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-->'''Grifter''' ''(pointing a gun at Slayton’s crotch)'': You think those Department PSI geeks who fixed your leg could build you a robotic cock after I blow yours off?
-->'''Slayton''': ''{{beat}}'' Heh. They probably could.
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-->'''Grifter''' ''(pointing a gun at Slayton’s crotch)'': You think those Department PSI geeks who fixed your leg could build you a robotic cock after I blow yours off?
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'''Slayton''': ''{{beat}}'' Heh. They probably could.
-->'''Slayton''':
'''Slayton''': ''{{beat}}'' Heh. They probably could.
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* PragmaticAdaptation: Formerly a [[HalfHumanHybrid part Kheran]] immortal [[{{Atlantis}} Atlantean]] [[NinetiesAntiHero 90s superhero]] with CombatTentacles. [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain None of this is mentioned in Sleeper.]]
* PragmaticAdaptation: Formerly a [[HalfHumanHybrid part Kheran]] immortal [[{{Atlantis}} Atlantean]] [[NinetiesAntiHero 90s superhero]] with CombatTentacles. [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain None of this is mentioned in Sleeper.]]
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A former soldier who served with Lynch on Team 7. One-time member of the superhero team the [[ComicBook/WildCATsWildStorm WildC.A.T.S.]] The central character of Point Blank. For more about him, see [[{{ComicBook/Grifter}} [[Characters/WildCATSGrifter his own page]]
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[[foldercontrol]]
[[folder:Holden Carver]]
An International Operations agent who gained superpowers and was coerced into going deep undercover in a supervillain organization. Has the ability to store up pain and release it through physical contact.
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* TouchedByVorlons: Getting an alien artifact fused to his nervous system is what gave him his powers.
* BarBrawl: At one point, he charges up his powers by walking into a bar in Egypt, shouting a particularly offensive [[MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels string of gibberish]] and letting the patrons beat on him for a while.
%%%* BecomingTheMask
%%%* BlueWithShock:
%%* CatapultNightmare
* CombatSadomasochist: Required to “charge up” his powers. Mentions that before missions he will sometimes just sit in a room and shoot his hand with a staple gun over and over for this purpose.
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: His “villain name” is The Conductor. It’s used maybe four times in the entire series.
%%%* DeepCoverAgent
%%%* DeliberateInjuryGambit
%%%* DoubleAgent
%%%%* DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent:
* FeelsNoPain: Or any other physical sensation.
* FirstPersonSmartass: Carver is the narrator of the series, loves to quip.
* HealThyself: “You’ve got a communications console. Call an ambulance.”
%%%%* HeroesWantRedheads:
* ICanChangeMyBeloved: He desperately tries to change or convince his psycho crush, Miss Misery, to be a more moral and restrained person under the guise of saving her despite the fact she consistently yells she doesn't want to be saved.
%%%* IDidWhatIHadToDo
* IKnowYouKnowIKnow:
-->'''Holden''': ''“Second Guessing men like Lynch and TAO is enough to drive you fucking insane.”''
%%%* InLoveWithYourCarnage: For Miss Misery.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Holden’s father also worked for IO.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When he [[spoiler: accidentally shoots Veronica]].
* JustFollowingOrders: How he tries to justify all the people he killed while working for Lynch.
* PowerCreepPowerSeep: Requires almost an hour to recover from limb injuries at one point, then later [[spoiler: shoots himself in the head and gets up in seconds.]]
* PowerIncontinence: He transmits his stored pain to whoever he touches with bare skin.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: If he didn’t have a HealingFactor, all that damage he takes would kill him quickly whether he felt it or not.
%%%* TheMole
%%%%* TheyWouldCutYouUp: What would happen if Carver got captured by the government while undercover.
* TotalPartyKill: Accidentally killed his entire unit when he first fused with the alien artifact.
%%%* UnwittingPawn: Aware of it and not happy about it.
%%%%* UpgradeArtifact: The source of Carver’s powers and most of his problems.
* WhatMeasureIsAMook: Actually feels worse about watching some criminals die than civilian targets because he knew them.
%%%* YankTheDogsChain
[[/folder]]
[[folder:TAO]]
A test-tube grown super-intelligent man who once joined and then fought the [[ComicBook/WildCATSWildStorm WildC.A.T.S]]. After faking his own death, he resurfaced leading a covert organization of super criminals while simultaneously advising the AncientConspiracy that run the world’s economy. His motives are completely unknown.
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%%%* AllGirlsWantBadBoys
%%%* ArmorPiercingQuestion
%%%* ArtificialHuman
%%%* AwesomenessByAnalysis
* BattleDiscretionShot: Has enough fighting skill to mutilate an entire squad of [[EliteMooks Black Razors]] with his bare hands off-panel in seconds.
** Maybe he talked them into killing each other?
%%%* BreakThemByTalking:
* CatchPhrase: "Let us reason together ..."
%%%* TheChessmaster
%%%* CompellingVoice
%%%* FlawExploitation
%%%* ForTheEvulz
* FunWithAcronyms: TAO stands for '''T'''actically '''A'''ugmented '''O'''rganism.
* InsultBackfire: Calling TAO a “son of a bitch” or a “motherfucker” will elicit an amused reminder that he didn’t have a mother.
* LogicalWeakness: [[spoiler: How do you disarm a villain with a CompellingVoice? Rip out his fucking tongue.]]
%%%* ManBehindTheMan:
%%%* ManipulativeBastard
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Traded in his purple tunic for a brown suit.
%%%* MemoryGambit: [[spoiler: on Cole Cash]]
%%%* MindRape
* MoreThanMindControl: Uses [[LogicBomb logic]] on his smarter targets and [[EmotionBomb emotional trauma]] on his simpler ones.
%%%* OedipusComplex: [[spoiler: His reason for specifically targeting John Lynch.]]
* PsychopathicManChild: He's been summed up by Holden as a sick little kid who grew up too fast due to being aged up too quickly and his overall sadistically child-like behavior only corroborates the statement.
%%%* PsychoticSmirk:
%%%* SmugSnake
%%%* SuperIntelligence
* TreacherousAdvisor: Although the AncientConspiracy seems to understand that TAO is not the most trustworthy guy.
** [[OutGambitted For all the good it does them.]]
%%%* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters
%%%* VillainousBreakdown:
%%%* WickedCultured
%%%* [[spoiler: WorldWarThree:]] TAO’s EvilPlan.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Miss Misery]]
One of TAO's three trusted Prodigals. Gains physical power from breaking rules and hurting people, and gets sick if she is forced to do "the right thing".
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%%%* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking:
* BeingGoodSucks: To curtly sum it up, being benevolent makes her deathly ill, but being an evil bitch makes her superhuman. Good Kindness literally kills her.
* BingeMontage: In her case, it’s violence instead of drinking. Miss Misery needs to go on crime sprees to get her strength up for actual missions.
* CatchPhrase: “Jesus Fucking Christ Holden!”
%%%* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder:
%%%* ColdBloodedTorture:
* DestructiveRomance: [[spoiler: As soon as she starts genuinely caring about Carver, sex stops being wrong and starts making her sick.]]
* DidYouJustScamCthulhu: [[spoiler: Successfully double-crosses TAO.]]
* FemmeFatale: It's part of what keeps her healthy. Seducing and manipulating men is one of her favourite activities.
* TheFarmerAndTheViper: “How many times did I tell him I couldn’t be trusted.”
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Needs to smoke in public because it’s illegal.
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: [[spoiler: Carver tries to get her to come back to IO with him and be cured, but she doesn’t want it.]]
%%%* InstantDeathBullet:
* MsFanservice: Plenty of nude and sex scenes.
%%%* MoralityPet: Holden
%%%* NeckSnap
%%%* ReallyGetsAround:
%%%* StaircaseTumble: Enjoys inflicting this on handicapped old ladies.
%%%* SuperStrength: If she has broken enough laws.
%%%* TheVamp: When she needs to be.
%%%* WildCard
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Used to be the ideal American sweetheart before her condition kicked in.
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[[folder:John "Jack" Lynch]]
Former head of International Operations. A master manipulator who does whatever it takes to ensure that power stays in his hands. Coerced Holden Carver into going undercover in TAO's organization. Was shot and fell into a coma by someone working for TAO during Point Blank, but emerges at the end of Sleeper volume 1 to bring him back in.
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%%%* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood
* CaptainErsatz: John Lynch originally started as the Wildstorm U’s answer to ComicBook/NickFury
%%%* TheChessmaster
%%%* ConvenientComa:
%%%* TheHandler: Lynch to Carver. And Holden ‘’hates’’ him for it.
%%%* ManipulativeBastard
%%%* MindControl
%%%* MustMakeAmends: Why he wants to bring TAO in.
* NotQuiteDead: “Nothing can kill Jack Lynch.”
%%%* TheNeedsOfTheMany
%%%* TheOnlyOneITrust: Cole Cash. [[spoiler: it backfires.]]
* PowerCreepPowerSeep: Justified, he had his {{Telepathy}} augmented while in a coma specifically to go up against TAO.
%%%* ReassignedToAntarctica:
* PleaseShootTheMessenger: Picks his messengers specifically because they’re expendable.
%%%* TheSpymaster
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[[folder:Genocide Jones]]
A super strong, [[ImmuneToBullets bulletproof]] lieutenant in TAO’s organization. The closest thing Carver has to a friend.
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* AdultFear: the only part of his origin story that couldn't conceivably happen in our world is the part where he punched the heads off everyone responsible for [[spoiler: his son's death.]]
* BlackHumor: Referred to as “a living embodiment of black humor.”
* BoisterousBruiser: he's a pretty cheerful guy (albeit one with a [[BlackComedy pretty dark sense of humor]]), and [[BloodKnight REALLY]] likes a good scrap.
%%%* DisproportionateRetribution
%%%* DumbMuscle:
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Kills [[spoiler: Steeleye after seeing him molesting a child.]]
* HairTriggerTemper: Beats a guy unconscious for asking why a cartoonist didn’t agree to do merchandising for [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Marvin and Teddy]].
%%%* ILoveNuclearPower: How he got his superpowers.
%%%* PoliceAreUseless:
* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Called himself Genocide because he sometimes wants to [[OmnicidalManiac kill everyone]]. Carver points out that genocide is the systematic elimination of a specific group.
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[[folder:Marc Slayton]]
An [[JerkAss excessively gruff]] associate of John Lynch. The current head of International Operations/Internal Operations. Does not believe that Holden Carver is really an IO informant under deep cover. For him outside the Sleeper series, see [[{{ComicBook/Backlash}} his own page]]
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* ArtificialLimbs: Has a cybernetic leg.
-->'''Grifter''' ''(pointing a gun at Slayton’s crotch)'': You think those Department PSI geeks who fixed your leg could build you a robotic cock after I blow yours off?
-->'''Slayton''': ''{{beat}}'' Heh. They probably could.
%%%* AwesomeMcCoolname
* IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure: [[spoiler: When he captures Carver and Miss Misery and realizes he can’t hurt Holden, he tortures Miss Misery and makes him listen.]]
* OldSuperhero: Used to go by “Backlash”.
* PatrioticFervor: when recruiting Grifter into the I/O he gives a lengthy speech about protecting the free world and democracy. Grifter [[DeadpanSnarker being himself]] promptly takes him down a peg:
--> Jesus, you've really drunk the Kool-Aid this time.
* PragmaticAdaptation: Formerly a [[HalfHumanHybrid part Kheran]] immortal [[{{Atlantis}} Atlantean]] [[NinetiesAntiHero 90s superhero]] with CombatTentacles. [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain None of this is mentioned in Sleeper.]]
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Grifter and Slayton used to hate one another (well, Grifter did; Slayton seemed coldly indifferent) over a Team 7 mission gone awry. While they mostly made up before ''Sleeper'' rolled around, it seems Slayton going back to I/O didn't endear him to Grifter any.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Veronica St. James]]
An IO agent and former partner of Holden Carver. Convinced that Holden can be brought back to the “good guys”, and is willing to put herself in danger to help him.
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%%%* SpiesInAVan: Originally her job at IO.
%%%* FriendlySniper
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Is convinced Holden is still one of the “good guys”.
* MoralityPet: To Holden. She desperately tries to convince him to come back to her in the manner reminiscent of a love struck school girl and tries to show he is not as evil as he thinks he is, but is constantly rebuffed.
* TurnInYourBadge: Is removed from the task force sent to hunt down Carver. She thinks it’s because Lynch doesn’t trust her to bring him in, but it’s really because she was getting too close to finding out he was a DeepCoverAgent
* WideEyedIdealist:
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Grifter]]
A former soldier who served with Lynch on Team 7. One-time member of the superhero team the [[ComicBook/WildCATsWildStorm WildC.A.T.S.]] The central character of Point Blank. For more about him, see [[{{ComicBook/Grifter}} his own page]]
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* AwesomeMcCoolname: Cole Cash
* BoomHeadshot: How he finally kills [[spoiler: Peter Grimm]].
* CivvieSpandex: his "costume" is whatever he happens to be wearing at the time (which, granted, usually has a distinctly paramilitary cut to it), his red mask, and a pair of red gloves. Even the mask and the gloves don't make a single appearance in ''Point Blank''.
%%%* FatalFlaw: His temper and his drinking.
* FightsLikeANormal: Has psychic powers that he never uses.
* TheGunslinger: for all his myriad screw-ups Grifter's still damn near unstoppable with a gun in his hand(s) in ''Sleeper''.
* HardboiledDetective: In Point Blank. Arguably subverted in that [[spoiler: he's got the attitude, the drinking, and the narration down pat but his attempts at investigation seem to do [[NiceJobBrekaingItHero more harm than good.]]]]
* LivingLegend: Holden's father and his associates were in awe of Grifter's skill as a covert operative, if Holden's narration is anything to go by; Holden himself, while not exactly gushing with praise, is still ''very'' wary of taking him on in a fight.
%%%* MemoryGambit [[spoiler: The result of a run-in with TAO]]
* NinetiesAntiHero: one of the [[UrExample vintage ones]]; hilariously, despite ''Sleeper'' (''Point Blank'' included) running between 2002 and 2005 Grifter's arguably a bigger jerk there than he ever was in the nineties.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Didn’t age through most of the late ‘70s, ‘80s and early ‘90s
%%%* PrivateEyeMonologue: Grifter in Point Blank
* PsychicBlockDefense: He’s already fairly resistant to mind control thanks to his Coda training, but Lynch gives him one late in the series.
* TriggerPhrase: “There you are.”
* UnderestimatingBadassery: “That’s the legendary Grifter? He doesn’t look that tough.” “Yeah, those were a lot of guy’s last words.”
%%%*UnreliableNarrator: [[spoiler: Of Point Blank]]
* UnwittingPawn: just about everything he does in ''Point Blank'' [[spoiler: plays into Tao's plan to take Lynch out of the game]]] in one way or another.
%%%* WeNeedADistraction: Usually results in StuffBlowingUp.
* WhatDidIDoLastNight: His drinking makes TAO’s MemoryGambit easier, and once he [[spoiler: shoots Lynch,]] his guilt causes him to drink even more, making investigating the case [[GroundhogDayLoop almost impossible.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Sir Malcolm Jones]]
A retired IO and MI-6 agent who used to work with John Lynch.''' [[spoiler: called to help bring Carver back to IO.]]
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%%%* BadassInANiceSuit
%%* BadassNormal
%%* ClintSquint
%%%* HollywoodHeartAttack
* HopeSpot: shows up with a folder of evidence exonerating Holden as a deep-cover agent acting on Jack Lynch's orders. [[spoiler: Keels over of a heart attack at the end of Season 1; Holden torches the evidence since it wouldn't do him any good and if it fell into the wrong hands he'd be toast]]. Ouch.
%%%* MacGuffin: [[spoiler: The folder of evidence he has that will exonerate Holden.]]
%%%* RetiredBadass]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Peter Grimm]]
TAO’s ‘Right Hand Man’. Can make you see whatever you fear most on an endless loop until you [[FateWorseThanDeath hopefully]] die.
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* BaldOfEvil: a shiny dome in tandem with a power that makes you see your worst nightmares and [[{{Sadist}} zero hestitation to use it.]]
%%%* TheDragon
%%%* HeroKiller
%%%* JerkAss: Even by super-villain standards.
%%%* MindRape
%%%* ProperlyParanoid: Does not trust Holden Carver.
%%%* ScaryShinyGlasses
%%%* SlasherSmile
%%%%%%* SuperStrength
* TheresNoKillLikeOverkill: when he [[spoiler: finally goes down in a fight with Grifter, he gets the entire back of his head blown off.]]
%%%* YourWorstNightmare: He can induce this.
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[[folder:XXX Ray]]
A mild-mannered pervert with x-ray vision. TAO seems to enjoy putting him in harm’s way just to torment Holden.
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* LovableCoward: He’s “a lover, not a fighter”.
%%%* MoralityPet: For Carver and Genocide.
* PowerPerversionPotential: What use is an X-ray but to see the x-rated?
%%%* XRayVision
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[[folder:Pit Bull]]
A young recruit who is very eager to prove himself as a super villain.
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* BadassNormal: no apparent powers, and while he's a bit too [[LeeroyJenkins gung-ho]] for his own good, he's still a handful in a fight.
* BloodSport: Forced to fight for his life against a pit full of dogs when he was a young child.
%%%* LeeroyJenkins
%%%* NewMeat
* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: [[spoiler: Carver tells his comrades in TAO’s organization that he’d love to have Veronica’s new husband helpless in front of him...and to Carver's horror, Pit bull kidnaps him and [[TrunkShot stuffs him in his trunk]].
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[[folder:Blackwolf]]
[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin A black werewolf.]]
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* AskAStupidQuestion: “What the fuck do you think I did? I ate her.”
* ColorCharacter: Lampshades this and says he uses the name “Blackwolf” ironically because of it.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: He is a human with a wolf form. He is also black.
* ToServeMan: In wolf form, he eats human. Technically, this makes him a cannibal but he's wolf when he does it.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Steeleye]]
One of TAO’s three trusted Prodigals. Has Mind Control powers.
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* BrainBleach: Watching him use his power makes you want to “scrub your eyeballs with steel wool.”
* MindRape: Often along with physical rape.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: [[spoiler: Genocide Jones kills him fairly early in the series, leading the way for Holden’s promotion to Prodigal.]]
* PeoplePuppets: Sometimes lets his victims be aware of what they’re doing if he thinks it will be funnier.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Diamanda M’batu]]
Queen of Egypt and one-time ruler of Africa. A major player in the AncientConspiracy who contracts TAO’s organization for several favors.
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%%%%* TheHighQueen:
* DoubleEntendre: Repeatedly complements TAO on his "useful tongue".
%%%* IfIWantedYouDead:
* KilledOffScreen: [[spoiler: Lynch grumbles Holden killed her after she gave him the information to prove it was Tao and not her who set him up.]]
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Keeps TAO close because she thinks of him as an amusing PsychoForHire who poses no real threat.
%%%%* TheScapegoat
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[[folder:The Nihilist]]
A mid-level supervillain with cybernetic enhancements.
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%%%%* Civvie Spandex
* NonIndicativeName: Isn’t a nihilist, just uses the name because it sounds cool.
* TheMole: [[spoiler: He was working for Lynch the whole time and Holden had to kill him before he blew both of their covers.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Aldo]]
An alien in Lynch's custody [[spoiler: who claims to be able to remove the artifact from Holden's body.]]
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%%%%* MacGuffin
%%%%* StarfishAlien
%%%%* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Turbine]]
A superhero working for IO who attempts to arrest Carver during the sale of a WMD.
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%%%%* RayGun
%%%%* SmugSuper
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Yvonne]]
TheBartender at [[GoodGuyBar the Domino]] in “Point Blank”.
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%%%%* DeadpanSnarker
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[[folder:Holden Carver]]
An International Operations agent who gained superpowers and was coerced into going deep undercover in a supervillain organization. Has the ability to store up pain and release it through physical contact.
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* TouchedByVorlons: Getting an alien artifact fused to his nervous system is what gave him his powers.
* BarBrawl: At one point, he charges up his powers by walking into a bar in Egypt, shouting a particularly offensive [[MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels string of gibberish]] and letting the patrons beat on him for a while.
%%%* BecomingTheMask
%%%* BlueWithShock:
%%* CatapultNightmare
* CombatSadomasochist: Required to “charge up” his powers. Mentions that before missions he will sometimes just sit in a room and shoot his hand with a staple gun over and over for this purpose.
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: His “villain name” is The Conductor. It’s used maybe four times in the entire series.
%%%* DeepCoverAgent
%%%* DeliberateInjuryGambit
%%%* DoubleAgent
%%%%* DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent:
* FeelsNoPain: Or any other physical sensation.
* FirstPersonSmartass: Carver is the narrator of the series, loves to quip.
* HealThyself: “You’ve got a communications console. Call an ambulance.”
%%%%* HeroesWantRedheads:
* ICanChangeMyBeloved: He desperately tries to change or convince his psycho crush, Miss Misery, to be a more moral and restrained person under the guise of saving her despite the fact she consistently yells she doesn't want to be saved.
%%%* IDidWhatIHadToDo
* IKnowYouKnowIKnow:
-->'''Holden''': ''“Second Guessing men like Lynch and TAO is enough to drive you fucking insane.”''
%%%* InLoveWithYourCarnage: For Miss Misery.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Holden’s father also worked for IO.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When he [[spoiler: accidentally shoots Veronica]].
* JustFollowingOrders: How he tries to justify all the people he killed while working for Lynch.
* PowerCreepPowerSeep: Requires almost an hour to recover from limb injuries at one point, then later [[spoiler: shoots himself in the head and gets up in seconds.]]
* PowerIncontinence: He transmits his stored pain to whoever he touches with bare skin.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: If he didn’t have a HealingFactor, all that damage he takes would kill him quickly whether he felt it or not.
%%%* TheMole
%%%%* TheyWouldCutYouUp: What would happen if Carver got captured by the government while undercover.
* TotalPartyKill: Accidentally killed his entire unit when he first fused with the alien artifact.
%%%* UnwittingPawn: Aware of it and not happy about it.
%%%%* UpgradeArtifact: The source of Carver’s powers and most of his problems.
* WhatMeasureIsAMook: Actually feels worse about watching some criminals die than civilian targets because he knew them.
%%%* YankTheDogsChain
[[/folder]]
[[folder:TAO]]
A test-tube grown super-intelligent man who once joined and then fought the [[ComicBook/WildCATSWildStorm WildC.A.T.S]]. After faking his own death, he resurfaced leading a covert organization of super criminals while simultaneously advising the AncientConspiracy that run the world’s economy. His motives are completely unknown.
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%%%* AllGirlsWantBadBoys
%%%* ArmorPiercingQuestion
%%%* ArtificialHuman
%%%* AwesomenessByAnalysis
* BattleDiscretionShot: Has enough fighting skill to mutilate an entire squad of [[EliteMooks Black Razors]] with his bare hands off-panel in seconds.
** Maybe he talked them into killing each other?
%%%* BreakThemByTalking:
* CatchPhrase: "Let us reason together ..."
%%%* TheChessmaster
%%%* CompellingVoice
%%%* FlawExploitation
%%%* ForTheEvulz
* FunWithAcronyms: TAO stands for '''T'''actically '''A'''ugmented '''O'''rganism.
* InsultBackfire: Calling TAO a “son of a bitch” or a “motherfucker” will elicit an amused reminder that he didn’t have a mother.
* LogicalWeakness: [[spoiler: How do you disarm a villain with a CompellingVoice? Rip out his fucking tongue.]]
%%%* ManBehindTheMan:
%%%* ManipulativeBastard
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Traded in his purple tunic for a brown suit.
%%%* MemoryGambit: [[spoiler: on Cole Cash]]
%%%* MindRape
* MoreThanMindControl: Uses [[LogicBomb logic]] on his smarter targets and [[EmotionBomb emotional trauma]] on his simpler ones.
%%%* OedipusComplex: [[spoiler: His reason for specifically targeting John Lynch.]]
* PsychopathicManChild: He's been summed up by Holden as a sick little kid who grew up too fast due to being aged up too quickly and his overall sadistically child-like behavior only corroborates the statement.
%%%* PsychoticSmirk:
%%%* SmugSnake
%%%* SuperIntelligence
* TreacherousAdvisor: Although the AncientConspiracy seems to understand that TAO is not the most trustworthy guy.
** [[OutGambitted For all the good it does them.]]
%%%* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters
%%%* VillainousBreakdown:
%%%* WickedCultured
%%%* [[spoiler: WorldWarThree:]] TAO’s EvilPlan.
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[[folder:Miss Misery]]
One of TAO's three trusted Prodigals. Gains physical power from breaking rules and hurting people, and gets sick if she is forced to do "the right thing".
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%%%* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking:
* BeingGoodSucks: To curtly sum it up, being benevolent makes her deathly ill, but being an evil bitch makes her superhuman. Good Kindness literally kills her.
* BingeMontage: In her case, it’s violence instead of drinking. Miss Misery needs to go on crime sprees to get her strength up for actual missions.
* CatchPhrase: “Jesus Fucking Christ Holden!”
%%%* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder:
%%%* ColdBloodedTorture:
* DestructiveRomance: [[spoiler: As soon as she starts genuinely caring about Carver, sex stops being wrong and starts making her sick.]]
* DidYouJustScamCthulhu: [[spoiler: Successfully double-crosses TAO.]]
* FemmeFatale: It's part of what keeps her healthy. Seducing and manipulating men is one of her favourite activities.
* TheFarmerAndTheViper: “How many times did I tell him I couldn’t be trusted.”
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Needs to smoke in public because it’s illegal.
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: [[spoiler: Carver tries to get her to come back to IO with him and be cured, but she doesn’t want it.]]
%%%* InstantDeathBullet:
* MsFanservice: Plenty of nude and sex scenes.
%%%* MoralityPet: Holden
%%%* NeckSnap
%%%* ReallyGetsAround:
%%%* StaircaseTumble: Enjoys inflicting this on handicapped old ladies.
%%%* SuperStrength: If she has broken enough laws.
%%%* TheVamp: When she needs to be.
%%%* WildCard
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Used to be the ideal American sweetheart before her condition kicked in.
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[[folder:John "Jack" Lynch]]
Former head of International Operations. A master manipulator who does whatever it takes to ensure that power stays in his hands. Coerced Holden Carver into going undercover in TAO's organization. Was shot and fell into a coma by someone working for TAO during Point Blank, but emerges at the end of Sleeper volume 1 to bring him back in.
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%%%* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood
* CaptainErsatz: John Lynch originally started as the Wildstorm U’s answer to ComicBook/NickFury
%%%* TheChessmaster
%%%* ConvenientComa:
%%%* TheHandler: Lynch to Carver. And Holden ‘’hates’’ him for it.
%%%* ManipulativeBastard
%%%* MindControl
%%%* MustMakeAmends: Why he wants to bring TAO in.
* NotQuiteDead: “Nothing can kill Jack Lynch.”
%%%* TheNeedsOfTheMany
%%%* TheOnlyOneITrust: Cole Cash. [[spoiler: it backfires.]]
* PowerCreepPowerSeep: Justified, he had his {{Telepathy}} augmented while in a coma specifically to go up against TAO.
%%%* ReassignedToAntarctica:
* PleaseShootTheMessenger: Picks his messengers specifically because they’re expendable.
%%%* TheSpymaster
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[[folder:Genocide Jones]]
A super strong, [[ImmuneToBullets bulletproof]] lieutenant in TAO’s organization. The closest thing Carver has to a friend.
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* AdultFear: the only part of his origin story that couldn't conceivably happen in our world is the part where he punched the heads off everyone responsible for [[spoiler: his son's death.]]
* BlackHumor: Referred to as “a living embodiment of black humor.”
* BoisterousBruiser: he's a pretty cheerful guy (albeit one with a [[BlackComedy pretty dark sense of humor]]), and [[BloodKnight REALLY]] likes a good scrap.
%%%* DisproportionateRetribution
%%%* DumbMuscle:
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Kills [[spoiler: Steeleye after seeing him molesting a child.]]
* HairTriggerTemper: Beats a guy unconscious for asking why a cartoonist didn’t agree to do merchandising for [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Marvin and Teddy]].
%%%* ILoveNuclearPower: How he got his superpowers.
%%%* PoliceAreUseless:
* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Called himself Genocide because he sometimes wants to [[OmnicidalManiac kill everyone]]. Carver points out that genocide is the systematic elimination of a specific group.
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[[folder:Marc Slayton]]
An [[JerkAss excessively gruff]] associate of John Lynch. The current head of International Operations/Internal Operations. Does not believe that Holden Carver is really an IO informant under deep cover. For him outside the Sleeper series, see [[{{ComicBook/Backlash}} his own page]]
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* ArtificialLimbs: Has a cybernetic leg.
-->'''Grifter''' ''(pointing a gun at Slayton’s crotch)'': You think those Department PSI geeks who fixed your leg could build you a robotic cock after I blow yours off?
-->'''Slayton''': ''{{beat}}'' Heh. They probably could.
%%%* AwesomeMcCoolname
* IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure: [[spoiler: When he captures Carver and Miss Misery and realizes he can’t hurt Holden, he tortures Miss Misery and makes him listen.]]
* OldSuperhero: Used to go by “Backlash”.
* PatrioticFervor: when recruiting Grifter into the I/O he gives a lengthy speech about protecting the free world and democracy. Grifter [[DeadpanSnarker being himself]] promptly takes him down a peg:
--> Jesus, you've really drunk the Kool-Aid this time.
* PragmaticAdaptation: Formerly a [[HalfHumanHybrid part Kheran]] immortal [[{{Atlantis}} Atlantean]] [[NinetiesAntiHero 90s superhero]] with CombatTentacles. [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain None of this is mentioned in Sleeper.]]
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Grifter and Slayton used to hate one another (well, Grifter did; Slayton seemed coldly indifferent) over a Team 7 mission gone awry. While they mostly made up before ''Sleeper'' rolled around, it seems Slayton going back to I/O didn't endear him to Grifter any.
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[[folder:Veronica St. James]]
An IO agent and former partner of Holden Carver. Convinced that Holden can be brought back to the “good guys”, and is willing to put herself in danger to help him.
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%%%* SpiesInAVan: Originally her job at IO.
%%%* FriendlySniper
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Is convinced Holden is still one of the “good guys”.
* MoralityPet: To Holden. She desperately tries to convince him to come back to her in the manner reminiscent of a love struck school girl and tries to show he is not as evil as he thinks he is, but is constantly rebuffed.
* TurnInYourBadge: Is removed from the task force sent to hunt down Carver. She thinks it’s because Lynch doesn’t trust her to bring him in, but it’s really because she was getting too close to finding out he was a DeepCoverAgent
* WideEyedIdealist:
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Grifter]]
A former soldier who served with Lynch on Team 7. One-time member of the superhero team the [[ComicBook/WildCATsWildStorm WildC.A.T.S.]] The central character of Point Blank. For more about him, see [[{{ComicBook/Grifter}} his own page]]
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* AwesomeMcCoolname: Cole Cash
* BoomHeadshot: How he finally kills [[spoiler: Peter Grimm]].
* CivvieSpandex: his "costume" is whatever he happens to be wearing at the time (which, granted, usually has a distinctly paramilitary cut to it), his red mask, and a pair of red gloves. Even the mask and the gloves don't make a single appearance in ''Point Blank''.
%%%* FatalFlaw: His temper and his drinking.
* FightsLikeANormal: Has psychic powers that he never uses.
* TheGunslinger: for all his myriad screw-ups Grifter's still damn near unstoppable with a gun in his hand(s) in ''Sleeper''.
* HardboiledDetective: In Point Blank. Arguably subverted in that [[spoiler: he's got the attitude, the drinking, and the narration down pat but his attempts at investigation seem to do [[NiceJobBrekaingItHero more harm than good.]]]]
* LivingLegend: Holden's father and his associates were in awe of Grifter's skill as a covert operative, if Holden's narration is anything to go by; Holden himself, while not exactly gushing with praise, is still ''very'' wary of taking him on in a fight.
%%%* MemoryGambit [[spoiler: The result of a run-in with TAO]]
* NinetiesAntiHero: one of the [[UrExample vintage ones]]; hilariously, despite ''Sleeper'' (''Point Blank'' included) running between 2002 and 2005 Grifter's arguably a bigger jerk there than he ever was in the nineties.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Didn’t age through most of the late ‘70s, ‘80s and early ‘90s
%%%* PrivateEyeMonologue: Grifter in Point Blank
* PsychicBlockDefense: He’s already fairly resistant to mind control thanks to his Coda training, but Lynch gives him one late in the series.
* TriggerPhrase: “There you are.”
* UnderestimatingBadassery: “That’s the legendary Grifter? He doesn’t look that tough.” “Yeah, those were a lot of guy’s last words.”
%%%*UnreliableNarrator: [[spoiler: Of Point Blank]]
* UnwittingPawn: just about everything he does in ''Point Blank'' [[spoiler: plays into Tao's plan to take Lynch out of the game]]] in one way or another.
%%%* WeNeedADistraction: Usually results in StuffBlowingUp.
* WhatDidIDoLastNight: His drinking makes TAO’s MemoryGambit easier, and once he [[spoiler: shoots Lynch,]] his guilt causes him to drink even more, making investigating the case [[GroundhogDayLoop almost impossible.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Sir Malcolm Jones]]
A retired IO and MI-6 agent who used to work with John Lynch.''' [[spoiler: called to help bring Carver back to IO.]]
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%%%* BadassInANiceSuit
%%* BadassNormal
%%* ClintSquint
%%%* HollywoodHeartAttack
* HopeSpot: shows up with a folder of evidence exonerating Holden as a deep-cover agent acting on Jack Lynch's orders. [[spoiler: Keels over of a heart attack at the end of Season 1; Holden torches the evidence since it wouldn't do him any good and if it fell into the wrong hands he'd be toast]]. Ouch.
%%%* MacGuffin: [[spoiler: The folder of evidence he has that will exonerate Holden.]]
%%%* RetiredBadass]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Peter Grimm]]
TAO’s ‘Right Hand Man’. Can make you see whatever you fear most on an endless loop until you [[FateWorseThanDeath hopefully]] die.
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* BaldOfEvil: a shiny dome in tandem with a power that makes you see your worst nightmares and [[{{Sadist}} zero hestitation to use it.]]
%%%* TheDragon
%%%* HeroKiller
%%%* JerkAss: Even by super-villain standards.
%%%* MindRape
%%%* ProperlyParanoid: Does not trust Holden Carver.
%%%* ScaryShinyGlasses
%%%* SlasherSmile
%%%%%%* SuperStrength
* TheresNoKillLikeOverkill: when he [[spoiler: finally goes down in a fight with Grifter, he gets the entire back of his head blown off.]]
%%%* YourWorstNightmare: He can induce this.
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[[folder:XXX Ray]]
A mild-mannered pervert with x-ray vision. TAO seems to enjoy putting him in harm’s way just to torment Holden.
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* LovableCoward: He’s “a lover, not a fighter”.
%%%* MoralityPet: For Carver and Genocide.
* PowerPerversionPotential: What use is an X-ray but to see the x-rated?
%%%* XRayVision
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[[folder:Pit Bull]]
A young recruit who is very eager to prove himself as a super villain.
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* BadassNormal: no apparent powers, and while he's a bit too [[LeeroyJenkins gung-ho]] for his own good, he's still a handful in a fight.
* BloodSport: Forced to fight for his life against a pit full of dogs when he was a young child.
%%%* LeeroyJenkins
%%%* NewMeat
* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: [[spoiler: Carver tells his comrades in TAO’s organization that he’d love to have Veronica’s new husband helpless in front of him...and to Carver's horror, Pit bull kidnaps him and [[TrunkShot stuffs him in his trunk]].
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[[folder:Blackwolf]]
[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin A black werewolf.]]
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* AskAStupidQuestion: “What the fuck do you think I did? I ate her.”
* ColorCharacter: Lampshades this and says he uses the name “Blackwolf” ironically because of it.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: He is a human with a wolf form. He is also black.
* ToServeMan: In wolf form, he eats human. Technically, this makes him a cannibal but he's wolf when he does it.
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[[folder:Steeleye]]
One of TAO’s three trusted Prodigals. Has Mind Control powers.
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* BrainBleach: Watching him use his power makes you want to “scrub your eyeballs with steel wool.”
* MindRape: Often along with physical rape.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: [[spoiler: Genocide Jones kills him fairly early in the series, leading the way for Holden’s promotion to Prodigal.]]
* PeoplePuppets: Sometimes lets his victims be aware of what they’re doing if he thinks it will be funnier.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Diamanda M’batu]]
Queen of Egypt and one-time ruler of Africa. A major player in the AncientConspiracy who contracts TAO’s organization for several favors.
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%%%%* TheHighQueen:
* DoubleEntendre: Repeatedly complements TAO on his "useful tongue".
%%%* IfIWantedYouDead:
* KilledOffScreen: [[spoiler: Lynch grumbles Holden killed her after she gave him the information to prove it was Tao and not her who set him up.]]
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Keeps TAO close because she thinks of him as an amusing PsychoForHire who poses no real threat.
%%%%* TheScapegoat
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[[folder:The Nihilist]]
A mid-level supervillain with cybernetic enhancements.
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%%%%* Civvie Spandex
* NonIndicativeName: Isn’t a nihilist, just uses the name because it sounds cool.
* TheMole: [[spoiler: He was working for Lynch the whole time and Holden had to kill him before he blew both of their covers.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Aldo]]
An alien in Lynch's custody [[spoiler: who claims to be able to remove the artifact from Holden's body.]]
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%%%%* MacGuffin
%%%%* StarfishAlien
%%%%* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Turbine]]
A superhero working for IO who attempts to arrest Carver during the sale of a WMD.
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%%%%* RayGun
%%%%* SmugSuper
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Yvonne]]
TheBartender at [[GoodGuyBar the Domino]] in “Point Blank”.
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%%%%* DeadpanSnarker
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