Marionette Ventures

Marionette Ventures is a fictional organization featured on the CW Network television series Smallville. They first appeared in the 20th episode of season ten, "Prophecy", though some members of the group made appearances in prior episodes.

Overview
Marionette Ventures was founded by Winslow Schott, who was a former employee of Queen Industries before being fired. Originally, he sought to avenge himself against the company's owner, Oliver Queen, but as Schott's mania grew, he turned sights on all heroes operating out of Metropolis, including Queen, The Blur, Watchtower, Aquaman, Impulse and others. To this end, Schott put together his own team of villains.

Six different villains were employed, and each one was assigned to take down a specific target. Metallo was assigned to take out |Supergirl, Vordigan the Dark Archer was assigned to take out Green Arrow, Roulette was assigned to take out Chloe Sullivan, Black Manta was assigned to take out Aquaman. Captain Cold was assigned to take out Impulse and Solomon Grundy was assigned to take out Black Canary. The strategy met with total failure and all of the heroes survived.

Members

 * Black Manta
 * Captain Cold, Leonard Snart
 * Dark Archer, Vordigan
 * Metallo, John Corben
 * Roulette, Victoria Sinclair
 * Solomon Grundy
 * Toyman, Winslow Schott

Notes & Trivia

 * Marionette Ventures was intended as a pastiche of the Legion of Doom as seen in the 1978 cartoon series Challenge of the Super Friends.