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    Wonder Woman 

Name: Diana of Themyscira

Age: >3,000

Race: Amazon/Demigod

Title: Princess of the Amazons

Chosen Voice Actress: Susan Eisenberg

Stage: Themyscira

Playstyle: Amazonian War Artist (Stance/Rushdown)


    Batman 

Name: Bruce Wayne

Age: 42

Race: Human

Title: The Dark Knight

Chosen Voice Actor: Troy Baker (formerly Kevin Conroy)

Stage: The Batcave

Playstyle: Relentless Utilities (Rushdown/Setup)


    Superman 

Name: Kal-El/Clark Kent

Age: 39

Race: Kryptonian

Title: The Man of Steel

Chosen Voice Actor: George Newbern

Stage: Metropolis

Playstyle: Kryptonian Protector (Slugger/Install)


    Deathstroke 

Name: Slade Wilson

Age: 40s-50s (appears older)

Race: Human (mutagenic)

Title: Deathstroke the Terminator

Chosen Voice Actor: Ron Perlman

Stage: Gotham in Winter

Playstyle: All-Purpose Termination (Zoner/Setup)


    Lex Luthor 

Name: Alexander Joseph Luthor

Age: 45

Race: Human

Title: Archenemy of Superman

Chosen Voice Actor: Clancy Brown

Stage: Lexcorp Secret Laboratories

Playstyle: Krypton Crusher (All-Rounder/Heavy)


    Green Arrow 

Name: Oliver Queen

Age: 35

Race: Human

Title: The Emerald Archer

Chosen Voice Actor: Alan Tudyk

Stage: Star City

Playstyle: Survivalist Archer (Zoner)


  • Badass Normal: He is just a dude with a lot of money and trick arrows.
  • Home Stage: Star City, the place Green Arrow protects from crooks and villains.
  • Leitmotif: Theme of the "Arrow" TV Show.
  • Official Couple: With Dinah Lance/Black Canary. They even dance together in her Friendship.
  • Palette Swap:
    • Traditional Appearance w/feathered hat
    • Appearance in the "Arrow" show
    • Injustice Green Arrow
    • Insurgency Outfit
    • Red Arrow
  • The Rival: With Hawkeye.
  • Trick Arrow: The Trope Codifier of this trope. Green Arrow uses an assortment of trick arrows as part of his movesets. Among these arrows include a Tornado Arrownote , a Boomerang Arrownote , a Boxing Glove Arrownote , a Taser Arrownote , an Exploding Arrownote , and a Spiral Arrownote 

    The Flash 

Name: Barry Allen

Age: 32

Race: Mutagenic Human

Title: The Fastest Man Alive

Chosen Voice Actor: James Arnold Taylor (formerly Grant Gustin)

Stage: Star City Square

Playstyle: Lightning Speed (Speedster/Unique)


    The Joker 

Name: Jack Napier (unconfirmed)

Age: 40

Race: Mutated Human

Title: The Clown Prince of Crime

Chosen Voice Actor: Lucas Schuneman (formerly Mark Hamill)

Stage: Joker's Funland

Playstyle: Joke's On You (Trickster/All-Rounder)


    Doomsday 

Name: Doomsday

Age: Millenia

Race: Kryptonian (gene-altered)

Title: The One who Killed Superman

Chosen Voice Actor: Khary Payton

Stage: Metropolis in Ruins

Playstyle: Adaptive Destruction (Heavy/Technical)


    Bane 

Name: Mr. Dorrance (first name unknown)

Age: Unknown

Race: Human

Title: The Man who Broke the Bat

Chosen Voice Actor: JB Blanc

Stage: Gotham Underground Arena

Playstyle: Venom Overdose (Grappler/Powerup)


    Batman Beyond 

Name: Terry McGinnis

Age: 17

Race: Human

Title: The Dark Knight of Tomorrow

Chosen Voice Actor: Will Friedle

Stage: New Gotham City

Playstyle: Futuristic Utility (Technical/Mixup)


    Raven 

Name: Raven/Rachel Roth

Age: 18

Race: Azerothian

Title: Legacy of Trigon

Chosen Voice Actor: Kira Buckland (formerly Tara Strong)

Stage: The Dark Dimension

Playstyle: Azarathean Sorcery (Zoner)


    Doctor Fate 

Name: Kent Nelson/Nabu

Age: 70 (Kent)/Eternal (Nabu)

Race: Human/God

Title: The Agent of Order

Chosen Voice Actors: Oded Fehr (Kent)/David Kaye (Nabu)/Rachel Weisz (Inza)

Stage: Temple of Fate

Playstyle: Untold Power (Zoner/Unorthodox)


    Nightwing 

Name: Richard "Dick" Grayson

Age: 22

Race: Human

Title: The Former "Boy Wonder"

Chosen Voice Actor: Yuri Lowenthal

Stage: Bludhaven City Limits

Playstyle: Bird of Two Feathers (Stance/Rushdown)


    Darkseid 

Name: Uxas (formerly)

Age: 245,000

Race: New God

Title: Lord of Apokolips

Chosen Voice Actor: Christopher Judge

Stage: Apokolips Arena

Playstyle: Omega Overlord (Heavy/Setups)


  • Affably Evil: Surprisingly, yes. In his Friendship, Darkseid puts on a Santa hat and offers to give a little boy everything he wants for Christmas, in exchange for the boy pledging his loyalty to Apokolips.
  • Always Accurate Attack: Darkseid's Omega Beams are impossible to dodge without absolutely perfect timing thanks to how they can lock onto a target's specific atomic frequency, and good luck reacting in time when he can also turn them invisible or phase them through objects that aren't the target.
  • Assist Character: Can summon his parademons just like in Injustice 2.
  • Badass Back: Brings his Injustice 2 super move with him.
  • The Dreaded: Like most works he is featured in, he is easily feared by pretty much everyone. Steven admits he'd rather go back to fighting with The Diamonds than battle Darkseid.
    Wonder Woman: "I dreaded the day I'd run into you again."
    Lord Raiden: "I feared your arrival. Now you are here."
    Raven: "You honestly scare me more than Trigon."
    Doctor Strange: "There's more to you than what I witnessed. I dread it."
    Magneto: "A threat greater than Thanos...I prayed this day would never come."
  • Evil Sounds Deep: His hypothetical VA is listed as Christopher Judge.
  • Eye Beams: His trademark Omega Beams are described as being maneuverable and have erratic movements making them difficult to predict.
  • Fate Worse than Death: His second fatality involves infecting his opponent with the omega sanction. There the opponent is shown repeatedly dying in horrific ways.
  • Leitmotif: "Darkseid's Throne Room" from Justice League Heroes.
  • Palette Swap:
  • Not Worth Killing: He considers Dan and Hercule too pathetic for even him to kill.
  • The Rival: With Thanos.
  • Villain Takes an Interest: His outro against Esdeath and Makima has him planning on making her one of his Furies.

    Aquaman 

Name: Arthur Curry

Age: Unknown

Race: Human-Atlantean hybrid

Title: King of the Seas

Chosen Voice Actor: Jamieson Price

Stage: Atlantean Palace

Playstyle: Atlantean Aquatics (All-Rounder/Technical)


    Shazam 

Name: Billy Batson

Age: 12-15

Race: Human

Title: The God of Gods

Chosen Voice Actors: Christina Vee (Billy) / Rob Lowe (Shazam)

Stage: The Rock of Eternity

Playstyle: Godly Power (All-Rounder>Rushdown)


    Green Lantern 

Name: Harold "Hal" Jordan

Age: Unknown, early 30's?

Race: Human

Title: The Emerald Knight

Chosen Voice Actor: Josh Keaton

Stage: Surface of Mogo

Playstyle: Lantern’s Light (Mixup/Setups)


    Lobo 

Name: Unpronounceable to the human tongue

Age: Unknown

Race: Czarnian

Title: The Main Man

Chosen Voice Actor: Brad Garrett

Stage: Lair of the Main Man

Playstyle: Main Man’s Way (Heavy/Unorthodox)


  • Bounty Hunter: He works as one of these, and he's less morally scrupulous than Samus or Captain Falcon.
  • Everyone Has Standards: Lobo might one of the most amoral beings in the DC universe, but in his intro with Starlight, he assures her that the Deep's a dead man. Not for molesting her, but for what he did to that dolphin.
  • Healing Factor: He can completely heal from a puddle of blood.
  • Hidden Depths: Lobo loves dolphins, so naturally he's excited to be facing Tifa, who uses dolphins in one of her attacks. Likewise, it's why he's pissed at the Deep for accidentally killing one.
  • Leitmotif: Lobo's Theme from "Superman: The Animated Series".
  • Palette Swap:
  • The Rival: With Ghost Rider.
  • A Shared Suffering: He comments that he and Dante know what it's like to get a bad reboot.

    Static 

Name: Virgil Hawkins

Age: 15-16

Race: Human (Bang-Baby)

Title: The Great Shocker

Chosen Voice Actor: Phil LaMarr

Stage: Dakota Docks

Playstyle: Spanning Shock (Zoner/Setups)


    Black Canary 

Name: Dinah Laurel Lance

Age: Unknown

Race: Metahuman

Title: The Screaming Songbird

Chosen Voice Actress: Vanessa Marshall

Stage: Downtown Star City

Playstyle: Songbird Fatale (Rushdown/Setups)


    Booster Gold 

Name: Michael Jon Carter

Age: Unknown

Race: Human

Title: The Future's Gold Star

Chosen Voice Actors: Tom Everett Scott (Booster Gold) / Billy West (Skeets)

Stage: Museum of Heroes, Year 2442

Playstyle: Golden Energy (Zoner)


    The Flash II 

Name: Wallace Rudolph West II

Age: Unknown

Race: Human (mutagenic)

Title: The Fastest Flash

Chosen Voice Actor: Jason Spisak

Stage: Star Labs

Playstyle: Fastest Man Alive (Speedster/Unique)


    Red Hood 

Name: Jason Peter Todd

Age: 23

Race: Human

Title: The Bat's Rogue Protégé

Chosen Voice Actor: Jensen Ackles

Stage: Fateful Warehouse Ruins

Playstyle: Gun-Fu Akimbo (All-Rounder/Setups)


  • Anti-Hero: He's perfectly willing to kill criminals if he thinks they went too far.
  • It's Personal: With the Joker, naturally. In his Friendship, he takes Restrained Revenge on the Clown Prince of Crime by dumping him in a water tank, and in his Ending, he straight up kills him.
  • Leitmotif: Techno Ninja.
  • Palette Swap:
    • Traditional Appearance
    • Arkham Knight appearance
    • Gotham Knights Appearance
    • Classic Red Hood (i.e. The Joker's old getup)
    • Red Robin
  • Pyrrhic Victory: Jason's ending has him finally kill the Joker in revenge, but he ends up imprisoned in a high-security sector of the Gotham County Prison, with a disappointed Bruce Wayne asking Jason why he went through with it, all the while the ashamed Jason could only admit he can't be like his mentor.
  • The Rival: With the Winter Soldier.

    Batgirl 

Name: Barbara Gordon

Age: 25

Race: Human

Title: The Bat's Info Broker

Chosen Voice Actress: Kimberly Brooks

Stage: Gotham High's Football Field

Playstyle: Gotham's Femme Fatale (Rushdown>All-Rounder)


    Hellbat 

Name: Bruce Wayne

Age: 43

Race: Human

Title: The Dark Knight

Chosen Voice Actor: Bruce Greenwood

Stage: Watchtower Space Station

Playstyle: Bat Out of Hell (Rushdown)


    Reverse-Flash 

Name: Eobard Thawne

Age: Unknown

Race: Human

Title: Maniac of the Reverse-Speed Force

Chosen Voice Actor: C. Thomas Howell

Stage: The Flash Museum

Playstyle: Negative Nuisance (Speedster/Unorthodox)


  • Adaptation Origin Connection: Claims to be behind the more traumatic aspects of several of the other characters (see below).
  • Arch-Enemy: To Barry Allen, as always.
  • Bad People Abuse Animals: He convinced the kids at Lucy's orphanage to murder her dog for fun and did the same for John Wick's dog.
  • Create Your Own Villain: Claims to be responsible for turning Anakin into Darth Vader, specifically by killing his mother and Padme.
  • The Dark Side: Unlike other DC speedsters, Thawne draws his abilities from the Negative Speed Force.
  • Doppelgänger Attack: Many of his moves involves his alternative selves.
  • Eviler than Thou: He claims that he's killed Kronika several times over.
    "Agent of Kronika? Please. I killed her in more timelines than I can count!"
  • For the Evulz: He had no real reason to mess with Lucy, Tracer, and the rest the way he did, but did so anyway, for fun.
  • Kick the Dog:
    • He tells Robocop that he convinced Clarence Boddicker to shoot him.
    • He claims to be the reason Tracer's jet malfunctioned and she became a Paradox Person.
    • He also claims to be the one who told the orphanage kids to kill Lucy's dog. He also claims that he also had John Wick's dog killed.
    • He claims to be the one who told Lord Shen where to find Po's village.
    • He apparently took Joker Venom from Harley, just so Joker would think she lost it and get pissed at her.
    • He admits to Wanda and Magneto that he positioned the statue so Quicksilver would be impaled on it.
    • He tells Zatanna he killed her father Giovanni.
    • He supposedly killed Kuina by pushing her down the stairs.
    • His outro against Darth Vader states he killed Padmé.
    • He implies that he killed Shmi Skywalker to Obi-Wan.
    • He's responsible for the Sigma virus.
    • He ensured the "stray energy blast" that killed Broly's father hit him.
    • He claims to play a role in killing Butcher's brother Lenny.
    • He tells Silver that he framed the Freedom Fighter who supposedly betrayed Sonic and caused the Bad Future he comes from.
    • He tells Deku that he's the reason he was born without a quirk.
  • Leitmotif: Reverse Flash’s Theme from “The Flash”.
  • Loony Fan: Was originally one of Barry Allen, until he learned he was destined to become Barry’s greatest enemy.
  • The Man Behind the Man: He is apparently responsible for Sephiroth meeting Cloud.
  • Not Me This Time: For all the claims of him screwing over quite a few of the characters, he admits that he's not responsible for Dan and Rick's problems.
    "I don't need to mess up your life. You did that just fine all on your own, Rick-O."
    "I didn't do anything to you, Danny-boy. You're DESTINED to be a laughingstock and nothing can change that!"
  • Palette Swap:
    • Standard Costume
    • Arrowverse “Zoom” Costume
    • Black Lantern Reverse Flash
    • Injustice Costume
    • DC Legends Appearance
  • The Rival: To Goku Black.
  • Success as Revenge: In his arcade ending instead of using Mastermind's technology to turn Barry Allen's life into hell, he simply decided to create his entire timeline when he would never meet Barry Allen. With his time reset, he could return to just being a 25th Century scientist.
  • Super-Speed: He can keep up and even move faster than other speedsters like Barry and Wally, and for reference Wally can cross the entire universe faster than instant teleportation.
  • Super-Toughness: He can tank the Infinite Mass Punch to the face, which hits with the force of an exploding star, with at worst just being knocked out for a time.
  • Trap Master: In of his moves a second Reverse Flash appears to set one of is chosen traps: Banana Peel, Bear Trap and Land Mine
  • Villainous Rescue: He apparently saved Kazuya from the volcano his dad threw him in.
  • Worthy Opponent: He's interested in the fact that Silver is a Paradox Person as well.

    Harley Quinn 

Name: Harleen Fances Quinzel

Age: 27

Race: Human

Title: The Clown-Princess of Anarchy

Chosen Coice Actor: Hynden Walch (formerly Tara Strong)

Stage: Harley's PSYCH-O Ward

Playstyle: Kickin’ With Chaos (Zoner/Agility)


    Zatanna 

Name: Zatanna Zatara

Age: Unknown

Race: Homo Magi

Title: Princess of Prestidigitation

Chosen Voice Actor: Lacey Chabert

Stage: Zatara Stage Show

Playstyle: Magician’s Secrets (Trickster>Install)


    Black Adam 

Name: Teth-Adam

Age: Born 1279 B.C.

Race: Human (magic-enhanced)

Title: Protector of Kahndaq

Chosen Voice Actor: Arnold Vosloo

Stage: Kahndaq Palace

Playstyle: Living Lightning Blitz (All-Rounder/Zoner)


    Super Friends Aquaman 

Name: Arthur Curry

Age: Unknown

Race: Human/Neptunian Hybrid

Title: Champion of the Deep

Chosen Voice Actor: John DiMaggio

Stage: Poseidonis Dome

Playstyle: Talk to Fish (Zoner/Joke)


    The Atom 

Name: Raymond Palmer

Age: Unknown

Race: Human

Title: The Microverse Master

Chosen Voice Actor: John C. McGinley

Stage: The Subatomic Realm

Playstyle: Small and Jack of All (All-Rounder>Setups)


  • Brought Down to Normal: His outro for Homelander/A-Train has Atom planning on altering their genes to remove their powers.
  • Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: His intro/outro with The Joker:
    "How can you do what you do and smile?"
    “I get theoretical physics, but I could never understand you.”
  • Incredible Shrinking Man: Can shrink himself and use his smaller size to his advantage in battle.
  • Leitmotif: “Atom Flies” by Blake Neely.
  • Palette Swap:
    • Standard Costume
    • Franchise/Arrowverse Costume
    • Indigo Lantern
    • Ryan Choi's Costume from Injustice 2
    • Sword of the Atom Costume
  • Pretender Diss: He dismisses Termite as an amateur when it comes to shrinking and considers him a creep.
    "Termite is a novice when it comes to size alteration."
    "Termite was a creep and a movie star. I am a scientist. Know the difference."
  • The Rival: To Ant-Man.

    Martian Manhunter 

Name: J'onn J'onnz

Age: >225 years

Race: Martian

Title: Champion of Mars

Chosen Voice Actor: Carl Lumbly

Stage: Surface of Mars

Playstyle: Martian Way of War (Zoner)



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