History Characters / Misfits

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Shoves Nathan to the ground after one too many jibes and kicks Rudy out of the Community Centre for an especially tasteless joke.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: [[spoiler:Her new power is absolute knowledge on rocket science. However, since she doesn't have the necessary qualifications as evidence of her newfound knowledge, she has a hard time getting work as a scientist since everyone assumes she's faking it by stealing the diagrams she drew.]]

* AttentionWhore: Prior to her CharacterDevelopment about mid-way through series 2, she uses her sex appeal to make herself the center of men's attention.

* MsFanservice: Alisha is beautiful and aware of it, dressing as scantily as is possible in an orange jumpsuit.

The character sheet for the British live action dramedy ''Misfits''.

* BoobsOfSteel: She's easily the most physically-oriented girl in the cast and accordingly has the huge bust to go with it.

* AndThenJohnWasaZombie: [[spoiler:Gets bitten by a zombie in Series 4 and kills himself before he could hurt anyone.]]

* DiscardAndDraw: [[spoiler Curtis has had the greatest variety of power out of the Misfits.]]

* OverprotectiveDad: Oh boy. If you kiss Jessica or even walk in on her changing, then you're going to get brutally murdered.

* AntiVillain: All she wants is to be back with the person she's closest to, and [WellIntentionedExtremist honestly believes that she's helping Simon]] by saving him from his mean and murderous friends. Also, she doesn't actually resort to directly hurting anyone until the Misfits try to kill her first.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: In Series 3, [[spoiler:thanks to his new ability to have multiple orgasms while in female form,]] the guy's a ''machine''.

* OccultBlueEyes: When she's using her power.
* OneNightStandPregnancy: Jess gets pregnant this way after she's sent back in time, having sex with her son's father before killing him to insure he's still born.

* TerritorialSmurfette: She's unreasonably hostile and bitchy towards Abbey after she joins the gang, calling her a slut and a freak multiple times, and to her face. Even after some initial awkwardness (with Abby sleeping with Finn) has passed, they never develop the same bond Kelly and Alisha did.
* TriangRelations:
** She's at the center of a Type 4, where she's genuinely interested in Alex, and doesn't view Finn romantically (particularly after the debacle between him and his step-mom in 4.3). However, this may have evolved into a Type 3 [[spoiler: after she walked in on Alex just after he'd been cheating on her]].
** It's also implied that she has ''some'' feelings for Finn, at least in Series 4: he's almost always the first one she calls for help, she heads straight to him when she finds Alex [[spoiler: cheating on her]], and appears more pissed off about [[spoiler: Abby sleeping with him than her flirting with Jess' actual boyfriend]].
** She becomes the centre of another Type 4 in Series 5: she and Rudy gradually fall for each other, which is complicated not only by the fact that Finn still has very obvious feelings for Jess, but that Rudy has spent the past several months trying to help Finn win her over.

* FlightStrengthHeart: He has telekinesis and teleportation, which is useful, but also took Alisha's arousal power for no other reason that to abuse women.

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Charlene [=McKenna=]

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Edward Hogg

!!!'''Power:''' [[spoiler: Immortality and Mediumship (Series 1 - 2); Reality Warper ("Vegas, Baby!")]]

* AttentionWhore

* TheBully: He often bullies Simon in early episodes, to the point that Kelly tells him to leave him alone.

* CallBack: When people ask him what he was arrested for, he explains that it was for 'eating some pick 'n' mix,' at which most people scoff in disbelief. [[spoiler: However, in 1x04, we see he wasn't lying, though he left out some other crimes he committed.]]

* FreudianExcuse: He's a huge pain to be around, but he's got a decent list of issues. His crappy dad leaving left him upset and lacking role models, his lower class status means he has less prospects, and in a later episode, he mentions that a friend of his mother's jerked him off [[DudeShesLikeInAComa while he was sleeping on a camping trip]] ''[[{{Ephebophile}} when he was thirteen(!)]]'' and once implied that he was molested by a priest as a child, which goes a long way to explaining his hypersexual nature and lack of trust.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Although you could argue that most of the main characters are this to some extent (they're a bunch of kids on community service, so they have literally no choice but to spend time together), Nathan is the one who causes the most flinching and eye-rolling among the others, due to his loud personality and anti-social behavior.

%%* IJustWantToBeSpecial: For the whole of season 1.
* IronButtMonkey: Key to his character. Whether it be embarrassment [[spoiler: or fatal injury,]] he'll shrug it off and laugh. [[spoiler: It's even the characteristic that gave him his PersonalityPower]].
* ISeeDeadPeople: [[spoiler: What happens when ecstasy inverts his power. Unlike the other power inversions though, Nathan gains this as a permanent secondary power.]]

* LivingForeverIsAwesome: [[spoiler: He strongly believes this.]]

* MaliciousMisnaming: He ''always'' refers to Simon as "Barry", since he doesn't see him as interesting or worthwhile enough to call by his real name - even when he's begging him to [[spoiler:save his life, shortly before he dies for the first time]]. He never does break the habit, but it's clearly become more of an AffectionateNickname by the end of the series.
* MouthyKid: Pretty much the poster child for this.

* NoDeadBodyPoops: [[spoiler: {{Averted}}. He suffers this following his first resurrection, and still joked about later in the second series.]]

* PersonalityPowers: [[spoiler: Nathan remains eternally confident despite his misfortunes and bounces back from almost every single insult and embarrassment, so he gains the capacity to return from the grave.]] [[spoiler: Turns out his new power really ''does'' make the world [[RealityWarper revolve around him]].]]
* PutOnABus: [[spoiler: Creator/RobertSheehan didn't return for a third series.]]

* RealityWarper: He appears to possess this, after [[spoiler: buying it off Seth. He's limited to apparently just conjuring or altering small items, though it's possible that he's just too stupid to realise its limits, which isn't exactly out of character.]]

* RunningGag

* TheSlacker
* SmallNameBigEgo
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: [[spoiler: Nathan dies from from being impaled in the chest (twice), being mauled by Tony in an alternate timeline, beaten to death, breaking his neck in a webisode and being shot in the head in another alternate timeline.]]
* TokenEvilTeammate: On the milder end of the scale, but he has all the important features.

!!!'''Power:''' Season 1-2, Invisibility, [[spoiler: super-human aim]]; Season 3, [[spoiler: Short-term precognition, one-way travel into the past, immunity to others' powers, super-human aim]]

* AntiMagic: [[spoiler: Future!Simon has the ability of immunity to others' powers.]]

* BusCrash: [[spoiler: An interesting case, as he was killed before being put on the bus due to TimeTravel.]]

* CombatPrecognition: [[spoiler: After selling his invisibility, Simon bought precognition to replace; this new power is put to good use in predicting hazards and threats during his free-running exercises.]]
* ComboPlatterPowers: [[spoiler: At his death Simon possesses precognition, time-travel and immunity to others' powers. Back when he had invisibility he also possessed some kind of superhuman aim, which he retained even after he lost his original power.]]

%%* DiedInYourArmsTonight
%%* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette

* FieryCoverup: [[spoiler: After being fatally wounded as Superhoodie, he asks Alicia to burn his corpse so that nobody can learn his secret identity.]]
* FutureBadass: [[spoiler: Superhoodie is Future!Simon, who can do parkour, has superhuman aim and has saved the lives of a Misfit at least four times.]]

* HeroicBuild: [[spoiler: Future Simon is ''ripped'' and in Season Two Simon begins working out accordingly so he can be more like his future self.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Future Simon jumps in front of a bullet to save present Alisha. It's still not clear whether this was always fated to happen, or if he changed the timeline- there's evidence for both. Future!Simon also risked death when he blocked Nathan from an explosion with his body. Present!Simon jumps in front of a knife meant for Curtis while invisible to protect him from Brian]]
* HeroicWannabe: Seems to be the only one in the group interested in becoming a superhero, [[spoiler: and he's on his way to it as Superhoodie.]]
* ImprobableAimingSkills: [[spoiler: It appears to be a secondary ability. That shot in the tattoo parlour was too good to be luck.]]
* InvisibleIntrovert: Suffers from chronic shyness and social awkwardness, though he desperately wants to make friends. Consequently, [[MassSuperEmpoweringEvent the Storm]] brings out this tendency by giving him the power to become invisible; for good measure, he finds this ability easiest to activate when he's being ignored or ostracized. [[spoiler: After he finally gains some much-needed confidence, he eventually sells his power to Seth, opting to buy the ability to predict the future as a replacement - reflecting his new self-assurance.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Future Simon dies protecting Alicia.]]
* LanternJawOfJustice: The lad's got a jawline like an entrenching shovel. In a good way.

* NoSell: [[spoiler: The power Simon buys after he goes back in time is immunity to others' powers. This is how Future!Simon can touch Alisha, and avoid Kelly reading his mind when dressed as Superhoodie.]]

* StalkerWithACrush: Ironically, Simon ended up falling for the very woman who was stalking ''him'' for information- Sally the probation worker; after being taken out on a date by Sally, he goes so far as to invisibly enter her house and watch her for a time. [[spoiler: Finding out that Sally was manipulating him and accidentally murdering her didn't rid him of his obsession, at least not until he and the other Misfits finally got around to dumping the body in the canal.]]
* StarCrossedLovers: [[spoiler: His destiny is to fall in love with Alisha, but he's also doomed to go back in time to save her life by sacrificing his own.]]

* SuperHero: [[spoiler: He's the closest thing the Misfits-verse has so far. He has superpowers and a costume, he goes out on patrols and has saved someone from a crime.]]
%%* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler: It's what kills him.]]
%%* ThanatosGambit
* VitriolicBestBuds: He and Nathan eventually become this.[[/folder]]

Your first impression of Kelly might be that she is your common or garden chav who wouldn’t look out of place on Jeremy Kyle. And you may be right. Kelly wades in fist first. Her attitude is her suit of armour, accessorised with enough gold jewellery to really do some harm, and acrilycs that could have your eyes out. Behind that veneer though, Kelly’s got a heart of gold and is fiercely loyal.

* CatchPhrase: [[spoiler: "I'm a fookin' rocket scientist!"]] in Season 3 can count.
* DatingCatwoman: [[spoiler: Has as bit of a thing for Seth, and later enters a relationship with him.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Is living with Seth, defusing mines in Africa. She's the only member of the original gang to have a happy life ahead of them, from when we last see them.]]

* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: While her [[spoiler: aptitude for rocket-science]] initially seems a comparatively rubbish power, it's actually very useful. [[spoiler: Building a rocket requires mastery of several disciplines, which can be applied to repairing car engines and deactivating house alarms]].

* MamaBear: As the resident TeamMom, she's fiercely protective of Simon, going so far as to beat the crap out of Nathan when it looked like he'd tried to sexually assault him. In Season 4, [[spoiler: Seth recounts the story of their holiday in Africa, where, after seeing a young boy accidentally step on a mine, she immediately decided to go after him and used her ability in rocket science to disarm the mine. She's now living there, disarming mines for the locals who utterly adore her.]]
* PersonalityPowers: Deep down she's insecure about what people think of her, so she gains mind-reading. [[spoiler:She ends up swapping it out for a different power eventually.]]
* PowerIncontinence: Kelly can't switch her telepathy off. She eventually gets used to it, but it's still pretty disheartening for her [[AMindIsATerribleThingToRead to know what everyone else thinks of her.]] Her ecstasy-inverted "power" of always saying the truth has even less control.
* PutOnABus: [[spoiler: As of Series 4. She's defusing landmines in Africa for a while using her rocket science power.]]
* SuperIntelligence: [[spoiler: Her new power is a supernatural brilliance at rocket science. As it turns out, however, that also applies to its subsidiary disciplines, and can be used to fix cars, disarm alarms, and deal with other similar machines, so it's better than it seems. Series 4 reveals she's now living in Africa, using her ability to defuse landmines.]]
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: [[spoiler: Her new power is absolute knowledge on rocket science. However, since she doesn't have the necessary qualifications as evidence of her newfound knowledg, she has a hard time getting work as a scientist since everyone assumes she's faking it by stealing the diagrams she drew.]]
* TeamMom: Well, the closest thing they ''have'' to one anyway. Her "parenting" technique usually involves violence (punching Nathan to keep him in line, attacking people who threaten the safety of the group etc) but it's probably the only kind of authority the team would ever respond to anyway. She's definitely the one who looks out for Simon the most.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Tomboy to Alisha's Girly Girl. She is a loud-mouthed BoisterousBruiser while Alisha is vain party girl and FemmeFatale.

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: As Kelly herself lampshades in the first episode, when the others are mocking her claims that she's developed superpowers and the probation worker is trying to kill her, she ''could'' have just run off and saved herself, but she went back for a group of people she barely knows to warn them, showing she is a good person under her brash demeanor.[[/folder]]

!!!'''Power:''' Season 1-2, Extreme lust on skin contact, Season 3, [[spoiler: Can look through other people's eyes]]

As long as Alisha’s the centre of everyone’s world, then life is sweet. This party girl’s biggest concern is that she retains the title of Miss Shagable for another year running. When the party’s over she’ll jump into her car and find another one. Which is what got her into this minging jumpsuit and ankle tag in the first place.

Our superficial and sassy stunner (and don't forget potty mouthed) is now stuck with the worst come down of all: a day job that might as well be shovelling shit for all she cares. Not only is Alisha cut off from her mates, forced to associate with losers all day and has a curfew; she’s also got a power that could seriously damage her social life. Because when people touch Alisha’s skin, they’re going to be so filled with lust, they can’t think straight.

* ActionGirl: During the zombie episode.

* AttentionWhore: Prior to her CharacterDevelopment about mid-way through series 2, anyway.
* BlessedWithSuck: She has the one power with no use, to the extent that [[spoiler: she doesn't even sell it to Seth, she hates it so much she gives it away]]. Her ecstasy-inverted power of inspiring hate in those she touches is easily the worst power seen so far on the show.
* DefrostingIceQueen: It's a gradual process, but it speeds up a lot halfway through series 2, as she [[spoiler: enters a relationship with future!Simon, and befriends the present version]].

* LovableAlphaBitch: Zigzagged. To start off with she is a quite unpleasant person, raping Curtis and being mean to Simon. However she eventually enters a caring relationship with Curtis, while still being generally rude to everyone else. It's only when she [[spoiler: enters a relationship with Future!Simon]] that she changes and becomes a nice person, repentant of her former actions.
%%* MsFanservice: Oh yeah.
* MustMakeAmends: When she and Rudy encounter one another again, they are supremely awkward around each other until Rudy Two tearfully admits [[spoiler: he tried to kill himself]] after Alisha took his virginity and then ignored him at college. Although Alisha at first tells him not to project his issues onto her, later when it seems like Tanya is going to kill them, Alisha does everything she can to prevent Rudy from falling, even when he tells her it's better if one of them survives and to let go. She manages to save him and they bury the hatchet after that.

* PsychicPowers: [[spoiler: Her new power is that she can locate anyone she focuses on, and see what they're doing through their eyes.]]

* RunningGag

* StarCrossedLovers: [[spoiler: Alisha and Simon are fated to be together, but he's also doomed to go back in time to save her life by sacrificing his own.]]

Curtis was a rising sports star whose goal was to compete in the 2012 Olympics. But his career is left in tatters after he’s caught with an illegal substance and is publicly shamed as he’s made an example under the eyes of the law.

Curtis is forced to trade his tracksuit for a jumpsuit and take part in Community Payback. Although he’s desperate to toe the line, Curtis hates being lumbered with a bunch of losers who can’t even paint a bench without getting into a fight. [[spoiler: And also, he's a lesbian.]]

* TheAtoner: He gets over it though.

* BadPowersGoodPeople: [[spoiler: Curtis is a decent guy, but he gains the most dangerous ability of all, the ability to raise the dead as zombies.]]

* ADateWithRosiePalms: In Series 3, [[spoiler: thanks to his new ability to have multiple orgasms while in female form,]] the guy's a ''machine''.

* DiscardAndDraw: [[spoiler: Curtis has had the greatest variety of power out of the Misfits.]]

* GenderBender: [[spoiler: His new power (he got the last choice of the gang from Seth, and it was the only one left). It's useful as a disguise though.]]
* HasAType: He seems to really like gobby, confident girls, having dated Alisha, Nikki and then slept with Emma.
* HeroicSuicide: [[spoiler: He shot himself in the head to prevent himself infecting anyone else with his zombie virus.]]

* MisterSeahorse: [[spoiler: {{Justified|Trope}}. Curtis accidentally impregnates his female form after masturbating. He only shows symptoms of being pregnant in his female form though. This is fixed when he gets Seth to remove his gender swap power though.]]

* TeamDad: One of the few people in the group that has some set of morals. Also not afraid to point out all the wrongdoings the group has done and how they're clearly terrible people. Also called out Alisha on becoming a rapist, and that [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale just because she's a woman that doesn't make it magically okay.]] [[NotSoAboveItAll Although even Curtis is tempted by stealing money with their powers.]]

Tony's fiance and replacement, Sally correctly suspects that the Misfits played a part in her lover's disappearance, though she has no proof to support this belief, so she decides to carry out her own investigation- making her the de facto main villain of the first series.

* AntiVillain: She might have manipulated the show's woobie Simon, but that was only so she could find out what happened to her missing fiancée.

* DeathByFallingOver: [[spoiler: In their final showdown, Simon ends up accidentally killing her by shoving her into a door, where she cracks her skull.]]
* DeterminedWidow: Well they weren't married yet, but it still counts.
* DisappearsIntoLight
* GhostlyGoals: [[spoiler: She thinks she's meant to ruin Simon's life. It's actually to reunite with her fiancée Tony. Awwww.]]

* StalkerWithoutACrush

* [[ApatheticTeacher Apathetic Boss]]
* BerserkButton: [[spoiler: Implying that he was sexually molested as a child. Rudy learns that the hard way.]]

* DeadpanSnarker

* FascistButInefficient: ''Nazi-Shaun''.

* PermaStubble
* PetTheDog: Stands up for the Misfits when the police come calling without a warrant, and later even aids them by oh-so-conveniently giving them his car to "wash" when they need one to [[ItMakesSenseInContext rob a bank]].

* TheSlacker

* BornUnlucky: Her first day as the gang's probation worker is the same day Curtis inadvertedly unleashes a ZombieApocalypse.

* AllCrimesAreEqual: [[spoiler: He eventually helps kill both gangsters and litterers.]]
* BewareTheSuperman
* BigDamnHeroes
* BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler: In the Baby timeline.]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: In the alternate timeline Jess saw, Sam fell to his death after having his power raped out of him by Alex.]]

* TheDragon: [[spoiler: To Helen.]]

* SuperHero: He's on his way there.

* AllCrimesAreEqual
* BewareTheSuperman
* BigBad: [[spoiler: In the possible timeline Jess sees.]]
* FromNobodyToNightmare
* FutureBadass: According to Rudy Two's jumper.
* GoodSamaritan

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Electrocutes herself when she kills Rudy]]

* RequiredSecondaryPowers: She can electrocute herself, [[spoiler: which kills her in Jess's future.]]
* ShockAndAwe

* BewareTheSillyOnes: [[spoiler: She's largely played for comic relief in the series 3 finale, juxtaposed against the more obvious threats of Tony and Sally. Then she realises she came back for revenge and slits Alisha's throat.]]
* DisappearsIntoLight

* FreudianExcuse: Played for laughs- Rachel actually tries to explain her reasons for brainwashing people while Nathan holds her at gunpoint, but he can't hear her because he's still wearing his Ipod. The most the audience gets to hear is something about her being teased for her beliefs and for being a virgin.
* GhostlyGoals: [[spoiler: To get revenge on the Misfits.]]
* KnightTemplar

* PathOfInspiration

* SlutShaming: She does this a lot, chastising her fellow youths for sleeping with other people and when she successfully brainwashes them she has them take vows of chastity and dress conservatively. She seems to have it out for [[MsFanservice Alisha]] in particular [[spoiler: which is why she kills her.]]

* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: [[spoiler: Simon eventually manages to talk Lucy out of her rampage and convince her that he's moved on from his life in the psychiatric unit; her part in the episode ends with Simon walking her back home.]]

* BeardOfEvil: Has a particularly villainous-looking beard.

* PoisonousFriend: Tries to be one, making Simon break up with Alisha so he can 'fulfil his destiny' as Superhoodie.

* FunnyForiegner: The only one of the main five to be born outisde of the UK, being from Ireland, and the main source of quips.

* LousyLoversAreLosers: Nathan's terrible at anything related to sex, being so clumsy and gross that his sexcapades are played for CringeComedy. He's been shown to suffer from [[SpeedSex premature ejaculation]], has got his finger stuck in a girl's vagina during foreplay, has displayed an O-face so off-putting and bizarre that his partner started laughing hysterically when she saw it, and once told s story about how he "tripled" himself during sex, meaning you ejaculate, puke and shit yourself all at once.

* HeroicComedicSociopath
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: For the whole of season 1.

* DiedInYourArmsTonight
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette
* FaceDeathWithDignity

* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler: It's what kills him.]]
* ThanatosGambit

* ActionGirl: In the Nazi timeline.

* HiddenDepths

--> '''Nathan:''' These are my friends.
--> '''Alisha:''' I'm not your friend.

* BlessedWithSuck: He sees his ability as an annoying inconvenience that complicates his life. [[spoiler: Episode 3 of Series 4 shows that his ability saddled him with a psycho duplicate.]] Episode 4 of Series 3 shows that it's useful though if you need more people on your side in a gun fight.
* BodyHorror: A curse laid on him by a girl he treated badly after sleeping with her does pretty nasty things to his genitals. If not cured, his penis would fall off. Thankfully we don't see how his condition progresses, but apparently it started to blacken.

* TheHedonist

* HeroicComedicSociopath

* HiddenDepths: It appears to have inspired his power, in that Normal Rudy acts as if there's nothing wrong, when in fact he is secretly plagued with doubt and various other issues issues. As a result his inner pain and other hidden feelings manifest as Rudy Two.

* MetaGuy
* MotorMouth

* KnifeNut: He brings a big, nasty-looking, serrated knife to the fight with Simon.

* TheMeanBrit: The woman can be pretty blunt.

* IllGirl: Her second episode reveals that she's suffering from heart disease, and eventually gets Ollie's heart.

The character sheet for the British live action dramedy Misfits.

* IHaveTheHighGround: Often seen standing dramatically on rooftops, gazing down at the Misfits.