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Cult of the Kobra
A villainous cult that seems to worship a version of a Hindu god. In General
- Cult: It's literally a part of their name.
Kobra/Jeffrey Franklin Burr
The leader of the Cult of the Kobra.
- All Your Powers Combined: Kobra temporarily gains powers derived from African snake gods
.- Fa grants him Super-Speed.
- Gbi grants him vitality.
- Li grants him protection.
- Liwui grants him water control.
- Bald of Evil: Has neither hair nor compassion.
- De-power: In the Paragon timeline.
- A God Am I: Believes himself to be a Hindu snake deity reincarnated.
Lady Eve
The premier magician of the Cult of the Kobra.
- The Chooser of the One: She is the one who selects who becomes the leader of the Cult of the Kobra. When Kobra proves lacking as a leader in the Paragon timeline, she takes away his enhancements and kicks him out.
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Downplayed. Although she doesn't seem strong enough to actually win a fight, her magic is strong enough to keep herself hidden from the Shade, something that isn't easy to do.
- The Man Behind the Man: As The Chooser of the One, she can take over Kobra if the current leader is deemed inadequate, as what happens in the Paragon timeline.
League of Shadows
In General
- The Hashshashin: This is basically what they are, with the religious extremism replaced with respect and reverence towards Ra's himself.
- How the Mighty Have Fallen: Thanks to the efforts of Paul, and later Paulphidian, the organization is in shambles and is basically defunct.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Most members aren't aware that Ra's has been extending his life with the Lazarus Pit and assume that Ra's al Ghul is a title inherited by the leader of the League of Shadows.
Black Spider
One of the assassins sent after Dr. Roquette.
- Expy: Of Spider-Man.
Hook
One of the assassins sent after Dr. Roquette.
- Artificial Limb: One of his arms is a giant hook.
Clayface/Matthew Hagen
An ex-Shadow turned monstrosity.
- The Bus Came Back: It's revealed that he was freed from his petrification in Episode 80: Field Trip.
- Elemental Shapeshifter: He is made of mud.
- Minion with an F in Evil: He was a rather poor assassin.
Onyx Adams
One of the operatives of the League who evaded capture after Paulphidian located them.
- Bald of Evil: Is bald and an unrepentant assassin.
Injustice League
Count Werner Vertigo
The leader of the Injustice League.
- Aristocrats Are Evil: He is a real count and an unrepentant villain.
- Diplomatic Impunity: He uses this to get out of being arrested like the rest of the Injustice League.
- Faux Affably Evil: He talks like a sophisticated nobleman but is just a ruthless criminal who wants the throne of his country at any cost.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: He loses his Diplomatic Impunity after trying to kill his niece, who is also the queen of their country.
Black Adam/Theodore Adam
An archaeologist who killed his friends, the parents of Billy Batson, to seal the soul of Teth Adom and steal his powers.
- And I Must Scream: Implied to be what happened to him in the Renegade timeline, just like what he did to Adom.
- Asshole Victim: His soul is eaten and his body is taken by Teth Adom. He couldn't have deserved it more.
- The Brute: In a nutshell.
- Dead Person Impersonation: Tricks the gods into giving their blessing by making them think he's Teth Adom.
- Death by Adaptation: His soul is eaten by Ammaut when he is judged unworthy.
- Flying Brick: A magical flying brick.
- For the Evulz: Thoroughly revels in his evil deeds and kills people for the heck of it.
- Human Sacrifice: He bound Teth Adom's soul by killing Billy Batson's parents.
- Karmic Death: He steals Teth Adom's powers by binding Adom's soul and tricking the gods into thinking that he's Adom so that he can get their blessing. When the gods properly judge him for their blessing, he is found unworthy and loses his soul.
- Laser-Guided Karma: In the Renegade timeline, he gets sealed in a scarab shaped coffin in his and Adom's Mental World. Very fitting for what he did to Adom.
- Powered by a Forsaken Child: His powers come from binding the soul of Teth Adom to a scarab.
- Smarter Than You Look: Despite his Stupid Evil mindset, it is pointed out that he is an expert in Kahndaqi history and can speak Ancient Kahndaqi. He also devised the ritual which was used to bind Teth Adom in the first place.
- Stupid Evil: His idea of showing off his deeds to the gods is bragging about his evil deeds.
- Unskilled, but Strong: Compared to Teth Adom, the source of his stolen power.
The Joker/Jack Napier
A remorseless mass murderer.
- An Arm and a Leg: Played With. The Renegade mangled the Joker's limbs beyond repair.
- Badass Normal: He's only a threat due to his planning and ruthlessness.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: The Joker going toe to toe against someone with both Super-Strength and Super-Toughness, as well as no weakness to take advantage of, like the Renegade, results in the Joker getting permanent, debilitating injuries.
- Monster Clown: The most famous example in fiction.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: The Renegade cripples him to make sure he can never hurt anyone ever again. No one sheds a tear for him.
- Related in the Adaptation: Paul's thoughts in Episode 14: Revolution confirm that the Joker is indeed Lonnie Machin's father, something Paul doesn't intend to ever tell anyone.
- Torture Technician: Implied through what Paul thinks after researching some of his crimes.
Poison Ivy/Pamela Isley
A deranged eco-terrorist who wishes for the extinction of humanity.
- Backstory: Paul and Harleen discuss Poison Ivy's in Episode 48: Bindings.
- Break the Haughty: She learns from the Champion of the Green himself that it doesn't care about her petty causes and that her extremism is an excuse for her misanthropy. He also strips her of her powers.
- Brought Down to Normal: Swamp Thing strips her of her connection to the Green, leaving her a normal woman. She even gets transferred to a normal asylum. He later returns some access to the Green.
- De-power: This happens to her in the Paragon timeline.
- Do Not Call Me "Paul": Refuses to answer by her actual name and insists that "Poison Ivy" is her true name.
- Empty Shell: She is rendered catatonic after being de-powered.
- Gaia's Vengeance: Desires to kill all of humanity to defend all plant life.
- Green Thumb: Is able to manipulate plants thanks to her connection to the Green.
- Heel–Face Turn: By the time of Episode 48: Bindings in the Paragon timeline.
- Insane No More: In addition to removing her connection to the Green, Swamp Thing also cured the psychological alterations that were done to her as a side-effect of the chemicals that gave her a connection to the Green in the first place, making her more sane.
- Pheromones: She can use pheromones to control anyone who is attracted to women.
- Re-Power: Swamp Thing gives her a more stable connection to the Green in Episode 48: Bindings.
Wotan
A powerful Evil Sorcerer.
- An Arm and a Leg: Gets one of his arms torn off by Teth Adom in the Paragon timeline.
- Evil Sorceror: This is literally all we know about him.
- Fate Worse than Death: In the Renegade timeline thanks to Ghost Fox Killer.
Ulra-Humanite/Gerard Shugel
A genius who transferred his brain into an albino gorilla.
- Body Surf: He took over the body of an actress, and now an albino gorilla, via a brain transplant.
- Convenient Coma: The Renegade's musings in Episode 43: Triumph of the Will reveals that he put Ultra-Humanite in a coma.
- Gender Bender: When he was in the body of Dolores Winters.
- Grand Theft Me: He has survived the decades by transferring his brain to new bodies.
- Killer Gorilla: He's a supervillain who inhabits the body of a gorilla.
Intergang
In General
Intergang is an organized criminal organization that uses alien technology.
- Imported Alien Phlebotinum: Intergang utilizes Apokoliptian technology.
- Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: They have slaves whom they either work to death or sell to other countries.
Bruno "Ugly" Mannheim
The leader of Intergang.
- Evil Is Not a Toy: It's implied that he joined Darkseid in order to gain power. He did get it, but as a pawn of the Lord of Apokolips.
- My God, What Have I Done?: After being freed of the Anti-Life Equation, he is horrified at what he did and repentant for all of his crimes.
- Pun: His nickname is one, because when anything goes against Intergang, things get "Ugly".
- Took a Level in Badass: By the time he first appears in the Paragon timeline, he is more than he was in the Renegade timeline, especially since he has a piece of Darkseid's soul inside of him.
Whisper A'Daire
Bruno Mannheim's second in command.
- Number Two: She is this to Intergang's leader, Bruno Mannheim.
- People Puppets: The Renegade makes Whisper sing and dance as a power play to interrogate her on Bruno Mannheim's whereabouts.
The Key
A man who was altered into something akin to a New God.
- Deity of Human Origin: He was a human who was turned into a New God, or something like one, by Apokolips.
- Telepathy: He uses this in concert with enslaved telepaths to broadcast the Anti-Life Equation.
Caligula Club
In General
A club that provides entertainment for the British elite, often including all manner of depraved acts.
- Killed Offscreen: The evil magic users were all killed by angels in the Paragon timeline, meaning the survivors are now doing normal corrupt acts rather than do things like summon demons.
Other Villains
Mister Twister/Brom Stikk
A robotics and mechanical engineering who was hired by an android duplicate of Doctor T. O. Morrow to help his plans come to fruition.
- Actually a Doombot: After Mister Twister is defeated, the Team finds a robotic duplicate of Brom wearing the armor.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Runs away after finding out that Red Volcano's purpose is to wipe out humanity by causing the supervolcano in Yellowstone Park to erupt.
Bane Dorrance
A Santa Priscan who heads a factory that manufactures a super steroid named Venom.
- Badass Normal: He is this when not on Venom.
- Berserk Button: Do NOT speak ill of his mother.
- Character Death: He is turned into a Construct-Lantern in the Renegade timeline.
- Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: He dearly loves his mother, which is why he wants revenge on his biological father for abandoning her.
- Glorified Sperm Donor: His father impregnated his mother and got her to take the fall for him which forced her into prison where Bane was born.
- Hypercompetent Sidekick: He was a hired thug for Truggs and obviously took cues from the Evil Overlord List.
- Killed Off for Real: By the Renegade with the Sword of the Fallen.
- Killed Offscreen: In Episode 41: Date Night, it's revealed he had been killed by Ghost Fox Killer under Chinese orders for committing a crime and then resisting arrest.
- Psycho for Hire: Worked for the League of Shadows and later worked for the Light as Truggs' hired thug. Subverted in that he is quite intelligent and lacks any psychoses.
- Super Serum: Venom gave him Super-Strength.
Sportsmaster/Lawrence 'Crusher' Crock Jr.
A professional mercenary. He is also the father of Cheshire and Artemis.
- Abusive Parents: Was one to his daughters.
- Action Dad: An evil version — Sportsmaster is a highly trained martial artist with the ability to use a variety of weapons.
- Asshole Victim: No one sheds a tear for him when he is turned into a construct.
- Badass Normal: He is described as the most dangerous inmate in Belle Reve in the Paragon timeline.
- Black Sheep: Is one to his own family, as his family is a lawful and dutiful military family while he became a mercenary.
- Embarrassing Nickname: Paul mistook him for Casey Jones when they first met. This becomes Paul's personal nickname for him.
- I Know Madden Kombat: He uses sports-themed weaponry.
- Jerkass: There is nothing likeable about him.
- Killed Off for Real: By the Renegade with the Sword of the Fallen.
- Laser-Guided Karma: After abandoning his wife and abusing his daughters, he is either permanently enslaved by the Renegade or in jail serving numerous life sentences.
- Leave No Witnesses: He does this specifically to ensure no one can testify against him, hence why he hasn't been executed.
- Mugging the Monster: He tries to intimidate and picks a fight with Orange Lantern, twice. Both times he gets curb-stomped.
- Professional Killer: He prides himself on being a professional and shows no remorse for any and all crimes he's committed.
- Villain Respect: He ends up respecting Paul after the events of Episode 142: Do Or Die Time due to the latter's ability to do whatever it took to save Earth."You put the mission ahead of everything and you got it done. I was fine running around for Bats and Atom, but they obviously didn't have an actual solution to what was going on. You did. And you did something to Batman that meant you had to fix his brain afterwards."
Onomatopoeia
A mysterious magic user who works for Klarion.
- Adaptational Badass: He's a minor villain of Batman in the comics. Here, he can hold his own against the Team.
- Adaptational Superpower Change: In the comics, he's a baseline human with a mental tick. Here, he can affect reality using onomatopoeia.
- Empowered Badass Normal:
Word of God is that he used to be an ordinary human who went after powerless vigilantes. Then Klarion got a hold of him. - Squishy Wizard: Get around his magic and he's as strong as a normal adult human male.
Psimon/Doctor Simon Jones
A telepath and telekinetic employed by Queen Bee.
- Bald of Evil: Has no hair on account of having a glass dome for a skull.
- Character Catchphrase: He often says "Psimon says." before using his telepathy to make someone do what he wants.
- De-power: He gets the mental implants which grant him his powers forcibly removed by the Renegade.
- Fingore: Gets one of his fingers ripped off by Teekl.
- Know When to Fold Them: He does not take the deal to get him extradited to the United States and get jailed in Belle Reve and stays in a Quraci prison when he finds out that Queen Bee tried to have him killed.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Did this to the Team.
- Mind over Matter: How he defends himself if his Telepathy isn't enough.
- Telepathy: He can probe minds, erase memories, and even match the telepathic prowess of a Martian like M'gann.
- Third-Person Person: He does this when saying his Catchphrase.
- Weak, but Skilled: Compared to Miss Martian when it comes to telepathy.
Red Volcano
An android created by the android duplicate of Doctor T. O. Morrow to Kill All Humans.
- Call a Human a "Meatbag": Calls all organics meatbags.
- Dishing Out Dirt: To complete the four elements with his siblings.
- Killer Robot: He was literally made to Kill All Humans.
- Robotic Psychopath: He doesn't care about organic life whatsoever.
- Smug Super: He likes to boast how superior he is to "meatbags".
- Tron Lines: Has these, as Paul notes.
Doctor Thomas Oscar Morrow
A scientist who fought the Justice Society.
- Dark Lord on Life Support: Was on his deathbed.
- Deconstruction: Of a long-lived supervillain with nothing to keep him young or active. As a centenarian, he is weak and near death.
- Evil Old Folks: He's a supervillain and a hundred years old.
- Gadgeteer Genius: The greatest roboticist on Earth.
- Put on a Bus: Paul makes Dr. Morrow stay as far away from him as possible as the construct creeps him out in his humanity, and because Paul wants him to have agency.
- Your Soul Is Mine!: Truggs assimilated him after stealing Paul's ring. Now Paul is stuck with him.
Blackbriar Thorn
One of the wizards who assisted Klarion in splitting the world.
- Fate Worse than Death: In the Renegade timeline thanks to Ghost Fox Killer.
- Good Thing You Can Heal: He's burned alive by John Constantine because the latter knew he would survive as a small plant that could then be easily contained.
Felix Faust
One of the wizards who assisted Klarion in splitting the world.
- Fate Worse than Death: In the Renegade timeline thanks to Ghost Fox Killer.
- Sealed Room in the Middle of Nowhere: Gets locked in the Tower of Fate in the Paragon timeline.
Wizard/William Zard
One of the wizards who assisted Klarion in splitting the world.
- Fate Worse than Death: In the Renegade timeline thanks to Ghost Fox Killer.
- Sealed Room in the Middle of Nowhere: Gets locked in the Tower of Fate in the Paragon timeline.
Dark Druid
A magic user who has ties to the Black Light.
- Dark Is Evil: Especially since it's implied that he's not also a dark wizard, but he's accessing Black Light to power it.
- Enemy to All Living Things: Seeks to cull all life.
- Evil Sorceror: Uses dark magic and sacrifices innocents to use spells or as disposable minions.
- Necromancer: Has created numerous undead.
- Point of Divergence: If Paragon!OL hadn't ensured Wotan's imprisonment, Klarion wouldn't have given Dark Druid his attention, which ultimately led to his usage of the Black Light.
- Would Hurt a Child: Created an abomination by torturing an infant to death.
Deadshot/Floyd Lawton
An infamous mercenary.
- Badass Normal: A skilled assassin who has no superpowers.
- Cool Mask: His has a scope built into it.
- Deadpan Snarker: He really likes to talk.
- Professional Killer: He's an assassin who wanted around the world for his many kills.
- Scylla and Charybdis: The reason Deadshot doesn't leave Belle Reve during the breakout is because several countries, including the United States, are fighting for the right to execute him.
- Super Wrist-Gadget: He uses wrist guns.
Nylor Truggs
A human from the future who desires to make Earth stronger and a contender on the universal stage.
- Anti-Villain: He believes himself to be this. His stated goal of using the vast array of superhero/villain Schizo Tech to improve mankind at large? Noble. Basically everything else about him, from his methods of reaching that goal to his general personality? Villain. He does, however, contact OL to warn him about the impending Reach invasion, having concluded from OL's complete absence from any Justice League records that he's a foreigner to this timeline and thus in the greatest position to change things.
- Berserk Button: Hates supervillain/superhero memorabilia collectors, especially the ones who collect Schizo Tech.
- Big Bad Wannabe: A wannabe time-travelling supervillain that believes that he get the respect he deserves by improving Earth. He does so by working with the Light and stealing Paul's ring, killing the Japanese collector that owned Bozo and had Jennifer-Hewitt Gordon killed for her Lazarus Box. He's easily defeated. Twice.
- Break the Haughty: Implied to have happened to him in the Renegade timeline, as he's far less full of himself compared to his Paragon counterpart.
- Dramatic Irony: He wishes to prevent the Reach from conquering Earth. He decides to do this by working for the Light, who's plans involve inviting and working with the Reach.
- Entitled Bastard: He feels that anyone who doesn't utilize Schizo Tech even though they have it in their possession should die, and that it would be better in his hands.
- Eye Scream: Artemis takes out his eye when he attempts to hold her hostage.
- Fate Worse than Death: In the Renegade timeline, he is vivisected by LexCorp scientists to find the secret of his biological nanotech.
- Fingore: Loses a finger when Paul recalls his ring back by meditating with the Ophidian.
- Genre Blind: He freaking monologues his Motive Rant to Paul despite Bane's attempts to stop him.
- Hate Sink: Is generally unlikable and unsympathetic.
- Healing Factor: He has nanotech that rebuilds his body if he's hurt.
- I Just Want to Be Special: He wants to be the one responsible for bringing humanity up on the universal stage.
- A Million Is a Statistic: Holds this mindset. He feels as long as he kills fewer people than the Reach did, the ends justify the means.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: He uses Paul's ring's subspace storage to store his phasing device and the Schizo Tech he steals from STAR labs. As such, he loses all of it when Paul takes back his ring.
- Not So Similar: Other members of The Team note that his goals - advancing mankind through reverse-engineered supervillain technology, transhumanism, and magic - are pretty similar to the things Paul is trying to do. However, Paul tries to work within the system as much as he can, trying to do things on the up and up and ensuring that he's not completely depended on; while Truggs cheerfully disdains law and morality over a skewed perspective of why Heroes did things the way they did and joins up with a group that has members that didn't think twice about mass murder, genocide, and mind control, and wants to BE the center of all the changes he wants to make on the world instead of simply helping things along like Paul does.
- Schizo Tech: Uses telepathic disruptors and anachronistic phasing device.
- Sketchy Successor: Is Sportmaster's replacement in the Light in the Paragon timeline. He's generally not as good as he thinks he is.
- Smug Snake: He is arrogant, but is more often than not completely out of his league when fighting the Team. He only gets away with help from his allies.
- Sticky Fingers: His M.O. is robbing others, including Paul and the Justice League.
- Time Travel for Fun and Profit: He came back in time for this.
The Parasite/Raymond Maxwell Jensen
A criminal who was hired by Intergang in the Renegade timeline.
- Logical Weakness: Taking someone else's powers also results in him getting their weaknesses as well.
- Power Copying: He can steal someone's skills and powers simply through physical contact.
- Power Parasite: After he gets someone's skills and powers, he has a time limit before it wears off.
- Vampiric Draining: People he drain end up feeling tired and/or sick.
Wolf Krieger
A member of the Thule Society and has lived to present day by extending his life with magic.
- Artifact of Power: Wielded the Spear of Destiny, which gave him the ability to control basically anyone so long as certain conditions are met.
- Ghostapo: An evil Nazi wizard.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: It happens to him at the hands of the Hitler clone he created.
- Karmic Death: Krieger's desire to bring back Adolf Hitler becomes his own end when he is fatally (and repeatedly) stabbed by the Spear of Destiny wielded by a clone of Hitler.
- Rapid Aging: After being stabbed by the Spear of Destiny, Krieger's magics that kept him from aging is broken and his body starts to decay.
Captain Nazi/Albrecht Krieger
A metahuman who is always found partnered with Wolf Krieger.
- Anthropomorphic Personification: He is the Spirit of Nazi Germany.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Was absolutely no match for Teth Adom.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Seems to genuinely care for his brother Wolf.
- Flying Brick: His entire powerset.
- Killed Off for Real: He is killed by Paul via multiple railgun shots.
Circe/Larissa
An ancient witch and adversary of Wonder Woman.
- See With This Ring The Light for more information.
Johnny Sorrow
An actor turned Eldritch Abomination.
- Badass in a Nice Suit: He wears a suit and was able to take on the entire Justice Society.
- Cool Mask: Wears one that renders him intangible while worn.
- Deadly Gaze: Looking at Johnny Sorrow's face is purported to drive the viewer mad, and given that he appears to be an Eldritch Abomination, this is plausible.
- Eldritch Abomination: He is no longer human, though what he looks like is unknown, due to either being invisible or causing those who look at his true form to go mad.
- Intangibility: He is untouchable while wearing his mask.
Deathstroke/Slade Wilson
An infamous mercenary.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: He's no match for the Renegade and goes down very quickly.
- Eyepatch of Power: He's missing his right eye.
- Professional Killer: Deathstroke is a noted mercenary.
Queen of Fables/Tsaritsa
A reality warping witch with a grudge against Wonder Woman.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: The Queen of Fables originally posted from her own Sufficient Velocity account, and demonstrated the ability to rewrite portions of the story she didn't like. She does this again when the story moves to Questionable Questing.
- Master of Illusion: Tsaritsa, the Queen of Fables, traps Paul in an illusion, making the play he was performing become semi-real and altering his memory to make him think he really is the character he's portraying.
- Reality Warper: A low level one. She can make stories reality, with her (mostly) controlling how it goes.
Anton Arcane
An elemental with a connection to Swamp Thing.
- Bad Boss: Was a horrible master to his creations, the Un-Men.
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: Sends out mutated insects to kill everyone around him.
- Evil Sorcerer: He is possibly the greatest biomancer in human history. He used this knowledge to create abominations that would serve him.
- Mad Scientist: He was this in life.
- Make Them Rot: Has a connection to the Rot.
Black Manta/David Hyde
A skilled mercenary who is particularly reviled in Atlantis.
- Artificial Gill: His Powered Armor helps him breathe underwater.
- Badass Normal: Without his Powered Armor, he's just a man.
- Child Soldier: From his comments, he was this when he was much younger.
- Consummate Professional: Similar to Sportsmaster, Black Manta is an efficient mercenary.
- Cool Helmet: His Powered Armor comes with one.
- The Pardon: The Renegade is able to get Black Manta and his men this from Atlantis.
- Powered Armor: Wears one to both breathe underwater and fight people who have powers.
