Enemies Created For Other Media
These are Superman villains created in other media, with no appearances in previous comics. Livewire, Mercy Graves, Non and Ursa subsequently made appearances in Superman comic books, and have been integrated into the mainstream continuity of the DC Universe.
| Villain | Media | Actor/Actress | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nigel St. John | Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman | Tony Jay | ||
| Tempus | Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman | Lane Davies | ||
| Wicked Warlock | The New Adventures of Superman | Ray Owens | A male witch who appeared in six episodes of Filmation's varied incarnations of Superman. His power is derived from a Sorcerer's Ruby, a crimson diamond fitted to his cane that casts magic energy beams. | |
| Lionel Luthor | Smallville | John Glover | The father of Lex Luthor and a classic corrupt businessman. | |
| Baern | Smallville | Bow Wow | ||
| Margaret Isobel Thoreaux | Smallville | Kristin Kreuk | ||
| Spider Lady | Superman (1948 serial) | Carol Forman | ||
| Big Susan and Lizzie | Superman: The Animated Series | Valri Bromfield (Big Susan) Laurie Fraser (Lizzie) |
Small-time robbers. | |
| Kurt Bowman | Superman: The Animated Series | Eddie Barth | A corrupt detective. Ironically realised Clark Kent is Superman moments before his execution. | |
| Earl Garver | Superman: The Animated Series | Brian Cox | A mad scientist who held Metropolis ransom with a lead-covered bomb. | |
| Livewire | Superman: The Animated Series | Lori Petty | A Superman-criticizing shock jock who received the power to manipulate and turn into electricity from a bolt of lightning. | |
| Justice League | María Canals | |||
| Luminus | Superman: The Animated Series | Robert Hays | A scientist armed with light-based weaponry and hard-light constructs in a manner reminiscent of Mirror Master. | |
| Mercy Graves | Superman: The Animated Series Justice League |
Lisa Edelstein | Lex Luthor's faithful henchman, an experienced hand-to-hand combatant. | |
| The Batman | Gwendoline Yeo | |||
| Prometheon creature | Superman: The Animated Series | Frank Welker | A gigantic earth-like construct with minimal intelligence and made for simple labour, absorbing heat to fuel itself. | |
| Corey Mills | Superman: The Animated Series | Xander Berkeley | An outstanding officer who was selected to don a battle suit controlled directly by his neural systems, but eventually go more and more violent as this affects him. | |
| Unity | Superman: The Animated Series | Stephen Root | A huge grey blob that converts humans into mindless drones and with a crippling weakness to X-rays. | |
| Volcana | Superman: The Animated Series Justice League |
Peri Gilpin | A pyrokinetic imprisoned by the government as a secret weapon. Rescued by Superman during his series, but returned as a generic villain in the Justice League series. | |
| Non | Superman: The Movie Superman II |
Jack O'Halloran | The mute henchman of General Zod. He has the same superpowers as Superman and Zod and sports a mustache and thicker beard than that of Zod. He obeys Zod's commands, most graphically when he hurls a police siren light at hypervelocity to kill a fleeing boy in East Houston, Idaho. | |
| Ursa | Superman: The Movie Superman II |
Sarah Douglas | The female companion of General Zod. She has the same superpowers as Superman and Zod and sports short hair. She has a fascination with authoritative-appearing badges and is driven by "perversions and unreasoning hatred of all mankind," in the words of Jor-El when he sentenced her and her comrades to the Phantom Zone. | |
| Ross Webster | Superman III | Robert Vaughn | ||
| Nuclear Man | Superman IV: The Quest for Peace | Mark Pillow (actor) Gene Hackman (voice) |
A solar-powered menace born by detonating a nuclear bomb attached with Superman's genetic material in the sun. |
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