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1'''WARNING! POSSIBLE SPOILERS FOR BOTH THE STORY AND THE SERIES! READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!'''
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5!Lian Yu Survivors
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7[[folder:General]]
8A group of people who all somehow arrived on Lian Yu, an island in the North China Sea, at relatively the same time. They banded together after being targeted for death by a group of mercenaries that were also on the island for an undisclosed mission. After the mercenaries were defeated, they continued to stick together in order to increase their chances of survival, becoming a makeshift family.
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12* AdaptationalBadass: Getting trained by the League of Assassins will do that to you. Even Oliver, no slouch in his canon incarnation, is far more competent here.
13* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Landing on Lian Yu at young ages has drastically changed the personalities of all three leads, and they are markedly different from their canon counterparts.
14** Oliver is far less of a jerk than he is in canon (in fact he's a borderline NiceGuy), and, most noticeably, not a playboy; this is largely because he washed up on Lian Yu at a younger age, before he really took on the 'party boy' persona. In fact, the trauma of everything he went through during those ten years had stunted his emotional growth to the point that he can't differentiate between romantic and platonic feelings, be they his or someone else's.
15** By contrast, Barry is far more abrasive and confident to the point of being outright annoying (though still, ultimately, a NiceGuy). He's also far more accepting of tragedy and the overall 'darker' side of life, thanks to the events of Lian Yu and his time in the League.
16** Kara is the one most similar to her canon counterpart, but even she has changed; she's noticeably less silly and more maternal, thanks to being Kal-El's primary caretaker and the balancing force between Oliver and Barry. She is also ''far'' more bloodthirsty than canon!Kara when in battle.
17* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul:
18** While Oliver, Barry and Kara all eventually became close friends in canon, here they're a FamilyOfChoice. In fact, an easy argument could be made that they're the most important people in each other's lives.
19** Oliver had a romantic relationship with Shado in canon. Here, their relationship is purely platonic, with Shado seeing Oliver as something of a younger sibling/son.
20** Slade and Oliver share a father-son relationship, as opposed to a brotherly one, that never fractures due to Shado dying independent of anything Oliver did. Also, Slade, who had never met Barry or Kara in canon, shares a similar relationship with each of them.
21* ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount: They all have one thanks to their work with the League. It doesn't have much impact on the plot beyond funding their vigilante activities; Oliver was already rich to begin with, and Barry already had a home and all its necessities with the Wests. Only Kara used hers (disguising it as money inherited from her non-existent parents), and that was to buy a nice condo for her and Kal, and pay for his Balliol tuition fees. Subverted in that they finally decide to invest the money for new streams of income: Oliver and Kara plan to open an affordable shopping center to help rehabilitate the Glades, while Barry plans to [[spoiler:reopen S.T.A.R. Labs]].
22* BaseBreakingCharacter: In-universe, the Hood and the Streak are extremely polarizing since they're slitting throats and using criminal as pincushions to clean their towns. The Girl in Blue is spared from this since she's mainly seen ''saving'' people.
23* BigEater: Courtesy of an enhanced metabolism, Kara, Barry and Kal are able to down unholy amounts of food on their own. Oliver's horrified resignation while he watches is almost a RunningGag.
24* DarkAndTroubledPast: Along with their canonical origin stories, the three of them were press-ganged into the League of Assassins when they were just teenagers, after already experiencing the traumatic losses of their two protectors on Lian Yu.
25* ExperiencedProtagonist: All three protagonists are this upon their returns to Starling and Central, even more so in the case of Oliver. Combined with the fact that they have the full backing of ''two'' all-powerful organizations, most of the first three arcs of the story are curb-stomp battles. They don't really get challenged until Arc IV.
26** Oliver is the most prized student of Ra's al Ghul and the only person that can claim to be his equal, above even Ra's' daughter Nyssa. Hence, he's well beyond Malcolm's skill level and his presence and obvious ties to the League put a massive wrench in Malcolm's plans. After finding out about the Undertake, all Oliver has to do is send his siblings after the earthquake devices while he kicks Malcolm's ass and drags him to the Glades so he can be publicly exposed.
27** Barry is a brilliant and accomplished scientist, an assassin on par with Nyssa al Ghul and has full mastery of his speed, already being capable of throwing lightning bolts by the time he returns to Central City. This offsets Eobard, because he has no avenue that allows him to sink his claws into Barry, who is suspicious of him from the very beginning. On the other hand, Eobard is faster than Barry and has foreknowledge that outstrips even the protagonists, which is sufficient enough to keep him apace with Barry for the most part. Eventually, the entire situation turns into a BattleOfWits between them, [[spoiler:that ends in no clear winner because of an outside party]].
28** Kara is also an assassin on par with Nyssa al Ghul and a Kryptonian with full control over her powers. Combined with her knowledge of Kryptonite, which Astra's forces had no idea even existed, she basically runs roughshod over all of them and Myriad never gets off the ground. Only Astra manages to put up a decent fight against her, and that was only because Kara was humoring her.
29* FamilyOfChoice: They still refer to each other family even after being rescued from Lian Yu and returning to modern civilization. This aspect of their bond is so strong that when someone suggests the possibility of a romantic relationship between any of them (barring Slade and Shado), it visibly sickens them.
30* FiveManBand:
31** Lian Yu
32*** TheLeader[=/=]TeamDad: Slade
33*** TheLancer: Oliver
34*** TheSmartGuy: Barry
35*** TheBigGuy: Kara
36*** TeamMom: Shado
37*** TagALongKid: Kal-El
38** Post-Lian Yu
39*** TheLeader: Oliver
40*** TheLancer: [[spoiler:Slade]]. Barry fills in when he's not here.
41*** TheSmartGuy: Barry
42*** TheBigGuy[=/=]TheHeart: Kara
43*** TagALongKid: Kal-El
44* FreudianTrio: Oliver, Barry, and Kara. Barry, despite his personality, is the Superego, Kara is the Id, and Oliver the Ego.
45* GoodIsNotSoft: Oh, ''yes''. They aren't afraid to torture and kill if necessary.
46* NoSocialSkills: Downplayed. They're capable of functioning in normal society, but are lacking nuance and can be a little oblivious and/or overly blunt in certain cases. Oliver is hopeless it comes to romance, Barry has no filter beyond keeping certain secrets, and Kara is implied to have issues adapting to some Earth technology. Kal also had issues in the beginning, being extremely shy, but since he was a child it didn't take him long to adapt.
47* NoodleIncident: Their time with the League of Assassins was ''not'' boring, to say the least.
48* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: They are all completely lost when it comes to popular culture for the last ten years. Kara and Kal were born on another planet entirely, so nearly every reference goes over their heads. While Oliver and Barry have some passing familiarity with works prior to their disappearance such as Franchise/HarryPotter and Franchise/MarvelUniverse (with Barry in particular taking delight in the advent of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse), franchises like ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'' and ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' are completely foreign to them. As of Arc III, however, they seem to be remedying this, largely through trivia games that they play with the similarly inept J'onn.
49* PragmaticHero: While they have fundamentally good intentions and largely avoid killing unless absolutely necessary, they also aren't afraid to blackmail or torture to get what they want.
50* ProperlyParanoid: They have a number of safeguards for specific situations that seem CrazyPrepared at first glance but in the end turn out to be this. This is nominally due to previous experience from their time in the League of Assassins.
51* StealthHiBye: All of them enjoy pulling this to one extent or another, either for tactical advantage or to tease their friends.
52* StrangerInAFamiliarLand:
53** Oliver. While he manages to adapt to daily life relatively easily and finds ways to fit in with his family and friends' lives, there is an underlying sense of bitterness over how much he missed out on, not just from him but from the people who care about him as well. Kara even points it out early on in the story during a meeting with Moira.
54--->'''Kara''': Oliver lost ten years of his life. When he came back home, he saw that his seven-year old baby sister was almost an adult, that his irresponsible best friend was now an executive at his father’s company, and that his other closest friend had already moved on with her adult life, with a job and everything.
55** Downplayed with Barry. Unlike Oliver, Barry didn't have a lot to go back to -- the only ties he had left to Central City were his father and the Wests. If he hadn't sworn to somehow free his father from his wrongful imprisonment, he could've easily started over elsewhere while keeping in touch with Iris and Joe. This is particularly prevalent when Barry moves back into his old room at the West home. He calls it a "child's room", and, for better or for worse, Barry hadn't been a child in a ''long'' time.
56* TokenNonHuman: As [[HumanAliens Kryptonians]], Kara and Kal-El are this among their FamilyOfChoice after landing on Earth.
57* TraumaCongaLine: Along with Barry and Kara's canonical back stories, the two of them land on Lian Yu with Oliver. In short order, Oliver and Barry are tortured, the three are hunted down by mercenaries, and then they watch a mentor of theirs die while taking down said mercenaries. About six months later, after finally settling back into some normalcy on the island, Ivo arrives and press-gangs them into finding the Mirakuru, kills Shado, and then, in their attempt to take over Ivo's ship, are separated from Slade as it sinks, making them believe he was dead for ''years''. Then they're rescued by Nyssa, only to be forcibly inducted into the League of Assassins and molded into killing machines. All things considered, it's no wonder they were so happy when they were released from the League's service and got to go home.
58* TrueCompanions: After ten years of hell together, suffering torture, backbreaking training, and baby raising, their bond is unbreakable.
59* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Oliver, Barry, and Kara, given that they're the only teens when they first meet.
60* UnexpectedSuccessor: They're completely floored to learn Ra's al Ghul put their names down as potential candidates to the Demon's Ring, mostly because they're no longer official members of the League by that point.
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63[[folder:Oliver Queen/Al Sah-him/"The Hood"/Green Arrow]]
64The oldest of the younger generation and one of the three main characters. Born in Starling City as the firstborn son of the wealthy Queen family, Oliver was enjoying a vacation to China when the yacht he was sailing on capsized during a Category 2 Storm in the North China Sea. Landing on Lian Yu, he finds his destiny -- along with three others whose fates are intertwined with his.
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67* AdaptationalAngstDowngrade: This Oliver is much happier since he had three adopted siblings with him during his time away from home, didn't watch his dad commit suicide in front of him, and didn't have to live with the guilt of cheating on his long-time girlfriend with her sister (and causing him to believe he got said sister killed for several years). That still really isn't saying much considering he and his siblings got press-ganged into the League of Assassins after losing their two adoptive parental figures and lost a decade with his friends and family.
68* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Since he hadn't adopted his playboy personality yet when he first washed up on Lian Yu, this Oliver doesn't feel the need to put up an act and push people away.
69* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul:
70** [[spoiler:Here, it's revealed that he's [[RelatedInTheAdaptation Malcom's son]] and not [[UnrelatedInTheAdaptation Robert's]]]].
71** With Felicity being AdaptedOut, [[spoiler:his relationship with Laurel blossoms into a romantic one, and two and Nyssa enters a {{polyamorous}} relationship]].
72* AntagonisticOffspring: [[spoiler:He's this to Malcolm Merlyn, and he's utterly unaware of it.]]
73* BadassNormal: Oliver might be purely human where Barry and Kara have powers, but Kara had no problem describing him as the strongest of the castaways as he kept them together when they might have otherwise given up, and Oliver continually proves himself to be a master tactician and 'big brother' to the others.
74* BigBrotherInstinct: For the rest of the younger generation, which is partially why he became TheLeader when Shado died and they were separated from Slade. In fact, it's implied the reason why Oliver became so protective of Barry and later Kara and Kal as well is because they reminded him of his younger sister Thea, who he deeply missed.
75* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:Unbeknownst to himself, Oliver is the Abel to his paternal half-brother Tommy as he becomes a hero and fights for other people's sake.]]
76* {{Determinator}}: It's noted that Oliver always pushed himself to be the very best during his time in the League, and Kara describes him as their rock when the group were on the island.
77* TheGift: Oliver is one of the most talented recruits in the history of the League of Assassins. It only took him a few years to reach the same level as Ra's al Ghul, who has ''centuries'' of experience over him. What makes it even more impressive is that he's managed as a young adult.
78* HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler:Robert immediately acknowledged a newborn Oliver as his son in spite of knowing the baby had been conceived by his wife's extramarital affair.]] [[spoiler:When the truth does come out, Oliver pulls a "YouAreNotMyFather" card on Malcolm and sees Robert as his true father]].
79* HatesTheirParent: [[spoiler:Not Moira or [[UnrelatedInTheAdaptation Robert]], but to Malcolm, who is his biological father in this story, as he is the one who is responsible for blowing up the Gambit and indirectly making Oliver go through hell. When the truth comes out, Oliver outright rejects him as a father]].
80* HeroicBastard: [[spoiler: He was conceived when Moira and Malcolm cheated on their respective spouses with each other.]]
81* TheLeader: While ostensibly the three main characters are equals, Barry and Kara usually default to Oliver's leadership.
82* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Oliver is the one who kept the group going even when they were at the absolute lowest. According to Kara, without him, there's no way they would've lasted those ten years, or that they would even want to.
83* TheLoad: The League of Assassins thought he would be this compared to [[TeenGenius Barry]] and [[ComboPlatterPowers Kara]]. He proved them wrong.
84* LockedOutOfTheLoop: [[spoiler:No idea whatsoever of his HeroicBastard status, and the Queens intend to keep it this way.]]
85* TheLostLenore: To Laurel, who was never completely able to move on from his "death".
86* LoveAtFirstSight: [[spoiler:Upon finally confessing his feelings to Nyssa, he admits that he fell in love with her the moment he first saw her, after she saved him and his siblings from the sinking of the ''Amazo'']].
87* MoralityPet: For Malcolm Merlyn, who feels awful for almost killing him and stranding him away from civilization for a decade [[spoiler:and unwittingly neglecting him as his illegitimate son]]. WordOfGod revealed Malcolm actually ''would'' have hesitated to pursue the Undertaking if Oliver had unmasked as the Hood.
88* MythologyGag: One scene at a diner shows him perking up when he has the possibility to eat chili, only for his company to brutally shoot the possibility down. Comic book Ollie enjoys his chili so spicy the whole Justice League was incapacitated after tasting the dish (except for Batman, because he's the Goddamn Batman).
89* ObliviousAdoption: [[spoiler:He genuinely believes Robert Queen is his birth father and the Queens never gave him a reason to think otherwise.]]
90* ObliviousToLove: Completely oblivious to Laurel's not-so-subtle crush on him. So oblivious in fact, that he doesn't realize that his observation that a relationship is feasible between them means that ''Laurel has feelings for him''.
91* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler:With Laurel, as of the end of Arc III. Then becomes a {{Polyamorous}} relationship with Nyssa at the end of Act II of Arc IV]].
92* {{Omniglot}}: As part of his League training, Oliver knows how to speak in multiple languages.
93* OnlySaneMan: A weird case. While he bickers a lot with Barry, forcing Kara to frequently break them up, he's also way more grounded than Kara in most instances.
94* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: When he finally makes contact to Robert after 10 years, the latter obviously doesn't believe that it's actually him on the other end, and is only convinced when Oliver tells a story about Thea's fifth birthday party.
95* StraightMan: To Barry's Wise Guy.
96* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Downplayed. While Oliver understands love on an intellectual level and is by no means aromantic or even asexual, he has a hard time differentiating between familial/platonic love and romantic love. For example, it's only after Tommy accuses him of "putting the moves" on Laurel does he realize that he might have feelings for her, and it's only by comparing how he feels about Laurel to how he feels about Nyssa does he realize he also might have feelings for Nyssa as well. And again, see ObliviousToLove above.
97* WorldsBestWarrior: According to the narrative, Oliver was the best combatant in the League next Ra's al Ghul himself, and there were rumors that he had actually managed to ''surpass'' Ra's. [[spoiler:This was eventually confirmed by Oliver himself while stuck in the Dominators' LotusEaterMachine with Laurel, combined with him defeating their copy of Ra's]].
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100[[folder:Barry Allen/Al Sa'iqa/"The Streak"/The Flash]]
101The middle child of the younger generation. Born in Central City as the only child of a middle-class family, Barry found his life irreversibly changed one night when a man in a yellow suit appeared in a storm of lightning and murdered his mother. His father was arrested and convicted for the crime, despite Barry's claims for his innocence, and Barry was forced to live in the home of his childhood best friend, Iris West. After three years of constant ridicule, a late-night argument with his foster father pushes him over the edge, and he traveled abroad to study in China, forever altering his fate.
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104* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Inverted ''and'' played straight. Canon!Barry took until Season Four to make peace with his mother's death. This Barry made peace with it ''years'' ago, because of the even worse suffering he endured over his ten years away from home (which included the loss of two more parental figures ''and'' being forcibly inducted into a murder cult) made him realize that death is simply just another part of life. The only reason he had any real interest in the case anymore was because of his desire to get his father out of prison.
105* AdaptationalIntelligence: While canon!Barry was far from stupid (though he did have a tendency to grab the IdiotBall), this Barry is a confirmed genius whose intellect is easily on the same level as Eobard Thawne's.
106* BewareTheSillyOnes: Barry enjoys playing TheGadfly, is an InsufferableGenius and a total nerd...who's also an EmpoweredBadassNormal skilled in hand-to-hand combat, knife-fighting, and his speed, who can and will cut the throats of people he believes are too deadly to keep alive. Oh, and he's an expert hacker.
107* BroughtDownToBadass: It is noted that even without his powers, Barry is still a trained assassin, which [[spoiler:gives him the advantage when he fights Zoom in an area with meta-dampeners, as without his superior speed Zoom is no match for Barry]].
108* ChildhoodFriendRomance: With Iris, though Barry is ignoring his feelings for now while Iris is just oblivious to the situation.
109* DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent: His Arc III storyline has him going undercover and joining Snart's crew for a major heist, while at the same time reporting his activities to Ralph and Iris. Unbeknownst to both sides, however, is that Barry is the Flash, with his real allegiance being to the Justice League and their allied organizations, including A.R.G.U.S. and the League of Assassins.
110* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Goes from expert, League-trained combatant to an expert, League-trained combatant who is also a speedster. This actually becomes a plot point during his first fight with Thawne -- Barry doesn't fight like a traditional speedster, having been an assassin with years of training before he gained his powers. He relies on those abilities first and uses his speed to augment them when necessary.
111* TheGadfly:
112** Much to the consternation of...well, pretty much everyone who knows him.
113** Barry knew full well that him going undercover and joining Snart's crew was a terrible idea and was only going to end badly. He went through with it because [[ItAmusedMe he was bored]].
114* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: His current stance in regards to Iris, which is why he encourages her relationship with Eddie.
115* IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance: Barry [[spoiler:only realises that Eobard Thawne stole the identity and face of Harrison Wells when he faces a younger version of Thawne with his true face]].
116* InsecureLoveInterest: One of the reasons why Barry refuses to pursue Iris is because some part of him honestly believes he isn't good enough for her.
117* InstantExpert: Lampshaded and arguably subverted. [[spoiler:Barry fully admits that he could probably figure out how to pilot a spaceship in a day or two. The problem is that it's not instant ''enough'' -- as Kara points, they don't ''have'' a day or two for him to figure the controls out, as by that point Oliver and Laurel could both be dead. This is what eventually leads to them asking for Astra's help]].
118* InsufferableGenius:
119** Another facet of Barry's personality the causes friction is that he has absolutely no issue showing off his intellect, ''especially'' his deductive ability.
120-->'''Cisco''': Has anyone told you how annoying it is when you do that?\
121'''Barry''': Yes. Usually I just ignore them.\
122'''Caitlin''': That explains a ''lot''.
123** This is even lampshaded by Ra's al Ghul. He outright states that Barry's greatest flaw is his arrogance to compensate with his sheer brilliance.
124* LivingEmotionalCrutch:
125** Oliver briefly thought of throwing the towel when stuck on Lian Yu, but instead soldiered on for Barry's sake since the other boy was more vulnerable.
126** His need to prove his father's innocence gave Barry the strength to survive and grow beyond his limits. It also was reciprocal, since hearing his son was likely deceased drove Henry over the DespairEventHorizon and made him attempt suicide.
127** To Iris as well. Even when Iris thought he was dead, Barry still remained a part of her life in some fashion, shaping her choices and relationships with other people. This eventually becomes an issue when Iris learns Barry is the Flash. The secret strains their friendship to the extent that Iris wants to cut Barry out of her life completely -- except she ''can't'', because she couldn't bear to live her life without Barry in it. [[spoiler:After they reconcile, the idea of losing Barry again is her worst fear and she admits she'd rather die than live without him. This is cemented when Barry seemingly dies on live television. Iris is so distraught that she's on a verge of a complete breakdown in every single one of her appearances afterward, and when Zoom comes to kill her during the FinalBattle, she doesn't even try to fight it and instead resigns herself to death, content in reuniting with Barry. When Barry saves her and then has to leave again to fight Zoom, she tells him she doesn't care about what he does to Zoom, only making him promise that he'd win and come back alive]].
128* LovesSecrecy: It was necessary and inconvenient, but regardless, Barry ''really'' enjoyed stringing along Caitlin and Cisco (and, to a lesser extent, Thawne) for the first two arcs.
129* MadScientist: Implied to have been one when he was still a member of the League.
130* MythologyGag: When undercover with Snart's crew, hair-dye and contacts make him a blue-eyed blond - his traditional comics appearance.
131* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Barry was the League of Assassins' most brilliant mind, and they stretched him to the absolute ''limit'' when it came to piling knowledge in his head. Becoming a speedster just made it easier to compartmentalize all that knowledge and use it.
132* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The normally stoic and often arrogant Flash is immediately apprehensive [[spoiler:the moment he meets Zoom. [[CurbStompBattle The following fight shows that his instincts were on point]]]].
133* ProperlyParanoid: Barry has been suspicious of "Wells" since the two first met and the only reason why he took his offer of joining Star Labs is because at the time, colleges and universities were not accepting applications and thus had nothing better to do. Even [[spoiler:after the apparent loss of his enemy, Barry kept an eye out for any sign of his return, and only missed it because he didn't know what Eobard Thawne looked like before he stole Wells' identity]].
134* SadClown: It's strongly implied that Barry's [[TheGadfly personality]] is partially to hide his guilt and regret over his time as a member of the League of Assassins.
135* SecretSecretKeeper: [[spoiler:Unlike Oliver and Kara, he figured out Laurel was Black Canary. He just never bothered to outright confirm it]].
136* TeenGenius: He correctly theorized the source of Kara's powers when he was just fifteen and had no access to any actual scientific equipment.
137* {{Troll}}: Again, much to the chagrin of everyone who knows him.
138* WeAllDieSomeday: A crucial difference between this Barry and canon!Barry is that this Barry, after having lost other loved ones and joining an organization that explicitly teaches its members how to kill, has long since accepted death as another facet of life. [[spoiler:This is ultimately the reason why he refuses Eobard's offer to prevent his mother's death]].
139* TheWorfEffect: Gets absolutely ''manhandled'' by [[spoiler:Zoom]]. Not only is he the first of the main trio to get completely and utterly defeated in such a fashion, but the loss also serves as the first sign that things are no longer going to be so easy for the heroes from now on.
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142[[folder:Kara Zor-El | Kara Danvers/Saraab/"The Girl in Blue"/Supergirl]]
143The only female of the younger generation. Born on the planet Krypton, Kara's path was decided for her when her family learned their planet was doomed. She and her younger cousin, Kal-El, were forced into a single ship and shot out into the sky as their home planet exploded around them. Eventually, their journey ended, and they found themselves in a new world, with new lives to live.
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147* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: As a result of landing on Earth at the same time, Kara has been PromotedToParent for Kal during their time on the Island and in the League.
148* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Bad enough she had to watch her entire planet die while being tasked with protecting her baby cousin, but then she lands on a foreign planet, stranded on a death trap of an island with few allies for company. Then the ''Amazo'' arrives, and it all goes downhill from there.
149* BigBrotherMentor: She plays a gender-swapped version of this role to Kal-El.
150* BoxingLessonsForSuperman: Almost literally, as the League doesn't want her relying just on her powers, using a bracelet generating red solar radiation to bring herself to human physical limitations so she can compete against her trainers on equal levels. She ends up thankful when she has to go up against her aunt and other Kryptonians and beings of similar abilities, as they cannot compete against her superior hand-to-hand combat skills.
151* CelibateHeroine: Kara has no interest in romance, at least currently. She's more concerned with raising Kal-El to the best of her abilities. A JustifiedTrope since she landed on Lian Yu when she was twelve, then spent her adolescence raising a baby brother and learning from the League. Romance literally did not cross her mind at any point until she arrived in Starling.
152* CoolBigSis: To Kal-El.
153* CoolSword: Her weapon, with the blade made out of kryptonite for good measure.
154* DramaPreservingHandicap: Why Kara developed her powers gradually instead of getting all of them at once in the prologue; Lian Yu was so overcast and Kara spent so long exposed to a red sun that it took a while for her to develop any powers.
155* TheDreaded: Out of all the vigilantes, Kara is by far the most feared due to her ComboPlatterPowers. One of the main reasons why Starling's EvilPowerVacuum has yet to be filled is because the man responsible for it, Oliver, is publicly allied with her as members of the Justice League.
156* FromNobodyToNightmare: Starling City's perception of her -- she was only an orphan castaway who had the good luck to end up on the same island as the Queen heir, and their friendship allows her to enter the inner circle of Starling's elite.
157* TheHeart: While Oliver and Barry are by no means amoral and still have empathy, Kara is the one most connected to her emotions and does the same for them. [[spoiler:It's also deconstructed, as that means Kara is the one who is the most conflicted over the moral ambiguity of the trio's vigilante activities]].
158* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Tells this to Astra, when the latter asks what happened to her.
159* IOweYouMyLife: The source of her loyalty to Oliver and Barry; the two had just been tortured by Fyers and Wintergreen and had no reason to help out a hysteric alien girl and a crying baby that had just arrived on the planet. But they still made the effort to calm her down, learn her name, comfort her, and ultimately save her and Kal from Fyers and his men.
160* OnlySaneMan: She's the one that usually has to break up Oliver and Barry's arguments.
161* ParentalSubstitute: She's the closest Kal-El has to a mother, which is why Kal goes to live with her when they finally move out of the Queen Mansion.
162* PromotedToParent: She, along with the others, was responsible for raising her baby cousin.
163* TheReliableOne: Thanks to the versatility of her powers, Kara is usually the one that deals with enemies that Oliver or Barry can't immediately defeat. It also applies to normal life; thanks to her lack of a job and a social life beyond raising Kal-El, she's open to helping her friends whenever necessary.
164* SocialClimber: A very accidental one -- making friends with Oliver on Lian Yu means the Queens practically consider her a second daughter, and Starling's elite tailors their treatment of her accordingly.
165* TokenGoodTeammate: Her standing in the public opinion is much more positive than Barry's and Oliver's. She focuses on saving people and preventing disasters instead of killing criminals, so she's not a BaseBreakingCharacter like the boys.
166* UnderestimatingBadassery: When [[spoiler:Kara returns to Argo, she manages to take a group of cultists off-guard because they naturally have no knowledge of her hand-to-hand combat skills]].
167* WorldsBestWarrior: Due to a combination of her ComboPlatterPowers and League training, she's almost unbeatable. It takes fellow Kryptonian and expert warrior [[spoiler: Astra]] to even give her serious trouble, though Grodd deserves honourable mention.
168* WorthyOpponent: Sees her aunt as this [[spoiler:after Astra gives the best fight she's had since first gaining her powers]].
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170
171[[folder:Kal-El | Clark Calvin Kent]]
172The youngest of the group, Kal-El was just a baby when his world was destroyed and he was put under the care of his twelve-year old cousin. As a baby raised in hell, Kal-El's early childhood was very much unconventional, but with no less love than the one he would have received on Krypton. Despite all that, the effects of a very turbulent childhood still show, and will probably continue to affect him for the rest of his life.
173
174!!!Tropes
175* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Not only does Kara raise him as a result of landing on Earth at the same time, but the Queens serve as his foster parents instead of the Kents.
176* AdaptationalNameChange: While his first and last names are still Clark Kent, his middle name is changed from Joseph to Calvin, that way people can still address him by his birth name of Kal under the guise of a nickname.
177* AlliterativeName: '''C'''lark '''C'''alvin '''K'''ent.
178* TheBabyOfTheBunch: Quite literally. He was a baby when he and Kara landed on Lian Yu.
179* BigBrotherWorship: A gender-swapped version. Barry quite accurately calls him Supergirl's biggest fan.
180* CheerfulChild: Generally pretty upbeat and cheerful.
181* FutureBadass: In an alternate timeline, he was Superman, the greatest superhero in the world. [[spoiler:It's implied that he will still become Superman someday in the future]].
182* LivingEmotionalCrutch: To everyone in the family, but especially to Kara. Kara fully admits that all the terrible things she did on Lian Yu and as an assassin were specifically to protect him. Even her decision to finally leave the organization with Oliver and Barry -- as she puts it, the League was no place for a child.
183* LivingMacGuffin:
184** Astra muses about using him to control Kara. It didn't go this far, fortunately.
185** Waller eyes him as a potential asset due to his burgeoning ComboPlatterPowers. Kara immediately vetoes the option.
186* NameFromAnotherSpecies: Thanks to being raised by Kara, he's addressed by his Kryptonian name by his surrogate family. He doesn't even get his human name until Kara moves to Starling, and even then it's specifically fabricated so he can be called by his real name with people none the wiser.
187* OutOfFocus: Due to his age, he doesn't take part in much of the action.
188* PlatonicLifePartners: With Ruby, who is his best friend. Sam suggests ShipTease between them, but Kara points out that they're only kids (though admittedly, Kal is WiseBeyondTheirYears due to his being raised by the League).
189* PowerfulAndHelpless: [[spoiler:When Balliol Prep is taken hostage, Kal is completely unable to remedy the situation despite easily being the most powerful being in the city with Supergirl out of town. Not only are his powers still developing, he doesn't have anywhere near the amount of control and versatility needed to use them effectively like his cousin does. Finally, using them at all will expose him and Kara. In the end, all he can do is comfort Ruby while they wait for the situation to blow over]].
190* ShrinkingViolet: Around new people, though he slowly grows out of it the more he get familiar with them.
191* SugarAndIcePersonality: He tends to hide behind Kara when around people he doesn't trust or knows very well, courtesy of the League beating emotional control in him since his early childhood. When he's among family and friends, he's a very normal, happy kid.
192* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: While Kal-El is a good kid, it's clear that his less-than-ideal childhood has had some odd effects on him. He was handling a knife when Kara came to give him documents about their human identities, he knows how to spot a listening bug, and he's enjoying ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' at ten years old.
193[[/folder]]
194
195[[folder:Slade Wilson/Deathstroke "The Terminator"]]
196An ASIS agent that was sent to Lian Yu alongside his partner Billy Wintergreen to rescue a rogue Chinese operative, Yao Fei Gulong. Upon arrival, they were captured by a group of mercenaries also hunting down Yao Fei; Wintergreen sided with the mercenaries, betraying Slade. Slade found himself on his own, his sense of trust thoroughly broken -- until a couple of kids and a baby showed up at his hideout.
197
198!!!Tropes
199* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Canon Slade had it bad. ''This'' Slade had it way, ''way'' worse. He loses the woman he loved, was separated from his adoptive kids for years (with both sides presuming each other dead), and got stuck with Oliver's stints in Hong Kong, Shadowspire, and Russia (only one of which ended better than it did in canon). Then, when he's rescued and reunited with his son Joe, [[HopeSpot when things are]] ''[[HopeSpot finally]]'' [[HopeSpot looking up]], Amanda Waller shows up, [[EyeScream shoots out his eye]], and threatens to murder Joe ''and'' his until-then-unknown son Grant unless he joins Task Force X, forcing him to abandon his son ''again''.
200* DisappearedDad: Served as this for eight years to both his biological and adoptive children, and ''not'' by choice. He's still rather absent from his adoptive children's lives thanks to his work with A.R.G.U.S., though he's implied to visit whenever he can.
201* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Didn't have, or need, superpowers at the beginning of the story. [[spoiler:The Mirakuru made him even more dangerous, and after A.R.G.U.S. derived the cure for the side effects, he also manages to keep his head while using it]].
202* EveryoneHasStandards: Very much rattled when Kara decides to bring Kal on a dangerous mission, he insists that the kid will stay away from possible fights.
203* EyeScream: Courtesy of Amanda Waller in an attempt to {{blackmail}} him.
204* HeroOfAnotherStory: Went through Oliver's canon journey, except that he didn't immediately go home because Amanda Waller saw him as too valuable and press-ganged him into joining Task Force X.
205* OfficialCouple: With Shado in the prologue. [[TheLostLenore It doesn't last, unfortunately]].
206* PapaWolf: You do ''not'' touch Slade's kids.
207* ParentalSubstitute: To the younger generation of the Lian Yu survivors.
208* ThePromise: He swore to Shado he would watch over their kids.
209* RelativeButton: Amanda Waller liked having him as a {{mook}} too much to let him go, so she threatened his biological and adopted kids to ensure he would stay in her Suicide Squad. Even worse, she later uses Slade to control the younger Lian Yu runaways when they return home to become vigilantes.
210[[/folder]]
211
212[[folder:Shado Gulong]]
213The daughter of former Chinese general Yao Fei Gulong, Shado traveled to Lian Yu in search of her father, only to be captured by mercenaries and held hostage. Shado eventually escaped thanks to an ASIS operative and a group of kids, and joined up with them in return.
214
215!!!Tropes
216* DeathByOriginStory: She dies in the prologue, and her death is what eventually leads to the leads joining the League of Assassins.
217* InSpiteOfANail: Despite all the changes to the timeline, Shado still dies from a gunshot wound.
218* LastRequest: Her dying wish was that Slade protect the kids and help them get home. It was this wish that fueled Slade's decision to make a HeroicSacrifice after the ''Amazo'' started sinking, separating him from the kids for eight years.
219* TheLostLenore: To Slade.
220* MissingMom: Serves as this to Kal (despite the lack of blood relation), who doesn't have many memories of her but remains fond of her all the same. She's also this to Oliver, Barry, and Kara, who still miss her despite having long since moved on from her death.
221* OfficialCouple: With Slade.
222* PresentAbsence: Even after she is long dead, she still has a presence in the story, mostly through Slade's relationship with the leads. [[spoiler:She later appears as a hologram in the Dominators' LotusEaterMachine, urging Oliver to continue watching and protecting their shared adoptive family]].
223* SadisticChoice: Instead of Oliver, she is the one forced by Ivo to choose which member of her family will die, with Oliver and Barry as the 'options'. Obviously, Shado refused to choose and was driven to tears when Ivo tried to force her anyway.
224* TeamMom: Strongly implied to be this for the young castaways, to the point that Kal-El referred to Shado as 'Mama' before her death.
225* TheMedic: She was a med student and functioned as this for the group, even passing the knowledge down to Barry before her death.
226[[/folder]]
227
228!Family & Friends
229
230!!The Queen Family
231
232[[folder:Robert Queen]]
233The Patriarch of the Queen family and father of Oliver Queen, Robert has been stuck in his own personal hell after the presumed death of his son. Blackmailed by his former best friend Malcolm Merlyn to aid in a most heinous plot, Robert has done everything in his power to protect his remaining family, and finds things only looking up when his son returns from the dead.
234
235!!!Tropes
236* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: [[spoiler:Here, Thea is his biological child, not Oliver]].
237* GoodParents: Nothing but loving and supportive towards his children everytime they're onscreen together. [[spoiler:He doesn't even care about one of them not being biologically related to him.]]
238* HappilyMarried: With Moira.
239* NiceGuy: [[spoiler: Forgave Moira for cheating on him with his best friend and deeply loves Oliver in spite of not being his blood father.]]
240* PapaWolf: Robert is fiercely protective of his children, [[spoiler:regardless of whether or not they're of his blood]].
241* ParentalSubstitute: Invoked when [[spoiler:he offers to help Sam pay for Ruby's ransom during the Baliol hostage crisis when Sam expresses her fear that she can't get that amount of cash together herself, he and Moira affirming that Sam and Ruby's close friendship with Kara and Kal basically makes her family as far as they're concerned]].
242* SecretSecretKeeper: [[spoiler:When his wife presented the infant Oliver to him, Robert immediately realized the baby wasn't his son, yet accepted him as such. When the truth comes to light, he reassures Moira her having an affair never mattered to him, and he loves both of them.]]
243* SparedByTheAdaptation: Thanks to a timely business issue, Robert never got on the ''Queen's Gambit'', which ultimately saved his life.
244* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Delivers a ''truly'' savage one to Malcolm after Tommy was shot, in which he bluntly tells his former friend [[spoiler:he lost any right to love Oliver as a son after sinking the ''Gambit''.]]
245* WeUsedToBeFriends:
246** With Malcolm. While they still maintain their friendship in public, in private Robert has made it clear that whatever was left of that friendship died with Oliver.
247** [[spoiler:With Frank Chen, after learning that it was Frank that planted the bomb on the ''Gambit'' and stranded Oliver on Lian Yu]].
248* [[WickedStepmother Wicked Stepfather]]: Averted as hell! [[spoiler:He had a ready-made FreudianExcuse to despise Oliver for being his wife's adulterous offspring, yet he embraced the kid as his own and mourned him for ten years before showing nothing but happiness when he came back alive and well.]]
249[[/folder]]
250
251[[folder:Moira Queen]]
252The matriarch of the Queen family and mother of Oliver Queen, Moira has been stuck in the same hell as Robert, blackmailed into joining Tempest alongside him and aiding Malcolm Merlyn with his plot to destroy the Glades. Her life now a moral crisis, Moira finds hope when her son is found alive, and finds herself forming an odd maternal bond with one of the friends that came with him.
253
254!!!Tropes
255* CompositeCharacter: According to the author's notes, she's one with Cat Grant, fulfilling the "mother figure" role that Cat did to Kara in the series.
256* EasilyForgiven: Despite giving him every reason to be angry due to [[spoiler:briefly cheating on him with Malcom and resulting in the birth of Oliver, Robert forgave her and even willingly chose to love Oliver]].
257* HappilyMarried: With Robert.
258* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: [[spoiler:She and Malcolm got stupendously drunk one evening and had a sexual tryst. When they got sober, they decided to act as if it never happened at all -- only for this evening to result in Oliver's conceiving.]]
259* MamaBear: [[spoiler:Is not afraid to threaten Malcolm to protect Oliver from his influence, and when she found out it was Frank who planted the bomb on the yacht, she brutally slapped him and called him out for his actions]].
260* ParentalSubstitute: To Kara, fulfilling the maternal role model she'd been lacking since the deaths of her biological mother and Shado. [[spoiler:Which is partly why Astra resents her so much]].
261* RagsToRiches: Worked her way up from the Glades to Starling City's wealthy elite.
262* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: A positive example, as she uses the Queen name in order to help Kara when she expresses the wish to put Kal in Balliol Prep.
263* ShipperOnDeck:
264** For Oliver/Laurel, which is a strong possibility.
265** For Carter/Kara, which will ''never'' be happening, with Kara's disinterest in romance being only ''one'' reason.
266[[/folder]]
267
268[[folder:Thea Queen]]
269The daughter of the Queen family and sister of Oliver Queen, Thea lost her brother at a young age, and sheltered thanks to her parents' over-protectiveness. With her brother's return, however, her parents begin to lighten up, and her life no longer so stifling.
270
271!!!Tropes
272* BigBrotherWorship: Downplayed. While Thea couldn't help but resent her parents for being so overprotective, she never held it against Oliver.
273* DemotedToExtra: Thea isn't a major character, mainly because she's mostly sheltered instead of spoiled and wild. She doesn't need a lot of CharacterDevelopment.
274* RelatedInTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Since her and Oliver were swapped parentage-wise, she's Robert's legitimate child.]]
275* ShelteredAristocrat: Her parents did their best to turn her into this after losing their oldest child. Thea herself resents them a bit for this.
276[[/folder]]
277
278!!The Lances
279
280[[folder:Dinah Laurel Lance/Black Canary]]
281The eldest child of the Lance family, and childhood friend of Oliver Queen. Laurel was devastated over the death of her close friend, and its effects still linger a decade later, when Oliver returns. A lawyer for CNRI and absolutely devoted to the rule of law and the pursuit of justice, Laurel finds herself off-balance by the return of not only her friend, but by the appearance of a mysterious hooded vigilante that goes outside the law to achieve the results she seeks.
282
283!!!Tropes
284* AdaptationalBadass: [[spoiler:Becomes Black Canary far earlier than she did in canon]], and is trained not just by Ted Grant and Oliver (also an AdaptationalBadass) but by [[spoiler: Nyssa al-Ghul. She then completely surpasses her canon counterpart by awakening her metagene and thus the [[SonicScream Canary Cry]]]].
285* AmoralAttorney: Averted; she's definitely one of the good guys.
286* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: Receives [[spoiler: her League ring on the football field of Balliol Prep, to the cheers of the families whose children she has just saved]].
287* BadassNormal: Not to the same extent as Oliver (though that's not saying much), but she fights crime with just GoodOldFisticuffs.
288* CombatPragmatist: Since she didn't have the luck of an extended, uninterrupted training period like her teachers, they instead drill this behavior into her so she can survive her new career as a vigilante. [[spoiler:Hence, one of the deciding blows in her fight against Brick is a GroinAttack]].
289* EmpoweredBadassNormal: [[spoiler:She gets the Canary Cry thanks to the Dark Matter Explosion, and finally activates it in the FinalBattle against her doppelganger Black Siren]].
290* EveryoneCanSeeIt: It's not a secret she has feelings for Oliver.
291* TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest: A downplayed example. Laurel had a massive crush on Oliver when they were in high school, and was about to tell him before his untimely "death" via an impromptu boat trip. She was heartbroken, and all her attempts to move on fell flat, to the point she gave up any hopes of romance until Oliver came back.
292* GuiltyPleasures: ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'' was this for her in college. She watched all three movies, much to Sara's disbelief and later amusement.
293* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Blonde, compassionate, and trusts [[spoiler:Nyssa]] with her SecretIdentity.
294* IDontWantToRuinOurFriendship: Why she refused to go on a date with Tommy; she didn't return his feelings, and felt it wouldn't be fair to start a relationship with him when it was his best friend she really wanted.
295* InterclassFriendship: With Oliver and Tommy. This led to the Lances in general becoming members of Starling's Elite, despite not having the networth normally found in this class.
296* LoveEpiphany: [[spoiler:Realizes she has feelings for Nyssa in addition to her love for Oliver while stuck in the Dominators' LotusEaterMachine]].
297* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:Brick completely disregarded her when it was time to pull of his big plan. She (and Nyssa) promptly became his undoing]].
298* TookALevelInBadass: Arc III is basically just one long level grind for Black Canary. [[spoiler:Eventually, her hard work pays off when she saves the entirety of Balliol Prep from a hostage situation with Nyssa's help and is asked to join the Justice League as a result]]. Arc IV takes it further when [[spoiler:she acquires her Canary Cry after exposure to the dark matter explosion, allowing her to overpower Black Siren]].
299* TwoGuysAndAGirl: With Oliver and Tommy.
300* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Oliver.
301[[/folder]]
302
303[[folder:Detective Quentin Lance]]
304The Patriarch of the Lance family, and father of Laurel Lance and Sara Lance, Quentin is a detective for the SCPD. Similarly justice-driven like his daughter, Quentin is also off-put by the appearance of the hooded vigilante, and finds his worldview gradually changing.
305
306!!!Tropes
307* AlmightyJanitor: He's on a first-name basis with most of Starling's elite and close friends with the Queens and Merlyns through his own daughters' friendships with Oliver and Tommy. Despite easily being the most well-connected cop in the city, he's remained a detective, presumably out of choice.
308* BirdsOfAFeather: Befriends Joe West, another honest and hardworking cop, at the Thanksgiving party.
309* HappilyMarried: To Dinah Lance.
310* LikeASonToMe: In a deep contrast to canon, Quentin is fond of both Oliver and Tommy, to the point of seeing them as surrogate sons. Since Oliver never dated Laurel and/or broke her heart by cheating on her with Sara, Quentin has no reason to hold a grudge against him. [[spoiler:It's to the point that he holds nothing against Tommy for Malcolm's actions]].
311* PapaWolf: To his daughters Laurel and Sara. [[spoiler:When the Undertaking was revealed to the public, he didn't hesitate to go charging into the Glades to protect Laurel, despite knowing the place could be destroyed any second]].
312[[/folder]]
313
314[[folder:Dinah Drake Lance]]
315The matriarch of the Lance family and mother of Laurel Lance and Sara Lance, Dinah is a professor at Balliol College, and a close friend of the Queens.
316
317!!!Tropes
318* BitCharacter: She doesn't have much of a presence in the story.
319[[/folder]]
320
321[[folder:Sara Lance]]
322The youngest child of the Lance family and younger sister of Laurel Lance, Sara was also greatly hurt by the death of their childhood friend Oliver Queen. She was on a dark path until the intervention of her father set her straight, and becomes a traveling humanitarian after graduating from college.
323
324!!!Tropes
325* AdaptationalWimp: Never had the League training that her canon counterpart had.
326* DemotedToExtra: Since she was never on the ''Gambit'' with Oliver, and the Legends don't exist in this reality.
327* NiceGirl: Dedicated to helping people wherever she can.
328* ShipTease: With Tommy. They're shown to be close friends even though Sara no longer lives in Starling City. [[spoiler:The LotusEaterMachine the Dominators use on Oliver and Laurel even shows them together as a couple, suggesting that Oliver and Laurel also noticed the possibility of something happening between them]].
329* WalkingTheEarth: Does this to help others.
330[[/folder]]
331
332!!The Wests
333
334[[folder:Officer/Detective Iris West]]
335The oldest child of the West family, sister of Wally West, and the childhood best friend of Barry Allen. Barry's assumed death crushed Iris, and continues to influence her life to the present day. Just when it seems she's finally got it all under control, however, Barry comes back into her life, and suddenly everything, including Iris herself, begins to change.
336
337!!!Tropes
338* AdaptationalBadass: [[AdaptationalJobChange Journalist in canon, cop here]]. As the author lampshades, though she won't be leading Team Flash anytime soon, she's actually more capable of it than she is in canon.
339* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Tougher and (at first) somewhat harsher than her canon self, due to her losses.
340* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: During high school, thanks to a combination of emulating Barry and becoming an IceQueen.
341* BadassInDistress: [[spoiler:Talia sends an assassin after her in her own home in Arc IV. While Iris puts up a good fight, she would've been killed had it not been for Barry's intervention]].
342* TheBait: [[spoiler:Ultimately, the attack on her was to draw Barry, along with Oliver and Kara, back to Nanda Parbat so Talia can kill them]].
343* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:She is not happy to learn Barry is the Flash, to say the least, though most of her anger at him is because he won't explain to her ''why'' he's a murderous vigilante. Later becomes RebuiltPedestal in Arc IV]].
344* CallingParentsByTheirName: Addressed Joe either by his first name or by "Detective West" after she joined CCPD's 1st Precinct. It takes a while for her to start calling him "Dad" again.
345* ChildhoodFriendRomance: With Barry. [[spoiler:Something she comes to realize after her LoveEpiphany]].
346-->[[spoiler:''It was you. It was you all along'']].
347* CompositeCharacter: She’s basically a mix of her Earth-1 and Earth-2 counterparts, particularly by being a cop like the latter.
348* DarkAndTroubledPast: Her best friend went missing and was presumed dead for ten years; while he was gone, she despaired over his death so much that she started acting like him, which got her ridiculed by all her peers just like he was. Plus, she learned her father had been lying to her all her life about her mother, and then learned that she had a little brother. One can't really blame Iris for being so cold and bitter as an adult.
349* DefrostingIceQueen: After Barry returns from Lian Yu.
350* DudeMagnet: Even during her high school days; in fact, according to Tony Woodward, her IceQueen status only made her even more desirable to the boys at school.
351* FairCop: Every unattached, hot-blooded male in the precinct has a thing for Iris, even after she got together with Eddie.
352* {{Foil}}: She and Laurel were heavily impacted by their childhood friend's disappearance. However, Barry's absence and vigilantism led Iris to become a colder, harsher person who's horrified and upset by what her friend became, while Laurel saw her relationship with Oliver positively develop and encourages him to be a hero.
353* FriendOrIdolDecision: After she [[spoiler:reconciles with Barry in Arc IV]], Iris is quickly faced with this dilemma. She can't exactly have a [[spoiler:best friend who is the Flash]] and a [[spoiler:boyfriend who hates the Flash]], and realizes that after [[spoiler:Eddie botches a hostage situation that gets Barry captured by Zoom's men and starts ranting about the Flash again]]. Ultimately, she chooses [[spoiler:Barry, because even without him her relationship with Eddie was going nowhere]].
354* JerkassRealization: She finally realizes how unfair she's been to Joe after [[spoiler:learning about Barry's full past as an assassin]], and swears to apologize and make it up to him somehow.
355* LoveEpiphany: Finally realizes that [[spoiler:she loves Barry after witnessing his apparent death in battle with Zoom and then nearly being killed by Zoom herself. Later introspection upon her reaction to Barry's first "death" when they were fourteen has her realize that she's been in love with Barry since the very beginning]].
356* MoralityChain: She managed to persuade the Flash to spare a criminal, twice. Partially he acted out of pragmatism, but it's still noticeable.
357* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The fact that she called [[DisownedParent Joe “Dad” during the period she disowned him]] indicates just how happy she is when he told her that Barry is alive.
358* StraightMan: Barry's when Oliver and Kara are around. She's the only one besides them that can keep his gadfly tendencies under control.
359* TraumaCongaLine: As lampshaded by the author, Arc IV is ''terrible'' to Iris. [[spoiler:She watches her best friend get nearly killed three times, with one of those times causing her to actually believe he was dead, she gets held hostage and attacked by Reverb, her relationship with Eddie falls apart and they break up, then Eddie is sent into a coma soon afterward, and even her partner gets injured. By the time Zoom kidnaps her with the intent to kill her, she's so broken that she faces it fearlessly, taking comfort in the fact that she'd be reunited with Barry (who she didn't know was alive). Thankfully, Barry saves her right afterward]].
360* UnresolvedSexualTension: Even though she's in a relationship with Eddie, her and Barry have this going on; Iris is just oblivious to the dynamic (much like in canon), while Barry is aware to an extent but refuses to pursue it out of respect for her happiness.
361* UsedToBeASweetKid: Iris was much warmer as a child, but after Barry's death, she was just never the same. She begins to return to her old personality when Barry returns.
362* WrongGuyFirst: Her relationship with Eddie, as outright stated by the author in the first chapter. The cracks are already beginning to show in Arc II, [[spoiler:and they break up permanently in Arc IV. Not long afterward, the following traumatic events help Iris realize who the person she's really been in love with all this time is: Barry]].
363[[/folder]]
364
365[[folder:Detective Joseph "Joe" West]]
366The Patriarch of the West family, father of Iris and Wally West, and the foster father of Barry Allen. Joe has carried the guilt of his foster son's death for ten years, only amplified by his estrangement with his daughter and learning of his biological son's existence. Barry's return proves to be the light of at the end of the tunnel, and Joe finally finds it in himself to mend all those broken bridges, one at a time.
367
368!!!Tropes
369* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Joe ends up being fatally injured during Eddie's rampage to force Barry to hand over Eobard in Chapter 160]].
370* DemotedToExtra: Somewhat, because this Barry is far more independent than his canon incarnation.
371* DisownedParent: Iris effectively disowned Joe after high school -- when they started working together at the precinct, she only addressed him as "Detective West". Barry's reappearance is what finally pushes them to mend their relationship.
372* GuiltComplex:
373** Joe has been continuously hard on himself ever since his PartingWordsRegret led to Barry washing up on Lian Yu, a situation only exacerbated by Iris' cold treatment of him. Barry is constantly exasperated by it, as, having significantly matured during his time away from home, he doesn't blame Joe for ''any'' of it. He doesn't even blame Joe for his father's incarceration anymore, [[spoiler:a fact he reiterates when Henry is finally released from Iron Heights]].
374** [[spoiler:It rears its head again at Henry's party, as he had unintentionally imprisoned an innocent man, which was only compounded by what happened to Barry. Henry is the one to help him get over it this time, making it clear that he only blames Wells for what happened and that he's grateful to Joe for taking Barry in]].
375* ParentalSubstitute: To Barry. Despite what happened between them, Barry clearly sees Joe as a third father figure, and Joe treats him as a second son. He even sees Barry off on his first day of college.
376* PartingWordsRegret: He and Barry got into an argument one night about his father's innocence, resulting in Joe calling Barry "crazy" in the heat of the moment. He immediately regretted it and tried to take it back, but it was too late -- it's what convinced Barry to go to China, leading to his ten-year disappearance.
377* ProperlyParanoid: Like Barry, Joe knows something is completely wrong about "Wells" based on when the two met, mentioning how the meeting set off his internal red alarms and had a very bad feeling about Barry being offered to work at Star Labs. What he doesn't know is that "Wells" is an imposter who is the true murderer of Nora and the one responsible for Henry's wrongful imprisonment.
378* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He's a just police officer and tries his best to be a good father.
379[[/folder]]
380
381!!Other
382
383[[folder:Thomas "Tommy" Merlyn]]
384The son of Malcolm Merlyn, and the best friend of Oliver Queen. Tommy's life took a sharp downturn after Oliver's disappearance, and after a few years of being Starling City's premier party boy, his father cut him off from the family fortune until he cleaned up his act. Now a top executive at Merlyn Global, Tommy is initially overjoyed to see his best friend alive, only for that to gradually change when Oliver begins to overshadow him.
385
386!!!Tropes
387* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul:
388** Downplayed. In canon, Tommy was Laurel's SecondLove, and while she didn't love him as much as she did Oliver (who was her OneTrueLove), she ''did'' love him. Here, while Tommy still has feelings for her, Laurel does not reciprocate, seeing him as a friend or even a brother.
389** [[UnrelatedInTheAdaptation Thea is not his sister here]]. [[spoiler:[[RelatedInTheAdaptation Oliver on the other hand.......]]]].
390* BigBrotherInstinct: In spite of gradually growing to resent Oliver, Tommy immediately snaps back to protective when he's informed of the League of Assassins possibly targeting his former friend. However, there's a hint of condescension as Tommy relishes the idea of Oliver depending on him for once.
391* ButtMonkey: Life hasn't been really kind to Tommy. The woman he's crushing on is in love with his best friend, everyone he knows seems to be shipping them together, his own father seems to like said best friend more than he does him, and he gets shot ''twice'' in one arc. [[spoiler:And now his girlfriend has been murdered by someone who purposely emulated his mother's murder, right before Tommy was going to propose to her]].
392* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:Compared to his illegitimate half-brother Oliver, Tommy joined their father's crusade and is mainly focused on himself and his immediate circle rather than everyone's sake.]]
393* DarkAndTroubledPast: His best friend "died", sending him into a downward spiral that saw him kicked out of every college he went to and a drug addiction.
394* DoggedNiceGuy: To his friend Laurel. He also serves as a deconstruction. Tommy has many great qualities that make him ideal boyfriend material -- and ''knows'' it. Therefore, he feels entitled to Laurel, especially since he's had feelings for her for so long.
395* EntitledToHaveYou: Has shades of this towards Laurel. See DoggedNiceGuy above.
396* EveryoneHasStandards: Even after their friendship's deterioration, Tommy is horror-struck to learn Malcolm rigged the ''Queen's Gambit'' to sink and calls his father out on ruining Oliver's life.
397* HeroicBSOD: After his father's evil deeds are exposed to the public.
398* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Oliver, though their relationship gradually strains as the story goes on.
399* HopelessSuitor: To Laurel. As Laurel herself states, Tommy is an awesome guy any girl would be lucky to have, but for her, she simply can't see him in a romantic light.
400* GreenEyedMonster: Towards Oliver after his return, when Oliver catches the attention of both his crush Laurel ''and'' his father Malcolm.
401* IJustWantToBeLoved: A reoccurring theme with him is that he wants to be loved -- more specifically, he wants to be loved by someone who will love him above all others. The fact that the two people he wanted this most from, Laurel and Malcolm, loved Oliver over him (or at least seemed to, in Malcolm's case), is what causes the gradual deterioration of their friendship. [[spoiler:It also leaves him to susceptible to Isabel's manipulations]].
402* JerkassHasAPoint: While he's wrong to cut the Queens and Lances out of his life, Oliver and Laurel had just spent all of their time together flaunting their budding relationship despite knowing that Tommy still has feelings for her. When Tommy was just hoping for a friendly dinner that would make him forget that the entire city currently hates him for something he didn't even do, there's only so much sidelining that he was going to take before he finally snapped.
403* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:After his friendship with Oliver and Laurel fractures, Tommy shuts out both the Queens and the Lances out of his life. That in itself is worthy of this trope, seeing as both families supported Tommy in the wake of the Undertaking, but what really seals the deal is when he hangs up on Thea when she tries to call him. Both Oliver and Laurel admit to wanting to punch him for that]].
404* RecoveredAddict: Tommy completely fell off the wagon after Oliver's "death" and only cleaned himself up after Malcolm cut him off due to finding narcotics inside his room. By the time of the present storyline, he's been clean for years and not once is he tempted back into the lifestyle.
405* RelatedInTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:He and Oliver are half-brothers here, as opposed to just being best friends who shared a sister like in canon]].
406* TheResenter: To Oliver, especially in regards to Laurel. [[spoiler:While venting to Isabel, Tommy admits he can't understand why Laurel prefers Oliver over him, seeing as he has all of the same qualities Oliver has except he wasn't "stupid enough to get stuck on an island for ten years"]].
407* SinsOfOurFathers: Tommy becomes a pariah post-Arc III after the Undertaking is exposed and foiled. It's implied that the only reason he hasn't left Starling City yet for a fresh start is because of Merlyn Global.
408* TookALevelInJerkass: Other than the occasional GreenEyedMonster moment, Tommy is a genuinely NiceGuy. At the start of Arc III, however, he gradually becomes more inconsiderate of the people close to him and less polite to others. [[spoiler:It's implied that whatever Malcolm used to save his life at the end of Arc II was responsible]].
409* TraumaCongaLine: First he gets shot, then his father is publicly exposed as a terrorist, then he gets shot ''again'' (and it's heavily implied that the serum that saved him is driving him mad), and then [[spoiler:his girlfriend is murdered the exact same way his mother was]].
410* WellDoneSonGuy: And his mended relationship with his father has only made it worse.
411[[/folder]]
412
413[[folder:Henry Allen]]
414The biological father of Barry Allen. Henry was incarcerated after being framed for the murder of his wife, Nora Allen. Three years later, he attempted suicide after his son's disappearance, only to be foiled and put on suicide watch. Henry slowly regained the will to live thanks to the efforts of Iris West, which is eventually rewarded when Barry is found alive ten years later.
415
416!!!Tropes
417* DrivenToSuicide: When he learned about Barry's disappearance and that he was presumably dead, Henry broke and attempted suicide, but was stopped and he was subsequently put on suicide watch.
418* HappilyFailedSuicide: Barry was ''his'' LivingEmotionalCrutch, so when he disappeared and was presumed dead, Henry tried to commit suicide; he was stopped, and ten years later it becomes this when Barry returns to Central City.
419* LivingEmotionalCrutch:
420** To his son, and vice versa. When they finally meet each other again after ten years, Barry admits that one of the things that kept him going was his father, and how he had to get Henry out of prison. Knowing that, Henry can't find it in himself to protest Barry's attempts to get him released.
421** He and Iris shared a similar relationship during the ten years Barry was gone. Henry served as a surrogate father figure to her after her relationship with Joe fell apart, while Iris actively visited him to help him regain the will to live, knowing Barry wouldn't have wanted him to die before he got out.
422* LovedByAll: Even the ''guards at his prison'' like him enough to bend the rules for him so he can hug his long lost son, and they're shown to be supportive of him [[spoiler:when he's released from prison.]]
423* NiceGuy: Every one of his appearances paints him as a genuinely kind man, one who holds no blame against Joe despite being unfairly imprisoned. It's implied that when [[spoiler: he finally gets out of jail,]] even the guards are happy for him.
424* ThrowTheDogABone: When he's ''finally'' reunited with Barry after ten years spent believing his child dead, the prison staff decides to bend the visitation rules to let them embrace each other.
425[[/folder]]
426
427[[folder:Samantha "Sam" Arias]]
428A successful businesswoman residing in Starling City, and the mother of Ruby Arias. On a seemingly normal day of school, Sam finds her daughter talking with a new friend, and finds herself befriending the guardian of that friend: Kara.
429
430!!!Tropes
431* ForegoneConclusion: [[spoiler:She is destined to one day become the supervillain Reign. While it's never outright stated, the author's notes alludes to it several times, and is ultimately why the author put a kibosh to a potential Sam/Kara pairing]].
432* HeterosexualLifePartners: Quickly develops this dynamic with Kara, echoing the friendship between their respective charges.
433* SitcomArchNemesis: Has one in Isabel Rochev, who is a former classmate of hers.
434[[/folder]]
435
436[[folder:Ruby Arias]]
437The daughter of Samantha Arias and a student at Balliol Prep. Ruby is intrigued when a new student enrolls into her class. Noticing how shy and withdrawn he is, she takes the initiative to speak with him, unwittingly befriending a boy whose secrets are far beyond her wildest imagination.
438
439!!!Tropes
440* CheerfulChild: Overall pretty upbeat and happy.
441* SatelliteCharacter: Mainly defined by her interactions with her mom and Kal.
442* ShipTease: Thea suggests the possibility of ''something'' going on between her and Kal when they first meet. Kara immediately shoots it down, pointing out that they're only twelve.
443[[/folder]]
444
445!Allies
446
447!!League of Assassins
448
449[[folder:Nyssa al Ghul]]
450A member of the League of Assassins, daughter of Ra's al Ghul, and Heir to the Demon. On a mission for her father, Nyssa saves four souls from drowning, forever tying her life to theirs.
451
452!!!Tropes
453* AdaptationalSexuality: Canon Nyssa is a lesbian. This Nyssa is bisexual (though, according to WordOfGod, she prefers women).
454* BadassNormal: Duh.
455* CainAndAbel: She's not really the typical Abel, being an assassin and all, but her older sister Talia is ''so much worse''.
456* EveryoneCanSeeIt: It was wildly speculated amongst League members that there was a relationship between her and Oliver, because of how close they were. However, most were smart enough not to ask Oliver about it.
457* HonoraryTrueCompanion: To the Lian Yu survivors. Later also becomes one to Black Canary.
458* TheMentor:
459** Kara learned under her, for the very simple reason that a woman's body is different from a man's and as such only Nyssa could teach the Kryptonian more refined techniques.
460** Oliver later asks of her to help Black Canary to improve. Nyssa is okay with it as long as Canary consents to the training.
461* NotSoStoic: Has a big grin on her face when she watches [[spoiler: Laurel prove herself]].
462* OutOfFocus: In Arcs I and II, as the League is primarily a background presence during those events. She returns in Arc III.
463* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Oliver.
464* WouldntHurtAChild: Shows clear revulsion at [[spoiler:Brick's plan to kidnap Balliol's children.]]
465[[/folder]]
466
467[[folder:Ra's al Ghul]]
468Leader of the League of Assassins, and the father of Nyssa al Ghul. A warrior that has hid himself among shadows for several centuries, when his daughter returns from Lian Yu, she brings along a child and three potential recruits, whose abilities test the limits of even his wide worldview.
469
470!!!Tropes
471* AdaptationalHeroism: He's notably more enlightened and heroic than most versions of Ra's al Ghul, including the version he was based on.
472* AwesomenessByAnalysis: How he deducts that [[spoiler:Malcolm's illegitimate child is not Thea, but ''Oliver''. Malcolm was far too composed as he asked for Thea's release, but immediately panicked when Oliver intervened on the scene.]]
473* BadassNormal: With the possible exception of Oliver, he is ''the'' BadassNormal and the WorldsBestWarrior.
474* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:He gets to die in a formal duel to the death instead of illness, entrusting his name and the League to a powerful warrior he approves. Said warrior also being the illegitimate child of his former Horseman ensures some measure of revenge against Malcolm Merlyn, as his son is more of an Assassin then he ever will be and loathes everything Malcolm is and represents.]]
475* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:When informed that Malcolm Merlyn produced an illegitimate child, he decides to abduct them in order to force his former Horseman to surrender and be executed. After learning ''Oliver'' is this child instead of Thea, Ra's insists to forcefully induct the girl in the League -- leading Oliver to challenge him for the succession, so the Demon's Head gets to die as a warrior and entrusting the League to a powerful warrior whom he carefully cultivated.]]
476* TheDreaded: Even with Kara's abilities, none of the leads have any desire to anger him or make enemies with the League. In fact, they had initially planned to leave the League five years ''later'' than they did in the story, as by then, Nyssa (hopefully) would've succeeded him as the Demon's Head. Barry gaining his speedster abilities and whispers about the Undertaking forced them to move up their timetable.
477* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He truly cherished his firstborn Talia, in spite of the fact she was growing more and more monstrous to the point that even he couldn't ignore her deeds anymore. Even so, Ra's merely ordered her banishment instead of her death.
478* EvenEvilHasStandards: He may rule a league of murderers and be totally indifferent to the prospect of culling entire towns, he's doing it for a greater purpose than mere pettiness or revenge. DisproportionateRetribution such as Malcolm's Undertaking or Talia's ultimate offense? Not okay at all.
479* EvilMentor: Well, it's more like "Extremely Morally Ambiguous and Mysterious Mentor", but "Evil" works just as well in the grand scope of things. He served as this to all three leads, and had a direct hand in shaping their morality as a result. It's only after they finally manage to separate themselves from his control do they start to realize and recover from the mental damage he's done to them.
480* HeirClubForMen: He explicitly refused to name his very gifted child Talia as his successor on the grounds she was a woman, and took another wife to produce more suitable offspring... only to find himself saddled with another daughter. He only chose his successors between his two daughters because he didn't have enough time to sire a son.
481* NobleDemon: While the Lian Yu survivors respect him to an immense degree and don't doubt his honor, they are not blind to what kind of man he is. As later pointed out, he basically press-ganged three traumatized teenagers into his murder cult and more-or-less brainwashed them to be his personal assassins. The trio fully recognize what he did to them was inexcusable, but refuse to retaliate due to a variety of factors, including some lingering conditioning.
482* ParentalFavoritism: He favors Nyssa over Talia, mostly because this version of Talia is too evil even for his tastes.
483* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: When his most powerful warriors ask to take their leave, he gracefully accepts their resignation, only assigning them a last mission as compensation.
484* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Ra's understands the world is constantly changing and evolving, so the League needs to adapt in order to survive in the modern era. It leads him to buck tradition to giving Barry free reign to instruct his ninjas in techno matters or establishing a succession order to his position as the Demon.
485* SecretlyDying: In Arc IV, he confesses that the Lazarus Pit no longer works for him, and his age is catching up to him.
486* SinsOfOurFathers: Malcolm is terrified by the possibility of Ra's trying to kill his children [[spoiler:Tommy and Oliver]] for his attempt to unleash the Undertaking.
487* SpannerInTheWorks: His decision to create [[spoiler: a line of succession including the main trio screwed with Talia's initial plan, which was to kill him and Nyssa, take over the League, and ''then'' kill the trio.]] She was forced to modify it so she could [[spoiler: kill all five of them in one go, otherwise she wouldn't be able to take over the League due to them being officially declared heirs]].
488* VillainRevealsTheSecret: In Arc V, he's an antagonist since [[spoiler:he abducts Thea to lure Malcolm in a trap. When Oliver comes on the scene, Ra's notes Malcolm's panic, deducts that ''Oliver'' was sired by the Magician instead of Thea, and casually tells that to everyone present.]]
489* VirtueIsWeakness: Believes in this to some extent, stating that one of Kara's greatest weaknesses (if not her greatest) is her compassion.
490* WorldsBestWarrior: He's tied with Oliver for best "normal" combatant in the story.
491[[/folder]]
492
493!!A.R.G.U.S.
494
495[[folder:Amanda Waller]]
496The Director of Advanced Research Group United Support, better known as A.R.G.U.S. A woman who clawed her way up from the gutters of Chicago, Amanda Waller is utterly ruthless in eliminating threats against American interests, and it isn't afraid to use immoral and illegal means to get what she wants.
497
498!!!Tropes
499* {{Blackmail}}:
500** How she forced [[spoiler: Slade]] to join Task Force X during the ten-year TimeSkip.
501** It's also how she forces the main trio into [[spoiler: a tentative alliance as her personal public SuperTeam; if Amanda dies by their hands, Slade automatically goes to the top of America's Most Wanted List]].
502** [[spoiler: She forces Malcolm to absolve the Queens of any involvement in the Undertaking by implying she won't hesitate to dish a nasty fate for Tommy and Oliver.]]
503* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Part of why the leads have yet to kill her is because the resources she has at her disposal are too useful to their operations.
504* TheChessmaster: While the three leads are cunning in their own rights, their focuses and goals are considerably small in scope. Amanda is the one who sees the big picture and plays everyone accordingly to a major aim. [[spoiler:The Justice League, for example, is just her pet team of vigilantes whose purpose is to soak up the spotlight, providing proficient distraction so her black ops teams, specifically Task Force X, can operate undetected]].
505* EngineeredHeroics: Downplayed since she ''wasn't'' responsible for the Undertaking, but she certainly wasn't above using it to publically launch the Justice League.
506* EveryoneHasStandards: Amanda is a bitch of the highest order, but when confronted by the likes of [[spoiler:Zoom]], she refuses to be painted with the same brush as him, pointing out all her terrible actions had a purpose. [[spoiler:Zoom]], meanwhile, is just an asshole to everyone to get his rocks off.
507** As [[spoiler:Joe Wilson]] launches an assault against her base, he claims she's responsible for every crime he commited. Amanda fires back she already knows she's a monster, she dirtied her hands and she owns up to this, but [[spoiler:Joe]] became a monster from his own accord, so he's not allowed to skirt his guilt by making a scapegoat of her.
508* GoodIsNotNice: Her methods are borderline sociopathic and very much reprehensible, but she ''did'' create the Justice League.
509* HeKnowsTooMuch: Waller knows everything about the main characters' past operations. As Oliver bluntly put, "[She knows] too much". Unfortunately she's made herself untouchable.
510* IAmTheNoun: When she's called a bitch, her response is a SlasherSmile and a declaration that she ''is'' The Bitch, and [[InsultBackfire damn proud of it]].
511* IGaveMyWord: She's very big on favors and their repayment. When Wade Eiling's manipulations ruined her chance to settle her debt to [[spoiler:Nathaniel Adam]], she was so pissed she decided to help his fiancee to screw him up.
512* {{Jerkass}}: A horrible woman who makes zero apologies for it.
513* ManipulativeBitch: And damn proud of it.
514* NervesOfSteel: Even when confronting a metahuman able ''and'' willing to snap her neck in a millisecond, lady just won't twitch. Mainly because she always makes sure to hold the cards she needs to come out on the top.
515* NecessarilyEvil: The characters who know her openly call Amanda one of the most vilest and horrible people they have met due to her methods, statements she takes in stride and treats them as compliments, but her actions are placed in a genuine desire to protect humans and she is willing to help them.
516* NoodleIncident: She owed a favour to [[spoiler:Nathaniel Adam]], but never was able to pay it before his untimely death. Man, was she irate about it.
517* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: She's always tightly emotionally controlled and always on the top, which leads her to be really smug and assured. [[spoiler:The impending Dominator invasion]] freaks the ''piss'' out of her, as she knows Earth isn't ready at all.
518* RedBaron: "The Wall" or "The Bitch."
519* SlasherSmile: When she's grinning, people feels their hairs stand on their neck and compare her to the Devil.
520* StartOfDarkness: Her introductory chapter in Chapter 18, which reveals her past in Chicago and how it shaped her into the woman she is today.
521* TokenEvilTeammate: This best sums up how Waller fits within the supporting cast, as while she does genuinely care about protecting Earth and its people, she's willing to go the NecessarilyEvil route to do it and she isn't well liked, especially among those who lean towards the good end of the morality spectrum.
522* WouldHurtAChild: She uncovered a Kryptonite blade in spite of twelve-year-old Kal being present and potentially endangered. She also felt no remorse when she threatened to kill Grant Wilson (who had to be around 5-6 years old) to ensure his father's cooperation.
523[[/folder]]
524
525[[folder:Maseo Yamashiro]]
526A senior agent of A.R.G.U.S. and field commander of Task Force X. Maseo, his wife Tatsu, and their son Akio ran afoul of the Yakuza in Japan and fell under the employ of Amanda Waller for protection, eventually crossing paths with a man who would change their lives, for better and for worse.
527
528!!!Tropes
529* AdaptationalHeroism: [[spoiler: Since Akio never died,]] Maseo never left Tatsu to join the League of Assassins, and is a staunch ally of Slade, and by extension, the leads, in the present day.
530* IOweYouMyLife: Or more specifically, my [[spoiler: ''son's'']] life, which is why he is so loyal to Slade.
531* ThisIsGonnaSuck: His reaction when [[spoiler: China White joined Task Force X]]. Apparently she hadn't forgotten him at all, nor all the trouble he caused her in Hong Kong.
532* TokenGoodTeammate: To Task Force X, [[spoiler: alongside Slade and later Bette Sans Souci]].
533[[/folder]]
534
535!!S.T.A.R. Labs
536
537[[folder:Francisco "Cisco" Ramon]]
538A brilliant mechanical engineer for S.T.A.R. Labs, Cisco had a bright future ahead of him -- only to lose it all when the Particle Accelerator exploded. One year later, Cisco still works for S.T.A.R. Labs out of loyalty to Dr. Harrison Wells, the man who gave him his big break.
539
540!!!Tropes
541* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: PlayedForLaughs when he gets a stern teacher in the form of Barry, who puts him through harsh lessons in hand-to-hand combat (though unknown to Cisco, this is still much nicer than the TrainingFromHell Barry received).
542* BoxingLessonsForSuperman: Barry gives him some when his powers start coming through and he expresses the desire to become a vigilante.
543* DemotedToExtra: He and Caitlin are both OutOfFocus due to Barry not being reliant on them like he was in canon.
544* PopCulturedBadass: Very knowledgeable about pop culture, and getting there on the badass.
545* SeriousBusiness: Pop culture awareness. He was horrified to learn that Barry had lost out on ten years of pop culture references.
546* StraightMan: To Barry, when Oliver and Iris aren't present.
547* VitriolicBestBuds: Slowly becoming this with Barry, though it's taking a while due to Barry having a huge amount of secrets.
548[[/folder]]
549
550[[folder:Caitlin Snow]]
551A bioengineer working at S.T.A.R. Labs, Caitlin's life fell apart thanks to the Particle Accelerator Explosion, which took the life of her fiance, Ronnie Raymond. Listless since then, the monotony of her life is broken when her boss unexpectedly hires a new face.
552
553!!!Tropes
554* DefrostingIceQueen: Even icier to Barry than in canon thanks to the latter being morally ambiguous and extremely secretive. [[spoiler:She begins to soften on him when he helps her reunite with Ronnie]].
555* DemotedToExtra: She and Cisco are both OutOfFocus due to Barry not being reliant on them like he was in canon, although this starts to shift after Thawne is taken out of the picture.
556* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler:Finally marries Ronnie at the end of Arc IV]].
557* AnIcePerson: [[spoiler:She awakens her metagene during the Battle of Earth-1 and thus her ice powers]].
558* OnlySaneMan: Often the mediator between Cisco and Barry.
559* PreAsskickingOneLiner: To [[spoiler:Killer Frost]].
560-->'''Caitlin''': This is Central City. Everyday of our lives is the impossible. [[spoiler:(''blasts Frost with her new ice powers'')]]
561* TookALevelInBadass: Arc IV sees [[spoiler:Caitlin manifest ice powers while facing her Earth-2 counterpart]].
562[[/folder]]
563
564[[folder:Ronald "Ronnie" Raymond/Firestorm A]]
565A former structural engineer for S.T.A.R. Labs, Ronnie was presumed dead after the Particle Accelerator Explosion, his body disintegrated in the resulting blast. (Un)fortunately, the truth is far more complicated.
566
567!!!Tropes
568* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler:To Caitlin at the end of Arc IV]].
569* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Does not die at the end of the story's equivalent to ''The Flash'' Season One]].
570[[/folder]]
571
572[[folder:Martin Stein/Firestorm B]]
573A professor at Hudson University and a leading expert in thermodynamic physics, Martin visited S.T.A.R. Labs the night of the Particle Accelerator Explosion to acquire backing for his research, along with a certain briefcase to validate his line of study. Martin would disappear that night, along with his briefcase, and the truth of his vanishing will come back to haunt those he left behind.
574
575!!!Tropes
576* ActionDad: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. He is the father of Lily and still Firestorm, but he didn't become a Legend, he isn't as involved into heroics like in canon.
577* DemotedToExtra: Since the Legends will never form in this timeline, Stein is demoted to recurring character instead of being a lead like he was in canon.
578* InSpiteOfANail: Despite not becoming a Legend, he still becomes a dad.
579* VitriolicBestBuds: With his partner, Ronnie Raymond.
580[[/folder]]
581
582[[folder:Hartley Rathaway/Pied Piper]]
583
584!!!Tropes
585* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:He joins S.T.A.R. Labs after Arc II.]]
586* HoistByHisOwnPetard: His try to escape from the Pipeline backfires painfully due to Barry's awareness about his hearing aids functionality as sonic devices.
587[[/folder]]
588
589
590!!The Justice League
591
592[[folder:General]]
593A SuperTeam created by A.R.G.U.S., initially to be the public counterpart to Task Force X and soak up attention. Originally intended to be a loose coalition of vigilantes and superheroes, A.R.G.U.S. started making genuine efforts to transform it into a legitimate organization over the course of Arc III in response to several international threats.
594
595'''Current Members'''[[note]]as of Arc IV[[/note]]:
596
597## Oliver Queen/Green Arrow
598## Barry Allen/The Flash
599## Kara Danvers | Kara Zor-El/Supergirl
600## Mari Jiwe [=McCabe=]/Vixen
601## J'onn J'onzz | John Jones/Martian Manhunter
602## Jefferson Pierce/Black Lightning
603## Dinah Laurel Lance/Black Canary
604## [[spoiler:Hal Jordan/Green Lantern]]
605## [[spoiler:Nate Heywood/(Citizen) Steel]]
606## [[spoiler:Zatanna Zatara]]
607## [[spoiler:Anissa Pierce/Thunder]]
608## [[spoiler:Astra In-Ze:Archangel]]
609## Cisco Ramon/Vibe
610## Hartley Rathaway/Pied Piper
611## Ronnie Raymond/Firestorm A
612## Martin Stein/Firestorm B
613
614!!Tropes
615* AdaptedOut: Only two members of the Original Seven in the comics are a part of the Original Seven here (The Flash and Martian Manhunter). Of the others, Superman is currently a child, Batman does not exist because Bruce Wayne never lost his parents, Wonder Woman/Diana never left Themyscira, and Aquaman's fate is ambiguous (it's not certain if he even exists in general). Hal Jordan ''does'' exist however, and is implied to have become Green Lantern already, but it's left unclear whether it will be him or the John Stewart incarnation that will be joining the League eventually. [[spoiler:It later turned out to be Hal, meaning that three of the Original Seven are now part of the League]]. That being said, the non-canon members of the Original Seven are still members of the Justice League across several adaptations.
616* EngineeredHeroics: Played with. They debut by publicly foiling Malcolm's Undertaking, but the Undertaking was a real plan and a real threat -- Amanda just decided to make a show of it for her own gain.
617* HopeBringer: Their secondary function is to suppress crime via this. As a result, one of the criteria Amanda made for new members of the Justice League is that the prospective member had to be publicly seen committing some great feat of heroism.
618** Black Lightning joined the League after taking down the ASA with help of Green Arrow, the Flash, and Supergirl.
619** Martian Manhunter was offered membership after he singlehandedly cleaned out [[WretchedHive Hub City]] of crime.
620** [[spoiler:Black Canary joins after she foils Brick's plan to take Balliol Prep hostage, saving over a thousand people (most of them school children)]].
621* SuperTeam: ''The'' Super Team, to be exact.
622* SuperheroSpeciation: Each has a different skill/power set. [[spoiler:Even Green Arrow and Black Canary, the two {{Badass Normal}}s of the team, have different skill sets that complement each other]].
623* TokenNonHuman: Kara, [[spoiler:Astra]], and J'onn are the sole aliens in the League.
624[[/folder]]
625
626[[folder:Mari Jiwe [=McCabe=]/Vixen II]]
627An aspiring fashion student from Detroit. All her life, Mari has searched for where she came from, and [[WesternAnimation/{{Vixen}} found her answers upon her return to Detroit]]. Now a vigilante empowered by the Anansi Totem, Mari finds that her family holds even more secrets than she initially thought.
628
629!!!Tropes
630* HeroicLineage: Both her maternal grandparents were part of the Justice Society, as the first Vixen and Hourman.
631* LegacyCharacter: To her grandmother, the first Vixen, Amaya Jiwe.
632* OutOfFocus: Of the four members of the Justice League, she is by far the least focused on. Somewhat justified in that [[SupermanStaysOutOfGotham she has her own area of responsibility up in Detroit]], and doesn't work too much with the others unless it's something major.
633* RaceLift: Slightly. In canon, Mari and Kuasa are of pure African descent. Here, they are one-fourth Caucasian due to their grandfather being the Caucasian Rex Tyler.
634* RelatedInTheAdaptation: In canon, her and Kuasa's grandfather is an unidentified man from Zambezi. Here, it's Rex Tyler, leader of the Justice Society of America.
635[[/folder]]
636
637[[folder:J'onn J'onzz | John Jones/Martian Manhunter]]
638The Last Son of Mars, whom the heroes free from imprisonment.
639
640!!!Tropes
641* BigEater: Like Kara, he enjoys his cookies.
642* DarkAndTroubledPast: Lost his entire species to the Dominators, then was imprisoned on Earth for a decade.
643* DoomedHometown: There's a reason he's called the ''last'' son of Mars.
644* FlyingBrick: Ticks all the boxes for this trope.
645* {{Intangibility}}: One of his ComboPlatterPowers.
646* LovedByAll: Amongst the people of Hub City, the Martian Manhunter is absolutely adored for his cleaning up their WretchedHive.
647* PsychicPowers: A skilled telepath, at least.
648* SociallyAwkwardHero: Has trouble fitting in on Earth, at least at first, thanks to being from another planet.
649* TerrorHero: Due to his [[ComboPlatterPowers being nigh-impossible]] for the criminals to destroy.
650* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Oreos, what else? Kara even worries about him not having a healthy diet (though for all we know, Oreos might actually be healthy for a Martian).
651* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Can easily shift between human and Martian form, and most likely others as well.
652[[/folder]]
653
654[[folder:Jefferson Pierce/Black Lightning]]
655A former vigilante who recently came out of retirement.
656
657!!!Tropes
658* ActionDad: Two daughters and still kicking ass.
659* BadassTeacher: His day job is being a high school principal, so he's helping kids day ''and'' night. How's that for dedication?
660* ColorCharacter: '''Black''' Lightning.
661* EarlyBirdCameo: Mentioned in a news report about his recent resurfasing in Freeland right after the Justice League went public.
662* ExperiencedProtagonist: Already well-experienced in superheroing before he joins the story.
663* NiceGuy: He's not horrified or repulsed when the Trinity finally out themselves as former members of the League of Assassins, telling them they were only kids thrown in awful circumstance who did their best to stay alive and genuinely try to do good nowadays.
664* ShockAndAwe: His main ability.
665[[/folder]]
666
667!Other Supporting Characters
668
669[[folder:Detective Edward "Eddie" Thawne]]
670A police detective, recently transferred from KCPD to CCPD and the partner of Detective Joe West. Son of the influential Thawne Family, Eddie transferred to the CCPD to escape his family's shadow and make his own mark. Of course, working with the gorgeous Iris West helped softened the blow. One year later, Eddie has got it all; a life away from his stuffy family, a rewarding job, and a beautiful girlfriend -- only for all that to be threatened when a vigilante that embodies the impossible starts appearing in Central City, and Iris' childhood friend returns from the dead.
671
672!!!Tropes
673* AbusiveParents: Both of his parents are emotionally abusive towards their son and diminish his accomplishments to his face.
674* AdaptationalBadass: [[spoiler:It turns out, Eddie himself is the "source" of Eobard's metagene, as he ends up becoming a Meta Human as a result of Zoom's Metapoclypse]].
675* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Eddie is much more antagonistic than his canon counterpart, both to Barry and the Flash. The former because of Barry's own AdaptationalPersonalityChange, which causes Eddie to perceive him as more of a threat to his relationship with girlfriend Iris, and the latter because he is darker and more brutal than the canon!Flash.
676* AdaptationalJerkass: See above. Justified, again, by Barry's own personality change and the circumstances surrounding his disappearance, which have impacted Iris' personality and overall life far more than his canon coma did.
677* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: He never befriends Barry; instead, their relationship is frosty, only being polite to each other for Iris' sake. He also never gets over his hatred of the Flash, not helped by the Flash never apologizing to him or saving his life. While he does eventually end up befriending Barry in Arc V, his hatred of the Flash remains. [[spoiler:And then everything falls apart towards the end of Arc V after Eddie loses his mind and becomes a supervillain]].
678* AscendedExtra: While Eddie was by no means a minor character in canon, in this story he's designated to become a major character, helped by how [[spoiler:his canonical suicide has been averted]], and the author has continuously stated that they have plans for him. [[spoiler:Ultimately, this comes to fruition in Arc V, when Eddie, thanks to a heavy bout of SanitySlippage, ends up becoming the main villain of Barry's storyline for that arc]].
679* TheDogBitesBack: After growing up and being forced to be their trophy for decades, Eddie snaps and [[spoiler:kills his AbusiveParents in a moment of rage]].
680* EmpoweredBadassNormal: [[spoiler:It turns out he's one of the new metahuman that were created in the wake of the Dark Matter Explosion, with the ability of EnergyAbsorption]].
681* FreudianExcuse: Eddie has a nastier side of his personality brought about by two overbearing parents, scorn over his decision to join the police, and the constant fear of losing everything he's gained.
682* GreenEyedMonster: To Barry, mainly because Iris is much more open around him than she was with anybody else, ''including'' Eddie.
683* HiddenDepths: It is revealed that he was a skilled fencer before becoming a detective.
684* HumiliationConga: First, he continually fails to catch the Flash. Then, Iris [[spoiler: leaves him over his single-minded focus on the Flash]]. Then he gets beaten up by the Flash even with his anti-speedster weapons, the police [[spoiler: shut down the anti-Flash investigation, and his Anti-Flash Taskforce is turned into the Anti-''Meta'' Taskforce, with explicit instructions to leave the Flash ''alone''. And even when Iris does agree to renew their relationship, she refuses his offer to move in with him because she feels she needs space]]. It's hard not to see ''why'' Eddie still hates the Flash despite all the good the latter has done since then.
685* InspectorJavert: To the Streak/Flash, with Barry even name-dropping the TropeNamer. [[spoiler:He's absolutely furious when the hunt for the vigilante is called off in the aftermath of the Undertaking]].
686* ItsAllAboutMe: After [[spoiler:Eddie learns that he was basically manipulated into killing his own parents and Ralph as part of Eobard Thawne's vendetta against the Flash, he's determined to kill Eobard despite Barry's protests about how killing Eobard will cause a time paradox (this Eobard is a younger version of the one Barry's already faced). Eddie convinces himself that this is just because Barry/the Flash is out to ruin his life, but it's noted that this is due to his currently fragile mental state and he just isn't thinking rationally]].
687* PowerIncontinence: [[spoiler:He has the powerful metahuman ability of EnergyAbsorption thanks to his blue flames, but has little to no conscious control over it. This lack of control is what leads to him killing his parents, and later Ralph]].
688* RevengeBeforeReason: During the hostage situation Zoom's gang is having with Iris and the Flash, Eddie can't help but jump the gun because he finally has a warrant for the latter's arrest, and ends up causing the Flash's capture and nearly leaves the city to Zoom's clutches. It's at this point that [[spoiler: Iris finally gives up on Eddie and breaks up with him]].
689* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:After killing his parents, Eddie quickly begins losing his mind over trying to keep it a secret, in part because Ralph is later hired to investigate their deaths, culminating in Eddie accidentally killing him too. It's later revealed that this breakdown was being encouraged by his therapist, a disguised younger version of Eobard Thawne, who was using Eddie to draw out the Flash]].
690* SmugSnake: Eddie's an experienced detective who's quickly established, despite his demeanor, to be way in over his head in dealing with the Flash, has an obsession with him that no one takes seriously, and doesn't realize the effects of his actions until it's almost too late.
691* SparedByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Like Ronnie, survives the story's equivalent to ''The Flash'' Season One]].
692* StalkerWithoutACrush: To the Streak/Flash.
693* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: Initially, as while the Streak/Flash has good intentions, it doesn't change the fact that he's subverting the law and murdering people. The sympathy decreases as his obsession with the Streak/Flash grows, however, and it begins to affect his personal life.
694* TragicVillain: [[spoiler:He ends up a villain largely because of circumstance. His girlfriend breaks up with him, he's knocked into a coma for nine months, unlocks his powers when he accidentally kills his parents, accidentally kills a friend who discovers this, and ''then'' discovers that all of this was because of his psychopathic descendant's obsession with the Flash, the man he hates more than anyone else in the world. By the time Eddie finds the latter out, his life is effectively ruined. This causes Eddie to snap and single-mindedly seek revenge against Eobard Thawne by killing him, even though doing so will cause a time paradox that could potentially destroy the universe]].
695* UnknownRival: He's this to both the Flash ''and'' Barry Allen.
696** Eddie hates the Flash with a burning passion, and while the Flash is aware of it, he regards Eddie as a nuisance at best. This is why he doesn't bother to hamper Eddie's investigation as Barry.
697** Eddie also doesn't like Barry because of how close he and Iris are. Barry doesn't really care about that either, since he has no plans to make a move on Iris himself.
698* {{Workaholic}}: After he starts chasing after the Streak/Flash. [[spoiler:It gets so bad that he and Iris even briefly break up over it]].
699[[/folder]]
700
701[[folder:Detective Ralph Dibny]]
702A police detective for the CCPD and coworker of Eddie, Joe, and Iris. Ralph is a competent investigator, but it's mitigated by his obnoxious and perverted personality.
703
704!!!Tropes
705* AscendedExtra: Of a sort; he appears far earlier than he does in canon, because Barry never busted him for tampering with evidence. That being said, thus far he's remained a background character.
706* BunnyEarsLawyer: Iris walks in on him making paper airplanes with their collective paperwork, and he's a definite CasanovaWannabe. However, in the true spirit of the trope, he's tolerated because he's also one of the best detectives that they have.
707* CasanovaWannabe: Eddie and Iris note that not a week goes by without some woman entering the precinct to slap Ralph.
708* TheFriendNobodyLikes: The entire precinct. It's all but stated that ''nobody'' likes Ralph, and only put up with him because, despite his many, ''many'' flaws, he's a damn good detective. [[spoiler:Even so, he is still their friend even after his fall from grace, and the precinct is absolutely devastated by his death]].
709* HiddenDepths: Iris is surprised to learn he's well-versed in food culture, which Eddie explains by Ralph inviting ''many'' women to dinner dates.
710* HopelessSuitor: To Iris; even if she wasn't dating Eddie, she wouldn't give Ralph the time of the day.
711* PlotTriggeringDeath: [[spoiler:He's murdered halfway through Arc V by Eddie, and investigating his death and finding his killer serves as the main motivation for Barry and Iris for several chapters, along with helping further Eddie's descent into villainy]].
712* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Ralph's death, on top of being shocking and heartbreaking for both the audience and the characters, serves as a sign of both the darkening tone of the plot and Eddie's gradual descent into evil. Eddie going to insane lengths to cover up his part in the murder (including framing a dead mugger and blowing up an evidence locker while people were still inside the building it was located in) further establish that regardless of whatever sympathy people both in- and out-of-universe might feel for Eddie, he needs to be stopped before he hurts more people]].
713* SparedByTheAdaptation: Zigzagged. Ralph is still alive in canon, but he originally died in the Particle Accelerator explosion before being revived due to Flashpoint, neither of which happened here. [[spoiler:Then he ends up dying for real midway through Arc V]].
714[[/folder]]
715
716[[folder:Carter Bowen]]
717A neurosurgeon and a member of Starling City's wealthy elite. Carter is rich, brilliant, and ''incredibly'' arrogant, which does not endear him to many, including his old classmates and their friends.
718
719!!!Tropes
720* AbhorrentAdmirer: Unfortunately for Kara, he doesn't get the hint she's ''not'' looking for a relationship.
721* HopelessSuitor: To Kara. Her disinterest in romance is one reason, but it's hardly the only one.
722* NouveauRiche: His family is implied to be new money.
723* SmallNameBigEgo: Downplayed. While Carter is a member of Starling City's elite and he has a number of significant accomplishments to his name, his family's pedigree is still nowhere near comparable to the Queens or the Merlyns. The narrative notes that the Bowens have to pull a lot of strings to get their progeny into Balliol; compare that to the Queens and Merlyns, who get theirs in on name and legacy alone.
724* SocialClimber: Implied, as an extension of SmallNameBigEgo above; it's insinuated that the reason Carter is so interested in Kara is because of her close association with the Queen family, particularly Oliver and Moira.
725[[/folder]]
726
727[[folder:Helena Bertinelli]]
728The daughter of mob boss Frank Bertinelli, Helena waged a one-woman war on her father's criminal enterprise, heedless of the collateral damage. (Un)fortunately for her, others ''weren't'', and she was offered a deal she couldn't refuse.
729
730!!!Tropes
731* AdaptationalBadass: Joins the League of Assassins.
732* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Either give up her vendetta and take a chance with Ra's al Ghul in hopes of joining the League of Assassins, or go to jail alongside her father (who will be taken down no matter what choice she makes). It doesn't take a genius to figure out what Helena chose.
733* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:She finally returns in Arc IV, appealing to Laurel and the rest of the Justice League to save Nanda Parbat from the League of Shadows]].
734* PutOnABus: So far, hasn't been seen since she joined the League.
735* TragicVillain: Tried to kill her father, but that was because he murdered her fiance.
736[[/folder]]
737
738[[folder:Dante Ramon]]
739
740!!!Tropes
741
742* AdaptationalBadass: [[spoiler:He awakens his metagene in Arc IV, making him a metahuman with identical powers to his Earth-2 counterpart]].
743* AscendedExtra: The biggest example in Arc IV. A minor character in canon who only had a major role in two episodes, Dante [[spoiler:and his doppelganger Rupture]] are both integral parts of the conflict between Zoom and the Justice League, with Dante even joining the FinalBattle [[spoiler:and getting his own metahuman powers]].
744[[/folder]]
745
746!Villains
747
748!!Major Antagonists
749
750[[folder:Malcolm Merlyn/Al Sa-Her/The Dark Archer]]
751The father of Tommy Merlyn, CEO and Chairman of Merlyn Global, former member of the League of Assassins, and leader of the criminal cabal known as Tempest. Twenty years prior to the present storyline, Malcolm lost his wife in a mugging in the Glades, and has never managed to move past it, eventually crafting together a terrible plot to destroy the Glades in retaliation for her death. For the sake of this plan, Malcolm has committed a number of crimes and destroyed more than one friendship to keep things on track -- however, his mettle will be put to the test when a hooded vigilante starts looking into his alter-ego.
752
753!!!Tropes
754* ArchEnemy: To the Hood / Green Arrow. His relationship with Oliver is far more complicated.
755** ArchnemesisDad: [[spoiler:Neither he nor Oliver is aware of this little fact. Oliver only knows his godfather is a criminal who ruined his life, while Malcolm couldn't manage to unmask the Hood and as such only knows Oliver as his illegitimate son.]]
756* BadassNormal: Gives Oliver a serious fight, though definitely not at his level.
757* CannotSpitItOut: Non-romantic version. [[spoiler:He wants to tell Oliver that he is his father, but can't due to Robert and Moira forbidding it. That being said, Malcolm has been close to telling Oliver several times already but just can't seem to say it]].
758* ControlFreak: He's really unhappy when his plans go awry and pratically throws tantrums when the Queens oppose him. Downplayed with his attempt to steer Oliver's business project away from the Glades -- he's obviously distressed by Oliver's persistence but doesn't press.
759* CruelToBeKind: After Tommy went into a downward spiral in the wake of Oliver's death, Malcolm cut him off to force him to clean himself up. It worked.
760* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Ra's al Ghul forcefully outs him as Oliver's birth father in front of the young man, leading Oliver to immediately reject Malcolm as family and reveal himself as Green Arrow. Utterly shaken by the reality that his archnemesis was the son he wronged and that his TragicDream is doomed, Malcolm doesn't even react when Oliver threatens to kill him and merely admits the younger man would be in his right to do so.]]
761* EasilyForgiven: Completely and definitely averted. It's made very clear that Malcolm will ''never'' be forgiven for sinking the ''Queen's Gambit'' no matter how much he tries to atone for this, especially not by Oliver.
762* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
763** For all his faults, Malcolm genuinely loves Tommy. One of the reasons he regretted Oliver's death is because of how ''badly'' it affected Tommy, who took years to get over it. [[spoiler:In addition, one of the reasons why he remained Talia's captive is because she had Tommy as a virtual hostage]].
764** He also deeply regretted causing the "death" of his godson Oliver, and was relieved when Oliver turned up alive. [[spoiler:That fondness turns into love when he learns that Oliver is his biological son]].
765* EvenEvilHasStandards: His reaction to Talia slaughtering fifty innocent girls just because one of them insulted her looks was to beg Ra's to release him from his vow and flee Nanda Parbat.
766* HijackedByGanon: [[spoiler:With Tommy's help, he usurps control of the League of Shadows from Talia and sets himself up as one of the main villains of Arc V]].
767* LaserGuidedKarma: He destroyed Oliver's life by making him a castaway for ten years, and Oliver repays the favor by thwarting the Undertaking. [[spoiler:Even before, almost killing Oliver had a component of this, due to their blood relation. And after, it means a scheme to avenge his beloved wife is ruined by the son he favors.]]
768* LikeASonToMe: How he saw Oliver, [[spoiler:before learning that Oliver really was his son]].
769* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:To Oliver]].
770* ManipulativeBastard: Lampshaded by the author. Even when he's trying [[spoiler:to help Tommy]], he still can't keep himself from manipulating the situation to his advantage.
771* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He never intended for Oliver to be lost at sea for ten years, the guilt of which was further exacerbated by the effect it had on Tommy. [[spoiler: The feeling comes back with a ''vengeance'' when he learns Oliver is actually his illegitimate son.]]
772* NeverMyFault: [[spoiler:Blames the Hood for Tommy being shot, even though it was Malcolm's fault that Tommy was put in that situation to begin with]].
773* OhCrap: [[spoiler:When he realizes that the Hood not only recognizes him as a member of the League of Assassins, but is himself a member as well]].
774* ParentalFavoritism:
775** He's much more supportive and encouraging towards his godson Oliver than his own son Tommy. Guilt is implied to be a huge factor in his behavior. [[spoiler: Then he learns his blood relation to Oliver...]]
776** Notably, Malcolm never acknowledges his failures as Tommy's father. [[spoiler:With Oliver, however, he never tries to excuse his past behavior and actions, and does everything short of giving up the Undertaking to make it all up to him]].
777* ParentalNeglect:
778** Malcolm's obsession with the Undertaking caused him to neglect Tommy for several years; it was only after Oliver's "death" and Tommy's subsequent downspiral that he started acting like a father again. It rears its head again when Oliver reenters the picture, as Malcolm's guilt causes him to pay more attention to Oliver, [[spoiler:especially after learning Oliver is his biological son]].
779** [[spoiler:He's also technically guilty of this with Oliver, though to be fair to Malcolm, that's because he didn't know Oliver was his son to begin with. Once he finds out, he starts overcompensating the amount of time he spends with Oliver to make up with it]].
780* ParentsAsPeople:
781** He ''does'' love Tommy and wants the best for him, but it leads him to be distant and hard to please.
782** [[spoiler:After learning Oliver is actually his illegitimate son, Malcolm tries to make up for unwittingly neglecting and almost killing him by involving himself more in Oliver's life.]]
783* PetTheDog: [[spoiler:He decides not to tell Tommy about his suspicions about Tommy's deceased lover Isabel being in cahoots with Talia to manipulate him because the woman was dead and it would break Tommy's heart (provided Tommy believed him)]].
784* PragmaticVillainy: [[spoiler:While the entire Justice League worked together to stop the Undertaking, Malcolm is only focused on getting revenge on the Green Arrow as he knows he'd have no chance trying to take on the Flash, Vixen or Supergirl]].
785* TragicDream: It's strongly hinted he desperately wants for Oliver to forgive Malcolm sinking the ''Gambit'' and [[spoiler:love and accept him as his birth father]]. Even without knowing all the details, Tommy somberly reflects it likely won't ever happen. [[spoiler:Then Ra's al Ghul bluntly tells the truth to Oliver, who immediately rejects Malcolm as family and utterly shatters his hopes.]]
786* VillainForgotToLevelGrind: Lampshaded in the author's notes. While Malcolm is a genuinely dangerous individual, his combat level is significantly below the three leads (even without their powers), especially Oliver's, due to being older and only having two years of training. While Malcolm trains enough to maintain his current level, he has no one to push him to be even stronger like Oliver does with Barry and Kara and vice versa.
787* WellDoneDadGuy: [[spoiler:To his illegitimate son, Oliver. Originally it was subconscious and manifested as ParentalFavoritism over Tommy, stemming from his guilt over essentially ruining Oliver's life. These impulses then became conscious and more pronounced after learning of their blood relation, and Malcolm takes more proactive attempts in steering Oliver's life to keep him safe]].
788* YouAreNotMyFather: Once [[spoiler:Oliver learns that Malcolm is his biological father during a confrontation with Ra's al Ghul, he makes it clear that he will ''never'' consider Malcolm his real father, and as far as he's concerned once the current situation is resolved he will either cut off Malcolm's head or drop him in a deep pit so he never has to think about him ever again]].
789[[/folder]]
790
791[[folder:Eobard Thawne | False Harrison Wells/"The Man in the Yellow Suit"/The Reverse-Flash]]
792An time traveler from the future and the arch-nemesis of the superhero known as the Flash, Eobard was stranded in the twenty-first century after he murdered Nora Allen to prevent her son from growing up to become his greatest enemy. Desperate to return to his time, he killed the original Harrison Wells, taking on his appearance and identity to accelerate the creation of the Particle Accelerator, and thus, the birth of the Flash.
793
794!!!Tropes
795* ArchEnemy:
796** To Barry Allen. He murdered the latter's mother in an attempt to prevent the creation of the Flash, resulting in Barry's father being framed and sent to prison for a decade.
797** [[spoiler:To his ancestor Eddie Thawne, thanks to ruining Eddie's life all for the sake of using him to draw out the Flash and find out the latter's secret identity. Eddie's ultimate goal in Arc V after finding out Eobard is the one behind all his recent troubles is to murder his descendant]].
798* FauxAffablyEvil: Loses his polite demeanor when things don't go his way.
799* {{Foil}}: To Astra and Malcom. Of the three main villains of Arcs I and II, Thawne is the only one who has no genuine fondness/love for his adversary -- the closest he gets is grudging respect for Barry's intellect. He knows far more about what's going on with the three vigilantes than arguably the vigilantes themselves do; contrast that with Astra, [[spoiler:who only ever found out about Kara working with the Streak/Flash]], and Malcolm, [[spoiler:who was completely blindsided by Oliver working with other vigilantes, figuring that he was just an agent of the League of Assassins]]. Finally, he's the only villain [[spoiler:to never be completely defeated by his enemy -- the three vigilantes and Firestorm all ganged up on him to capture him]].
800* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even he has a poor opinion of ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga''.
801* IKnowYouKnowIKnow: Was posed to have this situation with Barry, who knew that Eobard knew that Barry was the Flash. Barry then decided that would be a waste of time and revealed his identity to Eobard, Caitlin, and Cisco straight off the bat instead.
802* ManipulativeBastard:
803** The man manages to use the location of his hideout as a psychological weapon. Manipulative doesn't even ''begin'' to cover it.
804** Ironically, despite that, he never manages to really manipulate Barry. Because Barry is an ExperiencedProtagonist who spent eight years with the cutthroat League of Assassins, he doesn't need Eobard as a mentor and thus, has no reason to trust him. In fact, Barry is suspicious of him from the beginning and doesn't even try to hide it. Even the aforementioned psychological weapon fails to take thanks to Barry having made peace with his mother's death years ago.
805* PragmaticVillainy: Thawne's [[spoiler:younger self]] is very careful about interfering with the past and is particularly invested in making sure that Eddie lives long enough to bear at least one child, as one wrong move can result in his existence from happening. He even lets both Barry and Eddie go after getting what he needs.
806* TimeyWimeyBall: [[spoiler:The Eobard Thawne who killed Nora Allen and vanished into a temporal rift is apparently dead, but a ''younger'' version of Eobard appears as Eddie Thawne's psychiatrist, manipulating Eddie into killing his parents and Ralph Dibny and covering up the murders in an attempt to learn the Flash's identity]].
807* TheWorfEffect:
808** In their first fight, Barry manages to hold his own against him, but it became increasingly clear that he was outmatched; if it hadn't been for Eobard's speed shorting out, Barry would've assuredly lost.
809** When Eobard returns as [[spoiler:Eddie Thawne's therapist, he's swiftly overpowered as this is a ''younger'' version of Thawne who doesn't know Barry's already faced his future self]].
810* WorfHadTheFlu: In one comment, the author explicitly calls him the most dangerous of the three main antagonists of Arc II, and rightfully so. He only tied with Barry in their first fight because his speed shorted out, and lost his second fight after being essentially ganged up on by the WorldsBestWarrior, two of the strongest metas on the planet, and a fully-trained Kryptonian, and even then it was a close thing. [[spoiler:He didn't even lose the third fight. A portal literally appeared out of nowhere and sucked him in before there could be any real resolution to the conflict]].
811[[/folder]]
812
813[[folder:General Astra In-Ze/[[spoiler:Archangel]]]]
814Imprisoned in Fort Rozz by her twin sister, Astra survived the destruction of her planet alongside her husband and a number of their subordinates. Landing on Earth, she found another planet that was in desperate need of saving, and continued what she could not on Krypton in the memory of the family she had lost -- especially her niece, Kara. Ten years later, she finds her determination shaken when a disguised woman bearing the crest of the House of El starts appearing on the news.
815
816!!!Tropes
817* ArchEnemy: To her niece, Kara Zor-El. [[spoiler:When she makes her reappearance, she subtly implies that, as much as she loves Kara, she also hates her for taking everything away from her: her husband, her army, and her plans are all gone thanks to her niece]].
818* AscendedExtra: In canon, she was the DiscOneFinalBoss of Season One of ''Supergirl''. Here, she remains the BigBad, [[spoiler:and survives past her storyline, eventually becoming a reluctant ally of the heroes in Arc IV and even becoming a member of the Justice League under the superhero identity "Archangel"]].
819* BrokenPedestal: A two-way example. Kara is disgusted when she learns about Astra's plans (and the fact that she had initially planned to do the same to Krypton before Alura imprisoned her), while Astra is horrified to learn about what kind of person Kara has become.
820* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:She's PutOnABus to prison towards the end of Arc II, and only reappears at the beginning of Arc IV when the heroes need her help]].
821* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
822** Despite being on opposing sides, Astra still loves Kara, and spends most of Arc II planning to sway her niece to her side. [[spoiler:When she reappears, she admits that she doesn't care about her freedom because she has nothing left except Kara and, to a lesser extent, Kal-El]].
823** For all their problems, she genuinely loved Non, [[spoiler:and was devastated when Kara killed him]].
824* EvilAunt: Much like in ''Arrowverse'', she is this towards Kara and Kal-El, [[spoiler:it's subverted when she makes a HeelFaceTurn]].
825* GreenEyedMonster: She really doesn't like Moira assuming a motherly role towards her niece.
826* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:In Arc IV, joining the Justice League by the end of the Zoom storyline]].
827* ParentsAsPeople: Astra loves Kara, but she's also a racist WellIntentionedExtremist general. Kara and her don't really reconcile [[spoiler:until Astra grows out of those traits]].
828* PetTheDog: She may despise the House of El for their foolishness and goody-two-shoes idealism, but she prays for their souls after realizing they managed to save her beloved niece from Krypton's destruction. Also, she's willing to leave Kal-El alone, on the grounds that Kara loves him and he's only a child.
829* SelectiveObliviousness: Even after being explicitly told by her most trusted men, Astra almost outright refused to believe that her beloved Kara was a killer. [[spoiler:She only accepts it after Kara kills Non]].
830* SparedByTheAdaptation: She remains the BigBad of Supergirl's storyline in Arcs I and II, [[spoiler:and is spared by Kara at the end of said storyline out of sentiment]].
831* StalkerWithoutACrush: She's very interested by any reports concerning Kara and outright spied on her twice -- after believing her niece dead for so long, she treasures information about her and seeing her alive and well.
832* VillainousBSOD: Gets one after [[spoiler: Non is killed by Kara]].
833* WeCanRuleTogether: Kara correctly deduces that this is how she managed to get all the Fort Rozz prisoners to follow her. [[spoiler:It's also brutally deconstructed by Kara, as she points that their idea of ruling differs from Astra's, and once they realized that, there would be no way they'd stand idly by]].
834* WellIntentionedExtremist: Wants to save the Earth from using up their resources like Krypton did, but plans on using MindControl to do it.
835[[/folder]]
836
837[[folder:Zoom]]
838
839!!!Tropes
840* AmbiguousSituation: It's initially unclear if the Hunter Zolomon [[spoiler:who is encountered as a teacher is the Earth-1 version or the villainous Earth-2 incarnation, although it's soon confirmed that he replaced his Earth-1 self]].
841* ArchEnemy:
842** To Barry. Amazingly, he managed to earn Barry's undying hatred in a mere matter of weeks. Not only that, it's outright stated that Barry has never hated anyone else more in his entire life, and considering the downright awful people that have made Barry's life hell over the years, that's saying a ''lot''.
843** To the Justice League in general, being the first villain [[spoiler:to defeat them and force them to retreat]].
844* BigBad: Of the final act of Arc IV.
845* BroughtDownToNormal: In the final battle, [[spoiler:Barry lures Zoom into an area with meta-dampeners; with both men now fighting on a human level, Barry demonstrates superior combat skills where Zoom is virtually helpless without his speed]].
846* CripplingOverspecialization: When Barry expresses concern that Zoom's greater speed gives him too great an advantage, Iris encourages Barry to instead consider it a weakness, as Zoom ''only'' has his speed as an asset where Barry has his training and his allies.
847* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler:Just like the source material, his first appearance sees him brutalizing the Flash in a way no one else has]].
848* TheDreaded: Everyone on Earth-2 is ''terrified'' of him. Even his own forces, who hate each other, suck it up and work together for fear of displeasing him.
849* EarlyBirdCameo: The heroes encounter Zoom's lost helmet first as opposed to Zoom himself.
850* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Zoom apparently believes that Barry and the Justice League are establishing themselves as heroes just to destroy that hope later, much like he did when he established his other identity as Jay Garrick.
851* EvilIsPetty: Zoom reveals that [[spoiler:he's intending to torment Barry just because it took so long to find out the Flash's secret identity that he wasn't able to use Barry's speed to restore his own]]. Barry rightly calls him out on it, saying he's even pettier than the notoriously petty Talia al Ghul.
852* EvilerThanThou: He's worse than literally every villain in the story up to Act III of Arc IV. This is made all the more clear when he manages to cow [[spoiler:the entire population of Iron Heights]] into working for him.
853* ForTheEvulz: He's going to [[spoiler:conquer Earth-1]] for no other reason than because "I can."
854* TheGhost: He's hinted at in Arc III but did not make an actual appearance [[spoiler:(provided the Hunter Zolomon that has appeared thus far is not him)]] until partway into Arc IV. The main characters didn't even know he existed until he finally showed up.
855* HateSink: Zoom was already one in canon, but the author somehow manages to make him even more horrible by having him [[spoiler:show Barry a video of torturing Jay Garrick, aka the doppelganger to Henry Allen]].
856* HumanoidAbomination: He's often addressed as a "what" instead of a "who". [[spoiler:Barry even calls him a monster the first time he sees him, which, considering the kind of life ''this'' Barry has led so far, is really saying something]].
857* {{Jerkass}}: By far the most unpleasant person in the story by Arc IV.
858* KickTheDog:
859** [[spoiler:Murdered Jesse Wells in front of her father Harry, even after Harry did everything he asked and gave him what he wanted]].
860** He managed to top that with what is probably the biggest KickTheDog move in the story thus far: [[spoiler:showing Barry a video of him torturing and murdering Jay Garrick of Earth-3, the alternate earth counterpart to Barry's father Henry Allen]].
861** [[spoiler:Gleefully laughs into the faces Earth-2's public after his ruse as "Jay Garrick" is exposed by Barry, relishing in how he tricked them all]].
862* KnightOfCerebus: The heroes are still riding high off their [[spoiler:defeat of the Dominators]] three months prior, and things seem to finally be going back to normal. [[spoiler:Then Zoom appears, gives Barry a public NoHoldsBarredBeatdown, and makes a vow on live TV to bring Central City under heel and crush the Justice League]]. After that, the story quickly takes a turn for the dark again with no signs of letting up any time soon.
863* OutsideContextProblem: Again, none of the characters knew he even existed before he actually appeared. His appearance [[spoiler:and subsequent thrashing of Barry]] stuns and horrifies everyone, leaving many badly shaken and the Justice League on high alert for his location.
864* {{Sadist}}: Tortured and murdered [[spoiler:Jay Garrick]] for kicks. He said it was ForScience, but Barry wasn't fooled.
865* SuperSpeed: He is the second speedster rival for Barry, as in canon.
866* VillainousLegacy: While Zoom is ultimately taken care of and his reign of terror is done, [[spoiler:his Metapocalypse has long reaching consequences, including more people awakening their Meta Gene, among those Laura and of all people Eddie, and the people of Earth-1 being forced to acknowledge the existence of TheMultiverse]].
867* VillainTakesAnInterest: [[spoiler:During one of his first appearances, an entire arc and some thirty or so chapters before he makes a full one in the story proper, sees him watching Barry running around as the Flash with a great amount of interest. This later turned out to be the impetus for the last act of Arc IV: Zoom had initially wanted to steal Barry's speed to cure himself, but his failure to discover Barry's SecretIdentity in time forced him to use Jay Garrick's instead. Zoom was so annoyed about the wasted time that he decided to conquer Barry's earth in retaliation]].
868* YouMonster: Even the [[SeenItAll otherwise hardened and plucky]] Barry can't quite grasp the magnitude of Zoom's evil, and hits back at the villain's attempt to pull a NotSoDifferentRemark by saying that nothing in his own past could make him the sort of monster Zoom is.
869[[/folder]]
870
871[[folder:Talia al Ghul]]
872
873!!!Tropes
874* AdaptationalVillainy: This Talia takes after her darkest comic book portrayal.
875* AntagonisticOffspring: She's hell-bent on reclaiming the League of Assassins from her father, considering it as her birthright. On Ra's al Ghul's side, he thinks Talia is too unstable, petty and bloodthirsty to be a worthy successor (on top of being female).
876* ArchEnemy: To her sister, Nyssa al Ghul.
877* BadBoss: [[spoiler:She set up Isabel Rochev to be killed after fulfilling her goal as a HoneyTrap to Tommy Merlyn.]]
878* BigBad: She's the main antagonist of Act II of Arc IV.
879* CainAndAbel: Made even worse by the fact she and Nyssa used to genuinely love each other. Nowadays she's only interested in killing her sister.
880* TheChessmaster: The narrative states that while Nyssa is a superior warrior, Talia is much more cunning, and Arc IV shows that is ''not'' hyperbole. [[spoiler:She sent Isabel to seduce Tommy so she could convince Tommy to join the League of Shadows after Isabel's death, explicitly to use him as a hostage against Malcolm to force the location of the second Lazarus Pit out of him. She then planned to kill her father and Nyssa and take over the League of Assassins, using the second Lazarus Pit as a bribe to entice any potential dissenters into joining her. After that, she planned to send an assassin after Iris to draw the main trio to Nanda Parbat where she could have them killed as well]].
881* DaddysLittleVillain: Classic Talia. Ra's favored her so much he allowed her to dip into the Lazarus Pit, but he actually never went so far as to name her Heir to the Demon.
882* DarkIsEvil: Very much the "bad" daughter, and apparent founder of the League of ''Shadows''.
883* DisproportionateRetribution:
884** Her reaction to a harem girl making a passing insult at her looks is to slaughter the ''entire'' harem (fifty girls in total) on top of her original target: the warlord they were servicing. Malcolm Merlyn was so disgusted that he quit the League then and there.
885** The reason why she was cast out from the League? A man offended her, and she slaughtered his entire town as retaliation - even bystanders with nothing to do with the man himself. Even Ra's thought she went too far.
886* EvilerThanThou:
887** Malcolm outright admits that she is worse than he could ever hope to be.
888** ''Ra's al Ghul'' considers her to be this, which says all that needs to be said.
889* EvilIsPetty: If the examples under DisproportionateRetribution don't prove it, nothing will. She takes minor insults ''very'' seriously.
890* FatalFlaw: Arrogance. Talia is a competent schemer and a skilled combatant, but her tendency to assume she's already won before she actually has tends to bite her in the ass.
891* ForWantOfANail: In this timeline, she never got the opportunity to meet Bruce and fall in love with him, so he wasn't able to be the light to her darkness, leading Talia to sink further into depravity.
892* TheGhost: She's offhandedly mentioned in the prologue, but isn't fully introduced to the narrative until Arc III, and doesn't make a real appearance until Arc IV.
893* GreenEyedMonster: She used to be a CoolBigSis to Nyssa, but baby sis quickly showed she was just as talented as big sis, and maybe ''even more'' skilled. Talia felt slighted, and it was the beginning of the end.
894* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:To Isabel Rochev]].
895* HalfTruth: [[spoiler:How she gets Tommy to join her. She exposes Adrian as the one who murdered Isabel and the man the police captured as simply one of his lackeys. She just fails to mention that Adrian did it on her orders]].
896* IHaveYourWife: [[spoiler:The entire saga with Tommy was just so she could use him as an unknowing hostage against Malcolm]].
897* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:After her assault on Nanda Parbat fails, she's murdered by Tommy for ordering Isabel's death and her body is burned so that way she can't be revived by the Lazarus Pit]].
898* ManipulativeBitch: [[spoiler:She specifically sent Isabel to Starling to seduce Tommy, then had her killed in front of the building that used to be Rebecca Merlyn's old clinic to make him susceptible to her offer of joining the League of Shadows]].
899* ShroudedInMyth: Even the oldest members among the League to know of her aren't sure of her ultimate fate, only of the fact she's not with them anymore.
900* TheUnfavorite: In contrast to canon, Talia is Ra's' least favored child, because she's too evil even for his tastes. Not only does he favor Nyssa over her, he favors the leads over her too.
901* WellDoneDaughterGal: She very much desired to become her father's heir, only for him to dismiss her because she was female. To add insult to injury, her younger sister showed hints of being StrongerSibling and as such was favored over her, even though she was ''also'' female. Talia has never gotten over the rejection, and it is what drives her grudge against both of them.
902* XanatosSpeedChess: [[spoiler:Her reaction to Ra's declaring a line of succession is to simply draw the new potential rivals to Nanda Parbat so she can kill them, him, and Nyssa in one fell swoop. She was planning on killing them anyway, Ra's just forced her to move up the time table]].
903[[/folder]]
904
905[[folder:The Dominators]]
906A race of alien invaders intent on eliminating any and all possible threats to them in the universe.
907
908!!!Tropes
909* BigBad: For the first third of Arc IV.
910* GreaterScopeVillain: Their extermination of the Martians is what caused J'onn to flee to Earth. Later, their impending invasion is what forces the Justice League to move up their time table in recruiting new members.
911* MindControl: They can control the minds of other beings via a MindControlDevice which can be amplified through their telepathy.
912[[/folder]]
913
914!!Secondary Antagonists
915
916!!!Astra's Forces
917[[folder:Lieutenant Non]]
918Husband of Astra and her second-in-command. Non, while not always faithful to his wife, is eternally devoted to her and her ideals. So devoted, in fact, that he does not hesitate to try and keep her own her chosen path when a girl thought dead pierces through her facade.
919
920!!!Tropes
921* CoDragons: To Astra, with Indigo.
922* DemotedToExtra: Non was the BigBad of ''Supergirl'' Season One after Astra was killed. Here, he remains her Dragon.
923* EvilUncle: To Kara, and unlike Astra, he holds little love for her, a sentiment that goes back.
924* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:His fate in ''Supergirl'' was left ambiguous due to the show's change in network. Here, he was explicitly killed by Kara]].
925* ObviouslyEvil: At least according to Kara. Even as a child, Kara could sense the darkness within him, [[spoiler:which is why she had no regrets in killing him as an adult]].
926* UnholyMatrimony: With Astra. He philandered on the side, but he genuinely admires her.
927* UnderestimatingBadassery: He dismisses Kara as a threat constantly. [[spoiler:This changes somewhat after Kara kills some of his subordinates, but it's only after fighting Kara himself does he realize what kind of threat she really poses, and is killed soon after]].
928[[/folder]]
929
930[[folder:Braniac 8/Indigo]]
931The most dangerous prisoner in Fort Rozz. A Coluan born of the Braniac Clan, Indigo is normally not one to take orders, especially when its the wife of a former flame. When involves ruling an entire planet, however, she's willing to play along -- on her own terms, of course.
932
933!!!Tropes
934* CoDragons: To Astra, with Non.
935* LogicalWeakness: [[spoiler:Indigo can travel to different locations via the Internet. Cutting the power of whatever room she's in effectively strands her unless someone has a smartphone handy]].
936* WorkingWithTheEx: Her relationship with Non. It's not entirely clear if Astra was aware of their affair, however.
937[[/folder]]
938
939!!!League of Shadows
940
941[[folder:Isabel Rochev]]
942The former lover of Robert Queen and a successful businesswoman in her own right. Isabel has never forgiven Robert for breaking up with her and firing her from Queen Consolidated, and has been plotting her revenge ever since. A month after the Undertaking, she returns to Starling City to aid in the restructuring of Merlyn Global, and serves as an ominous sign for the future.
943
944!!!Tropes:
945* AdaptationalVillainy: Of a sort. Canon Isabel is implied to have genuinely loved Robert. This one is an explicit GoldDigger who never really cared for Robert so much as the life he could've given her.
946* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:As she was manipulating Tommy on Talia's order and viewed him as a MealTicket for whom she had no desire to stay faithful, Adrian Chase killing her is more karmic than anything. Tragically, Tommy is unaware of her true nature and mourns her as the sweet and loving girlfriend he believed her to be.]]
947* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler:She believes herself to be an equal to Talia, who was only using her to manipulate Tommy into joining the League of Shadows]].
948* BitchAlert: Her first appearance in the story has her completely ignoring The Palm's chauffeur, shoving him away when handing over an arbitrarily large tip.
949* BitchInSheepsClothing: To the public and especially to Tommy. To everyone else, not so much.
950* TheDragon: [[spoiler:She's in cahoots with ''Talia'']].
951* GoldDigger: Her affair with Robert [[spoiler:and her relationship with Tommy]] had the aim of one day standing at the top of Starling's elite.
952* HoneyTrap: [[spoiler:To Tommy, on Talia's orders. She succeeds by helping him save his company and becoming his primary adviser, all the while seducing him by feigning that she's gradually growing feelings for him. After Tommy ends his friendship with Oliver and Laurel over the latter two's own romance, she plays the sympathetic ear, finally kissing him and becoming his girlfriend]].
953* IdenticalStranger: Downplayed, but she superficially looks like Rebecca Merlyn. [[spoiler:It was probably calculated to invoke LikeParentLikeSpouse on Tommy.]]
954* NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: Deliberately invoked by [[spoiler:Malcolm Merlyn, who suspects that she was manipulating his son on Talia's orders, but refuses to voice his suspicions because he knows it would break Tommy's heart]].
955* OneDegreeOfSeparation: She is an ex-classmate and rival of Sam's. In fact, Sam was the one she beat out for the internship at Queen Consolidated.
956* PromotedToLoveInterest: [[spoiler:Tommy's, to be specific. In canon they had no connection because Tommy was already dead by the time of Isabel's first appearance]].
957* TheResenter: Isabel has never gotten over the fact that Sam managed to start and head her own successful company before she could, and it's colored their dealings with each other over the years.
958* SitcomArchNemesis: To Sam.
959* WomanScorned: Which is why Robert and Moira are unsettled at her reappearance. They ''know'' she isn't just here for Tommy's sake.
960* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:To Talia]].
961* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:When she reports Tommy is so enamored of her that he's about to propose, Talia promptly commands her murder to make the Merlyn heir more receptive to her manipulations.]]
962[[/folder]]
963
964[[folder:Adrian Chase]]
965
966!!!Tropes
967* DemotedToExtra: The original BigBad of Season 5 of ''Arrow'' [[spoiler:kills himself after losing to Oliver in their first and only battle via cyanide tooth]].
968* TheDragon: Talia's prized student and primary enforcer.
969* KickTheSonOfABitch: Murders [[spoiler:Isabel Rochev. Considering Isabel planned on ruining the Queens and was deliberately manipulating Tommy to that end and was even planning on cheating on Tommy ''with'' Adrian, it's hard to feel sorry for her]].
970[[/folder]]
971
972!!!Zoom's Forces
973
974[[folder:Black Siren]]
975
976!!!Tropes
977* ArchEnemy: To Laurel. She absolutely ''hates'' Laurel, and has done more damage to Laurel's self-confidence than any other villain since Laurel became the Black Canary.
978* TheDragon: She gets the most focus out of all of Zoom's forces and is explicitly stated to be Zoom's top lieutenant, equaled only by Reverb.
979* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Still loves her deceased family, and is still very much in love with her Oliver. [[spoiler:This throws her off when she has to impersonate her Earth-1 counterpart, whose loved ones are alive]].
980* EvilDoppelganger: To Laurel Lance, the Black Canary.
981* TheResenter: Makes it blatantly clear how much she hates her Earth-1 counterpart for having a better life than her.
982* UndyingLoyalty: To Zoom.
983[[/folder]]
984
985[[folder:Reverb]]
986
987!!!Tropes
988
989* TheDragon: Zoom's other top lieutenant, equaled by Black Siren.
990* EvilDoppelganger: To Cisco Ramon.
991* TheStarscream: Unlike Black Siren, whose loyalty to Zoom is unquestionable, Reverb has ambitions of his own. Black Siren is supposed to be a counterweight for that.
992[[/folder]]
993
994[[folder:Deathstorm]]
995
996!!!Tropes
997* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Deeply loves his wife Killer Frost. [[spoiler:Amanda torturing her is enough to get him to confess everything he knows about Zoom's plans]].
998* EvilDoppelganger: To Ronnie Raymond. Also technically one to Martin Stein, though Earth-2 Martin Stein is currently a virtual captive of Earth-2 Ronnie.
999[[/folder]]
1000
1001[[folder:Killer Frost]]
1002
1003!!!Tropes
1004
1005* EvilDoppelganger: To Caitlin Snow.
1006* {{Sadist}}: She seems almost ''giddy'' at the prospect of hurting people.
1007* ThisCannotBe: She's to stunned to react [[spoiler:when Caitlin awakens her metagene and instinctually uses her own ice powers against Frost]].
1008-->'''Killer Frost''': Impossible.
1009
1010[[/folder]]
1011
1012[[folder:Rupture]]
1013
1014!!!Tropes
1015
1016* BeneathNotice: [[spoiler:He manages to keep his cover as Earth-1 Dante for weeks even after the Justice League manages to suss out the other doppelgangers by taking advantage of Dante's poor relationship with Cisco. It helped that his file in the Earth-2 metahuman database was deleted, meaning that none of them were aware Dante had a metahuman doppelganger to begin with]].
1017* EvilDoppelganger: To Dante Ramon.
1018* EvilIsPetty: Decides to murder his doppelganger simply because [[spoiler:he found impersonating Dante to be an annoying drag]].
1019[[/folder]]
1020
1021!!!Other
1022[[folder:Grodd]]
1023A former test subject for S.T.A.R. Labs and General Wade Eiling, Grodd disappeared the night of the Particle Accelerator Explosion like many others.
1024
1025!!!Tropes
1026* KillerGorilla: '''''Yes'''''.
1027* SuperStrength: Incredibly physically powerful.
1028[[/folder]]
1029
1030[[folder:Amunet Black]]
1031Originally a small-time fence for Central City's criminal underground, the Particle Acceleration Explosion granted her the ability to manipulate magnetism, particularly over the alnico alloy. Amunet used this ability to become the top arms dealer of Central City, and is now looking to expand her horizons elsewhere -- ''without'' attracting the attention of the Flash.
1032
1033!!!Tropes
1034* {{Masquerade}}: Amunet deliberately keeps her status as a meta on the downlow so she won't attract the attention of the Flash, who specifically targets metahuman criminals. Most of the Central's criminal community abides by her wishes, as they don't want to risk the Flash finding her and crippling crime even more than he already has by taking her out.
1035* VillainousFriendship: With the Snarts, being their original fence for stolen goods before she struck out on her own.
1036[[/folder]]
1037
1038[[folder:Leonard Snart]]
1039The premier thief of Central City, Snart's life hasn't changed all that much since the Flash came along -- until a run of bad luck changes that.
1040
1041!!!Tropes:
1042* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Unlike canon!Snart, this Snart actively ''avoids'' the Flash, due to the latter being far more brutal and far more willing to kill. Since the Flash only bothers to kill dangerous metas however, Snart is technically in the clear, but that doesn't mean he's willing to push his luck as far as that is concerned.
1043* AlwaysABiggerFish: In a normal city, Snart would be the biggest, baddest guy in the room. Unfortunately, he lives in a world where the Flash was trained by a secret society of assassins for eight years, and is thus woefully unprepared for a genius with superpowers who has been trained to his full intellectual and physical potential.
1044* EvilerThanThou: On the receiving end with [[spoiler:Zoom]].
1045* ProperlyParanoid: After bad luck causes him to be captured by the Flash during one of his searches for the Reverse-Flash, Snart commissions the Cold Gun from Amunet in Arc III so that way he has some insurance in case he runs into him again.
1046* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Books it with his sister and Mick after [[spoiler:the Justice League manage knock out the invading metas]].
1047* VillainousFriendship: With Amunet Black.
1048[[/folder]]
1049
1050[[folder:Daniel "Brick" Brickwell]]
1051
1052A gang leader from the Glades who seeks to fill in the EvilPowerVacuum left by Green Arrow in the wake of the Undertaking.
1053
1054!!Tropes
1055* ArcVillain: Of the final mini-arc of Arc III.
1056* ICouldaBeenAContender: It's outright stated that it hadn't been for established crime families like the Bertinellis and the Triad, Brick would've been the ruler of Starling City's underworld. Instead, he had to put himself under Tobias Church's umbrella so he and his gang could have some form of autonomy.
1057* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Brick is a thug that could easily be beaten/killed by any member of the Justice League. However, he's a ''smart'' thug, smart enough that the only reason he wasn't higher on the totem pole is because the established powers of the underworld were keeping him down. Once Green Arrow took those powers out, Brick had the freedom to act on his ambitions while maintaining his low-profile, aided by Green Arrow being distracted by Justice League business. End result? [[spoiler:Brick uses his connections to Tobias Church to start gang riots and metahuman attacks in four different cities ''simultaneously'', forcing Green Arrow and Supergirl out of Starling to help quell them. He then takes advantage of their absences to take Balliol Prep hostage, threatening the lives of one thousands kids, their teachers, and ''the mayor'' in exchange for a truly exorbitant ransom (four million per head, which is approximately ''four billion dollars in total''). If it hadn't been for Black Canary, a lot of those people would've been dead, Brick would've escaped with his gang and the west coast would've been drowning in drugs and weapons within the year]].
1058* UnderestimatingBadassery: Black Canary had been directly interfering with his operations for ''months'', even more so than Green Arrow, and yet when it's time to execute his plan, he disregards her completely, convinced that with the Justice League out of the way, he's in the clear. [[spoiler:That comes back to bite him in the ass]]
1059* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Via his introduction, it's confirmed that, like canon, he's the one that murdered [[PlotTriggeringDeath Rebecca Merlyn]].
1060[[/folder]]
1061
1062[[folder:Tobias Church/Charon]]
1063A crime lord that rules most of the west coast. Recently, business has been tight for him thanks to the recent rise of the Justice League.
1064
1065!!!Tropes
1066* TheGhost: Has yet to make an in-person appearance.
1067* TheManBehindTheMan: To Brick. [[spoiler:Church is the one who arranged simultaneous attacks on the Justice League's respective hometowns while Brick had Balliol Prep hostage]].
1068[[/folder]]
1069
1070!!Minor Antagonists
1071
1072[[folder:Tony Woodward/Girder]]
1073The childhood bully of Barry Allen and Iris West, who gained the ability to turn into steel after falling into a vat of melted steel the night of the Particle Accelerator Explosion.
1074
1075!!!Tropes
1076* BigBadWannabe: Kidnaps and holds Barry and Iris hostage so he can vicariously relive his GloryDays through tormenting them. He's promptly curb-stomped by the Girl in Blue and gets the crap beaten out of him by the Streak.
1077* MrExposition: He serves as a version of this to Barry regarding Iris' DarkAndTroubledPast.
1078* SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp: Which Barry promptly lampshades and mocks.
1079* SparedByTheAdaptation: Barry killed Blackout himself, leaving Eobard no chance to release Tony and thereby sparing his life.
1080[[/folder]]
1081
1082[[folder:Mark Mardon/Weather Wizard]]
1083One half of the criminal duo known as the Mardon Brothers, and the older brother of Clyde Mardon. After getting a handle of his powers, he returns to Central City to avenge his younger brother by killing the Flash.
1084
1085!!!Tropes
1086* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: His grudge against the Flash right from the beginning, due to the Flash killing Clyde instead of Joe.
1087* BigBadWannabe: While more destructive than the other metas Barry faces, he's ultimately taken down with little effort, and the only reason he doesn't join his brother in the afterlife is because Iris begged the Flash to spare him.
1088* SmallRoleBigImpact: Only appears for two chapters, but his actions [[spoiler:are what leads Iris to figure out Barry's SecretIdentity, straining their friendship]].

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