervillain group all along
03:57 Wow, bless your heart. You figured it out
04:00 She then boldly declared that she would continue rated the mascara for its profitable Amazonian tech
04:07 Admittedly openly taunting someone like Wonder Woman doesn't exactly scream intelligent
04:12 But Kell secret puppeteering of villainy Inc and the successful infiltration of the mascara meant
04:18 She was a woman who seemed to hold all of the cards
04:21 Number six Batman trapped Superman in red light Superman red son
04:26 while Batman fought for what he believed to be a good cause his brutal methods and disregard for others made him an
04:34 antagonistic force during Superman red son and when this Dark Knight clash with the Soviet man of steel
04:40 He got the one up on him what I've wanted since I was a child
04:43 To destroy you to break and utterly humiliate the great Superman
04:50 you could lazily defeat Superman with kryptonite for the umpteenth time or
04:55 You could do what Batman did using special lamps to douse the area
05:00 He replicated the conditions of a red son. You think you're going to stop me with that? No
05:06 with this
05:08 This let him temporarily negate Superman's powers long enough to deliver an insane beatdown pain is a new sensation
05:15 Yes
05:18 Get used to it. He didn't just leave him in a pile of blood
05:23 He also captured and harmed Wonder Woman Batman's plans might not have passed
05:28 But he sent a powerful message number five owl man dupes everyone Justice League crisis on two earths
05:36 Nothing matters at least according to owl man since every choice a person does or doesn't make plays out in one alternate earth or another
05:44 Owl man believed free will was essentially a lie. I have begun construction on this the quantum eigenstate device
05:51 Once completed the QED will give us life and death power
05:55 So Batman's earth 3 counterpart then secretly decided to try and blow up earth prime with a QED bomb
06:02 snowballing into the destruction of the whole multiverse earth prime
06:06 Every earth is a variation of this one the original and once I destroy it all reality will follow
06:13 The only other person who knew was superwoman who owl man convinced of his nihilistic plan pretty easily
06:20 Why would you want to destroy the world? Because it's the only action one could take the crime syndicate thought the bomb was just a way
06:28 To scare their enemies, but they were none the wiser
06:31 Owlman's plan is beyond ridiculous
06:34 But the way he's able to trick the entire crime syndicate into doing his bidding is not
06:39 He's taken the QED to earth prime if he detonates it. He'll destroy all reality number four Ritler goes through a rebrand
06:49 Batman hush what do super villains do when their reputation is in the toilet?
06:53 If you're like the Ritler you switch things up when he dipped himself into the lazarette pit to cure himself of a brain tumor
06:59 He learned Batman's true identity, but before he could begin his next scheme against them things needed to change
07:06 admiring my beauty mark
07:09 Since he was considered a laughingstock amid the super villain community Ritler decided to adopt a new persona to start over
07:16 (Evil Laugh)
07:18 As hush he brought Batman to his limit
07:24 He had multiple villains do his bidding kidnapping Joker and framed him for Thomas Elliot's murder store your treasures in heaven
07:31 Where moths and rust cannot destroy and thieves do not break in and steal
07:36 Joker claimed he was innocent, but Batman was so convinced. It was Joker that he nearly killed him
07:43 Everything hush orchestrated just screamed power move number three Vandal Savage uses Batman's plans against the league
07:51 Justice League doom to be honest. This is kind of all Batman's fault anyway
07:56 I'll forget the batwing ready the Justice League is under attack by whom?
07:59 By me in Justice League doom Vandal Savage intercepts Batman secret contingency files for how to defeat the Justice League
08:08 Welcome to the Legion of doom
08:10 With that information the Legion of doom then begins methodically dismantling our heroes
08:16 Superman shot with the kryptonite bullet Batman's buried underground
08:19 Martian Manhunter set ablaze and other grim fates all await the rest of the league
08:25 Even though they eventually prevailed the fact that Batman had contingencies against his teammates created a major rift
08:39 Who needs to come up with elaborate schemes to destroy the Justice League when you can just steal everything from Batman?
08:45 Talk about working smarter not harder
08:48 Number two Joker returns via Tim Drake Batman Beyond return of the Joker
08:53 Joker is back and just as violent as ever the clown Prince of Crime made his triumphant return to the DCAU
09:01 in the fittingly named return of the Joker
09:05 Oh, no your old eyes do not deceive you Brucey after all know me better than you
09:12 Originally he had captured and tormented the Robin Tim Drake, but when he forced him to kill Batman he killed Joker instead
09:21 That's not funny
09:24 That's not
09:26 So his definitive death here only made his return to Neo Gotham that much more puzzling in a plot twist
09:34 The new and improved Joker was revealed to be the now adult Tim Drake
09:38 He had implanted his essence into a microchip which he installed into Tim in the bird boys bird brain
09:45 This allowed him to take over his body and essentially return from the dead
09:49 We should have known that the Joker was going to try and get the last laugh
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10:08 Number one Darkseid's paradigms slaughter everyone Justice League dark apocalypse war
10:15 Justice League dark apocalypse war was one of those movies where there was truly no happy ending this grim film sees the earth
10:23 Heroes launch a pre-emptive attack on Darkseid only to fail miserably and fly right into his trap
10:29 Darkseid knew every part of our plan
10:32 Those things that attacked us were half parademon half doomsday with his new army of paradigms
10:39 Every hero that dared to oppose him was brutally struck down and it didn't end there
10:46 The ones who survived the slaughter were quickly enslaved and further broken by Darkseid
10:51 (Screaming)
10:55 Very rarely have the heroes gotten their butts served on a platter like this. Wow
11:00 They eventually stopped them
11:02 Darkseid's actions were so severe that the only way to truly fix things was to reset the timeline completely
11:09 Oh, that's tough a conqueror must conquer
11:13 Is there an intelligent scheme we missed enlighten us in the comments down below
11:19 In the end all men like you inevitably fall
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11:30 (Music)