History Characters / Injustice2RegimeRemnants

** For Wonder Woman, whenever someone brings up her role as the LadyMacbeth to Superman, and how she manipulated the Man of Steel down a darker path instead of consoling him.

** In Wonder Woman's case, [[spoiler:when she first became a superhero during World War II, she fell in love with American pilot Steve Trevor who crash-landed on Themyscira. However, in this AlternateUniverse, [[AdaptationalVillainy he turned out to be a Nazi spy and attempted to use her to get the Lasso of Hestia for the Axis]], but ended up executed by her when she learned the truth. His betrayal served as her CynicismCatalyst, and became even more ruthless than most of her counterparts]].

* DebateAndSwitch: Certain intros have them doubt their KnightTemplar policy, but they then brush it off during Story mode.
* EnemyMine: They ally with their mortal enemies, Batman's team, to fight off Brainiac and his forces. It's an uneasy alliance for both sides, and sure enough, [[spoiler:once Brainiac is defeated they go right to war with each other over the fate of the world]].

* TheExtremistWasRight: While a big deal is made of Superman making himself the dictator of the world in the last game, he and his Regime allies evidently managed to severely reduce all crime, all wars and was going to solve environmental problems with Lex Luthor. Even though Batman muses that the world has become much safer than before, it's the Regime's increasingly harsh measures that didn't allow the Dark Knight to quit. Even after being deposed, Superman and company not only want to restore the Regime by all means, [[spoiler:they even have plans to expand their tyrannical order to outer space after killing Brainiac, as shown in some of their arcade endings and in the BadEnding.]]

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Except for Supergirl, their PayEvilUntoEvil approach has made them NotSoDifferent from the villains they fought over the years, with Flash and Green Lantern [[HeelRealization questioning if they]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone did the right thing]]. It's even discussed by Batman in the prologue, explaining how Superman's {{Well Intentioned Extremis|t}}m drove most of the Justice League down a path of tyranny and fear.
* HobbesWasRight: Most of the Regime members still think fear is the only way to keep people in line, often scoff at Batman's no-kill rule, and see traditional superheroics as fundamentally flawed. Criminals keep on breaking out from {{Cardboard Prison}}s and become KarmaHoudini when following ThouShaltNotKill, [[ChronicVillainy won't reform]] no matter how many chances you give them, and [[JokerImmunity don't face]] KarmaHoudiniWarranty, so the best way to deal with this? MurderIsTheBestSolution.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Zig-zagged. [[EverybodyHasStandards On one hand]], they've killed heroes who they only killed [[DisproportionateRetribution because they got in their way of oppression]] and [[TragicVillain sympa]][[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds thetic]] villains who [[AlasPoorVillain never truly deserved to die]]. On the other, some of the [[HateSink vile scum]] they [[PayEvilUntoEvil execute]] like the Joker, Zsasz, Grodd, or Brainiac utterly deserve the deaths they've inflicted upon.

* MightMakesRight: They often scoff at Batman's ThouShaltNotKill policy, bringing up the Joker, Brainiac and Gorilla Grodd as examples.
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Zig-zagged. While they firmly believe PayEvilUntoEvil is the only viable solution to crime and corruption, and they [[VillainHasAPoint aren't wrong on]] people like the Joker, Grodd and Brainiac, it's shown that they've become so desensitized to killing villains that even people who are not villainous but still oppose them for ''[[EvilIsPetty any]]'' reason [[WithUsOrAgainstUs will inevitably wind up in their crosshairs too unless they start agreeing with them]]. Because of this, [[EveryoneHasStandards even heroes that are okay with killing criminals]] (such as the Red Hood) are quick to tell them to go to hell.

* NotSoDifferent: In the opening scene, Batman notes that Superman's WellIntentionedExtremist approachon crime after Metropolis has not only driven him and most of the Justice League [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope down a path]] [[BewareTheSuperman of tyranny and fear]], it also made them not so different [[HeWhoFightsMonsters from the monsters and villains they fought over the years.]]
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Deconstructed. Except for Supergirl, this is their default approach to stopping crime, something that keeps them in conflict with Batman's side in spite of their EnemyMine. The campaign shows that while there are plenty of villains for whom this is the best solution, it also made them NotSoDifferent from the villains they fought for so long. They also react [[BerserkButton negatively]] whenever someone calls them out on this policy.

* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: Barring Supergirl, they mock Batman's group several times for adhering to ThouShaltNotKill. When Supergirl criticizes Superman for killing the Joker in chapter 9, he chides her for being too naïve and that UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans.
* TautologicalTemplar: Zig-zagged, in that it's implied in some of their intros that some of them do have doubts about their own heroism at this point, but one of the Regime's main flaws is an inability to accept that they might ever have been wrong. Cyborg is asked by Flash how he can not have regrets and responds that he ''knows'' they did the right thing; Robin also insists to Gorilla Grodd that he's not a criminal, only for [[LampshadeHanging Grodd to retort that's not how everyone else sees it]]. Even Superman, who is now more aware of [[BeingEvilSucks what his tyranny has cost him]], insists he reacted to Metropolis in the only way that makes sense and that humanity would be lost without him.

* BigSisterInstinct: Towards Kal-El.

* TheDragon: In the "Absolute Power" ending, [[spoiler:Superman orders her to become the NumberTwo to his newly restored Regime, but threatens to turn her into a [[ReforgedIntoAMinion brainwashed]] [[UnwillingRoboticization minion]] — as he's done with Batman — if she says no.]]

* ReforgedIntoAMinion: [[spoiler:In the "Absolute Power" ending, Superman threatens her to turn into a brainwashed minion like he did with Batman if she refuses to become TheDragon to his newly restored regime.]]
** [[spoiler:In his Arcade ending, Darkseid turns her into a Female Fury.]]

* SadisticChoice: [[spoiler:In the "Absolute Power" ending, Superman, having gained control over Brainiac's ship after killing him, offers her two choices: either become TheDragon to his restored Regime, or be forcibly converted into a [[ReforgedIntoAMinion brainwashed]] [[UnwillingRoboticization cybernetic]] [[FateWorseThanDeath minion]] if she refuses. Being that she's powerless, Superman threatens Kara that she'll be in his fold one way or the other.]]

* KnightTemplar: While his desire to protect humanity from crime and warfare is not an act, his ability to care for people on an individual level is inconsistent at best and practically non-existent at worst. [[spoiler:In the finale, he's fully willing to beat the living hell out of Hal and Barry, who used to be two of his closest friends and heavily debased themselves out of loyalty to him during his reign, simply because they're opposing his plan to kill Brainiac.]]

* {{Tritagonist}}: To Batman's {{Protagonist}} and Superman's {{Deuteragonist}}. She's the overall third most important character in the story, as her development from realizing that [[spoiler:Superman isn't a force for good as she thought is an important CharacterDevelopment]].

* {{Deuteragonist}}: To Batman's {{Protagonist}} and Supergirl's {{Tritagonist}}. He's the overall second most important character in the story, who drives the plot forward through the GodzillaThreshold. [[spoiler:He takes over as the BigBad after Brainiac is defeated]].

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: [[LoveMakesYouEvil Clinging on to]] ILetGwenStacyDie and being cynical about traditional heroics all stop him from redeeming himself. Most notably, during his story mode ending, [[spoiler:he questions how Green Lantern can be standing against him as Coast City remained trapped in Brainiac's collection, believes the Flash and Green Lantern abandoned the Regime due to a lack of willpower, and ignores Supergirl's repeated attempts to appeal to his kinder side. Clark's anger and rage have clouded his mind, and his ruthlessness and extremism caused Barry and Hal to lose faith in him.]] In addition, he doesn't understand that Harley Quinn is legitimately reformed, partly as a result of ''his'' StartOfDarkness taking her [[TheCorrupter Corrupter]] out of the picture.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: [[LoveMakesYouEvil Clinging on to]] ILetGwenStacyDie and being cynical about traditional heroics all stop him from redeeming himself. Most notably, during his story mode ending, [[spoiler:he questions how Green Lantern can be standing against him as Coast City remained trapped in Brainiac's collection, believes the Flash and Green Lantern abandoned the Regime due to a lack of willpower, and ignores Supergirl's repeated attempts to appeal to his kinder side. Clark's anger and rage have clouded his mind, and his ruthlessness and extremism caused Barry and Hal to lose faith in him.]]

** Claims that he WouldntHurtAChild. It seems he has forgotten about or is deliberately ignoring the fact he killed ComicBook/{{Shazam}} and [[spoiler:threatened to roboticize Supergirl if she refused to become TheDragon to his Regime in the Absolute Power ending]]. Batman and Blue Beetle lampshade this.

* WouldHurtAChild: He says he [[WouldntHurtAChild doesn't hurt children]], but his actions in the previous game and this one indicate he'll gladly make an exception for anyone who opposes him, be it killing [[SacrificialLion Shazam]] and possibly [[spoiler:roboticizing Supergirl if she doesn't join him voluntarily]]. Blue Beetle even lampshades on this.

* {{Cyborg}}: [[spoiler:In his Story Mode ending, he kills Brainiac and bonds with his ship, using its technology to enhance his power and obtain control of the captured cities. He even [[ReforgedIntoAMinion turns Batman into a mindless slave]], and may have done the same thing to Batman's allies and members of the Society in his ladder ending.]]

* BigScrewedUpFamily: As both the prequel comic and the game can attest, Damian has a pretty bad one. His grandfather Ra's al Ghul? A ruthlessly misanthropic ecoterrorist who has repeatedly plotted to murder billions of people allegedly for the good of the environment. His mother Talia? She did genuinely love him, but she conceived him via date rape drug and did terrible things to him as a child to make him a {{Tykebomb}}. His sister Athanasia? She's even more rude, violent and crazy than him. His biological and surrogate fathers Batman and Superman? We'd be here all day. Captain Cold hangs a massive lampshade on this in one pre-battle intro with him.
* ButNotTooForeign: Being the son of Bruce Wayne and Talia al Ghul, he's officially half-White, half indeterminate Asian.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood:
** During his story mode ending, [[spoiler:he questions how Green Lantern can be standing against him as Coast City remained trapped in Brainiac's collection, believes the Flash and Green Lantern abandoned the Regime due to a lack of willpower, and ignores Supergirl's repeated attempts to appeal to his kinder side. Clark's anger and rage has clouded his mind, and his ruthlessness and extremism caused Barry and Hal to lose faith in him.]]
** [[LoveMakesYouEvil Clinging on to]] ILetGwenStacyDie and being cynical about traditional heroics all stop him from redeeming himself.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: His default outfit for regular matches is his Robin outfit... which he only wears for the story mode's flashback chapter. In the story proper, he continues to don the Nightwing mantle.

** Captain Cold holds it against the Regime for killing the Rogues, especially his sister, but Wonder Woman throws his recriminations back at him by saying that it was Cold who turned his sister to crime in the first place — if she wasn't a supervillain, they'd have left her alone.

* KickChick: While she does punch a fair bit, her strongest blows, including her uppercut and transition/wall-bounce attack, are done with kicks and her combos tend to include a kick or similar leg attack.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Lois remains on his mind, and his failure to save her haunts him still. Supergirl is this as well, as he is fairly delighted to meet her after years of believing himself the last Kryptonian. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, it's not enough to stop him from beating her down when she tries to get in his way, or planning to have her ReforgedIntoAMinion if she refuses to become TheDragon to his restored Regime in his ending. Even then, he still [[KickTheMoralityPet feels bad for doing it]].]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even Supes was visibly shocked when Robin slit Victor Zsasz's throat in the 1st chapter, doing it while he was not only unarmed, but also after putting him in a chokehold and kicking his legs out from behind, eerily similar to a terrorist execution.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:He kills Brainiac offscreen in the Absolute Power. Considering the lives he’s trapped, cities he forcefully collected, and had the remains of each planet scorched and [[TooPowerfulToLive the fact that there’s no way they could imprison him]], [[AssholeVictim his death was far from unjust]].]]

* PetTheDog: He stops to check if Supergirl was still alive after being hit by Brainiac's force field. To note, he previously ignored the arrow in ''Pa Kent's'' arm from years earlier.

* PsychologicalProjection: Unlike the previous game, he shows "patience" with people who won't come around at first, but will try to force them to follow his twisted KnightTemplar worldview rather than realize he actually might be wrong. [[TheCynic Being too jaded]] about losing Lois has [[EvilCannotComprehendGood stopped]] him from accepting a HeelFaceTurn or hearing Supergirl's repeated pleas to his kinder side.

* RoleReprisal: As before, she's voiced by her Franchise/{{DCAU}} voice actress.

* RoleReprisal: As with the first game, his voice actor from ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' is back.

* RoleReprisal: His ''VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'' voice actor is back to reprise the character.

** This Wonder Woman doesn't seem to be bulletproof given that she goes out of her way to block pistol shots with her bracelets when confronting [[spoiler:Harley Quinn]]. This is in line with her mainstream comics ([[DependingOnTheWriter usually]]) and [[Film/WonderWoman film]] counterparts, but again counts as a retcon of her power level in the Injustice prequel comics, where she flat-out ignores rifle fire to the face without even bothering to flinch, much less block or dodge.

* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Inverted. This Supergirl arrived much later in Superman’s career, which is one of the reasons why he wasn’t as experienced as his main universe counterpart and easily turned to tyranny, as he couldn’t sympathize with anyone one who’s a full-blooded natural Kryptonian like himself and only got Superboy, who was only a half-human, half-Kryptonian clone of himself.

* AntiVillain: While he regrets for what he's done, he still firmly believes in a MightMakesRight philosophy. That being said, he recognizes the Society and Brainiac as a greater threat to peace than Batman's forces.

* DontCreateAMartyr: [[spoiler:In the Absolute Power ending, having learned his lesson after accidentally killing Luthor for betraying him in the previous game, which caused the populace to question his rule, Superman opts to condemn Batman to a FateWorseThanDeath by [[ReforgedIntoAMinion turning him into a brainwashed minion]], knowing that killing him would further infuriate others.]]

* NotSoDifferent: As several characters point out, between his [[ArrogantKungFuGuy arrogant confidence]], brooding nature and intolerance of criminals, he's more like his father than he'd like to admit. [[BerserkButton Just don't tell him that.]]

[[folder:Robin IV / Nightwing II]]

* LegacyCharacter: He has been known as both Robin and Nightwing. [[spoiler:In his Arcade ending, he becomes the new Batman after Bruce dies in the fight against Brainiac.]]

* WellIntentionedExtremist: They want to make the world a safe place, by any means necessary.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Sure, she’s a cynical {{Jerk}} to most of the cast, but most of her rants on other people are painfully correct and logical.

* {{Foil}}: To Superman of ''ComicBook/KingdomCome''. Both lost Lois to The Joker, but while Injustice!Superman became a dictator, Kingdom Come!Superman became mildly fascistic -- at least to villains. However, Injustice!Superman subscribed to HumansAreBastards and IAmAGod, while Kingdom Come!Superman realized the moment he put the "Super" over the "Man", he became everything he never wanted to be, and swore to join humanity fully instead of lording over them.