List of DC Comics characters: B


B'wana Beast

Zviad Baazovi

Baby Boom

Baby Boom is a character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.
She was among the children who were experimented on by Doctor Love while they were still in their mother's womb, causing her to develop the ability to generate accelerate matter and generate explosions with her mind. She becomes a member of Helix and an enemy of Infinity, Inc.

Baby Wildebeest

Bad Samaritan

The Bad Samaritan is a reformed anti-villain, and former enemy of the Outsiders who first appeared in The Outsiders #3. He is a former Soviet spymaster and eventually becomes the second White Queen's Bishop of Checkmate. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Baazovi is loyal to his native country of Georgia and shows a great deal of distrust for Russia. While working with a Russian White Queen and White Queen's Knight, Baazovi has shown to be cooperative despite their different political ideologies.

Bad Samaritan in other media

  • The Bad Samaritan appears as a character summon in Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure.
  • Zviad Baazovi appears in Young Justice, voiced by Yuri Lowenthal. This version is a psychic metahuman, a member of the Light, and Markovia's ambassador at the United Nations.

    Lashawn Baez

Bag O' Bones

Buddy Baker

Jacob Baker

Anica Balcescu

Grace Balin

Sebastian Ballesteros

Ballistic

Balloon Man

Balloon Man is a character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.
Balloon Man is a size-shifting supervillain of indeterminate origin who fought the Metal Men.

Balloon Man in other media

  • An unrelated version of Balloon Man appears in the Gotham episode "The Balloonman", portrayed by Dan Bakkedahl. This version is a social worker named Davis Lamond who secretly uses weather balloons to target corrupt people.
  • Balloon Man appears in Teen Titans Go! to the Movies, voiced by Greg Davies.

    Bane

Brenda Banks

Brek Bannin

Jason Bard

Bobby Barnes

Baron Bedlam

Baron Blitzkrieg

Baron Reiter

Jim Barr

Miguel Barragan

Barrage

Barrage is the name of a character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.
Phillip Karnowski is a criminal who originally fought Maggie Sawyer and lost his right arm in the process. While incarcerated at Stryker's Island, he builds high-tech armor and a prosthetic arm. Using his technology, Karnowski attacks the Metropolis Police Department's Special Victims Unit to get revenge on Sawyer before being defeated by Superman.
Barrage later escapes and joins Morgan Edge's Superman Revenge Squad.

Barrage in other media

  • Phillip Karnowski appears in the Supergirl episode "The Darkest Place", portrayed by Victor Zinck Jr. This version is a former Navy SEAL. who became a vigilante after his wife Julie was murdered. He frames Guardian for the attacks, but is defeated by him and arrested by the National City Police Department.
  • Phillip Karnowski appears in the Superman & Lois episode "The Ties That Bind", portrayed by Shaw Madsen. This version is an arms and drug dealer.

    Guillermo Barrera

Geoffrey Barron

Floyd Barstow

Javier Basualdo

Bat-Devil

Bat Lash

Bat-Mite

Hannibal Bates

Batgirl

Batman

The Batman Who Laughs

Batman Jones

Batman Jones is a Batman expert in the DC Universe.
The character, created by Jack Schiff and Bill Finger, first appeared in Batman #108. A rebooted version appears in Battle for the Cowl interviewed by Vicki Vale.
Within the context of the stories, his parents were rescued by Batman shortly before Jones was born and they named him "Batman" as thanks. The boy grew up idolizing Batman and tried to become a crimefighter before he began collecting stamps. As an adult, he is an expert on Batman.

Battalion

Batwoman

Billy Batson

Battalion

Batwing

Batwoman

Simon Baz

Beard Hunter

Beard Hunter is a character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.
Ernest Franklin is a disturbed and closeted gay assassin of bearded men who is hired by the Bearded Gentlemen's Club of Metropolis to kill the Chief because he will not sell his beard to them. He cannot grow a beard due to a male hormone deficiency, as stated by his mother when she is visited by the police.

Beard Hunter in other media

  • Beard Hunter appears in Doom Patrol, portrayed by Tommy Snider. This version is a bounty hunter with the ability to track down individuals by consuming their facial hair.
  • Beard Hunter appears in a self-titled episode of Teen Titans Go!, voiced by Fred Tatasciore. This version is Australian.

    Beast Boy

Beast Girl

Beast Girl is a character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. She first appeared in Unstoppable Doom Patrol #1, and was created by writer Dennis Culver and artist Chris Burnham.
Kareli is a girl whose metagene activated after she was attacked by coyotes during a hike, giving her an animalistic appearance and the ability to manipulate the emotions of others by affecting their amygdala. Kareli was rejected by her father, who saw her as a monster, and chased by a group of civilians, who she accidentally enraged with her powers. After being rescued by the Doom Patrol, Kareli was taken in and mentored by Niles Caulder and Flex Mentallo, who taught her to control and utilize her powers. Eventually, she was inducted into the Doom Patrol by the Chief, who was impressed with her performance.
During the Absolute Power event, Beast Girl loses her powers after being attacked by Amanda Waller's Amazo robots. After the Amazos are destroyed and the heroes regain their powers, Beast Girl is accidentally given Zookeeper's ability to transform into animals while retaining her original abilities.

Karen Beecher

Beefeater

Bekka

Burt Belker

Floyd Belkin

Shauna Belzer

Khalid Ben-Hassin

Angelo Bend

Andrew Bennett

May Bennett

Beppo

Helena Bertinelli

Andrea Beaumont

Sanjeet Bhatia

Bibbo Bibbowski

Big Barda

Big Sir

Delbert Billings

Billy Numerous

Billy Numerous is a character created for the Teen Titans animated series, voiced by Jason Marsden. Numerous first appears as a student of the H.I.V.E. Academy who possesses the ability to clone himself. After H.I.V.E. is destroyed during Cyborg's confrontation with Brother Blood, Numerous and most of the other students become freelance villains.
At some point, Numerous joins Jinx's H.I.V.E. Five and the Brotherhood of Evil. When the Brotherhood executes a worldwide strike against the Titans and their allies, Numerous and Gizmo are sent to capture Kole and Gnarrk, but are unsuccessful. Beast Boy and the remaining members of the Titans attack the Brotherhood's headquarters, with Numerous being subdued by Kid Flash.
Billy Numerous is introduced into the main comics continuity in the third volume of Cyborg.

Billy Numerous in other media

  • Billy Numerous appears in the Teen Titans Go! tie-in comics.
  • Billy Numerous appears in Teen Titans Go!, voiced by Scott Menville.

    Bison-Black-as-Midnight-Sky

Bison-Black-as-Midnight-Sky is a Native American shaman in the DC Universe.
The character, created by Gerry Conway and Pat Broderick, first appeared in The Fury of Firestorm #1.
Bison-Black-as-Midnight-Sky is the great-grandfather of Black Bison and the last great shaman of the Bison Cult. He resents his great-grandson's disrespect for the cult's traditions. When he is killed by muggers in Central Park, he binds his spirit to a magical amulet that allows his spirit to influence his great-grandson when worn.

Bizarro

Danton Black

Mitchell Black

Black Adam

Black Alice

Black Arrow

Black Arrow was created by Otto Binder and George Papp, first appearing in Adventure Comics #143. He is a leader of a criminal gang, who creates the identity as part of a robbery scheme to outwit the Green Arrow.

Black Beetle

Black Beetle is the name of several characters appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly as enemies of Blue Beetle and Booster Gold.

Unnamed version

An unnamed individual posed as a future version of Blue Beetle. Black Beetle appears to Booster Gold and offers to help prevent Maxwell Lord from killing Ted Kord. They succeed, but their efforts create an alternate timeline where Lord's OMAC army have taken over the world. Kord sacrifices himself to return to the past and restore the timeline.
Black Beetle later returns and manipulates the timeline, leading to Dick Grayson's death. He steals a Scarab from Trigon, becomes the Scarlet Scarab, and battles Jaime Reyes. Jaime allows him to escape due to being busy with his sister Milagro Reyes.
In Time Masters: Vanishing Point, Black Beetle attempts to steal Waverider's power before being defeated by the Time Masters and forced to flee.

Hector

Hector is the brother of Nadia, a technician and ally of Jaime. After Nadia is killed by the Khaji Da Revolutionary Army, a group of Reach Infiltrators, Hector bonds with Reach technology in order to be an enemy.