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Gotham City is renowned for being the most crime-ridden city in North America. Home to organised crime syndicates, hired hitmen, theatrical criminals and petty thugs, Gotham City demands an extreme response to its crime rates in the form of Batman and other vigilantes.

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Joker's Gang

The Joker

The Joker

"Oh, I'm not gonna kill ya. I'm just gonna hurt ya really, really BAD!"

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Joker's Gang

Portrayed By: Jared Leto, Johnny Goth (Birds of Prey)

Voiced By: José Antonio Macías (Latin-American Spanish), Sergio Zamora (European Spanish), Paolo Domingo (European French), Benoit Éthier (Canadian French), Takehito Koyasu (Japanese), Alexandre Moreno (Brazilian Portuguese)

Appearances: Suicide Squad | Birds of Prey | Zack Snyder's Justice League (Knightmare)

Other appearances: Suicide Blonde | Purple Lamborghini | Secret Files of the Suicide Squad

"I'm not somebody who is... loved. I'm an idea. A state of mind. I execute MY will according to MY plan, and you, doctor...are not part of my plan."

A psychotic supervillain and mob boss from Gotham City who styles himself as a Monster Clown. He is responsible for Harley Quinn's fall into insanity and the death of Robin, among other horrible things.

See also The Knightmare for more information.

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• Action Fashionista: This incarnation of the Joker has a wide variety of garish outfits for every occassion — most of them straight from the comics. Oddly enough, his traditional purple suit is never seen.
• Adaptational Attractiveness: Metal teeth, lack of eyebrows, and tattoos aside, he's still being played by the youthful-looking real life Pretty Boy Jared Leto; especially since the last two cinematic Jokers were a creepy mature-aged gangster with a botched face-lift and a filthy, scarred vagrant (even the mentally unwell clown-for-hire doesn't scream Mr. Fanservice one bit). This version looks more like Marilyn Manson.
  • In-universe, the opening to Birds of Prey shows that Harley Quinn imagines the Joker having a more dapper look, with his tattoos and metal teeth completely absent.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: A very downplayed example. While he's otherwise the same Clown Prince of Crime we all know and love to hate, he appears to genuinely care for Harley, and even throws her out of a falling helicopter to save her life. Almost any other iteration of the Joker would do that to save his own skin or rid himself of her.
  • In David Ayer's unseen cut, the Joker is stated to be just as abusive and cruel towards Harley as he is in any other media.
  • Even in Birds of Prey, the two criminals have broken up, mirroring the comics where they do have an Relationship Revolving Door. It appears to stick, as Harley publicly calls it quits between the two of them and in The Suicide Squad she's maintained her single status. However, his reason for doing so is stated as being for constantly taking credit for her ideas, which while still a dick move, is nowhere near the level of abusive he usually is portrayed as. All we see Joker doing is just making Harley leave and locking her out of his hideout, which is saintly compared to how most Joker's handle a break up with Harley. If Harley's speech about abusive exes in The Suicide Squad is anything to go by, he's supposedly done some truly awful things to her since their last breakup.
• Adaptational Skimpiness: This version of the Joker tends to be shirtless a lot more than he has in any other medium. It mostly seems like an opportunity to show off his tattoos.
• Adaptation Distillation: Leto's Joker seems to be less of the "evil philosopher" that Heath Ledger portrayed him as in The Dark Knight, and instead seems to be a cross between the garish, larger-than-life Mark Hamill version from the animated series and the Arkham games, and the creepy, deeply twisted Brian Azzarello version. David Ayer had also stated that he looked specifically to the Golden Age Joker for reference, providing reason for many to believe that Leto's Joker is a modern re-imagining of that incarnation.
  • His tattoos are very reminiscent of the Joker in All Star Batman and Robin.
• Advertised Extra: The Joker was heavily featured in Suicide Squad promotional materials, yet barely appears in the film for more than seven minutes. Warner Bros. clearly didn't want to rely on their relatively obscure protagonists to advertise this movie when they've got a tried-and-true character to work with. According to Jared Leto, several of the scenes he shot were not included in the theatrical cut. Leaked script details of David Ayer's intented cut indicate that his few scenes were all rewrites. If the Ayer Cut is ever released, the Joker will likely play out very differently.
• Affectionate Nickname: Harley calls him ‘Puddin’ and ‘pudding cup’.
• Alternate Self: The Joker has numerous alternate counterparts to match the various Batman across The Multiverse. These include the mischief-maker of Earth-66, Jack Napier of Earth-89 and numerous unseen Jokers across Earth-Prime, Earth-96, Earth-203, and Earth-9.
• Arch-Enemy: As usual, to Batman. Aside from making it his life's mission to prove Batman's moral code wrong, he also brutally killed Batman's sidekick. Given that Batman has resorted to killing his eneimes (albeit mercenaries and parademons as opposed to the mentally ill), the Joker essentially won.
• Ax-Crazy: Like all the incarnations before him, calling the Joker a violent psychopath is one of the biggest understatements you can make.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: He shows up to rescue Harley wearing a tuxedo after stealing a helicopter.
• Badass Longcoat: The Joker briefly wears one in Suicide Squad. It was heavily featured in promotional materials due to being his signature purple, despite only being worn in one scene.
• Bedlam House: As is custom for the Joker, he's spent quite some time at Arkham Asylum, which is how he met Harley Quinn. The Joker then broke free from the asylum with the help of both Harley and his gang.
• Chewing the Scenery: An important part of the character is his theatricality.
  "The fire in my loins! The itch in my crotch! The one! The only! The infamous HARLEY QUINN!"
• Cool Car: A bright purple sports car with underglow lights and a "HAHAHA" license plate.
• Dartboard of Hate: The Joker doesn't know this, but Harley made one with his likeness after they split.
• Demoted to Satellite Love Interest: To spite being Batman's one and only Arch-Enemy and one of DC's most popular and iconic villains, outside of a dream sequence his only DCEU appearances relate to Harley Quinn.
• Dented Iron: It's subtle, but the numerous scars on his body and metal replacement teeth in his mouth are clear signs that his frequent run-ins with Batman are taking their toll.
• Disney Death: He seemingly dies in the crash of his helicopter... only to come back to free Harley from her high security prison at the end of Suicide Squad.
• The Don: This version of the character, in addition to being the garish supervillain he usually is, also seems to get his funds for that lifestyle by being a big figure in the Gotham underworld. He even makes Griggs kiss his ring upon their meeting.
• The Dreaded: In true Joker fashion, everyone is terrified of him.
  • In Suicide Squad Griggs' smug indifference about his gambling debt immediately becomes pure terror when he realizes the Joker has gotten involved.
  • He is so feared that even the likes of Black Mask would rather steer clear of him. Harley's enemies only start gunning for her in Birds of Prey when it becomes clear that she's no longer with him.
• Establishing Character Moment: One that takes place before he even makes his official debut in the setting - he killed Robin (a young boy) and vandalized his outfit to mock Batman over his inability to save him.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Insofar as much as the Joker can love anyone, anyway, but he does seem to genuinely care about Harley. Eventually subverted, as he dumped her shortly before the events of Birds of Prey.
  • Unused footage from Suicide Squad showed that David Ayer's original vision would have shown the Joker was every bit the abusive boyfriend he is in the comics and cartoons.
• Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: He considers the brutal murder of a teenager as a joke he played on Batman. When he's torturing Harleen Quinzel, he promises not to shatter her well-kept teeth while flashing his own hideous metal dentures. When Harleen later has him at gunpoint, Joker just says "please don't kill me, I'll be ya friend" in a snarky tone.
• Evil Is Hammy: It's not The Joker if he's not Chewing the Scenery. And, sure enough, he does. Extra mention goes to his nasally snarling.
• Evil Is Petty: The graffiti on Robin's costume seems to imply that Joker murdered him just to prod at Batman. It is confirmed in the theatrical cut of Suicide Squad that Joker and Harley killed him.
• Evil Laugh: It's kind of his thing, though it tends to be quite monotone unless he's genuinely enjoying himself. One notable example is when he chuckles while surrounded by an arsenal of weapons.
• Fake Shemp: Indie rocker Johnny Goth stood in for Jared Leto in Birds of Prey, in the flashback where he and Harley torture and tattoo the big mafia thug Harley later bumps back into.
• Foil: To Batman as usual, but with some new additions. After 20 years, Batman became more jaded and cruel, while the Joker somewhat mellowed out and his criminal activity became more professional. Batman didn't settle down until the death of Superman while the Joker grew attached to Harley Quinn.
• The Ghost:
  • There is an allusion to him in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice ("HA HA HA Joke's On You, Batman" painted across the chest of the dead Robin's empty suit in the Batcave), but he doesn't actually appear.
  • He gets mentioned a lot in Birds of Prey, but he's only seen very briefly in some flashbacks, always from the back (including footage from Suicide Squad). There is a whole invokedDeleted Scene where he and Harley have a domestic dispute. Harley leaves the house through the window and the Joker throws her stuffed beaver out through the window. In the film proper, she's just kicked out of the house, with no shot of Mr. J.
  • He isn't named in The Suicide Squad, but Harley does mention having a violent ex who made her life a living Hell after they broke up.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: The Joker has his fair share of facial wounds from his frequent run-ins with Batman, albeit not as grisly as Heath Ledger's glasgow smile.
• Greater-Scope Villain:
  • His role in Batman v Superman. Despite not actually appearing, his murder of Robin was one of many factors that drove Batman down a darker, more vengeful path. Batman's paranoia towards Superman blinds him to the possibility of Lex Luthor being the real threat long enough for Luthor to create Doomsday, leading to Superman sacrificing himself. In a way, the Joker's actions contributed to Batman's failure.
  • In any movie where Harley Quinn is the protagonist, the Joker will either make an appearance or be alluded to as the catalyst for her downfall. As befitting such a villain, he has no backstory to speak of.
• Handshake Refusal: He doesn't like to shake hands, as Monster T finds out.
• Hell-Bent for Leather: Wears a purple crocodile skin duster at some point in the film.
• It's All About Me: According to Harley, he dumped her because he didn't want to share the spotlight with her. This detail is strangely prophetic, since Harley Quinn has had far greater screentime in the DCEU while the Joker's two supporting roles are likely to be all he's going to get.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Despite being a homicidal sociopath, he seemed to truly love his girlfriend Harley Quinn. Then in Birds Of Prey, he coldly breaks up with her, though even that is significantly less violent than most versions of the Joker.
• Joker Immunity: He appears to die when his helicopter is shot down about halfway through Suicide Squad. To absolutely no one's surprise, he shows up alive and well in the final scene. It helps that he's the Trope Namer.
• Lean and Mean: This Joker - while muscular - is quite lean, especially compared to the heavily muscled Batman.
• Looks Like Cesare: He's got a lean build with a narrow face, wears heavy mascara with very dark lipstick and has noticably less color in his outfits than the Joker traditionally wears.
• Love Epiphany: Well, "love" is pushing it, but Joker realizes his affections for Harley when she dives in the chemical bath that ultimately turned Joker into what he is. Symbolic in the sense she was agreeing to join him in madness. Further adding to the complexity of the scene; Joker was tying up a loose end, having used Harleen to escape from Arkham. He lead Harleen to her demise and intended to leave her for death but at the same moment realized she had entered his world and his madness. Joker never anticipated the amount of utter devotion Harley would have for him, something inside him just couldn't walk away from that, so he jumped in to save her.
• Manipulative Bastard: He manipulated Harley into helping him escape Arkham because she fell in love with him. When she served her purpose, he would have had her kill herself jumping into a bath of chemicals to prove her feelings. He instead saves her from this demise because he has a Love Epiphany in the moment.
• Monster Clown: Like the previous film versions, Joker is an Ax-Crazy criminal with clownish makeup. Green hair notwithsanding, his white makeup, red lipstick and tuxedo make him look closer to a mime than his predecessors.
• Movie Superheroes Wear Black: Supervillain in this case. Outside of wearing a purple duster, Leto's Joker is never seen wearing his signature purple suit with green and orange accents. Instead he opts for tuxedos and other less colourful outfits. He even dresses like a SWAT officer at one point.
• Noble Demon: In Suicide Squad, his whole motivation is to rescue Harley Quinn. His commitment is so strong he doesn't even waste time with pranks or petty acts of cruelty. Everything he does is for someone else.
• Only Known By His Nickname: He's only known as The Joker, "J" and "Mr. J".
• Outlaw Couple: He and Harley Quinn are lovers and partners in crime. This doesn't last long.
• Pet the Dog: David Ayer confirms that while he did push Harley out of the falling helicopter, his intent was in fact to save her life. in his original and unseen cut, Ayer intended for the Joker to do it as some bizarre Kick the Dog, as he made it seem like a breakup in that moment.
• Put on a Bus: With his actor Jared Leto having left the DCEU (aside from a cameo in Zack Snyder's Justice League), his mostly offscreen breakup with Harley effectively serves to write him out of Birds of Prey and future films.
• Sad Clown: At one point he draws a smile over his face while he broods over Harley's absence, clearly missing her.
• Sadist: Even though there was only a few select scenes of him, one of them is him torturing Harley. It's disturbingly obvious that he is positively gleeful over it. And he doesn't seem to have lost any sleep over murdering Robin, either.
• Satellite Love Interest: To Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad. His characterization revolves entirely around Harley, not even getting involved with the main plot. In fact, except for Batman v Superman, almost all appearances by or references to this universe's Joker are tied to Harley in some way — even in the Knightmare.
• Scary Teeth: Several of his teeth are made of metal. According to David Ayer, Batman punched his teeth out after he killed Robin, leading him to replace them with metal dentures. With his lipstick and Slasher Smile, it's hard to imagine he looked any better before.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Although he has a presence at the start of the film, The Joker appears to have left Gotham City to be controlled by Black Mask in Birds of Prey, with Roman saying that Joker has already skipped town.
• Slasher Smile: It wouldn't be the Joker without one. Unlike his predecessors, this Joker doesn't have any facial disfigurements that resemble an abnormally wide grin.
• The Sociopath: He's chaotic and remorseless, much like his previous versions. Special mention goes to his murder of Robin, which he topped off by spray-painting a cruel taunt for Batman onto the boy's costume.
• The Spook: In contrast to other versions of the Joker seen in live-action films, this Joker has no hint of a backstory whatsoever.
• Tattooed Crook: His torso is covered in jester-themed tattoos. He also has a few on his arms and face.
• Terms of Endangerment: During his scene with Monster T, shortly before killing him.
  "I love this guy. He's sooo intense!"
  "You are my gift to this handsome HUNKA HUNKA!"
• Too Kinky to Torture: Batman knocked his teeth out and he's got his fair share of scars, but the excessive number of tattoos shows that physical pain isn't going to do much to slow the Joker down.
• Uncertain Doom: Harley swore to herself that if she ever found herself involved with another badboy, she'd kill him on sight. Whether or not this means she killed the Joker isn't given any further detail.
• Villain of Another Story: He mainly appeared in Suicide Squad, but his biggest act of villainy to date — killing Robin — happened some years before Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, in which he doesn't appear. The spray-painted message on Robin's empty suit ("Ah ah ah joke's on you Batman!") in the latter film can't be anything else than his doing.
• Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?: The Joker is seen with a rather impressive arsenal of guns and knives. And even says to warden Griggs, at some point, "I can't wait to show you my toys." ^note The line is actually missing from the theatrical cut. Notably, he manages to hijack the gunship which was sent to extract Waller and the squad so he can rescue Harley.
• Wolverine Publicity: The Joker has very few appearances across the DCEU, yet when he does get to appear in a movie, you can guarantee he'll be advertised as if he's going to have a major impact.
• Would Hit a Girl: In the past, the Joker electroshocks Dr. Harleen Quinzel and later manipulates her into diving into a vat of chemicals as a test of her loyalty, which leads to the young doctor becoming Harley Quinn.
• Would Hurt a Child: He killed Batman's sidekick, Robin, while the boy was an underage teen.

Harley Quinn

See her page.

Jonny Frost

Jonny Frost

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Joker's Gang

Played by: Jim Parrack

Dubbed by:

Appearances: Suicide Squad

"It's complex. This is not just her. Everybody's disappearing. There's this new law where if you're a bad enough bad guy, they stamp terrorist on your jacket. They send you to this swamp in Louisiana. A black site. That's where she is. So what are we doing?"

A high-ranking thug and criminal who acted as the right-hand man for the Joker and his top enforcer.

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• Adaptational Badass: In Brian Azzarello's Joker comics, he is a criminal apprentice who follows the Joker. He is a high ranking henchman of the Joker in Suicide Squad.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: In Brian Azzarello's comics, he was blond. Here, he's a brunet.
• Beard of Evil: Sports a very trimmed beard, as opposed to his clean-shaven look in Joker.
• Eerily Out-of-Place Object: Unlike the rest of the Joker Gang he wears a conservative suit, making him look even more bizarre than everyone else.
• Gatling Good: Wields a minigun during Joker's Gunship Rescue of Harley Quinn.
• Number Two: To his boss, the Joker.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue to Joker's red. He tends to do the talking for his less rational boss.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Dies during the crash of Joker's Helicopter after rescuing Harley.

Joker's Henchmen

Joker's Henchmen

Species: Humans

Citizenship: Americans

Affiliation(s): Joker's Gang

Played by: James McGowan (Panda man)

Appearances: Suicide Squad

Henchmen working for the Joker.

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• Dressing as the Enemy: They wear SWAT uniforms when breaking Harley Quinn out of Belle Reve at the end of Suicide Squad.
• Faceless Goons: They all wear masks to hide their faces.
• Gang of Hats: They appear to wear an assortment of Halloween masks and costumes, including but not limited to: a crying baby, a ninja, a goat (over a priest outfit), an eyeball, Pac-Man-like spherical heads with teeth, a panda and a cartoony Batman. They do so to conceal their faces, and very likely for psychological effects.
• More Dakka: They all pack military-grade weaponry, and they hijack a helicopter that was called upon by Amanda Waller. Said helicopter is equipped with a minigun, and they make good use of it against the Suicide Squad during the Joker's Gunship Rescue of Harley.

Black Mask's Gang

Roman Sionis / Black Mask

Roman Beauvais Sionis / Black Mask

"Don't they know? I own this town!"

"For all your noise and bluster, you're just a silly little girl with no one around to protect her."

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Black Mask's Gang

Played by: Ewan McGregor

Dubbed by: Bruno Choël (European French), Sergio Gutierrez Coto (Latin American Spanish), Toshiyuki Morikawa (Japanese), Marcus Jardym (Brazilian Portuguese)

Appearances: Birds of Prey

"You're so tiresome! If you want my mercy, shut that hole in the middle of your face and listen. You're going to get me my diamond."

A psychopathic Gotham mob boss Harley Quinn and the women who would end up forming the Birds of Prey run into.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: Toward Black Canary, his "Little Bird." It's unclear just how romantic (if at all) his feelings are for her, but he's clearly very fond of her and wants her around him as much as possible since she's "the only one who calms [him]" However, his attention clearly makes her uncomfortable and she'd rather be anywhere else.
• Abled in the Adaptation: Comic Roman Sionis never wore a skull mask and his skull look is his horribly disfigured face. In this movie, Roman Sionis is still a handsome man that merely wears a skull mask.
• Adaptational Attractiveness: Whilst Roman was good looking under Doug Moench, he later suffered two consecutive disfigurements including getting a mask burnt onto his face and disfiguring off the remains of the face until it resembled a Skull. Here, his skull looks is merely a mask and he's handsome underneath..
• Adaptational Personality Change: He’s far more flamboyant and hammy than the explosive and intimidating Mask of the comics.
• Adaptational Sexuality: Comics Black Mask has never been hinted to be anything but heterosexual.
• Adaptational Wimp: While always an unpowered crime boss, the comics version is a giant intimidating man that can handle himself in fisticuffs with the likes of Catwoman or Red Hood, on top of being an expert gunman. This version is none of those things, and is even a bit of a pushover.
• Adaptation Origin Connection: In the comics, Black Mask has confronted Cassandra Cain once, but never did they have any connection. Here, he targets Cain.
• Alternate Self: Has one on Earth-Prime.
• Ambiguously Bi: He’s quite taken with and possessive of Dinah, but he’s also very flamboyant and some of his interactions with Zsasz border on romantic.
• Ax-Crazy: Roman is a frighteningly volatile man who flies into rages over almost any slight.
• Bad Boss: After Harley Quinn crippled his driver, he fires him just to stay in the Joker's good graces.
• Bait the Dog: Roman's second scene and the first to really establish him has him torturing to death a rival criminal as well as his family. When he and Zsasz finish with the wife, Roman muses on sparing the daughter for a second—then notices she has a snot-bubble in her nose from crying so hard, and orders her killed out of disgust.
• Berserk Button:
  • Family, after his own parents emotionally abused him, willed him nothing and forced Roman to make it on his own (at least according to him). Mr. Keo mentioning the word to emphasize the insular bond of the Golden Lions sets him off on a seething rant about how little the concept means to him and how badly he was treated throughout his childhood. He not only murders Keo's family afterward on a whim, but is revealed to have had a hand in the Bertinelli massacre.
  • Being ignored — or worse, mocked. He slugs Harley in the face while holding her captive for not giving him proper deference, and the mere possibility that he's being laughed at while he's in a foul mood spurs him to publicly humiliate an innocent woman.
  • Feeling rejected or betrayed in any way. He horrifically tortures and murders Keo and his family due to the latter declining Roman's We Can Rule Together offer, pressures Black Canary into accepting his "offer" that she be his personal driver on this grounds, and orders a hit on Black Canary after he finds out she contacted someone else about Cassandra Cain.
• Big Bad: The main antagonist for the ladies of Birds of Prey.
• Big Bad Wannabe: As bad as Sionis can be, the consensus on the street still places the Joker as a much bigger threat than him. Telling is that there's never been any mention of him dealing with the Batman.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: He doesn't seem to have given any thought to the Bertinelli family massacre, the defining moment of Huntress' life that led to her becoming a killer, since ordering it.
• Camp: His sexuality is ambiguous, but he's a flamboyant man.
• Character Catchphrase: He says the word "kay" on more than one occasion.
• Collector of the Strange: He shares his other incarnations' love of tribal masks, along with a number of East Asian curios in his apartment. He even has a few shrunken heads on display, because he's tickled by the power trip of using anonymous dead people as decoration.
• Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: Played with. Harley mentions that he is "also known as Black Mask" in her narration near the start of the movie, but this is the first and last time we hear anyone call him this.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To almost every villain in the DCEU thus far. While almost every prior villain had been portrayed completely seriously, had a sympathetic backstory and were often shown as capable of fighting the hero on an even level or at least had some level of bravery in confronting them, Roman is a flamboyant man with no super powers or fighting ability whose behavior is often played for laughs, he has no sympathetic backstory and he's a complete coward who wouldn't stand a chance against any of the heroes in a fair fight and avoids ever doing so.
• Depraved Bisexual: Is implied to have a relationship with Zsasz, as well a Villainous Crush on Dinah, and is as evil as they come.
• Dirty Coward: The only reason he was ever nice to Harley was because he's scared of the Joker. When the Joker leaves Harley (and apparently Gotham as well), Sionis drops the friendly act.
• Disproportionate Retribution: His Establishing Character Moment has him brutally torture to death a rival crime boss and his family for the heinous act of politely declining Roman's We Can Rule Together offer.
• Dramatic Irony: Spends a good portion of Birds of Prey searching for Cassandra Cain after she swallowed a diamond he wanted. Little does he know, his new driver Black Canary personally knows the girl and how to reach her, but due to his own self-absorbed narcissism and his insistence on cutting the girl open rather than waiting for the diamond to pass naturally, this prevents Canary from telling him, and later pushes her to turn on him to protect the girl.
• The Dreaded: Everyone who knows him well enough is wary of getting on his bad side and provoking his anger.
• Evil Is Hammy: He's quite flamboyant, with wild hand gestures, extravagant outfits and over-the-top facial expressions.
• Evil Is Petty: Like you wouldn't believe. He flies into rages or has people killed over seemingly any slight. Upon capturing her, Harley includes "pronounced it expresso", "called him Romy" and "spoiled many movies" as his possible motivations and all genuinely seem like things he would he try to kill her over.
• Evil Reactionary: Roman's implied to be right-wing, given that he apparently didn't agree with Harley's decision to vote for Bernie Sanders, who is well-known for having policies that would keep America's wealthiest from getting any richer. And given Roman's wealth came entirely from his parents, it's possible he doesn't have the skill or ambition to get by on his own merits.
• Facial Horror: Averted. Roman never goes through the motions of having his mask fused onto his face and forcibly removed to reveal a blackened skull underneath. In fact he's shown in one scene to have regular botox injections to maintain his dashing looks.
• Faux Affably Evil: Roman is immensely charming and fun to be around and he's played by the incredibly charismatic Ewan McGregor but he's also dangerously unstable and is never far away from some truly frightening displays of sadism.
• Foil:
  • To Bruce Wayne. Both came from rich families, but while Bruce became a vigilante to honour their memories, Roman became a crime lord out of resentment toward his parents. When Bruce acts like a playboy, it's all an act, but when Roman does it, it's to hide just how cruel he is. Bruce was brave enough to take on the Joker, then Superman and Doomsday, while Roman is outright afraid of the Joker and bullies people who aren't a threat to him.
  • To Orm. Both are the bluebloods of their respective regions and they seek to rise to the top by coercing their rivals into working for them. The difference is that Orm maintains a dignified façade, can hold his own in a fight and displays plenty of cunning when he needs to, while Roman can't be taken seriously either as a businessman or as a crime boss, needs his goons to fight for him and resorts to brute force at the first sign of resistance.
• Gayngster: He's an Ambiguously Bi crime boss.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Roman is a savage beast who can flip from polite and charming one second to a violent lunatic over the slightest of triggers. He arbitrarily has a woman tortured to death because her mucus grosses him out, forces a woman to strip herself in public because he thinks she's laughing at him, and spends the second half of the movie flying into so many berserk rages even Black Canary and Zsasz seem wary of him at times.
• Hate Sink: He's a misogynist, a sadist, a Spoiled Brat and a Dirty Coward who would murder a kid. Not to mention the fact that he was born into wealth and doesn't seem to suffer any mental illnesses as is typical of most Gotham criminals, which means he's got absolutely no reason to turn to a life of crime.
• He-Man Woman Hater: Roman is a virulent misogynist who sees women as tools and things for him to abuse, and this even extends to his nightclub singer Dinah Lance who constantly lives in fear of Roman snapping on her for any given reason and is still treated miles better than most of the other women Roman sees. Notably, during the overly long list of ways Harley has slighted Roman, one of them is simply "having a vagina."
• If I Can't Have You…: He's possessive of Dinah, and goes apeshit when she betrays him, sending his network of criminal buddies to kill her (as well as the rest of the eventual Birds of Prey members, Harley, and Cassandra Cain).
• It's All About Me: When he notices Canary is beginning to sing louder and drawing attention, he starts schmoozing with the guests in a very exaggerated way to bring their focus back to himself.
• Kick the Dog: He has Yeo and his family, including his young daughter, brutally murdered solely for turning down his offer of an alliance.
• Laughably Evil: He's a horrible person, but he manages to be even funnier than the Joker. He can watch Zsasz rip a person's face clean off their skull, but is squicked out by a bit of snot. He also has a habit of reacting petulantly over anything he doesn't own. When Roman holds Cassandra hostage, he's annoyed that she's ignoring him to chat with Harley, then he gets blown up in a decidely anti-climactic fashion.
• Ludicrous Gibs: Cain and Harley finish him off by chucking him off a pier with an active grenade in his hands, resulting in Roman blowing to literal pieces.
• Male Gaze: A chunk of Sionis' characterization is built around this. His way of power-tripping over an innocent woman he's perceived to have wronged him is to force her into a Shameful Strip; he makes his "pretty bird" Dinah Lance wear a revealing ensemble at his nightclub that, in a double-whammy of misogyny and racism, harks back to blaxploitation; he also has paintings of naked, tied-up women (some of whom have their faces scrawled out) as the main decoration on the walls of his home.
• Malevolent Masked Man: It's in his name, and him being a crime boss ensures no confusion. He only dons his trademark mask in the movie's last act, but it signals the point the gloves have come off.
• Man of Wealth and Taste: He runs a lucrative nightclub and fancies himself to be a sophisticate. He's also very evil.
• Marquee Alter Ego: He only briefly wears his trademark skull mask in the climax, and ditches it in his final confrontation with Harley Quinn. It's in stark contrast with the comics, in which he's pretty much always seen wearing it.
• Mood-Swinger: He can go from charming and fun to frighteningly angry and wrathful in a heartbeat and go back agains just as quickly.
• Mythology Gag: This Black Mask has someone's face cut off, Comic Black Mask cut off his own face in Batman: No Man's Land.
• Narcissist: McGregor describes him as "an absolute narcissist". Despite coming from a privileged background he performs some mental gymnastics to make it seem like he was somehow a victim of it all. He has a statue of himself in his home, and even has a shirt with pictures of his face on it.
• Neat Freak: In the most twisted, prissy way imaginable. He loves everything and everybody he finds pretty, and hates something as aesthetically distasteful to him as a snot bubble so much that he'd decide to let someone die a drawn-out, painful death just for exposing him to it.
• Oh, Crap!: In the climax, when he realizes Cassandra put a grenade on him and pulled the pin, moments before he blows up.
• Pass the Popcorn: He prepares to gleefully watch Harley being tortured after capturing her, even literally having a henchmen hand him a bowl of popcorn.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Like the comics, he's a violent misogynist who gets off on inflicting pain on women, be it physical or psychological as his scene forcing a patron to strip in the club because he thought she laughed at him shows.
• Practically Joker: Ewan McGregor's portrayal made a lot of fans think he would make a good Joker. He’s portrayed here as a flamboyant, swaggering mobster whose jocular and disarming nature contrasts with his sheer ruthlessness and sadism, and he has a specific bone to pick with Harley Quinn. In keeping with the Joker's penchant for effeminate makeup, Roman even wears Guyliner in some scenes.
• Pragmatic Adaptation: In the comics, Roman's mask is made of wood (from his father's coffin, specifically). This version's mask is made out of leather, since it's much more comfortable and easier to wear.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Very much so. Despite being a wealthy crime boss, he very much comes across as a toddler on a power trip. He has no empathy for others, childishly says "ew" every time he sees something distasteful, eagerly shows off his personal gallery to Black Canary like a five-year-old showing off his toys, and throws violent temper-tantrums every time things don't go exactly his way. (It doesn't take a lot to make him angry.) He also publicly humiliates at best, brutally tortures and murders (at worst) anyone who displeases him.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: In the comics, he has a history of tangling with Batman before becoming the Arch-Enemy to Catwoman. Here, he's the villain to Harley Quinn and the Birds of Prey, and there is no mention of Batman having faced him before.
• Sadist: One of the hallmarks of any iteration of Black Mask, and Birds of Prey's incarnation of Roman Sionis is one of the most brutal of them all. He has a nasty tendency to have the faces of his victims flayed off—while they're alive.
• Shout-Out: He probably has more in common with Gary Oldman’s Norman Stansfield from The Professional than the Black Mask of the comics. Seeing as how that film served as a major source of inspiration for Birds of Prey, it probably isn’t a coincidence.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: One of the reasons Black Mask has been able to wrap essentially the whole city around his finger is that both lawbreakers and law enforcement figures (such as cops and judges) are willing, even keen, to take his bribes.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: He has quite the foul mouth, even more so when enraged which is pretty often.
• Sissy Villain: He's this trope incarnate. He's flamboyant and has a very garish dress sense, exceptional good looks, no fighting ability, and very expensive taste.
• Skewed Priorities: Unfazed by the sight of someone getting skinned alive, but a bit of snot grosses him out.
• Superhero Movie Villains Die: Gets blown to bits at the end courtesy of Cassandra unpinning a grenade on him.
• Undignified Death: Already belittled, humiliated, injured, and reduced to a desperate thug by the time he bites it, Roman gets thrown off the pier by Harley, flailing and shrieking as he falls, and is blown to shreds before he even hits the water.
• Verbal Tic: A prissy little "ew" whenever he encounters anything he finds distasteful.
• Villainous Crush: "Crush" might be overstating it, but he's clearly very fond of Black Canary. After "promoting" her to be his personal driver he seems to want her around as much as possible, eagerly shows off his collection of the strange, and at one point after a violent episode he urges her to dance with him since she's "the only one who calms [him]." Unfortunately for him (and her), his feelings are entirely one-sided and she'd rather be as far away from him as possible.
• Villainous Friendship: With Zsasz, who Harley calls his "BFF," though it's also implied the two may be more than just friends. That said, his friendship with Zsasz is more along the lines of a shared fondness for each other's bloodlust and cruelty than any genuine care for one another. Their relationship is described as hinging on a "love of anarchy."
• Villain with Good Publicity: As far as the Gotham PD are concerned, he's a legit businessman and a part of one of the wealthiest and most respected families in Gotham.
• Would Hurt a Child: Roman has zero compunction killing Cain for the diamond she swallowed, and neither does he have any qualms with arranging massacres on crime families that sweep up the innocent kids with them. Young Huntress barely survived the massacre of her family this way, a slaughter Roman himself funded.

Victor Zsasz

Victor Zsasz

"I got one for all the little birds I helped fly away from this world."

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Black Mask's Gang

Played by: Chris Messina

Appearances: Birds of Prey

"I knew you couldn't be trusted. Roman's little bird. You little fucking bird. That's why he needs me to look out for him. That's why he needs me to take care of him."

The sadistic main enforcer of Roman Sionis/Black Mask.

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• Adaptation Origin Connection: He is revealed to have been one of the mob gunmen who murdered Helena Bertinelli's family.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Normally a disturbed loner that the majority of Batman's rogues know to steer well clear of for concern they'll be his next mark, here he's fanatically loyal to — and obsessed with — his boss Roman Sionis, mirroring Harley's former situation.
• Adaptational Sexuality: Going hand-in-hand with Adaptation Relationship Overhaul, it's all but explicitly stated Victor has a sick, possessive crush on his own boss. While he and Roman are constantly getting touchy with each other, it's more emphasized on Zsasz's end, to the point where he goes onto a rant how he's the only one who can "take care" of Roman shortly before his own death.
• Ax-Crazy: Zsasz is a deeply unstable person who practically oozes crazy whenever he's on screen.
• Beard of Evil: He's shown here with a short beard, as opposed to his clean-shaven comic counterpart.
• Composite Character: While he has several of Victor Zsasz's signature traits such as his psychosis and tally scars, his flamboyancy and modus operandi of cutting off people's faces (albeit on Roman's orders) gives him traits of Flamingo.
• Covered in Scars: Like his comic counterpart, he's covered in numerous self-inflicted scars, each representing someone he murdered.
• Delinquent Hair: Sports a bottle-blond buzzcut that contrasts his natural dark facial hair.
• The Dragon: He's the chief enforcer to Roman Sionis.
• Faux Affably Evil: Zsasz is always polite and charming but can never quite cover up that there's something seriously off about him and he keeps the tone even as he's about to gleefully murder people.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars:
  • He's got several messed up scars on the right side of his head, which serve to make him more unnerving.
  • He carves a tally scar onto himself for each of his victims.
• Green-Eyed Monster: He seems to be especially terrible to Dinah because of how much Roman likes her.
• Foil: To Harley. Both The Dragon to powerful crime bosses, Victor comes across as what Harley would be if she had stayed with the Joker.
• Hidden Depths: Zsasz may be sadistic and depraved, but he's not stupid, as shown by how he figures out that Dinah is the mole. He's also pragmatic enough to manipulate the situation subtly—instead of killing her immediately, he pretends he needs to use the restroom so she'll pull over and give him a moment to himself. This gives Zsasz a chance to tell Ronan that Dinah snitched, which leads to Ronan assembling an army of goons to storm the Amusement Mile. When Zsasz gets back, he continues to play it cool, only announcing his knowledge after they've located Cassandra, and he uses it to threaten Dinah with death unless she guts Cassandra to get the diamond.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: He's primarily a foe of Batman in the comics and previous incarnations instead of Harley Quinn or the Birds of Prey. There's no mention of that universe's Batman previously dealing with him.
• Sadist: He clearly enjoys inflicting pain, even on himself.
• Secondary Color Nemesis: He wears a lot of green, as opposed to the color scheme of Primary Color Champions Black Canary (who sports yellow and blue), Huntress (blue), Renee Montoya (blue), and their Protectorate Cassandra Cain (in red).
• Self-Harm: He carves a scar on his own body for each one of his victims.
• Serial Killer: Not as pronounced as his comic counterpart, who is covered head-to-toe in tally marks, but Zsasz is still a disturbed murderer who scars himself for each person he kills and gleefully tells Harley he's reserved a spot for her.
• Single-Target Sexuality: He shows no interest in anyone else but Roman.
• Slasher Smile: Gleefully smiles whenever Black Mask orders him to mutilate or kill someone.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: He always speaks in a low and calm voice, especially when getting ready to do something horrific.
• Time-Passage Beard: He's shown clean-shaven in flashbacks to the Bertinelli massacre, making his beard in the present day this trope.
• Torture Technician: Roman almost never gets his hands dirty personally, so Zsasz is the main instrument of Roman's brutality, and he's handy in the art of literally skinning the faces off of his victims.
• Truer to the Text: While he's a mob hitman like the Zsaszs of Batman Begins and Gotham, he is closer to the comics Zsasz, including having a full head of blond hair like Zsasz was originally depicted and has the comic character's sadism and twisted view of the world.
• Would Hurt a Child: One of his first scenes has him brutally murdering Keo's daughter without a second's hesitation and he gleefully participated in the Bertinelli family massacre which included Helena and her young brother. That's in addition to being fully prepared to murder Cassandra to retrieve the Bertinelli diamond.

Black Canary

See Gotham Vigilantes for tropes on this character.

Roman's Chauffeur

Roman's Chauffeur

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Black Mask's Gang (formerly)

Played by: Daniel Bernhardt

Appearances: Birds of Prey

"You broke my fucking legs!"

A former employee of Roman Sionis. Harley Quinn broke his legs for a laugh, prompting Roman to hire Dinah as a replacement driver. The now unemployed chauffeur would then seek revenge on Harley.

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• Alas, Poor Villain: He may have been willing to work for an obvious scumbag like Roman Sionis, but it's still pretty easy to sympathize with the guy considering he was never shown doing any actual villainous deeds. Since he was working for a crime boss, it's possible his job prospects weren't that good to begin with, which was only exacerbated by having a disability to top it off.
• No-Respect Guy: After Harley cripples him, she mocks his pain and Roman fires him on the spot.

False Face Society

False Face Society

Species: Humans

Citizenship: Americans

Affiliation(s): Black Mask's Gang

Appearances: Birds of Prey

"Friends. Brothers. Men of Gotham! I have funded you. I've protected you. I scratched your backs and kept you out of jail. Well, now it's time to say thank you. Go show those little bitches you don't mess with Roman Sionis!"

—Roman Sionis/Black Mask

A gang of masked thugs working for Roman Sionis.

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• Conservation of Ninjutsu: Dozens of armed men who are beaten by four women protecting a girl. Justified, as said women hide out in a dimly-lit amusement park where they can exploit their surroundings.
• Faceless Goons: They wear sinister masks when they attack the Birds of Prey.
• Malevolent Masked Men: Their gimmick.
• Multi-Mook Melee: They all attack at once, using blunt weapons, blades and firearms.
• Zerg Rush: They don't show much in the way of combat strategy, just charging at the Birds of Prey with random weapons. It doesn't work out for them.

Other Crime Syndicates

Monster T

Monster T

"Hey, J! On behalf of everybody, welcome back. I wanted to come by and personally say thank you. You making me good money. I'm making you good money."

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Played by: Common

Dubbed by: Mark Grosy (European French), Patrick Chouinard (Canadian French)

Appearances: Suicide Squad

"Mmmh, you're a lucky man. You got a bad bitch."

A crime boss in Gotham City who frequents the lavish strip club of the Joker.

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• All Men Are Perverts: He calls Harley Quinn a "bad bitch" and enjoys her tempting.
• Bald of Evil: A hairless crime boss.
• Boom, Headshot!: Joker ends up putting a bullet in his head.
• Cool Shades: He wears sunglasses when entering Joker's club.
• No Name Given: He is just known as "Monster T".
• Tattooed Crook: He has tattoos on his bald head. There's a Latin cross on his left cheek, most notably.
• Too Dumb to Live: Calling Harley a "bad bitch" cannot possibly end well when you're talking to the freaking Joker.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: He gets killed in his only scene, about two minutes after appearing onscreen.

Bertinelli Family

The Bertinelli Family

Species: Humans

Citizenship: Americans

Affiliation(s): Bertinelli crime family

Played by:

Appearances: Birds of Prey

The crime family in which Helena "Huntress" Bertinelli was born. They were all wiped out by a rival gang, save for Helena, who then dedicated her life to avenge them.

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• Death by Origin Story: The massacre of her family put Helena on the path to become a deadly badass and avenge them.
• The Mafia: A once powerful Italian-American crime family.
• Sole Survivor: Helena is the only survivor of the massacre.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: They appear just long enough in a descriptive flashback of Huntress' Origin Story to be gunned down.
• You Killed My Father: Helena's entire family was gunned down, which put her on a path made of vengeance.

Mr. Keo

Mr. Keo

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Golden Lions gang

Played by: François Chau

Appearances: Birds of Prey

The leader of the Golden Lions, an Asian gang (possibly Cambodian, given his name) in Gotham City, which stays in the way of Roman Sionis' territorial expansion.

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• And Your Little Dog, Too!: Sionis spares neither him nor his wife and daughter in the end.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Sionis has him captured and hung upside down along with his wife and daughter. Then Victor Zsasz peels off their faces.
• Honor Before Reason: He turns down Black Mask's proposal for an alliance because the Golden Lions is a family-owned gang. Considering Roman is one of the most powerful and sadistic crime bosses in the city, this wasn't a good idea.
• Mob War: Roman Sionis expands his control over Gotham City's fringes regardless of which gangs stand in his way. It culminates with the capture and killing of Mr. Keo.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: He's killed in his first scene, then there's use of a How We Got Here scene showing his initial meeting with Sionis.

Stefano Galante

Stefano Galante

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Galante crime family, Black Mask's gang

Played by: Robert Catrini

Appearances: Birds of Prey

Rival to the Bertinelli crime family. He teamed up with Roman Sionis to slaughter all of them, with Helena being the sole survivor.

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• Orcus on His Throne: To demonstrate his authority, he's shown sitting during the Bertinelli massacre while his henchmen and hostages stand.
• Posthumous Character: He's already dead by the time the film starts.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: He's onscreen just long enough to establish why the Huntress is on a killing spree.
• You Killed My Father: Since he was the head of the massacre, the Huntress targets him first.

Vincent Inzerillo

Vincent Inzerillo

"Time for my insurace policy — Girder, get out here and earn your keep!"

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Inzerillo crime family

Appearances: The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive

"Get the merchandise out of the truck. We don't have to deal with the Bat in Central City, but don't get too comfortable — I don't want to stay here a minute longer than we have to."

A mobster that migrates to Central City to avoid dealing with the Batman.

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• Big Bad Wannabe: He migrated to Central City because he'd hoped to avoid the competition in Gotham - going as far as to recruit a metahuman to deal with their local superhero - but at the end of the day he's just a common criminal in a world of gods, demons and paranormal life forms.
• Forehead of Doom: He's drawn with a large forehead that compliments his Thin Chin of Sin.
• Karma Houdini: While the Flash screws up his arms deal, Inzerillo still manages to get away due to Girder distracting the speedster.
• Lack of Empathy: He refuses to pay Girder for his services when a deal goes bust, even though Girder is the reason he was even able to elude the Flash. With Girder only turning to crime to support his sickly father, Vincent's cheap nature makes him look especially nasty.

Mercenaries

Anatoli Knyazev

See Superman's Rogues Gallery for tropes on this character.

Firefly

Garfield Lynns / Firefly

"I can breathe when there's no oxygen. Can you?"

Species: Human

Appearances: From the World of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

A Gotham City-based criminal who specializes in pyrotechnics.

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• Aborted Arc: His live-action debut in Batgirl, due to the film being shelved at the last minute.
• Destroy the Evidence: He is hired to burn some incriminating evidences.
• Kill It with Fire: He is hired to destroy a building and tries burning Batman upon confrontation.
• Psycho for Hire: He is contracted to burn incriminating evidences. And he loves every minute of it.
• Pyromaniac: True to the text, he loves his flamethrower and explosives.
• Smug Snake: Puts too much faith in his gadgets and flamethrower, believing that's what allows him an advantage over Batman. He's wrong.

Deadshot

See here.

Deathstroke

Slade Wilson / Deathstroke

"You said this was important. You better not be wasting my time!"

^{Click here to see him unmasked}

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Played by: Joe Manganiello

Dubbed by:

Appearances: Justice League | Zack Snyder's Justice League

Other appearances: Test footage

Lex Luthor: If you want the Batman, here is something that can help you...His name is Bruce Wayne.

Deathstroke: Hmm! On second thought, we do have something to celebrate!

A professional assassin who's recruited by Lex Luthor, as both villains have a score to settle with Batman.

See also The Knightmare for more information.

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• Aborted Arc:
  • His appearance in Justice League as Zack Snyder and Chris Terrio intended it was meant to be an Early-Bird Cameo before Ben Affleck's Batman film project at the time (which morphed into the non-DCEU film The Batman), in which he was supposed to be the main villain, as he's hired by Lex Luthor to kill Batman. That project was scrapped.
  • The meaning of his appearance was tweaked in the theatrical version as Luthor recruited him into his "league". If there were plans behind this, those did not materialize either.
• Age Lift: Typically depicted as being in his 50s, here Deathstroke is played by an actor who's at least a decade younger than his comics self.
• Alternate Self: Deathstroke has counterparts on Earth Prime, Earth-9 and Earth-167.
• Arch-Enemy: He considers Batman to be this, for reasons unexplained. Lex remarks that his hatred of the Caped Crusader is so strong he's willing to kill him pro-bono.
• The Cameo: He appears in the post-credits scene of Justice League, in which he has a meeting with Lex Luthor on a yacht to discuss the creation of a Legion of Doom.
• Cool Mask: Wears a black and orange mask that conceals his missing/sightless eye.
• The Dreaded: Even someone as powerful and deranged as Lex Luthor treads lightly around Deathstroke, remarking that he values living too much to dare risk wasting Slade's time.
• Dude, Not Funny!: He does not appreciate jokes about his eyepatch.
• Evil Former Friend: Possibly: actor Joe Manganiello went on record to say that, in the DCEU, Slade and Bruce were both trained within the League of Assassins (mirroring Batman Begins for Bruce with the League of Shadows). Apparently enough time passed since then for Slade to not be aware that Bruce became Batman. With this in mind, his reaction to finding out Batman's identity could be less of a "ah, famous billionaire Bruce Wayne" and more of a "Ah... THAT Bruce Wayne..."
• A Glass of Chianti: Upon hearing Batman's true identity, Deathstroke decides to celebrate by having a glass of champagne with Lex Luthor.
• Hidden Depths: In the Bad Future, the hilt of his sword is decorated with a pin that's taken from the Halo video game series. Apparently, this Deathstroke is a Closet Geek.
• It's Personal: His response when asked why he's willing to kill Batman pro bono.
  Lex: Ah, "an eye for an eye"?
  Slade: (Dude, Not Funny!)
• Legion of Doom: In the theatrical cut, he becomes Lex Luthor's first associate as he forms a league following the return of Superman and the Justice League's formation.
• Master Swordsman: Wields at least two different kinds of swords, hinting at his diverse skill set.
• Mythology Gag: His black and orange body armor heavily resembles the version from Batman: Arkham Origins.
• Professional Killer: He is a high profile assassin for hire. Since his next target is Batman however, he offers to do it pro bono.

Other Criminals

Joe Chill

Joseph Chilton, a.k.a. "Joe Chill"

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Played by: Damon Caro

Appearances: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

The mugger who killed Thomas and Martha Wayne near a movie theater in Gotham City in 1981, just after they had finished watching The Mark of Zorro with their son Bruce.

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• All There in the Manual: He's not named in the film. However, a promotional game for the release of Batman v Superman revealed his name.
• Alternate Self: Has one on Earth-167.
• Beard of Evil: Sports an unshaven look.
• My God, What Have I Done?: After shooting Martha he briefly has a look of shock on his face.
• Rule of Symbolism: Right before he shoots Martha his gun snags on her pearl necklace, tightening it against her neck like a noose. He literally holds her life in his hand.
• Shadow Archetype: His lack of characterisation outside of killing people is ultimately how Superman views Batman. Ironically, Bruce became Batman to stop men like him.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Despite his single short appearance, his crime set several events into motion. He spurred Bruce Wayne into becoming a crimefighter, which gained the attention of Clark and convinced him that Batman needs to be dealt with. The manner in which his victims died also became a deciding factor in Batman changing his mind about Superman. Not to mention all the incidents that could only have happened via Batman, such as Doomsday being killed, Wonder Woman coming out of retirement, three members of Task Force X being recruited and the Justice League being formed.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: It was never known if he was caught by the police or if Batman found the killer of his parents later on in this incarnation.
• Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Possibly. While Thomas and Martha died defending Bruce, their murderer doesn't try to kill their son once they're out of the way.

Cesar Santos

Cesar Santos

"You can't put me in the general, they're gonna kill me!"

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Played by: Sebastian Sozzi

Dubbed by: Hervé Caffin (European French)

Appearances: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

A human trafficker based in Gotham City with ties to Anatoli Knyazev. Batman interrogates him for the latter reason, and brands a Bat Sign on him for the former reason.

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• Asshole Victim: Deconstructed. While kidnapping foreign women and selling them into sex slavery is an undoubtedly awful act deserving of punishment, the presence of Caesar's girlfriend and child serves to demonstrate that killing him outright won't necessarily make the world a better place.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He has a girlfriend named Adriana who cares about him, and a son.
• Eye Scream: Best seen in the extended cut of Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice where his beating by Batman has him sporting a very swollen eye.
• Human Trafficker: Several scared East Asian women are discovered imprisoned in a cell at his home, presumably for that purpose. It earns him a Mark of Shame from Batman.
• Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Batman tortures him at his home to obtain informations before being interrupted by a police patrol.
• Mark of Shame: Batman iron-brands the Bat Sign on him before leaving him to be arrested. In the Ultimate Edition cut, as soon as the other prisoners know that he has said mark (thanks to Anatoli Knyazev informing one of them about it), he's screwed.
• Shirtless Scene: He's got two shirtless scenes, but it's by no mean for fanservice. The first one is when GCPD cops find him iron-branded at his home after bumping into Batman. The second one is from the Ultimate Edition cut and shows him in custody at the police station, fearing for his life now that he's branded.
• Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: He is a human trafficker and keeps several women locked in his basement to sell them as Sex Slaves.

Killer Croc

See here.

Burglar

Burglar

"It's 'cause they know he's dead, right? Superman. He's gone, what does that leave us?"

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Played by: Holt McCallany

Dubbed by:

Appearances: Justice League

Burglar: What do you want from me?!
Batman: Fear! They can smell it.

An unnamed burglar from Gotham City. Batman captures him on a rooftop and uses him to lure a Parademon.

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• The Bait: Unwilling version. Batman captures him on a building's rooftop, then holds him over the building's edge. The man's resulting fear of heights (or fear of dying, or both) lures a Parademon, which Batman captures after wrestling with it in mid-air.
• Holding Out for a Hero: He's not wrong at all when guessing that the Parademons start showing up on Earth because of Superman's death, and wonders what the world will become without him.
• Locked Up and Left Behind: He is still tied when Batman leaves the scene. Of course, being a vigilante, Batman has no reason to free the burglar, but it's not known if he left him to be arrested by the police or not.
• No Name Given: He is not named onscreen.

The Riddler

The Riddler

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

One of Batman's rogues.

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• Alternate Self: He has counterparts on Earth-Prime, Earth-9, Earth-66, Earth-97, and Earth-99.
• The Ghost: He hasn't appeared in the series, only being mentioned during a conversation between Peacemaker and his father's neighbor.
• Riddle Me This: His gimmick, as per usual, is to leave behind clues to his crimes in the form of riddles.

Mad Hatter

Mad Hatter

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

One of Batman's rogues.

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• Alternate Self: He has iterations that exist on Earth-Prime, Earth-9, and Earth-66.
• The Ghost: All that's mentioned of him in the franchise is a name-drop by Peacemaker's father's neighbor.

The Jacks

The Jacks

"Let's show them who should really be afraid!"

Species: Humans

Citizenship: American

Appearances: The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive

"With every other gang skipping town, it's time for the Jacks to take over!"

The latest costumed gang to surface in Gotham City.

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• Big Bad Wannabe: They aspire to be the biggest bad since the Joker, but they made a grave mistake underestimating Batman. As soon as the Flash shows up, their crime spree ends as soon as it begins.
• Bomb Throwing Anarchist: They're introduced causing explosions all for the sake of unleashing some chaos.
• Canon Foreigner: The Jacks are unique to the DC Extended Universe, though a superhero with a similar theme and appearance is a member of the Ultramarine Corps within the DC canon.
• Elemental Motifs: Fire. They're fond of explosives and their masks resemble Jack o' Lanterns, which means having eyes and grins which look like they're blazing.
• Gang of Hats: A gang whose members all wear Jack o' Lantern themed helmets.
• Secondary Color Nemesis: The mooks all wear orange helmets while the Jack leader wears a costume comprised of secondary colors.
• Underestimating Badassery: They assumed Batman's age would have softened him up. Obviously they don't know that he almost killed Superman and survived battles with Doomsday and Steppenwolf.

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