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This page is for listing tropes related to the heroes who made their first appearances as members of the Team, the group of young heroes assigned to undertake covert operations on behalf of the Justice League, during Outsiders, the third season of the animated series Young Justice (2010).
Outsiders Members
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Joined between Invasion and Outsiders
Arrowette
Arrowette (Cissie King-Jones)
Designation: B27
Date Joined: 2017
Status: Active
Species: Human
Debut: Episode 23 ("Insecurity")
Voiced by: Kelly Stables
A girl who aspired to be the archer superhero Arrowette after seeing Green Arrow and Artemis save her father's life.In Outsiders, Cissie has grown up to become Arrowette, Green Arrow's new sidekick and a member of the Team.
- Ascended Extra: Remember that little girl from "Insecurity" who watched Green Arrow and Artemis save Barnell Jones from Black Spider? Here she is, all grown up and part of the main cast.
- Badass Normal: No powers, just an archer.
- Legacy Character: According to
Word of God, her mother briefly operated as Miss Arrowette, making this Arrowette the second. - Red Is Heroic: Wears a red outfit very similar to the first costume Artemis wore.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To both Roy and Artemis as Green Arrow's sidekick. She's a red-clad archer that's blonde and female, and following Oliver, bringing to mind both of them.
- Trick Arrow: Has a special quiver that allows her to select what trick arrow she wants electronically rather than having to grab one manually.
Spoiler
Spoiler (Stephanie Brown)
Designation: B28
Date Joined: 2018
Status: Active
Species: Human
Debut: Episode 36 ("Before the Dawn")
Voiced by: Mae Whitman
The daughter of Cluemaster, Stephanie Brown was abducted for the Reach by Tigress in Invasion. Returns as a bonafide superhero named Spoiler in Outsiders.
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In the comics, Stephanie is Tim Drake's most prominent Love Interest. Here, they have a strictly professional relationship without any Ship Tease at all.
- All There in the Script: She's only named in the credits of the first episode she's in—there's nothing in the episode itself to actually indicate she is who she is.
- Ascended Extra: Only appeared in one episode of Invasion with two lines and had no importance. In Outsiders, she returns as the superhero Spoiler.
- Badass Normal: No real powers. Whether she leans more towards 'badass' or 'normal' has yet to be seen, given her common portrayal in the comics.
- Batman Gambit: In "Triptych", Spoiler loudly announces that Robin's squad doesn't need to bother with Clayface, since they know where to find Mad Hatter, so Clayface rushes off to protect Hatter. When Arrowette points out that they don't know where Mad Hatter is, Spoiler replies that Clayface clearly does, and that she threw a tracker on him during the fight, allowing the squad to track Clayface to Tetch's hideout.
- Cool Mask: She wears one that covers the lower half of her face.
- Damsel in Distress: She was kidnapped by the Light, but liberated by Batgirl and Robin before she could be turned over to the Reach for experimentation.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Fitting the aesthetic of Batman and his apprentices, Spoiler wears a dark, ninja-like outfit (in her case, a black and purple bodysuit and purple hooded cloak), but she's very much a hero.
- Dual Wielding: Like Nightwing, she carries two escrima sticks on her back.
- Grappling-Hook Pistol: Carry's one, as it's part of the standard equipment for Gotham heroes.
- In the Hood: Her costume includes a hood to go with her Cool Mask.
- Ship Tease: Averted. Despite her traditionally being Tim Drake's Love Interest, and him being one of the Team members to rescue the abductees, Steph's dialoguenote is directed mostly toward Barbara Gordon. There's also the fact that the season 2 finale revealed Tim began a relationship with Wonder Girl. And in season three, when she's become Spoiler, the two still show no interest in each other.
- They finally show interest in each other in the finale of Season 4, where Stephanie is shown leaning her head on Tim's shoulder at Conner's and M'gann's wedding. Tim is also giving her a look that appears romantic which she then returns. Additionally during season 3, despite Tim being warned, it is hinted at numerous times that Tim's lack of communication, presence and secretkeeping due to "Batman Incorporated's" clandestine activities have ruined Wonder Girl's and Tim's relationship, with them no longer being together later on.
Thirteen
Thirteen (Traci Thurston)
Designation: B29
Date Joined: 2018
Status: Active
Species: Human Magician
Debut: Episode 47 ("Princes All")
Voiced by: Lauren Tom
A superhero specializing in luck-based magic.
- 13 Is Unlucky: She can cast bad luck. Seems tied to her emotions since her excitement going through a Boom Tube throws off the destination.
- Adaptational Sexuality: A half-example. This version of Thirteen is Blue Beetle's girlfriend, which takes after the Post-Crisis version of the character, whereas the current DC Rebirth version is a lesbian dating Natasha Irons.
- Adaptational Superpower Change: While still a magic hero, Thirteen in the comics specialized in "urban magic" (which means she drew different powers based on her location). Here, she manipulates luck. Phantoms offhandedly clarifies that she still has urban magic, she's just been leaning on her luck powers over them.
- Adaptation Name Change: In the comics, Thirteen was Traci's actual surname, and she's known as either her full name Traci Thirteen, sometimes spelled Traci 13, or Girl 13. Here, Thirteen is her codename.
- Alliterative Name: Traci Thurston.
- Attack Its Weak Point: Because her magic is so limited, Traci usually focuses on precision or environmental attacks, such as yanking out a fuel pipe on a helicopter or unraveling a banner to blind someone. This is what allows her to take down Child: she sees the one tiny crack in her anchor and hits it with a precision attack, causing the golem to shatter and banishing her back to Chaos.
- Casting Gag: Lauren Tom previously voiced Jinx, another young magic user associated with bad luck.
- Familiar: By Phantoms, she has one in a lizard named Leroy. He doesn't seem to have many magic powers of his own besides communicating with her, but he does give her a boost of confidence during Fate's test.
- Heart Is an Awesome Power: During Fate's test, it's revealed that she has deep insecurities about how limited her magic is compared to other magical heroes. However, she is very clever with how she uses it, and not only can she keep up with the other Sentinels, she's the one who ultimately defeats Child.
- Out of Focus: Like the rest of the Team in Outsiders, but she stands out because she was only new recruit to stick around, meaning we have practically nothing seen of her in the series. She finally got some focus as one of Zatanna's students in Phantoms.
- Sixth Ranger:
- She's the newest Team member and the only new recruit in Outsiders to remain, due to Arrowette and Spoiler leaving minutes after their introduction for Batman Incorporated.
- Also, it's at least implied that she's this to Jaime and Bart, as she's seen hanging out with them at Jaime's house in El Paso before getting called, but due to little screentime it hasn't been expanded upon. It should be noted that Traci was a major supporting character to Blue Beetle in the Post-Crisis continuity and the two dated for while.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Zatanna as the team's magic user.
- Youthful Freckles: Quite prominent.
Joined during Outsiders
Geo-Force
Halo
Halo (Violet Harper)
"No, I'm not Gabrielle. My name is Violet."
Halo in Phantoms
Designation: B31
Date Joined: November 6, 2018
Status: Active
Species: Human (body), Motherbox AI (spirit)
Debut: Episode 47 ("Princes All")
Voiced by: Zehra Fazal
"Halo" is an amnesiac girl of Quraci origin who moved to Markovia as a war refugee. After being kidnapped by metahuman traffickers for lab experiments and apparently killed, they come back to life with strange light-based powers, but no memory of their original identity. They join Nightwing's Team after being rescued by them, gradually discovering who (or what) they really are. In Phantoms, Halo decides that they are nonbinary, and decides on they, them, and their pronouns.
- Adaptation Name Change: In the comics, their real name is Violet Harper (no relation to Roy Harper), but they first adopted the name Gabrielle Doe while amnesiac. Here, they similarly can't remember their name, but one possible name is Gabrielle Daou (according to a passport they had). But then they reject it, takes the name Violet, and eventually add the surname Harper on the suggestion of Will. That's also because this isn't Gabrielle Daou at all, but rather a Motherbox inhabiting her body.
- Adaptation Origin Connection: In the comics, Violet Harper was killed by an assassin, but was resurrected when her body became possessed by an Aurakle, an ancient being of energy. Here, Gabrielle Daou was killed as a part of metahuman experimentation, but was "resurrected" when her body became possessed by a Motherbox from New Genesis.
- Adaptation Species Change: Kind of. In the comics, Halo is a human bonded to an Energy Being called an Aurakle. In this series, the Aurakle is switched out with a Motherbox.
- Adaptational Badass: In the comics, Halo is something of a joke and Batman only inducted them in the Outsiders because he basically felt sorry for them. Here, we get to see just how versatile someone with multiple distinct but useful power sets can be even with zero training. Not to mention, as a reincarnated Motherbox, their power could be even greater.
- Adaptational Gender Identity: The original Halo was a cisgendered young woman. This one eventually comes out as non-binary with a preference for "they/them" during Phantoms, which makes sense as they are a reincarnated Motherbox inhabiting a previously deceased human body.
- Adaptational Modesty: They wear a hijab headscarf, despite "Violet" (the entity currently possessing Gabrielle's former body) not actually being a Muslim at all.
- Adaptational Mundanity: Subverted. From the beginning, it seems this version of Halo is merely just another metahuman rather than a human bonded to an Energy Being like in the comics. However, it's revealed that Halo is really the soul of a Motherbox that's Possessing a Dead Body, which is just as fantastical.
- Adaptational Nationality: American in the comics, Quraci here. However, their current consciousness originated not from Earth, but from the alien planet of New Genesis.
- Adaptational Superpower Change: Like the comics, their power is creating different colored auras that give them a unique ability with each one. However, the comics and show differs in the powers granted by each color (i.e. the red aura in the comics granted heat rays, but in the show, it gives them force fields).
- Allergic to Evil: The presence of a Fatherbox bonding to Victor Stone gives Violet a "weird feeling" similar to nausea.
- Ambiguous Gender Identity: They're fine with female pronouns, but eventually realize that they don't feel comfortable being called a boy or a girl and decide they feel better as just "me" until they figure it out. They eventually settle on "They" and "Them".
- Ambiguously Bi: They're attracted to men and end up dating Brion, although they experiment with their sexuality when Harper kisses them while they're both drunk, but whether or not Violet reciprocates isn't clear. The only objection they do raise to their kiss is that they have a boyfriend, not that they aren't attracted to girls. When Harper expresses an interest in a serious relationship in season 4 (along with Brion looking like a lost cause), Violet decides to go for it.
- Ambiguously Human: Dr. Fate calls them an old soul in a young body, and they treat being hungry as a new sensation. They're actually a Motherbox from New Genesis, who possessed and took control over the body of the deceased human girl Gabrielle Daou.
- Amnesiac Hero: Since their abduction and experimentation by Bedlam, they can't remember any details about their life, not even their real name.
- Apocalypse Maiden: They're a living backdoor for Darkseid to access the Anti-Life Equation, which is a threat to the whole universe. The villains confirm this while they're under mind control, and while they're freed before long, the thought of being used to erase free will terrifies them.
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Their powers let them create different colored auras, with each color providing a different ability.
- Red: Lets them create shields out of light.
- Orange: Grants them the ability to fly.
- Yellow: Energy Beams.
- Green: Allows them to create holograms of themself or others
- Blue: Allows them to project intense light from their body.
- Violet: Gives their ability to heal themself or others, and revive and heal if killed. The latter only works for them; they can't revive anyone else who is dead.
- Indigo: Creates a Boom Tube.
- Composite Character: Their design bears a subtle nod to Raven of Teen Titans with their hijab invoking a cloak and glowing eyes and body. It's even more prominent during their interaction with Raven's teammate Cyborg when they frequently use Indigo and Purple color and alien chants. As well, their role as an Apocalypse Maiden for Darkseid is very similar to Raven serving as one for Trigon.
- Distracted by the Sexy: They complimented Brion's body when he burned all of his clothes off.
- Divine Parentage: Halo was created from the soul of a Motherbox and is a living Motherbox connected to the Source. Metron considers them a "granddaughter" because their "mother" was one of Metron's "children". Motherboxes are also god-tech and draw on divine energies in the form of the Source.
- Due to the Dead: In a conversation with Black Canary, they say that they wear a hijab despite not being Muslim out of respect for Gabrielle.
- Everything's Better with Rainbows: As revealed in "Into The Breach", they can use a rainbow aura to access all of their powers simultaneously.
- Fantastic Religious Weirdness: Their soul is a Motherbox, a form of god-tech that can draw on divine energies and was created by the New Gods, and they are currently exploring Islam, which teaches that there is only one God. Mrs. Daou reconciles it by believing that the New Gods are only claiming godhood rather than being truly divine, but Violet is still figuring out what they believe.
- Foil: To Cyborg: They're both humans fused with New Gods tech to revive them. However, the Fatherbox deliberately built itself into Victor and suppressed his humanity in classic Jekyll & Hyde style, while the Motherbox binding to Gabrielle was an accident and after Gabrielle was dead, leaving the Motherbox as the sole personality.
- Glass Cannon: Despite their versatility, Halo has no superhuman durability and can only protect their body with energy barriers. It's a good thing they can come back to life, given how many times they've been killed.
- Good Thing You Can Heal: Halo's violet aura allows them to recover even from death, and oh boy, does the show like to make use of this fact. They've had their neck snapped to the point where their head was practically twisted backwards, had their face outright melted off by a metahuman, and been impaled through the stomach, among others. Thankfully, the process of returning to life after such injuries seems mercifully painless.
- Heavenly Blue: Though all their powers are different flavours of light manipulation, blue is the specific aura that flares around them and lets them counter dark powers.
- Interspecies Romance: Them (a Motherbox in a human body) and Brion (a metahuman).
- Light 'em Up: They have several different powers that are all based on different colors of the light spectrum (like a rainbow). For example, they can fire lasers to attack during combat, or create a Hard Light shield to defend themselves.
- Light Is Good: They're a superhero with light powers, as mentioned above.
- Meaningful Name:
- Their host's name is Gabrielle. Archangel Gabriel is the/an angel of death.
- Violet, for their violet aura, which allows them to recover from death.
- Nice Girl: They are consistently kind and sweet towards their friends. They're also one of the few people who can easily tame Brion's Hair-Trigger Temper.
- Non-Human Non-Binary: In a manner of speaking. Though their body is that of a human, their spirit is that of a New Genisian Motherbox.
- An Odd Place to Sleep: Their orange flight aura activates when they sleep, so they usually sleep floating a couple of feet above the couch or bed.
- Official Couple: With Geo-Force, at the end of "Nightmare Monkeys".
- Only Known by Their Nickname: They do not remember their name, so Artemis takes to calling them "Halo" or "Halo-Girl." They do take the name "Violet" (like their comic counterpart's real name) but even that's just a name by choice. Averted when they do learn their real name (see That Man Is Dead below), but they reject it and insist on Violet.
- Possessing a Dead Body: An unusual variation. It turns out that Halo's body, although technically alive and still human, used to belong to a different soul, Gabrielle Dou. After Gabrielle was killed in Bedlam's secret laboratory, their corpse was reanimated and revived when the spirit of a Motherbox (a sentient alien robot from New Genesis) took control.
- Powers via Possession: Halo's superpowers are not derived from being a metahuman with a metagene as was originally thought, but instead from being a Motherbox's soul inhabiting a human body.
- Psychosomatic Superpower Outage: Briefly goes through this in "True Heroes" when they suffer a panic attack after Geo-Force (whom they had just started a relationship with at the end of "Nightmare Monkeys") goes on a mission without them. This is because their original self as a Motherbox was not built to handle all of the emotions that come with being human. They get over it just in time to purge Victor of the Fatherbox's influence once and for all.
- Race Lift: The comics version of Halo is white, while this version is brown-skinned and Middle Eastern.
- Related in the Adaptation: Played With — in the comics, Halo was named Violet Harper but was completely unrelated to Roy Harper or anyone else in the Harper family, and it was just an aversion of One-Steve Limit. Here, they take the last name Harper at the suggestion of Roy's clone Will, giving them a connection to the family that they didn't have before.
- Resurrection Sickness: Their healing power may have brought them back from death, but they have no memory of who they were before, and it takes them a while to regain the ability of speech. This only happens after their first death, thankfully. This turns out to be a plot point; the amnesia was not caused by the death of Gabrielle's body, but rather the original Motherbox adapting to a new human form.
- Resurrective Immortality: Their power automatically resurrects them if they're killed, repairing any damage done in the process. They've come back from having their face melted off and their neck snapped, to name just two.
- Ship Tease: Gets a lot of it with Brion. They really want to help him, are clearly glad when he decides to stay, takes up the nickname he gave them as their official name and tell him he's "nicely shaped" when he accidentally burns his clothes off.
- Stealth Pun: The one time in two seasons that Halo is seen without their hijab on is when they officially start a relationship with Harper. In other words, they've let their hair down.
- Superpower Lottery: Has one of the most versatile powersets of any of the heroes, what with them being a reincarnated Motherbox. They have a variety of different, highly potent abilities such as flight, forcefields, the power to heal others, the ability to come back to life, powerful energy blasts, and can teleport by summoning Boom Tubes. They're really only marred by a lack of experience and the apparent inability to use more than one power at a time.
- That Man Is Dead: When they recall the prejudice and mistreatment they suffered in Markovia for being Quraci, they reject being called "Gabrielle", and declare that their name is now "Violet". Turns out to be quite literal, as "Violet" is the soul of a Motherbox, while the real Gabrielle is entirely gone save for a few fractured memories.
- They Killed Kenny Again: They end up getting repeatedly killed and then quickly revived back to life in almost every episode they appear in. No one is used to this, not even them, so it's fully Played for Drama.
- Trauma Button: Played for Drama. They reacted very badly to Artemis "bribing" her dog with food. This is because of the lingering trauma about how Gabrielle Daou accepting a bribe led to the death of Brion's parents.
- Your Days Are Numbered: According to Dr. Jace, their resurrection powers are imperfect. Every time they return from death, their cells are degraded. Dr. Jace believes that Violet only has a few months left before they die for real. Later revealed to be a lie by Dr. Jace to separate them from Brion.
Forager
Terra
Designation: B33
Date Joined: November 6, 2018
Status: Inactive
The Mole sent by Deathstroke to infiltrate Nightwing's Team, and later the Team. But in the end, she abandoned Deathstroke's cause and came the embrace her new family and being a hero. After being publicly exposed and cleared of charges, she joined the Outsiders.For tropes pertaining to Terra, see here.
Orphan
Orphan (Cassandra Wu-San)
Unmasked
Designation: B36
Date Joined: February 24, 2019
Status: Active
Species: Human
Debut: Episode 54 ("Triptych")
The daughter of Lady Shiva, who raised her to be a weapon for the League of Shadows. Unable to speak because her vocal chords were removed, she somehow left her mother and the Shadows, and wound up as one of Batman's protégés and acted as a member of Batman Incorporated under Robin. After Batman and his allies rejoined the League, she became a member of the Team.
- Abusive Parents: Her mother raised her on violence to be a weapon, leaving her covered in scars.
- Adaptation Amalgamation: Her design incorporates elements from her Pre-Flashpoint incarnation's time as Black Bat (the ragged cape and claws), and her Post-Flashpoint's "Orphan" costume (hood, armored appearance and the design of her utility belt), with the standard stitched mask design common to both versions.
- Adaptation Name Change: Cassandra's last name here is Wu-San, her mother's surname. In the comics, Cass's surname is Cain, just like her father.
- Awesomeness by Analysis: Figures out that "Hatter" is actually Clayface while Robin is still working it out, presumably by reading his body language.
- Badass Normal: No metahuman abilities and all the skill for it not to matter.
- Cool Shades: Like Dick and Tim before her, she wears sunglasses as a civilian.
- Creepy Good: She's on the heroes side, but unnerves her team members with her silence and actions. She confirms her suspicion that the "Jervis Tetch" the squad was tailing was really Clayface in disguise by cutting him in half; Arrowette wonders aloud if Orphan realised that "Tetch" was Clayface, or just didn't care if she killed him or not.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Like Batman, Batwoman, Robin, and Spoiler, Orphan dresses primarily in dark colors, but she's firmly on the side of good, even if she is more than a bit creepy.
- Disabled in the Adaptation: Played With. In this version she is mute due to damaged vocal chords. In the comics she is still disabled, but as the result of being deprived of exposure to language from a young age and having an unspecified neurological disorder, and while she has difficulty expressing herself verbally she is fully capable of speech.
- The Faceless: Her costume completely covers her face, which combined with her silence adds to her mysterious demeanor. We first see her face in season 4 when her mother knocks her unconscious and then takes off her mask, revealing her to be Covered in Scars.
- In the Hood: Like Robin and Spoiler, she also has a hood.
- My God, What Have I Done?: In this universe, it's Cassandra's fault that Barbara is wheelchair-bound as Cassandra, sent by her mother, tried to kill the Joker and Barb dived in to stop her, getting crippled as a result. She becomes horrified at what she did, leading to her defection.
- Nom de Mom: Her surname here is Wu-San instead of Cain. It's unknown if her father ever figured in her life.
- Phlebotinum Rebel: Raised by Lady Shiva to be a weapon. She somehow left the Shadows and fights with Batman and the Team against her mother.
- The Speechless: Her mother had her vocal chords cut as a child, preventing her from ever uttering a word. She mostly uses body language to communicate, since she can't write or sign.
- Sunglasses at Night: In Young Justice: Targets, she wears sunglasses inside a hospital during the evening to conceal her identity since she's on an undercover mission.
- Training from Hell: Her mother raised her to be a weapon who would only understand body language, to the point of removing her vocal chords as a baby so she'd never be able to speak.
