History Characters / SupermanTheAnimatedSeriesAlienAntagonists

* VillainessesWantHeroes: Mala in her first episode, though it had less to do with him being a hero and more with them being [[OnlyYouCanRepopulateMyRace
the only two kryptonians]] on the planet. The moment he rejects her, she gives up and brings back Jax-Ur instead.

* TooPowerfulToLive: A non-lethal variant, but Superman was well-aware keeping them on Earth would be too dangerous, since they were practically impossible to keep captive and just as strong as he was, so he sent them back to the Phantom Zone at the end of their first appearance. [[spoiler:Possibly played straight in their second appearance, where they eventually end up swallowed by a black hole, something that realistically would kill them.]]

* VillainessesWantHeroes: Mala in her first episode, though it had less to do with him being a hero and more with them being the only two kryptonians on the planet. The moment he rejects her, she gives up and brings back Jax-Ur instead.

* CompositeCharacter: This version of Jax-Ur shares more similarities with General Zod than his actual comic book counterpart. Similarly, Mala is closer to the second movie's Ursa. In addition, she's TheBigGuy of the team, a role that was played by Non in said movie.

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* MoralityPet: Like the original Superman, he has an affinity for Lois and will protect her even if he's inadvertently putting her in dangerous scenarios.

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TedLevine (''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' and ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock''), Creator/RobinAtkinDownes (uncredited) (final appearance in ''Unlimited'')

You'd think our Man of Steel would have his hands full already, facing threats from both Earth and Apokolips - and you'd be right. But that's not to say ne'er-do-wells from other planets - other ''dimensions'' - haven't piled on as well...

* AIIsACrapshoot: Brainiac is effectively an insane encyclopedia program, believing his function is only complete is he has collected all knowledge that exists, and that the only way to complete this function is to ensure no new knowledge comes into existence: IE, complete genocide of anything capable of knowing. Even to the last he follows this flawed program, and in Justice League he indicates to Luthor that once he has assembled the universe’s complete set of knowledge he will simply go inert. This goes back to his origins: knew Krypton was going to explode back when he was just a supercomputer, but chose not to support Jor-El's findings as the findings might have interfered with his own escape plan with the sum total of all of the planet's knowledge, which he believed was the only thing worth saving anyway.

* CigarChomper: 'Bo prefers to smoke Cubans in the webseries than rescue people.

* LighterAndSofter: Compared to his R-rated webseries. Averted in the Venezuelan dub.

->'''Voiced in French by:''' Emmanuel Jacomy (''Superman: The Animated Series''), Patrick Larzille (''Justice League Unlimited'', 1st voice), Olivier Cordina (''Justice League Unlimited'', 2nd voice)

->'''Voiced in French by:''' Creator/PascalRenwick (''Superman: The Animated Series'', 1st voice), Marc Alfos (''Superman: The Animated Series'', 2nd voice, and ''Justice League'')

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* CompositeCharacter: While he has the motifs, methods, and personality of the comic book version of Brainiac, his history of being sapient Kryptonian technology is essentially a mild variation of Eradicator's.

* AdaptationalModesty: Her original comic version wears often {{Stripperiffic}} outfits while in this version she is fully dressed.

A [[HumanAliens Human Alien]] queen who's the ruler of Almerac, though she rarely takes it seriously. She's interested in Superman after seeing how powerful he is and sees him as a potential mate, and is willing to do anything to accomplish this.

* AdaptationalBadass: Jax-Ur, as a result of being amalgamated with General Zod in this version. In the comics, he was out of shape and overweight, so he was no physical match for Superman even with his Kryptonian superpowers. In addition, his comic backstory had him as a Kryptonian scientist, rather than a military general like Zod. That said, unlike Zod, Jx-Ur was made to be shorter than Mala, possibly as a reference to comic!Jax-Ur.

->'''Voiced in French by:''' Pascal Renwick (''Superman: The Animated Series'', 1st voice), Marc Alfos (''Superman: The Animated Series'', 2nd voice, and ''Justice League'')

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/GilbertGottfried
->'''Voiced in Latin America by:''' Raúl Xiques

->'''Voiced in French by:''' Gérard Surugue

An imperfect clone of Superman created by Luthor. He has almost all of Superman's strengths, but a damaged mind that leaves him unable to think clearly and understand that his actions are harmful. He truly wants to be a hero, but doesn't understand that he's actually hurting people. A while afterwards, Luthor lobotomizes and brainwashes him in order to be more evil, and he becomes part of the LegionOfDoom.

* YouGotSpunk: Towards Lois.

* AIIsACrapshoot: Brainiac knew Krypton was going to explode back when he was just a supercomputer, but chose not to support Jor-El's findings; Brainiac knew fully well that the revelation would only cause panic and might interfere with Brainiac's own escape plan, and since he represents the sum total of all of the planet's knowledge, he believed that it was the only thing worth saving anyway.