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* PutOnABus: She eventually quits her job to leave for medical school, which turns out quite well for her, given how [[spoiler:she is absent when Blockbuster destroys her old apartment building, killing her replacement super and almost everyone else inside, and half of the city is later devastated by a nuclear explosion in an even later arc.]]


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* AbusiveParents: In the ''Rebirth'' timeline, he re-negotiated his deal with Neron by buying back his soul in exchange for permitting Neron to kill his then-infant daughter once Blockbuster himself dies (fortunately, Nightwing saves her).
* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: In the Post-Crisis timeline, his murder leads to a group of local cops writing a message mocking his death onto a picture of him that they have long used (and continue to use) as a DartboardOfHate.


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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: In the ''Rebirth'' timeline, one of his legal businesses is a PrivateProfitPrison that is run in a particularly brutal and cost-cutting manner that makes it the worst HellholePrison many supervillains have ever done time in. It never seems to occur to Blockbuster that learning he has been profiting off their misery in such a fashion will deter his fellow villains from working for him (and during a moment where he is particularly desperate for reinforcements) once Batgirl penetrates the shell companies owning the prison and exposes his management of it.
-->'''Brutale:''' I had friends in Bludhaven Private that didn't survive the place. I don't work for you anymore. And once word gets around, ''neither will anybody else.'' Good luck with the angry mob, Roland.
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* AdaptationExpansion: In Golden and Silver Age stories, Maroni was just a one-shot villain whose only contribution to the mythos was the creation of Two-Face. After ''ComicBook/ZeroHour'', writers began using him in stories that explored the inner workings of the Gotham Mafia prior to the rise of Batman's classic "freak" rogues.

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* AdaptationExpansion: In Golden and Silver Age stories, Maroni was just a one-shot villain whose only contribution to the mythos was the creation of Two-Face. After ''ComicBook/ZeroHour'', ''ComicBook/ZeroHourCrisisInTime'', writers began using him in stories that explored the inner workings of the Gotham Mafia prior to the rise of Batman's classic "freak" rogues.
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* LadyOfWar: Lady Vic is a villainous version of this trope. Lady Elaine Marsh-Morton is descended from a long line of British soldiers and mercenaries, and a genuine English aristocrat. The money she earns from her secret career an assassin, bounty hunter, and mercenary helps prevent foreclosure on her impoverished family estate. She uses the vast collection of weaponry from the world accumulated by her ancestors as her personal arsenal.

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* LadyOfWar: Lady Vic is a villainous version of this trope. Lady Elaine Marsh-Morton is descended from a long line of British soldiers and mercenaries, and a genuine English aristocrat. The money she earns from her secret career as an assassin, bounty hunter, and mercenary helps prevent foreclosure on her impoverished family estate. She uses the vast collection of weaponry from the world accumulated by her ancestors as her personal arsenal.



The young Mali was once one of Mad Hatter's favorite obsessions. Kidnapped into doing his mind controlled bidding as his 'Alice' she was shot by the hatter. cursed with a condition called "personality slipping". Mali relies on a rare drug called Kanium to balance her mind she does whatever she needs to to get a constant supply of it.

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The young Mali was once one of Mad Hatter's favorite obsessions. Kidnapped into doing his mind controlled bidding as his 'Alice' 'Alice', she was shot by the hatter. cursed Hatter. Cursed with a condition called "personality slipping". slipping", Mali relies on a rare drug called Kanium to balance her mind she mind. She does whatever she needs to to get a constant supply of it.
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* NormalFishInATinyPond: Desmond is mutated into a gargantuan humanoid form of muscle and is the most dangerous man around...in Bludhaven. Bludhaven has very little costumed crime and the few costumed criminals around are at best C-list of the BadassNormal variety. Outside of Bludhaven, Desmond is a C-lister himself that barely rates as a threat to the Hero or Villain community. This point is beautifully illustrated when Superman visits Nightwing and they both threaten Desmond to keep him from evicting tenants from one of the properties he owns. [[EpicFail Desmond takes a swing as Superman who promptly stops the punch like it's being thrown from a 5-year-old while Blockbuster looks like he broke his hand]]. Supes then tells him not to start fights he can't finish. Interestingly, Desmond [[PragmaticVillainy fully acknowledges his place in the pecking order]] and is content to be the king of a small hill rather than shoot for the top of the mountain.
* SmugSuper: In spite of his enhanced intellect Desmond is a bully who like throwing his weight around. For all of his schemes, he's nothing but a thug at heart an like lording over others. The problems is that it tends to make him arrogant or overconfident. Once when Superman visited Nightwing and the two of them threatened Desmond, Roland lost his cool and threw a punch at Supes. Superman stopped the punch with barely any effort while Desmond damn near broke his hand. As dangerous as a man who can pick up a truck can be, he doesn't hold a candle to a guy who can bench press mountains.

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* NormalFishInATinyPond: Desmond is mutated into a gargantuan humanoid form of muscle and is the most dangerous man around...in Bludhaven. Bludhaven has very little costumed crime and the few costumed criminals around are at best C-list of the BadassNormal variety. Outside of Bludhaven, Desmond is a C-lister himself that barely rates as a threat to the Hero or Villain community. This point is beautifully illustrated when Superman visits Nightwing and they both threaten Desmond to keep him from evicting tenants from one of the properties he owns. [[EpicFail Desmond takes a swing as at Superman who promptly stops the punch like it's being thrown from by a 5-year-old while Blockbuster looks like he broke his hand]]. Supes then tells him not to start fights he can't finish. Interestingly, Desmond [[PragmaticVillainy fully acknowledges his place in the pecking order]] and is content to be the king of a small hill rather than shoot for the top of the mountain.
* SmugSuper: In spite of his enhanced intellect Desmond is a bully who like throwing his weight around. For all of his schemes, he's nothing but a thug at heart an like and likes lording over others. The problems problem is that it tends to make him arrogant or overconfident. Once when Superman visited Nightwing and the two of them threatened Desmond, Roland lost his cool and threw a punch at Supes. Superman stopped the punch with barely any effort while Desmond damn near broke his hand. As dangerous as a man who can pick up a truck can be, he doesn't hold a candle to a guy who can bench press mountains.



Formerly of the Bludhaven police department along with a large number of others in her family. After she started to become an icon of clean good police work in Bludhaven the mayor became nervous about the potential such an individual backed by family might be and arranged for all 20 members of the Riordan family in the police force to come to a ceremony for recognition in order to kill them with an explosion. Katherine was the only survivor and became Hella to avenge her family's murder.

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Formerly of the Bludhaven police department along with a large number of others in her family. After she started to become an icon of clean good police work in Bludhaven the mayor became nervous about the potential such an individual backed by family might be have and arranged for all 20 members of the Riordan family in the police force to come to a ceremony for recognition in order to kill them with an explosion. Katherine was the only survivor and became Hella to avenge her family's murder.



Jacob [=DeWitt=] was one of the first judges of Blüdhaven. After having sentenced a wrong person, he was tied up and thrown into the sea to drown. But for reasons still unknown, the sea made him blind but with the ability to see corruption in the hearts of the people around them.

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Jacob [=DeWitt=] was one of the first judges of Blüdhaven. After having sentenced a the wrong person, he was tied up and thrown into the sea to drown. But for reasons still unknown, the sea made him blind but with the ability to see corruption in the hearts of the people around them.
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Was a love interest for Dick as "Bat-Girl" Pre-Crisis and when reintroduced retained a seemingly permanent crush on Dick which he did not reciprocate. During the turn of the millenium, this crush eventually dissapated due to Dick treating her as a lesser vigilante, igniting her vigilante spirit as the renewed Flamebird.

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Was a love interest for Dick as "Bat-Girl" Pre-Crisis and when reintroduced retained a seemingly permanent crush on Dick which he did not reciprocate. During the turn of the millenium, this crush eventually dissapated dissipated due to Dick treating her as a lesser vigilante, igniting her vigilante spirit as the renewed Flamebird.

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