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Era 2

General

A period of superhero history designated for posterity, officially beginning with the retirement of Princess Diana of Themyscira, the first Wonder Woman and the last living founder of the Justice League, and ending with the death of M'gann M'orzz, the last founding member of the Era 2 Council. A great many number of notable events occurred during this period, including the death of Superman-Prime, the imprisonment of Vandal Savage to the Phantom Zone, the rise of Joker VI, and, most of all, the creation of the Justice League Training System — all of which would have wide-reaching consequences for the Justice League for years to come.

Tropes:

• Dark and Troubled Past: "The Dead Decade", the period of time spanning from the death of Roy Harper when Jason was nineteen, to the death of Clark Kent over fifteen years later. Most of the trauma that the Council and their contemporaries occurred during this period, and the overall events of this time was the biggest influence on the practices of Era 2.
• Dawn of an Era: The retirement of Diana and the induction of Donna signaled the beginning of Era 2, which saw the Justice League become a more militarized organization a la Justice League Unlimited, complete with rankings and a training system.
• End of an Age: While Diana's retirement was the official end of Era 1, it's implied that the actual downslide of the era began with the Dead Decade, a period during Era 1 that had a huge influence on Era 2.
• Heroes Unlimited: The Expansion Initiative, which technically began in Era 1 but wasn't fully integrated into the system until after the death of Dick Grayson, in the middle of the Dead Decade.

Justice League Council

General

The first iteration of the ruling council of the Justice League during Era 2, and the main protagonists of the superhero game. While previously mentioned and alluded to in one day at a time, only Jason had a major presence as the main character of that story. Conner and Donna made minor appearances, while the rest were merely mentioned. They surged to prominence in the second story, after Vandal Savage sent the rest of the council to the same universe as Jason and similarly merged them with their counterparts for his revenge scheme.

Tropes:

• Anti-Hero Substitute: Downplayed. While they still take after the aesthetics and general ideals of their predecessors, they also tend to use more brutal tactics while in combat.
• Broken Ace: During their time, they were the seven greatest superheroes in the world, but it becomes obvious early on that the multiple traumas that happened over the course of their hero careers had severe effects on their respective mental states. Of the entire group, only Jason seems to have worked through most, if not all of his issues, followed by Conner and Donna. The rest are still clearly struggling, which is only compounded when they're sent back and meet their deceased loved ones.
• Combat Pragmatist: They have no issues using dirty tactics, including groin attacks and double teaming. Many a villain are Caught Monologuing as a result.
• Deadpan Snarker: Yes. Usually at each other too, resulting in Snark-to-Snark Combat.
• The Dreaded:
  • Hal Jordan, 'The Man without Fear', outright called them all terrifying. They didn't disagree.
  • Kyle Rayner is this even among his teammates. Jason says villains used to cry Tears of Fear whenever they heard he was in town, and even after he's free of Savage's brainwashing other heroes are apprehensive of him.
• Ensemble Cast: While Jason is still ostensibly the main protagonist, the second story revolves around all of them.
• Experienced Protagonist: All of them have been superheroes for decades. This is in deep contrast to the current timeline, where only Donna and, to a lesser extent, Jason can be considered veterans by any measure. Half of them weren't even heroes at all prior to the time travel.
• Foreshadowing: There are several hints to their existence in one day at a time, prior to their debut in the superhero game.
  • Jason's general fondness for Kon and Donna in that story.
  • Jason lamenting how he won't be able to send Christmas presents to any of the other members without raising questions with the rest of the cape community.
  • Jason's distress over the backstory change for Kyle Rayner. Namely, the fact that Kyle never got back together with Alex DeWitt, thus preventing her death at the hands of Major Force and stalling Kyle's Character Development.
  • Jason's Near-Death Experience, where each and every one of them has a prominent scene in his Good-Times Montage.
• Good Is Not Soft: Jason flat out admits in Chapter 24 of the superhero game that all of them have broken the Thou Shalt Not Kill rule at least once, none of them really regret it too much, and they are all Combat Pragmatists. In fact, they wouldn't even be in this mess if they hadn't decided to send Vandal Savage into an And I Must Scream fate for punishment. When confronted about this fact (and that he got left in the Phantom Zone for 30,000 years), not a single one of them showed any regret for what they did, feeling that he deserved it.
• Hero with Bad Publicity:
  • Downplayed. There are several members of the council that were regarded as controversial due to prior crimes and other questionable actions, but this feeling died down as they gradually redeemed themselves as the years went by.
  • To a lesser degree, they're also this to the Era 1 Justice League after traveling back in time — while they're still trusted heroes, the Era 2 League's willingness to kill people and Good Is Not Soft tendencies (plus their combat prowess) mean they make most of the other heroes uneasy.
• Legacy Character: To the founders of the Justice League, who were retroactively named the Era 1 Council. Several of them were also preceded by other successors, such as Dick Grayson for Jason Todd, and Wally West and Bart Allen for Wallace West.
• Locked Out of the Loop: The amount of knowledge each of them have of the future varies. The one with the least amount is Kon (who died the earliest), while the one with the most was M'gann (who died last). Ironically, Jason, who used his future knowledge to troll his family in the first story has the second least amount of knowledge after Kon due to being the first to die after him.
• The Mentor: All of them served as this in varying capacities. In fact, it's considered to be their main contribution to the superhero community for their era — after all, they did create the Justice League Training System.
• Peggy Sue: All of them awaken in a new dimension set much further in the past after dying in their own time, with Jason awakening first (lung cancer), then Kon (died fighting Superboy-Prime), Donna (Taking the Bullet for Terry), Kyle (gave his life force to restore the Source), Wallace (gave his life force to restore the Speed Force), Kaldur'ahm (heart attack) and finally M'gann (ensuring that Desparo and his Flame of Pytar die for good).
• Sidekick Graduations Stick: Perhaps the Ur-Example, combined with Legacy Character. With the exception of Kyle and (technically) M'gann, every member of this iteration of the Justice League is a former sidekick who has adopted the mantle of their respective mentor.
• Superhero Speciation: While there is some overlap, especially in regards to Kon and M'gann, everyone has distinct powers and abilities that makes them stand out from the others.
• Superior Successor: Every single one of them has surpassed their predecessors in at least one aspect — and all of them have surpassed their predecessors in combat skill.
• This Is Gonna Suck: Each and every single one of them reacted with resigned exasperation when they realized they were going to have to fight a brainwashed Kyle (except for Kyle, of course).
• True Companions: Implied. They're certainly close, at least, and it was losing all of them that drove M'gann to her death in her final duel against Despero.
• Two Guys and a Girl: Jason, Donna, and Kon formed one as a 'Neo-Trinity' of sorts. The fact that they were the first three to be sent back was not a coincidence.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: They bicker a lot and love taking the mickey out of each other, but they're also very close and have no issues trusting each other.
• Walking Spoiler: All of them except Jason. The very fact that they're sent back in time is the very premise of the second story and puts the entire first story in a new light.

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Conner Kent

Conner Kent / Kon-El | Superboy I | Superman II

The first Superboy and the second Superman. The half-Kryptonian, half-human clone of Clark Kent and Lex Luthor, and thus the "cousin" to Kara Danvers, Jon Lane-Kent, Lara Lane-Kent, and Damian Kent, and the grandson of Jonathan and Martha Kent. Cousin-in-law to Lois Lane-Kent, and husband to Hiyori Tanaka. Father to Vance Kent.

Conner was originally conceived as a replacement for the first Superman by the organization Cadmus, in the wake of Clark's death at the hands of Doomsday. Upon being unleashed onto the world, Conner called himself Superman and became a public hero to avoid being taken back by the organization for further experiments. Upon the return of the original, however, he reconciled with Cadmus and moved to Hawaii to be a hero in his own right, eventually being adopted by Clark as a member of his family and given the name Kon-El. After he left Hawaii and was taken in by Clark's parents, he adopted the human name Conner Kent as a secondary secret identity. During this time, he founded the legendary Young Justice team with fellow sidekicks and lifelong friends Tim Drake (Robin III), Cassie Sandsmark (Wonder Girl II), and Bart Allen (Impulse I/Kid Flash II). They would later be known as the "Core Four" of Young Justice to future iterations of the team.

After the dissolution of Young Justice in the wake of Donna Troy's first death, Conner joined the Teen Titans with the rest of the Core Four. It was with the Titans that Conner would learn of his true origins as a clone of Clark and Lex, having originally believed himself to be a clone of Paul Westfield that was endowed with powers. Not long after learning about this, Conner's Kryptonian DNA would be unsealed and he would start to awaken powers similar to Superman. These two developments would cause considerable angst for Conner, especially after Lex used latent programming in Conner's mind to force the boy to fulfill his initial function as his double agent in the hero community. After the programming was wiped, however, Lex washed his hands of Conner.

Conner only overcame his insecurities during the lead-up to his first death at the hands of Superboy-Prime — who would go on to be his arch-enemy for the rest of his life. He was deeply grieved by the hero community, especially by Tim, his best friend, and Cassie, who had been his girlfriend at the time of his death. Tim, already suffering over the (presumed) death of his own girlfriend, Stephanie Brown, would end up seeking comfort with Cassie, only for the relationship to ultimately putter out, especially after Stephanie's return to Gotham. The final nail in the coffin, however, was Conner's own revival at the hands of the Legion of Super-Heroes via a Kryptonian Regeneration Matrix, alongside his other best friend Bart, who had also been killed during the interim. The two would travel back to their own time and reunite with the Titans, before leaving the team to reform Young Justice.

During this time, Conner and Cassie put a permanent end to their romantic relationship, finding that they preferred being friends more. Bart later left Young Justice to succeed Wally West as the fourth Flash, but still spent time with Young Justice. This, however, fell apart when Conner's human father Lex Luthor reentered his life after Conner's abilities began to grow at a rapid pace around his twenty-fourth birthday. Lex would kidnap Conner with the intent of experimenting and possibly clone him to replicate those abilities in his own soldiers. Tim, the only one aware of Conner's whereabouts, mounted a rescue mission to save him.

Tim succeeded in his mission, only to die right before Conner's eyes, an event that significantly changed him. This tragedy was only compounded by the deaths of Bart and Cassie in the following years, along with Conner's cousin Kara, eventually culminating in the death of Clark. With Jon Kent still mourning the death of his own best friend Damian Wayne, Conner took on the responsibility of becoming the second Superman, succeeding Clark as the leader of the Justice League.

Conner would continue in that role for the following eight years, during which he would closely befriend Tim's brother Jason and Cassie's predecessor Donna. He would also meet and marry Hiyori Tanaka, and together they would have a son, Vance Kent. Unfortunately, tragedy struck again when Superboy-Prime, now Superman-Prime, escaped from his imprisonment in the Source Wall and sought his revenge on the multivese. In the Justice League's attempts to stop him, Conner would face Prime in a second duel, ultimately defeating him and killing him at the cost of his own life. He would be deeply mourned, buried alongside both his cousins on the Kent Farm and immortalized in a statue besides Clark's own in Metropolis. He would be succeeded by Jon Kent as the third Superman. Conner would later awaken in the past as Superboy during the Sins of Youth incident with Klarion, reuniting with his best friend Jason, who had died eight years after him but had traveled back to about a year before the incident.

Tropes:

• Arch-Enemy: Superboy/Superman-Prime. When his future self merges with his past self and sees the very much alive members of Young Justice he's at first furious because he thinks it's a twisted trick pulled by Prime and refuses to calm down until Jason manages to convince him of the situation via Trust Password.
• Ascended Extra: He only made two or three appearances in the first story. In the second, his future self merges with his past self like Jason, effectively ascending him to main character status.
• Butt-Monkey: Downplayed. He's usually the one shuddering over the team's many humorous Noodle Incidents.
• Cape Snag: Subverted. Superman Kon wears a breakaway cape. So, when Clark tried to grab it during their duel, it just tore off his shoulders. Kon proceeded to make him pay for it by using the cape to choke Clark out.
• Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: He died to save the multiverse, after all. While Kon knows he did the right thing, it doesn't stop him from mourning his lost chance to be a father.
• Dying Moment of Awesome: Apparently, he saved the whole multiverse doing so. It's later revealed that he had a Mutual Kill with Superman-Prime during their second duel to the death.
• Half-Human Hybrid: Half-Human, Half-Kryptonian. His human heritage makes him more resistant to Kryptonite than Clark.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: He was first Tim's best friend, and later Jason's during his tenure as Superman. He and Jason quickly return to this after he travels back.
• Honorary Uncle: To Jason's kids. He was particularly fond of Helena, who reminded him of Tim.
• Interspecies Romance: A Kryptonian-human hybrid who married a human woman.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: He hoped his wife Hiyori would move on after his death, and is saddened to learn from Jason that she didn't.
• Locked Out of the Loop:
  • He's a mite irked to learn Jon knows the Secret Identity of his Bat-friend while Robin still refuses to tell Conner his own. Of course, that ends when he travels back like Jason, and subsequently becomes the first member of Young Justice to know Robin's identity as Tim as a result.
  • A minor example compared to the rest of the council. Kon died eight years before Jason did, making his knowledge of the future more limited than the others (though still vastly more than everyone outside of the group).
• Love at First Sight: What happened with his eventual wife, Hiyori Tanaka.
• Mind over Matter: He's considered to be the strongest telekinetic mind in the world. His shields are top notch and his telekinetic grip is near-unbreakable. He was even able to redirect a massive blast of white life energy from Kyle, albeit with some strain.
• My Greatest Failure:
  • The death of his best friend Tim, who died saving Kon from his "father" Lex Luthor. He's also shown regret over the deaths of his other best friends Bart Allen and Cassie Sandsmark.
  • He clearly hates the fact that he never got to watch his son Van grow up, and is hungry for whatever information he can get from his friends, who kept an eye on Van in his stead.
• Not Growing Up Sucks: Jason has to give him a pep talk to bring him out of his funk over his body refusing to age beyond sixteen, pointing out that aging isn't the same as maturing. This ceases after he travels back, mostly because his body's aging has been reactivated by that point.
• Oblivious to Love: He's given no indication that he's aware of M'gann's feelings for him.
• Ship Sinking: He used to date his best friend Cassie when they were teens, but they eventually settled into Better as Friends before her death in their thirties. This, along with the fact that Kon is now forty or so, and was previously Happily Married with a kid before he died, means whatever was between them in the current timeline almost immediately dies.
• Shipper on Deck: For Jason/Donna.
• Too Happy to Live: So, Conner was beloved as the second Superman, Happily Married and a brand-new dad? Let's force him into a Heroic Sacrifice for the Multiverse's sake!
• Unexpected Successor: Downplayed. While Clark wasn't displeased with learning Kon was his successor, he did wonder why Jon didn't try to inherit the mantle first. As Jason tells it, it was because Jon was still mourning Damian's death at the time and wasn't in the right mental state to be Superman yet.
• Walking Spoiler: He becomes this after the First-Episode Twist of the sequel sees him travel back in time like Jason.

Jason Todd

Jason Peter Todd-Wayne | Robin II | Red Hood | Batman III

The main protagonist of the first story and the primary main character of the second. The second Robin, then the infamous Red Hood, and finally, the third Batman. Second son of the first generation of the Wayne family, Patriarch of the second generation, younger adoptive brother of Dick Grayson, and older adoptive brother to Tim Drake, Cassandra Cain, and Damian Wayne. Surrogate father to his siblings Helena Wayne, Terry McGinnis and Matthew McGinnis, adoptive father to Carrie Kelley, and the biological father to Penelope of Themyscira.

Jason was born to Willis Todd and Sheila Haywood in Gotham's seediest neighborhood — Park Row, better known as Crime Alley. Sheila abandoned him when he was a baby, so he was raised by his biological father and his father's wife, Catherine Todd. Hardly the most ideal childhood, Jason saw the worst of Gotham throughout his younger years, all while suffering at the whims of an abusive father and a junkie mother. After his parents' deaths, he was forced to live on the streets permanently, where he remained until he was eleven.

His life was forever changed when, by chance, he spotted the Batmobile parked all by its lonesome right in the middle of Crime Alley. Desperate for money to help make it through the winter, Jason made a daring gambit to try and jack the tires off the car. He made it through three before Batman himself caught him. Impressed by his sheer guts, the Bat took him in, revealed his identity as Bruce Wayne, and adopted Jason as his second son, before training him to be his second sidekick, the second Robin.

Jason remained in that role for three years before he was tragically murdered by Batman's nemesis the Joker when he was fifteen. About six months later he inexplicably came back to life, and six months after that his mind was restored by the Lazarus Pit at the behest of Talia al Ghul. Not without a cost, however; the effects of the Pit drove Jason mad, amplifying and twisting his emotions and overall mental state to murderous levels. Seeking revenge against his adoptive father for "failing" to avenge him by killing the Joker, he spent several years in training before returning to Gotham to wreak havoc upon its criminal element and upon his adoptive family as the gun-toting vigilante known as the Red Hood.

However, after a fateful confrontation with Batman and the Joker, the Pit's effects on Jason gradually began to recede. Combined with the efforts of his siblings and eventually Bruce himself, Jason slowly reintegrated with his family, and by the time of his adoptive father's death, had reconciled with all of them. Seeking to atone for his crimes, the Red Hood returned to full-fledged superheroism, and continued in that role until the death of his older brother Dick Grayson when Jason was twenty-six.

As Bruce's oldest living son and the new head of the family, Jason was chosen to become the third Batman. He only agreed with the understanding that Damian Wayne would succeed once he was deemed ready. Unfortunately, both Tim Drake and Damian would die a mere two years later, forcing Jason to become Batman permanently. He would remain in the role until he was diagnosed with lung cancer at forty-eight, upon which he passed on the mantle to his adoptive son and the seventh Robin, Terry McGinnis. Jason would die peacefully in his sleep at age fifty at Wayne Manor, surrounded by friends and family...and would wake up over thirty years in the past, in his sixteen year old body, right after Talia al Ghul threw him into the Lazarus Pit.

Tropes

• The Ace: Lampshaded by Stephanie, who wonders if there's anything he isn't good at.
• Action Dad: Of the second generation.
• Adaptational Badass: This is a Jason that has been Batman for over twenty years. Even stuck in his younger, less-trained body, he's a close match for Dick.
• Almighty Mom: Like Alfred before him, a male example. Thanks to his experience as a parent and mentor to various superheroes in the previous timeline, he manages to cow both the de-aged JLA and JSA (said de-ageing done thanks to Klarion) into behaving through some ear-twisting and sheer force of will.
• Amazon Chaser: His First Love was Artemis of Bana-Mighdall and it's strongly implied that his Second Love was Donna Troy, both of whom are literal Amazons. And then both he and Death Of The Endless genuinely share some very touching Ship Tease feelings for each other despite how impractical a romance between them would be.
• Amicable Exes: His relationship with Artemis ended amicably, and he showed no resentment for her when she visited him on his deathbed, even after she revealed that they had a daughter together.
• Anger Born of Worry: The normally amiable and permissive Jason is absolutely furious with Tim for running away from home to recklessly confront the Joker by himself.
• Arch-Enemy:
  • The Joker. All six Jokers, in fact. Joker I crippled Barbara, Joker II was his murderer, Joker III manipulated him into believing his entire life was a lie, Joker IV murdered Bruce, Joker V created an entirely new Rogues Gallery for him to fight, and Joker VI nearly murdered Terry. It's noted that no one has more reasons to hate the Joker than Jason, not even Bruce, and Jason himself outright admits that if given the chance to kill the Joker with no repercussions, he would do it, no questions asked.
  • Ra's al Ghul. He might actually hate Ra's more than he does the Joker. Ra's is the one person Jason has never regretted killing, and when the opportunity presents itself, he doesn't hesitate to kill Ra's again and get him off the board permanently. But right before he did so, he delivered a massive "Reason You Suck" Speech to Ra's, mocking the end of his legacy and more-or-less illustrating how much he hated the guy. Jason himself admits the only thing he ever regretted about killing Ra's was not doing more to contain the fallout by destroying the League of Assassins right afterward — as it allowed Damian to be killed after he was caught up in their Civil War by his cousin Mara.
• Assassin Outclassin': Easily thwarts all of Damian's attempts to murder him in Chapter 2.
• The Atoner:
  • It's fairly obvious that one of the reasons he took being Batman so seriously is because he wanted to redeem himself for the crimes he committed as Red Hood. At one point, Original Tim Drake cites this as a reason why Jason was going to make a better Batman than him.
  • Overall, Jason's more proactive involvement with his family is clearly rooted over the guilt of what happened to his brothers in the previous timeline. It's also why he's so overprotective of them, much to their exasperation.
• Awakening the Sleeping Giant: In the previous timeline. Despite being the sole male heir to the Wayne name and fortune, he was largely uninterested in succeeding his father as the "Prince of Gotham" due to hating most of Gotham's upper class. Then Helena came along, forcing Jason to take his place at the top of Gotham's high society in order to protect her from the leeches that sought to use her for their own gain.
• Beautiful Singing Voice: He reveals he has one of these when Stephanie forces him to go to a karaoke bar in Chapter 20. Cue viral YouTube infamy.
• Berserk Button:
  • Bad self-care, as illustrated in his rant to Tim in Chapter 10.
  • Using his crimes to justify another's (particularly your own) seems to be one. He immediately went into Tranquil Fury mode when Original Tim did it in the second flashback arc.
  • Harming children. He put Victor Zsaz in the hospital for trying to slice up toddlers.
  • He threatened to kill Dark Angel when she revealed her plan of removing his memories of Donna.
• Big Brother Instinct:
  • He's very protective of all his siblings, to the point that it's one of his most defining traits. The reason he has so much enmity for various villains is usually rooted in their treatment of his family. One of the things that makes him resent the Thou Shalt Not Kill rule he now follows is that he can't kill any of the enemies that will cause his family so much pain.
  • Jason gave up killing after Bruce's death. What nearly caused him to backslide? Lady Shiva, who had been terrorizing his sister for years and was planning on forcing her into another Duel to the Death. It took Cass herself all but begging him not to do it for him to relent.
  • When Tim injured his leg during the massive battle against Kyle, Jason immediately applied first aid and then ordered him off the battlefield, squashing all his protests and outright telling him he refused to give Tim another opportunity to get hurt, no matter how much they needed the manpower.
  • Later, when Kyle's Arceus construct is about to fire, he uses the Balance to form a dome around Cass and himself and then immediately shields his sister with his body, covering her completely with his cape for good measure.
• Big Brother Worship: A subdued version towards Dick, which is the complete opposite of his younger self's resentment. Dick himself notes it, musing that Jason looks at him the same way Tim does — and considering how much the younger Tim idolized Dick, that is saying a lot. It's implied to be because Dick was the one who pulled Jason out of the rut he was in the wake of Bruce's death.
• Birds of a Feather: The basis of his strong friendship with M'gann M'orzz. M'gann had also went through a period of Well-Intentioned Extremist anti-heroism that she later came to regret and had to atone for. After a few years at being kept at arm's length, Jason was the first member of the council to allow M'gann to meld with his mind.
• Boyfriend-Blocking Dad: Confirmed by Word of God to be this. A flashback sees him threatening Helena's prom date, one Damian "Dam" Kent, with the vault full of Kryptonite he had in the Bat-Cave. Note that not only was Dam a Kent, he was also one of Jason's personal students.
• Break the Haughty: This essentially happened to him in the backstory. Jason was a supervillain and a major asshole back in the day, and the world paid him back tremendously for that. He lost his first best friend, his entire ideology was proven wrong after he murdered the Joker, only to create an even worse one who ended up murdering his father, he lost all three of his brothers in quick succession (and that was after only managing to fully reconcile with them a few years prior), lost his surrogate grandfather to old age, and got stuck with a job he hated because he was one of the only two people left who could handle it. Left with only his sister and years of bitter regret, it's no wonder Jason became a humbler, wiser, and overall better person in the aftermath.
• Break Them by Talking: After he comes Back from the Dead a second time with the Balance in hand to face Ra's in a Duel to the Death, Jason proceeds to not only gleefully deconstruct all of Ra's' hypocrisies and delusions of grandeur but he also delivers an absolutely brutal "Reason You Suck" Speech to every single member of the League Of Assassins by revealing how none of them got to have a happy fate in the future he comes from, calling it the "saddest story" ever. And it's made very clear that his words have the intended effect considering the horrified reaction everyone gives him the more he says.
• Breaking the Cycle of Bad Parenting: His biological parents were terrible and as much as he loved Bruce, Jason will fully admit that he was hardly "Parent of the Year" material either. Hence why Jason strove to be a better parent than all of them, and out of some bouts of overprotectiveness, has mostly succeeded.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: After he worked out all his issues with Bruce, this was Jason's problem — at least in his civilian life. While he was a devoted and dedicated vigilante, he was perfectly content to keep out of Wayne Enterprises and high society life, working at his diner in Crime Alley. Even after circumstances forced him to take over the family business, he didn't involve himself in Gotham politics until Helena came along.
• Brutal Honesty:
  • Whenever he's allowed to be completely honest, he pulls no punches whatsoever.
  • This trait is why Tim started working with him during the period he was estranged from the Bat-Family and on the outs with Dick in particular. Jason always made it clear where they stood with each other.
  • When the original Bruce calls himself a terrible father, Jason fully agrees with him and doesn't even try to deny it. He then calls himself a terrible son in return.
• Calling the Old Man Out:
  • A gentle version to the current Bruce, because this Bruce has yet to do any of the things that caused his children to resent him so much.
  • He gives a much harsher version to the original Bruce, going as far as to call him a "stupid fool" and call him out on his self-righteous behavior.
• Cannot Spit It Out: He has a mild case of this. While he's usually willing to part information about the future, even things such as his time as the Red Hood, there are some subjects that he refuses to speak of unless he feels he absolutely has to. To his credit, it's not out of any maliciousness but rather because those subjects tend to be painful, both for him and for his loved ones as well.
  • He refused to speak about the Joker Curse for the first half of the first story because he flat-out hates thinking about the Joker at all. He only gave in after the Joker murdered Jack Drake, realizing he couldn't hide it anymore.
  • He also deliberately hid the Court of Owls from his siblings, only telling Bruce, Alfred, and Barbara. He hid it from his younger siblings because they were too green to be of any help with the situation, while he hid it from Dick because of his heavy connection to the Court leaving him too compromised. While Dick seemed to accept Jason's reasoning, Tim did not, and understandably called him out on it.
• Celeb Crush: Had something of one on Donna when he was a kid. It had faded by the time he met her again as Red Hood, and he didn't develop any real romantic feelings for her until they were well into middle age.
• Character Development:
  • Underwent his in the first timeline, leading to his Older and Wiser personality in the current one. This is perfectly demonstrated in the first flashback arc: compared to the present Jason, this Jason is a bit snappy, more easily angered, unsure of his capabilities as Batman even after two years on the job, and still grieving the deaths of his brothers and father while also still holding some resentment towards the latter. The arc ends with him reconciling with their deaths, including the differences he had with them in life, and taking the first step to becoming the hero they saw in him in honor of their memories.
  • The Robin Interlude shows why he's so patient with his siblings in the current timeline; because in the previous timeline, his own children were just as bad, if not worse than they were. By the time he was in his forties, he was far too used to their antics to be angry anymore, just exasperated.
• The Chessmaster: Shows shades of this. He spends almost his entire gala deliberately ingratiating himself with Gotham's elite and showing off his influence over Damian, while also feigning some vague frustration over the antics of Brucie and Richie. By doing this, he hopes the Court of Owls will grow interested in using him to usurp his family and ask him to join them, allowing him to take them down from the inside. Too bad all that work is shot to hell after the Court goes through its own Civil War and promptly ditches Gotham.
• Chick Magnet: Not quite to the extent of his older brother Dick, but he is noted to be very attractive by a number of women. He had a relationship with Artemis, all but stated to have had another one with Donna, and has a great number of female admirers in Gotham, especially after the viral video of him singing karaoke. He even shares a mutual attraction with Death of all people.
• Childhood Friend Romance: Downplayed. He first met Donna when he was a kid and she was a teenager bordering on adulthood. However, they were solidly Just Friends until Donna's self-imposed exile, and didn't start becoming more until she returned.
• Comically Small Bribe:
  • He bribes Klarion with a bag of Alfred's cookies in order to convince him turn everyone whose ages have been changed back to normal. It works.
  • He later considers bribing Wallace into telling his family about Flashpoint with his "triple quadruple fudge nougat cheesecake". It's implied that food is his go-to bribe in general, which makes sense when you consider the fact that he's a Supreme Chef.
• The Confidant: Serves as this to several people, allowing them to air their troubles to him and offering support and advice in return. This is deliberate; the people he serves as this to (his family, Conner, Donna) are all people he was extremely close to in the previous timeline, so he's already well aware of their problems and is giving them an outlet to work past their issues in a quicker and healthier manner.
• Cool Big Bro: To Tim, Cass, and Damian.
• Cool Sword: He's the current chosen wielder of The Balance. He understandably treats using it as his own personal Godzilla Threshold considering the blade is fueled by his own soul and explicitly designed to kill.
• Create Your Own Villain: He was indirectly responsible for creating Joker IV, having killed Joker III.
• Dark Secret: The true genetic heritage of the McGinnis brothers. Jason hated keeping this secret, but honestly didn't know how to tell the boys how much they had been manipulated since their very conception. He eventually made an implicit Deathbed Confession to them by giving full access of the Bat-Computer to Terry upon his death, where all the information was logged in and encrypted.
• Deader than Dead: Anyone that he kills with the Balance is marked by Death herself, rendering them forever unable to come back to life.
• Deadpan Snarker: Yes.
• Death Is Cheap: He doesn't know how to die normally. As of this writing, he's died and come back to life (one way or another) four times^note For perspective, that's how many times Krillin died in Dragon Ball (including Z and Super). Both Kon and Donna react with exasperation when they find out and scold him for his recklessness, while the rest of the Era 2 JL react with a combination of incredulity and Dull Surprise.
  M'gann: Batman died again.
  Wallace: (incredulous) Are you serious?
• Deceased Parents Are the Best: Subverted. As much as Jason missed and still loved him, he'd be the first to say how horrible a parent Bruce could be. He only ever applied Never Speak Ill of the Dead when talking about him to his own kids, and a big part of that had to due with how three of those kids were biologically Bruce's.
• Despair Event Horizon:
  • Was dangerously on the edge of this after Damian's death. Only Cass was stopping him from crossing it outright; Carrie was the one to pull him away from it all together.
  • He was also close to this after Bruce's death. He blamed himself for what happened and devolved into alcoholism. It got so bad that Dick was forced to deliberately manipulate him into focusing on vigilante work so he wouldn't self-destruct.
• Determinator: The reason why he lasted so long as Batman is because he was to determined to not let the job break him.
• Divine Date: Defied. While he's gradually fallen in love with Death over the years, he also recognizes that sheer disparity in their statuses means a relationship isn't viable between them.
• Doting Parent:
  • He was this to his children. The first chapter makes it clear how much all of them adore him.
  • Upon meeting Penelope for the first time while on his deathbed, his automatic reaction was to have his will rewritten so she could have a portion of the inheritance he was leaving behind.
  • The Robin Interlude reveals that he outright spoiled Helena when she first moved in with him. It took her asking to be Robin for him to realize that he should say no to her more often before she became a Pre-Robin Damian.
• Doting Grandparent: He's overjoyed to learn from Donna that he now has three grandsons. Granted, he can never meet said grandsons, but that doesn't stop him from being happy anyway.
• Drowning My Sorrows: His default reaction when suffering a major loss is to get really, really drunk. He went on a bender when Bruce died and went on another one after Tim died. It's implied he also went on one when Dick died, though when Damian died he focused on vigilante work instead. That might be because he had become a Death Seeker at that point, though Jason doesn't explicitly state it.
• The Dutiful Son:
  • Of a sort. After his brothers died Jason effectively gave up all his dreams and ambitions to protect Gotham and run Wayne Enterprises in their stead. He still has this attitude even after time traveling to the past, even admitting he'll run Wayne Enterprises again if Bruce dies before the current heir apparent (Damian, as Dick is uninterested and Tim has yet to be adopted) isn't old enough to do so himself.
  • He even goes as far as to exploit this trope at his return gala to catch the interest of the Court of Owls.
• Education Mama:
  • Downplayed male variant. All of Jason's Robins were required to maintain a B average during their training, which doesn't really seem like much until you remember what kind of workload they have. He also threw a party when Helena took a break from crime-fighting to go to college.
  • He all but dared Bruce to concede to Damian's demands of homeschooling. Bruce, wisely, refused and enrolled Damian into Gotham Academy.
• Energy Weapon: Batman Jason uses a low-grade version of his Swiss-Army Weapon. The escrima sticks retain the electrifying element, but they can also absorb kinetic energy and build it up to the point that Jason can release it as a pulse. The bo-staff retains the pulse mechanism and can use it to a greater extent. The short swords have energy-enhanced edges, making them look like laser-blades. The long sword also has an energy-enhanced edge, but can also further enhance that by setting itself on fire, creating a Flaming Sword.
• Everyone Can See It: With Donna. Their feelings for each other were so obvious in the previous timeline that Kaldur outright told him they looked "sad together". Even in the new timeline, he can barely hide how much he cares about her.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • He never really liked Harley Quinn. That being said, even he thought she didn't deserve to go through Joker's Domestic Abuse. It's strongly implied that one of the reasons why Jason killed Joker III was to avenge Harley, who had been murdered by the latter alongside her lover Deadshot.
  • Despite his darker morality at the time, Jason was absolutely disgusted by the Arkham Massacre and has no intentions of letting the Joker repeat it in the new timeline, no matter how much it technically benefited the Bat-Family and Gotham in the previous timeline.
  • The Original Dick notes that even Jason at his worst would never think to use the gun that Joe Chill used to murder Thomas and Martha Wayne against his family, no matter how insane he was or angry he was at them. Which more-or-less spells out how much around the bend Future Tim was.
  • Even he thought the way Raptor had the Talons murder Blockbuster and his lieutenants was too brutal, and made it clear to the students under his charge at the time that they didn't have to work the crime scene or even look at it if they didn't want to.
• Experienced Protagonist: By nature as a Peggy Sue protagonist. As Jason points out to Barbara in Chapter 10, he's been a vigilante for over thirty-five years, longer than all of his siblings (Barbara included) have been alive. He's even been Batman longer than Bruce has been at this point in the timeline, which is partly why Bruce is so willing to listen to him and his advice.
• Family Man:
  • In his later life. The author even states that Jason's children were the great joy of his life.
  • It holds even after the time travel. While Jason is aware of the greater implications his situation has for the world and the superhero community at large, his first priority is clearly his family.
• Fantasy-Forbidding Father:
  • Tried to be this to his kids. Unfortunately, when it came to this they were more stubborn than he was, and he was too much of a Doting Parent to threaten disownment or anything else of the sort to force them to back down. He resorted to training them to the bone instead.
  • The Robin Interlude is basically a Failure Montage of him trying to forbid his kids from becoming Robin. By the time he hits Matty, he declares that he's "too old for this shit" and tells Matty he starts his training at eleven and not a moment sooner.
• Fatal Flaw: Love for his family. Jason loves his family to a fault, and while he's tempered his recklessness and impulsiveness, those traits still tend to come out whenever his family is concerned. In particular, his decision to bring Damian and Cass to Gotham as soon as possible may have reunited his family sooner, but it also led to several direct attacks on said family at the behest of Ra's al Ghul, which eventually culminated in Talia being tortured and Jason (temporarily) killed. When scolded about it by Kon and Donna, he shows absolutely no regret because it was to protect his family.
• Friend to All Children: He's great with kids and tends to be very protective of them. It's mentioned in passing that he put Zsaz in the hospital after finding him trying to slice up toddlers.
• Foil: He has two:
  • To Bruce. While they do share a lot of similarities, particularly in life events, Jason is still a very different person from his father, and at least part of that is invoked. He is a lot more trusting of his friends and allies (though even more paranoid about strangers), more emotionally vulnerable, and more invested in the lives of his family. He isn't afraid to admit when he made a mistake, but also doesn't wallow in his regrets and failures like Bruce does (or, rather, he doesn't do so to the extent that detrimentally affects his daily life and his relationships with others). As a vigilante, he uses more weapons than Bruce and is a lot more brutal and pragmatic than either of his predecessors, and isn't averse to the idea of killing, though these days he believes it should only be done as an absolute last resort. In the end, he's basically what Bruce would, presumably, become if he ever managed to work through his issues.
  • To Future Tim. Whereas Jason is everything Bruce could become if he adopted a healthier mindset, Future Tim is everything Jason would've become if he hadn't managed to let go of his bitterness against his family by the time he became Batman. Future Tim is basically Red Hood Jason, but up to eleven — he flat-out murdered Damian for the Batman mantle, murdered the rest of the Bat-Family for opposing him, tried to Take Over the World for the 'greater good', only to be branded a criminal and hunted down by the Justice League, and then went back in time to try again. And in the end, the source of all his actions was his resentment against Dick for taking Robin away from him and giving it to Damian. It's implied that this is why Jason let go of any lingering anger he had at Bruce and the others, and it's confirmed to be the reason why Jason ultimately ended up becoming Batman to begin with.
• Forgiven, but Not Forgotten: According to the sequel, this was the general attitude most of the superhero community had to Jason after he reformed. While they recognized he had changed for the better and was actively working to atone, they weren't willing to forget his crimes; it's remarked that it hadn't been for that and for Dick's posthumous endorsement, he wouldn't have been accepted as Batman, let alone as a member of the Justice League and its ruling council. The feeling diminished later on due to a combination of both Jason's own hard work and other controversial members joining the council, particularly M'gann and Kaldur.
• Former Teen Rebel: Views his Red Hood phase as a more violent and murderous version of teenage rebellion, and seems to be ashamed of himself during this period.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: A heroic version. He began his life as a street urchin, only to get caught red-handed by Batman when he tried to steal the Batmobile's tires and adopted as a result, which led to him becoming the second Robin, dying and becoming the Red Hood, and after a final and conclusive Heel–Face Turn (and the deaths of all of his adoptive family save Cass), the head of Wayne Enterprises and the third Batman, positions he held for more than twenty years until shortly before his death.
• Generation Xerox:
  • Jason in his adult life ended up being a lot like Bruce, juggling the life of a superhero, a businessman, and a father all at once, though a lot more successfully. Most likely because he had saw firsthand all of Bruce's mistakes and was able to avoid making them himself.
  • Played with, but ultimately defied when it came to his relationship with Terry. Jason was terrified of history repeating when he saw the growing similarities between Terry and his younger self, which made their relationship rocky for a little while. In the end, however, Terry wasn't him, and Jason wasn't Bruce either — not only did Terry not fall on a dark path like Jason did in his youth, but he also ended up proving himself to be Jason's one true successor as Batman. This example is only strengthened after The Reveal that the villain Terry nearly died against and ultimately saved Jason from was Joker VI.
• Good Is Not Soft:
  • While he's softened over the years, he was still Batman, and in the end, he's still willing to go certain lengths that Bruce and the others won't. This is perfectly shown during his final confrontation with Ra's, who he ultimately kills.
  • He has no issues brutally beating down his particularly more despicable enemies, as seen with Victor Zsaz, and frequently wishes that he was still willing to break the Thou Shalt Not Kill rule. Ultimately, while it's clear Jason genuinely has changed for the better, everything he's gone through has ensured that he's never be as kind and forgiving to his enemies as his family usually is.
• Good Parents: Jason did not want any of his kids to follow in his footsteps, become vigilantes and potentially die like everyone in their family had before. He only relented when they made it clear they were going to do it with or without his support. He was also genuinely terrified of them going down a bad path and ending up like him during his Red Hood days. This is one of the reasons why he and Terry clashed in the middle of their partnership; Jason saw too much of his younger self in Terry.
• Godzilla Threshold: While Jason firmly follows the Thou Shalt Not Kill rule these days, he does admit to Bruce that there is one kill that, if given the chance, he'd repeat with little no remorse. The shocking part? It's not the Joker. Less shockingly, it's revealed to be Ra's al Ghul, and at least part of that is because killing Ra's is the only way to both neutralize the threat he poses and to punish him.
• Guilt Complex: It becomes fairly obvious throughout the first story that Jason never really forgave himself for the fate of his first family in the previous timeline, believing that he somehow could've stopped it and saved each of them in someway. This led him to overcompensate a lot with his sister, his children, and later on the past versions of said family in the new timeline, at the cost of his own personal desires. It's bad enough that the last thing the Original Bruce tells him in his Near-Death Experience is to go and live his own life, this time for himself, instead of just his family.
• Groin Attack: Owing to his pragmatic nature, Jason has no issue kicking people in the dick if it gives him the advantage. Just ask Merlyn and Deathstroke.
• Happily Adopted: While he and Bruce had their difficulties (to say the least), Jason ultimately views Bruce as his father and quite happily identifies himself as a Wayne.
• Has a Type: Much like his father and brother before him, Jason prefers a certain type of woman: strong, powerful enough to break him in half, yet tempered by great compassion. Examples include Artemis, Donna, and Death of the Endless.
• Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: Averted. His Batsuit has a fully-closed, detachable helmet instead of a cowl, making him appear even more intimidating. Presumably, it has built-in air filtration in case of another Poisonous Person.
• Heroic Fatigue: Fully admits to Barbara that by the time he actually retired, he had been ready to quit for a while. The only reason he was trying to stick around longer was because his preferred successor, Terry, was a bit too young to be Batman at the time. Then the diagnosis came and Jason had to hand off the mantle to Terry anyway.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners:
  • With Roy Harper, of whom he considers his first real best friend.
  • With his older brother, Dick Grayson, after the death of Dick's other best friend Wally West. Dick told Jason things he never told anyone else (such as his rape at the hands of Tarantula) and even entrusted him with the ring he was going to propose to Kori with, underlying how close the two had gotten before Dick's untimely death.
  • With Conner Kent, the second Superman. According to Jason they grew close while working together in the Justice League. Jason valued their friendship so much that when Conner died, he outright compared it to losing another brother. So, despite the circumstances, he can't help but be a little bit happy when Conner travels back with him.
• Hidden Depths: While he's genuinely happy to have his friends back in time with them, an interaction with Bruce implies that he's well aware of how difficult they can be.
• Honorary Uncle:
  • To Lian Harper.
  • Implied to be this to the Bat-Kids who weren't already his. He was the godfather to Luke and Barbara's son Felix, and is also this to Max Gibson, who is the daughter of Tam Fox in this continuity.
  • He was also this to Kon's son Van, who was another godchild of his.
• I Did What I Had to Do: How he treats his decision to kill Ra's al Ghul. While he's not sorry he did it, he is sorry that he had to do it.
• I Don't Want to Ruin Our Friendship: The real reason he took so long to get together with Donna despite obvious feelings on both sides. It took Kon's death to finally push them together.
• I Hate Past Me: Jason does not like to talk about his early years as the Red Hood. While the Red Hood did eventually become a full-fledged superhero identity, Jason doesn't have the will to readopt it in the new timeline because he views it as the manifestation of some of the worst moments in his life, including all the pain he caused his family.
• I Regret Nothing: Jason effectively gave up any chance of a normal life, including going to college and getting the English degree he always wanted, for the sake of his family — whether it was carrying on the family legacy by running Wayne Enterprises and being Batman, or taking on the responsibility of raising his younger siblings. When confronted on this by Barbara, who asks him what he intends to do with his third chance at life, he fully admits that he doesn't regret it at all and even intends to re-commit to the family again as a vigilante just to protect them.
• I Shall Taunt You: The penultimate chapter of the story sees Jason taunting the entire League of Assassins to goad Ra's al Ghul into a duel. He does this via a Breaking Speech that reveals the sad fates of all the major players present.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While his present-self is more of a Nice Guy these days, his younger self was definitely this, which Jason comments on frequently. As he puts it, he wasn't Tim, and he most certainly wasn't Dick.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: After his three eldest children completely tore down all his attempts to be a Fantasy-Forbidding Father, Jason didn't even bother to try with Matty and agreed to train him as Robin rather easily.
• The Lancer: To Dick during his brother's tenure as Batman. He basically replaced Damian as his most frequent partner and was Dick's sounding board for many of his plans.
• Laser-Guided Karma: As Word of God puts it, he loves his children, but also believes that all the insanity they put him through is payback for the hell he put Bruce and the other through when he first came back from the dead.
• The Leader: Was the Mastermind during his younger years, but has grown into all four types by adulthood, as seen in the Rescue Era 2 arc.
• Life Will Kill You: His second death was via lung cancer, as a result of the bad smoking habit he had during his younger years.
• Likes Older Women: It's downplayed compared to Dick, but it should be noted that all three of Jason's major love interests were significantly older than him. Artemis and Death are immortal and have been around for much longer than he has, while Donna was five years older than him and they didn't start their relationship until they were at an age where that difference hardly meant anything. It still applies in the case of Donna, as since she died ten years after Jason, she's now fifteen years older than him.
• The Lost Lenore: To Donna. The interlude examining their relationship outright states that Donna never got over his death.
• The Mentor: To several superheroes. Along with his children, he trained Jon and Damian Kent, and is implied to have trained others as well.
• Moment Killer: Deliberately cock-blocks Bruce at the end of his return gala by handing his father a sleepy Damian.
• My Greatest Failure:
  • The death of his youngest brother Damian. Out of all the loved ones Jason lost, Damian's Heroic Sacrifice was the only one he was present for and (theoretically) could have prevented. Being unable to save his last remaining brother drove him closer to the Despair Event Horizon than ever before.
  • Killing Joker III. He specifically calls it his greatest mistake, because it led to the rise of Joker IV, who murdered Bruce. The guilt remained with him for the rest of his life, and is implied to be part of why he became so devoted to his family from then out. It's also implied, and eventually confirmed by Jason himself, that this failure is why Jason permanently gave up killing.
• My Sister Is Off-Limits: Played for Laughs.
  • Downplayed with Cassandra, as Jason is extremely aware she's going to be a person of interest for Gotham's high society courtesy of her adoption in one of the First Families. He still grouses over her dresses because he doesn't want her to "encourage" suitors either.
  • He once shot a Death Glare at Wallace West for scoring a date with her. Apparently, the only man allowed to date Cass without his permission is Celibate Hero Connor Hawke.
• Mythology Gag:
  • His new suit and superhero persona is rather reminiscent of Batman: Arkham Knight, though with some of his Rebirth suit thrown in.
  • Batman Jason also resembles the Arkham Knight suit, though with the blue and the 'A' symbol exchanged for silver and a 'Bat' symbol, respectively. And with a cape for good measure.
• Multi-Melee Master: Claims to have been the greatest master of melee weaponry in the world in his previous timeline, and his fight with Bruce makes it clear that this is not an idle boast. His current fighting style sees him easily switching between four different melee weapons at a rapid pace, and it's strongly implied he's mastered other melee weapons as well.
• Near-Death Experience: After Ra's stabs him, he's sent to a limbo where he finally gets to meet with his original, deceased family and make peace with them.
• Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: While Jason is easily on the same level as Dick and just below Bruce in overall competency in Gotham (only surpassing both when he's transformed back into his prime), outside of Gotham he can generally be considered as a lightweight. The contrast is obvious when comparing the first story to the sequel: in the former, Jason is a consistent threat to every villain that appears. In the latter, he's only a threat to low-level enemies and those associated with his family's Rogues Gallery. Other, more powerful threats such as Dark Angel and Parallax easily slap him around whenever he tries to fight them directly. He seems to be aware of this, which is why he typically plays a support role whenever facing such threats and only engages in direct combat when he has no choice.
• Not So Above It All:
  • For all his weariness and wisdom, he is not above trolling any of his siblings (or his father) for kicks.
  • Later on he shows surprisingly adept knowledge about My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and compares himself to Twilight Sparkle.
  • He swears retribution on his siblings and their friends after Stephanie manages to trick him into participating in a karaoke contest, causing a video of him singing to go viral on the Internet.
  • He's a fan of The Great British Bake Off and even uses Nadiya's marshmallow fondant recipe for the celebratory Christmas cake he's making with Tim and Cass.
  • Outright squealed when Helena revealed she was planning to go to college and had just been accepted by Princeton.
  • He has no issues identifying all of Kyle's constructs. Then again, he is Batman.
• Odd Friendship: It's implied he formed one with a reformed Poison Ivy in the previous timeline. He does seem to be familiar with her, addressing her as 'Pam' at one point.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • He lets out a Cluster F-Bomb after learning that a Parallax-possessed Hal Jordan is still running around.
  • After he's freed from Savage's brainwashing, he is not happy to learn that Kyle is missing, because he knows very well what that means.
• Older and Wiser: His entire shtick. The death of his various siblings, having to raise three of his younger ones, all while juggling being a superhero and a businessman at the same time forced Jason to mature rapidly.
• Omniglot: Even by the standards of the Bat-Family, he's this. Before Bruce adopted him he already knew conversational Spanish, Italian, and Russian; since then, he's learned German, Arabic, and Romani (from Dick), and is implied to know many more languages, to the point that he found Original Tim knowing five himself to be unimpressive. A later flashback reveals that he also knows Irish, and that he learned it purely to piss off the Mexican-Irish Kyle Rayner.
• One True Love: To Donna. Donna has never loved anyone as much as she did Jason, not even Roy.
• Only Sane Man: While he does have his own quirks, he's basically this to his siblings, largely due to experience and overall personality. He reins in Dick's enthusiasm, settles the disputes between Damian and Tim, and encourages Cass to get out of her shell.
• Parental Hypocrisy: A justified and sympathetic example. He wanted none of his kids to be Robin like he did, because every Robin's tenure (except for the first one's) went horribly wrong, with Jason's ending with him being murdered by the Joker. They managed to convince (read: force) him into making each of them Robin anyway.
• Parental Substitute: To Carrie Kelley after the death of her parents, and then to his siblings Helena, Terry, and Matty. To such an extent that he doesn't even refer to the latter three as his siblings, but as his children.
• Passing the Torch: He was the first Batman to willingly retire, passing on the Batman mantle to his son, Terry.
• Pet the Dog:
  • One of the first things he did when he got back to Gotham was arrange things so Harley Quinn would never work at Arkham and meet the Joker, ensuring she would never become a supervillain, suffer his Domestic Abuse, or be killed by him. Furthermore, it's implied he did this for the sake of the reformed Poison Ivy from his timeline, with whom it's implied he formed an Odd Friendship with.
  • Klarion's emotional plight, despite the Witch Boy's mischief and chaos, utterly melts Jason and he's (after trying to scare Klarion first with the All-Blades at first) very gentle with the younger boy when convincing him to return everything back to normal, even throwing in Alfred's cookies as a bargaining chip. Being a Family Man and Parental Substitute for half a dozen children in his future obviously made him very good when dealing with children. But then again, children have always been Jason's soft spot even when he was at his most ruthless.
• The Power of Love:
  • Jason fights off episodes of Pit Madness by cycling his mind through all the happy memories he has with his friends and family.
  • Ultimately, it was his love for Cass and for the rest of his (deceased) family that caused Jason to finally give up killing.
• Promotion to Parent: Downplayed. He was thirty when he took in Helena, and forty when he did the same with Terry and Matty. As he was an adult already when he had to raise the three of them, the situation was more akin to adoption than this trope.
• Rags to Riches: As a child he was a Street Urchin from Gotham's worst neighborhood. Then he was adopted by Bruce, the richest man in Gotham and one of the richest men in the world, whose fortune he inherited alongside Cass.
• Real Men Cook: Yes. Before he was forced to become the CEO of Wayne Enterprises, he ran a diner in Crime Alley. He also forced all his kids to learn how to cook as well, and pesters his siblings to do the same in the current timeline.
• Sarcastic Devotee: To Dick. Dick might have been the primary target of his snarking, but when the chips were down Jason was loyal to him over everyone else.
• Second Love: To Donna Troy.
• Shipper on Deck:
  • While he's resolved himself not to interfere with his family's love lives outside of steering them away from destructive love interests and giving information and advice, he does subtly imply to Dick that he would prefer his older brother get together with either Barbara or Kori. He also suggests Helena Bertinelli as a possibility, once Helena "calms down" on the whole killing front.
  • It's suggested that he's also one for Tim and Stephanie, which is partly why he arranged for Stephanie to attend Gotham Academy.
  • He also ships Roy Harper and Donna Troy, though it's all but stated to be because he knows he no longer has any chance with Donna himself.
• Sidekick Graduations Stick: Jason comments on this, noting that after being Batman for over twenty years there is no way he can ever go back to being Robin, even disregarding the fact that there's another Robin running around now. Since becoming Red Hood again isn't pleasing to him either, he decides to create a new vigilante identity: Gotham Knight.
• So Proud of You: When he bequeathed the Batman mantle to his son Terry, he told him that no one had made Jason prouder than him.
• Soul Power: The Balance is powered by his soul and allows him to temporarily manipulate those energies to do various magical feats, including forming barriers, healing, and even temporarily aging himself to his prime. However, the more he uses these abilities, the more his soul depletes, and if he depletes all of it, he will die. It's implied that one of the main reason why Death chose him to wield the Balance in the first place is because his soul was strong enough to survive the strain.
• The Strategist:
  • During the Rescue Era 2 arc, after he's released from Savage's brainwashing. He's the one who leads the effort to release the rest of his teammates from Savage's control, and takes command of the battle against White Lantern Kyle. It seems that while Kon is the official leader, Jason is the one who does all the strategizing and takes the lead while they're on the field.
  • While he was brainwashed, Bruce soon realizes how competent he is at this when Jason takes care to knock out Tim and Cass first instead of the seemingly more dangerous Bruce and Dick. As he points out to Dick, Tim and Cass were actually the greatest threat to Jason because of their Awesomeness by Analysis skills. As Jason's biggest advantage over them is his knowledge of their fighting styles, and their lack of knowledge of his, Tim and Cass would've negated that due to the former's specialty in technology and observation and the latter's body-reading skills. By taking them out, he maintains that advantage with the added boon of being able to focus solely on Bruce and Dick.
• Survivor's Guilt: Jason never completely got over being the only surviving son of the first generation. It's what drove him to be so protective of the second generation.
• Sweet and Sour Grapes: This is a consistent theme with him: gets to kill the Joker, turns out the Joker can't die permanently and even ends up killing his dad; reconciles with his family and no longer wants to kill them, most of them end up dying anyway within the next decade; realizes he never really wanted to be Batman and comes to hate the job, gets stuck with it after his older brother dies so his younger siblings won't have to take it up and get killed in his stead. It's not surprising he's a touch bitter about all this.
• Swiss-Army Weapon: He uses a pair of escrima sticks that have a quickshift mechanism that allow him to transform them into a bo-staff, a single longsword, and two short swords. It's based on the weapon he used in the future as Batman, as seen when he's turned back into Batman by Savage.
• Talking to the Dead: He did this frequently after the deaths of Bruce and his brothers. One notable instance is after he finally agreed to train Terry and let him be Robin — he goes to the display of the original Robin suit and bitterly asks the deceased Dick "why did [they] even bother?"^note Dick had retired the Robin mantle during his tenure as Batman at Jason's suggestion, in hopes that no more children would suffer like he and his siblings did.
• The Team Normal: Of the Era 2 Justice League. Every other member of the team is a type of metahuman or an alien. Even Kyle has magical jewelry and a connection to the Source. Unless Jason breaks out the All-Blades, or the Balance, he's baseline human.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: A nuanced example. Word of God confirms that Jason no longer kills due to a combination of the lingering guilt of creating Joker IV and the associated trauma with the latter's murder of Bruce, along with his affection and love for his family. However, it doesn't stop him from wishing he could kill certain people (usually those who cause harm to said family). He's also completely willing to make an exception in Ra's al Ghul, partly because he had a Mission from God, partly because Ra's was on the fast track to going mad and really should've died years ago, but mostly because the bastard would've tried to take over Damian's body when his own finally failed him.
• Took a Level in Idealism: Jason was a self-professed cynic in the previous timeline and that didn't really change even after he fully reconciled with his family. That cynicism only got worse after his brothers died. It wasn't until he met Carrie that his overall worldview began to improve.
• Took a Level in Kindness: A massive one compared to the person he was in his early life in the previous timeline. He can be harsh and a follower of Tough Love when it comes to training, but is still far more affectionate and forgiving to his friends and family than he used to be. He can still be rather ruthless to his enemies, though, but he doesn't indulge in any vengeful cruelty towards them anymore either.
• Tough Love: When it comes to training his standards are much higher than Bruce's, specifically for this reason. If his Robins couldn't take it, they'd quit and be safe from the vigilante life. However, if they managed to hold on and complete it, they'd have more than enough skills to survive on the streets.
• Trauma Conga Line: Jason's early life saw him grow up in Crime Alley with a deadbeat father and a junkie mother, orphaned, betrayed by his biological mother, murdered, revived via Lazarus Pit, lose his first best friend, orphaned again after his adoptive father died, then lose all three of his brothers and his surrogate grandfather, along with all the usual crap a Gotham vigilante usually deals with, with relatively few bright spots in-between. All things considered, the fact that he turned out so well-adjusted in the end is a miracle in itself.
• Tranquil Fury: After rescuing Tim from the Joker, Jason slaps him on the knee and quietly, but furiously tells him to never do something like that again. 'That' being recklessly confronting the Joker and taking him head on.
• Triple Shifter: Somehow managed to balance running Wayne Enterprises, leading the Justice League, and raising and training four kids while running around as Batman. Deconstructed in the sense that even with good time management, Jason was still an overworked and stressed single dad.
• Unexpected Successor: As far as he's concerned, he was never supposed to be Batman. Even though Dick named him his successor above Tim, who Jason believes was supposed to be the real third Batman.
• Vitriolic Best Buds:
  • With his sister Cass. The two bickered a lot but there was no question they were the most important people in each other's lives after the rest of their first family died.
  • With his older brother Dick. Jason mocked Dick all the time and Dick gave as good as he got, yet the two were practically attached at the hip after their respective best friends died.
  • With Kyle Rayner. Even though Kyle has yet to appear in the story proper, Jason clearly knows him well and a flashback shows their friendship was fraught with belligerence.
  • And, as the sequel reveals, with Conner Kent. When Conner finally settles down after realizing he time-traveled like Jason, the two implore a lot of good-natured ribbing but are clearly happy to be reunited.
• Weapon Specialization:
  • As the Red Hood, it was a dual pair of guns. Bruce also speculates he used a pair of short swords, owing to his mastery over the All-Blades.
  • As Batman, he has four. Along with the aforementioned dual short swords, he adopted the primary weapons of all three of his brothers: Dick's escrima sticks, Tim's bo-staff, and Damian's sword. While he primarily uses the escrima sticks, he can switch to any of the others easily and within seconds of each other, and has mastery over all of them.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy:
  • To Bruce. He grew out of it.
  • To Dick. Even long after Dick died, Jason still looked up to and yearned after his approval, and feels like he failed his older brother because he failed to save Tim and Damian after swearing to protecting them in Dick's place.
• The Worf Effect: The first story established Jason's competency and overall skill, and the first chapter of the sequel reinforced that. Thus, Jason got hit with this hard during the subsequent battles against Dark Angel and Parallax, which saw him get his ass kicked until his newly-time traveled teammates got involved.
• Worf Had the Flu:
  • Even with intense training, it will be years until Jason is back in his prime. Considering that the current Jason is a close match for Dick (at least in hand-to-hand combat), it really makes you wonder how strong and skilled he was when he was Batman. We finally get the answer in the second story, where it's shown that Batman Jason (albeit with incredibly advanced technology) can take Bruce, Dick, Robin Tim, and Batgirl Cass at the same time, and it's very clear that he had the upper hand the entire time. It's strongly implied that had M'gann not intervened when she did, the brainwashed Jason would've killed all of them.
  • During his fight with Deathstroke, Jason admits that if he were in his old body, he would've been able to beat his opponent hands down (though not without difficulty). As things currently are, he's surprised he was able to put up a fight at all. Batman Jason, meanwhile, can curb stomp Deathstroke with relative ease.
• Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Played with. While he has no issues threatening a child, he can't actually go through with it when the chips are down.

Donna Troy

Donna Troy | Wonder Girl I | Troia I | Wonder Woman II

Tropes:

• Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder: A weird, Time Travel variation on this. In the decades after the death of her First Love Roy, Donna fell in love with his best friend Jason and became a couple with him. So, when she meets a younger version of Roy after being forcibly transported back in time after her death (or so it seems), she's forced to tell Roy that she's moved on and that while she loves him, she isn't in love with him anymore.
• Age-Gap Romance: With Jason. She was five years older than him, though they didn't get together until he was in his early forties.
• All Your Powers Combined: She has access to the abilities of all her alternate counterparts/past lives — including Dark Angel.
• Amicable Exes: With Kyle. The two are firmly friends these days and Kyle is fully supportive of Donna's relationship with Jason.
• Arch-Enemy: Dark Angel, aka Donna Troy of the destroyed Earth-7.
• Ascended Extra: Her future self travels back to the past, ascending her to main character status like Kon.
• Battle Couple: With Jason. A flashback sees them facing off a horde of monsters together after making out.
• Big Sister Mentor: For Cassie. She immediately commits herself to being Cassie's mentor in preparation for future trials and to atone for their estrangement in the previous timeline.
• Childhood Friend Romance:
  • With Roy Harper, one that ended with his untimely death.
  • Downplayed. Jason and her first met when he was Robin and she was a teenager, bordering on adulthood. However, their growing friendship didn't evolve into a romance until they were in their late thirties/early forties.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: How her future self met her end, after Taking the Bullet for Terry who visibly doesn't take it well.
• Dude Magnet: She's recently divorced from Terry Long, with whom she shares a son, currently has Unresolved Sexual Tension with Kyle Rayner, and has a Friends with Benefits-type relationship with Roy Harper that may be more than either of them can admit. Then there's Jason, who is all but stated to have been in love with her counterpart from the prime timeline and thus has lingering feelings for her in this timeline.
• Everyone Can See It: With Jason. It's outright stated that everyone knew what was going on between them.
• The Exile: After Dick died, Donna entered self-imposed exile at Themyscira, unable to handle the loss of him on top of all their other friends such as Wally and Roy. She wouldn't return to Man's World, let alone superheroism, for over ten years.
• Friends with Benefits: Implied to currently have this relationship with Roy Harper. If Jason is to be believed, this later evolved into a genuine relationship that tragically ended with Roy's death.
• Her Heart Will Go On: She mourned Roy's death, but eventually moved on, falling in love with Roy's best friend Jason years later.
• Heroic Fatigue: Donna lost her taste for superheroism after losing not just her son and ex-husband, but also her First Love and three of her best friends. This would cause her to retreat to Themyscira for ten years, and it wasn't until Cassie's death that she would return to superheroism as the second Wonder Woman.
• Honorary Aunt: To Jason's children. May also count as Parental Substitute, considering her relationship with Jason.
• I Don't Want to Ruin Our Friendship: The big reason why Jason and her took so long to take the next step is because they didn't want to risk the fallout of a failed Office Romance affecting their work with the Justice League. It lasted until Kon's death, which finally brought them together in their grief.
• Legacy Character: The first Wonder Girl, and the second Wonder Woman.
• The Mentor: To Jason's daughter Penelope.
• The Mourning After: Unlike with Roy's death, however, she never got over Jason's, continuing to mourn him for the last ten years of her life. When she's sent back and realizes Jason has been sent back as well, she doesn't even entertain the idea of getting back together with Roy or anyone else, completely in favor of getting back together with him.
• My Greatest Failure:
  • The death of her son, Robert.
  • Her self-imposed exile. While she acknowledges that she needed to get away, she also acknowledges that she was gone for too long, too crippled by the fear of getting attached to others again only to lose them.
  • Her estrangement with Cassie, and Cassie's death.
• My Greatest Second Chance:
  • After she's sent back, not only does she hook back up with Jason but also plans to be an active part in her son's life again, going as far as to semi-retire from the Titans to achieve that.
  • Donna takes over Cassie's training to make up for all the hardships between them in the previous timeline.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Wonder Woman Donna more-or-less beats the shit out of Diana with minimal difficulty.
• The One That Got Away: Strongly implied to be this to Jason. Confirmed in the sequel, and revealed to be mutual — Donna never loved anyone else after him.
• One True Love: To Jason. While they're capable of falling in love with other people, in the end there's no one they love more than each other.
• Parents as People: Fully acknowledges that she was not a good mother to her son, and that it was because she was too young to be a parent and wasn't ready to settle down at the time. She seeks to remedy this in the current timeline, in part because she is very much ready to settle down now after decades of being a superhero and suffering Heroic Fatigue.
• Parting-Words Regret: Donna and Cassie's last meeting together before the Titan/Olympian war did not end well, with Cassie effectively accusing her of being a coward for staying away from Man's World for so long, even though she obviously missed being a hero. It wasn't until Cassie died in her arms that Donna was forced to admit she was right.
• Platonic Life-Partners: With Dick Grayson.
• The Promise: During her last night with Jason, she promised she'd watch over his kids for him after he died. She did, becoming Penelope's mentor and later sacrificing her life to save Terry's.
• Second Love: To Jason Todd. According to Jason, she was also the love of his life, and the interlude confirms the feeling was mutual.
• Ship Tease: With Jason. While there were only hints of it in the first story, the second story goes full tilt with it, especially after Donna comes back in time like Jason and Kon did.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: While Donna always saw the best in Jason, she didn't fall in love with him until they were middle-aged, at which point he had long since reformed from his Red Hood days and had become a doting single father and a bonafide hero as Batman. She even confesses that she never felt she was good enough for him.
• Sizeshifter: As a result of inheriting Dark Angel's abilities, she can she grow herself to match Giganta in size.
• Stepford Smiler: Zigzagged. While she's genuinely happy to see Jason again and meet Damian as well, she's still recovering from the incident with Dark Angel and so is not as upbeat as she seems during their visit.
• Taking the Bullet: How her future self ultimately perished, by getting skewered by laser beams aiming for Terry.
• Trauma Conga Line: Much like Jason and the other major heroes of their time, Donna has had to suffer a great amount of tragedy in her life. After Dick's death, it had become so much that she retreated from Man's World entirely, and didn't return for over a decade.
• Unbalanced By Rival's Kid: Subverted. Donna actually won the short-lived Love Triangle between herself, Jason, and Artemis (and it's not entirely clear if there really was a triangle to begin with) and her issues with mentoring Penelope came from the fact that she looked like Jason, not Artemis. Not to mention, Donna actually had issues interacting with all of Jason's kids after his death — it was just more obvious Penelope because she was her student and Jason's biological daughter, thus resembling him the most.
• Unresolved Sexual Tension:
  • With Kyle Rayner. This is because the incident with Dark Angel happened before she and Kyle could enter a relationship in this timeline.
  • With Jason in the original timeline. It's strongly implied that they were in love for years before they got together, and were just ignoring it for their own reasons. The sequel confirms this, with a series of short flashbacks depicting them dancing around each other.
• Weapon Specialization: A sword and shield, along with the Lasso of Truth, which she inherited from Diana after her sister retired.
• Wrestler in All of Us: Uses a lot of wrestling moves, including performing a German suplex on Giganta.

Kyle Rayner

Kyle Aaron Rayner | Green Lantern 2814.4 | Ion | White Lantern

Tropes

• Amicable Exes: With Donna.
• Arch-Enemy: Thaal Sinestro. For specific examples...
  • Kyle apparently hates him enough that his teammates think there's a decent chance of him murdering Sinestro even while under Savage's brainwashing, and Kyle admits that he has a lot of reasons to hate Sinestro on a personal level. Note that none of that stopped him from marrying Sinestro's daughter Soranik and having a kid with her.
  • One of the first things he does after he's free from Savage's control is crush Sinestro's ring right in front of him and promise to destroy the Central Battery Sinestro was building in the Anti-Matter Universe, ending the Sinestro Corps before it can even begin.
• Combo Platter Powers: His powers are vast and varied even compared to the standard Green Lantern. As the White Lantern, he has mastered all seven colours of the Emotional Spectrum and the White Colour of Life, which basically means he can do anything, including forming constructs, healing, and even super-empowering other rings.
• The Dreaded: People, both heroes and villains alike, are terrified of him. This is utterly justified, considering he's the World's Strongest Man and was able to take on an army of superheroes by himself even while suffering from Worf Had the Flu.
  Chapter 22 Tagline: Villains used to cry when they heard Kyle Rayner was in town.
• Eye Colour Change: After harnessing the Emotional Spectrum. They're mainly green when he wields his ring, but they briefly flicker violet as he thinks about his wife.
• Happily Married: Before he died, to Soranik Natu.
• Master of All: As explained when he's introduced as the White Lantern, he achieved control over the White Light of Life by mastering all seven colours of the Emotional Spectrum. He's shown able to use many of esoteric abilities that each colour offers, including the rare red constructs.
• Person of Mass Destruction: He was able to form an army of constructs to combat dozens of superheroes at the same time and almost destroyed Infinity Island with an Arceus construct's Judgement attack. And according to Jason, this was all when his emotions had been deadened, making him weaker.
• Physical God: As the White Lantern. The first time Hal Jordan saw him in that form, he thought he was looking at God. Not a god. God.
• The Worf Effect: Inverted. Just the mere thought of fighting him is enough to make even his teammates apprehensive. It's blatantly obvious that the biggest reason why Era 2 didn't take the Era 1 villains seriously is because they were more worried about Kyle. As shown with the following battle against Kyle, they were right to be.
• World's Strongest Man: He's considered both the Greatest of All Lanterns and the most powerful member of the Era 2 Justice League. After he's brainwashed by Savage, Jason outright stated that even with nearly the entire superhero community gathered, none of them had any chance of beating him, just giving M'gann an opening to break the mind control.

Kaldur'ahm

Kaldur'ahm / Jackson Hyde | Aqualad II | Aquaman III

Tropes

• Arch-Enemy: Black Manta, who also doubles as his Archnemesis Dad. Kaldur's reaction to Manta trying to appeal to their blood relation is to straight up laugh at the guy and then try to kill him.
• Composite Character: He's Young Justice Kaldur, but elements of his backstory have been changed to match pre- and post-Flashpoint Jackson Hyde.
• Consummate Professional:
  • A heroic example — Jason admits that he's the most likely of the Era 2 League to break Thou Shalt Not Kill, due to his previous work as Queen Atlanna's bodyguard and tutor. This is because he was trained as an actual soldier of a world superpower, before he even became a superhero to begin with.
  • It shows with how he conducts himself on the job as well. While he's not above snarking with and at people, he's generally more serious and focused than his teammates are.
• Deadpan Snarker: Enough to rival Jason.
  Hotstreak: You think you can quench my fire?
  Kaldur: The fact you used an expression like that tells me that yes, yes I can.
• Elemental Powers:
  • An Ice Person: He can also freeze water, and typically uses this ability to limit the mobility of others.
  • Making a Splash: He's a powerful hydrokinetic, like Mera. While hers is probably stronger, his is a lot more precise.
  • Shock and Awe: He has the power to generate electricity, which causes his eyes to glow blue when in use.
• Glorified Sperm Donor: How he views Black Manta.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Right after realizing the young man in front of him is intended to be his successor as a hero, Arthur Curry notices Kaldur inherited his mother's golden blonde hair.
• Half-Human Hybrid: Half-Human, Half-Xebelian.
• The Leader: During the Dakota City arc, of the team comprising of Wallace, M'gann, and himself. It's been implied that whenever Jason isn't present on the field, he's usually in charge.
• Life Will Kill You: He's the only member of the Era 2 JL Council besides Jason to have died of natural causes, having passed away after suffering a heart attack in his late sixties.
• Mandatory Unretirement: Like Donna, he retired from being a superhero for about ten years, after the deaths of King Arthur and his parents. Unlike her, it wasn't from Heroic Fatigue but rather because he had been tapped to be Queen Atlanna's personal bodyguard — and as Atlanna was still a child at the time, that meant she needed to be guarded 24/7. Eventually, after Atlanna completed her own training as a warrior, Garth retired from being Aquaman and tapped Kaldur to be his successor, both because the mantle was rightfully Kaldur's as the only other former Aqualad and because Atlanna ordered him to take up the mantle.
• Manly Tears: His reaction when his brainwashing is lifted and he understands that yes, his King is alive.
• Patricide: He fully admitted to killing his own father. Considering his dad was Black Manta and responsible for the deaths of his mother, his surrogate father, his king, and his king's son, along with causing the near destruction of Atlantis, Kaldur has no regrets about it. He even tries to kill the guy again in the new universe nearly the second he's given the opportunity, and it took Arthur himself to convince him not to.
• Shipper on Deck: For Cerdian/Atlanna. He flat-out admitted to Cerdian in a flashback that the only suitor he would ever trust with his former charge is him, because he watched Cerdian grow up and knows he's a good man.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Aquaman almost attacked him on sight due to confusing him with Black Manta, and it was only after Mera stayed his hand that Arthur noticed the difference.
• Undying Loyalty: To Atlantis, and especially to Arthur Curry and his daughter Atlanna. The fact that Manta killed the former and tried to kill the latter is why Kaldur ended up killing him.
• World's Best Warrior: In his lifetime, he was regarded as the greatest warrior in all of Atlantis. It's unclear whether or not he attained this title before or after he became Aquaman, but there's no doubt it was well-earned.

M'gann M'orzz

M'gann M'orzz | Miss Martian

Tropes

• Arch-Enemy: Despero, after he murdered his original Arch-Enemy, her uncle J'onn. She died causing his permanent death by destroying the Flame of Py'tar.
• The Atoner: Much like the Jason's days as Red Hood, M'gann went insane after J'onn's death and started forcibly lobotomizing several villainous telepaths and taking their power to add to her own. This commonality would provide the basis of their friendship.
• Break the Cutie: J'onn's death ruined her. It took her years to piece herself back together, and even then she was never the same, becoming a much more cynical person.
• G-Rated Drug: A depressing example. She dealt with the repeated losses of so many friends by developing an addiction for Chocos, explicitly because J'onn loved them.
• Implausible Deniability: She's in complete denial of her addiction to Chocos and claims she can quit whenever she wants. Both Jason and Kaldur note that's exactly what an addict would say.
• It Gets Easier: That's how her stint as a Well-Intentioned Extremist started. She saw Doctor Psycho abusing his powers to try and rape a woman and, in her rage, lobotomized him in return. She said it was "one time", that she would stop, until she started encountering more villains using their telepathy to commit similar crimes. It was all downhill from there, and it took Kon offering himself as the next potential victim for her to break out of this mindset.
• Kill It with Fire: How she ultimately died in the first timeline, burning in the Flame of Py'tar with Despero while holding a charm that would finally destroy the flames for good.
• Last of Her Kind: She became the Last Martian after the death of J'onn and the last of the Era 2 Council after the retirement and death of Kaldur. The fact that this is such a reoccurring theme with her has caused her a considerable amount of angst and may have played a part in her death.
• Logical Weakness: She can't read the mind of a person who's already dead. According to her, no telepath can.
• Morality Chain: J'onn. After he died, M'gann's morality degraded significantly and she went on a rampage against most of the villainous telepaths in the world, and against the heroes who tried to stop her. While she eventually recovered, it took years for her to move past the stigma of her actions.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Her revenge against Despero in the previous timeline only caused Despero to come back as a near-unmatchable Physical God decades later after someone managed to break the binding on the Flame of Py'tar.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: Nobody really ever forgot her brutal rampage in the wake of J'onn's death, and it took several years for the other members of the Council to really trust her again. This includes Jason, who was naturally the most sympathetic due to his own past crimes as the Red Hood. While he was the first to let her have an in-depth look into his mind, that was after five years of working together.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: In retaliation for J'onn's death, M'gann arranged a Fate Worse than Death for Despero by forcing him into the Flame of Py'tar and sealing him inside, causing him to be stuck into a perpetual cycle of death and rebirth. By the tenth time, he was literally begging her to set him free. Her response?
  "Go. Go and suffer."
• Psychic Powers:
  • Telepathy: The most powerful telepath in the world by far. Once she has access to her powers she manages to easily shatter Savage's control on her and knocks out four powerful telepaths at once with minimal effort.
  • Mind over Matter: Like Kon, she is also telekinetic, though it's stated that while she's technically second to him, his is so much more powerful that he's almost on an entirely different level.
• Strong and Skilled: When it comes to telepathy, the narrative makes it clear she has no equal. She's powerful enough to knock out other powerful telepaths with ease, and skilled enough to use her powers to carefully untangle pieces of the Anti-Life Equation from the minds of the Forever Young People without damaging them.
• Taking You with Me: To atone for the situation in Nice Job Breaking It, Hero above, M'gann sacrificed her life to extinguish the Flame of Py'tar permanently by throwing herself in with Despero and the stone that would do the deed.
• Trauma Conga Line: M'gann's life is just a sad string of one loss after another. It's all but stated that after she lost Kaldur, her last remaining teammate on the original Era 2 Council, she was just about ready to die, and ultimately did a few years later.
• Unrequited Love Lasts Forever: She's confirmed to have feelings for Kon, which didn't die even after his marriage to Hiyori and his death.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Had a stint of this after J'onn's death. She's still ashamed of it to this very day.
• World's Best Warrior: She's considered the most powerful and skilled combat telepath in the world, to the point that she has to hold back so she doesn't outright shatter every mind she attacks. She has no issues fighting off and knocking out four telepaths at the same time (all of whom weren't slouches themselves), and can secure a mass link between dozens of heroes all at once, while maintaining multiple subnets that can allow different teams to communicate with each other without being loss in a mass of thoughts. The only thing thus far to give her any sort of pause are pieces of the Anti-Life Equation, and even then she quickly managed to work around it once she knew it was there.

Wallace West

Wallace Rudolph West III | Kid Flash III | The Flash V

Tropes

• Alternate Self: To his cousin and predecessor Wally West. He was created by the Post-Flashpoint timeline, and was one of the few remnants of that timeline that was fully integrated into the new reality when it was reconciled with the Pre-Flashpoint timeline.
• Arch-Enemy: Eobard Thawne. Wallace fully admits that if he saw Thawne in person there's a decent chance he'd try to murder him. When he does see Thawne again, he immediately attacks the guy and twists and breaks all four of his limbs. Painfully.
• Bad Powers, Good People: He can use the Negative Speed Force and the regular Speed Force simultaneously. It's implied that being created via Flashpoint is what allows him to use both without consequence.
• Berserk Button:
  • Flashpoint, and Barry's hand in it, is strongly implied to be this for him.
  • Reverse-Flashes. While he hates Thawne the most, Wallace admits that he hates Reverse-Flashes in general. Considering the damage the Reverse-Flashes have done to the Flash Family, it's not hard to see why.
• Big Eater: As par the course for speedsters. At one point Jason thinks of bribing him with food to get him to talk to his family about Flashpoint.
• Cannot Spit It Out: Unlike the rest of the Council, who have mentioned some of the more pivotal parts of the future to their families (even if it's only in general terms), Wallace absolutely refuses to speak to his about their future, especially Flashpoint.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: He's easily the most laidback member of the Council and is frequently admonished by the others for not taking things completely seriously. But no mistake, when the chips are down, he is every bit as ruthless and competent as his teammates are.
• Elephant in the Living Room: Flashpoint. While the other members of the council are relatively free in parting to their loved ones the darker parts about the future they came from (i.e.: Jason's time as the Red Hood, M'gann's brutal rampage after J'onn's death, Kaldur killing his father Black Manta, etc.), Wallace is not, especially in regards to Flashpoint. Admittedly, considering what Flashpoint is, not even his friends really blame him for being so reluctant, even when they're trying to convince him to at least tell his own family for now.
• Gadgeteer Genius:
  • Implied. Donna notes he's a skilled mechanic, and he's able to disassemble the weapons of the Rogues with relative ease.
  • It's later confirmed when it's revealed he's the primary engineer for the team's HSR at Catskills.
• Geek: The fact that he's able to identify most of Kyle's constructs on sight confirms he's this.
• Hidden Depths: Despite his laidback attitude, he's the one that was put in charge of the superhero knowledge class of the camp and proves to be a surprisingly adept and engaging teacher.
• Red Is Heroic: Wallace is the only member of the Flash Family to have a red lightning trail, but he is unambiguously a hero, if a more pragmatic one than usual.
• Shock and Awe: He can manipulate his lightning trail to throw lightning at people.
• Shockwave Clap: Like Hunter Zolomon, he can create shockwaves with a snap of his fingers.
• Super-Speed: Well, he is the Flash. It isn't confirmed whether or not he's faster than Wally, but he is almost certainly faster than Barry.