History Characters / MCUSovereign

* FlatWhat: His reaction when [[Characters/MCUEgo someone]] shows up out of nowhere and saves the Guardians of the Galaxy by destroying the entire Sovereign fleet single-handedly.

[[center: [- [[Characters/MarvelCinematicUniverse Main Character Index]] > Other Individuals and Organizations > [[Characters/MCUCosmic Cosmic]] > [[Characters/MCUAsgard Asgard and the Nine Realms]] ([[Characters/MCUOdinBorson Odin Borson]] | [[Characters/MCULokiLaufeyson Loki Laufeyson]] | [[Characters/MCULokiLaufeysonVariantL1130 Loki Laufeyson (Variant L1130)]] | [[Characters/MCUSylvieLaufeydottir Sylvie Laufeydottir]] | [[Characters/MCUOtherLokiVariants Other Loki Variants]]) | [[Characters/MCUKnowhere Knowhere]] | [[Characters/MCUNovaEmpire Nova Empire]] | '''Sovereign''' | [[Characters/MCUSkrulls Skrulls]] | [[Characters/MCUEternals Eternals]] -]]]

* FlatWhat: His reaction when [[Characters/MCUEgoTheLivingPlanet someone]] shows up out of nowhere and saves the Guardians of the Galaxy by destroying the entire Sovereign fleet single-handedly.

[[center: [- [[Characters/MarvelCinematicUniverse Main Character Index]] > Other Individuals and Organizations > [[Characters/MCUCosmic Cosmic]] > [[Characters/MCUAsgard Asgard and the Nine Realms]] ([[Characters/MCULokiLaufeyson Loki Laufeyson]] | [[Characters/MCULokiLaufeysonVariantL1130 Loki Laufeyson (Variant L1130)]] | [[Characters/MCUSylvieLaufeydottir Sylvie Laufeydottir]] | [[Characters/MCUOtherLokiVariants Other Loki Variants]]) | [[Characters/MCUKnowhere Knowhere]] | [[Characters/MCUNovaEmpire Nova Empire]] | '''Sovereign''' | [[Characters/MCUSkrulls Skrulls]] | [[Characters/MCUEternals Eternals]] -]]]

* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Pretty much nothing goes right for her or her species in the movie, and her [[WomanChild reactions]] to her repeated failures drive in just how little the Sovereign matter overall. She's trying her best to defy the trope with the creation of Adam Warlock, though while Adam is legitimately powerful, the two of them ultimately end up deferring to Ayesha's master, the High Evolutionary.

* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: In ''Vol. 3'', Ayesha's attempts at posing a serious threat are undermined by the loss of dignity she suffers from serving as the High Evolutionary's lackey and having to deal with Adam Warlock, who is as childlike as he is powerful. Her efforts prove so fruitless that it's hard not to feel a little sorry for Ayesha, especially since she's working under threat of her society being destroyed by her insane master. The poor treatment she suffers from the High Evolutionary plays up her sympathetic qualities, [[spoiler:as does her unceremonious death at his unknowing, uncaring hands.]]

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: In ''Vol. 3'', she cradles Adam as he recovers from the wound Nebula inflicted, and she tries to protect him from the High Evolutionary when Warlock's backtalk earns him a painful attack from the scientist. [[spoiler:She dies reaching out to him as he rushes to try in vain to save her.]]

* WellIntentionedExtremist: In ''Vol. 3'', Ayesha is still out to get the Guardians, but it's not out of revenge; the High Evolutionary caught wind of her creating Adam Warlock, had him prematurely released from his cocoon, and demanded that Ayesha and Adam capture Rocket for him under threat of their society being destroyed. They even have to oppose others on the High Evolutionary's payroll out of fear that if it isn't them who bring Rocket in, the High Evolutionary will [[YouHaveFailedMe will destroy the Sovereign anyway]].

* PleaseSpareHimMyLiege: When the High Evolutionary uses his gravity powers against Adam Warlock for failing to capture Rocket and speaking disrespectfully to him, Ayesha begs him to be lenient with her newborn son and to give them another chance.

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:Ironically, despite being a ButtMonkey for most of her on-screen appearances, and her dying, in ''Vol. 3'' she technically succeeds in her goal of saving her people from the High Evolutionary's wrath. With Adam being an accidental key player in bring the Guardians onto the path to stop the High Evolutionary. So now he can't make good on his genocide promise towards the Sovereign for there failures]].

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Subverted - she operates one of the hundreds of starfighters when they take on the Guardians, but they're all wirelessly controlled so she's in no more danger than any of their pilots, and she's not presented as a significantly greater threat than any of the rest of her fleet.

* UnrelatedInTheAdaptation: In the comics, Ayesha is the biological mother of Stakar Ogord. In the MCU, there is sign that the two have any connection to each other.

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:Ironically, despite being a ButtMonkey for most of her on-screen appearances, and her dying, in ''Vol. 3'' she technically succeeds in her goal of saving her people from the High Evolutionary's warth. With Adam being an accidental key player in bring the Guardians onto the path to stop the High Evolutionary. So now he can't make good on his genocide promise towards the Sovereign for there failures]].

* RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: In the comics, Ayesha was created by the Enclave, the same people who created Adam Warlock before her, and is therefore basically his younger sister. In the MCU, Ayesha created Adam herself, making her basically his mother.

* VillainessesWantHeroes: Downplayed, but in her first scene, she shows interest in having intimate relations with Peter Quill. [[BlatantLies For academic purposes, of course...]]