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Circe

Species: Amazon

Affiliation(s): Sons of Themyscira

Portrayed By: Anya Chalotra

Appearances: Creature Commandos

An Amazon sorceress who seeks to conquer her homeland of Themyscira.

• Adaptational Wimp: Though already implied in her battle against the Bride, Circe is seemingly nowhere near as strong as her goddess-like comic book counterpart, given how easily she's taken down by the combination of both Weasel and Dr. Phosphorous, though she was taken by surprise from the former and the latter only landed a hit in because she was being distracted by the former.
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Zig-zagged. The massive burn mark Dr. Phosphorus leaves on her face in the third episode carries over into the next, but it notably is just a simple dark red hand print rather than an actual graphic burn scar.
• Cassandra Truth: Rick Flag doesn't believe Circe is saying the truth about Ilana's truth nature and plans for the world, but the Creature Commandos uncover evidence and figure out that Circe was telling the truth - but not before losing Nina.
• Casting Gag: Once again, Anya is playing a beautiful witch with questionable morals, whose character is represented by the color purple.
• Dark Action Girl: She's a Kung-Fu Wizard who gets one over on the Bride in hand-to-hand combat.
• Disc-One Final Boss: The team is brought in to deal with her, and by the end of the third episode, she's been caught, maimed, detained, and is trying to warn them about some far greater threat she was acting to defeat.
• Elemental Punch: Circe can cover her hands with magic to increase the power of her punches.
• Energy Ball: Circe can send multiple magic blasts toward her opponent, and her blasts are shown to be very destructive.
• Even Evil Has Standards: She is under no illusion of being a good person but even she's horrified by the Bad Future where Ilana takes over the world.
• Evil Versus Oblivion: It is revealed that Circe has been playing this trope all along. Her seemingly villainous actions, including her attempts to kill Ilana, are part of a desperate effort to prevent the complete destruction of the world.
• Flying Brick: She has the standard ability to fly, Super-Strength and Super-Toughness.
• Flying Firepower: She's like aerial artillery, she fires many attacks towards her enemies. The Bride barely escaped her attacks.
• Evil Redhead: She has dark red hair and is the main antagonist of the season.
• Groin Attack: Subjected to a particularly brutal one by the Bride, who kicks her so hard between the legs that the decretive jewel on her belt cracks.
• Hand Blasts: Circe shoots purple fire-like bolts with her hands.
• Hero Killer: She blows up G.I. Robot in the battle at Pokolistan.
• Hot Witch: It's Circe, so it's a given. The terrorists she leads are shown admiring her beauty even when she is doing something as banal as eating.
• I'll Kill You!: She tells this verbatim to Amanda for arresting her.
• Kung-Fu Wizard: This version of Circe proves surprisingly capable in close combat on top of having absurdly powerful magic. The Bride learns this the hard way.
• Leotard of Power: Circe wears a dark-colored Amazonian-stylized leotard.
• Logical Weakness: She cannot cast spells as long as her hands are restrained.
• Mind Rape: Her clairvoyant powers lead her to perform a variation of this on Waller by showing her a vision of the death and destruction that Ilana will cause.
• Purple Is Powerful: She shoots purple magic attacks from her hands.
• Redheads Are Ravishing: In Amanda's wise words, Circe is a "another redheaded waif in an inappropriately revealing outfit."
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Circe, who's usually an enemy of Wonder Woman, is instead the primary threat faced by the Creature Commandos.
• Seers: One of her powers is clairvoyance. Some of the things she foresaw are Ilana starting a new world war and the death of the Justice League and other heroes.
• Sleeves Are for Wimps: Much like Diana and other Amazonians, she goes into combat wearing a armor that exposes her arms.
• Super-Toughness: She gets up quickly after being smashed through walls by the Bride. She is also resistant to Phosphorus' radiations, as he barely burned the skin on her face while normal people die from his powers.
• Tears of Fear: After revealing the catastrophic future awaiting humanity, Circe bursts into tears, demonstrating her sincerity and the depth of her terror.
• Villain Ball: Her decision to toy with Ilana rather than just immediately kill her like she set out to do allows her assassination attempt to be thwarted by the Commandos. By extension, it ends up resulting in Nina's demise.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: She seems to sincerely believe that killing Ilana will save the world from destruction.
• Wham Line: She tells the Creature Commandos that by stopping her from killing Ilana, they just doomed the world. Whatever she means, she is serious about it, worrying the team. The next episode elaborates on this, showing that she is trying to kill Illana because a vision of the future shows her becoming a supervillain that'll ravage civilization.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: After "Chasing Squirrels", Circe disappears from the story, with Season One ending without any insight into her current whereabouts. She presumably remains imprisoned by A.R.G.U.S..

Sons of Themyscira

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Circe

Appearances: Creature Commandos

A group of misogynistic terrorists that seek to invade Pokolistan.

• Abhorrent Alpha Male: They hit on a number of modern "alpha male" archetypes, being misogynistic, toxically masculine, wannabe-tough-guy Frat Bro dumbasses driven to violence over irrational feelings of entitlement, resentment, and insecurity.
• Asshole Victim: They are pretty gruesomely dispatched by the Creature Commandos as well as Ilana. However, given that they're a bunch of misogynistic and entitled manchildren who were planning to rape Ilana before killing her, no tears are shed for their deaths.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Despite being a bunch of pathetic dude bros, they prove to be surprisingly effective against the Pokolistani military. On the much darker end of the spectrum, several of them also make it known to Ilana that they plan to rape her before killing her.
• Faux Affably Evil: They're chummy and friendly with one another, but they're still misogynistic terrorists serving a madwoman like Circe. It's also shown that some of them are rapists.
• Hate Sink: They're a bunch of stupid, misogynistic terrorist rapists easily swayed by one woman on the basis that she's hot. While they might have a point that the Amazonian lifestyle is sexist, it's obvious that they basically formed an army to sate their own vices. It's even implied Circe will get rid of them wholesale once they've done as she asked.
• Hypocrite:
  • They're an army of misogynistic dudebros, but they have no problem taking orders from Circe, a powerful sorceress (mainly because she's attractive).
  • They're a bunch of misogynstic assholes with the brass balls to condemn Themyscira for being sexist.
• In Name Only: They have nothing in common with their comic book counterparts beyond their shared group name. In the comics, the Sons of Themyscira are exactly that, the abandoned sons of the Amazons who were traded to Hephaestus as laborers in exchange for weapons after he became disgusted with the Amazons' tradition of killing their sons at birth purely because of their gender, they were eventually freed from their life of labor and later given their own settlement on Themyscira by Diana Prince, only for them to eventually be slaughtered in cold blood by a group of Amazons led by Donna Troy while Diana was away from Themyscira, much to her horror upon returning. Whereas in this series, the Sons of Themyscira are a misogynistic terrorist group working for Circe, consisting of men who have zero biological connection to the Amazons and are displeased with Themyscira's ban on men.
• Insane Troll Logic: They feel entitled to Themyscira because they were told it was a women-only paradise and therefore sexist, to justify invading an entirely different country on a woman's order.
• Laughably Evil: They're a bunch of terrorists that speak like college fratboys saying "dude" and "bro" a lot while making goofy faces.
• Mook Horror Show: They are subject to gruesome injuries and Cruel and Unusual Deaths from the Creature Commandos.
• Psychopathic Manchild: They're an entire army of entitled overgrown frat bros who view women as property and treat criticisms of their behavior as though they were infringements on their fundamental rights.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: About the only thing they get right is that Amazons are rather inherently sexist. What they don't understand is that it's that way due to a legitimate lifestyle and culture developed and ingrained over history, not recent feminism like they claim.
• Straw Misogynist: They are a group of disgruntled young men who believe that feminism is ruining their lives. They do take orders from Circe, although it's partially because they find her hot.
• Sub-Par Supremacist: As a militia of violent misogynists who are hopelessly incompetent and nowhere near as strong as they like to think they are, they qualify.
• Villain Has a Point: They claim Amazons are sexist. As a concept, it's hard to really say that is untrue, but they also grossly misunderstand and simplify the matter to the point it's easy to see they're talking out of their asses.
• Western Terrorists: They all speak with American accents and have "anti-woke" grievances.

Alexander James "Alex" Sartorius / Doctor Phosphorus

See A.R.G.U.S.

Matthew "Matt" Hagen / Clayface

^{Click here to see Clayface in Creature Commandos}

Species: Metahuman

Citizenship: American

Portrayed By: Alan Tudyk, Stephanie Beatriz (as Aisla MacPherson) (Creature Commandos), Tom Rhys Harries (Clayface)

Appearances: Creature Commandos | Clayface

An aspiring actor whose life was changed forever when a brutal attack left him disfigured. Undergoing an experimental procedure to restore his good looks, Matt Hagen would end up transformed into the monstrous, shapeshifting supervillain known as Clayface.

• Ambiguous Situation: In his introduction, it was not clear if this version of Clayface is Basil Karlo or Matthew Hagen, the two common bearers of the Clayface identity. The Clayface movie confirms it's Matt, however.
• Ascended Extra: From having a small role in Creature Commandos, to having his own starring movie announced, though the movie was in the works well before the show and would've been made regardless of his appearance in the show.
• The Blank: One shot of the Clayface trailer sees Matt slide his hand over his face and remove all features from it.
• Blob Monster: A shapeshifting, super strong humanoid mass of a clay-like substance. The character itself is inspired by the sort of monsters from 1950s B-movies.
• Body Horror: Clayface makes it clear that his transition from a handsome human actor to a giant mass of humanoid clay was not a quick and smooth process.
• Career-Ending Injury: The Clayface teaser trailer shows Matt getting his face horribly mutilated in an attack by a gangster, forcing him to resort to Mad Science to restore his looks and avoid his career ending just as it was beginning.
• Composite Character: Like in Batman: The Animated Series, this version of Matt Hagen takes Basil Karlo's background as an actor.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Creature Commandos marks his first official appearance in the DCU, ahead of his planned solo film.
• Enigmatic Minion: Though the question of who he was working for is resolved, it's not clear by the end of the first season why he was helping out or how they'd come to associate with one another.
• Facial Horror: In his solo film we not only see the bandaged, bloody results after being attacked, but also how his body reacts to the procedure meant to fix it. Specifically, we see his face drooping unnaturally, the poster shows him screaming as his lips melt into themselves, and his ability to wipe his face clean off his head.
• Girl-on-Girl is Hot: While disguised as Aisla MacPherson, he flirts with a female student and proceeds to give the class a lecture on lesbians.
• Given Name Reveal: Creature Commandos didn't reveal who the DCU's version of Clayface was, but his upcoming movie delving into his origins clarifies it's Matt Hagen.
• I Was Quite the Looker: The Clayface teaser trailer shows Matt Hagen, who is played by the very handsome Tom Rhys Harries, have his career cut short when he has his face horribly mangled.
• Kick the Dog: Calls Aisla's cat an idiot for not recognizing she's dead.
• Kill and Replace: He does this to Aisla MacPherson, living her life after killing her.
• Made of Iron: invokedAfter his fight with Rick and Eric, Clayface's unresponsive body is still splattered all over MacPhearson's living room several days after his defeat by the time Waller and Economos arrive at her house. Despite this, Word of God has clarified that he is still alive, although "mushy".
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!: Ilana's Batman Gambit to discredit Circe required that Clayface be caught impersonating Aisla MacPherson as soon as possible. Even though he technically completed his mission the moment Rick and Eric see Clayface change out of his MacPhearson disguise, he still tried to kill them to keep up the masquerade. As a result, Rick spends the next few days in a coma and couldn't report his findings until after Ilana's ruse was discovered by the Commandos, which in turn lead to the death of Clayface's employer.
• Pet the Dog: Inverted to the above trope at the same as Clayface still feeds Aisla's cat.
• Shapeshifter Weapon: Like, in the comics, Clayface is able to transform his arms into weapons such as hammers and maces.
• Transhuman Abomination: Goes from a good-looking actor to a gigantic shapeshifting lump of clay, and one who’s willing to play along with a plot for world domination.
• Villain Ball: Clayface's attempt to kill Rick and Eric proved to be this as it ultimately got his benefactor killed. Had he allowed Rick and Eric to escape MacPhearson's home, Waller would've been contacted and told of Clayface far earlier, would've cancelled the mission to kill Ilana immediately, and Ilana would've continued her schemes unimpeded.
• Vocal Evolution: While Tudyk voiced Clayface previously in Harley Quinn (2019), this incarnation's voice is much deeper and more gravelly than Quinn Clayface's higher-pitched, smoother baritone.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: As usual, he can morph and alter his body at will, be it to literally masquerade as another person or warp his appendages into weapons.

Rupert Thorne

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Portrayed By: Benjamin Byron Davis

Appearances: Creature Commandos

An infamous Gotham crime lord and industrialist.

• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In the comics, Thorne was an ally to Alex Sartorious. Here, he murders Alex's family and later tries to kill him, only to unwittingly turn him into Doctor Phosphorus, who then murders Thorne, Thorne's OWN family AND the flunkies of Thorne that were involved.
• Asshole Victim: He's a ruthless Gotham crime lord with a long rap sheet who planned to sell sensitive nuclear research to an oppressive foreign regime, on a personal level he murdered Alex's family and tried to burn the man alive in a nuclear chamber for having moral qualms. His death at Doctor Phosphorus's hands was richly deserved, the rest of his family on the other hand is debatable at best.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: A news report describes him as an industrialist, and he's a remorseless mobster who intended to send test results of Alex's nuclear energy machine — which was intended to be a permanent cure for cancer — to the oppressive fascist regime of Bialya (which would certainly have less than noble uses for it) for profit.
• Create Your Own Villain: Rupert murdering Alex's wife and son, as well as attempting to painfully kill him with his own machine, would turn him into the deranged supervillain he is today.
• Death by Adaptation: He's brutally killed by Doctor Phosphorous, while he survives in the comics and generally doesn't die in other media adaptations either.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He's an utterly ruthless and corrupt bastard, but he has a family of his own and is shown happily entertaining them as they eat dinner together. Too bad the man whose family and life he so remorselessly destroyed comes back to return the favor.
• Fat Bastard: He's somewhat overweight and is a cruel mob boss.
• Hate Sink: Ruthless, needlessly cruel, and utterly lacking in empathy? Rupert is definitely meant to be hated by the audience. The fact that he has a loving family of his own only makes him seem more contemptible, as it demonstrates just how little compassion and empathy he has for those who get in the way of his business, that he could murder their families in cold blood, only to go home and play with his own children without a trace of guilt.
• Karmic Death: Has the gall to kill Alex's wife and son, frame him using their bodies to stage a murder-suicide, and say that he is using his dead wife as an excuse for messing with his business. Then he and his flunkies laugh as Alex burns in his machine. When Alex stumbles out as Phosphorus and finds Thorne, he kills him and his entire family as they enjoy dinner, hunts down and brutally murders all the flunkies involved, and takes everything Thorne worked for.
• Kick the Dog: Murdering Alex's wife and son is already cruel enough. Forcing the distraught Alex to touch their bloodied corpses so that his prints are all over the crime scene is downright excessive. What's worse, he and his goons are laughing about it as he slowly burns in his machine.
• Lack of Empathy: And how. Without a single drop of remorse, he has his men brutally murder Alex's wife and son before coldly throwing Alex himself in his own nuclear energy machine to kill him for not upholding his end of their deal. What makes this rather notable is that he himself is a family man — yet shows a startling lack of compassion for destroying someone else's entire livelihood for the sake of "business".
• Mythology Gag: His character design is wholesale lifted from his depiction in Batman: The Animated Series.
• Posthumous Character: Dr. Phosphorous has already killed him and taken over his criminal empire by the present day.
• Villain Has a Point: Points out that Phosphorous was effectively trying to con both the mob and the Bialyans with phony results, which was never going to end well no matter how smart he thought he was.
• Would Hurt a Child: He killed Dr. Phosphorous' son alongside his wife.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: More or less acts like a Mafia or Thiller crime lord, and his method of killing Alex by exposing him to radiation isn't actually that bad on paper. What he fails to recognize is that accidents (and cruelty) like that happen constantly in a superhero-based world, which creates villains and heroes in equal measure. When the newly super-powered Alex - who he didn't check to see die - tracks him down to find him enjoying a fun family dinner after killing his wife and child, the murderous result is unsurprising. Especially in a city like Gotham which has a plethora of superpowered villains who trace their origins to mad science gone wrong.

Congorilla

Species: Gorilla

Portrayed By: Jason Konopisos

Appearances: Creature Commandos

An intelligent gorilla inmate of Belle Rêve.

• Adaptational Villainy: Congorilla is a member of the Justice League in the comics. Here, he's a criminal imprisoned in Belle Rêve and a complete Jerkass.
• Asshole Victim: He's brutally beaten (and possibly killed) by the Bride, but it's hard to feel bad for him, given how he was bullying Nina.
• The Bully: He acts as one to Nina, harassing her and stealing her food.
• Laser-Guided Karma: After bullying Nina, he ends up getting brutalized by The Bride.
• Uncertain Doom: While Congorilla gets his jaw violently caved in by The Bride, it isn't clear whether or not he survived, with Phosphorous only saying that he's probably dead.

Sven Larson / Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man

Species: Metahuman

Appearances: Creature Commandos

A human-dinosaur-rock-plant hybrid inmate of Belle Rêve.

• The Cameo: He's one of several obscure villains that can be briefly seen as G.I. Robot is escorted into Belle Rêve.
• Shapeshifter Mashup: He's a freakish combination of a human, a T. rex, a tree, and rocks.

Crimson Centipede

Species: Metahuman

Appearances: Creature Commandos

A centipede-like inmate of Belle Rêve.

• The Cameo: He's one of several obscure villains that can be briefly seen as G.I. Robot is escorted into Belle Rêve.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: He has sixteen arms and most likely did some bad things to warrant imprisonment.

The Brigands

• Adaptational Villainy: The Brigands mainly concerned themselves with slaughter in the comic, but here it's shown that they frequently kidnap women for use as sex slaves.
• Always Chaotic Evil: An entire species of warmongering, bloodthirsty and vicious warriors who scour the universe wreaking destruction and kidnapping innocent young girls to be used as sex slaves.
• Dark Is Evil: They all wear very dark armor.
• Hated by All: No one actually likes the Brigands due to their unruly and violent personalities. The people who do work with them are forced to out of fear and/or blackmail, and they're despised enough to the point where at least one of them has a bounty on his head.
• One-Gender Race: Their species consists entirely of males. Because of this, they kidnap girls as "brides" to sustain their population.
• Poison Is Evil: They love to use a type poison that paralyzes and causes a slow death towards the victim as a weapon. Besides using the poison on Krypto as well as Kara at some point, they also have the spiked bars at the prison coated with the poison.
• Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: They kidnap girls and forcibly breed them without their consent.
• Space Pirates: They travel the universe in a huge warship, ravaging entire planets and looting them for all they're worth.

Krem of the Yellow Hills

Affiliation(s): Brigands

Portrayed By: Matthias Schoenaerts

Appearances: Supergirl

The leader of the Brigands and a space pirate who is targeted by Ruthye Marye Knull for murdering her family.

• Adaptational Badass:
  • Downplayed, in that it is clear that he cannot physically compare to Kara with her full powers, but he does display a degree of super strength, being said to have the strength of a thousand men and comes to blows with a weakened Kara, whereas in the comic there was nothing to suggest he was stronger than the average human male.
  • In the original Woman of Tomorrow comic, his role as an Expy of Tom Chaney of True Grit went the whole nine yards, in that he was just a random lower-tier member of the Brigands who had decided to independently Kick the Dog and dragged the rest of the gang into his mess. In the film, he is the leader of the Brigands.
• Adaptational Dumbass: The original Woman of Tomorrow comic had Krem as an Errol Flynn-esque cultured (yet smug) badass who was part of a royal court (while planning to backstab his way up the ladder) before becoming part of the Brigands and has an extended scene giving Ruthye a Motive Rant that sounds exactly like you would expect an evil Errol Flynn to say it like (a brutal juxtaposition to the random act of violence he did that causes the whole plot to occur). The film version of Krem for the most part is a brute right in line with the average War Boy (except for the moment he lures Kara to a planet with a green sun).
• Adaptational Hairstyle Change: In the comic, Krem has a full head of hair and a bushy beard. In the film, he's almost completely bald and keeps the hair on his head in a long ponytail. While he still has visible facial hair here, it’s cut much closer to his skin than his comic counterpart’s.
• Adaptational Job Change: In the comic, Krem worked for the king of Ruthye's society as a loyalty tester until his ruthlessness impressed the Brigands enough to invite him into their ranks. Here, he's with the Brigands from the beginning and seems to be their leader, which the comic gave no indication of.
• Adaptational Species Change: He's the same species as the other Brigands in the film, whereas his comic book counterpart was originally from Ruthye's planet.
• Adaptational Ugliness: Krem looks far uglier and more threatening than his comic book counterpart, who basically looked like a regular human being. Here, he has almost no hair and wears intimidating ornaments protruding from his face and skull, appearing more like a punkish pirate than a royal agent.
• Adaptational Villainy: While the ending of Woman of Tomorrow would show that Krem's time in the Phantom Zone would lead him to become genuinely remorseful of his crimes, here Krem's killed while he's still an unrepentant monster.
• Asshole Victim: He's a hateful monster who remorselessly slaughters the families of two different young girls in front of them before finishing off one of them, shoots Krypto with a slow acting paralyzing dart, and kidnaps young girls as part of a sex trafficking ring. Nobody will shed any tears for him after Supergirl guts him with Ruthye's sword.
• Ax-Crazy: Not only does he wield a literal battle axe, he's shown pretty consistently to be very bloodthirsty and cruel.
• Bad Boss: Downplayed; Krem isn't abusive or violent towards his men, but after Lobo decollates Drom, Krem just comments on what a cool kill it was rather than be even slightly put out by his right-hand man's demise.
• Bad People Abuse Animals: Krem earns Kara's ire by shooting Krypto with a poisoned dart, the poison in question being slow-acting and painful.
• Bald of Evil: He's completely bald and a murderous space pirate.
• Big Bad: The main antagonist of Supergirl, kicking off the titular hero and Ruthye's journey by killing the latter's family and poisoning Krypto.
• The Bully: Krem loves to pick on people who are (or he thinks are) weaker than him, relishing in their helplessness.
• Crazy-Prepared: He just happens to be carrying Kryptonite Darts on him in case he happens to run into one of two known Kryptonian survivors like Kara.
• Death by Adaptation: Krem survived the events of the original Woman of Tomorrow storyline, his comeuppance coming in the form of being sentenced to the Phantom Zone. In the film, Kara kills him.
• Didn't Think This Through: While his plan to kill Kara by exposing her to a green sun was clever, he forgot that the planet they're on orbits both a green and yellow sun, meaning she gets healed once the green sun sets and the yellow one rises.
• Dirty Coward: He would rather poison or weaken Kara through underhanded means instead of confronting her directly. The previously smug and taunting Krem is notably deathly quiet when it looks like Ruthye is about to kill him, and he's quickly back to terrified silence when Kara makes it clear that not wanting Ruthye to kill him is not the same as being willing to spare the Brigand.
• Enemy Eats Your Lunch: It is a downright Character Tic to him. If there is any food around him in a scene, he is practically compelled to steal it and messily devour it.
• Evil Is Petty:
  • Not content to merely be a violent, mass-murdering bandit king and human trafficker, he also constantly steals food whenever he comes across it, and clearly takes great relish in doing so.
  • Not only did Krem shoot Krypto with a poison dart, but he specifically used a slow-acting poison that would take three days to kill the poor dog. Even worse, shooting Krypto was totally unnecessary, as under a red sun, Krypto posed little to no threat and might not have even reached Krem before the Brigands' stolen ship took off.
• Expy: Of Tom Chaney from True Grit, being the Stupid Evil murderer of the young deuteragonist's father.
• Faux Affably Evil: His unnervingly eccentric and gleeful demeanor only further highlights what a depraved man he is.
• Hate Sink: As the vicious, sadistic and irredeemable sex-trafficking pirate who shows no remorse for what he does, he solely exists to elicit disgust and hatred from the audience.
• Human Aliens: He looks like a regular if notably large and bulky human with facial piercings.
• Impromptu Tracheotomy: After giving him a gut wound as payback for poisoning Krypto, Kara kills Krem by stabbing him through the throat.
• Jabba Table Manners: He's a very messy eater, which fits with his brutal ways. He notably slams his knife down the table while eating a pie from Ruthye's family and later slurps larvae from a meal plate for the Brigands' prisoners.
• Kick the Dog: He lives by this trope, but what finally convinces Supergirl to after Krem? Him shooting Krypto with a poison-tipped arrow.
• Lack of Empathy: Fitting the Ax-Crazy slaver that he is, Krem is totally unaffected by the suffering he inflicts, murdering Ruthye's brother just for yelling "boo" (at his sister; he didn't know Krem was even in their house), poisoning Krypto with an almost bored expression on his face (not even putting down the bowl of cereal he found on Kara's ship before doing so), and even complimenting Lobo on killing Krem's own right-hand man.
• Pet the Dog: When he hears Kara throwing up in a toilet, Krem sincerely asks if she's okay.
• Psychopathic Manchild: While he's mature enough to command a large group of marauders, Krem is easily excitable and likes childishly taunting his victims while hunting them. He even takes a second to gush over Lobo brutally killing one of his own men like a deranged teenager watching a slasher movie.
• Sadist: Krem isn't just a needlessly violent kidnapper, marauder, and murderer, but he enjoys what he does, using slow-acting poisons to torture and kill his enemies, reveling in bloodshed, and happily taunting the loved ones of his victims if he chances to encounter them.
• The Sociopath: He's violent, sadistic, walks around with the thinnest veneer of charisma that mainly serves to emphasize his gleeful sadism and bloodlust, and possesses a complete Lack of Empathy.
• Stupid Evil: Krem always picks the most violent and sadistic method when dealing with anyone, even when being pragmatic would be the smarter option.
• Throwing Your Sword Always Works: He hurls his axe at Ruthye's brother, which plants itself in his back and kills him.
• Translator Microbes: He has a device on his neck that lets him speak in whatever language is necessary in the moment.
• Villainous Glutton: He's frequently shown eating throughout the movie. Besides eating a pie at Ruthye's home and eating larvae at the prison, he also munches on a leftover bowl of cereal when stealing Kara's ship and at some point drinks from a jug of milk.
• Would Hurt a Child: He's the psychopathic leader of a sex trafficking ring that regularly targets little girls, so this is to be expected. One of his most ruthless moments in the film sees him sadistically murder a young child he previously promised to return home out of spite for her parents failing to poison Supergirl as promised, immediately after killing her parents in front of her. He also threatens to kill Ruthye numerous times in the climax and has killed her brother beforehand.
• You Killed My Father: His murder of Ruthye's family is what sent her on the warpath after him.

Drom Baxton

Affiliation(s): Brigands

Portrayed By: Diarmaid Murtagh

Appearances: Supergirl

The second-in-command of the Brigands and a target of Lobo.

• Asshole Victim: He's an unrepentant murderous sex trafficker, so it's hard to feel bad when Lobo decapitates him.
• Beard of Evil: He sports a beard and is every bit the vicious sex trafficker the rest of the Brigands are.
• Canon Foreigner: Drom Baxton doesn't exist in the comics and was created specifically for Supergirl.
• The Dragon: He serves as Krem's right-hand man.
• Flat Character: He doesn’t get very much development beyond working for Krem as a Brigand and having a bounty on his head that Lobo is interested in collecting.
• Human Aliens: Much like Krem, Drom is fairly indistinguishable from a physically strong human with facial piercings.
• Noodle Incident: According to Lobo, Drom has ticked off several "rich douchebags" who put a bounty on his head; while the Brigands' crimes make it easy to understand why people would have an axe to grind with them, what Drom did to personally earn a bounty (that apparently does not extend to Krem or the other Brigands) never comes up.
• Off with His Head!: Lobo cuts his head off. He notes it's easier to lug a head around to get the bounty rather than the entire corpse.
• Price on Their Head: The bounty on him is what brings Lobo into the fray and leads him to meet Supergirl and Ruthye.

Eric Frankenstein

Species: Zombie

Citizenship: Pokolistani

Portrayed By: David Harbour

Appearances: Creature Commandos

The first artificial human being made by Victor Frankenstein. He has spent centuries hopelessly chasing the Bride under the delusion that they are destined to be together, despite her vehement rejection of his romantic advances.

• Abhorrent Admirer: To the Bride, who refuses to accept his advances especially after he murdered Victor due to their romance.
• Adaptational Dumbass: He's far more childish than his comic counterpart, prone to toddler-like tantrums, and being unable to comprehend why the Bride would find him unattractive. He also lacks comic book Frankenstein's Warrior Poet characterization, not being nearly as cultured, sophisticated and eloquent.
• Adaptation Personality Change: Frankenstein in the comics is The Stoic, very formal and a no-nonsense Consummate Professional. Here he is much more casual and prone to snarking, as well as using vulgar language that the well-spoken comic book Frank never would use. On the other hand he also shows to be much more insecure about his freakish looks.
• Adaptational Villainy: Frankenstein (in the DC comics) is firmly on the side of good, had enough of a measure of affection for his creator to adopt his name, and was happily married to The Bride for a time. He was also a superhero who 'leads' the Creature Commandos in Frankenstein, Agent of S.H.A.D.E.. Here, he's killed Dr. Frankenstein, stalked The Bride for almost two centuries, and appears to be a crime lord in the present. He also fought for Germany in WWII, something his comic counterpart was asleep for.
• Adaptational Wimp: Comic book Frankenstein is ridiculously powerful, having managed to singlehandedly dispatch dangerous foes like O.M.A.C., mountain-sized monsters, kaijus, living islands and even a sentient universes. In the show he struggles against Clayface even with the help of Flag.
• Affably Evil: As long as he doesn't think you are an obstacle to him reuniting with The Bride, he's quite friendly and somewhat managed to form a friendship with Flag.
• Amazon Chaser: He has no issues with pursuing his Bride despite her antagonism, claiming he couldn't love her if she made things too easy.
• Ambiguously Bi: He's focused entirely on the Bride romantically, but he also frequently mentions he thinks Flag is hot. At separate points, he calls him a "DILF-y piece of shit" and "everyone's type". It's implied that Eric is so focused on he and the Bride being "soulmates" that he's in denial towards any attraction towards the same sex, quite literally not understanding his own feelings because they clash with his iron-clad delusions of the world.
• All for Nothing: After spending centuries and the entire season chasing after the Bride, by the time he finally reunites with her in the present day, it proves completely futile as she simply puts a few bullets in him and leaves him for dead. The Stinger at the end of the season heavily implies that this is just the most recent instance of a consistent cycle that Eric is completely blind to.
• Bad Boss: His Hair-Trigger Temper and tendency to leap to baffling conclusions makes him a danger to even the people helping him pursue the Bride, as seen where he kills two of his underlings under the completely unfounded suspicion that they were laughing at him over his inability to grow facial hair.
• Bait the Dog: A good amount of Episode 5 is spent on humanizing Eric through the flashbacks to his relationship with Bogdana and his present-day Odd Couple dynamic with Rick. This comes all to a screeching halt at the end, where it is revealed that he murdered Bogdana in a twisted attempt at a Mercy Kill before resuming his pursuit of the Bride, showing just how genuinely insane and delusional he really is.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: He considers Rick Flag Sr. his dearest friend, because he served him tea (after breaking into and trashing his house no less), listening to his problems, and offering to help reunite him with The Bride in exchange for helping Flag save Princess Ilana.
• Big Bad Wannabe: No doubt he's dangerous in his own right and spends the entire season relentlessly chasing The Bride to "be with her", but compared to the more complicated, high-stakes conspiracy involving Princess Ilana and Circe's vision, he is much less of a priority. Flag simply uses him in hopes of mistakenly saving Ilana's life, and when he does finally return to Pokolistan and reunite with the Bride, she (temporarily) kills him without any effort.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Eric sees every one of his actions as virtuous and justified, while everyone else sees him as a deluded, monstrous sociopath. His every decision and interaction with others is made to further his interests, and his pursuit of the Bride is completely based on his sense of entitlement to her. This is based on his overall viewpoint that loneliness and isolation is the worst thing of all; he wanted a Bride for a companion and kills the woman who cared for him because he didn't want to leave her alone.
• The Cat Came Back: Several centuries of being repeatedly bludgeoned to a pulp and nearly killed by the Bride has done nothing to stop him from continuing to pursue her thinking she is playing hard to get, like a Darker and Edgier version of Pepé Le Pew.
• Character Exaggeration: In the original novel, Frankenstein did ask Victor to make him a bride or companion so he wouldn't be alone all the time, but Victor scrapped the project out of fear of what could happen in such a relationship. In Creature Commandos, Eric's obsession and entitlement for the Bride's affections drive him through the series. Because of his mental capacity as a child, he doesn't understand why a relationship cannot work if he has to force her to be with him.
• "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: In the modern day at least; as the rest of his section shows, Eric is dangerously, delusionally obsessed with getting the Bride to love him, which is at least partly due to his original desire to love and be loved by a romantic partner. He is introduced in the modern day on a party yacht that is filled with beautiful women, with the clear implication that he could be with any of them if he weren't so busy sulking about the one woman on the planet he knows wants nothing to do with him.
• Cry Laughing: When Rick accuses Eric of attacking him for no reason, Eric initially bursts into a forced laugh that Rick immediately calls out as unconvincing. This causes Eric to break down into tears, revealing his insecurities and asking Rick if he thinks the Bride loves him.
• Determinator: He has been chasing after the Bride for nearly two centuries, no matter how much she loathes him and wants nothing to do with him.
• Entitled to Have You: Being that the Bride was literally created at Eric's request to have a soul mate, he assumes that her heart can only belong to him and can't get it through his skull that the Bride finds him and his attempts to woo her repulsive. When the Bride instead falls in love with Victor, Eric proceeds to murder him while justifying it to a horrified Bride that he was merely removing Victor's "corrupting" hold over her.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Played for Laughs but Eric's response to seeing MacPhearson flirting with a student and having a lecture about lesbians is that what she is doing is very unprofessional for a professor in college.
• The Farmer and the Viper: After being left for dead following his first fight with the Bride, he was nursed back to health and taken in by a kindly blind Romani woman named Bogdana. He would end up murdering her before setting off in pursuit of the Bride under the delusional belief that he was freeing her from her loneliness.
• Faux Affably Evil: He can be somewhat personable, but he's very easy to anger to the point of murderous rage when anyone gets in the way of his quest. He murders hired help for perceived insults and slaughters the inhabitants of a private jet so he can use it, delivering a casual speech to the pilot about his reasons before rudely demanding he get to flying.
• Frankenstein's Monster: An alternate version of the Trope Namer himself, who exists here alongside his Distaff Counterpart, the Bride.
• Friendly Address Privileges: During the cab ride to the Princess's castle, he refers to the absent Rick Flag Sr. as "my dearest friend Richard Flag, I call him Rick."
• Green-Eyed Monster: Eric envies Rick for being able to grow a thick beard.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Eric has a very violent behavior and anything can trigger him to kill someone. You don't even need to do something or think something about him, Eric will just jump to the craziest conclusion and kill you, like he did with his men.
• Horrible Judge of Character: He genuinely believes that The Bride's frequent and violent attempts at keeping him away are just her way of playing hard to get. Everyone else can see it for what it really is — she wants absolutely nothing to do with him.
• Immune to Bullets: During his fight with Rick, the bullets Rick fires at him are shown bouncing off of his skin. The Bride has more luck punching holes in him thanks to the higher caliber of bullet her handguns use.
• Insane Troll Logic: Eric kills his underlings because he assumes they are judging him for not being able to grow hair on his face. If anything they are actually judging him for his tendency to jump to insane conclusions.
• It's All About Me: All he cares about is claiming the Bride for himself. His friendships with anyone else extends only as far as they're willing to help him, and he'll dump them the moment they stop being useful to him.
• Laughably Evil: Despite being a genuine madman, he gets a good amount of the Black Comedy off of his numerous bizarre and at times downright unhinged reactions to what is around him, combined with how he genuinely doesn't understand what he is doing is wrong.
• Made of Iron: Much to the Bride's eternal frustration, Eric won't take no for an answer from Death as well. Even being shot multiple times by the Bride's high-caliber handgun only keeps him down for roughly a few hours.
• Mercy Kill: How he frames the killing of the old blind hermit who took him in, killing her so that she wouldn't have to suffer in the grief of him leaving her.
• Mistaken for Romance: While observing from a helicopter through binoculars, Eric sees the Bride and Rick talking and smiling at each other and jumps to the conclusion that they are romantically involved. In reality, the Bride and Rick are merely discussing the details of their mission in Pokolistan, with no romantic undertones.
• Mood-Swinger: He can go from moping to murdering someone in an extreme rage at the drop of a hat.
• Mutually Unequal Relation: He is Flag Sr.'s self-proclaimed "best friend" despite Flag disliking him and only putting up with him to help save the Princess.
• Named In The Adaptation: Frankenstein's monster is never given a name in most adaptations. Here, Victor gives his creation the name "Eric".
• Oblivious to Hatred: He denies the Bride despises him, believing she is playing hard to get.
• Obliviously Evil:
  • Eric seems genuinely clueless as to why the Bride would be so horrified by him murdering Victor and immediately assumes she would be into him after that.
  • He murders Bogdana thinking it would be a mercy, as he would otherwise have been leaving her alone.
• One's Freakiness, Another's Beauty: Mostly because he fundamentally misunderstands why the Bride hates him, he is incredibly insecure about his undead appearance.
• Pet the Dog:
  • Personally drops the mortally wounded Rick off at the hospital before heading off to Pokolistan to stop the Bride from killing Ilana.
  • Eric pays the two pilots well for bringing him to Pokolistan, even though he hijacked their plane to begin with.
• Psychological Projection: He considers loneliness to be a Fate Worse than Death because of his own experiences as the only one of his kind, and he assumes everyone feels the same. Hence his killing of Bogdana so she won't be without his company when he leaves her to go after the Bride.
• Psychopathic Manchild: He has a very juvenile perception of romance, throws tantrums when things don't go his way, and also happens to be a monster with Super-Strength and no restraint whenever he's upset. While it could be initially justified by the fact that he was Born as an Adult, he tellingly hasn't changed that much even nearly two centuries later, while the Bride has become a jaded adult.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: He was technically correct when he claimed to the Bride after he killed Victor that Victor had been corrupting her, namely that he was engaging in what amounted to grooming, considering the massive power imbalance between her and Victor. However, what Eric meant in that moment was more that Victor had courted her when she was supposed to belong to Eric.
• Sexually Frustrated Villain: Eric commissioned the creation of The Bride because he wanted a mate and believed himself too ugly to be with a normal woman. Back then, he was still somewhat rational, but when the Bride rejected him, he became increasingly monstrous, and when she instead fell in love with Victor Frankenstein, he murdered Victor and has been stalking the Bride ever since.
• Single-Target Sexuality: He's only fixated on The Bride and not even a boat full of scantily clad women seemed to remotely arouse his interest. And those girls didn't seem to even mind him being an undead monster.
• Skewed Priorities: In his mind, everything is about his quest to be reunited with his Bride and spend the rest of his existence cherishing her in his own warped, selfish way. When he believes Rick is dying in his arms, he desperately tries to ask him some final questions — namely, if the Bride ever talked about Eric and seemed receptive to getting together at some point.
• Smarter Than They Look: While he still is a grown up man with the mind of a child, he is nevertheless a cunning and resourceful fighter, as he was the one who defeated Clayface using electricity from a nearby power socket.
• Sophisticated as Hell: He monologues about his woes in a flowery fashion, and casually intersperses them with swear words, to say nothing about his generally childish behavior.
• Stalker with a Crush: He's been following The Bride across the world for roughly two centuries in hopes of winning her, never comprehending that she does not love him and interpreting her violence towards him as playing hard-to-get.
• Stupid Sexy Flanders: While grappling with Rick under the mistaken belief that he and The Bride were in a relationship, he calls Rick a "DILF-y piece of shit" and later cries how he's everyone's type.
• The Worf Effect: His entire role across the season is predicated on his hunt for the Bride, and all throughout, he's shown to be an extremely ruthless, proficient fighter, both smart and strong, but when he shows up to try and prevent Ilana's assassination, he's defeated extremely easily and spat on. Granted, this was by The Bride, who has almost two centuries' worth of experience putting him back in the grave.
• Thinks Like a Romance Novel: Eric has a highly idealized and immature view of love. He is infatuated with the Bride, a woman who despises him, yet he convinces himself that she's simply playing hard to get. He romanticizes Rick's fleeting affair with Princess Ilana, seeing it as a beautiful forbidden love story and comparing them to Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in Titanic (1997). Similarly, he envisions his own supposed love story with the Bride as something akin to When Harry Met Sally.... However, the Bride's flashbacks make it clear that her feelings for Eric are pure hatred, emphasizing how delusional his perspective is.
• Truer to the Text: While not a 1:1, this version of the Monster is notably closer to the original novel than the comics version, being a mentally unbalanced Psychopathic Manchild who reacts with violence when wronged, as well as having an Intergenerational Friendship with a blind hermit.
• Villainous Crush: His driving motivation is an obsessive crush on the Bride. To a lesser extent, he also has one on Flag, frequently calling him attractive in a manner that suggests he's at least somewhat attracted to him, enough so to fixate on him as a rival for the Bride's affection.
  Flag: She's not my type.
  Eric: She's everyone's type, and so are you! [starts weeping while Flag stares uncomfortably]
• Villain Has a Point: Heavily played with and zigzagged in this particular case (also crosses over with Dumbass Has a Point), as while this does not justify Eric's own horrific actions, let alone entitle him to The Bride's good graces, it is worth noting that Victor Frankenstein wasn't too saintly himself, given as how his relationship with Eric had a massive power imbalance held mainly in the doctor's favor, not to mention his questionable choice in having a relationship with The Bride (especially since he had a wife and children at the time). Considering how the doctor was partially responsible for how his first creation turned out, it's hard to say he didn't deserve the end Eric inflicted on him.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: He believes that he and the Bride's story is like a screwball romantic comedy.
• Yandere: Eric murdered Victor Frankenstein after he discovered that Victor had romanced the Bride, who had been initially created to be Eric's lover. Eric then proceeded to stalk her for nearly two centuries in order to claim her.

August "Auggie" Ransom Smith / White Dragon

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Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Aryan Empire

Portrayed By: Robert Patrick

Appearances: Peacemaker

See DCEU: Other Supervillains for more information on his DC Extended Universe variant.

A white supremacist supervillain and the abusive father of Christopher Smith.

• Abusive Parents: Just like in the DCEU, Auggie is an abusive excuse of a father, as demonstrated when he hits Keith with the back of his hand for protesting his killing of a helpless alien and forcing him to handle the Quantum Unfolding Chamber when he first discovered it because he didn't want to risk his own skin just in case it dangerous.
• Adaptational Jerkass: While already a horrible person in the DCEU, it did at least suggest that he had some level of love for Keith. Here, it's revealed that Auggie was every bit as awful to him as he was to Chris.
• Archnemesis Dad: He is Peacemaker's abusive father and his most personal enemy.
• Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Despite having pocket dimension technology seemingly superior to Lex Luthor's own portals, he has no intention of marketing it and prefers to live a meager existence in a quiet neighborhood. Justified Trope because he did not actually build the technology, he stole it from an alien he killed, and thus would have no idea how to mass produce it. Although he seemingly figured out how to reverse engineer the alien technology to build his son's helmets and his White Dragon armor.
  • The penultimate episode of season 2 reveals that Earth-X Auggie saw this version of him at some point in the past. Auggie could've stolen the White Dragon suit from Earth-X and painted it white and red to fit his own agenda. The same could be said about Peacemaker's helmets.
• Dirty Coward: After finding the Quantum Unfolding Chamber, Auggie forced both of his sons to handle it for him because he was too much of a coward to do it himself. This also meant he risked the life of Keith, who was ostensibly the son he "loved".
• The Dreaded: Despite being long dead, both Chris and Economos remain utterly terrified of him in the present day, with Chris running away screaming at the mere sight of Auggie's (seemingly much friendlier) Earth-2 counterpart and Economos being paranoid that said Earth-2 counterpart will be just as bloodthirsty as the original, though he turns out to be more reasonable.
  Economos: We should probably wait back in our world, don't you think? I mean, what if the White Dragon shows up?
• Establishing Character Moment: His first and only scene in season two consists of him shooting a defenseless alien to death and beating his eldest son for trying to save said alien, immediately reminding returning fans (and showing newcomers) what an abusive sociopath he is.
• Evil Genius: Subverted. Despite being responsible for creating Peacemaker's helmets, he was not responsible for creating the Quantum Unfolding Chamber as he took the technology from an alien he killed during a hunting trip. Peacemaker also reveals his dad flunked out of school at 10th grade, and when Leota asks how was he able to create all his tech and helmets, Peacemaker said it's complicated. It's later implied he either stole or copied the designs from his Earth-2 counterpart.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Though he's been dead for two years by the beginning of Peacemaker season two, Auggie Smith's lifelong abuse of Chris and his racist teachings still cast a very clear shadow over his son's life. This profound and toxic legacy is the primary motivation for Peacemaker to seek redemption on Earth-2, underscoring how deeply his father's actions continue to shape his journey and identity.
• Hated by All: Absolutely nobody likes him: Chris resents him for his abusive parenting, Vigilante despises his racism, Economos is still scared of him, and even Eagly doesn't seem to mind that he's gone.
• Hate Sink: Just like his DCEU counterpart, he is a horrifically abusive father and a white supremacist whose impact on Chris' life has been nothing but negative. Even his supposed "love" for his oldest son from the previous season is revealed to be absent here, as he apathetically hits Keith for trying to stand up to him.
• Jerkass: He's as rude as he is racist and abusive, lacking even an ounce of kindness towards his sons in his brief appearance.
• Kick the Dog: He shoots a defenseless alien to death for seemingly no reason other than so he could steal its technology.
• Kick the Morality Pet: In the first season, Auggie's DCEU counterpart claimed to love Keith. During a flashback in this universe, Auggie has no problem with beating Keith for talking back to him, showing how little he actually cared about his oldest son outside of using him as a convenient way to guilt-trip Chris.
• Lack of Empathy: He has zero qualms with violently gunning down a helpless, wounded alien clearly begging for its life.
• Lower-Class Lout: As it turns out, Auggie dropped out of high school and was simply an impoverished, racist redneck before stumbling onto alien technology by complete accident, thus allowing him to become the White Dragon.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: He was a violently racist (and homophobic) member of The Klan in life.
• Posthumous Character: Due to his death in Peacemaker Season 1 carrying over from the DCEU, he's dead by the start of the DCU.
• The Sociopath: He abuses both of his sons without an ounce of hesitation and guns down a defenseless, bleeding alien for no reason, both of which combine to show his utter Lack of Empathy and impulsive nature.
• Sub-Par Supremacist: Despite being a very dangerous person due to his sheer ruthless capacity for cruelty, at the end of the day Auggie is just a run-of-the-mill racist. He just lucked into a powerful resource and used it to enhance himself and his standing.

Brian and Paddy Craic

Species: Metahuman

Citizenship: Pokolostani

Portrayed By: Russ Bain (Brian), Luke Cook (Paddy)

Appearances: Creature Commandos

An unruly pair of metahuman brothers with electrical powers.

• And Show It to You: The Bride rips out Paddy's heart with her hands.
• Asshole Victims: Paddy viciously beats a prostitute and attempts to rape her, and both him and Brian of them intended to murder everyone in the brothel, leading the Bride to brutally murder them.
• Boom, Headshot!: Brian is killed when his head is shot.
• Canon Foreigner: They were created specifically for Creature Commandos.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Paddy is horrified when the Bride effortlessly murders his brother.
• Fighting Irish: Paddy is a burly and aggressive Irish man who gets violent towards prostitutes.
• Oh, No... Not Again!: Brian complains that they're burning down yet another brothel due to Paddy's actions.
• Psycho Electro: They have electrical powers and are violent, sexist creeps who get off on hurting women.
• Super-Strength: Paddy's electrical powers evidently also come with a decent degree of superstrength, able to knock the Bride flying backward with an electrified punch. Unfortunately for him, it doesn't do much actual damage and he rather quickly discovers that she heavily outclasses him in this department.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Neither of them last very long, but Brian barely gets a sentence in before he's killed.

Dimensional Imp

Species: Imp

Appearances: Superman

A dimensional imp that fights the Justice Gang.

• Adaptational Abomination: Interdimensional imps like Mr. Mxyzptlk and Bat-Mite are depicted as funny little humans with reality-bending powers which they mostly use in cartoony ways. This imp appears as a giant octopus-like ball of dynamic energy, though it would be entirely within their abilities to change their form.
• Adaptational Wimp: While the comics depicts interdimensional imps as being powerful Reality Warpers that can only really be outsmarted, rather than overpowered, this one is a comparatively more mundane, generic alien threat that the Justice Gang are able to take down with limited difficulty. Word of God has referred to this imp as a "basic stupid imp" that's nowhere near as powerful as Mr. Mxyzptlk.
• Ambiguous Situation: Superman calls the ball of energy an interdimensional imp, but he never refers to it by a specific name. Given Superman's comic book history, it's possible that the imp is Mr. Mxyzptlk, a classic Superman foe. But the imp is only fighting the Justice Gang rather than Superman, who is Mxy's favorite target in nearly all dimensions and universes, and seems to be beaten into submission without the classic "Trick Mxy into saying his name backwards". James Gunn would later clarify in an interview that its a completely different character and far weaker than Mxyzptlk.
• Funny Background Event: There is a sizable amount of situational comedy taken from how such a physically huge antagonistic force is just... in the background during an emotional heart-to-heart, with the focus people (Superman and Lois) barely acknowledging it. It just further emphasizes how Metropolis is a City of Adventure.
• No Name Given: Superman refers to it as "an interdimensional imp" but never mentions the specific name.
• Uncertain Doom: It appears to be torn open by the Justice Gang, who aren't averse to killing their foes, and starts to bleed out its insides in time to form a backdrop for Superman and Lois' kiss. With how little focus it receives, it's ambiguous if this actually kills it.
• The Unfought: Well, Superman doesn't fight it, but the Justice Gang does.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Neither Superman nor Lois seem too worried about this... thing rampaging over the skies of Metropolis outside the window and instead have a heart-to-heart. Justified considering the Justice Gang is clearly taking care of it, so they don't need to be too concerned with it.

Robert DuBois / Bloodsport

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Task Force X (formerly)

Mentioned in: Peacemaker

See DCEU: Task Force X - New Team for more information on his DC Extended Universe variant.

A supervillain who Peacemaker worked with on his mission to Corto Maltese.

• Broad Strokes: In Peacemaker: The Official Podcast James Gunn confirms that besides Peacemaker's comments about Aquaman, every other reference made in the first episode of season one is canon to the DCU. He's presumably identical to his DCEU counterpart except for the one difference that he never shot Superman.

Starro the Conquerer

Species: Alien Starfish

Mentioned in: Peacemaker

See DCEU: Task Force X - Targets for more information on his DC Extended Universe variant.

An alien killed in Corto Maltese.

• Broad Strokes: In Peacemaker: The Official Podcast James Gunn confirms that besides Peacemaker's comments about Aquaman, every other reference made in the first episode of season one is canon to the DCU, and Starro's existence was reconfirmed in the second season.
• Posthumous Character: Starro's dead by the start of the DCU, with his death in the DCEU having been carried over into this continuity.

Butterflies

Species: Unknown extraterrestrial insects

Mentioned in: Peacemaker

See DCEU: Task Force X - Targets for more information on their DC Extended Universe variants.

An insect alien species that were defeated by Peacemaker.

• Broad Strokes: They are identical to the versions seen in the DCEU based on what is said about them, the only difference being that their attempted invasion happened a little later in the DCU timeline.
• Killed Offscreen: While the Butterflies' leader, "Goff", is seen still alive at the end of Peacemaker Season 1, despite it not being directly stated by the show, she's all but guaranteed to have died offscreen in between Seasons 1 and 2 as a result of the source of their food supply being destroyed.
• Posthumous Character: Due to their demise carrying over from the DCEU, the Butterflies are long dead by the start of the DCU.

The Sklarian Raiders

Species: Sklarian

Appearances: Supergirl (2026)

Played By: Clara Rosager, Heather Agyepong, Alice Hewkin

A group of Space Pirates who hijack the bus that Kara and Ruthye are taking. Supergirl stops them and coerces them into telling her where to find Krem.

• Adaptational Early Appearance: In the comics, the Sklarian Raiders usually appear as enemies of the Legion of Super-Heroes, who live in the 30th or 31st centuries. They make their DCU debut in Supergirl, which is set in the 21st century.
• Bit-Part Bad Guys: They are fairly minor in the grand scheme of the movie and have no apparent connection to the Brigands. They’re mainly there to show how Kara operates in a fight, flesh out the DCU’s cosmic side a bit, and give Kara information on where to find Krem after she defeats them.
• Composite Character: As antagonists who attack an interstellar bus that Kara and Ruthye are riding that Kara steps in to defeat in order to protect the passengers, they seem to have taken the place of the space dragon from the original comic that serves the same role.
• Even Evil Has Standards: They’re ruthless space pirates who have plundered many a space vessel, but the way their leader talks about the Brigands and their sex slavery ring suggests that even they consider the Brigands to be terrible people.
• Human Aliens: None of them are human, but aside from their skin and hair colors they look identical to humans.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Their modus operandi is to steal engines and other components from spaceships, so naturally Kara defeats them by stripping their ship of its engines.
• Oh, Crap!: Their reaction when they realize that Kara has removed their vessel’s engines, leaving them dead in space.
• Pirate Girl: They’re an all-female team of Space Pirates.
• Space Pirates: They travel through space to hijack other vessels and steal their engines and other vital components.