The DC Comics stable of villains has been the envy of many a comic publisher for many years, with names like The Joker, Lex Luthor, and Bane that are recognizable in even the least comic-savvy households. The roster is deep, with the Batman line alone full of enough iconic rogues to start its own imprint.

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However, not every villain becomes a hit with readers, and many are resigned to one-off stories and never thought of again, either due to a lack of staying power or the result of a poorly executed story. Over the last several years, DC has introduced plenty of villains that readers have forgotten about, whose stories will probably be resigned to the bargain bin at your local comic shop for years to come.

10 Joker's Daughter

New 52 Duela Dent a.k.a Joker's Daughter

Has there ever been a character more immediately reviled by the comics community than Joker's Daughter? In the aftermath of the New 52 Death of the Family event, Duela Dent, a Gotham City sewer resident, claims the skin of the Joker's face for herself.

If that wasn't gross enough, she became obsessed with injecting her "father"'s blood into her own veins and spent much of her time seeking the Joker out. This incarnation of Duela Dent was, to put it mildly, not so much of a hit with fans, and it's one New 52 villain that DC has since been happy to forget.

9 Flamingo

Grant Morrison created quite a few new villains for his iconic run on Batman, including Flamingo, introduced in Batman #666. A lobotomized mob hitman with ruthless efficiency and a flair for the dramatic, Flamingo nearly killed Red Hood during an altercation but was stopped in his tracks by Batman (then Dick Grayson) and Robin.

These hyper-stylish, uber-violent villains that Morrison introduces in his superhero runs rarely stick beyond his series, as they never seem to have the same impact as they do when he writes them. Well always have that Purple Rain-inspired cover though.

8 Maxie Zeus

Maxie Zeus in DC's Batman comics

Maxie Zeus first appeared as a Batman villain during the late seventies during Denny O'Neill's acclaimed run on the series. Maxie is mentally ill, believing himself to be the reincarnation of the Greek deity Zeus himself, and became a power in the Gotham City underworld. One of the more unique members of Gotham's criminal society, Maxie Zeus never quite established himself as a powerhouse villain in the comics.

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However, his identity and design made him memorable enough for guest appearances in everything from Grant Morrison's Arkham Asylum, the Arkham video game series, and most recently in the DC Comics event Doomsday Clock. His last major appearance was in the Batman: Eternal series where he was chosen as the host of the spirit Deacon Blackfire, but has once again fallen into comics obscurity.

7 Mob Rule

Mob Rule appeared as the first villain of Brian Buccellato and Francis' Manapul's critically acclaimed run on The Flash at the very beginning of the New 52. Manuel Lago was a friend of Barry Allen's, a former CIA agent who was experimented on after the loss of his hand.

He was tortured by a criminal organization known as Basilisk, where he discovered that, due to the experiments, he could grow doubles of himself from his severed limbs. Manuel's duplicates formed a sort of hive mind an become a collective enemy of The Flash under the name Mob Rule. Mob Rule does escape their confrontation with the Flash but was never seen or heard from again.

6 Wrath

Wrath's appeared in a few different incarnations, first introduced by writer Mike W. Barr in 1984 and most recently seen in the pages of the New 52's Detective Comics. Wrath seemingly has the opposite origin of Batman; his parents were criminals killed by a rookie police officer, and then dedicated his life to revenge against the law.

In a world where we have countless "anti-Batmen" like Bane, Prometheus, Hush and now the Dark Knights from the pages of Dark Knights: Metal, Gotham City just isn't big enough for them all.

5 First Born

As his name suggests, the First Born was the first son of Zeus and Hera, making him Wonder Woman's older sibling as a result of the way Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang restructured her origin story in their New 52 Wonder Woman series. Hidden by Hera after Zeus sought to kill the infant First Born, he embarked on several crusades to conquer Olympus for himself.

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The final attempt succeeded, as First Born defeated much of the pantheon, enslaved others, and turned Olympus into a fleshy nightmare until he was thwarted by Wonder Woman. While critically acclaimed upon release, many Wonder Woman fans took issue with Azzarello's voice and new supporting cast for the character. Since then, the Wonder Woman ongoing has reverted to much of what endeared it to longtime fans and re-established her roots to be less godly than in that series.

4 Relic

Relic Green Lantern Villains

Of all the characters on this list, it's a shame that Relic has faded into obscurity. A being leftover from the previous incarnation of the multiverse, Relic watched as "lightsmiths" drained his universe's emotional reservoir dry until it was too late. Upon being released from the Source Wall by Kyle Rayner and seeing the various Lantern Corps making the same mistakes his predecessors made, Relic sought to drain them of the source of their power in the Lights Out storyline.

This idea of light being a resource that could be tapped out was an intriguing one, and later events set the stage for Relic to be a sort of historian on the goings-on of the Universe, but he's been largely forgotten about as later DC initiatives sought to restore previous status quos.

3 Blight

While the Forever Evil event gave the DC Universe's villains a chance to shine against the Crime Syndicate, the magic side of the DCU got the raw end of the deal with Forever Evil: Blight. Spinning out of the previous event Trinity WarBlight was an exhaustive 18-issue crossover that saw John Constantine reassembling his Justice League Dark in order to combat the villain Blight, the physical manifestation of evil in the DC Universe.

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This series never seemed to end while it was running, and what started with a way to keep the DC Universe's popular supernatural characters involved during Forever Evil became an event to forget. With Blight's deep connections to that particular storyline and the New 52 itself, it would be a surprise to see him reappear in the future.

2 H'El

H'El vs the New 52 Teen Titans

H'El was introduced by writer Scott Lobdell and Kenneth Rocafort as part of the H'El On Earth multi-series crossover between SupermanSupergirl and Superboy in the second year of the New 52. H'El had a similar backstory to our favorite Kryptonians, launched by Jor-El just as Krypton was about to explode, arriving 27 years after Kal-El.

However, Lobdell's Superman was overshadowed by the massive success of Grant Morrison's Action Comics at the time, and H'El on Earth devolved into an overcomplicated rehash of the stories of similar Kryptonian villains and Super-story arcs. H'El had a great design with lasting potential, but the story lacked the quality that could help him stand tall with the best of Superman's rogues galley.

1 Telos

Telos enters DC's multiverse

Telos was the redeemed villain of DC's Convergence event, which helped bring the publisher's legacy back from de-canonization after the New 52 initiative. Telos was initially thought to be the living embodiment of a world used by Brainiac to capture and assimilate versions of himself from across the multiverse. There, Telos forced different versions of characters from across the multiverse to fight one another for supremacy.

Telos eventually turned on Brainiac, aiding the heroes in saving the multiverse. He even got his own solo series after the event, but made very little lasting impact on the DCU, probably due to being part of what felt like a filler event as DC moved offices from New York to Burbank. When there are plenty of more compelling cosmic threats in the DCU, we can't imagine we'll see this "big bad" again anytime soon.

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