Title Character
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Supporting Cast
Lois Lane | Jimmy Olsen | Ambush Bug | Steel
Villains
Central Rogues Gallery (Alexander "Lex" Luthor, Bizarro, Vril Dox/Brainiac, Cyborg-Superman, Darkseid, Doomsday, Lobo, Mister Mxyzptlk, Mongul, Phantom Zone Criminals [General Zod]) | A-L | M-Z (Superboy-Prime)
Spin-Offs
Supergirl (Kara Zor-El/Linda Danvers/Supergirl, Supporting Cast, Rogues Gallery) | Power Girl | Superboy (Conner Kent/Kon-El, Jonathan "Jon" Samuel Kent, Supporting Cast, Rogues Gallery) | Legion Of Superheroes (The Founders, Silver Age, Bronze Age, Five Years Later, Postboot, Threeboot, Retroboot, Rebirth, Other Heroes, The Fatal Five, The Legion of Supervillains, Other Villains, Supporting Cast)
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The Five In General
- A God Am I: At one point, the Five stumbled upon the planet Corvan IV, where the primitive natives worshipped them as gods. To their credit, the Five did their best to improve the Corvanian's lives.
- Arch-Enemy: As a collective they serve as this to the Legion
- Boxed Crook: The five most wanted criminals in the galaxy, originally assembled to help the Legion fight the menace of the Sun Eater in exchange for a full pardon.
- Godzilla Threshold: Nobody was particularly eager to put this group together, but thanks to circumstances, there were only five Legionnaires available to stop the Sun Eater.
- Kid with the Leash: The other members of the Fatal Five are the "kids" to Validus. Tharok, who could control him directly, conditioned the titanic monster to obey the others as well.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: After the Legion assembled them, The Five found they worked together so well that they decided to stay a group and thus became one of the greatest forces of evil in the universe. Better than the Sun Eater gorging itself on our galaxy, though.
- Pet the Dog: Out of gratitude for the kindness of the natives of Corvan IV, the Five uplifted them technologically and declared themselves the planet's delegates, aiming for inclusion in the UP. They really, honestly wanted to put their evil aside and settle down peacefully with the natives. To prove their sincerity, they even allowed Mano and The Persuader to be held in a UP prison until the Legionnaires' investigation was over. Unfortunately the Legionnaires determined that the natives were being uplifted too quickly for their own good, and the remaining members of the Five attacked them. The battle was stopped by several Corvanians, who thanked the Five for their efforts but politely asked them to leave the planet and let their culture develop on its own. Regretfully, the Five left. When next they surfaced, they were mortal enemies of the Legion once more.
- Trapped in Another World: After they decided to team up, Validus resisted Tharok's mental control at Projectra's behest, and the interaction between his mental lightning and The Persuader's Atomic Axe opened a Negative Space Wedgie that sent them to another dimension. They eventually escaped.
The Emerald Empress
AKA: Sarya/Falyce/Cera Kesh/Ingria Olav
Homeworld: Venegar
Abilities: Controls the Emerald Eye of Ekron, a mystic Artifact of Doom.
" I had not thought to have the opportunity to repay the Legionnaires for their past kindnesses so soon... But it is a fitting celebration to inaugurate my new reign as Emerald Empress— of the galaxy."
Sarya was just a minor criminal with an eye for archaeological artifacts before she discovered the Emerald Eye of Ekron. Bonding with the Eye, Sarya seized control of her planet, Venegar, only to be driven offworld by rebels who were appalled at her tyranny. She was a founding member of the Fatal Five, and after her death, several other women have taken up her role.
- Artifact of Doom: The Emerald Eye of Ekron
- Arch-Enemy: to Dream Girl.
- Badass Normal: In the Reboot, "Empress" was a member of the Fatal Five without the Eye, which only chose her after Shrinking Violet rejected it.
- The Baroness: Though which version she's closer to tends to vary from comic to comic.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: The Postboot version of the Eye can grant wishes, but is more of a Jackass Genie. Leviathan and Shrinking Violet learned this the hard way.
- Being Tortured Makes You Evil: Falyce was implicitly stated to have been used a plaything for an Orandian duke who blinded her right eye so badly it was just one giant scab. This is what made her so susceptible to the Eye's power.
- Big Bad: In the cartoon, and sometimes, the comics, where she and Tharok go back and forth on this.
- Break the Cutie: Cera Kesh from the Glorithverse Legionnaires, a rejected Legion applicant who showed everyone Who's Laughing Now? when the Eye chose her. Similarly, Ingria Olav, Leland McCauley's girlfriend, had no idea what she was getting herself into when Leland let her become the Empress in his new Fatal Five.
- Brought Down to Badass: In a meta sense; the Reboot introduced the Fatal Five before it was ready to resolve the ongoing subplot about the Emerald Eye - so "The Empress" was simply an Ax-Crazy Badass Normal who used vague political platitudes as a fig leaf for her killing.
- Depending on the Writer: The nature of the Emerald Eye and its relationship to the Empress varies quite a bit across the various iterations of the Legion, particularly its level of sentience and the question of whether the Empress is using the Eye as a weapon or vice versa.
- Didn't See That Coming: Leland McCauley and Ingria Olav weren't expecting Cera Kesh to show up with a second Emerald Eye. As Cera points out, though, they do come in pairs.
- Emerald Power: She's the Emerald Empress and she's one of the most persistent foes of the Legion.
- Faceless Eye: As her main weapon.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: Sarya was a minor criminal before accessing the eye, at least in the preboot. She's now the most wanted female criminal in the UP.
- God Save Us from the Queen!: The Empress who succeeded Sarya, Falyce, took over Orando as its new queen before Sensor Girl took on the role of queen again.
- The Heavy: One or the more active members of the five appearing in every incarnation.
- Hysterical Woman: Ingria became this three minutes into her first, and last, battle.
- Jackass Genie: The Eye.
- Kryptonite Factor: For some reason, the Eye is weak to green Kryptonite. It's never been very clear why, though it can be understandably difficult to leverage this in combat since Kryptonite is rare to begin with and in most cases, even people with Kryptonite will be more likely to try to bring it to a battle against Superman than even consider the possibility that they'd have to use it against the Eye.
- The Leader: later versions make her the Leader of five.
- Legacy Character: Postboot, several women have possessed the Eye — or been turned to the dark side by it when they caught its fancy. Preboot, Sarya was succeeded in the role of Emerald Empress by Falyce, who proved even nastier than she.
- Mind over Matter: Cera Kesh had some minor telekinetic ability, but didn't make it into the Legion.
- More than Mind Control: The Eye exerts some control its user. Cera Kesh made a psychic plea to Saturn Girl to free her before its implied the Eye fully took over, and Sarya begged Sensor Girl to free her from the Eye's grasp.
- Rapid Aging: Once Sensor Girl used her powers to block the Eye's awareness of Sarya, the former Empress began aging and rotting before Projectra's horrified eyes before mercifully dying.
- Save the Villain: Emerald Empress was recruited into the Five by Superboy after he saved her from Green Kryptonite on the planet Craggok.
- Super Prototype: The Eye is heavily implied in some stories to be an early version of what would become the Green Lantern rings - but it's far, far more powerful, lacks any weakness to yellow, and doesn't need to charge. On the other hand, it's also usually evil.
- Super-Strength: Venegarians such as Sarya are mentioned as being somewhat stronger than earth-stock humans.
- True Sight: The Eye sees through illusions, disguises and shapeshifting. Admit it, you'd think it was weird if a big, glowy magical eye couldn't do that.
- Who Wants to Live Forever?: Implied to be the case with Sarya.
- Worthy Opponent: On rare occasions the Empress is shown to respect courage and righteousness in others.
Mano
Homeworld: Angtu
Abilities: Anti-matter touch
"My power is my hand! I can disintegrate anything with a mere touch! I control the intensity at will...I can vary it from almosy nil to planet-shattering force!"
Mano is a super-villain in the 30th Century from the planet Angtu. His deadly power is the ability to disintegrate anything he touches with his hand, known as the anti-matter touch, which he used to destroy his own planet. This means that he is forced to use a containment suit at all times.
- Adaptational Heroism: In the Reboot Legion, he destroys his planet after everyone on it was killed by weapons sold by MacCauley Industries, and then seeks revenge on Leyland MacCauley. When he realizes the rest of the Five are a bunch of psychos who like destroying planets, he turns against them. He later rejoins the group, but still tries to avoid harming innocents.
- Bullying a Dragon: "That creep Mano can destroy anything with his hand! Let's ostracize and mock him! Nice spacesuit, freak! Watcha gonna do, destroy the planet? Ha! ...w-wait a second..."
- Cool Helmet: As part of his spacesuit.
- Despair Event Horizon: A lonely and isolated child, mocked cruelly by his peers until the deaths of his parents drove him over the edge. Goodbye, Angtu! No really, that's exactly what he said.
- Disproportionate Retribution: His glowing hand made him a pariah on his home planet. So he blew the whole thing up.
- Earth-Shattering Kaboom: Deliberately blew up his home planet of Angtu in the original series.
- Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Waited until his parents were dead before destroying Angtu and killing billions. D'aww!
- The Faceless: His entire species resemble shadows, and as such, have no faces.
- Genocide from the Inside: When he used his deadly touch to destroy his home planet Angtu, he wiped out the rest of his kind in the process.
- Last-Minute Reprieve: Mano was saved from an execution to join the Five
- Last of His Kind: Or at least an endangered species, by his own actions.
- Logical Weakness: His incredibly destructive power is centered entirely around his right hand, so if his arm's immobilized, there's not a lot he can do.
- Mutant: Described as such.
- Person of Mass Destruction: When he wants to be.
- Poisonous Person: His touch causes the bonds between atoms to break down, resulting in disintegration.
- Power Creep, Power Seep: An extreme example: while his Preboot origin story features him using his disintegrating touch to destroy his entire homeworld and everyone on it, he was never even remotely that powerful in any of his actual appearances, where plenty of characters can survive zaps from his hand. It is mentioned that doing so strained his power to the absolute limit, however.
- Red Right Hand: Yellow actually. It really stands out on his shadowy black body.
- Touch of Death: Will disintegrate anything the bare skin of his right hand touches.
- Tricked-Out Gloves: His right hand can literally destroy any form of matter in the known universe, including force fields, but somehow his glove can hold it back.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Preboot, he was driven to wipe out his own race and become a notoriously lethal criminal solely because his deadly touch caused his people to ostracize him.
The Persuader
AKA: Nyeun Chun Ti
Homeworld: Unknown
Abilities: Super Strength, skilled fighter and experienced mercenary
"Ha! It cuts like the original! A blade so thin it could hack an electron to pieces! Know what that means, axe?"
Member of the Fatal Five who wields an axe that could cut through any matter, and even open dimensional rifts.
- Absurdly Sharp Blade: His Atomic Axe can cut through anything, occasionally including purely metaphoric or intangible things, such as a person's air supply, the force of gravity, or the separation between dimensions, and followed the Persuader's mental commands.
- Alternate Company Equivalent: The Preboot version's great strength, warrior persona, axe, and role as an enforcer for the Emerald Empress all make him quite similar to the Sliver Age The Mighty Thor villain Skurge the Executioner. The Persuader even has a similar look, with Bald of Evil and a mustache concealed by a helmet.
- Bald of Evil: When his true face isn't concealed within a helmet, he's often shown to be bald.
- Challenge Seeker: This is how Projectra convinced him to join the battle against the Sun Eater.
- Cutting Through Energy: The Persuader's Atomic Axe is so sharp it can cut through anything: including gravity (making targets float) or the rays of the yellow sun (cutting off Superboy's power).
- The Dragon: To the Empress in the cartoon and sometimes the comics to Tharok and Empress.
- Empathic Weapon: Sometimes used to justify his axe's abilities.
- Flying Weapon: The Persuader can mentally control his Atomic Axe from a distance. It's not clear if this is his ability or the Axe's.
- Heavy Worlder: The Persuader came from a heavy-gravity planet and while he possessed no superpower per se, he had enhanced strength and endurance.
- Interspecies Romance: A human Heavy Worlder in love with Sarya, a Venegarian.
- Legacy Character: His predecessors are Cole Parker, a member of the Suicide Squad, and Elise Kimble of the Terror Titans. Although he's a straightforward example of this trope in-continuity, he was actually introduced several decades *before* both Parker and Kimble. Before their introduction, there was no indication that anyone had adopted the Persuader identity but Chun Ti.
- Love Makes You Crazy: Apparently the reason he's so loyal to the Fatal Five is because he's in love with Sarya. Following her death, he becomes a lot more violent and unhinged.
- Me's a Crowd: A variant, where he used his Atomic Axe to cut open reality and allow alternate universe counterparts of himself and his teammates to join up as the Fatal Five Hundred.
- Soul-Cutting Blade: The Atomic Axe can cut through people's astral projections.
- Super-Strength: As a heavy-worlder.
Tharok
Homeworld: Zadrion
Abilities: Super-intelligence, cyborg body, mind control powers
"Just think of it, Validus! We've discovered the most devastating weapon in the universe— Time! Time wiped out the Legion!"
Tharok was a dim-witted Zadrionian criminal who lost half his body when the miniature nuclear bomb he was stealing was detonated by a stray shot from one of the officers trying to apprehend him. Because the Zadronians believed in preserving life, they rebuilt him into a cyborg, only for the interlink between human mind and computer circuits to render him a twisted genius. He became the leader of the Fatal Five.
- Alternate Self: The Legion of Super-Assassins' founder, the Dark Man, was a (fully biological) clone of Tharok.
- Bald of Evil: Totally bald for both the sides (human and robotic).
- Crazy-Prepared: He has tiny missiles inside his ears just in case someone with shrinking powers tries to mess with his brain.
- Create Your Own Villain: The authorities on Zadrion are doubly guilty of this, not only creating Tharok, but also using a sample of his brain to create The Dark Man by accident. Nice place to be a criminal.
- Didn't Think This Through:
- Back when he was a dumb criminal he tried to impress a local gang into letting him join by waltzing into the heavily-guarded facility where an experimental mini-nuke was being developed and trying to walk out with it. The results speak for themselves.
- At one point he trained Validus to attack the leaders of the Legion, but when Mon-El slyly suggested a We Can Rule Together plan to take over the Legion and make it a criminal organization, Tharok accidentally proclaimed himself the leader. You can guess what happened.
- Emergency Transformation: Made into a cyborg to save his life.
- Evil Genius: The smartest, most competent member of the team. In the TV show he also fulfills this role in the Five-Man Band, as the Empress is the Big Bad.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: Tharok was a low-level criminal of low intellect. His fusion with machinery instantly turned him into an Evil Genius second to none.
- Human Weapon: His Reboot self was specifically given military hardware designed with the intention of fighting the Sun Eater.
- Hollywood Cyborg: Beginning his career as a small-time crook, half of his body was vaporized in a nuclear explosion. To save his life, he was given a cyborg body. This greatly increased his strength and intelligence.
- I Hate Past Me: A really weird example, but a scientist used cells from his brain to make The Dark Man, a clone with psychic powers. Once revealed, The Dark Man Mind Raped him and took control of the Five. Eventually they fought and physical contact somehow destroyed them in a Puff of Logic.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: The scientists were working against the clock to save him, and only had really ugly and clunky-looking parts on hand, which is a bit of a sticking point for him. He occasionally tries to restore the appearance of flesh to that half or at least to get better looking parts, but those damn pesky Legionnaires keep ruining his plans.
- Long Game: Tharok has long-term plans for the gradual takeover of the universe. Sometimes, the more impulsive members of the Five take issue with the pace.
- Mind Control: Tharok has this power, and usually uses it to control Validus. While trapped in another dimension, he managed to expand it to the point where he could influence everyone on the planet Talok VIII into both becoming more war-like and setting the Five free. They then ruled the planet until Tasmia Mallor and the Legion drove them away.
- Super-Intelligence: His robotic and human minds have merged in a fashion that gives him a uniquely powerful intellect.
- Telepathy: Whether this is due to some device or the enhancement of his brain is unclear, but he has this power. Even a few separated components from Tharok's brain were able to link together and communicate over a vast distance.
- Two-Faced: His left side is completely robotic, while his right side is flesh.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Instead of being grateful to still be alive in some form, he cursed the lawmen who made him a "half metal freak" and sought to avenge himself on all lawmen everywhere.
- We Can Rebuild Him: He was once a common thief, but his left side was vaporized when he was apprehended. The authorities rebuilt him, turning him into a hyper-intelligent cyborg in the process. Nice one!
Validus
AKA: Garridan Ranzz
Homeworld: Winath
Abilities: Incredible physical power, mental lightning.
"Legionnaire below…crush…kill!"
A mindless beast with incredible strength. He has also been a member of the Legion of Super-Villains. It is later revealed that he is Garridan Ranzz, the time-displaced child of Lightning Lad and Saturn Girl turned into a monster by Darkseid. In Reboot Legion continuity, Validus is no longer portrayed as the Ranzz child. In Prime Legion continuity, he is a deity who inspires the Cult of Validus.
- Adaptational Backstory Change: In the Reboot, Validus is simply one member of a race of similar-appearing creatures.
- The Berserker: Sometimes slips into Unstoppable Rage mode. It's the reason he's to be executed in the original comics, despite not being an actual villain: he's simply too dangerous to leave alive.
- Body Horror: Combined with Fridge Horror. Two broad fingers and a thumb on each hand, similar toes, and an outsized head? All hints that he's a malformed fetus, torn from the womb at an early age of development. His digits hadn't entirely split yet. Brr.
- The Brute: Subverted. Validus never seemed to be truly evil himself, but was often confused and manipulated by Tharok and others.
- Decomposite Character: In the New 52 Legion series, Validus is shown to be a totally separate character from Garridan Ranzz, another indication that the Legion of the 2011 volume were located on an Earth separate from the Retroboot. There's no indication given that the two are connected.
- Dumb Muscle: Justified. He is strong, but has the mind of a young child.
- Eyeless Face: And earless. And noseless. How does he smell? Terrible! But seriously, considering his mom he probably has some sort of psychic blindsense. Then again sometimes the brain inside his dome is shaped like a nose? And sometimes like eyebrows? That's...off-putting.
- Flight: He has this power, but doesn't use it very often.
- Hero Killer: Most notably, the first Invisible Kid.
- Irony: Darkseid's plans were always being wrecked by children (such as Orion and the LSH), so Darkseid planned to have two of his young foes either unwittingly destroy their own baby or be killed by him.
- Karma Houdini: A justified example. No one holds Invisible Kid's death against him, specifically because it's clear Darkseid turned him into a monster and he had no real control over his actions. Other than that, after his identity is revealed and he's given the name Garridan no one acts as though he's still Validus.
- Last-Minute Reprieve: Validus was saved from an attempted execution to join the Five, although it's not clear if it would've worked.
- The Man Behind the Man: Darkseid keeps a close watch on his pawn, and moves him around the board as necessary.
- Mind Control: Tharok can mentally control him, apparently via some sort of mechanical device.
- My Brain Is Big: You can actually see it. But he's not smart; it's only because his whole head is big.
- Nigh-Invulnerability: Validus is impervious to most forms of physical attack.
- Odd Friendship: At least during the Sun Eater saga, he seemed fond of Princess Projectra, intervening to save her life and even temporarily shaking off Tharok's control at her behest.
- Purple Is Powerful: Validus' skin is mostly purple, and packs the biggest punch among the Five.
- Psychic Powers: He can generate intense blasts of "mental lightning" that stun his foes, a combination of powers from his parents Lightning Lad and Saturn Girl. He also demonstrates a number of abilities such as True Sight and resistance to psychic attacks at times, again likely due to his heritage.
- Psychic Static: His mental lighting acts as a rather literal form of this, making it nigh-impossible to read his mind. He seems to be more vulnerable to mind control and suggestion though it doesn't work all the time.
- Psychopathic Manchild: When not being controlled by some malevolent force like Tharok, he's basically a giant child with all the distractions and tantrums that entails.
- Retcon: After being confronted by Saturn Girl, who pleaded for her son back, Darkseid was impressed by the courage her love for her son gave her to oppose him even as she acknowledged his fearsome power and reverted Garridan back to his human form...until 5YL when it was revealed that he'd actually made Garridan the unaffected carrier of a disfiguring/fatal virus that only infected Winathians and Titanians. 5YL, is, however a different continuity than the mainstream one.
- Retroactive Legacy: Tribulus from R.E.B.E.L.S. is a clear precursor to whatever technology created him.
- Shock and Awe: His mental lightning is strong enough to destroy whole cities.
- Shrouded in Myth: For a very long time his origins were a total mystery.
- Stable Time Loop: His whole existence is one, as Validus faced the Legion several times before Darkseid turned Garridan into Validus and sent him some years into the past.
- Summon Bigger Fish: When Ol-Vir, a young Daxamite Darkseid-worshipper with strength equivalent to Superboy, was sent to attack the prison planet of Takron-Galtos, Chameleon Boy (a powerless prisoner at the time), tricked the insane child into going past the one-way forcefields around a certain cell, trapping him with a Validus who was as angry as any child forced into time-out for a very long time.
- Super-Strength: Validus possesses superhuman strength, greater than Superman. The upper limits of Validus' strength have never been measured, and an attempt to imitate them knocked out the only person who tried. He can't break inertron, the most unbreakable substance in the galaxy...except when he can.
- That Man Is Dead: Invoked. As far as anyone's concerned Garridan Ranzz is Garridan Ranzz, and Validus is gone.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: While under the (non-Mind Control) influence of Tharok of other members of the Five, he's a lot more bloodthirsty and vicious. When separated, he's more child-like.
- Tragic Monster: Validus was stolen from his mother's womb by Darkseid, and mutated into the beast who would become an enemy of his parents' team, the Legion of Super-Heroes.
- Villainous Rescue: He managed to save Projectra's life, before Tharok got his hooks into him.
- Villainous Valor: Fought bravely against the Sun Eater, one of the few entities that could surpass his might.
- World's Strongest Man: Considered one of if not the most powerful things in the universe. It takes the combined strength of Superboy, Mon-El and Ultra Boy to restrain him.
- Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: In 5YL, thanks to the above Retcon.
Mordecai
- The Brute: But not Dumb Muscle, as he was actually a fairly sensitive poet.
- Canon Foreigner: Mordecai appears only briefly in Glorithverse.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Of Validus, who was off-limits at the time due to messed-up continuity issues.
Flare
AKA: Ray Sah
Homeworld: Rimbor
Abilities: Fires destructive beams and flies using light/solar energy, thief skills.
"I’ll be the richest killer in the galaxy with five dead Legionnaires fueling my reputation!"
Flare was a member of the second version of the Fatal Five. She was recruited by Emerald Empress.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: In 5YL she's working for the Dominators, and seems a bit weaker.
- Deflector Shields: Can create these, at least against light-based attacks like lasers.
- Flaming Hair: She looks like she has this when she's using her powers but it's illusory. She's actually got an afro.
- Flight: As mentioned.
- Flying Firepower: Has flaming powers and she can use her powers to fly.
- Hand Blast: Solar energy-based.
- Light 'em Up: Gains her powers by absorbing light energy.
- Mutant: Speculated to be one.
- Parental Abandonment: Apparently, her powers were too much for them to handle, so they abandoned her. On Rimbor.
- Power Glows: Her skin glows with ruby light and her hair seems to be a fiery trail when using her powers, but she remains at normal temperatures.
- Put on a Bus: In 5YL, she vanished for a while, then returned as a mercenary/possible brainwashed test subject for the Dominators.
- Statuesque Stunner: She officially stands at 6" tall, and she certainly is attractive.
- Stripperiffic: Wears a yellow bikini, though it's inconsistently drawn.
- Thrill Seeker: One of her main motivations.
- Toxic Friend Influence: She used to be a thrill-seeking thief-for-hire, but not a killer. After joining the Fatal Five she got vicious.
Caress
AKA: Chi Tsan
Homeworld: Earth
Abilities: Acid touch and physical enhancements from the Khunds, martial arts, espionage.
"Don’t you like my touch, Sensor Girl? First I’ll sear off your illusion, and then your skin. Have I touched your body yet — do you burn?"
A member of the second version of the Fatal Five, Caress has an acidic touch.
- Acid Attack: One of her enhancements allows her to secrete acid from her hands.
- Anti-Villain: Prior to joining the Fatal Five the majority of her jobs skirted the law without landing her on wanted posters.
- Bad Powers, Bad People: "I want acid hands and a super grip!" isn't something nice folks usually tell their doctors.
- Cleavage Window: She might be trying to distract people from her hands.
- Dropped a Bridge on Her: In 5YL she disappeared mysteriously, and later her name turned up in a list of people whom the Dominators had experimented upon. If she survived that, she may have been one of the many who died when the Dominators' lab was destroyed.
- Empowered Badass Normal: She started out as an mercenary and expert martial artist. The Khunds enhanced her as payment for a disagreeable job.
- Greed: Honest work was too boring and unprofitable for her, so she she became an amoral adventuress.
- In the Hood: Caress is easily recognized by her white hood-cape.
- Super-Strength: Has a degree of this thanks to the Khunds. Her grip, in particular, was enhanced.
- Super-Toughness: Ditto.
- Thrill Seeker: Another of her motivations.
- Toxic Friend Influence: Whatever scruples she had left vanished after she joined the Fatal Five.
Mentalla
AKA: Delya Castil
Homeworld: Titan
Abilities: Psychic powers, particularly telepathic suggestion.
"You forgot my power, Colossal Boy. It may not have earned me Legion membership but it’s still enough to doom you! Remember how I can use your own mind against you? Such a small power. And you rejected me – for a monster?"
A rejected Legion applicant, Mentalla attempted to prove her worth by infiltrating the Fatal Five. However, she soon got in over her head and was killed by the Emerald Empress.
- Crippling Overspecialization: Her Jedi Mind Trick is useful, but her other psychic powers seem to be rather lacking. Also, she fails when faced with a mind that is strong-willed and actively resisting her powers, like the Emerald Empress's, so she tends to rely on surprise.
- Death Cry Echo: Emerald Empress killed her so horribly that her psychic death cry knocked Tellus (who was present) unconscious, and agonized Saturn Girl who was light-years away from the scene.
- Due to the Dead: Owing to her last actions, she was buried on Shangalla with other dead heroes, and received a statue at Legion HQ..
- Everyone Has Standards: At heart she was still a naive young lady who could barely hide her horror at the deeds of the Five.
- Fantastic Racism: Derided Tellus, a Hyrakian, as a "monster" or "fish", though part of this may be ill feelings over him being chosen over her and/or playing her part for the Five.
- Incompletely Trained:
- Joined the Legion Academy, but was an inattentive student who left immediately once her plan to infiltrate the Five occurred to her.
- Mentioned that she hasn't learned how to use her telepathy across great distances, implying that she was a bad student on Titan, as well.
- The Mole: After hearing about how Bouncing Boy proved himself worthy to join the Legion by beating a villain after being rejected, she decided on her own to infiltrate the Fatal Five and prove she was worthy to join the Legion by tricking them into being beaten. She did manage to turn the tide during a battle by mind-tricking Emerald Empress into activating the distress signal on one of the downed Legionnaire's flight rings and Flare into firing upon the telecommunications shield satellite that would have blocked it, but the Empress immediately realized what she'd done and brutally murdered her.
- Mythology Gag: Her costume is colored and slightly modeled after the green-and-yellow number Saturn Girl wore in her earliest appearances.
- Psychic Powers: As with all Titanians, with a focus on Mind Control.
- Jedi Mind Trick: Her main power is to plant a telepathic suggestion in someone's head that makes them take an unwilling action. Like the real Jedi Mind Trick it isn't effective against strong-minded individuals who are actively resisting it.
- Mind Control: She has this (as mentioned above) but mentions that she can't affect powerful minds for very long.
- Telepathy: Compared to her other powers, this is relatively undeveloped. Though judging from her Death Cry Echo, she had some real potential.
- Strong, but Unskilled: She's got a good hook, but her other abilities are undeveloped so she's got nothing to fall back on if it fails, and none of the combat or power training the Academy could've provided her.
- A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: Joining one of the most vicious criminal gangs in the galaxy while planning to betray them from the inside wasn't the most sensible course of action.
