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Robin/Nightwing/Batman III/Agent 37

A.K.A.: Richard "Dick" Grayson

Abilities: Martial arts master, detective skills, acrobatics

See the Nightwing: Dick Grayson page for more info.

Kid Flash/The Flash III

A.K.A.: Wallace "Wally" West

Abilities: Super-speed

See the The Flash: Wally West page for more info.

Aqualad/Tempest

A.K.A.: Garth

Abilities: Aquatic adaptation, super-strength, telepathy, super-senses, sorcery, water manipulation

See the Aquaman: Supporting Cast character sheet for more info.

Wonder Girl/Troia/Wonder Woman IV

AKA: Donna Troy

Abilities: Super-strength, flight, heightened reflexes

See the Wonder Girl: Donna Troy character sheet or her very own continuity snarl page for more.

Speedy/Arsenal/Red Arrow

A.K.A.: Roy Harper

Abilities: Master archer and gunslinger

See the Arsenal: Roy Harper character sheet for more info.

Lilith/Omen

Lilith Clay-Jupiter

Created By: Nick Cardy · Robert Kanigher · Dan Jurgens

First Appearance: Teen Titans #25

Appearances: Teen Titans | Tales of the Teen Titans | New Teen Titans Vol 2 | The Terror of Trigon | The Origin of Lilith | Teen Titans (1996) | JLA/Titans: The Technis Imperative | Titans (1999) | Titans/Young Justice: Graduation Day | Teen Titans (2003) | Infinite Crisis | Blackest Night | Teen Titans Vol 4 | Superboy Vol 6 | Legion Lost | The Culling | The Ravagers | Titans Hunt (2015) | Titans (Rebirth) | Lazarus Planet | Action Comics | Power Girl (2023) | Knight Terrors: Action Comics | World's Finest: Teen Titans

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Lilith Clay as Omen (Dawn of DC)

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"Less powerful than you? I lied about that too."

AKA: Lilith Clay^note

Abilities: Precognition, telepathy, teleportation

She is the best friend of Donna Troy (the first Wonder Girl), and the second hero to join the original Teen Titans after its founders, the first being Speedy. Although her origin and powers have varied significantly throughout her history - though in not as nearly a convoluted a manner as Donna Troy's - she is consistently seen as both precognitive and psychic. Her father is the Titans benefactor Loren Jupiter and she is also the leader of the short-lived Titans West.

Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: With Gnaark.
C-List Fodder: See below, in the case of Graduation Day. She becomes somehow unable to detect that a Superman android isn't the real deal, and gets her neck snapped when she charges at him and attempts to scratch him.
Darker and Edgier: Her transition to Omen. However, this was to play up the mystery of her character and the evolution of her psychic abilities to mystical powers. She never once turned into an anti-hero.
- After the New 52, Omen's been revamped as a blind villainess with a revealing outfit and reality-warping powers used for sinister purposes. However, due to the fan backlash, Lilith's appearance was restored closer to her original appearance, though she's been Brought Down to Normal as a result.
Expy: She's a redheaded telepath who constantly struggles with her powers, has an affinity toward the color green, and in a relationship with a more brooding guy. Who else is reminded of Jean Grey?
Fiery Redhead: Subverted, as she was one of the milder personalities on the team.
Heel–Face Revolving Door: She became evil in the post-Flashpoint Earth, but the next time she's seen in the third annual issue, she's no longer evil nor does she have her powers anymore.
Luke, I Am Your Father: Pre-Crisis, her birth mother turned out to be Thia of the Titans of Myth, and her birth father was dead due to being immolated by Thia. Post-Crisis, the identity of Lilith's father turned out to be Loren Jupiter, the man who financed the Titans. Her mother has not yet been revealed. Lilith's stated that her psychic abilities were inherited from her mother, and that she's very secretive. Word of God from Dan Jurgens has it that Lilith's mom is a preexisting DC character.
Mini Dress Of Power: Wore a few variations of this in her time with the Titans (usually in green or pink), although she also preferred other types of civilian clothing. After she became Omen (pre-New 52), she switched to just wearing her red robe, except for a period when she was a guest star in Titans volume 1.
Ms. Fanservice: Pre-crisis introduced her as a Go-go dancer and she tended to wear short skirts that showed off her legs. Post-crisis gave her a Tamer and Chaster look.
Official Couple: With Gnaarrk, Pre-Crisis. Post-Crisis, she had feelings for the redesigned (and soon to be deceased) Gnaarrk, but was also dating Don Hall.
Omniscient Morality License: Behaved like she had one in at least one silver age story, where she placed the other Titans in an illusion that reflected their worst fears in order to help them overcome said fears. She's never called out for it.
Psychic Powers: Lilith Clay's powers have not been entirely explored in the comics due to the heightened nature of her powers as Omen, however all versions of Lilith are both prescient and psychic. It is understood that she has certain mental abilities, such as telepathy, death sense, and precognition. As Omen, she was able to tap into certain divine, or mystical, powers. She is specifically shown to use pyrokinesis, teleport, and maintain complex illusions.
Redhead In Green: Her Silver Age outfit mainly consists of a green top and a skirt. Her DC Rebirth design also dresses her in a green robe.
Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: Lilith Clay's name is derived from medieval Jewish mythology—"Lilith" is the name of Adam's first wife in a folkloric retelling of the Genesis creation myth, who like Adam was created from clay.
Reincarnation Romance: One silver age story states that she's the reincarnation of Giulietta Capulet, and at the end of the story, she gets with Romeo's reincarnation. However, it's ultimately subverted since she ends up with Gnaark and not Romeo.
Seers: At the start of her career, Lilith was a mildly powerful precog, able to predict future events with limited degrees of accuracy.
Semi-Divine: Pre-crisis Lilith was the daughter of the Thia, a Titan of Myth. This origin was erased following the first reboot of the DC universe.
Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Lilith's alter-ego "Omen" was created during Dan Jurgens' run as a fill-in for Raven (who was unavailable at the time), and has since appeared as Raven's stand-in on several occasions.
- From the New Teen Titans era onward she pretty much only appears if the plot needs a mystic on the team and Raven isn't available. Lampshaded in the first issue after the "Terror of Trigon" arc, where Lilith says that as long as she stays with the Titans she'll only been seen as Raven's replacement.
- Later writers for her guest appearances (such as the Titans LA story) even had her acting as prim and proper as Raven, completely with the wiggly speech balloons. This faded during her guest stint in Jay Faerber's Titans stories.
- In the New 52, Omen appears as a Heel in a bird-themed costume as a stand-in for Dark Raven—as she was also originally intended to be that, before editorial changes hit. All of this was reversed in DC Rebirth which ignored her New 52 depiction.

Bumblebee

Karen Beecher-Duncan

Buzz buzz, bitch.

Abilities: Flight, sonic blasts, electric "stings", insect-like size (after Infinite Crisis)

Bumblebee was a member of the Teen Titans and is a member of the Doom Patrol. Karen adopted the Bumblebee identity initially to help her boyfriend Mal Duncan (another member), becoming DC's first superhero that was a black woman.

Action Girlfriend: Meant to become one for Mal, with more love for the superhero job than he does.
Adaptational Early Appearance: Her appearance in World's Finest: Teen Titans marks her as being the sixth member of the Teen Titans despite Lilith and Mal joining the team before her canonically.
Animal-Themed Superbeing: Initially just had the alias of Bumblebee, but her later appearances had her at a tiny size as well. Her animated incarnation even displays what appeared to be natural wings and shrinking powers.
Captain Ersatz: Essentially bears some similarity to Janet van Dyne/Wasp from Marvel Comics Avengers with her powers and costume, although Karen's shrinking was only introduced in the cartoon (and her later comic self was permanently shrunk to the size).
Cool Shades: Had these briefly in her OYL get-up.
Fake Danger Gambit: Her first appearance has her pretending to be a villain so Mal Duncan could impress the Titans. They eventually find out but aren't too upset with either of them.
Gadgeteer Genius: She was introduced this way, with her technology skills. A retcon after the first Crisis even stated that she made Mal's Gabriel horn for him.
Happily Married: As part of the Official Couple with Mal, until their relationship became strained from them being disfigured and they divorced off-panel in Doom Patrol. The marriage was restored in DC Rebirth.
Powered Armor: Had elements in this with her original spandex power suit, but plays this straight in her uniform in the Doom Patrol series. Her exoskeleton enables flight through rapid movement on her wings that are attached to her costume, faster movement and a vibration application allow her sonic disruption. It also acts like a body armor that enhances her strength.
Power Hair: Has this in her Doom Patrol appearances.
Ret-Canon: Sported her animated counterpart's outfit and hair style (the afro buns) for a time after the One Year Later time jump.
Retcon: She was originally part of the East Coast team, but Marv Wolfman retconned her in as part of Titans West, as a way of keeping the "fab five" as their own team with everyone else being relegated to the other.
Sassy Black Woman: In the old days.

The Guardian / Herald / Hornblower / Vox

Malcolm Arnold "Mal" Duncan

Created By: Nick Cardy · Robert Kanigher

First Appearance: Teen Titans Vol 1 #26

Appearances: Teen Titans Vol 1 | Tales of the Teen Titans #50 | Crisis on Infinite Earths | New Titans | JLA/Titans: The Technics Imperative | Titans (1999) ^(guest) | Lights Out | Infinite Crisis | Life and Death | 52 | The New Teen Titans | Titans Hunt (2015) | Titans (Rebirth) | The Other History of the DC Universe | World's Finest: Teen Titans

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Mal Duncan as Herald

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"Light wasn't the least bit concerned about me! He doesn't even consider me a Titan! And maybe he's right! I haven't got any super-powers to contribute! On every case, I've been the bench-warmer! Second-stringer—that's me!"

Mal Duncan is a super-hero who has used several aliases, including Guardian, Herald, Hornblower, and Vox, and a valued member of the team, given his boxing abilities and capacity for taking on leadership positions. Despite having no powers of his own, he used the Guardian identity along with powered armor before gaining Gabriel's Horn, which allowed him to open portals and generate sonic blasts. His long-time partner and eventual wife is Bumblebee. He has been a member of the Teen Titans and the Doom Patrol.

Affirmative-Action Legacy: The previous Guardian was a white Metropolis based police officer.
Badass Normal: He was initially just a super-strong boxer in his debut.
Biblical Motifs: He gets his horn during a vision paralleling that of Jacob, where he wrestles the Angel of Death to a standstill and receives the horn as a reward.
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Vanished from DC titles after a while, and him and Karen were said to have divorced offpanel in Keith Giffen's Doom Patrol run.
Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: The pre-Crisis origin of his signature tool, Gabriel's Horn — Mal earns the right to survive a fatal injury by beating Azrael — as in, the actual Angel of Death — in a boxing match of all things (even Mal has a little trouble believing it) refereed by the Archangel Gabriel. Furious, Azrael allows Mal to live until the next time he loses a fight, but Gabriel offers him some insurance from Azrael's fury in the form of his own horn, which could even the odds whenever Mal found himself in his Darkest Hour. (Mostly Mal used it for Gondor Calls for Aid purposes, but it had a bit of Swiss-Army Superpower use as well).
Disability Superpower: After his horn exploded in his face and left him mute in "Infinite Crisis", Steel and the Chief of the Doom Patrol fused the parts of the Gabriel's Horn into his body, allowing him to become open portals simply by speaking with a synthesized voice box.
Discard and Draw: When he first joined the group under Mr. Jupiter's guidance, he mostly acted as... himself, just running around with a Secret Identity or superpowers. He briefly adopts the Guardian persona during the team's first fight against Dr. Light, but receives Gabriel's horn in the next issue and returned to his normal persona as Mal Duncan. He very briefly is given a costume to become Hornblower, but in the same issue his horn is stolen and he returns to the Guardian identity, which at the very least has a functioning Secret Identity.
Doing In the Wizard: The Hornblower's original trumpet was a gift of the Archangel Gabriel for defeating Azrael^note in a boxing match Battle in the Center of the Mind. Post-crisis, his divine instrument was replaced by a high-tech trumpet created by Karen Beecher.
Extradimensional Shortcut: Mal can use Gabriel's Horn to open portals to other dimensions, which he can then use as teleportation like shortcuts.
Fake Danger Gambit: Bumblebee's first appearance has her pretending to be a villain so Duncan could impress the Titans. They eventually find out but aren't too upset with either of them.
Happily Married: To Karen, until the whole Infinite Crisis incident and their divorce in Doom Patrol. The marriage was restored in DC Rebirth.
Heroic Second Wind: His Gabriel's Horn invoked this pre-Crisis, being most useful when he was at a disadvantage.
I Have Many Names: Initially just used "Mal" as his codename, but then took on the suit of the original Guardian after his doubts about being an effective team member. He then briefly used the codename "Hornblower" after acquiring the Gabriel's Horn, but went back to his Guardian identity. Post-Crisis, he was always "Herald", and then became "Vox" when he moved to the Doom Patrol.
Musical Assassin: Is best known for playing his horn to use as a weapon and portal creation device. He also owns a jazz club after he's grown up a bit and he can play jazz music that is very nice to listen to and not painful in the least.
Powered Armor: In his Guardian identity he wore an exoskeleton that gave him Super-Strength.
Retcon:
- Mal stopped being Hornblower originally because his horn was stolen, but Word of God, when discussing the end of the 70s revival, indicated it planned to reveal he'd hidden it away himself because of crippling self-doubt.
- Was relegated to being a part of the West team in Post-Crisis continuity, rather than the East team. His first two identities were also retconned away, and the nature of the Gabriel's Horn changed from being magical to being of special technology (and made for him by Karen).
Super-Scream: After an accident ruins his vocal cords and the magitech of his trumpet is worked into his neck to allow him to talk again he's able to use the same loud audio attacks he used to have access to through his horn with just his voice.
The Team Normal: Mal spent most of his time on the original team as... himself. Not even a Secret Identity. The lack of anything super about him was the basis of a good deal of his personal angst. This also helped to bite him in the rear when he took on the Hornblower persona, because he was still commonly known as Mal, so threats knew where to find him in his daily life.

Bat-Girl / Batgirl I / Flamebird / Hawkfire

Mary Elizabeth "Bette" Kane

Created By: Bill Finger · Sheldon Moldoff

First Appearance: Batman #139

Appearances: Batman 139, 141, 144, 153, 159, 163 | Detective Comics #322 | Teen Titans #50-52 | Batman Family #16 | Tales of the Teen Titans #50 | The Killing Joke | Secret Origins Vol 2 Annual #3 | New Titans #56 | Hawk and Dove Vol 3 Annual #1 | Team Titans #22, 24 | JLA/Titans | Beast Boy | Young Justice #20-21 | Titans Secret Files #1-2, 25, 35-36, 39, Annual #1 | Birds of Prey #72-73 | Teen Titans Vol 3 #22-23, 32, 38, 99-100 | Detective Comics #856-857, 861-863 | Batwoman #0, 1-32 | DC's Legion of Bloom

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Bette Kane in her 2000s Flamebird costume

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"Look, I know about building reps. Right now, you're the top of the heap. The problem is... once you're on top... there's nowhere to go."

AKA: Mary Elizabeth "Bette" Kane (Pre-Crisis: Betty Kane)

Abilities: Acrobatics, martial arts, blinding flare goggles (in later costumes)

Mary Elizabeth "Bette" Kane is the first Batgirl as well as the vigilante known as Flamebird. She is the cousin of Bruce Wayne, Kate Kane and Beth Kane, as well as the niece of Martha Kane (nee Wayne), Thomas Wayne, Katrina "Kathy" Netz and Jacob Kane.

Pre-Crisis, Elizabeth "Betty" (notice the y) Kane was the niece of Kathy Kane and became a vigilante once she figured out her aunt was Batwoman. She would then join her, becoming Bat-Girl in order to meet their heroes Batman and Robin. A big part of Betty's character is her one-sided crush on Dick Grayson, then Robin. For the most part, Dick did not appreciate his counterpart, regarding her with a mixture of disinterest and distaste but that later fizzled out into a mutual friendship.

Batwoman and Bat-Girl were summarily dumped from the Bat-titles in 1964 as part of the new editor's cutting away some of the high silliness that had accumulated during The Interregnum. However, Bat-Girl would later get her first spotlight role since her inception as a initiate in the Titans West in the concluding storyline of the 70s run of Teen Titans. She would have sporadic appearances in the Teen Titans comics afterwards such as being present at Donna Troy's wedding but she didn't return as Bat-Girl afterwards.

And then a Crisis occurred.

Whilst her first Post-Crisis appearance was as a cameo as Bat-Girl in The Killing Joke, her history as Bat-Girl would get retconned out.

While Dick Grayson had become Nightwing, the character got reintroduced as Mary Elizabeth "Bette" Kane, a champion tennis player who had been in the wrong place and the wrong time when Captain Calamity attacked a boat. Since her more popular successor was made to be the first Batgirl at the time, her history as Bat-Girl became replaced under a new title, Flamebird.

Bette gained a few appearances during the New Titans, mainly appearing in a Hawk and Dove Annual which featured a Titans West reunion.

She would disappear for a few years before appearing in JLA/Titans: The Technis Imperative as one of the many Titans members who helped try to save Cyborg. Immediately after, a new Titans team was formed (where she was, unfortunately, not called on to join.

Around 2000, she helps Gar to defeat a past enemy Gemini. Whilst she's successful, she's later talked down to by Nightwing that she doesn't take vigilantism seriously and that she should quit. Steeling her resolve, she decides to continue being a hero in spite of that, forming the Titans LA with Gar.

She would join the temporary "New Young Justice" in Young Justice #20 where her history as Batgirl became restored whilst working alongside her successor, Cassandra Cain.

In the aftermath of Superboy's death in Infinite Crisis, Flamebird was one of the many members who joined and then subsequently left.

Afterwards, she became enrolled into UCLA, where she majored in sports medicine before transferring to Gotham University.

In the New 52, she became a trainee under her cousin Kate, who burned her Flamebird suit. When Kate tried to fire her for her own safety, Bette responded by taking to the streets to prove herself. Her uncle Col. Jacob Kane promised to train her if she still wanted to be a vigilante when she was gravely injured and rendered comatose by the villain Hook. Under the tutelage of him and his Murder of Crows, she became Hawkfire and successfully took down Hook. As of Rebirth, she became enrolled at West Point and seems to be in her sophomore year. For the most part, this is usually seen as an Audience-Alienating Era for fans of Bette.

As of Infinite Frontier, Bette Kane re-established the Titans West with Hank Hall, Dawn Granger and Karen Beecher, and returned to being Flamebird in the anthology one-shot DC's Legion of Bloom story "The Birds and The Bees".

Bette Kane has only seen one animated appearance as a civilian character in Young Justice (2010). See the Young Justice (2010) - Other Characters page for more.

She also has a Broad Strokes adaption in Batwoman (2019) as the daughter of Bette's step-aunt, Mary Hamilton. See Arrowverse: Bat-Family for more.

'80s Hair: Bette's first appearance as Flamebird has her in a very big poofy hairstyle.
Academic Athlete: As mentioned in Teen Genius below, her Olympic-level career in pro tennis was succeeded by becoming a star student in her high school studies.
The Ace: Bette is known to excel at anything she sets her mind to: swimming, gymnastics, tennis, high school studies and vigilantism.
Action Heroine: During her Pre-Crisis and Post-Flashpoint portrayals, she's written as practically being in it partially for the thrill of it all. Kate's perception of this being true (despite her own achievements such as defeating Deathstroke single-handedly) causes friction between them. This is at least true for her time as a (Teen) Titans character: her first appearance in the Silver Age series is her independently trying to stop Captain Calamity alongside the other Titans West members, as well as personality re-haul in Beast Boy (2000) making this a core part of her character.
- Faux Action Girl: Zig-zagged with her her Pre-Crisis Bat-Girl incarnation. She was by far the least capable member of the Bat-family and got herself in way over her head more often than not, but she was also shown to be resourceful and clever, implying she would grow up to become a capable crime-fighter. Her initial Post-Crisis appearances came off as this, as she was more concerned with showing off to look good and to try to gain her crush's attention.
Adaptational Decay: Hit heavily with this during the New 52 in Batwoman. She seems to only be under this whilst as a Batwoman supporting character since her recent appearance in DC's Legion of Bloom has her being a capable vigilante once more.
All Love Is Unrequited: She's in love with Dick Grayson, but he doesn't really reciprocate. In Pre-Crisis, he actually did start to show interest in her, but she was written out before it could be explored. In Post-Crisis, he's firmly uninterested despite her frequent attempts.
Alternate Self:
- Appears in DC Comics Bombshells as one of Kathy Duquesne's Batgirls (as in, vigilantes who wield baseball bats)
- Has a counterpart on Earth 63 in her Hawkfire mantle who dies
- A future version of her from the Titans Tomorrow timeline appears during Teen Titans (2003) as the brand new Batwoman. This version of her is in a relationship with Tim Drake/Batman. (Don't ask, it's weird). They become Flamebird again once her version of Cassandra Cain gets revived
- Her Dark Multiverse counterpart (in her Flamebird mantle) debuted on Earth-15 in Green Lantern: Blackstars
Artistic License – Military: When Bette visits Kate while on leave from West Point, her uniform has a few discrepancies with the real thing. Perhaps most notable is that she's wearing a garrison cap, which cadets stopped wearing about a year or so before she would have enrolled. Even if she managed to get a hold of one somehow, by the time of the visit she wouldn't be required (or perhaps even allowed) to wear it.
Ascended Fangirl: This is how she started. In Pre-Crisis, she was an admirer of Batwoman until discovering that Batwoman's secret identity was her own aunt Kathy Kane, motivating her to make her own Bat-Girl costume and convince her aunt to take her on as her sidekick. In Post-Crisis, she developed a crush on Robin while hearing of his and Batman's exploits as a young girl, motivating her to take on a superhero identity of her own when she grew up in the hopes it would attract the attention of her crush.
Badass Normal: As is normal for the Batfamily.
Boyish Short Hair: After enrolling at West Point, she cut her hair very short.
Chickification: Occurs to Bette in Batwoman, mainly due to becoming Kate's sidekick instead of being a Titans member.
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome/Put on a Bus: Happens to her so often and for such long stretches of time that she's really more of a permanent commuter. As of December 2023, her last appearance was in DC's Legion of Bloom where she reappeared as Flamebird alongside Hawk II and Bumblebee.
Convenient Coma: Played with. While Bette does come out of her coma in a fairly dramatic fashion (after Jacob gives her a pep-talk of sorts), her recovery isn't treated as a certainty by any of the medical characters, and is shown to cause a strain on Kate and especially Jacob.
Cute Bruiser: Her appearances as Bat-Girl portrays her as this.
'80s Hair: Initially had an outrageous perm when introduced as Flamebird.
Flanderization: In her debut, Bat-Girl only flirted with Robin a little bit; her main motivation was to prove herself as a crime-fighter and show herself worthy of the "Bat"-moniker to Batman and her aunt. In later appearances, her crush on Robin became more prominent and the primary attribute to her character. Even still, crime-fighting always took precedence over her crush. Her Post-Crisis incarnation was portrayed as a downright Stalker with a Crush who became a crime-fighter solely to make Robin notice her although this finally went away during the events of the Beast Boy mini.
Genki Girl: A trait mainly seen once she became Flamebird, which might stem from how energetic she has to be in order to play professional tennis.
Girly Girl: As Bat-Girl she had a utility purse like her aunt, as well as wearing a dress. Though unlike her aunt and her successor, she actually wore flat shoes rather than heels when fighting crime. Conversely, she wore impractical high-heeled boots with her Post-Crisis Flamebird outfit.
Good Bad Girl: She's a shameless flirt, a consistent trait in all her incarnations. As Pre-Crisis Bat-Girl she frequently made the move on Robin and came onto him rather strongly, which intimidated the young teen. As Post-Crisis Flamebird she openly mused about Dick Grayson's "cute butt", even when he was in the same room. It extends to other guys as well; in Hawk & Dove Annual #1, her reaction to seeing her old friend Hank Hall (Hawk) was to excitedly jump into his lap and kiss him on the lips, despite mistakenly assuming that Donna Cabot was his girlfriend.
Girls Have Cooties: Robin's initial attitude to Bat-Girl, which rather undermined the whole "See? Love interest! Not gay!" thing. He later warmed up to her and seemed to start to reciprocate her feelings, shortly before her character was summarily dropped.
I Have Many Names: Bat-Girl, Batgirl I, Flamebird, Plebe and Hawkfire. She also became Batwoman in the Titans Tomorrow timeline but changed back to Flamebird due to the events of Infinite Crisis changing the timeline.
Inconsistent Spelling: Her middle name is usually spelled "Elizabeth", but was spelled "Elisabeth" in Sean McKeever's run of Teen Titans.
Invisible Parents: Her parents have yet to be shown or named. When she was in a coma, the staff thought that Jacob was her father, and he was the only one shown to stay by her side. During her recovery, she stayed with Jacob and Catherine. The only mentions so far of either parent are in an imaginary future story from Batman #163 where an adult Betty Kane returns to Gotham, explaining she has been living with her businessman father in Europe for the past couple of years, and a brief reference during her coma that Bette's mother was finalizing preparations for her organs to be harvested.
Lonely Rich Kid: Oh, so much. It's a side effect of DC not being sure what to do with her, and thus shuffling her around and not giving her any solid friendships. Dove points this out (see below)
Magic Skirt: As Bat-Girl, and to an extent with her first Flamebird costume (though she did wear tights underneath).
Mythology Gag: The green collar on Flamebird's first costume is a reference of Bat-Girl's green collar and cape.
Overshadowed by Awesome: Bette is still a very capable acrobat, martial artist and detective, but sadly pales compared to the rest of the Batfamily. It doesn't help that she hasn't really worked with any other Batfamily member other than Batwoman or Dick Grayson in ages.
Passionate Sports Girl: Bette is incredibly passionate in her professional tennis career (alongside gymnastics and swimming at a young age), even reaching the Olympics and becoming the fourth best tennis player in the world.
Retcon: Her history as Bat-Girl initially never happened in the Post-Crisis era, a photographic cameo in The Killing Joke nonwithstanding, so readers were supposed to imagine her as Flamebird in any instances where she was with the original Teen Titans. This was established in her Post-Crisis debut story, which recapped the events of Teen Titans #50 except Bette now donned the Flamebird costume during those events instead of the Bat-Girl one. It has since slowly crept back into the continuity, starting with a throwaway line in Young Justice before being strengthened by Grant Morrison's Batwoman story, and her past as Bat-Girl is seemingly in continuity again.
Stalker with a Crush: Could be seen as this in her early career as Flamebird in Post-Crisis, as her primary motivation to become a crime-fighter was to attract the attention of Robin. As mentioned below, this mellowed out after she met him for the first time.
Stepford Smiler: Implied in her appearance in Hawk and Dove Annual #1, by Dove's analysis of her personality that she's actually a lonely and depressed girl desperate for company and contact with others.
Surprisingly Normal Backstory: Kate discusses this when telling Bette that she's not cut out for vigilantism. Bette doesn't see it as a reason to quit.
Teen Genius: Bette's Post-Crisis iteration portrays her as this as an extension to her Child Prodigy tendencies from her early Bat-Girl (which were, at the time, not in continuity). Her entry in Who's Who in the DC Universe probably explains it best.

Even for the beauty-saturated environment of Southern California, Bette Kane was exceptionally attractive, so much so that she was winning beauty contests and absorbing adulation before she could walk on her own. Fiercely competitive, she sought out other challenges, ones where her hard work and talent, not just the beauty she was born with, would make her a winner. Tennis, gymnastics, and swimming became her favorite activities, sports where she could compete, excel, and enjoy the cheers of an adoring audience. That attention helped her to ignore the fact that her aggressive nature was leaving her with fewer and fewer friends; few of Bette's friends had the energy to withstand her constant competitiveness. Finding herself without suitable peers and needing a new challenge, Bette chose her new goal: Robin (Dick Grayson). Years earlier, she'd traveled to Gotham City for a national beauty pageant. There she'd caught sight of Batman and Robin swinging across the skies and had been immediately struck by the image of someone just her age out risking his life with only his skills for protection. For years she nursed a secret crush on Robin, sending him fan letters, making herself a "Robin" suit, practically swinging from a rope tied to the old oak tree in her backyard, but she never let anyone else in on her interest until she created and unveiled her own avian persona, Flamebird. She based her character's style on her own athletic skills, now at an Olympics level, and added her own natural flamboyance to top it off. Flamebird appeared briefly around California, stopping small crimes, staying to pose for pictures and reap all the available publicity, but never managing to achieve her goal of attracting Robin to Califonia. Frustrated, Bette threw herself back into her high school life, forsaking her now-professional athletic activities. Previously a poor student, she decided to approach school as another challenge, attacking her studies with the same spirit she'd previously shown for meets and matches, so she graduated near the top of her class. Deciding she had no interest in college, she pursued her abandoned tennis career, making a stunning comeback at age eighteen. She was on top of the world, but she was bored. Nothing matched the excitement she'd experienced whilst playing Flamebird. While on tour, she came up with the idea she felt would be sure to gain Robin's attention: forming a Titans club of her own. She zealously stalked and invited all youthful west-coast super-heroes to join her new "Titans West," but despite Bette's enthusiasm, personality conflicts and the long-distance commute made the club's tenure a short one. Although the Titans West did manage to meet the east-coast group; the Teen Titans. Flamebird's reception from Robin was a cool one and she was bitterly disappointed-yet not so much that she abandoned her pursuit. If anything, the short meetings with Robin (whom she now knew to be Dick Grayson) left her with a good excuse to keep in contact. Currently, Bette spends part of her year on tour playing tennis, and the other part in Southern California keeping active with such pastimes as skydiving, wind-sailing, and bungee jumping, always in search for a thrill. Although she avoids solo missions as Flamebird, she's always eager to join in when a Titans West reunion is suggested.

Took a Level in Badass:
- In the Beast Boy mini-series.
- Took another in the Batwoman ongoing, becoming Hawkfire.
Vapor Wear: She doesn't wear a bra on her Plebe identity.
"Well Done, Son" Guy: She really wants Kate to respect her skills and trust her as a vigilante.

Hawk/Extant/Monarch and Dove

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AKA: Hank and Don Hall

Abilities: Heightened strength and agility (both), claws (Hawk)

Two teenage brothers, the temperamental and militant Hank Hall (Hawk) with the well-read and pacifistic Don Hall (Dove I).

See their personal page for more info.

Golden Eagle / Hawkman IV

Charles Edmund "Charley" Parker

Created By: Cary Bates · Dick Dillin

First Appearance: Justice League of America Vol 1 #116

Appearances: Justice League of America | Teen Titans Vol 1 | New Teen Titans Vol 1 #50 | Titans Hunt | Hawkman Vol 4 | Rann-Thanagar War | Countdown To Adventure | World's Finest: Teen Titans

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Charley Parker as Golden Eagle

^{Click here to see Charley Parker during the Rann-Thanagar War}

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"Party on, dudes!"

AKA: Charley Parker/Ch'al Andar

Golden Eagle is an ally to Hawkman and a member of the Titans West. Inspired by the legend of Hawkman as a Midway City youth, he adopted an Nth Metal suit and wings to become a crime-fighter. His parents are Thanagarian spy Fel Andar and human woman Sharon Parker. He has been a member of the Teen Titans, Titans West and the Wingmen of Thanagar.

Pre-Crisis, Charley Parker was a teenage orphan who idolized Hawkman and created his own knock-off costume.

During a time when Hawkman had been called back to Thanagar, someone began capturing low-level criminals around Midway City and proved so capable at it that Hawkman's Friend on the Force believed that the real deal had gone undercover rather than into space. The only thing left behind by the unknown vigilante was a single golden feather.

After Green Arrow read a letter Charley had sent the JLA about wanting to meet Hawkman, he decided to visit in lieu of his absent friend and learned that Charley had been accidentally empowered by Matter Master. MM's Mentachem wand, unable to find the actual Hawkman and acting upon the avaricious alchemist's subconscious desire to fight his old foe, had magically altered Charley's costume into a working copy which the boy could transform into and out of at will.

After helping the JLA beat Matter Master, Charley was restored to normal... but a few years later, Charley re-adopted his identity, complete with a new pair of wings donated by Hawkman himself, in order to investigate a strange crime alongside other teen heroes as a member of the one-shot team known as Titans West.

Post-Crisis, Charley Parker was an orphan in Midway City who lived a troubled life of crime, but when he turned 18 he was taken in by Carter Hall, who gave him a job at his museum. Charley idolized Hawkman, who gave him a Thanagarian battlesuit and trained him to fight crime as Golden Eagle. During an adventure with the Teen Titans, Charley was apparently killed.

Years later, when Carter had apparently fallen in battle, Charley resurfaced and took the identity of Hawkman and tried to seduce Kendra Saunders, the new Hawkgirl. She refused his advances and he tried to kill her, but Carter returned and stopped him. Charley revealed that he was Ch'al Andar, the son of the impostors Fel Andar and Sharon Parker, and wanted revenge on Hawkman in the name of his father. Carter defeated Charley and brought him to Thanagar for trial.

On Thanagar, Charley was pardoned and became an officer on the Wingmen. During the Rann-Thanagar War, he was reunited with his father, who pled with him to give up his plans of revenge just before he was killed by Blackfire. He is currently living on Thanagar and has apparently abandoned his crusade against Carter Hall.

In the Post-Flashpoint continuity, whilst Charley hasn't appeared yet aside from a photograph of him appearing in Dark Nights Death Metal: The Last Stories of the DC Multiverse, he appears as a supporting character in the flashback series World's Finest: Teen Titans where he acts as the Teen Titans social media manager whilst currently retired from being a superhero.

10-Minute Retirement: Charley is retired from superheroics during World's Finest: Teen Titans. Those who are familar will know that he'll eventually take on the role again to participate in the Titans West's formation.
Age-Inappropriate Dress: Pre-Crisis. Nothing dirty, but making a costume and jumping up and down stairs pretending to be Hawkman isn't exactly normal teenage behavior.
And I Must Scream: For his interference, Matter Master walled Golden Eagle into a massive calcium deposit, though Flash showed up in time to get him out before he suffocated.
Ascended Fanboy: A fan of Hawkman ends up becoming a hero himself.
Back from the Dead: In a way. Was originally strangled to death in Titans Hunt (and then buried!), but a retcon later revealed that his father managed to arrive and resuscitate him with Thanagarian science.
Be Careful What You Wish For: Pre-Crisis. After getting captured and nearly suffocating to death at the hands of the Matter Master, Charley cools somewhat on the notion of becoming a hero, at least for awhile.
Calling Card: In his first appearances, the Pre-Crisis version left a golden feather behind whenever he stopped criminals. Green Arrow (the man with a boxing glove arrow) called this hokey.
Closest Thing We Got: Pre-Crisis, Matter Master's mentachem wand reacted to its master's desire to fight Hawkman by altering Charley's homemade Hawkman costume into one closer to the real thing, with the ability to fly.
Dark and Troubled Past: Post-Crisis, he an orphan who was forced to sell drugs until he was kicked out by his foster family.
De-power: Pre-Crisis, after Matter Master's defeat, Charley is restored to normal by his own choice.
Eye Scream: Had his left eye bludgeoned and gouged out by Hawkman in their fight, causing him to have wear a cybernetic eye patch in his later appearances.
Face–Heel Turn: Became a villain in the Hawkman series, jealous and wanting revenge against Carter Hall out of the belief that he had betrayed his father.
Flight: Thanks to Charley's costume being made into a copy of Hawkman's, he can do this. Later he gets a spare pair of wings from Hawkman himself.
Green Rocks: Pre-Crisis, he received his first costume and the power to switch into it from mentachem.
Half-Human Hybrid: Post-Crisis, he's half-Thanagarian on his father's side, and human on his mother's side.
Hero-Worshipper: He always idolized Hawkman before becoming Golden Eagle.
Instant Costume Change: Pre-Crisis, he could instantly switch into and out of his first costume at will.
Interrupted Suicide: In his Post-Crisis origin, after getting evicted by his foster family for being too old to be able to be a drug runner, Charley attempts to commit suicide on top of the Midway City bridge (not to be confused with the Bi-State Bridge) before he gets stopped by Hawkman who saves him and offers him a job working at the Midway City Museum under Carter Hall.
Kid Hero: Only sixteen when he started. In his second appearance he's old enough to be working/trying to make it as an actor, though still apparently a teen.
Mission Control: In World's Finest: Teen Titans, he acts as this after retiring from Golden Eagle.
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Matter Master's wand did such a good job re-creating Hawkman's costume that it also recreated Hawkman's JLA signal device, which Charley used to summon the heroes after MM had captured him.
Older Alter Ego: Pre-Crisis. When suited up, he looks like a buff adult. The Leaguers were shocked to learn he was a teenager.
Only in It for the Money: Post-Crisis, this is the only reason he joined Titans West.
Parental Abandonment: His mother, Sharon Parker, was brainwashed and later murdered by his father, Fel Andar, who was later forced to flee from Earth due to the JLI becoming aware of what he did and was then sent to be imprisoned on Thanagar for life, who did so because Thanagar would not stand for Charley's conceivement, and thus was placed in the Sister of Mercy Orphanage in Midway City.
Punch-Clock Hero: Post-Crisis, he tried to become a hero-for-hire, but with so many heroes doing their thing gratis, it didn't work out. People generally got offended and tore up the business cards he tried to give them.
Retcon: In the Pre-Crisis era, he was a fanboy of Hawkman who somehow gained powers from the Matter Master. Post-Crisis, he (initially) had no connection to Hawkman and his powers were unexplained. Then it was later revealed that he was the son of Fel Andar (the fake Hawkman from Invasion! (DC Comics) and Justice League International) and that his armor was a gift from his estranged father.
Replacement Goldfish: Subverted. At first he seemed to be on track to replace the absent Hawkman in the JLA, but he was both willingly de-powered and the real Hawkman turned up again at the end of his origin story.
Secret-Keeper: Before he became Golden Eagle, he discovers Carter Hall is Hawkman when he saw him fight Shadow Thief.
Surfer Dude: He originally was one in his Post-Crisis origin.
Tagalong Kid: Charley's heart is in the right place, and he's good at taking care of mooks, but when it came to Matter Master all he managed to do was get captured.
Waiting for a Break: Pre-Crisis, after his initial adventure, his second appearance (years later in-universe) shows him to be a struggling actor, getting fired from a gas station job. His Post-Crisis
Wolverine Claws: His later costume has talons.

Gnarrk

AKA: John Gnarrk

Abilities: Super-strength, agility, and intelligence

A caveman who has been a member of various versions of the Teen Titans in the early 1970s.

The Bus Came Back: He's back as of Titans Hunt (story that retroactively introduce past Teen Titans history in the New 52 universe) and has shown up again in Titans Rebirth.
Bus Crash: Pre-Crisis. Was never seen again after the '70s Titans series. An offhand mention was then made of him having died, when Marv Wolfman decided to wrap up the whereabouts of the Bronze Age Titans at Donna Troy's wedding. Post-Crisis, his redesigned origin had him die before he woke up from his ancient coma.
Contemporary Caveman: Prior to the Crisis, Gnarrk was a time displaced Neanderthal stranded in the present. Through love and telepathic communication, Lilith teaches him human language and customs.
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Disappears after Titans Hunt with no explanation. His next major appearance has him die.
Cultured Badass: After his crash course in modern culture, he becomes obsessed with acting like a civilized man, up to using a much fancier and more formal vocabulary than any of the other Titans and even refusing to use his enhanced strength unless in an emergency.
Dropped a Bridge on Him: One of the many lesser-known heroes to unceremoniously die in Heroes in Crisis.
Human Popsicle: In his past (post-Crisis) a volcanic disturbance threatened Gnarrk. The jewel in his chest protected him by encasing him in ice. Centuries passed, and Gnarrk remained in his ice tomb. During that time, his mind still worked, and Gnarrk dreamed of a better world. He used his abilities to cure disease and control the forces of nature to benefit mankind.
Living Relic: Gnarrk was a time displaced Neanderthal stranded in the present. Through love and telepathic communication, Lilith teaches him human language and customs.
Noble Savage: Starts out as this, having a good heart but being unable to communicate much with anyone other than Lilith. A crash course in modern culture later, and he becomes a Cultured Badass.
Official Couple: With Lilith, up until his abrupt (offscreen) death. Post-Crisis, they had a psychic bond in their brief meeting while Lilith was dating Don Hall.
Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Gnarrk is actually not the first cave man character the Titans have rolled with. The first such character was the little-known Garn, a cave-teen who appeared in one issue in the 60s.
Telepathy: As a side-effect of being fused with the meteor rock, Gnarrk developed a psychic rapport with Lilith Clay.
- It is possible that the meteor also granted Gnarrk other psionic abilities, but what these powers may have been has never been revealed.
Time Travel Escape and You Already Changed the Past: In the Pre-Crisis continuity, Mal and Wally accidentally kill him in self-defense after an unexpected trip to the past. They later travel back in time again with the help of stone age wizard to save him from his untimely death in hopes of preserving the past. However, when they're brought back to the future, Gnaark goes back with them, thus making their efforts to keep him alive and in the past all for naught.

The Joker's Daughter / Harlequin

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I watched as her fingers drew a perfect line in space...

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AKA: Duela Dent

Abilities: Acrobatics, clown-themed gadgets

First Appearance: Batman Family #6 (August, 1976)

" No! I need this — I'm the Joker's Daughter. Hit me like one of your super villains, Batman! "

Duela Dent is the biological daughter of the Jokester (Earth-3 Joker) and Three-Face (Evelyn Dent) as well as the step-daughter of the Earth-3 Riddler, originally using the alias "Joker's Daughter". She has been a member of the Teen Titans and Titans East, and has claimed to be the daughter of many different supervillains over the years.

Adaptational Villainy: In the New 52 universe, Duela Dent is a psychopathic young woman who took residence in Gotham's underground sewers as a tribal leader going by the name Joker's Daughter. She became obsessed with not only serving The Joker, but also with having his blood course inside of her, so she can truly become his "daughter".
Antagonistic Offspring: Her original motivation was to get back at her father Two-Face for abandoning her and her mom, but this was thrown into doubt when Dick Grayson realized she's too old to be Two-Face's kid in the first place.
Deadpan Snarker: In the pre-Crisis continuity, mostly aimed at Roy.
Fridge Logic: Discussed in-universe in a conversation between Dick Grayson and Duela at Donna Troy's wedding. In the original Duela storyline written by Bob Rozakis, the question of Duela's parentage was eventually resolved with Duela being revealed as Two-Face's daughter sometime after he got married. Much later and under a different writer, Marv Wolfman, at Donna Troy's wedding Dick pointed out that this origin was impossible because Duela was too old for it to be true. Duela was close to Dick's age and Harvey Dent didn't become Two-Face or get married until after Dick Grayson had already become Robin. Duela admonishes Dick for taking so long to figure out such an obvious contradiction.
Heel–Face Revolving Door: Post-Crisis, her standing as hero or villain could change at the drop of a hat. Her origin story eventually confirmed she started out as a hero on Earth-3, but unfortunately her repeated shifts between her home and the main DCU screwed up her mind and made her unstable.
I Have Many Names: Throughout her career as a vigilante she has used the names Card Queen, Catgirl, Harlequin, Penguin's Daughter, Riddler's Daughter and Scarecrone.
I Have No Son!: Her father the Jokester immediately disowned her when she revealed she was dating Talon and wanted to marry him. Jokester quickly regretted this after Duela left and never got to reconcile with Duela after she died.
Luke, You Are My Father: Duela claimed she was the daughter of multiple super-villains. Pre-Crisis it was believed she was Two-Face's daughter, until it was revealed that she was too old to be his child. Following Infinite Crisis, it was revealed that Duela comes from Earth-3, and is the daughter of the Jokester (a heroic version of the Joker) and Three-Face (a heroic, female version of Two-Face), and the stepdaughter of a heroic Riddler.
Plot-Relevant Age-Up: A subversion. When she returned during Donna Troy's wedding, she was significantly older (and heavier), to further support that she wasn't Two-Face's daughter. Following Crisis on Infinite Earths, her next appearance was in a mental institution, where her memories as a Titan were met with skepticism because of how old she was. During her next few appearances she was much younger.
Plot-Triggering Death: Her death was what started Countdown to Final Crisis. She abducts a teen celebrity from a nightclub, only to be stopped by Jason Todd. She claims that she comes from an alternate Earth and, after escaping, she is killed by a Monitor.
Practically Joker: Models herself on the Joker and claims she's his daughter, though unlike most examples she's heroic. At least, until the New 52.
Progressively Prettier: Originally had a clown-like face as part of her costume, with exaggerated jaw and mouth (much the same way The Joker was drawn at the time), and had poofy violet hair. In recent years and flashback sequences, her in-costume appearance was tweaked for her to appear more conventionally attractive, with only white face paint and her hair shown to be sleeker.
Sanity Slippage: In her original Bronze Age appearances, Duela was wacky but perfectly sane and her antics as Joker's Daughter and Harlequin were simply part of her persona. All of her Post-Crisis appearances demonstrate she's mentally unbalanced in at least some sense, the severity changing in each issue. It was eventually explained Duela's instability was the result of constant shifting between universes.
Self-Harm: New 52 Duela is a deeply messed-up girl who was obsessed with mutilating herself.
Sexy Jester: Her whole motif, whether she's calling herself the Joker's Daughter or the Harlequin.

Characters / Teen Titans: Original Teen Titans

Lilith Clay-Jupiter