Characters / DC Future State

Batman Family

Bruce Wayne / Batman I

“Wayne Enterprises, Batman. My technology, my justice. It's what helped build the Magistrate. Which means I know how to break it down.”

• Badass Normal: As always, arguably more pronounced this time as he doesn't have access to his wealth. Forcing him to use ingenuity to give himself an advantage.
• Faking the Dead: The world thinks both Bruce and Batman are dead and he intends to keep it that way.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: The Magistrate's miniaturized surveillance drones and, by extension, a notable number of their armaments, were based off of blueprints derived from Wayne Enterprises. This has resulted in Bruce's cover being blown on multiple occasions and his one sanctuary in the city inevitably being compromised by the very thing that was supposed to support his own operations as Batman.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: After his disastrous encounter with Peacekeeper-01 led to him being near-fatally shot in an alleyway, Bruce has officially lost everything that made him an unrivaled force to be reckoned with in Gotham City. His wealth? Gone. His vast arsenal of bleeding-edge gadgets and fleets of armored vehicles? Gone. His expansive support network of sidekicks, specialists, and allies within law enforcement? Gone or unreachable thanks to the Magistrate's occupation. Now Bruce is effectively a disheveled nonperson forced to operate out of the home of a somewhat crazed Conspiracy Theorist living off the grid named Noah and his more well-adjusted daughter Hannah.
• Passing the Torch: Played with. While he doesn't explicitly say it out loud, Bruce is not at all surprised that someone took up the mantle of Batman in the time he's been presumed dead and even seems to endorse the successor as he reiterates to himself that the Dark Knight is supposed to be a symbol, not any one particular person. That said, Bruce's only concern is that he hopes the new guy wearing his cowl knows what he's doing.
  Bruce Wayne: Batman is dead. Long live Batman.
• Uncertain Doom: The end of Dark Detective sees Bruce caught in an catastrophic explosion at the Magistrate's HQ while holding back Peacekeeper-01 so Hannah can escape with the data necessary to expose what the Magistrate has been really doing in Gotham City. So far, none of the other Future State books have confirmed his fate since.
  • In Future State: Gotham, it's presented at first that Bruce survived the encounter and has been secretly operating as Jason's contact against the Magistrate. But it's later revealed that Jason was actually being manipulated by Thomas Elliot, leaving the fate of the real Bruce Wayne still up in the air.

Timothy "Jace" Fox / Batman V

• Ascended Extra: Prior to Future State, Tim Fox appeared in a total of six Silver Age issues of Batman, before being reintroduced only just recently in late 2020.
• Badass Normal: Jace truly lives up to his legacy in this regard. His combat prowess and capacity for stealth are seemingly on par with Bruce himself. And unlike Jean-Paul or Terry who both relied on Powered Armor for their crime-fighting escapades, Jace only uses the bare essentials for his primary arsenal alongside his own wits.
• Bash Brothers: Ironically enough, Jace becomes this with Dick Grayson, the original Boy Wonder himself, during the Magistrate's raid on the latter's hideout in the now defunct Arkham Asylum. The two hit things off really well while fighting off Peacekeeper-06 and her forces.
  Nightwing: What I've got planned tonight. The risk-versus-reward ratio is tight even by our standards. If I don't live to see another day, Gotham should have at least one of us. It needs a...it needs Batman.
  Jace: Thank you. But from what I understand...Batman decides who in Gotham needs his help. And right now, that's you. Okay?
  Nightwing: Well...Dynamic Duo it is, then.
  • Happens again with Jason Todd of all people during the events of Future State: Gotham, teaming up to take down Warmonger and his followers after Jace proves his innocence.
• Black Sheep: Jace...isn't exactly on good terms with the rest of his family. Especially with his brother Luke who straight up calls him "the Fox Family screw up" and wants nothing to do with him.
• Character Tics: He hums to himself in battle, which should be disrupting his cardio, but only Superman can hear it, so it could be unconscious stress relief.
• Cool Mask: Unlike Bruce's cowl, Jace's Batman cowl comes with a mask that covers his mouth, probably as a pragmatic decision to fool the Magistrate's facial recognition software.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Before he returned to Gotham City, Jace was a wetwork operator who targeted major underworld figures alongside his long time comrade Vol who in turn served as Jace's trusted handler. His body is Covered with Scars over the numerous escapades he was involved in up until a mission in Vietnam went sideways. Jace was also involved in an incident in his youth that fractured his relationship with his family and exiled him out of Gotham in the first place as consequence.
• Deadpan Snarker: Where as Bruce was infamously stoic and grim while wearing the cowl, Jace has a notably more sardonic persona and is even prone to swearing while under pressure.
  Jace: Maaan. What ever happened to thugs being cowardly and superstitious?
• Do Not Call Me "Paul": He hates being called Tim and prefers to go by Jace.
• Flat Character: Future State as a whole only alludes to Jace's backstory, with hints towards his personality. Namely, that he carries guilt over some incident from his past and is more snarky and outwardly aggressive as Batman. However, beyond that, he's one of the less characterised characters in the crossover. Jace's backstory and personality would be more fully explored in the main DC Universe, with works such as The Next Batman: Second Son and I Am Batman establishing that he's got Big Brother Instincts with his sisters, is almost completely estranged from his family, is an atoner with a death wish and has a huge disdain for the rich and privileged, in part because of his own self-loathing.
• Good Old Ways: A justified example. With the Magistrate's cutting-edge surveillance tech backing their city wide operation, Jace has no choice but to go analog to avoid being tracked by their strike teams. This goes as far as Jace having to resort to using burner phones to communicate with his ambiguously Slavic Mission Control named Vol.
• Hates My Secret Identity:
  • His parents Lucius and Tanya fully endorse the Magistrate's war effort against all masks after the personal tragedies the Fox Family were forced to endure thanks to their association with Batman. In fact, upon encountering the new Batman during his attempt to save the life of a suspect in his protective custody, Tanya's first instinct is to pull out a gun and attempt to murder Bats in cold blood even if it means potentially killing the innocent people around him if she misses. Jace has no choice but to wound her with a batarang before she can pull the trigger.
  • His older brother Luke is an inverted example. He absolutely despises Jace's guts and firmly believes their folks should've disowned him outright instead of continually entertain the idea that they could ever be a family again. But by virtue of being a member of the Batfamily, Luke admits to their youngest sister Tiffany in a moment of Dramatic Irony that anybody willing to take up the mantle of the Bat and fight for the people of Gotham has to be a good person.
• Hero Stole My Bike: With no other mode of transportation available, Jace hotwires somebody's parked SUV in a desperate move to safely transport two people at risk of being killed by the Magistrate to his contact within the GCPD.
• Noodle Incident: Screech Owl wants to torture Batman for bringing him back to life. The details of how and when this happened are not elaborated on.
• Properly Paranoid: He doesn't trust anyone in (New)The Justice League, and only works with them because he has to. Once he learns there are telepaths and shapeshifters on Earth it literally takes the certain death of himself and every other human before he even considers working with them again, and he interrogates them all for as long as he possibly can even with extinction on the horizon.
• The Most Wanted: In spite of Peacekeeper-01's repeated dismissal of him as a fake wearing Bruce's cowl, Jace has successfully evaded or outright wiped the floor with every hit squad sent after him, earning the new Dark Knight the number one spot on the Magistrate's kill list with their drones and armed patrols constantly surveilling the streets of Gotham for any sign of his presence. This gets worse after Jace gets wrongfully implicated as the terrorist responsible for the destruction of the Narrows, putting him in the crosshairs of the Peacekeepers, Jason Todd, and the Bat-Family as a whole.
• The Spook: While The Next Batman does establish his personality, the dynamic he has with his family, and makes allusions to his background and motivations, Jace is this in-universe to both the Bat-Family and the Justice League by virtue of nobody knowing who the hell he is under the cowl. As far as the former is concerned, he's a guy with a formidable skillset who seemingly came out of nowhere shortly after Bruce's death and has been giving the Magistrate total hell ever since, which is enough for some Bat-Family members to consider him an ally. While among his teammates in the latter, he's secretive and seemingly paranoid just like what you would expect from the typical Bat-Person. This gets deconstructed in Future State: Gotham after Jace is framed for the bombing of the Narrows, as his enigmatic nature leads some members of the Bat-Family to genuinely question if they were wrong to trust him.
  Nightwing: Do you really think Batman would blow a giant bat-shaped hole in Gotham and kill all of those people?
  Jason Todd: Our Batman wouldn't do that, sure. But this new guy? Can you really say you know him? What he's capable of? Good or bad?
  Stephanie Brown: I mean...he's got a point.
• Superior Successor: According to the opening dialogue in Future State: Justice League, Jace eventually succeeds in "truly saving Gotham" and turned the city into a better place. A feat not even Bruce has accomplished in his lifetime as a vigilante.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: In contrast to his more amicable dynamic with Dick Grayson, Jace is forced to work with the newly made Peacekeeper Jason Todd after the two suddenly find themselves in a Prison Riot at Blackgate Penitentiary. But once it becomes clear that Jace really wasn't responsible for the bombing of the Narrows, the two successfully put aside their differences to stop the real culprit: The Warmonger.
• To Be Lawful or Good: Possibly one of his biggest personal conflicts as a superhero beyond living up to the legacy of the Bat. Jace is incredibly empathetic to the plight of some of the more morally grey figures he faces on the streets of Gotham which makes him routinely reexamine his purpose as a vigilante. The most notable example of this is in the second issue, where Jace finds out that the murder victim he was investigating was actually a child predator who was killed by the grieving parents of a young girl the victim was grooming and inevitably kidnapped. While Jace understands why the mother and father did what they did and explicitly believes the victim got what he deserved, the new Batman ultimately decides that he can't overlook the murder they committed and tries his best to convince them to turn themselves in to the GCPD so they can have their rightful day in court instead of being gunned down by the Magistrate.

Dick Grayson / Nightwing

“How many more victims...? ...How many masks on that call is Peacekeeper-01 going to hurt and torture and kill and— —I need to reset. Refocus. Prepare.”

• Bash Brothers: Becomes this with Jace Fox during the Magistrate's raid on Arkham Asylum, leading to the duo becoming fast Fire-Forged Friends.
• Rebel Leader: After Bruce was presumably murdered at the hands of Peacekeeper-01, Dick became the de facto leader of the Bat Family and the various resistance movements fighting tooth and nail against the Magistrate's rule over Gotham City.
• Tired of Running: In Future State: Nightwing, Dick is so fed up of the Magistrate's Death of a Thousand Cuts tactics against him and his family that he decides to set into motion a Batman Gambit of his own by baiting the Magistrate into attacking him in a location where he has homefield advantage (Arkham Asylum) before using a swarm of camera drones to record every act of overkill and Police Brutality they'll resort to just to capture one man. Dick's gambit ends up paying off way better than expected as the new Batman's sudden presence spurns Peacekeeper-06 into arrogantly confessing to the murder of a ten year old girl Jace rescued from human traffickers, permanently ruining the carefully cultivated public image the Magistrate has made for themselves.
• Took a Level in Cynic: Having to endure living life as a wanted fugitive combined with his guilt over not being there when Bruce needed him the most causes Dick to embody some of his surrogate father's worst traits, most notably putting his own life at unneeded risk doing things alone in the misguided belief that he's "protecting" his peers within the resistance by keeping them far away from the fight as possible. It takes Jace summoning the Batfamily behind his back for Dick to realize he's been going about this the wrong way.

Jason Todd / Red Hood / Peacekeeper Red

• Battle Couple: At some point in time, Jason officially entered a relationship with Rose Wilson. While the two tend to clash while hunting down the same bounties, Jason clearly cares enough about Rose that he arranges things with his contact to get her out of Gotham before things with the Magistrate can start to heat up.
• The Commissioner Gordon: After defeating Warmonger and reversing the effect of his brainwashing tech over the city, Jason comes to the conclusion that as much as he would like to reunite with the rest of the Bat-Family, his new position as a full-fledged Peacekeeper is just too valuable to turn his back on. So Jason instead vows to become Jace's Friend on the Force from within the Magistrate just like Gordon was to Bruce within the GCPD. He even creates a new Bat Signal in the form of a deployable holographic projector capable of blanketing the sky with the famed insignia to make it official.
  Jason: When Bruce first became Batman, he faced a city just as corrupt [as the Magistrate]. But with the help of the only good cop in Gotham, he was able to make a difference. I believe that if we work together we could make a difference, too. Take down the Magistrate for good. As partners.
  Jace: Naw, man...as friends!
• Cool Bike: Rides around the streets of Gotham on a Kaneda-inspired red motorcycle.
• Elite Mook: As Peacekeeper Red, Jason has been officially granted probationary membership in the Peacekeeper Detail with "Code One" clearance for all of their resources. If Jason succeeds in apprehending the new Batman, he'll be promoted to a full-fledged Peacekeeper with his own jurisdiction in Gotham to oversee. Jason eventually earns the promotion on a technicality, turning him into a Dragon with an Agenda instead to Peacekeeper-01.
• Face–Heel Turn: Downplayed. Jason willingly sided with the Magistrate as a registered Bounty Hunter as a means of infiltrating their ranks while simultaneously collaborating with Bruce Wayne. His position also puts him in a better position to capture his fellow vigilantes alive instead of letting them get killed in a confrontation with any of the Magistrate's roaming death squads. He even ends up butting heads with Ravager after she jumps the gun and kills a fugitive that Jason was trying to take in alive.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: While Jason's reputation hasn't exactly been spotless, his decision to fake a Face–Heel Turn and side with the Magistrate has made him an even more loathed figure in Gotham than usual. The surviving members of the Bat-Family now see Jason as a traitor who's turned his back on everybody and the people of Gotham believe he's a jackbooted Sell-Out. His superiors within the Magistrate also love giving Jason grief for his past as a vigilante and are practically itching for a reason to put him in cuffs as well. Thankfully, he at least regains the trust of Dick and the others after explaining his real motivations.
• Secret-Keeper: Subverted. Jason thought himself to be one of the very few people who knew that Bruce Wayne was still alive after "Bruce" had reached out to him with the mission to infiltrate the Magistrate. But Jason would later find out this was actually Hush, who had been manipulating him on behalf of an unknown employer.
• Stock Ninja Weaponry: His weapon of choice these days is a Kusarigama with a Variable-Length Chain.
• Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist: In Future State: Gotham, Jason Todd becomes this to Jace Fox after the latter had been implicated as the culprit responsible for the catastrophic bombing of Gotham City's Narrows. The only thing keeping Jason from being a full-out Inspector Javert is that his initial hunch was that the bombing was a Frame-Up since it doesn't fit the new Batman's MO at all. It isn't until Jason's contact confirms Jace's involvement that he starts going after the Dark Knight in full force as Peacekeeper Red.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: While attempting to interrogate Astrid Arkham in Blackgate Penitentiary, Jason is forced to work alongside the new Batman after the two suddenly find themselves smack dead in the middle of a Prison Riot set off by the true perpetrator of the Narrows Bombing.

Tim Drake / Robin

“They need me. Gotham needs me. But can I take on the Magistrate without them?”

• All Up to You: With Nightwing indisposed in Arkham, Jason Todd siding with the Magistrate, and Damian Wayne being presumably gone, Tim is the only member of the Bat-Family who can stop the Magistrate's shipment of Lazarus Resin: an experimental compound that can essentially grant their combat android's healing factors which could make them nigh-unstoppable. Tim succeeds, but not before Stephanie is captured by the Magistrate.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: Future State: Shazam unfortunately mentions Tim as one of the now sociopathic Shazam's many murder victims.
• Empowered Badass Normal: After being resurrected by the Lazarus Resin, Tim obtained a low form of enhanced strength and stamina at the cost of the gradual mental degradation associated with the waters of the Lazarus Pit. By the time of Future State: Gotham, Tim's mental health has thankfully recovered in full with him developing a Healing Factor of his own for his troubles.
• Raised Hand of Survival: Does this at the end of his comic after crashing into the Gotham Harbor, signifying he survived despite falling from terminal velocity.

Duke Thomas / The Signal

• Bolivian Army Ending: The Outsiders backup story he appears in ends with Duke making a frontal assault against a heavily fortified Magistrate checkpoint at Gotham City's border with hundreds of troops taking aim at him. Future State: Gotham confirms Duke pulled it off and eventually reunited with the rest of the Bat-Family.
• Fighting Spirit: He is assisted by the Black Lightning's energized spirit like a Stand user.
• Cool Car: Drives a heavily modified armored muscle car◊ capable of jumping over police barricades. It’s his version of the Batmobile, after all.
• Icon of Rebellion: While Dick Grayson might lead the various underground movements against the Magistrate, Duke has taken a far more vocal stance against their regime. Hosting protest rallies, giving passionate speeches, smuggling innocents who were targeted by the Magistrate out of their jurisdiction, all successfully accomplished in spite of his secret identity being blown. Earning Duke a folk hero's level of fame among the oppressed people of Gotham.
• Katanas Are Just Better: Especially if it's a Soultaker katana and it holds the soul of Black Lightning.
• Shock and Awe: A given considering he has Black Lightning's spirit standing beside him.
• Took a Level in Badass: Before the Magistrate's rise to power, Duke was just another one of Bruce's sidekicks who's only real claim to fame as a vigilante was that he fought crime in Gotham during the daylight hours. Here, Duke is back to being the respected face of a protest movement much like he was during We Are Robin. He also has been bequeathed with Katana's second Soultaker sword which harbors the energized soul of Black Lightning, who he can essentially summon to assist him in combat as if Jefferson was his Stand.

Selina Kyle / Catwoman

Stephanie Brown / Spoiler / Batgirl

• Ambiguously Bi: It is heavily implied that she and Cass were in a relationship before Steph's fake Face–Heel Turn, and that they're going to try again after everything is cleared up.
• Amicable Exes: She and Tim appear to no longer be together, but get along just fine.
• Eyepatch of Power: Lost her right eye fighting the Magistrate and now she covers it with an eyepatch.
• The Mole: Faked a Face–Heel Turn to infiltrate the bad guys.

Cassandra Cain / Orphan / Batgirl

• Ambiguously Bi: It is heavily implied that she and Stephanie were in a relationship before Steph's fake Face–Heel Turn, and that they're going to try again after everything is cleared up.
• Throwing Off the Disability: For some unexplained reason, Cassandra's Terse Talker style Speech Impediment due to her difficulties with language and communication are oddly absent in the Batgirls backup stories by Vita Ayala where she speaks in complete fluent sentences. So either Cass somehow overcame her disability in the time-skip or this is just another case of Depending on the Writer at play.

Harleen Quinzel / Harley Quinn

”You want me to help you catch Gotham's baddies because...you can't?”

• The Profiler: Thanks to her background as a psychologist, this was her primary role within the Magistrate. Providing them succinct breakdowns of each villain's characteristics before advising them on how to apprehend them by exploiting their modus operandi. Thanks to her, they were able to bring in Professor Pyg, Firefly, and Black Mask in relatively quick succession.
• The Quisling: After being arrested by a Magistrate strike team, Harley was enlisted by Dr. Johnathan Crane to help apprehend other members of the Bat Rogues Gallery who are still at large in exchange for certain amenities while in captivity. Of course, it doesn't take long for Harley to take full advantage of this relationship enough to eventually escape the Magistrate again while apprehending Black Mask and humiliating Crane in one fell swoop.

Kate Kane / Batwoman

• Braids of Action: She's either grown her hair into, or else wears a wig stylized as, a Viking-style braid.
• Demoted to Extra: She's a part of the Resistance, but has only shown up three times at most and has had no major dialogue.
• La Résistance: She is a member.

Superman/Wonder Woman Family

Kal-El / Clark Kent / Superman I

• Cool Old Guy: He’s over a millennium old by 3000, and still effortlessly defeats Phyrros in combat.
• The Exile: Clark is banned from Earth after inadvertently causing an international incident.
• Long-Lived: By the time of House of El, Clark is over a thousand years old, and still kicking asses by the year 3000.
• Old Superhero: He has become this by 3000, now being over one thousand years old . That, however, does not diminish his power at all.
• Taking You with Me: Near the end of the Universe, the now elderly Superman takes Darkseid into the Sun with him to save Wonder Woman.

Jon Kent / Superman II

• Amusing Injuries: Him getting sick and fainting is treated seriously. Him falling so hard he leaves a superman shaped crater in the streets is played for laughs.
• Arbitrary Skepticism: He offends Yara Flor, The Wonder Woman demigoddess, when he tries to explain away the existence of gods to her while a sun god is in the middle of a race with The Tyrant Sun robot out to kill him. He ends up transitioning to Nay-Theist, still not preferring to call them "gods" but acknowledging these things have their own rules and properties unlike anything else he's encountered before.
• Arch-Enemy: Solaris The Tyrant Sun has it out for Superman to the point Solaris will destroy hundreds of star systems just for a chance that Superman will eventually be among them. Doctor Morrow fancies himself as this as well, even proclaiming himself to be superior to Lex Luthor becuase Morrow believes he wants to destroy Superman for the right reasons, but everyone falls short of Solaris in sheer scale. Morrow is more The Justice League's as a whole by comparison.
• Can't Catch Up
  • Played with. Because Jon is only half-Kryptonian, he'll seemingly never be on the same level as Clark or Kara in terms of raw strength or speed. But this also means he's nowhere near as vulnerable to Kryptonite or elements similarly targeted at Kryptonians and can even straight up No-Sell direct attacks from them.
  • Evidently no longer the case by the time of Superman/Wonder Woman decades later, where he can easily lap and knock out the god Kuat, and Solaris after devouring the power of 300 suns to ready for their showdown is still terrified of facing Jon at his full strength - seems he was in fact a late bloomer.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: To the point it is killing him. While Jon can, more or less, handle virtually any mundane problem befalling anyone in his immediate area it gets a little harder when Midnighter keeps informing him of happenings around the world and aliens from other worlds lean on him to solve their problems too. He absolutely cannot keep helping everyone while dealing with monsters and supervillains capable of killing him, but he keeps trying to anyway without giving his body enough time to recover from his more draining endeavors.
• Clashing Cousins: Ever since Jon became Superman, there has apparently been a lot of strife between him and Kara as she believed he was nowhere near ready to take on Clark's responsibilities. A sentiment Jon himself somewhat agreed with until he started finding his stride as a superhero.
• Foil: Subverted: Jon Kent is lawful to a fault, slow tempered, highly educated, continuously studious, so organized his entire life is on schedule, kind and diplomatic. Yara Flor isn't any of these things, however they both end up having a positive influence on each other, as Jon helps Yara's transition from poaching criminal to global citizen along with Yara helping Jon learn to live a more healthy, balanced life, to put trust others through delegation and to be less obsessive in his micromanaging.
• Friend to All Living Things: Yara Flor initially criticises his eagerness to enter Earth into an alliance with alien worlds until she finds him sick and struggling to maintain his morning routine of stabilizing the orbit of a planet in a pocket dimension primarily populated by Insectoid Aliens with Floating Limbs. It's at this point she realizes Jon's going to kill himself through overwork and that he really is as dedicated to saving lives as he claims to be.
• Generation Xerox: Jon didn't really fall far from the tree in comparison to his father. In fact, he's so much like his old man that one of his biggest personal gripes about being a part of the newest iteration of the Justice League is that thanks to a new rule that prevents fraternization between members, he worries they'll never become True Companions just like how their predecessors were.
  Jon Kent: It's not like this is my first run with the Justice League. This team is there when the world needs to be saved. It's just that sometimes I wonder if we need to be there for...each other.
• Hope Bringer: He routinely writes a message in the clouds reminding the city of Metropolis that Superman is there to help. This causes people to worry, however, when he doesn't deliver the scheduled message and is found buried in a street. Panic is averted thanks to Wonder Woman being around to pick up is slack, literally.
• Nothing Is Scarier: In-Universe, as the reader likely already knows why Jon Kent collapsed and isn't at all concerned, but the people in Metropolis are disturbed that something could take down Superman and they didn't even notice whatever it was.
• Omniglot: He at least understands two European languages and can recongnize a couple more extraterrestial languages.
• Reconstruction: He is basically the DC Comics equivalent of Marvel character The Sentry, having a very rigid system in place to decide who gets saved and when. Like The Sentry, Kent panics when his electronic alert or internal clock fail and put him off schedule, but unlike his Marvel counterpart Kent works harder so save as many people as he can in his desperation rather than shutting down and becoming useless. He even suffers from a similar power fluctuation resulting from the conflict between Kuat and Solaris. In this case the reconstruction is that an ally is able to recognize and help him work around this limitation.
• Small Steps Hero: What Jon aspires to be after realizing he's been focusing too much on the bigger picture of filling his father's shoes as a universal force of good instead of simply looking out for the little guy. As part of his apology to Metropolis, Jon swears to be fully committed to the people of the city and their needs, no matter how small.
• The Power of Trust
  • One of his problems is learning to accept that just because he is the best person for the job doesn't necessarily mean he has to be doing the job himself every single time. He learns this lesson from Yara Flor, who is used to leaning on the rest of her tribe and is disturbed by just how much Jon overexerts himself.
  • Learning his lesson on trusting other people to do things, instead of insisting he do it all on his own, Jon has to teach a different kind of trust to the rest of The Justice League, which includes Yara Flor. The League are all distant, secretive and independent of one another, only coming together when absolutely necessary. Jon insists they could be doing a better job if they agreed to work together more closely, and are too paranoid about being stabbed in the back for their own good, but is repeatedly blown off until the mistrusting league are forced to work together.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Jon takes a liking to Yara Flor but she initially rejects him and even after becoming apart of his life acts more like a stern, self appointed life therapist and life coach than a colleague, in spite of his best efforts to make her open up more to him. Kent is increadulous when Flor finally declares them "friends", but she does become less vitriolic following.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Downplayed. During his first year as the new Superman, Jon was manipulated by a Brainiac offshoot called Brain Cells into shrinking and bottling Metropolis in a misguided attempt to keep the city safe during an escalating crisis. After realizing how hard he dropped the ball, Jon defeated Brain Cells and returned the city to it's normal size.
• Workaholic: He lives his entire life on schedule. Counting every nanosecond is so habitual to him that it's being done on a cellular level. Yara Flor initially accuses him of not doing enough but quickly takes the opposite stance and tries to stress to him that the world does not need Superman THAT badly.

Rowan Kent / Blue Lantern

• Blue Is Heroic: As member of the Blue Lantern Corps and part of House of El.
• Cool Helmet: Wears one that covers her eyes.
• Half-Identical Twins: She's Ronan's twin sister.
• Heroic Lineage: Both by being a descendant of both Clark and John, and the wielder of a Blue Lantern power ring.

Ronan Kent / Superman III

• Future Badass: Jon's successor from the year 3000.
• Half-Identical Twins: He's Rowan's twin brother.

Theand'r Ban-El

Theand'r is a Kryptonian/Tamaranean descendant of Superman.

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• Heinz Hybrid: She's part Kryptonian and Tamaranean.
• Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: Has the typical red hair and green eyes of most Tamaraneans and the very first of her kind.

Pyrrhos

The Red King, son of Circe and Superman, who at first seeks to kill his newly-freed father, but joins his side after the truth is revealed to him.

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• Antagonistic Offspring: He wants to take over the House of El by defeating his paternal family.
• Defeat Equals Friendship: After defeating him, Clark convinces him that Circe was manipulating him and that he would've loved to raise him as his son.
• Hero Killer: His armies kill Brainiac-4 and Brandon.
• Tyke Bomb: Circe conceived him as her weapon to destroy the House of El.

Kara Zor-El / Superwoman

Diana of Themyscira / Wonder Woman I

• Caused the Big Bang: Causes a new Big Bang which creates a new universe after the current one.
• Complete Immortality: She survives to the Natural End of Time.
• Famed In-Story: To the point that her "WW" Chest Insignia has been adopted into the very different clothing fashions of the otherwise isolationist tribe Yara Flor belongs to.
• Last Of Her Kind: The last Amazon, and eventually the last living being in the Multiverse.
• Present Absence: While to the world at large Nubia and Yara Flor are adequate replacements, Justice League Dark ends up suffering without her around, with Zatanna only continuing because Diana is still a source of inspiration to her.

Nubia / Wonder Woman II

• Long-Lost Relative: She is Hippolyta’s previously unknown daughter and therefore Diana’s half-sister.

Yara Flor / Wonder Woman III

• Arch-Enemy: Parodied with Despera, a wannabe villain who wants to user her "lasso of existential terror" to "make Wonder Woman realize her true place in the universe". Flor is actually more afraid of Despera's father, but he never shows up.
• Bad People Abuse Animals: Part of Flor's growth as a hero involves learning to respect animals. Her first appearance in this continuity involves her poaching. Like most poachers, she does have a reasonable goal, but no one else is convinced the end justifies the means.
• Blood Knight: She relishes in a good fight far more than her predecessors, which is no small accomplishment when one of her predecessors is the New 52 take on Donna Troy.
• Book Dumb: To the point Flor doesn't even recognize gender identifiers in her nation's official language while she is at least in her twenties. While "Blind Idiot" Translation is often in play when Portuguese is used in Yara's comics, this is an intended gag as Superman corrects her during a Future State crossover. The same crossover has her successfully apply two sciences she just learned about against a Giant Robot advanced enough to duel with a (weakened)god, showing she's smart enough to understand cause and effect, but Flor still openly admits science and academics aren't her thing while doing this.
• Character Tics: She bites her lip when under stress. Her doing so in response to Jon's stress is a sign she cares more about him that he realizes.
• Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: According to Yara Flor's creator, Joëlle Jones, her look was inspired by the Brazilian indigenous model Suyane Moreira.
• Divine Intervention: Yara commits crimes against god, man, beast and daemon alike, which nearly gets her killed if not for Caipora deciding to help guide in the belief Flor has the potential to become a better hero, and Persephone asking Hades to spare her.
• Good Is Not Nice: Yara might be a hero, but she's far less kind than Diana. Not only is it shown that she favors brute forcing her way through problems that would require a more deft touch, she's not above employing intimidation and theft in order to achieve her noble goals. Best showcased in Future State: Superman/Wonder Woman where shortly after saving the life of a corrupt councilman who's been misappropriating city funds, Yara physically assaults the politician to "encourage" him to find that missing money and put it back into repairing Sao Paulo's infrastructure.
• Hard-Drinking Party Girl: Whenever she isn't fighting crime or tussling with Gods, she's seen either drinking or partying.
• I Believe I Can Fly: All of her appearances in Future State use Flor's inability to fly for drama or comedy up until Future State: Justice League, when no one bats an eye at her imposter flying. This suggests she eventually gains or learns how to fly on her own at some point.
• I Work Alone: She works alongside members of her own tribe when defending their interests, but still has a fierce independent streak that often sees her run off on her own, even refusing to call her own flying horse Jerry until absolutely necessary. She even initially scoffed at the idea of joining the Justice League, which led to Yara turning down every single one of Jon's invitations on the basis that the team's moral boundaries would get in the way of her doing what needs to be done. She's clearly outgrown this by the time of Future State: Justice League though, where she is a full-fledged member of the roster.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold
  • Early on she's a jerk who will vandalize, steal, kidnap, maim and kill to get what she wants, but what she wants is what's best for her tribe. She's outright said by Caipora to simply be the right person born at the right time rather than a hero of virtue. After the Amazon rain forest catches fire due to over farming Flor broadens her horizons to include the rest of Brazil and eventually the entire Earth in her concerns, becoming slightly less of a jerk in the process.
  • She's very verbally demeaning of Superman whenever they meet up, but the more times they talk the more it becomes clear that she's concerned about his physical and mental well being, and isn't just putting him down out of meanness or dislike. She also is open in her disdain for The Justice League, but makes it clear she doesn't think they're actually an effective force for the change that is needed in the world. When she is on the team later she snaps at Jon specifically because the League is now helping to her standards and she doesn't want his soft feelings fixing what's clearly working.
• Man on Fire: Like Diana, she can endure blazing heat. Unlike Diana, Yara's "sisterhood with fire" doesn't extend to her hair, once having nearly all of it burnt off in a prank.
• Omniglot: Downplayed. She likely speaks at least one indigenous language of Amazonas well and is definitely conversational in an at least two European languages, but an attempt to translate Portuguese to English reveals that she doesn't understand either all that well.
• Platonic Life-Partners: She's this with Jon Kent.
• Secret Identity: She initially doesn't have one, openly introducing herself as "Yara Flor, The Wonder Woman." Future State:Superman/Wonder Woman imply she has taken one on, and Future State: Justice League outright state she now has one, but we are never shown or told what it is beyond a shot of Flor hastily throwing a jacket over her "costume", which is nothing more than a uniform everyone in her tribe wears to distinguish them from their neighbors.
• Smug Super: She's stronger than everyone else, knows it and assumes she can do whatever she wants because of it. This is a problem early on, when the gods are MIA and poor Caipora has to deal with Flor in their absence. As Yara encounters more powerful monsters, actively seeks out gods who prove more powerful than her, gods gain more worshipers as her reputation spreads, she meets other superheroes and fights super villains she becomes slightly less smug. Especially after seeing the consequences of a god having this attitude.

Justice League Family

Jess Chambers / Kid Quick / The Flash

• Arch-Enemy: A onesided example with Cobalt Blue, who apparently hates the entire Flash Family and only antagonizes Jess Chambers by association, despite having no real connection to The Flash Family, being from an Alternate Universe and all.
• Battle Couple: With Andy; they're keeping their relationship a secret but Jess really wants to be more open about it.
• Deadpan Snarker: By the time they've joined the Justice League, they've taken after Wally West in this regard, being a snarky, playfully sardonic sort.
• Dimensional Traveler: They originate from a different earth (specifically, Earth-11). It's also shown they are fast enough to traverse universes with ease, something typically reserved for just Wally West and Barry Allen.
• Expy: Much of their personality and character is reminiscent of Wally West, right down to originating as the protege and nibling of their world's Flash, Jesse Chambers, founding their version of the Teen Titans, and starting off their time in the Justice League as the Fun Personified Deadpan Snarker. They even demonstrate abilities that typically only Wally was capable of, such as sharing their speed with others and traversing realities by just running so fast.
• Headbutting Heroes: Has the most issue with the 'strictly professional' aspect of the New Justice League (after Jon), which causes tension, especially with the new Batman. They also see no problem calling out Batman's lack of powers when Batman voices his distrust or demands the rest of the team be more useful.
• Intergenerational Friendship: Under the assumption both Jess and Andy have aged "naturally", Andy would have to be a good deal younger.
• Kid Hero All Grown-Up: They’re a former sidekick and member of their world’s equivalent of the Teen Titans.
• Lazily Gender-Flipped Name: Played With; they're non-binary, but they're named after their Aunt, Jesse Chambers (known in the main universe as Jesse Quick). 'Jesse' is actually typically the masculine version of Jess (which is more commonly a feminine name), making the irony of the cis-woman having the male name and the non-binary having the feminine spelling.
• Super-Empowering: Can temporarily "lend speed" to others, making even Batman superfast.
• Superior Successor: Downplayed, but they demonstrate feats of speed that Jesse is incapable of. However, they're from Earth-11, where Jesse was the primary Flash, so while primary earth Jesse isn't this fast, it's possible that Earth-11 Jesse is.

Andrina "Andy" Curry / Aqualass / Aquawoman

• Arch-Enemy: There is a being called The Flood who plans to kill Andy by drowning her, somehow. The animosity seems to be onesided.
• Artificial Limbs: After being forced to amputate her own left leg from the calf down, she replaced it with a "glimmerfish", a sentient fish shaped being of water that functions exactly like her missing limb right down to retaining physical sensation.
• The Beastmaster: She inherited her father's ability to command all aquatic life but explicitly doesn't have the ability to communicate with them. This is somewhat of a sore spot for Andy as this means she's essentially robbing living and sometimes even intelligent creatures of their free will for her own sake.
• Big Brother Mentor: Has one in Jackson Hyde, who taught her everything she knows.
• Big Sister Instinct: In spite of being the youngest and less experienced of the two, Andy has a very strong bond with her surrogate brother Jackson Hyde (the current Aquaman of this continuity) and will do anything she deems necessary to ensure his wellbeing. When she ends up getting ensnared by the tentacles of a flying monster and Jackson is hanging onto her ankle while trying to figure out a way he can free her without being snatched himself, Andy just slices off her own leg in order to stop Jackson from throwing away his life trying to save her.
  • She also shows signs of being a Knight Templar Sibling as well. Upon realizing that Jackson was held captive on Neptune for six years while she drifted through the Confluence, her first instinct is to kill everyone involved with putting him in chains. It takes Jackson himself stepping in to convince Andy to reel it back a bit and show mercy.
• Fiery Redhead: She certainly inherited her mother's temper.
• Future Badass: An infant in the main DCU, a badass adult superheroine and Justice Leaguer in this future.
• Helicopter Parents: When she calls Arthur and Mera to talk about her day they immediately offer to come home and help her, and her response suggests that’s their go to move for every little problem she has. To be fair she did straight up disappear for six years, so it’s understandable they’d be worried about her.
• Hero Stole My Bike: After she awakens on a stranded island following her cutting her own foot to force Jackson to leave her behind, she steals a glimmerfish to replace her lost foot to the ire of the rest of the fellow glimmerfish.
• Making a Splash: Shares her mother's power of manipulating and controlling water.
• Plot-Relevant Age-Up: She appears to be about the same age as Jon, Yara and Jess, despite the fact that in the present of the DCU those characters are all teens or young adults and she’s a toddler. It’s possible she had some kind of time travel adventure which aged her up.
  • It’s also true that Atlanteans, Amazons, Kryptonians and speedsters all age pretty weirdly. A line in the present-day Aquaman comic implies she matures faster than normal people; or it’s possible that all her teammates are pushing forty but still look like twenty-somethings.
• Sibling Team: Served as Jackson Hyde's sidekick Aqualass before she eventually became Aquawoman.
• Sidekick Graduations Stick: She joins the Justice League without Jackson Hyde
• Superpower Lottery: As a grown-up; while she can only control rather than communicate with sea-life unlike her father, she also inherited her mother's hydromancy, which she uses in many ways.
• To the Pain: What she thinks she's doing while enraged at and ready to kill Superman. It's an imposter with completely different powers, so she's really just telling her foe how her weapons work.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: To Jess.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Jackson in her earlier years.
• Warrior Princess: Atlantis abolished the monarchy so she isn’t literally this, but people joke that she is.

Sojourner "Jo" Mullein / Green Lantern

• Arch-Enemy: There are even more Lantern Corps in Future State, with Dective Mullein on the case of an alien going by "Ultra Violent Lantern". By the time of Future State Justice League Ultra Violet Lanterns seems about ready to give up, however, showing Dr. Morrow a Failure Montage of their attempts to beat The Justice League.
• Batman Gambit: Successfully pulls this on an imposter Batman(and Flash) by goading the fake into reading her mind, since the real Batman has no superpowers.
• Enemy Scan: A feature of her ring that can extend to more than just "enemies", up to and including clarifying blueprints or detailing the makeup of an atmosphere. It or rather, her perceptions of its readings, can be fooled by telepathic deception so she knows not to rely on this exclusively.
• Hard Boiled Detective: As opposed to the "policemen" usually appointed by The Green Lantern Corps, she's an investigator. While she's technically not a private detective and would take offense to being called "amateur" she is fiercely independent, persistent, and more than willing to shoot people while on cases.
• I Know You Know I Know: She knows she's vulerable to telephathic assault and so far her only defense against it is just hoping the enemy isn't reading her deeply enough to realize she knows she's being messed with until she can identify and subdue them. The will power of the Green Lantern Corps means it is risky for most to try and outright control her.
• Insufferable Genius: Batman is only the second most abrasive member of this Justice League, and while Batman withdraws out of the belief everyone else has a ulterior motive, this Green Lantern openly regards all other members of the League, besides Batman, as incompetent. Batman outright states he mistrusts Green Lantern the least, because she makes herself so easy to read, but that she's still too harsh on the rest of the league.
• Psychoactive Powers: Her "constructs" become more elaborate as she becomes more confident.
• Squishy Wizard: She has the most advanced technology of the league, aside from maybe Superman, and is the most reliant on technology, aside from maybe Batman. She normally doesn't lean on it too heavily during day to day operations, her areas of expertise are psychology and criminal investigation, but The Justice League isn't her usual routine and often involves her getting in harm's way far more often. Without the ring she's the most physically vulnerable member of the league, but the ring lets her punch above her weight.

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