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Superman (Kal-El)
Debuted as Superboy in 1920, became Superman in 1939. Married to Lois Lane, through which he became the father of Joel and Kara Kent (both of whom are deceased). Eventually married Lana Lang in his later (much much later) years.
- Accidental Murder: Accidentally killed Ultra!Lex in 1989 while he was trying to find a way to escape—though he notes later that he could not be certain he'd done it intentionally, out of rage at the deaths of his family and dearest friends.
- Calling the Old Man Out: In Generations III he leaves his family on New Genesis in order to return to Earth after five hundred years. When he returns thanks to finally getting his hands on a boom tube device, New Genesis has been destroyed, the New Gods are doomed, and both his children express their hatred for how he "abandoned" them for seven hundred years, though their anger may have been tempered a bit after he explains to their mother that even after consulting the universe's greatest minds he found no way to return to New Genesis until just then.
- Childhood Friends: It's established in this continuity that he first met Batman when he rescued a young Bruce Wayne during his Superboy days, and the two have been close companions ever since.
- Cool Old Guy: By the first miniseries' end he's over a thousand years old. And he remains active as Superman for all that time.
- Composite Character: The fact that he's Supergirl's father in this continuity makes him a composite with his uncle Zor-El.
- Crusading Widower: After Luthor-Humanite's manipulations kill his wife and children at his daughter's wedding, Clark goes on a decade-long hunt for the body-switching bastard.
- De-power: Luthor exposes him to Gold Kryptonite (which erases Kryptonian powers permanently) in 1989, but after his release from the Phantom Zone, Superman restores them using a Super Serum Ultra-Humanite had planned to take after stealing Superman's body.
- Due to the Dead: Even in 2919, his new Fortress of Solitude still has a shrine to his wife, daughter, and wayward son.
- Flight: Able to cross over a hundred light years within a few hours. This power also seems to be the one which declines the most quickly as human genes comingle with his bloodline, though his descendants are still impressively fast.
- Godzilla Threshold: Gave Nixon a fragment of Green Kryptonite to use on him if he ever went mad.
- Happily Married:
- To both his wives, even though his first marriage ended tragically with the death of Lois at the hands of Ultra!Lex.
- In the alternate timeline of Generations III, he falls in love with and marries Beautiful Dreamer of the New Gods.
- I'll Kill You!: He proclaims this to "Luthumanite" after he snaps Lois's neck right in front of him. It's one reason he thinks he may have murdered him in cold blood rather than by accident.
- Immortality Begins at Twenty: It's mentioned that the slowed aging of Kryptonians doesn't happen until they reach their full maturity.
- Interspecies Romance:
- Naturally, his relationship with Lois counts, considering he's Kryptonian and she's human.
- In the Generations III alternate timeline, he ends up in New Genesis for a while, where he marries the New God known as Beautiful Dreamer.
- At some point prior to 2919, he marries Lana Lang, who is an altered human.
- Kid Hero All Grown-Up: As the case was in Pre-Crisis continuity, he first entered superheroics as Superboy and graduated to Superman in adulthood.
- Mayfly–December Romance:
- His relationship with Lois, and indeed any non-immortal would be this, as dying by old age may be a statistical impossibility for him. But Ultra!Lex beats old age to killing Lois.
- Even Beautiful Dreamer, a New God, ages faster than he does, being largely confined to a bed after seven hundred years while he still barely looks fifty-ish.
- Averted with Lana Lang who's over a thousand years old and seems to have stopped aging at about thirty.
- No Place for Me There: Between him, Batman, their descendants and all the other heroes in their wake, Earth (and indeed our whole galaxy) has gotten a little too peaceful and boring for him by the 30th Century. When it turns out Batman feels the same, the two of them (and Lana Lang) go off looking for some trouble.
- Older Than They Look: Manages to live for a thousand years with only white hair and slight wrinkles to show for it. He notes that the longer he lives, the more slowly he seems to age.
- Outliving One's Offspring: He outlives both his son Joel and his daughter Kara in Generations I. The alternate timeline in Generations III would also have him outlive Lar-El and Vara, the children he had with his second wife Beautiful Dreamer.
- Reading Lips: It makes eavesdropping with X-Ray Vision much more useful—although considering his Super Hearing he needn't bother.
- Reed Richards Is Useless: Justified.
- He spent ages trying to create a Super Serum which would give Lois and Joel Kryptonian powers, but anything that worked was also fatal to humans.
- At one point he scoured the universe looking for a cure for cancer in order to save Lois from the disease, but he couldn't find any that were compatible with human physiology.
- Related Differently in the Adaptation: Supergirl is his daughter in this continuity, when traditionally she is his cousin.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: The death of his family triggered this in Kal-El, as he sought to bring their murderer Ultra!Lex to justice.
- Second Love:
- In the "canon" Generations universe, he falls for Lana Lang, who turns out to have been immortal and superpowered all along.
- In the alternate timeline of Generations III, he ends up in New Genesis and marries Beautiful Dreamer of the New Gods, and the couple has a son and daughter. Then they all get killed at the hands of Darkseid.
- Secret Secret-Keeper: He first met Bruce when he rescued him from kidnappers during his Superboy days. During his scuffle with the kidnappers, Bruce joined the fight by donning the mantle of the Flying Fox. Superboy used his X-ray vision to see that the Flying Fox was actually a disguised Bruce Wayne, but he did not let Bruce know he was aware that Bruce and the Flying Fox were the same person.
- Superpower Lottery: He's got all the powers of his mainstream Silver Age version, at the same planet-shoving, intergalaxy-flying levels.
- The Unmasking: Luthor/Ultra Humanite exposed Clark's identity on the same day that he killed all but one of his blood family. After that, and with Joel's kid being raised as a Wayne, there was little point in maintaining the pretense.
- Voice Changeling: Able to uncannily imitate voices, as per his mainstream version.
Lois Lane
Lois by 1939
Lois by 1969
Superman's first wife.
- Baldness Means Sickness: She's bald as a consequence of chemotherapy.
- Composite Character: She takes Alura In-Ze's role as Supergirl's mother.
- Damsel in Distress: In the 1939 tale when Ultra's henchmen catch her poking around the Metropolis World's Fair. She wasn't captured easily but it happened.
- Defiant to the End: Tells Luthor he won't get away with it one last time before he snaps her neck. This is when she’s elderly, wheelchair-bound, AND suffering from cancer, to boot!
- Imperiled in Pregnancy: in 1949, while pregnant with Joel, she was kidnapped by Joker and Luthor-Humanite. Although Batman and Superman rescued her, Joel was exposed to Gold K radiation, de-powering him while still in the womb.
- Interspecies Romance: She's a human who marries the Kryptonian Superman.
- Intrepid Reporter: Willing to take dangerous risks to get a scoop, much like her mainstream self.
- Neck Snap: She was killed when Ultra!Lex snapped her neck.
- Pregnant Hostage: The Joker held her hostage during her first pregnancy.
- Related in the Adaptation: She is Supergirl's mother in this continuity.
- Smoking Is Not Cool: In the early decades of the story, she's often seen with a cigarette in hand. By 1969, she's diagnosed with lung cancer, and by 1979, she's on death's door. Thankfully, that wonderful Dr. Holurt has taken over her treatment.
Lana Lang
Superman's second wife.
- The Ageless: Becomes this when the culmination of spells and other weirdness she's been exposed to all her life grant her immortality.
- First Girl Wins: Zig-zagged. She was the first girl who had a romantic connection to Clark Kent and Superboy, but Lois was the first woman he truly fell in love with and married. Then she and Clark marry centuries in the future, when Lois is long dead.
- Flight: It's not really clear just what the extent of her powers are, but she has this one, at least.
- Hero of Another Story: At some point, she found out she was both immortal and possessed of superpowers. We have no idea what she's been up to before her appearance in the last chapter, besides marrying Clark.
- Hot Witch: Becomes this through the use of Merlin's staff, and gained (at least) magic-powered immortality and flight thanks to all the mystical stuff she messed with as a kid.
- Interspecies Romance: She's an altered human who becomes the Kryptonian Superman's second wife at the end of the timeline.
- I Will Wait for You: Waited seven hundred years for Clark. Yowza.
- Last Kiss: In Generations III, during her time travel adventure, she encounters a far older Clark and realizes that in the future he falls in love with and marries Lois rather than herself. Believing she has no chance with him and knowing her memory's going to be wiped, she asks Superman for one last kiss—an adult kiss—and he obligingly locks lips with her. By the by, she's fourteen to his hundreds of years (but looking fifty or so). Let's move on swiftly, shall we? It's probably Ret-Gone anyway.
- Older Than They Look: In 2919, she's over a thousand years old, and looks maybe thirty at worst.
- Redhead In Green: Wears a flowing green outfit after taking Merlin's staff, and her silver suit in the future has green accents as well as a green cape.
- Second Love: For Clark, after Lois’s death at the hands of the Ultra-Humanite.
- Super-Empowering: Magical artifacts, super-science inventions, alien intervention, pools of water giving her temporary Kryptonian powers, rings that give powers like insect transformation...Fill in the blank, as a secondary character in Silver Age stories it's probably happened to her.
- Superpower Silly Putty: So many of the things she's encountered have altered her in so many ways that she's lucky she's still got a recognizably human body. As far as we know, anyway.
- Weirdness Magnet: Hers mostly seems to focus around attracting Super-Empowering events.
Supergirl (Kara Kent)
The daughter of Kal-El and Lois Lane, and the first wife of Bruce Wayne, Jr.
- Adaptation Name Change: Given that she is Superman and Lois Lane's daughter in this continuity, her surname is Kent instead of Zor-El.
- Cain and Abel: The Abel to Joel's Cain. And just like Abel, she’s killed by her brother.
- Clark Kenting: Inverted: she wears a brunette wig as Supergirl.
- The Empath: Thanks to both of them being born to super-heroic parents at practically the same time, Kara shares a psychic link to Stephanie Trevor that enables them to sense each others' emotions.
- Flight: Extrapolating from her nephew, her top speed is over a billion miles per hour. But judging from her dad, this may be low-balling it.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Yup, and half as powerful as her father. But, as she notes, half of infinity is still infinite.
- Hybrid Power: Vulnerable to Kryptonite, but not as much as her dad.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Her brother Joel killed her by punching right through her chest.
- Interspecies Romance: Technically, her relationship with the human Bruce, Jr. counts, since she is a human/Kryptonian hybrid, which is of course due to being the result of one (her father being Kryptonian and her mother being human).
- Kid Hero All Grown-Up: One of the founding members of the Justice League of America at about 11 or 12 and continued to be a superhero in adulthood.
- Lame Pun Reaction: In the crossover in issue 14 of John Byrne's run on Doom Patrol, she groans in response to Kid Flash making a pun on getting "ahead in the world" after Elasti-Girl flicks the Brain off of his mechanized tank.
- Related in the Adaptation: Lois Lane is her mother in this continuity.
- Related Differently in the Adaptation: Supergirl is usually Superman's cousin, but here she is instead his daughter.
- Superpower Lottery: Just like her dad, except, again, half as powerful.
- Together in Death: In the alternate timeline of Generations III, her spirit shows up to usher Bruce Wayne Jr. into the afterlife when he elects to end his extended lifespan at last. One might assume something similar happened in the unaltered/restored timeline.
Joel Kent
The son of Kal-El and Lois Lane. Exposed to Gold K while in the womb by Luthor and the Joker, he was born a normal human. Married Mei-Lai Kent and fathered Clark Wayne, who was adopted by Bruce Wayne Jr.
- Blessed with Suck: The formula that Ultra!Lex devised which would finally give him superpowers would also end up killing him. Exactly as Ultra!Lex planned.
- Cain and Abel: The Cain to Kara's Abel.
- Cassandra Truth: After years of filthy lies from his corrupt "family", Luthor-Humanite revealed the real truth to Joel—not only was his father Superman, but the so-called "hero" had deliberately exposed Joel to Gold Kryptonite in the womb so that Joel would never be able to surpass him as a hero! When Joel confronted his deceitful parents, they tried to lie their way out of it once again, but even after they finally admitted that Clark was Superman, they claimed that it was villains who'd exposed Joel to the Gold K! Uh-huh. Not only that, but his father tried to get him to buy some sob story about how he'd tried and tried to craft a Super Serum which would give Joel and Lois Kryptonian powers, but anything which would do that would also kill a normal human. Shyeah right!
- Character Development: After Mei-Lai nurses him back to health, Joel actually matures somewhat as she helps him find some degree of peace in his life. However, the hatred Luthor-Humanite had stoked in his heart for his parents was rooted too deeply for her to ease.
- Chest Insignia: The symbol on the armor he wears to crash BJ and Kara's wedding is appropriately an upside down and distorted version of the Crest of the House of El.
- Faking the Dead: A mildly unintentional case as he never felt it necessary to inform his family he was still alive after being unexpectedly fragged by his troops and nursed back to health by Mei-Lai.
- Glory Seeker: Joined the army during the Vietnam War in an effort the earn the respect he felt was lost to him before he was born and proved both willing defy his orders and commit atrocities against innocent people in order to earn accolades.
- Half-Human Hybrid: And even though he was born without powers thanks to Gold Kryptonite, it turns out he can still pass them on.
- Horrible Judge of Character: Swallowed every lie Luthor fed him without question. But then, he was only about nine or ten when Luthor started brainwashing him.
- Ignored Epiphany: Claims that at the very last moment he felt a strange hesitation toward killing his sister, as though he hadn't really wanted to.
- Inferiority Superiority Complex: His Glory Seeker ways and abuse of authority were obvious overcompensations for being born powerless.
- Interspecies Romance: A half-Kryptonian (altered to be human by prenatal exposure to gold kryptonite) married Mei-Lai, a full human. As mentioned, he's also the result of one, as like his sister Kara, he has a Kryptonian father and a human mother.
- Locked Out of the Loop: His family figured that the best way for him to grow up mentally healthy would be to keep him from finding out that his father was Superman. Luthor spoiled that, and the years of deception most likely helped destroy his relationship with them instead.
- Muggle Born of Mages: Born the only child of Superman and Lois without superpowers, but only because he was prenatally exposed to Gold Kryptonite by Lex Luthor (who secretly was the Ultra Humanite).
- The Neidermeyer: Decidedly not A Father to His Men, the young Kent had troops put under his command and is implied to have little respect from them, particularly after he forced them to defy their orders by crossing the borderline into civilian territory and claiming that what looked like a village full of noncombatants was actually a Viet Cong base. One massive war crime later, Joel refused to acknowledge his mistake and attempted to kill off the few remaining women, old men, and children who had survived their attack so they couldn't report to their "commie masters". One of his discontented men shot him down before he could do so and Joel was left lying in the mud while his men left the area. Mei-Lai, one of the survivors of Joel's attack, took pity on him and treated his wound, nursing him back to health and helping him calm some of the anger within him. Ultimately, they married.
- Parental Substitute: Luthor-Humanite gets his hooks in him when he's young, and Joel comes to see him as the only real family he has, due to his blood family's "deception". As you can see above, he wasn't a particularly good influence.
- Pet the Dog: His love for Mei-Lai and their son go a long way to humanize him, even if he couldn't overcome his hate.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Hey, now, just because you've been deceived into despising your sister with every fiber of your being and are about to literally rip her heart out of her chest is no reason to claim that a female could never be your father's equal, Joel! Shame on you! Shame!
- Powered Armor: Wears one to conceal his identity when he attacks at Kara and Bruce Jr,'s wedding. It's got Kryptonite rays and sonic attacks, but the Flight is all him.
- Rescue Romance: Falls in love with Mei-Lai after she saves his life in Vietnam when his own soldiers betray him and leave him for dead.
- Revenge Before Reason: Mei-Lai pleads with him to set aside his hatred for his family and live in peace with her and their son, but he just can't do it.
- Super-Scream: Since Kara has a resistance to Kryptonite, he uses a sonic attack to stun her when he attacks her wedding.
- Superior Successor: "Luthumanite" convinced Joel that Clark exposed him to Gold Kryptonite as an infant so that he wouldn't become one of these and overshadow his father.
- Superpower Lottery: Upon consuming Luthor's super serum, he gains the full Kryptonian suite of powers, apparently at the same level as his father, judging from the ease with which he slammed his fist straight through his sister's body.
- Tragic Villain: Let's see...Born the powerless son of the most powerful hero on earth, due to the machinations of his father's archenemy? Check. Deceived his entire life into hating his family by said archenemy? Check. Grows up into a miserable Glory Seeker Neidermeyer who commits terrible atrocities in order to prove himself and gets fragged and left for dead by his own troops instead? Check. Accomplice to the murder of his mother? Check. Takes a Super Serum that allows him to murder his superpowered sister with his bare hands? Check. The serum's deadly and the last thing Joel sees before melting to death is the man he'd embraced as a Parental Substitute gloating about how every last thing he'd led Joel to believe about his life was a bald-faced lie specifically tailored to manipulate him into destroying his actual loving family and perishing right before his real father's eyes? Oh, you better believe that's a check! Bonus: He leaves a wife and son behind, having chosen his misplaced revenge over a peaceful life with the two of them.
- The Unfavorite: Luthor convinced Joel that Kara had been allowed to keep her powers because Superman hadn't seen a superpowered daughter as a potential rival. In fact, the Kents loved them both equally.
- Wedding Smashers: Interrupts the reception following Bruce Jr. and Kara's wedding so that he could kill his sister and give Luthumanite the opportunity to kill Lois.
- Your Days Are Numbered: The Super Serum Luthumanite concocted killed him in five hours, just as planned.
Mei-Lai Kent
The wife of Joel Kent, the second wife of Bruce Wayne, Jr., and the mother of Clark Wayne.
- Asian Babymama: She's a Vietnamese woman who marries Joel, has his child, is abandoned by him because he's blinded by his desire for retribution against his father's alleged mistreatment of him and is ultimately a better person than him.
- Interspecies Romance: Joel Kent was half-Kryptonian, even if his alien genes were dormant, while his wife Mei-Lai is a human woman.
- Morality Pet: To Joel and Bruce Jr.
- Nice Girl: Nursed the man who ordered the massacre of her village back to health.
- Second Love: For Bruce Jr. He becomes her second love after Joel Kent as well.
- Women Are Wiser: A gentle, grounded counterpart to Joel and later Bruce Jr., who helps calm the turmoil within them. though she didn't manage to get Joel to overcome his hatred for his parents.
Supergirl Red (Lois Wayne)
One of the twin daughters of Clark Wayne and Amanda Mason.
- Domino Mask: Wears one as a kid, pre-Blackout Bomb.
- Flight: Extrapolating from her dad's top speed, she can hit about 280 million miles an hour.
- Hybrid Power: A chunk of Green Kryptonite can't kill the 7/8 Lara and Lois, but it still really hurts. It took extremely concentrated Green K radiation to kill her.
- Not Growing Up Sucks: In the alternate timeline of Generations III, both she and her sister are frozen at about the age of eleven by Lex Luthor's first blackout bomb. She doesn't seem to mind it as much as Lara, though.
- Older Than They Look: Kryptonians age more slowly the older they get, but in addition to this, she got stuck at about eleven thanks to Lex Luthor's blackout bomb, and stayed that way 'til she died.
- Satellite Character: She doesn't get a lot of characterization compared to her sister or father, and spends pretty much all of her on-panel time reacting to things they say or giving generic heroic dialogue.
- Superpower Lottery: All the powers of a Kryptonian, but only at one-eighth strength. That still adds up to powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men.
- Talking with Signs: Since the Kryptonian wheelhouse doesn't include telepathy, she her sister and their dad have come up with their own sign language in order to communicate in space.
- Uneven Hybrid: One-eighth Kryptonian.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: As opposed to Lara, Lois doesn't get a lot of characterization before her untimely end.
Supergirl Blue (Lara Wayne)
One of the twin daughters of Clark Wayne and Amanda Mason.
- Always Need What You Gave Up: Her decision to disable her powers so she'd finally age to adulthood was unfortunately made just before her crush the Green Lantern Ator was killed in a disaster she could have averted had she still had her powers at the time.
- Anti-Hero: After everything she's been through she has a somewhat darker outlook than most, coupled with a nasty temper.
- De-power: Exposed herself to Gold Kryptonite in the hope that stripping her powers away would somehow allow her to age properly again. It worked, but the man she loved got trapped in a situation only Supergirl could've saved him from and died.
- Disability Superpower: Not a very fun one. Since she was de-powered when Luthor blanketed the world in massively concentrated Green K radiation, she survived while her father and sister died in front of her.
- Domino Mask: Wears one as a kid, pre-Blackout Bomb.
- Finagle's Law: Lara exposes herself to Gold K, eliminating her powers in the hopes that she'd be able to age normally once more and be with Ator, the man she loves. Almost immediately afterward, Ator calls in, saying that he's gotten into a fatal situation, but he knows he'll be alright because Supergirl Blue can easily fly in and rescue him. Uh-oh.
- Flight: Extrapolating from her dad's top speed, she can hit about 280 million miles an hour.
- Guilt-Free Extermination War: Invoked. After learning that Darkseid had created a new breed of parademons capable of individual thought and personality, she killed the parademon she learned this from and kept it secret in order to ensure the war against them stayed this way for the other heroes.
- Hot-Blooded: One of the Kent family in-jokes is that she's got a bad temper.
- Hybrid Power: A chunk of Green Kryptonite can't kill the 7/8 human Lara and Lois, but it still really hurts.
- Interspecies Romance:
- She's part-Kryptonian and, as mentioned above, she fell in love with an alien Green Lantern Corpsman named Ator, and while he did love her, he was reluctant to enter a relationship because while he was about 350 years younger than her, she was in a prepubescent body.
- Much later, after she'd aged to adulthood, she married Bruce Wayne, who is an altered human.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Started out as your usual idealistic Superman family type, but the events of Generation III's alternate timeline harden her considerably. She's still on the side of the angels, but the temper she was known for as a kid has become much more prominent.
- May–December Romance: A couple of really odd versions, in the alternate timeline from Generations III.
- At the age of roughly four hundred, she falls for an alien named Ator who's about fifty and the equivalent of an earth teenager. He has feelings for her in turn, but she's still physically eleven years old, so he refuses to act upon them, much to her dismay.
- After exposing herself to Gold K and aging to adulthood, she and Bruce Wayne fall in love.
- Muggle Born of Mages: Her son with Bruce was born without any Kryptonian abilities whatsoever, and aged normally until death. In-universe speculation is that the Gold K exposure may have messed her genes up somehow, but the blackout bomb exposure or Bruce's dip in the Lazarus Pit could have had something to do with it, as well.
- No-Sell: Somehow, losing her powers and gaining them back made her completely immune to Kryptonite.
- Not Blood Related: Bruce Wayne's adoptive great-granddaughter. They eventually marry.
- Not Growing Up Sucks: In the alternate timeline of Generations III, both she and her sister are frozen at about the age of eleven by Lex Luthor's first blackout bomb, leaving her in the fun position of being four hundred years old, perpetually prepubescent, and deeply in love with someone who was physically in his late teens for his race.
- Older Than They Look: Kryptonians age more slowly the older they get, but in addition to this, she got stuck at about eleven thanks to Lex Luthor's blackout bomb for four hundred years, aged into adulthood after exposing herself to Gold K, and then started aging like a Kryptonian again after drinking Super Serum.
- Outliving One's Offspring: Thomas, her son with Bruce, was completely human while she aged like a Kryptonian.
- Pregnant Badass: Fought while pregnant with the child of herself and Bruce.
- Superpower Lottery: All the powers of a Kryptonian, but only at one-eighth strength, just like her sister. This is still more than strong enough to make her one of the premier superheroes of her era.
- Talking with Signs: Since the Kryptonian wheelhouse doesn't include telepathy, she her sister and their dad have come up with their own sign language in order to communicate in space.
- Uneven Hybrid: One-eighth Kryptonian.
Jonathan and Martha Kent
Superman's adoptive parents, who took him in when they found him as a baby after he was rocketed to Earth upon his home planet Krypton's destruction.
- Papa Wolf: Infuriated by the Ultra-Humanite's attempts at harming his adopted son and a young Bruce Wayne, Jonathan Kent personally cripples the villain.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Jonathan Kent's decision to cripple the Ultra-Humanite ultimately made the Ultra-Humanite more vindictive and focused on hurting and tormenting Superman.
- You Can't Fight Fate: Jonathan Kent actually tried to prevent the deaths of Bruce Wayne's parents Thomas and Martha Wayne after seeing the events happen on the Chronoscope by warning them about it, but Thomas and Martha willingly let their murders happen anyway because the knowledge that their deaths would result in their son growing up to become Batman convinced them that sacrificing their own lives was necessary to ensure Gotham City had someone to help defend it from crime.
Batman Family
Batman I/Robin I/Flying Fox (Bruce Wayne)
Debuted as the first Robin in 1929, became Batman in 1939. Married to his first wife in 1949, through which he fathered his son Bruce Wayne Jr. Retired from being Batman after 1959, only to resume the mantle in 1999 after turning Ra's al-Ghul's underground empire into a humanitarian organization.
- Badass Normal: Did you expect anything else?
- Big Good: Turns into this when he takes over Ra's al Ghul's underground criminal empire, turning it into a legitimate organization.
- Childhood Friends: In this continuity, he first met Superman in his youth when he was kidnapped as a child and Superboy came to his rescue. Since then, he and Superman have been close companions.
- Cool Old Guy: Even before he took a dip in the Lazarus Pit, he was still able to kick some serious ass, even as an older man. He defeats Ra’s al Ghul in a fight to the death in that Lazarus Pit, to boot.
- Empowered Badass Normal:
- Well, okay, if you want to be technical, his aging gets drastically slowed at one point. But that's the only "power" he's got...
- ...at least in the normal timeline. in the alternate timeline of Generations III, he and Lara discover that Superman's Super Serum, which normally kills anyone with pure human blood, works just fine on immortal humans. As a bonus, since he's not Kryptonian, Kryptonite doesn't work on him.
- Fiction 500: In 1939, he's the world's seventh richest man. By 1979, he's the fourth. Shortly after this, he adds Ra's Al-Ghul's immeasurable holdings to his wealth.
- Fountain of Youth: Restored to the prime of his youth by immersing himself with Ra's al-Ghul in the Lazarus Pit, while also gaining immortality.
- Identity Impersonator: Impersonated Superman in 1949 to help him rescue Lois Lane from Lex Luthor and the Joker.
- Interspecies Romance: He's human and engages in two relationships with a woman of a different species in the Alternate timeline of Generations III.
- Dated Wonder Woman (a divinely animated clay statue) for about a century.
- Eventually Married Lara Wayne (who is part-Kryptonian by virtue of being Superman's biological granddaughter).
- Kid Hero All Grown-Up:
- After being kidnapped as a child by the Ultra-Humanite, he dons a disguise out of spare costume parts and fights the villain and his henchmen as the Flying Fox alongside Superboy.
- Briefly adopts the identity of Robin as a late-teenager, before becoming Batman.
- Morality Pet: It's noted that Batman cleans up his act after he takes Robin on as a sidekick, and Alfred points out that adopting Dick helped Bruce calm his demons.
- No Place for Me There: Just like Superman.
- Not Blood Related: In the alternate timeline of Generations III, he married his adoptive granddaughter Lara Wayne.
- Older Than They Look:
- After his battle with Ra's al-Gul in the Lazarus Pit, he ages approximately one year for every hundred years.
- In the Generations III alternate timeline, you can add Kryptonian slowed-aging-over-time to that.
- Outliving One's Offspring: In Generation III's alternate timeline, he outlives his son Bruce Wayne Jr., who refuses to have his life extended any further after suffering a fatal injury. He also outlives his son by Lara Kent, who was born completely human.
- Rummage Sale Reject: As the Flying Fox, he slapped together a costume from what he would find in the Ultra-Humanite's warehouse hideout, namely a kid-sized swashbuckling costume and a fox mask. It's not too shabby, actually.
- Second Love:
- As with mainstream continuity, Ra's al-Ghul intended to marry him to his daughter Talia al Ghul, and the two of them spent a great deal of time together while Bruce was turning the League of Assassins into a beneficial organization, but seems to be an aversion as we have no evidence that anything happened between them.
- In the alternate universe presented in Generations III, he hooks up with Wonder Woman at some point in the 23rd century. It lasts until she decides she wants to return to Themyscira over a hundred years later.
- In aforementioned alternate timeline, he eventually settles down with Lara Wayne, aka Supergirl-Blue. They marry and even have a son together, who is born as a perfectly normal human in spite of his heritage.
- Spanner in the Works: In 1939, Ultra-Humanite's plans for the Metropolis World's Fair took Superman into account but not him, as the supervillain laments.
- Superhero Packing Heat: As seen in the Chronoscope, he carried a pair of pistols when he first started out as Batman.
- Superpower Lottery: In the Generations III timeline, he consumes the Super Serum which restored Superman's powers, survives the process, and gains Kryptonian powers without being a Kryptonian. It's uncertain if they're on par with Supes's level of power, though.
- The Unmasking: After his comeback, Bruce doesn't bother hiding that he and Batman are one and the same. As his family either hasn't got long for this earth (his wife), is part-Kryptonian and therefore has little to fear from your average criminal (Knight-wing and the twins), or frigging Ra's al-Ghul the Third (and also Batman)(BJ), there's really no reason to bother anymore, especially since his Rogue's Gallery is apparently dead and gone or well retired.
Batman II/Robin II (Dick Grayson)
Bruce Wayne's legal ward, who became the second Robin until 1949. Was the second Batman until he was killed by the Joker in 1969.
- Badass Normal: Didn't get any fun powers 'til after he was a ghost.
- Identity Impersonator: Impersonated Superman in 1949 to help him rescue Lois Lane from Lex Luthor and the Joker.
- Kid Hero All Grown-Up: As in mainstream comics, he started out as Batman's young sidekick and continued fighting crime after he grew up. In this universe, though, he started a little earlier, when he saved Bruce Wayne from a couple of thugs while still with his parents in the Flying Graysons.
- Legacy Character: Assumed the role of Batman after Bruce retired. It's also revealed in this continuity that he's actually the second Robin with Bruce originally using the identity briefly in his late teens.
- Mind Rape: After he died he tried to Mind Rape the Joker to death.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Following his death, his ghost starts attacking the Joker's mind, in a fashion interpreted as one of these.
- Official Couple: With Batgirl, cut off by his untimely death at Joker’s hands.
- Revenge Before Reason: After death his spirit tried to vengefully kill the aged Joker, putting his very soul at risk of damnation.
- Sidekick: Naturally! He was the first non-Bruce Robin.
- Thou Shalt Not Kill: As a ghost, his desire for vengeance overcomes his reason, and he psychically attacks the elderly Joker's mind in order to kill him. Alfred manages to pull him back from the brink, reminding him that he's not a murderer and literally saving his soul.
- Unfinished Business: After his death, he torments the Joker as a ghost, until the spirit of Alfred persuades him to let his hatred go and pass on.
Batman III/Robin III (Bruce Wayne Jr.)
The son of Bruce Wayne and his first wife, he first became the third Robin, then took over as the third Batman in 1969. Was briefly married to Kara Kent in 1979, then married Mei-Lai Kent and adopted her son, naming him Clark Wayne.
- Ancestral Name: Shares the same name with his father Bruce.
- Anti-Hero: After Kara's death, he manages to keep a hold on his grief and rage for three years, but eventually, he snaps and isolates himself from his old team and his new family, with his methods growing darker and more vicious than before—to the point where the JLA is forced to mobilize against him.
- Badass Normal: He's Batman, son of Batman, adoptive brother of Batman, adoptive father of Knight-Wing. Okay, three out of four.
- Empowered Badass Normal: In 2008, he's eventually exposed to the altered Lazarus Pit, youthened, and has his aging slowed.
- The Cowl: Moreso than even his father, the original Batman, after Kara's death.
- Draft Dodging: Would have averted this trope if it weren't for the death of his partner Dick Grayson at the hands of the Joker, which forced him to take a bye so he could replace him as Batman.
- Evil Costume Switch: Anti-heroic, anyway, as after the death of his wife he adopted a even darker, armored version of his father's already dark costume, to match his grim attitude.
- Fisher King: It's implied that his newfound darkness and Gotham's decline are unhealthily feeding off each other, with his new methods causing people to lose faith in Batman and attracting nastier classes of supervillain, thus making the city as a whole worse, which makes him react more harshly and so forth. Ultimately, BJ breaks the pattern by realizing how far gone he is, coming out of his self-imposed isolation, and opening up to his family.
- Heel Realization: Upon nearly beating the elderly Alan Scott to death when challenged by his fellow superheroes in regards to his violent techniques, he comes to realize just how close he's come to the brink of insanity and manages to pull himself back with the help of his loved ones.
- Heroic BSoD: Has one at the time of his first wife's murder.
- Identity Impersonator: When his partner Dick Grayson (the second Batman) was killed by the Joker, Bruce Jr. donned a spare Batsuit and dressed Dick in his Robin costume so that nobody would know that the Joker killed Batman.
- Kid Hero All Grown-Up: One of the founding members of the Justice League of America, at about 13 or 14, and of course worked as Robin outside of the JLA, in addition to becoming the third Batman in adulthood.
- Legacy Character: He became the third Robin after Dick Grayson took up the mantle of Batman and subsequently became the third Batman after Dick was killed.
- Loophole Abuse: Teamed up with Supergirl as Robin in 1964 when his mother forbade him to team up with Dick Grayson (as Batman).
- Misplaced Retribution: Much to his displeasure, Gotham's police force has become just as violent and corrupt as when his father first started out, to the point that they're willing to injure civilians to try and capture him...which he gets blamed for.
- Mission Control: After the Blackout Bomb, he's happy to let his father keep being Batman while he helps rebuild civilization.
- Morality Pet: Mei-Lei and later young Clark as Robin become this for him, helping him reorient himself after the death of his wife. Clark eventually becomes Robin, as Dick did for Bruce.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Inflicts one on Alan Scott after the JLA turns on him, nearly killing the aging man before getting ahold of himself.
- Older Than They Look: After being tricked into exposing himself to the Lazarus Pit by his mother in 2008, he becomes young again and starts aging as slowly as Bruce Sr.
- Second Love: After adopting Joel Kent's son, Clark, he falls for Mei-Lai as Joel did.
- Sidekick: Spent time serving as Robin III for Batman II.
- 10-Minute Retirement: In the alternate timeline of Generations III, he eventually takes the cowl again to help after the rise of Darkseid.
- Together in Death: In the alternate timeline of Generations III, after he's gravely injured fighting Darkseid's forces in the 24th century, he declines the medical treatment that would save his life so that he can be reunited with Kara again after over three centuries. One might assume that something similar happened in the unaltered/restored timeline.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: After Kara's death he develops a loner attitude and violent streak that turn the police of Gotham against him and put him at odds with his JLA teammates.
- What Have I Become?: Slips into hardcore anti-heroism after the death of Kara, and realizes how far gone he is after he nearly beats Alan Scott to death.
- Who Wants to Live Forever?: In the alternate timeline of ''Generations III', he eventually he decides that living the equivalent of five lifetimes is plenty, thanks.
- Widowed at the Wedding: His first wife Kara Kent was all too soon killed by her brother Joel.
- Wretched Hive: At one point after Kara's death, he laments that even after Bruce Sr., Dick, and himself had almost cleaned up Gotham, crime and police corruption have come roaring back.
Mrs. Wayne
It's deliberately unclear who Bruce married, but she's the mother of Bruce Wayne Jr.
- Batman Gambit: Tricks Bruce Jr. into using the Lazarus Pit to youthen himself with one of these.
- Face Framed in Shadow: Her face is concealed from the viewer until she's on her deathbed, when she's too aged to be easily recognized as any named character.
- Fantasy-Forbidding Mother: Didn't want Bruce Jr. to become Robin until he was eighteen, and never forgives Dick for allowing him to do so at about thirteen instead. It also drives a wedge between her and Bruce Sr.
- My Greatest Failure: As she's near death, she expresses her regret for letting Bruce Jr.'s decision to become Robin so young damage her relationship with the family.
- Rejected Apology: As mentioned, Dick goes to the grave without her forgiving him for taking Bruce Jr. on so early. She would later regret this.
- The Unreveal: It's easier to guess who she's not. Allegedly, she was intended to be Kathy Kane aka Batwoman, but her real-life debut decade was incorrect for when she appeared.
- You Can't Fight Fate: After the fact, she ultimately comes to accept that Bruce Jr. was destined to become Robin and Batman.
Alfred Pennyworth
The Waynes' butler, who lived until 1967 and then after death became a guardian ghost until 1975.
- Helpful Hallucination: Bruce occasionally sees him after his death, though he thinks he might just be one of these.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Saving Dick and helping him find peace meant passing on alongside him and no longer existing in this world even as a ghost. He didn't hesitate for one second.
- Unfinished Business: Continued looking after Bruce following his death, until he was called upon to help Dick Grayson's troubled soul find rest. They passed on together.
Batgirl (Barbara Gordon)
The daughter of Tony Gordon, the son of James Gordon. She was Dick Grayson's partner in the 1960s when he was Batman. She later becomes President of the United States in the late 1990s.
- Official Couple: With Dick until his death.
- Related Differently in the Adaptation: Here, Jim Gordon is her grandfather rather than her father. Tony Gordon is also made her father rather than her brother.
James Gordon
Police commissioner of Gotham City and the grandfather of Barbara Gordon, a.k.a Batgirl.
- Deducing the Secret Identity: When he comes to Bruce's door to ask for his help in stopping Ra's al Ghul, he explains that he figured out Bruce Wayne was Batman after observing that Batman first showed up in Gotham around the same time Bruce Wayne became old enough to inherit his father Thomas' fortune.
- Related Differently in the Adaptation: In this continuity, Barbara is his granddaughter rather than his daughter.
- Secret Secret-Keeper: He reveals to Bruce that he always knew Bruce Wayne and Batman were the same person.
Thomas and Martha Wayne
Bruce Wayne's parents, whose deaths were why he became Batman in the first place.
- Death by Origin Story: As expected for Thomas and Martha, but in this version, it was a Heroic Sacrifice on their part.
- Face Death with Dignity: It's established here that Jonathan Kent saw their murders happen on the Chronoscope and attempted to warn them, but the knowledge that their deaths would result in their son Bruce growing up to become Batman and their feeling that their lives were a necessary price to pay to ensure Gotham City had a hero to defend it from crime ensured that Thomas and Martha willingly let their deaths happen anyway, but not without first telling their son how much they loved him.
- Good Parents: They really cared about their son Bruce and made sure he knew how much they loved him before they got killed.
- Heroic Sacrifice: In spite of being warned by Jonathan Kent that they'd both die that night in Crime Alley, they chose to let the events of their murders unfold anyway because they were convinced it was necessary to sacrifice their own lives for their son to become Batman and defend Gotham City from crime in his adulthood.
Knight-Wing/Robin IV/Superman II (Clark Wayne)
The son of Joel and Mei-Lai Kent, he was adopted by Bruce Wayne Jr. and became the fourth Robin before choosing his own identity as Knight-Wing.
- Ancestral Name: Named after his grandfather Clark Kent.
- Affirmative-Action Legacy:
- Zigzagged at first. He and his mother believe that the only true heir to the name of Batman could be a blood member of the Wayne family, so he declines when BJ says he's ready for the position. However, he decides to carry on the legacy in his own way by becoming Knight-Wing, a hero inspired by Batman.
- In the alternate timeline of Generations III, however, he becomes the next Superman, albeit reluctantly.
- Bilingual Backfire: At first, his parents could keep secrets from him by speaking in Vietnamese. Then he met a kid in school who could speak it too. That's how he learned Bruce Jr. wasn't his real father.
- Dating Catwoman: Defeated Amanda Mason aka Ransak II in 1997, regularly visited her in prison and married her in 2008, after she was released.
- Empowered Badass Normal: Though he was the grandson of Superman, he was born with that side of his heritage dormant. As a normal, well-trained human, he spent over a decade as Bruce Jr.'s Robin before becoming Knight-Wing. And then he drank Superman's improved Super Serum...
- Flight: This seems to be the power that degrades the most quickly as Kryptonian blood thins out, but apparently at top speed it still only takes him roughly fifteen minutes to get from Mars to Earth. That's 560 million miles an hour!
- Happily Adopted: To Bruce Wayne Jr, having never known his real father and assumed Bruce Jr. was his natural father at first. Even when he learns the truth about his biological father, it doesn't negatively affect his perception of his adoptive father.
- Hybrid Power: One firm advantage he has over his grandfather is that Kryptonite takes a long time to damage him, though it does hurt terribly. It took a heavily concentrated blast of Green K energy to kill him in the alternate timeline.
- Immortality Begins at Twenty: A form of it anyway, as he gets Kryptonian powers and slowed aging when he takes Ultra-Humanite's Super Serum at roughly the age of twenty.
- Interspecies Romance: He's part-Kryptonian and married Amanda Mason, a fully human ex-supervillainess.
- Legacy Character: Zigzagged. Although he was the first Robin to decline the role of Batman, he did (reluctantly) become the next Superman in the alternate timeline created by Darkseid's interference.
- Legacy Immortality: Averted by him. He refused to become Batman, believing that only a true-blooded Wayne had the right to be Batman. He does in Generations III become Superman, but he expresses disquiet about it, as no one was sure what had happened to the original.
- Locked into Strangeness: In Generations III, his hair goes stark white after being at the epicenter of Luthor's strange blackout bomb.
- Locked Out of the Loop: For a few years, Bruce Jr. felt the best way to raise him would be to keep him finding out about his true father, and to hide his identity as Batman from him. Obviously, he changed his mind.
- Morality Pet:
- To Joel Kent, as he and his mother Mei-Lai are the only characters to elicit any real tenderness from him.
- Much like the first Robin, working alongside his adoptive son helps Bruce Jr. put his demons to rest.
- Non-Uniform Uniform: After reluctantly becoming Superman, he pays homage to his Bat-origins by having a black and red costume, rather than the traditional blue.
- Older Than They Look: Starts aging at a drastically slowed rate after his Kryptonian powers are awakened.
- Sidekick: Spent some time working with Batman III as Robin IV.
- Superpower Lottery: All the powers of a Kryptonian, but only at quarter-strength...his granddaddy's the Silver Age shove-a-planet-around-Superman, though, so that's nothing to sneeze at.
- Talking with Signs: Since the Kryptonian wheelhouse doesn't include telepathy, he and his daughters have come up with their own sign language in order to communicate in space.
- Tempting Fate: Feels this way about taking on the role of Superman.
- Uneven Hybrid: One-quarter Kryptonian. He can still see over a hundred light-years away once he gets his powers and becomes one of if not the most powerful superheroes around.
Wonder Woman Family
Wonder Woman I / Wonder Girl I (Princess Diana)
Debuted as the first Wonder Woman during World War II. She married Steve Trevor and had a daughter with him named Stephanie Trevor.
- Action Girl: As you would expect from Wonder Woman.
- Gadgeteer Genius: Invented the "purple ray", a powerful healing device that can even bring back the recently dead, so that she could save Steve Trevor's life. Tragically, when he's later downed during the Korean War, even the purple ray can't save him.
- In a Single Bound: This version of Wonder Woman can't fly.
- Interspecies Romance: As a divinely-animated clay sculpture, her relationships with Steve Trevor (an ordinary human) and Bruce Wayne (a human with an extended lifespan) were this.
- Lightning Bruiser: as per usual with Wonder Woman, she's got Super-Strength, Super-Speed, Super-Toughness, etc. a few notches lower than Superman's.
- Offing the Offspring: In the alternate timeline of Generations III Stephanie fell in battle against Darkseid's forces, and though the Supergirls got her into a stasis chamber as quickly as possible (the fight was still going on), her brain was too far gone for even the purple rays to save her. Diana implicitly gave her brain-dead daughter a Mercy Kill as a result.
- Outliving One's Offspring: As mentioned above.
- Projected Man: Wonder Girl is a magical projection in the form of a teenage Diana, created by Queen Hipppolyta, who serves with the JSA while the real deal is on maternity leave. Some of her teammates have a bit of trouble wrapping their mind around the concept.
- Second Love: In the Generations III timeline, she and Batman hook up for about a hundred years.
- Weaksauce Weakness: This version of Wonder Woman has the traditional DC-Amazon weakness of being weakened by having her hands bound by a man—although it doesn't happen to her within the comic, her daughter inherited it.
Wonder Woman II / Wonder Girl II (Stephanie Trevor)
The daughter of Steve and Diana Trevor.
- Adaptation Name Change: Diana and Steve have had a heroic daughter in other continuities, though as Steve didn't die prior to her birth her previous incarnations were named after Hippolyta instead and used the hero name Fury instead of Wonder Woman.
- The Ageless: Looks about the same after her Time Travel adventure.
- Brought Down to Badass: Inherited her mother's vulnerability to having her hands bound by a man. She's still a masterful fighter, however, even without her superhuman abilities.
- Dead Guy Junior: Named after her father Steve Trevor.
- Disappeared Dad: Her father, Steve Trevor, died prior to her birth, so she never knows him.
- Domino Mask: Her Wonder Girl/Wonder Woman mask.
- The Empath: Thanks to both of them being born to super-heroic parents at practically the same time, Stephanie shares a psychic link to Kara Kent that enables them to sense each others' emotions. It also allowed her to sense Kara's death.
- Flight: This version of Wonder Woman can't fly on her own, but Stephanie has the Winged Sandals of Hermes.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Half-human/Half-uh, divinely-animated clay sculpture? Only half as powerful as her mother, but certainly well above a normal human, physically.
- Kid Hero All Grown-Up: One of the founding members of the Justice League of America, as a young teen or tween, and like the others she continued superheroics as an adult.
- Lightning Bruiser: Half of Wonder Woman's powers means she's half as strong and fast as someone slightly weaker than Superman.
- Oh, My Gods!: Downplayed in that she's invoking them to make a point about how Bruce Jr.'s behavior has switched from Themis to Mars.
- One-Woman Army: In the alternate timeline of Generations III, she took out two hundred parademons before she fell in battle.
- Time Travel: After the JLA beat Tempus, she was displaced in time to ancient Greece for a thousand years from her perspective and three from her friends'.
Green Lanterns
Green Lantern I (Alan Scott)
Debuted as the first Green Lantern during World War II.
- Artifact of Power: The first earthling to have a Green Lantern Ring, as in regular DC continuity.
- Older Than They Look: Used his ring to suspend his aging. It's mentioned that the effort of doing this well into what should be his elderly years is taking a toll on his overall health.
- Weaksauce Weakness: As with his mainstream counterpart, his ring doesn't work on wood.
- Your Mind Makes It Real: After deflecting knives and bullets during his first time using the ring, he was whacked with a wooden cudgel by a thug whom he hadn't seen coming, so he came to believe that his ring was powerless against wood. And thus, it was.
Green Lantern II (Kyle Rayner)
Alan Scott's first successor as Green Lantern.
- Inadequate Inheritor: Alan asked his ring to choose as worthy successor and its first choice was Hal Jordan, who felt he could do more good with his political career. Alan then chose Kyle Rayner based upon a recommendation from the Flash. Averted, though, in that Kyle did a fine job in the role regardless. He just ain't no Hal Jordan, as events come to prove.
- Official Couple: Exchanges some lovey-dovey talk with Flash IV.
- Ring of Power: Duh. He demonstrates the ability to make things invisible and sense chemical types with it.
- Weaksauce Weakness: Believed the Guardians when they said his ring was ineffective against yellow (and so it was).
Green Lantern III (Hal Jordan)
Alan Scott's first choice as his successor, he eventually took up the mantle when Sinestro was hunting down all Green Lanterns.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Lex Luthor's resurrected brain's robot body had been giving the JLA some trouble, but he had nothing that would counter the power of a Green Lantern, so Hal severed his limbs and trapped his brain chamber in a bubble.
- Disney Villain Death: In the timeline of Generations III, he falls straight out of the sky when Luthor's blackout bomb deactivates his ring. Once the timeline's fixed, there's no more blackout bomb, so this is undone.
- Fountain of Youth: The Green Lantern ring restores Hal to the prime of his youth.
- Godzilla Threshold: Although Nixon had been the one to receive a chunk of Green K from Superman, he's the one who authorizes its use and retrieves it after Superman apparently murders Luthor—or rather he would have used it, if Batman III hadn't already swiped it.
- Ring of Power: Hal's the one who unlocks the full potential of the Green Lantern Ring.
- Refused the Call: At first he chose to become a politician instead. Only after Sinestro shows up does he finally accept.
- Superior Successor: Regarded as the greatest Green Lantern of them all, even a thousand years in the future.
- Your Mind Makes It Real: Was able to overcome the weaknesses of the Green Lantern ring upon coming to the accurate conclusion that they were psychosomatic, thus becoming the first Green Lantern to operate with no weaknesses.
Green Lantern of the 30th Century (Jordan Kelley)
- Affirmative-Action Legacy: Technically, he's the second black Green Lantern that we know of (he mentions his father), but there certainly could have been more by the 30th Century.
- Named After Somebody Famous: His father was also a Green Lantern and named him after the greatest Lantern of all, almost certainly referring to Hal Jordan.
- Ret-Gone: Possibly. We only know for certain that he exists in the alternate timeline of Generations III, which was eliminated with the second death of Darkseid. On the other hand, the 30th Century's a long way off and there's nothing saying he doesn't exist in some way.
- Ring of Power: Surprise.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: The fact he's a black Green Lantern who chooses not to wear a mask makes him an obvious stand-in for John Stewart.
Flash Family
Flash I (Jay Garrick)
Debuted as the Flash during World War II.
Flash II (Barry Allen)
Became the mentor of Wally West, the first Kid Flash, and the father of Carrie Allen, the second Kid Flash.
Kid Flash I (Wally West)
The father of Jay West, who became the fifth Flash.
- Kid Hero: One of the founding members of the Justice League of America, as a young teen or tween.
- Sidekick: To Barry Allen as Kid Flash.
Flash IV/Kid Flash II (Carrie Allen)
The daughter of Barry Allen.
- Hot-Blooded: Very rash and impulsive, which leads to Bruce Jr. defeating her handily.
- Official Couple: Exchanges some lovey-dovey talk with Green Lantern II.
Flash V (Jay West)
The son of Wally and Magda West.
- Naïve Newcomer: On his first outing, he eagerly rushes right into battle against the revived Lex Luthor and nearly gets killed.
- Sketchy Successor: Only a fraction as fast as the Flashes before him, yet still the fastest man of his generation.
Other Heroes
Black-Hawk (Janet Hall)
A Winged Humanoid modeled after the original Hawkman, with a flippant attitude and a sonic mace.
- Carry a Big Stick: Her sonic mace.
- Fiery Redhead: Eagerly charges into battle, and is frank about her antagonism toward Hal Jordan.
- Flight: Without it, she'd just be a violent chick with a mace and a set of fake wings, so yes.
- Legacy Character: Granddaughter of both Blackhawk and Carter Hall.
- Ship Tease: One panel in Generations III shows her with both her arms wrapped around one of Batman/Bruce Sr.'s arms and snuggled up to him. Even though there's no supporting dialogue or anything, that's awfully familiar.
- Sonic Stunner: Or maybe Super-Scream or Vibroweapon? She wields something called a sonic mace, about which we receive little information.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: For some reason she's never seen eye-to-eye with Hal Jordan.
- Trash Talk: Seems to be a big fan of this.
Cyborg (Victor Stone)
Another superhero who calls Metroplis home, implied to be a member of the JLA, though not outright stated.
- An Arm and a Leg: Can separate his limbs if necessary.
- Easily Detachable Robot Parts: After being hit with an EMP he has to detach his limbs so Flash V can pick his torso up and take him to a power source.
- Logical Weakness: As a cyborg, his body and EMP attacks aren't exactly simpatico.
- Old Superhero: As might be expected, he's as old as his JLA contemporaries, and remains active at least as far as 2008.
- Super-Strength: Just like in normal continuity.
Deadman (Boston Brand)
- Body Snatcher: Just like in the mainstream continuity.
Hawkman (Carter Hall)
- A God Am I: Claims to be the reincarnation of an Egyptian god, rather than a reincarnated prince as in the mainstream continuity. Well, sometimes.
- Carry a Big Stick: Uses a mace.
- Stuff Blowing Up: Filled said mace with explosives in order to destroy a large chunk of a Nazi weapons platform/mech.
Villains
Ultra-Humanite
Superman's enemy since 1920.
- Above Good and Evil: He doesn't care about collaborating with the Nazis because he feels that in a hundred years, whoever wins World War II won't be as important as the fact that he was the one who made them victorious. Besides, the Nazis were ruthless enough to buy his weapons, unlike Washington.
- And Your Little Dog, Too!: After resurfacing in 1989, he takes advantage of Superman's ongoing decade-long worldwide search for him to secretly kill every last one of Superman's civilian friends and their descendants including Jimmy, Lucy, Perry Junior, and their spouses and children, while he's away, just to twist the knife.
- Arch-Enemy: Superman's. Only Darkseid (in Generations III) can make a similar claim, even after the real Lex Luthor returns as Metallo.
- Bald of Evil: He was balding during his first encounter with Superboy and had lost what little hair he had left by 1939, plus he was obviously still lacking hair when he transferred his brain into the body of the equally bald Lex Luthor and impersonated him for a while.
- Body Surf:
- As in the mainstream comics, he has his brain transferred into another body, namely the real Lex Luthor's. Unfortunately, due to an accident during the brain transfer, his brain couldn't be surgically removed once more and U.H. was trapped in Lex's body for decades.
- Eventually, after inventing a surgery-free means of body-swapping, Ultra-Humanite planned to de-power and capture Superman, then transfer his mind into his body, with a re-powering Super Serum at hand.
- Cut Lex Luthor a Check: The man found a treatment which could suppress the ravages of cancer long enough to allow Lois Lane to survive months after other doctors told her there was nothing they could do and even Superman failed to find a way to cure or slow it down. She was even able to leave what would have been likely her deathbed and attend in a wheelchair thanks to him! And he found that way specifically so he could have the joy of snapping her neck right in front of Superman.
- Decomposite Character: He impersonates Lex Luthor after stealing his body, with the real Luthor not resurfacing until after the Ultra-Humanite has died and his robots have put Luthor's brain in a mechanical body, in the process becoming this continuity's Metallo.
- Didn't See That Coming: His plot to attack the Gotham World's Fair took Superman's interference into account, but he didn't count on Batman showing up...in Gotham City. In his defense, it was pretty early in Batman's career.
- Evil Cripple: Jonathan Kent shoots him with a shotgun, which causes his machine to activate on him and paralyze him from the waist down. That all changes once he gains Lex Luthor’s healthy body, however.
- Eyes Never Lie: On two separate occasions, he makes Superman look into his eyes just for the sake of horrified recognition. Both occasions took place after his brain was transferred into Luthor's body (though the first time his face was covered), so this may also be as case of Eyes Are Mental.
- Family Extermination: When cruelly boasting to Superman about the loved ones of the Man of Steel he had murdered, he includes Jimmy Olsen, his wife Lucy, their son Clark and Clark's own wife and children.
- Gadgeteer Genius: As with his mainstream version.
- Grand Theft Me: Took over Luthor's body when his henchman's brain was thought to have been dead. He also intends to take over Superman's body in order to gain his powers.
- Like a Son to Me: Tells Joel Kent he feels this way in order to manipulate him.
- Make an Example of Them: Lectures Luthor about how killing innocent victims is the most effective way to spread terror.
- Neck Snap: This is how he kills an elderly and terminally ill Lois Lane in 1979.
- Not as You Know Them: Lois is confused by Luthor's sudden change from an arms dealer with delusions of grandeur to a diabolical genius, as she's not privy to the information that U.H. stole his body.
- Obfuscating Disability: When Superman confronts him, U.H. reveals that rather than being wheelchair-bound as he'd pretended, he was perfectly capable of standing up and walking around and only used the chair to conserve his energy (being quite old, after all). So, downplayed?
- Secret-Keeper: Deduced Superman's identity long before he reveals it to the world.
- Super Serum:
- Invents one which can give a human all the super powers and abilities of a full-blooded Kryptonian...for about five hours or so. Then they die rather painfully.
- Ultimately, he manages to create a serum which will reverse the effects of Gold Kryptonite on those with Kryptonian heritage, which he plans to take after exposing Superman to Gold K and stealing his body. While the first part of his plan works, Superman kills him before he can Body Surf again and eventually uses this serum to not only restore his own powers, but those of Clark Wayne, his grandson by Joel Kent. Somehow it also works on Batman in the Generations III timeline, too. Don't think about it too hard.
- Time Travel: Hides from Superman for ten years by building a time portal and simply stepping ahead in time.
- Wedding Smashers: Orchestrates the whole interruption of Bruce Jr. and Kara's wedding with Joel Kent, disguising himself as Lois Kent's doctor so that he could kill her while Bruce Jr. goes after Joel.
Lex Luthor/Metallo
Superman's enemy since his days as Superboy.
- And I Must Scream: Spends four hundred years paralyzed and stuck in a vault after his Blackout Bomb goes off.
- Bald of Evil: As always, Luthor is a bald villain.
- Brain/Computer Interface: Yup. And he gets internet, too. Or the future equivalent.
- Brain in a Jar: Becomes this in Generations II after it was assumed that Lex became brain-dead, allowing Ultra to Body Swap with him.
- Brain Uploading: He uploaded himself to the AI in the Superman Museum, from there took over the Master Computer that controlled Metropolis, and then took over the world. The empowered Batman and re-powered Supergirl Blue eventually wiped him out for good, but it took a long time, as he was basically a living computer virus at this point.
- Break Out the Museum Piece: After his blackout bomb wore off and he was freed from the vault he was trapped in, he immediately went to the Superman Museum, took over the AI that ran the place, and started using all the alien weapons and technology within on anyone who tried to stop him.
- Came Back Wrong: His brain had been nearly destroyed, and the Ultra-Humanite's servants spent sixty-nine years repairing it before putting it into a robot body and waking him up. Judging by how unstable he turned out that wasn't nearly long enough, although they did try to fix his anti-social tendencies.
- Composite Character: He becomes this continuity's Metallo in place of John Corben, with his brain being put in a robotic body powered by kryptonite.
- Decomposite Character: What is initially assumed to be Lex Luthor turns out to be the Ultra-Humanite impersonating Luthor after stealing his body, with Luthor's brain eventually being put into a robotic body and returning to battle Superman after the Ultra-Humanite has died.
- Didn't See That Coming: Much like his future boss, when Lex Luthor attack Gotham in 1929, he planned what to do if Superboy showed up, but didn't take a second hero into account.
- Dodgy Toupee: Averted. That thing survived an explosion more or less intact!
- Driven to Madness: Dying, having his wrecked brain repaired as best as possible and becoming a Wetware CPU with all the bizarre new senses and information that entails, as well as losing sixty-nine years of his life did a real number on Lexie, pushing his inborn power lust and instability to new heights. And then he was trapped in a vault for four hundred years, which doesn't particularly improve his state of mind.
- Even Evil Has Standards: As one of the Ultra-Humanite's goons, he objects to killing an innocent woman for show. By the time he's resurrected, he's too far gone to have any standards left.
- Evil Redhead: As "Ell" he wore a red wig. Historically, he was a good redhead before the incident that made him bald.
- Face–Heel Turn: Has the traditional backstory wherein he was a good friend and helper to Superboy until the hero accidentally messed up one of his experiments and left him severely depilated.
- Fish out of Temporal Water: Seeing Metropolis and realizing how much time he missed out on while he was being worked on leaves him briefly overwhelmed.
- Flight: In Generations III, there's a rocket pack built into the transportation unit the Parademons send him so he can escape.
- Go Mad from the Isolation: Being trapped, fully conscious and aware, in his powerless robot body for four centuries after his first blackout bomb went off made him even crazier.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: In Generations III, the blackout bomb he designs with the help of the Parademons knocks out all technology on and around earth for four hundred years. Including his new robot body.
- Joker Immunity: In the Generations III timeline, after taking over the world's computer network, Luthor gained a justified form of this, as he kept reinventing himself and returning every time he was thought to be defeated. Over a war that lasted decades, Batman and Supergirl Blue managed to cut off all his avenues of escape and finally delete him once and for all.
- Kryptonite Is Everywhere: Inverted. Since there was no other power source for the device keeping him alive (and Superman had left the planet), the only ethical thing to do after Luthor was captured was to allow him to keep the last known piece of Green Kryptonite left in existence. "Ethical" isn't always the same thing as "sensible", alas. Ultimately, he was able to use the Green K that powered him to create a wave of super-concentrated Kryptonite radiation which killed even the mostly-human Clark Wayne and Lois Wayne.
- Last of His Kind: An odd case. Since his brain was preserved, he technically became the last acting member of Ultra-Humanite's gang, which appears to mean that U.H's robots regarded him as their master by default and thus finished restoring him and stuck him in a robot body after Humanite's death.
- Mook Lieutenant: Under Ultra-Humanite.
- Sense Loss Sadness: He's missing his sense of touch, at least, and it bothers him.
- The Starscream: His younger self to the Ultra-Humanite.
- Stranger in a Familiar Land: After nearly seventy years, he's overwhelmed by his first sight of Times Square.
- Take Over the World: Claims he'll do this after his first resurrection, and then actually does so in the timeline of Generations III, by taking over the future-internet.
- Teen Genius: Just like in mainstream continuity. In this one, though, he's playing second fiddle to the Ultra-Humanite, who busted him out of juvie.
- There Are No Therapists: There are therapists, it's just that decades of attempted rehabilitation can't put a scratch on his indefatigable douchecanoe-osity.
- Ungrateful Bastard:
- His (understandable) reaction to his brain being kept alive for decades and put into a robot body is to wig out and escape, knocking around the Ultra-Humanite's servants who'd performed the operation.
- His reaction to being released from the vault he was trapped in after The Great Disaster is to come out blasting the would-be thieves who set him free. Of course, by this point he's completely flipped his, uh, plexiglass dome, so he may not have even noticed they were there.
- Walking Armory: Boasts about having enough weaponry to take down half a city in his first robot body.
- Wetware CPU: Post-resurrection, Lex spends some time as one of these for an incredibly advanced robot body, with its sensors and data banks feeding information directly into what's left of his brain. In the future (at least in the Generations III timeline) he sheds this and uploads himself into the future's equivalent of the internet.
- What Have I Become?: He doesn't cope with ending up as a brain in a bottle very well, to say the least.
Joker
Batman's enemy since World War II.
- A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: The Joker's mind is a pretty disorienting place to be, as Deadman finds out firsthand.
- Evil Old Folks: He is quite aged by the time he disguises himself as his own son and murders Dick Grayson.
- Last Request: In 1975, on his deathbed, Joker asks Batman (BJ, that is) to let him look under his mask and confirm something he'd always suspected so he could die happy. Batman turns him down flat and walks away under the reason that a monster like the Joker doesn't deserve to die happy.
- Legacy Character: In 1969, while the elderly Joker is committed, a young new villain who calls himself Joker Junior begins causing trouble in Gotham City—however, Joker claims to have no offspring.
- Legacy Immortality: Claims to want his legacy to die with him while the Joker Junior is on the loose, though actually it is the Joker himself who is posing as his unrelated successor, using a wig and makeup to hide his aged appearance.
- Long Game: He secretly bought the Diamond Exchange building and spent ten years filling it with deathtraps so that he could finally kill Batman once and for all when the crimefighter thought he was no longer a threat. He both succeeds and fails.
- Monster Clown: It’s THE JOKER, what did you expect?
- Moral Sociopathy: He may be a murderous madman, but he doesn't work with Nazis and he always repays his debts.
- My Grandson, Myself: He uses makeup and a wig to pretend to be his own son.
Ra's al Ghul
Batman's enemy and secret admirer.
- Back from the Dead: As in mainstream continuity, the Lazarus Pit brought resurrection...but Ra's later discovered that this was the least of its powers.
- Dirty Coward: Tries to escape the Lazarus Pit that he and Bruce both descend into when the pain is too much for him, but Bruce refuses to let Ra's do that, resorting to Taking You with Me.
- Duel to the Death: Ra's made the Fountain of Youth ritual one when the pain got to him and he chickened out. Bruce grabbed him and refused to let him escape the pit, no matter how he fought.
- Killed Off for Real: There was a 50/50 chance of dying or being made immortal. He lost, implicitly because of his own cowardice.
- Fountain of Youth: Ra's discovered a way to alter a Lazarus Pit to restore lost youth and make the user (functionally) immortal. The downside is that changing the pit required two people to enter, one of whom would perish. After al-Ghul dies and Bruce is made young again, the Pit stays changed.
- Morton's Fork: Bruce wryly notes that Ra's gave him the choice between possibly dying in the Lazarus Pit or definitely being shot down like a dog by Ra's's men. Ra's doesn't only refrain from denying this, he also tells Talia to shoot Wayne if he tries to escape.
- Older Than They Look: Just like in mainstream continuity.
- Worthy Opponent: Regarded Bruce Wayne/Batman as one of these, though in the Generations timeline he was disappointed that Wayne took longer to discover him thanks to starting a family.
Ransak II
Amanda Mason was the daughter of Ransak, an enemy of Batman III and Robin IV, who was busted and sent to jail when she was twelve. Six years later she grabbed a set of his power armor and went on a rampage, only to be stopped by Knight-Wing during his inaugural mission under that name.
- Disproportionate Retribution: As a teenage supervillain she claimed she would kill the people who sent her father to jail and destroy Gotham City in order to repay them for both his suffering and for taking him away from their family. In time, she came to terms with the fact that her father deserved what he got.
- Gadgeteer Genius: She made some improvements to the armor her father built.
- Heel–Face Turn: In Generations III we see that after her prison term, she became a psychiatrist who worked to rehabilitate criminals. Since this wasn't something that happened as a result of Apokoliptic interference, it may be assumed not to be Ret-Gone at the end.
- Interspecies Romance: Strictly speaking, her relationship with Clark Wayne qualifies as an interspecies one, since she is fully human and he is 3/4 human and 1/4 Kryptonian.
- I See Dead People: During her fight with Knight-wing Superman manages to project himself from the Phantom Zone and startle her for a couple of seconds, in order to give his grandson a little breathing space. He's not "dead", but the spirit's the same.
- Just Got Out of Jail: In 2008. And straight into Knight-Wing's arms after ten years with a sheet of glass between them.
- Mama Didn't Raise No Criminal: As a youth, she had difficulty accepting that her father was a violent criminal, and lashed out at the city that had broken up their family by sending him to jail for his crimes.
- Misplaced Retribution: It's not as if Batman and Robin/Gothan City made her father build a power-suit and commit crimes. Of course, she was running on angry teen logic at the time.
- Official Couple: With Knight-Wing. Their romance developed after he testified on her behalf (getting her a sentence of only ten years in spite of all the damage she caused), and visited her regularly in prison. As she notes, it'll be a funny story to tell their grand-kids.
- Power Born of Madness: During their fight Knight-Wing noted that "Ransak" was attacking randomly and without logic, which made "him" harder to fight since there was no pattern to discern. Turns out there was a pissed off teenager in the suit.
- Powered Armor: As Ransak II, she used a set of her father's armor, with some improvements.
- Reformed Criminal: She doesn't jet around in power armor fighting crime or anything, but after her incarceration Amanda works to rehabilitate criminals and get them back on the straight and narrow via therapy.
