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[[folder: Amanda Waller/White Queen & Maxwell Lord/Black King (Checkmate)]]

[[folder: Stuart Campbell]]

[[folder: General Slade Wilson]]

[[folder: Lieutenant Trotter]]

[[folder: Rick Flag]]

[[folder: Floyd Lawton / Deadshot]]

[[folder: Bette San Souci/ Plastique]]

[[folder: Emil [=LaSalle=]/Warp]]

* AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: Steve and Diana have never been childhood friends before, and he wasn't an ex of Lois' in the comics. Also the idea of Hippolyta raising him after they leave Themyscira has never appeared in nay prior adaptation.

* AlternateSelf: Waller has three on [[{{Series/Arrow}} Earth]]-[[{{Series/Supergirl2015}} Prime]], [[Film/SuicideSquad2016 Earth]][[Film/TheSuicideSquad -]][[Series/{{Peacemaker}} 1]], and [[Film/GreenLantern2011 Earth-12]], while Lord has one on [[Film/WonderWoman1984 Earth-1]].

* AlternateSelf: Has one on [[Film/SuicideSquad Earth]]-[[Film/TheSuicideSquad 1]].

* AlternateSelf: Has two on [[Series/{{Arrow}} Earth-Prime]] as himself and a man named Vincent & one on [[Film/SuicideSquad Earth-1]].

Formerly aide to General Slade Wilson, Trotter took control of the Department of Domestic Security's VRA strike team following Wilson's imprisonment in the PhantomZone. She captured several members of the Franchise/{{Justice League|of America}} and ComicBook/{{Justice Society|OfAmerica}}, imprisoning them in a virtual reality world while she attempted to figure out how to neutralize or control their powers. Defeated by the combined efforts of the League, Chloe Sullivan and the Suicide Squad, she was left imprisoned in her own virtual reality program.

* EnemyMine: With the Franchise/{{Justice League|of America}} as of "Collateral". Who knows how long that'll last.

* BladeOnAStick: Or, more accurately, a really long icicle.

* AlternateSelf: Ones on [[{{Series/Arrow}} Earth]]-[[{{Series/Supergirl2015}} Prime]] & [[Film/SuicideSquad2016 an unnamed]] [[Film/WonderWoman1984 Earth]]. Waller also has one on [[Film/GreenLantern2011 Earth-12]].

* AlternateSelf: Has one on [[Series/{{Arrow}} Earth-Prime]], one on [[Series/Titans2018 Earth-9]], & one on [[Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse an unnamed Earth]].

* AlternateSelf: Has one on [[Characters/WonderWoman1975 Earth-76]] and [[Characters/DCEUWorldWarI an undesignated Earth]].

* AlternateSelf: Has one on [[Film/SuicideSquad an unnamed Earth]].

* AlternateSelf: Has two on [[Series/{{Arrow}} Earth-Prime]] as himself and a man named Vincent & one on [[Film/SuicideSquad an unnamed Earth]].

[[folder: Suicide Squad]]
!!Comicbook/SuicideSquad

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A squad of super-powered operatives retained to do jobs even Checkmate wouldn't touch. The Suicide Squad, led by superhero fan-boy Rick Flag, went rogue following the agency's destruction in Season 9. Opposed on principle to the Vigilante Registration Act, the squad is out to stop its implementation no matter what the cost. Along with {{ComicBook/Darkseid}}, they provide most of Season 10's conflict.

* BadassCrew: Between [[BadassNormal Rick Flag]], [[ImprobableAimingSkills Deadshot]], [[PersonOfMassDestruction Plastique]], and [[VillainTeleportation Warp]], they count.
* TheChessmaster: The Squad, as a whole, is proving to be superb at warping events to their own advantage. Bonus points to Deadshot for his method of putting the Squad's mark on Clark.
* CoolCar: The Squad van, which appears in "Ambush". It's effectively a mobile base, equipped with state-of-the-art electronics, tracking equipment, satellite up-links and [[WeaponizedCar a missile launcher]].
* EnemyMine: With the Franchise/{{Justice League|of America}} as of "Collateral". Who knows how long that'll last.
* EvilCounterpart: The team, as a whole, to the Justice League. They both hate the VRA, they're both made up of superhumans and led by a BadassNormal, and they both try to stay under the radar. The Squad goes much, much further in their attempts at taking down the act, though.
* HeelFaceTurn: Chloe blackmails the Squad into making a collective one.
* PutOnABus: After "Collateral".
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The Suicide Squad, Deadshot, Warp, even Plastique. None of them are real reassuring, to say the least.
* WeaponizedCar: The Squad van is equipped with a homing missile launcher, in addition to all its other gadgetry.
* WesternTerrorists: See Flag's entry for how.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: They just vanish after "Collateral" with no real reason.

[[folder: Rick Flag]]
!!Rick Flag
-> '''Played By:''' Creator/TedWhittall
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Let's show these boys what it's like to mess with the Suicide Squad."'']]

The Squad's leader. Flag is, to put it mildly, very damaged. Formerly the field leader for Checkmate's teams of super-powered agents, his lengthy association with metahumans has caused him to identify with them instead of normal people. He's violently opposed to the VRA, and wants to force every superhero to see things his way, regardless of their own feelings.

* AlternateSelf: Has one on [[Film/SuicideSquad an unnamed Earth]].
* AntiHero: Flag has a genuine regard for superheroes, and is gathering an army to fight off {{ComicBook/Darkseid}} in an effort to save the Earth...but his BloodKnight tendencies continually serve as a foil for the JLA's more tempered methods. To elaborate, Flag is technically on the same side as Clark and the JLA on the issue of registration; the problem is that he's way too eager to use violence to resolve this issue. In "Collateral", he ends up coming to the rescue of the captured superheroes, and he never gives away their secrets. Still, Clark and his friends try to convince him to be more diplomatic, and try to warn him that his militia-style tactics are unintentionally giving the VRA more material to use as anti-vigilante propaganda.
* BadassNormal: At first, his badass status is somewhat doubtful, but after watching him attack a government special ops team in "Collateral", using only his own mundane abilities? Definitely.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Seems fond of it.
* ComplexityAddiction: As evidenced by his absolutely 1960s-ish plan to kill General Lane. He has Deadshot on the team. Does he use him? No. Instead, he uses a laser in a pen given to the general's daughter Lucy to guide in a homing missile that he launches from the back of his van. There's complex, and then there's that.
* {{Foil}}: To Oliver.
* GunsAkimbo
%%* {{Jerkass}}
* JerkassHasAPoint: Pretty much everything Flag predicted about the VRA--namely that the officials in charge would abuse their power, persecute the superheroes, and threaten America's freedoms--turned out to be ''exactly'' what ended up happening after the VRA legislation passed, making Flag's warnings seem like a CassandraTruth. After this happens, Flag fights to rescue Clark and the other JLA members from the lab where they are being held.
* JustBetweenYouAndMe: To Oliver about Chloe's "death".
* LargeHam: Dear God. Flag chews more scenery in a few episodes than Zod did in a season, complete with reciting ''The Star-Spangled Banner'' as he fires a missile at General Lane.
* PatrioticFervor: He really loves America, and views the government's VRA program as a genuine threat to America's freedoms. Clark fully agrees with this view, but not with Flag's militia-style solutions.
* ProperlyParanoid: Flag would seem totally nuts if the guy running the Vigilante Registration Act wasn't [[GeneralRipper General Slade Wilson]]. Indeed, pretty much everything Flag predicted about the VRA--namely that the officials in charge would abuse their power, persecute the superheroes, and threaten America's freedoms--turned out to be ''exactly'' what ended up happening after the VRA passed, making Flag's warnings seem like a CassandraTruth. The heroes are hunted and persecuted by General Wilson and Lieutenant Trotter, privacy rights were routinely violated by the VRA, and it's mentioned that Trotter's agency even forced a mandatory curfew onto all citizens of Metropolis.
%%* RightWingMilitiaFanatic
* SecretKeeper: Flag knows the identities of all the heroes. So far he's told nobody. Makes sense, since he genuinely respects them, and wants to earn their trust.
* SmugSnake
* SociopathicSoldier: Flag's a mix of Types I, II ''and'' IV -- a radical militia-esque ex-soldier with PatrioticFervor and blatant insanity to spare, and whose previous missions for the government have more or less broken him.
* SuperheroPackingHeat: Two pistols, and a carbine.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Flag's attempt at assassinating General Lane involved a missile. To kill one guy.
* WesternTerrorists: Flag's a U.S. militia-esque nut who lashes out at anyone who wants to force super-powered vigilantes to register, complete with political assassinations, bombings and missile strikes.
* YouLookFamiliar: His actor played Lana's martial arts trainer in Season 8's "Power".

[[folder: Floyd Lawton / Deadshot]]
!![[ComicBook/{{Deadshot}} Floyd Lawton / Deadshot]]
-> '''Played By:''' Creator/BradleyStryker

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Somewhere out there, we ''all'' got a bullet with our name on it."'']]

A contract killer at the top of America's Most Wanted lists, Deadshot is retained by Flag to mark the Blur with the Squad's symbol. Using Cat Grant as bait to draw Clark out in the open, Deadshot succeeds, although he's imprisoned for it; Flag and Plastique later bust him out. The best shot in-universe, Deadshot affects a laid-back demeanor that conceals his [[TheFatalist fatalistic tendencies]] and disillusionment with life.

* AlternateSelf: Has two on [[Series/{{Arrow}} Earth-Prime]] as himself and a man named Vincent & one on [[Film/SuicideSquad an unnamed Earth]].
* BadassLongcoat: Along with the hat it completes his image of being a modern day gunslinger.
* TheFatalist: Big time.
-->"Somewhere out there, we ''all'' got a bullet with our name on it."
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Has a very ugly one over his eye.
* TheGunslinger: Very much, as he would not be out of place in a western.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: He puts a bullet down the tailpipe of a car.
* MarkedBullet: Deadshot writes his victims' names on his bullets.
* NietzscheWannabe: If his conversation with Cat is any indicator, definitely.
* PragmaticAdaptation: Deadshot has never been portrayed as some sort of cowboy in the comics or previous adaptions.
* ProfessionalKiller: Likely the best since he's at the top of the wanted list.
* RevolversAreJustBetter: Goes with his {{Cowboy}} motif.
* SteamPunk: Possibly the best way to describe Deadshot's combo of WildWest appearance with grungy future-tech.
* VillainousValor: You gotta give Deadshot points for going after Clark with a gun, despite being fully aware of the latter's NighInvulnerable status. As it turns out, getting hit and going to prison was actually part of the plan, and Deadshot went through with it despite the risks. Pretty ballsy, that.

[[folder: Bette San Souci/ Plastique]]
!!Bette Sans Souci / Plastique
-> '''Played By:''' Creator/JessicaParkerKennedy
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First appearing in Season 8, Bette is a homeless girl with the power to project rings of explosive force from her body. On the run from [=LuthorCorp=]'s Black Creek facility, she is taken in by Chloe, whom she later turns on. Captured and imprisoned in Belle Reve after a brief battle with Clark, Bette was loosed by Tess Mercer on the condition that she join Tess' Injustice Gang (see ''[=LuthorCorp=] and Associates'') where she was code-named "Plastique". Following the defeat of the Gang, she was recruited into the Suicide Squad by Flag sometime before Season 10. Best described as paranoid, selfish and bitter, she's a beautiful fit with the rest of the Squad.

* AlternateSelf: Has two on [[Series/TheFlash2014 Earth-Prime]], one as herself, and one as Barry Allen's daughter from a possible timeline.
* BlackEyesOfCrazy: When Bette uses her powers, her irises glow yellow and her pupils narrow to black slits.
* BrokenBird: Plastique retains this status from her first appearance. She is a very damaged little girl.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome / WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Her final appearance revealed she'd joined the Squad while they were still Clark's enemies. No mention of her after the Squad made its collective HeelFaceTurn.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: When she uses her powers.
* HellBentForLeather: After joining the Injustice Gang and the Suicide Squad.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Bette is out for herself and nobody else. She wants to stay free and safe, and anyone who she suspects might compromise that tends to end up dead.
%%* MadBomber
* PersonOfMassDestruction: She causes objects to explode, whether they're the size of a person, or the size of a bus. If you're name isn't Clark, you better run.
* RaceLift: Was a Quebecois terrorist in the comics. Here, she's of Asian (perhaps French-Indochinese) descent.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: She's a part of the Suicide Squad in the beginning of season ten, but doesn't show up with Flag and Deadshot when they come back in "Collateral," and is never mentioned.

[[folder: Emil [=LaSalle=]/Warp]]
!!Emil [=LaSalle=] / Warp
-> '''Played By:''' Creator/EliasToufexis
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* MissionControl: For the Squad, doubling as their getaway man.
%%* TeleportersAndTransporters
%%* VillainTeleportation
* YouLookFamiliar: His actor played Meteor Freak Bronson in Season 6's "Static" and a character named Luke in the Season 3 episode "Asylum".
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[[folder: General Slade Wilson]]
!![[ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}} General Slade Wilson]]
-> '''Played By:''' Creator/MichaelHogan
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Well, let's just say the reaper can swing his sickle at me, but I'm beyond Death's stroke now."'']]

An aging general with a long history of war-crimes charges behind him, Slade is the man chosen by the government to enforce the Vigilante Registration Act. Very much the ideological opposite of Rick Flag, Slade believes that no one can be allowed the power to threaten the government and seeks to defend America from all threats, wherever they may come from. He's crazy, to say the least. A key antagonist in the first half of Season 10.

* AdaptationalWimp: In the comics he’s one of the deadliest men in the world, but due to being an InNameOnly Composite Character with Wade Eiling he lacks any of that.
* AgeLift: While Deathstroke is sometimes given an extended life span, none are actually shown to be as old as this version.
* AlternateSelf: Has one on [[Series/{{Arrow}} Earth-Prime]], one on [[Series/Titans2018 Earth-9]], & one on [[Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse an unnamed Earth]].
* ColdBloodedTorture: Of both A.C. and Oliver.
* CompositeCharacter: He's equal parts Slade Wilson/Deathstroke and General Wade Eiling from Justice League Unlimited.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: His defeat marks the season's halfway point and the beginning of the end for the VRA, making it a truly major plot point. Yet he's still just an unwitting pawn of [[BigBad Darkseid]].
* EvilOldFolks: Looks to be somewhere in his sixties or older.
* EyepatchOfPower: As of the end of "Patriot".
* EyeScream: He loses an eye after being caught in an explosion.
%%* FourStarBadass
%%* GeneralRipper
* {{Hypocrite}}: Claims to hate superpowers and powerless vigilantes who deem themselves above the law and yet, A.) Overreaches his authority by building unsanctioned interrogation facilities without the okay from his superiors. Leading into B.) Utilizing advanced military grade engineering to give himself an enhanced leg up on the competition, gaining [[SuperpowerLottery Superhuman Strength, Speed, reflexes]] and a HealingFactor for good measure.
* InNameOnly: Besides his name, eventual eye patch and his daughter in the comic continuation, he has nothing in common with his comic self.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Which is rather ironic when one takes into account his PatrioticFervor and obsession with all things American.
%%* KnightTemplar
* LampShadeHanging: Gives a chilling one to Clark just after he exits a burning building.
--> ''"Well lets just say the reaper can swing his sickle at me, but I'm beyond [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Death's Stroke]] now."''
* MadeOfIron: Didn't flinch after getting hit with Hawkman's mace, and somehow survived the destruction of the oil derrick in "Patriot".
** When Lois hits him in the face with a glass object, the cut on his head can be seen [[HealingFactor healing itself]].
* MarkOfTheBeast: Has the Omega sign tattooed on his skull, courtesy of Darkseid.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: The reaction of other characters to his surviving the explosion in "Patriot".
* PatrioticFervor: His motivation.
--> ''"No civilian should have more power than the law."''
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Invoked; he never states it aloud but seeing as the government Slade works for turned a blind eye to his [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking many, many atrocious war crimes]] due to his effectiveness in the field. The guy even looks up to some of the worst [[AdmiringTheAbomination sociopaths in human history]] and was still commemorated to Lieutenant General and eventually General rank in the military.
* SealedEvilInACan: Courtesy of Clark sending him to the PhantomZone. He gets sent back later, albeit in a coma.
* ShutUpKirk: Clark gives him a speech about how he's stopping people from trusting the very government he's trying to defend, and demands that Slade let him save him from the exploding facility. Slade tells him to shut up, responding that he'd rather die along with the Blur than be saved by "an abomination".
* TookALevelInBadass: Between "Patriot" and "Icarus", having gained superpowers from government enhancements.
%%* UnwittingPawn: Of {{ComicBook/Darkseid}}.
%%* WouldHitAGirl
* WithUsOrAgainstUs: His attitude towards {{Superhero}}es. He feels the same way about their supporters/allies and, given his rather brutal treatment of Lois when she refuses to answer his questions, it's probably safe to say that the ally trio that is arrested by the [=VRA=] should be thankful that Trotter, despite her status as a SociopathicSoldier, was the one handling their interrogations.

[[folder: Lieutenant Trotter]]
!!Lieutenant Trotter
-> '''Played By:''' Creator/LoriAnnTriolo

Formerly aide to General Slade Wilson, Trotter took control of the Department of Domestic Security's VRA strike team following Wilson's imprisonment in the PhantomZone. She captured several members of the Franchise/{{Justice League|of America}} and ComicBook/{{Justice Society|OfAmerica}}, imprisoning them in a virtual reality world while she attempted to figure out how to neutralize or control their powers. Defeated by the combined efforts of the League, Chloe Sullivan and the Suicide Squad, she was left imprisoned in her own virtual reality program.

* DragonAscendant: For an episode, anyway, she takes over Slade’s position.
* GrandTheftMe: In the virtual world, she temporarily jacks Chloe's avatar in order to mislead Clark.
* HoistByHerOwnPetard: Trapped in her own virtual world.
%%* IronLady
%%* KnightTemplar
* SociopathicSoldier: She's basically GeneralRipper, Junior.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: After the VRA legislation passes, Trotter's agency gains an absurd amount of power, to the point where she is able to order a mandatory curfew for all citizens of Metropolis, in addition to all her violations of privacy rights.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Her reasoning for not just shooting Chloe on sight are basically nonexistent, especially since she had 90% of the main heroes already in custody anyway and therefore didn't really need Chloe alive. By the time she gives her soldiers the order to kill Chloe, it's already too late.
* WithUsOrAgainstUs: Shares her superior's attitude towards the vigilantes, as well as their supporters, given the way she acts towards Emil, Lois, and Tess. Who knows what would've happened to Tess and Emil if she'd gotten away with them but not the rest of the team.

[[folder:Steve Trevor]]
!!Steve Trevor/Agent 47
!!!'''Species:''' Human

The childhood friend of Diana of Themyscira and the current director of the D.E.O.

* AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: Steve and Diana have never been childhood friends before, and he wasn't an ex of Lois' in the comics. Also the idea of Hippolyta raising him after they leave Themyscira has never appeared in nay prior adaptation.
* AlternateSelf: Has one on [[Characters/WonderWoman1975 Earth-76]] and [[Characters/DCEUWorldWarI an undesignated Earth]].
* AmicableExes: He and Lois get along really well, though its implied their relationship wasn't that serious.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: He met Diana when he was around six years old, and the two become a couple when they reunite as adults.
* OneDegreeOfSeparation: Steve is the ex of Lois, who is the cousin of Chloe who was the childhood friend of Lois' future husband Clark and who would later encounter Steve's childhood friend Diana.

* NiceHat: Again it fits his cowboy image.

* {{Geek}}: A stereotypical HollywoodNerd pre-recruitment.

* OneDegreeOfSeperation: Steve is the ex of Lois, who is the cousin of Chloe who was the childhood friend of Lois' future husband Clark and who would later encounter Steve's childhood friend Diana.

* AlternateSelf: Ones on [[{{Series/Arrow}} Earth]]-[[{{Series/Supergirl}} Prime]] & [[Film/SuicideSquad an unnamed]] [[Film/WonderWoman1984 Earth]]. Waller also has one on [[Film/GreenLantern2011 Earth-12]].

* AlternateSelf: Has one on [[Series/{{Arrow}} Earth-Prime]] & one on [[Film/SuicideSquad an unnamed Earth]].

* PragmaticAdaption: Deadshot has never been portrayed as some sort of cowboy in the comics or previous adaptions.

%%* BadassBeard
%%* BadassLongcoat
%%* BadassNormal
* {{Cowboy}}

* TheGunslinger

%%* NiceHat

* ProfessionalKiller

%%* SuperheroPackingHeat

* YouLookFamiliar: His actor played Meteor Freak Bronson in Season 6's "Static".

* AlternateSelf: On the [[{{Series/Arrowverse}} Arrowverse's]] version of [[{{Series/Stargirl}} Earth-2]].

* AlternateSelf: Ones on [[{{Series/Arrow}} Earth]]-[[{{Series/Supergirl}} Prime]] & [[Film/SuicideSquad an unnamed]] [[Film/WonderWoman1984 Earth]]. Waller also has one on [[Film/GreenLantern Earth-12]].

* AlternateSelf: Ones on [[{{Series/Arrow}} Earth]]-[[{{Series/Supergirl}} Prime]] & [[Film/SuicideSquad an unnamed]] [[Film/WonderWoman1984 Earth]].

* InTheBlood: His dad was a contract killer with a freeze gun; Cameron is a [[ProfessionalKiller government assassin]] with [[AnIcePerson cryogenic energies in his bloodstream]].

-> '''Played By:''' Wesley Macinnes

-> '''Played By:''' Ryan [=McDonell=]

-> '''Played By:''' Ted Whittall

-> '''Played By:''' Bradley Stryker

-> '''Played By:''' Lori Ann Triolo