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* TheBusCameBack: [=McCulloch=] ''finally'' makes his post-''{{Flashpoint}} debut in ''ComicBook/TheFlashDawnOfDC'', almost 12 years after the ComicBook/New52 and its {{Cosmic Retcon}}s sidelined him in favor of resurrecting Scudder.

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* NotSoHarmlessVillain: It's easy to dismiss the Rogues because of their goofy names and gimmicks, but that would be a big mistake. As Flash himself has pointed out in the past, the Rogues aren't just a regular LegionOfDoom of villains. They're Central City's version of the ''Mafia''. It's also notable that while largely remaining BadassNormal (until the New 52), they went through the same SerialEscalation that the Flash themselves have had, while some of them demonstrate NewPowersAsThePlotDemands.

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* NotSoHarmlessVillain: It's easy to dismiss the Rogues because of their goofy names and gimmicks, but that would be a big mistake. As Flash himself has pointed out in the past, the Rogues aren't just a regular LegionOfDoom [[LegionOfDoom team of villains.villains]]. They're Central City's version of the ''Mafia''. It's also notable that while largely remaining BadassNormal (until the New 52), they went through the same SerialEscalation that the Flash themselves have had, while some of them demonstrate NewPowersAsThePlotDemands.
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* {{Narcicist}}: In ''Year of the Villain'', which seems to be a large part of why he and Glider broke up. Mick spells it out on finding his lair as a house of mirrors.

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* {{Narcicist}}: {{Narcissist}}: In ''Year of the Villain'', which seems to be a large part of why he and Glider broke up. Mick spells it out on finding his lair as a house of mirrors.
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* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Appears as an enemy in the [[VideoGame/BatmanSunsoft game adaptation of the first Batman film]].
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* MightAsWellNotBeInPrisonAtAll: Desmond's powers allow him to escape at any leisure; he just prefers to spend his time in prison so he can read in peace and quiet.

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* MightAsWellNotBeInPrisonAtAll: Desmond's powers allow him to escape at any his leisure; he just prefers to spend his time in prison so he can read in peace and quiet.
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* CulturedBadass: A very well read man who's nevertheless a scary competent thief.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In ''Year of the Villain'', time in the Suicide Squad has turned him from a pragmatic, honor-bound thief to a murderous conqueror who calls himself ''King'' Cold. Also, he indulges in puns he normally avoided. He seems aware of it, and so does his sister.

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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In ''Year of the Villain'', time in the Suicide Squad has turned him from a pragmatic, honor-bound thief to a murderous conqueror who calls himself ''King'' Cold. Also, he indulges in puns he normally avoided. He seems aware of it, and so does his sister.sister, but he does not care, even when he points his cold gun at his fellow Rogues and freezes them solid in a rage.

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* GoneHorriblyWrong: Before he died, Scudder designed a mirror that would "infect" the Flash with his greatest doubt until doing something about it became an irresistible compulsion. Shortly after his resurrection, Barry ran into and broke this mirror, which amplified his feelings about his mother's murder...leading to ''Flashpoint'' and everything that followed.

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* TheDragon: Acts as King Cold's number two in ''Year of the Villain''. Notably, he is the ''only'' rogue to work with him.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: Before he died, Scudder designed a mirror that would "infect" the Flash with his greatest doubt until doing something about it became an irresistible compulsion. Shortly after his resurrection, Barry ran into and broke this mirror, which amplified his feelings about his mother's murder...murder… leading to ''Flashpoint'' and everything that followed.followed.
* TheHedonist: In ''Year of the Villain'', after getting rich from Trickster, he elects to try making life his personal party and retire, only coming back in the hope of getting Glider to rejoin him.
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* {{Narcicist}}: In ''Year of the Villain'', which seems to be a large part of why he and Glider broke up. Mick spells it out on finding his lair as a house of mirrors.
-->'''Heatwave:''' I love fire… but he only loves ''himself''. Sorry, Glider.\\
'''Golden Glider:''' You're not wrong.

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-->'''King Cold:''' Y'know… used to be I lived by a code. Never kill anyone unless it was ''do'' or ''die''. But things change.



* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In ''Year of the Villain'', time in the Suicide Squad has turned him from a pragmatic, honor-bound thief to a murderous conqueror who calls himself ''King'' Cold. Also, he indulges in puns he normally avoided. He seems aware of it, and so does his sister.
-->'''King Cold:''' Y'know… used to be I lived by a code. Never kill anyone unless it was ''do'' or ''die''. But things change.\\
'''Golden Glider:''' (''about a robotic security guard saying escapees would be "iced"'') See, it's things like this that tell me how much Belle Reve ''changed'' my brother. He used to ''hate'' puns.



* PungeonMaster: Subverted. Cold may dress like an eskimo and have a silly name, but he outgrew puns years ago. This is notable when he fights [[LegacyCharacter the fourth]] Chillblaine.

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* PungeonMaster: Subverted. Cold may dress like an eskimo and have a silly name, but he outgrew puns years ago. This is notable when he fights [[LegacyCharacter the fourth]] Chillblaine. It is a measure of how much he changed in ''Year of the Villain'' that guards he uses do indulge in puns.

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* DespairEventHorizon: His time with the ComicBook/SuicideSquad as the SoleSurvivor of every mission truly broke him leaving hope ripe for the temptations of Lex Luthor and the Legion of Doom during Year of the Villain. The next time he confronts the Flash, his ambition has risen beyond being a thief and he is much more willing to kill, abandoning a great deal of the code that distinguished him from the rest of the supervillain community.

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* DespairEventHorizon: His time with the ComicBook/SuicideSquad as the SoleSurvivor of every mission truly broke him leaving hope ripe for the temptations of Lex Luthor and the Legion of Doom during Year of the Villain. The next time he confronts the Flash, his ambition has risen beyond being a thief to wanting to steal Central City itself, and he is much more willing to kill, abandoning a great deal of the code that distinguished him from the rest of the supervillain community.community.
-->'''King Cold:''' Y'know… used to be I lived by a code. Never kill anyone unless it was ''do'' or ''die''. But things change.

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* {{Pyromaniac}}: See SelfMadeOrphan.

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* PlayingWithFire: In the New 52, he is a metahuman with pyrokinesis. However, he often defaults to using his heat gun anyway if he has it on hand.
* {{Pyromaniac}}: See SelfMadeOrphan.Mick is a genuine pyromaniac who feels a constant urge to set fires and watch things burn, even if he resists the urge.



* CharacterDeath: Until the New 52 brought him back.



* KilledOffForReal: Though he's alive and well in the New 52.
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* DespairEventHorizon: His time with the ComicBook/SuicideSquad as the SoleSurvivor of every mission truly broke him leaving hope ripe for the temptations of Alex Luthor and the Legion of Doom during Year of the Villain. The next time he confronts the Flash, his ambition His risen beyond being a thief And he is much more willing to kill, abandoning a great deal of the code that distinguished him from the rest of the supervillain community.

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* DespairEventHorizon: His time with the ComicBook/SuicideSquad as the SoleSurvivor of every mission truly broke him leaving hope ripe for the temptations of Alex Lex Luthor and the Legion of Doom during Year of the Villain. The next time he confronts the Flash, his ambition His has risen beyond being a thief And and he is much more willing to kill, abandoning a great deal of the code that distinguished him from the rest of the supervillain community.

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-->'''Barry:''' What are his demands?
-->'''Frye:''' He doesn't have any. He's just being a jerk.

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demands?\\
'''Frye:'''
He doesn't have any. He's just being a jerk.



* SanitySlippage: The longer he has been bonded to the wand the more unhinged Marco has become. By the time of Rebirth, he mentions that the wand has made him more sensitive to the “ravages that mankind has wrought upon Mother Nature” saying he is no longer Weathers Wizard but “her assassin”. It’s so bad that even Mick calls him nuts.

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* SanitySlippage: The longer he has been bonded to the wand the more unhinged Marco has become. By the time of Rebirth, Rebirth (specifically issue 77 of volume 5), he mentions that the wand has made him more sensitive to the “ravages that mankind has wrought upon Mother Nature” saying he is no longer Weathers Weather's Wizard but “her assassin”. It’s so bad that even Mick calls him nuts.nuts.
-->'''Mick Rory:''' Forecast says a case of the crazies is a-brewin', Len…
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* TheDarkChick: The very first female Rogue.
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* PayEvilUntoEvil: When he sacrifices people to his Black Lantern father during ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'', one of his victims is a villain called Sandblast, who he lured with promises to get him into the Rogues and is mentioned to be a sex offender just before he is shoved into the pit Owen's father is dwelling in.
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*TheHeavy: as the leader of the rogues he plays role in almost every story they are in.
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* WipeThatSmileOffYourFace: Cut out his own tongue and sewed his lips shut.
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->''"That's your problem, old man. You got a conscience. Me? I was born without one. Cool, huh?"''
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->''"I've decided to copy and keep your powers...Since you're never going to need them again."''
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* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Tended to act this way with Captain Cold during Johns' run, as while the two didn't like one-another much, they worked surprisingly well together. He even came to help Evan escape the Flash after Blacksmith's failed takeover of the city, despite Cold himself having been opposed to Blacksmith and her ilk.
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** ''Never'' mention the name of Houdini around him. Just don't. Also, he loathes not being the center of attention, and if someone else takes away applause from him.

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** ''Never'' mention the name of Houdini around him. Just don't. Also, he loathes not being the center of attention, and if someone else takes away applause from him. He was once tricked into undoing his own plan to erase Linda from existence because the very nature of the plan meant that nobody believed his claim to have delivered such a decisive blow to the Flash.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Hasn't been seen since Flashpoint, with Axel as the sole Trickster in the New 52 and Rebirth eras. Until he reappeared in 2018.

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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Hasn't been seen since Flashpoint, ''Flashpoint'', with Axel as the sole Trickster in the New 52 and Rebirth eras. Until he reappeared in 2018.



* DidYouJustScamCthulhu: Twice! In fact, his role in Neron's defeat during''ComicBook/UnderworldUnleashed'' is the reason why he did his HeelFaceTurn, because he knew if he went to Hell, Neron would seek revenge.

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* DidYouJustScamCthulhu: Twice! In fact, his role in Neron's defeat during''ComicBook/UnderworldUnleashed'' during ''ComicBook/UnderworldUnleashed'' is the reason why he did his HeelFaceTurn, because he knew if he went to Hell, Neron would seek revenge.



* TookALevelInJerkass: He's considerably nastier in "Rebirth" and it's justified. After a while James' tricks started to get predictable and then he was thrown into Iron Heights, where Warden Wolfe took sadistic delight in breaking James' spirit by making him the guinea pig to prove that the prison was inescapable, and taunting him how the public and even his fellow Rogues and forgotten him. So when James ''did'' finally escape he'd resolved to pull off a trick so Central City would never forget him again!

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* TookALevelInJerkass: He's considerably nastier in "Rebirth" and it's justified. After a while James' tricks started to get predictable and then he was thrown into Iron Heights, where Warden Wolfe took sadistic delight in breaking James' spirit by making him the guinea pig to prove that the prison was inescapable, and taunting him how the public and even his fellow Rogues and had forgotten him. So when James ''did'' finally escape he'd resolved to pull off a trick so Central City would never forget him again!
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* TheBusCameBack: After being absent since "Flashpoint", he comes back with a vengeance in "Rebirth"; he was locked up and forgotten in Iron Heights under the abusive Warden Wolfe, and finally escaped (Wolfe destroyed all records of James' incarnation) and laid low until the opportunity presented itself to pull off his biggest trick.

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* TheBusCameBack: After being absent since "Flashpoint", ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'', he comes back with a vengeance in "Rebirth"; he was locked up and forgotten in Iron Heights under the abusive Warden Wolfe, and finally escaped (Wolfe destroyed all records of James' incarnation) and laid low until the opportunity presented itself to pull off his biggest trick.



* DidYouJustScamCthulhu: twice!

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* DidYouJustScamCthulhu: twice!Twice! In fact, his role in Neron's defeat during''ComicBook/UnderworldUnleashed'' is the reason why he did his HeelFaceTurn, because he knew if he went to Hell, Neron would seek revenge.

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* ExtraOreDinary: Technically, she's actually using magnetic field manipulations.



* TheMentallyIll: Magenta really is mentally ill and could seriously use some therapy, but her violent mood swings and powers make it incredibly difficult for her to get treatment. The one did she ''did'' try to get treatment, her therapist turned out to be a criminal mastermind who mind controlled her into committing crimes - which didn't exactly help...

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* MagnetismManipulation: Technically, she's actually using magnetic field manipulations.
* TheMentallyIll: Magenta really is mentally ill and could seriously use some therapy, but her violent mood swings and powers make it incredibly difficult for her to get treatment. The one did time she ''did'' try to get treatment, her therapist turned out to be a criminal mastermind who mind controlled her into committing crimes - which crimes. Needless to say, this didn't exactly help...do her mind any good.

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* AdaptationalBadass: She's much more capable in the New 52 with her SuperpowerLottery.

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* AdaptationalBadass: She's much more capable in the New 52 with her SuperpowerLottery. Not that she was much of a slouch beforehand.



* DemotedToExtra: After the first team of ''ComicBook/New52'' Flash left the book, her prominence and status quo shifted back to her original roots.

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** During Messner-Loeb's run, she was the most frequent Rogue after Pied Piper to get page time and her and her brother were treated as a BrotherSisterTeam. Waid made little use of the Rogues as a whole and killed them all off, only to revive all but Lisa over time. Johns run, which made greater use of the Rogues, opted to keep Lisa dead so that she could serve as a tragic part of Snart's character as he found it a more interesting and relatable direction to take them [[note]]Geoff Johns' sister, Courtney Johns, tragically died in a plane explosion when she was 18; the character Stargirl (Courtney Whitmore) was named and modelled after her in tribute, but it's easy to see the RealitySubtext of having Captain Cold's grief for his own younger blonde sister be made into one of his central redeeming traits[[/note]].
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After the first team of ''ComicBook/New52'' Flash left the book, her prominence and status quo shifted back to her original roots.



* HugeGuyTinyGirl: With the Chilblaines; Lisa is typically depicted as quite a short woman (officially she's 5'5, and FridgeBrilliance comes in when one remembers short stature is beneficial for women's figure skating), while the Chilblaines were each selected specifically because they were very large DumbMuscle brutes she could wrap around her finger.



* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Putting aside how she was more violent than her brother, and during the Silver Age was motivated by pure ''spite'' against the Flash in comparison to the other Rogues who were just looking to earn money, Lisa used a wider array of gadgetry than both her brother and The Top, combining elements of both their gimmicks alongside her own 'trick gems' [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands which could pretty much due whatever she wanted them to do]]. While a lot of criminals fear Cold, Lisa they ''dread''.



* ProperlyParanoid: While hunting the Turtle to find out where he was keeping Wally, Lisa accosted a random civilian for wearing a "I Love Turtles" shirt, assuming he was somehow involved or connected to the Turtle. However, it's revealed shortly after that the Turtle ''was'' responsible for that guy's shirt, after all.



* ReallyGetsAround: Lisa was quite the flirt, and was said to have had sex with all the other Rogues who weren't her brother; in fact, one comic had her make out with each one, one-after-the-other, right in front of her then-current boyfriend, and later, it was suggested she might have been Captain Boomerang II's mother because of her prior relationship with his dad and the other Rogues. She flirted with both Barry and Wally, the former only when manipulating him and purely out of hate but she still seemed to up for it, while Wally she seemed to be genuinely attracted to, enough to act catty towards his girlfriends, and was implied to have been up for sleeping with him after they worked together. And then we get the Chilblaines, who were a long list of multiple boyfriends she took on as partners-in-crime and disposable sex objects.



* {{Stripperific}}: Her main attire post-2011. Her previous minidress of power now gains cut-outs to show her midriff and loses the sleeves, and becomes mostly white that's sometimes rendered slightly sheer.



* AttemptedRape: Was the victim of this in his pre-teen years, when an older boy tried to molest him. Evan fought back and killed them before they could.
* CompositeCharacter: In the New 52, Sam Scudder is the sole Mirror Master once more, but takes a lot of Evan's traits. He's implicitly younger, more imaginative, and makes more use of the Mirror Dimension's capabilities rather than developing different forms of mirror technology.



* PrettyBoy: Not always apparent because of his mask and tendency to SlasherSmile, but when Evan's expression is neutral and he's not wearing his mask, he's shown to be a youthful, handsome young man.
* RapeAsBackstory: He grew up in a boy's home where an older youth would periodically molest the younger boys, Evan included. Evan's first murder was killing them in self defence when it was his turn to be raped.



* SadClown: Is one of the more quippier and taunting of the Rogues, prone to making digs during fights and comes off as an arrogant SmugSnake. In actuality though he's deeply depressed and full of self-loathing, born from the TraumaCongaLine that is his childhood.



* SuperiorSuccessor: Captain Cold says he's better than Scudder ever was.

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* SuperiorSuccessor: Captain Cold says he's better than Scudder ever was. In practice, he's not wrong; Scudder was a genius when it came to actually making the technology, but Evan showed far greater imagination with it, doing things that Scudder never thought of doing and demonstrating abilities that greatly surpassed anything Scudder demonstrated.


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* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Tended to act this way with Captain Cold during Johns' run, as while the two didn't like one-another much, they worked surprisingly well together. He even came to help Evan escape the Flash after Blacksmith's failed takeover of the city, despite Cold himself having been opposed to Blacksmith and her ilk.

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