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    Superman 
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"Another job well done!"

The Man of Steel... and kind of a douche.


  • The Ace: He is superhuman, and he won't let people forget that wether they have powers or (more often) don't.
  • Adaptational Backstory Change: A mild variant. Everything else is the same apart from Jonathan Kent having to get creative in disciplining him for misbehavior, and Krypton not actually being destroyed. Rather, Jor-El and Lara were going through a nasty divorce, and in a moment of spite, Jor-El blasted Clark off-planet with a rocket rather than give up custody of him.
  • Adaptational Villainy: Though obviously Played for Laughs and with a softer side that surfaces from time to time, this egotistical version of Superman may be only second to Homelander from The Boys.
  • Alternate Universe: Most sketches are set in the classic comics and cartoons continuity or the 70s films, but some are in the Man of Steel universe.
  • Always Someone Better: To Aquaman, Batman, Santa Claus...
  • Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Jor-El in "Ghost Dad", who keeps appearing to Superman to give unwanted advice including when he is on the toilet and trying to have sex.
  • Awful Wedded Life: In "Superman's Marriage", Lois turns to be such an awful wife that he decides to undo that time he time travelled to save her.
  • Barbaric Bully: To any superhero he picks on. He insults Aquaman and makes fun of his powers (before murdering him), makes fun of the fact that Batman doesn't have any powers, is a terrible neighbor to Santa Claus and seduces his wife just to drive him mad, etc.
  • Berserk Button: Being questioned, even implicitly, about his crimefighting and how useful it is.
  • Brought Down to Normal: Subverted in "Superman's Powers", where he only pretends to be depowered to have sympathy sex.
  • Call It Karma: In "Horn Dog", he uses his Eye Beams to castrate the very disapproving Krypto, who then uses his own Eye Beams on the Superb... Superman.
  • The Cape: Obviously spoofed. When Aquaman asks him why he never vacuums the living room he says that he's busy saving the world... "or something", revealing that he's not really that busy.
  • The Casanova: Anyone he shows interest in falls for him. Even his own supervillains, as shown by "The Super Kiss".
  • Character Catchphrase: He sometimes introduces himself or leaves while humming "Buh-doop doop de-doo doop, Superman!" Also uses "Up, up, and away!" and "Another job well done!"
  • Consummate Liar: He has no problem lying with a straight face and does it For the Lulz. For example, supporting Wonder Woman's free guess that the Hulk stole Catwoman's underwear, when it was actually Superman himself.
  • Crossdresser: In "The Real World: Metropolis", he steals Catwoman's underwear and wears it over his own.
  • Crying Wolf: In "I Got Suped", several young boys cry danger to make Superman come and save him, then record him and upload it to Youtube. This keeps happening until he believes he's being conned again and refuses to help a boy strapped to a bunch of dynamite. Of course, the dynamite is real and the boy dies while his mother watches.
  • Dead Baby Comedy: Literal in "I will instruct him", as it ends with baby Superman crashing into the Indian Ocean instead of Kansas. And in "Last Son of Krypton", Jor-El forgets to put food and water in his spaceship.
  • Deconstruction: Of Superman's The Cape antics. If someone is an Invincible Hero since he can remember, it only makes sense that he'd feel superior to others and act douchy. Obviously Played for Laughs.
  • Didn't Think This Through:
    • Says almost word for word when his plan to make supervillains forget their hate for him by kissing them results in them falling in love with him.
    • Leaving his Clark Kent clothes in random phone booths results in hobos picking them and being mistaken for him.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: After an unpleasable Lois forces him to travel back in time for spurious reasons, he goes back to the end of Superman II and convinces his past self to let her die.
  • Doomed Hometown: His home planet, Krypton, was destroyed in an Earth-Shattering Kaboom shortly after he was born. Or at least, that's what he was told....
  • Dude Where Is My Respect: Prone to demand it by reminding people that he saves lives or the world (but mostly as a way to make people shut up or stop bothering him).
  • Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: As huge of a jerk this version of the character is, he bolts back to the farmstead when he hears that Martha might be in trouble.
  • Evil Counterpart: Bizarro.
  • Eye Beams: One of his powers is emitting unstoppable, destructive laser beams from his eyes. He uses them to melt Aquaman's head just because he wants to bully him and to castrate Krypto when he objects to the veterinary doing so.
  • Fire-Forged Friends: Despite his relentless bullying of Batman, he ultimately sees him as a friend and the one to trust with stopping him if he ever goes insane.
  • Forced to Watch: As a teenager, he is forced to watch Jonathan Kent being humiliated and killed by a hurricane, due to Jonathan's refusal to be saved.
  • Groin Attack:
    • His actual first appearance on the show is a closeup of his groin getting kicked in "Ode to the Nutshot".
    • A bank robber tries shooting him on the groin after shooting him on the chest does nothing. Still No-Sell (though Supes is left confused by the attempt).
  • Henpecked Husband: Becomes this after marrying Lois in "Superman's Marriage".
  • Hilariously Abusive Childhood: Jonathan Kent couldn't punish him physically, so he did it by damaging him psychologically, telling him scary stories about how he beat and murdered aliens in the past and then threatening him.
  • Impact Silhouette: Leaves one after running through the wall of Lois's apartment in "Lois Lane Crime Scene".
  • Invincible Hero: Discussed. Batman claims that he'll never understand his trauma for the loss of his parents because he never lost anyone or anything, to which Superman angrily replies that he lost Lois... only to negate himself by adding that he immediately turned back time by making the Earth spin in reverse and prevented it.
  • It's All About Me: Almost any development causes him to reflect on how that affects himself first. For example, when Lois dies while giving him a blowjob, he's most concerned about being found out, and then loses his nerve and insults her when the police believe that she died giving a handjob to The Mighty Thor.
  • Jerkass: Unlike the likable paragon of the comics, RC Superman is a narcissistic, lecherous A-hole.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: Though rarely, he sometimes doesn't escape karma. Like when Krypto castrates him in retaliation in "Superman's dog".
  • Kryptonite Factor: The Trope Maker. The only thing that can harm him is kryptonite, a mineral from his home planet.
  • Mundane Utility: Flying away to avoid commitment, using his Eye Beams to castrate a dog, his "depowering" crystal in the Fortress of Solitude to score sympathy sex, traveling back in time to remind Lois of playing her Tivo (at her own suggestion)...
  • New Powers as the Plot Demands: Lampshaded when Lois asks why would he have a power to erase people's memories by kissing them.
  • Nigh-Invulnerable: He is Superman, which means he's invulnerable to almost anything.
  • "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: Right after mentioning that Lois helped him defeat General Zod, he looks into the camera and says "Superman II" with a smirk.
  • One Dialogue, Two Conversations: As Clark Kent in "Lois Lane Crime Scene", he is horrified because he knows how Lois really died and sees the police coming closer to the truth, but the detectives mistake his reaction for him being a squeamish reporter.
  • Paper-Thin Disguise: As his alter-ego Clark Kent, who is just Superman in a suit and glasses. It is so effective that he can dress a mentally deranged homeless man and leave him in his place at the Daily Planet while he goes to the beach, with nobody noticing.
  • Poor Communication Kills: In "Superman's Pets", a communication error with his housekeeper causes the Superpets to be dead and frozen in the Fortress of Solitude by the time he returns.
  • Power Perversion Potential: He's once seen using his x-ray vision to peek at a woman showering in the apartment next to his.
  • Protectorate: For Jimmy Olsen, who carries a device that alerts Superman whenever he's in danger.
  • Really Gets Around:
    • In "Superman's Powers", he has sex with Lois Lane, Lana Lang... and Batman.
    • He's also completely unbothered when the Nerd leaps into Martha Claus while he is kissing her, and continues forcing himself on him instead.
    • After wiping out Lois's memory by kissing her, he realizes he can also make Luthor, Darkseid, Brainiac, and Solomon Grundy forget why they hate him if he kisses them. But he regrets it when all fall in love with him.
  • Saying Too Much: In "Lois Lane Crime Scene", he is so irate upon hearing a detective speculating that she died giving a handjob to Thor that he screams "That cheating bitch! She blew me in this chair just last night!". He then panics and runs across the wall - showing all that he has superhuman strength such as the one needed to kill Lois in such way.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: He flies away when he does not want to continue a conversation or pay a bill, often crashing through the roof.
  • Secret Identity: You are not going to believe this, but Superman and Clark Kent are the same person.
  • Shooting Superman: One sketch has him laughing off automatic fire to his chest as tickling. Then the criminal aims down to his crotch, which disturbs him enough to ask what's the point of that.
  • Sitcom Archnemesis: To Batman at the Justice League's quarters, and Santa Claus when he was his neighbor. Subverted with Aquaman at the reality show "The Real World: Metropolis", because he ended up killing Aquaman. His relationship with Lex Luthor also devolves into this, although Luthor managed to kill Superman (accidentally) after turning Aquaman to the dark side.
  • Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: "Superman CPR" shows exactly why he couldn't save Jonathan in Superman: The Movie. Jonathan suffered a heart attack and Clark tried to give him CPR, inflating him like a balloon with his superbreath and pulverizing his body during compressions. His limbs and head popped out, and the dog stole one of his bones.
  • Thou Shall Not Kill: Averted due to Adaptational Villainy. His nonchalant snapping the neck of the Composite Superman shocks Batman, who says that "Superman doesn't kill", but Superman says that he felt like it this time.
  • Tomato in the Mirror: In "Superman finds out the truth", a Kryptonian P.I. tells him that the planet is fine and Jor-El actually put him in the spaceship to get back at his wife during their messy divorce. Obviously this leaves Superman speechless.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: In "Santa VS Superman", he seems to continue his feud with Santa when some kids debate who is the faster of the two, but they instead become friends and decide to claim they are equally fast.
  • Troll: He plays multiple pranks on people, with and without his superpowers.
  • Underwear of Power: One of the most prominent examples in fiction. He apparently fetishizes it, as shown when he steals Catwoman's and wears it over his own.

    Batman 
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"Dammit Superman! Is this more of your "hilarious" commentary on how I have no powers?!"
Voiced by: Seth Green, Adam West

The Dark Knight, an emotional basket-case.


  • Actually Pretty Funny: He keeps his cool while Green Lantern laughs at the Zoo Crew's appearance during Captain Carrot's funeral, but breaks down laughing when he hears Little Cheese's name.
  • Adaptational Sexuality: Apparently bisexual in Robot Chicken, as he fantasizes both about having a Pizza Boy Special Delivery with Wonder Woman and wearing the veil while marrying Superman.
  • Adaptational Villainy:
    • As in the source material, Batman has a rule not to kill and stops one punch from killing The Joker. But when pointed by Joker himself that he'll simply escape from prison and go back to commit crimes, he testifies against him to ensure he's given the death penalty and then replaces his wet sponge with a dry one to ensure he has a horribly painful death. Later on, he kills the Harmless Villain Palindrome just because he is irritated by his schtick of talking in sentences that are read the same forward and backwards.
    • Another sketch has him (and Robin) as outright villains taunting and murdering children who dared sing "Batman Smells" during Christmas. However, this turns out to be a scary tale told by a music teacher so children will stop bastardizing "Jingle Bells".
  • Alternate Universe:
    • Batman usually dresses like in the classic comics and cartoons, but some sketches are set specifically in the 1966 series, The Dark Knight Trilogy, and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Except for the 1966 version, Batman always uses a guttural growl based on The Dark Knight for comedic effect.
    • The third DC Comics Special has him "break the Multiverse", bringing all different versions of superheroes and supervillains together.
  • Always Someone Better: He is constantly reminded by Superman that he doesn't have any powers, and the other members of the Justice League often humor that. He also finds humiliating that Green Lantern has to carry him in the air with his Ring of Power, as he cannot fly.
  • Antagonist in Mourning: "The Death of the Joker", a parody of A Death in the Family complete with Batman holding Joker in a Pietà Plagiarism.
  • Art Evolution/Early-Installment Weirdness: The season 1 sketch "The Real World: Metropolis" shows him with pupils. In every other sketch he has white Monochromatic Eyes, unless it is 1966 Batman.
  • Badass Normal: Despite the relentless mockery of his peers, he did make it into the Justice League despite having no supernatural abilities, and was able to travel to another dimension once by running on a treadmill (something only super-speedy Superman and the Flash were supposedly able to).
  • Blatant Lies: He uses the Bat Signal as an excuse to leave places without an explanation, at one point claiming that he "heard" it (because he was in a room and couldn't see outside).
  • Brick Joke: Defeats Starro by sailing the boat Green Lantern made for him through Starro's eye.
  • Character Catchphrase: "The Bat Signal!", "I'm Batman", "I am the night".
  • Covert Pervert: In lieu of coming up with a plan to defeat Wonder Woman in the event that she turned evil, he made a porno animation of himself and Wonder Woman in a Pizza Boy Special Delivery plot, and stored the file with the superhero-defeating plans.
  • Crazy-Prepared: He has all sort of gadgets and plans to be used in anything from killing his superhero friends in the event they turn evil to annoying Superman and making him leave by showing how much he doesn't give a fuck about Superman's ability to bleed.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: As a child, his parents were murdered during a botched robbery in front of him.
  • Determinator: Very much parodied.
    • He is determined to come back after Bane cripples him again and again, once while still bent and in crutches.
    • In "You can't be serious" he keeps coming out in progressively smaller vehicles after the Batmobile, Batcycle, etc. all malfunction. In the end he reaches the Joker by moving over a rolling tube.
  • Death Is Cheap: Denounces this trope for the DC universe while at Green Arrow's funeral, pointing that most of those present also died and were brought back by ridiculous means. Soon enough, Green Arrow is revealed to be among the attendees.
  • Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: He's maddened when the Joker throws piss on his face, but says "that's... not that bad, actually" when Harley Queen implies the piss is hers.
  • Drowning My Sorrows: In "The Real World", he flees from an argument with the excuse of the Bat Signal and goe to drink his ass off at a bar.
  • Fetishized Abuser: Batman is ultimately in love with Superman, despite his relentless bullying.
  • Heartwarming Orphan: Hilariously cast as this in "Choose your Orphan", which puts him in an orphanage and up for adoption despite being an adult.
  • Humiliation Conga: In "The Arkham Redemption", the Joker tricks him into believing that he escaped through the sewers and then empties the toilets on him. Batman crawls the pipe out, hoping the rain helps wash his clothes, but it immediately stops raining.
  • I Am Not Spock: In addition to the growl, some sketches poke fun at Christian Bale himself, like when he says to be "done professionally" with the Joker in reference to Bale's offscreen meltdown while filming Terminator Salvation.
  • Loophole Abuse: Thou Shall Not Kill does not cover convincing others to kill for you or making someone's scheduled death worse.
  • Monochromatic Eyes: All-white, like in the comics and cartoons.
  • Naked People Trapped Outside: In "Batman fire drill", he ends naked outside after the fire alarm in the Hall of Justice goes off while he is taking a shower.
  • No-Respect Guy: Routinely mocked by the rest of the Justice League.
  • Not What It Looks Like: When Superman offers Batman a Kryptonite ring to keep in case Superman ever goes evil or insane, Batman goes on a Imagine Spot where he marries Superman. Superman takes Batman's silence for disinterest and angrily leaves to find another friend to trust with the ring, much to Batman's despair.
  • Obvious Rule Patch: When the superheroes bet who will get a date first, Batman is confident that it will be him as soon as he introduces himself as billionaire Bruce Wayne, but the others tell him he must remain in costume.
  • The Power of Love: Superman tricks him into running away like a fool by telling him that he can also turn time back and save his parents if he really wishes it.
  • Properly Paranoid: Due to Superman constantly picking on him for having no powers, he assumes that the induction of "Guy with a rock" (a guy who fights with a rock) into the Justice League is a plot to make fun of him again. But it's actually to make fun of Green Arrow.
  • Rule of Three: Referenced in a DC Comics special, where he futilely protested that Bane already broke his spine three times.
  • Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: Whenever he doesn't want to stay around, he says "The Bat Signal!" and runs away.
  • Slasher Smile: Has a giant, toothy green all through pranking Superman in "Batman gives zero fucks".
  • Sitcom Archnemesis: Superman.
  • Thou Shall Not Kill: Carried on from the original, but subjected to the Loophole Abuse above.
  • Troll: In "Batman gives zero fucks", he goes to great lengths to show Superman he gives no fucks if he bloods. Giving him an empty bag with "all the fucks [he] can give", claiming that the fuck store closed 2 minutes ago, setting up a fuck vending machine that malfunctions, and hiring a fuck street vendor.
  • Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Bats terrify him, yet also motivate him. "It's so complicated".
  • Would Hit a Girl: In "The Real World", his bullying of Catwoman devolves into punching her twice without provocation.

    Wonder Woman 
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"YEEEAH! Drop it motherfuckers, who's next?!"

Amazon princess of Themyscira and the third most prominent member of the Justice League.


  • Alternate Universe: In contrast to Batman and Superman, she generally keeps the look from the comics. However there is at least a promo for Wonder Woman (2017) where she's modeled after it.
  • Ambiguously Gay: In "The Real World: Metropolis", she tells Catwoman "who needs men, anyway" and to smile while caressing her leg. Maybe she was just being nice, maybe she wanted something more.
  • Art Evolution: Her Season 1 model is an altered Barbie doll. Later seasons use a customized model.
  • Berserk Button: Do not call her "Wonder Girl".
  • Designated Girl Fight:
    • When the supervillains invade the Hall of Justice she's the one to fight Catwoman, Cheetah, and Harley Queen at once. However, she also fights Black Manta and the Penguin before and after.
    • During the brawl at the beach before it is broken by Starro, she is full fighting Harley Queen, even though she's canonically superpowered unlike the latter.
  • Does Not Like Men: "The Real World" shows her talking disparigingly about men who "are afraid of women" and "the almighty uterus".
  • Dude Magnet: It seems a lot of the Justice League male members would like to do her, if not all.
  • Evil Counterpart: Negative Wonder Woman. A supervillainess with a visible jet ("easy to find!"), all areas Wonder Woman has exposed covered and vice versa.
  • Jerkass: In "The Real World" she bullies the Hulk and has a generally abrasive personality. She also often laughs at, or supports other characters' bullying, even if she doesn't instigate it first.
  • Mundane Utility: In the Wonder Woman film promo, she uses her wristbands to deflect anything coming her way, from ping pong balls to hate mail.
  • Protectorate: For Catwoman in "The Real World", presumably because of being the only other female. However she also laughs when Batman prevents her from sitting on the couch.
  • Related in the Adaptation: In Robot Chicken, Superboy is actually her son with Superman, but he prefers to introduce him as "a clone, with no strings attached".
  • Shameful Strip: In "Bring a sidekick to work day", Kid Flash steals her clothes during a speech and leaves her completely nude in front of the audience. Flash scolds Kid Flash for it, but then reveals he was in on it by high-fiving him at superspeed.
  • Sidekick: Wonder Girl. She only has a non-speaking cameo in "Bring a sidekick to work day".
  • The Smurfette Principle: Only female member of the Justice League.
  • Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Finding the Invisible Jet when it's parked is a pain in the ass.

    Aquaman 
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"That's it! You treat me like I'm not even on the team! Every day is Aqua-loser this and Aqua-puss that!"

A perpetually unlucky, wimpified version of the Superfriends Aquaman.


  • Adaptational Wimp: In this show, he's a crybaby who can be neutralized by a secretary tripping him or slipping into a puddle on his own. Sea creatures are also just as likely to disobey him, or be useless in a fight.
  • Alternate Universe: While he consistently has the same appearance and personality compared to most superheroes, there is one sketch that is based on Aquaman (2018).
  • Art Evolution: In "The Real World", he has black eyebrows and his shirt is plain without scales.
  • Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: The Justice League organizes an "Aquaman Appreciation Party" to show him that they actually like having him around. Unfortunately, he has already betrayed them to the Legion of Doom...
  • Bestiality Is Depraved: When he says "there are a lot more fish on the sea" he means literally.
  • Blatant Lies: When he wants to get out of a date, he leaves saying he "left the ocean running".
  • Butt-Monkey: The rare time things seem to go well for him, they instantly take a turn for the worse.
  • Drama Queen: Has a rather corny flair for the dramatic, such as when he says that Luthor cannot take him hostage because he is already one to the scorn and bullying of his Justice League peers.
  • Driven to Suicide: At the end of "The Real World", he threatens to activate a chest bomb but Superman doesn't buy it. Superman later kills him.
  • Dude Where Is My Respect: After his Humiliation Conga below, he fires it at Cyborg for daring to warn him about the floor being wet.
    Aquaman: I AM THE KING OF THE FUCKING OCEAN, CYBORG! Do you think I've never seen a puddle before?!
  • Dung Fu: An Aquaman from an Alternate Universe populated by humanoid chimpanzees throws poop on his face right after they meet.
  • Face–Heel Turn: When he has enough of the Justice League's bullying, he goes to the Legion of Doom and asks to join it.
  • Forgotten Fallen Friend/Replacement Goldfish: His first sidekick (also named Aqualad) was a humanoid fish that he cooked and ate after their plane crashed in a mountain. His regret was that he didn't have tartar sauce to go with it.
  • Groin Attack: "You can't fly" has Superman, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern pranking him by making him believe they are on an invisible plane and they want him to board, but they are actually flying themselves. Aquaman crashes groin-first as a result.
  • Heel–Face Door-Slam: A variant in that the worst doesn't happen to him. Aquaman refuses to kill Superman with Kryptonite, throws it away, proudly states that he's a hero and not a villain, and knocks Luthor with one punch. Unfortunately, the Kryptonite lands on Superman's chest and kills him.
  • Humiliation Conga: In the first DC Comics Special, he learns that Superman and Wonder Woman went to save a sinking cruise ship without telling him, Robin destroys his family heirloom trident in an unsuccessful attempt to unclog the toilet, Martian Manhunter cooks two lobsters he was friends with (and Robin and Cyborg eat them in front of him), and finally, he slips on a puddle of water and everyone leaves him in the dark while he cries on the floor.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: In "Aquaman Appreciation Party", he looks at the devastation caused by him letting the Legion of Doom inside the Hall of Justice, and refuses to go along with Luthor's plan any further.
  • No-Respect Guy: Everyone treats him worse than Batman.
  • Sidekick: Aqualad.
  • The Starscream: In "Aqua-Doom", he leaves the Justice League for the Legion of Doom after he's done with their relentless bullying.
  • Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: "Aquaman vs Big Oil" has Aquaman intent to kick the ass of a magnate responsible for an oil spill, but he can't because the case is already settled and the company paid a fine.
  • This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: Invoked when Starro attacks heroes and villains alike at the beach, since he can finally command sea creatures. Too bad his call is only answered by seahorses, who die by crashing on Starro's leg.
  • Trojan Horse: Brings the Legion of Doom into the Hall of Justice by getting them in a giant horse-shaped cake.
  • What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: The show constantly pokes fun at how useless his powers are. In fact, his first appearance in "The Real World" has him crying after failing to name one thing his powers would be useful for.

    The Flash 
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"(Super-Speed high five)."
Voiced by: Nathan Fillion, Matthew Senreich

The fastest man alive.


  • Alternate Universe: Batman and Superman's breaking of the Multiverse causes the classic winged helmet version of Flash, Reverse-Flash, and a flasher to appear in the same place.
  • Covert Pervert: He's okay with Kid Flash stealing Wonder Woman's clothing despite pretending otherwise.
  • Enemy Mine: Briefly puts aside differences with Reverse-Flash to fight Starro, but the Penguin accidentally incinerates both.
  • Evil Counterpart: Reverse-Flash, a rather unimaginative example.
    Flash: Ugh, again with Reverse-Flash! He looks just like me, but with the exact opposite color scheme? Brilliant!
  • Logical Weakness: Running at hyper-speed is only good if you know where you are going.
  • Out of Focus: Usually reduced to passing by and commenting on stuff, despite being shown consistently as a member of the Justice League and interacting with the other characters.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Super-Speed comes in handy when you want to run away from a discussion.
  • Sidekick: Kid Flash.
  • Super-Speed: His superpower.

    Green Lantern 
Voiced by: Nathan Fillion, Breckin Meyer

  • An Arm and a Leg: During a skit where he battles with Sinestro, his nemesis literally disarms him. Hal manages to keep being a Green Lantern by having his ring remade to fit around his penis.
  • Arch-Nemesis: Sinestro, who is also his Evil Counterpart as he fights with another magic ring, just yellow.
  • Pet the Dog: During a Decon-Recon Switch where he and Batman discuss how it's a bit demeaning if practical to bring the Caped Crusader into battle in one of his energy construct bubbles. They compromise by having Hal transport him in a Cool Boat instead.

    Green Arrow 

Voiced by: Milo Ventimiglia, Alfred Molina, Ben Diskin, Seth Green

  • Attending Your Own Funeral: Batman goes on a rant at Green Arrow's funeral, claiming that mourning is pointless because superheroes always come Back from the Dead sooner or later. By the end of his rant, Green Arrow is indeed alive, attending his own funeral, and applauding Batman's words.
  • Driven to Suicide: In Batman's simulation, he commits seppuku with his own arrow after Batman cuts the string of his bow.
  • Logical Weakness: Batman's plan to defeat Green Arrow in the event that he turns evil is to cut the string of his bow.
  • Sidekick: Speedy, a horny, bratty teenager.

    Martian Manhunter 
Voiced by: Sebastian Bach, Hugh Davidson, Seth Green


  • Ambiguously Gay: Hangs around in bars shapeshifted into an attractive woman, and when inquired about it he says he has a life out of the team.
  • Attractive Bent-Gender: Enforced because he can shapeshift at will.
  • Kill It with Fire: Batman's plan to defeat him in the event of turning evil is to set him on fire. Robin is surprised that fire is his one weakness, to which Batman retorts...
    Batman: Fire is everyone's weakness. It is fucking fire.
  • Little Green Men: Not so little but he's a green alien.
  • Martians: The clue's in the name.
  • Not-So-Imaginary Friend: His claim of bringing an invisible sidekick named Martian Boyhunter to "Bring a sidekick to work day" is met with general derision and earns Manhunter a beating when he accuses Boyhunter of being the killer of the other sidekicks. Martian Boyhunter then reveals himself, but makes no attempt to save Manhunter.
  • Pun: He poses as a woman at bars for an entirely different meaning of manhunting.
  • Shapeshifter: He can change his appearance at will.
  • You Have to Believe Me!: In "Bring a sidekick to work day", he instantly freaks out when the sidekicks are killed and says that it wasn't him who did it, but Martian Boyhunter. Even though nobody accused him before.

    Cyborg 

    Doctor Fate 

Sidekicks:

    Robin 
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"Aw I give up! I give up!"
Voiced by: Seth Green

The Boy Wonder, Batman's wimpy sidekick.


  • Accidental Murder: In "3 Fast 3 Furious", he accidentally decapitates one of the CHiPs after throwing an automatic grappling hook at them, which makes Robin panic and leads to the Batmobile being overturned and Robin run over by another racer. Amazingly, the CHiP continues the race headless and only falls over after being awarded for winning the race.
  • Adaptational Villainy: In "Batman Smells".
  • Adaptational Wimp: In Robot Chicken, Robin is squeamish and weak. Batman's plan to subdue him in the event of turning evil is to slap him once. In the DC Comics Special, he is seen exercising with a small dumbbell while Power Girl lifts a giant weight with only one arm next to him.
  • Alternate Universe: A particularly Mind Screw-y sketch has Burt Ward kidnapping the "real" Robin in order to use a Lazarus Pit to rejuvenate himself and revive the 1966 Batman show.
  • Ambiguously Gay: Besides the general mood and voice, there is the time in "The Real World" where Batman caught him in a closet, shirtless and being electrocuted in the nipples by Gleek.
  • Butt-Monkey: Things never going well for him is played for laughs constantly, and unlike Aquaman he never gets thrown a bone. On the other hand, the Justice League treats him better than Aquaman and Batman, and he sometimes joins in on the bullying of the other two.
  • Mistaken for Racist: In "The Real World", he says that he hates (playing) black (checkers) as Falcon walks by.
    Falcon: Oh! It's like that.
  • Sidekick: The Trope Maker, to Batman. Notably "The Real World" has him in the house despite making no reference to him in the opening credits - as if he was literally an accessory of Batman.

    Speedy 
Voiced by: Breckin Meyer

Green Arrow's sidekick.


Legion of Doom:

    Lex Luthor 
Voiced by: Alfred Molina


  • '80s Hair: He was a glam rock ringer while in high school in the 80's, with accompanying mane.
  • Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Canonically, Lena Luthor is Lex's sister, but she is his teenage daughter in Robot Chicken.
  • Enemy Mine: He checks on Superman when Batman breaks the multiverse while pretending to still hate him. In another special, he joins forces with Superman against Starro.
  • Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: Keeps telling the members of the Legion of Doom to be quiet, until he realizes that there are knives shoved into the cake and immediately tells them to get out of it since one killed Toyman.
  • New Powers as the Plot Demands: The Hall of Doom can fly, which he only reveals to the other members of the Legion when he wants to go look for his missing daughter at the beach. They unhappily point that they could have avoided coming to an ugly swamp to work everyday until then.
  • Old Shame: He's not proud of the Sexx Luthor music video from the 1986 Smallville High School Talent Show being brought up at a Legion of Doom board meeting during the second DC Comics Special.
  • Never Live It Down: Resents Superman for stealing his hair in Adventure Comics #271, only for the Man of Steel to erase his memories of said incident, as well as his hatred of him with the kiss from Superman II.
  • Running Gag: In the first DC Comics Special, a kickball always hits him on the head every time he's trying to do something. note 
  • Sitcom Archnemesis: To Superman, whom he cannot stop telling to go fuck himself even when they have to join against a common threat.
  • Surrounded by Idiots: Luthor shows annoyance towards the Legion's various shenanigans, such as the Riddler suggesting to leave a few embedded clues on how to disarm their Negabomb, watching the Sexx Luthor music video in the middle of a meeting, and the villainsnote  being naked on a Private Beach that's not really a Nude Beach.
  • What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: When Luthor suggests joining forces with Superman, the latter sarcastically contrasts his superstrength, ability to fly, and laser eyes to Luthor's "slightly above-average intelligence".

    The Joker 

Voiced by: Mark Hamill, Seth Green

  • Dung Fu: Fakes a prison escape to trick Batman into going into the sewers so he can unload into a toilet and flush the contents down the pipes and right onto his jailer.
  • Unexplained Recovery: The comic cover of "The Death of the Joker" is followed by several issues of "The Return of the Joker".

    Catwoman 

Voiced by: Alex Borstein, Clare Grant

    Two-Face 

    Bane 
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"Do-do-doo-doo That's Bane!"
Voiced by: George Lowe

A luchador-esque supervillain with a fixation for breaking Batman's back.


  • Alternate Universe: In most sketches he has the appearance of The '90s's comics and cartoons, but there is another set in The Dark Knight Rises just to make fun of the voice, and another where Batman and Bane are dogs (and Bane still breaks Batman's back).
  • Refuge in Audacity: In his quest to break Batman's back again and again, he goes as far as walking into the Hall of Justice and doing it in front of every other superhero. They do nothing even after Batman calls them out.
  • Running Gag: Breaking Batman's back. Batman thinks he's off after three times, but he does it again (plus a fifth time as dogs). He also breaks his phone in the same way after failing to order a burrito.
    Batman: Aaaah Rule of Three, asshole! Not four!
  • The Speechless: In most of his sketches, he simply walks in scene and breaks Batman's back without saying a word. "Bane vs Siri" has him speak purely to make fun of the voice.
  • Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: "Bane vs Siri" does this to Bane's voice in The Dark Knight Rises, showing him being unable to order a burrito due to being unintelligible.
  • Theme Song: A chorus sings Do-do-doo-doo That's Bane! every time he breaks Batman's back.

    Cheetah 
  • Historical Rap Sheet: Apparently, Cheetah's responsible for the death of the real Princess Diana. She's shocked to learn it was the "wrong limo" (rather than her archenemy Wonder Woman) and is last seen lamenting that she'd been "a candle in the wind".

Non-superheroic friends and relatives:

    Lois Lane 
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"Why am I standing here at Clark Kent's, when I could follow the scoop on Superman!"
Voiced by: Megan Fox, Emma Stone, Grey DeLisle, Chad Morgan

Superman's Love Interest and fellow reporter at the Daily Planet.


  • Bullying a Dragon: After marrying Superman, she annoys him constantly by demanding he fly back in time to remind her of playing her TIVO, only to act like he's insulting her intelligence and humiliating her in front of her friends because of that, then acting absurdly jealous.
  • Clingy Jealous Girl: When Superman travels back in time to remind her to set her Tivo, she takes offense, accusing him of doing it for future Lois but not for her. Another time travel later, she's mad that Superman would travel back in time for Top Chef and not for her, without waiting for him to explain that he is doing it for her.
  • Cruel and Unusual Death: This annoys Superman to the point that he goes back in time to let her die at the end of the 1978 movie, drowning in mud and screaming for someone to help her.
  • Love Interest: To Superman. For decades without moving forward, as Green Lantern reminds him in "Out to score".
  • Out with a Bang: In "Lois Lane Crime Scene", she's killed by Superman ejaculating during oral sex.

    Jonathan Kent 
Voiced by: Seth Green, Mark Hamill

Superman's adoptive father in Kansas.


    Jimmy Olsen 
Voiced by: Dan Milano, Seth Green

Superman's best friend and also a reporter at the Daily Planet.


  • Covert Pervert: When he learns that Lois Lane died with "The Blowjob Network" on the TV, his mind immediately jumps to subscribing to it.
  • Foil: He's pretty much Superman's Robin, except for not being a masked vigilante and being unaware of his Secret Identity. As a result, he appears a lot less in the series.

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