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The heroes and villains of the randomverse:

Heroes

Superman

Spider-Man

  • Butt-Monkey: The movie segments depict the other characters spiking his milkshakes to create some pretty whacked-out trailers. He eventually lampshades it.
    "What is it with all the free milkshakes lately?"
    • In the short where Batman argues with the Avengers over their 2012 movies, Spider-Man tries to promote his own, but no one listens to him at all, until he cheers for himself at the very end.
  • Constantly Curious: "Hey Bruce? What's in that pocket? ...And that pocket? ...And that pocket? And that pocket? And that pocket?"
  • Deadpan Snarker: He is Spider-Man, after all.
  • Determinator: Possibly even more so than in his actual comics! It took Batman revealing his past combined with Lance's brainwashing ability to take control of him, and even then the process was severely botched.
  • The Hero: In Happy Hour.
  • Hero-Worshipper: Towards Batman.
  • It's All My Fault: He blames himself heavily for losing Marvel's rights to Transformers as well as the screw-ups his own movies have.
    Spider-Man: (sobbing) It's all my fault!
    reboot!Spider-Man: (also sobbing) It's all my fault!
    Spider-Man: Bruce Campbell should be playing Mysterio!
    reboot!Spider-Man: What kind of end-credits Easter egg was that?!
    Spider-Man: IT'S ALL MY FAULT!
    reboot!Spider-Man: IT'S ALL MY FAULT!
    (The two repeat the last line, their voices becoming hilariously inelegant and incomprehensible)
    Batman: (facepalming) ...okay, just give it 10% of all you've got, Professor. 10%.
  • "No More Holding Back" Speech: Which includes his Trauma Conga Line as mentioned below, to point out to the Joker that nothing will break his spirit no matter how hard anyone tries.
  • Out of Focus: One of the most central characters in the series, he's a major character in the first two storylines (and arguably the main character of Happy Hour,) but he's got a much smaller role in Zero Hour and Meanwhile.
  • Reconstruction: Is portrayed as the personification of a hero whose Dark and Troubled Past doesn't turn him in a Grimdark, Knight Templar vigilante akin to Batman.
  • Red Oni: To Batman.
  • Running Gag: "You used to be married!"
  • Sanity Slippage: He suffers this in the 7-year celebration, realizing that Sony will just keep rebooting him to hold onto the rights while the MCU rakes in billions.
  • Trauma Conga Line: Lampshaded by himself in Happy Hour.
    Spider-Man: My mother is dead. My father is dead. My uncle was shot. Even my girlfriend was murdered!
  • Vague Age: Spider-Man is a Trope Codifier for the Kid Hero, but his age is very ambiguous in this series. He speaks like a child, acts like a teen, and is almost always seen drinking milkshakes because it's implied he's not of legal age to actually drink alcohol at Stan's Bar yet. And yet, One More Day apparently happened in this universe and Peter Parker was once married.

Batman

  • Blue Oni: Blue to the cast.
  • Broken Ace: In his own words, he's both an awe-inspiring crimefighter and one of the richest men in the world, yet he has absolutely nothing and can't imagine any future that doesn't involve him being alone.
  • Cannot Tell a Joke / The Comically Serious: In all the years Batman has been on the show, he hasn't made a single proper gag.
  • Characterization Marches On: He's the one who got a lot of amusement out of Spider-Man's milkshake-induced movie trailers at first, but later parodies shows him adamantly decrying them because of the advantage it takes of Spider-Man's unconsciousness.
  • Crazy-Prepared
  • Dating Catwoman: Hinted at, as a running gag is the Meow Mix in his utility belt.
  • Deadpan Snarker: With more emphasis on the "deadpan".
  • Decoy Protagonist: In Zero Hour. With the speed and precision with which he takes control of the situation involving Lance's head, you could be mistaken for believing he's The Hero this time around. Turns out, he's a Supporting Leader.
  • Good Is Not Nice
  • Informed Loner: Played for laughs in the Sh*t Batman Says video.
    I don't need help.
    Thanks, Alfred.
    I work alone.
    Thanks, Dick. Thanks, Barbara. Thanks, Tim.
    I'm not a team player.
    Thanks, Justice League.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: There is the requisite Superman, who Batman refuses to let anyone else call a Boy Scout. The Randomverse adds Spider-Man, who Batman complains about a lot but rescues even more.
  • The Lancer & The Smart Guy: To the point where Clark panics when he disappears in After Hours, and everyone panics when Lance randomly teleports him in Happy Hour.
  • My Name Is Inigo Montoya: "I'm Batman!" is his catchphrase, and he even says it instead of "I'm a DC" (except one time mistakenly thinking it annoyed Iron Man).
  • Not So Above It All: He gives Spider-Man a spiked milkshake when he suggests that his movies will eventually overtake The Dark Knight Trilogy.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In "After Hours", Bruce is the first to revert to his World's Finest incarnation, going from grim to mild-mannered and kind mid-sentence. Superman and Spider-Man are incredibly confused.
  • Only Sane Man: He is one of the few people that can put up with the antics of Deadpool.
  • Out of Focus: He's a major player in all the storylines except Meanwhile, where he only appears in minor roles.
  • Supporting Leader: In Zero Hour.
  • Team Dad: While Clark treats everyone as an equal part of the team, Batman rescues first and lectures later, particularly Spider-Man (who is the youngest).
  • Warrior Poet: Waxes philosophical on the ethics of not revealing Spider-Man's former marriage because it was Spider-Man's choice as a Heroic Sacrifice to forget about it.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: With both Superman and Spider-Man. The dynamic is clearest between him and Spider-Man, though; Spidey idolizes Batman who in return finds him more irritating than anything... and yet, though he doesn't want to admit it, Batman does care for the webhead a lot more than he lets on.
  • Warrior Therapist: Despite not being mentally sound himself (or possibly because of it), he tends to act as one.
    • While defusing a bomb strapped to the Green Goblin's crotch, Bruce attempts to give relationship advice and talk Gobby down from suicidal despair.
    • After Tony breaks into Wayne Manor to drown his sorrows after losing to The Dark Knight (in both senses), Bruce helps Tony regain confidence with a training montage set to Eye of the Tiger. Though Bruce is still angry when Tony destroys things.

Iron Man

The Incredible Hulk

Deadpool

  • Ax-Crazy: Well, it's Deadpool. What did you expect?
  • Breakout Character: Introduced to the series in early 2009, but didn't appear in any story videos. As of Zero Hour, he's been promoted to The Lancer.
  • Buddy Cop Show: He's the bad cop to Rorschach in "Rorschach & Deadpool".
  • Fanboy: Of Ryan Reynolds, but it's Played for Laughs.
  • Foil: To Darkseid. While Darkseid was the only one oblivious to the fact he was a comic book character, Deadpool however is not only aware of being a comic book character but also an action figure in a web video series.
  • Healing Factor: Abused lots.
  • Heroic Comedic Sociopath: Although he identifies as a psychopath.
    Goblin: Look, we're just a couple of sociopaths - (Deadpool clears throat) - fine, a sociopath and a psychopath.
  • Immortality: Rorschach even asks in an annoyed tone about his inability to die.
  • Large Ham: Naturally, down to being an hyperactive Motor Mouth.
  • The Lancer: To the Green Goblin in "Zero Hour", and to Rorschach in "Rorschach and Deadpool".
  • Medium Awareness: As usual...
    • No Fourth Wall: ...Although, it's gradually progressing into this. Everyone already knows they're fictional characters with movies being made about them, but he's the only one aware that he's an action figure in a web series, and comments on the editing, his yellow subtitles and the wait between episodes.
  • Odd Couple/Odd Friendship: With Rorschach.
  • Painting the Medium: Deadpool ponders in yellow captions how bad the stop motion animation is and asks for a better editing software.
  • Professional Killer / Psycho for Hire
    DP: What? I kill people. It's a perfectly legitimate business.
    Goblin: Killing's not legitimate!
    DP: (defensively) It's a business.
  • Red Oni: To Rorschach.
  • Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: Thanks to being able to see past the fourth wall.
  • Terrible Trio: With Lex Luthor and the Green Goblin, apparently.
  • Yuri Fan: Founder of the The Golden Girls Slash Fic fan-site.

Rorschach

  • Arbitrary Gun Power: When he gets shot by Joe Palachi, he is very much injured. Deadpool did say he only meant to wing him, though...
  • Blue Oni: To Deadpool.
  • Character Development: Once he time travels, his old cynical self makes Rorschach realize he's become less jaded as a result of spending so much time with Deadpool.
  • Disney Death: At the end of Zero Hour.
  • Good Cop/Bad Cop: Deadpool makes him look like the Good Cop. He accepts this when he kills his past self.
  • The Hero: In Rorschach and Deadpool.
  • Made of Iron: He's been shot by Deadpool, and he still got back up like it was nothing. Of course, Deadpool also made it clear he was aiming for just winging him.
  • Morality Chain: Deadpool essentially says he considers Rorschach to be this to him.
    • Ironically, Deadpool becomes one for him.
  • Not So Above It All: For all his seriousness and no-nonsense attitude, he occasionally finds himself agreeing with Deadpool, or even encouraging some of his antics. At the start of the Meanwhile series, when Deadpool claims he is going to use Doom's time-machine to relive the previous hero debates, he expects Rorschach to be against it and to try to talk him out of it. But Rorschach actually encourages the idea, to Deadpool's shock. Also, before they use it together, they discuss if this idea was inspired by The Stinger from Deadpool 2 or just a coincidence, with Rorschach actually following and understanding Deadpool's train of thought.

Green Lantern

The Mighty Thor

Captain America

  • The Cape: Possibly even more so than Superman.
    Batman: My God, he's almost as bad as Clark.
    Iron Man: You should see him in the 4th of July.
  • Captain Patriotic: Lantern is very hesitant to snark at him, lest he be demonized by the whole country.
  • Deadpan Snarker: One of the least mean-spirited characters, but it's still there.
  • Nice Guy: Where Rorschach tries to deal with Deadpool's perpetual chattiness by shooting him, Cap gives Deadpool a cellphone with no one on the other end. The best part is that Cap's solution actually works.
    • Cap is remarkable in that he's the only character to date that hasn't taken criticisms against his movies personally and does his best to be impartial. When it came time for his movie to be squared off with Green Lantern's, the other Avengers were the ones who violently responded to the latter's criticisms on their leader's behalf. Cap was not impressed.
    • The trend continues with The Dark Knight Rises vs. The Avengers. Every Avenger lashes out at Batman except Captain America, who's trying to (unsuccessfully) calm everyone down.
  • Spirit Advisor: Act as this to Superman in After Hours.

Stan Lee

  • Badass Normal: He's just a comics personality and yet is looked up to by all the heroes.
  • Big Good: As the owner of "Stan's Place".
  • The Character Died with Him:invoked After Stan's real life passing, Stan Lee the character is mentioned to have also passed away, with his creations still in mourning.
  • Cool Old Guy: Like his real-life counterpart.
  • Distressed Dude: In After Hours, he's kidnapped by Lex Luthor.
  • Parental Substitute: Due to most of the heroes having no fathers or father figures to celebrate Father's Day with, they instead opt to celebrate with Stan, the closest thing most of them mutually had to a living father.
  • Ret-Gone: Luthor wanted to do this to him and the entire Marvel universe.
  • Spirit Advisor: To Goblin.

Wolverine

Rocket Raccoon and Groot

  • Be Careful What You Wish For: Rocket spends quite some time attempting to rile up the DC heroes so they can compare notes again. However, it backfires horribly when Flash inevitably brings up James Gunn's firing and Rocket lashes out by attempting to shoot him.
  • Deadpan Snarker: It's Rocket Raccoon so...yeah.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Rocket is in full Troll mode but also has moments of dog petting like:
    • Assuring Groot that he does think he deserves his popularity after sarcastically referring to him as a low bar.
    • He genuinely doesn't want to come across as a jerk while duking it out with Shazam! and ends up feeling bad that he made a little kid cry.
  • Mathematician's Answer: When they meet the 60s versions of Superman and Spider-Man to try to Set Right What Once Went Wrong, Spidey asks Rocket if he's a new addition to the Disney comics. Given how Disney bought Marvel in the future, Rocket answers "yes and no" before explaining there is a lot of red-tape involved they don't have time to explain.
    60s Superman: Sounds more like a Warner's character if you ask me.
  • Those Two Guys
  • Pokémon Speak: I am Groot.

Villains

Lex Luthor

Lance M. Donovan

An Original Character introduced in After Hours. He's revealed as Lex Luthor's spy early on. Is a douche. As it turns out, he's a demi-android created through S.H.I.E.L.D. and Cadmus technology; designed to be so realistic that nobody could suspect him of being mechanical. Most of the plots revolve around him in some way. Dude.

  • ApocalypseDude: In Happy Hour, and Zero Hour.
  • Flat Character: His personality consists almost entirely of saying "Dude" and "Dude. Sucks" to passers-by. Invoked by Lex Luthor, as Lance was designed to be the last person anyone would ever want to talk to or suspect of anything intelligent.
  • Living MacGuffin: In every season.
  • Meaningful Name: As the Nick Furys eventually realise, Lance M. Donovan is a Life Model Decoy, a type of android from the Marvel Universe but enhanced with Project Cadmus technology from the DC Universe.
  • Obfuscating Stupidity
  • Verbal Tic: "Dude" and "Dude. Sucks."

Lars M. Dusseldorf

Dubbed "Lance 2.0", Lars serves as a replacement for Lance after he is teleported to Apokolips.

The Joker

The Green Goblin

Harley Quinn

  • You Are Worth Hell: She chooses to use the reboot device to live with Goblin in the new universe, just to be with him.

Doctor Doom

  • Always Someone Better: Despises Lex Luthor for always being a step above himself. Despite this, there are some hints that Luthor's also his Worthy Opponent.
  • Body Horror: Aside from the scars, of course: After Palachi!Joker uses Apokoliptian technology on Doom to transform him (along with Venom, Sabretooth, Two-Face and Mr. Freeze) into one of the horrific monsters seen in the future timeline. He gets better, though.
  • Enemy Mine: He gives Batman the handlink that ultimately leads to Luthor's defeat.
  • Evil Genius: Of course.
  • Outgambitted: By Luthor and the Joker during After Hours and then again by Luthor in Zero Hour.
  • Worthy Opponent: Possibly Luthor. He does admit that he'll never defeat Lex unless he matches his technology.

Darkseid

  • A God Am I: Still has a god complex, despite the fact that it's all in his head (since in reality he's just a comic book villain). He's still an extremely powerful being in-universe, however.
  • Big Bad: In Zero Hour.
  • Despair Event Horizon: Crosses this when Deadpool reveals the limited nature of Darkseid's existence.
  • Eviler than Thou: He vaporized The Joker.
  • Evil Overlord: Kinda obvious.
  • Evil Plan: His is to reveal to the heroes of the multiverse that their existence is meaningless, and their lives can be entirely changed on the whim of the executives if they so desire. Thus, they would lose all will to fight—this is, in Darkseid's eyes, the true Anti-Life Equation.
  • Evil Sounds Deep
  • Eye Beams: The Omega Beams.
  • Go Mad from the Revelation: He admits that finding out he was just a fictional comic villain was a crushing blow to his ego, but it eventually led him to beginning his Evil Plan as stated above after some research. This truly happens to him when Deadpool uses the thought transfer device Darkseid used on the heroes on the two of them, revealing that not only was Darkseid just a fictional villain, he was nothing but a toy being used in a Youtube video. This causes Darkseid to let out a Big "NO!" and drop to the ground defeated.
  • In Their Own Image: The ultimate goal of his evil plan above, to cause a Continuity Reboot in-universe where he is absolute.
  • Multiversal Conqueror: It's Darkseid. Did you expect anything less?
  • One of Us: In a singular video after the events of Zero Hour, he and Thanos have a brief villainous echo of the Nick Furies when he parodies Thanos' line from the MCU, complete with the Infinity Gauntlet. Thanos shows up and goes "Hey..." to which Darkseid screams "I was here FIRST!". Whether or not he will appear again has yet to be seen though.
  • Tomato in the Mirror: He doesn't realise that he's a fictional character. When the Joker gleefully tells him otherwise, he doesn't take it very well. Deadpool revealing he's not just a comic character, but an action figure of a comic character in a YouTube video almost causes him to die from shock.
  • The Stinger: His appearance at the very end of Happy Hour.
  • Villainous Breakdown: While being revealed as a comic character let him plan out a means of taking over the universe, being revealed as a toy in ItsJustSomeRandomGuy's youtube channel broke him.

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