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The characters of Batman Beyond include:

Main Characters

Terry McGinnis / Batman (Will Friedle)

An otherwise Ordinary High School Student who recently put his Delinquent days behind him, Terry's life changes when he gets on the bad side of the Jokerz, a gang that idolizes the long-past Clown Prince of Crime. Leading them out of the city (and away from his girlfriend), the chase happens to end at the gates of stately Wayne Manor, where Bruce shows the Jokerz the hard way that he can still handle punks like them...then collapsing of a heart attack. After helping Bruce back into his home, Terry (in what has become a habit by now) stumbles upon the Batcave and is promptly thrown out.

Terry returns home to find his father murdered, apparently in retaliation by the Jokerz. However, his father's boss Derek Powers, the man who now runs Bruce Wayne's old company, shows up asking about a disk his father apparently had before his death, and not in a nice way. Realizing that the Jokerz were not his father's killer(s), Terry heads back to Wayne to try to convince him to help. When Bruce refused to get directly involved, he steals the last Batsuit and takes off to settle things on his own. After foiling a plot by Powers to sell a devastating chemical weapon to rogue nations, Terry is accepted by Bruce to carry the mantle of Batman.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Animal Motif: The Bat
• Anti-Hero: Type II.
• The Atoner
• Badass:
  • Badass Normal: Before stealing the suit, and whenever he's not wearing it.
  • Badass Abnormal: Arguably this, since it is revealed in Justice League Unlimited that he was genetically engineered to have Bruce Wayne's genetics.
  • Took a Level in Badass
• Blue Eyes
• Clothes Make The Batman: Which Terry expresses concern over in the episode "Lost Soul". By the end, he proves that he's Batman even without the suit.
• Create Your Own Villain: Terry exposed Derek Powers to nerve gas, which could only be treated by intense radiation. The result was Blight. Upon learning this, though, Terry had no regrets.

Terry: You mean, I made him that? Bruce: You may have. In part. Terry: Good. *beat* Hey, this guy had my father murdered and all he's done since is hide from the law! Well, no more hiding for Mister Derek Powers. Now everyone can see him for what he is...even in the dark.

• Combat Pragmatist: While Bruce makes a point to have Terry instructed in martial arts like he was, Terry has no qualms about fighting as dirty as he needs to to win. Something the Joker never anticipated. And he commonly near mocks his enemies into making mistakes.
• Dark Is Not Evil
• Dating Catwoman: His relationship with Ten/Melanie. Also in the mini-comic series he does get his very own Catwoman.
• Deadpan Snarker: Though he still has nothing on Bruce.
  • He's got quantity. Terry's much more chatty than Bruce.
• Delinquent: Reforming.
• Hot-Blooded
• Hurting Hero
• I Let Gwen Stacy Die: His father's death was Terry's big motivation for super-heroics.
• In the Blood: A heroic version that is about as contrived as one can possibly believe.
• Legacy Character: Invoked by Amanda Waller, who felt the world would always need a Batman. Terry is the end product.
• Never Live It Down: He's often reminded of his delinquent record.
• Official Couple: With Dana.
• Ordinary High School Student
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Bruce's blue.
• Tall, Dark and Snarky
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: Terry takes a somewhat more loose approach to this than Bruce did. He won't personally kill, but he won't go out of his way to save criminals, either. He indirectly killed one person in the pilot alone, and it would have been two if Powers didn't have good doctors.
  • He ends very frequently killing one shot villains, mostly because the fights are set up in such a way that he has no choice but to.
• Triple Shifter
• Troubled but Cute
• Tyke Bomb:His genetics are half Bruce's due to Amanda Waller trying to create a second Batman. His parents were also almost killed by an older Phantasm hired by Waller to create another Batman. Phantasm decided against killing his parents, but his Dad got killed by Derek Powers, prompting Terry to become Batman anyways.
• Unwanted Harem
• Would Hit a Girl: Almost all the time he meets female supervillains, he will. Except for in Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker; when he fights the Dee Dees, though he may just have been having fun making them knock each other out as his grin seems to imply.
• You Killed My Father: Said to Blight/Derek Powers word for word. Also his origin story (as it is true for the original Batman).
• You Fight Like a Cow: This apparently serves him well in his fight vs The Joker

Bruce Wayne (Kevin Conroy)

The original Batman from earlier in the DCAU, Bruce is originally reluctant to let Terry take up the mantle of the Bat, but he eventually gives in and becomes Terry’s mentor and Mission Control.

See here for info dealing with him in the rest of the DCAU.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Badass:
  • Badass Grandpa: At least if Terry's future with Dana is cemented in "Epilogue," he will be.
  • Badass Normal
  • Handicapped Badass
  • Retired Badass: In the few times he goes back to action.
• Cool Old Guy
• Crazy Prepared: Naturally.
• Deadpan Snarker: Has his moments.
• Doesn't Like Guns: The series begins with a heart attack forcing him to scare a criminal off with one, horrifying him into retirement.
• Good Is Not Nice
• Heroes Love Dogs: Understandable, since Ace is his only companion at Wayne Manor other than Terry.
• Lonely at the Top: The rare heroic example of this trope at the beginning of the show. He is one of the richest men in the world and it is due to his crusade as the Dark Knight that Gotham is still standing. However, he has also completely alienated everyone around him and is utterly alone. And once he got older, his failing body conditions prevented him from further activities as Batman, which has made him bitter. Finding his successor in Terry did improve the situation but it is clear that Bruce sometimes thinks about what could have been.

Terry: Why do you hate him so much? Barbara Gordon: No, I don't hate him. I hate what he's become. Such a great man...so alone.

• The Mentor
• Mission Control
• Moment of Weakness: See Doesn't Like Guns.
• Offhand Backhand
• Old Master
• Older and Wiser: And way, way scarier than before. As in, the time travel episode of Justice League Unlimited has him unsettling himself and a 50 year old Static.
• Playing Gertrude: Kevin Conroy voices Bruce in both the original series and Beyond, and manages to make the aging between both series very believable.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Terry's red.
• Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!
• Seen It All

Maxine "Max" Gibson (Cree Summer)

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Action Girl
• Affirmative Action Girl: Deliberately added to the show to try to up the show's female viewership.
• Black Best Friend
• Just Friends
• Mission Control
• Most Common Superpower
• The Not Love Interest: One rejected script had Dana break up with Terry and Terry being comforted by making out with Max.
• Plucky Girl
• Rose-Haired Girl
• Secret Keeper
• Teen Genius: She's at the very top of her class and casually breezes through examinations of all sorts without trying and is a very good hacker.
• Tomboyish Name: Her real name is Maxine but prefers Max.
• What Could Have Been: The writers were suggesting to give her a Relationship Upgrade to Terry's girlfriend, however the director dismissed this.

Dana Tan (Lauren Tom)

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Betty and Veronica: The Betty to Ten's Veronica for Terry's Archie.
• Bob Haircut: In JLU's "Epilogue." She gets straight bangs, too.
• Demoted to Extra: The longer the show ran, the more her screen time seemed to shrink. She was one of the major characters in the first season; by the end, it would have been unsurprising if less-attentive viewers didn't even know she was the Love Interest.
• Damsel in Distress: Subverted. Dana manages to defend herself pretty well when push comes to shove (such as in "Rats" and a bit in The Movie), but she ultimately must get rescued by Terry/Batman even when not distressed.
• First Girl Wins
• Love Interest: Her main role in the show.
• Missing Mom
• Neutral Female: Averted. She keeps away from the action most of the time, but when it comes to her, she fights back.
• The Obstructive Love Interest: Edges into this in the second season. She gets better.
• Official Couple: With Terry.
• Overprotective Dad: Dana's father really does not like Terry because of his delinquent past.
• Secret Keeper: Eventually becomes this, as revealed in "Epilogue."
• Shallow Love Interest: As she got Demoted to Extra, all of her screen time is related to her being Terry's girlfriend.
• Silk Hiding Steel: A nice girl in a nice dress, who, as noted above, doesn't take well to being kidnapped.
• Spoiled Sweet: The most affluent main character (after Bruce of course) and pretty nice.
• Stood Up: Constantly by Terry. Type 3.
• Victorious Childhood Friend: Well, it's implied that Terry and Dana have been dating since they were at least 14, since she knows who "Big Time" is, so...
• Woman in White: Her white dress in "Rats."

Ace

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Berserk Button: Don't mess with either Bruce or Terry.
• Canine Companion
• Heroic Dog
• Loyal Animal Companion
• Mythology Gag: To The Silver Age of Comic Books Ace the Bat-Hound.
• One Steve Limit: With the Royal Flush Gang member. Of course, retroactively, he was named after another Royal Flush Gang's Ace.
• Team Pet

The McGinnis family

Warren McGinnis (Michael Gross)

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Amicably Divorced: Though the JLU episode Epilogue reveals that Bruce is the boys' biological father, opening a possibility that given Terry and Matt's black hair, which considering Mary's red hair and his brown hair is genetically improbable, suspicions of infidelity on Mary's part may have had a factor.
• Death by Origin Story
• We Hardly Knew Ye

Mary McGinnis (Teri Garr)

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Alliterative Name
• Amicably Divorced: Though the JLU episode Epilogue reveals that Bruce is the boys' biological father, opening a possibility that Warren may have suspected Mary of infidelity given Terry and Matt's black hair, which considering Mary's red hair and Warren's brown hair is genetically improbable.
• Former Teen Rebel: According to Terry in Season 2's "Splicers."
• Heroes Want Redheads
• Hot Mom

Matt McGinnis (Ryan O'Donohue)

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Alliterative Name
• Annoying Younger Sibling: Although understandably he is very young, and some of his antics could be seen as a coping mechanism for losing his father at a young age.
  • A good example of this is one episode where, even being told that the ghost at Hill High is being destructive, he wants to have a séance. The reason? He's scared he'll forget what his father was like and wants to contact him.
• Idolizes My Alter Ego: A fact Terry wholeheartedly approves of.

Recurring Characters

Barbara Gordon (Stockard Channing [seasons 1 and 2], Angie Harmon [season 3])

The former Batgirl, she has put aside her cowl and has now taken her father’s place as Gotham’s Police Comissioner.

See here for info dealing with her in the rest of the DCAU.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Badass Normal
• Cool Old Lady
• The Commissioner Gordon: Like father, like daughter. Except that her relationship with Batman was generally far worse. It got better over time.
• Happily Married: To Sam.
• I Am Not My Father: Barbara felt no need to continue her father's policies towards the Bat in the beginning, and she minces no words about it. Her apparent rancor over it is probably more due to soured feelings toward Bruce rather than her feelings towards her father, since they were always shown to be close.
• Inspector Javert: She was quick to believe the worst about Batman at first, though to her credit, she wises up when it's not his fault. And to be fair, in at least one case she literally witnesses him kill Mad Stan (it was an illusion, but the guy put a lot of work into it).
  • Spellbinder (the illusionist himself) was quick to point out, however, how easily and quickly Barbara fell for it.
• Never Mess with Granny
• The Other Darrin: In the movie.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Though that's reasonable, not nice.
  • Sometimes she's not even that reasonable. "Eyewitness" is a good example where she willfully holds the Idiot Ball.
• Secret Keeper: She knows Bruce's secret. She's also one of the few people who knows about the circumstances surrounding the Joker's death, but chooses to keep quiet about it.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Her appearance here showed that DCAU Barbara didn't suffer the same fate mainline DCU Barbara did.

Sam Young (Paul Winfield)

Gotham City's District Attorney and Barbara Gordon's husband.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Bald Black Leader Guy
• Black Dude Dies First: Not for real, but at the rate the villains keep targeting him...
• Happily Married: To Barbara.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: A better example than his wife. He utterly refuses to discuss the police's and court's dealings with her after hours, and doesn't seem to have that much of a problem with Batman running around.

Howard Groote (Max Brooks)

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Megane
• Nerd

Bobbi "Blade" Summer (Melissa Disney)

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Alpha Bitch: She's actually fairly apathetic, but has the look down pat, and is more than content to do things such as throw most of a school assignment on Terry, or manipulate a classmate to make another guy jealous.
• White-Haired Pretty Girl

Chelsea Cunningham (Yvette Lowenthal, Rachel Leigh Cook)

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Alliterative Name
• Blue Eyes
• Dating Do-Si-Do: Has a new boyfriend in every episode.
• Hair of Gold
• Heterosexual Life Partners: With Dana.
• Lovable Alpha Bitch
• The Other Darrin: Rachel Leigh Cook replaced Yvette Lowenthal in Season 2.
• Special Guest: When she was voiced by Rachel Leigh Cook, though Rachel did enjoy playing the role. The production team reportedly felt awful about calling her in to record a single line for The Movie, though she was a good sport about it.

Nelson Nash (Seth Green)

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Alliterative Name
• Asshole Victim: It's really difficult to feel sorry for him when Willie destroys his expensive car, and continuously hounds him with his new powers.
• Butt Monkey
• Dating Do-Si-Do: Implied to be in a relationship with Chelsea one episode, hits on Dana in another, and has a messy break-up with Blade in yet another.
• Expy: Of Flash Thompson.
• Hidden Depths: The eggbaby episode revealed that Nelson is surprisingly good as a father, if his grade was anything to go by. Remember, Max did his math homework so he'd raise the kid by himself.
• Jerk Jock: A massive one. In the pilot alone, he introduces himself by spitting in Terry's face. Not to mention he picks on weaker kids.
• Playing Against Type

Villains

Derek Powers / Blight (Sherman Howard)

The corrupt CEO and co-owner of Wayne-Powers Enterprises. After being exposed to his own nerve gas, he is treated with high levels of radiation. He glows green in his natural form, so he must wear an artificial skin that only lasts temporarily and must be regularly replaced. The skin wears out more quickly if he gets angry.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Badass Boast: In "Meltdown," as he takes down Mr. Freeze:

Blight: And behold, I shall be a blight upon the land, and everything I touch shall wither and die!

• Big Bad: Of Season 1. He technically played the Man Behind the Man for most of it, but Mr. Freeze and his worsening condition forced him to take a more direct approach.
• But for Me It Was Tuesday: "You Killed My Father" doesn't really narrow it down, Terry.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive
• Create Your Own Villain
• Curb Stomp Battle: Gives one to Mr. Freeze, of all people.
• Damn You, Muscle Memory!: He instinctively shoots a nerve gas canister thrown up in the air before he realized what it was.
• Evil Counterpart: To Mr. Freeze, of all people. In his first appearance as Blight, he nearly kills Freeze to solidify himself as Batman's new Big Bad. Their physical conditions also deteriorate to the point that they depend on a suit to stay alive.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: During the pilot, he's accidentally gassed by his own nerve gas. The only treatment involves a massive dose of radiation, leading to...
• I Love Nuclear Power
• Irony: His transformation into Blight. He was already evil long before his transformation. Afterward, his exterior simply matched what was within.

Terry: Now everyone can see him for what he is...even in the dark.

• Light Is Not Good: He emits a bright radioactive green glow. This contrasts with Batman, who is dark, and can even turn invisible.
• No One Could Survive That: Apparently died in the Season 1 finale. He was never seen again, though the possibility that he was out there, hungry for revenge, hung over his son Paxton.
  • According to the comics, Blight did indeed survive, sort of. His body did survive, but he doesn't seem to remember anything about his past life outside of hatred and a desire for vengeance for Batman and Paxton Powers, and was eventually made into a target for the Stalker, and was eventually killed by being caught in a blast furnace.
• Offing the Offspring: Wanted to do this to Paxton, after he was betrayed by him.
• Uncanny Family Resemblance: His son Paxton is basically just him with brown hair.
• Villainous Breakdown: His mental state starts deteriorating from the pilot episode forward as his hope of being cured dwindles...and as he embraces the power of being Blight.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Subverted, he's has a bad reputation even without his illegal actions.
• Walking Wasteland

Inque (Shannon Kenny)

A woman who is able to transform into a liquid after being paid to be a human test subject for a mutagen. She works as a freelance saboteur and is often hired by powerful corporations.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Body Horror: In her other form.
• Combat Tentacles: One of her main combat tactics.
• Godzilla Threshold: Bruce has actually come out of retirement twice to aid Terry in defeating her.
• The Juggernaut: The only member of Terry's Rogues Gallery that he was never able to beat on his own. All of his victories against her were owed to by the aid of others.
• No One Could Survive That: Her daughter, Deanna, injected her with a dissolving agent and assumed it killed her. Ever the Genre Savvy crimefighter, Terry knew better. The end of the episode shows that Terry is right to think this, and Inque later appears in a Justice League Unlimited episode set farther in the future.
• Orifice Invasion: Her last-ditch attempt to kill Terry in her first episode.
• Shapeshifting
  • Morphic Resonance: She always has a black coloration with the blank, white eyes (her human form is black all over, with chalk white skin and normal eyes). Batman exploits this when he recognized her, after Inque very nearly loses him by impersonating a member of a group of walruses.
  • Shapeshifter Baggage: Possibly, but never outright stated, averted. She's implied to be relatively quite heavy for her size (i.e. roughly that of an average sized woman for most of the time), implying she has a dense body. The strength she's demonstrated can explain her ease of movement if that's the case.
  • Shapeshifter Default Form: She has a "human" form that imitates her original human body, though she can only get the shape right, not the color. Her regular form is much more simplistic, humanoid with an oval-shaped head with a single white dot on it for an eye.
  • Shapeshifter Weapon: Mostly Combat Tentacles, but has used blades and giant needles
  • Unstable Genetic Code: Sorta. She does need a steady diet of mutagens to survive, and she eventually suffers genetic damage that doesn't let her return to her human form.
• Superpower Meltdown: She is in the midst of one throughout the series (see above). Despite this, Inque still manages to be the most physically powerful foe Terry faces.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Her inky liquid form is vulnerable to water. Just some water can dilute her enough so that she can't form a solid shape, but it doesn't permanently kill her either, since she's usually able to eventually pull herself together from being flushed.
  • Averted with her other main weakness: being frozen. While, yes, it is a very effective way to stop someone, she's probably the only one in the series whose biology allows for Harmless Freezing as well as being lucid while frozen solid. In a later episode, she demonstrates a technique she learned for breaking out of ice blocks almost instantly.

Willie Watt (Scott McAfee)

A bullied nerd at Terry's high school. He steals a giant construction robot from his father and, after an accident, is able to control it with his thoughts. He uses it to take revenge on his bullies. Though Batman destroys the robot, Willie is left with telekinetic powers.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Abusive Parents: Willie's dad is an aggressive macho idiot.
• Alliterative Name
• Bond Creatures: Willie treated the Golem like this was the case after he discovered he could control it himself.
• Freudian Excuse: Willie tried to kill his father, and everyone at his high school dance. But only after putting up with his Jerkass of a father, getting bullied and assaulted by a Jerk Jock, and pushed off a 30 foot dock into the water by said jerk jock. Then he gains the power to control a giant robot with his mind, and then Psychic Powers, and his main motivation is getting back at everyone who ever wronged him.
• Genius Bruiser: After a while in juvie with nothing better to do than hit the gym.
• Hopeless Suitor: For Blade.
• Lightning Can Do Anything: After he was electrocuted while controlling the Golem, he gained the ability to control it without the control headband. Later develops into other psychic powers.
• Meaningful Name: A man, who can control a giant robot via electricity, named Watt. It's pretty self-explanatory.
• Not Me This Time: In the tie-in comic, the Golem (or what's left of it) starts attacking people. Terry goes to Willie, who claims that while it's not him, the Golem did send him the message that it found a new master, so he still might have a connection to it. It wasn't him, either.
• Prisons Are Gymnasiums
• Psychic Powers: At first, he could control a robot, and by the end of the episode, it was revealed he appeared to be developing a greater talent as a Technopath. Later demonstrates levitation and some serious psychokinesis.
• Scary Shiny Glasses: Though he ditched them after becoming buff.
• Stalker with a Crush
• Took a Level in Badass: Twice. If he ever gets out of juvie, he's going to be one scary member of the Rogues Gallery.
• Who's Laughing Now?: His ultimate goal is to push everyone around like they used to do with him.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Willie was more than willing to kill his father with his new control over his robot, even with Terry trying to reason, "But he's your father!" Only for Willie to respond, "Not for long."
• You Are What You Hate: Nelson did a pretty good job of humiliating Willie in front of their peers. But when Willie returns, more powerful than ever, he now understands what enjoyment Nelson got bullying people weaker than him.
  • Though in all fairness he'd only come after people who'd ever wronged him.

Victor Fries / Mr. Freeze (Michael Ansara)

Mr. Freeze is still the severed head in a jar that last appeared in The New Batman Adventures. Dr. Stephanie Lake creates a clone body for him and transfers his brain patterns into it, hoping to use the same procedure for Derek Powers.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• And I Must Scream
• Anti-Villain: Type II/IV.
• The Atoner: He genuinely did want to try to make up for all the pain he caused. Too bad nothing ever goes his way.
• Creepy Monotone
• Darker and Edgier: Yes, the terrifying, emotionless villain who likes to freeze people solid is made even darker, due to the fact he gets to commit his first on-screen murder since his debut.
  • In addition to freezing his traitorous girlfriend to death (with a Gory Discretion Shot) he also freezes an oncoming car in a block of ice and encases a squad of soldiers shooting at him. This may be the biggest killing spree he's ever gone on in the shows.
• Despair Event Horizon: Sometime between his new body regressing back to requiring sub-zero temperatures and Derek Powers' and Dr. Stephanie Lake's betrayal. At that point, revenge is the only thing he has left (again).
• Driven to Suicide: During "Meltdown", Mr. Freeze tries to reform and becomes able to withstand normal temperatures due to Dr. Stephanie Lake. Unfortunately, he reverts back to needing subzero temperatures to survive and is nearly killed by Dr. Lake. Fries becomes Mr. Freeze once more for vengeance and at the end of "Meltdown", Mr. Freeze gets a cracked helmet, exposing him to temperatures above zero and stays in a collapsing building which ultimately explodes. Terry tries to help Mr. Freeze get out, but Mr. Freeze creates a wall of ice to force Terry to leave him behind to die.
• He's Back
• An Ice Person
• Ironic Echo: Uses one towards the scientist who had betrayed him Dr. Stephanie Lake, who had also becomes his lover. It also doubles as a Pre-Mortem One-Liner.

Mr. Freeze: There may be some momentary discomfort.

• Mad Scientist
• Pet the Dog: Saving a kitty cat from an oncoming train, letting go a man who tried to shoot him in revenge for killing his family decades before, and even starting a charity dedicated to helping the victims of his previous actions and naming it after his beloved wife, Victor really wanted to make up for all the horrible things he had done.
• Powered Armor: Upgraded with the option to emit even more powerful ice blasts from his hands.
• Villainous Rescue: Saves Terry from Blight with an ice blast, though it was mostly due to his own anger than concern for Terry's safety.
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: His opening monologue.
• The Worf Effect: Mr. Freeze reappears halfway through the episode decked out in a new set of bulletproof Powered Armor, and displays a more powerful Freeze Gun built into the suit. However, he gets one-shotted by new villain Blight in order to demonstrate the strength of the new Big Bad.

Walter Shreeve / Shriek (Chris Mulkey)

A sound engineer whose brilliant but impractical inventions nearly drove him out of business. He is bailed out by Derek Powers, who then pressures him into becoming a hitman for him. He wears a suit with four built-in speakers that fire destructive sound blasts. After losing his hearing because of Batman, Shriek turns to supervillainy in his quest for revenge.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Inverted; it's the fact that his inventions weren't cost-effective that led to his supervillain career, even if it took some pushing from Powers to get him there.
• Electric Instant Gratification: He pays his assistant Ollie by letting him use a "pleasure wand" that directly stimulates the brain's pleasure centers.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: The irony. A sound engineer turned deaf by his own invention.
  • Another time, his deafness was an advantage in a fight. Too bad he didn't know a building coming down behind him could possibly crush him.
• Make Me Wanna Shout

The Royal Flush Gang

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Betty and Veronica: Ten is the Veronica to Dana's Betty for Terry's Archie.
• Birds of a Feather: Melanie, with Terry.
• Blue Eyes: Melanie
• Caught in the Rain: Terry and Melanie.
• Dating Catwoman: Ten and Batman. Bruce comments on it.

"Let me tell you about a woman named Selina Kyle..."

• Five-Bad Band:
  • The Big Bad: King
  • The Dragon: Queen
  • Evil Genius: Melanie/Ten
  • The Brute: Ace
  • Dark Chick: Jack
• Hair of Gold
• Heel Face Turn: Melanie and Jack.
• Knife Nut: Jack
• Legacy Character: As Bruce notes in their first appearance, the family takes on new members to replace those that retire or go to prison. Ironically, even though the series takes place fifty years in the future, this version of the gang is the first to ever be featured in the DCAU. (The original version would appear later on in Justice League.)
• May-December Romance: King has an affair with Sable Thorpe, Paxton Powers P.A.
• Military Brat: Melanie
• Not So Different: This is played with in "King's Ransom"

King: I couldn't stand it anymore. The constant comparison. Do you have any idea what it's like living in someone's shadow?! Terry: Actually, I can relate.

• One Steve Limit: Averted with Ace, who shares the name with the Bat-Hound, who was named after a previous incarnation of Ace, one seen in Justice League Unlimited.
• Sensual Spandex: Melanie as Ten.

Dr. Ira Billings / Spellbinder (Jon Cypher)

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Played with; he does what he does because he feels severely under-compensated for the work he puts in. He already does put his skills to legitimate use and doesn't find it remotely satisfying.
• Expy: He resembles the Mad Hatter with his hypnotic technology, with a little of Scarecrow throw in.
• The Shrink
• Warrior Therapist: With an emphasis on "therapist" than "warrior."

Bane

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• And I Must Scream: Arguably; years of Venom-abuse have made him a frail old man incapable of moving, and now Venom is the only thing even keeping him alive.
• The Brute: Used to be, see And I Must Scream above.
• Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Not Bane himself, but his caretaker, Jackson Chappelle realized that a super-strength serum could make him a ton of money, rather than just using it for generic supervillainy. Not legally, of course, but still in the sense that it could be marketed.

Curare (Melissa Disney)

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Absurdly Sharp Blade: Sharpened by lasers to molecule-thinness, no less.
• Contract on the Hitman: At the end of her first episode, she's targeted by the Legion of Assassins for failing to eliminate her target. She then turns the tables by taking out the entire Legion single-handedly until only one remains.
• The Faceless: We never see her face in full, though the animation studio actually did produce a drawing that had a distinctive zombie quality to it.
  • Batman managed to rip her veil off after a particularly wild tackle. He was so shocked by her face she was able to effortlessly kick him, grab the veil and put it back on immediately. This scene was shot from behind her back, so trust Batman on this one.
• Hot Chick with a Sword
• Implacable Woman
• Ninja: Or McNinja, who knows?
• Technicolor People: Pastel blue, to be specific.
• The Voiceless
• Woman in White

Dr. Able Cuvier (Ian Buchanan)

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Body Horror: After being injected with dozens of different splicing needles.
• Evil Brit
• A God Am I: Has a pronounced God Complex.
• Meaningful Name: The Chimera Institute.
• Mix-and-Match Critters
• Petting Zoo People: He invented the splicing process that turns people into these, and...
• Professor Guinea Pig: Used himself as the first test subject.

The Stalker (Carl Lumbly)

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Captain Ersatz: Of Kraven the Hunter.
• Does Not Like Shoes
• Egomaniac Hunter: Before he was injured due to underestimating a wounded panther.
• Enemy Mine: Eventually he works with Terry to hunt down Kobra, but by no means are his sights off Batman's head.
• Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: Sort of. He can hunt man with incredible ease; he feels the most elusive prey is Batman.
• No One Could Survive That: His first appearance ended with him seemingly being hit by a train; the next episode to feature him didn't mention how he survived, though Terry wasn't surprised to see him alive.
• Scary Black Man
• Tattooed Crook: Sort of. He's never been to prison as far as we know and the markings all over his body are actually body-paint (Terry mistakes them for actual tattoos, but still).
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Says this to Terry.
• Worthy Opponent

Mad Stan (Henry Rollins)

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Bomb Throwing Anarchist
• Catch Phrase: "Blow it all up!"
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Bruce eventually divines that Mad Stan's rampages are always sparked by either a local news story or something directly affecting him. (Raising the cost of pet licenses? Blow it all up!)
• Mad Bomber
• Made of Iron: And how. In his introduction in "Rats" he survives events that would reduce most humans to a fine, red smear. Given the prevalence of superpowered humans in the DCU in general it's possible he has minor Super Strength and Super Toughness powers to be able to do all the stuff he does.
• Pet the Dog: He owns a tiny dog, whom he cares for deeply.
• Shout-Out: "Information overload, man!"
• Tattooed Crook: You can see an atomic symbol on the back of his neck in "Rats."
• Unstoppable Rage: "When Mad Stan's on one of his rants, he's unstoppable."
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: For example, he wants to blow up the library because he feels it's a symbol of media oversaturation. Ironically, barely anyone goes to the library in the future.
• Wrestler in All of Us: In "Rats!", he performs several wrestling moves on Terry, including a pile-driver that leaves his ears stuck in the ground.

Patrick "Packrat" Poundstone (Taran Noah Smith)

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• All of the Other Reindeer: His Freudian Excuse.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: Some consider Mad Stan's first appearance the highlight of his episode.
• Rodents of Unusual Size

Kobra

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Expy: It's really hard to guess.
• Nebulous Evil Organization

The Joker (Mark Hamill)

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Grand Theft Me: This is how the Joker survives, thanks to a control chip planted in Tim Drake's neck years ago.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Twice. The first is when Tim turns on the Joker and administers the fatal strike. The second is when Terry uses the Joker's own joy buzzer to fry the control chip in Tim's body.
• Kill Sat: His master plan is to use one to carve up Gotham into a smiley face.
• Killed Off for Real: Happens twice, averting his own Joker Immunity.
• Monster Clown: Still has the skin and hair after all these years.

Charlie "Big Time" Bigelow (Stephen Baldwin, Clancy Brown)

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Body Horror: He becomes a deformed hulk in his transformation into Big Time with unevenly sized appendages.
• Evil Former Friend: He starts out as a shady old friend of Terry's and becomes a true villain when he turns into Big Time.
• The Other Darrin: Originally voiced by Stephen Baldwin, but by the time his second episode rolled around, it was Clancy Brown instead.
• Super Serum: His transformation is the result of a growth steroid for plants. Apparently learning from his example, said serum is used on dogs in another episode.

Ra's al Ghul (David Warner)

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Beard of Evil
• Grand Theft Me: On his own daughter, Talia.
• He's Back
• Immortality Immorality: He's avoiding death through Grand Theft Me.
• Killed Off for Real: This fate ironically befalls Ra's at the end of "Out of the Past", when a loose wire falls into a Lazarus Pit and makes a massive explosion that destroys Ra's lair with Ra's inside of it, making the observation "it's safe" just before everything explodes without Ra's realizing.
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: Ra's does, even after the Lazarus Pits can no longer keep his body together due to the original Batman kicking his ass even more so than usual in the Near Apocalypse of 09.

Zander (Alexis Denisof)

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Expy: Though they both were created at the same time, Zander's upbringing sounds scarily similar to Damian Wayne's in the comics. He's just older, while Damian left the League of Assasins at age ten and has a chance to be a hero, Zander never got out of Kobra.
• One-Winged Angel
• Scaled Up
• Shadow Archetype: Was supposed to be a dark mirror to Terry before he turned into a dinosaur man.
• Villainous Crush: On Max.

Tim Drake (Dean Stockwell)

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Badass: Don't look now, but, disregarding the Joker's ultimately failed backup plan, Kid Robin just PERMANENTLY KILLED The Joker in the flashback.
• Break the Cutie: Will the cute little boy who wants to be a hero end up targeted, tortured, brainwashed and driven insane? Of course.
• Grand Theft Me: The Joker did this to him, having implanted a micro-chip in his neck during his Moral Event Horizon crossing. The chip pretty much made the Joker's mind into adult!Tim's sort-of Super-Powered Evil Side.
• Kid Hero: Used to be one, as the third Robin. Horrifyingly deconstructed, though.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: After what the Joker did to him? Can't be blamed.

Starro (the Starfish Alien)

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Alien Invasion
• A Form You Are Comfortable With: A shocking and disturbing example. Starro hides practically in plain sight by attaching himself to Superman, in one of the biggest twists of the series and as a Continuity Nod to Superman: The Animated Series, and in the process taking over his mind and body until Terry manages to free him from Starro's control. The scariest part? Starro managed to maintain the masquerade for years.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Starro does this to Superman and the entire future Justice League except for Terry
• Pragmatic Villainy: After Terry and the Justice League thwart Starro's attempt to conquer Earth, they get rid of him once and for all by returning him and all his clones to his home planet. Starro and his clones are more than willing to return to their own planet when they're given the opportunity, instead of sticking around and trying to conquer Earth again.
• Send in the Clones: Starro's casual time controlling Superman was apparently dedicated to creating a clone army to take over Earth, since he is the last of his kind. He only goes evil when they're ready to spread.
• Starfish Alien: Obviously.

The Jokerz

Unlike the usual random goons who bear the title, these are a specific gang who show up in the episode that debuts Max.

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

• Darker and Edgier - Unlike the usual portrayal of the Jokerz as random Mooks that just show up to cause trouble, these particular ones are portrayed as a somewhat more serious threat.
• Five-Bad Band
  • Big Bad J-Man
  • The Dragon Smirk
  • Evil Genius Coe
  • The Brute Scab
  • Dark Chick Dottie
• Quirky Miniboss Squad

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