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The Justice Society of America

The first prominent American superhero group and the precursor to the modern Justice League.

    Green Lantern/Blue Lantern/Alan Scott 
The first human to take the name Green Lantern. He is Paul's mentor and grandfather figure.
  • Back in the Saddle:
    • Gets out of retirement to help Paul and the Team to fight the mind-controlled League and the Light.
    • Even more so after he gets a blue personal lantern from Paul after the latter's "vacation," allowing him to recharge his ring.
  • Badass Creed:
    "And I shall shed my light over dark evil,
    For the dark things cannot stand the light,
    the light of the Green Lantern!"
  • Cool Old Guy: He acts as a mentor and friend to OL. Still a good fighter well into his 90s.
  • Dating Catwoman: Played With. He didn't know she was a supervillain when he married his wife, and neither did she.
  • Death Is Cheap: Averted. Mr Zoat says that if Alan dies, he'll stay dead. This is because this would be a big deal for OL.
  • Disappointed in You: Felt this way somewhat with the Renegade, as he's not at all happy with the way the Renegade developed as a hero. even finding out that the Renegade was a mole in The Light only lessened the problem somewhat.
  • Distressed Dude: Was held hostage by Zorina and Power Ring to lure their counterparts.
  • Drama-Preserving Handicap: The Green Lanterns are forbidden from recruiting him or letting him using their personal lanterns to recharge his ring and OL took his lantern and changed it to recharge his own ring. This means that he has to conserve as much ring power as possible and his old age hits him without the green light keep him young.
  • Face Death with Dignity: Once Alan realized that without the power of the green light keeping him young, old age had finally caught up to him, he accepted that his death is inevitable.
  • Fountain of Youth: His personal lantern leaked and exposure to Green Light allows him to stay youthful well into his 90s. Once he loses this, he starts regaining his old age. He gets his youth back once he gets his ring recharged to extreme circumstance. With a fully charged ring, he looks like Paul's older brother than the old man he is.
  • Heroic Willpower: Due to the pure power of the green light of will being drawn into his body through his damaged ring, Alan's will is actually what maintains his youth, alongside his power ring.
  • Innocently Insensitive: Played for Laughs early on, since he was in his prime in the 40's, and while never prejudiced, he still carries the same bluntness he was raised with, referring to the idea of Paul being gay as a "fruit" with no homophobia attached to it, and acts needlessly chivalrous towards Firebrand despite her having no real gender norms.
  • Intrepid Reporter: He was one in his youth.
  • I Will Wait for You: A tragic variant, despite his wife Rose going mad from her Split-Personality Takeover he never gave up on her and held hope that she would eventually recover. He would always visit her at the Amazon mental sanitarium every chance he got. She never recovered and she died cursing him with her last breath.
  • Like a Son to Me: He serves as a surrogate grandfather to Paul and he sees Paul the same way.
  • The Lost Lenore: He lost his wife, Rose Canton to her own madness and never remarried.
  • Nice Guy: Is such a good person that he's the only man that Themyscira gives free reign to visit.
  • Older Than They Look: Despite being in his nineties, he looks much younger due to exposure to the green light.
  • Out of Focus: Doesn't appear very often in the Renegade timeline. He eventually dies of old age despite the Renegade's attempt at getting him a replacement personal lantern because he wasn't as motivated to save Alan as Paul was, and because he didn't get a chance to recharge his ring like in the Paragon timeline.
  • Real Men Cook: Due to living alone most of his life, Alan is a very good cook.
  • Retired Badass: Was the first Green Lantern before he retired.
  • So Proud of You: Is very proud of what Paul has achieved.

    Doctor Fate/Kent Nelson 
The previous host of Nabu, a Lord of Order.
  • The Archmage: His experience as Nabu's host has given him a large amount of knowledge and experience in magical matters, in addition to his own magical power independent of the Lord of Order.
  • Cool Old Guy: He's very polite and helpful towards his friends and their allies.
  • Dead Person Conversation: John Constantine, Paul, and Zatanna call up his spirit to find out any information they could use to free Zatara.
  • Lost Lenore: His wife died years ago, presumably of old age.

     Flash I/Jason "Jay" Garrick 
The original Flash. His accident inspired both Barry Allen and Wally West.

    Firebrand/Red Inferno/Dannette "Danni" Reilly 
A hero from the 40s who was secretly a gynoid made by T. O. Morrow.
  • Back from the Dead: Believed to have died after Taking the Bullet. She is reactivated by Dr. Morrow and rejoins the living after she is freed.
  • Fake Memories: After becoming aware about her programming, Danni has to come to terms with her Blade Runner-like implanted memories.
  • Happily Married: To Marie by the time of Bindings.
  • Immune to Mind Control: Due to being a gynoid, she is naturally immune to mind-reading or psychic attacks, which was used during Psimon's trial.
  • A Lesson Learned Too Well: Played for Laughs, but failing to get through Paul's obliviousness taught her that she needs to more overt when courting someone. So when she realized that Marie Logan reciprocated her interest, she comes on to Marie. Naked.
  • Manchurian Agent: Was built to infiltrate the All-Star Squadron, which she only knew after the fact.
  • Playing with Fire: Her ability.
  • Refusal of the Call: Was asked to join the Justice League but declined so that she could focus on herself and reintegrating with normal life.
  • Ridiculously Human Robot: Paulphidian improved her body to the point that she has sense of taste and smell and erogenous zones to go with an improved sense of touch.
  • Robot Girl: Firebrand was a gynoid created by Dr. Morrow to infiltrate the Justice Society.
  • Shameless Fanservice Girl: When she developed an interest in Marie Logan and realized Marie was also attracted to her, she showed her interest by coming onto to her while naked.
  • Spared by the Adaptation: She doesn't get melted in lava, and becomes an active hero again; at least, in the Paragon timeline.
  • Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Inverted. Her sugar is a façade she uses to facilitate social interactions. When she's around people she trusts she shows her true self: which is an expressionless woman because she feels that her facial expressions often don't match what she actually feels. She smiles without using her social infiltration programs, or even realizing it until it was pointed out to her, when describing Marie Logan to Alan, Ted Grant, and Paul.
  • Taking the Bullet: She died taking a plasma blast for Jay Garrick.
  • Tomato in the Mirror: She has a lot of emotional issues after finding out that she is a gynoid, and that most of her earliest memories and personality were not real but was programmed.
  • Violently Protective Girlfriend: She burned Queen Bee when the latter tried targeting Marie Logan, preventing Marie's canon death.
  • Younger Than They Look: She was only three years old when she "died".

    Wildcat/Theodore "Ted" Grant 
A former world champion boxer and renowned trainer who also doubled as a superhero.
  • Badass Normal: All he has is his boxing skills and personality.
  • Old Superhero: He may be a legend of a hero, but he is also a very old man with nothing keeping him youthful.
  • Retired Badass: He's still pretty buff even after retirement.

    Sandy/Sandman II/Sanderson Hawkins 
The sidekick of the Sandman, Sandy disappeared years ago before he was discovered to still be alive, albeit no longer human.

The All-Star Squadron

A superhero group that was formed to assist the Allies against the Axis Powers. All the members of the Justice Society were members.

    Red Torpedo/James Lockhart 
A former member of the All-Star Squadron. He is actually an android that was made to infiltrate the Justice Society of America, but never succeeded.

    Captain Cornwall/Graham Marrack 
Cornwall Boy's great-grandfather, who teaches the young hero from beyond the grave.
  • The Archmage: His power has been noted to be comparable to Dr. Fate's.
  • Dead Person Conversation: He is summoned from the dead by John Constantine on the behest of Orange Lantern and Cornwall Boy to give the latter proper instruction on his magical inheritance.
  • Inadequate Inheritor: Not himself, but his son, Robert's grandfather. Despite being an extremely powerful wizard, his son had no interest in magic or the title of Captain Cornwall. His son rejected the family legacy so badly that Graham's great-grandson Robert, the current Cornwall Boy, has only a quarter of the skill Graham had at his age despite having the same potential.
  • Jumped at the Call: Was ecstatic for the chance to properly pass down his teachings to a descendant who actually wants to learn and fulfill the legacy of Captain Cornwall.
  • Legacy Character: Is a scion of the Marrack magical bloodline and the first Captain Cornwall (that we know of).
  • Lineage Comes from the Father: Their powers run patrilineal and much of the pressure is living up to his legacy.
  • Mentor Archetype: He is teaching Cornwall Boy more advanced magic.
  • Mentor's New Hope: He tried training his son in magic and superheroism and it failed pretty badly. He has renewed faith in his great-grandson, who has the ambition his predecessors lacked.
  • Not So Similar: He asks his great-grandson whether he should pull a Nabu and steal Robert's body for his own use as he's the stronger mage. When Robert understandably freezes on how he should answer, Graham makes his own answer. He has accepted that his time on Earth is over and seeks to enrich his great-grandson by passing on his legacy and respects his great-grandson's independence.
  • Passing the Torch: He willingly comes back from the dead as a ghost to pass down the legacy of Captain Cornwall and their family magic to his great-grandson.
  • Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: He was a contemporary of Nabu in World War II and had deep respect for him. So he is aghast and disgusted when he learns that Nabu is enslaving Zatara and tried and failed to enslave Zatanna and Kent Nelson. As such, Graham completely supports Orange Lantern, Zatanna and John Constantine working together to take him down.
    "My time is done. My life is over. I accept that. Life passes from one generation to the next. Great grandson, you are my heir as my own son never was. I will guide, I will steward, at your request, recognizing the rightness of your independence. I will not make you my slave, fit to live only that you serve me. It would be a foul and unnatural act and Nabu should know better. If he has become so arrogant, so debased, then strike him down and worry not for the righteousness of your cause."
  • So Proud of You: He is very proud that his great-grandson has the ambition and drive to succeed him as Captain Cornwall.
  • Spirit Advisor: Has been dead for decades but doesn't let it stop him from mentoring his great-grandson.
  • Superpowerful Genetics: He and his descendants are part of long magical bloodline.

Infinity Inc.

A team of heroes that tried to pick up where the Justice Society left off.

    Brainwave II/Henry King, Jr. 
A telepath who later became M'gann's teacher after Paul sought him out.
  • Telepathy: He is noticeably more skilled than Martian Manhunter, making him an ideal teacher for Miss Martian.
  • Wrongfully Committed: Happened to him after he first developed telepathic powers, as he had no idea about them and just thought he was hearing voices in his head.

The Great Ten

The premier superfunctionary group of China.

    August Colonel in Iron/August General in Iron/Fang Zhifu 
The leader of the Great Ten.
  • Blessed with Suck: His powers resulted in his fiancé breaking off their engagement and the physical limitations of having a techno-organic body.
  • Chrome Champion: August General in Iron's body is made entirely of metal that isn't naturally found on Earth.
  • Happily Married: To Ghost Fox Killer in the Renegade timeline as of Episode 49: Escalation.
  • No-Sell: Because of his metallic skin, August General in Iron is immune to Ghost Fox Killer's powers.
  • Rank Up: Thanks in part to the Renegade clearing him of any Durlan influence, Fang Zhifu is promoted to the rank of general.
  • Retcon: Mr Zoat originally had him start out as a captain, but later decided that him being a colonel made more sense.

    Socialist Red Guardsman/Gu Lao 
A radioactive member of the team and the most brutal and unforgiving.
  • Captain Patriotic: He is a true believer in the communist China.
  • The Friend Nobody Likes: The only reason the other members of the Great Ten interact with him is because they're on the same team.
  • Poisonous Person: Socialist Red Guardsman is highly radioactive, so he is forced to wear a special suit of containment armor based on Durlan technology.
  • Powered Armor: He wears one to contain his radioactive body and in order to fight.
  • Psycho Party Member: Gu Lao is feared/hated by his allies, possibly more than their enemies.

    Celestial Archer/Xu Tao 
A boy who was empowered by a Chinese deity.

    Thundermind/Zou Kang 
One of the most powerful members of the Great Ten.
  • The Cape: He is basically China's answer to Superman when it comes to a beloved hero.
  • Combo Platter Powers: He's noted for having a variety of powers that aren't necessarily related to one another.
  • Flying Brick: This is only part of his powerset. Unlike most other examples, he also doesn't have an exploitable weakness.

    Ghost Fox Killer/Hu Guan 
A woman who steals the souls of evil men for her people.

    Immortal Man in Darkness 
Immortal Man in Darkness is the title given to the person who pilots the Dragonwing. When the current one dies, someone is selected to replace them.
  • Cast from Lifespan: Piloting the Dragonwing takes at least a year of the lifespan of Immortal Man in Darkness, so when one of them dies, the next one in the squadron takes the title and duties.
  • Collective Identity: Immortal Man in Darkness is whoever is given the job of piloting the Dragonwing at the time.

    Seven Deadly Brothers 
A martial artist who can make clones until there is seven of himself.
  • Bare-Fisted Monk: This is all he can really do in a direct fight other than his splitting power.
  • Me's a Crowd: Seven Deadly Brothers is one guy who can split into seven copies, and each copy retains a certain skill-set from the original.

    Shaolin Robot 
A sentient robot that was built centuries ago.
  • Lost Technology: Shaolin Robot is an automaton built by the brilliant engineer going by the name of Lao Yuqi for the First Emperor of China, giving it a semblance of free will. It infuriates both Paul and Truggs that Shaolin Robot is well over a millennia old but is more sophisticated than contemporary AI efforts.

The Alliance of the Just

    In General 
An alliance that provides training and equipment to superheroes who lack either.
  • Quantity vs. Quality: They have far more members than the Justice League, but the individual members are also far weaker compared to most of the heroes on the League.
  • Unwitting Pawn: The entire organization was only formed due to Bruno Manheim manipulating Vincent Edge on the behalf of Apokolips. They are simply used as a method to spread the influence of the Anti-Life across the planet as a test.

    Vincent Edge 
A former mob boss, and rumored founder of Intergang. He has turned a new leaf after recovering from a heart attack, and decided to create the Alliance as a way to make up for his past misdeeds.
  • Reformed Criminal: He was once a powerful crime boss. Now he helps newer superheroes come together to make a greater difference.

    Alpha Centurion/Marcus Aelius 
A Roman Centurion who was selected by an alien race to be trained so that he would be his world's champion.

    Hot Spot 

    Omen 

    Empress/Anita Fite 
A noted member of the Alliance due to her relatively young age compared to other members.
  • Chekhov M.I.A.: She was noted as being missing in Episode 122: Vantavendi. She is revealed to have been captured by Bruno Mannheim in Episode 130: Pete Tong.

    Flamebird 

Other Heroes

    Green Lantern 2814-B/Green Lantern Honor Guard/Guy Darrin Gardner 
The second human to become a member of the Green Lantern Corps.
  • Badass Creed:
    "On worlds afar or scenes at home,
    Wherever the cause should make me roam,
    Always I vow to fight the good fight—
    To combat evil with all Green Lantern's might!"
  • Big Ego, Hidden Depths:
    • The lanterns initially mock Guy because he's a loud, obnoxious man with a crass attitude and is more than a little reckless. However, he learned how to project constructs without tying them to the ring before either Hal or John, figured out how to use his ring to heal himself based on something he watched Paul do, and helps rehabilitate criminals.
    • Turns out that if Abin Sur hadn't need to recruit someone one closer in order to explain the Green Lanterns, the ring would have picked Guy as the ring saw Guy as the superior candidate.
    • He also learned how to weaponize his large ego, or rather, he figured out how to No-Sell Orange Lantern assimilation because he wills himself to be the best he can be, and since he's already perfect, if he changed he wouldn't be the best, now would he?
  • Birds of a Feather: One would think that the Jerk with a Heart of Gold Guy and Rightly Self-Righteous Paul wouldn't get able to stand each other. But they have so much in common with their Imagination-Based Superpower, willingness to experiment and genuine empathy lead them to being fast friends.
  • Celebrity Resemblance: His ring sounds like Mister Rogers.
  • Character Development: Thanks to Paul's support, Guy is much less insecure than he otherwise would be.
  • Distracted by the Sexy: Guy jokes the only thing Paulphidian could tempt him is a hot Scandinavian. Only for Paulphidian to take it literally and give a dossier on Tora Olafsdottier, which included her phone number and various modelling shots of her. Guy is then sufficiently distracted. Later subverted to an extent- while he does call her and they do start dating, he deliberately threw out all the notes on how to woo her over, preferring to put in the hard work himself.
  • Enlightenment Superpowers: He becomes enlightened by Episode 52: Last Supper due to channeling Ion a second time.
  • Fatal Flaw: Wrath. Guy has a wicked temper, but this is subverted when Paulphidian reveals that holding back his rage helped temper his will, which is how he was even able to become a Green Lantern.
  • Foreshadowing: He is noted by OL to the superior Lantern to Hal Jordan and to have learned from OL's actions in the Paragon timeline, such as quickly learning how to heal himself using the ring and how to separate his constructs from his ring. Through a great act of will, he becomes the host of Ion.
  • Healing Factor: He learned from watching Paul how to heal himself with his ring.
  • Heroic Willpower: Guy possibly has the strongest will among the Green Lanterns of Earth, as he becomes the host of Ion.
  • Hero with Bad Publicity: He is infamous for being a major jerk to the point that his fellow Lantern couldn't stand him. It turns to be part personality clash and part misunderstanding as when he starts to mentor Paul, the better aspects of his personality come to show such as his skills at counseling and willingness to listen to new ideas.
  • Hidden Depths: Guy is an immature, obnoxious showboat that gets on other peoples' nerves so much that he pretty much alienated his fellow Lanterns and the rest of the League. When he's put in charge of mentoring the loose cannon Paul, Guy's more mature and grounded side comes out. People are surprised when Paul credits Guy for teaching him about empathy and methods for reforming criminals.
    • It's later revealed that he used to be a prison counselor and currently works as one for disabled children.
  • Insistent Terminology: Despite what Paul says otherwise about the conflict between the Green Lantern Corps and the Reach, Guy insists that it was a draw.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Guy is an acquired taste and tend put off most people he meets. But he's a very good teacher and better friend.
  • Life Will Kill You: Was nearly killed and rendered comatose when he got run over by bus in his civilian identity. Goes to show that not even superheroes are above mundane disasters.
  • Mentor Archetype: Becomes Paul's mentor on forming constructs with his ring. Notably, Paul teaches him as much as he teaches Paul.
  • The Mole: Of sorts. All the Green Lantern Corps' information on Paul and his capabilities as an Orange Lantern comes from Guy reporting it. Paul knows and accepts it in the hopes that Guy could find more answers on the Orange Lanterns.
  • Morality Chain: He was asked to become Paul's mentor in order to teach the latter some restraint and give him someone that wasn't an elderly man some Lantern training. The League was worried about Paul's refusal to adhere to Thou Shall Not Kill and wanted someone to rein Paul in. It works as Paul becomes empathetic as Guy Gardener's background as a prison counselor makes him more willing to attempt reforming supervillains.
  • No-Sell: He was the first Green Lantern able to employ a method to become immune to Identity Theft. He was later able to resist being controlled with Starrotech through sheer force of will.
  • Rightly Self-Righteous: He has a huge ego about being an overconfident braggart. But events prove that Guy has a right to be proud of himself when he's the only Leaguer to completely resist the Starrotech mind control through sheer force of will. Further, he manages to one-up this feat by being the host of Ion (the Entity of Willpower) and being the first Lantern to be able to resist Orange Assimilation (by weaponizing his massive ego).
  • The Shrink:
    • He was a prison counselor in his day job. He notably inspires Paul to act as a Warrior Therapist to reform supervillains by telling him his own experiences with reforming criminals.
    • He is the Renegade's counselor for his anger management therapy.
  • A Tankard of Moose Urine: Guy's favorite drink is a brand of American beer that tastes almost exactly like horse urine. Paulphidian reveals that this is because this is the alcohol he drank after his abusive dad's funeral; drinking it reminds him that his father's dead.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: Guy and Paul make fun of the other's power limitations and quirks but down the line they have each other's backs.
  • Workplace-Acquired Abilities: Guy Gardner was a prison counselor in his day job. He applies his skill as a counselor to teach Paul about criminal recidivism and to become empathetic to supervillains before using force.

    John Constantine 
A weak but cunning wizard. He becomes Paul's magical consultant and friend.
  • Accidental Misnaming: Episode 125: Dear John confirms that his name is pronounced 'Constantine'
  • The Alcoholic: One of John Constantine's many vices is his love of alcohol.
  • Anti-Hero: He fights demons and evil magicians, but he isn't above using his magic or plain old trickery and theft for personal gain.
  • Badass Longcoat: He is almost never seen without it. Then it becomes his anchor in the material world when he ascends to become a Lord of Chaos.
  • Beyond the Impossible: John becoming a Lord of Order and Chaos is considered this in-universe.
  • The Bus Came Back: After a lengthy absence from the story, he finally returns in Episode 127: Tower Offence.
  • The Charmer: OL notes that when he turns on the charm, he can really get going.
  • Combat Pragmatist: John will use any advantage to win a fight. Justified as he is Weak, but Skilled.
  • Doom Magnet: It's noted that most people who hang around him end up dying horribly.
  • Good Is Not Nice: While some of it is exaggerated, Constantine has earned his bad reputation. OL notes him to be a huge jerk.
  • Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: He is a heavy smoker and is a good guy, most of the time.
  • Guile Hero: As he is often outmatched, John uses his wits and trickery to get ahead of the various demons and other beings he has conflicts with.
  • Hedge Mage: John Constantine is a typical street magician. He has little magical power to use, an eclectic amount of knowledge, and the cunning to take advantage of what he has to trick opponents who are far stronger than him.
  • Hero with Bad Publicity:
    • Absolutely no one in the organized hero community likes him (he has his own group of friends), ranging from Zatara (though he has his reasons) to Swamp Thing. In fact, Nabu uses Paul's association with Constantine as a reason for why the former shouldn't be made a member of the League.
    • In the original show, Guy Gardner got a "No. Just… No" Reaction. In this continuity, he's given well-reasoned discussion... but not only does John get that reaction, he gets it with even more people agreeing.
  • Hijacking Cthulhu: He does this twice in the Paragon timeline.
    • First he hijacks Klarion's connection to his Lord of Chaos power and body to become a Lord of Chaos.
    • Then he ends up getting Nabu's connection to the Plane of Order, though in this case the two powers are in contrast to each other and it leaves him feeling as though he's being pulled apart from having to contain them both.
  • I Can't Believe I'm Saying This: He says this while speaking to Chantinelle, as he never thought he would ever have to justify The Power of Love, when explaining the Star Sapphire to her.
  • Literal Split Personality: Episode 127: Tower Offence reveals that he resorted to doing this in an effort to control the powers of both Order and Chaos.
  • Mind Control: Tends to use mind control magic the most, because it depends more on skill and trickery than on raw power.
  • My Greatest Failure: Causing the death of Zatanna's mother, Sindella.
  • Nice to the Waiter: Inverted with his interactions with Paragon OL. Unlike the other people he has conned, he is downright cordial to OL.
  • Power Tattoo: John has the Seal of Solomon tattooed on his body, which causes most demons who come into contact with him for too long to burn to death.
  • Put on the Bus: After Nabu is taken care of, he asks that Paul not contact him for a while. He finally returns in Episode 127: Tower Offence.
  • Seen It All:
    • John Constantine may not have lived long enough to have literally seen everything, but he has seen enough to leave him basically unflappable. Controller Hinon, who is billions of years old, is startled more easily than him.
    • Sephtian's reaction to finding out that Paul has no soul: "Abyssal.. depths, whatever happened to you?"
      John's reaction: "Who'd you sell it to, you stupid berk?"
    • Paul is actually able to compare his Self-Insert situation to an incident that John has seen before. John still has a mistaken idea about him, though, because that was a different case of reality overlapping with fiction.
    • Klarion the Witch Boy, Lord of Chaos, tries to threaten John, and fails because John has seen and fought scarier entities.
  • Sympathetic Magic: John particularly favors this kind of magic as it, under certain circumstances, allows him to punch way above his weight class.
  • Take Me Instead: He tries to offer himself to Nabu in exchange for Zatanna's freedom. He is refused.
  • Time Stands Still: Capable of doing this after absorbing both Klarion and Nabu's power.
  • Took a Level in Badass: In the Paragon timeline, John is able to absorb both Klarion and Nabu's powers.
  • Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: Deemed too chaotic for Nabu.
  • Un-person: John semi-regularly does this to himself with a spell so that records about him that could be used to track him down are erased.
  • Weak, but Skilled: John isn't a battle mage that can make fire come out of his hands or keep up with the Atlanteans, but he is skilled and cunning, which allows him to contend with people far more powerful than himself. That's before he become a Lord of Chaos. And even later after he also becomes a Lord or Order.
  • Wrong Assumption: When Paul tried to explain his origin, John came to the conclusion that Paul is a fictional character that was pulled into reality.

    Mister Miracle/Scott Free and Big Barda/Barda Free 
A pair of New Gods who just want a quiet life on Earth.
  • Amazonian Beauty: Barda is beautiful, muscular, and strong enough to go toe to toe with Wonder Woman.
  • Anthropomorphic Personification: Scott is the New God of Freedom.
  • Blood Knight: Barda is always up for a good fight.
  • Brains and Brawn: Scott is the more cerebral of the two and more likely to use his head, while Barda prefers to rush at an opponent and pummel them into submission.
  • Bruiser with a Soft Center: Subverted. Barda may be a good person and a tough fighter, but she is in no way soft. She'll attest to that to anyone who says otherwise.
  • Deadpan Snarker: When Barda sees OL come up with a good lie on the spot, she comments that she didn't know Earth had a God of Bullshit. She makes many other snide remarks in Subliminal Godspeak.
  • Escape Artist: Mister Miracle is a master at escaping death traps.
  • Gadgeteer Genius: He's the one building and maintaining the New God tech the Team and the Justice League use in the Renegade timeline after the Renegade quits.
  • Happily Married: They are clearly in love and have been married for at least decades.
  • Missing Mom: Scott only has Highfather because his mother was killed by Steppenwolf.
  • Noodle Incident: Why they had to move from New York. It apparently involved Big Barda and a "Five Items or Less" line and it's implied that violence ensued.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: Barda is the aggressive Red to Scott's more cautious Blue.
  • Strong Girl, Smart Guy: Barda is tough enough to spar with Wonder Woman, while Scott is the world's greatest escape artist.
  • Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Mister Miracle isn't really that small. It's just that Big Barda is pretty big.
  • White Sheep: In the words of Paul, they were kicked out for being insufficiently evil.

    Captain Cornwall/Trevor Marrack 
A superhero from Truro, England. His magic power runs through the males of his family.

    Mighty Adom/Teth Adom 
The wizard Shazam's former champion and former ruler of Kahndaq.
  • Action Politician: He is an ancient warrior turned superhero that is also the President of a liberated Kahndaq in the Paragon timeline.
  • Adaptational Heroism: While he still initially suffered from Deliberate Values Dissonance, he's less violent and more open-minded than his comics counterpart. He was a Kahndaqi pharaoh who killed his father after his father slew Teth's family. He also has pretty legitimate reasons to hate the wizard Shazam.
  • The Ageless: Teth doesn't age since he's almost always transformed.
  • All Your Powers Combined: Adom draws his powers from six Kahndaqi gods.
  • And I Must Scream: Imprisoned in his own decaying corpse for 5000 years before Black Adam traps him in the scarab.
  • Badass Normal: It must be noted that during his original reign, whenever he led his armies to battle, he did it without his powers, and was usually personally involved in the battle himself.
  • Been There, Shaped History: Exploited. He teaches university what his rule and Ancient Kahndaq were actually like in exchange for lessons in English and modern Arabic.
  • Berserk Button:
    • The wizard Shazam for his betrayal of him.
    • He despises Vandal Savage with his very being for undisclosed reasons.
  • By the Power of Grayskull!: He needs to say the Wizard's name in order to transform.
  • Defector from Decadence: He backed away from the more crueler practices of his time, like taking trophies from dead enemies and killing conquered people when his time as Mighty Adom gave him the perspective that his enemies weren't so different from him.
  • Determinator: When Teth fought Oggar, who could continuously regenerate, he tore the Lord of Chaos apart for a month before the latter gave up.
  • Fallen Hero: Subverted. He is treated as one by Shazam but is still a heroic figure.
  • Fashion Hurts: The reason he has his Pointy Ears is because his father wanted the royal family to have an otherworldly, thus godly, look. Adom believed that he was lucky that he didn't die of infection.
  • Fatal Flaw: Hatred. When he is sufficiently enraged, only a few people can talk him down before he does something irreversible. Among the Seven Deadly Enemies of Man, this is the only one he cannot let go. It is somewhat downplayed in the Paragon timeline after Paul brings up a hypothetical scenario wherein the only way Adom can save his nation is by working with the Wizard. Adom states that while he cannot let go of his hatred for Shazam, he will always rise above it when needed.
  • Fire-Forged Friends: Is good friends with Paul after the latter helped him win his freedom and adapt to the modern world.
  • Fish out of Temporal Water:
    • He finds several things about the modern world strange and confusing, if not outright horrifying. Such as people turning away perfectly good food like bacon because of religion, men no longer considering kilts fashionable clothing, and a funny, if disturbing, misunderstanding related to indoor plumbing and tap water, and their source.
    • Becomes a little more prominent when he proposes to Adrianna Tomaz, who is one of his key advisers. He greatly respects her, thinks they work well together and believes they have enough chemistry to grow to love each other if they were to marry. Unfortunately, he doesn't explain his reasoning until after she turns him down and he's given a crash course on modern courtship. So he resolves to learn how to court her properly.
  • Flying Brick: Has this power set. Mops the floor with comparable opponents because he's had a lot longer to master fighting this way.
  • Good Is Not Soft: Despite adopting a less violent code of combat to fit in with the modern times, he is still willing to use lethal force if he thinks the situation calls for it.
  • The Good King: When he was pharaoh, he began an age of prosperity for ancient Kahndaq for 80 years. He established fair laws, didn't have conquered peoples killed but instead moved them and built many great public works projects. In the modern day, he tries to be this as well, but he's woefully aware that he's several thousand years out of date and relies heavily on advisors. Still, he puts in efforts, like not allowing corruption or avoiding eating bacon to appease the Muslim-majority country he rules.
  • Grand Theft Me: He takes over Black Adam's body when he proved more worthy of the gods' blessing.
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: As he didn't have the revelation about his Fatal Flaw in the Renegade timeline, Adom has a harder time maintaining his composure than in the Paragon timeline.
  • Hates Being Touched: He does not like people touching him.
  • Heroic Resolve: He will do anything to save Kahndaq, even theoretically work with Shazam.
  • Historical Beauty Update: Averted. While Black Adam looked like a bodybuilder, Teth Adom looks like his time's ideal of strength: an athletic body that would be considered mundane in modern times. The only difference between his Mighty Adom form and his normal self is that his normal form is slimmer.
  • Immune to Mind Control: Downplayed. Teth Adom is able to utilize his powers to fight off the influence of the Anti-Life Equation and protect those around him. However, in order to do this, Teth Adom needs to devote all of his power to the Courage of Montu, rendering himself powerless as he must remain in human form.
  • It's Personal:
    • He was already willing to lend a hand in the liberation of the Justice League from the Light for Orange Lantern and Wonder Woman because of his friendship with them. When he finds out that his hated enemy, Vandal Savage, was part of the attack, it gets personal.
    • When Shiruta is attacked by people with technology from Apokolips, he got already pissed at Queen Bee because her country had dealings with them. When she tried using her powers against him, he literally tore her in half.
  • Like a Duck Takes to Water: He adopts a less violent code of fighting when Paul makes a successful argument of following modern laws as he would have wanted his laws obeyed. He stops eating pork to fit in with his countrymen. He hesitates at the idea of becoming king if he and the rebels overthrow Kahndaq's tyrant as he wants to rule as his countrymen want him to. So he becomes president.
  • Mentor Archetype: He has begun teaching Captain Marvel how his powers work in the Paragon timeline.
  • No-Sell: Adom's powers allow him to ignore some attempts to control or manipulate him, such as the Medusa Mask. Queen Bee's powers also don't work on him.
  • Odd Friendship: Is friends with Captain Marvel, as he doesn't hate him for the wizard's actions and views him as a worthy successor.
  • Outdated Hero vs. Improved Society: He is seen as this in the Renegade timeline until the rest of the New Light are able to teach him how a modern ruler acts. Averted in the Paragon timeline thanks to Paul taking the time to get Adom the education he will need in order to act like a more modern ruler before he returns to Kahndaq.
  • Pointy Ears: He was made to have his ears cut by his father in order to achieve an otherworldly look. It's rather embarrassing for him and he claims that he nearly died because of something so petty.
  • Power Of Hate: Survived 5000 years of boredom through his hatred of the wizard Shazam.
  • Rapid Aging: Nabu inflicts this one him in Episode 53: Falling Action. Thankfully, it is reversible and he is back to normal soon after the battle is over.
  • Rebel Leader: Instigates and leads Kahndaq's rebel forces after he starts protecting them from President Muhunnad.
  • Slave to PR: Downplayed. Once he learns the importance of a distinct appearance for superheroes he refuses to give up the Black Adam costume.
  • Strong and Skilled: Adom has had years to learn and improve the ways he can utilize his powers, making him a dangerous opponent to go up against even if you were to have comparable strength.
  • Superior Successor: Inverted. Take Captain Marvel's power set and add around 100 years of combat experience. Most fights involving him end with villains running for their lives or maimed.
  • Super Serum: Orange Lantern administered the Danner formula to Teth Adom, which enhances his strength in both his forms.
  • They Were Holding You Back: His wife and children were killed by father when he started to gain more empathy for his enemies and tried to become a kinder ruler.
  • Undying Loyalty: Towards his homeland.
  • Warrior Prince: He was this before becoming pharaoh.

    Swamp Thing 
A Plant Elemental and the Champion of the Green.
  • Anthropomorphic Personification: He represents the Green, as in all of plant life on Earth.
  • Blue-and-Orange Morality: He cares more about the Green than humanity.
  • Creepy Good: He is a consciousness that can create bodies out of plant matter. He isn't exactly pleasant to look like, but he's a good guy.
  • Gaia's Vengeance: He can cause widespread devastation through the creation of plant life. He demonstrates this in Gotham.
  • Interspecies Romance: With his wife Abigail Holland.
  • Nature Hero: Protecting nature is his number 1 priority.
  • Papa Wolf: Tefé Holland is under his protection. Beware those who would harm her.
  • Physical God: He is one of the most powerful beings on the planet. When Swamp Thing first shows up (in the wake of the Injustice League attack) Paul mentions that Swamp Thing's one foe he couldn't win against.
  • Plant Person: He is plant-life transformed into a humanoid form.
  • Verbal Tic: His speech has a lot of pauses.

    Knight II/Sir Cyril Sheldrake 
An English superhero and the mentor of Squire.

    Guardian II/James "Jim" Harper 
A minor hero who is revealed to be a clone of Speedy.

    The Shade/Richard Swift 
A former enemy of the original Flash. He now serves as the hero of Opal City.

    Mary Marvel/Mary Bromfield 
The sister of Billy Batson and a member of the Marvel Family.

    Lieutenant Marvel/Frederick "Freddie" Freeman 
A friend of Billy Batson and a member of the Marvel Family. He is also the stepbrother of Sabbac I.

    Rocket Red/Dmitri Pushkin 
A Russian superhero who uses an advanced armor made from the parts of a crashed alien ship.

    Ice/Tora Olafsdotter 
Guy Gardner's girlfriend who's a supermodel and a superhero in her own right.
  • Chekhov's Gunman: Paulphidian makes a dossier of her to tempt Guy Gardener. Half a year later, Guy actually calls her and they start to date.
  • Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Fire. She looks out for Fire and tries to make sure that her temper doesn't get the better of her.
  • An Ice Person: Obviously.
  • Nice Girl: She is a very nice and polite girl who tries to reign in some of her friends' more abrasive personality traits.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: The calm Blue to Fire's hotheaded Red.
  • Sexy Scandinavian: She's Norwegian and Guy finds her attractive.

    Fire/Beatriz da Costa 
Ice's best friend and a fellow supermodel and superhero.
  • All Men Are Perverts: She has a tendency of thinking this. She thought Paul was one because of the eyeball incident.
  • Booze-Based Buff: It has been noted that her abilities are more powerful, or at least more easily controlled and focused, when she is intoxicated.
  • Green-Eyed Monster: Downplayed, but she's somewhat jealous of the fact that her best friend Ice already has an "in" with the Justice League through her boyfriend Guy Gardner. Hearing from Paul that it is also more likely for Ice to join the Justice League than herself doesn't help.
  • Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Ice. She's very protective of her friend, getting angry when she first thinks that Guy is some creep before Paul calms her down.
  • Hot-Blooded: She jumps to conclusions easily and snaps quickly.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: While she was blaming the wrong person, she did have a right of being concerned about Orange Lantern when he spied on the entire world, including her while she's in the shower.
  • Opinion Flip Flop: Beatriz didn't want her friend dating to a man obviously only into her looks and didn't want to go on a date with that man's perverted friend. She was quickly willing to put that aside when she finds out that Orange Lantern vets people for entrance into the Justice League.
  • Personality Powers: Fire can create flames and has a fiery personality.
  • Playing with Fire: Obviously.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: The hotheaded Red to Ice's calm Blue.
  • Social Climber: Beatriz da Costa is fairly obvious about wanting an "in" with the Justice League.
  • Spicy Latina: She's a Brazilian fashion model who sometimes loses control of her temper.
  • Technicolor Fire: Hers is green.
  • Tomboy with a Girly Streak: She likes looking good and is willing to use her looks to her advantage, but is also a phenomenal shot with a gun.
  • Unprovoked Pervert Payback: Downplayed. She only attacks Paul verbally for spying her in the shower, only to back off when she finds out that he doesn't remember doing that, and because he was using his scrying powers to find the League of Shadows.
  • Weak, but Skilled: Fire's powers are precise, but lack in output.

    Isis/Adrianna Tomaz 
A young woman who was offered as a slave to Adom by Intergang in the Paragon timeline. After being freed, she stayed by his side as an advisor, and later his lover, then wife.

    Captain Comet/Adam Blake 
A superhero from Earth who was active 50s. He decided to leave Earth to tour outer space, before ending up in the Vega Systems.
  • Chekhov's Gunman: Paul joking says that he might come across Adam Blake while in space. He does just that after finding out that he's been a captive of the Citadel Empire after trying to help the Tamaraneans fight them.
  • De-power: Downplayed. His telepathy is weaker in the Renegade timeline due to his brain damage.
  • Good Is Not Soft: He doesn't hold back against people he thinks are completely irredeemable, such as the Citadelians or the Psions.
  • Healing Factor: He can heal most damage done to his body, but he needs to be conscious to do so, as well as have enough sustenance.
  • Insistent Terminology: Prefers the term mutant rather than metahuman.
  • Living Battery: He is turned into a power source by the Citadel.
  • Mind over Matter: Possibly the strongest telekine seen in the story. He has enough power and skill with his telekinesis to travel faster than light.
  • Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: On Earth, Captain Comet was a minor hero at best. In space, particularly on Tamaran, he is one of its greatest heroes.
  • Older Than They Look: He can use his powers to look as old as he wants. He looks middle aged despite being in his 80s.
  • Telepathy: Strong enough to bypass OL's psychic defenses.
  • Walking the Earth: He actually travelled across the universe to see the wonders he could find.

    Doctor Fate/John Quinn 
The new Doctor Fate. He was entrusted with the Helmet of Fate by John Constantine and now acts as Nabu's replacement.
  • The Archmage: Averted. He may be wearing the Helmet of Fate and be in control of the Tower of Fate, but he is no Lord of Order. He isn't quite as powerful as Nabu was and is far less skilled, allowing weaker but more experienced magicians to avoid his attention.
  • Blue-and-Orange Morality: Quinn sees the Anti-Life Equation as a good thing and wishes to spread it to all life.
  • Evil All Along: He is fascinated with the Anti-Life Equation and wishes to use it for his own purposes.
  • Literal Split Personality: He's actually a part of John Constantine that was created in order to channel the power from the Plane of Order with no repercussion.
  • Mysterious Past: Little is known about him both in-universe and out.
  • Original Character: He seems to be an original creation of Mr Zoat.

    Blue Devil/Dan Cassidy 
A human who was permanently turned into a demon.

    Green Lantern 2814-B/Anya Savenlovich 
A former member of the Russian Air Force. She became a Sector Lantern after the promotion of Lantern Jordan and Gardner.

    The Question/Victor Sage 
A hero who lives in Hub City.
  • Badass Longcoat: Never fights crime without it.
  • Badass Normal: Aside from some psychometry, Question has only his wits and body to fight crime.
  • The Blank: His mask is rather disturbing to some.
  • Boring, but Practical: He carries a periscope which can help him see things in an angle and not have to worry about being detected, unlike more advanced methods of seeing/scanning things.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: His mannerisms are rather strange, especially when he's using his psychometry.
  • Distressed Dude: Episode 130: Pete Tong reveals that at some point he was captured by Bruno Mannheim.
  • Psychometry: This seems to be the only trick he was able to pick up in his short time in Nanda Parbat.

    Jason Blood/Etrigan 
An ancient magician who has been bound to the Demon Etrigan.
  • Blood Knight: Etrigan revels in combat.
  • By the Power of Grayskull!: The spell that summons Etrigan.
  • Chekhov M.I.A.: He is first mentioned in Episode 73: Retribution by Batman, who wanted his advice but couldn't get it due to being missing. It's later revealed that he was captured by Satanus.
  • Cursed with Awesome: Jason Blood is bound to a powerful demon, which gives him some control on what the demon does. This also makes him immortal.
  • Distressed Dude: When we first see him in Episode 73: Retribution, he is a captive in Hell.
  • Rhymes on a Dime: Etrigan is a Rhyming Demon.
  • Voluntary Shapeshifting: Played with. He's usually the one who decides when to swap places, but other people can force a transformation, assuming they know the proper words.

    Hawk/Henry "Hank" Hall and Dove/Donald "Don" Hall 
A pair of brothers who were empowered by a Lord of Chaos and Lord of Order, respectively. They are found and recruited by the Renegade.
  • Blood Knight: Hawk loves a good fight.
  • Martial Pacifist: Dove doesn't like hurting people, but won't hesitate to do so if there is no other option.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: Hawk is the one more likely to resort to violence, while Dove would rather negotiate a peaceful settlement before fighting.
  • Sibling Team: The two work together as heroes under the Renegade.

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