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In General
In General:
- Adapted Out: When the final season turned the group into a stand-in for the Legion of Doom, for various reasons, Brainiac, The Riddler, The Scarecrow, Black Manta, and Solomon Grundy weren't members. The reasons vary from plot reasons (Brainiac's defeat in the prior season), Executive Meddling (the Riddler, the Scarecrow, and Black Manta were forbidden due to issues related to The Batman, Batman Begins, and the Smallville-esque Mercy Reef respectively with the last one replaced by expy Devil Ray), or both (Grundy having been killed off in "Wake the Dead" and showing up on The Batman, albeit as a "Scooby-Doo" Hoax by Clayface — though the ending implied Grundy was Real After All).
- Composite Character: In the last season of JLU, the Society was, for all intends and purposes, the Legion of Doom, but due to Executive Meddling, it was still called the Secret Society in the show itself.
- Legion of Doom: Not only was it a team of villains, but as noted above, in the final season, it was the Trope Namer in all but name.
- Team Member in the Adaptation: The show's version of the Legion features several members who weren't part of the Trope Namer in Superfriends, including Star Sapphire, Clayface, and Atomic Skull. Also, as noted, inverted with Brainiac, the Riddler, the Scarecrow, Black Manta, and Solomon Grundy.
Lex Luthor
Gorilla Grodd
Gorilla Grodd
Voiced by: Powers Boothe
Appearances: Justice League
"I'm far superior to any man."
"We say, it's time for a new order. But it can't arise until the old one departs..."
A mastermind gorilla from Gorilla City, a place where many hyper-intelligent gorillas live. After being ousted for his experiments in mind control, he turns to full-time villainy in order to gain wealth and resources to continue his research. He is most notable for organizing a number of villainous alliances to counter the Justice League.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: While firmly on the villain side, Grodd is much less evil than his comic book counterpart and most versions. He treats his subjects with decency, making the Legion of Doom into a big happy family, and while he still has Fantastic Racism towards humans, he largely outgrows it. His ultimate plan changes from Kill All Humans to turn everyone in the world to apes, which is more goofy than straight-up genocidal.
- Adaptational Villainy: On the other hand, Grodd hates Gorilla City much more than his comic counterpart. Usually Grodd's ambitions are to rule over the city and lead an army against mankind, being a radical ape revolutionary. While he has led attacks on it's people, he still doesn't want to destroy his home. His first episode here has him try to nuke Gorilla City to rubble out of spite that he can't rule.
- Affably Evil: After some Character Development, he evolves into this.
- Arch-Enemy: To Gorilla City in general, and Solovar in particular. He could also be considered one for the Justice League as a whole, being their most recurring enemy post-League founding and the only one besides Luthor who is out, specifically, to destroy the League as an Evil Plan in and of itself and not just because they are interfering with his schemes, and unlike Luthor he isn't obsessed with individual Leaguers like Superman note
- Benevolent Boss: Downplayed. The Legion of Doom likes him more than Luthor because he treats them with more respect, but he still clearly sees all of them as disposable pawns and is perfectly willing to fry their brains if they are captured no matter how loyal they are. It's less that's he's a "good boss" and more that he's less bad than Luthor. Once his master plan is revealed, this changes.
- Betrayal Insurance: In Season 3 of Unlimited, he immediately plants a psychic lobotomy on his minions should they get captured, preventing the League from finding out about his new Society.
- Big Bad Wannabe: He recruits other supervillains to assemble the Legion of Doom, but his role as leader is usurped by Luthor halfway through the last season. Given how ridiculous his master plan turned out to be, the coup unsurprisingly gains the support of all his former followers.
- Bond Villain Stupidity:
- When the Secret Society lures the League into an ambush, Grodd pulls them back despite them outright winning, purely because he wants their final defeat to be a public spectacle. Parasite in particular was on the verge of killing Superman when he did this. This happens again when they outright defeat the League and he still spares them in order to execute them in a public stadium, which is even more egregious since it's J'onn J'onzz (disguised as Clayface) calling him out this time and even comparing him to a dumb movie villain explicitly, meaning J'onn must consider Grodd to be an outright living cliche.
- Proves to be his ultimate undoing in his battle against Luthor. Despite being more than a match for the man in a straight up brawl, even when Luthor was wearing energized gauntlets to augment his punches, he can't resist the desire to prove himself superior "both physically and mentally" and tries to deliver the Coup de grâce through his Mind Control powers only for Luthor, who fully anticipated this, to activate a countermeasure to turn it back on Grodd rendering him a slave under Luthor's control.
- Bullying a Dragon: During the last season, he makes a habit of rubbing in Luthor’s face how Lex is being forced to work for Grodd’s whims. Come “Dead Reckoning”, Lex bites back hard.
- Character Development: Grodd started off with a strong Fantastic Racism towards humans, but later grows out of it.
- Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: In this version, he sticks to his given name (just "Grodd") rather than calling himself "Gorilla Grodd". The only times he is referred to as such are in "Comfort and Joy", when the Flash tells an orphanage staff member that he once "made Gorilla Grodd cry 'Uncle'"; and in "The Great Brain Robbery", when Doctor Fate casts a spell and commands it to show him "the mind of Gorilla Grodd".
- Complexity Addiction:
- In tandem with his Bond Villain Stupidity, Grodd is incapable of doing things the easy way. His plan in "Secret Society" involves defeating the League twice without killing them because he needs their deaths to be a high profile spectacle for no discernible reason.
- His plan in “Dead Reckoning” would have probably succeeded for much longer had he just let Luthor beef up their HQ’s capacity to broadcast the carrier wave like Luthor was presuming they do. Instead, he has the Legion attack Gorilla City to use their force field instead, meaning Superman is right there to smash the machine about a minute after it activates.
- Deadpan Snarker: He always has a snide comment ready about somebody's inferior intellect. Flash in particular is a popular target of his.
- Defiant to the End: He spends his last moments while being Thrown Out the Airlock swearing that he's not done with Luthor, and will get revenge somehow.
- Diabolical Mastermind: Especially in Justice League Unlimited. The other members of the Legion of Doom pay him twenty-five percent of their profits; in exchange, he provides the muscle to keep the League off their backs.
- Disappointed by the Motive: Spends half the final season being ominously vague about his ultimate plan, only for it to turn out that he just wants to turn everybody into gorillas. The Legion is less than impressed when they find out, to say the least.
- Does Not Like Spam: He hates bananas.
- The Empath: Evil version. He can influence people to say things they'd otherwise keep to themselves by playing on their emotions.
- Eviler than Thou: In "Dead Reckoning", Luthor defeats Grodd with a single shot and takes over the Secret Society. When Grodd escapes in the next-to-last episode, the two face off in a straight fight that culminates in Lex once again outsmarting the gorilla and throwing him out of an airlock.
- Evil Genius: He plans a lot of his schemes out very carefully, and is a skilled telepath.
- Evil Is One Big, Happy Family: He intended for the members of the first Legion of Doom to genuinely bond with each other in order to work better as a team.
- Evil Plan: Parodied. His ultimate plan, turning every human (and Kryptonian) on Earth into a gorilla is just...goofy. Luthor calls him on it.
- Fantastic Racism: He thinks very little of humans. However, he outgrows it, in more ways than one.
- Fatal Flaw: The fact that he's egotistical to the point of parody. He can never consummate any of his evil plans because he's so obsessed with rubbing his superiority in the faces of his enemy first. It gets to the point where Luthor has finally had enough and just shoots him in the head.
- Genius Bruiser: He's a 600 pound gorilla with an intellect that rivals that of Lex Luthor.
- Has a Type: After some Character Development, he shows an interest in female humans.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Luthor uses his own Mind Rape powers on him.
- Hypocrite: He spends his debut decrying humans as disgusting and inferior while having relationships with several humans, one of which he mutated from an ape herself.
- Interspecies Romance: Every single one of his lovers has been human. He's so into them that he turned Giganta from an ape to a human just to suit his particular fetish.
- Kavorka Man: Or ape, first there was the hot scientist in his debut episodes, then Giganta and lastly Tala. Must be the smarts.
- Manipulative Bastard: With a dose of Psychic Powers and Sinister Surveillance, he manipulates the entire League into fighting each other and disbanding themselves. He also has a penchant for manipulating women in particular into blindly following him, with his first human accomplice even admitting that he never used his Mind Control technology on her at all- she only supported him because she honestly thought he was the most brilliant mind on the planet.
- More than Mind Control: In "Secret Society", he has subtly been using his newly acquired psychic powers to pull the Justice League apart by keeping them off their A game and even gets the League to outright disband, however he admits to Shade that he isn't powerful enough to do this on his own and instead had to manipulate insecurities that were already there, sabotage their sleeping patterns, make them more irritable and encourage them to get on each other's nerves more than usual.
- Mind Rape: His specialty. Even when he's not using mind-altering technology, his favored tactic is psychological manipulation.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: He notes that he really should be thanking the Flash since he inadvertently gave Grodd Psychic Powers the first time he defeated him.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: After his first plan to conquer the world fails, he uses being electrocuted by his mind control helmet to act as if his intelligence has been lowered to that of an ordinary gorilla. In reality, the helmet gives him innate psychic abilities that he can use to mentally torture opponents.
- Only One Name: He is addressed by just "Grodd". No surname.
- Psychic Powers: He develops them after Flash fries his mind-control device while Grodd was using it.
- Sinister Surveillance: Spied on the League for a time to get a better idea of their strengths and weaknesses and to monitor the progress of his plan to undermine them psychologically. By the time he's running the Legion he seems to be spying on his own members too as he fries their brains whenever they get caught before they can say anything.
- Smug Snake: Thinks so little of humans that he forgets they can fight back.
- Social Darwinist: Believes the strong should rule and the weak obey. He repeatedly scoffs at "society's petty restrictions" for daring to keep the criminal element down. Luthor calls him an Objectivist as an insult in their final confrontation.
- Took a Level in Badass: Several times in fact. He started out as a regular super-intelligent gorilla with mind control technology, but following his first appearance a malfunction with his device causes him to develop actual Psychic Powers. Beyond that though, he also started out as a solo villain with gullible / brainwashed lackeys, graduated to assembling a Villain Team-Up, and then in the final season has founded the Legion of Doom. His plan to turn the entire world into apes, while undeniably silly, also counts somewhat as it was the first time he managed to operate on a truly global scale.
- Too Clever by Half: He is one the most scarily effective villains in the show and manages to outright defeat the League more than once, as well as turn dozens of supervillains into his willing pawns. Yet he always screws it up in the end because he just needs people to know how smart he is, resulting in him passing up opportunities for easy wins in favor of ever grander and more ludicrous schemes.
- True Companions: What he tries to turn the Secret Society and then the Legion of Doom into.
Sinestro
Sinestro
Voiced by: Ted Levine (Superman: The Animated Series, Static Shock and Justice League, Justice League Unlimited
Appearances: Superman: The Animated Series | Justice League | Static Shock
A disgraced former member of the Green Lantern Corps, he was a personal nemesis to John Stewart.
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Giganta
Giganta
Voiced by: Jennifer Hale
Appearances: Justice League
"Wouldn't hit a woman, would you?"
Giganta was a super villain with the ability to increase or decrease her size at will. She befriended Grodd and became a member of his Secret Society.
- Adaptational Personality Change: This version is much more feminine than her comics counterpart.
- Adaptational Modesty: This version wears a dress instead of a leopard-spotted loincloth and top, and wears shoes.
- Anti-Villain: While undoubtedly a villain, Giganta doesn't go out of her way to Kick the Dog and seems to be among the most human of the Society's members. She joins the society out of devotion to Grodd and no other reason.
- Combat Stilettos: She wears high heels to battle. They're quite useful when she needs to step on someone.
- Didn't Think This Through: In the episode "Ultimatum", Giganta makes the mistake of insulting Longshadow until he changes his height on command to stand around the same height as her.
- Evil Redhead: A redhead and an Anti-Villain.
- Giant Equals Invincible: In her giant form, she's practically unfazed by gunfire and artillery.
- Hypocritical Humor: In the above mentioned episode "Ultimatum" she calls Long Shadow tiny when she herself stands around his height when not growing to giant sizes on command.
- Magic Skirt: Strangely enough, considering she wears a tiny dress and can grow to giant size, it keeps her covered, even when she falls over. However, due to the slit in her skirt, there are a few side shots where you can clearly see where her legs stop and her butt begins.
- Minidress of Power: All she ever wears is a single-strap minidress that has a low neckline, barely reaches mid-thigh, and has a slit going up one side.
- Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Grodd tried to fry her brain so she turned on him in the second-to-last episode.
- Ms. Fanservice: She has a buxom figure, especially compared with Killer Frost in the Secret Society, and wears a tiny dress. She attracts a few men in the show.
- My Master, Right or Wrong: While genuinely criminal, her main connection is her devotion to Grodd for, "As long as he needs me." Or until he fries her brain.
- My Suit Is Also Super: Her dress and jewelry also change size with her and share the same durability as her giant form. Good thing too, lest she be subject to a couple different tropes.
- Ship Tease: In the final episode, she plants a kiss on the Flash's lips. Doesn't seem to mean anything if the tie-in comic continuation is any indication, where he starts dating Linda and didn't think much of Giganta's kiss besides being an unserious crush. She doesn't take it well.
- Sizeshifter: Her main superpower is growing to huge heights.
- Statuesque Stunner: Well, obviously. Even in her non-giant form, she towers above most male characters, being noticeably taller than any male Justice League member (save for J’onn, who’s incredibly tall).
- Truer to the Text: Yes, the original Giganta was an ape who was turned human via an experiment, although it was not another gorilla who orchestrated it. (Origins of the character from other continuities made her a human scientist who gained her powers via experiments or accidents, the origin given here reverting to the character's roots.)
- Villainesses Want Heroes: She turns out to have a crush on the Flash; in the comic tie-in, he misinterprets Giganta's desire to spend time with him as her wanting to pull a Heel–Face Turn.
- Woman Scorned: Subverted eventually with Grodd. While she's a bit pissed off that he's replaced her with someone else (as it turns out, Tala), she's more furious that he tried to fry her brain.
- Wouldn't Hit a Girl: Invokes this on Superman one time. Wonder Woman doesn't have a problem, though...
Killer Frost
Killer Frost
Voiced by: Jennifer Hale
Appearances: Justice League
"Kiss my frosted butt."
Killer Frost was a super-villainess who had the ability of Cryokinesis and was a member of Grodd's Legion of Doom.
- Adaptational Modesty: A slight example. This version of Killer Frost wears a unitard instead of a leotard.
- Ax-Crazy: The girl likes murdering.
- Black Eyes of Evil: Black eyes, and one of the most vile Society members.
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Like many other Society members, she betrays Grodd for Luthor and then Luthor for Grodd as the balance of power and Luthors' sanity shifts; unlike the others though, she gets back in Luthors good graces by flat-out murdering the other members of the defeated Grodd faction.
- Creepy Monotone: Her voice seldom goes up or down.
- Dark Action Girl: Her powers are impeccably useful in combat.
- Deadpan Snarker: Always a sarcastic quip in her.
- For the Evulz: Grodd makes it clear that she's working for him simply because she just wants to kill as many people as possible. She seems very disappointed when Grodd wants someone alive.
- Goth: Lone Psycho Goth variant.
- Harmless Freezing: Averted. There's a reason she's called Killer Frost.
- An Ice Person: "Not necessarily a nice person," indeed.
- I Fight for the Strongest Side!: When Luthor's faction comes out on top against Grodd's, she takes a few steps away and flash-freezes his minions. Luthor welcomes her into the fold.
- Karma Houdini: Applies to most of the surviving Legion of Doom members in the Grand Finale, but she stands out as she is one of the most vile members who happens to be the number one reason there needed to be "survivors" in the first place.
- Lady Looks Like a Dude: Due to her lack of lipstick and short hair, she can be easily mistaken for a man.
- Looks Like Cesare: Dark eyes and lips with pale blue skin. Like many examples, the intent is a Tim Burton-esque effect.
- Major Injury Underreaction: Grodd has the group engage in teamwork and trust-building exercises, which Frost surprisingly goes along with. Giganta "accidentally" crushing her during the "fall backwards and I'll catch you" one elicits no more than a bored-sounding, "Ow."
- Pet the Dog: She reassures Clayface that Morgan Edge, his captor, will never harm him again.
- Psycho for Hire: As Grodd puts it, "she just likes killing things," to the point where she looks really disappointed whenever she's stopped. On the bright side, it makes her really hard to bribe.
- Psychotic Smirk: This and disdain about sum up her facial expressions.
- The Sociopath: The other members of the original Society at least had reasons for their actions, such as money, loyalty to Grodd or a desire to be cured. Killer Frost just likes killing people.
- Underestimating Badassery: Does this to Toyman in "Alive". Considering that Toyman has frequently clashed with Superman, she should have known better.
Atomic Skull
Atomic Skull
Voiced by: Raphael Sbarge ("Dead Reckoning",), Lex Lang ("Alive", "Destroyer")
Appearances: Justice League Unlimited
Atomic Skull is a supervillain who is a member of the Legion of Doom.
- Adaptational Wimp: He's one of Superman's foes in the comics, with the power to back it up. In the DCAU, he still has superpowers but a Badass Normal like Wildcat can severely trounce him in a physical fight.
- Affably Evil: In spite of his fearsome appearance, Atomic Skull is unfailingly polite for a supervillain and one of the more sympathetic members of the Secret Society. In the final episode, he is one of the first characters to propose an alliance with the Justice League and saves Shayera's life out of his own free will.
- Atomic Superpower: His main superpower is firing concentrated blasts of radiation.
- Badass on Paper: Was the champion of the Meta-Brawl and touted as a tough fighter but all of his appearance involve him getting his butt kicked. Only time he is shown to win a fight is the series finale.
- Butt-Monkey: Despite being a fearsome-looking metahuman, most of his screen time is spent being humiliatingly trounced by non-powered heroes - and, in one case, by an anonymous teenage monk.
- Even Evil Has Standards: He insists that he and the other villains should be allowed to help the heroes stop Darkseid's invasion.
- Fights Like a Normal: Appears curiously reluctant to use his primary superpower, instead trying to fistfight people (and losing). He does seem to have some measure of super strength, but when he finally cuts loose with the blasts against parademons it's clear he'd be a lot more effective if he used it more freely.
- Mauve Shirt: One of only a handful of Legion members to survive the finale.
- Pet the Dog: He honored his temporary truce with the League and carries a wounded Hawkgirl away from an imminent explosion.
- Skull for a Head: Has a skull wrapped in green fire, which he can fire energy blasts from. Nobody shows any visible discomfort from punching him in the face, however.
- Vocal Dissonance: For a demonic-looking guy with a flaming skull for a head, Atomic Skull has a high pitched voice to the point he almost sounds like a teenager in the finale (which is probably the case, since he was a student in the source material). In his first speaking appearance, "Dead Reckoning", he had a deeper, more gravelly voice more expected of the character.
Bizarro
Bizarro
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Cheetah
Voiced by: Sheryl Lee Ralph
Appearances: Justice League
Cheetah was a former scientist turned into a supervillain after genetically modifying herself. She was a member of the Injustice Gang and Legion of Doom.
- Adaptational Backstory Change: Apart from her appearance, she has almost nothing in common with any of her comic-book counterparts; the one she's closest to, Barbara Minerva, was a tomb-robbing English noblewoman who became a werecat through a magical ritual and was a a dedicated enemy of Wonder Woman.
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: This is implied with her, especially since she took an interest in Batman. When they start openly flirting together after Batman tells her "cats aren't the only ones who are curious," she playfully warns him that "too much curiosity can be dangerous", an obvious reference to the old "Curiosity Killed the Cat" saying. Batman replies that maybe he likes danger, implying he likes Cheetah because she's dangerous, with her giving an interested "Do you?" in response and him whispering a seductive "Try me," as if daring her to make a move on him, leading to her giving a warm smile before passionately kissing him. Though this is downplayed since what really got Cheetah interested in Batman was him lending a sympathetic ear to her previously and complimenting her, with the "bad boy who likes danger" thing just being how they flirt together.
- Anti-Villain: Although she is a villain, she hates she has become "a freak" due to experimenting on herself due to lack of funding. She presumably commits crimes to gain the funds needed to continue her research.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: She becomes attracted to Batman when he not only takes an interest in her origins but also takes pity on her and compliments her for being willing to give up everything for a cause she believed in, instead of condemning her as a freak. This quickly leads to the two of them flirting together until they share a passionate kiss together.
- The Big Damn Kiss: This is played with between her and Batman. When the Injustice Gang views the security footage and witness the two of them kissing, the screen zooms in on the two of them three times as the two of them continuously deepen the kiss, until it is practically an Extreme Closeup. The background music also plays dramatically during this moment, as if to sell the kiss as evidence against Cheetah.
- Captive Date: She ends up having one with Batman as she guards him, ironically with him being the one to start it with her while being her captive. She ends up telling him her origins and he offers her his sympathies, causing her to become attracted to him and cuddle up with him as he's restrained. The two openly flirt with each other briefly, culminating in sharing a passionate kiss.
- Cassandra Truth: Cheetah insists that she's not the traitor to the rest of the Injustice Gang, even as she is being dragged away by Grundy, but nobody believes her since they just witnessed footage of her and Batman kissing.
- Cat Girl: She is a former genetic scientist who experimented on herself due to the lack of funding, resulting in her gaining the appearance and powers of a cheetah.
- Dating Catwoman: It's a pun that works on multiple levels, as not only is she a literal cat woman, but it's implied that Batman's attraction to her stems at least partially from his history with the Trope Namer Selina Kyle. When she is assigned to guard Batman alone, she ends up sharing her origins with him. When Batman comforts her on her choices, the two quickly begin flirting before sharing a passionate kiss.Cheetah: How do you know so much about me?
Batman: Let's just say, cats aren't the only creatures who are curious.
Cheetah: (moving next to him) Too much curiosity can be dangerous.
Batman: Maybe I like danger.
Cheetah: Do you?
Batman: (whispers) Try me.
(Cheetah smiles before leaning in and kissing him) - Decoy Damsel: When the Injustice Gang first battles the Justice League, Cheetah pretends to be a hostage Ultra-Humanite has taken, disguised in civilian clothing. When Batman arrives to save the hostage, Cheetah attacks him.
- Demoted to Extra: After her debut appearance in "Injustice For All", she only appeared in a handful of episodes in Unlimited. She only had another speaking appearance in one other episode, and was more or less reduced to cameo appearances afterwards.
- Forceful Kiss: Played With between her and Batman. Cheetah kisses Batman while he is restrained and unable to resist her if he wanted to. However, despite being restrained, Cheetah only kisses Batman after the two flirted together for a moment, with Batman practically daring her to kiss him. Also, when footage of the kiss is viewed by the Injustice Gang later, Batman is shown leaning into the kiss too and actually kissing Cheetah back as she deepens the kiss.
- Held Gaze: When Batman starts complimenting her, she cuddles up to him while lifting his chin up with a finger seductively and they gaze into each others eyes while flirting together. After a quick exchange between them, ending with Batman whispering "Try me" to Cheetah, she gives him a brief touched smile before wrapping an arm around his head and leaning in slowly as she closes her eyes, before they share a deep passionate kiss.
- Irony: She was originally planned as just a one-shot villain to be Killed Offscreen by the end of the episode, but was spared due to an animation error. After that, she ended up surviving all the way to the end of the series, including the last two episodes of Unlimited, which saw the deaths of multiple other villains, several of which were arguably more powerful than her.
- Meaningful Look: Cheetah gives Batman several, showing her feelings and growing attraction to him. When he first complements her on being willing to give up everything for a cause she believed in, she looks at him in shock for a moment before asking how he knows so much about her. After he comments "cats aren't the only ones who are curious," while smirking at her, she is seen smiling before sliding up next to him and cuddling with him with a sly smirk of her own as the two begin to openly flirt with each other about curiosity being dangerous. After Batman whispers for Cheetah to "try [him]", she gives him a brief touched smile before wrapping an arm around his head and deeply kissing him.
- Red Herring: It seems like she is the traitor of the Injustice Gang at first. She has a romantic moment with Batman where they flirt and share a passionate kiss, and while waiting for the bomb to explode she is the only member who seems depressed. But when she is accused of being the traitor, even after seeing a video of her kissing Batman, she says she is innocent. She is correct and the real traitor is revealed to be Ultra-Humanite, who surrenders after taking down Lex and was revealed to have made a deal with Batman off-screen.
- A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: Cheetah, having someone taking pity on her for her actions as a scientist, and telling her that she is not a freak, but someone who tried to give everything for her values, after having been condemned as a freak, suffers a large dose of attraction and connection and passionately kisses Batman. When Luthor's plan to kill the League goes up in flames, Luthor sees the kiss and assumes she is the mole. She almost gets killed as a result.
- Villainous Crush: She finds herself attracted to Batman when he comforts her after she shares her past with him, enough to start flirting with him and plant a deep kiss on him. It is unknown if this crush lasted once the Injustice Gang was defeated.
- Villainous Face Hold: Downplayed between her and Batman. When she becomes attracted to him when he comforts her on her backstory, she slides up to him and cuddles with him while lifting his chin up with a finger. Though she does this while genuinely flirting with him, she does this while he is restrained and she is still technically one of his captors.
Shade
Shade
Voiced by: Stephen McHattie
Appearances: Justice League
Shade was a supervillain who controlled shadows. He joined a record number of four separate Anti-Justice League organizations.
- Adaptational Ugliness: He's much older note and uglier in the DCAU than he is in the comics.
- Adaptational Villainy: While he was a villain in the comics for a long time, by the time the Justice League animation was running he had become an Anti-Hero, a characterisation that has largely stuck.
- Adaptational Wimp: Shade here was based on the pre-Robinson version and thus didn't seem to be near as powerful as his post-Zero Hour counterpart, who was strong enough to defeat several Black Lanterns with relative ease.
- Amazon Chaser: He's not the least bit bothered by Giganta being a Statuesque Stunner, in fact he likes it. Even after learning she used to be a gorilla.
- Casting a Shadow: The Shade's staff can project solid shadows to strike or immobilize his opponents.
- Dark Is Evil: He wears black and manipulates the shadows.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: He was among one of the most high-profile casualties of the finale.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: Always the first to know when he's been beat.
- Kung-Fu Wizard: He eventually learns martial arts to complement his shadow-based powers.
- Lean and Mean: Fairly lean and a certain villain.
- Looks Like Cesare: A far more direct example than the similar-looking Killer Frost. This is a marked change from the comics, where he simply looks like a normal man in very antiquated dress.
- Pragmatic Villainy: Prefers to remain a thief over a ruler. Downplayed when it comes to joining Villain Team Ups- after two failed ones, he has come to the conclusion that they are just plain bad ideas that end up in him being arrested, but Grodd talks him into a third one despite Shades' misgivings...which also results in failure.
- Sinister Shades: Wears a pair of sunglasses to complete his outfit.
- Squishy Wizard: Until he Took a Level in Badass and learned martial arts, his staff was his only utility in combat.
- Took a Level in Badass: He manages to land a few good hits on Batman during their first and only hand-to-hand fight. He is only convinced to retreat once Superman steps in.
Star Sapphire
Star Sapphire (Carol Ferris)
Voiced by: Olivia d'Abo
Appearances: Justice League
Star Sapphire is a villain that is for hire and a member of the Injustice Gang and Legion of Doom.
- Adaptational Nationality: She's been changed from American to British.
- Adaptational Villainy: She went from an Anti-Hero to a full on villain.
- Alpha Bitch: While not explicitly stated to be a queen like in the comics, she sure is haughty enough. When she finds that she wasn't the only supervillain summoned by Luthor to join his Injustice Gang, she snidely asks if she's been reduced to being in the ranks of "common criminals" now.
- Ambiguous Situation: Word of God has confirmed that she's supposed to be Carol Ferris. Since until Justice League vs. The Fatal Five, it seemed Hal wasn't a Green Lantern in this continuity, what led to her becoming a Star Sapphire is unknown. If anything, she genuinely believed in Aresia's cause to eradicate all men because of her past experience with some "very unpleasant men [she's] known over the years."
- Artifact of Power: Her head-jewel-thing.
- Blood Knight: She enjoys beating her enemies. When Lex recruits her to his Injustice Gang and says that they're going to destroy the Justice League, she and Grundy are the only ones grinning while everyone else has a This Is Going to Suck/Mass "Oh, Crap!" reaction.
- Cute Bruiser: She looks fragile but with her gem's power, she's a brutal fighter.
- Dark Action Girl: She has put up some serious fights among most of the villainesses.
- Dark Is Evil: Probably the reason why her costume was recolored from bright pink (as it is in the comics) to very dark purple, almost black.
- Distaff Counterpart: To John Stewart, the main Green Lantern.
- Does Not Like Men: She's willing to work with them if she need it be, but she's fine with Aresia wanting to commit gendercide against men, stating that she's dealt with some "very unpleasant men [she's] known over the years."
- Demoted to Extra: Despite being one of the more prominent figures in the Green Lantern comic mythos, this version doesn’t really do or say much of anything. It’s not explained on who this Carol is, got her powers, and why she hates men, not even what her dynamic is like with any of the Green Lanterns in this continuity.
- Evil Brit: British and certainly evil.
- Evil Is Petty: Not content with being the Injustice Gang's most unpleasant teammate (not a small feat), she gleefully joined an attempt at Gendercide just to get rid of some guys she disliked.
- Faux Affably Evil: Acts like a Proper Lady while killing enemies.
- Head Blast: The source of Star Sapphire's powers is the gemstone she wears on her forehead. Its main application is firing beams of concentrated energy, though it has also been shown to create force fields and move far away objects.
- In the Back: How she's defeated in the final battle of "Injustice For All", courtesy of Diana.
- It's All About Me: Only helps other villains if it benefits her.
- Jerkass: She's rude to everyone and only looks out for herself.
- Kick the Dog: Mocks everyone she beats.
- Lady of War: Invoked and Subverted. She acts as this trope but she's very cruel.
- Leotard of Power: Unlike most versions of the character, it's a very dark purple instead of pink.
- Mysterious Past: Almost nothing about her origins is known.
- Purple Is Powerful: Her costume and energy constructs are purple.
- Smug Smiler: Always has a smile on her face when gaining the upper hand.
- Smug Snake: She's a snooty lady to say the least.
- Smug Super: She has reasons to be arrogant, since she's almost on par with Green Lantern.
Devil Ray
Devil Ray
Voiced by: Michael Beach
Appearances: Justice League Unlimited
He is also known as Black Manta, but was renamed in the show due to the Aquaman Embargo.
- Accidental Murder: When Deadman sees that he's recovered and is about to shoot Wonder Woman from behind, Deadman possesses Batman and shoots him with a gun lying on the ground, which causes Devil Ray to stumble back into an exposed electrical panel.
- Adaptation Name Change: He's Black Manta, but DC placed an embargo on Aquaman characters due to planning an Aquaman show and not wanting children to get confused by two versions of the same character. Black Manta was allowed to appear in Unlimited, but had to be renamed.
- Canon Immigrant: DC revealed in their solictations for September 2021 that Devil Ray would join the comics, leading to Expy Coexistence with Black Manta.
- Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Despite being a Captain Ersatz of Aquaman arch-enemy Black Manta, Devil Ray seems to be an enemy of Wonder Woman (this was due to the aforementioned embargo restricting Aquaman from making further appearances in addition to use of any characters associated with him).
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Parasite
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Toyman
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Metallo
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Clayface
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