History Characters / DCAUJusticeLeagueCadmus

!Cadmus

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[[folder:In General]]
-> '''Oliver Queen''': ''Look, I'm an old lefty. The government must do for people what people can't do for themselves. The people sure can't protect themselves from the likes of us.''
-> '''Superman''': ''We're not talking about the government, we're talking about a shadow cabinet that's taken it upon themselves to eliminate us!''

* CapeBusters: The basic purpose of Cadmus is to create countermeasures should the metahumans of Earth, ''especially'' the Justice League, go rogue and present a danger to civilization.
* CloakAndDagger: Cadmus is so secret that they're not even in the government budget - Luthor funds them out of his own pocket. The President is the only government official who seems to know they exist.
* CreateYourOwnVillain: Rather than focusing on preventative measures ''in case'' the League went too far - which was Cadmus' brief - they seem more interested in ''provoking'' an incident in order to "prove" that the League was a threat. This may be partially due to Luthor's initial influence as a controlling member.
** It might also have to do with the fact that Cadmus projects are expensive and they would need indications that the League was JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope to justify their existence and purpose. It's not that different from the many organizations that ran on government funding during the Cold War, many of them exaggerating the scale of the threat to justify their existence.
** None of Cadmus' attempts to design superheroes utterly loyal to the government worked, at least not initially - instead they produced Volcana, the Royal Flush Gang, Doomsday and the rebellious generation of Ultimen. The closest they had to full success was Hamilton's creature Galatea - and even she went rogue when Waller tried to call her off.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: Absolutely '''NOTHING''' that Cadmus gets involved in goes right, ''especially'' if it's for the purpose of their mission to "counter the League should it go rogue."
* HeroAntagonist: Their motives are good intentioned, but it does not stop them for being [[HeWhoFightsMonsters no better then]] the super villains the Justice League defend their [[UngratefulBastard kind from]].
* {{Irony}}: Cadmus creates a team of cloned superheroes to combat the League in the event that they go rogue, but plots to have them killed and replaced by a new batch when they turn out to be unstable. What do the clones do when they find out? Yep, you guessed it: they go rogue, and the League has to save the day.
* KarmaHoudini: The actions that Cadmus is directly and indirectly responsible for: illegal cloning, assassinations by Galatea, torturing the Question, seeding conflict between Superman and Captain Marvel, creating a PersonOfMassDestruction like Doomsday with incompetent oversight and unilaterally launching a nuclear warhead on an inhabited island, should have been enough to send them to lifetime imprisonment. Instead most of the surviving members walk away, with Amanda Waller telling Eiling that they barely escaped from justified punishment as it is, for him to start acting like a SoreLoser.
* MugglePower: The big reason Cadmus fears the League and stands against them is because the League is predominantly metahumans; in Cadmus' eyes, at least, they champion the non-meta members of humanity
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: The basic principle of Cadmus is essentially "The US Government may have its flaws, may have its dirty laundry, but it is the best government we have and so it must be championed, strengthened and protected from anyone who would try to undermine or replace it -- especially metahumans who think they can do it better."
* NecessarilyEvil: They're willing to do morally dubious to outright illegal things if it's necessary to protect America against a League gone rogue.
* NotHelpingYourCase: Cadmus seems to do a wonderful job of undermining their legitimacy whenever they appear, coming off as ''more dangerous'' than the League is. Yes, the League ''could'' conquer the world if they wanted. But Cadmus ''has'':
** Created Doomsday, an insane and deformed clone of Superman, who went on a mindless rampage of destruction.
** Attempted to nuke an ''inhabited island'' with a Kryptonite-fueled atomic missile in order to get rid of Doomsday and Superman in one fell swoop.
** Created Galatea, a clone of Supergirl, and used her as an assassin to further their own ends, including murdering ''US civilians and defense personnel'', before she went rogue (due to [[CloningBlues going insane over being a clone]]) in turn.
** Genetically engineered their own superhuman team, the Ultimen, who then went rogue and attacked Cadmus after learning that A: they were genetically unstable and going to die shortly, and B: Cadmus had decided it'd be more expedient to simply kill the first batch of Ultimen and replace them with a fresh batch of clones.
** Employed a [[ShoutOut Suicide Squad]] of convicts to infiltrate the Watchtower and steal a dangerous piece of magical gear the League has locked up so that it can be kept away from people who might try to misuse it. (And in the very next episode, that magical item has been... stolen from Cadmus by someone who misuses it.)
* NotSoDifferent: As you might gather from looking at these other tropes, Cadmus is at ''least'' as much of as possible threat to humanity as the League is. Indeed, it seems like Cadmus' higher ups really only play up the dangers of the superheroic community because they hate the idea of anyone who has that kind of power ''not'' being under their thumb, and manipulating the public through fear lets them present themselves as being "the good guys."
* ProperlyParanoid: Their fear the League might go rogue is not entirely unreasonable: after all Superman was temporarily brainwashed by Darkseid and then of course there are the Justice Lords in another world.
* {{Retool}}: They were formed after Superman was brainwashed by Darkseid, and their original mission was to combat Superman in case he ever went rogue again. When the government found out about the Justice Lords, Cadmus simply widen its scope to take out the other heroes as well.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Every. Single. Cadmus Metahuman.
* VillainHasAPoint: The League ''does'' have tremendous power, being the primary gathering of metahumans on the planet, and could drastically alter the political and ''literal'' landscape if they were so inclined. Although Cadmus' methodology shoots itself in the foot time and time again with its choices in how to react, their underlying fears are grounded enough that at least two of the League's primary BadassNormal members, Batman and Green Arrow, both end up conceding Cadmus has legitimate concerns.
--> '''Waller:''' We started to wonder what would happen if you took the same action that the Justice Lords did, so I had my people run some computer simulations. If the Justice League ever went rogue, what do you think would be the result?
--> '''Batman:''' That's moot.
--> '''Waller:''' Humor me. In every single scenario, you'd beat us. Badly. It only took seven of you to overthrow the government in an alternate universe. But that was before Cadmus; now we have the technology to defend ourselves.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Theoretically, they mean well, and their fears are legitimate enough to warrant acknowledgement InUniverse and out, but the lengths they go to in order to achieve their goals are... [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption well...]]
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[[folder:Waller]]
!!Amanda Waller
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->'''Voiced By''': Creator/CCHPounder

Amanda Waller serves as the Director of Cadmus, with a direct line to the President of the United States.

* ActionGirl: And does it without any superpowers, no less.
* AdaptationalHeroism: She is very ruthless, but she's not unreasonable and certainly isn't as sociopathic as her comics counterpart.
* AntiVillain: Waller, being more antagonistic of the League, is a [[SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains Type 3]]. She does some pretty shady things, but never truly crosses the line.
* TheAtoner: She becomes this after realizing Luthor was manipulating her the whole time.
* BadassNormal: Takes on [[spoiler:Brainithor]] with a ''handgun''. Granted, it's a high-tech handgun, but still.
* BlackBossLady: And proud of it.
* BreakThemByTalking: Batman [[StealthHiBye confronts her]] ''in her bathroom'' and starts his usual intimidation tactics. This is her response... and ''Batman'' can't find a single hole in her logic. (They later disagree, ''very'' strongly, about acceptable means to the end.)
* CoolOldLady: In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' epilogue. Terry is a little surprised to discover this, to say the least.
* GeneralRipper: Disobeys a direct order from the President and launches a full-fledged assault on the Watch Tower.
* GenreBlindness: [[spoiler:Though she's savvy enough to know Luthor is a snake not to be trusted, she misjudges his motives and doesn't scrutinize him too hard.]]
* HeelRealization: While she doesn't entire change her beliefs about the necessities of Cadmus' purpose, she does admit that she exaggerated the League as a threat and she tries to convince Wade Eiling that they were mistaken about the League:
-->"Our enemies are never as evil as we imagine, and maybe we're never quite as good."
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Aside from the Genre Blindness above, there's also the fact that her organization includes a nut who decided to [[NukeEm use a special nuclear missile]] to kill Superman and Doomsday along with the rest of the island's population. She's not pleased to hear this.
** Lampshaded by Waller herself after Batman warns her to not trust Luthor. "I knew he was a snake and I still let him bite me."
* IronLady: So iron, she stands up to Superman, Wonder Woman, and Aquaman at the same time upon her first introduction, chews out the Goddamn Batman, and personally confronts [[spoiler:Lex Luthor]] in his lair upon discovering his treachery.
* {{Irony}}: Waller fails to see any irony in any of the things she and the rest of Cadmus does, even though their actions ''constantly'' bite them in the ass.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Planned to murder Terry's parents but doesn't face repercussions.]]
** LaserGuidedKarma: Being a WellIntentionedExtremist, she was ruthless and funded Task Force X to have disposable supervillains to make the dirty work... when she retires, she is so LonelyAtTheTop she welcomes Terry [=McGinnis=]' intrusion into her own home as a distraction from her lonely life. She herself believes that she will have to answer to God for all she did.
* OlderAndWiser: In [[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS2E13Epilogue Epilogue]], she [[spoiler:admits she's got a lot to answer for and gives Terry - AKA Batman's direct successor - some sage advice on how to live a better life than Bruce did.]]
* [[ScaryBlackMan Scary Black Woman:]] She's a sort of gender-flipped Nick Fury. But not as warm and fuzzy.
* SecretSecretKeeper: Is aware of Batman's SecretIdentity (and it's implied she probably knows the other heroes' identities too) and has mentioned that she could blow the whistle on him if she wanted. How she found out is never shown, but considering her job it probably involved government spies.
** And the fact that Cadmus includes Dr. Hugo Strange, who in an earlier episode of ''Batman: The Animated Series'' unearthed Batman's identity, Bruce discredited him in front of Gordon and fellow super-villains but Waller was obviously a more sympathetic ear.
* SurroundedByIdiots: She often expresses irritation and frustration at her supporters in Cadmus and you can make a pretty good case she's justified. Aside from here, there's Eiling, a GeneralRipper, frustrated ex-supervillains like Milo and Tala, with the only other remotely competent members being Hamilton and Rick Flagg. Most of Cadmus' more stupid actions came outside her direct orders, namely unleashing Doomsday and Eiling's nuke to the island. Of course, this is what happens when you form an organization of former supervillains with a grudge against the League. Batman for his part, deals solely with her and doesn't take anybody else in Cadmus seriously at all.
** NotSoDifferent: That said, she herself led through a particularly unwise decision, as shown in [[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS2E13Epilogue Epilogue]]: [[spoiler: she tried to guarantee Batman would have a successor by genetically modifying the sperm of a married couple who fit the "psychological profile" of Thomas and Martha Wane, then made arrangements for them to be murdered when their son Terry was at the age Bruce Wayne was orphaned. Never once stopping to think of the many, ''many'' ways that this could go wrong, up to and including Terry being so traumatised by the death of his family he could have gone on to become a ''SerialKiller'' or a '''supervillain'''. Indeed, the episode implies that Terry became the next Batman ''despite'' her meddling, rather than because of it.]]
* TokenWholesome: One of the rare examples of a female comic book character who is not a MsFanservice, Amanda is fairly overweight and dresses conservatively.
* TookALevelInKindness: Its says a lot about Waller when she [[spoiler: comforts Terry about being Bruce's son. She tells him that despite the circumstances of his birth; Terry is not a clone but that he is Bruce's son; and that whatever circumstances life gives him he will always have the freedom to choose his path. The best part of this is that it allows Terry to move on past his doubts; and to continue being the Batman.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Her motive is to give ordinary people a fighting chance if the League decides the world would be better off with them running it. Her methods are more... debatable. There's also the fact that [[spoiler: Lex]] has his own nefarious purposes for backing Cadmus's activities, and is ready to betray Waller and the organization as soon as he no longer needs them.
** She also decides many years after the events of JLU that [[spoiler: Batman--who is slowly starting to show signs of aging--needs to continue protecting Gotham]], so she takes it upon herself to [[spoiler: partially-clone Bruce Wayne's DNA, find an unwitting surrogate mother to unknowingly carry it, and then manipulate circumstances to push the resultant child towards becoming a new Batman]]. She looks back with a few regrets, but not many:
--> '''Waller''' ''(at age ninety):'' You know, the Lord's been a great comfort to me all these years... Yeah, [[DirtyBusiness I've got a lot to answer for]] when I meet Him, but I'd like to believe that for all the harm I've caused, I've also done some good. Maybe the angels need a sharp sword too.
* WhamLine: The one moment when Amanda Waller proves to be tougher than usual fish and that the Justice League have to be on their guard:
--> '''Amanda Waller''': That's classified information, and I wouldn't poke my nose if I were you... ''[[Franchise/{{Batman}} rich boy]]''.
* WhyDontYaJustShootHim: Averted; Waller ''will'' shoot a supervillain in cold blood. In the stomach. [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill Nine times.]]
** This was Brainiac (well, on ''Luthor's'' stomach), so it was the only way she was sure to put him down.
* WorthyOpponent: Over the course of the conflict between the Justice League and Cadmus, she came to have a great deal of respect for Batman, who philosophically understood her points, while presenting his own valid ones to counter, as well as being an intellectual equal. Her respect became so great that of all the members of the Justice League, she felt that he, most of all, needed to have a successor to carry on his legacy.
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[[folder:Eiling]]
!!General Wade Eiling
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->'''Voiced By''': Creator/JKSimmons

Gen. Eiling (presumably) serves as the military director of Cadmus. Since actual military operations are rare within the organization, he more generally appears as Amanda Waller's right hand man, aiming for practical matters that even surprise her. After the fall of Cadmus as it was, Eiling decides to be more hands on and [[spoiler: turns himself into a metahuman to directly fight the League]]. Eiling notably looks little like his comic inspiration, and is more a case of InkSuitActor for his voice actor, Creator/JKSimmons, and an expy of his role J. Jonah Jameson in various Franchise/SpiderMan works.

* FourStarBadass: Aspires to be this.
* BaldOfAwesome: Especially after [[spoiler:he transforms into a Hulk-like monstrosity]].
* BaldOfEvil: Bit by bit.
* BaitAndSwitch: He seemed like a ReasonableAuthorityFigure in his first appearance, but his confiscation of dangerous alien tech for military experimentation showed his true colors.
* DeadpanSnarker: Especially after becoming the General. He spends most of his battle against the League's {{Badass Normal}}s mocking them.
* {{Expy}}: He becomes an Expy of [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk The Hulk]] by using the Captain Nazi serum. He's more articulate but possibly even more dangerous due to being a PrinciplesZealot.
* GeneralRipper: He turned himself into a variant of the Shaggy Man (a creature that is almost completely invincible & monstrous) in order to protect America from the League and metahumans in general... and ends up only fighting members of the League [[BadassNormal without metahuman powers]] (though the heroes in question have some cool gear).
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Eiling started out simply mistrusting the League, but eventually went to conspiracy-joining levels just like Hardcastle. Goes right into this [[spoiler:after taking the Captain Nazi serum]]. In a variation, however, he stops his ensuing rampage when Metropolis' citizens point this out to him.
* HeelRealization: Has one in "Patriot Act," after his drive to protect humanity from the super powered heroes leads him to gaining super powers and thrashing several human heroes without powers. He even lampshades it:
--> '''Eiling:''' Alright, I've become what I hate. I'll give you that.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He goes after the Justice League because he believes metahumans are dangerous and can't be trusted. He ends up becoming a metahuman himself, and goes after a group of heroes who aren't. When a nearby civilian points out that he's the only one at the site of the battle with powers, he concedes the kid's point and leaves, and is not seen again.
* JerkassHasAPoint: He's not comfortable with the League having a BFG in their space station, that nobody knows about until they activate it.
* KickedUpstairs: Becomes a pencil pusher after Cadmus is disbanded. He doesn't take it well.
* NoSell: This becomes his automatic mode after taking the Captain Nazi serum.
* PragmaticVillainy: Tends to go for the most direct, often military, solution to problems. He responds to Waller calling him out on nuking a populated island where Doomsday and Superman were fighting with "We have to sanction Doomsday, we were gonna get to Superman somewhere down the line, and we've been trying to stop drug traffic from San Baquero for years. The way I see it: three birds, one stone." As almost a saving grace, he doesn't even bother to point out Waller had already demanded he do anything needed to put an end to the situation.
* PutOnABus: After he stops his rampage, following the aforementioned HeWhoFightsMonsters revelation, he's never seen again, despite [[spoiler:emerging from that fight mostly unscathed and ''not'' being detained, arrested, or de-powered]]. He presumably came in ''very'' handy for America a short time later, when the world was being invaded by ''real'' superhuman villains.
* SuperStrength: After [[spoiler:taking the Captain Nazi serum]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Pretty much the same as Waller... except, while she's later willing to work with the League post-"Divided We Fall," he continues to be prejudiced despite Waller herself telling him he needs to get over it.
--> '''Eiling:''' The Justice League is a bigger threat to us now than the Soviets ever were.
--> '''Waller:''' ''(shortly after)'' It's a different world, General...''learn to live in it''.
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[[folder:Tala]]
!!Tala
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-->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/JulietLandau

Tala serves as the Magic/Mysticism division head, and is the sole female division head. After the collapse of Cadmus, she becomes the right hand of the leader of the Secret Society, whomever that may be.

* AdaptationalWimp: From evil goddess in the comics to every human level BigBad's girlfriend, rarely acting in her own right.
* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: She gets betrayed repeatedly and then Lex essentially sacrifices her to try and resurrect Braniac. Her efforts to screw the Society over bring back Darkseid.]]
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: She's always hitting on the worst guy in the room.
* AscendedExtra: Went from being an insignificant character in the Cadmus Arc to TheDragon of the Legion of Doom.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: She's used as a LivingBattery until she's ''disintegrated into nothing.'']]
* DarkActionGirl: Physically weak but a very powerful sorceress.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Extra points for going to the snowy regions of Nanda Parbat barefoot.
* TheDragon: Her role in the Legion of Doom.
* DyingCurse: [[spoiler:Tampers with Luthor's attempt to revive Brainiac by having Darkseid revived instead as a final form of payback.]]
* EvilSorcerer: Her greatest weapon was her knowledge of sorcery, which she could employ in various ways, including a vast knowledge of potion brewing and also but not limited to: teleportation, transmutation and telekinesis.
* FemmeFatale: She's always seen seducing men.
* HumiliationConga: Things just keep going wrong for Tala. Working for the government to revive the Annihilator results in her being tricked into being trapped inside a mirror forever. Being set free means she has to become a supervillain and, possibly against her will, winds up in a very weird bestiality-based relationship (remember, Grodd thinks of humans as an inferior species, so he's ''also'' having sex with an animal, from his viewpoint). Then her old "boyfriend" gets dumped and she winds up in an abusive relationship with a lunatic (Luthor). And finally she's used as a sacrifice in a bit of mad science-wizardry that annihilates her (and [[GoneHorriblyWrong has terrible repercussions.]])
* InterspeciesRomance: With ''[[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys Grodd]]''.
* LadyMacbeth: Was this to Lex and Grodd.
* LivingBattery: [[spoiler:Used as this by Lex Luthor to bring back Brainiac, killing her. In fact, Luthor was planning to dispose of her from the beginning.]]
* {{MsFanservice}}
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Spends most of her time grovelling before more powerful villains but is [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder deadly when she doesn't get her own way]] and is a very skilled sorceress.
* PowerIsSexy: Why she's attracted to dangerous men.
* ReallyGetsAround: Felix Faust, Grodd, Luthor, somebody else in Luthor's body... well, okay, that last one wasn't ''her'' fault.
* {{Sensual Slav|s}}
* SmugSnake: Is easily manipulated and usually ends up failing in the face of more cunning villains or becoming their unwitting pawns.
* SycophanticServant
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Frequently thinks little of her enemies. This usually comes back to haunt her.
* WomanScorned: Betrays Luthor for not paying enough attention to her. Not her smartest move. [[spoiler:She freed Darkseid instead of Brainiac as the final "screw you" to Lex.]]
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Did she really think claiming "I'm a sick person" was going to work on Luthor? As he puts it, moments before having her executed "[[CardCarryingVillain I'm a sick person, too.]]"
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[[folder:Hamilton]]
!!Dr. Emil Hamilton
-->'''Voiced By:''' Victor Brandt, Robert Foxworth

Dr. Hamilton serves as the Genetics division head. after falling out with Superman due to the Man of Steel's terrible actions at the end of ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', Dr. Hamilton turns to a power that he believes can keep the League in check. Galatea is his most prized project, and he shares a father-daughter type relationship with her.

[[Characters/DCAUSupermanTheAnimatedSeries See here for more info]].
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[[folder:Milo]]
!!Dr. Milo
-->'''Voiced By:''' Treat Williams in WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries, Creator/ArminShimerman in WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague

Dr. Milo serves as the Splicing division head. His work was the least successful of each of the divisions. He was killed in his only featured episode after the beginning of the "Bat-Embargo," where characters more central to Batman stopped appearing in case they were to appear on ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman''.

[[Characters/DCAUBatmanTheAnimatedSeries See here for more info]].
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[[folder:Dr. Strange]]
!!Dr. Hugo Strange
-->'''Voiced By:''' Ray Buktenica

Dr. Strange serves as the first Psychology division head. He was also written out after the beginning of the "Bat-Embargo," where characters more central to Batman stopped appearing in case they were to appear on ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman''.

[[Characters/DCAUBatmanTheAnimatedSeries See here for more info]].
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[[folder:Dr. Moon]]
!!Dr. Moon
-->'''Voiced By:''' Jeffrey Combs (uncredited)

Dr. Moon serves as the second Psychology division head, replacing Dr. Strange.

* ForTheEvulz: Would continue to torture, even after receiving information, if it entertained him.
* TortureTechnician: Used to attempt to force information out of The Question.
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[[folder:Maxwell Lord]]
!!Maxwell Lord
-->'''Voiced By:''' Tim Matheson

Maxwell Lord serves as the manager and public face of the Ultimen, and is less involved with the gritty missions of Cadmus as compared to most officers and agents.

* AdaptationDecay: No trace of psychic powers is shown here - but then, there have been stretches of time in the comics when Max didn't have or couldn't use them.
* InformedFlaw: Batman claims to know Max Lord personally, and insists that the only thing he cares about is money. All of his actions in this episode seem to run contrary to this.
* NiceGuy: Actually seems to care about the Ultimen, despite knowing their artificial nature. Not that this saves him from their wrath when they turn on him.
* NotWorthKilling: Longshadow persuades the other Ultimen that he's not important enough to kill. "We want the ''big'' fish."
* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the comics, he turned on the League, and eventually had to be killed. Here, he was hunted by the Ultimen, who wound up sparing him.
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[[folder:Flagg]]
!!Colonel Rick Flagg, Jr.
->'''Voiced By''': Creator/AdamBaldwin

Col. Flagg serves as the leader of Task Force X, and the only non-criminal on the team.

* BadassNormal: No powers, yet he can easily fight through the Watchtower. ''Unarmed''.
* MeaningfulName: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Deadshot.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Will do ''anything'' to ensure the security of his country. This takes him to some dark places.
* PatrioticFervor: When Deadshot asks what it is that Amanda Waller has on him that ensures his loyalty, he replies, "Not a thing. Some of us don't have to be blackmailed into serving their country."
* TheStoic: Never so much as cracks a smile in his one appearance.
* TokenGoodTeammate: To Task Force X. Relatively.
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[[folder:Galatea]]
!!Galatea
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->'''Voiced By''': Nicholle Tom

Dr. Hamilton's creation and surrogate daughter, Galatea is a clone of Supergirl, but with a more pragmatic personality. This artificial status irks her to no end.

* BerserkButton: Supergirl's mere existence, because it reminds her she's just a clone, not the original:
-->'''Supergirl:''' You know what? No matter how bad you beat me, I'm real, not a clone.
-->'''Galatea:''' Shut up.
-->'''Supergirl:''' Deep down, you know the truth: you're not a person. You're just a weapon! Grown out of one of Hamilton's petri dishes!
-->'''Galatea:''' ''Shut up!''
* BloodKnight: Only cares about fighting and proving herself superior to Supergirl, and defies Waller when Galatea is told to stop.
* BoobsOfSteel: She's a clone of Supergirl, just aged slightly more. This means that she's a little stronger... and, well, larger. [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre If you know what we mean.]]
* CleavageWindow: Naturally, given that she's an {{Expy}} of ComicBook/PowerGirl.
* CloningBlues: She's a clone of Supergirl, but views herself as superior to the original...and [[BloodKnight feels a rather crazed desire to prove it.]]
* DarkActionGirl: She is a strong and skilled fighter. And also a little bit of a {{sadist}}.
* EvilCounterpart[=/=]EvilTwin: To Supergirl. By the time of 'Panic in the Sky', she gives only a mocking reference to fighting the Justice League because they're dangerous, and promptly admits she's in the fight to kill Supergirl.
* {{Expy}}: She is not exactly ComicBook/PowerGirl, but she wears a similar costume, which one scene made identical with the addition of a red "towel" hanging over her shoulder, and shares the background of "not exactly Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}, but close."
** AdaptationalVillainy: The reason she's likely an expy is because of the things she's done, including being a cold-blooded killer.
* EyeBeam: Galatea seemed to favour heat vision as a primary offensive ability and used it with great skill and accuracy.
* FarmersDaughter: In ''Fearful Symmetry'' The Question questions a reporter on the source of one of his stories. He mentions that he got it from a girl he was seeing, which turned out to be Galatea. He specifically describes her as "blonde hair, blue eyes, real farmer's daughter type."
* FlyingBrick: As a clone of Supergirl, this is to be expected. The fact that she's been artificially aged to her prime means she's a bit more of a [[DoubleEntendre brick]] then the original.
* ImportantHaircut: Her short bob haircut is one of the surest signs that her upbringing was ''very'' different from Supergirl's.
* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: As Supergirl, but more curvy. Lampshaded by Green Arrow “Uh, a little more mature than you.”
* {{Leitmotif}}: A warped Superman/Supergirl theme with shades of OminousLatinChanting.
* MeaningfulName: There's a Greco-Roman myth (most famously chronicled in Creator/{{Ovid}}'s ''Literature/TheMetamorphoses'') about a sculptor named Pygmalion who sculpts a statue of his ideal woman and falls in love with it, naming it "Galatea," and eventually marrying it after the Gods bring it to life; similarly, Hamilton artificially creates Galatea to be his ideal warrior woman, but eventually comes to see her as a surrogate daughter. Also, the Greek name "Galatea" literally translates to "She who is milky white," hence Galatea's pale complexion and [[WomanInWhite all-white costume]].
* MsFanservice: No surprise considering that she is an {{Expy}} of ComicBook/PowerGirl with the white outfit and noticeably more "mature" physique than Supergirl.
* PutOnABusToHell: [[spoiler: The last we see of her, she's been shocked into a coma. According to TheOtherWiki, she has been taken back to Cadmus to undergo medical training to help her remember ''basic motor skills''.]]
* SuperpowerLottery: She has all the powers of Supergirl: EyeBeam, NighInvulnerable, SuperStrength and XRayVision.
* SuperStrength: She is physically stronger than her counterpart.
* TwinTelepathy: 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.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: She's defeated with an enormous dose of electricity, but doesn't seem ''dead.'' She's not seen or mentioned ever again.
* WomanInWhite: Wears an entirely white costume; despite being an {{Expy}} of Power Girl, her costume lacks PG's red cape.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: She's a super-powered assassin who can easily trounce her counterpart in a straight-up fight, and she suffers a serious case of CloningBlues. See BerserkButton above.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Doomsday]]
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!!Doomsday
->'''Voiced By''': Creator/MichaelJaiWhite

A genetically modified and augmented clone of Superman, driven insane by brutal treatment intended to "condition" him into being focused on destroying Superman.

* AdaptiveAbility: While never directly stated, he alludes to Superman that he can't be killed the same way twice.
* AdaptationalIntelligence: In the comics, he was introduced as feral and basically nonsentient, though that's changed a lot over time. Here he's sentient enough to talk from the very beginning, and shows a decent amount of cunning: defeating the weaker league members THEN focusing on Lord!Superman in his initial conflict, fooling Milo into releasing him, and aiming straight for Supe's eyes so he can't use his heat vision to kill him in their "rematch."
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: [[ZigZaggingTrope Sort of]]--in the comics he was originally an alien of [[DiabolusExNihilo unspecified origin]], then eventually turned out to be an UltimateLifeForm made on Krypton. Here he turns out to be a [[ArtificialHuman human-made]] organism... made from Kryptonian DNA.
* BadassBoast: In his first appearance, he gives two of these (well, almost two) to Justice Lord Superman:
** When asked about his motive:
-->'''Doomsday:''' The same as you I imagine. Power. Control. I wanted to see [[{{Franchise/Superman}} the best this planet has to offer]]. ''I'm not impressed''.
** After shrugging off a city-shattering punch:
-->'''Doomsday:''' You think ''that'' could hurt me? (''Stomps Superman further into the ground, and lifts him into the air'') My skin can withstand a nuclear explosion! My bones are...[[{{Lobotomy}} My booones]]....
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: To a degree. He has been brainwashed so effectively by Cadmus he is fixated on Superman. The crazy part comes in with just how little he cares about ANYTHING else.
* CloningBlues: Averted, he generally doesn't seem to care if at all that he is a clone. In fact, when Milo reveals all the secrets of his origins he shrugs it off.
* TheDogBitesBack: When he first appears and a viewer sees how he was "trained" to hate Superman -- by being constantly tortured and made to associate Superman with the pain he suffered -- it's a little hard not to think his lashing out at Cadmus is justified.
* EnemyToAllLivingThings: Averted, he wants to kill the strongest on Earth, at first. In his second appearance he wishes to kill Superman.
* ForScience: Professor Hamilton cloned Superman so the planet could have a weapon to stand up to Superman.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Designed and brainwashed to eliminate Superman. Yet was so uncontrollable that they decided to dispose of him in outer space. His fights with Superman (the Justice Lords and our own, respectively) both take place in heavily populated areas (Metropolis and San Verde) that would've resulted in thousands of casualties had Superman not figured out a way to stop him, and speculated ''far more'' by his own creators were he to succeed in killing him.
* LaserGuidedTykebomb: He was created to kill Superman. Him being released by Professor Milo has him instantly charge towards Superman's current location, which just so happens to be a volcanic island.
* {{Leitmotif}}: During his first appearance the soundtrack has a low reverberating music whenever he does anything awesome.
* NighInvulnerability: It's freaking Doomsday!
* PunchPunchPunchUhOh: Pretty much a given considering who he is.
* {{Retcon}}: He origin revealed in "The Doomsday Sanction" (that he is Superman's clone created by Cadmus, conditioned to hate Superman, and the 'meteorite' was the remains of the rocket Cadmus put him on when he proved uncontrollable) doesn't quite line up with his first appearance: Doomsday showed no specific enmity toward Superman, he just wanted to fight the strongest and talked as if he'd has plenty experience fighting on different planets.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: When he initially appears, he's lashing out blindly at the whole world due to having been tortured pretty much since birth by Cadmus.
* SuperStrength: He is a clone of Superman, nuff' said.
* WouldHitAGirl: Gender is irrelevant. Die.
[[/folder]]


[[folder:The Ultimen]]
!!The Ultimen
->'''Voiced By''': Gregg Rainwater (Long Shadow), James Sie (Wind Dragon), Creator/CCHPounder (Juice) Music/GreyDeLisle (Shifter and Downpour)

A set of five super-humans who initially appear allied with the US Government. Secretly engineered artificially by Cadmus bio-engineers, the process was unstable and so their lives were drastically shortened. Consist of Downpour, Juice, Longshadow, Shifter and Wind Dragon.

* CloningBlues: As clones, their powers are unstable, and they will eventually degenerate and die.
* CurbstompBattle / ShootingSuperman: They are on the receiving end of these tropes twice. The original Downpour attempts to drown Aquaman in "Ultimatum," while ''three'' copies of Wind Dragon are effortlessly neutralized by Red Tornado. A Longshadow clone at least puts up a good fight against Atom Smasher.
* {{Expy}}: Of the WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}} original characters, the Wonder Twins, Black Vulcan, Apache Chief and Samurai. As a result, they're all diverse, too.
** {{Animorphism}}: Shifter
** AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Longshadow.
** BlowYouAway: Wind Dragon.
** ([[MakingASplash Water]]) ElementalShapeshifter: Downpour.
** ShockAndAwe: Juice.
* FakeMemories: The original team were implanted with these.
* HeelFaceTurn: Thanks to Wonder Woman's encouragement, (one of) Longshadow quits and joins the League for the few weeks he has to live before he... wears out.
* HeroicAlbino / EvilAlbino: Depending how you look at their alignment, Shifter and Downpour.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Wind Dragon spontaneously develops freezing powers, and Longshadow develops super hearing. This actually becomes a plot point, cluing their overseers into their eventual degeneration.
* NoSell: Poor Downpour's punches didn't even phase Aquaman.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The Longshadow that joined the League was never mentioned again. Given he was degrading throughout the episode, it's likely he died soon after.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Task Force X]]
!!Task Force X

A team of criminals who would receive pardons if they completed special ops missions on behalf of Cadmus, while keeping the hands of governments clean. Task Force X is effectively the Suicide Squad, but with a more censor-friendly name. Its members include: director Col. Rick Flagg, coordinator Clock King (a Batman rogue), Captain Boomerang (a Flash rogue), the hitman Deadshot, and explosives expert Plastique, in her first appearance.


* BoxedCrook: Collectively, except for Col. Flagg, above.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Flagg doesn't hide his contempt for the crooks he's commanding; Clock King considers himself SurroundedByIdiots; Captain Boomerang makes himself unpopular with the others. And while Deadshot and Plastique flirt, their love was not meant to be.
--> '''Deadshot:''' ''[[KickTheDog C'est la vie.]]''

[[/folder]]

* BadassNormal: All of them.

* [[spoiler:AlasPoorVillain: She gets betrayed repeatedly and then Lex essentially sacrifices her to try and resurrect Braniac. Her efforts to screw the Society over bring back Darkseid.]]

* WomanInBlack: She wears always a black outfit.