History Characters / ButDoctorIAmPagliacci

* MultidisciplinaryScientist: Sivana, in best comic book fashion, is good at every field of science that might be useful against a superhero. He also studies magic, seeing it as another field of science to master.

* ArcherArchetype: His main weapon is a bow with multiple trick arrows. He is Green Arrow after all.
-->'''Oliver Queen:''' I am the best in the world at shooting pointy sticks.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: Notable as the ''one'' person in the story who ''doesn't'' underestimate Jack, because he remembers the original timeline and knows what the Joker is capable of, and isn't blinded by ego like Lex.

* AdaptationalWimp: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. The native Joker of the new timeline was apparently a low-tier villain, given that Punch and Jewelee think they can take him alongside the fact that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service once foiled one of his plots without any assistance from the Justice League. [[SubvertedTrope Of course]], that all goes out the window when he [[RestorationOfSanity gets his sanity back]] and recalls the original timeline, whereupon he demonstrates ''exactly'' what makes the Joker one of the most feared villains of the normal DC universe.

* EvilGenius: He's good enough to rival more well known villains, such as Lex Luthor. He regularly constructs his own robots powerful enough to hold out against Kryptonian-level threats and could even deduce that the timeline was off without being informed by a third party.

* AuthorityGrantsAsskicking: She's the leader of the Shadows, who can fight with the best of them.

The Man of Steel, though far more cruel and heartless than one remembers... but not really. In actuality, he is the digitized mind of Lex Luthor inhabiting the cybernetically augmented body of Kal-El.

* GeniusBruiser: He's a master of technology, both Earthly and alien, a successful business owner, and has the strength to fight and kill Super-beings that can easily destroy planets.

* CloningBlues: One of a series of clones of Kara Zor-El that Superman has created to serve as living weapons.

* ExpendableClone: Her nanotechnology means that she can be restored to life in subsequent cloned bodies. This happens several times during the story.

* CloningBlues: Same as Nightwing. Superman cloned her from the corpse of his cousin and uses nanotechnology to brainwash her into a weapon.
* ExpendableClone: Superman is very cavalier with Cadmus's cloning technology.

* EvilLaugh: {{Averted|Trope}}. While Jack does laugh on occasion, it's normal laughter instead of the Joker's manic cackling.

* TheImmune: As a benefit of his time spent [[spoiler:as Emperor Joker]], he's completely immune to the [[spoiler:Anti-Life Equation.]]

* DeadpanSnarker: Even when he's not ''the'' Joker, he's ''a'' joker, through force of habit if nothing else.

* BystanderSyndrome: Doesn't see why he should care about what Lex is doing to the timeline... until he learns that Lex erased his family from it.

* BoobsOfSteel: She has the body of Kara Zor-El, which is noted for being highly busty, and the physical strength to rip apart cities with ease.

* HarmlessVillain: Altered Timeline Joker wasn't ''completely'' harmless, and Punch and Jewelee are still worried about him, but not having a Batman to fight has done a number on his skill and threat level and he's very much a C-lister with occasional ambitions- one of his plans was even foiled by the US Fish and Wildlife Services, without any superhero involvement whatsoever. Original Timeline Joker/Jack Napier? No. Not at ''all''.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Jack Napier with his sanity restored is a friendly, goofy, and even heroic person, but make no mistake; he still has ''everything'' that makes the Joker as dangerous as he was in the main timeline aside from the murderous insanity. When he decides to start causing problems for the Justice League, it doesn't take long for him to escape from their custody, repeatedly humiliate them, and bring together several ''very'' dangerous villains into an organization capable of taking the Justice League head-on.

* AdaptationalHeroism: An interesting sort. He's still a villain in that he's one of the corrupt League members, and his heroics are more out of boredom than genuine altruism (and because Superman demands it of him in order to maintain the League's [[VillainWithGoodPublicity good reputation]]), but his actions are definitely heroic; he stops disasters, fights villains, and makes an effort to avoid civilian casualties- which is ''much'' more than the canon Inertia could say.

* FreudianExcuse: He spent his childhood in a simulation before being sent to the past to be the Flash, a job that requires him to spend months at a time completely disconnected from other human beings. Now he just doesn't doesn't have it in him to care about anything.

* TimeStandsStill: From his perspective, this is how his powers work. If he wants to do something at "super-speed", it takes him the same amount of subjective time it would take anyone else.

* PunchClockHero[=/=]PunchClockVillain: He only saves people as part of his job - and he genuinely hates his job - but he actually does take his job seriously and doesn't care to do any villainy or oppose the protagonists unless ordered.

* NonActionGuy: The altered timeline Joker prior to being overwritten by Jack wasn't apparently much for close combat, which is why Green Arrow ''thoroughly'' underestimates Jack when the Justice League have him captured.

* AdaptationalHeroism: An interesting sort. He's still a villain in that he's one of the corrupt League members, and his heroics are more out of boredom than genuine altruism, but his actions are definitely heroic; he stops disasters, fights villains, and makes an effort to avoid civilian casualties- which is ''much'' more than the canon Inertia could say.
* BlessedWithSuck: Unlike most Flashes, he doesn't have RequiredSecondaryPowers to speed up his perception. So when he uses his super speed, he sees it as himself moving normally while everything else is practically motionless. And with the long distances he often has to cover, he can spend weeks or months in this state. No wonder he's so bored...

* NominalHero: While he does do heroics and protects people, he does so to alleviate his boredom more than he does it out of any genuine desire to do good.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Normally, Thawne is aloof at best and only barely cares about being nice or paying attention to anyone or anything. When he wakes up Green Arrow after the League's assault on Venus, and goes to the trouble of brewing him a fresh pot of coffee, Queen immediately realises something has gone ''[[EpicFail very wrong]]''
* PunchClockHero[=/=]PunchClockVillain: He only saves people as part of his job, but similarly, he actually takes said job seriously and doesn't care to do any villainy or oppose the protagonists unless ordered.

* AntiHero: He's a major supervillain and arch-enemy of Captain Marvel in the prime timeline, who's only helping to restore said timeline because it has its family in it. At the same time, he's often the backbone of Jack's team and provides most of their resources that aren't mooks (Talia takes care of that).

* {{Mooks}}: She provides the mooks for Jack's plan.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: She's the leader of the Shadows, who can fight with the best of them.

* AmbiguouslyBi: Her original counterpart is bisexual, but it's unconfirmed if she also is here. She is attracted to men, but she states that she had an "experimental year" in college.

* TheCorrupter: Jack is pretty sure that it's trying to subtly nudge him to a Darkseid-like mindset. Jack deals with this by trying to corrupt Father Box to ''his'' way of thinking first.

* AdaptationalWimp: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. The native Joker of the new timeline seems to have been a low-tier villain without a Batman to challenge him, given that Punch and Jewelee think they can take him alongside the fact that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service once foiled one of his plots without any assistance from the Justice League. [[SubvertedTrope Of course]], that all goes out the window when he [[RestorationOfSanity gets his sanity back]] and recalls the original timeline, whereupon he demonstrates ''exactly'' what makes the Joker one of the most feared villains of the normal DC universe.

* AnArmAndALeg: Loses an arm [[spoiler: fighting Hawkgirl in order to take her Nth metal mace out of her possession long enough to kill her.]]

* BerserkButton: Insinuating that he isn't being a good ruler to Kahndaq.

* BalefulPolymorph: She has the power to turn people into animals. She once turned Green Arrow into a pig.