History Characters / AceLightning

The school bully, who often targets Chuck. He is terrified by Lord Fear, calling him the "Bone Man". His cousin Jessica ends up dating Chuck.

* ChaseScene: Wayne chases Chuck around a couple of times, and then gets involved in a chase scene involving Mark and Lord Fear.

* SuperpowersForADay: Chuck gains superhuman strength after being struck by a deflected lightning bolt.

* KidHero: A 13-year old hero with no superpowers.

* TheAce: As his name implies, Ace is regarded as the foremost of the Lightning Knights. He is a skilled fighter superhero.

* PungeonMaster: Often has quips for every battles.

* SuperheroesWearCapes: Averted. Ace comments he would hang up his cape if he had one, and a place to hang it.

* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: Subverted. In season one, Sparx is "[[DisneyDeath killed off]]" by Googler and sent back to the game after blindly attacking him. Ace and Mark summon her back later on, but that doesn't mean it wasn't painfuly seeing her go, or that they didn't struggle without her while she was gone.

* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: Subverted. In season one, Sparx is "[[DisneyDeath killed off]]" by Googler and sent back to the game after blindly attacking him. Ace and Mark summon her back later on.

* ChasteHero: Ace admits he has never flirted before, and he is a 32-year old. However, this can be justified since he is a video game character and his programming likely didn't involve romance (cutscenes from the game show Lady Illusion flirting with him openly, with Ace completely unfazed by all of it). This changes when he and Lady Illusion get up close and personal, bonding over their misplacement in the world.

* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Has the Shield of Justice, which can absorb energy blasts and redirect them. Notable that while the Shield of Justice does show up in the game, it works like a generic InvincibilityPowerUp.

* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Has the Shield of Justice, which can absorb energy blasts and redirect them.

* ImplacableMan: The most powerful character til Kilobyte comes along. He is immune to most attacks, can take on both Ace and Lord Fear at once, and it can only take redirected blasts or more than one energy attack to bring him down.

* MightyGlacier: Random has strength on par with ace but is slower and less agile.

* TheHero: Shared with Mark, though he is this trope in the video game.

* TheDarkChick: Can be manipulative and ruthless when necessary.

* [[SpacePolice Interdimensional Cop]]: Operates in the Sixth Dimension, but is implied to have authority elsewhere too.

* [[ArrogantKungFuGuy Arrogant Kung Fu Girl]]: Sparx is a skilled martial artist, but with it comes great arrogance that often gets her into hot water.

* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have To Be Darkness]]: Freaks out if alone in the dark.

* BadHumorTruck: Subverted. Duff drives the Dairy Wagon, a harmless ice cream truck. It is the villains that travel in it that make it scary. In one episode, Duff and Lord Fear drive it around [{VehicularKidnapping stalking Mark and then kidnap him]].

* DistressedDamsel: On a couple of occasions, and actually plays the role of one in the school play. Sometimes she is oblivious to her role as one, since she remains unaware of Mark's double life.

* DistressedDamsel: Twice. Once when Kat's quadbike malfunctions thanks to Dirty Rat, and secondly when she is captured by the villains in the finale, but only because she keeps snooping around the carnival.

* DamselOutOfDistress: [[DistressedDamsel Even when she's captured]], Sparx is still crafty. In the first season, Sparx convinces Dirty Rat to start a rebellion against Lord Fear as a distraction so Ace can rescue her. Occasionally falls into DamselInDistress territory anyway.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: He is called the Master of Fear for a reason..

The heroes of the show, the Lightning Knights are [[SpaceCop interdimensional superheroes]] who guard the Sixth Dimension from evil. Their authority spreads to other worlds when Ace Lightning chases Lord Fear to Earth. While only three official members are introduced in the series, WordOfGod revealed that there were more Lightning Knights, some of which are stronger than Ace and Random Virus combined. As you may have guessed, the Knights are themed around electrical {{Magitek}} and medieval knight motifs. They operate from the Thunder Tower, actually Conestoga Hills' abandoned observatory, and use a transformer to recharge their powers.

* ShockAndAwe: Ace can fire lightning bolts from his wrist cannons and Sparx's swords shoots lightning as well. Random's {{Technopath}}y has been shown to produce an electrical effect.

** Kilobyte also abandons any concept of fairplay. When he's ready to launch his master plan, the first thing he does is whittle down the Lightning Knights' numbers so there won't be any effective resistence. This he does by confronting them one at a time and hitting them with everything he has, sending all the villains to attack at once overwhelm them.

* HunterArchetype: Possesses the mind of a hunter, viewing Ace as his prey. His goal is to see Ace self-destruct slowly and painfully through human emotions and then finish him off himself. He is always looking for a character's weakness, though he also encourages their strengths as well.

* ArmedMalesUnarmedFemales: [[{{Cyborg}} Random Virus's]] only weapons are his PowerPincers, SuperStrength and limited {{Technopathy}}, while Ace very rarely uses his lance and shield, relying mainly on his strength, speed, flight and lightning bolts. Sparx, on the other hand, relies entirely on her sword in battle.

* BerserkButton: Fear has a very short temper and just about anything can set him off, but normally it is being outwitted by Ace.

* BerserkButton: Sparx's very existence is this.

* BerserkButton: Don't insult his weight or interrupt him when he is eating.

* BerserkButton: Don't call Rotgut a zombie. He prefers to be called the walking dead.

* BerserkButton: Do NOT mess with Fiona's gnomes or her garden. Simon's berserk button is when someone insults his son.

* LawfulGood: Ace firmly believes in doing what is right, being heroic, protecting the weak, and fighting evil. His perspective changes a bit when he falls in love with Lady Illusion, willing to give her a chance, and learns humans are more complex than he thought.

* NiceHat: Wayne always wears a baseball cap.

* NiceHat: He wears a cap for the first season, and a funky wicker hat in the second.

* NiceHat: Rick sports a red cap.

* AwesomeMcCoolname:
** Ace Lighting. [[TheAce His forename let's you know he's a badass]], [[ShockAndAwe his surname lets you know what his powers are]].
** Sparx is this combined with XtremeKoolLetterz.
** Random Virus is [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast a name to fear]]. But [[DarkIsNotEvil he's a good guy]]. [[SplitPersonality Usually]].

* TheCheerleader: For one episode.

* TheCheerleader: For one episode.

Mark's best friend. A [[HollywoodNerd jolly, overweight nerd]] who is a big fan of Ace Lightning, aiding Mark with tips on how to beat the game without any knowledge of the truth. Though often bullied, Chuck is quite bright and has know-how on computers. In the second season, he discovers the truth and become Ace's secondary sidekick and TechnoWizard.

* JerkJock: He is goalkeeper on the middle school football [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad (soccer)]] team.

* BadHumorTruck: Subverted. Duff drives the Dairy Wagon, a harmless ice cream truck. It is the villains that travel in it that make it scary. In one episode, Duff and Lord Fear drive it around [[AdultFear stalking Mark and then kidnap him]].