Summary
TheSecret Sixis a supervillain team fromDC Comics, much in the same vein as Marvel’s Sinister Six. It has featured some of the best villains DC Comics has introduced over the years. While the team always has six members at one time, there have been more than six members total.
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Though the team is usually villainous, its members can become anti-heroes if the team leader isn’t truly evil but is someone willing to push typical boundaries to get to a good outcome. It’s one of the most powerful teams that has come together in the DC universe, usually aiming to fight the forces of good.
10Mockingbird
August Durant was the Mockingbird who formed the first version of the Secret Six. A physicist and US agent, he was exposed to a deadly virus and agreed to form the team for the antidote without asking too many questions about what they were doing.
After disbanding the Secret Six, Durant reassembles the team when he learns the government has developed an even deadlier form of the virus he once had. He, and the second version of the team, are killed when the government learns he is trying to thwart them.
9Ventriloquist
In theNew 52continuity, the third version of the Ventriloquist joins the Secret Six after starting asa Batman villain. Shauna Belzer discovers she has telekinetic abilities and uses them to try to kill her brother and parents after being bullied and ignored by them and her schoolmates.
After beginning her villainous life, she is captured by the Riddler. Eventually, she joins forces with the Riddler and others to form this new version of the supervillain team.
8Harley Quinn
Despite being a human with no known superpowers,Harley Quinn is still one of the bestfits ever for the Secret Six. She may have started out as the Joker’s girlfriend, but she eventually turned into a vigilante and an anti-hero who joined both the Suicide Squad, the Birds of Prey, and the Secret Six.
Harley Quinn is known to be unpredictable and seems to enjoy stirring the pot, even with her allies. While her run with the team was short, it was still a perfect fit until she left the team because Deadshot killed their benefactor.
7Cheshire
Jade Nguyen took up the Cheshire mantle and became one of the most popular villainesses ever created by DC. She is a skilled assassin who stands in opposition tothe Teen Titans. Nguyen fell in love with Roy Harper and they had a daughter.
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However, Cheshire would join the Secret Six in theVillains Unitedseries after being blackmailed by Mockingbird. Here, she proves there is no honor among thieves as she ends up having an affair and child with Catman before leaving and betraying the Secret Six.
6Giganta
Giganta has one of the saddest and most brutal stories in DC Comics. Dr. Doris Zeul was diagnosed with a serious blood disease and tried to put her life essence into Wonder Woman. This turned her into Giganta and made her avillain of the Amazonian.
Bane hired Giganta as a member of his version of the Secret Six. However, she wound up in a feud with fellow villain, Dwarfstar, who has the exact opposite powers of Giganta, after he was contracted to kill a man who happened to be Giganta’s boyfriend.
5Black Alice
Lori Zeclin has a tragic backstory that led to her joining the Secret Six. As a teenager, her mother took her own life. Not long after, Lori learns that she has powers that allow her to absorb the powers of others. She used this power for evil and became the villainous Black Alice as a result.
She starts out as an anti-hero, targeting the criminals who drove her mother to the saddest point in her life. The Birds of Prey eventually stop her and turn her over to Dr. Fate, who encourages her to join the Secret Six. Black Alice likes to unleash violence, which worries some of the other members.
4Catman
Catman is one of the longest-tenured members of the Secret Six, having joined several iterations of the team. He started as a big game hunter and trapper but turned to a life of crime after squandering millions of dollars.He mimicked Catwomanuntil she teamed up with Batman to stop him.
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This led to Catman being considered a weak villain and a gimmick until he joined the Secret Six after being rejected by Luthor’s Society. He fought with the team several times before eventually joining it. This decision led to the slaughter of the lions with which he was living.
3Scandal Savage
The daughter of Vandal Savagewas trained in combat by her villainous father, but she eventually joined the Secret Six after being blackmailed by Lex Luthor. Superman’s greatest villain used the team as pawns to fight the very Society that he formed.
After Luthor released the team and revealed his blackmail was all lies, Scandal Savage decided to stay, as she felt like she had found a home. She found love while she was a member of the team and experienced a better father-daughter relationship with a certain leader than she had with her father.
2Batman Who Laughs
This twisted version of Batman feels like what would happen ifBatman and Jokerwere the same person. In the comics, Batman kills Joker after the Joker killed a little girl’s parents in front of her, but the nanotoxin that caused Joker to be so sadistic escapes, and Batman inhales it. This is one of the creepiest versions of both Batman and the Joker.
The Batman Who Laughs comes up with the idea to kill all the Robins and attacks the Justice League. He also tries to infect several other superheroes to join him in his version of the Secret Six.
1Bane
Bane is one of the strongest and most ruthless villains ever created by DC Comics. Known for his incredible strength, it makes sense that he would one day take control of his version of the Secret Six. After using a chemical called Venom to gain super strength, he joins the supervillain team.
While he is sometimes only presented as muscle, he has shown a unique ability to think for himself and lead when he chooses to be the leader. He also developed a loving, almost father-daughter relationship, with Scandal Savage.
