The need to replace lithium in chemical storage systems is imminent. Novel battery systems with multivalent anodes like magnesium, calcium or aluminium are more and more investigated but they lack suitable and competitive cathode materials. Organic-based cathodes have been of interest for more than two decades. Their advantageous properties allowed by the versatility of the possible redox-active molecules, combined by their synthesis from refinery waste make organic cathodes to promising alternatives to transition metal oxides-based cathodes.