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The Legion of Doom

See Their Page.

Injustice League

In General

A group of former Legion of Doom members assembled to take over Gotham in Season 2.

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• Arc Villain: Collectively the main antagonists for the first half of Season 2 as Harley sets out for revenge after they seal her in ice.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: The group is an equal alliance of villains controlling Gotham—although Bane is more Dumb Muscle the others make fun of and boss around. By the time they're reduced to just him and Two-Face in episode five, the latter is the clear leader.
• Disc-One Final Boss: They gradually get whittled down and are effectively dismantled halfway through the season, with the Riddler teaming up with Psycho for the remainder.
• Dwindling Party: By episode 7, Penguin is killed off relatively early, Riddler is captured by Harley's crew, Mr. Freeze sacrifices himself for his wife, Two-Face is arrested by Gordon, and Bane was last seen stuck in a pit.
• Legion of Doom: Albeit a smaller version, made up of only Gotham villains.

Two-Face

Two-Face (Harvey Dent)

Voiced by: Andy Daly

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• Adaptational Jerkass: On top of bearing none of the sympathetic qualities that made him a Tragic Villain in the comics, this version of Dent is an extremely arrogant politician who is a Slave to PR, willing to endanger hostages just to protect his political career. The only good thing you could say about pre-disfigurement Dent is that he's charming enough to be really good buddies with Gordon and doesn't seem to be on any sort of bad terms with Batman.
• Adaptational Late Appearance: Two-Face is oridinarily one of Batman's earliest-encountered adversaries and was established to be responsible for killing the father of the second Robin Jason Todd, when "All the Best Inmates Have Daddy Issues" indicates that Dent in this continuity had yet to be disfigured and become Two-Face after the Joker had killed Jason Todd.
• Adaptational Personality Change: Unlike most depictions of Two-Face in comics and other media, Dent seems to lack the Split Personality that caused him to become Two-Face in the first place. His moniker was implied to be based upon Harley's insult at him for being a two-faced politician. Also, only once does his trademark two-headed coin ever appear.
• Adaptational Ugliness: Looks more thuggish on both sides.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: His left half is a pale aquamarine color.
• Ascended Extra: He is little more than a mook for the Joker in one episode in Season 1. In Season 2, he becomes a founding member of the Injustice League, and becomes the de-facto leader once the Penguin and Mr. Freeze are killed and the Riddler is taken prisoner.
• Bald of Evil: He's bald on the left half of his head.
• Broken Pedestal: When Harley first became a psychiatrist at Arkham, she looked up to Dent for his reputation as an honest politician. However, when Dent was willing to let a sniper shoot Harley to get at the Joker so he could protect his reputation, Harley gives Dent a Spiteful Spit and berates him as a "two-faced" crook.
• Bullying the Dragon: Despite the fact that Bane could easily snap him like a twig, he still bullies and heckles him at almost every turn.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Repeatedly betrays people that he works with, particularly in Season 3, something he repeatedly lampshades to dense ol' Gordon should be obvious in his name.
  "Why? Why do you keep trusting me? My name is Two-Face. I almost feel like you're trolling me. Being two-faced is what I do! It's pretty straightforward!"
  "Seriously? You're making this really not fun for me. "Two-Face" is my name!"
• The Corrupter: As Jim Gordon's campaign manager in Season 3, he gets Gordon to become a sleazy, typical politician.
• Disabled in the Adaptation: Harley offhandedly remarks that Two-Face is blind in his left eye, something that is either implied or never brought up in previous adaptations^note in fact, it's the Harley-centric graphic novel Harleen that touches upon the issue, by showing that Harvey's sight is damaged on the left eye due to it being bloodshot.
• Disc-One Final Boss:
  • He's the leader of the Injustice League, but is ultimately arrested halfway through Season 2. He still manages to cause havoc from behind bars however, as he manipulates Gordon into attacking Ivy's wedding in the finale.
  • Gordon's subplot in Season 3 sees Two-Face acting as The Corrupter, encouraging him to take morally dubious actions as part of his mayoral campaign and even going so far as to try to assassinate his rivals so Gordon can reinstate him as DA. Fortunately, his extremism gets Gordon to finally turn on him halfway through the season, leaving Bruce's kidnapping of Frank as the main conflict.
• Due to the Dead: After Mr. Freeze's death, he keeps his seat open in his memory.
• Even Evil Has Standards: He agrees with the Scarecrow that the Joker's treatment of Bane is too harsh. Hypocritical, considering how his own treatment of Bane isn't so different.
• Evil Reactionary: Even prior to his deformation, he agreed with the use of torture on suspects and was pushing for a law to reduce the rights of prison inmates.
• Faux Affably Evil: Two-Face is quite adept at faking friendliness to talk people into his way of thinking. Well, he was once a lawyer.
• Guns Akimbo: He wields two guns simultaneously as part of his "duality" aesthetic.
• It's All About Me: Even before he got disfigured and became Two-Face he was still a slimeball who cared about nothing but his own self advancement.
• Manipulative Bastard: Plays Bane, Gordon and Harley with ease, never losing his cool while pushing them in the direction he wants them to go.
• Mythology Gag: His attitude back as the DA and Harley's past view of him are much in line with DC Black Label's story Harleen.
• Pet the Dog: To his credit, he did leave Mr. Freeze's seat open in memoriam of his death and was outraged when Bane tried to take the empty seat as his own.
• Slave to PR: When he was still Harvey Dent, he ordered a sniper to shoot the Joker even when he took Harley as a hostage, being more concerned about his PR at risk for letting the Joker escape.
• Sleazy Politician: When he was still Harvey Dent, he was the classic two-faced politician willing to kill complete innocents rather than risk losing popularity with the voters.
• The Snack Is More Interesting: While still Harvey Dent, while watching Batman beat up the Joker for bringing up his murder of Jason Todd, he starts munching on licorice and asks if anyone wants some.
• Spared, but Not Forgiven: Even though Two-Face almost killed him and his stepson, Joker stops Gordon and Bethany from killing him. Joker admits he does want to kill Two-Face too, but doesn't believe it would solve anything.
• Stealth Pun: This version of the character is not just two-faced in the sense that he literally has two faces due to his partial deformity, but also in that he's a duplicitous, back-stabbing bastard.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: In "A High Bar" he seemed to enjoy Harley’s company and thinks the Joker’s treatment of Bane and other supervillains is harsh and clearly disagrees with it. Season 2 goes pretty much the opposite route, depicting him as a sleazy, manipulative misogynist who goes out of his way to bully Bane and loathes Harley with a passion.
• Two-Faced: Being Two-Face, half of his face is hideously deformed.
• Would Hurt a Child: In Season 3, he takes Joker's young stepson hostage to threaten Joker into dropping out of the mayoral campaign and let Gordon win. After Joker easily agrees, Two-Face still tries to kill him and his stepson.

Bane

Bane

Voiced by: James Adomian

A villain hyped up on Venom, which gives him Super-Strength.

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• Adaptational Badass: He might be the No-Respect Guy among the villains, but in terms of sheer strength, he is much stronger than his comic counterpart, overpowering Batman when he is using a suit of Powered Armor.
• Adaptational Dumbass: Far from the calculating genius Bane was in the comics, this Bane is a childish oaf. As the series goes on, however, it's demonstrated that Bane is actually very intelligent and surprisingly pragmatic (he allows his goons to use Venom, which is normally his trump card, and he's fairly successful at rehabilitating other criminals)... it's only when he uses his intelligence in the service of villainy that he stumbles.
• Affably Evil: For a ruthless villain, he's a rather pleasant and polite fellow. It's telling that he actually gets invited to Ivy's wedding, even though he helped put Harley on ice.
• Bad Boss: When King Shark takes too long to plant a bomb, Bane remotely detonates it, not caring that he grievously wounded his henchman.
• Bad People Abuse Animals: He steps on defenseless fishes just to be an asshole to Aquaman.
• Berserk Button:
  • After all the disrespect that gets heaped on him, what ends up really setting him off in a deadly rampage is realizing that a colleague blatantly lied to him.
  • Improper grammar, especially ending sentences with a preposition and saying "anyways" instead of "anyway".
  • That thing where you say goodbye to someone and then end up walking in the same direction.
• Beware the Nice Ones: He's shown to be surprisingly affable with his fellow villains, but his answer to anything or anyone that mildly offends him is to try to blow them up.
• Bomb Throwing Anarchist: Parodied, whenever something mildly upsets Bane, his immediate response is to threaten to blow whatever's upsetting him up.
• Bully Magnet: Every other villain goes out of their way to bully and insult Bane. His fellow members of the Injustice League continually mock him and give him a cheap chair to sit on because it looks funny.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: In spite of his dim and genial demeanor, Bane is surprisingly competent at a large number of fields. He manages to run one of the most successful gangs in Gotham, crushes Batman in combat, and turned the Pit into a highly successful prisoner-reform center.
• Butt-Monkey: Despite his status in the Legion of Doom, he is still a Straw Loser who gets no respect.
• Celebrity Crush: On Brett Goldstein, who he attempts to have sex with while temporarily transformed into a massively horny Kaiju.
• Chewing the Scenery: During a Kangaroo Court trial involving Harley and Ivy.
  "I sentence them to liiiiiiife... in prison of course."
• Climax Boss: For the Injustice League story arc. He's the last member faced by Harley and Ivy as Two-Face himself is taken down by Gordon, and escaping the Pit prompts the pair's first kiss that sets the stage for the rest of the season's conflict.
• Comically Missing the Point: The Joker tells him that Harley has HPV. Bane isn't sure how this matters, because he's pretty sure most sexually active adults have it.
• Composite Character: Combines the classic Venom-using Bane with the Comically Serious Bane from Secret Six, with an exaggerated love of explosions and Tom Hardy's voice and eloquence from The Dark Knight Rises.
• Cowardly Lion: Bane takes a lot of crap from other villains who don't take him seriously. Yet when he actually gets into a fight in "Batman's Back, Man" he turns out be powerful enough to inflict a Curb-Stomp Battle on Batman.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Faces Batman in "Batman's Back, Man." While Batman has a suit of Powered Armor, Bane destroys him when he goes all out on Venom, leaves the suit so damaged it cannot operate, and leaves Batman with both his knees broken.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Blew up Gotham stadium because he got a Trivia Night question wrong, and then threatens to blow up the Penguin's nephew's bar mitzvah because Harley and the other villains made fun of him. As the series progresses, he threatens to blow up pretty much anything that mildly offends him.
• Do Wrong, Right: His reaction to Joshua putting a hit out on Harley using a Legion of Doom credit card is indignant scolding. Why? Because he left a paper trail by using the credit card (along with using it for frivolous purchases), rather than using cash.
• Dumbass Has a Point: He suggests that he and Two-Face team up to better prepare for Harley attempting to kill them, which Two-Face only begrudgingly does while making every effort to minimize him.
• Easily Forgiven: Despite locking Harley and Ivy in a high-security prison and generally antagonizing them for a whole season, he gets invited to Ivy and Kite Man's wedding.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: For all his faults, he mentions having a close relationship with his aunt.
• Even Evil Has Standards: He's quite offended when the Joker badmouths the Penguin's nephew's bar mitzvah, recognizing the occasion as an important milestone.
• Evil Brit: Speaks with the quasi-British accent made famous by Tom Hardy's portrayal of the character. This is somewhat confusing, as it becomes evident later that this Bane is also Latino, like in Young Justice (2010), if the calavera-bearing papel picado strung about his slice of Gotham is anything to go by.
• Evil Is Petty: Pretty much any minor embarrassment Bane suffers — losing a bar trivia game, being laughed at at a bar mitzvah, having a teenage employee call him "Bang" when he's a regular customer at the smoothie place — will spur him to plan to blow up the target of his wrath.
• Expressive Mask: His goggles and stitched up mouth move to display emotion.
• Extreme Doormat: He's constantly letting other villains walk all over him and humiliate him even though he could easily break their bones if he let himself get angry.
• Foil: To Harley of all people. Like Harley, Bane isn't treated with any respect by his supervillain peers. Two-Face's treatment of Bane, in particular, is very similar to how the Joker manipulated Harley into being subservient to him. Unlike Harley, who eventually wises up and breaks from the Joker's control and abuse, Bane remains completely oblivious to the fact that Two-Face doesn't regard him as an equal even as the evidence is right in front of him.
• Graceful Loser: He takes Harley and Ivy's riot and escape from the Pit fairly well when we see him again in "Lovers' Quarrel," simply reacting to the reveal of their love-making with a calm I Knew It!. He even attends Ivy and Kite Man's wedding.
• The Heavy: Becomes the main antagonist of the Valentine's Day special after accidentally enlarging himself and going on a sex pheromone-induced rampage, though the actual main conflict is Harley trying to give Ivy the perfect Valentine's Day.
• Hidden Depths: He seems to have a gift for therapy, since, despite having limited resources, he was significantly more successful in rehabilitating criminals than Arkham Asylum ever was.
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Not in the sense that he is incompetent overall, but when it comes to committing acts of pure villainy, he's a complete buffoon, as Harley's crew can testify when they worked for him temporarily.
• Laughably Evil: While Bane is still a villain, most of his antics are relegated to petty acts which still befits the Black Comedy nature of the show.
• Mad Bomber: He likes explosions a lot and his standard answer to anything that annoys him is wanting to blow it up.
• Mythology Gag:
  • His design is taken directly from his Injustice: Gods Among Us depiction, with his venom tubes changed from green to red.
  • Similarly, pretty much every time we see him, Bane is constantly quoting The Dark Knight Rises in paraphrased wording. And of course, his voice is an exaggerated impression of Tom Hardy's Bane from that movie.
• Nerd in Evil's Helmet: Drinks smoothies, tries to do magic tricks, cracks somewhat lame jokes, plays bar trivia, and wishes Pixar would make a sequel to Up.
• Nice Guy: Oddly enough, he's one of the nicest characters in the series thus far. He also seems to be the only one outside of her crew that treats Harley with respect, such as suggesting the newly formed Injustice League include her in negotiations on divying up Gotham rather than just hanging her up to dry (all the other villains yell at him and go ahead with their plans), and the Pit, a prison that he runs, is centered around rehabilitating the prisoners there through various forms of therapy.
• No-Respect Guy: Even though he's shown to be quite a formidable villain as seen with his battle with Batman, his fellow villains don't treat him with any respect. It's implied that this is so Bane doesn't get the idea to turn against them, as Bane is shown to have the most success running his fiefdom in Gotham City, titled "Baneton".
• Not-So-Harmless Villain:
  • Despite being treated as Dumb Muscle and a joke by his fellow villains, he or at the very least his goons are treated as The Dreaded by the other villains' goons on account of Bane supplying them with syringes of Venom. When Two-Face's gang pursued King Shark and Dr. Psycho, they quickly turned around once they entered 'Baneton'.
  • When he finally gets into a fight with Batman in "Batman's Back, Man" he shows that he is still one of his most dangerous enemies, easily defeating him and breaking both of his legs.
• Parental Substitute: Acts as this to the Penguin's nephew, Joshua.
• Pointy-Haired Boss: He's a pretty affable supervillain, but "A Seat at the Table" shows that he's a pretty idiotic boss, so much so that Harley's crew begs her to get them out of his employment.
• Politically Correct Villain: Downplayed, but he mentions making a point to be supportive of his lesbian aunt.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Played with. When he makes a joke about the ocean being "the world's toilet" that flops, he mutters that political correctness is killing comedy, and he calls the guy at the smoothie place a "goddamn millennial". However, he's neither a bigot nor a sexist, and it mostly just makes him seem like more of a dweeb than an outright jerk.
• Real Men Wear Pink: He's a brutish supervillain who also seems to be a fan of Sex and the City, as he's purchased memorabilia from it.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Subverted - Bane wants to be this, but a combination of his 'allies' disrespect for him, his temper, insecurities, and willingness to destroy anything that irritates him, no matter the absurdity, make this impossible.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Or in this case, green. Upon pumping himself full of Venom, his red lenses on his mask turn a sinister green.
• Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: He survived the events of Season 1 because he was out of town dog-sitting for his aunt's girlfriend at the time, which is more explanation than his fellow Legion members get.
• Self-Referential Humor: More so than any other character in the show, Bane is a walking quotes machine for the portion of The Dark Knight Rises parody he represents; throughout his appearances Bane finds a way to incorporate many of the memorable lines from Tom Hardy’s version of the character into his own dialogue.
• Straight Edge Evil: "There's No Place to Go But Down" shows that Bane is all about channeling unproductive impulses into productive and healthy endeavors.
• Super Mode: The already huge Bane gets bigger when he uses the Venom formula.
• Teeny Weenie: Defied. He is insistent that he has an adequately large penis — it's just that it looks small in comparison to the rest of him. Nevertheless, in A Very Problematic Valentine's Day Special, Bane buys a ...ahem...enhancement of a magical nature from Etrigan that backfires and...enlarges...all of him, and if the fact that as a kaiju he ends up using the trailer of a semi truck to cover himself is anything to go by, its size is nothing to scoff at.
• Trivial Tragedy: For most of season 3 Bane considers Harley and Ivy refusing to give him back his pasta maker the worst betrayal he's ever experienced. He even goes to therapy to deal with it.
• Vocal Dissonance: He has a surprisingly soft voice for a hulking giant.
• Warrior Therapist: He spends his time rehabilitating prisoners in The Pit, through different kinds of therapy.
• Wrestler in All of Us: Not surprisingly, given his lucha libre theme, Bane's fighting style is based in wrestling.
• What the Hell Is That Accent?: It's quasi-british, parodying the accent used by Tom Hardy from The Dark Knight Rises, but his heritage is Latino so it makes very little sense.
• You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry!: Get him mad and upset enough, he'll go berserk. Batman himself learned this the hard way, while Two-Face did his best to keep him calm.

The Riddler

The Riddler (Edward Nygma)

Voiced by: Jim Rash

Gotham's "funniest villain" known for his riddle based crimes.

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• Actor Allusion: Riddler's voice actor, Jim Rash, is best known for playing Dean Pelton on Community. In Season 2, he becomes the dean of Riddler U, even featuring an ad that feels as if it could have been made in Community. Also, the fact that this version of the Riddler is both gay and bald—not common traits for the character—is most likely a reference to Rash as well.
• Adaptational Sexuality: This incarnation of the character is revealed to be gay and in a relationship with the Clock King in Season 3.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: He's a notorious villain in a snazzy suit with a Dastardly Dapper Derby.
• Bald of Evil: This Riddler has a shaved head.
• Deadpan Snarker: Being one of the smartest villains in Gotham, it's not at all surprising that Riddler has a dry wit to go along with it. Especially notable when he's around Psycho.
• Demoted to Dragon: After the other members of the Injustice League are defeated, the Riddler forms a new partnership with Dr. Psycho for the second half of Season 2, though Psycho is clearly in charge. The Riddler himself lampshades that he's not used to the whole "second in command" thing.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He seems to genuinely love his boyfriend Clock King.
• Evil Versus Evil: While always a supervillain, Season 2 sees him directly oppose Harley as part of the Injustice League.
• Genius Bruiser: Not only is he a brilliant man, a stint in captivity puts him in excellent shape.
• Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: A flashback to Harley's time at Arkham shows him brushing a long black mane, only to gasp in horror when he finds several strands embedded in the brush, suggesting he's either gone totally bald since or now shaves his head to cover up an unflattering hairline.
• Head-Turning Beauty: Male example. His workout regime as a prisoner of Harley's crew makes him incredibly jacked, and it becomes a Running Gag for people (both male and female) to break off their train of thought when they get a look at his perfect musculature.
• The Heavy: He's the most prominent villain throughout all of Season 2 with a major antagonistic role in both halves, first as a member of the Injustice League and then as Psycho's Dragon.
• Mythology Gag: He sported long black hair prior to his Bald of Evil appearance, similar to the Marilyn Manson-inspired Riddler from The Batman.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: He finds Clayface so obnoxious that he spoils his own riddle just to make Clayface stop talking.
• Play-Along Prisoner: After being captured in Season Two and made to power Harley's lair with a giant hamster wheel, he says he's okay with it because he is getting well-fed, plenty of exercise, and it's entertaining watching Harley's crew struggle to get on top. He also makes it very clear he can escape at anytime he feels like it. By episode 10 he's done just that albeit with the help of Dr. Psycho.
• Pragmatic Villainy: He joins the Injustice League in Season 2 to avoid fighting over the remains of New New Gotham. He refuses to escape his prison because being a prisoner gives him the best chance of surviving the New New Gotham wasteland, not only that, Harley's crew provides him with shelter, food, water, plenty of exercise, and finds pleasure in watching the Quinn crew struggle for survival.
• Prisons Are Gymnasiums: Justified — after capturing him, Harley and co. have him run on one of his human-sized hamster wheels to provide them with power. He makes no secret of how he's fine with it because he's getting jacked.
• Retired Monster: By Season Three, he's given up big-time villainy and is happily running an escape room company with his boyfriend Clock King. Granted, the escape room in question does possess lethal traps, but this is Gotham, so that just might be par for the course.
• Riddle Me This: But of course; his crimes are centered around riddles that he leaves heroes to solve to give them a chance of stopping him... or as the Joker puts it:
  The Joker: His gimmick is being the world's most indirect asshole!
• The Rival: The Joker sees him as a rival villain, especially since the Riddler seems to be stealing his gimmick in the first episode.
• Tattooed Crook: He has a question mark tattooed on his forehead.
• Took a Level in Badass: Thanks to the non-stop exercise that came from powering Harley's lair via a giant hamster wheel, he's become an actually physically imposing threat (and seriously ripped) upon being freed by Dr. Psycho in "Dye Hard".
• Unholy Matrimony: He and his fellow supervillain Clock King are revealed to be a couple in Season 3, although they seem to be running an escape room company together instead of doing crimes.
• Villainous Friendship: He helps Poison Ivy in her elaborate plan to help Harley realize that the Joker doesn't really love her in exchange for her getting him out of Arkham. A throwaway line from Ivy about owing Riddler money over a bet, when she was still extremely mysanthropic indicated that they were at least on speaking-terms with each other. Subverted big time later on, when they are on opposite sides.

The Penguin

The Penguin (Oswald Cobblepot)

Voiced by: Wayne Knight

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• Adaptational Diversity: The Penguin normally strongly identifies as a sophisticated, upper-class White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. In this continutity, however, he is Jewish.
• Bad Boss: He casually kills one of his employees for saying hi to him, because several already did that and he felt it was disingenuous if said too many times. When Clayface disguises himself as a waiter and tells the Penguin he killed the last one, he doesn't even question it.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Deconstructed. He kills employees so often that when a transformed Clayface replaces the real waiter, he instantly believes the story that he killed Jeffery despite knowing the guy by name and Clayface's nervous hesitation. His casual dismissal that it "Does sound like [me]" shows how he can't fact check something that should be important.
• Death by Disfigurement: Harley bites off his nose, leaving a gaping, bloody hole in its place. He dies not long after.
• Defeat Means Friendship: He applauds Harley when she defeats Aquaman and seems to have forgiven her for ruining his nephew's bar mitzvah. This doesn't stop him from becoming Harley's enemy in Season 2 when she rejects his offer to work with the Injustice League.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He at least cares enough about his nephew to throw him a lavish bar mitzvah.
• High-Class Glass: He's got his usual monocle, but here it's tinted a dark gray color.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Harley stabs him in the neck with her broken bat and rams it all the way through the top of his skull.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: He's able to shoot a running Harley with a tranquilizer dart, and later shoot a bullet down the barrel of Harley's gun to destroy it. The calm with which he does the latter indicates that he pulls this kind of thing off with some regularity.
• Kosher Nostra: He says he decided to become a crime lord during his own Bar Mitzvah.
• Nasal Trauma: Harley bites off his nose in the Season 2 premiere.
• Nepotism: He's trying to get his nephew involved in organized crime.
• Punch-Clock Villain: Sees being a crime lord as a vocation.
• Signature Headgear: It wouldn't be the Penguin without a snazzy topper. He even gives an identical hat to Joshua to symbolize how he'll pass his criminal enterprise down to him.
• Sinister Schnoz: Like his comics counterpart, he has a long, thin, nose. In Season 2, Harley bites it off.
• Starter Villain: For Season 2, being the first member of the newly-formed Injustice League that Harley has to get rid of in her quest to take over Gotham.
• Underestimating Badassery: He thinks Harley is an easy kill after her bat gets broken. Unfortunately for him, what he calls a "defrosted gymnast" has an easy time dodging his grenade launcher; Harley has the fight won as soon as he loses sight of her in the aftermath.
• Wicked Pretentious: As is usual for the character, he's a violent thug who wears fancy clothes and runs an upscale nightclub.

Mr. Freeze

Mr. Freeze (Victor Fries)

Voiced by: Alfred Molina

A former cryogenics scientist trapped within his own technology and uses ice and cold as his motif. Appears in Season 2.

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• Act of True Love: Witnessing Mr. Freeze willingly giving up all his blood to save his terminally ill wife is what makes Harley realize what true love is about.
• Adaptational Attractiveness: Victor is usually depicted as a geeky-looking, bald man. Here, he has a muscular build, chiseled jawline, and a snazzy mohawk.
• Adaptational Backstory Change: Before he went supervillain, Victor was a wealthy and powerful CEO rather than a white-collar scientist.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: While other versions of Mr. Freeze have been sympathetic, they were typically portrayed as cold and anti-social. This interpretation however is outright hospitable, offering meals to Harley and her crew even when they tried to kill him.
• Adaptational Personality Change: As noted above, most incarnations of Mr. Freeze are outwardly cold and emotionless while this version is much more friendly and personable.
• Affably Evil: Freeze is not beyond reason and can be downright pleasant, so long as your death will not help him cure Nora, or you do not stand in his way of curing her.
• Alas, Poor Villain: Downplayed in that this version is hardly even a villain. Freeze dies a Heroic Suicide to save Nora and proclaims his love for her before encouraging for her to move on from his death.
• And I Must Scream: He describes his life trapped inside the cryosuit as "god forsaken" and something he only put up with to save find a way to save Nora.
• Anti-Villain: His sympathetic motivations, Affably Evil manners and the Heroic Sacrifice he pulls at the end of "Thawing Hearts" put him into this territory.
• Bad People Abuse Animals: He shows Harley's crew the alarming amount of snow rats that have died because of his failed experiments to find a cure for Nora.
• Bait-and-Switch: The show plays with idea that Freeze might just be a lunatic deluding himself that Nora is his wife, going in hand with the New 52's retcon before Rebirth switched it back. She's frozen with an expression of horror, has a feeding tube leading into her mouth, and Freeze speaks as if she's still conscious. Harley projects her own issues with the Joker onto him, believing he destroyed Nora's life. However, in the end, the show sticks with the infinitely more popular backstory of Freeze and Nora being deeply in love with each other, with Freeze as his most sympathetic version.
• Casting Gag: As Freeze here is like the BTAS version, then this won't be the first time Molina has played a supervillain scientist who lost his wife.
• Comically Serious: Given the nature of the wacky situations he is in, it's impossible for him not to be this.
• Composite Character: His physical appearance is based on his New 52 depiction (particularly the blue mohawk and his containment suit's lack of sleeves), but his origin and personality are closer to his pre-Flashpoint incarnation where Nora actually was his wife and he became the way he is as a side effect of keeping Nora cryogenically frozen while trying to cure her of a terminal illness.
• Crazy-Prepared: When having lunch with Harley's crew he has them frozen to their chairs to keep them from trying anything.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Easily defeats Harley's crew with his freezing gun. When Harley makes an attempt at fighting him again, it ends with her getting frozen again.
• Ditzy Genius: He blows open the Penguin's door because he couldn't push it open... only for the Penguin to explain the door is pulled open.
• Dying Declaration of Love: As he lies dying as a result of Ivy's cure for Nora's disease, his final words are to encourage Nora to live a happy life.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: There is no way to stress this enough: Nora is everything to Victor.
• Happily Married: Victor and Nora adore and respect one another completely.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Takes Ivy's drug that will convert his blood to Nora's, even though it will kill him, all in the name of saving Nora's life and without a second of hesitation. Even Doctor Psycho is moved to tears by this.
• Heroic Suicide: His act of giving his life to save his wife has shades of this. By his own admission, he views his life inside the cryo-suit as a form of hell, and he only tolerates it so he can live long enough to save Nora. It is possible that he finds the fact that the transfusion will kill him a good thing.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: With his last breaths, he encourages Nora to move on from his death and find happiness.
• Justified Criminal: He participates in organized crime to gather the funding necessary to research a cure for his wife's illness.
• Living on Borrowed Time: He needs to live inside a cryo-suit so he can extend his lifespan and continue the research needed to find a cure for Nora.
• Love Makes You Evil: The whole motive of his villainy is finding a cure for his dying wife.
• Mythology Gag: Closed captioning labels Freeze's accent as German (despite it sounding more Russian). In live-action, Freeze was played by two Austrians, Otto Preminger and Arnold Schwarzenegger, with their own accents, and by the British George Sanders and American Eli Wallach both doing German accents. Mr. Freeze just having an accent must itself be the gag.
• Noble Demon: He is willing to become a criminal to fund his research, but there are still lines he won't cross. It's revealed that he froze Harley to placate the rest of the Injustice League, who were actually planning to kill her.
• Nominal Villain: Mr. Freeze only turned to crime in order to find a cure for his wife Nora. He displays none of the cruelty and sadism common among the other Gotham villains. In fact, the most evil thing he does in the show is freezing Harley and putting her on display as a sculpture, and the only reason he did that was to keep the other villains from killing her. In the end, he sacrifices himself to save his wife, proving himself to be a good man deep down.
• No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine: He and "Nora" host a dinner for Harley and crew as a show of good faith. It's just as disturbing as you might imagine.
• Politically Correct Villain: Played for Laughs. He froze Harley to save her life, and acknowledged in disgust that his fellow crime lords loved it due to being white, cis-gendered, heterosexual men who wanted to make a woman an object of mockery. King Shark soon calls out Harley for attacking the most "woke" ice-themed villain in New New Gotham.
• Redemption Equals Death: Freeze's choice to let himself die for the sake of saving Nora proves that deep down he's a good person at heart.
• Sense Loss Sadness: He can no longer eat cooked food as it would fatally raise his body temperature and he asks Dr. Psycho to describe what it's like to eat a piece of steak during dinner.
• Sheep in Sheep's Clothing: As Harley found out way too late, he really is nothing like the Joker. He really was keeping his wife frozen for her own safety and really did have every intention of giving up Supervillainy once she was cured. Even when Harley freed her prematurely his only concern was keeping her safe and never sought revenge on her, he even passed up the opportunity of killing her to save Nora in favour of a Heroic Sacrifice.
• Shout-Out: His story about how he and Nora met was literally just like You've Got Mail, so you'd be forgiven for thinking he was making it up.
• Taking You with Me: After Harley accidentally condemns Nora to die by freeing her from her ice prison, Mr. Freeze threatens to blow himself up along with everyone present unless Harley can get Ivy to find a cure for her.
• Token Good Teammate: It's revealed in "Thawing Hearts" that he only froze Harley because the alternative was the Injustice League killing her, and his goals are more sympathetic than those of the other four.
• Unseen No More: In Season 1, he's mentioned by a realtor showing his former lair to Harley and Ivy, and the place definitely had his custom renovations style. When he finally shows up in Season 2, this is lampshaded by Harley noting that it's "been a minute".
• Unusual Eyebrows: His eyebrows are long and kinked.
• Would Hit a Girl: Knocks out Harley with her own bat; justified since she attacked him twice before that, and considering how "woke" he is, it’s more than likely Mr. Freeze is pretty egalitarian. (He also needed a test subject for an experiment and unconscious subjects are easier to handle.)

Apokolips

Darkseid

Darkseid (Uxas)

Voiced by: Michael Ironside

The ruler of Apokolips.

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• Adaptational Nice Guy: Surprisingly, yes. Most versions of Darkseid would not even entertain the thought of giving an army to anyone unless it would benefit any of his plans. That said he is still the same ruthless dictator who desires the eradication of free will throughout the known universe. Likewise, him mentioning Harley was filling a void was him attempting to genuinely advise her.
• Catchphrase: "Darkseid IS... (perfectly ordinary action)".
• The Comically Serious: He constantly interrupts Harley from speaking while giving his speech with no change in his tone whatsoever, and also points out that Harley is repressing issues and trying to compensate with his army. And then there's thinking Orange Julius is a person and not understanding that Chuck is a person's name in "Lover's Quarrel".
• The Dreaded: While partially played for comedy, Harley's crew is clearly terrified of him and makes point to always keep reffering to him in some grandoise way to avoid ticking him off. Even when Doctor Psycho steals the helmet that boosts his power he is still terrified of Darkseid and is quick to suck up to him in his presence.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • Tells Doctor Psycho that not even he would call someone a cunt.
  • Doctor Psycho explaining his backstory where he saw so many people die in a Ferris wheel accident is the reason he hates women prompts Darkseid to simply state that Psycho's reasoning makes no sense and almost end the transmission with him.
• Galactic Conqueror: He is introduced crushing the skull of Forager after declaring the conquest of his world.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Easily the most dangerous villain to appear in the show so far, but he doesn't appear interested in Earth, much less Gotham City. His only role so far has been supplying an army of his Parademons to Harley in Season 2. After Harley backs out of the deal, Doctor Psycho takes control of the army and makes a new deal to be given Earth in exchange for Harley's head.
• Hero Killer: Harley and her crew first meet him in person as he slaughters Forager.
• Knight of Cerebus: Similar to Lex Luthor, he has plenty of funny moments, but the plot of the second season does get more serious with his introduction and Harley getting an army of Parademons. When Doctor Psycho is displeased with Harley not wanting to use the Parademon army to Take Over the World, he takes control of the Parademons and plans to conquer the world himself.
• Large and in Charge: He is a giant, even making King Shark look tiny in comparison.
• Pet the Dog: Despite wanting Doctor Psycho to kill Harley for breaking her deal with him, when Harley does defeat Psycho he is so impressed with Harley that he offers her the means to conquer Earth. Downplayed since when she backs out of the deal, he swears to kill her in the future.
• Villain Has a Point: Quickly notices Harley is trying to fill a void in her heart and advises that what she is doing won't work.
• Villain of Another Story: He is a Galactic Conqueror and a much more dangerous villain than any of the show's cast, but his appearance so far has just been as a benefactor to Harley Quinn.

Steppenwolf

Steppenwolf

Voiced by: Keith Ferguson

Ambassador to Apokolips.

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• Big Man on Campus: Corporate variety. Steppenwolf is considered the guy to impress at Luthor's space conference. Poison Ivy literally eliminates the competition in view of him to show off her villainous capacity.
• Composite Character: Appearance-wise he resembles a mix of Jack Kirby's original design crossed with the Steppenwolf from the theatrical cut of Justice League.
• Evil Sounds Deep: He has a booming voice.
• Hellhound: Steppenwolf has a big scary dog that acts as his steed.

Others

Kite Man

Kite Man (Charles Brown)

Voiced by: Matt Oberg

A perverted and cowardly loser supervillain who uses a giant kite to commit crimes. In spite of his silliness and questionable competence, he displays a surprising level of emotional intelligence.

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• Affably Evil: While he's supposed to be a villain like most of the cast, he's an all round decent guy. He doesn't even count as 'evil' because he never does anything bad.
• Always Someone Better: He implies that he lost the category of Best D-List Villain to Codpiece.
• Amicable Exes: Despite how badly their relationship fell apart, when he reappears in Season 3, he displays no hostility towards neither Ivy nor Harley and even happily makes note on how Harley's relationship with Ivy has made her a better person. Regardless of how things ended between them, he's grateful that dating Ivy made him enough of a big name to be nominated at the Villy Awards.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: He falls in love with Ivy because she's the only person who has recognized his good qualities enough to give him a chance and stand up for him.
• Betty and Veronica: In Season 2, Ivy is torn between her feelings for her friend Harley and her fiancé Kite Man. Kite Man is the Betty because he's pleasant, stable and dorky, making him the "safer" relationship option next to Harley. However, he is the one that breaks off the relationship when he realizes he's not the one for her.
• Beware the Nice Ones: He is nice and forgiving despite being a villain but he finally reaches his breaking point after Gordon ruins the wedding. Even though he's angry with Ivy, he's merciful enough to end the relationship for Ivy since she doesn't want to be with him. He still leaves her and Harley behind for the police but he knows they're both capable of escaping the police.
• Big Damn Heroes: His ability to fly allows him to save people when need be. First time being when he saves Ivy, Harley and her crew from a cyclops through flight and squirting hot sauce in said cyclops' eye.
• Breakout Character: Became one enough to have his own spin-off in Kite Man: Hell Yeah!.
• Butt-Monkey: He's always abused or humiliated in some way but he seemingly takes it in stride and Ivy does know he means well when he helps out.
• Casanova Wannabe: He thinks he's a smooth-talking ladies' man, but he's just a perverted idiot. He admits later in his debut he's not too good with women. It's when he drops the act that Ivy shows interest in him.
• Catchphrase: "Hell yeah."
• Chivalrous Pervert: As he says so himself, he cares about what Ivy thinks as much as he cares about her ass.
• Dogged Nice Guy: Towards Poison Ivy, who initially sees him as a joke like everyone else. Once she realizes he can be nice to be around, she starts giving in to his advances. He does successfully manage to enter a relationship with Ivy some time before "The Line", but Ivy displays some embarrassment towards how open he is about their relationship.
• Dumbass Has a Point: While he's not dumb per say, he himself says he's simple. However, he's no fool as he makes it known:
  • On his first date with Ivy, after he realizes that Ivy is embarrassed to been seen with him and wears extra clothing to conceal her idenity, he calls her out for it.
  • In "A Fight Worth Fighting For" he points out that him and Ivy getting married before stopping the army of Parademons is a bad idea. Ivy, trying to Altar the Speed due to her one night stand with Harley, ignores Kite Man's advice; he is quickly proven right.
• Endearingly Dorky: Although he comes across as a lame loser at first, Ivy discovers he's a friendly, dorky, if somewhat pushy guy and starts dating him. Harley later agrees that Kite Man is a very likable guy once she sees his honest, if misguided attempt to make Ivy happy by stealing a "whimsical" ring for her.
• Extreme Doormat: He never stands up for himself when people mock him and treat him like a joke. However, he doesn't let it get to him much. It's implied that this is the result of his own parents being condescending of him because he lacks superpowers while his parents have them. This allow him to mesh well for a bit with Ivy because of her own assertive personality. Ironically enough, he sticks up for himself against her when he realizes that they're not meant to be together and breaks it off for them.
• Female Fighter, Male Handler: He has this with Ivy. Ivy has control over plant life, decent combat skills and thus a dangerous villainess. Kite Man is a Non-Action Guy who doesn't help much, but he can fly and he's quite good at flying with the kite.
• Freudian Excuse: Possibly. While his self-confidence is genuine, one gets the feeling that his earlier act and social awkwardness is the result of his parents' verbal abuse toward him.
• Graceful in Their Element: Say what you will about him, he is a good flier and knows how to use his kite well when needed. Ivy calls Kite Man to save her, Harley, and her crew from a death trap sprung on them by the Queen of Fables. He saves them magnificently. He later saves Harley from death.
• Green and Mean: Downplayed. His outfit is green and he's a villain but is very nice and friendly.
• Harmless Villain: Much like in the comics, he's not taken seriously as a villain in the slightest and is seen as a joke by pretty much every other supervillain.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: Even though it's conditional, he can still fly and has used it to pull off some impressive stunts (including saving Harley's crew plus Ivy from a cyclops). In Season 2, he's able to use this to help Harley and Ivy cover good ground over the ruined Gotham.
• Hidden Depths:
  • At first he tries being a womanizer but to no avail as Ivy is put off by his perversion and inability to take a hint. When he decides to drop this and starts interacting with Ivy with no ulterior motive, Ivy starts becoming interested in him and the two start dating. Through Kite Man, Ivy starts coming further out of her shell and Kite Man learns that being himself is enough to win someone over.
  • Season 2 reveals that he knows Morse-Code, which comes in handy when translating for Sy's cybernetic eye.
• Honorary True Companion: He never officially joins Harley's crew, but since he's dating Ivy, he does go out of his way to give them a ride and saves their lives at least once.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: There are definitely some sour feelings motivating his decision to break off his engagement with Ivy, but it is partially because he realizes that Ivy's heart belongs to Harley rather than him. He tells her upfront that he isn't the person for her.
• Informed Loner: Zigzagged. He is portrayed as an outcast who everyone treats as a joke, but not many characters actually mock him as such, and he still gets invited to villain parties and is able to convince random bar goons to work jobs for him. However, this is to demonstrate that even someone as pathetic as Kite Man gets more respect in the villain community than Harley, thus his Joke Character status is used to draw attention to a major theme of the series.
• In Love with Love: Both he and Ivy have shades of this to each other. From his end, his hurry to marry her before she's completely ready is more motivated by a fear of not being able to find another woman who actually likes him so much and is as cool as Ivy. However, he does break it off through a combination of realizing they're not meant for each other and that he deserves better.
• Meaningful Name: His real name is Charles Brown... yes, just like the Peanuts comic strip character. Much like his namesake, he gets no respect from his peers and also has a crush on a red-haired girl. Furthermore, his kite-theme is a reference to how the comic strip character would get his kites stuck in the infamous "kite-eating tree". Kite Man's red-haired girlfriend can control trees.
• Muggle Born of Mages: His father and mother have ice powers and the ability to fly, respectively. Both were disappointed when Kite-Man had no powers.
• Never Bareheaded: Even the time he thought (wrongly) that Ivy was going to have sex with him, he stripped off everything but kept on the mask.
• Nice Guy: Perverted tendencies and attempted villainy aside, he's actually a pretty decent guy, even sorta befriending Ivy by the end of his debut and then the two becoming a couple a few episodes later.
• Non-Action Guy: Probably the only supervillain in the show who can't fight at all.
• The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Despite being a supposed supervillain, he is never actually seen doing anything evil during the series proper. If he weren't hanging out with villains, it would be a stretch to call him one at all.
• Prince Charming Wannabe: He can't seem to take the hint that Ivy doesn't want to sleep with him, at least until she declines after he literally jumps into her bed naked.
• Romantic False Lead: Kite Man's role as Ivy's fiancé is to create drama when Harley realizes she's in love with Ivy and have Ivy reject Harley despite clearly loving her back because she isn't steady like Kite Man. After Kite Man finds out Ivy cheated on him with Harley and then Gordon ruins their wedding, Kite Man breaks down crying because he realizes he and Ivy were never meant to be. He coldly but mercifully breaks off the engagement and tells Ivy that she doesn't want to be with him and he deserves someone better. Harley and Ivy hook up minutes later.
• Romantic Runner-Up: Ivy did like Kite Man and accepted his marriage proposal because she thought she probably wouldn't find someone better to settle with. A few episodes later, however, Ivy starts an affair with Harley in some heated moments. At their wedding, Kite Man realizes Ivy is just forcing herself to choose him to run away from her feelings for Harley. Kite Man then calls off the wedding because he recognizes he deserves better, which gives way for Ivy to hook up with Harley.
• Satellite Love Interest: Downplayed. While Kite Man does have some defined characterization, his role and participation in all episodes he appears in are focused on his romantic relationship with Ivy. Whenever he helps Harley's crew, it's to do Ivy a favor.
• Small Name, Big Ego: His "powers" are pretty pathetic, to say the least, but he seems to think they're a lot cooler than they actually are. Ironically, his absolute confidence in himself is something that Poison Ivy considers attractive.
• Sweet and Sour Grapes: He manages to conquer Ivy when he decides to stop acting like a Casanova.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: He seems to have picked himself up quite well by Season 3. He not only got an award nomination in a separate villain award show but is also in a happy and stable relationship with Golden Glider.
• Undying Loyalty: After Ivy is apparently killed by the Joker, Kite Man refuses to leave the side of her grave for weeks. Subverted in the season 2 finale, where he leaves Ivy to fight the cops by herself, after finally getting fed up with her and Harley's shenanigans.
• Useless Superpowers: He openly admits that taking a cab would be faster than a kite.
  • Subverted in Season 2, where his kite is Harley and Ivy's main mode of transport, and his ability to fly over the ruined Gotham is increasingly important.
• Weaksauce Weakness: The only villain whose crimes are weather-dependent.

Giganta

Giganta (Doris Zeul)

Voiced by: Vanessa Marshall

A villainess with a size-shifting ability. She is Doctor Psycho's ex-wife and mother of Herman Cizko.

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• Adaptational Nice Guy: This Giganta isn't shown openly engaging in any acts of supervillainy in the show and is instead living the suburban life and trying to raise her son.
• Casting Gag: A traditional nemesis of Wonder Woman, she shares her voice actress in this show.
• The Faceless: Her first appearance has her so tall, her face is out of shot the entire scene. Her face is revealed in her second appearance.
• Giant Woman: True to form, she is extremely tall.
• Jerkass: Openly refers to Ivy as a "jolly green whore" as she's standing right there. Though considering how she is associating with Doctor Psycho, the man who mind controlled her into conceiving his child without her consent, she isn't totally wrong even if her anger is misplaced.
• Mind Rape: Doctor Psycho uses mind control to make her love him, marry him, and have their child. During a talk show interview, she snaps out of it and calls him out on it.
• Mythology Gag: Her costume is basically what she wore in Justice League, only with her hair no longer in a ponytail.
• Taking the Kids: After snapping out of his mind control, she leaves Doctor Psycho and takes their son Herman with her.
• Team Member in the Adaptation: Inverted; despite being a founding member of the Legion of Doom in Super Friends and other adaptations, this version of Giganta appears to have no affiliation with the Legion.
• Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: She's a Giant Woman who was married to the Depraved Dwarf Doctor Psycho, though not by choice.

The Queen of Fables

Queen of Fables (Tsaritsa)

Voiced by: Wanda Sykes

A sorceress with the power to conjure living versions of fables.

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• Adaptational Intelligence: Unlike her comics counterpart, she harbors no delusions about Wonder Woman being Snow White or Superman being Prince Charming.
• Adaptational Jerkass: Compared to her comics counterpart, who wants to recreate her empire, she's an unrepentant mass-murder, blames being trapped in a tax book on her being a villainess trying to be as good as her male contemporaries, and is pretty snarky in general.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: While she is more villainous, she's also far more personable than her comics counterpart.
• Adaptational Wimp: To a degree. In the comics, the Queen of Fables is an otherworldly force of fiction made real who - as long as there is imagination - can warp all of reality to her whims. In this series, she appears to be a (comparatively) normal human witch who uses a spell that is limited to bringing fictional characters to life.
• Ambition Is Evil: In her view, to be the top villain you have to cross all moral boundaries.
• And I Must Scream: Downplayed. Although she was trapped in a book for 30 years, she was still able to semi-function in society.
• Animate Inanimate Object: She was sealed inside a copy of the U.S. Master Tax Guide by Zatanna, but can still talk (and smoke). She's freed in "The Line" when it's deemed cruel and unusual punishment by a court.
• Asshole Victim: Given that the Justice League deemed her dangerous enough to seal her into a book rather than just shipping her off to Arkham, and even other villains find her brutal methods repulsive, no one mourned her when Harley knocked her head off her shoulders.
• Ax-Crazy: Considering her go-to solution to every problem is killing everyone in her immediate vicinity in an incredibly gory fashion, she's definitely this.
• Bad Boss: She treats her storytale characters like tools.
• Bond Villain Stupidity: Played with. As a storyteller villain she tries to kill people in a sensational manner, which to be fair no normal people could handle. She sent Harley's crew up the beanstalk to be killed by the giant living there, which would be effective since they couldn't fly back down, and she didn't count on Kite Man rescuing them all.
• Broken Pedestal: Harley used to look up to her as a role model, but she's disgusted by the Queen's mass-murdering habits when they team up.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Deconstructed. She uses being a bad guy as an excuse to do horrible actions and, thanks to her "villains don't give a fuck" mentality, feels absolutely no remorse for any of it. What's worse, she seems to feel that this level of extremism is the only way to make it as a villain.
• Co-Dragons: She and the Scarecrow become this to the Joker, helping him in his plan to take over Gotham and kill Harley Quinn.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Sees her fate as this, as the male villains have done far worse and just get a stint in Arkham that they'll escape from half the time, while she got stuck in a book permanently. Her actions when freed cast a little bit of doubt on how disproportionate it actually was, though. Ironically she herself is a big fan of this, advocating for ending the bloodline to deal with a single witness.
• Dissonant Serenity: She maintains her chipper Sassy Black Woman shtick even as she gruesomely murders scores of people in horrifying ways. It's disturbing enough to disgust even Harley when they team up.
• Even Evil Has Standards: A Defied Trope. She sees standards as something heroes have, and that villains "don't give a fuck."
• Eviler than Thou: Implied to be the real reason why she was sealed in a book rather than simply sent to Arkham. Even other supervillains with the exception of the Joker are disturbed by her mass-murders.
• Face Death with Dignity: After getting her head knocked off, instead of being furious or breaking down, her decapitated head just mutters a mildly annoyed "Aw shit".
• False Friend: Acted as a friend to Harley while she was sealed inside a book. Once freed, she quickly turns on Harley, even though Harley saved her from being sent to Arkham. While the two appeared to be friends when Harley saved her from being killed, the Queen of Fables still sided with the Joker and attempted to kill Harley.
• Faux Affably Evil: Comes off as Affably Evil at first. When freed from the book she was sealed in, she proves to not only be an unrepentant mass murderer, but she will turn on supposed friends in a heartbeat.
• Fed to Pigs: Her choice of crime scene cleanup is summoning the The Three Little Pigs. Thank heavens we don't get to see them chowing down, but the crew does, and it ain't pretty.
• Genre Savvy: As a story-themed villain, she knows all about the conventions of narrative (Leave No Witnesses, Everybody Has Standards, etc).
• God Save Us from the Queen!: Her villain name is the Queen of Fables and she is evil and Ax-Crazy even by regular villain standards.
• Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: She sits back and smokes cigarettes as she lets her Big Bad Wolf massacre an innocent family, and then puts the used cigarettes in the mouth of one of the corpses.
• Graceful Loser: Well, "graceful" might be the wrong term for it, but when Harley outsmarts her and is about to kill her, she says "Props!" with a somewhat impressed tone before getting her head knocked off.
• Irony: She believes she was sealed in a book instead of being sent to Arkham on the grounds that she was a woman. She says this to Harley, who has been locked up in Arkham several times over.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: She intially acts like Harley's friend, but despite Harley saving her from Arkham, she turns on her. Harley saving her life does her no favors as the Queen of Fables still works with the Joker to murder her and take over Gotham by the end of the season.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: After she is released from her prison, she massacres an entire family and then double-crosses Harley's group. Despite this, Harley saves her from being killed by Jason Praxis and lets her go free. She is eventually killed by Harley when karma finally bites her.
• Knight of Cerebus: Once released from her tax book prison, she quickly becomes the darkest villain so far.
• Lack of Empathy: According to her, villains "don't give a fuck" and aren't supposed to. Deconstructed too since she takes it to her own teammates.
• Major Injury Underreaction: She seemed more annoyed than hurt when Harley decapitated her.
• Mundane Utility:
  • Trapped inside a copy of the U.S. tax code, she made the best of a bad situation and opened a tax filing business. She also has one of the gingerbread men doing office work (it was better than turning tricks on the street, according to the gingerbread man).
  • She casually murders her own conjuration of Humpty Dumpty so she can make scrambled eggs.
• Murder Is the Best Solution: Strongly believes in this trope. Someone (who's at a family reunion) sees you committing a crime? Brutally murder them and the entire family (just to make sure they avoid any revenge scenario).
• Off with Her Head!: Harley knocks her head off with her bat in "Devil's Snare".
• Oracular Head: The trailer for "Kite Man Hell Yeah" reveals she's still alive even after being beheaded, but is now in a Futurama-esque jar to carry her head.
• Properly Paranoid: She murders an entire family to avoid any revenge scenario, and is vindicated when the one Harley spares comes back for revenge just as she predicted. Downplayed in that her killing an entire family just because of one witness could very much be considered as unnecessary.
• Race Lift: She is turned from a white woman to a black woman. Downplayed, however, as in comics version isn't white in the sense that she is Caucasian but in the sense that her skin is an inhuman, bleached pure white.
• Sassy Black Woman: Well, she is voiced by Wanda Sykes. Plus, it presents an appropriately absurd contrast to her initial predicament.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: The Justice League sealed her in a book after she tried to take over Gotham. Later on, it's suggested it was also because of her excessively violent approach as a supervillain.
• Shadow Archetype: She is what Harley would be if she didn't have any standards: unfettered and uncaring, flamboyant, selfish and sociopathic, and on good terms with the Joker.
• The Sociopath: She's heavily implied to be this. Superficially, she's charming and spirited, but is quick to reveal that she has no second thoughts about using mass murder as a solution to literally any problem, and not caring if other criminals are horrified. She has no remorse or conscience, openly calling herself a villain. She also displays a serious lack of empathy; besides not caring for those she murders, she seems unable to realize how her fellow supervillains could be disturbed by her actions or see her actions as rightfully excessive.
• Squishy Wizard: She can summon deadly fairy tale creatures, but damage her book and she's rendered defenseless. And a baseball bat to the back of the head will rip her head off of her shoulders.
• Summon Magic: She has the power to summon characters from fairy tales and use them at her command. She can also summon her staff and book.
• The Unfettered: Even Harley (who entertained the thought of killing Robin) is completely horrified at what the Queen did to that family reunion, only for the Queen to flat-out state that she is a villain and that's what they do. Harley tries to argue Even Evil Has Standards, only for the Queen to claim "villains don't give a fuck".
• Ungrateful Bastard: Harley rightfully points out that even though they eventually had a falling out, she still broke Fables out of prison and helped her get back in the villain game when nobody else gave her a chance, charity which Fables repays by trying to screw her over out of pride. Even after Harley saves her life, she still swears revenge for the hit to her ego.
• Unreliable Narrator: Her description of her fight against the Justice League shows them brutally attacking her henchmen. Harley Quinn sees through it, as "there is no way Superman did that". Tsaritsa admits that she's exaggerating "to add flavor." "The Line" reveals that this also applies to how she describes her fate. She states that she was imprisoned solely because she was a female villain trying to take over the world. The moment she's freed, it's revealed she's an unrepentant mass murderer whose scenes of gory destruction disgust even other supervillains.
• Villain Has a Point: When Harley states she has a line she won't cross, the Queen of Fables responds that the Legion of Doom has no such standards. Harley's attempts to join the Legion do nothing but prove her point.
  • The Justice League's willingness to throw Harley's entire crew into the Phantom Zone over a reasonable (but wrong) hunch with no trial or even much of an argument lends a lot of credence to her claim that them trapping her in the book was at least an overreaction. This is further vindicated by them being willing to kill Harley's crew while the crew are being mind controlled near the end of season 2 and deciding to banish the mind controlled Ivy to the Phantom Zone forever instead of retrieving her after Dr. Psycho is defeated.
  • Her insistence that she needed to kill everyone at the family reunion to prevent any survivors from coming back to get revenge is proven right when Jason Praxis does exactly that. Downplayed, however, as the only reason he was after her was because she killed everyone at the family reunion.
• Would Hurt a Child: She kills several children in the Praxis family reunion.
• Wrong Genre Savvy:
  • She assumes she is free to go after being let out of the tax book, only to be informed that she still has to serve out the rest of her sentence and is being sent to Arkham.
  • Most criminals don't find the wanton slaughter of innocents to be an acceptable solution to silencing a single witness. As such, her homicidal tendencies and extremely violent methods absolutely horrify Harley and her crew, who then decide to kick her out.

Maxie Zeus

Maxie Zeus

Voiced by: Will Sasso

A well-known supervillain and motivational speaker who patterns himself after the Greek Gods

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• Adaptational Badass: In the comics, he has a reputation as a Harmless Villain with a silly gimmick. Here, he's not only strong enough to beat the stuffing out of Clayface, but also clever enough to see through Clayface's disguise and trick him into blowing his cover. And in "The Runaway Bridesmaid", he can shoot lightning from his hands.
• Adaptational Jerkass: While he was always evil, he was never quite as repulsive as shown here.
• Ambiguous Situation: It was not clear at first whether he's just really interested in Greek mythology or if, like in the comics, he actually thinks he's the Greek god Zeus. Then Clayface posed as his whatif son (who Maxie thought didn't exist since the woman he hooked up with had an abortion), declaring said son was half-god, then that turned out to be a ruse as mentioned below.
  • The ambiguity is ramped up in the second season where he's on Themysceria alongside God of War Ares as a male stripper. And in "The Runaway Bridesmaid", he can shoot lightning from his hands.
• Ancient Grome: His gimmick is a clear mishmash of Ancient Greek and Roman aesthetics.
• Bald of Evil: This version of the character is bald.
• Beard of Evil: As usual, he's got a prominent beard to match his "Greek God" motif.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He seems genuinely committed to Nora Fries, even protecting her when Ivy and Kite Man's wedding goes awry.
• Going Commando: He's not wearing any underwear under his toga, and he thinks nothing of exposing himself to people.
• Hate Sink: He's not meant to be likable at all; as he's tactless, narcissistic, petty, and a sexual predator.
• Jerkass: He's a self-absorbed, misogynistic creep with zero redeeming qualities.
• Light Is Not Good: He wears a white toga, which gives him a divine appearance and his lair is covered in gold, but make no mistake, he is an overall jerk.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: He physically resembles pro wrestler/commentator turned politician Jesse "The Body" Ventura and his voice actor (who is known for being a talented impressionist) is doing a very obvious impression of him.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Not only is he a total creep who believes himself entitled to bang any woman he feels attracted to, but he also calls Dr. Psycho a midget, a slur aimed at short people.
• Second Love: Believe it or not, he's this to Nora Fries after Mr. Freeze's death. And from what we've seen, it's a surprisingly committed relationship despite Zeus's promiscuity.
• Self-Serving Memory: When he sees Harley with Clayface and Dr. Psycho, he refers to Harley as the woman he chose not to have sex with, when what actually happened was that Harley bluntly turned him down the instant he tried to make a move on her.
• Sex for Services: He tries to pressure Harley into having sex with him in exchange for his help in making her a better villain. Of course, she refuses.
• Shameless Fanservice Guy: He doesn't care if anyone sees his junk and makes no effort to cover himself if his toga goes askew. He even serves as one of the male strippers in Themysceria.
• Shock and Awe: He can shoot lightning blasts from his hands.
• Shrine to Self: His mansion is full of statues of himself, all nude with their junk on full display.
• STD Immunity: Averted; Harley takes a look at his junk and, since psychiatrists have some medical training, determines that he's got something nasty down there. On seeing a statue of him, Doctor Psycho agrees it looks "disturbing."
• Villain with Good Publicity: An odd twist in that the public knows that he's a villain, but he's well-respected as an entrepreneur and self-help guru in the villain community. Of course, none of them have any idea how depraved he truly is...
• Wrestler in All of Us: He uses an elbow drop on Clayface and then threatens a piledriver.

Catwoman

Catwoman (Selina Kyle)

Voiced by: Sanaa Lathan

Cat-burglar and occasional love-interest of Batman. Appears in Season 2.

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See her folder in Harley Quinn's crew page for more information.

Dr. Trap

Doctor Trap (Larry Trapp)

Voiced by: Alan Tudyk

A villain who specializes in boobytraps.

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• Non-Action Guy: Brilliant at building traps, but he's essentially helpless when Harley finally confronts him face to face.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: A fairly obscure one at that. He was introduced in the rather obscure comic series Chase as the lifelong nemesis of DEO agent Cameron Chase. He later appeared in the pages of Manhunter.
• Smug Snake: He loves to gloat about his traps.
• Trap Master: He's actually really good at his job, Harley requires an ace burglar to be able to defeat him.

The Condiment King

Condiment King (Mitchell Mayo)

Voiced by: Alan Tudyk

A villain who uses condiments as weapons. Kite Man's nemesis.

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• Adaptational Curves: Is noticeably fatter than any prior interpretation of the character.
• Composite Character: He resembles the character as depicted in Batman: The Animated Series while having the real name of the mainline comic's interpretation of the character.
• Eaten Alive: Ivy has Frank eat him and his fiancee so she and Kite-Man can have their wedding venue.
• Evil Is Petty: Shoots some mustard on Kite Man's tux just to make him look bad in front of the wedding hall's owner.
• Evil Versus Evil: He is Kite Man's archnemesis, despite both of them being (wannabe) "super"-villains.
• Fat Bastard: He's a bit chubby and acts like a grade A dick towards Kite-Man.
• Meaningful Name: After a fashion, in that a condiment is something you eat.
• Pungeon Master: He loves his condiment puns.
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: He and Kite Man are constantly throwing petty pranks at each other rather than trying to kill each other. Gets subverted, with extreme prejudice, by the introduction of an actual supervillainess, Ivy, into the equation - and her man-eating plant, of course.
• Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: His fiancee Becca is much more attractive than he is.
• Underwear of Power: He wears a pair of tighty whities on the outside of his costume. It makes him look even more ridiculous.

Plastique

Plastique (Bette Sans Souci)

Voiced by: Kari Wahlgren

A backup member of the Suicide Squad.

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• Badass Longcoat: She sports one that carries all of her explosives.
• Mad Bomber: Is armed with every kind of grenade and C4 she can carry.
• No-Respect Guy: She's a Suicide Squad C-lister who Ivy only heard of as a failed Canadian terrorist. The only reason she's a threat is because of her explosives.
• Pun: As she says when introducing herself, Plastique is the bomb.
• Taking You with Me: She delivers her coup de grace by detonating all the bombs she's wearing. Though it's a bit of a Delayed Explosion.

Golden Glider

Golden Glider (Lisa Snart)

Voiced by: Cathy Ang

Kite-Man's new girlfriend, after his break-up with Ivy.

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• Adaptation Personality Change: In the comics, Golden Glider is very much The Vamp, a Cute But Psycho young woman who is typically one of the more outright villainous members of The Rogues, and though she can be personable she's got a vicious mean streak. Here she appears to be a Nice Girl who's somewhat socially awkward and anxious, and bonds with Poison Ivy over their shared insecurities around the other.
• Affably Evil: She’s a professional supervillain, but from little we’ve seen so far, she’s a very pleasant and Endearingly Dorky woman.
• Birds of a Feather: She and Kite Man are both Endearingly Dorky and love gliding in the air. He and Poison Ivy both think her skates are like "Kites for the feet".
• Church Going Villain: Subverted, at first she seems appalled that Ivy would do supervillain work on a Sunday before admitting that was a joke.
• Does Not Like Spam: Hates onions, so Kite Man stopped using them in his chili for her.
• Domino Mask: She wears a golden mask that covers the area around her eyes.
• Endearingly Dorky: Is a shy woman who makes weird jokes and admits to being addicted to screens. Still, she and Kite Man are clearly happy together, and even Ivy takes a liking to her.
• The Missus and the Ex: She runs into Ivy in the Villy Awards. After getting over the initial awkwardness, they bond over what a good boyfriend Kite-Man is and they agree they're both lucky of having dated him.
• Nice Girl: Despite her supervillain status and her social anxiety, she’s quite easy to talk to.
• Power Glows: When she activates her skates, they and herself glow quite bright.
• Race Lift: She's played by and appears to be an Asian-American in this version.
• Satellite Love Interest: Her only appearance introduces her as Kite-Man's new girlfriend and she doesn't have much characterization beyond being a Nice Girl.
• Tricked-Out Shoes: She uses a pair of specialized skates that allow her to glide through the air.

Clock King

Clock King

Voiced by: James Adomian

Riddler's boyfriend.

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• Adaptational Sexuality: He's in a homosexual relationship with Riddler in this incarnation.
• Freakiness Shame: He's ashamed of having a clock for a head, but Riddler thinks he's beautiful just the way he is.
• Morality Pet: He brings out a surprisingly loving side of Riddler.
• Non-Human Head: His head is a clock. He cries from minute marks on opposite sides of his head.
• Satellite Love Interest: His only actual appearance in the series has him going with Riddler to the Villy Awards because they were nominated as "Best Couple" of the year.
• Unholy Matrimony: He's dating his fellow supervillain Riddler. However, by the time they're introduced as a couple, they seem to have put villainy aside to run an escape room company together.

Music Meister

Music Meister

Voiced by: Larry Owens

A therapist of sorts, able to force others to sing about their feelings.

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• Adaptational Hairstyle Change: He has a beard when his Batman: The Brave and the Bold and Arrowverse incarnations were clean-shaven.
• Adaptational Heroism: In the cartoon he originated from, he's an attempted murderer who caused a mass breakout at Arkham and very nearly took over the world. Here, the most villainous thing he's done is force Bruce and Selina into having a therapy session.
• Composite Character: His personality is more similar to the Arrowverse version of the character as he's non-malicious and uses his powers to try and fix Bruce and Selina's relationship, but like his original incarnation he seems to be a human with the ability to hypnotize people into singing instead of some kind of divine being.
• The Music Meister: The Trope Namer himself, with the power to force people to sing against their will.
• Race Lift: He was white in his original appearance on Batman: The Brave and the Bold and in his Arrowverse incarnation, but is black here.

Captain Boomerang

Voiced by: Josh Helman

A criminal who uses boomerangs as weapons.

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• Battle Boomerang: He uses boomerangs as weapons.
• The Bogan: As usual, he's an Australian crook with no scruples to speak of.
• Likes Older Women: "Gotham's Hottest Hotties" implies he's a gerontophile, with Harley remarking that he goes to the senior center because he loves "mature women".

Talia Al Ghul

Talia Al Ghul

Voiced by: Aline Elasmar

Mother of Damian Wayne, and CEO of Wayne Enterprises during Bruce's incarceration.

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• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: She's a black-haired woman with an aloof and businesslike personality.
• Dating Catwoman: She was in a "passionate love affair" with Batman despite being his enemy, and has a son with him.
• Disappointed in You: In Season 4 finale, she expresses her disappointment in Poison Ivy when the latter refuses to give up on completely taking down Lex Luthor and pushes her vendetta against him instead of handling it like a "professional" as Talia would.
• Doesn't Know Their Own Child: When she returns to the Bat Family, she fails to realize that Damian is a grown boy now, thinking he would still be in diapers. She even looks at buying a pacifier for him.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Talia serves as this for Season 4. Talia may not be a direct threat to Harley and Ivy, but it's her manipulations on Ivy that causes Ivy to double down on upstaging Lex Luthor, driving him to block the sun and steal Superman's powers, while Talia takes away the Bat-Family's vast resources before resurrecting Nightwing to serve under her.
• High-Powered Career Woman: A hardass billionaire businesswoman adored by Gotham's other girlbosses.
• Icy Blue Eyes: She has cold blue eyes that match her cold personality.
• Iron Lady: She comes back to take over Wayne Enterprises while her ex is in jail and commands the Bat-Family like a total hardass.
• Maternally Challenged: While she's a successful career woman, she clearly has no idea how to be a proper mother to Damian, treating her 12-year-old son no different from the last time she saw him as a baby. She gets him presents that are completely inappropriate for his age, like a pacifier and a rattle.
• Missing Mom: She has been absent from Damian's life since his infancy.
• Ms. Fanservice: As per usual for her appearances. She has a sexy Middle Eastern accent, wears form-fitting clothing, and has a fantastic body. Talia is also shown in a photo making out with Bruce Wayne in nothing but a revealing white dress. Harley Quinn even calls her a "cashmere goddess" upon first seeing her.
• Parental Neglect: Talia hasn't seen her son since he was in diapers. She said she would start taking care of Damian after her return, but almost nothing changes between them because she's too busy with work to spend quality time with him. For example, she forgets his birthday and gives him a present several months late.
• Pet the Dog: She's far from being a decent mother to Damian, but she does send ninja bodyguards to keep him safe after Nightwing is found dead.
• Playing Both Sides: Talia works with both the Bat Family and the Legion of Doom. This actually bites her as after Ivy ruins her business thanks to her help. She can't help but give Ivy some respect.
• Tyrant Takes the Helm: Bruce named her as conservator of Wayne Enterprises in his absence. She quickly begins cutting funds for the Bat Family's crime fighting and instead shows more interest in her own shady interests like funding wars in foreign countries to influence world politics.
• Worthy Opponent: She sees Ivy as a worthy business rival, especially after Ivy's tree planting plan tanked Wayne Enterprises' stock.

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