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Bat-Family

    General 
  • Animal-Themed Superbeing: Bats and birds. Harley bucks the trend when she joins the team, but even she wears a bat-logo.
  • Badass Normal: Since this is Batman and his sidekicks after all, they don’t have the metahuman powers of their fellow superheroes, but they don’t need them.
  • The Comically Serious: All of them try way too hard to be intimidating.
  • Dark Is Not Evil: With the exception of Robin. everyone wears dark colors to better blend into the darkness.
  • Family of Choice: Bruce and Dick are both orphans, Damien is estranged from his mother and Barbara moved out of her parents' home sometime after getting into college. Harley also has issues with her parents.

    Batman 

Batman (Bruce Wayne)

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Voiced by: Diedrich Bader, Jack Stanton (Child)
The protector of Gotham City.
  • Action Dad: The current Robin is his biological son Damian and Batman is one of the most badass superheroes in the show.
  • Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Season 3 reveals Batman is suffering from PTSD due to watching his parents get murdered as a child and blaming himself for it without ever getting professional help until Harley literally gets inside his head. He gradually becomes unstable because of the movie that almost glorifies his parents' death as mere entertainment and Catwoman breaks up with him for being clingy, sending him into a depression that drives him to try and bring his parents back as zombies.
  • Adaptational Villainy: Bruce starts off as his usual, gruff but well meaning self. In season 3 however, a Trauma Conga Line detailed in Adaptational Angst Upgrade above happens, and Batman starts to go off the deep end becoming obsessed with bringing his parents back from the dead to the point that he causes a zombie apocalypse.
  • Animal-Themed Superbeing: A classic Type 2, who strikes fear into the hearts of criminals by both wearing the emblem of a bat and styling himself after one. Harley enjoys mocking that he must also fuck them.
  • Arc Villain: He's the main antagonist of Season 3, with his kidnapping of Frank to try to figure out Ivy's plan escalating into him trying to resurrect his parents and accidentally causing a Zombie Apocalypse.
  • Beneath the Mask: "Batman's Back Man" reveals that beneath his serious superhero persona, he's a complete Manchild who is stubborn to an almost suicidal degree.
  • Big Bad Ensemble: With Ivy in Season 3. Causing a Zombie Apocalypse is a complete mistake on his part, but it nonetheless serves as the biggest conflict until Ivy takes advantage of it for her own plans near the very end.
  • Broken Pedestal: Nightwing didn't want to believe Batman would be so shaken by Catwoman breaking up with him that he would accidentally cause a Zombie Apocalypse in an attempt to bring back his dead parents.
  • The Bus Came Back: After being absent for the entirety of Season 4, Bruce bribes the judge to get out of jail early and make his return as Batman.
  • Casting Gag: He's voiced by Diedrich Bader, who previously played Bats in one of the Lighter and Softer Batman animated adaptations, Batman: The Brave and the Bold.
  • Character Check: After the second season heavily downplayed it, Season 3 reminds us "oh yes, he's a superhero, and Harley and her friends are supervillains." Which is shown by Bruce abducting Frank to investigate Poison Ivy's plans and find out how to stop her from whatever she's doing… until he gets the idea to use Frank's ability of resurrection to bring back his parents.
  • The Comically Serious: How the show treats his usual stoicism; his serious, straight-faced reactions to everyone else's insanity are a source of humor for the show.
  • Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: As part of the Big Bad Ensemble of Season 3, he's the first Big Bad to be a Superhero instead of a Supervillain and alongside Poison Ivy was the first to not be affiliated with the Legion of Doom and to not be a Straw Misogynist.
  • Convenient Coma: The first episode of Season 2 reveals he did survive the collapse of the Joker's tower, but has been in a coma for months.
  • Dark Is Not Evil: He is a cowl hero who protects Gotham like most versions. It starts to slip when he becomes obsessed with bringing his parents back from the dead, though.
  • Dating Catwoman: He has been romantically involved with two villainesses, Catwoman and Talia Al Ghul, and even has a son with the latter.
  • Fatal Flaw: Pride and selfishness. Batman likes to think he can take everything on by himself. In the show, he's been shown very wrong twice — when he brought out some Powered Armor against Bane and failed, and years back when he called "beginner's luck" that Harley managed to divine the location of a bomb from the Joker.
  • Freudian Excuse: His parents were shot dead in front of him and he combats crime out of survivor's guilt and because he genuinely believes that it's his fault they were killed. As a result of his trauma, Bruce is mentally stuck in an adolescent state of maturity and has severe attachment issues with coworkers, family, and friends.
    • Deconstructed in "Batman Begins Forever" where it's shown he constantly relives that night in his mind, to the point that it's effectively the inverse of a repressed memory. He's doing it to himself because he blames himself for putting his parents in the position to die, and is desperate to fight crime as Batman as penance. Afterwards it's clear that he's losing his grip on sanity and needs emergency psychiatric intervention.
  • Friendship Denial: When Gordon asks for his emotional support as a friend, Batman asserts they're co-workers who should only talk about fighting crime. The already unstable Gordon cracks because of this.
  • Good Parents: When he sees Damian is distraught over his failure at being Harley's nemesis, he tries to cheer him up with his favorite dish - a grilled cheese sandwich with the Robin symbol on it - and tries consoling him by explaining how he himself "late-bloomer" when it comes to having his own nemesis. On-top of his Papa Wolf moments, this shows that Batman is putting in the effort to being an actual dad to Damian and not just a master/ward relationship, something that fans would argue is more than can be said for other versions of the character.
  • Has a Type: The two women he has dated, Catwoman and Talia Al Ghul, are both villainesses, dark-skinned, dark-haired, and very standoffish.
  • The Heavy: The main plotline of Season 3 centers around him kidnapping Frank to resurrect his parents, culminating in a Zombie Apocalypse that Ivy takes control of to fulfill her own ambitions. Since Ivy is a protagonist, this leaves the unstable Bruce as the most prominent antagonist for Harley's gang until the penultimate episode.
  • Hero Antagonist: He naturally opposes Harley and Ivy due to the pair being destructive supervillains, but is usually depicted as the Hero of Another Story. Season 3 sees his antagonism escalate into becoming the main antagonist, as he comes into direct conflict with the duo by kidnapping Frank to stop their plan to terraform Gotham. By "Batman Begins Forever," the "Hero" part is seriously questionable, as he is extremely unhinged to the point of obsession on bringing his parents back from the dead.
  • Hero of Another Story: He's only a supporting character in this show, but still fights crime while Harley is having her adventures.
  • Hope Bringer: Despite being injured and gone for months, upon his return and seen on Batgirl's videos, the city instantly stands up to the villains. People celebrating his return and making Two-Face team up with Bane despite earlier saying no.
  • Hypocrite: He has a point that Joker treats Harley like dirt and that she should stop going back to him. In Season 3 however, we see that his relationship with Catwoman is almost just as toxic, Selena routinely stringing him along and taking all of his expensive gifts, only to dump him in the end, leaving him a depressed wreck.
  • I Let Gwen Stacy Die: He asked his parents to take him to the movies and then wanted to walk home through Crime Alley instead of taking the limo. Ever since, he has blamed himself for his parents' murder by a mugger.
  • Ineffectual Loner: His flaw is that Batman is heavily self-reliant and isolates himself from his friends and family when he believes they are interfering with his duties as Batman. He ignores Alfred's warnings when told that he should rest in order to recover from his injuries and is almost killed by Two-Face's gang after being brutalized by Bane.
  • Insistent Terminology: The image on his suit is a symbol, not a logo, and he will not hear otherwise.
  • Internal Deconstruction: This depiction of Batman, unlike most others, really addresses just how mentally unstable Bruce would be after seeing his parents murdered. Harley uses her therapist training to diagnose him with a lot of issues for which he needs professional help.
  • It's All About Me: He feels he is the only one who can manage the villains in Gotham. This lone wolf attitude gets him in trouble on a few occasions when he is taken down and in need of assistance. Later subverts this trope when trusting Batgirl with helping the city upon rescuing him.
  • Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: His standard method for interrogating criminals is beating the shit out of them. It doesn't really work for him, especially when he tries it on the Joker.
  • Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: After Catwoman leaves him in Season 3, he becomes gradually unhinged until he tries to bring his parents back from the dead, seemingly blind to the fact that they Came Back Wrong.
  • Living Emotional Crutch: He's this to the chronically on-edge Gordon by virtue of being his Only Friend, to the extent that Gordon summons Batman on occasion just to talk about the problems in his life. Batman insisting that they're just "coworkers" in "You're a Damn Good Cop, Jim Gordon" causes Gordon to suffer a breakdown. Batman being missing for months at the time Gotham has been turned into an apocalyptic wasteland sends Gordon past the Despair Event Horizon.
  • Love Hurts: Catwoman breaking up with him in Season 3 causes him to fall into a very deep depressive funk. He stops taking care of himself to such an extreme extent that Harley is able to successfully kidnap him with little effort.
  • Mad Scientist: By "Batman Begins Forever," his obsession with his parents has led him to try to resurrect them decades after their deaths, and seems to see it as a success despite numerous pieces of evidence that it is a terrible idea.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: In the Season 3's climax, Bruce is horrified to realize his blind pursuit to resurrect his dead parents resulted in him unleashing a Zombie Apocalypse on Gotham. He even tries to put down his own zombie parents as penitence, but King Shark does it for him to spare him more trauma.
  • No Hero to His Valet: Alfred Pennyworth is perhaps the only human being in the world who can give Batman orders and call him out when his stubbornness goes too far.
  • No Social Skills: Like many other versions of his character, he often struggles with expressing affection towards other people. This ends up playing a part in "You're a Damn Good Cop, Jim Gordon", in which Batman's dismissal of his and Gordon's friendship causes Gordon to snap.
  • Not So Above It All: He isn't completely immune to the show's bizarre nature, at one point giving a completely serious birds-and-the-bees lecture to Damian about how he was a "late bloomer" concerning his own nemesis. After he wakes up from his coma in Season 2, he also displays a childishly stubborn side to himself, whining to Alfred about how he wants to be outside fighting crime. It's pretty similar to how his Will Arnett counterpart acts. And he did install a codpiece in his armored batsuit that fires missiles.
  • Not So Stoic: He looked briefly freaked out when the Joker graphically killed the Scarecrow. As it turns out, he can also be childishly petulant when he's around just Alfred.
  • Only Sane Man: He constantly keeps Jim on track while interrogating Harley and even outright asks her why she's staying with a man that treats her like dirt.
    • The events of "Batman's Back Man" show that this is only in comparison to everybody else. Batman is actually a total Manchild who acts more like a rebellious teenager who treats his butler like a Fantasy-Forbidding Father. He just hides all of this with an incredibly well constructed facade.
  • Papa Wolf:
  • Pet the Dog: Despite frequently coming to blows with Harley, and despite her nearly killing Robin, he's disgusted by how the Joker treats her and genuinely wants her to leave him for good.
  • Rage Breaking Point: When the Joker brings up the death of Jason Todd while Batman interrogates him and mocks Batman over it, he completely loses it and slams the Joker hard enough against a window to crack it and make him spurt blood out of his mouth.
  • Save the Villain:
    • Saves Harley after the Joker tries to push her into the ocean.
    • Saves Harley and Ivy during the collapse of the Joker's lair.
  • Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: When arrested for tax evasion, he does nothing to prevent it, as his obsession with his parents almost drove Gotham to a death by zombie apocalypse and he acknowledges that not even someone as rich as him should be above dealing with the consequences of their actions.
  • Seeks Another's Resurrection: In Season 3, his break-up with Catwoman and unwillingness to work through his childhood trauma drive him over the edge, resulting in him using Frank's new powers to resurrect his dead parents as zombies.
  • Sour Outside, Sad Inside: Outside, he's a brooding middle-aged man in a bat costume. Inside, he's still a traumatized little boy crying over the death of his parents.
  • Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Batman himself admits he isn't any good at expressing emotion and likes to keep things professional, but he isn't incapable of caring for others. He can try and be a good father to Damian and despite claiming he and Gordon are "just co-workers", Batman does appreciate their alliance enough to make pictures of him partying with Gordon his screensaver.
  • Temporarily a Villain: Goes through a bit of a Sanity Slippage in Season 3 and ends up accidentally causing a Zombie Apocalypse. He gets over it eventually and ends up submitting to going to jail for tax evasion as atonement.
  • Sympathy for the Devil: Despite Harley being an unhinged supervillain, Batman legitimately is disgusted by how poorly the Joker treats her and is sympathetic to her whenever she gets a reminder of how much of a Domestic Abuser he is.
    Batman [solemnly]: Some things never change, Quinn.
    • Bruce ends up on the receiving end once Harley realizes just what goes on inside his head, giving him psychiatric help.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In an attempt to bring his parents back as shambling zombies, he accidentally helps cause a city-wide plant Zombie Apocalypse that Poison Ivy makes worse.
  • Worf Had the Flu: His poor showing against Bane even with his Powered Armor was due to him getting rusty, having just recovered from his coma.

    Robin 

Robin (Damian Wayne)

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Voiced by: Jacob Tremblay
Batman's pre-teen son and sidekick.
  • Adaptation Personality Change: He's a lot more playful and less militantly pragmatic than most versions of Damian. He's also not above putting on "cute kid" shtick.
  • Adaptational Wimp: He's never treated as a physical threat despite his boast of being trained by assassins indicating that he should be. Harley leaves him hanging from a hook by his belt in their first encounter, and effortlessly finds and kidnaps him when she needs to later in the episode. To be fair, he is a 12-year-old kid, and all the ninjutsu in the world can't compensate for body mass. He also randomly gets nosebleeds and his voice cracks when he tries to sound tough. It's most likely because this version was raised by Bruce from the age of 4 and his training of him was far less intensive than Talia's.
  • Badass Adorable: Downplayed as he is more adorable than badass. Robin is still a scrawny 12 year old boy who is no match against bigger and tougher opponents.
  • Bratty Half-Pint: He calls Harley a clown and old, and gets hung up on a meat hook for his troubles.
  • Broken Pedestal: Tawny is extremely disappointed when it turns out that Robin isn't the "sweet potato pie" that he appears to be after the latter was tricked into an Engineered Public Confession by Harley.
  • But Not Too Foreign: His father is American and his mother is of Middle Eastern descent.
  • Cuteness Proximity: Provided they don't already know what a brat he is, everyone treats Robin like a basket of kittens. Even Ivy, who both knows what a brat he is and has a serious disliking for people in general, thinks he's adorable.
  • Deadly Nosebleed: Almost. Robin is shown to have occasional nosebleeds. When he was suspended above a pool with King Shark swimming around beneath, it was all for the camera to get him to admit he lied about being Harley's nemesis. His nosebleed picked up in time, and smelling the blood made King Shark come dangerously close to killing Robin for real.
  • Deliberately Cute Child: He goes on Tawny's talk show and plays cutesy for the camera.
  • Dirty Kid: Played for Laughs when he asks Batman when he will be old enough to have sex. Other than that, he doesn't show sexual interest in anyone.
  • Distressed Dude: He's kidnapped by Harley and her crew in his debut episode (in order to make him reveal he lied about being Harley's nemesis), and when King Shark goes crazy and poses a danger for Robin, it's up to Harley and later Batman to save him.
  • Domino Mask: He wears a black mask covering his eyes.
  • Family Eye Resemblance: Season 4 finally reveals how Damian looks unmasked, where he's shown to have inherited Bruce's blue eyes.
  • Flipping the Bird: Does this to Nightwing from the Batmobile after he tries to take a ride with Batman in it.
  • Fragile Speedster: For all his training, he's still a prepubescent child. Without much body mass, he's not much of a direct threat.
  • I Just Want to Be Badass: He tries to convince others that he's as cool and strong as Batman, but he's a bratty kid and a sidekick, so no one takes him seriously.
  • Kid Hero: Played for Laughs. Superman treats him like an encouraging uncle, he shows up riding a Robin-themed hoverboard in one instance, and Batman quickly runs out of having The Talk with him. Nobody take him seriously other than as Gotham's adorable, precocious kid, and one-on-one with Harley, she beats him singlehandedly every time. (Despite his skills from the League of Assassins, he's still very much just a kid in terms of physical ability.)
  • Kid Sidekick: To Batman. Also counts as Parent-Child Team since he's Bruce Wayne's biological son.
  • Legacy Character: He's at least the third kid to hold the mantle of Robin in this continuity, following Dick Grayson and Jason Toddnote .
  • Most Gamers Are Male: Following Season 1, he's almost always seen with a video game console in hand to show he's still a teenager. Not even his father bringing his grandparents from the dead is enough to rip him from his game.
  • Mouthy Kid: Cute yes, but he can and still will dish out snark at the most intimidating villains if given the opportunity.
  • Nightmare Fetishist: "Gotham's Hottest Hotties" has him express interest in seeing a dead body. He is disappointed when he has to miss out on it to visit his father in Blackgate and says "Cool" after seeing what's left of Professor Pyg after Harley bashed his head in.
  • Non-Standard Character Design: His large eyes and wild hair are more anime-esque than any other character, bringing to mind the Robin of Teen Titans (2003) and Teen Titans Go! (who is generally assumed to be Dick).
  • Pet the Dog: Despite his bratty attitude, he convinces his mother to use the Lazarus Pit to resurrect Nightwing.
  • Shonen Hair: Has a spiky, jet-black haircut that’s straight out of an anime series.
  • Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Is this to Harley, who at least wants a nemesis "with some hair on his chest".
  • Small Name, Big Ego: He's Damian, so a mammoth ego is basically mandatory, but he's a sidekick so his insistence that he and Harley are arch enemies hurts her reputation.
  • Taking Up the Mantle: Played for laughs when he tries to replace Batman when he has gone missing after the fall of the Joker's tower. He puts on Batman's suit, which on a person half the volume of Batman leaves it hanging off in many places and scrunched up in others.
  • Vocal Evolution: His voice gets deeper in later seasons with his actor going through puberty.
  • Yearning for a Nemesis: He complains about wanting a nemesis because all his fellow Teen Titans have one.

    Batgirl 

Batgirl (Barbara Gordon)

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Voiced by: Briana Cuoco
The daughter of Commissioner Jim Gordon who strives to become a fighter of crime.
See her folder in Harley Quinn's crew page for more information.

    Nightwing 

Nightwing (Richard "Dick" Grayson)

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Voiced by: Harvey Guillén
Batman's first Robin and now protector of Bludhaven.
  • Adaptational Jerkass: Nightwing is typically one of the friendliest, most down-to-earth superheroes. This Nightwing deliberately emulates Batman, which comes at the cost of his people skills, and he frequently dismisses Harley's attempts to fit in with the Bat-Family after she joins because he doesn't believe a villain could ever become a hero.
  • Asshole Victim: In Season 4, he dismisses Harley's attempts to fit in and bond with the Bat-Family, and acts overly rude and hostile towards her because he doesn't believe a former villain is capable of a Heel–Face Turn. He turns up dead and it's revealed Harley was the one who strangled him while she was sleepwalking. Once she remembers what she did, Harley is horrified and quits the Bat-Family, as she can't forgive herself for killing Nightwing despite how badly he treated her.
  • Back from the Dead: He gets killed by Harley in "Getting Ice Dick, Don't Wait Up". In the season 4 finale, he comes back to life after Talia throws him into the Lazarus Pit.
  • Body Horror: His big toe is horribly infected at one point.
  • Came Back Wrong: Talia tells Damian that Nightwing will come back "better", but the first thing he does after coming back to life is looking for Harley to take revenge for his own murder.
  • Composite Character: He's Dick Grayson/Nightwing but he also is brought back from the dead by Talia Al Ghul via the Lazarus Pit just like Jason Todd/Red Hood. It's also implied he will try to get revenge on Harley like how Jason tried to his revenge on Joker.
  • Domino Mask: He wears a black mask that covers the area around his eyes.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: First featured in The Eat. Bang! Kill. Tour. comic before appearing in the series.
  • Embarrassing Nickname: Damian refers to him as "Dickwad" because he's A Dick in Name.
  • Failure Hero: How he sees himself. He bailed on Batman after being restless and misconstruing a quote as needing to change, heading for Bludhaven. He failed to prevent Blockbuster's death at the hands of Vigilante and he feared Batman and the others learning, breaking down further when Ivy points out that if it was a big deal, they would have learned about it then and there.
  • Female Gaze: The camera loves to focus on his butt. Even his coffin makes emphasis on it.
  • Heroic BSoD: After getting a checkmate battling a robot and causing a set of spikes to pop out from the descending ceiling, Nightwing has an epic meltdown, believing he made a massive mistake in even leaving Gotham.
  • Inferiority Superiority Complex: He tries to act like an overly serious and smug edgelord in front of the Bat Family to overcompensate for his failures as a solo hero. He's extremely afraid they'll think he's a failure and briefly becomes suicidal when Ivy points out they may already know about Blockbuster's death.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: After Harley attempts to pull a Heel–Face Turn and join the Bat-Family, Nightwing is still hostile to her, believing her to still be a villain and unable to ever change her evil nature. Harley starts thinking he has a point, as she keeps having trouble following the heroic moral code and she finds out she has been acting like her former villainous self during her abnormal sleepwalking. Harley becomes fully convinced that Nightwing was right about her being a villain at her core when she discovers she strangled him to death while sleepwalking, leading her to quit the Bat-Family.
  • Mr. Fanservice: He's considered very attractive, making it to number 2 on Gotham's "Hottest Hotties" list on the strength of his posterior.
  • Reluctant Fanservice Guy: He's considered very good-looking, especially in regards to his well-defined butt, but he's not particularly happy about being voted number 2 on Gotham's "Hottest Hotties" list since he finds it degrading. He's also reluctant about Harley's plan to do a sexy livestream of him as bait for a Serial Killer, but he at least goes along with it until things go south.
  • Take That!: Nightwing's attitude and actions are this, mocking Nightwing's action in shows like Titans (2018) where Dick is much more fallible than he should be, taking a more darker stance that clashes with his comic portrayal. His Failure Hero status is also this to his portrayal in the DC Animated Movie Universe where he basically ascended to Memetic Loser status.
  • Took a Level in Jerkass: When Dick makes his official appearance in "There's No Ivy in Team", he's a lot more "edgelord-like", speaking in a Batman-esque Guttural Growl and trying to do things his way. The episode has him getting a nice slice of Humble Pie to fix things.
  • Undignified Death: Getting strangled to death with a friendship bracelet by someone who is sleepwalking after deliberately antagonizing them isn't a very heroic way to go out.
  • Ungrateful Bastard: Towards Harley. Despite Harley being genuinely helpful towards the Bat-Family, Nightwing still treats her like crap and refuses to accept her as a teammate on the sole basis of her being a former villain.

Justice League

    General 
A group of superheroes who work together to protect the world from threats too great for them to beat alone. Their membership includes Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Flash, and Aquaman.

  • Adaptational Jerkass: They are noticeably less "heroic" than in other versions. In season one, they nearly banish Harley and her crew to the Phantom Zone forever without a trial based on a hunch that they were responsible for the killer trees in Gotham, and Ivy has to plead for Wonder Woman to use her lasso to prove she's not lying. In season two, they show no gratitude toward Harley for freeing them from the Queen of Fables' spellbook and are willing to kill Harley's brainwashed crew if they give them too much trouble to simply subdue them. Wonder Woman shows no gratitude for Harley and Ivy saving Themyscira, and after they subdue the brainwashed Ivy, they declare that she is too dangerous to be let go, so they plan to throw her in the Phantom Zone, explicitly stating she will be in there forever, meaning they have no intention of freeing her after defeating Dr. Psycho. When Harley tells them to throw her in there too because she can't live without Ivy, Superman nonchalantly says "Okay". Of course, this is justified since the show is all from the perspective of the villains, and they understandably wouldn't have any reason to view the ones who constantly foil their schemes and send them to jail in a flattering light.
  • Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: The Flash and Zatanna dated on Valentine's Day. Possibly a Mythology Gag, as the original Flash and Zatanna were created by Gardner Fox.
  • Good Counterpart: To the Legion of Doom, naturally.
  • The Plot Reaper: Non-fatal example. The Queen of Fables sucks them into her storybook in the penultimate episode of Season 1, as otherwise the question would come up of why they aren't helping save Gotham from Joker's takeover.
  • Polite Villains, Rude Heroes: The rude heroes to the polite villains of Harley's crew.
  • Put on a Bus: Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, and Flash take a long-term bus trip when they're sucked into the Queen of Fables' storybook.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: While they (not unfairly) assume Poison Ivy is behind the monstrous trees rampaging Gotham, when she claims it wasn't her while under the influence of the Lasso of Truth, they stand down and give Harley's crew a chance to explain themselves.
  • Vague Age: They've been active for at least 30 years, but none of them look older than 40. Superman and Wonder Woman do age slower than regular humans, but that doesn't explain why Batman and Zatanna look the same.

    Wonder Woman 

Wonder Woman (Diana of Themyscira)

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Voiced by: Vanessa Marshall
An Amazonian princess turned superhero.
  • Action Girl: She's Wonder Woman after all! She's a highly trained warrior on top of having powers that rival Superman's.
  • Informed Attribute: According to Dr. Psycho (not the most reliable source for several reasons), she’s very litigious.
  • The Mourning After: In the Valentine's Day Episode, she's seen mourning her old boyfriend Steve Trevor.
  • Only Sane Woman: Her most noticeable status among all the other heroes. Includes doing lots of eye rolls.
  • Shockwave Clap: When Doctor Psycho does a Psychic Strangle on her, she escapes by crashing her vambraces together to knock him away with the shockwave.
  • Ungrateful Bitch: When Harley mentions that she saved Themyscira to try and get her to try and not kill the mind controled Ivy out of gratitude, Wonder Woman just tells Harley to leave, stating she can't promise Harley's safety if she remains on the battlefield.

    Superman 

Superman (Clark Kent)

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Voiced by: James Wolk
The world's greatest hero and protector of Metropolis.
  • Adaptational Wimp: He completely wimps out and whines like a wuss the moment he finds himself without his powers after Luthor's device blocks the sun, when most instances in other continuities of Superman losing his powers had him press on and manage to fight evil and do good deeds without his powers before he gets them back.
  • Badass in Distress: In the Season 4 finale, Superman has been captured, imprisoned and weakened by Lex Luthor so the latter could steal his superpowers and his hair. Harley ends up saving him as she and Ivy escape from Lex's moon base.
  • Dork Knight: He's introduced smashing through a wall and spitting out some rubble because his mouth was open. Then there's the way he confirms a sushi dinner date with Lois.
    Superman: You know how I… roll.
  • Everyone Has Standards: Both Harley and Superman agree that a $7.99 subscription to the Daily Planet is a bit much. It doesn't even include the crossword, which Superman thinks is ridiculous. It gets even more poignant if you consider that Superman is an employee of the newspaper.
  • Flying Brick: Of course he’s this, being Superman and all.
  • Jerkass Ball: He's generally nicer than most of his fellow superheroes, who are significantly bigger jerks in this show than they usually are. However, in the season 2 finale, he has no objections to Ivy being banished to the Phantom Zone forever instead of freeing her after the threat is dealt with, and he is perfectly willing to throw Harley in there too.
  • Nice Guy: This is Superman we're talking about. As well as heroic, he is friendly, polite, encouraging, and overall pleasant to both heroes and villains.
  • Pass the Popcorn: His reaction to Harley and Ivy tag-teaming Batman on Tawny's show is to shrug and keep eating sushi.

    Aquaman 

Aquaman (Arthur Curry)

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The sovereign ruler of Atlantis and protector of the seas.
  • Beware the Silly Ones: He's a Large Ham who other characters don't take seriously. Then he wipes the floor with the Legion of Doom.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: Defeats several Legion members single-handedly. Harley turns out to be no match for him without Ivy's help and she only manages to survive by tricking him into breaking a fish tank, causing Aquaman to take the fish to water.
  • Expy: His portrayal seems to be more Namor's than Arthur Curry's.
  • Good Is Not Soft: He has no problem trying to kill Harley and Ivy for stealing from him.
  • I Am X, Son of Y: He always introduces himself with "It is I, Aquaman, son of Atlan, heir to the Throne of Atlantis!" Nobody cares.
  • Informed Flaw: Is supposedly weak going by the Legion of Doom's comments, but he inflicted a Curb-Stomp Battle on the Legion in the same episode.
  • Large Ham: Maybe the only person whose real self is just as bombastic as Clayface's portrayal of him. Works against him as Clayface easily convinces the guards chasing Harley and co. that he's the real deal.
  • Mythology Gag: His referring to himself as the "son of Atlan" comes from the early DC Comics, where Atlan was really his father.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: In a fight with Harley, he ends up breaking a fish tank. He feels awful about putting the fish in lethal danger by getting them out of the water.
  • No-Sell: Harley pummels him after he hurts Ivy, and it does nothing.
  • Prongs of Poseidon: He's the ruler of an undersea civilization, and wields a trident that shoots energy blasts.
  • Strong as They Need to Be: Easily restrained by Ivy's plants, but able to take on the whole Legion of Doom single-handedly, but also easily injured by Harley's punches until he suddenly isn't. Good luck making any sense of how tough he's supposed to be.
  • Unusual Eyebrows: His eyebrows have "kinks" near the end.

    Green Lantern 

Green Lantern (John Stewart)

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A superhero with a superpowered ring.


    The Flash 

The Flash

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The fastest superhero.


    Zatanna 

Zatanna Zatara

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The Justice League's chief magic user.
  • Adaptational Modesty: Still no fishnets in animation (but does wear them in the spinoff comic).
  • Good Counterpart: To the Queen of Fables, being a magician. Zatanna is usually tasked with carrying out the Queen's punishment due to being the only superhero that can affect her.
  • The Voiceless: She hasn't had a chance at a speaking role yet.

Other Superheroes

    Swamp Thing 

Swamp Thing (Alec Holland)

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Voiced by: Sam Richardson
An immensely powerful creature who is intimately connected to The Green, the plants of the Earth.
  • Adaptational Nice Guy: The comics version of Swamp Thing isn't mean or anything, but he's generally depicted as very aloof, taciturn, and withdrawn. This version is much more chatty and gregarious.
  • Always Someone Better: Poison Ivy regards him as this, saying that her power over plants is nothing compared to what Swamp Thing can do. True to source, she's right.
  • Anthropomorphic Personification: Of Gaia's Vengeance. Poison Ivy starts to describe him as "the consciousness of a person put in a [plant]" before trailing off and saying it's complicated.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: He's normally very friendly and personable, but when he gets angry, he really gets angry, to the tune of starting a hurricane around his swamp.
  • Gentle Giant: He's a plant person taller than a human, but when he's in a good mood he's very amicable. Just don't hurt his feelings.
  • Green Thumb: Naturally, he can control plantlife and influence the ecosystem.
  • Hipster: In addition to living in a swamp away from society, this version of Swamp Thing sports a manbun, extols chai, and notes that tech bros are gentrifying his swamp with a beignet stand.
  • Mythology Gag: In his debut episode, Poison Ivy tries to say that he's a person's consciousness inside a plant before stating that his exact nature is complicated, a nod to the convoluted changes that have been made to his origin (originally being established as Alec Holland mutated into a plant creature before Alan Moore's run made the retcon that Alec Holland was actually killed and Swamp Thing was a plant elemental who obtained Holland's memories and therefore believed himself to be Holland, with Brightest Day having the real Alec Holland resurrected to become the new Swamp Thing after the original was corrupted as a Black Lantern and the New 52 subsequently going with Alec Holland actually being Swamp Thing the whole time).
  • We Used to Be Friends: He and Poison Ivy used to be friends due to their shared love of the environment but have drifted apart. Poison Ivy assumes it’s because being a superhero, Swamp Thing didn’t approve of Poison Ivy’s desire to take over the world. Swamp Thing may have not approved but that wasn’t why he stopped being friends with Ivy. They stopped being friends because Poison Ivy didn’t support him when he was going through a stressful divorce, making excuses to leave whenever he tried to talk about it with her.

    Hawkman and Hawkgirl 

Hawkman and Hawkgirl

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Two winged superheroes with roots in Ancient Egypt.


    Mera 

Mera

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Voiced by: Janet Varney

Aquaman's wife and queen.


  • Fantastic Racism: An underwater queen who openly despises surface dwellers, no matter how much Aquaman tries to walk it back with a "Just Joking" Justification.
    Mera: Ugh, fine. I'm kidding. (softly) I'm not kidding.
  • In Love with the Mark: She was sent to assassinate Aquaman, but clearly "failed in her mission" since they are now married.

    Supergirl 

Supergirl (Kara Zor-El)

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Voiced by: Lacey Chabert

Superman's younger, but actually older, cousin.



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