>>952938
DC had the various Crises compared to have everything published in 616 since 1961 not explicitly reconnected still canon. Also more time has actually passed in universe since the sliding scale began: With Dick Grayson going 8 to adult then Tim Drake going 9 to adult you have at least 20 years of "real" time passing and that's not counting the time between those events. Plus one or more of the Marvel/DC crossovers explicitly noted DC's civilians don't have their protectors. This leads to one of the better setups for a misunderstanding fight with DC heroes thinking the Marvel heroes are evil based on what their civilians think of them.
If you're just talking about just
>>952937
Are there any notable DC bad guys aside from Lex Luthor that get the (First world Earth) public to love them without mind control? All the bad guy henchmen I can think of in DC are people who were already criminals and just got recruited, non-human, or under a third-world (or Soviet during the Cold War) tyrant. Maybe some cults, but cults aren't generally very big.