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Checkmate -- Amanda Waller / White Queen (Pam Grier), Maxwell Lord / Black King (Gil Bellows)

An enigmatic government agency with a Chess Motif, Checkmate competes with Major Zod to be the main antagonist of Season 9. Run by the White Queen and the Black King, Checkmate keeps tabs on paranormal activity and has a definite With Us or Against Us mentality.

Cameron Mahkent / Icicle II (Wesley Macinnes)

The son of Joar Mahkent, a former enemy of the Justice Society of America, Icicle is recruited by Checkmate to serve as an assassin, with the promise that they will help him locate and kill off the JSA's members. Appears in Season 9's "Absolute Justice".

Stuart Campbell (Ryan McDonell)

A Checkmate agent and former employee of Tess Mercer, Stuart is a top computer hacker and technician. He was recruited by Checkmate after being betrayed by Tess.

Suicide Squad

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 Darkseid, they provide most of Season 10's conflict.

  • Badass Crew: Between Rick Flag, Deadshot, Plastique, and Warp, they count.
  • The Chessmaster: 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.
  • Cool Car: 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 a missile launcher.
  • Enemy Mine: With the Justice League as of "Collateral". Who knows how long that'll last.
  • Evil Counterpart: 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 Badass Normal, and they both try to stay under the radar. The Squad goes much, much further in their attempts at taking down the act, though.
  • Put on a Bus: After "Collateral".
  • Names to Run Away From Really Fast: The Suicide Squad, Deadshot, Warp, even Plastique. None of them are real reassuring, to say the least.
  • Weaponized Car: The Squad van is equipped with a homing missile launcher, in addition to all its other gadgetry.
  • Western Terrorists: See Flag's entry for how.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: They just vanish after "Collateral" with no real reason.

Rick Flag (Ted Whittall)

"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.

  • Anti-Hero: Flag's a Type V with delusions of nobility. Only his seemingly genuine regard for superheroes, and the fact that he seems to be gathering an army to fight off Darkseid, keeps him from being an even bigger psychopath than he already is.
  • Badass Normal: 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.
  • Cold-Blooded Torture: Seems fond of it.
  • Complexity Addiction: 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.
  • Guns Akimbo
  • Jerkass
  • Just Between You and Me: To Oliver about Chloe's "death".
  • Large Ham: 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.
  • Patriotic Fervor: He really loves America.
  • Properly Paranoid: Flag would seem totally nuts if the guy running the Vigilante Registration Act wasn't General Slade Wilson.
  • Right-Wing Militia Fanatic: Has definite shades of this.
  • Secret Keeper: Flag knows the identities of all the heroes. So far he's told nobody.
  • Smug Snake
  • Sociopathic Soldier: Flag's a mix of Types I, II and IV -- a radical militia-esque ex-soldier with Patriotic Fervor and blatant insanity to spare, and whose previous missions for the government have more or less broken him.
  • Supervillain Packing Heat: Two pistols, and a carbine.
  • There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Flag's attempt at assassinating General Lane involved a missile. To kill one guy.
  • Western Terrorists: 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.
  • You Look Familiar: His actor played Lana's martial arts trainer in Season 8's "Power".

Floyd Lawton / Deadshot (Bradley Stryker)

"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 fatalistic tendencies and disillusionment with life.

Bette Sans Souci / Plastique (Jessica Parker Kennedy)

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.

  • Black Eyes of Crazy: When Bette uses her powers, her irises glow yellow and her pupils narrow to black slits.
  • Broken Bird: Plastique retains this status from her first appearance. She is a very damaged little girl.
  • Glowing Eyes of Doom: When she uses her powers.
  • Hell-Bent for Leather: After joining the Injustice Gang and the Suicide Squad.
  • Mad Bomber
  • Person of Mass Destruction: 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.
  • Race Lift: Was a Quebecois terrorist in the comics. Here, she's of Asian (perhaps French-Indochinese) descent.
  • Selfish Evil: 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.

Emil LaSalle / Warp (Elias Toufexis)

General Slade Wilson (Michael Hogan)

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.

"No civilian should have more power than the law."

Lieutenant Trotter (Lori Ann Triolo)

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 Phantom Zone. She captured several members of the Justice League and Justice Society, 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.

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