10 Times Superheroes Did The Wrong Thing For The Right Reason

10. Salvation Run

The President authorized a program to capture the world’s super-villains and send them off-world. The order was carried out by the “Suicide Squad”. The villains had been diverted to a hostile planet. Alliances formed almost immediately. Luthor created one with the promise of getting everyone home and the Joker gathered the crazier villains together to start some trouble. It was revealed that Darkseid’s torturer DeSaad had diverted the villains there as targets for his new Parademons. Luthor created his teleporter and got many of the villains home, killing some to power it.

Besides the legal ramifications, this plan was doomed to fail. Putting this many volatile personalities together in one place, even a place where they had to depend on each other for their survival, was just a powder keg in search of a match. And introducing the Joker into that wasn’t just providing a match, it’s providing a flame thrower.

Something needed to be done about the supervillain problem. Even a wedding in one of the heroes' own former headquarters wasn’t safe from supervillain attack and there were so many villains with so much power that the heroes barely had time to run from one fire to the next.