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Superman
Superman
Voiced by: Danny Dark, Jerry Dexter (as Superboy)
- Accidental Pervert: When trapped in the mirror world by Mirror Master in the Legendary Super Powers Show episode "Reflections in Crime", one part has him apologize after a woman screams from off-screen, which is most likely implying that Superman accidentally appeared in the mirror of a woman who was in a state of undress.
- Bratty Half-Pint: In the Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show episode "Uncle Mxyzptlk", exposure to red kryptonite turns him into a little kid who is very ill-behaved, with his brattiness exploited by Mr. Mxyzptlk to cause havoc.
- Disney Death: The Galactic Guardians episode "The Death of Superman" has him appear to die of kryptonite poisoning, but it later turns out that he is simply in a trance. Once the rest of the Super Friends retrieve his body from the sun and use equipment on him in the Fortress of Solitude, he revives with no problem.
- Fountain of Youth:
- He, Aquaman and Wonder Woman are turned into children by Dictor in The All-New Super Friends Hour episode "The Mysterious Time Creatures".
- He is de-aged into a small child by exposure to red kryptonite in "Uncle Mxyzptlk".
- Kid Hero All Grown-Up: As the case was in Pre-Crisis continuity, he started out in his teenagehood as Superboy.
- Rapid Aging: The New Super Friends episode "Terror from the Phantom Zone" has Superman become an old man after exposure to red kryptonite.
- Origins Episode: The circumstances of the destruction of his home planet and arrival to Earth are shown in the 1973 episode "The Planet-Splitter", the Challenge of the Superfriends episode "Secret Origins of the Super Friends" and the lost season episode "The Krypton Syndrome".
- Ret-Gone: The Challenge of the Superfriends episode "Secret Origins of the Super Friends" had the Legion of Doom alter history so that Kal-El never came to Earth and instead had his rocket land on a planet with a red sun, erasing the Man of Steel from history.
Batman and Robin
Batman and Robin
Voiced by: Olan Soule (Batman, 1973-1983), Adam West (Batman, 1984-1985), Casey Kasem (Robin)
- Badass Normal: Neither of them have powers and rely on physical prowess and their gadgets to fight the bad guys.
- Origins Episode: The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians episode "The Fear" revealed how Bruce Wayne was motivated to become Batman after his parents were shot dead in front of him. The episode was notably also the first time Batman's origin was shown on television, or any medium besides the comics, for that matter.
- Tenor Boy: Courtesy of Casey Kasem.
- Team Member in the Adaptation: Dick as Robin rarely if ever accompanied Batman on Justice League missions in the comics. Granted, Dick would join the League after the show ended — but the first would be as Nightwing during Joe Kelly's tenure on JLA (1997) as part of an emergency team during "The Obsidian Age" and again during his second tenure as Batman following Bruce's disappearance/presumed death in Final Crisis.
Aquaman
Aquaman
Voiced by: Norman Alden (1973-1977), William Callaway (1978-1985)
- Adaptational Wimp: The series infamously made Aquaman look way more ineffectual than his comic book counterpart due to focusing on his abilities to breathe underwater and communicate to fish.
- Captain Fishman: The Trope Codifier. Specifically, he's the reason why most examples of the trope are Joke Characters.
- Fountain of Youth: He, Superman and Wonder Woman are turned into children by Dictor in "The Mysterious Time Creatures".
Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman
Voiced by: Shannon Farnon (1973-1983), Connie Cawlfield (Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show), B. J. Ward (Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians)
- Fountain of Youth: She, Aquaman and Superman are turned into children by Dictor in "The Mysterious Time Creatures".
- Origins Episode: Her youth and winning the tournament that allowed her to become Themyscira's ambassador were shown in the Challenge of the Superfriends episode "Secret Origins of the Super Friends".
- Ret-Gone: "Secret Origins of the Super Friends" had the Legion of Doom prevent her from winning the tournament, resulting in being erased from history.
- The Smurfette Principle: While not the only female superhero to appear on the show, she's the only female teammate to remain a member throughout the series' entire run, as Wendy, Jayna, Hawkgirl and Rima were all phased out eventually.
Allies and Other Members
Wendy, Marvin and Wonder Dog
Wendy Harris, Marvin White and Wonder Dog
Voiced by: Sherry Alberoni (Wendy Harris), Frank Welker (Marvin White and Wonder Dog)
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: The New Earth versions of them are siblings, something which the show gave no indication of. In fact, the tie-in comics written by the script editor of the show (who did work at DC) stated they were very much not related to one another.
- All There in the Manual: The tie-in comics explained their absence after the first series by establishing that they left the Justice League after graduating high school to attend college once the Wonder Twins entered the picture and assisted them in fighting Superman's enemy Grax.
- In addition, Wendy is stated to be the niece of Detective Harvey Harris, who was the mentor of a young Bruce Wayne, and Marvin is the son of the Diana Prince, whom Wonder Woman traded identities with, and her husband Daniel White. They want to work in law enforcement in the future and so the leaguers basically use the Superfriends team as a way of mentoring them as a favor to their relatives, and that Wonder Dog was specifically named after Wonder Woman by Marvin. The writer of the comic, E Nelson Bridwell, also speculates that Wendy might be the multiversal counterpart of Earth-Two's Wendy (or Wendi) Harris, who married Hourman.
But she also might not be.
- In addition, Wendy is stated to be the niece of Detective Harvey Harris, who was the mentor of a young Bruce Wayne, and Marvin is the son of the Diana Prince, whom Wonder Woman traded identities with, and her husband Daniel White. They want to work in law enforcement in the future and so the leaguers basically use the Superfriends team as a way of mentoring them as a favor to their relatives, and that Wonder Dog was specifically named after Wonder Woman by Marvin. The writer of the comic, E Nelson Bridwell, also speculates that Wendy might be the multiversal counterpart of Earth-Two's Wendy (or Wendi) Harris, who married Hourman.
- Brought to You by the Letter "S": Marvin's shirt has an M on it.
- Canon Immigrant: They were created for the cartoon, but were added to the main DC universe after Infinite Crisis.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: They vanished after the first series and were replaced for the remainder of the franchise with the Wonder Twins and Gleek.
- Put on a Bus: The comics would explain why they vanished (they went to college).
- Early-Installment Weirdness: Marvin has superpowers in the first episode, as seen when he briefly flies. This is never mentioned again, and the junior Superfriends are treated as normal kids for the rest of the show.
- Expy: Marvin pretty much is Shaggy, they even share the Like Is, Like, a Comma Verbal Tic. Wonder Dog is also pretty much Scooby himself due to being speech-impaired animals.
- Kid-Appeal Character: At the insistence of Hanna-Barbera, they were created so that children could identify with them.
- Like Is, Like, a Comma: Marvin, like, talks this way, like, a lot.
- Named by the Adaptation: An author's note in the first issue of the tie-in comic (by E. Nelson Bridwell who was the script editor for the show) gave them the full names of Wendy Harris and Marvin White, for the reasons explained above. Post-Crisis, this was inconsistently remembered by writers, as due to their Adaptation Relationship Overhaul as siblings, they were now either surnamed White or Harris depending on what comic you read.
- Related in the Adaptation: When they were adapted to the Post-Crisis continuity, Wendy and Marvin were now siblings, and the Calculator was their father. Also counts as a case of Unrelated in the Adaptation, since it's highly unlikely that they have any connection to either Diana Prince-White or Harvey Harris, if the latter two even exist.
- Speech-Impaired Animal: Wonder Dog doesn't talk, but still makes an effort to communicate to the others.
- Team Pet: Wonder Dog is obviously the pet of the Super Friends.
- Women Are Wiser: Wendy is frequently shown to be the smartest of the three and often chides Marvin whenever he's acting foolish.
Wonder Twins and Gleek
Zan, Jayna and Gleek
Zan and Jayna
Gleek
Voiced by: Michael Bell (Zan and Gleek), Louise Williams (Jayna, 1977-1983), B. J. Ward (Jayna, Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show)
- All There in the Manual: The tie-in comics gave explanations to how the Wonder Twins came to replace Wendy and Marvin as well as their origins. The seventh issue explained that they arrived on Earth after hearing of a plan concocted by Superman's enemy Grax and felt it wise to help the Super Friends thwart this scheme, while issue fourteen revealed that Zan and Jayna had their powers due to Exorians having ancestors with shape-shifting abilities but having such power limited by generations of interbreeding with non-powered inhabitants, they were orphaned by a plague and subsequently worked as freaks in a carnival before making a break for it and Gleek was a monkey at the carnival who chose to go with them when they escaped and found out about Grax's plan.
- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Gleek is a blue monkey.
- Birthday Episode: Gleek's sixth birthday is celebrated in the lost season episode "Invasion of the Space Dolls", where his present turns out to be one of the titular space dolls.
- Breakout Character: Originally started to be replacements for Wendy, Marvin and Wonder Dog but unlike them they grew in popularity and are an integral part of Superfriends and even showed up in the comics and other media. Plus those who didn't grow up with Super Friends would not have known their debut was here. It's particularly notable that the Wonder Twins were incorporated to the standard DC Comics universe long before the same was done for their predecessors Wendy and Marvin.
- Brought to You by the Letter "S": Zan, Jayna and Gleek respectively have a Z, a J and a G on their chests.
- Canon Immigrant: Much like the characters they ended up replacing, Zan and Jayna were created for the cartoon, but would eventually be added to the main DC universe by 1996 in the pages of Extreme Justice. Their simian sidekick Gleek would later follow suit in 2019 by making his canonical comic book debut in the second issue of the Wonder Twins' own comic book.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Much like Wendy, Marvin and Wonder Dog, the Wonder Twins and Gleek were eventually dropped from the series, making no appearances at all in The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians.
- Demoted to Extra: The last series that they appear in, Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show, only features them in a handful of episodes.
- Elemental Shapeshifter: Zan can transform into different forms of water as well as ice-based constructs.
- Expy: They are very similar to Jan, Jace and Blip from fellow Hanna-Barbera cartoon Space Ghost, who are also a pair of teenage sidekicks and their pet monkey.
- Eye-Dentity Giveaway: Jayna maintains her purple eyes no matter the form that she takes.
- Silly Simian: Gleek is an alien monkey and a frequent source of comic relief, whether by playing pranks or falling victim to hilarious misfortunes.
- Speech-Impaired Animal: Like Wonder Dog before him, Gleek is incapable of real speech and has to rely on gestures for the others to understand his chittering.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Two teenage sidekicks and a semi-sapient animal like Wendy, Marvin and Wonder Dog were.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Zan and Jayna are both shape-shifters, though their powers only work when they are in contact with each other, Zan can only turn into forms of water or ice-based constructs and Jayna is limited to transforming into animals.
- Whale Egg: While Gleek is an alien monkey, the lost season short "Invasion of the Space Dolls" implies that his species reproduces by laying eggs, as his birthday celebration has Jayna state that it's been six years since he hatched.
- Wonder Twin Powers: Zan and Jayna can only activate their powers when in contact with one another, with the twins respectively being able to turn into forms of water or ice-based constructs and animals.
Plastic Man
Plastic Man
Voiced by: Norman Alden
- One-Shot Character: Only appears in the 1973 series episode "Professor Goodfellow's G.E.E.C."
- Rubber Man: His power is stretching.
- Team Member in the Adaptation: Here, he's a Leaguer. His comic counterpart wouldn't join the League until decades later during Grant Morrison's JLA (1997) run.
The Flash
The Flash
Voiced by: Ted Knight (1973), Barney Phillips (The All-New Super Friends Hour), Jack Angel (1978-1985)
- Super-Speed: He can run extremely fast.
Green Arrow
Green Arrow
Voiced by: Norman Alden
- One-Shot Character: His only appearance in the whole franchise is in the 1973 series episode "Gulliver's Gigantic Goof".
- Trick Arrow: His specialty is using a variety of arrows that serve different purposes.
Black Vulcan
Black Vulcan
Voiced by: Buster Jones
- Canon Foreigner: He was created for the cartoon.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show was the final series he appeared in due to The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians having Cyborg take his place as the token African-American hero.
- Electric Black Guy: He's an African-American superhero with electrical powers.
- Expy: He is based on Black Lightning, who couldn't be used because of concerns at the time over rights issues with the character's creator.
- Non-Indicative Name: Vulcan was the Roman god of fire, so Black Jupiter would've been a more accurate codename.
- Token Minority: Before Cyborg came along, he was the sole African-American hero among the Super Friends.
Apache Chief
Apache Chief
Voiced by: Michael Rye
- By the Power of Grayskull!: He grows to gigantic size by shouting "inuk chuk".
- Canon Foreigner: He was created for the cartoon.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: He's never seen again by Galactic Guardians.
- Personality Power: The shaman who gave Apache Chief the power to grow into a giant warned him that the magic would make everything about him grow, including his current emotion. He warned the chief to steady his emotions, less his fear be enhanced and make him a Dirty Coward. But because he settled his nerves, only his resolve was grown and reinforced.
- Sizeshifter: He has the power to become gigantic.
- Token Minority: He is the only Native American superhero on the show.
Hawkman
Hawkgirl
Hawkgirl
Voiced by: Shannon Farnon
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: After making her debut in The All-New Super Friends Hour, she made some more appearances in the 1980 series before disappearing forever.
- Distaff Counterpart: For all intents and purposes, she is a female Hawkman.
Rima the Jungle Girl
Rima the Jungle Girl
Voiced by: Shannon Farnon
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: After her two guest roles in The All-New Super Friends Hour, she made one more appearance in the 1980 series during the episode "Return of Atlantis" and then never appeared again.
- Jungle Princess: She's a woman who lived most of her life in the jungle and wears a dress of pelts.
- Team Member in the Adaptation: Rima originated from a 1904 novel titled Green Mansions and, while appearing in her own short-lived DC Comics title around the time Super Friends originally aired, was never a member of the Justice League like she was in this cartoon.
The Atom
The Atom
Voiced by: Wally Burr
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: He ceased making appearances after the 1980 series.
- Sizeshifter: His power is shrinking.
Green Lantern
Green Lantern
Voiced by: Michael Rye
- Early-Installment Weirdness: His debut in The All-New Super Friends Hour segment "Flood of Diamonds" is a bit inconsistent with his portrayal in the comics by having him travel by using his ring to create a jet (ignoring the fact that his ring in the comics enabled him to fly) and having all of his ring's constructs aside from the aforementioned jet and some support beams not being colored green. The inaccuracy of his ring creating constructs that aren't colored green was corrected by his second appearance in the segment "Rampage", while Challenge of the Superfriends finally had him using his ring to fly instead of relying on a jet construct to travel.
- Imagination-Based Superpower: His power ring can create anything he can think of.
- Origins Episode: His backstory of being a test pilot named Hal Jordan who was given his power ring on the deathbed of his predecessor Abin Sur is revealed in the Challenge of the Superfriends episode "Secret Origins of the Super Friends".
- Ret-Gone: He is one of the three Super Friends the Legion of Doom attempt to erase from history by going back in time and interfering with their origins in "Secret Origins of the Super Friends". In the Green Lantern's case, Lex Luthor tricked Hal Jordan into leaving the cockpit that was grabbed by Abin Sur's ring and then took Abin Sur's ring for himself after taking Hal's place in the cockpit.
- Weaksauce Weakness: Like his comics counterpart at the time, Green Lantern's power ring is powerless against anything colored yellow.
Samurai
Samurai
Voiced by: Jack Angel
- All There in the Manual: The tie-in comics, specifically the third Super Powers miniseries, established that his real name is Toshio Eto and that he was given his powers by the New Gods in hopes that doing so would make him a useful ally in the fight against Darkseid.
- By the Power of Grayskull!: He activates his powers by shouting Japanese phrases.
- Canon Immigrant: Samurai was created for the cartoon, but would eventually appear in the continuity of the comic books long after Super Friends ended its run.
- Captain Ethnic: His main gimmick is being the token Japanese superhero.
- Invisibility: One of the abilities he can obtain is invisibility, which he does by shouting "Tomei ningen" (Japanese for "invisible man").
- Token Minority: The sole Japanese hero among the Super Friends.
El Dorado
El Dorado
Voiced by: Fernando Escandon
- Advertised Extra: In spite of prominently being featured in the intro for the second and third seasons of the 1980 series that went with a Three Shorts format (the latter known as the lost season due to airing exclusively outside the United States prior to the 1990's), he only appears in two shorts in each.
- Canon Immigrant: He was an original creation of the cartoon who never originated in the comics, but made his Prime Earth debut in the miniseries Suicide Squad Most Wanted: El Diablo and Amanda Waller.
- Demoted to Extra: While the number of episodes he appeared in before were already scarce, his only appearance in the final iteration The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians is a cameo in "The Death of Superman".
- Token Minority: The sole Hispanic hero in the show.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: He always goes around bare-chested.
Firestorm
Firestorm
Voiced by: Mark Taylor (Ronald Raymond), Olan Soule (Dr. Martin Stein, Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show), Ken Sansom (Dr. Martin Stein, The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians)
- Demoted to Extra: Martin Stein is reduced to only appearing in three episodes in Galactic Guardians, only having lines in two of them, with Ronnie being the only half of Firestorm acknowledged most of the time.
- Precocious Crush: The hero's debut has teenage Ronnie demonstrate a crush on Wonder Woman.
- Reality Warper: Firestorm's power of transmuting elements here is portrayed as being able to turn anything into anything else he wants (or in some cases, making objects appear out of thin air).
- Two Beings, One Body: Firestorm is composed of two individuals (a teenager named Ronald Raymond and a science teacher named Dr. Martin Stein) who are able to merge together.
Cyborg
Cyborg
Voiced by: Ernie Hudson
- Cyborg: He's half-human and half-machine. It's right in his codename.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: Not unlike his comics counterpart, actually, Victor Stone is pretty against becoming one of the Super Friends in Season 9, preferring to live a normal life and only get involved when evil threatens the people he cares about around him. But when Darkseid threatens all of Earth, he feels compelled to help, and when it's his involvement that saves the day, he knows the alien warlord god will treat him like an enemy no matter what.
- Make Some Noise: Aside from the general strength and sturdiness that come from being a half-robot athlete, Cyborg's other powers are generally united by the theme of sound, including a sonic blaster, super-hearing, and the ability to do other things through sonic manipulations.
- Pet the Dog: Although he's pretty reluctant to be dragged into the Super Friends and has to be emotionally blackmailed into it with a problem only his unique powers can solve, Cyborg is introduced at the start of the episode helping a young man who's just gotten a more mundane prosthetic leg to learn to walk on it, encouraging him to be comfortable in his own skin and to keep pursuing his dreams of basketball stardom instead of giving up. This shows that Victor still has a caring and compassionate heart, and that he wants to do good even if he's not sold on the whole crimefighting thing.
- Team Member in the Adaptation: While affiliated with the Teen Titans in the comics, this incarnation of Cyborg becomes affiliated with the Justice League, years before Smallville, James Robinson's run on the Post-Infinite Crisis Justice League of America, and the New 52 would do the same.
- Token Minority: His introduction has him take Black Vulcan's place as the Super Friends' token African-American superhero.
- We Can Rebuild Him: As in the comics, his origin is that his father saved his life after a serious accident by giving him bionic prosthetics.
Villains
Legion of Doom
Lex Luthor
Lex Luthor
Voiced by: Stan Jones, Michael Bell (teenage self in "History of Doom")
- Bald of Evil: Like most incarnations, Lex Luthor here is a bald supervillain.
- Big Bad: He is the central villain of Challenge of the Superfriends, given that he is the leader of the Legion of Doom and comes up with all the schemes they attempt against the Super Friends.
- Disproportionate Retribution: As revealed in the Challenge of the Superfriends episode "History of Doom", the reason behind his vendetta towards Superman is that he's angry at the Man of Steel for accidentally causing him to go bald when they were adolescents.
- Evil Former Friend: "History of Doom" echoes Luthor's Silver Age comic book origin by establishing that he and Superman used to be friends when they met as teenagers and that Lex even planned to give Superboy a formula that would remove his weakness towards kryptonite, only for Superboy's efforts to save Luthor after a lab accident resulting in Luthor losing his hair and accusing Superboy of deliberately putting him in danger, swearing himself to get even with Superboy while destroying the kryptonite antidote out of spite.
- Prematurely Bald: Staying true to his Pre-Crisis comic book origin, Lex Luthor went bald as a teenager as an unfortunate side-effect of Superboy's efforts to save his life when his lab caught on fire.
Giganta
Giganta
Voiced by: Ruth Foreman
- Adaptation Species Change: Her comics counterpart at the time was an ape who was transformed into a human, while this incarnation shows her to have always been a human woman.
- Adaptational Backstory Change: In the comics, Giganta's origin is that she was an ape who was transformed by experimentation into a super-strong human woman. The Challenge of the Superfriends episode "History of Doom" establishes a decidedly different origin where she was always a human woman and gained her size-changing abilities by taking the pouch containing the magic powder that gave Apache Chief his powers and using it on herself.
- Adaptational Superpower Change: Giganta's size-changing ability was a creation of the cartoon, her comic counterpart at the time merely having immense strength and being larger than a normal human, though her power to grow to gigantic size proved popular enough that she was eventually given that power in the comic books.
- Evil Counterpart: Because both have the power to grow to gigantic size, she is a villainous equivalent to Apache Chief. Heck, "History of Doom" reveals that they got their powers from the same source.
- Evil Redhead: She's a red-haired villainess.
- Personality Power: The magic powder she stole made her grow not only in size, but in wickedness. She had been merely greedy before, but the powder turned her into a power-mad villainess.
- Sizeshifter: Her power is becoming gigantic.
- Two Girls to a Team: She and Cheetah are the only two female members of the Legion of Doom.
- The Voiceless: She has no dialogue when the Legion of Doom returns in the lost season episode "Revenge of Doom".
Gorilla Grodd
Gorilla Grodd
Voiced by: Stanley Ralph Ross
- Killer Gorilla: He's a sapient gorilla who happens to be evil.
- The Voiceless: While returning with the other members of the Legion of Doom in the lost season episode "Revenge of Doom", he has no lines there.
Sinestro
Sinestro
Voiced by: Vic Perrin ("Invasion of the Fearians" and "The Time Trap"), Don Messick (later episodes of Challenge of the Super Friends), Jeff Winkless (lost season)
- Evil Counterpart: Is the Legion of Doom's answer to Green Lantern, given his yellow power ring.
- Man of Kryptonite: He is a rather overt case of the villain being armed with the hero's weakness, given that Green Lantern's power ring has no effect on yellow objects and Sinestro has a yellow power ring with which he creates yellow constructs.
Cheetah
Cheetah
Voiced by: Marlene Aragon
- Expy: This version of Cheetah is influenced by Eartha Kitt's portrayal as Catwoman in Batman (1966).
- Two Girls to a Team: She and Giganta are the only two female members of the Legion of Doom.
- The Voiceless: Does not speak when the Legion of Doom resurfaces in the lost season episode "Revenge of Doom".
Solomon Grundy
Solomon Grundy
Voiced by: Jimmy Weldon
- The Brute: The main source of grunt work for the Legion of Doom
- Hulk Speak: Always talks in third person and in incomplete sentences.
- Our Zombies Are Different: He's an undead brute who came to life from an enchanted monolith.
Brainiac
Brainiac
Voiced by: Ted Cassidy (1978), Stanley Ralph Ross (1983-1985)
- Bald of Evil: He's a hairless villain like Luthor.
- SkeleBot 9000: By the final two series, he upgrades to the skeletal android body he had in the comics at the time.
- The Voiceless: He has no dialogue when the Legion of Doom is re-formed in the lost season episode "Revenge of Doom".
The Riddler
The Riddler
Voiced by: Michael Bell
- Riddle Me This: He doesn't do much for the Legion of Doom except try and distract the Super Friends with riddles that the heroes inevitably solve so they know where to go in order to stop the Legion of Doom.
- The Voiceless: When the Legion of Doom is re-formed in the lost season episode "Revenge of Doom", he doesn't have any lines.
Scarecrow
Scarecrow
Voiced by: Don Messick (Challenge of the Superfriends), Andre Stojka (Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians)
- Art Evolution: His character design is modified a bit by his final appearance, most notably having his straw hair becoming sparser strands of black and the mask having a slightly more skull-like appearance in addition to his eyes being partially veiled in shadow.
- Creepy Crows: He uses crows to ambush Batman and Robin occasionally and has a crow as a pet during his final appearance.
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: His final appearance in Galactic Guardians reveals him to be bespectacled underneath his mask.
- Given Name Reveal: It isn't until his final appearance in the Galactic Guardians episode "The Fear" that his real name Jonathan Crane is revealed.
- Scary Scarecrows: He's a supervillain with the gimmick of dressing as a scarecrow.
- The Voiceless: Does not have dialogue when he and the other members of the Legion of Doom resurface in the lost season episode "Revenge of Doom".
Toyman
Toyman
Voiced by: Frank Welker
- Psychopathic Manchild: Aside from using weaponized toys in his crimes, he also frequently cackles like a lunatic and tends to regard any weapon or property he gets his hands on as a plaything for his amusement.
- Villainous Harlequin: Wears the jester-like costume that was used by the Jack Nimball Toyman from the comics.
- The Voiceless: Doesn't speak in the lost season episode "Revenge of Doom".
- Wicked Toymaker: Wouldn't be Toyman if he wasn't creating dangerous toys to use in his sinister plans.
Black Manta
Black Manta
Voiced by: Ted Knight (The All-New Super Friends Hour), Ted Cassidy (Challenge of the Superfiends)
- Adaptation Name Change: He was called simply "The Manta" in The All-New Super Friends Hour. When he resurfaced in Challenge of the Superfriends, he was again named "Black Manta".
- Early Installment Character-Design Difference: During his stint in The All-New Super Friends Hour as The Manta, he wore a tan costume, his gloves were visibly separate from the rest of his suit, his belt had an M-shaped buckle and his helmet was rounder and had larger lenses. When he resurfaced as Black Manta in the Challenge of the Superfriends era, his costume was changed so that the suit was dark blue with the gloves no longer separate from the rest of the costume, the belt had a regular buckle, and the helmet was colored gray, had more of an oval shape to it and smaller lenses that were colored pale yellow.
- The Voiceless: He doesn't talk in the lost season episode "Revenge of Doom".
Bizarro
Bizarro
Voiced by: William Callaway (1978-1983), Danny Dark (The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians)
- Adaptational Villainy: While his comic counterpart wasn't deliberately malevolent and was only causing trouble because of his warped interpretation of doing the right thing, this Bizarro was initially a straight-up villain. By the final series, he is closer to his comic incarnation as well-meaning but inept.
- Art Evolution: His face was ghoulish-looking for most of his appearances, but his final appearance in Galactic Guardians made it so that he looked more handsome while still having a pale, angular complexion.
- Evil Counterpart: He's the villainous equivalent to Superman, being the Man of Steel's morally backwards doppelganger.
- Progressively Prettier: In addition to being Truer to the Text by not being an intentional menace, The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians also made Bizarro slightly more attractive and amiable in appearance.
- Smart Ball: "The Giants of Doom" had him come up with the evil plan of the week by synthesizing a formula to turn the Legion into giants.
- The Voiceless: He has no lines when the Legion of Doom is re-formed in the lost season episode "Revenge of Doom".
- You No Take Candle: He tends to use "me" in place of "I" and seldom uses modal verbs.
Captain Cold
Captain Cold
Voiced by: Dick Ryal
- Amazing Technicolor Population: The most notable departure from his comics counterpart is that he has pale blue skin, when the Captain Cold of the comics had a normal skin tone.
- Freeze Ray: His main weapon is a freeze ray.
- The Voiceless: Like most of the Legion of Doom, his return in the lost season episode "Revenge of Doom" does not give him any dialogue.
Dr. Natas
Dr. Natas
Voiced by: N/A
- Canon Foreigner: He was created for Challenge of the Superfriends and has no comics counterpart.
- The Ghost: He is only mentioned in "Super Friends: Rest in Peace" as a former member of the Legion of Doom and the creator of the Noxium crystal that the Legion of Doom use to attempt to kill the Super Friends.
- Sdrawkcab Name: His surname is Satan spelled backwards.
Apokolips
Darkseid
Darkseid
Voiced by: Frank Welker
- Abhorrent Admirer: He had a strange fixation on making Wonder Woman his bride.
- Adaptational Wimp: Like everyone else (thanks to 1980s network censors and parent groups), he was toned down, in terms of both personality and powers. His Omega Beams are an Agony Beam as opposed to Homing Lasers, and using them tires him quickly; Superman was only targeted twice by Darkseid with them, and while the first time Supes struggled with them, he completely shrugged them off the other time. This version of Darkseid also had a weird fixation on marrying Wonder Woman.
- Big Bad: He is the most prominent antagonist and the mastermind behind the majority of the threats the Super Friends face in the final two shows Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show and The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians.
- Evil Sounds Deep: He has the same deep, sinister voice Frank Welker used for Dr. Claw and Soundwave.
- Stalker with a Crush: Infamously towards Wonder Woman.
DeSaad
Kalibak
Kalibak
Voiced by: Frank Welker
- Art Evolution: He becomes more brutish and scary-looking by Galactic Guardians.
- The Brute: He's essentially a thug allied with Darkseid.
- Evil Sounds Raspy: In contrast to his father's menacing baritone, Kalibak's voice is noticeably raspy and hoarse-sounding.
- Fangs Are Evil: He is redesigned with fangs by Galactic Guardians.
Other Villains
The Raven
The Raven
Voiced by: Casey Kasem
- Bald of Evil: He's a bald villain.
- Canon Foreigner: He was created for the cartoon.
- Mad Scientist: He's an evil genius who orchestrates a scheme to get a piece of kryptonite he can use to finish off Superman.
- Monster of the Week: He is the antagonist of the 1973 series episode "The Menace of the White Dwarf".
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: He wears a mostly red costume as well as a black visor with red lenses.
- Remember the New Guy?: He appears from out of the blue, with the only known details of his past being that he was incarcerated after an offscreen clash with Superman.
Gentleman Jim Craddock
Gentleman Jim Craddock
Voiced by: Alan Oppenheimer
- Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: He is never addressed as "Gentleman Ghost" as he was in the comics.
- Monster of the Week: One of the few villains from the actual comics who only appears once.
- Rogues' Gallery Transplant: An enemy of Hawkman and Hawkgirl in the comics, this incarnation has his vendetta directed towards Superman and Wonder Woman instead.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: A previous defeat by Superman and Wonder Woman ended with the heroes sealing him inside a crypt, with a mortal henchman reciting an incantation to return him to the world of the living and enable him to enact his revenge.
Mr. Mxyzptlk
Mr. Mxyzptlk
Voiced by: Frank Welker
- Psychopathic Manchild: He takes great joy out of using his reality-warping abilities to cause all sorts of havoc and throws a tantrum in response to Superman and Batman escaping the fifth dimension in the lost season short "Mxyzptlk's Revenge". When he takes advantage of a de-aged Superman to cause trouble in "Uncle Mxyzptlk", Jayna even addresses that Mxyzptlk is even more childish than Superbrat is.
- Reality Warper: He can alter reality to his whim.
- Vocal Evolution: His first two appearances on New Super Friends and The World's Greatest SuperFriends gave him a squeaky voice, but by the 1980 series and onward he sounded more like the show's incarnation of Toyman.
- Weaksauce Weakness: The one way Mxyzptlk can be defeated is by tricking him into saying his name backwards, which will force him back to the 5th Dimension and leave him unable to come back to Earth for 90 days.
Super Enemies
Super Enemies
Voiced by: Danny Dark (Evil Superman), Olan Soule (Evil Batman), Casey Kasem (Evil Robin), William Callaway (Evil Aquaman), Shannon Farnon (Evil Wonder Woman), Michael Bell (Evil Gleek)
- Adaptation Name Change: Insofar that they can be considered a loose adaptation of the Crime Syndicate from the comics, they instead go by the team name the Super Enemies and individually go by the same codenames used by their heroic counterparts rather than Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman's counterparts respectively being called Ultraman, Owlman and Superwoman.
- Adapted Out: In spite of being based loosely on the Crime Syndicate, no equivalents to Flash and Green Lantern's counterparts Johnny Quick and Power Ring appear, and it isn't made clear if Super Enemies counterparts to the Flash and Green Lantern exist at all.
- Expy: Given that they are evil versions of the Super Friends from another dimension, they're the closest thing the cartoon has to the Crime Syndicate.
- Eyepatch of Power: Aquaman's counterpart wears an eyepatch.
- The Faceless: Zan and Jayna's counterparts only appear briefly in shadow.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: The Superman on the Super Enemies wears a red and black costume.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: All of them except Wonder Woman, Aquaman and Gleek's counterparts are shown to have red eyes.
Mirror Master
Mirror Master
Voice by: Casey Kasem
- Monster of the Week: He only appears in the Legendary Super Powers Show episode "Reflections in Crime".
- Rogues' Gallery Transplant: He is traditionally an enemy of The Flash, but is only shown confronting Superman, Batman, Robin, Firestorm and Samurai.
Dollmaker
Dollmaker
Voiced by: Frank Welker
- Beard of Evil: He's a villain with a goatee.
- Remember the New Guy?: The Super Friends speak of him as if he was a previously encountered enemy and the episode has him escaping prison rather than showing up out of the blue and having to be stopped by the Super Friends like most newly introduced villains, which are some of the indications that his episode was originally intended to have Toyman as the villain.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: He comes off as a stand-in for the show's interpretation of Toyman (who was apparently supposed to be the villain of the episode he appeared in before the creators were forced to create an original villain due to not having access to Toyman), especially due to being a toy-themed villain clad in a clown-like costume and voiced by Frank Welker. Interestingly enough, his voice is similar to the one Frank Welker initially used for Mr. Mxyzptlk, in a reversal of how the show's version of Mxyzptlk started to sound more like Toyman later on.
- Voodoo Doll: His plan revolves around using clay sculptures of the Super Friends to make the heroes do his evil bidding.
The Joker
The Joker
Voiced by: Frank Welker
- Composite Character: The Royal Flush Gang's leader Ace is revealed to be him in disguise.
- Monster of the Week: His first and only appearance is in the Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians episode "Wild Cards".
- Team Member in the Adaptation: The Joker of the comics occasionally worked with the Royal Flush Gang, but was never a full-fledged member.
Felix Faust
Felix Faust
Voiced by: Peter Cullen
- Early-Bird Cameo: An image of his face is shown on the Super Friends' computer in "Wild Cards" before making a proper appearance in "The Case of the Stolen Powers".
- Evil Sorcerer: He is a villainous mage.
The Penguin
The Penguin
Voiced by: Robert Morse
- Early-Bird Cameo: An image of his face is shown on the Super Friends' computer in "Wild Cards" before making a proper appearance in "The Case of the Stolen Powers".
- Rogues' Gallery Transplant: In spite of being one of Batman's enemies, he does not fight the Caped Crusader or Robin in "The Case of the Stolen Powers", instead battling only Superman, Firestorm, Wonder Woman, Hawkman, Samurai and Aquaman.
Three Phantoms
Three Phantoms
Abnegazar
Ghast
Rath
Voiced by: Robert Morse (Abnegazar and Rath), Peter Cullen (Ghast)
- Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: They are clearly supposed to be the forces of evil Felix Faust usually conspires with known as the Demons Three, but they aren't referred to as such to avoid complaints from parental groups who would take issue with demons appearing in a children's cartoon.
- The Voiceless: They do not speak and only roar.
