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Amazons
Jillian
Species: Amazon
Played By: Ann Magnuson
Jillian is an Amazon known to Donna Troy.- Action Girl: She is an Amazon, and was showing throwing a shuriken with a striking precision against Deathstroke.
- Character Death: Is killed by Deathstroke in Jericho.
- Mentor Occupational Hazard: Serves as Donna's mentor of sorts during her tenure with the Titans and dies shortly before the group's first disbandment.
- Sci-Fi Bob Haircut: She sports a '20s Bob Haircut in a Fantasy Kitchen Sink show.
- Posthumous Character: Is dead since before the series started.
Tamaraneans
Faddei
Species: Tamaranean
Played By: Robbie Jones
Faddei was a Tamaranean royal guard.- Bodyguard Crush: He was originally Kory's bodyguard and they have a sexual history.
- Child Soldiers: He tells Kory he was spend 20 years of his life, since his early childhood training to protect the royal family.
- Canon Immigrant: Faddei is an entirely original creator who never appeared on the comics.
- Character Death: Is mercy killed by Kory in Atonement.
- Deadpan Snarker: His way of interacting with Kory is to engage her in a battle of quips by teasing her.
- Human Aliens: Just like Kory he looks like your average black person.
- I Cannot Self-Terminate: Asks Kory to kill him after his body is hijacked by Blackfire.
- Man on Fire: Asks to be literally incinerated by Kory after his body is hijacked by Blackfire.
- Old Flame: Some time before present events, he had a one night stand with Kory and developed romantic feelings for as a result. When Faddei meets her again, he makes it clear to Kory he still has feelings for her. Kory considers him a dear friend, but does not reciprocate.
Myand'r and Luand'r
Species: Tamaranean
Played By: Andrew Moodie (Myand'r), Asha James (Luand'r)
The deceased parents of Koriand'r and Komand'r, and former rulers of Tamaran.- Abusive Parents: Komand'r recounts that she was thrown into the solitary Pit with her parents' approval. Exaggerated when it's revealed that they wanted to sacrifice Komand'r if it meant that they could preserve the throne.
- I Did What I Had to Do: Years ago, they ordered the priestess who oversaw their children's birth to transfer Komand'r's powers to Koriand'r. When the priestess warned them that there would be consequences, they justified it by saying that they wanted Koriand'r to succeed them.
- Karmic Death: Honestly, with the various dickish things they did to Komand'r since she was born, they kinda brought their deaths to themselves.
- Offing the Offspring: "The Call Is Coming From Inside the House" reveals that they had no problem executing Komand'r so they could please the population of Tamaran, who had grown restless of Starfire's disappearance.
- Parental Favoritism: So very much. They favored Starfire and readily forgave her if she made mistakes, whereas Blackfire was punished harshly whenever she did the same.
- Posthumous Character: Died sometimes before the events of Season 2 and only appear in flashbacks.
Metahumans
Shyleen Lao
Species: Metahuman
Played By: Hina Abdullah
A woman rescued by Niles Caulder who is saved with help from Rachel.
- An Ice Person: The liquid nitrogen explosion she was caught in allowed her to manipulate the temperature of the air in the room around her.
- Harmless Freezing: Was caught in a liquid nitrogen explosion that covered her whole body in ice, but still alive when Niles Caulder tries to help her.
- Race Lift: In the comics, Shyleen is Chinese American, but in the show, she is played by Pakistani American actress Hina Abdullah.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Is only in one scene in "Doom Patrol."
- What Happened to the Mouse?: After Rachel helps to stabilize her, Shyleen isn’t seen again.
Civilians:
Detroit
Detective Amy Rohrbach
Species: Human
Played By: Lindsey Gort
Dick's partner in the force and one of the few honest cops in Detroit.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: She's brunette in the comics but is blonde here.
- Character Death: Is killed in Hawk And Dove by the Nuclear Family.
- Death by Adaptation: She's murdered by the Nuclear Family in her second episode, whereas she is Dick's police partner in the source material.
- Demoted to Extra: In the comics, she is Dick's partner in the Bludhaven Police Department. Here she dies an episode after her introduction, and long before Dick even becomes Nightwing at that.
- Fair Cop: In the comics, she's one of the few in Bludhaven. We can expect that to stay true here.
- Forgotten Fallen Friend: Dick didn't bring her death up when fighting against the Nuclear Family, nor is she mentioned after her death.
- Killed Offscreen: Played With. The incident that led to her death is shown, but her actual death wasn't.
- Too Dumb to Live: She finds a crying stranger in her house. In Detroit. She leaves her gun out of reach before ever verifying the stranger’s intent, or whether they are armed. She pays for that with her life.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Was killed off in her second episode.
Gotham City
Alfred Pennyworth
Species: Human
Batman's butler and confidant.
- The Ghost: Only appears as an inaudible voice through flashback and when Dick phones him.
- Killed Offscreen: Season three reveals he died between seasons. According to the gravestone, he died in 2020
- Morality Pet: His presence helps keep Batman sane and grounded. After his death, Batman goes overboard with no one to hold him back. At least that's how it goes in Trigon's dreamworld.
Carrie Kelley, Daxton Chill, Stephanie Brown and Duke Thomas
Species: Human
Played by: Unknown Actors
Four teenagers that Bruce was considering to be potential replacements as Robin to the late Jason Todd.
- The Cameo: Only appear on a screen on the Bat-Computer.
- Replacement Goldfish: Bruce wanted to use one of them to replace Jason as Robin.
Drake Family
Jack Drake
Species: Human
Played by: Ryan Allen
Tim's father.
- Adaptational Badass: Jack in the comics was a businessman and an archaeologist, while here he's a former police officer.
- Race Lift: White in the comics, African-American in the show.
- Retired Badass: Left the GCPD to run a restaurant with his family.
Janet Drake
Species: Human
Played by: Chantria Tram
Tim's mother.
- Race Lift: White in the comics, Cantonese in the show.
Stephen Chen
Species: Human
Played by: Vinson Tran
Tim's cousin.
- Canon Foreigner: Doesn't exist in the comics.
Gotham City Police
Barbara Gordon
Species: Human
Played by: Savannah Welch
Commissioner Gordon's daughter and a member of the Bat Family. She takes the job to head the GCPD after her father, James, passes away.
- Action Girl: Even after she gets crippled by the Joker, she can still put up a good fight while in a wheelchair with her dual eskrima sticks against Lady Vic.
- Adaptational Name Change: Her middle name in the comics, Joan, is changed to Gail for the show, as a nod to Gail Simone.
- Adaptational Wimp: Downplayed as she was still a trained fighter with great intelligence, but she was seemingly never Batgirl in this version while Oracle is simply an advanced AI.
- Big Damn Heroes: Saves the Titans from Fletcher when she finds out that he was paid off to kill the Titans in "Troubled Water". However, Barbara has to surrender her sidearm so that an investigation can be made if her shooting is justified.
- Broken Pedestal: To Batman, her father, and superheroes in general. Upon becoming police commissioner, she believes that Gotham needs to be changed so as to stop relying on heroes, considering the messy legacy both Batman and her father's partnership left behind.
- Decomposite Character: Here, Oracle is a computer program, rather than Barbara herself.
- Disabled in the Adaptation: Disabled a bit differently, it seems. She's paraplegic in the comics and uses a wheelchair. This version is an amputee and has lost one of her legs, and still uses a wheelchair so she may still be paraplegic on top of that. note .
- The Ghost: Her existence was only confirmed in the first season until she appeared in Season 3.
- In Spite of a Nail: Like her Earth-203 counterpart she was shot by the Joker and became wheelchair-bound, but like her Earth-66 counterpart she replaced her father as commissioner of the GCPD.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: She clears a sniper to shoot Red Hood. Nightwing ends up shot instead and Jason gets away.
- Old Flame: Six years before the show started, Dick and Barbara had a fling. They rekindled their feelings and relationship upon Dick coming to Gotham in order to stop Jason.
- Two First Names: "Barbara" and "Gordon".
Commissioner James Gordon
Species: Human
The head of the Gotham City Police Department.
- The Commissioner Gordon: The Trope Namer and one for Batman as his ally on the police force.
- Dead Alternate Counterpart: While logically some of his counterparts would have passed away by 2016, such as his Earth-66 counterpart, he's the first version of Gordon to be confirmed to me dead.
- The Ghost: Only mentioned by Jason in Trigon's hallucinations.
- In Spite of a Nail: His Earth-89 counterpart was also killed by a member of Batman's rogues gallery.
- Killed Offscreen: He was killed by Mister Freeze offscreen.
- Morality Pet: His presence helps keep Batman sane and grounded. After his death, Batman goes overboard with no one to hold him back. At least that's how it goes in Trigon's dreamworld.
- Retcon: Season 1 implied that Gordon was still alive by 2018, but Season 3 would reveal he had been killed some years before that.
A plainclothes officer in the GCPD. He's bribed by the Red Hood to detain and kill the Titans if needed.
- Dirty Cop: Takes the money from Red Hood to get rid of the Titans in "Troubled Water".
London
Marie Granger
Species: Human
Played by: Marina Sirtis
Dawn's mother.
- Brits Love Tea: She's British, after all. Dawn's own love for afternoon tea is due to her influence.
- Death by Origin Story: She died in a sudden road accident, which spurred her daughter and Hank (whose brother, Don, died in the same accident) to gravitate towards each other and become a crimefighting couple.
- Domestic Abuse: On the receiving end of one from her husband.
- Love Martyr: She never wanted to leave her abusive husband.
- Posthumous Character: She's been dead for many years and only appears in flashbacks.
- Together in Death: She and Don died in the same road accident.
Holly Granger
Species: Human
Dawn's sister.
- Abusive Parents: Her dad regularly beats her up.
- Adaptational Wimp: She's one of the people who donned the Hawk mantle in the comics. Since Hank Hall is the Hawk in the series, it's unlikely she'll don the identity.
- The Ghost: Only mentioned by Dawn in a flashback.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Much like her older sister, she's had enough of their abusive father and leaves.
Metropolis
Lex Luthor
Species: Human
Played By: Titus Welliver
Lex Luthor was the arch nemesis of Superman and half of the genetic template/'father' of Conner Kent.- See his villains[1] page entry.
Bernard Fitzmartin
Species: Human
Played By: James Scully
The Director of Applied Science at S.T.A.R. Labs and love interest of Tim Drake.- Adaptation Name Change: In the comics, Bernard's surname is Dowd. In the show, he is named after Meghan Fitzmartin, writer of Bernard and Tim's romance.'
- Age Lift: In the comics, Bernard is the same age as Tim. In the show he is visibly much older.
- Unequal Pairing: There is something of an ambiguous and controversial age and authority gap between Tim, a teenager, and his love interest Bernard, who appears in his late twenties and is the Director of Applied Scienes at S.T.A.R. Labs. Possibly a Jailbait Taboo if Tim's age has not been retconned to be older.
Milwaukee
Clayton Williams
Species: Human
Played By: Lester Speight
Clayton "Clay" Williams is a club bouncer. He used to be a circus strongman who branded himself as "Atlas the Strongman". He's good friends with Dick Grayson, and offered to adopt him after Dick's parents' deaths.
- Badass in a Nice Suit: Works as a club bouncer with matching suit and was The Strongman of Haly's circus.
- Bear Hug: Does this to Dick when he sees him again after years of no contact.
- The Big Guy: He used to be a strongman in Haly's circus and currently works as a Bouncer.
- Bouncer: Is a club bouncer as his job after leaving the circus.
- Gentle Giant: Large and intimidating, but he's a very stand up guy.
- Hostage Situation: Is taken by Nick Zucco to lure out Dick into a trap.
- Parental Substitute: Was this to Dick when his parents died, before Bruce Wayne adopted him.
- Scary Black Man: Averted. Is one of the nicest people Dick knows.
- The Strongman: Was his role in Haly's Circus.
Nevada
Adeline
Species: Human
Played By: Mayko Nguyen
Adeline is the ex-wife of Slade Wilson and the mother of Jericho.
- Adaptational Wimp: The comics' Adeline was an Action Girl who essentially shaped Slade Wilson into Deathstroke. Here, she seems to be a normal housewife.
- Outliving One's Offspring: After Jericho's death in 2014. Or so everyone thought, anyway.
- Race Lift: From the comics' white to Asian.
Smallville
Martha Kent
Species: Human
Played by: Sarah Deakins
The adoptive mother of Clark Kent.
- The Ghost: She only appears through Conner's memories of Clark's childhood.
- Muggle Foster Parents: She and her husband took and raised Clark after he landed on Earth following Krypton's explosion.
- Parental Substitute: She and her husband took and raised Clark.
Lionel Luthor
Species: Human
Played by: Peter MacNeill
A former scientist and father of Lex Luthor.
- Abusive Parents: He was one to Lex back in the day. Connor has flashbacks of it thanks to having Lex's memories.
- Alliterative Name: Lionel Luthor. Doubles as Alliterative Family.
- Dead Alternate Counterpart: Inverted as all other known versions of him are dead.
- Disabled in the Adaptation: This version of Lionel has a cataract.
- Eye Scream: His right eye has cataract.
- Jerkass Has a Point: He may be an (former?) abusive father to Lex, but he is not wrong in stating that his son is arrogant and lacks morals.
- Mundane Luxury: His family are wealthy industrialists, but he's content living in a ranch.
Lena Luthor
Species: Human
Played by: Unknown
Lex Luthor's sister.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: She's a redhead instead of the comics' blonde and the previous two live-action adaptations' Aloof Dark-Haired Girl.
- Alliterative Name: Lena Luthor. Doubles as Alliterative Family.
- The Ghost: She only appears through a photograph as a child.
Traverse City
Melissa Roth
Species: Human
Played By: Sherilyn Fenn
Rachel's adoptive mother.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: In the comics her hair is either black or violet. Here her hair's brown.
- Adaptation Name Change: Her given name is Angela in the comics, though see Decomposite Character. Also, Rachel's Parental Substitute in the comics is named Azar.
- Adaptational Job Change: Rachel's Parental Substitute in the comics is a high priestess. There are no indications that this is the same case for her, except maybe her possessions of several biblical items.
- Boom, Headshot!: She was fatally shot in the head from the back.
- Character Death: Killed by a follower of Trigon who was tasked to capture Rachel.
- Composite Character: Has the surname of Raven's biological mother, but her role as Raven's Parental Substitute belongs to a high priestess named Azar in the comics.
- Death by Adaptation: She was killed in Titans, whereas her comic counterpart is alive. Again, mitigated somewhat by her being a Decomposite Character in the show.
- Decomposite Character: In the comics and most media, she and Angela Azarath are the same character.
- Mythology Gag: She possesses several biblical items. In the comics, Rachel's Parental Substitute is a high priestess (though admittedly not Catholic).
- Parental Substitute: She raised Rachel as her own.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Dies in her debut episode.
Other
The Red
The Red is a mystical force that connects all animal life and all animal themed superheroes, such as Buddy Baker / Animal Man, Mari McCabe / Vixen and Mike Maxwell / B'wana Beast.
- Alternate Company Equivalent: Is basically treated as the Titans version of the Speed Force from The Flash (2014). Fittingly, the Flash actually does appear as a vision.
- Adaptational Badass: In the comics, the Red is simply the source of power for all characters in the universe with powers derived from animals. In this version it's a sentient force that chose Gar as it's protector, it connects all animal life in The Multiverse allowing Gar to travel across dimension, and potential spans time as well due to the presence of past heroes and Gar briefly visiting his younger self.
- The Chooser of the One: According to Freedom Beast it chose Gar as it's true protector.
- Hero of Another Story: Like Gar, they are animal themed heroes who protect the Red and fight criminals.
- Sentient Cosmic Force: Is implied to be this, with Freedom Beast stating that it chose Gar who would later explain to Kory that it was trying to communicate with them.