Characters / DCEU: Justice League

aka: DCEU Wonder Woman

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Justice League (Superman, Batman) | Justice Society | Other Superheroes

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A team uniting some of the greatest superheroes and metahumans to protect the Earth.

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The Justice League

Appearances: Justice League | Zack Snyder's Justice League | Peacemaker | The Flash

"There are enemies coming, from far away. I need warriors. This stranger, others like him. I'm building an alliance to defend ourselves."

— Bruce Wayne

A team of superheroes Batman decided to gather to protect the Earth against planetary threats in the wake of the events concluding Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.

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In General

• 11th-Hour Ranger: Happens not once but thrice. Arthur and Victor both turn down the offer to join the League and Clark flies off to Smallville. They all join the team right when they're needed.
• Adaptational Angst Downgrade: In the theatrical cut, there was considerable disagreement, particularly between Bruce and Diana (with Bruce carrying the Jerkass Ball) over using the Mother Box to resurrect Superman. Here, the League comes to a unanimous decision about it fairly quickly, with only Barry and Alfred raising some brief concerns.
• Adaptational Badass: In the theatrical cut the Justice League put up a fight against Steppenwolf, but ultimately depend on Superman to help them save the world. Batman is also depicted as being out of his depth due to a combination of having no superpowers and being middle-aged. In the Snyder Cut Batman, the Flash and Cyborg all get to show off their skillsets in ways that Superman wouldn't be able to replicate, which ends up saving the world.
  • Batman steps up more to coordinate the team and strategize, making him more visible in the action sequences. He gets tossed around less and his ability to multi-task is increased, making his role in the Final Battle considerably more useful, essentially handling the elimination of Parademons and their defense turrets around Steppenwolf's base all on his own, managing to kill the one parademon that came closest to killing the Flash and sealing Earth's fate with only a split second to spare. He also knows Icelandic.
  • The Flash is more action oriented, taking on Parademons more directly and utilizing Flash Step to save people from falling debris. He is also more confident with his powers, with the range and upper limits more fully explored, culminating in Barry reversing time by running faster than the speed of light to prevent the Unity's destruction of the world.
  • Cyborg spent the first half of the film keeping one Motherbox away and hidden from the parademons, along with a handful of additional action bits showing him actually engaging Steppenwolf instead of just being swatted aside and doing tech guy stuff. And even still, his interfacing with the Motherboxes in the climax is built up as far more difficult with him having to confront a Lotus-Eater Machine to get the job done.
• Adapted Out:
  • The DCEU incarnation doesn't have Green Lantern as a founding member unlike most versions of the Justice League. Cyborg does have a premonition of a Green Lantern assisting them at some point, though it isn't Hal Jordan or John Stewart. Zack Snyder intended to add John Stewart to his version of the film, but was prevented from doing so by invokedExecutive Veto.
  • Martian Manhunter is not present in the 2017 theatrical version of Justice League and doesn't join the League at the end. He does in Zack Snyder's version, however.
• Adaptational Diversity: Aside from the inclusion of Cyborg (an African-American), the Flash is Jewish while Aquaman is half-Polynesian and half-white.
• The Alliance: The league is initially comprised of six heroes who are largely different from each other in terms of backgrounds and beliefs but they are united by a common purpose to protect the Earth from world-ending threats such as the New Gods of Apokolips.
• Alternate Self: The League as a whole has counterparts in the multiverse of the extended Arrowverse, on Earth-9 and Earth-167 roughly comprised of the same members (except Cyborg for Earth-9).
• Always Save the Girl:
  • Standard for Superman and Lois Lane. Lois repays the favour when it looks like Batman might kill Superman.
  • Implied love interests Batman and Wonder Woman cover each other's backs.
  • Aquaman saves Mera from Steppenwolf. Similar to Lois, Mera comes to his aid in return.
  • The Flash first meets Iris West when he rescues her from a traffic collision.
• Avengers Assemble: Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman each had films to establish their Backstories before the big team-up film. Aquaman, Flash, and Cyborg were introduced with slices of their life in both versions of Justice League with Bruce Wayne seeking to recruit them, though in a way more expanded fashion in Zack Snyder's version.
• America Saves the Day: 4 of the 6 founding members were born in America, with Superman landing in the US when he was just a baby.
• Badass Crew: They are a group of superheroes. That explanation is enough.
• Bash Brothers:
  • Best illustrated in the climax of Justice League, where they kick massive amounts of Parademon ass together and (save for Batman, who can't really measure up as he's just a Badass Normal) give Steppenwolf a run for his money, also together. Aquaman's "My man!" to Cyborg when they are fighting Parademons in mid-air says it all.
  • Batman measures up in Zack Snyder's version, handling the task to diminish Parademon defenses all on his own in perfect synergy with the rest of the team.
• The Cavalry Arrives Late: The Justice League (sans Batman and Cyborg) arrive too little too late in the finale of Peacemaker (2022) with Peacemaker himself directly cursing them out for such tardiness.
• Cool Plane: Batman designed and built a three-story plane called the Flying Fox for the League to serve as its transport and mobile HQ.
• Color-Coded Characters: In the marketing for Justice League most prominently. Batman-Blue, Wonder Woman-Yellow, Aquaman-Green, Cyborg-Purple, Flash-Red. Interestingly Superman is typically Red such that the Trinity can invoke red, blue, and yellow Chromatic Arrangement but he was so rarely included in the marketing for the first Justice League so wasn't assigned a color at all. In Zack Snyder's Justice League's marketing everything is monochrome gray.
• Composite Character: The Justice League as a whole is based on the classic Pre-Crisis and Post-Crisis lineups but bear a close resemblance to the New 52 version, especially with the inclusion of Cyborg as a founding member. Eventually, Martian Manhunter is recruited, which deviates from the New 52 a bit where he's an enemy at first before being recruited for a counter Justice League.
• Dream Team: The League brings the greatest superheroes of the Earth together.
• Family of Choice: In the Snyder Cut especially. Every member is hurt or broken in some way to the point of closing themselves off from the world to avoid getting hurt, but through finding and supporting each other both on and off the battlefield, they find a surrogate family with one another.
• Fighter, Mage, Thief:
  • For the original Trinity - Superman is the Fighter due to his incredible physical power, Wonder Woman is the Mage because she has the power of the gods and Batman is the Thief as he relies on cunning to make up for his lack of superpowers.
  • For the recruits - Aquaman is the Fighter based on his phycial prowess and brutish nature, the Flash is the Mage as his reality-warping powers compensate for his relative physical weakness and Cyborg is the Thief due to his ability to interface with any kind of technology.
• Five-Token Band: Batman and Superman are the only white men on the team. Wonder Woman's gender, Cyborg's black ethnicity, Aquaman's mixed-race background, and the Flash's mental issues, Judaism and (mestizo) Hispanic heritage round out the cast's relative diversity.
• Hero of Another Story:
  • Superman battled his own kind (Man of Steel) and slayed Doomsday (Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice), saving Earth both times.
  • Batman fought crime in Gotham City for twenty years, realized his mistakes in regards to Superman, saved the latter's mother and helped defeat Doomsday (Batman v Superman).
  • Wonder Woman destroyed Ares the God of War during World War I (Wonder Woman), had other adventures in the 1980s (Wonder Woman 1984) and battled Doomsday (Batman v Superman).
  • It is not known what Aquaman did between his youth training with Nuidis Vulko and the day he joined the League apart from helping a poor coastal village in Iceland. However, he did help save Superman from drowning to death (Man of Steel). After Steppenwolf's defeat, he went back to Atlantis in order to claim his birthright on the throne and fight his half-brother to protect the surface. (Aquaman).
  • Flash took on normal human criminals (Suicide Squad) before joining the League.
  • The Martian Manhunter served as Secretary of Defense during General Zod's invasion of Earth (Man of Steel) and Batman's fistfight with Superman (Batman v Superman).
  • Cyborg is the only one who doesn't fit the trope, as joining the League and fighting off the new Apokoliptian invasion is his first heroic deed.
• Heroes Unlimited:
  • In both versions of Justice League, when a Home Base for the League (the Hall of Justice) is being built inside Wayne Manor, Diana suggests to "leave room for more" to Bruce.
  • In Zack Snyder's Justice League, the Martian Manhunter reveals himself to Bruce Wayne and joins the League following their victory against Steppenwolf.
• Heroic Build: The male members of the League are built like tanks (Cyborg almost literally so). Nearly everyone is tall and powerfully built - even the skinny Ezra Miller was noted to pack on muscle to play the Flash. The exception is Wonder Woman, who is built like a swimmer.
• Home Base: By the end of Justice League, Bruce Wayne refurbishes Wayne Manor into a headquarters for the League. Whether or not this is the Hall of Justice is up in the air at this point.
• Iconic Sequel Character: Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Aquaman, and Cyborg were all absent in Man of Steel and got a Second Episode Introduction in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice instead. Averted with the Martian Manhunter who was present throughout the films since Man of Steel as Calvin Swanwick.
• Leitmotif: The Snyder Cut has "The Crew at Warpower", which opens with a solemn brass solo, kicks into high gear with some Drums of War and uses string instruments for hopeful flourishes. Parts of it are heard when the League are findng their footing, but the most recognizable part plays when the Justice League depart for their Final Battle with Steppenwolf.
• Movie Superheroes Wear Black: When the team first forms, all the members wear darker colors than they wear in their solo adventures. Superman even exchanges his primary-colored suit for a black-and-silver one.
• Nerd Action Hero: The entire team are well educated.
  • Clark was born to scientist parents and was reading Plato from a young age.
  • Bruce has aptitudes in technology, chemistry and forensics. He specifically refers to his Batcave as a lab.
  • Diana mentions being an avid reader and has a day job working for museums.
  • Arthur is multilingual and has enough knowledge of Western history to memorize the most significant figures of the Roman Empire.
  • Barry majors in forensics, can play viola, knows web design and is fluent in gorilla sign language.
  • Victor was prodigious enough with computer technology to hack into his university's grading system long before he became Cyborg.
• Noodle Incident: In SHAZAM! Thundercrack it's mentioned that Hawkman has teamed up with the League on at least one occasion.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Arthur and Diana have a moment talking about the cultural conflict that had developed between the Atlanteans and Amazons, but with both of them distant enough from their people that it's not a real sticking point between them. Arthur mentions a saying in Atlantis about darkness and light, which Diana finishes with a smile because it's also a saying in Themyscira.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: Cyborg, Aquaman and Wonder Woman are super strong guys, but they're overshadowed by Superman in the climax of both films. It's very much downplayed in the Snyder Cut however, as Superman can't prevent the detonation of the Unity, which wipes out the League — it's Flash who saves the day here by time-travelling with his Super-Speed. Superman also lets Aquaman and Wonder Woman finish Steppenwolf off, so they get to shine as well here.
• Primary-Color Champion: Superman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, and the Martian Manhunter wear heavy amounts of red, gold, and blue. Aquaman wore some gold in his initial outfit before upgrading to metallic orange and Cyborg's left eye and power core are bright red while his forehead light is blue.
• Race Against the Clock: Once Steppenwolf gets the third Motherbox, the League have only hours to track him down, fly to his location and prevent the Unity from fully synchronizing. By the time they get there, the Unity is mere minutes away from unmaking the world. They fail to stop it, but luckily the Flash survives and reverses time.
• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: A humanoid alien hailed as a god among men posing as a journalist, a ninja vigilante detective who runs a multi-billion dollar corporation, a princess/demigoddess from a secluded island who fought in World War I and poses as an antique collector and art restorer, the prince of Atlantis and protector of the oceans doubling as a helper of a remote Icelandic village, a laid-back scientist with super-speed and a football player and scientist who became part-machine.
• Refusal of the Call: Some of the League's members refused to join it at first.
  • Cyborg declines to join the other heroes at first, not trusting Diana and preferring to be left alone, but changes his mind later on.
  • Aquaman rejects membership at first when Bruce comes knocking, and eventually joins in after a good What the Hell, Hero? from Mera following the theft of Atlantis' Mother Box by Steppenwolf.
  • Wholeheartedly averted with Flash, who gladly accepts Bruce Wayne's proposal without even asking questions because he badly needs friends, and using his powers to fight for a good cause deeply appeals to him. Not to mention the appeal of working with the freaking Batman.
• Rule of Seven: Despite the initial promotional material being built around the phrase "Unite the Seven", the League only has five members before gaining a sixth when Superman joins in the theatrical release, subverting the trope. The Snyder Cut double subverts this when the Martian Manhunter offers to join after the climax, making the team seven members.
• Second Episode Introduction: Everyone but Superman and the Martian Manhunter made their first DCEU appearance in its second film entry, though Word of God implies that Aquaman was The Ghost in Man of Steel.
• The Smurfette Principle: So far, Diana of Themyscira/Wonder Woman is the only female member of the team.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: Batman, Wonder Woman and Cyborg pull one on Commissioner Gordon in Justice League... with only Flash remaining behind, ironically. He then lampshades it before politely vanishing himself.
• Super Team: The Trope Codifier in the comics, for the first time in a live-action film universe.
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome: All the men qualify as this. Batman, Aquaman and Victor are all 6'4 and Superman is 6'1. Barry is the shortest of the male members and he's 5'11 which is still fairly tall, not to mention his Adaptation Dye-Job, though he's more of a Pretty Boy while the others are more on the hunky side.
• Team Shot: Both cuts of the team's debut film feature the Justice League standing shoulder-to-shoulder and gazing thoughtfully at the horizon.
  • The Snyder Cut has an Adrenaline Time shot of the founding members charging towards Steppenwolf's base. It also has a tracking shot featuring closeups of the League's members that rests on a shot of them viewed from the side.
• Team Title: Justice League, obviously.
• They Killed Kenny Again: With the exception of the Flash, all of the founding members have died, with Superman dying a mere day after being resurrected. It's thanks to the Flash reversing time that they all came back to life. The Knightmare establishes that Wonder Woman, Aquaman and eventually Batman will all die again.

Flying Fox

The Flying Fox

"The greatest minds at Wayne Aerospace couldn't get this thing to fly."

Appearances: Justice League | Zack Snyder's Justice League | The Flash

Bruce Wayne: You fixed it.
Victor Stone: It wanted to fly. Flight is its nature.
Bruce Wayne: Yours too.

The mode of transport for the Justice League when they launch an attack on Steppenwolf's base of operations.

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• Cool Plane: Bruce designs and builds The Flying Fox, a three-story plane to be used by the Justice League.
• It Can Think: The Flying Fox was notoriously difficult to operate due to its bulk, but Cyborg was able to get it to function just by talking to it. He even says "It wanted to fly".
• Made of Iron: It takes a lot of punishment during the attack on Steppenwolf's base. It blasts through a barrier at point-blank range and rushes through the still-smouldering hole before it can self-repair. Nevertheless it's still able to fly as it appears in the aftermath to take the Justice League home.
• Sentient Vehicle: Victor Stone is able to commune with it and talks as if it's a living thing.
• Tone Shift: The sight of the Flying Fox taking its first flight marks the moment when the Snyder Cut shifts from Darkest Hour to optimistic. Bruce Wayne is at his most upbeat and the Justice League's Leitmotif swells as Earth's best defenders bravely march towards their next battle.

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Founding Members

• Clark Kent/Superman
• Bruce Wayne/Batman

Wonder Woman

Princess Diana of Themyscira / Diana Prince / Wonder Woman

"They said the Age of Heroes would never come again."

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"Oh, I don't think you've ever known a woman like me."

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Species: Amazon demigoddess

Citizenship: Themysciran, Unknown

Affiliation(s): Amazons of Themyscira, Smithsonian Museum, Louvre Museum, Justice League

Portrayed By: Gal Gadot, Emily Carey (teen), Lilly Aspell (young), Caitlin Burles (stunts), Kimberley von Ilberg (Peacemaker)

Voiced By: Jessica Ortiz (Latin-American Spanish), Sarah Dahan (European Spanish), Yuko Kaida (Japanese), Ingrid Donnadieu (European French), Lynda Thalie (Canadian French), Flávia Saddy (Brazilian Portuguese)

Film Appearances: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Wonder Woman | Justice League | Wonder Woman 1984 | Zack Snyder's Justice League | SHAZAM! Fury of the Gods | The Flash

Appearances in Other Media: Serving up Justice | Peacemaker | DC's Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom Special

"I used to want to save the world, this beautiful place. But the closer you get, the more you see the great darkness simmering within."

The princess of the isle of Themyscira, Diana is an ageless, proud and fierce Amazon warrior. She is the daughter of Queen Hippolyta and Zeus, king of the Gods of Olympus, which makes her a demigoddess.

After a blissful childhood and years of training on Themyscira, she decided to intervene in the world of man as it was torn apart by the Great War. It proved to be a traumatising experience for her, and she restrained from intervening again in mankind's affairs... until particular circumstances made her change her mind almost one century later, though that didn't mean she didn't face peril in the meantime, such as in 1984. To better blend in the human world she now lived in, she took on a secret identity, that of an art restorer working for prestigious museums, using the alias "Diana Prince" that was made up by the man who became the love of her life, Steve Trevor.

She ended up helping mankind again, and joined the Justice League to repel a new Apokoliptian invasion.

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• Abstract Apotheosis: The Lasso of Truth is not powered by Diana (who herself is a demigoddess), but rather by the concept of truth itself — which is why it still works even after Diana begins losing her powers. As she puts it; the truth - and the idea of it - is far greater than Steve or her or any other being, because it will always exist on an abstract level regardless of whether or not there is a god to represent it.
• Absurdly Sharp Blade:
  • The Godkiller (Diana's sword at the time of World War I) can cut through German rifles and wood beams.
  • The Sword of Athena (Diana's second sword) can cut through otherwise Nigh-Invulnerable Kryptonian bodies.
• Accent Adaptation: Unlike most versions of the character who have a normal American accent despite being a Themysciran Greek Amazon, Diana has an Israeli accent from her actress Gal Gadot, to represent her foreign roots. In order to make Gal's accent less out of place, all of the Amazons have Israeli accents too, even though Diana is the only Amazon actually played by an Israeli actor.
• Achilles' Heel: As normal, bullets. She's much more vulnerable to piercing weapons than she is to blunt force or pressure waves, bleeding from a rifle graze taken during the beach fight against the Germans and always going out of her way to block or dodge bullets, to the point where her aunt even performs a Heroic Sacrifice to save her from getting shot. This is reiterated in 1984 where another bullet grazes her shoulder during the highway chase,^note You can see that the bullet continues to make a hole in the truck behind her. resulting in another bloody wound that sticks around for the rest of the scene. Downplayed in relation to the comics though, in that the gap between her piercing resistance and blunt-force resistance is much smaller and more realistic. While she can survive some heavy hits (Ares punching her across an airfield for example), she's only able to keep in the fight with Doomsday on part of blocking every blow with her shield, and in Justice League Superman easily dispatches her with a headbutt. Patty Jenkins was asked directly about it, and responded "she's not bulletproof... she heals very quickly but she can be killed [by bullets]."
• Action Girl: She's a warrior demi-goddess who lunges into danger to fight against forces of evil.
• Adaptational Curves: Inverted. In the comics, Wonder Woman is most often depicted as having an Amazonian Beauty physique that"s both curvaceous and muscular. Here, while she's still a Head-Turning Beauty, she's got more of a swimmer's build.
• Adaptational Dye-Job: This iteration of Wonder Woman has brown eyes rather than the usual Icy Blue Eyes in the comics.
• Adaptational Modesty: While her costume still shows a lot of skin, it's not as sexualized as many of its previous versions.
• Adaptational Personality Change: In the theatrical cut of Justice League, she was very much against resurrecting Superman, briefly causing a rift between her and Bruce. In Zack Snyder's Justice League, she voices no such objections, and appears to support Bruce's plan.
• Adaptational Superpower Change: Her control over her bracelets (which are, unlike the comics, not given an explanation) is enhanced to the point of her having developed the ability to cause a shockwave or block energy beams by smashing them together.
• Age Lift: In the comics, Diana was in her mid-20s when she became Wonder Woman and started out around the same time as her fellow Leaguers. Here, she first fought in World War I.
• The Ageless: Being the daughter of both a God of Olympus and the queen of the Amazons who doesn't experience the effects of aging, it's a given.
  • She hasn't visibly aged at all since World War I.
  • In Wonder Woman 1984, there's the photo she took alongside a now elderly Etta Candy in New York in The '50s (if the clothes are anything to go by). She still looks the same on it, of course.
• All of the Other Reindeer: Downplayed. While she isn't outright shunned by her fellow Amazons, being their princess, she isn't held to the same standards as them, having been the only Amazon to have actually been born on Themyscira and thus the only one to have never really experienced war and battle until the events of her film. It's also implied that Diana was the only one in her circle (if not the entire island itself) who was not aware of her true origin as a demigoddess and the purpose of her conception. Hence, her opinions on matters are often dismissed, while others are envious of or even outright fear her combat ability.
• Alliterative Name: Wonder Woman. Applies to the actress who portrays her as well! Gal Gadot.
• Alternate Self: Diana has at least five alternate universe counterparts from Earth-Prime, Earth-9, Earth-76 where she looks like Asteria, Earth-167 and Earth-N52.
• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: She's poised and graceful, which are important traits of the character, has long black hair, and is quite icy to Bruce Wayne when they first meet. Averted when she first ventured outside of Themyscira.
• Ambadassador: During the Great War and on a few occasions in the present day, Diana uses offensive combat to deal with threats beyond human capabilities. When dealing with regular humans or anyone she's trying to reason with, Diana switches to defensive tactics and relies on her lasso. When her superpowers are temporarily stunted, Diana realizes she can't rely on strength alone and defeats Maxwell Lord by spreading a message of heroism to the human race.
• Ambiguously Bi: It's implied in the first Wonder Woman film during a conversation about pleasure that Diana has had liaisons with her fellow Amazons back on Themyscira, but the only romantic relationship she has had onscreen is with the male Steve Trevor.
• Ambiguous Situation: It's never specified if Diana's existence was erased in the Alternate Timeline or if she's just Out of Focus. Given the film's events were set in 2013 when she was keeping a low profile, it's not too big a stretch to assume she might have still been out there.
• Anti-Nihilist: While she concedes that humanity may be doomed to constant violence, Steve Trevor proves to her that human lives are still worth saving.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Played very much for laughs when she first arrives in man's world in 1918, when she's relentlessly curious and constantly asking Steve about the (to her) odd cultures and mannerisms of humanity. The best part is when she goes from seriously talking about the war to squeeing over a baby within a split second.
• The Baby of the Bunch: The only child of the Amazons, and the only one of them who never experienced conflict in the ancient world. It is completely inverted as a member of the Justice League; she's in turn the oldest in that group by virtue of being immortal.
• Badass Adorable: Diana in World War I is a beautiful, bright, sincere, and kind-hearted ray of sunshine who bathes the warm light of idealism and hope on a dark and bloody world. She unfortunately loses much of her warmth and innocence by the time the war ends, but thankfully not her kindness.
  • By the 21th century, she regained some part of her warmth, going from a jaded Broken Bird to an all-loving Team Mom caring for the younger members of the Justice League.
• Badass Boast: "I've killed things from other worlds before."
• Badass Longcoat: She wears a long black Night's Watch-esque fur mantle from her island when venturing in Europe in 1918.
• Been There, Shaped History: Subverted. While it initially seems like Wonder Woman's participation in WWI would decide its outcome, she only officially fights on the frontlines once to liberate a single village. The very next day that same village was wiped out anyway. Diana did kill Ludendorff years before his real-life death, but since the Nazis were established as a later threat in other films it's implied somebody else filled the void.
• Big Damn Heroes:
  • She jumps in the way of a blast from Doomsday that would have killed Batman and deflects it with her braces.
  • During World War I, her charge through the no man's land and almost single-handedly saving an entire enslaved village definitely counts.
  • She crashes through the doors of Old Bailey Criminal Court to save hostages from a squad of terrorists.
• The Big Guy:
  • She fulfills this role on Steve's team in addition to being The Heart by virtue of her prolific combat experience and bullet-deflecting bracers.
  • She's also this in the Justice League until Superman joins in.
• Bling of War: Diana wears Antiope's tiara in battle. At one point she also wore the armor of the great Amazon warrior Asteria, which is golden, winged and with an eagle-shaped helmet (inspired by the one Wonder Woman first wore in Kingdom Come).
• Blood Knight: She sports a Grin of Audacity during a fight with Doomsday, clearly enjoying fighting something so powerful. Notable considering that during World War I, she realized that this was a personal flaw of hers and avoided further conflicts, indicating that she enjoys a good fight on a personal level.
• Break the Cutie: On her first outing in 1918, she has her very first taste of the true horrors humanity is capable of.
• Bully Hunter: During World War I, Diana set out to make the world a better place because she cannot abide innocents suffering in a total war, which she believes is entirely the work of Ares. She abstains after realizing how complex the world really is. However, she continues to protect people in secret well into the 80's.
• Brought to You by the Letter "S": Her double "W" Chest Insignia, as in "Wonder Woman".
• Brutal Honesty: During her first interactions with humans, she had a tendency to say what is on her mind, tact be damned. Whether if it was a misunderstanding for calling Etta's job "slavery" (despite her being paid) or telling off the British High Command for regarding civilians and soldiers' lives as expendable.
• Cain and Abel: Ares, the Big Bad of Wonder Woman, is her half-brother via their father Zeus. He slaughtered the bulk of their family so she was trained to kill him for it.
• The Cape: Played with in an interesting way. She aspires to be this in Wonder Woman but her old fashioned heroism and Wide-Eyed Idealism run headfirst into a cynical World War I-era world where not every problem can be solved by just punching evildoers. Played more straight in Justice League and Wonder Woman 1984 where she reconciles her heroism with the realization that Humans Are Flawed.
• Character Development: Enters the war as a Naïve Newcomer and gets out of it as a Knight in Sour Armor. A century later, she witnesses the heroic exploits and eventual Heroic Sacrifice of Superman, Took a Level in Idealism and finally becomes an Ideal Heroine.
• Character Tic: She has a habit of looking up at the sky whenever she's in great distress to calm herself down. This appeared when Superman was killed, when she first brought her braces together and accidentally hurt Antiope, and after World War I ended and Steve died.
• Chest Insignia: The upper part of her outfit is shaped like an eagle, or two juxtaposed "W"'s, alternatively.
• The Chosen One: She is the progeny of Zeus, given to the Amazons so they may have a fighting chance against Ares.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: Deconstructed in World War I. She wants to help everyone who is suffering because of the war, but she quickly learns on the battlefield that she can't save everyone no matter how much she tries. Apparently Reconstructed in 1984, which shows she's been in the hero business for decades.
• Clark Kenting: Upon entering Man's World in the 1910s, she disguises herself as an ordinary civilian and adopts the name "Diana Prince," which she keeps to the present day. In Batman v. Superman, she presents herself as an antiquities dealer. Wonder Woman and Justice League also reveal she is an art restorer at the Louvre.
  • In an inversion of the Trope Namer's disguise, Diana's disguise seems to be a polar opposite of Clark Kent's one. While Superman is an awe-inspiring statuesque hero with a perfect curl in his hair and a confident smile and Clark Kent acts as your average everyman, Wonder Woman is a practical fighter with no make-up, unkempt hair and a battle worn armor, and Diana Prince a statuesque stunner, always wearing no less than the most trending fashion and make-up, sticking out of the crowd no matter where she goes.
• Combat Pragmatist: Similar to her partners Superman and Batman, if there is an advantage to be used in a fight she will find it. Unlike them however if she feels putting an enemy down permanently is the only way to keep them from doing more harm, she will.
• Combat Stilettos: She has a pair of wedge boots for footwear... which contrastingly also include greaves that go all the way up to be knee pads.
• The Comically Serious: It's hard not to laugh at the cultural shock of both her socializing with Steve, and then being an earnest, idealistic and combative Fish out of Water in a Europe that World War I is making deeply cynical.
• Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: As far as her own movie, no one has called her "Wonder Woman". However, she has been called "Diana Prince" which is not her real name. The short version of her real name would be "Diana of Themyscira". The Flash drops the code name during Zack Snyder's Justice League while he and Victor were digging Superman's grave
• Constantly Curious: As a child, she constantly escapes her tutor's watch to go have a look at the Amazons' training, dreaming of becoming like them.
• Cool Sword: Diana uses swords as her weapons. More specifically:
  • At the time of World War I, she wields a sword called "Godkiller", a gift to her people from Zeus to protect them from Ares. The hilt is adorned with two dragon heads biting the blade. It is eventually revealed that Diana herself IS the "god killer", the sword was just a conduit to her powers and gets destroyed effortlessly by Ares.
  • She wields another sword in modern-day, the Sword of Athena, which is bedecked with a phrase written in ancient Greek: "Life is killing life all the time and so the goddess kills herself in sacrifice of her own animal". It can cut through Kryptonian bodies such as Doomsday's arm, of all things. The sword's name is mentioned in the Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Tech Manual book. invokedAccording to Zack Snyder, she found it during researches around the world, as she's also something of an Adventurer Archaeologist.
• Cowardice Callout: In the first movie, she calls Field Marshal Haig (who gets a Historical Downgrade) and the rest of the war cabinet cowards for not fighting on the front lines alongside the soldiers they sacrifice, contrasting it against how Themysciran generals in their position would conduct themselves.
• Cultured Badass: She is a Cunning Linguist, and knows her Greek classics. As Diana Prince, she is an art restorer/curator working at the Smithsonian Museum in The '80s and at the Louvre museum in Paris in Present Day.
• Cute Bruiser: She's one of the most attractive females in the universe and, during World War I, was a sincere, kind idealist, but also one of the strongest heroes alive. For long portions of the fight against Doomsday, she's the only of the three heroes actively participating, and she survives the fight without a scratch on her.
• Cuteness Proximity: She may be a Lady of War, but even she is capable of melting at the sight of a baby.
• Deadpan Snarker: In Batman v. Superman, Diana engages in some Snark-to-Snark Combat with Bruce and clearly takes some amusement in puncturing his ego.
• Decoy Backstory: Diana grows up believing she is a clay statue molded into the shape of a child by her mother Queen Hippolyta and given life by the gods (which is her actual backstory in the comics). In truth, she is really the biological daughter of Zeus and Hippolyta, deliberately conceived as a weapon to kill her older half-brother Ares (who slaughtered the rest of the Greek Pantheon thousands of years ago). Diana doesn't find this out until she finally confronts Ares herself at the climax of the film.
• Deus ex Machina: Wonder Woman's a demigoddess who has a habit of showing up right when it seems all hope is lost.
  • In Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice she arrives on the scene just as Doomsday is about to incinerate Batman.
  • Towards the end of Shazam! Fury of the Gods, despite having saved the day, Billy is dead, his siblings and Anthea are Brought Down to Normal, the Gods' Realm that Anne and her siblings were trying to save remains dead thanks to Kalypso planting the golden apple on Earth, and there's seemingly no way to reverse any of this because the staff has lost its magic after Billy used it to defeat Kalypso and Ladon. But then Diana shows up and reignites the staff, which revives the realm, restores Anne's powers, and brings Billy Back from the Dead, which also allows him to give his siblings their powers back too. It's downplayed because it was already established that Diana is the daughter of Zeus (another source of Shazam's powers along with Atlas) and there was Foreshadowing to her making an appearance at multiple points in the movie, but it still does count as an example of an actual god showing up out of nowhere to fix the heroes' problems.
• Disappeared Dad: Zeus turns out to be her father. He and her mother kept it from Diana (she'd been told she was made by magic), so he's never been a part of her life (nor does Zeus appear in the present).
• Divine Parentage: Queen Hippolyta always told her that she was created by the gods using clay. She's actually the daughter Zeus conceived with Hippolyta, and this divine parentage is the key to defeating Ares.
• Dork Knight: A mighty warrior who is nonetheless at all times truthful, sincere, kind, honest and openly squees at the sight of adorable babies and gets positively enraptured by her very first ice-cream like a teenage girl. No longer this as she adjusts to the modern world and loses her innocence, though that's also a sign that she has matured.
• Draw Aggro: During the battle on the no man's land, her strategy is to stand there and get shot at while Steve, his team and British soldiers outflank the enemy.
• Dude Magnet: As fitting for an immortal demigoddess, Diana is one of the most beautiful women in the world. Several men are shown to be attracted to her, including Love Interest Steve Trevor, Sameer, Bruce Wayne, Flash and Aquaman. The end credits to Shazam show that Billy apparently has a crush on her.
• Embodiment of Virtue: Out of the Trinity, she's depicted as the most heroic. She shows incredible bravery by walking into the No Man's Land during World War I and intended to fight Doomsday by herself. Also, despite her love of combat she refrains from getting involved in human conflicts after her first outing, knowing full well how easily she could sink to the level of Ludendorff.
• Establishing Character Moment: She has two in Batman v Superman. As Diana she's able to steal one of Bruce Wayne's gadgets and slip through his fingers, something that a master thief has trouble accomplishing. As Wonder Woman, she makes her big entrance saving Batman from almost certain death, using her indestructible bracelets and adopting her signature pose to block Doomsday's eye beam.
• Even the Girls Want Her: Barbara Minerva takes a visible interest in Diana that borders on infatuation. She even acknowledges that Diana is sexy.
• The Exile: She left Themiscyra in 1918 and never came back there. The reason why she can't come back hasn't been made clear so far.
• Experienced Protagonist: Zigzagged in Wonder Woman. She's already thousands of years old with combat experience to match, but her emotional naivety about man's world causes her to struggle in her mission to end WWI as her old fashioned ideals conflict with the reality of human behavior. Her emotional maturity has caught up to her combat experience by Batman v Superman.
  • Wonder Woman 1984 shows her as a superhero who's apparently been saving people in secret for decades.
• Fake Shemp:
  • Subverted in Justice League. The ending shows a group of thieves tied up in the Lasso of Hestia while in the background, an out-of-focus woman in big sunglasses who looks and dresses like Diana but isn't played by Gal Gadot quietly walks away. The audience is supposed to think Diana has just committed another act of heroism and is now once again quietly retreating back into the shadows, until the camera pans out to reveal that Wonder Woman stuck around to talk to a group of children.
  • Played straight in the season 1 finale of Peacemaker.
• The Fashionista: As Diana Prince she's clearly become this, as she's never anything less than stylish. And no matter what the era, she's avoided being a fashion tragedy.
• Fish out of Water: In her solo film, where she brandishes ancient weapons in public, has trouble walking through a revolving door, asks Steve about why people hold hands, and finds 1910s dresses impractical for combat. She's long since adjusted by the time of Batman v Superman.
• Foil: Initially, Diana believes in the inherent goodness of Man, and that all their conflictive nature is due to Ares's influence. Ares believes that Man is inherently monstrous, and doesn't believe they're capable of good. At the end of her first solo film, Diana finally reaches a synthesis and accepts that one cannot behold one aspect without the other to truly understand them.
• Friend to All Children: She goes from serious Lady of War to fawning over the sight of a baby in only a couple of seconds.
• Genius Bruiser: She's an excellent tactician, probably exceeding Batman himself, and has the superhuman strength to back it up.
• Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: She believes that the humans are only fighting The Great War because of Ares' influence, and that he corrupted them into fighting one another, but after Ares reveals himself as the British politician Sir Patrick Morgan, he reveals to them that he only gave the humans tools and ideas to kill as their personal muse. The humans themselves chose to listen and follow Ares' influences.
• Gorgeous Greek: Well, "Ancient Greek mythology being" to be precise, but still is an easy head-turner.
• Hand Blast: More like Wrist Blast, but by clashing her bracelets she can unleash a blast of orange energy that can send enemies flying or even shield herself. She accidentally first uses this when sparring with Antiope, causing the others to look at her in fear. Probably because it's a power from being the Semi-Divine daughter of Zeus.
• Healing Factor:
  • A Downplayed version, but present. After she gets grazed by a bullet during a skirmish with the Germans in her titular film, an Amazonian doctor bandages the wound but decides to treat it after attending to her more wounded comrades. Later that same night, the doctor takes off the bandage to get to work only to find that the only trace of the wound is a slight bloodstain on the bandage.
  • Its effectiveness improves significantly in 1984, as her injuries heal almost immediately after Steve convinces Diana to renounce her wish and take back her powers.
• The Heart: The mere (honesty-lasso-enforced) mention by Steve of how twenty-five million people have been killed by the Great War, including women and children, was enough to drive Tender Tears from her kind heart, and compel her to join in fighting The Great War.
• Her Heart Will Go On: Despite Steve's death, she declares to Ares that she will continue to fight for justice and defend humanity.
• Heroic BSoD: When Steve tells her that war basically comes from the free will of all those who choose to take part instead of just Ares' influence, Diana almost can't process this and refuses to help him stop Dr. Poison's plan to gas London.
• Honor Before Reason: In the trenches of Belgium's No-Man's Land, Diana listens with horror and sadness from a local woman of the woes war brings to the town of Veld; and in spite of a pressing mission to destroy a German poison gas factory, could not betray her conscience and compassion any longer:
  Steve: We can't save everyone in this war! It's not what we are here to do!
  Diana: No... But it's what I am going to do! (then she charges by herself into the rain of gunfire that is no-man's land to liberate the town)
• Hot Librarian: Well, museum curator, art restorer and art expert, but she is nonetheless a good looking woman whose line of work is the preservation and providence of knowledge.
• Humans Are the Real Monsters: The reason why she retires. She saw what mortal humans were capable of in World War I, and gave up on them, although she relents about a century later.
• Humans Are Flawed: What she basically tells to Ares, when he's making his point about Humans Are Bastards and Humans Are the Real Monsters. She concedes he is correct, but also insists that they're capable of loving too and more than just violence and evil.
• Hypocrite: In the theatrical version of Justice League, when she tells Batman that he has to let go of Superman's death, Batman calls her out by asking if Steve Trevor told her that, resulting in Diana pushing him in anger. It appears that she still holds on to what happened exactly 100 years ago. She despises man's hypocrisy, yet considering her hypocrisy above, she ain’t much better. WW84 subverts this by revealing that she had unwittingly used the Dreamstone to bring Steve back 66 years after he had died. It did so by by drawing his soul into another man's body, and taking her powers and some of her morality with it as a consequence, to the point where she was reluctant to give him up to save the world. She already knew the consequences of trying to manipulate life and death, and didn't want history to repeat itself.
• Iconic Sequel Character: Does not appear in the DCEU until its second film entry.
• Ideal Hero: Her decision to participate in the Great War was out of a sense of duty to protect the world, and that was the only motivation she needed. Even after WWI, she never stops being a hero and continues to be a protector in secret for decades.
  Queen Hippolyta: There's so much... so much you do not understand.
  Diana Prince: I understand enough that I'm willing to fight for those who cannot fight for themselves. Like you once did.
  Queen Hippolyta: You know that if you choose to leave, you may never return.
  Diana Prince: ... Who will I be if I stay?
• Identical Stranger: On a parallel world seen in the Serving up Justice comic miniseries, there is a Diana Prince who looks exactly like Wonder Woman, but instead of being an Amazon she's a human.
• I Know Your True Name: Calls the newly resurrected and angry Superman by his birth name "Kal-El, last son of Krypton" in an attempt to bring him back to his senses. It doesn't work but points for trying.
• Immortality Begins at Twenty: She has stopped growing and aging when looking like a 30-year old. Sixty-six years have passed since World War I in Wonder Woman 1984 and close to a century at the time of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and she still looks like she's in her early 30's.
• In a Single Bound: She can perform superhuman jumps.
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Despite witnessing the horrors of World War I and the evils humanity is capable of, she refuses to succumb to her grief and despair and her faith in humanity's inherent goodness could not be broken by Ares.
• Innocence Lost: The Wonder Woman film shows how World War I and Ares smashed her illusions about humanity.
• Innocent Fanservice Girl: Has no reservations about running around Europe in 1918 wearing what could be considered underwear at the time.
• Interspecies Romance: She (Half-Amazon, Half-Olympian God) had a brief, but deep romance with Steve Trevor (human).
• It Was with You All Along: After disintegrating the God-Killer Sword, Ares tells Diana that she herself is the God-Killer due to being the daughter of Zeus, and being able to kill him because of said divinity.
• Jade-Colored Glasses: Not as volatile as Batman, but her experiences during the Great War and whatever happens to her in 1984 convinced her that being a hero does more harm than good. Then Doomsday appears and she realises that she can't keep running and hiding. Once she sees Bruce's contrition in the wake of Superman's death and then Bruce recovers the old photo of her WWI comrades (most pertinently, of Steve Trevor), she decides to dispense with the jade glasses entirely.
• Journey to Find Oneself: Her first adventure in the world of man during World War I counts as this. She learns why she was conceived, and decides her own destiny in said world.
• The Joy of First Flight: Following Steve's advice, Diana is able to learn how to fly in 1984. As she flew the first time, she looks calm and peaceful and is finally be able to let go of Steve's death especailly since she has to give him up again for the second time.
• Kill the God: She was created to destroy Ares, who had already killed the other gods of Olympus. She accomplishes this at the end of her first solo film.
• Lady in Red: She was introduced in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice wearing a sexy but classy red dress. It could also be argued that her superhero costume also counts, given its Stripperiffic nature.
• Lady Land: Themyscira, the place she's from, serves as the Trope Codifier as the Land of the Amazons.
• Lady Legionnaire Wear: In her armor her upper thighs are covered by pteruges.
• Lady of War: Befitting her status as the Princess of Themyscira, Diana is dignified, sophisticated, and graceful, as well as an unparalleled warrior who fights with techniques refined from centuries of Amazonian training to complement her superhuman strength. Geoff Johns considers her the best fighter in the DC universe.
• Laser-Guided Tyke-Bomb: Her solo film reveals her to be the god killer, a living weapon created by Zeus to destroy Ares. As a result of this Antiope disobeyed Hippolyta's wishes and trained Diana from a young age so that she would live up to this and defeat Ares.
• Last of Her Kind: With Ares dead, she is the last of the Greek gods left alive on Earth. Technically Athena is still alive but only as a mortal after being depowered. This becomes a Deus ex Machina in Shazam: Fury of the Gods when she is able to restore the Staff of Shazam with her power.
• Last-Second Word Swap: How her alias is created. When she is introduced to Sir Patrick Morgan, she's about to casually reveal her true identity. Steve Trevor interrupts her and makes her alias up on the spot.
  Diana: Diana, princess of Themys...
  Steve: Prince, Diana Prince.
• Leeroy Jenkins: Diana was raised to be a warrior, and is naive about modern conventions and the scale of the Great War, so she primarily solves problems she encounters by attacking the closest bad guy, and believes she can end the war simply by defeating Ares. She has since become much more patient and cautious after the war.
• Leitmotif:
  • "Is She With You", meant to symbolize an elegant, regal, mysterious presence that transforms into power in the right situation. Notably, the softer variations played during her solo scenes were not officially released.
  • Her solo movie gives her another leitmotif, which mostly makes up "Amazons of Themyscira". Used as a sort of fanfare at about 2:44 after her standard theme in "Wonder Woman's Wrath".
• Lightning Bruiser: Being superhumanly strong and lithe, and she can employ graceful maneuvers and powerful blows at high-speed. Being Semi-Divine, she also can take several hard hits and keep going.
• Living Lie Detector: Wonder Woman's lasso compels anyone bound by it to speak only the absolute truth and obey her every command, otherwise It Burns! those caught in it. In 1984, Diana states that the lasso is empowered by the literal concept of truth, meaning that as long as truth exists, the lasso will always have power, even when there is no god to represent the concept of truth.
• Loved by All: As a child, she was simply adored by every Amazon on the island, mainly because she was the only child on the island.
• Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: She wields a circular shield she uses to protect herself from gunfire in No-Man's Land and even deflects a mortar shell.
• Made of Indestructium:
  • Her silver vambraces can withstand and deflect all manner of high-speed projectiles from bullets to laser beams. Zigzagged with herself; she can take blunt impacts fairly well (if nowhere near to the same extent as Superman), but she actively dodges piercing objects like bullets and blades, and was actually bleeding after a skirmish with the Germans on the Themysciran beach.
  • The Lasso of Truth is strong enough to restrain even Doomsday without breaking.
• Male Might, Female Finesse: Compared to Superman, she's a more agile and precise fighter who uses melee weapons whereas Superman uses raw power from massive flight momentum and bare fists. Justified as Diana's former life before becoming Wonder Woman was as an Amazon being constantly drilled in combat in anticipation of an equally strong/stronger opponent. As such, she brings several thousand years of experience and technique refinement along with her natural strength. Superman is depicted as being in his thirties and has only needed to use his full power in combat a few times, and never had formal training.
  • Averted in comparison to other humans and even other superheroes and metahumans, obviously, since she was probably the strongest and most physically powerful metahuman operating in the human world before Supes showed up, which is shown amply in Wonder Woman, wherein she works with an all-male team consisting of a spy, a con man, a sharp-shooter, and a smuggler. When she and her friends need to cross No Man's Land, the men plan to wait for a safe window to sneak across. Diana? She charges straight into the teeth of the German machine guns.
• Master Swordsman: This incarnation of Wonder Woman uses a sword as her primary weapon, and has had centuries of training to master wielding it. She probably would have killed Doomsday with her sheer swordsmanship if not for its ridiculous Healing Factor.
• Meaningful Name: Diana Prince is (Amazonian) royalty. Steve Trevor interrupts her and quickly gives her the name, when Diana is about to tell Sir Patrick Morgan who she really is.
• Ms. Fanservice: While her superhero outfit is comparatively more modest than her comic book incarnation, its still very revealing in its own right, which stands out during 1910's London in her first movie. Her first two appearances in Batman v Superman have her in revealing evening wear with imaginative décolletage and sporting a Navel-Deep Neckline, which are Lampshaded by Bruce
  Bruce Wayne: You know a girl with that dress 9 out of 10 men would let you get away with anything.
  • Played with in her solo film: her outfit is definitely alluring, but she wears it because more elaborate armor would be too restrictive in combat. Her first comment on wearing a more modest 20th-century dress is "How are you supposed to fight in this?"
  • Furthermore, Patty Jenkins avoided Male Gaze when filming her. However there are several occasions In-Universe when men are Distracted by the Sexy in her presence, even when she's not wearing her Stripperiffic combat outfit.
• Neutral No Longer: The Amazons, who used to guard and guide humanity, have become isolationist after they were enslaved by people in the outside world for trying to spread their philosophies of peace. Diana chooses to leave their domain because her conscience won't let her stand by idly after hearing Steve's recanting of the war horrors. What she goes through during World War I causes her to drop the idea to an extent, only for her to jump back in action to protect the Earth once more when new planetary threats arise almost one century later.
• Nice Girl: Back in World War I, Diana was a soft-hearted and compassionate woman who would not tolerate the death of even a single innocent life for the so-called "greater good". The war made her lose most of her ingenuity and illusions and she became quite jaded during the century that followed, but she's still a force of good at heart.
• Non-Human Humanoid Hybrid: She's a Olympian/Amazon hybrid and has the appearance of a human just like the two species.
• Noodle Incident: Wonder Woman's first encounter with Doctor Cyber happened offscreen, as the Serving up Justice comic inferred. Presumably it was sometime after the Justice League formed.
• Not Quite Flight: She can jump extremely far distances and somewhat float when channeling her divine powers, but she can't fly. At least until she decides to test what Steve told her about flying planes and learns to actually fly, giving her full Flying Brick status.
• Number Two: The first member of the Justice League to be recruited by Batman in the aftermath of Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice. She then helps him recruit the others.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome:
  • Word of God confirms she was the one who apprehended Slipknot. Considering that she is a demigod going against a normal man armed with only ropes, it couldn't have been much of a fight.
  • She (literally) jumps back in action in full costume at the end of Wonder Woman for an unseen superheroic deed in Paris as the film cuts to the end credits.
  • All the heroic deeds she accomplished between World War I and the 1980s.
• Oh, Crap!: Has this reaction when she performs a full force Shield Bash on Superman in Justice League in an attempt to incapacitate him. He doesn't budge an inch. She has a similar reaction when she tries to restrain him with her lasso - when he even slightly pulls back with one arm, she offers literally no resistance before being dragged despite attempting to resist with both arms and her legs braced against the ground.
  • She also has one in Wonder Woman upon discovering that Sir Patrick is Ares, not Ludendorff. It's downplayed because of how completely stunned she is, but still there. Even more apparent, when Ares effortlessly stops the "God Killer".
• Omniglot: She claims to speak hundreds of languages. On-screen, she is shown to speak at least English, Spanish, French, Greek, Mandarin, German, and Flemish and she can read Sumerian and Ottoman Turkish.
• Only Sane Woman: Calls Batman out on his paranoid assumption she was his enemy.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Diana is normally very well-composed, but even she can't help but jump away in shock after she observes the inscriptions of the ring that was on the Dreamstone and recognizes them as being written in "the language of the gods".
• Physical Goddess: She is the last child of Zeus, created to destroy other gods. During the fight against Doomsday, she was fighting solo for a good duration.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Downplayed but still there when she joins the Justice League. Gal Gadot is 5'10" and in-universe is visibly shorter than Superman, Batman and Aquaman whose actors are all over six feet tall. She's still got Super-Strength that's outclassed only by Superman.
• The Power of Love: After remembering Steve's sacrifice, she fully awakens her divine powers which are fueled by love and compassion rather than rage and violence, allowing her to erect a force-field that protects her from Ares' attacks and to fully destroy him by redirecting his lightning back to him.
• Proud Warrior Race: The Amazons were born and raised as warriors, and Diana was trained to be the greatest warrior of all the Amazons. Despite her pride in her upbringing and enjoyment of a good fight, as seen during her battle with Doomsday, she abhors war, and joins Steve in ending World War I to save innocent lives.
• Primary-Color Champion: Her iconic red and blue suit.
• Really 700 Years Old: She's 5000 years old, but doesn't look her actual age one bit.
• Red Is Heroic: Per the norm, she is a Primary-Color Champion but red is the most prominent color of her superhero costume.
• Restored My Faith in Humanity: Superman's Heroic Sacrifice at the end of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice inspires Wonder Woman to return to active heroism, convinced that humanity is still worth protecting. By Justice League, she is working with Batman to assemble the titular group to defeat Steppenwolf's forces.
• Retired Badass: Wonder Woman has been MIA between the events of her eponymous film and Batman v Superman, as Diana has only been around in the human world as "Diana Prince". By the climax of Batman v Superman and Justice League, she returns to active duty.
• Ride the Lightning: At one point Diana is seen using her Lasso of Truth to swing in the sky using lightning bolts to hook the Lasso on while she is learning to fly.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: In Zack Snyder's Justice League, she correctly theorizes that Aquaman/Arthur Curry is of mixed blood, but because she incorrectly believes that Atlanteans are all water-breathers unless they have surface dweller blood. This is shown to be wrong even in the film, as Mera and multiple other Atlanteans are shown breathing air and none are mixed-blood. Aquaman reveals that it's actually because he's high-born thanks to his mother. High-born status seems to include royalty, royal servants and workers, and high-ranking guards.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Briefly, but after Steve's Heroic Sacrifice she angrily smashes a legion of German soldiers and nearly kills Dr. Poison in vengeance. She ultimately resists to Ares' temptation and reaffirms her faith in humanity.
• Royal Blood: Her mother is the Queen of the Amazons and Diana is technically her heiress.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: She's the Princess of Themyscira, and she doesn't hesitate to throw herself into World War I to help humanity put an end to it. She succeeds in doing so but steps away from doing it again out of hopelessness; a century later, she changes her mind and returns to action.
• Samaritan Syndrome: In Wonder Woman she is fully aware of the unique position her powers place her in, and strives to help people as much as she can. She almost single-handedly saves an entire town of imprisoned people solely because a crying woman told her about them.
• Screaming Warrior: Belts out battle cries in Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice and Wonder Woman.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Much like her DC Animated Universe counterpart, the contest is Adapted Out and instead, Diana was told by Hippolyta not to interfere in a crisis. Diana's response is to ignore said edict, takes some armor and weapons, and go out to do something about it.
• Second Episode Introduction: Introduced to the DCEU in its second film entry.
• Secret Identity: In the human world, she goes by the identity of an art restorer named "Diana Prince". She adopted said name after Steve Trevor made it up during World War I to help her blend in more easily.
• Semi-Divine: Daughter of Zeus, much like the New 52 version. She is a demigoddess that can kill other gods.
• Sexy Backless Outfit: Her cocktail dresses in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice shows her back prominently. Her blue dress she uses to infiltrate Ludendorff's gala also qualifies.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: She's quite the stunner in the blue dress she wears to the German gala, as both Ludendorff and Steve notice. Granted, she wasn't exactly plain-looking to begin with.
• She's Back: She jumps into action to help humanity one century after she dropped the idea out of despair when she joins Superman and Batman in fighting Doomsday.
• She Who Fights Monsters: When Steve Trevor dies, she goes berserk and starts attacking anyone and anything in sight, echoing what she was led to believe was the bloodthirsty nature of Ares. Pulls herself back when she remembers the nature of Steve's sacrifice.
• Shield Bash: She wields a shield and one-handed swords, and can use the former to attack.
  • In Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, she uses her shield to make Doomsday trip, with Superman slamming him on the ground.
  • In Wonder Woman, she kicks some German soldiers' ass with her shield when she decides to liberate the town of Veld. She also breaks a Maxim machine gun with it after successfully crossing the No Man's Land under a rain of bullets.
• Shock and Awe: She is able to wield lightning, due to her goddess heritage as Zeus's daughter, though she generally uses it in a non-offensive manner. She deflected it at Ares in the first film, and the second film had her swinging from it like Spider-Man.
• Shockwave Clap: She can slam her vambraces together to fire off a blast wave powerful enough to send even Doomsday reeling. She first discovers this while accidentally injuring Antiope in her final match of training, making it her first manifested superpower.
• Signature Headgear: Her tiara, which she inherited from Antiope.
• Signature Move: She seems to prefer going for the legs, sweeping them out from under her foe with a sweeping low kick so they crash into a heap on the floor. She even does it to Doomsday, with a Shield Bash instead of a sweeping low kick.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Diana fell in love with the brave, selfless, and kind-hearted Steve Trevor.
• Skilled, but Naive: Her fighting prowess has been sharpened to a razor's edge by her aunt, Antiope, and all the other Amazon warriors... but she is still a complete Fish out of Water in the human world when she first sets out into it. By modern time, she's had 100 years living in it to become savvy to it.
• Skipping School: As a child, she loved to run away from her tutors to see the Amazon warriors training, dreaming of becoming like them.
• Sleeves Are for Wimps: Both her gold armor and her red & blue armor leave her arms bare.
• The Smurfette Principle: She's the only female member of the Justice League in that universe by the time of Justice League, although the League has Lois Lane as a female ally. Despite this; in Superman's absence, she's very much the team's heavy-hitter.
• Spin to Deflect Stuff: She spins her Lasso of Truth around with incredible timing and precision to stop the projectiles Ares throws at her during the Final Battle in Wonder Woman.
• Squee: She's in full "AWWW! A Baby!" mode when she sees a child for the very first time, and goes straight to coddling it before Steve Trevor stops her.
• Statuesque Stunner: As is always the case. Wonder Woman is very beautiful and is 5'10" tall.
• Stone Wall: Among other things, she takes this roll in WWI, taking the attention of mortar fire, snipers, an entire trench arsenal, and even a god, so her allies can work in relative safety.
• Stripperiffic: Steve and his friends even discuss the revealing nature of Diana's battle gear. Although by no means a Chainmail Bikini, it definitely shows more skin than the protective gear of soldiers during World War I.
  Steve: She's not exactly undercover!
  Sameer: I dunno, I'd say she was pretty undercover on the battlefield.
  Charlie: *snerk!*
• Strong and Skilled: Has martial combat skill to match her incredible strength.
• Superheroine: The Trope Codifier for female superheroes, for the first time in live-action movies.
• Super-Reflexes: Needed to make use of her bracers Made of Indestructium to deflect bullets. She first learns of this ability during the German beach storming of Themyscira in a Bullet Time scene, watching the flight of a bullet as it passes by and hits an Amazon behind her, and she also dodges a bullet in Justice League. Her super reflexes are also demonstrated when she uses the Lasso of Truth to intercept the projectiles Ares throws at her during the Final Battle in Wonder Woman.
• Super-Speed: She's nowhere near as fast as Superman, let alone the Flash, but she is still capable of superhuman speed to some degree. She's fast enough to deflect an automatic weapon's shots with her Super-Reflexes.
• Super-Strength: She's very strong, if nowhere near on par with yellow sun-powered Kryptonians.
  • In the showdown with Doomsday, she has a strong enough sword-arm to instantly stop a jumping smash from Doomsday and then (with a sharp enough sword) cut through Kryptonian flesh; in one instance, completely dismembering Doomsday's hand. She even wrangled Doomsday with the Lasso, though she was at her limit even after Batman shot his last kryptonite gas grenade into Doomsday's face. Notably, Doomsday still manages to break out of the Lasso after said Kryptonite grenade significantly weakens him, indicating that while she's very strong, she's nowhere near Superman's level.
  • The first instance of her Super-Strength in her title movie is when she was punching handholds into the vault tower's walls to scale it.
  • During her onslaught into the village of Veld, she punches a German armored car so hard that she puts a big dent in the armor facing and flips the vehicle into the air and landing upside-down to neutralize it completely. Then she jumps right into the town's church's bell tower to get rid of a German sniper and obliterates it.
  • During the Final Battle against Ares, she lifts a British Mark IV tank (which weighed around 29 tons), though she visibly strains to do so.
  • Justice League shows she's nowhere near as strong as Superman, when he's resurrected and angry. He manages to overpower Wonder Woman, Aquaman and Cyborg combined.
• Takes One to Kill One: It turns out that she herself, being semi-divine, is the god killer alluded to in the prophecy.
• Talking the Monster to Death: This is ultimately how she thwarts Maxwell Lord, as he's siphoning off stamina from enough people so that he'd easily recover from physical attacks. In a variation of this trope, her speech isn't directed at him specifically but broadcast to the entire human race.
• Technical Pacifist: She wants to end the war that plagues humanity in 1918, and she kicks much ass to reach that goal, sometimes even using lethal force. According to Word of God she takes no pleasure in killing and only uses it as a last resort.
• Tender Tears: Shed quite easily for the suffering of innocents, such is her kindness and compassion.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: Also averted. Wonder Woman never had an explicit code against killing in the comics, and she doesn't hesitate to bash, smash, and slice her way through dozens of German Mooks long before eventually impaling Ludendorff in WWI, though according to director Patty Jenkins, she does it only as a last resort.
• Throwing Your Shield Always Works: She throws her shield at another Amazon at some point during a training session in Wonder Woman.
• Token Super: She's the only one with superpowers in Steve Trevor's team in 1918.
• Took a Level in Badass: Her origin film shows how she started off as a naive, inexperienced princess and transforms into one of the most skilled warriors and powerful beings in the universe.
• Took a Level in Cynic: World War I and to a greater extent, whatever happens to her in the 80's, left her disillusioned with her role as a champion of humanity and jaded, and that's why she appears to be less cheerful in Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice compared to her first venture in the human world, and it's not until the end of that movie that she changes her mind.
  • Except Diana ends her first and second movies still having faith in humanity, which is not consistent with her statement about abandoning humanity 100 years ago. This is especially jarring because she has lived through World War II and the Cold War, events that could reasonably make her more cynical to humanity. This is likely because of a difference in ideas between directors (assuming Diana didn't go through varying opinions as the decades passed).
• Took a Level in Idealism: After helping Superman and Batman to defeat Doomsday (and after the former's Heroic Sacrifice), she feels the need to protect the world once again and helps Bruce/Batman to form the Justice League.
  Diana: They said the age of heroes would never come again.
• Tragic Keepsake:
  • Her tiara, as it previously belonged to her beloved aunt and mentor, Antiope, until she took the bullet for Diana during the German attack on Themyscira.
  • Steve gives her his watch before he sacrifices himself to stop Dr. Poison's gas weapon. At the end of her film's flashback it's revealed she still keeps it with her almost a century after.
  • Her Diana Prince alias may also count since Steve was the one who thought of it.
• Training from Hell: Her mother Queen Hippolyta initially refused to have Diana trained, then once faced with the inevitable she had her trained by Antiope, the most accomplished Amazon warrior. Hippolyta didn't expect anything less from Diana than surpassing Antiope, and specifically asked to have her trained "harder than any Amazon before her," which made Diana the great warrior she is.
• Twofer Token Minority: Unlike past versions of Wonder Woman, this one has Gal Gadot's natural Israeli accent, making her stand out as this trope for the "Big Three" starting lineup and the eventual Justice League.^note We know Superman is the only alien among them, but being raised in Kansas he's no less American than Batman.
• Villain Killer: Rounds out the Big Three, who are all this trope. For her, she's killed the false Big Bad of her own film, General Ludendorff and the actual Big Bad of her own film Ares. She doesn't kill anyone in Wonder Woman 1984, but she goes right back to this in Zack Snyder's Justice League, killing off a whole group of terrorists in the first act, and then decapitating Steppenwolf himself after being set up for it by Aquaman and Superman.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: Something enrages her more than apathy, cowardice, and hypocrisy combined: being disrespectful to Steve Trevor, as Batman finds out the hard way in Justice League.
• Warrior Princess: She is the Princess of Themyscira, an ancient island of warrior women who specialize in combat and diplomacy. Turns out to be an Invoked Trope when revealed that Zeus intentionally sired her in Hippolyta so that she would one day become the powerful warrior needed to defeat Ares.
• Weapon Stomp: In the final battle with Steppenwolf, she stomps on her sword with her left foot and catches it in her right hand, without breaking stride.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: Diana was certain that Ares was behind World War I and that once he was killed his influence on humanity would disappear immediately and they would no longer fight and wage war. She then discovers from Steve and Ares that Humans Are Flawed. This left her jaded and caused her to stop being a public superhero for nearly a century.
• Wonder Child: Pun aside, she's the only child of the Amazons courtesy of Zeus, who (so Hippolyta says) brought her to life after Hippolyta sculpted a baby out of clay. In truth, Zeus and Hippolyta created Diana through much more traditional methods, making her wunderkind-ness due to her being Semi-Divine.
• World's Best Warrior: She was trained by her aunt Antiope, who is thought to be the best fighter in the history of Themyscira, to be the greatest warrior of the Amazons in order to defeat Ares. By the end of her training, her mentor's smirk indicates she finally considers her so. And after her experiences in World War I, having discovered her powers as a demigoddess and defeated the god of war, she's solidified herself as this. Not only is she the best female fighter thus far in the DC Extended Universe, trained for centuries since youth to be the strongest of the Amazons, she's one of the best fighters in The 'Verse, period.
• Wrecked Weapon: Diana's Godkiller sword gets melted by Ares instantly and effortlessly to show her that it wasn't the weapon Zeus created to kill the God of War. She is.
• Xenafication: Like most Post-Crisis comics, her Amazon Warrior roots are played up, she fights with a shield and a sword and she kills some of her foes. Director Patty Jenkins deliberately wanted to avert this trope in Wonder Woman 1984, however. She's still an effective fighter, but not as vicious as in other films.
• You Killed My Father: Downplayed. Even though Diana killed Ares, her half-brother and the one who is responsible for the death of their father, her action was based on saving the world instead of enacting vengeance.

Aquaman

King Arthur Curry of Atlantis / Aquaman

"Ask the sea for mercy!"

^{Click here to see him unarmored}
"A strong man is strongest alone, never heard that?"

^{Click here to see him wearing his Justice League outfit} "Fighting the Devil and his army in Hell."

Species: Human-Atlantean hybrid

Citizenship: American, Atlantean

Affiliation(s): Justice League, Atlantis (Royal Family)

Portrayed By: Jason Momoa, Kekoa Kekumano (age 16), Otis Dhanji (age 13), Kaan Guldur (age 9), Tainui & Tamor Kirkwood (age 3)

Voiced By: Enrique Cervantes (Latin-American Spanish), Hiroki Yasumoto (Japanese/adult), Ayumu Murase (Japanese/young), Xavier Fagnon (European French), Louis-Philippe Dandenault (Canadian French), Francisco Júnior (Brazilian Portuguese)

Film Appearances: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Justice League | Aquaman | Zack Snyder's Justice League | The Flash | Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom

Appearances in Other Media: Peacemaker | The Adventures of Aquaman & Mera | DC's Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom Special

"I'm nobody. I came 'cause I have no choice. I came to save my home and the people that I love... And if that's not good enough, then screw you!"

Arthur Curry is the crown prince of Atlantis and protector of the oceans. He was born from an Atlantean royalty mother, Queen Atlanna, and a human father, lighthouse keeper Thomas Curry.

He grew up away from Atlantis, and although he trained with his Atlantean mentor Nuidis Vulko, Arthur resented his heritage from there, preferring to help a remote and poor human village in Iceland and remain under the radar. Then a second invasion of Earth by forces from Apokolips and a lecture by the Xebellian princess Mera compelled him to become a hero to the whole world.

After joining the Justice League and repelling said invasion, he was called upon by Mera and Vulko once more to claim his royal heritage to protect both the kingdoms of the Seven Seas and the human world from the folly of his half-brother Orm. He found the legendary trident of King Atlan that grants tremendous powers over the ocean, defeated Orm and became the new king of Atlantis. However, he also inadvertently created a deadly enemy in the form of Black Manta, who is hellbent on Aquaman's destruction.

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• Achilles' Heel: Steel weapons from the surface world cannot hurt him, but Atlantean steel weapons can, as he finds out when fighting Black Manta.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: Blond in the comics and most media. Here, it's blond and dark brown to accommodate the Race Lift.
• Adaptational Hairstyle Change: Traditionally, Aquaman's hair is usually very short in the comics, but he has Barbarian Long Hair thanks to Jason Momoa keeping his hair length. It helps that Aquaman famously adopted this look in the 90s with sporadic future appearances.
• Adaptation Name Change: Aquaman's Atlantean name, Orin, from the comics and other media has been Adapted Out for this incarnation of the character with him only going by his given name of Arthur or his codename. When he becomes King of Atlantis, he's announced as King Arthur, keeping the name his father gave him. Though it is worth noting that the name "Orin" did not emerge until the 90's.
• Adaptation Personality Change: Much like in Batman: The Brave and the Bold, this Aquaman is more of a Boisterous Bruiser.
• Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: While usually portrayed as allies and friends, Arthur and Barry Allen have been shown interacting pretty often when they appear in Peacemaker and The Flash, suggesting a much closer Vitriolic Best Buds relationship than they have in the comics.
• Age Lift: In the comics, Arthur is around his mid-20s when he becomes Aquaman and helps form the Justice League. Here, he's a founding member of the League when he's in his early-to-mid 30s.
• All of the Other Reindeer: Most Atlanteans shun him because he's the son of their disgraced queen and a human, considering him a mongrel "half-breed". Arthur returns the favor by resenting them for ordering his mom's execution because of their Blue-and-Orange Morality.
• Alternate Self: He has these on Earth-Prime, Earth-9, Earth-167 and Earth-N52.
• Amazon Chaser:
  • In the theatrical cut of Justice League, when he's accidentally sitting on Diana's Lasso of Truth, he goes off on a tangent about how "gorgeous, fierce, and strong" he thinks she is.
  • Mera is also gorgeous and fierce.
• Amplifier Artifact: The Trident of Atlan supercharges Arthur's ability to speak to sea creatures when he claims it allowing him to command the Karathen, the Atlantean army's own shark-mounts, and even The Trench.
• Ancestral Weapon: The quindent Aquaman carried in Justice League originally belonged to his mother. The Trident of Atlan is implied to also be Arthur's by birthright, since his ability to communicate with sea life was a shared trait with Atlan.
• Anonymous Benefactor: In the winter, he helps a poor village in Iceland get food, bringing them fish from the sea. In exchange, the villagers are his secret keepers (they seemingly don't know his identity anyway, given how far he was born).
• Anti-Hero: While a good man at heart, Aquaman tends to get portrayed as being the guy the audience is meant to disagree with when contrasted against more idealistic characters. His noble side only kicks in when he fully realises just how big the threat is, such as when Steppenwolf invaded Earth and Orm declared war on the surface.
• Apparently Human Merfolk: There's very little to visually distinguish him from a human apart from the fact that he can breathe underwater and swim faster than a human ever could.
• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Becomes the King of Atlantis at the end of Aquaman. He damn deserves it after what he went through, and that’s not even counting his deeds during Steppenwolf’s second invasion of Earth!
• Awesome Moment of Crowning: Arthur gets the traditional scenario after besting Orm in combat for all of the kingdoms to see, but his true moment of crowning occurred earlier when he first grasped the Trident of Atlan, as being able to wield the weapon makes Arthur King of the Sea by providence.
• Barbarian Longhair: Arthur's got long dark hair with streaks of blond.
• Bestiality Is Depraved: He obviously doesn't engage in this, but a rumor that pops around frequently in Peacemaker (2022) is that he fucks fish. He voices his displeasure for the rumor when he makes a cameo appearance in the show's season 1 finale, when Peacemaker himself tells him to do just that, and when Barry Allen tells him it is no rumor, he just says "Fuck you, Barry."
• Big Damn Heroes: He does this quite a bit, despite acting like he doesn't care.
  • Arthur swoops in to block Steppenwolf's axe when he overpowers Mera.
  • He then saves the rest of the Justice League from drowning after Steppenwolf floods the tunnel they're fighting in.
  • When Jesse Kane and his pirates attack a submarine, Arthur shows up and curb-stomps all of them.
  • Just as Orm starts his attack on the Brine kingdom, Aquaman reappears riding the Karathen and wielding the Trident of Atlan.
  • Ultimately subverted in Peacemaker (2022) where he and the Justice League arrive too late to help the crew in taking out the Butterflies and their Cow, when Peacemaker and the others have already taken them all down.
• Big Brother Instinct: Defied. Arthur was very much enthusiastic when he found out he had a little brother and hoped to meet him one day to assure to him that he wasn't alone. Much to his disappointment, Orm turned out to be quite a dick.
• Black Sheep: Despite being the son of an Atlantean queen, Arthur is shunned by ocean-dwellers with the exceptions of Vulko and Mera. He's later accepted as their king when he shows up with the Trident of Atlan.
• Blood Knight: Arthur shows quite the enjoyment when fighting along with his several thrill-seeking antics where he is shown having a blast when going up against powerful foes. One key example is when he skewers parademons while plummeting from the sky.
• Boisterous Bruiser: He's quite hilariously gung-ho and devil-may-care when kicking ass in the Final Battle of Justice League, and tends to shout "YEEEHAA!" when jumping from heights, most often in battle.
• Boke and Tsukkomi Routine: During the trek through the Sahara Desert to find an Atlantean outpost, Arthur acts like a mouthy goofball over every little thing while Mera can only roll her eyes at his childish nature.
• Brought to You by the Letter "S": His belt buckle's symbol is shaped like an "A", as in "Aquaman". It appears to be a symbol associated with ancient Atlantis - Mera's belt buckle is the same shape, as is the point on the lower end of the Spear of Atlan.
• Brutal Honesty: Forcibly invoked when he sits on Wonder Woman's Lasso of Truth.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: David Kane/Black Manta considers Aquaman to be his arch-nemesis, but Aquaman sees him as little more than another bad guy to beat up, at least until he gets upgrades courtesy of Orm.
• The Call Knows Where You Live: He refuses to come with Mera to Atlantis to reclaim the throne initially. Then a tsunami caused by Orm hits his birth town and almost kills his father, which changes his mind.
• Cain and Abel: Aquaman and Ocean Master are half brothers and they come to blows. Interestingly, they can both be seen as "Abels" because both of them are loyal sons to their respective fathers and work for the good of their own home/culture.
• The Cavalry Arrives Late: He and the rest of the Justice League (sans Batman and Cyborg) arrive too little too late in the finale of Peacemaker (2022) with Peacemaker himself directly cursing out Arthur as he passes by him.
• Character Development: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League show him as something of a loner, not working as a hero and mostly helping out those in need in seaside cities and towns. When Bruce comes to see him, he isn't overly impressed and it is only after a What the Hell, Hero? by Mera that Arthur starts his path into becoming a greater hero by helping Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Flash, and Cyborg in defeating Steppenwolf. This continues into Aquaman where he is now much more confident as a superhero, becoming a "celebrity" in the process, and after Mera finds him yet again and both go after a trident that could help turn the tide against Arthur's brother Orm's war against surface dwellers, Arthur has fully become what he has meant to be.
• Character Tics: Hitting the ground with the back-end of his trident.
• Characterization Marches On: In both cuts of Justice League, he expresses nothing but hatred and bitterness towards Atlanna whenever she's mentioned on top of his contempt towards Atlantis. In Aquaman, however, he loves her and never says so much as a bad word against her; in fact, his hatred for Atlantis is mainly motivated by them having her executed for the "crime" of his existence.
  • Zack Snyder's Justice League implies that his attitude towards his mother changed after seeing how distraught Cyborg was over his father's death. Most notably, he's the only member of the League who makes his sympathies clear while the rest are focused on the bigger picture.
• Chick Magnet: Several attractive women in the remote Icelandic village he's helping sing a lament for him as leaves. Although untranslated the lyrics are quite clear about their feelings for him and one of them smells the coat he left behind on the shore.
• Child of Two Worlds: Of Atlantis and human civilization, which is lampshaded several times in his namesake movie.
• The Chosen One: Zig-Zagged a bit in the movie. While it was prophesied that a king would emerge to use Atlan's trident and unite the kingdoms, it doesn't specifically mention who it would be or the details surrounding their identity. Arthur just happened to fit the criteria of being able to use the trident and command the sea. If Orm hadn't decided to start conquering the other ocean kingdoms and start a war with the surface, Arthur would have never had any reason to claim his birthright given his disdain for Atlantis. He eventually becomes a king who will unite the surviving kingdoms of the seas in peace, unlike Orm, who subjugates other kingdoms through threats of war.
• Combat Pragmatist: During the battle on the fishing boat he kills a pair of Trenchers with a harpoon and stabs another in both eyes before tossing it overboard.
• Composite Character: Seems to incorporate elements of both the "hook and beard" era of Aquaman, and his New 52 incarnation. There's also a few OUTRAGEOUS! characteristics pertaining to his Large Ham depiction in Batman: The Brave and the Bold counterpart, given how gung-ho he is in the fights against Parademons. There are even some nods to his Super Friends incarnation.
• Costume Evolution:
  • The suit he dons in both versions of Justice League is Atlantean battle armor, the same kind that was worn by the unnamed Atlantean king during the first battle against Steppenwolf in ancient times. What he did of that suit after the Justice League defeated Steppenwolf is unknown.
  • He dons a gladiator-like armor when challenging Orm in a duel for the throne of Atlantis.
  • He eventually dons a royal Atlantean suit, a golden top and green pants suit that's the closest to the comics. Much of this outfit was salvaged from King Atlan's long lost armor, which Arthur finds still being worn by the remains of Atlan that still hold onto the Trident.
• Create Your Own Villain: While David Kane was certainly no angel, what with being a murderous pirate and scavenger, it was Arthur's decision to let Kane's father die while Kane begged him for help that caused him to devote his life to enacting revenge on Arthur, and becoming Black Manta. Arthur acknowledges this after suffering the consequences.
• Creepy Blue Eyes: Has very pale (almost white) eyes that are heavily contrasted against his swarthy features. Undersea footage in Batman v Superman shows they're also bioluminescent, like those of many deep-water creatures.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Played With, Arthur comes off as kind of a buffoon at first but he's far from an idiot and is actually a very competent fighter.
• Cultured Badass: Thanks to his father, he's well-versed in ancient history, and can identify major Roman figures by their statues.
  • He's also quite the linguist, knowing at least five different languages, including Icelandic and Russian. Or at least he knows enough to get by.
• Deadpan Snarker: "I'm missing happy hour for this."
• Death Glare: He's got quite the "Don't piss me off!" expression on his face when Bruce Wayne meets him for the first time, but mellows out considerably afterwards.
• Defrosting Ice King:
  • He's got a perma-Death Glare and exhibits Good is Not Nice behavior when we first meet Bruce Wayne, but loosens up after joining the Justice League.
  • When meeting some of his fans in a bar, he acts a bit put out at first, but eventually starts partying enthusiastically with them.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Arthur is easily overpowered by the Karathen. He manages to stump her by revealing that he can speak to sea life, which he punctuates with a "screw you".
• Early-Bird Cameo:
  • In Man of Steel. While not making a physical appearance on screen, rumor has it those whales showing up and helping Clark ashore after saving rig workers from an exploding oil platform was his handiwork.
  • In Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. He's seen on archive footage emerging from a boat wreckage and destroying an underwater drone before propelling himself in the water the same way Superman takes off in the sky.
  • In The Stinger of Suicide Squad, his file and photo appear in the documents Amanda Waller hands to Bruce Wayne as they conclude their deal.
• Establishing Character Moment:
  • In his first appearance, he's seen destroying an underwater drone.
  • Another testament would be the rumor surrounding Man of Steel. Word of God says a precariously convenient pod of whales just happened by while Kal was adrift in the ocean, near crude-contaminated waters no less, now who could've been behind that?
  • The first thing he is seen doing in adulthood in Aquaman is the rescue of a Russian submarine that's being hijacked by Jesse Kane's gang of Submarine Pirates.
• Fish out of Water: Literally inverted. Aquaman is amphibious but due to spending most of his life on land, he's not used to fighting underwater which puts him at a severe disadvantage during his first fight with Orm.
• Foil: For Wonder Woman. Diana grew up royalty in a society long forgotten by the world and believed to be an ancient Greek myth, then came to the outside world where she pretends to be an ordinary person. She came into the modern world full of idealism and learns that people aren't as perfect as she always thought. Arthur was raised in the normal world as the son of a lighthouse keeper then became royalty in a society long forgotten by the world and believed to be an ancient Greek myth. He started out with nothing but contempt for Atlantis and its people, but eventually came to stop hating them.
• Genius Bruiser: Arthur possesses a wealth of knowledge pertaining to (at the very least) Mediterranean history and he has working knowledge of at least four foreign languages.
• The Ghost: Word of God implies that he was the one who sent the whales to rescue Clark in Man of Steel, but he does not appear in the film.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom:
  • His eyes light up when he's trawling the ocean depths.
  • As a child, his eyes were also glowing when he started communicating with sea life.
• Good is Not Nice:
  • He helps a downtrodden Icelandic coastal town enough to earn a reputation as a kind stranger who brings fish when the tide sets in... and yet is more than willing to slam Bruce Wayne up against a wall when slighted. Likewise, after saving a fisherman whose boat got wrecked by Parademons, he simply drops him on a bar table without caring any further (mostly for being dumb enough to fish during a storm).
  • In Aquaman, he has no problem leaving David Kane and his father trapped behind to drown (he later does realize that not showing David and his father mercy resulted in him making himself a new dangerous enemy).
• Half-Breed Discrimination: Everyone in Atlantis, with the exception of Vulko and, of course, Atlanna, look down on Arthur for his half-human heritage, although Mera eventually gets better after spending enough time with him on the surface.
• Half-Human Hybrid: Half-human, half-Atlantean. He is the son of Thomas Curry, a human lighthouse operator, and Atlanna, a fugitive Atlantean queen.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: Most people (including Batman) find talking to fish a rather weak power. Arthur shows otherwise as he is able to command all forms of life in the water, ranging from sharks, whales to the Trench and even the Karathen once he gets King Atlan's trident.
• Heavyworlder: His strength and durability come from the fact that he and his fellow Atlanteans acquired this power from the scientific incident that sunk Atlantis.
• Heroes Prefer Swords: Parodied. When being trained as a boy Arthur asks if he can get a sword instead of his mother's trident. Vulko tells him that the trident is the traditional weapon of Atlantean royalty, so that's what he's getting, period.
• Heroic Bastard: His brother Orm never fails to remind him that he was conceived out of wedlock and almost acts as if that's Arthur's own fault.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Despite his gruff exterior, he reveals insecurities about living between two worlds and never fully embracing who he can be. Of course he reveals this while sitting on the Lasso of Truth.
  • His movies shows that although he thinks with his fists first, Arthur is also fluent in several languages, some rather esoteric (English, Atlantean, Russian, Italian and Icelandic, at a bare minimum) and that he's knowledgeable in history, easily recognizing statues of Roman historical figures and what they did in life.
  • He also has some knowledge of marine biology as befitted a person who spends most of his time underwater: this comes in handy when he realizes that the creatures of the Trench, having lived in the dark trenches on the ocean floor, would be very sensitive to light, and so he carries multiple flares with him as he and Mera travel to the ocean floor, using the flares to keep the swarm of Trench people away.
• Hunk: Between the weathered tan, rugged beard and chiseled physique, he checks every box for this.
• Hybrid Power: He's notably stronger than any of the pure blooded Atlanteans when they're unarmored. He's capable of taking on 3 highly skilled and armored soldiers. After he's captured it takes six other Atlanteans to hold his chains, and they are struggling the entire time. Orm seems to be closer to him in strength, but is a challenge more for his skill at underwater combat than being able to match his brother in raw strength.
• Iconic Sequel Character: Wasn't introduced in the DCEU until its second film entry.
• Icy Blue Eyes: His eye color intentionally looks very unnatural (i.e., Momoa always wears pale blue contacts when playing Arthur.)
• Idiot Hero: Admits this midway through his movie; he's used to just beating down his problems with his fists, and that's why he kept getting his ass kicked. Character Development ensues, and he starts thinking and listening to Mera more, becoming a far more effective hero.
• Immune to Bullets: Against Manta's pirates, he took an assault rifle bullet without harm which surprised both Aquaman and the pirate. After that Arthur still stuck with using the steel hatch he tore off as a shield. Also, while bullets don't do serious damage to him, full auto fire seems to cause him enough pain to stagger him (as seen when he fights Black Manta for the first time), so he can't No-Sell machinegun fire in the same way Superman can.
• In a Single Bound: His strength extends to his legs, allowing him to leap incredible distances. It lets him to keep pace with the rest of the Justice League when they charge Steppenwolf's base, culminating in a spectacular group shot.
• Insistent Terminology: It's fish-man, not fish boy.
• Invisibility Cloak: In Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, he dons a black suit which grants him invisibility, for his mission to break Orm out of his imprisonment.
• I Work Alone: His initial attitude when approached by Batman. He even quotes a saying to that effect, which Bruce actually points out means the opposite of what Arthur believes it means. He eventually grows out of it.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Arthur is a gruff and cynical loner who initially refuses Bruce's offer to join the League, yet he still dedicates his life to the fishing village because he believes no one else would help them. As he joins the heroes, he acts like a Sour Supporter, though he genuinely admires the other members' idealism.
• Knight in Sour Armor: Arthur's Establishing Character Moment in both versions of Justice League has Bruce Wayne speak of his charitable deeds towards an Icelandic village - with the locals' admiratiion of him backing this up - and Arthur shoots down Bruce's request for an allegiance because he prefers to keep to himself.
• Kubrick Stare: Due to having a distrustful view of people - along with abnormally bright eyes for a man of his ethnicity - it's Arthur's default expression.
• Large and in Charge: He's the ruler of Atlantis and stands at an imposing 6"4.
• Large Ham: Jason Momoa is clearly having a blast playing the character.
• Leitmotif: "Arthur". It has regal horns over synths and guitars, and basically embodies everything every Aquaman has ever been.
• Lightning Bruiser: He's huge, very strong and he moves with surprising speed. This trope really comes into play when he's underwater when he can move at incredible speeds and hit like a truck.
• Lower-Class Lout: Noble heritage notwithstanding, Arthur is a blunt-and-boisterous beer-guzzling jock who is prone to raucous-laughter and vulgar-humor, making him a liability at a Duchess' party but the star of any pub crawl.
• Making a Splash: The Quindent grants Arthur some powers over water, such as stopping a flood long enough for the rest of the League to escape the tunnels after Steppenwolf trapped them there.
• Manly Facial Hair: He sports a beard based on his "barbarian phase" in the comic books, and surely has the badassery to match.
• Meaningful Name: Named after King Arthur, another legendary king with a special destiny. Coincidentally he was given it during the arrival of Hurricane Arthur, another unstoppable maritime force.
• Messianic Archetype: Similar to Superman, Aquaman has a few parallels, albeit a more Kung-Fu Jesus variety as opposed to Superman's Greater-Scope Paragon version. Aside from looking the part, he provides starving masses with fish, has "There is a Kingdom" play right before he goes diving, is imbued with a mystical power that only the king of his people may inherit and is treated like an outcast by a monarchy that takes influence from Greek and Roman cultures.
• Missing Mom: His mother, Queen Atlanna, was sacrificed to the Trench for being in love with his human father, and was believed to be dead for many years.
• Mr. Fanservice: He goes topless quite a bit, due to being a swimmer.
• Mr. Vice Guy: Arthur loves to drink. After saving a fisherman he drops him off at a seaside bar, helps himself to a free drink and tells the bartender that his rescuee will pay the bill. He also tells an entire submarine's worth of crewmen that he's missing Happy Hour for their benefit.
• Precision F-Strike: He responds to Barry saying that he fucks fish was true in their cameo appearance in Peacemaker (2022) is a resounding:
  Fuck you, Barry
• Nature Hero: Self-describes himself as "Protector of the Deep" when his reign as king of Atlantis starts.
• Nerves of Steel: Subverted. When he notices that Superman isn’t quite all there after being revived from death, he starts internally panicking and this is quickly noticed by Cyborg and Supes himself.
• The Nicknamer: Quite a creative mind when it comes to it too. Called Vulko "Cobra Kai" and Mera "Fight Club" (specifically when she threatened to hit him in the Sahara)
• Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: On land, Aquaman is one of the most powerful heroes alive. However, as all Atlanteans evolved super strength and durability to survive crushing ocean depths, when captured by Orm, two grunts are able to hold him down, albeit with difficulty. Also, as Aquaman has spent most of his life on land, he's literally out of his element when fighting underwater which allows Orm to curb stomp him in their first fight.
• Not in This for Your Revolution:
  • He pulls this early in Justice League. Batman tries to get him to help defend the Earth, if not for all Earth than at least the villagers who he helps out in secret. Aquaman simply shrugs this aside. When Batman points out the environmental impact of Steppenwolf's armies, Arthur says that if the world was covered in ocean, it wouldn't be so bad for him.
  Batman: And what will you do when the oceans boil?
  • In Aquaman, he doesn't really care about Atlantis at first. He's going up against Orm because Orm and Atlantis are a threat to his home and father. It's only later (after reuniting with his mother) that he accepts his duty to Atlantis as well.
• Omniglot: He can speak English, Icelandic, Italian, Atlantean and Russian.
• Outside Ride: He climbs on the Batmobile for a ride during the Final Battle in Justice League.
• Papa Wolf: He arrived just in time to save his son Arthur Curry, Jr. from being sacrificed by Black Manta by throwing his trident at Black Manta's helmet.
  Get away from my son!
• Pay Evil unto Evil: After they hijacked a submarine and killed parts of its crew, Arthur had no problems whatsoever with leaving Jesse and David Kane behind to drown. He would have let them both escape, but when Jesse shoots at him, he pins him underneath a torpedo and ignores his son's pleas for help.
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Before he leaves Jesse Kane to his death in spite of his son's insistence, he gives a Shut Up, Hannibal! and tells him, "You ask the sea for mercy."
• Prodigal Hero: He avoided returning to Atlantis for quite some time, until the day Steppenwolf showed up. Then Mera actively pushed him to reclaim the throne.
• Prongs of Poseidon: He has two variations on this; His mother's quindent and later on the Trident of Atlan.
• Properly Paranoid: He destroys drones that get too close to him and slams Batman against a wall when he starts prying. Given how poorly people have reacted to metahumans in some of the movies, his desire to keep his own existence a secret is entirely reasonable. Then he dropped this after Justice League, as his existence is now public knowledge.
• Psychic Link: He can telepathically communicate with nearby sea creatures. Atlan's trident amplifies this power, granting him a psychic link to sea creatures at a much greater range and allowing him to command them all at once.
• Race Lift: Aquaman has been white in most incarnations. Jason Momoa has Hawaiian, European and Native American ancestry, and Arthur is Polynesian (possibly Hawaiian) on his dad's side. It makes his half-breed status more prevalent among the (mostly) white Atlanteans.
• Raised by Humans: He was abandoned by his Atlantean mother Atlanna and raised by his human father, Thomas Curry. For this reason, most Atlanteans scorn him as one more "surface dweller".
• Refusal of the Call: He doesn't have much interest in ruling Atlantis or in helping Bruce Wayne (Batman) protect the world, at least at first. Mera talks him out of this, motivating him to both join the Justice League in the eponymous film and claim the throne of Atlantis in Aquaman.
  Vulko: [throws Atlanna's trident to Arthur's feet] You can't turn your back on the world forever, Arthur. Above or below.
• Refuse to Rescue the Disliked: Arthur makes no attempt to rescue both Jesse and David Kane from drowning, since the two had murdered a bunch of innocent Russian sailors and Jesse tried to shoot at him when he gave them a chance to escape.
• Reluctant Ruler: The prospect of ruling Atlantis realy doesn't appeal to him, but he sets out to do it nonetheless, after Orm fires warning shots on the surface world.
• Required Secondary Powers: Many of them, with the logical explanation that they're necessary biological traits that all Atlanteans have evolved in order to be able to survive in the ocean, where the dangers include high water pressure, low-light conditions, and extreme cold. Arthur has Super-Strength, his skin is highly resistant to conventional human weapons (blades can't piece or slice him, and he's bulletproof against small firearms), he has extremely high physical durability and endurance, can see perfectly well in the dark, and has no problem swimming in frigid waters with little clothing.
• Ret-Gone: Briefly in The Flash, after Barry messes with the past and creates an alternate timeline where Thomas Curry never met Atlanna, and Arthur was never born as a result. The post-credits scene however reveals the timeline is fixed and Arthur is back as usual.
• Rightful King Returns: He sets out to claim the throne of Atlantis with Mera's support in order to put an end to Orm's plan to use the armies of the remaining Atlantean kingdoms for war against the surface world. He's the elder of the two brothers, so it belongs to him by birthright.
• Royal Bastard: He's son of the Queen of Atlantis, Atlanna, and a lighthouse keeper.
• Royal Blood: He is the son of Atlanna, queen of Atlantis.
• Screw You, Elves!: Towards Atlanteans. It takes Mera saving his father from drowning and his mother actually being alive for him to let go of his grudge against them.
• Second Episode Introduction: Introduced to the DCEU in its second film entry via recorded underwater footage.
• Shirtless Scene: Justified when he doesn't wear a battle suit, since casual surface clothes serve next to no purpose underwater (his body resists cold and water pressure) other than covering his legs and what's between.
  • The footage cameo scene from Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice shows he was shirtless when confronting the underwater robot.
  • There are also two of them in Justice League: one when he warms up to the idea of joining the League, and one other when he encounters Steppenwolf underwater.
  • In Aquaman, he rescues a Russian submarine from Jesse Kane's pirate gang shirtless, and he's brought before Orm shirtless and in chains.
• Sour Supporter: He is cynical and generally thinks the worst of any situation in Justice League. He believes most of the League's actions are pointless, yet he joins anyway because he admires the other members' dedication to their ideals, and also because Mera gave him a good dose of What the Hell, Hero?.
• Speaks Fluent Animal: He can telepathically communicate with sea life and Atlan's trident amplifies this. It is a huge case of Heart Is an Awesome Power, since Arthur can communicate with all life forms of the sea, compelling sharks to protect him as a kid, befriending a whale so that he and Mera can hide inside its mouth, or communicate with the Karathen, the most terrible sea monster on the planet, and ask it to fight by his side. This seems to be a result of half-human heritage as none of the other Atlanteans have this power; Mera is completely shocked when he uses it to have a whale rescue them from Orm.
• Story-Breaker Power: When Arthur gets his hand on the Trident of Atlan, he uses it to singlehandlely turn the tide of the battle between the Brine and Orm's army by using the Trident to turn sea mounts against their masters, control the nigh-invulnerable kaiju-sized monster Karathen and even the Always Chaotic Evil Trench people to brutal efficiency.
• Strong, but Unskilled: Arthur is trained in underwater combat and weapon fighting but he spends half his time on the surface, giving him a disadvantage among elite Atlanteans like Orm who spent all their time fighting underwater and with Atlantean weapons. He can still hold his own, but repeatedly said to be literally "out of his element."
• Supernatural Gold Eyes: If Arthur really draws out his Atlantean powers, then his eyes glow gold. It happens first when he talks to the fish in an aquarium, but another impressive moment is when Arthur controls an entire army of sea creatures to fight the Altantean army.
• Super Not-Drowning Skills: He can breathe normally underwater like all Atlanteans.
• Super-Strength: In order to resist the water pressure and swim as fast as they normally do, all Atlanteans are much stronger and more crush-resistant than normal humans, and in this regard, Aquaman's Atlantean genes apparently prevailed since he's half-human. He can lift a human effortlessly or trade some punches with Steppenwolf for instance, but he's not as strong as Superman. Possibly in combination with his Making a Splash powers he manages to bring a submarine out of the water. In the submarine, he effortlessly tears through its heavy metal doors.
• Super-Toughness:
  • He can take blows from Superman and Steppenwolf and keep coming, to say nothing of the fact that he can survive the crushing depths of the ocean.
  • He can take a 5.56mm bullet at point blank range with no harm, take a parachute-less fall from a plane, shrug off grenades, and survive a plasma beam that blew up a hill with only severe burn injuries, but not without getting projected backwards.
• Takes Ten to Hold: When Arthur is captured and knocked unconscious by his half-brother's men, he later awakens to find himself chained to the ground before Orm and the rest of Atlantis' High-Born, with five guards on the other end of the chains struggling to keep him still. He very nearly snaps the chains and easily overpowers the guards when Orm begins talking about their mother...
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Jason Momoa is 6'4.
• Tall, Dark, and Snarky: Jason Momoa played on his imposing physical appearance with the character.
• This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: The trope-namer himself. Aquaman shows just how awesome the ability to talk to fish can be in his solo film.
  • During a trip to the aquarium in his childhood, Arthur intimdates some bullies by calling on a great white shark.
  • When Arthur and Mera go on the lam, Arthur summons a blue whale to provide them a hiding spot in its mouth. Said whale also transports them to safety.
  • When Arthur was overpowered by the Karathen, he revealed that he can talk to her. Taken aback, the Karathen allows him a chance at claiming the Trident of Atlan.
  • Aquaman shows up during the attack on the Brine Kingdom with legions of sea creatures. they overwhelm the tech-based armies.
  • Even before his own movie, Arthur's superpower helped out in smaller yet practical ways. He lured schools of fish to an Icelandic village to keep the locals from starving.
• Thrill Seeker: The man whoops and hollers when he's doing death-defying stunts.
• Took a Level in Kindness: He's a gruff Jerk with a Heart of Gold when he's first introduced in Justice League but over the course of both it and Aquaman he mellows out considerably as he discovers the truth about his past and comes to terms with his bitterness towards Atlantis.
• The Unchosen One: What Arthur is closer to than the Chosen One. While Arthur did fit the criteria to be the chosen one of the ancient Atlantian prophecy about a king who will unite the ocean kingdoms, several outside events had to occur to make it happen and these events were in no way guaranteed to happen. Orm needed to not only become king but also forcefully unite the kingdoms and attack the surface world. Arthur needed to find where King Atlan's trident was hidden, and Arthur needed to overcome the giant sea monster to gain the trident. On top of all of this, Arthur was was adamant about his Refusal of the Call and if things hadn't happened in just the right way, he would have never gone on his journey to seek out his birthright.
• Unknown Rival: Towards the future Black Manta. He doesn't know or care who the guy is, despite Manta having anticipated meeting him for a while.
  Arthur: Am I supposed to know who you are?
  Manta: I scavenge the high seas. You’re the Aquaman. We were bound to meet at some point.
  [They fight, and Arthur gets the upper hand.]
  Arthur: Let's not make it a habit.
• Verbal Tic: Arthur has a habit of saying "how 'bout that" when something catches his interest.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Arthur and Barry have a bit of this going on. The two are rarely shown being chummy, but they're rarely hostile towards each other.
  Aquaman: I'm getting really fucking tired of that (fish-fucking) rumor.
  The Flash: It's not a rumor.
  Aquaman: Fuck you, Barry.
  (both snicker)
• Warrior Poet: Arthur shows a philosophical side on several occasions. He justifies his lone wolf status to Bruce Wayne with a quote by Friedrich Schiller, shows skepticism towards reviving a dead Superman using a mixture of binary logic and a quote from Hamlet and mentions his father telling him of an Atlantean saying about how resurrecting the dead always comes with a cost.
• When All You Have Is a Hammer…: His character development in his titular film is him overcoming this. He soon realizes that he's in way over his head and his standard solution of violence isn't cutting it anymore.
• Wolverine Wannabe: Arthur's not a million miles away from the most famous of the X-Men. He's a gruff loner with wild hair, abnormal abilities - including superhuman strength and durability - and a romantic arc with a superpowered redhead. His trident also echoes Wolverine's three-pronged claws.
• Wonder Child: As the son of an Atlantean Queen and a human; he has all the abilities of your average Atlantean plus his ability to speak and communicate to marine life which is very unusual, as Mera is completely shocked when he gets help from a whale to hide them from Orm. In the film Aquaman, this is implied to be not completely unique, but a very rare trait that King Atlan also had.
• Wrecked Weapon: Orm shatters Atlanna's quindent during his first match with Arthur. Arthur would return the favour after gaining Atlan's trident
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: He frequently gets this from Mera. For all of his bravado and thrill seeking he's racked with insecurities about his worthiness to become king of Atlantis, though he gets over it with enough of Mera's encouragement.
• You Killed My Mother: Arthur resents the Atlanteans for sacrificing his mother to the Trench, that is until he finds out that she is still alive.
• Your Tradition Is Not Mine: Arthur makes it no secret that he cares little for Atlantean customs, seeing them as little more than violent elitists. By far the most impressive take on this trope is when he defeats Orm, leaving the latter begging for an honourable death, to which Aquaman spares his life as a demonstration of his moral superiority.

The Flash

Bartholomew Henry "Barry" Allen / The Flash

"Make your own future. Make your own past. It's all... right.. now!"

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"It's like this layer of dimensional reality that seems to manipulate space-time. I call it the Speed Force."

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Species: Enhanced human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Justice League, Central City Police Department

Portrayed By: Ezra Miller, Ian Loh (young)

Voiced By: Arturo Castañeda (Latin-American Spanish), Masumi Mutsuda (European Spanish), Chikahiro Kobayashi [Batman v. Superman-Suicide Squad], Yoshimasa Hosoya [Justice League] (Japanese), Gauthier Battoue (European French), Gabriel Lessard [Batman v. Superman], Nicholas Savard-L'Herbier [Suicide Squad], Louis-Philippe Berthiaume [Justice League] (Canadian French), Charles Emmanuel (Brazilian Portuguese)

Film Appearances: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Suicide Squad | Justice League | Zack Snyder's Justice League | The Flash

Appearances in Other Media: Crisis on Infinite Earths: Hour Four | Peacemaker | The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive | DC's Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom Special

"I don't like to break this rule, but when I approach the speed of light, crazy things happen to time. But if I do it, I create massive electrical power."

Barry Allen is a young forensics major who developed superhuman speed after being struck by lightning. He uses his gifts to protect Central City as "The Flash" and does everything in his power to prove the innocence of his father, who has been accused of murdering his mother. He battled the likes of bank robber Captain Boomerang and idolized other heroes like Superman and Batman.

Barry enthusiastically joined the Justice League to help counter the plans of the New God Steppenwolf, the New God Darkseid, as well as reviving the deceased Superman. Sometime later, he also met a version of himself from another universe who was experiencing a great crisis.

After struggling to maintain a double life while dealing with the crime escalation in Central City, Barry would eventually find himself going on a new adventure across time and dimensions alongside an alternate version of Batman, as well as Supergirl... and himself.

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: Blonde in the comics, but much like every other Live-Action Adaptation of him, he's brunette here. This even applies to the lighting that emanates from him when he uses his powers, which is traditionally yellow, but blue here.
• Adaptational Backstory Change:
  • Played with. In most adaptations, Barry was working in the police crime lab (in some fashion) when he is struck by lightning. Here, he gets the "worst job in a crime lab" at the end of Justice League (both versions).
  • He is of Spanish descent through his mother Nora (who spoke and sang to him in Spanish in his youth, cooked dishes from the Mediterranean basin and is played by Spanish actress Maribel Verdú), which is not the case in the comics.
• Adaptational Curves: Inverted. Barry has the standard Heroic Build in the comics (though not as big as Clark and Bruce). Here, he has Geek Physiques similar (if not more so) to the Arrowverse version.
• Adaptational Diversity: In the comics, Barry was a blond White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. In the films, he is brunet and Jewish (much like his actor) with an Hispanic (albeit white) mother.
• Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: While usually portrayed as allies and friends, Barry and Arthur Curry have been shown interacting pretty often when they appear in Peacemaker and The Flash, suggesting a much closer Vitriolic Best Buds relationship than they have in the comics.
• Age Lift: In the comics, Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, and Aquaman are usually around the same age (early-to-mid 20s) at the start of their careers as superheroes. Here, Barry Allen is one of the youngest members with Clark, Bruce, and Arthur's respective ages ranging from their 30s to 40s and Diana being thousands of years old, and Barry's just started as the Flash.
• Alternate Company Equivalent: A youthful hero who gained his powers from a scientific fluke that wears a red bodysuit and is recruited by a wealthy middle-aged Badass Normal for his super-team? Not to mention tapping into the Multiverse and befriending his elseworlds' self? Sounds awfully familiar.
• Alternate Self:
  • He ends up showing up trapped in the Speed Force during Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019), running into the Barry Allen of what would become Earth-Prime (played by Grant Gustin). After a moment of confusion, he proceeds to get all touchy-feely over that Barry's costume and even shakes his hand, then vanishes. He even gets the inspiration for the moniker "The Flash" during the Crisis.
  • As this encounter sets the DCEU in the multiverse established by the Arrowverse, Barry also has a now deceased counterpart from Earth-90 and two on Earth-66 and Earth-N52.
  • Barry's solo movie The Flash just ignores the Arrowverse and its alternate world connections, but gives him a younger alternate timeline self within the DCEU itself after he changes his past and moves forward back to the not-quite present. But in terms of being "The Flash", Barry also sees an alternate Flash from another world or timeline that is not a version of him.
• Appropriated Appellation: His Arrowverse counterpart assumes that he calls himself "The Flash" at the time that they briefly meet — but up until that point, this Barry didn't actually have a superhero name. Upon hearing it, he repeats the name to himself, realizing that it's perfect for him.
• Arrow Catch: In their first meeting, he catches a Batarang that Bruce Wayne throws at him. Although it's probably more accurate to describe it as less "catching the Batarang," and as more "casually moving out of the way and plucking the Batarang out of the air."
• The Baby of the Bunch: He's in his twenties, but is still the most childish and dorkiest of the League. When describing him, Ezra Miller said: "Flash is Ringo Starr. He annoys everybody, but he doesn’t have any specific beef with anyone".
• Badass Adorable: A socially awkward young man who is nonetheless sweet, funny, bright and earnest, joining the Justice League to make friends as much as he joined it to fight evil.
• Berserk Button: Because of losing his mother at a young age, Barry doesn't take it kindly to people bringing up his mom in conversation. As his 2013 counterpart finds out after sarcastically calling him "Sorry, mom".
  "Shut up. SHUT UP! You have no idea how lucky you are! No idea! You take everything for granted! You don't even appreciate it! You just walk around, thinking you're so funny! And so cool! And it's embarassing! Because you're NOT! Any! Of those things!"
• Big Brother Mentor: Once the older Prime Barry is accidentally Brought Down to Normal after transferring his powers to the younger Alternate Barry, the former acts as this for the latter when teaching him how to use his new abilities.
• Big Eater: Barry is seen scarfing down an entire pizza pie shortly after Bruce recruits him. Although he does briefly mention the Speed Force, he still states that he burns through massive amounts of calories.
  Barry:...so I am just a black hole of snacks. I am a snackhole!
• Blatant Lies: When Bruce meets him, he poorly tries to prevent Bruce from finding out about his "special abilities" by mentioning very mundane talents of his. Bruce then throws a batarang, and Barry is forced to use his speed to dodge it.
• Boxing Lessons for Superman: When supervillains start appearing in Cetral City, Barry goes to Bruce Wayne to learn how to fight. Part of his training is learning how to defend himself without relying on his super-speed to evade.
• Brainy Brunette: He's brunette and obtains a job as a genius forensic scientist.
• Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: Outside of his super speed, Barry is no more strong or durable than an ordinary human.
  • When Barry has to restrain Clark during his amnesiac rampage, he finds himself completely outmatched as Clark's super-durability repels the kinetic energy Barry directed at him, causing Barry to be blown off his feet.
  • Barry's attempt at dealing with metahuman criminals compels him to engage in fisticuffs, which leaves him badly mangled when dealing with Girder, whose superpower is having metal skin.
• The Cameo:
  • He puts Captain Boomerang behind bars in Suicide Squad.
  • He appears in Part IV of Crisis on Infinite Earths where a) he cements the DCEU into the Multiverse of live-action DC properties and b) gets the idea for his moniker "The Flash" from Earth-Prime's Barry Allen (Grant Gustin).
• Carpet of Virility: Barry has a generous amount of chest hair that's been present since his late teens, which is seen anytime his clothes get damaged by lightning.
• Cast from Calories: As explained in his "Snack Hole" speech, his super-speed comes with super-hunger.
• Character Development: When Barry first appeared, he was a loner desperate to have friends. The Bruce Wayne recruited him for the Justice League and Barry found himself being a little fish in a big pond. His solo movie shows Barry has now grown enough to form his own team of heroes, as well as becoming more serious in contrast to his peppy younger counterpart.
• Chest Insignia: Every Flash suit incorporates a circle overcut with a yellow lightning bolt.
• Chick Magnet: Iris West likes him, and three teenage girls totally geek out over meeting him, with one of the girls even telling him she loves him.
• Clear Their Name: His father Henry Allen has been accused of murdering his mother. Barry seeks to prove his father's innocence by any legal means necessary.
• Collapsible Helmet: The new Flash costume has a feature to retract the headpiece into a couple flaps on the back of his neck for a helmetless look.
• Composite Character: His name, origin and background come from Barry Allen, while his jokey personality and role as the team's Plucky Comic Relief are more traditionally linked to Wally West and his social awkwardness and Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny! personality is closer to Impulse (aka, the fourth Flash). The blue lightning is a possible reference to the New 52 Future Flash. His youthfulness and friendship with Cyborg also call to mind the New 52 version of Shazam!.
• Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: Barry is never referred to as "The Flash" during either cut of Justice League, until a surprise encounter with the Earth-Prime Barry Allen in Crisis on Infinite Earths reveals that he doesn't have a code name, but likes the sound of "The Flash" — confirming it will be an Appropriated Appellation for him, from himself.
• Costume Evolution: Courtesy of Bruce Wayne's off-the-books R&D department, the Flash has had a massive upgrade to his wardrobe. His new outfit is sleeker and more form-fitting, with glowing components and golden boots. Not to mention the ability to compress its whole mass into a single ring.
• The Coroner: At the end of Justice League, he starts working as a forensic scientist for the Central City Police Department to help his father, but also to make his father happy by moving up from dead-end jobs.
• The Cutie: How else do you describe a person who jumps with joy at the chance to be in a superhero team to make friends? And then asks to keep Bruce's Batarang and explores the Batcave with the biggest awe on his face? His bumbling reaction when left behind with Commissioner Gordon by the rest of the Justice League's Stealth Hi/Bye also qualifies. When the Justice League do their victory stance, Barry is glancing from side to side with a giddy look on his face while everyone else looks dignified.
• Deadpan Snarker: Given how he chooses to specify Bruce was sitting in his "second" favorite chair during their first conversation and seems to be lampshading Batman's Badass Normal status when asking what his superpowers are.
• Depower: Due to being caught in Alternate Barry's accident, Prime Barry loses his powers for awhile. He gets them back right before the final battle when he - with the help of Keaton-Bruce and Kara - recreates the incident that gave him his powers in the first place.
• Determinator: He will never give up on trying to prove his father's innocence to get him out of prison.
• Disappeared Dad: Barry's father Henry is in jail for the murder of his wife Nora (Barry's mother). Barry wants to clear his name, but has a hard time getting anyone to listen to him.
• Dork Knight: A excitable, awkward young man who nonetheless possesses an almost god-tier power.
• Early-Bird Cameo:
  • He makes two in Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice. The first is when his future counterpart arrives to warn Bruce Wayne about Superman and Lois. The second is in archive footage showing him stopping a convenience store robbery without anyone else noticing.
  • Barry would also cameo in Suicide Squad (2016) where he apprehends Captain Boomerang.
• Enhanced Punch: With some training from Bruce, Barry develops his boxing skills which when handled with precision allow him to deliver punches strong enough to obliterate everything ahead of Barry.
• Even the Guys Want Him: In the aforementioned scene where the teenage girls fangirl over him, there’s a teenage boy with them who’s just as happy to see him.
• The Everyman: Barry's the most relatable member of the team. He works dead-end jobs to pay for his tuition, idolizes Superman, is shy around gorgeous women, loves pizza, and is pumped to go on adventures with Batman.
• Fighter, Mage, Thief: In the first half of The Flash, he's the Thief to Alternate Barry's Mage and Batman's Fighter due to being Brought Down to Normal as a consequence for Alternate Barry to gain his Super-Speed, which forces Barry to rely on his wits and scientific knowledge for the time. After regaining his connection to the speed-force, Barry becomes the Mage alongside Alternate Barry to Batman's Thief and Kara's Fighter during the Kryptonian Invasion and is capable of using time travel to undo any mistakes and death in the battle.
• Finger Pokeof Doom: The Flash can blast through solid objects or send enemies flying just by tapping them while using the speed-force. Superman is one of the few beings that can withstand the energy and deflect it back at the Flash.
• Foil:
  • To Batman. Both have had to deal with their mothers being murdered, which galvanized them into becoming figures of justice. The difference is that Batman's "heroics" often amounted to little more than letting out his rage on designated targets, while the Flash is focused on being a problem solver. Additionally, Bruce Wayne maintains a celebrity profile while also keeping his personal life under wraps, while Barry is a nobody who doesn't hesitate to perform heroic deeds even when he's lacking his Flash costume.
  • He's an even stronger one for Cyborg. Both got their powers from lab accidents and have difficulty socializing, except the Flash gets along well with his father and is desperate for friends, while Cyborg has a strained relationship with his father and has to be coaxed into working with others.
• Fragile Speedster: Per the norm as with most incarnations of the Flash, Barry is insanely fast and can deal out immense tons of damage in seconds. However, something as minor as a bump in the road or a well-placed projectile can take him out of the fight. While Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and Cyborg can take a beating and Superman just no-sells everything, Flash is about as fragile as Batman despite his Super-Speed. When he tries using his super-speed to cherry tap Clark in his blindspot, the Flash fails to do anything outside of catapulting himself, since Clark is still far more durable than the Flash. Thankfully, he is capable of recovering from most injuries at an incredible rate.
• Geek Physiques: The Flash is quite thin due to having a superpower that burns up calories, which contrasts with some of the more muscular superheroes he interacts with. In his civilian attire, Barry wears baggy clothes that make him look smaller than he really is.
• Genius Bruiser: Barry is currently studying to pursue a career in criminal forensics and is intelligent enough to know what kind of material his frictionless suit needs to be made of to assemble it.
• Genki Guy: He's very energetic and enthusiastic.
• Gibbering Genius: Barry majored in criminal science and developed an extremely speed-resistant suit. He's also prone to stammering and other flubs in diction whenever he's out of his depth.
• Glass Cannon: His powers are close to Superman levels and he can deal out immense damage but his endurance is no greater than a normal person's. His healing ability makes life a bit easier for him but his recovery time is still quite slow compared to heroes with years of training. Also, when Barry goes up against someone with superhuman durability, he risks absorbing all the super-kinetic energy he releases with every touch, as seen when he tries shoving a crazed Superman only to send himself flying.
• Hero-Worshipper:
  • His shocked and awed reaction upon figuring out Bruce Wayne is Batman indicates he's a fan of Batman.
    "You're the Batman?!"
    [Sees the Batsignal] Oh, awesome! That's the Batsignal! That's your...(whispers) on, shh! Sorry-that's your signal. That means we have to go now!
  • Later on in Zack Snyder's Justice League, he admits that Superman was "his hero" upon unearthing the Man of Steel.
• Hotter and Sexier: His new suit is skintight and emphasizes the toned build of its wearer, complete with washboard abs.
• Hyperactive Metabolism: All that energy to power the Speed Force has to come from somewhere. Presumably one of the reasons he works 4 part-time jobs is to pay for the extra amount of food he needs.
• Iconic Sequel Character: The Flash does not appear in the DCEU until its second film entry.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: The need for friends is one of his motivations to accept Bruce's offer to join the League. The fact that his father is in jail might explain a lot about this, plus the fact that he's a secret vigilante superhero would inhibit his social life.
• Impossibly-Compact Folding: Alfred mentions that Bruce wanted to upgrade his batsuit with microcompression technology for faster prep time. By the time Alfred tells Barry about this, Bruce had already designed a suit with this tech for Barry that fits within a ring.
• Informed Judaism: Barry's …But He Sounds Handsome line reveals that he has a Jewish heritage.
• Intangibility: By vibrating his molecules, the Flash can make assume a non-solid form for short bursts, allowing him to phase through objects. He first demonstrates this power when phases through the Kryptonian ship that uses the rebirthing chamber to bring back Superman, going through a wall so fast he ends up through it on the other side, and in Zack Snyder's Justice League, when he phases through the explosion caused by the Mother Boxes' Unity. Sometime later he'd train himself to use this ability on command so he could fight particularly dangerous foes like Tar Pit.
• Ironic Echo: When Barry first met Bruce Wayne in Justice League, the former was being approached by the latter to join his team of heroes. In The Flash, Barry is the one who approaches Batman in the hopes of recruiting the Caped Crusader for his own team of heroes.
  "I'm gonna stop you right there. I'm in!"
  "Are you in?"
• Jumped at the Call: Barry didn't even bother waiting for Bruce to finish his pitch before accepting to join the Justice League.
• The Lab Rat: He becomes a forensic scientist at the end of both versions of Justice League.
• Lantern Jaw of Justice: It dwarfs Batman's and rivals even Superman's, thus visually showing a similarity despite his youth and awkwardness.
• Lightning Can Do Anything: He uses his connection to the Speed Force to generate electricity to jump-start a Mother Box inside the Kryptonian ship, which revives Superman. In the Snyder Cut he supercharges Cyborg in order for him to connect to the Unity.
• Living a Double Life: Barry struggles to maintain his superheroics while also working at the crime lab.
• Logical Weakness:
  • Blessed with super speed he may be, but the Flash is still physically an ordinary guy who doesn't work out as intensively as other superheroes. This means he's got limited self-control when in speed mode and has to restrain himself when in crowded scenarios so that he doesn't hurt bystanders with his bursts of power. He also gets knocked around a lot more than other superheroes due to not having as much bulk. In addition, due to his lack of battle experience, he's not used to dealing with the sorts of pain from relatively "minor" injuries that the other superheroes would shrug off.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Barry's cameo in Batman v Superman shows him with a ponytail, which by his own admission makes him look like a hippy. He's cut it short by the time he appears in Justice League, possibly so he could more easily don his Flash cowl.
• Mama's Boy: The one consistent constant through every version of Barry even a seemingly ungrateful Spoiled Brat who grew up with a happy and unbroken family, and the emotionally broken Dark Flash that one becomes obsessed with making everything right is their close and loving relationship with their mutual mother with what time they had, which serves as a source of limitless emotional strength that powers them through cosmic ordeals that would drive most mortals mad.
• Minor Injury Overreaction: For a given value of "minor", in both versions of Justice League, he reacts badly to the pain of getting his leg grazed by a stray energy blast by the Parademons. Justified considering that he is a rookie and hasn't gained any form of endurance to deal with these sorts of pains.
• Missing Mom: Barry's mother was murdered when he was just a boy. The blame was pinned on his father, which prompted Barry to find a career in criminal science so he could prove his father's innocence.
• Motor Mouth: Barry's the chattiest member of the Justice League.
• My Suit Is Also Super: This new suit is much more resistant to high speed impacts than the prototype. Barry demonstrates this by rapidly punching Girder at full power.
• Nerds Are Virgins: While attempting to free Batman from Wonder Woman's Lasso of Truth, he blurts, "I know sex exists, I've just never experienced it."
• Never Gets Fat: Barry's powers burn up calories at an accelerated rate, which explains why he has such a light build compared to the other men in the Justice League. Immediately after meeting with Bruce Wayne, he's seen carb-loading on pizza and explaining how this is normal for him. Being constantly hungry isn't the only downside, as the cost of tapping into the speed-force also means Barry can't bulk up and thus is one of the least durable members of the team.
• Nice Guy: He's a Socially Awkward Hero but at his core a kind and compassionate lad who strives to look after society in spite of his personal difficulty fitting properly into it.
• Noodle Incident: It's not clear how he wound up lost in the Speed Force during Crisis on Infinite Earths, nor is it clear if his Earth was destroyed and rebuilt during the Crisis (though it likely was). He isn't aware of the multiverse but says "I told Victor this was possible", implying he thought he time-traveled, before fading away.
• Not Wearing Tights: Zigzagged. The Flash stands out among other members of the Justice League in that his suit isn't meant to pay tribute to some fantastic culture or provide a theatrical image like Batman's. Barry's main reasons for wearing a costume are based on havng a set of clothes that can withstand extreme speeds and protecting his identity. His decison to wear red with gold decorations and a Chest Insignia do however show a degree of vanity, which could possibly have been influenced by his admiration of Batman and Superman.
• Odd Friendship:
  • He develops one with Cyborg in the director's cut, and the two are seen frequently joking around. This is despite Cyborg being a rather angry and depressed character, in contrast to Barry who is a bit more hyperactive because of his powers.
  • He ends up calling Batman his best friend in The Flash, despite him being a Badass Normal Old Superhero who is far more cynical.
  • Strangely, him and Aquaman seem pretty close despite their wildly different powers and backgrounds.
• Oh, Crap!: Barry is frequently scared, given that he's New Meat facing threats way past what he's used to dealing with.
  • He has such a reaction when seeing Steppenwolf killing some kidnapped scientists from S.T.A.R. Labs.
  • When a resurrection-sick Superman is fighting the League, Barry attempts to blindside him with his super speed... only to find out that Superman's still able to track him. The look on Barry's face is priceless. He then spends the next few seconds (in normal time) frantically dodging the freight trains that are Superman's fists.
• Parental Abandonment: His mother was killed by an unknown entity^note In the comics and most adaptations, it's Eobard Thawne, Barry's canonical Arch-Enemy and his father was framed for it and is currently in prison.
• Perma-Stubble: In Batman v Superman, Barry has an unkempt appearance, including in the Bad Future. He is clean-shaven in Justice League.
• Plucky Comic Relief: He's prone to joking around even in otherwise serious situations and in the trailers he has the most scenes of the team played for comedy. Early seen examples being his first reaction to Bruce's introduction is to point out what a poor first impression he's making (given the man broke into his home and has been waiting for him in the dark for who knows how long) and calling the rest of the team's use of a Stealth Hi/Bye "rude" despite his powers making him best suited for it.
• Pretty Boy: Although when first seen in the Batman v. Superman footage he's a Long-Haired Pretty Boy, by Justice League he's gotten a haircut.
• Primary-Color Champion: The Flash wears a red suit with yellow accents and emits blue lightning when he uses his powers.
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Barry's fair features are especially prominent in this more ethnically diverse take on the Justice League.
• Red Is Heroic: Barry's costumes are predominantly red. Since he was inspired by Superman, the choice of color might be a tribute to the Man of Steel.
• Red Ones Go Faster: Barry's the fastest member on the Justice League as well as the one with the most red in his costume. Bruce notes that his first suit was constructed with materials that can withstand superhuman speeds.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Plays the Blue Oni to his past self's Red Oni. He is relatively calm and focused on the mission, while past Barry is extremely excitable and focused on enjoying his new powers and the adventure.
• Relative Button: As Alternate Barry discovered, don't say "Mom" in a snide tone around him. Having witnessed his own mother's dying moments and his father being taken away, Barry has little tolerance for people who take their parents for granted.
• Renaissance Man: Before he becomes a forensic scientist, he mentions having various skills such as web design, gorilla sign language and the viola. In the Snyder Cut he also briefly shows some interest in linguistics.
• Running Gag: Despite his super-speed (or possibly because if you consider it a form of hubris), Barry has a habit of arriving late to any occasion. When the Justice League first met with Commissioner Gordon, the Flash was the only member who didn't perform a stealth bye. He (along with the rest of the Justice League) arrive too late to stop the butterfly invasion of Evergreen.
• Science Hero: Due to the nature of his powers, Barry has acquired an interest in physics. By the time Bruce Wayne finds him, Barry's already figured out that his super-speed can distort time and unleash explosive kinetic energy, not to mention building his own friction-resistant suit.
• Second Episode Introduction: Introduced to the DCEU in its second film entry via Bruce's "dream" and recorded footage.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Barry's the upbeat yet insecure Sensitive Guy to Bruce, Arthur and Victor's Manly Men.
• Socially Awkward Hero: Barry's main reason for joining the League? He needs friends.
• Speed Echoes: While training himself to better control his coordination, Barry discovers that he can create afterimages.
• Stepford Smiler: The Flash is the most upbeat member of the Justice League, yet he's afflicted by the same parental issues as they are. He lets his angst out when he's talking to his dad, showing that he's hurting just as much but simply responds better to the pain.
• Stereotypical Nerd: Barry's a gangly, creaky-voiced young adult with no social life, has an aptitude in science and web design, is shy around women, knows gorilla sign language and his interests include superheroes and Rick and Morty.
• Superhero: The Trope Codifier for speedster superheroes, for the first time in theatrically released live-action movies.
• Superheroes Wear Tights: After several years of wearing armor, the Flash eventually trades in his original suit for something that's simultaneously high-tech enough to handle his speed, while being much more form-fitting.
• Super-Speed: "The fastest man alive". He's fast enough to nonchalantly dodge a batarang thrown at him without warning and then catch the thing just as easily, and fast enough to scribble a person's face in an instant without the said person noticing it. He's also the only one of the Justice League that Superman was unable to directly hit when he Came Back Wrong.
• Super-Reflexes: When using the speed force he has accelerated reaction time. Ironically, Barry himself tends to be a little slow on the uptake, as seen when he's the only member of the Justice League to not pull a Stealth Bye on Commissioner Gordon.
• Super-Strength: Despite his thin frame, he's incredibly strong. He's able to break a window with a poke and send a Parademon flying with a push.
• Time Master: By running beyond the speed of light, Flash is capable of manipulating time in different ways such as time traveling or rewinding time.
• Tragic Time Traveler: The basis of The Flash (2023) involves him trying to pull a Flashpoint and travel back in time to save his mother from dying and prove his father isn't guilty. However, due to being knocked off course because of the Dark Flash, he ends up meeting his alternate self, and long story short, he eventually has to learn that his mother has to die to save everyone, and undoes his attempt to save her while his alternate self and Dark Flash take each other out, turning things back to normal until he discovers that Batman looks quite different from the alternate timeline and the one he met before, meaning he screwed up yet again.
• Tron Lines: The new Flash costume has glowing yellow trails emanating from the chest insignia.
• Two First Names: Per the DC Comics norm.
• Twofer Token Minority: He's Jewish and half-Hispanic. The third one is retrospective, given the casting of Barry Allen's mother.
• Unskilled, but Strong: His powers are among the strongest of the League, and with experience he could likely even outdo Superman. Unfortunately, he has zero combat experience, so the best he can do, in his own words, is "push some people and run away". The fact that Superman can even approach his speed puts Barry completely on the defensive.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Peacemaker reveals that the Flash has a bit of this going on with Aquaman. Flash snarks at the rumor that Aquaman is a zoophile, which earns him a "fuck you, Barry". The two then share a snigger.
• Wall Run: His speed allows him to run on walls. If he trips while doing so, he'll even tumble down walls completely divorced from gravity.
• Willfully Weak: When arresting Captain Boomerang in Suicide Squad he runs into him at a mere 28.1 miles per hour.
• Yellow Lightning, Blue Lightning: Barry generates blue lightning when he uses his speed, though his suits all have yellow lightning bolt decals on them.
• Younger and Hipper: Being in his early-20s, he is the second-youngest founding member of the Justice League.

Tropes Exclusive to ''Zack Snyder's Justice League

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• Adaptational Badass: Compared to the theatrical cut. Barry still has no combat experience, but he's no longer afraid of getting into the thick of things. The only reason he doesn't get too involved in the League's first major fight is because Batman tells him to focus on rescuing hostages, shortly after Barry blows away a Parademon just by tapping it. The only thing he has apprehensions about is running close to the speed of light.
• As You Know: His interaction with his father in the Snyder Cut gives us a lot of exposition into his backstory and motivation, which his father would already be privy to. It makes sense in context, as Barry is being sardonic to drive home a point.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Barry's a giddy, stammering dork who pales in comparison to the more stoic and manly-looking members of the Justice League, but when the rest of the League are killed off, it's Barry and Barry alone who manages to save them and the entire world from annihilation.
• Distracted by the Sexy:
  • Barry couldn't take his eyes off Iris the second they met. When he taps into the speed force, he takes advantage of the delayed time to admire Iris some more as he rescues her. When he taps out, it takes him a few seconds to realize he's blowing his cover because he's still making eyes at her.
  • Barry's also awestruck by Diana. He trips over his own tongue when they first meet and he casually chats with Victor about whether or not he's got a shot with her.
• Establishing Character Moment: He arrives late to a job interview despite having super-speed, because of a very mundane reason. He then uses his superpowers when he witnesses a truck colliding with a car that's being driven by a girl he's attracted to, not caring about witnesses. In this scene, Barry is established as a humble everyman who only uses his gifts when the situation demands it.
• Flash Step: A Parademon opens fire on him at point-blank range. He dodges all of the shots and bum-rushes the creature from behind, shoving it through a set of heavy metal doors.
• Godzilla Threshold: His one rule with his powers: never exceed the speed of light as time starts to do weird things. He ends up breaking this rule twice, albeit only reversing time by a few seconds.
  • With the Justice League unable to beat Steppenwolf on their own, they decide to resurrect Superman using the power of the Speed Force combined with a Mother Box.
  • When the Unity fully synchronizes and begins to unmake the world, the Flash decides to break his rule knowing everyone is doomed if he doesn't.
• Healing Factor: Thanks to the Speed Force, any injuries he suffers will be healed in a short amount of time. In the League's first confrontation with Steppenwolf, he gets shot in the leg by a Parademon but in the next scene, he is no worse for wear. During the Final Battle, he also (visibly) recovers from the wound the Parademon defense cannon's shot inflicted on him just as the Unity begins to disintegrate the world.
• Heroes Love Dogs: Barry's introduced applying for a job caring for dogs. Amusingly, the first dog he tries to befriend barks at him with enough hostility to make Barry sheepishly back off. He has better luck with the other dogs... because he bribed them with a sausage he grabbed when saving Iris.
• Heroes' Frontier Step: Just when it seems like Steppenwolf's victory was assured, Barry went beyond the speed of light, saving the entire world and stalling Darkseid's conquest for the time being. Despite coming across as out of his depth in comparison to the other members of the Justice League, it's in this moment that the Flash proves his worth.
  "Your kid was one of them, Dad. One of the best of the best."
• Heroism Won't Pay the Bills: Barry takes on 4 part-time jobs to pay for his tuition, along with the other expenses he seems to have in his makeshift living space. If anything his superpowered secret identity seems to have given him more expenses than it saved.
• Leitmotif: Barry gains one in the Snyder Cut known as "At the Speed of Force". Parts of it play when he helps Wonder Woman retrieve her sword as well as when he uses his electrical charge to resurrect Clark. The full theme plays when the rest of the Justice League are killed and he has to reverse time no matter the cost.
• Lightning Can Do Anything: Barry uses his electrical charge to help Cyborg interface with the three Mother Boxes
• Love at First Sight: Utterly smitten with Iris West the moment they meet.
• Motor Mouth: In his establishing scene Barry is late for a job interview and his resume is in terrible condition. He can't stop himself from babbling out of nervousness.
• "No More Holding Back" Speech: Barry sets himself a rule to not run faster than the speed of light as he will disrupt time doing so. After the Mother Boxes are synchronized and everything on Earth has been obliterated, Barry realizes only he can undo the Unity and to do so, he must break this rule.
  Barry: OK. Just gotta go faster than the speed of light - far beyond the speed of light! You gotta break the rule, Barry, and you gotta do it now!!!
• Only Sane Man: Barry's the only member of the Justice League to point out how objectively crazy the events of the film are, questioning why everyone else is so blasé about fighting an alien invasion and bringing Superman Back from the Dead (the answer, of course, being that they've already Seen It All). He's also quite baffled that Batman has his own satellite, which then leads to him having a moment of awestruck silence once he finds out Batman has six.
• Reality Warper: When the Justice League are figuring out how to resurrect Superman, Barry explains that as he approaches the speed of light, time starts to act strange and he generates massive amounts of electricity. The time-distortion aspect comes into play during the final battle where the Unity forms and Barry goes beyond the speed of light, rewinding time by a few seconds to keep the Unity from disintegrating the Justice League and scorching the Earth.
• Running Gag: Just like in the comics, Barry has a habit of showing up late even after gaining super-speed. His first scene in the Snyder Cut has him muttering how he's late and feebly making excuses for it. On a meta-level, Barry doesn't even show up in the movie for the first hour outside of some archive footage that Bruce Wayne took from Lex Luthor.
• Sole Survivor: For a very brief moment he's the only Justice League member alive, as all the others had been completely destroyed by the synchronized Unity and he avoided that same fate by using his intangibility.

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• AM/FM Characterization: When Bruce introduces himself to Barry, a k-pop music video is playing in the background. Given Barry's high-energy personality, it's fitting that he'd be into such music.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Barry's meeting with Bruce Wayne is derailed by his obsession with the concept of brunch. When Bruce says "I'll try to keep up", you get the impression he's not just talking about Barry's super-speed.
• Covered in Gunge: The Flash kills a Parademon by charging through it. He's immediately grossed out by the liquefied green matter clinging to his suit and sticks to rescuing civilians after that.
• Cowardly Lion: Unlike the other members of the Justice League, Barry has no real combat experience, so he's a bit scared out of his wits but still follows the others. Rather than fighting, he primarily focuses on evacuating civilians.
• Establishing Character Moment: His visit to his father in prison establishes his comedic and non-confrontational methods to aggression by having him use his speed to draw on an impatient asshole's face when he pesters Barry.
• Flash Step: After faceplanting on Wonder Woman's body, he gets up and moves away fast enough to qualify as this.
• Freak Lab Accident: The way he got his powers is not clearly explained beyond the fact it involved being struck by lightning ("the abridged version", according to him). He tries to bond with Cyborg over this, dubbing the two of them "the accidents".
• Lightning Can Do Anything: Barry mentions getting his powers when he was struck by lightning in the middle of chemicals. Subverted when Barry claims that's just "the abridged version".
• Motor Mouth: Barry's first meeting with Bruce Wayne ends with him rambling about brunch without any prompting.
• New Meat: By his own admission, Flash is the rookie of the League, as his combat experience amounts to tipping over crooks who might as well be frozen from his Speed-Force-energized perspective.
• No Sense of Direction: He doesn't know how to tell North-South-East-West intuitively, which results in him getting lost a few times. Later, when he decides to travel to the Pacific Ocean, he points in the wrong direction before being corrected. Given that he has super-speed, he's not that inconvenienced by it.
• The Prankster: Barry uses his speed to draw glasses and a mustache on an impatient jerkass' face without said person noticing it.
• Socially Awkward Hero: Barry displays several traits of autism, especially when he talks to Bruce about how people have a "rhythm" he hasn't figured out due to his speed, or how alien to him the concept of "brunch" is.
• Twofer Token Minority: He's an implied neurodivergent and Jewish.

Cyborg

Victor Stone / Cyborg

"You wanted me to use these gifts, right? That's what I'm gonna do."

^{Click here to see him before his injuries and as his digital world avatar} "Ma, you gotta stop making excuses for him. You're just as busy as he is, but you still make the time."

Species: Enhanced human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Gotham City University, S.T.A.R. Labs, Justice League

Portrayed By: Ray Fisher

Voiced By: Jun'ichi Suwabe (Japanese), Mexianu Medenou (European French), Alexis Lefebvre (Canadian French), Abraham Vega (Latin-American Spanish), Marcos Souza (Brazilian Portuguese)

Appearances: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Justice League | Zack Snyder's Justice League

"I had an accident that should've killed me. But in an act of desperation and madness, the researcher harnessed the power of the Mother Box. He unleashed an alien technology he didn't fully understand. He used that power to keep me alive. Alive... but turned into this."

Victor Stone was once a brilliant young science major and football player at Gotham City University. A car collision left him horribly disfigured and on the verge of death. Desperate to save his son, Silas Stone used an alien artifact (a Mother Box) to rebuild him. Said artifact contructed and grafted highly advanced cybernetics to what remained of Victor's human body, transforming him into Cyborg.

In addition to his cybernetics, the Mother Box granted Cyborg tremendous powers over all sorts of electronics and the digital world, allowing him to hack into anything from surveillance cameras and bank accounts all the way to (potentially) nuclear missile launchers. Victor chose to use these powers for good and joined the Justice League to repel a new Apokoliptian attempt to invade the Earth.

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• 11th-Hour Ranger: Victor turns down Diana's invitiation to join the League at first, but when Silas is kidnapped he joins them without hesitation.
• Academic Athlete: Victor has a genius level-IQ and got into Gotham City University on a football scholarship.
• Age Lift: In the comics, Victor was a high school student when the accident that made him Cyborg happened, which happened years after the League formed (before the New 52 had him replace the Martian Manhunter as a founding member of the League and even then, he was still in high school). Here, he's a college student.
• Alternate Self: He was name dropped by the Flash in Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019), which featured his Earth-21 counterpart while his Earth-N52 self appeared in the tie-in comic.
• Androids and Detectives: He's the Android to Batman and Flash's Detectives.
• Arm Cannon: Cyborg can turn his arms into Plasma Cannons. The upper limit of their power is shown to make Superman wince.
• Artificial Limbs: Victor's hands and everything below his lungs are purely robotic. The rest is entirely covered in cybernetics save for half of his face.
• Artificial Limbs Are Stronger: Cyborg can carry and throw Aquaman with one hand. Keep in mind Aquaman is 6'4 and was wearing a suit of armor at the time.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Despite giving his dad the cold shoulder, Cyborg doesn't hesitate to leap to his rescue when he sees him being threatened by Steppenwolf.
• The Baby of the Bunch: Being 21 when the Justice League was formed, Cyborg is the youngest member, with Barry Allen being just a few years older.
• Bad Powers, Good People: His enhancements were constructed by a Motherbox, which the Apokoliptians used for world domination. Cyborg's powers give him access to all of humanity's online information - which Silas in the Snyder Cut flat-out states puts the entire human race at his mercy - yet he never uses them for villainous purposes.
• Black and Nerdy: Cyborg's enhancements and ability to interface with technology naturally make him the tech guy of the team. In the Snyder Cut he was described by Dean Stanton as "a genius" capable of hacking into the university's computer network and altering grades. He was also captain of the football team, making him a Genius Bruiser (see below).
• Blessed with Suck: Victor feels existential angst about still being alive with a body that's 90 per cent cybernetics. He can do many awesome things, but he's not human anymore. Eventually he realizes that he's actually Cursed with Awesome.
  Victor: [Theatrical Cut] If these are gifts, why am I the one paying for them?
  Victor: [Snyder Cut] What part of this looks like a gift to you?
• Body Horror: Victor's cameo in Batman v Superman shows he's little more than a limbless torso, with his lower body being painfully replaced by alien cybernetics. In addition, the left side of his face has been horribly disfigured.
• Brain/Computer Interface: Cyborg can command large vehicles and even alien spacecraft via thought.
• Came Back Strong: Victor's injuries would have either killed him or - if he was very lucky - left him a multiple amputee. Fortunately his scientist father decided to get experimental and brought Victor back with superpowers, though Victor isn't happy about it at first.
• Career-Ending Injury: He was a star quarterback until his fateful accident.
• Cast Speciation: Victor is the team's tech guy, being able to interface with machines that regular humans can't figure out, best seen when he splits the Unity.
  • In the Snyder Cut Cyborg also activates Batman's Flying Fox aircraft, which Bruce stated was considered aeronautically impractical by his company's best engineers.
• Character Development: Victor has had to deal with a lot between an inattentive father, his mother's death, and his own body being warped by cybernetics. More than even Arthur, he has no interest in joining the team, wanting to shut the world out of his life. He learns to appreciate what his father has done for him in spite of his failings, and his time with the League helps him understand that others are dealing with similar struggles. Both films end with him showing a much more optmistic outlook on life.
• Clark Kent Outfit: Victor attempts this by wearing a hoodie when he goes out, but it's way too flimsy a disguise, as his face and hands are still visible and the light emitted from his core shines through the fabric.
• Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: Diana refers to him as a cyborg, but there's no indication if he ever took that as his moniker. In Crisis on Infinite Earths Barry still refers to him as Victor. Black Adam reveals that an in-universe comicbook series based on him does in fact use the title "Cyborg", but it's not clear if that's a Protagonist Title or not. By the time of The Flash (2023), Victor seems to have taken up "Cyborg" as his codename as Barry identifies him as such.
• Creepy Monotone: Cyborg speaks like this for the most part because he's depressed and broody, but softens up at other points.
• Cyborg: His name says it all. He is an extremely amputated human rebuilt with cybernetics (and the help of a Mother Box).
• Do-Anything Robot: He's pretty much the go-to guy for any scenario where super-strength isn't an option. He activates damaged technology, tracks down Steppenwolf and disrupts the Unity. In the Snyder Cut he also manages to repair a shattered voice recorder seemingly by using telekinesis.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Twice in Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice.
  • The first instance is easy to miss if you don't pay attention: Perry assigns the story of a star quarterback's career-ending accident to Clark in the first act, but it's mostly heard in the background.
  • In the second (and more memorable) instance, he's seen being reconstructed by his father, Silas Stone, and a Mother Box, as part of the footage of Metahumans Batman stole from Lex Luthor and sent to Wonder Woman after decrypting it.
• Electronic Eyes: Victor's left eye is a high-tech prosthetic to replace his original damaged one.
• Fastball Special: Cyborg famously does this with Aquaman after catching him a hundred feet in the air.
  Aquaman: My man!
• Flying Brick: His cybernetics can generate repulsors, allowing him to fly. He's the only Justice League member who's able to fly on his own until Superman joins in^note Wonder Woman's flight power was still ambiguous at the time. In the theatrical cut he also assumes (quite rightly) that only he and Superman can survive the power feedback from separating the Mother Boxes, qualifying for the "brick" part.
• Flying Firepower: Cyborg comes equipped with rockets and plasma cannons.
• Frankenstein's Monster: Victor was brought back from death via unorthodox means and suffers existential issues since he no longer sees himself as human anymore.
• Freak Lab Accident: He came to become the Cyborg when his father - in desperation to save his life - throws scientific protocol out the window and subjects him to an active Mother Box.
• Full-Conversion Cyborg: The Motherbox didn't just replace Victor's missing bodyparts. It also reconstructs his entire torso, as his heart has been replaced with a glowing core.
• Glowing Mechanical Eyes: One replaces his left eye.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: The accident that disfigured Victor destroyed his limbs and left half of his face and all of his vital organs in critical condition. Though thanks to the Mother Box, Victor doesn't die from losing half his body, unlike most examples.
• Heroic Build: Prior to his accident, Victor had the muscular build one would expect a football player in his early 20s to have. Even after having his destroyed body parts replaced with cybernetics, the end result adheres to the trope due to his abdominal region not housing any organs.
• Hollywood Hacking: He's able to hack into anything from bank accounts all the way to, potentially, nuclear weapon launching systems.
• Hologram: He can generate holograms with his hands or forehead lens when exploring the Internet or hacking stuff.
• Hyperspace Arsenal: Cyborg's arms can transform into a wide array of tools. He's displayed plasma cannons, a shield durable enough to deflect Superman's heat vision, prehensile cables that can interface with any kind of technology and a command key for accessing the Kryptonian scout ship.
• Iconic Sequel Character: Cyborg wasn't introduced in the DCEU until its second film entry, and didn't see action and backstory until the two versions of Justice League, with the latter cut investing much more screentime.
• In the Hood: He wears a hoodie to conceal his cybernetics as much as possible. After going through character development, he stops wearing clothes altogether.
• Knight in Sour Armor: Victor's quite angsty in his first few appearances and with good reason (his mother dying, his father being absent and his Fate Worse than Death), yet he genuinely wants to help people who need it. Eventually he sheds his angst and becomes a more optimistic hero.
• Kubrick Stare: There are several poster shots that have him showing this, and when he is focused, he exhibits this look.
• Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Cyborg can generate a shield with his arm, which in one instance he uses to block a resurrected Superman's Eye Beams.
• Meaningful Name: "Victor" as in "one who is victorious". Even before becoming one of the founding members of a major superhero team, Victor was stated to be a prodigy. The Snyder Cut interweaves his winning goal in a football match with the university's dean reprimanding him for using his exceptional computer skills to help a struggling classmate make the grade.
• My Significance Sense Is Tingling: Victor's enhancements will automatically go on the offensive at the slightest hint of danger, best seen when he blasts the newly-revived Clark without meaning to.
• Mythology Gag: Victor wears a hoodie to hide himself, just like the Teen Titans (2003) cartoon's Cyborg did in the origin episode, and his counterpart from The Super Powers Team did in his first appearance there.
• Odd Friendship: He develops one with the Flash, with the two forming a Straight Man and Wise Guy duo and sharing a fistbump after their first decisive victory.
• Ordinary High-School Student: Victor was just a normal guy on his university's football team before his crippling accident. Now he's a cyborg superhero, but it puts him in a different frame of reference to born warriors like Wonder Woman and rich veterans like Batman.
• Omniscient Database: His powers potentially allow him to access every source of digital knowledge, thus enabling him to pick up any kind of information.
• Out of Focus: Outside of a name-drop in Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019), Cyborg has made no appearances in future media. Even when the Justice League show up in Peacemaker, Cyborg is absent. As Black Adam showed, Victor does have a comicbook series based on him, so at the very least his reputation as a superhero is dependable enough to gain the attention of creative talent and publishers.
• Painful Transformation: Whatever power the Mother Box gave him, it certainly made his reconstruction hurt.
• Perpetual-Motion Monster: Cyborg's never shown eating or resting. Given he was repaired by a Motherbox which replaced all of his vital organs, it's possible he was imbued with some kind of tech that's so advanced it can function without sustenance.
• Plug 'n' Play Technology: He can gain access to virtually every electronic system, from the Internet to a Kryptonian ship's systems.
• Red Is Heroic: Cyborg's internal systems glow bright red.
• Refusal of the Call: Cyborg rejects Diana's offer to join the League due to his reluctance to see the positives in his new body.
• Robot Superhero: One of the most famous examples in comicbook history.
• Second Episode Introduction: Cyborg was introduced to the DCEU in its second film entry via recorded footage.
• Secret-Identity Identity: Victor is legally dead and he can't exactly pass for a normal guy, so for all intents and purposes he's Cyborg 24/7.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Victor's the Manly Man to Barry's Sensitive Guy, being a former athlete who is still grieving over his mother's death.
• SerkisFolk: Cyborg is primarily CG. Ray Fisher wore a motion capture suit on set, while still wearing some physical prosthetics for his head, glowing red eye and chest piece.
• Sinister Surveillance: He can access virtually every computerized system on Earth and eaves-drop and see the people around them. This is how he contacts Diana to meet her.
• The Smart Guy: Being able to see across the internet makes Cyborg the brains of the Justice League.
• Straight Man: Cyborg's the humorless reaction guy to the Flash's wise guy.
• Superhero: Cyborg's a lesser known DC superhero in the mainstream when compared to the iconic ones above. He is a fairly recent addition to the founding members of the Justice League in the New 52.
• Superman Stays Out of Gotham: After Justice League Cyborg isn't shown getting involved in any of the later films, not even Birds of Prey or the opening scene from The Flash, both of which take place in his native Gotham.
• Superpower Lottery: He can fly, fire plasma beams, hack into data systems and seemingly no longer needs to sleep or feed to sustain himself.
• Super-Strength: He is strong and durable enough to body-block a projected humvee effortlessly.
• Swiss-Army Appendage: Due to the Mother Box's technology, Cyborg's cybernetic arms can turn into plasma cannons or shields, they can interact with any electronic system be it the Nightcrawler's commands with cables or even a Kryptonian ship's interface (by morphing into a Kryptonian key), and he can holographically display images and information with either his hands or a projector unit in his head.
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Victor is 6'4.
• Technopath: Due to being a cybernetic organism made from a Mother Box's technology, he is able to connect and interface seamlessly with anything technological from Earth and beyond, including being constantly plugged into the Internet. Notably, Cyborg is able to gain access to the Kryptonian ship's interface, and he also takes control of the Knightcrawler and reactivates it after it was wrecked by Steppenwolf. In the Snyder Cut he even completely rebuilds a tape recorder he smashed to tiny bits, with it none the worse for wear.
• Three-Point Landing: When he jumps back up to the Unity after falling off the ledge due to Diana's shockwave, he executes one partially off-screen.
• Token Robot: He's the only member of the Justice League to have tech-based powers.
• Took a Level in Cheerfulness: After saving the world and overcoming his hangups, Victor becomes a lot more upbeat.
• Touched by Vorlons: He gained his cybernetics and powers thanks to a Mother Box, which is an alien artifact from Apokolips.
• Tragic Dropout: Victor's time as a university student was cut short as he's now legally dead.
• Tragic Robot: Victor lost his mother on the night of his accident and his injuries were so severe he had to be converted into a cyborg to survive, which haunts him given his athletic history. In the Snyder Cut he also has to witness his father being vaporized in an attempt to thwart Steppenwolf's conquest, right when the two were about to reapir their strained relationship.
• Trauma Conga Line: Victor Stone has a pretty good life, save for a little bit of post-teenage angst directed at his father. Suddenly a car accident kills his mother and leaves him on life support with all of his limbs amputated. His father saves his life by using the Mother Box - a physically agonizing experience that turns Victor into a half-man, half-machine. Feeling like he's been turned into a monster, Victor spends months hiding from the world while living with the father he resents.
• Twofer Token Minority: He's African-American and a multiple amputee
• Unwilling Roboticisation: He didn't ask to be turned into a cyborg, and that his father created what he sees as a "monster" is the main reason he's been estranged from him.
• Unwitting Test Subject: Victor was comatose when Silas used the Motherbox to try and restore him. His inability to give consent during what were his few remaining moments of life undoubtedley were part of the "suspending all protocol" line Silas uttered.
• We Can Rebuild Him: In Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, there is footage of Victor's father Silas trying to fill in the gaps in his body with machine parts. When it doesn't work, Silas resorts to using a Mother Box, which succeeds in giving Victor a cybernetic body, albeit quite painfully.

Tropes Exclusive to Zack Snyder's Justice League

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• Academic Athlete: Expanded upon. We see a sequence of Victor's football career, with his mother Elinore encouraging him in the stadium stands, interjected with a scene where Elinore is called by the principal of Gotham City University. He says that while Victor is a genius student and a star member of the football team, that didn't give him the right to hack into their network to give better grades to another student that had just lost her home the same year.
• Adaptational Badass: Cyborg spent the first half of the film keeping one Motherbox away and hidden from the parademons, along with a handful of additional action bits showing him actually engaging Steppenwolf instead of just being swatted aside and doing tech guy stuff. And even still, his interfacing with the Motherboxes in the climax is built up as far more difficult with him having to confront a Lotus-Eater Machine to get the job done.
• All Myths Are True: When he finds out Batman really exists:
  Cyborg: I heard about you. Didn't think you were real.
  Batman: I'm real when it's useful.
• Ascended Extra: Following the trend set by the New 52, Cyborg is one of the founders of the League. He is the only member of the League who was included even before having his own solo series (one premiered in 2015), being more of a roaming character between different comics, teams and limited runs.
• Become a Real Boy: The Motherboxes offer Cyborg this opportunity if he allows them to fully synchronize. He doesn't take it, with good reason considering the completed Unity would unmake the world, including Cyborg.
• Character Focus: While Zack Snyder's Justice League is more of an ensemble piece than anything else, Cyborg is basically the main protagonist and goes through the most growth and character development out of the entire cast.
• Character Tics: Victor has a habit of stretching his arm out when he's panicked. He does this when both of his parents are killed. It also becomes a Fatal Flaw as his arms transform into plasma cannons and fire against his will when he faces particularly threatening opponents.
• Collapsible Helmet: He can summon a full helmet to cover his face instantly.
• Cyborg Helmsman: Cyborg manages to interface with the Flying Fox carrier that the Justice League uses to invade Steppenwolf's base. Downplayed, as while it's airborne he's focused on other tasks, hinting that the craft has auto-pilot before Batman takes control for the final stretch. Presumably he also relaunched the Flying Fox to bring the League home after their first victory.
• Daddy Didn't Show: Even as he had just scored a victory for the GCU, Victor Stone is disappointed to find out that only his mother attended the football game, not his father.
• Darker and Edgier: Compared to the Theatrical Cut, Cyborg has it even worse here, due to witnessing his father dying and his injuries not being retconned into simple amputations. He also maintains his jagged exoskeleton, though given his character arc he doesn't see this as a bad thing.
• Despair Event Horizon: Victor was already emotionally beaten down when he first appears, but once he witnesses his father die he seriously contemplates going on a suicide mission.
• Do a Barrel Roll: He executes one during the final battle against Steppenwolf, taking out buildings with his arm cannons to crush a flock of parademons.
• Establishing Character Moment: He gets two in his introduction scene. As Victor before the accident, we are told how he helped a fellow student that had lost her house the same year by hacking into Gotham City's University network and giving her better grades. As Cyborg, the first heroic deed he does after accessing the virtual landscape, is helping a struggling single mother that was recently evicted by hacking into an ATM and giving her $100,000. This establishes Victor as a compassionate man that won't hesitate to break laws or social conventions in order to help others, and how despite being transformed by an alien piece of machinery, he remains the same kind, empathetic man at heart.
• "Eureka!" Moment: After coming to terms with his father's sacrifice, Victor soon figures out that his attempts to laser the Motherbox weren't to destroy it, but to make it traceable via thermal-imaging.
• Everything Is Online: Cyborg having a Story-Breaker Power in the digital age is explored in detail, with his control of the entire world's nuclear arsenal and being able to manipulate the economic balance being a trivial matter. This sequence is paired next to a monologue by his father Silas telling him how powerful he has become, but also how important his restraint is in using that power.
• Faking the Dead: Victor's mother is buried in a grave with her name as well as Victor's on the gravestone, meaning after the car accident he was legally considered dead.
• A Form You Are Comfortable With: Whenever he's in the digital world, Victor prefers using an avatar of his previous self from before his crippling accident, usually wearing his GCU jacket. In the very last instance of this, he is finally able to visualise himself in his cybernetic, post-accident appearance.
• Genius Bruiser: Both before and after his transformation. Victor started off as a star athlete with the technological aptitude to hack his school's database in his spare time. His new cybernetic body enhances both halves of the equation, granting him super-strength along with the power to remotely access any computer database on the planet.
• Glory Days: He keeps memorabilia of his bygone football player days at his home.
• Handshake Substitute: Victor and Barry exchange a fistbump upon beating Steppenwolf.
• Healing Hands: Victor can repair technology no matter how damaged it may be. He was able to pilot two of Batman's vehicles and restored a voice recorder that had been crushed into pieces.
• Heroic B So D: Cyborg experiences one after witnessing his father's death. He becomes near suicidal in his dedication to preventing Steppenwolf's conquest and starts speaking in a blunt monotone, much like a robot.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Victor volunteers to try and disrupt the Unity despite Diana's warnings:
  Cyborg: I wanna plug into The Unity, one-on-one. Fuse with it. Weaken its bond from the inside so we can break it back into three.
  Wonder Woman: No, you don't know what you'd be up against. You'd have to stream into The Unity by yourself. These boxes together are world destroyers. A billion years old. They'll get inside you and find your weaknesses and your fears and use them to destroy you. You could die, Victor!
  Cyborg: If I don't, we all die, period! I got nothing left. You wanted me to use these gifts, right? That's what I'm gonna do.
• Hologram: Victor emits holographic projections from his forehead light when giving exposition on the recent history of the Mother Box entrusted to the tribes of men. He uses it for dramatic effect when the League realize they can use their Motherbox to resurrect Superman.
• How Do I Shot Web?: Victor gets a scene where he tests out his various powers. While his physical abilities such as flight and creating weapons took some getting used to, Victor masters his hacking and interfacing abilities instantly.
• I Am a Monster: Victor very much believes that his father created a monster when using the Mother Box. On one of the rare occasions when he goes outside, he notices some people staring at his metal headpiece and covers his face in shame. He comes to terms with it in a much different manner in this version of the film.
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness: On two occasions Victor is tempted to use his cybernetic powers for his own benfit to the detriment of everyone else, but both times he uses them to do something heroic.
• The Joy of First Flight: While learning how to fly, Victor has a hard time maintaining his balance before getting the hang of it. Once he is able to take flight, he gives out a blissful smile, likely the first time since his resurrection.
• Just a Kid: Aquaman states as much when discussing with the Flash just how much Cyborg is dealing with in their preparations to fight Steppenwolf.
  Aquaman: We're asking a kid who lost his father to go up against the most dangerous machines in the world.
• Limp and Livid: Cyborg' posture droops after witnessing his father disintegrating, all the while muttering how he couldn't save him.
• Manly Tears: Victor was on the verge of tears when Silas didn't show up for his game. He finally breaks down upon witnessing his father's death.
• Marquee Alter Ego: Ray Fisher has more than a couple scenes of flashbacks and digital world in which he's seen with his normal body and face.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: His cybernetic body can spawn two additional arms, which are long and silvery. The extra arms are shown to enhance Cyborg's strength as if he were two separate people, seen best when he deploys them to break apart the Unity.
• Nerd Action Hero: Victor was prodigious enough with computer technology to hack into his university's grading system long before he became Cyborg.
• Nice Guy: Victor's a genuinely kindhearted and caring individual both before and after his transformation: he hacked school computers to amplify the grades of a schoolmate with financial troubles (that the school won't help with) as Victor, and as Cyborg one of the very first things he did while experimenting his near-limitless technologic potential was to help a Struggling Single Mother that was evicted from her house (and also had financial problems) by hacking into the bank and have her win $100,000, before walking away smiling as he sees her ecstatic disbelief.
• Oh, Crap!: In the Kryptonian scout ship right after the mother box powers up over Superman's body, Cyborg senses something through the ship's AI.
  Kryptonian AI: The future has taken root in the present.
  Cyborg: GET DOWN!!!
• Precision F-Strike: When Diana asks Victor to help them save the world:
  Cyborg: Fuck the world.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Victor hacked into his university's databank to give a classmate higher grades and he put $100,000 into a woman's bank account, which in all likelihood he took from other accounts. While these actions would be unethical in most circumstances, his classmate was dealing with some personal problems that left her too stressed to commit to her studies and the woman he gave money to was a single mother who had just been evicted.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: The Motherboxes try tempting Cyborg by offering to resurrect his parents and resotre his old body if he plays his cards right. Cyborg responds by telling them he doesn't need what they're offering and breaking their Unity.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Steppenwolf doesn't get to mutilate Cyborg in the Snyder Cut, due to Superman coming to his rescue at the very last second.
• The Stoic: Victor is more angry than stoic in the Snyder Cut, but when he's trying to appear non-threatening he tends to come across as this. It's likely a result of hiding from the world for over a year, causing atrophy to his social skills.
• Super-Toughness: He flies into a falling Humvee at high speed and body-blocks it without any problems.
• That Man Is Dead: Victor visits his own gravesite twice. The first time he goes there to hide a Mother Box and the way he digs shows he's venting his rage. The second time, he's doing it to honor his parents' memories while putting his past behind him.
• Trauma Conga Line: On top of the above, after coming out of his shell and joining the Justice League, Victor is then forced to watch his father die as before they could achieve any closure with one another. This results in a Heroic BSoD for Victor, who volunteers to sacrifice himself in order to destroy the Mother Boxes. Fortunately, he survives the ordeal, and while the Mother Boxes try to prey on his emotional state, he comes to terms with who he is and what he's been through.
  Cyborg: I'm not broken, and I'm not alone.
• A True Hero: Victor's character arc demonstrates that in spite of his angst, he's inherently inclined towards helping people. He risked suspension from university because he altered the grades of a classmate that was too stressed out to commit to her studies. Silas tells Victor that his enhancements grant him full control over Earth's military weapons and he can hack into bank accounts to make himself the richest man on the planet. The first thing he does with his hacking abilities is bail out a single mother who was on the verge of homelessness. When Steppenwolf threatens Silas, Victor rushes to his father's aid despite still resenting him. Finally, Victor risks his own life to interface with the Unity and rejects their temptations.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Prior to the accident, Victor was an overachiever who desperately wanted his father's approval. After the accident and the transformation, the dynamic flips, with Victor shunning his father, blaming him for turning him into a monster. When he decides to listen to his father's recordings, he finally gets to hear his dad say that he's always been proud of him, to which Victor gives a sad smile.
• What You Are in the Dark: Once Cyborg gets inside the Unity, the Motherboxes try to bargain with him, offering Victor his old body and his resurrected parents. Victor's got nothing left to live for at this point, yet he still rejects their temptations.
• When He Smiles: Just like Superman, Cyborg spends a considerable amount of his screentime acting withdrawn. When he decides to test out his enhancements, he begins to enjoy himself, as seen when he masters flight and helps out a single mother. At the end of Zack Snyder's Justice League, Victor cheers up for good when he listens to the rest of his father's recordings, finally getting to hear his dad say he's always been proud of him. Cyborg's last appearance is standing before his parents' gravesite striking a heroic pose and smiling reassuringly.
• Willfully Weak: Discussed by Silas Stone. Cyborg purposely holds himself back in terms of his full power — his unmatched hacking skills means that he could crash the worldwide economy, cripple global communications or even cause a nuclear war with a single thought.
• With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: His hacking powers are phenomenal and potentially scary considering the degree to which humanity has gone digital in this day and age. He decided to use them for good.
• You Killed My Father: While not directly responsible, Steppenwolf cements himself as Cyborg's enemy when he forces Silas into a suicide mission.
  Cyborg: Let's go find that son of a bitch!

Tropes Exclusive to Justice League (Theatrical Cut)

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• Aborted Arc: Whatever plans there were regarding Cyborg's streamlined upgrade have since been abandoned due to Ray Fisher's absence and the Snyder Cut providing a contradicitve canon.
• Actually Pretty Funny: After saving the day with the aid of Superman and weathering the feedback loop caused by their actions, they comment on how much pain they are in while laughing about it.
  Cyborg: Man, my toes hurt... I can't process the physics of my toes hurting!
• Adaptive Ability: Victor's cybernetics are in a constant state of self-modification. One day, he finds out that he's able to fly.
• Beta Outfit: Cyborg's multi-angular skeletal form is depicted as such, with the epilogue showing his enhancements self-modifying into his comic-accurate appearance with a more defined circular chest light.
• Brought to You by the Letter "S": During the closing montage of Justice League, Cyborg forms a "C" on his chest, having embraced his heroic potential.
• Chest Insignia: Victor generates a stylized, glowing red C on his chest in the ending of the theatrical version of Justice League, likely inspired by his fellow superheroes.
• Composite Character: A lot of Victor Stone is in there, right down to "Booyah," but bonded with an alien artifact that was originally a tool of the villains, the intelligent and aggressive armor that he struggles to keep from blasting people who don't need to be blasted? That's more like Jaime Reyes.
• Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: Averted in both versions of Justice League, although he fears this due to his powers growing everyday and hearing alien voices (likely those of the New Gods) in his head in the 2017 theatrical cut. Still in this version of the film, he also thinks he might be part of an alien invasion himself. It turns out he has perfect control over his cybernetics (minus the Red Alert mode he experiences upon Superman's resurrection), and undergoes some serious Character Development, appearing to be much more confident and happier by the end.
  • Although Steppenwolf's "Give it time!" remark suggests it might still happen one day, the Snyder Cut casts serious doubt on that as he's still on the heroes' side well into the Knightmare.
• Hearing Voices: He hears alien voices in his head due to being fused with the technology of the New Gods.
• I Am a Monster: Victor's father believes that he's calling himself that when he suggests undergoing study at the lab... then it's subverted, because Victor was referring to his father for his choice to use the Mother Box. Then it is Double Subverted when Victor says that ever since the Battle of Metropolis, people have wondered when will the next Alien Invasion arrive and maybe he is part of it.
• I Can't Feel My Legs!: After Superman and Cyborg break the Unity, Cyborg jokes about how painful the blowback was, even though he no longer has a nervous system.
• Iconic Attribute Adoption Moment: During the ending montage of Justice League Victor's cybernetics self-upgrade to give him a more streamlined appearance, with his chest now bearing his logo from the comics.
• Lighter and Softer: Cyborg's last-minute upgrade makes him look far more benevolent.
• Mechanical Evolution: "Every morning I wake up different...modified."
• Mechanical Muscles: What his upgraded form resembles.
• Mythology Gag: Just like the aforementioned Teen Titans cartoon Cyborg, he says "Booyah" when Steppenwolf is beamed back to Apokolips.
• Power-Upgrading Deformation: Inverted. Cyborg's last-minute modification streamlines his cybernetics to resemble a Heroic Build.
• Pulling Themselves Together: Steppenwolf tears one of Cyborg's cybernetic legs off in the climax, but he's able to reattach it without much trouble later on.
• Retcon: Cyborg's origin gets a major change. A line of dialogue states that he was formed by the Mother Box in his father's possession on the night Superman died, but in Batman v Superman the video showing the event happened some time before, was recovered by Luthor, and then shared and exchanged by Batman and Diana well before the event happened.
• Rule of Symbolism: Victor spends the bulk of his screentime angry and self-doubting, with his cybernetic implants appearing ugly and erratic. By the film's end Cyborg has found inner peace - having a group of friends, learning to accept his changes and patching things up with his father - and his enhancements become streamlined.
• Screens Are Cameras: In addition to eavesdropping on people through their PC, he can also see them, such as when Bruce Wayne and Alfred - then Diana and Alfred - talk about him.
• Sensory Overload: He is constantly connected to the Internet and it takes him some time to process it all at first.
• The Stoic: Due to the severity of his condition and having to give up on his old life, he's emotionally more reserved in comparison to the other heroes. Even Batman makes more jokes than him. Though he starts to open up more by the climax. Like for example, his reaction to Superman's "I wanna die" joke after they separate the mother boxes.
• Superpower Lottery: Due to being Touched by Vorlons in this incarnation, the Mother Box's technology has been making its own alterations to his powerset whether he wants it or not.
• That Man Is Dead: When Cyborg first contacts Wonder Woman and she asks him if he's Victor Stone, he answers, "I was".

Additional Members

Martian Manhunter

J'onn J'onzz / Martian Manhunter

"I realised I have a stake in this world, and it's time I started fighting for it."

^{Click here to see him as Calvin Swanwick} "I'm just speculating, but I think whoever is at the helm of that thing is looking to make a dramatic entrance."

Species: Martian

Citizenship: Martian, American

Known Alias: Secretary of Defense (formerly Lieutenant General) Calvin Swanwick

Affiliation(s): US Army, DOD, Justice League

Portrayed By: Harry Lennix, Diane Lane (Martha Kent disguise)

Voiced By: Jorge Badillo (Latin-American Spanish), Akihiko Ishizumi (Japanese), Daniel Njo Lobé (European French), Jean-Marie Moncelet (Canadian French)

Appearances: Man of Steel | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Zack Snyder's Justice League

"I've gone by many names and taken many forms... Some have called me the Martian Manhunter."

The last son of Mars. A benevolent being who upon the destruction of his people, found refuge on Earth, taking the form of a human named Calvin Swanwick, who serves as a General in the US military (and later, as a member of the US government), eventually forming friendships with Superman and Lois Lane.

By the time Earth was targeted again by the New Gods of Apokolips, he had decided to take a more proactive approach to protecting the planet, aligning himself with the newly formed Justice League.

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• Achilles in His Tent: Martian Manhunter abstains from using his powers for heroic purposes until Darkseid rediscovers Earth. Given humanity's polarized opinion of metahumans until this point, his actions were likely out of self-preservation until he realized he has a responsibility to protect the world.
• Adaptation Name Change: Martian Manhunter usually goes by an Anglicized version of his true name as John Jones, here J'onn goes by Calvin Swanwick. He mentions having many aliases, so his official identities might very well still be in play here.
• Adaptational Job Change: A detective in the comics, here the Martian Manhunter is a high-ranking official in the US Military. While it's possible that he was a detective at some point in his history, given his "Calvin Swanwick" disguise looks and sounds similar to his true form, it's likely this is his more accustomed role.
• Alien Among Us: He's been on Earth for quite a while, and perfectly managed to blend in and even have a career in the US military and government with his "Calvin Swanwick" disguise.
• Alternate Self: He has two in the wider Arrowverse, one on Earth-167 and another on Earth-Prime
• Ambiguous Situation:
  • It's unknown if Superman figured out Swanwick was a martian before he allied himself with the League. He was able to identify Batman as Bruce Wayne - presumably through X-ray vision - but it's not clear how far martian biology can mimic human anatomy.
  • Since his Martha guise was convincing enough to get past Lois, it raises the possibility that he may have been operating incognito in any number of scenarios without drawing suspicion.
  • It's never specified if Swanwick's existence was erased in the Alternate Timeline or if he's just Out of Focus. Worth noting is that in the original 2013 Swanwick was operating from afar, so he plausibly could have been present without drawing attention to himself.
• Badass Cape: Part of his martian garb. Unlike Superman's it comes with gold accessories.
• Bald of Authority: As the Martian Manhunter he is bald and he is a competent leader, and eventual member of the Justice League.
• Big Brother Is Watching: He tries to find out where Superman lives by sending out drones. It fails. When his true nature is revealed, we also find out he never needed any of those, as Martian Manhunter is clairvoyant.
• The Brigadier: Acted skeptical of Superman's intentions at first. When he realizes those intentions were good, Swanwick starts to trust him.
• Canon Character All Along: He is revealed to be the Martian Manhunter in Zack Snyder's Justice League.
• Character Development: In Batman v Superman he developed genuine respect for both Superman and Lois; after the Justice League thwarts Steppenwolf's plans, he accepts that he can't be of much help anymore working from the military and reveals his true self to Bruce Wayne.
• Comes Great Responsibility: Foreseeing a war, combined with his military credentials is what ultimately spurred him into becoming a superhero.
• Composite Character: Of Martian Manhunter and General Sam Lane (Lois' father), who has a prominent role in one of this film's sources, Superman: Secret Origin. It can be said that as "Calvin Swanwick", J'onn is basically Sam Lane with a Race Lift, his family ties to Lois Lane removed and being much more reasonable. In Zack Snyder's Justice League, he even spends some quality time with Lois under the guise of a parental figure.
• Dark Is Not Evil: He dresses in dark clothes, wears a black cape, has dark green skin and glowing red eyes but is still an unambiguously heroic character.
• Deadpan Snarker: In Batman v Superman Swanwick's dialogue with Lois tends to be peppered with dry wit.
  (While talking to Lois in the men's room) "You know with balls like yours, you belong in here."
  "Unlike you I happen to like my job."
• Everyone Has Standards: He expresses concern for Superman when the President discusses launching a nuke at him and Doomsday, averting What Measure Is a Non-Human?.
• Face of a Thug: His glowing red eyes and bizarre skin texture are off-putting, but he's nonetheless a benevolent figure with a reassuring tone of voice.
• Flight: Martian Manhunter greets Bruce Wayne while floating above a lake and the final shot of the Snyder Cut is him soaring above the Wayne estate.
• Good Counterpart: To General Zod, being a military leader who seeks to preserve peace and help humanity rather than conquer and kill it. Plus, he's an alien.
• Good Is Not Soft: Swanwick may be stern with Superman and Lois, but both are aware he wants what is best.
• Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Superman trashes a surveillance drone right in front of him without warning. Swanwick's reaction is "Are you effin' stupid?!".
• Hero of Another Story: He mentions assuming many disguises during his time on Earth, hinting at having a series of adventures before deciding to come out as an alien.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: As "Calvin Swanwick" he has a gruff exterior befitting a general, but in truth he's incredibly kind-hearted and sociable. He visits Lois under the guise of Martha Kent so that they can talk about Clark on a more personal level. "Martha" then gives Lois a You Are Better Than You Think You Are speech, revealing the Martian Manhunter's full respect for this intrepid and brave journalist in a way he couldn't do as "General Swanwick".
• Human Disguise: General Swanwick is one of several human guises Martian Manunter has taken.
• Hypocrite: Once demanded that Superman, an alien, hand over all of his secrets to the US Government when he himself is an alien who is keeping secrets from the US Government. Granted, he was still expected to do this, considering that he's hiding.
• I Have Many Names: Says this verbatim when he introduces himself to Bruce, before settling on "Martian Manhunter" as his official moniker.
• Innocent Aliens: A Green Martian who is nonetheless benevolent and willing to protect mankind.
• Instant Costume Change: Martian Manhunter's clothes are part of him, so they change when he shapeshifts.
• Large and in Charge: He's even taller than Superman.
• Last of His Kind: As far as we know, he's the last surviving Green Martian.
• Mirror Character: To Bruce Wayne. Both are initially distrustful of Superman, but cast aside all animosity when he dies, with Swanwick attending his public funeral while Bruce watches Clark's funeral from afar, both with a female companion at their side. At the end of Zack Snyder's Justice League the two meet each other after realizing that the world isn't going to be safe forever. Assuming Martian Manhunter has the same aversion to fire that he has in every other iteration, then both characters also suffer from PTSD.
• Neutral No Longer: After spending years keeping a low profile, the Apokolips invasion attempt makes him realize he has just as much a stake in the fight as everyone else, driving him to reveal his true identity to Bruce and join the League.
• Rank Up: He has been promoted Secretary of Defense between Man of Steel and Batman v Superman.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Pretty much everything he says and does is exactly what a real military official would do when faced with superhuman aliens. Especially since he is a superhuman alien in disguise himself.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Subverted. His eyes glow red and do look intimidating, but he's completely benevolent.
• The Reveal: After decade of hiding among humanity, the Martian Manhunter reveals himself to Bruce Wayne as the Martian Manhunter.
• Secret-Identity Identity: Unlike the other superheroes who can assume a civilian lifestyle and treat their heroic duties as separate from their personal lives, Martian Manhunter's options are implied to be limited to either hiding among humanity or being a full-time superhero. His duties as a general and later secretary of the State wouldn't afford him the time or privacy to have a dual life.
• Secret Secret-Keeper: After Superman thwarted the military's attempts to uncover his secret identity, it turns out their general has known this whole time, but kept it to himself because Swanwick himself is an alien hiding in plain sight.
• Sixth Ranger: He asks to become the seventh member of the Justice League after the team has defeated Steppenwolf, which Bruce accepts.
• Spell My Name with a "The": He specifically introduces himself as the Martian Manhunter.
• Superman Stays Out of Gotham: He only starts intervening in conflicts after Steppenwolf is defeated, which is Hand Waved with the idea that he wanted to see humanity prove themselves worthy of his protection. Justified in Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, in that he's in a military position and he can't exactly disappear from his role during a military conflict. However, no such excuse is provided in Zack Snyder's Justice League, in which his only appearance prior to joining the team is to visit a grieving Lois Lane while disguised as Martha Kent. His line "There's a war coming" hints that he sees joining the League as part of his duties considering his military rank.
• Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist: In Man of Steel Swanwick holds Superman in custody, which the latter complies with just to show he's not dangerous. After Zod's defeat, Swanwick and Superman butt heads once more when the military tries to surveil Superman's private life. Two years later Swanwick has warmed up enough to show concern for Superman's life.
• This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: Martian Manhunter's reason for joining the Justice League is fueled by his realization that Earth is about to become a battleground for a war with Apokolips. Being both and alien and a general, this scenario is exactly up his alley.
• Walking Spoiler: He is revealed to be Martian Manhunter after his first two films had him listed as a Canon Foreigner.
• When He Smiles: As "Calvin Swanwick", he is pretty stern at the best of times, but when he reveals his true self to Bruce Wayne he's much more approachable.

Green Lantern

John Stewart / Green Lantern

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Green Lantern Corps, Justice League

Portrayed By: Wayne T. Carr

Appearances: Zack Snyder's Justice League (unused footage)

The Green Lantern of Sector 2814. He appears in a planned ending to Zack Snyder's Justice League to propose an alliance with Bruce Wayne. In the final cut he was replaced with Martian Manhunter.

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• Aborted Arc: Due to a studio mandate, Zack Snyder wasn't allowed to include any human Green Lanterns in his cut. He did get far enough for the scene to be filmed in Snyder's backyard and the VFX to be completed on his scene.
• Alternate Self: On Earth-167, in the Arrowverse's multiverse.
• Early-Bird Cameo: John Stewart was originally selected to be a Green Lantern after Hal Jordan and Guy Gardner were introduced. In this continutity he appears before either one (assuming any future DCEU entry ever expand upon the Green Lantern mythos).
• Legacy Character: He's assigned to watch over his native planet Earth, making him the official successor to the ancient Green Lantern that fought against Darkseid's first invasion.
• One-Steve Limit: Jon Stewart had a brief cameo As Himself in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Additionally, his unused appearance was given to another superhero that traditionally answers to the name "John".

The Flash Alternate Timeline Members

• Barry Allen/Flash
• Alternate Barry Allen/Flash
• Alternate Bruce Wayne/Batman

Supergirl

Kara Zor-El / Supergirl

"Do you know what this symbol stands for?"

Species: Kryptonian

Citizenship: Krypton

Affiliation(s): House of El, Justice League

Portrayed By: Sasha Calle

Appearances: The Flash

"We are a people of hope, not war."

After Barry Allen tampers with history, Kal-El's own history is overwritten. Taking his place as the Kryptonian who came to Earth is his cousin Kara. Unlike Kal who was fortunate enough to be found by a loving couple and raised as an Earthling, Kara was held in captivity. When the Kryptonian invaders attack Earth unchallenged, the Flash recruits her for his new Justice League.

See also the DCEU Alternate Timelines page for more information on the Alternate History.

See DCEU: Krypton for her similarly-named ancestor who existed prior to the timeline changes brought by Flash.

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• Achievements in Ignorance: Supergirl learns how to fly, use heat vision and hone her senses within a very short timeframe with no guidance whatsoever. Compare this to Superman and General Zod; the former required training and the latter learned through observation.
• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Supergirl has always had a tragic backstory, but between humanity's bad first impression on her and the revelation that Zod killed the last of her family, this Kara has an especially bleak characterization.
• Adaptational Hairstyle Change: She has shorter hair than most version of the character.
• Adaptational Modesty: Supergirl's outfit usually shows a some skin such as miniskirts or minidress. This version wears a skintight suit like in Elseworld but it doesn't show her figure much.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: She's famously blonde in the comics but has black hair here.
• Alternate Self: Has three on Earth-Prime, Earth-96, and Earth-167.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Supergirl doesn't think highly of humanity due to her imprisonment, but when Barry saves her from captivity and later admits he had no ulterior motives for it, she realizes he was different and helps him regain his powers before joining his team.
• Big Damn Heroes: The Barrys and Batman find themselves badly outnumbered by heavily armed troops. Cue a super-speed asskicking courtesy of a freshly-replenished Kara.
• Big Sister Instinct: Kara took her duty to protect her baby cousin Kal very seriously, and the only time she lightens up and smiles is when Barry tells her he and Kal are friends. When Zod reveals that Kal has been dead for years, Kara explodes with rage.
• Bridal Carry: Barry holds her this way when busting her out of captivity. She returns the favour when he needs to be struck by lightning to regain his powers.
• Brought to You by the Letter "S": Just like Superman, Supergirl wears the symbol of the House of El. Her symbol is slightly varied, with the tail end curling into the body.
• Composite Character: She has the name and role of Kara Zor-El, the traditional Supergirl of the comics, and the look and costume of Lara Lane-Kent, Superman and Lois's hypothetical daughter that Superman imagines while in a Lotus-Eater Machine in the Injustice continuity. Her role in The Flash also mimics the sun-starved Superman seen in Flashpoint. She also assumes Clark's role from Man of Steel, having the Codex implanted in her DNA.
• Darker and Edgier: Owing to living in an underground prison instead of being raised by a kindly family in Smallville, Supergirl doesn't feel the same level of compassion towards humanity that Superman did. She does however see the goodness in Barry and joins his team to protect Earth.
• Everyone Has Standards: Even after declaring she won't do anything to save humanity after what they did to her, she's still shocked when Zod starts slaughtering his way through the soldiers just because the people of Earth hadn't produced the Kryptonian like he'd demanded. When she sees that Barry has almost killed himself in a failed attempt to regain his powers so he can fight Zod, she helps him do so and then fights alongside him.
• Failure Is the Only Option: Supergirl is killed by Zod. Alternate Barry winds back time to save her, only for Kara to be killed by Faora instead. He continues going back in time, only to find Supergirl dies in every single outcome.
• Flying Brick: Like all Kryptonians, she becomes Super Strong, Super Fast, Nigh-Invulnerable and capable of flying when she's exposed to Earth's Yellow Sun.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: She gets stabbed with Zod’s blade during their fight, and again when he extracts the Codex from her. This happens in every outcome Alternate Barry sees when he tries to save her.
• Instant Expert: Kal-El and Zod only mastered the power of Flight through considerable focus in Man of Steel, whereas Kara demonstrates it immediately after being exposed to Earth's yellow sun for the first time in her life.
• Muscles Are Meaningless: Kara's been deprived of sunlight and looks emaciated when she first appears, yet she can plough through humans just as easily as any other Kryptonian once exposed to the sun. Taken to its logical limit when she also engages General Zod in close-quarter combat.
• My Greatest Failure: Kara was entrusted to watch over Kal during his childhood. However, her Kal never made it to Earth and she was imprisoned, leaving her unable to fulfill her duty. Kara is enraged when she learns that Zod intercepted Kal-El and killed him.
• Mythology Gag:
  • Her landing in Russia brings Superman: Red Son to mind.
  • Her short, dark hair and her costume design makes her resemble Lara Lane-Kent, Clark and Lois’ imaginary daughter in Injustice: Gods Among Us.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: When Zod reveals that he'd killed Kal-El while he was still a baby, Supergirl beats him to within an inch of his life. Subverted in the end, as Zod was only pretending to be beaten to lure her into a false sense of security so he could stab her through the chest with ease.
• No True Scotsman: Kara doesn't consider Zod's caste to be proper Kryptonians as they think only of conquest and destruction, exhibiting none of the more admirable traits of her people.
• Older Than They Look: Kara is older than her cousin Kal, yet she appears to be in her twenties around the time he would have turned 33.
• One-Steve Limit: Kara has an ancestor with the exact same name, as detailed in the Man of Steel prequel.
• Perpetual Frowner: She almost always has a stoic or downcast expression.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Supergirl is a head shorter than Barry Allen, but due to having Kryptonian powers she's easily much stronger than he is.
• Race Lift: While most iterations of Supergirl have been depicted with blonde hair and blue eyes (like her alternate counterpart who makes a brief appearance), here she's played by a Latin-American brunette.
• Red Is Heroic: Supergirl has more red in her costume than Superman, covering most of her upper body.
• Relative Button: Her cousin Kal was all she had left of Krypton. When Zod reveals that he'd killed Kal when he was still a baby, Kara attacks him without mercy.
• Sole Survivor: In the altered timeline, she's the only member of the House of El to have survived the destruction of Krypton, with even her cousin Kal-El having been killed by Zod before he could make it to Earth.

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