Villains Inc.

Villains Inc. is the name of the team of breakthroughs that worked for organized crime's "Chicago Outfit". An earlier version of Villains Inc. went toe to toe against the Sentinels before the events of the books, resulting in a detente between the two groups.

History
In the wake of the Event, Chicago's organizaed crime families faced a direct challenge from the first supervillain gang-bangers for control of the local drug trade. The Chicago Outfit responded by buying in the villains who were willing to work with them and burying the ones who weren't. The Outfit then set up a cell of superhuman hitmen that acted as mob enforcers and accepted contracted hits from criminal organizations across the country.

Of the five named members who were active in the original Villains Inc., two are now dead and three are serving life sentences. After the Sentinels and DSA took down the original team, The Outfit rebuilt without the villain-for-hire racket that brought down law enforcement the first time.

Blackstone mentions that the original Villains Inc. was modeled after an organization called Murder Inc.

Members
In Wearing the Cape Blackstone mentions the original group which included Knox, The Message, Stricture, Trophy, and The Undertaker. The Sentinels go on to have several conflicts with the new group of Blacktop, Flash Mob, Ginsu, Hecate, Shriek, Swarm, Tin Man, Villain X, and Warp.

In Recursion, Hope experiences a new version of Villains Inc. whose ties with The Ascendancy have been drawn tight, leading to a group of Balz, Blacktop, Drop, Flash Mob, Ginsu, Hecate, Phreak, Swarm, Tin Man, Villain X, and Warp.