History Characters / XMenBrotherhoodOfMutants

* SuperSpit: He often exhibits various powers related to a ([[HollywoodAcid sometimes acidic]]) goo. Sometimes he spits it as a weapon.\

* CharClone: Let's see... a [[CoolMask masked]], [[WhiteHairBlackHeart pale-haired]] [[TheAce ace]] who plays TheMentor, only to go bad with TheReveal that conveniently also establishes him as TheRival to ''the'' main hero of the X-Men, and has an apocalyptic EvilPlan he's trying to pull off? One wonders if Creator/GrantMorrison binge-watched classic ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' before coming up with this guy.

* VagueAge:According to the X-Men Forever miniseries, Astra maintained surveilance over the young Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, and Nightcrawler while Magneto was trying to decide whether to recruit them or not. She is apparently more experienced that any of them, but it is not clear if she is significantly older than them. She looks young, but she considers the Hoocaust survivor Magneto to be her peer.

* tsPersonal: She is primarily motivated by her obsession with Magneto and Joseph. She has had past encounters with the X-Men and (off-screen) Apocalypse, but she is barely interested in any of them.

* HeelFaceTurn: He joined Krakoa and is now a bartender, since he TookALevelInKindness during in the ComicBook/AgeOfXMan. A lot of the X-Men have even grown fond of him.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Unus.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: It's often hinted at that the Blob's arrogant and bragging attitude is just bluster to make up for some very deep insecurities. When forced to confront his own fears, he saw a crowd of people making fun of him, including a gang of children, a ringmaster, and most prominently the mutants Wolverine and Exodus.

* ArcherArchetype: Her mutant powers gave her perfect aim, her weapon of choice for said perfect aim; a wrist mounted crossbow. Not much use in superhero fights, but fairly handy for assassinating loudmouth politicians.

* ComicBookFantasyCasting: His illusionary appearance is based on Creator/PeterWyngarde, especially in ''Series/JasonKing'' which also influenced his wardrobe. There's a reason they have the same last name.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: In the first arc of ''Comicbook/UncannyAvengers'', the [[Characters/MarvelComicsRedSkull Red Skull]] hijacks his mind and uses him to commit acts of brutality in order to smear the name of mutantkind. When cornered by the titular team in their first mission, the Skull commands him to apparently [[spoiler:commit suicide, but of course they NeverFoundTheBody]].

The self-appointed "Voice of Magneto" and one of the Master of Magnetism's most powerful followers, as well as the BigBad of the 1993 CrisisCrossover ''ComicBook/BloodTiesMarvelComics''.

* SuperSpit: He often exhibits various powers related to a ([[HollywoodAcid sometimes acidic]]) goo. Sometimes he spits it as a weapon.

* PublicDomainCanonWelding: She's named after the antagonist of the Literature/SherlockHolmes story "A Scandal in Bohemia", possibly as an allusion to her nature as a FemmeFatale. Later appearances would confirm that, in the Marvel Universe at least, Destiny ''is'' said Sherlock Holmes antagonist and Mystique is Holmes "himself".

* BitchInSheepsClothing: 2019's ''House of X'' revealed that Destiny, previously regarded as one of the Brotherhood's less malign members, can be just as sadistic as Mystique under the right circumstances. [[spoiler:In an alternate timeline lived by [[Characters/XMenMutants Moira MacTaggert]], Destiny ordered Pyro to burn Moira alive as punishment for working to develop a mutant cure, and specifically ordered Pyro to make her death not quick, but slow and agonizing, so that she would remember it vividly in her future reincarnations.]] Later, ''Dawn of X''' reveals that 616 Destiny foresaw the rise of Krakoa and [[spoiler:that its leaders would avoid resurrecting her at any cost, so she instructed Mystique to destroy Krakoa if she failed to bring Irene back to life]].

* BuryYourGays: Was killed off by Chris Claremont early on in the Shadow King Saga. Said death set up Mystique being targeted by the Shadow King and Claremont's plan to have Mystique turn straight and hook up with Forg, who Destiny told was destined to be Mystique's true soul mate right before dying.

** HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Switching to the Hellfire Academy and then switching back after helping the kids get away and then going off to do his own thing until Characters/{{Cable|NathanSummers}} recruits him for a time in ''ComicBook/UncannyAvengers''. It really depends.

* NighInvulnerability: Part of his "core trinity" of powers; he's extremely hard to hurt due to his extreme girth, he has SuperStrength, and he can fix himself in place so he can't be moved. It ''is'' possible to injure him (extremely sharp objects can generally pierce his skin, as Wolverine learned, and his head is less durable than the rest of him and thus can be affected by a good punch to the face if you have a sufficient degree of superhuman strength), but it's not at all easy to do and will still leave you in far worse shape because he's still got a decent degree of pain tolerance and can generally hit you far harder than you can hit him. Which is why many of the heroes who've fought him find ways to hurt him besides direct kinetic blows like punches or gunshots. {{Characters/Daredevil|MattMurdock}} knocked him out by dropping a huge steel bell on his head, {{ComicBook/Sleepwalker}} used his warp beams to wrap a construction girder around the Blob and crush his blubber, and Banshee used his sonic scream to stun the Blob. Strong Guy maneuvered him into the core of an explosion of jet fuel that caught fire. Different incarnations of the [[Characters/IncredibleHulkBruceBanner Hulk]] have either stretched his flab like silly putty, or prevented him from flexing his stomach muscles and pushing the Hulk's fist out. His flab is much less effective against sensory attacks like concussions, explosions or being squished or stretched.

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* MakesUsEven: Portal is a loner and prefers to stay that way, but he'll return the favor to anyone who helps him. He repaid Darkhawk's help by filling in for him when Darkhawk had a TenMinuteRetirement. When {{ComicBook/Sleepwalker}} and Darkhawk freed him from being brainwashed by Toad's Brotherhood, he was initially ready to send Sleepwalker back to the Mindscape but Sleepy had him bring [[Characters/SpiderManPeterParker Spider-Man]] back from the Dark Dimension where the Brotherhood forced Portal to send him.

* UnwittingPawn: During ComicBook/FallOfX, [[spoiler: the new Captain Krakoa, who he falsely believed to be Cyclops, is using Fred in his FalseFlagOperation to make mutants look like terrorists in order to get the public on Orchis’s side. Blob beloved they are avenging Krakoa.]]

* CatchPhrase: ''Nothing moves the Blob!''

* DaddyHasAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: [[spoiler:After she's revealed to be Nightcrawler's mother thanks to Mystique impregnating her in a male form, it's also revealed she orchestrated Margali Szardos raising him in the meantime. Destiny foresaw a future where Azazel became such a daunting threat that he managed to defeat all who opposed him, unless he became sidetracked dealing with his "heirs." Kurt needed to be raised in a specific environment to ensure he'd be able to stop his "father." Azazel was made to believe he was Kurt's father, which is also why Destiny nudged Mystique to have her affair with him in the first place.]]