| 1 | Note: Since ''ComicBook/InfinityInc'' is a comic about {{Legacy Character}}s, many entries here will have links leading back to pages dedicated to their forebears with more details about said forebears and the lives and continued adventures of the Infinitors. |
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| 4 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 5 | |
| 6 | !!Infinitors |
| 7 | |
| 8 | [[folder:Brainwave Jr./Brainwave]] |
| 9 | !!!'''AKA:''' Henry "Hank" King, Jr. |
| 10 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''All-Star Squadron'' #24 (August, 1983) |
| 11 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_555f8160edf2b6d52c15312dede2a882_bf1f7285_640.jpg]] |
| 12 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"I live in a life not many people could handle, in fact, I live in a dream."'']] |
| 13 | |
| 14 | The son of the criminal Brain Wave and the superheroine Gimmick Girl, Hank Jr. inherited his father's superhuman mental abilities. As the Brainwave Jr., he was a founding member of Infinity, Inc., creating the group in an attempt to bring honor to his family name. Following his father's death, he dropped the 'Jr.' from his name and began calling himself just 'Brainwave'. Brainwave developed a relationship with fellow team member Jade, daughter of the original Green Lantern. |
| 15 | ---- |
| 16 | * AstralProjection: Since defeating the Ultra-Humanite in the astral dimension called Limbo, and receiving his father's ability added to his own, Hank has shown considerable mastery outside the physical plane. |
| 17 | * {{Flight}}: Has the ability to levitate in the air as if he was surfing. He was fast and maneuverable enough to evade the Ultra-Humanite's heat seeking missile droids. |
| 18 | * MasterOfIllusion: Can project realistic three-dimensional images. |
| 19 | * MindControl: Able to dominate many minds at once and cause people to see illusions, or even have complete control over them. |
| 20 | * PsiBlast: Hank has demonstrated the ability to project powerful bursts of psionic energy from his mind that he calls 'brain blasts'. |
| 21 | * {{Telekinesis}}: Brainwave's powers allow him to generate considerable amounts of physical force. |
| 22 | * {{Telepathy}}: Brainwave's telepathy excels especially in the area of hearing and processing the thoughts of those around him. While many telepaths filter out the thoughts of others, King Jr. allows seemingly countless minds flow freely through his mind at any given moment. |
| 23 | [[/folder]] |
| 24 | |
| 25 | [[folder:Doctor Midnight/Doctor Mid-Nite III]] |
| 26 | [[quoteright:157:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dr_midnight.jpg]] |
| 27 | !!!'''AKA:''' Dr. Elizabeth "Beth" Chapel |
| 28 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Infinity Inc.'' #19 (October, 1985) |
| 29 | ->''"Accept the fear, and you'll begin to resolve your guilt feeling toward your father. That's what's keeping you from becoming Hourman again -- not the fact that you killed a murderous madman like the Wizard in self-defense."'' |
| 30 | |
| 31 | Dr. Elizabeth Chapel, alias Doctor Midnight, was the successor to Charles [=McNider=] (Doctor Mid-Nite). During the onset of the Crisis on Infinite Earths, Beth was blinded by an oxygen explosion, only to be rescued by Hourman's son Rick Tyler, who had taken his father's Miraclo to enhance his strength. Dr. [=McNider=] performed emergency surgery on Beth, and while he couldn't restore her day vision, he did give her his ability to see in the dark. Beth and Rick assume the mantles of their predecessors as Doctor Midnight and Hourman, with her mother crafting a super hero costume from a choir robe. Along with a new Wildcat, Chapel and Tyler applied for membership in Infinity, Inc, eventually gaining admission; however, the association was short-lived, as Infinity, Inc. disbanded shortly thereafter, though Chapel and Tyler began a romantic relationship during their tenure. |
| 32 | ---- |
| 33 | * AffirmativeActionLegacy: The original Dr. Mid-Nite (Charles [=McNider=]) was a white man, while his differently-spelled protégé and successor (Beth Chapel) is a black woman. |
| 34 | * BadassNormal: Downplayed, as she has InnateNightVision, but otherwise relies on training and technology, yet is a well-respected superhero who has helped defeat villains various times. |
| 35 | %%* BlindBlackGuy: Female example. Beth Chapel, Charles [=McNider=]'s successor as [[InconsistentSpelling Doctor Midnight]] in the [=80s=]. |
| 36 | * CListFodder: She was killed by Eclipso in 1993 and would remain dead for several years until she was brought back at the end of ''ComicBook/DoomsdayClock''. |
| 37 | * DisabilitySuperpower: She can see the entire infrared spectrum in the dark, but in the light, Beth's incredibly sensitive eyes require heavy dark glasses. The fact that she can see ''at all'' after what happened to her is a blessing. |
| 38 | * GadgeteerGenius: |
| 39 | ** Beth made modifications and improvements to the original Blackbout Bombs, and uses [=McNider=]'s as a basis for her specially designed goggles. |
| 40 | ** She, [=McNider=], and Rex Tyler worked together to alter [[ComicBook/{{Hourman}} original Miraclo]] formula into a non-addictive form that Rick Tyler could take safely. |
| 41 | * GogglesDoSomethingUnusual: Doctor Midnight wore special infrared goggles that enabled her to see clearly despite her physical handicap. She did not require these goggles for purposes of night vision. |
| 42 | * InnateNightVision: Complete infrared version, but her eyes are incredibly sensitive to light. |
| 43 | * KilledOffForReal: She was killed by Eclipso in 1993 and would remain dead for several years until she was brought back at the end of ''ComicBook/DoomsdayClock''. |
| 44 | * RefusalOfTheCall: A variant. Beth recognizes that her special talents would be useful on some heroic missions, but makes it clear that her patients come first. Naturally, her fellow Infinity Inc. members often end up as her patients. |
| 45 | * TheReliableOne: The most responsible, sensible and mature member of Infinity Inc. |
| 46 | %%* SuperDoc: Her mentor [=McNider=] at one point says she has the raw potential to develop into the best surgeon he's ever encountered. |
| 47 | [[/folder]] |
| 48 | |
| 49 | [[folder:Fury]] |
| 50 | [[quoteright:324:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fury_9.jpeg]] |
| 51 | !!!'''AKA:''' Hippolyta "Lyta" Trevor-Hall |
| 52 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Wonder Woman'' #300 (February, 1983) |
| 53 | ->''"The name is Fury -- and like the man said, even Hell hath nothing like me!"'' |
| 54 | |
| 55 | Originally Hippolyta "Lyta" Trevor was the daughter of the Golden Age Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor; Lyta inherited all her mother's powers. Lyta later adopted the identity of "The Fury", named after the Furies of mythology, and was one of the founding members of Infinity Inc. She began a relationship with her teammate Hector Hall, the Silver Scarab, whom she had met as a child; they reunited as classmates at UCLA. Shortly after their decision to marry, Hector was possessed by an enemy of his father, Hawkman, and killed. Fury was pregnant with Hector's child, and it was instrumental in the Silver Scarab's defeat. |
| 56 | |
| 57 | Post-Crisis, Lyta was the daughter of the newly created character Helena Kosmatos, the Golden Age Fury (a Greek superheroine and a member of the All-Star Squadron, and an avatar of the Fury Tisiphone) and had been raised by Joan Trevor (née Dale), the Quality Comics superheroine Miss America, and her husband, Admiral Derek Trevor. |
| 58 | |
| 59 | For her appearances post-Infinity Inc., look [[Characters/TheSandman1989Humans here]] |
| 60 | ---- |
| 61 | * GiveHerANormalLife: After Fury I's still-unknown lover was killed, she went WalkingTheEarth looking for his murderer, leaving baby Lyta with Joan Dale Trevor (formerly Miss America, now retired) and her husband and swearing them to secrecy as to Lyta's true parentage in the hopes that Lyta would be able to live normally. [[{{Understatement}} That didn't work out]]. |
| 62 | * HalfHumanHybrid: Originally Lyta was a Human/Amazonian hybrid. After the Crisis, still she derived her powers from being a hybrid of sorts--Helena Kosmatos was the Fury Tisiphone's avatar. |
| 63 | * InASingleBound: Fury's SuperStrength allows her to jump to great heights and cover long distances in a single bound. |
| 64 | * LightningBruiser: Lyta's mother (the original Fury) is supposed to have had roughly the same abilities as the Pre-Crisis Golden Age ComicBook/WonderWoman, having been created IRL to replace her due to Golden Age Wondy being wiped out by the Crisis. Uh, the 1985 one. When her mother was still Wonder Woman, Lyta (as a young adult) was stated to be around half her level of power. This can probably be assumed to be true of post-Crisis, pre-''Sandman'' Lyta, who retains some degree of superhuman strength (at least), during ''Sandman'', even after not being active for years. In her post-''Sandman'' appearances when she becomes an active hero again, her actual level of power isn't clear, but she is definitely one of these. |
| 65 | * SuperSpeed: Can run at superhuman speeds. |
| 66 | * SuperStrength: Fury has superhuman strength and is able to lift approx. 40 tons. |
| 67 | * SuperToughness: Fury is superhumanly resilient, but can be visibly hurt, bleed, get concussed, etc., when hit with sufficient force. |
| 68 | [[/folder]] |
| 69 | |
| 70 | [[folder:Hourman II]] |
| 71 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hourman_rick_tyler_0001.jpg]] |
| 72 | [[caption-width-right:300:Um, excuse me, do you happen to know what time it is?]] |
| 73 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hourman_rick_tyler_0017.jpg]] |
| 74 | [[caption-width-right:300:Rick Tyler during Infinity Inc.]] |
| 75 | !!!'''AKA:''' Richard "Rick" Tyler |
| 76 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Infinity Inc.'' #20 (November, 1985) |
| 77 | ->''"Look out, world! It’s 9:30 in Canada...time for Hourman!"'' |
| 78 | |
| 79 | Richard "Rick" Tyler is the second Hourman. Continuing the legacy his father Rex started, he also gets his powers from Miraclo. He was a member of Infinity, Inc. and the Justice Society of America and married to another second generation hero, Jesse Quick/Liberty Belle. |
| 80 | ----- |
| 81 | * AcePilot: Downplayed. He's not a masterful pilot like his teammate Nuklon, but he ''can'' fly a plane, which is more than most people can say for themselves. |
| 82 | * AllNaturalSnakeOil: How does Rick's current version of Miraclo have exactly the same effects, without being toxic or addictive? Because it's ''homeopathic'', apparently. |
| 83 | * AxCrazy: When Rick was dying of his disease, and quickly had his hopes dashed of a cure when Tyler thought he could help him back when everyone still thought he had leukemia only to reveal its true nature, he took a sample of Miraclo he'd held on to and went on a rampage against Tyler. |
| 84 | * BattleCouple: Rick and [[spoiler: his wife,]] Liberty Belle II. |
| 85 | * CallingTheOldManOut: A major source of tension between Rick and his father, though it was slowly weakened when they had only a limited amount of "frozen time" over a period of months to have an extended conversation and mend some fences. |
| 86 | * HiddenDepths: He makes art to pass the time, though he's just a skilled amateur. |
| 87 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Rick's reaction when he killed the Wizard while escaping the Injustice Society [[spoiler:[[NotQuiteDead ...or so he thought]].]] |
| 88 | * PowerDegeneration: Rick's use of Miraclo led to him developing a disease similar to leukemia, which Tyler eventually cured him of. |
| 89 | * RemovedAchillesHeel: |
| 90 | ** ''Old Miraclo'' was Highly addictive, Rick would regularly take two at a time, greatly exacerbating the mild mania Miraclo induced in its subjects, and oh, yes, ''gave him leukemia''. ''New Miraclo'' on the other hand, as redesigned by his father, Dr. Beth Chapel and Dr. Charles [=McNider=], Miraclo lost its more addictive and dangerous properties. |
| 91 | ** For a period of time, he was claimed to have the metagene and able to cause a state similar to being dosed by Miraclo with mental effort alone. This was eventually dropped. |
| 92 | * SecondLove: Although he hooked up with Dr. Beth Chapel, aka Doctor Midnight, during ''Infinity Inc'', he eventually marries Liberty Belle II. |
| 93 | * [[{{Seers}} Seer]]: One of the powers Rick was granted by Tyler was an ability to see one hour into the future, which would kick in at random times to give him warnings of future disasters or clues as to what he should do. One example is when he accidentally spoiled a match between Keystone VS Detroit to Wally, Jay and Plastic-Man in ''JLA/JSA: Secrets Files & Origins'' |
| 94 | * SickeninglySweethearts: Beyond kicking butt with the [[ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica JSA]], Rick and Liberty Belle seem to spend all their time obsessing over one another, while also acting like their own ship fandom. |
| 95 | * WellDoneSonGuy: Due to Rex's ParentalNeglect, a lot of Rick's superhero life is based on trying to impress or honor his dad. [[ThrillSeeker More this one than the Miraclo]]. |
| 96 | * WhenYouComingHomeDad: Due to both his work in Tyler Chemicals, and his life as Hourman, Rex was absent for most of Rick's life, something he deeply regrets. |
| 97 | [[/folder]] |
| 98 | |
| 99 | [[folder:Huntress]] |
| 100 | [[quoteright:176:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/huntress_helena_wayne___pre_crisis.png]] |
| 101 | !!!'''AKA:''' Helena Wayne |
| 102 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''All-Star Comics'' #69 (December, 1977) |
| 103 | ->''"I may have learned how to fight for the law in congress and the courts, but I was born to defend it in the streets."'' |
| 104 | |
| 105 | Helena Wayne was the daughter of Batman and Catwoman of Earth 2. She took up the identity of the Huntress to catch her mother's killer and later succeeded her father as Batman. |
| 106 | |
| 107 | See Characters/BatmanHuntress for more information. |
| 108 | [[/folder]] |
| 109 | |
| 110 | [[folder:Jade]] |
| 111 | [[quoteright:258:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jade_jennifer_lynn_hayden.png]] |
| 112 | !!!'''AKA:''' Jennifer-Lynn "Jennie" Hayden |
| 113 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''All-Star Squadron'' #25 (September, 1983) |
| 114 | ->''"You -- and every instrument of war in this plant -- have a date with the junkheap!"'' |
| 115 | |
| 116 | Jennifer-Lynn "Jennie" Hayden is Jade, the daughter of Green Lantern Alan Scott and his foe Thorn. She can harness the power of the Starheart. |
| 117 | |
| 118 | See Characters/GreenLantern1941 for more information. |
| 119 | [[/folder]] |
| 120 | |
| 121 | [[folder:Mister Bones]] |
| 122 | [[quoteright:185:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mister_bones.JPG]] |
| 123 | !!!'''AKA:''' Robert Todd |
| 124 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Infinity Inc.'' #16 (July, 1985) |
| 125 | ->''" Courts of Law or sticks and stones, nothing on Earth stops Mister Bones!"'' |
| 126 | |
| 127 | A former low-level supervillain and member of Helix, he reformed and joined the Infinity Inc. team, then later the Department of Extranormal Operations (a government agency which regulates superhero activity) as a bureaucrat, eventually rising to the rank of Regional Director for the Eastern Seaboard. |
| 128 | |
| 129 | For more information, see Helix under Enemies below. |
| 130 | [[/folder]] |
| 131 | |
| 132 | [[folder:Northwind]] |
| 133 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/northwind_norda_7.jpg]] |
| 134 | !!!'''AKA:''' Norda Cantrell |
| 135 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''All-Star Squadron'' #25 (September, 1983) |
| 136 | |
| 137 | Norda Cantrell was born the son of Fred Cantrell, a human scientist, and Osoro, a female member of a race of humanoid avians called Feitherans who lived in an isolated city near the North Pole. Hawkman and Hawkgirl became Norda's godparents. Norda felt the Feitherans considered him to be an unwanted half-breed. Hence he left Feithera to live in the world of human beings. Norda was persuaded to join other young would-be super heroes in asking to be admitted into the Justice Society of America. After they were turned down, the youngsters formed their own group, Infinity Inc. |
| 138 | For more details look [[Characters/{{Hawkman}} here]] |
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| 140 | * AlienHair: Northwind appeared as a human being with a coat of thin brown feathers over his skin |
| 141 | * BirdPeople: Northwind's mother was a member of the Feitherans: a bird-like people from Feithera in Greenland. |
| 142 | * TheChosenOne: He was called back to his own people, where he found out from his grandfather Worla that he had a special destiny concerning an upcoming confrontation with Carter and Shiera's son Hector, who at birth was cursed by Carter's eternal nemesis Hath-Set to become their enemy. |
| 143 | * SpeaksFluentAnimal: Can communicate with birds and get them to do his bidding. |
| 144 | * HalfHumanHybrid: Norda Cantrell was born the son of Fred Cantrell, a human scientist, and Osoro, a female member of a race of humanoid avians called Feitherans who lived in an isolated city near the North Pole. |
| 145 | * TheNavigator: He, like some birds, can detect the northern direction. |
| 146 | * TwoferTokenMinority: Is a HalfHumanHybrid, and his human half is African-American. |
| 147 | * WingedHumanoid: Northwind has natural feathered wings and the ability to fly. |
| 148 | [[/folder]] |
| 149 | |
| 150 | [[folder:Nuklon]] |
| 151 | [[quoteright:178:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nuklon.jpg]] |
| 152 | !!!'''AKA:''' Albert Julian Rothstein |
| 153 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''All-Star Squadron'' #25 (September, 1983) |
| 154 | ->''"My mom brought me up not to fight with females -- but this time, I guess I'll have to make an exception." |
| 155 | |
| 156 | The godson of Al Pratt, the Golden Age Atom, Albert Rothstein acquired his metahuman powers of super strength and control over his molecular structure, allowing him to alter the size and density of his body, from his grandfather, a reluctant supervillain known as Cyclotron. |
| 157 | |
| 158 | See Characters/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica for more information. |
| 159 | [[/folder]] |
| 160 | |
| 161 | [[folder:Obsidian]] |
| 162 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/obsidian_dc_comics.png]] |
| 163 | !!!'''AKA:''' Todd Rice |
| 164 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''All-Star Squadron'' #25 (September, 1983) |
| 165 | ->''"Do you know what it's like? Being able to see the darkness inside people's souls? All that jealousy and horror, bombarding you day after day after day -- It hardens you. It wears you down until there's nothing left."'' |
| 166 | |
| 167 | Obsidian is the biological son of Alan Scott (the Golden Age superhero Green Lantern) and the Golden Age villain known as Thorn. Todd was raised in an abusive adoptive home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He found out in his late teens that he had a twin sister, Jennie-Lynn Hayden, alias Jade. They met, discovered they both had superpowers and, operating under the assumption that Green Lantern was their father (which they did not know for certain at the time, but did eventually learn to be true), decided to follow in his footsteps. |
| 168 | |
| 169 | See Characters/GreenLantern1941 for more information. |
| 170 | [[/folder]] |
| 171 | |
| 172 | [[folder:Power Girl]] |
| 173 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/power_girl_8.jpg]] |
| 174 | !!!'''AKA:''' Kara Zor-L/Karen Starr |
| 175 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''All-Star Comics'' #58 (February, 1976) |
| 176 | ->''"Well, unfortunately for you, you're not dealing with Superman... You're dealing with me!"'' |
| 177 | |
| 178 | Power Girl was the Earth-Two counterpart of Supergirl and first cousin to Kal-L, the Superman of Earth-Two. After discovering Krypton was about to explode, Kara's father Zor-L launched her as an infant to Earth in a ship at the same time that Kal-L's ship was launched. However, Kara's ship took a much longer journey, resulting in her arriving on Earth decades after her cousin. Power Girl took her cousin's place in the Justice Society of America after he entered into semi-retirement to focus on his personal life and briefly jpined Infinity, Inc. upon its formation. |
| 179 | |
| 180 | See Characters/PowerGirl for more information. |
| 181 | [[/folder]] |
| 182 | |
| 183 | [[folder:Silver Scarab / Sandman IV / Doctor Fate V]] |
| 184 | !!Silver Scarab |
| 185 | !!Hector Hall |
| 186 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''All-Star Squadron'' #25 (September, 1983) |
| 187 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/silver_scarab_dc_comics_hall_who_machlan_ordway.jpg]] |
| 188 | [[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hector_6.jpg]] |
| 189 | ->''"I'm really Hector Hall, the Hawkman's real son. And if you had a name like 'Hector', you'd want a new one, too!"'' |
| 190 | |
| 191 | Hector Hall was born in Cairo, Egypt, while his parents, Carter and Shiera Hall, were on an archaeological expedition. Hector felt neglected as he grew up, even though his mother had retired from crime-fighting. Carter would continue to battle villains as Hawkman, and he and Shiera would often go on expeditions, leaving Hector with babysitters. Although they did not know it the curse Hath-Set placed on them also affected any child born to either one of them. Because of the curse placed on his parents Hector was born with no soul, meant to be a vessel of the Silver Scarab to act as an agent of vengeance for the villainous Hath-Set. As a child of former JSA members Hector grew up knowing the many children of the Justice Society including Al Rothstein (godchild of the original Atom, Al Pratt) who would become the Atom-Smasher, Lyta Trevor (daughter of the original Wonder Woman), and Rick Tyler son of Rex Tyler, the original Hourman. |
| 192 | |
| 193 | Hector went to UCLA and there he began building the armored suit he would eventually wear as the Silver Scarab. Meeting up with his childhood friend, Lyta Trevor, at UCLA the two began dating, and one night Hector showed her his Silver Scarab costume. The armor was made of Nth metal, the element which allows the various Hawks to fly. Coincidentally, Lyta, daughter of the Golden-Age Fury, longed to become the new Amazon Princess. That night, they asked their parents to sponsor them for membership into the Justice Society. Along with Northwind and Nuklon, they were turned down due to their inexperience. Unperturbed, they formed a new heroic group -- Infinity Inc. |
| 194 | |
| 195 | The fifth person to become Doctor Fate. He is the reincarnated son of Hawkman and Hawkwoman while being the biological child of Hector Hall and Dawn Granger. Due to his parents representing the Lords of Chaos and Order, he was born to be an agent of balance between the two. |
| 196 | ---- |
| 197 | * AlliterativeName: '''H'''ector '''H'''all |
| 198 | * AnimalSuperheroes: Silver ''Scarab''. |
| 199 | * BadassNormal: Yup. But's he's not too happy about not having powers. |
| 200 | * BrokenAce: He's got brains, he's got looks, he's got talent. He even has the love of a beautiful woman, but his upbringing and the latent jealousy towards people with powers made him a rather unhappy person. Also, that "not having a soul" thing. |
| 201 | * CainAndAbel: Never very fond of his childhood friend/godbrother Northwind. This descended into outright enmity after Hector died and the Silver Scarab entity came forth, since Norda was destined to stop his evil. |
| 202 | * CameBackStrong: Came back as the ersatz "Sandman", died again then came back as Doctor Fate. So that worked out okay... for a while. |
| 203 | * CharacterShilling: Hector's character was often cited to be the most powerful Doctor Fate despite being relatively new to the role in various DC encyclopedia and profile page comics and within some stories, a sentiment not shared with future newcomers such as Kent V. Nelson and Khalid Nassour. However, Kent Nelson later retains his position as the most powerful incarnation of Doctor Fate. |
| 204 | * ChildhoodFriendRomance: With Lyta Trevor aka Fury, one of his "JSA brat" playmates as a kid. |
| 205 | * TheChosenOne: Except chosen by the evil god Setekh, in his case. |
| 206 | * ColorCharacter: ''Silver'' Scarab |
| 207 | %%* CursedWithAwesome[=/=]BlessedWithSuck |
| 208 | * DidntSeeThatComing: Silver Scarab's ultimate defeat hinged upon the fact that he and Hector were unaware of Lyta's pregnancy. (He would've killed her and severed Hector's last link to humanity if he'd known). |
| 209 | * GadgeteerGenius: He designed his own PoweredArmor, and was one of the brains of the team. |
| 210 | * HotBlooded: Extremely brash with an awful temper, he gets viciously competitive. |
| 211 | * ImperfectRitual: Hector Hall was born soulless, intended by the evil god Setekh to lose all of his humanity and have his body sacrificed, fusing the remaining "pure" inhuman consciousness with the Eye of Ra to wreak untold destruction. Lyta Hall's pregnancy, however, stirred something within Hector -- something he shouldn't have had -- that kept his humanity from being entirely drained. When the Eye was activated, it sensed the impurity within Scarab and refused to obey him, beginning to go wild. |
| 212 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Angry, impetuous, competitive, overconfident... Those epaulets on his shoulders may as well be chips -- no, whole ''blocks'' -- but in the end he is on the side of the angels. |
| 213 | * LegacyCharacter: As both Doctor Fate and Silver Scarab, the latter being from his previous incarnation. |
| 214 | * LetsYouAndHimFight: The "JSA brats", under [[HotBlooded Hector]]'s leadership, loudly barged into a particularly serious JSA meeting in costume and all but demanded to be allowed to join, which led to a scuffle as some of the members attacked the confrontational strangers who'd gotten past their security. |
| 215 | * TheMasochismTango: As much as they loved each other, Hector and Lyta's relationship could be this way, as they were both somewhat immature people who frequently bickered. |
| 216 | * NoSell: Powers which affect souls (such as Obsidian's) naturally can't affect him after his humanity is gone. |
| 217 | * NotHimself: Gradually, after entering his twenties, Hector began losing his emotions. This is implied to be due to the machinations of Heth-Set and Sutekh draining away his humanity. |
| 218 | * ParentalAbandonment: Died shortly after Lyta learned she was pregnant. |
| 219 | * ParentalNeglect: His parents' duties as superheroes and work as archaeologists often kept them away from home. This didn't help his rocky relationship with them. |
| 220 | * PoweredArmor: As the Silver Scarab, he used a solar-powered Nth Metal costume that gave him {{Flight}}, SuperStrength, and {{Hand Blast}}s. After being sacrificed by Hath-set, the Silver Scarab was an evil consciousness within an animated suit of armor. |
| 221 | * ThePowerOfTheSun: His armor is solar-powered and its HandBlasts are made of solar energy. |
| 222 | * TheResenter: |
| 223 | ** The flightless Hector grew up with parents who could fly. His childhood friend/surrogate brother Northwind was a bird-person who could fly and who sometimes seemed to be closer to Hector's parents than ''he'' was, and his family regularly vacationed in a place full of other (flying) bird-people. This angry child eventually grew into a rather angry adult. |
| 224 | ** He's also not happy when Sylvester Pemberton aka Skyman ends up as the leader when Infinity Inc. is formed. He has a point, here, as Hec was the one who led the other youths in confronting their parents about joining the JSA. On the other hand Sylvester has experience both as a Golden Age and modern hero, and is considerably less, uh, [[HotBlooded Hector]]. |
| 225 | * RookieRedRanger: Shortly after becoming Doctor Fate, he would try to use his power to monitor significant presence of magical beings and practitioners, earning the ire of Phantom Stranger, who claimed his actions are not for him to take account of before destroying his scrying glass. Nabu would accuse him of wielding his power without understanding it. |
| 226 | * ScienceHero: At first he went into pre-med in order to differentiate himself from his father, but his love for science was too strong. As such, he's the team's designated science expert. |
| 227 | * TheSoulless: Thanks to a curse from the evil god-bird-person Setekh, his parents' first incarnations (Khufu and Shiera) were fated to give birth to a soulless child who would wield the Eye of Ra and work great evil as Setekh's cats-paw, ultimately destroying the world. However, in every reincarnation throughout history the pair ended up being killed before they could conceive, until the Halls. |
| 228 | ** Averted, however, after Hector got Lyta Hall pregnant. Somehow the act of doing so gave him a soul or something like it, which tied him to humanity, wrecked Setekh's plans, and allowed Hector to linger after his apparent death. |
| 229 | * SpoiledBrat: Raised in wealth and used to having things his own way. Couple that with resentment toward his parents for rarely being around for him. |
| 230 | * StartMyOwn: Even after the events in the LetsYouAndHimFight were sorted out, the JSA declined to let them in, in part due to the impetuous attitude they had shown. So Hector started Infinity Inc. |
| 231 | * TeethClenchedTeamwork: |
| 232 | ** Due to his privileged upbringing (and bad attitude in general) Hector didn't get on well with Obsidian. Lyta, during a fight, mentions that he's also clearly jealous of Obsidian for having powers. |
| 233 | ** He also deeply resented his god-brother Northwind, due again to his inherent powers and having gained a great deal of Carter Hall's attention. |
| 234 | * ThatManIsDead: After Hector Hall is sacrificed, the entity who he once was insists that he's dead. |
| 235 | * TheUnfavourite: Hector always felt like this compared to Norda (Northwind), Carter and Shiera's godson, because he could not fly with his parents as Norda could. |
| 236 | * YankTheDogsChain: He spent some time in ''JSA'' looking for his wife Lyta. Eventually he did... and then they both die as a result of the Spectre's rampage in ''Infinite Crisis''. |
| 237 | [[/folder]] |
| 238 | |
| 239 | [[folder:Star-Spangled Kid/Skyman]] |
| 240 | [[quoteright:170:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/skyman_sylvester_pemberton.png]] |
| 241 | [[caption-width-right:170:As Skyman]] |
| 242 | !!!'''AKA:''' Sylvester Pemberton, Jr. |
| 243 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Star-Spangled Comics'' #1 (October, 1941) |
| 244 | ->''"Several of you already know one or more of these new heroes, albeit under different names, but meet the new Dr. Midnight -- the new Hourman -- and the new, improved Wildcat!"'' |
| 245 | |
| 246 | Sylvester Pemberton was once the World War II hero known as the Star-Spangled Kid. As an adult, Sylvester founded the Los Angeles-based super-hero team, Infinity, Inc. Late in his career, he abandoned his Star-Spangled Kid persona and adopted the more adult identity of Skyman. |
| 247 | |
| 248 | See Characters/SevenSoldiersOfVictory for more information. |
| 249 | [[/folder]] |
| 250 | |
| 251 | [[folder:Wildcat II]] |
| 252 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yolanda_montez.jpg]] |
| 253 | !!!'''AKA:''' Yolanda Maria Dorothea Lucia Montez |
| 254 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Infinity Inc.'' #12 (March, 1985) |
| 255 | ->''"They need Wildcat, Ted. And I've decided to make sure they have one."'' |
| 256 | |
| 257 | Yolanda Montez was the second Wildcat. She was the goddaughter of the original Wildcat, Ted Grant. Yolanda Montez's mother Maria was experimented on by the insane Dr. Love while she was pregnant. But unlike his other test subjects (including Maria's sister), Love lost track of Maria and her family when they moved from Mexico to the US to be with Maria's husband, the boxer 'Mauler' Montez. Yolanda eventually developed superpowers which gave her feline characteristics, and when Wildcat was injured during the events of the Crisis on Infinite Earths, Yolanda decided to succeed him as Wildcat, joining Infinity, Inc. soon afterward. |
| 258 | ---- |
| 259 | * AbsurdlySharpClaws: Yolanda's claws are very sharp and can withstand a surprising amount of mechanical pressure. She could tear through the inner tissues and eventually the skin of a giant prehistoric shark, and can scale down brick walls face first to go faster. |
| 260 | * AffirmativeActionLegacy: A Mexican-American female who picks up the title of Wildcat from her Anglo godfather. |
| 261 | * AnimalisticAbilities: Yolanda has cat-like agility and retractable claws. |
| 262 | * BackFromTheDead: Unexpectedly returned in the final issue of ''ComicBook/DoomsdayClock'', where she was seen as part of the newly-restored JSA. The decision to bring her back after ''decades'' of being dead was likely influenced by her usage in the ''Stargirl'' live-action show. |
| 263 | * CatGirl: The experiments done on her mother prior to her conception eventually lead Yolanda to develop cat-like features, including claws. |
| 264 | * ClashingCousins: Cacharo's mother and hers are sisters. They might also share a father depending on how involved Dr. Love was implied to be with his work. |
| 265 | * CListFodder: One of many lesser-known heroes who were slaughtered by Eclipso in DC's big summer blockbuster fish kill in 1993. She, along with many characters killed in that event, was brought back later in another big event, due to the fact that many were AffirmativeActionLegacy heroes and having wiped them out solely for cheap drama isn't the best look these days. |
| 266 | * DyingToBeReplaced: She was killed off in ''Eclipso'', and Ted became Wildcat again. |
| 267 | * GratuitousSpanish: She interjects a lot of Spanish in her English (though it's not really Spanglish either). "Por Dios!" is her favorite exclamation. Most of what she says in Spanish consists of dated folk sayings. |
| 268 | * IAmWho: When Helix shows up, she learns about her origins in detail, and is quite shocked and dismayed. |
| 269 | * InnateNightVision: Her feline abilities include being able to see in the dark. |
| 270 | * LegacyCharacter: Takes up the name Wildcat and becomes a hero after Ted gets injured and retires from the role. |
| 271 | * NotAsYouKnowThem: Post-Flashpoint, there is a Yolanda Montez on Earth 2, but she's a rather changed character who lives in Mexico and is avatar of the Red. |
| 272 | * OverlyLongName: Her full legal name is Yolanda Maria Dorothea Lucia Montez. |
| 273 | * SpicyLatina: Yolanda is on the proud, self-reliant side and has a bit of a temper. She also is rather jealous, and was possessive of Nuklon and cranky toward Lyta Trevor Hall -- even though Nuklon and Montez weren't really dating. |
| 274 | * SuperReflexes: Possesses 'cat-like reflexes'. |
| 275 | * WolverineClaws: She has retractable catlike claws in her fingers and toes, which she uses for fighting, scaling obstacles, and ruining her hose. |
| 276 | [[/folder]] |
| 277 | |
| 278 | !!Enemies |
| 279 | |
| 280 | [[folder:Carcharo]] |
| 281 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/carcharo_dc_comics_infinity_inc_helix_c.jpg]] |
| 282 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Infinity Inc.'' #25 (April, 1986) |
| 283 | ->''"''¡Dongase, gatita!'' Besides filling the coastline with fear, they also just happened to deliver me the other thing I had come for... ''¡tu!''"'' |
| 284 | |
| 285 | Carcharo was a mutant, a human born with shark-like characteristics after his mother was experimented on during pregnancy by the insane Dr. Love, who was also responsible for the creation of both the supervillain team Helix and the second Wildcat (in reality Carcharo's cousin, Yolanda Montez). Carcharo's mother tried to drown both herself and her baby when she first saw what she had given birth to, but he survived thanks to his gills and grew up in the ocean, where he learned he could mentally control a group of 40-foot-long sharks. As an adult, Carcharo, driven by hatred and power-lust, caused chaos on the coast of California. |
| 286 | ---- |
| 287 | * AlbinosAreFreaks: Cacharo is a albino SharkMan who is a confident, brutal criminal and power-seeker with many shark-like traits. For instance, he eats raw, unprepared fishes. |
| 288 | * TheBeastmaster: Carcharo can mentally control his pack of [[PrehistoricMonster megalodon]]. |
| 289 | * BodyguardBabes: Carcharo has two human assistants, Rema and Mora, whom he calls the Remoras. The Remoras are the crew of the submarine and his personal servants. |
| 290 | * CaptainNemoCopy: Carcharo sees himself as a sort of modern Captain Nemo, living by his own rule and well-educated. |
| 291 | * ClashingCousins: Wildcat II's mother and hers are sisters. They might also share a father depending on how involved Dr. Love was implied to be with his work. |
| 292 | * CoolBoat: His base is a super-submarine that looks like a shark. |
| 293 | * ManBitesMan: Carcharo has rows of very sharp regenerating ScaryTeeth that he uses to attack. He bit off Mister Bones' leg. |
| 294 | * PrehistoricMonster: Carcharo has access to packs of prehistoric sharks -- ''carcharodon megalodon''. These colossal white sharks are described approx. 20 meters long. A pack of sharks normally has 8-10 such monsters. The creatures can easily sink a sizeable boat, and have been known to jump out of the water and destroy low-flying aircraft. |
| 295 | * ScaryTeeth: Carcharo has rows of very sharp regenerating teeth, like a shark. |
| 296 | * SharkMan: Carcharo's mother was given mutagenic drugs by the mad gynecologist named Dr. Love while she was pregnant. These drugs caused Carcharo to resemble a humanoid shark. |
| 297 | * {{Stripperific}}: Carcharo dresses his BodyguardBabes the Remoras is very revealing outfits. |
| 298 | * SubmarinePirates: Carcharo sees himself as a sort of modern Captain Nemo, living by his own rule and well-educated. |
| 299 | * SuperNotDrowningSkills: Carcharo has gills which allow him to breath underwater. |
| 300 | * SuperStrength: Possesses superhuman strength. |
| 301 | * SuperSwimmingSkills: Carcharo's mutations allow him to swim like a shark. |
| 302 | * ThreateningShark: Carcharo has access to packs of prehistoric sharks -- ''carcharodon megalodon''. These colossal white sharks are described approx. 20 meters long. A pack of sharks normally has 8-10 such monsters. The creatures can easily sink a sizeable boat, and have been known to jump out of the water and destroy low-flying aircraft. |
| 303 | * TooDumbToLive: Chomping the leg off the guy whose slightest touch is a fatal poison was the last mistake Cacharo made. |
| 304 | [[/folder]] |
| 305 | |
| 306 | [[folder:Chroma]] |
| 307 | [[quoteright:204:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/music_chroma.png]] |
| 308 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Infinity Inc.'' #14 (May, 1985) |
| 309 | ->''"Chroma's song is a ballad of devastation... a medley of death and inevitable doom... ...Your doom, Earth!"'' |
| 310 | |
| 311 | Chroma was one of many self-duplicates of the same entity who tests out their apocalypse songs on many worlds. |
| 312 | ---- |
| 313 | * BrownNote: The apocalypse song on the tip of their tongue could tear mountains asunder and end all life on Earth. |
| 314 | * MadArtist: Chroma comes across as an arrogant rock star with no interest at all in their fans, except as a medium of sort for their art. Their performance are multimedia. Singing, music, light show, "video", complex and fluid colour arrangements and the somewhat unpredictable reactions of the crowds. A performance artist, Chroma is angered and frustrated when one of the media in their performance does not react according to their artistic vision. |
| 315 | * MasterOfIllusion: Chroma's use of their powers are normally accompanied with a spectacular, psychedelic display of colours and transparent shapes, with precise images when desired. |
| 316 | * MindControlMusic: Chroma is able to mesmerize people with their singing. |
| 317 | * OtherworldlyAndSexuallyAmbiguous: Because of Chroma's androgyny some saw him as a man, others as a woman, or even compared him to the singer Boy George. Not even the doctors who attended him after being knocked out by Obsidian were able to determine Chroma's sex. |
| 318 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: Chroma's physical form has red eyes and they seek to test their apocalypse song on populated worlds. |
| 319 | * ShockAndAwe: Being a potent energy creature, Chroma can generate tremendous electrical phenomenon and disruptions. |
| 320 | * SelfDuplication: Chroma was one of many self-duplicates of the same entity. |
| 321 | [[/folder]] |
| 322 | |
| 323 | [[folder:Helix]] |
| 324 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/helix_thomas_h.jpg]] |
| 325 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Infinity Inc.'' #17 (August, 1985) |
| 326 | |
| 327 | Helix were a group of six mutated children experimented on in the womb by the deranged Dr. Benjamin Love, who ran a crooked fertility clinic. As each child was born, he spirited them away, telling their parents they were stillborn, and raised them in secret before disappearing, leaving them with no experience of the wider world and no moral sense. Calling themselves Helix, the now teenage kids -- Mister Bones, Penny Dreadful, Kritter, Baby Boom, Tao Jones and Arak the Wind-Walker -- embarked on a career as supervillains, repeatedly clashing with Infinity Inc. |
| 328 | ---- |
| 329 | * MassiveNumberedSiblings: It's implied that their mutual father (as well as that of Wildcat II and Charcaro) was Dr. Love himself. It's ''also'' somewhat implied that rather than conventional IVF treatments, the bad doctor conceived them via a... [[ChildByRape much older and less complicated method]]... while their mothers were under sedation. |
| 330 | * PhenotypeStereotype: Since they were TaughtByTelevision, many members appear to be trying to mimic the dress and behavior of people who looked similar to them as depicted in media. |
| 331 | * RippedFromTheHeadlines: They were created around the times when a number of crooked fertility clinics were making the news. |
| 332 | * SecretProjectRefugeeFamily: Helix members were raised outside of conventional morality. Until their late teens, they only knew about the world through television. They walked into the world as rowdy teens, which led to trouble and exacerbated their clan-like mentality. Being the only people they’ve known for more than 15 years, they tend to distrust outsiders. They also need to be together. |
| 333 | * TaughtByTelevision: Dr. Love did not put much effort into raising the kidnapped kids as functional members of society, and they knew of the outside only what they learned from books, radio, television and movies. |
| 334 | * TragicVillain: They're a group of babies who were experimented on in the womb without their parents' consent who were kidnapped from their unwitting parents and raised in isolation by Dr. Love, who told them as they grew that their parents didn't want them and that they should never so much as set one foot outside of the house they were raised in because the world hated and feared them and would destroy them. The closest thing the children had for an education besides Love's indoctrination was a random collection of movies, TV shows, comics and books, which were all they knew of the world outside their home. Then, after about sixteen years of isolation, Kritter [[AwfulTruth found Dr. Love's diary, in which everything he had done was explained in detail]]. After sending Love out into the desert with Mister Bones (who couldn't bring himself to kill the only father he had ever known and set the old man free), they found their supplies running out and decided to become a supervillain team just like in the comics in order to survive. |
| 335 | * WrongGenreSavvy: They initially think the world works like it does on TV. |
| 336 | |
| 337 | !!Mister Bones |
| 338 | [[quoteright:185:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mister_bones_7.JPG]] |
| 339 | !!!'''AKA:''' Robert Todd |
| 340 | !!!'''First Appearance''': ''Infinity Inc.'' #16 (July, 1985) |
| 341 | ->''" And now, as dies the one betrayed us -- I go to slay the one who made us!"'' |
| 342 | |
| 343 | Born with invisible skin, Mister Bones was the ''de facto'' leader of Helix. After Helix was captured, most of the team accepted being placed in a low-security psychiatric hospital for therapy and socialization. Bones, who was considered to wield too much influence over the group, was ordered to join Infinity, Inc. instead, as a form of community service. He later joined the DEO (Department of Extranormal Operations) as its Director, and has henceforth been known as Director Bones.\ |
| 344 | For Bones' post-''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint|DCComics}}'' iteration, see Characters/{{Batwoman}}. |
| 345 | ---- |
| 346 | * AnArmAndALeg: During a clash with Carcharo, Carcharo bit Bones' leg off, and then died from cyanide poisoning. |
| 347 | * ArtificialLimbs: His left leg below the knee is a prosthetic. |
| 348 | * BadassDriver: Bones is an excellent driver. He's the sort of guy who can drive an ambulance at top speed in the middle of LA traffic during a riot without issues. |
| 349 | * BadPowersBadPeople: Embraced this concept as a teenager but has thoroughly rejected it as an adult. |
| 350 | * BadPowersGoodPeople: Bones has a deadly "cyanide touch" that can kill almost anyone he comes in contact with. Needless to say, he began as a villain. However, he has since reformed and is now the director of the DEO, a government department that deals with superheroes. He may not be unambiguously heroic, but he is typically on the side of the good guys, or at least not actively against them. A big part of this is because his most famous victim, Skyman, was killed when Solomon Grundy ''forced'' Bones to touch him. Bones was [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone deeply traumatized]] by the incident, and it helped lead to his HeelRealization. |
| 351 | * TheBusCameBack: After years and years of inactivity, he suddenly turned up as the head of the DEO in a story, and that's pretty much how it's been since. |
| 352 | * ChestInsignia: His costume includes crossbones on the chest. |
| 353 | * CigarChomper: To the point that he practically chain-smokes them. |
| 354 | * DemBones: Due to having invisible skin and flesh, he basically looks like a skeleton who can fill out a suit. |
| 355 | * GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Took up chain-smoking as a teen and never stopped. |
| 356 | * HazyFeelTurn: Even turning towards good, he still is a scheming ControlFreak that antagonizes heroes to either eliminate them or bring them under his control for the "greater good". He's an ArcVillain for Supergirl during Rebirth that consciously works with a MadScientist from ''Apokolips'' to mind control supervillains and risk endangering the public to manipulate her into his control. He gets called out on this as it backfires on him. |
| 357 | * HeelFaceTurn: Went from leading supervillains to a responsible government employee who catches supervillains... and regularly pisses off superheroes. |
| 358 | * HighCollarOfDoom: His costume is a skintight suit with a tall, popped collar. |
| 359 | * ImpliedDeathThreat: Bones has a handy one; removing his gloves. |
| 360 | * InternalReveal: Until Beth Chapel had to make his organs and skin visible for an operation, only he and possibly his siblings knew he was black. |
| 361 | * {{Invisibility}}: All of his tissues are invisible, with his bones as the only exception. |
| 362 | * InvisibilityWithDrawbacks: Mister Bones' skin and organs are invisible, but his skeleton is not. |
| 363 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: He is only ever referred to as Mister Bones, and later Director Bones. |
| 364 | * PhenotypeStereotype: Possibly. Given that Helix were educated almost entirely via old movies and TV shows, he may have picked up his rhyming habit from a character in a JiveTurkey show or {{Blaxploitation}} movie who talked that way and thought that was how he was supposed to act without knowing any differently, in a similar fashion to his other teammates. |
| 365 | * PoisonousPerson: His sweat contains cyanide, requiring him to wear gloves and long sleeves at all times. He has been used by others to poison and murder people against his will. |
| 366 | * RhymesOnADime: Bones insisted on speaking in rhymes. However, if he could not come up with something or was surprised, he would just say a normal sentence. He also usually spoke normally when addressing Helix. His rhymes were chiefly intended to intimidate outsiders. After his first appearance, he started renouncing this schtick, in part because Penny Dreadful nagged him about how corny it sounded. However, he later resumed rhyming. It eventually became even more habitual, even with no outsiders present, though he eventually stops as an adult. |
| 367 | * SkullForAHead: Mister Bones possesses invisible skin and organs, giving him the terrifying appearance of a skeleton. |
| 368 | * SuddenlyEthnicity: Mister Bones has transparent skin and organs, leaving him looking to all the world like a skeleton. Eventually, it turns out that he's ethnically black, and can appear so through use of make-up. At one point, ComicBook/{{Manhunter}} (Kate Spencer) tries to guilt-trip him into getting involved in a border dispute by claiming he has "forgotten what his skin color is". Bones predictably chews her out and ends the conversation. |
| 369 | * TeamDad: Although he's no older than the rest of Helix, he's functionally the big brother with a fatherly role. Bones tells them not to talk back to him and the like. |
| 370 | * VerbalTic: Although he actively tried to divest himself of his RhymesOnADime habit, it would still occasionally pop up |
| 371 | * WholeCostumeReference: To the Golden Age character [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Terror Black Terror]], which not only looked absolutely awesome but also served as an early clue as to his ethnicity. |
| 372 | |
| 373 | !!Arak the Wind-Walker |
| 374 | [[quoteright:217:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/arak_9.jpg]] |
| 375 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Infinity Inc.'' #17 (August, 1985) |
| 376 | ->''"Come, panther wind -- violent, whining, tearing! Let these mortals feel your power if they dare to step within its deadly province, and let them bear witness with their eyes if they dare not!"'' |
| 377 | |
| 378 | Arak behaves like one of the youngest of Helix. He's rowdy, immature and tends to feud with Tao Jones. |
| 379 | ---- |
| 380 | * BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins: Arak has long hair bound up in two plaits and wears a leather vest and fringed buckskin trousers and moccasins. But, having been TaughtByTelevision, perhaps this is how he believes Native Americans are supposed to dress. |
| 381 | * BlowYouAway: Arak the Wind-Walker can summon and control spirit winds. These seem to have characteristics that vary depending on the spirit. So, the panther winds are faster, the bear winds are colder and carry snow, and the moose wind is heavy with fog. |
| 382 | * GreaseMonkey: Arak is an excellent self-taught metallurgist and a professional-level mechanic. He is the one who fixed the various 1940s cars left around the ghost town they lived in though their driver is usually Mister Bones. |
| 383 | * LargeHam: He likes to announce the summoning of spirit winds with corny, heavy-handed poetry. |
| 384 | * MagicalNativeAmerican: Despite his powers deriving from mutation, Arak treats his ability to summon winds like a magical power. |
| 385 | * OneSteveLimit: Franchise/TheDCU also has the BarbarianHero ComicBook/ArakSonOfThunder. Both of them were created by writer Roy Thomas. |
| 386 | * PhenotypeStereotype: As mentioned, given the Helix were TaughtByTelevision, it's possible he encountered many examples of BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins growing up and decided that was what he was supposed to be. |
| 387 | |
| 388 | !!Baby Boom/Babe |
| 389 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/baby_boom_babe_dc_comics_helix_infinity_inc_a.jpg]] |
| 390 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Infinity Inc.'' #17 (August, 1985) |
| 391 | ->''"Don't get mad, pretty lady, Baby Boom got a riddle for you: 'What's furry and bouncy and got a long tail and flies?' Time's up! A dead kanga!"'' |
| 392 | |
| 393 | The young woman known only by the names Babe or Baby Boom has the paranormal ability to cause explosions with the power of her mind, a form of telekinesis. Unfortunately, the same genetic tinkering that gave her this power also caused her to physically stop aging at the point when she became five years old; thus, even though she is chronologically a young woman, she still looks like a five-year-old child. |
| 394 | ---- |
| 395 | * BackForTheDead: Returned in ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad Annual'' Vol. 5 #1 in 2018, to dies on a Squad mission. |
| 396 | * DelinquentHair: As Babe, she wore her hair in a Mohawk. |
| 397 | * GirlishPigtails: As Baby Boom, she wore Creator/ShirleyTemple-style ringlets to emphasize her apparent youth. |
| 398 | * HavingABlast: Baby Boom can trigger large explosions (enough to raze a large house) just by looking at something and concentrating. |
| 399 | * MurderIsTheBestSolution: She has an unhealthy, almost pathological fascination toward killing, which makes even the other members of Helix uneasy. |
| 400 | * OlderThanTheyLook: Her mutation caused her to physically stop aging at the point when she became five years old; thus, even though she is chronologically a young woman, she still looks like a five-year-old child and always will. Aside from her powers, her physical prowess is that of a child, and her emotional development has also been stunted. |
| 401 | * OralFixation: As Baby Boom, she also carried a large lollipop. As Babe, she swapped the lollipop for cigarettes. |
| 402 | * [[PsychopathicManchild Psychopathic Womanchild]]: Baby Boom often seems to be a case of arrested development. She enjoys kiddie shows on the TV, sweets and playing kid games, especially the cruel ones. She generally speaks like a child, but occasionally weirdly veers into something closer to her age. |
| 403 | * TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: |
| 404 | ** Baby Boom looks and dresses like a five year old; is actually a young adult; and has an unhealthy, almost pathological fascination toward killing. |
| 405 | ** Later, she adopts a more punk-rock look, including fashions which look somewhat disturbing with her childish appearance. |
| 406 | |
| 407 | !!Kritter |
| 408 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kritter_dc_comics_helix_infinity_inc_dog_a.jpg]] |
| 409 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Infinity Inc.'' #17 (August, 1985) |
| 410 | ->[Through the [[TranslatorCollar Bark Enhancer]]] ''"Frankly, your Honour, I never allotted my actions any ethical considerations whatsoever. You see, Dr. Love provided us with ample food and shelter -- but he was hardly the ideal person to teach us right from wrong."'' |
| 411 | |
| 412 | Though he resembles a large dog, Kritter is in fact a mutated human, a victim of the prenatal experiments of Dr. Amos Love. |
| 413 | ---- |
| 414 | * AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: Kritter wears a style of glasses and tie that was archetypal of computer nerds back during the early 1980s, and nothing else. |
| 415 | * BeastMan: Kritter looks like a bizarre human-dog hybrid. |
| 416 | * CowardlyLion: Kritter seems to be easily scared of violence. He will run away to hide under something even if it's just a routine brawl between Helix members. However, he will fearlessly attack if he sees a Helix member being threatened. |
| 417 | * GadgeteerGenius: Kritter is a scientific genius, and eventually designed a device to convert his doglike barks into human speech, in addition to being a skilled computer programmer/hacker. |
| 418 | * HalfHumanHybrid: Unclear. While his appearance has many doglike traits via genetic manipulation and he communicated via doglike sounds, it's possible that this is due to alterations to his human genome to make it more dog-like rather than the presence of introduced canine DNA. |
| 419 | * HealingFactor: Kritter was once declared dead, but was back on his feet mere minutes later. |
| 420 | * HollywoodHacking: Kritter is skilled with computers and computer security. When typing on a keyboard, rewiring a control box for traffic lights, etc. Kritter seems to work superhumanly fast. |
| 421 | * OpaqueNerdGlasses: Kritter wears a style of glasses archetypal of computer nerds back during the early 1980s that only rarely allow his eyes to be seen. |
| 422 | * SmarterThanYouLook: Although his doglike looks might lead one to think that he's of animalistic intelligence, he's actually the team's designated smart guy, a hacker/programmer and capable gadgeteer (as indicated by his bark enhancer). When translated his speech is shown to be quite articulate and indicates a rather thoughtful outlook. |
| 423 | * TheSpeechless: Without the TranslatorCollar built by Kritter himself, he can only emit unintelligible barking and grunting noises. |
| 424 | * SuperStrength: Has demonstrated strength greater than that of an average human. |
| 425 | * SuperToughness: Easily survived being punched through two concrete pillars, or being thrown about 70-100 meters away. |
| 426 | * TranslationYes: Inverted. His TranslatorCollar adds full context and meaning to the short barks and grunts he uses to speak. |
| 427 | * TranslatorCollar: Kritter built a small machine, his 'bark enhancer'. It allows him to speak with an obviously artificial voice. He doesn't seem to routinely carry it, though. |
| 428 | * WolverineClaws: Sometimes his fingernails are drawn to resemble doglike claws. |
| 429 | * XtremeKoolLetterz: That's 'Critter' with a 'K'. |
| 430 | |
| 431 | !!Penny Dreadful |
| 432 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/penny_dreadful_4.jpg]] |
| 433 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Infinity Inc.'' #17 (August, 1985) |
| 434 | ->''"The name's Penny Dreadful, shades... and like any good copper penny, I make a damn good electrical conductor!"'' |
| 435 | |
| 436 | Penny Dreadful has the superpower of absorbing and releasing energy as powerful blasts. Penny turned up again years later working as secretary to her former teammate Mister Bones in his new role as Director of the DEO. She eventually returned to villainy, though, briefly working for the sorceress Circe, and later clashed with Congorilla and Mikaal Tomas while working for Prometheus. |
| 437 | ---- |
| 438 | * EnergyAbsorption: Penny Dreadful can absorb energy and release it as powerful blasts. |
| 439 | * HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Villain turned DEO agent turned ally of Circe. |
| 440 | * TheParalyzer: Penny eventually developed the ability to modulate her lightning discharges to lock the muscles of her target, making it very difficult to move. |
| 441 | * ShockAndAwe: Penny Dreadful can absorb energy and release it as powerful blasts. Her body is not simply a conductor, it considerably enhances the power of the current that flows through her. She can easily generate dangerous bolts from a small battery-powered gadget. |
| 442 | * TeamMom: Penny Dreadful behaves as the oldest Helix member after Bones. She views him more as a peer than as a father figure. She helps him maintain order among the turbulent Helix members. |
| 443 | |
| 444 | !!Tao Jones |
| 445 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tao_jones_helix_infinity_inc_dc_comics_h16.jpg]] |
| 446 | !!!'''AKA:''' Siong (first name unknown) |
| 447 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Infinity Inc.'' #17 (August, 1985) |
| 448 | ->''"You haven't heard much about Tao, have you? In my version you get back what you give -- only more so!"'' |
| 449 | |
| 450 | Tao Jones behaves like one of the youngest of Helix. She's rowdy, immature and tends to feud with Arak. |
| 451 | ---- |
| 452 | * AttackReflector: Tao Jones has the ability to reflect any energy that is directed to her back to its original source with equal energy and strength. |
| 453 | * BackForTheDead: Returned in ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad Annual'' Vol. 5 #1 in 2018, to die on a Squad mission. |
| 454 | * BarrierWarrior: Tao Jones has the ability to generate a force field of reflective energy that doesn't stop attacks but redirects them. |
| 455 | * DragonLady: Tao Jones' costume is a 'generic Asian' slit gown. |
| 456 | * FemmeFatalons: She tends to paint or file her nails -- while levitating -- whenever she's bored... meaning she's taking care of her nails almost all the time. |
| 457 | * PhenotypeStereotype: Given that the Helix were TaughtByTelevision, it's possible she saw a lot of DragonLady-types and Asian manicurists growing up. |
| 458 | * PowerFloats: Tao Jones can also levitate, though it is unclear whether she can move around while she's aloft. It's useful when she's doing her toenails, though. |
| 459 | * PrimpOfContempt: She tends to paint or file her nails -- while levitating -- whenever she's bored... meaning she's taking care of her nails almost all the time. |
| 460 | * PunnyName: "Dow Jones". Likely due to people who attack her getting their investment back. |
| 461 | * SmittenTeenageGirl: She watches hours of soap operas and cheap televised romance each day. This has led her to become a bit boy-crazy. |
| 462 | [[/folder]] |
| 463 | |
| 464 | [[folder:Injustice, Unlimited]] |
| 465 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/injustice_unlimited.jpg]] |
| 466 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Infinity Inc.'' #34 (January, 1987) |
| 467 | |
| 468 | Injustice, Unlimited was founded by the Wizard as a successor group to the Injustice Society. The evil counterpart of Infinity, Inc., the group consisted of the members of the Injustice Society as well as some of their children and grandchildren. |
| 469 | ---- |
| 470 | * LegionOfDoom: The group consisted of the members of the Injustice Society as well as some of their children and grandchildren. |
| 471 | |
| 472 | !!Artemis |
| 473 | [[quoteright:234:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/artemis_95.jpg]] |
| 474 | !!!'''AKA:''' Artemis Crock |
| 475 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Infinity Inc.'' #34 (January, 1987) |
| 476 | ->''"Aww! Widdle gween girl hurt her hand on mean old arrow? Want Artemis to kiss it and make it well?"'' |
| 477 | |
| 478 | Artemis Crock is the daughter of Paula Brooks -- the First Tigress/Huntress -- and Lawrence Crock a.k.a Sportsmaster. She was taught her skills by both of her parents so she could continue their legacy. When she first appeared she simply went by Artemis, but she would go on to take on the Tigress name. |
| 479 | |
| 480 | For more information see Characters/JusticeSocietyOfAmericaVillains. |
| 481 | ---- |
| 482 | * BreakingOutTheBoss: In her first outing as a member of Injustice, Unlimited, she forced Nuklon and Rising Sun to aid her in breaking her parents out of the Empire State Detention Center in New York City. |
| 483 | * BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: As Artemis, her bodysuit had a large capital A on it. |
| 484 | * CleavageWindow: Her Artemis costume incorporated a cleavage window showing a generous amount of {{Underboobs}}. |
| 485 | * RealNameAsAnAlias: Artemis is actually her given name, not an alias. |
| 486 | * {{Underboobs}}: Displayed by her CleavageWindow. |
| 487 | |
| 488 | !!The Dummy |
| 489 | [[quoteright:218:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dummy_0.jpg]] |
| 490 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Leading Comics'' #1 (December, 1941) |
| 491 | |
| 492 | Criminal mastermind and recurring foe of the ComicBook/SevenSoldiersOfVictory, the original ComicBook/{{Vigilante}} and later Infinity, Inc. He was briefly a member of the Monster Society of Evil in 1942 and decades later was briefly the leader of Injustice, Unlimited. It is unclear whether the Dummy is a very short human or an actual wooden dummy somehow brought to life. |
| 493 | ---- |
| 494 | * ArchEnemy: The Dummy was the Golden Age Vigilante's most frequent nemesis. |
| 495 | * DemonicDummy: DependingOnTheWriter, the Dummy is sometimes portrayed as a malevolent wooden dummy brought to life. |
| 496 | * DependingOnTheWriter: Sometimes he's a human being who looks like a dummy, sometimes he's an actual DemonicDummy. |
| 497 | * DepravedDwarf: If he is not an actual DemonicDummy, then he is a criminal mastermind and inventor whose diminutive size and somewhat grotesque features make him resemble a ventriloquist's dummy. |
| 498 | * GadgeteerGenius: Created a range of unique gadgetry to use in his criminal schemes. |
| 499 | * HighClassGlass: Sometimes wore a monocle in each eye. |
| 500 | * NobodyHereButUsStatues: Originally his hired thugs thought he was only a lifeless dummy through which their unseen employer spoke. |
| 501 | * SwordCane: Carries a cane capable of firing a powerful force beam. |
| 502 | |
| 503 | !!Fiddler |
| 504 | [[quoteright:216:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fiddler_4.jpg]] |
| 505 | !!!'''AKA:''' Isaac Bowin |
| 506 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''All-Flash'' #32 (January, 1948) |
| 507 | |
| 508 | Isaac Bowin was the Flash villain the Fiddler, who uses his fiddle to hypnotize people. |
| 509 | |
| 510 | For more information see Characters/TheFlashRoguesGallery. |
| 511 | |
| 512 | !!Harlequin |
| 513 | [[quoteright:247:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/harlequin_marcie_cooper.jpg]] |
| 514 | !!!'''AKA:''' Marcie Cooper |
| 515 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Infinity Inc.'' #14 (May, 1985) |
| 516 | |
| 517 | Granddaughter of the original Manhunter, Dan Richards, Marcie Cooper joined the alien Manhunters who had a plot to take over Earth. She got a job at a radio station KGLX, in Gotham City, with Molly Scott, the first Harlequin. Marcie started dating Northwind and later Obsidian, both members of prodigal heroes Infinity Inc., and later started to infiltrate them. Stealing Molly's illusion casting glasses she became the third Harlequin and attempted to recruit Obsidian to the Manhunter's cause. Failing, she killed her grandfather for betraying the Manhunters. She then tried to destroy Infinity Inc. and joined Injustice, Unlimited. |
| 518 | ---- |
| 519 | * GogglesDoSomethingUnusual: Her glasses project realistic three-dimensional holograms, hypnotize people and fire energy blasts. |
| 520 | * HypnoTrinket: Her glasses allow her to hypnotize people. |
| 521 | * InstrumentOfMurder: Carries a mandolin with an extending handle which she uses as a defensive weapon. |
| 522 | * LegacyCharacter: Stole the identity of Harlequin from Molly Scott. Later a third woman appeared using the identity. |
| 523 | * MasterOfIllusion: The Harlequin Glasses allow her to create realistic three-dimensional illusions. |
| 524 | * TheMole: Infiltrated Infinty, Inc. on behalf of the Manhunters. |
| 525 | |
| 526 | !!Hazard |
| 527 | [[quoteright:277:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hazard_5.jpg]] |
| 528 | !!!'''AKA:''' Rebecca "Becky" Sharpe |
| 529 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Infinity Inc.'' #34 (January, 1987) |
| 530 | |
| 531 | Hazard is the granddaughter of Green Lantern foe the Gambler. She joined Injustice Unlimited in order to seek revenge on Infinity, Inc. for his death after a lifetime of defeats at the hands of the Justice Society of America. Unfortunately, Hazard's conscience was troubled when Injustice Unlimited threatened an innocent; Mike Dugan, the young son of Infinity, Inc's mechanic, Stripesey. She refused to become a murderer and turned against her own team. |
| 532 | ---- |
| 533 | * AvengingTheVillain: She joined Injustice Unlimited in order to seek revenge for the death of her graqndfather, the Gambler. |
| 534 | * AwesomeAnachronisticApparel: Hazard's costume is designed to evoke a 19th C. riverboat croupier. |
| 535 | * DaddysLittleVillain: Became a supervillain to avenge her beloved grandfather. |
| 536 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She joined Injustice Unlimited in order to seek revenge for the death of her graqndfather, the Gambler. |
| 537 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: She despises violence and murder, and has been known to sabotage her own team if they try to kill innocents. |
| 538 | * MeaningfulName: Becky Sharpe shares her name with the AntiHero[=/=]VillainProtagonist of ''Literature/VanityFair''. |
| 539 | * StockingFiller: Her costume incorporates fishnet stockings. |
| 540 | * TokenGoodTeammate: Hazard is this companion to the more hardened members of Injustice, Unlimited. |
| 541 | * WindsOfDestinyChange: Hazard has psionic powers she used in conjunction with special dice to influence the probabilities of a particular outcome as she wishes. She can cause good luck or non-lethal "accidents" to impede someone. She can influence events around an individual she tosses the dice at for a stronger effect, and within a small area near her. |
| 542 | |
| 543 | !!Huntress/Tigress |
| 544 | [[quoteright:400:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tigress.jpg]] |
| 545 | !!!'''AKA:''' Paula Brooks Crock |
| 546 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Sensation Comics'' #68 (August, 1947) |
| 547 | |
| 548 | Paula Brooks, the Golden Age Huntress and the second Tigress, was originally a super-hero and member of the Young All-Stars before turning to evil. |
| 549 | |
| 550 | Huntress and Sportsmaster briefly joined Injustice, Unlimited after they were broken out of prison by their daughter Artemis. When the rest of Injustice, Unlimited was defeated, they escaped in the confusion. |
| 551 | |
| 552 | For more information see Characters/JusticeSocietyOfAmericaVillains. |
| 553 | |
| 554 | !!Icicle, Jr. |
| 555 | [[quoteright:378:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/icicle_9.jpg]] |
| 556 | !!!'''AKA:''' Cameron Mahkent |
| 557 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Infinity Inc.'' #34 (January, 1987) |
| 558 | |
| 559 | Cameron Mahkent, alias Icicle, Jr. is the son of the original Icicle, Joar Mahkent. |
| 560 | |
| 561 | For more information see Characters/JusticeSocietyOfAmericaVillains. |
| 562 | |
| 563 | !!The Shade |
| 564 | [[quoteright:149:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shade_6.jpg]] |
| 565 | !!!'''AKA:''' Richard "Dick" Swift |
| 566 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' Flash Comics #33 (September, 1942) |
| 567 | |
| 568 | Originally the Shade was a common thief of unknown identity who could manipulate the shadows with his cane. |
| 569 | |
| 570 | For more information, see ComicBook/TheShadeDCComics. |
| 571 | |
| 572 | !!Solomon Grundy |
| 573 | [[quoteright:355:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/solomon_grundy_6465827_normal.jpg]] |
| 574 | !!!'''AKA:''' Cyrus Gold |
| 575 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''All-American Comics'' #61 (October, 1944) |
| 576 | |
| 577 | Solomon Grundy is a reanimated corpse stemming from a cursed place near Gotham City called Slaughter Swamp. He has had many appearances in which he had different levels of strength and intelligence. After Solomon Grundy was rescued from a glacier by Jade, Grundy became loyal to her and for a while joined Infinity, Inc. Eventually, this affectionate relationship turned to tragedy as the villainous Harlequin used her illusion powers to disguise herself as Jade and manipulated Grundy into serving alongside Injustice, Unlimited. |
| 578 | |
| 579 | For more information, see Characters/GreenLantern1941. |
| 580 | |
| 581 | !!Sportsmaster |
| 582 | [[quoteright:503:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sportsmaster__dc.png]] |
| 583 | !!!'''AKA:''' Lawrence "Crusher" Crock |
| 584 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''All-American Comics'' #85 (May, 1947) |
| 585 | |
| 586 | Lawrence "Crusher" Crock, alias Sportsmaster, was a disgruntled athlete who turned to a life of crime. |
| 587 | |
| 588 | Huntress and Sportsmaster briefly joined Injustice, Unlimited after they were broken out of prison by their daughter Artemis. When the rest of Injustice, Unlimited was defeated, they escaped in the confusion. |
| 589 | |
| 590 | For more information, see Characters/GreenLantern1941. |
| 591 | |
| 592 | !!Wizard |
| 593 | [[quoteright:245:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wizard_william_asmodeus_zard.png]] |
| 594 | !!!'''AKA:''' William Asmodeus Zard |
| 595 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''All-Star Comics'' #34 (April, 1947) |
| 596 | |
| 597 | William Zard, alias the Wizard, was an enemy of the Justice Society of America who used a magic staff and occult knowledge to commit crimes. He was the founder and first leader of Injustice, Unlimited. |
| 598 | |
| 599 | For more information, see Characters/JusticeSocietyOfAmericaVillains. |
| 600 | [[/folder]] |
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