The Heroes: Team RWBY | Team JNPR | Ozpin and Oscar
Remnant: Sanus (Eastern) | Sanus (Western) | Anima | Solitas
Antagonists: Salem's Faction (Salem | Cinder Fall) | White Fang | Grimm Bestiary
Beyond Remnant: The Ever After
This is a list of characters as they appear in RWBY/Justice League. Not to be confused with the characters as they appear in Justice League × RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen.
The Justice League
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Clark Kent
Clark Kent
A farmboy that had been helping Taiyang with his farmwork while Ruby and Yang were away at Beacon.
- Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Most versions of Clark lived relatively normal lives on his adoptive parents farms, not learning about the tragic circumstances of his origins until later in life. Here, he becomes a superhero after living a life of slavery under the Schnee Dust Company.
- Adaptational Wimp: Clark is explicitly noted to not be able to use his Semblance when the sun isn't out, rendering him powerless at night. This is in contrast to usual portrayals of Superman that have him able to use his powers at any time, as his body is able to absorb and store solar energy for later use. Given that in RWBY, Clark doesn't have any reason to venture into outer space nor would he be able to, this makes sense.
- Ambiguously Human: Although his abilities are supposedly just the result of a particularly powerful Semblance, several of his lines reference his Kryptonian origins in other continuities, implying that he may be lying to avoid Fantastic Racism.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Issue #7 reveals he was enslaved by the Schnee Dust Company, forced to mine for Dust. Arthur liberated the slaves in Clark's mine, but was forced to leave Clark behind because he wasn't a Faunus and was too weak to escape with them due to the liberation happening at night.
- Foreshadowing: In Issue #4, when Team RWBY and the Trinity split up into groups to investigate the Huntsmen disappearances, Weiss asks if Clark would like to join her in investigating an abandoned Schnee Dust Corporation building, which he awkwardly rejects. Issue #7 reveals that he was enslaved by the SDC.
- Mundane Utility: He used his powers to help Taiyang around the farm. He also uses his eye beams to light a fire.
- Mythology Gag: The idea of Superman being an orphan enslaved for his powers by a corrupt organization in his youth rather than being found and raised by his adoptive parents is played around in a few works such as Flashpoint and Superman: Red Son.
- The Power of the Sun: Like back in DC, Clarks gains his powers from exposure to the sun. Unlike his counterpart, he can't store sunlight in his body to use later.
- Weaksauce Weakness: His Semblance cannot really store any of the power he gets from the sun, so he's more or less powerless at night.
Diana
Diana
A mysterious young woman that Blake encounters while investigating strange Grimm near Menagerie. After working together to defeat a mutated whale Grimm, Diana introduced herself and brought her new companion to the Witch Warriors. Having now completed her Twelve Trials of the Zodiac, she proved herself to be ready to venture into greater Remnant with Blake and her new friends.
In times of need, she can use her Semblance to call upon the special properties of her three gifts: her tiara, gauntlets, and lasso. Her tiara can keep her mind clear, her gauntlets can be used to "defend all living things from harm", and her lasso can make the truth known.
- Adaptational Backstory Change:
- In her usual depictions, Diana was created by Hippolyta merely because she wanted a daughter, and she has superhuman strength because she's an Amazon, she has the blood of the gods, and/or Hippolyta wanted her to be strong enough so that she wouldn't be easily hurt like normal women. Here, Diana was created by all of the Witch Warriors together (the Witch Warriors being RWBY's equivalent of the Amazons, and the implication that Hippolyta's RWBY equivalent led the effort) to give Remnant a protector.
- Rather than keeping Diana on Themyscira, the Witch Warriors actively encourage Diana to journey into Remnant, and instead of meeting Steve Trevor, she instead meets Blake.
- Diana being forged from clay is taken to a technological interpretation, with her being made of ancient machinery rather than the divine, magical way that a statue-like baby would be brought to life. This makes sense, given the Faunus came into existence only after the magic-wielding humans were wiped out, necessitating this part of Diana's origin to be changed to fit with RWBY's lore.
- Artificial Human: She's an Automata, a human with a machine body, forged from clay (or as Diana puts it, she was forged from Dust) and imbued with a soul by the Witch Warriors.
- Born of Magic: The Witch Warriors created her from the earth, water, flames, and wind of the four kingdoms, making her an Automata. Diana's Badass Boast is that she was forged from Dust. Though it turns out later that her body is literally a machine, similar to Penny.
- Boyish Short Hair: Diana has short hair here, similar to her depiction in the Justice League Action cartoon.
- Commonality Connection: She reaches out to Victor by pointing out that they're both humans with machine sides, though Victor points out that their relationships with the technological part of their bodies are different — Diana is an Artificial Human, a human in a machine body, whereas Cyborg is reliant on his machine prosthetics to live.
- Hero of Another Story: Blake meets her as she's completing her last of the Twelve Trial of the Zodiac. Whatever her other trials were like before she met Blake aren't delved into.
- Mythology Gag: Diana's hair is based on her hairstyle from the Justice League Action cartoon.
- Older Than They Look: She's Long-Lived, and Blake remarks that she doesn't look that much older than her.
Bruce Wayne
Bruce Wayne
The young, brooding heir of a wealthy Atlesian company. The son of a human and a Faunus, his interracial and interclass upbringing has made him a social outcast in Atlas's high society, even after the murder of his parents. Orphaned, he was raised by his family's butler. He meets Weiss at a party held at the Schnee Manor, and she helps him clear his name to the other guests after being accused of stealing, he joins her in returning to Beacon.
His Semblance is the ability to detect patterns and solve puzzles, and his weapon is the Batwing, a large axe given to him by his guardian.
- Adaptational Badass: While he's a Badass Normal in most continuities, he has a semblance like everyone else here. Even if it's non-action, it's still better than having nothing at all.
- Adaptation Species Change: Human in the original, Faunus here. This is notable since Bruce's schtick is usually being a Badass Normal.
- Bat Deduction: Of course, he's the Trope Namer. Justified, as his Semblance lets him spot patterns that others can't see.
- Commonality Connection: With Weiss. Both are unhappy with how Atlas's upper-class treats outcasts and those who stand against the status quo, and they also both face abuse or discrimination by Atlas in addition to having absent parents (Bruce's parents were killed, Weiss's father is abusive and her mother is emotionally absent) and being raised by their butlers.Yang: [aside, to Blake] What is it about love-starved, monochromatic rich kids raised by butlers?
- Fire-Forged Friends: With Weiss. They start off rocky due to thinking that the other is another Atlesian snob trying to butter them up to learn their company secrets or get close enough to dig gold out of them, but they soon realize that they have similar views and relatable personal struggles and end up befriending each other. They are not without their silly, petty arguments, however, like in Issue #4, when he gets upset with Weiss for thinking he's boring compared to Clark and Diana.
- Mythology Gag: When meeting Diana, he kisses her hand as a greeting. Though not necessarily romantic in this context, it can be read as a reference to their Ship Tease in other media, such as the Justice League cartoon and the DC Extended Universe films.
- Not So Above It All: This being a younger Bruce, he's slightly more prone to this while staying The Comically Serious, such as being upset and exchanging a Lightning Glare with Weiss when she has no idea how to introduce him in a way that sounds cool in comparison to Diana and Clark.
Victor Stone
Victor Stone
Formerly an astronaut for a secret Schnee Dust Company space mission, it went horribly wrong when his rocket exploded after exiting the atmosphere — if there was one takeaway from the experiment, it was the discovery that Dust is unusable in space. After being mysteriously saved in a flash of green light, Victor went into hiding and used his engineering expertise to create mechanical prosthetics for himself, becoming a cyborg.
- Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: Like the rest of the Leaguers in this version, he doesn't use his superhero name. He does call himself a "Cyborg" when explaining to Diana that there's a difference between him being a "cyborg" and her being an Automaton.
- He Knows Too Much: Victor worries that the Atlesian military and the SDC will go after him for living to tell about their life-endangering military experiments, which continues to the end of the comic, where it seems Ironwood would've gone after him if it didn't happen he would be leaving on the Watchtower shortly after.
Barry Allen
Barry Allen
A young thief in Vale's Faunus quarter. A Turtle Faunus, he lives with his mother Nora Allen and is partners-in-crime with Jesse Quick.
His Semblance is superspeed.
- Irony: Barry a turtle faunus has a Super-Speed semblance.
- Mythology Gag: The Flash-as-turtle irony is also the basis for the Terrific Whatzit and the Crash in Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew!.
- Super-Speed: His Semblance and his main power, like canon.
Arthur
Arthur
The protective heir of an underwater Faunus kingdom near Vale.
His Semblance is low-level telepathy, allowing him to sense how beings feel and, as he puts it, be able to talk to fish.
- Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: Like the rest of the Leaguers in this version, he doesn't use his superhero name. Blake does sarcastically calls him "Aquaman", though.
- Let's You and Him Fight: In Issue #7, he mistakes Blake, Yang, and Clark for humans that want to kidnap his Faunus people, though this is quickly cut off by an attack of mind controlled sea animals, forcing them to work together. Afterwards, he stands down when Blake reveals she's a Faunus and he recognizes her as the "princess" of Menagerie.
- One-Steve Limit: Not to be confused with Arthur Watts.
- We ARE Struggling Together: He recognizes Blake as the daughter of Menagerie's leader, though he believes her to be a traitor for working with humans.
- What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Yang and Blake have this reaction when he reveals his Semblance is the power to talk to fish. Clark and Arthur then clarify that he actually has low-level telepathy and that he just often uses it on sea creatures.
Jessica Cruz
Jessica Cruz
A mysterious space-faring girl.
- Big Damn Heroes: She shows up to save Team RWBY and the "Justice League" from the brainwashed people and Team JNPR in Issue #8.
- Chekhov's Gunman: She was the source of the green light that saved Victor after his rocket blew up.
- Dimensional Traveler: She's not a DC character adapted to the World of Remnant, she's still a Green Lantern traveling from an alternate universe.
- Foreshadowing: A mysterious green light saving another DC Comics character in space? Hmm...
- Mythology Gag: Her hairstyle is based on her depiction in the DC Super Hero Girls cartoon.
Others
The Witch Warriors
The Witch Warriors
A secluded mythical group of Faunus women residing on the hidden island of Bird of Paradise Island near Menagerie. An ancient group predating the creation of the four kingdoms and holding mastery over advanced arcane techniques that modern science has only recently grasped upon, they created Diana, an automata, for the time Remnant needs a protector from an incoming war on the horizon.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: In most versions, the Amazons are aggressively cautious of outsiders, outlaw interaction with the outside world, and cannot allow Diana to return to them due to their laws. Here, they created Diana specifically as a protector for greater Remnant and prepare her for when she must serve that duty including letting her leave the island for her trials, and they're grateful and welcoming towards Blake for helping her.
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Downplayed. In other versions, Diana only considers Hippolyta her mother and calls the rest of the Amazons her aunts and sisters. Here, Diana calls them all her mothers, as they were all involved in her creation rather than just one of them.
- Lady Land: Being the RWBY equivalent of the Amazons, they live on Bird of Paradise Island, the RWBY equivalent of Paradise Island/Themyscira.
- No Name Given: None of the Witch Warriors are named. One is the most upfront with Diana when we're given exposition on their origins, which suggests she may be the RWBY incarnation of Hippolyta.
- Significant Monogram: Witch Warriors and Wonder Woman.
Jesse Quick
Jesse Quick
Barry's partner-in-crime in the Faunus Quarter of Vale.
- Adaptation Name Change: Her name is usually Jesse Chambers, as Jesse Quick is one of her superhero monikers.
- Adaptation Species Change: She's a Fox Faunus here.
Nora Allen
Nora Allen
Barry's mother.
- One-Steve Limit: Not to be confused with Team JNPR's Nora Valkyrie.
- Spared by the Adaptation: She's usually killed in post-2009 stories in Barry's childhood as a part of his Dark and Troubled Past. Here, she's perfectly fine. That said, this is accurate to her status prior to Barry's return in The Flash: Rebirth, where she lived to see Barry as an adult and the Flash.note
Starro
Starro
An intelligent alien conqueror.- Aliens Are Bastards: Starro is an alien who uses its power to take over the minds of Remnants inhabitants in order to make them serve it.
- Big Bad: Serves as the main antagonist of the comic.
- Take Over the World: It's goal is to take control of everyone's mind in order to aid its conquest of Remnant.
