Characters / Life Ore Death

The Team

Renka Tindwysra a.k.a. Ferris, the Sliver of Entropy

• Ambiguously Brown: People are unable to peg her ethnicity as more than "coloured". It's justified by the fact she hails from another dimension, so she's not going to present as a typical African/Indian/Middle Eastern woman.
• An Arm and a Leg: She tries to block a sword swing with her armored forearm, unaware that it’s an x-ionized weapon, and loses the arm, armor and all.
• Brainy Brunette: She's an absolute beast on the mathematical front.
• Brought Down to Badass: Even on the occasions she’s been denied her Feruchemy, Renka is still a very fit, experienced, and ruthless melee fighter on her own merits.
  • In the beginning of Season 2, she can't use Feruchemy or even walk without support, but she's still got a sharp mind; while she's been Brought Down to Normal, her normal still qualifies her as a Team member.
• Celibate Hero: Starts off the story this way, deliberately not looking for any relationships because her life is in no state for one. As of Season 2, Word of God says she starts dating Jimmy Olsen.
• Cool Big Sis: The slate she fulfills within the Team. It comes naturally after helping to raise a dozen of younger siblings.
• Combat Pragmatist: Even more than most of the Team, but also an interesting example because she’s learned Murder Is the Best Solution does not always apply, especially on Earth. She still goes for headshots, ambush, numerical advantage, and overwhelming firepower if she can get it, but she holds back enough to fit in.
• Combo Platter Powers: As a full Feruchemist, Renka has 16+ individual powers that all work along similar lines: store a trait in a metal-mind and tap it later for a boost. She can use multiple traits at once in a variety of ways, and she has some indeterminate additional powers as the Sliver of Entropy.
• The Corrupter: Downplayed, but her influence has pushed the rest of the Team towards actions that are more brutal or grotesque than would otherwise be comfortable. After a few bad experiences, they have learned to think very carefully before following her ideas and her friends do their best to pull her toward moderation and good, too.
• Cuddle Bug: She's not afraid to get close, and even weaponizes it as a way to build trust and intimacy with her teammates.
• Determinator: Having lived through a lot, Ferris can work through agonizing pain and injuries when she has to, and her Feruchemy-granted Healing Factor and other abilities only increases her tendency toward this.
• Drill Sergeant Nasty: Usually Ferris is very polite, but during her brief stint as The Leader in India she is far more verbally aggressive and abrasive than usual. It’s justified because everyone feels miserable after surviving yesterday’s attack, and the petty infighting some of them are directing against Aqualad (even after he steps down) risks the success of the mission, so she demands that they stop it.
• Easily Forgiven: Renka’s polite nature and her ability to build emotional bonds is probably why she gets away with or forgiven for things people would expect the Justice League and associates to come down on far harder than they do.
• Experienced Protagonist: After spending her teenage years fighting a Civil War and generally trying to stay alive, she knows very well how to use her ability to defend herself.
• Fish out of Water: After leaving Scadrial - quite the Crapsack World - for Earth-16, she's naturally bemused and confused about many things.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: She was a homeless, jobless, penniless teenager who signed up under Superman and started wrecking the plans of the Light. Given that she comes from another dimension, they knew literally nothing of her history and methods until they specifically commissioned assignments to find out about her.
  • Ferris went through this in her backstory, going from the 8th daughter of a Terris breeder in a small village to a master of Blood Magic and the Sliver of Entropy, ending up as one of the 3 most dangerous humans alive on Scadrial after the Catascendre.
• Girly Bruiser: Her fighting style is extremely physical and brutal, but it doesn't forbid her to enjoy wearing skirts, cooking and emotionally baring herself to her teammates.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: What’s one of her most useful abilities? Her duralumin Feruchemy, which allows Renka to store and tap her spiritual connection; she most often uses it to speak the local language by connecting to wherever she happens to be, but it also conveys the ability to quickly form strong emotional bonds with strangers. Superman’s quick willingness to extend trust could be attributed partly to this, as well as her ability to befriend the Team, and she’s used it at various times to calm a raging berserker, talk down the genocidal Red Volcano, steal attention from people for a distraction, etc.
• Human Alien: She and Wally briefly ponder over the possibility of her gods reusing the "human" blueprints to create life on Scadrial.
• I Have Many Names: The Lady Feruchemist, the Sliver of entropy, creature of anti-life the list goes on.
• Line-of-Sight Name: How she picked her cape alias — the first thing she saw after landing on Earth was a Ferris Wheel and she found it awesome.
• Massive Numbered Siblings: She's the eight child of her mother, and the fourth daughter. The children numbered twenty-seven, meaning she had fourteen sisters and thirteen brothers.
• Meaningful Name: Played with. Her given name, Renka, doesn’t mean anything that we know of. She does come up with a last name that is a language pun on her mother’s name and her position as an eighth child, but the audience doesn’t speak Scadrese, so we can’t understand the pun.
  • At first, because of her language difficulty and metal theme, the Justice League listed her designation as Ferrous. It turns out that no, she meant Ferris as in a Ferris wheel, because she likes them.
• Mission Control: Her main duties while confined to her wheelchair.
• My God, What Have I Done?: She’s had a long string of these in her backstory, and her heroism now is the result of trying to do better.
  • She’s utterly mortified that she beat Red Arrow up when he was acting out due to Mind Control and not responsible for his own actions.
• Nightmare Fetishist: Has a bit of a taste for the grotesque, which actually helps when...
• Race Fetish: Was the target of one back on Scaderial, she dumped the guy. When she visits home she's furious to find out the guy's with her sister AND their expecting a child. Renka was too polite to tell said sister the truth about the him.
• She's Back: After months of physical therapy, Ferris fights 7-on-1 and wins to show she’s ready for field duty with the Team.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: She starts dating Jimmy Olsen in Season 2.
• Supernatural Gold Eyes: The narration often insists on their "tawny" shade.
• Superpower Lottery: Her Feruchemy is extremely versatile.
• Talking the Monster to Death: If given the opportunity, Ferris will mercilessly deconstruct the opponent's motivation to make them surrender or turn a new leaf.
• Teleportation: Gains this ability by owning a mystic artifact from Atlantis.
• The Unfettered: Trying to survive in a Crapsack World while Civil War was in full swing made her this, and Ruin's influence only made it worse. She actually feels reassured when the League and the Team try to restrain her more brutal impulses.
• Willing Channeler: She's ready to surrender her body to Nabu, but he declines since it would be too harmful for her.

Dick Grayson a.k.a. Robin

• The Ace: The first modern sidekick and inspiration to a generation of kids, with all the expected skills from having 4+ years of experience fighting crime in Gotham.
• The Baby of the Bunch: The youngest member of the Team and he has no powers, but he’s capable enough that usually people don’t need to baby him.
• Brainy Brunette: Very smart and with a Batman-taught well rounded education. He excels at detective work and programming or hacking computers.
• Break the Cutie: In the past, he first was broken by his family’s deaths, then emotional clashes had him attempt suicide during his first year with Bruce. The things he’ve seen in Gotham since then have not been pleasant, and he has guilty qualms about being the only one with a Secret Identity he keeps from the Team.
• Buffy Speak: Intentionally. English is not his first language, (and he knows several,) so he has fun playing around with word inflection and prefixes to make his own words. Becomes a bonding activity between him and Ferris, as she is also learning English as a Second (sixth) Language.
• The Charmer: Extremely charismatic and friendly, with a lot of friends who highly value him.
• Circus Brat: Grew up in a circus, where he learned acrobatics, showmanship, makeup skills, etc.
• Clark Kenting: Does it well enough that Artemis can’t figure out who he is.
• Cool Shades: Wears them as part of his civilian disguise to stay separate from “Dick Grayson”.
• Didn't Think This Through: How he completely ruined his relationship with Zatanna. Since she attended an all-girl school, he crossdressed to visit her, only for them to be walked on while he was kissing her. Which led the other students to label Zatanna a lesbian, in a Catholic school. Yeah, ouch.
• Dissonant Laughter: A side story reveals that this is Invoked intentionally by Robin, in an attempt to stop his creepy Social Services agent from always telling such awful jokes.
• Everyone Can See It: His immediate and obvious crush on Zatanna amuses most of the rest of the Team; only Ferris is worried because she believes he and Artemis are already dating.
• Famed In-Story: He's the Boy Wonder, so very popular.
• Happily Adopted: Note that neither he nor Batman even try to protest when people call him Batman's son.
• Hidden Depths: A hug from Renka almost reduces him to tears because it helped him to remember his mom.
  • Nabu also comments on his strong mystical power and muses he has the potential to be a suitable host.
• Highly-Visible Ninja: Dresses like a traffic light (though the outer lining of his cape is black), and is still the sneakiest person on the Team.
• Hollywood Hacking: Can hack most computers and databases, though he usually needs a physical port to plug into, and some protections give him trouble.
• Horrifying the Horror: Regularly spooks people by sneaking up on or away from them. Nearly suffers a Brown Note in Bialya when an unknown agent sneaks within feet of his back while carrying an unconscious Aqualad. : It’s Ferris, and Aqualad was unconscious from the heat, not injuries.]]
• Properly Paranoid: Follows up on all sorts of random clues that may or may not mean something; often, the clues are important, but not always. He’s paranoid enough to almost deduce the existence of Hemalurgy, but he isn’t always paranoid enough about what he says to other people.
• Red Baron: He is Robin, the Boy Wonder, and it gets mentioned. He was the first modern sidekick, and an inspiration to many people, and together with Wonder Girl they formed the Wonder Twins for a while.
• Romani: He leaves flowers under the brown triangle memorial when visiting Auschwitz. According Word of God, his Rom blood is quite diluted but he chose to identify as this after a social worker told him a "dirty thieving gyp" would amount to nothing but a criminal.
  • There's a small allusion to Roma witchcraft when Doctor Fate briefly takes him as a host and comments on his surprisingly strong potential for the mystic arts.
• Secret Identity: The only one to maintain his amongst the Team — thank you, Bat-paranoia.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: One of his trademarks.

Kaldur'ahm a.k.a. Aqualad

• Apparently Human Merfolk: He’s half modified-human and half gill-graph Atlantean, so he looks very human except for his gills and his webbed fingers.
• Breather Episode: He and Renka have one where the title lampshades it: Episode 6 - Inspire, Respire, Expire. It involves the Team’s surprise celebration of Renka’s 20th birthday, and Aqualad’s present is a trip to Atlantis, which also gets her out of the Mountain while they set up the surprise party. Being underwater, breathing is also an important plot point.
• Broken Pedestal: Aqualad loses most of the Team’s trust as The Leader after the thing with The Mole and the invasion of the mountain. The one subversion is Ferris, who is flattered that he didn’t just assume she was the mole because of her suspicious history.
• Celibate Hero: With the discovery that his friend Tula has entered a relationship with his friend Garth, Kaldur bows out politely and wishes them well, but he also doesn’t move on; he gave Tula his heart and she still has it.
• The Chains of Commanding: Does not enjoy being a leader - neither the responsibilities nor the perks - but takes the position because none of the others are better suited for it (until Robin gets older).
• Child Soldiers: Enrollment into the Atlantean military is mandatory at a certain age, but most of the students are treated more as being in military school and not sent out to the field until they are older. Kaldur is an exception because of his Aqualad activities by his king’s side.
• Dual Wielding: Uses two “water-bearers” to create hard water construct weapons.
• Elemental Baggage: He can generate his own bio electricity, but needs an external water source.
• Good Parents: He and Wally are the only members of the Team with two Good Parents who are still alive. Subverted, in that Calvin Durham is secretly his step-father, his birth father is Black Manta, and his mother is suggested to have a large Dark Secret in her past.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: He wishes nothing but a long and fruitful relationship for Tula and Garth in spite of being utterly crushed when he found them making out.
• Jack of All Stats: Weaker than Superboy, less esoteric than Zatanna, less skilled in weapons than Artemis, less skilled in magic than Zatanna, etc., but still skilled in almost every subject.
• The Leader: In charge of the Team, though they are still under Justice League authority (which doesn’t stop them from occasionally disobeying the League, since that’s how they got started in the first place).
• Lineage Comes from the Father: Played With. Is named after his father, Calvin Durham, except Calvin is his step-father and Black Manta is his real father, and strongly resembles the man but also has traits of his mother and was raised in her native culture.
• Locked Out of the Loop: As in canon, he is unaware that his biological father is Black Manta.
  • A Ten Truths side story says there’s a lot of bad in his mother’s past, too.
• Making a Splash: Can use his magic to manipulate water in a variety of ways and shapes.
• Morph Weapon: He favors blades or maces, but his water-bearers can shape water into a multitude of forms.
• No-Sell: Fights a Superpowered Evil Side as part of his test in the Tower of Fate. He beats it very handily, because it keeps trying to upset him with thoughts about Tula, except he went back to Atlantis earlier than canon, and has already discovered and come to terms with her and Garth’s relationship.
• Oblivious Adoption: Since he genuinely believes Calvin Durham is his father, he's allowed to enter the Tower of Fate when he introduces himself as his parents' child — but only after the system briefly glitched.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: He protected the Rhelasia Summit with Red Arrow despite Sportsmaster being buffed up by prior Kobra Venom exposure during the attack.
• Pair the Spares: Averted. Despite he and Ferris being two of the older members, the effort he went to for her birthday, his being a Secret-Keeper about her first kill, and them both being single, they have expressed no romantic interest in each other.
• Rage Quit: On top of being miserable and injured after the Red Robot invasion of the mountain, being shunned by most of the Team for keeping a secret about The Mole is the last straw. Ferris is the only one who doesn’t shun him (because she’s flattered that he didn’t immediately assume it was her when she’s obviously the most suspicious,) and she’s been holding everyone together for the past day, so he announces a vote to have her replace him until such time as the team is willing to trust him again.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Will subvert the orders of the Justice League when the Team thinks it’s the right thing to do.
• Secret-Keeper: He was the first one to hear how Renka accidentally killed her eldest brother.

Wally West a.k.a. Kid Flash

• Adaptational Intelligence: Wally is explicitly treated as a science (and especially chemistry) genius, as well as being the second-best mechanic on the Team. It’s even mentioned in a side-story that Wally recreated the Garrick Formula perfectly twice; the first time, he did it in a heavily insulated basement on a clear sunny day so that he could avoid a lightning strike. After learning that the lightning was needed for it to work, he did it a second time and gained his powers.
  • He also synthesizes his own material for his costume, and is doing more chemistry stuff for the Team.
• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Subverted. In the original comics, Wally’s parents were abusive, while he is shown to have a happy home life in the Tv show. In this story, it’s revealed that his father was an abusive drunk in Wally’s childhood… until his parents got marriage counseling and his dad went cold turkey on alcohol. Wally has made his peace with this, and they care deeply for each other.
• Agent Scully: He rather quickly grows out of it, courtesy of Renka pondering the differences between technology and Sufficiently Analyzed Magic.
• Arbitrary Skepticism: He doesn’t believe “magic” is real, despite the predominance of supernatural beings on the Justice League, and insists magic-users are fakes whose methods can be explained by science.
  • He grows out of this when it runs into the Functional Magic Ferris uses, as she can understand her own magic while she considers Earth’s advanced technology and Wally’s powers to be mystically incomprehensible in comparison. They end up cooperating to run experiments that can scientifically quantify magic powers.
• The Beard: His first kiss was with a closeted lesbian at his school who was hoping to use him to cover up her homosexuality.
• Big Damn Heroes: Shows up to help Renka out when Black Spider catches her off-guard.
• Big Eater: A problem the rest of the Flash family doesn’t seem to have despite sharing the same accelerated metabolism, and while the tv show says it’s because of imperfections in his formula, Word of God says it’s caused by something else here.
• Bully Hunter: It’s mentioned that he’s this around his school. He follows Batman’s advice for dealing with bullies without using obvious powers or combat training: “punch them in the face, once, to show I won’t stand for bullying; then walk away, to show you won’t become a bully, either.”
• Butt-Monkey: Averted. He’s the closest thing to one on the Team, but he’s plenty awesome.
  • Many stories have Wally be bullied at school due to his nerd traits. When Artemis asks him if this happens, he points out how much more in-shape he is than most school bullies, being very close to having six-pack abs (as are visible once or twice in the show), and asserts that even ignoring his ability to punch out grown men, no one who shares his gym locker room wants to pick a fight with him.
• Dark and Troubled Past: His dad used to be a very mean drunk. He cleaned his act, though.
• Good Parents: One of the few people on the Team to have them. There was a period in his childhood where his father was an abusive drunk, but after an intervention Rudy went cold-turkey, went to anger management, and his parents attended marriage counseling to sort things out.
• Graceful Loser: He discovers that M’gann and Conner are dating when Conner kisses her in the stressful aftermath of a mission. He bows out gracefully, possibly in part because he’s too exhausted to be upset.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: He and Robin are best friends, and as good as brothers in many ways.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Inverted. In canon he lies about why they’re at the Tower of Fate and it dumps them in lava. Turns out that was for the best, because here he keeps quiet and lets Aqualad announce that they’ve come to check the safety of the Helmet. As a result, the Tower of Fate puts them through a pre-arranged set of grueling tests to determine if they are virtuous and capable enough for the Helmet. As a result, they start the fight against Klarion already hurt and exhausted.
• Pop-Cultured Badass: Able to quote Granny Weatherwax when musing about evil — it starts when people are treated as things. He later slips the books to Renka and Zatanna.
• Required Secondary Powers: Super metabolism and he’s unusually tough to withstand the forces he moves at.
• Secret-Keeper: To Robin about his and Batman’s identities. He also knows who Roy and Oliver are, meaning he knows from the start that Artemis isn’t actually Green Arrow’s niece.
• Shipper on Deck: Is very supportive of Robin’s crush on Zatanna.
• Strong Girl, Smart Guy: Wally and Artemis, though she’s still plenty smart and he’s plenty strong.
• Super-Speed: Tops out at 700-800 mph, but he can still do a lot with it and is no Fragile Speedster.

Conner L. Kent a.k.a. Superboy

• Boxing Lessons for Superman: He takes martial arts lessons with Black Canary, super sense lessons with Ferris, and literal boxing lessons with Wildcat.
• Conversewith The Unconscious: He regularly visits and reads to Match in the Fortress of Solitude.

• Green-Eyed Monster: He can't help but feel envious towards Ferris since she's pratically Superman's sidekick and spends much more time with him than Conner.
• Mysterious Middle Initial: Actually an homage to the House of El. And thematically appropriate due to his ties with Luthor. It's eventually revealed to stand for Lionel.
• Mundane Utility: He’s getting a lot more mileage out of his enhanced hearing than in the show.
• Nigh-Invulnerable: But the fact that magic and red sunlight can hurt him shows up more here.
• No-Sell: He’s pretty much immune to physical harm because he’s Nigh-Invulnerable. Ferris flat out states that no matter how much strength she stores or taps, she cannot hurt him with brute force.
• Single-Target Sexuality: M’gann sometimes kisses him in male forms and he doesn’t mind.
• Super-Strength: In addition to martial arts, its effect on his throwing arm is used in some battles.
• Taking the Bullet: As the two who are least likely to be hurt, he & Ferris both tend slightly to do this.
• The Talk: Gets the human male version from Renka after she finds out he and M’gann are experimenting but haven’t heard it.
• The Friends Who Never Hang: With Wally, which he’s trying to fix because Wally was the one to take him home after Cadmus and introduce him to normal life.
• These Hands Have Killed: His reaction after unintentionally killing one of Black Manta’s men.
• This Is Unforgivable!: He reacts this way to Wally getting infected with a disease weapon.
• Took a Level in Kindness: With Ferris supporting him and mediating the awkwardness between him and Superman, the two come to an accord two months earlier than in canon after which Superboy has settled down and matured a surprising amount, though he still has a temper.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: As per canon. With Ferris finagling it a bit, he finally gets Superman’s approval in early November, and learns about Clark Kent even before Ferris ever does.

M'gann M'orzz a.k.a. Miss Martian

• Battle in the Center of the Mind: She has an Offscreen Moment of Awesome in Bialya, where the subtle touch her telepathy has acquired prevents her from being memory-wiped by Psimon. She can’t beat him, but she can hold him down and keep him from going after her friends, which she does for several hours straight.
• Birds of a Feather: She bonded with Renka because both of them were Fish out of Water.
• Bizarre Alien Biology: Explored a little more than in canon, as she explains in a fluster at one point that her brain is not exposed, nor are her reproductive organs between her legs in her natural body.
• Corrupt the Cutie: Ferris gets her a lot more comfortable with using mixed and/or grotesque forms of shape shifting to tactical advantage. At the same time, her friend’s agonizing vulnerability to telepathy has made M’gann much more hesitant to violate someone’s mind with her powers.
• Cute Monster Girl: Invoked to be played straight and averted. Ferris has her improve her sensory abilities by shape-shifting on animal parts (like cat ears), but also at one point gets her to grow shark teeth before melting into a pile of goo and threatening to eat someone they’re interrogating.
• Fantastic Racism: She's hugely sensitive over her White Martian ethnicity.
• Fish out of Water: Much better than most versions of this, but as her idea of human interactions comes from a decades old tv series, there are still multiple serious subjects she doesn’t quite get yet.
• Green-Skinned Space Babe: Invoked to fit in, as her real form not only doesn’t look remotely human, but unlike her uncle she is a White Martian, which suffer discrimination on Mars.
• Healing Factor: There have been experiments to see if M’gann can develop one with her Shapeshifting, but the results are yet inconclusive.
• Healing Hands: In an emergency, M’gann can shift her flesh to be a compatible donor and provide emergency skin grafts or blood donations. Turns out her flesh eventually reverts, requiring treatment.
• Heroic BSoD: Upon belatedly finding out that she probably killed several people in Bialya she’s expected to break down, but just gets very quiet, leans on Conner for emotional support, and participates in a group hug for the next little while.
• Power Perversion Potential: Uses shape-shifting to role play in make-out sessions with Conner. Also uses telepathy to get a glimpse of his hormonal dreams for inspiration about this.
• Refuge in Audacity: Freaks out a prisoner by threatening to eat them, claiming that’s how Martians learn to shape shift into other species.
  • Later, she keeps the Team’s covert cover by pretending to be Lois Lane as part of a sting. Not long after that, she crashes a meeting between one of the corrupt officials who helped set up their sting, General Eiling, meeting with an escaped Alec Rois, in the same disguise, which he mocks. Turns out that was the real Lois Lane, and M’gann was impersonating Rois from the start.
• Super-Empowering: Using her flesh and blood for grafts and transfusions will change the receiver into a metahuman - exhibits A and B, Jericho and Beast Boy.
• The Talk: Renka gives her the human female version; apparently it is not at all traumatizing to her.

Artemis

• Action Girl: The author points out that Artemis technically has more and more diverse combat training than Robin does; it’s largely her non-lethal limits that keep her from matching him.
• Ascended Fangirl: She really, really liked Green Arrow and Kid Flash. Since she met Wally, her awe took quite the nosedive.
• Big Sister Bully: She has a very mild one; Jade is a criminal who will do cruel and nasty things, but she doesn’t enjoy doing them to Artemis in particular. She cares about Artemis’s health and happiness, but Jade genuinely thinks Artemis will be better off with the villains.
• Cain and Abel: Is on opposite sides of the superhero scene from her sister, but both girls are trying to hold the door open in hope of the other seeing sense.
  • The first time they meet after six years, in the mission to protect Dr. Roquette, Jade gets convinced that Artemis has disowned her and wants her dead, due to the way the Team’s interrogation script went.
• Cool Big Sis: Tries to become one to Connor Hawke, Oliver’s biological son.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Her father wanted to make her follow into his footsteps, and it ended up with her committing a murder when she was twelve.
• Defrosting the Ice Queen: Faster than in canon, because half the Team has no reason to prefer Red Arrow over her.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: The Team pretty much serves as a second family to her now.
• I Need a Freaking Drink: Had this reaction after overhearing Ferris give Superboy a birds and bees talk. Wally reacts by taking her to the League’s Vietnam Zeta Tube, as Vietnam doesn’t have a minimum drinking age, and Artemis downs most of a bottle while talking with him.
• Irony: Wally knows who Green and Red Arrow really are, meaning he knows Green Arrow has no niece, so the lie she tells to help them accept her only made him more suspicious from the start.
• Lineage Comes from the Father: He and Jade certainly want her to believe that she’s doomed to follow in his footsteps in joining the Shadows, but Artemis is fighting it tooth and nail.
• Love Hurts: She learns to deal with her fear of losing Wally and her rage at the people who tried to assassinate him.
• Mistaken for Romance: Renka believed she was dating Robin on the sly.
• Omniglot: Speak numerous languages, beyond English, French, and Vietnamese. It turns out her father considers language skill to be a very important non-combat skill, and deliberately trained her in it.
• Please Put Some Clothes On: Artemis walks in on Renka drying off after a shower and has this reaction. Renka is mostly amused, because they share a locker room and are both female anyway.
• Real Name as an Alias: Goes by Artemis in daily life (largely in Gotham) and as a hero (when she’s working with the Team or in Star City).
  • Played for Laughs when, in an argument about keeping secrets, Ferris calls out Artemis since they don’t even know her real name (since she somehow missed the memo).
• Strong Girl, Smart Guy: Wally and Artemis, though she’s still plenty smart and he’s plenty strong.

Zatanna Zatara a.k.a. Magelet

• Brandishment Bluff: Done in true Master of Illusion style as part of the sting against Henry Yarrow and company. She freezes the group of mercenaries acting as guards by pulling two dozen armed soldiers out of the air. It looked like they had just dropped their invisibility for the ambush, rather than being illusions, so most of them surrendered.
• Break the Cutie: Klarion vandalized her mother's grave to put a geas on her and burned her home to the ground, leaving the Zataras homeless. She's rightfully traumatized.
• Crisis of Faith: Starts off sincerely Christian and attending a private Catholic school, but ends up jaded and bitter after the Disappearance Disaster.

• Daddy's Girl: Even if she complains about his overprotectiveness.
• Easily Forgiven: She’s been excused for abrasiveness or invasiveness a few times due to her trauma.
• Gamer Chick: She's well-versed enough in Dungeons & Dragons rules and was open to fantasy role-playing with the Team.
• Glamour: She hides signs of her building breakdown, like the bags under her eyes, with one of these.
• Hero-Worshipper: When her house was burned, she lamented the loss of Wonder Woman's autograph.
• Master of Illusion: One of Zatanna’s developments is that she’s coming to appreciate how energy-efficient and versatile her conjured illusions can be. She’s used them to make distracting body doubles, to draw away attention for a teammate’s stealth infiltration, to disguise people for going out in public, to turn invisible, to escape, and to set up an ambush (or fake an ambush with illusionary soldiers).
• Missing Mom: Sindella apparently died when she was very young.
• Power of Friendship: Zatanna makes a reference to this after the members of the Team with a Dark Secret share the truth, stating that it’s going to be awesome to turn the table on villains trying blackmail.
• Rage Breaking Point: Screams at and dumps Robin when his attempt at Valentine’s Day surprise got her almost expelled from her school.
• Real Name as an Alias: Averted. She begins going by “Magelet” on missions.
• Secret Identity: Double subverted. It’s publicly known information that her father is a superhero with the Justice League, but on some missions with the team she uses disguises, as her involvement is still a secret.

• Stating the Simple Solution: Starts carrying around notecards for when she has an especially complicated incantation and doesn’t have time to work it out in her head.
• Starting a New Life: Downplayed. She moves in with Artemis in Gotham and transfers schools, but she still keeps in touch with her friends from before.
• Took a Level in Badass: Is seen slowly grinding up with her magic practice in various episodes, and the results are shocking when cuts loose later.
  • In April 2011 she steals Princess Tara out from under Circe’s nose with a big spell.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: After losing her father to Doctor Fate, Zatanna is understandably abrasive and short-tempered towards people.
• We Used to Be Friends: Downplayed, but her friendship with Renka definitely was impacted by the fact Zatanna's dad was possessed by Nabu, who's Renka's friend.

Joseph Wilson a.k.a. Jericho

• Adaptational Superpower Change: Not the power itself, but the origin. He gained his creepy possession ability after receiving a graft from Miss Martian rather than inheriting it by his dad being experimented upon.
• Bad Powers, Good People: Very frankly, body-jacking is not a power you would associate with a hero-in-training.
• Body Surf: He's able to possess people when he looks in their eyes.
• Camp Straight: Fitting his comics portrayal, Joseph is an artistic soul with effeminate mannerisms, but shows no inclination towards the male form.
• Cute Mute: He lost his voice and is very much a sweetheart.
• Distressed Dude: Jackal abducted and held him at knife point to get at Deathstroke.
• Eye Color Change: He gained green eyes after Miss Martian's skin graft saved his life.
• Foil: He and Artemis have really dodgy parents, with the major difference that Slade genuinely tried to keep his family out of his dirty dealings. As such, Joseph is more socially adjusted than Artemis.
• Good Parents: Since he separated his mercenary work from his civilian life and relied on his wife for support, Slade Wilson actually was a nice father to him and Grant.
• Hand Signals: Black Canary encourages him to use these, stating M'gann can't be always around.
• In Touch with His Feminine Side: His body language is a mite effeminate, and he really wants to seem more manly.
• Jock Dad, Nerd Son: Downplayed — the mercenary Slade never openly disapproved Joseph's artistry, but he never went out of his way to encourage it either.
• Level Grinding: Regularly practices impersonating people, extending the time he can possess someone, and recognizing other impersonators/shape shifters.
• Master Actor: The Team realized his potential for it and encourage him to work on this.
• Parental Favouritism: His dad actually enjoyed more spending time with his effeminate, sensitive youngest than his brash, agressive eldest. Joseph hypothesizes Grant's abrasive personality really grated on Slade's nerves.
• Sibling Rivalry: The classic story between the jockey son and the nerdy son, Grant does his best to annoy and belittle Joseph.
• Trauma Conga Line: He was abducted by a bloodthirsty mercenary, learned his dad was actually a hitman, lost his voice when his throat was slit, his mom decided to file for divorce after gouging her husband's eye and he started to develop a freaky ability. Yeesh.

Raquel Ervine a.k.a. Rocket

• Clothes Make the Superman: Rocket’s powers come from her alien tech belt.
• Early-Bird Cameo: She teams up with Ferris in Episode 13: Visiting, in late September.
• Rags to Riches: Downplayed, but she went from Dakota City’s slums to working with the Justice League.
• Verbal Tic: She has a slight accent, pronouncing “I” as “Ah”.
• Wake Up, Go to School & Save the World: She can handle Team missions and the brainwashed Justice League, but her grades started dropping after she joined and she needed her teammates’ support to get them back up.

Garth a.k.a. Tempest

• Bare-Fisted Monk: Fights in melee, but without Kaldur’s weapons.
• Full-Contact Magic: Fist fighter and spell-caster.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Averted. He actually worries that Kaldur isn’t as close to Tula and tries to help patch up their friendship.
• Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: He can fight at range, but he prefers more hand-to-hand.
• Taken for Granite: Briefly, with no long-term consequences.
• Telepathy: He learned a spell for this to make friends with Jericho.

Tula a.k.a. Cerulean

• Action Girl: A better fighter than Garth and in the thick of it in Markovia.
• Adaptation Name Change: After Ferris mentions “aqua-shipping” Tula decides to go by “Cerulean”.
• Dance Battler: Very acrobatic and mobile when she fights.
• Generic Graffiti: Graffitied the bottoms of ships as a game/hobby.
• Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: Tula seems to prefer lots of magic blasts while Garth is more hand-to-hand.

Barbara Gordon a.k.a. Batgirl

• Adaptation Origin Connection: She knew Pamala Isley from before her transformation into Poison Ivy. Here Pam was her babysitter and mentor instead of same age friends like in The Batman.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: She tries to avert this when Dick and Zatanna are dating.
• Domino Mask: Wears one in civvies at Mt. Justice, although a few of them know her identity.
• Dye or Die: She briefly dyes her hair light brown in order to remain a candidate to the televised Junior Olympics without jeopardizing her vigilante career.
• Legacy Character: Downplayed. She’s the first Batgirl, but one reason she got the name is from impersonating Batwoman (Kate Kane) at a party as a distraction. Kate pushes Bruce to take her on.
• Locked Out of the Loop: She became aware that Artemis was Artemis before she was informed of Dick being Robin (which didn’t happen until after she joined the Team).
• Love Triangle: She has a thing for Dick/Robin, but he’s dating Zatanna already.
• Missing Mom: Her parents are divorced, and her mother lives in Chicago with her brother, James Jr.
• Parental Sexuality Squick: Returns early from her first Team mission to find Sarah Essen with her dad after having stayed the night, which causes Squick.
• The Smart Guy: According to their tests, she is explicitly the most intelligent member of the Team.

Karen Beecher a.k.a. Bumblebee

• The Friends Who Never Hang: Ferris knows Karen the least well, but Karen thinks someone would have to be last.
• Hero-Worshipper: She mentions admiring Ferris for being a colored woman who saved the world.
• Jumped at the Call: She was really eager when she got a chance to join the Team.
• Only Sane Man: Plays this to a bunch of civilians when they panic about visitors from Atlantis showing up at the beach.
• The Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating Life: She has relationship issues with Mal after joining the Team.

The Justice League

Superman a.k.a. Clark Kent

• Brought Down to Normal: Blue Beam hits him with a red sunlight laser at night, reducing him to human levels of strength and toughness. He still gets up again to help Ferris and Rocket fight.
• Cover-Blowing Superpower: He was planning to tell Ferris his identity, but she figured it out on a dinner with Lois, Clark, and Jimmy, because she knows how invulnerable skin feels to normal touch.
• Didn't See That Coming: He set up Jimmy and Renka on a double date with him and Lois, but was caught off-guard by how well the two hit it off.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: When she learns how Superboy came to be, Ferris bluntly compares him to a male rape victim.
• Heroes Love Dogs: Krypto is technically an alien lifeform, but he looks and behaves like a doggy, and Clark clearly dotes on him.
• Heroic Willpower: He doesn’t realize it, but he’s fought off Anti-Life Equation influence when it tried to infect him.
• Hiding in Plain Sight: Another element of his Clark Kenting: people believe Superman lives in the Fortress of Solitude and is a full-time hero with no secret identity.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: He's extremely irked when people imagine him as The Paragon unable to goof off or feel uncertain and upset. It also shows when he gently encourages his clone to nurture his civilian identity, telling the teen that Conner is just as important as Superboy.

• Power of Trust: Offers weapons able to cut him to Amanda Waller and General Sam Lane - two people who’ve plotted against him in the past - to get them on his side of the fight against the Light.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: How Ferris views his refusal to be a father to Superboy, since ignoring the boy is pretty jerkassy, but it's okay for Superman to not feel ready for parenthood.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: Downplayed, but his first experience with space-based war was unlike anything he’d ever experienced.
• Villains Act, Heroes React: Cites this as a positive fact, because heroes without crime would just go home and lives their lives.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Calls out Waller and Lane for funding Cadmus and plotting against him when he’s trying to save people’s lives.

Batman a.k.a. Bruce Wayne

• Adaptational Nice Guy: Justified. With Diana and J’onn both being around for decades before he was born, and the Justice League forming 3-4 years into Batman’s career, he’s had a support system to fall back on from early on without losing his ability to trust. For instance, Superman and Martian Manhunter both know about and have copies of Batman’s contingency plans for the rest of the Justice League.
• Adaptation Origin Connection: Met Catwomen when they were both trained by wildcat.
• Crazy-Prepared: Starro-tech takes longer to work due here to changes in how it was made. He uses those seconds to dose himself with a sedative and try to trigger an alarm.
• Children Raise You: He had to adapt and grow while raising Dick.
• Dark Is Not Evil: He wears black and kicks the shit out of criminals, but he's a hero nonetheless.
• Dating Catwoman: There's three women he seriously wanted to marry: Andrea Beaumont (a murderous mercenary), Selina Kyle (an amoral thief stealing for the thrill) and Talia al Ghul (totally loyal to her genocidal father). Bruce has issues.
  • Whisper A’daire deliberately passes herself off as an amateur burglar at a party (instead of a skilled assassin) to attract his attention so she can dose him with a drug.
• Defrosting Ice King: Batman’s life starts looking happier when he not only takes in Jason Todd, but Talia informs him that she’s pregnant.
• Drama-Preserving Handicap: Was deliberately targeted and drugged by Whisper A’daire because having Batman backing up Batwoman would have ruined their chances of killing her.
• Good Is Not Nice: One of this tropes exemplars.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He terrifies people into submission and is paranoid to the extreme, but there's not doubting he has a heart underneath this Kevlar - he obviously cares very much for Robin and was livid when it was hinted a former friend and mentor of his was carelessly used and discarded by a planetary force.
• Jerkass Ball: Justified. When there are multiple murderers running around Gotham, Batman gets incredibly stressed and can be sharp-tongued, even with people who are trying to warn him about kidnappers, robberies, and other less deadly crimes.
• Multilayer Façade: Artemis figures out that Robin is Dick Grayson. Does that mean Bruce Wayne is Batman? Nope! Robin informs her that Bruce Wayne only bankrolls Batman, and doesn’t do the face-punching thing himself.
• Not So Above It All: When Renka publically calls him out over one decision, he concedes her point but is obviously miffed at her disrespect and later enlists her to find glitches in the Zeta network - not a dangerous job but quite annoying.

• Reasonable Authority Figure: Places Ferris on probation until she chooses a Secret-Keeper to know everything about her history and abilities, but allows her to choose who to trust and he gives the Team mostly free reign.
• Secret-Keeper: Regarding the identities of two of the Century Babies' current crop.
• Superman Stays Out of Gotham: Batman has a list of heroes who can go into Gotham, but he still prefers to be told when they do. Zigzagged with Bruce having business in Metropolis and helping out Clark Kent by buying his apartment building and remodeling so that Clark’s apartment has roof access.

Princess Diana a.k.a. Wonder Woman

• Achilles' Heel: Binding her wrists with ropes will remove her powers.
• Artificial Family Member: Sculpted from clay and given life by the gods.
• The Ageless: She stopped physically aging in her prime, but she feels old in many ways.
• Boxing Lessons for Superman: She picks up lessons in divine magic use.
• Brought Down to Badass: A man binding her wrists will suppress her Flying Brick powers and other abilities; she’s still a skilled and strong enough fighter to hold her own against most enemies with just her training and a weapon.
• Cutting the Knot: How she turned the tides of Thanagar’s war with Gordania: she tossed the Lasso of Truth around a bunch of Gordanian captives and made them reveal all their secret passcodes, troop movements, supply lines, etc.
• Determinator: Kept fighting Circe even after her powers were sealed, using her skills and a broken sword.
• Even the Girls Want Her: Due to the blessing of Aphrodite, everyone is a little lesbian for Wonder Woman.
• Flying Brick: With decades of experience.
• Forgot About Her Powers: Subverted. She used to have other powers, like animal empathy, but some of them stopped working as she grew older and more jaded.
• Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards: The Warrior to Superman’s Wizard. She was older and stronger than him when they met, but he grew stronger faster and has since surpassed her.
• Living Lie Detector: Part of her divine powers, but she’s still learning to use them without the Lasso.
• Phlebotinum Breakdown: The Lasso of Truth ends up disintegrating during Circe’s ritual.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: Fights on behalf of the gods, helped found the Justice League, and administrates or supports dozens of outreaches and charities.
• The Sleepless: She can go several days without sleep, but she sometimes skips sleeping more often than is healthy.
• Stepford Smiler: Depressed version. It’s hinted that 70+ years of heroism have taken a toll on her, and several people have called her out on beginning to slip and not dealing with her guilt or grief properly.
• Taken for Granite: Circe tried to turn her back into the clay she was sculpted from.
• Translator Microbes: Practicing her divine abilities gives her a spell with this effect.
• Worf Had the Flu: Invoked, because after decades of active service, any villain that runs into her without taking precautions loses hard.
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: She does and as an immortal demigoddess she can accomplish it easily. The reason this isn't the other trope is that she is well on her way to immortal burn out which Rah's as The Older Immortal recognizes and warns her against unless she ends up having this trope Played Straight.

Doctor Fate

• Because You Were Nice to Me: Not only Ferris genuinely made an effort to find him a new vessel, she was genuinely interested in his craft, leading Nabu to grow fond of her.
• Good Is Not Nice: Word of God described him as Lawful Brutal Good - not only his morality code is rather dated, he needs to snatch a body of his own to be effective and ride them pretty hard. Still, he is aware the host is pretty much a sacrifice.
• Intergenerational Friendship: He grows to respect Renka's intelligence and opinion.
• Mr. Exposition: Since Renka enjoys discussing magic with him, Nabu is often this to explain the intricacies and systems of sorcery.
• The Needs of the Many: He would rather not sacrifice his host, but he won't hold back from saving the world for one single life.
• Not So Above It All: While he was cleaning up after Klarion's human sacrifices, he asked if Superman could go with him to deliver the bad news to the parents' victims, hinting he was affected by their distress.
• Really 700 Years Old: Around 20000 years old and still kicking ass.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Nabu is aware that being Doctor Fate is dangerous, exhausting and time-consuming and as such favours fully-grown hosts able to devote themselves to the job.

Black Canary a.k.a. Dinah Lance

• Clark Kenting: She has a secret identity and doesn’t wear a mask, but she changes her hair color. She used to wear a wig, but now she uses a chemical comb.
• Hiding in Plain Sight: As Dihan Lance, florist, and she hides things like the video records of her therapy sessions inside empty movie cases.
• Manipulative Bitch: By virtue of being a therapist, she has to know what makes people tick. And it allows her to flag other people doing it.
• The Masochism Tango: Her relationship with Oliver Queen is a mite tangled and emotionally tiring.
• The Mentor: She took Joseph Wilson under her wing.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Takes it gracefully when people call her on meddling where she isn’t wanted.
• Required Secondary Powers: Invoked. She learned sign language for times when she wouldn’t or couldn’t talk or hear.

• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Gives these to several people in her position as League therapist.

Captain Marvel a.k.a. Billy Batson

• The Chosen Many: He's a Century Child, born on the Turn of the Millenium to protect humanity. The only other Child currently known is Queen Perdita from Vlatava.
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness: A bit of a requirement to be Captain Marvel. Also hinted this is his mantle as a Century Child.
• Keet: He's very enthusiastic and energetic.
• Manchild: Comes off as this when in Captain Marvel form. Since, y'know, he's a ten-years-old who doesn't do a stellar job of passing as grown-up.
• Nephewism: Lives with his uncle Dudley.
• Shock and Awe: A limited control over electricity since his transformation makes use of summoned lightning.
• Significant Birth Date: January 1st, 2000. He was born just in time to cry at midnight on New Year's Eve, a mark that he is a Century Child.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Apparently, "Captain Marvel" is almost a carbon copy for Billy's father Clarence Batson, which finally lets Beautia Sivana identify him.
• You Didn't Ask: Regarding his true age. He points he would have tell anyone genuinely inquiring, but the Justice League refused to care about that, so there.

“Will” Oerwyl Lance Harper a.k.a. Red Arrow

• Badass Normal: On a mission in China, he takes down more Kobra cultists and suffers fewer injuries than his super-powered teammates.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: His relationship with Ferris. In his “I am not a sidekick” period, she was the first person to take him seriously and follow his lead on a mission, as well as recruiting the more experienced Ghost Fox Killer to do the same.
• Boxing Lessons for Superman: Briefly mentioned that he’s giving real archery training to Celestial Archer, whose skills are mystic in origin.
• Clone Angst: Traumatized by the discovery that he’s a clone and the real Roy Harper is missing.
• Fake Memories: All his memories of being Roy Harper are implanted.
• Heroes Gone Fishing: After getting injured on a mission, Ferris drags him off to Central City’s mall for a day.
• Humble Pie: Despite being barely out of her wheelchair, Ferris beats him unconscious when he angers him.
• Incompatible Orientation: He’s straight, but he doesn’t freak out about his best friend (Kaldur) having feelings for him.
• Jerkass Ball: Justified. He’s been hypnotically instructed to rile up Ferris and find things out about her, which is why he angers her by speaking chauvinistically about Mother of Champions.
• Jerkass Has a Point: His phrasing is sexist, but he’s not unreasonably upset that Ferris was passed over for the Justice League while Mother of Champions received an invitation, despite Ferris saving the world on Roanoke.
• Meaningful Rename: Red Arrow changes his name from Roy to Oerwyl, a Terris name, though he uses Will for short.
  • He also takes up Lance as a middle name, in honor of Black Canary (Dinah Lance).
• Parental Substitute: Double subverted. Oliver is not his father-figure, just his mentor/partner, but Dinah, is the closest thing he has to a mother, since Roy never had a mother figure in his early life.

Affiliates and families

Ma and Pa Kent

• Establishing Character Moment: Off-screen, but they give Conner a house key and tell him to come over any time at the end of their first meeting with him.
• Good Parents: Very supportive of their son, and welcoming to Conner once they meet him.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: At Thanksgiving, Kaldur thinks Ma Kent is about to try her hand at calming Renka down and getting the younger woman in a more festive mood. Instead, Ma orders Kaldur and Kal-El out of Renka’s room and leaves Renka to fume as she requested. Superman asks if she’s losing her touch.
  Ma: I don’t pick a fight that I know I won’t win, and me making the attempt would’ve only insulted her. Sometimes, a girl just needs to cool off.
• Muggle Foster Parents: The Ur-Example. Renka explicitly refers to Ma as Superman's "Dwynra" - a term for adoptive mother in Scadrese.

Donna Troy a.k.a. Wonder Girl

• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Inverted. A common backstory has Donna found in a fire, adopted, and given back to Child Services when her adoptive mother can no longer afford to raise her. Here, a charity Wonder Woman founded for single mothers helped them make ends meet and she got to stay.
• Big Sister Instinct: Toward Robin. Him being in trouble is a big trigger for her temper. Even more so for her actual adoptive siblings.
• The Chosen One: Chosen by Hera and four supporting goddesses to chase and capture the Titan Thia.
• Comes Great Responsibility: Her reason, along with Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life, for accepting Hera’s quest.
• Flying Brick: With an Hour of Power boost based on having a Rage Breaking Point.
• Morality Pet: Robin can usually snap her out of a rage, and she’s never gotten angry at her siblings.
• Mythology Gag: Her new equipment for her quest (to track an escaped Titan) resembles her gear from when she was a Titan Seed in the comics.
• Not Me This Time: Everyone thought she was a bastard of Zeus until Hera showed up to say Donna wasn’t.
• Put on a Bus: Hera sends her on a quest to track down the Titan Thia, who fled the solar system.
• Secret-Keeper: She knows Batman and Robin’s secret identities and can help cover for them.
• Taught by Experience: Her training, age, and experience as Wonder Girl means she’s a much better fighter than most of the Team.

Queen Mera

• The Archmage: She’s a powerful combat mage and she lectures at the Conservatory of Sorcery.
• Badass in Distress: Once, the Team needed to rescue her from Ocean Master. Later on, Black Manta launched an attack while she was in labor and they needed to keep her safe.
• Badass Teacher: Her students really don't want to snap her out of a researching fugue because she will curse them good.
• Imperiled in Pregnancy: Twice! She was assaulted right after revealing she was expecting, and has to endure childbirth while her guard is busy defending her. Needless to say, it made her a mite anxious regarding her son's security.
• Mama Bear: First she was a Pregnant Badass, then she gave birth to her son Artur and became this.
• Properly Paranoid: After the number of attempts on her life, she is careful about whom she leaves her son with, and she wears a magic artifact that can make force fields for quick protection.
• Refused by the Call: Nabu outright declined her potential candidature to become Doctor Fate because she already was a busy Queen, and her upcoming maternity was the cherry on the cake.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: When she's not busy ruling and kicking ass, she enjoys teaching Atlantean sorcery.
• Secret-Keeper: For the intricacies of Hemalurgy and Renka’s full, unedited backstory.

Daily Planet Staff

Lois Lane

• Establishing Character Moment: Her reaction when a homeless young woman asks for her is wondering if she's going to be assaulted again, write another piece of scathing social commentary or try to help the poor soul to find her footing in life.
• Intrepid Reporter: Asking tough questions to soilders pointing guns at her face is all par for course to her.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's brusque and sometimes snappy, but she really wants her pieces to make a difference for the better.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Regarding Superman's Secret Identity. She firmly believes Clark Kent is nothing but a helpless dork.
  • Averted following the Starotech incident. Clark comes clean.
• Military Brat: Her father is still serving as an army general. The Team gets her and his help in proving Wade Eiling’s guilt.

Jimmy Olson

• Camera Fiend: But of course. He's not limiting himself to professional photography, as his girlfriend is willing to pose for private erotica.
• Chaste Hero: He wants to wait for his wedding.
• Intrepid Reporter: Well photographer but he's good for at a lot of things, guy's multitalented.
• Loved I Not Honour More: He perfectly understands that people in need will always trump over Ferris' personal life, due to his long affiliation with Superman.
• Old-School Chivalry: His relationship with Renka has him being quite the gentleman. He also mentions he's saving himself for marriage.
• Wholesome Crossdresser: In a Call-Back to Silver Age escapades. His disguise trunk is mentioned a few times.

Gotham

Paula Crock

• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: She recruits a neighbor to help her photograph Artemis & Wally’s date.
• Broken Bird: Hinted at. We don’t know what she was like as Huntress, but now she’s much milder.
• Child Soldier: Apparently was one for the Vietnam War. She killed her first man when she was barely twelve-years-old, and had no problems with her daughters starting just as young. For once, her husband was the more moral one.
• Handicapped Badass: She’s stuck in a wheelchair, but she was Huntress of the League of Shadows.

Commissioner Jim Gordon

• A Day in the Limelight: We first see a scene of him waiting for Batman on New Year’s Eve for their traditional toast, only for Catwoman to arrive instead.
• Conveniently Timed Attack from Behind: Played for laughs when Catwoman is tries to play The Vamp only for Batman to come up behind her. Jim then gets surprised by Robin, of course.
• Generation Xerox: He’s James, his wife is Barbara, and their kids are named after them.
• Ignore the Fanservice: Ignores Catwoman in a low-cut dress when she asks him about Batman.
• Not Proven: He meets Catwoman in a diner, but he knows he can’t arrest her because he can’t be certain.
• One-Steve Limit: Averted. He goes by Jim, his son is James Gordon Jr., and Jimmy Olsen exists.
• Parental Obliviousness: Averted. He had to give permission for Barbara to join the Team.
• Parental Sexuality Squick: Babs once returned home early to find that Sarah Essen had stayed the night.
• Secret-Keeper: He knows his daughter is Batgirl. It hasn’t been confirmed if he knows who Batman is.
• Solomon Divorce: He has custody of Barbara, his ex-wife has custody of James Jr.

Kate Kane a.k.a. Batwoman

• Achilles' Heel: She has an old heart injury that Intergang targets with a drug to induce cardiac arrest. She quickly injects herself with a stabilizing counter-agent.
• Badass Normal: In her one combat scene, she is unbelievably capable, able to take down Intergang thugs in one blow and fight in melee against Kyle Abbott.
• The Call Knows Where You Live: Intergang and the League of Shadows team up to attack her home.
• Combat Pragmatist: Flanking, gun use, Tasers, gas, and ambush tactics are all used to great effect.
• Locked Out of the Loop: She suspects that Selina Kyle is Catwoman, but Bruce knows for sure and hasn’t told her.
• Morality Pet: Very downplayed, but her cousin Bruce cares deeply for her.
• Put on a Bus: After Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is repealed, she leaves Gotham to re-enlist in the army.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: When her niece found out her secret and tried to join her in crime-fighting, Kate gave her some training and let her come along. She then let Bette get just beat up enough that Bette decided to give up being a vigilante.
• Retirony: Inverted? We don’t find out until after Intergang attacks her home that she’s thinking of quitting Batwoman to rejoin the army (Don’t Ask Don’t Tell just was repealed in-universe). She survives the assassination attempt and then she leaves Gotham to re-enlist anyway.

Sivana family

In general

• Big, Screwed-Up Family: Surprisingly they weren't this in the comics. Here none of the siblings seem to be on speaking terms with each other.
• Fantastic Science: The family specialty.
• Oh, My Gods!: They tend to swear by great scientists such as Archimedes or Tesla.

Dr. Sivana

• Posthumous Character: Allegedly dead because...
• Til Murder Do Us Part: His wife had had enough of him endangering children.
• The Ghost: Only mentioned but still had a big impact on Captain Marvel.
• Would Hurt a Child: He abducted several orphans to use them as guinea pigs, which led his daughter Beautia to meet Captain Marvel.

Beautia Sivana

• Beware the Nice Ones: For all her sweetness, she didn't hesitate to rip a new arsehole to her brother or to threaten her sister into compliance. Okay, she later claims it was a bluff, but she can do 'threatening' convincingly.
• Hopeless Suitor: Nurses a little crush on Captain Marvel. Renka gives her the advice to wait some time if she really wants a go at this relationship. She figures the situation out after the staro tech incident, very embarrassed.
• Mama Bear: She was really miffed when her sister Georgia's scheme endangered the kids who went trick-or-treating.
• The Medic: Why the Justice League decided to ask for her services — she's a very good one.
• Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter: But of course. And her pretty blond head is quite full, too!
• Meaningful Name: She's a beautiful person inside and outside.
• Social Services Does Not Exist: An aversion; she's a social assistant who takes her job seriously, and seems very competent at it if judging from her interactions with Billy and Wren (a disguised Renka).
• Thicker Than Water: She ruefully confesses she just cannot throw her siblings under the bus, she's their sister and as such that's her duty to try and fix their messes.

Magnificus Sivana

• Composite Character: Combines William Magnus, maker of the Metal Men, with Magnificus Sivana.
• Insult of Endearment: His siblings call him Magnifying Glass to annoy him.
• Master-Apprentice Chain: Was taught robotics by T. O. Morrow who in turn benefited from a think tank set up by Doc Brass.
• Not Me This Time: Beautia accuses him from deliberate neglect towards Copper. Except that copper's allomantic properties are related to memories. So Magnus isn't nasty when ignoring his creation, he genuinely has trouble remembering she exists.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: He's definitely intelligent but he's outshone by his siblings.
• Related in the Adaptation: Not him but his alias, Magnus has no relation to the Sivana family.
• Walking Spoiler: just knowing who he is spoils that he's taken up a new alias.

Georgia Sivana

• Insufferable Genius: She's extremely proud of her advanced intellect. Beautia threatening her with the possibility of not being smart anymore is enough for her to fold.
• Necromancer: Using reanimen and controls Solomon Grundy through a kit bashed Respondometers, she counts.
• Wouldn't Hurt a Child: A major redeeming feature.

The Light

Vandal Savage

• Abusive Dad: His daughter Scandal still works for him, but she's extremely critical of him and implies he was awful towards her.
• Action Dad: He’s taken to the field on occasion, and he has at least one child, Scandal Savage.
• Affably Evil: While talking to Ferris under mind-control about Hemalurgy he maintains a polite interest and mostly holds his temper despite her verbal dodging.
• Ancient Evil: He’s 50,000 years old, which boggles Renka’s mind.
• Deliberate Values Dissonance: Arguably the first hero, but just as we see Gilgamesh more of a monster than a hero so too has Vandal been on the wrong side of society for millennia!
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: He can barge into Darkseid's throneroom, casually adress the New God of Tyranny and tank an Omega Beam.
• Fantastic Racism: He has a thing against Time Travelers, one has to wonder why.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: Kid Flash pants’d him during the Ice Fortress incident, and there are pictures.
• Villainous Friendship: A very, very fucked-up one with Darkseid. Vandal clearly is in a subordinate position, but he still is more equal to the New God than a true servant.

Ra’s al Ghul

• Alchemy: He's noted as an exceptional chemist who enjoys a limited form of immortality, so he fits.
• The Dog Bites Back: Ra’s finally finds one thing that Talia will not do for him: marry a man other than Batman. When he tries to arrange a new marriage, Talia rebels and turns him in to the Justice League.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Appears to love Talia, and was fond of his late son Arkady before his death.
• Heir Club for Men: A staple of his character. If his designated successor dies before him, he will seek for a suitable candidate whom he would entreat to join him, preferably with his daughter's hand in marriage.
• Living Forever is No Big Deal: Sees his imprisonment as a form of retirement, which he uses to give a peptalk to Wonder Woman and let business as usual continue while his heirs stretch their legs.
• Locked Out of the Loop: There were several things regarding his late son Arkady Duvall Ra's is still ignorant of. Unbeknownst to the Demon, Arkady was one of the 20th Century Children, meaning he enjoyed a persisting youth but was fated to die with the turn of the millenium.
• Not So Above It All: Informational material reveals that his favorite hobby is elementary-grade chemical experiences.
• Outliving One's Offspring: His son Arkady died as a centenarian and Ra's couldn't bring him back in spite of his access to the Lazarus Pits. He outright sunk into depression for a year before starting to search for another heir.
• Really 700 Years Old: Give or take a few decades.
• Smart People Play Chess: He constantly trounces Lex Luthor at the tabletop, which leads the annoyed billionaire to invent other games as a way to have his revenge.

Lex Luthor

• The Dreaded: Given his scientific abilities and enmity with Superman, Ferris freaks the first time they meet unexpectedly and reads into everything he says, fleeing to the Watchtower for a full medical check afterwards to check that she hasn’t been irradiated, infected with nanobots, or anything else.
• Evil Is Petty: His jealousy towards Superman would already place him in this category, but he goes full-blown with this trope when he decides to invent new tabletop games in order to discreditate chess because he cannot win a single match against Ra's al Ghul.
• Fantastic Racism: His viewpoint coldly, firmly considers aliens as subhumans unworthy to breathe the same air as Homo Sapiens.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: Tries to undermine Superboy's admiration and loyalty for Superman with the fact that Luthor is his other genetic donor. Unfortunately for him, Conner already knew.
• Not So Omniscient After All: He went to great trouble to hack the security feeds at Cadmus when Superboy goes looking for Match, and he has multiple sensors around to detect hidden heroes. The Team still give him the runaround, and he doesn’t realize until later that they took Match with them.
• Not So Stoic: He’s stunned speechless and his face is implied to be a sight when Superboy drops that his middle initial L stands for Lionel, as in Lex’s father.
• Smart People Play Chess: Subverted. He actually tried his hand to the game, but the Demon's Head constantly winning thoroughly soured his opinion about it.
• Sore Loser: Repeat, the guy would invent new strategy games just because Ra's al Ghul won't let him win a single chess match.
• Villain with Good Publicity: One of his tricks, despite members of the Justice League speaking against him.

Queen Bee

• Crazy-Prepared: Confronted M’gann in person, and when M’gann tried to attack her, Bee turned out to have a Starro-based device that defended against telepathy & telekinesis.
• Foil: Arguably. She’s a woman of color world leader with mind-control powers; Ferris is a woman of color who was a leader in her home, was briefly homeless on Earth, and is weak to mind control.
• Not So Above It All: Engages in sport shooting as a hobby, she doesn't even carry a gun otherwise.
• Out of Focus: Barring a scene showing a meeting of the Light, and a brief appearance on Santa Prisca before the New Year, she hasn’t been seen much.
• Would Hurt a Child: The Team’s second mission to Bialya happened off-screen, but it was implied that Garfield almost died when Bee followed through on her threat to hurt him, rather than in a stampede.

Ocean Master

• Heart Is an Awesome Power: When choosing from among the Seven Treasures of the Dead King, he gets the Seal that translates written languages. It lets him decipher Renka’s notes to Klarion about Hemalurgy as well as making him look not power hungry to everyone else.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: Portrays himself as this, and officially hes a champion breeder of sea mollusks.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Ferris briefly suspects him, but Mera shoots the idea down.
• Xanatos Speed Chess: When Ocean Master is visibly injured fighting the Team, Orm hides it by having a purist guard pretend that the injuries occurred because the guard had to subdue Prince Orm to keep him from using a self-sacrificial spell to rescue Queen Mera, since Orm loves his sister-in-law that dearly.

Brain

• The Beastmaster: Sends a bunch of robots to fight the Team in Tangiers.
• Non-Action Guy: He doesn’t do a lot of direct activity, but he heads most of the Light’s labs.

Klarion the Witch Boy

• Evil Counterpart: To Nabu, the Lord of Chaos to Doctor Fate's Lord of Order.
• Forgotten Phlebotinum: He has a notebook with a sympathetic link to Ferris during most of the first season, but come the big battle in Childhood’s Hour he doesn’t use it until the very end.

• Killed By The Adaptation: Ferris and Fate kill/banish him in the Season 1 climax.
• Psychopathic Manchild: He genuinely thinks it's funny to torture and gruesomely murder people, and throws apocalyptic hissy fits when Nabu "ruins his fun".
• Red Baron: He’s called the Witch Boy, but his mystic name seems to be {Wicked}.

Tala

• Affirmative-Action Legacy: Klarion gets replaced by a woman after he’s killed.
• Powered by a Forsaken Child: Exploited in her magical girl scene below.
• The Presents Were Never from Santa: Seen setting this up. She's breeding several Mentor Mascot's to create Magical Girl Warrior's. The idea is that they'll empower people who will test powers that can then be implemented more widely. In weapons development for the use of the Light.
• Sanity Has Advantages: The above scene has an intricacy that Klarion would never have implemented, more then making up for the disadvantages showcased below.
• Weak, but Skilled: Definitely weaker than Klarion, she's running herself ragged keeping up all the wards and the Sealed Evil in a Can's Klarion is not around to keep clamped down. She makes up for it in other ways.
• Unseen No More: She didn't show up from her first mention for a long while from when she was first mentioned, when she did she was possessing someone, and then she finally showed up in person showing she definitely deserved her place in the Light.

L 8

• The Ghost: We only know he exists because of one scene in the beginning of Season 2, even in group discussions don't reveal him.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Something about the dimensional overlap in the Disappearance Disaster hurts him.

Others

Amanda Waller (and family)

• A Day in the Limelight: We get to see her family on New Year’s Eve, after she’s been removed as Warden of Belle Reve, and how she reacts to news of a prison breakout.
• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Inverted. She lost her eldest son and her husband, but because Martian Manhunter lives in Chicago her eldest daughter Damita is still alive.
• Adaptational Wimp: Only as a result of her Age Lift. She’s her Young Justice canon age, but the author did a little math with her comics backstory: she had her first child at 18, who died when he was 18, meaning she was 36 at the start of her Trauma Conga Line. Since she’s 44 here, she’s only being playing politics for 8 years maximum, so Waller doesn’t have the resources or reputation of her other versions just yet.
• Always Identical Twins: Her sons Martin & Jesse are identical, as are her daughters Claudia & Celine.
• Ambiguously Christian: Her husband Roger is devout, but Amanda is less so.
• Big, Screwed-Up Family: Amanda is the mother of seven children.
  • With Joseph Waller Sr. (deceased) she had Joseph Jr. (deceased), Damita, Coretta, Martin, and Jesse
  • With her second husband Roger she had twin girls Claudia & Celine
• Crazy-Prepared: She keeps a panic room ready in the basement of her house, with a trapdoor to drop down from the hall outside her family’s bedrooms, and her family is drilled to get down there in 30 seconds.
• Dramatic Irony: Reprimands Jessie for badmouthing Strange, unaware that he’s The Mole for the Light.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She cares about the wellbeing of civilians and the world in general, and she tries to be softer around her children than she is on the job.
• The Lost Lenore: Averted. She remarried after the death of her first husband and had twin daughters.
• The Maiden Name Debate: She was born Amanda Blake. She married Joseph Waller and took his name. She then stayed Amanda Waller after remarrying Roger Patterson, but their twin daughters are Pattersons.
• Mama Bear: She buried her eldest son and her first husband. Do not threaten her family.
• Marriage of Convenience: After the death of her first husband (Joseph) she remarried a family friend (Roger) who’d held a torch for her to help make ends meet.
• Not So Stoic: Learning in the middle of the night that there was a jailbreak? She briefly panics.
• Parents as People: Amanda owns having been a bad mother, and wants her kids to be better.
• Spared by the Adaptation: In the comics, Damita was raped and killed, but here she survived the assault.
• 10-Minute Retirement: She was removed as Warden in September. When she has A Day in the Limelight on New Year’s Eve she’s taken the chance to take her kids Trick-or-treating, see a school play, do volunteer work, and be more available. She gets her job back in March or April (after plotting to reclaim it).
• We Need a Distraction: In case of a home invasion by villains, Roger runs out to be this with Amanda following if necessary while their kids get to safety.