Comicbook (Comic Book)/Characters/Teen Titans

The members of the comic book version of the Titans, past and present, and their worst enemies. See here for the characters in the animated version.

Aqualad / Tempest
"AKA: Garth

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

See the Aquaman character sheet for more info

Kid Flash I / The Flash III
"AKA: Wally West

Abilities: Super-speed"

Robin I / Nightwing
"AKA: Dick Grayson

Abilities: Martial arts master, detective skills, acrobatics"

Speedy / Arsenal / Red Arrow
"AKA: Roy Harper

Abilities: Master archer and gunslinger"


 * Artificial Limb: After Prometheus hacked his right arm off, Cyborg designed him a new one. However, this prosthetic isn't permanent, as Roy's right arm is still infected with the flesh-eating bacteria Prometheus laced his blade with. It's designed to "work around the nerve endings". It also causes him great pain to use it, impairs his ability as an archer drastically, and he can't wear anything over it unless it's his costume. It's also a total eyesore.
 * The Casanova
 * The Complainer Is Always Wrong: At Lian's funeral, Roy practically strangled Mia and blamed her for Lian's death. The majority of Rise of Arsenal seemed to be everyone coddling Mia Deardren and blaming Roy for Lian's death, even though A. Mia was supposed to be watching Lian and left her alone to fight the Electrocutioner, and B. Star City's destruction was a freak accident.
 * Doting Parent: He may have hired nannies from time to time, but he was REALLY good at being a single parent.
 * Heroic BSOD: Following his arm being hacked off and Lian getting killed.
 * Hot Dad
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold
 * Never Live It Down: His heroin abuse, which was only present for one issue and then followed by him going cold turkey. It doesn't help that following Lian's death he's gone back to using it.
 * Papa Wolf: To Lian, obviously, one of the most adorable and well-adjusted kids in comic book history. Despite requiring nannies from time to time, he never deprived her of love and attention and the two have had an amazingly adorable and loving relationship. What makes this so amazing is that Roy didn't have to sacrifice his brash personality, and just goes to show that he was a better father than his mentor Green Arrow could have ever hoped to be.
 * Big Brother Mentor: Also showed this to younger teammate Damage. He nominated Grant for membership during Titans to make it up to him for how things went when Roy led the Titans. He acted as a big brother figure to the younger Titan, and thanks to Roy (and Lian), Grant was able to admit his foster father had abused him so badly when he was younger. Roy was willing to help Grant because he remembered what his teenage years were like and how often he was left to his own devices, and wasn't about to do the same.
 * Real Men Wear Pink: He's every bit the lady's man his former mentor is, if not more so, and he can be brash and a bit of a jerk. That doesn't stop him from having scenes with his daughter that manage to redefine the word "adorable".
 * Wound That Will Not Heal: His right arm is said to be infected with dormant flesh-eating bacteria called "nanomites" which were laced in Prometheus' blade. It's for this reason that he was given a removable prosthetic meant to work "around" his nerve endings.

Wonder Girl / Troia
"AKA: Donna Troy

Abilities: Super-strength, flight, heightened reflexes"

See the Wonder Woman character sheet for more.

Aquagirl
"AKA: Tula

Abilities: Aquatic adaptation, super-strength, super-senses"

Bumblebee
"AKA: Karen Beecher-Duncan

Abilities: Insect-like size, flight, sonic blasts, electric "stings""

Gnaark
"AKA: John Gnaark

Abilities: Super-strength, agility, and intelligence"

The Guardian / Herald / Vox
"AKA: Mal Duncan

Abilities: Generates multi-dimensional portals; sonic blasts"

Hawk and Dove
"AKA: Hank and Don Hall

Abilities: Heightened strength and agility"


 * Heroic Sacrifice: Dove
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Hawk's Red Oni to Dove's Blue Oni
 * Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Dove and Hawk respectively.
 * Sibling Yin-Yang

The Joker's Daughter / Harlequin
"AKA: Duela Dent

Abilities: Acrobatics, clown-themed gadgets"


 * Luke, I Am Your 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), 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. See What Could Have Been below.
 * Redheaded Hero: Originally, her hair was green when in costume, and brown when in her civilian identity. A few years ago she began sporting red hair.
 * Sexy Jester
 * Stuffed Into the Fridge: Her death was what started Countdown to Final Crisis.
 * What Could Have Been: Her reappearance in Team Titans was meant to reveal that she was a member of the team who'd been driven insane by time travel. In the back of one of the final issues during Zero Hour there was a mock preview for a story involving Duela getting her hands on a reality warping device and using it to turn New York into what it had been during the 1970s.

Lilith / Omen
"AKA: Lilith Clay

Abilities: Precognition, telepathy, teleportation"


 * C-List Fodder
 * 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.
 * Luke, I Am Your Father: Pre-Crisis, her birth mother turned out to be Thia of the Titans of Myth. 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.
 * Redheaded Hero
 * Stuffed in The Fridge: Graduation Day. The characters in story made a bigger deal of Donna Troy's death then her's. It can be argued that her death was what began the thread of mutilation and death being more closely associated with the Teen Titans.

Baby Wildebeest
"Abilities: Super-strength"


 * C-List Fodder
 * Stuffed in The Fridge: Died alongside his adopted mother Pantha to serve as character development for his father-figure Red Star. Character development that never happened beyond a single issue of Teen Titans.

Beast Boy / Changeling
"AKA: Garfield Logan

Abilities: Animal shapeshifting"


 * Amazing Technicolor Population: Always has green skin; that is, till the New 52 reboot, now he has red skin.
 * Animorphism (Including magical and mythological monsters)
 * Berserk Button: Raven being in danger is his.
 * Big Brother Mentor: At least he tries to be.
 * Boxing Lessons for Superman: Apparently, just watching Animal Planet allows him to discover new animal forms and the inherent powers they possess.
 * The Chew Toy
 * Curtains Match the Window
 * Dark and Troubled Past: Excessively even by super hero standards.
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Depending on the Artist: The prominence of his features like Pointy Ears and Cute Little Fangs and whether or not he is a barefooter has clawed hands and Hellish Pupils varies with each artist who draws him. How old he looks is also frequently changed, oftentimes looking as young as Bart rather then his actual age.
 * Eyes of Gold: Will sometimes get these when angry.
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: With Cyborg.
 * I Just Want to Be Special: He is very attached to his super powers.
 * Impossibly Tacky Clothes: His only decent costume was even phased out for one more like his original costume.
 * Loveable Sex Maniac: Bow-howdy! In his earliest appearances, he threw himself at nearly anything female. In fact, the second issue of The New Teen Titans has him intentionally inviting the team for a swim in his pool just to trick Donna Troy and Starfire into the skimpiest bikinis he could find.
 * Sad Clown
 * Shonen Upgrade: His ability to transform into magical monsters.
 * Vague Age
 * Primal Stance
 * Will They or Won't They?: With Raven.
 * Official Couple: Settles on this just before the reboot too.
 * Willfully Weak: It is heavily implied multiple times that he restrains himself from shifting into magical and mythological creatures out of fear of losing control of himself. Fittingly since he killed his Trigon spawned Evil Twin in cold blood when pushed to far by turning into an Eldritch Abomination and crushing him between his hands and Madame Rouge by accident when transformed into a chimera.
 * You Fight Like a Cow

Cyborg / Cyberion
"AKA: Victor Stone

Abilities: Super-strength, invulnerability, technopathy, advanced weaponry, engineering skills"


 * Arm Cannon
 * Gadgeteer Genius
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: With Beast Boy.
 * Hollywood Cyborg

Jericho
"AKA: Joseph Wilson

Abilities: Possession of others"


 * Body Surf
 * Camp Straight: Is a sensitive artist who was almost also homosexual, but his creators decided against it in fear of fueling the sensitive artsy gay stereotype. Jericho was instead shown to be a ladies' man and had romantic ties with Raven and Kole.
 * Didn't stop the Accidental Innuendos with Dick Grayson. (Dick: "Joey, get in me!")
 * The Casanova
 * Cute Mute
 * Eye Scream: Got Better
 * Green Eyes: Contact!
 * Hand Signals
 * Hair of Gold
 * Heel Face Revolving Door: Has it just as bad, if not worst, as Raven.
 * Hotblooded Sideburns: One of the things he's most known for were his muttonchops from the 80's.
 * Technical Pacifist
 * Unresolved Sexual Tension: With Raven. Their relationship hasn't been mentioned at all since the NTT era.


 * White Sheep: Was the least violent of the Wilsons.

Kole
"AKA: Kole Weathers

Abilities: Flight, can "spin" crystals"


 * Redheaded Hero
 * Sacrificial Lamb: Created to die in Crisis on Infinite Earths.
 * Ship Tease: With Jericho. She even asked Jericho if they could have sex.

Pantha
"AKA: Rosabelle Mendez

Abilities: Super-strength, agility, and senses; claws"


 * C-List Fodder
 * Catgirl
 * Stuffed Into the Fridge: She wasn't just C-List Fodder, but she and her adopted son Baby Wildebeest were killed off to serve as development for her boyfriend Red Star. Development which consisted of a single issue of Teen Titans and two issues of Red Robin.

Phantasm
"AKA: Danny Chase

Abilities: Telekinesis, photographic memory"


 * Bratty Half-Pint
 * Creator's Pet: His creator Marv Wolfman insists it's the fans fault for "not getting the character."
 * Redheaded Hero
 * The Scrappy

Raven
"AKA: Rachel Roth

Abilities: Empathy, flight, telepathy, sorcery"


 * All-Encompassing Mantle
 * Astral Projection
 * Broken Bird
 * Divine Parentage
 * Empath
 * Empathic Healer
 * Emotion Eater
 * Flight
 * Half-Human Hybrid
 * The Heart
 * Heel Face Revolving Door: Raven's demonic blood seems to turn her evil at least once a year.
 * In the Hood
 * Leotard of Power
 * The Medic
 * Mediator
 * New Powers as the Plot Demands: She frequently displays previously-unseen magical powers.
 * Sugar and Ice Personality
 * Technical Pacifist
 * Teleportation
 * Will They or Won't They?: With Beast Boy.
 * Official Couple: Settles on this just before the reboot too.
 * In the NTT era she had a similiar relationship with Jericho with a more Unresolved Sexual Tension flair.

Red Star
"AKA: Leonid Kovar

Abilities: Super-strength, speed, and stamina; pyrokinesis"

Robin / Red Hood
"AKA: Jason Todd

Abilities: Martial arts master, detective skills, acrobatics"

Starfire
"AKA: Koriand'r / Kory Anders

Abilities: Flight, super-strength, invulnerability, energy projection"


 * Amazonian Beauty
 * Hot Amazon
 * Boobs of Steel
 * Eighties Hair
 * Even the Girls Want Her
 * Flying Brick
 * Flight
 * Human Aliens
 * Nigh Invulnerability
 * Super Strength
 * Interspecies Romance: With Dick Grayson.
 * Leotard of Power
 * Ms. Fanservice
 * Shameless Fanservice Girl: This Panel describes it best

Terra
"AKA: Tara Markov

Abilities: Manipulates earth and stone"


 * Cute and Psycho
 * The Cutie: Subverted hard.
 * Evil All Along
 * Little Miss Snarker
 * The Mole
 * Ship Tease: With Beast Boy until she was revealed as The Mole.
 * Sixth Ranger: Until she becomes...
 * Sixth Ranger Traitor
 * The Sociopath
 * Teens Are Monsters

Damage
"AKA: Grant Emerson

Abilities: Channel energy to physically enhance himself or fire energy blasts."


 * Dark and Troubled Past: Beyond the few years he spent trying to figure out just who his actual birth parents were, the readers discovered that his foster father physically and sexually abused him.

Green Lantern
"AKA: Kyle Rayner

Abilities: Green Lantern power ring"

Impulse / Kid Flash
"AKA: Bart Allen

Abilities: Super-speed"



See the Flash character sheet for more.

Minion
"AKA: Jarras Minion

Abilities: Power Armor."

Mirage
"AKA: Miriam Delgado

Abilities: Illusions"

Ravager
"AKA: Rose Wilson"


 * Amazonian Beauty
 * Anti-Hero: Strongly Type III.
 * Badass Abnormal
 * The Big Guy
 * Blood Knight
 * Daddy's Girl: When she was Brainwashed and Crazy.
 * Dark Action Girl
 * Eye Scream: Cut out her own eye to earn Deathstroke's approval
 * Eyepatch of Power
 * Headbutting Heroes: With Wondergirl.
 * Master Swordsman (Dual Wields Nerf Arm Katanas)
 * Seers: She has limited precognition (usually a few seconds at most).
 * Combat Clairvoyance
 * Ship Tease: With Kid Flash and Superboy.
 * White-Haired Pretty Girl

Supergirl
"AKA: Matrix / Linda Danvers

Abilities:"


 * Put on a Bus: In the cases of both Matrix AND Linda. The former merged with a New God named Twilight and focus on Peter David's run on Supergirl shifted solely to the latter. Linda was last seen in hell during the Reign of Hell mini-series, and hasn't been seen since.

Terra
"AKA: Unknown (impersonated Tara Markov)

Abilities: Earth Manipulation"


 * Stuffed Into the Fridge: Killed during World War 3 by Black Adam, to make room for the third Terra, Atlee.

Argent
"AKA: Toni Monetti

Abilities: creates constructs of silver plasma."

The Atom
"AKA: Ray Palmer

Abilities: Able to shrink to microscopic size"

Captain Marvel, Jr.
"AKA: Freddy Freeman"

Jesse Quick
"AKA: Jesse Chambers

Abilities: Super-speed and strength, flight"


 * Happily Married: To Hourman.

Joto / Hotspot
"AKA: Isiah Crockett

Abilities: Flight, Generating and sensing heat."

Prysm
"AKA: Audrey Spears

Abilities: Made of living crystal, Flight, refracts light as a crystal."

Risk
"AKA: Cody Driscoll

Abilities: Super Senses, enhanced reflexes, strength and durability"


 * C-List Fodder: Got one arm torn off by Superboy prime during Infinite Crisis. Got the other torn off again by Superboy Prime in another event.

Aquagirl
"AKA: Lorena Marquez

Abilities: Aquatic adaptation, enhanced strength and durability"

Blue Beetle
"AKA: Jaime Reyes"

Bombshell
"AKA: Amy Adams

Abilities: Flight, Super Strength, Invulnerability, energy blasts"


 * Amazonian Beauty
 * Anti-Hero: Strongly Type III.
 * The Big Guy:
 * Dark Action Girl
 * Face Heel Revolving Door: Starts as a Face, ends up being The Mole, forced to hide out with them due to her failing her mission against them.
 * Headbutting Heroes: Replaces Ravager in most roles while she's on the team.
 * The Mole
 * You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Told this by her own father. Not happy about it.

Hawk and Dove
"AKA: Holly and Dawn Granger"

Kid Devil / Red Devil
"AKA: Eddie Bloomberg

Abilities: Fire Breath, enhanced strength and reflexes, healing factor, burning hot skin, limited flight, teleportation"


 * Ambiguously Jewish
 * Adorkable
 * Ascended Fanboy
 * Big Red Devil
 * Cute Monster Boy
 * Genius Ditz: He did make a power suit when he was twelve.
 * Heroic Sacrifice: Titans in this era tended to drop like flies, mostly for simplistic attempts to raise the tension. Eddie was the first one in this era to die with any meaning to it, sacrificing himself to save the city.
 * Hero Worshipper: To Blue Devil originally.
 * Horned Humanoid
 * I Just Want to Have Friends and I Just Want to Be Special: His defining characteristics.
 * Jumped At the Call
 * Kid Sidekick: It didn't turn out the way he hoped.
 * Killed Off for Real
 * Playing with Fire
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Literally the Red Oni to Blue Beetle's Blue Oni.
 * Re-Power: Went from wearing devil pajamas to actually being a fire breathing devil.
 * The Trope Kid
 * Super Zero: Was one in his early pre-demonification days, but grew out of it by the time he changed his codename to Red Devil.
 * You Are Worth Hell: Played with. Eddie does not ever become trapped in hell for someone, but he is willing to damn his soul for superpowers just so he can be a hero, save lives, and belong to the Teen Titans, whom are very much his family by the end of his time on Earth.

Kid Eternity
"AKA: Christopher Freeman

Abilities: Ability to call back the deceased and transform into them."


 * Dropped a Bridge on Him: Was last seen in Titans getting snatched by Calculator. Some time later, in the pages of Batgirl, Calculator gives an off-hand reference to his death, having been forced to constantly summon the spirit of Calculator's son, Marvin.
 * What Happened to the Mouse?: Vanished without a trace from Teen Titans, his own team wouldn't express any interest in his whereabouts or fate until a much later arc.

Impulse/Kid Flash
"AKA: Bart Allen"

See the Flash character sheet for more.

Miss Martian
"AKA: Megan Morse / M'gann M'orzz

Abilities: Flight, super strength, shape shifting, invisibility, telekinesis, intangibility, optic force blasts, telepathy."


 * The Cutie
 * Expy: Many fans thought of as one of the cartoon's Starfire in terms of personality.
 * Green-Skinned Space Babe
 * My Species Doth Protest Too Much: The only gentle, loving member of the otherwise Always Chaotic Evil White Martian race.
 * Redheaded Hero
 * Voluntary Shapeshifting
 * Telepath

Osiris
"AKA: Amon Tomaz"


 * Did Not Do the Research: Eric Wallace wrote The Power of Shazam issue for Blackest Night, detailing Amon rising as a Black Lantern, yet somehow in control and managing to not kill anyone. The problem is that, in Blackest Night #3, a video screen in JLA headquarters featured Amon killing people, their torn hearts in their hands. Could be seen as a case of Canon Discontinuity, depending on whether or not Wallace actually read, or paid attention, to the issues of Blackest Night.
 * Ignored Epiphany: In a sense. After being revived as a Black Lantern, Amon was somehow in control of his mind and body, and managed to pull a heroic sacrifice stopping Black Lantern Sobek. Then he came back from the dead and helped killed Ryan Choi.
 * Moral Event Horizon: Killing the Persuader was an accident. He tried justifying the death of Ryan Choi and everyone else he's killed as trying to bring his sister and Black Adam back. But now he freely admits that he enjoys violence and is just as bad as everyone accused him of being.

Robin / Red Robin
"AKA: Tim Drake"

Solstice
"AKA: Kiran

Abilities: Light Manipulation, Flight"


 * Broken Bird: Kiran mentions that while she was N.O.W.H.E.R.E.'s prisoner she was forced to do horrible things in order to survive.
 * Dark Is Not Evil: In the reboot continuity, Kiran's powers have somehow shifted and caused her to look as if she's made up of smoke and charcoal. Fans referred to her as "Charcoal Girl" and assumed she was a completely different character until they found out she was Solstice.

Speedy
"AKA: Mia Dearden"

Static
"AKA: Virgil Hawkins"

Superboy
"AKA: Conner Kent / Kon-El"

See his own page for more.

Supergirl
"AKA: Kara Zor-El / Linda Lang"

Wonder Girl
"AKA: Cassandra Sandsmark"

See the Wonder Woman character sheet for more.

Bunker
"AKA: Miguel Jose Barragan"


 * Barrier Warrior
 * The Big Guy
 * Boisterous Bruiser
 * Camp Gay: Only slightly.
 * Incorruptible Pure Pureness: In the most recent issue, a villain named Grymm tries to take control of one of the Titans. He tries to take hold of Miguel's mind, but he can't because he says Miguel is "too happy and centered."
 * Nice Guy
 * Positive Discrimination: Miguel is an openly homosexual Mexican Catholic who comes from a family and a village that was nothing but supportive of both him and his powers. He's the happiest and most competently functioning of the current Titans team.

Skitter
"AKA: Celine"

Danny the Street
"AKA: N/A"


 * Genius Loci: He ain't called Danny the Street for nothin'.

Bushido
"AKA: Ryuku Orsono"


 * As Long as It Sounds Foreign: "Ryuku Orsono" is nowhere near a legitimate Japanese name.
 * C-List Fodder
 * Gratuitous Japanese

Flamebird
"AKA: Bette Kane"


 * Ascended Fangirl: Started out as a Robin fangirl.
 * Took a Level In Badass: In the Beast Boy miniseries, Nightwing trying to convince her to stop being a hero motivated Bette to clean up her act and get more serious.

Golden Eagle
"AKA: Charlie Parker"


 * Surfer Dude: Post-Crisis he originally was one.

Blackfire
"AKA: Komand'r"


 * Cain and Abel
 * Evil Counterpart: To Starfire.
 * God Save Us From the Queen

Brother Blood II
"AKA: Sebastian Blood IX"


 * Blood Magic
 * Enfant Terrible: He's about fourteen years old.
 * Evil Albino
 * Evil Sorceror
 * I Have You Now, My Pretty: With Raven.
 * Mega Manning: He has absorbs powers through drinking blood.
 * Religion of Evil

Cheshire
"AKA: Jade Nguyen"


 * Asian Baby Mama: So nice she did it twice: once with Arsenal, and once with Catman.
 * Foe Yay: With both Roy Harper, the first Speedy, and Thomas Blake, aka Catman. She once propositioned Catman during a battle, not long after having hired two hit squads after him.
 * Mama Bear: And not just to people trying to hurt her kids. She once staged an elaborate plot to ruin and murder Black Canary because Canary had developed into a psuedo-surrogate mother figure for her daughter.
 * Well, at least until their safety proves more of a burden and a liability. At which point she'll go out of her way to conceive a replacement kid, and use that pregnancy as a shield.
 * Evil Matriarch: To be fair, staging an elaborate plot to murder the women whom is her daughter's surrogate mother-figure doesn't necessarily make her a Mama Bear. Cheshire was espousing that she had plans to retire, and getting Black Canary out of the way would've made things less complicated for her.
 * You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: In Villains United, she was blackmailed into compliance by threats against Lian's safety. Over the course of the miniseries she successfully seduced Catman and managed to conceive a replacement baby in order to betray and leave the Secret Six with Lian's welfare no longer being an issue (that she cared about). It turned out the threat was false, but she didn't know that.

Clock King
"AKA: Temple Fugate"


 * The Chessmaster
 * You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Has a habit of murdering people who he doesn't have a use for, regardless if they're his minions.

Deathstroke the Terminator
"AKA: Slade Wilson"


 * Arch Enemy: The Titans have gone through tons of Big Bads, and let's face it, Slade isn't the biggest or baddest. But he is the most persistent and most personal enemy the team has ever faced.
 * Badass Normal: If anyone in The DCU gives Batman a run for his money, it's Slade Wilson.
 * Badass Abnormal: Sort of. Technically he has just above the human limit of physical strength, speed, and agility, and possesess a healing factor, the intensity of which depends on the author of the comic. Nonethless, he's still basically human, especially compared to the usual durability and strength of many DC superhumans. He can be beaten by a sufficiently trained normal human (frequently Nightwing in the early stories he appears), and he's weaker then even the least strong DC hero with superhuman strength, with his primary weapon being his brillaint strategic mind.
 * Breakout Character: Slade had his own ongoing series in The Dark Age of Comic Books, and is currently headlining the Titans book.
 * Combat Pragmatist
 * Eyepatch of Power
 * Depending on the Writer: Does he care for his children or are they his pawns? Is he really evil or just in it for the money? It all depends on who is writing him.
 * 90% of Your Brain
 * Punch Clock Villain
 * Super Soldier
 * Sword and Gun

Harvest
Introduced in the Nu52 series. Leader of the organization NOWHERE, which kidnaps metahuman teens to build an army of said teens, have a few half trained ones escape and spark a panic regarding them, so they can come in and save the day.


 * Fake Ultimate Hero: Why? to SAVE THE FUTURE!
 * Go-Go Enslavement: Dresses up all the teens he captures in suits right out of Tron.
 * Gambit Roulette: He claims it was his plan when the heroes thwarted his kidnapping and make an army plans, but given his intitial plan's intelligence, it comes off as more of an Ass Pull. But no one calls him on it.
 * Hero Syndrome: His plan, or so he claims.
 * Hype Aversion: It's hard to take a "Darkseid level threat" seriously when his plans are transparently idiotic.
 * Gladiator Games: His scheme to make an army of meta humans he could control.
 * Set Right What Once Went Wrong: With round about murder and fear domination.
 * Show, Don't Tell: His main problem. He is said to be an expert schemer and manipulator, but his core plan for recruitment (kidnapping metahumans, forcing them into a Deadly Games battle royal to determine the 'best', which he then makes his private army) is, well--look at it! And no one notices how bad this plan is.
 * Villain with Good Publicity: He wants his organization to be this. he himself looks like the Grim Reaper if he appeared in Tron.

Mad Mod
"AKA: Neil Richards"

Mister Twister / Gargoyle
"AKA: Bromwell Stikk"

The Terror Titans

 * Attention Whore: Disruptor.
 * Be a Whore to Get Your Man: Disruptor has a psychotic obsession with latching onto the man she believes to be the most powerful or useful for her.
 * Cry for the Devil: Persuader, when she's finally reunited with her father and he's killed by Clock King right in front of her.
 * Daddy's Girl: Persuader.
 * Dude, Where's My Respect?: Originally, no one respected Dreadbolt as leader since he never technically killed anyone.
 * Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Persuader murdered her abusive mother, but genuinely loved her dad.
 * Legacy Character: They're supposed to be related to the villains whose names they share, but only Dreadbolt is actually related to Bolt. Persuader was told that she's supposedly an ascendant of the first Persuader from the 31st Century.
 * Self-Made Orphan: Dreadbolt killed his father.
 * The Sociopath: Copperhead.
 * Spin-Off: Actually received their own miniseries.
 * Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Originally. That changed when Clock King killed Disruptor and then abandoned them.
 * Token Evil Teammate: Out of all of them, Disruptor.
 * The Vamp: Disruptor tries to be this.
 * "Well Done, Son" Guy: Dreadbolt, up until he killed his dad.
 * Would Hurt a Child: Copperhead allowed his baby brother to drown in a bathtub.

Trigon the Terrible

 * Abusive Parent: He is a devil after all.
 * Big Red Devil
 * Demon Lords and Archdevils
 * God of Evil
 * Physical God