History Characters / SquadronSupreme

* MakeMeWannaShout: By virtue of her SonicScream powers.

Expies of the Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica, based on their [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] incarnations. As they are Earth-712's only team of superhuman champions, they are by necessity composed of its greatest metahuman crimefighters. The Squadron Supreme of America (the team's full, formal name) has always had close ties with the U.S. government (even before Nighthawk, one of the Squadron's key members became President), to the extent that it was recognized as a special branch of the military, granting the organization special powers and sanctions. It has been argued that these close ties with the government have been at the crux of the various social emergencies and all out disasters that have befallen the Squadron and Earth-712 as a whole. At the start of this story, the Squadron is recovering from being pawns of the Overmind's mental control, the after effects leaving them faced with the near total collapse of society and civilization; dire circumstances that makes the team take steps it never would have considered in the past.

* CorruptedCharacterCopy: While ''far'' from the extent as ''ComicBook/SupremePower'' or ''ComicBook/TheAvengersJasonAaron'' (barring Golden Archer becoming a rapist), the 1985 series turns the Squadron into this for the Justice League. While the series predates ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'', before [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague the Justice Lords]], before ''Franchise/{{Injustice}}'', before even Creator/{{Wildstorm}}'s ''[[ComicBook/TheAuthority Coup d'Etat]]'', it does feature the same premise: a major disaster that affects the whole world and the majority of the world's superheroes decide to take matters into their own hands, with several others deciding to oppose their now-fascist former friends.

* DropTheHammer: Outfits himself with a mace (along with a helmet and shield) for extreme combat scenarios. [[spoiler: Kills Black Archer with a blow to the head from the mace during the final battle of Squadron City.]]

* MeaningfulName: His real last name was "[=McDonald=]", and his code name for the majority of his career was "Golden Archer".

An {{Expy}} of Comicbook/MartianManhunter. After the destruction of his homeworld by ComicBook/{{Galactus}}, Sk'ym'x wandered the cosmos for a suitable planet to settle on. When his ship malfunctioned near Earth he was rescued by an astronaut who he rewarded with a Skrullian Power Prism allowing him to become the superhero Dr. Spectrum. He then joined with other heroes to form the Squadron Supreme as Skymax. At the time of the maxiseries, Skymax is living in seclusion--having deceived the Squadron into believing he has left Earth--and takes no active part in the events of the limited maxiseries, appearing only in flashbacks. He has assumed the human identity of James Doe, librarian.

Nighthawk, founding member of the Squadron Supreme, quits the team when the Utopia initiative is proposed. He resolves to overthrow his former teammates and liberate the country from their unintentional tyranny, saving the nation from the inevitable dystopia. To this end, Nighthawk forges a team whose main strategy is to infiltrate the Squadron and subvert and defeat it from within. The resistance is made up of reformed villains Mink, Pinball, and Remnant, expelled Squadroner Wyatt [=McDonald=] (formerly Golden, now Black Archer), and new superhumans Inertia, Moonglow, Redstone, Thermite, and Haywire. Perennial Squadron enemy Master Menace aids the cause by devising a de-modification device which undoes the effects of Tom Thumb's brainwashing machine, enabling the Redeemers to bolster their ranks even further by freeing the former members of the Institute of Evil (who were drafted into the Squadron), having them act as moles as well. Most likely an {{expy}} of ComicBook/BatmanAndTheOutsiders.

Career criminal Jerome Myers possessed the ability to tap and manipulate the extra-dimensional Darkforce in the form of a thick, dark, viscous tar-like substance. He was a charter member of the Institute of Evil and an arch-foe of Squadron member Doctor Spectrum. Along with the rest of his teammates, he was defeated, captured, and brainwashed into becoming a loyal, self-sacrificing Squadron member, and was plunged into a coma heroically saving thirty factory workers from an industrial accident. Quagmire was presumed dead when he was eventually sucked into the dimension his dark matter originates from, but it later turned out that he was actually only shunted to the mainstream Earth, free of the Squadron's brainwashing, and reverted to his former criminal ways. He is possibly a loosely translated expy of ComicBook/GreenLantern's ArchEnemy Sinestro, with powers similar to Comicbook/{{The Shade|DCComics}}.

* CompositeCharacter: While he's the Martian Manhunter stand-in due to being a green-skinned, shape-shifting alien in a cape, the fact that he gave Doctor Spectrum his Power Prism also makes him an analogue to Hal Jordan's predecessor Abin Sur.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Hyperion is usually the Squadron's leader, and is arguably more powerful than all the rest of his teammates put together. Nighthawk (formerly Hyperion's closest friend and the team's strategist) is convinced that the Squadron Supreme would not have the raw power to impose and enforce the Utopia Program upon America if Hyperion were removed, and Doctor Spectrum (probably the Squadron's second most powerful member) cannot restrain an enraged Hyperion for very long, even using all of his Prism's power.

* HappilyAdopted: He loved his human parents as much as Clark loved the Kent’s; and lived by the values that they taught him even if he came to believe that they were wrong to discourage him from interfering I. The ways of mankind.

* ForWantOfANail: His life diverges from Kang's around the events of ''Fantastic Four'' annual #2, and then he decided to go bother the Squadron Supreme of Earth-712.

The origin of Melissa Hanover's powers is unknown, as is her background. Her ability to create illusions is so potent, she convinced all she came into contact with that she actually possessed a wide variety of superhuman abilities. She was recruited by Nighthawk for his Redeemers team for the express purpose of subverting the Squadron Supreme from within. Moonglow performed the key task of stealing the blueprints for Tom Thumb's Behavior Modification device, getting them into the hands of Squadron enemy and Redeemer ally Master Menace.

* KarmaHoudini: He's a conquering jerkass per excellence, but he's not seen suffering any consequences whatsoever for any of it, and the team don't go after him.
* LegacyCharacter: Kang's son Marcus took up the title.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Or pants, or shirts, either. Most likely because they would interfere with his shapeshifting.

--> "Lighten up, Nighthawk! It may have taken awhile, but we ''won''! We always do, eventually!" - Nuke

--> "Even when I curbed the use of my abilities, I was affecting things. If I chose to prevent one accident, don't you think I was aware of all the others I wasn't preventing?" - Hyperion

--> "I only wanted the best for our country...for the world." - Nighthawk

-->"As long as there are individuals whose goals are not in keeping with the greater good of society, something must be done to protect society from those individuals." - Power Princess

-->"I know I could have done far more for the world than the random stuff I've done." - Doctor Spectrum

-->"Mowing down soldiers at 900 feet per second is good exercise, but no ''real'' challenge." - The Whizzer

-->"I agreed to go along with our plan to correct ''society's'' problems, but we're not talking society here, but ''individuals''!" - Amphibian

-->"I've got too much to do an' precious time left to do it in anyway!" - Tom Thumb

--> "So...you boys want to play ''rough'', huh?" - Lady Lark

--> '''"To redeem my honor, the Squadron's gotta ''fall''. Sorry, but I can't even let old friendships stand in the way."''' - Wyatt [=McDonald=] (as Black Archer)

-->"If the Squadron fails on this one, my newborn, my husband and my family will ''cease to exist''!" - Arcanna

-->"Drop the stolen goods- go back to your homes, and there'll be no trouble." - James Dore (as Cap'n Hawk)

--> "Listen, you butt-heads- when the Squadron tells you to move it, ''WE MEAN BUSINESS!!!''" - Nuke

--> "There is a word in my people's language: ''tso'chota''. It doesn't translate precisely, but..." - Skymax

-->"The five of us standing here, and our various allies, are America's Redeemers. We are here to relieve you of all the authority you have usurped from the federal government. Surrender peaceably and there need be no incident." - Nighthawk

--> "Ever wonder what it'd be like if Earth's gravity suddenly became ''five times stronger''?" - Moonglow
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[[caption-width-right:279:"Making others see what I wish them to is such child's play!"]]

-->"Your strength is overrated, Hyperion. Admit it- you've met your ''match''!" - Redstone

--> "Inertia's power is among the most dangerous.." - Power Princess

--> "That bleeping 'tanglewire' of his shoots out of his hands like it was under pressure!" - Foxfire

--> "If ''you'' had to wear a bodysuit just to control your temperature extremes all the time, you'd find crazy ways to sublimate too!" - Inertia

--> "If he [Professor Imam] deemed the manifestation of the Serpent Crown, the invasion of the Overmind, and our own Utopia Program to be beneath his notice- what kind of crisis ''does it take'' to concern him these days?" - Hyperion

--> '''"These guys are the most powerful gang a' sleezebags the Squadron's ever fought!"''' - Tom Thumb

--> "Then go to it, Institutioners, for the night is short!''" - Ape X

[[caption-width-right:250:"If he (Hyperion) thinks being blind is bad, he ought to feel what it's like to be a legless mutant ape."]]

--> '''"Aha- the last of the mighty Squadron!"''' - Dr. Decibel

[[caption-width-right:235:"Aha- the last of the mighty Squadron!"]]

--> "I ''like'' what the Squadron did to me. And I'm ''proud'' that they let me join their team, considering how bad I used to be." - Foxfire

Olivia Underwood possessed the power to generate bioluminescence capable of inducing near-instantaneous rot in both organic and inorganic substances. She was among the Institutioners captured and behavior modified to join the Squadron, where she eventually started a romantic relationship with Joe "Doctor Spectrum" Ledger. Foxfire perished during the battle of Squadron City, killed by former Institute colleague The Mink in retaliation for [[spoiler: killing Redeemer leader Nighthawk]].

She appears to be a loose {{Expy}} of Batman villain ComicBook/PoisonIvy, given her poisonous ability, role as a villain with sex appeal, and an implied past history with Nighthawk.

--> "You guys can dish it out okay, but ''nobody'' does it better than Lamprey!" - Lamprey

--> "''Charmed'', darling." - The Mink

--> "Why can't people just get run over like they're supposed to?" - Pinball

--> "Get stuffed!" - Quagmire

--> "I don't want to move til I'm sure we're gonna ''win!''''" - Remnant

--> '''"Shape pound cape man!"''' - The Shape

-->"You have my word as a criminal! Ha ha ha!"

-->"Greetings, Squadron! ''I HAVE RETURNED!!!''" - The Scarlet Centurion

Absolute monarch of 40th century Earth. Time-travelling despot and ruler of countless worlds, Victorex Prime, His Imperial Majesty, conqueror of time and space, the Scarlet Centurion is one of the Squadron Supreme's oldest and most dangerous enemies. Sworn to subjugate their home era, the Centurion has been repeatedly but narrowly thwarted many times by the Squadron, despite the advantages of his vast temporal armies and advanced technology and weaponry. A divergent identity of the man also known as [[Characters/KangTheConqueror Rama-Tut, Kang The Conqueror and Immortus]].

--> "I'd ''die'' before I give up what I've got now, hear me? So you gotta kill me or I gotta kill you- it's the only way!" - Hyperion II