History Characters / ChildOfTheStormNonAlignedVillains

* CombatPragmatist: They won't hesitate to stab someone in the back the moment it becomes convenient.

* TheDreaded: When they turn up, even the perpetually cool and controlled Julie gets [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness seriously worried.]]

* NonchalantDodge: They effortlessly stay ahead of Harry and Anakin, with only the very edge of their robes ''sometimes'' getting clipped by two cosmic master swordsmen.

* TheVoiceless: At a contrast to the very chatty protagonists, they don't say a word. However, like the Beetles, they can make themselves understood when they feel like it, going by the Grandmaster, and it's not clear if they ''can't'' talk, or just ''won't''.

* CombatPragmatist: In the comics, and most adaptations, Kang believes in something approximating a fair fight. This version emphatically does not (though that could be because people who try and get in a straight fight with Doctor Strange end up regretting it ''very quickly'').

!!The Grandmaster

* PhysicalGod: As implied by their showing against Anakin and Harry, and Julie's statement that they could rip a Beetle in half.

** It's also worth noting that wands were not a thing before she died, so with severely weakened magical abilities, she learned an entirely new form of magic, something compared to someone who's right-handed learning how to use their left. All while adjusting to a 1500 year TimeSkip, language changes, loss of most of her magic, and creating a cover sufficient to pass muster to get into Project Pegasus.

* EvilOldFolks: She's about eighty if you count years above ground, and a millennium and a half if you don't. Either way, still evil, still fairly old (even if she doesn't look it).

* ManipulativeBitch: As part of her [[ManBehindTheMan Woman Behind The Man]] shtick. She successively plays Project Pegasus (and indirectly, both SHIELD and HYDRA), Woodrue, and [[GuileHero Gambit]], albeit with a little magical help, in the latter case. She always gets her own way, eventually. She tries this on Strange, with a ReasonYouSuckSpeech, and it actually hits home, ''hard'' - though unlike most, she has a pretty good idea of who he is and intimate understanding of their shared background. Unfortunately for her, [[TranquilFury it backfires.]]

** A big one when she casually forces the Green Lantern Ring to her will, and a yet bigger one when her identity is revealed.

* PhysicalGod: [[spoiler: After tapping into Pandora's Box and becoming the Champion of Magic]]. It takes Strange going pedal to the metal just to keep her ''busy''.

* PragmaticVillainy: She takes every practical step possible to compensate for her limitations, she doesn't kill the heroes on the grounds that a) [[Series/Merlin2008 she learned the hard way]] how dangerous a RoaringRampageOfRevenge can be, and b) that unconscious, they'll still serve as an effective distraction, and immediately steps up her plans.

* PsychopathicWomanchild: She generally holds it together pretty well, being a smooth, patient, and very intelligent operator. However, she shows a distinct lack of empathy, a tendency to toy with people out of sheer boredom (this varies from something as harmless as casually spiking her colleagues' tea with psychedelics, and something as very not harmless as casually turning people into appropriate animals), and gets easily frustrated after her ascension. Chapters 9 and 10 are basically her extended tantrum at people just ''refusing to do the decent thing and'' '''''die.'''''

* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: She is one of the very, very few people to manage to get under Strange's skin with one of these, partly because thanks to a few clues she manages to make a very good guess at who he is - and has the proper context to mash every single one of his most painful {{Trauma Button}}s. Which she does, in an attempt to throw him off and/or come round to her point of view. Unfortunately for her, this just makes him mad.

* VillainRespect: Towards Carol, remarking a couple of times on how quick and strong-willed she is.

* NotQuiteDead: After what Strange did to him, he's spent the last eight thousand years as a spirit trapped inside a rotting corpse.
* PhysicalGod: Even as a young man, he was powerful enough to take on ''Strange'' and win, even though Strange himself was able to make a fighting retreat and pronounce a curse upon his former student before escaping. He later took several levels, to the point where he was capable of killing the Queens of both Summer and Winter (each ''minimally'' as powerful as Thor or Loki). He eventually became so powerful that he was burning through bodies, and had to learn how to [[GrandTheftMe body-jack]] new hosts.

* AdaptationalBadass: He's based on the MCU version, but his powers are much more in line with his comicbook counterpart, if not significantly greater.

* AffablyEvil: While his morality is [[BlueAndOrangeMorality so skewed]] that it's hard to perfectly peg him as evil, he more or less fits the bill. Despite that, he's amiable, if deranged, genuinely friendly in his own warped way, and all he's doing is - in a bizarre way - about saving people from dying.

* BishonenLine: [[spoiler: He used to be an eldritch AnimalisticAbomination, and]] now, he looks like Jeff Goldblum. No one is entirely sure why.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: PlayedForDrama - and for creepiness. He's wired up very differently even from your average CosmicEntity. For instance, he sees absolutely nothing wrong with taking [[spoiler: Johnny Storm's]] light-form and turning it into a fully sentient abstract art installation.

* CosmicEntity: He's powerful enough to have snatched up the Silver Surfer and subdued him as his Champion gladiator, and Sunniva (a Royal Asgardian Phoenix Host with centuries of experience) worries about the consequences of taking him on in his place of power.
* TheDreaded: Quirky though he may be, in line with the MCU, even Hal Jordan quietly fears him.

* HumanoidAbomination: As Sunniva notes, he ''looks'' like a quirky male-presenting HumanAlien, though [[spoiler: he used to be [[AnimalisticAbomination Annihilus]]]], and is in fact nothing of the sort.
* ImmortalImmaturity: Something complicated by Sakaar's very strange relationship with time - he is simultaneously unfathomably ancient and a small child.

* PsychopathicManchild: He's characterised as someone playing with action figures and dolls. Which gets especially chilling when it's some person's EmptyShell after he's slowly eaten their soul.

* SoulEating: He's doing this to everyone on Sakaar, slowly and steadily. Adam Brashear compares it to a spider wrapping up prey and injecting digestive juices to dissolve them from the inside out so they can be consumed more easily.

* EvilIsSexy: As soon as she gains access to [[spoiler: Pandora's Box]], she reverts her appearance to what it was [[{{Series/Merlin2008}} when she was first alive]] - the drop-dead gorgeous sorceress who in minimal disguise as a servant reduced a young Merlin to a stuttering mess, and who Carol notes could have stepped off a Paris catwalk.

* EldritchAbomination: A more understated example; while he rules as the unchallenged God-King of Sakaar, he ''seems'' to just be a quirky HumanAlien with significant power. However, there's a subtle sense of something profoundly ''wrong'' with him, and he rules an EldritchLocation that by all logic should not be possible. This is later confirmed - all of Sakaar ''is'' him, and all the matter and energy that falls through, people included, is slowly being devoured and absorbed. The people in particular are slowly hollowed out and stripped of identity; the bodies end up as {{Empty Shell}}s (which are sometimes reanimated by the Grandmaster as puppets or turned into the Sakaaran 'Paper People' who showed up in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy''), and the souls end up either as {{Body Snatcher}}s or [[spoiler: as Dementors]], trying to reclaim some sense of identity. Oh, and [[spoiler: he used to be Annihilus]]. His perspective underlines all of this, demonstrating an amused detachment towards/vague understanding of mortal concepts such as time and identity.

* BishonenLine: [[spoiler: He used to be an eldritch AnimalisticAbomination, and now, he looks like Jeff Goldblum.]] No one is entirely sure why.

* TheWorfEffect: By Sunniva's account, the Heralds of Galactus are Greater Gods, and specialize in passing between realms. The fact that he was able to capture one and use it/him as a gladiator speak volumes about his power well before he's introduced.

* BewareTheSillyOnes: He seems to be just a hammy and LaughablyEvil space biker with a few quirks and a lecherous streak, who gets amusingly humiliated by Sunniva. Then he pops up again, casually murders [[spoiler: Miek]], one of the most experienced elite gladiators on Sakaar, identifies Harry for who and what he is through his disguise, came prepared to prevent Harry just tossing him around with [[MindOverMatter telekinesis]] and proves nearly kills him with his first blow.

!!Annihilus a.k.a. the Beast of Annihilation

Annihilus is the greatest of the Negative Zone's creatures, and the leader of its vast invasion force. He is first seen in one of Harry's Norn-visions leading one such invasion, only to be thwarted and defeated by Sunniva Vésdottir, the host of the Phoenix at the time. [[spoiler: Turns out to have later evolved into the Grandmaster when he finally appears in a major role]].

* BewareTheSillyOnes: Like his MCU counterpart, he looks harmless and hedonistic. Unlike his MCU counterpart, not only is he the undisputed ruler of Sakaar, but Sakaar is the size of a dwarf galaxy and he's easily powerful enough to kidnap a Herald of Galactus and use him as a gladiator. Also, an earlier aspect of him was [[spoiler: Annihilus]], and it's easily one he can all upon again if he feels like it.

* RealityWarper: Fighting on par with a host of ''the Phoenix Herself'' – who renders ''the laws of the universe irrelevant'' – gives you some serious clout in that category, not to mention that every one of your Faults into the universe tends to throw reality very out of whack. [[spoiler: And then later on you evolve into a being that is basically an undisputed god of his realm capable of trapping a ''Herald of Galactus'' and forcing him to be your gladiator.]]

Annihilus is the greatest of the Negative Zone's creatures, and the leader of its vast invasion force. He is first seen in one of Harry's Norn-visions leading one such invasion, only to be thwarted and defeated by Sunniva Vésdottir, the host of the Phoenix at the time. [[spoiler: Actually an early form of the Grandmaster]].

* AdaptationalDumbass: Possibly; in the comics, despite being extremely unstable, paranoid and aggressive, Annihilus was at least was intelligent enough to talk, speak, and think, as well as rule the Negative Zone. Here, he seems to be just another beast of the Negative Zone (albeit its most powerful and foremost) operating on pure animal instinct to devour everything he sees. Either that, or his intelligence is simply too alien to comprehend. [[spoiler: It's later confirmed to be the latter - he's an early form of the Grandmaster, who is all of the above, as well as being significantly quirky, but certainly not stupid.]]

* PsychicPowers: Fighting on par with a host of ''the Phoenix Herself'' – which by extension renders ''the laws of the universe irrelevant'' – gives you some serious clout in that category.
* RedBaron: The Beast of Annihilation.
* SealedEvilInACan: Downplayed; the Fault he made when he invades is sealed back up by the Phoenix when he's defeated. That's how his fight with Sunniva ended. Unfortunately, it's kind of a LeakingCanOfEvil, and [[spoiler: he's the Grandmaster, who's only partly trapped]].

* AdaptationalDumbass: Possibly; in the comics, despite being extremely unstable, paranoid and aggressive, Annihilus was at least was intelligent enough to talk, speak, and think, as well as rule the Negative Zone. Here, he shows no signs of higher intelligence. That, or his intelligence is just too alien to comprehend. [[spoiler: It's later confirmed to be the latter - he's an early form of the Grandmaster, who is all of the above, as well as being significantly quirky, but certainly not stupid.]]

* OhCrap: While he knows what Sunniva and by extension Harry is, he doesn't realise what that could mean for him until Harry seems on the verge of destroying his head with ''Curtana'' [[spoiler: in lightsabre mode]], which, due to its nature as a weapon imbued with Phoenix fire, could kill him. After that, he goes very quiet indeed.

* KickTheSonOfABitch:
** What happens when Wanda catches up to him is ''not'' pretty.
** Likewise with Strange, who utterly terrifies him, before [[spoiler: decapitating him]].
** Previously terrified the Beast [[spoiler: (Dudley)]] into submission.