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* AnArmAndALeg: Sarge lost his left hand in Vietnam.
* ArtificialLimbs: Sarge Steel has a mechanical metal hand.

The Cadmus created a ModifiedClone of the golden age hero the Guardian. Jim acted as a guard and director of security for Cadmus under several directors before he uncovered the then current director's collusion with Sam Lane to murder Superman and sabotaged the project on his way out the door.\\

->See ComicBook/{{Guardian}}

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/BatmanAndTheOutsiders''.

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.\\

* 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]].

* 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.

* VestigialEmpire: After the Citadel is defeated by the Omega Men there are still fractured remnants of it in operation.

* CrapsaccharineWorld: They're from the Vega system so being from some form of CrapsackWorld is standard, they just want to maintain their veneer as a PerfectPacifistPeople at the same time.

The Dominators, collectively known as the Dominion, are an alien race from the outer cosmos of the universe. They are highly technologically advanced and live in a rigid hierarchical society, in which one's caste is determined by the size of a red circle on one's forehead. They are master geneticists who can manipulate the meta-gene to enhance members of their own caste. The Dominion acted as the planners and leaders of the [[Comicbook/InvasionDCComics Alien Alliance]] which introduced many extraterrestrials to humans for the first time, and which left the earth with far more superpowered humans than had been there previously due to their weapons activating meta-genes on a large scale.

* NoNeedForNames: Dominators do not use names though rebellious members, such as Sakritt may adopt names as part of their rebellion against the Dominion.

* ProudScholarRace: A rare negative example, genetic studies it the bread and butter of their race and they're mostly amoral {{Mad Scientist}}s and {{Mad Doctor}}s with even those who end up rejecting Dominion dogma and revolting against it not able to make it past AntiHero status.

* CloningBlues: 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.

For the D.E.O. agents Jeremiah and Eliza Danvers see Characters/SupergirlSupportingCast. For agent Cameron Chase see Characters/{{Batwoman}}. [[Characters/WonderWomanAllies Steve Trevor]] is also an officer of this department in most continuities, with a history in the Air Force. Subdivisions of the department include the D.M.A. (Department of Metahuman Affairs).

!!!Robert Todd
->''"I am not your enemy, [[ComicBook/MisterTerrific Michael]]. You may not agree with my principals but there is a reason--a need for an organization like mine."''

A reformed supervillain with invisible flesh and poisonous sweat. In his teen years he acted as the leader of the villain team Helix, which was formed by a group of teens whose mothers had all been experimented on by Dr Amos Love while they were in the womb and had then been kidnapped and raised by the amoral doctor. Helix turned themselves in when his leg was bitten off by a supposed ally and when he was next seen he had turned his life around.
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For Director Bones' post Flashpoint iteration see Characters/{{Batwoman}}.

* ArtificialLimbs: His left leg below the knee is a prosthetic.
* BadPowersBadPeople: Embraced this concept as a teenager but has thoroughly rejected it as an adult.
* ChestInsignia: As a villain his costume included crossbones on the chest.
* CigarChomper: To the point that he practically chain-smokes them.
* HeelFaceTurn: Went from leading supervillains to a responsible government employee who catches supervillains… and regularly pisses off superheroes.
* HighCollarOfDoom: As a villain he wore a skintight suit with a tall popped collar.
* ImpliedDeathThreat: Bones has a handy one; removing his gloves.
* {{Invisibility}}: All of his tissues are invisible, with his bones as the only exception.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: He is only ever refered to as Mister Bones, and later Director Bones.
* PoisonousPerson: His sweat contains cyanide, requiring him to wear gloves and long sleeves at all times. He has been used by others to poison and murder people against his will.
* RhymesOnADime: In his villain days he was prone to such, for example, ''"And now, as dies the one betrayed us- I go to slay the one who made us!"''
* TaughtByTelevision: Dr. Love did not put much effort into raising the kidnapped kids as functional members of society and they learned how to interact with the outside world via the radio and tv.

A reformed supervillain who was once a member of Helix. She turned back to a life of crime for a time before being murdered, though given she was working for Circe alongside another former Helix member who regularly aids the superhero community her true intentions with the move remain unknown.

* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Villain turned D.E.O. agent turned ally of Circe.
* TaughtByTelevision: Dr. Love did not put much effort into raising the kidnapped kids as functional members of society and they learned how to interact with the outside world via the radio and tv.

* ''see Characters/BatmanClayface''

A sub-division of the D.E.O. that is meant to act as an investigative branch and provide protection to the public during meta-human altercations, but has oft been taken over by those with more nefarious plots. For agents Etta Candy and [[Franchise/WonderWoman Diana Prince]] see the [[Characters/WonderWoman Wonder Woman character sheets]]. For agent Tom Tresser see the [[Characters/SuicideSquad Suicide Squad character sheet]]. The division was overseen by Sarge Steel, though he was replaced by [[Characters/WonderWomanAllies Steve Trevor]] shortly before Flashpoint after he Steel became unable to continue his job due the sustained attack on his mind by Doctor Psycho.

For the version of Cadmus in the DCAU see Characters/JusticeLeagueCadmus

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The Cadmus created ModifiedClone of the golden age hero the Guardian. Jim acted as a guard and director of security for Cadmus under several directors before he uncovered the then current director's collusion with Sam Lane to murder Superman and sabotaged the project on his way out the door.\\

* BarefootCartoonAnimal[=/=]DoesNotLikeShoes: Non-Gordanian Karnans are very rarely seen with shoes on.

* HeelFaceTurn: Went from leading supervillains to a responsible government employee who catches supervillains,... and regularly pisses of superheroes.

* DarkChick: Of the Superman Revenge Squad, being an amoral self centered young woman with no compassion for others (except Jimmy Olsen, [[BlindAndTheBeast Ashbury Armstrong and Ceritak]]), a love for manipulating people, the brains to the superpowered brawn possessed by the rest of the team, and having joined the team for fun rather than out of desire for revenge like the others.

* GreenLanternRing: The Scarabs, which were created to be one of the most versatile - and deadly - weapons in the universe, and in The DCU that's saying something. They have enough firepower to threaten cities, and one of the higher-level weapons has potential theological implications... also, real Green Lanterns don't like being around them, with responses varying from "headache" to "homicidal urges." The GL Corps and the Reach have some history...

%%* AsskickingEqualsAuthority:

* ClonesArePeopleToo: All of them but Bobby are clones and they're all mischievous kids that 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 a qualifying "[[TheChick chick]]") 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.

* BFG: Gordanian Ion Destructors, a large riffle-like weapon they are using by the 58th century.

* NiceHat: The Emperor and P'Q'Rort of the Sangtee Empire wear elaborate layered hats that are sort of like a mash-up of a turban and a mitre.

For the head of the A.R.G.U.S. subdivision the Oddfellows [[Characters/WonderWomanAllies Steve Trevor]] see his own page. For the A.R.G.U.S. project Task Force X see the ComicBook/SuicideSquad page. For the head of Task Force X and former A.R.G.U.S. director ComicBook/AmandaWaller see her own page. For more on A.R.G.U.S. director Sasha Bordeaux see the page for her previous agency ComicBook/{{Checkmate}}.

* {{Expy}}: Essentially, DC's equivalent to Marvel's SHIELD.

* ElaborateUndergroundBase: Cadmus is a labrynth of milles
* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: A fictional government agencey in a fictional US city.

* ModifiedClone: Their oringinal focus was the creation of modified human clones and the study of aliens and the meta gene. At some points in its history Cadmus has operated as essentially an underground city of modified clones run by a few human scientists.

* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: While his ethnicity is well hidden by his mutation when he wears make-up and body paint to go out in public discreetly it is quite clear.

* ''see Characters/BatmanRoguesGalleryPart1''

The Dominators, collectively known as the Dominion, are an alien race from the outer cosmos of the universe. They are highly technologically advanced and live in a rigid hierarchical society, in which one's caste is determined by the size of a red circle on one's forehead. They are master geneticists who can manipulate the meta-gene to enhance members of their own caste. The Dominion acted as the planners and leaders of the ComicBook/{{Invasion}} which introduced many extraterrestrials to humans for the first time, and which left the earth with far more superpowered humans than had been there previously due to their weapons activating meta-genes on a large scale.

Insular shapeshifting aliens from the planet Durla whose abilities, culture and health have been permanently altered by the planetwide nuclear "Six-Minute War" which caused the surviving Durlans to break up into opposed factions which favor different options for trying to restore their former glory or revel in their new normal. Their first contact with earth was as one of the allied extraterrestrial groups taking part in the ComicBook/{{Invasion}}, where their ability to mimic the forms of others was utilized to infiltrate many government organizations. Eventually, far in the future, the Shadow Council acquiesced to joining the United Planets but still prefers isolationist policies. \\

Originally foes of ComicBook/{{Superboy}} and the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes the Gil'Dan's first contact with humans has been retconned to their involvement in the [[ComicBook/{{Invasion}} Alien Alliance]].

* 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.]]

!!Cosmic Beings

[[folder:Anti-Monitor]]

!!The Anti-Monitor
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[[caption-width-right:350:The Anti-Monitor, Pre-''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}''.]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Mobius.]]

->''" No hope. No mercy. The universe you knew is nothing but a memory and I have no intention of leaving anyone alive to honor it."''
-->-- '''The Anti-Monitor'''
->'''Homeworld:''' The Antimatter Universe
The living embodiment of {{antimatter}}, who wishes to destroy all positive-matter universes so his own can reign supreme - and in ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', he nearly succeeded. He was reborn after the multiverse was restored in ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', and came to the attention of the Green Lanterns when he became the Guardian of the Sinestro Corps. He was defeated in the war (in part by Superboy-Prime, avenging the destruction of his home universe) and his body was taken to be the power source of the Black Lantern Battery. The White Light resurrected him in ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'', but Nekron simply banished him back to the antimatter universe, where he plotted to claim the White Lantern and consume its infinite energies but was stopped by ComicBook/{{Firestorm|DCComics}}.

Come the ''ComicBook/New52'', the Anti-Monitor was reintroduced as the being who destroyed Earth-3 and led the Crime Syndicate to feel to the main Earth in ''ComicBook/ForeverEvil2013''. He squares off against [[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darkseid]] in ''ComicBook/ForeverEvil2013'', tying him to the ComicBook/NewGods by revealing he has the power of the Anti-Life Equation and was the original owner of [[CoolChair the Mobius Chair]] Metron wields. His name is revealed/retconned to be Mobius. While killed in the event, he's revealed to have come BackFromTheDead alongside his siblings in ''ComicBook/JusticeLeague2018''. The OverarchingVillain, Perpetua, is his mother.

The Anti-Monitor makes his live-action debut in the Series/{{Arrowverse}} crossover ''Series/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths2019'', portrayed by Creator/LaMonicaGarrett.

!!Tropes that apply to him:
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Downplayed; while not attractive, Mobius' more human-looking true form underneath the armor looks better than the roiling {{Energy Being|s}} of the original Anti-Monitor.
* AdaptationOriginConnection: Unlike Pre-Crisis/Old 52, New 52 onwards Mobius has a connection to the ComicBook/NewGods. He's the original source of Anti-Life as part of his curse, and he used to own Metron's Mobius Chair.
* {{Antimatter}}: Controls it, ruling over his own Antimatter Universe.
* ArchEnemy: The Anti-Monitor is an enemy not only of the Green Lantern Corps, but also of the entire Multiverse. Most of all, he's ''the'' enemy to [[GuardianOfTheMultiverse the Monitor]], who he sees as his main obstacle to multiversal conquest and destruction.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: He possess a vast size varying from several meters to hundreds of meters.
* BackFromTheDead: Killed at the end of the original Crisis, then Alex Luthor and Superboy-Prime turned his corpse into an interdimensional tuning fork. He was revived by the restoration of the multiverse, then killed again by Superboy-Prime, then revived by the Life Entity during ''ComicBook/BlackestNight''. He's later killed in ''Darkseid War'' before returning in the Synder run, where it's revealed he, the Monitor and the World Forger will always reform eventually in the Sixth Dimension.
* BadBoss: Makes his Weaponers obey him through fear and intimidation, and when he turns the Psycho-Pirate into his [[TheDragon dragon]] he [[MindRape mind-rapes]] him to achieve his ends. Unlike other [[BadBoss bad bosses]] like Darkseid he's not actively malicious, however, and is willing to reward servants like making his most competent Weaponers powerful Shadow Demons [[ComicBook/SinestroCorpsWar and promising Cyborg-Superman]] once he's won, [[DeathSeeker he'll end him]].
* BaldOfEvil: Doesn't have hair like the Monitor, and has a history of being an OmnicidalManiac behind many a CrisisCrossover.
* BigBad: '''The''' biggest, baddest threat in DC comic book history. [[spoiler:That said, [[EvilMatriarch Perpetua]] is revealed [[GreaterScopeVillain to be an even bigger bad]] than him]].
* BishonenLine:
** His OneWingedAngel in ''Darkseid War'' as he reverts to his old "Mobius" self has him lose his armor and gain a more streamlined, human form.
** [[spoiler:''[[ComicBook/DarkNightsDeathMetal Death Metal]]'' has Mobius be given a VillainWorld [[TheBadGuyWins where he won in the first Crisis]], and he's evolved further into a more human CreepyChild with chalk-white skin.]]
* CosmicEntity: A cosmic entity in charge of antimatter and destruction, while his brother the Monitor manages positive matter and the World Forger manages dark matter.
* DestroyerDeity: Had this role in the original multiverse, ensuring creation never grows too big and avoids being consumed by the Overvoid. When the Source Wall is formed he's essentially out of a job, and has been bitter against his brother the Monitor for being a part of that ever since.
* DimensionLord: The ruler of the Antimatter Universe prior to and during the first ''Crisis''.
* TheDragon: [[DemotedToDragon On a couple of occasions]].
** DragonInChief and DragonWithAnAgenda: While Sinestro is the leader, the Anti-Monitor is a '''far''' larger threat than him and is only going along so he consume the Earth and by extension the multiverse due to it being a CosmicKeystone
** CoDragons: Serves as this alongside Lex Luthor under his mother Perpetua, [[spoiler:and to a certain extent The Batman Who Laughs before he pulls a [[TheStarscream Starscream]].]]
* TheDreaded: Everyone, literally ''everyone'', is either dead afraid of him or at least recognizes his threat. Not even ''[[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darkseid]]'' is willing to stand against him.
* DuelToTheDeath: Had this with ComicBook/TheSpectre. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted though since they were interrupted.]]
* EldritchAbomination: A subjectively malevolent, mostly energy being locked inside of a huge suit of armor.
** HumanoidAbomination: Tends to appear as an armored humanoid, and outside his armor resembles a wrinkled human. [[BishonenLine He looks more human, though still distinctly alien]] after he reverts to Mobius
* EnemyMine: He usually ''causes'' this due to the sheer threat he poses, but for a brief time in ''Synder's'' JLA run he sides with his brothers and [[FusionDance merges with them]] against Perpetua. However this is short-lived as he ends up siding with his mother.
* EnergyAbsorption: He consumed thousands of positive-matter universes to increase his power.
* EvilOverlord: of the Qwardians, and by extension the entire Antimatter universe.
* EvilTwin: Of the Monitor.
* FlatCharacter: At least in his introduction/the Old 52. While not [[GenericDoomsdayVillain totally devoid of personality]], there's little beyond him being a power-hungry entity who wants to consolidate his power by wiping out the matter multiverse. [[ComicBook/DarkseidWar Later]] [[ComicBook/JusticeLeague2018 works]] would attempt to flesh him out more.
* FusionDance: He and his brothers briefly fuse into the Ultra-Monitor to face their mother Perpetua.
* GreaterScopeVillain: The Anti-Monitor plays this role in ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'' and ''ComicBook/ForeverEvil2013''. While still dead from the first Crisis, it's his destruction of the original multiverse and the events of the Crisis that eventually drive Alexander Luthor Jr and Superboy-Prime to their [[RestartTheWorld villainous goal]]. The Crime Syndicate end up invading the main Earth in order to escape his destruction.
** Perpetua in turn is this to him. Not only is she his mother/creator, but at full strength surpasses him and in ''ComicBook/DarkNightsDeathMetal'' it's revealed [[spoiler:she in part convinced him to usher the first Crisis]].
* HeroKiller: He is directly responsible for more deaths than any other known DC supervillain, having destroyed thousands of Universes. Most notably he personally killed the original ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}. Still, she gave as good as she got, beating the ever-loving tar out of him. His Shadow Demon creations would kill several more heroes during the storyline including Dove, and Kole of the Teen Titans, as well as Sunburst.
* InTheirOwnImage: His ultimate goal; to destroy the multiverse and reshape the Antimatter Universe in his image. The CosmicRetcon of the Crisis comes from him trying to subvert the Big Bang so only he and his Antimatter Universe reign supreme.
* TheJuggernaut: Remarkably hard to put down. It took a massive crossover dozens of heroes, several gods and Superman's greatest punch to stop him.
* KickTheSonOfABitch:
** Brutally murders Ultraman in ''Darkseid War'', but given he's a deplorable [[TheSocialDarwinist social darwinist]] conqueror with none of redeeming aspects of the Ultraman [[HeroicSacrifice who died fighting off his anti-matter waves]], you don't feel that bad for him. To a lesser extent his destruction of Earth-3 could count, since in the New 52 iteration [[VillainWorld is utterly corrupt and considers goodness to be alien]].
** On the receiving end of this by Superboy-Prime and Nekron in ''Sinestro Corps War'', the former mortally wounding and throwing an injured Anti-Monitor while the latter turns him into his LivingBattery. While Prime [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope long threw off any sympathetic qualities he might have]] for the Anti-Monitor destroying his universe and Nekron is almost as much as an OmnicidalManiac as him, it's hard to feel sorry for the Anti-Monitor given the death and destruction he has wrought.
* LivingBattery: Nekron turned him into the Black Lantern battery in ''ComicBook/BlackestNight''.
* LogicalWeakness: He's made of Antimatter, therefore being exposed to Positive Matter makes him a tad weak at the knees. So if you can rip open his suit, you have a small, ''small'' chance.
* MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight: Attempts this in ''COIE'' by subverting creation [[InTheirOwnImage in his image]], but is narrowly stopped by ComicBook/TheSpectre.
* MultipleChoicePast: Initially he and the Monitor were the products of [[Franchise/GreenLantern Krona]] tampering with history by witnessing the Big Bang, before ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'' implies he and the Monitor used to be part of the Overmonitor's probe that ended up splitting in two. [[Creator/ScottSnyder Scott Snyder's]] run had him be one of Perpetua's three sons back in the original multiverse.
* MultiversalConqueror: Well, his motives seem to vary, but he's usually a...
* OmnicidalManiac: He wants to destroy everything that isn't part of the Antimatter Universe in order to consolidate his power.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: In ''Blackest Night'' he's a Black Lantern, albeit not completely converted and used as the power source for generating Black Lantern rings. Unlike the other Black Lanterns he still has his own consciousness and is struggling to get out of the Black Lantern Central Power Battery.
* PlanetEater: [[EarthIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse Although, he's only really expressed interest in eating Earth as far as individual planets go]]. Most likely due to it's relevance as a Multiversal keystone.
* PoweredArmor: Keeps his body together. Without it, he's either a marshmallow or a living beam of energy.
* PutOnABus: Vanished after the ComicBook/New52 started, though he was mentioned in flashbacks and in ''ComicBook/WrathOfTheFirstLantern''.
** TheBusCameBack: Finally reappeared at the end of ''ComicBook/ForeverEvil2013''.
* RasputinianDeath: Read his page example.
* {{Sadist}}: A large part of his characterization in ''Darkseid War''; initially wanting to rid himself of the "mass destroyer" moniker to end his "curse", it turns out that he had grown bored of killing billions from afar and wants to relish killing people up close and personal. He had shades of this in the original crisis, toying with [[TheDragon the Psycho-Pirate]] by removing his face despite the pain it caused [[EmotionEater him]].
* SealedEvilInACan: After his "death" in ''ComicBook/SinestroCorpsWar'' the crippled Anti-Monitor was captured and sealed away by Nekron [[LivingBattery to serve as his battery]]. The White Light resurrecting him managed to break him out.
* SpacetimeEater: He almost devoured the entire multiverse, and due to his actions, caused what little remained to collapse into one small New Earth.
* StartOfDarkness: Perpetua's origin story serves as this for him. Originally doing his duty in [[DestroyerDeity using destruction]] to ensure the energies of the Overvoid don't overwhelm creation, he teamed up with his brothers to alert their mother to the Source for abusing her power. The Source Wall was created to imprison her but it also meant the Anti-Monitor's role was defunct and left him with the wasteland of the Antimatter Universe. Angered by the Monitor for convincing him to side against their mother, he swore to be an enemy to him and the matter multiverse from then on.
* TimeAbyss: At least 10 billion years old, as that's when he and the Monitor showed up due to Krona's experiment. In the Rebirth continuity he and his siblings are older than the current multiverse, having been made by Perpetua to oversee the original multiverse.
* VillainDecay: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]; while a dire threat no matter what story he's in, the Anti-Monitor has never reached or exceeded his role in ''Crisis on Infinite Earths''. Come his resurrection in ''Sinestro Corps War'' he is notably weaker and is taken out with considerable, though still less effort and turned into a LivingBattery at the end. While apparently growing in power in ''ComicBook/BrightestDay'', come the reboot he's on comparable grounds with Darkseid when in COIE he surpassed him to the point he had to shield Apokolips from him[[note]]though Darkseid was still key in his defeat[[/note]], and in Snyder's run he is ultimately DemotedToDragon to Perpetua. The decay is usually justified since in the original Crisis he had gained power by destroying most of the multiverse and lost that in later appearances.
* VillainWorld:
** The Antimatter Universe, at least Post-Crisis, is a universe where evil reigns supreme [[BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad and things like charity and compassion are seen as unsightly]]. Whenever he's alive, the Anti-Monitor reigns supreme in the Antimatter Universe.
** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/DarkNightsDeathMetal'' has Perpetua make timelines where TheBadGuyWins for each Crisis. The Anti-Monitor gets his world where he won the first Crisis and lives in a whited-out void]].
* WaveMotionGun: His blasts are devastatingly powerful.
* TheWorfEffect: He was pretty easily deposed of by Superboy-Prime, though it should be noted that immediately before this he'd been hit with an explosion stated to be powerful enough to obliterate ''an entire galaxy'', so he was hardly at full power.
** WorfHadTheFlu: Then again, he was powering up a trick that would have recharged him, and hadn't gained all his power back in the first place.

[[folder:The Monitor]]
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* BackFromTheDead: Returned to life before the events of ''Dark Knights: Metal''.
* CameBackWrong: Somewhere between the end of the original ''Crisis'' and ''Final Crisis'', he came back to life as the first Mandrakk, the Dark Monitor.
* DistressedDude: Spends most of ''Dark Knights: Metal'' a prisoner of the Dark Batmen.
%%* FallenHero
* LukeIAmYourFather: Heavily hinted to be Nix Uotan's father.
* NoNameGiven: Really was just known as "The Monitor" up until ''Final Crisis'' hinted he was called Dax Novu, which was later confirmed in a throwaway bit of exposition in ''Multiversity''. This was later changed to ''Mar'' Novu.
* ThanatosGambit: During ''Crisis'', he knew about Harbinger being brainwashed to kill him, and allowed it to happen to save the remaining Earths the Anti-Monitor hadn't eaten.

[[folder:The Monitors]]
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A race of Monitor beings, created after the rebirth of the Multiverse during ''Infinite Crisis''. However, between various internal quarrels and just general uselessness, they were eventually gotten rid of by Nix Uotan at the end of ''Final Crisis''.

* KillEmAll: What Nix ultimately did to them.
* NoNameGiven: Some of them had names, but most didn't.
* OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness:
** Their favourite activity is sitting around playing the grand old game of "should we do something?"
** According to ''Multiversity'', a group of them tinkered with seven alternate Earths for reasons unknown. Exactly what they did to these Earths is also unclear, since no-one's able to get a look-see (though a few multiversal heroes figure they probably made them into [[CosmicKeystone Cosmic Keystones]].)
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: According to ''Final Crisis'', they're sort of like literary vampires. As in, they feed on stories.

[[folder:Nix Uotan]]
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The last Monitor, assigned to watch over Earth-51, until it was destroyed. Twice. He was banished to Earth, just in time for Darkseid's conquest. During this, he managed to regain his memories and power, and became the Super-Judge. Returning back to the Monitors, he disbanded them and became the sole guardian of the Multiverse.

* ButtMonkey: Thanks to the events of ''Countdown to Final Crisis''. To see your assigned world destroyed once could be seen as misfortunate. To see it destroyed ''twice''...
* TheCorruptible: The Gentry manage to corrupt him and set him lose on the multiverse. Fortunately, the assembled heroes of the multiverse eventually beat the corruption out of him.
* EyeScream: The Aquawoman of Earth-11 blasts one of his eyes out with her trident.
* LastOfHisKind: For a time, until the Monitor and Anti-Monitor got resurrections.

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[[folder:Tempus Fuginaut]]
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* RememberTheNewGuy: Supposedly, he's the being in charge of stopping interdimensional travelling. He's only shown up after about eighty years of DC continuity. Raises a few questions as to just where he was all that time...
* TheWatcher: Even takes up an Uatu-like role narrating the events of the ''Tales of the Dark Multiverse'' series.

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!!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
->'''Sector:''' 2828
->'''System:''' Vega

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.

* ActualPacifist
%%* ApatheticCitizens:
%%* BystanderSyndrome:
* CrapsaccharineWorld: They're from the Vega system so being from some form of CrapsackWorld is standard, they just want to maintain their veneer as a PerfectPacifistPeople at the same time.
%%* CulturalPosturing:
* NamedAfterTheirPlanet
%%* PacifismBackfire:
* PerfectPacifistPeople: Deconstructed.
%%* PersonaNonGrata:
%%* RecklessPacifist:
* SlaveRace: They have chosen to become slaves to the Citadel out of their disgust with the idea of fighting back.
* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker
%%* StupidGood:
%%* SuicidalPacifism:
* SuperStrength
%%* VoluntaryVassal:
* WouldHurtAChild: Would knowingly send a tithe of their children every year to spend their horrific short lives as abused slaves, with the flimsy excuse of having been told the kids would be receiving an education and treated well despite knowing they've been lied to.

[[folder:Daxamites]]
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->'''First Appearance:''' ''Superboy'' #89. (1961)
->'''Created by:''' Robert Bernstein & George Papp
->'''Homeworld:''' Daxam
->'''Sector:''' 1760 (or 2813 depending on continuity)

The xenophobic people of the planet Daxam, which was long ago colonized by Krypton in it's expansionist phase and whose inhabitants are the descendants of Kryptonians who intermarried with the natives of Daxam.

\\
For more on the Daxamite known as Mon-El see ComicBook/{{Valor}}. For more on the Daxamite Franchise/GreenLantern Sodam Yat see Characters/GLGreenLanternCorps. For the Daxamite Wonder Woman ally see Characters/WonderWomanAllies.

* AbsoluteXenophobe: Daxamites are horrifically and murderously xenophobic as a culture.
* AliensAreBastards: Let's just say that they are not nice towards anyone who doesn't share their culture.
* 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.
* CulturalCringe: The Daxamites tend to consider the Kryptonians to be inferior to them.
* CulturalPosturing: They insist that they were responsible for certain Kryptonian achievements.
* EyeBeams: Just like their Kryptonian counterparts, Daxamies can shoot laser beams out of their eyes.
* FlyingBrick: What any Daxamite becomes under a yellow sun. This is usually a ''very'' bad thing.
* HumanAliens: Rather like the Kryptonians they're descended from the Daxamites are visually indistinguishable from humans.
* InterspeciesRomance: They are the result of intermarrying between the natives of Daxam and the Kryptonian colonists, and even in continuities where Kryptonian physiology is considered too alien to allow for viable offspring with humans Daxamites could have kids with regular old humans as Lar Gand and Jamie Harper discovered.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Daxamite Sodom Yat opined that getting conquered and enslaved by the sadistic second Mongul was exactly what they deserved. After he gave them superpowers, Krona removed them by yanking Sodom out of their sun, sending many of them to their deaths.
* ModernMayincatecEmpire: Basically, the Daxamites are Aztecs and Mayans [[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]].
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: The Daxamies won't hesitate to kill their rivals.
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: Not every Daxamite is a fanatic alien-hating racist. During ''Green Lanterns: Emerald Warriors'', Sodom is rescued by an underground of nice ones who oppose his father and their xenophobic ways.
* NamedAfterTheirPlanet: The Daxamites share their name with their home planet, Daxam.
* NighInvulnerability: Similar to the Kryptonians, the Daxamites cannot be harmed by regular weapons and can only be hurt or killed by superhumans of extraordinary power.
* OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions: Unlike the Kryptonians, the Daxamites don't believe in any god whatsoever.
* SmugSnake: Most are rather overconfident in their abilities.
* SpaceRomans: The Daxamites have long been established as being "Space Mexicans". The natives of the planet Daxam had a distinctly Mesoamerican racial appearance and culture. They were colonized by the mostly European-looking Kryptonians, with whom they subsequently interbred and established a distinct culture, including things such as buildings resembling step pyramids. When the Kryptonian's intergalactic empire collapsed, the Daxamites became independent. They now exhibit some attributes of being SpaceAmish. While they have and use advanced technology, they are very isolationist to the point of xenophobia and have strong cultural taboos against certain technologies, such as anything related to space travel.
* SuperpowerLottery: Like their Kryptonian cousins, the Daxamites have EyeBeams, SuperSpeed, SuperStrength and XRayVision. Not to mention that they are an entire race of {{Flying Brick}}s that can be weakened by exposure to lead.

[[folder:Dominators]]
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->'''First Appearance:''' ''Adventure Comics'' #361. (1967)
->'''Created by:''' Jim Shooter
->'''Base of Operation:''' The Dominion
->'''Sector:''' n/a

The Dominators, collectively known as the Dominion, are an alien race from the outer cosmos of the universe. They are highly technologically advanced and live in a rigid hierarchical society, in which one's caste is determined by the size of a red circle on one's forehead. They are master geneticists who can manipulate the meta-gene to enhance members of their own caste. The Dominion acted as the planners and leaders of the ComicBook/{{Invasion}} which introduced many extraterrestrials to humans for the first time, and which left the earth with far more superpowered humans than had been there previously due to their weapons activating meta-genes on a large scale.

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: While this trait is not entirely ubiquitous their stereotype for betrayal among other races familiar with them is well earned.
* CulturalPosturing: They think themselves quite above the other civilizations they interact with. The name they've given themselves rather gives it away.
%%* DeadlyDoctor:
* DefectorFromDecadence: Any Dominator who has taken on a name either of their own choosing (Sakritt) or adopted a name given to them by others has left the Dominion behind and is openly rebelling against their people's policies.
* EvilutionaryBiologist
* FacialMarkings: Their circular forehead marks which denote which caste they're in. Sakritt modified hers to look like it has little horns, and has left the Dominion and their caste system behind.
* FantasticCasteSystem: To their disadvantage. The scientist who invented the gene bomb was only told to study the meta gene because of his caste status. His subsequent torture for going outside what his caste was permitted to do was what allowed the heroes to convince him to make a cure.
* FantasticNuke: Their Gene Bomb.
* GeekPhysique: Dominators are a race of Scientists and Doctors with a gangly skinny physique.
* GoodLipsEvilJaws: The Dominators are not nice and have a bunch of long sharp pointy teeth constantly exposed since they have no lips to cover them with.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: A people that's chosen "The Dominators" as their name is not likely to consider anyone else their equals, and they don't.
* NoNeedForNames: Dominators do not use names though rebellious members, such as Sakritt may adopt names as part of their rebellion against the Dominion.
* TheNoseless: There's really no room for a nose on their faces, given how high up their long teeth reach.
* PlanetOfHats: A race of {{Mad Doctor}}s.
* ProudScholarRace: A rare negative example, genetic studies it the bread and butter of their race and they're mostly amoral {{Mad Scientist}}s and {{Mad Doctor}}s with even those who end up rejecting Dominion dogma and revolting against it not able to make it past AntiHero status.
* ScaryDogmaticAliens
* SpaceNomads: They wander the edges of known space when they're not busy antagonising other planets, in other words when the Lantern Corps is at full strength and not distracted with something else.
* SufficientlyAdvancedAlien: They can create new intelligent species on a whim, and seed planets with lifeforms derived from but unique from others.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Lower castes are not treated well and can be discarded by the higher ones for minor infractions.

[[folder:Durlans]]
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->'''First Appearance:''' ''Action Comics'' #283. (1961)
->'''Created by:''' Robert Bernstein & Curt Swan
->'''Homeworld:''' Durla
->'''Sector:''' 700

Insular shapeshifting aliens from the planet Durla whose abilities, culture and health have been permanently altered by the planetwide nuclear "Six-Minute War" which caused the surviving Durlans to break up into opposed factions which favor different options for trying to restore their former glory or revel in their new normal. Their first contact with earth was as one of the allied extraterrestrial groups taking part in the ComicBook/{{Invasion}}, where their ability to mimic the forms of others was utilized to infiltrate many government organizations. Eventually, far in the future, the Shadow Council acquiesced to joining the United Planets but still prefers isolationist policies. \\

For ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes member Reep Daggle see [[Characters/LegionOfSuperHeroesSilverAge here]]. For the [[ShapeshifterModeLock Mode Locked]] Durlan "R.J. Brande" see [[Characters/LegionOfSuperHeroesSupportingCharacters here]]. For the Franchise/WonderWoman ally Nol Lapp see [[Characters/WonderWomanAllies here]].

* AbsoluteXenophobe: The Durlans didn't start out this way, and several of the factions which survived the Six-Minute War don't feel this way, but the most prominent faction quickly starts developing very xenophobic policies which festers into something cruel and stunting to their civilization's growth by the time of the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes.
* AfterTheEnd: Durla is a mass of ruins left over from the much more technologically and architecturally advanced civilizations which bombed each other out of existence during the Six-Minute War. As a matter of fact almost all architecture on the planet is the left overs from the dead civilizations.
* AliensAreBastards: The most prominent of the Durlan factions, and the one which ultimately gains control of the entire planet by the time of the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes, brutally punishes those who attempt to leave the planet, befriend outsiders or maintain a unique individuality and forces twins to fight to the death.
%%* CreativeSterility:
%%* CulturalPosturing:
%%* CulturalCringe
* DittoAliens: The most prominent and ultimately longest lasting faction of Durlans are opposed to maintaining individual appearances or even individual names and identities.
* DivideAndConquer: One of their tactics when invading other planets is to use their shapeshifting abilities to infiltrate teams and organizations and then watch the fallout as those teams tear themselves apart looking for the infiltrators.
%%* DividedWeFall:
* ForeverWar: Their "civil" war which is really just the extended after effects of the "Six-Minute War" goes on for well over a thousand years.
* HalfBreedDiscrimination: By the time of the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes Durlans despise outsiders and of worlders so much that fraternizing with any is a death sentence, so the children of any such unions need to avoid Durla in order to survive.
%%* MoralMyopia[=/=]ItsAllAboutUs:
* MulticulturalAlienPlanet: In the present Durla is populated by many different factions with different ideas on how they should move forward as a race. In the future there is only one official dogma on Durla and those which oppose it are faced with violence and death.
%%* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch:
* NamedAfterTheirPlanet: Durlans from Durla.
%%* ParanoiaGambit:
* PlanetOfHats: Not so much in the modern age, but their fractured civilizations and factions have coalesced into a single harsh unpleasant xenophobic society by the time of the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes.
%%* TheRemnant:
* ShapeshifterDefaultForm: Their natural default form is relatively humanoid, though orange with large pointed ears and antennae and no hair, but following the Six-Minute War the majority of the surviving Durlans lost their default and spend most of their time as shifting writhing masses of tentacles in various shades.
%%* UsedToBeMoreSocial:
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Though as always they're under threat of being mode-locked in their current forms and the forms of those whose families came out the worst from Durla's "Six-Minute War" are more unstable.

[[folder:Gil'Dan/Gil'Dishpan]]
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->'''First Appearance:''' ''Adventure Comics'' #293. (1962)
->'''Created by:''' Jerry Siegel · Curt Swan
->'''Homeworld:''' Hykraius
->'''System''': O-749

Originally foes of ComicBook/{{Superboy}} and the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes the Gil'Dan's first contact with humans has been retconned to their involvement in the [[ComicBook/{{Invasion}} Alien Alliance]].

* BerserkButton: Gil'Dishpan is their most widely known name due to one of their own failing to correctly express their names for themselves to other species. Being reminded of this reason they're not known by the more appropriate Gil'Dan infuriates members of the higher caste.
* BrainMonster: The Gil'Dan look like misshapen brain-tubeworm things in tentacle covered bubbles.
* EldritchAbomination: The Gil'Dan look like tumors floating in tentacle covered bubbles and can attack with acid, have limited control over water and telepathy.
* EyelessFace: For a given value of face, regardless they do not have anything that looks like an eye to a human.
* FantasticCasteSystem: The Gil'Dan with the most brain looking inner body are of a higher caste than those with a more tube-worm like body.
* HollywoodAcid: They can spray opponents with acid.
* MindOverMatter: Gil'Dan can telekinetically move things with their prominent minds.
* MulticulturalAlienPlanet
* StarfishAliens: They are an aquatic species that looks like floating tentacle covered bubbles with brain-tubeworm things inside, communicate via telepathy and can spit acid.
* {{Telepathy}}: They communicate by telepathy, and the less pleasant members of their race also use it to MindRape opponents.

[[folder:Karnans]]
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->'''First Appearance:''' ''Green Lantern'' Vol 2 #141 (1981)
->'''Created by:''' Marv Wolfman · Roger Slifer
->'''Homeworld:''' Karna
->'''Sector:''' 2828
->'''System:''' Vega

Karnans is the name of the cat-like people from the planet Karna. Those who go as Gordanians are the primary slavers of the Citadel and their continent allied with the expansionist empire early on, while the rest of the people on the planet were unwillingly subjugated by the Citadel. The Gordanians have also taken advantage of the Lanterns agreement not to interfere with the Vega system to develop one of the most massive slave trading organizations in the universe.\\

For Taghurrhu, the Karnan member of the ComicBook/OmegaMen, see the related page.

* AbsurdlySharpClaws: Their natural weapons are the sharp claws on their hands and feet, which they can use to dismember human sized opponents.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Gordanians.
* BarbarianTribe: Without a common enemy most Karnans end up in tribal warfare against other factions very quickly. The only exception is the Gordanians whose entire continent was already allied together into a single group before the Citadel arrived and their alliance was not hampered when the Citadel fell.
* BarefootCartoonAnimal[=/=]DoesNotLikeShoes: Non-Gordanian Karnans are very rarely seen with shoes on.
* BFG: Gordanian Ion Destructors, a large riffle-like weapon they are using by the 58th century.
* BizarreSexualDimorphism: Some artists depict Karnan women with hair only atop their heads and ten fingers and toes like humans, though others depict them with just shorter fur everywhere but atop their heads and six fingers and toes like the males. The males also tend to have their {{pointy ears}} located about where humans do while females have their more cat-like ears positioned higher on their heads.
* BoomStick: The Gordianians most iconic weapon (outside of their [[EpicFlail Warpers]]) are their staff-like Photon Blasters.
* CasualInterstellarTravel: Gordanian Interstellar Warships, including the Psion developed Class-9 Bloodstars and the smaller Star-Gliders, are equipped with Star-Slide FTL. Their Slave Ships are also capable of interstellar travel but have a more limited range.
* CatFolk: Karnans look rather like humanoid cats due to their slit pupils, cat-like ears, tails, fur, claws and mouths, though Karnans from the continent Gordane are generally hairless and due to the scaled appearance of their skin look more like LizardFolk than cats.
* CatGirl: The women are usually depicted much closer to humans in appearance, making them look like attractive ladies with cat ears and a cat smile.
* CatSmile: The more petite and younger Karnans have a constant cat smile, including most of the women.
* CrapsackWorld: They've been subjugated and enslaved by the Citadel with races from other planets now making up most of the population of Karna, and without the common foe of the Citadel to join the non Gordanians together they quickly descend back into tribal warfare against each other.
* HenchmenRace: Not the Karnans as a whole, but the Gordanians serve as the Citadel's most recognizable and despised henchmen alongside the Branx, and have also spent a lot of time allied with and serving the Psions and the Warlords of Okaara. Even centuries after the Citadel's fall the Gordanians continue to serve as henchmen and cruel slave traders.
* MulticulturalAlienPlanet
* NamedAfterTheirPlanet: The Karnans are named for Karna, though the Gordanians are never referred to as such and are named after their continent/former country Gordane.
* OccupiersOutOfOurCountry: The non Gordanian Karnans do not like the Citadel and want their influence gone from Karna, they don't have a country though as the Gordanians were the only group that organized while the rest are fractured into tribes.
* ProudMerchantRace: Not the Karnans as a whole, but the Gordanians. Unfortunately the merchandise in question is slaves.
* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: The Gordanians are from Karna, but due to their alliance with the Citadel, their galactic scale slave trading operation and the handy fact that Karnans from the Gordane continent look more scaled than furred means that the rest of the planet can disown them.
* WeaponizedTeleportation: Gordanian Warpers are {{Epic Flail}}s which create localized warp holes into space which pull opponents through and leave them floating somewhere in space.

[[folder:Khunds]]
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->'''First Appearance:''' ''Adventure Comics'' #346. (1966)
->'''Created by:''' Jim Shooter
->'''Homeworld:''' Khundia
->'''Sector:''' 422

The Khunds are a war mongering race who continuously seek to conquer inhabited planets and have built a sizable empire spiraling out from their home planet. By the days of the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes Earth is one of their prime targets, partially due to their failures in capturing the planet in the past but in the present timeline even when allied with numerous others they present no real threat to earth and usually operate closer to home expanding their empire.\\

For Kho Kharhi see [[Characters/GLGreenLanternCorps here]] under "Other Green Lanterns". For Ectreba, a khund {{Space Pirate|s}} turned Privateer Captain see [[Characters/WonderWomanAllies here]] under "Other".

* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Khunds come in pink, yellow and grey, with each skintone relating to longevity and the "reds" having the longest average lifespans at an average of 95 years and they have been recorded as making it all the way to 140 years.
%%* AsskickingEqualsAuthority:
* EagleSquadron: While there is a definite and large segment of Khunds who are very patriotic and loyal to the Empire plenty volunteer to work for other groups, as they have a cultural and genetic predisposition to want to fight.
* TheEmpire: The violently expansionist Khundian Empire.
* FantasticNamingConvention: Khunds rarely take a "surname" but when they do use one it's generally just their father's bare name.
* GalacticSuperpower: Their Empire is on a galactic scale and their military is their pride and joy.
* GenghisGambit: Their entire Empire is built around one to keep them fighting outsiders instead of embroiled in civil war and the khunds are both aware and proud of this tradition.
* GlorySeeker: While most grow out of this to an extent with time young khunds spend most of their time seeking battles to win and opponents to conqueror which they then brag about.
* HandCannon: The khunds are a very stocky broad people who use large stocky weapons.
* {{Heavyworlder}}: Khunds hail from a high gravity world, which explains their toughness and strength.
* HiredGuns: Khunds not currently working for the empire will act as mercenaries, and the nearby Sangtee Empire (run by the kreel) employs Khunds as enforcers.
* TheHorde: At the start of their alliance prior to the formation of the Khundian Empire they had a somewhat difficult time getting along, even centuries later they require a GenghisGambit to keep from fighting each other.
* KlingonScientistsGetNoRespect: Khunds are fully capable of respecting scientists, they just have a much more difficult time accepting khund scientists than they do scientists of other races.
* LadyOfWar: The standard khund woman is a dedicated proud warrior.
* LawOfAlienNames: Khunds prefer names with harsh k and c sounds like [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Ectreba]], [[ComicBook/SuperboyAndTheRavers Klo]], Galmark and Kharlak.
* NamedAfterTheirPlanet: Khunds are from the planet Khundia.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Doomsday tearing through their home planet decades ago is the entire reason the Khunds were able to stop their constant civil war and band together, leading to the formation of the Khundian Empire.
%%* MartyrdomCulture:
%%* NobleDemon:
%%* PretextForWar:
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Predating even the Klingons, who are very similar to the khunds culturally,
%%* RisingEmpire:
* RubberForeheadAliens: Postboot and since, khunds resemble very burly humans with pointy ears, no hair on the sides of their heads and mauve, yellow, or gray skin.
* SpacePirates: Piracy is a common career choice for khunds, and even those who serve the empire often come across as pirates.
%%* TheSpartanWay:
* SpikesOfVillainy: Spiked accessories and armor are very popular with young adult khunds.
* WarIsGlorious: It's lucky their culture is designed around this, given that their natural inclination to war and fighting makes it impossible for them to stop for any significant period of time regardless of intentions.

[[folder:Kreel]]
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->'''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Vol 2]] #67. (1992)
->'''Created by:''' William Messner-Loebs & Paris Cullins
->'''Homeworld:''' unknown
->'''Sector:''' unknown (somewhere between earth and the Khundian Empire)

The kreel are the aliens who built and run the brutal Sangtee Empire. Their militaristic, misogynistic, slave trading Empire is a revisit to the many similar extraterrestrials Wonder Woman and the Amazons fought during the Golden and Silver ages of comics.

For the Sangtee Emperor who was ruling during the 1990s on earth see Characters/WonderWomanVillains.

* AlienHair: Their "hair" is flat and segmented in colors ranging from blue to red, though some have white "hair", and their facial "hair" very much looks like short flat barbels in their purple skin tone.
%%* AliensNeverInventedDemocracy:
* AnimalMecha: Sangtee Empire space fighters look quite a bit like mechanical fish, creating a SpaceIsAnOcean asthetic duing {{Space Battle}}s with them.
* BizarreAlienReproduction: The kreel used to be gender benders as a race, capable of changing their physical sex in their later lives, but the church of the Sangtee Empire started working on making women utterly despised and socially unacceptable to the point that they are killed, enslaved or hidden away until they're able to present themselves as male and the race has relied on cloning to reproduce. Unfortunately for the raging misogynists their natural ability to change sex later in life means that cloning a man might result in a girl.
* BornIntoSlavery: The kreel exclude themselves from their empire's wanton slavery practices but their Empire practices chattel slavery.
* CorruptChurch: The church of the Sangtee Empire has manipulated the populace in order to strengthen their role in the empire and is the reason for the institutionalized misogyny among the kreel. There are kreel who do not agree with the Church but they take no action against it until the slave revolt led by Wonder Woman gives them an opening to.
* TheEmpire: The Sangtee Empire is a galactic empire built on chattel slavery and genocide.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Their Emperors are not refereed to by names but by their title as Emperor.
* EvilChancellor: Bruct, who gets elevated into position of D'Tasloo Parva (sort of like Chief Advisor, but more integrated as a liaison between the emperor and the military and church) after Wonder Woman captured A'iir, tried to kill the emperor at the first sign that things might go south, clearly stating that it's because she's a woman and he despises her. He apparently missed that bit where she just made it clear [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves traitors will not be suffered to live even if they're betraying one of her enemies to her benefit]].
* FantasticHonorifics: P'Q'Rort is a title that is roughly analogous to governor.
* FantasticRankSystem: While some positions in the Sangtee Empire's military correlate to positions in human militaries there are others, such as the D'Tasloo Parva, which do not.
* FeudalFuture: The kreel are a Galactic Empire ruled by the nobility.
* GalacticSuperpower: They have several star systems under their rule as the Sangtee Empire.
* GenderBender: The kreel are naturally gender benders, able to transition late in their lives, which is part of how they would naturally procreate as it was common for entire generations to be born one sex so some would ''have'' to change in order for there to be any children. This has been suppressed for centuries with reproduction now enabled by cloning.
* GraffitiOfTheResistance: The rebellion at large adopts Wondy's layered =W=s as their symbol, which leads to some kreel tagging buildings in the capitol with it in protest of the Empire's deadly misogyny and slavery practices.
* [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Green Skinned Space Hunk]]: Kreel are largely human in appearance outside of their purple skin, pointy ears and not-quite hair and some of their men are conventionally attractive by human standards and dress far less conservatively than their women who do their best to remain very covered up and pass as men.
* HeManWomanHater: The Sangtee Empire's hat, though there's some variance in just how much individual kreel adhere to it. Bruct and most of the P'Q'Rort (governors) despise women and can't quite stand to knowingly be in the same room as one without trying to kill her.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: Sangtee nobles sometimes ride some kind of lizard/dinosaur-like mount.
* KnockoutGas: The Sangtee Empire pumps knockout gas into disabled ships in found during their patrols before boarding and stealing them and enslaving any outsiders on board.
* NeverBareheaded: While there are kreel that disagree with Sangtee Empire policy they ''all'' are quite serious about their headgear and the only time any of them are seen without one is if the Emperor orders them to remove it or they are currently in enemy hands and unconscious.
* NiceHat: The Emperor and P'Q'Rort of the Sangtee Empire wear elaborate layered hats that are sort of like a mash-up of a turban and a mitre.
* NoWomansLand: The Sangtee Empire is a bad place to be a woman. If you're kreel you're hidden throughout your childhood and young adult life until you've been fully trained to hide your femininity and act as a man, if you're not kreel you are sent to hellish slave planets and worked to death.
* OneGenderRace: The kreel at first appear to be all male, and are claimed to change genders once every millennia at which point children are born. The reality is that they've been repressing and hiding their females due to state religious propaganda that has ensured that the ruling class at least believes women are weak and inherently inferior, and they've substituted cloning for natural procreation.
* OppositeSexClone: Kreel reproductive biology means that attempting to clone a man may result in a female infant.
* PointyEars: Kreel have ears that are sort of similar to a human's, with the back edge more rounded and flattened with notches coming up to a point at the top.
* PraetorianGuard: The Sangtee Emperor has a pair of personal guards who usually stand at their shoulder, dressed in a unique uniform with a helmet that hides most of their faces.
* PunctuationShaker: Common in kreel names and titles, including the semi decent D'Tasloo Parva named A'iir.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Their eyes are red and their culture is a dangerous and brutal one to encounter even if not all kreel agree with the Empire's policies.
* ReligionOfEvil: The Sangtee Empire's state religion which promotes the hatred of and disgust with women.
* SalvagePirates: Amusingly it's not the space pirates who engage in this but the empire. In Wondy's first encounter with them Diana and Natasha's careening makeshift spacecraft is uncontrollable and they're basically just sending calls for help into the void while watching their food and breathable air run out when the empire answers their distress call to impound their vehicle, steal everything including the clothes off their backs and enslave them.
* ShockCollar: The Sangtee Empire's slave collars can deliver a painful potentially fatal shock over extended periods.
* SingleBiomePlanet: "Hope's End" is an apparent desert planet that's used as a deadly prison planet, though Natasha notes that they've only seen a fraction of the place and it's possible it's not all desert. Part of its hellish nature is that the atmosphere has a much lower oxygen level than is comfortable for humans.
* SlaveLiberation: By the time Wonder Woman heads back to earth the Emperor has outlawed chattel slavery and is working on integrating former slaves into the empire as subjects. There is every indication that slavery as punishment is still legal however, they're just not going to enslave people just for stumbling into their empire, for being born to slaves, or for being non-kreel who speak out against the empire's policies.
* SpaceFighter: The Sangtee Empire have standardized fighters, seen escorting the slave ships. The revolutionaries' fleet is largely comprised of small space vessels but not all of them are proper fighters, as their policy is to try hacking empire ship's navigational sensors from afar before boarding to force surrender.
* SpacePirates: The core members of the revolution are outright called pirates and have a pirate aesthetic, and become Space Privateers after the revolution attains it's goal and the Empire integrates them into it's government. None of them are actually kreel however (they're made up of a Daxamite, Dominator, Velosian, some khunds and a bunch ladies of unknown origin) they just end up employed by kreel.
* StrawMisogynist: The entire Sangtee Empire.
* ATasteOfTheLash: Electrified whips are the Sangtee Empire's go to intimidation weapons on a smaller scale against slaves and those who are going to end up as slaves for resisting the Empire's advance. For added intimidation many of their slave drivers are khunds, meaning they're massive muscular men.
* UterineReplicator: All kreel are clones born" from tubes as natural births are outlawed by extension of the outlawing of women as a population control measure.
* WeWillUseManualLaborInTheFuture: The kreel are big on using slaves for mining and pulling carts despite their impressive technological feats.

[[folder:The Reach]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Reach General | Reach Negotiator \\
Reach Soldiers | Reach Worker]]

->'''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/BlueBeetle'' Vol 7 #12. (2007)
->'''Created by:''' John Rogers & Rafael Albuquerque
->'''Base of Operations:''' Reachworld
->'''Sector:''' 2
\\
For more on the Reach Negotiator who fought Jamie Reyes see Characters/BlueBeetle.
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* AdaptiveArmor: Their scarabs create armor capable of taking on Green Lanterns, slipping between dimensions, healing their hosts, and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick destroying planets]] though usually at the cost of the host's individuality and free will.
* ArtifactOfDoom: Scarabs whose programing has not been subverted like the blue one sent to earth.
* ClingyCostume: Scarab armors cannot really be removed without digging the scarab out of the host, they can retract but they're still actually there.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Negotiators are teal, Generals are grey, Solders are blue, and Workers are Green. ''WesternAnimation/{{Young Justice|2010}}'' substitutes much less intimidating Ambassadors for the Negotiators and adds in magenta Scientists, though the scientist role goes to the Negotiators in the comics.
* TheEmpire: Their empire is large enough that it's extended past the borders of their home sector.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Most members of the Reach are only referred to by their caste, with the exception being generals like Dawur.
* ExpressiveMask: They're never actually seen outside of their powered armor, save for when Jamie "borrows" some clothes from guards while escaping from them.
* FacialMarkings: The black marks where their eyebrows would be appear to mimic markings on their actual faces and help get their expressions across clearly.
* FantasticCasteSystem: The Reach operate on a tweaked HiveCasteSystem; The ruling caste (a position which can be earned), the tall thin teal negotiators, bulky generals, spindly blue soldiers, and small green workers.
* GalacticSuperpower: The largest, and most subtle, one in the DCU with a long history of hostility with the Green Lantern Corps.
* GreenLanternRing: The Scarabs, which were created to be one of the most versatile - and deadly - weapons in the universe, and in The DCU that's saying something. They have enough firepower to threaten cities, and one of the higher-level weapons has potential theological implications... also, real Green Lanterns don't like being around them, with responses varying from "headache" to "homicidal urges." The GL Corps and the Reach have some history...
* InstantArmor: The scarabs can wrap their host in armor instantaneously.
* TheNoseless: No caste has noses or anything which resembles them.
* ProudMerchantRace: How the Reach present themselves to new planets. The truth is rather more complicated.
* RagnarokProofing: The Reach play the long game and their tech is built accordingly, installations and items are designed to last at the very least a few hundred years without maintenance.
* TheSymbiote: The scarabs.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Their way of preventing the GL Corps from realizing they've broken their treaty is to conquer new worlds by convincing the locals to submit to them in ways that can't be detected without Reach tech.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Failure is met with death.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Saturnians]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/saturnians.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Cha'rissa & J'emm]]
->'''First Appearance:''' ''Jemm, Son of Saturn'' #1. (1984)
->'''Created by:''' Greg Potter · Gene Colan
->'''Homeworld:''' Saturn
->'''Sector:''' 2814
->'''System:''' Sol

Descendants of Martian colonist clones on Saturn's moons. Saturnians are generally split into Red Saturnians and White Saturnians and the two groups spent centuries in a bitter war with one another, though individuals on both sides made attempts for peace. The political marriage of the White Princess and Red Prince finally brought their long war to an end.\\
\\

The Saturnians of the earlier Earth-Two continuity were unrelated and looked far more human though they also lived on Saturn's moons had telepathic abilities. They mostly appeared in ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942''.\\
\\

For their superhero prince and princess J'emm and Cha'rissa see Characters/MartianManhunter.
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* {{Flight}}: Like the Martians they are related to Saturnians can use their telekinesis to enable themselves to fly, though their powers are not as strong as those of a true Martian.
* ForeverWar: Their civil war lasted centuries.
* MindOverMatter: Saturnians posses telekinesis.
* ShapeshifterDefaultForm: Their default forms are bright red, or stark white humanoids with solid pink or red eyes and protruding brows. Reds are usually bald (though not always) and whites usually have stiff hair in a variety of colors.
* SuperpowerLottery: Saturnains have pretty much all of the many powers of a Martian, just weaker.
* SuperStrength: Saturnians are far stronger than any human, and at least one of them has demonstrated enough strength to go toe to toe with Martian Manhunter and Superman.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: An entire race of shapeshifters, though their shapshifting is more limited than that of Martians.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Fire is debilitating for them even though they can tank a gunshot or getting decked by Superman..
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tamaranians]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tamaran.png]]
%% [[caption-width-right:350:some caption text]]
->'''First Appearance:''' ''DC Comics Presents'' #26. (1980)
->'''Created by:''' Marv Wolfman & George Pérez
->'''Homeworld:''' Okaara (formerly), Tamaran
->'''Sector:''' 2828
->'''System:''' Vega

\\
For their superhero princess Koriand'r see [[Characters/TeenTitansStarfire Starfire]]. For their villainess princess Komand'r/Blackfire see Characters/TeenTitansEnemies.
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* AbusivePrecursors: The Psions have been experimenting on Tamaranians since before they'd actually evolved into Tamaranians, this has led to some Tamaranians gaining superpowers due to experimentation but is more often just a horrific way to die.
* AliensNeverInventedDemocracy: They're still ruled by a royal family.
* CatGirl: They, like their oppressed Vega system neighbors the Karnans, are descended from a species that resembles earth felines.
* EarthShatteringKaboom: Tamaran was ultimately destroyed.
* FantasyCounterpartReligion: Many Tamaranians worship X'hal, though not all consider her a goddess. X'hal in turn was once a proto-Tamaranian on the planet Okaara who was subjected to experiments by the Psions who had her repeatedly raped by Branx warriors in an attempt to create a new race, after they turned her into a being of pure energy she destroyed the Psions present for what they had put her through.
* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Orange skinned people who otherwise looks like tall humans and wear very little in the way of clothing.
* HotBlooded: Tamaranians are rightly renowned for their passion and intense emotions.
* MedievalStasis: In a sense. One ''Green Lantern: Rebirth'' storyline states Tamarans have been around for over ten ''billion'' years, and the only major difference they've undergone in that time is some cultural shifts, and a haircut.
* MentalFusion: Physical contact allows Tamaranians a limited mental connection which works in both directions when used among Tamaranians.
* MulticulturalAlienPlanet: There are several kingdoms with slight cultural differences on Tamaran.
* NamedAfterTheirPlanet: Inverted. Tamaranians are not originally from Tamaran and named the planet after being relocated there.
* OccupiersOutOfOurCountry: The Tamaranians despise the Citadel and the Gordanians.
* OhMyGods: Tamaranians will occasionally swear by X'hal, though some consider her more a historical figure than a goddess.
* {{Proud Warrior Race|Guy}}: An interesting case which takes from the traditional DC depiction of the Amazons, they're naturally great fighters but prefer peace to war and use their martial arts for fun without deadly intent with their more war like past left far behind them.
* PunctuationShaker: Common in Tamaranian names in the country Starfire originates from, for example King Myand'r, Queen Luand'r, Princess Koriand'r, Princess Komand'r, Prince Ryand'r, [[Franchise/GreenLantern Lantern Alisand'r]], General Ph'yzzon and [[ComicBook/SuperboyAndTheRavers Oleand'r]] not so common in the "Southern States" where Prince Karras is from.
* SingleBiomePlanet: Tamaran is a jungle planet, though occasionally artists will depict arid locals as well.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Tamaranians are not big on modesty and while most of them wear some clothing they are a clothing optional culture where all the clothes show off a fair amount of skin.
* TouchTelepathy: This is how Starfire can learn languages by kissing those who know them (though kissing isn't necessary physical contact is).
%%* WarriorPoet:
[[/folder]]

For the head of the A.R.G.U.S. subdivision the Oddfellows [[Characters/WonderWomanAllies Steve Trevor]] see his own page. For the A.R.G.U.S. project Task Force X see the ComicBook/SuicideSquad page. For the head of Task Force X and former A.R.G.U.S. director [[Characters/SuicideSquadComics Amanda Waller]] see her own page. For more on A.R.G.U.S. director Sasha Bordeaux see the page for her previous agency ComicBook/{{Checkmate}}.

* BaldOfAwesome: At least half of them are completely bald, and at least two of the bald ones are well muscled and look like there's nothing actually wrong with them (of course S-01 looked fine when he was still in a stasis pod too).

This page covers characters in the general Creator/DCComics [[Franchise/DCUniverse Universe]] who don't fit neatly into any series or franchise specific character sheet.

For the D.E.O. agents Jeremiah and Eliza Danvers see Characters/SupergirlSupportingCast. For agent Cameron Chase see Characters/{{Batwoman}}. ComicBook/SteveTrevor is also an officer of this department in most continuities, with a history in the Air Force. Subdivisions of the department include the D.M.A. (Department of Metahuman Affairs).

A sub-division of the D.E.O. that is meant to act as an investigative branch and provide protection to the public during meta-human altercations, but has oft been taken over by those with more nefarious plots. For agents Etta Candy and [[Franchise/WonderWoman Diana Prince]] see the [[Characters/WonderWoman Wonder Woman character sheets]]. For agent Tom Tresser see the [[Characters/SuicideSquad Suicide Squad character sheet]]. The division was overseen by Sarge Steel, though he was replaced by ComicBook/SteveTrevor shortly before Flashpoint after he Steel became unable to continue his job due the sustained attack on his mind by Doctor Psycho.

For the head of the A.R.G.U.S. subdivision the Oddfellows ComicBook/SteveTrevor see his own page. For the A.R.G.U.S. project Task Force X see the ComicBook/SuicideSquad page. For the head of Task Force X and former A.R.G.U.S. director ComicBook/AmandaWaller see her own page. For more on A.R.G.U.S. director Sasha Bordeaux see the page for her previous agency ComicBook/{{Checkmate}}.

->'''First Appearance:''' ''Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen'' #133. (1970)

--> '''first appearance:''' 1971, ''[[ComicBook/JimmyOlsen Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen]]'' #135

Project Cadmus' most famous ModifiedClone, who was never completed due to the young clones known as the Newsboy Legion freeing him after uncovering the secret project within Cadmus which created him. After his escape from Cadmus he befriended ComicBook/{{Robin}} (Tim Drake), ComicBook/{{Impulse}} (Bart Allen), and ComicBook/WonderGirl (Cassie Sandsmark) and founded ComicBook/YoungJustice with them. After the disolution of Young Justice he went on to become a ComicBook/{{Teen Titan|s}}, and was stranded on Gemworld when the Multiverse was rearranged during Flashpoint. While on Gemworld he [[spoiler:got married and had a kid]] and took up farming as a nod to his Kent roots and the time he spent in Smallville. After his old friends tracked him down he rejoined the reformed ComicBook/{{Young Justice|2019}}.

* PosthumousCharacter: By the start of Supboy's ongoing the original Westfield had already been killed by Dabney Donovan. This does nothing to make Superboy like the corrupt man who was willing to have him killed in order to cover up a Cadmus mistake and he later faces a bunch of alternate reality versions of Westfield during the Hypertime arc.

* InSeriesNickname: Anthony went almost exclusively by "Big Words" as kid, and uses Tony as an adult.

* InSeriesNickname: Tommy, which he switched out for Tom as an adult.

* 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.

A Cadmus scientist who secretly colluded with ComicBook/LexLuthor and was also the scientist who did the lions share of the work on Westfield's secret ComicBook/{{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.

* 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.

--> '''first appearance:''' 1971, ''[[ComicBook/JimmyOlsen Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen]]'' #136

** NighInvulnerable: 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.

!!failed Suprman clones

* 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.

* 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.

The dangerously rebelious 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 unpredictible and not truly evil, though the only person she seems fond of is ComicBook/JimmyOlsen and even he knows better than to trust her.

* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Jude and Lucy Diamond Sky are not impressed with their daughter's anctics and violence as they are rather dedicated to a peaceful lifestyle despite helping develop some rather dangerous technology for Cadmus.
* DarkChick: Of the Superman Revenge Squad, being an amoral self centered young woman with no compasion for others (except Jimmy Olsen, [[BlindAndTheBeast Ashbury Armstrong and Ceritak]]), a love for manipulating people, the brains to the superpowered brawn possessed by the rest of the team, and having joined the team for fun rather than out of desire for revenge like the others.
* 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 reguard to the human cost. She starts slowly learning a bit of empathy for humans after hanging out with ComicBook/JimmyOlsen for the fun she associates with his WeirdnessMagnet status, but she's still dangerous and does not neccicarily help people in ways they'd like to be aided.

* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: She started out an amoral trickster rather than villanous, then started becoming more compasionate 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.

* 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 reguardless 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 impeed her at all.

* VillainTeleportation: One of her most common tricks is short range teleportation, and she is frequentlty a villain.

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 ComicBook/{{Starfire}} and the ComicBook/OmegaMen.

* CrapsackWorld:
* 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.

* 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.
* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil:
* {{Unobtanium}}: Stellarium,

Come the ''ComicBook/New52'', the Anti-Monitor was reintroduced as the being who destroyed Earth-3 and led the Crime Syndicate to feel to the main Earth in ''ComicBook/ForeverEvil2013''. He squares off against ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} in ''ComicBook/ForeverEvil2013'', tying him to the ComicBook/NewGods by revealing he has the power of the Anti-Life Equation and was the original owner of [[CoolChair the Mobius Chair]] Metron wields. His name is revealed/retconned to be Mobius. While killed in the event, he's revealed to have come BackFromTheDead alongside his siblings in ''ComicBook/JusticeLeague2018''. The OverarchingVillain, Perpetua, is his mother.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Downplayed; while not attractive, Mobius' more human-looking true form underneath the armor looks better than the roiling EnergyBeing of the original Anti-Monitor.

* BigBad: '''The''' biggest, baddest threat in DC comic book history. [[spoiler:That said, [[EvilMatriarch Perpetua]] is revealed [[GreaterScopeVillain to be an even bigger bad]] than him]].

* TheDreaded: Everyone, literally ''everyone'', is either dead afraid of him or at least recognizes his threat. Not even ''ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}'' is willing to stand against him.

** Perpetua in turn is this to him. Not only is she his mother/creator, but at full strength surpasses him and in ComicBook/DarkNightsDeathMetal it's revealed [[spoiler:she in part convinced him to usher the first Crisis]].

* VillainDecay: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]; While a dire threat no matter what story he's in, the Anti-Monitor has never reached or exceeded his role in ''Crisis on Infinite Earths''. Come his resurrection in ''Sinestro Corps War'' he is notably weaker and is taken out with considerable, though still less effort and turned into a LivingBattery at the end. While apparently growing in power in ''ComicBook/BrightestDay'', come the reboot he's on comparable grounds with Darkseid when in COIE he surpassed him to the point he had to shield Apokolips from him[[note]]though Darkseid was still key in his defeat[[/note]], and in Snyder's run he is ultimately DemotedToDragon to Perpetua. The decay is usually justified since in the original Crisis he had gained power by destroying most of the multiverse and lost that in later appearances.

* FallenHero

* ActualPacifist:
* ApatheticCitizens:
* BystanderSyndrome:

* CulturalPosturing:
* NamedAfterTheirPlanet:
* PacifismBackfire:

* PersonaNonGrata:
* RecklessPacifist:

* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker:
* StupidGood:
* SuicidalPacifism:
* SuperStrength:
* VoluntaryVassal:

For more on the Daxamite known as Mon-El see ComicBook/{{Valor}}. For more on the Daxamite ComicBook/GreenLantern Sodam Yat see Characters/GLGreenLanternCorps. For the Daxamite Wonder Woman ally see Characters/WonderWomanAllies.

* CulturalPosturing: They think themselves quite abouve the other civilizations they interact with. The name they've given themselves rather gives it away.
* DeadlyDoctor:

* EvilutionaryBiologist:

* ScaryDogmaticAliens:

For ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes member Reep Daggle see [[Characters/LegionOfSuperHeroesSilverAge here]]. For the {{Mode Lock}}ed Durlan "R.J. Brande" see [[Characters/LegionOfSuperHeroesSupportingCharacters here]]. For the Franchise/WonderWoman ally Nol Lapp see [[Characters/WonderWomanAllies here]].

* CreativeSterility:
* CulturalPosturing:
* CulturalCringe

* DividedWeFall:

* ShapeshifterDefaultForm: Their natural default form is relatively humanoid, though orange with large pointed ears and antennae and no hair, but following the Six-Minute War the majority of the surviving Durlans lost their default and spend most of their time as shifting writhing masses of tentacles in various shades.

* MoralMyopia[=/=]ItsAllAboutUs:
* MulticulturalAlienPlanet: In the present Durla is populated by many different factions with differnt ideas on how they should move forward as a race. In the future there is only one official dogma on Durla and those which oppose it are faced with violence and death.
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch:

* ParanoiaGambit:

* TheRemnant:
* UsedToBeMoreSocial:

* MulticulturalAlienPlanet:

* BizarreSexualDimorphism: Some artists depict Karnan women with hair only atop their heads and ten fingers and toes like humans, though others depict them with just shorter fur everywhere but atop their heads and six fingers and toes like the males. The males also tend to have their {{pointed ears}} located about where humans do while females have their more cat-like ears positioned higher on their heads.
* BoomStick: The Gordianians most iconic weapon (outside of their [[EpicFlail Warpers]])) are their staff-like Photon Blasters.

* MulticulturalAlienPlanet:

For Kho Kharhi see [[Characters/GLGreenLanternCorps here]] under "Other Green Lanterns". For Ectreba, a khund SpacePirate turned Privateer Captain see [[Characters/WonderWomanAllies here]] under "Other".

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority:

* MartyrdomCulture:
* NobleDemon:
* PretextForWar:

* RisingEmpire:

* TheSpartanWay:

* AliensNeverInventedDemocracy:

* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Negotiators are teal, Generals are grey, Solders are blue, and Workers are Green. ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' substitutes much less intimidating Ambassadors for the Negotiators and adds in magenta Scientists, though the scientist role goes to the Negotiators in the comics.

Decendants of Martian colonist clones on Saturn's moons. Saturnians are generally split into Red Saturnians and White Saturnians and the two groups spent centuries in a bitter war with one another, though individuals on both sides made attempts for peace. The political marriage of the White Princess and Red Prince finally brought their long war to an end.\\

* VoluntaryShapeShifting: An entire race of shapeshifters, though their shapshifting is more limited than that of Martians.

For their superhero princess Koriand'r see ComicBook/{{Starfire}}. For their villainess princess Komand'r/Blackfire see Characters/TeenTitansEnemies.

* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Orange skinned people who otherwise looks like tall humans and wear very little in the way of clothing.

* ProudWarriorRace: An interesting case which takes from the traditional DC depiction of the Amazons, they're naturally great fighters but prefer peace to war and use their martial arts for fun without deadly intent with their more war like past left far behind them.

* WarriorPoet:

Come the ''ComicBook/New52'', the Anti-Monitor was reintroduced as the being who destroyed Earth-3 and led the Crime Syndicate to feel to the main Earth in ''ComicBook/ForeverEvil''. He squares off against ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} in ''ComicBook/ForeverEvil'', tying him to the ComicBook/NewGods by revealing he has the power of the Anti-Life Equation and was the original owner of [[CoolChair the Mobius Chair]] Metron wields. His name is revealed/retconned to be Mobius. While killed in the event, he's revealed to have come BackFromTheDead alongside his siblings in ''ComicBook/JusticeLeague2018''. The OverarchingVillain, Perpetua, is his mother.

* GreaterScopeVillain: The Anti-Monitor plays this role in ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'' and ''ComicBook/ForeverEvil''. While still dead from the first Crisis, it's his destruction of the original multiverse and the events of the Crisis that eventually drive Alexander Luthor Jr and Superboy-Prime to their [[RestartTheWorld villainous goal]]. The Crime Syndicate end up invading the main Earth in order to escape his destruction.

** TheBusCameBack: Finally reappeared at the end of ''ComicBook/ForeverEvil''.

The living embodiment of {{antimatter}}, who wishes to destroy all positive-matter universes so his own can reign supreme - and in ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', he nearly succeeded. He was reborn after the multiverse was restored in ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', and came to the attention of the Green Lanterns when he became the Guardian of the Sinestro Corps. He was defeated in the war (in part by Superboy-Prime, avenging the destruction of his home universe) and his body was taken to be the power source of the Black Lantern Battery. The White Light resurrected him in ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'', but Nekron simply banished him back to the antimatter universe, where he plotted to claim the White Lantern and consume its infinite energies but was stopped by ComicBook/{{Firestorm}}.

Project Cadmus' most famous ModifiedClone, who was never completed due to the young clones known as the Newsboy Legion freeing him after uncovering the secret project within Cadmus which created him. After his escape from Cadmus he befriended ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}} (Tim Drake), ComicBook/{{Impulse}} (Bart Allen), and ComicBook/WonderGirl (Cassie Sandsmark) and founded ComicBook/YoungJustice with them. After the disolution of Young Justice he went on to become a ComicBook/{{Teen Titan|s}}, and was stranded on Gemworld when the Multiverse was rearranged during Flashpoint. While on Gemworld he [[spoiler:got married and had a kid]] and took up farming as a nod to his Kent roots and the time he spent in Smallville. After his old friends tracked him down he rejoined the reformed ComicBook/{{Young Justice|2019}}.

A sub-division of the D.E.O. that is meant to act as an investigative branch and provide protection to the public during meta-human altercations, but has oft been taken over by those with more nefarious plots. For agents Etta Candy and [[Franchise/WonderWoman Diana Prince]] see the [[Characters/WonderWoman Wonder Woman character sheets]]. For agent Tom Tresser see the [[Characters/SuicideSquadComics Suicide Squad character sheet]]. The division was overseen by Sarge Steel, though he was replaced by ComicBook/SteveTrevor shortly before Flashpoint after he Steel became unable to continue his job due the sustained attack on his mind by Doctor Psycho.

For their superhero princess Koriand'r see ComicBook/{{Starfire}}. For their villainess princess Komand'r/Blackfire see Characters/ComicbookTeenTitansVillains.

For ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}} member Reep Daggle see [[Characters/LegionOfSuperHeroesSilverAge here]]. For the {{Mode Lock}}ed Durlan "R.J. Brande" see [[Characters/LegionOfSuperHeroesSupportingCharacters here]]. For the Franchise/WonderWoman ally Nol Lapp see [[Characters/WonderWomanAllies here]].

* AbsoluteXenophobe: The Durlans didn't start out this way, and several of the factions which survived the Six-Minute War don't feel this way, but the most prominent faction quickly starts developing very xenophobic policies which festers into something cruel and stunting to their civilization's growth by the time of the ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}.

* AliensAreBastards: The most prominent of the Durlan factions, and the one which ultimately gains control of the entire planet by the time of the ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}, brutally punishes those who attempt to leave the planet, befriend outsiders or maintain a unique individuality and forces twins to fight to the death.

* HalfBreedDiscrimination: By the time of the ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}} Durlans despise outsiders and of worlders so much that fraternizing with any is a death sentence, so the children of any such unions need to avoid Durla in order to survive.

* PlanetOfHats: Not so much in the modern age, but their fractured civilizations and factions have coalesced into a single harsh unpleasant xenophobic society by the time of the ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}.

Originally foes of ComicBook/{{Superboy}} and the ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}} the Gil'Dan's first contact with humans has been retconned to their involvement in the [[ComicBook/{{Invasion}} Alien Alliance]].

The Khunds are a war mongering race who continuously seek to conquer inhabited planets and have built a sizable empire spiraling out from their home planet. By the days of the ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}} Earth is one of their prime targets, partially due to their failures in capturing the planet in the past but in the present timeline even when allied with numerous others they present no real threat to earth and usually operate closer to home expanding their empire.\\