History Characters / ChildOfTheStormTheMagicalWorlds

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Deduces the origins of the HYDRA magical troops attacking him in chapter 70 by their casting styles, while fighting them and not even paying total attention to them. During ''Forever Red'', he is also the only person who deduced that [[spoiler: Harry's mind hadn't been erased by the Red Room, but removed and hidden, specifically by Maddie - who had pulled a HeelFaceTurn]] with nothing but pure logic and observed evidence.

** In chapter 65 of ''Ghosts'', he faces down the Spirit of the Fallen Fortress - an entity that was devouring gods long before it hopped into the body of a young RealityWarper ([[spoiler: Hermione]]) - and delivers a chilling DontMakeMeDestroyYou speech. When it refuses to take the offer, he makes it regret that decision.

* GlorifiedSpermDonor: Wanda seems to see him this way regarding [[spoiler: their daughter, Hermione]]. He doesn't know about [[spoiler:her]], and you honestly can't blame Wanda not telling him. Even John seems to agree once he finds out.

* DidYouJustScamCthulhu: His modus operandi in a nutshell, as Wisdom remarks when he hears that Constantine's operating independently. He can't overpower the big demons, so he has to con them. Wanda dubs him 'the World's Greatest Con Man.'

* IHaveManyNames: The Laughing Magician, the Hellblazer, the Demonsbane and the World's Greatest Con Man, among others.

* ActionDad: Unknowingly to Hermione, by Wanda Maximoff.

* GlorifiedSpermDonor: In Wanda's eyes regarding [[spoiler:Hermione.]]

* MoralEventHorizon: Wanda considers his [[spoiler: enchanting the Zataras and turning them into living bombs without their knowing]] to kill Voldemort if he ever captured and managed to get at their secrets, making it look like [[TakingYouWithMe a Death Curse]] (which happened when [[spoiler:Sindella]] was captured), then tricking [[spoiler: a grieving Giovanni Zatara into a duel to the death against a wounded (but not as badly as expected) Voldemort]] as this. And making it worse, [[spoiler: Giovanni asked Wanda if he could trust Constantine. She checked with Constantine, asking if he was sure his plan was sound. He said yes, so she, turning to Giovanni, also said yes.]] At first, when it went pear-shaped, she was willing to forgive John - anyone can make a mistake, after all. Then she found out that [[spoiler: John had enchanted the Zataras.]] To add insult to injury, it didn't even manage to kill Voldemort (but did keep valuable information out of his hands) and he brushed it off as "casualties of war". No wonder she hates him.

Hogwarts' new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, for Harry's fourth year - and only for that year, apparently. A former student at Beauxbatons, she's Italian rather than being Italian-American. The daughter of Giovanni and Sindella Zatara, despite being orphaned at a young age by Voldemort (though, known only to a few, John Constantine also played a part) she learned their merging of Wanded and Wandless magic from their notes on the subject, a merging which makes her a very powerful and magically flexible practitioner, and the basics of which she teaches additional classes in at Hogwarts.

* HeroWorshipper: For Wanda.

* MyGreatestFailure: Wanda feels quite awful for unwittingly helping to orphan Zatanna -- had she not assured Giovanni Zatara that Constantine was trustworthy, maybe he wouldn't have been killed in a SenselessSacrifice while attempting to avenge his wife.
* NoodleIncident: Had an encounter with the White Council's Wardens when she was fifteen, when they came to assess her. Apparently they were annoying and intrusive, but thanks to Madame Maxime, nothing more than that - though the Council as a rule doesn't like her very much as she doesn't fit in either traditional magical category.
* ParentalAbandonment: Sindella and Giovanni Zatara were both killed in the first war against Voldemort, partially because of John Constantine's manigances. Zatanna herself has no idea about it.
* RedMage: An expert in both the wanded and wandless styles, having learned her parents' hybridization of the Art.

* {{Squee}}: Has a subdued variant on this when she meets [[LivingLegend Wanda.]]

* TheCorrupter: A minor variant - he tends to have a corrosive effect on the morals of those around him. Peter Wisdom also mentions that he picked up smoking from Constantine, while Dresden notes that against all reason being in Constantine's presence makes him crave nicotine.

** Thor mentions [[NoodleIncident the incident involving his tricking three Archdemons into curing his lung cancer free of charge.]]
* DisappearedDad: A sadly justified example. Constantine is deeply aware he's ''not'' a good person and ultimately cannot put a stop to his scams and manipulations, driving everyone he loves to dying or worse. So when he learned he was Hermione's biological father, he concluded the best thing to do was to stay as far as he could from her.

* GlorifiedSpermDonor: In Wanda's eyes.

* HazyFeelTurn: Made one during his time with the Order of the Phoenix, culminating in the incident that made Wanda hate him. He tricked her into betraying a mutual friend of theirs to his death as part of one of his schemes. [[spoiler: It's worse than that - first, he turned the Zataras into living bombs without their knowing, set to detonate if Voldemort ever broke them, on the grounds that their knowledge was too dangerous in Voldemort's hands, making it look like a [[TakingYouWithMe Death Curse]]. After Sindella died that way, he talked Giovanni into going after the wounded Voldemort. Giovanni asked Wanda if he could trust Constantine. She said yes, Giovanni fought Voldemort and was killed, his body intact enough that Wanda picked up on the enchantments. And Constantine just shrugged it off as "casualties of war, luv. Casualties of war."]]

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Wanda suggests that this is what happened to him during the war with Voldemort, with the lengths he had to go to and the fact that they were fighting from a position of weakness most of the time meaning that he often had to dip into the darker side of things. While he's still a good guy, that status is largely nominal.

* IHaveManyNames: The Laughing Magician, the Hellblazer, the Demonsbane and the World's Greatest Conman, among others.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He used to be this trope in earnest, and is still ultimately trying to do the right thing. [[ManipulativeBastard His methods,]] however, leave a lot to be desired.

* MagnificentBastard: With the emphasis on the bastard part. See what he pulled with the Zataras - it was a XanatosGambit aimed at either killing Voldemort, or at least severely injuring him and keeping incalculably dangerous knowledge out of his hands.

* MoralEventHorizon: Wanda considers his [[spoiler: enchanting the Zataras and turning them into living bombs without their knowing]], to kill Voldemort if he ever captured and managed to get at their secrets, making it look like [[TakingYouWithMe a Death Curse]] (which happened when Sindella was captured), then tricking a grieving Giovanni Zatara into a duel to the death against a wounded (but not as badly as expected) Voldemort as this. And making it worse, Giovanni asked Wanda if he could trust Constantine. She checked with Constantine, asking if he was sure his plan was sound. He said yes, so she, turning to Giovanni, also said yes. At first, when it went pear-shaped, she was willing to forgive John - anyone can make a mistake, after all. Then she found out that [[spoiler: John had enchanted the Zataras.]] To add insult to injury, it didn't even manage to kill Voldemort (but did keep valuable information out of his hands) and he brushed it off as "casualties of war". No wonder she hates him.
* NoodleIncident: The thing with the three Arch-Devils and the Lung Cancer.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: Though he is mostly alluded to rather than appearing onscreen, being the HeroOfAnotherStory (for a very loose definition of 'hero', anyway), he is the father of a major character, and his actions in [[spoiler: enchanting the Zataras and causing their deaths]] led to [[spoiler: Zatanna]] becoming orphaned and [[spoiler: Hermione being adopted by the Grangers]], and have a long term psychological impact on Wanda (the former having happened through his abuse of her trust, and the latter being the result of that abuse of trust).

* TokenEvilTeamMate: He started out as a LoveableRogue, but he became this for the Order of the Phoenix, drifting into darker and darker magic, being warned by the Wardens - according to Wanda, all this did was make him refine his approach so he stayed within the letter of the Laws. And then there's what he did to the Zataras.
* TheUnFettered: 'Amoral' would probably be the best way to describe him. It's heavily implied that there is ''nothing'' he won't do to get the job done, which is why Wanda trusting him as far as she could throw him would be a significant step up.

Hogwarts' Transfiguration Professor, Head of Gryffindor House, and Deputy Headmistress of Hogwarts, [=McGonagall=] is a formidable woman and powerful witch. During WWII, she worked with Dumbledore and Steve Rogers to take on Grindelwald's forces where they allied with HYDRA, and in the process, struck up a romance with a certain Bucky Barnes. This romance had an inevitable result, after Barnes was presumed dead, a daughter who later became the mother of Clint Barton - a tangling up that Doctor Strange is indicated to have had some part in. While technically retired from heavy combat, as more than one villain has found out, it is not wise to threaten her students. All canon tropes up through ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'' apply.

* TeenPregnancy: On the higher end of the spectrum, she was in her seventh year at Hogwarts (seventeen or eighteen) when she met and fell in love with Bucky. It was a factor in her decision to gave her daughter for adoption, as unwed teenage mothers have just as bad a rap in the magical community - especially back then.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: It's noted by multiple characters that, given the political mess he steered the Ministry into, Fudge is very unpopular. However, the only other person who'd be willing to take on Wisdom, Barty Crouch Sr, is known to be despised by Thor for throwing his best friend into Azkaban without a trial, and the Ministry doesn't need more enemies.

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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Loved Muggle machines and technology, and according to canon, his deepest desire was to find out how airplanes stay up. Yet despite his eccentricities, he is a clever, insightful man and he impresses ''Tony Stark'' with his mechanical ingenuity, which says all that needs to be said.

Current Headmistress of Beauxbatons, and half-giant - which she goes to some trouble to hide. A ReasonableAuthorityFigure, she's largely OutOfFocus.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: While Wanda dislikes the Council in general, she seems to get along well with Rashid, probably because they have overlapping fields of responsibility and a shared professional attitude. He's also the member of the Senior Council that Strange is least likely to mock.

* AllLovingHero: He's kind, wise, and is this, despite a not-insignificant capacity for ruthlessness - per [[spoiler: Nimue]], he killed a ''lot'' of people to put Arthur on the throne and keep him there, and while the source is biased, it's not exactly denied. However, he really prefers not to resort to violence, and spends much of his clash with [[spoiler: Nimue]] in ''Unfinished Business'' trying to talk her down and help her, despite having every reason to hate her. It causes a brief HopeSpot when she actually considers it, noting in her astonishment that he really does care.

* BadassBookworm: He's the single most powerful human practitioner of magic, stronger than anyone below Skyfather status, capable of standing up to someone with the power of ''multiple'' pantheons, and is supposedly able to not just wield magic but control it. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Oh, and he's the only one who can make Strange shut up.]] He also created Demonreach with Strange, which is so ridiculously advanced that Bob, a living magical supercomputer can barely comprehend part of it, and enjoys rereading ''A Brief History of Time'' every year.

* PhysicalGod: He's explicitly even stronger than ''Loki'', and he's the only person other than [[spoiler: a Lantern wielding Carol]] who can match the ArcVillain in a direct contest of power in ''Unfinished Business'' - and through sheer skill, he holds up under pressure that the former admits would have turned her to dust. And all the while, he manages to keep up a dialogue with her, in hopes of TalkingTheMonsterToDeath. He almost succeeds. Almost.
* Really700YearsOld: Merlin was born in the 6th century CE, but usually appears to be fairly youthful.

* RespectedByTheRespected: The White Council reveres him, considering he was their founder (or, as Strange likes to remind them, restored them from nothing more than a cringing shell in the ruins of the Western Roman Empire), and Wanda says he's likely the only person Doctor Strange [[spoiler: his peer and former student Taliesin]] might actually be willing to listen to - something confirmed in ''Unfinished Business'', {{No Sell}}ing a DeathGlare and delivering a mild but definite rebuke that Strange listens to (if somewhat sulkily).

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* LoveableRogue: He was this, once upon a time.

** It's also why there's so much bad blood between them and Strange, who is by definition TheUnfettered, taking on, in Ebenezar's eyes, more power than one man was ever meant to have. With this trope in mind, you can kind of see their point.

* TheArchMage: Leader of the world's wandless Wizards (more or less - there are powerful wandless practitioners who choose not to be members of the Council. Wanda and Strange, to take two examples), and has the power to match - in ''Ghosts'', Dresden notes that it's entirely possible that he could bring down [[PersonOfMassDestruction Harry]] solo.

* OneManArmy: One of the most powerful and dangerous Wardens (and given that all of them are this trope by themselves to one extent or another, that's saying something).

* JerkassHasAPoint: He's incredibly suspicious of anything to do with chaos magic, which is implied to be another point of contention between him and Strange, and Harry notes that given his connections to/experiences with Strange, Wanda, and Chthon, Nabu doesn't like him very much. However, he also admits that Nabu has many good reasons to dislike Strange, one of them being Apocalypse ([[spoiler: Strange's first Apprentice and foster-son gone bad]]), another of them being that Strange told him to "make yourself useful for once" and quite literally punted him into Sakaar through a chaos rift.

* MentorArchetype: Just like in canon, Dumbledore is very much this to Harry. Apparently, he also served as something of a mentor to Charles Xavier, himself an example of this trope, giving him advice on how to raise and train superhumans. It's also heavily implied that Fury picked up at least some of his skills as TheSpymaster from Dumbledore, given that they worked together against Voldemort back in the day.

* {{Foil}}: To Jean-Paul. Both are handsome, privileged and deeply secretive young men with powers who rely on being underestimated and whose most dangerous asset is their mind. Both stand apart, with ambiguous ultimate aims. Given their lean build and sharp good looks, there's even a certain physical resemblance. Unsurprisingly, Jean-Paul is first to consider the possibility of him being possessed, and when they have a one-on-one chat, it is suitably cagey and cautious.

* TheSmartGuy: He knows a ''lot'' about the Magical world, even more so than before thanks to his co-pilot.

* WeakButSkilled: He's far less powerful than the likes of Strange, Wanda, Dumbledore, Voldemort, even than the likes of Dresden, Lucius, Sirius, Bellatrix, Lily and James (prior to the latter coming back as Thor). However, he's got a talent for wandless magic (very rare for a wanded wizard) and, apparently, a gift for enchantment. [[spoiler: Even on people, as it turns out.]] With the latter, he nearly succeeds in killing Voldemort. He uses his talents effectively.

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* BadassBookworm: He's the single most powerful human practitioner of magic, stronger than anyone below Skyfather status, capable of standing up to someone with the power of ''multiple'' pantheons, and is supposedly able to not just wield magic but control it. Oh, and he's the only one who can make Strange shut up. He also created Demonreach with Strange, which is so ridiculously advanced that Bob, a living magical supercomputer can barely comprehend part of it, and enjoys rereading ''A Brief History of Time'' every year.

* BornOfMagic: Chapter 10 of ''Ghosts'' implies that he was this.

* GoodIsNotSoft: He's an AllLovingHero who would really prefer not to fight, but [[spoiler: Nimue]] is implied to be telling the complete truth when she says that he killed a ''lot'' of people to ensure Arthur took the throne - and kept it. Wanda also observes that Strange learned how to operate from the shadows from an absolute master.

* ManBehindTheMan: As in [[Series/Merlin2008 the show]], while Arthur was a charismatic and wise ruler, and a great warrior, Merlin was the power behind Camelot's throne, advising Arthur and systematically eliminating every threat that he could from the shadows.
* PhysicalGod: He's explicitly even stronger than ''Loki'', and he's the only person other than [[spoiler: a Lantern wielding Carol]] who can match the ArcVillain in a direct contest of power in ''Unfinished Business'' - and he holds up under pressure that the former admits would have turned her to dust. And all the while, he manages to keep up a dialogue with her, in hopes of TalkingTheMonsterToDeath. He almost succeeds. Almost.

* SkilledAndStrong: He's got more raw power than Loki, with Strange stating that him having a rematch with [[spoiler:a Green Lantern armed Nimue]] would split the United States from the Great Lakes to New Orleans (and when they ''do'' fight, he's very careful to never get in a direct contest of power), and he was one of the creators of Demonreach, alongside Doctor Strange (a magical superprison capable of holding numerous PhysicalGod level entities). For reference, Demonreach's defenses consist of magical matrices which stumped ''[[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Bob]],'' a ''living magical supercomputer'', who explicitly said it was so far ahead of magic in the Dresden Files that comparing Harry Dresden's magical skill to the skill it took to build Demonreach would be like comparing stone wheels to combustion engines.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: While so far he's only had a minor role in ''Unfinished Business'' and (according to WordOfGod) once briefly in the main story, in disguise, he was the one who founded the White Council, and it's implied he's been the HeroOfAnotherStory quite a lot offscreen.

* BadassInCharge: The leader of the Wardens, and most definitely a serious badass.

* TheDreaded: Despite not being the most powerful opponent (though he is a capable fighter when it comes to it), he's very, very clever and ruthlessly manipulative, meaning that he casts a very long shadow indeed. It's sufficient to make Dresden worried about attracting comparisons to him, or that he might turn out like him.

* MemeticBadass: Not as much as some, but the man's got a reputation - according to Wanda, even ''[[TheFairFolk the Fae]]'' think twice before making a deal with him.

* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: To be a member of the White Council, you need to be in the top tier of magical power, and the Senior Council is composed of the seven most powerful wizards of the group. In ''Ghosts'', Dresden, who's seen Harry (by this time a PersonOfMassDestruction in his own right) in action, remarks that the Senior Council, or even just [[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership the Merlin]], could bring him down.

* JerkassHasAPoint: In respect to both their habit of beheading Warlocks (who're generally [[DrunkOnTheDarkSide too far gone]] to be saved by the time they're caught) and their dislike of Strange - while he is one of the good guys, he is also incredibly dangerous, having claimed power that was never meant for one man to wield.

* PersonOfMassDestruction: The associated power levels are required to be even considered for Council Membership, though not all Wizards specialise in stand-up fighting. Most of those who do are part of the Council's BadassArmy, the Wardens.

** When he's first seen using the Blackstaff in the Dresden Files, he uses it to perform what is effectively two ''Mass Avada Kedavra'' spells in the space of about ten seconds.

* GoodIsNotSoft: He's friendly, grandfatherly, and benevolently eccentric... but he's also got a core of solid steel. It's not always obvious, but it's there - not many people will outright threaten Doctor Strange and get away with it.

* NoodleIncident: He occasionally slips up and refers to Natasha as 'Natalia,' and when Harry asks, states that he knew her, and probably very well indeed, during her pre-SHIELD days. The narration also indicates that this 'slip' was on purpose. Given what she was up to in those days, this may double as an OffscreenMomentOfAwesome.

* PsychicPowers: He is a powerful Legilimens, and presumably has a superb PsychicBlockDefense as well.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: As per canon, he is willing to listen to other's opinions and understands the strengths and weaknesses of his students, not expecting more than they are capable of giving. For instance, he modulates his treatment of a traumatised Harry to account for his trauma in assigning punishment, while actually helping him come to terms with it.

The governing body of Magical Britain (the wanded part, at any rate), it comes under significant strain from the latter half of ''Child of the Storm'' onwards: HYDRA seek to eliminate it as a factor, and the newly reconstructed [=MI13=] under Peter Wisdom is intent on steadily supplanting it.

* TookALevelInBadass: Inverted in regards to his political position and that of the Ministry in general. Prior to and during most of Book I, the Ministry was in a strong leadership position over the British (wanded) magical world. However, the advent of Peter Wisdom's [=MI13=], especially his recruiting many young and talented wizards, and the loss of many of the Ministry's best people during the HYDRA assault, greatly crippled them. The Avengers note that while this in itself is not necessarily fatal, Fudge's inept leadership compared to Wisdom's dynamic style, and the inability of many purebloods to realize just how far Muggles have come, meant that it was much harder to regain that authority as Wisdom usurps it.

* PersonOfMassDestruction: Enough that he could squash Dresden, another example of this trope, like an insect.

* OneManArmy: One of the most powerful and dangerous Wardens.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: To be a member of the White Council, you need to be in the top tier of magical power, and the Senior Council is composed of the seven most powerful wizards of the group. In ''Ghosts'', Dresden, who's seen Harry (by this time a PersonOfMassDestruction in his own right) in action, remarks that the Senior Council, or even just [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority the Merlin]], could bring him down.

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[[header:The Wanded Magical World]]

The Magical World of Hogwarts, the various Ministries of Magic, Beauxbatons, and Durmstrang, among others. More populous and organised than the Wandless community, they tend to be correspondingly more isolated from non-magical affairs. This relates to the outbreaks of 'Pureblood' sentiment, of magical people and magical heritage being superior to non-magical heritage, as well as an obsession with secrecy from the rest of the world -- [[TheUnMasquedWorld a secrecy which is steadily being eroded.]]