One of the most powerful forces in the world of comics is time travel. The ability to see haunted pasts, harrowing futures or change the course of history, is a major story device in the world of DC Comics. Often the heroes of the multiverse have to stop universe-shattering events by going into the past or future.

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A large part of this is because of villains with the ability to travel through time. From world conquerors to thieves and arch-nemesis galore, let’s take some time to look at the ten most powerful villains who can travel through time.

10 Epoch

The first villain who has mastered time travel as part of their evil arsenal is Epoch. Otherwise known as the Lord of Time, Epoch was a powerful entity from the year 3786, gathering a massive army from the past and future to battle the JLA for his own nefarious purposes.

Using his chrono-cube to peel back the veil of the fourth dimension and travel through time, Epoch was driven to master time and space and become it’s ultimate ruler, and even was capable of eliminating the JLA by destroying their ancestors and erasing them from existence and changing events to give himself even more power.

9 Per Degaton

While not as notorious as other villains, this classic time travel villain is known for his obsession with time travel and his ruthlessness. That villain is Per Degaton, a man obsessed with using time travel to further his own goals. After working with the Time Trust for a while, he sabotaged the JSA’s mission to obtain a bomb-proof shield by messing with the formula.

Later he takes out a scientist he had been working with who develops a time machine, but his attempts at using the machine for himself prove fruitless. However, over time he gains the power to see a short while into the future, giving him an advantage in battle.

8 Glorith

This next villain began her career as a henchman to the Time Trapper during the 1960’s run of Legion of Super-Heroes comics, but evolved into a much larger threat after the continuity of comics was affected by the removal of Superboy after the events of Crisis on Infinite Earths.

That villain is Glorith, who went from a henchman to the primary threat rather than the Time Trapper during the Five Years Later storyline of comics. After a complex continuity plot involving the Time Trapper, Mon-El and Superboy was retconned, Glorith became the central villain who messed up the Legion’s timeline and created the Glorith-verse.

7 Lady Chronos

The next villain is the third in a long line of villains who have taken on a time travel mantle. A young woman named Jia took on the mantle of the villain Chronos, taking on the name Lady Chronos. Jia was once the young love interest of Ryan Choi, a young man who would take on the mantle of The Atom from his mentor Ray Palmer.

However, Jia would prove to be more ruthless than Ryan knew. After years apart, he learned after she had reentered his life that her husband, recently returned from the dead, had been taken out by Jia herself. She discovered Chronos’s blueprints and became a villain.

6 Abra Kadabra

This next villain is a well-known foe of the Flash, using technology to make himself appear as a magician and sorcerer who is able to traverse time itself. That villain is Abra Kadabra, aka Citizen Abra. Hailing from the 64th century, he desired to be a stage magician but lived in a time when technology had made magic obsolete.

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Traveling to the modern era of time, he used a time machine to allow him to commit crimes and ended up on the Flash’s radar. This led to the two becoming bitter enemies, and later coming into conflict with the Teen Titans and other heroes.

5 Chronos

One of the more obsessed and ruthless time-traveling villains in the DC Universe is David Clinton, the most popular and well-known villain to take on the name of Chronos. He is the sworn arch-enemy of The Atom, aka Ray Palmer. The villain began life as a petty thief who dedicated himself to studying synchronization and time itself, attributing it to his lack of success thus far.

After his sentence, he adopted the costume of Chronos and labeled himself the Time Thief. While he battled other heroes like Blue Beetle and Green Lantern, he became obsessed with Ray Palmer instead.

4 Time Trapper

A truly mysterious and ultimately powerful foe who can traverse time itself is none other than the Time Trapper. While not much is known of the Time Trapper’s past, he was at one point confirmed to be a renegade member of the Controllers. However, his primary role has been a consistent foe of the Legion of Super-Heroes.

After he aroused suspicions amongst the Legion by constructing his Iron Curtain of Time, which allowed him to prevent the Legion from traveling more than 30 days into the future, he became a major enemy of the team, even helping bring Superboy-Prime back years later.

3 Timothy Drake

One powerful force of nature who has traveled through time and alternate dimensions is Timothy Drake, the future Tim Drake of the Titans Tomorrow timeline. Met by the DC Universe’s mainstream Tim Drake after being captured by Mr. Oz during the DC Rebirth era, Timothy Drake reveals in his timeline he has become Batman.

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However, things go from bad to worse when Tim learns this version of himself became a ruthless vigilante, taking out villains and allies alike who crossed his path. He blamed Batwoman for his path in life and traveled back in time to take her life and prevent his future.

2 Monarch

The second most powerful foe of the DC Universe with the ability to travel through time is Monarch, the futuristic leader of a dystopian Earth who was once a hero in the modern era of DC Comics. After a scientist who studies temporal science determines a hero is the one who becomes Monarch, he finds a way to travel back in time to stop Monarch.

However, Monarch monitored the scientist’s movements and traveled back in time to stop him, taking on the Justice League in the process. Monarch proved to be a futuristic Hank Hall, who after beating his future self maintains the balance by sacrificing himself to become the villain.

1 Reverse-Flash

The most powerful villain to wield power over the use of time travel is Eobard Thawne, aka the Reverse-Flash. The Flash’s most bitter enemy, Eobard started out as a criminal from the future who found the Flash suit and reversed its coloring, using the tachyon device to become the Reverse-Flash.

However, he went on to become one of the Flash’s most devious villains, revealing himself as the man responsible for every horrendous moment in Barry Allen’s life, including the passing of his own mother Nora Allen. This led to a bitter rivalry that started events like Flashpoint and more.

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