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List of Legends of Tomorrow characters
Characters of DC's Legends of Tomorrow (2016-2022), the CW Arrowverse time-travel team show. Covers the original Rip Hunter roster, Sara Lance as captain, later additions like Zari, Nate, Astra, and Constantine, villains, and season-by-season cast turnover.
List of The Flash characters
Characters of The Flash (2014–2023, The CW): Barry Allen/The Flash (Grant Gustin), Team Flash at S.T.A.R. Labs (Cisco Ramon, Caitlin Snow, Harrison Wells), the West family (Iris, Joe, Wally/Kid Flash), and villains Reverse-Flash, Zoom, and Grodd, plus later-season cast additions and departures.
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman is ABC's 1993-1997 romantic-comedy take on Superman, starring Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher, 88 episodes, created by Deborah Joy LeVine, focused on the Lois-Clark romance.
Naomi (TV series)
Naomi is The CW's 2022 superhero drama adapted from the 2019 DC comic by Bendis, Walker, and Campbell, starring Kaci Walfall, created by Ava DuVernay and Jill Blankenship, and cancelled after one season.
Nia Nal
Nia Nal, alias Dreamer, is a DC superhero created for The CW's Supergirl in 2018, played by Nicole Maines; the first transgender superhero on TV, an ancestor of Nura Nal/Dream Girl, later written into DC Comics by Maines.
Oliver Queen (Arrowverse)
Oliver Queen (Arrowverse) is Stephen Amell's portrayal of DC's Green Arrow on The CW's Arrow (2012-2020) and its spin-off franchise. A shipwrecked billionaire presumed dead for five years, he leads Team Arrow, reveals his identity, and dies saving the multiverse in Crisis on Infinite Earths.
Oswald Cobblepot (Gotham)
Oswald Cobblepot, the Penguin of Fox's Gotham (2014-2019), played by Robin Lord Taylor: a thin, mother-raised underworld climber who rises from Fish Mooney's flunky toward kingpin, distinct from the comic Penguin and the later Oz Cobb version.
Peacemaker (TV series)
Peacemaker is a James Gunn-created HBO Max action-comedy starring John Cena as Christopher Smith, spun off from The Suicide Squad (2021). Two eight-episode seasons aired in 2022 and 2025; season 2 is part of the new DCU, with no season 3 currently planned.
Pennyworth (TV series)
Pennyworth (2019–2022), also Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler, is a DC drama by Gotham creators Bruno Heller and Danny Cannon about young Alfred Pennyworth (Jack Bannon) in alternate-history 1960s London, canceled in 2023 after three seasons.
Powerless (TV series)
Powerless (TV series): NBC single-camera workplace sitcom set in the DC Universe, developed by Ben Queen, starring Vanessa Hudgens at Wayne Security in Charm City; aired February to May 2017, canceled after one season.
Preacher (TV series)
Preacher (2016–2019) is an AMC series adapted from Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's Vertigo comic, developed by Sam Catlin, Seth Rogen, and Evan Goldberg, starring Dominic Cooper as Jesse Custer, a preacher possessed by Genesis who searches for God.
Sara Lance
Sara Lance is an Arrowverse television character played by Caity Lotz (originally Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) in Arrow and DC's Legends of Tomorrow. Created for TV, not the comics, she was the Canary, then White Canary, captain of the Legends, and the first explicitly queer superhero from a major comic company on television.
Shazam! (TV series)
Shazam! (1974–1976) is a Filmation live-action CBS Saturday morning series in which Billy Batson (Michael Gray) becomes Captain Marvel (Jackson Bostwick, later John Davey), traveling with Mentor (Les Tremayne); 28 episodes, later The Shazam!/Isis Hour.
Smallville
Smallville (2001-2011) is the WB/CW Superman origin drama by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, starring Tom Welling as young Clark Kent under the "no tights, no flights" rule; 218 episodes, longest-running superhero TV series.
Stargirl (TV series)
Stargirl, also marketed as DC's Stargirl, is an American superhero drama series created by Geoff Johns, starring Brec Bassinger as Courtney Whitmore; it ran from 2020 to 2022.
Superboy (TV series)
Superboy (1988-1992), later The Adventures of Superboy, is a half-hour syndicated live-action series from Salkind producers about Clark Kent's college years, with John Haymes Newton and Gerard Christopher as Superboy and Stacy Haiduk as Lana Lang.
Supergirl (TV series)
Supergirl (2015-2021) is an American DC Comics-based action-adventure drama starring Melissa Benoist as Kara Zor-El, Superman's cousin. Created by Greg Berlanti, Ali Adler, and Andrew Kreisberg; six seasons, 126 episodes; CBS then The CW; Arrowverse crossovers.
Superman & Lois
Superman & Lois (2021-2024) was a CW superhero drama by Greg Berlanti and Todd Helbing starring Tyler Hoechlin and Elizabeth Tulloch as married Clark Kent and Lois Lane raising sons in Smallville, the final Arrowverse-era series to end.
Superman: The Animated Series
Superman: The Animated Series (1996–2000), also called STAS, is a Warner Bros. Animation Kids' WB series by Bruce Timm and Paul Dini, starring Tim Daly, with 54 episodes, two Emmys, and the World's Finest Batman crossover.
Swamp Thing (2019 TV series)
Swamp Thing is a 2019 American horror series by Mark Verheiden and Gary Dauberman, streamed as a DC Universe original and canceled six days after its May 31, 2019 premiere.
The Flash (1990 TV series)
The Flash (1990 TV series): CBS live-action superhero show, 1990–1991, one 22-episode season; John Wesley Shipp as Barry Allen, created by Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo, $6 million pilot, Mark Hamill's Trickster.
The Flash (2014 TV series)
The Flash (2014 TV series): CW superhero drama developed by Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg, and Geoff Johns, starring Grant Gustin as Barry Allen; ran nine seasons from October 7, 2014 to May 24, 2023 as an Arrow spin-off anchoring the Arrowverse.
The New Batman Adventures
The New Batman Adventures (1997-1999) is the Kids' WB continuation of Batman: The Animated Series, with 24 episodes, redesigned characters and red skies, Tim Drake as Robin, Batgirl as a recurring ally, and Dick Grayson as Nightwing.
The Penguin (TV series)
The Penguin is HBO's 2024 eight-episode limited series, a spin-off of The Batman (2022) created by Lauren LeFranc, starring Colin Farrell as Oz Cobb rising in Gotham's underworld; it won eight Creative Arts Emmys and earned Cristin Milioti a lead-actress Emmy.
The Sandman (TV series)
The Sandman is an American fantasy drama television series developed for Netflix by Allan Heinberg from Neil Gaiman's DC comic, starring Tom Sturridge as Dream, or Morpheus.
Thea Queen
Thea Dearden Queen, also called Mia or Speedy, is Oliver Queen's half-sister in The CW's Arrow (2012–2020), played by Willa Holland; an original Arrowverse character adapted from DC's Mia Dearden who becomes the vigilante Speedy after Lazarus Pit revival.
Titans (2018 TV series)
Titans (2018 TV series), DC Universe/HBO Max live-action Teen Titans show created by Akiva Goldsman, Greg Berlanti, and Marc Haimes; four seasons 2018-2023, starring Brenton Thwaites as Dick Grayson, canceled at HBO Max after season 4.
Watchmen (TV series)
Watchmen is HBO's 2019 nine-episode limited series created by Damon Lindelof, a sequel-remix of Moore and Gibbons' comic set in alternate 2019 Tulsa with Regina King; it won 11 Emmys and a Peabody.
Wonder Woman (2011 TV pilot)
Wonder Woman (2011 TV pilot): unaired NBC pilot by David E. Kelley, also known as the Adrianne Palicki Wonder Woman pilot. Warner Bros. Television produced it; NBC passed in May 2011, and the leaked workprint shows a triple-identity Diana and Veronica Cale as villain.
Wonder Woman (TV series)
Wonder Woman (1975-1979), The New Adventures of Wonder Woman on CBS, is the Lynda Carter live-action ABC/CBS superhero series: 60 episodes, Steve Trevor played by Lyle Waggoner, the spin transformation, and the Emmy-winning Donfeld costume.