The European Villainous Immorality League (EVIL)
EVIL is not so much a supergroup as a Super recruitment agency. EVIL exists to put the Criminal Mastermind in touch with potential henchmen, find cash strapped criminals jobs to do, and allow potential employers access to a pull of meta-powered individuals who don't mind being contracted for morally dubious work. We do not attempt to govern our contacts, many would be most upset if we were to even try, but we do insist on two rules.
1) If you accept a contract you complete it.
2) If the contract involves financial recompention you pay a 5% cut to EVIL for putting you in touch with your employer/employee.
Most members of EVIL can be divided into three categories:
1) EVIL employees, like Whirlmeister, are paid dirrectly by EVIL to perform administrative or Security functions.
2) Employers, like Nelson Movian, who use EVIL as a source of additional resource when his Zombies aren't quite enough.
3) Contractor, like Screaming Weirdo, who are happy to hire out their particular talents.
Some are a little more complicated. Lost Pharoh associates with us to make use of the superb library for arcane research (at a small fee). Demon Djinn takes petty contracts whilst he builds up enough resources for his own personal army, and other don't talk about why they are with us.
EVIL in the Rogue Isles is a "franchise" agency. Our headquarters are in London, and now run by Mr Gray. We have a rich history, which is detailed on the website.
In game we can be contacted through Whirlmeister, Demon Djinn, Nekokaburi, Lost Pharoh, Nelson Movian, Manchine, or TerrorRat (all of whom have rights to invite ou to the group).
We have 35 character, played by 17 real roleplayer, and of those 16 have logged in in the last 3 days (the other one is away in Ireland) so they are all active members. We are expecting to pick up another 4 roleplayers in the next couple of days through the merger with The Marauder club.
Cheers,
Nekokaburi
Proud member of EVIL
P.S. The EVIL background stems from a need to come up with something which could tie as many different villains together as possible. The first issue was that many Villains would not take well to any sort of command structure, hence we had to come up with something where most members weren't answerable to anyone, yet where there were some sort of contractual binds. EVIL places a clear hierarchy in place for actual EVIL employees, but most SG members aren't actually EVIL employees - they are just possible contractors or Employees on EVILs books. EVIL is a resource these guys can use. Hence the idea of the Meta-human temping agency seems to work well for villains.
The League of Scoundrels
The League have existed in a great many forms across the decades for certain, and have roots that extend back to earlier forms of organizations whose effects can be seen in much of human history.
The League adapts to its time, and currently takes the organizational form of a modern international corporation. While the Board Member directors of the League are known, at least by fearsome reputation, to all members, absolutely nothing is known of the Shareholders.
To learn more about the League of Scoundrels, its five major departments, the members, and the rich roleplaying background, feel free to drop into The League of Scoundrels forum, and to read the backgrounds of The League and its Departments.
http://www.savecoh.com/
Not as connected as I'd hope - but I recommend wholeheartedly the Concord
Zero X, Firvanna, Loco., Golden Skull and Zia are all wonderful RPers and good friends to hook up with.
THe SVG I belong to - Sex Demons - is not an RP as far as I know but we have fun too. And I have enjoyed my CoH and CoV games far more by roleplaying than soloing as that miserable, ego-maniac Ionos - I'm glad that Midnight Rose had the opportunity to waste that sucker. 
Over the Xmas period, Danger Dunne, Blindsight and Captain Caterwaul would like to take the opportunity (Union CoH) to extend a warm welcome to RPers to join the Paragon Patrol - we patrol the streets of Paragon breaking up fights and making them a safer, cleaner place to walk down.
Cap is hoping that one day, she can find the villains who made her into what she is, but until then we're just happy cleaning up the messes on the beautiful streets and skies of Paragon.
So, pretty much every roleplaying supergroup is on UNION? I should have checked here earlier.
EVIL sounds right up my alley ... the character I created for Defiant is already pretty much doing what they do, only in the employ of Arachnos. Might as well re-create him for Union and try to join ...
I have seen a few roleplayers on Defiant, actually , but there didn't seem to be any supergroups dedicated to it. Mostly individuals banding together and having their wicked fun.
There's a group called Battle Royale on Future (Zukunft). Members are all little schoolgirls - acceptance only for small schoolgirls / -boys, preferably already in uniform. Based around the japanese Movie. We already got a base and 9 members.
The Scourge is one of the smaller supergroups on Union, we prefer to remain this way, but there is still plenty of room to grow.Any member will gladly partake in RP anytime, in fact for most of us it is the only reason to join teams.
Arachnos Research and Development (ARAD)
Location: Defiant
While Black Scorpion and his team of pet scientists work on projects mandated by Lord Recluse, ARAD undertake theoretical weaponry and device research at the cutting edge.
Reponsible for development, and field testing of all our creations, ARAD has a strong background in robotics and artifical intelligence engineering. We often assist other autonomous android, cyborgs and robots when their original creators have failed them - enhancing, tinkering and repairing them for the weal of Arachnos.
We are few in number (around ten, a mix of scientists and AI projects) but wield an impressive array of technologies - some of which may eventually mature and be delivered to Arachnos Core.
(( Human Scientists/Tinkerers [Robotics/*, */Traps] and robots [Any AT/Powerset] semi-RP group - details @ http://arad.bbfun.com/ ))
The European Villainous Immorality League (EVIL)
EVIL's contact list needs to be updated. Our current contact list is:<ul type="square">[*]Whirlmeister[*]Echo Hammer[*]Big Lunk[*]Dark Impetus[*]Screaming Skull[/list]
All of course on Union.
It can be hard to find Roleplaying groups, and in CoV they appear to be particularly thin on the ground, so I thought it might be worth starting a thread for those looking for them. I know of:
The European Villanous Immorality League
Contact Whirlmeister, Demon Djinn or Nelson Movian on Union
The Wolf Syndicate
Contact Dark Diva on Union
The Brotherhood of Shadows
Contact Lo-pan in game on Union
The Concord
Contact Doctor Macavity or Professor Prion on Union
There also used to be The Marauder Club, but they are in the process of merging with The European Villanous Immorality League.
Could someone who knows a little about each of these, or about any other CoV RP SGs please post a liitle about them below. Also, for those poor unfortunates on Defiant - are there any Villain RP groups over there
Cheers,
Nekokaburi
Proud member of EVIL