List of Captain Marvel (DC Comics) enemies

Through his adventures, Fawcett Comics/DC Comics superhero Captain Marvel and his Marvel Family gained a host of enemies, including the following:

Dr. Sivana

Captain Marvel's very first and primary foe. Sivana, a bald, diminutive mad scientist, often attempts to take over the world or destroy the Marvels using his inventions. In the classic-era continuity, Sivana's teenage children "Georgia" and "Sivana, Jr." often joined their father in his evil schemes; the three of them were collectively known as the "Sivana Family". In addition, there are two other children of Sivana, Magnificus and Beautia ,who are staunch friends of the Marvel Family. In current DC Universe continuity, Sivana was a mega corporation head who was eventually ruined because of his early battles against Captain Marvel. Currently, he operates underground and heads the Fearsome Five, a team of supervillains, who have fought both the Teen Titans and the Outsiders.

Black Adam

An older Egyptian renegade protégé of the wizard Shazam, who was the first to be granted superpowers by the wizard. Adam eventually grew to abuse his power, and became a tyrant. Shazam returned to punish Adam with either exile (in the Fawcett comics) or death (in the modern DC Comics). He returns to Earth (or life) after Shazam appoints Captain Marvel his new successor, and was soon established as Captain Marvel's most powerful foe in physical abilities. In later DCU continuity, a reformed Adam joined the Justice Society of America, later quiting to stage a hostile takeover of his home country of Kahndaq. Adam was a featured character in DC's "52" comic book series, which followed his attempts to establish himself as a hero and create a "Marvel Family" of his own, which includes his superpowered wife Isis and her younger brother, Osiris. Isis and Osiris were murdered by a grand international conspiracy, sending Adam on a homicidal rampage which pitted him against the entire DC Universe, chronicled in a miniseries entitled "World War III".

Mister Mind and the Monster Society of Evil

Arguably the most notorious classic-era Captain Marvel villain, the at-first unseen Mister Mind started and headed a supervillain team known as the Monster Society of Evil. During two years of masterminding tyranny with a team of hundreds of villains and criminals (including several previous Marvel Family adversaries like Captain Nazi, Dr. Sivana, and Ibac), Mister Mind was revealed to be a two-inch, myopic, mind-controlling worm from another planet. The evil worm was placed on trial, convicted of killing 186,744 people, and placed in the electric chair. Mind survived his execution and escaped; he would go on to battle the Marvel Family many other times, and forming new versions of the Monster Society (including foes like Mr. Atom, Oggar, King Kull, and Black Adam) until the "Crisis on Infinite Earths". In the "Power of Shazam!" series of the mid-1990s, Mind was reimagined as the leader of a race of millions of mind-controlling Venusian worms, who irregularly appear across the DC Universe attempting to control potential human hosts.

Captain Nazi

Adolf Hitler's champion, created through science as the "perfect specimen" of a soldier. Obviously inspired by the events of World War II, Nazi continued to appear in classic-era Marvel Family stories until the 1980s. In the "Power of Shazam!" series, Nazi was brought back into action after having been in suspended animation for fifty years, and quickly became an enemy of the Marvel Family. Captain Nazi was responsible for crippling young Freddy Freeman, leading to the character's eventual emergence as Captain Marvel, Jr.

Ibac

A frail thug named "Stinky" Printwhistle who was empowered by Lucifer himself with the powers of four of the most evil men to walk the face of the earth. When he says the name "IBAC", he becomes a large, muscular brute with super-strength. Saying his name again transforms him back into Printwhistle (therefore, like Captain Marvel, Jr., Ibac also cannot say his own name).

=The Seven Deadly Enemies of Man=

Seven powerful demons, based upon the seven deadly sins enumerated in Christianity, who can take control of both humans and superheroes. The Sins were captured by the wizard Shazam many years ago, and encased in seven mockingly cartoon-like stone statues. The seven statues housing each demon are on display in Shazam's underground lair in the subway in the original comics, and in the Rock of Eternity in the modern comics. The demons have escaped their prisons several times to cause havoc, usually freed by another villain. In the original Fawcett stories and most other versions, the Seven Sins were "censored" to an extent in keeping with 1940s standards, identified as the "Seven Deadly Enemies of Man" and including Pride, Envy, Greed, Hatred, Laziness, Selfishness, and Injustice among their ranks. Most post-2000 appearances of the Seven Deadly Sins identify them by their traditional theological versions (Pride, Envy, Greed, Anger, Sloth, Gluttony, and Lust).

Mister Atom

An artificially intelligent nuclear-powered robot created by Dr. Charles Langley. In the "Power of Shazam!" series, Mister Atom, under the control of Mister Mind, destroys Fairfield, a town near Fawcett City where Mary Bromfield lived with her adoptive parents, with a nuclear explosion. He became a member of the Secret Society of Super Villains and attacked the Rock of Eternity, mentioned by Captain Marvel.

Sabbac

Like Ibac, Sabbac is another magical being powered by the forces of demons. Sabbac gets his powers from six demons (Satan, Aym, Belial, Beelzebub, Asmodeus and Craeteis), who give him powers proportional to those of the Marvels. The original Sabbac, the alter ego of Freddy Freeman/Captain Marvel Jr.'s foster brother Timothy Karnes, first appeared in 1943 as a humanoid figure. In the early 2000s "The Outsiders" comic book, Karnes was murdered and his Sabbac powers stolen by a Russian mobster named Ishamel Gregor. When Gregor becomes Sabbac, he transforms into a hulking demon with red skin, horns, fire breath, and a scent of brimstone.

Oggar

The self styled "World's Mightiest Immortal", he was a major recurring enemy of the Marvels in the Pre-Crisis DC stories. Oggar was a pupil of Shazam, and under the wizard's tutelage attained godhood and for a time joined the six gods and heroes who would empower Captain Marvel, but turned against Shazam, who cast him out and cursed him with cloven hooves instead of feet. He has divine strength equal to Captain Marvel's and magic that enabled him to do nearly anything, but it cannot be directly cast against a female target. Thus Mary Marvel was usually called upon to deal with him.

=King Kull=

The king of the beastmen, neanderthal-like humanoids who ruled the earth in ancient times and enslaved the homo sapien populance. The beastmen were eventually overthrown by their slaves, although King Kull, hidden in a secret underground chamber, survived and vowed revenge on humanity. Kull's people had developed significantly advanced technologies before their demise, and Kull often battles the Marvel Family using such technology.

Blaze and Satanus

They're only present in the modern-day Marvel Family stories, the demoness Blaze and her brother Lord Satanus, originally appearing in the "Superman" books, are the illegitimate children of the Wizard Shazam, who was bewitched by their mother during his superhero days in Biblical Canaan. Blaze has attempted to spread her evil influence throughout Fawcett City since the 1940s, requiring Shazam and his allies to work together to stop her.

Chain Lightning

A metahuman with multiple personality disorder who has the power to absorb and dispel electricity in the form of lightning bolts. As such, she can cause the Marvels to revert to their non-powered forms if she attacks them with enough of a charge. When re-introduced in the "Power of Shazam!" series, Chain Lightning was depicted as a teenage girl, whose four personalities (her "actual" persona of Amy, the embittered Amber, her inner child, and her id) fuel her powers. Chain's Amy personality has an unrequited crush on Captain Marvel, Jr., after he saved her (and "the others") from committing suicide.

Mr. Banjo

Kurt Filpots worked as an agent for the Axis during WWII. Dressed as a stout man in a shaggy green suit and straw hat who carried around an old banjo with him, Filpots delivered secrets in the form of musical notes. Although evil, most people admire the fact that Mr. Banjo would go up against the Big Red Cheese with nothing more than a banjo.

Rowdy Sparkle

Rowdy was one of the many funny villains introduced before the Crisis on Infinite Earths that Captain Marvel would fight regularly. Rowdy considers himself "The Toughest Guy in the World" after he read a copy of "How to Do Everything". His cousin, Sunny Sparkle, is a polar opposite of him.

Mr. Who

Mr. Who was a crippled scientist, who developed Solution Z, a chemical that would enable him to change his physical form. Rather than sharing his discovery with the world, he used it to commit crimes as a supervillain.

Arson Fiend

George Tweedle was a fire insurance salesman who ingested a potion which transformed him into a demon-esque being known as the Arson Fiend. The Fiend had the power to set anything he touched on fire; in the 1990s "Power of Shazam!" series, the Fiend gained the ability to shoot fireballs as well.