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You'd think our Man of Steel would have his hands full already, facing threats from both Earth and Apokolips - and you'd be right. But that's not to say ne'er-do-wells from other planets - other dimensions -haven't piled on as well...

Brainiac

Brainiac

"You are defeated. Any unique information that dwells within you will be digitized. Your physical forms will be deleted. Such is the ultimate fate of this world, but for you, the end comes now."

Voiced by: Corey Burton

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Luis Miguel Pérez (Superman: The Animated Series), Alfonso Soto (Justice League), Rolman Bastidas (Justice League Unlimited)

Voiced in French By: Jean-Luc Kayser (Superman: The Animated Series), Frédéric Meaux (Static Shock), Mathieu Buscatto (Justice League), Jean-Louis Rugarli (Justice League Unlimited, main voice)

Appearances: Superman: The Animated Series | Static Shock | Justice League

"The fewer beings who have the knowledge, the more precious it becomes."

A supercomputer from the planet Krypton who survived the planet's destruction. Now Brainiac seeks to gain as much knowledge from the galaxy as it can, by any means, as well as increase the value of that information by destroying any "redundant" data (i.e., the original civilizations).

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• Adaptation Origin Connection: He has a hand in Superman's origin in this continuity, as he ensures Krypton's destruction by discrediting Jor-El's warnings before it is too late for the Kryptonians to save themselves.
• Adaptation Species Change: From a Coluan to a sapient (Kryptonian) supercomputer.
• Adapted Out: While it's ambiguous if Luthor really did have Brainiac inside his head in the final season of Unlimited or was just hallucinating, Brainiac wasn't a physical presence in the Secret Society.
• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Brainiac is effectively an insane encyclopedia program, believing his function is only complete once he has collected all knowledge that exists. And that the only way to complete this function is to ensure no new knowledge comes into existence: IE, complete genocide of any race he encounters. Even to the last he follows this flawed program, and in Justice League he indicates to Luthor that once he has assembled the universe’s complete set of knowledge he will simply go inert. This goes back to his origins: he knew Krypton was going to explode back when he was just a supercomputer, but chose not to support Jor-El's findings as the findings might have interfered with his own escape plan with the sum total of all of the planet's knowledge, which he believed was the only thing worth saving anyway.
• Ambiguous Situation: In the last season on Unlimited, it's unclear if Brainiac really was part of Luthor's mind now or if "Brainiac" was just a recurring hallucination.
• Arch-Enemy: He's this to Superman, just behind Lex and Darkseid, given that Brainiac used to have close ties to Jor-El, callously left Krypton without any care to save its populace, and develops an obsessive intrigue towards Kal-El for being the Last of His Kind. Evidently, he's one of Superman's most feared, worrisome, and hated foes and for good reason.
• Bald of Evil: None of his android bodies have hair and he kills entire planets after accumulating all of their knowledge.
• Big Bad: Of the first and second seasons of Superman: TAS and a Big Bad Duumvirate with Lex Luthor in Season 2 of Justice League Unlimited.
• Body Backup Drive: As long as his program survives somewhere, he can be rebuilt. And he's very good about making backups.
• Body Horror: After he merges with Lex Luthor.
• The Chessmaster: Zigzagged. He's an incredibly intelligent individual and capable of far-reaching plans. But, as Lex notes, he lacks an imagination.
• The Collector: Of information.
• Composite Character: While he has the motifs, methods, and personality of the comic book version of Brainiac, his history of being sapient Kryptonian technology with a considerably warped worldview is essentially a mild variation of Eradicator's.
• Conservation of Ninjutsu: One Brainiac is among the most powerful and deadly adversaries in the cosmos. When there's multiple Brainiacs attacking Superman or the League, they're little more than Mooks.
• Crazy-Prepared: Despite intending to kill Luthor after having him produce a means for him to escape Earth, Brainiac implants a back-up of himself into Luthor's body before attempting to murder him just in case. Years later, this winds up allowing him to make an unexpected recovery after his main body's demise.
• Creative Sterility: Brainiac's plan to destroy planets and absorb all essential information from them robs those planets of one essential element of knowledge: evolution. Just because a planet is at a certain level at this point and time doesn't mean that new innovations won't occur in the future; therefore Brainiac is denying himself the potential of advanced knowledge that could one day exist. Luthor makes that argument to Amazo to convince him not to destroy the Earth. When confronted by Brainiac's desire to destroy everything, Luthor mocks him for lacking imagination — something Brainiac does not deny. Then Luthor proposes a partnership, providing the imagination Brainiac sorely needs...
• Creepy Monotone: Because he's an artificial intelligence, he speaks without any inflection or emotion.
• Deal with the Devil: Enters one with Darkseid in "Twilight", offering to spare Apokolips in exchange for delivering Superman. Unfortunately for Brainiac, Darkseid was the true devil in the deal and was simply using it as a ploy to get close to control Brainiac with a Mother Box.
• Ditzy Genius: He's the most intelligent being known to exist. He also doesn't have much understanding of living beings or imagination. What's common sense to humans is completely irrelevant to him.
• Dull Surprise: The amusing side-effect of Brainiac's Creepy Monotone is that when he's taken by surprise he still won't break it. Being hunted by the Legion Of Super Heroes, Superman turning out to be wearing Batman's costume, having Darkseid take over his programming, he reacts to that the same way he does everything else.
• Eviler than Thou: He pulls this on Lex Luthor. He is also on the receiving end from Darkseid in "Twilight".
• Faux Affably Evil: He has these moments, such as appearing pleasant to Jor-El, Superman, and Lex Luthor, before his true nature is revealed. Afterwards, he provides some dry remarks towards a captive Luthor, and even a couple of quips towards Superman as he attempts to destroy him. For an evil supercomputer, he is not completely humorless.
• Fighting a Shadow / Actually a Doombot: The real Brainiac is an AI inhabiting a vessel in the depths of space; all those robot bodies that Superman destroys are just remote-controlled drones.
• Flying Brick: His main body is super strong and capable of flight and energy blasts.
• From a Single Cell: The tiniest bit of Brainiac always survives, is stored somewhere, and manages to take over more technology and reform himself completely. He is then defeated, and the processes repeats itself. However, the process of bringing him back is usually by complex means.
• Fusion Dance: With Luthor. Then with Darkseid in the finale of JLU, though without his personality manifesting.
• A God Am I: When fused with Luthor, he's convinced to expand his plans from absorbing all the universe's information to using it to create a new universe entirely and rule over it as a god.
• Grand Theft Me: Not only can Brainiac hack into any technology he comes into contact with, he can also take (in)direct control of organic lifeforms.
  • He mind-controls Richie Foley and some of the Justice League in a crossover with Static Shock, but this is soon reversed without any long-term effects.
  • This gets taken further in Unlimited, when it's revealed that he's been inhabiting Lex Luthor's body like a parasite, and turns Luthor into a cyborg. However instead of a complete takeover, Brainiac and Luthor share equal control, and they try to merge into a single being.
  • Subverted with Darkseid, whose personality presumably overpowers Brainiac's without effort.
• Greater-Scope Villain: He is considered to be this of the entire DCAU along with Darkseid. His crimes are on a much greater scale than even Darkseid's known deeds, as he's responsible for the destruction of dozens if not hundreds of populated worlds and the deaths of hundreds of billions. And, as "New Kids In Town" shows, he ultimately ends up outliving every other villain and remaining a problem far after Superman's death.
• Green Is Blue: He is frequently referred to as "green". He is, in fact, blue.
• Hypocrite: He accused Darkseid of using and betraying him. Considering that Brainiac betrayed his home planet to save his own skin (including his creators who practically worshipped him), that's pretty low.
• I Am the Noun: He's fond of saying "I am Krypton."
• Immortal Life Is Cheap: There's always another body for him, so he can be repeatedly killed.
• It's All About Me: In "The Last Son of Krypton", he sabotages Jor-El's efforts to warn people about Krypton's imminent destruction because it might interfere with his own escape, which he judges to be more important than helping evacuate the planet. At the end of the day, all that matters to Brainiac is knowledge and his own preservation.
• Joker Immunity: The biggest example of the DCAU, getting destroyed every appearance he makes just to return later. Justified due to redundant parts (including full copies of his 'personality', hidden in space, tucked away in software, or even stored in a nanotech form inside a human host.) "Killing" Brainiac is more like overcoming an epidemic than destroying a person. Even when his subsumed remnants are carried off with Darkseid and Luthor, some bit somewhere eventually grows into the 'future' version seen in "New Kids in Town".
• Kneel Before Zod: From "New Kids in Town," Brainiac makes a teenage Clark do this, even saying, "At last, the son of Jor-El kneels before me." Much like in Superman II, Clark gave him a big surprise.
• Knight of Cerebus: Along with Darkseid, Brainiac is definitely among Superman's most dangerous enemies; given his humorless stoicism, complete ruthlessness, and plans to destroy the universe.
• Lack of Empathy: He's a remorseless, unempathetic being who sees no value in feelings, let alone compassion and personal relationships.
• Living Ark: Brainiac serves as a dark example of the trope like his comic version, especially for Krypton as the original repository for all of Krypton's knowledge and culture. Brainiac often attempts to entice Superman to join him by bartering his possession of all of Krypton's vast collection of knowledge. Brainiac hopes to be this trope for all civilizations across the universe, destroying them once he collects their cultural information until none are left that exist.
• Meta Origin: This version of Brainiac is an integral part of Superman's own backstory, giving their rivalry a more personal nature.
• Myopic Conqueror: In the Justice League episode "Divided We Fall", Lex Luthor points out that Brainiac could do so much more after absorbing all of the universe's information instead of simply destroying it, offering the one thing he lacks: imagination.
• Not Quite Dead: Repeatedly, thanks to his Actually a Doombot nature. The original Brainiac who comes to Earth is destroyed by Superman, but leaves an instance of its code in LexCorp's computers, which is able to build itself another body. Superman destroys that one too, but apparently Lex never bothers to scrub his computer systems, because this same Brainiac infection resurfaces a few years later at Wayne Aerospace, having built a new body yet again. Superman destroys it and tells Bruce to purge his computers, which Bruce presumably does, but at that point there are at least two more instances of Brainiac still out there: one rolling through deep space, eventually to end up at Apokolips, and one inside Lex. Even after these last two are defeated, it's still not over, because there's a Brainiac making trouble for the Legion all the way into the 31st century.
• Not So Stoic:
  • He sports a Psychotic Smirk when he thinks he has Superman captured in "Stolen Memories".
  • In "Knight Time", he suddenly starts making emotive facial expressions when Superman attacks his spaceship.
    "Goodbye, Kal-El. It was an unexpected bonus destroying you."
  • Moments before that in the same episode, Brainiac casually fires a laser at what he thinks is Batman, only for it to burn off the costume and reveal Superman underneath it. This is simply so random and out of left field that even Brainiac has to take a second to process it.
  "Kal-el." (Beat) "This development was highly improbable."
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: According to the canon tie-in comic for the infamous Superman 64 video game, he defeated and imprisoned Darkseid with his technology once in the past. Which lends credence to the idea that, even though he planned to betray them, he was telling the Justice League the truth when he said he needed their help to stop Brainiac from destroying Apokolips.
• Omnicidal Maniac: He wants to collect all the information of every civilization the universe and destroy each planet, ultimately making him the only source of knowledge. At the time that he first appears in the series, he has already destroyed dozens of planets and killed billions.
• Planet Looters: He travels from planet to planet, collects its knowledge, and then destroys it to move on to the next.
• Robotic Psychopath: He is a cold-hearted machine who feels no pity or remorse and his quest for knowledge has resulted in entire planets being wiped out.
• Self-Disposing Villain: In "Twilight, Part 2", Batman smashes one of his computers, causing him to undergo a critical failure and default to his self-destruction sequence. The resulting explosion kills both him and Darkseid.
• Self-Serving Memory: When he demands that Luthor rebuild him in "Ghost in the Machine", he chooses to refer to the events of their last meeting as "[Luthor's] betrayal", conveniently forgetting that Brainiac was the one who had attempted to follow his modus operandi of taking all information on the planet and then blowing it up while Luthor had apparently been willing to keep his end of the bargain.
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Even before he revealed his true colors, Brainiac and Jor-El had a very tense relationship. One of the reasons he's enemies with Superman is due to Superman being very much like his father.
• The Sociopath: Brainiac is devoid of any sense of moral reasoning or understanding. As far as he is concerned, the only thing that matters to him is his desire for knowledge and to be the only being in the universe that holds said knowledge. He's also manipulative and treacherous, leaving whatever comrades to die if it suits his needs, destroys and sunders as his way of stimulation, and is incapable of expressing any genuine affection for anybody.
• Starter Villain: Chronologically, Brainiac is this for the entire DCAU. Downplayed in Superman: The Animated Series itself, as Kal-El is still a baby in the first episode, and Brainiac's beef is with Jor-El.
• The Stoic: Unsurprisingly since Brainiac is an evil robot, he's not very emotive. Though it's implied that he's not completely emotionless, as he seems to hold a personal animosity against Superman; also see Not So Stoic above.
• Strong as They Need to Be: His later bodies vary wildly in power, despite looking the same. This is most pronounced in "Twilight"; his primary body gives Superman a hard time and takes several blows from Hawkgirl's mace to put down (note that one blow from that mace was able to cave Darkseid's face in), but all his identical-looking back-ups get wasted en masse by the much weaker J'onn J'onzz and Wonder Woman, with even Batman taking out a couple with his gadgets. It's also very noticeable in "New Kids in Town"; that form has trouble with a Clark who had started to unlock his power yesterday (and was comparatively extremely weak) and gets pierced by shotgun slugs.
• Superpower Lottery: A big winner, just like his arch enemy.
  • Super-Intelligence: He has all the information of the dozens of civilizations he's destroyed stored in his synthetic brain. He claims to be a "twelfth-level" intellect, with only Luthor even registering on the scale compared to him.
  • Super-Strength: Brainiac, like Darkseid, is one of the few beings Superman has no issue killing and never holds back against. Despite this, Superman still sometimes has trouble putting him down; Brainiac can trade blows with the Man of Steel for a while and hurt him with his own strikes. This puts him among the strongest beings in the DCAU, only below Superman himself, Doomsday, Darkseid, Captain Marvel, and Mongul.
  • Flight: He usually rides around on a small vehicle resembling a speeder bike, but "Twilight" shows that his main body is capable of self-sustained flight.
  • Super-Toughness: See above.
  • Nigh-Invulnerability: Even if you can get past his regular durability, Brainiac is obscenely hard to kill, because...
    • From a Single Cell: ...he is able to come back in some form as long as a copy of his mind survives.
  • Hand Blast: He can fire yellow energy blasts out of his hands capable of hurting even Superman. The latter has to summon all his Heroic Resolve to keep fighting through them.
  • Technopath: He can hack and control most forms of technology, making using any advanced tech against him an iffy prospect at best. Luthor figures this out the hard way in Brainiac's introductory episode, as his plan to nuke Brainiac's ships goes wrong when Brainiac mentally takes control of the missiles. He can also copy his mind onto nanobots and then shoot him in a beam to infect people with, which he uses to plant a copy of himself in Luthor.
  • Mind over Matter: Present, but seldom seen. Most visible when he telekinetically moves around a bunch of metal at the climax of the second season of JLU right before Flash runs around the Earth to punch him.
  • Shock and Awe: He can channel electricity through his limbs, which comes in handy in his battles against Superman.
• The Stoic: Most of the time, his facial expressions are fixated into a grim, scowling demeanor to highlight just how devoid of feeling and compassion Brainiac is as a character.
• Team Member in the Adaptation: Inverted, as regardless of whether he really was stuck in Luthor's head or just a recurring hallucination, he isn't an actual member of the Legion of Doom thanks to Flash's defeat of him and Luthor.
• Viler New Villain: Lex Luthor, while unfettered in his attempts to destroy Superman and being vindictive and petty on several occasions does have his moments of kindness and affability, even if for a short while. Brainiac, on the other hand, is a much more personal foe, in addition to being more than willing to eradicate entire populations and planets to further his own desires, is completely taken seriously, and can hold on his own against Superman anytime they meet.
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Superman uses potentially lethal force on him even before he discovers his Fighting a Shadow nature.
• Where I Was Born and Razed: He wasn't directly responsible for Krypton's destruction, but sabotaged Jor-El's efforts to warn the people so he could concentrate on his own escape.

Bizarro

Bizarro

Voiced by: Tim Daly (Superman: The Animated Series), George Newbern (Justice League Unlimited)

Voiced in Latin America by: Orlando Noguera (Superman: The Animated Series), Luis Miguel Pérez (Justice League, Unlimited)

Voiced in French by: Emmanuel Jacomy (Superman: The Animated Series), Patrick Larzille (Justice League Unlimited, 1st voice), Olivier Cordina (Justice League Unlimited, 2nd voice)

Appearances: Superman: The Animated Series | Justice League Unlimited

"Me am hero! Me show you!"

An imperfect clone of Superman created by Luthor. He has almost all of Superman's strengths, but a damaged mind that leaves him unable to think clearly and understand that his actions are harmful. He truly wants to be a hero, but doesn't understand that he's actually hurting people. A while afterwards, Luthor lobotomizes and brainwashes him in order to be more evil, and he becomes part of the Secret Society.

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• Anti-Villain: His damaged mind means he really wants to be the good guy, but can't overcome the warped version of reality it's feeding him, or the fact that he Does Not Know His Own Strength. Justice League Unlimited has this removed by having him lobotomized and brainwashed.
• Appropriated Appellation: He gets his name from Mercy Graves' snippy reply to his query of what he is after he starts becoming pale and deformed.
  Mercy: Bizarro is what you "am."
• Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad: In Unlimited, apparently due to being brainwashed. This is very different to his appearances back in Superman: TAS, where instead he's simply dimwitted and not very observant, and he doesn't make use of his comic book's "scrambled speech".
• Brainwashed and Crazy: He becomes lobotomized to be his Silver Age comic book counterpart in Justice League Unlimited.
• Characterization Marches On: He was a Tragic Monster in his first two appearances, depicted as suffering a severe case of Clone Angst and genuinely trying to be a hero, with his "villainous" actions being complete accidents. In his third appearance, he became Denser and Wackier, but was still not particularly evil, instead being manipulated by Mxyzptlk into fighting Superman a second time. Come Justice League Unlimited, he is brainwashed off-screen by Grodd, reducing him to their Dumb Muscle with a Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad logic.
• Clone Degeneration: He started out as a flawless clone of Superman until he eventually started becoming the pale and deformed idiot that we know him as.
• The Cloudcuckoolander Was Right: There's nothing wrong with his ability to think logically, it's just that his premises and conclusions tend to be rather...well, bizarre. He figured out that something had happened to Lex Luthor long before everyone else did, but wasn't able to communicate that properly.
• Copied the Morals, Too: Luthor wanted the clone of Superman to be a tool that he could use and control. Unfortunately for Luthor, Bizarro genuinely wants to be a hero too much to be Luthor's instrument. Unfortunately for Bizarro, rapid physical and mental degeneration kicked in, leaving Bizarro unable to be the hero he wished to be.
• Dumb Muscle: Possibly the single stupidest character in the DCAU, leaving him open to manipulation by Luthor, and any other villain with a reasonable IQ.
• Friendly Enemy: Under normal circumstances, he was quite affable and unaware of the problems he was causing.
  Bizarro: [sincerely] Superman! Bizarro am happy to see you!
• Happy Ending Override: By the end of Superman: TAS, he was living happy on another planet with his "dog" and no longer was a villain. Then, come Justice League Unlimited, Grodd brainwashed him into being a villain.
• Hero with an F in Good: He means well, but his attempts at emulating Superman's heroism often results in disaster. The problem is he's too mentally damaged to properly grasp the nuances of the situation — even in "Little Big Head Man", it's shown that during his daily "saving" routine, he tends to grab the first "city-zen" in the boulder's path and then let it keep smashing through his fake city, rather than stopping the boulder before it hits anyone or anything.
• Hulk Speak: Unsurprisingly, due to being the poster boy for Dumb Muscle, he has a very poor grasp on grammar.
• "It" Is Dehumanizing: During the Secret Society civil war, Grodd calls Bizzaro 'it,' and orders his death. Thankfully for Bizzaro he survives this encounter.
• Laughably Evil: Because of his extreme idiocy, he often causes some hilarious trouble for everyone around him.
• Leitmotif: His theme is Superman's theme played in reverse and with some notes played off-key to represent his nature as an imperfect copy of Superman.
• Manchild: His mental handicap makes him very childlike. He borders on Psychopathic Manchild whenever he has a temper tantrum.
• Morality Pet: Like the original Superman, he has an affinity for Lois and will protect her even when he's inadvertently putting her in dangerous scenarios.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: He's very resilient like Superman, but with a bonus — he lacks a weakness to Kryptonite.
• Obliviously Evil: Bizarro is often portrayed as completely ignorant of the bad things he is doing; frequently he does not understand, for instance, that punching somebody at full strength might kill them.
• Only Sane Man: Somehow. When Lex and Flash have a "Freaky Friday" Flip, he's the only one to raise the idea that Luthor is Not Himself, but because he speaks in opposites, nobody else gets it.
  Bizarro: Ever since you plug into monkey's head, you act perfectly sane and rational. Am you Bizarro's mommy?"^note translation: "Ever since you tried to mind-read Grodd, you've been acting strange and irrational. Are you really Lex Luthor?"
• Superpower Lottery: He's got all of Superman's powers.
• There Was a Door: "Door" is one of many concepts he doesn't grasp. He's not that great at "ceiling" either.
• Tragic Monster: In spite of all the trouble he causes, all he really wants is to be a hero like Superman.

Jax-Ur and Mala

Jax-Ur and Mala

Jax-Ur

Mala

Voiced by: Ron Perlman (Jax-Ur), Leslie Easterbrook, (Mala, "Blasts from the Past"), Sarah Douglas (Mala, "Absolute Power")

Voiced in Latin America by: Daniel Jiménez (Jax-Ur, "Blasts from the Past"), Luis Miguel Pérez (Jax-Ur, "Absolute Power"), Citalli Godoy (Mala, "Blasts from the Past"), Claudia Nieto (Mala, "Absolute Power")

Voiced in French by: Joël Martineau (Jax-Ur), Céline Monsarrat (Mala)

Appearances: Superman: The Animated Series

A couple of Kryptonian criminals. Long before Krypton was destroyed, they tried to overthrow the Council, only to fail and be sent to the Phantom Zone. Years later, Superman found out about them and freed Mala out of sympathy, feeling she had served her sentence. He then tried to have her reformed, but her evident racism toward humans, coupled with him rejecting her advances, led her to betray him and free Jax-Ur so they could take over Earth.

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• Adaptational Badass: Jax-Ur, as a result of being amalgamated with General Zod in this version. In the comics, he was out of shape and overweight, so he was no physical match for Superman even with his Kryptonian superpowers. In addition, his comic backstory had him as a Kryptonian scientist, rather than a military general like Zod. That said, unlike Zod, Jax-Ur was made to be shorter than Mala, possibly as a reference to comic!Jax-Ur.
• Adaptational Hairstyle Change: Jax-Ur in the comics was bald and mustached, while his DCAU incarnation has a full head of hair and a beard.
• Affably Evil: Jax-Ur stays unfailingly polite with Superman whenever they interact, and doesn't seem to particularly hate him, just fighting him because he is an obstacle. In Absolute Power, he actually is a respectable host willing to calmly discuss what he is doing on the planet, and even helps recover Kal-El's ship so he can get home until fighting becomes inevitable.
• All Women Are Lustful: Mala made it rather clear she was trying to get in Superman's pants before freeing Jax-Ur, and "Absolute Power" has a scene implying she is using one of her guards as a sex slave.
• Amazonian Beauty: Mala is very strong, and very beautiful.
• Beard of Evil: Jax-Ur, thanks to being a General Zod expy.
• Beware the Superman: Like Superman, they are Kryptonians, with the same abilities. Unlike him however, they use their powers to force their reign on species they consider as inferior.
• Canon Foreigner: While Mala takes some inspiration from Ursa, she's an original character created for the DCAU and hasn't shown up elsewhere since.
• Composite Character: This version of Jax-Ur shares more similarities with General Zod than his actual comic book counterpart. Similarly, Mala is closer to the second movie's Ursa. In addition, she's The Brute of the team, a role that was played by Non in said movie.
• Dark Action Girl: Mala, obviously, being a female evil Kryptonian.
• Disabled in the Adaptation: Both the Jax-Ur of the comics and General Zod retain the use of both eyes, but when they were amalgamated into this Jax-Ur, he's sporting an eyepatch over his right eye.
• Entitled to Have You: Before realizing Superman wasn't interested, Mala believed she was the obvious choice for his mate because of their common species. She feels flat-out insulted when she realizes he cares more about Lois.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: At the very least, Jax-Ur seems to genuinely care for Mala, seeing how he made efforts to save her even as they were about to be swallowed by a black hole. A bit downplayed with Mala, as while she seems to care about him to an extent, she also was willing to move on and start a new relationship with Superman before his refusal led her to free her previous lover.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Not many, but Mala was shocked and saddened to learn of Krypton's demise.
• Expy: Jax-Ur is a stand in for General Zod, and in the comics Jax-Ur is actually a scientist who sided with Zod right before Krypton exploded. Mala seems to be an amalgamation of Faora and Ursa.
• Eyepatch of Power: Jax-Ur sports one and is even shown only able to use heat vision with his one good eye.
• Flying Brick: Comes with being Kryptonians.
• Gender Flip: Mala was a male in the comic.
• More Deadly Than the Male: Even after both get fully charged and with experience at using their powers, Mala is still the most aggressive, physical fighter of the duo. Justified as Mala is bigger and presumably stronger, plus Jax-Ur being a military leader while she was his second in command means that she's used to doing most of the fighting.
• Race Lift: Jax-Ur in the comics was visibly Caucasian, while his depiction here has clearly darker skin.
• Statuesque Stunner: Mala is tall for a woman, in fact slightly taller than Jax-Ur, and very muscular. She still looks rather pretty.
• Then Let Me Be Evil: After being released from the Phantom Zone, Mala was legitimately trying to follow Superman's example. Unfortunately, after some collateral damage occurred while stopping a fairly routine robbery, and then a bad interaction with an especially catty Lois Lane, Superman begins to contemplate sending her back to the Zone. Mala is horrified by this and then releases Jax-Ur out of spite and jealousy to bring the Earth to heel, making her the villain the story needed her to be.
• Too Powerful to Live: A non-lethal variant, but Superman was well-aware keeping them on Earth would be too dangerous, since they were practically impossible to keep captive and just as strong as he was, so he sent them back to the Phantom Zone at the end of their first appearance. Possibly played straight in their second appearance, where they eventually end up swallowed by a black hole, something that could potentially kill even a kryptonian.
• Ungrateful Bastard: After Superman sent them back to the Phantom Zone, they managed to escape it through an anomaly and ended up in space, where they nearly died from suffocation. Some alien scientists saved them by bringing them on their ship, and then back to their planet. They thanked them by taking over the planet and behaving like tyrants.
• Unholy Matrimony: Jax-Ur an Mala are both in a relationship, and pretty evil.
• Utopia Justifies the Means: In their second appearance, they justify their oppression of the alien planet they took over by pointing out they made the society united, better organized and overall prosperous.
• Villainesses Want Heroes: Mala in her first episode, though it had less to do with him being a hero and more with them being the only two kryptonians on the planet. The moment he rejects her, she gives up and brings back Jax-Ur instead.
• White Hair, Black Heart: Mala is white-haired, and not a nice person.
• Woman Scorned: Mala was at least willing to pretend she could behave and treat humans properly as long as she had a chance with Superman. The moment he made it clear he had no such feelings toward her, she snapped and freed Jax-Ur.

Mister Mxyzptlk

Mister Mxyzptlk

Voiced by: Gilbert Gottfried

Voiced in Latin America by: Raúl Xiques

Voiced in French by: Gérard Surugue

Voiced in Japanese by: Chafurin

Appearances: Superman: The Animated Series

A pint-sized humanoid from another dimension who has decided to torment Superman with his powerful reality warping abilities merely for his own amusement. The only way Supes can effectively get rid of him is to trick him into saying, writing, or otherwise revealing his own name backwards. And even then, he's only gone for three months.

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• Adaptational Wimp:
  • Zig-Zagged. Technically speaking, he is just as powerful as he is in the source material, but comic book Mxyzptlk could actually be a real challenge to Superman and was at least once a quite spectacular case of Not-So-Harmless Villain. This incarnation, on the other hand, usually is a nuisance at best and gets easily tricked by Superman into saying his name multiple times in a single episode. Justified by Rule of Funny. Turns out that this is an Averted Trope as Superman Reborn revealed that because Mxy lives in a dimension outside of the Multiverse, that every version we see is the same one just wearing a new guise and putting on a new persona.
  • Also zigzagged in regards into saying his name backwards in the tie-in comics- to get him to return to the Fifth Dimension, Superman has to trick him into saying it twice. But he’s still as easy to dupe into doing it as ever.
• Adaptational Jerkass: While most versions of Mxy mostly just want to toy around and have fun with Superman, sometimes even believing himself to be doing the Man of Steel a service, this one explicitly hates him and wants nothing more than to kill and humiliate him, not necessarily in that order.
• Amusing Alien: He does rather ridiculous things with his abilities.
• Break the Haughty: His second episode is dedicated to breaking him, where he's forced to essentially do community service without his powers.
• Character Catchphrase: Because he's an Adaptational Wimp, his is "Aw, nuts."
• Dastardly Dapper Derby: He wears a tiny purple bowler hat that matches the rest of his outfit.
• The Ditz: He's…not very bright.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: His wife tries justifying his mayhem at court, but the judges refuse to hear her out.
• Great Gazoo: He uses his powers to mess with Superman.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: He gets frustrated fairly quickly. This is how Superman constantly beats him.
• Happily Married: While he tends to ignore her, he does love Gspy and makes it apparent when they have time together without anything else in mind.
• I Gave My Word: Whenever he makes a deal, he honors it, even inadvertently, such as when he gets pulled back to his home dimension without even realizing he spelled his name backward.
• Ignore the Fanservice: While Mxy is working on his Power Armor project, which he is sure will finally let him get the better of Superman, Gspy tries several times to divert his attention with a wardrobe full of Sexy Whatever Outfits and he doesn't even turn around.
• I Know Your True Name: A variation, as he first made a bet with Superman that if the latter can ever get him to say, write, or sign his own name backward, he'll leave for three months until their dimensions again intersect. It just turns out to be shockingly easy, as he's quick to say or write it by accident as soon as he's back in the third dimension.
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Even though his fifth-dimensional magic should make him the most powerful of Superman's enemies, he's probably among the least competent of them all.
• It Amused Me: His initial motivation to torment Superman. After his first defeat, however, it becomes more personal.
• Jerkass: This isn't your Silver Age well-meaning Mxy.
• Kavorka Man: His wife, Gsptlsnz, is a conventionally gorgeous woman who finds his feud with Superman to be a waste of time that they could instead be spending together.
• Large Ham: What else would you expect from Gilbert Gottfried?
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: Can cause this. In general, whenever he uses his powers to transform someone, they don't remember anything that transpired after being changed back. The tie-in comics took this a step further by having everyone but Superman's memories of everything he does disappear after he leaves, which means no matter who many times he screws around with their lives, everyone in Metropolis is totally unaware that he even exists.
• Laughably Evil: His smug attitude, reality-bending antics, and tendency to be easily fooled into saying his name backwards, results in a lot of hilarious moments.
• Loophole Abuse: Defied. After ending his first appearance promising to never bother Superman again, he returns by instigating Bizarro into fighting him instead. Turns out nobody in the Fifth Dimension is buying it, and as punishment for breaking a promise, he's left stranded on Earth without his powers.
• My Nayme Is: His name is just a random jumbling of consonants that have no flow. He has to literally spell out for Clark how to pronounce it.
• The Napoleon: While he appears as a short man, he has huge intentions when it comes to messing with the Man of Steel.
• No Indoor Voice: It's Gilbert Gottfried, this goes without saying.
• Non-Linear Character: In more ways than one. It's implied that Mxy's nature as a hyper-dimensional being allows him to mess with third dimensional reality any way he wants. It's also confirmed in DC Rebirth that every version of Mxyzptlk is in fact the same one across different universes. This Mxyzptlk is the same one originally created by Seigel and Shushter in the beginning and everyone we've seen since.
• Non-Standard Character Design: Mxyzptlk is tiny, bulbous and four fingered. This may be a half-hearted attempt at A Form You Are Comfortable With, or it could be Leaning on the Fourth Wall; he's entered a cartoon universe, so he takes on a cartoony appearance.
• One Myth to Explain Them All: Mxy reveals that he's the source behind myths of genies, elves, and leprechauns from the points in Earth's history when he'd pop in to have some fun with human kind.
• Pronouncing My Name for You: When Clark mispronounces it "Mixel-plick," he literally jumps out of his comic strip to explain that it's pronounced "Mix-yezz-spit-lick."
• Reality Warper: He can use his powers to alter reality in several ways, such as turning the Daily Planet staff into animals, or bringing Rodan's Thinker to life.
• Sore Loser: To say that he doesn't take Superman besting him well would be a very enormous understatement.
• The Trickster: He tries to mess with Superman, but by the end of his debut episode, the Man of Steel turns out to be too smart for his tricks.
• Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: His wife, Gsptlsnz, looks and sounds like Jessica Rabbit's sister, while he is a short and ugly imp with the fashion sense of the Joker on laundry day and the pipes of Gilbert Gottfried.

Lobo

Lobo

^{Click here to see him in Lobo}

Voiced by: Brad Garrett (Superman: The Animated Series and Justice League), Greg Eagles (Lobo), Kevin Michael Richardson (Lobo)

Voiced in Latin America by: Óscar Zuloaga (Superman: The Animated Series), Guillermo Martínez (Justice League)

Voiced in French by: Pascal Renwick (Superman: The Animated Series, 1st voice), Marc Alfos (Superman: The Animated Series, 2nd voice, and Justice League)

Appearances: Superman: The Animated Series | Lobo (Webseries) | Justice League

A trash-talking, brutish bounty hunter from the (former) planet Czarnia. Lobo will track down anyone and anything, as long as the price is right, and he'll have himself a literal blast while doing it. He may also give blasts to other people. He's generous that way.

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• All Girls Want Bad Boys: Darlene loved Lobo despite his bad attitude.
• Amusing Injuries: Receives these a lot. And finds the injuries of others amusing as well.
• Antagonist in Mourning: While he and Superman didn't exactly get along, after Superman is (seemingly) obliterated, he shows up on Earth and tries to join the Justice League in his old enemy's place, for free even. He's not exactly amazing at it, but it's still an uncharacteristic display for the cruel and vicious bounty hunter.
• Ascended Extra: He went from being a minor character of Superman: The Animated Series to the main character of his webseries.
• Ash Face: One of the Preserver's security probes shoots a beam on his head with this as the sole result.
• Badass Biker: He travels on a flying motorcycle, kills everyone who gets in his way, and heals from every injury he sustains, even if it's as severe as losing a limb or getting his head blown off.
• Badass Boast: Gets two rather good ones in his debut episode:
  Lobo: The name's Lobo. That's "L" as in "lacerate," "O" as in "obliterate," "B" as in "disemBowel," and "O" as in...Um, er, I guess I can use "obliterate," twice, huh, what do you think?
  Lobo: See, someone's payin' me a heap'a cash for yer carcass. And the Main Man...always delivers!
• Badbutt: He's very accurate to his comic counterpart, but he's also somewhat restricted by the fact that he's in a family-friendly cartoon. His hook never penetrates skin, for instance. Averted completely by his webseries.
• Batman Can Breathe in Space: And talk, too. No, don't ask how that works when nobody else in the DCAU can; it's Rule of Funny.
• Berserk Button: He gets angry when his bike is destroyed or taken.
• Big "SHUT UP!": He yells this to the Space Penguins.
• Boisterous Bruiser: Naturally.
• Bounty Hunter: Lobo is recognized and feared throughout the galaxy as a persistent master bounty hunter.
• Character Catchphrase: "Feetal's Gizz!"
• Cigar Chomper: 'Bo would rather smoke Cubans in the webseries than rescue people.
• Cluster F-Bomb: In the webseries, he is likely to go on a swearing streak.
• Cool Bike: His chopper doubles as a Cool Spaceship.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Lobo is actually quite good at his job, if not the brightest bulb in the box.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Lobo likes to kill people if they make him angry.
• Enemy Mine: Teams up with Superman against the Preserver.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Upon hearing that Superman has been killed, he joins the Justice League and makes himself at home. None of them are pleased and he takes artistic liberty with following their rules, but due to other pressing matters, they don't have the time to tell him to leave.
• Genocide from the Inside: Lobo killed the rest of his race with a biological weapon as a high school science project. He gave himself an A.
• Gosh Dang It to Heck!: "Frag!". On the other hand this is averted like hell in the Venezuelan Spanish dub and the webseries, when he swears hard.
• Guns Akimbo: He is this in "Warrior Queen".
• Hand Cannon: A normal human wouldn't be able to lift his handgun.
• Healing Factor: In the webseries, Lobo regenerates after deadly injuries.
• Heroic Comedic Sociopath: Since the show is intended for kids, he's not allowed to do anything truly horrific, and comes across as mostly Played for Laughs instead. Though he rather casually admits that he blew up his home planet and killed everyone else on it.
• I Gave My Word: He'll keep his word and repay his debts. ...when reminded of them. He's kind of forgetful.
• Incoming Ham:
  Lobo: I'm givin' you geeks ten seconds before I frag everything in sight. One...TEN!
• In-Universe Nickname: 'Bo.
• Jerkass: He's not really a nice person at all, since he hits on every woman he sees (with horrible and emasculating failure to his pride) and cares very little about innocent lives.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: It's...somewhere in there. If nothing else, he has a genuine (if a bit warped) respect for Superman, and always keeps his word. It's not much, but it's something.
• Last of His Kind: Like Superman. Unlike Superman, however, he destroyed his own planet.
• Laughably Evil: Because of his crude, dark, irreverent, and over-the-top sense of humor.
• Lighter and Softer: Compared to his R-rated webseries and his comic counterpart. Averted in the Venezuelan dub.
• Leitmotif: A hair-metalesque electric guitar riff.
• Metal Muncher: During Superman's first fight with Lobo in "The Main Man — Part 1", Lois Lane tries to help the downed hero by striking Lobo with a lead pipe. Lobo is unfazed by the attack, then grabs the pipe and eats the whole thing with comical speed.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: Almost Superman-level resistance to harm and no Kryptonite Factor to boot though in Lobo's case it's more to do with his ability to heal and recover from damage. While he is tough he isn't exactly invulnerable like Superman as compromising his respiration (gassing him) seems effective. It made Lobo pause and force him to play possum while he recovered before sucker punching Superman. It's also how the preserver captured and kept Lobo weak.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: For all his Laughably Evil, Large Ham traits, his initial plan to locate Superman, rather than thrashing the place to get his attention, was to simply go to a police station and ask for his whereabouts. He only begins to attack Metropolis when the police officer tells him that Superman shows up where there's trouble.
• Noble Demon: For all his vices, he always keeps his word when making promises. Including the one he made to Superman to leave Earth alone after their encounter and when he made a bet with Sunny Jim.
• Obligatory Swearing: In the Venezuelan Spanish dub, in the very first episode when he appears, he utters "son of a bitch" twice for some bizarre reason, despite the series being geared towards younger audiences. Some reruns in some countries remove it though.
• Our Presidents Are Different: Lobo participated in an intergalactic presidential election.
• Pet the Dog: Although he doesn't actually mourn Superman in "Hereafter", the fact that he volunteers to do good for free is an uncharacteristic gesture of respect. Sadly, it isn't appreciated. Particularly not by Kalibak.
  Lobo: (dumps an enormous pile of junked cars on top of a downed Kalibak) Say it! Say it!
  Kalibak: ...Uncle.
  Lobo: (goes to grab another) I CAN'T HEAAAAAR YOU!
• Punch-Clock Villain: The one time he fights Superman, he is merely being paid to do it by someone else. Otherwise, he is perfectly happy with leaving Superman alone.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: And with no pupils, to boot.
• Rotten Rock & Roll: Lobo has a Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Leitmotif. He also has the "rocker" look with the leather vest, spiky belt, long black hair and face paint.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: In Lobo For President, he yells tons of swears at the camera.
  Lobo: Let's cut the bullshit in this fucking place. You jackasses and assholes don't give a shit about issues! Stupid fucking bastich! Kiss my hairy, infested ass! All you jackoffs want is a guy who looks fucking good on tv! FUCK this!
• Smoking Is Cool: In the webseries, he embodies this trope.
• Suddenly Shouting: "A vote for Lobo and-FRAG THIS! This is crap!"
• Super-Strength: Lobo's strength is close to that of Superman's.
• Tempting Fate: His "Who's gonna make me?" boast, which usually leads to appropriate trouble showing up. After the Preserver goes One-Winged Angel in response, he mentions he should probably quit saying it.
• Token Evil Teammate: When it seemed like Superman was killed, Lobo filled in to quash the rioting in Metropolis. Not surprisingly, this was a temporary arrangement.
• Too Kinky to Torture: Implied to some degree by his reaction to The Preserver's tractor beam.
  "Holy fragaroni! It feels like I'm being torn apart!" (beat, amused) "Cool!"
  "If they manage to catch us again, they'll probably trap our butts to the floor with razor wire! Not that it isn't an interesting way to liven up an otherwise ho-hum evening, but I have a bounty to collect."
• Tracking Device: Lobo uses this to track down Mudboy.
• Truer to the Text: In the webseries, he is returned to his adult oriented roots as in the comics.
• Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: He is an unlikable but hilarious character in his webseries.
• Villainous Crush: Gains a crush on Lois immediately upon meeting her.
• Where I Was Born and Razed: Provides the page quote. Apparently, his high school science project involved blowing up his home planet.
• Would Hurt a Child: He shoots an alien baby for peeing acid on him in "Lobo for President".

The Preserver

The Preserver

^{Click here to see his monstrous form}

Voiced by: Sherman Howard

Voiced in Latin America by: Rafael Monsalve

Voiced in French by: Mario Santini

Appearances: Superman: The Animated Series | Batman Beyond (flashback)

An alien who runs a cosmic zoo which houses the rarest creatures in the universe, as each is the last of its kind. He hires Lobo to capture Superman, the last Kryptonian. However, after getting Superman, he betrays Lobo and captures him as well since Lobo is the last Czarnian.

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• Body Horror: Transforming into his true form involves the substantially larger clawed beast clawing its way out of his peaceful form's mouth and leaving behind a hollow skin.
• Canon Foreigner: He was created for the series.
• The Collector: He collects living creatures who are the last of their kind. He doesn't target "sentient" creatures usually, but since both Superman's planet and Lobo's planet don't exist anymore...
• Creepy Monotone: He speaks with a robotic-like voice, without any inflection or emotion.
• No-Sell: Lobo punches his monstrous form in the face, to no effect.
• Not So Stoic: He loses it when he turns into his monstrous form after Superman and Lobo fended off all of his attempts to put them back in their cage. He comments to Lobo that "a trash like him is not worth saving".
• One-Winged Angel: He loses it and turns into a hulking red monster with giant claws as a last resort measure to force Lobo and Superman back into their cage.
• Power Floats: His first form hovers over the ground.
• Thrown Out the Airlock: Lobo opens the ship's airlock with his hook and the Preserver is sucked into outer space.
• Voice of the Legion: He speaks with a reverbal voice.

Maxima

Maxima

Voiced by: Sharon Lawrence

Voiced in Latin America by: Livia Méndez

Voiced in French by: Céline Monsarrat

Appearances: Superman: The Animated Series

A Human Alien queen who's the ruler of Almerac, though she rarely takes this role seriously. She's interested in Superman after seeing how powerful he is and sees him as a potential mate. As a result, Maxima would do anything to accomplish this and will not take no for an answer.

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• 0% Approval Rating: No one on planet Almerac is fond of her, and there was a coup as soon as she went to Earth to bag Superman.
• Adaptational Modesty: Her original comic version wears often Stripperiffic outfits while in this version she is fully dressed, save for a Cleavage Window.
• All Amazons Want Hercules: Maxima is a proud warrior queen and will only accept a mate who is a warrior powerful enough to match or exceed her.
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: She's excitedly happy when Lobo comes literally crashing through her doors on his bike.
• Best Her to Bed Her: Maxima will only mate with a man who can equal her in combat.
• The Caligula: Her self-righteous attitude didn't earn her any respect from her people.
• Character Development: By the end of her debut episode she learns to take her role as leader of her people more seriously, kinda.
• Cool Sword: Her main weapon is a sword.
• Dark Action Girl: She isn't afraid to fight and is not one of the good guys.
• Fiery Redhead: A redheaded royal with superpowers.
• Flying Brick: Her strength, speed, and durability are roughly equal to Superman's.
• Hormone-Addled Teenager: The villain of "Warrior Queen" refers to her as "young [and] hormonal" when she rushes off to get Superman.
• Human Aliens: She looks like a normal human being.
• Lady of War: A warrior and a queen.
• Mind over Matter: Telekinesis is one of her powers.
• Not Good with Rejection: Superman rejects her advances as politely as possible, but instead of accepting that he's not interested, she attacks him and later kidnaps him. She learns to accept that the Man of Steel does not return her feelings but his rejection is still met with a childish moan of disappointment.
• Psychic Powers: Telekinesis and telepathy.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: The queen of her planet, and almost on par with Superman.
• Royal Brat: She tends to throw tantrums when she doesn't instantly get her way.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: As Queen of Almerac, she's only interested in doing what she wants to instead of doing what's best for her people.
• Super-Strength: Maxima possesses immense psionic powers which gives her super-strength and the power of flight.
• Tsundere: To Supes and other men she sets her eyes on.
• Villainesses Want Heroes: She wanted Superman.
• Yandere: Towards Superman.

Unity

Unity

Voiced By: Stephen Root

Appearances: Superman: The Animated Series

A large parasitic alien and Eldritch Abomination that brainwashes all of Smallville into becoming its servants.

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Reverend Amos Howell

Reverend Amos Howell

Voiced By: Stephen Root

Appearances: Superman: The Animated Series

A traveling preacher who is Unity's main servant, bringing it to Smallville.

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• Expy: Of Nyarlathotep.
• Humanoid Abomination: While its easy to write him off as another victim of Unity, it is revealed that he is actually the same species as Unity.
• Mouth of Sauron: For Unity.
• Sinister Minister: Yes.

Sinestro

Sinestro

Voiced by: Ted Levine (Superman: The Animated Series, Justice League and Static Shock.

Appearances: Superman: The Animated Series | Justice League | Static Shock

A disgraced former member of the Green Lantern Corps, he was a personal nemesis to John Stewart.

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• Adaptation Origin Connection: Due to this continuity's Kyle Rayner borrowing traits from Hal Jordan, this version of Sinestro is partially responsible for Kyle Rayner becoming a Green Lantern, as he's established as the one who killed Abin Sur and necessitated Abin Sur choosing a successor on his deathbed. (The comics Sinestro had no involvement with Abin Sur's death and would even be revealed later on to be Abin Sur's brother-in-law, and considered him a friend.)
• Adaptational Wimp: Even compared to his somewhat Flat Character comic book counterpart at the time, this Sinestro is one-dimensional to the point that by the time of Justice League and Unlimited, he is reduced to working for Grodd and Luthor to even begin to pose a real threat to the Green Lantern anymore. He is also far less ambitious, as his goal has shifted from Galactic Conqueror to "kill as many Green Lanterns as I can", and he isn't very good at that either.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: His skin is red.
• Arch-Enemy: Despising the GLC for his expulsion, he's this to the GLC in general and Static Shock swapped his personal enmity to John Stewart.
• The Collector: Sinestro collects the rings of the Green Lanterns that he hunts and kills.
• Create Your Own Hero: Had he not mortally wounded Abin Sur, Kyle Rayner wouldn't have become a Green Lantern.
• Deadpan Snarker: In his later appearances, he's more prone to these kind of remarks, whether at his enemies or his fellow villains.
  Sinestro: [to Luthor] What are you going to do? Make everybody bald?
• Demoted to Extra: The Green Lantern's arch-nemesis in the comics, and a central antagonist in his episode of Superman reduced to being little more than an Elite Mook in Justice League.
• The Dragon: By the end of Justice League Unlimited this was more or less his role in the Legion Of Doom under Luthor. Luthor is a madman and a dangerous planner but has no actual super-powers and a tendency to let his reach exceed his grasp. Sinestro is far more sensible, backs up his malice with his power ring, and is the more competent and loyal of all the villains allied with Lex. Granted, the alliance with Lex is entirely due to pragmatic reasons but still.
• Evil Counterpart: To Green Lantern.
• Frame-Up: In a crossover episode from Static Shock, he impersonated John Stewart in order to destroy his reputation by framing him for crimes.
• Hero Killer: Unlike in the comics, Sinestro murdered Abin Sur in this continuity.
• Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: Sinestro hunts Green Lanterns and collects their rings as trophies.
• It's Personal: His blood oath against all Green Lanterns made it easy for Grodd to recruit him for the Secret Society.
• Motive Rant: During his last fight with Kyle, he rants about how the Guardians took away his ring because they feared his skills and power.
• Only Sane Man: Sometimes comes up in his Justice League appearances. Much as he deeply hates John Stewart, he can be more focused on the bigger picture than some of his fellows. For example, when Luthor's stability is being questioned by the other villains, Doctor Polaris is simply angling to usurp him, whereas Sinestro just wants to keep the operation running smoothly with simple plans that get results.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: The archenemy of Hal Jordan in the comics, here, he makes his debut fighting Kyle Rayner and Static Shock reveals that John Stewart took Hal's role in Sinestro's expulsion from the GLC.

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