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!!Golden Guardian[=/=]ComicBook/{{Guardian}} II

The third Guardian was a clone of the first, who was given implanted memories of the original and therefore had a strong relationship with the now adult Newsboy Legion upon his waking but had conflicting feelings about his status as a clone, and eventually requested that he never be cloned again. He serves as one of the chief security officers of Cadmus and the implanted memories given to him were added to enough to make him more subservient and less questioning of the project than original would have ever been even though is personality is otherwise unaltered. However, when he uncovered the then current director's collusion with Sam Lane to murder Superman, he sabotaged the project on his way out the door. Pre-Crisis he went by the name Golden Guardian, but post-Crisis he was still just the Guardian.

--> '''created by:''' Creator/JackKirby · Joe Simon
--> '''first appearance:''' 1971, ''ComicBook/SupermansPalJimmyOlsen'' #135
--> '''species:''' human, modified clone

* SuperReflexes: He has reflexes that are on par with a Kryptonian's.
* SuperSoldier: While the original was a BadassNormal the clone possesses enhanced strength and reflexes, and an accelerated healing factor. He has demonstrated the ability to hurt Superboy (who he trained in hand-to-hand combat) and Kryptonians from Kandor.

!!! Paul Westfield

--> '''created by:''' Dan Jurgens · Brett Breeding · Glenn Whitmore
--> '''first appearance:''' 1991, ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' Vol 2 #58
--> '''species:''' human

* EmperorScientist: The version from the same earth as Black Zero giddily took over the earth with his and Donovan's cloned army. Since Black Zero is what Kon-El would have been had Westfield had his way it's really quite lucky the newsboys freed him before he was completed to Westfield's specifications.
* MadScientist: He may seem more mellow than Donovan but he was still trying to clone Superman in secret, and while the main version got killed off early on the obviously mad versions trying to help take over multiple realities are not discernibly different from him.

!!!Mickey "Mic" Cannon

The new director brought in for Cadmus by the government just after Superboy (Kon-El) was convinced to move back into the project's hidden facilities. They have a low level of animosity that never gets fully put behind them due to Kon's belief that clones deserve human rights and the fact that the government basically tricked Kon into returning to a Cadmus they intended to completely alter as soon as he no longer had a place to go back to.

--> '''created by:''' Karl Kesel · Tom Grummett
--> '''first appearance:''' 1998, ''Adventures of Superman'' Vol 1 #562
--> '''species:''' human

!!!Dabney Donovan, [=PhD=]
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-> ''"Hello Guardian--long time no see! Sorry to pull you out of dreamland--but you'll rest in peace soon enough! I'm just so excited about tonight's procedure--I couldn't wait! And since you're interested in genetic research yourself I though you might enjoy observing! Don't mind the sight of blood do you? Your own I mean?"''

An amoral Cadmus scientist who co-founded the project with Westfield and later killed his partner. He created the D.N.Aliens and the "Harries". Donovan eventually allied himself with Agenda instead, and Agenda in turn started to secretly work its way to controlling Cadmus.

--> '''created by:''' Karl Kesel · Ty Templeton
--> '''first appearance:''' 1990, ''Secret Origins'' Vol 2 #49
--> '''species:''' human

!!Dr. Tony Rodriguez
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!!!"Big Words" Anthony Rodriguez, [=PhD=]

A verbose Cadmus scientist who was part of the original Newsboy Legion--a group of trouble making Metropolis kids who were adopted by Officer James Harper who was secretly the Guardian--in his youth.

--> '''species:''' human
--> '''created by:''' Jack Kirby · Joe Simon
--> '''first appearance:''' 1942, ''Star-Spangled Comics'' Vol 1 #7

* BakerStreetRegular: The original Newsboy Legion were as much for the original Guardian when they were kids.

* GeekPhysiques: Big Words was tall and gangly as a kid, towering over the rest of the Newsboys.
* InSeriesNickname: Anthony went almost exclusively by "Big Words" as kid, and uses Tony as an adult.
* LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine: As an adult Tony is rarely seen without his Cadmus labcoat.

* LovableNerd: Tony, Tommy and Walter are far more endearing than the other Cadmus scientists, by far the most morally upright of its directors and the ''only'' Cadmus scientists who are not outright lying and hiding things from Superboy and Superman and want to help Kon out as they can. They're just severely limited by Dr. Packard's lies and efforts to hide Superboy's true nature from them.

* ShooOutTheClowns: The Newsboy Legion and Dr. Johnson were among the personnel cleared out at Cadmus when the government decided to restructure the project and were among the only adults at Cadmus S.B. sort of liked. The only personnel kept on were clones like Superboy the government considered property or dangerous criminals like Donovan who was kept imprisoned as an advisor to new scientists.
* TheSmartGuy: "Big Words" is such for the original Newsboy Legion, which is a feat since none of them are slouches in the brains department.

!!Director Thomas Thompkins
!!!Thomas "Tommy" Thompkins, [=PhD=]
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A Cadmus scientist who was the leader of the original Newsboy Legion--a group of trouble making Metropolis kids who were adopted by Officer James Harper who was secretly the Guardian--in his youth.

* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Pre-Crisis Tommy Jr. was his son, while Jr. was replaced with the clone Tommy II Post-Crisis.

* InSeriesNickname: Tommy, which he switched out for Tom as an adult.
* LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine: As an adult Tommy is often seen in his Cadmus labcoat.
* TheLeader: Tommy was the leader of the Newsboy Legion when they were kids and retains a leadership postition among them as an adult, eventually becoming part of the board of directors at Cadmus.

!!Dr. Johnson
!!!Walter Johnson, [=PhD=]
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A Cadmus scientist who took part in the project to clone duplicates with "genetic memories" alongside the original Newsboy Legion. He also aided them in cloning their deceased legal guardian James Harper with a genetic memory of the original's entire life. He was on the board of Directors when the federal government decided more oversight was needed at the project and cleared out the staff.

--> '''created by:''' Jack Kirby
--> '''first appearance:''' 1971, ''Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen'' Vol 1 #135

* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Pre-Crisis "Flip" was his biological son, not his biological ''clone''.
* LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine: Inside Cadmus he usually wears the distinctive Cadmus labcoat with the project's simplified insignia across the back.
* MadScientist: While he took part in a project to clone himself a "son" alongside the original Newsboy Legion while under mind control he's the only one who seems to have altered his genetic clone as "Flip" does not resemble Johnson in temperament or interests.
* SixthRanger: To the Newsboy Legion (I). He only met them after they were all adults and is at least ten years younger than the others but he basically becomes a late addition to their inseparable group of friends after they start working together.
* TokenMinority: Dr. Johnson spent a lot of time as the only named minority at the Project and is the only African American to have severed on the board of directors.

!!Jonathan Gabrielli
!!!"Gabby" Jonathan Gabrielli, Esq.
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A talkative Cadmus employee who was the part of the original Newsboy Legion in his youth. Pre-Crisis Gabby was a Cadmus scientist as an adult, Post-Crisis he's the project's lawyer and was instrumental in ensuring that clones had rights as citizens in the United States.

--> '''species:''' human
--> '''created by:''' Jack Kirby · Joe Simon
--> '''first appearance:''' 1942, ''Star-Spangled Comics'' Vol 1 #7
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* AmbiguouslyChristian: It's fairly unclear what religious leanings most of them have but Gabby and Scrapper are unquestionably some kind of Christian. Just ''what'' kind is left up in the air.
* BakerStreetRegular: The original four were as much for the original Guardian when they were kids.

* GenderBlenderName: Jonathan's nickname "Gabby", a diminutive of his last name Gabrielli.
* TheHeart: Gabby is the moral core of the original Newsboy Legion.
* InSeriesNickname: Gabby, which he switched out for John as an adult.
* MadScientist: Pre-Crisis. When you clone your deceased adoptive father through a technique you yourself invented in order to give the new version superpowers you definitely fall into this category. He still manages to have hints of this Post-Crisis, probably because he spends all his time in a secret government project to clone superhumans and most of his friends are definite Mad Scientists.
* MotorMouth: He's better about it as an adult and has become a great orator but as a kid his near inability to shut up is a large part of why his friends all called him Gabby.

!! Dr. Packard
!!!Carl Packard, [=PhD=]
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A Cadmus scientist who secretly colluded with [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]] and was also the scientist who did the lions share of the work on Westfield's secret Franchise/{{Superman}} cloning project. Luthor killed Packard when the scientist displeased him and it was later retconned that Packard had secretly substituted Luthor's DNA for Westfield's when creating S-13, Superboy, final result of the secret Project-S.

--> '''created by:''' Roger Stern · Jackson Guice
--> '''first appearance:''' 1993, ''Action Comics'' Vol 1 #686

* {{Greed}}: Packard wasn't working with Luthor for his sunny personality, he was doing so for his money.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Luthor kills him off ensuring he gets relatively little panel time, however his work on Project S makes him incredibly important long after his death.

!! Dr. Patrick [=MacGuire=]
!!!"Scrapper" Patrick [=MacGuire=]
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A hot tempered Cadmus employee who was the part of the original Newsboy Legion in his youth. Pre-Crisis Patrick was a Cadmus scientist as an adult, Post-Crisis his position at the project is more unclear, though he still seems to be a doctor he's not very involved with the research and spends more time on administrative tasks when not helping patch up injured clones and employees.

--> '''species:''' human
--> '''created by:''' Jack Kirby · Joe Simon
--> '''first appearance:''' 1942, ''Star-Spangled Comics'' Vol 1 #7
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* TheBigGuy: Scrapper, who is the quickest to fight of the Newsboy Legion and the best at it, and also amusingly the smallest of the five.

* FieryRedhead: The redheaded Scrapper has a tendency to get into and pick fights.
* IconicItem: Scrapper's green hat. He no longer wears it as an adult.
* InSeriesNickname: They don't go by their nicknames as much as adults but went almost exclusively by them as kids. Anthony sometimes uses Tony as an adult, Jonathan answers to Jon, and Thomas to Tom.
* LovableNerd: They're far more endearing than the other Cadmus scientists, by far the most morally upright of its directors and the ''only'' Cadmus scientists who are not outright lying and hiding things from Superboy and Superman and want to help Kon out as they can. They're just severely limited by Dr. Packard's lies and efforts to hide Superboy's true nature from them.
* MadScientist: When you clone your deceased adoptive father through a technique you yourself invented in order to give the new version superpowers you definitely fall into this category.

* ShooOutTheClowns: They were among the personnel cleared out at Cadmus when the government decided to restructure the project and were among the only adults at Cadmus S.B. sort of liked. The only personnel kept on were clones like Superboy the government considered property or dangerous criminals like Donovan who was kept imprisoned as an advisor to new scientists.

!!Dr. Shino Kurosawa
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!!!Shino Kurosawa, [=PhD=]
->''My! Watching Superman experience pain is '''facinating!''' Wouldn't it be unfortunate if he never regained his powers?''

A Cadmus geneticist whose studies focus on superpowers and how they interact with the bodies of those who posses them. She's honestly a very nice person, but she has a tendency to say things which sound calous or cruel when she's involved with experiments such as those intended to help a depowered Superman regain his powers.

--> '''created by:''' Karl Kesel
--> '''first appearance:''' 1991, ''Superman'' Vol 2 #54

* NeverBareheaded: Dr. Kurosawa pretty much always has two clips in her hair to keep it out of her face, and has the same set of clips in white and yellow.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: A genuis level geneticist who wears glasses.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Kurosawa and fellow Cadmus scientist Dr. Rodriguez have a very slow building romance that looks like it may go nowhere due to both of their rather odd approaches to social interaction, however they do go on at least a few dates which seem to go fairly well. The state of their relationship at the time of his murder is unknown.

!!Dr. Roquette/Retro Rocket
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!!!Serling Roquette
->''''

A young Cadmus geneticist brought in by the government when they cleared house at the project.

--> '''species:''' human
--> '''created by:''' Karl Kesel
--> '''first appearance:''' 1998, ''Superboy'' Vol 4 #56

* DitzyGenius: She's incredibly smart but she sometimes has trouble sorting out social clues and can make others feel uncomfortable with some of her lines of questioning and bubbly loud personality.
* FanOfThePast: Hence her punny nickname.
* HornyScientist: She's got a crush on Guardian and Superboy, neither of whom return the sentiment.
* IconicItem: Her pink-rimmed cats eye glasses and smiley face earrings.
* IconicOutfit: Black leggings with oversized striped socks, tennis shoes, an oversized offwhite shirt, a long open leopard print vest, her signature glasses, the smiley face earrings, and a black hairband.
* LovableNerd: She's a sweetheart who treats Superboy like his own person and respects his wishes and the concept of consent unlike the previous Cadmus scientists. Though the retcon to his origin means that she was lying and hiding things from both him and Superman this angle and her intentions and reasoning is never addressed save for the fact that her lying to him about the results of testing on him is made quite clear in Convergence.
* MadScientist: Though it's only evident after she's part of Superboy's past and it becomes clear that she was lying to him while experimenting on him instead of being more open and truthful than previous scientists like he had thought.
* TeenGenius: One of the world's leading experts on genetics before she's even in her twenties.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: With Kon-El. [[spoiler:They won't, while he thinks she's cute he's still recovering from Tana's tragic death when he realizes she has a crush on him and never develops romantic feelings for her.]]

!!Colonel Winterbourne
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!!!Adam Winterbourne
->''''

An army colonel who was drugged and enslaved in Roam by the Project Moreau creation Sacker. After being freed alongside the rest of the slaves in Roam he volunteered to help the government clean up Cadmus.

--> '''created by:''' Karl Kesel · Tom Grummett
--> '''first appearance:''' 1998, ''Superboy'' Vol 4 #52

* ColonelBadass: He fights ''King Shark'' and lives to tell the tale.
* SergeantRock: Winterbourne is a gruff individual who eventually ends up in charge of the new army contingent at Cadmus.
* SlaveLiberation: He was one of the first to have a chance to fight off the effects of Sacker's drugs and helped convince the Roam royalty of human intelligence and just how wrong it is to enslave them.

!!Dubbilex
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!!!XX
Dubbilex is psychic a D.N.Alien who was sent by the project to keep an eye on Superboy when Superman made it clear he wouldn't allow the project to kidnap the Kid off the streets and keep him confined in Cadmus against his will.

--> '''created by:''' Creator/JackKirby
--> '''first appearance:''' 1971, ''ComicBook/SupermansPalJimmyOlsen'' #136
--> '''species:''' D.N.Alien

* ClonesArePeopleToo: He is a Cadmus clone with a lot of subtle personality, lending credence to Superboy's insistence that clones are people too in the face of those who consider them disposable.
* DependingOnTheArtist: Are XX's horns polished and pointy or stubby craggy stumps.
* HeroesLoveDogs: Dub gets along really well with Krypto.
* HideYourOtherness: When he goes places with Roxy she almost always insists that he make himself look human so they don't attract attention.
* HornedHumanoid: Relativly humanoid with a pair of asperous horns.
* InterspeciesRomance: Starts dating a human woman while living in Hawaii, their romance was unfortunately cut short as he was planning out how to tell her he wasn't human when the US Army showed up on his doorstep to force him back to Cadmus.
* LegoGenetics: D.N.Aliens are "clones" cobbled together from various sources.
* MasterOfIllusion: He can and does use his Telepathy to appear to be a normal human.
* MindOverMatter: He can telekinetically move lightweight objects.
* MundaneFantastic: While he occasionally attracts attention when he goes out without a disguise he usually doesn't despite his grey skin, slightly odd build, creepy white eyes and horns since this is the DCU where people are well aware there are oddities living among them and for the most part are welcoming or ambivalent to them.
* PrivateTutor: He is Superboy's.
* PstandardPsychicPstance: When trying to mentally reach someone far away or otherwise exerting his psychic abilities he sometimes puts two fingers to each temple.
* PsychicBlockDefense: He helps train Superboy and the new Hawaiian Special Crimes Unit to defend against low level mental attacks as well as they can without any psychic powers.
* PsychicLink: Gene-Gnome creates a mental link between them to slowly turn Ex into his puppet.
* PsychicRadar: He notices invisible or otherwise hidden individuals due to their brain activity on several occasions.
* TalkingInYourDreams: If he mentally contacts someone in their sleep he usually appears as himself talking to them in their dream.
* {{Telepathy}}: He's a telepath.
* UniversalTranslator: If everyone involved agrees to allow him to join them in a mild mental link he can translate languages and meanings for those trying to talk even if he's never heard the languages involved before.
* YouAreNumberSix: His Cadmus designation is XX.

!!Lodge
!!!Mr. Lodge

A Cadmus security officer. Lodge has a fondness for leather jackets, but unfortunately for him so do both results of Project-S that end up trying to escape from the facility and he's gotten back to his locker to find it looted on multiple occasions.

--> '''species:''' human
--> '''created by:''' Karl Kesel · Barbara Kesel · David Brewer
-->'''first (full) appearance:''' 1995, ''Superboy Annual'' Vol 4 #2

* HeroStoleMyBike: Well, hero stole my jacket. The first time his jacket was stolen by the young Newsboy Legion who gave it to [[ComicBook/Superboy1994 S-13]] when they helped him escape from the facility. The second time it was stolen by the significantly less heroic S-01 who took it to mimic Superboy's look.
* UnluckyExtra: He exists as a character solely to be stolen from.

!D.N.Aliens [--(that are not considered employees)--] & Other Captives

!!"Bizarre-O"
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[[caption-width-right:270:Me must show am ''worthy'' of name Superboy!]]
!!!S-01
->''"At first... but... no more. Me glad... me... more like... Superboy... now..."''
Cadmus's first attempt to clone Superman. While S-01 had all of Superman's powers his mental state was not up to his body's artificial age, and he was unfortunately created using a version of Lex-corp's failed cloning process that leads to molecular degeneration. Dr. Packard had to put him in a stasis rather than awaken him in hopes of discovering a way to offset his molecular instability.

--> '''species:''' bizarro
--> '''created by:''' Karl Kesel · Barbara Kesel · David Brewer
--> '''first appearance:''' 1995, ''Superboy Annual'' Vol 4 #2

* AlasPoorVillain: He's not really even a villain even though he serves as the closest thing to one in his debut, and his condition means he died in the same issue he's introduced in despite Superboy's attempt to save him. (Though it's possible he survived as he was last seen surrounded by Mad Scientists who had been trying to save him and some of "Match's" later appearances don't resemble Match at all and instead seem to be a Bizarro style Superboy clone like S-01).
* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: He's got an S-Shield on his outfit's chest, and he burns a reversed S on the back of the leather jacket he steals.
* ChestInsignia: He was stored wearing an earlier model of the same suit Superboy wears with an S-shield on the chest.
* CloneDegeneration: When the Newsboys Legion accidentally frees him from his stasis pod his physical condition starts to deteriorate rapidly. Since "the process [he was created with] only imitates DNA! That makes it inherently incompatible with ''any'' living tissue! He started dying the moment you created him!"
* CloneAgnst: He can't survive long outside a stasis chamber and his mind was implanted with a bunch of useless knowledge and command triggers in order to make him easy to control rather than practical things useful for him to interact with others without endangering them.
* DumbMuscle: He's not terribly bright but he's got all of Superman's powers, even if they start to fade out as he starts to die in earnest within an hour or two of being awakened from his stasis.
* FlawedPrototype: For S-13 Superboy because of his instability and the fact that he starts to deteriorate outside of stasis. It seems Wesfield had a very different focus for the implanted knowledge for S-01 as he doesn't understand incredibly basic things like what might hurt people, has trouble putting together coherent sentences and thinks Westfield was a "great man".
* FriendlyEnemy: He doesn't want to be Superboy's enemy (though he does want to be Superboy) and wants to be a hero but his difficulty understanding the situation around him and the dangers of using his powers recklessly makes Kon have to fight him.
* HulkSpeak: S-01 uses a mild version of "Bizarro speak".
* NeuralImplanting: Director Westfield personally oversaw the implanting process for the S-Clone project, and poor S-01 got the short end of the stick and very little useful knowledge out of the deal.
* PeopleJars: His stasis pod is essentially a giant glass jar with a control panel.
* PsychoPrototype: He's not evil and he really wants to be a good guy but he attacks first asks questions maybe, and has near Superman level powers without a real understanding of right and wrong and without the mental capacity to understand how easily humans and others can be hurt.
* SuperpowerLottery: He seems to have Superman's whole set, even if it the powers start fading as he dies.
** FlyingBrick: Flyer with invulnerability and other powers.
** NighInvulnerability: He's initially tougher than Kon, even able to brush off strong electric shocks that would destabilize or kill Superboy at the time of their meeting but his invulnerability was the first thing (besides his quickly bleached skin) to start going as his degeneration reached dangerous levels.
** SuperSenses: He has Superman's "X-Ray vision" and can see through solid rock, though this isn't always helpful as he still may not realize people are in peril even if they specifically told him they are and he can see them dangling from their fingertips from an unstable ledge, he just doesn't have the background to understand they're in danger.
** SuperSpeed: He's faster than Superboy.
** SuperStrength: Capable of bending iron beams or lifting several people and the chunk of floor their clinging to.

!!failed Superman clones
!!!S-02, S-03, S-04, S-05, S-06, S-07, S-08, S-09, S-10, S-11, S-12

Westfield and Packard's other failed attempts to clone Superman who came after S-01 and before S-13, Kon-El.

--> '''species:''' mixed modified human, kryptonian and bizarro clones (D.N.Aliens)
--> '''created by:''' Karl Kesel · Barbara Kesel · David Brewer
--> '''first appearance:''' 1995, ''Superboy Annual'' Vol 4 #2

* ArtificialHuman: All of them are clones created to replace Superman in the event of his death, though none were considered successful.
* BodyHorror: For several of them it's rather obvious that the reason they "failed" was that their bodies would not have survived, like the shriveled S-03 or the one with patches of hair and skin missing.
* FlawedPrototype: They're all "failed" Superman clones that came before Kon-El. Considering how Westfield reacted to Kon and considered him a mistake that needed to be [[DeadlyEuphemism erased]] or at least locked up somewhere in Cadmus it is unknown just how they each "failed", it could be as simple not wanting to follow the immoral Westfield without question.
* HeroicBuild: The one closest to completion, either S-11 or S-07, has a well muscled bodybuilder's build.
* MyBrainIsBig: S-02's cranium is bulbous and tall, the skin on his head also looks like it was starting to bubble when he was placed in stasis.
* NeuralImplanting: Westfield had designed the neural implanting through which Kon learned everything he knew upon escaping his UterineReplicator in time for use on S-01 so the rest of them presumably also had knowledge implanted.
* PeopleJars: They're all in glass stasis tubes, though at least one of them who seems to be iether the S-07 or S-12 is missing and another (S-11 or S-07) was killed when his pod/tube was impaled by debris in the assault on Cadmus by the underworlders who thought Cadmus had intentionally released the clone plague on them.
* PosthumousCharacter: While most of them are being held in stasis S-07's pod was crushed and he himself impaled during the Underworlder's attacks on Cadmus during the Clone Plague. By the time anyone other than Westfield and Packard learns of the twelve even existing he's already died, though it looks like he did make a failed attempt to escape his pod before expiring.
* TokenMinority: One of them, either S-10 or S-08, is black. He's also the one grown closest to completion out of those fully shown, looking like an young adult rather than a teen around 14-16.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: They never appear again after their introduction despite Kon-El's interest in them and their right to live and the fact that he eventually moves back to Cadmus where they're all presumably stored in stasis pods.

!!Newsboy Legion (II)
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!!!"Big Words" Anthony Rodriguez, "Gabby" Jonathan Gabrielli II, Walter "Flip" Johnson Jr, "Scrapper" Patrick [=MacGuire=] II, Tommy Thompkins Jr., Roberta "Famous Bobby" Harper
->''You boys snuck out of the project, past a platoon of the country's best trained soldiers, eluding the most advanced security systems in the world, with the [[FlyingCar whiz wagon]] and the [[StockNessMonster Loch Trevor Monster]]... '''again!'''''
-->--ComicBook/{{Guardian}} II

The second iteration of the Newsboy Legion these cloned kids freed Superboy from the laboratory and helped him secretly escape Cadmus. They're also the ones who gave him his original leather jacket.

--> '''species:''' D.N.Alien type human clones/human
--> '''created by:''' Jack Kirby · Al Plastino · Karl Kesel · Kieron Dwyer
--> '''first appearance:''' 1988, ''Adventures of Superman'' Vol 1 #449

* ArtifactTitle: Unlike their predecessors the members of this group didn't (initially) actually work as newsboys, instead they spent most of their childhoods locked up at Cadmus. After Jon was able to get them citizenship and set things up for them to live slightly more normal lives based out of a brownstone in Metropolis instead of hidden in Cadmus a nice journalist named Clark Kent stopped by and told them about some paper routes nearby that needed covering.
* BrattyHalfPint: Their antics can even wear out Superman, which is what happens when you've got a group of kids capable of escaping from one of the most secure facilities in the world while stealing classified experimental aircraft and bringing along giant monsters at least twice a day. They've also picked fights with Apokolips agents all on their own before their minders had a chance to realize they'd escaped again.
* ChildProdigy: Big Words ''and'' Tommy. Helped along by being raised in Cadmus where they're surrounded by new cutting edge science, and that their gifted scientist predecessors are helping to raise them.
* ClonesArePeopleToo: All of them but Bobby are clones and they're all mischievous kids who, while similar to their genetic progenitors, have their own personalities, dreams and desires. Notably, while their predecessors fit almost perfectly into the mold of a FiveManBand (they are all male and therefore do not have anybody qualifying as {{The Smurfette|Principle}}), the cloned version of gen II does not, despite having a girl on the team. They are also given the rights of US citizens due to John's work, being among the first clones to be acknowledged as such. This comes in handy later when it means the new director of Cadmus can't treat the boys as government property.
* ColorCodedCharacters: Scrapper is mustard yellow & green, Flip is purple, Big Words is grey, Tommy is red, Gabby is blue, and Bobby is indigo. Indicated by them all having their shirts usually these colors, and their jackets ''always'' these colors, except for Big Words who always wears a white shirt with a grey suit or a blue suit with a grey tie.
* FishOutOfWater: The boys have memories of growing up during WWII, except Flip who has memories of growing up in the late '50s. They are not actually from this time and this gives them a huge disconnect from other kids their apparent ages.
* GenerationXerox: Well the boys are all clones of their "fathers", who were given genetic approximations of their predecessor's memories up to their artificial age of "birth" and they also formed an adventure group that is looked after by the current Guardian like their genetic donors. They do start showing differences from their predecessors rather quickly as noted above.
* IconicOutfit: Scrapper's oversized turtleneck sweater paired with a green newsboy hat, Tommy's red breasted letterman's jacket with jeans, and Big Word's suit and tie with large round glasses.
* InSeriesNickname: All of them go by nicknames, and the boys are all using the same nicknames that the men they were cloned from used as kids.
* LegacyCharacter: They're the second iteration of the Newsboy Legion and most of them were cloned from members of the first.
* NeuralImplanting: While being artificially aged past infancy the boys were given implanted memories from their genetic donors that approximated the memories they'd have had at the age the boys were "born" at. This resulted in them having similar vocabularies and interests to those the men they were cloned from had in childhood and means they tend to use outdated lingo.
* RaisedInALab: Grown in Cadmus to a point past toddlerhood and then raised by the men they were cloned from in Cadmus.
* SecretProjectRefugeeFamily: The boys were all secretly cloned by Cadmus and see each other as family.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Sadly addressed in universe when Jimmy Olsen tracks down Guardian after the fall of Cadmus and the murders of the original Newsboy Legion. When Jimmy asks where the kids are Guardian, whose even spent time trying to unravel everyting he could about the secrets at Cadmus can only say, ''"They could be alive and well and somewhere not here. They could be pieces in test tubes the military study every Christmas. I '''don't''' know."'' Given that James is lying about other clones and Cadmus projects in the same speech to protect them and he was the missing Bobby's legal guardian it's possible he's lying about the newsboys too, but this plot thread was left hanging.

!!!"Big Words" Anthony Rodriguez II
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->''"[[LawOfInverseRecoil That]] certainly was a pyrotechnical paradigm of Newton's axiom Scrapper."''

The clone of Cadmus scientist and former Newsboy Legion member Dr. Anthony Rodriguez.

--> '''species:''' D.N.Alien type human clone
--> '''created by:''' Jack Kirby · Al Plastino · Karl Kesel · Kieron Dwyer
--> '''first appearance:''' 1988, ''Adventures of Superman'' Vol 1 #449

* LittleProfessorDialog: "Big Words"' nickname comes from him constantly using large and obscure words in conversation.
* MadScientist: He's showing definite early signs, such as his utter glee at getting to steal and modify some guns from Apokolips.
* NumberTwo: When someone needs to step up in place of Tommy it's Big Words, and he and Tommy usually come up with the group's plans together while the others give their input.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: He's the only one of the Newsboys to wear glasses and is the most book smart of the Newsboys, and usually one of the more practical of their number as well.

!!!"Flip" Walter Johnson Jr.
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->''"He's not bad, as sea monsters go. I even taught him to sit up..."''

The clone of Cadmus scientist Dr. Walter Johnson. Out of the D.N.Alien "children" created by the scientists while they were under mind control Flip shows the biggest signs of being altered as he has little outside gender, hair color and skin tone in common with Dr. Johnson.

--> '''species:''' D.N.Alien type human clone
--> '''created by:''' Jack Kirby · Al Plastino · Karl Kesel · Kieron Dwyer
--> '''first appearance:''' 1988, ''Adventures of Superman'' Vol 1 #449

* AmbiguouslyHuman: Depsite being a "clone" of Dr. Johnson he seems very different from his "father", in ways the other clones created by the same project are not different from their genetic donors. He's capable of swiming in incredible depths without any side effects from the pressure and seems to be able to communicate to some degree with the sea monster Trevor, which he has managed to tame. Both of these qualities imply Atlantean DNA was thrown into the mix when creating him but he is never claimed to be anything other than a quickly aged clone like the rest of his group.
* DressedInLayers: He's usually got on a wetsuit under his clothes.
* FluffyTamer: Flip has tamed and trained the giant sea monster Trevor.
* TheLancer: Especially before they were retconned into clones the excitable Flip was lancer to the more mellow Tommy, and often in situations where Tommy's judgment is compromised Flip tones it down just enough to be of help in situations where he normally wouldn't bother. He's also the one to work the most on his own while Tommy pretty much does nothing without the group backing him up.
* RummageSaleReject: Flip is almost always wearing full scuba gear along with his normal clothes. No one really comments on it as those who know him know it's a big part of how the Newsboys keep escaping Cadmus.
* SuperSwimmingSkills: Flip can keep up with sea monsters and is an unnaturally good swimmer. It's never outright stated but he's implied to be fully human and not posses any Atlantean DNA to explain his abilities.
* TokenMinority: Flip is the only black kid in the group.

!!!"Gabby" Jonathan Gabrielli II
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->''"We'd be helpin' the Guardian--How could our number ones get mad at us?"''

The clone of Cadmus lawyer and former Newsboy Legion member Jonathan Gabrielli.

--> '''species:''' D.N.Alien type human clone
--> '''created by:''' Jack Kirby · Al Plastino · Karl Kesel · Kieron Dwyer
--> '''first appearance:''' 1988, ''Adventures of Superman'' Vol 1 #449

* AmbiguouslyChristian: Inherited the trait from his Christian original. What denomination or even if they're Protestant or Catholic or Orthodox is left ambiguous.
* TheHeart: His motivation leans more toward helping people than adventure like most of the others. Tommy, usually, has similar motivation but is too grounded and logical when he's not riled up to fit. Tommy is also a bit of an adrenaline junkie like the others, even if he hides it better.
* MotorMouth: Gabby got that name for reasons beyond it being a diminutive of his last name. He easily drives villains and heroes nuts with his yammering and is the group's main source of gossip since he's actually quite capable of being quiet if he wants to overhear something.
* NotSoImaginaryFriend: Gabby was friends with a huge furniture-eating pink monster named Angry Charlie, but the other kids didn't believe Charlie (who helped Guardian and the boys, but always out of sight) was real. Charlie revealed himself when he had to help against Boss Moxie and the forces of [[ComicBook/NewGods Apokolips]].

!!!"Scrapper" Patrick [=MacGuire=] II
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->''" "''

The clone of Cadmus teacher and former Newsboy Legion member Patrick [=MacGuire=].

--> '''species:''' D.N.Alien type human clone
--> '''created by:''' Jack Kirby · Al Plastino · Karl Kesel · Kieron Dwyer
--> '''first appearance:''' 1988, ''Adventures of Superman'' Vol 1 #449

* TheBigGuy: Despite being on the small side he's definitely this. He splits the role with Bobby after she joins.
* FightingIrish: It's unclear if Scrapper Sr. was born to [[{{Scotireland}} Irish immigrants or Scottish ones]], and it's entirely possible he didn't even learn as much before they died, but he fits the stereotype perfectly.
* FieryRedhead: Redhead with a quick temper, and a loud opinionated personality.
* HairTriggerTemper: It ''really'' doesn't take much to set him off.
* {{Lilliputians}}: Not Scrapper himself but the project made an entire army of mouse sized Patrick [=MacGuire=] clones with far more disciplined behavior and one of them takes it upon himself to keep an eye on the kid, sticking with him through many adventures.

!!!"Tommy" Thomas Thompkins Jr.
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->''"Then what are we waiting for Newsboy Legion? Let's go!"''

The clone of Cadmus scientist and former Newsboy Legion member Dr. Thomas Thompkins. He shows distinct differences in personality to his "father" at the same age, possibly because despite their shared memories to a certain point Tommy II has far less responsibility and has had access to better teaching at a younger age. He's much more likely to get distracted by something "cool" or an interesting scientific quandary than the original Tommy has ever been.

--> '''species:''' D.N.Alien type human clone
--> '''created by:''' Jack Kirby · Al Plastino · Karl Kesel · Kieron Dwyer
--> '''first appearance:''' 1988, ''Adventures of Superman'' Vol 1 #449

* TheLeader: Inasmuch as the group has a leader Tommy is it. Mostly because he's ''usually'' better than the group as a whole at seeing when they're going too far and need to rein it in.
* MoralityPet: Tommy becomes such for the [[ComicBook/NewGods Fury Gilotina]] just by talking to her about simple things like food and games, despite her idea of games always including a lot more death than he's comfortable with. When he gets badly injured by the other Furies and she realizes she doesn't want him to die despite his being a "lowlie" she switches sides to protect him and declares all the kids under her protection. She's still incredibly dangerous though, with a poor understanding of right and wrong.

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!!!"Famous Bobby" Roberta Harper
->''"So what happens now? We free to go? Am I, like, under arrest or what?"''

The orphaned granddaughter of Jim's sister Mary. When Mary fell ill the state took Bobby to an orphanage, that was secretly being run by Granny Goodness to funnel children to the killing fields of Apocolipse. Despite the death of the original Jim being public knowledge Jonathan Sr. is able to get Jim II legal recognition as Bobby's family so that he can become her legal guardian.

--> '''species:''' human
--> '''created by:''' Karl Kesel · Kieron Dwyer
--> '''first appearance:''' 1994, ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfMetropolis'' #1

* ActionGirl: Prior to meeting the rest of the group she made multiple attempts to escape the OrphanageOfFear she'd been stuck at and caught the attention of Granny Goodness who thought she might make a decent future Fury after she'd been broken. Later she and Scrapper fight for the title of which member of the group is the best fighter. As in a literal physical fight. They get interrupted by the science police.
* BoisterousBruiser: Bobby's fairly chipper in spite of her skeptical nature and she's always up for a fight.
* GenderBlenderName: When overhearing about her being at the B.O. Goodley Orphanage and decided the Newsboys needed to save her and bring her to meet her uncle Scrapper thought she was Jim's ''nephew'' instead of his ''niece'' and was severely disappointed when they met in the cages beneath the orphanage. He got over it.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: She wants to be famous in order to get out of Suicide Slum, it's why Scrapper dubbed her "Famous" Bobby.
-->'''Jim:''' You want to be a comedian when you grow up?\\
'''Bobby:''' Or a rock star. Or an actress. Or a lawyer. Anything famous, anything so I don't spend my whole life in Suicide Slum.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: "Famous Bobby". Her real name is only said once when Jon tells her and Jim that Jim is officially her legal guardian.
* RaisedByGrandparents: She was raised by her grandmother Mary before until Mary's death at which point she was taken in by her great-uncle's clone.
* TangledFamilyTree: Her legal guardian is her great-uncle's clone, her best friends are the clones of the kids adopted by her original great-uncle and her adopted sister is the OppositeSexClone of her great-uncle.
* {{Tomboy}}: You won't catch Bobby with her hair down or in a skirt or dress, and she's very much OneOfTheBoys.
* TomboyishName: "Bobby".
* ValleyGirl: She's far too prickly and tomboyish to actually count but she, like, uses like a lot more than is proper.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Bobby's legal guardian and closest living relative is Jim Harper (II) who cares for her deeply and is grateful for the chance to become her parental figure, so her disappearance alongside the other Newsboys is very odd. She's not seen when Jim goes to meet Roy and Lian, despite it being a family meeting, and he acts like they're the first members of his family he's really talked to. What happens to her when he travels off with Jamie is unknown.

!!Gwen Harper
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!!!Gwendoline Harper

The young opposite sex clone of Jim Harper II/Golden Guardian. Gwen is adopted by the clone she was cloned from, making her Bobby's legal sister but biologically Gwen is cloned from the clone of Bobby's great-uncle so they're already family. Good luck figuring out how to fit her on the family tree, though Gwen and Jim II prefer to just refer to their genetic templates as their fathers, or daddy in Gwen's case, which simplifies things.\\
She was last seen leaving Metropolis with her father and her ... cousin/niece Jamie Harper.

--> '''species:''' D.N.Alien
--> '''created by:''' James Robinson · Jesús Merino
--> '''first appearance:''' 2008, ''Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen'' Vol 2 #1

* ArtificialHuman: Gwen is a human "[=DNAlien=]" style clone.
* DaddysGirl: Gwen gets along with and looks up to Jim much more easily than her big sister Bobby. It helps that she didn't go through the same hardships as Bobby did before being taken in by Jim and has a similar taste in movies and music.
* OppositeSexClone: The young female clone of the (male) clone of the original Jim Harper.
* TangledFamilyTree: Just see the above paragraph's attempt to describe her biological relation to her sister. Gwen and her main genetic template are also not the only [=DNAlien=]s running about with a large percentage of Jim Harper's DNA, and Jim I had three siblings who've all got grandchildren living in the modern day, one of whom is Gwen's sister Bobby.

!!Angry Charlie
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!!!Charlie

Pre-Crisis, a [=DNAlien=] created by Cadmus' evil duplicate the Evil Factory with material stolen from Project Cadmus who came back to Cadmus with the second iteration of the Newsboy Legion. Post-Crisis an escaped Cadmus [=DNAlien=] who allies himself with Gabby and tries to keep an eye on the Newsboy Legion while avoiding capture by the scientists.\\
In all realities Charlie is a lot less angry than his name implies when he's not being locked up and treated like an animal and he has a soft spot for kids and a strange diet. He normally lives in the walls at Project Cadmus and does his best to stay out of sight.

--> '''species:''' D.N.Alien
--> '''created by:''' Creator/JackKirby
--> '''first appearance:''' 1972, ''Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen'' Vol 1 #145

* ArtificialHuman: He may not look it but as a [=DNAlien=] Charlie's got at least some human DNA in his make up. What else may have gone into making the odd pink creature is unknown.
* EscapedFromTheLab: In a strange twist Charlie didn't really ''leave''. He escaped from his creators and refuses to put of with being caged or collared but he generally just hangs out in the walls at Cadmus. He does occasionally wander into Metropolis which can cause a bit of an uproar because he's large, scary looking and likes to hang out with children, but he always ends up back at Cadmus.
* ExtremeOmnivore: Charlie appreciates all kinds of food. His favorite is varnished wood, but he'll eat stone and weaker metals too. The boys and Bobby sometimes steal wooden furniture to sneak to him.
* FourFingeredHands: Charlie's only got four digits on each hand.
* FriendToAllChildren: Charlie will gladly risk his life and freedom to protect the Newsboy Legion, and even when he's in Metropolis has risked his freedom to protect random kids.
* GlowingEyes: Charlie's eyes are glowing yellow disks.
* ItCanThink: Most adults view Charlie as a dumb animal, but he has demonstrated a thorough grasp of complex English even if he can't vocalize the language. He's also memorized secret passages, hidden tunnels, and duct systems all throughout Project Cadmus and into Metropolis. He still ends up called a "pet" of the Newsboy Legion by most adults.
* NonIndicativeName: The "Angry" part of his name doesn't fit with his usual attitude, nor does it help to convince adults of his non-malicious nature.
* NonMaliciousMonster: (Pre-Crisis) Charlie was just a rather destructive monster who decided to protect the Newsboy Legion. (Post-Crisis) At first even the Newsboy Legion thought Charlie was just a really cool monster, that liked to hand out with them. They quickly started realizing he's much smarter than he first appears.
* NotSoImaginaryFriend: The other boys originally thought Charlie was something Gabby had made up, and were quite surprised when Charlie revealed himself to save the boys from Granny Goodness.
* RecognizableBySound: Guardian can generally tell if the Newsboy Legion are about by listening for their "pet" Angry Charlie's signature G[-R-]O[-IK-] vocalization. The Newsboy Legion also listens for Charlie's signature sound in case he wants to show them something, which is handy since Charlie prefers not to put himself out in the open if he can avoid it.
* SignatureSoundEffect: '''G[-R-]O[-IK-]''' is the only vocalization outside of growls available to Angry Charlie.
* SuperStrength: Charlie can, and has, picked up and thrown cars.
* WhatMeasureIsANonCute: Few adults seem to be able to see past Charlie's creepy exterior, and irritating habit of eating furniture, which means he gets treated as a dumb dangerous animal. He gets stuck in shock collars and locked in cages even though he's demonstrated a clear understanding of complex spoken English, there have been hints he can read and he's clever enough to avoid Cadmus security personnel for years while protecting the kids in the project.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Clone rights are a thing in the DCU and clones, including [=DNAlien=]s, created on American soil are supposed to be considered American citizens. The government does not extend this right to Charlie as it does not consider him intelligent or human because of the way he looks and his inability to talk. It doesn't help that most [=DNAliens=] incapable of speech really are little more than animals.

!!Misa
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The dangerously rebellious daughter of Jude, the leader of the Hairies, and his mate Lucy Diamond Sky. She is the only significant D.N.Alien known to have been the result of natural procreation rather than a cloning experiment and her interactions with Cadmus and her parents are violent affairs. She is unpredictable and not truly evil, though the only person she seems fond of is [[Characters/SupermanJimmyOlsen Jimmy Olsen]] and even he knows better than to trust her.

--> '''species:''' D.N.Alien (type: Hairie)
--> '''created by:''' Dan Jurgens · Ron Frenz
--> '''first appearance:''' 1996, ''Superman'' Vol 2 #115

* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Jude and Lucy Diamond Sky are not impressed with their daughter's antics and violence as they are rather dedicated to a peaceful lifestyle despite helping develop some rather dangerous technology for Cadmus.
* EvilGenius: She's more amoral and self centered than evil, but she's still a genius inventor who uses her inventions to inflict pain on others and get her way without regard to the human cost. She starts slowly learning a bit of empathy for humans after hanging out with [[Characters/SupermanJimmyOlsen Jimmy Olsen]] for the fun she associates with his WeirdnessMagnet status, but she's still dangerous and does not necessarily help people in ways they'd like to be aided.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Misa is a pretty doe eyed blonde gal with a wicked mind.
* GreenAndMean: She wears green outfits paired with green lipstick and she is a frequently inventively cruel individual who spends most of her appearances as some variety of villain.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: She started out an amoral trickster rather than villainous, then started becoming more compassionate after hanging out with Jimmy, then showed up on a villain team with the Superman Revenge Squad, then teamed up with Superman to save the Hairies despite having made it clear she despises their methods and refusal to get their hands dirty.
* HypnoTrinket: Her harmonizer is a {{mind control device}} that needs to be worn by her victim in order to allow her to turn them into her puppet.
* ItsAllAboutMe: In her earliest appearances her parent's hands off and doting parenting style has obviously not turned out well and she has no empathy for others while always wanting her way regardless of how that will affect anyone else.
* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: When she shows up as part of the Revenge Squad she wears a floor length dress to fight Superman. Given her fighting style is mostly trickery and keeping out of reach it doesn't impede her at all.
* LadyOfBlackMagic: She is a dangerous woman who presents herself as a sorceress and seduces Jimmy Olsen. [[SubvertedTrope Her magic tricks are powered by tech rather than magical skill however.]]
* NewAgeRetroHippie: Like all the Hairies Misa has elements of a pop-culture version of Hippies, though unlike the rest (excluding the outsiders) she has no problem with using violence and outright murder to get her way.
* SleevesAreForWimps: She doesn't fight with her fists but loves a brawl anyway, and unlike most of the peace loving Hairies never wears sleeves.
* ThrillSeeker: Her primary motivation is (usually) having fun, which leads to her going out of her way to hang out with DC's biggest WeirdnessMagnet and joining the Superman Revenge Squad for fun rather than due to having a grudge against Supes. The only time she is really motivated by anything else was when she teamed up with Superman to save her parents and the other Hairies from another dimension.
* VillainTeleportation: One of her most common tricks is short range teleportation, and she is frequently a villain.

!!Bette Noir
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A Cadmus created and housed D.N.Alien who frequently tangles with ComicBook/MartianManhunter. Her actual physical body is mostly immobile, but she can project her consciousness and telekinetic powers quite far.

--> '''species:''' D.N.Alien
--> '''created by:''' John Ostrander · Tom Mandrake
--> '''first appearance:''' 1999, ''ComicBook/MartianManhunter'' Vol 2 #3

!!The Outsiders
An offshoot of the Hairies who rebelled against Cadmus and formed a biker gang in the restricted access areas between Metropolis and the Project. Their most prominent and longest lasting members eventually moved into Metropolis proper and opened a garage in Suicide Slum. Not to be confused with ''ComicBook/{{The Outsiders|DCComics}}''.

!!"Michael", Guardian-01

Following ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'', a Cadmus clone Guardian named Michael made a brief appearance in ''ComicBook/SuperboyNew52''

* MysteriousPast: Michael is indicated not to be his true name, as a matter of fact Guardian-01 seems closer to his real name as he is presumably a Cadmus clone and the first of a set.
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[[folder:The Citadel]]
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->''Warning. Vega System off limits to [[Franchise/GreenLantern Lanterns]]. Turn around. Failure to comply is a court-martial offense. Warning. Turn around.''

->'''First Appearance:''' ''DC Comics Presents'' #26. (1980)
->'''Created by:''' Marv Wolfman & Roger Slifer
->'''Sector:''' 2828
->'''System:''' Vega

The most successful of several unscrupulous groups to take advantage of the Lanterns agreement to leave the Vega System to its own devices due to their agreements with Larfleeze and the Psions. The Citadel's cruel practices has formed the core of several characters' tragic backstories including [[Characters/TeenTitansStarfire Starfire]] and the ComicBook/OmegaMen.

* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:They are finally defeated by a group formed by the peoples they'd oppressed, but while it leaves their power and communications fractured, the Citadel lives on, and the places now ruled by the victors are no better off than they were under the Citadel]].
%%* CrapsackWorld:
* DisproportionateRetribution: Standard Citadel response for the death of any Citadel troopers is that retribution is taken out on the population at a rate of a hundred to one. That is, one hundred oppressed civilians are killed for any one of their troops.
* TheEmpire: They brutally rule Changralyn, Okaara, Branx, Karna and other life-bearing planets in the Vega System, and their expansionist policies mean they were always adding more.
* FullCircleRevolution: The success of the revolution against them does little to change the lives of those oppressed by them.
%%* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil:
* {{Unobtainium}}: Stellarium
* VestigialEmpire: After the Citadel is defeated by the Omega Men, there are still fractured remnants of it in operation.

!!Species
Other significant DC species include [[ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} Atlanteans]], [[Franchise/WonderWoman Amazons]] (in continuities where they're not humans), [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Kryptonians]], [[ComicBook/MartianManhunter Martians]], and [[ComicBook/{{Hawkman}} Thanagarians]]. Other extraterrestrial and extradimensional species not on this page include the ComicBook/NewGods, [[Characters/GLOtherVillains Qwardians]], [[Characters/GLOtherVillains Psions]] and [[Franchise/GreenLantern Maltusians]].

[[folder:Changralynians]]
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->'''First Appearance:'''
->'''Created by:''' Marv Wolfman & Joe Staton
->'''Homeworld:''' Changralyn

One of the many peoples whose planet has been conquered by the Citadel. \\
\\
For Charis-Nar aka "Broot", the Changralynian member of the ComicBook/OmegaMen, see the related page.

* FantasticNamingConvention: Khunds rarely take a "surname" but when they do use one it's generally just their father's bare name.

* LawOfAlienNames: Khunds prefer names with harsh k and c sounds like [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Ectreba]], [[ComicBook/SuperboyAndTheRavers Klo]], Galmark and Kharlak.

* CatSmile: The more petite and younger Karnans have a constant cat smile, including most of the women.

* ActualPacifist

* NamedAfterTheirPlanet

* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker

* CasualInterstellarTravel: Because of their self-imposed isolation from the rest of the galaxy, they only ever occasionally travel outside of their home planet and even then it's not very frequent.

* TranslaterMicrobes: Can use TouchTelepathy to learn languages by touching or kissing people.