She's always treated like she’s the scum of the earth with no soul and like she’s who everyone wants to kill the most, even over those who have actually killed family members or friends. However, those other villains get tragic backstories so that we can “understand” them, but we rarely get to explore why Waller is the way she is. Her identifiers are supposed to be empowering but it can get problematic as we often end up seeing a dark-skinned woman with a natural hairstyle getting yelled by white people.
Comes in to investigate Team Arrow and their crimes as vigilantes. She is treated as arrogant, ruthless, and delusional, when in reality, she's onto the Team's every move and doesn't take their crap and they hate her for doing her job and act as if she should just understand them or leave them alone without giving her any reason to trust or like them.
She is as another black boss for Supergirl and her sister to disrespect. Haley wants to refocus their organization, which it needs and doesn’t take any backtalk which is also needed, but Supergirl and her sister hate and when Haley makes sweet potato pie for Thanksgiving, it is assumed that she poisoned it, which is lowkey microaggressive and they never have this energy with black women with straight hair.
After being stopped and frisked by Supergirl's sister, Alex, her powers instinctly come out, and that is used against her as they treat her as if she is a liar and purely evil. After getting excited over the idea of "peeling her skin off" and "dissecting" her (definitely racially motivated), Alex is eventually convinced that Julia is good, before Julia is prompted killed, trying to save the Super Team.
She is part of the new JSA, who are supposed to be outcasts who band together but some of the members are still basically mean girls to Beth, always acting like she’s super annoying or treating her like a child. Beth’s parents don’t even like her, Beth once made her mother dinner and brought it to her job so they could eat together, and her mom was upset and asked her why she doesn’t go out partying with friends instead of spending time with her, which seems out of a character for a parent, especially a black one.
Only black person in season 4 of Legends of Tomorrow, even though she’s not really a black person, she’s a demon from hell trapped in a black person’s body. We see way more natural styles for her than the person whose body she is inhabiting, she has with full curly hair, all kinds of braids, some dreads and more. All of this representation falls flat though when I remember how she's a DEMON and not actually human, let alone black.
While Charlie is just from hell, Astra is the literal QUEEN of hell, and after being a villain, joins the Legends, only to have her racial trauma diminished and be told to essentially pick herself up by her bootstraps by her "teammates" and continue to be villainized often.
Kuasa is the older sister of Mari McCabe/Vixen. Mari is always shown to have straighter, wavier hair, lighter skin, and an American accent. Kuasa, either has a short afro or dreadlocks, darker skin, and grew up in the fictional African village, Zambezi. Mari is always a superhero and the "good one" according to their grandmother, while "the darkness infected" Kuasa at the age of 4.
Comes in as a foe of her sister, Starfire, who has straighter hair, while Blackfire has braids. The sisters come from a planet of evil dark-skinned black people and only by spending time with heroic Americans are they able to shed the programming of their planet and learn what's right.
The love interest of the main villain of Venom: Let There Be Carnage. She has braids, after being race changed from the comics, but is also hated but almost everyone, not just the heroes. Despite being in love with Cletus, his symbiote, Carnage, hates her because of her powers, and has to fight just to stay in her relationship, just to get crushed by a cathedral bell.
