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* IdenticalStranger: His actor also portrayed Jacob Shaw on ''Series/{{Constantine}}''.

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[[folder:Ethan Knox]]
!!Ethan Knox
!!! '''Species:''' Human
!!! '''Portrayed By:''' Scott Michael Campbell
!!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/Supergirl2015S1E4HowDoesSheDoIt How Does She Do It?]]" (''Supergirl'' 1x4)
!!! '''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Supergirl|2015}}''

A former employee of Lord Technologies. He was paid by Maxwell Lord to plant bombs all over National City in order to test Supergirl.
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* AlasPoorVillain: Kara is upset when he dies, as she realized he wasn't really evil.
* BeardOfEvil: He's a MadBomber with a beard. Subverted, as he turns out not to be that bad of a guy.
* CanonForeigner: There are no characters named "Ethan Knox" in the comics.
* DeadMansSwitch: A variation. His explosive jacket is rigged with an altimeter so that if Supergirl moves him out of the train, it goes off.
* DrivenToSuicide: He ends up blowing himself up after making sure Supergirl has saved the rest of the people on the train.
* EvenMooksHaveLovedOnes: The only reason he agreed to set up some bombs on behalf of Maxwell Lord is because he needs money to pay for the care of his sick daughter.
* ForcedIntoEvil: Ethan Knox has no desire to harm anyone, it was Maxwell Lord who made him plant bombs all over the city in exchange for paying for the care of his sick daughter.
* MadBomber: Subverted. He is initially assumed to be this, with Kara even calling him "a literal mad bomber," but it eventually turns out that his motives are a little more complex than they appear.
* PapaWolf: He's willing to become a bomb-throwing terrorist in order to save his daughter.
* TragicVillain: Poor guy. After he got fired from his job, his wife divorced him and his daughter contracted a serious illness. Lacking the financial means to pay for her treatment, he ends up becoming a bomber for his former boss Maxwell Lord in exchange for the money he needs. However, he is deeply ashamed of what he's being forced to do and ultimately commit suicide by blowing himself up, as he feels he can no longer look his daughter in the eye anymore.
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* AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: In the show, Winslow mentored Jacqueline Nimball so that she could succeed him as Toyman and continue his work after his death. In the comics, Jack Nimball never met Winslow Schott before becoming a supervillain and actually assumed the identity of the second Toyman without his consent, with Winslow considering him a disgrace to the name of Toyman and eventually killing him.
* AdaptationalSeriousness: He is much less of a {{Manchild}} than most other versions of Toyman, and is portrayed as a very serious and threatening villain.



* ArchnemesisDad: He is Winn's father, and the one villain he fears and despises the most by a long margin.



* AxCrazy: The FBI agent Chase describes Winslow Sr as unhinged and dangerous, which is something his son Winn doesn't deny. Considering the number of people he kills without remorse, it's fair to say he more than live up to that description.



* BewareTheQuietOnes: Winn describes him as having been a rather quiet person before he snapped and became a murderous supervillain.
* BusCrash: After last being seen being arrested by Supergirl in Season 1, Winslow Schott Sr. is revealed by a newscast to have died in prison during Season 3.
* CarFu: As Mary reveals to Winn in Season 3, she tried to take him to a domestic abuse shelter when he was 9, but Winslow found out about it and stole a car to ram them off the road, giving Winn a concussion.



* CopKiller: He kills several prison guards during his breakout. Agent Chase also mentions that he killed one of her fellow FBI agents during his apprehension.



* DeadlyGas: When the FBI raids the old toy store in "Childish Things", Winslow releases lethal gas from the stuffed animals to poison them. Fortunately, Supergirl arrives and manages to inhale all the gas before exhaling it into the sky.
* DeathByAdaptation: The comic version of Winslow Schott/Toyman is still alive in the comics. In the show, he dies of an unknown disease in Season 3. While an episode of season 5 treveals hat he uploaded his consciousness to the digital space, he still gets deleted by the end of the episode.



* TheDreaded: Not only have Winn and his mother spent a large part of their lives terrified of him, but even the guards at his prison are disturbed by him and mention having nightmares every time they interact with him.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: For such a dangerous villain who caused so much issue to Winn, he ends up dying of a simple illness entirely off-screen during Season 3. [[spoiler: Subverted as he eventually returns in Season 5 due to having uploaded his consciousness to the digital space, and he gets a much more significant death in helping his son defeat Toyman II.]]



* EvilCounterpart: He's this for his son Winn, who is very much aware of it and is deeply concerned about it. Both of them were brilliant engineers with a passion for toys, both of them started out as timid and reserved people with a tendency to repress their feelings, both of them did thankless jobs where they were constantly looked down upon and pushed around by their bosses. While Winslow Sr. eventually snapped and became a ruthless murderer, Winn remained a good-hearted person, but is still worried that he may end up like his father one day. Ultimately, both of them took on the identity of "Toyman", but Winslow Sr. used it to be a supervillain and Winn to be a superhero.
* EvilOldFolks: Assuming he's the same age as his actor, Winslow is in his late 50s/early 60s and has graying hair, but that doesn't stop him from being a formidable villain.



* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: In his last appearance, Winslow claims that he's willing to help Winn delete Toyman II, even though he knows full well that this will cause his own death. Against all odds, he actually proves he was sincere by spending his last moments holding Toyman II back so that Winn can delete them both.]]



* KnowWhenToFoldEm: After Supergirl manages to stop his bombs at the toy convention in "Childish Things", Winslow tries to run away, but he doesn't get far before being caught by the superheroine.
* MadBomber: He is a psychopathic killer who has an affinity for using explosives. His first victims were killed by a bomb he hid in a teddy bear, and he also hides ten bombs at the toy convention attended by his former boss.
* MurderByMistake: According to Winn, he started his villainous career by attempting to kill his boss with a package bomb, but his secretary opened it instead and died in the explosion along with five other innocent people, whereas his boss survived.



* PlayingPossum: In his first scene, Winslow fakes being dead in his cell so a prison guard will open the door, then he uses his KillerYoYo to kill him.
* QuicksandSucks: In his first appearance, he manages to trap Supergirl in a box full of thermite-laced quicksand, intending to drown her since she still needs air. She freezes it and breaks free.



* SanitySlippage: He snapped after his company was stolen from him, and being imprisoned for almost two decades just made him worse. Except he was always evil, since he was always a domineering man]

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* SadisticChoice: In his first episode, Winslow gives one to his son. Either he kills Chester Dunholtz with a special plastic weapon, or Winslow activates the remote-controlled bombs hidden in the toy convention, killing dozens of people.
* SanitySlippage: He snapped after his company was stolen from him, and being imprisoned for almost two decades just made him worse. Except he was always evil, since he was always a domineering man]man.



* UnseenNoMore: Winn first mentioned his criminal father in "Livewire", but he doesn't actually appear on-screen until five episodes later in "Childish Things".
* TheVillainKnowsWhereYouLive: He somehow knows where Kara lives, and waits for Winn to get out of her apartment in "Childish Things" to chloroform him and kidnap him.
* YoureInsane: He calls Toyman II a "psycho" in "Back from The Future - Part 2". Coming from him, that really means something.
-->'''Winslow Sr:''' That's because you're a psycho!



* EvilCounterpart: To Guardian, obviously. Winn even calls him James's "Evil Twin". Like James Olsen, Phillip Karnowsky is a normal human who has no power but is a good fighter, puts on armor to fight criminals in order to make the city safer, and is motivated by the death of a family member. However, the difference between the two is that Phillip is consumed by his thirst for revenge and therefore has much more brutal and ruthless methods, whereas Guardian never kills criminals.
* FrameUp: Phillip intentionally kills his targets after Guardian has fought them, putting the blame on Guardian.
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Guardian tells him that he understands his pain over losing the woman he loved, but that doesn't excuse him killing criminals because of it.



* PutOnAPrisonBus: He is last seen falling into the hands of Maggie and Alex, and a television report announces shortly after that he was indeed arrested. He never reappears afterward.



* WeCanRuleTogether: When he finally encounters Guardian, he tells him that he would have liked them to be allies. However, James's ThouShallNotKill principle makes such a thing impossible.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He believes that he is making the city a safer place by killing criminals who escaped justice.
* YouFool: Calls Guardian a fool for saying that killing people is not the right way to honor a deceased loved one.



[[folder:Gregory Bauer]]
!!Gregory Bauer

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[[folder:Gregory Bauer]]
!!Gregory Bauer
[[folder:Jacqueline Nimball]]
!!Jacqueline Nimball



!!! '''Portrayed By:''' Pierson Fode
!!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/Supergirl2015S5E15RealityBytes Reality Bytes]]" (''Supergirl'' 5x15)
!!! '''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Supergirl|2015}}''

A criminal who targets transgender people out of bigoted reasons.

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!!! '''Portrayed By:''' Pierson Fode
Creator/BrookeSmith
!!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/Supergirl2015S5E15RealityBytes Reality Bytes]]" "[[Recap/Supergirl2015S3E14SchottThroughTheHeart Schott Through the Heart]]" (''Supergirl'' 5x15)
3x14)
!!! '''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Supergirl|2015}}''

''Series/{{Supergirl|2015}}''

A criminal former maintenance worker at Van Kull Maximum Security Prison who targets transgender people out became the apprentice of bigoted reasons.Winslow Schott Sr. and promised him to continue his work after his death.



* HateSink: Probably the biggest in the entire series, as he is nothing but a vicious transphobe.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: ''Severely'' so towards Dreamer, even after footage of her easily dispatching of a Dominator goes viral.

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* HateSink: Probably ActorAllusion: Mary calls Jacqueline "Buffalo Bill" at one point. Her actress Creator/BrookeSmith previously played a ''victim'' of [[Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs someone by that name]].
* AdaptationalJobChange: In
the biggest comics, Jack Nimball was a petty crook before becoming the second Toyman. The show version was a maintenance worker at the National City penitentiary.
* AdaptationNameChange: Due to the GenderFlip, the character's first name is "Jacqueline" instead of "Jack".
* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: In the show, Jacqueline Nimball was taken on as an apprentice by the first Toyman Winslow Schott Sr. so that she could succeed him and continue his work after his death. In the comics, Jack Nimball never met Winslow Schott before becoming a supervillain and actually assumed the identity of the second Toyman without his consent, with Winslow considering him a disgrace to the name of Toyman and eventually killing him.
* AllThereInTheScript: Her name is never spoken out loud during the episode and is only revealed
in the entire series, credits.
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: Despite being Toyman's apprentice and successor, she is never directly referred to
as "Toyman" herself, unlike her comic book counterpart.
* DeadlyRemoteControlToy: Once the Superfriends arrive at the factory, Jacqueline sends all kinds of weaponized remote-controlled toys after them, such as planes that explode on contact and cars that shoot fire and missiles at them.
* DidYouActuallyBelieve: When Mary laments what she and her son are enduring because of her, Jacqueline mocks her for believing that she could have compassion for them despite the way they treated Winslow Sr.
-->'''Jacqueline:''' You really think you're a pair worthy of sympathy? Or mercy?
* DoNotAdjustYourSet: After trapping Mary, Jacqueline takes control of the DEO screens to show Winn a video of his captured mother and demand that
he is nothing but surrender himself in exchange for her life.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She holds her mentor Winslow Schott Sr. in high regard, calling him
a vicious transphobe.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: ''Severely'' so towards Dreamer,
"once-in-a-lifetime mind". She's willing to carry out his wishes even after footage of his death, and expresses her easily dispatching contempt towards Mary and Winn for treating him so poorly.
* FireBreathingWeapon: One
of the deadly toys she sends after Winn and James is a Dominator goes viral.remote-controlled car that shoots flames.
* ForcedToWatch: She plans to kill Winn in front of his mother, as his father had intended should she come near him.
-->'''Jacqueline:''' ''[To Mary]'' I'm gonna kill your son. I'm gonna make you watch, just like Winslow wanted.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: She was a mere maintenance worker before Winslow took her under his wing and turned her into a dangerous supervillainess.
* GenderFlip: In the comics, the second Toyman is ''Jack'' Nimball, a man.
* IHaveYourWife: She captures Mary and uses her as a hostage to force her son Winn to go to her lair where she plans to kill him.
* KillerYoYo: Like Winslow Sr, she uses a yo-yo as a weapon against Winn at the end of the episode. However, it turns out that Winslow did not teach her about the hidden blades inside.
* MadBomber: Like her predecessor, she's a lunatic who often uses explosives. In fact, her very first crime was to detonate a bomb hidden inside Winslow's coffin in an attempt to kill the people attending his funeral.
* MoralMyopia: According to her, Winn and Mary are awful people who don't deserve any sympathy because they wanted to stay away from Winslow Sr. Never mind that he was a ruthless murderer who abused them and threatened to kill them more than once.
* NervesOfSteel: She remains unfazed when Mary arrives in the factory and points a gun at her, probably because she knows that she's about to get caught by the trap set for her.
* NotWearingTights: She never wears anything resembling the yellow and black jester costume from the comics.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Like his predecessor, Jack Nimball was an enemy of Superman in the comics rather than Supergirl.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: The comics version of Jack Nimball was assassinated by Winslow Schott after a few appearances. In the show, Jacqueline Nimball survives her sole episode and actually outlives Winslow Schott Sr.
* UndyingLoyalty: She appears to be very loyal to her mentor Winslow Schott Sr. and is even willing to carry out his wishes after his demise.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Jacqueline opts to simply shoot Winn and Mary once Winn frees Mary from the claw. Winn mocks her for her lack of showmanship as a stalling technique so he can summon the repaired robot monkey to grab her gun.



[[folder:Richard Bates]]
!!Richard Bates

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[[folder:Richard Bates]]
!!Richard Bates
[[folder:Arthur Willis]]
!!Arthur Willis



!!! '''Portrayed By:''' Jesse Moss
!!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/Supergirl2015S5E15RealityBytes Reality Bytes]]" (''Supergirl'' 5x15)
!!! '''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Supergirl|2015}}''

A former tester of Obsidian Platinum, who uses the VR cyberspace to enact a personal revenge fantasy.

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!!! '''Portrayed By:''' Jesse Moss
Bradley White
!!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/Supergirl2015S5E15RealityBytes Reality Bytes]]" "[[Recap/Supergirl2015S3E21NotKansas Not Kansas]]" (''Supergirl'' 5x15)
3x21)
!!! '''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Supergirl|2015}}''

A former tester
''Series/{{Supergirl|2015}}''

An ex-employee
of Obsidian Platinum, who uses the VR cyberspace law firm "Vang & Morales" with mental issues. He was fired due to enact a personal his outbursts, and plans to use D.E.O.-based weapons to take revenge fantasy.on his former employers.



* CrazyJealousGuy: Calling him "possessive", is putting it mildly; after his wife cheated on him in VR, Richard used the same technology to trap Trevor, the man with whom she cheated on him, in a horrifying simulation as payback.

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* CrazyJealousGuy: Calling BankRobbery: Subverted. He is first seen getting into a gunfight with a police officer near a bank so it's assumed that he was planning to rob it, but it's eventually revealed that he was actually trying to attack the law firm that's located in the same business plaza.
* CanonForeigner: There are no characters named "Arthur Willis" in the comics.
* CopKiller: Downplayed. He tries to shoot a policeman with his rifle in his first scene, but Guardian manages to pushes
him "possessive", to safety. Still, Arthur is putting it mildly; after aware that doing this means his life is over.
* GoingPostal: He's a former member of a law firm who snapped due to
his wife cheated on leaving him for being a workaholic and the firm keeps passing him over for promotion, so he obtained some weapons to go kill his former employers. Fortunately, J'onn manages to talk him out of it.
* ItsTheOnlyWay: He claims to J'onn that using his guns against his former employers is the only way to gain respect. J'onn tries to convince him otherwise.
-->'''Arthur Willis:''' This is the only way for me to be heard!\\
'''J'onn:''' Arthur, if you pull that trigger, no one's gonna listen to a thing you have to say.
* IveComeTooFar: When J'onn tries to convince him to surrender, Arthur initially refuses by pointing out that he tried to shoot a cop earlier, so his life is already over no matter what.
* MotiveMisidentification: At the beginning of the episode, Arthur Willis is spotted near a bank and is assumed to have been attempting a robbery. When his identity is tracked down later, the DEO realize that he was actually planning to attack his former office, which is
in VR, Richard used the same technology to trap Trevor, business plaza as the bank.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted. He shares a last name with recurring villainess Leslie Willis a.k.a. Livewire.
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Rather than fight him, J'onn decides to talk with him and manages to convince him to put down his weapons and turn himself over.
* ThatLiarLies: During his talk with J'onn, he rants about how his former employers kept lying to him about his promotion.
-->'''Arthur Willis:''' They lied to me!
* TragicVillain: He's a
man with whom she cheated mental problems, whose wife left him for working too much and who then got fired from his job for several outbursts. He plans on him, in taking revenge on his former employers via a horrifying simulation as payback.deadly rampage, but J'onn is able to convince him to stand down.
* WhoAreYou: He asks this to J'onn when he comes to reason with him before he starts his attack on his former office.
-->'''Arthur Willis:''' Who are you?\\
'''J'onn:''' Just someone who wants to talk.
* WhosLaughingNow: He feels that his former employers fired him for no good reason and treated with disrespect, so he plans to get revenge on them.
* {{Workaholic}}: Apparently, he used to spend so much time working that his wife couldn't bear it and ultimately left him over it.



!!! Metahumans
[[folder:Livewire]]
!!Leslie Willis / Livewire
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/supergirl_leslie_willis.png]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/supergirl_livewire.png]]
!!! '''Species:''' Metahuman
!!! '''Known Aliases:''' Livewire, "Leslie 2.0", "Sparky"
!!! '''Portrayed By:''' Creator/BritMorgan
!!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/Supergirl2015S1E5Livewire Livewire]]" (''Supergirl'' 1x5)

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!!! Metahumans
[[folder:Livewire]]
!!Leslie Willis / Livewire
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/supergirl_leslie_willis.png]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/supergirl_livewire.png]]
[[folder:Gregory Bauer]]
!!Gregory Bauer
!!! '''Species:''' Metahuman
!!! '''Known Aliases:''' Livewire, "Leslie 2.0", "Sparky"
Human
!!! '''Portrayed By:''' Creator/BritMorgan
Pierson Fode
!!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/Supergirl2015S1E5Livewire Livewire]]" "[[Recap/Supergirl2015S5E15RealityBytes Reality Bytes]]" (''Supergirl'' 1x5)5x15)



A confrontational radio ShockJock that gets powers after being zapped by lightning while being saved by Kara.

-> see the Characters/SmallvilleMeteorFreaks page for the Earth-167 character who bears her name and background

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A confrontational radio ShockJock that gets powers after being zapped by lightning while being saved by Kara.

-> see the Characters/SmallvilleMeteorFreaks page for the Earth-167 character
criminal who bears her name and backgroundtargets transgender people out of bigoted reasons.



* HateSink: Probably the biggest in the entire series, as he is nothing but a vicious transphobe.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: ''Severely'' so towards Dreamer, even after footage of her easily dispatching of a Dominator goes viral.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Richard Bates]]
!!Richard Bates
!!! '''Species:''' Human
!!! '''Portrayed By:''' Jesse Moss
!!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/Supergirl2015S5E15RealityBytes Reality Bytes]]" (''Supergirl'' 5x15)
!!! '''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Supergirl|2015}}''

A former tester of Obsidian Platinum, who uses the VR cyberspace to enact a personal revenge fantasy.
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* CrazyJealousGuy: Calling him "possessive", is putting it mildly; after his wife cheated on him in VR, Richard used the same technology to trap Trevor, the man with whom she cheated on him, in a horrifying simulation as payback.
[[/folder]]

!!! Metahumans
[[folder:Livewire]]
!!Leslie Willis / Livewire
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/supergirl_leslie_willis.png]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/supergirl_livewire.png]]
!!! '''Species:''' Metahuman
!!! '''Known Aliases:''' Livewire, "Leslie 2.0", "Sparky"
!!! '''Portrayed By:''' Creator/BritMorgan
!!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/Supergirl2015S1E5Livewire Livewire]]" (''Supergirl'' 1x5)
!!! '''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Supergirl|2015}}''

A confrontational radio ShockJock that gets powers after being zapped by lightning while being saved by Kara.

-> see the Characters/SmallvilleMeteorFreaks page for the Earth-167 character who bears her name and background
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%% Doesn't explain what the reaction is. * BerserkButton: After the incident that gave Leslie her powers, she really hates helicopters.

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%% Doesn't explain what * AttackOnTheHeart: She often attempts to use her electricity powers to stop people's hearts from beating.
** After overpowering Supergirl during their second fight in "Livewire", she expresses an interest in making her heart stop beating.
--->'''Livewire:''' I wonder if I have enough power to stop your heart.
** In "World's Finest", she threatens to do
the reaction is. same thing to Cat Grant after capturing her.
--->'''Livewire:''' You see, Cat, I'm still 50-50 if your heart's actually beat, but I'm gonna stop it anyway.
* BerserkButton: After Ever since the incident accident that gave Leslie her powers, Livewire has a particular hatred for helicopters, so much so that she really hates helicopters.tries to attack one without any provocation in "Worlds Finest".
-->'''Livewire:''' I ''hate'' helicopters!
* BoringInsult: She calls Supergirl "boring" among other insults during their confrontation at the end of "Livewire".
-->'''Livewire:''' Your 15 minutes are up, you boring, weak…\\
'''Supergirl:''' [[ShutUpHannibal Oh, shut up, you mean girl!]]



* CardCarryingVillain: She makes no bone about the fact that she's a supervillainess. She even says that her team-up with Silver Banshee is like "an evil Music/TaylorSwift squad" in "Worlds Finest".



* DrinkingOnDuty: During the time she worked as a waitress in a diner to keep off Reign's radar in Season 3, Livewire would often take breaks at any time to go drink beers. Supergirl even calls her out on it when she comes to ask her for help and finds her with a bottle in her hand.
-->'''Supergirl:''' What, are you drinking on the job, Livewire?



* EnemyMine:
** In "World's Finest", she agrees to join forces with Silver Banshee due to their common hatred of Cat Grant.
** She teams up with Supergirl and Psi to fight against Reign in Season 3.



* EnemyMine: Teams up with Supergirl and Psi to fight against Reign.



* FreudianExcuse: As a shock jock, Leslie has always been rewarded for being mean and nasty, leading Cat to feel she is to blame for Livewire's actions as the one who has been rewarding her for years.

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* ForcedToWatch: When she comes to confront Cat Grant at the end of "Livewire", she asks where Supergirl is as she was hoping to kill one of the two while forcing the other to watch.
-->'''Livewire:''' Where's your bodyguard?\\
'''Cat Grant:''' I didn't think she was necessary.\\
'''Livewire:''' Sucks, I really wanted one of you to watch the other one die.
* FreudianExcuse: As a shock jock, Leslie has always been rewarded for being mean and nasty, leading Cat to feel she is to blame for Livewire's actions as the one who has been rewarding her for years. years.
* AGodAmI: By the time of Season 2, she has come to believe that her electricity powers make her a goddess, as she states to her therapist Dr. Haminton at the prison.
-->'''Livewire:''' ''[To Dr. Haminton]'' You know what that power makes me? A bad guy? Evil? It makes me a god!



* ImmaturityInsult: In "We Can Be Heroes", she calls Guardian and Mon-El a bunch of pathetic little boys after they get defeated and captured while trying to rescue her.
-->'''Livewire:''' You know what I love? Little boys who think they can do a better job than the woman who's an actual superhero. It's pathetic!



* LightningLash: One of her favorite ways to use her powers is to create electric whips to restrain her opponents, which is what she does to Supergirl in Season 1, to the unnamed scientist who captured her in Season 2, and to the Fort Rozz prisoner Tormock in Season 3.
* LivingBattery: In "We Can Be Heroes", Livewire is captured by a MadScientist who uses her energy to empower both his SuperSoldiers and himself.



* NeverMyFault: Leslie blames Cat Grant entirely for her helicopter accident and wants to get revenge on her for it, even though she was the one who refused to listen to the pilot's cautionary advice which led to them being struck by lightning.



* NotWorthKilling: After threatening to kill her prison therapist in "We Can Be Heroes", Livewire laughs and says she isn't really going to do it because it wouldn't be worth it.
-->'''Livewire:''' Freud, please, I'm not gonna kill you. Come on. It'd be so... pointless.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted. She has the same last name as Arthur Willis, a minor villain from Season 3.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain:
** In her first scene, Leslie makes some homophobic comments towards Supergirl during her radio show.
--->'''Leslie:''' I mean, she does kind of give off a Sapphic vibe, with that big ol' butch "S" chest plate.
** During her appearance in Season 3, Livewire makes some pretty distasteful remarks towards the male inmates of Fort Rozz who were killed by the blue star.



* ShoutOut: In her first episode, she uses her [[LightningLash electricity whips]] in a way that resemble the villain Ivan Vanko a.k.a. Whiplash from ''Film/IronMan2''.



* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Has this kind of reaction when Guardian is the one who comes to her rescue instead of Supergirl in "We Can Be Heroes".
-->'''Livewire:''' Great. I'm screwed.
* ThrownOutTheAirlock: In the episode "Fort Rozz", Livewire gets briefly ejected into space while fighting a Kryptonian demon on the titular prison, but she turns into electricity and manages to get back on board.



* UngratefulBastard:
** She probably would have died in the helicopter accident without Supergirl's intervention, and yet that doesn't stop her from trying to kill her in most of her appearances.
** Siobhan Smythe accuses her of being this in "World's Finest" when Leslie threatens to electrocute her right after she releases her from her DEO cell.
--->'''Siobhan:''' I need your help.\\
'''Leslie:''' I can help you catch on fire!\\
'''Siobhan:''' You should be a little more grateful since I'm the one who broke you out of your hamster wheel.
* VillainousFriendship:
** While the two occasionally bicker, Livewire does refer to her partner-in-crime Silver Banshee as a friend in "Worlds Finest".
** In Season 3, she mentions that some of the criminals who were killed by Reign were friends of hers.
* VirginShaming: During her roast of Supergirl in her first appearance, Leslie mocks the superheroine for her "lack of sexuality". Cat Grant doesn't take it well.



* WhoAreYou:
** After Siobhan Smythe breaks her out of her DEO cell with her sonic screams in "Worlds Finest", Livewire is understandably curious to know who she is.
--->'''Livewire:''' Who the hell are you?\\
'''Siobhan:''' Siobhan Smythe.\\
'''Livewire:''' [[DeadpanSnarker It's like your parents knew you'd grow up to be a big snob.]]
** She naturally asks this to Guardian when he comes to rescue her from the scientist in "We Can Be Heroes", as she was in jail when he started his superhero career.
--->'''Livewire:''' Who are you? Where is Supergirl?\\
'''Guardian:''' She's busy. I'm Guardian.
** When Mon-El shows up shortly after, she asks him the same thing.
--->'''Livewire:''' The hell are you supposed to be?\\
'''Mon-El:''' I'm the other Superman... in training.



* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: After her attempt to frame Kara for bad-mouthing Cat is foiled by Winn in "Manhunter", Siobhan gets drunk and goes up to the roof of her building to yell at Supergirl as she flies by. Unfortunately, she gets dangerously close to the edge and ends up stumbling and falling off the roof. She's certainly lucky that her powers activated for the first time at that very moment, otherwise her drunkenness would have led to her death.



* BirdsOfAFeather: She ends up in a relationship with Winn due to the two of them having messed-up family lives.



* CommonalityConnection:
** She and Winn grow closer as they realize they both have issues with their fathers.
** She bonds with Livewire over their shared enmity with Cat Grant and Supergirl in "World's Finest".



* DarkActionGirl: Once she becomes a supervillainess, she is able to put up a decent fight against Supergirl herself.



* EnemyMine: She convinces Livewire to team up with her due to their common hatred for Cat Grant. She even Lampshades this trope just before she goes to break her out of the DEO prison.
-->'''Siobhan:''' The enemy of my enemy… is my new partner.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: When bystanders come between Supergirl and the villains in "World's Finest", Livewire has no problems trying to kill them, but Silver Banshee hesitates and doesn't attack, suggesting that she's not as evil as her partner



* EvilCounterpart: To Kara Danvers, of course. Both of them work as Cat Grant's assistant, both of them have been the objects of Winn's affections, and both secretly have superpowers from their lineage. The difference is that while Kara is a NiceGirl who uses her powers to help others, Siobhan is a selfish AlphaBitch who wants to use her powers to kill people.



* HeightInsult: She makes a crack about Winn's short stature the first time they interact in "Solitude".
-->'''Winn:''' How's it going, Siobhan?\\
'''Siobhan:''' I'm sorry. I have difficulty making conversation with men under six feet tall.
* HereditaryCurse: Her powers originate from one, due to an ancestor who got on the wrong side of a banshee. Whenever a woman in the Smythe family is wronged (which is often due to the fact that they are also cursed to have unlikable personalities), they are granted banshee powers until the one who wronged them is dead. Refuse to take their revenge, and the banshee spirit drives them insane.



* JerkassToOne: During her time at [=CatCo=], she acts like a total suck-up to both Cat Grant and James Olsen, and while she starts out rather dismissive of Winn she eventually grows closer to him and even dates him. On the other hand, she seems pretty much incapable of talking to Kara without being obnoxious to her.
* ManOfKryptonite: Her powers are of magical nature, which Kryptonians are vulnerable to. This allows her to make Supergirl's ears bleed with her sonic screams and to send her flying with a punch.



* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Her Silver Banshee look. We don't know if she actually transformed or if it's just costume and makeup.
* MistakenForAliens: After seeing her survive a fall from the top of a building without a scratch, Winn assumes Siobhan may be a Kryptonian or some other type of alien and takes her to the DEO base for some tests, which confirm that she is fully human.
* MistakenForSuicidal: At the end of "Manhunter", Winn sees a drunk Siobhan on the roof of her building and assumes she intends to jump to her death due to losing her job. He tries to talk her out of it, but she reveals that this wasn't her plan at all.
-->'''Winn:''' Siobhan, no, no, no! Stop. Stop.\\
'''Siobhan:''' Seriously? I have too much self-esteem to kill myself.



* NoPronunciationGuide: Kara has no idea how to pronounce her name when she first reads it, and is surprised that Cat is able to pronounce it correctly.



* APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: She is the second of Cat Grant's protegees to turn evil, with Leslie Willis aka Livewire being the first. Cat even Lampshades this at one point.
* PutOnAPrisonBus: After her defeat in "World's Finest", Kara mentions that Silver Banshee was taken to the National City Prison where they found a way to lock up superpowered individuals thanks to Barry Allen's help. She never reappears afterwards.



* UngratefulBastard: As Winn points out, she doesn't even bother to thank him after he helped her with a copy machine problem in "Solitude". In her defense, she was feeling particularly upset that day due to finding out that her father cheated on her mother again.
-->'''Winn:''' "Thank you" would be nice...



* WomanScorned: She is pretty mad at Winn for choosing to help his friend (and former crush) Kara rather than her when she tries to frame her up in "Manhunter", and threatens to kill him over it. Once she becomes a supervillainess in the following episode, she lashes out violently at Winn both times she storms into the [=CatCo=] building.



* BackForTheFinale: He is one of the villains summoned by Lex Luthor to fight the Superfriends in the final battle of the last episode of ''Supergirl''.
* CarCushion: After being sent flying by Guardian's shield, Parasite lands on a nearby car.



* DefeatEqualsExplosion: His body ''explodes'' when Supergirl makes him absorb too much plutonium.
* EvilMakesYouMonstrous: Absorbing innocent people's life energy ends up turning him into some kind of gigantic purple monstrosity.



* ImmuneToBullets:
** When Alex tries to shoot him after he absorbed Kara's powers, the bullets bounce off him like it's nothing.
** After his resurrection by Mr. Mxyzptlk, he starts another rampage and gets shot by several cops, which has absolutely no effect.
* InASingleBound: When Guardian joins the fight and throws an explosive at him, Parasite makes an impressive jump to get to him, though he gets pushed back by his shield.



* NoYou: His answer when Supergirl tells him that he is supposed to be dead during his second appearance.
-->'''Supergirl''': Hey! I thought you were dead.\\
'''Parasite''': You're the one who's dead!
* PowerHigh: It's clear that he very much enjoys absorbing the powers of a Kryptonian.
-->'''Rudy Jones''': Such power... [[RoyalWe We]] like it!



* PunchCatch: Once it's made clear that Rudy Jones has been infected and is killing people, Supergirl tries to punch him, but he grabs her fist and proceeds to absorb her strength.



* RoyalWe: After realizing that he and the parasite are merging to become a single entity, he starts referring to himself as "We".
-->'''Rudy Jones''': No. No, we don't accept that.\\
'''Jones's boss''': "We"? You and who else?\\
'''Rudy Jones''': ''We''.



* SmallRoleBigImpact: While he is only [[MonsterOfTheWeek the villain for one episode]] of Season 2, it was because he had absorbed J'onn's life force that M'gann was forced to transfuse her blood into him, which has major repercussions on the rest of the season as it almost turns J'onn into a White Martian and consequently reveal M'gann's true nature.
* StarterVillain: He is the first enemy faced by both Mon-El and Guardian once they decide to become superheroes.
* SuperStrength: After absorbing Kara's powers, he becomes strong enough to crush Alex's gun with his bare hands. He becomes even stronger when he absorbs Kara and J'onn's powers at the same time and turns into a hulking monster, throwing cars around with ease.



* WouldHurtAChild: During his rampage at the end of his first episode, he picks up a car and throws it at a young girl. Thankfully, Mon-El manages to catch it before impact and tells the girl to run away.



-> see Astra, Non, Indigo, Vartox, Unnamed Hellgramite, Jemm, and Mandrax folders at Characters/ArrowverseAliens

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-> see Astra, Non, Indigo, Vartox, and Unnamed Hellgramite, Jemm, and Mandrax Hellgramite folders at Characters/ArrowverseAliens
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* ContraltoOfDanger: Her voice as Livewire sounds more deep and distorted, especially if she's not "physically manifesting".
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* FreudianExcuse: She caught her father having sex with his assistant.

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* FreudianExcuse: She caught walked in on her father having sex an affair with his assistant.assistant. Afterwards, her father promised Siobhan that he loved her and her mother, and would end the affair, but their relationship was never the same again. To make matters worse, Siobhan finds out in "Solitude" that her father was a platinum member of an infidelity website anyway, meaning he lied to her for years.



* InNameOnly: Literally the case with her ComicBook/{{New52}} couterpart given she has different nationality, personality, morality, job, family history and even hair colour from the comic Siobhan. She has a bit more in common with Siobhan [=MacDougal=] (being evil for instance) but is still quite radically altered.

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* InNameOnly: Literally the case with her ComicBook/{{New52}} couterpart counterpart given she has a different nationality, personality, morality, job, family history and even hair colour from the comic Siobhan. She has a bit more in common with Siobhan [=MacDougal=] (being evil for instance) but is still quite radically altered.



* PersonaNonGrata: After intending to sell a scoop to a rival company and impersonate Kara Danvers, Siobhan Smythe is no longer well received in [=CatCo=].

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* PersonaNonGrata: After intending to sell a scoop to a rival company and impersonate Kara Danvers, Siobhan Smythe is no longer well received well-received in [=CatCo=].



* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: A non-fatal example. After Cat discovers that she's planning to betray her, she got herself immediately fired.

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* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: A non-fatal example. After Cat discovers that she's Siobhan planning to betray her, she got herself immediately fired.



* RivalTurnedEvil: She is slated to become the supervillain Silver Banshee, which was announced weeks before she even appears.
* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: In-universe, intending to sell information to a rival company and trying to defame someone else ruined her work at [=CatCo=] and made many employers wary of hiring her.

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* RivalTurnedEvil: She is slated goes from a competing assistant to become the supervillain Silver Banshee, which was announced weeks before she even appears.
* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: In-universe, intending to sell information on Supergirl to a rival company news outlet and trying to defame someone else ruined her work at being disgracefully fired from [=CatCo=] and made many media employers wary of hiring her.



* SassySecretary: She gets the secretary job done much better than Kara, and she won't hesitate to rub it in her nose. However, this only lasts until the job moves beyond butt-kissing, at which point her weaknesses start to show.

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* SassySecretary: She gets the secretary job done much better more efficiently than Kara, and she won't hesitate to rub it in her nose. However, this only lasts until the job moves beyond butt-kissing, at which point her weaknesses start to show.



* WrongGenreSavvy: The cause of her downfall as she assumes being an AlphaBitch and ProfessionalButtKisser will make her "bigger than Cat Grant" in no time, not grasping she doesn't have the smarts, talent or dedication to be anywhere near Cat's level.

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* WrongGenreSavvy: The cause of her downfall as she assumes being an AlphaBitch and ProfessionalButtKisser will make her "bigger than "the next Cat Grant" in no time, not grasping she doesn't have the smarts, talent or dedication to be anywhere near Cat's level.



** Cat openly lampshades how Siobhan thinks she's the "plucky go-getting reporter" who will make a big splash with the story and Cat will be so impressed by her gumption that she'll hire Siobhan on as a full writer. Instead Cat calls Siobhan a "backstabbing imp" and fires her.

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** Cat openly lampshades how Siobhan thinks she's the "plucky go-getting reporter" heroine" who will make a big splash with the story and Cat will be so impressed by her gumption that she'll hire Siobhan on as a full writer. Instead full-on reporter. Instead, Cat calls Siobhan a "backstabbing imp" and fires her.
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* ShesGotLegs: Which her Qipao shows off quite nicely, as seen above.
* SmugSnake: In spades.

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* ShesGotLegs: Which her Qipao shows off quite nicely, as seen above.
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%%* SmugSnake: In spades.

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