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Miscellaneous villains and criminals of lesser prominence.
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U.S.A.
Metropolis
Mark Hanford
Mark Hanford
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Appearances: From the World of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Owner and CEO of Hanford Technologies.
- Bad People Abuse Animals: Among his indiscretions is travelling to Africa so he could game-hunt endangered black rhinos.
- Black Market: Lois questions Hanford over his procurement of Kryptonian tech, with his staff testifying that he only handed over 5 of the 8 items he'd acquired and a source inside the black market ratting him out over the remaining 3.
- Never My Fault: When Lois outs him as a black market profiteer, Hanford blames the Metropolis invasion for leaving his company in financial ruin. He even mentions his thousands of staff who are depending on him to produce funding, an excuse which falls apart when you remember he enjoys game-hunting endangered wildlife in Africa.
- Villainous Breakdown: Realizing Lois has him in checkmate, Hanford pulls a gun on her. Lois tell him that she's already alerted Perry White and Homeland security, so if anything happens to her they'll come straight for him. Hanford isn't intimidated, so Lois strikes him in the gut and swipes his gun.
Scavengers
Scavengers
Species: Humans
Citizenship: American
Appearances: General Mills Presents: Batman V Superman Dawn Of Justice
A gang of terrorists that acquire Kryptonian weaponry.
- Equal-Opportunity Evil: The team includes a woman and a black man and they have no reservations relying on alien races for their resources.
- Expy: They're similar to Intergang, being a human organization that uses alien tehnology for petty crimes.
- Eyepatch of Power: The leader wears one.
- Secondary Color Nemesis: Their armor is muted green and one member of the team has purple hair.
Philadelphia
Store Robbers
Store Robbers
Species: Humans
Citizenship: American
Played by: Craig Henry & Shawn Stewart
Appearances: SHAZAM!
A pair of armed robbers that hold up the convenience store shortly after Billy Batson gains his powers.
- Adaptational Badass: In-universe. The ending credits shows one of the robbers turning into a werewolf.
- Affably Evil: They may be store robbers, but they're remarkably patient with Billy and Freddy. They even cooperate with Freddy after Shazam gave one of them their gun back.
- Contrived Coincidence: They picked the exact night that Billy got his powers and the exact convenience store he was in to stage a robbery.
- Destination Defenestration: Billy thwarts their robbery by tossing them through the store's window.
- So Last Season: Armed robbers in a superhero movie originally provided a warmup for the heroes to give a taste of how powerful they are. In a film franchise that's opened up with an alien invasion, two petty crooks seem ridiculously outclassed.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: When Billy is unscathed by their bullets, Freddy asks them to shoot him some more to test how durable Billy is. The robbers don't bother questioning any of this and comply with their requests. Justified, as this is after superheroes have become public knowledge and the sight of one more isn't as shocking as it was back in Man of Steel.
- Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Implied. They brought guns and opened fire on Billy (not knowing he wasn't an adult), yet they leave Freddy alone despite Freddy drawing a lot of attention to himself.
Larry Binder
Larry Binder
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Appearances: SHAZAM! Thundercrack
A scientist from Sivana Industries' R & D department with a chip on his shoulder.
- Dragon-in-Chief: Charlie believes he can keep pushing Larry around, only for Larry to reveal he can use the particles in Charlie's system like a shock collar.
Charlie Langley
Charlie Langley
Species: Enhanced human
Citizenship: American
Appearances: SHAZAM! Thundercrack
Coach of the Fishtown Atoms, rivals to the Fawcett Tigers.
- Big Bad Wannabe: Charlie plans to use Larry's project to make his team unbeatable and they do provide the main conflict of the story, but Larry usurps him.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Eventually Charlie grows uneasy with the side-effects that the enhancements are having on his team and tries to put a stop to it. He only makes things worse.
Clutch Phillips
Clutch Phillips
Species: Enhanced human
Citizenship: American
Appearances: SHAZAM! Thundercrack
Team captain for the Fishtown Atoms.
- Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: He was already a jerk, but after being infused with bio-tech particles he becomes a killing machine.
- Disc-One Final Boss: Billy defeats him, only for the particles that enhanced Clutch to take on a life of their own and continue the attack.
- Jerk Jock: He introduces himself by beating up Billy and Freddy the moment he sees them and brags about how he'd previously crippled one of the school's star players.
- Terminator Impersonator: After becoming enhanced, Clutch becomes stoic and single-minded, with his physical appearance going from macho to robotic over the course of the story.
- Tron Lines: When he absorbs enough energy his outlines glow bright white.
Animal Traffickers
Animal Traffickers
Species: Humans
Citizenship: American
Appearances: Shazamily Matters
A gang that abducts animals. Later they move into stealing high-tech weapons.
- Bad People Abuse Animals: They haul innocent animals around in tiny cages.
- Red Is Violent: They get ahold of some lightsaber-styled blades. Being villains, they're naturally red.
Washington DC
Mall Thieves
Mall Thieves
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Played by: Lyon Beckwith, Ryan Watson, Jimmy Burke, Brandon Thane Wilson
Appearance: Wonder Woman 1984
A quartet of armed robbers who track down the Dreamstone to a jewellery store.
- Even Evil Has Standards: When one of them holds a child hostage, the other three react with disgust.
- Jobber: They're easy pickings for Wonder Woman, even with their firepower and hostages.
- Never Going Back to Prison: When the jewel robbery goes south, one of them declares he's "not going back" before taking a small girl hostage.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Their pursuit of the Dreamstone catches the eyes of Barbara and Maxwell.
- Would Hurt a Child: One of them has no problem dangling a little girl over a ledge.
Drunk
Drunk
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Played by: Shane Attwooll
Appearance: Wonder Woman 1984
A creep that tries to attack Barbara Minerva.
- Abhorrent Admirer: He takes an interest in Barbara likely because she seems like easy prey.
- Asshole Victim: It's not clear if Barbara killed him, but it's doubtful anyone would fault her if she did.
- Dirty Coward: When Barbara fights back with her new strength and injures him, he tries to crawl away from her.
- Fat Bastard: Definitely the chunkiest character in the whole film, if not the entire film franchise.
- Hate Sink: His only defining trait is being vile enough to force himself on non-consenting women.
- Laser-Guided Karma: The woman he thought he could overpower ends up overpowering him.
- More Hateable Minor Villain: Max and Barbara are both too likable despite being the main villains, but this guy has nothing to him aside from being an attempted rapist.
- Small Role, Big Impact: His designs on Barbara compel her to seek out power to defend herself.
Evergreen
Aryan Empire
Aryan Empire
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Played by: Douglas Roy Dack, Trevor Hinton, Paul Tryl, Ryan Jefferson Booth, Jen Znack
Appearance: Peacemaker
A white supremacist group spearheaded by the White Dragon which operates in Evergreen.
- Bald of Evil: Several members have shaved heads.
- Gang of Hats: The Aryan Empire are a gang of white supremacists who hate anyone and everyone who doesn't support their ideology. They are largely based on the Klu Klux Klan, due to their white hoods and red-themed leader.
- Horns of Villainy: All of the members wear hoods that resemble the horned mask of their leader.
- Lone Wolf Boss: They aren't associated with the Butterflies, they are just an independent group of racists who desire to wipe out all people of color.
- More Hateable Minor Villain: Peacemaker and his crew are amoral, but still likable enough to function as protagonists. The Butterflies also have something resembling a moral code. The Aryan Empire on the other hand are just one-dimensional rednecks.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: They're white supremacists, so it's a given. They also cheer when White Dragon expresses his hatred of promiscuous women and non-heterosexual coupling.
- Right-Wing Militia Fanatic: A collective of racist, fundamentalist Heteronormative Crusader types that carry rifles and will happily kill and maim their own countrymen for not being as bigoted as they are.
- The Smurfette Principle: They consist entirely of men, except for a single skinhead woman.
- Sub-Par Supremacist: Their gang is just composed of racist gun enthusiasts, and they have no military service members. They are led by their strongest member, White Dragon, and they don't have any unique armor for themselves. As such, the rank-and-file are quickly killed by Economos, and White Dragon is killed by Peacemaker after foolishly egging him on.
Cool Steve
Cool Steve
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Affiliations: Aryan Empire
Played By: Neil Webb
Appearances: Peacemaker
A member of the Aryan Empire incarcerated in the Evergeen Corrections Center.
- And Then John Was a Zombie: He's possessed by a Butterfly in "Murn After Reading".
- Asshole Victim: Since Cool Steve was a virulently racist white supremacist, it's hard to feel bad when he's killed and possessed by a Butterfly.
- Beard of Evil: He's a villainous white supremacist who sports a beard.
- Death of Personality: He's possessed by a Butterfly, a process which kills the person and leaves their body an empty shell for the Butterfly to puppet.
- Flat Character: He doesn't get a whole lot of characterization outside of being Auggie's Mook Lieutenant.
- Mauve Shirt: He gets the most screen time of the prisoners, but he's killed and possessed by a Butterfly in "Murn After Reading".
- Mook Lieutenant: He serves as Auggie's main henchman in the prison, but he doesn't get enough screen time to really qualify as The Dragon, and he's taken over by a Butterfly in the same episode Auggie is released.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: He's a white supremacist, so he obviously qualifies as this. One of Steve's defining moments is him helping Auggie threaten a black prisoner, and he's shown laughing at Auggie's racist jokes.
New York
Detective King
Detective King
"You need to watch your mouth, boy. Do you want me to bring you in? Is that what you want? Who do you think they'd believe, huh? Me or you?"
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Appearance: Black Adam - The Justice Society Files
"Damn do-gooder. Should've listened to me when you had a chance. Should've left well enough alone. Now you've only got yourself to blame."
A crooked detective who harbors prejudice towards metahumans.
- Big Bad Wannabe: Tries to be a Villain with Good Publicity, but his facade starts to fall apart the second people witness him using "tar" to beat up the well-liked Maxine before pointing a gun at her. Hawkman intervenes to make sure his image is completely destroyed.
- Bullying a Dragon: He takes an instant dislike of Maxine in spite of her attempts to help stop a rampaging drug addict.
- Dirty Cop: King goes from being an unlikable jerkass to a full-blown villain when Maxine catches him beating up a drug-pusher who was working for him.
- Hate Sink: He's an antisocial drug profiteer who tries to engineer fear of metahumans and is implied to be a racist.
- Hypocrite: In spite of his hatred of metahumans, King has no reservation about using "tar" to give himself super strength.
Elijah
Elijah
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Appearance: Black Adam - The Justice Society Files
A teenager who ends up gaining super strength after consuming a new drug.
- Alternate Company Equivalent: He's turned into an oversized muscle-man with an explosive temper that just happens to wear a green shirt. Sound familiar?
- Tragic Villain: Elijah's introduced as a serious threat, but once he comes down it becomes clear he wasn't in his right mind.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Elijah fell in with the wrong crowd and ended up buying a new drug called "tar", which unbeknownst to him would turn him into a monster-man against his will.
Velez
Velez
"Think of it as a chance to test the merchandise — right, boys?"
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Appearance: Black Adam - The Justice Society Files
"And don't forget, this is just the tip of the iceberg. We have sidearms...rocket launchers...even the latest in smart drones, if you're willing to pay."
An arms dealer.
- Affably Evil: Velez may be unscrupulous, but he's also quite personable and willing to cooperate with enemies when dealing with a common threat.
- Beard of Evil: He has a goatee.
- Deadpan Snarker: Velez maintains a dry sense of humor even when he's bleeding to death.
- Mob War: Sets one off when Intergang figures out that he stole from them.
Novick
Novick
"Intergang? You stole guns from Intergang?"
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Appearance: Black Adam - The Justice Society Files
"Cut the small talk. We both know why we're here. You have the merchandise?"
An Eastern European gang leader.
- Asshole Victim: He's knocked out (possibly killed) during Atom Smasher's assault, but unlike Velez his fate isn't portrayed with any sympathy.
- The Mafiya: Novick's name originates from Belarus and his gang all wear tracksuits.
- Mob War: Finds himself clashing with Intergang due to buying weapons stolen from them.
- Rugged Scar: He has one over his left eye.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: He doesn't feel any sense of camraderie towards Velez, repeatedely accusing him of ratting his gang out before shooting him once Intergang catches up to them.
Central City
Jack Monteleone
Jack Monteleone
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Appearance: The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive
"I find it funny that you have time to call me when my livelihood is getting wrecked by some clown in a red tracksuit."
Head of the Monteleone crime family and older brother to Tar Pit.
- The Mafia: An ill-tempered Fat Bastard with oily black hair who is introduced eating fine food with a glass of red wine in the middle of the day from his penthouse. The front for his operations just so happens to be in shipping and he has his own limousine. He's the whole package.
Bill
Bill
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Appearance: The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive
An arms dealer who allies himself with the Top.
- Pragmatic Villainy: He chews out the Top for going overboard with terrorizing Central City, stating that their investors don't want to be connected to someone this dangerous.
Nora's Killer
Nora's Killer
Appearance: The Flash
A home invader who stabbed Nora Allen to death and escaped before being sighted.
- The Ghost: The killer's identity is a complete mystery. We don't know if they were a man, a woman, a regular person or a metahuman.
- Psycho Knife Nut: They killed Nora by stabbing her with her own knife.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Nora's murder lead to Henry's arrest and Barry's determination to uncover the truth. Barry would then intern at a forensics lab, where he was struck by lightning and bathed in chemicals that would give him the power of the Speed Force.
Amnesty Bay
Val
Val
"Find anything good out there?"
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Appearance: DC's Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom Special
"David...I'm sorry about the old man. I'm here because he left something with me, years ago, to give to you after he was gone. Finally managed to track you down."
A former pirate and dealer with connections to the Manta Men.
- Affably Evil: Val may have affiliations with pirates, but he's a pretty friendly guy.
- Retired Monster: Val hasn't been involved in piracy for awhile, but admits he's been looking for an excuse to return to the seas once more.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Val gifts Black Manta with an Atlantean artifiact entrusted to him by his father and grandfather, leading Black Manta on a scavenger hunt that would eventually lead him towards finding the Black Trident.
Unspecified
Dr. Krill
Dr. Krill/Polka Dot Man's mom
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Affiliation: Scientific and Technological Advanced Research Laboratories (S.T.A.R. Labs)
Played by: Lynne Ashe
Appearance: The Suicide Squad
Mother of Abner Krill/Polka Dot Man. STAR Labs researcher who experimented on her children with an alien virus to induce superpowers.
- Abusive Parents: Infected her kids with an alien virus as an experiment. Abner mentions most didn't survive, and if he doesn't expel the polka dots twice a day, the virus will consume him.
- Ambiguous Situation: Abner is asked where she is now and he only responds that she's in front of him, with a shot of every member of the team as his mom
. Presumably he's in Belle Reve because he murdered her, but it's never confirmed. In a deleted scene, while talking to The Thinker he admits he killed her, but being a deleted scene, it is unknown if this is canon. - The Ghost: Is seen in Polka Dot Man's hallucinations but never appears in person. It's unknown if she's still alive.
- Mad Scientist: Obsessed with turning her children into superheroes.
- No Name Given: Her first name is unknown.
- Outliving One's Offspring: Abner mentions most of his siblings died from the experimentation, and hints he's the Sole Survivor.
- Tested on Humans: Experimented with an alien virus by infecting her children with it.
- Villain of Another Story: Tried to turn her children into superheroes, resulting in Polka Dot Man. Has no involvement in the situation on Corto Maltese.
- Would Hurt a Child: Experimented on her kids.
Africa
Nairomi
General Amajagh
General Amajagh
"Ignorance is the not the same as innocence, miss Lane."
Species: Human
Citizenship: Nairomian
Affiliation(s): Amajagh's Militia
Played by: Sammi Rotibi
Dubbed by: Jean-Baptiste Anoumon (European French)
Appearances: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
"Men of power obey neither policy nor principle, Miss Lane."
A war lord / terrorist leader from the Eastern African country of Nairomi. Lois Lane wants to interview him at the beginning of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
- African Terrorists: The CIA is after him for a reason.
- Asshole Victim: After shooting Jimmy Olsen in the face and holding a gun to Lois' head, few tears were shed when Superman rammed him through two stone walls.
- Bullying a Dragon: He uses Lois Lane as a human shield right in front of Superman. What could possibly go wrong?
- Bulungi: He hails from the fictional African desert nation of Nairomi. The name is most likely inspired by Nairobi, the capital and largest city of Kenya.
- Canon Foreigner: He didn't appear in any comics before.
- Cool Shades: He wears a pair of square-shaped sunglasses before he starts talking to Lois.
- Faux Affably Evil: He is quite nice to Lois at first, then drops the niceness by a large margin once Jimmy Olsen's cover is blown.
- Human Shield: Uses Lois as a human shield when Superman lands in his hideout after crashing through the roof.
- Rebel Leader: Considers himself as one. For the CIA, he is a terrorist.
- Starter Villain: He's the first villain who's confronted by Superman in Batman v Superman, although he's revealed to be a mere cog in Lex Luthor's plan.
- Stay in the Kitchen: He is surprised that the journalist who has been sent to interview him is a woman.
- Too Dumb to Live: He takes Lois hostage right in front of the Man of Steel. Sure enough, Superman uses his Super-Speed to free Lois from Amajagh's grip and gun, and drags the terrorist as he crashes through walls.
- Uncertain Doom: By all appearances he is dead meat, as Superman flies him through multiple walls. However, a Freeze-Frame Bonus reveals that Superman is actually punching through these walls with his free hand. Zack Snyder confirmed that Amajagh does in fact survive this ordeal, but is "not a problem either", for whatever that's worth.
- Unwitting Pawn: By hiring Anatoli Knyazev and his Private Military Contractors, he's unknowingly become part of Lex Luthor's grand scheme to frame Superman and pit Batman against him.
- Villain Has a Point: Violent warlord and misogynist he may be, but he's right to be apprehensive about the US drones flying over his country in an act of intimidation, given they were quick to launch a strike that would have killed a US citizen as soon as Amajagh got violent.
- Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: When asked by Lois if he is a terrorist, he answers "What I am is a man with nothing except the love of my people".
Kahndaq
Ahk-Ton
Ahk-Ton
Species: Human
Citizenship: Kahndaqui
Affiliation: Kanhdaq's Royal Family
Played by: Marwan Kenzari
Appearances: Black Adam
"Using the army to seize power, Ahk-Ton became a tyrant. But he had even darker ambitions."
—Amon Tomaz
The tyrannical ruler of ancient Kahndaq. He enslaved the inhabitants so they could mine the country for the precious eternium mineral, which he would use to forge the crown of SABBAC.
- Adaptational Job Change: In the comics Ahk-Ton was a priest rather than a king.
- Adaptational Wimp: In the comics Ahk-Ton gained the power of shapeshifting after being exposed to the Orb of Ra. Here he was killed before he could obtain the powers of the six Demon Lords.
- Adaptation Deviation: In the comics Ahk-Ton was a priest who forged a sceptre out of a mysterious meteorite that gave him the power to overthrow a pharaoh. He would go on to antagonize Metamorpho before allying himself with Vandal Savage and becoming an enemy to Black Adam and the Justice Society. In the film he's a king who had a crown forged from eternium and was killed before he could harness its powers.
- Asshole Victim: His death at Black Adam's hand was well-deserved.
- Composite Character: In the comics Ahk-Ton actually did conquer Kahndaq and slay Black Adam's family (in pre-Flashpoint continuity), but the film combines him with Shazam villains King Kull (a conqueror who sports horned helmets) and the New 52's IBAC the first (the predecessor of a modern villain who was killed by Teth-Adam to liberate Kahndaq).
- Hate Sink: He's not on screen for more than two minutes, but in that time he's shown to be nothing more than a cruel, power-hungry tyrant.
- Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Ahk-Ton in the comics was an enemy of Metamorpho, but here he gets killed off by Black Adam.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He only appears in flashbacks, but his actions shaped the future of Black Adam and Kahndaq. Not only that but upon indirectly causing Black Adam’s rampage, he set the stage for the release of the Seven Deadly Sins and the fall of the Council of Wizards.
- Villainous Legacy: Despite being obliterated, Ahk-Ton's bloodline continued onwards for thousands of years. His last known descendant being Ishmael, who is just as much of an asshole as his ancestor.
- Villains Want Mercy: As shown in flashbacks, the tyrannical Ahk-Ton spent his last moments begging Teth-Adam for his life.
Kahndaqi Soldiers
Kahndaqi Soldiers
Species: Humans
Citizenship: Kahndaqui
Affiliation: Kanhdaq's Royal Family
Appearances: Black Adam
Ahk-Ton's enforcers.
- Horns of Barbarism: They all wear horned helmets, which makes them resemble the SHAZAM villain King Kull.
- Stupid Evil: How do Ahk-Ton's men reward slaves who manage to find and dig up Eternium ore? Why, by executing them in front of all the other slaves, of course! Because these is no way that basically telling the slaves who outnumber you a hundred to one "you can either work yourself to death or do your job and die anyway" could potentially lead to a revolt.
- Would Hurt a Child: Any one of them would gladly execute Hurut, who was just a boy.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: One of the soldiers tasked with watching over the mines coldly executes an old man after he'd uncovered a nugget of eternium.
Asia
Japan
Takeo Yamashiro
Takeo Yamashiro
Species: Human
Citizenship: Japanese
Affiliation: Yakuza
Appearances: Secret Files of the Suicide Squad
A yakuza enforcer who killed Tatsu Yamashiro's husband and children. She sought revenge on him and became the warrior known as Katana.
- Cain and Abel: The criminal Cain to his brother's law-abiding Abel.
- Fate Worse than Death: Averted. Takeo wished to be slain with Soultaker specifically to prolong his existence. Tatsu figured this out and beheaded him with a regular sword to spite him.
- Graceful Loser: Tatsu overpowers Takeo and leaves him fatally wounded. Rather than fume that he was beaten by a woman, Takeo offers her his cursed sword and asks that she kill him with it. Knowing that his soul would live on in Soultaker's blade, Tatsu does not honour his dying request.
- Would Hurt a Child: He set his brother's house on fire knowing full well that Maseo's wife and children - his own family as well - would be killed.
Strait of Malacca
Captain Brill
Captain Brill
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Affiliation(s): Spirit of the Claw
Appearances: DC's Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom Special
A rival pirate to Jesse Kane.
- Animal Motifs: His crew are represented by crabs.
- Dirty Coward: Black Manta sees him as one, due to hiding out in the Strait of Malacca when he knows Aquaman is in the Atlantic Ocean.
- Evil vs. Evil: The Claws and Mantas have a long-standing feud due to stealing each other's treasures.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: He was killed the second Black Manta laid eyes on him, getting no chance to make an impression outside of an expository monologue courtesy of Black Manta.
Europe
United Kingdom
Black Clad
Black Clad
"Like lambs to the slaughter."
Species: Humans
Citizenship: Unknown (possibly British)
Played by: Michael McElhatton (leader), John Dagleish (lassoed terrorist)
Dubbed by: Vincent Bonnasseau (leader, European French)
Appearances: Justice League | Zack Snyder's Justice League
"We're a small group of reactionary terrorists who wanna turn back the clock in Europe a thousand years."
A group of self-described "reactionary" terrorists attacking the Old Bailey Central Criminal Court of England and Wales in London. They intend to blow it up but Wonder Woman shows up just in time to ruin their plan.
- All There in the Manual: The group's name is only given in the credits via its members' codenames of Black Clad Alpha and Black Clad Beta.
- Asshole Victim: After he tries to kill some schoolgirls, Wonder Woman utterly obliterates the leader.
- Composite Character: The leader appears to be based on two fairly obscure DC Comics terrorist leaders: John Charles Collins, who threatened to blow up a major capital building in the first issue of Justice League (1987), and Hyrax. Albeit female, the latter had a similar goal which involved blowing up a chunk of a city in an attempt to revert it back to a more primitive age.
- Evil Reactionary: Self-described reactionaries who use terrorism in order to force humanity to return to the dark ages.
- The Fundamentalist: Apparently, since they think blowing up monuments, murdering children, and driving the world back into the Dark Ages and the safety of "Holy Fear" is the only way to save mankind. Somehow.
- High-Altitude Interrogation: Before making her big entrance, Wonder Woman sneaks in and captures one of the terrorists from the court's ceiling with the Lasso of Truth, then extracts useful bits of information from him there (the Lasso helps more than the altitude, actually).
- Hostage Situation: They hold several people at gunpoint inside the court.
- Mad Bomber: What with setting up a bomb, and making a speech about it being "Man's best hope".
- The Mole: Some of them infiltrated the court disguised as security guards.
- More Hateable Minor Villain: Steppenwolf gets plenty of chances to show what he's made of and Darkseid is impressive simply by being Darkseid, but these guys are shown to be willing to murder schoolgirls for the sake of it.
- Nerves of Steel: The terrorist Wonder Woman interrogates isn't the least bit disturbed that she's forcing him to tell the truth. If anything he seems to be enjoying it.
- No Body Left Behind: The leader of the group is completely obliterated via a shockwave from Wonder Woman, will only his hat surviving.
- No Name Given: None of the members are given names, with Michael McElhatton simply being credited as "Black Clad Alpha".
- Sharp-Dressed Man: Those who didn't infiltrate the court disguised as guards are impeccably dressed with suits, the leader especially.
- Starter Villain: Their leader is the first villain to be confronted by a hero of the nascent Justice League (Wonder Woman in this case) in the film (moreso Zack Snyder's Justice League since the burglar who's fought and captured by Batman doesn't exist in this version), and he's unrelated to Steppenwolf.
- Suicide Attack: The leader sets the bomb up with a few seconds countdown only, and nobody runs away after that.
- This Cannot Be!: The leader's "I don't believe it!" after Wonder Woman ruins both his bombing and mass shooting plan.
- Too Dumb to Live: Despite Alpha's initial shock at Wonder Woman's foiling his plan, he tries to reload his weapon since he seems too dedicated in his cause to surrender.
- Western Terrorists: They are pretty clearly Caucasian-looking terrorists.
- What the Hell Are You?: Theatrical Cut - The leader's "I don't believe it! What are you?!" after Wonder Woman ruins both his bombing and mass shooting plan. To which Diana responds with "A believer!" before sending him a shockwave with her bracers.
- Would Hurt a Child: Part of the hostages they take are a group of school children who will be killed when their bomb goes off. After Wonder Woman saves everyone from the blast, the terrorist leader immediately tries to gun down the hostages, starting with the children. Once again, Wonder Woman saves them.
Portugal
Ratcatcher I
Ratcatcher
"Rats are the lowliest and most despised of all creatures, my love. If they have purpose...so do we all."
Species: Human
Citizenship: Portuguese
Played by: Taika Waititi
Appearance: The Suicide Squad
The father of Ratcatcher 2, and the creator of the technology that allows her to control rats.
- Adaptational Name Change: His real name is Otis Flannegan in the comics. While we never find out his name, his daughter's last name is Cazo suggesting it is his as well.
- Adaptational Nationality: Born and lived in Gotham, an American city, in the comics. Lives in Portugal in the film.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: His comic counterpart is guilty of some truly awful crimes such as murder, kidnapping and torture. The worst crime that we see his film counterpart doing is small scale theft.
- Addled Addict/Functional Addict: Zigzagged. While Ratcatcher's drug addiction led to him and his daughter living on the streets and eventually killed him, he remained a brilliant inventor who created a device allowing him and his daughter to command legions of rats.
- Alternate Self: Has one on Earth-12 as Thomas Kalmaku.
- Ambiguously Brown: Lives in Portugal, but is played by the Maori/Jewish Taika Waititi.
- The Beastmaster: Capable of commanding hundreds of rats at a time. At its full potential, his device can control millions at once.
- Friend to All Living Things: Believes that though rats are the most despised creatures in the world, they can have a purpose—which proves that anyone can.
- Parents as People: His inability to shake his addiction left him and his daughter in poverty throughout her childhood and would eventually leave her without a father, but he deeply loved his daughter and did his best to care for her.
- Posthumous Character: He's long dead before the movie starts, but his invention of the rat-controlling device and loving but flawed raising of Cleo have a strong influence on his daughter's character and interactions with others.
Central & South America
Mr. Lorenzano
Mr Lorenzano
Species: Human
Played by: Luis Torrecilla
Appearance: Wonder Woman 1984
- Abusive Parents: His treatment of Maxwell compelled him to be a better father to his own son.
- Hate Sink: Unlike Maxwell Lord, there's nothing redeeming about his father. He berates and beats his wife and child and is implied to be a drunk.
- No Name Given: His first name is never mentioned.
Other Worlds
Ko'Erst
Ko'Erst
Species: Ko'Erst
Appearances: General Mills Presents: Batman V Superman Dawn Of Justice
Alien invaders that try to conquer Earth.
- Beware the Silly Ones: Despite their cartoonish appearance, the Ko'Erst are formidable enemies and leagues more advanced than humans.
- Canon Foreigner: There are no Ko'Erst in the comics.
- Cyclops: Their species only have one eye.
- Eye Beams: The Ko'Erst shoot lasers out of their eyes.
- Hypnotic Creature: They brainwash a STAR Lab scientist into providing them a gateway to Earth.
- Secondary Color Nemesis: They have orange skin and green armor.
Bat-Creature
Bat-Creature
Species: Unknown
Appearances: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
A monster that appears in another one of Bruce Wayne's nightmares.
- Allegorical Character: Its presence is a visual representation of how Bruce Wayne has become consumed by darkness, as well as the demons that have infested his mind since his parent's murders.
- Bad Black Barf: Constantly spews an inky substance.
- Blank White Eyes: Has these, to compensate for the fact that the scene has very few lighting, and to add scare factor.
- Looks Like Orlok: Ashen skin, twisted features and prominent front teeth. Appropriate considering its bat theme.
- Mental Monster: The Bat-Creature doesn't truly exist. It's a manifestation of Batman's accumulated traumas. Not that it appears as soon as Bruce focuses on his mother's name.
- Mythology Gag:
- It very much resembles Kirk Langstrom/Man-Bat, but has no known connection to him. Though, being a figment of Bruce's imagination, Langstrom may have subconsciously inspired its appearance In-Universe, provided that Batman has encountered him in this continuity.
- It could also be a nod to Barbatos, the mythological bat-god that has been alluded to several times across Batman's mythology before being retconned into an actual character.
- Prophet Eyes: Owing to being a creature of darkness, its eyes have deteriorated into cadaverous white orbs.
- Rule of Symbolism: In the nightmare, Bruce turns his back on a stain-glass window depicting an angel in a red robe descending to Earth. As he tends to his parents' tombs, the bat-creature bursts from his mother's and tries to drag him into the darkness.
Annabelle
Annabelle
Species: Demon-possessed doll
Appearances: Aquaman | SHAZAM! | SHAZAM! Fury of the Gods
The doll from The Conjuring Universe, which has a spooky habit of showing up in random places.
- Alternate Company Equivalent: To Stan Lee in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. She's just recognisable enough to stand out, but not too conspicuous to seem out of place.
- Company Cross References: Both the DCEU and The Conjuring are owned by Warner Bros.
- Creator Thumbprint: James Wan and David F. Sandberg are both Conjuring alumni and they directed the movies where Annabelle cameos.
- Crossover Cameo: To date, Annabelle has appeared in an undersea wreckage, a pawn shop and a pediatrician's office.
- Villainy-Free Villain: Annabelle is one of the most well-known fiends in the Conjuring universe, but in the DC Extended Universe she seems content to just sit on the sidelines.
Crocodile Men
Crocodile Men
Species: Crocodile-people
Citizenship: Unknown
Affiliation(s): Unknown
Played by: David F. Sandberg (motion capture)
Appearances: SHAZAM! | Shazamily Matters
A trio of anthropomorphic crocodiles that reside in another dimension that's accessible via a door at the Rock of Eternity. Billy Batson/Shazam and his foster siblings stumble upon them when trying to escape from Doctor Sivana.
- Never Smile at a Crocodile: The kids are very lucky they managed to slam the door in time.
- Outside-Genre Foe: They have zero impact on the plot, being little more than a cameo.
- Primal Stance: Due to having the skull structure of crocodiles and the bipedal frame of humans, all three of them are forced into hunched positions.
- Reptiles Are Abhorrent: Sitting in a dimly lit den playing cards and attacking people on sight doesn't do their image any favours.
- Villainy-Free Villain: They're seen playing cards in a shady den, implying they're an unsavory sort, but there's no conclusive proof that they are up to no good. Although they do try to attack the kids on sight, it's implied they have no idea who these alien-looking people are and may not want to take any chances. It's only because they're villains in the comics that they're considered as such here.
- Would Hurt a Child: They didn't hesitate to chase after Billy's siblings, teeth bared with the obvious intention to harm them.
Madame Cay
Madame Cay
Species: Crocodile-woman
Citizenship: Unknown
Affiliation(s): Unknown
Appearances: Shazamily Matters
A priestess from the world where crocodile-people rule.
- A Lizard Named "Liz": "Madame Cay" sounds similar to "caiman", a reptile from the order crocodilia.
- Power Crystal: She uses a magic crystal to de-evolve humans into ape-people.
- Primate Versus Reptile: Her assault on the SHAZAM siblings involves de-evolving them into subhumans.
- Sudden Intelligence: The spirit of the Wizard SHAZAM convinces her to use her evolution crystal on herself to become smarter. This causes her to become enlightened and cease her war with the SHAZAM family.
Warbeasts & Goreborg
Warbeasts & Goreborg
Species: Anthropomorphic animals and living machines
Citizenship: Unknown
Affiliation(s): Unknown
Appearances: Shazamily Matters
Warring factions in another world. The leader of the Warbeasts is called Thokka the Horned.
- Cool Versus Awesome: Sapient beasts versus robot soldiers.
- Defeat Means Friendship: Pedro gets caught in the middle of one of their battles and has to transform to defend himself. He one-shots the Goreborg leader, but befriends Thokka.
- Rhino Rampage: Thokka first appears leading the charge of Warbeasts against the Goreborg army.
