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The Club of Villains is a team of super-villains from around the world assembled by Dr. Simon Hurt to defeat Batman, the Outsiders andBatman Incorporated while acting as a task-force for the Black Glove.  Their ranks are made up of villains who act as foils to the Batmen of All-Nation's with their name being a play on The Club of Heroes which was the group of Batmen's name. They first appeared in Batman #676 in the June of 2008.

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Members[]

  • Doctor Hurt:
  • The Joker: The club attempted to break Joker out of Arkham Asylum and recruit him only for him to turn on them all.
  • Le Bossu: Dr. Guy Dax AKA Le Bossu (French for: The Hunchbacked Man) is a French neurosurgeon who themes himself after Quasimodo from Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris (1831) (English: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame). Due to his being French, he is presumably an enemy of Musketeer.
  • King Kraken: King Kraken is an aquatic-based super-criminal who is a recurring enemy of the Swedish vigilante, Wingman. He wears a 19th/early-20th century-style scuba-suit with a Kraken/Giant Squid motif.
  • Charlie Caligula: Carlo Calzone AKA Charlie Caligula is a recurring enemy of the Italian vigilante, Legionary. He has a Roman Emperor gimmick while taking his name from Rome's infamously psychotic and ruthless Emperor Caligula whose name has become pseudonymous with sexual deviance.
  • Pierrot Lunaire: Pierrot Lunaire is a French criminal martial-artist who themes himself after the clownish Commedia dell'arte character Pierrot. He is presumably another foe of the Musketeer.
  • Scorpiana: Tristessa Delicias AKA Scorpiana is an Argentinian assassin who has an on-and-off relationship with the Mexican vigilante, El Gaucho. She has cybernetic armour and a scorpion motif.
  • El Sombrero: El Sombrero AKA The Shadow Hat is a Mexican criminal and master trap-maker along with being an enemy of El Gaucho.
  • Swagman: Swagman is an Australian super-criminal who was a recurring enemy of the Ranger. He was inspired by real-world Australian bushwhacker Ned Kelly and as-such, created crude metal armour to imitate the armour the Kelly gang would wear in shoot-outs.

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