History Characters / JusticeLeagueCadmus

* PetTheDog: After turning into a powerful monster, he holds one of the soldiers that was protecting the lab in his hands but let's him go, as he knows that said soldier was just doing his job.
-->'''Soldier:''' Don't kill me!
-->'''Eiling:''' I wouldn't kill you soldier. You are just doing your job.

* ReformedButNotTamed: By "Patriot Act," her anti-League sentiment has mellowed considerably, and she's more willing to admit that Cadmus isn't exactly saintly. But when Wade Eiling worries that she's gone soft--"Don't tell me the bleeding hearts in Congress got to you"--Waller smirks and says "I eat 'em for breakfast," showing that she's still the same hard-nosed person as before.

* StoryBreakerPower: This is the real reason we don't see Galatea that much. As a clone of a full blooded Kryptonian, she is one of the most powerful beings on Earth. [[SmugSuper She knows it too.]] Although she has big BewareTheSuperman energy going on, she's kept in line by her genuine love for her creator Professor Hamilton.

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: She's a super-powered assassin who can easily trounce her counterpart in a straight-up fight, and she suffers a serious case of CloningBlues. See BerserkButton above.

* WrongGenreSavvy: General Eiling see's himself as the last hope against an army of tyranical superhumans, and would fit perfectly in a much darker series that deconstructs of the concept of superheroes such as ''ComicBook/TheBoys'' or ''ComicBook/TheAuthority''. Unfortunately, he's stuck in a world where Heroes really ''are'' just as moral and righteous as they bill themselves.

* InterspeciesRomance: With ''Grodd''.
* LadyMacbeth: Was this to Lex and Grodd.

* MsFanservice: ImpossibleHourglassFigure, seductive persona, sexy sorceress, barefoot (if that's your thing) and of course the accent to top it all off.

* MsFanservice: SexyWalk, ImpossibleHourglassFigure, seductive persona, sexy sorceress, barefoot (if that's your thing) and of course the accent to top it all off.

* BlowYouAway: Wind Dragon has the ability to control air.

* FakeMemories: The original team were implanted with these.

* TooDumbToLive: In addition to Downpour attempting to ''drown Aquaman'', Shifter had the brilliant idea to transform into a T-Rex, an animal whose habitat is ''on land''.

* WrongGenreSavvy: Being operated by several Cold War veteran's, Cadmus treats their dispute with the Justice League like they were in a [[CloakAndDagger cynical espionage thriller]] with an enemy just as underhanded as they are, who if [[{{Gaslighting}} goaded]] will reveal themselves as such. Its not until Luthor uses this paranoia against them that they --Weller especially-- recognize the League wasn't the threat they believed them, or perhaps [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist wanted them]], to be.

* ShesGotLegs: She wears a form-fitting white outfit that highlights her long muscular yet shapely legs.

* PutOnABus: The last we see of her, she's been shocked into a coma. According to Wiki/TheOtherWiki, she has been taken back to Cadmus to undergo medical training to help her remember ''basic motor skills''.

* CreateYourOwnHero: An anti-villain invoked version. [[spoiler:Having come to respect Batman and knowing that his twilight years were fast approaching, she conspired to have Warren [=McGinnis=]' reproductive DNA replaced with Bruce Wayne's so he could conceive Wayne's son, and then ordered him and his wife assassinated in order to recreate the sequence of events that turned Wayne into Batman. It would ultimately be subverted and then downplayed when the assassin got cold feet out of respect for Batman's legacy, but cruel fate saw Warren murdered years later and Terry become Batman anyway.]]
* EveryoneHasStandards: Even during her time as an antagonist to the League she had lines she wouldn't cross. She was notably horrified when she learned that [[spoiler:Eiling had fired a missile at an island intending to kill Superman and Doomsday, collateral civilian damage be damned.]]

* NobleBigot: In "Patriot Act", while she admits she's not the biggest fan of the League, she now sees the good in them and no longer distrusts them.

* NotSoStoic: Despite maintaining an unflinching face against Batman as she explained her own motivations, Waller was clearly shaken after talking to him, though she held her in fear until he had left.

* VillainHasAPoint: Occurs InUniverse in "The Doomsday Sanction." Batman challenges her anti-League stance, but Waller snaps that a group of incredibly powerful metahumans not beholden to ''any'' oversight and armed with a giant laser cannon in their planet-orbiting spaceship could destroy the entire planet if they [[FaceHeelTurn ever go bad.]] She also points out that the Justice Lords, a KnightTemplar AlternateUniverse version of the League, were able to completely overpower the U.S. government and turn the world into a giant police state in a matter of days. It's notable that Batman himself can't come up with a counterargument to Waller's views and instead leaves her without getting the last word--something he [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness never does.]]

* {{Foil}}: To Batman, which is likely why they share the most screen time. Both [[BadassNormal lack powers]] but make up for it with sheer determination and spine; Bruce Wayne was born into great wealth and lost his parents at a young age, while Waller was born into abject poverty and (if this incarnation has the same history as her comic counterpart) lost her husband and children as an adult; Bruce is a muscular white man, and Amanda is a fat black woman; Bruce has developed secret failsafes against all the other League members, while Waller also distrusts the League and works against them; Bruce insists on working outside the law as Batman but relies on the police for aid, while Waller represents the law while leaning on illegal activities and funding.

* TwinTelepathy: In Supergirl's dreams, she relives the memories of Galatea. In turn, Galatea feels she has to kill Supergirl because she fears Supergirl's conscience is beginning to affect her, rendering her less effective as an assassin.

* ChildByRape: Perhaps not literally, but it's not like Supergirl consented to her conception.

[-[[Characters/JusticeLeagueTheLeague The Justice League]] ([[Characters/DCAUSuperman Superman]], [[Characters/DCAUBatman Batman]]) | [[Characters/JusticeLeagueAllies Allies & Friends of the Justice League]] | '''Project Cadmus''' | [[Characters/JusticeLeagueSecretSociety The Secret Society]] ([[Characters/DCAULexLuthor Lex Luthor]]) | [[Characters/JusticeLeagueOtherVillains Other Villains]]-]]]]]

* SociopathicSoldier: He tells Shining Knight that he was a lousy soldier for not following orders to slaughter a village. Generally has little concern for civilian life when defending his country.

* NighInvulnerability: Doomsday shrugs off everything the League throws at him, withstanding even Superman's world-shattering punches. It takes a lobotomy in his first appearance and being hurled into a volcano in his second to only temporarily incapacitate him.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: The original team are treated humanely by the Justice League, but they have far less scruples about holding back against the mass-produced clones that later assault the Watchtower.

* NotSoStoic: Despite maintaining an unflinching face against Batman as she explained her own motivations, Waller was clearly shaken after talking to him afterwards.

* BadassBoast: She personally goes to apprehend Lex Luthor after he betrays her, destroying his work with a BFG that she picked up along the way. When Lex (who is stronger and smarter than her) sneeringly asks if she genuinely believes that she can take him down, she gives a BluntYes and reveals that she brought the League--not to help, but as her ''backup.''
* BadassNormal: She doesn't have any superpowers of her own, and several members of Cadmus do--but ''she's'' clearly the boss, by virtue of her intelligence, strength, and grit. She's even willing to go toe-to-toe with the fusion of Lex Luthor and Brainiac, claiming that she only brought the League for backup.

* {{Foil}}: To Batman, which is likely why they share the most screen time. Both [[BadassNormal lack powers]] but make up for it with sheer determination and spine; Bruce Wayne was born into great wealth and lost his parents at a young age, while Waller was born into abject poverty and (if this incarnation has the same history as her comic counterpart) lost her husband and children as an adult; Bruce is a muscular white man, and Amanda is a fat black woman; Bruce has developed secret failsafes against all the other League members, while Waller also distrusts the League and works against them; Bruce insists on working outside the law as Batman but relies on the police for aid, while Waller represents the law while leaning on illegal activities and funding.

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: This is how she justifies a good deal of her actions with Cadmus--someone had to hold the League accountable, and she was willing to do it, even if it meant bending the law, developing a league of supervillains, or outright ordering murders.

* NobleDemon: Though she's an AntiVillain with no love for the League, she has a personal code of ethics that she won't bend. When she discovers that Luthor betrayed her, she immediately orders Galatea and the Ultimen to call off their attack on the Watchtower (Galatea refuses to do so because ItsPersonal to her). Later, when the League narrowly defeats the Luthor-Brainiac fusion, she calls someone in Washington, D.C. and tells them to have the President "call off the bombs"--meaning she arranged for an airstrike to destroy Brainthor and was [[TakingYouWithMe perfectly willing to be there when it happened]], sacrificing her own life to atone for her mistake.
* NotSoStoic: Despite maintaining an unflinching face against Batman as she explained her own motivations, Waller was clearly shaken after talking to him, though she held her in fear until he had left.

* ReformedButNotTamed: By "Patriot Act," her anti-League sentiment has mellowed considerably, and she's more willing to admit that Cadmus isn't exactly saintly. But when Wade Eiling worries that she's gone soft--"Don't tell me the bleeding hearts in Congress got to you"--Waller smirks and says "I eat 'em for breakfast," showing that she's still the same hard-nosed person as before.

%%* BaldOfEvil: Bit by bit.

* KarmaHoudini: PlayedWith. With Cadmus dissolved, Eiling is moved to a desk-based job but faces no real consequences for all of his actions including trying to nuke San Baquero. However, while many of Cadmus's other officials keep their heads down and move on, Eiling takes the super serum to continue his crusade against the League. Though he's never captured, Eiling essentially went rogue from the government giving up his job and all the legal protections that came with it and becoming a fugitive.

* AdaptiveAbility: While never directly stated, he alludes to Superman that he can't be killed the same way twice.

* GoneHorriblyRight: He was designed and brainwashed to eliminate Superman. Yet was so uncontrollable that they decided to dispose of him in outer space. His fights with Superman (the Justice Lords and our own, respectively) both take place in heavily populated areas (Metropolis and San Baquero) that would've resulted in thousands of casualties had Superman not figured out a way to stop him, and speculated ''far more'' by his own creators were he to succeed in killing him.

* BaldOfAwesome: Especially after he transforms into a Hulk-like monstrosity.
* BaldOfEvil: Bit by bit.

* PutOnABusToHell: The last we see of her, she's been shocked into a coma. According to Wiki/TheOtherWiki, she has been taken back to Cadmus to undergo medical training to help her remember ''basic motor skills''.

* AmazonianBeauty: She is taller and more muscular than Supergirl.

* MusclesAreMeaningful: In her debut appearance, she was of a similar build to Supergirl, and roughly on par with her in strength. When she reappears in Season 2, she's noticeably bulked up, to demonstrate how much stronger she's gotten since her last encounter with her counterpart.

* SuperStrength: She is physically stronger than her counterpart.

* AdaptationalIntelligence: In the comics, he was introduced as feral and basically nonsentient, though that's changed a lot over time. Here, he's sentient enough to talk from the very beginning, and shows a decent amount of cunning: defeating the weaker league members THEN focusing on Lord Superman in his initial conflict, fooling Milo into releasing him, and aiming straight for Supe's eyes so he can't use his heat vision to kill him in their "rematch."

* GoneHorriblyRight: He was designed and brainwashed to eliminate Superman. Yet was so uncontrollable that they decided to dispose of him in outer space. His fights with Superman (the Justice Lords and our own, respectively) both take place in heavily populated areas (Metropolis and San Verde) that would've resulted in thousands of casualties had Superman not figured out a way to stop him, and speculated ''far more'' by his own creators were he to succeed in killing him.

* {{Foil}}: To Batman, which is likely why they share the most screen time. Both [[BadassNormal lack powers]] but make up for it with sheer determination and spine; Bruce Wayne was born into great wealth and lost his parents at a young age, while Waller was born into abject poverty and (if this incarnation has the same history as her comic counterpart) lost her husband and children as an adult; Bruce is a muscular white man, and Amanda is a fat black woman; Bruce has developed secret failsafes against all the other League members, while Waller also distrusts the League and works against them; Bruce insists on working outside the law as Batman but relies on the police for aid, while Waller represents the law while leaning on illegal activities and funding. The fact that they're NotSoDifferent isn't lost on either of them.

* NotSoStoic: Despite maintaining an unflinching face against Batman as she explained her own motivations, Waller was clearly shaken after talking to him afterwards.