History Characters / ChildOfTheStormHarrysFriends

* BassoProfundo: His older self has a notably deeper voice than an aged up Harry, who is himself has a low voice.

* ObliviousToLove: Her first appearance makes it extremely obvious that she doesn't have the faintest idea how badly Scott is in love with her. Xavier wonders how it's even possible for someone that smart and psychically powerful to miss something so obvious. The One-Shots establish that there's a thriving betting pool at the Institute on when she'll ''finally'' figure it out, and [[NotSoAboveItAll even the teachers]] are in on it.

* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: In the comics, Jean-Paul had some photokinetic abilities. There's no sign of them here. Then again, he doesn't really seem to need them, either.

** Though only a few glimpses are offered, he's much smarter and much, much more dangerous than he lets on.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: If you see the Badass part, then you'd better pray you're on his side. If you're not, there's a very good chance that it is the last thing you will ever see.

* {{Expy}}: Cheerful, friendly, flirtatious persona covering a ruthless, razor-sharp mind, and ''far'' more dangerous than he appears? He's basically Captain Jack Harkness, swapping the immortality and centuries of experience for super-speed (the only differences are that Jean-Paul is only into men and Jack will go for anything with a post code and then some).

* SuperSpeed: A genuine speedster and an initially latent user of the Speed Force. As of ''Ghosts,'' he can go at Mach 10, or even faster in a pinch.

* LighterAndSofter: After his CharacterDevelopment, he goes from ArrogantKungFuGuy to being much more kind and cheerful.
* LinearWarriorsQuadraticWizards: The Linear Warrior to the rest of the group's (particularly Harry, Jean-Paul, and partially Diana) Quadratic Wizard.

* CantCatchUp: Harry decides her and Ron just aren't cut out for combat, despite Hermione's power jump in the sequel. Since neither is a natural fighter - though they ''can'' fight, and well, when they need to - and neither particularly ''wants'' to fight, Ron's HYDRA obsession aside, he's admitted to have a point.

* GreenEyedMonster: A little bit. She's quietly envious of[=/=]irritated by Harry's raw power and instinctive grasp of magic - [[HardWorkHardlyWorks she has to work as hard as, well, she does to get the same results that Harry gets by barely trying]]. While, as Harry points out, she understands theory in a way he never will, she'll never match his instinctive talents - not even when her raw power catches up. However, this doesn't put much more of a minor roadblock in their friendship. For the moment, anyway.

* ObliviousAdoption: She had no idea until she found out in chapter 66 of ''Ghosts'', despite all the clues. She is not pleased.

* WeakButSkilled: Initially. Compared to Harry's magical prowess, she is this. While his magical power is immensely greater than hers, she understands theory far better than he does and has memorised a truly staggering number of spells. In the sequel, her chaos magic makes her arguably every bit as powerful as he is [[RealityWarper (if not more so)]]. Her lack of control, experience, and willingness to embrace it mean she actually [[StrongButUnskilled Inverts the trope]], though she's slowly getting better thanks to Wanda Maximoff's tutelage.

* ActionSurvivor: Initially. As he later elaborates to Uhtred, he doesn't necessarily like getting into insane scrapes with Harry, but he would like the choice, rather than being excluded for his own protection.

* BrokenPedestal: Towards Harry in ''Ghosts'' after the revelation of a) Hermione's ancestry, b) the fact that Harry knew, kept it a secret for months, and wasn't remotely apologetic about doing so. It'd been building for a while, given Harry's increasingly secretive nature (partly CharacterDevelopment, partly thanks to becoming a SecretKeeper to a lot of people), but that was the tipping point.

* HeroicSelfDeprecation: He doesn't think much of himself, particularly since Harry has now found new and interesting ways to outshine him.

* RedHeadsAreUncool: Feels that this applies to himself, at least among Harry's circle of friends in Book 1, and to a lesser extent in Book 2. It doesn't help that most of Harry's friends, old and new, are variously extraordinarily talented, fearsomely powerful, notably charismatic, brilliantly intelligent, and stunningly good-looking - or some combination of the above. Ron, by contrast, feels like TheEveryman, which he is, to an extent - though a number of the adults, and Harry, feel that he has considerable HiddenDepths.

* StartOfDarkness: His father's death may or may not be this. Certainly, when he reappears in ''Ghosts'', and shows a certain unnerving relish over the memory of the death of the HYDRA agents at the hands of the Phoenix when they attacked Hogwarts. Bucky quietly takes him to task for it, and Ron seems to concede the point, but there's still a bit of something dark in him, which is noted by Wanda and Cassidy.

** All but explodes with this kind of fury after [[spoiler: Harry was kidnapped and she was not informed.]]

* ObliviousToLove: Her first appearance makes it extremely obvious that she doesn't have the faintest idea how badly Scott is in love with her. Xavier wonders how it's even possible for someone that smart and psychically powerful to miss something so obvious. The One-Shots establish that there's a thriving betting pool at the Institute on when she'll ''finally'' figure it out, and even [[NotSoAboveItAll the teachers]] are in on it.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's an archetypal NiceGuy. He's also a powerful FlyingBrick and vicious in-fighter.

* EndearinglyDorky: He drops cans of Coke whenever he's sure Jean-Paul will turn up just to watch him catch them at SuperSpeed, is utterly clueless about girls, and is a bit of a NaiveNewcomer. Everyone finds him adorable, with Chloe and Lois Lane crushing on him (it helps that he's a definite PrettyBoy), Alison treating him like one of her own grandchildren, and Harry, Lex, and Jean-Paul (who run the spectrum from somewhat to ''extremely'' cynical) are all genuinely very fond of him in an older-brotherly sort of way and [[LittleBrotherIsWatching moderate their behaviour for his sake.]]

* ItsAllAboutMe: Downplayed. Clark's main flaw is that his desires sometimes get in the way of his consideration for others, though it's out of thoughtlessness rather than malice. He tends to be immediately repentant when he realises what he's done, [[WhatTheHellHero usually after someone calls him on it.]]

* NiceGuy: Quite possibly the archetypal example.

** A wholesome WideEyedIdealist Kansas farm boy who wears his heart on his sleeve, sticks to his principles, and just so happens to be from another planet and a cynical, foul-minded, [[HiddenDepths reserved]], [[ObfuscatingStupidity deceptive]] CampGay French city boy who'll discard principle in a heartbeat. Not two people you'd expect to hit it off, but they do - partly thanks to knowing what it's like to keep secrets and be different from everyone else.

* ThePollyanna: No matter what he goes through, a little wariness and caution aside, he consistently believes in the goodness of other people. And one downcast moment in chapter 58 of the sequel, he thinks it makes him an idiot and a soft target - a view Harry firmly rejects, telling him that it's a mark of courage and that RousseauWasRight (though he does advise Clark to be a bit more ProperlyParanoid).

* SomethingElseAlsoRises: His heat vision is triggered by anger and arousal, something that's alluded to a couple of times - such as when he wakes up, powers newly boosted, and accidentally triggers his XRayVision, inadvertently getting a good look at the naked form of [[SilverVixen Alison Carter]]. Cue his eyes jerking away very quickly and two holes burned into his wall.

* TangledFamilyTree: His adopted father's adopted older sister was Edith Barton, previously Edith Kent, born Edith Barnes [=McGonagall=], meaning that Clark is Clint's first cousin. Also, he's distantly related to the House of Odin (extremely distantly by blood, and fairly distantly by adoption, with his ancestor, Kal-El I being Harry's adopted great-uncle), and Harry ballparks the relationship at 'cousin'.
* TurnTheOtherCheek: He has a truly astonishing capacity for grace and forgiveness. Unfortunately, it's not always accepted.

* WrongGenreSavvy: Romantically, he thinks he's StarcrossedLovers with Lana Lang, the nice guy protagonist who will eventually win out in the LoveTriangle (though he admits that whatever issues he has with Whitney, Whitney's good to Lana). Harry, after briefly considering Whitney as a suspect, points out that actually, he's more the selfish jerk who's trying to force Lana to choose between two guys she cares for - which, as he points out, is not the sort of person Clark is. Clark, being very well-meaning and essentially sweet-natured, is embarrassed and ashamed.

* TheAtoner: From Chapter 12 onwards.

* TheChosenOne[=/=]TheChosenMany: She's prophesied alongside Harry as one of three people that will 'herald the coming of the Heroic Age'. One of the others is Clark Kent. The third is, as Book III, unknown.

* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: In the comics, Jean-Paul had some photokinetic abilities. There's no sign of them here. Then again, he doesn't really seem to need them, either.

** Though only a few glimpses are offered, he's much smarter and much, much more dangerous than he lets on.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: If you see the Badass part, then you'd better pray you're on his side. If you're not, there's a very good chance that it is the last thing you will ever see.

* {{Expy}}: Cheerful, friendly, flirtatious persona covering a ruthless, razor-sharp mind, and ''far'' more dangerous than he appears? He's basically Captain Jack Harkness, swapping the immortality and centuries of experience for super-speed (the only differences are that Jean-Paul is only into men and Jack will go for anything with a post code and then some).

* SuperSpeed: A genuine speedster and an initially latent user of the Speed Force. As of ''Ghosts,'' he can go at Mach 10, or even faster in a pinch.

* LighterAndSofter: After his CharacterDevelopment, he goes from ArrogantKungFuGuy to being much more kind and cheerful.
* LinearWarriorsQuadraticWizards: The Linear Warrior to the rest of the group's (particularly Harry, Jean-Paul, and partially Diana) Quadratic Wizard.

* CantCatchUp: Harry decides her and Ron just aren't cut out for combat, despite Hermione's power jump in the sequel. Since neither is a natural fighter - though they ''can'' fight, and well, when they need to - and neither particularly ''wants'' to fight, Ron's HYDRA obsession aside, he's admitted to have a point.

* GreenEyedMonster: A little bit. She's quietly envious of[=/=]irritated by Harry's raw power and instinctive grasp of magic - [[HardWorkHardlyWorks she has to work as hard as, well, she does to get the same results that Harry gets by barely trying]]. While, as Harry points out, she understands theory in a way he never will, she'll never match his instinctive talents - not even when her raw power catches up. However, this doesn't put much more of a minor roadblock in their friendship. For the moment, anyway.

* ObliviousAdoption: She had no idea until she found out in chapter 66 of ''Ghosts'', despite all the clues. She is not pleased.

* WeakButSkilled: Initially. Compared to Harry's magical prowess, she is this. While his magical power is immensely greater than hers, she understands theory far better than he does and has memorised a truly staggering number of spells. In the sequel, her chaos magic makes her arguably every bit as powerful as he is [[RealityWarper (if not more so)]]. Her lack of control, experience, and willingness to embrace it mean she actually [[StrongButUnskilled Inverts the trope]], though she's slowly getting better thanks to Wanda Maximoff's tutelage.

* ActionSurvivor: Initially. As he later elaborates to Uhtred, he doesn't necessarily like getting into insane scrapes with Harry, but he would like the choice, rather than being excluded for his own protection.

* BrokenPedestal: Towards Harry in ''Ghosts'' after the revelation of a) Hermione's ancestry, b) the fact that Harry knew, kept it a secret for months, and wasn't remotely apologetic about doing so. It'd been building for a while, given Harry's increasingly secretive nature (partly CharacterDevelopment, partly thanks to becoming a SecretKeeper to a lot of people), but that was the tipping point.

* HeroicSelfDeprecation: He doesn't think much of himself, particularly since Harry has now found new and interesting ways to outshine him.

* RedHeadsAreUncool: Feels that this applies to himself, at least among Harry's circle of friends in Book 1, and to a lesser extent in Book 2. It doesn't help that most of Harry's friends, old and new, are variously extraordinarily talented, fearsomely powerful, notably charismatic, brilliantly intelligent, and stunningly good-looking - or some combination of the above. Ron, by contrast, feels like TheEveryman, which he is, to an extent - though a number of the adults, and Harry, feel that he has considerable HiddenDepths.

* StartOfDarkness: His father's death may or may not be this. Certainly, when he reappears in ''Ghosts'', and shows a certain unnerving relish over the memory of the death of the HYDRA agents at the hands of the Phoenix when they attacked Hogwarts. Bucky quietly takes him to task for it, and Ron seems to concede the point, but there's still a bit of something dark in him, which is noted by Wanda and Cassidy.

** All but explodes with this kind of fury after [[spoiler: Harry was kidnapped and she was not informed.]]

* ObliviousToLove: Her first appearance makes it extremely obvious that she doesn't have the faintest idea how badly Scott is in love with her. Xavier wonders how it's even possible for someone that smart and psychically powerful to miss something so obvious. The One-Shots establish that there's a thriving betting pool at the Institute on when she'll ''finally'' figure it out, and even [[NotSoAboveItAll the teachers]] are in on it.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's an archetypal NiceGuy. He's also a powerful FlyingBrick and vicious in-fighter.

* EndearinglyDorky: He drops cans of Coke whenever he's sure Jean-Paul will turn up just to watch him catch them at SuperSpeed, is utterly clueless about girls, and is a bit of a NaiveNewcomer. Everyone finds him adorable, with Chloe and Lois Lane crushing on him (it helps that he's a definite PrettyBoy), Alison treating him like one of her own grandchildren, and Harry, Lex, and Jean-Paul (who run the spectrum from somewhat to ''extremely'' cynical) are all genuinely very fond of him in an older-brotherly sort of way and [[LittleBrotherIsWatching moderate their behaviour for his sake.]]

* ItsAllAboutMe: Downplayed. Clark's main flaw is that his desires sometimes get in the way of his consideration for others, though it's out of thoughtlessness rather than malice. He tends to be immediately repentant when he realises what he's done, [[WhatTheHellHero usually after someone calls him on it.]]

* NiceGuy: Quite possibly the archetypal example.

** A wholesome WideEyedIdealist Kansas farm boy who wears his heart on his sleeve, sticks to his principles, and just so happens to be from another planet and a cynical, foul-minded, [[HiddenDepths reserved]], [[ObfuscatingStupidity deceptive]] CampGay French city boy who'll discard principle in a heartbeat. Not two people you'd expect to hit it off, but they do - partly thanks to knowing what it's like to keep secrets and be different from everyone else.

* ThePollyanna: No matter what he goes through, a little wariness and caution aside, he consistently believes in the goodness of other people. And one downcast moment in chapter 58 of the sequel, he thinks it makes him an idiot and a soft target - a view Harry firmly rejects, telling him that it's a mark of courage and that RousseauWasRight (though he does advise Clark to be a bit more ProperlyParanoid).

* SomethingElseAlsoRises: His heat vision is triggered by anger and arousal, something that's alluded to a couple of times - such as when he wakes up, powers newly boosted, and accidentally triggers his XRayVision, inadvertently getting a good look at the naked form of [[SilverVixen Alison Carter]]. Cue his eyes jerking away very quickly and two holes burned into his wall.

* TangledFamilyTree: His adopted father's adopted older sister was Edith Barton, previously Edith Kent, born Edith Barnes [=McGonagall=], meaning that Clark is Clint's first cousin. Also, he's distantly related to the House of Odin (extremely distantly by blood, and fairly distantly by adoption, with his ancestor, Kal-El I being Harry's adopted great-uncle), and Harry ballparks the relationship at 'cousin'.
* TurnTheOtherCheek: He has a truly astonishing capacity for grace and forgiveness. Unfortunately, it's not always accepted.

* WrongGenreSavvy: Romantically, he thinks he's StarcrossedLovers with Lana Lang, the nice guy protagonist who will eventually win out in the LoveTriangle (though he admits that whatever issues he has with Whitney, Whitney's good to Lana). Harry, after briefly considering Whitney as a suspect, points out that actually, he's more the selfish jerk who's trying to force Lana to choose between two guys she cares for - which, as he points out, is not the sort of person Clark is. Clark, being very well-meaning and essentially sweet-natured, is embarrassed and ashamed.

* TheAtoner: From Chapter 12 onwards.

* TheChosenOne[=/=]TheChosenMany: She's prophesied alongside Harry as one of three people that will 'herald the coming of the Heroic Age'. One of the others is Clark Kent. The third is, as Book III, unknown.

* TheGadfly: Not usually, but she does enjoy winding up Harry when he accidentally implies that he has a crush on [[HeterosexualLifePartners Ron]] while trying to avoid discussing his crush on Carol, and more than once has teased Harry over their very obvious ShipTease.

* InTheBlood: She gets red magic, an initially inactive (mostly) talent for messing with the fabric of reality (it starts becoming much more active in the sequel) and, as Thor notes, increasingly her looks from her mother, Wanda.

* MeaningfulName: She notes [[ShownTheirWork (correctly)]] that her first name means 'earthly'. Her middle name, meanwhile, runs in Lily Potter's [[ComicBook/JeanGrey family]]. This is important because Lily was her mother's best friend (and mother of her best friend, as it would turn out), her godmother and one of very few who knew the truth of her origins. The name was Wanda's oblique way of honouring her friend.

* SmartGirl: It's a mark of how smart she is that Harry, who lives with his uncle, Jane, Natasha, Pepper, Tony and Bruce, all geniuses in their own fields, still assumes that she knows everything and expresses wonder at it. In the sequel, he notes that her mind is "scarily well organised", complete with an actual filing system.
* TheSpock: Pragmatic, intelligent and places great value on knowledge gained from books, which can occasionally trip her up. On the other hand, it does also making her grudgingly willing to accept Carol and Draco's warnings of Harry's festering dark side. However, it hits its limit when she finds out about her true heritage - understandable, [[TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening given the context.]] Even then, she does eventually think it through and understand it... which is not even remotely the same as coming to terms with it.

* WeakButSkilled: Initially. Compared to Harry's magical prowess, she is this. While his magical power is immensely greater than hers, she understands theory far better than he does and has memorised a truly staggering number of spells. In the sequel her chaos magic makes her arguably every bit as powerful as he is [[RealityWarper (if not more so)]]. Her lack of control, experience, and willingness to embrace it mean she actually [[StrongButUnskilled Inverts the trope]], though she's slowly getting better thanks to Wanda Maximoff's tutelage.
* WideEyedIdealist: At first, to an extent - she's completely blindsided by Carol's revelation of Harry's dark side. While she's tangentially aware of it, she's completely shocked at what he's capable of, despite presumably seeing his antics with the HYDRA assault team in New York on the news. However, she's certainly not naïve, as her discussions with Harry in ''Ghosts'' show. [[TookALevelInCynicism She gets considerably more cynical later on]].

* SeparatedAtBirth: From Jean, in the neonatal unit, no less, swapped with a dead baby as a decoy. Sinister would have grabbed Jean too, but Strange was hot on his heels and he only managed to escape with one of them. The events of this, and the failure to cover them up, tips the heroes off to who and what she really is.

* BodyguardingABadass: A major part of her duties pre HeelFaceTurn was guarding Sinister, even though he's usually more than capable of looking after himself. This is implied to be because he sees physical violence as beneath him.

* TheComicallySerious: Post HeelFaceTurn. She has NoSocialSkills (though she's learning), is prone to SpockSpeak, and tends to be quite LiteralMinded - though she sometimes plays it up for deadpan effect.

** By chapter 60, [[CharacterDevelopment she has come to see what was done to her was horrific]] (and more to the point, that none of it was her fault), pre-emptively rebutting the same attitude in Harry.

* DeadpanSnarker: Shows a flicker of this early on, to Harry's delight and her bafflement. It happens more and more often post HeelFaceTurn, with her being arguably the most deadpan character in the cast.

* ForcedIntoEvil: She's [[PunchClockVillain not especially evil,]] pre HeelFaceTurn, but nevertheless... fact is, she doesn't know anything different, and the closest thing to a conscience in her life is a semi-amoral thief.

* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Post HeelFaceTurn she's crippled by doubt, primarily out of fear that people, including her family, will compare her to the apparently perfect Jean and that she'll inevitably come off worse. Jean tries to reassure her that this isn't going to happen, but it doesn't really take, since Maddie sees it as a platitude, and that while her love and support is utterly sincere and 'the kind you can balance planets on', she's almost ''too'' loving. She doesn't see or understand. Hence why Maddie turns to Harry, who states honestly that because Maddie looks so much like Jean being her twin and all, Jean ''will'' be the Grey family's immediate reference point... but they will come around and see her as her own (amazing) person. Additionally, he can listen to her worries and actually understand them from the point of view of someone who's both family and has been through/done very similar things
* HeroWithAnFInGood: Post HeelFaceTurn, she's not always very good at being helpful, or realising where [[MindOverManners certain boundaries]] are in - unsurprising, given her purposefully skewed moral education, only recently corrected, and that mainly by a semi-amoral thief who was busy figuring out the new headings on his own moral compass. However, under the guidance of [[AllLovingHero Jean]] and [[BigGood Charles Xavier]], she's getting better at it.

* KidnappedAtBirth: From the neonatal unit, no less, swapped with a dead baby as a decoy. Sinister would have grabbed Jean too, but Strange was hot on his heels and he only managed to escape with one of them. The events of this, and the failure to cover them up, tips the heroes off to who and what she really is.

* MindOverManners: Prior to her HeelFaceTurn, it's a fairly alien concept to her. Post HeelFaceTurn, she's honestly trying to get it right, bless her, but she has very little idea of where the lines are drawn.

* MindRape: Pre HeelFaceTurn, she has absolutely no compunction about mind-controlling people. This is unsurprising, because that's what she was taught.

* ThePhoenix: More than Jean (surprisingly) and less than Harry (unsurprisingly), she has an affinity for the motif. Aptly, given that she appears with [[SovietSuperScience the Red Room]]), her variant resembles the Slavic Firebird myth - she's initially 'beautiful but dangerous, showing no sign of friendliness', to quote Website/TheOtherWiki, she picks up a Phoenix feather that's both a blessing and a curse. She was also captured by an evil immortal for their own ends - something which, as with most who capture the Firebird, spectacularly backfires.

* QuizzicalTilt: Pre HeelFaceTurn, she does this when facing down Harry in the Red Room, after being surprised by how he broke her hold on the other Red Room prisoners. Considering that she serves as Sinister's Hound, and is described in a mixture of dog and cat-like ways, it's strangely apt.
* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: Post HeelFaceTurn she reveals a gift for these, giving one first to her erstwhile master, then in the form of a ShutUpHannibal, to Lukin.

* RedemptionPromotion: However, post HeelFaceTurn, she can actually think for herself, including thinking outside the box - and she proves Worthy of wielding Mjolnir, which is always a plus.

* SpockSpeak: Her internal monologue is along these lines, and her dialogue tends to default to this, both pre HeelFaceTurn, and post if she's nervous or under tension.

* SugarAndIcePersonality: Post HeelFaceTurn, she's a textbook example, having been raised as a TykeBomb and a LivingWeapon, suffering enough emotional abuse to leave her utterly certain that this was all she was meant to be. As a result, she often defaults to SpockSpeak and an apparently cool, emotionless, and brusque demeanour, but has a softer and sweeter side that tends to emerge around Remy, Jean, Jono, and Harry.

* ThrowTheDogABone: An somewhat meta example - Maddie's life is an utter wreck in Marvel canon, and Strange notices that a large number of potential futures wound up going incredibly badly for her. With that said, Strange here has gone out of his way to be sure Maddie's life is a happy one after she's freed from Sinister's clutches, nearly driving himself insane in the process.

* WorthyOpponent: Sees Harry as this, pre HeelFaceTurn.