History Characters / JusticeLeagueCadmus

-->''Batman'': Whatever you think you're doing, if you present a threat to the world, the Justice League will take you down.-->
-->''Amanda Waller'': If we present a threat? You've got a space ship floating over our heads with a laser weapon pointing down! In another dimension, seven of you overthrew the government and assassinated the President! We're the good guys, protecting our country from a very real threat: you!

* WrongGenreSavvy: General Eiling see's himself as the last hope against an army of tyrannical 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 most heroes really ''are'' just as moral and righteous as they bill themselves.

* KarmaHoudini: The actions that Cadmus is directly and indirectly responsible for: illegal cloning, assassinations by Galatea, torturing the Question, seeding conflict between Superman and Captain Marvel, creating a PersonOfMassDestruction like Doomsday with incompetent oversight and unilaterally launching a nuclear warhead on an inhabited island, should have been enough to send them to lifetime imprisonment. Instead most of the surviving members walk away, with Amanda Waller telling Eiling that they barely escaped from justified punishment as it is, for him to start acting like a SoreLoser.

** Employed a Suicide Squad of convicts to infiltrate the Watchtower and steal a dangerous piece of magical gear the League has locked up so that it can be kept away from people who might try to misuse it. And in the very next episode, that magical item has been...stolen from Cadmus by someone who misuses it, specifically by using it to take over the Underworld and through the entire balance of the cosmos out of whack.

** Created Galatea, a clone of Supergirl, and used her as an assassin to further their own ends, including murdering ''US civilians and defense personnel'', before she went rogue (due to [[CloningBlues going insane over being a clone]]) in turn.

* CloningBlues: She's a clone of Supergirl, but views herself as superior to the original...and [[BloodKnight has a rather obsessive desire to prove it]].

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

* CloningBlues: As clones, their powers are unstable, and they will eventually degenerate and die.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Pretty much the same as Waller...except, while she's later willing to admit that she was wrong and take Cadmus's disbanding gracefully, he just gets more set in his extremist ways.

* 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 Eiling had fired a missile at an island intending to kill Superman and Doomsday along with wiping out the drug trade on the island, collateral civilian damage be damned.

* GenericDoomsdayVillain: Michael Jai White's line to Superman when asked his motivation, "It's what I am. I don't care why." really sums both the trope and the character up.

* BoobsOfSteel: She's a clone of Supergirl, just aged slightly more. This means that she's a little stronger...and, well, larger. [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre If you know what we mean.]]

* DoppelgangerLink: In the episode, "Fearful Symmetry", Supergirl relives the memories of Galatea in her dreams, and vice versa, Galatea relives Supergirl's memories in ''her'' dreams. Which is why she sets up a trap to try and kill Supergirl because she fears Supergirl's conscience is beginning to affect her, rendering her less effective as an assassin.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Extra points for going to the snowy regions of Nanda Parbat barefoot.

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* TraumaCongaLine: In the span of a few hours, the Ultimen learn that they're genetically superheroes created to be loyal to the government. Worse still, their lives are entirely fabricated FakeMemories designed to mold their personalities into popular archetypes and their bodies are degenerating, giving them days or weeks to live before being replaced by identical clones. The Ultimen are understandably terrified and furious about these revelations, accelerating their SanitySlippage enough to make them want to murder the Justice League in a desperate attempt to be remembered.

* NoSell: Poor Downpour's punches didn't even phase Aquaman. To add insult to injury Aquaman then proceeds to knock Downpour out cold with a ''single backhand''.

* StoryBreakerPower: This is the real reason we don't see Galatea that much. As a clone of Supergirl, 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.

* 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.

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

Dr. Hamilton's creation and surrogate daughter, Galatea is a clone of Supergirl, but with a more pragmatic personality. This artificial status irks her to no end.

* DyingCurse: [[spoiler:Tampers with Luthor's attempt to revive Brainiac by having Darkseid revived instead as a final form of payback.]]

* HulkMashUp: He starts off as an AlternateCompanyEquivalent to Hulk supporting character "Thunderbolt" Ross. In the ''Unlimited'' episode "Patriot Act", he inject himself with an old Captain Nazi's SuperSoldier serum which transforms him into a Grey Hulk expy--a grey-skinned hulking beast that remains somewhat sane, lucid, and able to talk properly. This, in turn, makes him more of an Expy to ComicBook/RedHulk.

* EyeBeam: Galatea seemed to favour heat vision as a primary offensive ability and used it with great skill and accuracy.

* SuperpowerLottery: She has all the powers of Supergirl: EyeBeam, NighInvulnerable, SuperStrength and XRayVision.

* 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 --Waller especially-- recognize the League wasn't the threat they believed them, or perhaps [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist wanted them]], to be.

* CloakAndDagger: Cadmus is so secret that they're not even in the government budget -- Luthor funds them out of his own pocket. The President is the only government official who seems to know they exist and allows them to act with impunity until their acts prove too harmful to the US government.

* 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.''

** [[spoiler: She also has this upon the failure of Project Batman Beyond, she ordered an assassin to kill the parents of Terry [=McGinnis=] and set him up to take the role of Batman completely. It is only when the assassin has a change of heart does Waller realize that having Terry's parents killed would violate everything that Batman stood for.]]

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:She planned to murder Terry's parents but doesn't face repercussions other than [[WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm Andrea Beaumont]] [[WhatTheHellHero ultimately telling her off to her face]] when she refuses to carry out the hit.]]

* WrongGenreSavvy: General Eiling see's himself as the last hope against an army of tyrannical 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.