History Characters / YoungJusticeLeagueOfShadows

* ZettaiRyouiki: Cheshire wears black knee-high boots.

* FrickinLaserBeams: Fires artifical EyeBeams from his helmet.

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: After his experience with Mad Hatter and Stagg, he reforms and joins Bowhunter Security as "Harlan Matthews".]]

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Gwendoline Yeo

* AdaptationalBadass: His comic book counterpart is about as hokey as one would expect from someone with the name "Sportsmaster", and essentially never shows up unless writers want a joke villain, and he retired in the same story that Artemis was introduced in. But on the show he's a machine-gun toting, explosive javelin throwing, helicopter flying, badass mercenary.

* AffablyEvil: Shiva is as polite as she is ruthless; she engages in a calm, civil discussion with [[spoiler:Ocean Master]], then swiftly kills him when he rejects her offer to settle the matter peaceably.

* BadassNormal: While seemingly without metahuman powers, she is able to kill [[spoiler: Ocean Master]] in seconds. Though in the comics, Shiva and Cassandra regularly push the boundaries of not being meta-humans.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:Beheading Ocean Master, a would-be usurper of his brother's throne, and who nearly committed a mass murder of the League's spouses and children.]]

* AffablyEvil: After some CharacterDevelopment, she's gotten into this territory by ''Outsiders''; she's a BenevolentBoss to her team of mind-controlled metas, calmly answers all of Artemis' questions about the League of Shadows, and later releases Shade from Branchwater's control with no strings attached.

* {{Jerkass}}: Yeah, when you react to your daughter's death with "This is an insult to my professional reputation, everyone will think I'm weak over this." it stands to reason that you qualify for this label. Bonus points when your other daughter is genuinely grieving. [[Downplayed: He gives up on revenge on the spot when he realizes Artemis is alive, so he does care to some degree, but he's still a horrible parent and person.]]

* SlaveToPR: His VillainCred seems to be the only thing he cares about. He'll even take on the Light to keep people from thinking he's an easy mark. [[Spoiler: Subverted when he finds out Artemis is alive. He leaves with his rep still stained, knowing that she's plotting to take them down from the inside. So he cares more about [[Revenge]] than about his rep. Or possibly his daughter, but its probably revenge.]]

* AdaptationalVillainy: While his comics counterpart was also a villain, he was a SerialKillerKiller who only targeted other criminals, and in fact ''wanted'' to be allies with Batman but his willingness to kill put him at odds with the Caped Crusader. Here, he's affiliated with the League of Shadows, and takes part in multiple missions that involve the deaths of innocents, even showing delight as he carries out an assassination on a completely innocent target.

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* CaptainErsatz: Despite being based on a DC character named Black Spider, he's Spider-Man if Spider-Man was evil. He makes wise cracks during battle, he's voiced by [[WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan Josh Keaton]], and he even refers to swinging through the city as 'web slinging.' Of course, "Evil Spider-Man" was pretty much the premise for the original comic character as well.

* AnimalMotifs: Cats. Her alias comes from the famous [[Disney/AliceInWonderland Cheshire Cat]], she had a poster of said cat in her shared childhood room with Artemis, the mask she wears resembles a cat, and she can be as coy and mysterious as a cat.

* {{Jerkass}}: Yeah, when you react to your daughter's death with "This is an insult to my professional reputation, everyone will think I'm weak over this." it stands to reason that you qualify for this label. Bonus points when your other daughter is genuinely grieving.

* RevengeByProxy: He's only pissed that Artemis was killed without his permission since it damaged his reputation, so he leaves Aqualad to Jade, while he gets Black Manta.

* SlaveToPR: His VillainCred seems to be the only thing he cares about. He'll even take on the Light to keep people from thinking he's an easy mark.

[[folder:Terra]]
!!''Terra (Princess Tara Markov)''
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!!!'''Species:''' Metahuman
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TaraStrong

The missing princess of Markovia, and the younger sister of Prince Gregor and Prince Brion. Two years ago, she disappeared and is believed to have become a victim of metahuman trafficking.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Like most adaptations of Terra, she's not the one-note sociopath from the comics. While she is an assassin plotting to stab the heroes in the back, she's also a traumatized kid exploited by the bad guys at every turn, and she's conflicted about turning on the good guys once she realizes they truly care about her. [[spoiler: In the end, she turns on Deathstroke before she can truly betray anyone and becomes a full-fledged hero.]]
* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Her famous romance with Beast Boy is completely absent here. Neither of them show any kind of interest in each other, and by the time they meet Gar is in a committed relationship with Perdita.
** Her more infamous sexual relationship with Deathstroke from the comics is also completely absent and is instead shown to be more of a student/teacher bond.
* AdultFear: Not even a royal family is safe from having their teenage daughter get kidnapped, and becoming a victim of ([[SuperhumanTrafficking meta]]){{human traffick|ers}}ing.
* AmbiguouslyEvil: At first, it was implied that Tara was serving the League of Shadows as a {{mind control}}led {{slave|Mooks}}, even committing assassinations for them. However, well after the heroes rescue her and remove the MindControlDevice attached to her neck, she later contacts Deathstroke with a text message by her own free will, revealing that she is a (voluntary) double agent.
** [[spoiler:As time goes on, she starts to have second thoughts about this, given that the heroes treat her much better than the League of Shadows ever did, and fully turns on Deathstroke in the season finale.]]
* TheAtoner: [[InvokedTrope Her cover story]] is that she's trying to atone for the crimes she committed under the Shadows' mind-control. It's a lie. She did all those things willingly, she just needs to get their sympathy. [[spoiler: Until she decides that she cares about these people and [[DoubleSubversion she really does have a lot to make up for]].]]
* BaitTheDog: The audience is led to believe that Tara is on the side of good, and has been under mind control to commit horrible deeds, only to be rescued by the Outsiders. [[spoiler:Though, anyone familiar with the comics will already suspect it's a ruse, which is confirmed the same episode as her rescue.]]
* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler: After her HeelFaceTurn, she becomes a hero trying to atone for her past crimes. Exactly what she'd been pretending to be.]]
* BewareTheQuietOnes: She's a pretty quiet person, but it's repeatedly shown that she's got a lot of pent-up anger just waiting to be released. That's not getting into her work with the Shadows or her infiltration.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Betrayed by an uncle who gruesomely murdered her parents, victimized by a child-trafficking operation and turned into an assassin by an abusive father figure out to exploit her.
* DefusingTheTykeBomb: As the third season goes on, she seems more and more unsure of which side of the fence she wants to stay on. [[spoiler:It turns out that the heroes were actively trying to invoke this, and at the critical moment she turns against Deathstroke.]]
* DishingOutDirt: As usual, she has the power to telekinetically manipulate the earth, from lifting gigantic rocks out of the ground, to forming large stone walls.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Tara sincerely loves her family, and it's implied that part of her deal with Slade was that nothing bad would happen to them. She goes into shellshock when she learns how her parents died, and when she meets the man responsible her quiet demeanor breaks as [[YouKilledMyFather she does everything she can to avenge them]].
* EveryoneKnewAlready: [[spoiler: Many of the heroes knew Terra was a mole the entire time. They just stayed quiet about it as part of a plan to redeem her.]]
* HitmanWithAHeart: She's an assassin with a lot of conflicting feelings about killing her targets.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:She is actually Deathstroke's double agent and spy for infiltrating the Outsiders.]]
* NotHisSled: If you know anything about Terra, then you know she's TheMole who infiltrated a group of DC's teenage superheroes, gained their trust and betrayed them to Deathstroke. Which makes it all the more surprising when [[spoiler: the heroes knew the whole time, and willingly accepted her anyway [[DefusingTheTykebomb to try and redeem her]]. It works, and when the time comes she can't go through with it. It's ''Brion'' who betrays the team under very different circumstances, while Tara becomes a full-on good guy and lives.]]
* PintSizedPowerhouse: Physically she's a frail and tiny girl, but can throw giant boulders with her mind.
* TheQuietOne: After settling in post-rescue, she doesn't talk much, if at all, which Artemis chalks up to her trauma from being kidnapped for two years. [[spoiler:Which just makes it easier for her to slip into The Team dynamic unnoticed and quietly transmit information to Deathstroke.]]
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: In the comics, Tara is a bastard child of the King, and half-sister to Brion and Gregor Markov. Here, she is their full-blood sister and a member of the royal family.
* SparedByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Unlike previous iterations, since she didn't go through with her betrayal, Terra survives to become a true hero.]]
* TeensAreMonsters: [[spoiler:She's 15 years old, and no less a villain for it.]]
** [[spoiler: This is called into question when she starts getting closer to Lian and Violet, as the latter telling her that she was involved with her parents' murder left her in a form of shellshock.]]
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[[folder:Cheshire]]
!!''Cheshire (Jade Nguyen)''
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!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KellyHu

Cheshire (real name Jade Nguyen) is a highly-skilled assassin who worked for the League of Shadows. She is the daughter of Sportsmaster and Huntress, and the older sister of Artemis. She is married to Red Arrow, and the mother of Lian Nguyen-Harper.
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* AdaptationOriginsChange: In the comics, [[spoiler:he was resurrected]] as a result of SelfDemonstrating/SuperboyPrime causing a CosmicRetcon. Here, [[spoiler:his body was tossed into a Lazarus Pit, reviving him in a similar manner to that of Ra's Al Ghoul, albeit amnesiac.]]

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Betrayed by an uncle who grusomely murdered her parents,

* AdaptationalHeroism: Like most adaptations of Terra, she's not the one-note sociopath from the comics. As time goes on, it's clear that while she's an assassin plotting to stab the heroes in the back, she's also a traumatized kid exploited by the bad guys at every turn, and she's conflicted about turning on the good guys once she realizes they truly care about her. [[spoiler: In the end, she turns on Deathstroke before she can truly betray anyone and becomes a full-fledged hero.]]

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Tara sincerely loves her family, and it's implied that part of her deal with Slade was that nothing bad would happen to them. She goes into shellshock when she learns how her parents died, and when she meets the man responsible [[YouKilledMyFather she does everything she can to avenge them]].

* TheAtoner: [[InvokedTrope Her cover story]] is that she's trying to atone for the crimes she committed under the Shadows' mind-control. It's a lie. She did all those things willingly, she just needs to get their sympathy. [[spoiler: Until she decides that she cares about these people and she really does have

* AmbiguouslyEvil: At first, it was implied that Tara was serving the League of Shadows as a {{mind control}}led {{slave|Mooks}}, even committing assassinations for them. [[spoiler:However, well after the heroes rescue her and remove the MindControlDevice attached to her neck, she later contacts Deathstroke with a text message by her own free will, revealing that she is a (voluntary) double agent.]]
* BaitTheDog: The audience is led to believe that Tara is on the side of good, and has been under mind control to commit horrible deeds, only to be rescued by the Outsiders. [[spoiler:Though, anyone familiar with the comics will tell you that it was likely a ruse. They're right.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:She's a fully willing agent for Deathstroke.]]
* DefusingTheTykeBomb: As the third season goes on, she seems more and more unsure of which side of the fence she wants to stay on. Time will tell if she fully turns or not.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: It's ''very'' subtle, considering how she is an [[ArrogantKungFuGuy arrogant]], [[DeadpanSnarker sarcastic]] jerk, but it ''is'' there. She only shows her softer side to the people she deeply loves (Artemis, her mother, Red Arrow, and [[spoiler:Lian]]).

* MissingMom: [[spoiler:Has become this to her daughter Lian in season 3.]]

* MysteriousPast: The exact circumstances of Jade entering into a life of crime.

* OlderThanTheyLook: She's 19 (24 after the timeskip), but can pass for 17 or 18.

* TookALevelInCynic: Jade's CharacterDevelopment killed a lot of her playful attitude. By ''Outsiders'', she's somber and generally unhappy, often expressing a sense of self-loathing.

* NotHisSled: If you know anything about Terra, then you know she's TheMole who infiltrated a group of DC's teenage superheroes, gained their trust and betrayed them to Deathstroke. Which makes it all the more surprising when [[spoiler: the heroes knew the whole time, and willingly accepted her anyway [[DefusingTheTykebomb to try and redeem her]]. It works, and she ultimately can't go through with it. Ultimately, it's ''Brion'' who betrays the team under very different circumstances.]]

* AsianBabymama: [[spoiler:Anyone familiar with comics will tell you she really wanted to bear a child by Batman. It seemed she finally succeeded.]]
* DatingCatwoman: What she was to Batman. In the tie-in comics, he rejects her when she can't choose between joining him or staying with her father. [[spoiler: As of season 3, they probably have a kid together.]]

Talia's newborn, fathered during the TimeSkip between ''Invasion'' and ''Outsiders''.

* AgeLift: [[spoiler: Given the heavy implication of who this is- Damian Wayne - then he's at least a decade younger than he is in the comics amongst his peers. Damian in the comics first appeared when he was 10 years old, and during that time Nightwing was an adult in at least his mid-20s and Tim Drake was in his mid-late teens. He even appears to be slightly younger than Jonathan Kent who appears to be more a toddler, when in the comics he was 3 years older than he]].
* MixedAncestry: WordOfGod said Talia was the product of Ambiguously Arab Ra's marrying a Chinese woman, so there's that. [[spoiler:And if the baby boy ''is'' Damian, he's half-Caucasian by his dad.]]