History Characters / TheMagnusArchives

* BigDamnHeroes: Shows up just in time to [[spoiler:keep Daisy from murdering Jon.]]

* EmotionlessGirl: In the early episodes of Season 4, she seems to have totally shut down emotionally. It's unclear if it's due to the traumatic events that occurred in between seasons (i.e. [[spoiler:a colleague and one of her best friends dying, another friend ending up in a coma, multiple EldritchAbomination attacks on her place of work, yet two ''more'' friends being slowly taken away from her by other powers, and having to make sure the department runs in the bargain]]), her [[spoiler:being claimed by the Beholding]] or both.
* FriendOnTheForce: To the Archives. She brings Jon tapes that were confiscated during a police investigation so he can listen to them for clues.
** Initially subverted, as she was just pretending because she thought Jon killed Gertrude and wanted a way to surreptitiously investigate him, but then for real. [[spoiler: Until she quits.]]

* HiddenDepths: [[spoiler: She handles being bound to the Institute better than anyone and seems to quite enjoy researching in the latter's library. As Jon puts it "maybe she just suits the academic life".]]

* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:Elias uses her through all of season 4, feeding her clues and pointers to get Jon in the position he needs him to be in order to be marked by the remaining powers (or in some cases keep her on wild goose chases so she doesn't get in the way).

* BigGood: PlayedWith [[spoiler:She single-handedly foiled the rituals of the Powers for decades, defending humanity but also was incredibly ruthless while doing so, having no issue with manipulating or killing people to achieve her goals.]]

* GoodIsNotNice: [[spoiler:Gertrude was determined to stop the rituals that would help the Powers to warp the universe. Among other things, she sacrificed Michael Shelley to the Distortion/Spiral in order to bind and constrict it and murdered Jan Kilbride to use his dismembered corpse to stop the Buried's ritual.]]

* IWorkAlone: [[spoiler: Increasingly embraced this mentality as she aged, confiding in others less and less and leaving her assistants to their own work as she pursued hers. This eventually led to her death at Elias' hands, as she had nobody to help her in her plan to destroy the Archive. Episode 167 makes it clear that this trope is the sticking point between her and Jon, who refuses to stop trying to protect his friends even as he loses touch with his humanity.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler:Deliberately engineered sympathy and loyalty in Michael Shelley, so that he would do ''anything'' for her -- [[ArcWords because he trusted her.]] ]]
* MysteriousPast: Jon initially sees her as an incompetent predecessor out of touch with the times, but it becomes increasingly clear that there's more to her than that. [[spoiler: Even after more of her true character is revealed, though, a lot about her past goes unanswered. She was apparently aware of (and fighting against) the Powers well before coming to work at the Institute, and even the nigh-omniscient Jonah Magnus admits he's not sure how she came to be aware of the supernatural.]]
* NeverMessWithGranny: [[spoiler: She was still taking on servants of the Powers and trashing their rituals well into her grey years. Sasha describes her as "stone cold" despite looking like a little old lady, and even powerful avatars like the Lightless Flame's cultists tread lightly around her in statements where she appears.]]
* ObfuscatingDisability[=/=]ObfuscatingStupidity: [[spoiler:Pretended to be much frailer than she actually was in front of her assistants, letting them believe she was a harmless older lady who needed help and protection.]] Likewise, the bad archival skills Jon bemoans at the beginning of episode 1? [[spoiler: Entirely deliberate sabotage of her ostensible employer.]]
* ParentalSubstitute: [[spoiler: Despite her general coldness, she was probably the closest thing Gerard Keay ever had to a healthy maternal figure. It's strongly implied that his death was the last nail in the coffin for her IWorkAlone attitude.]]

** Despite her general willingness to [[spoiler: sacrifice her assistants for the greater good, when she learned that one of her assistants deliberately put another one in a situation which got her killed simply to learn more information about the Powers, Gertrude had Agnes kill her.]]

* UnscrupulousHero: [[spoiler:Spent her entire time as Archivist investigating other Powers and preventing their rituals, including by sacrificing her employees and liberal usage of explosives]]
* WalkingSpoiler: It's very difficult to talk about Gertrude without spoiling why Jon replaced her as Head Archivist [[spoiler:and her relationship with the Powers]].

* TheReliableOne: Very good at her job; more directly, [[spoiler:Tim refers to her work persona as "this reliable, down-to-earth nerd" in MAG 161]]. In fact, she's so good that [[spoiler: Gertrude had tapped Sasha as her successor (which is no doubt one of the reasons Elias ''didn't'' choose her).]]

* AccuserOfTheBrethren: Does not forgive [[spoiler:Jon for his association with The Beholding, in spite of Jon's efforts at reconciliation. Though he does thank him for giving him the chance to get revenge for his brother.]]

* CynicismCatalyst: [[spoiler:His brother was killed by agents of The Stranger]]. This also explains some of his other quirks, such as his familiarity with 19th-century circuses and the work of real-life architect Robert Smirke.

* ItsPersonal: Joined the Magnus Institute to [[spoiler:pursue the creatures that murdered his brother.]]

* SirSwearsALot: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] due to the general lack of swearing in the series, but so far Tim is tied with Jon, who obviously speaks much more than him, for the honour of dropping the most F-bombs of any single character (three, and he implies a fourth), and the only cast member who does for some time. [[spoiler:No one else says "fuck" until after his death, in fact.]]

* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: Blows himself up in order to stop the Stranger's [[HostileTerraforming ritual of the Unknowing]].]]

* AmnesiaMissedASpot: She ''is'' the spot, in this case; [[spoiler:[=NotSasha=] leaves her with full memories of what the real Sasha was like, so she's left confused and angry when everyone seemingly tries to gaslight her about the fake Sasha]].

* CommonalityConnection: She and Jon don't get along very well, and they have two very different approaches to supernatural investigation, but in "The Smell of Blood", they start nerding out over historical documents she found while investigating in the exact same way, and they're both willing to almost totally disregard their safety in the pursuit of information. [[spoiler:Underscored by her joining the Archives.]] Hilariously, their similarities even extend towards romantic interests, as Melanie ends up in a relationship with Jon's ex, Georgie, though the two of them had a prior professional relationship & friendship independent of either of them knowing Jon.
* DaddysGirl: Melanie's dad used to be her last "anchor" before his death. [[spoiler:She's driven to a sobbing fit when Elias implants in her head the knowledge of the awful way he died.]]
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Bitchy, but less visibly hostile than just about everyone in the Institute except Jon and Martin. She also immediately tries to poison Elias upon realizing what a bastard he is, then tries to ''shiv'' him. [[spoiler:Though she was by this point being infected by the Slaughter, it's ambiguous whether she'd have done it anyway.]] When the Flesh attacks the institute in between Seasons 3 and 4, she fights so violently and efficiently that Jared Hopworth, its foremost avatar, actually ''[[AttackAttackRetreatRetreat gets scared and runs away]]''.

* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Adopts this attitude after she has a bad encounter with a ghost and is drawn in by The Slaughter. [[spoiler:She is adamant that killing Elias is the only option they have.]]

* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: We don't get much detail about what, exactly, Daisy looks like after she gives herself entirely to the Hunt, but she ''[[EvilSoundsDeep sounds]]'' less human than anything else in the series, and the one detail we get about her mentions [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily "a hundred sharpened teeth."]]]]

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: There is very little except her friendship with Basira separating her from what she hunts. In the Season 3 finale, she [[spoiler:goes all the way off the deep end, tearing one of the deliverymen apart with her ''bare hands'', and seems so overcome with bloodlust that she's no longer really a person]]. As of episode 158, she fully gives into [[spoiler:the Hunt in order to defend Basira and Jon as the Institute is invaded by Julia Montauk and Trevor Herbert]].

* HunterOfMonsters: Daisy's calling.

* KillerCop: She was this before he MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment, performing illegal killing of people involved with the supernatural. [[spoiler: After the Change, she reverts to kind.]]
* MoralityChain: Seems to think of Basira this way. [[spoiler:Daisy agrees to work for Elias after he takes Basira hostage]].
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: It's not something she talks about a lot, but after she's [[spoiler: rescued from the Coffin, incarceration in which significantly lessened the Hunt's hold over her, she clearly feels bad about what she did while serving it, particularly because she abused her position as a police officer]].

* ResurrectionSickness: After [[spoiler:she's trapped in [[EldritchLocation the Buried]] for six months]], she's extremely weak and has to undergo months of physical therapy - partly because she'd been unable to move for an extended period of time, and partly because she's [[spoiler:lost her connection to [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity the Hunt]]]].

* BreakThemByTalking: Does this on a regular basis.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: [[spoiler: His grand ritual as well. When he taunts Jon, he basically admits that he already ''has'' everything he would want out of it; he has an effective means of maintaining immortality and has guaranteed safety from anyone else's rituals. In fact, he knew that he had all of this before he even started grooming Jon for the ritual! In the end, he dies in a far worse situation than he would have had to deal with had he not simply allowed things to run their course. Both of these failures to think things through do go back to his patron, admittedly.]]

* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: He's insistent to his staff (and Jon in particular) that every unethical or cruel thing he does is to protect the archives and prevent TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. No one really believes him, and he pretty transparently has ulterior motives, but what they are is a mystery for most of the show. [[spoiler: Eventually he admits to Jon that he never had noble goals; he always wanted to end the world to secure his immortality, and the only reason he wanted the other rituals stopped was just so no one else could do it first.]]

** NotSoOmniscientAfterAll: For all his abilities, Elias is unable know everything and has a limited amount of focus.[[spoiler:Basira talks to Elias to distract him from Jon and Daisy planning how to get rid of him.]]

* SquishyWizard: He has great powers of omniscience and telepathy granted to him by the Eye, but it doesn't give him any special advantages in a physical fight.

...Except maybe not; in Episode 157, Adelard Dekker, the one who has most believed in the emergence of the Extinction, concluded that the fear may not yet be prevalent enough to manifest. Instead, he speculated that maybe such an existential fear currently only runs through the other fears in an undeveloped state, or that the proper formation of such a fear takes longer and is more complicated than previously believed. [[spoiler:It's confirmed in MAG 160 that the Extinction has yet to manifest as its own Power, as Elias is able to complete his ritual without its mark. However, it does get at least one domain of its own in the world after the Change, but doesn't cause a grand extinction event as was feared]].

* AmbiguousSituation: Martin notes that a lot of statements involving it could be the work of other powers-- the artificial structures in the Amazon might be under the Stranger's influence due to the uncanny human figures, the Amusement Park in Reflections may be the work of The Flesh, The Spiral or Terminus might be responsible for Sergei, and even the Spiral could, at a stretch, be responsible for creating the image of Paris post-Extinction. Episode 157 strongly indicated that the other Powers were at work during those manifestations, and that maybe the fear of an apocalypse is something that the Powers share on an existential level.
** [[spoiler: Even after it's confirmed to exist post-change, it's still not clear what's going on with it. Was it a true 15th entity all along? Was it on its way there as Dekker feared? Or was it barely existent before it was "solidified" by the Change? Even Jon's omniscience couldn't tell for sure.]]
* BaitAndSwitch: [[spoiler: For a while we're led to believe the emergence of the Extinction is the greater-scope apocalypse Jon needs to make alliances with the other Powers to prevent. This is false -- the true apocalypse was always the mass ritual being planned by Jon's [[BigBadFriend own patrons]], Jonah Magnus and the Eye itself -- but the Extinction could, ironically, be seen as a half-formed fear ''about'' this possibility, which never fully manifested before it actually came to pass.]]

* RealAfterAll: [[spoiler: Whatever evidence there was to believe that the Extinction wasn't real or wasn't a proper Power of its own is wiped away as of the Change, where one of its domains is very much present and very distinctly its own.]]

* UnseenNoMore: [[spoiler:In Episode 175 ("Epoch"), we finally get definite, concrete proof of its existence, in the form of one of its domains in the fearverse]].

* {{Sadist}}: When he lobotomizes [[spoiler:a servant of The End]], the description he gives of it is... ''very'' detailed.

* AffectionateNickname: “I always wanted my friends to call me Gerry”.
** Tellingly, whenever Jon talks about him after meeting his skin book spirit, he usually refers to him as "Gerry".
* AmbiguousSituation: The exact nature of his connection to the Eye is never elaborated upon. Gertrude implies that the Beholding is fond of him and he occasionally displayed the Archivist ability [[TrueSight to know things he should not have]], such as being able to detect that the statement giver in MAG 48 was marked by the Lonely. His tattoos also seemed to protect him against the abilities of other Avatars. Despite this, he never actually joined the Institute and only assisted Gertrude as a freelancer.
** There's also the circumstances around [[spoiler: his death]]. While traveling with Gertrude, [[spoiler: Gerard had a massive seizure and when brought to a hospital, they discover he's dying of a brain tumor. However, neither Gertrude or Gerry can explain to the doctors why he didn't seek any treatment and it's implied he might not have displayed any symptoms before. So did he die of natural circumstances or was there something supernatural about it? Was the Eye perhaps protecting him from certain death, similar to how the Hunt kept Trevor alive? And if so, why did it decide to let him die?]]

* DeaderThanDead: Gerard died of brain cancer, then [[spoiler:had his soul bound to the skin book. In exchange for his help, Gerard demands that Jon burn his page, thus rendering him really, really and eternally dead. Probably.]]
* DisappearedDad: His father was once one of Gertrude's assistants at the Magnus Institute. [[spoiler:His mother killed him after he finally found a way to "[[EyeScream quit]]" to raise Gerard.]]

* EverybodyHasStandards: Horrified by his mother’s request to have him [[spoiler:skin her alive, binding herself to one of [[TomeOfEldritchLore Leitner’s books]]]].
* FeelNoPain: Subverted [[spoiler: after his death]]. Existence is literally agony for him.

* HeroOfAnotherStory: Unusually for recurring characters in statements not directly tied to the archives. Most of his appearences are either helping someone during their brush with the supernatural or getting rid of the things that cause the troubles in the first place. [[spoiler:To the point it's revealed he ''did'' get directly linked to the institute, helping Gertrude stop The Unknowing.]]
* HesJustHiding: Though Gerard has been legally dead for several years, Jon stubbornly refers to his death as ''alleged''. Considering Jon's [[GutFeeling intuitive abilities]] as Archivist he's probably on to something.
** In season 3 it is confirmed that [[spoiler:he is indeed dead, but not gone, having been bound to the skin book against his will.]]

* MrExposition: Spends half of his statement laying out the ways that [[spoiler:the Powers]] function.

* {{Necromancer}}: Helped bind his mother to a magical book of undeath [[spoiler:which he himself is now bound to]].

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: [[spoiler:One of the first things he demands upon being summoned by Jon is that Jon burn his page, effectively killing him. Jon reluctantly agrees.]]

* UnfazedEveryman: Her response to Jon’s revelations about the existence of monsters and the Powers, and the fact that he is [[spoiler:[[IncrediblyLamePun beholden]] to one]] is essentially "okay”. Justified as [[spoiler:an encounter with the avatar of the End removed her ability to feel fear.]]

[[folder:Jurgen Leitner '''(Spoilers)''']]

* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Despite being Norwegian by birth, his given name is spelled the German way (In Norwegian, it's "Jørgen") and his last name is certainly not Norwegian.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Eventually [[spoiler:quits the force]], because she's so disgusted at the way her superiors handled a coverup, and says the best way Jon can thank her for her help is for her to ''never'' hear about any of this again. [[spoiler:It doesn't stick.]]

* SociopathicHero: Kills monsters, but mostly because she likes killing. [[spoiler: However, her love for murder is exacerbated by the Hunt, and she expresses regret for her actions after she stops serving it]].

* AmicableExes: Is friendly enough with Jon to let him crash at her place indefinitely. [[spoiler:When they later have a falling out, it's only because Georgie recognizes he's going to continue on a self-destructive path and decides to set boundaries to protect herself.]]

* FearlessFool: Averted. [[spoiler: She is well aware that her inability to feel fear could lead her to make reckless decisions and get other people hurt. Her attempts to correct for this actually make her ''too'' cautious sometimes, which Melanie gently chides her for.]]

[[folder:Jurgen Leitner]]

* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Despite being Norwegian by birth, his name is decidedly ''not''. "Jurgen Leitner" sounds German if anything, which is especially strange since the Norwegian form of "Jurgen" is spelled "Jørgen".

[[folder:Peter Lukas]]
!!Peter Lukas, Avatar of the Lonely
!!!First Mentioned: MAG 033
->'''Voiced by:''' Alasdair Stuart
A member of the [[CreepyFamily Lukas family]], servant of the Lonely and [[spoiler:new head of the Magnus Institute]]. Appears to be on good terms with Elias.

* OutOfFocus: There are only about 9 episodes total that focus on the Slaughter, and most of the time it takes a backseat to more prominent powers. Even its avatars are mostly incidental and part of other stories, and the only one of its avatars to actually play a prominent role, [[spoiler:Melanie, is freed from its influence before she can manifest any Slaughter-themed powers aside from a disposition towards violence]].

* AmnesiaMissedASpot: She ''is'' the spot, in this case; [[spoiler:She's not affected by [=NotSasha=], and is very confused as to why everyone acts like this complete stranger is Sasha]].

* InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube: In later episodes her solo career is ruined like this.

* NotSoDifferentRemark: She and Jon don't get along very well, and they have two very different approaches to supernatural investigation, but in "The Smell of Blood", they start nerding out over historical documents she found while investigating in the exact same way, and they're both willing to almost totally disregard their safety in the pursuit of information. [[spoiler:Underscored by her joining the Archives.]]
** Hilariously, their similarities even extend towards romantic interests, as Melanie ends up in a relationship with Jon's ex, Georgie, though the two of them had a prior professional relationship & friendship independent of either of them knowing Jon.
* OnlyICanKillHim: During [[spoiler:The Flesh's attack on the institute, Melanie was the only person present able to inflict enough damage on Jared to scare him away. Since avatars usually can only be killed by other beings empowered by the Powers, and Melanie at that point was well on her way to becoming an avatar of the Slaughter, she really was the only one able to kill Jared permanently.]]

* OptOut: Melanie can't ''actually'' quit, but she ''can'' [[spoiler:choose to just not do any work. Which she does, as she believes doing anything that empowers the Beholding is evil.]] And then when [[spoiler: Jon discovers it ''is'' possible to unbind yourself from the Beholding by [[EyeScream blinding yourself]], she takes an awl to her eyes.]]

* AffectionateNickname: Her dad used to call her "Little Moth".

* UnknownRival: The Dark and its servants have an intense hatred of The Eye and those who follow it; Dark controlled spaces are shielded from the Watcher's gaze, the various iterations of Maxwell Rayner's cult have all had a closed eye motif, an ancient cult of The Dark is implied to have destroyed an earlier iteration of the Archives, and when they enact their grand ritual, a servant of The Dark comes to the Institute to [[EvilGloating gloat]] and offer the chance of surrender. All of this is very justified by sight and sense being the Dark's LogicalWeakness. For their part, it's indicated that The Eye and it's servants couldn't care less about the Dark, [[spoiler: Elias having Maxwell Rayner killed simply to advance his plans for Jon and responding to the Extinguished Sun ritual by just sitting back and letting it fail on its own.]] This is particularly notable in the case of The Eye itself, [[spoiler: which post-Change has only granted the Dark a ''single'' domain, populated by children, in the hopes that they will develop more interesting fears there.]]

* UnknownRival: The Dark and its servants have an intense hatred of The Eye and those who follow it; Dark controlled spaces are shielded from the Watcher's gaze, the various iterations of Maxwell Rayner's cult have all had a closed eye motif, an ancient cult of The Dark is implied to have destroyed an earlier iteration of the Archives, and when they enact their grand ritual, a servant of The Dark comes to the Institute to [[EvilGloating gloat]] and offer the chance of surrender. For their part, it's indicated that The Eye and it's servants couldn't care less about the Dark, [[spoiler: Elias having Maxwell Rayner killed simply to advance his plans for Jon and responding to the Extinguished Sun ritual by just sitting back and letting it fail on its own.]] This is particularly notable in the case of The Eye itself, [[spoiler: which post-Change has only granted the Dark a ''single'' domain, populated by children, in the hopes that they will develop more interesting fears there.]]

* BenevolentBoss: Surprisingly, the statement giver of Episode 141 ("Doomed Voyage"), who was part of the crew on Salesa's ship for a few years described him as a good boss who treated his workers well, was honest about the legality of the operation and kept things organized. [[DownplayedTrope However]], he lost quite a few people along the way and he was very strict about only him being allowed inside the cargo bay, throwing a crew member who tried to break into it overboard on one occasion. Episode 115 ("Taking Stock") shows that he used to be far more benevolent, but he gave up on being that chummy of a boss when his ship's cook got ahold of an undisclosed artifact and ended up causing a serious headache...which incidentally is why he stopped letting anyone else look at the merchandise.

* BenevolentBoss: Surprisingly, the statement giver of Episode 141 ("Doomed Voyage"), who was part of the crew on Salesa's ship for a few years described him as a good boss who treated his workers well, was honest about the legality of the operation and kept things organized. [[DownplayedTrope However]], he lost quite a few people along the way and he was very strict about only him being allowed inside the cargo bay, throwing a crew member who tried to break into it overboard on one occasion.

* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: He mentions that his only real talent was ''shopping'', but goes on to explain that's more impressive than it sounds: Leitner had an uncanny knack for not only tracking down supernatural items (specializing books out of scholarly vanity), but for convincing their owners to part with them. Part of this had to do with his resources, but it also required no small amount of networking, social adroitness, and determination. If he had been ethical enough to use his abilities and fortune to fight the supernatural instead of just hoarding evil books, he could have been a genuine force to be reckoned with through the power of smart shopping.

* EnemyCivilWar: Not that the Powers represent a united faction per se, but there seems to be some pretty strong hostility between the followers of various factions. The Hive, the Earth and the Stranger have all attempted to invade [[spoiler:the Institute]] at various points. Meanwhile, the Spiral hates the Hive, and the mention of the spiderweb pattern on the table locking down some of one of the Not-Them's power suggests the Web don't like the Stranger. Additionally, even beings touched by the same Power do not necessarily get along: beings of the Hunt are nearly as likely to go after each other as they are anyone else (see: [[spoiler:Trevor and the vampires]]), and religious disagreements among the Lightless Flame get ''really'' violent.

* DemBones: How one of them appears, though as its victim puts it:
-->"To describe it as a skeleton would be to do Death a disservice. For though the robe that sat in that chair contained only bones, it was not the skeleton that moved. It was Death. The bones were old, so ancient and brittle that the slightest pressure or movement would have rendered them down to dust. They did move; Death was no more a skeleton than you are a woolen suit".

* DidntThinkThisThrough: One of his relatively few errors involves his careless attitude about disposing of the bodies of Gertrude and Leitner--Nikola and her crew are able to break in and strip them of their skins for use in the Unknowing. Thanks to this blunder, Elias nearly loses Jon in the subsequent attempt to stop it, [[spoiler:which would've blown quite a lot of his hard work given Jon was the centerpiece of his own, much grander ritual.]]
** [[spoiler: This goes for his entire grand ritual as well. When he taunts Jon, he basically admits that he already ''has'' everything he would want out of it; he has an effective means of maintaining immortality and has guaranteed safety from anyone else's rituals. In fact, he knew that he had all of this before he even started grooming Jon for the ritual! In the end, he dies in a far worse situation than he would have had to deal with had he not simply allowed things to run their course. Both of these failures to think things through do go back to his patron, admittedly.]]

** Indeed, unhealthy relationships seem to be part of the Corruption's domain. Unlike the aforementioned Nurgle cultists and daemons [[EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily who often share a genuine sense of camaraderie despite being twisted, violent monsters]], any cults or other organizations that form around the Corruption rarely take long to demonstrate thst they're manifestly more destructive and painful to the participants than they could ever be to any enemy.

* FairPlayVillain: Peter may be a monstrous servant of a god of loneliness, but he's also an avid gambler, and so a level of fairness is inevitable in many of his interactions. While he explains that this allows him a way to interact and maintain contact with people without feeling any mutual bond, it has the side effect of making those people who he's targeted and managed to survive come away ''far'' richer than they were before. Carter Chilcot noted that while he never heard back from Lucas, he still got his full pay, and when Carlita Sloane survived her brief tenure aboard the ''Tundra'' she walked away with a ''fifty thousand pound'' check. [[spoiler: The only exception to this is his bet with Elias, where when he realizes he's lost he flees to his PocketDimension and takes Martin with him.]]