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This page is for listing tropes related to the heroes who made their first appearances as members of the Team, the group of young heroes assigned to undertake covert operations on behalf of the Justice League, during Invasion, the second season of the animated series Young Justice (2010).

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Invasion Members

Joined between Season 1 and Invasion

Tempest

Tempest (Garth)

Designation: B10

Date Joined: 2011

Status: Inactive

Current Affiliation: Atlantis

Species: Atlantean

Debut: Episode 08 ("Downtime")

Voiced by: Yuri Lowenthal

Aqualad's best friend. With Kaldur, he assisted Aquaman just enough to help him defeat Ocean Master, but unlike Kaldur, he declined being Aquaman's apprentice and continued studying at the Conservatory of Sorcery under Queen Mera, where he learned the power of the tempest. Joined and left the team during the 5-year Time Skip. Shows up in Season 3, as the Atlantean ambassador to the United Nations.

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• Ambadassador: A former member of the team, and currently the Atlantean ambassador to the United Nations.
• Apparently Human Merfolk: As a "pure" Atlantean he looks almost exactly like a normal human his age.
• Ascended Extra: He's a playable character in Young Justice: Legacy, surprisingly enough.
• Back for the Finale: Shows up in the background of a group shot in "Endgame."
• Boring, but Practical: As noted by Mera, while his technique in casting spells is excellent, his choices are often predictable and needs to learn improvisation.
• Childhood Friend Romance: With Tula.
• Decomposite Character: His time as Aqualad was given to Kaldur'ahm instead.
• Functional Magic: The specifics of Atlantean sorcery is taught in schools.
• Kung-Fu Wizard: Compared to Magic Knight Aqualad.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: His entire time with the team happened during the timeskip and he's since left by the time season 2 starts. The video game takes place while he was still part of it, however.
  • He also manages to become an ambassador for Atlantis in-between the two year Time Skip.
• Pretty Boy: Drawn as such.
• Put on a Bus: Leaves the team following Tula's death.
• Spectacular Spinning: Has the power to summon "the Tempest", which manifests as powerful whirlpools and storms.
• Superpower Lottery: As an Atlantean sorcerer, he has a variety of Elemental Powers thanks to Functional Magic, as well as being stronger and tougher than a normal human.
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Tall, dark-haired, and considered attractive.
• Tron Lines: Part of his get-up as Tempest.
• Two Guys and a Girl: The original dynamic between him, Kaldur and Tula.
• Well-Trained, but Inexperienced: A far better sorcerer than the Incompletely Trained Kaldur, but Garth also lacks in combat experience and his problem of second-guessing his attacks is acknowledged by Mera during a sparring session between himself and Tula. In season 3, Garth's single fight against an enemy has him rather easily dispatched and it is quite telling that he doesn't have Kaldur to aid him.
• What Could Have Been: Discussed in-universe. Garth could easily have become Aqualad, like he is in many other iterations of the DC universe, instead of Kaldur.

Aquagirl

Aquagirl (Tula)

Designation: B11

Date Joined: 2011

Status: Deceased

Species: Atlantean

Debut: Episode 08 ("Downtime")

Voiced by: Cree Summer (Season 1, Legacy), Stephanie Lemelin (Invasion)

Aqualad's crush and one of his closest friends. Joined the team during the 5-year Time Skip.

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• Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder: Implied to be the reason she wound up with Garth instead of Kaldur.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: Has brown hair in the comics but is a redhead in the show.
• Apparently Human Merfolk: As a "pure" Atlantean she looks almost exactly like a normal human her age.
• Childhood Friend Romance: With Garth.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: Original Aquagirl died in Crisis on Infinite Earths getting a face full of Chemo's toxic goop. Here, she goes out via Heroic Sacrifice.
• Doomed by Canon: She's already dead by Season 2, so her fate in Legacy (which takes place between Seasons 1 and 2) is a given.
• Dude Magnet: Managed to win the affections of both Garth and Kaldur.
• Elemental Powers: Water.
• Fiery Redhead: Usually Averted mostly due to her short screentime.
• Foregone Conclusion: Dialogue in season two establishes that Kaldur quit the team after Tula's death about a year before. When Legacy established that it took place a year before season 2 and that Tula was still alive, pretty much everyone guessed that her death would be part of the plot.
• Functional Magic: She learned Atlantean magic at the Conservatory.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Sacrifices herself to re-imprison Tiamat, just as the young hero Marduk did before her.
• The Lost Lenore: For both Garth and Kaldur.
• Mission Control: Acts as this in Legacy. She does a lot of the research and keeps in touch with Alpha Squad over the radio.
• Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: It's revealed she was killed in-between seasons. Legacy expands on why.
• Taking the Bullet: For Garth when he was attacked from behind.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: She appears in one episode and a few tie-in comics, before being killed off in-between seasons.
• Youthful Freckles: Came with the red hair, apparently.

Troia

Princess Troia of Themyscira

Designation: B12

Date Joined: 2012

Status: Inactive

Current Affiliation: Themyscira

Species: Amazonian

Debut: Episode 48 ("Royal We")

Voiced by: Grey Griffin

Wonder Woman's sister. Joined (and apparently left) the team sometime during the Time Skip between Seasons 1 and 2. She made her first appearance in Season 3, as the Themysciran ambassador to the United Nations. Following Luthor's resignation, she became Secretary-General of the United Nations.

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• Ambadassador: A former member of the team, and currently the Themysciran ambassador to the United Nations.
• All There in the Manual: Her existence was revealed through the creators, and she was not alluded to in the actual show until Season 3.
• Deadpan Snarker:
  Bialyan ambassador: Why has no Bialyan hero been invited to join [the Justice League]?
  Troia: When Bialya produces a hero who isn't a wanted criminal, perhaps the League will consider her or his candidacy.
  Bialyan ambassador: That statement is an outrageous exaggeration!
  Troia: Meaning it is largely accurate.
• Only One Name: The GBS broadcast of the UN Summit showed her name as just Troia, while other ambassadors had both first and last names shown, indicating that Troia is the only name she has.
• Secret Public Identity: According to Word of God, she went by Troia while she was a member of the team, which seems to be her actual name in this universe.

Robin II

Designation: B13

Date Joined: 2013

Status: Deceased

Current Affiliation: al Ghuls

See here.

Lieutenant Marvel

Lieutenant Marvel (Freddy Freeman)

Designation: A06 / B14

Date Joined: 2013

Status: Inactive

Species: Human Magician

Joined (and apparently left) the team sometime during the Time Skip.

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• Adaptation Name Change: Their codenames sidestep the issues of Mary Marvel using her real first name and Captain Marvel Jr. being unable to actually say his codename (since "Captain Marvel" was his transformation phrase in the comics). AskGreg states that Mary is Sergeant Marvel and Freddy is Lieutenant Marvel.
• The Cameo: He is only mentioned once in Phantoms and has a single brief appearance in the last issue of Young Justice: Targets.
• Last Episode, New Character: He appears in the last issue of the post-Phantoms comic Targets in a flashback as one of the people attending Wally's funeral.
• Mythology Gag: In the comics, Mary Marvel briefly considered calling herself Lieutenant Marvel. Which itself was a Mythology Gag to the Three Lieutenant Marvels in Earth-S continuity (three guys who happen to be named Billy Batson, who become Fat Marvel, Tall Marvel and Hill Marvel).
• Race Lift: He is white in the comics, but his cameo in Targets depicts him as African American.

Sergeant Marvel

Sergeant Marvel (Mary Bromfield)

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Designation: A07 / B15

Date Joined: 2013

Status: Inactive

Current Affiliation: None

Species: Human Magician

Debut: Episode 82 ("Odnu!")

Voiced by: Erika Ishii

Joined (and apparently left) the team sometime during the Time Skip. After leaving the Team she eventually became a student of magic under Zatanna's tutelage.

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• Adaptation Name Change: Their codenames sidestep the issues of Mary Marvel using her real first name and Captain Marvel Jr. being unable to actually say his codename (since "Captain Marvel" was his transformation phrase in the comics). AskGreg states that Mary is Sergeant Marvel and Freddy is Lieutenant Marvel.
• Can't Take Criticism: Downplayed. While Mary can take criticism regarding her training as a sorceress, what she can't take is criticism against her power addiction and when she goes too far with her Life Drain powers. She immediately gets defensive when she steals her teammates powers without consent, and later furiously quits the Sentinels of Magic when she refuses to acknowledge the danger she put everyone in when over-absorbing power to fight against Child.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Her status as Sergeant Marvel became addictive, to the point where she completely gave up on being Mary. Friends, family, nothing else mattered to her anymore other than the power. Needless to say, it wrecked Mary's mental health.
  Khalid: So what happened?
  Mary: I was just a kid. I wasn't ready for power back then, I had to give it up. I had to...
• Drunk On Power: The cause of her past troubles.
• Energy Absorption: She gave up her third of Shazam's power before becoming Zatanna's student, so she gets the energy for her abilities by absorbing it from elsewhere. Normally she uses leylines but other sources of mystic power work too, like Klarion's.
• Evil Costume Switch: Goes from a predominantly white costume to a black one when she joins the Furies.
• Fatal Flaw: Mary's attraction to power. As Sergeant Marvel, it led her to neglect her life as Mary, forcing her to stop using Shazam's power at all. Zatanna denying her a turn as Doctor Fate leads her to fall prey to Granny Goodness and join the Furies.
• Flying Brick: Being the distaff counterpart to Captain Marvel, she naturally shares all of his powers
• Functional Magic: Mary uses Force Magic, she needs a source of power before she can use any magical abilities, like the Earth's leylines.
• I Did What I Had to Do: Mary firmly believes that the end justifies the means, which reflects in her actions against Child. She has no problem going back on her word to steal her teammates and mentor's magic whilst draining the life of everything around her if it means defeating their enemy. It is part of this that makes Zatanna exclude Mary as host for Dr. Fate because he operates with the same philosophy.
• Lack of Imagination: Zatanna's criticism of Mary after their lesson is that Mary just uses magic to give herself meta abilities rather than spreading her wings.
  Zatanna: Magic isn't just about giving or getting meta-abilities, use your imagination when you tap into the earth's leylines or other sources of mystic power.
• Life Drain: If she reaches too much when absorbing power from the environment, she eventually winds up draining the life from it too.
• Mythology Gag: In the comics, Mary Marvel briefly considered calling herself Lieutenant Marvel. Which itself was a Mythology Gag to the Three Lieutenant Marvels in Earth-S continuity (three guys who happen to be named Billy Batson, who become Fat Marvel, Tall Marvel and Hill Marvel).
• Power Parasite: Her tapping into external magical sources works equally as well on other magic users as it does on the environment. Someone like Klarion would barely notice, even if it does piss him off, but it seems painful when she uses it on her fellow students, and they're understandably put off from her by the experience.
• Re-Power: Previously used the power of Shazam to be a superhero in the same vein as Captain Marvel, but after giving up her third of that power she began taking lessons from Zatanna to use magic on her own.
• Shock and Awe: She can use the Power of Zeus to unleash lightning bolts at her enemies.
• Start of Darkness: After Mary's actions against the Child cause Zatanna to deny her the chance to become one of Doctor Fate's new hosts, she falls prey to Granny Goodness' manipulations and finally says her magic word again.
• Super-Empowering: Instead of transforming herself, she now uses the powers of Shazam as the foundation for her brand of magic. She can use the Power of Zeus as a general booster.
• Super-Speed: Can use the Speed of Mercury, and demonstrates using it to disorient an imp by making him Too Fast to Stop.
• Super-Strength: Accesses the Strength of Hercules to bend a street lamp.
• Writing Around Trademarks: Due to DC officially having abandoned the "Captain Marvel" name and all its derivatives during the New 52, Mary is never actually called Sergeant Marvel onscreen. She stops short of fully saying the name while talking about her past in her first appearance, and for the rest of the season, her alter ego is only ever referred to as "Sergeant."

Oracle (Batgirl)

Oracle / Batgirl (Barbara Gordon)

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Designation: B16

Date Joined: 2014

Status: Active

Species: Human

Debut: Episode 12 ("Homefront")

Voiced by: Alyson Stoner (Series), Danica McKellar (Legacy)

Barbara Gordon is the daughter of Gotham City Police Commissioner James Gordon and Dick Grayson's oldest friend. During the timeskip between Season 1 and Invasion, she took up the name Batgirl and joined the Team. Between Invasion and Outsiders a mission to stop the Joker left her paralyzed, but she soon adjusted to working as Oracle to fight crime.

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• The Ace: Nightwing appears to trust her judgment and take orders from her without question, despite her technically being his subordinate. Lampshaded by Dick in the tie-in comic:
  Dick: (to Bette, after Barbara and Artemis beat them at table soccer) She's like, ridiculously good at everything.
• Adaptational Backstory Change: The show changes the reason for her paralysis: instead of being shot by the Joker, she blocked a sword Cass was swinging at him. This explains the Batfamily's strong attention to the latter.
• Animal-Themed Superbeing: Bats.
• Ascended Extra: Made short appearances in season one's "Homefront", "Failsafe", and "Misplaced" before fully being introduced as Batgirl in season two.
• Badass in Distress: In "Beneath," she's knocked unconscious and placed in a stasis cell by Queen Bee's goons, but the other girls break her out of it. In "War," she is kidnapped by the Reach and kept in the War World
• Badass Normal: No superpowers, but very proficient in martial arts. Since she isn't brainwashed when she tries on a pair of Goode goggles, it can also be inferred that she tests negative for the meta-gene, meaning she has no dormant powers either.
• Battle Couple: Zigzagged. She and Dick were teammates in Invasion with the tie-in comics showing they were in a Friends with Benefits relationship, though Dick wanted it to be official. By Outsiders, they are an Official Couple and while the now handicapped Barbara can still kick ass, she's now more on the support side as Oracle.
• Big Sister Instinct: A blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, but when Blue Beetle turns against the Team, she pushes Tim out of the way of the incoming blast.
• Big Sister Mentor: Is listed as one of Tim's mentors, along with Nightwing and Batman. Word of God also says she acts as one for Cassie.
• Childhood Friend Romance: With Nightwing, but it's complicated. She confessed to Dick on his fourteenth birthday party, but we know from earlier in the story that he's had relationships with at least Zatanna and Rocket since then. By Dick's nineteenth birthday, Dick is open about wanting to be with her, but she says he's "a dog" and not ready for her yet, considering that over the course of the day he'd already had Bette Kane in his apartment, a long kiss with Zatanna, and a cheek kiss from Rocket. So they're both interested in each other and not opposed to public displays of affection, but they're not in an exclusive or serious relationship yet. This is furthered as Dick seems one of the few aware that she's Oracle and they've shared multiple kisses in Away Mission when he visited her.
• Childhood Friends: With Nightwing. She's his oldest friend.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Batgirl's outfit is black, but she's a heroine.
• Distaff Counterpart: To Nightwing.
• Fiery Redhead: Inverted. Batgirl has red hair but is one of the most rational, calm, mature members of the Team.
• Friends with Benefits: Is this with Nightwing as of issue #25 of the tie-in comic
• The Gadfly: Towards Nightwing, in a playful manner.
  Nightwing: But Bialya’s dictator Queen Bee is another story. Her ability to control the minds of men is why alpha is an all-female squad for this mission.
  Barbara: Oh really? And would you have felt the need to justify an all-male squad for a given mission?
  Nightwing: (coughs nervously) Um…the-there's no right answer for that, uh is there? So…Nightwing out! (shuts off computer)
  Barbara: (smirking) Queen Bee isn’t the only woman who can mess with a man’s mind.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Appeared to be jealous in Homefront when seeing Dick take a picture with Artemis.
• Handicapped Badass: She wouldn't be Oracle otherwise; Wheelchair-bound, and Barbara can still flip Dick when he sneaks up on her.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Non-fatal example. She jumped in front of Cassandra's blade so she wouldn't kill Joker. Barbara knew that killing Joker would lead to Cassandra going on a dark path and as a result she was paralysed from the waist down.
• Irony: In "Beneath", Batgirl is needed to pilot the plane out of Bialya and rescue the trafficked metahumans, because in the company of Miss Martian, Bumblebee and Wonder Girl, she's the only one who can fly that vehicle. Bumblebee also points out how funny that is, seeing as how she's the only one of the four who doesn't have the power to fly.
• The Leader: Clear-headed and rational, with enough regard for her teammates to qualify her as this trope. When Nightwing leaves at the end of Season 2, he tasks her with helping Aqualad lead the team in his stead.
• Little Miss Snarker: And the main recipient of her snark is Nightwing.
• McNinja: Like Nightwing, as all of her agile flips and stealthy attacks indicate.
• Mission Control: Guides Nightwing's Team and Batman Incorporated as Oracle.
• Number Two: To Kaldur at the end of Season 2.
• Relationship Upgrade: After getting a little bit of Ship Tease throughout the first two seasons, Barbara and Dick have gotten together during the two-year timeskip and are now an Official Couple.
• Shipper on Deck: The first issue of the prequel comic for Season 3 suggests that she’s one for Miss Martian and Superboy.
• The Smart Girl: Although it's unknown if her intelligence matches that of her comic counterpart, she's shown to be quite smart and is the source of many of the leads found in season two. By season 3, she's transitioned to Mission Control in the role of Oracle.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: Zigzagged. Barbara is a smart woman but in the first two seasons, she doesn't wears glasses. When she becomes Oracle in Outsiders she wears a pair and is also the Mission Control of Nightwing's Team and Batman Incorporated.
• Took a Level in Badass: Nothing in her season 1 appearances indicate she's anything but a schoolgirl. Come season 2 five years later, she's kicking villain butt as Batgirl.
• Voice with an Internet Connection: Taken on the role as Oracle in Outsiders.
• We Need a Distraction: In "Intervention," she and Impulse fight the controlled Blue Beetle long enough to keep him distracted so that Rocket and Zatanna could capture him.

Bumblebee

Bumblebee (Karen Beecher)

Designation: B17

Date Joined: 2014

Status: Inactive

Species: Human

Debut: Episode 10 ("Targets")

Voiced by: Masasa Moyo

Once just a student at Miss Martian and Superboy's high school, Karen Beecher is now both the lab assistant and protégé to the Atom, as well as a full-fledged member of The Team.

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• Affectionate Nickname: "Beautiful" from her boyfriend, Mal.
• Animal-Themed Superbeing: She's a bee-themed superhero.
• Ascended Extra: She was first seen in season 1 "Targets" and made a brief cameo in "Secrets" but becomes one of the main heroes in season 2.
• Babies Ever After: By Outsiders, she's mothering a child with her longtime boyfriend Mal.
• Badass in Distress: In "War," she is kidnapped by the Reach and kept in the War World.
• Battle Couple: With Guardian II — They are High-School Sweethearts and heroes, even getting into a relationship fight in the middle of a mission.
• Black and Nerdy: Becomes a lab assistant with The Atom in season 2 and she's a full scientist by season 3.
• Brainy Brunette: A science heroine and prioritizes her college studies, even at the expense of her boyfriend.
• The Cameo: In "Schooled" and "Secrets".
• Clothes Make the Superman: Her powers come from her suit.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Bumblebee's outfit consists is a yellow and black scheme.
• Flight: Part of her powerset.
• High-School Sweethearts: As "Targets" and "Happy New Year" show, she and Mal have been together since their high school days.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: With her boyfriend, Mal. Bonus points in that she can make herself much tinier.
• Incredible Shrinking Man: Part of her powerset.
• Official Couple: With Mal Duncan aka Guardian III.
• Sassy Black Woman: Occasionally.
• Science Hero: Like her mentor.
• Shock and Awe: She can use her suit to fire electric projectiles at her opponents.
• Sidekick: This version is the protege of The Atom. They weren't connected in the comics, but it makes sense to pair them as they both have shrinking powers derived from their suits.
• Sizeshifter: Her suit lets her shrink to atomic levels, although she prefers insect-size.
• Tron Lines: Part of her superhero suit.
• Wake Up, Go to School & Save the World: She balances her studies and her superheroing at the expense of spending time with Mal.
• What the Hell, Hero?: She calls out Arsenal for nearly taking the entire team with him in his suicide attempt. Arsenal retorts that it worked out in the end (though it's not like he was thinking that far ahead at the time).
• Winged Humanoid: As Bumblebee, as the wings are part of the suit.
• Workaholic: Which frustrates her boyfriend Malcolm to no end. Somewhat solved after he steps out into the field with her.

Aquaman III (Lagoon Boy)

Aquaman / Lagoon Boy (La'gaan)

"NEPTUNE'S BEARD!"

Designation: B18

Date Joined: 2014

Status: Inactive

Current Affiliation: Atlantis

Species: Atlantean

Debut: Episode 08 ("Downtime")

Voiced by: Yuri Lowenthal

An amphibious student of sorcery from Atlantis, La'gaan, or "Lagoon Boy" is one of the newest additions to the team during season two. Lagoon Boy is always eager to prove himself, is the new sidekick of Aquaman after the Face–Heel Turn of Kaldur and was in a relationship with Miss Martian.

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• Amicable Exes: With Miss Martian.
• Ascended Extra: Appeared during Aqualad's visit to Atlantis in "Downtime" and becomes a main hero in season 2. Becomes this again as a major supporting character in Kaldur's Phantoms arc after being Put on a Bus in Season 3.
• Ascended Fanboy: According to Cartoon Network's supplementary material, he's a surface world fanboy, much like his comic counterpart.
  • Was also a huge fan of Aqualad... before he appeared to go over to Team Evil.
  • According to tie-in comics, one of the reasons he wanted go to the surface was because he wanted to get away from Atlantis, where he was discriminated against because of how he looks and, obviously was disappointed.
• Badass in Distress: For a few episodes before he was rescued.
• Boisterous Bruiser: He's always excited to kick ass.
• Broken Pedestal: Used to idolize Aqualad.
• Deadpan Snarker: As this line from "Happy New Year" would show:
  La'gaan: (after Jaime takes out a suspected zeta-tube hideout) Congratulations, Blue. You took out an actual toolshed.
• Dressing as the Enemy: In “Summit” he is one of the members who disguises himself as one of the assassins working for The Light and works as The Cavalry for Kaldur and the rest of the heroes while Savage actually believed they were reinforcement for The Light.
• Exotic Extended Marriage: In Season 4, he has both a husband and a wife.
• Fantastic Racism: Among Atlanteans, there are "purists" who discriminate against those with non-human attributes like fins and gills. If Kaldur, who has hardly-noticeable gills and webbed fingers but is otherwise indistinguishable from a standard human, is given a hard time, you can imagine what life was like for poor La'gaan, who looks only vaguely human-shaped. (Word of God is that he is human, however— ancient Atlanteans used a combination of magic and science to enable themselves to survive underwater. In La'gaan's case, it's more obvious than others.)
• Fish People: Unlike Kaldur, Garth, and Tula, who have more "pure" human blood (the last two are pure-blooded Atlanteans), La'gaan has green skin, red eyes, fins, and gills, but manages to look humanoid.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Downplayed. Many of his teammates find him to be unbearable a lot of the time, and he is berated for being brash and cocky and sometimes ignoring orders while on mission due to his personal issues. Even those who he usually doesn’t interact with have clear implications that they dislike him for some reason (e.g. Beast Boy who's a Shipper on Deck for M'gann and Superboy). Aqualad, however, likes him, and trusted him enough to essentially take his place on the Team while he was undercover.
• Full-Contact Magic: All his magic is punctuated with grand gestures.
• Green-Eyed Monster: He's jealous of Conner due to him being M'gann's ex and how she still gives him a lot of attention and confides with him a lot, suspecting that she still has feelings for him.
• Heartbroken Badass: After M'gann breaks up with him, even referring to him as her "rebound guy" (though she doesn't say this to be cruel, rather she's realized herself that that's what their relationship was and feels he deserves better).
• Heroic Resolve: Gets experimented on? Still fights Black Beetle. Gets electrocuted and thrown into a console? Still dodges plasma blasts and carries a very heavy Blue Beetle to the ship. And as soon as he can stand, he goes to give M'gann a hug.
• Hidden Depths:
  • For all his arrogance and brash attitude, he is actually very insecure about his physical appearance, going as far as saying that "a scary monster" is something he sees everyday on a mirror, and genuinely cares for his friends' safety (including Superboy's).
  • He's also good with children, as shown when he plays with Artur. He's eager to be a father and when he has to stay on a mission for weeks he's worried that he'll miss the baby's birth.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: His attitude problem stems largely from his insecurities about himself: his physical appearance, because he's a victim of racism; his worth in the team, evident in his eagerness to prove himself; and the stability of his relationship with his girlfriend, as he's aware of the sexual tension that exists between her and her ex, and that may be the reason of why he flaunts their relationship in front of Superboy.
• Hold Your Hippogriffs: A chronic offender. His pet name for M'gann is "angelfish", he calls friends (and enemies, when he's being vaguely threatening) "chum", he says that something easy will be "a piece of crabcake"...
• Hot-Blooded: He probably wouldn't have been captured in "Depths" if he hadn't gotten angry at Superboy's comment and decided to prove he didn't need help from the "Boy of Steel".
• Interspecies Romance: He (an Atlantean)and Miss Martian (a Martian).
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: According to Superboy, he's kind of a jerk, but is sweet on M'gann. So far though, the only person he seems to frequently disrespect is Superboy himself. By the time of Phantoms, he's largely matured out of the "jerk" part.
• The Kids Are American: Most Atlanteans in the series speak with a very slow, formal syntax and slight accent, developed by Kaldur's voice actor to reflect that he was not a native English speaker and mimicked by the other actors for consistency. La'gaan is the youngest of the named Atlantean characters, and his English is much more relaxed and fluent, with little to no traces of an accent at all. It's especially interesting, because La'gaan and fellow Atlantean Garth are both played Yuri Lowenthal, and while Garth's dialogue is limited to one episode and the video game, his speech is consistent with Kaldur's, meaning La'gaan's much more casual English is likely a deliberate choice, possibly reflecting a greater level of immersion with native English speakers at a younger age than Kaldur and the others, or a more concentrated attempt to "fit in."
• Kid Hero All Grown-Up: In season 4, he's 22 and has matured into a loving husband and expectant father.
• Leeroy Jenkins: The reason for his capture in "Depths."
• Magic Knight: Like Aqualad, he combines magic with weapon-based combat training.
• Make-Out Kids: With Miss Martian.
• Marked Change: When his tattoos start to glow, Lagoon Boy grows bigger and stronger.
• May–December Romance: Zigzagged with Miss Martian. She's chronologically 53, but biologically equivalent to an 18 year old human, while he's 17.
• Mutual Envy: Conner's jealous of him for being M'gann's new boyfriend while La'gaan is jealous of how M'gann still cares deeply about him and confides with him.
• Named by the Adaptation: Was the first incarnation of the character to be named. He's "La'gaan" to justify his codename.
• Non-Indicative Name: "Lagoon Boy" doesn't exactly tell you he comes from the sea, does it? As noted above, he was given the name "La'gaan" to semi-justify his codename's non-indicativeness. At a convention appearance, Greg Weisman explained that he just heard the English word "lagoon" one day, didn't exactly understand what it referred to, but noted its similarity to his own name and that was water-related, and took it for his own.
• Official Couple: With Miss Martian. After that didn't work out, he's since married Coral and Rodunn, with whom he has a child.
• Oh, My Gods!: "Neptune's beard!"
• Polyamory: In Phantoms he is in a polyamorous relationship with two fellow Atlantians, Coral and Rodunn. He loves both his wife and husband equally.
• Power Tattoo: Though since he completed more of his training, unlike Aqualad, his only appear when they're in use.
• Pungeon Master: Loves his fish puns.
• Rebuilt Pedestal: In the Season 2 finale, he asks Aqualad if he really trusts him, to which he replies that he's always trusted La'gaan. His smile after hearing this seals the deal.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Subverted as he's one of the heroes.
• Romantic False Lead: He's M'gann's new boyfriend in Season 2, but it becomes increasingly clear that he's just a rebound guy and she's still in love with Conner and breaks up with him when she finally realizes both of these.
• Shout-Out: Visually, a homage to the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
  • Lampshade Hanging: Superboy mocks him as "The Rebound Guy from the Black Lagoon."
  • Also to Aquaman.
• Sidekick: Of Aquaman in Season 2.
• Steven Ulysses Perhero: Laggon Boy's real name is La'gaan.
• Super Mode: Can increase his size in a pinch, like a toad or puffer fish. This also gives him increased strength and durability.
• Taking the Bullet: He does this for Megan, taking the final blow of Klarion’s conjured giant fire snake in order to protect her. Because he’s Made of Iron most of the time, he survives this with little difficulty.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: Season 2 was quite rough on him romantically, since his arc is the slow deterioration of his relationship with M'gann as they both realize that it's a rebound relationship for her and not meant to last. When he comes back in season 4 after four years, he's Happily Married twice over.
• Took a Level in Kindness: When he's seen again in Phantoms, he is far more mature and considerate of his peers. He's a caring husband to Coral and Rodunn, and regrets his past petty behavior towards Superboy.
• Top-Heavy Guy: When he's powered up, his head, chest, and arms grow significantly in size while his legs and hips remain unchanged, giving him a decidedly top-heavy appearance.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: His "hero uniform" consists of a pair of black swimming trunks.
• When All You Have Is a Hammer…: For the most part his offensive options on land is to turn into his super mode and hit/tackle/smash stuff. He has some limited water control and Atlantean magic too, but typically defaults to this. In Young Justice Legacy all of his special attacks are this.
• Wrestler in All of Us: Takes out a Krolotean mech with a suplex.

Beast Boy

Designation: B19

Date Joined: 2015, Before February 16

Status: Inactive

Current Affiliation: The Outsiders

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Robin III

Designation: B20

Date Joined: 2015, Before February 16

Status: Inactive

Current Affiliation: The Outsiders

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Wonder Girl

Designation: B21

Date Joined: Post-February 17, 2015

Status: Inactive

Current Affiliation: The Outsiders

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Blue Beetle III

Designation: A12 / B22

Date Joined: December 1, 2015

Status: Inactive

Current Affiliation: The Outsiders

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The Scarab

Status: Inactive

Current Affiliation: The Outsiders

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Guardian III

Guardian / Mal Duncan

Designation: A10 / B24

Date Joined: Post-2010

Status: Inactive

Species: Human

Debut: Episode 10 ("Targets")

Voiced by: Kevin Michael Richardson

Originally one of Superboy and M'gann's classmates at Happy Harbor High, Mal Duncan is both Karen's boyfriend and the tactical coordinator for the team during season 2. During a battle with Despero, he adopts the identity of the Guardian as a distraction. He later joined the team as a field operative.

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• Affirmative-Action Legacy: The two previous Guardians were white.
• Ascended Extra: Twice. In season two, he ascends from just being a friend of Conner's and Megan's to the team's Mission Control. He ascends again in "Cornered," from Mission Control and "Bumblebee's neglected boyfriend" to being Guardian, a hero in his own right.
• Ascended Fanboy: Downplayed. He's shown wearing a Superman shirt the first time we meet him, and in "Secrets" even makes his own custom Superman Halloween costume. ^note which also happens to look exactly like Superboy's old get-up in the comics And while Mal is never seen personally working with Superman, he has become close friends with Superman's brother, Superboy, by season 2.
• Babies Ever After: By Outsiders, he's fathering a child with his longtime girlfriend Karen.
• Badass in Distress: In "War," he is kidnapped by the Reach and kept in the War World.
• Badass Normal: Thanks to Black Canary's training he can help out in the field.
• Baritone of Strength: Has a deep voice and becomes a Badass Normal.
• Battle Couple: With Bumblebee after becoming Guardian III — They are High-School Sweethearts and heroes, even getting into a relationship fight in the middle of a mission.
• The Cameo: In "Schooled" and "Secrets".
• Dark Is Not Evil: Except for his helmet, Guardian's main color scheme is black.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: He intentionally distracts Despero with his Fake Ultimate Hero routine despite knowing that a single punch could kill him to give his other teammates time to rally and take him down.
• Dogged Nice Guy: Mal getting shot down when trying to tear Karen away from her work as Dr. Ray Palmer's lab assistant.
• Fake Ultimate Hero: Uses this as a means to distract Despero. It worked and he would become a field operative of the team as the new Guardian.
• Gentle Giant: He's built like a line backer and is a total sweetheart.
• Heroic Build: When he becomes Guardian II.
• High-School Sweethearts: As "Targets" and "Happy New Year" show, he and Karen have been together since their high school days.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: With his girlfriend, Karen.
• Ink-Suit Actor: His appearance in Season 3 is the *spitting* image of Kevin Michael Richardson.
• In-Series Nickname: His full name is actually "Malcolm", but he's always called, "Mal".
• Insecure Love Interest: He admits to Karen that he feels stupid when it comes to her and her scientific brilliance.
• Jerk Jock: Subverted. He comes off as an arrogant punk in his first appearance when he challenges Connor...after he thought Connor was bullying one of his friends. Moreover, that friend was smaller and more timid than either him or Connor.
• Legacy Character: The original Guardian was Roy Harper's great-grandfather, Jim Harper, and the second was a clone of Roy also named Jim Harper who believed himself to be Roy's uncle and the original Guardian's grandson.
• Milking the Giant Cow: When hamming it up in an attempt to intimidate Despero.
• Mission Control: He acts as this for the Team, coordinating the different squads while on a mission.
• Nice Guy: Along with Jaime he's the nicest guy on the Team.
• Non-Action Guy: Defied in "Cornered" where he takes the guise of the Guardian against Despero, using Black Canary's training to distract Despero long enough until a plan could be formulated.
• Official Couple: With Karen Beecher AKA Bumblebee.
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Tall, dark-skinned and dark-haired, and attractive.
• Took a Level in Badass: He went from Mission Control and Non-Action Guy to joining in on the battles from "Cornered" and onwards.
• Took a Level in Kindness: In his brief appearances in the first season he comes across as a somewhat arrogant and thuggish, but in the five year time skip, he's become more mellow.
• Willing Channeler: Allowed himself to be possessed by Zatanna to beat Despero.

Joined during Invasion

Kid Flash II (Impulse)

Designation: A14 / B23

Date Joined: March 21, 2016

Status: Inactive

Current Affiliation: The Outsiders

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Arsenal (Speedy I)

Arsenal / Speedy (Roy William Harper)

Designation: B25

Date Joined: April 8, 2016

Status: Active

Current Affiliation: The Team (After "The Prize")

Species: Cybernetically-enhanced Human

Debut: Episode 26 ("Auld Acquaintance")

Voiced by: Crispin Freeman

"We were partners, friends!"

The real Roy Harper, the former sidekick of Green Arrow who was kidnapped by the Light three years before the beginning of the series. Red Arrow, his Cadmus-made clone, eventually rescues him in season 2. After acquiring a robotic right arm from LexCorp—he had lost his arm during his kidnapping—he returns to hero work to get revenge on the people who ruined his life.

As of Outsiders, Roy does some part-time work as a security guard just to make ends meet, before being invited back to join the team by Tigress in "The Prize".

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• Anti-Hero: He's an unscrupulous hero. For example, he tries to assassinate Lex Luthor for ruining his life when he first wakes up. "True Colors" demonstrates that he'd gladly go against orders and plant a bomb during a covert operation for no reason other than to give Luthor grief.
• Appropriated Appellation: Picks up his name when Luthor compliments him during the hero's assassination attempt.
  Lex Luthor: Quite the arsenal you've brought tonight, Mr. Harper.
  Arsenal: You haven't seen the half of it, Luthor!
  Lex Luthor: Oh, I wasn't talking about the weaponry. I myself never go armed. No, the greatest arsenal any man can bring to the party consists of the resources of his own mind: his intelligence, his stratagems, his force of will. And you, my young friend, have all of those in spades.
• An Arm and a Leg: Lost his right arm after being captured by The Light.
• Arm Cannon: A gift from Lex Luthor.
• Artificial Limbs: Luthor gives him an artificial Arm Cannon to replace his missing limb, partly as a way of dissuading Arsenal from future assassination attempts.
• Badass in Distress: Was a hostage of the Light for nearly a decade.
• Badass Normal: Has no superpowers when he first wakes up, is missing an arm, and still beats Luthor's personal Cyborg bodyguard in a fight.
• Clone Angst: Inverted. He spent years of his life as a Human Popsicle while his clone, Red Arrow, unwittingly took his place. Despite that, he blames Luthor for imprisoning him and Green Arrow for giving up on him, while he's grateful for Red Arrow's tireless search.
  Red Arrow: I don't want to be the cause of more conflict between you two. I'd understand if you never wanted to lay eyes on me again.
  Speedy: I dunno. Seems to me the clone didn't do anything wrong. He didn't ask to be created, plus he found me. I can't blame him for this. [turning to Ollie] BUT I CAN TOTALLY BLAME YOU!
• Combat Pragmatist: One of the most impressive cases on the show. He's able to outmaneuver Lex Luthor, his bodyguard and several mooks in his assassination attempt of the former with only one arm (remember, his training and specialty is ranged combat, and it's his right arm missing, implied to be his dominant arm). More impressively, he single-handedly co-ordinates a piercing attack on the Reach inside the War World mostly on the fly, first coming up with a combat strategy for the Runaways that actually holds out against Black Beetle. Then, before releasing his allies from captivity, he goes straight for Mongul's pod first, knowing he would fight Black Beetle instead of any of the heroes, providing a cover/distraction for them. Among all that chaos, he also attempted to retrieve the War World key (unfortunately, Deathstroke got to it first). He came up with all of this while on the run and facing his worst fears. Not too shabby for a guy who is mentally in his mid-teens.
• Conveniently an Orphan: His parents died before he was 15.
• Cyborg: He becomes one after replacing his missing arm with a robotic Arm Cannon as a prosthesis.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Parents died when he was 15. Kidnapped by the Light so they could clone him and use his said clone as a spy. This, also meant they had to cut off his arm to keep his clone alive. And he was kidnapped and kept in a coma for eight years.
• Deadpan Snarker:
  Arsenal: So new Roy goes by "Red Arrow". Wow, that's an original name.
• Decomposite Character: He and Red Arrow each borrow different elements from the original comic book Speedy. To explain, the comic book Speedy took the name Arsenal before switching to Red Arrow. However, this show's version of Arsenal is based off the comic book's Red Arrow during the period where he became an Anti-Hero. Comic book Roy does not have a clone, and is the father of Lian by Cheshire.
• Distressed Dude: By virtue of his being captured and imprisoned on ice for eight years by The Reach, before Red Arrow and Cheshire rescued him.
• Empowered Badass Normal: After getting a Cyborg Arm Cannon of his own.
• Energy Weapon: His robot arm has a wrist-mounted laser that actually proved capable of damaging Black Beetle's armor. Lex really didn't spare any expense.
• Expressive Mask: Again, an example of an expressive Domino Mask.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: His outfit would be identical without the robotic arm.
• Fish out of Temporal Water: Lost eight years of his life, during which "The sidekicks formed their own team, aliens invaded the Earth, and... Ollie grew that dopey goatee?".
• Fiery Redhead: The angrier, grumpier kind of redhead.
• Foil: To Red Arrow. Both are presented as jerkasses whose only redeeming traits are that they are fighting on the side of good. They both also have an obsessive and selfish personality that serve as their fatal flaws. However, Arsenal represents what Red Arrow could've become had he not have friends or a daughter (the latter which was the real reason he got himself together) and didn't curb his extremely negative traits. Also, while Arsenal still remains a jerk, who becomes even more so, Red Arrow ultimately proves to be a Jerk with a Heart of Gold who became nicer.
• Good Is Not Nice: He's on the side of good, but he's also a selfish, impulsive jerkass.
• Handicapped Badass: Comments how, with only one arm, it's harder for him to get on his pants than to use a rocket launcher.
• Human Popsicle: Due to being cryogenically frozen.
• Important Haircut: Gives himself a buzz cut as part of abandoning his past as Speedy.
• Interrupted Suicide: When Blue Beetle reveals he's been brainwashed into an agent of the Reach, Roy is so horrified at the idea of being taken prisoner again he opens an airlock and almost gets sucked into outer space. When that doesn't work, he flees the battle rather than try to take on Beetle.
• It's All About Me: Risking a covert mission to make someone's life miserable, also putting the lives of his teammates in jeopardy? Check. Pull an Interrupted Suicide, which also risked the lives of the Team, all because HE doesn't want to get captured? Check. After being rightfully called out for the former, his reason is that he wasn't going to risked being "put on ice" again, and sarcastically scolds the one in the right (Bumblebee) that she should be thanking him, and he doesn't apologize? Double check.
• I Work Alone: Decides to go solo in the end.
• Jerkass: So you can at least see where his clone got it from. But, unlike Red Arrow, Arsenal continues to be a jerk with a only a few Pet the Dog moments.
• Jerkass to One: Inverted. The only person we see that he’s been genuinely nice to without any selfish regard and even sympathizes with is his clone.
• The Lancer: After he joins the Runaways. He sets the biggest contrast with Virgil because he's a hothead and a veteran and none too heroic.
• Leeroy Jenkins: On a perfectly planned covert ops mission, Arsenal decides to blow up the lab they came to investigate, for no other reason than to spite Luthor. This not only manages to blow their cover and nearly get them killed, but does nothing more than superficial damage. Great job. Gets him booted off the Team in "The Hunt" after Nightwing learns about the airlock fiasco.
• Meaningful Name: "Roy" is English and Gaelic for "red" which matches his choice in clothing when it comes to his role as a hero.
• Meaningful Rename: Trades in being "Speedy" to become "Arsenal".
• The Millstone: Selfish, unstable, impulsive, and prone to making incredibly poor decisions, he is a gigantic liability to the team, and it is that set of characteristics coupled with his absolute refusal to take responsibility for his actions that gets him thrown off the team.
• Mythology Gag: Arsenal is Roy Harper after the events of Justice League: Cry for Justice. (Red Arrow can be viewed as Roy before his '90s Anti-Hero makeover.)
• Never My Fault: When Bumblebee calls him out on his actions at the end of "War", mainly how he recklessly opened an airlock that almost got the entire team killed and guaranteed their capture against the brainwashed Blue Beetle and then ran away to save himself, he argues back that after spending eight years as a captive he wasn't going to risk being put "on ice" again. He also points out that his escape was what allowed everyone to be saved, and while not entirely wrong there, he wasn't thinking that far ahead at the time and still expects a "thank you" for his actions, refusing to apologize despite having pulled this kind of stunt in the field previously. This results in him getting kicked off the team by Nightwing, due to him being more of a liability than anything.
• Older Than He Looks: Has the body and the psyche of a 15-year-old, because he was put on ice at that age for eight years, but he should actually be 23.
• Pet the Dog: Roy doesn't once blame his clone, Roy Harper II, for "replacing" him since he knows the clone never asked to be born and at least he was the one who found and freed him.
• Rage Against the Mentor: Blames Green Arrow for giving up the search for him.
  Arsenal: We were partners, friends! [...] How could you leave me in Luthor's hands for eight years? And how did I not see how useless you are? Get Out!... Get Out!!
• Red Is Heroic: His superhero suit is red, and he has red hair, although he's a bit more antiheroic than the other examples in the series.
• Revenge Before Reason: Blows up a covert ops mission just to make Luthor miserable.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Goes on one against Lex Luthor and the Light almost immediately after waking up.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Leaves the Team before Nightwing can fire him due to his reckless actions and joins The Runaways.
• Sealed Good in a Can: Captured by the Light to create a clone of him in order to further their plans. And for eight years, he has been in cased in cryogenic storage.
• Shadow Archetype: To his clone, Roy Harper II aka Red Arrow. Arsenal represents what could've happened to him had he let his obsessive, jerkish nature be his main attributes.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: He would literally rather die than be captured.
  "You'll never pod me again! NEVER!"
• Sidekick: To Green Arrow. And unlike Red Arrow, he doesn't take offense to the term.
• Sixth Ranger: To the Runaways. He joins them after he is kicked off the team.
• Spanner in the Works: The events of "The Hunt" would have gone very differently if Arsenal hadn't attempted to space himself in "War". Namely, the Team would still be in stasis and him with them, and the Runaways would be dead or at least still under Luthor.
• Superhero Packing Heat: That arm cannon is really useful in a fight.
• That Man Is Dead: "Speedy died eight years ago. But I kinda like the sound of Arsenal."
• Throw Down the Bomblet: Favors grenades and other handheld explosives.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: While his anger at what happened to him may have been understandable, but it reaches to unacceptable levels as time passes. The biggest example of how he became a full-on jerkass was when Bumblebee rightfully calls him out for his actions at one point, Arsenal tells her that after all he went through he wasn't going to risk being captured again. Then he gripes on her about not giving him some thanks for saving her. Which probably wouldn't have happened if he hadn't pulled attempted suicide in the first place!
• Took a Level in Kindness: While he's still hot-blooded, he seems to have mellowed out a lot during the two-year time skip between seasons 2 and 3. He even seems to be on better terms with Nightwing.
• Trauma Conga Line: Was kidnapped, deprived of his right arm, frozen for eight years, replaced by a clone, left for dead by his mentor, then kicked off the team. Although the last one is his own fault, see Took a Level in Jerkass section.
• Trick Arrow: To be expected of a former Green Arrow protégé.
• Ungrateful Bastard: Defied. He is genuinely grateful to his clone for spending five years trying to save him, and notes that he didn't ask to be born. Green Arrow, on the other hand...
• Walking Spoiler: The specifics of his backstory and even his real name give away some rather large twists from Season 1.
• Wild Card: He frequently goes against the team and doing actions that benefits him before others.
• Will Not Be a Victim: "No one's putting me on ice again... ever." The fear of that is so overpowering that he nearly spaces the entire team when Blue Beetle turns on them rather than be taken alive. When that fails, he makes a fast escape into the War World.
• Would Hit a Girl: While attempting to assassinate Lex Luthor, Roy didn't show any qualms about shooting and injuring Mercy.

Static

Designation: B26

Date Joined: July 4, 2016

Status: Inactive

Current Affiliation: The Outsiders

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