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Injustice Society of America

In General

The Original Lineup^note Front, left to right: The Wizard, Tigress, Sportsmaster, Icicle, Brainwave, the Gambler, the Fiddler. Back (hidden in shadow): The Shade, Solomon Grundy.

A group of supervillains formed together to ultimately defeat the Justice Society of America, they successfully killed most of the team in an attack on their headquarters, and disappeared shortly after. They've since set-up shop in Blue Valley, for nefarious reasons.

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• Adapted Out: Founding members Vandal Savage and the Thinker are not part of the team in this continuity. Since both villains had already played prominent roles in the Arrowverse, there was no need to readapt them into this show.
• Arc Villain: The group as a whole serves as this for the first season due to their murders of the JSA and their plans to brainwash the Midwest, putting them in conflict with Courtney and Pat as they stumble onto and begin opposing their operations in Blue Valley. While their actions continue to haunt the new JSA throughout the entire show and individual members stick around to cause havoc, the ISA itself never manages to reunite or return to its former glory after being disbanded in season one.
• Badass Family: Sportsmaster and Tigress are married, while the current Fiddler is the wife/possible widow of the original.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Subverted; though seemingly the case with a name like the 'Injustice Society of America' and their choice to battle the Justice Society of America, but they actually call themselves that because they're battling what they see as injustices in America^note this example of Reimagining the Artifact is taken from the Johnny Sorrow-led incarnation of the Injustice Society, who were specifically formed of people who wanted revenge against the JSA for their "injustices", albeit generally these amounted to "they stopped me hurting people and/or they foiled the evil plans of my parents so now I want revenge".
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Shade betrayed Icicle (it's heavily implied this is because he had no desire to go along with Jordan's plan), Icicle killed the Wizard, Sportsmaster and Tigress killed the second Fiddler, Cindy literally stabbed her father Dragon King in the back. This is one of the main reasons a group of teenagers was able to defeat them after the original JSA failed.
• Equal-Opportunity Evil: They're a cabal of murderous supervillains with Caucasian, East Asian, and South Asian members in their ranks.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Most of them have children of their own, and are, for the most part, seemingly not Abusive Parents. Brainwave is strict with his son and his creepy intensity bothers him, but he's also a Papa Wolf who immediately decides he needs to kill Courtney for threatening him,^note  though he's later fine with killing Henry himself while Tigress and Sportsmaster are Happily Married and gush about their daughter to anyone who'll listen.
• Evil Parents Want Good Kids: They deliberately keep their kids out of their plans, because the intent is to make a world where their kids won't need to join them. The exception is Cindy, whom Dragon King treats as an experiment.
• Evil Reactionary: Blue Valley looks like someone ripped a town out of the 80s and plopped it down in the modern day. A speech Icicle gives at The American Dream reinforces this, as he seeks to take America back to what he sees as a better time.
• Hero Killer: They successfully wiped out the Justice Society of America, with some of them in particular being directly responsible. Icicle dealt the fatal blow to Starman and is implied to have killed the Flash, for instance.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: They start off the season as respected members of the Blue Valley community and on the verge of finally completing their plot, which has been at least ten years in the making. By the end of the season, all of them except the Gambler, Grundy, Sportsmaster and Tigress are dead, with the former two having skedaddled and the latter two in prison.
• Hypocrite: Despite claiming that they're doing this for the sake of their children and children everywhere, none of them had any problems with Icicle killing the Wizard and the Wizard's family, nor Brainwave killing his own son. This is subsequently lampshaded by Barbara in the first season finale, when rejecting Jordan's offer to join him.
• Legion of Doom: A collection of previously unaffiliated supervillains united under Icicle and his "New America" plan.
• Mythology Gag: Several classic villains from the comics are brought up as former associates, such as Per Degaton, Blackbriar Thorn, Baron Blitzkrieg, Gentleman Ghost, and the Thinker.
• Murder Is the Best Solution: Most of them are extremely trigger-happy and have no qualms about killing anyone in the way of their plans or even if someone just annoys them or their children (as in the case of Sportsmaster and Tigress).
• Retired Monster: All of them have seemingly retired to relatively mundane Villain with Good Publicity roles within Blue Valley; they're still planning something, but they've retired from robbing banks or fighting cops and instead are exerting their influence through economic, political, and social manipulation rather than overt villainy.
• Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: Despite the show's general cheery tone, the ISA doesn't play around and will hunt down and murder people left and right to achieve their goals, up to and including children, sometimes even their own.
• Villainous Friendship: Brainwave and Wizard butt heads, but it seems they're all on a friendly basis; their secret lair has a similar oil panting/photograph of the team that the JSA had, and they all refer to one-another on a First-Name Basis, inferring they're more than just colleagues. It's subverted though; all of them are apparently a-okay with Icicle killing the Wizard, Icicle and Fiddler II call Sportsmaster and Tigress "the Gym Rats" when their actions annoy them, and Gambler is told point blank by Sportsmaster that they aren't friends before Tigress subtly threatens him. In the finale, Tigress actually murders Fiddler II herself after the latter presses her Berserk Button. It seems its more that everyone is friends with Jordan, or at least admire and respect his leadership, but they tolerate the others.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Each of the core members have built up good reputations as respected figures within the Blue Valley community. Anaya and Paula act as principal and gym teacher of Blue Valley High respectively, Jordan and Steven are the founder and CFO of the American Dream, William is a well-reputed politician, Henry is a renowned neurosurgeon, and Larry owns a popular gym.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Project: New America, the ISA's penultimate plan, will have Brainwave reprogram the minds of every adult in the Midwest so they could craft a "New Constitution"... one that will combat social bigotry and embrace clean energy and universal healthcare. This takes the heroes by surprise, and even Rick questions if they're in the wrong for trying to stop them. The only reason they continue to fight is because the mass brainwashing will result in the deaths of roughly 25 million people whose brains are resistant to being controlled, a loss that the ISA will gladly accept.
• Western Terrorists: They fit the dictionary definition, as a politically-motivated violent insurgent group.
• Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: They call themselves the Injustice Society because they're opposed to "injustices" — the failings of American society that lead to the suffering and death of innocents. They want to make a better America for their children, who they all care about deeply, and ultimately they're best described as revolutionaries. It's just that to make this new America, they have to rob and kill and brainwash a lot of people, and started their plan by massacring the Justice Society of America so they couldn't stop them.

Jordan Mahkent / Icicle

Jordan Mahkent / Icicle

Species: Metahuman

Known Aliases: Icicle

Played by: Neil Jackson

Appearances: Stargirl

"I killed one Starman, I can kill another."

A villain with the power to generate ice. He is the leader of the Injustice Society, and the one who dealt the killing blow to Starman. As Jordan, he's a successful businessman and founder of The American Dream.

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• Action Dad: Father to Cameron and a very seasoned supervillain.
• Adaptational Attractiveness: His appearance in the comics◊ can best be described as a mix between Jack Frost and the Green Goblin. Here, he looks like a regular man even with his icy skin.
• Adaptational Badass: The comic version uses a freeze ray. This version is a metahuman with ice powers like his son.
• Adaptational Dye-Job: The first Icicle is usually depicted with snow white skin, while this version's skin is an icy blue (similar to Icicle Jr.'s).
• Adaptational Heroism: Played With. In the comics, Icicle was a costumed criminal and thief who committed crimes mostly For the Evulz, especially as he was already quite wealthy. Here, he's a Well-Intentioned Extremist motivated by a strong disgust in the 'injustices' he sees in America and desires to build a better world. However, while his motivations are more noble, his methods are far more extreme, see below.
• Adaptation Name Change: From the Norwegian Joar Mahkent to the American Jordan Mahkent. In some regard, it ties in with his Age Lift, as he's gone from a first-generation Norwegian immigrant to a second-generation, and so as well as being younger he uses an Americanised name.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: In the comics, Joar was a terrible father, abandoning Cameron at birth and passing him over in his will in favor of Wally West of all people, just out of spite for his family. In the show, he's actually shown to be a very loving father and Cameron mourns his passing, rather than being indifferent like his comic counterpart.
• Adaptational Villainy: Played With. In the comics, he was a costumed thief who only ever killed one man, an Asshole Victim he used to fake his own death; otherwise, it was noted after his death that his freezing tech was Harmless Freezing and he avoided casualties. Here, he's much more kill-happy and is even willing to kill an innocent teenager, and it's explicitly shown that his ice is very much not harmless. However, while his methods are more extreme, his motivation is much more noble, see above.
• Affably Evil: He's a murderous Hero Killer who has no qualms killing children, but he addresses his enemies with professional respect and is Nice to the Waiter among his employees. It crosses into Faux Affably Evil when he keeps this up even while killing The Wizard.
• Age Lift: His comic counterpart grew old and died long before Courtney made her debut appearance. Here, he's roughly around Pat's age. Notably, in the comics he had several adult grandchildren, yet here he only has one, teenaged son.
• Ascended Extra: He plays a significantly larger role here than in Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E., in which he only appeared via flashback. Now he's the leader of the ISA, and the main threat of Season 1.
• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: He's the leader of the Injustice Society and also its strongest member. As far as Pat knows, the Cosmic Staff is the only weapon powerful enough to hurt him.
• Back from the Dead: Despite seemingly being killed in the season 1 finale, he returns in season 3, having been holed up in the sewers beneath Blue Valley spying on the main characters through a network of Sinister Surveillance.
• Benevolent Boss: Unlike Sharpe, he's receptive to Barbara's ideas even though they may not be profitable, appreciating the civic value to them. This doesn't stop him pulling a You Have Failed Me on The Wizard, though.
• Big Bad: As the leader of the Injustice Society, Icicle is the main antagonist of the entire series. Even after his brainwashing plan is foiled in season one, his team's actions directly or indirectly instigate almost every conflict that the new JSA come to face before he returns as the mastermind behind the Ultra-Humanite in season three.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: Acts as the mastermind behind the Ultra-Humanite and Dragon King's schemes in Season 3, setting up the latter for his son to defeat and become a hero while the former steals Starman's body to run for president.
• Blow You Away: Icicle's powers are winter themed, so he can create strong winds as well as ice and snow.
• Children Are Innocent: Despite the fact he himself Would Hurt a Child to achieve his goals, he appears to believe this, and that adults have screwed up the world and need to be mind-controlled by Dragon King's device so that the ISA can create a better America for the young people.
• Color Motif: His ice armor is a frigid blue color, and when he's in businessman mode, he wears a blue suit.
• Combat Pragmatist:
  • During the assault on JSA headquarters, he lets the other villains distract Starman then impales him with an ice spike from the shadows.
  • He hits S.T.R.I.P.E. and Courtney with ice blasts from hiding, and it's only once they're both down that he steps into the open, and barely pauses for a Bond One-Liner.
• Composite Character:
  • He is a metahuman like Icicle Jr. from the comics rather than using a Freeze Ray. It's apparently a Decomposite Character of his son, however, who also appears in the show.
  • He also takes on aspects of Dragon King and Johnny Sorrow, being the one responsible for the Blue Valley take-over as well as the leader of the Injustice Society that Courtney battles.
  • Interestingly, it appears his backstory takes from the heroine Ice, rather than his own, with him coming from a family of Norwegian ice people who apparently have a lengthy family history.
• Crusading Widower: When his wife died, he murdered everyone responsible for the toxic chemical that poisoned her. His dedication to Project New America is further motivated by her death, as she urged him to complete it and destroy anyone in his way just before she died.
• Death by Irony: Jordan killed Joey Zarick by having him get hit by a truck. In the season one finale, Mike, who is a kid even younger than Joey, kills Jordan by hitting him with a truck.
• Disney Villain Death: Subverted. He falls off the clock tower but survives due to his ice armor; however, the impact heavily damages his armor, leaving him fragile enough to be smashed to bits by a truck-driving Mike.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: As far as we see, he loves his son and the two are very close. In fact, Project: New America is aimed explicitly for his sake. He also loved his wife very dearly, and was devastated by her death, and his elderly parents live with him as well.
• Even Evil Has Standards: He seems pretty shocked when witnessing Brainwave's total nonchalance after the death of his son at his own hands. He also briefly hesitates to order Barbara killed alongside her husband and daughter due to taking a liking to her, but ultimately he goes through with it, even ordering the death of Mike just to be sure.
• Final Boss: In a fitting Bookend to the show's start, he—and the Ultra-Humanite—are Courtney's final challenges to overcome in order to avenge her predecessor once and for all, first by once more foiling the man who killed him before defeating the madman attempting to steal both his body and legacy. Their third partner, Dragon King, is dispatched by Cindy and the Young All-Stars in a completely unrelated encounter just as Courtney and the JSA begin their own climactic fight with the duo.
• Game Face: When he gets into the action to use his ice powers, his skin turns blue. This also apparently acts to disguise his true identity from others.
• Hero Killer: He struck the lethal blow against Starman, and is implied to have also been responsible for the death of Jay Garrick.
• An Ice Person: He has the ability to generate ice on a large scale. He can cover himself in icy armor, fire projectiles that can freeze objects, and freeze over an entire bridge road in seconds just by touching it.
• Karmic Death: He dies the same way he murdered Joey Zarick — via car crash.
  • The above is Subverted when he is revealed to be alive in Season 3, only to be Killed Off for Real by Artemis in the Grand Finale, using a highly flammable substance that her father - whom he killed - used in his exploding hockey pucks.
• Kill It with Fire: He dies this way the second time at the hands of Artemis.
• Literally Shattered Lives: How he meets his end. After a fall from the clock tower leaves his ice armor in a fragile state, Mike delivers the killing blow by Car Fu, shattering him to icy pieces.
• Magnetic Hero: Subverted in that he's the villain, but he's been able to surround himself with several followers who all put aside their own differences to follow his lead. While there's some aspect of fear, it's also clear that they admire Jordan and his vision, and in some cases are deeply loyal to him personally.
• Murder the Hypotenuse: In one episode, he mentions to Cameron that he once had a rival for his mother's affections, but killed him (with Cameron not realizing that his father isn't joking about this). In both Seasons 1 and 3, his plans also include Pat's death so that he can get with Barbara.
• Nice to the Waiter: As noted above, he's a Benevolent Boss to his civilian employees, and is generally very genial and kind to everyone, as long as they're not in his way.
• Not Wearing Tights: Icicle wears casual street clothes and covers his skin in a layer of blue ice in place of a costume.
• Pragmatic Adaptation: As his comic book costume was too fanciful to translate into a live-action setting, Icicle just wears regular civilian clothing here. A rather interesting choice considering that the other members of the ISA wear comics-accurate costumes.
• Super-Toughness: When his ice armor is active, he can take a Rocket Punch from S.T.R.I.P.E. with no injury. The Cosmic Staff is the only thing that can hurt him, as far as Pat knows.
• Undignified Death: He's killed by Mike of all people, via being rammed by a pickup truck while in his ice form, shattering him to pieces.
• Villainous Breakdown: Has one over the course of the finale, when his plans start to fail.
• Villainous Crush: He's clearly attracted to Barbara — although this doesn't stop him ordering her murdered along with her family when he discovers she's Stargirl's mother.
• Walking Wasteland: The Icicle is capable of freezing his nearby surroundings, and even his breath is capable of freezing someone to death.
• We Can Rule Together: Tries to convince Barbara to side with him in the season finale, even offering to spare Courtney and protect her from the rest of the ISA.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: He'll do anything to create a New America so children will have a better future, even if he has to murder children to do it.
• Would Hurt a Child: Attempts to kill Courtney, nearly drops a Bus Full of Innocents into a large body of water, and engineers a car crash that kills Joey. Later he even orders Mike killed alongside his family, despite the boy not even knowing about Pat and Courtney being superheroes, to avoid the possibility of him growing up and seeking revenge. And in the end, not even his own son is exempt from this. If not for Courtney's intervention, he might have murdered Cameron for defying him.
• You Have Failed Me: Implied as the reason he chose to kill The Wizard and his son Joey, besides the excuse to turn them into martyrs for the community project, because William wasn't running things well enough in Jordan's absence and was untrustworthy to follow.

Henry King, Sr. / Brainwave

Henry King, Sr. / Brainwave

Species: Metahuman

Known Aliases: Brainwave

Played by: Christopher James Baker

Appearances: Stargirl

"Imagine my relief. No Starman, just a silly little Stargirl."

A villain with powerful telepathic and telekinetic abilities, and the father of Henry King, Jr. Outside of the ISA, he's a neurosurgeon at the local hospital.

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• Abusive Parents: For all the hatred he has of his father, he doesn't hesitate putting Henry Jr. through similar treatment in hopes of awakening the latter's powers. Very possibly because that's the only way of parenting that he knows how to do. Then he proves to be even worse than his father by murdering Henry Jr. for standing against him.
• Accidental Murder: The first person he ever killed with his powers was a robber who assaulted him outside of his lab, but it was purely accidental as he had no control over his abilities yet. While he was traumatized by the experience at first, he later takes a liking to killing people this way as he feels they truly deserve it.
• Adaptational Attractiveness: He has the appearance of a small Mad Scientist with a gigantic cranium in the comics. This version is taller and has a regular-sized head with hair.
• Adaptational Villainy: This version of King actually killed his wife Merri, and eventually murders his own son when he refuses to join him in the ISA. This is a stark departure from the comics, where the last thing King did before he died was transfer his abilities to Henry Jr. in a final act of love.
• Badass Bookworm: A supervillain who's also a neurosurgeon.
• Beyond Redemption: Henry Jr. clearly decides he's this after finding out he murdered his mother. Brainwave proves it by murdering him too.
• Broken Pedestal: What causes Henry Jr. to give up on redeeming him is learning that he murdered his wife, Henry Jr.'s mother.
• Clark Kenting: As Brainwave, he forgoes his distinctive glasses. It's unclear whether or not gaining his powers corrected his vision, as he wore the glasses before gaining them.
• Convenient Coma: After figuring out Courtney is the new Stargirl, he winds up in a coma after their second battle so this information doesn't spread to the rest of the Injustice Society.
• Dating Catwoman: In the backstory, he married a superhero, Merri of a Thousand Gimmicks, real name Merri Pemberton, Sylvester's sister. Tragically, this ended with him deciding to kill her so that he could stay by Jordan's side.
• Dead Person Impersonation: He impersonates his dead son in an attempt to fool Yolanda, but referring to the JSA as only her friends and not their friends blows his cover.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the comics, Brainwave gets killed by the Ultra-Humanite. In the show, he gets his throat slashed by Yolanda Montez.
• Dragon-in-Chief: While Icicle is initially presented as the strongest member and unquestionable leader, later episodes make it clear that the whole plan won't work without Henry Sr. He even subtly threatens Jordan when he senses his hesitation to kill Barbara.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Subverted. He truly loved his wife, and does indeed love his son. That didn't stop him from killing Merri for distracting him from the ISA, nor does it stop him from killing Henry Jr. when he chose to stand against his father.
• Evil Redhead: A ruthless supervillain with ginger hair.
• Fatal Flaw: His sadism. Literally. Instead of using his powers to immediately kill Yolanda, he decides to screw with her by disguising himself as his son, her ex-boyfriend, who she is still clearly mourning. Yolanda ultimately sees through it and kills him to avenge Henry Jr.
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: As a nod to his original comic design, Henry wears a pair of round glasses while under his civilian identity.
• Freudian Excuse: His own father was abusive to him as a child, so when he developed powers from his experiments he vowed to use them to Never Be Hurt Again.
• Green and Mean: He wears a green outfit like in the comics, though it's more akin to a Badass Longcoat than a robe.
• Hate Sink: While he is not necessarily the most evil member of the ISA (that honour would belong to Dragon King) he is easily the most hateable, with his smug, condescending demeanor, nonchalance while committing terrible acts and needless sadism.
• Humans Are Bastards: When he first developed his powers, he was tormented by the many selfish and heartless thoughts of the people around him, pushing him to conclude that all human beings are monsters. It's this very mindset that ultimately led to him becoming a supervillain.
• Impostor Forgot One Detail: While disguising as himself Henry Jr., he addresses the rest of the JSA to Yolanda as "[her] friends". That's what causes her to see through the illusion — because, in the end, the JSA were Henry's friends too.
• Kick the Morality Pet: Episode 10 reveals that he murdered his own wife to resolve the Conflicting Loyalty he had between her and the ISA. When his son finds this out, it's the moment that he decides his father is Beyond Redemption, which leads to Brainwave killing him too.
• Leeroy Jenkins: He ignores orders to stay put until Icicle can return and they can deal with Stargirl as a unit, wanting to take her out himself as revenge for attacking his son. This lands him in the hospital and deprives the Injustice Society of Stargirl's secret identity, which he didn't bother to share because he was sure he could kill her. Episode 6 further reveals that Brainwave's powers are instrumental to Project New America, so he not only took one of the ISA's most powerful members off the table, he stalled the entire plan at the same time.
• Love Redeems: Tragically subverted: He truly loved Merri Pemberton and tried to give up his life of villainy for her, but in the end, he killed her so that she wouldn't distract him from the ISA's mission.
• Madden Into Misanthropy: Part of his backstory; A side effect of Brainwave's power is that exposure to negative thoughts gives him horrible migraines. Being literally assaulted by people's darker natures convinced him humans are monsters, and killing them became no more than swatting an annoying fly.
• Mind over Matter: His telekinesis allows him to easily stop cars dead in their tracks.
• Mind Rape: He can forcibly scan a person's mind to get the information he wants, and with physical contact can cause a painful death by brain overload that looks like a stroke.
• Misery Builds Character: Henry Sr. appears to believe this because of the years of torment that led to him becoming Brainwave. Therefore, he treated his son coldly in hopes of jumpstarting the power he hoped to see him inherit.
• Never My Fault:
  • A couple of lines in "Shining Knight" imply that he blames Courtney for Junior's death.
  • He also blames Cindy for it in the following episode.
• Offing the Offspring: When Junior refuses to join his side after learning that he was responsible for Merri's death, Brainwave uses his powers to collapse the stone ceiling onto his son, killing him.
• Papa Wolf: Despite his strict, cold demeanor around Henry Jr. and apparent disappointment that he shows no signs of having inherited his mental powers, it's clear that he genuinely loves his son and will do anything to protect him. He even threatens to kill Stargirl for endangering Junior's life at the drive-in. Ultimately subverted in the worst way possible.
• Professor Guinea Pig: He experimented on himself when he was unable to secure any grants, resulting in his powers.
• Sadist:
  • As he tortures Stargirl with his powers, he cruelly utters, "I forgot how much fun this is."
  • In the season finale, he uses his powers to disguise himself as his deceased son to Yolanda just to screw with her and presumably the rest of the JSA before he kills all of them. Thankfully, Yolanda saw through it.
• Slashed Throat: How he bites it, courtesy of Yolanda.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: The way Brainwave only speaks in a calm voice and even tone makes him all the creepier.
• Starter Villain: He's the first member of the Injustice Society that Stargirl and S.T.R.I.P.E. face off against.
• Telepathy: He can read the thoughts of others and broadcast his own to them.
• Took a Level in Badass: He remarks that after killing his son, he feels more powerful than ever, apparently having absorbed his abilities.
• Undying Loyalty: Ultimately, to Jordan and the ISA. The only time he ever had Conflicting Loyalty was when he met and married his wife, the superheroine Merri of a Thousand Gimmicks, and even then, he ended up killing her to resolve it. At the time, he resented Jordan putting him in that position, but come ten years later, it's clear he never fully regretted the act — which is proven when he doesn't hesitate to kill their son for standing against him. However, he later implicitly threatens Jordan when he hesitates to have Barbara killed, showing that he is more loyal to the cause instead of to Jordan as a leader.
• Would Hurt a Child: Kid Hero or not, he will physically make you suffer simply because it brings him joy. And you being his son will not save you from this.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Both his wife, Merri, and his son, Henry, tried this when pleading with him. Neither worked, and he killed them both for the effort.

William Zarick / The Wizard

William Zarick / The Wizard

Species: Human/Warlock

Known Aliases: The Wizard

Played by: Joe Knezevich

Appearances: Stargirl

"Welcome to the show."

A powerful magician who arms himself with a magic wand. In the present day, he's a respected Blue Valley politician.

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• Adaptation Name Change: His last name is Zard in the comics, but Zarick here.
• All Witches Have Cats: To go with William's theme, the Zarick family pet is a black cat.
• Corrupt Politician: A villain turned politician who is manipulating Blue Valley toward his group's shady ends.
• Dastardly Whiplash: His appearance as the Wizard evokes this, complete with a twirly mustache, a dapper black suit, a cape, and a top hat.
• Deceptive Disciple: Killed his master to gain the wand, as mentioned by Icicle.
• Dirty Coward: He's accused of being this by Brainwave, who justifies his action of going straight to Icicle about the discovery of someone wielding Starman's staff instead of Wizard (who Icicle put in charge while he was out of town) on the grounds that William would probably just pack up his family and flee town instead of face the problem directly.
• Incompletely Trained: Killed his teacher before completing his training, meaning he missed out on making his magic even more powerful according to Icicle.
• Magicians Are Wizards: His supervillain costume is clearly meant to invoke this trope.
• Papa Wolf: William is absolutely furious when he learns of Joey's death, so much that he grabs his wand and marches over to confront Jordan about it. Unfortunately, Jordan gets close enough to grab the wand and freezes William to death.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Attempts one on Icicle after the latter murders his child, but Icicle ultimately kills him instead.
• Sacrificial Lion: The first member of the Injustice Society to die, and by Icicle's hands no less.
• You Have Failed Me: Icicle kills him after his inaction lands Brainwave in the hospital. Episode 6 reveals that Brainwave's powers are necessary for Dragon King's machine to work, so Zarick's inaction did far more than simply bench a teammate.

Steven Sharpe / The Gambler

Steven Sharpe / The Gambler

Species: Human

Known Aliases: The Gambler

Played by: Eric Goins

Appearances: Stargirl

"Let's get this party started, shall we?"

A dapper-dressed supervillain who now serves as CFO of The American Dream foundation that runs Blue Valley.

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• Alliterative Name: Steven Sharpe.
• Arch-Enemy:
  • With the original Dr. Mid-Nite, both having skills relating to technology.
  • Becoming one with the new Dr. Mid-Nite as well, calling her "that horrible little girl" after she hacks his bank accounts.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: He is excellent at calculating probabilities, which extends to being a fantastic hacker and online gambler.
• Back for the Dead: Returns in the season 3 premiere trying to make amends and reconnect with his daughter only to be killed off by a mystery assailant at the end of the episode.
• Badass Normal: No powers, but gets along just fine with his incredible mind for coding and probability.
• Bad Boss: People working for him are completely intimidated and only a new staffer, Barbara Whitmore-Dugan, is willing to voice suggestions when he asks for them because she doesn't know yet that he'll just chew her out about them. Downplayed compared to most supervillains as these are civilian employees he's mistreating and he's not putting them in harm's way, he's just a verbally abusive employer.
• Beard of Evil: He had a very thick beard and mustache back when he actually wore a costume. He still has them in the present day, but they've been trimmed down significantly.
• The Cracker: He's an expert hacker.
• Fatal Flaw: His love of money. In the finale, he stymies Beth and Chuck by putting up a new firewall every time they crack one...until they distract him by hacking into his bank accounts and donating every last penny to charity. This makes him lose focus long enough for them to break Pat and Justin free from Brainwave's control.
• Fat Bastard: He's noticeably more paunchy compared to his colleagues in the ISA and he doesn't even bother to hide how much of a dick he is to his co-workers at The American Dream.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: He may be a member of the team, but it's not clear any of them actually like him. Sportsmaster and Tigress make their dislike of him clear, while Icicle at best treats him as a subordinate. Even Larry, Sportmaster's civilian identity, finds and considers Pat, a former member of the original JSA as well as constituent of the new one, as more of a friend than with Steven; and that's after their true affiliations were revealed to each other.
• Friend to All Children: Downplayed, but when he interacts with Beth, he's surprisingly polite, affable, and gentle, a sharp contrast to his interaction with virtually anyone else. As he emphasizes her youth in their conversation, it's apparent he views her as a child, and as a result he's just far nicer to her than he would be an adult.
• Jerkass: The only Injustice Society member who doesn't try to hide that he's not a nice guy (besides the Obviously Evil Dragon King, anyway). While the others seem to engage in Faux Affably Evil or even genuine Affably Evil behavior, he's just an asshole.
• Karma Houdini: He packs up and leaves when everything around him starts going to shit in the finale. That said, he did lose several millions of dollars over the course of the episode, so he didn't get off totally unpunished (especially since he cares about his money more than anything in the world).
• Know When to Fold 'Em: He flees from the first JSA/ISA battle, and in the season finale, once he sees that Project New America has failed, he deletes all his files and leaves.
• Money Fetish: The only thing he really cares about is his money, with the implication being that his only stake in Project New America is the chance to get even richer than he already is. Beth and Chuck distract him in the finale by hacking into his bank accounts and donating everything inside to charity.
• Non-Action Guy: He has no powers, so he doesn't do much during the opening fight with the JSA. He actually attempts to flee the scene before Starman sends him flying with the Cosmic Staff.
• Nothing Up My Sleeve: He carries a small pistol on a spring mechanism attached to his arm.
• Related Differently in the Adaptation: He is stated to be the father to Rebecca "Becky" Sharpe (sometimes known in the comics as "Hazard"), whereas in the source material he's actually her grandfather.
• Right-Hand Cat: Has a cat named Juniper he is often seen petting.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: AI Charles states that the Gambler was his archnemesis during his time as Doctor Mid-Nite. In the comics, Gambler originated as a Green Lantern villain.
• Southern-Fried Genius: He's a genius when it comes to hacking, coding, and probability, and he does it all with a thick Southern drawl.
• Sycophantic Servant: As much as he bullies his subordinates, he's quick to change tune when Jordan expresses agreement with Barbara and is clearly looking for his approval, though it could also be just as much fear of what Icicle will do to him if he becomes a problem.
• Villain: Exit, Stage Left: Books it when the battle with the new JSA goes south.

Larry Crock / Sportsmaster

Lawrence "Larry" Crock / Sportsmaster

Species: Human

Known Aliases: Sportsmaster, "Crusher"

Played by: Neil Hopkins

Appearances: Stargirl

"Game time."

A supervillain who uses sporting tools and his peak fitness to commit crime, as well as husband of Tigress. He now runs a gym, Ripped City, as his cover identity.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: Platonic, towards Pat. He immediately tries to befriend Pat but his over-enthusiasm makes him come off as obnoxious and annoying, especially as he takes way too personable an interest in him after only a single conversation.
• Action Dad: Father to Artemis and a very seasoned supervillain.
• Adaptational Badass: While Sportsmaster is an Olympic-level athlete in the comics, this version takes it further and seems to be a full on Charles Atlas Superpower. Though it's also down to being a skilled fighter, he also seems to tank Hourman and actually bloodies him, despite the fact Rick is Nigh-Invulnerable when his hourglass is flipped.
• Affably Evil: He's a supervillain, but he's also seemingly a genuinely Nice Guy who just has no social skills. This is expanded on later, when he's unhappy he's a lot colder, and he gives Pat a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown while maintaining his cheerful, talkative facade.
• Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: He gets very cocky in a fight, often showing off with his wife. The fact they're such an effective Battle Couple they practically look like they're dancing somewhat gives him reason to.
• Badass Teacher: A gym instructor/owner and a very seasoned supervillain.
• Battle Couple: He always fights alongside his wife. Since they're both Badass Normals, they make for one hell of a team. For one thing, together they're able to utterly stomp Rick, Yolanda, and Courtney in their first fight.
• Blood Knight: He loves his work with the ISA.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: He demonstrates blatant Super-Strength, but it's unclear if he's supposed to be a metahuman or whether it's this trope.
• Creepy Blue Eyes: Most noticeably while wearing his goalie mask.
• Evil Teacher: A career supervillain whose day job is a gym instructor/owner.
• Friendly Enemy: While he's chatty in a fight with Rick, when he's sent to kill Pat, he takes the time to emphasise the fact he likes Pat as a person, compliments him on his robot, and ends up deciding to forgo using weapons because he'd rather give Pat the dignity of at least having the appearance of being able to fight back. In season 2, he still seems to like Pat, and expresses some regret that their respective secret lives derailed what could have been a genuine friendship. The later return to help the JSA defeat Eclipso, before moving in as their new neighbors.
• Good Hair, Evil Hair: When in his civilian identity he keeps his hair neatly combed, but when wearing his Sportsmaster outfit it's messy, particularly in the front.
• Happily Married: With Paula Brooks, AKA Tigress, complete with a daughter. Unholy Matrimony is in play.
• Identical Stranger: To a "Specialist" in New Gotham on Earth-203.
• I Know Madden Kombat: Suffice to say, if it's used in a sport, he'll weaponize it. His athletic arsenal includes baseballs, bats, hockey sticks, and even shuttlecocks that act as smoke bombs.
• Jerk Jock: Subverted; he's a fitness-obsessed sports enthusiast who's also a supervillain, but he's actually quite friendly. Or he tries to be, anyway.
• Knight Templar Parent: Larry loves Artemis and will do anything for her future as a football player. Unfortunately, this includes beating the coach who benched her to death with a baseball bat.
• Large Ham: He insists on people calling him Crusher and has way too much energy.
• Let's Fight Like Gentlemen: When he goes to assassinate Pat, he drops his bat and gives him a chance in the good old fisticuffs.
• Lightning Bruiser: He seems to be almost as strong as Rick, but is also much quicker.
• Malevolent Masked Men: He wears a hockey mask as part of his sports gimmick.
• Movie Superheroes Wear Black: The Sportsmaster suit is much darker than usual, and lacks the signature purple that previous designs had implemented.
• My Beloved Smother: Rare male example; both he and his wife can not stop gushing over their daughter's athletic success. They don't just attend her games, but also her practices, and when they go out to go play supervillain, they make a big deal out of it because they never leave her home alone.
• No Social Skills: He's trying to be a Nice Guy, but his inability to communicate in a means that doesn't involve shouting, demanding people call him by his self-given nickname "Crusher", and becoming way too involved in the fitness of complete strangers makes him come off as obnoxious. It's made clear that this partially stems from his supervillain status; when in a social situation, he appears to not have any idea what he's doing and looks a little uncomfortable, making his obnoxiousness seem like he's overcompensating.
• Papa Wolf: Taken to extremes. He will straight-up murder you for the egregious offense of benching his daughter in football.
• Sadist: He loves killing with his bare hands. Anaya even calls him out for it when it's made clear that he treats murder like a game (or rather, a sport).
• Shameless Self-Promoter: It's rare to see Larry not wearing his own gym's logo.
• Straight Edge Evil: He's a firm believer in a health regime he calls "the Program", which includes strict dietary choices.
• The Thing That Would Not Leave: Crusher's always been an obnoxious and intrusive person, since he thinks he and Pat are buddies. When the Crocks become the Whitmore-Dugans' neighbors in Season Three, he starts coming over on a whim.
• Tom the Dark Lord: A brutal criminal whose name is the remarkably unthreatening Larry. Small wonder he prefers to go by Crusher.
• Truer to the Text: His previous adaptational appearance was far more like an Expy of Deathstroke, both in his mercenary career and his strained relationship with his family. Here, like in the comics, he's a loyal member of the Injustice Society, and both Happily Married and enthusiastically supportive of his daughter.
• Unholy Matrimony: He's Happily Married with fellow supervillain Tigress. Whenever there's a battle taking place, they always fight together as a duo.
• Would Hurt a Child: He's well aware that the new JSA is made up of a bunch of teenagers, and though he's affable towards them during combat, that doesn't stop him from giving them a good thrashing. He tried to hurt Mike when he stabbed a drill into Larry's back to save his dad.

Paula Brooks / Tigress

Paula Brooks / Tigress

Species: Human

Known Aliases: Tigress

Played by: Joy Osmanski

Appearances: Stargirl

"I can't take much more of this town, with its rotary clubs and bake sales!"

A supervillain who fights like a hunter. Happily Married to Sportsmaster, and currently acting as the gym teacher of Blue Valley High.

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• Action Mom: She's the mother of Artemis and a very seasoned supervillain.
• Adaptational Skimpiness: Her costume bares her midriff and significantly more of her legs than the comic costume it's based on. Zig-zagged in that it also shows a lot less cleavage.
• All Asians Know Martial Arts: She's one of only two adult East Asians in the cast and also quite skilled at martial arts. It's downplayed though since her white husband and other (white) members of the ISA also have a lot of skill with it. Also, her martial arts skills seem to resemble something more akin to capoeira (a Brazilian martial art, not an "Asian" one) mixed with cat-like animalistic movements, making her less an Asian martial artist and more a cat-based Animal Themed Super Being of Asian descent.
• Alternate Self: Has one on Earth-666 whose marriage is not so happy.
• Animal Motifs: She models herself after tigers. Whenever she engages in combat, she's usually accompanied by a tiger's growl.
• Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: She gets very cocky in a fight, often showing off with her husband. The fact they're such an effective Battle Couple they practically look like they're dancing somewhat gives her reason to.
• Badass Teacher: A P.E. teacher and a very seasoned supervillain.
• Battle Couple: Paula is already a pretty tough opponent on her own, but when she and her husband fight together, they're nigh unstoppable. For one thing, together they're able to utterly stomp Rick, Yolanda, and Courtney in their first fight.
• Berserk Button: She immediately kills Anaya the second she calls her a bad mother.
• Blood Knight: She loves her work with the ISA and detests her downtime as the gym teacher.
• Clark Kenting: Unlike the other ISA members (including her husband) she only has less than a half mask covering just her left eye. Still, Stargirl and her fellow teenage superheroes don't recognize her as being their gym teacher (though it was also dark when they first met).
• Composite Character: Her Tigress suit in the show is actually based on her daughter's suit from the comics, instead of the more cat-like costume that she usually wears.
• Dance Battler: Her fighting style resembles capoeira (Brazilian dance-fighting), and when she fights alongside her husband, they throw in a lot of couples dance moves as part of their Combination Attack moves.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She's very quick to gush about her daughter's physical capabilities to anyone who'll listen, and there's every indication that she and Larry are Happily Married.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Though she lacks the Affably Evil qualities her husband has, Paula is shown not to tolerate littering on school grounds and sternly orders Steven Sharpe to pick up his discarded bag of peanuts and put them in the trashcan as he's leaving.
• Evil Teacher: A career supervillain whose day job is a P.E. teacher. She even fights her own superhero students.
• Friendly Enemy: While more openly sadistic than her husband, she becomes more kind in season two, as the couple break out of prison to see Artemis' football tryouts. They later return to help the JSA defeat Eclipso, before moving in as their new neighbors.
• Happily Married: She and Crusher are seen together in the school's open house mutually adoring their daughter.
• Hidden Depths: Although Paula's life revolves around sports and physical activity, she's revealed to be skilled in taxidermy in season three.
• Jerk Jock: It's more apparent than with her husband; she's a gym teacher who's also apparently quite a jerk to students who aren't athletes. When she sees new-girl Courtney looking for a table, rather than letting her sit with the jocks, she points her to the table known for being the table for losers. Ironically, Courtney is an athlete, but the school doesn't provide a program for gymnastics.
• Knight Templar Parent: She's determined to not let anything get in the way of Artemis's sports career, even if it means murdering many coaches in succession with her husband.
• Lightning Bruiser: She's about as fast as Yolanda, but is demonstrably much stronger and more experienced, too.
• Mama Bear: To murderous extremes. She and Crusher will kill anyone who so little as looks at Artemis sideways. Just ask the football coach that benched her.
• Muscles Are Meaningless: She's much smaller than her husband, and is probably the smallest of the ISA, but she's also physically stronger than one would assume from looking at her. This is somewhat taken advantage of in a fight, as Larry can easily toss her at their opponent because of her small size, allowing her to do serious damage very quickly.
• My Beloved Smother: Both she and her husband can not stop gushing over their daughter's athletic success. They don't just attend her games, but also her practices, and when they go out to go play supervillain, they make a big deal out of it because they never leave her home alone.
• No Social Skills: Even worse than her husband, who at least seems to have fun trying to act nice and cheery. Becomes most notable in Season 3, where Paula can barely hide her contempt for trying to act like a normal person. It takes Barbara overcoming her own misgivings and befriending Paula to help her get better at interacting with others.
• Race Lift: Her comic counterpart is white, but this version of Paula is Asian-American. This decision was seemingly influenced by the popularity of the Young Justice cartoon, which had previously depicted Paula as Vietnamese.
• Sadist: Just like her husband, she enjoys fighting and killing a bit too much.
• Straight Edge Evil: She shares her husband's views on healthy eating. She reacts with horror to the processed food in the Whitmore-Dugan household, refuses a cup of coffee with a disgusted "Caffeine?", and even when Barbara offers her water, she turns it down when she learns it's from the tap. She unbends enough to have one coffee when she and Barbara start bonding over how difficult teenagers are.
• Truer to the Text: In previous live-action DC shows, the identity of Tigress was either a minor unnamed assassin or a completely different character all together. This makes Stargirl the first live-action series to faithfully adapt the Paula Brooks version to the screen. She also follows her comic counterpart far more than her retired, reformed and wheelchair-bound Young Justice counterpart, in being a gleefully murderous supervillain who's violently supportive of her daughter's athletic career.
• Unholy Matrimony: She's married to Crusher Crock, AKA Sportsmaster. They always partner up during a fight, and their combined skills make them quite a force to be reckoned with.
• Waif-Fu: Downplayed, but her fighting style is focused far more on agility than her husband's, and she attacks with a cat-like grace. However, she also seems to be quite strong physically, too, so Muscles Are Meaningless is in play.

Dr. Shiro Ito / Dragon King

Dr. Shiro Ito / Dragon King

^{Click here to see him during World War II.}

Species: Mutated Human

Known Aliases: Dragon King

Played by: Nelson Lee

Appearances: Stargirl

"You are my greatest experiment."

A masked, mutated lizard man who engages in morally dubious experiments, and the father of Cindy Burman. A former war criminal who specialized in biological weapons for Imperial Japan during The '30s^note Probably with the real Unit 731, he now resides beneath Blue Valley to work on a mysterious satellite for the Injustice Society.

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• Abusive Parents:
  • Ito gleefully references the fact he performs inhumane experiments on his own daughter. He also literally refers to her as an experiment, to her face.
  • As punishment for fighting Courtney on her own and essentially using her powers willy-nilly, the doctor locks Cindy up in a prison cell within his lair. When she starts to act up, he has his minions put her to sleep with knockout gas, a method that he apparently used on her when she was a baby.
• Adaptational Nice Guy:
  • Slightly; in the comics, his plan to kill all adults but spare the children was part of a plan to brainwash the kids into becoming a loyal, mind-controlled army to take over America with. Here, whatever the plan actually is, it's being done under a misguided belief they're helping the next generation escape the influence of the past generation.
  • His treatment of Cindy is remarkably less cruel...which is really more a demonstration of how terrible he was to her in the comics. When she failed to kill Courtney, he pulled a You Have Failed Me and sent her off to get further experiments, which was shown to straight-up torture her. Here, he basically gives her a time-out, verbally dismisses her, and makes a threat of violence but doesn't follow through. He also speaks highly of her to others, praising her in a letter to Brainwave, whereas in the comics he would never show even the slightest bit of positive reinforcement. He's still clearly an abusive monster, but he's far more restrained than he was in the comics, and seems to have some twisted idea of affection for her.
  • Comic Dragon King would never have agreed to be anyone’s Fall Guy. He was simply too self-interested. This version must truly believe in Icicle and the Ultra-Humanite’s vision, because he agrees to let them put him behind bars without complaint.
• And I Must Scream: His ultimate fate in the finale: Thunderbolt transforms him into a small white plush gorilla, which, since the genie can't kill, presumably still holds his consciousness. Oh, and he ends up becoming Buddy's new dog toy.
  Mike: (laughing) Oh my god, he ripped his arm off!
  Jakeem: That's not his arm!
  Cindy: (watching, grinning) Having fun, Daddy?
• Back from the Dead: Season 3 reveals that after he was slain by Cindy, the Ultra-Humanite removed his brain and placed it within his old gorilla body, restoring his life within a much stronger form.
• Beard of Evil: As shown above, he sported one during World War II. He doesn't have one nowadays, on account of being a lizard man.
• Berserk Button: He is furious when Stargirl gets his name wrong.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: With Icicle and Ultra-Humanite in Season 3, acting as the trio's muscle in covering up their surveillance of the town. His subsequent murder of the Gambler sets off the entire season's events as the Ultra-Humanite uses it to sow discord between the heroes and reformed villains, with Ito intended to serve as their Fall Guy for "Starman" and Cameron to defeat to prove their worth as heroes.
• Composite Character:
  • "Dragon King" and "Dr. Ito" are two completely different characters in the source material. Both were World War 2-era Yellow Peril villains, though Dragon King would later be reinvented (with the reinvented version being the basis of the character here) while Dr. Ito disappeared into obscurity back in the 40s.
  • In the comics, Dragon King was the megalomaniac mastermind behind the sinister operation going on in Blue Valley, but the actual Mad Scientist experiments were performed by his lackey, Dr. Graft, and in particular was the one Dragon King had enhancing his daughter. Here, it's Dragon King himself who's the Mad Scientist performing the experiments, and specifically mentions doing them to his own daughter. See below regarding the megalomaniac mastermind role.
• Deadly Doctor: A rubber apron and tool belt are part of Dragon King's costume, making him look like a depraved horror movie coroner.
• Decomposite Character: As well as him taking over Dr. Graft's role as the Mad Scientist, the role of the megalomaniac mastermind is given to Icicle instead, though it's still apparent that Dragon King is the one responsible for the logistics of the plan.
• Demoted to Extra: Downplayed. He's demoted from Big Bad of the comics to a secondary villain in the show. His main villain status has essentially been transferred to Icicle.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the comic, he suffered a Disney Villain Death after falling onto the satellite as it exploded. Here, he's literally stabbed in the back by Cindy.
  • Season 3 reveals that he's actually Not Quite Dead, and in the finale, he is instead transformed into a gorilla plushie by Jakeem and Thunderbolt. Since Thunderbolt can't kill anyone, it's assumed that he is still alive in this form.
• Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off!: He makes a threat like this to his daughter; specifically, he threatens to take off his mask. It's enough to scare Cindy into stopping her tantrum and leave quickly.
• Dramatic Unmask: Stargirl knocks his mask off when the two finally meet in battle, and physically, the man is anything but human at this point. He even lets out an animalistic roar before a frightened Stargirl knocks him out.
• The Dreaded:
  • His very presence is enough to give the Icicle — stated to be the most powerful member of the ISA — pause. Compare Icicle's authoritative demeanor around Sportsmaster and Tigress to his seeming deference to Dragon King, even though in both cases they're subordinate to him.
  • When Pat learns that Dragon King is part of the ISA, he immediately realizes that they're doing far more than merely hiding in Blue Valley and need to be stopped.
• Evil Counterpart: To Pat. Both of them have daughters who are eager to get into the superhero/supervillain business (Courtney wants continue her fight against the ISA, while Cindy wants to join the ISA), and they both call out their girls for their reckless behavior, claiming that they're not ready to jump into action yet.
• Evil Is Petty: He claims the Wizard used Ito's inhuman physiology as an excuse to be cruel to him in the ISA's glory days. This is part of his motivation to run tests on Wizard's body when he kicks it.
• Evil Sounds Deep: He speaks with an eerily guttural whisper.
• The Faceless: He's never seen without his mask. We do eventually get a short look at his face in a single scene, and unsurprisingly, he's a Lizard Folk.
• Faux Affably Evil: He's fairly polite to the other ISA members, but this is mostly a facade to cover his true sociopathic nature.
• Forced Transformation: Jakeem Thunder uses Thunderbolt to transform him into a plush gorilla in the series finale.
• Foreshadowing: When Cindy dresses up for her Halloween party, an old photo of a Japanese scientist can be seen on her mirror. Viewers who are unfamiliar with the comics may not pick up that it's a picture of a pre-Lizard Folk Dr. Ito, which Beth discovers three episodes later.
• Genius Bruiser: A skilled Mad Scientist in a wide variety of fields and a great physical combatant with his katana.
• Green and Mean: His suit and mask are a faded shade of green, with the latter even bearing a scaly texture.
• High Collar of Doom: He sports a menacing pointed collar like his comic counterpart.
• In the Back: He is killed in the season finale when his own daughter impales him from behind.
• I Was Quite a Looker: As seen in flashbacks, Dragon King was actually quite handsome before he turned himself into a lizard man.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: He was involved with making biological weapons Imperial Japan used to murder thousands of Chinese civilians. However, while he was listed as executed for these crimes in 1947 Ito somehow escaped while moving on into even more twisted work. His cruel actions catch up to him when he is murdered by his daughter.
• Karmic Death: He's murdered by his daughter in the season finale, in retaliation for locking her up for so long.
• Katanas Are Just Better: On the rare occasions that he gets into a fight he uses a katana.
• Knight of Cerebus: His presence on the show is played completely seriously and he is devoid of any quirks possessed by the rest of the ISA.
• Lizard Folk: Based on what little we can see of his face through the eye-holes of his hood, Dragon King has given himself reptilian features such as scales, slitted pupils, and nictating membranes. We eventually get to see him without his mask, and the sight certainly isn't pretty, to say the least.
• Mad Scientist: In addition to his self-experimentation, he asks for the Wizard's corpse to experiment on. Even Jordan seems a little creeped out by this. It's later revealed Ito was part of making the infamous bacilli bombs Imperial Japan used on China, which killed thousands.
• Malevolent Masked Men: He wears a large executioner-style mask that hides his reptilian face.
• Mooks: He has a few dozen who serve as lab assistants to help perform his experiments and is notably the only ISA member who has been shown to employ mooks in any capacity.
• Named by the Adaptation: Dragon King's real name was never revealed in the comics. Here, he's referred to as Shiro Ito.
• No Social Skills: Even worse than Larry, it's apparent Ito lacks any degree of basic social abilities. He's cordial and clearly sees Jordan in positive light, but he's overly quick to gush about his loyalty, doesn't even try to hide his creepy Mad Scientist side, and is seemingly unaware of how utterly creeped out Jordan is by him.
• Obviously Evil: Just look at him. It's telling that unlike the rest of the ISA, he's never seen in Blue Valley proper (just the ISA tunnel network underneath), because there's no way someone like him could blend into regular society.
• Older Than He Looks: He was operating in the 30's and 40's, but he still seems quite spry and in-shape now. Of course, he wears a mask covering his mutated face so we have no way to really gauge his age by his looks. Pat isn't even sure he can die after what he's done to himself.
• Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Skilled in both genetics and mechanics.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Why he objects to Cindy's rash actions. Not because he has a moral problem with them, but because they endanger the goals of the ISA. He even tells her not to kill her stepmom, not because he loves the woman but because it would take too much time to condition a new one.
• The Sociopath: While his teammates have some humanizing characteristics, he's just a straight-up pyschopath who views everyone around him as pawns.
• Token Evil Teammate: Though the ISA are all bad guys, they're mostly Well Intentioned Extremists who care about their children and have found places in society in Blue Valley to act like normal people and connect them with the real world. Dragon King stands out as he's forgone any shred of humanity, has raised his daughter to be a weapon and fodder for experimentation, and spends all his time underground. The others find him disturbing to be around. For reference of how much he is this, Jordan clearly hates people who harm the environment and poison families, but this was explicitly what Ito did in WW2.
• Undignified Death: Not a "death", per se, as Thunderbolt can't kill anyone, but the genie turns him into a stuffed gorilla toy. He's last seen being chewed by the Whitmore-Dugan family dog.
• Undying Loyalty: He tells Icicle that, unlike the Shade, he would never betray him.
• Villain Team-Up: He's noted to not actually be an official member of the ISA, merely helping them for his own reasons.
• What Measure Is a Mook?: When Cindy randomly murders one of his lab assistants in order to get his attention, his only reaction is a frustrated offhand comment about her "wasting resources".

Solomon Grundy

Solomon Grundy

Species: Undead Human

Known Aliases:

Played by:

Appearances: Stargirl

A hulking zombie that serves as muscle for the Injustice Society.

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• Adaptational Dumbass: Compared to Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E., where he was fully capable of speaking due to being resurrected, again and again, each time becoming stronger than before. In the show, all Grundy can do is roar and growl. With that being said, it is possible, like in the comics, Grundy came back to life only with limited intelligence.
• Arch-Enemy: To Rick, who abandons everything around him when he has the chance to confront him, as Grundy killed his parents. Subverted in season 2 when Rick befriends him.
• Bit Character: Since Grundy is a CGI creation, he makes very sporadic appearances in the first season, spending most of his time imprisoned within the ISA's lair. He finally gets his chance to shine in the season finale when the Gambler releases him to take out the JSA.
• The Brute: Just pure muscle power for the Injustice Society.
• Dumb Muscle: Grundy seemingly isn't very intelligent and is mostly used by the group as a savage, muscle-bound attack dog. When he isn't needed, they keep him in a large metal box beneath The American Dream. In episode 7, Pat implies that being able to control Grundy is what gave them an edge against the original JSA, which is further supported in season 2 when the JSA is shown to have reluctantly taken Johnny Thunder off the bench to help fight Grundy, knowing the risk of using the Thunderbolt.
• Face Framed in Shadow: His face is almost always obscured by shadow, even in the painting in the Injustice Society's hideout depicting all of its members. His face can briefly been seen in the fifth episode when he takes out Rex Tyler's car.
• Flat Character: For most of the first season, Grundy is just a rampaging monster with no deeper characterization. This gets subverted with his friendship with Rick in Season 2.
• Godzilla Threshold: The JSA only let Johnny Thunder and the Thunderbolt participate in the final battle with the ISA after learning that Grundy would be there.
• Heel–Face Turn: He becomes a genuine friend and ally to Rick in season 2.
• Hero Killer: He killed Rex Tyler, the original Hourman, and probably some of the other original JSA.
• Heroic Sacrifice: He readily comes to Rick's aid in the Final Battle against Eclipso and is granted a Torso with a View for his efforts.
• HULK MASH!-Up: As a rampaging giant with Super-Strength, this version of Grundy really takes after the Hulk.
• It Can Think: Though Grundy is treated as Dumb Muscle, he isn't a mindless animal. Rick is able to befriend him over several weeks with offerings of food, and Grundy's rapport with Rick is enough for him to call Rick "friend", showing that he is capable of speech.
• Our Zombies Are Different: He's a giant, Hulk-like zombie that is both strong and fast.
• Resurrective Immortality: After Grundy is seemingly killed by Eclipso, Shade remarks to a grieving Rick that he'll be fine if buried in the right place in the right time.
• Suddenly Voiced: At the end of "Chapter Eight", he says his first word, which is "Friend" (meaning Rick).
• Tragic Monster: Has some shades of it in the finale, where he eventually stops defending himself and just looks at Rick with sorrowful eyes, when he is about to kill him, which eventually prompts Rick to spare him. Taken further in Season 2, when Rick actually manages to bond with him, treating him with kindness rather than the captivity and abuse he received at the hands of the ISA, and Grundy's gentler side comes out as a result. Rick draws a parallel between him and his uncle's abused attack dog, which Rick secretly had adopted by a new family after pretending it had run away, and became a different animal after getting a loving home. In the finale, he helps Rick against Eclipso and is brutally killed for his efforts.
• Truer to the Text: Compared to the previous live-action Grundys seen in Arrow and Gotham, this version sticks closest to the comics, being a gigantic, hulking zombie who serves as the Injustice Society's attack dog.
• The Worf Effect:
  • In the Season One finale, he initially easily swats Rick aside and gives Pat one hell of a fight, eventually overpowering him and destroying his armor, with Rick just barely beating him after a Heroic Second Wind.
  • He's put on the receiving end of this in the Season Two finale, attempting to pull a Big Damn Heroes moment during the final fight against Eclipso and getting a hold blasted through him for his efforts.

Anaya Bowin / The Fiddler II

Anaya Bowin

Species: Human

Played by: Hina Khan

Known Aliases: The Fiddler II

The Principal of Blue Valley High and the mother of Isaac Bowin. She is shown to be a talented violinist and is the second incarnation of the Fiddler, taking up the mantle after her husband.

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• Absurdly Youthful Mother: Given that Hina Khan is only 32, that would mean Anaya was possibly underage when she had Isaac, whose actor looks like he's in his early twenties.
• Affirmative-Action Legacy: The original Fiddler was a white man of Irish descent. Now, his wife Anaya, who is a woman of South Asian background, is taking his place.
• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: She is this to her son Isaac, calling him nicknames that are suited for someone far younger than him at a school assembly, much to his dismay.
• Ascended Extra: The "Fiddler's female successor", Virtuoso, appeared only briefly in Secret Six, and was never developed further than, well, "Fiddler's female successor". Here, she's given a name, and is promoted to being a member of the Injustice Society as well as the principal of Blue Valley High, and established as having been the original's wife.
• Bullying a Dragon: Insulting Sportsmaster and Tigress's parenting skills, when she herself pointed out before that the two are unstable sadists, ends up to be a deadly mistake for her.
• Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: She's never referred to as Virtuoso in the show, just "Fiddler's wife/successor".
• Composite Character: She seems to be a combination of Virtuoso, the Fiddler's successor, and Principal Sherman, the original Blue Valley High principal who was secretly an intelligent robot working for the bad guys.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • She gets rightfully upset when her students cause a commotion over Yolanda's topless photo, and sternly orders them to put their phones away immediately.
  • While she's willing to kill for the ISA's cause, she's disgusted by the level of pleasure Sportsmaster and Tigress take in violence. She then adds that people like them are unfit to be parents. This gets her killed.
• Evil All Along: The only member who's revealed to be part of the ISA. In the episodes prior to the revelation, her connections to the Fiddler (apart from her surname and love of music) were unknown.
• Foreshadowing: She wears a green suit jacket as the principal, green being the Fiddler's outfit color of choice.
• Inadequate Inheritor: Accused of this by the others; it's shown her Mind-Control Music abilities aren't as effective as she'd hope, failing to control both guards or awaken Brainwave from his coma. Supposedly, her husband wouldn't have had such issues.
• Mind-Control Music: She can use her violin to control other people, but it can be resisted by those with strong wills.
• My Beloved Smother: She's very protective of her son Isaac, and vows to never let him get involved with the ISA as he's too "sensitive" for supervillain business.
• Mythology Gag: In the comics, the Fiddler learned his musical techniques in India, and after his death his violin ended up in the hands of a woman. Here, his identity has been continued by a South Asian female legacy (in this case, it's his wife).
• Named by the Adaptation: Virtuoso was never named in the comics.
• Story-Breaker Power: Lampshaded in "Stars and STRIPE Part One". Anaya can easily immobilize people with her musical powers, so when Tigress and Sportsmaster fail to kill the Dugan-Whitmores, she plans to use this ability on the family so that they'll be easier to kill. Larry refuses to let this happen since it would make their job too easy, and expresses relief when his wife kills her with an arrow to the heart.
• Too Dumb to Live: Yes, Anaya, tell Sportsmaster and Tigress to their faces that they're unfit to be parents. That'll totally end well.
• Truer to the Text: Despite Adaptation Expansion and Ascended Extra being heavily in-play, this character is so-far much closer to the Fiddler/Virtuoso than she was when she appeared in The Flash (2014).
• We Hardly Knew Ye: She has the least focus of all the ISA members and gets unceremoniously killed off by Sportsmaster and Tigress after one too many insults.

Richard Swift / The Shade

Richard Swift / The Shade

Species: Human (either empowered or metahuman; it isn't clear)

Known Aliases: The Shade

Played By: Jonathan Cake

Appearances: Stargirl

A villain with power over shadows. After the destruction of the JSA, he had a falling out with the ISA and is considered a traitor.

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• The Ageless: He seemingly doesn't age, or at least can maintain his appearance somehow.
• Alternate Self: On Earth-Prime he's the infamous pirate Blackbeard.
• The Atoner: Becomes this in Seasons Two and Three to a certain extent. Pat uses this to get him to mentor Todd, Jennie, and Sandy Hawkins.
• Awesome Anachronistic Apparel: The man looks like he stepped out of a Victorian novel, with his sharp suit, top hat, and cane. Considering his age, that could be an almost literal description.
• Brits Love Tea: Like the quintessential English gentleman he is, the Shade enjoys a good cup of tea. He makes it a point to express distaste for the one tea served at the local diner as inferior.
• The Cameo: Only his powers are seen in the opening battle, as his shadows swallow up Doctor Mid-Nite. He also appears in a picture of the Injustice Society. He finally makes an appearance in the first season finale, then shows up in full for Season 2.
• Casting a Shadow: He can summon shadows to attack people and swallow them up, and travel into a shadow-filled realm to teleport.
• Cultured Badass: Loves tea and Oscar Wilde, very well-dressed, and is a serious badass.
• Dark Is Evil: He's called "The Shade," wears all black clothes, has Casting a Shadow powers, and is (something of) a bad guy.
• Deadpan Snarker: Every other sentence is dripping with snark.
• Drama Queen: The man faked his own death just so he had the chance to stage a sufficiently dramatic death scene.
• Emerging from the Shadows: Inverted; the Shade teleports by merging with the shadows.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Seems to avoid seriously harming the new JSA members because they're minors, and is later visibly concerned when stating that Eclipso is likely going to kill them. He also gets extremely offended when Courtney compares him to Eclipso, admitting that while he may be a criminal and even a killer, he is nowhere near that depraved.
• Evil Brit: He's a dapper English supervillain with a top hat, cane, and a love for tea. It's stated that he's been around since the Victorian era. That being said, "evil" might be pushing it a bit.
• Face Framed in Shadow: Similar to Grundy, the painting in the Injustice Society's hideout that depicts him with his teammates hides most of his face so that we can only see his glasses and the bottom part of his top hat.
• The Faceless: At least throughout Season One. He’s hidden in shadow in the Injustice Society portrait, and when he finally appears in the season finale, you only see him from behind.
• Friendly Enemy: He was one to the JSA, but Doctor Mid-Nite especially, so much so that after Charles' daughter was killed by Eclipso, he visited him at night with a bottle of booze to drink their sorrows away. It turns out he actually only joined the ISA to try and save the JSA, specifically McNider, but was unable to do more than send him to the Shadowlands. The others massacring the heroes is what likely led to him abandoning the ISA.
• Good All Along: "Good" is pushing it a fair bit, but he's nowhere near as evil as previously assumed.
• Good Feels Good: The Shade muses on his happiness at dying while finally doing something good for once. It turns out his death was just an act, but he also seemed happy after using his powers to save Beth's parents just because he wanted to.
• Heel–Face Turn: At Barbara's pleading, and due to her resemblance to his sister, the Shade opens a portal to the Shadowlands which allows Courtney, Cindy, and Dr. Mid-Nite/Charles McNider to escape.
  • Cemented in the Distant Finale, where it is revealed that, 10 years after Season 3, he is now part of the JSA, and will even be officiating Rick and Beth's upcoming wedding.
• Hero Killer: It's implied that he is the one who killed Doctor Mid-Nite, as the death is consistent with how his powers are typically depicted, and Pat later claims that he did. However, when Beth accuses him of doing so, he claims that she doesn't know what she's talking about, and it's later shown that the man is actually alive and trapped in a shadowy dimension. The Shade had attempted to save him, but instead was unable to get him out of the Shadowlands and assumed he had died in there.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Opening a portal to the Shadowlands and keeping it open long enough for three people to escape in his weakened state ends up being too much for the Shade and he dies as a result. Subverted with the reveal of his survival in the finale.
• Hidden Agenda Villain: His plans involve Eclipso in some capacity, but he refuses to even reveal that much to the JSA, claiming it's better if they're kept in the dark. He later clarifies to Courtney that he wants to dispose of Eclipso, but revelations about Dr. Mid-Nite leave some ambiguity in his motives.
• I Warned You: Apparently, the reason he left the ISA is because he became disillusioned with Project New America.
  "Oh, Jordan, I told you it was folly."
• It Amused Me:
  • His given reason to look for Eclipso. He's been around for centuries, and therefore running out of interesting things to do. This later turns out to be untrue.
  • Doctor Mid-Nite later claims that amusement was likely the entire reason Shade became a supervillain in the first place, rather than any desire to cause harm to others.
  • His incredibly dramatic death scene turns out to be nothing but him doing a dramatic exit, because hey, why not?
• Last Episode, New Character: After sitting in the shadows (literally) throughout the entirety of Season One, he finally makes a proper appearance in the season finale, though we only get to see him from behind.
• My Greatest Failure: When close to death and loopy, he mistakes Barb for his late sister Emily and confesses how much he regrets abandoning her to care for their ailing father alone so he could seek fortune as a con artist.
  • His botched attempt at saving Charles McNider during the ISA attack, instead leaving him lost in the Shadowlands is also this. When he finds out Charles is still alive he visibly drops his condescending attitude and tries to reassure himself/the others that, had he known, he wouldn't have left him there.
• Never Hurt an Innocent: He freely admits to having killed people in the past, but specifies that his victims were never people who didn't deserve it.
• No Body Left Behind: The Shade evaporates into shadows when he seemingly dies. Subverted, when it turns out he just teleported.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: The Shade has no patience for cops-and-robbers motions with the new JSA. He first politely asks them to leave him to his business, and when that fails, he's quick to subdue them.
• Noodle Incident: It isn't clear what happened, but the present-day Injustice Society regards him as a traitor, per Dragon King in "Wildcat". It's strongly implied this is because he thought that Project New America was "folly", and the ISA kicked him out for not going along with it. Shade himself insists his brief tenure with the ISA was only an alliance of convenience and he has no respect for Jordan or his plans.
• Not Quite Dead: Eclipso uniting the real world with the Shadowlands is all that was needed to restore the Shade to full strength. When a dumbfounded McNider asks what was up with what seemed to be his Heroic Sacrifice earlier, the Shade merely explains he was trying to be dramatic.
• Odd Friendship: Has one with Dr. Mid-nite, stemming from their mutual grief at Eclipso murdering the latter's daughter.
• Powers Do the Fighting: When the new JSA tries to fight him, he restrains them all with shadows, not even bothering to leave his seat while doing so.
• Really 700 Years Old: Pat can find records of the Shade dating back to the 19th century.
• Sole Survivor: He's the only member of the Injusice Society (albeit a former member) to reach the end of the series alive. All the other members get killed off throughout the show (and Grundy is already dead, so he doesn't count here).
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: He worked with the ISA to a mutually beneficial end, but otherwise has little respect for them. He calls Jordan a lunatic.
• Truer to the Text: His previous live-action appearance was a flat, shallow mook who could only vibrate himself to look like a shadow, who wasn't even a big focus in his self-titled episode. The adaptation before that one was closer but much less powerful, lacking his moral ambiguity or immortalty and had his power come from a staff rather than be his own. Here, he has the full power and persona that truly deems him The Shade.
• Unseen No More: After only appearing in Season 1 in a cameo, and having his appearance obscured otherwise, he makes a proper appearance in Season 2.
• Weakened by the Light: Sufficiently powerful light can dispel his shadows. Starman is said to have incapacitated him in the past with the Cosmic Staff, and the new JSA's plan to hold him involves shoving him in a tanning bed so he won't be able to reach any shadows.
• Wouldn't Hurt a Child: When the New JSA try attacking him, he responds by using his shadow powers to just firmly restrain them, but doesn't do anything else. In fact, he seems to be particularly horrified at the idea of Eclipso targeting the New JSA because he considers them children.

The Fiddler

The Fiddler

Species: Human

Known Aliases: The Fiddler

Played By:

Appearances: Stargirl

A villain with the ability to control people through music. He disappeared sometime after the destruction of the JSA, and has been succeeded by his wife, Anaya Bowin.

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• Adaptational Dye-Job: From what we've seen of him, it's apparent that he has dark gray hair instead of white, though this is mainly due to a slight Age Lift.
• Decomposite Character: He's the original Fiddler, but his real name from the comics, Isaac, is given to his son.
• Demoted to Extra: Despite being a founding member like in the comics, Fiddler's role has been reduced to a few passing mentions due to his disappearance. His wife Anaya takes his seat at the table instead.
• The Dog Bites Back: Anaya tells Isaac that he stabbed a bully in the ear with his violin bow.
• The Ghost: Initially, we only a bit of him in the ISA's own table painting, and the only clear reference to him is Pat's description of him as an Irish man. This would later get subverted in "Shiv Part One" where we finally see him in action via flashback, though it's only for a few seconds.
• Legacy Character: His wife would eventually continues his legacy as the second Fiddler.
• Mythology Gag: He's not been explicitly named yet, but his wife and son's last names of Bowin, as well as his son's first name Isaac, nod to his name in the comics Isaac Bowin.
• Uncertain Doom: It is heavily implied that he's dead in the present as he only appears in photos and flashbacks.

Injustice Unlimited

In General

A Generation Xerox team assembled by Cindy in the wake of the ISA's defeat, consisting of their children.

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• Disc-One Final Boss: They're built up throughout the first half of "Summer School" before they finally fight the JSA in "Chapter Six". Then they're quickly eliminated once Eclipso steps into the fray.
• Evil Counterpart: They serve as one to the new JSA, being a group of teenagers who form the next generation of the Injustice Society, while being the offspring of previous members.
• Gone Horribly Wrong: Their first outing results in Isaac and Cindy getting killed (or suffering a Fate Worse than Death) and Artemis just escaping with her life.
• Revenge: Their only motivation for fighting the JSA, since unlike their parents they don't have an overarching Evil Plan.
• Team Member in the Adaptation:
  • Downplayed. Cindy was a member of the third Injustice lineup led by Johnny Sorrow, not Injustice Unlimited (the second lineup). This is justified, since this version of the team is a composite of those two lineups anyway.
  • Inverted with Cameron Mahkent, who was a member of the team in the comics. Cindy sets out to recruit him but changes her mind when he tells her off for being a bad person before she can get to her pitch, so he never ends up joining their ranks.
• Teens Are Monsters: They're an alliance of teenage supervillains who are just as brutal on the field as their parents, if not more.

Cindy Burman / Shiv / Dragon Queen

Cindy Burman / Shiv / Dragon Queen

Species: Enhanced Human

Known Aliases: Shiv, Dragon Queen

Played by: Meg DeLacy

Appearances: Stargirl

Head cheerleader and Alpha Bitch who clearly runs the school. Also the daughter of Dragon King, and a Supervillain-in-training longing to join the ISA.

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• Abusive Parents: Played Straight and inverted; her father has performed ungodly experiments on her, and she resents him for not caring about her despite his claims otherwise. However, she also threatens, bullies, and belittles her stepmom, while also being inferred that she killed her mother when she was a child.
• Accidental Murder: It's implied that when Cindy first gained her powers from her father's experiments as a younger child, her attempts to learn how to use said powers caused an unspecified Noodle Incident that killed her mother.
• Adaptational Heroism: She's a supervillain through and through in the comics. While she's still a major villain for two seasons, she eventually pulls a Heel–Face Turn and joins the JSA with the intent of redeeming herself.
• Adaptation Expansion:
  • The show gives more time to build up Cindy as an Alpha Bitch prior to her becoming Shiv. For example, she's thoroughly responsible for ruining Yolanda's reputation (which in turn, pushes her to become Wildcat).
  • Cindy's backstory is also lightly touched upon. It's implied that she killed her own mother as a child (albeit accidentally, or so she claims), leading Dragon King to create stepmothers for her so that she could at least have a maternal figure in the house.
  • There's also more depth to her dynamic with Courtney. Here, she's willing to strike up a friendship with her and takes an interest in her after their fight.
• Adaptational Intelligence: She's a science-wiz here as she learnt from her father (who wasn't a Mad Scientist in the comics), and she is fully aware of how twisted her father is, instead of being hopelessly devoted to him. She's also able to deduce Courtney's Secret Identity after seeing her in costume, whereas in the comics she didn't recognise her at all and had to have someone tell her their identity, despite Courtney having literally worn her costume to a school dance and done very little to protect it.
• Adaptational Modesty: The Shiv suit in the comics had an open space between the neck piece and chest plate, exposing the character’s cleavage. In the show, a collar is added to the open area.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Slightly. In the comics, before even meeting Courtney she trips her in the lunchroom to both get her in trouble and humiliate her, and showed nothing but hostility towards her. Here, she actually tries to befriend Courtney at first, albeit in an obvious attempt to size her up for a potential Beta Bitch position, and after they somewhat bond during science class in "Shiv Part One", she tries to befriend her again. Also notably, her hostility towards Courtney here is fueled primarily because Courtney defends Yolanda, her primary bullying target, when in the comics, it was Courtney she primarily bullied.
• Adaptational Superpower Change: Played With; her powers are largely the same, but how they're presented is different. This version of Cindy has an explicit Healing Factor, something she was never directly shown having in the comics, besides how her arms would 'close up' after using her cybernetic weapons. Also notably, her Blade Below the Shoulder are different; in the comics her blades were more like Batman's arm-fins, and her arms would sprout spinning dragon-like blades. Here, they're depicted as daggers that sprout from her wrist as a Blade Below the Shoulder.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
  • In the comics, she was a "Well Done, Son" Guy towards her father, who treated her as nothing but an experiment and weapon, would subject her to painful enhancement when she failed him, and was more than happy to abandon her when he decided a brainwashed Courtney would make a better weapon. Here, though he's still experimented on her, he's reluctant to bring her into the ISA or use her, and is bothered by her sociopathic tendencies; meanwhile, Cindy sees her father for what he is, and resents him for what he's done to her. Eventually, she kills him.
  • In the comics, Cindy bullied Courtney purely For the Evulz and later developed a personal animosity when her father dies after Courtney foiled his evil plans. Here, she actually tries to befriend Courtney, initially just to size her up as a potential Beta Bitch but later genuinely wants her friendship...then when she discovers her secret identity, decides she wants to be the one to personally defeat her as a means of proving herself to the ISA.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: For all her bitchiness, Cindy isn't above pleading with Courtney to save her as she's being sucked into a puddle of black ooze.
• Alas, Poor Villain: Horrible as she may have been, she definitely did not deserve her ghastly fate at Eclipso's hands. Her helpless pleas really hammer in the fact that in the end, she was still just a teenage girl with a terrible upbringing. Ultimately averted when Courtney later rescues her from the Shadowlands.
• Alpha Bitch: Complete with being the head cheerleader, dating the Jerk Jock, and slut-shaming an unpopular girl. She can even cow her own stepmother. However, being the Alpha Bitch isn't enough for her, which is why she desires to join the ISA.
• Ambiguously Evil: While there was nothing ambiguous about her being evil in season 1 and the first half of season 2, come season 3 it's genuinely unknown whether she's actually trying to turn over a new leaf as she claims or she's still up to no good. She does seem to have a secret agenda of her own, but it's not known if it's for nefarious purposes.
• Animal Motifs: Serpents; she wields a dragon-shaped staff, wears reptile-green, and is the daughter of Dragon King.
• Asshole Victim: After a season and a half of terrorizing Courtney and her friends, Cindy gets seemingly taken out by an entity even worse than her.
• Ax-Crazy: Having an abusive supervillain for a father didn’t do her mental state any favors whatsoever. As a result she is highly unstable teenager who doesn’t want to be using Brainwave’s son because she finds it boring and she’s itching to do something more violent.
• Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: She's the one who kills Dragon King in the Season 1 finale. She also decides late Season 2 to be the one to solve the issue of Eclipso, but is ultimately not needed.
• Big Bad Wannabe: Throughout the first six episodes of Season 2, she assembles her own team to try to get revenge on Courtney. Not only does she fail miserably, she also gets Dragged Off to Hell by Eclipso, once the latter gets free and makes it very clear that she has no power over him whatsoever.
• Blade Below the Shoulder: She has daggers hidden beneath her wrists.
• Blood Knight: She has a sinister grin when fighting Courtney, and even when she's blasted in the face, all she does is smirk.
• Break the Haughty: Cindy is reduced to fearfully sniveling and begging Courtney to save her as she's sucked into a puddle of ooze conjured by Eclipso, whereas not one minute earlier, she was demanding his obedience even after he'd shown her who was really in charge between the two of them.
• The Bully: Moreso than Henry; she runs the school and stomps on anyone who crosses her path.
• Bullying a Dragon: She insists that Eclipso's purpose is to serve her after he has already killed one of her lackeys and made it clear that he owes her nothing. It ends as well for her as most would expect it to.
• Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: Despite being the focus of a two-parter whose title is actually her codename in the comics, she isn't referred to In-Universe as "Shiv", at least not yet. In the Distant Finale, she's known as "Dragon Queen."
• Composite Character: Injustice Unlimited was founded by the Wizard in the comics, while the third lineup (which included Shiv) was led by Johnny Sorrow. These two teams are combined in the show, with Shiv taking both the characters' roles as the leader.
• Daddy's Little Villain: The daughter of the dreaded Dragon King, and a supervillain in her own right.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Her mother tried to give her a good life when she was a child by going into hiding with her, but Dragon King found them and subjected Cindy to his experiments. Shortly after, she flew into a rage and killed her mother and has been troubled by this ever since.
• Didn't Think This Through: She somehow got it in her head that a nigh-omnipotent shadow demon would be a willing servant to her. No points if you guessed how that turned out.
• The Dog Bites Back: Fatally stabs her father in the back during the finale for keeping her locked up.
• Dragged Off to Hell: Seemingly her fate once Eclipso is set free. Downplayed somewhat since it's the Shadowlands that she ends up in, but given the torture she endures there, it's the next worst thing to Hell itself.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: She loved her mother and was absolutely traumatized when she accidentally went berserk and killed her as a child. Eclipso uses this memory to break her in the Shadowlands.
• Enemy Mine: She forms one with Courtney to take down Eclipso after they escape the Shadowlands.
• Enfant Terrible: Though Beth remembers her having been a nice kid, Dragon King infers that she had terrible tantrums and, during one, killed her mother. He's created stepmoms for her since, and implies that she's had a history of killing them.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Despite treating her stepmother like dirt, she's legitimately horrified when Eclipso kills her, even though Bobbie had been trying to kill her first because of Eclipso's influence.
• Evil Counterpart: To Courtney, while also serving as her Foil.
  • While Courtney strives to defeat the Injustice Society, Cindy longs to join the Injustice Society, and butts heads with her father because he doesn't believe she has what it takes yet (mirroring Courtney's relationship with Pat).
  • Both of them lost a parent when they were young; Courtney believes her dad is Starman, while Cindy killed her mom. They've since gotten stepparents they disagree with, but while Courtney and Pat are growing close despite their difficulties, Cindy openly abuses her stepmoms, and has apparently killed her previous one.
  • They both use staff-based weapons that have blast attacks as their weapons. Notably, Courtney's Cosmic Staff shoots bright beams of light, while Cindy's dragon-headed staff belches deadly fire.
  • Her plotline in Season 2 closely mirrors Courtney's from Season 1, with her seeking to recruit the children of the ISA to form a second generation team, codenamed "Injustice Unlimited".
• Evil Is Petty:
  • Not only did she ruin Yolanda's life for dating Henry Jr. and winning the student body presidential election, but she continues to torment her for no other reason than to rub it in.
  • When she pays Courtney a visit after their Curb-Stomp Battle, she gives her balloons (which she then lets go rather than handing them to her), "accidentally" hits her bruises when she sits on the bed, passive-aggressively "compliments" her room, and proceeds to eat all the chocolates that she brought as a "present", leaving only the half-eaten ones she didn't want for Courtney. She does all this knowing she's Stargirl, and is doing it to make Courtney squirm because of the I Know You Know I Know situation.
• Faux Affably Evil:
  • When Courtney first meets her, she pretends to be friendly, but it's clearly just because she's scouting for a possible Beta Bitch. The moment Courtney admits she's not interested in joining the cheerleading team but would still like to hang out with Cindy and Jenny, Cindy instantly drops the façade and dismisses Courtney.
  • Exaggerated during her The Villain Knows Where You Live visit to Courtney's bedroom. She acts in a typical 'Mean Girl trying to not be bitchy' manner, passive-aggressively "complimenting" her room and decoration, bringing her chocolates that she proceeds to eat all the good ones and leave the half-bitten ones she doesn't like for Courtney, and throw her weight around while saying she needs a friend. Then she reveals that she knows Courtney is Stargirl and she's mostly here to mess with her head; the 'fake niceness' was, in itself, fake.
• Fire-Breathing Weapon: Her staff can shoot flame from the dragon head pommel.
• Foreshadowing: Cindy's student council campaign poster, briefly shown during Yolanda's backstory, has a distinct green background that's the same shade as the Shiv outfit.
• Freudian Excuse: Her mother is dead and her father is an abusive Mad Scientist who views her as an experiment and pawns her care off to a series of brainwashed "stepmothers". Cindy and Courtney themselves speculate that if things had been different, one of them might have turned out more like the other. She also has no real friends at school, just underlings, and openly complains to her father that being the only one of the ISA's kids who knows the truth about them isolates her.
• Green and Mean: As Shiv, she wears a reptile-green suit that contrasts Stargirl's bright patriotic colors.
• Green-Eyed Monster:
  • Part of the motivation for the Kick the Dog below was because she was angry that Yolanda and Henry were dating. Subverted, as it turns out Cindy doesn't actually love Henry and only became his girlfriend as an assignment for the ISA.
  • She also seems to get like this when Courtney expresses interest in Cameron; after bonding with Courtney in science class she seems to latch onto her for a moment, but when Courtney asks to reschedule, she doesn't take it well.
• Hate Sink: Played with. She's set up at first to be the typical 'detestable civilian character' with no redeeming qualities, but she's quickly revealed to be the daughter of a supervillain and gets a Sympathy for the Devil episode. The same episode however also shows she's far worse than assumed, being a casual, unrepentant murderer who wants to join the ISA, and decides to do so by killing Stargirl. She then approaches Courtney in her bedroom, pretending to be an Alpha Bitch trying to grow into a Lovable Alpha Bitch, but that's just a game to mess with Courtney and she actually plans to kill her and her friends.
• Heel–Face Turn: At the end of "Summer School: Chapter Thirteen", she realizes that she was wrong about needing to embrace her dark side in order to defeat Eclipso. Seeing Courtney win by embracing the light caused her to rethink her outlook on life, so she asks if she can join the JSA. It takes a while and lot of patience on both her and the JSA's parts but she eventually becomes a fulltime member and fights for good, well, for good.
• Hero with an F in Good: Cindy joins the JSA in season three, not out of desire to be a hero, but to finally have peers. She enjoys kicking ass, but thinks her teammates are killjoys and the sleuthing is boring. She gets better at some point, though, since she's a full JSA member by the Distant Finale.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: She gets sucked to her apparent doom in a puddle of black ooze after summoning Eclipso's powers one too many times results in him being freed and turning on her.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: Her father sees her as a test subject, her mother is dead, and her whole high school life is no more than an act. All these factors have left Cindy desperate for someone she can relate to.
• Implacable Man: Cindy can't be hurt; she's seemingly resistant to pain, has Super-Strength, Super-Toughness, a powerful Healing Factor, and is ruthless in a fight. It takes a surprise attack from Shining Knight to stop her from just killing Courtney then and there.
• It's All About Me: She's frustrated with Henry's distress over his father's condition, because he's hardly paying any attention to her. Played With, as the only reason why she even cares about Henry is because it's what she's been assigned to do by the ISA.
  • When her Beta Bitch has enough of being bossed around, Cindy doesn't care and looks to Courtney as her new best friend.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: While it's initially hinted she might actually be looking for a friend in Courtney and may be a case of Likes Clark Kent, Hates Superman after she injures her in her Stargirl identity, it's revealed she knows Courtney is Stargirl and plans on killing her and her friends, seemingly tossing her ostensible desire for friendship out the window. Similarly, any seeming Pet the Dog moments with Henry King Jr. grieving for his father are revealed to be nothing part of a plan from the ISA for her to spy on Jr. and monitor him in case he develops Psychic Powers like his father, so none of her affection is genuine.
• Kick the Dog:
  • She tells Cameron in their fourth grade class the she's not sorry that her mom died, claiming she never liked her anyway. Presumably to save face.
  • She got hold of a nude selfie of Yolanda and mass-texted it to the entire school. To add insult to injury, she specifically sent it while Yolanda was giving her student body president acceptance speech, thus ruining what should have been a celebratory moment for Yolanda.
  • She has no sympathy for Henry being worried and distressed over his father's condition, and even mocks him for it.
  • Cindy hates her stepmother Bobbie, treating her like crap constantly and even threatening to tell lies about her to Dragon King so Dragon King will punish her, all just so Cindy can see Bobbie squirm in fear.
  • She visits Courtney after beating the crap out of her seemingly unaware of her identity and expresses sympathies, but before she leaves she makes it clear she is fully aware of who she is. All the "unintentionally" mean things she did were completely intentional and she was just making Courtney squirm.
• Matricide: It's strongly implied Cindy killed her mother, though she claims it was accidental. Going by the memory Eclipso uses to break her, she's genuinely sorry for it.
• Missing Mom: Cindy's mom died in the past, and it's implied she killed her (though Cindy insists whatever happened was accidental).
• More Deadly Than the Male: Though Henry is the Barbaric Bully, Cindy's the one who specialized in widespread, public humiliation, and has far fewer qualms about hurting others. Her sociopathy is even enough to make him look wide-eyed in disgust. Also, while Henry attacked Courtney when she went out with her Cosmic Staff the first time, he was sorely beat; Cindy destroys Courtney when they fight.
• Mythology Gag: She retains her skunk stripe from the comics. One of the outfits she wears (pictured above) is also taken straight from the comics◊, albeit with different colors.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: The first time she fights Courtney, she lays one down on her. Had Sir Justin not shown up, Courtney would've been killed.
• Nothing Up My Sleeve: She has retractable blades on her wrists.
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: After her first fight with Courtney, she decides this, choosing to keep her identity a secret so she can destroy the JSA and prove herself to the ISA, rather than let them do it.
• Promoted to Love Interest: Her comic counterpart never dated Henry King, Jr. Subverted, however, in that Cindy only dated Henry for the sake of the ISA's plan.
• Psycho Supporter: She isn't officially part of the ISA (despite having the power and combat prowess to back it up), but desperately wants to be, and seemingly wishes to earn her father's approval.
• Race Lift: She's drawn to look Ambiguously Brown in the comics. Here, she's played by Filipina-American actress Meg DeLacy.
• Save the Villain: Courtney makes a valiant attempt to do just this when Cindy is being engulfed by a puddle of slime set on her by Eclipso. She makes good on this a few episodes later when she helps Cindy escape the Shadowlands.
• Self-Made Orphan: She killed her mother in the past and kills her father in the Season 1 finale.
• Slasher Smile: She wears a seemingly permanent smirk that becomes bigger/more pronounced when she's fighting and/or hurting Courtney.
• The Sociopath: She has No Sympathy for others, is ruthless and cruel to them, has zero patience for disappointment, is abusive towards anyone she can be, and it's inferred she killed her mother when she was young. Nowadays, she casually kills her father's drones, desires to be a full supervillain, and seems to enjoy hurting Courtney during their fight.
• Sore Loser: The other part of her motivation for the Kick the Dog above was because she was mad that Yolanda beat her in the election for student body president.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Season Two reveals Cindy is a younger version of her late mother, Suzanne.
• Super-Strength: She's strong enough to toss Courtney around like a ragdoll when they fight.
• Sympathy for the Devil: Briefly, Courtney begins trying to befriend Cindy after hearing about her Freudian Excuse and seeing how she doesn't have any friends. Cindy seems to appreciate it, but then takes Courtney wanting to reschedule personally. In Season 2, when Cindy's being sent to her apparent doom by Eclipso, Courtney makes a valiant but ultimately futile attempt to save her, and later she nearly risks trapping herself in the Shadowlands to help Cindy escape through the Shade's portal to the real world.
• Take My Hand!: Cindy takes Courtney's hand in a desperate attempt not to be Dragged Off to Hell but Eclipso's power is too strong for them to overcome, even with the Cosmic Staff's assistance.
• Troll: As mentioned above, she comes by to visit the recuperating Courtney, acts like a Lovable Alpha Bitch...and then mentions that she knows Courtney's true identity and is planning to kill her friends.
• Tyke-Bomb: Cindy started out as a relatively well-adjusted child, but thanks to the misfortune of having the Dragon King for a father, she was subjected to a series of traumas at a young age that broke her down emotionally and psychologically and resulted in her becoming the cold-hearted sociopath she is now. Naturally, this leads to her murdering her father when he finally goes too far with her.
• Uncertain Doom: It isn't made clear whether she's been killed by the puddle of ooze she gets dragged into or is trapped in another dimension a la Dr. Mid-Nite. Courtney is understandably convinced that it's the former of the two. It's eventually confirmed that she's alive and trapped in the Shadowlands; she escapes along with Courtney at the end of Chapter Eleven.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: According to Beth she was nice in elementary school, before her mother died. "Summer School: Chapter Five" confirms this, as an opening flashback shows that she was once an innocent child with unicorn-embroidered pillows who feared her father and wanted nothing to do with him. Her actions at the end of "Summer School: Chapter Thirteen" and her ultimately joining the JSA for good suggest that the sweet kid may still be in there somewhere, way deep down.
• Villainous Rescue: It wasn't her true intention, but she did actually save Sir Justin from Dragon King when she stabbed the latter in the back.
• Wild Card: In the finale, where she saves Sir Justin from being killed by Dragon King by stabbing her father in the back, but promptly attacks Courtney afterwards. She returns as a straight-up villain in the first arc of season 2 where her goal is revenge against Courtney and the JSA for what happened in the first season, but after Eclipso banishes her to the Shadowlands and Courtney rescues her again she once again becomes this, continuing in season 3, where it's not really known if she's genuinely turned over a new leaf or is still a villain only pretending to be good (and even if the former is the case, she undoubtedly dives into incredibly shady territory time and again, though it's not known whether or it's due to genuine malice or the fact that she doesn't really know how to be truly "good" even when she wants to be).
• With Us or Against Us: Due to her sociopathic nature, she takes anything less than perfect loyalty as a personal insult. Courtney wanting to reschedule their plans (not even cancel, literally just reschedule by a day or two) results in Cindy declaring their friendship over and fully embracing her villainous side.
• The Worf Effect: She's the first major character to be banished to the Shadowlands by Eclipso in order to establish him as an even more formidable threat.

Artemis Crock

Artemis Crock

^{Click to see her in costume.}

Species: Human

Played by: Stella Smith

Appearances: Stargirl

An athletic student and daughter of Paula Brooks/Tigress and Crusher Crock/Sportsmaster.

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• Adaptational Dye-Job: She sports black hair instead of the usual blonde.
• Adaptation Deviation: Artemis' costume and fighting style is inspired by her mother's in the comics, whereas both are based on her father's in the show.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
  • She and Cindy were teammates back in the comics when they joined Johnny Sorrow's new Injustice Society, but as he's Adapted Out, Cindy is the team leader instead and Artemis is subordinate to her. Making matters more extreme, she was a veteran supervillain by the time Cindy had only just started out, whereas here, Cindy was supervillaining at least a year before Artemis.
  • She has no on-screen relationship with Cameron Mahkent, and hasn't even shared any scenes with him. In the comics, they were a Happily Married Unholy Matrimony supervillain couple, and she explicitly was a Violently Protective Girlfriend towards him.
• Affectionate Nickname: Her parents call her "Arty".
• All for Nothing: According to Stella Smith, Artemis' violent reaction to her parents' deaths isn't just out of grief. Everything she had worked towards in life (excelling in athletics, getting into college, etc.) was done to make her parents proud, and with both of them gone, it's as if her entire world had fallen apart, with all of her hard work amounting to nothing.
• Barbaric Bully: Essentially her villainous identity is an extreme version of this; she taunts Beth over her status as a nerd, and during her fight with Rick she straight up gives him a swirly. She comes off as being very much in her own element during this fight.
• Berserk Button: Mentioning that her parents are in prison. Courtney's attempt to befriend her in "Summer School: Chapter Four" falls apart due to pressing this.
• Break the Haughty: The death of her parents sends over the edge into despair, to the point that she considers her entire sports career meaningless.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: Artemis can chuck a football over forty yards. Like her father, it's unclear whether or not this is a sign of genuine enhanced strength. She can fight evenly with Rick even while he's using the hourglass.
• Composite Character: Once she joins Injustice Unlimited, she becomes the new Sportsmaster, not the new Tigress like her comic counterpart. She still wields her mother's crossbow in battle, though.
  • Her villainous gear has green accents, owing to her Young Justice (2010) incarnation, and she ends the second season as something of a Friendly Enemy to Courtney, which is something of an in-between for her comic self (a ruthless supervillain, albeit one who was a Friendly Enemy to Rick and Jesse Quick) and the aforementioned animated series version.
• Cute Bruiser: She's a young high school athlete who will show no qualms in knocking your teeth out if you play dirty on the football field.
• Death Wail: She screams in anguish when she finds out that her parents are dead. It takes a much-needed hug from Barbara to finally calm her down.
• Foreshadowing: There are many allusions to her potentially becoming a superhero or supervillain in the first season, which seem like a Mythology Gag at first, but the second season has her embrace her villainous legacy.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Artemis easily lashes out in anger. Having two supervillain parents who constantly have her work hard and exercise, whilst enabling her aggressive tendencies, really didn't do well for her emotional health.
• Hidden Depths: "Chapter 10: The Killer" reveals Miss Tough Girl sleeps with an adorable plush unicorn.
• It Runs in the Family: The daughter of a gym coach and a Phys Ed teacher (who are actually Badass Normal supervillains), she's quite the athlete herself.
• Jerk Jock: She's an aggressive athlete who tackles boys twice her size and laughs about it.
• I Know Madden Kombat: She inherits her father's sport-themed weaponry once she joins Cindy's team. Combined with her impressive strength and her mother's agility, she becomes one hell of a combatant.
• Locked Out of the Loop:
  • Like all of the Injustice Society's children except Cindy, she's completely unaware her parents are supervillains. Even after they're arrested, she remains convinced that they were framed.
  • In Season 2, she eventually finds out that her parents are not as innocent as she thought after they break out of prison and ultimately admit to her that they are actually guilty of the crimes that got them imprisoned, though it's implied that she still doesn't know the full extent of exactly what they were involved in.
• Meaningful Name: It's not shocking that two supercriminals with a hunting/athletics/wild animal theme would name their daughter "Artemis", after the Greek goddess of the hunt.
• Mythology Gag:
  • During her appearance in "Hourman and Doctor Mid-Nite", she's wearing a green hoodie reminiscent of her Young Justice counterpart's costume. Green in general seems to be her preferred colour, in fact.
  • As seen in the Distant Finale, like her Young Justice version, her superhero name is simply "Artemis".
• Not His Sled: Unlike every previous version of her character, her persona is based on Sportsmaster instead of Tigress.
• Passionate Sports Girl: Artemis is absolutely devoted to playing football, excelling even against boys who outweight her quite a bit. She's also a Jerk Jock about it, and encouraged by her parents all the way (since both have the same attitude plus a history in sports).
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Artemis is a fairly small teenage girl, yet is shown tackling boys twice her size as a star female football player. She's later revealed to possess near-superhuman strength, and proves to be quite the competent fighter despite her size.
• Race Lift: She's portrayed having an Asian-American mother. This brings her closer to her Young Justice counterpart, who's half-Vietnamese (though this version hasn't been identified as such).
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After Eclipso turns on Cindy's team and effortlessly dispatches Issac and Cindy (with Issac confirmed dead and Cindy's fate unknown after being sucked into one of Eclipso's puddles), Artemis wisely opts to back down and quietly slip out the school's back door while Eclipso is distracted by the Shade and the JSA.
• Sole Survivor: Eclipso kills Isaac and is implied to have done the same to Cindy, or at the very least something just as terrible, and Artemis runs out as soon as he's distracted.
• Tomboyish Ponytail: Artemis lives and breathes sports, and her hair is always tied tightly in a ponytail.
• Took a Level in Cheerfulness: After getting her parents back in the season 2 finale, she does this in season 3 (ex: cheering for the JSA, excitedly fighting a gang at night).
• Truer to the Text: This Artemis's personality is more in line with her villainous comic counterpart, in contrast to the more well-known heroic version from Young Justice. Although she ultimately becomes a superhero after all.
• When She Smiles: She flashes an endearing one at her parents during her college tryouts in season 2.

Isaac Bowin

Isaac Bowin

Species: Human

Played by: Max Frantz

Known Aliases:

The son of Blue Valley High School's principal, Anaya Bowin. He's an up-and-coming musician who's set to follow in his mother's footsteps.

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• Beware the Quiet Ones: There's an unbalanced, sadistic streak under that marching band geek exterior, even before he becomes a supervillain.
• The Chew Toy: Like his father in his childhood, he gets picked on by other students for playing an instrument (specifically, a tuba).
• Decomposite Character: He's essentially Fiddler III, but bears the name of the original Fiddler, who is his unnamed father in the show (note that he isn't referred to as "Isaac Junior", implying that "Isaac" is not the original Fiddler's name in this adaptation).
• The Dog Bites Back: On behest of his mom, he bashes one of his bullies on the head with his tuba.
• Killed Off for Real: Eclipso murders Issac by impaling him with one of Shiv's knives before devouring him.
• Legacy Character: He becomes the third Fiddler, following in both of his parents' footsteps.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Like all of the Injustice Society's children except Cindy, he's completely unaware his mother is a supervillain, and that his late father was one.
  • In Season 2, Cindy reveals the villainous legacy of Isaac's parents to him in an attempt to recruit him to join a new ISA that she's putting together.
  • Isaac was told his mother died in a hunting accident. Then Cindy told him the JSA killed her. When really she was murdered by Tigress.
• Musical Assassin: Isaac inherits his father's violin, allowing him to disorient with its music and shoot devastating projectile sound waves.
• Mythology Gag: In the comics, Isaac Bowin was the name of the original Fiddler.
• Not Wearing Tights: Unlike Shiv's costume and Artemis cobbled together sports uniform, Isaac only wears civvies as a member of ISA Unlimited. This fits how his parents technically didn't wear costumes, only fine suits, in battle.
• Sacrificial Lion: He's devoured by Eclipso to show the new JSA that he means business.
• Sympathy for the Devil: Yolanda never wanted to fight or hurt Isaac. She knew he wasn't a villain, just a troubled kid who didn't deserve to die.
• Took a Level in Badass: He evolves from a meek high school loner to a pretty formidable supervillain who can go toe-to-toe with Wildcat II.
• Token Good Teammate: Downplayed, but unlike Cindy and Artemis who are vicious and cruel, he's just a Troubled Teen inducted into the wrong crowd. This makes the fact that he was one to end up being killed by Eclipso all the more undeserving.
• Tragic Villain: In short, Isaac was just a lonely teenager who was constantly bullied and lost both of his parents. The pent up negativity from his experiences culminate in him joining Cindy's ranks, and he unfortunately pays the price for it in the end.

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Sofus and Lily Mahkent

Sofus and Lily Mahkent

Species: Metahuman

Played by: Jim France (Sofus), Kay Galvin (Lily)

Appearances: Stargirl

Jordan Mahkent's parents, who encourage him in his plan.

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• Ambiguously Human: The fact that both of them have ice powers (which their son and then grandson inherited) raises the idea that they may come from a completely different race of humanoid beings that have these abilities. Their traditional prayer mentions Niflheim, which strongly suggests they may be Jötunn. The series ends without ever truly clarifying their real nature, leaving it as a Riddle for the Ages.
• Ambiguously Related: Both Sofus and Lily having hereditary ice powers raises the question of whether they're Kissing Cousins.
• Berserk Button: It doesn't take more than mentioning her late son Jordan to drive Lily to a murderous rage.
• Bilingual Backfire: They often speak Norwegian with their son in front of strangers when it is about something secret. Barbara exploits this later when she records them.
• Consistent Clothing Style: They wear warm sweaters in any weather, possibly to reference their wintery powers.
• Divergent Character Evolution: For most of their initial appearances on the show they are effectively The Dividual, and are both characterized as being the creepy, cryokinetic parents of Jordan (and grandparents of Cameron) who are fully behind their son's Evil Plan. As the series goes on, however, it becomes clear that Sofus is actually an Anti-Villain who is willing to give up any and all evil ways (including the crusade to avenge their son) for whatever allows Cameron to live a happy and fulfilling life, whereas Lily is very much not like this and remains incredibly violent and bloodthirsty—despite their fundamental moral differences, however, they still remain firmly Happily Married and love each other.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: They love their son and grandson and grieved for Jordan's wife Christine like it was their own daughter.
• Evil Mentor: In Frenemies, Sofus and Lily begin teaching Cameron to use his burgeoning powers. This includes twisting the narrative of their family history to make him believe they're the good guys.
• Evil Old Folks: They are the elderly parents of Jordan who fully support his plan of mass brainwashing and have no problem with collateral damage whatsoever.
• Fantasy-Forbidding Father: Lily discourages Cameron's love of art, considering it a distraction from his family duties of honing his powers and avenging his father. Sofus is more lenient and wants Cameron to do what makes him happy.
• Freudian Excuse: It is implied that the Mahkent family's history of being hunted as monsters is what inspired Lily and Sofus' distrust of outsiders and unrelenting "us vs. them" mentality.
• Heel–Face Turn: Sofus eventually makes peace with the JSA, and leaves them on good terms alongside Cameron.
• An Ice Person: Lily and Sofus have ice powers just like their son, and it's indicated to be something all members of their family posses.
• Inexplicably Awesome: The source of their ice abilities (which their son and grandson inherit) is never explained, though it is hinted they may be frost giants.
• Karmic Death: In the finale, Lily attempts to kill Sofus at the junkyard, but Wildcat swoops in and distracts her. She accidentally blasts a car above her and gets crushed instantly.
• Lady Macbeth: Parental version, they both encourage their son's ruthless ways and even try to brush off Barbara's possible death, with which Jordan himself has a very big problem. From Season 2 onward, Lily becomes the sole Lady Macbeth of the Mahkents, acting as one to both her husband and grandson.
• More Deadly Than the Male: Lily is portrayed as more bloodthirsty, while Sofus prefers to deal with their enemies with a pragmatic approach.
• Never Mess with Granny: Lily has her own ice powers (that she passed on to her son and grandson) and will use them on anyone who disses or threatens her family.
• Revenge Myopia: Lily hates the JSA for killing her son and wants revenge on them. The fact that Jordan had killed several people himself and intended to carry out a plan that would have claimed more lives is irrelevant to her.
• Unholy Matrimony: They are the villainous parents of Jordan who seem to remain in a loving committed relationship to each other even at their old age, despite occasionally having differing moral views.

Eclipso

Eclipso

^{Click to see him as "Bruce".}

Species: Demon

Known Aliases: Bruce

Played by: Nick E. Tarabay, Milo Stein (Bruce)

Appearances: Stargirl

An entity of pure evil who resides in a dark crystal known as the Black Diamond. He comes into the fray when Cindy finds the crystal within the Wizard's storage, and acts as her "servant" for most of Season 2. Though it's made perfectly clear that he has his own sinister plans in mind...

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• Absurdly Sharp Claws: His claw-like fingers are sharp enough to impale, as he demonstrates on the Shade.
• Age Lift: Played With; his Bruce Gordon form is a little boy, but the real Bruce was a grown man when Eclipso was possessing him.
• All Crimes Are Equal: Whether it's stealing a toy or attempted murder, Eclipso only needs someone to give in to their negative emotions to feed on them.
• Ancient Evil: He's not portrayed as the Spectre's corrupted predecessor as the Wrath of God as in the comics, but he's still an extremely old demonic being that has wreaked havoc throughout history.
• Arc Villain: The ultimate evil that our heroes face in Season 2 and the most powerful villain they've encountered thus far, who easily overshadows Cindy's Injustice Unlimited before threatening to merge Earth with the horrors of the Shadowlands.
• Berserk Button: Implying that he, a master of terror, is scared of anything. When Beth accuses Eclipso of hiding and asks what he's afraid of, his response is a downright petulant "Nothing!"
• Conflict Killer: He manages to make enemies of both the JSA and former ISA members alike (including Cindy and Artemis), which ultimately following his defeat leads to the uneasy frenemy relationship between these former enemies that forms the backbone of season 3.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Season 1's Big Bad, Icicle, was a sympathetic Well-Intentioned Extremist who longed to combat injustice through otherwise destructive means, and only targeted our heroes because they got in the way of his plans. Eclipso, on the other hand, is a purely evil monster who thrives on the negativity of humans, and targets each hero one-by-one in an effort to break them down completely.
• The Corruptor: He can influence people into acting in negative ways, then feed on them for falling prey to those emotions.
• Creepy Child: An innocent-looking boy named Bruce Gordon appears to be Eclipso's preferred disguise. It's revealed to be a younger version of his previous host prior to the JSA defeating him.
• Dead Person Impersonation: A favourite trick of his. His preferred form is as a child form of Bruce Gordon and he also appears as Cindy's mother, Jordan Mahkent, and both Henry Kings in order to mess with Cindy, Barbara and Yolanda respectively.
• Demonic Possession: Anyone who possesses the crystal is completely susceptible to his control, and through his hosts, he can devour the souls of other people. His ultimate goal after being freed is to possess Courtney, using her as a conduit to channel the power of the Cosmic Staff in conjunction with his own to merge the Shadowlands and Earth.
• Emotion Eater: He loves to feast on the negative emotions of humans, and will often persuade his victims to act on their negative feelings just so he could feed off of them.
• Eviler than Thou: The Shade draws a distinction between "bad" and "evil". The Shade is bad: he's a criminal and murderer, but he at least believes his victims deserved it, and has some standards. Eclipso, meanwhile, enjoys corrupting and murdering innocent people, especially children, and is such a menace that his island of origin was wiped off the map in an effort to keep him hidden from the world.
• Evil Is Deathly Cold: His presence begins to turn the weather to fall and winter in the middle of summer.
• Evil Is Not a Toy: Cindy thinks of him as a servant who will do his bidding, but his murder of Bobbie Burman shows that he will act of his own accord if he feels like it. Once he's freed from the diamond, he immediately makes it clear who's in charge.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Being a literal demon, he speaks with an eerie, guttural growl.
• Expy: While DC originally introduced the character in 1963, his interpretation in Stargirl appears to borrow elements from the titular entity of Stephen King's It, being an ancient Eldritch Abomination that infects a small rural American town and uses reality-warping / illusory abilities, the power to be in multiple places at once, and the knowledge of his victims' fears and insecurities to Mind Rape, terrorize, and murder people (mostly children), all for seemingly no reason other than sadistic pleasure.
• Forced Transformation: Following a fitting short order Humiliation Conga, Eclipso's reign of terror finally ends when Thunderbolt literally grants Jakeem's wish to turn him into toast, negating the JSA having to kill him.
• Godhood Seeker: He's already far and away the most powerful being to appear in the Stargirl universe, but he aspires to become an outright deity by possessing Courtney and taking her light-elemental powers for himself in a Yin-Yang Bomb and merge the Shadowlands with the real world
• Hate Sink: Despite being an entity who mostly takes the form of a child, Eclipso's malice makes him come off as a sadistic predatory bully who's not above using racism just as a tactic to make his victims feel small. He also mostly goes after young people because they are much easier as they are generally more emotionally and physically vulnerable which he can then use to taunt the parents of said young.
• Hidden Agenda Villain: No one knows why he commits unspeakably evil acts, or what's driving him, though it's somewhat implied to be nothing more than sadistic glee. "Summer School: Chapter Twelve" reveals that his goal is to rule over the world as a God - and he means to use Courtney to do it.
• Humanoid Abomination: He's an ancient Eldritch Abomination whose true form is that of a vaguely humanoid goblin.
• Jerkass: Eclipso is a terrifying demon made up of pure negative energy.....who often preys on his victims by being a total dick to get them to express said negative emotions
• Kill the Host Body: While inside the Black Diamond, Eclipso needs a host to exert his influence on others. Killing the host forces him back into the diamond, powerless to act. This is how the JSA stopped him the first time, after the sorcerers on their team failed.
• Knight of Cerebus:
  • Once Eclipso is brought into play, the series takes a noticeably darker turn, even before he gains physical form. It gets worse after this, though, as he kills two founding members of Injustice Unlimited, shrugs off the efforts of both the Shade and the Cosmic Staff, and is now targeting the individual JSA members, presumably by breaking them psychologically before finishing them off.
  • Even long before the season premiered, various interviews with the showrunners and cast confirmed that Eclipso's presence would mark a Genre Shift into horror. When the season finally airs and gradually unfolds, we can see they were absolutely right on the mark.invoked
• Master of Illusion: Can cast illusions based on people's fears to drive them further under his control. He can also make himself appear to be a small child.
• Mind Rape: His specialty is doing this to his victims using his apparent omniscience and his Master of Illusion capabilities.
• No-Sell: The Shade's attacks do absolutely nothing to him. This is because they are drawn from the same source as Eclipso. It's like literally trying to fight fire with fire.
• Obviously Evil: Looks like a goblin from a spooky fairy tale with glowing red eyes, speaks in a deep, gravelly voice, and his powers are all about nightmares and darkness. Yep, this guy's a bad apple.
• Ominous Music Box Tune: This leitmotif follows Eclipso (him specifically, not just his power) to further how unsettling he is.
• The Omniscient: While he's probably not actually omniscient, he can dig into the minds and memories of his victims to prey on their fears and insecurities, tailoring the illusions specifically to each individual.
• The Omnipresent: Once he's freed from the Black Diamond he can manifest illusions to anyone in Blue Valley instantaneously, and to multiple people at the same time even when they're located completely across town.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: He deliberately invokes this as he attempts to prey on Beth's fears and insecurities about being the cause of her parents' divorce, not fitting in and feelings of inadequacy. He claims that she's both the wrong gender and race to have Dr. Mid-Nite's mantle, and makes thinly veiled racist remarks about black people being criminals.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: His eyes are naturally red, but when they start glowing... he's ready to feast.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Initially, he was an evil entity confined within a Black Diamond. Unfortunately, he manages to escape and take on a physical form after tricking Courtney into breaking the diamond.
• Super-Strength: He's able to smack Rick across the room with ease while he's empowered by the hourglass.
• Things That Go "Bump" in the Night: Eclipso's overall theme. A monster who lurks in the shadows, using cheap scares to hunt and gobble up children.
• Two-Faced: The right side of his face is blue and the left side is grey, invoking a gibbous moon. When he possesses people, the right side of their faces turn purplish-black.
• Weakened by the Light: The light of the Cosmic Staff is able to banish him from someone he's possessed, at least with physical contact. Eclipso himself is caused visible pain by touching the staff, though his power is such that he ultimately comes out on top in their first encounter.
• Would Hurt a Child:
  • The first victim we see him devour is an innocent little girl named Rebecca, who's later revealed to be the daughter of Charles McNider. Given Shade's comments, Eclipso may actually prefer targeting children.
  • Once he's freed, he devours Isaac and sucks Cindy through a puddle of evil to Uncertain Doom with relative ease. Both of them were just teenagers.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: He's only using Cindy as a means to free himself from the diamond. Once he finally succeeds, he disposes of his "master" by engulfing her in ooze.
• Your Soul Is Mine!: Eclipso draws power from feeding on the souls of sinners. Of course, he's more than happy to play dirty and tempt innocents into acting sinful.

The Murderer

Ultra-Humanite

Species: Albino Gorilla

Appearances: Stargirl

"I'll kill every last one of them."

A mysterious antagonist who is the cause behind the destruction of the small amount of peace between heroes and villains, planning everything from the shadows and waiting to strike his move.

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• Arc Villain: The Ultra-Humanite is the central villain of Season 3, making use of the Gambler's murder to pit the JSA and the reformed villains against each other. His theft of Starman's body allows him to conduct this with absolutely no one realizing the truth until it's too late, while also putting him in a position to manipulate Courtney into giving him the Cosmic Staff.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: Despite the supposed animosity between him and the ISA for not being allowed to join them, he is truthfully working with the revived Icicle and Dragon King, giving the latter his ape body for him to "defeat" as Starman alongside Jordan's son. From there, he intends to run for president as a mouthpiece for Icicle to spread his ideals.
• Body Surf: As in the comics, he uses surgical brain transplants (with the help of Dragon King when he was alive) to steal the bodies of others for himself. His current body is that of a heavily mutated albino gorilla, and one of his previous bodies was the famous actress Delores Winters. It turns out that he also did this to Starman at some point between the Pilot and the Season 1 finale.
• The Chessmaster: He is the one that murdered the Gambler and started the conflict behind everyone's backs.
• The Dreaded: Pat and Sylvester consider him among the most dangerous foes the JSA had ever faced, and are utterly terrified when Mike and Jakeem inform them he's returned.
• Final Boss: He and Icicle are the very last threats for the current JSA to take on by the show's end. His theft of Sylvester's body leads to a climactic fight between him, Pat and Courtney in the finale as the latter strives to reclaim Starman's stolen legacy.
• I Have Many Names: He regularly assumed new identities in the past via Brain Transplants, before he stuck with the body of a mutated gorilla.
• Killer Gorilla: A super-intelligent albino one who threatens to kill everyone who opposes his plans and either orchestrated the Gambler's murder or did it himself—the latter being heavily implied to be more likely.
• Manipulative Bastard: He plays heroes and villains alike with consummate ease.
• Master Actor: Body surfing wouldn't be half as useful if the host bodies act out of character, so the Ultra-Humanite is adept at pretending to be whomever he's swapped brains with. As Sylvester, he fooled the man's oldest and closest friend Pat, the odd slip up explained away as PTSD.
• No Name Given: He's simply known as the Ultra-Humanite, and it's implied he may not even remember his original identity.
• Obviously Evil: He's an angry, mutant talking Killer Gorilla whose first lines are "I'll kill every last one of them". And that's before Pat and Sylvester explain that he's actually even worse than his first impression gives off.
• Ultimate Lifeform: The moniker he gave himself implies Ultra-Humanite sees himself as this.
• Was Once a Man: Pat and Sylvester explain that he used to be human before having his brain implanted into that of an albino gorilla.
• White Hair, Black Heart: An albino gorilla and murderous criminal? You don't say!
• Would Hurt a Child: Threatens to kill everyone that stands in his way, including teenangers.

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