History Characters / DCAUJusticeLeagueTheLeague

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!The League

[[folder:In General]]
!!The League
->'''Played By:''' Creator/TimDaly, Creator/GeorgeNewbern, Creator/KevinConroy, Creator/SusanEisenberg, Creator/PhilLaMarr, Charlie Schlatter, Creator/MichaelRosenbaum, Creator/MariaCanalsBarrera, Creator/CarlLumbly, Creator/MiguelFerrer, Scott Rummell, Kin Shriner, Creator/MorenaBaccarin, Creator/JeffreyCombs, Creator/AmyAcker, George Eads, Creator/ChrisCox, Creator/GinaTorres, Fred Savage, Jason Hervey, Creator/NathanFillion,

* BigGood: The founding members of the League are this.
* ColorCodedCharacters: In early promos, Superman - Red; Batman - Blue; Wonder Woman - Yellow; Green Lantern - Green; Flash - Orange; Hawkgirl - Gold; Martian Manhunter - Teal.
* ConsummateProfessional: By the time of the [=JLU=], the League has developed proper ranks, chain of command and categorized villain threats by particular grades. They have a MissionControl who assigns teams with proper skillsets and group leaders, and in Season 5, they organize duty and roster by shifts to the extent that superheroism has become a 9-5 job which Hawkgirl notes actually gives them spare time. Indeed, Grodd laments that the League has become so professional that they have shut down single-villain crimes altogether.
* DemotedToExtra: They suffer this to some extent in the last season. Despite being the main characters, they only appear in less than half of the final thirteen episodes, with some episodes ("Patriot Act," "Grudge Match" and "Alive!") focusing on recurring characters instead.
* {{Determinator}}s: All of them.
* {{Foil}}:
** AllWorkVsAllPlay: GL and Flash
** BrainsAndBrawn: Batman and Superman
** TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Hawkgirl and Wonder Woman...to an extent.
* GodzillaThreshold: "Omega Level Threat" is essentially "all hands on deck" for the League, a threat so great that it needs every single hero: active, off-duty and reserve. The instances that qualify are: [[spoiler:Mordru's attack in ''The Greatest Story Never Told'', Amazo's Return, the Dark Heart and of course, as is implied by the name, Darkseid himself]].
* IdiotBall: When they rebuilt the Watchtower, they added Binary Fusion Generator cannon in case of another crisis, in case of another attack like the Thanagarian Incident. Instead it caused a rift between the League and the USA government who understandably were really uncomfortable with the League having such a weapon in their possesion. After it was hi-jacked, the League dismantled it.
* JumpedAtTheCall: In the pilot Superman and Batman investigate Martian Manhunter's distress call. After they rescue him J'ohnn calls for back up and the other 4 are the only heroes that respond. At first it seems like they're the only active heroes in this continuity but by the time Unlimited rolls around its clear that [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters a lot of other people could've responded to the call if they wanted to.]]
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Narrowly averted, but during the first couple of seasons of ''Unlimited'' they unconsciously began acting like their Justice Lord counterparts. In ''Intiation'' John vents to J'onn he had to use a lot of will power to keep himself from beating up an obstructive general. Then we find out about the Binary Fusion Generator which they later get rid of.
* NGOSuperpower: Ostensibly a super-team of like-minded do-gooders, the League eventually claims a jurisdiction beyond that of most governments, especially in the Unlimited face where they are essentially a super-powered army with a huge support team in possession of great power and technical know-how. Amanda Waller outright calls the League the most powerful organization in the world and forms Cadmus explicitly to serve as a check-and-balance against it.
* OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: The rest of the League apparently see the original 7 as this. The Question notes that they have their own conference hall exclusive to them and, in his usual paranoid style, accuses them of holding secrets from the rest, which in one specific case happens to be true. They also have the power to unilaterally disband the League if they choose though the Green Arrow overrides this and insists that the rest will continue without the 7, noting that the League has become bigger than them.
* SlaveToPR: They learn slowly that merely saving people with superior powers without assuaging fears will have consequences. Their lack of concern for their image leads demagogues like Glorious Godfrey to paint them as the stuck-up "Just Us League" while Cadmus and other branches use some lingering fears and concerns to mobilize against them. Eventually they form a base on Earth to be more transparent and accept a government liasion to overview their missions.
* TheTeam - They all play a variety of roles especially since they did very few missions as a full team of seven. Most consistently however:
** TheHero / TheLeader: Superman (The founder, 'first among equals,' and [[TheCape embodies the League's best ideals]])
** TheLancer / TheAce: Batman (An HonoraryTrueCompanion and AloofAlly before joining officially. [[TheCowl Superman's foil]] and [[Franchise/{{Batman}} good at everything by virtue of being Batman]]. Also has shades of TheSmartGuy along with J'onn, due to his technology and [[TheStrategist brilliant strategic mind]].)
** TheChick: Franchise/WonderWoman ([[FishOutOfWater New to 'Man's World.']] Likes to dabble in being a normal woman when she's [[BloodKnight not on duty]])
** ByTheBookCop: Green Lantern ([[ByTheBookCop The most disciplined and take charge member]], though he has less clout than the Trinity above)
** PluckyComicRelief / TheHeart: The Flash (Lighthearted [[DeadpanSnarker wisecracker]], but the team would fall apart or [[BadFuture change drastically without him]])
** TheBigGuy: Hawkgirl (despite [[PintsizedPowerhouse physically being the smallest]] by far she rushes head first at any situation)
** TheSmartGuy / MissionControl: Martian Manhunter (Uses mental powers to gain knowledge no one else could. Assigns duties for the expanded league.)
* TokenMinority: GL is black, Hawkgirl and the Thanagarians are meant to be [[SpaceJews vaguely Hispanic]]. The team averts the SmurfettePrinciple by having [[TwoGirlsToATeam two core female members however.]]
** Batman gets called out as a 'minority' among the League as TheTeamNormal, but if anything it only fuels his fire to continue being TheAce despite not having powers.
* TrueCompanions: They grow to genuinely care for each other, even referring to each other on a FirstNameBasis while very few outside of the 7 founding members even know their secret identities.
* TwoGirlsToATeam: Hawkgirl and WonderWoman, two out of seven. While their appearances might suggest a TomboyAndGirlyGirl dynamic, the actual contrast was in their experience (with WonderWoman as the NaiveNewcomer and Hawkgirl as a bit of a cynic) and in their attitudes towards men, with WonderWoman having a touch of WomenAreWiser at first.
-->'''Wonder Woman:''' [[{{StrawFeminist}} You men!]] Unless you do it on your own it doesn't count!
-->'''Hawkgirl:''' It's not just the men, [[{{CurseCutShort}} you stuck-up...]]
* UnderwearOfPower: Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and Hawkgirl's first outfit.
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!Founding Members

[[folder:Superman]]
!!Franchise/{{Superman}}
--> ''"[[WorldOfCardboardSpeech I feel like I live in a world made of cardboard]] -- always taking constant care not to break something, to break '''someone.''' Never allowing myself to lose control, even for a moment, or someone could die. But you can take it, can't you, [[{{ComicBook/Darkseid}} big man]]?"''
-->'''ALTER EGO:''' Kal-El/Clark Kent\\
'''Voiced By:''' Creator/TimDaly in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', Creator/GeorgeNewbern in ''Justice League''
->Abilities: super strength, invulnerability, super speed, flight, super senses, heat vision

[[Characters/DCAUSupermanTheAnimatedSeries See here for more info]].
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[[folder:Batman]]
!!Franchise/{{Batman}}
-->''"I'm not really a 'people person'. But when you need help - and you will - call me."''\\
'''ALTER EGO:''' Bruce Wayne\\
'''Voiced By:''' Creator/KevinConroy
->Abilities: peak human condition, utility belt, martial artist, detective

[[Characters/DCAUBatmanTheAnimatedSeries See here for more info]].
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[[folder:Wonder Woman]]
!!Franchise/WonderWoman
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-->''Hera, give me strength!''\\
'''ALTER EGO:''' Diana, Princess of Themyscera\\
'''Voiced By:''' Creator/SusanEisenberg
->Abilities: super strength, super reflexes, flight, magic lasso and bracelets

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.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: She develops a crush on [[AntiHero Batman]], which Batman refuses to explore further, much to her frustration.
-->'''Wonder Woman''': No, no dating for the Batman. It might cut into your brooding time.
-->'''Batman''': One, dating within the team always leads to disaster. Two, you're a princess from a society of immortal warriors, I'm a rich kid with issues -- lots of issues.
** "The Brave and the Bold" though, shows Bruce in fear when he fears Diana was crushed by a missile, and tries to dig her out and shouting her name. So he's NotSoDifferent.
** "This Little Piggy" had him dig into his HiddenDepths to sing "Am I Blue?" for Circe, and in front of Zatanna as well once he realizes all fighting is doing is hastening Diana's (now a Porcine BalefulPolymorph--aka "Wonder Pig"--thanks to Circe's magic) demise as Circe isn't going to give up how to turn Diana back with hostility. He might not explore too far down, but there's very little he wouldn't do for Diana when it comes to it.
* AlliterativeName
* {{Ambadassador}}: In the final season. Diana (at her mother's request) represents Themyscira at the world global warming conference.
* ArtificialHuman: 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."
** Hades later claims her origins to be [[spoiler: [[LukeIAmYourFather a bit different]] than what she believed]].
* TheArtifact: In this version, her costume's design makes even less sense than it does in most others, but (of course) it's far too iconic to change. In the first episode, Diana finds it laid out on an altar in an ancient Themysciran temple built to honor Athena; apparently, [[CaptainPatriotic the American flag]] and [[BroughtToYouByTheLetterS the letter "W"]] both existed in Ancient Greece.
* BadassPrincess: She is probably the strongest princess of the world.
* BerserkButton: Do not question what she wears (or doesn't in that matter), EVER.
* BloodKnight: Has shades of this on occasion. In "Hawk and Dove", she is ''livid'' at a gang of bank robbers for disrupting her "day off" and was about to give the leader a ''very'' severe beating until J'onn J'onzz intervened and called her back for a mission.
* BoobsOfSteel
* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: The letters "WW".
* ChainmailBikini: Her ChestInsignia, which is designed to resemble two W's. Also see the trope immediately above.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Very notable in the show. During the Thanagarian Invasion, she risked blowing her cover while hiding to save a couple from falling debris. Also, when they traveled back in time to the old west, she insisted they save a man taken to jail even though it hardly had any significance.
* CoolPlane: Her invisible jet, later in the series.
* ContinuitySnarl: In ''JL'', she's presented as new to Man's World and a rookie. However, earlier in the ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode, [[Recap/SupermanTheAnimatedSeriesS2E1E2BlastsFromThePast "Blasts from the Past, Part 1"]], Lois makes a snarky remark while talking with Mala that suggests that Diana was already active in the DCAU.
* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: Despite being super strong, she sometimes exclaims "Hera give me strength!" Which maxes her strength out to the point where it rivals Franchise/{{Superman}}'s. She even states that there were times that without her belief in Hera, she would not have been successful.
* {{Determinator}}: Oh, yes. Just watch her fight against Mongul--he's [[CurbStompBattle 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.
* DoesNotLikeMen: 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 CharacterDevelopment.
** She ''completely'' averts this after the first season, to the point of showing romantic interest in various men throughout the series.
* EtTuBrute: Wonder Woman has no problem working together with Hawkgirl. That is, until the episode, "Starcrossed", when she finds out the latter had been spying on Earth for the Thanagarians. Later on in the series, when Hawkgirl is back in the titular team, Wonder Woman is [[SourSupporter still raw about the betrayal and has issues trusting her]]. Luckily, in "[[http://dcanimated.wikia.com/wiki/The_Balance The Balance]]", [[VitriolicBestBuds they're able to work together and make up in the end]].
* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: She is the princess of Themyscira.
* TheExile: After "Paradise Lost".
* FantasticRacism: Following "Starcrossed", she holds this against Hawkgirl for her participation in the Thanagarian invasion. She likely now has this against Thanagarians in general due to the events of "Starcrossed".
* FlyingBrick: Diana can fly and possesses enormous superhuman strength, though she's not quite as tough as Superman, as she still has to block piercing weapons with her bracelets if she doesn't want to be hurt.
* HotBlooded
* {{Hypocrite}}: Some of the faults she sees in men are those she shares herself, something Hawkgirl called her out on in "Secret Society":
-->'''Wonder Woman:''' Men! Unless you do it yourself, it doesn't count!
-->'''Hawkgirl:''' It's not just the men, you stuck-up...
* ImmortalImmaturity: If anything, she often acts significantly ''less'' mature than she looks, despite actually being thousands of years old.
* ImpossibleHourglassFigure
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Somehow manages to throw a ''dagger'' with her ''mouth'' and hit a tiny button on a control panel in ''Starcrossed''.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: On one occasion she used her ''tiara'' as a PrecisionGuidedBoomerang.
* InnocentFanserviceGirl: This exchange from "Eclipsed," where her outfit has been criticized by a talk show host who's giving the League a bad name.
--> '''Wonder Woman:''' ''(angrily)'' ...And what's wrong with the way I dress?!
--> '''Flash:''' ''(to Green Lantern)'' [[DeadpanSnarker You wanna answer that]]?
* JackOfAllStats: She's one of the heavy hitters for the original League, but doesn't really have anything she excels at compared to the others. She can catch up to a flying jet, but she's not considered as fast as the Flash. She's strong enough to go toe to toe with the likes of Mongul (briefly) or Aquaman, but not in Superman's league. She can take a punch, but apparently she still needs to block bullets. She's also not as intelligent as Batman and lacks the special abilities of Green Lantern and the Martian Manhunter. Maybe she's a fanservice specialist?
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Though the jerk part lessens more and more over the course of the series.
* JumpedAtTheCall
* KnightTemplar: On at least two occasions, someone has had to stop her from breaking the ThouShaltNotKill 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").
* [[spoiler: LukeIAmYourFather: Hades says that he and Hippolyta sculpted Diana together, making him her "father" of sorts. Diana doesn't angst over this, at least not visibly]].
** The way he was speaking, Hades may have meant a different kind of ''[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar sculpting]]''.
* MsFanservice: She gets the majority of MaleGaze in the series. The second episode, "Secret Origins" part 2, features Wonder Woman pretty obviously getting naked when she drops her robe to put on her costume. In "Dark Heart," The Atom gets a ride to the fight [[MarshmallowHell in Wonder Woman's]] ''[[VictoriasSecretCompartment cleavage]]''.
* NaiveNewcomer: In the first season.
* PowerLimiter: The absence of her lasso's truth-forcing magic is conspicuous. [[spoiler:It turns out her armor's power was limited because she stole it. Hippolyta unlocks the armor's full-potential, including the lasso's magic, in ''Unlimited'' episode "The Balance"]].
* OhMyGods: "Great Hera!" A serial offender, that's pretty much her CatchPhrase.
** Parodied by Flash in the first part of "The Savage Time": "Great Jumpin' Hera!"
* OneGenderRace: [[LadyLand Themyscira]].
* PoliticallyActivePrincess: Only in the final season.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: She acts young, but if she was crafted[[spoiler:/conceived by Hades]] and Hippolyta then she has to be thousands of years old.
* RebelliousPrincess
* RequisiteRoyalRegalia:
** Her tiara.
** She dons a more extravagant outfit of white and gold that possibly crosses over with BlingOfWar to attend Superman's funeral in ''Hereafter''.
* RoyalBrat: In early episodes. It caused Green Lantern to address her as "princess" in a decidedly unflattering manner at times.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething
* SleevesAreForWimps: As with most versions of Wonder Woman, she wears an strapless body suit.
* StatuesqueStunner: As with any other adaptation, stands just inches below Batman (confirmed 6'3") and Superman.
* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: In a single episode she can go from only just fast enough to catch a helicopter to being able to catch up to a stealth bomber after stopping to talk to Hawkgirl first.
* SuperReflexes: ''Bullets-and-bracelets'', anyone?
* SuperStrength
* TinyTyrannicalGirl: She becomes this in the episode "Kid Stuff" when she is briefly transformed back into a bossy 8-year-old girl, voiced by Creator/DakotaFanning:
--> '''Little Girl:''' You can't tell us what to do! You're not our mom!\\
'''Young Wonder Woman:''' No, but I promise you, we ''will'' find all your moms. And [[TheStoolPigeon I'm gonna]] '''[[DontTellMama TELL]]'''!
* TransformationSequence: In "To Another Shore," she displays the ability to transform from civilian attire into her Wonder Woman outfit by [[EverythingsBetterWithSpinning spinning in place]] [[MythologyGag for a few seconds]].
* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Batman, to her frustration. The comic reveals that she ended up with Justice LORD Batman.
* VictoriasSecretCompartment: "Dark Heart" features a sequence where she carried Comicbook/TheAtom in her cleavage. Good thing she didn't inhale...
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Diana implies that she would be one for Batman if he ever finally agreed to date her.
--> '''Batman:''' [[ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies If my enemies knew I had someone special]], they wouldn't rest until they'd gotten to me through her.\\
''(Diana crushes the head of the gargoyle statue her hand is on)''\\
'''Wonder Woman:''' Next.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Shayera. Especially after the Thanagarian Invasion.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: In "Paradise Lost," for violating Themyscera's edict forbidding men to be brought there. It's eventually revoked out of necessity in "The Balance."
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Green Lantern]]
!!Green Lantern
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-->''We all need to be held accountable. We have too much power not to be.''\\
'''ALTER EGO:''' John Stewart\\
'''Voiced By:''' Creator/PhilLaMarr
->Abilities: power ring can create constructs, force fields and project energy, flight

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 [[BaldOfAwesome shaved his head bald]] and began sporting a [[BadassBeard goatee]].

* ArbitrarySkepticism: A particularly jarring example early in the series, in "The Brave and the Bold," where he expresses disbelief at Flash's story about a talking gorilla (Solovar). Flash, quite justifiably, calls him out on it.
-->'''Flash:''' Hey, we've both got [[ComicBook/MartianManhunter a Martian's]] phone number on our speed dial. I think I deserve the benefit of the doubt here.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: His 8-year-old self in the episode "Kid Stuff."
-->'''Young Green Lantern:''' I'll make a laser cannon! No, a missile launcher! Oh oh! I know!\\
'''Young Batman:''' Just pick something!
* BadassBaritone: As voiced by Phil Lamarr.
* BadassBeard: Sports one in ''Unlimited''.
* BadassCreed: [[Characters/GLGreenLanternCorps You know the one.]]
* BadassLongcoat: Commonly wears a brown coat on his off-time. An emerald longcoat also appears to be Green Lantern Corps formal wear according to ''Hereafter''.
** The WesternAnimation/StaticShock episode "Fallen Hero" has him with it when he gets to Dakota.
* BadassNormal: During "The Savage Time," [[BroughtDownToNormal when his ring's run out of juice]], his previous skills at [[GoodOldFisticuffs hand-to-hand combat]] and [[MilitarySuperhero weapons usage]] from his time in the Marines serve him in good stead.
* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: Several times in ''Unlimited''.
* BaldOfAwesome: In ''Unlimited''.
* BarrierWarrior: A frequent defensive use of his powers.
* BashBrothers: With Flash.
* BoringButPractical: How he used his ring's powers during the first two seasons--he used simple energy beams and spherical barriers for the most part. Katma Tui later called him out on it (giving an in-universe voice to fan backlash on the same point--he's known in the mainline DC universe for extremely detailed and complex constructs), following which his use of the ring became more AwesomeButImpractical. This is lampshaded later on in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'' where he is temporarily turned back into a kid and starts making all kinds of crazy constructs.
* BroughtDownToBadass:
** In "The Savage Time," after having expended most of the ring's power to tow the Javelin back to the Watchtower, he's forced to rely on his prowess as a MilitarySuperhero.
** And again in "Starcrossed", when Hro Talak destroys his power ring and he has to fight him as just a mortal human.
* BruiserWithASoftCenter
* [[ByTheBookCop By-the-Book Superhero]]: Given his military background, especially apparent in the early seasons. He loosens up a bit over the course of the series.
* CharacterDevelopment: This ex-marine has his share of HiddenDepths; he grew up on cheesy comics, his favourite film is Old Yeller, and he's a bit of a romantic. By ''Unlimited'', he's even willing to make bad puns in Flash's absence.
* ChickMagnet: John Stewart is the Justice League with the most romantic drama throughout the seasons. When J'onn assigns Hawkgirl (his ex) and Vixen (his current girlfriend) on the same team, the former notes that difficult as it is to believe, he really doesn't take GL's love life into consideration when assigning missions.
* ClearMyName: John had two episodes, though not in the same series. "In Blackest Night" for WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague (he was charged with destroying a planet [[spoiler: but framed by Kanjar Ro through the Manhunters]]), and "Fallen Hero" in WesternAnimation/StaticShock (he was charged with Earth robberies [[spoiler: but framed by Sinestro, who impersonated John]]).
* TheComicallySerious: At first. Eventually becomes a DeadpanSnarker, possibly due to Flash rubbing off on him.
* {{Determinator}}: On more than one occasion, John has been the last member of the League to be brought down by a villain, due to his refusal to stop fighting. In "Hereafter," the future Vandal Savage even admitted that he was the hardest to kill when he slaughtered the League.
* {{Flight}}: Via the GreenLanternRing.
* GreenLanternRing: Obviously.
* HeroesWantRedheads: Has a complicate relathionship with Hawkgirl.
* HeroicWillpower: The power behind his ring.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Flash, though it took them a while to develop this. By the end of "Eclipsed", he starts calling Wally "buddy" despite being critical of him doing endorsements at the start.
* HiddenDepths: His favorite film is ''Film/OldYeller''.
* ImportantHaircut: As outlined above; however, Shayera didn't appreciate the change.
-->'''John:''' ''(surprised to see Shayera again)'' Shayera?\\
'''Shayera:''' ''({{Beat}})'' Hate the beard.
* InterspeciesRomance: With Katma Tui (a Korugarian) and later with Shayera Hol (a Thanagarian). Unintentionally (or not) played with player, as he has a romance with Vixen, who happens to have animal-based powers.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He can be abrasive and dominant, as in "Secret Society" but he's a real softie deep down, and a true friend.
* MilitarySuperhero: He served in the Marines prior to becoming a Green Lantern.
* MundaneUtility: Uses his ring like this occasionally. In the Christmas episode he uses it to make a snowman.
* NumberTwo: Due to Batman's more [[AloofAlly aloof nature]], Green Lantern often acted as the unspoken Second-in-Command, and sometimes the actual leader of the team.
* OfficialCouple: Initially with Shayera in the original series. Then with Vixen in ''Unlimited''. This later becomes an awkward LoveTriangle after Shayera rejoins the League [[spoiler:and after he discovers that they have a son in the future.]]
* ReincarnationRomance: [[spoiler:With Shayera]].
* RememberTheNewGuy: Everybody recognizes him - or at least his organization. Of course, the Green Lantern Corps and their individual members had already been shown in the earlier ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "In Brightest Day" (where new recruit Kyle Rayner was the focus character).
* ScrewDestiny: Even after [[spoiler:going to the future and seeing his son by Shayera]], he's determined that any possible relationship with Shayera should be based on how they're feeling ''now'', not BecauseDestinySaysSo.
-->'''John:''' I will not be destiny's puppet.
* SemperFi: He's a former Marine. When the League got transported to WWII and his ring was running on fumes, his experience helped get him in with Sgt. Rock's Easy Company.
* SpacePolice: Of the Green Lantern, and he's also the most professional and by-the-book of the Justice League. He also has ambitions for the League to become a full time professional fighting force, noting that they have the potential to be the greatest in the universe. By the time Season 5 rolls out, one can be sure that the League lived up to his expectations.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: Well, in ''Justice League''.
* StraightManAndWiseGuy: The Straight Man to Flash's Wise Guy.
* StrangerInAFamiliarLand: His greatest fear is no longer belonging in the neighborhood he grew up.
* TokenMinority: One of the complaints made about him in the early episodes. Supposedly, ''this'' is why John Stewart was chosen for the team despite the DCAU already having an established Green Lantern introduced in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', ([[CompositeCharacter a Hal Jordan-like Kyle Rayner]]). However, it helps that Stewart did occasionally appear in the ''JLA'' comic book years before when he was Hal Jordan's backup.
** WordOfGod is that the writers found casting him liberating: as a lesser-known Lantern, they got more creative freedom with his history and storyline.
** Ironically, the show's popularity made people complain, when the [[Film/GreenLantern Green Lantern movie]] started production, about the protagonist being the Caucasian Hal Jordan, as people unfamiliar with the comics believed John was the original guy rather than Hal, and casting a white guy was just Hollywood racism.
* WeaksauceWeakness: It's never directly referred to, but [[MythologyGag yellow objects just]] ''[[MythologyGag happen]]'' [[MythologyGag to break through his constructs]]. It doesn't seriously hamper his fights with Sinestro, however.
* WorkingWithTheEx: With Katma Tui in "Hearts and Minds," and later with Shayera after "Wake the Dead."
* YouHaveToBelieveMe: "Fallen Hero" has him use this to get close to Static to plant his power-depleted ring on Static (so that it can't be stolen by Sinestro).
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[[folder:The Flash]]
!!The Flash
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-->''The bad guys went down, and nobody got hurt. Know what I call that? A really good day.''\\
'''ALTER EGO:''' Wally West\\
'''Voiced By:''' Charlie Schlatter in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', Creator/MichaelRosenbaum in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague (Unlimited)''
->Abilities: super speed, super reflexes, phasing, tornado creation

Quite possibly the youngest of the Original Seven, the Flash was first seen in the ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' 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."

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: In Central City, pretty much everyone who isn't a supervillain loves Flash. Superman used to have almost as much of a rapport with his home city, but even ''he'' wasn't on a first-name basis with the citizens.
* {{Adorkable}}: The one guy with a runner's build in an organization of HeroicBuild types, the Flash is a cheerful man who's still just a boy in many ways.
* AlliterativeName: His real name, Wally West.
* AllLovingHero: He's even talked supervillains into turning themselves in.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:Subverted, though just barely]].
* BadLiar: "The Great Brain Robbery" [[CrowningMomentOfFunny plays it for hilarity]]. (Check the MostDefinitelyNotAVillain page.)
* BashBrothers: With Green Lantern.
* BeneathTheMask: 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.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: As both Justice Lord!Batman and Brainiac!Luthor found out.
** "Secret Society" also shows this trope in action with him. Put it this way: Batman will intimidate information out of you by dangling you over the edge of a rooftop by your legs and threatening to drop you. Flash? He actually ''will'' drop you. And taunt you on the way down. [[spoiler: Subverted in that he can break your fall if he so chooses, though.]]
* BigEater: Due to RequiredSecondaryPowers (which [[NoConservationOfEnergy really does not nearly account for how much energy he uses]], but hey, it is comic book physics, we are used to it).
* ButtMonkey
* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler:[[DefiedTrope Defied]] when the other Leaguers pull him out of the Speed Force.]]
* CharacterDevelopment: He's introduced as a showboat happy to hawk energy bars to pay for a self-indulgent TropeMobile. By the final season, he's grown vastly more mature while retaining his positive outlook.
* ChivalrousPervert: Hits on Wonder Woman and Hawkgirl ''constantly'', is thrilled at the prospect of visiting [[LadyLand Themyscira]], and is not above using his cred as a superhero to chat up the ladies. He's also, well, ''The Flash'', a genuine hero and as gentlemanly as Superman, when it comes down to it. Though, remember, "Because I'm a Stud!"
** This is played for laughs in one episode, where two girls are seriously turned off when he flirts with them; then a car crashes through the diner they're in, and he has to move them to safety before they're crushed, then rush after the driver. Then one of them gets angry at the other for telling her to ignore him!
** When he developed a crush on Fire, he becomes shy and nervous around her.
* ClothingDamage: 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.
* CommutingOnABus: He was largely absent during the first season of ''Justice League Unlimited''--making only three voiceless cameos.
* CompositeCharacter: 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 [[ExpandedUniverse tie-in comic]].
* TheConscience: 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 [[spoiler:but it doesn't work]].
** Also in "Hereafter", he's the one who stops Wonder Woman from killing Toyman just after Superman is [[spoiler:apparently]] killed, reminding her that it's not what Superman would do.
* CorporateSponsoredSuperhero: For Lightspeed Energy Bars in "Eclipsed."
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Okay, so he is touted as the PluckyComicRelief of the founding members, he's a BigEater who stuffs his face often due to RequiredSecondaryPowers, he's a ChivalrousPervert who rarely (if ever) has any luck with the ladies, frequently says the wrong thing at just the wrong time, and is capable of [[FragileSpeedster being taken down in one hit]]. Digested all that? Well, here's what this same guy is capable of doing [[LetsGetDangerous when he quits fooling around]]: rewiring Grodd's MindControl 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 [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomping]] Brainiac!Luthor all by himself... and this is all without taking his day-job into consideration.
** In "Eclipsed", he took on the rest of the mind controlled Big Seven ''by himself''. At this point, it only seems fair because he was trying ''not'' to hurt them and they were working without, well, him.
* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: 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 MythologyGag, where in the comics he'd cause things to explode by vibrating through them.)
** [[spoiler:"I can never go that fast again. If I do, I don't think I'm coming back."]]
* DeadpanSnarker
* DemotedToExtra: He had no lines in the first season (of ''Justice League Unlimited'', that is) because of voice actor Michael Rosenbaum's commitments on ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' (though you may not notice simply on the basis that the cast is ''[[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters frickin' huge]])''. He came roaring back for the second and third seasons though (in particular the SeasonFinale of the second season), and even [[LampshadeHanging complained to a fellow Leaguer about not getting any respect despite being one of the original seven]].
* DudeWheresMyRespect: In "Ties That Bind," he notes that he's treated like a kid sidekick despite being "one of the original seven."
** It's subverted to some extent, since while Batman would formerly belittle him in the earlier episodes, he's considerably more respectful in the episode ''Flash and Substance'', silently rebuking Orion's condescending tone. More importantly he accepts an invitation to visit the Flash museum in the hometown.
* EagleEyeDetection: "Flash and Substance" proves he's capable of this in his day job.
* FieryRedhead: "Starcrossed" reveals that Flash has bright red hair to match his personality.
* TheFool: Although he does have superpowers and is far from incompetent, he's by far the most lackadaisical of the original Justice League superheroes. He certainly fits the characteristic of living on the edge, all the while having a cheerful (and seemingly naive) attitude, no matter how bad the situation gets.
* FragileSpeedster: [[DependingOnTheWriter Most of the time]]. He sometimes leans towards combining it with GlassCannon, or even becoming a full-on LightningBruiser depending on how serious he's getting and how well his RequiredSecondaryPowers are working this week. Especially early on, though, he's often taken out of the fight with one lucky hit.
* FreakLabAccident: His hallucinations in "The Brave and the Bold" show the iconic chemical-bath-via-lightning-bolt-through-lab-window origin.
* FreakyFridayFlip: With Lex Luthor in "The Great Brain Robbery."
* FriendlyEnemy: With the Trickster.
* FriendToAllChildren: As shown in "Comfort and Joy," where he seeks to bring a special toy to the children at an orphanage. [[spoiler:Mirror Master later exploits this to trap him in "Flash and Substance," but it fails]].
* FunPersonified: Mostly takes this role, even in his (very, very slightly) serious moments.
* TheGlovesComeOff: Similar to Superman, Flash actively holds his powers back. Part of it is due to the outright destructive potential of his powers and other part is [[HiddenDepths his own fear of his powers.]] [[spoiler: The Brainthor fight shows the full effects of this; Flash runs so fast that not only does he almost end his own life, but he causes massive destruction in his path.]]
* GoodIsNotDumb: Despite telling bad jokes and being a lech, he is able to talk the Trickster into happily turning himself over with a single punch thrown and defeat Grodd by outsmarting him.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: If Tala's [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything subtext-laden dialogue]] in [[FreakyFridayFlip The Great Brain Robbery]] is to be believed.
* HandsomeLech: He's a skirt chaser, but he's also shown to be fairly successful at seducing women. Two random women are seen drooling over him, reporter Linda Park (his wife in the comic) clearly has a crush on him, as does Fire, and Giganta takes time from her "Five Minute" head start to kiss him before fleeing the league. Also, when brain-switched with Lex Luthor, it's revealed by Tala that for all the "Fastest Man alive, huh?" jokes about his... prowess, he's actually a gentle, attentive, and in her words ''enthusiastic'' lover leading to her being disappointed when they switch back.
* TheHeart: As outlined in "A Better World," his death in the Justice Lords' universe was the trigger for their turning into {{Knight Templar}}s. But it's better defined in this exchange from "Hereafter", just after everyone thinks Superman's been killed:
-->'''Toyman:''' ''(as Wonder Woman holds him by the collar)'' Wh-what are you going to do to me?!
-->'''Wonder Woman:''' ''(enraged)'' I'm going to punch a ''hole'' in your head!
-->'''Flash:''' ''(restrains her free arm)'' We don't do that to our enemies!
-->'''Wonder Woman:''' Speak for yourself!
-->'''Flash:''' I'm trying to speak for ''Superman''.
-->''(Wonder Woman's anger turns to sorrow, as she realizes what Flash is telling her, and she drops Toyman to the ground)''
** Also worth noting that while the rest of the founders try to tiptoe around the remaining tension between Wonder Woman and Hawkgirl, Flash is the only one willing to try and get them to break the ice.
* HeroesWantRedheads: Wonder Woman's words on seeing him unmasked for the first time:
-->'''Wonder Woman:''' ''(ruffling Wally's hair)'' Red hair... it suits you.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Green Lantern.
* IAmNotLeftHanded: As with the below trope, Wally almost ''never'' uses his true power, as most of it is incredibly lethal. Phasing-induced TeleFrag killing, mach punches, and the like aren't really skills befitting someone invoking the KidAppealCharacter.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: The creators could see ''Superman'' potentially turning into a KnightTemplar, but not Flash.
* KidAppealCharacter: Though he's also quite popular with the older fanbase.
* LameComeback: He's responsible for several. Hey, they can't all be winners.
--> '''Gorilla Grodd:''' You're a bigger fool than I thought.
--> '''Flash:''' Yeah? Well, you're..... naked!
* LegacyCharacter: "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). Later tie-in comics have Jay and Bart Allen make appearances and [[ContinuitySnarl go back and forth on whether Barry actually existed]], although the recent (and definitely canon) ''[[ComicBook/BatmanBeyond Justice League Beyond]]'' implies that there is no Barry.
* LetsGetDangerous: If things get really, really bad, he abandons his good-natured playfulness - with devastating results.
* MoralityChain: See also TheHeart above.
* NiceGuy: 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 [[FriendlyEnemy pitiful men like]] [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain the Trickster]]! I don't understand.
-->'''Batman:''' No... you don't.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: As Orion declares, "You play the fool to hide a warrior's pain."
** Flash responded with the character quote at the top of this section, and readers may note he's not actually confirming or denying what Orion said. He ''is'' a scientist in his day job and has shown that he has deep fears about what his powers could do to him, but he really is that happy when things go well.
* ObliviousToLove: Linda Park all but opens her shirt to flash Wally, but he has no idea she's hitting on him. [[ObfuscatingStupidity Or does he?]]
* OddFriendship: He and [[DrillSergeantNasty Kilowog]] immediately hit it off, and are shown as good friends throughout Kilowog's appearances despite their differences.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: 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.
-->[[spoiler:"Shayera, it's so beautiful here! There's a force... a [[MythologyGag Speed Force]]... [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence it's calling me home]]. [[ButNowIMustGo I have to go now]]."]]
* OvershadowedByAwesome: In this continuity, Flash's status as "The Fastest Man Alive" is always appended by saying Superman and Supergirl are close, and can do [[ComboPlatterPowers much more]]. Flash does however show more control over his speed than Superman ever does. [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer He's a great deal more versatile in his application of super-speed, as well.]] Episodes such as "Eclipsed" and "Divided We Fall" suggest he is indeed faster by far.
* PlatonicLifePartners[=/=]LikeBrotherAndSister: With Hawkgirl.
-->'''Flash:''' She loves me. Seriously, she's like the big sister I never had. Only, you know, [[PintsizedPowerhouse short]].
* PluckyComicRelief: Often, until he decides to [[LetsGetDangerous get serious]].
* RapidFireFisticuffs: Rains down who knows how many punches thrown at SuperSpeed on the downed [[spoiler: Luther/Brainiac fusion]] near the end of the second season.
** In order to build up enough of a head start, he [[spoiler:''repeatedly ran around the world at super speed.'']]
* SadClown: A DefiedTrope - Orion assumes he's this (see ObfuscatingStupidity), but Wally really doesn't care about a destroyed Flash Museum so long as no-one got hurt.
* SpeedBlitz: [[LetsGetDangerous When he isn't playing around]].
* SuperReflexes: He's the only member of the League who successfully dodges the pieces of the Eclipso gem when Hawkgirl smashes it with her mace. ''However'', early in the series his shows of power were limited by having him get tripped by obvious items. A ''lot''.
* StraightManAndWiseGuy: The Wise Guy to Green Lantern's Straight Man.
* SuperSpeed: ''Duh''.
* TookALevelInBadass: Played with in that, Franchise/TheFlash always remains down to earth and cheerful but can pull off something unexpected and powerful when the occasion calls for it, in a way that truly changes the game for the entire league. The rest of the team, which tended to condescend to him for his clown-like behavior nature quickly pick up on this and as such, even Batman shows respect to him in the later episodes.
** Two occasions stand out. The first one is when he outsmarts an AlternateUniverse Batman by pulling a BatmanGambit on him by making creative use of his powers that neither him nor main-universe Batman was aware of. This earns him praise from the master himself.
** The other is his defeat of [[spoiler: Brainthor]], regarded in-universe and among his fans as his Crowning Moment of Awesome.
* TimeStandsStill: "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.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood:
** Seems to have a thing for iced mochas.
** He is frequently seen eating large quantities of hamburgers.
* TranquilFury: He's scarcely ever shown to be angry, or even aggravated. [[BewareTheNiceOnes However]], as "Secret Society" shows...
--> ''(Flash is dangling a thug over a rooftop by his legs)''
--> '''Thug:''' ''(not intimidated)'' Who do you think you are--Batman?
--> '''Flash:''' It's been a long night. Just tell me where Shade is, okay?
--> '''Thug:''' Look, buddy, I know Batman. I once ratted out a counterfeiter to Batman.
--> ''(Flash's face is totally without emotion)''
--> '''Thug:''' And believe me, you are no Batm-- ''(Flash '''drops''' him)'' --[[OhCrap aaAAAAAAAHHHHHHH]]!!!
** There's also the moment in "Maid of Honor" after he's rescued from being {{thrown out the airlock}}:
-->'''Green Lantern:''' You're going to be okay.\\
'''Flash:''' Yeah? Wish I could say the same for ''them''.\\
''(He zips through the station one-punching each of the enemy mooks)''
* TheTrickster: Both himself and his enemy, The Trickster.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Batman, Green Lantern and Hawkgirl.
* WeaksauceWeakness: 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. WordOfGod 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 {{Mook}}s'', and needs another member of the League to bail him out.
* WillfullyWeak: His powers are difficult to use safely. During the season 2 climax of Unlimited he finally stops holding back and just running down the road tears it apart and sends cars flying. Using his vibration abilities will make things explode, something he's not comfortable doing to ''people.'' Even if he was amoral enough to be comfortable causing that kind of damage, he simply can't go at his top speed or he could kill himself... [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence kinda]].
* WorfHadTheFlu: Writers intentionally held Flash back in the series to keep him from being overpowered. This lead to the above trope where Flash would find himself struggling with mooks sometimes. Season 2 of ''Unlimited'' showed that when Flash fully stops holding back, he's arguably one of the most powerful members of the group.
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[[folder:Hawkgirl]]
!!Hawkgirl
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-->''Less talking, more hitting!''\\
'''ALTER EGO:''' Shayera Hol\\
'''Voiced By:''' Creator/MariaCanalsBarrera
->Abilities: Flight, some degree of super-strength and durability; mace provides electrical attacks and anti-magical field

An advance scout for the Thanagarian army, Shayera Hol came to Earth to evaluate its worth as a potential stronghold for her species to occupy in advancing their war against a rival space empire. While on Earth, she adopted the superhero identity of Hawkgirl and, as her cover story, [[ItWasHisSled claimed that she was a cop who got transported there via a]] [[ShoutOut teleportation device called]] [[ComicBook/AdamStrange a Zeta Beam]] [[ItWasHisSled while chasing after a band of criminals]].
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* AchillesHeel: Doctor Fate stood no chance against her with her Nth metal mace.
* AdaptationalVillainy: While the Thangarians were occasionally presented as villains in the comics, this was the first time she ever participated in any sort of plan that could be considered evil. Following the aftermath of that evil scheme, she abandons the superhero identity Hawkgirl as it has became a FantasticSlur towards her.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: A lot of people, including among the general populace, within the League and even among the Thanagarians [[NeverLiveItDown 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."
* AntiHero: Type III.
* AntiMagic: One of the properties of her mace is to destroy anything magic-related.
* TheAtoner: Post-"Starcrossed," beginning with her return in "Wake the Dead."
* AttackAttackAttack: Subtlety isn't her strong suit.
-->'''Shayera '''(vs. Brainiac): Less talking, more hitting!
* BareYourMidriff: Her second superhero outfit, pictured.
* BecomingTheMask: Before her cover was revealed in "Starcrossed," she played up her story very convincingly.
* BettyAndVeronica: She eventually becomes the Betty to Vixen's Veronica in regards to John's Archie.
* BloodKnight: By ''far'' the most eager to fight among the original seven. She has to sometimes be reminded that their first priority is saving lives, not catching the bad guys as fast as possible. Further, she only seems to refrain from lethal violence because her teammates don't approve when she's about to kill someone.
* BoisterousBruiser: "Less talking, more hitting!"
* [[CarryABigStick Carry A Big Mace]]: With a touch of AntiMagic for good measure.
* CivvieSpandex: 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, and there was a need for her to be more connected to the humans after the incident, this change is likely intentional.
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: An interesting example. She ''initially'' only goes by "Hawkgirl", but she's exclusively called "Shayera" post-"Starcrossed". In this version, her use of her real first name acts as a marker of CharacterDevelopment, as it shows the team looking past her manufactured superhero alter-ego and coming to acknowledge her HiddenDepths.
* ConflictingLoyalty: Between her duty as a Thanagarian officer and agent and a member of the Justice League. Eventually she has to make a choice, but it comes at a heavy price and indeed The Flash notes that she was in "the ultimate no-win situation". Alfred for his part consoles her and notes that despite what others say, he (not being a soldier or superhero) considers her actions heroic.
* CoolBigSis: Acts this way toward Flash, when they're not [[DeadpanSnarker sniping at]] [[VitriolicBestBuds each other]]. The best examples of this are "[[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Divided We Fall]]" and "[[CrowningMomentOfFunny I Am Legion]]."
-->'''Flash:''' She loves me. She's kind of like the big sister I never had. Only, you know, short.
* CuteBruiser: Played fully straight after she ditches her mask.
* DeadpanSnarker: Especially had a talent for dishing verbal ownage out on Flash:
-->'''Flash:''' Fastest man alive.\\
'''Hawkgirl:''' [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Which probably explains why you can't get a date.]]
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: As literal a version as the [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar censors]] and {{lawyer|FriendlyCameo}}s will allow: "I have nothing to say. I have a ''gesture'', but my hands are tied."
* DistaffCounterpart: To Carter Hall, a.k.a. Hawkman, though she showed up in the series first.
* DoubleAgent: She's a spy for Thanagar. However, she's also a genuine hero with loyalties to Earth just as strong as those to Thanagar. When these interests come into conflict, she's left with absolutely no good choices at all.
* [[DropTheHammer Drop The Mace]]: Hawkgirl's primary weapon is an energy mace.
* TheExile: From Thanagar (permanently) and the League (temporarily, and self-imposed[[labelnote:*]]We know the league voted in her favor, after a tie which was broken by Superman: Superman, Flash, Martian Manhunter 'aye', Green Lantern abstaining, Wonder Woman and Batman 'nay'. Alfred also would've voted in her favor if he had a vote.[[/labelnote]]) after "Starcrossed."
* FantasticSlur: She now considered this superhero identity Hawkgirl as this against her due to her involvement in the Thanagarian invasion.
* FieryRedhead: She has red hair.
* {{Flight}}: Most of the League have the ability, but she seems most agile in the air (possibly the real purpose of the wings).
* ForgivenButNotForgotten: After "The Balance," she and Wonder Woman reach an accord again. Wonder Woman is willing to forgive her, but their relationship just won't be the same anymore. The metaphor used is that they'll be like oil and vinegar: They can go together, but they don't mix.
* GlassCannon: While Thanagarians DO possess greater strength and durability than ordinary humans and Shayera can deal out some heavy damage with her mace, expect her to get taken out more easily than her more invulnerable teammates.
* GoodCopBadCop: To Superman in "The Terror Beyond" and GL in "War World". She's ''always'' the bad cop ("Why play against type?").
-->'''Green Lantern:''' You can talk to me... ''(points to Shayera, who's got her mace in hand)'' Or you can talk to ''her''.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Following "Starcrossed."
* HiddenDepths: True for most of the main cast, but especially in her case since her public persona [[BloodKnight seems]] [[AttackAttackAttack to be]] [[LeeroyJenkins the simplest one]]. [[spoiler:She's a cover Thanagarian agent planning to prepare what she believes to be the occupation of Earth, gathering intel on her comrades, she was a spy instructor back on her planet, but eventually sides with the League, becoming TheAtoner in the process.]] Even without the persona reasoning, she also shows a great brain for strategy, as seen below under SmartPeoplePlayChess, in outsmarting Batman and Aquaman.
** She [[AttackAttackAttack doesn't tend to apply her strategic skills in fights very often]], though.
* HollywoodAtheist: A complex example - though she claims Thanagarians have OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions, she also wonders aloud that Diana's belief in gods must be comforting. The truth is that [[spoiler:Thanagarians once worshiped ''{{Eldritch Abomination}}s''. They didn't outgrow them, they '''[[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu rejected]]''' them, and their Nth Metal technology was developed to '''''[[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu kill]]''''' them. This led to them being outright {{Flat Earth Atheist}}s.]]
* HotBlooded: She's passionate and intense.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: She tries to justify her betrayal in "Starscrossed, Part III".
-->"I came to this planet as a patriot. I had a mission and I carried it out... what I couldn't know, was that I would come to care for the Earth and her people, that I'd come to care for all of you. I've spent the last five years torn between my feelings and my duty."
* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: Emphasized more than Diana's.
* InformedAbility: She's said to be extremely intelligent and an expert in strategy and espionage, however most of what we see from her (in fights) is AttackAttackAttack.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Sometimes comes across this way.
* TheLadette: Hobbies include [[TheBigGuy smashing things]], chugging {{Gargle Blaster}}s, eating gross foods, starting intergalactic {{Bar Brawl}}s, and GettingCrapPastTheRadar.
* LeeroyJenkins: She's quite capable of formulating and following plans when absolutely necessary, but usually she eschews this in favor of [[AttackAttackAttack simply]] [[BoisterousBruiser smashing things]] [[DropTheHammer with her mace]].
** In "Hunter's Moon", one of the Thanagarians flat-out says that in a hostile environment, she is far more skilled than all of them combined, having been an instructor in espionage strategies. So you can either think that [[BloodKnight it is what she prefers]], or [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation that her strategy of choice is part of her cover story]]. Considering that she is in this story supposed to be part of a SpacePolice, the former may be the most believable.
* LoveTriangle: She's involved in ''three'', with John Stewart[=/=]Hro Talak, then with John[=/=]Vixen, and ''then again'' with John[=/=]Hawkman. The lady is certainly busy.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: She notes in her resignation speech that she considered her work as a spy as patriotic duty to Thanagar but she came to care for Earth and the Justice League. She loyally served the Thanagarian government until they decided to sacrifice Earth.
* NayTheist: Though post-"Starcrossed," she has had a chance to read [[Literature/TheBible the Good Book]] enough to know how to intimidate Tartarus demons in "The Balance."
* NotHisSled: In the comics, she really was a SpacePolice officer; here, she's a spy and solider,
* NotWhatISignedOnFor: She switches sides after learning that the Thanagarian plan isn't to ''occupy'' Earth, but rather to ''destroy'' it.
* OddFriendship: With Vixen, her ex's girlfriend. The two have a lot in common, and talk quite casually about their awkward love triangle. Vixen at one point even ''dares'' Shayera to make a move on John Stewart while she's out of town, and the two just smirk.
* PintsizedPowerhouse: She's the smallest member of the Justice League (as far as the original members), but probably the most belligerent and will still kick your ass.
* PlatonicLifePartners: With Flash.
* [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Proud Warrior Race Girl]]: As we see in the ChristmasEpisode, her idea of celebration involves starting a BarBrawl.
* PutOnABus: At the end of "Starcrossed", second season finale, she resigns from the Justice League and flies off to go soul searching.
** TheBusCameBack: "Wake the Dead." [[spoiler:And before that, a brief cameo at the end of "The Return."]]
* ReincarnationRomance: [[spoiler:With Green Lantern ''and'' Hawkman - a LoveTriangle from a ''previous life'' that ended up getting them ''all'' killed]].
* ReformedButRejected: After rejoining the team, Hawkgirl's former betrayal still casts a present among the team. Batman takes her presence in stride while Wonder Woman continues to hold a grudge until she finally forgives her.
* RememberTheNewGuy: She was a blatant example of this. She'd never shown up anywhere onscreen in the {{DCAU}} continuity prior to her first appearance in the three-part premiere episode "Secret Origins," but the other main characters evidently already knew who she was.
** "Starcrossed" mentions that she's been on Earth for 5 years now. Highly doubtful that the first two seasons went on for 5 years in-universe.
* ScreamingWarrior: On average, it was about one yell for every swing of her mace. The word is that her voice actor ''really'' enjoyed that part of the job.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Despite her status as TheLadette, Hawkgirl can still look feminine when she wants to, as exemplified in "Shadow of the Hawk" when she dons a short pink dress for a date:
--> '''Green Lantern:''' Shayera, I wanted to... ''(sees her in the dress)'' ''[[DistractedByTheSexy JUDAS PRIEST]]''!
* ShipperOnDeck: She encourages Flash to tell Fire how he feels about her in "I Am Legion," and even shifts the position of their Javelin ([[BlatantLies while claiming it was turbulence]]) to get Fire to fall into Flash's lap.
* ShootTheDog: [[spoiler:[[TearJerker Has to do this to a resurrected and rampaging Solomon Grundy]]]].
** She also references [[Film/OldYeller the most famous instance of this trope]], John's favorite movie, before she goes through with it.
* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: She's the current page image.
* SleevesAreForWimps: Her two costumes have her arms bare.
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: 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 [[AttackAttackAttack her combat strategy]] would suggest. Onscreen, Aquaman only beats her because she's too distracted by self-loathing to take him seriously.
* SpacePolice: Her cover story prior to "Starcrossed."
** Doubles as a MythologyGag, as in the early 1960s comics Shayera and Katar (there a married couple) were in fact Thanagerian cops who pursued a criminal to Earth and decided to stay there and fight crime as the titular Hawk-heroes.
* StationaryWings: Her wings don't actually move most of the time when she's flying, though if pinned she apparently can't fly.
* TakeMyHand: She says the trope name verbatim [[spoiler:before pulling Flash out of the Speed Force]].
* [[spoiler:[[TellMeAboutMyFather Tell Me About My Son]]]]: Sits down beside Batman and asks him this. (TimeTravel was involved.)
* TenMinuteRetirement: Well, it wasn't ten minutes, but she was eventually dragged back into 'the life' when it was a matter of helping a dead friend stay dead.
* [[ThatManIsDead That Girl Is Dead]]: Ever since the Thanagarian invasion, she discarded the identity "Hawkgirl", saying how it was a sham.
* UnwittingPawn: She was sent to spy on Earth and uncover its defenses. She assisted with the Thanagarian occupation, even tolerating the enslavement of human workers, but just barely. However, when she learned that the invaders were actually planned to ''destroy'' Earth rather than just subjugate it temporarily she immediately switched sides again. Unfortunately, it wasn't immediately enough: When John lowered his ring and trusted her before, she knocked him out because she didn't know what the actual plan was. Her reputation remains tattered at best for the rest of the series.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Flash and Wonder Woman, the latter more vitriolic after "Starcrossed," and only "buds" after "The Balance."
* WeaponOfChoice: Her electrified Nth-metal mace, which is one of the few devices on the planet that can [[PowerNullifier counter]] [[AntiMagic magic]].
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: In her case, [[{{Claustrophobia}} enclosed spaces]].
* WingedHumanoid: With the wings being part of her biological structure (as opposed to artificial like those of the Hawk-related heroes in the comics).
* WorkingWithTheEx: With Green Lantern, after "Wake the Dead."
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Not only is she exiled, but the worst part is that after the Thanagarian invasion failed, their mortal enemies took over their home planet. At the end of "Starcrossed" when the League are about to vote to keep her in or out, J'onn cites this as part of the reasons to keep her, because she has become a pariah to her own people and the League is the only home she has left.
* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler:In a past life, she did this to her husband with his best friend]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Martian Manhunter]]
!!Martian Manhunter
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-->''Ask yourselves - is being in here with me what you truly desire?''\\
'''ALTER EGO:''' J'onn J'onzz\\
'''Voiced By:''' Creator/CarlLumbly
->Abilities: super strength, flight, shape-shifting, intangibility, telepathy

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.

* [[spoiler:TenMinuteRetirement]]
* TheAgeless: He was guarding the shapeshifting invaders for [[OlderThanTheyLook 500 years]] prior to the start of the series. And according to him, he's not going to be dying from age anytime soon.
* AlienAmongUs: 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.
* AlliterativeName: Both J'onn J'onzz and the Martian Manhunter.
* ApocalypseHow: The fate of his home-world prior to the start of the series.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Everyone seems to defer to the founding seven of the league, but J'onn seems to run and direct the League Station.
* BadassBaritone: Thanks to Carl Lumbly.
* BadassCape: In his rather humanized form.
* BaldOfAwesome
* BewareTheQuietOnes: J'onn is not a talker, and quite emotionally detached. This is just as well: it wouldn't go well for anybody who truly angered him.
--> '''Clock King''' ''(showing a slide):'' Martian Manhunter. Flight; super-strength --
--> '''Deadshot:''' -- ''and'' a shape-shifter ''and'' he can read minds. [[BoxedCrook The chair's]] starting to sound better and better.
* TheComicallySerious: Almost as much as Batman.
* DeadpanSnarker: Even he joins in sometimes.
--> '''Batman''': (''while helping J'onn fight a bunch of Brainiac drones'') Having fun?
--> '''Martian Manhunter''': (''completely deadpan'') Yes.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: From losing his family and planet after years of living a highly introverted lifestyle short of interacting with the founding members, J'onn finds [[spoiler:a new mate on Earth to share a life with, and he even becomes more accustomed to Earthly speech patterns in the last episode seeming more casual in conversation with others.]]
* ExposedExtraterrestrials: In his true form...and, technically, the rest of the time as well, since he's a shapeshifter. Even then, he barely wears any clothes, as pictured. Only his Justice Lord counterpart and human alter egos are fully clothed.
* {{Flight}}
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: 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.
* GoodIsNotSoft: To Task Force X's dismay.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Developed this view in "Tabula Rasa," [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming though he found himself proven wrong shortly afterward]]. It came up again, albeit more subtly, in "To Another Shore," resulting in him [[PutOnABus 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...
* IntangibleMan: A frequent method of avoiding attacks.
* InterspeciesRomance: He eventually settled down with an elderly Chinese woman.
* JourneyToFindOneself: The reason he gets PutOnABus.
* KryptoniteFactor: 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. He still winds up flying through burning rocket exhaust quite often.
* LastOfHisKind: It's a source of angst for him. Morgaine Le Fay exploits it for all it's worth in "A Knight of Shadows".
* AMindIsATerribleThingToRead: Happens to him in "Tabula Rasa," leading him to briefly conclude that HumansAreTheRealMonsters.
* MindOverManners: 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.
** MindRape: 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...irreparably brain-damages his subject. The safety of the entire planet depended on him getting that information, but the consequences are shown seasons later, when Craggar shows up again, partially paralyzed and drooling.
* MissionControl: In ''Unlimited'', he delegates missions to the expanded League. Then he gets PutOnABus, and Mr. Terrific takes his place in this role. J'onn was considered to be incredibly efficient in this role and Grodd laments on how he made the League strategically unbeatable.
* NaiveNewcomer: To the Earth.
* NonhumansLackAttributes: 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.
* NotSoAboveItAll: 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)
* PragmaticHero: Is shown to be this at various points. One example is his refusal to help Mister Miracle and Big Barda free their friend from Apokolips. Why? Because it's in everyone's best interest if the EnemyCivilWar there continues and as such he doesn't want to do anything that would help either side.
* PsychicPowers: Usually of the {{Telepathy}} variety.
* PutOnABus: At the end of "To Another Shore."
** [[spoiler:TheBusCameBack]]: [[spoiler:In time for the GrandFinale]].
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld
* RubberForeheadAliens: His natural Martian form: his "everyday" appearance is an attempt at [[ButNotTooBlack But Not Too Green.]]
* SecretIdentity: When masquerading as a human, he usually takes the appearance of a brown-haired Caucasian man; most notably, he uses this form when hiding from the Thanagarians alongside Superman (as Clark Kent) in "Starcrossed," and again when he gets PutOnABus in "To Another Shore." [[spoiler:He later takes the form of an elderly Chinese man prior to his return in the GrandFinale]].
* TheSpock
* TheStoic -> NotSoStoic: Perhaps best exemplified in "The Ties That Bind."
* SuperheroSpeciation: In comics continuity, Superman and Manhunter have a good deal of overlap in abilities. Here their power sets are largely distinct: J'onn favors his intangibility, invisibility, shapeshifting, and telepathy, while his SuperStrength is downplayed and he never demonstrates SuperSpeed, SuperSenses, or EyeBeams at all.
* SuperStrength: Although in this series' continuity, it's toned down somewhat.
** Quite a bit actually. He was [[WordofGod stated to be below Superman and Wonder Woman]], because in the comics, he's arguably above both.
* {{Troll}}: He can't resist attacking and mocking people as MissionControl:
--> '''Batman''' (''battling Parasite''): J'onn, we're in trouble!
--> '''J'onn''': Are you asking for help?
--> '''Batman''': Yes.
--> '''J'onn''': You never ask for help.
--> '''Batman''': Just get us some reinforcements.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Can transform into any shape he desires, along with becoming intangible and invisible.
* WarriorPoet
* WarriorTherapist: Acts as Wildcat's therapist in ''Unlimited''. Likewise when Supergirl dreams about Galatea she consults J'onn.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Although his old home had been long gone before the start of the series.
[[/folder]]

!The Expanded League

[[folder:Aquaman]]
!! '''Aquaman (Arthur)'''
->''Voiced by Creator/MiguelFerrer (''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'') and Scott Rummell (''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League/Justice League Unlimited]]'')''
->Abilities: enhanced strength, super swimming, underwater breathing, marine telepathy

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* AnimalTalk: With marine life, anyway. Up to and including killer whales and the ''Kraken''.
* AntiHero / WellIntentionedExtremist: Because of his insistence on his royal prerogatives and his narrow focus on what's best for Atlantis, he sometimes becomes an opponent of other League members. Despite a couple of friendships with other League members he sometimes seems to regard his work with the League as a series of EnemyMine situations.
* AnArmAndALeg: Cuts his own hand off to save his son.
* BadassBeard: His ''JL'' design is inspired by his redesign in TheNineties, when Creator/PeterDavid wrote him.
* CainAndAbel: With Ocean Master.
* ChainedToARock: Is chained to the bottom of an erupting undersea volcano along with his infant son by his usurping brother. He [[spoiler: [[BreakingTheBonds breaks one chain]], then pulls a sharp implement off of his belt and ''hacks his own hand off at the wrist'']] to save the both of them.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: He was first introduced in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', where he was closer to his traditional self, with a green and orange costume and no beard. He also was slightly less bitter to humans, in that while he still threatened to start war with them for polluting his oceans, he was at least nice toward Lois Lane. He already was just as powerful and badass, however.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: After the first season of ''Unlimited'', Aquaman disappeared completely from the series. Warner Bros. was trying to launch a live action Aquaman show (in the same vein as Series/{{Smallville}}) effectively causing an "[[ExecutiveMeddling Aquaman Embargo.]]"
* DeadpanSnarker: Mostly deadpan and less-so snarker, but he has his moments.
* [[ShootingSuperman Drowning Aquaman]]: One of the Ultimen [[EpicFail tried this on him]]. Guess how well that turned out.
-->'''Aquaman:''' King of the seas, remember?
* [[SixthRanger The Eighth Ranger]]: Aquaman gets a lot of recurring roles, and is the only member outside of the original seven to sit at the main table (when only part of the other seven are present). Before the League expanded, he was also the main person they would consider to fill in. [[spoiler:The BadFuture Superman ends up in reveals that Aquaman did take Superman's place, before Vandal Savage's plan killed the League.]]
* {{Expy}}: His more violent, arrogant and aggressive demeanor recalls [[Comicbook/SubMariner Namor]] more than the comic version of Aquaman. Made more explicit when he appears in the Namor role in the show's [[Comicbook/TheDefenders Defenders]] pastiche.
* TheGoodKing: Aquaman isn't the nicest guy in the world, but Atlantis and its citizens are Aquaman's primary concern. He's even shown to be annoyed when not in his kingdom.
* HandicappedBadass: [[spoiler:He handicapped ''himself'' by severing off his own hand in order to free himself from a deathtrap and save his son!]]
* HappilyMarried: To Mera.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Put it this way. His powers don't consist only of "talking to fish." He can control any and all marine life to awesome effect. This includes sea monsters, seagulls...
* HiddenDepths: His take on faith.
* HotBlooded
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's disrespectful, arrogant and has on more than one occasion considered war on the surface world, but he loves his country, his people and his son.
* NatureHero: Only when it comes to sea life, but he can control them, and his motivations are based on protecting the oceans from humans polluting it.
* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: He is an Atlantean, an human with the ability to breath underwater.
* PapaWolf: You should never, ''ever'' threaten or harm his infant son. You won't live to regret it, even if you are his [[CainAndAbel brother.]]
* PetTheDog: Helps defend Longshadow from Cadmus Agents.
** And his reaction to [[spoiler: Solomon's resurrection]].
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: The king of a proud, if xenophobic, people.
* RatedMForManly: [[PapaWolf Most notable when he saved his son]].
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: ''Every. Single. Time.'' As Hawkgirl puts it, he prioritizes Atlantis above all else and isn't the most dedicated to splitting his time.
** Though he seems to have mellowed out by ''Justice League: Unlimited''.
* TookALevelInKindness: Or cooperation at least, by the time of "Unlimited" he's far more eager to protect surface dwellers.
* [[KillItWithWater Water-based]] ArmCannon: He ''cut his own arm off'' when chained up, [[PapaWolf in order to save his infant son]]. He gets the harpoon replacement and sticks with it throughout the series.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: In his appearances in ''Justice League'' and ''Justice League Unlimited''.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Green Arrow]]
!! '''Green Arrow (Oliver Queen)'''
->''Voiced by Kin Shriner''
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->Abilities: archery, acrobatics, fighting prowess
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* BadassBeard: Come on, that beard is awesome.
* BadassNormal: His superpower is being a talented archer and hand-to-hand fighter.
* BattleCouple: With Black Canary.
* BreakoutCharacter: One of the main characters in Unlimited.
* CrimefightingWithCash: Downplayed - possibly to avoid too much overlap with Batman. He's got the dough to do it, but seems to prefer wacky arrow-gadgets to, say, orbital space stations.
* DeadpanSnarker: Pretty often. He was recruited to provide the 'normal human' point of view, so in a way, the rest of the team is asking for it.
* {{Determinator}}: No matter what enemies stand against him, Green Arrow ''never'' surrenders.
* FakingTheDead: In "The Cat and the Canary", to prove a point to Wildcat.
* FireForgedFriends: With Captain Atom.
* TheHeart: To a lesser extent than Flash. Batman specifically suggested his recruitment at the beginning of ''Unlimited'' for this reason, considering him to be CloserToEarth than most other superheroes.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: It's his idiom, of course, but some of his shots do strain plausibility.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Supergirl - a very unexpected, plausible and touching development.
* OnlySaneMan: Batman specifically wanted him on the League for this reason.
* NonIdleRich: He eventually sells his company for $ 3 billion (although he notes with taxes and legal fees he'd be lucky to get a billion and a half) to devote himself full time to crimefighting.
* ShipperOnDeck: In "Far From Home", he is very clearly in favor of the budding courtship between Supergirl and Brainiac 5.
* SmallStepsHero:
** In his first appearance, he openly identifies as this, noting that he fights smaller crimes that affect the little guy while the Justice League spends more time fighting monsters and aliens far away from home. Batman rebuts this convincingly:
--> '''Batman''': Those monsters you don't fight, they tend to step on little guys!
** Also averted in the episode itself, where Green Arrow eventually does fight a giant monster. Later episodes have him fighting against an assortment of threats big and small, but it's true that he usually does handle street-level threats.
* StrawCharacter: In this case, Straw Liberal as he's clearly liberal in his politics, but it isn't carried into a {{Flanderization}}. He often disagrees with the other heroes, but shows only respect for their abilities and their motives.
* ThemeMusicPowerUp: He even [[CrowningMomentOfFunny ''sings'']] his own theme song once!
* TrickArrow: He's a recurring character from ''Unlimited'' onwards, and naturally gets to show off his collection of trick arrows.
--> '''Green Arrow:''' Still got that quantum arrow I gave you?
* TwangHello
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Black Canary]]
!! '''Black Canary (Dinah Lance)'''
->''Voiced by Creator/MorenaBaccarin''
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->Abilities: Sonic scream, martial arts master

* BadPowersGoodPeople: Her sonic abilities would deafen, kill or even shred an ordinary human, so she usually restricts them to inanimate objects or foes that she knows to have superhuman durability.
* BattleCouple: With Green Arrow.
* CivvieSpandex: She's dressed like a cocktail waitress.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: She is a excellent fighter. With the addition of her sonic power, she is more badass.
* FightsLikeANormal: Her superpower is a bit too lethal to use against humans. Thankfully, she was trained by Wildcat, and is one of the League's best hand-to-hand fighters. Not to mention she can't use the Canary Cry for long--it's probably a good idea to conserve it. In "Double Date" she tries to use it for more than a few seconds against Mandragora. She can't take him down and winds up passing out.
* GoodBadGirl: She acts like an AntiHero, but fights for the side of justice.
* GoodIsNotNice
* HelloNurse: A few background events show that she's "noticed" by several League members. With Green Arrow it's a CharacterArc.
* InkSuitActor: She resembles a blonde version of her [[Creator/MorenaBaccarin voice actress]].
* MakeMeWannaShout: Her Canary Cry,an ultrasonic scream capable of anything from incapacitating an opponent to wrecking a building. However, sustaining the scream for long periods of time can leave her exhausted.
* MsFanservice: Her character design has to be the most obvious Fanservice of the series. Her initial conversation/sparring session with Green Arrow in "The Cat and the Canary" — sans jacket — is jaw-dropping, all blonde hair and curves flattening on the mat. She lets him get on top of her and pin her arms behind her back, to convince him to do her a favor [[note]] It was a setup for a false-confidence con but it can't be denied that there was more to it [[/note]]. Really, any episode with Canary or Roulette in it is made for fanservice.
* ShesGotLegs: And those fishnets show off every inch.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: She acts like a [[GoodIsNotNice bad girl]], but she's in love with [[TheHeart Green Arrow]].
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Huntress, after some initial... rivalries.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Question]]
!! '''The Question (Vic Sage)'''
->''Voiced by Creator/JeffreyCombs''
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->Abilities: investigation, deductive skills, fighting prowess

* {{Adorkable}}: "You're drawn to my [[CloudCuckoolander eccentric]] charm."
* AgentMulder: The guy believes that [[WhatTheHeckIsAnAglet aglets]] have a sinister purpose, and that topically applied fluoride renders teeth visible by [[SpySatellites spy satellite]]. [[ProperlyParanoid On the other hand]], he's proven to be a highly talented detective, either in spite of his paranoia or even perhaps ''because'' of it. (And he ''did'' nail it with his theory about [[spoiler:Baskin Robbins' secret, hidden ''Flavor 32''.]])
* AntiHero: His interrogation techniques are similar to Batman's. Plus he had no problem killing Luthor if it kept the world safe from Armagaddeon.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Gets one on Superman when he confronts him with the possibility of a war between the League and Cadmus if Luthor became president, which Superman doesn't properly respond to:
--> '''Superman''': We would never fight the government!
--> '''The Question''': Not even if Luthor ''was'' the government?
** He has another extended exchange in ''Flashpoint'' where he discusses his attempt to murder Luthor:
-->'''The Question''': I went to kill Luthor so that you wouldn't be able to.\\
'''Superman''': [[ThouShaltNotKill That's not how we do]] things.\\
'''Question''': How do we do things, Superman? Your counterpart killed Luthor, this Luthor is scheming to enrage you...\\
'''Superman''': [[SelfDeprecation Doing a pretty good job of it]].\\
'''The Question''': [[ScareCampaign Ruining your reputation]], turning your friends and comrades against you, creating a superpowered arms race, but you cannot succumb!\\
'''Superman''': [[WideEyedIdealist I can shut down Cadmus]] without killing Luthor.\\
'''The Question''': [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids Carry on, then]]. If you're wrong, it's not like it's the end of the world, right?
* BadassBookworm: One of the greatest detectives in the DCAU and a TheChessmaster to boot and involves interrogating suspects and beating up their security detail.
* BadassLongcoat: In the time honored tradition of detectives, he wears one. The difference is that he's investigating super villians.
* BadassNormal: One of the 'non-supers' in the league. Justified as his talents are detective work, not super powers. Batman hints Vic may be the superior detective, in part due to his open mind. After all, Batman only considers ''sane'' theories, which - in a superhero universe - is [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight more of a limitation than it sounds]].
* TheBlank: He's the page image because his gadget hides everything on his face.
* CarFu: Does this to a group of Darkseid's Parademons during the series finale. Even punches one out of his window.
* ChasteHero: He's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqYnl3fIWpY completely oblivious]] to numerous attempts by the Huntress (a serious example of MsFanservice) flirting with him. Yes, he's still counts as this trope even after they're a couple.
* CloudCuckoolander: Comes with his status as the League's resident ConspiracyTheorist.
* CoatHatMask: His "power suit" consists of a blue overcoat, fedora, and that skin mask of his.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Supergirl expresses shock that he goes through her trash he responds with a scoff and says, "I go through ''everyone'''s trash."
* ConspiracyTheorist: Aside from the usual "New World Order" and freemason stuff, he has odd theories like Baskin Robbin's secret thirty-second flavor or that aglets (those plastic things on shoelaces) have a sinister purpose.
* CrazySurvivalist: (Then again, he ''has'' [[ProperlyParanoid been right before...]])
-->'''Green Arrow:''' Does ''everything'' have a sinister motive in your world?
-->'''Question:''' Yours too. You just don't know it yet.
* CreepyMonotone: Used as often for comedic effect as gravitas. He sings a pop song while breaking into a research lab.
* DeadpanSnarker: Every time Green Arrow mocks his theories he has an appropriate zinger in response. He also trades barbs with his girlfriend during stake-outs.
* DemotedToExtra: After the Cadmus Arc. He was still there, but he wasn't a big part of the plot anymore.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: This exchange he has with Green Arrow and Supergirl tells you everything you need to know about The Question.
--> '''Green Arrow:''' Hold your horses. No one asked for more help. This whole trip must just prove that the kid shouldn't eat nachos before bed.
--> '''Question:''' Peanut butter sandwiches.
--> '''Supergirl:''' How did y--what, do you go through my trash?
--> '''Question:''' ''Please''. I go through ''everyone's'' trash.
* TheFaceless: Complete with DramaticUnmask in "Flashpoint."
* TheFatalist: As a nod to how his creator Steve Ditko envisoned him, he cites the Law of Identity as part of his reasoning why he believes that the League will eventually become like the Justice Lords if Luthor ever became president.
--> '''Question:''' Everything that exists has a specific nature. Each entity exists as something in particular and has characteristics that are part of what it is. "A" is "A". And no matter what reality he calls home, Luthor '''''is''''' Luthor.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: His lone wolf nature and {{Cloudcuckoolander}} sensibility gives him this status among the league.
** When Batman announces that he's put him in charge of anti-Cadmus research, the rest of the seven, which includes Superman and Martian Manhunter complain - and Batman, of all people, admits that the Question is "wound a little too tight".
** He and Green Arrow do tend to partner up a lot, since their power level and skill sets suit them to investigation work. Arrow isn't always thrilled about it, but he's willing to go along.
* GreatDetective: He's just as good as a detective as Batman is if not better. After all, Batman trusted him to find the link between Cadmus and Luthor instead of doing it himself.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: [[spoiler: When he learns all about the Justice Lords]]. While he was already eccentric, he becomes noticeably more unstable in response to this discovery.
* GoodCannotComprehendEvil: He is usually good at avoiding this, but he fails to realize [[spoiler: how [[EvilIsPetty petty]] Luthor truly was]].
* ImprovisedWeapon: The Question does not carry weapons, and trusts to the environment to provide defense and distraction. Notable examples include a potted plant, a computer monitor, a bedpan and a [[PineappleSurprise grenade belt]].
* LighterAndSofter: This incarnation is more like Steven Ditko's Question, albeit one with a less stringent morality.
* MadeOfIron: Gets captured and tortured by Cadmus: he holds out, and within a few hours of his rescue he's back in the thick of things.
* MellowFellow: Never gets angry and rarely breaks his CreepyMonotone, no matter what happens.
* NecessarilyEvil: Tries to invoke this against Luthor to ensure that the Justice Lords don't happen in their world by killing him before it could happen.
* NervesOfSteel: For a hero with no real powers, it takes guts to stand up to Galatea - who's as strong as Supergirl and more than capable of murder - and tell her to ''kill him'' to prove his point. (And let his teammate get an open shot at her.)
* ObfuscatingStupidity: While he is very much a crackpot, The Question is also far sharper than he lets on. His detective skills are actually on par with Batman's - if not ''better'', as Batman has problems with ArbitrarySkepticism despite his best efforts; oddities such as Supergirl's [[spoiler:{{Psychic Dreams|For Everyone}} and CloningBlues]] tend to throw him off, while Vic is essentially [[Literature/ThePuppetMasters a Heinlein detective]]; able to reason logically with unfamiliar, hard-to-believe facts as easily as with the commonplace.
* OddFriendship: With Green Arrow, his off-on investigating partner, who is an archer and basically his AgentScully.
* OfficialCouple: With Huntress, who becomes his girlfriend and also an investigating partner.
* PlausibleDeniability: Invoked. He knows that if he kills Luthor, nobody will blame the League... because the Question's a well known nutjob.
* ProperlyParanoid: Often times his suspicions are confirmed. There ''was'' a secret thirty-second flavor.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: Either he's the world champion at this particular trope, or there really is a centuries-long, absolutely secret military/industrial conspiracy linking boy bands, {{crop circles}}, the 32nd flavor at Baskin-Robbins, actors being elected to public office, [[GirlScoutsAreEvil the Girl Scouts]], and... much, much more.
* SanitySlippage: Admittedly not particularly stable to begin with; he gets much worse in his realization that YouCantFightFate.
* TheSoulsaver: He stops Helena from killing Mandagora, since it would mean that she would put his son Edgar through the same thing she went through.
* SoundtrackDissonance: Pumps a guy for information while blasting generic pop music.
* WhatTheHeckIsAnAglet: Provides the page quote. He thinks they're sinister.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Metamorpho]]
!! '''Metamorpho (Rex Mason)'''
->''Voiced by Tom Sizemore''

Former Marine who served with John Steward before becoming an executive at Stagg Enterprises. After revealing to his boss Simon Stagg that he was leaving the company and marrying his daughter Sapphire, Stagg set him up to be exposed to a mutagen as a test subject for his "Metamorpho" project.

Mason is initially introduced as the subject of the "Metamorphosis" 2 part episode from Season 1 of Justice League dealing with his origin and his quest for revenge against Stagg. This eventually leads to him helping the League when an accident causes part of Stagg's mind to be in control of a giant shapeshifting monster. He's later considered for membership in the League after Superman is seemingly disintegrated by Toyman before finally joining it during the League's expansion after the Thanagarian invasion.

* BlessedWithSuck: Mason's powers come bundled with a freakish appearance.
* DemotedToExtra: Had a who two part episode dedicated to him in Season 1. After that, he's usually just seen in the background without any speaking lines.
* FashionableAsymmetry: His default form.
* HiddenDepths: Despite the front he puts on, he actually looks up to his friend John Stewart and wishes that he too could be a hero.
* NighInvulnerable: His powers allow him to change his chemical make up to avoid taking damage.
* [[UglyGuyHotWife Ugly Guy, Hot Fiancé]]: At least after his accident (Rex was quite the looker before it), Sapphire doesn't seem to mind though.
* UnderwearOfPower
* VoluntaryShapeshifting
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Captain Atom]]
!! '''Captain Atom (Nathaniel Adams)'''
->''Voiced by George Eads ("Initiation") and Creator/ChrisCox ("The Greatest Story Never Told" onward)''
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->Abilities: Super strength, flight, invulnerability, energy projection, incorporeal survival beyond 'death'

A former captain in the United States Air Force: an experiment reduced him to a sentient cloud of nuclear radiation, and he now inhabits a human-shaped containment suit. In addition to [[FlyingBrick the typical powers]], he can both generate and absorb any kind of radiation.

[[spoiler:Cadmus manipulates him into a FaceHeelTurn by way of his Air Force commission in the second season of ''Unlimited''. He returns to supporting the League as soon as those orders are countermanded]].

* AdaptationalWimp: His comicbook counterpart is a PhysicalGod with almost unmatched powers to manipulate any kind of energy and being borderline unkillable. Here, he goes down against Superman.
* {{Determinator}}: [[spoiler:In "Flashpoint", he stubbornly fights Superman despite both of them knowing that he is less powerful and could never win in a one-on-one match. Superman is then forced to beat him into submission.]]
* EnergyBeings: There's just a luminous, deadly cloud inside that robotic-looking shell.
* FireForgedFriends: With Green Arrow
* FlyingBrick
* [[spoiler:FaceHeelTurn: And then [[HeelFaceTurn back]] again.]]
* GoingCritical: If anything ruptures that suit, things will get ''bad'' for the Captain, and much worse for anybody nearby.
* TheGoodCaptain
* [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn: When Cadmus attacks the Watchtower, he chooses to fight alongside his fellow heroes again.]]
* ILoveNuclearPower: He is a product of that mindset, but his own feelings on the matter have to be mixed at best.
* LawfulStupid: See MyCountryRightOrWrong.
* ManOfKryptonite: He can emit ''any'' kind of radiation. [[spoiler:While fighting Superman in "Flashpoint", he replicates the 'red sun' energy signature that slowly drains Superman's powers: he might have been able to replicate real Kryptonite instead, but he was not fighting to kill - just to win]].
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: [[spoiler:Eiling reactivates his commission to the Air Force, resulting in his FaceHeelTurn when he attacks Superman to keep him from rescuing Question instead of trying to see if Superman was justified in his actions first]].
* PoorCommunicationKills: [[spoiler: Rather than trying to talk to Superman and Huntress to find out why The Question was being held in the Cadmus facility and see if they have a legitimate reason to rescue him, Captain Atom just starts a fight.]]
* TheStoic: He's curt and clipped in his speech, and usually prefers receiving orders to making speeches.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Vixen]]
!! '''Vixen (Mari [=McCabe=])'''
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->"What makes you think I know anything about the jungle? I live in a loft in Chelsea."
->''Voiced by Creator/GinaTorres''
->Abilities: animal ability replication

* AbsoluteCleavage: Wears this kind of outfit as her superhero uniform (true to her comic book origins).
* LoveTriangle: She's involved in with with John and Hawgirl.
* MsFanservice: Just watch the pic!
* MutuallyExclusivePowerups: She can use only an abilities one by one.
* PowersViaPossession: Vixen was in possession of a mystical amulet, that upon being touched, allowed her to mimic the abilities of any animal of her choice all without changing her form. Her powers did have restrictions though; she did seem to be incapable of mimicking animals that could fly.
* RomanticFalseLead: For John. By the end of the show, John Stewart's relationship with Vixen is treated respectably enough that, even when Shayera learns of her and John's future offspring Warhawk, John still refuses to leave Vixen (who is actually injured at that time) instantly simply because destiny says otherwise. He will instead wait for everything to happen between the three of them organically (and presumably post-series finale, if the fact that Rex/Warhawk is Shayera and John's Kid from the Future says something). Shayera, though logically not happy, more or less accepts his decision, and instead of complaining she goes have a talk with Batman (so he can tell her about Warhawk).
* StatuesqueStunner: Comes with being a professional model in her downtime.
* [[spoiler: StuffedInTheFridge: In the non-canon ''ComicBook/BatmanBeyond Unlimited'' comic book continuation, a flashback into Warhawk's origin story revealed that Vixen was killed by Shadow Thief just as John was proposing to her.]]
* VitriolicBestBuds: Vixen ends up befriending Shayera, even saving her life at some point, and Shayera doesn't make too much of a fuss at their relationship despite the unspoken, though sometimes blatantly hinted-at, tensions still existin.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hawk & Dove]]
!! '''Hawk (Hank Hall) and Dove (Don Hall)'''
->''Hawk voiced by Fred Savage\\
Dove voiced by Jason Hervey''
->Abilities: Enhanced strength and agility, low level super-speed

* BashBrothers: Very rarely are they seen apart.
* BrainsAndBrawn: Hawk's the brawn, Dove's the brains.
* HotBlooded: Hawk, as the aggressive fighter.
* RedOniBlueOni: Hawk is the red to Dove's blue.
* SiblingYinYang: By the very nature of their powers, they're this.
* TechnicalPacifist: Dove. He will not kill and disapproves of violence. [[BewareTheNiceOnes This means he doesn't start fights: but he does finish them.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Big Barda]]

* BattleCouple: With Scott.
* TheBigGirl: Brawn usually comes before brain with her.
* BerserkButton: Granny Goodness.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: She was one of Granny's Female Furies.
* HappilyMarried: To Scott.
* HotBlooded: Whew boy.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She's bull-headed and rather bitchy but she has it wear it counts.
* {{Stripperific}}: When not wearing her battle armor.
* {{Tsundere}}: Shades towards Scott but they still have a very loving relationship.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Vigilante]]
!! '''Vigilante'''
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->''Voiced by Creator/NathanFillion''
->Abilities: Gunfighter, expert driver... student starship driver

* BadassNormal: No powers other than guns and sheer bravery.
* BadassBiker: He uses a bike for transportation.
* {{Cowboy}}: His whole theme.
* {{Fanboy}}: Of Creator/ClintEastwood.
* FantasticRacism: Towards Thanagarians for torturing him during the invasion, to a point he addresses Hawkgirl by this name as a FantasticSlur. He also called the Thanagarians as filthy hawks.
* TheGunslinger: In keeping with his Old West theme.
* GunsAkimbo: Wields a pair of revolvers as his standard weapons.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Shining Knight.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Zigzagged. While he is a skilled gunman, he prefers shoots several bullets at once rather than making precision shots, ensuring that at least one bullet will hit its mark.
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Shining Knight.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Shining Knight]]
!! '''Shining Knight (Sir Justin)'''
->''Voiced by Chris Cox''
->Abilities: Fighting abilities with sword and hand-to-hand; enchanted arms and armor

A knight of Arthur's court thrown into the present.

* AbsurdlySharpBlade: His enchanted sword has exceptional cutting capabilities.
* BadassNormal: Other than having magical weapons, he has no superpowers.
* {{Determinator}}: He was fighting [[spoiler:a mutated and transformed General Eiling]] and refused to give in no matter how badly the General hurt him.
--->'''[[spoiler:General Eiling]]:''' You can't win.
--->'''Shining Knight''': [[BadassCreed I'll die as befits a knight: Defending the weak!]]
** After the fight he's rushed off to the emergency room... but insists on stopping first to thank the people who ended the struggle.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: He doesn't particularly ''want'' to adapt to the twenty-first century, which he considers a time of weak morals.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Vigilante.
* KnightInShiningArmor: Obviously.
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Vigilante.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:S.T.R.I.P.E]]
!! '''S.T.R.I.P.E'''
->''Voiced by Creator/PhilLaMarr''
->Abilities: Normal human; mechanized suit provides flight, invulnerability, super-strength, beam and missile weaponry

Stargirl's stepfather, Pat Dugan... or more precisely, the code name for the bulky, clunky-looking PoweredArmor that he fights crime with.

* BadassFamily: With Stargirl, his stepdaughter.
* BadassNormal
* CoolOldGuy: If it weren't for Wildcat, he'd probably be the oldest guy on the team.
* DeadpanSnarker: He only really got lines during "Chaos at the Earth's Core," but this seems to be his favored means of bursting Stargirl's self-importance.
--> '''Pat:''' If I was you, I wouldn't talk behind somebody's back when they got ''super-hearing.''
* PoweredArmor: Starts off as more of a MiniMecha before gradually becoming more like this in the final season.
* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to Stargirl's red-oni tendencies.
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Stargirl, although the episodes that include them tend to focus on her.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Stargirl]]
!! '''Stargirl (Courtney Whitmore)'''
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->''Voiced by Giselle Loren''
-> Abilities: Normal human: power staff supplies flight, telekinesis and energy projection

* AlphaBitch: [[PlayingWithATrope Sort of]]. She's vain and fame seeking, has a large sense of entitlement, and mocks and belittles those around her to ease her own feelings... but she does go out there and risk her life regularly for the public good.
* BadassFamily: With S.T.R.I.P.E, her stepfather.
* BadassNormal: 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?
* BareYourMidriff: For once, the costume design is relatively in-character considering teen styles at the time the cartoon was made.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: In addition to the Alpha Bitch traits mentioned above, S.T.R.I.P.E. is in fact her stepdad and partner.
* CharacterDevelopment: 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 [[OverprotectiveDad overprotective relatives]].
* DrivenByEnvy: She gets very jealous upon seeing Supergirl's popularity.
* {{Flight}}: She wielded a Cosmic Staff that enabled her to fly.
* GloryHound: While she usually means well, she is fame seeking, and believes her heroics deserve more recognition.
* HeadbuttingHeroes: With Supergirl in ''Chaos at the Earth's Core'' though by the end of the episode, they've formed a tentative sort of friendship.
* ImpossibleHourglassFigure
* KidHero: 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.
* LeeroyJenkins: Her impetuosity sometimes got the best of her performance.
* LittleMissBadass
* ThoseTwoGuys: When she appears, she's with S.T.R.I.P.E.
* TookALevelInKindness: See CharacterDevelopment.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Supergirl]]
!! '''Supergirl (Kara In-Ze/Kara Kent)'''
->''Voiced by Nicholle Tom''

[[Characters/DCAUSupermanTheAnimatedSeries See here for more info]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Booster Gold]]
!! '''Booster Gold (Michael Jon Carter)'''
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->''Voiced by Tom Everett Scott''
-> Abilities: Twenty-fifth century education; suit provides flight, invulnerability, possibly other abilities

* AttentionWhore
* CharacterDevelopment: After The Greatest Story Never Told he seems to abandon his grandstanding and adopts a professional commitment to helping others.
** Notably while previously sidelined to minimal roles he takes an active role in repelling the Dark Matter, providing disaster relief in New Mexico after the fusion cannon is fired, repels the attack of the cloned Ultimen on the Watchtower II and answered the League's call to arms when Darkseid's forces invaded.
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: All of his superpowers come from his costume and equipment.
* CompanionCube / RobotBuddy: Skeets
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: When he's not seeking glory, he can be a pretty good superhero if he tries hard enough.
* ADayInTheLimelight: The only episode to really focus on him is "The Greatest Story Never Told".
* DeadpanSnarker: It's so habitual that even his ''robot'' has started picking up the habit.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: In the end, he was willing to risk his own life to put an end to the menace. He eventually succeeded, and even though this deed didn't grant him his wanted mega-fame, it did earn him admiration (and possibly something more) from Dr. Simmons, who saw the heroism in him when he was no longer capable of seeing it himself.
* {{Flight}}: Not exceptional in the League, although judging by his ability to escape gravity wells, he can generate a ''lot'' of thrust.
* GlorySeeker: Although he promoted himself as a fighter for justice, in reality, he left the future in pursuit of mega-fame and fortune.
* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: It's even [[TropeNamer the title of the episode]]. While the others are busy with an evil wizard, Booster Gold is sucked into dealing single-handed with a catastrophe indirectly caused by the offscreen battle. The others never get to know about this.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Lessened, at least temporarily, by his deep sense of failure near the end of "The Greatest Story Never Told".
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: A narcissist, but - deep inside - a hero.
* MyNameIsNotDurwood: Frequently confused for Green Lantern, much to his annoyance and confusion. ''Their costumes aren't even the same color.''
* SmallNameBigEgo
* TimeTravel: He travelled to the past to seek glory as a super hero.
* TimeTravelForFunAndProfit: In the comics, this is purposely invoked (he actually has a deeper reason to act like a pompous buffoon abusing time travel). Not clear if this is the case in the animated version.
* TraumaCongaLine: During the events of "The Greatest Story Never Told". It's not clear if he's always a ButtMonkey or if this is an incredibly bad day for him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mister Terrific]]
!! '''Mister Terrific (Michael Holt)'''
->''Voiced by Michael Beach''
-> Abilities: Super-intelligence: inventions provide additional powers

* GeniusBruiser: Uses his T-Spheres for power, and is able to outsmart Luthor. He's considered to be one of the three smartest people on Earth by Batman.
* LivingProp: Although a super-genius would be very useful in planning planet-wide superhero logistics, Mr. Terrific gets almost no focus until late in the series, when somebody has to take over Mission Control.
* MissionControl: After J'onn takes a leave of absence.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Steel]]
!! '''Steel (John Henry Irons)'''
->''Voiced by Creator/MichaelDorn, Creator/PhilLaMarr''

See [[Characters/DCAUSupermanTheAnimatedSeries here]] for more
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Doctor Fate]]
!! '''ComicBook/DoctorFate (Kent Nelson)'''
->''Voiced by George [=DelHoyo=], Oded Fehr''
-> Abilities: Expert sorceror; helmet provides immense magical abilities, exact limits unknown

* AboveGoodAndEvil: For a short time, he held this opinion. He was roused from this HeroicBSOD when Superman - horribly outmatched by the EldritchAbomination Karkull - went off to fight the demon alone.
--> '''Dr. Fate:''' Until now, I thought it was just ''evil'' that never gave up.
* {{Expy}}: with his four teammates named below, he leads a take on ComicBook/TheDefenders.
* TheMentor: Provides sanctuary, security, and occasional advice for people who are lost.
--> '''Dr. Fate:''' I will help you [to discover your purpose.]
--> '''The Android:''' Why?
--> '''Dr. Fate:''' Because that is ''my'' purpose.
* OddFriendship: With Aquaman, AMAZO, Shayera, and even Solomon Grundy, who [[spoiler: was buried on his property]].
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averts this trope, as he counsels the League.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Fire]]
!! '''Fire'''
->''Voiced by Creator/MariaCanalsBarrera''
-> Abilities: Fire projection, transformation into fire, flight

* ActionBomb: She releases an omnidirectional blast of fire while fighting a robot squid.
* BareYourMidriff: She is always wearing something that shows off her belly, be it her superhero outfit or a bikini.
* CensorSteam: Strategically placed flames when she activates her powers.
* ColorMotif: ''Green''.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Green hair ''and'' eyes.
* FlyingFirepower: She can fly outside her flame form, however.
* GreenEyes: One of the very few characters in the [=DCAU=] to have explicitly green eyes.
* MsFanservice: Aside from being mostly naked in the flame form, she was briefly seen in a bikini in "Destroyer."
* NaiveNewcomer: For starters, she thinks the Flash's reserved attitude towards her is because he is mentally preparing himself for the battle to come, when in fact he is being {{Adorkable}}.
* PlayingWithFire: If you couldn't tell by her name.
* TechnicolorFire: Green.
* StatuesqueStunner: Fire, the object of Flash's not-so-subtle affections, is the tallest one on the team when she, he, and Hawkgirl go to Blackhawk Island.
* [[ThoseTwoGuys Those Two Girls]]: with Ice.
* WreathedInFlames: She activates her power by transforming into a being of living fire, with small flames covering her lady parts.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: With the Flash: nothing seemed resolved by the time of the grand finale.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ice]]
!! '''Ice'''
-> Abilities (inferred): Ice projection

* CurtainsMatchTheWindow
* AnIcePerson: A heroic example.
* [[ThoseTwoGuys Those Two Girls]]: With Fire, though she doesn't even get Fire's amount of screen time.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Light-blue to white
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Red Tornado]]
!! '''Red Tornado'''
->''Voiced by Creator/PowersBoothe''
-> Abilities: Android with wind generation and control abilities

* BlowYouAway: His (its?) abilities were strong enough to take on three copies of Wind Dragon from the Ultimen, while only using one hand, as they used all their might in making wind tunnels. Effortlessly counteracted a tornado created during "The Great Brain Robbery".
* FlyingBrick: Presumbly has above-human strength and durability, but focused on wind powers.
* MechanicalLifeforms: An android
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Was ripped in half by Amazo. Fortunately, he got better.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Elongated Man]]
!! '''Elongated Man'''
->''Voiced by Jeremy Piven''
-> Abilities: Detective with powers of shape alteration and flexibility

* DudeWheresMyRespect: Complains about this with Flash and Booster Gold.
* RubberMan
* SuperheroSpeciation: Invoked by Green Lantern: they already have Plastic Man on the scene, and "We don't need two stretchy guys."
[[/folder]]

!Future League Members

[[folder:Batman II]]
!!Batman II (Terry [=McGinnis=])
--> ''Voiced By:'' Creator/WillFriedle

[[Characters/DCAUBatmanBeyond See here for more info.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Warhawk]]
!!Warhawk [[spoiler: (Rex Stewart)]]
--> ''Voiced By:'' Peter Onorati, Marc Worden

[[Characters/DCAUBatmanBeyond See here for more info.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Static]]
!!Static (Virgil Hawkins)
--> ''Voiced By:'' Creator/PhilLaMarr

[[Characters/DCAUStaticShock See here for more info.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Green Lantern III]]
!!Green Lantern III (Kai-Ro)
--> ''Voiced By:'' Creator/LaurenTom

[[Characters/DCAUBatmanBeyond See here for more info.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Aquagirl]]
!!Aquagirl (Mareena)
--> ''Voiced By:'' Creator/HyndenWalch

[[Characters/DCAUBatmanBeyond See here for more info.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Micron]]
!!Micron
--> ''Voiced By:'' Wayne Brady

[[Characters/DCAUBatmanBeyond See here for more info.]]
[[/folder]]

* TheScrappy: InUniverse after the Thanagarian Invasion, she remains hated and distrusted by a large segment of the Earth's population. In one episode, Batman points out that she apparently has a very large {{Hatedom}} on [[InternetBackdraft Internet forums]].

* SanitySlippage: Admittedly not particularly stable to begin with; he gets much worse in his realization that YouCantFightFate

* TwoGirlsToATeam: Hawkgirl and WonderWoman, two out of seven. While their appearances might suggest a TomboyAndGirlyGirl dynamic, the actual contrast was in their experience (with WonderWoman as the NaiveNewcomer and Hawkgirl as a bit of a cynic) and in their attitudes towards men, with WonderWoman having a touch of WomenAreWiser at first. Notably, neither was The Chick, as that role was filled by The Flash.

* ArcherArchetype: This goes without a saying.

* BreakoutCharacter / SpotlightStealingSquad: One of the main characters in Unlimited.

* SmallStepsHero: In his first appearance, he openly identifies as this, noting that he fights smaller crimes that affect the little guy while the Justice League spends more time fighting monsters and aliens far away from home. Batman rebuts this convincingly:

* [[StrawCharacter Straw Liberal]]: He's clearly liberal in his politics, but it isn't carried into a {{Flanderization}}. He often disagrees with the other heroes, but shows only respect for their abilities and their motives.

* FightsLikeANormal: Most of the time: her superpower is a bit too lethal to use against humans. Thankfully, she was trained by Wildcat, and is one of the League's best hand-to-hand fighters.
** Not to mention she can't use the Canary Cry for long--it's probably a good idea to conserve it. In "Double Date" she tries to use it for more than a few seconds against Mandragora. She can't take him down and winds up passing out.

* MsFanservice: Her character design has to be the most obvious Fanservice of the series. Her initial conversation/sparring session with Green Arrow in "The Cat and the Canary" — sans jacket — is jaw-dropping, all blonde hair and curves flattening on the mat. She lets him get on top of her and pin her arms behind her back, to convince him to do her a favor. Really, any episode with Canary or Roulette in it is made for fanservice.

* BadassBookworm: One of the greatest detectives in the DCAU and a TheChessmaster to boot. He's still a good fighter, especially considering he doesn't have armor or gadgets (other than his disguise, that is).

* ChasteHero: He's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqYnl3fIWpY completely oblivious]] to numerous attempts by the Huntress (a serious example of MsFanservice) flirting with him.

* DeadpanSnarker

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: This exchange he has with Green Arrow and Supergirl:

* NecessarilyEvil: Tries to invoke this against Luthor to ensure that the Justice Lords don't happen in their world. [[CurbStompBattle It doesn't work out that way.]]

* OddFriendship: With Green Arrow, his off-on investigating partner.

* BerserkeButton: Granny Goodness.

* Stripperific: When not wearing her battle armor.
* TheBrute: Brawn usually comes before brain with her.
* Tsundere: Shades towards Scott but they still have a very loving relationship.

* ActionGirl: Probably the most popular of comic books.

* ActionGirl: See character quote.

%%* BadassBaritone

%%* BadassCape

* ActionGirl: She was trained by Wildcat, and was one of the League's best hand-to-hand fighters.

* FightsLikeANormal: Most of the time: her superpower is a bit too lethal to use against humans.

* ActionGirl: A plucky version.

* ActionGirl: Stargirl was a brave and competent fighter.

* ContinuitySnarl: In ''JL'', she's presented as new to Man's World and a rookie. However, earlier in the ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode, [[Recap/SupermanTheAnimatedSeriesS2E1E2BlastsFromThePast "Blasts from the Past, Part 1"]], Lois makes a snarky remark while talking with Mala that suggests that Diana was already active in the DCUA.

--> '''Gorilla Grodd:''' "You're a cretin, an intellectual child, playing with power tools."
--> '''Flash:''' "Yeah? Well you're..... naked!"

* InterspeciesRomance: With Katma Tui (a Korugarian) and later with Shayera Hol (a Thanagarian).

* GreenEyedMonster: She gets very jealous upon seeing Supergirl's popularity.

* BreakoutCharacter: The Question quickly became the favorite among both the fans and the showrunners. There were talks of getting him his own show.

* ChasteHero: He's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqYnl3fIWpY completely oblivious]] to numerous attempts by the Huntress (a serious example of MsFanserive) flirting with him.

Former Marine who served with John Steward before becoming an executive at Stagg Enterprises. After revealing to his boss Simon Stagg that he was leaving the company and marrying his daughter Sapphire, Stagg set him up to be exposed to a mutagen as a test subject for his "Metamorpho" project. Mason is initially introduced as the subject of the 2 part "Metamorphosis" story arc in Season 1 of Justice League dealing with his origin and his quest for revenge against Stagg, leading to him helping the League when an accident causes part of Stagg's mind to be in control of a giant shapeshifting monster. He's later considered for membership in the League after Superman is seemingly disintegrated by Toyman before finally joining it after the League's expansion after the Thanagarian invasion.

* VoluntaryShapesifting

* ContinuitySnarl: In ''JL'', she's presented as new to Man's World and a rookie. However, earlier in the ''esternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode, [[Recap/SupermanTheAnimatedSeriesS2E1E2BlastsFromThePast "Blasts from the Past, Part 1"]], Lois makes a snarky remark while talking with Mala that suggests that Diana was already active in the DCUA.

* BadassPrincess

* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: She is probably the stronger princess in the world.