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Characters: DCAU-Justice League
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A list of characters in the DCAU who first became prominent in Justice League and Unlimited.
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The Founding members
Superman
ALTER EGO: Kal-El/Clark Kent
Voiced By: George Newbern
See here for more info.
Batman
I'm not really a "people person". But when you need help - and you will - call me.
ALTER EGO: Bruce Wayne
Voiced By: Kevin Conroy
See here for more info.
Wonder Woman
Hera, give me strength!
ALTER EGO: Diana, Princess of Themyscera
Voiced By: Susan Eisenberg
The proverbial "stranger in a strange land." In the DCAU, she defied her mother's admonition to leave matters of Man's World alone, at the time the Imperium were attacking, and stole her outfit from Athena's temple before venturing out in response to the Martian Manhunter's telepathic summons.
- Action Girl: Although whether she's as hot-blooded as Hawkgirl is debatable.
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: Okay, well, Batman's not bad per se, but then again, can you blame Diana for wanting the likes of him?
- Artificial Human: The series goes with her Silver Age origin, where Hippolyta sculpted the infant Diana out of clay. This is hinted at in "Maid of Honor" where Princess Audrey teases Diana about having "feet of clay," to which Diana replies, "You have no idea."
- Badass Princess
- Boobs of Steel
- Breast Plate: Her Chest Insignia, which is designed to resemble two W's. Also see the trope immediately below.
- Brought To You By The Letters WW
- Cool Plane: Her invisible jet, later in the series.
- Determinator: Oh, yes. Just watch her fight against Mongul—he's thrashing her all across the Fortress of Solitude, yet she still refuses to stay down even when it becomes clear that she'll die if she suffers any more punishment.
- Does Not Like Men: Traces of it showed up here and there throughout the early episodes, with "Fury" being one of the more noteworthy examples. In her case it was excusable, since she'd grown up on an island with no men, and she did get Character Development.
- Et Tu, Hawkgirl?: At first...
- Everything's Better with Princesses
- The Exile: After "Paradise Lost".
- Flying Brick: She's able to go toe-to-toe with Superman though that was a case of Tomato in the Mirror.
- Hot Amazon: Bruce Wayne seemed to enjoy watching her kick ass in "Maid of Honor".
- Impossible Hourglass Figure
- Improbable Weapon User: On one occasion she used her tiara as a Precision-Guided Boomerang.
- Jumped at the Call
- Knight Templar: On at least two occasions, someone has had to stop her from subverting the Thou Shalt Not Kill maxim (The Flash prevents her from killing Toyman in "Hereafter," and J'onn stops her from killing a random crook and later calls her out on it in "Hawk and Dove").
- New Powers as the Plot Demands: A variation of this happens in "The Balance": Hippolyta unlocks the full potential of Diana's armor by touching the star on her tiara.
- Oh My Gods!: "Great Hera!" A serial offender, that's pretty much her Catch Phrase.
- Parodied by Flash in the first part of "The Savage Time": "Great Jumpin' Hera!"
- One Gender Race: Themyscera.
- Politically Active Princess: Only in the final season.
- Rebellious Princess
- Requisite Royal Regalia: Her tiara.
- Royal Brat: In early episodes. It caused Green Lantern to address her as "princess" in a decidedly unflattering manner at times.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something
- Statuesque Stunner: As with any other adaptation, stands just inches below Batman and Superman.
- Super Reflexes: Bullets-and-bracelets, anyone?
- Super Strength
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Girly Girl to Shayera's Tomboy.
- With Kasnia's Princess Audrey (who in this case is the Girly Girl), Diana's the Tomboy.
- Transformation Sequence: In "To Another Shore," she displays the ability to transform from civilian attire into her Wonder Woman outfit by spinning in place for a few seconds.
- Unresolved Sexual Tension: With Batman, much to her frustration.
- Victoria's Secret Compartment
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With Shayera.
- You Can't Go Home Again: In "Paradise Lost," for violating Themyscera's edict forbidding men to be brought there. It's eventually revoked out of necessity in "The Balance."
Green Lantern
We all need to be held accountable. We have too much power not to be.
ALTER EGO: John Stewart
Voiced By: Phil LaMarr
Hard-nosed and no-nonsense when first introduced, John Stewart had been patrolling deep space as a Green Lantern for 10 years prior to the start of the series. According to the series' promotional info, because of his by-the-book approach to super-heroics, he tended to treat his fellow Leaguers like well-intentioned rookies. Between "Starcrossed" and the beginning of Unlimited, he shaved his head bald and began sporting a goatee.
The Flash
Dude. The bad guys went down, and nobody got hurt. Know what I call that? A really good day.
ALTER EGO: Wally West
Quite possibly the youngest of the Original Seven, the Flash was first seen in the Superman: The Animated Series episode "Speed Demons." Initially portrayed as a show-boater and skirt-chaser, he often ran ahead of the others and got into trouble about as fast as he could run. Eventually his importance was expanded on within the series' continuity, starting with the episode "A Better World."
- Adorkable
- Alliterative Name: His real name, Wally West.
- Anything That Moves: During the first two seasons. He gets some Character Development later on, though traces of his womanizing ways still remain.
- Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Subverted, though just barely.
- Bad Liar: "The Great Brain Robbery" plays it for humor.
- Bash Brothers: With Green Lantern.
- Beneath the Mask: Perhaps best revealed in "Hereafter," after Superman's supposed death.
Flash: (dejectedly) I used to be able to goof around because I always knew (Superman) would have my back. Now all I've got is his example. And that's gonna have to be enough.
- Beware the Nice Ones: As both Justice Lord Batman and Brainthor found out.
- Big Eater
- But Now I Must Go: Defied when the other Leaguers pull him out of the Speed Force.
- Chivalrous Pervert
- Commuting On A Bus: He was largely absent during the first season of Justice League Unlimited—making only three voiceless cameos.
- Composite Character: He's Wally West with Barry Allen's superhero origin and day job as a forensic scientist.
- However, Barry did exist in the DCAU, but was only shown briefly in a flashback in a tie-in comic.
- The Conscience: For the Justice League and especially for his fellow members of the Original Seven, as "A Better World" reveals. He tries to invoke this with Justice Lord Superman when the other man has Flash at his mercy but it doesn't work.
- Clothing Damage: He gets this on a couple of occasions, most especially during "Divided We Fall" and "Flash and Substance." As the latter episode reveals, he's got a drawer full of costume-rings for spare uniforms due to this trope.
- Corporate Sponsored Superhero: For Lightspeed Energy Bars in "Eclipsed."
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Okay, so Flash is touted as the Plucky Comic Relief of the founding members, he's a Big Eater who stuffs his face often due to Required Secondary Powers, he's a Chivalrous Pervert who rarely (if ever) has any luck with the ladies, frequently says the wrong thing at just the wrong time, and is capable of being taken down in one hit. Digested all that? Well, here's what this same guy is capable of doing when he quits fooling around: rewiring Grodd's Mind Control helmet so it'll fry the ape's brain (though he got better), holding his own against Justice Lord Superman and throwing him hard and fast enough to momentarily stun him on impact, tricking Justice Lord Batman into releasing him from his restraints, taking out an entire space-station of armed mooks when sufficiently aggravated, leading a successful infiltration of Apokolips, and curb-stomping the fused Brainiac and Lex Luthor all by himself...and this is all without taking his day-job into consideration.
- Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Vibrating through an object at high enough super-speed causes that object to explode; hence, he doesn't use it very often. (It's also a Mythology Gag, where in the comics he'd cause things to explode by vibrating through them.)
- "I can never go that fast again. If I do, I don't think I'm coming back."
- Deadpan Snarker: He has his moments.
- Dude, Where's My Respect?: In "Ties That Bind," he notes that he's treated like a kid sidekick despite being "one of the original seven."
- Eagle Eye Detection: "Flash and Substance" proves he's capable of this in his day job.
- Fragile Speedster: Most of the time. He sometimes leans towards combining it with Glass Cannon, or even becoming a full-on Lightning Bruiser depending on how serious he's getting.
- Freak Lab Accident: His hallucinations in "The Brave and the Bold" show the iconic chemical-bath-via-lightning-bolt-through-lab-window origin.
- Freaky Friday Flip: With Lex Luthor in "The Great Brain Robbery."
- Friend To All Children: As shown in "Comfort and Joy," where he seeks to bring a special toy to the children at an orphanage. Mirror Master later exploits this to trap him in "Flash and Substance," but it fails.
- Friendly Enemy: With the Trickster.
- Fun Personified
- Good People Have Good Sex, if Tala's subtext-laden dialogue in The Great Brain Robbery is to be believed.
- Handsome Lech
- The Heart: As outlined in "A Better World," his death in the Justice Lords' universe was the trigger for their turning into Knight Templars.
- Heroes Want Redheads: Wonder Woman's words on seeing him unmasked for the first time:
Wonder Woman: (ruffling Wally's hair) Red hair...it suits you.
- Heterosexual Life Partners: With Green Lantern.
- I Am Not Left-Handed: As with the below trope, Wally almost never uses his true power, as most of it is incredibly lethal. Phasing-induced Tele Frag killing, mach punches, and the like aren't really skills befitting someone invoking Kid Appeal Character.
- Incorruptible Pure Pureness: The creators could see *Superman* potentially turning Knight Templar, but not him.
- Kid Appeal Character
- Legacy Character: "Flash and Substance" suggests he's not the first Flash since his old Kid Flash costume is seen in the Flash Museum (along with Jay Garrick's helmet).
- The Jay Garrick helmet and Kid Flash costume are more of a Mythology Gag than anything else.
- Let's Get Dangerous: And when he does, he is a force to be reckoned with.
- Morality Chain: See also The Heart above.
- Nice Guy: It's why the residents of Central City love him.
Orion: (about Flash) Central City builds statues to this... fool. Who makes bad jokes! Who concerns himself with pitiful men like the Trickster! I don't understand.
Batman: No...you don't.
- The Other Darrin: He was voiced by Charlie Schlatter when he appeared in the Superman: The Animated Series episode "Speed Demons". When he was fully integrated in the DCAU, they brought in Michael Rosenbaum.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: As Orion declares, "You play the fool to hide a warrior's pain."
- Though Flash himself dismissed that particular viewpoint (he really is that happy when things go well and doesn't have 'a warrior's pain'), he IS a scientist in his day job and has shown that he has deep fears about what his powers could do to him.
- OOC Is Serious Business: While this applies to the other members of the Original Seven on various levels, he's the one that gets it most significantly—whenever he's not cracking a joke or chasing a skirt, you know the situation is bad. "Divided We Fall" provides perhaps the best example of this trope in action.
- Overshadowed by Awesome: In this continuity, Flash's status as "The Fastest Man Alive" is always appended by saying Superman and Supergirl are pretty much equally fast, though Flash jokes that he is possibly faster than Superman. Flash does however show more control over his speed than Superman ever does.
- Platonic Life Partners: With Hawkgirl.
- Plucky Comic Relief: Often, until he decides to get serious.
- Rapid Fire Fisticuffs
- Red-Headed Hero
- Smug Super: Subverts this trope.
- Speed Blitz: When he isn't playing around.
- Super Reflexes: He's the only member of the League who successfully dodges the pieces of the Eclipso gem when Hawkgirl smashes it with her mace...even Superman isn't able to dodge any of them.
- Super Speed: Duh.
- Time Stands Still: "Only a Dream" reveals this to be Flash's greatest nightmare; specifically, that he'll one day go so fast he'll never be able to slow down again while everything about him appears frozen in place, and thus living out his entire life-span in the time it'll take a little girl to tie her shoelace.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With Batman, Green Lantern and Hawkgirl.
- Weaksauce Weakness: The sheer number of times he's tripped on things he should've seen coming...though part of this may be him limiting his own power, as when he actually tries, he's arguably one of the most dangerous of the original seven.
- Or rather, the writers limiting his power. Word Of God states that they tended to do this because, otherwise, Flash is so powerful he could beat everybody easily.
- Goes a little far in the other direction though. Very often in early seasons Flash is beat up by random Mooks, and needs another member of the League to bail him out.
Hawkgirl
Less talking, more hitting!
ALTER EGO: Shayera Hol
Voiced By: Maria Canals-Barrera
An advance scout for the Thanagarian army, Shayera Hol came to Earth to ascertain it as a good tactical point for her people in their war against another alien race known as the Gordanians. While on Earth, she adopted the superhero identity of Hawkgirl and, as her cover story, claimed that she was a cop who got transported there via a teleportation device called a Zeta Beam while chasing after a band of criminals.
- Action Girl
- All of the Other Reindeer: A lot of people, including among the general populace, within the League and even among the Thanagarians still haven't forgiven her for her role in the Thanagarians' conquest of Earth, as shown in the Unlimited episode "Hunter's Moon." In the Thangarians' case, it's more, "Because you betrayed us, Thanagar was conquered and Hro Talak is dead."
- Anti-Hero: Type III.
- The Atoner: Post-"Starcrossed," beginning with her return in "Waking the Dead."
- Attack! Attack! Attack!: Subtlety isn't her strong suit.
- Bare Your Midriff: Her superhero outfit.
- Becoming the Mask: Before her cover was revealed in "Starcrossed," she played up her story very convincingly.
- Betty and Veronica: She eventually becomes the Betty to Vixen's Veronica in regards to John's Archie.
- Boisterous Bruiser: "Less talking, more hitting!"
- Carry A Big Mace
- Civvie Spandex: Post-"Starcrossed," once she rejoins the League she wears an outfit closely akin to a jogging suit. It's also very similar to the outfits of the regular staff aboard the Watchtower. As her last outfit was part Thanagarian uniform, this change is likely intentional.
- Cool Big Sis: Acts this way toward Flash, when they're not sniping at each other. The best examples of this are "Divided We Fall" and "I Am Legion."
Flash: She loves me. She's kind of like the big sister I never had. Only, you know, short.
- Cowboy Cop
- Cute Bruiser: Played fully straight after she ditches her mask.
- Deadpan Snarker
- Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: As literal a version as the censors and lawyers will allow: "I have nothing to say. I have a gesture, but my hands are tied."
- Distaff Counterpart: To Carter Hall, a.k.a. Hawkman, though she showed up in the series first.
- Drop The Mace
- The Exile: From Thanagar (permanently) and the League (temporarily) after "Starcrossed."
- Fiery Redhead
- Flight
- Getting Crap Past the Radar: A frequent offender. Just one example:
(she and Flash are talking about his crush on Fire)
Shayera: (suggestively) I hear she's...you know...
Shayera: (smirking) BRAZILIAN.
- Good Cop/Bad Cop: She's the Bad Cop to Green Lantern's Good Cop during an interrogation of an alien in "War World."
Green Lantern: You can talk to me... (points to Shayera, who's got her mace in hand) Or you can talk to her.
- Green Eyed Redhead
- Heroes Want Redheads
- Hot Blooded
- Impossible Hourglass Figure
- The Lad-ette
- Leeroy Jenkins: She's quite capable of formulating and following plans when absolutely necessary, but usually she eschews this in favor of simply smashing things with her mace.
- Love Triangle: She's involved in three, with Green Lantern/Hro Talak in "Starcrossed," and then with Green Lantern/Vixen and Green Lantern/Hawkman in Unlimited.
- Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: When your feminine boy is John Stewart, you know you're a tough cookie.
- Nay Theist: Though post-"Starcrossed," she has had a chance to read the Good Book enough to be Genre Savvy about how to intimidate Tartarus demons in "The Balance."
- Platonic Life Partners: With Flash.
- Proud Warrior Race Girl
- Put on a Bus: At the end of "Starcrossed."
- The Bus Came Back: "Waking the Dead." And before that, a brief cameo at the end of "The Return."
- Reincarnation Romance: With Green Lantern.
- Remember the New Guy: "Secret Origins" was the first time the viewers were seeing her in the DCAU continuity, but the other heroes were clearly familiar with her despite having never interacted with her onscreen prior.
- Screaming Warrior
- Shipper on Deck: She encourages Flash to tell Fire how he feels about her in "I Am Legion," and even shifts the position of their Javelin (while claiming it was turbulence) to get Fire to fall into Flash's lap.
- Shoot the Dog: Has to do this to a resurrected and rampaging Solomon Grundy.
- Smart People Play Chess: The promotional material says she's able to beat Batman at chess. This isn't entirely unfounded in the show; she knew Batman's identity without being told. Given how freaking obsessive he is about that, she's obviously much more intelligent that her combat strategy would suggest.
- Space Police: Her cover story prior to "Starcrossed."
- Take My Hand: She says the trope name verbatim before pulling Flash out of the Speed Force.
- Tell Me About My Son
- 10-Minute Retirement: "Starcrossed" resulted in this.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Tomboy to Diana's Girly Girl.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With Flash and Wonder Woman, the latter more so after "Starcrossed."
- Weapon of Choice: Her electrified Nth-metal mace, which also serves as a Magical Defibrillator.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: In her case, enclosed spaces.
- Winged Humanoid: With the wings being part of her biological structure (as opposed to artificial like those of the Hawk-related heroes in the comics).
- Working with the Ex: With Green Lantern, after "Waking the Dead."
- You Can't Go Home Again
- Your Cheating Heart: In a past life, she did this to her husband with his best friend.
Martian Manhunter
Ask yourselves - is being in here with me what you truly desire?
ALTER EGO: J'onn J'onzz
Voiced By: Carl Lumbly
After the conquering race known as the Imperium wiped out all other life on his home planet of Mars, J'onn J'onzz managed to seal them away and set himself as a guard over them to prevent their escape. However, many years later they were unwittingly released by Earth astronauts and set their sights on conquering Earth. With the help of six of Earth's mightiest heroes, J'onn was able to defeat the Imperium, and eventually adopted Earth as his new home.
- Alien Among Us: Though it only comes into play when he has to blend in with humans under a disguise. Most of the time he's in his default human-Martian-hybrid form, and those who know of him or are familiar with him in this form know he's from Mars.
- Alliterative Name
- Apocalypse How: The fate of his home-world prior to the start of the series.
- Bald of Awesome
- Deadpan Snarker
- Flight
- A Form You Are Comfortable With: When first met in "Secret Origins," he's in his natural Martian form. Upon being freed, he shifts into his more familiar hybrid form in an effort to gain Batman's trust.
J'onn: (shifts into hybrid form) I am J'onn J'onzz.
(He holds out his hand to Batman. The Bat doesn't take it, but continues to have eyes narrowed)
Superman: Don't take it personally, J'onn. He doesn't trust anyone.
J'onn: A wise policy.
- Exposed Extraterrestrials: In his true form...and, technically, the rest of the time as well, since he's a shapeshifter.
- Humans Are Bastards: Developed this view in "Tabula Rasa," though he found himself proven wrong shortly afterward. It came up again, albeit more subtly, in "To Another Shore," resulting in him taking a sabbatical from the League so he could learn to live among humans.
Wonder Woman: You don't like humans very much, do you, J'onn?
J'onn: I don't dislike them...
- Immortality: Type II. He was guarding the shapeshifting invaders for 500 years prior to the start of the series.
- And according to him, he's not going to be dying from age anytime soon.
- Intangible Man: A frequent method of avoiding attacks.
- Journey to Find Oneself: The reason he gets Put on a Bus.
- Kryptonite Factor: It's hinted through various blink-and-you'll-miss-it moments that he's vulnerable to fire, like his comic book counterpart, although the very sight of it doesn't psychologically cripple him as it did in the comics.
- Last of His Kind: It's a source of angst for him. Morgaine Le Fay exploits it for all it's worth in "A Knight of Shadows".
- A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: Happens to him in "Tabula Rasa," leading him to briefly conclude that Humans Are Bastards.
- Mind Over Manners: In "A Better World," he tells Batman (in response to the Dark Knight's suggestion to read his Justice Lord counterpart's mind to ascertain the truth of his cover story) that Martians can't and won't violate one another's private thoughts in such a manner. As far as most villains go, though, he'll delve into mind-reading to glean information, but that's about it.
- Mind Rape: In "Starcrossed", he needs to telepathically learn how to fly a Thanagarian fighter...except Thanagarians are naturally resistant to his telepathy. He grimly decides "I'll just have to try...harder," and effectively lobotomizes his prisoner. The entire planet depended on him getting that information, but the consequences are shown seasons later.
- Mission Control: In Unlimited, he delegates missions to the expanded League. Then he gets Put on a Bus, and Mr. Terrific takes his place in this role.
- Nonhumans Lack Attributes: J'onn's true form, and also every other Martian seen in flashbacks. His wife was drawn with narrower shoulders and a slightly emphasized "chestplate" on her exoskeleton, and that's about it.
- Not so Above It All: As the end of "The Ties That Bind" can attest.
J'onn: I was only going to ask if you wanted to play Brawlin' Bots.
Flash: Dibs on the green one! (runs off)
J'onn: I wanted the green one... (smirks)
- Psychic Powers: Usually of the Telepathy variety.
- Put on a Bus: At the end of "To Another Shore."
- Really 700 Years Old
- Rubber Forehead Aliens: His natural Martian form and his usual default appearance, arguably.
- Secret Identity: When in full-human form, he usually takes the appearance of a brown-haired Caucasian man; most notably, he uses this form when hiding from the Thanagerians alongside Superman (as Clark Kent) in "Starcrossed," and again when he gets Put on a Bus in "To Another Shore." He later takes the form of an elderly Chinese man prior to his return in the Grand Finale.
- The Spock
- The Stoic -> Not So Stoic: Perhaps best exemplified in "The Ties That Bind."
- Super Strength: Although in this series' continuity, it's toned down somewhat.
- 10-Minute Retirement
- Voluntary Shapeshifting
- Warrior Poet
- Warrior Therapist
- You Can't Go Home Again
The Expanded League
Oliver Queen/Green Arrow (Kin Shriner)
Dinah Lance/Black Canary (Morena Baccarin)
Nathaniel Adams/Captain Atom (George Eads, Chris Cox)
Mari McCabe/Vixen (Gina Torres)
Hank Hill/Hawk (Fred Savage) & Don Hill/Dove (Jason Hervey)
Shining Knight
S.T.R.I.P.E
Stargirl/Courtney Whitmore(Giselle Loren)
- Action Girl
- Alpha Bitch: Sort of. She is vain and fame seeking, has a large sense of entitlement, and mocks and belittles those around her to ease her own feelings, but means well beneath it all.
- Badass Normal: All of Stargirl's powers are actually derived from her weapon, she has no superpowers of her own. And let's face it, how many teenage girls, if granted a weapon that fired energy blasts and enabled them to fly, would use the weapon to fight supervillains?
- Bare Your Midriff
- Bratty Teenage Daughter: In addition to the Alpha Bitch traits mentioned above, S.T.R.I.P.E is in fact her stepdad and partner.
- Character Development: Over the course of Chaos at the Earth's Core, she comes to respect Supergirl, and ultimately saves her life. By the end of the episode, the two seem to be starting a friendship, with each of them complaining to the other about their respective overprotective relatives.
- Genre Savvy: She is well aware of how her Alpha Bitch actions look and recognizes that her words make her "petty."
- Glory Hound: While she usually means well, she is fame seeking, and believes her heroics deserve more recognition.
- Green-Eyed Monster: She gets very jealous upon seeing Supergirl's popularity.
- Headbutting Heroes: With Supergirl in Chaos at the Earth's Core though by the end of the episode, they appear to be becoming friends.
- Impossible Hourglass Figure
- Kid Hero: In the comics Stargirl is a 16 year old kid, and while her age isn't explicitly stated in JLU, she lives with her stepdad and is drawn as a teenage girl.
- Leeroy Jenkins
- Little Miss Badass:
Supergirl/Kara In-Ze/Kara Kent(Nicholle Tom)
Cadmus
Amanda Waller
General Wade Eiling
Galatea
- Boobs of Steel
- Cloning Blues: She's a clone of Supergirl, but views herself as superior to the original.
- Expy: Of Power Girl.
- Evil Counterpart / Evil Twin: To Supergirl.
- Eye Beams
- Flying Brick: She's a physical match for Supergirl, and gets the upper hand in most of their battles.
- Impossible Hourglass Figure
- Super Strength
- Twin Telepathy: In Supergirl's dreams, she relives the memories of Galatea. In turn, Galatea feels she has to kill Supergirl because she fears Supergirl's conscience is beginning to affect her, rendering her less effective as an assassin.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: She's defeated by electrocution, but doesn't seem dead....but we'll never know for sure, since she's not seen or mentioned ever again.
- Given she was on the Watchtower at the time of her last appearance, it seems she either died or was imprisoned or depowered by the Justice League.
Recurring and Significant Villains
Lex Luthor
That's right, conspiracy buff. I spent 75 million dollars on a fake presidential campaign, all just to tick Superman off.
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Brainiac
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The Justice Lords
- Brought Down to Normal: The Lords are permanently removed of their powers and abilities, and sent back to their universe to never be seen or heard from again.
- Despair Event Horizon: The murder of "their" Flash by the American President - Lex Luthor, who has also brought their world to the brink of nuclear armageddon
- Disproportionate Retribution: Despite having 'Justice' in their organization name, the Lords seem to have forgotten the meaning of it.
- YMMV on that; Lord Hawkgirl is wracked with doubt over the direction they've taken, and Lord Wonder Woman does go out of her way to save a train put in danger during their battle with Doomsday.
- The one pushing for most of their actions is Lord Superman and honestly, would you want to cross the guy?
- Evil Overlords
- Evil Twins
- Fallen Heroes
- Jumped Off The Slippery Slope: Lampshaded by "our" Batman when he notes that what the Lords do isn't that far removed from what the League does.
- Kick the Dog
- Knights Templar
- Heel Face Brain Washing: Lord Superman's favorite way to deal with villains, by frying their brains via his heat vision which basically turns them into the walking dead.
- Heel Face Turn: Lord Batman, after some words from his other self.
- Killed Off for Real: The Flash, which cemented Superman's fall and soon the rest of the League.
- Story Arc: The effects of A Better World, in particular that another universe's League had gone rogue and murdered the President of the United States and took control of the entire world, had far-reaching effects for the rest of the series and the DCAU as a whole.
- They Who Fight Monsters
Vandal Savage
Voiced By: Phil Morris
A man who has existed for eons due to his interactions with a mysterious meteor that landed on Earth. He is an intellectual genius and a master strategist who can account for numerous outcomes due to his long life. Like many of his ilk, he thirsts for power and being nigh-immortal, is aware that once he has it he will be undisputed for eternity.
Gorilla Grodd
Voiced By: Powers Booth
A mastermind gorilla from Gorilla City, a place where many hyper-intelligent gorillas live. After being ousted for his experiments in mind control, he turns to full-time villainy in order to gain wealth and resources to continue his research. He is most notable for organizing a number of villainous alliances to counter the Justice League.
Giganta
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever
- Boobs of Steel: Within the original Secret Society alone, compare her chest size with that of cold-blooded distance striker, Killer Frost.
- Evil Redhead
- Foe Yay: A little bit with the Flash, as shown in the last episode.
- Getting Crap Past the Radar: Pretty much everything about her.
- Magic Skirt: Strangely enough, considering she wears a tiny dress and can grow to giant size, we never see the obvious outcome, even when she falls over. Possibly subverted on-screen, judging by the Shade's reaction to seeing her grow right in front of him.
- Most Common Superpower
- My Master, Right or Wrong: While genuinely criminal, her main connection is her devotion to Grodd for, "As long as he needs me."
- Or until he fries her brain.
- Woman Scorned: To Grodd.
- Wouldn't Hit a Girl: Invokes this on Superman one time. Wonder Woman doesn't have a problem, though...
Killer Frost
Professor Ivo's Android A.K.A "A.M.A.Z.O."
"There's nothing I want from you anymore, none of you have anything for me now."
Voiced By: Robert Picardo
- Adaptive Ability: He was able to take superman's powers and then overcome his Kryptonite Factor after exposure to kryptonite, and his own nanotech weaknesses which causes Luthor's only weapon against him to fail.
- A God Am I: If anyone had the right to say this, it was him but averted, he never refers to himself as a god but others suggest it.
- Amaozo leaves Earth by flying into the night sky.
The Flash: Where is he going?
Martin Manhunter: Where gods belong.
- All-Powerful Bystander: With all his powers when he fought as a good guy he was never useful.
- All Your Powers Combined: This is his schtick at first before he leaves Earth to become a full on Reality Warper.
- Awesomeness by Analysis: TO THE EXTREME!! Amazo has the ability to copy one's powers, natural abilities, equipment and DNA signature simply by looking at them.
- Children Are Innocent: Played with, he was very child like at first in how he behaved and his understanding of the world, and in how easy it was for Luthor to trick him into fighting the League.
- Complete Immortality: Luthor even brings it up in his Break Them by Talking.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Amazo: "I have evolved far beyond what I was when we last met. You do not want to challenge me."
- Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: Happens twice:
- Luthor Standing in the palm of Amazo's hand literally:
Luthor: You know, when I heard you were coming I was actually afraid of you, petrified, but now when I see your fear your, uncertainty I just pity you!
- Aquaman playing chess with Hawkgirl while Amazo watches:
- Neither times did he vaporize them or wipe them from existence, but he could have easily.
- Heroic Build: He is about ten feet tall, has a Sculpted Physique, perfectly smooth body and only eyes for a face.
- Implacable Man: He was this towards Luthor, not even the entire Justice league could stop him.
- After Lex and Atom shrink down to escape Amazo and find themself in Amazo's hand:
Amazo: Did you really think I couldn't follow you here? No universe however large however small is denied to me.
- It took one of Luthor's epic speeches to stop Amazo from destroying him and The whole universe
- Instant A.I., Just Add Water: Justified by him getting his personaliy from humans, and helps him avert most negative robot tropes.
- Instant Expert: He has no problem using the powers he just gained.
- Kick the Dog: On his return to Earth he vaporized Oa the Green lantern's planet which the green lanterns are determined to get revenge for. Subverted when it turns out he just Teleported it to a different dimension.
- Long Bus Trip: The writers may have wisely concluded that his presence would for the most part, have render the Justice League completely irrelevant.
- Mechanical Evolution
- Nanomachines
- Nietzsche Wannabe: Downplayed his main conflict is finding the meaning of his existance.
- Person of Mass Destruction
- Physical God: He quickly Becomes one, not that it helps.
- Powers as Programs: When he scans someone he can alter himself at the molecular level to utilize their powers e.g. grow wings, form a green lantern ring.
- Power Copying: By the end of his first episode he had all the powers of the Justice league and in the next he left to explore the universe.
- Power Glows
- Smart People Play Chess: Either he's really good or Aquaman is really bad.
- Story Breaker Power: He is only in four episodes and is Put on a Bus at the end of every episode except the first.
- Superpower Lottery: He was made to be the winner.
- On his return to earth he has Flight, Super Strength, Nigh Invulnerability minus the nigh, vast energy manipulation, psionic powers like Telepathy and telekinesis, super-hearing, can teleport himself across unknown distances, shrink into a subatomic universe, Move entire planets to other dimensions and just as easily bring them back unharmed, and basically any power that anyone else has, except magic..
- Tin Man: Averted HARD, he is very emotional and is searching for a meaning in life.
- Ultimate Life Form: Luthor sure things so, considering he made his own Amazo body to have his mind transferd into, that was destroyed by the weapon he made to fend off Amazo.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: When fighting Solomon Grundy, Grundy used chaos magic to absorbed and repelled Amazo's cosmic blast, to prevent Grundy from becoming stronger, Amazo teleported himself several light-years away until he could figure out how to solve the problem and has not been seen since.
- Initiate Broken Base and Fridge Logic
- Word Of God says that it was supposted to be a Brick Joke in the last episode but they forgot. They were going to include a gag in the finale showing Amazo sitting on an asteroid somewhere, wondering whether or not it was safe to return.
- World-Healing Wave: Inverted then exaaggerated when on his way back to earth, Oa is in his way, so he transported Oa to another dimension, when the greens lanterns asked him politely to put it back, he did.
After Amazo gives up on killing Luthor:
John Stewart: He murders an entire planet and its over just like that I don't think so.
Amazo: I did not destroy Oa, I simple moved it to another dimension.
Green lanterns Look at each other bewildered
Amazo: It was in my way.
John Stewart: Then could you move it back!?
Amazo's eyes glow (half a beat)
Amazo: Done.
everybody smiles.* Except Amazo, he has no mouth.
Mongul
"Happy Birthday, Kryptonian. I give you oblivion."
Voiced By: Eric Roberts
The cruel dictator of War World. He gains amusement from watching others fight in his arena, which he captures from around the galaxy to become gladiator slaves. He is deposed by Superman following his experience on War World but comes to Earth later in order to have his revenge against the Man of Steel.
Atomic Skull
Bizzaro
Shade
Tala
Stephen Mandragora
Voiced By: Glenn Shaddix
Ares
Voiced By: Michael York
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