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• The Alliance: Earth's greatest warriors - along with forces from space and the realm of the Gods - united to stop the conquest of Earth.
• Face–Heel Turn: While the various factions turned on each other out of xenophobia, Ares stood out by turning on his own kind.
• The Fellowship Has Ended: The alliance between these heroes would not last. The Olympians would suffer a coup from within, Amazons found themselves fighting both Atlanteans and men and the tribes of men would engage in war after war once the superpowered races faded from memory. The Green Lantern Corp also never sent another defender to Earth when Superman died.
• The Magic Goes Away: By the 20th century the thought of any beings with powers beyond the realm of science were seen as little more than fantasy. Even the Motherboxes didn't awaken despite the advantage Darkseid would have had.
• Mexican Standoff: The three armies came to an agreement that they would each take a Motherbox so that no side would have an unfair advantage over the other, with the Olympians abstaining as they were already much more powerful. Unfortunately this didn't stop their descendants from waging wars using any weapon that wasn't derived from a Motherbox.
• Precursor Heroes: To the Justice League. Their lineup includes Amazons, Gods (Wonder Woman), Atlanteans (Aquaman), men from various backgrounds (Batman, the Flash and Cyborg) and an empowered alien (Superman).
• The Time of Myths: The Defiance formed thousands of years ago, when the Olympians walked the Earth, Atlanteans were a high-profile nation and Amazons hadn't gone into hiding.

Ancient Men

Species: Humans

Portrayed By: Francis Magee (king), Ray Porter (blacksmith)

Appearances: Justice League | Zack Snyder's Justice League

The humans who formed part of The Alliance against the Apokoliptian invasion of Earth in ancient times.

• Badass Normal: They had no powers or Super-Strength unlike their allies, just iron age weapons and courage, and they faced a terrifying alien invasion.
• Barbarian Hero: They are depicted with a barbarian vibe (wearing furs, sporting beards and longhair, living in tribes, burying artifacts in the forest) and they were courageous enough to face the armies of Apokolips.
• The Cameo: One of the blacksmiths who built the metal casing of the humans' Mother Box was played by Ray Porter, the actor who did the voice and motion capture of Darkseid.
• Cool Crown: Their king wore a crown with long spikes going upwards, not unlike the upper part of Sauron's helmet.
• Cool Helmet: Several of them wore horned helmets, echoing Batman's cowl.
• Demon of Human Origin: Some of them were turned into Parademons in the theatrical version of Justice League.
• Dismantled MacGuffin: They came to be in charge of one of the three Mother Boxes following Steppenwolf (theatrical) / Darkseid's (Zack Snyder's Justice League) first defeat on Earth. They had to bury it, since humans are easily corruptible and easily divided.
• Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: Some of them fight without helmets.
• Humans Are Flawed: Unlike Amazons and Atlanteans, humans tend to be selfish, divided and prone to fight each other. Thus, they buried their Mother Box in a secret location so no tribe would be tempted to use it against the others, while the Amazons and Atlanteans were trustworthy enough to keep their respective Mother Boxes in sealed strongholds.
• Multinational Team: While the group that inherits a Mother Box is clearly European, plenty of other ethnicities can be seen waging war with Darkseid's army including East Asians, Africans and Middle-Easterners in Zack Snyder's Justice League.
• Pelts of the Barbarian: Some of them wore furs.
• Precursor Heroes: They parallel the human members of the Justice League.
  • The Europeans represent Anglo-American Bruce Wayne.
  • The Middle-Easterners represent Jewish Barry Allen.
  • The Africans represent African-American Victor Stone.
  • As the Defiance also includes East Asians, this could be foreshadowing Ryan Choi as a potential member if he was ever to become the Atom.
• The Time of Myths: They don't belong to a specific (and accurate) historical era. They're mostly general composites of the most distinct races.

• Ancient Order of Protectors: Their order is ancient, given that at least one of them helped repel an Apokoliptian invasion on Earth thousands of years ago.
• Chest Insignia: Like their name implies, it's a lantern, albeit a more abstract one.
• The Chosen Many: There are many members of the Green Lantern Corps throughout the universe.
• Color Character: All members who join the Green Lantern Corps become this.
• Emerald Power: They're associated with the color green because their rings give them tremendous powers and are green light-based.
• The Ghosts: For some reason, there is no Lantern to protect the Earth in present day while there was at least one during the first Apokoliptian invasion.
• Hard Light: They can create constructs made of hard green light, thanks to their power rings.
• Heroic Willpower: The very thing that fuels their rings.
• Imagination-Based Superpower: Their powers are only limited by their creativity.
• Light Is Good: A staple for these characters.
• Ring of Power: The Power Rings, of course.
• Space Police: Their job in a nutshell.
• Take Up My Sword: When a Green Lantern dies, his ring sets off to find a new bearer.

Ancient Green Lantern (presumably Yalan Gur)

Species: Unknown alien species

Affiliation(s): Green Lantern Corps, The Defiance

Appearances: Justice League | Zack Snyder's Justice League

An alien Green Lantern who helped to repel the first Apokoliptian invasion of Earth alongside Olympians, Amazons, Atlanteans, and ancient humans, millennia before the gathering of the Justice League.

• Adaptational Heroism: If he is in fact Yalan Gur. In the comics, Yalan Gur went mad with power and died fleeing angry villagers who he'd enslaved. Here, he dies protecting Earth from an Apokoliptian invasion.
• An Arm and a Leg: Darkseid hacks off the hand that wears his ring, leaving him a sitting duck.
• Defiant to the End: Even after getting his ring hand cut off, he still tries to fight against Darkseid.
• Early-Bird Cameo: The presence of the Green Lantern Corps in the DCEU is confirmed thanks to his short appearance in Justice League.
• Flying Firepower: In the Snyder Cut he's only shown using his ring to fire lasers at Parademons. The theatrical cut replaced this with a shot of him creating a giant hammer.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Came from another world to defend the Earth, and heroically died doing so.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: In both versions of Justice League, Steppenwolf/Darkseid kills him by planting the pointy end of their weapons into his chest.
• Mauve Shirt: He is nameless and dies pretty quickly mid-battle, but he's the first Green Lantern to appear onscreen in this Shared Universe so his loss still feels more dramatic than that of a random Red Shirt.
• Mythology Gag:
  • He sports a cape, just like the Alan Scott Lantern whose appearance predates Hal Jordan in the comics.
  • He might well be Yalan Gur, who was the Lantern guarding Space Sector 2814 (to which the Earth belongs) two millennia before present-day. Both wear a cape and boots with lace patterns.
• Nerves of Steel: Even after having his hand hacked off and losing his ring, the Green Lantern still puts up a fight against Darkseid. He was chosen for a reason.
• No Name Given: He is not named onscreen. He might be Yalan Gur, however (see above).
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: In the theatrical cut of Justice League he took on Steppenwolf himself before being killed by him. Only his death is shown in the flashback. His battle against Darkseid is shown in more detail in Zack Snyder's Justice League.
• Precursor Heroes: The alliance of humans, Amazons, Atlanteans, Olympians, and a Green Lantern that defeated the forces of Apokolips in the distant past are described by Diana as heroes from The Time of Myths, they represent the Justice League's predecessors in more than one way.
• Take Up My Sword: Upon his death, his ring detaches from his finger and flies off to find a new bearer.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: He appears for less than ten seconds during the flashback narrated by Diana before Steppenwolf/Darkseid offs him. He lasts slightly longer in the director's cut, but not by much.

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The Multiverse

Alternate dimensions with variants on this universe's superheroes. When Dark Flash abuses his time travelling ability, their worlds begin to collide.

• The Cameo: The multiversal inhabitants have all appeared in previous adaptations of DC properties in some way. The sole exception is Jay Garrick, inserted into a "retro" universe based on the 1950s Superman show where there were no other superheroes.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Each universal sphere has it own major color.
  • The DC Extended Universe is purple.
  • The Superman Film Series universe is blue.
  • The Adventures of Superman universe is colorless.
  • The Batman (1966) universe is yellow.
  • The Superman Lives universe is green.
  • There's also an unseen universe that has a red coloration.
• In Spite of a Nail: Despite the inhabitants all coming from unrelated realities at divergent points in time, they experienced similar events which shaped them into superheroes. Superman and Supergirl found refuge on Earth and became its defenders. Bruce Wayne became Batman after witnessing his parents' murder etc.
• Merged Reality: After the Flash tampered with istory, the DCEU intersected with Earth-89 to create a hybrid version of 2013. Resetting events but with a smaller change causes the Bruce Wayne from Earth-97 to assimilate into Barry's world.
• Point of Divergence: The death of Nora Allen proves to be one for the DCEU, as it leads to several deviations in reality such as Aquaman's complete non-existence, Bruce Wayne being a retired hermit and an inexperienced Supergirl arriving on Earth instead of a disciplined Superman, the latter of which proves especially costly when General Zod invades Earth.
• Retro Universe: The Supermen and Batman from the multiverse wear plain spandex rather than the thicker textiles that their prime counterparts wear. The colors in their worlds also date them as following various trends in filmmaking, such as one universe being completely colorless while another's is awash with heavily saturated colors, while yet another universe has the mixture of darkness and heavy colors associated with the 90s.
• When Dimensions Collide: Repeated changes to timelines cause a multiversal convergence. The Flash caused an intersection with Earth-89 after preventing his mother's murder and being accosted by Dark Flash. When Alternate Flash resets the same point in time over and over, it starts to drag other worlds into their own, with two of them colliding against each other.

Wondrous Serena

Species: Amazonian

Citizenship: Themysciran

Appearances: Serving up Justice

An Amazon from an alternate universe who bears a strong resemblance to tennis player Serena Williams. She appears in the DirectTV comic tie-in Serving up Justice.

• Alliance of Alternates: Wondrous Serena teams up with Wonder Woman, the real Serena Williams and a tennis player named Diana Prince (who looks exactly like Wonder Woman) to take on the Retrobots and their commander Doctor Cyber.
• Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome: She's a complete lookalike for Serena Williams, but rather than being a human with peak athletic ability she's an Amazon.
• Hero of Another Story: Wondrous Serena has been fighting the Retrobots in her own universe, though she apparently hasn't made much headway in defeating them as Serena Williams discovers they've already imprisoned countless innocent people.
• Identical Stranger: Due to being an Amazon, she's not Serena Williams herself, just someone with a similar genetic pattern.
• Primary-Color Champion: As is standard for any version of Wonder Woman, Wondrous Serena wears a suit of red, blue and gold which looks exactly like the suit worn by the Wonder Woman of this universe.
• Superman Stays Out of Gotham: Despite the Retrobots breaching basic human rights, Wondrous Serena is never shown accompanied by any other member of the Justice League. It's possible they aren't an established group in her universe.

Jay Garrick / The Flash

Species: Enhanced Human

Citizenship: American

Portrayed By: Jason Ballantine

Appearances: The Flash

The Flash from the reality of The Adventures of Superman.

• Alternate Self: Averted. Unlike the other superheroes across the multiverse who are alternate versions of characters from the main DCEU reality, Jay is a different person to Barry who just happens to call himself the Flash.
• Deliberately Monochrome: Like the rest of his reality and his Superman.
• Hero of Another Story: A double example. Adventures didn't even hint towards there being other heroes besides Superman, but Jay confirms that other heroes exist in that reality and were having their own adventures. He also appears to be time travelling himself when the multiple worlds start to collide, hinting that he was experiencing a time travel adventure of his own at the same time as Barry.

Kara Zor-El/Linda Lee/Supergirl

Species: Kryptonian

Citizenship: Krypton

Portrayed By: Helen Slater (computer-generated likeness)

Appearances: The Flash

A variant of Supergirl that appears alongside her cousin Superman. Her world is designated Earth-96 in the greater Arrowverse.

• Alternate Self: A version of Supergirl who was active in The '80s.
• Flat Character: Little can be gathered from her appearance in The Flash outside of being united with her cousin Kal.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: She's visibly shorter than her cousin.
• It Began with a Twist of Fate: Her life is radically different from the DCEU version, being much happier where she was raised by parents who loved her in Argo City before travelling to Earth in order to find the Omegahedron which powered the city.
• Lighter and Softer: This Supergirl's cousin was never killed by General Zod, sparing her a lot of grief.
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: The light to her DCEU counterpart's dark.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: She's more conventionally feminine than the DCEU Supergirl, having longer hair and wearing a skirt.

Khaji-Da / "The Scarab"

Species: Unknown alien technology

Affiliation(s): Jaime Reyes

Voiced By: Becky G

Appearances: Blue Beetle

The source of Blue Beetle's powers.

• Actor Allusion: The film borrows a lot from Toku-style serials, so naturally the Scarab is voiced by the Yellow Ranger.
• Adaptational Heroism: Downplayed, but while it's still willing to kill threats to Jaime at first, it doesn't have the same homicidal tendencies as it's canon counterpart. It generally acts more like a pragmatic soldier than a conquerer.
• Aliens Speaking English: The Scarab is an alien that knows English, likely due to its former fusion with Dan Garrett. When it and Jaime fully merge, it learns Spanish as well.
• Blue Is Heroic: The Scarab is a brilliant metallic blue, as is the armor it adorns its heroic host Jaime with.
• Body Horror: When the Scarab first bonds to Jaime, it transforms him in the most horrifying manner, as appendages erupt from his back and a grimy underlayer coats his body before being enveloped in armor.
• Character Development: During the first fight with Carapax, the Scarab is insistent lethal force be utilized. During their rematch, the Scarab urges Jaime not to kill their opponent.
• The Chooser of the One: Being sentient, it picks who it wants to bond with. It bonded with Dan Garrett, passed over Ted Kord, and kicks off the plot by choosing Jaime.
• Clingy Macguffin: It's embedded deep in Jaime's spine, and an X-ray later on reveals that it's further connected up through his nervous system and brain. The only way it can (currently) be removed is by either killing Jaime or when he dies of natural causes.
• Destructive Savior: The Scarab blows several holes in Jaime's house, smashes several cars, and damages streets and buildings just for its initial systems test, and generally does not care about anything it smashes on its way to its goal.
• Face Hugger: The Scarab first attaches to Jaime by latching onto his face before migrating to his spine.
• Gender Flip: On the rare occasions in previous versions that the Scarab had a voice, it was male. Here, the Scarab has a female voice.
• Healing Factor: The Scarab can repair damage to itself using the same mechanism it uses to grow out of its host's body to begin with. As it bonds further with said host, it can also heal their injuries with that same technology. However, massive damage will impair this ability as it prioritizes healing the host over repairing damaged sections of armor. When Jaime is impaled through the gut, Khaji-Da focuses so much of the Scarab's regeneration power to heal him that it can't repair the helmet or facemask as they're smashed away.
• Imagination-Based Superpower: The Scarab allows Jaime to create any tool or weapon needed for the situation at hand.
• Imported Alien Phlebotinum: The Scarab is shown in the opening to have been sent from space, with many other Scarabs, where it traveled across the galaxy to arrive on Earth. Victoria Kord plans to analyze its capabilities to enhance her OMAC devices.
• Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Like most media depicting Jaime Reyes's Blue Beetle, the Scarab is presented as magic-like alien technology, while in the comics the Scarab is alien magic. When Jaime communes with the spirit of his recently deceased father, the Scarab might be magical after all.
• My Sensors Indicate You Want to Tap That: It's fully in tune with Jaime's body, and thus dryly informs him that it can detect a rush of blood to his nether regions just before he kisses Jenny in the end.
• Only the Chosen May Wield: The Scarab chooses who it bonds with, being nothing more than a paperweight to anyone else. When Jaime picks it up, it chooses him.
• Orifice Invasion: Implied; once it activates and moves to bond with Jaime, the Scarab can be seen under his shirt on his back moving downward before emerging from his upper spine. Jaime's uncle Rudy believes it went up his butt, but Jaime twice denies this vehemently.
• Scarab Power: Despite being alien technology well beyond humanity's accomplishments, it looks just like a common beetle.
• Servile Snarker: Its response to Jaime's directives are just dripping with attitude.
• Superpower Lottery: In the first trailer, the Scarab demonstrates flight, instant armor, hard-light shields and weapon creation. It also gives its host enhanced strength and reflexes. In the film, it adds a Healing Factor and Instant Expert martial arts abilities from past hosts.
• Sympathy for the Devil: Early in the film, Jaime has to stop Khaji-Da from killing the villainous Carapax. In the climax it learns of Carapax' tragic past as a child soldier in Guatemala, as well as Victoria's ruthless exploitation of him, and then has to stop Jaime from killing him out of sympathy.
• Talking Weapon: It's some kind of world-destroying weapon, that announces "Host acquired." after bonding to Jaime, and comments "Nice choice." when Jaime chooses to make a BFS.
• Tron Lines: The Scarab and the Blue Beetle armor produce these when primed.

Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle III

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Species: Enhanced human

Citizenship: American

Portrayed By: Xolo Maridueña

Appearances: Blue Beetle

Fate threw Jaime Reyes a curveball when an acquaintance of his entrusted him with extraterrestrial technology. The artifact bonded to Jaime, turning him into the Blue Beetle, a walking arsenal of weapons and powers.

• Affectionate Nickname: Rudy frequently refers to Jaime as 'Cabezón'^note  Spanish for "pigheaded".
• Age Lift: Slightly. Jaime is a high school student in the comics, but here he's a 22-year-old recent college graduate.
• Alliterative Name: Sort of. Both "Jaime" and "Reyes" are pronounced with "R-like" sounds in Latin American Spanish, despite being written with different initials.
• Alternate Company Equivalent: He's easily one for the MCU Spider-Man, being an arthropod-themed superhero from a working-class background who acquires multi-limbed nanotech from a major corporation.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Jaime is good-hearted and refuses to kill, playing the Kid with the Leash for the more violent Scarab. When he thinks Carapax killed Rudy, however, he overwhelms him with raw power and it's the Scarab who has to hold him back from killing Carapax.
• BFS: At one point in the final battle, Jaime is able to summon blades and combine them into a large sword resembling the Buster Sword from Final Fantasy VII.
• Big Brother Instinct: When the Kord Industries mooks have Milagro cornered with guns in the climax, Jaime arrives Just in Time to rescues her and diverts their attention to him by telling them to get away from his sister.
• Body Horror: The Scarab embedded itself into Jaime's spine and the bulk of it manages to break through his skin. It's not as disgusting as you'd expect, but it's still anything but pleasant to look at.
• Broken Faceplate: In the climax, Jaime takes a stab wound, and the Scarab has to divert its attentions to healing it rather than keeping up the armor. Half of Jaime's mask is broken off and stays off for the rest of the scene.
• Butt-Monkey: He gets put through the wringer when the Scarab first integrates with him, from being flown uncontrollably through Palmera City, crashing through his family house twice, having his clothes burnt off, and his favorite shoes being destroyed.
• The Chosen One: Jaime ends up being chosen by Khaji-Da to wield the Scarab's power. However, it takes time for Jaime to be fully comfortable with this new reality, and his earliest reactions are to try to remove the Scarab from his body.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: Jaime can't resist trying to protect Jenny when she seems threatened by Carapax (though his attraction to her certainly helped), which reveals to Victoria that Milagro had been sneaking into the owner's bathroom instead of the employees' and gets them fired.
• Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: Jaime never once goes by Blue Beetle in the entire movie. The name was used by Jenny's father, Ted Kord, before his disappearance. Dan Garrett, Khaji-Da's previous host, also didn't go by the name.
• Critical Hesitation Blunder: In his first confrontation with Carapax, the Blue Beetle costume takes over Jaime's will and immediately Curb Stomps his adversary. The prototype tries to kill Carapax until Jaime orders it to not kill the man because he doesn't want to become a killer. As a result, Carapax gets up and beats Jaime to a bloody pulp while telling him "You should have finished me when you had the chance." Jaime later uses the same statement at Carapax when he rips his helmet off during the climax and before he almost kills him out of rage.
• Curse Cut Short: Once Jaime sees his reflection of himself in the suit after transforming for the first time, he almost drops an f-bomb before the Scarab interrupts him.
• A Degree in Useless: As he was forced to cancel plans to attend grad school after he learns of his family’s financial troubles, leaving him with only a degree in pre-law, which is useless if you don’t have a complete law school degree.
• Die or Fly: Jaime initially has trouble getting the Scarab to act on command. How does he summon the suit? By jumping off a building.
• Ethnic Menial Labor: Playing With. Despite his degree in pre-law, he initially intends to work with his father on their workshop to support his family but, after learning that the workshop has closed, has no choice but to work as a cleaner at Victoria's mansion. Even when applaying for a better job at Kord Industries, a receptionist mistakes him initially for a delivery person.
• Expressive Mask: Thanks to nanotechnology, the face of the Blue Beetle suit reflects all of Jaime's facial expressions, which is in line with his previous incarnations (apart from the lack of a visible mouth) as well as existing heroes like Atom Smasher or Deadpool.
• Heroic Host: He's the chosen host of the alien Scarab, which has attached itself to his spine as a symbiote.
• How Do I Shot Web?: He has no idea how to control the suit, being completely blindsided by the initial "Systems test" and letting Khaji-Da do most of the work. Fully syncing with the Scarab ends the problem.
• Kid with the Leash: He has an incredibly powerful alien weapon fused to his back, and has to remind it to not use lethal force. Inverted at the climax, when Khaji Da reminds him that he doesn't kill when Jaime attempts to deliver the killing blow to Carapax.
• Love at First Sight: Jenny caught his eye as soon as he saw her for the first time. Though he initially denies that he is attracted to her, they grow close and begin a relationship by the end of the movie.
• Naked People Are Funny: Whenever Jaime changes into the suit, his clothes get burned off and he is left naked after de-transforming.
• Near-Death Experience: When the Scarab is being drained and Jaime is on the verge of death, he comes to an Afterlife Antechamber that looks like his home, with his dead father waiting for him in front of a field of candles ala Macario. Alberto tells him It Is Not Your Time, gives him some final comfort and advice, and Jaime and the Scarab fully merge, reviving him.
• Non Sequitur, *Thud*: Jaime says "It's Jamie not Jaime," to his mother before passing out. (A secretary had persistently mispronounced his name as "Jamie" earlier in the film.)
• Not the Fall That Kills You…: The trailer shows Jaime in the Blue Beetle suit as it sends him skyrocketing above the clouds, before dropping him back down again, with the Beetle wings apparently slowing his descent just as he's over water. Ironically, hitting the water at that speed would be less damaging than stopping like that.
• The One Who Made It Out: He is the first of his blue-collar Mexican immigrant family to graduate from college and is implied to have wanted to be a lawyer, but the Reyes family's current financial troubles have temporarily put a stop to those plans. He references this trope when he bittersweetly tells Milagro he had wanted to be "the one who made it out" and get them out of the Edge Keys.
• Pronouncing My Name for You: He has to inform the white receptionist at Kord Industries that his name is pronounced "High-meh", not "Jay-mee". Made even more ridiculous by Jaime having introduced himself verbally. The only logical way to think Jaime is pronounced "Jay-mee" is to read the letters, which she at no point did.
• Rage Breaking Point: When Carapax was about to kill Jaime and seemingly killed Rudy (not knowing his uncle survived the ordeal) during the final battle, Jaime becomes so enraged that he ultimately gains the upper hand against Carapax and ends up almost killing him out of anger, but is stopped thanks to Khaji-Da.
• Raging Stiffie:
  • Implied with Jaime after his Almost Kiss with Jenny in Kord's base. He hastily pulls his jacket down so that it covers his midsection, and is still bending forward a little in the next scene.
  • Right before Jaime finally kisses Jenny at the end of the movie, Khaji comments that there is a rush of blood towards his mid region.
• Razor Wings: Blue Beetle's wings have the ability to shield Jaime and root him in place while also cutting clean through an oncoming bus. Notably, the membranes of his wings are some kind of plasma fields, so it's less like they cut and moreso that they melt through, like a giant lightsaber.
• Shapeshifting Excludes Clothing: Whenever the Scarab pulls out the suit it burns off all of Jaime's clothes and when the suit retracts Jaime is left naked afterward.
• Something Else Also Rises: Jaime's Blue Beetle suit antennae emerge, evoking this after a tender moment with Jenny.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: Once he acquires the Scarab, Jaime is very adamant about not killing anyone, and only using the non-lethal tech on the suit to deal with his adversaries. Once they become fully synchronized, Khaji-Da comes to share Jaime's no-killing policy.
• Trauma Conga Line: When he comes home from college, Jaime learns that his family concealed his father's heart attack, their auto shop going out of business, and their inability to pay rent. Then his body is taken over by an alien artifact in a Body Horror sequence. Then Kord mercenaries break into his house, kidnap him, and cause his father to suffer a fatal heart attack. Then he's held prisoner in a castle and experimented on by Victoria, nearly dying in the process.
• Willfully Weak: It's strongly implied Jaime as the Blue Beetle could've destroyed Carapax much more quickly and efficiently in their first fight but seriously held back Khaji-Da from inflicting more lethal damage because of Jaime's lack of killer instinct and wanting to resolve the situation non-lethally and non-violently. Eventually, this gives Carapax his villainous second wind to overwhelm Jaime.
• Working-Class Hero: Jaime is a Latin-American scraping by on whatever jobs he can find who lives a humble life with his close-knit family.
• The World Is Just Awesome: The Scarab’s first action after powering up Jaime is to launch him into the upper atmosphere, complete with a revolving shot of Jaime taking in his surroundings. In the film proper, Jaime goes from panicking to in awe when he's in space for the first time.

Ted Kord/Blue Beetle II

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Kord Industries

Appearances: Blue Beetle

The founder of Kord Industries and Jenny's father. He secretly worked as the second Blue Beetle until his mysterious disappearance.

• Age Lift: In the comics, Ted Kord was a relatively young man, somewhere in his thirties, when he died, shortly before Jaime gained the Scarab and became Blue Beetle. In the universe of the movie, Ted, if he's still alive, would be considerably older, in his fifties or sixties, going by the age of his sister Victoria and the fact that he has a 22-year old daughter.
• Autobots, Rock Out!: Apparently Ted Kord's Beetle ship has its own music system, with Mötley Crüe in the playlist.
• Badass Normal: He was unable to use the scarab as it didn't choose him, so he ends up creating his own Blue Beetle tech to be a superhero.
• Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: While he's never directly shown, a painting of Ted resembles Jason Sudeikis, who is the director's ideal casting choice for the role.
• Cool Plane: Ted Kord's VTOL craft the Bug
• Crimefighting with Cash: Lacking his own superpowers, he used his fortune and prodigious skill with engineering to work as the costumed superhero Blue Beetle.
• Eccentric Millionaire: When his self-funded crimefighting tech is called out for being goofy, his daughter comments that he had a sense of humor.
• Hero of Another Story: Served a career as a vigilante crime fighter and was well known enough to have newspaper headlines about him.
• Technological Pacifist: He steered Kord Industries away from weapons development when he was in charge, having shut down the original OMAC project before Victoria tried to restart it, along with their other military projects after his disappearance.
• White Sheep: Ted seems to be this considering his father was sexist and his sister ended up being a Corrupt Corporate Executive. It would explain why Milagro thinks the Kords are nothing but a family of horrible people.
• Zeerust: All of Ted Kord's equipment was probably cutting-edge... in the 80s and 90s, which is when he was active as a superhero. His lab is decked out in CRT monitors, and his wrist-based control device utilizes monochrome LCD screens instead of resembling a modern smartwatch.

Dan Garrett/Blue Beetle I

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Appearances: Blue Beetle

The original Blue Beetle.

• Posthumous Character: He's long dead.

Green Arrow

Species: Human

Appearances: Peacemaker^note mentioned only

A bow and arrow wielding superhero.

• The Ghost: He's so far only been mentioned by Peacemaker, leaving his actual identity unknown though it is presumably Oliver Queen.

Red Tornado / Abigail "Ma" Hunkel

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Appearances: Black Adam - The Justice Society Files | Black Adam (mentioned)

Grandmother to Maxine Hunkel/Cyclone.

• The Idealist: She encouraged Maxine's love of superheroes, seeing them as the best of humanity.
• Race Lift: Owing to Maxine Hunkel's own race lift.
• Retired Badass: She's long since settled down, but hasn't lost her interest in superheroics.

Matter-Eating Lad

Species: Unknown

Citizenship: Unknown

Appearances: Peacemaker (mentioned)

A vigilante who once teamed up with Peacemaker.

• Ambiguously Evil: Given how he never appears, it's unclear whether he's a Heroic Comedic Sociopath akin to Peacemaker and Vigilante or not. Peacemaker's recollection of him leans towards the latter.
• Ax-Crazy: Peacemaker claims he was crazier than the already violently insane Vigilante, and mentions he ate an entire Wendy's for being late with his order.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Ate an entire Wendy's for being late with his fries.
• Extreme Omnivore: His power. According to Peacemaker, he ate an entire Wendy's once.
• The Ghost: Only mentioned by Peacemaker.