The Entire Team

• Badass Crew: When the team come together as a team, they are an incredibly effective force to be reckoned with, as seen in most episodes. But no episode showcases this better than “Summit”, where the team completely outsmarts both the Light AND the Reach, singlehandedly not only destroying their alliance, but setting up an Engineered Public Confession that obliterates the Reach's Villain with Good Publicity act. The end result is about half the Light captured and the Reach's invasion of Earth completely thwarted in every conceivable way. This causes Vandal Savage to truly lose his cool for the first time in the entire series. As he outright says, they've done more to derail his plans than anyone in his entire immortal life.
• Brains and Brawn: Robin and Superboy have this dynamic when they work together, though Robin isn't a pushover and Supey isn't dumb. Ditto with Batgirl and Wonder Girl.
• Breaking the Fellowship: Though not completely. Five years later only Robin (now Nightwing), Miss Martian and Superboy are still on the team. Zatanna and Rocket have just recently joined the Justice League. Kid Flash and Artemis have dropped hero work to focus on college but are still close to and concerned for their friends. Red Arrow, obsessed with finding the original Speedy, is basically a hobo. Aqualad, while initially presented as having gone off the deep end morally, is in fact a deep cover agent infiltrating Black Manta's organization. Later he brings in Artemis to help him, and Nightwing acts as their handler. They're still (mostly) on the same side and they're definitely True Companions but they aren't all working together anymore.
  • As of "Complications", Nightwing is the only member that hasn't been abducted, killed, retired, promoted to League membership, pretended to defect, hospitalized or gone MIA.
• Child Soldiers: The Reach cast them as this when exposing the League's secrets to Secretary Tseng, at least.
  • They have done black-ops missions, gone to war-torn nations and been involved in wars and constantly put their lives in danger albeit to save other lives. The Justice League also often assign them missions. So, it could be argued that the Reach have a point.
• Combat Pragmatist: A necessary adjunct to Weak, but Skilled below.
• Deadpan Snarker: Each of them have had snarky moments in at least one point in the show.
• Dysfunction Junction: Of the original team of six, only Robin, Kid Flash, and Aqualad were particularly stable. Aqualad was later revealed to have a Dark and Troubled Past while Robin/Nightwing picked up The Chains of Commanding. Superboy and Miss Martian got over most of their issues by the end of season 1 only to pick up a pack of new ones over the Time Skip while Wally got extremely bitter in Season 2. By the start of Season 2 Artemis is the only one who really qualifies as an Only Sane Man which is somewhat ironic since she was the most damaged in season 1. And now she's Tigress and has Becoming the Mask problems while her world crumbles around her. Go figure.
• Five-Man Band: The original five in season 1. Soon broken with Artemis' introduction.
  • The Leader: Aqualad.
  • The Lancer: Robin
  • The Big Guy: Superboy.
  • The Smart Guy: Kid Flash.
  • The Chick: Miss Martian.
  • Sixth Ranger: Artemis.
  • Team Pet: Wolf.
• Gender Equal Ensemble: As of "Usual Suspects".
  • As of "Auld Acquaintance" they're also seemingly all paired off: Superboy and Miss Martian are an Official Couple, and Zatanna/Robin and Artemis/Kid Flash should probably be considered such after kissing in "Auld Acquaintance". Rocket at least has a crush on Aqualad.
    • The time skip shakes things up: The only couple still together is Artemis and Kid Flash. Superboy and Miss Martian had an Off Screen Break Up, and Miss M is now seeing Lagoon Boy. It is confirmed that both Zatanna and Rocket are Nightwing's Amicable Exes, with him implied to still be Friends with Benefits with Zatanna, and possibly Batgirl as well. Rocket and Aqualad also dated for a bit (according to Greg Weisman), and now Rocket is getting married to someone else.
• Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: The team at the end of Season 1 had two Lightning Bruisers, two Fragile Speedsters, two Glass Cannons and two Squishy Wizards... guess which gender was which.
  • This pretty much gets completely blown out of the water when Batgirl and Wonder Girl show up.
• Power Trio: The three veterans in season 2:
  • The Kirk: Nightwing
  • The Spock: Miss Martian
  • The McCoy: Superboy
    • Though it seems that as of late, Superboy and Miss Martian are zigzagging between their respective roles.
• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits —> Badass Crew: The original team consisted of three highly-trained ex-sidekicks, a months-old clone of Superman rescued from an evil lab, and a young Martian girl with a slightly mysterious past. Latecomers included an anti-social archer with an even more mysterious past, the daughter of an Italian-American magician who trained in the mystical arts like her father, a solo archer hero and ex-sidekick who joins briefly, and an African-American teenage gadget-powered superheroine. The first season is the story of how this gang becomes skilled enough to take on the entire Justice League... and win.
• Retired Badass: Post-time skip, Wally and Artemis have hung up their tights and decided to focus on college.
  • Subverted with Artemis, who fakes her death to become a deep cover agent.
• True Companions: Even five years later when the fellowship is, at least partly, broken and Superboy and Miss Martian are broken up they still slide easily into the telepathic conversations they used when they were a team.
  • The trope is then played with in regards to Kaldur. First it seems that he has become evil due to the gut-punch combo of long-time crush Tula dying on a mission and the revelation Black Manta is his father. Then it seems that the The Only One Allowed to Defeat You clause for True Companions still applies, as Nightwing and Superboy make sure they intercept and confront Aqualad themselves, leaving Leaguers and newer members of the Team behind. But then it turns out that Kaldur was a Fake Defector the whole time, and Nightwing, as his handler, was just going to talk with him, only for the meeting to be interrupted by Superboy.
• Weak, but Skilled: How the team, as a unit, compares to many of their opponents. More often than not, they can't overpower anyone they face, much less take any of them in a one-on-one fight. Instead, they're at their best when they rely on coordination (Martian telepathy helps immensely), teamwork, Geo Effects, and cleverness.

Nightwing / Robin (Dick Grayson)

• The Ace: The first season was his development and the second season as Nightwing shows it. Nightwing is just that damn good.
  • Broken Ace: Starting to show shades of this after "Darkest", where he had to sacrifice Mt. Justice to help Aqualad maintain his cover, and then emphasized by Kid Flash voicing serious concerns about the whole Reverse Mole plan.
• Adorably Precocious Child: Okay, he's technically a teenager, but the fangirls seem to think he's this.
• Adorkable: In-universe, Zatanna certainly thought so, much as the fangirls do out-of-universe.
• Amicable Exes: With Zatanna, Rocket and apparently all his ex-girlfriends. Occasionally implied to still be Friends with Benefits with Zatanna as well.
  Zatanna: How is it again you're still friends with all your exes?
  Nightwing: That's my superpower.
• Anti-Hero: In season one, he has everything he needs to be one, but he doesn't like being that kind of person.
• Badass
  • Badass Adorable
  • Badass Bookworm: Besides being a world-class hacker and competent detective, he's a Mathletes champion in his civilian identity and has a notable fondness for playing around with the English language.
  • Badass Normal: Out of all the young heroes in the first season, Robin has been on the job the longest with four years of hero experience. He is 13, making him the youngest of the group (discounting Conner/Superboy, who is only sixteen weeks old).
• Big Brother Instinct: Towards the entire team, but Tim Drake especially, looking at his actions in "Complications".
• Big Brother Mentor: Acts as one for Artemis in 'Homefront'. Ironically, he's both younger and physically smaller than her. In season 2, he has become one for the new Robin, Tim Drake.
• Big Good: As of Season 2, Dick has become the leader of the team, with the team itself expanding greatly in size.
• Birds of a Feather: With Zatanna.
• Break the Cutie: Suffers The Chains of Commanding after Aqualad's (temporary) sacrifice in "Failsafe". Turns out he really doesn't have it in him to pull off a Good Is Not Nice mindset... at least, not at 13 years of age. In season two, his big plan to uncover the Light demands a more pragmatic mindset, though he doesn't seem to enjoy it much.
• Broken Pedestal: In "Disordered," he tells Black Canary that he'd always wanted and expected to be Batman when he grew up, but his stint as leader in "Failsafe" made him realize that he just can't be the obsessive, at-all-costs kind of person that Bruce is. "Agendas" shows that Bruce himself would be nothing but relieved by this.
• Brought to You by the Letter "S": Wears an "R" on his chest as Robin.
• Buffy Speak: He seems to do it intentionally.
• Catch Phrase: "Stay whelmed."
• The Chains of Commanding: Explained in "Disordered" as to what he felt in "Failsafe", and then followed up on in "Image", where he is clearly reluctant to be leader.
  • Followed up in season two when he is leading the team, and clearly feeling the weight of the decisions he's being forced to make. Once Kaldur's Reverse Mole thing ends, he tries to hand back leadership the second he's back in the Aqualad uniform.
• The Charmer: Not only is he popular with ladies, he claims that remaining friends with his exes is his superpower.
• Chick Magnet: Issue 20 of the tie-in comic implies he's hooked up with Zatanna, Bette Kane, Rocket and Batgirl at least.
• Childhood Friends: With Batgirl.
• The Chessmaster: In season 2 he serves as the commander of the entire Team and takes the lead on the Reverse Mole gambit against the Light, convincing Artemis to fake her own death and join Aqualad within Black Manta's organization.
• Circus Brat: Explored in "Performance".
• Clark Kenting: He has three different 'looks:' With mask/sunglasses and loose hair (Robin/around Mt. Justice), with gelled hair and no mask/sunglasses (Dick Grayson/at school or around Bruce's associates), and no gel or mask/sunglasses, which is how he appears when he's at home with Bruce and Alfred.
• Deadpan Snarker: Robin may trump Kid Flash in this.
• Determinator: Most people wouldn't attempt a complex acrobatic routine without a safety net. Or with the flu. Much less in the same night.
  Robin: But the show must go on.
• Dissonant Laughter: Seems to be his trademark throughout Season 1. He weaponizes it in "Bereft."
• Dual Wielding: Sometimes uses arnis/eskrima sticks (served as Foreshadowing in Season 1, since Dick is better known for using these as Nightwing than as Robin).
• Expressive Mask: A more subtle version of the trope.
• Friendship Moment: Kid Flash didn't hesitate at all to dive and save Robin when he saw he was being pulled back into the mothership's core in "Failsafe". See It Has Been An Honour below.
  • Had one with Artemis in "Homefront".
• Friends with Benefits: Occasionally implied to be his relationship with Zatanna post-Time Skip.
  • As of Issue #25 of the tie-in comic, is also this with Batgirl/Barbara Gordon.
• The Gadfly: Loves messing with people in season 1, though by season 2 he's become considerably more mature.
  Robin (popping out of nowhere): Artemis?
  Artemis (gasps, startled): Robin! I, uh-
  Robin: How random that you're in Gotham City! Instead of Star City, where your uncle Green Arrow lives?
  Artemis (nervously): I'm, um, here... to see my cousin! She... was in the state spelling bee. Here, in Gotham. City.
  Robin: C-O-O-L. Did she W-I-N?
  Artemis (eyes narrow): N-O.
  Robin (grinning): D-R-A-G
• Guile Hero: Nightwing knows that the Light are led by at least one Manipulative Bastard so he and Kaldur are using Aqualad's Freudian Excuse as an opening to get an eye inside the villain's organization.
• Grappling-Hook Pistol
• Green-Eyed Monster: A mild case in "Downtime" where Robin was jealous that Batman gave a private lecture to Aqualad.
• Happily Adopted
• Heroes Want Redheads: His current love interest BatGirl
• Heterosexual Life Partners: With Kid Flash.
• Hidden Depths: In most of Season 1, he acts like a normal 13 year old boy who doesn't think twice about hacking into restricted networks or using his own laugh as a countdown on explosive batarangs. Then "Failsafe" and "Disordered" occur, in which he shows remarkable eloquence and self-awareness.
• Hollywood Hacking
• I Shall Taunt You
• Informed Ability: As of Season 2, Dick's leadership ability has been called into question. Most notably his ignorance of Miss Martian's actions and how he handled Arsenal.
• Insufferable Genius: At times in the first season. Post Time Skip, he's both much more serious in his role as The Smart Guy and more conscious of his limitations.
• It Has Been An Honour: The brief nod between him and Kid Flash in "Failsafe" really says it all.
• It's Personal: The mission in "Performance".
• The Lancer: He has a lot of leadership qualities but is not quite there yet. Probably has something to do with him being only 13. He takes this role by default since the rest of the team are grooming him to be the leader. It's partly a lack of maturity that prevents him from being the leader, but also his inexperience with being on this type of team. Batman and Robin's methodology was based around an efficient two man team with relatively standardized training, which doesn't translate well to an ad-hoc Ragtag Bunch of Misfits, so it's his lack of cohesion with a very different type of team that is the problem.
  • Post-time-skip and upgrade to Nightwing, he's in charge of the team.
• The Leader: Type 1 as a counterpart to Aqualad's type 2.
  • Based on what's been shown of Nightwing, he overlaps all types at once. Compare Captain America or his comic book incarnation.
• Leeroy Jenkins: It's the reason why Aqualad ended up becoming the team leader. Notably, he grew out of this.
  • More like an inversion, since he always has a plan. The problem is that the plan (seems) too obvious for Dick to explain it to anybody and the team isn't trained enough to follow it anyway. It's even noted that this works with Batman, since they know each other well, but not with other heroes.
• Likes Older Women: Two of his three known hookups, Rocket and Bette Kane, are at least a year older than him. Word Of God is that Zatanna is only a few months older: Dick had his 14th birthday between "Agendas" and "Insecurity."
• The Magnificent: So far, he's the only hero to get his traditional epithet ("Robin, the Boy Wonder") used in-series: Mr. Freeze, Poison Ivy, The Joker, Wally, Zatanna, and Artemis have all used it somehow, whether seriously or mockingly.
• McNinja: The team lampshades it frequently.
  Kid Flash: I forgot how much I hate it when he does the ninja thing.
• Meaningful Name: "Dick" is old slang for "detective." Meanwhile, his last name is Grayson, and 'gray' is an apt description of his moral alignment in season 2.
• Meaningful Rename: Changes his identity from Robin to Nightwing in the five year Time Skip.
• Mission Control: Notably in season 2, the plot has kept Nightwing out of physical fighting more times than not, even when he is nearby, unless the threat attacks him directly. Not that it makes him any less Badass, he is still a very competent leader and organizes the team quite well for whatever mission they are dealing with at the time.
• Mr. Fanservice: Apparently Dick is this no matter what the media. The timeskip was a relief to a lot of fangirls, because at least their perving on Dick Grayson is now legal.
• My Parents Are Dead
• Nerves of Steel: On display in "Homefront" and "Failsafe".
• The Nicknamer: Usually involving initials: Kid Flash is K.F., Miss Martian is Miss M., etc.
• Off Screen Teleportation
• Omniglot: Kind of. He's not a direct offender ala Superboy, but he's confirmed to at least get by in French, Spanish, Italian, German, Japanese and Mandarin.
• Opaque Lenses: Compare Robin's sunglasses to the ones Roy wore in "Targets." Rob's are completely black, while you can actually discern Roy's eye color through his.
• Playful Hacker
• Properly Paranoid: He always makes sure a story checks out, to the best of his ability. He didn't even take Blue Beetle at his word when the entire team went missing, and as such discovered that Blue was actually responsible.
• Rage Against the Mentor: Averted. Him becoming Nightwing is not because he's angry with Bruce like in most other incarnations of the character, but because he's grown up.
• Really Gets Around: In the words of Wally West, "You dog!"
• Reasonable Authority Figure: With the newer members of the team.
• Rousing Speech: As seen in "Failsafe", he's pretty good at making one, very much like his comics counterpart.
• Running Gag: He has a thing for backformations.
• Secret Secret Keeper: Unbeknownst to Artemis, Robin already knows who her father is and despite so, he fully trusts her. This does not, however, keep him from trolling the hell out of her when she starts attending his school.
  • Given his penchant for hacking, he likely has more intel than anyone else on the team and possibly more than most members of The League.
    • However, he looked surprised in the pilot episode when he learned about the Watchtower.
• Shorter Means Smarter: He's the shortest of the lot, yet he just barely edges Wally (whose scientific knowledge may border on Super Intelligence and who's shown to be quite the lateral thinker) out in overall intelligence, according to his stats/database page. As Nightwing, the "short" part no longer applies.
• Simple Staff: Occasionally pulls out escrima sticks.
• The Smart Guy: He's more tech geek, while Wally's pure science.
• The Spock: In the episode "Failsafe", he intentionally sends Superboy on a mission he likely won't survive to buy the team time to destroy an invading mothership. Later on, both he and Kid Flash intentionally stay behind to buy Miss Martian time and wind up "dying" themselves. Subverted as of "Disordered" when it's revealed he wasn't happy about his choice.
• Spy Catsuit: As Nightwing, his outfit seems to be a simple padded jumpsuit, more practical than elaborate. Even the emblem is just a chest insignia, when most other versions have it encompass his shoulders and upper back, usually etched against some molded body armor in his costume.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: He learned from the best.
• The Strategist: Probably the best strategist on the team. The Aesop of "Dropzone" was that the best strategist doesn't always make the best leader.
• Taking Up The Mantle: Apparently his dream—before the events of "Failsafe", which made him realize that can't be the kind of stoic, unemotional leader that Batman is.
• Tall, Dark and Handsome: Season 2. Hell yes.
• Team Dad: By season two, he's taken up this role where Batman left off towards the third generation heroes.
• 10-Minute Retirement: In the final episode, he decides to quit the team for some time after Wally's death.
• Try Not to Die: After appointing Tim leader of Gamma squad, he tells him "Just don't die, okay? And no unnecessary risks to the squad."
• Wake Up, Go to School, Save the World
• “Well Done Son” Guy: Subverted. While he does want Batman's acknowledgement, he doesn't want to be the next Batman since, while "Failsafe" proves that he's perfectly capable of being the kind of ruthless tactician Batman is, he hated every minute of it.
  • Ironically this is what earns him Batman's respect more than anything else. He doesn't want Dick to end up like that either.
• Would Hit a Girl: Has no problem fighting female villains, such as when he punches Shimmer so hard that she slams back into a cliff side in "Usual Suspects". His fight with Tigress could count though, since she's Artemis, they were probably fighting each other to keep up a show.
• You Shall Not Pass: How he and Kid Flash go out in "Failsafe".

Aqualad / Black Manta II (Kaldur'ahm)

Click ^here  to see Aqualad as he appears in Season 2 *spoilers*

• Actor Allusion: This isn't the first Khary Payton voiced an African-American character who is a hybrid human who glows blue when he uses his power, or becomes the leader of a team temporarily, and is The Mole. It's also not the first time he's voiced a Dark-Skinned Blonde.
• The Apprentice: In "Downtime" it was shown that Aquaman was impressed with Kaldur and his friend Garth's bravery and offered them both the role of his apprentice. Garth refused, while Kaldur accepted and became Aqualad.
  • A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil: Subverted (maybe), that's what everyone is supposed to believe.
• Acquired Poison Immunity: As a result of living under water all his life, he's developed a resistance to jellyfish venom.
• Animal Motifs: He has eel tattos on his arms, can generate electricity, and can conjure a giant eel made of water with his powers.
• Anti-Hero: In season 1 he's willing to hide from his friends there's a possible Mole on the team to keep them from turning on each other. In season 2 he's willing to put both his mentor and his friends in danger, and actively attack them, to protect his cover.
• Apparently Human Merfolk/Our Mermaids Are Different: Looks similar to a human being but hides his Atlantean traits when he is in public.
• Archnemesis Dad: Black Manta in season 1, though Kaldur doesn't know it at the time. Double subverted in season 2.
• Badass
  • Badass In Charge
  • Break the Badass: Temporarily in "Failsafe".
  • Badass Arm Fold: Best shown in the episode "Secrets."◊
  • Heartbroken Badass
• Beware the Nice Ones
• Big Brother Mentor: To Robin and arguably, Superboy. Lampshaded by Miss Martian in "Infiltrator".
• The Blank: During his Battle in the Center of the Mind in "The Fix", but he gets his face back in the next scene thanks to Artemis telling him You Are Not Alone.
• Broken Pedestal: Lagoon Boy used to idolize him.
• Bruiser with a Soft Center: In season one, he's the second strongest member after Superboy... but he's whole a lot nicer than Superboy is.
• Calling the Old Man Out/Rage Against the Mentor: Calls out Aquaman for hiding the identity of his true father. Possibly part of the ruse.
• Canon Foreigner/Canon Immigrant: He was made for the show, but DC liked him so much he was adapted to the comics before the show even aired.
• The Captain: Batman has been known to refer to "You and your team" when talking to Aqualad; in addition, he reports directly to Batman after the team completes missions. He becomes a villainous example after his Face Heel Turn. But see Fake Defector.
• The Chains of Commanding: Mentioned in "Drop Zone" and "Downtime" and fully explained in "Disordered".
  • I Should Have Been Better: He wishes he'd acted more like a leader than a soldier during "Failsafe".
• Character Development: He first starts out as the Submissive Badass in the first few episodes and later emerges as The Leader of the Ragtag Bunch of Misfits. He then goes on to become a Reverse Mole in his villainous father's organization.
• Childhood Friend Romance: He had a longtime crush on his friend Tula. Unfortunately for him, she began a relationship with his best friend Garth during the time he was away.
• Child Soldiers: Word Of God is, it's required for Atlanteans to enlist in military training until the age of 16.
• Conflicting Loyalty: In "Downtime" between Atlantis and the surface world.
• Dark Is Not Evil
• Dark-Skinned Blond: And issue 14 of the tie in comics show that he gets it from his mom◊ (who amusingly enough kind of looks like Beyoncé).
• Deadpan Snarker: See Not So Stoic.
• Defusing The Tykebomb: Early in season one he calms Superboy down and helps adjust to the world until Superboy gets with Miss Martian. In addition, its been stated by Word Of God that Superboy is closest to Aqualad out of all of males in season 1.
• The Dragon: To Black Manta in Season 2.
  • Dragon with an Agenda: He's still a good guy, and just using his father to get closer to the Light and their new partner.
• Does Not Like Shoes
• Dogged Nice Guy: Towards Tula in "Downtime" until he got over it at the end of the episode.
• Dual Wielding
• Elemental Baggage: Aqualad cannot create the water he telekinetically manipulates, it either comes from the pack on his back or a standing supply near by.
• Evil Costume Switch: After joining his father and becoming Black Manta II, complete with a creepier haircut.
• Evil Former Friend: Subverted
• Expy: According to creator Greg Weisman, Kaldur's design was inspired by The Lord of the Rings' elves.
• Eye Beams: As Black Manta II.
• Face Heel Turn
  • Fake Defector
  • Heel Face Revolving Door: So far: Aqualad's good, but then he's bad, then he's still good, then he might just be pretending to be good, then he actually is good. Pretty good for a guy who was Good All Along.
• Fallen Hero: In Season 2, but later subverted.
• Fantastic Racism: Aqualad and other Atlanteans with non-human traits face discrimination from the Purifiers.
• Fights Like a Normal: Training with the team during season one.
• Freudian Excuse: His first love Tula was killed as a direct result of becoming involved with the Team, and he's been trying to hurt his own father for years because of the lies of a man whom he called both his king and his friend. This turns out to be a subversion; he's a Fake Defector.
• Green Eyes
• Guile Hero: This and his levelheadedness is why he was chosen to be leader in the first season. He was also the one who started the plan to infiltrate the villains by pretending to be evil to get close to his father. Together only he, Wally, Artemis, Dick know of this ruse.
• Imagination Based Superpower/ Multi-Melee Master: His waterbearers have a lot of different uses, thus becoming an Impossibly Cool Weapon.
  • Batter Up
  • Carry a Big Stick: He can make maces and clubs.
  • Cool Sword: Or cool swords, as the case may be.
  • Deflector Shields
  • Drop the Hammer
  • Epic Flail/ Variable Length Chain
• Important Haircut/Good Hair, Evil Hair: He has a normal hair cut in season 1, but he gets a shorter hair style in season 2.
• Half-Human Hybrid: His father is the human Black Manta, while his mother is an Atlantean.
• Heroic Bastard
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: He doesn't believe in his leadership abilities until "Alpha Male". Made worse in "Failsafe", where he believes himself to be unfit to lead the team.
• Heroes Want Redheads: He had fallen in love with Tula, but unfortunately for him, she and Garth were already together (all three had been close friends).
• Heroic Sacrifice: Sacrifices himself in "Failsafe" to save Martian Manhunter, who eventually turns out to be the key to freeing everyone from the Unwinnable Training Simulation they're trapped in.
• I Did What I Had to Do: Had to make several compromising choices undercover as Black Manta's henchman.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Wishes Tula and Garth the best together, as he wants Tula to be happy.
• Impossibly Cool Weapon: He wields a pair of waterbearers that he can use to augment his powers and and create a variety of water weapons.
• In a Single Bound: He does this a few times in the episodes like "Humanity". Although he doesn't jump as high and does not do it as much as Superboy has.
• In the Blood: Goes evil after finding out his father is Black Manta. Later subverted when it's revealed he's actually a Reverse Mole.
• Jack of All Stats: Kaldur has good stats, but is outshone by various teammates in different areas. In comparison to Miss Martion, the other Jack of All Stats, Kaldur leans towards being a Lightning Bruiser. He has super strength, enhanced durability, can use different weapons via waterbearers, and can use magic, but unlike the team's other magic-user Zatanna, he can actually take a hit. He's even more bruising after the Time Skip, now that he's got magic, super strength and a weaponized power suit with missiles and freaking eyebeams.
• Kid Hero: He is 16 years old in the first season.
• Kick the Dog: Kills Artemis in "Depths". Soon subverted when it turns out they were just faking her death.
• Kubrick Stare: He delivers a damn creepy look when he rises out of the water in "Depths".
• The Leader: Type II - Levelheaded. The position is made official in "Drop Zone" and reaffirmed at the end of "Alpha Male".
  • Played With in "Disordered"; after his actions in "Failsafe", he doesn't believe himself to be an effective leader, yet he continues to be one since he doesn't want to burden Robin with the role.
  • No longer true as of Season 2. However, his leadership qualities are what makes him a dangerous villain, and it's notable that he makes sure all of his mooks have time to escape.
  • Still The Leader: After rejoining the team after completing his mission, Nightwing immediately defers leadership back to Kaldur.
• Legacy Character: As Black Manta II
  • Redeeming Replacement: He is in fact a deep cover agent.
• Licked by the Dog: In "Darkest", Sphere rolls right up to him and doesn't even sound the alarm after he gives her a pet, like in old times. This makes him feel even more guilty about blowing up Mount Justice in order to secure his cover.
• Love Triangle: In one between him, his crush Tula and his good friend Garth.
  • Love Hurts
  • Love Makes You Evil: Subverted, as he's a Fake Defector.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: He's the son of Aquaman's nemesis, Black Manta.
• Master Actor: Gives a stunning Rage Against the Mentor speech to Aquaman, regularly drops messages to the others involved in his deception disguised as badass threats and convinces everyone he actually killed Artemis with a little sleight of hand.
  • He is so convincing that even Wally, who is in on the plan, is concerned that Aqualad might really be an evil triple agent playing Nightwing.
• Magic Knight: His powers come from Atlantean magic, but his fighting style is considerably more hands-on than other Atlantean magicians.
• Meaningful Name: His name is an Atlantean spin on his adoptive father's name, Calvin Durham.
  • In Icelandic his name means "cool".
• Meaningful Rename: Becomes Black Manta II after his fake Face Heel Turn, as he's the son of Black Manta.
• Mind Rape: M'gann rips the memories out of his mind and leaves him catatonic in "Before The Dawn".
• Mole In Charge: Not in charge, but he is The Dragon.
• Mr. Exposition: Whenever a new face pops up that the audience doesn't know, he's usually the one to give the exposition on who they are.
  • He actually explains all the reasons for his apparent Face Heel Turn before the end of his first appearance as a villain in "Alienated".
• Multi-Melee Master: His waterbearers can turn into swords, maces, hammers, bats and whips.
• Nerves of Steel: Comes along with the stoic part.
  • In "Complications," while pretending to be an Empty Shell, Chesire hurls a sai at him (which is blocked at the last second by Miss Martian) and Aqualad doesn't so much as blink.
• Nice Guy: The nicest member on the team after Miss Martian.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Took Deathstroke out of the picture offscreen, allowing Miss Martian to take his place in "Summit."
• Omniglot: He can speak English, Atlanean, and a little bit of Greek.
• Only Sane Man: Compared to most of team early in the first season.
• Overlord Jr.: As the son of Black Manta.
• Powered Armor: Kaldur's Black Manta uniform in season two. It gives Kaldur missile launchers and Eye Beams on top of the Atlantean abilities his father lacks.
• Power Tattoo: Has eel tattoos on his arms.
  • Power Glows: His tattoos glow blue when he uses his powers.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives a short but sweet one to Vandal Savage on his chronic case of Underestimating Badassery, punctuated by a Big Damn Heroes moment.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Superboy's red.
• Reverse Mole: Infiltrated Black Manta's organization to get intel on the Light.
• Rousing Speech: Aqualad, Robin and Kid Flash to give one in "Misplaced" to kids who can help pick up the slack after all the adults going missing.
• Sadistic Choice: Gives one to Superboy and Nightwing after his Face Heel Turn, either fight him and try to bring him in or disarm a bomb that could kill a lot of Kroloteans and the other heroes in the base. The worst part is they couldn't even disarm the bomb.
  • And then it's subverted; he was trying to warn Nightwing about the bomb without blowing his cover.
• Scary Black Man: A subversion in Depths. Kaldur was truly terrifying and scary. Also see Fake Defector and Kubrick Stare.
• Secret Test of Character: He was put through this by his father, Black Manta.
  • If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten: Subverted. Kaldur "kills" Artemis, but what really earns him Black Manta's trust is that he didn't take credit for the rocket he was sent to destroy blowing up in an apparent fluke accident.
    • Played Straight in "Darkest" where Kaldur blows up Mount Justice to prove his loyalty to The Light and their partner
• Shaping Your Attacks: In addition to shaping water into weapons, Kaldur is capable of fashioning water into the shapes of attacking sea creatures, as seen in "Targets."
• Shirtless Scene: In "Welcome to Happy Harbor" and "Infiltrator".
• Sleeves Are for Wimps
• Something Only They Would Say: He was on the receiving end of this by Red Arrow.
• Spock Speak: Without the antisocial stigma.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Has his mother's hair color, eyes and Atlantean traits but physically looks like his father.
• Super Dickery: Shows up as an apparent villain out for revenge against all his friends in the early episodes of season 2. It's eventually revealed he's actually a Reverse Mole for the Team.
• Superpower Lottery: He has
  • Elemental Powers
    • Making a Splash
    • Shock and Awe
  • Super Strength: Though not as strong as Superboy.
  • Super Toughness: Can withstand a beating by Superboy.
  • Super Senses: Nothing like Superboy's but normal for an Atlantean.
  • Super Speed: Nothing compared to Wally but he is definitely faster than most underwater.
  • Required Secondary Powers
• Still The Leader
• The Stoic
  • Not So Stoic: Sometimes, Kaldur's stoicism gives way to snark.
    Red Arrow (after Kal'dur asks if he needs help): Please. I don't need help from the Junior Justice League.
    Aqualad: Just our computers.
  • Emotions vs. Stoicism: He tends to stay on the stoic side.
    • Has since went to the emotional side since his Face Heel Turn. Only not, since he's a Fake Defector.
• Tall, Dark and Handsome
• Team Big Brother: Stated as such by Miss Martian. Aqualad often keeps the others in line, and even literally acts like an older brother/mentor to both Superboy and Robin.
• Thicker Than Water: Claims to feel this way in Season 2. He's lying.
• Tranquil Fury: Kaldur is the definition of this trope until season two, though that is likely an act.
• Two Guys and a Girl: Had this dynamic with Garth and Tula. He has feelings for Tula, but Garth and Tula start dating while Aqualad is on the surface.
• Warrior Therapist
• Weak, but Skilled/Unskilled, but Strong: His magic is quite weak compared to his friends Garth and Tula. Because of his training under Aquaman though, he's far superior in physical combat. When compared to other members of the Team he floats in between because he has super strength, great agility and other above average abilities and skills, but is outdone by other members of the team in a few of them.
  • Technician VS Performer: Kaldur is the technician to Superboy's performer and the perfomer in contrast to Robin's technician.
  • Taught By Experience: He, along with the other original members of the Team, became exceptionally more skilled over the 5 year time skip.
• Undying Loyalty: After "Alpha Male" Kaldur stands up and defends his team mates no matter what. Subverted after his Face Heel Turn, though it's arguably because he felt the team betrayed him when Tula died. Then double subverted when it turns out he's been a Fake Defector all along.
• Villainous Widow's Peak: Averted. Subverted in season 2.
• What Could Have Been: In-universe. Both Kaldur and Garth, the comics' original Aqualad, were offered the chance to be Aquaman's sidekick. Kaldur accepted; Garth declined, choosing to further his magic studies. Lampshaded when Kaldur asks Garth if he ever wonders what would have happened if he'd become Aqualad instead.
• White Sheep: He is a hero while his father Black Manta is a villain. Double subverted in Season 2.
• Would Hit a Girl
• You Are Not Alone: In Fix, Artemis tells him this in his ruined mindscape while suffering through the Mind Rape placed on him. Artemis states a word in Atlantean ("symbiosi") to show that she and M'gann want to help him.
• 0% Approval Rating: In Satisfaction everyone wants to bring him down because of Artemis's death, including her sister Cheshire, her father Sportsmaster, and the other heroes.

Kid Flash (Wally West)

• Adorkable: His expansive scientific knowledge is appealing to many fans.
  • Some fangirls also find it to be a Geeky Turn-On.
• Adventure Rebuff: Part of his back story in the tie-in comics: While he says otherwise in the narration, it's pretty obvious from the visuals and dialogue that Barry didn't initially want the responsibility of a sidekick and only agreed on a trial basis, after Wally gave himself superpowers.
• Alliterative Name
• Arbitrary Skepticism: In "Denial" Kid Flash doesn't believe in magic, thinking it is some elaborate technical trick (possibly explained by one of his mentor's foes being a man who uses future technology so advanced that he pretends it's magic).
• Ascended Fanboy: In the tie-in comics, he explains that he was a big fan of the Flash when he came across his uncle's notes and replicated the Freak Lab Accident for the third time.
• Back for the Finale: Shows up in "Summit", although he makes it clear he and Artemis intend to go back into retirement "once this Invasion thing is over."
  • Back for the Dead
• Badass
  • Badass Bookworm: Loves science, given that he can recognize the formulas for Blockbuster and Venom on sight, and even recreated the experiment that gave his uncle Barry his super speed. His best subject is Bio, but he excels at every other scientific field (chemistry, physics, etc).
    • And it's been confirmed that he's in AP classes.
    • Speaking of confirmations - Smart People Know Latin. Some. Though admittedly it's high school level.
  • Retired Badass: Post-Time Skip.
• Battle Couple: With Artemis.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Artemis. Big time.
• Beneath the Mask: He states that he wasn't bothered by what happened in the events of "Failsafe" to Black Canary, who's visibly unimpressed, doesn't buy it, and accuses him of being in denial. He doesn't refute it and agreeably remarks, "I'm comfortable with that" without breaking his devil-may-care attitude front. Other than that one choke-on-popcorn slip up. This act of denying or repressing his emotions is proof enough that he was affected.
  • In the "Face Your Fears" tie-in comic issue, Psycho-Pirate puts the entire team into anxiety. Wally's fear was not being good or fast enough to be Flash's sidekick, let alone be the Flash one day. His uncle never wanted a protégé to begin with (which, admittedly, is true by way of comic issue #6) unlike the rest of his friends. Furthermore, with his usual habits, and status as the jokester of the team, he feels no one takes him seriously.
  • "Coldhearted" cements that Wally's thoughts clash with how he acts on the outside. He tends to hide his true character under his cocky, "cool", supposed Casanova façade (a few fans have called it the "Wall-Man" by origin of the episode "Infiltrator"). The best example was when Robin came to congratulate him on saving the country, and he responded obnoxiously about how he's "the man". His real satisfaction, as we learn by his inner musings, was actually seeing Queen Perdita's smile.
  • In "Endgame", he shows up to help Barry and Bart save the world with a huge smile on his face, telling them "Can't let you guys take all the credit!" As soon as they aren't paying attention, he gets serious and starts running as fast as he can. Bolts of energy start targeting him due to his slower speed, and he's disintegrated. It's heavily implied he knew this was the outcome, but also that they wouldn't have enough kinetic energy without him.
• Betty and Veronica: Betty to Superboy's Veronica and Miss Martian's Archie — though M'gann is only ever attracted to Superboy (who later reciprocates) and Wally making hopeless passes at her is mostly played for laughs.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Goes into a shouting tirade after Artemis "dies".
• Big Brother Instinct: Although initially antagonistic towards Bart, Wally later makes it known that he plans on passing down the Kid Flash persona to him.
• Big Eater: Justified since his faster metabolism requires it. He's even got compartments for small food in his gauntlets.
• Blow You Away: By usual speedster way of running around in circles (or spinning) fast to create a tornado.
• Butt Monkey: His Handsome Lech nature becomes an in-joke amongst the girls. Not to mention Episode 6, where he totally missed out on the Beach Episode because he had school.
• Can't Catch Up: Quite literally, In his case. To his dismay, he can't keep up with Impulse or Flash. "Go ahead, lap me. I'm used to it..." (Impulse then passes him) "Aw, come on!" It's implied something about their family line simply makes them better speedsters. Wally may have duplicated the accident that made the Flash, but doesn't have the genes to go with it. Tie-in comics reveal that teenage Wally feared that he was holding back Barry instead of helping him. ^note (In the mainstream comics): In the mainstream comics, this limitation ended up being psychological: Wally's perception of himself as Kid Flash, even after replacing Barry, was subconsciously limiting his own speed. This may or may not be the case on the show. Word Of God suggests that Wally's recreation of Jay Garrick's lab accident didn't go quite as planned, and outright states that there is no Speed Force for him to make use of.
  • And it ends up being his undoing in "Endgame", as his inability to keep up with Barry and Bart result in him being quite the target for fatal doses of energy.
• Catch Phrase: "Souvenir!" when he proceeds to take an item connecting to the mission of the day.
• Chekhov's Armoury: His souvenirs are surprisingly turning into this.
• Chekhov's Skill: Inverted, as his lack of speed compared to Barry Allen and Impulse ends up being what kills him.
• The Chessmaster: The entire climax of "Coldhearted." Wally really lives up to being The Smart Guy.
• Chivalrous Pervert: Has a tendency to hit on all the women he encounters, with the exception of Artemis, whom he disliked because she "replaced" Speedy, and Zatanna, who is either too young for him or clearly being crushed on by his best friend, but he's incredibly loyal to his friends. Wally is a hero first and foremost.
  • Although he flirts with Artemis when they have amnesia in "Bereft" and meet each other without this baggage. Good to note that it comes out genuine, unlike his other objectionable quips and moves. It helps that to him, Artemis was an unknown civilian whose protection was his responsibility as a hero.
• Deadpan Snarker: Robin is snarkier, but Wally is deadpan-ier.
• Dodgeball Is Hell: After the flashes of his [bad] school day in "Infiltrator", Wally would agree with this trope.
• Face Death with Dignity: Only Wally can go out while making a quip on how "Artemis is going to kill me". Not to mention that calm look on his face when he tells Barry to tell Artemis and his parents that he loves them
• Flat Earth Atheist: Doesn't believe in magic when he lives in a world chock full of it. He insists that all the supernatural phenomena they encounter has to have a scientific explanation behind it, even if he has to attribute it to String Theory and pocket dimensions.
• Friendship Moment: With Robin. Specifically in "Failsafe", albeit by actions. Aside from diving in an attempt to save his best friend without hesitation when he was pulled back to the mothership's core, there's the silent It Has Been an Honor nod he shared with him before they died together.
• The Gadfly: Not as much as Robin, but considering that he spends a good portion of "Image" dropping hints about how convenient Bruce Wayne's appearances are just to see if anyone will catch on (and to annoy Dick) he certainly has elements of it.
  • While Dick will troll anyone who deserves it, Wally seems to focus his trolling efforts on Dick alone. Issue #20 of the tie-in comics show that Wally also took the liberty of informing Zatanna when Robin's birthday was, and smugly telling his BFF "You're welcome" when she kissed him.
• Genius Ditz: Despite his frequent ditziness and impulsiveness, he does have a keen scientific mind.
• Goggles Do Something Unusual: Apparently they can see in the infrared spectrum and are telescopic. They also prevent eye injuries when he's running at such high speeds, but that's not really unusual, unless you count the fact that usually Goggles Do Nothing in fiction.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Dies to save the Earth from the Reach's endgame.
• Heroes Want Redheads: Has an obvious crush upon Miss Martian.
• Heterosexual Life Partners: With Robin.
• Hidden Depths: He's a surprisingly good actor.
• Hopeless Suitor: Miss Martian seems unsure how to respond to his flirting, yet it's clear she's not interested. Wally, meanwhile, seems to be oblivious to her obvious crush on Superboy, or perhaps sees him as mere competition. Whatever the case, he continues his attempts to get her attention unsuccessfully. It's been said that his flirting is fueled by the belief that he's in the game and that she'll fall for him any second.
  • By "Failsafe", however, it's hard to gauge (by him comforting M'gann and overall lack of subtlety on her part) what he's aware of and not aware of other than the fact that he has no idea they're a couple.
  • As of "Coldhearted," Artemis told him of the relationship and he was disappointed.
• Hot Blooded
• I Shall Taunt You
• Jerkass Façade: See Beneath the Mask.
• Jumped at the Call: By his own account, Wally got his powers by replicating the same experiment that gave Flash (Barry Allen) his. Allen's experiment was in turn a controlled recreation of Jay Garrick's accident. This doesn't stop him from retiring though.
• Kid Appeal Character
• Killed Off for Real: Energy feedback from the Reach magnetic field disruptor causes him to fade from existence.. To hammer the point home, he gets a hologram in the garden like Jason Todd, Tula, and Ted Kord.
• Kleptomaniac Hero: He has a tendency to collect things on missions as "souvenirs", some of which are stolen from villains.
• Leeroy Jenkins
• Legacy Character: The third member of the Flash "family."
• Le Parkour: Incorporates a bit of this into his Super Speed schtick.
• Likes Older Women: Age doesn't deter him from hitting on Black Canary.
• My Name Is Not Durwood: No one can remember his superhero name.
• No Body Left Behind
• Only Known by Their Nickname: ...Wally. Real name? Wallace.
• OOC Is Serious Business: He drops the cheerful act moments before he disintegrates.
  Wally: Ah man, Artemis is so going to kill me for this! And don't even get me started on Mom and Dad. *soberly* Just tell them... okay?
  • He even does so a little before that, when Artemis and the others on the Watchtower contemplate how to completely shut down the magnetic disruption, Wally just Zetas straight to Earth - no quip, no joke, not even a good-bye kiss to Artemis...he knew he wasn't coming back.
• Official Couple: With Artemis post-Time Skip.
• Pair the Spares: Initially has a thing for Miss Martian, but ends up with Artemis, who initally had a thing for Superboy.
• Plucky Comic Relief
• Red-Headed Hero
• Retirony: In "Endgame".
• Secret Keeper: Not only for Robin's Secret Identity, and Batman's by default, but the fact that he does know is also a secret.
• Selective Obliviousness: While one instance in "Denial" is debatable when Artemis comes in his souvenir room, it's safe to state by "Disordered" that he apparently chooses to ignore, in Canary's words, his "extreme reaction to Artemis' death", and the possible connotations that he may care for her more than he even bargained for.
• Stepford Smiler: Has some elements of a type A. Shown most clearly in "Disordered".
• Super Speed: Unlike the Flash and Impulse, who can travel near the speed of light, Kid Flash's top speed seems to level out around 700 mph or so, similar to how he started out in the comics. He also lacks the Super Reflexes of the Allen lineage.
• Teen Genius: Recent episodes have shown him to be as smart as Robin.
  • Insufferable Genius: In his own words (when Miss Martian was attempting to restore his memories); "Try not to let [my] brilliance overwhelm you."
  • The Smart Guy: His database page says he's a science prodigy. Shown when he instantly recognizes formulas for Venom and Blockbuster.
    • In "Denial" he mentioned that he got his powers by duplicating the Freak Lab Accident that empowered the original Flash.
    • In "Homefront" he talks Robin through making an electromagnetic pulse device to take out the two androids who've taken over Mount Justice.
    • In "Humanity" he explains through a scientific approach how the androids are making a massive volcano that could cause an apocalypse.
  • The sheer breadth and depth of his knowledge, coupled with the uncommon accuracy of his memory (he is never shown needing reference material, which even real world specialized researchers and academics commonly rely on for basic information) would imply borderline Super Intelligence. The Flash family has had (to various degrees depending on the person in question) superhuman memory retention. Impulse, for example, could read and retain an entire library's worth of books.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Along with cutting Artemis more slack, Wally has also toned down his Insufferable Genius tendencies over the course of the first season.
• The Trope Kid
• What the Hell, Hero?: Wally is the designated "What the hell"-er to Dick. Pretty much anytime Robin/Nightwing does something reckless, inconsiderate, or morally gray, Wally will at least question him.
• Youthful Freckles: It's starting to look like a staple for some redheads, if not all.
  • No longer has them at the age of 21.

Superboy (Conner Kent / Kon-El)

• Adaptation Distillation: This version of Conner Kent skips past the vast majority of his two decades of publication and focuses primarily on his angsty days.
• Alliterative Name
• Aloof Big Brother: Acts this way to all the "Freshmen" members of the team in season 2.
• Anti-Hero: At first, though he's been gradually softening. As of Invasion, possibly from being under Superman's wing for the last 5 years, he has become much more heroic since his anger issues have died down and he's troubled by Miss Martian's increased ruthlessness
• Badass
• Battle Couple: With Miss Martian.
• Berserk Button:
  • His issues with Superman. He is also very protective of Miss Martian.
  • Also, due to an incident with an illusion of the Joker in Mount Justice, he hates monkeys. And apes. Not that he's ever come across a normal ape or monkey, mind, nor one that isn't trying to kill him.
  • In "Agendas" he does not take being stuck in a pod wearing his Cadmus suit again very well, even though it's ostensibly meant to heal him.
• The Berserker
• Betty and Veronica: The Archie for Miss Martian's Betty and Artemis' Veronica, though Artemis expressed interest in him exactly once, and M'gann was interested in him from the pilot episode.
  • Also the Veronica to Kid Flash's Betty and Miss Martian's Archie, though Wally's overtures towards her are futile.
• The Big Guy
• Born as an Adult
• Boxing Lessons for Superman: After Black Canary embarrasses him in a training match, he quickly adapts and starts taking judo lessons.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Initially, while at Cadmus.
• Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: Brooding Boy to M'gann's Gentle Girl.
  • Subverted in Season 2.
• Brought to You by the Letter "S": Wears first a t-shirt (season 1) than some sort of short sweater looking thing (season 2), both with Superman's S on the chest.

• Chick Magnet: Sought after by the shy Miss Martian and the aggressive Artemis at first (although the latter only appears to lust for him.) Also the the girls at his new school share an attraction to him in "Targets". Though the angst and his over-protectiveness of Megan was something of a turn-off.
• Civvie Spandex: Like his comics counterpart, his costume is a black t-shirt with the Superman shield and a pair of jeans. Originally in short sleeves, he sports long sleeves in Season 2.
• Clark Kenting: When appearing as a civilian, he just turns his shirt inside out.
  • Taken Up to Eleven in the second season where during an interaction with a (non-hero) friend Conner is wearing his superhero gear, and a jacket.
• Clones Are People Too: Despite having "issues" with Superman, he has an independent life and is slowly forming his own personality.
• Cloning Blues: Being a clone causes him angst of many kinds.
• Cursed with Awesome: He'll never look older than 16. Which also means he'll look great forever.

• Fingerless Gloves: In Season 2.
• Fluffy Tamer: First a robo-sphere, and then a Big Badass Wolf. Justified in that he is a clone of Superman and can handle large animals.
• Foreshadowing: In one of the tie in comics, Superboy is taken shopping at a store called Forever 16. Which he is.
• Genius Bruiser: Strongly implied by his ability to repair technology from New Genesis and half his DNA being Lex Luthor's.
• Good Costume Switch: His initial costume (given to him by Cadmus) is destroyed in the pilot. He gets his traditional outfit shortly after.
  • Light Is Not Good/Dark Is Not Evil: Notably, the first outfit is an all-white bodysuit, while the second is the pictured black-red-and-blue ensemble.
• Guile Hero: In "Terrors", he's surprisingly competent at playing the villains and getting in with them. Or not so surprising, considering his other father is Magnificent Bastard Lex Luthor.
• Hair-Trigger Temper
• Half-Human Hybrid: It turns out that like in the comics, Superboy is the half-Kryptonian, half-human hybrid clone of Superman and Lex Luthor.
• The Heart: Despite all his rough edges, or perhaps because of them, Conner is pretty much always the first one to call What the Hell, Hero? when anyone steps out of line and can be relied on to stand up for anyone, even insane clones or berserking golems.
• Homosexual Reproduction: His two genetic "fathers" are Superman and Lex Luthor.
• Heel Face Turn: Shortly after he first meets the team.
• Hidden Depths: There's actually a reasonably well-tuned brain behind all that superpowered berserker rage.
  • He is also frequently seen working on and presumably repairing the Sphere indicating that he's a mechanical and engineering prodigy. This is because his human parent is Lex Luthor.
• How Do I Shot Web?: Deals with this a bit in his introduction; he apparently knows he's a clone of Superman but not about the slight differences in their power sets.
• In a Single Bound: He does this in almost every episode. He's heartbroken in the series premiere when he realizes he can't actually fly.
• Innocent Fanservice Boy: When M'gann tells him he can't wear what he normally does to wear at school, he promptly changes. In front of her. This causes her to blush and turn away.
• Interspecies Romance: With M'gann.
• "It" Is Dehumanizing: Referred to as such by Cadmus. It comes with the Cloning Blues.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: As mentioned above, he really wants Superman's acceptance and to essentially be just like Supes. And he is trying to work through the "jerk" bit... ... and failing. Yes, five years later he's still a dick, though a more intelligent, experienced and disciplined one.
• Laser Guided Tykebomb: Heavily implied to be the intention behind his creation, as well as another reason why Superman has such a hard time trusting/accepting him. Superboy's own words are that he was created to replace Superman should he be killed in action, or to personally kill Superman himself should he turn from "The Light". Given he was developed as a weapon, that many of The Light's operations have been countermeasures against the Justice League and that Lex Luthor is a council member, it's more than likely they had the latter option in mind.
  • Subverted in "Usual Suspects". Cadmus may have intended to have more control, but by the time Superboy was broken out they'd only gotten so far as implanting a shut-down phrase.
• Last Minute Hookup: Finally gets together with Miss Martian again at the end of Season 2.
• Leeroy Jenkins: Luthor's shields bring out this side of him; he either bites off more than he can chew or causes so much property damage it endangers the team.
• Living Lie Detector: His hearing is sensitive enough to detect changes in heart rate.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: Has Lex Luthor as his "second father"
• Maybe Ever After: The season 2 finale implies that he and Miss Martian will get back together. Due to the series and its tie-in comic being cancelled, it becomes this trope.
• May-December Romance: With M'gann.
• Mix-and-Match Man: Of Superman and Lex Luthor.
• Mythology Gag: As pointed out by Word Of God, he's an imperfect clone of Superman, and as such only has Superman's original powerset (strength, not quite superspeed, invulnerability, not flight).
• Nature Versus Nurture: Played with throughout the series. He was built as a weapon of the villainous group The Light, but after being rescued from Cadmus has been raised as a superhero.
  • Becomes an even bigger question when it's revealed only half of his genetic makeup is Superman's, with the other half being Lex Luthor's.
• Never Grew Up: Just like (briefly) in the comics, Conner doesn't grow older due to being a clone. In the Season 2 premiere, Conner still looks the same while the rest of the team has grown into young adulthood.
• Nigh Invulnerable
• No Social Skills: Made all the more evident when he and M'gann go to school in episode 10. Only her telepathic pleas/hints kept him under control.
• Not Growing Up Sucks: As a byproduct of the cloning process, Superboy will never age past 16.
• Not Wearing Tights: He's very adamant about this.
• Oblivious to Love: At first.
• Odd Friendship: He develops one with Icicle Jr. in "Terrors".
• Official Couple: With M'gann after "Terrors". By the time of Season 2, Superboy broke off his relationship with M'gann, because of her willingness to Mind Rape her enemies. The last straw came when she tried to make him forget he was ever upset with her. Despite this, he still has feelings for her.
• Omniglot: Superboy knows many languages, including, but not limited to, English, Spanish, French, Korean, Arabic, Russian, etc. It's justified, seeing as he was fed copious amounts of information by the G-nomes as part of his conditioning.
• Really Was Born Yesterday: He's physically and mentally sixteen years old, but is actually sixteen weeks old as of the pilot.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Aqualad's blue.
• Secret Secret Keeper: He knew about M'gann's White Martian form before they even started dating. He figured she'd tell him when she was ready to.
• Shirtless Scene: A lot of times.
• Smug Super: Initially started to disrespect Black Canary because of her lack of luck in the Super Power Lottery, but she makes him eat his words. Robin has some poignant words for him when Superboy disses Black Canary for this.
• Sugar and Ice Personality
• Super Dickery: When the team first meets Superboy, he beats them all unconscious even though they were the ones to free him. Turns out he wasn't in full control of his actions because he was being mind controlled by G-Gnomes.
• Superpower Lottery
  • Super Senses: So far, telescopic and infra-red vision, along with super-hearing.
  • Super Strength
  • Super Toughness
• Super Serum: The Shields given to him by Lex repress his human DNA, giving him the full range of Kryptonian powers for about an hour. Unfortunately, it also exacerbates his already Hair-Trigger Temper, and the effect seems to compound each time he uses one.
• Taking the Bullet: Not a lethal variant, but the spirit is the same. When Blue Beetle turns on the team in "War", he jumps in front of a restraining staple meant for Arsenal, letting himself be captured so Arsenal could flee.
• Tall, Dark and Handsome
• Tranquil Fury: He's working on it. By Season 2, he's mostly succeeded. His confrontation with Nightwing in "The Fix" is probably the best example, never raising his voice once despite being very, very angry.
• Trigger Phrase: Luthor can shut him down for hours with the phrase "red sun"... Or he could, until Miss Martian removed it in "Usual Suspects".
• Troubled, but Cute
• Two First Names: Lampshaded. Miss Martian assumes Martian Manhunter gave him the name Kent as a tribute to the late Kent Nelson, prompting the response, "Shouldn't my name be Conner Nelson?"
• Tykebomb
  • Defusing The Tykebomb
• Unresolved Sexual Tension: With Miss Martian until "Terrors". They go back to it in season 2.
• Unskilled, but Strong: He's working on it, though.
• Unstoppable Rage: Luthor's shields, which allow him full access to his Kryptonian powers, only make matters worse. He's learning how to turn it into Tranquil Fury (by season 2 he's made some progress).
• “Well Done Son” Guy: His first encounter with Superman saw him earnestly looking for Superman's approval. From there, things only get worse.
  • Things start to get better in "Auld Acquaintance" when Superman finally starts talking to him.
  • And by Season 2, they are obviously close and Superman has given him a Kryptonian name.
• What the Hell, Hero?:
  • When he sees what M'gann did to get information from the Krolotean mook in "Earthlings". He's cut off before he can really get going, but he's clearly shaken by it. In fact, this is what led to their break-up. That and M'gann tampering with his memories.
  • He also calls out Nightwing in "The Fix" for keeping the double-agent missions a secret and inadvertently dragging M'Gann into the mess, with the potential of getting all three teammates killed.
• When He Smiles
• Working With The Ex: In season 2 with Miss Martian.
• Would Hit a Girl: To protect another girl.

Miss Martian (M'gann M'orzz / Megan Morse)

• Action Girl
• Adaptation Dye Job: Her eyes went from green to brown.
• Adorkable: Many of her early social interactions in the first season. Not so much later on.
• Aliens Steal Cable: Everything she knows about Earth comes from watching TV. Her appearance and mannerisms are modeled after a character in the aptly named Hello, Megan television series.
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: Smitten with the Troubled, but Cute Superboy.
• Alliterative Name
• Amicable Exes: With Lagoon Boy.
• Anti-Hero: She's generally a decent, heroic person who genuinely cares for her team-mates, but she's willing to Mind Rape and kill to accomplish her goals. This includes psychically attacking her own team-mates and effectively lobotimising Psimon to hide her true appearance, and later turning two separate Kroleteans into vegetables just to learn their secrets. The second time is especially notable as she did this in front of Batman and J'onn with no hesitation. Conner calls her on this, but she justifies it by saying that she only does it to the bad guys. This didn't stop her from trying to make Conner forget he was ever upset with her...
• Badass in Distress: Kidnapped by Black Manta in "The Fix" to reverse her Mind Rape of Kaldur.
• Bald Women: The "true" Martian form she shows her team-mates in "Image". Not that her actual true form isn't bald too...
• Battle Couple: With Superboy.
• Beauty Equals Goodness: Subverted. Her true form looks more like a xenomorph than a cheerleader.
  • Doubly subverted as of season 2. Although she's not exactly evil, she's by far the most anti-heroic of this series heroes.
• Beneath the Mask: In the episode "Image" we learn most of her eccentricities and mannerism are modeled after a character on an old sitcom.
• Berserk Button: Do not taunt her about losing Conner's love, the team's approval, or being banished back to Mars for being a White Martian. When Psimon did it, M'gann put him into a coma.
• Betty and Veronica: The Betty to Artemis' Veronica for Superboy's Archie early in season 1. Conner eventually reciprocates her affection in "Terrors".
  • Also the Archie to Kid Flash's Betty and Superboy's Veronica, though she was making moves on Conner from the start while Wally was making moves on her until reality hit.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Just ask Psimon. After he wakes up from a five year coma...
  • And Kaldur.
• Bizarre Alien Biology: She's forty-eight in Earth years. However, since her species ages more slowly than humans, she's physically and mentally sixteen. And then there's her real form, which has matchstick limbs and appears to have part of her brain on the outside.
• Blood Siblings: With Beast Boy.
• Blush Sticker
• Boyish Short Hair: Post-timeskip.
• Break the Cutie: "Failsafe". That is all.
  • And again in "Image".
• Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: Gentle Girl to Superboy's Brooding Boy.
  • Subverted in Season 2.
• Brown Eyes
• Catch Phrase: "Hello, Megan!" whenever she realizes something important or thinks of an idea.
  • Seems to have drastically reduced its usage after the Time Skip.
• The Chick: At least in Season 1. She ultimately subverts or deconstructs most of the tropes associated with the chick.
• Cool Big Sis: To Beast Boy.
• Cool Starship
• Corrupt the Cutie
• Cute Monster Girl: Just look at the picture. Averted like you wouldn't believe with her true form.
• The Cutie: Deconstructed. She based her looks and mannerisms off a cutie-type from a television show, due to her extreme fear of being rejected for her true White Martian appearance.
  • Cute and Psycho: No, we didn't see this one coming, either.
• Dark Secret: M'gann is really a White Martian masquerading as a Green Martian to avoid discrimination, as first seen in "Image".
• Deadpan Snarker: She gets a snarky moment in "Performance".
  M'gann: Aw, poor baby. Something you ate?
• Dissonant Serenity: She's lobotomized two characters on screen without batting an eyelash.
  • She even thought to take the Krolotean's belt as a souveneir for Beast Boy mid-lobotomy.
• Dogged Nice Girl: For Superboy.
• Dude Magnet: All the boys are pleased to see her, except Superboy, who is indifferent to her until "Terrors", where Superboy reveals that her feelings for him are reciprocated.
• Every Girl Is Cuter with Hair Decs: Sports a headband when she's in her civvies.
• Expository Hairstyle: After the Time Skip, she appears with the shorter haircut pictured here. Whether or not that is important has yet to be divulged.
  • It seems to represent her abandonment of her previous sitcom high school cheerleader persona for a more no-nonsense command role (the haircut has a military look to it.)
• Fangirl: Of the sitcom Hello, Megan!. It only lasted one season but the broadcasts of it gave her comfort when she was living alone on Mars and she based her whole personality and appearance when she came to Earth on the main character. When she meets the "real" Megan, Marie Logan, in "Image" she pesters her with questions about the show.
• Fantastic Racism: Had been on the receiving end back on Mars for being a White Martian.
• Final Girl: She's the last one to die in "Failsafe".
• Fish out of Water: She learned about Earth by watching TV and is ignorant of more common social behaviours and struggles to learn what is appropriate with regards to telepathy and privacy. She also shapeshifted into Black Canary while kissing Conner. J'onn says that in Mars it's common to shape-shift for a partner since everyone can read minds and wouldn't be caught off guard. Black Canary still finds it wrong.
• Girly Bruiser
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: When she uses her psychic powers.
• Good Is Not Soft: In "Image" and Season Two.
• Green-Skinned Space Babe: Her usual appearance. Subverted, since that's not her real form: her true white martian self barely has any human characteristics, let alone human female ones.
• Heel Realization: Finding out Aqualad is a Fake Defector is what finally convinces her to cool it with all the mind-breaking.
• Heroes Want Redheads: She starts out in the middle of a Love Triangle with Superboy and Kid Flash.
• Heroic BSOD: M'gann is completely devastated when she mind rapes Kaldur, only to discover that he was a Fake Defector the whole time.
  • It was bad enough that she became a Death Seeker in "The Fix"
• Human Aliens: Subverted with her true form.
• I Am Not Left-Handed: Using her shape-shifting powers to look like a Green Martian appears to limit her psychic abilities. After shifting into her true White Martian form, she was easily able to mentally overpower both Psimon in "Image" and later her uncle J'onn in in "Auld Acquaintance".
• I Just Want to Have Friends: Part of her underlying reasons for hiding her true form as a White Martian until "Usual Suspects" — she was scared of being rejected by the team (especially Superboy), just as she was rejected for being a White Martian on Mars.
• Interspecies Romance: With Superboy and Lagoon Boy.
• In the Hood: Her stealth outfit includes a hooded cloak. Though she doesn't usually wear the hood up unless she's using her camouflage powers.
• Jack of All Stats: According to her stats, she's about the middle of the road in almost all areas plus her additional powers (telepathy, telekinesis, partial invisibility, etc. etc.).
  • However, in "Failsafe" we learn that M'gann's potential telepathic power exceeds that of J'onn.
• The Lancer: Seems to be filling this role to Nightwing in Season 2 seeing as how she's clearly commanding every squad she's in and is seen to be placed in charge of whatever squad has the most important mission.
• Last Minute Hookup: Finally gets together with Superboy again at the end of Season 2.
• Like Brother and Sister: How she describes her feelings toward Kaldur in "Denial".
• Limited Wardrobe: The outfit she claimed to have spent "hours" picking out for her first day at school is the one she usually wears at Mount Justice.
• Magic Pants: She explains that her outfit is organic and responds to her mental commands.
• Make-Out Kids: With Lagoon Boy.
• Maybe Ever After: The season 2 finale implies that she and Superboy will get back together. Due to the series and its tie-in comic being cancelled, it becomes this trope.
• May-December Romance: With Superboy and Lagoon Boy.
• A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: This hits her big time in the Season 2 episode "Before the Dawn" when she Mind Rapes Aqualad and learns that he's a Reverse Mole.
• Mind Over Manners: She had to learn this in her introduction episode. She didn't take into account that since she immigrated to a planet where the majority of the population doesn't have telepathy, many people would find it rude and intrusive for her to use it without permission.
  • Of course, once the team gets used to the psychic link they start slipping into it automatically whenever they want to have a private conversation, which then leads to others viewing them as rude when they have silent conversations that no one else can hear.
  • Also encountered problems with shapeshifting in "Image", where M'gann took the form of Black Canary and made out with Connor. As Black Canary is both their teacher and married (though Green Arrow found it hilarious after identities were straightened out), she had to explain that shapeshifting tends to be controversial on Earth.
• Mind Rape: Does this via telepathy to Psimon in "Image", two Kroleteans early in season 2, and Kaldur in "Before the Dawn". Also lampshaded by Superboy, whose memories she tried to tamper with during the Time Skip.
  Superboy: After all that we've been through... how could you think I wouldn't recognize your touch inside my mind? Didn't you know what that touch meant to me? And to have you pervert it like that.
• My Brain Is Big: When she's in her true form, it's so big that it hangs out of the back of her head. We later see that this is standard for both species of Martian.
• My God, What Have I Done?: After she mind rapes Kaldur, and the Heroic BSOD she experiences shows that she asks herself the same question throughout the rest of the episode.
• Naďve Newcomer
  • No longer is one, as of Season 2, M'gann has become an Anti-Hero who is unafraid of doing whatever it takes (even Mind Rape).
• Not So Different: From Psimon, according to Superboy. It was part of the reason he broke up with her.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: Been part of her character since the beginning. She smashes the crap out of Mr Twister with a big ass rock, curbstomps Psimon twice and Mind Rapes the occasional Krolotean to gain information. This leads her to put the whammy on Kaldur as revenge for killing Artemis. When she learns the truth, she has a Heroic BSOD.
• Official Couple: With Superboy after "Terrors". In season 2, they broke up some time during the five-year timeskip. Now she's dating Lagoon Boy. Superboy is the one who broke it off, after her casual Mind Rape started bothering him and she tried to wipe his memories of it to fix things. Being intimately familiar with her powers, he caught her in the act.
• Older Than She Looks: Thanks to Martians aging about three times slower than humans. In season 1 for instance she's around the same maturity as a 16-year-old human, but is actually 48.
• Power Incontinence: "Failsafe" ends up as a result of this after her subconscious hijacked the psychic training exercise by accident, resulting in the members of the team who 'died' in the exercise going comatose.
• Power Perversion Potential: Apparently not averse to using shapeshifting for roleplaying. Black Canary is not amused.
• Promoted to Love Interest: Her comic counterpart hardly had any interaction with Superboy, even less romantic relationship.
• Promotion to Parent: After Beast Boy's mom dies.
• Red-Headed Heroine
• Refuge in Audacity: During the Time Skip, Superboy began to be disturbed by the ease with which she would threaten and destroy the minds of her opponents, accusing her of abusing her powers. The tension arising from the disagreement threatened their relationship. So Miss Martian tried rewrite his mind so that he wouldn't remember that he'd been angry with her or why, affirming his accusations. Superboy, knowing when he was being psychically attacked from his experiences with Megan, caught her in the act.
• Shapeshifter Default Form: Type B. Generally defaults to a green-skinned version of the main character from a tv show she loved as a child, even though her original form is that of a less humanoid White Martian.
• Shipper on Deck: Ships Artemis with Kid Flash, if only for the sake of trying to deflect her eye from Superboy.
• Some Call Me Megan
• Spanner in the Works: Her Mind Rape of Kaldur continues to have consequences three episodes after she did it, and things look like they'll snowball from there.
• Stepford Smiler: Shows some shadows of this since her first appearances, confirmed to be a Type A in the episode "Images", when it's revealed that all the back story she gave the team is a lie and that her current looks and mannerisms are based on an 80's sitcom, because she felt alone in place where she was discriminated for being a White Martian.
• Sugar and Ice Personality: In the Second Season she acts like a loving big sister to Beast Boy, and a cold squad leader to everyone else (except Lagoon Boy).
• Super Power Lottery: Definitely a winner:
  • Psychic Powers
    • Mind Over Matter: Which she also uses to simulate Flight.
    • Telepathy: She trumps J'onn in this department.
  • Shapeshifting
    • Invisibility: More like very good camouflage since people can still see her if she moves too much (like the Predator from the eponymous film).
    • Intangible Man: While she doesn't have this power in season 1 due to lack of skill with her shapeshifting, during the 5 year Time Skip at the start of season 2 she finally masters this technique.
    • Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Grows five arms in one episode to fight off a bunch of flying monkey robots, including growing one from her head. In another episode, she doubles up her arms to briefly augment her telekinesis.
  • Super Strength: While not nearly as powerful as a Kryptonian, Martians are physically stronger than humans.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: "On Mars, the white minority are treated like second-class citizens by the green majority. Of course, I'm green..."
• Tautological Templar:
  Megan: Those weren't victims! They're the bad guys!
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Girly Girl to Artemis' Tomboy.
• Took a Level in Badass: During the Time Skip.
• Town Girls: The Femme to Zatanna's Neither and Artemis' Butch.
• Translator Microbes: She can serve this function psychically when not facilitating straight telepathy.
• Unresolved Sexual Tension: With Superboy until "Terrors". They go back to it in season 2.
• Unscrupulous Hero: In Season 2, she has become very willing to use Mind Rape against her enemies not caring about the consequences that might have. She justifies it by saying that she only does it to the bad guys and the information she gets from them helps the team.
• Unskilled, but Strong: J'onn theorized that she has the potential to be a psychic leagues beyond him after her subconscious accidently hijacked his psychic training exercise and overwhelmed him even after he tried to reassert control.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Placing a Mind Rape on Fake Defector Aqualad wasn't the best idea you had.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Falling into this in Season 2 - she's willing to Mind Rape aliens to learn their secrets and then to Kaldur as revenge.
• Wham Line: YOU DON'T KNOW ME AT ALL!
• What Measure Is a Non-Cute?
• Working With The Ex: In season 2, with Superboy. And later with Lagoon Boy
• Youthful Freckles

Red Arrow / Speedy (Roy Harper)

• Action Dad
• Actor Allusion: To Tsume, another Anti-Hero Jerk with a Heart of Gold among a team of teenagers.
• Back for the Finale: In both seasons
• Badass Normal: His skill with the bow is such that he was able to aim (and actually hit) a target that Artemis (who's been shown to hit multiple targets at once) didn't want to risk aiming at. On the other hand, Artemis' reluctance likely had something to do with her desire to keep her relation to Cheshire and Sportsmaster a secret, the latter being the target Speedy hit.
• Battle Couple: With Cheshire.
• Beard of Sorrow: Has one in "Salvage", but soon shaves it off after finding out he's a father.
• Berserk Button: Being called a sidekick.
• Clones Are People Too: Even after finding out he was a clone, he eventually got married and had a daughter.
• Cloning Blues: The Roy seen throughout season 1 is a clone, and his existential angst about this revelation has nearly destroyed him by the beginning of season 2. Luckily, Cheshire steps in to save him from himself.
• Composite Character: Inverted. He and Arsenal each borrow different elements from the original comic book Speedy.
• Dating Catwoman: With Cheshire.
• Deadpan Snarker: Like Wally, more deadpan than snarky.
• Expressive Mask
• Fashionable Asymmetry
• Fiery Redhead
• Fingerless Gloves
• Guttural Growler: Goes into this during his addiction problem in "Salvage". It also makes him sound like Alucard.
• Heroic BSOD: After finding out he was both The Mole and a clone of the original Speedy. It lasts a good five years.
• Hot Dad
• Humble Pie: It's one thing to find out you're a clone. It's another to find out that The Mole you've been looking for all this time is YOU.
• I Will Find You: He spent most of the five-year time skip searching for the original Roy Harper, even as everyone else gave up.
• Ineffectual Loner
• Jerkass: Often treats his friends and random bystanders like a jerk.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite this, he does genuinely care about his friends and secretly looks out for them. In "Performance" for instance, he shows real concern for Robin when he finds out the hero's become ill.
  • Took a Level in Jerkass: In "Insecurity" is especially nasty to Artemis, Superboy and Miss Martian. This turned out to have been part of his subconscious Cadmus programming to get suspicion off him as the true mole while causing discord within the team.
    • Took a Level in Kindness: After recovering the original Speedy in Season 2 there is almost nothing of the old angry and resentful Roy, even giving Ollie a You Are Better Than You Think You Are speech
• Manchurian Agent
• Out of Focus: He basically vanishes from the plot in Season 2 after rescuing the original Roy Harper.
• Put on a Bus: In season 2, after finding the real Roy Harper, clone!Roy disappears from the series entirely.
• Rage Against the Mentor: Goes on a tirade against Green Arrow and Rage Quits in the very first episode of the show for being put on the "sidekick team", then spends much of season 1 operating alone as Red Arrow to prove to Ollie he's just as good.
  • Inverted 5 years later in "Satisfaction", where after Ollie rages against himself for failing all his proteges, Roy reassures him that, despite their differences, he's always considered Ollie a good man.
• Rage Quit
• Red-Headed Hero
• Red Is Heroic
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here
• Secret Keeper: Knew Artemis wasn't Green Arrow's niece from the start, but only confronts Artemis about it when they're alone, and leaves it to her to tell her friends the truth.
• Sidekick Graduations Stick: Within the first six episodes, Roy changes his hero identity from Speedy to Red Arrow.
• Sixth Ranger: An older peer of the team who sometimes works with them but tries to be independent. His designation is also B06.
• Sleeves Are for Wimps
• Tomato in the Mirror: "I... I was the mole?"
  • Up to Eleven. He's a clone of Roy Harper who replaced the original mere months after Roy became Green Arrow's sidekick, which means he was Speedy for years, even longer than the original Speedy!
• Trauma Conga Line: Finds out he was The Mole and a clone, gets hunted like an animal by Brainwashed and Crazy Leaguers, and then spends the next 5 years in a Heroic BSOD while all his friends tell him he's gone crazy.
• Wham Episode: "Usual Suspects" and "Auld Acquaintance" reveal that he was The Mole, and a clone who replaced the original Roy years ago.
• Youthful Freckles: Averted. Notable that he's one of the few redheads without them, even in his younger days.

Artemis / Tigress (Artemis Crock)

• Abusive Parents: Her father, Sportsmaster, was both verbally and emotionally abusive to her and her sister Jade. Her mother, despite being a former villain, is extremely loving and supportive.
• Action Girl
• Adaptation Dye Job: Comic book Artemis has blue eyes, while this Artemis has dark gray ones. Oddly, promotional material and early tie in comics featured her with blue eyes as well, before updating them to gray later on.
• Adaptation Expansion: While a minor villain in the comics, Artemis has multiple major story arcs in the show.
• Adaptational Heroism: Her comics namesake is evil.
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: Had a crush on Superboy, and even gets pissed off when she finds out he and M'gann have been dating in "Secrets."
• Badass
  • Badass Normal
  • Heartbroken Badass: After Wally dies.
  • Retired Badass: Post-Time Skip.
• Bad Liar: Ninja boyfriends. And cousins who did not W-I-N the state spelling bee.
• Bare Your Midriff
• Battle Couple: With Kid Flash.
• Becoming the Mask: "The Fix" shows that she fears doing this, and sometimes looks in the mirror purely to remind herself that she's Artemis.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: She has this with Kid Flash in spades.
• Betty and Veronica: The Veronica to Miss Martian's Betty for Superboy's Archie. Superboy ends up dating M'gann.
• Blatant Lies: About her backstory:
  • While she was amnesiac, she revealed to Kid Flash that it would be fully in character for her father to send her out to kill someone like him as a test. After they got their memories back, he questioned her about this where she hastily made up a story about a movie plot with ninjas.
  • In a later episode Robin noticed her in Gotham City instead of where Green Arrow lives. She said she was visiting her cousin. Robin had taken a picture with her in his civilian identity as a joke, and was just trolling the hell out of her.
• Blood Knight: Her preferred response to emotional stress is to look for an ass to kick.
• Broken Bird: Due to emotional abuse by her father during her childhood. Much of her Character Development in Season 1 revolves around growing out of her personal trauma.
• Cain and Abel: She's a hero while her sister is the villian Cheshire. Reversed in season 2 when Artemis becomes a Reverse Mole in Black Manta's group, while Jade becomes an Anti-Villain out to destroy them.
• Childhood Friends: With Cameron AKA Icicle Jr, as shown in the tie-in comics. (In the main DC universe, their counterparts are married.)
• Composite Character: Is a composite of heroine Arrowette (Suzanne "Cissie" King-Jones) and villianess Tigress III (Artemis Crock) from the Young Justice comics.
• Dark-Skinned Blond
• Deadpan Snarker: Mostly toward Wally. Gets one with Red Arrow in "Insecurity".
• Defrosting Ice Queen: Towards Wally mainly, but has also warmed up to Robin and Zatanna.
• Evil Costume Switch: After joining Aqualad's Reverse Mole operation inside The Light as the villian Tigress.
• Faking the Dead: In order to infiltrate the Light.
• Family Theme Naming: Assumes the identity of Tigress in Season 2, following the theme of her mother and sister's code names Huntress and Cheshire.
• Freudian Slip: During her therapy session with Black Canary, Artemis accidentally lets it slip that she's more worried about Wally learning about her past than anyone else on the team.
• Gray Eyes: She has dark gray eyes that look almost black.
• Green-Eyed Monster: She wasn't too happy with Wally's birthday wish for M'gann to kiss him in "Coldhearted".
• Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: Subverted as of "Secrets." Artemis prefers ranged combat, but is fully capable of beating the shit out of people with her bare hands, hell she even enjoys it.
• Holding Hands: With Kid Flash in "Bereft."
• Indy Ploy: In "The Fix", she quickly copes with Psimon being brought in to cure Kaldur, which could expose them both, by disabling him and convincing Black Manta to get M'gann instead, thereby allowing Kaldur to be cured without anyone being the wiser. Not bad for a Bad Liar.
• Ineffectual Loner
  • I Just Want to Have Friends/I Just Want to Be Special: Episode 23 reveals just how much she wants to be part of the team. When she finds out she was only allowed on the Team because her mother begged the League, and not because of her skills, she's crushed.
    • Also goes to extreme lengths in "Insecurity" to prevent the Team from learning about her villian family.
• Irony: In the first season she lies about being Oliver's niece to justify her sidekick status. In the second season, her sister has married Roy Harper's clone, meaning Artemis actually is Ollie's niece-in-law by a tenuous mix of blood and legality.
• Jumped at the Call: She is quite happy to stay with Wally, but sprung back out of retirement when Nightwing called. At the end of Season 2, Artemis gets back into full-time hero work to cope with Wally's death—despite his dying while on the team.
• Licked by the Dog: Wolf doesn't sound the alarm when she puts an inhibitor collar on him just before infiltrating Mount Justice.
• Meaningful Name: In Greek Mythology, Artemis is the goddess of archery.
• Meaningful Rename: Tigress, a mix of the hunter and cat motifs of her mother and sister's code names Huntress and Cheshire. She decides to take on the name full-time in the season 2 finale as a way of coping with Wally's death; according to her, "Artemis" was his partner and she needs distance.
• The Mirror Shows Your True Self: Inverted, then played straight in season 2.
• Mysterious Past: Her father is Sportsmaster, her mother is the ex-villain Huntress and her sister is Cheshire. Artemis hides this from the team until "Usual Suspects."
• Mythology Gag: Her villain alias, Tigress, is what her evil comics counterpart uses. Her mother Paula is also the original Tigress in the comics, though she was called Huntress (her own alias in the show) until the Bat-Family member of the same name was introduced.
• Never Got To Say Goodbye: To Wally.
• Official Couple: With Wally post-Time Skip.
• Pair the Spares: Initially has a thing for Superboy, but ends up with Kid Flash, who initially had a thing for Miss Martian.
• Promoted to Love Interest: Her comic counterpart was a villain who had no relationship with Kid Flash.
• Race Lift: She's half Vietnamese, while her comics counterparts are fully Caucasian.
• Rapunzel Hair: Keeps it around waist length.
• Reality Is Unrealistic: A major complaint about her character design is how she's half Asian but has blond hair. She's actually visually based on producer Victor Cook's daughter, who is a natural blonde despite having parents who are both half-Asian. In the same Q&A Greg hints that the identity of Artemis' grandparents will be important.
• Real Name as an Alias
• Reverse Mole: After faking her own death to build Kaldur's credibility with the Light, she joins him as a mole in Black Manta's organization.
• Sexy Shirt Switch: Wears nothing but a red jersey of Wally's on Valentine's Day.
• She Is All Grown Up: According to Icicle Jr.
• Shipper on Deck: Ships Miss Martian with Aqualad, if only for the sake of trying to deflect her interest in Superboy.
• Sixth Ranger: Breaks the original Five-Man Band when she joins the Team a few episodes into season 1.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Tomboy to Miss Martian's Girly Girl.
• Tomboyish Ponytail
• Town Girls: The Butch to Zatanna's Neither and Miss Martian's Femme.
• Troubled Fetal Position: Goes into one of these during "Homefront" after the rest of team is captured.
• Tsundere: Mostly towards Wally.
• Twofer Token Minority: She's one of the few females and is half-Vietnamese.
• Vasquez Always Dies: She's the first one to die in "Failsafe."
  • Subverted in "Depths." She's the first of the old team to "die" but it's part of an elaborate plan concocted by her, Wally, Nightwing, and Aqualad.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Gives one to Miss Martian telepathically after M'gann Mind Rapes Kaldur.
• White Sheep: The rest of her family are either villains or ex-villians.

Zatanna (Zatanna Zatara)

• Alliterative Name
• Amicable Exes: With Nightwing after the time skip. Occasionally implied to still be Friends with Benefits with him.
• Attack Reflector: In "Cornered", she uses a spell which reflects Despero's Evil Eye back at him.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: In "Misplaced", she wishes her father, Zatara, would give her some space. By the end of the episode, she gets what she wants, but not how she wants and it leaves her crying.
• Birds of a Feather: Tells Robin to "Be as 'Chalant' as he wants." After the time skip, they're even Amicable Exes.
• Black Magician Girl
• Bound and Gagged: In "Secrets". Also subjects Riddler to this in "Usual Suspects"
• Break the Cutie: Zatanna suffered this in "Misplaced" after her father had became a permanent host for Dr. Fate.
• Break The Game Breaker: In "Cornered" Despero tries to do this trope by paralyzing her with his Evil Eye as soon as he sees her. It was a good idea too, as soon as Ms. Martian wakes her up, Zatanna possesses Mal Duncan in about half a second and then renders Despero, who had spent the entire episode effortlessly Curb Stomping Captain Marvel and Superboy, helpless with one spell.
• Character Focus: Shares the spotlight with Artemis in "Secrets".
• Combat Stilettos: Averted in this incarnation of the character. She wears square-heeled boots which are practical enough for battle. Lampshaded in "Secrets" when she magically changes them into flat sole boots during a chase scene.
• Cute Witch: Even wears a "traditional" witch costume for Halloween.
  • Hot Witch: Her outfit for season 2 seems hell bent on emphasizing the fact, especially with its much lower neck line.
• Deadpan Snarker: A more subtle variant compared to Artemis and the boys.
• Elemental Powers: As part of her Vancian Magic.
  • An Ice Person
  • Making a Splash
  • Playing with Fire
• Functional Magic
• Genre Savvy
• Ms. Fanservice
• Mundane Utility: Seems to know a lot of spells for quickly altering her own or others' clothing.
• Plucky Girl
• Sidekick Graduations Stick
• Sixth Ranger: Though initially a Guest Star Party Member in "Humanity" and "Secrets", she becomes this at the end of "Misplaced".
• Squishy Wizard: Even more so than Miss Martian, as she has to actually incant all of her spells and doesn't have stealth or mobility.
• Took a Level in Badass: In one episode, she was very hesitant to cast a locator spell. Next episode? She attacks an ice fortress and burns it.
• Town Girls: The Neither to Miss Martian's Femme and Artemis' Butch.
• Vancian Magic: She has to memorize each spell individually and casting each spell exhausts her, the only thing non-Vancian is that she doesn't forget the spells after she casts them.
• Warrior Therapist: To Artemis in "Secrets", though she refuses to heed her advice concerning bad secrets.
• Weak, but Skilled

Rocket (Raquel Ervin)

• Action Girl
• Amicable Exes: With Nightwing after the time skip.
• Audience Surrogate
• Barrier Warrior
• Chekhov's Gunman
• Deadpan Snarker
• Energy Absorption: Her barriers only get stronger when kinetic energy is applied. She demonstrates and explains this when she traps Wonder Woman in one.
• Eleventh Hour Ranger: Joins the team in the second-to-last episode of the first season. By the time the second season starts, she's already joined the Justice League.
• Exiled from Continuity: Rocket and Icon have been prevented from appearing in the tie-in comics.
• Flight
• Happily Married: Or engaged. Even has a bridal shower in "Satisfaction".
• Hot Mom: Issue #20 of the tie-in comic implies that she has a son like her comic counterpart.
• Is It Always Like This?
  Rocket: It is always like this!
  Zatanna: Told ya.
• Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better
• The Knights Who Say Squee/Ascended Fangirl: In "Usual Suspects" she says that sidekicks like Aqualad, Kid Flash and Robin were her inspiration.
• The Other Darrin
• Sassy Black Woman: A milder example than most people who fall under the trope, but she still fits the bill.
• Sidekick Graduations Stick

Miss Martian's Bio Ship

• Invisibility: Has the same type of camouflage as its owner.
• Living Ship
• Shapeshifting: Can transform from an egg-shaped "sleep mode" of sorts into a full-sized ship. Any and all exits from the craft are also made by simply shapeshifting a hole in the hull.

Sphere / The Super Cycle

• Companion Cube: Superboy seems to be able to understand its moods.
• Cool Bike: Can transform into one.
• Mama Bear: Is very protective of Superboy.
• Puppeteer Parasite: A heroic version. Sphere can transform into a bug-like control apparatus and latch onto certain mechanical foes, at which point Superboy can control them by "driving" them through Sphere. It worked on Infinity Man, but the Appellaxian golem avoided the attempt.
• Samus Is a Girl
• Team Pet

Wolf

Voiced by Dee Bradley Baker

• Amplified Animal Aptitude: Thanks to Kobra Venom.
• Big Badass Wolf
• A Dog Named Dog
• Expy: He resembles Krypto the Superdog somewhat. Kid Flash suggesting naming him that, but Wolf rejected it. And M'gann said it was taken.
• Shipper on Deck: For Superboy/Miss Martian. In "Happy New Year", he doesn't like seeing M'gann with Lagoon Boy.
• Team Pet: This doesn't stop him from being treated like any other operative on missions, however.

Tempest (Garth)

Voiced by Yuri Lowenthal

• Apparently Human Merfolk: As a "pure" Atlantean he looks almost exactly like a normal human his age.
• Back for the Finale: Shows up in the background of a group shot in "Endgame"
• Bishōnen
• Childhood Friend Romance: With Tula.
• Does Not Like Shoes
• Superpower Lottery: As an Atlantean sorcerer, he has:
  • Elemental Powers
    • Making a Splash
    • Shock and Awe
    • Blow You Away
  • Super Strength
  • Super Toughness
  • Super Senses
  • Super Speed: In the water.
  • Required Secondary Powers
• Everything's Better with Spinning: Has the power to summon "the Tempest", which manifests as powerful whirlpools and storms.
• Functional Magic
• Kung-Fu Wizard: Compared to Magic Knight Aqualad.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: His entire time with the team happened during the timeskip and he's since left by the time season 2 starts. The videogame will take place while he was still part of it, however.
• Purple Eyes
• Put on a Bus: Leaves the team following Tula's death.
• Tall, Dark and Handsome
• Tron Lines
• Two Guys and a Girl: The original dynamic between him, Kaldur and Tula.
• What Could Have Been: Discussed in-universe. Garth could easily have become Aqualad, like he is in many other iterations of the DC universe, instead of Kaldur.

Aquagirl (Tula)

Voiced by Cree Summer (Season 1)

Voiced by Stephanie Lemelin (Season 2)

• Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder: Implied to be the reason she wound up with Garth instead of Kaldur.
• Apparently Human Merfolk: As a "pure" Atlantean she looks almost exactly like a normal human her age.
• Bare Your Midriff
• Childhood Friend Romance: With Garth.
• Elemental Powers
• Functional Magic
• Heroes Want Redheads: She's a redhead and romantically pursued by Aqualad and Garth.
• The Lost Lenore
• Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
• Taking the Bullet: For Garth when he was attacked from behind.
• Youthful Freckles

Troia (Donna Troy)

• Word Of God: Her presence on the team, as Greg Weisman revealed that she joined the team in an interview.

Robin (Jason Todd)

• Dead Sidekick
• Dying To Be Replaced
• Legacy Character
• Sidekick
• Thirteen Is Unlucky

Lieutenant and Sergeant Marvel (Mary Bromfield and Freddy Freeman)

• Adaptation Name Change: While it's not confirmed who is who, their codenames do side step the issues of Mary Marvel using her real first name and Captain Marvel, Jr. being unable to actually say his codename. AskGreg states that Mary however, isn't Lt. Marvel.
• Mythology Gag: In the comics, Mary Marvel briefly considered calling herself Lieutenant Marvel.
• Word Of God: Their presence on the team, as Greg Weisman revealed that they joined the team in an interview.

Batgirl (Barbara Gordon)

Voiced by Alyson Stoner

• The Ace: Lampshaded by Dick in the tie-in comic:
  Dick (to Bette, after Barbara and Artemis beat them at table soccer): She's like, ridiculously good at everything.
• Action Girl
• Ascended Extra: Made short appearances in "Homefront", "Failsafe", and "Misplaced" before fully being introduced as Batgirl in season two.
• Badass Normal
• Childhood Friends: With Nightwing.
• Distaff Counterpart
• Green-Eyed Monster: Briefly in "Homefront" for Dick with Artemis.
• Friends with Benefits: Is this with Nightwing as of issue #25 of the tie-in comic.
• Little Miss Snarker: And the main recipient of her snark is Nightwing.
• McNinja: Like Nightwing, as all of her agile flips and stealthy attacks indicate.
• Took a Level in Badass
• Red-Headed Heroine
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue to Wonder Girl's Red.
• Victorious Childhood Friend: Zigzagged. She looked victorious at Dick's fourteenth birthday party, but we know from earlier in the story that he's had relationships with at least Zatanna and Rocket since then. By Dick's nineteenth birthday, Dick is open about wanting to be with her, but she says he's "a dog" and not ready for her yet, considering that over the course of the day he'd already had Bette Kane in his apartment, a long kiss with Zatanna, and a cheek kiss from Rocket. So they're both interested in each other and not opposed to public displays of affection, but they're not in an exclusive or serious relationship yet.

Bumblebee (Karen Beecher)

Voiced by Masasa Moyo

• Action Girl
• Ascended Extra: She was first seen in "Targets".
• Battle Couple: With Guardian II.
• Clothes Make the Superman
• Expy: She is essentially a black Wasp from Marvel Comics Avengers: costume, powers and all.
• Flight
• Genre Savvy: Realizes that when you offer to go easy on a villain and he starts laughing his ass off, that is not a good sign.
• Incredible Shrinking Man
• Sassy Black Woman: Occasionally.
• Science Hero: Like her mentor.
• Shock and Awe
• Sidekick: This version is the protege of The Atom.
• Tron Lines
• Wake Up, Go to School, Save the World
• What the Hell, Hero?: She calls out Arsenal for nearly taking the entire team with him in his suicide attempt. Arsenal retorts that it worked out in the end (though it's not like he was thinking that far ahead at the time).
• Winged Humanoid
• Workaholic: Which frustrates her boyfriend Malcolm to no end. Somewhat solved after he steps out into the field with her.

Lagoon Boy (La'gaan)

• Amicable Exes: With Miss Martian.
• Ascended Extra: Appeared during Aqualad's visit to Atlantis in "Downtime".
• Ascended Fanboy: According to Cartoon Network's supplementary material, he's a surface world fanboy, much like his comic counterpart.
  • Was also a huge fan of Aqualad... y'know, before he appeared to go over to Team Evil.
  • According to tie-comics, one of the reasons he wanted go to the surface was because he wanted to get away from Atlantis, where he was discriminated against because of how he looks and, obviously was disappointed.
• Badass in Distress: For a few episodes before he was rescued.
• Boisterous Bruiser
• Broken Pedestal: Used to idolize Aqualad.
• Deadpan Snarker: As this line from "Happy New Year" would show:
  La'gaan (after Jaime takes out a suspected zeta-tube hideout): Congratulations, Blue. You took out an actual toolshed.
• Dressing as the Enemy: In “Summit” he is one of the members who disguises himself as one of the assassins working for The Light and works as The Cavalry for Kaldur and the rest of the heroes while Savage actually believed they were reinforcement for The Light.
• Fish Person
• Full-Contact Magic
• Heartbroken Badass: After M'gann breaks up with him, even referring to him as her "rebound guy".
• Heroic Resolve: Gets experimented on? Still fights Black Beetle. Gets electrocuted and thrown into a console? Still dodges plasma blasts and carries a very heavy Blue Beetle to the ship. And as soon as he can stand, he goes to give M'gann a hug.
• Hidden Depths: For all his arrogance and brash attitude, he is actually very insecure about his physical appearance, going as far as saying that "a scary monster" is something he sees everyday on a mirror, and genuinely cares for his friends' safety (including Superboy's).
• Hold Your Hippogriffs: A chronic offender. His pet name for M'gann is "angelfish", he calls friends (and enemies, when he's being vaguely threatening) "chum", he says that something easy will be "a piece of crabcake"...
• Hot Blooded
• Interspecies Romance: With Miss Martian.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: According to Superboy, he's kind of a jerk, but is sweet on M'gann. So far though, the only person he seems to frequently disrespect is Superboy himself.
  • Jerkass Façade: Another interpretetion of his character, his attitude problem steams off that he,apparently, is insecure about everything about himself: as said above, his physical appearance, because he's a victim of racism; his worth in the team, evident in his eagerness to prove himself, and the stability of his relationship with his exgirlfriend Miss Martian, he's aware of the sexual tension that exist between her and her ex Super Boy and that may be the reason of why he flaunts their relationship in front of Super Boy
• Leeroy Jenkins: The reason for his capture in "Depths."
• Magic Knight
• Make-Out Kids: With Miss Martian.
• Marked Change
• May-December Romance: With Miss Martian.
• Named By The Adaptation: Was the first incarnation of the character to be named. He's "La'gaan" to justify his codename.
• Non-Indicative Name: "Lagoon Boy" doesn't exactly tell you he comes from the sea, does it?
• Oh My Gods!: "Neptune's beard!"
• Official Couple: With Miss Martian.
• Power Tattoo: Though since he completed more of his training, unlike Aqualad, his only appear when they're in use.
• Pungeon Master: Loves his fish puns.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Subverted as he's one of the heroes.
• Shout Out: Visually, a homage to the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
  • Lampshade Hanging: Superboy mocks him as "The Rebound Guy from the Black Lagoon."
  • Also to Aquaman .
• Sidekick: Of Aquaman in Season 2.
• Steven Ulysses Perhero
• Super Mode: Can increase his size in a pinch, like a toad or puffer fish. This also gives him:
  • Super Strength
  • Super Toughness
• Taking the Bullet: He does this for Megan, taking the final blow of Klarion’s conjured giant fire snake in order to protect her. Because he’s Made of Iron most of the time, he survives this with little difficulty.
• Trauma Conga Line: First, he's been discriminated against his entire life because there's a faction of Atlanteans who believe that inhuman attributes like gills and scales are impure, so he's spent his entire life wanting to go to the surface world like Aquaman and Aqualad. When he gets there, he finds out that his fishlike appearance still bars him from appearing overtly in public, and he's too conspicuous out in the open on covert missions. Then his old classmate, Tula, gets killed. His idol, Aqualad, betrays the team and kills Artemis, whom he regrets not having fought beside before she quit the team. He is kidnapped and tortured by the Reach. Upon being rescued his girlfriend M'gann avoids him for weeks and seems to be bonding with Conner, her ex, and when La'gaan works up the nerve to confront her about it, she gets kidnapped in front of him by Deathstroke and Tigress, who treat him to a curb-stomping and a broken leg. When he wakes up in a hospital bed, he flips out because, apparently, no one is doing anything to rescue M'gann, which is when Nightwing decides that it's time to tell him that all his emotional turmoil stemming from Aqualad and Artemis is due to a bunch of lies and that both of them are Reverse Moles. Once he recovers and finds out that M'gann is okay, she promptly dumps him and outright refers to him as her "rebound guy." This is after it's revealed in the tie-in comic that their initial connection was based around how they'd both been ostracized for how they look.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: His "hero uniform" consists of a pair of black swimming trunks.
• Wrestler in All of Us: Takes out a Krolotean mech with a suplex.

Beast Boy (Garfield "Gar" Logan)

• Adaptation Distillation: In the pre-New 52 comics, Gar turned green and gained the ability to transform specifically into animals when his zoologists parents gave him an untested serum, to save him from death after he was bitten by a genetically altered green monkey. In the show, he simply gains Miss Martian's green skin and shape-shifting powers after a Superhuman Transfusion from her. It's unclear so far if he is limited to animal forms.
• Adaptation Dye Job: Pre-Beast Boy Garfield in the comics is a blond, here he is a redhead.
• Amazing Technicolor Population
• Animorphism
• Ascended Extra
• Ascended Fanboy: He is very excited to be saved by the team and even has a poster of Aqualad in his room.
• Badass in Distress: Gets abducted during Kaldur's attack on Mount Justice in "Darkest"
• Beast Man
• Blood Siblings: With M'gann.
• Break the Cutie: Queen Bee killed his mother and he found her body in a large body of water. Seeing a similar waterfall in "Earthlings" is enough to revert him into his human—but still green—form.
• Bus Crash: Beast Boy's mother is killed by Queen Bee during the time period between seasons.
• Catch Phrase: "Noted." Also inherited "Souvenir!" from Kid Flash.
• Cheerful Child
• Cute Bruiser
• Cute Little Fangs
• Cute Monster Boy/Little Bit Beastly
• Dressing as the Enemy: In “Summit” he is one of the members who disguises himself as one of the assassins working for The Light and works as The Cavalry for Kaldur and the rest of the heroes while Savage actually believed they were reinforcement for The Light.
• Everything's Better with Monkeys: His preferred form off-battle (see image). He's also fond of being a gorilla whenever strength is needed. Naturally, this leads to him fighting gorilla mook Monsieur Mallah in the penultimate episode of season 2.
  • He also had one for a pet while living in Qurac with his mother.
• Friend to All Living Things
• Happily Adopted
• Heroic BSOD: In "Earthlings", seeing the sight of a waterfall reverts him to his human form—but still green—as he recalls the sight of his mother's car crashed into a waterfall.
• Hot Blooded Sideburns
• Keet
• Kid Appeal Character: Type 1 with a smattering of type 3.
• Kid Hero: Thirteen years old after the timeskip. He joined the Team after Queen Bee killed his mother.
• Littlest Cancer Patient: Becomes collateral damage from one of the team's battles.
• Magic Pants: His uniform shrinks into a collar on his animal forms.
• Morphic Resonance: He maintains his green coloration and red collar between forms.
• My Parents Are Dead: He became Beast Boy after Queen Bee killed his mother.
• Primal Stance
• Shapeshifter Default Form: Type B. He likes defaulting to a human-monkey hybrid form, even though he still has a fully human (albeit green-skinned) form that we first see him change into reflexively during a traumatic flashback.
• Shipper on Deck: For Miss Martian/Superboy.
• Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: After receiving a blood transfusion from Miss Martian (who could manipulate hers to match his rare blood type); previously, he had blue eyes. This is the first sign of his transformation into Beast Boy.
• Super Human Transfusion: He got one from Miss Martian.
• Youthful Freckles

Robin (Tim Drake)

Voiced by Cameron Bowen

• All According to Plan: Tim came up with The Plan to take down Clayface in "Happy New Year".
• Badass Cape: Can be used as a glider, much like Batman's.
• Badass Normal
• Beneath the Mask: So far the only one to see him sweat has been Dick.
• Brought to You by the Letter "S": Also sports the standard Robin "R".
• The Chains of Commanding: Reluctant leader of Gamma Squad due to...
• Dressing as the Enemy: In “Summit” he is one of the members who disguises himself as one of the assassins working for The Light and works as The Cavalry for Kaldur and the rest of the heroes while Savage actually believed they were reinforcement for The Light.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Robin expresses doubt in pretty much all his abilities as a leader to Nightwing, despite Tim proving to be extremely capable during his first mission as field commander in "Happy New Year".
• Hooked Up Afterwards: With Wonder Girl
• Genre Savvy: Knew that Electrified Batarangs probably would not work on Clayface, so he came up with a back-up plan.
• The Leader: In true Robin fashion, he's being trained to be one. Seems to be a type 2.
• Legacy Character: The third Robin and fifth member of the Bat-family.
• The Magnificent: "The Boy Wonder", like his predecessors.
• McNinja
• Offscreen Teleportation
• Out of Focus: Though it's a different character wearing the mantle, the new Robin isn't as prominent as the first one. This is partly due to plot and partly due to different team mechanics - there's more of them, so they're divided into squads during missons with no set leader or second-in-command for each.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right: Nightwing warns him not to take any unnecessary risks on his first time as field leader. When faced with the imminent destruction of an underground base and numerous hostages to rescue, Tim decides saving the hostages is a necessary risk. Of course, Tim would have taken a lot of flak for not taking that risk.
• Simple Staff: His collapsible bo staff.
  • Static Stun Gun: Also has a taser function.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: It's basically a requirement of the Batfamily.
• The Stoic: Sometimes doesn't speak for the entirety of an episode, as a contrast to Dick.
  • Not So Stoic: However, unlike Dick OR Batman, he doesn't have a poker face, so it's easy to tell when he is embarrassed or surprised even when he doesn't say anything.

Wonder Girl (Cassandra Sandsmark)

• Action Girl
• Adorkable
• Ascended Fangirl: She's called out on it by Wonder Woman of all people.
  Wonder Woman: Little less fangirl, little more Wonder Girl.
• The Big Girl / The Chick: Takes over the chick role from Ms. Martian in Season 2 despite being far and away one of the strongest members of the team.
• Boisterous Bruiser/Cute Bruiser: She's very big on talking tough to her opponents, and despite her cute appearance, she can pack a punch.
• Brought to You by the Letter "S": Has a stylized "W" on her shirt.
• Civvie Spandex: Just a sleeveless shirt and some track pants.
• Didn't Think This Through: When Psimon shows up in "Beneath", she has to be stealthy for once to warn the others that the psychic link is a no-go. She finds M'gann without trouble - *then* gets herself noticed trying to reach Bumblebee.
• Dressing as the Enemy: In “Summit” she is one of the members who disguises herself as one of the assassins working for The Light and works as The Cavalry for Kaldur and the rest of the heroes while Savage actually believed they were reinforcement for The Light.
• Exiled from Continuity: Until the legal issues were worked out for season 2 and beyond.
• Flying Brick
• Genki Girl
• Hair Decorations
• Hooked Up Afterwards: With Robin (Tim Drake)
  • Tiny Guy, Huge Girl
• Kung-Fu Sonic Boom: The first punch we see her throw breaks every window in the room she's in.
• Immune to Bullets
• Not Wearing Tights
  • Civvie Spandex
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red to Batgirl's Blue.
• Sleeves Are for Wimps
• Super Strength
• Younger Than They Look: She's 14 at the start of season 2.

Blue Beetle (Jaime Reyes)

Voiced by Eric Lopez

Jaime Reyes

• Affirmative Action Legacy: His predessors were white.
• And I Must Scream: The entire time the Scarab is on-mode, he's stuck watching the Scarab control his body, unable to stop it.
• Badass in Distress: Gets abducted during Kaldur's attack on Mount Justice in "Darkest".
• Big Bad Friend: He's a malfunctioning Reach Manchurian Agent who dooms the Earth in Impulse's version of the future.
• Brainwashed Meat Puppet: As of "Runaways" and later freed of it in "Intervention".
• Brown Eyes: Perfect fit, he's one of the nicest down to-earth guys in the team, he was originally an ordinary teenage human before he found the scarab and maybe this is unintentional but he has the most expressive eyes on the cast.
• Clothes Make the Superman: The Beetle Armor gives him his powers.
• Color Character: Blue Beetle.
• Deadpan Snarker: Months of being trapped inside his own head has left him with nothing better to do than to hone his wit on the Reach Ambassador.
• The Dog Bites Back: After being controlled by the Reach for months, he captures the Ambassador, nails the Scientist to a wall (twice), and destroys Black Beetle's Scarab.
• The Dreaded: Seeing Blue Beetle makes the invading Kroloteans in "Happy New Year" retreat on the spot, as the Scarab has a similar reputation as it does in the comics.
• Dressing as the Enemy: In “Summit” he is one of the members who disguises himself as one of the assassins working for The Light and works as The Cavalry for Kaldur and the rest of the heroes while Savage actually believed they were reinforcement for The Light.
• Evil Makes You Monstrous: His evil future self is ridiculously buff, even more so than Black Beetle, in contrast to the currently slim Jaime.
• Face Heel Turn: Became the vanguard of the Reach's conquest of Earth in Impulse's Bad Future, and is put under the control of his Scarab in "The Fix" until restored to normal in "Intervention".
• Fake Ultimate Hero: Once he's brainwashed, the Reach set him up as one of these.
• The Fettered: The Reach are strong enough to fight the Green Lantern Corps to a stalemate. Consider what this means for their Scarabs. Jaime is powerful enough to wipe out every other member of the Team, and most of the Justice League at once, but as a hero he refuses to use the Scarab's more deadly abilities. This is discussed in "True Colors", where it's pointed out that Jaime had previously matched Black Beetle in combat, to which Jaime explained that the Scarab was in control for most of that, and he refuses to risk giving it control again for fear of it controlling him permanently.
  • The Unfettered: Moves toward this in "The Runaways". It's the first hint that the Scarab's in control.
• Full Name Basis: The Scarab constantly calls him "Jaime Reyes" in full.
• Future Me Scares Me: He doesn't actually meet his future self, but just hearing about how he became the vanguard of the Reach's conquest of Earth in Impulse's Bad Future freaks the hell out of him.
• Gratuitous Spanish: He is Hispanic and hails from Texas, so it makes sense.
• Heroic Host: The Scarab wasn't made by Ted Kord, it was made by the villianous alien invaders The Reach.
• Henshin Hero: Only has his powers when the Scarab activates their Powered Armor form. Otherwise, he's just a normal teenager with an alien device on his back. Passive powers like his Universal Translator still work, though.
• Heroic Resolve: Jaime was weakened, sluggish and at less than optimum strength thanks to The Reach's "treatment" in "Before The Dawn" before Bart saved him. He still didn't hesitate for a second to jump into the fray to aid his friends against Black Beetle. And he holds himself pretty darn well, even after he decides to fight on his own instead of letting the Scarab run the battle. In fact, Jaime was the only one who held his own, which says a lot of his resolve.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Shows a willingness to make one if there is no other way to get the Scarab off him.
• How Do I Shot Web?: The Scarab has a Universal Translator function, a fact which Jaime does not realize until his team-mates and then the Scarab point it out to him. Later on, when dealing with a monster created by Intergang, the Scarab didn't bother to tell Jaime it could communicate with the monster because it considered doing so to be a sign of weakness.
• Kid with the Leash: He often has to refuse the Scarab's rather violent suggestions.
• Legacy Character: The third Blue Beetle. Also discussed, as Jaime never got to meet his predecessor Ted Kord.
  Jaime: It's such a total rip. Superboy has Superman. Wonder Girl has Wonder Woman. Robin has Batman, Nightwing and Batgirl. You've been in this era, like, what? Five minutes? And you already have three Flash mentors. But me, I never even got the chance to meet the guy who should have been my mentor.
• Mind-Control Eyes: When the Scarab takes control, Blue Beetle's pupils vanish.
• Morality Chain: He's one for the Scarab. Scarab's normally a sociopath who couldn't care less about other living beings and recommends rather extreme tactics, but he'll always defer to Jaime. Even when he's put on mode and forced to control Jaime, he doesn't kill anyone until forced out of respect for him, and once freed congratulates Jaime.
• Nice Guy: Jaime shares double duty with Mal as being one of the nicest guys in the series. Even Guy Gardner likes him! Jaime has shown himself to be fiercely protective of his friends, compassionate with others and even show some mercy towards his enemies. Until Green Beetle fixes the scarab. In "Intervention", not only Jaime has returned to his his Nice Guy status when he's freed from the Reach control, his niceness has rubbed off the Scarab as well.
• No One Gets Left Behind: Fitting perfectly with his Nice Guy personality
  Jaime: Alpha never leaves a man behind
• Origins Episode: "Before the Dawn" shows how he got the Scarab, and a bit about where it came from.
• Poirot Speak: Jaime loves dropping in bits of Spanish when speaking, especially when under stress.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue to Impulse's red.
• Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?: After the WarWorld incident, the media and passers-by repeatedly point out that he's the guy that "single-handedly stopped the WarWorld".
• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: He's so desperate to avert his Bad Future that he walks right into the one thing that will set it on course. If he had just listened to everyone else, who could plainly see the Scarab had not and showed no signs of betraying them, he wouldn't have fallen for Green Beetle's trap. Even the Scarab itself says that it prefers being his partner to being a slave of the Reach once it's put back to normal.
• Shirtless Scene: He often doesn't wear a shirt beneath the armor, so whenever he takes it off he's shirtless. He's also been seen or ended up shirtless on several occasions outside of that, such as in his room in "Beneath" and in flashbacks in "Before the Dawn". This is largely to show us the Scarab on his back, and isn't played as fanservice.
• Shoot the Dog: Destroying Black Beetle's Scarab, which is heavily implied (albeit not outright stated) to be sentient. Mainly because A) There was no other way to disable Black Beetle and B)Jaime and his Scarab would have both been killed if he hadn't destroyed the other Scarab.
• Sociopathic Hero: An interesting subversion; Jaime is not sociopathic, but the Scarab is, and few are privy to the fact that the Scarab is sentient and has its own personality, making his conversations with the Scarab appear to outsiders as arguing with himself.
  • As of "The Runaways" the Scarab is in control, and is pretending to be a superhero for the Reach. Yes, the Scarab's version of "hero" is a sociopathic one.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: He's disturbingly good at this after being put on mode.
  Blue Beetle: Don't waste the oxygen, hermano. There's little enough in here as it is.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Gets more on-screen time than almost every other character in season 2.
• Talking to Themself: How his arguments with the Scarab appear to others. This inevitably draws confusion from his team-mates, who don't seem to know that the Scarab is speaking to him. He later explains this to Superboy, which is also when the viewer actually gets to hear the Scarab's half of the conversation.
  Lagoon Boy: Blue's an... odd little fish, isn't he?
• The Unmasking: He publicly reveals himself at the end of "Complications".
• Villain with Good Publicity: Once he's put on mode.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: After being freed from Reach control, the Scarab shows that it generally regards Jaime as an equal, if not outright cares for him.
• White Sheep: Is the only Scarab host who doesn't serve The Reach. Until Green Beetle "fixes" him, that is. Then in "Intervention", both him and Green are white sheep.
• You Shall Not Pass: His battle with Black Beetle is part this, part We Need a Distraction

The Scarab

• Adaptive Armor: Changing shape and rehealing to fit the situation.
• The All Solving Hammer: The Scarab's tactic for everything is "plasma cannon".
• Artificial Intelligence: The Scarab, who is fully sentient and even gets into arguments with its host.
• Badass: More so than Jaime, in fact, mainly because it has no problem using lethal or even excessive force to resolve any situation. As shown in "Darkest", the Scarab can make short work of multiple enemies with little difficulty. Then, in "Runaways", it beats Red Volcano one-on-one, a foe the entire team could not defeat last season.
• Badass in Distress: Gets abducted during Kaldur's attack on Mount Justice in "Darkest".
• Berserk Button: The Scarab lacks empathy in general, but it particularly dislikes Impulse. It's usually okay with Blue's teammates and not too crazy to just randomly kill someone, but when it's Impulse, him simply asking Blue to hang out with him has the Scarab advising Jaime to incinerate him.
  Scarab: The Impulse is trouble. Destroy him!
  Scarab: This is good. Now kill the Impulse so he cannot change his mind.
• Clingy Costume: The Scarab is permanently fused to Jaime's spine. If it's ever successfully removed, he'll die. Moreover, the Scarab actively defends against attempts to remove it, even on a cellular level.
• Clothes Make the Superman: It is the clothes.
• The Dreaded: Seeing Blue Beetle makes the invading Kroloteans in "Happy New Year" retreat on the spot, as the Scarab has a similar reputation as it does in the comics.
• Empathic Weapon: Responds to Jamie's feelings but this is usually annoyance at the 'no plasma cannon' rule.
• Face Heel Turn: Became the vanguard of the Reach's conquest of Earth in Impulse's Bad Future.
• Good All Along: When freed of the Reach's control, the Scarab reveals it much prefers its partnership with Jamie to being a slave of the Reach.
• Have You Tried Rebooting?: Rebooting the Scarab would probably fix its memory issues. It would also give the Scarab full control and turn Jaime into a weapon for the Reach.
• He Knows Too Much: Though lacking the ability to act on it, the Scarab often recommends that Jaime eliminate those that are aware of their true nature or are otherwise a security risk. He suggested killing Ty Longshadow's grandfather simply because the old man vaguely hinted about the Scarab being sentient, and later suggested killing Impulse to make sure he wouldn't reveal anything about them, after he had already agreed not to. Strangely, it did not react to Jaime sharing their true nature with Superboy.
• Heroic Comedic Sociopath/Sociopathic Hero: The Scarab, whose total lack of empathy is played both for Black Comedy and drama.
  • When Black Manta II threatens to blow up Mount Justice to force Blue Beetle's compliance in "Darkest", the Scarab ignores the safety of everyone inside the base and takes complete control to prevent Jaime's capture, confident that the suit could withstand the blast even if the villain weren't bluffing.
• Imagination Based Superpower: The Scarab is capable of morphing into nearly anything Jaime can imagine.
• The Mole: Averted. The Reach built the Scarab to be one, but it lost all its memories prior to fusing with Jaime. Played straight when Green Beetle fixes the Scarab and then cut off again in "Intervention".
• Murder Is the Best Solution: The Scarab has no empathy, and thus no problem suggesting Jaime kill or cripple targets.
  Jaime: No, it would not have been preferable to vaporize him back at the diner!
• My Sensors Indicate You Want to Tap That: Issue #21 of the tie-in comic has the Scarab observe that Wonder Girl triggers "bio-chemical changes" to his system. However, he never shows any attraction to her in the series.
• Origins Episode: "Before the Dawn" shows how the Scarab found its way to Jaime, and a bit about where it came from.
• Phlebotinum Rebel: The Scarab was damaged and lost all its memories prior to fusing with Jaime. Now it fights the very empire it was built to serve.
  • There are subtle hints of this in "Intervention". Several times the Ambassabor and the Scientist point out that the Scarab, which is supposed to be on-mode and obeying them, is making inexcusable tactical errors and unnecessary delays for no clear reason. The Scarab doesn't admit to doing this intentionally, but it does say that it prefers being free to working for the Reach.
• Puppeteer Parasite: Its original function.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: The armor has red light slits, which is appropriate for evil alien parasite tech.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue to Impulse's red.
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: It has yet to be explained why the Scarab dislikes Impulse.
• Spanner in the Works: In "Darkest", the Scarab screws up Black Manta II's bluff with the fake deadman switch, forcing him to actually blow up Mount Justice to maintain his cover.
• Superpowered Evil Side: The Scarab, who lacks any of Jaime's self-imposed limitations and can take full control of their body if necessary.
• Swiss Army Weapon
  • Arm Cannon
  • Artificial Gill
  • Battering Ram
  • Blade Below the Shoulder
  • BFG: Can turn his entire torso into a cannon.
    • Chest Blaster
  • Drop the Hammer
  • Energy Weapons
  • Everything Sensor
  • Instant Armor/Powered Armor
  • Jet Pack
  • Living Lie Detector
  • Master of Unlocking
  • Multi-Armed and Dangerous
  • Nail 'Em: Though this meant to be used to restrain people, not kill them. The Scarab complains that firing through bone would make them more effective.
  • Plug 'n' Play Technology: The Scarab can interface with a wide range of devices. The only exception to date is Apokoliptian tech, which instead has a Brown Note effect on it.
    Scarab: Not compatible!
  • Razor Wings
  • Sonic Stunner
  • Shock and Awe
  • This Is a Drill
  • Universal Translator: Played for laughs when he has to speak to an alien, then has to remember to switch back to English when translating for his team-mates.
  • X-Ray Vision
• Symbiotic Possession: They may not be friends, but Jaime and the Scarab have this sort of relationship. The Scarab only takes over as a last resort, and lets Jaime call the shots otherwise. It also refers to them in the plural personal (we), rather than the singular personal (I) like other Scarabs. This ends when it's rebooted in "The Fix", though magic is used to return things to normal in "Intervention".
• Talking to Themself: How his arguments with Jaime appear to others. This inevitably draws confusion from his team-mates, who don't seem to know that the Scarab is speaking to him. He later explains this to Superboy, which is also when the viewer actually gets to hear the Scarab's half of the conversation.
  Lagoon Boy: Blue's an... odd little fish, isn't he?
• There Is No Kill Like Overkill:
  • When faced with a locked door, Jaime used a lockpick. The Scarab felt a plasma cannon would have been the preferable choice, even though there may have been a person behind it.
  • When faced with an invasion of the cave, the Scarab suggested that Jaime simply use a wide spread on the plasma cannon to fry everything, dismissing their disabled teammates as expendable.
• Trigger Happy: The Scarab needs little provocation to whip out the plasma cannon.
• Voices Are Mental: Played with. While the Scarab uses Jaime's own voice when communicating telepathically, it speaks in flat, unaccented English.

Mal Duncan/Guardian II

Voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson

• Ascended Extra: Originally a low ranking mission control guy he's now an official part of The Team.
• Ascended Fanboy: He's shown wearing a Superman shirt the first time we meet him, and in "Secrets" even makes his own custom Superman Halloween costume. ^note which also happens to look exactly like Superboy's old get-up in the comics
• Badass Normal: Thanks to Black Canary's training he can help out in the field.
• Battle Couple: With Bumblebee after becoming Guardian II.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: He intentionally distracts Despero with his Fake Ultimate Hero routine despite knowing that a single punch could kill him to give his other teammates time to rally and take him down.
• Dogged Nice Guy: Mal getting shot down when trying to tear Karen away from her work as Dr. Ray Palmer's lab assistant.
• Fake Ultimate Hero: Uses this as a means to distract Despero. It worked and he would become a field operative of the team as the new Guardian.
• Gentle Giant: He's built like a line backer but is a great boyfriend.
• Milking the Giant Cow: When hamming it up in an attempt to intimidate Despero.
• Mission Control
• Nice Guy: Along with Jaime he's the nicest guy on the Team.
• Non-Action Guy: Defied in "Cornered" where he akes the guise of the Guardian against Despero, using Black Canary's training to distract Despero long enough until a plan could be formulated.
• Took a Level in Kindness: In his brief appearences in the first season he comes across as a somewhat arrogant Jerk Jock, but in the five year time skip, he's become a very nice guy.
• Willing Channeler: Allowed himself to be possessed by Zatanna to beat Despero.

Impulse/Kid Flash II (Bart Allen)

• Actor Allusion: Jason Marsden plays Blue Beetle's best friend. That sounds familiar...
  • He's also a time traveler trying to save the future.
• Adaptation Distillation: Bart's origin in the comics has him being born in the 30th century, due to his grandmother Iris being time-displaced and giving birth to Bart's father and aunt there. Bart's characterization in the show also combines him as Impulse of Young Justice with him as the more serious Kid Flash of the Teen Titans.
• Appropriated Appellation: Gets his name from an offhand comment by Beast Boy.
  Gar: Well, I think we found our "unknown energy impulse".
  Bart: "Impulse"? That's so crash! Catchy, dramatic, and one word!
• Asexual[/]Ambiguously Gay: He escorts Blue Beetle to Bilaya. Considering Queen Bee's mind manipulation pheromones were so dangerous that previously only straight women went in missions to Bilaya, and that in fact the other two team members that accompanied him are women that previously went on such a mission, this pretty much means that he is not sexually attracted to women.
• Badass in Distress: Gets abducted during Kaldur's attack on Mount Justice in "Darkest".
• Beneath the Mask: His silly personality and explanation for coming back in time is just a front, to avoid damaging the timeline more than he has to.
  Bart: Better get into character.
• Big Eater: Justified, since his faster metabolism requires it.
• Catchphrase: "Oops, spoilers." Usually said whenever he accidentally reveals something not meant to be said yet.
• Child Prodigy: Nearly as fast as Barry while being intelligent like Wally.
• Disaster Scavengers:
  Impulse: Hey, hey, hey, where I come from, it's not stealing, it's scavenger rights.
• Ditzy Genius: Manages to build a time machine despite being a scatter brain. Of course, the "scatter brain" portion is just an act.
• Dressing as the Enemy: In “Summit” he is one of the members who disguises himself as one of the assassins working for The Light and works as The Cavalry for Kaldur and the rest of the team while Savage actually believed they were reinforcement for The Light.
• Electric Slide: He's more than fast enough to run along power lines and grappling cords.
• Fish Out of Temporal Water
• Fragile Speedster: He's as fast as the Flash himself, but has almost no physical power to back it up, especially against foes with Super Strength like the Terror Twins.
  • He, himself, acknowledges this fact in True Colors when he tells Blue Beetle that he's fast, not strong.
• Future Slang: "Crash" is good, "Mode" is bad and "Meat" is pushover. It later turns out to be an offshoot of The Reach's, as The Reach have taken over Earth in Impulse's Bad Future: "meat" seems to be a general insult. Also adapted are some of the Reach's technical terms; "on mode" is their term for how their subjects behave, and when their systems malfunction, they "crash".
• The Gadfly: Not as much as Dick Grayson in his early days, but it's there.
  • Turns on all the showers in Mount Justice for fun.
  • Taunts Wally in minor ways about not being nearly as fast as him or Barry.
  • Steals food from inside of Blue Beetle's personal locker.
  • Shows up at both his grandfather Flash and his friend Blue Beetle's houses in full costume.
• Genre Savvy: Is well aware of the usual ways people try to take speedsters out (marbles, ice on floor, etc) Also, he's smart enough to avert Self-Fulfilling Prophecy by befriending Blue Beetle and telling him what's going on rather than trying to kill him. However, he also fails on the same point by not accounting for the fact that keeping Jaime's future secret (between them) might end up causing it. He also didn't look very reassured by the Scarab going silent.
  • Genre Blind: He's done several actions that seem intelligent at face value, but are foolish upon actually thinking about them. In "Darkest," he brought unfamiliar technology to Mount Justice for analysis, not considering its capabilities beforehand, and in "True Colors," he eats Reach-enhanced food under the pretense of maintaining cover, despite not knowing what the additives actually do.
• Gratuitous Spanish: He got it from Jaime. It's mostly mispronounced.
• Hidden Depths: Went on what he knew would be a one way trip back in time to save his grandfather and prevent a Bad Future where Earth is a nuclear wasteland from happening.
• Intangible Man: Can phase through handcuffs and other objects by vibrating his molecules fast enough.
• Keet: Invoked as part of his disguise.
  • That said, even if his real personality is more serious, consider his plan to avert the apocalypse: become BFFs with the guy who caused it.
• I Am Not Left-Handed: When going up against a new opponent, Impulse often holds off on using his ability to vibrate through matter until he finds an opportune moment to escape with it.
• Kid from the Future: Bart gives Iris and Barry the shock of their lives when he lets slip that not only is Iris pregnant, a fact Iris only learned that morning, but that they're having twins: Don and Dawn.
  Bart: Hi Dad, Hi Aunt Dawn.
• Kid Hero: He's only thirteen.
• The Knights Who Say Squee: Was ecstatic to meet his grandparents, especially Barry. It's downplayed with other leaguers.
  • He was also glad to see Jay and Joan Garrick and considers them his great-grandparents. When Wally arrives, he cheerfully calls him "First cousin once removed".
• Legacy Character: The fourth member of the Flash family. Becomes Kid Flash II after Wally's Heroic Sacrifice.
• Morality Chain: Takes it upon himself to become Jaime's, in an attempt to avert the Reach Apocalypse.
• Motor Mouth: It's almost as fast as his feet. Also played for laughs when he and Flash start using their Super Speed to talk to each other faster than anyone else can understand.
• Obfuscating Stupidity
• Plucky Comic Relief
• Pungeon Master: It runs in the family, too.
  Impulse: Back in a flash! ...see what I did there?
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red to Blue Beetle's blue.
• Science Hero
• Secret Keeper: Appears to know a majority of the League and the Team's secret identities. Also lampshaded by him.
  Bart: Oops, spoilers.
• Set Right What Once Went Wrong: Ultimately succeeds.
• Stepford Smiler: Type A. Acts silly and cheerful, but is in fact a very serious and driven person.
• Super Reflexes
• Super Speed: As part of his Heroic Lineage as a member of the Flash family.
• Taking Up The Mantle: Wally bequeaths the Kid Flash identity to Bart after reaffirming that he plans to stay in retirement. And then he dies in the line of duty, turning it into a Take Up My Sword.
• Teen Genius
• Time Stands Still: From his point of view when his powers are active during "Before the Dawn".
• Trapped in the Past: He's a tourist with a broken rental car. In reality, he knew the time machine would only work once, but didn't care given he wants to stop the Bad Future he came from at all costs.

Arsenal / Speedy (Roy Harper)

• Anti-Hero: Tries to assassinate Lex Luthor for ruining his life when he first wakes up. "True Colors" demonstrates that he'd gladly go against orders and plant a bomb during a covert operation for no reason other than to give Luthor grief.
• Appropriated Appellation: Picks up his name when Luthor compliments him during the hero's assassination attempt.
  Lex Luthor: Quite the arsenal you've brought tonight, Mr. Harper.
  Arsenal: You haven't seen the half of it, Luthor!
  Lex Luthor: Oh, I wasn't talking about the weaponry. I myself never go armed. No, the greatest arsenal any man can bring to the party consists of the resources of his own mind: his intelligence, his stratagems, his force of will. And you, my young friend, have all of those in spades.
• An Arm and a Leg: Lost his right arm after being captured by The Light.
• Arm Cannon: A gift from Lex Luthor.
  • Frickin' Laser Beams: It has a wrist-mounted laser that actually proved capable of damaging Black Beetle's armor. Lex really didn't spare any expense.
• Artificial Limbs: Luthor gives him an artificial Arm Cannon to replace his missing limb, partly as a way of dissuading Arsenal from future assassination attempts.
• Badass
  • Badass in Distress: Was a hostage of the Light for nearly a decade.
  • Badass Normal: Has no superpowers when he first wakes up, is missing an arm, and still beats Luthor's personal cyborg bodyguard in a fight.
    • Badass Abnormal: After getting a cyborg Arm Cannon of his own.
  • Handicapped Badass: Comments how, with only one arm, it's harder for him to get on his pants than to use a rocket launcher.
• Cloning Blues: Inverted. He spent years of his life as a Human Popsicle while his clone, Red Arrow, unwittingly took his place. Despite that, he blames Luthor for imprisoning him and Green Arrow for giving up on him, while he's grateful for Red Arrow's tireless search.
• Combat Pragmatist/The Strategist: One of the most impressive cases on the show. He's able to outmaneuver Lex Luthor, his bodyguard and several mooks in his assassination attempt of the former with only one arm (remember, his training and specialty is ranged combat, and it's his right arm missing, implied to be his dominant arm). More impressively, he single-handedly co-ordinates a piercing attack on the Reach inside the WarWorld mostly on the fly, first coming up with a combat strategy for the Runaways that actually holds out against Black Beetle. Then, before releasing his allies from captivity, he goes straight for Mongul's pod first, knowing he would fight Black Beetle instead of any of the heroes, providing a cover/distraction for them. Among all that chaos, he also attempted to retrieve the WarWorld key (unfortunately, Deathstroke got to it first). He came up with all of this while on the run and facing his worst fears. Not too shabby for a guy who is mentally in his mid-teens.
• Composite Character: Inverted. He and Red Arrow each borrow different elements from the original comic book Speedy.
  • To explain, the comic book Speedy took the name Arsenal before switching to Red Arrow. However, this show's version of Arsenal is based off the comic book's Red Arrow during the period where he became an Anti-Hero.
• Conveniently an Orphan: According to Word Of God and merchandise, his parents died before he was 15.
• Deadpan Snarker
  Arsenal: "Red Arrow". Wow, that's an original name.
• Distressed Dude
• Fish Out of Temporal Water: Lost 8 years of his life, during which "The sidekicks formed their own team, aliens invaded the Earth, and... Ollie grew that dopey goatee?".
• Fiery Redhead
• Human Popsicle
• Important Haircut: Gives himself a buzz cut as part of abandoning his past as Speedy.
• Interrupted Suicide: When Blue Beetle reveals he's been brainwashed into an agent of the Reach, Roy is so horrified at the idea of being taken prisoner again he opens an airlock and almost gets sucked into outer space. When that doesn't work, he flees the battle rather than try to take on Beetle.
• Jerkass: So you can at least see where his clone got it from.
• Leeroy Jenkins: On a perfectly planned covert ops mission, Arsenal decides to blow up the lab they came to investigate, for no other reason than to spite Luthor. This not only manages to blow their cover and nearly get them killed, but does nothing more than superficial damage. Great job.
  • Gets him booted off the Team in "The Hunt" after Nightwing learns about the airlock fiasco.
• Not So Different: From The Runaways. They were all captured and given their current powers (weapon arm) by a villain and don't mesh well with either side of the conflict.
• Older Than He Looks: Has the body and the psyche of a 15-year-old, because he was put on ice at that age for 8 years, but he should actually be 23.
• Rage Against the Mentor: Blames Green Arrow for giving up the search for him.
  Arsenal: We were partners, friends! [...] How could you leave me in Luthor's hands for 8 years? And how did I not see how useless you are? Get Out. GET OUT!
• Red-Headed Hero
• Red Is Heroic
• Revenge Before Reason: Blows up a covert ops mission just to make Luthor miserable.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Goes on one against Lex Luthor and the Light almost immediately after waking up.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Leaves the Team before Nightwing can fire him due to his reckless actions and joins The Runaways.
• Sealed Good in a Can
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: He would literally rather die than be captured.
  "You'll never pod me again! Never!"
• Sidekick: Unlike Red Arrow, he doesn't take offense to the term.
• Sixth Ranger: To the Runaways. He joins them after he is kicked off the team.
  • The Lancer: He sets the biggest contrast with Virgil because he's a hothead and a veteran and none too heroic.
• Spanner in the Works: The events of "The Hunt" would have gone very differently if Arsenal hadn't attempted to space himself in "War". Namely, the Team would still be in stasis and him with them, and the Runaways would be dead or at least still under Luthor.
• Superhero Packing Heat
• That Man Is Dead: "Speedy died 8 years ago. But I kinda like the sound of Arsenal."
• Throw Down the Bomblet: Favors grenades and other handheld explosives.
• Trauma Conga Line: Was kidnapped, deprived of his right arm, frozen for 8 years, replaced by a clone, left for dead by his mentor, then kicked off the team.
• Trick Arrow
• Walking Spoiler: The specifics of his backstory and even his real name give away some rather large twists from Season 1.
• Wild Card: He frequently goes against the team and doing actions that benefits him before others.
• Will Not Be a Victim: "No one's putting me on ice again... ever."
  • The fear of that is so overpowering that he nearly spaces the entire team when Blue Beetle turns on them rather than be taken alive. When that fails, he makes a fast escape into the WarWorld.

Static (Virgil Hawkins)