DC Villains Trivia
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100 free DC Villains trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
DC's villains are at least as famous as its heroes. The Joker and Catwoman both arrived in Batman #1 in 1940, Lex Luthor the same month in Action Comics, and the decades since have added a cosmic tier (Darkseid, the Anti-Monitor, Brainiac, Mongul), a Gotham tier (Two-Face, the Penguin, Mr. Freeze, Poison Ivy, the Scarecrow, Bane, Hush) and a long tail of Flash Rogues, Aquaman's nemeses and Teen Titans tormentors. This quiz covers the whole rogues gallery in 100 questions: who created whom and when, real names and aliases, the origin stories (Venom, Lazarus Pits, fear toxin, a Cro-Magnon meteorite), the defining storylines like Knightfall, The Killing Joke and The Death of Superman, and the actors who brought them to screen, from Terence Stamp's Zod and Danny DeVito's Penguin to Heath Ledger, Margot Robbie and Lady Gaga. Four options per question and a short explanation after each answer. Play in sets of ten or print the set for a comic-shop trivia night.
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Q 01Which New God rules Apokolips and hunts for the Anti-Life Equation?
Darkseid
Darkseid. The Equation would let him strip free will from every living being, and Jack Kirby first unveiled this cosmic tyrant in, of all places, Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen.
Q 02Which android from the planet Colu shrinks cities, including Kandor, into bottles?
Brainiac
Brainiac. His name outlived the comics: dictionaries trace the everyday word 'brainiac', for a very clever person, probably to this 1958 Superman villain.
Q 03Which antihero from ancient Kahndaq did Dwayne Johnson play in a 2022 DC film?
Black Adam
Black Adam. In the comics, the wizard Shazam chose him as champion thousands of years before Billy Batson, then exiled him when the power went to his head.
Q 04Which helmeted underwater mercenary murdered Aquaman's infant son?
Black Manta
Black Manta. For decades his real name and motives stayed hidden behind that oversized helmet; only much later did the comics name him David and give him an origin.
Q 05Leonard Snart, leader of the Flash's Rogues, operates under which name?
Captain Cold
Captain Cold. He sees himself as a working man's crook with a code against killing innocents, and he hates being mistaken for Batman's own ice villain.
Q 06Archaeologist Barbara Ann Minerva is the best-known version of which Wonder Woman foe?
Cheetah
Cheetah. Two women had used the name before her; Minerva became the third when an expedition into Africa ended in a ritual that cursed her into a bloodthirsty half-cat.
Q 07Which assassin, Floyd Lawton, did Will Smith play in 2016's Suicide Squad?
Deadshot
Deadshot. The marksman who boasts he never misses began in 1950 as a one-off crook in top hat and tails, then sat unused for 27 years before a revival.
Q 08Slade Wilson, archenemy of the Teen Titans, is better known as whom?
Deathstroke
Deathstroke. An army colonel enhanced by a military experiment, he turned mercenary instead of soldier, a choice that cost him his marriage and the life of one of his sons.
Q 09Which horned alien warlord hunts the three Mother Boxes as the villain of 2017's Justice League?
Steppenwolf
Steppenwolf. In Jack Kirby's comics he helped murder the wife of a rival world's ruler, the killing that rekindled the long war between the New Gods.
Q 10Which monster killed Superman in the 1992 storyline 'The Death of Superman'?
Doomsday
Doomsday. Planning the story, editor Mike Carlin scribbled 'doomsday for Superman' on the board, and the writers took the word as their new monster's name.
Q 11Which telepathic super-intelligent ape plots conquest from a hidden African city?
Gorilla Grodd
A crashed alien spaceship gave his whole troop sapience; he has fought the Flash since 1959.
Q 12Which Batman foe began as a sideshow wrestler, gawked at for a rare skin condition?
Killer Croc
Killer Croc. Mocked by the abusive aunt who raised him, he ran away to join the circus; later comics made him ever less human, adding claws, a snout and a tail.
Q 13Which Superman foe rules Warworld, a space empire where he stages gladiator games?
Mongul
Mongul. In Alan Moore's 'For the Man Who Has Everything' he ambushes Superman on his birthday with an alien plant that traps its victim in a dream of an ideal life.
Q 21Which immortal Cro-Magnon warrior gained eternal life from a prehistoric meteorite?
Vandal Savage
Vandal Savage. For some 50,000 years he has schemed to rule the world, claiming a hand in the great empires of history, Rome's among them.
Q 22Who is the main antagonist of 1985's Crisis on Infinite Earths?
the Anti-Monitor
The Anti-Monitor. Born in the antimatter universe, he set out to erase every other universe and was opposed by his own benevolent twin, who rallied heroes from every world.
Q 23Which flawed, chalk-white duplicate of Superman first appeared in a 1958 Superboy comic?
Bizarro
Bizarro. The imperfect copy usually wants nothing more than to be seen as the hero Superman is, which makes him a creature more to be pitied than feared.
Q 14Aquaman's half-brother Orm Marius goes by which villain name?
Ocean Master
Ocean Master. He was first written as Aquaman's fully human half-brother, jealous of his powers; later retellings remade him as an Atlantean royal after the throne.
Q 15Rudy Jones, a lab janitor mutated by radiation, becomes which Superman villain?
Parasite
Parasite. The change left him with a hunger he cannot satisfy alone: he has to keep draining the life energy of other people simply to stay alive.
Q 16Which villain, in the comics a dark mirror of Batman, was the main foe of Arrow's fifth season?
Prometheus
Prometheus. In the comics his parents were criminals gunned down by police, so he swore to destroy the forces of justice: Batman's origin turned inside out.
Q 17Which discharged Green Lantern, modeled on David Niven, founded his own yellow-ringed Corps?
Sinestro
Sinestro. Once the Corps' most admired officer, he kept order in his sector by ruling his home planet as a dictator, and was thrown out when rookie Hal Jordan reported him.
Q 18Which swamp-born revenant was once a man named Cyrus Gold?
Solomon Grundy
Solomon Grundy. Each time he is killed he rises again from Slaughter Swamp, often with a new personality: a mindless brute in one life, sharp and scheming in another.
Q 19Which alien conqueror, the Justice League's very first foe in 1960, was the giant monster of 2021's The Suicide Squad?
Starro
Starro. It conquers by clamping small copies of itself over people's faces to control their minds, until a whole species thinks as one hive.
Q 20Which world-conquering demon is the father and arch-enemy of the Titan Raven?
Trigon
Trigon. He fathered children across the hundreds of worlds he rules to use as weapons of conquest, but his daughter Raven sided with the Teen Titans against him.
Q 24B-list actor Basil Karlo was the original version of which shapeshifting Batman villain?
Clayface
Clayface. Karlo snapped when a horror film he had starred in was remade without him, and began killing the new cast dressed as the villain he once played.
Q 25Bandage-wrapped neurosurgeon Tommy Elliot, Bruce Wayne's childhood friend, is which villain?
Hush
Hush. As a boy he cut the brakes on his parents' car to inherit their fortune, and never forgave Bruce's surgeon father for saving his mother's life.
Q 26Jervis Tetch builds mind-control devices as which Batman villain?
The Mad Hatter
The Mad Hatter. Tetch is so obsessed with Lewis Carroll's Alice books that he sometimes cannot tell them from reality, and he quotes them as he works.
Q 27Dr. Pamela Isley is the real name of which Gotham villain?
Poison Ivy
Poison Ivy. The former botanist is less a thief than an eco-terrorist: she wants plants to rule the planet, and bends people to her will with her own pheromones.
Q 28Jonathan Crane, a psychology professor turned criminal experimenter, is which Batman villain?
The Scarecrow
The Scarecrow. Terrorised as a boy, he decided that mastering fear meant it could never master him again, and built a toxin that makes victims live their worst nightmares.
Q 29Which centuries-old Batman foe leads the League of Assassins and cheats death in the Lazarus Pits?
Ra's al Ghul
Ra's al Ghul. He judged Batman a worthy heir and offered him command of the League; Batman refused, appalled by schemes such as wiping out half of humanity.
Q 3025th-century scientist Eobard Thawne is best known under which villain name?
The Reverse-Flash
The Reverse-Flash. He grew up idolising the Flash and recreated the accident that gave him speed, then broke on learning he was fated to become his hero's worst enemy.