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An enigmatic government agency with a [[Chess Motif]], Checkmate competes with Major Zod to be the main antagonist of Season 9. Run by the White Queen and the Black King, Checkmate keeps tabs on paranormal activity and has a definite [[With Us or Against Us]] mentality.

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* [[With Us or Against Us]]: Waller's attitude towards Clark and superhumans in general.

 

The son of Joar Mahkent, a former enemy of the Justice Society of America, Icicle is recruited by Checkmate to serve as an assassin, with the promise that they will help him locate and kill off the JSA's members. Appears in Season 9's "Absolute Justice".

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* [[Younger Villain vs. Older Hero]]: Him versus the JSA. He's rather sneeringly contemptuous of their ages, to boot.

 

A Checkmate agent and former employee of Tess Mercer, Stuart is a top computer hacker and technician. He was recruited by Checkmate after being betrayed by Tess.

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* [[Geek]]: A stereotypical [[Hollywood Nerd]] pre-recruitment.

* [[Hollywood Hacking]]: His and Chloe's hackwar is definitely this, with them both throwing up firewalls and trying to break one another's codes.

* [[Revenge]]: Wants it on Tess.

 

== [[Suicide Squad]] ==

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A squad of super-powered operatives retained to do jobs even Checkmate wouldn't touch. The Suicide Squad, led by superhero fan-boy Rick Flag, went rogue following the agency's destruction in Season 9. Opposed on principle to the Vigilante Registration Act, the squad is out to stop its implementation no matter what the cost. Along with [[Darkseid]], they provide most of Season 10's conflict.

* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: They just vanish after "Collateral" with no real reason.

 

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The Squad's leader. Flag is, to put it mildly, very damaged. Formerly the field leader for Checkmate's teams of super-powered agents, his lengthy association with metahumans has caused him to identify with them instead of normal people. He's violently opposed to the VRA, and wants to force every superhero to see things his way, regardless of their own feelings.

* [[You Look Familiar]]: His actor played Lana's martial arts trainer in Season 8's "Power".

 

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A contract killer at the top of America's Most Wanted lists, Deadshot is retained by Flag to mark the Blur with the Squad's symbol. Using Cat Grant as bait to draw Clark out in the open, Deadshot succeeds, although he's imprisoned for it; Flag and Plastique later bust him out. The best shot in-universe, Deadshot affects a laid-back demeanor that conceals his [[The Fatalist|fatalistic tendencies]] and disillusionment with life.

* [[Villainous Valor]]: You gotta give Deadshot points for going after Clark with a gun, despite being fully aware of the latter's [[Nigh Invulnerable]] status. As it turns out, getting hit and going to prison was actually part of the plan, and Deadshot went through with it despite the risks. Pretty ballsy, that.

 

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First appearing in Season 8, Bette is a homeless girl with the power to project rings of explosive force from her body. On the run from LuthorCorp's Black Creek facility, she is taken in by Chloe, whom she later turns on. Captured and imprisoned in Belle Reve after a brief battle with Clark, Bette was loosed by Tess Mercer on the condition that she join Tess' Injustice Gang (see ''LuthorCorp and Associates'') where she was code-named "Plastique". Following the defeat of the Gang, she was recruited into the Suicide Squad by Flag sometime before Season 10. Best described as paranoid, selfish and bitter, she's a beautiful fit with the rest of the Squad.

* [[Selfish Evil]]: Bette is out for herself and nobody else. She wants to stay free and safe, and anyone who she suspects might compromise that tends to end up dead.

 

 

* [[Mission Control]]: For the Squad, doubling as their getaway man.

* [[You Look Familiar]]: His actor played Meteor Freak Bronson in Season 6's "Static".

 

An aging general with a long history of war-crimes charges behind him, Slade is the man chosen by the government to enforce the Vigilante Registration Act. Very much the ideological opposite of Rick Flag, Slade believes that no one can be allowed the power to threaten the government and seeks to defend America from all threats, wherever they may come from. He's crazy, to say the least. A key antagonist in the first half of Season 10.

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** [[Badass Grandpa]]

** [[Four-Star Badass]]

* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]: Of both A.C. and Oliver.

* [[Composite Character]]: He's equal parts Slade Wilson/Deathstroke and General Wade Eiling.

* [[No One Could Survive That]]: The reaction of other characters to his surviving the explosion in "Patriot".

* [[Patriotic Fervor]]: His motivation.

* {{spoiler|[[Sealed Evil in a Can]]}}: Courtesy of {{spoiler|Clark sending him to the [[Phantom Zone]]}}.

* [[Shut Up, Kirk]]: Clark gives him a speech about how he's stopping people from trusting the very government he's trying to defend, and demands that Slade let him save him from the exploding facility. Slade tells him to shut up, responding that he'd rather die along with the Blur than be saved by "an abomination".

* [[With Us or Against Us]]: His attitude towards [[Superhero|Superheroes]].

 

Formerly aide to General Slade Wilson, Trotter took control of the Department of Domestic Security's VRA strike team following Wilson's imprisonment in the [[Phantom Zone]]. She captured several members of the [[Justice League]] and [[Justice Society]], imprisoning them in a virtual reality world while she attempted to figure out how to neutralize or control their powers. Defeated by the combined efforts of the League, Chloe Sullivan and the Suicide Squad, she was left imprisoned in her own virtual reality program.

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* [[With Us or Against Us]]: Shares her superior's attitude towards the vigilantes.