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Batman
AKA: Doctor Thomas Wayne
"If you're telling the truth, can you change this? Can you change it back so that...I died and Bruce lived?"
The Batman of a dark altered timeline of Earth 0 that no longer exist, who is an infamous, murderous vigilante operating in Gotham City.
When Barry Allen went back in time to save his mother from being murdered by Eobard Thawne, he succeeded but created unintended changes to the timeline, which created the new Flashpoint timeline. One of these changes was that it was a young Bruce Wayne, and not his parents, who died when they were mugged in Crime Alley. Driven by immense grief, Thomas became a more brutal and violent Batman, while Martha became their universe's Joker.
When Barry informed him about how his life should have happened, Thomas assisted Barry in restoring the timeline to its proper state, with the knowledge that it would lead to Bruce surviving and becoming Batman and his own death. Barry (mostly) succeeded, with Thomas apparently dying along with his timeline... until it was mysteriously recreated, keeping him alive to deal with the consequences of his actions.
After meeting his adult son and giving him parting words, encouraging him to be a father to his son and give up his life as Batman, Thomas resigned himself to dying as he had lived... only to be brought to the main DCU in by a spiteful Eobard Thawne for foiling him to begin with. There, he learned that Bruce did not give up being Batman, and he does not take this well, deciding to join with other Batman villains to ''force'' Bruce into retirement.
After his attempt at forcing Bruce into what Thomas considered an ideal life failed, Thomas was placed in Arkham Asylum. He survived Arkham's destruction and was found by Justice League Incarnate. After journeying with Calvin Ellis through the multiverse, Thomas learns about the Bruce Waynes of the multiverse. Realising that his son will always be Batman and has built a new family for himself, Thomas realises the error of his ways. Eager to atone, Thomas joins Justice Incarnate. He's also later made an official member of the Zoo Crew.
Thomas eventually found himself back in his native timeline, mysteriously restored, and is forced to unravel the mystery of how to undo its existence for the betterment of the multiverse.
- Abusive Dad: To absurd degrees. Once he finds out that Bruce didn't stop being Batman like he wanted, Thomas goes to extreme lengths to force him to retire. This ranges from ruining Bruce's wedding with Selina Kyle to digging up Martha's corpse to be resurrected to force a family onto Bruce to just beating him within an inch of his life.
- The Ace: In his universe, anyway, he was considered the greatest of the Flashpoint timeline's heroes... which says a lot about how crappy that world is. The heroes are only willing to work together to stop Atlantis and Themyscira from fighting if he leads them, and from what we see, he's not particularly good at that.
- The Alcoholic: He's implied to drink a lot and we see him drunk before his "final mission" with Barry to undo the Flashpoint.
- Arch-Enemy: Martha's Joker is his. He wasn't supportive as she was grieving their son and a comment he made essentially began her transition into the monster she would become. He considers her one of his greatest mistakes and regrets all the suffering she caused, from crippling his Selina Kyle to causing the deaths of two children. He still loves Martha deep down but is seemingly able to separate that from his hate for the Joker. The two reconcile somewhat when he tells her helping Barry will bring Bruce back... only for Martha to kill herself when she finds out this will turn Bruce into Batman.
- Arch Nemesis Dad: He became this during Tom King's Batman run, working with Bane to so utterly and completely break Bruce to the point that they'd force him to stop being Batman.
- The Atoner: After learning that a living Bruce Wayne will always become Batman, and realizing that Bruce has found a new family for himself in the Bat-Family, Thomas decides to help Justice Incarnate protect the multiverse.
- Breakout Character: He was created for the Flashpoint event and DC likely expected him to be at least a little popular, since he had a miniseries tie-in and was a prominent supporting character in the core miniseries. However, he was incredibly popular, so much so that when the event ended and he was rebooted from existence, the series Earth 2 created an Expy of him in the form of their second Batman, who was also a Darker and Edgier take on Thomas Wayne, and had a costume heavily inspired by Flashpoint Batman's. Then, during Convergence, Flashpoint Batman was brought back to be a supporting character and delivered Jon Kent. After that, Thomas and his entire universe were briefly brought back in "The Button" where he was allowed to interact with his adult son. Then, after the universe was destroyed and Thomas seemingly died... he was brought back again, this time migrating over to the main DCU proper to serve as the primary villain of Tom King's Batman run. After that, it was revealed that he had survived Bane breaking his back and A-Day, and wound up joining the multiversal Justice League, Justice Incarnate, as a main character — despite Justice Incarnate already having a Batman. When Justice League Incarnate was about to wrap up, Thomas was forced back into his own universe for the Flashpoint Beyond miniseries.
- Cosmic Plaything: Thomas' world is brought back by Dr. Manhattan — essentially a god figure at the time — purely to mess with Barry and Bruce and encourage Bruce to stop being Batman.
- Darker and Edgier: His entire shtick as Batman is that he is one of the edgiest Batmen you will find. He casually uses guns and murders and is driven entirely by loss with none of Bruce's redeeming qualities like compassion and friendship. The only reason he helped Barry is because it will save Bruce, and his entire motivation is giving Bruce the life Thomas thinks he should have.
- Depending on the Writer: How capable he is. Geoff Johns had him as a Batman who wasn't particularly experienced with superpowers but was more of a tactician. Brian Azzarello had him as a slower, more down-to-earth and gritty Batman who was pulpier and less agile. Tom King has him as a super Batman that is basically Bruce at his peak times 10. Joshua Williamson has him as just an average Batman.
- Deus Angst Machina: The more we learn about his character, the more we learn how much his life absolutely sucks. His son died in a robbery attempt which broke his wife, and he himself did her no favors by losing his patience with her when she was grieving, causing her to turn into the Joker. His world is awful, with the Amazons and Atlanteans engaged in a war that has consumed all of Europe and much of the world. He managed to help Barry fix the world and was accepting of his death... only for his world to be brought back by a higher power. He got to talk to his son and once more accepted his death after getting some closure... only for Eobard Thawne to bring him to the main DCU to spite him. Finally, we learn he had a sidekick in the form of his universe's Catwoman, who he saw as a daughter figure... who was crippled by the Joker and made a quadriplegic. Oh, and then he gets his spine broken by Bane. Yeah, this goes a long way towards explaining why he doesn't seem to care if he dies.
- The Dragon: He serves as Bane's when Bane kicks his revenge scheme into high gear — because Bane needs to pretend to be feeble in Arkham, and because having to fight Thomas would emotionally hurt Bruce, he does most of the fighting and heavy lifting while Bane takes on the role of The Chessmaster.
- Dragon Ascendant: He eventually usurps Bane as the villain of Tom King's Batman run, since his beef with Bruce is more emotionally driven while thematically tying into King's run and character analysis of Batman. Plus, Bane wants to completely destroy Bruce before killing him, whereas Thomas just used Bane to help him accomplish the first part — the second part is where their plans diverge, since Thomas wants Bruce to be alive and healthy afterwards.
- Evil Counterpart: Eventually became one to the original Thomas Wayne. Whereas that Thomas was stern and somewhat hard to approach at times, he was ultimately a good father. This Thomas was an outright asshole whose misguided attempts at helping his son almost destroyed his life.
- Face–Heel Turn: Goes from an anti-heroic Batman motivated by the promise of his son's life to a villainous jerk motivated by forcing his son into what he thinks is a happy life.
- Foil: He's a Batman driven entirely by loss and the memory of his loved ones and doesn't care if he dies, even having a death wish at times. These are things that Tom King tackled with Bruce, in that Bruce was initially Batman purely because of his dead parents and it was an alternative attempt at suicide for him... but life as Batman changed him for the better, giving him new people to live for and a new reason to keep living. Ultimately even their original purpose in becoming Batman is different; Thomas vowed to punish anything that might hurt Bruce and extended that vow to destroying crime after his son's death, whereas Bruce's goal was always fundamentally to make Gotham a place where nobody else would suffer like he had, working to protect the innocent over punishing the guilty.
- Heel Realisation: After being saved by Justice Incarnate and being shown Bruce Wayne throughout the multiverse by Harbinger, he realizes that Bruce will always be Batman, and that he was wrong to try to force his son to live otherwise.Thomas: I think having my whole world destroyed… erased… It messes me up more than I wanted to admit to myself. […] I was angry at Bruce. Betrayed myself. Fell harder than I ever have. And I don't deserve to see him ever again. If he believes I'm dead… it's for the best.
- Insane Troll Logic: He is motivated by his Papa Wolf tendencies to prevent his son from experiencing the immeasurable pain that comes with being Batman. This leads him to have Alfred murdered, thereby causing Bruce immeasurable pain.
- Intergenerational Friendship: With Calvin, who he seems the closest to on the League. Before that, he was fairly chummy with Barry Allen, who is similar in age to Calvin.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's abrasive and not at all pleasant to anyone but Calvin and Barry, but he wants to protect the multiverse and is trying to be a good person again.
- The Last of His Kind: For a while, he was the only survivor of his timeline, which was restored by and then destroyed by Doctor Manhattan to manipulate Bruce and Barry. However, the Flashpoint timeline was restored as a pocket universe thanks to Bruce, and Thomas now resides there again with others.
- Love Makes You Evil: His love for Bruce makes him want Bruce to be happy, which Thomas believed he couldn't be while he's Batman, which is why he wanted to so completely destroy Bruce so that he'd stop. It never once clicked to Thomas that Bruce could be happy and be Batman or even that Bruce is happy because he's Batman. He eventually realizes his mistake.
- Love Redeems: Once he realizes that Bruce Wayne will always be Batman and happier for it, he decides to protect the multiverse.
- The Matchmaker: Anytime a woman shows interest in Calvin, Thomas is all in on Calvin dating her. First with his assistant, Courtney, who Thomas knows has a thing for Calvin. Later on, when Calvin turns down drinks with Doctor Multiverse, Thomas goes in a bit harder and manages to convince Calvin to lighten up.
- Old Superhero: He is very old, probably about 60. He is likely the oldest person to ever wear the Batman cowl, and he's able to take down the entire Bat-Family minus Bruce, who he curb stomps almost offhandedly. He stopped being a superhero for a while before returning to the role, albeit still being as grouchy as ever.
- Outliving One's Offspring: In his timeline, Bruce Wayne was killed and he lived another 30+ years, becoming an embittered and violent vigilante.
- Point of Divergence: His character is meant to be identical to the original Earth 0 Thomas Wayne until the murder at Crime Alley. It's implied the mainstream Thomas could have become like him if Bruce had died instead of Bruce's parents.
- Tragic Keepsake: The gun he uses is the gun Joe Chill used to kill his son.
- Uncertain Doom: At the end of Tom King's run, it's not quite clear what happens to him after Bane breaks his spine — does it kill him or just cripple him? Infinite Frontier, by a different writer, reveals he recovered and avoided dying during A-Day.
- Unexplained Recovery: Between the ending of Flashpoint and the start of The Button, somehow Thomas, clearly either dead or about a second away from dying, was able to survive and make it back to Gotham with both the Atlantean army and the Amazon army after him.
- Ungrateful Bastard: He isn't appreciative towards the Zoo Crew for helping him and letting him join their team. His little multiverse misadventure is actually the best outcome that anyone got, since everyone else ended up de-powered or in the middle of a conflict.
- You're Not My Father: How Bruce responds when Thomas keeps lecturing him about how he knows what's best. Bruce refuses to accept Thomas as his father and instead acknowledges Alfred as his father.
Cyborg
America's most popular hero, operating out of Detroit.
- The Leader: Of the heroes. Or he would be, if they had any organization to them.
- Uncertain Doom: In Flashpoint: Beyond, having somehow survived the war, he was last seen in Argentina going after Nazi forces there.
Captain Thunder and the SHAZAM Kids
The champion of the wizard Shazam, Captain Thunder is a being formed by six children; Billy Batson, his sister Mary, and their friends Freddy Freeman, Eugene, Pedro and Darla. They are also accompanied by Tawny, Pedro's pet tiger.
- Canon Immigrant: Pedro, Eugene and Darla would make their way into the DC universe proper following the reboot (though Darla gets an Age Lift down by several years. Here, she's the same age as the others, even being taller than Eugene, instead of The Baby of the Bunch).
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: Captain Thunder has a massive scar across his face, from an unexplained encounter with Wonder Woman.
- Henshin Hero: All six of the kids must say "Shazam" into order to merge into Captain Thunder.
- Panthera Awesome: Tawky, an apparently domesticated lion who hangs around with the kids. He also gets the power of the lightning, giving him some stylish armor.
- Weirdness Censor: Tawky is magically shielded from sight. Most people just see a large cat, if they see anything at all. Cyborg can partially see him, and is weirded out by it.
The Creature Commandoes
A team operating in World War 2, led by Lt. Matthew Shrive and Frankenstein. Their members also included Nina Mizursky, Warren Griffith and Vincent Velcoro.
- Canon Immigrant: Nina Mizursky was created for the Flashpoint series, but she made it through to the New 52 continuity.
- Composite Character: Frankenstein takes the place of "Lucky" Tailor, who was an Expy of him to begin with.
- Cool Sword: Frankenstein carries the Sword of St. Michael, good for smiting evil.
- Cute Monster Girl: Nina may look like the Creature from the Black Lagoon, but she's not exactly hideous. Griffith thinks she's still very cute.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Velcoro dies destroying the G.I. Robot, much to everyone's surprise. As he dies, he admits to Frankenstein he was tired of being a coward.
- Human Popsicle: After World War 2 ended, Robert Crane had them all knocked out and put in indefinite stasis, and only then because his higher-ups thought they might be useful one day. They escaped in 2011 thanks to Flash and Batman's freeing Subject One.
- Kryptonite Factor: Silver for Griffith, sunlight for Velcoro.
- LEGO Genetics: Eventually, the team discover Professor Mizursky had injected Griffith and Velcoro with samples of DNA from beings he found in a hidden village.
- Oblivious Adoption: Nina is actually from a race of water-dwelling people, and not a human who had just been turned into one, as she eventually finds out.
- Sucksessor: After the original team was imprisoned, Shrive tried forming a new version, but they turned on him and murdered both him and his daughter, after being bribed by Robert Crane.
- The Team Normal: Shrive is the only member of the team who is entirely human.
- Token Evil Teammate: Velcoro was a traitor who only signed up in exchange for a commuted prison sentence. He's still an incredible asshole.
- You No Take Candle: Being a werewolf, Griffith's linguistic abilities have become quite limited.
The Secret Seven
A collection of anti-heroes, currently consisting of Rac Shade the Changing Man, Abra Kadabra, Amethyst of Gemworld, Mindwarp, Zatanna, Raven and the Enchantress.
- Adaptational Heroism: One of the original Seven was Trigon, typically a demon of pure evil.
- Amazing Technicolor Population: Raven's skin is deep red, apparently being far more attuned to her demonic heritage here.
- Clothes Make the Superman: Rac's abilities come from his Meta-Vest.
- Depending on the Writer: In Secret Seven, Enchantress works for the Amazons in exchange for help with her personality issues. Flashpoint proper has her declare her motivations are solely For the Evulz.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: Abra-Kadabra is killed during the events of Flashpoint: Beyond.
- Hero Killer: Enchantress turns on the Secret Seven, causing the deaths of Ameythst, Zatanna and Raven. Later on she betrays the other heroes, personally killing Grifter and then causing the death of Billy Batson.
- Younger Than They Look: Amethyst looks like a young adult, but is actually twelve. Sometimes this tends to shine through.
Element Woman
- Big Damn Heroes: Shows up to save Cyborg, Batman and Barry from Subject-One's angry guards.
- Canon Immigrant: She'd make her way into the regular DC universe after Flashpoint.
- Cloudcuckoolander: She's just a little bit mad. Friendly and helpful, but definitely mad.
- Distaff Counterpart: A female version of Metamorpho. Whether Metamorpho even exists in the Flashpoint universe is unclear.
- Jumped at the Call: She's one of the first and most enthusiastic to sign up to Cyborg's hero coalition, mainly because no-one's ever invited her to anything before.
- Manchild: Nice, but she acts an awful lot like a pre-teen girl, even bringing along juice boxes on her superheroic endeavours.
- Mysterious Past: The wheres and whys of how Emily Sung got her powers are unclear.
- Stripperiffic: Her outfit consists of a tube top, sleeves and underpants. Given her behavior, it indicates more her general oddness, rather than an attempt at fanservice.
Etrigan
- Ambiguous Situation: No mention is made of Jason Blood or their usual arrangement, leaving it unclear if that situation applies to this Etrigan or not.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: Blasted by Enchantress's magic when she turns on everyone.
- The Nose Knows: He smells something on Canterbury Cricket he doesn't like, and is quite put out to discover it's because the bug is holy.
- Rhymes on a Dime: Same as always for Etrigan.Grifter: Forgive our golden friend, he likes to think himself a poet.
- Token Evil Teammate: For the Resistance, what with being a demon and all. He's quite happy to cook enemies with his fire breath, and is implied to have just outright eaten Cheetah.
Firestorm
- Black Dude Dies First: Heatwave tries to kill one of the due to force the remaining one to give him the power of Firestorm. He kills Jason Rusch.
- Hero of Another Story: Jason and Ronnie have been operating as Firestorm for some time, until Heatwave puts the kibosh on that.
Geo-Force
The King of Markovia, a Metahuman with phenomenal powers.
- And I Must Scream: He's abducted by the Altanteans, experimented on, and wired up to a geo-bomb they use to sink a good chunk of Europe, while he's still conscious and aware of what's being done to him.
- Dishing Out Dirt: With a mix of Gravity Master as well.
- Horrible Judge of Character: Trusting Aquaman was not his smartest decision, to put it mildly.
- Person of Mass Destruction: Not remotely by choice. The Atlanteans use his powers to wipe out entire countries.
Grifter
- Canon Immigrant: One of Wildstorm's heroes moving into the DC universe proper (previously having been part of Earth-50).
- Half the Man He Used to Be: Disintegrated by a blast from the Enchantress when she turns.
- Sole Survivor: Of Team Seven, who were wiped out on a mission in the Middle East.
- Telepathy: Has it as a power, which meshes with Britannia's Technopathy.
Lois Lane
A reporter for the Daily Planet who was in Europe when the Amazons and Atlanteans went to war.
- Badass Normal: No powers, but she still manages to survive in the wartorn England among the Amazons.
- Character Death: Dies helping Kal-El fight Subject Zero.
- Former Teen Rebel: By indications, she rebelled against her military dad as a kid.
The Outsider
Also known as Michael Desai, an Indian metahuman with a rocklike body and the power to control the earth.
- Berserk Button:
- Disrespecting him for his appearance.
- Kill his minions, wreck his headquarters, but whatever you do, do not ruin his suit.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: He manages a massive, self-made international corporation, moonlighting as an occasional supervillain.
- Dishing Out Dirt: His powers, though Michael never actually uses them actively.
- Doomed Hometown: Michael was born with his metahuman powers fully active. It destroyed Chandrigah, with Michael as the only survivor.
- I Have Your Wife: Held Black Adam's wife hostage to try and force him to surrender. Once he'd beaten Adam, he threw her off the moving train they were on.
- Karma Houdini: Michael is a complete bastard, with no redeeming features, and yet he manages to get through his miniseries with his financial empire intact and his enemies all dead. Only the fact the Flashpoint universe is erased via the Flash's time-travel mitigates things.
- Lack of Empathy: Which he freely cops to, complete with smug grin.
- Nigh-Invulnerable: His rock body means he's capable of tussling with a Flying Brick like Black Adam and walking away unharmed.
- Nothing Personal: Says this about all the lives, heroic and otherwise, that he's ruined without an ounce of regret or remorse. To him, it's simply good business.
- Not in This for Your Revolution: Michael was uninterested in the Amazon-Atlantis war beyond how it impacted his business. He only gets involved when it turns out one side is out to kill him.
- Playing Both Sides: As a young man, he organized a mob war by inciting both sides and arming them. Then he killed both gang leaders and seized control.
- Villain Protagonist: Of his miniseries.
- Wicked Cultured: As the head of a multinational corporation, Michael enjoys the fine things in life, especially expensive food and drink. His wardrobe always includes finely tailored suits at all times.
- Would Hurt a Child: He'll quite willingly sell the children of his enemies into slavery, just to be a dick.
Abin Sur
Green Lantern of Sector 2814, who in this timeline never passed his ring on to Hal Jordan due to being still alive and active as a member of the Green Lantern Corps.
- In Spite of a Nail: Even though he lives in this timeline, Abin Sur still crashes to Earth in a spacecraft and sees Hal Jordan come to his aid.
- Last of His Kind: His home planet Ungara was destroyed and he's the only surviving member of his race.
- Snap Back: The original Flashpoint event ended with him becoming a White Lantern during the final battle. As indicated by his cameo in issue 0 of Flashpoint Beyond, he's back to being a regular Green Lantern with no explanation.
- Uncertain Doom: He vanishes not long into the events of Flashpoint Beyond. While it is mentioned that there were casualties among the heroes, it isn't clarified if Abin Sur was among them.
Traci Thirteen
A young witch whose mother was killed during the Atlantean attack on Paris.
- Anti-Magic: Traci manages to depower Amon by summoning the magic lightning bolt against him.
- Depower: Traci manages to stop H.I.V.E. wiping out Europe in an attempt to get the Atlanteans and Amazons, but at the cost of all her magical abilities.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: Or Bittersweet ending, at any rate. Traci saves the Earth and reconnects with her father, helping him start to move on from his grief, but at the cost of all her magic. Of all the Flashpoint stories, however, it's one of the more upbeat endings.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: She's got some nasty scars under the left side of her cheek, apparently a result of trying to use magic to resurrect her mom.
- Heroic RRoD: Her magic teleports her randomly across the world, but at a cost. Blood-from-the-eyes kind of cost.
- Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: One of the few people to remember the pre-Flashpoint timeline, including Natasha Irons and Jaime Reyes, but it's only vague glimpses and she's got no ability to do anything about it.
Canterbury Cricket
Once known as Jeramay Chriqui, during the Amazon invasion of England he was transformed into an insect-man.
- A Day in the Limelight: Gets a one-shot all to himself, explaining who he is and why exactly he looks the way he does.
- Added Alliterative Appeal: There aren't actually crickets in the UK, but Geoff Johns thought the name sounded cool.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Tried pleading with an Amazon to spare his life. She had no intention of doing so.
- Canon Immigrant: Initially a character exclusive to the Flashpoint universe, a version of him showed up in the DC universe proper in Doomsday Clock.
- Dirty Coward: When the Amazons attacked, he grabbed a girl he had a crush on... so he could throw her in the path of an Amazon's sword.
- Eye Scream: Lost an eye in an explosion during the explosion.
- Karmic Transformation: Figures what happened to him was retribution for his scuzzy behavior before he was transformed.
- My Nayme Is: "Jeramay" instead of the more usual "Jeremy".
- Riddle for the Ages: Even Jeramay isn't quite sure what caused his transformation, only knowing that Canterbury Cathedral fell on him, and he woke up in the rubble turned into a cricket-man.
- Sole Survivor: Of the Ambush Bugs, a group of insect-themed fighters who tried repelling the Amazon invasion.
- Super-Scream: One of his powers is letting lose a burst of extreme sound.
- Was Once a Man: He's a little upset over being turned into a bug-man.
- Yank the Dog's Chain: Just as he and Jenny Greenteeth are getting on, she's killed by an Amazon attack.
Miss Hyde
Also known as Bobbie Stephenson. The ingestion of a mysterious formula caused her to turn into the brutish Miss Hyde, who fights with the resistance against the Amazons.
- Bald Head of Toughness: Stephenson's hair disappears entirely when she turns into Hyde.
- Canon Immigrant: Another Flashpoint original, a version of Miss Hyde is mentioned in Doomsday Clock.
- Jekyll & Hyde: With a difference that it's the Hyde persona who's more heroic. Bobbie tries selling out the resistance and holds Lois Lane hostage.
- Not in This for Your Revolution: Hyde admits she's largely in the fight because she's being paid. Bobbie isn't even remotely on their side.
- The Quisling: Bobbie sells out the resistance partly so she can get rid of Hyde, but also so she can be made one of Diana's Furies.
- Split-Personality Takeover: Miss Hyde manages to seize back control from Bobbie.
Inhabitants of Gotham City
The Joker
The Batman's most notorious and dangerous and personal foe.
- Driven to Suicide: When Thomas tells her about the other timeline, she initially seems okay with the thought of Bruce being alive... until Thomas's silence leads her to realize Bruce is Batman in that timeline.
- Not Quite Dead: In Flashpoint Beyond, she is eventually revealed to have survived her suicide attempt, having accidentally found a Time Bubble in the process.
- Outliving One's Offspring: She became the Joker due to being driven insane by the grief of her son Bruce's death.
- Tragic Villain: Once, she was Martha Wayne, loving mother. Then some punk with a gun shot her child. Her mind quite comprehensively broke after that.
- Would Hurt a Child: She kidnaps and torments the Dent children.
Oswald Cobblepot
Thomas Wayne's loyal underling.
- Number Two: Doesn't seem to have gone into criminality like his regular counterpart, instead being Thomas's head guy. Which is probably why he's still alive.
- Secret-Keeper: He knows Thomas is Batman.
Commissioner Jim Gordon
- Cruel and Unusual Death: The Joker slices his throat open, and he slowly bleeds to death on-page.
- Friend on the Force: For Batman, despite the changes in reality. However, it's a lot less outwardly friendly than Bruce's relationship with his Jim.
- Point of Divergence: He never had children, or even married, so no Barbara or Jim Junior in this reality.
- Secret-Keeper: One of the few to know who the Batman really is.
Selina Kyle
- Expy: Serves as the Oracle in this timeline. Only her injuries are far more crippling than Barbara's ever were.
Renee Montoya
- Badass Normal: She tries attacking Batman, who has no compunctions about killing his opponent, with a baseball bat.
- The Bartender: Doesn't seem to be a cop, but does own / operate a local cop watering hole.
- Batter Up!: She tries attacking Batman with a baseball bat.
Jason Todd
- In Spite of a Nail: Despite the vastly different route his life took, he still died and came back to life at some point.
- Nice Guy: Nothing but a kindly, good natured preacher.
- Seen It All: He is remarkably casual about a young woman teleporting into his church. As he explains, it's Gotham.
Poison Ivy
- Back from the Dead: Thomas Wayne killed her some time ago, but the Green revives her. And as a bonus, she makes a Heel–Face Turn along the way.
- The Ghost: Mentioned in Batman's miniseries but not soon, on account of her deadness.
Digger Harkness
- The Cameo: Appears during Flashpoint: Beyond as a criminal operating in Gotham. The Australian accent and distinctive furry hat are a giveaway.
- Point of Divergence: Never became Captain Boomerang and never ran with the Rogues, which all things considered seems to have worked out pretty well for him.
Inhabitants of Central City
Citizen Cold
The supposed greatest hero of Central City, Leonard Snart lies and murders, but is worshipped by the regular citizens of his city, unaware of just what he's up to.
- Adaptational Villainy: Captain Cold is usually a pragmatic villain, drawing the line at petty villainy and things like murdering women and children. This version of him is a total scumbag.
- Bad Boss: Got his start by murdering his entire gang.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: His sister, Lisa, who he left behind when he went off to become a crook. It's the only thing he regrets, not least because it meant leaving her with their scumbag dad.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Killed by Iris West freezing him solid with his own cold ray.
- Secret Identity: Nobody knows he's secretly Leonard Snart, wanted murderer and criminal, and he works very hard to keep it that way.
- Stalker with a Crush: Towards Iris West.
- Villain Protagonist: Of his own miniseries.
- Villain with Good Publicity: As far as the people of Central City are concerned, he's a hero. The police at least know better, but Snart's so good at covering his tracks they've as yet been unable to build an airtight case. Cyborg even tries recruiting him for his cause.
- What Could Have Been: In-universe, Cold momentarily wonders what things might've been like if he'd recruited the Rogues as his crew.
- Would Hurt a Child: Kills Wally West, a teenager, by freezing him solid.
The Rogues
A group of supervillains who have gone up against Citizen Cold and lost, resulting in their imprisonment in Iron Heights.
- Almost Dead Guy: Mirror Master's last encounter with Cold has left him stuck in his mirrors, and he'll die if he gets out.
- Anti-Villain: Fallout is a man stuck with horrific radioactive powers and no ability to cure them. His only hope for a potential cure dies when Cold murders Mister Freeze.
- Funetik Aksent: Mirror Master and his incredibly strong Scottish accent.
- The Mole: Trixster is working for Citizen Cold.
- Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Mirror Master eventually figures out Trixster's a double-agent and kills him. Just a little too late.
Lisa Snart
Leonard Snart's sister.
- Broken Bird: A lifetime being abused by her dad, then abducted by supervillains out to get her brother, then killed.
- Damsel in Distress: Abducted by the Rogues to use as bait to lure Citizen Cold into a trap.
- In Spite of a Nail: She still dies, just for different reasons than her regular universe counterpart.
- Point of Divergence: She was left behind when Len ran off to become a crook, and never became the Golden Glider.
Inhabitants of Metropolis
Subject One
Also known as Kal-El, the last survivor of Krypton. His rocket crashed not in a field in Kansas, but right on top of Metropolis City. Imprisoned by the US government, Kal has spent his entire life in an underground cage.
- Adaptational Upbringing Change: Superman's rocket lands in the middle of Metropolis along with a meteor shower instead of Kansas. As a result, he's seized by the military and kept inside a bunker his entire life.
- In Spite of a Nail: Still winds up being involved with Lois Lane, despite all the other changes to his life.
- My Species Doth Protest Too Much: It turns out in Flashpoint: Beyond that in the Flashpoint timelime, Kryptonians are bastards, who sent Kal as an advanced scout for an invasion force. Kal-El decides to protect mankind anyway.
- Nice Guy: Despite having pretty much every reason to leave mankind to their doom, he still decides to help out.
- Power of the Sun: As a Kryptonian, though his long years underground mean he's not as strong as he probably could be. Regardless, a few hours out of his cell and he's strong enough, despite being badly emaciated, to go toe-to-toe with Aquaman and Wonder Woman.
- The Quiet One: Besides Lois, he rarely talks to anyone.
- Raised in a Lab: Instead of landing in Kansas and being founded and raised by the Kents, Kal-El landed in Metropolis and founded by the authorities. Since then, he spent his whole life in a cell in a laboratory.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Flashpoint issue 5 has him crash-land on Enchantress, causing her to fly apart in a magical explosion. Then he looks up, his eyes glowing red.
- Yank the Dog's Chain: He's forced to watch Lois die at the end of the war.
General Sam Lane
- Adaptational Heroism: Much much nicer than his previous incarnation, who was at best a colossal jerkass and at his worst an outright genocidal maniac.
- Parental Substitute: The closest thing Kal-El has to a father figure. He gets on far better with the boy than he does his actual children.
Subject Zero
Formerly Neil Sinclair, a soldier in the US army before he volunteered to be experimented on, giving him powers far beyond mortal men... and a god-complex to match.
- Beware the Superman: Oh, big time! He can be considered even more powerful (and more dangerous) than Superman and Doomsday mix together. Too bad he's out of his mind, otherwise he would have been a great hero.
- Defeat Equals Explosion: When Kal and Lois finally defeat him he explodes.
- Empowered Badass Normal: Started off as a regular guy with a string of meta-related incidents under his belt before he was experimented on.
- LEGO Genetics: The US Government found a mysterious alien life-form (Doomsday) and figured it was a good idea to implant it into a human being.
- Locked into Strangeness: His hair starts off blonde, but turns silver-grey as his powers grow.
- Psychopathic Manchild: By the time he's locked up in the Phantom Zone, he's probably the most powerful being on Earth. As Lois points out, he'd probably be capable of taking out all the major villains on Earth no problem... but he'd rather kill Kal to "prove" some point while spouting nihilistic pseudo-philosophy.
- With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: The more his power grew, the more his sanity started to ebb.
Lionel Luthor
- Abusive Parents: He uses his own son as a Human Shield, for God's sake!
- Beard of Evil: Has an incredibly long beard, and is evidently not a nice person.
- Canon Immigrant: Very much based on the Lionel Luthor of Smallville, particularly him at his evilest.
- Character Death: Killed thanks to Subject Zero's manipulations.
General Nathaniel Adam
A general in the US Air Force.
- Adaptational Villainy: Usually, Nathaniel Adam is Captain Atom, a superhero. Here, he's an insane military man.
- Arc Villain: For Booster Gold's Flashpoint tie-in.
- Bullying a Dragon: Is condescending and sexist to Miranda Shrive, who tells him if he keeps it up she'll take out his eye. He wisely backs down, admitting she would.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: Flashpoint: Beyond has him suddenly dead at the hands of someone out to kill anyone related to DC's variety of time-travellers.
- Evil Old Folks: Unlike Captain Atom, this Nate never got shunted into the future, having reached the modern day the hard way. He's also a colossal paranoid asshole.
- General Ripper: His run-in with Booster Gold shows he's a paranoid lunatic, who thinks unleashing Doomsday is a perfectly sensible idea to get rid of one "Atlantean" (meaning Booster).
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has some nasty scars on the left side of his mouth.
- Jerkass: Just generally nasty and unpleasant to everyone everywhere, and sees nothing wrong with experimenting on children.
- Point of Divergence: He never became Captain Atom.
Robert Crane
A robotics expert in the US army during World War 2.
- Fantastic Racism: Hates the Creature Commandoes simply for not being human, and gleefully admits to Frankenstein's face he'd rather have killed the lot of them.
- Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: A full head of hair in the 1940s, by 2011 he's gone bald.
- Point of Divergence: Never becomes Robotman, remaining entirely human.
Green Arrow Industries
Oliver Queen
The owner of Green Arrow Industries, which makes its money selling the weapons of supervillains to the US government.
- Disappeared Dad: He's fathered several children thanks to his playboy ways, but has never bothered to learn anything about them.
- Fatal Flaw: His inability to think anything through brings disaster on him, and his company.
- Point of Divergence: Never wound up on that island, never learned responsibility or forethought, and never learned how to operate a bow.
- Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: His death is confirmed in a news report in Flashpoint Beyond.
Roy Harper
The head of security for Green Arrow Industries
- Killed Mid-Sentence: He gets killed while in the middle of pointing out to Oliver Queen that he has potential to do good.
- Redshirt: Appears for a few pages, then dies as a result of the attack on GA Industries.
Atlantis
Aquaman
- Berserk Button: Don't mention Mera. Ever.
- Freudian Excuse: Atlantean soldiers burst into his house and killed his dad at a young age. With no positive parental guidance, Arthur grew up thinking mercy was a weakness.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has a large scar running across the bridge of his nose from Diana's sword.
- Missing Mom: His mother suffered Death by Childbirth delivering Arthur.
- Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Claims at least some of his motivation is mankind's shabby treatment of the environment, but it's pretty clear he's also just lashing out at the entire world in his pain.
- Red Is Violent: A difference between him and regular Aquaman is his shirt is blood red.
- Then Let Me Be Evil: At the end of his miniseries, he decides he doesn't care if he's being manipulated or not, and decides to just kill everyone and be damned.
- Unwitting Pawn: Is unable to realise his brother is a shifty jerk. When Diana points it out to him, he almost considers it... but Orm scuppers everything and he forgets this.
- Yandere: During Convergence, he attempts to force New Earth Mera to be his new lover.
Mera
Arthur's former lover, now dead.
- The Lost Lenore: She is this for Arthur after Diana killed her.
- Morality Chain: Served as one for Arthur. He goes really off the deep end when she's killed.
- Off with Her Head!: She was beheaded by Queen Diana, who apparently kept it while sending her headless body back to Arthur.
- Unwitting Pawn: Yet another victim of Orm's manipulations, when he just happens to suggest that maybe someone should try a different plan for getting rid of Diana. And so Mera rushes off to kill her former friend.
Orm
- Cain and Abel: Is working to try and get his brother killed. He's quite happy to get millions, if not more, killed in the process.
- Evil Chancellor: Every time Arthur starts having doubts, in comes Orm with a suggestion that just happens to escalate things even further.
- The Resenter: Why is Orm out to get Arthur? He feels his brother has usurped his rightful throne.
Garth
Arthur's ward.
- Frame-Up: Garth didn't approve of the marriage between Arthur and Diana, making it easier for Orm and Penthesilea to make it look like he tried to kill them.
- His Name Is...: Tried telling Arthur that Orm has set him up, but Penthesilea skewers him before he can say too much.
Vulko
- Mad Scientist: Using a living person as a geo-weapon, while they're still alive? Yep, he counts.
- Taking You with Me: When it looks like the Amazons have betrayed a parley, he activates the geo-bomb as he dies.
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Queen Diana
- Battle Trophy: Takes Mera's helmet after killing her.
- Did Not Think This Through: Never thought that it might be a bad idea trying to negotiate with Arthur while holding the sword she previously used to give him a scar across his face, and wearing the helmet she took off Mera's head. Naturally, Arthur is so enraged by this he's unwilling to listen.
- Flanderization: The tie-in series portray Diana as conflicted about what she and the Amazons are doing, led astray by Penthesilea's manipulations. Flashpoint and Flashpoint: Beyond just largely portray her as unstoppably murderous with no real qualms.
- Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: A difference in her outfit is that she's wearing a helmet.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Seems to be unaware of some of the horrific things her Amazons are doing.
- Unwitting Pawn: She is played like a fiddle by her aunt, and by the time she catches on it becomes far too late.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Once, she was a nice, carefree teenager. By the modern day, she's a warmongering tyrant.
- We Used to Be Friends: With Mera, since some of the arrangement with Arthur was political. The manipulations of Orm and Penthesilea ruin that.
Penthesilea
The sister of Queen Hippolyta and Diana's aunt, and chief general.
- Cain and Abel: Her plan starts with the murder of her own sister.
- Canon Foreigner: Previous versions of Wonder Woman haven't had her around. She proves to be one of the major nails leading to the crapsack nature of the Flashpoint universe.
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Penthesilea is always identifiable by her blue armor.
- Evil Chancellor: To her niece, always being the one pushing for more violence and more destruction.
- Hypocrite: Says the Amazons don't need men, but she's more than willing to work with Orm to accomplish her desires.
- Karma Houdini: While Diana does eventually catch on to her shiftiness, by that point everyone's at war and it's too late to do anything. But then...
- Uncertain Doom: When she kills Billy, he goes up in an almighty explosion, which she's at ground zero for. Whether it killed her or not is unclear.
- Would Hurt a Child: When Enchantress splits the Shazam Kids apart, Penthesilea immediately rushes forward and skewers Billy.
Artemis
A warrior of the Bana-Migdhall.
- Adaptational Villainy: Artemis has never exactly been what could be called "nice", but even on her worst days her views were mostly just "really doesn't like men", and she took her role as a hero seriously. Here she's perfectly willing to help kill her queen, start a war and lie to Diana in that cause.
- The Dragon: Serves as Penthesilea's head goon.
- Saying Too Much: Lets slip to Garth while attacking him that Orm was plotting something. Had Penthesilea not been nearby, the whole plot might've gone awry.
The Furies
Diana's elite warriors, a gathering of superpowered women from across the world.
- Adaptational Villainy: Huntress, Vixen, Hawkgirl, Katana and Starfire, all heroes in the regular timeline, have no problem helping Diana conquer Britain and try to kill anyone who fights back. Starfire especially, as she's shown psychopathically burning people.
- Amazon Brigade: Naturally, an all-woman team working for the queen of the Amazons.
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Giganta, who uses her size to swat down the US jets attacking the Amazon strongholds.
- Bodyguarding a Badass: They're supposedly Diana's guard, but she's already a Flying Brick, which none of them are, making them just a tad redundant.
- Kill It with Fire:
- Cheetah runs afoul of Etrigan the Demon, who cooks her.
- Starfire's powers. And thanks to some quick thinking from Dick Greyson, what happens to her.
- Slasher Smile: Starfire's expression as she roasts her way through innocent bystanders.
Terra
A young meta from Markovia, the half-sister of its king Brion, who sides with Wonder Woman.
- Adaptational Heroism: Not the card-carrying nutcase of the regular timeline. While she is helping Wonder Woman, it's not because of blatant psychopathic behavior.
- Dishing Out Dirt: Her meta-human power. The Amazons use it to counteract the Atlantean geo-bomb and preserve a chunk of Britain.
Others
Circe
- Anti-Interference Lock Up: She learned about Penthesilea's plans, and was caught and locked up in an icy cave to prevent her telling anyone.
- Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Of the Betrayal by Inaction type. She could probably easily hand Penth her ass with her magic, but since none of the other Amazons seemed to speak up for her or try to free her before Traci came along, she's decided to leave them to their fate.
Eel O'Brien
- Ax-Crazy: This is not the lovable goofball Plastic Man. This is the vicious gangster Eel O'Brien, who just happens to have superpowers.
- Berserk Button: Health tip; Do not call him Plastic Man.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: The "Legion of Doom" miniseries ends with him confronting Heatwave in his cell.
Grodd
- The Bad Guy Wins: With no Flash to stop him, he took over Gorilla City, and then went on the march across all of Africa. By the time the story begins, everyone's so busy with Atlantis and the Amazons they've completely ignored him... and he's bored out of his mind.
- Death Seeker: Grodd's gotten so bored with his constant victories he's hoping someone, somewhere will finally put a stop to him, even sparing a Child Soldier in the hopes he might come back and try again.
- Fantastic Racism: As always, Grodd despises humans.
- Hero Killer: The few heroes who actually tried stopping him, like Catman and Congorilla, he killed.
- It Amused Me: Is aware his chief underling is plotting against him, but lets it carry on because, again, he's bored and hopes it might succeed.
- Killer Gorilla: He's a murderous gorilla with human level intelligence and telepathy.
- Would Hurt a Child: He'll kill everyone in Africa. That includes children. A group of child soldiers try to kill him, and he simply uses his powers to make one kill the others.
Heatwave
- Ax-Crazy: Without Captain Cold and the rest of the Rogues to provide some form of moderating influence, his pyromania is absolutely out of control.
- Bolivian Army Ending: The Legion of Doom ends with him stuck in his cell, as a very angry Eel O'Brien approaches him.
- Hero Killer: Kills Jason Rusch in a misinformed attempt at getting access to Firestorm's power.
- Point of Divergence: He never joined the Rogues.
- Villain Protagonist: He's the main character of the Legion of Doom tie-in miniseries.
