History Characters / YoungJusticeOutsiders

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!Outsiders

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[[folder:General]]
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[[caption-width-right:350: The Founding Members]]
[[caption-width-right:350:'''Left to Right:''' Kid Flash, Blue Beetle, Static, Beast Boy, Geo-Force, Wonder Girl.]]

The Outsiders, the group of heroes formed by Beast Boy to be a public team of young heroes unaffiliated with the Justice League, to better combat the Light. They operate out of the penthouse floor of Premiere Building in Los Angeles
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* AdaptationDistillation:
** This Outsiders Team is really more of a Teen Titans team. Geo-Force is the only actual member of the Outsiders (at least until Superboy joins at the very end of season 3), while the other members have all been a part of the Teen Titans. Their base, The Hub penthouse, is also a more grounded take on Titans Tower.
* [[AdvertisedExtra Advertised Extras]]: {{Downplayed}}. Despite being [[TeamTitle the namesake of Season 3]], the Outsiders aren't formed until more than halfway through the season, with Beast Boy and Geo-Force being the only members to receive any focus prior to that, the former receiving a DayInTheLimelight episode and the latter being a member of [[Characters/YoungJusticeNightwingsTeam the season's previous focus team]]. However, once the Outsiders ARE formed, they effectively become the focus team for the rest of the season.
* MeaningfulName: As a team of supers who operate outside the law, ''Outsiders'' is a very appropriate name.
* StartMyOwn: Because the Team is a covert group whose existence isn't publicly known and whose heroism doesn't draw attention, Beast Boy started the Outsiders as a way to act openly and inspire other people their age.
* UnwittingPawn: They're this for [[spoiler: Batman, who is setting up fake villains for them to take down, as a way of undermining Luthor. Nobody on the team realizes this is going on, until "Antisocial Pathologies"]].
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!!Founding Members

[[folder:Beast Boy]]
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!!!'''Designation:''' D01
!!!'''Status:''' Active
!!!'''Species:''' Metahuman
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/LoganGrove ("Image", ''Invasion''), Creator/JasonSpisak (''Legacy''), Creator/GregCipes (''Outsiders'')
->'''Superboy:''' You game?\\
''' Beast Boy:''' Me? I'm big game!

The son of zoologist and former actress Marie Logan, Garfield first encountered the team when they saved him and his mother from a stampede and after an injury receives a [[SuperHumanTransfusion blood transfusion from Miss Martian]]. At age 13, Beast Boy is the one of the youngest members of the Team. He shares a close bond with Miss Martian and treat each other like brother and sister. She took him in prior to him becoming part of the Team after his mother died.

In ''Outsiders'', Gar is a successful star, following in his mother's footsteps as an actor. He's also known to be romantically linked with Perdita, currently the Vlatavan monarch.
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* AdaptationDistillation: In the pre-ComicBook/{{New 52}} comics, Gar turned green and gained the ability to transform specifically into animals when his zoologists parents gave him an untested serum, to save him from death after he was bitten by a genetically altered green monkey. In the show, he simply gains Miss Martian's green skin and shape-shifting powers after a SuperhumanTransfusion from her. [[spoiler:However, it is later implied that his powers are gifted by a being calling themselves the "Monkey God"; the transfusion helped jumpstart it but the bulk came from the Monkey God. As this was in a dream brought on by attempted mind control, this could be a hallucination, the truth, or both.]]
* AdaptationDyeJob: Pre-[[Comicbook/TeenTitans Beast Boy]] Garfield in the comics is a blond, here he is a redhead.
* AdorablyPrecociousChild: As a young boy, Garfield was outgoing and energetic, yet also mature enough for an 8-year-old to help his mother to care for animals.
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: He's ''green'', thanks to a blood transfusion with Miss Martian.
* AmbiguouslyAbsentParent / DisappearedDad: Nothing much is known about his father Mark, who was responsible for his transformation in the comics.
* AnimalMotifs: Monkeys. In season one, he owned a pet monkey and his regular season 2 appearance is a human/monkey hybrid. And during a psychic fugue, there's a [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane possibility]] he was granted his powers by the Monkey God.
* {{Animorphism}}: His power is to shift into any animal he wants to.
* AscendedExtra: In season one, Garfield was only seen in one episode and as a civilian. By season two, he's becomes a full-fledged member of the team. He does this ''again'' in season three -- after having been OutOfFocus until his DayInTheLimelight episode with "Nightmare Monkeys", Beast Boy returns to the action and founds the titular Outsiders, all while becoming a much bigger player in the grand scheme.
* AscendedFanboy: He is very excited to be saved by the team and even has a poster of Aqualad in his room. Come season 2, he works alongside them and is a KidHero himself.
* BadassInDistress: Gets abducted during Kaldur's attack on Mount Justice in "Darkest", and in "War," he is kidnapped by the Reach and kept in the War World.
* BeastMan: During ''Invasion'', his default form is a monkey-like humanoid with fur all over and a tail.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Dreamed of being a hero as a kid. And he was presented with trauma after trauma.
* BloodBrothers: With M'gann as she gave him a life-saving blood transfusion in "Image".
* BreakTheCutie: Queen Bee killed his mother and he found her body in a large body of water. Seeing a similar waterfall in "Earthlings" is enough to revert him into his human--but still green--form.
* CatchPhrase:
** "Noted."
** Like Kid Flash, he started saying "Souvenir!" in ''Invasion''.
* CelebritySuperhero: As of Season 3 he's now known to the public as the star of a Sci-Fi show. And he completed the "Superhero" part of this trope when he returns to the life.
* CharacterDevelopment: Garfield starts off as an energetic, upbeat kid who dreams (and then achieves) of being a superhero. Come season 3, he is now more mature and mellow, and has gave up the superhero life because of a combination of wanting to be an actor like his mother and the trauma of losing his loved ones. By the end of "Nightmare Monkeys", he realizes he was running away from his pain and decides to return to the superhero life to protect the world from evil.
* CheerfulChild: He's very upbeat and energetic, and one of the youngest on the Team.
* ChildishToothGap: Beast Boy has a gap in his teeth in the second season. He's the youngest member of the team and is [[{{Keet}} energetic]].
* CurbStompCushion: [[spoiler: To put it bluntly, he is ''no match'' for Granny Goodness in a straight fight whatsoever. What keeps it from completely one sided is the fact the fact that Gar pushed through the pain to got some hits in on her and kept getting up to the point where his persistence legitimately ''irritated'' her.]]
* CurtainsMatchTheWindows: Post-blood transfusion, Garfield gains green eyes and green hair.
* CuteBruiser: He's an adorable kid...until he turns into an elephant and squashes you.
* CuteLittleFangs: Has them as part of his {{animorphism}} schtick.
* CuteMonster: In Season 2, Garfield's physical form is vaguely simian-like, but he's still a cute kid.
* {{Determinator}}: [[spoiler: '''Hands down.''' Granny Goodness challenged him to a one-on-one fight fully expecting to be NoHoldsBarredBeatdown in her favor. And it almost was, if not for the fact the he just would not stay down.]]
-->'''Granny:''' Is that really all you got?\\
'''Beast Boy:''' (''Turns into a Ma’alefa’ak'') Just. Getting. Started.
* DressingAsTheEnemy: In “Summit” he is one of the members who disguises himself as one of the assassins working for The Light and works as TheCavalry for Kaldur and the rest of the heroes while Savage actually believed they were reinforcement for The Light.
* EmancipatedMinor: He mentions being an emancipated minor in season 3, which makes sense as his show has made him a TeenIdol. His mental trip in "Nightmare Monkeys" implied this is to avoid having to deal with his stepfather, whom he thinks claimed "dubious parental rights" [[FinancialAbuse to exploit him]].
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: His preferred form off-battle (see image). He's also fond of being [[TheBerserker a gorilla]] whenever strength is needed. Naturally, this leads to him fighting gorilla mook [[FunnyAnimal Monsieur Mallah]] in the penultimate episode of season 2.
** He also had one for a pet while living in Qurac with his mother. [[spoiler:It's implied in ''Outsiders'' the monkey may have been an agent or avatar of a mystical being calling itself the Monkey God.]]
* EyeColorChange: Previously blue, they turn green post-blood transfusion, signifying a supernatural change.
* {{Fanboy}}: He ''worships'' heroes.
* FieryRedhead: He used to have red hair and was an energetic kid.
* FoeTossingCharge: He's capable of doing so when he uses a rhino or elephant transformation.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Even before his transformation, as his mother ran an animal preserve and he was just as close to the animals as she was.
* GenerationXerox: In ''Outsiders'', Gar is a self-made actor in Hollywood like his mother.
* GiverOfLameNames: His approach to naming animals while on his mom's nature preserve... well, [[ADogNamedDog there's a trope for it]]. Although [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike Connor approves]].
* HappilyAdopted: After his mother's death and the deaths of the Doom Patrol, he was taken in by his CoolBigSis and [[BloodBrothers blood sister]] M'gann. That is until his godmother's husband sues for custody and exploits his powers for TV roles.
* HeroicBSOD: In "Earthlings", seeing the sight of a waterfall reverts him to his human form--but still green--as he recalls the sight of his mother's car crashed into a waterfall.
* HomeschooledKids:
** In season 1, he is homeschooled by his mother according to WordOfGod.
** In season 2, after his mother's death, he is taught at the Cave by Snapper. {{Justified|Trope}} because his green skin and hair would make him both an outcast amongst the populace and an easier target to villains.
* HotBloodedSideburns: He's very excitable and energetic, and sports monkey-like sideburns prior to season 3.
* {{Keet}}: Comes with being a hot-blooded thirteen-year-old.
* InnocentBlueEyes: Used to have blue eyes and is a helpful, friendly kid with a love for superheroes.
* InterspeciesRomance: He (a metahuman) is currently in a relationship with Perdita (human).
* KidAppealCharacter: Type 1 with a smattering of type 3.
* KidHero: Thirteen years old after the timeskip. He joined the Team after Queen Bee killed his mother.
* KillerGorilla: His preferred battle form seems to be a gorilla.
* TheLeader: Type 4. Of the Outsiders.
* LikesOlderWomen: Perdita is a full two years older than him.
* LittleBitBeastly: His preferred default form has fur all over and a tail in ''Invasion''. In ''Outsiders'', he has a pretty normal appearance barring the deep green skin.
* LittlestCancerPatient: Becomes collateral damage from one of the team's battles.
* LockedIntoStrangeness: As a result of gaining shape-shifting abilities from Miss Martian's blood transfusion, his hair has become green along with his eyes and skin.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Despite leading another team and working with the Justice League in secret to counter the Light, he is not made aware of the Anti-Light scheme, who decide against it due to the potential problems that could open up.
* MagicPants: His uniform shrinks into a collar on his animal forms.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: [[spoiler:It's unknown if his powers are the result of M'gann's blood transfusion or because of the magical aspects granted by the Monkey God, or possibly some combination.]]
* MoralityPet: He's M'gann's in Season Two, reminding us that though she's become a lot more reserved and pragmatic, the [[TheHeart old M'gann is still there.]]
* MorphicResonance: He maintains his green coloration and red collar between forms.
* MyParentsAreDead: He became Beast Boy after Queen Bee killed his mother.
* NiceGuy: A cheerful and upbeat kid.
* NoConservationOfMass: Justified. He can turn into animals much larger than himself with his powers, the strangeness of which is foreshadowed by teammates watching ''Space Trek 3057''...and then lampshaded by [[spoiler:the Monkey God, who then claims that his magic allows such scientifically impossible things to happen.]]
* OffscreenRomance: He started dating Perdita at some point between ''Invasion'' and ''Outsiders''.
* OlderAndWiser: The TimeSkip in season three shows him aged up and has more experience than in season two.
* PrimalStance: As seen in his image.
* PrimaryColorChampion: His superhero suit is a red/white biosuit.
* RaisedByDudes: Gender-Inverted. His primary caretakers throughout his life were his mother (Marie Logan), godmother/adpotive mother (Rita Farr aka Elastigirl), and honorary [[BloodBrothers blood sister]] (M'gann). There's no mention of his biological father and his relationship with his adoptive father, Rita's husband Steve Dayton, is ''very'' chilly. The implication is that Steve barely showed an interest in his ward he and only attempted to claim dubious parental rights on Garfield so he could make money off him.
** Paul Sloane mentions that he was he was made Garfield's godfather in "Nightmare Monkeys", but what little that has been shown of their dynamic can be described as "cordial, but not close".
* RedGreenContrast: Has green skin, hair and eyes, and wears a red costume as a superhero.
* RedIsHeroic: His superhero suit is mostly red with a few white lines
* ShapeshifterDefaultForm: He likes defaulting to a human-monkey hybrid form, even though he still has a fully human (albeit green-skinned) form that we first see him change into reflexively during a traumatic flashback.
* ShipperOnDeck: For Miss Martian/Superboy.
* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: After receiving a blood transfusion from Miss Martian (who could manipulate hers [[ABNegative to match his rare blood type]]); previously, he had blue eyes. This is the first sign of his transformation into [[Comicbook/TeenTitans Beast Boy]].
* StealthPun: His character name on ''Space Trek 3057'', Tork. A ''torc'' is a decorative collar worn as jewelry. He has no need for clothes, so Gar's costume turns into a collar when he transforms to an animal--but since he's a. green and b. a person, not an animal, he has no need for a collar to control or identify him, either.
** Doubles as a ShoutOut to [[Series/TheMonkees Peter Tork.]] Each of them are connected to a teen comedy TV show and are sometimes a monkee...
* SuperHumanTransfusion: He got one from Miss Martian.
* TagalongKid: He was this to the team for quite a few years apparently, as they took him in when his mother died, only a month or so after the first season finale before finally being allowed to join the team shortly before the events of Young Justice Legacy.
* TookALevelInBadass: He was an untrained civilian in season one. By season 2 and onward, he's a shape-shifting KidHero. Takes another level in season 3 when he becomes the leader of the Outsiders.
* TraumaCongaLine: Gar has lost a lot of people from the end of season 1 to season 3. He first lost his mom and then his godmother Rita (herself a superhero) died soon after. While he was HappilyAdopted by M'gann, he was there for Tula's, Jason's and Ted Kord's deaths as well, and finally [[spoiler:Wally's death.]] Then, a year after the end of season 2, Rita's husband shows up and takes him away from M'gann so Gar can make him money.
* TwoFirstNames: "Garfield" and "Logan" can both be used as given names.
* WarElephants: When he ''really'' needs mass or strength (or both) to attack a heavy-hitter, he typically turns into an elephant.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: His hair is now green.
* YouthfulFreckles: He has freckles, and is the youngest member of the team at thirteen. Later loses them in Season 3 and onward to reflect his growing [[OlderAndWiser maturity]].
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[[folder:Wonder Girl]]
!!''ComicBook/WonderGirl (Cassandra "Cassie" Sandsmark)''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Who's Stealther Girl now?"'']]
!!!'''Status:''' Active
!!!'''Species:''' Demigoddess
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MaeWhitman.

Wonder Woman's protégé and member of the team during the second season.
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* AscendedFangirl: [[InvokedTrope She's called out on it by Wonder Woman of all people]].
-->'''Wonder Woman''': Little less fangirl, little more Wonder Girl.
* BadassBoast: In response to Devastation:
-->'''Devastation''': Do you really think you stand a chance, Blondie? I've gone toe-to-toe with the actual Wonder Woman!
-->'''Cassie''': Yeah, but ''you'' never trained with her! ''[punches her in the face]''
* BadassInDistress: In "War," she is kidnapped by the Reach and kept in the War World.
* TheBigGirl: One of the strongest members of the team.
* BloodKnight: She likes to fight strong opponents and relishes a good brawl.
* BoisterousBruiser: She's very big on talking tough to her opponents.
* BoobsOfSteel: Definitely one of the stronger members of the team, and has the bust size to match.
* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: Has a stylized "W" on her shirt.
* TheCameo: A picture of her was shown in ''Young Justice: Legacy''.
* TheChick: Takes over this role from Miss Martian in Season 2. Cassie is genuinely sweet and kind, but as one of the newest recruits, is still excitable and inexperienced.
* CivvieSpandex: A black shirt and red sweat pants for Seasons 2 and 3, but adopts an actual costume in ''Phantoms''.
* CuteBruiser: Despite her cute appearance, she can pack a punch.
* CuteClumsyGirl: Rather fangirl over watching Wonder Woman kick butt, then focusing on ''kicking'' as much butt as her mentor.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: When Psimon shows up in "Beneath", she has to be stealthy for once to warn the others that the psychic link is a no-go. She finds M'gann without trouble - ''then'' gets herself noticed trying to reach Bumblebee.
* DressingAsTheEnemy: In "Summit" she is one of the members who disguises herself as one of the assassins working for The Light and works as TheCavalry for Kaldur and the rest of the heroes while Savage actually believed they were reinforcement for The Light.
* DumbBlonde: Strong, but not very bright.
* FlyingBrick: Her powers. She can fly as well as pack a serious punch. According to Greg Weisman, she's the second strongest in terms of raw strength on the Team after Superboy.
* GenkiGirl: Cassie is very cheerful.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: A NiceGirl with blonde hair to boot.
* HeroicBastard: Her parents were not married when she was conceived and she's a superhero.
* HeroicBuild: She has a muscular build and is a superheroine.
* HookedUpAfterwards: With Tim Drake, with a sad twist -- it was Wally's death and the realization of how short life is that drove her to make the first move towards him.
* HumanMomNonhumanDad: Her mother, Helena Sandsmark is a human archaeologist: her father is Zeus, the God of Lightning.
* InnocentBlueEyes: She has blue eyes and she's a heroic, naive young girl.
* InSeriesNickname: Called "Cassie" or "Cass" by her friends and her mother.
* InterspeciesRomance: Her (a demigoddess) and Robin III (a human).
* KungFuSonicBoom: The first punch we see her throw breaks every window in the room she's in.
* TheLeader: With Beast Boy unavailable to lead the team due to going to Mars for M'gann's wedding, Cassie takes over as the leader of the Outsiders in his absence.
* LeeroyJenkins: Impulsively starting or joining fights with people that are way above her weight class is a defining character trait of hers, and it is the reason why she is almost always the first to get her ass whooped.
* NewMeat: She's fairly new to the team (having been recruited only "a couple of months" before Jaime) and is still rather new to the whole superheroing thing (shown in instances where she falters during important moments or lets her cluelessness get in the way of the mission).
* NomDeMom: Justified. Cassie has her mother's surname since her father doesn't have one since he's a God.
* NiceGirl: Cassie is good-hearted and caring, if eager to fight.
* NotWearingTights: Fights crime in civilian wear, unitl ''Phantoms'', where she adopts a costume remniscient of Wonder Woman's.
* RedIsHeroic: Wears her red sweat pants while kicking the butts of baddies.
%%* RedOniBlueOni: Red to Batgirl's Blue.
* SemiDivine: In ''Legacy'', it's revealed she shares her comic counterpart's heritage. She's the daughter of Zeus and Helena Sandsmark.
* SleevesAreForWimps: She wears a sleeveless black turtleneck as part of her CivvieSpandex.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Of the Outsiders. She mainly joins so the Outsiders won't be an all-boys team.
* SuperStrength: Part of her powerset. She's a FlyingBrick.
* UnskilledButStrong: Comments on Greg Weisman's blog seem to imply this about Wonder Girl — although she's a FlyingBrick second to only Superboy in terms of strength on the Team, she's also young and inexperienced, having been recently recruited at the start of season two. She is certainly a far more ''skilled'' fighter than Superboy was at the start from a technical standpoint, given her training with Wonder Woman, but she makes up for it by having little actual practical combat experience, not to mention even worse judgment.
* TheWorfEffect: Her very first appearance has her get trashed by Lobo, and nearly every onscreen fight she has had against a named enemy includes her snaring them with her lasso and them immediately using said lasso to smash her into the ground. Semi-justified, as she's young, naive, inexperienced with actual combat scenarios, and has incredibly poor judgment and impulse control, all of which spur her to regularly start or join fights with people who are way out of her league.
* YoungerThanSheLooks: She's ''14'' at the start of season 2 but she looks 16 to 18.
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[[folder:Blue Beetle III]]
!!''ComicBook/BlueBeetle (Jaime Reyes)''
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!!!'''Status:''' Active
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/EricLopez

When an alien scarab stuck itself to his spine, Jaime Reyes went from an average teenager to a super-powered crime fighter.
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* AffirmativeActionLegacy: His predecessors were white.
* AndIMustScream: The entire time the Scarab is on-mode, he's stuck watching the Scarab control his body, unable to stop it.
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Blue Beetle.
* ArmCannon: Can form one while in costume.
* BadassInDistress: Gets abducted during Kaldur's attack on Mount Justice in "Darkest".
* BigBadFriend: He's a malfunctioning Reach ManchurianAgent who dooms the Earth in Impulse's version of the future.
* {{Brainwashed}}: As of "The Fix" and later freed of it in "Intervention".
* ChildhoodFriends: {{Implied}} to be this with Tye Longshadow.
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: The Beetle Armor gives him his powers.
* ColorCharacter: '''Blue''' Beetle.
* TheConscience: Jaime is an interesting take on this role. He's very down to earth and a NiceGuy. Unlike some others on the team, he didn't have to [[SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining sacrifice basic skill for awesome training]]. He's easy going and very moral. In one incident, when he and Superboy fought an Apelexian golem heading for a nuclear reactor, Jaime tried to communicate with it and talk it down rather than kill it. He is one of the most grounded members of the team and gets along well with pretty much everyone. He's also the conscience to his scarab ''big time''. The scarab implanted in his spine is a killing machine made only for conquest and war and has no reservations using excessive or lethal force. Jaime is the one who often has to rein in the scarab to keep it from causing too much damage.
-->'''Scarab:''' That tactic would be more effective if fired through their bones!
-->'''Jamie:''' Eyuugh. No, no, no, no!
* DeadpanSnarker: Months of being trapped inside his own head has left him with nothing better to do than to hone his wit on the Reach Ambassador.
* DemotedToExtra: In ''Invasion'', Blue Beetle had by far the most development and focus of all the newly-introduced Team members. In ''Outsiders'', he's barely part of the plot, mainly due to the Team itself suffering from this.
* TheDogBitesBack: After being controlled by the Reach for months, he captures the Ambassador, nails the Scientist to a wall (twice), and destroys Black Beetle's Scarab.
* DressingAsTheEnemy: In “Summit” he is one of the members who disguises himself as one of the assassins working for The Light and works as TheCavalry for Kaldur and the rest of the heroes while Savage actually believed they were reinforcement for The Light.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: His powers come exclusively from the Scarab and its PoweredArmor. Without that, he's just a normal human teenager.
* EvilMakesYouMonstrous: His evil future self is ridiculously buff, even more so than Black Beetle, in contrast to the currently slim Jaime.
* FaceHeelTurn: Became the vanguard of the Reach's conquest of Earth in Impulse's BadFuture, and is put under the control of his Scarab in "The Fix" until restored to normal in "Intervention".
* FakeUltimateHero: Once he's brainwashed, the Reach set him up as one of these.
* TheFettered: The Reach are strong enough to fight the Green Lantern Corps to a stalemate. Consider what this means for their Scarabs. Jaime is powerful enough to wipe out every other member of the Team, and most of the Justice League ''at once'', but as a hero he refuses to use the Scarab's more deadly abilities. This is discussed in "True Colors", where it's pointed out that Jaime had previously matched Black Beetle in combat, to which Jaime explained that the Scarab was in control for most of that, and he refuses to risk giving it control again for fear of it controlling him permanently.
* {{Foil}}: To Cyborg -- Both are human teenagers who unwillingly bonded to sentient alien devices that give them special abilities and try to turn them evil. Jaime is able to revert between his armored form and civilian form at will, while Vic has the issue of a permanent cyborg appearance as a result of injury. Unlike Jaime with the scarab, Vic was able to resist the control of the Fatherbox. Also Jaime is ecstatic about being a hero while Vic wants a normal life.
* FullNameBasis: The Scarab constantly calls him "Jaime Reyes" in full.
* FutureMeScaresMe: He doesn't actually meet his future self, but just hearing about how he became the vanguard of the Reach's conquest of Earth in Impulse's BadFuture freaks the hell out of him.
* GratuitousSpanish: He will slip into this sometimes. He is Latino and hails from Texas, so it makes sense.
* HenshinHero: Only has his powers when the Scarab activates their PoweredArmor form. Otherwise, he's just a normal teenager with an alien device on his back. Passive powers like his TranslatorMicrobes still work, though.
* HeroicHost: The Scarab wasn't made by Ted Kord, it was made by the villianous alien invaders The Reach.
* HeroicResolve: Jaime was weakened, sluggish and at less than optimum strength thanks to The Reach's "treatment" in "Before The Dawn" before Bart saved him. He still didn't hesitate for a second to jump into the fray to aid his friends against Black Beetle. And he holds himself pretty darn well, even after he decides to fight on his own instead of letting the Scarab run the battle. In fact, Jaime was the only one who held his own, which says a lot of his resolve.
* HeroicSacrifice: Shows a willingness to make one if there is no other way to get the Scarab off him.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With both Tye and Bart/Impulse.
* HowDoIShotWeb: The Scarab has a TranslatorMicrobes function, a fact which Jaime does not realize until his team-mates and then the Scarab point it out to him. Later on, when dealing with a monster created by Intergang, the Scarab didn't bother to tell Jaime it could communicate with the monster because it considered doing so to be a sign of weakness.
* InSeriesNickname: "Blue"
* KidWithTheLeash: He often has to refuse the Scarab's rather violent suggestions.
* LegacyCharacter: The third Blue Beetle. Also discussed, as Jaime never got to meet his predecessor Ted Kord.
-->'''Jaime:''' It's such a total rip. Superboy has Superman. Wonder Girl has Wonder Woman. Robin has Batman, Nightwing and Batgirl. You've been in this era, like, what? Five minutes? And you already have three Flash mentors. But me, I never even got the chance to meet the guy who should have been my mentor.
* MeaningfulName: "Jaime" originates from a Hebrew word meaning "supplanter"; a supplanter is a person that takes the place of another. Fits perfectly for both how Jaime is the third Blue Beetle, and how the Scarab often tries to take control of Jaime.
* MindControlEyes: When the Scarab takes control, Blue Beetle's pupils [[ProphetEyes vanish]].
* MythologyGag: Jaime's friendship with Impulse, a time traveller, is a nod to ComicBook/BoosterGold's friendship with Ted Kord, the second Blue Beetle.
* MoralityChain: He's one for the Scarab. Scarab's normally a sociopath who couldn't care less about other living beings and recommends rather extreme tactics, but he'll always defer to Jaime. Even when he's put on mode and forced to control Jaime, he doesn't kill anyone until forced out of respect for him, and once freed congratulates Jaime.
* MoralityPet: Green Lantern Guy Gardner isn't someone to warm up to quickly, but the older superhero is fond of Jaime.
* NewMeat: At the start of season 2, he's the Team's latest recruit and hasn't really fit in with everyone yet. Doesn't stop him from having one of the more versatile powersets and being the focal character of the invasion.
* NiceGuy: Jaime shares double duty with Mal as being one of the nicest guys in the series. Even Guy Gardner (who, per Cassie, doesn't like ''anyone'') likes him! Jaime has shown himself to be fiercely protective of his friends, compassionate with others and even show some mercy towards his enemies. Until Green Beetle ''fixes'' the scarab. In "Intervention", not only Jaime has returned to his his NiceGuy status when he's freed from the Reach control, his niceness has rubbed off the Scarab as well.
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: As he tells Impulse, "Alpha never leaves a man behind."
* OfficialCouple: In season 3, he's dating Traci Thurston/Thirteen.
* OneManArmy: He can hold his own against enemies the entire team struggles with.
** Back in season 1 the whole gang were getting trounced by Red Volcano and it took his fellow Reds turning against him to bring him down. Jaime takes on the robot on his own and turns him into scrap metal.
** Jaime is the only one able to fight Black Beetle to a stand still, which makes sense considering they both have the same powers.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Implied to have been one before coming possession of the Scarab.
* OriginsEpisode: "Before the Dawn" shows how he got the Scarab, and a bit about where it came from. This is expanded again in "Intervention."
* PoirotSpeak: Jaime loves dropping in bits of Spanish when speaking, especially when under stress.
* PoorCommunicationKills: He doesn't tell anyone that the scarab is able to communicate to him and so everyone around him think's he's a little off when he seemingly starts talking to himself.
%%* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to Impulse's red.
* RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun: After the [=War World=] incident, the media and passers-by repeatedly point out that he's the guy that "single-handedly stopped the [=War World=]".
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: He's so desperate to avert his BadFuture that he walks right into the one thing that will set it on course. If he had just listened to everyone else, who could plainly see the Scarab had not and showed no signs of betraying them, he wouldn't have fallen for Green Beetle's trap. Even the Scarab itself says that it prefers being his partner to being a slave of the Reach once it's put back to normal.
* ShirtlessScene: He often doesn't wear a shirt beneath the armor, so whenever he takes it off he's shirtless. He's also been seen or ended up shirtless on several occasions outside of that, such as in his room in "Beneath" and in flashbacks in "Before the Dawn". This is largely to show us the Scarab on his back, and isn't played as fanservice.
* ShootTheDog: Destroying Black Beetle's Scarab, which is heavily implied (albeit not outright stated) to be sentient. Mainly because A) There was no other way to disable Black Beetle and B)Jaime and his Scarab would have both been killed if he hadn't destroyed the other Scarab.
* SociopathicHero:
** An interesting subversion; Jaime is not sociopathic, but the Scarab is, and few are privy to the fact that the Scarab [[ArtificialIntelligence is sentient and has its own personality]], making his conversations with the Scarab appear to outsiders as arguing with himself.
** As of "The Fix" the Scarab is in control, and is pretending to be a superhero for the Reach. Yes, the Scarab's version of "hero" is a sociopathic one.
* SoftSpokenSadist: He's disturbingly good at this after being put on mode.
--> '''Blue Beetle''': Don't waste the oxygen, ''hermano''. There's little enough in here as it is.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: Gets more on-screen time than almost every other character in season 2 and he's the only one who can really fight Black Beetle and Red Volcano effectively.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: He's notably more effective in combat when the Scarab's calling the shots, even going toe-to-toe with [[TheHeavy Black Beetle]] on equal terms. Too bad the Scarab doesn't care about collateral damage...
* TalkingToThemself: How his arguments with the Scarab appear to others. This inevitably draws confusion from his team-mates, who don't seem to know that the Scarab is speaking to him. He later explains this to Superboy, which is also when the viewer actually gets to hear the Scarab's half of the conversation.
-->'''Lagoon Boy:''' Blue's an... ''odd'' little fish, isn't he?
* TokenHuman: He's the only non-meta in the Outsiders (in their initial lineup, at least), yet is arguably their heaviest hitter due to just how powerful and versatile the Scarab's PoweredArmor is. When the team is exposed to Granny Goodness's Ghost Dimension, Jaime is hit the hardest by it since the Ghost Dimension, by design, affects normal humans much worse than metas.
* TheUnfettered: Moves toward this in "The Runaways". It's the first hint that the Scarab's in control.
* TheUnmasking: He publicly reveals himself at the end of "Complications".
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Once he's put on mode.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With the Scarab. After being freed from Reach control, the Scarab shows that it generally regards Jaime as an equal, if not outright cares for him.
* WhiteSheep: Is the only Scarab host who doesn't serve The Reach. Until Green Beetle "fixes" him, that is. Then in "Intervention", both him and Green are white sheep.
* YouShallNotPass: His battle with Black Beetle is part this, part WeNeedADistraction.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Scarab]]
!!''The Scarab''
!!!'''Species''': Alien scarab

The alien scarab that stuck itself to Jaime Reyes's spine.
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* AdaptiveArmor: Changing shape and rehealing to fit the situation.
* TheAllSolvingHammer: The Scarab's tactic for everything is "plasma cannon".
* ArtificialIntelligence: The Scarab, who is fully sentient and even gets into arguments with its host.
* BadassInDistress: Gets abducted during Kaldur's attack on Mount Justice in "Darkest".
* BerserkButton: The Scarab lacks empathy in general, but it particularly dislikes Impulse. It's usually okay with Blue's teammates and not too crazy to just randomly kill someone, but when it's Impulse, him simply asking Blue to hang out with him has the Scarab advising Jaime to incinerate him.
-->'''Scarab''': The Impulse is trouble. Destroy him!\\
'''Scarab''': This is good. Now kill the Impulse so he cannot change his mind.
* BloodKnight: The Scarab constantly recommends that Jaime kill his opponents rather then simply defeating them, always going for the most ferocious strategy when fighting, regardless of consequences.
* ClingyCostume: The Scarab is permanently fused to Jaime's spine. If it's ever successfully removed, he'll die. Moreover, the Scarab actively defends against attempts to remove it, even on a cellular level.
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: It ''is'' the clothes.
* TheDreaded: Seeing Blue Beetle makes the invading Kroloteans in "Happy New Year" retreat on the spot, as the Scarab has [[ArtifactOfDoom a similar reputation]] as it does in the comics.
* EmpathicWeapon: Responds to Jamie's feelings but this is usually annoyance at the 'no plasma cannon' rule.
* ExactWords: After the Reach reasserts control over it, the Scarab begins doing exactly what it's ordered to and no more. For example, when caught inside Rocket's forcefield, it used attacks that it already knew would fail to break the forcefield until ordered to do otherwise.
* FaceHeelTurn: Became the vanguard of the Reach's conquest of Earth in Impulse's BadFuture.
* FriendshipMoment: Despite its SociopathicHero tendencies, it appreciates its partnership with Jaime. See GoodAllAlong below.
* GoodAllAlong: When freed of the Reach's control, the Scarab reveals it much prefers its partnership with Jamie to being a slave of the Reach.
* HaveYouTriedRebooting: Rebooting the Scarab would probably fix its memory issues. It would also give the Scarab full control and turn Jaime into a weapon for the Reach.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Though lacking the ability to act on it, the Scarab often recommends that Jaime eliminate those that are aware of their true nature or are otherwise a security risk. He suggested killing Tye Longshadow's grandfather simply because the old man ''vaguely hinted'' about the Scarab being sentient, and later suggested killing Impulse to make sure he wouldn't reveal anything about them, after he had already agreed not to. Strangely, it did not react to Jaime sharing their true nature with Superboy.
* HeroicComedicSociopath: The Scarab, whose total lack of empathy is played both for BlackComedy and drama.
* ImaginationBasedSuperpower: The Scarab is capable of morphing into nearly anything Jaime can imagine.
* ItsAllAboutMe: The Scarab places Jaime's safety, and by extension its own, over the well-being of all others. When Aqualad put a bomb in the cave on a DeadManSwitch and threatened to detonate it should Jaime not comply, the Scarab believed it to be a bluff, then added that they would most likely survive the resulting blast anyway, not caring that the other members of the team would die.
* TheMole: Averted. The Reach built the Scarab to be one, but it lost all its memories prior to fusing with Jaime. Played straight when Green Beetle fixes the Scarab and then cut off again in "Intervention".
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: The Scarab has no empathy, and thus no problem suggesting Jaime kill or cripple targets.
-->'''Jaime:''' No, it would ''not'' have been preferable to vaporize him back at the diner!
* MySensorsIndicateYouWantToTapThat: Issue #21 of the tie-in comic has the Scarab observe that Wonder Girl triggers "bio-chemical changes" to Jaime's system. However, he never shows any attraction to her in the series.
* NoNameGiven: It is only known as "The Scarab", not the name/[[YouAreNumberSix serial number]] from the comics, "Khaji Da".
* OriginsEpisode: "Before the Dawn" shows how the Scarab found its way to Jaime, and a bit about where it came from.
* PhlebotinumRebel:
** The Scarab was damaged and lost all its memories prior to fusing with Jaime. Now it fights the very empire it was built to serve.
** There are subtle hints of this in "Intervention". Several times the Ambassabor and the Scientist point out that the Scarab, which is supposed to be on-mode and obeying them, is making inexcusable tactical errors and unnecessary delays for no clear reason. The Scarab doesn't admit to doing this intentionally, but it does say that it prefers being free to working for the Reach.
* PuppeteerParasite: Its original function.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: The armor has red light slits, which is appropriate for evil alien parasite tech.
%%* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to Impulse's red.
* ServileSnarker: By Season Three, the Scarab has stopped fighting for control, but has also become quite sarcastic.
* SitcomArchNemesis: It has yet to be explained why the Scarab dislikes Impulse.
* SociopathicHero: When Black Manta II threatens to blow up Mount Justice to force Blue Beetle's compliance in "Darkest", the Scarab ignores the safety of everyone inside the base and takes complete control to prevent Jaime's capture, confident that the suit could withstand the blast even if the villain weren't bluffing. When put on mode, he retains the "sociopath" but not the "hero."
* SpannerInTheWorks: In "Darkest", the Scarab screws up Black Manta II's bluff with the fake deadman switch, forcing him to actually blow up Mount Justice to maintain his cover.
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: Refers to every character as "The ( name)", such as "The Impulse", "The Holling Longshadow," "The Kid Flash", and so on. Probably a result of translation convention or limited programming, as the Reach are all referred to by titles like the Ambassador, the Scientist, etc.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: The Scarab, who lacks any of Jaime's [[TheUnfettered self-imposed limitations]] and can take full control of their body if necessary.
* SwissArmyWeapon: Is one. Justified as it's alien tech.
* SymbioticPossession: They may not be friends, but Jaime and the Scarab have this sort of relationship. The Scarab only takes over as a last resort, and lets Jaime call the shots otherwise. It also refers to them in the plural personal (we), rather than the singular personal (I) like other Scarabs. This ends when it's rebooted in "The Fix", though magic is used to return things to normal in "Intervention".
* TalkingToThemself: How his arguments with Jaime appear to others. This inevitably draws confusion from his team-mates, who don't seem to know that the Scarab is speaking to him. He later explains this to Superboy, which is also when the viewer actually gets to hear the Scarab's half of the conversation.
-->'''Lagoon Boy:''' Blue's an... ''odd'' little fish, isn't he?
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill:
** When faced with a locked door, Jaime used a lockpick. The Scarab felt a plasma cannon would have been the preferable choice, even though there may have been a person behind it.
** When faced with an invasion of the cave, the Scarab suggested that Jaime simply use a wide spread on the plasma cannon to fry ''everything'', dismissing their disabled teammates as expendable.
* TranslatorMicrobes: It can understand any language spoken in the universe, and allow Blue Beetle to speak them.
* TriggerHappy: The Scarab needs little provocation to whip out the plasma cannon.
* VoicesAreMental: Played with. While the Scarab uses Jaime's own voice when communicating telepathically, it speaks in flat, unaccented English.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kid Flash II]]
!!''ComicBook/{{Impulse}} / Kid Flash II (Bart Allen)''
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!!!'''Status:''' Active
!!!'''Species:''' Metahuman
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JasonMarsden
->''"Impulse? That's so crash!"''

Barry Allen's grandson from 40 years in the future, also armed with super-speed. Bart travels back in time to meet his grandfather in the present and prevent his own BadFuture from happening. He's incredibly fast talking, playful and witty- or at least pretends to be. He eventually joins the team as one of its youngest members.
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* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: While his comic counterpart comes from a BadFuture, he was raised in VR and so was completely unaware of the fact that Earth was ruled by a despotic super villain. Here he comes from an AfterTheEnd scenario, and was fully aware of it.
* AdaptationDistillation: Bart's origin in the comics has him being born in the 30th century, due to his grandmother Iris being time-displaced and giving birth to Bart's father and aunt there. Bart's characterization in the show also combines him as Impulse of ''Comicbook/YoungJustice'' with him as the more serious Kid Flash of the ''Comicbook/TeenTitans''.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: While he's pretty funny here, he's nowhere near the ridiculous {{Cloudcuckoolander}} with an attention span shorter than the time it takes a lightbulb to come on that he is in the comics.
* AfterTheEnd: He comes from a post-apocalyptic future.
* AppropriatedAppellation: Gets his name from an offhand comment by Beast Boy.
--> '''Gar:''' Well, I think we found our "unknown energy impulse".\\
'''Bart:''' "Impulse"? That's so crash! Catchy, dramatic, and one word!
* BadassInDistress: Gets abducted during Kaldur's attack on Mount Justice in "Darkest". In "War," he is kidnapped by the Reach and kept in the War World.
* BeneathTheMask: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. His "goofy time-travel tourist" schtick is an act, but his excitable personality never completely vanishes even after the audience knows the truth. WordOfGod confirms that the over-the-top silliness he displayed in his introductory episode is an exaggeration, not a total lie.
* BulletTime: Often used from his point of view so we can better observe the things he gets up to while using his SuperSpeed.
* CatchPhrase: With variations of both. Notably, he introduces this slang from the future and it quickly catches on with everyone else, not unlike Dick's 'whelmed' and 'aster.'
** "That's so crash!"
** "Feeling the mode."
* ChildProdigy: Nearly as fast as Barry while being intelligent like Wally.
* CostumeEvolution: When Bart first adopted the Kid Flash moniker at the end of ''Invasion'', it was merely a copy of Wally's costume. In ''Outsiders'', it's been modified to include aspects of his old Impulse costume such as the single-lens goggles, and the more prominent red contrasting the yellow. The logo has been slightly modified as well. Considering his remark that wearing Wally's costume made him feel like a fraud, it makes sense that he would add individuality to the attire.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Bart grew up in a dystopian, post-apocalyptic world ruled by the Reach. And judging by the line he makes to Jaime (see DisasterScavengers), he struggled for food and possibly other basic necessities.
* DeadGuyJunior: PlayedWith. In his original timeline, Bart was named after his deceased grandfather, but after alternating the original timeline, he becomes an inversion.
* DemotedToExtra: Bart isn't nearly as important to the plot in ''Outsiders'' as he was in ''Invasion''.
* DisasterScavengers:
-->'''Impulse:''' Hey, hey, hey, [[AfterTheEnd where I come from]], it's not stealing, it's scavenger rights.
* DressingAsTheEnemy: In "Summit", the is one of the members who disguises himself as one of the assassins working for The Light and works as TheCavalry for Kaldur and the rest of the team while Savage actually believed they were reinforcement for The Light.
* ElectricSlide: He's more than fast enough to run along power lines and grappling cords.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: He's a time traveler, and as such has minor trouble readjusting to the present.
* FragileSpeedster: Ungodly speed, but he can't take many hits and admits he cannot run while carrying people like Kid Flash or The Flash can.
* FutureSlang: "Crash" is good, "Mode" is bad and "Meat" is pushover. It later turns out to be an offshoot of The Reach's, as The Reach have taken over Earth in Impulse's BadFuture: "meat" seems to be a general insult for what they see as lesser species (i.e. everyone). "On mode" is their term for when their systems and subjects behave (hence it being bad, for people in Impulse's time), and when their systems malfunction, they "crash" (hence that being good).
* TheGadfly: Not as much as Dick Grayson in his early days, but it's there.
** Turns on all the showers in Mount Justice for fun.
** Taunts Wally in minor ways about not being nearly as fast as him or Barry.
** Steals food from inside of Blue Beetle's personal locker.
** Shows up at both his grandfather Flash and his friend Blue Beetle's houses in full costume.
* GeniusDitz: Manages to build a time machine despite being a scatter brain.
* GoodIsNotDumb: He's a happy go lucky motor mouth, who built his own time machine to go back to the past, to stop his Bad Future form happening.
* GratuitousSpanish: He got it from Jaime. It's mostly mispronounced.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Jaime/Blue Beetle III.
* HiddenDepths: Went on what he knew would be a one way trip back in time to save his grandfather and prevent a BadFuture where Earth is a nuclear wasteland from happening.
* IAmNotLeftHanded: When going up against a new opponent, Impulse often holds off on using his ability to vibrate through matter until he finds an opportune moment to escape with it.
* InSeriesNickname: His full name is actually "Bartholomew". But, he goes by "Bart" for short.
* IntangibleMan: Can phase through handcuffs and other objects by vibrating his molecules fast enough.
* {{Keet}}: Invoked as part of his disguise. That said, even if his real personality is more serious, consider his plan to avert the apocalypse: become [=BFFs=] with the guy who caused it, as the friendship would give him a push to "crash the mode," i.e. rebel against his evil bosses.
* KidFromTheFuture: Bart gives Iris and Barry the shock of their lives when he lets slip that not only is Iris pregnant, a fact Iris only learned that morning, but that they're having ''twins'': Don and Dawn.
--> '''Bart:''' Hi Dad, Hi Aunt Dawn.
* KidHero: He's only ''thirteen''.
* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: Was ecstatic to meet his grandparents, especially Barry. It's downplayed with other leaguers.
** He was also glad to see Jay and Joan Garrick and considers them his great-grandparents. When Wally arrives, he cheerfully calls him "First cousin once removed".
* LegacyCharacter: The fourth member of the Flash family. Becomes Kid Flash II after Wally's HeroicSacrifice.
* LineOfSightName: When Bart's time machine appeared in the HQ, the computer identified it as an "unknown energy impulse", which Beast Boy repeats when they first find Bart. Bart latches onto "Impulse" as his super hero name.
* LooseLips: Bart's mouth tends to run before his brain can catch up, often letting slip some future knowledge that other characters are trying to keep secret.
* MythologyGag: Bart Allen's friendship with Jaime is a nod to Ted Kord/Blue Beetle II friendship with ComicBook/BoosterGold, another time traveller.
* MoralityChain: Takes it upon himself to become Jaime's, in an attempt to avert the Reach Apocalypse.
* MotorMouth: It's almost as fast as his feet. Also played for laughs when he and Flash start using their SuperSpeed to talk to each other faster than ''anyone'' else can understand.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Stealing Aqualad's controller and bringing it back to the cave is a large factor in Mount Justice getting blown up.
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Part of his Impulse persona, as seen when he shows up the Garricks' house and immediately hugs everyone.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: He acts clueless, lighthearted and cheerful, but is concealing darker knowledge.
* PluckyComicRelief: He acts like this in season 2, [[DarkerAndEdgier which needed it]].
* PrimaryColorChampion:
** Impulse's first suit is a combination of red and white.
** By the end of ''Invasion'', he donned Wally's Kid Flash red, yellow, and white attire after the latter's death.
** In ''Outsiders'', he's now wearing a [[CostumeEvolution modified]] costume which still contains white, red, and yellow with some black.
* PungeonMaster: It [[IncrediblyLamePun runs]] in the family, too.
--> '''Impulse:''' I gotta ''[[IncrediblyLamePun run]]''! ...see what I did there?
* RaisedByGrandparents: {{Zigzagged|Trope}}. He is taken in by the Garricks after being stuck in the past. And while they're not biologically related, Bart considers them his honorary great-grandparents.
* RedIsHeroic: Has red stripes in his "Impulse" costume and a combination of red and yellow as Kid Flash II.
* RedOniBlueOni: Red to Blue Beetle's blue.
* ScienceHero: It doesn't come up much in the present, but he did manage to build a time machine.
* SecretKeeper: Appears to know a majority of the League and the Team's secret identities, as apparently these are known in the future. Also lampshaded by him.
--> '''Bart:''' Oops, spoilers.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Ultimately succeeds.
* StepfordSmiler: Type A. Acts silly and cheerful, but is in fact a very serious and driven person.
* SuperiorSuccessor: His speed is at the same level as his grandfather's, making him faster than his predecessor as Kid Flash, Wally West.
* SuperReflexes: Because he has super speed, he can react very quickly.
* SuperSpeed: As part of his HeroicLineage as a member of the Flash family.
* TakingUpTheMantle: Wally bequeaths the Kid Flash identity to Bart after reaffirming that he plans to stay in retirement. And then he dies in the line of duty, turning it into a TakeUpMySword.
* TeenGenius: To reiterate: ''built a time machine''. From '''''scraps.'''''
* TrappedInThePast: He's a tourist with a broken rental car. In reality, he knew the time machine [[ItOnlyWorksOnce would only work once]], but didn't care given he wants to stop the BadFuture he came from at all costs.
* WeNeedADistraction: In "Intervention," he and Batgirl fight the controlled Blue Beetle long enough to keep him distracted so that Rocket and Zatanna could capture him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Static]]
!!''ComicBook/{{Static}} (Virgil Hawkins)''
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!!!'''Status:''' Active
!!!'''Species:''' Metahuman
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/BrytonJames

A young black teenager from Dakota City. After his metagene is activated, he gains the power to manipulate electricity. He joins the Team as Static with an open offer to become Black Lightning's mentee following the aversion of the Reach apocalypse.
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* EleventhHourRanger: Joins the team proper on the final episode of the Second Season.
* AdultFear: He tells Black Canary that his parents don't know where he is, indicating that he's not a runaway. His first request with her is to let him call his parents and tell them that he's alright.
* AscendedFanboy: He's called a 'impressionable fan' by The Reach to discredit his testimony that The Reach are evil. Now he's a bigger problem for them.
* AloneAmongTheCouples: In Outsiders. So much so that he feels like a “seventh wheel”.
* BraidsOfAction: In the second season, Virgil has his classic DreadlockRasta variant. By the third season, he's shaved the sides of his head.
* TheCape: While not an outright boy scout, Virgil is the most idealistic of the Runaways. He's displayed, on several occasions, a desire to use his powers for the greater good (as opposed to his more HeroicNeutral companions) and frequently jumps at the opportunity whenever it presents itself. In fact, he joins the Team in the ending as Static.
* CivvieSpandex: His Static uniform basically consists of him changing his shirt into one that looks like his shirt from the comics. His updated outfit for the third season has him trade out of the jacket for a combat vest.
** This also serves as a MythologyGag to the comics, where his original costume literally consisted of clothes he found in his closet.
* ColdBloodedTorture: At the hands of the Reach, who gave him "[[WesternAnimation/StaticShock static shocks]]".
* CompositeCharacter: A mix of his comics counterpart and Black Vulcan from ''WesternAnimation/SuperFriends''.
* CoolHat: Always wears a backwards blue cap.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Virgil's main color scheme is black with dark blue, but he is a definite good guy. And even joins the Team in the season 2 finale.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: When Jaime confronts him and the Runaways after they leave the Star Labs facility, he asks if Virgil is going to risk putting his family in danger, due to the fact that he is on the run from The Reach. His facial expression says it all.
* DistressedDude: Introduced as a Reach captive.
* DreadlockRasta: His regular hairstyle. Also doubles as BraidsOfAction.
* ElectricBlackGuy: He is African-American and gained electrical abilities by Reach experimentation.
* TheHeart: Of the Runaways in Season 2, Virgil is the one most interested in being a hero. He even leads the others in rescuing the bystanders from Star Labs.
* IndyPloy: Virgil tends to think on the fly, as demonstrated in both appearances after he's learned to control his abilities.
* InnocentBystander: In first appearance. He tried for BadassBystander but got ambushed.
* JumpedAtTheCall:
** Pointed a gun at Black Beetle ''before'' he got superpowers, and is the only one of the four that doesn't want to be cured.
** The first to agree to rescue the Team in the events of "The Hunt".
** And he joins the Team in "Endgame".
* TheLeader: Based on what has been seen in "Runaways", he's mostly a Type 3, with hints of a Type 4.
* LeeroyJenkins: Although he fully admits to it.
-->'''Virgil''': I, uh, I didn't exactly have a chance to come up with a plan...
* MundaneUtility:
** Steals a can from a soda machine. Could count as a MythologyGag as Static often did this in his former show.
** Uses his levitating manhole cover as a chair.
* MythologyGag: The other three Runaways are reworkings of three examples of CaptainEthnic from ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}} Challenge of the Superfriends]]''. Instead of an update, the fourth CaptainEthnic, Black Vulcan, a black electricity user, was simply replaced with Virgil (better known as ComicBook/{{Static}}), a different black electricity user (Black Vulcan himself was an {{Expy}} of Black Lightning, who is already in the show).
** He also uses a charged-up manhole cover to fly after getting a hang of his powers.
* NiceGuy: On a team with Tye, Ed, and Roy, Virgil is the most adjusted of the group, [[TheHeart being quick to volunteer for heroic actions]]. He almost verges on TokenGoodTeammate.
* OnlySaneMan: The only member of the Runaways that doesn't have issues. Justified, as he wasn't actually running away from home when the Reach abducted him; he was waiting to be picked up by his sister and they mistook him for a runaway.
* ShockAndAwe: Electric blasts, static cling, all that stuff.
* SurvivorGuilt: Virgil makes it clear that he saw many of the other abductees die due to the Reach's experiments.
* TechnicalPacifist: He prefers knocking his opponents out with metal objects to hitting them with electricity.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Geo-Force]]
!!''Geo-Force (Prince Brion Markov)''
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!!!'''Status:''' Inactive
!!!'''Species:''' Metahuman
!!!'''Debut:''' Episode 47 ("Princes All")
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TroyBaker

->''"Patience? Patience, patience. What is the magic of patience? '''You''' preach patience. '''My brother''' preaches patience. Once upon a time, my parents sang the same '''song''' of patience! Where did all that patience get '''any''' of us?"''

The teenage prince of Markovia, the second heir to the throne, who willingly becomes a metahuman superhero to stop the child trafficking problem that was rampant in his country. After being banished from his homeland due to his new powers, Brion joins the Outsiders under the codename of Geo-Force.
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* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Averted. He and his brother Gregor are a rare portrayal of fraternal twins of the same gender in media. Brion's younger by [[ArcNumber sixteen]] minutes.
* AscendedFanboy: As a little boy, he idolized the Justice League and often role-played as them with his siblings, with him being Superman. Now he’s fighting alongside their protégés and one of their members (Black Lightning).
* AtrociousAlias: The first codename Brion wanted to use was "Hot Lava", a pun on his powers and attractiveness. It made Conner cringe while Dick and Artemis laughed, and refuse to call him that (the latter even calling it a "stripper name"). It was, judging by his own reaction, probably mostly a joke. He then goes with his second option, Geo-Force, which sticks.
* BigBrotherInstinct: He is very protective of his little sister Tara, dropping everything to find her. Even willing to fight the League of Shadows by himself if need be.
* BurningWithAnger: He tends to steam whenever he's angry but trying to rein it in. When he fully loses his temper, he often unwittingly burns off his clothes.
* CrazyJealousGuy: Brion gives Violet a warning to be wary of the boys at her and Forager's new school, saying boys only "think about one thing". In the same episode, when Violet brings back Victor, Brion annoyingly asks who the latter is.
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: A throughly twisted and unintentional thing on his part. [[spoiler:Helga considers him her child and hates Violet for being a Mother Box and not a metahuman.]]
* DoesntTrustThoseGuys: He's not too fond of Russians due to Markovia suffering extensively under the Soviet Union and is quick to assume the worst with the Rocket Red Brigade.
* ElementalArmor: His powers allow him to coat himself in rock or lava for protection.
* FallenHero: [[spoiler:At the end of season 3 a combination of his own lust for revenge and Zviad's mental powers makes him take Markovia for himself, rejecting the Outsiders and the League.]]
* FatalFlaw: Though his temper is the most obvious flaw, it is his need for recognition and validation from ''his'' people that consistently pushes him to make his biggest decisions [[note]]activating his metagene and joining the Outsider[[/note]] and ultimately doomed him to be a FallenHero [[spoiler:when his Ambassador exploited it and pushed him to kill his uncle and dethrone his brother.]]
* {{Foil}}:
** To Forager. Both are [[PersonaNonGrata exiles]] who can't return to their home, and both are UnskilledButStrong who can deal heavy damage but are set back by inexperience. However, Geo-Force has a HairTriggerTemper and is prone to constant outbursts, comes to blows with others a lot, has an obsession with his past, and is portrayed as a JerkWithAHeartOfGold on his best days. Forager is calm and polite, never gets angry, acts easy-going almost to a fault, has completely moved on since his banishment and finding a new "hive", and is portrayed as a NiceGuy every day. Amazingly, [[OddFriendship they're the closest of friends]].
** To Conner, in the sense that he highlights just how far Conner has come since his shouting, screaming, and running off days. Conner himself is aware of this, and while his style of mentorship is very hands-off, he is trying to model for Brion the kind of behavior and lifestyle choices that helped him.
** To Dick. While the show never ''explicitly'' spells it out, Brion's origin story hits the same major beats as Dick's, which he tacitly acknowledges when he tells Brion that he has to decide if he's going to focus on what he's lost or on what he might become.
* GlassCannon: Aside from an immunity to heat and the ability to turn rocks and lava into protective armor, Geo-Force seems to be a physically normal human.
* HairTriggerTemper: It doesn't take much to set Brion off after his banishment. Even struggling with hitting a target causes a literal meltdown.
* HotBlooded: Fitting for a guy with magmakinesis. He’s as splenetic as Superboy in his younger days.
* HowDoIShotWeb: He struggles to control his powers, causing him to sink into the ground, shoot magma, and panic uncontrollably.
* InterspeciesRomance: He (a metahuman) and Halo, [[spoiler:a Mother Box in a human body.]]
* IWillFindYou: Brion originally planned to leave Nightwing's Team in "Away Mission" but once Conner promised to help him find his little sister Tara, he decided to stay to look for her.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He can be brash, rude and has a real short temper, especially after being banished from his homeland and being forced to live in America. However, he's also a genuine hero who ''wants'' to help others no matter what, and forms a close friendship with Halo and Forager, growing fond of the former and bonding with the latter as a fellow exile.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: [[spoiler:Then he reveals his true intention of wanting the throne and usurps his brother, becoming a tyrant. Albeit not entirely as his own choice, given Zviad's mental powers]]
* LeeroyJenkins: He tends to act before he thinks a great deal and has a hard time being patient.
* MagmaMan: His power set is based around generating lava.
* OddFriendship: With Forager. They have practically nothing in common outside of being exiles from their home, yet they're close friends.
* OfficialCouple: With Halo, at the end of "Nightmare Monkeys".
* PersonalityPowers: He can manipulate a variety of geological forces, but since he's HotBlooded his affinity is with lava and he rarely uses plain rock.
* PersonaNonGrata: Exiled from Markovia for being a metahuman, forcing him to join Nightwing's Team.
* PowerIncontinence: When he awakens from his transformation, he's so freaked out he starts melting the ground beneath him and accidentally buries himself alive. He regains control after Superboy calms him down, but seeing his EvilUncle accusing him of murdering his parents sets him off again.
* PuppetKing: [[spoiler:Becomes this for the Light by the end of season 3, courtesy of his own ambassador who is the Light's newest member.]]
* ReplacementFlatCharacter: Geo-Force essentially has the personality and disposition of a pre-CharacterDevelopment Superboy. He has great power and is impulsive with anger issues, acts aloof and is filled with angst regarding his past and current status, barely willing to socialize with others including his teammates, prone to outbursts that endanger everyone else, while often allowing his emotions to get the better of him, yet is still a JerkWithAHeartOfGold on his good days and still wants to help others. Putting him next to Superboy highlights just how much Conner has grown, especially during the fight with Baron Bedlam that contrasts Geo-Force's raw power but complete lack of skill to Superboy's honed training. Miss Martian and Superboy himself note the similarity multiple times, and Superboy takes him under his wing specifically because Brion reminds Conner of his old self. [[spoiler:Unlike Conner, Brion is unable to grow past his flaws and has a FaceHeelTurn.]]
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: He can withstand incredibly high temperatures, so he's not burned by the lava he creates.
* TheResenter: [[spoiler:Admits in "Nevermore" that he always resented Gregor for being the heir to the throne just because he was born sixteen minutes earlier.]]
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Becomes a superhero to help save his country from the metahuman trafficking that's prominent in it.
* ShipTease: With Halo for a few episodes; by the end of the first half of season 3, she openly calls her his girlfriend, to her [[{{Squee}} delight]].
* TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler:By the end of season 3, he murders his uncle, usurps his brother's throne, cuts off ties with his sister and is so far gone that the love of his life breaks down into tears, not recognizing him anymore. It is understandable, as he has gone through so much betrayal and heartbreak, and Markovia's ambassador psychically nudged him towards his own worst impulses. It seems to have gotten worse by season 4, as apparently his policies have caused a massive refugee crisis from Markovia to neighboring Vlativa, which Queen Perdita now has to deal with, made worse by the fact that all of her diplomatic overtures to Brion have failed.]]
* UnderstandingBoyfriend: He's completely understanding when he realizes that [[spoiler:Halo is actually a Mother Box in a human body]], reasoning that it's strange, but nothing stranger than what he's seen, and either way they're the only Halo he's known. He's also okay with Halo figuring out their gender, and says it's okay to just be Halo until they do. However even he has his limits as shown by "Elder Wisdom": [[spoiler:he's understanding of Halo kissing a girl at school while distraught, intoxicated and confused, but keeping the truth about his parents' deaths from him crosses a line.]]
* UnskilledButStrong: His powers make him a heavy-hitter on par with Superboy, but struggles because he has no training with them, and as a sheltered prince, likely no combat training whatsoever. Highlighted when trying to fight Baron Bedlam, where despite his raw power he fares poorly until Superboy shows up and uses skill to outfight him.
* UptownGuy: Zigzagged. Brion was born a prince but has been exiled and he forms a relationship with Halo, a Quraci refugee who worked as a maid in the royal Makorvia castle.
* TheUsurper: [[spoiler:Usurps his brother at the end of season 3 and becomes king of Markovia.]]
* WarriorPrince: Played with. He's the prince of Markovia, and willingly becomes a metahuman to protect his people from the trafficking prominent in his country. However, when he begins, Brion is far from a warrior, as he's still a prince with no fighting experience, and by the time he becomes a proper superhero, [[PersonaNonGrata he's banished from his home altogether]].
* WeCanRuleTogether: [[spoiler: When he decides to claim the throne for himself he desperately entreaties Terra and Halo to join him, offering to forgive the former's crimes and to make the latter his queen. The two are heartbroken by his actions and refute him.]]
* TheXenophile: Absolutely fascinated when he sees Forager, as the first time he sees a ([[HumanAliens non-humanoid]]) alien.
* YouRemindMeOfX: Superboy and M'gann both state how much Brion's hotheadedness, impatience, and UnskilledButStrong power reminds them of the Conner when he was first born.
* YoungerThanHeLooks: He looks like he's approaching his mid-twenties. He's actually only seventeen.
[[/folder]]

!!Joined during ''Outsiders''
[[folder:El Dorado]]
!!''El Dorado (Eduardo "Ed" Dorado, Jr.)''
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!!!'''Designation:''' D07
!!!'''Status:''' Active
!!!'''Species:''' Metahuman
!!!'''Debut:''' Episode 31 ("Beneath")
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/FreddyRodriguez

An Argentinian who gains the power of teleportation after his metagene is activated. He is based on El Dorado from ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}} Challenge of the Superfriends]]''. He was one of the counsellors at the Meta-Human Youth Centre before joining the Outsiders
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* AdaptationalModesty: The original El Dorado was pretty much a WalkingShirtlessScene. Ed's superhero get-up involves a closed jacket.
* AdaptationalNationality: His ''Superfriends'' counterpart was Mexican. Here, Ed is Argentinian.
* BrainyBrunette: The resident SmartGuy of the Runaways and has black hair.
* CanonCharacterAllAlong: While it was always clear he was based on El Dorado, he actually takes up the codename in ''Outsiders''.
* CursedWithAwesome: Is "given" teleportation powers by The Reach. Ed makes it known that he'd rather be normal.
* DaddyIssues: Though he seems to get over it.
* DeadpanSnarker: Gives a lot of quips.
-->'''Ed''': I can only teleport myself, and only along sight lines. Which makes escaping from a windowless, locked hallway somewhat difficult!
* ExtremelyProtectiveChild: When Red Volcano threatens to tear his father's head off, Ed is motivated enough to finally allow himself to teleport with passengers.
* FingerlessGloves: He wears a black pair.
* GratuitousSpanish: Slips in some Spanish words in tense situations.
%%* HairTriggerTemper:
* IJustWantToBeNormal: He wanted a cure the most out of the Runaways.
* InSeriesNickname: Referred to "Ed" by his friends.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He has anger issues and is the most vocal of not wanting anything to do with the superhero business, but he ''cares''.
* LamarckWasRight: {{Lampshaded|Trope}} in the episode in which his powers were revealed. His father is S.T.A.R. Lab's head teleportation researcher, and refuses to believe that Ed developing teleporter powers is a coincidence.
* MessyHair: Uncombed and spiky, black hair.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: The original El Dorado from ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'' never had his real name revealed. This version goes for a case of StevenUlyssesPerhero by having his first name be "Eduardo" and "Dorado" be his last name.
* OlderAndWiser: After the TimeSkip in season 3, he's matured greatly and now devotes his time to helping other victims of metahuman trafficking come to terms with their powers.
* PerpetualFrowner: He and Tye could have a contest on who frowns the most.
* QuirkyCurls: A cross between this and MessyHair: for this one he inverts it because while he does have the curls, he's more cynical than quirky.
* RaisedByGrandparents: Ed was raised by his grandfather in Argentina.
%%* ScarfOfAsskicking
* ShoutOut: He has [[Anime/CowboyBebop Spike Spiegel's]] hairdo.
* SixthRanger: He's the first hero to join the Outsiders after they were initially formed.
* TheSmartGuy: Eduardo uses cunning in his teleports. His father is also a Star Labs scientist.
* StealthPun: The initials to El Dorado are ED, his nickname being Ed.
* StevenUlyssesPerhero: Eduardo Dorado, the superhero El Dorado?
* TeleportSpam: Uses it often, and combines it with BeamSpam against Black Beetle using a pilfered Reach weapon.
* {{Teleportation}}: At first it was only himself but ultimately becomes capable of taking others.
* TookALevelInKindness: By Season 3, his temper greatly diminished and became more open and caring to others.
* WellDoneSonGuy: He ran away to be closer to his father.
* YoungerAndHipper: Much like Tye and Sam, he's based on a character who was an adult in ''WesternAnimation/SuperFriends''.
[[/folder]]


[[folder:Cyborg]]
!!''{{ComicBook/Cyborg}} (Victor Stone)''
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!!!'''Designation:''' D08
!!!'''Status:''' Active
!!!'''Species:''' Cybernetically-enhanced human
!!!'''Debut:''' Episode 56 ("Exceptional Human Beings")
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ZenoRobinson

A wide receiver for the Henry Heywood High School football team and the son of Dr. Silas Stone. After an accident, he was given cybernetics by his father to save his life.
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* EleventhHourRanger: By the time he finally decides to join the Outsiders, there are only two more episodes left in the season.
* AcademicAthlete: Victor is both a star football player and has a 4.0 GPA in all his classes, which [[ParentalNeglect his own workaholic father isn't even aware of]].
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Mind you, he was never ''bad''-looking, but his appearance as Cyborg is much more flesh-and-blood than the character is often portrayed. His only visible cybernetics are on his neck, left arm and the left side of his torso and face, though it's unclear if any other parts of him beneath the skin were converted as well. [[spoiler:This changes in later episodes, as his Father Box begins to convert more of his body.]]
* AdaptationOriginConnection: Traditionally his prosthetics are the result of experimentation by his father, and the New 52 version incorporates the New Gods' Mother Boxes. In this universe, they are instead brought about by a Father Box, the Mother Box's counterpart that powers the equipment of Season 3's villains.
* AdaptationalJerkass: While Cyborg is still a good guy, he's not always in control of himself; whenever the Father Box takes control, he becomes violently berserk to his own family and friends.
* BigDamnHeroes: On at least two different occasions, [[spoiler:he boom-tubes into Granny Goodness's headquarters and winds up turning the tide into the heroes' favor]].
* BodyHorror: We get to see his wounded state right after the accident that made him Cyborg. It wasn't pretty at all.
* DivineParentage: A non-biological version and less creepy than the BedTrick most gods pull on hapless mortal or the [[ChildByRape worse reason.]] Victor was given new life by a fatherbox and is a hybrid of human and living Mobius technology. Father Boxes are alive and their creator, Metron, considers them his "children". Victor has [[{{Magitek}} god-tech]] inside of him and Metron considers Victor a "grandson" as one of his "parents" was a Father Box.
* CastingGag: Notably, while Creator/KharyPayton voices a ''lot'' of black men in the show, ''Cyborg'', his StarMakingRole, isn't one of them. To rub in the salt, he voices Cyborg's father and Robotman (who was the analogue to Cyborg in the ''Doom Patrol Go!'' gag). Going even further, one of Victor's classmates on the football team is ''also'' voiced by Payton, who actually has a resemblance to Cyborg from the show (minus the cybernetics), and uses his signature bombastic Cyborg voice right up to yelling "Booyah!" as if to [[LampshadeHanging hang a further lampshade]] on this.
* {{Cyborg}}: Though in this version, Cyborg's machine half is made out of Father Box technology from Apokolips.
* DemonicPossession: He occasionally gets possessed by the Father Box AI lurking inside his cybernetics, temporarily turning him evil until Halo returns him to his senses (in a manner very reminiscent of an [[HollywoodExorcism exorcism ritual]]). [[spoiler:This side is completely purged once he connects with Metron's Mobius Chair.]]
* EarlyBirdCameo: He was namedropped in "Evolution" in a news report, before appearing a couple of episodes later in "Another Freak".
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: He was a skilled though ordinary high school athlete, until a freak laboratory accident/experiment transformed him into a powerful cyborg.
* FightingFromTheInside: Victor manages to suppress Father Box for a bit when he corners Violet. It doesn't work for long, but gives her enough time to figure out how to temporarily purge it from his systems.
* {{Foil}}:
** To Halo -- [[spoiler:They're both humans fused with New Gods tech to revive them. However, the Father Box deliberately built itself into Victor and suppressed his humanity in classic JekyllAndHyde style, while Mother Box binding to Gabrielle was an accident and after Gabrielle was dead, leaving the Mother Box as the sole personality.]]
** To Blue Beetle -- Both are human teenagers who unwillingly bonded to sentient alien devices that give them special abilities and try to turn them evil. Jaime is able to revert between his armored form and civilian form at will, while Vic has the issue of a permanent cyborg appearance as a result of injury. Unlike Jaime with the scarab, Vic was able to resist the control of the Fatherbox. Also Jaime is ecstatic about being a hero while Vic wants a normal life.
* GeniusBruiser: Just as he's usually portrayed, Cyborg excels in both brains and brawn.
* HandBlast: He has a small energy blaster that deploys from his palm, and it packs quite the punch. [[spoiler:This later gets upgraded to a full-on ArmCannon.]]
* HeroicWillpower: Perhaps the first person in series to successfully resist mind control, delaying Fatherbox to buy Violet time to escape.
* HowDoIShotWeb: Many of his powers are revealed as he discovers them, like being able to network to any computer system instantly, displaying holograms from his hands, and sensing Apokolips tech.
-->'''Wonder Girl:''' Okay, since when can you do that?\\
'''Vic:''' First time. [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands Doing a lot of stuff for the first time these days.]]
* IAmAMonster: He views himself as a freak after being turned into a cyborg, though eventually he comes to accept this.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: His transformation was neither wanted nor convenient. All Victor wants is to find a way to safely remove his prosthetics and return to his old life.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Inverted. Red eye and circuitry means that it's Vic in control, while purple is used to indicate Fatherbox.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Is ultimately the one who frees Violet from Granny's control, which majorly derails Apokolips plans.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Victor has ''a lot'' of daddy issues, feeling that his father doesn't care about him as much as he does [[{{Workaholic}} his job]].
** Ironically, the other paternal figure Victor has, Metron(who sees Victor as a grandson for him being a creation of a father box which Metron considers one of his children), has actually voiced approval and pride in how victor has developed. Victor gets no encouragement from the father figure he wants it from but gets the respect of a god from the paternal figure he never knew he had.
* WhenYouComingHomeDad: Victor feels that his {{workaholic}} father doesn't pay enough attention to him. Of course, his dad never comes to his football games and didn't even know about his 4.0 GPA, so he has legitimate frustrations.
* YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry: Due his cybernetics being derived from a Father Box, when he gets mad, he turns murderous, much to his horror.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Superboy]]
!!!'''Designation:''' D09
Joined the Outsiders right at the end of season 3 alongside Forager and Terra, but leaves the group around the time of "The Prize".
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-->[[Characters/YoungJusticeTheTeamSeasonOne See here]].
[[/folder]]


[[folder:Forager]]

!!''Forager (Fred Bugg)''
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!!!'''Designation:''' D10
!!!'''Status:''' Active
!!!'''Species:''' Bug
!!!'''Debut:''' Episode 51 ("Away Mission")
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JasonSpisak


A Bug alien who was exiled from his home on New Genesis, and joins Nightwing's Team after they take him to live on Earth. After a stint with the Team, he joined the Outsiders right at the end of season 3 alongside Superboy and Terra.

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* EleventhHourRanger: He becomes a member of the Outsiders at the very end of Season 3, alongside Superboy and Terra.
* AdaptationalSpeciesChange: In the comics, Forager was a [[HumanAliens New God]] raised by the "[[InsectoidAliens Bugs]]" who inhabited New Genesis. Here, he ''is'' a Bug.
* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: In the comics, he has super strength, durability and reflexes, and enhanced speed, which looks to be true here. However, he used gadgets that allowed him to emulate Bugs, such as adhesive pads to stick to walls and acid pods to shoot acidic blasts at his enemies, because he himself wasn't actually one. Here he as no gadgets, but instead can [[BeTheBall roll into a nigh indestructible ball]], fitting now that he is actually a Bug this time.
* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Justified. M'gann downloaded English into his brain when they arrived on Earth, to his confusion.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Attending high school in human form, his short and stubby appearance and weird manner of speech doesn't exactly endear him to the more judgmental high school crowd.
* AmusingAlien: He's an InsectoidAlien who [[ThirdPersonPerson speaks in the third-person]] and doesn't easily grasp human culture, so he comes off as being a bit of a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}.
* BeTheBall: His special power is the ability to roll into a ball and dish out pain through his nigh-indestructible shell.
* BirdsOfAFeather: He quickly befriends Geo-Force due to both of them being exiled from their own land.
* CombatPragmatist: He's not above pulling AHandfulForAnEye to get the upper hand.
* FakingTheDead: In "Home Fires", he lets Lobo destroy his shedded exoskeleton to get him to leave the planet.
* FishOutOfWater: Described as being a true outsider, being from another planet, another way of life, and residing on Earth where he protects a world that's unfamiliar to him.
* {{Foil}}:
** To Geo-Force. Both are [[PersonaNonGrata exiles]] who can't return to their home, and both are UnskilledButStrong who can deal heavy damage but are set back by inexperience. However, Forager is calm and polite, never gets angry, acts easy-going almost to a fault, has completely moved on since his banishment and finding a new "hive", and is portrayed as a NiceGuy every day. Geo-Force has a HairTriggerTemper and is prone to constant outbursts, comes to blows with others a lot, has an obsession with his past, and is portrayed as a JerkWithAHeartOfGold on his best days. Amazingly, [[OddFriendship they're the closest of friends]].
** Also, to fellow alien superhero Miss Martian, specifically her portrayal in the first season. Forager is an exiled refugee, whereas Miss Martian willingly migrated to Earth; and he doesn't even bother trying to conform to human cultural standards (in fact he seems completely oblivious to their existence), whereas Miss Martian desperately wanted to fit in. Even in his Fred Bugg disguise, it's more of a means to get around more easily, rather than an attempt to hide his true self out of any sense of shame.
* HumanDisguise: With the use of a magic necklace gifted to him by Zatanna, Forager can glamour himself to appear as a human teenager named "Fred Bugg" to other people, although he still sees himself as his own true form.
* IChooseToStay: [[spoiler:By the end of ''Outsiders'', the Bugs' hostility has ended and he's free to return home, but he chooses to stay on Earth. Not only that, but he casts away his human disguise, which is met by cheers of approval from his classmates.]]
* InsectoidAliens: Obviously enough, he and his fellow Bugs are this.
* LiteralMinded: Violet tells him that the civilian name she came up with for him is "Fred Bugg, with two Gs" just to clarify the spelling. Naturally, Forager thinks that his name is literally "Fred Bugg-With-Two-Gs", and keeps referring to himself as such until Harper Row tells him he doesn't have to.
* MeaningfulName: The name of his HumanDisguise is "Fred Bugg". Fitting, since he's an [[InsectoidAliens insect-like]] alien.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: He has a second, smaller pair of arms beneath his main ones. He uses this to get the better of Nightwing in a training match.
* NiceGuy: He's very calm and polite to everyone he meets.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: In "Away Mission", he's the only one of the Bugs that questioned why Orion was so aggressive instead of giving into hate like the rest of his hive. Despite his attempts to get to the bottom of this and save New God and Bug relations, he's seen as a traitor and thrown out of the hive due to protecting Wonder Girl and Blue Beetle from another Bug. And due to [[spoiler:M'gann's brother's threat]], he's forced to leave New Genesis for his own protection.
* OddFriendship: With Geo-Force. They have practically nothing in common outside of being exiles from their home, yet they're close friends.
* PersonaNonGrata: Forager gets exiled from New Genesis by his own people, forcing him to reside on Earth.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: He's pretty short and stubby, yet packs a mean punch.
* PluckyGirl: A rare male version. He was labeled a traitor by his own people for rightly believing that they were being deceived, and forced to take up residence on an unfamiliar planet as a refugee. However, he quickly finds a new "hive" in Nightwing's Team, and is astonishingly well-adjusted.
* ShipperOnDeck: For Brion and Halo. When the former is in a foul mood, Forager states that he'll be happy in a few minutes. Cue Halo (with Artemis) entering and Brion giving a warm smile.
* ThirdPersonPerson: Indeed, he never uses pronouns at all, first-, second-, ''or'' third-person. According to M'gann, this is the norm for his species and a reflection of their complex sense of self, and carries over even when he starts speaking English. Results in quite a bit of [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment repetition]] in his dialog (e.g. "Forager is Forager" instead of "I am Forager"). This even extends to his Fred Bugg persona, where he kept referring to himself "Fred Bugg-With-Two-Gs" because Violet called him that not knowing he would take it literally.
* TokenNonHuman: While the rest of Nightwing's Team range from baseline human to metahuman (even Superboy is a HalfHumanHybrid), Forager is the only one who's completely alien.
[[/folder]]


[[folder:Terra]]
!!''Terra (Princess Tara Markov)''
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!!!'''Designation:''' D11
!!!'''Status:''' Active
!!!'''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.
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* EleventhHourRanger: She becomes a member of the Outsiders at the very end of Season 3, alongside Superboy and Forager.
* AdaptationalHeroism: Like most adaptations of Terra, she's not the one-note sociopath from the original Judas Contract comic storyline. 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 beyond friendship, 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.]]
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Tara has been treated badly for the last few years, and yet the Team and the Outsiders welcome her with open arms and treat her as a member of the family. [[spoiler:As a result, Tara ditches her plans to betray them for Deathstroke and the Light and becomes a full-fledged hero.]]
* 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.
* DecompositeCharacter: Of herself and Queen Perdita, who is a carbon-copy of her that takes the entire 'romancing Beastboy' of her comicbook counterpart.
* 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.]]
* GratuitousPrincess: Her comics counterpart is an illegitimate child of the king of Markovia. Here she is [[RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation the legitimate daughter of the king and queen]], making her explicitly a princess (albeit one in exile).
* 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.]]
* RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: In the comics, Tara is a bastard child of the King, and half-sister to Brion and Gregor Markov. Because she was illegitimate, it wasn't a big deal when she disappeared to become a merc. Here, she is their full-blood sister and a member of the royal family, so her disappearance is a major incident.
* SignificantWardrobeShift: Her costume in season 4 features seafoam green, tying her to her brother's similarly green costume, [[spoiler: which is likely why she changed it, considering Geo-Force left the team during the season 3 finale after killing Baron Bedlam and usurping the Markovian throne]].
* SparedByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Unlike previous iterations, since she didn't go through with her betrayal, Terra survives to become a true hero.]]
* TeensAreMonsters: Initially. [[spoiler:She's 15 years old, and no less a villain for it. However, she ultimately pulls a HeelFaceTurn in the Season 3 finale, where the unconditional kindness and support she was given by the Outsiders, The Team, and Artemis causes her to turn against Deathstroke and become a hero for real.]]
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!! Joined between ''Outsiders'' and ''Phantoms''
[[folder:Windfall]]
!!''Windfall (Wendy Jones)''
!!!'''Species:''' Metahuman
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ZehraFazal

An Australian teenager staying at the Metahuman Youth Center in Taos, New Mexico.
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* AdaptationalNationality: Australian here, instead of being American as in the comics.
* BlowYouAway: She has the power to control air and wind.
* BlueIsHeroic: She primarily wears blue in her appearances and means well. Her costume in season 4 is also mostly blue, and by then she appears to have joined the Outsiders.
* IAmAMonster: She literally calls herself one after the training accident.
* TookALevelInBadass: Appears to have joined the Outsiders between seasons 3 and 4, judging by a picture on Gar's phone showing her with Cassie, Tim, fellow newcomer Stargirl, and a tied-up Lord Kobra.
* UnskilledButStrong: She's capable of creating a tornado, but has [[PowerIncontinence very poor control over her abilities]].
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[[folder:Stargirl]]
!!''Stargirl (Courtney Whitmore)''
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[[folder:Robin III]]
!!''ComicBook/{{Robin}} ([[ComicBook/{{Robin}} Tim Drake]])''
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!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Status:''' Active
!!!'''Debut:''' Episode 27 ("Happy New Year")
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/CameronBowen

Batman's new partner and sidekick, as well as Nightwing's successor. Unlike Dick Grayson, the new Robin is an extremely serious student of the heroic arts.

In ''Outsiders'', Tim left the team with Batman and leads the younger members of Batman Incorporated.
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* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: In the comics, Tim and Stephanie Brown are each others most prominent romantic partner, while Tim's relationships with Cassie are shortlived and only take place when Stephanie was either dead or nonexistant. Here, Tim and Steph don't get any ShipTease and have a strictly professional relationship, while Tim and Cassie have a long lasting one.
* AllAccordingToPlan: Tim came up with ThePlan to take down Clayface in "Happy New Year".
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Birds, like his predecessors.
* BadassCape: Can be used as a glider, much like Batman's.
* BadassInDistress: In "War," he is kidnapped by the Reach and kept in the War World.
* BadassNormal: Like all of Batman's proteges, he doesn't have superpowers and is armed with a host of useful weapons and martial arts training.
-->'''Robin''' (on Ted Kord not having superpowers): I hear those are optional.
* BeneathTheMask: So far the only one to see him sweat has been Dick.
* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: Also sports the standard Robin "R".
* TheChainsOfCommanding: Reluctant leader of Gamma Squad in "Happy New Year."
* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: Dick was gregarious and [[TheGadfly teasing]], and desperate to be team leader, whereas Tim is quiet and serious, and feels uncomfortable in leadership positions.
* CoolShades: When he's in civilian wear, in order to protect his secret identity.
* CostumeEvolution: Starts off wearing a suit that appears to be a more practical take on Tim's ''One Year Later'' outfit from the comics (which in itself was based on what Tim Drake wore in ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries The New Batman Adventures]])''. Season 3 has him with an altered suit that inverts the colors of his "R" insignia on his chest, includes more black in his colour scheme (the arms particularly), which also in general is slightly darker than his previous suit. His new outfit also sports a hooded cape, much like Damian Wayne in the comics and Tim Drake from the ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries''.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Both [[RedIsHeroic red]] and black make up his Robin suit.
* DressingAsTheEnemy: In "Summit", he is one of the members who disguises himself as one of the assassins working for The Light and works as TheCavalry for Kaldur and the rest of the heroes while Savage actually believed they were reinforcement for The Light.
* ExpressiveMask: His DominoMask shows a wide range of emotions, albeit he's more serious than Nightwing was.
* {{Foil}}: To Robin I/Dick Grayson now known as Nightwing -- Both are BadassNormal, have a knack for leadership, same AnimalMotif and AnimalThemedSuperbeing, protege under Batman, and determined to accomplish a mission. However, Dick was more playful and confident (to the point of arrogance), Tim is more serious and humble (to the point of HeroicSelfDeprecation).
* GadgeteerGenius: Tim recovered, repaired and reprogrammed some of Doctor Ivo's MONQI's in order to create a threat for the Outsiders to deal with.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Robin expresses doubt in pretty much all his abilities as a leader to Nightwing, despite Tim proving to be extremely capable during his first mission as field commander in "Happy New Year".
* HookedUpAfterwards: With Wonder Girl.
* InTheHood: He gets a black one in season three.
* InterspeciesRomance: He (a human) and Wonder Girl (a demigoddess).
* TheLeader: In true [[LegacyCharacter Robin]] fashion, he's being trained to be one. Seems to be a type 2.
* LegacyCharacter: The third Robin and fifth member of the Bat-family.
* TheMagnificent: "The Boy Wonder", like his predecessors.
* McNinja: Flips and kicks, the works.
* NiceGuy: Throughout his appearances, Drake proves to be polite, humble (if bordering on HeroicSelfDeprecation), and looks out for the well-being of his teammates.
* NotSoStoic: Unlike Dick or Batman, he doesn't have a poker face, so it's easy to tell when he is embarrassed or surprised even when he doesn't say anything.
* OffscreenTeleportation: Kind of comes with being a McNinja.
* OlderAndWiser: ''Outsiders'' [[TimeSkip jumps ahead a few years]], so Tim has acquired more experience than when he debuted.
* TheOneGuy: Of his squad consisting of former Team members within Batman Incorporated, he's the only guy in the company of Spoiler, Arrowette and Orphan.
* OutOfFocus: Though it's a different character wearing the mantle, the new Robin isn't as prominent as the first one. This is partly due to plot and partly due to different team mechanics - there's more of them, so they're divided into squads during missions with no set leader or second-in-command for each. It get's worse is Season 3, when he has less appearances and speaking roles than in Season 2.
* TheQuietOne: Sometimes doesn't speak for ''the entirety of an episode'', as a contrast to Dick.
* RedIsHeroic: Both red and [[DarkIsNotEvil black]] make up his Robin suit.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Nightwing warns him not to take any unnecessary risks on his first time as field leader. When faced with the imminent destruction of an underground base and numerous hostages to rescue, Tim decides saving the hostages is a necessary risk. Of course, Tim would have taken a lot of flak for ''not'' taking that risk.
* SimpleStaff: His collapsible bo-staff.
* ShockStick: Tim's staff also has a taser function.
* StealthHiBye: It's basically a requirement of the Bat-family.
* TheStoic: Tim is pretty much unflappable whenever he's on a mission.
* SunglassesAtNight: An important part of disguise, he wears them in "Before the Dawn" when infiltrating the Reach's captives. However, in "Antisocial Pathologies", he has ditched the sunglasses as he seems to be more open with people seeing his eyes now.
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[[folder:Looker]]
!!''Looker (Lia Briggs)''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Livewire]]
[[/folder]]

!!Support
[[folder:Dr. Helga Jace]]
!!''Dr. Helga Jace''
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!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Debut:''' Episode 47 ("Princes All")
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/GreyDeLisle

A physician who personally works for the Markovian royal family.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Jace is a lot older looking in the comics (somewhat resembling Miss Grundy from ComicBook/ArchieComics). In ''Series/BlackLightning'', she's a well-preserved woman of middle age ([[OlderThanTheyLook or appears to be]]). In ''Outsiders'', she's a younger HotScientist who develops a mutual attraction to Jeff not long after they meet.
* AgeLift: As mentioned above, she was middle-aged at least in the comics and other adaptations. WordOfGod places her in her 30s for ''Young Justice''.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Becomes the first victim of the Anti-Life Equation. Even more fitting since her betrayal of Violet is what made it possible.]]
* TheAtoner: She was among the doctors forced by Baron Bedlam to perform experiments on children, and gives Brion metahuman powers so that he can be stopped.
* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:Was Tara the "daughter" Jace mentioned losing in "True Heroes", or did she really have an actual daughter she end up losing, providing a FreudianExcuse for her actions?]]
* AmbiguouslyEvil: Though she seems like a NiceGirl, she seems to be keeping the others in the dark about some of her activities. For the record, in the comics, Dr. Jace turned out to be working for the Manhunters (''DC Rebirth'' instead has her working for the Kobra Organization).
** She takes a strand of Violet's hair when she's out, though this is seemingly because [[spoiler:she tested it, presumably for Violet's health, as she later tells her that she ran some tests and discovered she's slowly dying. However, this is still suspect, as she doesn't reveal to the others that Violet ran away because she told her she was dying, although it could be justified as Jace allowing Violet to break the news herself if she so wishes]].
** In "Quiet Conversations", she has a phone call with her mentor whose identity she doesn't want to reveal and wants to keep their communication a secret.
** In "Unknown Factors," [[spoiler:she texts that there have been "Complications," to the Ultra-Humanite, confirming that she works for the Light. It's still kept ambiguous as to how evil she is, however, since she also mentions needing to move her children. While this does seem to confirm that losing her daughter was at least partially a lie, it also suggests that she may only be working for the Light so that they don't hurt them.]]
** [[spoiler:The ambiguous part goes out the window in "Antisocial Pathologies". She sees Brion and Tara as some combination of her creations and her children, extensions of her own sick ego. She once saw Violet the same way due to thinking her experiments were the cause of Violet's powers, but once it was revealed this was not the case, she turned cold to Violet.]]
* AmbiguousDisorder: [[spoiler:Many of her character traits fall under TheSociopath but she has a bizarre fixation with motherhood, presumably in part to compensate [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes for her own child's death]] and in part to cater to her ego, and she can feel emotions sociopaths have no access to.]]
* AxeCrazy: [[spoiler:She is completely demented, thinking of metahuman survivors of her experiments as her children, happily manipulating people to suit her whims and flat-out orchestrating the attempted murder of a person and destroying their relationship with her "son" simply for not fitting the technical definition of being her child.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: "Antisocial Pathologies" reveals that despite acting like a kind and motherly scientist, she's a deranged and egotistical mad scientist that sees her "children" as nothing more than proof of her intelligence. The moment she realized she had nothing to do with Violet's powers, she only thought of her as an abomination.]]
* BrainyBrunette: Helga is a brown-haired scientist and physician.
* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler:For the "crime" of being a Mother Box rather than a metahuman of her own creation, she orchestrated Violet's downfall by gaslighting her with a supposed impending death, driving a wedge between her and Brion, then handing her over to the Light.]]
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: [[spoiler:She considers metahumans she activates the genes of to be her children, in spite of the fact that she's simply relying on natural processes that, while she initiated them, were outside of her control. Meanwhile her experimentation on a Mother Box leads to Halo's unique birth... which she considers a "sick joke" and hates endlessly.]]
* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:Despite what she told them, Jace was a willing member of Bedlam and the Light, even after the former collapsed.]]
* EvilIsNotAToy: [[spoiler:For her to have thought working for Ultra-Humanite and the Light was anything less than a ticket to Hell, Jace truly must be insane.]]
* EvilMatriarch: [[spoiler:In Jace's twisted mind, all the humans she turns into metas are "killed" by her, then are reborn as ''her'' children, and she'll do anything to keep them for herself.]]
* FantasticRacism: [[spoiler:She flat out calls Violet a freak because she is a Mother Box rather than a metahuman and [[DatingWhatDaddyHates hates that she's dating Brion]].]]
* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:Losing her biological daughter ([[UnreliableNarrator provided she's real]]) would explain Jace's obsession with creating metahuman children to be her {{Replacement Goldfish}}es. Not that she's to be pitied for what she's become.]]
* GoodAllAlong: It turns out she was helping Brion activate his metagene and gain superpowers, in order to stop his EvilUncle who was also a metahuman himself. [[spoiler:Subverted, horribly subverted]].
* HoneyTrap: [[spoiler:The only reason she seduced Jefferson Pierce is specifically to keep herself close to her children. She had no attachment to him whatsoever.]]
* InterspeciesRomance: She (a human) and Jefferson (a metahuman).
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Zviad Baazovi convinces Brion to give Jace another chance. By the end of season 3, she's standing by Brion's side as an adviser.]]
* LoveInterest: She becomes Black Lightning's girlfriend in Season 3. [[spoiler:Turns out it was all a ruse to get close to her "children."]]
* MamaBear: Downplayed. Helga is fiercely protective over Brion and Halo, but is well aware she can't fight their enemies, given they are superhuman while she's an untrained human. So, she yells at those more experienced to help.
** Ultimately a very dark version of this trope. [[spoiler:She only sees Violet, Terra and Brion as her creations and parts of her own ego.]]
* MaskOfSanity: [[spoiler:Even after putting a chip on Tara and Brion and handing Halo over to Granny Goodness, it took a supernatural pain-inducing realm to reveal that the motherly, soft spoken, seemingly reasonable scientist was actually far more depraved and delusional than most of the other villains.]]
* MotherlyScientist: Brion treats her as part of the family, and when he's being tarred, she calls him "my child" to reassure him. [[spoiler:Her own daughter had died young, and her treatment of him, Tara, and Halo up to a point is because she treats them as her own children as proof of her intelligence.]]
* NonActionGuy: Jace is a non-combatant, favoring brains over brawn.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Although she look's like she’s in her 20's, she’s actually 34.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: [[spoiler:Her daughter died at a young age]].
* ParentalSubstitute: After their actual parents were murdered, she becomes increasingly protective towards Brion and his siblings. [[spoiler:She does this to compensate for the loss of her own daughter, [[UnreliableNarrator assuming that wasn't a lie or otherwise false]].]]
* PrimAndProperBun: After taking asylum in the U.S. and aligning herself with the Outsiders, she begins wearing her hair in this style most of the time.
* ReluctantMadScientist: She hates being forced by Baron Bedlam to perform dangerous medical experiments on kidnapped children. [[spoiler:Turns out... she's not really that reluctant.]]
* SecondLove: Black Lightning falls in love with her well after he divorced his first wife.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Jace is a scientist and physician who sports glasses.
* SmugSnake: [[spoiler:Takes a very pleased note of how "easy" Brion was to manipulate. Too bad her extremely poor choices in business partners resulting in her manipulations (already petty and ineffective on the long run) falling apart and Brion being very mad.]]
* TeamMom: She effectively becomes this for the Outsiders (especially Brion and Violet since she was partially responsible for them gaining their powers) after becoming their ally.
* TokenGoodTeammate: The only member of the Bedlam project who tried to sabotage their efforts at kidnapping and transforming more children. But then again, she was being coerced by her boss, Frederick [=DeLamb=], to participate in these crimes. [[spoiler:Subverted; "Antisocial Pathologies" shows she's just even more twisted than her boss, but better at hiding it]].
* WalkingSpoiler: Take a look at the amount of tropes that are in spoiler tags. There is a very good reason for it.
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* CivvieSpandex: A black shirt and red sweat pants.

* NotWearingTights: Fights crime in civilian wear.

* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: In the comics, Tim and Stephanie Brown aka Spoiler are a longtime OfficialCouple and have a unique type of relationship in that it's both genuinely happy and they ''stay'' together. They only ever "split" when Steph was blacklisted from the ComicBook/New52 reboot, wherein his relationship with Cassie Sandsmark/Wonder Girl was attempted in its place, which didn't stick, and they soon became a couple again when Steph was brought back. Here, Tim and Steph haven't had so much as a ShipTease, even as Steph graduated to being Spoiler and working with him, their relationship is strictly professional, and instead Tim ''is'' the OfficialCouple with Cassie.

** This is also the case when he re-joins the Team after Batman Incorporated disbands, due to all of the other male members of the Team having either left or joined the Outsiders.

** This is also the case when he re-joins 'The Team' after 'Batman Incorperated' disbands, due to all of the other male members of 'The Team' having either left or joined the Outsiders.

* EleventhHourRanger: By the time Victor finally decides to join the Outsiders, there are only two more episodes left in the season.