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!!One Earth Government (Regime)
[[folder:Superman[=/=]High Councilor]]
!![[Franchise/{{Superman}} Superman/Clark Kent/Kal-El]]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/GeorgeNewbern (English); Mario Arvizu (Latin-American Spanish dub)
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[[caption-width-right:350:''So many lives lost... because I held back.'']]

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: As detailed in the prequel comic, the ''entire world'' hates his Regime due to its severe authoritarian nature and global scope, though most are too afraid to stand up to it. Even some of the Regime's own high-ranking members start to question its level of power, and some start hating Superman himself since he treats them so disrespectfully. He gets hit with this big-time in the game itself after he [[spoiler:kills his world's Lex Luthor in public]].
* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: Injustice Superman is the closest DC has to its own [[Franchise/StarWars Anakin Skywalker.]]
* AndIMustScream: In the Ladder ending, [[spoiler:he gets trapped in the Phantom Zone, via a gateway which drags him toward itself by his otherwise-BadassCape. What makes it worse is that all the memories leading to his FaceHeelTurn, including the Joker's speech and the graves of his family, all flash before him before he is sucked into the Zone by a demonic entity. Afterwards, the player is given a shot of Regime Supes screaming while drifting away.]]
* AntiVillain: A mix of WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds and HeWhoFightsMonsters. He wants a world without crime and he'll use any means necessary to achieve that end. Later on, he devolves into a straight villain.
* AscendedFridgeHorror: Granted, it's been done before with other evil incarnations of Superman, but it's still there. He represents what can happen if Superman went evil.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: He is the leader and most powerful entity from the New Regime. This is referenced in his BattleIntro, which has his GasMaskMooks backing off and saying that Superman's ''got this''.
* AxCrazy: After the deaths of Lois, his unborn child and his entire city as a result of the Joker's machinations, he has become severely mentally unstable and prone to violent bursts of anger at a single sign of objection (two of which lead to the [[spoiler:deaths of Lex Luthor and Shazam]]), nearly throttles mainstream Wonder Woman to death while giving a SlasherSmile (though she's saved mainstream Aquaman's timely intervention), and at one point tries to break Green Lantern's arms and shoulders with sadistic ferocity.
* BadassArmFold: He does this pose in his victory cutscene, as he succeeds in making his opponent kneel before him.
* BadassCape: Attached by his logo, no less. [[spoiler:His Classic Battle loss animation {{subvert|edTrope}}s the "badass" part horrifically as the gateway to the Phantom Zone in the Fortress of Solitude's menagerie [[CapeSnag drags him by it with a vortex]].]]
* BeardOfSorrow: A mild case. He briefly grows a stubble after the deaths of Lois Lane, her unborn child, and all of Metropolis and his killing the Joker. It doesn't stick.
* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: Went from trying to protect people and stop psychopaths that would kill millions to being just that, and much worse.
** As a husband to Lois, too. Once he was a loving husband who was waiting to be a loving father. Now, he is a psychopathic {{Yandere}}, who is willing to MurderTheHypotenuse - the prime universe Superman.
* BelievingTheirOwnLies: He justifies killing the Joker by saying that it was [[HeWhoFightsMonsters "one death to save millions of lives"]], but anyone who witnessed this act knows he was motivated by {{revenge}} for everything the clown had done, not altruism.
* BerserkButton:
** Anything related with the fugitive Batman has become this to him in The Year Two of the prequel comics. By Year Four, he's practically become obsessed.
** Don't ask what Lois would think of his present actions. [[spoiler:Shazam gets killed for it]]. Deep inside, he is aware Lois wouldn't approve any of his actions, but his grief [[EvilCannotComprehendGood prevents]] him from fully realizing it.
** And of course, anything that has to do with the Joker. So much that during mentioning his name he kills Injustice Lex Luthor and [[spoiler:the whole first Joker Underground movement.]]
* BewareTheSuperman: '''Literally.''' He even tells the Main Universe Superman that fear "is the only thing people understand."
* BigBad: Of the game's story mode, as a result of Joker's evil twisting him into a monster as sadistic as the clown himself.
* BigBadSlippage: The tie-in comics show [[ItGetsEasier his harsher stance on crime]] and the [[SanitySlippage toll]] it's taking on his mental health after becoming the Regime's High Councilor. By the start of the game, he's firmly in villain territory.
* BreakingSpeech: He delivers one of these to the Justice League Superman during their confrontation.
* BrightIsNotGood: Following his FaceHeelTurn, he still wears red and blue, albeit a little darker in color to show that he's no longer the PrimaryColorChampion he used to be.
* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: He retains his iconic logo.
* BrokenPedestal: He used to be the world's greatest hero, respected and loved by his friends and humanity, but his murder of the Joker and [[KnightTemplar subsequent]] actions broke their faith. [[spoiler:The murder of the heroic Lex Luthor was the final straw to the few humans who still looked up to him]].
* ByronicHero: A rare case of Superman becoming this, but Injustice Supes fits the classic definition, driven by grief, motivated by strong passions and having a powerful will.
* CantTakeCriticism: He reacts ''negatively'' with extreme force to any criticism levied on him, ''especially'' if someone brings up Lois in a bad manner or anything related to the Joker. [[spoiler:Shazam and Luthor get killed for this reason]].
* ChokeHolds: During the raid on Stryker's Island, he nearly throttles mainstream Wonder Woman to death with his iron-fisted grip and a PsychoticSmirk, though she is saved by Aquaman's timely intervention.
* ControlFreak: Ever since he became the High Councilor, he's become obsessed about ending crime at all costs and hunting down the Insurgents. Since he's now the Tyrant of Steel, it's easy to see why others are scared of him. He even tells mainstream Superman that fear "is the only thing people understand."
* TheCynic: After the nuking of Metropolis, he devolves into a cynical KnightTemplar who believes [[PayEvilUntoEvil it's acceptable to]] [[ThouShaltNotKill kill people]] in the name of justice, and takes a hardline stance on crime.
* CynicismCatalyst: The death of his wife and his unborn child at his hands and the destruction of Metropolis (all of this orchestrated by the Joker) were this for him.
* DarthVaderClone: Superman only lacks the facial disfigurement and black gear, but otherwise he's very much an Anakin-{{Expy}}, having once been TheParagon who was brought to the dark side as a result of the death of his wife but becomes a KnightTemplar obsessed with order, amasses his own squadron of storm-troopers, and eventually comes to blows with his best friends.
* DespairEventHorizon: He has crossed it long before the game's story mode begins, having lost all hope in humanity's good nature after seeing the depravity of the Joker.
* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler:His VillainousBreakdown in a nutshell. He decides to unleash his military against the "ungrateful" civilian populace, and when Shazam tries to call him out on this, he kills him.]]
* DoNotTauntCthulhu: In the game proper, it can obviously be done because you can defeat the character, but most people who try this in the comics are brutally murdered.
* DraggedOffToHell: [[spoiler:His ultimate fate in Classic Battle is to be sucked into the Phantom Zone.]]
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: When Batman points out that Superman's scaring people, Superman justifies himself by saying that the bad guys ''should'' be scared, not seeming to understand that Batman meant [[BewareTheSuperman people in general.]]
* TheDreaded: Becomes this after his FaceHeelTurn. Seeing as he's the Man of Steel with no qualms about killing, it's easy to see why people would be scared of him.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: No matter how much he has fallen, Lois is the only woman he ever truly loved and the idea of another living Lois existing in a parallel universe becomes an obsession and a driving force for him to attempt to travel there and bring her to his own world, even if he has to kill his counterpart and receive her fear and disgust as long as she is alive.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Subverted with Sinestro. He might have disapproved of Sinestro's attack on Clarion from behind during their attack, but as seen in HeroKiller below, it’s incredibly hypocritical on his part.
** Played straight with Black Canary. At first, he was ready to kill her when she attacked him with the Canary Cry. However, he immediately stops when he finds out she’s pregnant. It's clear that he’s against hurting pregnant women, considering how he unintentionally killed his own wife and unborn son.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood:
** When others such as Batman point out that he is scaring people, Superman justifies [[KnightTemplar himself]] by saying that the bad guys ''should'' be scared, not realizing that they meant [[BewareTheSuperman people in general]]. There are many instances where he [[IgnoredEpiphany wonders]] if he's gone over the edge, but then immediately [[NeverMyFault rationalizes]] his new behavior as Batman's fault.
** Deep inside, he knows Lois wouldn't approve any of his actions, but his grief prevents him from realizing it and moving on. Instead, he'll [[BerserkButton violently lash out]] whenever someone mentions this to him, especially in a poor manner.
** After people [[spoiler:witness him kill Luthor]], he [[VillainousBreakdown rants]] about how "ungrateful" the people are for his rule, completely [[UngratefulBastard ignorant]] of the collateral damage it has caused.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: Abandons his default armored look in favor of his secondary costume after becoming the New Regime's leader, which is more armored and hard-lined. It even changes his intro and outro from his heroic trademarks to reinforcing GasMaskMooks and demanding his downed opponent to [[KneelBeforeZod kneel before him.]] The start of Injustice Year Four Annual is when he switches into the game's costume and Plastic Man sarcastically commends Superman's new intimidating evil outfit.
* EvilFormerFriend: To Batman and any other superheroes that choose to oppose his actions.
* EvilOverlord: Is a total tyrant by the beginning of the game. The comics show it was a gradual process, mostly going from righteous anger to self-righteousness, to total KnightTemplar fundamentalism.
--> "I'm done talking. Whether you agree with me or not is up to you. Deal with it. This is not a Democracy."
* EvilTwin: To the version of Superman that never had a FaceHeelTurn.
* ExtremityExtremist: He favors using his fists in battle.
* FaceHeelTurn: The main impetus of the game's plot is Superman adopting an "ends justify the means" philosophy after some great tragedy that kills millions, namely the destruction of Metropolis.
* FallenHero: He was once the Man of Tomorrow:
--> "[[LeaningOnTheFourthWall I miss Superman. I miss the guy who actually inspired people. The Superman who had time to help a kid who fell off a bike. Before he was changed. Before he gritted his teeth and looked angry all the time. Before he became all hard and dark because people, supposedly, needed him to. I miss the City of Tomorrow — and the man of yesterday.]]"
* FatalFlaw:
** ItGetsEasier. He starts out [[DirtyBusiness having regrets about these actions]] in the comics, but as time passed, he slowly became emotionally detached and has no pangs killing someone.
** NeverMyFault is another problem for him, as when Batman points out how he's scaring people, Superman says he learned it from Batman, and also justifies killing the Joker as "one death to save millions" when it was obviously motivated by {{Revenge}} and not altruism. Batman even points out how the latter is just the first step in a slippery slope. When Aquaman calls him out on becoming a KnightTemplar, Superman denies it. The game proper only gives more examples of this, with him repeatedly refusing to admit how far he's fallen and even at one point claiming that Insurgency Batman is responsible. The only thing he will claim responsibility for is him killing Lois Lane and their unborn child, and ''that wasn't'' his fault.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Once the player clears ladder mode, [[spoiler:a cutscene will show him [[DraggedOffToHell being sucked into the Phantom Zone's portal]] at the Fortress of Solitude. As he desperately tries to escape, he sees memories of the events leading to his FaceHeelTurn before being pulled in by a Phantom. Superman is then seen trapped inside a crystal, [[AndIMustScream screaming in anguish]] as he is banished deeper into the Zone]].
* FauxAffablyEvil: Even after his FaceHeelTurn, he’s still polite and has proper manners. However, it's obvious that it's just a facade.
* FinalBoss: In Story Mode and the Classic Battle ladder.
* {{Flight}}: He doesn't even ''stand''; [[PowerFloats he hovers just above the ground]].
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Despite sympathizing with his backstory, his Main Universe counterpart [[ShutUpHannibal calls him out]], stating that Lois's death does not justify the atrocities he committed as the Regime's High Councilor.
* GainingTheWillToKill: Part of the conflict between him and Batman is him breaking of the [[ThouShaltNotKill no-kill rule]]. After killing the Joker in revenge for Metropolis, Big Blue had some pangs about it, but the damage he's done as the High Councilor could've been avoided had he explained how he felt about Lois and the baby's deaths. Joker's death is a major CharacterDevelopment for Superman as he [[ItGetsEasier slowly accepts]] [[PayEvilUntoEvil killing in the name of justice]] as time passes.
* GoodHairEvilHair: In contrast to the famous "one loose curl" style, his hair is all slicked back.
* HeatVision: Used liberally throughout his moveset.
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:He kills Green Arrow, Black Canary, Mogo, Ganthet, several other Green Lanterns and Hercules in the comics. In the main game, he spitefully murders Lex Luthor and Shazam.]]
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Determined to put a permanent end to remorseless, mass-murdering villains and stop standing by and letting the problems of the world go unsolved. By the start of the game, however, [[YouAreWhatYouHate he's become exactly that]].
* HopeBringer: Starts as this in Year One of the comic. Superman begins his crusade by righting wrongs no one else is able or willing to fix -- putting a stop to [[WarIsHell the horrors of war]], locking up Batman's villains in a more secure facility than [[CardboardPrison Arkham Asylum]] and so on. When Shazam (as Billy Batson) asks ordinary people for their opinions on the Justice League's actions, two people speak up fully in favor of them, because Superman is making a genuine difference in the world; when he saves the world nigh-singlehandedly from the wrath of Apokolips by killing all the Parademons, he achieves a nigh-HundredPercentAdorationRating. Even as Catwoman and Batman agree to stand against Superman if he tries to take over the world, she hangs a lampshade on this:
-->'''Catwoman:''' The reason so many people support Superman's actions is because they're disenfranchised and disheartened and they want the world to be a better place.
* HumiliationConga: [[spoiler:Batman's team manages to teleport away from him just in time, escaping not only him but all the forces he amassed at Stryker's Island. Knowing that the Watchtower was the only way for them to do so, he starts flying towards it... only for it to explode, thanks to Deathstroke's sabotage. Immediately afterwards, he is challenged by a kryptonite-armed [[TheMole Lex Luthor]]. The only reason Lex fails to use the weapon and defeat him is the intervention of Shazam. Superman kills Lex, but not before receiving a WhatTheHellHero FinalSpeech that convinces him to listen to the people and hear their dissent. A VillainousBreakdown ensues.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** When Sinestro shoots Klarion in the back, killing him in the process, both Superman and Wonder Woman call Sinestro out on it, with Superman saying "That's murder, Sinestro!" Now read that line again and then see HeroKiller above. Sinestro pretty much nailed it with his response:
--> ''Says the alien who was trying to extricate Batman's head from his body. Spare me your petty distinctions.''
** Even earlier, when he learns that Batman has allied with Etrigan to oppose him, he claims that Batman has fallen as he's willing to "Ally with Hell", this while Superman happens to be wearing Sinestro's yellow ring of fear.
** He complains that the citizens have become ungrateful to him [[spoiler:when they saw that he killed Lex Luthor]], but he is ungrateful in a terrible way to [[spoiler:Shazam, who was the one who saved Superman from Lex Luthor]].
* IdiotBall: After becoming a KnightTemplar, he becomes ''so'' much easier to manipulate. Just ask [[LadyMacbeth Regime Wonder Woman]] and [[ObviouslyEvil Sinestro]].
* ILetGwenStacyDie: He accidentally killed Lois Lane when under the influence of Scarecrow's fear gas. When his Batman tries to reason with him and use the death of his parents to crime as a comparison, Superman retorts that "you weren't the gun." This event colors his actions from then on, as he's trying to make a world where people like the Joker are stopped for good to honor Lois' memory. Rather tellingly, when Superman is trapped in a LotusEaterMachine of sorts during Year Three of the comic, the biggest change is that Lois and their child are still alive — indicating that, at heart, what he wants most is to have his family back.
* IgnoredEpiphany: There are several instances where Injustice Superman has moments reflecting that he's gone over the edge and starts doubting his actions, but it never sticks and he immediately starts rationalizing his new behavior as Batman's fault.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: How he kills the Joker. With his bare arm no less.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Mercilessly subverted. The Joker's evil manages to push him over the edge, and Joker even mocks Batman for believing that Superman fits this trope.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Played for horror. Upon hearing people are questioning his rule after they [[spoiler:witnessed him kill Luthor on live TV]], he [[VillainousBreakdown rants]] that they are [[UngratefulBastard "ungrateful"]] for his "protection," and unleashes his forces on Metropolis and Gotham [[ScareEmStraight to crush any dissent]]. In addition, he justifies killing the Joker by saying it was [[HeWhoFightsMonsters "one death to save millions of lives"]], but everybody can see he was actually motivated by {{revenge}} for everything the clown did.
* ItsAllAboutMe: He turned to dictatorial tactics because he thought it was the only way to keep the world safe, but after [[spoiler:killing Luthor and Shazam]], his selfish side shows, [[spoiler:unleashing his military and Doomsday on Metropolis and Gotham for daring to question him and planning to kill the main universe's Superman and take his Lois, regardless of what she may think]]. This is most evident in how he phrases his motivation when his counterpart confronts him.
--> ''He stole her from me!''
* ItGetsEasier:
** He starts out [[DirtyBusiness having regrets about these actions]] in the comics, but as time passed, he has no qualms killing ''anybody'' who opposes his rule on a whim.
** It's also deconstructed, as the events transform him into a lunatic who rants about his FreudianExcuse, [[NeverMyFault blames others]] for his actions, and whines about the [[UngratefulBastard "ungratefulness"]] of the populace towards his rule.
* JerkassHasAPoint: The prequel comic gives Superman several good points to make, even if he's not always pleasant when he makes them. Not putting a more permanent stop to the Joker when Batman, by his own admission, knew he would never accept rehabilitation and would only return to torment the people of Gotham time and time again ''was'' wrong, and that ''does'' make Batman partially responsible for the events at Metropolis because the Joker would never have been able to even go there if he were properly dealt with at some stage earlier. Arkham Asylum ''is'' a completely useless facility that can neither reform its inmates nor prevent them from escaping back onto the streets, and the issues Batman's RoguesGallery allegedly face are ''no excuse'' for their crimes, most of them committing them gleefully and voluntarily. And the fact Ganthet is lecturing him about ComesGreatResponsibility despite the Guardians [[BystanderSyndrome standing by and allowing the Kryptonians to blow up their planet]] without lifting a finger to help them ''is'', at the very least, textbook hypocrisy.
* JudgeJuryAndExecutioner: Atlantis' archivist ([[spoiler:who is later revealed to be the ComicBook/MartianManhunter in disguise]]) even describes him as this when explaining the goings-on to good Aquaman.
* JustTheFirstCitizen: When Plastic Man meets him in the Year Four Annual, the other Justice League members try to present Superman and themselves as this, but Plastic Man points out that Superman is sitting on a throne. The Justice League decays into a bunch of stooges following a dictator.
* KickTheDog: An unfortunate number.
** His tirade on Batman in Issue 11 of the prequel comic, playing him up as a horrible parental figure to Nightwing and Robin to the extent that Batman punches him. Downplayed in that [[JerkassHasAPoint the things he says aren't entirely untrue]].
** A rather vicious one in #13 of Year One where he and Wonder Woman brutally take down Galaxor (a guy who was trying to protect his country from Superman's dictatorship) and ''break his spine''.
** [[spoiler:When he decides to destroy Kahndaq, Black Adam's country, if the latter won't join the Regime.]]
** [[spoiler:Murdering Shazam for [[DisproportionateRetribution trying to call him out on how far he's fallen]].]]
** [[spoiler:During the attack on Metropolis, while most of the other Regime metas are seen fighting the heroes, Regime Superman primarily concerns himself with killing civilians and destroying escape routes.]]
* KneelBeforeZod: His victory scene. You know he's gone to the dark side when he pulls this.
* KnightTemplar: Starts out very much his normal self in the comics, but begins taking progressively harder stances on crime. By the time of the game, he is fully in this territory.
-->'''Superman:''' Disobedient children will be punished.
* LackOfEmpathy:
** He's so emotionally cold that most of his rants are about him having [[FreudianExcuse lost his family]], and [[JerkassHasAPoint calling out someone's faults and flaws. While he's not wrong about it]], he refuses to acknowledge [[NeverMyFault his own.]] To prove how apathetic he is, he tells an entire class before he's leaving to ''be good''. The old Superman would give a paragraph about the importance of benevolence and kindness.
** The most terrifying example is him [[spoiler:callously murdering Shazam, a '''child''', and looking down at his corpse as if it was a bag of trash]]. By that moment, you can tell that he's become ''worse than the Joker.''
** A horribly visible example is his plan to bring the other universe's Lois to his, despite the fact that it's clear that Lois [[EverybodyHasStandards would be just as appalled as everyone else at what he’s done to the world]]. He even outright tells his good counterpart that he ''doesn’t care'' as long as she’s alive, almost as if he’s treating her as a mere possession.
* LastOfHisKind: Subverted. Though he has the reputation of being "The Last Son of Krypton", there are in fact several other surviving Kryptonians. [[KneelBeforeZod One of whom]] [[NotSoDifferent he's now channeling]].
* LightningBruiser: Both "faster than a speeding bullet" and "more powerful than a locomotive", in addition to being bulletproof.
* LotusEaterMachine: Briefly in the comics. Everybody lives! Except the Joker, who is killed by Batman who then turns himself in and reveals he's Bruce Wayne. It's not perfect, he can still hear the voices of his friends trying to help him.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: The accidental deaths of his wife Lois Lane and their unborn child by his own hands take a toll on Superman's sanity and moral compass.
* LovingAShadow: His plan to [[spoiler:take the alternate universe’s Lois is this. Despite his Lois being VERY similar to the alternate (and still living) Lois, it’s still a different Lois overall. Mainstream Superman even points out that his Lois would still be disgusted by his actions nonetheless]].
* MakeAnExampleOfThem: [[spoiler:He decides to destroy Kahndaq, Black Adam's country, if the latter won't join Regime. The latter doesn't have a choice, especially when Shazam comes to support his boss.]]
* MaskOfSanity: After Metropolis, he makes frequent attempts to hide how far gone he is, but everybody knows he's a bitter and former shell of the man they once revered. Occasionally, he'll act as the BigBrotherMentor to Shazam and nice with Luthor around, but it doesn't take long for [[VillainousBreakdown everything to come down]] when [[spoiler:he kills Luthor on live television]].
* MeetTheNewBoss: Once he finally abandons any pretensions of merely being a guardian and forms the One Earth Government to rule the Earth.
* MirrorBoss: To the Good Counterpart Superman from the heroic universe at the end of the Story Mode.
* MoralityChainBeyondTheGrave: He repeatedly justifies his actions by stating they're for Lois' sake. When they face off, the main universe Superman tells him point-blank that Lois would be afraid and disgusted by his actions and what he's become. Regime Superman is beyond caring by this point.
* TheMourningAfter: Lois for him. He never stops loving her, and the implication is that he never will. Try as she might, Injustice Wonder Woman is clearly second best in his eyes, a fact she is clearly aware of.
* NeverMyFault: He frequently rants about other people's faults without acknowledging his own. The only thing he will claim responsibility for is killing Lois Lane and their unborn child, and ''that wasn't'' his fault.
** When Batman points out how he's scaring people, Superman says he learned it from Batman, and also justifies killing the Joker as "one death to save millions," when it was obviously motivated by {{revenge}} and not altruism. Batman even points out how the latter is just the first step in a slippery slope.
** When Aquaman calls him out on becoming a KnightTemplar, Superman denies it.
** The game proper only gives more examples of this, with him repeatedly refusing to admit how far he's fallen and even at one point claiming that Insurgent Batman is responsible.
* NotDistractedByTheSexy: When Wonder Woman comes into his command station in a dress with AbsoluteCleavage, he doesn't bat an eye, though even Yellow Lantern makes a comment on how she looks.
* NotSoDifferent:
** To Sinestro and Black Adam. ''Especially'' to Black Adam, which the latter himself [[LampshadeHanging points out in prequels.]]
** He's always been a GoodCounterpart to General Zod, but now in this game he has not only become a Kryptonian who rules over humans with an iron fist, but when he wins a match in his alternate costume, he tells his opponent to [[KneelBeforeZod "Kneel before me..."]]
** After Regime Superman is sent to prison, his main universe counterpart even comments that if he [[ShadowArchetype were to be put in a similar position as his Regime counterpart was,]] he would have done the same things he did.
** By the end of the game, Superman is reduced to being an insane monster like the Joker, constantly whining about how "ungrateful" the people are for his rule but completely ignorant of the collateral damage.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: He became a KnightTemplar because he thought it was the only way to keep the world safe. But as time progresses, he becomes [[ItsAllAboutMe selfishly obsessed]] in maintaining his grip on Earth, [[spoiler:especially when he killed Shazam and Luthor. He even planned to [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe take Multiverse Lois Lane as his bride forcefully]] and [[MurderTheHypotenuse kill Multiverse Superman]] even if she won't like it]].
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Let's just say JokerImmunity [[PayEvilUntoEvil didn't save him this time]].
* TheParanoiac: ''Hypersensitive'' to any criticism levied on him, he responds with outright DisproportionateRetribution. [[SanitySlippage As time progressed]], he's now a rage-fueled madman ranting about how "ungrateful" people are towards his rule and blaming others for his downfall. He even [[{{Yandere}} develops an obsession]] on Multiverse Lois [[LovingAShadow when told about it]], planning to [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe take her as his bride forcefully]] even if she won't like it.
* ParentalSubstitute: [[spoiler:To Damian Wayne, after he and Batman fall out over Dick Grayson's death.]]
* PayEvilUntoEvil: After his unwitting killing of Lois and their unborn child, as well as the destruction of Metropolis, this becomes his new policy, and his first victim is the Joker himself. He vows to no longer stand by and watch while injustices in the world go unpunished.
* PetTheDog: Has a few moments in the comics.
** In Year One #14, he saves a pair of news anchors from Two-Face by non-lethal means, zapping his coin with EyeBeams and crunching his gun in one fist but not killing him.
** He objects to Sinestro's attack of Klarion from behind during their attack on Tower of Fate.
** [[spoiler:In Year 4, #4, he allows Batman, who has come as Bruce Wayne to take away Renee Montoya, who greatly suffered after having too many super pills. Though Wonder Woman tells him to capture Batman, he lets him go, if on a condition that Batman will stop hunting him. Which Batman breaks.]]
** When he and Batman fight in Year Five, the latter taunts him to kill him if he wants. Superman does not.
** [[spoiler:In Year 5, #13, he supports Damian's decision to become Nightwing, as it helps him.]]
** The first thing as High Councilor? [[spoiler:Restoration of Metropolis with Atom and Black Lightning.]]
* PsychopathicManchild: By the end of the game, he's reduced to being a raving loon who's NotSoDifferent from the MonsterClown he killed earlier, constantly whining about how "ungrateful" the people are for his rule but completely ignorant of the collateral damage.
* PuttingOnTheReich: His New Regime gives off this vibe.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives one to Batman in the prequel comic where he accuses him of [[FriendlyEnemy loving the Joker and mourning him instead of Metropolis]] and that he needed Joker in his life and that that's why he never killed him. On top of this he also tries to play him up as a terrible parental figure to Nightwing and Robin, which is enough to prompt Batman to punch him.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Has glowing red eyes when displayed on the Future City monitors.
* RepressiveButEfficient: His rule is iron-fisted and unpopular, but his goal to stamp out crime, corruption and war has not diminished. Ares is actively aiding the Insurgency and the Main Universe heroes because Superman's simply too ''good'' at it.
* SanitySlippage: Lois' death, the nuking of Metropolis and the events of the comics and game slowly whittle away at his sanity until there's nothing but an utterly rage-filled maniac left.
* ShadowArchetype: He represents what mainstream Superman could become if [[StartOfDarkness a tragic event]] [[BewareTheSuperman caused him to snap]] and lose his moral compass. After learning about what led his Regime counterpart to villainy, the main universe Superman comments that if he were to be put in a similar position as his Regime counterpart was, [[NotSoDifferent he would have done the same things]].
** The mainstream Superman's arcade ending shows that [[spoiler:his fight with his Regime counterpart has [[EvilMeScaresMe spooked him]], wondering if he could go down the same path. Because of this, he ingests a Kryptonite piece that can be remotely detonated by a trigger that changes hands between his fellow Justice League members except Batman]].
* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: In the New Regime trailer, he flatly refuses to "hold the moral high ground at the expense of peace", a marked change from [[ThouShaltNotKill what he used to represent.]]
* SkillGateCharacter: His Heat Vision is near-impossible to beat for a beginner.
* ShouldersOfDoom: His Regime costume has rather prominent shoulder guard which adds to the Regime leader vibe.
* SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: The Injustice comics and the game do a good job taking a step-by-step approach to emphasizing Superman's increasing comfort with violence and extreme methods. Superman genuinely does believe and tries to be heroic, but without Lois and his estrangement from Bruce, his conscience and kindness get hardened. He slowly drifts from humanity and his reactions towards evil actions and crime become more and more extreme and disproportionate. He never consciously enacts evil actions but always in reaction, where his only method is extreme.
* SNKBoss: As the FinalBoss of both the Story Mode and Classic Mode, he hits harder blow-for-blow than a player-controlled Superman, takes almost two times more damage to defeat, has an extremely reduced cooldown time on his special ability (which itself lasts 3 times longer than normal), and he ''abuses the hell out of it.'' Getting hit by his Super move while his character ability is activated will take off about 3/4 of a full health bar.
* StartOfDarkness: Killing the Joker is this overall for him, but in the comics, [[spoiler:killing Green Arrow was the real start. Before then he had attacked villains and legitimate targets, but his anger went out of control and he started targeting former friends. After killing Arrow, he cripples Batman by breaking his back and starting to torture him with Ollie's blood on his hands. Batman tells him at this point he's no longer a hero by any measure]].
* SuperBreath: Which becomes [[HarmlessFreezing freeze breath]] when Enhanced.
* SuperheroesWearCapes: Subverted, since he's not a hero anymore.
* SuperpowerLottery: As one might expect from the Man of Steel. His SuperStrength alone manages to overwhelm the combined powers of Wonder Woman, Green Lantern and Aquaman during the raid on Prison Island.
* SuperStrength: Enough to [[MeteorMove punch someone into space]].
* TailorMadePrison: [[spoiler:He gets locked up in one that simulates the light of a red sun, greatly weakening his powers, [[SequelHook though he can still mildly use his heat vision]].]]
* TautologicalTemplar: After killing the Joker, he decides that because he is the Man of Steel, whatever he does in service to "saving" his world is justifiable because he says so, even if it meant [[spoiler:killing others for showing dissent]].
* ThenLetMeBeEvil: After [[spoiler:killing Lex]], he cannot bear the complaints that he is murderous. He decides to launch attacks as a way to discipline them.
* ThereWasADoor: [[spoiler:In a dream sequence, Superman walks through the divider when he visits Batman in jail as an offer to bust him out. Batman declines even though by that point no one would object. They hug instead]].
* ThouShaltNotKill: Used to be one of the highest proponents of this, with some exceptions, but after the Joker sent him past the DespairEventHorizon, he abandoned this mentality and [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope promptly]] [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice killed]] the Joker.
* TookALevelInJerkass: After his FaceHeelTurn, as the prequel comic shows. And while by the events of the game proper, he's fairly polite and well-mannered, [[spoiler:it's a facade, one that [[VillainousBreakdown comes apart at the seams]] during his HumiliationConga.]]
** The first time we see him being an outright dick to his own allies is Issue #1 of the Year 4 comics, to the point that Wonder Woman has to warn him against it or [[DefectorFromDecadence he'll end up making them go over to Batman]].
* TragicVillain: Was once the greatest hero, but the Joker's cruelty sent him past the DespairEventHorizon and into HeWhoFightsMonsters territory.
* TheWorfEffect: Seems to suffer this a lot; gets beaten up by Alfred, Ch'p, Ganthet, Black Canary, Batgirl and Huntress (together), Renee, Wonder Woman, Zeus, Bizarro, Doomsday, Batman, Hawkman and so on. [[WorfHadTheFlu Justified in some cases; others, not so much.]]
* UnderwearOfPower: His secondary costume has a very stylized version that dips low in front, goes higher up the torso to square around the hip, and additional portions extend down the inner thighs. It also serves to distinguish him from Main Superman.
* TheUnfettered: Though he used to be [[TheFettered the opposite trope]], he became this once he started his New Regime.
* UngratefulBastard: Ironically, in the very same scene in which he rants about how "ungrateful" the people are for [[spoiler:turning on him following the execution of Lex Luthor]], he kills [[spoiler:Shazam, who was the only reason he was ''able'' to beat Luthor rather than taking a faceful of kryptonite]].
* UnreliableNarrator: When addressing the world, he claims that Batman was an accomplice in the destruction of Metropolis and that this "drove him insane with guilt". Of course, in Superman's mind, [[MetaphoricallyTrue Batman is responsible due to having never killed the Joker before his sending Superman off the deep end.]]
* UnwittingPawn: Ironically, to the Joker. After get tired of losing to the Caped Crusader, he decided to go after Superman and destroy everything he cared so dear. Even before his demise, [[AllAccordingToPlan it was all part of the clown's plan since he would never beat Batman, but wondered if an insane Superman would.]]
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: His speech in the New Regime trailer fits this to a T, the utopia in question being a world without crime.
* VillainousBreakdown: At the end of his HumiliationConga, [[spoiler:Superman takes a moment to listen to the population's dissent and... doesn't take it well. As in, views them as ungrateful for his "peace" and decides that a military assault on them would bring them in line.]]
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Owing to the fact that he rules the world and is [[TheParagon Superman]], his peace is widely held. This is shown rather deliberately when [[spoiler:upon hearing the complaints of his people after murdering Insurgency Lex Luthor, it is only that moment that destroys his reputation]].
* WeCanRuleTogether: Makes this offer to Batman in Issue 11 of the prequel comic.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Takes over the world with death squads because he doesn't want the tragedy caused by the Joker to happen ever again.
* WithUsOrAgainstUs: [[spoiler:Superman decides to destroy Kahndaq, Black Adam's country, if the latter won't join Regime. He states that either Kahndaq is an ally, or is a threat.]]
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Oh, boy. His FreudianExcuse is bad enough: his wife and unborn kid both die by his own hand, and he inadvertently kills millions of people. Even Batman admits that he would probably have done much of what Superman did if he were in the same situation.
* {{Yandere}}: Has shades of this during the final act with [[spoiler:the mainstream Superman]] as he expresses desire to kill him and bring [[spoiler:the mainstream world's version of]] Lois into his universe to make her love him.
* YearInsideHourOutside: Enough time inside for his and Lois' hair to turn grey and their daughter Lana to become a super-heroine in her own right in Superman's LotusEaterMachine.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: He starts out determined to put a permanent end to remorseless, mass-murdering villains and stop standing by and letting the problems of the world go unsolved. By the end of the game, [[HeWhoFightsMonsters he's become the very]] [[NotSoDifferent thing he once despised]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Wonder Woman]]
!![[ComicBook/WonderWoman Wonder Woman/Diana of Themyscira]]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/SusanEisenberg (English); Rebeca Patiño (Latin-American Spanish dub)
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[[caption-width-right:341:''Man's world is incapable of self-rule. We will preserve order.'']]

* AbsoluteCleavage: In a dress she wears to entice Superman.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Even before having a full-blown FaceHeelTurn, this version of Diana has a noticeable HeWhoFightsMonsters mentality, something supported both by Ares' observations and also how Diana seems to be taking just a little ''too much'' delight in seeing Superman adopt a more militant world-view. Not only that, but her interactions with Superman in the prequel comics show more and more [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]] and LadyMacbeth symptoms as time goes on. Basically, it seems like Diana had wanted to cut loose for a long time. Even Martian Manhunter notes in the prequel comic, after restraining her, how her actions are dictated not by a desire for security and peace, but bloodlust. Nowhere is this more apparent than [[MirrorMatch in her confrontation with her alternate self.]] Where good Wonder Woman is the compassionate and noble hero she normally is, Regime Wonder Woman is an outright BloodKnight who dismisses her counterpart as "weak-willed".
* AllAmazonsWantHercules: Or in this case, Superman as revealed in a dream she had while recovering from her wounds.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: As she is painfully aware, Superman doesn't feel the way about her she does about him — and even if he did, it wouldn't be the same as when he was with [[TheLostLenore Lois]].
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: As second in command of the New Regime, she's also their second most powerful enforcer, with only Superman edging her out. Her being princess of the Amazons also qualifies her as an authority.
* TheBaroness: Sexpot variety.
* BloodKnight: Unlike the good Wonder Woman, this one holds a long streak of this, which becomes apparent until it's clear to all that she's a raving warmonger.
* BattleCouple: She's fully intending for her and Superman to become this. [[ManipulativeBastard Remember that this is after everything that's happened to him]] not the least of which is [[spoiler:losing Lois Lane and her and Superman's unborn child.]]
* BewareTheSuperman: Even ''Ares'' is afraid of her, or at the very least, her and Superman [[BattleCouple together.]]
* BraidsOfAction: Has them, in contrast to Main Universe Wonder Woman, who just lets her hair flow naturally.
* CoDragons: She and Yellow Lantern are the most trusted allies of Regime Superman. Ironically, [[spoiler:by the end of the game Hal has realized how much Supes has fallen from grace and surrenders to Insurgency Superman.]]
* TheCynic: No longer has faith in humanity based on her claim that man's rage "cannot be tempered, only quelled."
* DarkActionGirl: This incarnation of Wonder Woman is, put simply, a complete and utter bitch. She is rude and uncaring towards her allies and murderously violent when confronting her opponents.
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: To Ares in the prequel comic. He's not amused.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: She cuts off the God of War's hand and [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice and runs her sword through his spinal column]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards: In comics, just like Superman, she disapproves of Sinestro's attack on Clarion from behind during their attack.
** Also in the comics, after she woke up from being comatose, she was disgusted and outraged to see Superman as a member of the Sinestro Corps and demanded that he removed and destroyed his Yellow Power Ring, which he did.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Like Regime Superman, Wonder Woman holds a cynical view of traditional superheroics, [[WellIntentionedExtremist honestly believes she's doing the right thing]], and [[IgnoredEpiphany brushes off any indication]] that she could be totally wrong about the methods she's using. Her mainstream counterpart tries to knock sense into her, but Regime Wonder Woman refuses to listen. Multiverse Wonder Woman [[ReasonYouSuckSpeech even points out]] how her Regime counterpart is too ignorant to realize just how corrupt Superman has become after his downfall thanks to her manipulative nature.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: Changes into her Amazonian armor after becoming Superman's [[TheDragon Dragon]]. Not only does this suit have more armor than regular Wonder Woman with SpikesOfVillainy, [[EvilIsSexy it also shows more leg and conspicuously enhances her cleavage]].
* EvilFormerFriend: As part of DC's Trinity, she and Superman used to be best friends with Batman, before they formed the Regime and made Batman an enemy of the state.
* EvilTwin: To the version of Wonder Woman that was far more compassionate and never had a FaceHeelTurn. Shown quite clearly [[MirrorMatch in their confrontation with one another.]]
* {{Expy}}: Of Justice Lord Wonder Woman from the animated ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague''.
* {{Flight}}: Like Superman, she [[PowerFloats hovers in place]] while in her Lasso stance.
* GoodAngelBadAngel: She is the bad angel versus Batman's good angel to Injustice Superman. She eventually wins.
* HeroKiller: Kills Huntress in the Year Three comics during a fight, though she claims it was [[AccidentalMurder an accident.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: In the prequel comic she lectures Aquaman on his attacking Whalers, even though this is right after her and Superman have made clear their newfound KnightTemplar stance. Mind you, whale life doesn't quite take the same priority human life does, but its still hypocritical due to a KnightTemplar criticizing someone with a PayEvilUntoEvil mentality. Not only that, but this ''is'' Aquaman that she's speaking to. Aquaman considers all fish to be equal to humanity and Atlanteans, as he's the ruler of everything in the seas.
* IgnoredEpiphany: Just like Superman, she realizes from time to time that they are on the wrong side. [[ForegoneConclusion Pity that it goes nowhere.]]
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Heavily implied to be the reason she goaded Superman into becoming an oppressive tyrant that kills everyone who dares to even question him. She fully supports him when he finally decides to destroy Metropolis and Gotham City after being fed up with all the betrayal and questioning of his motives.
* LadyMacbeth: Diana fully plans for her and Superman to become a couple as they create their new world order.
* ManipulativeBastard: She shows signs of this in her interactions with Superman in the prequel comic, motivating him to become more ruthless.
* MirrorBoss: To the good version of Wonder Woman, [[spoiler:who challenges her for command of the Amazons.]]
* MookChivalry: Averted in her Supermove, as a literal AmazonBrigade helps beat up her opponent.
* MsFanservice: She invokes this when wearing a dress with AbsoluteCleavage, and Yellow Lantern lampshades it.
* NighInvulnerability: As is typical for Wonder Woman, but this version is notably even more durable than usual, being both completely bullet-proof and also able to safely be at ground zero of an atomic explosion alongside Superman.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Like Superman, she honestly believes she's doing the right thing. However, she's actually manipulating him for her selfish reasons by goading him down a darker path. She even plans to be the LadyMacbeth as they establish their new world order. Many point out she [[InLoveWithYourCarnage actually seems]] to be taking just a little ''too much'' delight in seeing Superman adopt a hardline stance.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: She ''is'' an Amazon, after all.
* ReplacementGoldfish: Averted. She would like to be this to [[spoiler:Lois Lane]], and cannot. Deathstroke calls her [[spoiler:"Superman's rebound girl"]], but apparently to taunt her.
* SpikesOfVillainy: Her Regime costume has numerous spikes across her leggings.
* SuperStrength: Ranging from [[YouWillNotEvadeMe high-speed lasso yanks]] to ripping a generator from its power cords.
* TalkToTheFist: More and more embracing this mentality as her way of solving problems. As she's put it: "I'm so sick of words".
* ThrowingYourShieldAlwaysWorks: She can throw her shield while in her Sword stance.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Post FaceHeelTurn, and [[AdaptationalVillainy also in general when compared to her mainstream counterpart.]] The one person she shows any signs of kindness to is Superman, and even this seems more like an attempt to manipulate him than genuine care.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Superman. Pity that he's a KnightTemplar now.
* TheUnfettered: And it's clear during her FaceHeelTurn that she's happy she can finally be this.
* UnholyMatrimony: Averted. She's the High Councilor right hand, but no more than the other hand, Yellow Lantern.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: She honestly believes she's doing the right thing.
* WhipItGood: She can use her Lasso as a short-range lash with the non-looped end.
* TheWomanBehindTheMan: To Superman after his FaceHeelTurn, more and more goading him down a darker path and even saying that she'll "never let him doubt himself ever again".
* YouWillNotEvadeMe: Her Lasso of Truth is used this way during combat, drawing her opponent towards her.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Yellow Lantern]]
!![[Franchise/GreenLantern Yellow Lantern/Hal Jordan]]
!!!Voiced By: Creator/AdamBaldwin (English), Arturo Mercado Jr (Latin-American Spanish dub)
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[[caption-width-right:350:''Yellow is power.'']]


* AnAxeToGrind: Yellow Lantern tries to kill good Cyborg with a giant construct shaped like a butcher's axe.
* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:He shows legitimate regret for his actions as a member of the Regime. He simply lacks the same courage as Flash has to actually leave it. Justified since he has to rely on Sinestro for power, so he wouldn't get far before being killed. It isn't until the good Superman confronts him that he owns up to his terrible actions.]]
* BewareTheSuperman: Now that he has joined the New Regime, he wields the yellow light of fear.
* BrokenAce: Once he was a paragon of courage, now he serves Superman out of fear.
* BrightIsNotGood: He's gained the power of the yellow light, coloring in his constructs and parts of his suit with the vibrant hue in the process.
* CarryABigStick: One of his constructs is some kind of spiked club/bat.
* CoDragons: With Regime Wonder Woman to Superman. [[spoiler:Unlike her, his loyalty gets more and more frail as the game progresses.]]
* ConflictingLoyalty: In Year Two of the prequel comics between the Green Lantern Corps and Superman. [[spoiler:He eventually chooses Superman in issue # 8.]]
* TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget: He turned against Sinestro after it became apparent he was keeping the peace on Korugar through fear. As part of the New Regime, Hal took on the Yellow Lantern Ring of Fear, and eventually started a dictatorship as bad as Sinestro's.
* DirtyCoward: Green Lantern views him as this, claiming that he's taken on "the color of cowardice". In fact, Yellow Lantern does show shades of this. [[spoiler:When the Flash chooses to leave after Superman kills Shazam, Yellow Lantern is clearly shown to lack the same courage.]]
* DominoMask: A non-essential addition to his Lantern uniform, but he likes to keep his identity secret.
* DropTheHammer: Starts off his Supermove with a gigantic one.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Not only is he gifted amazing abilities through his GreenLanternRing, but he's also an ace U.S. Air Force veteran with several powerful attacks that don't specifically rely on said ring.
* EpicFlail: Not very big, but it does the job.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: Replaces his GreenLanternRing and uniform with that of the Sinestro Corps whilst under the New Regime.
* EvilFormerFriend: To Batman and any other heroes who oppose the New Regime.
* EvilTwin: Yellow Lantern becomes this to the version of Hal that never had a FaceHeelTurn.
* {{Expy}}: [[NotSoDifferent Of Sinestro]] following his FaceHeelTurn.
* FaceHeelTurn: Like most of the other heroes, he goes over to the New Regime.
* {{Flight}}: One of the powers provided by his GreenLanternRing. Like several characters, his default stance is [[PowerFloats hovering just above the ground]].
* GatlingGood: Like his mainstream counterpart, he can summon a plane's mini-gun.
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:Murders Guy Gardner, who at that point was far more heroic than he was]].
* JustFollowingOrders: How he behaves throughout the comics and main game, at least in relation to Superman. He's not personally evil or ambitious, but he is cowardly and unlike Injustice Flash never stands up against the Regime.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: [[spoiler:Faced with the main universe Superman and a {{depower}}ed Sinestro of his own universe, Yellow Lantern wisely decides to just hand over his own Sinestro Corps ring.]]
* LightIsNotGood: Wields the yellow light of fear.
* LockAndLoadMontage: His BattleIntro does the closest equivalent for a Yellow Lantern: charging up with his Power Battery.
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: He conjures up a shield with the Sinestro Corps symbol to protect him from [[TheStraightAndArrowPath arrow constructs]] launched at him by Green Lantern.
* MacrossMissileMassacre: Uses several missiles across his moveset, both as regular moves and during his Supermove.
* MeaningfulRename: He's the only playable character to have a different name based on what costume he's wearing. Appropriately, this Hal Jordan lacks the courage that defines the heroic one.
* PaletteSwap: His Sinestro Corps uniform is just a re-skinned version of his secondary Green Lantern costume.
* RammingAlwaysWorks: Uses a jet engine as a flying battering ram with several of his moves. His Supermove uses [[CarFu buses]] and whole fighter planes as well.
* RingOfPower: Has exchanged his old GreenLanternRing for a Qwardian one. [[spoiler:The reason is not because he wished to but because that the guardian Ganthet stripped his GreenLanternRing powers... when both Hal and Carol (after retrieving her back from Guy Gardner) are still in the sky. As they fall Hal asks Sinestro (as in certain events their relationship mended) to save Carol. Instead of just saving him, Sinestro offers him a yellow ring. With no other choice, Hal wears it and saves her thus becoming Yellow Lantern.]]
* SecretCharacter: Subverted in that it's not a secret that he's in the game, but you need to win 1 Ranked match online in order to unlock the Yellow Lantern costume. While the BattleIntro stays the same, there is a different victory scene, and the setting of his Super Move changes from Oa to Qward. Despite having the exact same moveset as the Green Lantern, these cosmetic changes effectively make Yellow Lantern his own character.
-->Yellow is power!
* ShouldersOfDoom: A mild case with his Sinestro Corps outfit.
* SpontaneousWeaponCreation: He has a Qwardian Lantern Ring in place of his Green Lantern Ring.
* TheStraightAndArrowPath: Green Lantern launches a number of arrow constructs at Yellow Lantern.
* SuperStrength: His ring allows him to execute feats of strength on par with the likes of Superman if he so wishes.
* ThereWasADoor: Forcefully invoked in his throw, wherein he constructs a brick wall specifically to smash his opponent through it.
* TractorBeam: He can simply latch onto his opponent with his ring's light without making a restraining construct.
* TronLines: Both his primary and secondary designs feature this, particularly his secondary.
* UnderwearOfPower: His Sinestro Corps costume has the outline of such with glowing TronLines.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sinestro]]
!![[ComicBook/{{Sinestro}} Thaal Sinestro]]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/TroyBaker (English); Raúl Anaya (Latin-American Spanish dub)
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[[caption-width-right:255:''The One Earth government is similar to mine on Korugar. An alliance was logical!'']]

* AdaptationalVillainy: Bad as his main universe self is, this version is ''worse''. This Sinestro sadistically enjoys committing the horrible actions that occur by his hand and his [[TheCorrupter corruptor]] tendencies are motivated ForTheEvulz rather than any pragmatic drive.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Towards the end, he is seen rallying the One Earth Regime's troops in preparation for [[spoiler:the annihilation of Gotham and Metropolis]]. To help this, he instructs his soldiers to execute a group of traitors. [[spoiler:And then Insurgency Flash intervenes after his HeelFaceTurn]].
* AxCrazy: From being absolutely ecstatic in killing his former Green Lantern teammates to putting on a SlasherSmile while performing "enhanced interrogation" on a suspected resistance member to even biting into Kilowog's shoulder upon being outed as a tyrant in a flashback, this incarnation of Sinestro definitely has a few screws loose.
* BerserkButton: NEVER tell him there's someone more important than he is.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Averted. While most of the other villains were indoctrinated to serve the Regime, Sinestro was one of the few to willingly join.
* ButtMonkey: Has gotten his ass kicked twice by Superman, once by Wonder Woman and Batwoman, and was even sucker-punched by Hal. Not that he doesn't deserve it of course.
* CoolHelmet: He sports one.
* TheCorrupter: To Superman, ''even more than the Joker'', and Hal Jordan. The Joker managed to turn Superman into a KnightTemplar, and by proxy, most of the Justice League, but Sinestro's influence turned Superman and Hal Jordan into raving maniacs, with terrible results for everyone else.
* CutsceneBoss: [[spoiler:Superman curbstomps Sinestro so quickly that he doesn't even get a chance to fight back.]] This is less annoying than most examples, since players actually ''do'' get to fight him earlier on in the game. That and it's funny.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: In Injustice Year Two #2, he inflicts one on [[spoiler:Kyle Rayner. He and his Corpsmen corner him returning to earth. They restrain him with yellow power rings. Sinestro taunts Kyle and then removes his complete ring finger, leaving Kyle naked and without oxygen in the vacuum of space, leaving him gagging. He then orders his corpsmen to quarter Kyle, pulling with their rings and tearing his body limb-to-limb]].
* EvilLaugh: His Regime version does this when he believes he's killing the good Superman.
* {{Fingore}}: Sinestro decides to remove [[spoiler:Kyle Rayner's Green Lantern ring in the vacuum of space; for good measure, he removes the full ring finger]].
* GoodAngelBadAngel: He is becoming the "bad angel" to Injustice Superman during Wonder Woman's absence in Year Two of the prequel comics.
* HeroKiller: He murders [[spoiler:Kyle Rayner in a viciously gruesome fashion. Later kills John Stewart because he would not fully succumb to the other side, and uses his death to fully turn Hal Jordan evil. He later murders Kilowog in the Year Four Annual, fearing his power should he get a Green Lantern ring.]]
* JerkassHasAPoint: When Superman calls Sinestro out on shooting Klarion in the back, saying it's murder, Sinestro points out he was trying to "extricate Batman's head from his body" moments ago. And that's not even getting into the fact that the deaths of Green Arrow, Black Canary, Ganthet, Mogo and countless Green Lanterns are all on him. Sinestro is far from a good person, but he definitely had a point there.
* ManipulativeBastard: He knows about Injustice Superman's fragile mental health and [[SanitySlippage his slow descent into madness]]. He is manipulating his feelings to turning him against the Guardians and the Green Lantern Corps in the prequel comics of Year Two. [[spoiler:He succeeded.]]
** [[spoiler:In Year Two, issue 23, he killed John Stewart, and frames Guy for it, in order to make Hal Jordan kill Guy. It works.]]
* MaskOfSanity: Whenever Sinestro loses his cool, his normally calm, level-headed exterior and talk of creating a world without chaos vanishes as he reveals himself to be a PsychopathicManchild who believes the world revolves around him and is only joining Superman's side to further his vendetta against the Green Lantern Corps.
* NotSoDifferent: With Injustice Superman. He even lampshades this in the issue 5 of the Year Two in the prequel comics.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: While Sinestro claims to only be doing what's necessary to instill order, it falls flat when you see just how much mayhem and carnage he and his corps create and the sadistic glee he feels when doing so.
* PragmaticVillainy: He's got little to no respect for any authority but his own, but as his fascist regime on Korugar is quite similar to the New Regime, he decides that an alliance with them is logical and therefore pursues it anyway.
* ProfessionalButtKisser: Sinestro's one for Superman, constantly deferring to him and inflating his ego, though it's obvious this is just a ruse to use Superman for his own ends.
* TheSociopath: Is clearly one.
** Lack of Empathy? Oh, yes. He doesn't care about the people of Korugar and continues to enslave them. He also didn't care about the well being of a suspected resistance member and continued to torture him just to beat some answers out of him and for sadistic joy. He also ignored Arin's horrified face when he was holding Soranik.
** Consummate Liar and Manipulator? Check. He fooled Hal into believing that Guy Gardner killed John Stewart so that Hal would kill Guy himself. [[spoiler: It worked.]]
** Pathological Need for Stimulation? Fuck yeah. He finds great pleasure and joy in torturing a suspected resistance member and is happy to see some people die. That's messed up in more ways than one.
** Grandiose Sense of Self-Worth? Check. He believes himself to be more righteous than the Guardians and believes that the world revolves around himself.
** Shallow Affect and Complete Lack of Emotional Reciprocity? Oh, yeah. In the end, he only cares about himself and doesn't want to take blame for his atrocious actions. He believes that the exiled government of Korugar killed his wife Arin when it was clear that he drove her to suicide. While it would seem like he cared about his wife and daughter, his sanctimonious and delusional personality makes it clear that if they were still with him, he'd be an abusive husband and father, unlike the Sinestro from the mainstream comics, who was a surprisingly good father and husband.
* TemptingFate: "Not so super, was he?" [[spoiler:Cue Main Universe Superman crushing him in return .]]
* TreacherousAdvisor: Becomes this to Superman during Year 2.
* {{Troll}}: Has a hobby of pissing off his allies with snide remarks and passive-aggressive insults. Sinestro's even provoked both Superman and Hal Jordan into physically attacking him when he pushes the wrong buttons.
* UnreliableNarrator: He relates (in the issue # 7 of Year Two of the prequel comics) to Superman, Flash and Lex Luthor his StartOfDarkness and his fall as the greatest Green Lantern of his time, but unlike Superman, the reader also get to witness both sides of the story. The captions of his dialogue portraying himself as a hero of Korugar and victim of the Green Lantern Corps are often placed over panels revealing the truth, that he was a fanatical dictator who drove his wife to suicide and was rightly stripped of his power ring upon being exposed.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Paints himself as this, and he might genuinely have been one at one point.
* VillainTeamUp: With the New Regime, being a similar government to his own.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Flash]]
!![[Franchise/TheFlash The Flash/Barry Allen]]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/NealMcDonough (English); Daniel del Roble (Latin-American Spanish dub)
[[quoteright:344:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/flash_regime.png]]
[[caption-width-right:344:''I let myself believe we were making things better. But we're not.'']]

* BewareTheSuperman: When with the New Regime. He also seems to acknowledge the existence of this trope more than just about anyone else.
* TheCowl: [[spoiler:As of his ending, he's acting this way in Central City as "the Ghost".]]
* DefectorFromDecadence: [[spoiler:He abandons the New Regime after Superman kills Shazam.]]
* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler:Subverted at the end of the campaign. He ends up under arrest with the rest of his former Regime allies in the ending, although its suggested that he turned himself in willingly. A silent interaction between him and Green Arrow shows that he's at peace with his decision.]]
* EvilCostumeSwitch: Uses a slightly different version of his costume during his time with the Regime.
* EvilTwin: Main Flash did not become evil.
* FlashStep: {{Pun}} aside, he utilizes this while throwing his opponent.
* FragileSpeedster: Averted. Since all of the characters seem to have the same amount of health, the Flash is no more or less fragile than any other character.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:He defects to the Insurgency after Superman murders Shazam for trying to talk him out of a MoralEventHorizon.]]
* HeelRealization: He suffers this after [[spoiler:Superman kills Shazam for trying to reason with him]].
-->'''Flash''': I let myself believe we were making things better. But we're not.
* HighSpeedMissileDodge: The Flash can vibrate fast enough to phase through incoming projectiles.
* MeteorMove: His Supermove involves running around the world really fast, launching his opponent into the air at an arc, and then punching him/her back to where s/he stood before s/he sails away.
* NotWhatISignedUpFor: Said almost verbatim during Story Mode [[spoiler:after watching Superman kill Shazam for calling him out.]]
* RapidFireFisticuffs: His combos usually revolve around pelting the opponent with quick punches. Fitting for a SuperSpeed character and all.
* RedOnesGoFaster: The [[SuperSpeed Fastest Man Alive]] wears a red costume with some small yellow bits. Also the TropeCodifier.
* RoundhouseKick: Used for some of his heavier attacks.
* SuperSpeed: [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer Since it's his one superpower]], he knows how to use it far beyond simply "running fast."
* SixthRanger: [[spoiler:The Flash joins the Insurgency at the tail end of the story, long after the main universe characters have formed an alliance with them.]]
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: With Regime Shazam; they spend most of the game together. [[spoiler:Notably, [[KillTheCutie Shazam's death]] is what finally prompts Barry's HeelRealization and subsequent defection to the Insurgency.]] He also has shades of this with Yellow Lantern.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Along with Shazam within in the Regime. In the prequel comics he was desperately trying to becoming a MoralityChain to Superman [[DoomedByCanon but eventually he failed]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Solomon Grundy]]
!!Solomon Grundy/Cyrus Gold
!!!Voiced by: Fred Tatasciore (English); Enrique Cervantes (Latin-American Spanish dub)
[[quoteright:305:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/regime_solomon_grundy.png]]

* AntiVillain: Most of the time, under Superman's Regime, he seems to just follow orders. See also EvenEvilHasStandards.
* BaldOfEvil: JustifiedTrope. Solomon Grundy's baldness comes from the fact that he's a rotting corpse, which is also why he's a lumbering monster.
-->'''Batman:''' Grundy's a zombie. He'll be fine.
* TheBrute: Serves as this for the Regime, alongside Bane and Doomsday.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:After Superman murders Shazam, Grundy is horrified and depressed.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: There is one time in the story where Grundy averts the NoIndoorVoice trope: right after [[spoiler:regime Shazam's death]].
-->'''Regime Solomon Grundy:''' [[spoiler:Grundy dig hole. Grundy bury.]]
* PetTheDog: [[spoiler:Grundy offers to bury Shazam after hearing about his death.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Nightwing]]
!!ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}/[[spoiler:[[ComicBook/{{Robin}} Damian Wayne]]]]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/NealMcDonough (English); Daniel del Roble (Latin-American Spanish dub)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/regime_nightwing.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''Superman was more of a father than you ever were.'']]

* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: A bird, but less overt then Robin's.
* AntagonisticOffspring: [[spoiler:To Bruce.]]
* AxCrazy: "'''I'll kill ya, [[ComicBook/TheJoker clown boy]]!'''" Also this:
-->'''Insurgency Batman''': Killing me won't help!\\
'''Regime Nightwing''': But it'll [[EvilFeelsGood feel great]]!
* BadassBiker: Not only does he drive into battle on a CoolBike, but it also features into his Supermove.
* BadassNormal: One of the "Gadget" type characters.
* BattleBoomerang: Can throw "Wing-Dings" (bird-themed Batarangs) while jumping.
* BifurcatedWeapon: He can combine his eskrima sticks into a staff.
* BloodKnight: Voices an enjoyment of combat.
* CarFu: He doesn't ram the opponent with his motorcycle, per se, but drive-by gauntlet slashes are pretty darn close.
* CompositeCharacter: [[spoiler:Displays a fusion of Damian's arrogance with Jason Todd's self righteous fury, and also like Jason, becomes an EvilCounterpart to Dick Grayson.]]
* ContinuityNod: Visual example. His alternate costume is strikingly similar to his ComicBook/New52 costume.
* CoolBike: Used in his BattleIntro and his Supermove.
* DarkerAndEdgier: His costume uses [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver black and red]] colors and features him with long hair.
* DominoMask: [[AnimalMotif It's even in the shape of a bird logo]].
* DualWielding: Wields two electrified eskrima sticks that can combine into a not-so-SimpleStaff.
* EvenEvilHasStandards
-->'''Joker''': Poor pathetic boy.\\
'''Regime Nightwing''': Freakin' psycho.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: At some level, he still loves his father, at least in the comic.
* EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler:Is one to Main Universe Damian Wayne and also to both universes' Dick Grayson.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: Played with; [[spoiler:Dick didn't, but [[KlingonPromotion Damian definitely did and has taken the Nightwing mantle.]]]]
* GutturalGrowler: His voice becomes much gruffer whenever he's angry.
* HiddenDepths: [[spoiler:Recent Year 5 comics show that he deeply regrets his unwitting murder of Dick, and he still loves his father and Alfred, but still just as much devoted to Superman's ideas. It's he who gives Catwoman the idea to join Regime to save Bruce from death.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: He's thoroughly obnoxious and arrogant, and many of his Clash Quotes have him taking shots at his opponents, particularly Batman, Deathstroke, and Catwoman where he mocks the latter two being older than him.
* LegacyCharacter: [[spoiler:Damian takes on the Nightwing identity after accidentally killing Dick.]]
* MythologyGag: [[spoiler:Batman was once offered a place in the Sinestro Corps. Here, his son accepts the same offer in his ending.]]
* ObviouslyEvil: [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver The red and black outfit]] plus the AxCrazy and KnightTemplar tendencies make it clear he's a bad guy.
* PetTheDog: He still cares about his father, as it seems that it was he who gave Catwoman the idea to join Regime in order to prevent Bruce's death. He also remains in good relationship with Alfred, as seen in Year 5, #13.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: His costume replaces the usual blue of Nightwing's outfit with red. This is actually similar to his ComicBook/New52 outfit.
* RingOfPower: [[spoiler:Damian is granted one in his ending, when he joins the Sinestro Corps.]]
* ShockAndAwe: His eskrima sticks are electrified, as are his gauntlets in his Supermove.
* SimpleStaff: Subverted on the "simple" aspect, given its capability for ShockAndAwe.
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:In addition to going from Robin to Nightwing, there's also his ending, which sees him becoming part of the Sinestro Corps.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Cyborg]]
!![[ComicBook/{{Cyborg}} Cyborg/Victor Stone]]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/KharyPayton (English); Idzi Dutkiewicz (Latin-American Spanish dub)
[[quoteright:221:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/regime_cyborg.png]]
[[caption-width-right:221:''The boss is bein' generous. I wouldn't.'']]

* ArmCannon: His most common technique beyond his {{Power Fist}}s.
* BaldOfEvil: He's lost his hair since having a FaceHeelTurn.
* {{BFG}}: His Supermove combines his arms into one massive energy blaster.
* BodyHorror: His Regime costume has significantly more jagged-looking implants overall, but what pushes it into this territory is his back, which indents into what looks like an exposed cybernetic spine.
* ChargedAttack: He can charge up his basic arm cannon into a more powerful blast.
--->''(during a Clash)'' "''Here's'' a little something for ya!"
* ColdBloodedTorture: He and Raven inflict this to Deathstroke in an attempt to force him to join the Regime. Ironically, all they accomplish is convincing him to become an ally of the Insurgency.
* {{Cyborg}}: ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, Cyborg
* DarkerAndEdgier: His secondary costume has wires jutting out of his body, a shaved head, and just looks more bulky and intimidating in general, all meant to represent his FaceHeelTurn.
* DuelingHackers: Upon encountering his GoodCounterpart, they try to hack each other's systems before they fight.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He doesn't agree that Superman's [[spoiler:massacre of the Joker Underground]] was a good thing.
* EvilTwin: To Good Cyborg, having wholeheartedly subscribed the Regime's policy after the most of the Teen Titans were killed in the destruction of Metropolis.
* FaceHeelTurn: He joins the Regime, having gone cynical and bitter after the Titans died in the Metropolis incident.
* GlowingMechanicalEyes: His left eye is a [[RedEyesTakeWarning red]] cybernetic prosthetic that emits a [[EnergyWeapon laser]], which is most evident if one subjects him to the bottom-to-top transition on the Fortress of Solitude.
* GrapplingHookPistol: He shoots a grappling hook from his arm for mobility instead of direct damage.
* ICanStillFight: During his defeated pose, Cyborg briefly forms an ArmCannon as he tries to pull himself back up.
* LightIsNotGood: He's still mostly silver and white.
* OldFriend: To Raven, since they were both on the Teen Titans together.
* PowerFists: His heavier attacks greatly increase the size of his arms. The one that starts off his Supermove is as big as ''his entire body''.
* ScaryBlackMan: Let's see... [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eye]], BodyHorror cybernetics, HeWhoFightsMonsters mentality...
* ShockAndAwe: His throws involve a giant electric clamp that binds the enemy around the waist (or [[GroinAttack the groin]] with big foes like Grundy).
* ShutUpKirk: In a Clash with [[MirrorMatch his good version]].
-->'''Good Cyborg''': [[KnightTemplar You're on the wrong side of this!]]\\
'''Regime Cyborg''': [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids Keep thinking that.]]
* SuperStrength: His cybernetic enhancements grant him a significant amount of strength.
* SwissArmyAppendage: With serious {{telescoping|Robot}} properties.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Superman. {{Deconstructed|Trope}} though because it causes him to have a FaceHeelTurn as well.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Catwoman]]
!![[ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} Catwoman/Selina Kyle]]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/GreyDeLisle (English); Creator/CristinaHernandez (Latin-American Spanish dub)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/regime_catwoman_8.jpg]]

* AdaptationalVillainy: Though her normal version isn't exactly a hero, she still has AntiHero moments, whereas this one sides with [[EvilOverlord Superman]] to try to make sure Batman isn't hurt, and turns against Batman completely when he rejects her offer to leave the city with her for good.
* AnimalMotifs: Cats, unsurprisingly.
* BadassNormal: One of the "Gadget" type characters.
* BattleCouple: She wants desperately to be this with Batman, but he refuses to associate with her after she joins the Regime.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Her Classic Battle ending. Superman is defeated, but her pride keeps her from trying to make amends with Batman. However, inspired by his reconstructive efforts, she dedicates herself to helping defend the streets until she and Batman are ready to speak again.]]
* CatGirl: Or "Woman," as the case may be. She's of the "cat-themed suit" variety.
* ChristmasCake: Regime Nightwing invokes this in his Clash System quote when he calls her an "old lady".
* CrazyPrepared: In the comics it's revealed that she had kryptonite earrings and sound dampeners in her suit so Superman couldn't hear her heartbeat.
* DarkActionGirl: [[AdaptationalVillainy Even moreso than in general]] after joining up with a dictatorship.
* DatingCatwoman: She tries desperately to invoke this, but thanks to her AdaptationalVillainy Batman's not having any of it.
* DespairEventHorizon: After many deaths and failures of Insurgency, she realizes they are fighting a losing war and joins the Regime.
* FemmeFatale: It helps her when dealing with people like Batman and Main Cyborg, who she tricks into blowing his cover by alluding to a romantic history with Injustice Cyborg that never happened.
* GenreBlindness: [[spoiler:She genuinely believes that Batman would agree with her offer of leaving with her and abandoning the fight with Superman.]]
* GogglesDoNothing: At the very least, they seem to play no role in combat.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: She's initially with the Insurgency, than with the Regime, and then in her ending [[spoiler:becomes an AntiHero again.]]
* KnightTemplar: Subverted. She's with the Regime but still doesn't have the mindset of this trope.
* LaResistance: She joins Batman's resistance but it doesn't last. By the time the game begins, she is a member of the Regime.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Also [[LoveMakesYouCrazy makes you crazy]]: She apparently joins the Regime because [[spoiler:she doesn't want Batman hurt, believing this will somehow let them live peacefully together. She ultimately fulfills her Regime obligations to fight him purely out of spite for his completely understandable rejection.]]
* LeotardOfPower: She wears this with pants underneath, resulting in just a sliver of skin at her hips.
* {{Pride}}: [[spoiler:It keeps her from apologizing to Batman right away in her ending. She's overcome this between this game and the sequel.]]
* PurpleIsPowerful: Her Regime costume is lavender-colored.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:She quits the Insurgency after repeated failures and Superman unleashing SerialEscalation each time. She sees it as a losing fight and quits]].
* SensualSpandex: As if her cat motif wasn't strong enough, she wears a SpyCatsuit.
* ShipTease: [[spoiler:She pretends to be in a relationship with Main Universe Cyborg to trick him into revealing his true identity. Their interactions imply that Injustice Selena and Victor actually hate each other.]]
* VillainessesWantHeroes: Her attraction to Batman has become this due to her AdaptationalVillainy
* WhipItGood: Her tail can be detached to use as such.
* WolverineClaws: She has metallic cat claws attached to each finger of her gloves.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Bane]]
!!ComicBook/{{Bane}}
%%Bane does not have a real name in official DC Comics canon. Please do not list one here. "Eduardo Dorrance" is a name exclusive to ''Series/{{Gotham}}''.
!!!Voiced by: Creator/FredTatasciore (English); Enrique Cervantes (Latin-American Spanish dub)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/regime_bane.png]]

* {{BFG}}: He uses a machine gun to attack Wonder Woman. It fails, so he resorts to a good old fist fight.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: He is not a voluntary member of the Regime. The sequel further establishes this by having him oppose Superman's forces and act viciously towards both Catwoman and Cyborg.
* ChainedByFashion: His Regime costume features restraints with broken links.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: {{Subverted|Trope}}. He does change his costume when with the Regime, but he was always a bad guy.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Inverted. [[spoiler:When he confronts Wonder Woman with a rifle, he's accurate to the point of ineffectiveness, maintaining suppression fire directly into her completely static, bulletproof bracer defense.]]
* InstitutionalApparel: Wears orange prison pants with his secondary costume.
* MaskedLuchador: His appearance and moveset are based on one. He also loves peppering his speeches with GratuitousSpanish.
* SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset: The mask for his secondary costume resembles a skull.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Shazam]]
!![[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Shazam/Billy Batson]]
!!!Voiced by: Joey Naber (English); Creator/JoseGilbertoVilchis (Latin-American Spanish dub)
[[quoteright:319:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/regime_shazam.png]]
[[caption-width-right:319:''It made sense at first... bad people got what they deserved. But now, it's going too far.'']]

* AdaptationalWimp: Shazam in the comics is one of, if not '''the''' most powerful character in DC, and has been confirmed on multiple occasions to be more powerful than Superman. Here, his Regime counterpart gets his ass handed to him by Aquaman, Deathstroke, and Lex Luthor.
* BadassCape: More like a Badass Cloak, but same principle.
* BlackCloak: Instead of a white hoodie, Shazam instead has a black cape and hood to reflect his loyalty to the Regime.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Regime Superman starts off by choking him. When Shazam attempts to counter by summoning his magic lightning with "Shazam!", Superman cuts him off by freezing his mouth and throat shut. Then Superman uses his heat vision to roast through Shazam's skull to the other side]].
* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:He saves Superman from being incapacitated by Lex Luthor, who just told him that "no good comes from hero worship." Superman murders him soon afterwards after Shazam tries to talk him out of a MoralEventHorizon.]]
* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler:Superman gives the teenager HeatVision to the eyes so hard that he stains the back of his hood. Grundy sadly volunteers to dig him a grave.]]
* EvilCostumeSwitch: After joining the New Regime he gets a new outfit that notably features a BlackCloak.
* EvilTwin: Main Shazam never became evil.
* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Superman kills him by shooting HeatVision directly into his eyes.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: Joins the New Regime at some point, serving as an emissary to the subjugated Atlantis alongside a pre-HeelFaceTurn Flash.
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler:When he tries to convince Superman that he's going too far, Superman [[ShutUpKirk freezes his mouth shut]] and applies HeatVision to his eyes lethally.]]
* HeelRealization: [[spoiler:During Superman's VillainousBreakdown but unfortunately it gets him killed.]]
* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler:By far the nicest member of the New Regime, he's the only one who is killed.]]
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Apparently has no problem with this, given that he said that the New Regime made sense to him initially when it was just giving the bad guys what they deserved. It was only after the Regime started to fully embrace their KnightTemplar ideologies that he cried foul.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: His New Regime outfit adds a BlackCloak to his usual red outfit, as well as black gloves and boots.
* SuddenPrincipledStand: [[spoiler:After Superman decides to raze down both Metropolis and Gotham, Shazam sees this as crossing the MoralEventHorizon. Shazam then tries to convince Superman to not go through, but Superman crosses the MoralEventHorizon earlier by callously murdering Billy. His death, however, makes him a martyr as Flash decides to also take a SuddenPrincipledStand against the Regime before defecting to the Insurgency.]]
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: With Regime Flash, they spend most of the game together. [[spoiler:His death is what causes Flash to finally quit the Regime.]]
* TokenGoodTeammate: Along with The Flash to the Regime, as its clear that he's with it because he genuinely believes there doing the right thing, and even then is the only one who openly questions whether or not the Regime is right anymore, remembering how Superman [[spoiler:killed Green Arrow]]. He ultimately [[spoiler:tries to point out to the other Regime members how they've [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope jumped off the slippery slope]] but Superman kills him.]]
* UndyingLoyalty: To Superman which is what causes his FaceHeelTurn at least until he starts to question the Regime's actions.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: He's willing to subjugate Atlantis and stand by as Superman devastates the planet in the name of truth, justice, and the American Way.
* WhatTheHellHero: He tries to do this during [[spoiler:Superman's Villainous Breakdown and it gets him killed.]]
* WideEyedIdealist: As usual. Horribly [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] though, because his idealism and naive belief that Superman is right by virtue of being Superman allow him to become a mindless follower of the New Regime. [[LampshadeHanging Luthor even calls him out on this]], saying that no good comes from blind hero worship. Indeed, [[spoiler:Superman ultimately [[MoralEventHorizon kills Shazam]] [[WhatTheHellHero when he calls Superman out on]] [[FallenHero how far he's fallen]].]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Aquaman]]
!![[ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} Aquaman/Arthur Curry]]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/PhilLaMarr (English); Creator/GerardoReyero (Latin-American Spanish dub)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/regime_aquaman_5.png]]

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: King of Atlantis, lord over all oceans, and controls all life that dwells within. Since he's from Atlantis, he has all the physical resistances you'd expect from living at the sea floor.
* BeardOfEvil: This version of Aquaman eventually grows one.
* BullyingADragon: To ''Superman'' in the prequel comic. Batman even calls him an idiot.
* TheCavalry: [[spoiler:A rare villainous example. He leads an army of Atlanteans against the Insurgency forces, but Wonder Woman arrives with an Amazon army to head him off.]]
* EvilTwin: He is not as evil as you would think, but is more misanthropic than Main Aquaman.
* FaceHeelTurn: And his heroic alternate self [[WhatTheHellHero is unimpressed]].
* TheGoodKing: He considers himself this, but the heroic version just views him as [[StupidSurrender craven]].
-->'''Regime Aquaman''': What would you have me do?
-->'''Heroic Aquaman''': Yield! [[TakeThat It's what you do!]]
* HalfHumanHybrid: Atlanteans are humans with a handful of fish-like qualities like breathing water and surviving oceanic pressure.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: He very briefly takes on this mentality in the prequel comic when he and his people start attacking whalers.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Controlling sea life is lame? The Kraken begs to differ.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: He tries to justify himself this way, but his heroic counterpart isn't buying it. However, after Superman demonstrates he can deposit his kingdom in the Sahara, he has a point.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: His Supermove has him skewer his opponent on the trident and hoist him/her upwards to use as chum for a ThreateningShark.
* KickTheDog: His attacks on whalers in the prequel comic.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Why he yielded to the New Regime in the first place.
* MakingASplash: As one might expect, the King of Atlantis uses a lot of water-based magic. He can teleport sections of his trident through small pools, he can create a temporary wave-like shield, and his Supermove involves flooding the arena so a ThreateningShark can join the fray.
* MisanthropeSupreme: Despite his begrudged servitude to the Regime, the Earth One Aquaman seems to hold humanity in greater contempt than his more (heroic main Aquaman counterpart) does. Many of his Vs. battle quotes and actions taken within the comic suggests he was never as patient with mankind nor their many transgressions against his kingdom.
* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler:In his ending, he responds to the fall of One Earth's Regime by consolidating control over the oceans, and then the surface into a similar United Earth. Unlike Superman though, he achieves this through peaceful means, by convincing the other governments to willingly support him through strong political and economically beneficial opportunities.]]
* PayEvilUntoEvil: He and his Atlanteans attack whalers in the prequel comic, intending to kill them for their butchering of whales.
* PetTheDog: He asks Wonder Woman to tell Superman that he's sorry about Lois.
* ProngsOfPoseidon: Wields his iconic trident.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Too bad it's nothing good.
* ShockAndAwe: He can channel electricity through his trident during his throw, while he has his opponent pinned to the floor.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: He doesn't simply ''speak'' to fish; he implants his will into their minds.
* ThreateningShark: His BattleIntro features him swimming alongside an entourage of extremely big sharks with even larger teeth. His Supermove lets him flood the arena to feed his opponent to one.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hawkgirl]]
!![[ComicBook/{{Hawkman}} Hawkgirl/Shiera Hall]]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/JenniferHale (English); Erica Edwards (Latin-American Spanish dub)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/regime_hawkgirl.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''I'm gonna enjoy handing you to Superman.'']]

* AnimalMotif: In case her name wasn't a giveaway, a hawk.
* BadassInDistress: The Insurgency kidnaps her for a week, then has her replaced by Martian Manhunter to spy on the Regime.
%%* BareYourMidriff: With her primary costume.
* BloodKnight: Retains this aspect from her heroic counterpart. Of course, the fact she is a villainess makes it a thousand times worse.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:According to her Classic Battle ending, this was the only thing keeping Hawkgirl loyal to Superman, as Hawkman was murdered by him.]]
* CoolMask: Designed to enforce the [[AnimalMotif hawk motif]]. Unlike her primary costume, her costume here has it be more like a mask.
* ChromeChampion: In her ending, she gets covered by Nth metal, turning her into one of these.
* DarkActionGirl: She's every bit the BloodKnight her main counterpart is, but is not nearly as heroic.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: Like other members of the New Regime, she changes to her secondary costume after joining them.
* EvilTwin: To Main Hawkgirl, who is still good.
* {{Expy}}: Of [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice Lords]] Hawkgirl.
* FallenHero: Was first shown in Aquaman's debut trailer to be among the Regime forces.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: She's always been a bit more prone to violence than the average hero, but now she's really [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope jumped off the slippery slope]].
* {{Flight}}: By way of artificial [[{{Unobtainium}} Nth metal]] wings. By flapping them, they also allow her to remain in the air after a jump.
* ImpossiblyLowNeckline: A feature of her Regime costume.
* MeteorMove: Her Supermove has her yank her opponent into the air, let him or her go, and fly by for two solid mace whacks to the head.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: She's a Thanagarian, a HumanAlien race that are prone to waging war and are also usually fairly arrogant to boot.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Is about set to go on one after her [[ChromeChampion upgrade]] in her ending.
* RedemptionRejection
-->'''Lex Luthor''': I'm giving you a chance. [[TechnicalPacifist End this without further bloodshed.]]
-->'''Hawkgirl''': [[BloodKnight Too late.]]
* SuperStrength: Her Nth Metal harness and Thanagarian physiology both afford her an enhanced level of strength.
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: She is able to lob her mace at her opponent.
* WidowWoman: [[spoiler:According to her Classic Battle ending, Superman had her husband Hawkman captured and murdered.]]
* WingedHumanoid: Though they aren't biological; despite their organic appearance, they are made out of [[{{Unobtainium}} Nth metal]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Doomsday]]
!![[ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman Doomsday]]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/KharyPayton (English); Idzi Dutkiewicz (Latin-American Spanish dub)
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[[caption-width-right:350:''I live to kill you!'']]

* TheBrute: Serves as the Regime's ultimate weapon, being unleashed on Metropolis at the climax of the game in an effort to remind the world of what is going to happen to those who oppose Superman.
* DelinquentHair: Sports a crystalline mohawk.
* SealedEvilInACan: Near the end of the Story Mode, after he got the living crap beaten out of him by Good Superman in their final fight, Supes picks him up and throws him into the portal that leads directly into the Phantom Zone.
* SlaveCollar: Regime Superman controls his world's Doomsday by subjecting him to a collar that overrides the monster's will.
* SlaveMooks: Doomsday doesn't work with the Regime voluntarily, only obeying them thanks to a SlaveCollar.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Raven]]
!![[ComicBook/{{Raven}} Raven/Rachel Roth]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/regime_raven.png]]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/TaraStrong (English); Karla Falcón (Latin-American Spanish dub)
[[caption-width-right:350:''Superman's victory will hasten my father's return. And all shall bow before him.'']]

* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Her skin is red, further emphasizing she has fully succumbed to Trigon's influence.
* AnimalMotif: Which is further emphasized by her BattleIntro (which has her entering in the form of a large spectral raven) and her ranged attacks, which are in the form of ravens.
* BadPowersBadPeople: Her powers are demonic in nature, and she uses them to further her goal of unleashing Trigon upon the world.
* ColdBloodedTorture: She is shown torturing Deathstroke with dark energy when she is first introduced.
* DaddysLittleVillain: [[spoiler:This version of Raven willingly serves her father Trigon, and is only allied to Superman so they can be together again. The prequel comics also generally imply they were much closer even before her FaceHeelTurn.]]
* DarkIsEvil: Regime Raven can perform black magic thanks to her demonic heritage, but, in contrast to her usual DarkIsNotEvil self, she has completely given in to Trigon's influence and actively seeks to unleash him on Earth.
* DarkActionGirl: Since giving into her father's DemonicPossession in full, her dark powers have become all the more dangerous.
* DemonicPossession:She is now permanently stuck in her demon form.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: Only following Superman until her father is strong enough to take over.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: When with the Regime, she takes on a slightly different outfit and also succumbs to her father's DemonicPossession again, making her skin red. Mainstream Wonder Woman even {{lampshades}} it.
* FemmeFatalons: She has some Catwoman-esque claws with her primary outfit, though only for the first few fingers.
* {{Flight}}: Like with many flying characters, [[PowerFloats she has a hovering default stance]].
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Her SuperpoweredEvilSide makes them glow yellow and grants her two ExtraEyes.
* HalfHumanHybrid: She's the half-human daughter of [[BigRedDevil Trigon the Terrible]].
%%* InTheHood: As part of her BlackCloak.
* LadyOfBlackMagic: Her demonic blood grants her powerful magic.
* OldFriend: To Cyborg, as the two were both Titans before joining the Regime. Both are introduced in the same cutscene, torturing their longtime nemesis, Deathstroke.
* PeoplePuppets: She is capable of controlling other people's actions via telekinesis, forcing Green Arrow to fight Insurgency Batman on her behalf.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Her Regime outfit plays with this. While her skin turns a reddish color, her already black clothing takes a slight purplish glow/tint.
* TheStoic: She tends to not be a very sunny or outgoing person, and often comes off as very brooding.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: She retains regular Raven's special ability to temporarily give in to Trigon's influence, turning her skin red, tinting her clothing purple, giving her four GlowingEyesOfDoom, and amplifying her demonic powers, with the difference that she seems to be permanently stuck in it.
* TeleportersAndTransporters: She has the ability to teleport, and her Supermove involves sending her opponent into the demonic dimension that her father resides in.
* TractorBeam: Her magic frequently manifests itself this way, and she usually follows up by harming her opponent while they're immobilized.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: Her voice has a noticeable echo to it, which may be a side effect of Trigon's [[DemonicPossession influence]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Raven vanishes after being defeated in Wonder Woman's chapter, and is not seen being imprisoned along with the other members of the Regime in the game's final cutscene.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Black Adam]]
!!ComicBook/BlackAdam/[[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Teth-Adam]]
!!!Voiced by: Joey Naber (English); Creator/RicardoTejedo (Latin-American Spanish dub)
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[[caption-width-right:220:''Superman modeled his government after mine. We allow no insurrection.'']]


* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: He claims that his method of ruling Khandaq influenced the way Regime Superman runs things.
* BadassCape: Sports a "tail cape".
* BaldOfEvil: He is bald (unlike his main counterpart) and has been a villain for a long time.
* ChestInsignia: Connected to his tail cape and off to the side.
* HarmlessFreezing: [[spoiler:Gets subjected to it by Superman near the end of the game. Unlike the other villains, his fate is never expounded on.]]
* HeroKiller: A non-lethal variant. In Green Arrow's chapter, he knocks out Aquaman with little effort and proceeds to incapacitate Wonder Woman, Green Lantern and Batman with lightning strikes, with only Green Arrow left to fight him.
* KnifeNut: His outfit has a holstered knife, but it's likely ceremonial in nature.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Surprisingly and coincidentally, because of his design as well as the technicalities of the game's graphics, Regime Black Adam bears a passing resemblance to Wrestling/DwayneJohnson.
* SadisticChoice: [[spoiler:How he joined the Regime. If he didn't, Superman would destroy Kahndaq, Black Adam's country.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Killer Frost]]
!![[ComicBook/{{Firestorm}} Killer Frost/Louise Lincoln]]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/JenniferHale (English); Jessica Ortiz (Latin-American Spanish dub)
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* DelinquentHair: Even more so than her mainstream counterpart, sporting a mohawk.
-->'''Cyborg''': [[YouFightLikeACow Nice hair. Lose a bet?]]
* HarmlessFreezing: Subjects Wonder Woman to this in Green Arrow's chapter. It doesn't last, as Green Arrow breaks the ice.
%%* LeotardOfPower
%%* {{Stripperiffic}}
[[/folder]]

!!Insurgency
[[folder:Batman]]
!![[Franchise/{{Batman}} Batman/Bruce Wayne]]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/KevinConroy (English); Sergio Gutiérrez Coto (Latin-American Spanish dub)
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[[caption-width-right:350:''We have hidden in the shadows long enough. We must stand up to this regime, once and for all.'']]

* ActionDad: Robin isn't just his protegee, but also his biological son. [[spoiler:Sadly though, he disowns him.]]
* AnimalMotif: Bats, as you might assume.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: [[spoiler:Defied. In the ending, it's mentioned that Batman has been offered a place in politics for helping to get rid of KnightTemplar Superman, but Batman declines, saying that he doesn't belong in politics.]]
* BadassBaritone: As per having his [[Creator/KevinConroy traditional voice actor.]]
* BadassCape: it's integrated into a parry move.
* BadassNormal: One of the "Gadget" type characters.
* BadassTeacher: Formerly to Robin and Nightwing.
* BattleBoomerang: Utilizes his traditional Batarangs.
* BattleCouple: Briefly with Catwoman.
* BigGood: He's leading [[LaResistance the resistance]] to stop Superman's reign of terror.
* CarFu: His Supermove involves keeping his opponent stunned until the Batmobile runs them over.
* CrazyPrepared: He makes this trope an art form. To give a specific example for ''this'' Batman: [[spoiler:He hid an anti-Superman weapon in the walls of the Batcave, disguised as a regular rock, filled the walls with lead so Superman could never see it and, to make sure he didn't do it on a whim, locked it with the biosigns of Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Aquaman, Green Arrow and himself as the key.]] The last part backfired somewhat when [[spoiler:Superman killed Green Arrow and the others joined him in his tyranny, so he had to get get their alternate universe counterparts to assist.]]
* DarkIsNotEvil: He's a scary guy, no question, but he's working to topple Superman's Regime.
* DatingCatwoman: Implied to have happened for a time, but following Catwoman's joining the Regime, he gives up on her.
* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler:Made a deal with Etrigan in order to get close enough to Clark and put him in a LotusEaterMachine in the Year Three Prequel Comics.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:He almost crosses this, but his alternate self pulls him back from it.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: In the Arcade ending, [[spoiler:he finds out Luthor left all his wealth to Bruce Wayne before his untimely death. Bruce's renewed fortune allows him to rebuild Gotham and Metropolis and re-establish Batman as a successful force of justice and harmony.]]
* EnemyMine: With Deathstroke and Harley Quinn, though the latter is in the process of a HeelFaceTurn.
* {{Expy}}: Of Batman from ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'', being a Batman living in a CrapsackWorld who alongside Green Arrow opposes an oppressive version of Superman and leads a resistance. His armor also gives him a little more bulk than the main universe Batman.
* TheFettered: To Superman and Wonder Woman's [[TheUnfettered Unfettered]] after their FaceHeelTurn.
* GeneralFailure: The comics show him repeatedly failing in nearly every fight with the Regime, unrealistically insisting on a "no-kill" rule against supers who can and will kill. He's also incapable of coming up with solutions against threats that only Superman can tackle (Darkseid, the Greek Gods etc.) and by the start of Year Five, Catwoman tells him straight up that he can't beat Superman no matter how hard he tries. By the time of the game, he's forced to teleport heroic versions of his fallen companions to his world, just to finally turn the tide of the war in his favor.
* GoodAngelBadAngel: The good angel to Injustice Superman. He eventually loses.
* GrapplingHookPistol: Used for several moves, like [[ImprovisedZipline zipline]] [[YouWillNotEvadeMe kicks]] or slamming an airborne foe into the ground.
* TheHero: Alongside with the main universe Batman, he is this [[spoiler:until the main universe Superman comes taking the call.]]
* HeroWithBadPublicity: In what appears to be Gotham, a blimp has "Batman Wanted" written across it. The story trailer confirms that after the New Regime shows up, he becomes a wanted man.
* {{Hypocrite}}: A few painful forms of it.
** His conviction to his ThouShaltNotKill rule is justifiable, but apparently it's only personally killing people that he objects to; letting super-villains who gladly kill people ForTheEvulz go after you catch them is, apparently, an acceptable act.
-->'''Batman:''' You killed a man, Clark.\\
'''Superman:''' I did! And every time you let that madman live, [[ArmorPiercingQuestion how many more did you condemn?]]
** He expects the Insurgency to [[TakeOurWordForIt blindly follow his every word]], yet refuses to trust them in return, even with his secret identity, which is noted by Huntress. He even deliberately withholds information from them, having not told them that their plan to target Hawkgirl was a ploy to plant Martian Manhunter among the ranks of Superman's followers.
* IconOfRebellion[=/=]RebelLeader: He leads a resistance against the New Regime led by Superman and Wonder Woman.
-->'''Lex Luthor:''' Batman is the face of the Insurgency. [[WeCannotGoOnWithoutYou If he dies, it dies with him.]]
* IHaveNoSon: [[spoiler:His attitude towards Damian after Dick Grayson's death.]]
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Despite his rough and dark exterior, he is this. Unfortunately, once the Joker caught onto this, he changed enemies and forced Superman to have a FaceHeelTurn. Superman's main reason for hating Batman is that [[spoiler:he didn't kill Joker years before he decided to target Lois and drive him crazy. In Superman's mind, Batman was enabling Joker by making a show of resisting Joker's attempt to taunt him to break his one rule]].
* KnightInSourArmor: This Batman has [[spoiler:lost one son to the hands of another, been betrayed by a misguided love interest]], and seen his best friend morph into the BigBad and corrupt the rest of his associates or [[spoiler:kill them]]. He's also cynical and hopeless enough to show a profound lack of faith in [[spoiler:any Superman besides his own]]. However, all the above doesn't stop him from fighting the good fight and holding to his code.
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:"We Are Batman", especially after he learns to trust people again.]]
* MechaMooks: His special ability is to summon robotic bats, helping in ways like a [[SpinToDeflectStuff spinning barrier]] or as homing projectiles.
* TheMentor: To Robin and before him Nightwing.
* MoralityChain: Desperately tries to be this to Superman after his FaceHeelTurn, but he's not too successful.
* MoralityPet: In a twisted way, he ''still'' is this to Regime Superman. He seems being the only person that Superman still treats as his equal. It's also implied that he is able to hurt him, but unable to kill him.
* NotSoStoic: His reaction when [[spoiler:Superman [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope kills the Joker.]]]] Also when he has to spell it out for the president that he's being TooDumbToLive concerning his way of dealing with Superman's FaceHeelTurn.
--->'''Batman''': The police won't think to look for your body on Saturn!
* OffscreenTeleportation: His BattleIntro has his entry hidden by a swarm of bats, and his victory cutscene hides his actual exit with a swish of his cape.
* OldFriend: Not only was he still friends with Superman in this continuity, but [[spoiler:Superman apparently wanted Batman to be his son's godfather before ComicBook/TheJoker ruined his life]].
* OnlySaneMan: [[CrazyPrepared He has a tendency to be the smartest guy in the room.]]
* ParentalSubstitute: To Nightwing, being the one who raised him after his parent's deaths. [[spoiler:He even says that Nightwing was a son to him.]]
* PerpetualFrowner: Not that he's got much to be happy about, mind you.
* ShockAndAwe: He tasers his opponent during his Supermove.
* ShutUpHannibal: In his Clash quotes with Regime Superman:
-->'''Regime Superman''': The Insurgency dies with you!
-->'''Insurgency Batman''': [[TheDeterminator If you can kill me!]]
** And...
-->'''Regime Superman''': You'll regret the day you--
-->'''Insurgency Batman''': Just shut up and fight!
** [[RuleOfThree And...]]
-->'''Regime Superman''': You disappoint me, Bruce.
-->'''Insurgency Batman''': [[TakeThat 'Cause I'm not a killer?]]
* SilentScapegoat: Superman feels that Batman should have been this for the superhuman community. [[spoiler:In Injustice Year Three 13-14, he imagines a world where Joker's attack failed and Batman later killed Joker and turned himself in, and so prevented Superman from killing Joker. The fact that Superman can't imagine himself doing time for his murder and taking responsibility for his actions, even in his fantasy, shows the ultimate difference between Injustice Supes and Injustice Bats.]]
* TheStoic: Very grim, brooding, and humorless, but given his past and chosen career, it's not surprising.
* SuperheroesWearCapes: One of the {{Trope Codifier}}s.
* ThouShaltNotKill: His golden rule. Tragically, he becomes one of the only superheroes who maintains this when things go to hell.
** Also a {{deconstruction}} in this game and the [[VideoGame/Injustice2 sequel]]. Firstly, he never finds any other way to solve Joker's KarmaHoudini problem, which backfires horribly; he insists on applying this even in such fights where he's completely outclassed (Apokoliptians, Superman, etc.), even prompting Huntress to ask him out whether Clark's killing parademons and saving Earth (and saving Oliver and Dinah) is a bad thing.
* TragicHero: Despite his meanness and hypocrisy, he's the one of the only heroes, who survived. And he constantly fails to stop the Regime, ending in constant losing friends. Even Catwoman deserted him.
* UngratefulBastard: Treats Superman killing all the Parademons attacking Earth as an in-universe MoralEventHorizon crossing — even though not only did Superman save the world by doing so, but Batman and his team reaped the benefits of it as well, as they were on the verge of being killed by those same Parademons. Huntress calls him out on this.
-->'''Huntress:''' Go on. Tell Green Arrow and Black Canary why their being alive offends you.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Batman and Superman were best of friends, but once the Regime started, they became worst enemies in a global war.
* WhatTheHellHero: He tries this after Superman [[PayEvilUntoEvil kills the Joker]], but Superman won't have any of it.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: In a way. He tells Superman that had he experienced everything he had he probably would have ended up becoming a KnightTemplar too, when in fact he has IncorruptiblePurePureness that he doesn't seem to recognize. This is shown because in fact Batman ''does'' experience a loss similar to Supermans when [[spoiler:Damian accidentally kills Dick Grayson in the process.]] And yet Batman does not succumb the way Superman did.
** He also tries to convince Superman to not go down the road he's currently going by saying that while Batman might've gone down that path if he was inflicted by such a tragic loss as what Superman experienced, Superman shouldn't because he's supposed to be the better man. [[FallenHero He fails.]]
-->'''Insurgency Batman:''' Crime took my family too, Clark.\\
'''Regime Superman:''' But ''you'' weren't the gun.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Harley Quinn]]
!![[ComicBook/HarleyQuinn Harley Quinn/Harleen Quinzel]]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/TaraStrong (English); Karla Falcón (Latin-American Spanish dub)
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/insurgency_harley_quinn.png]]
[[caption-width-right:200:''Ooh, I love a good mission.'']]

* AdaptationalSkimpiness: Up top, she only wears a jacket that's too short for her and a shirt that only covers her breasts.
* AffablyEvil: She's actually a rather pleasant, fun-loving person. She has quite a nice conversation with Green Arrow. After she just hijacked a cop car and attempted to kill him twice.
* BadassNormal: One of the "Gadget" type characters.
* BaddieFlattery: She thought that Green Arrow using an arrow to jam her gun was cool. Heck, she even asked him to do it again.
* BareYourMidriff: Her Insurgency outfit.
* BloodSplatteredWeddingDress: [[spoiler:In her Classic Battle ending, she rescues the alternate universe Joker from prison and returns to the Regime world to be wedded. However, she [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal snaps during the cake cutting ceremony and kills the Joker]] via SlashedThroat. She is then imprisoned in Arkham Asylum, still wearing her wedding dress.]]
* BoomHeadshot: Her Insurgency costume in the iOS game has the move "Line Of Fire" where she does this with both her pistols.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: She comes off as incredibly ditzy, goofy, and outright insane. She'll crack jokes and witty remarks at god-like beings and is unable to be intimidated at all. Among other things she tries to convince her world's Batman that they should let the Joker work with them... seeming to forget that Joker is Batman's ArchEnemy, not to mention that his counterpart was the ''cause'' of the Regime being formed in the first place.
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: [[spoiler: When Black Canary gives birth, Harley showers them with gifts, one of which is a ''dog muzzle''. Black Canary is both confused and shocked by this until Harley explains herself. Black Canary has a sonar scream and if the baby inherits that power...]]
* TheDogBitesBack: She's pretty much had enough of all of the crap the Joker's put her through. [[spoiler:When she sees alternate Joker, she's not happy. Unfortunately, she's unable to stop herself from falling for his charms again, but she realizes she shouldn't be doing so and ultimately throws him off completely - nearly killing him in the process.]] In her Classic Ending, [[spoiler:she tries to marry him, but then totally snaps and kills him for real in response to his abuse.]]
-->'''Harley:''' I don't know who this "Joker" is, but if he thinks things are gonna go back to the way they were... the joke's on him!
* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:Subverted. She's gone more or less heroic since the Joker's death, and goes against him for good after he outright tries to murder her for not managing to steal Lex Luthor's PoweredArmor.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:Nightwing's death, shockingly, did ''NOT'' sit well with her.]]
** It's hinted in the comics that [[spoiler:she probably wouldn't have helped the Joker had she known Lois was pregnant, having been pregnant herself]]. Heck, as much as she loves the Joker [[spoiler:she knew he'd be a horrible father. Harley never told him she was pregnant and hid her daughter with her (Harley's) sister in the Midwest]].
** Also in the comics she seen with a group of rebels who invoke the Joker's name in their struggle. Batwoman arrives to defuse the situation before the rebels do something stupid and Harley helps her, saying she was only there to "keep an eye on them". The leader agrees to disarm and abandon the Joker [[spoiler:and then Superman shows up, they cheer the Joker's name, and Superman ''fries them alive'']].
* FightingClown: Literally too! Her Supermove involves her placing an exploding pie under the opponent's feet.
* GeniusDitz: In the comics she successfully psychoanalyzes ''Lobo'' into letting her go (after he's KO'd via decapitation and tied up by Green Arrow and Black Canary) by getting him to admit that Superman made him feel emasculated and then reminding him that he's still [[CatchPhrase "the main man"]] and doesn't have to follow Superman's orders, especially not for a small fry like her. She ''is'' a doctor, after all.
* GenkiGirl: Par for the course for Harley.
* GoodFeelsGood: In her ending during ''Injustice 2'' she states this line near word-for-word.
* GunsAkimbo: Her primary weapons are a pair of small pistols that she's almost constantly holding. She can also use them for PistolWhipping.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: [[spoiler:She pulls one after The Joker's death, then falls back into MadLove soon after the alternate universe Joker arrives, then reverts back to being a hero after the Joker nearly executes her for failing to defeat Lex Luthor, with Luthor saving her and [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim stopping her from killing him back]].]]
** [[spoiler:In her Classic Battle ending, she once again succumbs to MadLove, travels to the heroic universe, frees the Joker, and travels back to her own universe to wed him. [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal She snaps during the cake-cutting ceremony, however, killing the Joker]] and gets consigned to Arkham Asylum.]]
* HyperspaceMallet: Whereas most characters have their weapons on their person or in a utility belt, Harley's mallet (which is at least as big as her torso) is conspicuously absent from her character model, appearing out of nowhere when used.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Objecting to Superman killing innocent people would be a plenty reasonable thing to do... from someone who had not committed and been party to her own share of innocent deaths as the Joker's sidekick. Not to mention that she was helping the Joker when he tricked Superman into killing Lois Lane and nuking Metropolis, as Shazam points out, so Superman's new innocent-killing tendencies are partially on her head.
* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: [[spoiler:Lex Luthor convinces Harley to spare the Joker after he turns on her, helping her return to the heroic path.]]
* InsaneTrollLogic: Once the Flash is captured by the Regime, she is put in charge of reforming him... so she decides to use electro-shock therapy and puppets.
* {{Joisey}}: Comically, the accent is only pronounced when she's crushing on the Joker.
* KarmaHoudini: HeelFaceTurn or no HeelFaceTurn, she still took part in Joker's destruction of Metropolis and never answered for it.
* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: Literally does this to a defeated opponent.
* MadeOfExplodium: Has explosive cupcakes in her arsenal and her Supermove is a pie bomb.
* MadLove: Harley's standard relationship with the Joker and her main problem. It's shown that without his influence, she's able to pull HeelFaceTurn. [[spoiler:Her Insurgency self relapses into this after the alternate Joker arrives, but snaps out of it thanks to Lex Luthor.]]
* MissingMom: The comics reveal [[spoiler:the Joker got her pregnant. She disappeared for almost a year and the Joker apparently didn't notice — "funny joke, huh?" — and she gave birth to a daughter whom she gave to her sister.]]
* MonsterClown: Not so much in appearance, but being the Joker's right hand...
* MsFanservice: See SexyJester and {{Stripperific}} below.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:A possible reason she stays in Arkham in her wedding dress is that she's distressed that she killed the Joker herself and has lost the will to escape.]]
* MySecretPregnancy: [[spoiler:In ''Injustice 2'' it's revealed that the Joker impregnated her prior to the events of the first game. Not wanting to Joker to know she had a child, she left Gotham and gave birth to a daughter named Lucy, who was put into the care of her sister. Lucy does not know Harley is her mother, but is more introduced to her as her "crazy aunt Harleen".]]
* NominalHero: She works for the Insurgency, but that doesn't mean she likes the Joker and his violent philosophy any less.
* PerpetualSmiler: Per being a MonsterClown.
* PluckyComicRelief: Much of her involvement in the prequel comic has been this. Mixed with being Joker's [[TheDragon Dragon]].
* PsychopathicManchild: If her general demeanor wasn't enough, there's also the fact that she's still got MadLove related issues with the Joker.
* RevengeMyopia: Says she wants to go after Superman for killing the Joker, which means this. Firstly because the Joker brought it on himself when he deliberately antagonized and tormented Superman into doing it. Secondly because the Joker nuked Metropolis before he died, meaning he was even further past the MoralEventHorizon than he already was when he died. Thirdly because it's an objective fact that the Joker was a sociopathic monster and Superman's killing of him was perfectly justified even without the personal grievance against him that the man himself created. Worse still, she was there for and participated in the act that drove Superman to do it, so there's a streak of NeverMyFault too.
* RunningGag: In the comics she regularly brings up a fake mustache. According to her, no one should have to justify a fake mustache, though there ''is'' some justification [[spoiler:since it's also a lock pick]].
* SeriousBusiness: Harley Quinn doesn't appreciate Dr. Fate using the title despite not being that kind of doctor. Since she actually earned her degree, she refuses to let Fate use the title and exclusively calls him "'''Mister''' Fate".
* SexyJester: She maintains this general motif, though the {{Stripperific}} emphasis downplays the "jester" aspect.
* {{Stripperific}}: Her Insurgency costume gives her a [[BareYourMidriff bare midriff]], partially exposed thong, and a tramp stamp.
* VillainousCrush: Had one on Insurgency Green Arrow.
* VillainHasAPoint: A comedic example. She accurately points out to Green Arrow that as arrows are inanimate objects, having an "Arrow Cave" doesn't make any sense and that it would be better to call it "The Quiver".
-->'''Green Arrow''': ''That [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments is actually better.]]''
** Black Canary also agrees with Harley and later [[spoiler:when Black Canary gives birth to her and Green Arrow's child Harley shows up at the hospital with baby gifts, including a tiny ''muzzle''. Black Canary is confused and annoyed until Harley points out the baby might have sonic scream powers and babies scream a lot...]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Green Arrow]]
!![[ComicBook/GreenArrow Green Arrow/Oliver Queen]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/insurgency_green_arrow_1.png]]

* ArcherArchetype: If his name wasn't a giveaway.
* BowAndSwordInAccord: Has a large knife attached to his bow, which he detaches for several of his melee attacks.
* TheComicallySerious: In his interactions with Harley Quinn in the prequel comic.
* DeadAlternateCounterpart: In the prequel comics, Superman kills him, leaving the main universe Green Arrow with no counterpart when he arrives in the Injustice 'verse.
* DominoMask: Smaller than most, but it still does the job.
* FashionableAsymmetry: His right arm is covered in padded armor and his left arm has a solid bracer with bindings further up.
* FriendlySniper: A highly skilled marksman who's both heroic and easygoing.
* GoryDiscretionShot: [[spoiler:His death was only seen from his POV, but there was a lot of blood.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:In the comics he died after sending an arrow to Batman that contained the super pills.]]
* InTheHood: Before changing his costume.
* JustLikeRobinHood: In addition to starting out with the same [[InTheHood hooded]] look as his counterpart, the costume he eventually changed to looks vaguely Medieval.
* LaResistance: He was a member of Batman's Insurgency.
* LegacyCharacter: [[spoiler:After the Regime falls, Roy Harper takes on the identity of Red Arrow and continues protecting the streets of Star City.]]
* NotSoAboveItAll: Twice in the prequel comic when he [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments acknowledges that Harley's alternate name for his "Arrow Cave" is in fact a better name]], and also when he agrees to laugh maniacally at Harley's [[CrazyPrepared fake mustache]].
* PaperThinDisguise: His Insurgency costume, where he lacks any headgear other than a small DominoMask that barely surrounds his eyes.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:It's implied that he was one of the first casualties of Superman's Regime, and his death is one of the biggest warning signs that Superman is ''not'' good anymore, but in the comics it was a series of unfortunate circumstances that led to Superman killing him in a rage.]]
* TheStraightAndArrowPath: As would be expected of an archer.
* TheStraightMan: To Harley in the issue of the prequel comic they star in.
* TrickArrow: Including [[ArrowsOnFire fire]], [[StaticStunGun electric]], [[HarmlessFreezing freeze]], [[StuffBlowingUp explosive]], and bola varieties, plus a [[ImprovisedZipline zipline]] arrow in his BattleIntro and firework arrows for his victory cutscene. His infamous Boxing Glove arrows get a mention in the tie-in comic.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: According to Insurgency Batman, he tried to convince Superman of this. [[spoiler:He not only failed, he died in the process.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Deathstroke]]
!![[ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}} Deathstroke the Terminator/Slade Wilson]]
!!!Voiced By: J.G. Hertzler (English); Octavio Rojas (Latin-American Spanish dub)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/insurgency_deathstroke.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''It's payback time.'']]

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Deathstroke uses his knowledge of the former hero's tactics to his advantage. He even does two {{Punch Catch}}es on Regime Wonder Woman in a row, just from knowing her fighting style.
* BadassBeard: Visible in his unmasked secondary costume and ''Comicbook/{{Flashpoint}}'' costume.
* BadassNormal: One of the "Gadget" type characters.
* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: InvertedTrope. It is being tortured by the Regime that makes him do ''good''.
* BoomHeadshot: Twice in his Supermove.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Subjected to it by regime Raven and regime Cyborg, hence his feud with the Regime.
* ColdSniper: A scoped rifle is one of his weapons.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: He sounds quite similar to Creator/MichaelIronside.
* CoolSword: A large (but not quite {{BFS}}-level) longsword that's serrated near the hilt.
* DeadpanSnarker: He has his moments.
* DefiantToTheEnd: Even as regime Raven and regime Cyborg are torturing him, he gives them nothing but backtalk.
* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:While he cannot claim to be a friend of Batman or the Justice League, he still works with them against the common enemy that is the Regime. Once it ends, however, his ending shows that he gathers the remaining Regime soldiers to form [[MurderInc the New Titans]].]]
* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: One of his attacks involves him spinning vertically in the air with his blade.
* EyeScream: We see him without his eyepatch in Green Lantern's chapter, and it isn't pretty.
* EyepatchOfPower: Not only his "unlit" eye in his mask, but he wears one without his mask as well.
* GrenadeLauncher: His scoped rifle seems to have this as an attachment.
* GuestStarPartyMember: For the heroes in Story Mode.
* GunsAkimbo: Has dual pistols and dual [=SMGs=].
* GunNut: He's got a scoped rifle with a grenade launcher attachment, a pair of [=SMGs=], and dual pistols.
* HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic: When working with the heroes, he's never seen with his mask on at all.
* ImprobableUseOfAWeapon: His Supermove has him throw his sword into the air and ''kick it at his opponent'' as it comes back down.
* InTheBack: He uses a gun on his opponent's back for his throw.
* ItsPersonal: The reason why he sides with the Insurgency.
-->'''Insurgency Lex Luthor''': After so many refusals, why now? \\
'''Insurgency Deathstroke''': They made it personal.
* MoreDakka[=/=]MultiRangedMaster: Has a couple different guns in his arsenal.
%% * NominalHero
* NotInThisForYourRevolution: He doesn't care about the Insurgency ''at all''. The only reason he's working with them is for {{revenge}}, which is why he leaves them after he's done.
* OlderThanTheyLook: He served in Vietnam, yet his healing factor has slowed his aging.
* {{Revenge}}: Seeks it on the Regime for torturing him.
* SniperRifle: Has a scoped rifle of some sort, though it has a high rate of fire and a GrenadeLauncher attachment.
* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:To the Regime when he [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome blows up the Watchtower.]]]]
* SpikesOfVillainy: Averted. While there are a few small ones in his secondary costume, he's working with the Insurgency.
* SwordAndGun: While he does not wield both at the same time, he can [[TheMusketeer alternate between then readily enough]] and also lampshades his diverse arsenal with the line "[[SadisticChoice Do you prefer]] [[CoolSword steel]] [[MoreDakka or lead?]]"
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: His Supermove screams of this. In order, it includes a slash across the stomach, double [[BoomHeadshot headshot]], kicking the sword into the opponent's gut from a distance, and unloading [[MoreDakka a lot of bullets]] with dual [=SMGs=].
* WalkingArmory: Let's see: CoolSword, scoped rifle/grenade launcher, dual pistols, dual [=SMGs=]...
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Pretty much disappears from the story after [[spoiler:acquiring a weapon for Luthor on board the Watchtower. He's not seen again after his SpannerInTheWorks scheme [[StuffBlowingUp comes to fruition]], so it could be assumed that he died, except normal universe Cyborg notes that [[NoOneGetsLeftBehind everyone was evacuated from the Watchtower before it exploded]]]]. However, he does have a reason not to appear: he just doesn't care about the majority of the conflict, just fulfilling his {{revenge}}, which he had fulfilled by that point. After that, it's not his job anymore.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lex Luthor]]
!!ComicBook/LexLuthor
!!!Voiced by: Creator/MarkRolston (English); Humberto Solórzano (Latin-American Spanish dub)
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[[caption-width-right:350:''May fortune favor the foolish.'']]

* AdaptationalHeroism: In this universe, he's Superman's best friend who is actually the money behind the Insurgency. He and Superman have been friends since Smallville and Lex seems to feel the same responsibility for stopping him Batman feels. Additionally, he notes that he has never partaken in any of the kind of villainous plotting that the mainstream Luthor has, and his turning against Superman is due to the latter's own villainous actions.
-->'''Lex Luthor:''' Superman doesn't suspect his best friend is funding the Insurgency.
* AnAxeToGrind: His technological polearm can be used as an energy greataxe for powerful melee attacks.
* BadassNormal: Beneath that PoweredArmor is a human no more physically imposing than your average businessman.
* BaldOfAwesome: Especially noticeable since his head is exposed while wearing his PoweredArmor.
* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: He has a giant letter "L" on his Insurgency armor.
* CutscenePowerToTheMax: In some cutscenes, Luthor's suit uses [[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser Beams]] [[HandBlast fired out of his gauntlets]] and shoulder-mounted [[MacrossMissileMassacre missile launchers]], neither of which appears in his in-game moveset. Additionally, his alternate suit closes from the front, yet his victory cutscene has him exiting from the back like his primary costume.
* [[spoiler:DeadAlternateCounterpart]]
* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:After Shazam fries his suit and Superman destroys it, catching Luthor dead to rights, Superman is furious at his betrayal after he brought peace to the world. That Luthor is barely able to choke out his last words makes them all the more powerful.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Luthor:''' "Your peace... Your peace is a joke."]]
* DeflectorShields: Can activate an all-encompassing energy shield that protects him from a single attack.
* DistantReactionShot: The explosion from his Supermove can be seen from space.
* DoNotTauntCthulhu: [[spoiler:Lex is fully aware that doing so is complete suicide as shown in the above quote, but he knows it'll probably be the only way he can get Superman into the range of his Kryptonite weapon. Unfortunately, a still conscious Shazam dashes his efforts and [[KilledOffForReal Luthor pays the ultimate price.]]]]
* EnergyBall: His Supermove features a huge one, charged up via KillSat.
* EnergyWeapon: Can call one down from his KillSat as a special move.
* EvilVersusEvil: Subverted. He and the Joker trade blows a couple times, but it's with the GoodCounterpart Luthor from the Regime universe.
* EvilTwin: Inverted. He is a version of Lex that never became evil.
* FamousLastWords: [[spoiler:"[[KirkSummation Your]] [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans 'peace']]... [[DefiantToTheEnd is a]] [[CrapsackWorld joke]]."]]
* FictionFiveHundred: Which he bequeaths to Batman in the Dark Knight's ending.
* GeniusBruiser: Though the second part is only due to his PoweredArmor. In issue # 20 of the prequel comics, he also knows the secrets identities of all members of the Justice League since always, to surprise of all them.
* GoodAngelBadAngel: At least he tries being the voice of consciousness to Injustice Superman during the events of Year Two in the prequel comics. It doesn't work.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Dies trying to disable Superman with a Kryptonite gun when he was fatally wounded by Shazam and killed by Superman. This was exactly why he wouldn't allow Batman to take on Superman.]]
* IFightForTheStrongestSide: He claims that he joined the Regime because "he always chooses the winning side". [[spoiler:Averted though as it turns out he's TheMole for the Insurgency]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He shares the main universe Luthor's arrogance, but was never a villain, and is definitely a {{Nice Guy}} at heart.
* JetPack: His PoweredArmor has flight rockets on his back, gloves, and boots.
* KillSat: While he can zap his opponents with one as a special move, his Supermove gets an interesting variation. Lex has the beam target ''himself'' so he can concentrate its power into an EnergyBall to personally chuck it at his opponent, the explosion from which gets a DistantReactionShot.
* LaResistance: Serves as TheMole in Superman's Regime for the Insurgency.
* MacrossMissileMassacre: Doing a Meter Burn while calling down his orbital laser will replace it with three missiles.
* TheMole: Serves as one for the Insurgency, infiltrating the ranks of the Regime.
* MightyGlacier: Slow, above average power wise, and [[LongRangeFighter has great reach]].
* NiceGuy: In stark contrast to his mainstream counterpart. This Luthor was never a criminal, and while the mainstream Luthor is polite and compromising as a means of being condescending and manipulative, this Luthor is polite, though arrogant at times, and compromising and is ''totally sincere.'' This is best exemplified in a scene during the plot where Regime Superman comes by to talk to him - even through he is at that very moment [[spoiler:plotting to take him down]], he still gives Superman some very heartfelt words about Lois.
* TheParagon: [[spoiler:It was killing ''him'' that broke Superman's Reputation as TheParagon himself. He is just an ordinary man who could have spent his life enjoying the lucrative contracts being The High Councilor's best bud, but instead chose to fund the Insurgency, and when it came down to it ''fight'' for it. And just look at NiceGuy above for more reasons. The Insurgency RedShirtArmy (Regime troopers who are still loyal to Luthor) even wear his sigil, [[BroughtToYouByTheLetterS a stylized L]] on their chest.]]
* PoweredArmor: He wears a bulkier rendition of his trademark armor.
* SheepInSheepsClothing: This is done especially well, as — [[ItWasHisSled used to this sort of thing from Luthor]] — the player is probably sitting by waiting for Luthor to betray them, especially as he does some secretive actions that make it seem like he is about to... [[spoiler:and then [[NotHisSled he never does]]]]. Instead, the 'betrayal' happens towards Evil Superman, and from Evil Superman's point of view, Luthor is a BitchInSheepsClothing.
* ShockAndAwe: He has a technological polearm that can shoot electrical blasts. He can also lay electric mine traps.
* SincerityMode: As a testament of how much of a NiceGuy he truly is, his status as TheMole for the Insurgency doesn’t prevent him from telling sincere words to Superman.
* StaticStunGun: His Supermove begins with an electrified palm strike that restrains his opponent long enough for his EnergyBall to charge up.
* TheSmartGuy: Fills this role, alongside Cyborg, in Story Mode.
* SuperStrength: Thanks to artificial enhancement by his PoweredArmor.
* YouWillNotEvadeMe: Has some kind of short-range TractorBeam that draws opponents closer.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ares]]
!!ComicBook/{{Ares|DC}}
!!!Voiced by: J.G. Hertzler (English); Octavio Rojas (Latin-American Spanish dub)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/injustice_ares.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''If you truly wish to help them, you'll heed me.'']]

* AffablyEvil: He's really quite polite and somewhat honest when speaking to the heroes, but they all still know better than to trust him.
* AntiHero: Used to be this in the past, before Zeus rejected to join the call against an unknown evil, and refused Ares's pleading to participate.
* AsLongAsThereIsEvil: A deconstruction of this trope is what gives him reason to [[spoiler:help fight the Regime, as the High Councilor's reign would deprive him of the conflict needed to sustain his own life.]]
* BroughtDownToBadass: [[spoiler:The Regime's firm control has eliminated most of the conflict that Ares feeds upon, severely weakening him in the process. Of course, he's still a WarGod, so he's still a formidable foe.]]
* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: He needs wars to fuel his powers. This is why he's opposed to the One Earth Government, since [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans their plans]] will render him powerless.
%%* DragonInChief: [[spoiler:To Darkseid in Year 4.]]
* DeusExMachina: He appears out of nowhere to help [[spoiler:Aquaman and Wonder Woman, transporting the former to the Insurgency (who didn't know how to contact him in Atlantis) and the latter to Themyscira (as she didn't know about the amassing Amazon army).]]
* EnemyMine: Tries to claim this to the main universe Wonder Woman for helping her against the Regime. She knows better, however, asserting that his actions were purely selfish in nature and that their interests merely aligned.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Though he is ultimately on his own, he woke up Superman and later was on their side before starting to help Insurgents.
* NominalHero: He is only aiding the Insurgency because he wants wars in the world, and knows that Superman's strict Regime will prevent any long-lasting conflicts.
* PragmaticVillainy: It's explicitly stated that the only reason he helps the Insurgency is that if Superman wins there will be no more wars to fuel his powers.
%%* SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset: With his secondary costume.
* SpikesOfVillainy: Played with. Ares wears a spiky armour, befitting his status as the God of War and his malicious nature. However, the circumstances have forced him to cooperate with the heroes, and he does not perform any villainous acts through the entirety of the Story Mode.
* StableTimeLoop: In his Classic Mode ending. [[spoiler:After aiding the heroes backfires and the Insurgency helps create a ''different'' peaceful utopia, he captures Brainiac-5 and forces the robot to put him into a loop beginning right when the heroes arrived and ending right as they win, allowing him to savor endless war.]]
* TokenEvilTeammate: To the Insurgency, with Wonder Woman explicitly pointing out that it's just an alignment of interests that has them working together, rather than any true affiliation.
* WorfHadTheFlu: Aquaman notes upon defeating him that Ares is surprisingly weak for being a WarGod. Ares explains that the Regime's rule has almost completely eliminated conflict on the planet, leaving him nearly powerless as a result.
[[/folder]]

!!Unaffiliated
[[folder:Joker]]
!!ComicBook/TheJoker
%%Please do not list the Joker's real name as "Jack Napier", "Jerome Valenska", "Arthur Fleck", or any other name given to the character in non-comic media. As far as actual DC canon goes, he does not have an official real name.
!!!Voiced by: Creator/RichardEpcar (English); Creator/JoseAntonioMacias (Latin-American Spanish dub)
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[[caption-width-right:337:''Every time you and I play, I lose. I was getting a bit bored of always losing. I thought I'd try this on easy mode for a bit. And it '''was''' easy. It was as easy as beating a puppy to death with a kitten.'']]

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: He's the first villain Superman kills, and for years, only [[MadLove Harley Quinn]] is sad he's gone. Tellingly, everyone else who objects to his murder is more concerned about Superman killing someone than the man he killed. Even in-universe, Damian Wayne and most of Gotham [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing are glad he's dead]]. Hell, even Harley began to hate and move on from him to create her own destiny.
* AdaptationalJerkass: While Joker was always purely evil, he balances his cruelty out with a LargeHam sense of showmanship and black comedy relief. This incarnation, however, plays up the cruelty way more than normal.
* ArchEnemy: To Batman, and in this continuity also seems to be going out of his way to become one to Superman as well. Given that the Lex Luthor of his world was always a good guy, he and Darkseid are probably the closest Superman has to arch enemies.
* AxCrazy: [[NukeEm Nuking Metropolis]] speaks for itself.
* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: His JokerImmunity is massively '''averted'''. Given who he is, everyone is glad the Joker was KilledOffForReal. Not even his former moll Harley holds him in high regard anymore.
* BackFromTheDead: Subverted. The Joker in the game proper is from a world that never suffered the calamity the Injustice universe did.
* TheBadGuyWins: Joker manages to destroy Metropolis and, most importantly, totally break Superman, twisting him into something as evil and monstrous as himself — the kind of result that is his dearest goal. (Although it would be a long time before Superman began to truly resemble him.) To him, it doesn't matter at all if he was killed as a consequence. The fact that he is laughing maniacally as Superman kills him says it all.
* BreakThemByTalking: Gives a really nasty one to Superman in the beginning of the game, after he's destroyed Metropolis and drugged Superman into killing his wife and child. Unfortunately for the world, it works like a charm — [[TheBadGuyWins and Joker ends up laughing all the way to the grave.]]
* BrightIsNotGood: One of the best examples of this trope. In spite of his very colorful appearance, [[AxCrazy he's]] an ObviouslyEvil MonsterClown.
* BullyingADragon: The Joker responds to a furious and grieving Superman with UnsportsmanlikeGloating that is nothing short of infuriating. Justified because [[BatmanGambit he was banking on Superman's reaction]], [[ThanatosGambit including the part where it got him killed]].
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: When Batman asks him why he tricked Superman into killing his own wife and nuking Metropolis in the comics, Joker simply states it was as easy as [[KickTheDog "beating a puppy to death with a kitten."]]
* ConsummateLiar: To the point that Batman was convinced that even the Lasso of Truth [[InsanityImmunity wouldn't work on him]].
-->'''Batman:''' I don't know what would spew out of [[AxCrazy that]] [[AMindIsATerribleThingToRead mind]], but it wouldn't be the truth.
* TheCorrupter: To Superman in the prequel comic. Also to Harley Quinn, which brings up the fact that [[spoiler:his death allows her HeelFaceTurn]].
* DeadAlternateCounterpart: Superman killed him.
* DieLaughing: In this case, it's because [[TheBadGuyWins he got just what he wanted]]: Superman becomes a FallenHero.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: While Andre Chavard is regaling him with stories of World War II in ''Year Zero'', the Joker tells him to hurry up and get to the Nazi-killing parts; when a befuddled Chavard says that he thought that the Joker would be a fan of Nazism, the Joker indignantly declares, "I'm American. I @#$%#$@ hate Nazis! I'm a homicidal maniac, not a traitorous bigot."
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: The TropeCodifier. When you find [[NukeEm turning Metropolis]] into a crater and [[BullyingADragon cruelly mocking a widowed man]] funny, [[TheSociopath you obviously have problems.]]
* EvilIsPetty: He wanted to "play on easy mode". This is what he calls a scheme that killed millions and required the cold-blooded murder of a pregnant woman ''by her own husband'' as its most important step.
* EvilLaugh: As expected from the Joker, his maniacal laughter is pretty much his catchphrase. His cruel, mocking laughter is heard [[DieLaughing even as he dies]].
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: He has a SoundOnlyDeath in-game, but the comics show him being impaled by Superman in graphic detail.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He is eerily polite and civil sounding when speaking, [[NukeEm but his actions prior to the events of the game]] [[AxCrazy speak for themselves]].
* ForTheEvulz: His singular MO — to see if someone would break and become just as evil as he is from his twisted viewpoint. Also the reason he targets Superman in the prequel: he was bored of losing to Batman, so he decided to go on "easy mode." He also lampshades this in the comics, when Batman asks him why he did it. As usual, he's always obsessed with proving the true "ugliness" of society and that everybody is NotSoDifferent from him.
-->'''Joker:''' Why? You need a reason?
* GoneHorriblyRight: The Joker ends up laughing all the way to the morgue, but not before he turns Superman into something as evil as himself — that was his ultimate goal.
* GoOutWithASmile: He is disturbingly still smiling and laughing even as he's getting ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice. This is probably because he knows [[TheBadGuyWins he's won]].
* GlasgowGrin: Not only does he have one himself, he has a deadly laughing gas that forces his victims to have them.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Although he's killed off early in the game, the sinister legacy he left behind by causing Superman and Batman to hate each other and Injustice-verse slowly becoming a CrapsackWorld has affected everybody even after Superman's defeat. If he were alive to see the chaos he left behind, he would have been cackling in glee, as this is ''precisely'' what he wanted.
* HateSink: The ''Injustice''-verse Joker gets saddled with this role in the game and [[VideoGame/Injustice2 its sequel]]. Given he's responsible for all the mess that permeated after Metropolis was nuked, he loses all of his cred (and life) permanently — his ex-moll Harley ditches him entirely, Batman just completely gives up on indulging him any more, and most villains [[EvenEvilHasStandards loathe him]] for either Metropolis or just in general principle. Many in Gotham are happy that he's been KilledOffForReal. One could say that JokerImmunity didn't save him this time.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Superman does this to him with his bare arm.
* ItAmusedMe: Finds it funny to mock a man who accidentally killed his own pregnant wife and nuked his own city. All ForTheEvulz.
* KickTheDog: Cruelly mocking a grieving and widowed Superman is a surefire indicator that [[TheSociopath the Joker has problems]].
* KilledOffForReal: Averting JokerImmunity, he is killed in issue 4 of the prequel comic by Superman himself. His execution is also shown in the game's first cutscene, though it cuts to black before [[GoryDiscretionShot the player can see any gore]].
* LackOfEmpathy: Obviously, what kind of sicko finds it funny to blow up an entire city and mock a widower? He even has the gall to call it "playing on easy mode."
* LeanAndMean: Similar to many portrayals of himself, he is fairly thin with no visible muscle.
* MonsterClown: Has white skin and [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair green hair]], which are permanent thanks to a chemical spill.
* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: He basically wins here by invoking the StrikeMeDownWithAllOfYourHatred trope against Superman, wanting to see if he would break the ThouShaltNotKill rule by twisting him into something as evil and monstrous as himself — the kind of result that is his dearest goal. ''And Superman [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope goes through with it]].'' To the Joker, it doesn't matter at all if he was killed as a consequence. The fact that he is laughing maniacally as Superman kills him says it all. And it's all justified because [[BatmanGambit he was banking on Superman's reaction]], including the part [[ThanatosGambit where it got him killed]].
* NotSoDifferent: His MO is to see if someone would become just as evil as he is from his nihilistic viewpoint and to proclaim the futility of their actions. By the end of the game, Superman has lost all of his fetters and any semblance of morality for good, becoming AxCrazy like the MonsterClown who drove him to villainy.
* NukeEm: He steals a nuclear device and uses it to nuke Metropolis as a ploy to ruin Superman's life.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: He winds up doing this ''to himself'' when Superman impales him with his arm in response to the whole [[NukeEm nuking Metropolis thing]].
* PerpetualSmiler: A SlasherSmile is plastered on his face at all times.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: His death early in the game served as the catalyst for the Injustice-verse plunging into chaos. Ironically, this is precisely what he wanted all along.
* PoisonIsEvil: His trademark weapon are canisters of Joker Venom, which is an incredibly painful toxin that leaves its victims with a ghastly smile when all is said and done.
* PredecessorVillain: He only appears at the beginning of the game before Superman kills him.
* ShouldersOfDoom: His costume features some pointy shoulders.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Everything bad that's happened in this continuity is courtesy of him deciding to nuke Metropolis, yet he dies at the beginning of the game, and the issue #4 of the prequel comics (Year One).
* SoundOnlyDeath: In the game proper, the screen cuts to black before Superman's arm pierces his chest.
* TheSociopath: As is typical for the Joker, he is a remorseless serial killer who indulges in his victims' pain and suffering.
* StrawNihilist: As usual, he is obsessed with proving the true "ugliness" of society and the pointlessness of life. The fact that he died laughing shows that he psychologically transformed the Man of Steel into a villain.
* StrikeMeDownWithAllOfYourHatred: Invoked. He basically dares Superman to kill him, after he used Kryptonite-laced fear gas to make Superman kill Lois and his unborn child, which resulted in Metropolis being nuked. This takes place in [[AlternateTimeline an alternate universe to the main one]], so instead of what would be expected, Superman goes through with it.
* ThanatosGambit: He basically was banking on Superman's reaction after he used Kryptonite-laced fear gas to make the Man of Steel kill Lois and his unborn child by accident, which resulted in Metropolis being nuked. Supes falls for the bait and slowly becomes a [[HeWhoFightsMonsters ruthless tyrant]] in this alternate universe. And the Joker did this ForTheEvulz — he was tired of constantly losing to Batman, so he decided to go after an easier target, see if they'll break the ThouShaltNotKill rule and become just as monstrous and twisted as he is.
* ToughActToFollow: {{Discussed|Trope}} by the clown himself. He mentions that he'll be hard-pressed to top himself after nuking a city. [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice Superman doesn't let him get that far.]][[invoked]]
* WalkingSpoiler: It's impossible to talk about almost anything in the game without mentioning what happened to him. It's so prominent that it takes up the opening cutscene.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: He only lasts for a single cutscene in the game. This is avoided in the comic, where he lives up until the end of the fourth issue.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Permanently dyed green, thanks to a spill at Ace Chemicals.
[[/folder]]
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!!ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}/[[spoiler:[[ComicBook/{{Robin}} (SelfDemonstrating/DamianWayne)]]]]

* AdaptationalVillainy: Even before having a full-blown FaceHeelTurn, this version of Diana has noticeable HeWhoFightsMonsters mentality, something supported both by Ares' observations and also how Diana seems to be taking just a little ''too much'' delight in seeing Superman adopt a more militant world-view. Not only that, but her interactions with Superman in the prequel comics show more and more [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]] and LadyMacbeth symptoms as time goes on. Basically, it seems like Diana's been wanting to cut loose for a long time now. Even Martian Manhunter notes in the prequel comic, after restraining her, how her actions are dictated not by a desire for security and peace, but bloodlust. Nowhere is this more apparent than [[MirrorMatch in her confrontation with her alternate self.]] Where good Wonder Woman is the compassionate and noble hero she normally is, Regime Wonder Woman is an outright BloodKnight who dismisses her counterpart as "weak-willed".

* InsaneTrollLogic: Played for horror. Upon hearing people are questioning his rule after they [[spoiler:witnessed him kill Luthor on live TV]], he [[VillainousBreakdown rants]] that they are [[UngratefulBastard "ungrateful"]] for his "protection," and unleashes his forces on Metropolis and Gotham [[ScareEmStraight to crush any dissent]]. In addition, he justifies killing the Joker by saying that it was [[HeWhoFightsMonsters "one death to save millions of lives"]], but anyone who witnessed this act knows he was motivated by {{revenge}} for everything the clown had done, not altruism.

* MaskOfSanity: After Metropolis, he makes frequent attempts to hide how far gone he is, but everybody knows he's a bitter shell of the man they once revered. Occasionally, he'll act as the BigBrotherMentor to Shazam and nice with Luthor around, but it doesn't take long for [[VillainousBreakdown the seams to come apart]] when people [[spoiler:witness him kill Luthor on live television]].

* NeverMyFault: He begins to show signs of this after having a FaceHeelTurn. The only thing he will claim responsibility for is killing Lois Lane and their unborn child, and ''that wasn't'' his fault.

* BelievingTheirOwnLies: He justifies his killing the Joker by saying that it was [[HeWhoFightsMonsters "one death to save millions of lives"]], but anyone who witnessed this act knows he was motivated by {{revenge}} for everything the clown had done, not altruism.

** NeverMyFault is another problem for him, as when Batman points out how he's scaring people, Superman says he learned it from Batman, and also justifies his killing the Joker as "one death to save millions" when it was obviously motivated by {{Revenge}} and not altruism. Batman even points out how the latter is just the first step in a slippery slope. When Aquaman calls him out on becoming a KnightTemplar, Superman denies it. The game proper only gives more examples of this, with him repeatedly refusing to admit how far he's fallen and even at one point claiming that Insurgency Batman is responsible. The only thing he will claim responsibility for is him killing Lois Lane and their unborn child, and ''that wasn't'' his fault.

* InsaneTrollLogic: Played for horror. Upon hearing people are questioning his rule after they [[spoiler:witnessed him kill Luthor on live TV]], he [[VillainousBreakdown rants]] that they are [[UngratefulBastard "ungrateful"]] for his "protection," and unleashes his forces on Metropolis and Gotham [[ScareEmStraight to crush any dissent]]. In addition, he justifies his killing the Joker by saying that it was [[HeWhoFightsMonsters "one death to save millions of lives"]], but anyone who witnessed this act knows he was motivated by {{revenge}} for everything the clown had done, not altruism.

** When Batman points out how he's scaring people, Superman says he learned it from Batman, and also justifies his killing the Joker as "one death to save millions," when it was obviously motivated by {{revenge}} and not altruism. Batman even points out how the latter is just the first step in a slippery slope.

* StartOfDarkness: His killing Joker is this overall, but in the comics, [[spoiler:killing Green Arrow was the real start. Before then he had attacked villains and legitimate targets, but his anger went out of control and he started targeting former friends. After killing Arrow, he cripples Batman by breaking his back and starting to torture him with Ollie's blood on his hands. Batman tells him at this point he's no longer a hero by any measure]].

* NominalHero

* AsLongAsThereIsEvil: A deconstruction of this trope is what gives him reason to [[spoiler:help fight the Regime, as the High Councilor's LawfulEvil reign would deprive him of the conflict needed to sustain his own life.]]

* DragonInChief: [[spoiler:To Darkseid in Year 4.]]
* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler:Serves as this for Aquaman and Wonder Woman, transporting Aquaman to the Insurgency (who didn't know how to contact him in Atlantis) and Wonder Woman to Themyscira (as she didn't know about the amassing Amazon army).]]
* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:Tries to claim this to the main universe Wonder Woman for helping her against the Regime. She knows better, however, asserting that his actions were purely selfish in nature and that their interests merely aligned.]]

* NominalHero: [[spoiler:He is only in the Insurgency because he wants wars in the world.]]

* SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset: With his secondary costume.
* SpikesOfVillainy: All over his armor.

* TokenEvilTeammate: [[spoiler:To the Insurgency, with Wonder Woman explicitly pointing out that it's just an alignment of interests that has them working together, rather than any true affiliation.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: In terms of his role in the story.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:He notably misses the game's climax entirely.]]

* BrightIsNotGood: Following his FaceHeelTurn, he still wears red and blu, albeit a little darker in color to show that he's no longer the PrimaryColorChampion he used to be.

* BrightIsNotGood: Following his FaceHeelTurn, he still wears red and blue. Notably though with his secondary costume the red and blue are a little darker in color.

* GodzillaThreshold: In ''Injustice 2'', Batman releases Superman from his cell, knowing he's the only chance they have to stop Brainiac.

* SatanicArchetype: Surprisingly, he has incredibly Satanic elements surrounding his character. After his FaceHeelTurn, he establishes a totalitarian dictatorship on Earth, and most of the Justice League become his boot-licking flunkies. Furthermore, all of this comes out in the open when he's caught [[spoiler:murdering Lux Luthor in the open]], he has a VillainousBreakdown to maintain his iron-fisted grip,going so far to even [[spoiler:kill Shazam, one of his most loyal members]]. Most importantly, he ends up becoming a ShadowArchetype to the mainstream Superman, who even wonders if he will end up in the same situation as his Injustice counterpart ended up in. When told of the mainstream Lois Lane, he even plans to [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe take her as his bride forcefully]] and [[MurderTheHypotenuse kill normal Superman]] if she won't like it.

** The mainstream Superman's arcade ending shows that [[spoiler:his fight with his Regime counterpart has [[EvilMeScaresMe unnerved him]], wondering if he could go down the same path. Because of this, Mainstream Superman ingests a Kryptonite piece that can be remotely detonated by a trigger that changes hands between his fellow Justice League members except Batman]].

* TautologicalTemplar: After killing the Joker, he decides that because he is the Man of Steel, whatever he does in service to "saving" his world is justifiable because he says so, even [[spoiler:cold-blooded murder of]] other heroes who might call him out on this.

** When others such as Batman point out that he is scaring people, Superman justifies [[KnightTemplar himself]] by saying that the bad guys ''should'' be scared, not realizing that they meant [[BewareTheSuperman people in general]]. There are many instances where Superman [[IgnoredEpiphany wonders]] if he's going over the edge, but then immediately [[NeverMyFault rationalizes]] his new behavior as Batman's fault.
** Deep inside, he knows Lois wouldn't approve any of his actions, but his grief prevents him from fully acknowledging it and moving on. Instead, he'll [[BerserkButton violently lash out]] whenever someone mentions this to him, especially in a poor manner.

* FateWorseThanDeath: Once the player clears ladder mode, [[spoiler:a cutscene will show him [[DraggedOffToHell being sucked into the Phantom Zone's portal]] at the Fortress of Solitude. As he desperately tries to escape, he sees memories of the events leading to his FaceHeelTurn before being pulled into the Zone by a Phantom. Superman is then seen trapped inside a crystal, [[AndIMustScream screaming in anguish]] as he is banished deeper into the Zone]].

* ItsAllAboutMe: Superman turned to dictatorial tactics because he thought it was the only way to keep the world safe, but after [[spoiler:killing Luthor]], his selfish side shows, [[spoiler:unleashing his military and Doomsday on Metropolis and Gotham for daring to question him and planning to kill the main universe's Superman and take his Lois, regardless of what she may think.]] This is most evident in how he phrases his motivation when the main universe's Superman confronts him.

* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: Briefly [[spoiler:sent into Earth's orbit by Green Lantern. Someone brings him back down by the time of Regime Superman's MoralEventHorizon moment]].

[[folder:Ares]]
!!ComicBook/{{Ares|DC}}
!!!Voiced by: J.G. Hertzler (English); Octavio Rojas (Latin-American Spanish dub)
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[[caption-width-right:350:''If you truly wish to help them, you'll heed me.'']]

* AffablyEvil: He's really quite polite and somewhat honest when speaking to the heroes, but they all still know better than to trust him.
* AntiHero: Used to be this in the past, before Zeus rejected to join the call against an unknown evil, and refused Ares's pleading to participate.
* AsLongAsThereIsEvil: A deconstruction of this trope is what gives him reason to [[spoiler:help fight the Regime, as the High Councilor's LawfulEvil reign would deprive him of the conflict needed to sustain his own life.]]
* BroughtDownToBadass: [[spoiler:The Regime's firm control has eliminated most of the conflict that Ares feeds upon, severely weakening him in the process. Of course, he's still a WarGod, so he's still a formidable foe.]]
* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: He needs wars to fuel his powers. This is why he's opposed to the One Earth Government, since [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans their plans]] will render him powerless.
* DragonInChief: [[spoiler:To Darkseid in Year 4.]]
* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler:Serves as this for Aquaman and Wonder Woman, transporting Aquaman to the Insurgency (who didn't know how to contact him in Atlantis) and Wonder Woman to Themyscira (as she didn't know about the amassing Amazon army).]]
* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:Tries to claim this to the main universe Wonder Woman for helping her against the Regime. She knows better, however, asserting that his actions were purely selfish in nature and that their interests merely aligned.]]
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Though he is ultimately on his own, he woke up Superman and later was on their side before starting to help Insurgents.
* NominalHero: [[spoiler:He is only in the Insurgency because he wants wars in the world.]]
* PragmaticVillainy: It's explicitly stated that the only reason he helps the Insurgency is that if Superman wins there will be no more wars to fuel his powers.
* SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset: With his secondary costume.
* SpikesOfVillainy: All over his armor.
* StableTimeLoop: In his Classic Mode ending. [[spoiler:After aiding the heroes backfires and the Insurgency helps create a ''different'' peaceful utopia, he captures Brainiac-5 and forces the robot to put him into a loop beginning right when the heroes arrived and ending right as they win, allowing him to savor endless war.]]
* TokenEvilTeammate: [[spoiler:To the Insurgency, with Wonder Woman explicitly pointing out that it's just an alignment of interests that has them working together, rather than any true affiliation.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: In terms of his role in the story.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:He notably misses the game's climax entirely.]]
* WorfHadTheFlu: Aquaman notes upon defeating him that Ares is surprisingly weak for being a WarGod. Ares explains that the Regime's rule has almost completely eliminated conflict on the planet, leaving him nearly powerless as a result.
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* EvilCostumeSwitch: Subverted. He does change his costume when with the Regime, but he was always a bad guy.

* EvilCostumeSwitch: After joining the New Regime he gets a new outfit which notably features a BlackCloak.

* AdaptationalWimp: Shazam in the comics is one of, if not '''the''' most powerful character in DC, and has been confirmed on multiple occasions to be more powerful than Superman. Here, his Regime counterpart gets his ass handed to him by Aquaman, Deathstroke, and Lex Luthor [[spoiler:and is then offed by Superman's heat vision, something that wouldn't even faze Shazam from the comics.]]

* TokenGoodTeammate: To the Regime, as its clear that he's with it because he genuinely believes there doing the right thing, and even then is the only one who openly questions whether or not the Regime is right anymore, remembering how Superman [[spoiler:killed Green Arrow]]. He ultimately [[spoiler:tries to point out to the other Regime members how they've [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope jumped off the slippery slope]] but Superman kills him.]]

* InsaneTrollLogic: Played for horror. Upon hearing people are questioning his rule after they [[spoiler:witnessed him kill Luthor on live TV]], he [[VillainousBreakdown rants]] that they are [[UngratefulBastard "ungrateful"]] for his "protection," and unleashes his forces on Metropolis and Gotham [[ScareEmStraight to crush any dissent]].

** He's so emotionally cold that most of his rants are about him having [[FreudianExcuse lost his family]], and [[JerkassHasAPoint calling out someone's faults and flaws. While he's not wrong about it]], he refuses to acknowledge [[NeverMyFault his own.]] To prove how apathetic he is, he tells an entire class before he’s leaving to ''be good''. The old Superman would give a paragraph about the importance of benevolence and kindness.

* SatanicArchetype: Surprisingly, Regime Superman has incredibly Satanic elements surrounding his character. Being a FallenHero who used to be the greatest superhero on Earth until he became an EvilOverlord that sacrifices all notions of goodness in his heart until he's nothing but an [[LackOfEmpathy apathetic tyrant]] and [[CrapsackWorld turns the world into a living Hell]] (paralleling the FallenAngel archetype to [[UpToEleven an incredibly disturbing degree]]), has usurped all governments on Earth to replace them with a completely totalitarian, autocratic and oppressive [[PuttingOnTheReich Fascist/Nazi-esque]] dictatorship in which he mercilessly slaughters any opposition, [[TheCorrupter corrupts the Justice League into becoming his henchmen]], and he even coerces ComicBook/BlackAdam into joining him by threatening to destroy Kahndaq if he doesn't do so. Not to mention, Regime Superman's personality perfectly embodies every single one of the SevenDeadlySins, further enhancing his Satanic qualities. Furthermore, all of this demonic nature is put on full display when he's caught murdering Lux Luthor in cold-blooded fashion, where he completely loses it and becomes a PsychopathicManchild that [[VillainousBreakdown throws a massive, deranged temper tantrum]] [[MoralEventHorizon by planning to destroy the world, starting with Metropolis and Gotham]] in order to keep people oppressed (somewhat similar to the Devil planning to destroy the world [[InTheirOwnImage to recreate it in his own image]]), and most importantly, he ends up becoming a ShadowArchetype to the mainstream Franchise/{{Superman}} (who is most commonly depicted as TheParagon and [[MessianicArchetype Earth's greatest protector]]) as to [[BewareTheSuperman what if he lost his moral]], enough as to why he fears becoming NotSoDifferent from his EvilCounterpart.