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List of Superman enemies
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Here is a list of supervillains appearing in DC Comics who are or have been enemies of the superhero Superman. Several of Superman's opponents (most notably Darkseid and Brainiac) are or have been foes of the Justice League as well. Unlike most heroes, Superman's adversaries exist in every known capacity; humans, metahumans, androids, sorcerers, empowered animals, other aliens (such as Kryptonians), mythical/supernatural creatures, corrupt doppelgängers of himself (imposters, clones, or parallel universe counterparts), interdimensional beings (Mr. Mxyzpltk, Vyndktvx), and even deities.
Central rogues gallery
In alphabetical order (with issue and date of first appearance):
| Villain | First appearance | Description |
|---|---|---|
| The Anti-Monitor | Crisis on Infinite Earths #2 (May 1985) | The villain behind Crisis on Infinite Earths, an event that rebooted the DC Multiverse. The Anti-Monitor is one of the most powerful beings in the DC Multiverse. This character has a strong metafictional nature. |
| The Atomic Skull | Superman #323 (September 1976) | Albert Michaels was given radiation treatments that gave him atomic eye-blasts and worked his way up from an agent of SKULL to becoming its leader. |
| The Adventures of Superman #483 (October 1991) | Joseph Martin's superhuman powers manifested after exposure to the Dominators' gene-bomb; the film buff began to hallucinate that he was a 1930s movie hero called the Atomic Skull and that Superman was his nemesis. | |
| Bizarro | Superboy #68 (October 1958) | Bizarro was created when Superboy was exposed to a "duplicating ray" and was later destroyed in the same story. |
| Action Comics #254 (July 1959) | Lex Luthor exposed Kal-El, now Superman, to another duplicating ray, this time creating an adult Bizarro. This Bizarro later created a Bizarro Lois Lane and left with her into space. In accordance with the science fiction concepts of Superman stories of the era, Bizarro relocated to "the Bizarro World," a cubical planet called Htrae (Earth spelled backwards) which operated under "Bizarro logic" (e.g., it was a crime to do anything good or right) and which Bizarro populated with duplicates of himself and Bizarro Lois Lane, as well as Bizarro versions of Superman's supporting cast and the other DC heroes and villains. | |
| The Man of Steel #5 (December 1986) | Bizarro was a flawed clone created by Lex Luthor's staff of scientists. | |
| Superman (vol. 2) #160 (September 2000) | Post-Crisis, another Bizarro was created when the Joker conned Mr. Mxyzptlk out of 99% of his powers and created a Bizarro World. | |
| Bloodsport I (Robert DuBois) | Superman (vol. 2) #4 (April 1987) | A gun-toting mercenary with Kryptonite bullets. |
| Brainiac | Action Comics #242 (July 1958) | Most incarnations depict Brainiac (alias Vril Dox) as a bald, green-skinned alien cyborg or android from the planet Colu and one of the most dangerous villains in the DC universe, capable of possessing others, inventing extremely advanced weaponry (such as force fields and shrinking rays), physically matching or overpowering Superman, creating and manipulating computer systems and exerting some control over time and space. |
| Bruno Mannheim | Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #139 (July 1971) | Mannheim is one of Metropolis' most powerful gangsters, the leader of Intergang. |
| The Cyborg Superman | The Adventures of Superman #466 (May 1990) | Hank Henshaw is an astronaut who died as a result of a doomed mission on board the space shuttle Excalibur. Because Superman failed to save him, Hank Henshaw blames him for the loss of his original body, as well as the death of his wife. Reduced to a formless entity that inhabits mechanical bodies, the Cyborg desires to cause Superman equal pain. He masqueraded as a resurrected Superman after the hero's apparent death, claiming to be the result of Superman's remains being reconstructed into cybernetic form. The ruse was a tremendous success, even earning the Cyborg an endorsement from the U.S. president as the "true" Superman. Hank Henshaw betrayed those whose lives he was entrusted with when he obliterated Coast City with the help of Mongul; this event led to Green Lantern Hal Jordan's mental breakdown and later transformation into Parallax. Later, he became a member of the Sinestro Corps, still continuing to mockingly bear Superman's insignia. |
| Action Comics #252 (May 1959) | Zor-El was introduced as the new Cyborg Superman following The New 52, a relaunch of the DC Universe. Zor-El was rescued from Krypton's destruction by Brainiac and was reconfigured as a cyborg to be his scout for looking for stronger species in the universe.[1] | |
| Darkseid | Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #134 (December 1970) | Uxas, son of Heggra, alien dictator of the planet Apokolips. As with gods in other mythologies, Darkseid is incredibly powerful, but cannot escape his ultimate destiny. It has been foretold that Darkseid will meet his final defeat at the hands of his son, Orion, in a cataclysmic battle in the fiery Armaghetto of Apokolips.
According to writer Mark Evanier, Jack Kirby modeled Darkseid on actor Jack Palance.[2] |
| Doomsday | Superman: The Man of Steel #18 (November 1992) | The creature who killed Superman in a titanic battle that also resulted in Doomsday's death, although Doomsday comes back to life every time he dies, and even more powerful. Created by an ancient genetic experiment on Krypton. |
| The Eradicator | Action Comics Annual #2 (1989) | A powerful artificial intelligence from Krypton, the Eradicator program initially sought to transform and terraform Earth into a new Krypton. Since then, it has merged with human scientist David Conner, serving as a replacement Superman after the Man of Steel's apparent death and later as an ally to Superman himself. |
| Faora | Action Comics #471 (May 1977) | A Kryptonian martial artist and man-hater who was sent to the Phantom Zone for murdering several men, she is able to beat Superman using her knowledge of Horo-kanu, a Kryptonian martial art enabling the user to immobilize an opponent via pressure points (this character was used as the basis of General Zod's lover, Zaora). |
| General Zod | Adventure Comics #283 (April 1961) | General Dru-Zod is one of Superman's more prominent enemies. Once the Military Director of the Kryptonian Space Center, Zod had personally known Jor-El when he was an aspiring scientist. Zod attempted to take over Krypton using a machine that produced Bizarro-like duplicates during a period of turmoil caused by the termination of the space program; he was sentenced to the Phantom Zone for 40 years for his crimes. Zod was first released by Kal-El (during his Superboy career) when his term of imprisonment was up. However, he attempted to conquer Earth with powers gained under its yellow sun. Zod was sent back into the Phantom Zone, occasionally escaping to target Superman. |
| The Adventures of Superman #444 (September 1988) | A General Zod based on the previous version created by the Time Trapper in a pocket dimension. | |
| Superman (vol. 2) #166 (January 2001) | Head of the Kryptonian military in an alternate reality created by Brainiac 13. | |
| Action Comics #779 (July 2001) | A Russian child that during an experiment developed powers similar to Superman, but where Zod gains power from red sunlight and becomes weak in yellow. He made contact with an otherworldly Zod that inspired him to face Superman. | |
| Superman (vol. 2) #204 (June 2004) | Created from the artificial Metropia constructed by Superman that claimed to be from Krypton. | |
| Action Comics #845 (January 2007) | Following Jor-El's belief that Krypton was doomed and attempting to usurp the ruling council, Zod and his compatriots Non and Ursa were captured and sentenced to the Phantom Zone with Jor-El, their jailer. Having escaped the Phantom Zone with his allies, Zod's new objective is to reclaim his son, Lor-Zod, who is currently in Superman and Lois Lane's custody (under the alias of "Chris Kent"). | |
| Intergang | Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #133 (October 1970) | A nationwide organized crime syndicate armed with weapons supplied in part by Darkseid, led by Bruno Mannheim. |
| Jax-Ur | (Pre-Crisis) Adventure Comics #289 (October 1961) | Jax-Ur was an amoral and criminally deviant scientist on the planet Krypton. He was imprisoned in the Phantom Zone for destroying Wegthor, one of Krypton's inhabited (population: 500) moons, while experimenting with a nuclear warhead-equipped rocket. Jax-Ur's intention was to launch and test-fire it against a passing space rock. If this test proved successful, Jax-Ur would then commence the build-up of a massive personal nuclear arsenal with which he would overthrow the Kryptonian government and place the entire planet under his dominion (in the World of Krypton miniseries, he is shown test-launching a nuclear missile, intended to destroy a space rock, but a collision with a spaceship piloted by Jor-El sent it off-course). Because of this, space travel was forbidden. He calls himself "the worst criminal in the Phantom Zone". His sentence for his act of mass murder is life imprisonment. In his first appearance, he managed to escape from the Phantom Zone and posed as a super-powered version of Jonathan Kent. Superboy eventually sent Jax-Ur back to the Phantom Zone. Most of his later Silver Age appearances show him in his ghostly Phantom Zone form. Jax-Ur did not appear after the Crisis on Infinite Earths for some time, as until the recent appearance of Supergirl there was a rule that no Kryptonians survived except Superman. However, in one story he shows some honor, as he is released to help Superman defeat a criminal who caused Krypton's destruction and allows himself to be sent back. |
| (Post-Crisis) Action Comics #846 (February 2007) | He is one of the criminals unleashed from the Phantom Zone by Zod. In the current continuity, Jax-Ur destroyed Krypton's moon during an attempt at interstellar space travel. When the moon was destroyed, Brainiac became aware of Krypton and attacked Kandor, killing millions and shrinking the city, then placing it into a bottle. Jax-Ur subsequently became the first prisoner banished to the Phantom Zone. Jax-Ur is shown to be of the Science Guild; he is bald and has one eye. He is part of General Zod's sleeper agents on Earth. He is currently employed by S.T.A.R. Labs as a scientist. Jax-Ur appeared in Superman: The Animated Series, where he was voiced by Ron Perlman. He was portrayed more like Zod, a military genius who had attempted to overthrow the Science Council. His co-conspirator, and possible lover, is a beautiful Kryptonian female with long white hair named Mala (based on Ursa and Faora). | |
| Lex Luthor | Action Comics #23 (May 1940) | Superman's archenemy, and the consummate evil genius. He continues to play different roles in various Superman comics and media.
The version of Luthor that debuted in Action Comics #23 during the Golden Age was called Alexei Luthor and was a dangerous mad scientist who antagonized Superman and plotted to take over the world. In his classic Silver Age incarnation that debuted in Adventure Comics #271, Lex Luthor and Superman were once friends, but a lab accident indirectly caused by Superman (then Superboy) caused Lex's hair to fall out completely. This event causes Luthor to snap and become a dangerous criminal and mad scientist who plots the destruction of Superman. At one point, Lex Luthor collaborated with Alexei Luthor of Earth-Two and Ultraman of Earth-Three. In the modern Post-Crisis era, Lex Luthor was re-envisioned as a wealthy CEO/scientist of LexCorp who hides his sociopathic tendencies behind a mask of philanthropy. Although beloved by the people of Metropolis for his many public works, Superman knows the truth. In the mainstream comic series, Luthor eventually manipulates his way to the U.S. Presidency, but is forcibly unseated from office by Superman and the Justice League. |
| Livewire | Superman Adventures #5[3] (March, 1997) | Leslie Willis was once a popular and controversial Metropolis radio shock jock. No one was immune to her venomous words, not even Superman. She took cynical joy in attacking him during her broadcasts. Among her audience, Lex Luthor enjoyed listening to her.[4] Her career as a shock jock was cut short when the owner of the station, Miguel, decided to turn the station into a country station. Miguel was also quite pleased that she was fired because his wife was saved by Superman. Leslie was born with the gift of controlling electricity. Enraged at the loss of her job, she went to the top of the station where she was to be struck by a lightning. Absorbing a large amount of energy from the lightning bolt, her appearance changed to a chalk-white skin with blue hair. With that change, she decided that she would now take her revenge out on Superman. |
| Lobo | Omega Men #3 (June 1983) | A bounty hunter, the last member of the alien Czarnian race. |
| Manchester Black | Action Comics #775 (March 2001) | A British telepath and antihero, he dislikes what he perceives as Superman's simplistic view of the world and becomes obsessed with twisting and destroying Superman's morality. He later learns Superman's true identity and manipulates a large group of supervillains to attack Superman and his known family/friends/associates. When even this manipulation, climaxed with tricking Superman into thinking he has killed Lois Lane, fails to break Superman's spirit, he retreats completely and ends his life over the anguish of his failure. |
| Mercy Graves | Superman Adventures #1 (November 1996) [5] | Lex Luthor's personal assistant that manages LexCorp during his absence. |
| Metallo | Action Comics #252 (May 1959) | Former mercenary John Corben was transformed into a powerful cyborg with a heart made out of kryptonite. He seeks to use this power source as the instrument of Superman's downfall. |
| Superman #310 (April 1977) | Roger Corben, John Corben's brother, had his brain transferred into a similar robotic body as his brother by SKULL. | |
| Mongul | DC Comics Presents #27 (November 1980) | Ruler of the gladiatorial planet Warworld, Mongul's strength rivals that of Superman and he has often attempted to break the Man of Steel. He was slain by the demon-lord Neron. |
| (unnamed) Showcase '95 #8 (September 1995) (as Mongul) Superman (vol. 2) #151 (December 1999) |
Mongul's son who has since taken up the mantle, as has his daughter Mongal. | |
| Morgan Edge | Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #133 (October 1970) | A corrupt corporate executive, he tried to take control of Intergang and organized the Post-Crisis iteration of the Superman Revenge Squad. |
| Mister Mxyzptlk | Superman #30 (September 1944) | An imp from the Fifth Dimension, Mr. Mxyzptlk possesses nigh-limitless reality-bending powers, which he often uses to pose challenges to Superman for his own amusement. |
| The Parasite | Action Comics #340 (August 1966) | Raymond Maxwell Jensen is a worker at a research plant that stumbles upon waste collected by Superman and is transformed into a purple-skinned monster that lives off the energy of others. |
| Firestorm the Nuclear Man #58 (April 1987) | Rudy Jones, a S.T.A.R. Labs janitor, is manipulated by Darkseid into a similar situation that created the original Parasite, becoming green-skinned (however his skin eventually became purple, like the original Parasite, due to attempts made by doctors to cure his condition). | |
| The Prankster | Action Comics #51 (August 1942) | The Prankster (Oswald Hubert Loomis) was a criminal; his particular gimmick was the use of various practical jokes and gags in committing his crimes. In the early 2000s, he began using high-tech weaponry. |
| Professor Hamilton | The Adventures of Superman #424 (January 1987) | Emil Hamilton, a mad scientist from S.T.A.R. Labs; he spent years as Superman's ally, but he later turned to evil and joined the Secret Society of Super Villains. |
| The Silver Banshee | Action Comics #595 (December 1987) | A Gaelic woman trapped in a version of Limbo for decades by magic after she was double-crossed by a clan chief, then emerged with magic powers and vowed to track down his descendants for revenge. Her scream drains the life out of others. |
| Superboy-Prime | DC Comics Presents #87 (November 1985) | Clark Kent was born on a parallel world that was destroyed during the Crisis on Infinite Earths, Superboy-Prime was trapped outside time for decades. However, his faith in Earth's heroes was destroyed by decades of their mistakes, and he emerged from a pocket dimension to try to replace Superman. This character has a strong metafictional nature. |
| Titano the Super-Ape | Superman #127 (February 1959) | A colossal chimpanzee with kryptonite vision. Post-Crisis, he was a test monkey transformed by a genetic experiment gone awry. |
| The Toyman | Action Comics #64 (September 1943) | The Toyman (Winslow Percival Schott) uses toy-based or toy-themed devices and gimmicks in his various crimes. The Toyman's weapons, while sometimes comical, are also very dangerous. The Toyman first appeared in animated form on Challenge of the Super Friends, as part of the archvillain supergroup the Legion of Doom, where he donned a jester's outfit. The Toyman was a recurring villain in Superman: The Animated Series, where he wore an overgrown fiberglass child's head with a creepy, blank expression on it over his own head. The Toyman also appears in seasons 8 and 9 of Smallville as an overweight techno-geek trying to destroy Luthorcorp and the Daily Planet in attempts to kill Oliver Queen, who had fired Winslow from Queen Industries. |
| The Ultra-Humanite | Action Comics #13 (July 1939) | The Ultra-Humanite is the first supervillain ever faced by Superman and one of the first of the Golden Age of Comics. He was designed to be the polar opposite of the Man of Steel: while Superman is a hero with superhuman strength, the Ultra-Humanite is a criminal mastermind who has a crippled body but a highly advanced intellect. Siegel and Shuster retired the Ultra-Humanite as Superman's archfoe when Lex Luthor was introduced into the Superman comics. The Ultra-Humanite was thus retired for several decades, only to return with the Superman of Earth-Two and the Justice Society of America the targets of his machinations. The Ultra-Humanite has developed a process of transplanting his mind into different bodies, first doing this with actress Dolores Winters when he was nearly killed, most famously with an albino ape, and also with Johnny Thunder. |
| Ultraman | Justice League of America #29 (August 1964) | An evil counterpart of Superman from an alternate Earth, Ultraman possesses powers similar to Superman's. Ultraman's power source is through exposure to kryptonite, while the Earth's yellow sun weakens him. Ultraman is the leader of the Crime Syndicate of America, a villainous version of the Justice League native to his universe. His power levels are equal to or greater than Superman's as long as his exposure to kryptonite is maintained; if he does not regularly consume it, his strength will decrease. If he is exposed to yellow sunlight for too long, his powers fade away altogether. |
Foes of lesser renown
In alphabetical order (with issue and date of first appearance):
| Villain | First appearance | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Aarbur-Z | Action Comics #383 (December 1969) | Disembodied intelligence inhabiting super-powered costume, pursued by similar entity Enforcer NZ-2, attempted to possess Superman. |
| Acid Master | Action Comics #348 (March 1967) | Philip Master is a chemist and saboteur who allied with forces behind the Iron Curtain. |
| Aethyr | The Phantom Zone #3 (March 1982) | A godlike entity from the Phantom Zone that is created from the fusion of millions of souls. |
| The Adversary | The Adventures of Superman #579 (June 2000) | Cary Richards is a young child neighbor of Clark and Lois who uses a wheelchair. He made a deal with the demon Lord Satanus to gain psionic powers, subconsciously becoming a stereotypical macho 1990s supervillain (musclebound, wearing leather with metal spikes, spouting profanities, chewing a cigar) named the Adversary that wanted to develop a reputation defeating Superman in a similar fashion to Doomsday. |
| Alex Evell | Superman #5 (summer 1940) | Corrupt politician who forces publisher Zachary Collum to sell the Morning Pictorial to him to help him take over the city. He uses it to lie about his enemies, and when Daily Planet Publisher Burt Mason refuses to stop a story by Clark Kent about his lies and will not sell the paper he declares war against the Planet. His men attack delivery trucks, steal papers and attack those selling them, but Superman helps the Planet and stops the thugs. Knowing Superman is fond of Lois, he calls her to say Clark has been badly injured and is calling for Lois at Bentley Hospital. When she gets to the hospital she is kidnapped, although Superman follows. Bentley sets the place on fire, despite two of his gang members being in there, but Superman escapes, rescues the gangsters and stops Evel's car. Bentley says that he will not talk, but the thugs say that they will get even with him. Superman leaves them at a police station, Collum gets his paper back and Evell goes to prison. |
| Amalak[6] | Superman #190 (October 1966) | Alien bounty hunter whose planet was once conquered by Krypton during an imperial phase of its history. |
| Superman #669 (December 2007) | His people wiped out by Admiral Zod, Amalak dedicated his life to eradicating all Kryptonian life from existence. | |
| Amazing Grace | Superman (vol. 2) #3 (March 1987) | A servant of Darkseid, she uses her powers of persuasion to maintain his control of Apokolips. |
| Amazo | The Brave and the Bold #30 (June 1960) | An android with powers similar to those of the Parasite, except that he duplicates their abilities instead of absorbing them. |
| Amok | Superman: The 10¢ Adventure (2003) | It is known that he was born in Iceland, but how he achieved his metahuman super-strength and energy powers is not yet known. |
| The Amphi-Bandits | Action Comics #90 (November 1945) | Inventor-turned-criminal Horace Rikker led this gang who evaded police pursuit via a secret submersible vehicle in a Metropolis river. |
| Andrar | Superboy #164 (April 1970) | Superboy enemy; led the Crab Nebulan attempt to invade Earth with android duplicates. |
| The Annihilator and the Annihilator Jr. | Action Comics #355-357 (October–December 1967) | Defecting scientist from the Iron Curtain, he utilized Kryptonian explosives, briefly ruled the U.S. As the madness of his condition faded, his adopted son took a drink of the explosives and gained similar powers. |
| The Anomaly | The Adventures of Superman #539 (October 1996) | Created by Project Cadmus, a clone of a felon. However, he was altered to have the power to mimic the substance of his surroundings.[7] |
| The Archer | Superman #13 (December 1941) | Quigley, first name unrevealed. Extortionist and archer who targets millionaires, shooting them with a bow and arrow if they do not pay. Superman starts to pursue him and prevents him from shooting Lois and Jimmy. He is revealed to be a hunter who decided to hunt humans instead of animals. |
| Atlas | 1st Issue Special #1 (April 1975) | A former one-shot Jack Kirby character recently revamped as a morally ambiguous anti-hero, Atlas has a crystal which gives him strength to rival Superman's. |
| Atom Man | World's Finest #271 (September 1981) | Heinrich Melch is a Nazi super-soldier on Earth-Two who gained his powers through his father's experiments with Green Kryptonite. After a fight with Superman, Heinrich was somehow transported to Earth-One where he gained new powers and assumed the alias of Henry Miller. He was defeated by Superman and Batman who managed to send him back to Earth-Two where his Earth-One powers faded and he was apprehended by Earth-Two's Superman and Robin. |
| The Auctioneer | Action Comics #841 (September 2006) | A gigantic alien that uses advanced technology to collect valuable items and beings to auction to the highest bidder. |
| Baron Sunday | Superman (vol. 2) #26 (December 1988) | A villain who uses Voodoo magic against the Man of Steel. |
| Barrage | Superman (vol. 2) Annual #2 (1988) | Karnowsky is an armored criminal that came into conflict with Superman when he attacked Maggie Sawyer and would go on to join the Superman Revenge Squad. |
| Baud | Superman: The Man of Steel #71 (September 1997) | A female energy being that worked for Mainframe as a spy and fought Superman as part of the Superman Revenge Squad. |
| Big Dome | Batman #307 (January 1979) | Large-headed purple-skinned being, possible extraterrestrial, planned planetary conquest from Earth base, defeated by Superman with civilian assistance. |
| Blackie Sarto | New York World's Fair Comics #2 (1940) | A jewel thief who enters the World Fair in an attempt to steal the Madras Emerald, one of the world's biggest jewels which is being delivered from India. Clark Kent recognises him and tells Lois Lane, and when she tells him Pinkerton checks on criminals and will not let them on, Clark says he covered a story four years ago in London where he was a suspect, but released on lack of evidence. With his super-hearing Clark hears him talking about stealing the Madras Emerald to a thug and tells Lois he has a hunch. Lois evades him and follows Sarto, who realises she is following and kidnaps her by seizing her and threatening to shoot her. He takes her to a car where two accomplices are waiting. Clark realises she tried following Sarto and changes into Superman. Meanwhile, Lois is taken to Sarto's riverfront hideaway. Sarto says they will decide how to get rid of her when they get back and Lois is left bound and gagged. Sarto's gang throws deadly gas bombs at the armoured car delivering the Emerald while wearing gas masks, but Superman stops them despite Sarto trying to kill them all with a gas bomb. Superman saves the crooks and takes them unconscious to the police. He then flies to the building and frees Lois, then takes her to the fair and delivers the gem. He then wires the story to the editor as Clark Kent. |
| Blackrock | Action Comics #458 (April 1976) | A man equipped with an alien rock which gives him energy-manipulation powers. |
| Blaze and Satanus | Action Comics #655 (July 1990) | Blaze is the half-demon daughter of the wizard Shazam. |
| The Adventures of Superman #493 (August 1992) | Lord Satanus,[8] the half-demon son of the wizard Shazam, resembled a traditional demon, save that he wore a heavy Roman-style helmet and either had black skin or else the helmet buried his face in shadow. He and Blaze fought for possession of Blaze's domain, using Superman as a pawn. At the end of the story, it was revealed that Satanus was disguised as 'Collin Thornton', the publisher of Newstime magazine, who had first appeared in Adventures of Superman #460 (Nov. 1989) and had previously hired Clark Kent as editor. | |
| Black Zero (supervillain) | Superman #205 (1968) | The original Black Zero was a space saboteur who destroyed planets for pay and was the man responsible for destroying Krypton. He was erased from existence following Crisis on Infinite Earths. |
| Superboy (vol. 4) #61 | In an alternate reality in which Superman never returned from the dead, Superboy became the new Black Zero and took control of Earth by force. | |
| Bloodsport II (Alex Trent) | The Adventures of Superman #506 (November 1993) | A white supremacist, Alex Trent uses similar technology to the first Bloodsport. |
| Bloodthirst | Superman: The Man of Steel #29 (January 1994) | Bloodthirst is a very minor villain who is a massive alien creature with multiple holes on his skin that emit a green gas. His weapon appeared to be a circular device like a clock without hands that he could use to slow down or even to stop time. Bloodthirst bragged throughout his first and (to date) only appearance that he was the cause of every major war and was there at every assassination. Bloodthirst was easily defeated by Superman and left Earth. Bloodthirst has not been seen or mentioned since. His storyline is similar to Cerberus who was mentioned in Superman: The Man of Steel #1, then was finally seen in #4 and not seen again after that. |
| Borden Moseley | Superman #5 (summer 1940) | A financier who is in league with Lex Luthor. Luthor places narcotics around some of the country's most powerful men, taking control of their minds and allowing him to throw the country into depression. Moseley gets business tips from Luthor, although Luthor gets 75% of his profits. Superman finds out about Moseley and gets a list from his safe of those under Luthor's control, despite Moseley trying to lock him in the safe. Moseley tries to commit suicide by leaping from the window, but Superman saves him. He disguises himself as Moseley by contorting his face, a power which he used to use, and infiltrates Luthor's meeting. Luthor realises Superman is there and threatens to shoot those under his control, but Superman stops him and he apparently dies after a plane crash, although he returns later. Those under his control are freed and Moseley is presumably arrested, although it is possible he committed suicide after Superman left. |
| Calvin Denby | Superman #12 (September–October 1941) | After a series of explosions at American defense industries, Superman rounds up members of the Grotak Bund, an organization that has orders to destroy certain American factories to seriously slow down U.S. defence operations. Lois Lane goes to one factory but is seized by a criminal and prevented from speaking. The criminals bind her hand and foot and gag her next to dynamite, hoping her remains will be found and she will be blamed. However, Superman stops the bomb in time. Lois goes to see Calvin Denby, who claims to be a patriotic American and is about to give his view on the attacks. Superman realises he is the Leader of the Grotak Bund and when Denby fires at Lois he deflects the bullet, stunning Calvin, who is jailed. |
| Chandu | Adventure Comics #219 (December 1955) | Superboy enemy; giant gorilla who gained x-ray/heat vision from drinking powdered kryptonite, employed by Doc Baird and his gang for crimes. |
| Chemo | Showcase #39 (July–August 1962) | A giant, semi-intelligent, humanoid and artificial being with superhuman strength, durability and regenerative capabilities and the ability to produce and expel numerous chemical solutions. |
| Colonel Future | Action Comics #484 (June 1978) | Edmund H. Future uses his gang to steal the most advanced technology and employ its use in his crimes. |
| Superman #378 (December 1982) | Edmund Hamilton is a NASA scientist who, through a freak accident, developed the ability to glimpse into the future by surviving near-death experiences. He uses this knowledge to develop an arsenal to steal components to prevent an event that would destroy the Earth.[9] He reappears in a later story trying to save Superman from an assassination attempt, only to find out that he himself (in a Superman costume) would be the victim, and is saved by Superman performing CPR.[10] The character and his alter ego are a homage to science fiction author Edmond Hamilton and his most famous work, Captain Future. | |
| The Composite Superman | World's Finest Comics #142 (June 1964) | An out-of-work diver, Joseph Meach gained the combined powers of the Legion of Super-Heroes after being struck by the energy discharge of their statues. He then desired to defeat Superman and Batman. However, the effects eventually wore off. Later, they are given back by an alien whose father was imprisoned by the two heroes, but when he turned back, he sacrificed himself to save Superman and Batman from the Magna-Gun that the alien had shot at them. |
| Conduit | Superman: The Man of Steel #0 (October 1994) | A bully and rival of Clark Kent's while growing up, Kenny Braverman was exposed to kryptonite radiation as a baby and so became a living kryptonite battery. Obsessed with coming in second to Clark and killing both Clark and Superman, he has learned they are one and the same. He is currently deceased. |
| Count X | Action Comics #301 (June 1963) | Master spy. |
| The Crime Professor | Superboy #30 (January 1954) | Superboy enemy; Mr. Oates, criminal strategist. |
| The Cyclotronic Man | Black Lightning #3 (July 1977) | A Batman villain formerly called Bag O' Bones, Ned Creegan adopted the identity of the Cyclotronic Man and fought Superman and Black Lightning at the time when he was hired by Tobias Whale of the 100 to kill them. |
| Dabney Donovan | Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #142 (October 1971) | A "mad scientist" and expert at genetic manipulation and cloning, former employee of Project Cadmus. |
| Carl Draper/the Master Jailer | Superman #331 (January 1979) | Carl Draper, a master trapmaker, was hired to build a trap to contain the Parasite. However, when his daughter Carla challenged him to trap Superman, he wholeheartedly accepted it. He would appear to Superman as a hologram and challenge him to escape the traps he created. Post-Crisis, his powers and skills were enhanced and he was part of an Anti-Kryptonian Brigade with Bizarro, Mongul and the Silver Banshee. He eventually (somewhat) reformed and was employed by Checkmate. |
| Dev-Em | Adventure Comics #287 (June 1961) | A surviving Kryptonian juvenile delinquent, he kidnapped Superboy and took his place. Years later he time-traveled to the future and became a law-enforcement agent. |
| Doctor Chaos | The New Adventures of Superboy #25 (January 1982) | Superboy enemy; Burt Belker, Professor Lewis Lang's assistant, empowered and possessed by a Lord of Chaos via the Chaos Helmet from the Valley of Ur. |
| Dominus | Action Comics #747 (August 1998) | An alien priest that sought the powers of Kismet and brainwashed Superman into conquering Earth. |
| Duke Duvvil | Adventure Comics #199 (April 1954) | Superboy enemy; traitorous nobleman in subterranean kingdom of Subbania, sought to overthrow Queen Lya. |
| Duran | Superman (vol. 2) Annual #12 (August 2000) | Created as part of the Planet DC Annuals event, Duran is a Mexican wizard who is a member of the fictional "Oto tribe". Disturbed by the practices of capitalist, anti-environment developers, Duran becomes their sworn enemy and embarks on a career of eco-terrorism. He devises a plan to summon and set loose an army of monsters against the Mexican people to punish them for the pollution they produce.[11] Duran abducts a young girl and takes her to his base under the Plaza de la Constitución in Mexico City, with the intention of using her as the focus of a magical ritual to summon the power of the Aztec god Ometeotl. His plans were foiled by Superman with the assistance of the Mexican heroes Iman, Acrata and El Muerto. |
| Dyna-Mind | The New Adventures of Superboy #42 (June 1983) | Superboy enemy; Johnny Webber, granted telekinetic powers by meteor, able to create and animate giant figures. |
| Eclipso | The House of Secrets #61 (August 1963) | The immortal incarnation of the Wrath of God and the Angel of Vengeance who is able to possess people and has a huge variety of magical powers. |
| Effron the Sorcerer | World's Finest Comics #210 (March 1972) | A sorcerer who came from the magic kingdom of Veliathan and controlled a faceless puppet army.[12] |
| Elias Orr | Superman Vol. 2 #205 (July 2004) | A mercenary who is Equus' partner. |
| The Emperor of America | Action Comics #52 (September 1942) | Power-mad individual who creates a device which emits rays that take away the will of people to resist. He blankets the nation in the rays, then with just a few henchmen wearing helmets that make them resistant to the ray, he marches into the White House and declares himself the Emperor of America. He takes vast amounts of wealth and even replaces the Supreme Court with his henchmen. Only Superman remains immune and he is finally able to stop the Emperor's plan. The character should not be confused with the Atom (Al Pratt)'s enemy of the same name from All-American Comics #21 (December 1940). |
| Equus | Superman #206 (August 2004) | A villainous cyborg, working under the direction of Mr. Orr as a mercenary (sometimes for covert elements of the American government) |
| La Encantadora | Secret Origins of Super-Villains 80-Page Giant (December 1999) | Gaining magic powers from the mystical Mists of Ibella, Lourdes Lucero first encountered Superman while hypnotizing him to react adversely to fake kryptonite.[13] |
| Erik Drekken | Action Comics (vol. 2) #6 (March 2012) | In search of the secrets of Captain Comet, Erik somehow got himself mutated; becoming a giant ape that attacked Superman only to be defeated. Afterwards, he managed to gain full control over his own DNA allowing him to either evolve or devolve at will whereupon he was recruited into the Anti-Superman Army. |
| The Evolution King | Superman #15 (March–April 1942) | An evil scientist who has "learned how to advance or revert a human being’s age" by means of special pills. Aided by gangster Joe Glower and his henchmen, the Evolution King kidnaps prominent athletes, transforms them into helpless old men, and threatens to leave them in their decrepit condition unless they meet his extortion demands. He then starts turning people into infants. Clark realises an old man is a missing athlete due to his fingerprints. Lois Lane is with one of the athletes so is kidnapped with him, blindfolded, and driven to the base. Clark is also captured. Both he and Lois are soon tied to chairs and in the presence of the Evolution King. Goaded finally by Clark Kent into demonstrating the effects of his old-age pills by swallowing one himself, the Evolution King ages, causing Lois to faint. Clark then breaks his bonds and forces the Evolution King to reveal how people can be turned back. The Evolution King perishes when, moments later, he accidentally swallows some additional aging pills instead of the intended antidote. |
| Faustus Coven | Superboy #175 (June 1971) | Superboy enemy; patriarch of the Coven family, used combination of sorcery and science to separate Superboy's soul from his body and enslave it. |
| Ferlin Nyxly | Superman #235 (March 1971) | Former curator of the Metropolis Music Museum who, on some occasions, has attacked Superman with the help of magical objects or alien technology he found or stole. |
| The Futuremen | Superman #128 (April 1959) | Two criminals, Vard and Boka, from the year 2000 travel back in time, and claim to an incredibly gullible FBI Chief that Superman is a criminal from their time. They capture him using red kryptonite, and reveal an atomic experiment has dried up Earth's water supply and they want Superman to restore it with ice from Saturn, hoping to get billions from Earth. Superman escapes them, has them jailed by the authorities of the year 2000 and then returns to 1959. |
| Gaff Lomar | Superboy #27 (August–September 1953) | Superboy enemy; "pied piper" who mesmerized Smallville's children into following him. |
| Gog | The Kingdom #1 (February 1999) | In a possible future timeline, a boy called William was the sole survivor of the destruction of Kansas in a nuclear blast. Saved by Superman, he came to view the Man of Steel as a savior and became a minister of a church devoted to him. When Superman tried to correct this misguided view, William came to see him instead as a demon whose failure led to Kansas' destruction. Empowered by the cosmic beings known as the Quintessence, Gog has traveled across the dimensions of Hypertime, slaying versions of Superman wherever he finds them. |
| The Galactic Golem | Superman #248 (February 1972) | An artificial construct created by Lex Luthor that was used by him twice to fight Superman. It was erased from history after the Crisis on Infinite Earths. |
| The Gambler | Superboy #140 (July 1967) | Superboy enemy; "Lucky" Lucifer Chancel, gangster and obsessive gambler, engineered crises for Superboy to face, then accepted bets on the results. |
| The Gem | Superboy #19 (April–May 1952) | Superboy enemy; a.k.a. the Crystalloid, crystalline life-form that consumes all in its path. |
| Glowman | (as Bashford) Superboy #157 (June 1969); (as Glowman) New Adventures of Superboy #30 (June 1982) | Superboy enemy; Bradley "Bash" Bashford, Smallville High bully transformed into a monstrous fiery form. |
| Goldie Gates | Superman #27 (March–April 1944) | The notorious Goldie Gates convinces Randall Rocksell that if he will invest huge sums of money with him, Rocksell will make half a million dollars a day on his investment. However, Superman discovers that Rocksell is being paid dividends with his own money and Gates is perilously close to gaining the power of attorney over Rocksell's money and property. When Randall fully believes that Gates will make him money, he gives him access to his vault, after which Goldie takes the money. Superman sees the crooks and recognizes one as Bucktooth Burger, one of Goldie Gates' mob. Later, Gates' crooks get into Randall's house, where he and Lois are talking. Bucktooth points a gun at Lois and Goldie says she will be shot unless Randall signs a document giving him control over his property. Despite Lois telling him not to, Randall signs. Bucktooth then crams a cloth into Lois's mouth to gag her and Randall is knocked out. He comes to in an underground room with Lois next to him. Both of them are tied to a log. Goldie plans for them both to be killed by dynamite. However, Superman gets to the room and stops the dynamite from exploding. Meanwhile, the crooks think that they will be unable to get out of the tunnel in time. They are relieved to see Superman, who then takes them off to jail. Randall, meanwhile, becomes a better person. |
| Grax | Action Comics #342 (October 1966) | Brainiac's blue-skinned, four-armed rival featuring a 20th-level intellect (as opposed to Brainiac's 12th-level intellect) whose plots are also foiled by Superman and who seeks vengeance. He also appeared in the Super Friends comic book. |
| Harkon | Superboy #194 (April 1973) | Superboy enemy; renegade Atlantean/merman scientist, temporarily transformed Superboy into a merboy. |
| The Hellgrammite | The Brave and the Bold #80 (October–November 1968) | Roderick Rose transforms himself into a large insectoid creature and has battled Superman several times since. |
| The Host | Superman (vol. 2) #6 (June 1987) | A construct containing the souls of a long-lost prehuman race.[14] |
| Illena | Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #52 (October 1964) | Alien woman, romanced Superman with intent to turn him into stone. |
| Ignition | The Adventures of Superman #582 (September 2000) | Created by the Joker after he stole the powers of Mr. Mxyzptlk. Later became ally/underling of the Russian General Zod, guarding Pokolistan.[15] |
| The Insect Queen | (Pre-Crisis, Earth-One) Superboy #124 (October 1965) (Pre-Crisis, Earth-Two) Superman Family #213 (December 1981) (Post-Crisis) Superman #671 (February 2008) |
Pre-Crisis, Earth-One Lana Lang saves an alien that gives her a ring that offered her the powers of any insect or arachnid and becomes a superhero. Post-Crisis, Earth-Two Lana Lang receives a magical scarab from her archaeological father that possesses her and offers the power to enlarge and control insects, becoming a supervillain. Also Post-Crisis, the Insect Queen is an alien that assists Lex Luthor in return for his assistance into colonizing Earth. She uses Lana Lang's DNA to make a new body mixed with her own genetic material. She would later return, possessing Lana's body. |
| J. Wilbur Wolfingham[16] | Superman #26 (January–February 1944) | A notorious confidence man whose elaborate schemes are interfered with by Superman to profit his victim while he is left with nothing. On one occasion he placed oil in a well to con the Eden Farming Community, an area recently hit by a tornado. He then bought the land and claimed that there was an oil well on it, after which the locals paid in cash for shares in it. Lois and Clark told them who Wilbur really was and they started searching the area for him. Lois found him in a barn and told him to give himself up, but he seized her, covering her mouth to prevent her from speaking. He then bound and gagged her and lowered her into the well. He said she would probably be found before she starved, but by then he would be gone. He then hid in a haystack, but a match dropped by him set the oil alight. The flames then started burning through the rope holding Lois up. Clark saw where she was with his X-ray vision, changed into Superman and saved her just as the rope snapped. He then burrowed underground to escape the explosion from the layer of oil, freed Lois, then found a genuine oil well which he diverted to the town. After this he captures Wilbur, who was stuck in the burning haystack, and makes him return the money to the people, who will now become rich due to the oil. |
| J. E. Curtis | Superman #4 (spring 1940) | An agent paid by a foreign power to stop the nation's return to prosperity, which is happening after the Great Depression. His men cause incidents in industry to cause strikes. Superman investigates and stops the attacks. He gets to the boss, who tries to poison him, then when Superman is not killed, he tells Superman about Curtis. Curtis is about to make a call to agents in the stock market to cause the worst depression in American history, but Superman enters with the other crook. Curtis kills the man with a device that fires electrical bolts and tries to kill Superman after Superman refuses his offer to join him. But Superman is unharmed and touches Curtis, electrocuting and killing him. |
| Imperiex | Superman (vol. 2) #153 (February 2000) | An all-powerful force of nature whose purpose is destroying galaxies, planning to create a new universe. Eventually, Superman, Steel, and Darkseid stopped Imperiex by using Doomsday as an ally, along with a powerful weapon called the Entropy Aegis. |
| Kalibak | New Gods #1 (February 1971) | The son of Darkseid. |
| Kancer | Action Comics #777 (May 2001) | Created from a sliver of kryptonite-induced cancer at the behest of the Russian Zod.[17] |
| Khyber | Superman #657 (December 2006) | Hassan-I-Sabbah, leader of the Hashshashin assassins, is a shadowy figure behind world politics, steering humanity to fall under his rule in the future. Arion reveals to Superman that his presence on Earth has weakened humanity against future threats and in the future, after Superman falls to the cybernetically enhanced Khyber, humanity will die out because of this weakness. |
| King Kosmos | DC Comics Presents Annual #2 (1983) | A time-traveling despot from the future who comes to the present in order to conquer it. His efforts are halted by Superman and the mysterious Superwoman, who also makes her premiere appearance and is, in reality, time traveler Kristin Wells. |
| Klaxxu | Superman Family #197 (September–October 1979) | Superboy enemy; extraterrestrial exiled to Earth for attempting to overthrow his planet's government, posed as teacher at Smallville High, used mind-melder device in attempt to convince Superboy he was Klaxxu's fellow subversive. |
| Kokra | The New Adventures of Superboy #2 (February 1980) | Superboy enemy; Middle Eastern demon who possessed Prof. Lewis Lang (Lana's father). |
| Kosmon the Hunter | Adventure Comics #266 (November 1959) | Superboy enemy; alien hunter, captured Krypto and used shapechanging protoplasm creature to lure Superboy into battle. |
| Kronn | Adventure Comics #308 (May 1963) | Superboy enemy; criminal Atlantean scientist, allied with Luthor to transmit mass hypnotic illusions to Smallville. |
| Kru-El[18] | Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #62 (July 1962) | In most settings, Superman's villainous cousin. |
| The Kryptonite Man | Superboy #83 (September 1960) | A teenage delinquent who passed through a cloud of kryptonite and gained superpowers. Originally known as the Kryptonite Kid, he changed his name to the Kryptonite Man after reaching adulthood.[19] |
| Superman (vol. 2) #43 (May 1990) | A clone of Superman mutated by kryptonite exposure created by Simyan and Mokkari. | |
| Superman/Batman #20 (December 2005) | An energy being formed from the latent energy of Major Force combining with the energy from the kryptonite meteor that Captain Atom sacrificed himself to keep it from destroying Earth. This being could hop between bodies, taking a body over and emanate kryptonite radiation. | |
| Superman #650 (May 2006) | A scientist looking for a way to turn kryptonite into a fuel source; he arrogantly ignores any dangers and is turned into the Kryptonite Man. | |
| The Kryptonoid | Superman #328 (October 1978) | A protoplasmic entity that sought revenge against Jor-El by seeking out his son and merging with a Superman Robot and General D. W. Derwent (who blamed Superman for the loss of his arm). |
| Kuku and Nardu | Superboy #167 (July 1970) | Superboy enemies; circus performers and criminals, used robot elephant to commit crimes. |
| Kyack | Superman #13 (November–December 1941) | Warrior of subterranean kingdom descended from a pre-Ice Age civilization, sought to conquer surface world, destroyed buildings in prelude to invasion. |
| Lady Lunar | World's Finest Comics #266 (January 1981) | Stacy Macklin was exposed to the same radiation as the Moonman to become Lady Lunar and troubled Metropolis. It would take the efforts of Superman and Batman to stop her. |
| Lashina | Mister Miracle #6 (January 1972) | A member of Darkseid's Female Furies. |
| The Laughing Gas Bandits | Adventure Comics #484 (August 1981) | Three men, used nitrous oxide laced with kryptonite in effort to immobilize Metropolis. |
| The Leader | Adventure Comics #277 (October 1960) | Superboy enemy; with two fellow aliens, fought a duel with Superboy, with potential invasion of Earth as the stakes. |
| Lelia | Superman #13 (December 1941) | An agent of a foreign power. Scientist Charle Pierson invents a weapon, but is captured by agents of a foreign power, tortured and killed. His wife Clara leaves their baby with Clark Kent so the agents will not capture him and get the plans from her, along with a note saying she will get the baby soon. Superman stops the first kidnap attempt, but Lelia then appears claiming to be the mother and takes the baby. The mother turns up soon after and tells Clark what has happened. She gets a phone call telling her to come to a location, which Superman follows her to. She is held prisoner by the villains and tells them the plans are hidden inside the baby's rattle, which is still in the flat. When the agents leave, Superman leaps in, overpowers Lelia, and after binding and gagging her, waits for the agents. The agents return to the apartment and seize Lois Lane, preventing her from speaking. However, they are captured and the plans are given to the government. Lelia and the other agents are probably jailed. |
| The Leopard | Superman #20 (January–February 1943) | Sam Kennedy, publicity manager for Cosmo's Circus, wore a leopard head mask during a crime spree in which he and his gang used packs of big cats to commit crimes. |
| The Lightning Master | Superman #14 (January–February 1942) | A villain who learns how to control lightning and tries to ransom Metropolis for $300,000. He captures Lois Lane twice, first when she goes to hear his ransom demand. She tries to unmask him, but is captured by him and bound hand and foot to a chair. He tries to send electrical bolts at the house to kill her, but Superman rescues her. The second time, he straps her into an electric chair as he prepares to attack Metropolis for not paying the ransom. However, Superman stops this and in the fight the Lightning Master is electrocuted and killed. |
| Loophole | The Adventures of Superman #505 (October 1993) | Deke Dickson, a former S.T.A.R. Labs employee; uses technology to open up portals that act as a tunnel through matter. |
| Lorac-K7 | Adventure Comics #250 (July 1958) | Superboy enemy, criminal descendant of Lana Lang, traveled back in time from 2958 to steal cobalt for a cobalt bomb, impersonating Lana while doing so. |
| Lord Satanis and Syrene | Action Comics #527 (January 1982) | Living in a time millions of years from now where magic has taken the place of science, Lord Satanis led a revolt of sorcerers against the powerful Queen Ambra and killed her. However, he was denied the right to possess her runestone of Merlin when she cast it into the past, out of his reach. Satanis would marry Ambra's daughter Syrene (whom she had with Merlin), who also sought possession of the runestone. Both of them would eventually find the spells necessary to follow the runestone through time and face Superman, who was needed as a component to use it. The couple would attempt to get the runestone several times before finally returning to their own time period. |
| The Lumberjack | Wonder Woman #268 (June 1980) | Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=List_of_Superman_enemies