If you know the main DC guys, you're pretty much set.

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Know most of these?

The Rocketeer-looking guy is Adam Strange; he's an old fashioned Flash Gordon-style outer space hero.

The purple guy is one of the Challengers of the Unknown, I think. They're a team that does crazy super-science adventures with time travel and alternate dimensions and shit.

Neither of them are particularly major to the story, and are mostly just there to showcase the old-school silver age setting (in the movie, at least--in the comic they get a nice explanation of who they are and what they do).

Just rewatched New Frontier. Still pretty damn Awesome.

I think most of the major characters are explained pretty well. There are some who show up near the end of the movie too for the climax, but they are more background characters there to fight. So if you don't know who Adam Strange or The Blackhawks are you aren't really missing anything.

Also, I had forgotten how bloody it was.