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[Marvel comics] Why don't supervillains help out more when some existential threat to Earth threatens to blow up/erradicate/enslave the planet?

I mean, when shit really hits the fan, why don't the supervillains come out and help during alien invasions and the like?  Some guy like Rhino just wants to rob banks - that's not gonna keep happening if the Earth explodes.  Certainly most supervillains would rather be alive.

This question has been inspired by the last episode of Justice League Unlimited when all the supervillains help against Darkseid's invasion around the planet.  I'm curious about the Marvel comics universe though.
gpt
They usually aren't organized enough.

Recall that in the finale of *Justice League,* the supervillians helping wasn't the result of some call to arms. Pretty much all of the surviving supervillians on the planet had just finished up a bloody civil war to unite under the banner of Luthor, and had just remanded themselves into League custody, where their efforts could be directed in tandem with that of the heroes. It's a rare fucking day when that many villains are that coordinated. Most days they run around in twos or threes with no idea of the bigger picture unless they were lucky enough to be standing right next to one of the heroes when shit went down.

The most similar showing of villians during a crisis at Marvel happened during *Secret Invasion,* when almost the entirety of New Yorks supervillian population showed up to help fight off the skrulls. The deciding factor was that at the time, they were consolidated under the banner of The Hood, one of the few supervillians on the planet scary enough to browbeat the rest into line, get them up to speed, and get them pointed at the proper target. The aftermath of that fight was a yearlong guerrilla war fought by the heroes to dissemble his organization, ensuring that he'd never be able to pull something like that again. Villians are *scary* when they get organized.