Characters / Young Justice (2010) - Apokolips

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Apokolips

In General

• Adaptational Early Appearance: In the comics, they only came into contact with Earth years after the Justice League forms. Here, Darkseid and his forces come into conflict with Earth while Vandal Savage is Genghis Khan.
• Female Angel, Male Demon: New Genesis has Motherboxes and their evil counterparts on Apokolips are called Fatherboxes. Violet said that the names are a translation, though, and not truly indicative of gender.

Leadership

Darkseid

Darkseid

Species: New God

Voiced by: Michael-Leon Wooley

A New God from Apokolips and an ally to the Light.

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• Action Dad: Darkseid is a Galactic Conqueror fully capable of doing his own dirty work, at one point leading an attempted conquest of Earth alongside his sons Kalibak and Grayven.
• Bald of Evil: He has no hair and is for all intents and purposes a literal God of Evil.
• Big Bad Duumvirate:
  • Darkseid and Vandal Savage made a pact centuries ago to conquer the galaxy together, and once complete, Apokolips and Earth would fight each other in one final "winner take all" battle. In modern times he's responsible for Desaad, Godfrey, and Granny's presences on Earth, and lends the Light technology from Apokolips that make it possible for them to execute their grander schemes. Their alliance remains intact even after Granny betrays the Light to claim the Anti-Life Equation on Darkseid's behalf, her defeat and subsequent punishment satisfying both parties for the time being.
  • Phantoms has him form a similar "winner take all" alliance with Lor-Zod, aiding the Kryptonian in his quest to release his father.
• Big Bad Ensemble: Played with; Darkseid and Savage are ostensibly partners, aiding each other's efforts with the understanding that they will eventually face off for ultimate domination. However, this alliance doesn't stop Darkseid from pursuing his own goals at the expense of Savage and the Light as he does in tricking them into handing over Halo to give Darkseid access to the Anti-Life Equation.
• The Chessmaster: While he's also fond of conquest by force of arms, Darkseid is smart enough to use clever manipulations to accomplish his goals, forming alliances of mutual benefit that he can exploit to serve his own ends. During Outsiders, he even manages to outplay Vandal Savage and the Light, conning Savage into handing over Halo as a simple favor, only for Savage to later learn that Halo is the key to Anti-Life, the lynchpin of Darkseid's plans for universal conquest.
• Control Freak: Darkseid is a tyrant of the highest order, wishing to remove even the possibility of free will from those under his rule, either through the Anti-Life Equation or by using Ma'alefa'ak to root out those on Apokolips who are so much as susceptible to the idea of being turned against him.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: When his armies invaded Earth in the 13th century and were opposed by Vandal Savage (as Genghis Khan), Darkseid easily defeated Savage with a single shot of his Omega Beam. The only reason Darkseid didn't completely conquer Earth is because Savage managed to parlay Darkseid's interest in the meta-gene into an alliance.
• Dark Is Evil: Right there in the name. Darkseid.
• The Dreaded:
  • None of the Forever People wanted to speak his name, and Desaad backtracked almost instantly when he claimed that Infinity-Man was his to control, clarifying that Infinity-Man would belong to "my master", as if he were worried that Darkseid could hear him.
  • Even though they're working together, Savage's interactions with Darkseid in "Evolution" show he's clearly wary of Darkseid and he makes an effort to be polite. Savage tasted defeat at his hands once before and knows exactly how dangerous he can be. The idea of Darkseid getting his hands on the Anti-Life Equation is the first thing to ever truly break Savage's otherwise ironclad composure.
  • Even the Lords of Chaos and Order consider the idea of Darkseid gaining control over the Anti-Life Equation to be an unacceptable outcome (Darkseid's rule would make chaos a thing of the past and render order moot), causing them to (while not supporting him) regard Vandal Savage as the lesser of two evils.
• The Evils of Free Will: Darkseid seeks control over the Anti-Life Equation, which strips others of their free will, rendering them slaves to Darkseid. Capturing Halo allows him to fulfill this goal.
• Evil Overlord: He's the ruler of Apokolips.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Per tradition, Darkseid's voice is deep as the pits of hell and it belongs to a brutal conqueror who exploits the meta-human trafficking industry to bolster his armies.
• Eviler than Thou: Darkseid proves to be a greater threat than the Light on virtually every level, exploiting his erstwhile allies to get his hands on the Anti-Life Equation, then casually discarding their partnership and putting the Equation to use in conquering entire star systems.
• Eye Beams: A flashback in "Evolution" sees Darkseid use his trademark Omega Beam to strike down Genghis Khan (or, as we know him, Vandal Savage).
• Friendly Enemy: Essentially his relationship with Savage, with emphasis on the "friendly" part. The two conquerors like and respect one another and help each other towards their goals, all with the understanding that when Earth and Apokolips are the greatest powers in the galaxy, they will have a final battle for their respective world's dominance.
• Galactic Conqueror: Endemic to the character. The first few minutes of Outsiders gives us a look at Darkseid's armies laying siege to Rann in an attempt to claim the planet for their master, and "Evolution" reveals that an attempted invasion of Earth centuries prior is what led to Darkseid's current partnership with Savage, and indirectly, to the events of the entire series.
• Genius Bruiser: Darkseid is a towering mass of muscle with godlike power at his command and the intellect to match. He proves to be one of the few opponents capable of beating the Light at their own game.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Almost definitely a greater threat than the Light, and stays almost completely off stage during the two seasons. "Evolution" reveals him to be one for the entire series; it was Darkseid's attempted invasion of Earth that led to Vandal Savage expanding his vision from world domination to galactic domination, paving the way for the Light and everything that's happened since moment one. He's stepping towards a Big Bad Duumvirate role in Outsiders, alongside Vandal Savage and the Light.
• I Gave My Word: Despite being willing to bend the terms of an agreement to an extent, Darkseid is ultimately a man of his word and honors the deals he makes. Ma'alefa'ak makes a deal with him for a new world for the White Martians, and though Ma'alefa'ak's overall performance could be considered lacking, Darkseid does ultimately deliver what he promised once Ma'alefa'ak fulfills his end of the bargain.
• Last Episode, New Character: His only appearance in the series was in the last episode. He would have had more, but the show was cancelled after that. Eventually subverted with the uncancellation.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Again, Darkseid. The similarity of his name to the Dark Side of The Force doesn't hurt, though he actually predates the series by about 7 years.
• Orcus on His Throne: Darkseid's armies and various proxies do most of the heavy lifting in his crusade for galactic conquest. Darkseid himself is shown taking action only once, in a flashback to 13th century Earth, a scene which proved that Darkseid certainly has the power to do some serious damage on his own.
• Parental Favoritism: An exchange between Savage and Kalibak in "Evolution" strongly implies that Darkseid plays favorites with his sons, and that Kalibak certainly isn't one of those favorites.^note In the comics, Darkseid has the most respect for Orion and treats Kalibak like dirt.
• Physical God: He's the "god of tyranny" according to the Forever People, and is usually the strongest threat the League has to face.
• Pragmatic Villainy:
  • Darkseid knows when it's better to spare others and allow them a share of his power, than it is to simply kill everything in sight, for there is more to be gained in an alliance of trust over fear. That is precisely how his alliance with Vandal Savage was formed.
  • He punishes Granny Goodness not because she betrayed The Light, but partly because she failed him, and partly to appease Vandal and preserve their alliance.
• The Quiet One: Darkseid is a deity of few words; he does engage Savage in conversation when contacted directly, but during Phantoms, he has Grayven relay his wishes to his minions.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: His eyes are glowing red.
• Speak of the Devil: In "Disordered", neither Desaad nor the Forever People were willing to say Darkseid's name. Dreamer's projection of Desaad even described Darkseid as "Unspeakable".
• The Stoic: Darkseid has yet to show even a hint of emotion.
• Suddenly Voiced: After appearing as The Voiceless in "Endgame", he has his first speaking role in "Evolution".
• Villain Team-Up: Ever a pragmatist, Darkseid is known to make alliances with other villains in order to further his own agenda, with Vandal Savage, Ma'alefa'ak, and Lor-Zod being among those with whom he's made such arrangements.
• Would Hurt a Child: Darkseid uses abducted Earth metahumans, obtained through child trafficking, to bolster his armies, caring nothing for their lives.

Darkseid's Elite

Granny Goodness

Granny Goodness

Species: New God

Voiced by: Deborah Strang

The founder of GoodeWorld, creator of the Goode VR Goggles, Gretchen appears to be a kindly old woman, but is in fact a member of the Light. Presumably Darkseid's agent on the Light's council.

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• Adaptation Personality Change: Unlike most versions of Granny, who are straightfowardly sadistic and cruel, she plays at being a sweet and kindly old lady, even keeping up the tone while carrying out the hideous cruelty typical of the character.
• Adaptational Curves: Inverted, she is noticeably less muscular than her comic counterpart, which helps her play into the facade of being a gentle old woman.
• Arch-Enemy: To Beast Boy in Outsiders. Gar was the star of her hottest TV show, and he took it personally when he realized his boss was a child-trafficking monster. Granny gets a special kick out of tormenting him, and Gar starts the Outsiders partly to take her down.
• Arc Villain: The main villain of Outsiders, as the head of Apokolips' metahuman trafficking. While she’s defeated before the finale, her acquisition of the Anti-Life Equation easily eclipses every other threat.
• Asshole Victim: She's ends up getting punished by Darkseid for her failure via torture. Considering that she's a sadist herself who did the same thing to others, it's still well-deserved.
• Big Bad Ensemble: Double-crosses the Light after discovering the Anti-Life Equation, with Savage wasting little time in trying to prevent Apokolips' conquest (Darkseid himself remains the Greater-Scope Villain).
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Publicly a kindly philanthropist, in reality a member of the Light and a monstrous alien despot.
• Broken Pedestal: Beast Boy used to view her as a Benevolent Boss until he discovered she was instrumental in the metahumaning trafficking ring, and doesn't shy from telling her to her face how much she disgusts him. Now that he knows what she's really like, Gretchen doesn't shy from issuing Beast Boy veiled threats behind her patient persona under the reminder she has him in locked in a contract.
• Co-Dragons: One of Darkseid’s top lieutenants, serving as his proxy on the Light and the head of Apokolips’ Orphanage.
• The Corrupter: Using a Breaking Speech and some exploitation of her character flaws, Granny manipulates Mary Bromfield into embracing her dark side and becoming one of the Furies. It's implied that she used similar manipulations to recruit Supergirl as well.
• Evil Is Petty: Once Beast Boy becomes aware of her true nature, Granny opts to mess with him by forcing him to take multiple unnecessary takes while he's filming his show.
• Evil Matriarch: To Big Barda and the Furies. Her entire motif is centered around referring to her enemies as "Naughty children."
• Evil Old Folks: She's an elderly woman, and based on her comic counterpart, likely the most vile of the Light.
• Faux Affably Evil: Granny's matronly demeanor hides a twisted and sadistic personality.
• The Heavy: Granny is doing the legwork on Earth while Darkseid is running things on Apokolips. Out of all Season 3's villains, she's the most active and easily the most dangerous.
• Human Aliens: She's a New God, an alien with an appearance identical to an elderly human woman. As a matter of fact, half of her race resemble humans.
• Kick The Son Of A Bitch: Tests the Anti Life Equation by making Halo compel Dr Jace to reveal her true nature to Brion and Tara before mocking Jace about it. Given what Jace's done, it's hard to feel sorry for her.
• Me's a Crowd: Granny has separated herself into two people: the Granny Goodness out in space and the Gretchen Goode on Earth. Each copy is essentially the same person doing a different job, and when they meet face-to-face they treat each other as equals. The separation is maintained by a huge alien machine hidden at Goode World Studios: when the Team destroys it, Goode gets boom-tubed across the galaxy to re-combine with Granny. Painfully.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Her scheme to kidnap and brainwash Queen Perdita with Goode Goggles snared Beast Boy instead, who managed to not only overcome the programming, but learned that she was actually behind metahuman trafficking and was spurred to leave her studio and become a hero again. Her gloating about her plans in front of Ultra Humanite also allows him to alert Vandal, who in turn alerts the Team and tells them where to go.
• Never Mess with Granny: Effortlessly and savagely manhandles Beast Boy during their fight.
• Sadist: As Granny Goodness, she vainly justifies her treatment of Big Barda and the Furies as "Discipline" and not "Torture." Her attitude when fighting Beast Boy shows that she just gets off on pain.
• Softspoken Sadist: As a contrast to her typical depictions, Granny is portrayed as being soft spoken and seemingly kindly despite being an unrepentant sadist.
• The Social Darwinist: According to her, her methods of applying the Anti-Life equation will kill all non-metahumans, leaving only the latter as slaves for Darkseid. She couldn't be more pleased.
• Villain with Good Publicity:
  • Even Bruce Wayne thinks she's a philanthropic old woman, rather than an agent of the Light and Darkseid.
  • When the Goode Goggles' role in the metahuman trafficking ring is exposed, Gretchen saves face by claiming the Goggles were "Tampered with" without her knowledge by one of Goode World's engineers. One who was conveniently murdered some months back.
• Would Hurt a Child: Granny is one of the masterminds of the metahuman trafficking industry, using it to produce Child Soldiers for Darkseid. While the Light all play a role in this and few of them have any qualms about harming children, Granny stands out for how much she enjoys her work
• You Have Failed Me: Her failure in securing the Anti-Life Equation leads to her being tortured by Desaad under Darkseid's orders.

Desaad

Desaad

Species: New God

Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker

A God Scientist and master torturer.

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• Adaptational Ugliness: While Desaad was never a looker in the comics, this version of the character is grey-skinned and visibly deformed, whereas his original incarnation was much more normal looking.
• And Your Little Dog, Too!: Said nearly word for word.
  Desaad: Kill the boy, and his little dog too.
• Body Horror: Is much more visibly malformed than other incarnations, with his skin actually hanging loosely in many places.
• Co-Dragons: One of Darkseid’s top lieutenants. While not as prominent as Granny or Godfrey, Desaad is his chief advisor and the one who gave him the idea to use Earth’s metahumans as weapons.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: Per Desaad's proclivities, Infinity-Man's beatdown of Superboy quickly descends into this.
• Even Evil Has Standards: He finds the Martian racism foolish and stupid. This does, not, mean he won't give one side a gene bomb to wipe out the other side for services paid.
• God of Evil: Referred to as one of the "gods of Anti-Life, slavery and degradation" of Apokolips by the Forever People.
• In the Hood: As per usual, Desaad rocks an Emperor Palpatine-esque look, wearing a dark cloak with the hood always up.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: After his control over Infinity-Man is broken, Desaad wisely heads back to Apokolips.
• Mad Scientist: Described as a "God Scientist", and his sadistic tendencies prove the "mad" part quite well.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: His name comes from Marquis de Sade (whose name inspired the word "sadism").
• Nebulous Criminal Conspiracy: Supplies Apokoliptian and stolen New Genesis tech to Intergang, and implicitly, to The Light as well.
• Psychopathic Manchild: If his Villainous Breakdown is of any indication, he reacts to loss by throwing a tantrum.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: A sadistic God of Evil with red eyes.
• Sadist: By his own admission, Desaad is not one to finish things quickly. His Father Box mirrors this; after it takes control of Infinity-Man, he proceeds to prolong the beating of Superboy and Wolf for Desaad's amusement.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: Desaad rarely raises his voice above a cold, creepy whisper.
• Sore Loser: When Superboy and sphere turns the tables on him, his response is to flee and hurl a grenade while screaming "ALL SHALL SUFFER!!!!!! ALL SHALL SUFFER!!!!!"
• Torture Technician: Described by the Forever People as a master torturer, although his skills don't get a full display in his first appearance.
• Villainous Breakdown: He resorts to a spiteful temper tantrum after Superboy and Sphere start winning against him.
• Would Hurt a Child: Is the one responsible for removing 11-year-old meta-trafficking victim Danny Chase's brain (while he was still conscious) and turning him into the Kaizer-Thrall (itself a condition that causes Danny extreme pain whenever he is forced to use his powers).
• Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: When he takes over Infinity Man and turns him against Superboy, Mannheim asks him why the Brainwashed and Crazy Infinity Man was taking his sweet time; his answer boils down to For the Evulz.

G. Gordon Godfrey / Glorious Godfrey

G. Gordon Godfrey / Glorious Godfrey

Species: New God

Voiced by: Tim Curry (Invasion), James Arnold Taylor (Outsiders)

A GBS pundit, the host of The G. Gordon Godfrey Show, and an associate of Darkseid, widely known for his stance against the Justice League and its alien members.

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• Alliterative Name:
  • G. Gordon Godfrey.
  • Glorious Godfrey.
• Catchphrase: Seems to say "I know what you're thinking: Ol' G. Gordon's..." a lot.
• Co-Dragons: One of Darkseid’s top lieutenants, manipulating Earth’s media to the Light’s benefit.
• Even Evil Has Standards: For a fear-mongering, mud-slinging, talk show host, he shows a lot of journalistic and personal integrity when he chews out the Ambassador for his outright lies. Later it's proved to be a subversion. Exposing the Reach was all part of the plan; Darkseid's plan.
• Fantastic Racism: Really doesn't like aliens, though he gives a pass to the Reach, claiming they introduced themselves to the world the right way, and even cameos in an in-universe ad for The Reach's soft drink. However, he turns on them in "The Hunt" after the revelation that they were hiding an entire battle fleet under the ocean, calling the Ambassador out on live television. In "Endgame" he's seen on Apokolips, confirming he is an alien, the New God Glorious Godfrey, who, in the comics, specializes in controlling media and manipulating populations, implicitly revealing his hate mongering to be a lie intended to serve Darkseid's agenda.
• Hate Sink: From giving the Justice League bad publicity to the annoying voice and being a huge Jerkass, there's not much to like. Hell, his one moment of awesome turns out to be part of Darkseid's plan.
• Jerkass: An unlikable man who constantly bashes superheroes.
• Jerkass Has a Point: He makes very convincing and accurate points, albeit in the form of xenophobic, condescending rants. Given what is and isn't publicly known, this is even worse in-universe, where he is gaining credibility. All part of the plan.
• Large Ham: Befitting an Attention Whore, Propaganda Machine, TV personality, and a character portrayed by Tim Curry and James Arnold Taylor; Godfrey rarely leaves the scenery unthawed.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: There are clear parallels between him and several real-life controversial pundits. His name is structured like G. Gordon Liddy, Curry's distinctive accent might be a reference to the "transatlantic" William F. Buckley, and his "Bonehead of the Week" segment is a clear reference to Bill O. Reilly's "Pinhead of the Week".
• Obviously Evil: He's a gossipy Strawman News Media host and grade-A prick. No surprise that he'd turn out to be evil. On a more meta level, comics fans who recognize his name will instantly know that he's up to no good.
• Opinion Flip-Flop: Justified, as Godfrey doesn't actually believe a word he says; he's just stirring up dissent to play to Darkseid's agenda.
  • He heartily endorses Secretary Tseng's decision to trust the Reach, then calls for the man's resignation and blames him exclusively after the Reach show their true colors.
  • For that matter, his show always seems to have an anti-JLA stance but his reasons for it vary heavily. They're too chummy with aliens? They're not chummy enough with the Reach? They keep secrets? They don't address real-world problems?
• Physical God: He's actually Glorious Godfrey, a New God of propaganda. Though his physical abilities have not been displayed yet.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Though his job is to discredit the heroes, he knows when and where to pick his battles. He deliberately undercuts Lex in a PR fight with the Outsiders because Lex had been outplayed and Godfrey knew it was unsalvageable, convincing Lex to take a different tack after the show.
• Propaganda Machine: Of the negative kind towards the Justice League. And then to the Reach.
• Right Hand Versus Left Hand: Gets particularly heated in his interview with Granny Goodness, even though they presumably work for the same guy. This could be infighting within the ranks or just part of a grander plan; only time can tell.
• Strawman News Media: As a heavily biased Talk Show host.
• Third-Person Person: Not all the time, but he does refer to himself as "G. Gordon" or "ol' G. Gordon" quite a bit.
• Trrrilling Rrrs: A Tim Curry trademark; Godfrey positively revels in drawing out his r's.
• Villain with Good Publicity: He's a gossipy talk show host and grade-A prick, but he seems to have a popular show and good publicity. It's eventually revealed that he's from Apokolips; implicitly, this is all according to Darkseid's plan. Even Superboy watches the show, despite his better judgment.^note In the comics, Godfrey had literally superhuman charisma; that could be at work here.

Kalibak

Kalibak

"Watch as I prove why I am the only son who should concern you."

Species: New God

Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker

One of Darkseid's sons and a commander in his father's army.

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• Berserk Button: Kalibak does not enjoy being reminded that he's not his father's favorite.
• Daddy Issues: Explicitly called out on them by Olympia Savage after Vandal Savage presses Kalibak's Berserk Button.
  Olympia: Kalibak has daddy issues.
• Jerkass: Upon arriving to back Savage up, Kalibak's first words to his erstwhile ally are to mock him about the defeat Savage suffered at Darkseid's hands 800 years prior.
• The Un-Favorite: Judging from his response to Savage's sarcastic remark about being Darkseid's "favorite son", Kalibak is well aware that he's not his father's pride and joy.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Despite being aware that he isn't Darkseid's favored son (and more than a little touchy about it), Kalibak is eager to prove that he is the only son that Darkseid needs.
• Would Hurt a Child: Uses a metahuman youth as a suicide bomber against Starro's armada.

Grayven

Grayven

Species: New God

Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker

The third son of Darkseid, who accompanied him in his first invasion of Earth.

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: In the comics his hair was black, but here it's white.
• Barbarian Long Hair: His hair is wild and goes all the way to his knees and is the ruthless son of an intergalactic conqueror.
• The Cameo: Briefly appears in the background during Darkseid’s invasion of Earth and subsequent alliance with Savage.
• Mouth of Sauron: Occasionally serves this role for his father, even when Darkseid is there in the room.
• Stripperiffic: His second appearence has him wear some oddly skimpy clothes, exposing most of his pelvic area.
• White Hair, Black Heart: Grayven has a long mess of white hair, and he serves his tyrannical father's agenda of galactic conquest.

The Furies

Big Barda

Big Barda

Species: New God

Voiced by: Grey DeLisle

Leader of the Furies, a group of Apokoliptan warriors who serve Granny Goodness.

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• Abusive Parents: Barda is implied to have been raised by Granny Goodness, who continues to treat the warrior as an unruly child to be "disciplined" if she displeases Granny.
• Adaptational Villainy: Comics' Big Barda long ago made a Heel–Face Turn and became a hero alongside her husband Scott Free, while here she's still a loyal servant of Darkseid. Her reaction to Superman saving her implies she may eventually be headed for her Turn, however.
• Blood Knight: Barda is very enthusiastic about battling the Justice League, even deliberately leading them to Granny's base in the hopes of taking them on. When the time to fight arrives, she gleefully rallies the other Furies to fight in the names of Granny and Darkseid.
• Didn't Think This Through: In her haste to do battle with the Justice League, Barda never cleared her plan for luring them with Granny. Barda ends up getting a bout of Electric Torture for her trouble.
• The Dragon: Granny Goodness's right-hand woman and commander of the Furies.
• Save the Villain: While fighting the League, Granny subjects her, the other Furies, and the Leagers to a test of her Agony Beam machine, but Superman manages to withhold it long enough to get himself and Barda out of it, much to her surprise.

Lashina

Lashina

Species: New God

One of Granny Goodness's Furies.

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• Flat Character: She didn't get any characterization or lines in her few appearances.
• Karma Houdini: Arrested by the Green Lantern Corps, but for whatever reason they let her go after a few months.
• Whip of Dominance: As per usual, Lashina fights with a whip and has a Dominatrix design.

Gilotina

Gilotina

Species: New God

One of Granny Goodness's Furies.

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• Flat Character: She didn't get any characterization or lines in her few appearances.
• Super-Strength: She's strong enough to fight toe-to-toe with Wonder Woman.

The First New Recruit (SPOILERS)

Supergirl (Kara Zor-El)

Species: Kryptonian

The daughter of Zor-El and Superman's cousin who had been sent to the Phantom Zone shortly before Krypton's destruction. After being taken out of the Zone by the Light, she is now serving Darkseid as one of the two newest members of the Furies.

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• Adaptational Modesty: In Superman/Batman, her outfit when a Fury was a Stripperific number. Here, she's covered up a lot more.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Having spent the last 40 years in the Phantom Zone by herself, she is almost certainly suffering from severe Zone Sickness. Enough that her becoming one of Darkseid's Furies is likely a result of this along with Granny's usual mind control methods.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Foreshadowing about her had been building up from a line of Superman's in the original tie-in comics after his encounter with the Collector of Worlds, culminating in her appearance right at the end of season 4.
• Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: The El family usually have some distinctively bright blue eyes. Kara's are not.
• Flying Brick: Like her comic version, she presumably has the same powers as Superman due to being Kryptonian.
• Last Episode, New Character: She appears in "Death and Rebirth", which also happens to be the final episode of the show.
• Long-Lost Relative: She is Superman's biological cousin who as mentioned above has been trapped in the Phantom Zone for 40 years.
• Older Than They Look: Despite being a biological teenager, Supergirl is chronologically well into her fifties, having gone without aging during her time in the Phantom Zone.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: She's in a black and red outfit, and working for Darkseid, though quite possibly not of her own free will.

The Second New Recruit (SPOILERS)

Black Mary (Mary Bromfield)

She is one of the two new members of the Furies

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The Assassin (SPOILERS)

Lor-Zod

Species: Kryptonian

Voiced by: Phil Morris

The son of General Zod and Ursa from the 31st Century. After the Legion of Superheroes stopped his father's attempt at Galactic Conquest, he managed to steal a Time Sphere and used it to travel to the present, where he now seeks revenge on the Legion and a means of releasing his parents from the Phantom Zone.

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• Adaptational Villainy: Zig-Zagged. In the comics, he was initially introduced as a heroic figure unlike the rest of his family. Later he was Retconned after DC Rebirth to be more villainous and loyal to his father, with this version being the one Lor is adapted from.
• Arc Villain: With his father for Phantoms as a whole. He serves as the Greater-Scope Villain of the Mars arc, takes center stage in Act 5 as he works with Ma'alefa'ak and Mantis to free his parents, and joins them in a Big Bad Triumvirate for Act 6.
• Batman Gambit: His plan to assassinate Superboy without anyone realizing his involvement relied on Conner trying to stop the bomb Ma'alefa'ak planted.
• Big Bad Duumvirate:
  • Has formed an alliance with Darkseid to free the Kryptonian prisoners in the Phantom Zone.
  • Forms a Triumvirate with his parents for the sixth arc of Phantoms, working to free them from the Phantom Zone so they can conquer the universe.
• Delinquent Hair: His hairstyle is done up by giving him a mohawk done up in dreadlocks. His actions such as assassinating Superboy, which actually trapping him in The Phantom Zone and his alliance with Darkseid makes him way more than a delinquent.
• Entitled Bastard: Claims that his family deserves to rule the galaxy and that denying them superpowers is stripping them of their birthright, even though Kryptonians do not naturally have those powers. As far as Lor is concerned, everything he wants should be his, because he's a Zod.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He's shown to genuinely love and care for his parents; he eagerly brings them up to speed on all the events that transpired during their time spent in Phantom Zone and acts as their guide, angrily refers to their imprisonment as a great injustice, and panics when Nightwing blows up the solar recharge pods while they're still inside.
• Evil Is Petty:
  • In moment of frustration at the Phantom Zone projector being temporarily rendered useless by the Flash, he spitefully murders Tomar Re, who was busy protecting New Genesis. Not only did he jeopardise an entire planet's survival, he himself could have very possibly died (and the Phantom Zone projector would have been destroyed anyways).
  • Later he smugly tells Tomar Re's son that he "met his father" and "hopes he follows in his footsteps", grinning smugly. He had no reason to do this roudabout death threat other than utter spite.
• Fatal Flaw: Pride and Impulsiveness. He has an extremely inflated sense of importance (both concerning himself and his parents, Dru-Zod and Ursa Zod), utterly convinced that he and his parents are destined to rule the known universe and thinks of himself as an equal to Darkseid, a New God of Apokolips and a literal God of evil and tyranny. While presented as a calculating schemer, he has more than a few moments where his emotions get the better of him and cause him to lash out in anger, instead of focusing on the bigger picture; he angrily attacks Tomar-Re after the Phantom Zone projector was destroyed, disregarding the fact that the Green Lantern was in the process of preventing a Promethean's attack from obliterating every living thing on New Genesis, including Lor himself. He also urges his father to kill Conner simply because he's a member of the house of El, despite the latter suffering from Zone sickness and thus being subjected to Dru-Zod's conditioning and being turned into a loyal soldier, which Dru-Zod sees as a trusted and useful asset.
• Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence: He's never even met a member of the House of El, but due to his father's imprisonment he's decided that they are all his enemies and need to die. It's implied that he targeted Conner not just for his use in the timeline, but also so he could kill an El.
• Flying Brick: Being a Kryptonian, Lor has all the powers of Superman under a yellow sun.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has a scar over his right eye cutting through his eyebrow.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Ends up being killed by the very same Kryptonite-laced explosion that he had arranged for Conner. Doubly so, as Lor-Zod is sent back to the explosion by his own Time-Sphere which then immediately returns to Metron, leaving Lor-Zod trapped in the past to die.
• It Runs in the Family: While he inherited the physical appearance of his father Dru-Zod, it becomes clear near the end of the season that he got his impulsive nature and sense of entitlement from his mother, Ursa Zod.
• It's All About Me: It takes a special kind of ego to claim that your mother had "the honor" of giving birth to you. He also considers himself equal to Darkseid.
• Karmic Death: He's killed with his own bomb that he used to try to assassinate Superboy after Metron tampered with his Time-Sphere and sent him to the exact moment he couldn't escape the blast.
• Kryptonite Factor: Like all Kryptonians, he is weak to Kryptonite. A weakness that Metron used against him on New Genesis. This weakness is also what ultimately kills him, as Metron once again exploits this weakness by sending him back in time to Mars, where he is killed by the Kryptonite enhanced gene bomb that he tried to use to kill Superboy.
• Longest Pregnancy Ever: He was a subject of an interesting case of this trope. His mother was unknowingly pregnant while trapped in the Phantom Zone and none of those imprisoned aged for a thousand years. He was born only eight months after they were released...a thousand years behind schedule. Of course, in the current, revised timeline, Ursa has yet to give birth to him; she emerged, still pregnant, from the Phantom Zone here after an imprisonment of around 40 years, which would still qualify for this trope.
• Make Wrong What Once Went Right: His machinations throughout the Mars arc initially seemed to surround the growing political tensions on the planet only for it to be revealed his mission was to assassinate Superboy. This in turns means Conner wouldn't play an important role in a crisis about ten years in the future that has a profound impact on the Legionaires' time period. Therefore, the Legion is never founded and they never send Dru-Zod and his followers back to the Phantom Zone. But Lor later decides to team-up with Darkseid so he can steal the Phantom Projector from Metron's vault, freeing his parents a thousand years ahead of schedule.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: His efforts to free his parents early ultimately benefit the heroes in the long run; thanks to his scheming and murder of Tomar Re, New Genesis and the Green Lantern Corps immediately sign an alliance agreement with the Justice League when previously both groups had been hesitant and distant on the issues the League had to deal with. On a more personal scale, he caused a case of friendship with Rocket and Orion when the former had been distrustful and reminded of the issues with her son concerning the latter. And for his own goals, instead of just stranding the Legionaires in the past to rule over a secured future, his efforts undo that future and result in his death. About the villains who actually benefitted were the Light and Darkseid, with Lor's parents now trapped by the former, and the latter gaining Supergirl as a new Fury to advance his own plans.
• Oh, Crap!: The Season 4 finale has him give two big ones in rapid succession. First is when the Time-Sphere vanishes as soon as he steps out, leaving him stranded in the past. Second is when Phantom Girl and Superboy sucessfully warp out while he's distracted by the first thing, leaving him alone with a kryptonite bomb about to go off right in his face.
• Pet the Dog: He does actually thank Mantis when he figures out how to get the Projector, even referring to himself in the third person to do so.
• Stable Time Loop: With the revelation that the blast shadow left in the wake of Connor's apparent death in "Involuntary" was actually from Lor-Zod getting vaporized from his own bomb exploding (while Connor got blasted into the Phantom Zone instead) when Metron sent him back in the Time Sphere to the moment of the explosion, it's strongly implied that Lor-Zod, and by extension the Legionnaires, are stuck in one.
• The Power of Family: A villainous variant, in that his primary motivating force is the thought of freeing his parents from the Phantom Zone, and he would stop at nothing in his pursuit to this end. Moreover, he expressed shock upon learning that Darkseid's son Orion was allied against his own father with New Genesis, and wondered aloud how Darkseid would tolerate such disloyalty.
• Race Lift: Introduced as Caucasian in the comics, his first animated appearance makes him Black just like Dru-Zod.
• Teens Are Monsters: Lor is 16 presently and was even younger when his parents were re-imprisoned in the Phantom Zone during the Legion's time. Because he was a minor at the time, the United Planets didn't consider him as dangerous as his parents and their followers, so they didn't imprison him. They were wrong.
• Unseen No More: Throughout the Mars arc, his few appearances had his face was obscured only showing his eyes and scar at most. He finally makes a proper appearance in full as well as revealing himself as Lor-Zod in "Beyond the Grip of the Gods".

Mantis

Mantis

Species: Bug

Voiced by: Andrew Kishino

The leader of a hive of Bugs on New Genesis. Tired of living in subservience to the New Gods, whom he feels do nothing but mistreat the Bugs, he starts leading his people to rebel against them.

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• Adaptational Ugliness: In the comics, Mantis looked more human-like to the point that he just resembles a human wearing a supervillain costume. Here he looks more insect-like, and also has multiple arms.
• Adaptational Wimp: In the comics, he's the second most powerful being on Apokolips behind Darkseid, but here Forager is able to take him out without much effort.
• Evil Is Bigger: He's fittingly taller than the heroic Forager and a villain.
• Face–Heel Turn: After Ma'alefa'ak's impersonation of Orion convinces him to rebel against the New Gods, Mantis throws his lot in with Darkseid.
• Fantastic Racism: He grows very hateful and distrustful towards non-Bugs, especially the New Gods, but also later includes Martians and Earthlings. He also brands Forager as a Category Traitor for siding with the human superheroes over his fellow Bugs when they fought, so he exiles Forager under threat of death. Then it turns out that he's actually working for Darkseid just like his comics counterpart.
• Green and Mean: He's colored green in contrast to Forager's red and is a very unpleasant Bug.
• Insectoid Aliens: Just like Forager and the other Bugs.
• Jerkass: He's very short-tempered and xenophobic.
• Smarter Than You Look: He's dismissed by both Lor-Zod and Ma'alefa'ak as the least capable member of their group, only for his resilience and good memory to save their lives from a Sun Eater and getting the Phantom Zone Projector from Metron.
• Third-Person Person: Like other Bugs, he refers to himself by his own name instead of using first-person pronouns.

Ma'alefa'ak

Ma'alefa'ak (M'comm M'orzz)

Species: White Martian

Voiced by: Ben Diskin

The younger brother of M'gann, an unfettered revolutionary trying to improve the lives of his White Martian brethren through any means possible.

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• Adaptational Nice Guy: Downplayed. In the comics, Ma'alefa'ak is a sadistic, genocidal monster who committed his crimes out of spite and cruelty. Here, he's a Knight Templar revolutionary whose hate was formed from racism on Mars, albeit one more than willing to wipe out all Green and Red Martians with a gene bomb.
• Adaptation Species Change: More like adaptational breed change, as Green and White Martians are still the same species, just differing in skin color. Ma'alefa'ak was green in the comics but white in the show.
• Age Lift: In the comics, Ma'alefa'ak was the twin brother of J'onn, and therefore shared the same age. Here he is younger than M'gann.
• Appropriated Appellation: Since Ma'alefa'ak is the name of a terrifying monster on Mars, M'comm took the name as his own to inspire fear in the oppressive Green and Red Martians.
• Arc Villain: For the first four episodes of Phantoms, which focus on his efforts to start a White Martian revolution.
• Beyond Redemption: In season 3 Megan still had a vague hope he could be turned, dimmed by each of his appearances. But it is in the season 4 finale that she glares at him, furiously stating that "You were glad Connor was dead," and kicks him off into the Phantom Zone, making it clear that their sibling relationship is broken beyond repair.
• Biological Weapons Solve Everything: Desaad gives him a virus at the end of "Needful" that will wipe out all Green and Red Martians, and potentially mixed White-Green Martians like himself and M'gann, which he intends to use in two days.
• Boomerang Bigot: Ma'alefa'ak hates Green Martians with a passion, but since his mother was one, he himself has Green ancestry, a point he notably omits in his debate with M'gann. When Desaad tells him the bioweapon that targets non-white Martians could also kill White Martians with mixed ancestry he is willing to take that risk for himself.
• Cain and Abel: The Cain to M'Gann's Abel.
• Deadpan Snarker: Very bluntly points out that Zod's actions could be described as a coup.
• Decomposite Character: The Ma'alefa'ak is a feared rabid beast on Mars, M'comm used this as his villain name to strike fear into Green Martians.
• The Dragon: He and Mantis are assigned by Darkseid to aid Lor-Zod in his quest to free the Phantom Zone inhabitants, though Mantis is soon captured.
• Evil Counterpart: Strange as it sounds, he's one to Cullen Row, Harper Row's little brother, while M'gann is one to Harper herself. Both characters are voiced by Ben Diskin and there are parallels drawn between the two when M'gann confronts M'comm in "Needful", with multiple phrases being shared with M'gann's confrontation with Harper in "Quiet Conversations", most notably in M'gann or Harper being the rock for their younger siblings to hide behind, which in turn left them unprotected when said rock wasn't around anymore.
• Evil Is Petty: After being defeated, he utters a kill-phrase to murder his enslaved metahumans just to spite his sister for beating him.
• Fantastic Racism: He really hates the Green Martians, due to all the discrimination he suffered from them for being White. He also quickly forms a negative opinion of the New Gods, equating them with the Green Martians and the Bugs with the White Martians. In season 4, it’s revealed that he also seems to hate people from Earth, viewing them as Allies of the Greens and Reds who are unsympathetic to the Whites.
  • Though in any case, he really doesn't care about any one other than his fellow white Martians, being perfectly happy to weed out potential revolutionaries from the oppressed minority on Apocalypse as long as its leaders assist in his goals.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Both he and M'gann were subjected to harsh, racist treatment at the hands of the Green and Red Martians since they were children. However, M'gann makes it clear it's no excuse for his current actions, and that he's become just as bad as his oppressors in trying to start a war on New Genesis to get support for his own cause.
• Foil: To M'gann, both having had turned to extremist positions and an "Ends justify the means" mentality. But while M'gann had grown out of her ruthless tendencies by the end of Season 2 and reformed herself, M'comm still openly embraces less than scrupulous actions to forward his goals. And as ruthless as M'gann was in Season 2, she never stooped to killing or using innocents as M'comm has. This comes forth in their argument where M'gann tries to appeal to M'comm's compassion and empathy.
• Green-Eyed Monster: He resents Beast Boy, believing him to have supplanted him as M'gann's brother.
• Hates Their Parent: M'comm hates both his mother and father. While he doesnt deny that they love both him and M'gann, he asserts that love isn't enough, in part because they were unsuccessful in ensuring that their green children would grow up to be tolerant of white martians and couldnt rely on them to protect him and M'gann from harassment by other greens (and to this day, all but one was even willing to come to M'ganns wedding). He also personally hates that his father is submissive to the green martians. When his mother asks him if he hates her too for being a green martian, he just glares at her in silence. That being said, before he attempts to activate the gene bomb he still tells M'gann to tell their mother "goodbye" and their dad "I'm sorry" showing he may still have a small shred of care for them despite his overall ruthlessness and hatred.
• He Who Fights Monsters: He and his fellow White Martians were subjected to racist oppression by the Green and Red Martians. In order to combat them, M'comm has become an even bigger monster, equally hateful to his enemies.
• Hypocrite: Beyond the fact that he's just as, if not more bigoted towards Green Martians, as they are towards White Martians when M'gann confronts him about what his bomb did to Connor lethally he completely dismisses Connor as "some Earther". This shows beyond a doubt that for all of his claims that he's fighting back against the racism he's suffered from in his life he's ultimately just an angry child who's as bigoted as the ones he's fighting against, just pointed in a different direction.
• I Surrender, Suckers: When M'gann offers to turn M'comm away from the violent path he's on, M'comm seems to agree and asks her to teach him how. Unfortunately, he's lying through his teeth and tries to attack her while her guard is down. Luckily, M'gann was prepared for that.
• Jerkass: He's tremendously snide, self-righteous, unnecessarily cruel, and shows no regard for innocent life. Piling on to the jerkassery, most of these traits are demonstrated towards his own sister, who cares about him and protected him when they were children.
• Karma Houdini: Despite everything that he did, M'comm does not suffer any consequences and is instead rewarded by Darkseid, who honors their deal and gives him the planet, Durla, for him and his white Martian followers to inhabit.^note  Which heavily implies that M'comm and the white Martians are the ancestors of Chameleon Boy's species, since he mentioned that his homeworld in the 31st Century is Durla and his shapeshifting power is very similar to that of the Martians.
• Kick the Dog:
  • Murdering two brainwashed meta-teens, just to spite M'gann.
  • After Conner's apparent death, Ma'alefa'ak writes him off as "some Earther" to M'gann, who was not only Conner's fiancee, but Ma'alefa'ak's own sister. He later taunts M'gann about it, saying that he's glad that Conner is dead, a moment of cruelty that makes M'gann finally give up on him. He also thanks Lor-Zod when he thinks the later killed him.
  • While working for Darkseid, he incites Lowlies to think of rebelling against the New Gods, only to turn them over for torturous "re-education", coldly blaming them for being susceptible to his words if they call him on it.
• Knight Templar: Ma'alefa'ak believes his goal of inciting a White Martian revolution is righteous, no matter the morally abhorrent actions he commits in order to accomplish it.
• Kryptonite Factor: Like all Martians, he is weak to fire. This was exploited by Zatanna during the finale of Season 4.
• Lack of Empathy: Downplayed; he is genuinely interested in a better life for White Martians, but the methods he employs show that his sense of compassion begins and ends there. He despises other Martians to the point of being prepared to carry out genocide, has zero regard for anyone who gets hurt or killed in pursuit of his goals, is perfectly willing to allow others to suffer horrible fates if it benefits him, and has a habit of blaming others for suffering that he inflicts.
• Manipulative Bastard: While working for Darkseid, Ma'alefa'ak uses a combination of his own Martian powers, frame-ups, and old-fashioned psychology to serve Darkseid's agenda, both to stir dissent on New Genesis and root out potential dissenters on Apokolips.
• Never My Fault:
  • He brushes off any condemnation of his actions by referring back to the discrimination that White Martians have suffered, and once his plans are thwarted, he blames Forager for the deaths of his captive metahumans, claiming that it's his fault for bringing the Team to New Genesis and promising to kill Forager if he sees him again.
  • After manipulating a Lowly into being open to the idea of rebellion against the New Gods of Apokolips, Ma'alefa'ak sends her off to be "re-educated" without blinking. When the Lowly points out that it wasn't until Ma'alefa'ak planted the idea in her head that she even considered rebellion, Ma'alefa'ak puts the blame on her for being "susceptible".
• Not Afraid to Die: He isn't phased by Desaad warning him the gene bomb's affect on a hybrid martian like himself is unknown, not hesitating to potentially kill himself to eliminate the Green and Red Martians.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist:
  • For all his claims to the contrary, it's quite clear that Ma'alefa'ak's planned revolution against the Green and Red Martians is based more on his own hatred for them than any desire for positive social change. He considers the oppressed becoming the oppressors to be a successful revolution, not seeing his goal for what it really is.
  • Ma'alefa'ak brushes off M'gann's condemnations about his warmongering on New Genesis by claiming that he's doing the Bugs a favor by pitting them against the New Gods, framing the whole thing as inciting a noble revolution. The reality is that Ma'alefa'ak is just doing this as a favor to Darkseid to gather support for his own revolution on Mars, and he doesn't actually care in the least about the Bugs.
• Pet the Dog: A few times in very small ways.
  • He offers his sister the chance to join him in his revolution when they first meet again, only giving into his resentment towards her after she rejects and tries to stop his plans.
  • He tells M'gann to tell their mother "goodbye" and their dad "I'm sorry" before he plans to activate the gene bomb that will kill one and widow the other.
• Psychological Projection: He equates the relationship between the New Gods and the Bugs with the one among the different races of Martian; in Ma'alefa'ak's mind, the New Gods oppress the Bugs by placing themselves above them. In reality, what little we see suggests that the two races got along fine before Ma'alefa'ak deliberately started pitting the Bugs against the New Gods, and his own issues are coloring how he sees the situation.
• Redemption Rejection: When M'gann offers him the chance to be a better person, he pretends to go along with it only so he can attack her when her guard is down.
• Related Differently in the Adaptation: In the source material, he's J'onn's brother. Here, he is J'onn's nephew (through J'onn's sister).
• Related in the Adaptation: To M'gann, who is J'onn's niece in the show. Here Ma'alefa'ak is her younger brother.
• The Resenter: Season 4 reveals him to be this toward M'gann, because she unintentionally left him behind to suffer the bigotry alone, when she was able to escape to Earth the very chance she got. That, and he feels "replaced" by Beast Boy.
• Shadow Archetype: He shares a lot of M'gann's insecurities about being racially discriminated and abuses his powers the way she did. Unlike M'gann however, he lets these insecurities consume him and he continues to abuse his powers.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: As deplorable his methods are, he's gifted by Darkseid a new planet as haven for his fellow White Martians, Durla.
• Tragic Villain: As awful as he is, Ma'alefa'ak is driven by a very much justified hatred of how the caste system on Mars oppresses White Martians; he's effectively a monster created by the society in which he was raised. This also includes being bullied by the rest of his siblings who were Green Martians and M'gann’s abandonment and being replaced by Beast Boy.
• Ungrateful Bastard: As soon as M'gann rejects his offer to join Ma'alefa'ak's revolution, he disregards her kindness and mercy in favor of attacking her and going out of his way to spite her for trying to stop him. Although this is somewhat justified as M'gann left him to defend for himself when they were kids.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: M'gann tries to appeal to his better nature by using memories of their childhood, where they were wide-eyed and innocent, to get him to turn away from his evil path. Unfortunately, all M'comm can remember is the bad.
• Villain Has a Point: While Ma'alefa'ak's methods of fighting it go far beyond the pale, the caste system on Mars really is incredibly unjust; M'gann even left Mars in the first place because she was discriminated against for being a White Martian. In additionaly, he also points out that his siblings never accepted them at all.
• Villainous Breakdown: Loses all composure not just at being literally kicked out of Danny Chase's mind, but at being defeated by his sister and sent to the Phantom Zone with the Kryptonians.
• Villainous Virtues: His dealings with Lor-Zod display that for all of his monstrous behavior towards his enemies, Ma'alefa'ak is not an idiot, having a much better understanding of logistics and physics (chief among them being the limitations of Boom Tubes). In fact, from a villainous perspective, he's quite reliable to have on missions. While his compassion may start and end with the White Martians, he does legitimately care for them and was satisfied with gaining them territory in the form of Durla.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: He has this power like all other Martians. He disguises himself as Orion and acts like a bigoted asshole, as part of a plan to fool and manipulate the Bugs into rebelling against the New Gods on New Genesis.
• We Can Rule Together: He tries to get M'gann to join his revolution, but she refuses to stoop to the lows he's willing to go to.
• Would Hurt a Child: Murders his two metahuman slaves that his sister was trying to rescue as a last act of spite. The slaves in question were teenagers. He also tortures Danny Chase's mind inside the Kaizer-Thrall, but this backfires immensely after some pep words from Saturn Girl, allowing the tortured kid to kick Ma'alefa'ak from his mind.

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