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Branchwater
A meta crime covert ops unit disguised as a security firm. In General
A company used by Simon Stagg for corporate espionage, and or corporate warfare. Unlike Bedlam, they "liberate" meta prisoners and use nano-tech created by Jervis Tetch to force them to follow their commands.
- Would Hurt a Child: They would use metacriminals despite their ages. Livewire and Mist are said to be minors.
Simon Stagg
Simon Stagg
Species: Human
Voiced by: Unknown
The head of Stagg Industries.- Corrupt Corporate Executive: A powerful businessman with no qualms about exploiting the metahuman trafficking industry or enslaving metas for his own gain.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Shade, one of the metas that Stagg had enslaved by Mad Hatter, approaches Stagg in his prison cell with murderous intent.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Doesn't get a speaking role in his first and likely only appearance, the entire Team mission to capture and expose his crimes is largely glossed over, and by the end of the episode he's heavily implied to have been murdered in his cell by Shade.
- Wham Shot: His imprisonment and supposed death at the hands of Shade can be seen as this, as he is usually responsible for causing Metamorpho's transformation, who is confirmed to appear later on the series.
Mad Hatter (Jervis Tetch)
Mad Hatter (Jervis Tetch)
Species: Human
Voiced by: Dwight Schultz
A Batman rogue, now working for Simon Stagg to create mind control tech to use on metahuman criminals.- Bad Boss: Is willing to blow up his own hideout to evade capture...with his mind controlled minion Clayface inside. Fortunately for Clayface, he can recover from such things, and Robin even releases him from his control later.
- Bullying a Dragon: Forces Shade to punch himself in the face, just to test if his mind control tech is working properly (despite the fact that he has already seen it function a few seconds ago).
- Kick the Dog: Abuses Shade and leaves Clayface for dead while they're both under his mind control and unable to do a thing about it.
- Large Ham: "Well, what part of MAD Hatter didn't ya GET!?"
- The Mad Hatter: To the point that his parole agreement would not even allow him to wear any hat in public.
- Mind-Control Device: Uses nano-tech injected to the controlled metas.
- Reused Character Design: From Batman: Bad Blood.
- Would Hurt a Child: Injected both Livewire and Mist with mind control nanotech, both of which are confirmed to be minors.
Livewire
Current Affiliation: The Outsiders
Mist
Current Affiliation: The Team
Shade
Current Affiliation: Freelance
Dr. Moon
Dr. Moon
Species: Human
Voiced by: Vic Chao
A physician employed by Branchwater.- Adaptational Nice Guy: Comics Doctor Moon is a known torturer. Here he cares about all of his patients.
Independent Villains
Brick
Brick (Daniel "Danny" Brickwell)
Species: Metahuman
Voiced by: Khary Payton
A criminal from Star City and enemy of Green Arrow.- Badass in a Nice Suit: And he was rightly pissed when Speedy ruined the suit. Do you know how much it costs to get a suit in his size?
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Demands that Nightwing and Red Arrow "put [him] down" after they do a two-man lift on him. He realizes he's in trouble when they immediately agree, at which point they throw him off the front of the semi they're standing on, causing him to get run over.
- Boring Yet Practical: His plan to steal Goode Goggles: rather than a high-risk attack, he simply has his men use forged credentials to take the trucks, and it would have worked had Red Arrow's clipboard not told him they were the wrong delivery people.
- Boxed Crook: In the Audio Play "The Prize", he is working for Amanda Waller's Task Force X.
- Butt-Monkey: Is defeated or humiliated in some way in every single one of his appearances.
- Clothing Damage: Thanks to Speedy's exploding arrows.
- Deadpan Snarker: Brick's snarky attitude is good for displaying his general contempt towards others.Riddler: No one can say the Riddler goes where he's not wanted.
Brick: Wow. That philosophy must not leave you with a lot of options. - Mugging the Monster: His attempt to steal Goode Goggles goes awry because Red Arrow's new security company happened to be the one guarding the goggles, and notice his men aren't the right ones. He's utterly confused at how a bunch of security guards could have defeated him, unaware that it was really Red Arrow, Nightwing, Arsenal, and Guardian I.
- Sleeves Are for Wimps: In Belle Reve.
- Super-Strength: Strong enough to punch through the roof of Will's SUV.
- Super-Toughness: Can withstand small explosives or getting run over by a semi truck with a fully loaded cab.
- Unluckily Lucky: When Abra Kadabra and Sportsmaster attack his and Shade's prisoner transport truck to break them out, Brick gets recaptured along with Abra Kadabra. Which, as is lampshaded, actually lucky for him as it saved him from getting brainwashed by the Mad Hatter as Shade was.
Child
Child
Species: Lord of Chaos
Voiced by: Erika Ishii
Like Klarion, another Lord of Chaos.- All Your Base Are Belong to Us: Blowing up the Tower of Fate should make it clear that Child is a whole different creature compared to Klarion.
- All Your Powers Combined: The Child has the collective strength of the Lords of Chaos backing her, making Klarion (already a pretty terrifying Physical God) utterly insignificant before her in terms of power. This same powerboost allows her to No-Sell everything Etrigan throws at her with chilling casual ease, and makes even Dr. Fate a nuisance at best.
- Always a Bigger Fish: To Klarion. He freaks out when he senses her, and when she summons him he has no choice but to obey.
- Arc Villain: Of Zatanna's Story Arc in Phantoms.
- Badass Boast: The Child mockingly says Dr. Fate can't kill her, but she can kill everyone on Earth, something she's already proven is not an idle boast.
- Bond One-Liner: Has a particularly brutal one after she has Flaw kill Teekl via Neck Snap, despite Klarion boasting just seconds before that it would not be that easy.Child: Hmmmm, not as hard as you made it sound!
- Chaos Is Evil: She's a Lord of Chaos and like Klarion, she likes reminding others what universal concept she serves. Unlike Klarion, however, she has no regard whatsoever for the greater cosmic balance between chaos and order, and she won't hesitate to end all life on Earth in the most flashy and brutal way she can.
- Composite Character: The Child is the creator of the Flaw golem in this version, instead of the otherwise unknown being known as The Cutter.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: She dishes them out like candy on Halloween. Klarion, Etrigan, Nabu, Zatanna and her sentinels all tried their best against her, but Child is simply in a completely different ballpark in terms of power.
- Cute and Psycho: At first glance she's nothing more than an innocent looking young blonde girl, and the fact that she's a lot more openly polite than Klarion means she does not rise the same warning flags as quickly as he does. Then she goes on to being responsible for the bloodiest and most gruesome death seen in the series yet, all while being very innocuous and unceasingly polite.
- Deadlier Than The Male: She wastes no time in setting herself up as a No-Nonsense Nemesis compared to Klarion, who's at least checked by his affiliation with Vandal, and sets out initiating an apocalypse with immense efficiency for a Lord of Chaos.
- Deadpan Snarker: Doesn't seem to have a particularly high opinion of Klarion, first indirectly calling him a "disappointment" and later refuting Klarion's insistence that he's Vandal's equal with a dismissive "Are you, though? Are you really?".
- Disc-One Final Boss: She's the main villain of the Season 4 mid season finale and the five episode story arc including it.
- The Dreaded: Vandal Savage so fears an unchecked Chaos Lord that he's ready to abandon Earth and all the work he's put into it rather than risk a confrontation with her. He's, after all, personally familiar with just how much devastation a Chaos Lord is capable of when the others are backing their actions.
- Evil vs. Evil: Against Klarion. One is a continental mass murderer who does everything For the Evulz and joined a group of ruthless darwinists on a whim and the other is a case of Make Way For The New Villain Chaos Lord who is punishing the former because in the eyes of their kind he has gone against everything they stand for.
- Eviler than Thou: In the end, Klarion simply is no match for her, either as a Chaos Lord or as a mystical powerhouse and The Child's victory over the Klarion is ruthless, brutal and sadistic (just watch her vicious glee after Flaw kills Teekl in front of Klarion). And to make matters even worse, her victory over Klarion in the end does nothing but put everyone in the world in a considerably more dangerous position.
- Faux Affably Evil: In contrast to Klarion's Spoiled Brat behavior, Child acts very politely when she kills and dissects a man, even framing it as a "reward" for giving her her name. Her later interactions with Klarion, Fate and Zatanna and her students only goes on to further cement her as this: she's creepily playful, treats the sheer destruction her chaos brings as the most amusing game she can think off and overall has the air of a young girl having the time of her life while the world falls apart around her.
- Foil: The ominously proclaimed "Child" is creepy in the exact opposite way Klarion is. While the latter only plays at being a child, being remarkable in appearance and sadistically petulant, the former goes the other direction of appearing very innocuous, being unceasingly polite and having no emotion towards the atrocities she commits other than the curiosity that inspires them.
- The Force Is Strong with This One: Before the Child incarnates, she sends out a global pulse that's shown to be felt by every mystical character, most of whom begin to investigate. Klarion in particular freaks out during a meeting of the Light and quickly excuses himself.
- For the Evulz: She's even worse than Klarion in this regard. Klarion enjoys causing death and destruction, but he is to some extent checked by Vandal. The Child not only kills just because it amuses her to do so, she is immeasurably more powerful and completely lacking in any form of restraint. The moment Klarion is out of the way, she creates hell on Earth, both metaphorically in the form of natural disasters and quite literally with a portal to Hell in Taipei.
- Gender Flip: The Child was a boy in Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld.
- Giggling Villain: She has a lot of fun blowing up the Tower of Fate, to be sure. Outside of that, her almost permanent state of being is gleeful amusement, no matter how chaotic and horrific her actions are.
- Horrifying the Horror: Klarion spends his whole confrontation in varying levels of absolute fear when facing her right up until his final defeat at her hands, Vandal all but begs his son (Nabu) to aid him in taking her down and is seen preparing a Homeworld Evacuation for himself and his allies in case The Child wins her battle against Klarion, The Phantom Stranger wastes no time warning Zatanna and her students how utterly dangerous she is and Nabu can only stare in utter horrified shock after witnessing The Child's brutal defeat of Klarion.
- Humanoid Abomination: As a Lord of Chaos like Klarion, she's an immortal and immensely powerful extraplanar Energy Being of chaotic magic who doesn't really have a quantifiable age but has certainly been around since the dawn of our cosmos. Klarion has been described as "elemental" and "fundamental to the universe", so there is no reason she's not the same.
- Ironic Echo: Child whispers "Dang it!" as she's defeated.
- Kryptonite-Proof Suit: Familiars anchor a Lord of Chaos or Order to the mortal plane, and can be hurt or destroyed to weaken or banish them. Child reduces this weakness by forging her anchor out of solid diamond. It's tough enough to withstand attacks from Klarion, Etrigan and Dr. Fate without so much as a scratch.
- Make Way for the New Villains: Invoked Trope. She intends to replace Klarion as the Lord of Chaos on Earth, claiming that he's gone soft in servitude to Vandal Savage, and effortlessly overpowers him in a magical duel, forcing everyone from Zatanna to Dr. Fate to Vandal to take notice of the threat Child poses.
- Order Versus Chaos: As a Lord of Chaos, she's firmly on the side of Chaos. According to her, Klarion has shirked his obligations by aiding Vandal Savage and his ambitions of an orderly galactic empire.
- Person of Mass Destruction: Exaggerated thanks to the fact that she has the collective strength of the Lords of Chaos backing her in her fight against Klarion. Not only is she able to casually overpower both Klarion and Etrigan without trying at all but her geokinetic abilities are so incredibly strong that she basically tears Roanoke apart and uses the whole land to beat Klarion ten ways from Sunday. Klarion can only look on in horror and whimper how unfair The Child is being during their battle. With Klarion gone, Child quickly sets about completely outdoing herself with cruel glee by starting a global apocalypse, creating pillars of fire all over the world and natural disasters to join them. Her rampage is so quick that within mere hours they're all over the globe and visible from space.
- Terms of Endangerment: Fitting her whole Faux Affably Evil persona, she very eerily calls Klarion "brother" when explaining just why she's here.
- Too Clever by Half: Since destroying a Lord of Chaos' familiar can weaken or banish them, Child chose to forge her familiar, Flaw, out of solid diamond, as it's a substance hard and durable enough to take punishment and difficult to completely destroy. But Child chose to forge Flaw from a cracked diamond, and by exploiting this flaw, her familiar can be broken apart which has the same effect as destroying it entirely.
- Troll: During her fight with Klarion, she takes an obvious gleeful delight in both heckling him and making him look like a fool.
- Villainous Rescue: Of the completely accidental type. Just as Klarion was about to kill Zatanna and her students (after having absolutely manhandled them before hand despite the fight they managed to put), her summons to Klarion reach him Just in Time and he has no other choice but to answer them, leaving him no other option but leaving the heroes alive in order to respond to The Child's summons.
- Wild Card: Both The Phantom Stranger and Vandal Savage argue that this is why she's actually worse than Klarion for the world as a whole. Unlike Klarion, The Child is an unchecked Chaos Lord roaming Earth doing whatever she wants because she has absolutely no allegiance to anyone but the concept of chaos for chaos's sake.
- World's Strongest Man: She is, without a doubt, the strongest being seen in the show, with even Darkseid likely being quite a few steps below her - she demonstrated that she was a planetbusting threat, and easily could have been a galactic-level threat if she felt like it. Absolutely nothing was able to make her break a sweat - at the very worst, the Worf Barrage that Zatanna and Doctor Fate collectively launched moderately amused her, and she has yet to be directly harmed in any way. Thirteen was able to banish her by destroying Flaw, but the process of doing so nearly killed everyone in a substantial radius around her, and The Child was busy curbstomping Zatanna and Doctor Fate anyways and likely wasn't paying enough attention to Flaw. At the same time though, it's worth noting that she's working with the combined might of the Lords of Chaos gifted to her. Whilst she's likely stronger than fellow Lord Klarion, it's unknown just how high up the heirarchy she is by herself.
Collector of Worlds
Collector of Worlds
Species: Unknown
A robotic alien intelligence who arrives seeking to collect Metropolis as a sample of a doomed planet.- Adaptation Name Change: Here "Brainiac" isn't really his name but rather the result of the Flash getting two of his many titles (the Brain of Colu and the Maniac of Yod) mashed up at one point.
- Adaptational Heroism: In this continuity, he is a neutral force that seeks only to take samples of doomed worlds, rather than destroying those worlds himself.
- All There in the Manual: Only appears in the tie-in comics.
- Anti-Magic: Manages to suss out and then drain Zatanna's glamor illusion.
- Appropriated Appellation: Either he or his descendants seem to have adopted the "Brainiac" misnomer, since one of them goes by the name Brainiac-5 in the 31st century.
- The Collector: As the name indicates.
- Fighting a Shadow: The Collector has a veritable army of coluoids in his image.
- I Have Many Names: The Collector of Worlds, Vril Drox, Notlimenif, the Computer Tyrant of Byar, the Brain of Colu, the Maniac of Yod...
- Know When to Fold 'Em: Faced with the Justice League, the Collector decides that maybe he doesn't need to collect a Kryptonian that badly, and gets out of there.
- Mondegreen Gag: The Flash mangles two of his titles as "Brainiac".
- My Brain Is Big: Typical Brainiac design, just with an enlarged cranium.
- Mythology Gag:
- Among his listed titles are namedrops of the various worlds given as comic Brainy's homeworlds in different continuity reboots.
- After he leaves, Superman laments that he didn't ask if he'd collected anything from Krypton. One of comic Brainiac's key possessions is the bottled Kryptonian city of Kandor.
Despero
Despero
Species: Kalanorian
Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker
An alien warlord who comes to Earth seeking to challenge its strongest beings.- Adaptation Deviation: In the comics he's tyrant of the planet Kalanor who came into contact with the league while searching for escaped rebels. After his first defeat his motivations veered toward getting vengeance on them. Here he's a gladiator seeking to challenge the League.
- Blood Knight: Despero is a brutal gladiator who cracks a wide grin at the prospect of taking on the Justice League.
- Challenge Seeker: His motivation for coming to Earth.
- Composite Character: As the alien master of L-Ron, he takes some traits from Justice League International villain Manga Khan.
- Diabolus ex Nihilo: The only villain in season two who isn't connected to the Light or the Reach at all and has his own motivations for coming to Earth, though the Reach Ambassador does take advantage of the situation to smear the Justice League.
- Does Not Like Magic: According to L-Ron, it's considered "cheating", as Despero prefers a "hands-on" approach.
- Gladiator Games: Forces his intended opponents into one. According to L-Ron, he is a gladiatorial champion of 92 star systems.
- Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: Implied to be an aspect of his Challenge Seeker motivation, collecting the heads of his opponents.
- The Juggernaut: He spends most of the episode beating the crap out of both Captain Marvel and Superboy with no chance of even slowing him down. He eventually had to be stopped by reflecting his own psychic blasts against him.
- Nigh-Invulnerability: He shrugged off getting hit by Captain Marvel's magic lightning.
- No-Nonsense Nemesis: He's definitely a Blood Knight and Challenge Seeker, but when it comes to dealing with magic-wielding opponents, Despero just uses his third eye to render them catatonic.
- Omniglot: While he doesn't speak, he seems to at least understand both R2-style beeps and English, having just encountered the latter.
- Psychic Powers: His third eye can produce a psychic blast that puts its victims in a silent, motionless trance. Interestingly, he only uses this against foes he's uninterested in fighting, and Bumblebee when she makes him particularly mad.
- Third Eye: Through which he channels his Psychic Powers.
- The Voiceless: Whether by choice or incapability is unknown.
- Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Well, won't duel them, at least. He was giving a particularly brutal Curb-Stomp Battle to Captain Marvel when the latter, trying to harm him with magic lightning, turned back into Billy Batson; Despero, unimpressed, put him in a trance and then just left him on the ground.
L-Ron
Species: Robot
Voiced by: Phil LaMarr
Despero's robot majordomo.- Adaptational Villainy: While he started out as a servant of the more lighthearted supervillain Manga Khan, he's become an ally of the League in the comics, but here, he works for Despero.
- The Dragon: Serves as Despero's majordomo.
- Hammy Herald: He dramatically announces Despero's presence to the heroes of Earth, telling them of his master's accomplishments and grandeur.
- Omniglot: His default mode of speech seems to be R2-style beeps, but he adapts to English quickly after he starts communicating to the Team.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: When his patience runs out.
- Robot Buddy: To Despero.
- Taking You with Me: Activates a self-destruct when his master is beaten.
- Telescoping Robot: He is utterly stuffed with guns. Not that he gets a chance to use them.
- Verbal Tic: He ends a lot of words with "-ism," even when its being translated from his beeping.
- Voice for the Voiceless: Communicates all of Despero's unspoken intent.
Dragon King
Species: Human
A villain who fought against the Justice Society, and apparently killed Firebrand.
- All There in the Manual: Appears on the show only once in a flashback where he's not identified by name.
- Hero Killer: Killed Firebrand in 1945, and she remained dead until her remains were dug up decades later.
- In the Hood: His face is hidden by a hood.
- Karma Houdini: Got away with killing Firebrand and causing the breakup of the Justice Society.
Harm
Harm (William Hayes)
Species: Human
Voiced by: Ben Diskin
A sociopathic supervillain that Artemis and Zatanna come across on Halloween night.- Abusive Offspring:
Word of God reveals that Harm shares the same backstory from the comics. He gleefully terrorizes his adoptive parents, to the point that when he was just 11 years old, he sliced his adoptive dad's neck, barely missing his jugular. He also murdered his adoptive little sister Greta, who became the heroine Secret. - Adaptational Nice Guy: In the smallest possible sense. The comics version of Harm is an honest-to-goodness sociopath who felt no remorse for murdering his sister. This version is sorry he did it, as much as he claims otherwise.
- Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: Except with a sword.
- Arrow Catch: Catches several of Artemis's arrows.
- Badass Normal: At least, from what we can see, he's a normal human who just happens to wield a magical sword.
- Cain and Abel: Much like the trope namers, he (Cain) murdered his sibling Greta (Abel).
- Creepy Monotone: Harm maintains a cold, steady voice, which helps sell his characterisation as The Sociopath. It falls apart at the same time as his remorseless façade.
- Diabolus ex Nihilo: To some level. He's pretty much the only villain in the entire show who does not work for, is associated with someone who works for, or was an unknowing pawn of the Light and whose actions did not affect the Light's goals in any way whatsoever.
- Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: He's pale enough to pass for a vampire.
- Exact Words: Since the Sword of Beowulf can only be wielded by those with a pure heart, it was assumed that only a purely good person can wield it, but Harm proves that it can also be wielded by a purely evil person.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Defied. To gain his "purity", he murdered the only person he loved: his little sister. But he didn't count on seeing her ghost...
- Evil Sounds Deep: Speaks in a deep, guttural monotone that gets even rougher when his Villainous Breakdown kicks in.
- Hero Killer: An aspiring one; he targets Zatanna and Artemis to serve as practice for his plans to kill Zatara and Green Arrow.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has fourth claw marks across his left eye.
- Implacable Man: The Sword of Beowulf grants him this power.
- "It" Is Dehumanizing: How he refers to others. Can be a bit awkward when it leads him to say things like "the its" and "the other it".
- Psycho Knife Nut: He's a sociopath who's also capable of throwing knives.
- Knight of Cerebus: He only appeared in one episode, but it was the Halloween Episode so he caused most of the humour to go out of the window.
- No Shirt, Long Jacket: Harm wears no shirt under his coat, exposing the tattoo over his heart.
- Not So Stoic: When Secret brings Artemis and Zatanna to his house, we get the first glimmer of his Villainous Breakdown.Harm: This can be no coincidence. They alight on Harm's very roof! HOW DID THEY KNOW? TELL HARM! NOW!
- Only the Pure of Heart: May wield the Sword of Beowulf.
- Pure Is Not Good: Deconstructed. Harm became "pure evil" by murdering his own sister, the only person he ever loved, so he could wield the Sword of Beowulf, which only the pure of heart can draw. The Sword rejects him when he feels a shred of remorse after seeing his sister's ghost, becoming impure. The point is, of course, that while pure is not good, pure is also not easy.
- Rejected by the Empathic Weapon: When he unexpectedly feels guilt for killing his sister, the Sword of Beowulf weighs itself down, and the claw on the scabbard cuts his hand so that it can sheathe the blade and prevent him from using it.
- Rugged Scar: Has a claw-like scar on his face.
- The Sociopath: Shows no remorse for murdering his sister. This gets subverted, though, because he completely loses his cool when Secret actually shows up.
- Strange-Syntax Speaker: Harm refers to himself in the third person and refers to other people solely as "it", even when referring to them indirectly (he says "the its" instead of "them", and "the other it" instead of "her").
- Superpower Meltdown: After Secret removes the pure evil from his heart, the Sword Of Beowulf violently rejects him and removes the powers it bestowed upon him.
- Taught by Experience: Word of God states that Harm's martial skills and swordsmanship are "mostly" self-taught fighting others and gaining experience from it.
- Third-Person Person: How he refers to himself, but interestingly he drops it as a result of his Villainous Breakdown, shouting "Harm is not sorry- I'M NOT!" just before losing his power.
- The Unfettered: He tries to attain this state to master the sword by killing his sister, but her appearing again fetters and defeats him.
- Villainous Breakdown: Begins a gradual one when Secret leads Artemis and Zatanna to the roof of his home. Eventually, he even drops the Third-Person Person act when Secret emerges from her grave and removes the 'purity' of his heart.Harm: Harm is not sorry— I'M NOT!
Lobo
Lobo (Hahn Sho Lobo)
Species: Czarnian
Voiced by: David Sobolov
An alien bounty hunter.- Adaptational Villainy: Of a sort. In the comics, he's an iconic Heroic Comedic Sociopath who does some pretty messed-up stuff, but only ever in good fun. In this show, he's just a brutal and terrifyingly powerful hired killer who's flamboyant, but more scary than funny, and is always acting against the heroes.
- Badass Biker: He's an intergalactic bounty hunter who drives a hoverbike and throws down with a girl with super strength.
- Blood Knight: Lobo is a great lover of violence and killing, although he's enough of a professional to lay off of any interfering heroes once he's completed his contract.
- Boisterous Bruiser: Lobo takes a great deal of enjoyment in his work, and is happy to make that clear in his fights against Batgirl and Wonder Girl and the Outsiders.
- Bounty Hunter: His profession is hunting down targets for money. In both appearances, he's sent to Earth to capture/kill a target.
- Cool Bike: His spaceship is a rocket bike. Said bike seems to be as autonomous as Super-Cycle and has enough firepower to drive it away when Superboy and the Super-Cycle team up against Lobo.
- Darker and Edgier: In Season 3, Lobo has dropped the usual Comic Relief elements of him, and is unrepentantly murderous.
- Evil Sounds Deep: For a given value of "evil"; Lobo's a brutal antagonist to the heroes with a very deep, guttural voice.
- Fantastic Slurs: "Krolo". He has a habit of using the word Keezy in a derogatory sense; Keezy Fem, Keezy Krolo. "Krolo" is just short for Krolotean, and "Fem" means 'girl' - "Keezy" roughly translates to "small" or "puny," with an extremely derogatory connotation. Season 3 allows for the return of the less-subtle "bastich", his trademark catch-all curse.
- Healing Factor:
- He heals a mild burn from lava in seconds. Cutting off his pinky sticks, though it may have grown back eventually.
- Come two episodes after losing the pinkie, the Credits Gag seems to show that the pinkie ITSELF is starting to grow back a Lil' Lobo... at least until Lobo himself offs it.
- Hooks and Crooks: This version has one in gun form.
- Implacable Man: Wonder Girl and Batgirl were unable to stop him, and he flies off on his bike none the worse for wear. Later when he's sent after Forager, they are only able to get rid of him because Forager had faked his own death.
- The Juggernaut: His appearance in Outsiders shows him at his finest. The combined forces of the Nightwing's team only inconvenience him, and when he "kills" Forager, he remarks they actually did better than most.
- Pardon My Klingon: Mixes some "swears" in his native language, like "frag".
- Punch-Clock Villain: He only fights the heroes because they're in the way of his bounty, and doesn't fight them any longer than he needs to. When sent to kill Forager, Lobo immediately offers the rest of the Outsiders a chance to walk away, and even after they've thrown everything they had into taking him down, Lobo just walks away after he appears to have succeeded, holding no grudges and even complimenting the heroes about how well they fought against him.
- Red Baron: Subverted; in this continuity, Lobo's common moniker from the comics, "The Main Man", is the literal translation of his full name, Hahn Sho Lobo.
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: Although it's all in Interlac, Lobo laces his language with quite a few profane-sounding words, like "keezy", "frag", and "bastich".
- Super-Toughness: He treats lava like a hot bath and can trade blows with Wonder Girl and Superboy without breaking a sweat.
- There Can Be Only One: As mentioned above, the lost digit did, in fact, create a tiny, pinkie-sized Lil' Lobo. Only for The Main Man himself to crush it beneath his boot, then toss his cigar at it in order to make it catch on fire and keep it from regenerating again.
- Third-Person Person: Not exclusively, but he often refers to himself as "The Main Man" - or, in Interlac, "Hahn Sho Lobo".
- Translator Microbes: A device on his belt translates his Interlac to English. Given he slips back into Interlac at times, it's implied they're not particularly robust translators.
- Unwitting Pawn: Downplayed, as it's unlikely that he cares as long as he gets paid, but basically the whole point of his hit on the Krolotean impersonating the UN Secretary-General was to reveal the Krolotean presence on Earth to the Justice League so that they'd take care of them for the Reach. Happens again in Season 3 since Vandal Savage didn't even really care whether or not he successfully killed Forager — the contract's real purpose was to confirm that Nightwing had indeed formed a new team. And again, it's unlikely that Lobo would care as long as he got paid.
- Villain Respect: After fighting the Outsiders in Season 3, he commends them for "doing better than most".
- Would Hit a Girl: Has no problem attacking Batgirl and Wonder Girl when they get in his way, and kills Halo (temporarily) when she tries to escape with his bounty.
- You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: He barks out a few incredulous words in Interlac in his debut that go untranslated in response to being attacked, first by a soldier trying to shoot him, then by Wonder Girl. The general tone implies that it means "Really?"
Major Force
Major Force
Species: Human
Another result of the same project that created Captain Atom, only lacking all of Adams's good qualities.- Bald of Evil: Unlike his comic counterpart, who typically has short-cropped hair in his metallic form, this version is bald.
- Chrome Champion: Only without the "champion" part.
- Evil Counterpart: To Captain Atom. He was in the same project, and gained similar powers, but he's not remotely heroic, and unlike Adams, wasn't set up for any crimes he committed.
- Purple Is Powerful: Part of his metallic skin is purple, and he's as much of a Flying Brick as Captain Atom.
- Villain with Good Publicity: He wasn't a good person before he got superpowers (which is why he was used as a guinea pig in the first place), but in the modern day his reputation is good enough the Justice League seriously consider bringing him on. Adams adamantly refuses, but for whatever reason won't say why.
Merlyn
Merlyn
Species: Human
A rival of Green Arrow's, and his match in archery.
- All There in the Manual: He only appears in the flashback stories for "Targets", which tell a mildly altered version of the DC Showcase: Green Arrow short.
- Always Someone Better: Before his assassination attempt on Perdita, he'd fought Green Arrow at least seven times and won every time. It's only when he tries to kill Perdita that Ollie finally manages to break that streak.
- Evil Wears Black: His outfit is black.
- Improbable Hairstyle: His hair curls up into two horns at the back.
- Kill It with Fire: Among Merlyn's arsenal are incendiary arrows.
- Would Hurt a Child: Tried very hard to kill a young Perdita.
Mongul
Mongul
Species: Unspecified alien
Voiced by: Keith David
An alien conqueror who comes at odds with both the Reach and Earth by proxy.- Adaptational Heroism: In the comics, he's in the running for the title of "most vile being in the DCU", and his motivations largely boil down to "be the biggest dick in the universe". Here, he's not exactly a good person by any means, but his apparent desire to bring down the Reach is very understandable even if his methods aren't nice though it is more out of Pragmatic Villainy.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: He delivers an absolutely brutal one to the team, shrugging off their blows and delivering back hits twice as hard. In fact, the only one who seems to match him blow-for-blow is Black Beetle, who himself is nearly unbeatable.
- Deadpan Snarker: Lets out a few quips as he pummels Superboy, Wonder Girl, and Arsenal."This is your attack force? I'm insulted."
"The novelty of this encounter has officially worn off."
[after shrugging off tranquilizer gas] "I like that. It smells like... victory." - The Dreaded: He seems to be this if the reaction to his presence in the courtroom on Rimbor is any indication.
- Evil Sounds Deep
- Evil Versus Evil: Hates the Reach and is actively against them. Invoked in "The Hunt" when Arsenal releases him from containment, knowing he'll go after Black Beetle. He does.
- Faux Affably Evil: Mongul affects a regal demeanor, describing his actions as a mercy and taking offense when the heroes oppose his efforts. His claims of being on an errand of mercy might carry more weight if weren't an infamous tyrant trying to destroy an entire planet to weaken the Reach.
- Galactic Conqueror: Having lost his original world to an unspecified usurper, he plans to use the WarWorld to conquer the rest of the galaxy before taking it back. He sees the Reach's takeover of the meta-gene rich Earth as a threat to this plan.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: He's defeated when Bumblebee reroutes the power of the WarWorld straight to his command center, electrocuting him severely. This weakens him enough to be beaten by the group that he had previously easily dealt with.
- It's the Only Way to Be Sure: He wants to destroy the entire planet in order to halt the Reach.
- The Juggernaut: Brute strength, missiles, lassos, hardening gel; he No Sells everything and keeps going.
- Let's You and Him Fight: Against Black Beetle, courtesy of Arsenal.
- Mercy Kill: He views destroying the Earth as a favor to its populace, considering what their lives under the Reach would be if allowed to continue.Mongul: Your deaths today in the face of the Reach are a mercy. My grand laser emitter would have ended your world in a matter of minutes; another mercy. But it seems the mercies of Mongul are not appreciated, so we will do this the hard way, and the WarWorld will unleash all it's weapons on the Earth. You're welcome.
- Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: He's willing to go to pretty extreme lengths to stop the Reach, but only because the Reach are getting in the way of his plans for galactic domination.
- One-Man Army: With the WarWorld under his command, Mongul has enough firepower at his command to outmatch the Reach armada, to say nothing of the resistance Earth itself could put up. And even if they got by its defenses, his freakish strength makes him a match for any combatant. Even fellow One-Man Army Black Beetle was visibly struggling against him, and required aid from Green Beetle just to send him back to his stasis chamber.
- The Power of the Sun: Implies that his species is empowered under a yellow sun in a similar manner to Kryptonians.
- Spanner in the Works: He threw a massive wrench in the Reach's plans. They had to expose their hidden armada (two-thirds of which were obliterated by the WarWorld) and the fact that Jaime is now working for them. Worse still, the Light then took away the WarWorld's key and rescued the heroes Jaime had captured.
- The Stoic: Mongul is remarkably calm, even as the team infiltrates the WarWorld.
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill: The WarWorld is covered with enough guns and missile launchers that the Justice League and the Reach armada would have probably lost by attrition, and that's not even counting the Wave-Motion Gun and endless supply of anti-personnel drones to curtail boarders. Whoever built it obviously wanted it to be a force to be reckoned with.
- Unwitting Pawn: The reason he attacks Earth is because he was attending the Justice League's trial and the guy sitting next to him mused over how problematic it'd be if the Reach took over a planet full of meta-humans. As Mongul storms out of the courtroom, we see that he was talking to Vandal Savage.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: He wants to curtail the Reach's conquest of Earth as much as the Justice League, but he has different ideas about how to do that.
Neutron
Neutron (Nathaniel Tryon)
Species: Metahuman
Voiced by: James Arnold Taylor
A victim of the Reach experiments.- Adaptational Heroism: In the comics, he's a sadistic Psycho for Hire, in the cartoon he's just an unlucky guy forced into a horrible process.
- Affectionate Nickname: The Runaways call him "Neut".
- Anti-Villain: Not a villain at all, really; just a failed experiment by the Reach that they let loose on Central City.
- The Atoner: His powers soon went out of control, and he murdered Flash. An older Nathaniel confides in Impulse to get to the past and stop him from killing Flash and prevent the Reach from destroying everything, giving Impulse a pill to cure him.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: The mind control is in his suit.
- Bald of Evil: In reality, not all that evil.
- Composite Character: His nature as an Anti-Villain who can't control his powers likely comes from the Flash "villain" Fallout.
- Creepy Monotone: When in the suit.
- De-power: Impulse uses a blue pill to cure him. He still ends up at Star Labs for testing, though.
- Foreshadowing: Even after Impulse changes the past, Mount Justice is still in ruins.
- My Greatest Failure: It's implied that he killed Barry Allen/Flash, and stated that he helped lay ruin to the Earth with the Reach. However, when Impulse fixes the mistake, Mount Justice is still in ruins. The ash is no longer falling from the sky, however.
- Scars Are Forever: His final appearance in the future has him sporting a large scar on his face. Subverted when Impulse changes the past, and the scar fades.
- Wave-Motion Gun: Literally, he sends his power up in waves, and the energy builds up eventually if he doesn't release it.
Rako
Rako
Species: Human
A Cambodian assassin encountered by the Team in their early days.
- Absurdly Sharp Blade: He wields a sword sharp enough to cut even a half-Kryptonian's skin.
- All There in the Manual: Only appears in the tie-in comics.
- Evil Wears Black: Comic Rako wore a golden outfit. Here, it's black-with-gold-highlights.
- Karma Houdini: The Team stop him, but he and Rois soon escape custody and report back to Eiling.
- Reimagining the Artifact: In the comics he was a villain named "the Cambodian". Here, he just goes by his regular name, since his original alias was racist.
The Reds
Red Torpedo, Red Inferno and Red Volcano
Red Torpedo
Red Inferno
Red Volcano
Species: Robots
Voiced by: Jeff Bennett (Red Torpedo and Red Volcano) and Vanessa Marshall (Red Inferno)
Red Tornado's evil "siblings".- A.I. Is a Crapshoot:
- Red Volcano, designed not to care about humanity, predictably turns on his creator.
- Inverted with the others, who were designed to infiltrate and betray the Justice Society but never did.
- All Your Base Are Belong to Us: Red Torpedo and Inferno start their intro episode taking over the cave and holding the Super-powered members of the Team hostage.
- Big Little Brother: Volcano is much more muscular and taller than Torpedo, Inferno and Tornado. He also acts like he is their senior.
- Call a Human a "Meatbag": Red Volcano goes from "humans" to "meatbags" in order to include non-human members of the Team.
- Composite Character:
- Red Inferno is a combination of the Silver Age Firebrand and the android Red Inferno. She also has elements of Tomorrow Woman (female android created by Morrow to infiltrate the heroes, but who became a hero for real and made a Heroic Sacrifice).
- Red Torpedo is an amalgamation of the Golden Age Red Torpedo and the Modern one that is an android.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Delivered to the team.
- Demoted to Dragon: In the first season, Red Volcano tries to wipe out most of human life. In the second, he tries to steal parts of AMAZO (which could help him in that goal), but is apparently working for Lex Luthor. It's not clear if he's deliberately working for Luthor, reprogrammed, or was just tricked by him.
- Dishing Out Dirt: Red Volcano.
- Distaff Counterpart: Red Inferno to everyone else.
- Elemental Powers: They, along with Red Tornado, each control one of the four classical elements.
- Evil Counterpart: To Red Tornado. Volcano is, anyway. It's a bit more complicated for Torpedo and Inferno.
- Evil Sounds Deep: Volcano.
- Fallen Hero: Not their decision, but Torpedo and Inferno.
- Fembot: Red Inferno.
- Gender Flip: Red Inferno and Red Torpedo; in the comics, Inferno is male, while Torpedo is female.
- Gone Horribly Right: Morrow seems to have problems with this.
- Red Torpedo was made to infiltrate and betray the Justice Society. The innate antisocial tendencies made him too much of a loner to pull it off.
- Red Inferno's personality was made more "heroic" so that she'd feel motivated to stick with the Society. She wound up taking a bullet for one of her teammates.
- Red Tornado, by-the-by, was created with a human personality, but was the first of the bunch to know he wasn't human.
- Red Volcano was designed to not care for humanity, including his father.
- Hero Killer: "Killer" would be an exaggeration but the only reason Red Volcano fails in his plans is because Torpedo and Inferno decide to turn on him for the sake of humanity.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Firebrand for the original Flash. Torpedo and Inferno again, to keep Volcano from destroying humanity.
- If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten!: Volcano orders Tornado to kill the Team in order to prove himself a "loyal Red". Tornado tries to fake it in order to stay in the loop on Volcano's plans, but Volcano sees right through it.
- Killer Robot: An entire trio of them.
- Legacy Character: Red Inferno was the second Firebrand, according to Word of God.
- Making a Splash: Red Torpedo.
- Meaningful Rename: Red Inferno was originally "Firebrand".
- Playing with Fire: Red Inferno.
- Redemption Equals Death: For Torpedo and Inferno.
- Robotic Psychopath: Red Volcano was built to be this.
- Smug Super: Unlike his siblings, Red Volcano breathes this trope.
- The Smurfette Principle: They have Red Inferno, an android programmed to believe she was a human female.
- So Last Season: Red Volcano was more than a match for the entire team in the first season, and they couldn't even stop him without help. In the second season, Blue Beetle beats him solo.
- Taking the Bullet: Firebrand does it for the Flash.
- Theme Naming: The Reds are named after their elemental powers.
- Tron Lines: Red Volcano has red ones.
- Unexplained Recovery: We never learn how Red Volcano survived his defeat in the first season. Nightwing doesn't even sound surprised that he's back.
- The Worf Effect: Red Volcano was one of the most powerful enemies that the Team faced in Season 1, with him stomping them with ease for the whole battle, and necessitated his Red siblings pulling a Heroic Sacrifice to take him down. Come Season 2, Blue Beetle faces him alone and manages to destroy him without any assistance, showcasing just how powerful Jaime is.
Alec Rois
Alec Rois
Species: Human
A CIA agent who works for General Wade Eiling.
- Adaptational Wimp: Comic Rois is the Ghost, an occasional foe of Captain Atom's. Here, he's just a regular human, capable of being taken out by the relatively inexperienced Team.
- All There in the Manual: Only appears in the tie-in comics.
- Evil Old Folks: Over sixty, and helps Eiling with his schemes, involving the occasional murder of people who know too much.
- Faking the Dead: Pretended to be dead in order to get away with his crimes.
- Karma Houdini: He and Rako successfully escape custody and report back to Eiling that everything has gone as planned. They haven't been seen since.
- Taking You with Me: Threatens to blow himself and the Team with a bunch of dynamite, but he's incapacitated by Artemis and Miss Martian.
- That Man Is Dead: Claims Alec Rois is dead. Artemis isn't terribly impressed.
Starro
Starro
Species: Starro
A species of alien parasite and galactic conqueror that has tried to invade Earth a few times.- Alien Blood: Bright green, although the smaller Starros don't seem to bleed at all.
- Ancient Astronauts: Tried to conquer the Earth in Babylonian times, but was thwarted by Vandal Savage (at the time known as the deity Marduk).
- Animalistic Abomination: A cosmic monster of unknown origin capable of producing mind-controlling smaller versions of itself, enduring millenia while frozen alive, and regenerating its entire self from small pieces, all while resembling nothing so much as an Earth starfish.
- An Arm and a Leg: The Starro in "Evolution" has three of its arms sliced off by Savage (although it's heavily implied that if given the chance it could regenerate them... or even regenerate from them).
- Early-Bird Cameo: Sort of, its frozen remains are a reoccurring plot Macguffin in the first season, but it wouldn't be until the third season that we actually see a living Starro.
- Evil Versus Evil: Was twice prevented from conquering the Earth by Vandal Savage (the second time with help by Darkseid's forces), if only because Savage himself wants to be the one to conquer it.
- Eye Scream: Vandal Savage defeats Starro in "Evolution" by punching out its eye.
- From a Single Cell: Even a small piece of Starro tissue is able to regenerate, which suggests it can fully regrow itself as long as a little bit of it is left alone. Vandal Savage keeps the pieces of Starro in stasis aboard the WarWorld to prevent this from happening.
- Human Popsicle: The Starro defeated by Marduk (read: Vandal Savage) and dumped into the ocean was Not Quite Dead and survived dormant for millennia entombed in ice.
- Mook Maker: Starro can produce smaller versions of itself to mind-control its victims or simply attack on its behalf.
- Puppeteer Parasite: Attaches itself to the face of its victims, with a central Starro able to psychically control the smaller Starros. Unlike previous incarnations, it's implied the process is fatal once it takes effect.
- Small Role, Big Impact:
- Vandal Savage and his daughter Ishtar's victory over Starro's invasion of ancient Babylon is what resulted in the birth of the Light.
- Starro was also the one who killed Nabu's (AKA Doctor Fate) mortal body in the same invasion.
- Starfish Aliens: Literally in this case.
- Zerg Rush: In "Evolution", Starro attempts to invade the Earth despite Vandal possessing the WarWorld by attacking with a truly immense armada of starships from both sides of the solar system, knowing Savage can't be in both places at once. If Olympia's tablet graphic was accurate, each fleet roughly spanned the width of the solar system.
Toyman
Toyman
Species: Human
Voiced by: Cameron Bowen
A criminal who uses toy-based technology to commit crimes.- The Cameo: Essentially what his role boils down to.
- Cut Lex Luthor a Check: He builds a giant robot to rob a bank because constructing robots for his own personal use is expensive.
- Humongous Mecha: Pilots a giant toy soldier.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: When Blue Beetle shows up, he immediately tries to retreat.
- Oh, Crap!: His reaction to Blue showing up. While we don't see him with Kryptonite, considering he was expecting Superman, he probably had some and was banking on it for dealing with heroic interference.
- Pun: Makes a cringe-worthy "break the bank" pun.
The Prisoner (SPOILERS)
General Dru-Zod
Zod, outside of the Phantom Zone
Species: Kryptonian
Voiced by: Phil Morris
Once a great General of Krypton, Dru-Zod attempted a coup to overthrow the government, but was thwarted by the brothers Jor-El and Zor-El. For his crimes, he along with all of his followers were imprisoned in the Phantom Zone, where they now wait for an opportunity to escape.- Age Lift: Usually Zod is around or a little older than Superman's age but here his greying temples imply he's physically older by at least a decade or two.
- Arc Villain: The House of Zod as a whole are the main antagonists of Phantoms, as Dru and Ursa's son Lor works to free them so they may conquer the universe.
- Badass in Distress: At the end of Phantoms, Zod and all the other Kryptonians in the Phantom Zone are captured and imprisoned in Warworld by The Light.
- Beard of Evil: It wouldn't be Zod without out it, though a full facial one instead of his signature goatee.
- Brought to You by the Letter "S": Wears the symbol of his house, shaped like the letter "Z" on his chest.
- Cult: He's organized his followers in the Phantom Zone into one. They all kneel before him and chant about how they owe everything to the House of Zod. From the way he talks to his wife Ursa, he has experience in inducting people into it, and convinces Conner to join.
- Dramatic Irony: He has his typical hatred for the House of El in his continuity thanks to Jor-El and Zor-El imprisoning him, but since Conner's symbol was burned off and his memory fragmented, he has no idea that he's a member. This continues in "Rescue and Search", as while he's learned that Conner is from the House of El, Conner's damaged memories and hallucinations lead him to believe he killed Kal-El, causing Zod to welcome him as a turncoat.
- Doomed Hometown: Not that he knows it. In fact in a discussion with Ursa, he does express a patient hope for finding out more about Krypton's current state from Superboy, once he has recovered his memories. Since they assume Conner is a Kryptonian criminal also deliberately sent there. He finds out in "Rescue and Search".
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Seems to genuinely love his wife at least, attempting to reach for and bring Ursa with him as soon as an opportunity to escape the Phantom Zone comes up. Promising to free her somehow (and the others) when he is out once the projector bars her. He also seems to genuinely like his troops, insisting on retrieving them when others take him out of the Phantom Zone.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Zod theorizes that Jor-El sent Kal to Earth and not New Genesis so that he could rise above humanity as a god and lead it to galactic supremacy, which causes him to mock Superman as humanity's "failed savior." He cannot comprehend that Jor-El would send his son to Earth for benevolent reasons, or that Kal-El would not want to be worshipped as a god.
- Final Boss: After escaping the Phantom Zone, Zod and his army are the last major opponents the Team fights in Season 4. As of writing, this makes him the Final Boss of the entire series.
- Flying Brick: Being a Kryptonian, he has all the powers of Superman when exposed to a yellow sun. Which is why the heroes are so desperate to keep him and his followers trapped in the Phantom Zone.
- Greater-Scope Villain: Zod's actions in the future of the 31st century provide his son Lor a motivation to free him and the Legion of Superheroes a motivation to stop him, though he does not play a direct role in the events of the series until the final arc of Season 4.
- Knight Templar: Has very fascistic beliefs on order that he believes he must implement, to the point of having attempted a coup after being displeased with how the Kryptonian government handled contact with New Genesis.
- Kryptonite Factor: Like all Kryptonians, he is weak to Kryptonite. Unfortunately, the one time it was used against him, it had no effect because of the way that the Phantom Zone works.
- Last-Second Chance: Connor gives him one chance to stand down and do the right thing as payment for Zod saving his life. Zod refuses, and ultimately ends up back in the Phantom Zone for his trouble.
- Lone Wolf Boss: Zod and his army are not affiliated with the Light, and only tangentially with Darkseid (through Lor-Zod and Ma'alefa'ak), but they are the last major threat the Team, League, and Legion have to defeat in Season 4.
- Might Makes Right: He considers himself a leader by right of conquest. When he gains his powers on Earth, he declares himself their god, and thinks it's "disgraceful" that Superman refused to take his "rightful" place as the ruler of Earth.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: As Connor points out, Zod IS the one who ultimately saved him (first by teaching him how to survive the Phantom Zone, secondly by taking him back to Earth where he could heal, and third by refusing to let Lor-Zod kill him.)
- Pragmatic Villainy: In spite of his hatred of House El he actually initially tries to welcome Conner into his house even after learning who he is, seeing how useful he is and admiring his loyalty. This is undone once Megan fully restores his memories and his heroism, prompting Zod to renounce him.
- Race Lift: Usually depicted as Caucasian, here he's black like in the TV series Krypton.
- Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Zod is typically depicted as a Superman villain in the comics, and while his son makes it clear that he does not like the El family at all, here he has never met Superman/Kal-El in person. He only expresses gratitude toward Superboy for supposedly "killing" him. His primary heroic foes here are the Legion of Superheroes. Zod and his family fighting the Legion outside of comics isn't unheard of however.
- Silver Fox: His hair coloring implies that he's much older than Zod is usually depicted yet he's still pretty good looking especially for someone who spent years in the Phantom Zone.
- Unskilled, but Strong: The defining factor of his fight against Clark and Conner. While Clark is recovering from Kryptonite poisoning and Conner is only half Kryptonian, Zod has no experience with his new powers or with fighting side by side with his son. It gets him knocked back into the Phantom Zone.
- Villainous Friendship: Downplayed, but he seemed to develop something of a genuine fondness for Conner. Even after Conner turns on him, he doesn’t speak ill of him beyond having another problem to deal with.
- Walking Spoiler: His introduction reveals that Superboy and Phantom Girl are trapped in the Phantom Zone making it impossible to talk about him without mentioning Conner's survival or their location.
- A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: He offers to help Conner deal with the hallucinations being caused by his Zone-sickness, making seem like a Nice Guy and an ally. Once he gets back to the fort, it's revealed that he's trying to induct Conner into his cult.
- Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness: While Conner also has gold eyes while in the Phantom Zone, knowing who Zod is makes this trope apply to the older man.
Other Prisoners (SPOILERS)
- Ambiguously Evil: The moral alignment of the dozens of prisoners outside of the Zods and their cronies is unclear. The Legion of Superheroes mentions that Zod and his loyalists from the Phantom Zone started an insurrection on Daxam and attacked the United Planets after all of the prisoners were paroled in the future. However, that statement is ambiguous enough to make it possible that some of the prisoners weren't loyal to Zod and chose to live peacefully on Daxam. Many Phantom Zone prisoners from the comics (such as Quex-Ul, Ak-Var, Orn-Zu, Tra-Gob, Nam-Ek, Jer-Em, and Shyla Kor-On) show a potential for good sooner or later and a lack of interest in the warmongering that Zod lives for.
Ursa Zod / Emerald Empress
Click here to see her as Emerald Empress
Species: Kryptonian
Voiced by: Vanessa Marshall
The wife of General Zod and the future mother of Lor-Zod.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: In the comics Ursa is usually depicted with brown or black hair, but here it's pale blonde.
- Chest Insignia: Like in the comics her original House name is unstated; she simply uses her husband's insignia instead.
- Composite Character: With a bit of Legacy Character thrown in. Ursa becomes the new Emerald Empress thanks to the Eye of Ekron. Or possibly the very first Emerald Empress, since the one Lor-Zod was familiar with lived in the 31st century. Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey.
- Entitled Bitch: While all three of the Zods are this to some extent, thanks to their Might Makes Right philosophy, Ursa throws a tantrum and claims that in any "just" world the powers she has under a yellow sun would be hers "by right!". It's clear where her son gets it from.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She seems to genuinely love her husband Dru and he refuses to leave the Zone without her.
- Expy Coexistence: Ursa was created as an expy of Faora Hu-Ul for the Superman movies, but here both are followers of Zod.
- A God Am I: Gleefully rants about being a god when she uses her Kryptonian strength to tear out the heart of M'gann's illusion. M'gann promptly disillusions her.
- Longest Pregnancy Ever: Lor-Zod reveals that his mother had been pregnant with him for over a thousand years, but it never progressed due to the nature of the Phantom Zone until the Zods were released in the 31st century.
- Loyal Phlebotinum: The Eye of Ekron chooses her as its new wielder. And later saves her by taking her into space above her protests while Zod is being defeated.
- Power Dyes Your Hair: Or in this case, power dyes your eyes. Ursa's irises turn from brown to green after receiving the power of the Eye of Ekron.
- Pregnant Badass: She was in the early stages of pregnancy when released from the Phantom Zone, and she fought just as fiercely as she always did.
- Two Girls to a Team: She and Faora are the only females among Zod's followers (at the head fort, anyway), and fittingly both were his soulmate in different continuities.
- White Hair, Black Heart: Outside the Phantom Zone it's revealed she has pale blonde hair, and she is one of the more violent followers of Zod.
Faora Hu-Ul
Species: Kryptonian
Voiced by: Denise Boutte
A Kryptonian of the House of Ul and a follower of General Zod.- Chest Insignia: She has the symbol of the House of Ul.
- Expy Coexistence: Ursa was created as an Expy of Faora for the Superman movies before being introduced in the comics, and here both of them serve Zod.
- Race Lift: Like Zod, she's depicted as black instead of Caucasian-looking.
- Villain Has a Point: Tells Aqualad that it's unfair that she's been in the Phantom Zone for 40 years when she was sentenced to 5. Notably, Aqualad doesn't dispute the point.
Non
Species: Kryptonian
Voiced by:
A Kryptonian criminal at the service of the House of Zod.
- Bald of Evil: He's completely bald and just as ruthless as the other Kryptonians.
- Beard of Evil: Has a bushy beard and he's just as brutish as his comic counterpart.
- The Brute: He's the largest of Zod's followers and the one who fits this role the most. Even without being directly exposed to yellow sunlight, he's more than a match for Tigress and Nightwing.
- Only One Name: He's only Non, without a House Name, and he doesn't even have a Chest Insignia.
- The Speechless: Like in other incarnations, Non can't speak.
Kru-El
Species: Kryptonian
Voiced by: Nolan North
A Kryptonian criminal and a disgraced member of the House of El.
- Beard of Evil: True to the character, he has a goatee and mustache, and is the only truly bad seed among the illustrious House of El.
- Black Sheep: The only known member of the House of El who's a criminal.
- Long-Lost Relative: He's a (former) member of the House of El, making him related to both Superman and Superboy.
- One Degree of Separation: He's a former member of the House of El, likely the cousin of Jor- and Zor-El like in the comics, yet doesn't interact much with Conner, who's technically his relative.
- Punny Name: A villainous member of the House of El, the name Kru-El obviously being a play on the word "cruel" should speak for itself.
- Smash the Symbol: His Chest Insignia notoriously has a slash at the center, representing his disgrace from his family.
