| 1 | [[WMG:[[center:'''[[Characters/{{Arrowverse}} Arrowverse Character Index]]''' \ |
| 2 | [-'''[[Characters/{{Arrow}} Star City]]:''' [[Characters/ArrowverseTeamArrow Team Arrow]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseOliverQueen Oliver Queen]] / [[Characters/ArrowverseDinahLaurelLance Dinah Laurel Lance]]) | [[Characters/ArrowverseTeamArrowFamilyMembers Family Members]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseStarCityCitizens Citizens]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseStarCityCriminalGroups Criminal Groups]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseMalcolmMerlyn Malcolm Merlyn]] / [[Characters/ArrowverseSladeWilson Slade Wilson]] / [[Characters/ArrowverseSimonMorrison Prometheus]]) | [[Characters/ArrowverseStarCityIndependentCriminals Independent Criminals]]\ |
| 3 | '''[[Series/TheFlash2014 Central City]]:''' [[Characters/ArrowverseWestAllenFamily West-Allen Family]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseBarryAllen Barry Allen]] / [[Characters/ArrowverseIrisWestAllen Iris West-Allen]]) | [[Characters/ArrowverseTeamFlash Team Flash]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseCaitlinSnowAndKillerFrost Caitlin Snow & (Killer) Frost]]) | [[Characters/ArrowverseCentralCityCitizens Citizens]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseCentralCityCriminalGroups Criminal Groups]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseTheRogues Rogues]] / [[Characters/ArrowverseCliffordDeVoe Clifford DeVoe]]) | [[Characters/ArrowverseCentralCityIndependentCriminals Independent Criminals]]\ |
| 4 | '''[[Characters/Supergirl2015 National City]]:''' [[Characters/ArrowverseNationalCityCitizens Citizens]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseKaraZorEl Kara Zor-El]]) | [[Characters/ArrowverseLuthorFamilyAndAssociates Luthor Family & Associates]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseLenaLuthor Lena Luthor]] / [[Characters/ArrowverseLexLuthor Lex Luthor]]) | [[Characters/ArrowverseNationalCityCriminals Criminals]]\ |
| 5 | '''[[Characters/BlackLightning2018 Freeland]]:''' [[Characters/ArrowversePierceFamily Pierce Family]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseFreelandCitizens Citizens]] | '''Criminals'''\ |
| 6 | '''[[Characters/Batwoman2019 Gotham City]]:''' [[Characters/ArrowverseBatFamily Bat-Family]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseGothamCityCitizens Citizens]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseGothamCityCriminals Criminals]]\ |
| 7 | '''[[Characters/SupermanAndLois Smallville & Metropolis]]:''' [[Characters/ArrowverseSmallvilleCitizens Smallville Citizens]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseMetropolisCitizens Metropolis Citizens]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseMetropolisCriminals Metropolis Criminals]]\ |
| 8 | '''[[Characters/LegendsOfTomorrow The Legends]]:''' [[Characters/ArrowverseTheLegends The Team]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseLegendsCurrentMembers Current Members]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseSaraLance Sara Lance]]) | [[Characters/ArrowverseLegendsFormerMembers Former Members]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseLeonardSnart Leonard Snart]] / [[Characters/ArrowverseMickRory Mick Rory]])\ |
| 9 | '''Organizations:''' [[Characters/ArrowverseUSGovernment U.S. Government]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseUSMilitary U.S. Military]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseARGUSAndTaskForceX A.R.G.U.S.]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseTheDEO The D.E.O.]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseJusticeSocietyOfAmerica The J.S.A.]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseLeagueOfAssassins The League of Assassins]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseCriminalGroupsAndOrganizations Criminal Groups]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseTheHIVE H.I.V.E.]] / [[Characters/ArrowverseVandalSavageAndFollowers Savage & His Followers]])\ |
| 10 | '''Time Travel:''' [[Characters/ArrowverseTimeTravelers Time Travelers]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseTheLegionOfSuperHeroes The Legion]] / [[Characters/ArrowverseEobardThawne Eobard Thawne]] / [[Characters/ArrowverseDamienDarhk Damien Darhk]] / [[Characters/ArrowverseSavitar Savitar]]) | [[Characters/ArrowversePastCharacters The Past]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseFutureCharacters The Future]]\ |
| 11 | '''Miscellaneous''': [[Characters/ArrowverseOtherLocales Other Locales]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseMetahumans Metahumans]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseFirestorm Firestorm]] / [[Characters/ArrowverseTheHawks The Hawks]]) | [[Characters/ArrowverseAliens Aliens]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseMystics Mystics]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseOtherEntities Other Entities]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseSpeedForceAndForcesOfNature The Speed Force & Forces of Nature]]) \ |
| 12 | '''The Multiverse:''' [[Characters/ArrowverseOtherEarths Other Earths]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseEarth2 Earth-2]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseHunterZolomon Hunter Zolomon]]) | [[Characters/ArrowverseEarth38 Earth-38]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseEarth90 Earth-90]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseEarthX Earth-X]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseBizarroWorld Bizarro World]]]]-]]] |
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| 15 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 16 | |
| 17 | ! Criminal Groups |
| 18 | |
| 19 | !!The One Hundred |
| 20 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 21 | The One Hundred, or The 100, is a gang of criminals who reside in Freeland, terrorizing the city at any given chance. The leader of the gang is Tobias Whale. |
| 22 | ---- |
| 23 | * GangBangers: Their whole shtick, although Tobias is more refine in his choices and talks down to those who does the ghetto life. |
| 24 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It's not clear what became of the rest of the gang after it got forcefully dissolved due to Tobias' imprisonment. |
| 25 | [[/folder]] |
| 26 | |
| 27 | [[folder:Latavius "Lala" Johnson]] |
| 28 | !!Latavius "Lala" Johnson |
| 29 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lala_76.jpg]] |
| 30 | !!!'''Species:''' Metahuman |
| 31 | !!!'''Known Aliases:''' Lala, Tattooed Man |
| 32 | !!!'''Played By:''' William Catlett |
| 33 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/BlackLightning2018S1E1TheResurrection The Resurrection]]" (''Black Lightning'' 1x1) |
| 34 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/BlackLightning2018'' |
| 35 | |
| 36 | A former student of Jefferson's, and later a high-ranking member of the 100, before being killed and resurrected by Tobias. He's since experienced death several times, gaining the memories and visions of those he kills, and is currently trying to parlay his experience into taking over the power vacuum created by the occupation of Freeland. By Season 4, he has taken over The 100. |
| 37 | ---- |
| 38 | * AchillesHeel: Tobias had failsafes should Lala revolt against him post resurrection. The first is the phrase "The Devil deals the cards" which hypnotizes Latavious to do his bidding. The second is the phrase "E Pluribus Unum" (Out of many, one); which causes the tattoos in Lala to revolt and incapacitate him. [[spoiler:Season 3 reveals that these failsafes are also known to Lady Eve, allowing her to take over his leash while Tobias is away.]] |
| 39 | * AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: In season 4 Lala is frozen in concrete, and as Ishmael explains, this means he will constantly come back to life and die again until the end of time. However, thanks to external circumstances he manages to break out in the final scene of the series.]] |
| 40 | * AssholeVictim: Gets murdered by Whale; even when resurrected, Lala is still under Tobias' thumb and is forced to do his bidding. |
| 41 | * BackFromTheDead: He comes back to life at the end of "Equinox: The Book of Fate". Tobias spent a million dollars to do so. Season 2 reveals that the newfound gift of life when combined with a curse that keeps reminding him and haunting him with the people he's killed, makes him completely miserable to the point of being a DeathSeeker. |
| 42 | * BigBadEnsemble: With Tobias Whale and Lady Eve in Season 4. |
| 43 | * CameBackWrong: Along with the obvious, hallucinating his murder victims and being under Tobias' control, Lala's demeanor noticeably changes with his resurrection. Pre-death, Lala was a LargeHam, with almost every scene he was in yelling at someone or making threats. Post-resurrection, he shifts to being more soft-spoken, both in conversation and in conversing with his hallucinations. |
| 44 | * CanonCharacterAllAlong: He's the show's version of Creator/DCComics villain "Tattooed Man". |
| 45 | * DeathIsCheap: Killed by Tobias at the end of "Lawanda: The Book of Hope"; but comes back through resurrection. |
| 46 | * TheChewToy: Is constantly being beaten up and abused by Tobias, who admits that he just [[ItAmusedMe loves messing with Lala]]. Considering he's a murderous gang leader though, it's [[AssholeVictim hard to feel very sorry for him]]. |
| 47 | * ColdHam: By season 2, he has a near monotone voice when he speaks. |
| 48 | * DoNotCallMePaul: He really doesn't like to be called Latavius. |
| 49 | * EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: {{Averted}}; when the supply of Green Light dries up after Black Lightning and Thunder destroy the factory, Lala decides to corner the market on old-school illicit drugs by buying vastly more quantities than he used to. His supplier is suspicious it's a setup...so as collateral, Lala tells him where his mother lives, to let him know he's serious. |
| 50 | * EvilSoundsRaspy: He's the raspy-voiced gang leader that talks in a very raspy voice. |
| 51 | * EvilVersusEvil: In Season 3, he starts a conflict with the recently revived Lady Eve. |
| 52 | * {{Expy}}: In a series rife with biblical allegories, he is Cain. A man who took the life of an innocent, he is later cursed with the power of immortality and forced to walk the earth for his sins. |
| 53 | * FauxAffablyEvil: When talking to Will about getting his money back, he's deeply amused when Jennifer sucker-punches Will. He acts polite when he speaks with Jefferson at first, and pretends to keep the gangs out of the school out of respect for his old teacher but this quickly crumbles when Jefferson interferes with his abuse of a kid and he pulls a gun on Jefferson. |
| 54 | * FluffyTheTerrible: "Lala" is not the nickname one would expect from a ruthless and feared gang boss. His name Latavius sounds more awesome. |
| 55 | * MilesToGoBeforeISleep: Hates the reanimation and being back alive due to the guilt he's got to live with. He's hoping that once he kills Tobias, he'll finally get to rest in peace again. |
| 56 | * MurderIsTheBestSolution: {{Lampshaded}}, as Lala's first response to almost any problem is to put the problem down permanently. |
| 57 | -->'''Will:''' You always murking somebody. Just like [[TalkingToTheDead how you killed me]]. |
| 58 | * TheOldestProfession: As a high ranking member of The 100, he is in charge of the Seahorse Motel which is used as a brothel. |
| 59 | * OnlyKnownByHisNickname: No one really calls him by his first name, only Jefferson does. |
| 60 | * PragmaticVillainy: The ''only'' thing stopping him from targeting the Garfield students is that he knows trying to attack the "Black Jesus of Freeland" would properly galvanize the cops to take action. However, this ''doesn't'' stop them from ordering the Pierce sisters' deaths so they can hide the bodies to prevent them from testifying. |
| 61 | * APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: Jefferson's former student turned gang banger. |
| 62 | * ResurrectiveImmortality: He can't die, at all, and if he suffers a fatal injury he might be knocked out for some time but will ultimately just get right back up again. [[spoiler: In season 4, Ishmael and the Kobra Kartel try to find a loophole to this by [[TakenForGranite freezing him in concrete]]. In the series finale, however, he maanges to break out]]. |
| 63 | * SoftSpokenSadist: Lala's LargeHam tendencies seemingly died with him, and he almost never raises his voice after his resurrection. |
| 64 | * StarterVillain: Lala's the driving force of Jefferson's torment, Will's actions and has connections to the antagonists but after Black Lightning puts him in jail and Whale kills him, his status places him as that. |
| 65 | * TalkingToTheDead: To Lawanda and Will after he comes BackFromTheDead, but only he can see or hear them. According to Tobias, this is a side-effect of the "reanimation" process - that Lala will encounter all the people he's killed, with images of them literally tattooed to his body. |
| 66 | * TookALevelInBadass: By season 3, his ability to come BackFromTheDead [[spoiler:works almost instantaneously and he's developed the ability to manifest the people in his tattoos at will to use as {{Mooks}}.]] |
| 67 | * UsedToBeASweetKid: He was a straight-A student before he met Tobias, and Jefferson seems to have had some regard for him before he became a criminal. |
| 68 | * WhoWantsToLiveForever?: Part of his vendetta against Tobias is a result of the despair of the constant painful resurrections and the guilt of hearing the voices of his victims. |
| 69 | * WildCard: |
| 70 | ** In Season 2, being wildly unpredictable due to constantly hearing voices. He first assaults Jefferson, but then decides to go after Tobias instead. He later saves Black Lightning's life, saying that he's only interested in stopping Tobias' plans. |
| 71 | ** In Season 3, he goes back to being a criminal again. While he seems more concerned with helping the public than before, he still turns down Jefferson's request to help him fight the Markovians, being preoccupied with his own power struggle against Lady Eve and his quest for revenge against Tobias. [[spoiler:In the Season 3 finale he finally steps in, saving Henderson, Two-Bits and other members of the resistance from a bunch of Markovians.]] |
| 72 | ** By Season 4, he is once again back to being a straight-up villain. |
| 73 | * WouldHurtAChild: Is seen beating a boy probably no older than twelve for playing video games instead of dealing weed. He was also perfectly willing to kill the Pierce sisters and have them "disappear". |
| 74 | [[/folder]] |
| 75 | |
| 76 | [[folder:Devonte Jones]] |
| 77 | !! Devonte Jones |
| 78 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/devonte.jpg]] |
| 79 | !!! '''Species:''' Human |
| 80 | !!! '''Played By:''' Rafael Castillo |
| 81 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/BlackLightning2018S3E1TheBirthOfBlackbird The Book of Occupation: Chapter One: Birth of Blackbird]]" (''Black Lightning'' 3x1) |
| 82 | !!! '''Appearances:''' ''Series/BlackLightning2018'' |
| 83 | |
| 84 | Lala's second-in-command. An overweight young man with diabetes, he was wrongfully swept up by the ASA and spent time in The Pit before being released. With Freeland still under occupation, he has fallen in with Lala in order to profit. |
| 85 | ---- |
| 86 | * BadassNormal: He is competent enough to survive in a crime ecosystem where other players have actual superpowers. |
| 87 | * FatBastard: He is large and not terribly pleasant. His fatness actually bites him in the ass in Season 4, where he is too slow and out of breath to escape from a shootout with the police and gets arrested by Shakur. |
| 88 | * NumberTwo: To Lala starting with Season 3. |
| 89 | * TooCleverByHalf: He was smart enough to find out that Lady Eve was still alive, but apparently not smart enough to avoid a HoneyTrap that resulted in Lady Eve learning about the stolen briefcase. |
| 90 | [[/folder]] |
| 91 | |
| 92 | !!!Former |
| 93 | |
| 94 | [[folder:Will]] |
| 95 | !!Will |
| 96 | [[quoteright:206:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/blacklightningwill.jpg]] |
| 97 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 98 | !!!'''Played By:''' Dabier |
| 99 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/BlackLightning2018S1E1TheResurrection The Resurrection]]" (''Black Lightning'' 1x1) |
| 100 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/BlackLightning2018'' |
| 101 | |
| 102 | Lala's cousin and a low-level thug in the 100. |
| 103 | ---- |
| 104 | * AssholeVictim: Lala absolutely believed he deserved to die, being a coward and misogynist who was willing to force Jennifer into prostitution to fix his issues. |
| 105 | * CharacterDeath: Brutally executed by Lala in "Lawanda: The Book of Hope". |
| 106 | * EntitledToHaveYou: Seems to think he still has a shot with Jennifer, even ''after'' he almost got her trafficked into prostitution. |
| 107 | * EvilIsPetty: Kidnaps the Pierce sisters after Anissa came to Jennifer's rescue and Will couldn't take the hint to leave. |
| 108 | * NoRespectGuy: Every scene Will is in has him being beaten, insulted, or otherwise humiliated. |
| 109 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: He gets his ass handed to him so much, that it's a sobering shock when he busts into the school with his armed cronies to kidnap the Pierce sisters. |
| 110 | * StalkerWithACrush: Jennifer references this trope by name when he reveals he followed her to school after using her social media to find out where she attended. |
| 111 | * StupidEvil: Kidnaps Jefferson's daughters right out of the school in front of dozens of witness and security cameras which results in the cops bringing real heat against the 100 -- which is exactly why Lala never targets the school. |
| 112 | [[/folder]] |
| 113 | |
| 114 | [[folder:Tori Whale]] |
| 115 | !!Tori Whale |
| 116 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/toriwhale.png]] |
| 117 | !!!'''Species:''' Human (enhanced via serum) |
| 118 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/EdwinaFindley |
| 119 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/BlackLightning2018S1E4BlackJesus Black Jesus]]" (''Black Lightning'' 1x4) |
| 120 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/BlackLightning2018'' |
| 121 | |
| 122 | Tobias' younger sister, who comes from Miami to Freeland to help him kill Black Lightning. |
| 123 | ---- |
| 124 | * CanonForeigner: Created exclusively for the show as the comic book version of Tobias Whale never had a sister. |
| 125 | * CharacterDeath: Dies in "Equinox: The Book of Fate" due to a stray bullet. |
| 126 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She's just as ruthless as her brother is, but genuinely cares about him since they were both abused by their father. |
| 127 | * FreudianExcuse: Her father was verbally and physically abusive. |
| 128 | * OlderThanTheyLook: She and Tobias were given a serum along years ago that keeps them from aging, so her actual age is indeterminate.[[note]] In Season 4, a memorial gives her date of birth as August 24, 1947, making her 71 at the time of her death.[[/note]] |
| 129 | [[/folder]] |
| 130 | |
| 131 | [[folder:Joey Toledo]] |
| 132 | !!Joey Toledo |
| 133 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/joeytoledo.png]] |
| 134 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 135 | !!!'''Played By:''' Eric Mendenhall |
| 136 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/BlackLightning2018S1E1TheResurrection The Resurrection]]" (''Black Lightning'' 1x1) |
| 137 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/BlackLightning2018'' |
| 138 | |
| 139 | One of Tobias's top lieutenants. He's been around since Black Lightning's first crusade. |
| 140 | ---- |
| 141 | * TheAggressiveDrugDealer: He was the major supplier of Green Light in Freeland. |
| 142 | * CharacterDeath: Gambi kills him, on the advice of Lady Eve, as a method to suppress Tobias. |
| 143 | * CoDragons: To Tobias, alongside Syonide |
| 144 | * GigglingVillain: To highlight that he's a little off-kilter. |
| 145 | [[/folder]] |
| 146 | |
| 147 | [[folder:Syonide]] |
| 148 | !!Syonide |
| 149 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/syonide.jpg]] |
| 150 | !!!'''Species:''' Human (Enhanced via cybernetics) |
| 151 | !!!'''Played By:''' Charlbi Dean |
| 152 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/BlackLightning2018S1E1TheResurrection The Resurrection]]" (''Black Lightning'' 1x1) |
| 153 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/BlackLightning2018'' |
| 154 | |
| 155 | Tobias's right-hand woman, who was trained to become an assassin when he took her from an orphanage when she was eight years old. |
| 156 | ---- |
| 157 | * AwesomeByAnalysis: Syonide is the first person to deduce Thunder's PsychoactivePowers and exploit them to her advantage during their fight in one of Garfield High's classrooms. |
| 158 | * CoDragons: To Tobias, alongside Joey Toledo and later Khalil. |
| 159 | * CompositeCharacter: She is based on the same-named Creator/DCComics villain, the second "Syonide" who was an unnamed female assassin. However, she carries the first Syonide's background of working for Tobias Whale. |
| 160 | * {{Cyborg}}: She has armor plates grafted beneath her skin that enhance her durability and strength. |
| 161 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: According to Gambi, she was found in the trash as a baby with its umbilical cord wrapped around her neck. She was abused and malnourished at an orphanage until she was eight. Then Tobias got ahold of her and he fed her, clothed her, augmented her, and turned her into an assassin 100% loyal to him. |
| 162 | * DualWielding: She prefers to go GunsAkimbo; in close-quarters, Syonide will whip out a pair of nightsticks. |
| 163 | * TheQuietOne: To the point she was TheVoiceless until the season one finale. |
| 164 | * MadeOfIron: Tobias had carbon fiber armor grafted to her body beneath the surface of the skin. |
| 165 | * NavelDeepNeckline: Prone to having plunging necklines when not Baring Her Midriff. |
| 166 | * {{Sadist}}: She enjoys the tasks her boss gives her; Gambi states Tobias trained her to inflict pain unto others. |
| 167 | * ShoutOut: Compare Syonide's DarkAndTroubledPast to the same origins of the eponymous character from ''Franchise/TheChroniclesOfRiddick''. |
| 168 | * SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:Dies a few minutes into the Season 2 premiere, after acting as a recurring secondary antagonist throughout the first season.]] |
| 169 | * TykeBomb: Taken by Tobias as a young child to be molded into a deadly and ruthless assassin. |
| 170 | * UndyingLoyalty: No matter where Tobias goes, Syonide is almost always seen with him, defending and carrying out his orders. |
| 171 | * TheWorfEffect: [[spoiler:Is killed off in "The Rise of the Green Light Babies" by Kara Fowdy of all people.]] |
| 172 | [[/folder]] |
| 173 | |
| 174 | [[folder:Khalil Payne / Painkiller]] |
| 175 | -> See the Characters/ArrowverseOtherLocales page |
| 176 | [[/folder]] |
| 177 | |
| 178 | [[folder:Todd Green]] |
| 179 | !!Todd Green |
| 180 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 181 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/RJCyler |
| 182 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/BlackLightning2018S2E9GiftOfTheMagi The Book of Rebellion: Chapter Two: Gift of Magi]]" (''Black Lightning'' 2x9) |
| 183 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/BlackLightning2018'' |
| 184 | |
| 185 | A brilliant computer and robotics student who after burning his bridges at his college, falls in with Tobias. |
| 186 | ---- |
| 187 | * BullyingADragon: His little outburst at the grant board results in him being escorted out of the building by security and, as implied by the CardboardBoxOfUnemployment he's carrying, expulsion. |
| 188 | * TheCorruptible: Some flattery and $100,000 was all it took for Todd to sign up with Tobias. |
| 189 | * DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster: Adapts to the criminal lifestyle rather quickly and even develops a sense of flamboyant pride in serving as a representative of Tobias Whale. |
| 190 | * DudeWheresMyRespect: Todd's an undisputed genius, but always had doors slammed in his face because of his background and lack of connections. |
| 191 | * TheDragon: To Tobias after Syonide dies and Khalil goes rogue. |
| 192 | * HatesBeingTouched: As displayed when being escorted out by two guards in his debut episode, he shakes them off and insists they stop touching him when they have his arms grabbed, then later when Tobias is recruiting him, he has two ladies sit at each of Todd's sides and be flirty with him, and though not hating the attention, Todd is clearly uncomfortable with the ladies being so close and having their hands all over him. Tobias takes notice of this, as in a later episode, he simply gives a light tap on Todd's arm while complimenting him on a job well done, which Todd appreciates. |
| 193 | * HypercompetentSidekick: Unlike Khalil, he adapts to working for Tobias very well, able to do anything the man asks efficiently and without any twinge of a guilty conscience. |
| 194 | * {{Foil}}: To Khalil. Both were promising students who had their dreams shattered -- Khalil because of his injury and Todd because of racism and classism. But unlike Khalil, Todd adapts extremely well to working with Tobias, and shows no hesitation for any of the illegal activities Tobias asks him to do. For emphasis, Khalil was a physical threat, whereas Todd is a TechnoWizard. |
| 195 | * TragicVillain: A promising student with a bright future in robotics who got his research grant denied because of blatant favoritism on the Board's part -- they gave it to a rich white kid whose dad made a sizable donation the week before -- then ended up being corrupted by Tobias. |
| 196 | * UsedToBeASweetKid: He was a hopeful and optimistic kid in science before Tobias got his hands on him. |
| 197 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:When Todd does all he can to help Tobias with the pod kids, he's of no more use, so Cutter lets him go with a new car... that's rigged to explode.]] |
| 198 | [[/folder]] |
| 199 | |
| 200 | !!Masters of Disaster |
| 201 | |
| 202 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 203 | |
| 204 | Four criminal metahumans who were put into pods, revived by Tobias Whale and forced into his service. |
| 205 | ---- |
| 206 | * AdaptationalVillainy: The Masters of Disaster fought by the Outsiders in the comics had moments of genuine sympathy and humanity, with Shakedown being a somewhat dim-witted but loyal GentleGiant as well as Coldsnap and Heatstroke being a couple seeking a cure for their abilities, as their powers ensured they could never again be in any form of intimate proximity with one another. Here, the Masters are unrepentant and ruthless criminal psychopaths, with little screentime to flesh out their characterization beyond being violent superpowered thugs. |
| 207 | * BoxedCrook: Former criminals that were forcebly used in government black ops, and now by Tobias Whale. |
| 208 | * ElementalPowers: Each of them controls an element. |
| 209 | * ExplosiveLeash: Tobias puts lethal devices into them to control them. |
| 210 | [[/folder]] |
| 211 | |
| 212 | [[folder:Marcus Bishop / Shakedown]] |
| 213 | !!Marcus Bishop / Shakedown |
| 214 | !!!'''Species:''' Metahuman |
| 215 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/HoseaChanchez |
| 216 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/BlackLightning2018S2E13PillarOfFire The Book of Secrets: Chapter Three: Pillar of Fire]]" (''Black Lightning'' 2x13) |
| 217 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/BlackLightning2018' |
| 218 | |
| 219 | The first Master of Disaster released by Tobias. He has vibrational powers. |
| 220 | ---- |
| 221 | * RaceLift: This is the first Shakedown that is African American. The previous versions were white. |
| 222 | * VibrationManipulation: Shakedown has earth powers in the comics. [[AdaptationalSuperPowerChange The show depicts him with vibration powers instead]]. |
| 223 | [[/folder]] |
| 224 | |
| 225 | [[folder:Darryl Robinson / Coldsnap]] |
| 226 | !!Darryl Robinson / Coldsnap |
| 227 | !!!'''Species:''' Metahuman |
| 228 | !!!'''Played By:''' Derrick Lewis |
| 229 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/BlackLightning2018S2E15TheAlpha The Book of the Apocalypse: Chapter One: The Alpha]]" (''Black Lightning'' 2x15) |
| 230 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/BlackLightning2018' |
| 231 | |
| 232 | A Master of Disaster released by Tobias. He has cryokinetic powers. |
| 233 | ---- |
| 234 | * AnIcePerson: His powers. |
| 235 | [[/folder]] |
| 236 | |
| 237 | [[folder:Rebecca Jones / New Wave]] |
| 238 | !!Rebecca Jones / New Wave |
| 239 | !!!'''Species:''' Metahuman |
| 240 | !!!'''Played By:''' Brooke Ence |
| 241 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/BlackLightning2018S2E15TheAlpha The Book of the Apocalypse: Chapter One: The Alpha]]" (''Black Lightning'' 2x15) |
| 242 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/BlackLightning2018' |
| 243 | |
| 244 | A Master of Disaster released by Tobias. She has hydrokinetic powers. |
| 245 | ---- |
| 246 | * DesignatedGirlFight: She is the only female of the group and off course fights Thunder during the finale. |
| 247 | * MakingASplash: Her powers. |
| 248 | [[/folder]] |
| 249 | |
| 250 | [[folder:Joe / Heatstroke]] |
| 251 | !!Joe / Heatstroke |
| 252 | !!!'''Species:''' Metahuman |
| 253 | !!!'''Played By:''' Estaban Cuete |
| 254 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/BlackLightning2018S2E15TheAlpha The Book of the Apocalypse: Chapter One: The Alpha]]" (''Black Lightning'' 2x15) |
| 255 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/BlackLightning2018' |
| 256 | |
| 257 | A Master of Disaster released by Tobias. He has pyrokinetic powers. |
| 258 | ---- |
| 259 | * GenderFlip: Heatstroke in the comics was actually a woman. In fact, she was MARRIED to Coldsnap. Hard to see that same outcome with Joe here… |
| 260 | * KilledOffForReal: Lala shoots him dead, saving Jefferson in the process. |
| 261 | * PlayingWithFire: His powers. |
| 262 | [[/folder]] |
| 263 | |
| 264 | !!Kobra Cartel |
| 265 | |
| 266 | [[folder:Lady Eve]] |
| 267 | !!Evelyn "Lady Eve" Stillwater-Ferguson |
| 268 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ladyeve.jpeg]] |
| 269 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 270 | !!!'''Played By:''' Music/JillScott |
| 271 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/BlackLightning2018S1E1TheResurrection The Resurrection]]" (''Black Lightning'' 1x1) |
| 272 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/BlackLightning2018'' |
| 273 | |
| 274 | ->"''I don't mind people believing in God. They just can't believe they can take back these streets.''" |
| 275 | |
| 276 | \ |
| 277 | A funeral parlor owner connected to Tobias Whale, backed by a secretive underground criminal group in Freeland. Seemingly killed in Season 1, she makes her return in Season 3. |
| 278 | ---- |
| 279 | * AbortedArc: Her group, the Shadow Board, was hyped to be a major influence behind the scenes in Freeland, as Lady Eve had backed Tobias and was seemingly pulling his strings. With her death, the plot went nowhere afterwards. Although, this was because Tobias made sure he wasn't anywhere near her death as the Shadow Board would go after him. [[spoiler: Season four reveals that Tobias's scheme is part of a larger plot by the Shadow Board, with him wanting to join them]]. |
| 280 | * BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Apparently Post-Crisis, as TC uncovers that she is the one who put a hit on Gambi.]] |
| 281 | * CharacterDeath: Is assassinated in the mid-season by Whale's hitmen. |
| 282 | * DeepCoverAgent: She was a former agent of the ASA and previously a protege of Gambi. After retiring to be a crime boss, she still has links to the ASA with her death triggering the ASA's kill order on Black Lightning. |
| 283 | * DiabolicalMastermind: Whatever organization she's leading it's much more sophisticated than the 100 (which seems to be only a smokescreen for her enterprise). For starters they have enough pull to hire semi-truck drivers to deliver drugs amongst other things. |
| 284 | * DiscOneFinalBoss: She's initially introduced as "the greater threat behind [[TheHeavy Tobias Whale]]", but is KilledOffForReal half-way through the first season. |
| 285 | * EarlyBirdCameo: Lady Eve appeared in the pilot during Jefferson's award ceremony. |
| 286 | * {{Expy}}: Fitting with the show's Biblical motif, Lady Eve parallels Myth/{{Lilith}}, an unpredictable individual who absolutely refuses to be subservient to any man. She used to work with Gambi at the Agency, but left for a life of organized crime. She has an arrangement with Gambi that she won't go after the Pierce family, while Gambi promises to leave Tobias be, but she breaks that promise by having her goons attack Lynn's lab to stop her from researching the Green Light drug. |
| 287 | * FauxAffablyEvil: She sends out thank-you notes when people give her gifts, but she's a remorseless crime lord that even Tobias is intimidated by. |
| 288 | * TheManBehindTheMan: To Tobias Whale. |
| 289 | * MinoredInAssKicking: She shows her agent combat skills during an attempted assassination by evading and takes down her attackers, including snapping one goon's neck with his own weapon. Too bad she didn't know there was one last killer hidden in a coffin. |
| 290 | * OddFriendship: Had one with Gambi, who's Black Lightning's foremost ally. Gambi still looks out for his protege when it doesn't harm the Pierces. |
| 291 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: She makes a few digs at Tobias's albinism, telling him how albinos used to be killed and then grounded up for magic powder. One gets the impression that if Tobias wasn't albino, she'd let him move up in her organization. |
| 292 | * SoftSpokenSadist: Eve has a very soft, lilting voice that she maintains even when she's subtly threatening Tobias, or embalming someone alive. |
| 293 | * TortureTechnician: She embalmed a cadaver in "Black Jesus" ''[[BodyHorror while he was still alive]]''. |
| 294 | * UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:After getting shot by Major Grey in the Season 3 finale, she is last seen wounded, but her death isn't shown.]] |
| 295 | * TheUnfettered: As she herself says, she'd take out her own mother if she had to. |
| 296 | * VillainWithGoodPublicity: To Freeland, she seems to be a wealthy funeral parlor owner who likes to give back to the community, when in reality she's the one responsible for all of Freeland's woes. Tobias exploits this by having his men murder her with stun guns -- that way, it appears she's died of electrocution and Black Lightning has gone off the deep end. |
| 297 | * WildCard: [[spoiler:After she is revealed to be alive in Season 3, she remains an unpredictable element, being mainly concerned with her own position of power. She rats out Gambi to Major Grey, but then attacks her when she hears that Freeland is to be destroyed.]] |
| 298 | [[/folder]] |
| 299 | |
| 300 | [[folder:Destiny]] |
| 301 | !! Destiny |
| 302 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 303 | !!!'''Played By:''' Teesha Renee |
| 304 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/BlackLightning2018S4E2UnacceptableLosses The Book of Reconstruction: Chapter Two: Unacceptable Losses]]" (''Black Lightning'' 4x2) |
| 305 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/BlackLightning2018'' |
| 306 | |
| 307 | A close associate of Lady Eve who also works at the Ultimate O. |
| 308 | ---- |
| 309 | * FirstNameBasis: Her last name has not been revealed yet. |
| 310 | * NumberTwo: To Lady Eve. |
| 311 | [[/folder]] |
| 312 | |
| 313 | [[folder:Ishmael]] |
| 314 | !! Ishmael |
| 315 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ishmael.png]] |
| 316 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 317 | !!!'''Played By:''' Rico Ball |
| 318 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/BlackLightning2018S4E6TheseussShip The Book of Ruin: Chapter Two: Theseus's Ship]]" (''Black Lightning'' 4x6) |
| 319 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/BlackLightning2018'' |
| 320 | |
| 321 | An assassin working for the Kobra Cartel, who wishes to join the League of Assassins. |
| 322 | ---- |
| 323 | * BadassNormal: Has no powers, but can casually go toe-to-toe with metahumans, even two at once. |
| 324 | * TheBrute: An incredibly skilled meta hunter who serves as extra muscle for Tobias after joining up with him. |
| 325 | * CapeBusters: He's seemingly human but has a specialty in being able to defeat metahumans through AwesomenessByAnalysis and developing specific counter-measures. |
| 326 | * DualWielding: He wields two swords at once. |
| 327 | * McNinja: An african-american Ninja. |
| 328 | * OnlyInItForTheMoney: He's quick to abandon Destiny when Tobias offers him a more lucrative deal as his enforcer. |
| 329 | * ParryingBullets: Ishmael parries Lala's shots with his swords. |
| 330 | * ScissorsCutsRock: Despite being a formidable [[CapeBusters Cape Buster]], Black Lightning is able to go toe-to-toe with him in a one-on-one duel and may have even won if not for Tobias powering up a city-wide PowerNullifier that takes away Black Lightning's powers. |
| 331 | * ShoutOut: Introduces himself saying"[[Literature/MobyDick Call me Ishmael.]]" |
| 332 | [[/folder]] |
| 333 | |
| 334 | !!Tobias Whale and Associates |
| 335 | |
| 336 | [[folder:Tobias Whale]] |
| 337 | !!Tobias Whale |
| 338 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tobiaswhale.jpeg]] |
| 339 | !!!'''Species:''' Human (enhanced via serum) |
| 340 | !!!'''Played By:''' Marvin "Krondon" Jones III |
| 341 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/BlackLightning2018S1E1TheResurrection The Resurrection]]" (''Black Lightning'' 1x1) |
| 342 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/BlackLightning2018'' |
| 343 | |
| 344 | ->''"Do you believe in the Resurrection, Latavius? The concept itself is beautiful, but it's a complete fantasy."'' |
| 345 | |
| 346 | \ |
| 347 | The boss of the One Hundred, formerly a city politician who killed Jefferson's father which set him down the path of being Black Lightning. |
| 348 | ---- |
| 349 | * AdaptationalAttractiveness: He's not morbidly obese like his counterpart in the comics. |
| 350 | * AffablyEvil: It is hard to pin-point if Tobias is genuinely nice to his co-horts or just [[FauxAffablyEvil a snake in the grass]]. While he is a BadBoss to his men, he did love his sister, cared about Syonide, and is willing to break his father's spinal cord without a moment's notice. Essentially, if you play your cards right for him, Tobias will end up taking care of you, as if you were family to him-as long as you don't double-cross him. |
| 351 | * ArchEnemy: For Black Lightning ever since he killed his father, an IntrepidReporter, by literally shoving his articles down his throat. However, it turns out in "The Book of Revelations" that the ASA apparently ordered him to. |
| 352 | * BadBoss: He does not take failure kindly. |
| 353 | ** He feeds one man to a tank filled with piranhas and impales Lala with a harpoon in the pilot episode. |
| 354 | ** He treats Painkiller harshly throughout his "apprenticeship", verbally and psychologically abusing him at almost every turn to mold him into a better employee. [[spoiler:Exaggerated when Khalil can't go through with murdering Rev. Holt; after deciding that his teaching has failed because he was too ''lenient'' and ''friendly'' with the boy, Tobias proceeds to beat Khalil half to death and punch his head against the piranha tank until the reinforced glass shatters, while ordering him to kill his own mother as further punishment. Ironically, he had no idea that the reason for Khalil's betrayal is because he knew Tobias was the one who shot him.]] |
| 355 | --->'''Whale:''' You done broke my damn fish tank. |
| 356 | ** He predominantly employs black people, and owing to his intense dislike of black people, he rarely lets a moment pass when he doesn't throw slurs at them like they're going out of style. |
| 357 | ** [[spoiler:Cavalierly approves of Cutter killing Todd, despite the young man having been his most competent and loyal employee in awhile simply because he's no longer of any use and he'd be a loose end otherwise.]] |
| 358 | * BenevolentBoss: He is actually a pretty cool and reasonable boss if his men don't disappoint him. When Painkiller goes a little overboard, Tobias forgives him with no issue and tells him not to apologize. |
| 359 | %% Doesn't explain what the reaction is. * BerserkButton: He doesn't like "church-singing negroes" on the basis that they all want to go to heaven, but none of them want to die. |
| 360 | * BigBad: The overall main antagonist of ''Black Lightning'' as the most personal enemy to Jefferson. He's specifically the main villain of Seasons 2 and 4, but provides plenty of action in Seasons 1 and 3 as well, despite not being the main threat in those seasons. |
| 361 | * BigBadDuumvirate: With Lady Eve, though he seems to be at the lower position, until he upstages her. |
| 362 | * BigBadEnsemble: With Lala and Lady Eve for Season 4, though Whale is still the biggest threat as he manipulates the former two to further consolidate his power. |
| 363 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: Is an absolutely terrible person, but he's more than happy to hold press conferences and pass himself off as a well-meaning citizen of Freeland who abhors violence. Nobody actually believes this (him being a murderous gang leader is an OpenSecret) so he mostly just does it to {{Troll}} the police. |
| 364 | * BoomerangBigot: He really doesn't like black people and says some pretty heinous things, even though albinism aside, Whale himself is African-American. This is because his albinism makes him an outcast in the black community -- his father abused him for it. |
| 365 | -->'''Whale:''' Squeeze these darkies till they crack.\ |
| 366 | '''Lala:''' ...Damn, boss. You really DO hate black people.\ |
| 367 | '''Whale:''' No, I love black people. I hate incompetent, thick-lipped, scratch-where-it-don't-itch Negroes like you. Y'all keep us acting like newly-freed slaves. |
| 368 | * CharacterTics: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l-nZYmDVtM The man loves adjusting his suit.]] |
| 369 | * TheCorrupter: According to Gambi he has a long history of bringing out the worst in people. Within the show, he pulls this on Khalil and Todd, and it's mentioned that Lala was a straight-A student before he met Tobias. Additionally, Tobias took in a homeless Syonide and molded into an assassin. |
| 370 | * CorruptPolitician: Used to be one until Jefferson's father exposed him. His response to that was to murder him and then become the most feared gangster in they city. |
| 371 | * DemotedToDragon: After his devastating encounter with Black Lightning, the ASA nurses him back to health and Martin Proctor takes direct command of him. However, see DragonWithAnAgenda below. |
| 372 | * DragonAscendant: By end of the SeasonFinale, Proctor and Lady Eve have been taken out, leaving Tobias as the last villain standing and apparent BigBad of Season 2. |
| 373 | * DragonWithAnAgenda: |
| 374 | ** He's the subordinate and occasionally the enforcer for Lady Eve. However, he's sick of being middle management and running a gang of thugs. Instead, he wants to have a seat with the Shadow Board and be approached as an equal. Then he succeeds in offing her...[[spoiler: and in Season 4, he takes over her Kobra Cartel operation and is working with the Shadow Board to join them.]] |
| 375 | ** He is also this to Martin Proctor, after the latter provides him with medical care and orders him to bring in Black Lightning alive. He does as he is told, but plans to overthrow Proctor soon. |
| 376 | * DudeWheresMyRespect: He really chafes at how, despite all the money he makes for Lady Eve, she regards him as little more than another one of her minions; he used to be a city politician and he really resents being kept in what he considers a menial position instead of being allowed to move up the ranks in Lady Eve's organization. It's implied his current position is a result of a past disgrace, possibly Alvin Pierce's articles exposing his corruption. |
| 377 | * EntertaininglyWrong: He initially doesn't consider Black Lightning's return too worrisome as he thinks he killed the "original" Black Lightning and this is just a new person taking on the role who isn't as intent on fighting him. He eventually realizes his error. |
| 378 | * EvilSoundsDeep: He has a deep and booming voice, and commands quite a bit of respect from his subordinates and associates. |
| 379 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: |
| 380 | ** He loves and trusts his sister, Tori. She's the one person in the world he is willing to be vulnerable around. When she is shot and killed, he does ''not'' take it well. |
| 381 | ** He seems to regard Syonide as a surrogate daughter, in his own twisted way. [[spoiler:When Fowdy kills her, Tobias' response is to send a '''''harpoon''''' through her stomach when she's dumb enough to break into his office, and his subsequent abuse of Khalil is because he didn't try to protect her like he should've.]] |
| 382 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: He's not happy about Lala killing Lawanda, although this is partially because he reasons that a man who's willing to murder "somebody's mama" is capable of anything -- including "turning rat". He again shows that he does not try to get RevengeByProxy on someone's mother, [[spoiler:after Khalil runs away from him]]. |
| 383 | * EvilMentor: To Khalil. |
| 384 | * {{Foil}}: To Jefferson Pierce/Black Lightning, as far as their relationship with their fathers. Jefferson had a [[GoodParents very loving father]] whose death (at Tobias hands) inspired his heroics. Tobias had a [[AbusiveParents very abusive father]] who inspired his villainy, and who Tobias himself kills later on in life. |
| 385 | * FreudianExcuse: He had a ''very'' unhappy childhood - his father was abusive because he was sickly and an albino and would beat his sister, too. At his sister's suggestion, he resolves his issues in a [[SelfMadeOrphan very villainous way]]. |
| 386 | * TheHeavy: Even after it turns out he's not the true BigBad of Season 1, almost all of the major running plots of the show are connected to him in some way or another. The activities of [[StarterVillain Lala]] and the 100 in general (with him being the [[ManBehindTheMan behind-the-scenes leader]]), the murder of Jefferson's father, the streets being flooded with [[FantasticDrug Green Light]], the shooting that injured Reverend Holt and crippled Khalil, Gambi keeping secrets from Jefferson, etc., can all be directly or indirectly traced back to him. Basically, if something bad is going on, it's a safe bet that Whale was involved. |
| 387 | * HeroKiller: {{Subverted}}; he believes he killed Black Lightning when, in reality, Jefferson finally gave up after his wife divorced him after a particularly bloody fight. He believes Black Lightning's resurgence is just [[LegacyCharacter somebody living up to his legacy]]. He isn't too happy to find out the truth, and for good reason - he built his reputation as "the man who killed Black Lightning" so it seems like he "lied on his resume" so to speak. The medical examiner who lied to him about seeing Black Lightning's corpse [[DisproportionateRetribution ends up dead]]. |
| 388 | * HeKnowsTooMuch: One of Tobias' most frequent reasons for killing people, as he absolutely hates "loose ends". |
| 389 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:How he meets his end. During their final battle at the end of Season 4, Tobias is blasted out of his office window by Jefferson, where he's impaled on a spire. He still manages to cling to life long enough to reach for his guns and attempt to shoot Jefferson before he's electrocuted to death.]] |
| 390 | * KarmicDeath: In season 4, [[spoiler: Tobais is killed by Jefferson in self-defense, and dies impaled on a spire outside of his apartment. The white whale was harpooned. For added irony, Jefferson was going to save him until Tobias pulled out two guns to try and kill him one more time.]] |
| 391 | * KarmaHoudini: |
| 392 | ** Commits heinous acts on a very regular basis, and always gets away with them because of his money and connections. Him being a murderous gang leader is an OpenSecret, but he always destroys any evidence that could directly prove it. |
| 393 | ** Played straight again after the Season 3 finale, where he is still at large in Markovia after breaking free from containment. |
| 394 | * KarmaHoudiniWarranty: |
| 395 | ** The season 2 finale finally sees Whale get his comeuppance. After being thrashed mercilessly by Black Lightning and Lightning, Whale is imprisoned in an off the books prison for metahumans called the Pit. The season 3 premiere also reveals that the serum that slows his aging is wearing off and he is dying. [[spoiler:Subverted when he regains his powers and takes back his criminal empire]]. |
| 396 | ** [[spoiler:Whale dies in battle against Jefferson in the series finale after Jefferson foils all of his plans for the final time. It is also likely his crimes will be exposed by Looker's testimony.]] |
| 397 | * LaughablyEvil: He's a vile piece of work who will remind the audience why he's a hardened crime lord, but it's hard not to laugh at Krondon having the time of his life playing the character as he spouts loaded, creative insults at anyone who annoys him. |
| 398 | * LockedOutOfTheLoop: He's oblivious to the fact that the 100 is being used by the ASA to move Green Light in the hopes of creating metahumans. Proctor doesn't let him until the finale. |
| 399 | * MayorPain: After disposing of Billy Black, he runs for office himself in Season 4. He later succeeds in getting elected. |
| 400 | * NoSell: As of Season 4, he had his serum tweaked to insulate his skin, making him immune against Jefferson's electric powers. [[spoiler: After Jefferson gets a power boost from the Prometheum underneath Freeland (which Tobias helped create) it no longer protects him.]] |
| 401 | * OlderThanTheyLook: He was given a serum along with his sister years ago that keeps him from aging, so his actual age is indeterminate. In the {{Flashback}} for "And Then the Devil Brought the Plague: The Book of Green Light", his father is sporting [[SeventiesHair 1970s-era sideburns]], so if Tobias was a teenager at the time (implied by the dialogue), it puts him in his 50s or even early 60s in the present. Jefferson explicitly states he hasn't aged in thirty years. |
| 402 | * OpenSecret: "Officially" he's been missing from Freeland ever since Black Lightning retired and only now has just recently returned. But Rev. Holt tells a city councilman in "The Perdi", everyone in Freeland has known that Tobias was still in town and running the One Hundred for decades. |
| 403 | * OutOfFocus: After the EnemyCivilWar that results in the deaths of both his sister and Lady Eve, he remains out of the picture for the next few episodes, with the ASA taking center stage as the antagonists. That isn't the case in season 2 where he firmly takes the helm as BigBad. |
| 404 | * ParentalSubstitute: To Syonide - he found her malnourished and abused in an orphanage and then took her in. Problem is he trained her to be an assassin too and then had a procedure done on her that turned her into something more than human. |
| 405 | * PayEvilUntoEvil: He breaks his abusive father's spine and leaves him to die a slow and painful death. He also had Lady Eve murdered. |
| 406 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The bastard can't seem to open his mouth without spouting a load of racial slurs & stereotypes. |
| 407 | * PragmaticVillainy: He eventually decides to stop selling Green Light since it kills too many junkies, reasoning the dead can't be repeat customers. He's completely unaware of Green Light's true intention -- to turn people into metahumans. |
| 408 | * RedHerring: The audience is led to assume that he's the mastermind behind Freeland's woes, until "Lawanda: The Book of Burial" reveals that Lady Eve is the ''true'' mastermind and Whale is merely running the 100 on her behalf. |
| 409 | * SatanicArchetype: If Jefferson is the "Black Jesus" of Freeland, than Tobias is its Devil; he was a city leader like Jefferson, but his corrupt dealings got him cast out. He also tries to turn the people ''against'' Black Lightning. He comes to Khalil after he's been paralyzed (by a bullet fired at his own order) and poses as a sympathetic benefactor by paying off his medical bills and giving him expensive gifts, then tries to convince him to blame Black Lightning for his current state. Sadly, it works, as Khalil turns against his former friends at Garfield and falls further under Tobias' influence with the promise to walk again. |
| 410 | * ScaryBlackMan: Played with; what Tobias lacks in skin tone he makes up for with an intimidating presence. |
| 411 | * SmartPeoplePlayChess: He shows off his planning skills in a match with Khalil, specifically admonishing him for throwing his pieces too far ahead and letting Tobias chip away at his defenses. |
| 412 | * SuperStrength: Tobias is strong enough to lift a grown man by the neck with one hand, choke him to death, and break his father's spine just by squeezing him hard with [[DeadlyHug a hug]]. Gambi confirms it's due to the same serum that is keeping him TheAgeless, and it's making him stronger as he gets older; currently he's three times stronger than a normal human. |
| 413 | * TraumaButton: Whale experiences a vivid {{Flashback}} at the mention of his father. This comes complete with him repeating the words aloud from the memory, and flinching at his remembered violence. |
| 414 | * UngratefulBastard: Had his henchman Dwayne killed after the latter saved his life, for supposedly leaving his sister for dead. |
| 415 | * UnknownRival: Played with as he doesn't know the reason Black Lightning came after him in the first place is because he killed Jefferson's father. For a short time, he also doesn't realize this is actually the original Black Lightning and not just a successor. |
| 416 | * VillainWithGoodPublicity: In Season 4, he's now working as a philanthropist with a promise to [[TakeThat "make Freeland great again"]], much to Jefferson and his family's surprise. |
| 417 | * VillainousCrush: He is quite flirty with Lynn admiring her beauty. |
| 418 | * WildCard: He's rather unpredictable, which makes things harder for the villains and the heroes alike. Killing Lady Eve makes things difficult for Black Lightning ''and'' the ASA. It makes the community think Black Lightning has gone rogue, while the ASA loses their liaison to Freeland's underworld and their primary way of moving Green Light. |
| 419 | * YouSeeImDying: [[spoiler:In Season 3, due to being deprived of his serum, his age is catching up to him in prison. He laters gets cured by Lynn, due to using him as a lab rat.]] |
| 420 | [[/folder]] |
| 421 | |
| 422 | [[folder:"Red"]] |
| 423 | !! "Red" |
| 424 | !!!'''Species:''' Metahuman |
| 425 | !!!'''Played By:''' Matt Roszak |
| 426 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/BlackLightning2018S4E2UnacceptableLosses The Book of Reconstruction: Chapter Two: Unacceptable Losses]]" (''Black Lightning'' 4x2) |
| 427 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/BlackLightning2018'' |
| 428 | |
| 429 | Tobias Whale's new right-hand man as of Season 4. |
| 430 | ---- |
| 431 | * BaldOfEvil: Not a hair on his head and devoted to his boss. |
| 432 | * CharacterTic: Loves playing around with a coin. |
| 433 | * CoDragons: To Tobias Whale with Val Seong, as of Season 4. Jefferson even calls them "knock-off Joey Toledo and Syonide". |
| 434 | * MindOverMatter: Demonstrates telekinetic abilities in ''A Light in the Darkness''. |
| 435 | * OnlyKnownByHisNickname: So far, he has only been called "Red". |
| 436 | * SignatureMove: Killing people with a telekinetic bullet is apparently his. It's how Jefferson and Gambi are able to figure out him being Billy Black's killer. |
| 437 | [[/folder]] |
| 438 | |
| 439 | [[folder:Val Seong]] |
| 440 | !! Val Seong |
| 441 | !!!'''Species:''' Metahuman |
| 442 | !!!'''Played By:''' Helen Joo Lee |
| 443 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/BlackLightning2018S4E2UnacceptableLosses The Book of Reconstruction: Chapter Two: Unacceptable Losses]]" (''Black Lightning'' 4x2) |
| 444 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/BlackLightning2018'' |
| 445 | |
| 446 | Tobias Whale's lawyer as of Season 4. |
| 447 | ---- |
| 448 | * AmoralAttorney: A lawyer working for a known crimeboss. |
| 449 | * CoDragons: To Tobias Whale with Red, as of Season 4. Jefferson even calls them "knock-off Joey Toledo and Syonide". |
| 450 | * PowerNullifier: Her powers, which make her a great danger to the Pierces. |
| 451 | [[/folder]] |
| 452 | |
| 453 | !!The Sange |
| 454 | |
| 455 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 456 | The white people of South Freeland engaged in a century long feud with the African American population -- the Perdi. The Sange are under the control of the Looker. |
| 457 | ---- |
| 458 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: They hate all black people, and are not above lynching to make it known. Though how much of it is due to their own hatred or the Looker's control is unknown. |
| 459 | * PunchClockVillain: Once they're free from the Looker's control they end their feud with Black Lightning. |
| 460 | * SuperSpeed: What seems to be their only power. |
| 461 | [[/folder]] |
| 462 | |
| 463 | [[folder:The Looker]] |
| 464 | !! The Looker |
| 465 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2_835.jpg]] |
| 466 | !!!'''Species:''' Metahuman |
| 467 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/SofiaVassilieva |
| 468 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/BlackLightning2018S2E6ThePerdi The Book of Blood: Chapter Two: The Perdi]]" (''Black Lightning'' 2x6) |
| 469 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/BlackLightning2018'' |
| 470 | -->'''The Looker:''' I'm a proud White American.\ |
| 471 | '''Black Lightning:''' You're a racist.\ |
| 472 | '''The Looker:''' Now, how did you jump to racist so quick?\ |
| 473 | '''Black Lightning:''' Nice flag. ''[eyes the Confederate Flag on the wall]''\ |
| 474 | '''The Looker:''' The joys of minority privilege. It's okay for you to wear a shirt saying, "I'm black, and I'm proud," but if I wear one saying, "I'm white, and I'm proud," I'm a racist?\ |
| 475 | '''Black Lightning:''' No, your T-shirt would say, "I kill and hang Perdi from trees". |
| 476 | |
| 477 | A mysterious white woman with mind-controlling powers who took over the Sange, after the ASA's original vaccine experiment ended and rules South Freeland like her own kingdom, terrorizing the local black population - the Perdi. |
| 478 | ---- |
| 479 | * AdaptationalVillainy: Because of InNameOnly, the Looker becomes this on the series. She was Black Lightning's team member in "Batman and the Outsiders", here she's a full blown villain. |
| 480 | * AlternateSelf: Has two, one on [[Series/Lucifer2016 Earth-666]] [[Recap/Lucifer2016S01E03TheWouldBePrinceOfDarkness who is a]] ClingyJealousGirl, and one on Earth-38 who is a cult member. |
| 481 | * AmbiguousSituation: It's presumed she's another survivor of the ASA vaccine, but it's never explicitly proven. |
| 482 | * TheAssimilator: The "Element", a metallic substance she emits, allows her to do this to the white population of South Freeland, making them a part of her HiveMind. |
| 483 | * BadBoss: Mind controls the Sange and punishes them severely. |
| 484 | * BadPowersBadPeople: She emits a mysterious liquid metallic substance that can make other people part of her HiveMind, and she uses this horrific power for evil purposes. |
| 485 | * BroughtDownToBadass: Even without her mind controlling powers, she gives Thunder one hell of a fight. |
| 486 | * TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler: She returns in Season 4, having escaped jail during the Markovian Invasion, now being on Tobias Whale's payroll and being responsible for orchestrating the conspiracy against the Pierces with her powers.]] |
| 487 | * CruelMercy: Jefferson opts to hand her over to the ASA, indifferent to the inhumane experiments that she'll undoubtedly go through. |
| 488 | * FemmeFatalons: Through which she channels her powers. |
| 489 | * FillerVillain: Her side-plot is completely unrelated to Jefferson's main feud with Tobias Whale in Season 2. |
| 490 | * HateSink: Blatantly white supremacist, she's the only villain who Jefferson hates more than Tobias -- not even he hangs black people from trees. |
| 491 | -->'''Black Lightning:''' I'm going to ''enjoy'' taking you down. |
| 492 | * MindManipulation: She controls people via some liquid silver element she admits. |
| 493 | * NoNameGiven: We never find out her real name. |
| 494 | * NotSoDifferentRemark: She ''tries'' to claim this between her and Black Lighting claiming they just look after their own. He shuts her down pretty quickly; Jefferson doesn't discriminate against race, only hate and that's not even going into how she uses her powers to force the Sange to be her slaves. |
| 495 | * OlderThanTheyLook: She's mentioned to have come to South Freeland 30 years ago, but looks in her 20s. |
| 496 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Has black people lynched from trees, enough said. |
| 497 | * SmugSnake: Her entire behaviour ''oozes'' of smug superiority. |
| 498 | * RichBitch: Uses her powers to enrich herself but not her minions. |
| 499 | * ThereIsAnother: After Jefferson, she's the only one who survived the ASA's vaccine experiment. |
| 500 | * YouDontLookLikeYou: The Looker in the comics was a bank clerk, whose metahuman powers were activated by a society of underground people (giving her telekinesis, mind-reading, and the look of a supermodel), who then became a vampire for a time (or just a vampiric model in the ''National Comics'' anthology). Here, the character [[InNameOnly only shares the name]] of the Looker and nothing else more. It actually causes a bit of a PlotHole as Looker was referenced several times in the first season in a positive light, indicating she was either another superhero in this verse or (thanks to AmbiguousSyntax) a fictional character in the in-universe ''Outsiders'' comics. Her portrayal really doesn't line up with how she was initially described. |
| 501 | * WrongGenreSavvy: When she has Jefferson captured, she firmly believed that Black Lightning's powers came from the suit, and not from himself or anything electrical. |
| 502 | [[/folder]] |
| 503 | |
| 504 | ! Independent Criminals |
| 505 | |
| 506 | [[folder:Two-Bits]] |
| 507 | !!Frank "Two-Bits" Tanner |
| 508 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 509 | !!!'''Played By:''' Jason Louder |
| 510 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/BlackLightning2018S1E4BlackJesus Black Jesus]]" (''Black Lightning'' 1x4) |
| 511 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/BlackLightning2018'' |
| 512 | |
| 513 | A childhood friend of Jefferson's, several years younger than him, who fell into petty crime. |
| 514 | ---- |
| 515 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: Invoked; he says he's done a lot of things he's not proud of to survive, but when he witnessed a child getting snatched off the street he had to tell someone. |
| 516 | * FriendlyEnemy: Tries to take a selfie with Black Lightning. While Black Lightning is beating him up. |
| 517 | * HarmlessVillain: By the standards of the show. While he sells Green Light, he's largely a petty criminal just doing what he needs to in order to provide for his family. After the supply of Green Light dries up he's selling (presumably stolen or bootleg) ''[=DVDs=]'' (in 2018!) off the side of the road. He later reveals he doesn't even carry a gun because he's on probation. |
| 518 | * MeaningfulName: Despite all the heavy crime in the city, Two-Bit was either unable or unwilling to get into anything worse than pushing drugs on the street (while Green Light isn't exactly marijuana or ecstasy, there's no way Two-Bits would be aware of its true nature). |
| 519 | * MotorMouth: Almost all the time, as if perpetually nervous. |
| 520 | * OddFriendship: Though they're more acquaintances than friends now, he and Jefferson give off this vibe when they meet again. Two-Bit even specifically calls him out on it, saying he's too bougie to be hanging out at the bar where Two-Bit and his crew do, and deduces that he must want something. |
| 521 | * TookALevelInKindness: He was always a friendly enough guy for a criminal, but by Season 3, he has put his criminal endeavors on hold and has joined the resistance against the ASA, doing his best to ruin their plans and help innocent civilians, at one point seen bringing food to a group of young teenagers hiding from the ASA. |
| 522 | [[/folder]] |
| 523 | |
| 524 | [[folder:Cutter]] |
| 525 | !!Giselle Cutter |
| 526 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cutter_5.jpg]] |
| 527 | !!!'''Species:''' Metahuman |
| 528 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/KearranGiovanni |
| 529 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/BlackLightning2018S2E8Exodus The Book of Rebellion: Chapter One: Exodus]]" (''Black Lightning'' 2x8) |
| 530 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/BlackLightning2018'' |
| 531 | |
| 532 | A hitman who is hired by Tobias to bring Khalil, who ran away, back. |
| 533 | ---- |
| 534 | * BladeEnthusiast: Favors all kinds of knives as her weapons. Also uses knives to [[PinnedToTheWall pin]] her targets or bystanders down in a KnifeOutline, if they are in her way. |
| 535 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: While she may have slaughtered the police trying to get Khalil, she was horrified seeing how Tobias ripped the spinal implant from Khalil's back with his bare hands. |
| 536 | * ImprobableAimingSkills: Can throw her knives with alarming accuracy. Justified, if she truly has telekinesis powers. |
| 537 | * KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Commits many murders and helps out Tobias in many ways, and gets away with it all with no consequences brought upon her]]. |
| 538 | * MeaningfulName: She is a knife expert who likes to cut people. |
| 539 | * OldFlame: Apparently, she and Tobias were a couple in the past. They hook up again in the present. |
| 540 | * PoisonedWeapons: Some of her blades are coated in poison. She deliberately uses one on Khalil, so he can't run away too far from her. |
| 541 | * ScrewThisImOutOfHere: [[spoiler:In the Season Two finale, once Tobias starts getting abusive to her as part of his VillainousBreakdown she leaves him and Freeland.]] |
| 542 | * {{Telekinesis}}: According to Gambi, she can throw knives from impossible angles that fly in an arc and that bullets never hit her, which hints at telekinesis powers. |
| 543 | [[/folder]] |
| 544 | |
| 545 | [[folder:Instant]] |
| 546 | !! Instant |
| 547 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/instant.png]] |
| 548 | !!!'''Species:''' Metahuman |
| 549 | !!!'''Played By:''' Tosin Morohunfola |
| 550 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/BlackLightning2018S2E9GiftOfTheMagi The Book of Rebellion: Chapter Two: Gift of Magi]]" (''Black Lightning'' 2x9) |
| 551 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/BlackLightning2018'' |
| 552 | |
| 553 | A metahuman bounty hunter with teleporting abilities, hired by the Markovians. |
| 554 | ---- |
| 555 | * BountyHunter: Though he acts more like a hired thug. |
| 556 | * NotWhatISignedUpFor: He immediately teleports himself and Mosin out when he faces Black Lightning, as fighting him wasn't part of their deal. |
| 557 | * TeleportSpam: He uses his powers to great effect. |
| 558 | [[/folder]] |
| 559 | |
| 560 | [[folder:Lazarus Prime]] |
| 561 | !! Lazarus Prime |
| 562 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/resurrectionist.png]] |
| 563 | !!! '''Species:''' Human, possibly empowered by Magic |
| 564 | !!! '''Played By:''' Michael Wright |
| 565 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/BlackLightning2018S2E14OriginalSin The Book of Secrets: Chapter Four: Original Sin]]" (''Black Lightning'' 2x14) |
| 566 | !!! '''Appearances:''' ''Series/BlackLightning2018'' |
| 567 | |
| 568 | Freeland's mysterious resurrectionist. |
| 569 | ---- |
| 570 | * AmbiguouslyEvil: It's not really clear what his motivations are, bringing back people like Lala or [[spoiler:Lady Eve]] from the dead. |
| 571 | [[/folder]] |
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