History Sandbox / MCUWhiteCollarCriminals

* DarkChick: Better-than-average skills in gunfighting and close combat, though not as good as she thinks she is. The only reason she survives the Tides Motel ambush is that Frank needed a live prisoner to question.

* OutDamnedSpot: Ward demonstrates this repeatedly. He first gets blood on his sleeve after Danny takes him to see the decapitated head of a Hand soldier [[YouHaveFailedMe who failed to stop Danny]], which Ward tries to rub off. He later gets it again when he kills Harold by stabbing him to death, first seeing blood on his sleeve and hand before he starts seeing it ''everywhere'', dripping from doors and walls. It doesn't go away until Harold comes back to life.

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''[=WHiH=] Newsfront''[[note]]ViralMarketing for ''Film/AntMan''[[/note]] | ''Film/AntMan1'' | ''Film/AntManAndTheWaspQuantumania''

* SanitySlippage: He wasn't all that stable to begin with, and a combination of the Pym particles and his own insecurities cause him to grow more ruthless and psychotically paranoid over the course of the film. Getting his plans ruined by Antman and Hank only makes his state worse.

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!!''Hammer Industries''
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan2'' | ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''

A weapons manufacturer company led by Justin Hammer.

* AlwaysSecondBest: They appear to be this to Stark Industries. For instance, they only became the primary weapon contractors for the U.S. Armed Forces after Stark Industries stopped manufacturing weapons.
* EvilInc: They are basically what Stark Industries used to be before Tony's change of heart, if not worse. They have no ethical issue with manufacturing dangerous weapons and collaborating with criminals.
* IncompetenceInc: Very few of their products actually work properly, with a missile that was supposed to level buildings failing to even tickle a single man, demonstrating serious quality control problems. According to Tony, their technology is at least 20 years behind Stark Industries. However, by the time of ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}'' they have become much more competent.
* MegaCorp: Not as much as Stark Industries, but still counts.
* TookALevelInBadass: By ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}'', Hammer Industries has exceeded in the failures of the past by creating smarter, deadlier weapons, such as the "Judas" bullet, crafted from Chitauri metal and able to penetrate otherwise impervious materials. The bullet is essentially the "Ex-Wife" done right. It's likely that without Hammer's "oversight" the company was actually able to get things done.

!!!Leadership

[[folder:Justin Hammer]]
!!''Justin Hammer''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I wanna make Iron Man look like an antique."'']]

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/SamRockwell
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Jose Antonio Macielas (Latin-American Spanish dub), José Javier Serrano (European Spanish dub), Creator/ToshiyukiMorikawa (Japanese dub), Guillaume Lebon (French dub), Gilbert Lachance (Canadian French dub), David Nathan (German dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan2'' | ''Film/AllHailTheKing''

->''"We all know why we're here – in the last six months Anthony Stark has created a sword with untold possibilities, and yet he insists it's a shield. He asks that we trust him as we cower behind it."''

CEO of Hammer Industries, and a (self-perceived) rival of Tony Stark. He forges a temporary alliance with Ivan Vanko, but the latter just makes use of his resources - not taking him seriously at all. An all-around obnoxious loser.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the comics Hammer is much older, originally [[ComicBookFantasyCasting modelled after]] Creator/PeterCushing, in the MCU he is played by Sam Rockwell, an actor often seen as sexy.
* AdaptationalComicRelief: His comics counterpart is more cynical and his hatred of Tony Stark is much more apparent and bitter.
* AdaptationalDumbass: His comics counterpart is a much, ''much'' more competent businessman. His company was indicated to actually be one of the sources of supervillains' equipment. If this version of Hammer tried getting into the supervillain arms trade, his customers would probably kill him themselves (if they survived his faulty products that is).
* AdaptationalNationality: American here, his comic book counterpart is British with a citizenship in Monaco.
* AdaptationalWimp: In the comics, Hammer is a legit rival and a threat to Stark. Here? Not so much.
* AgeLift: His comics counterpart is much older.
* AmbiguouslyBi: In ''Film/IronMan2'', he is briefly seen with Christine Everhart who seemingly flirted with him... until she left him when Tony told her Hammer lost his contract with the Government. In the short film ''All Hail the King'', Hammer has a new male sidekick who constantly follows him and strokes his shoulder (Justin even calls him "baby"). Such behavior isn't uncommon in prison but Hammer also talks about [[BlatantLies his "understanding" relationship with Tony]] that gives his jealousy a possible new meaning.
* BigBadWannabe: Thinks he's Tony's rival and is using Vanko to further his plans to show up Tony with the tech Vanko designs for him. The reality is the other way round.
* ButNotTooWhite: During his first meeting with Vanko his palms are visibly orange, indicating that he forgot to wash the fake tan off his hands after applying it.
* CloudCuckoolander: For all his villainous aspirations, he's just plain weird in what appears to be a failed attempt to appear rich eccentric.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Commissions a felon to help advance his company's projects after springing the aforementioned felon from prison.
* DrivenByEnvy: He has people killed just to get Vanko out so he can make his Hammer drones, all for the sake of showing up Tony Stark. Thus, EvilIsPetty.
* EvilCounterpart: Tries oh-so-hard to be this to Tony, only to fail spectacularly. It's really driven home during his display at the expo where he tries dancing his way onto the stage in an utterly feeble impersonation of Tony's showmanship to a very underwhelmed audience. Hilariously, when Tony shows up in the Iron Man armor, doing nothing more than coming in for a landing on the stage, the crowd goes wild.
* EvilPlan: Repeat: everything he does is for the sake of showing up Tony Stark.
* FirstNameBasis: He's the only one to call Tony Anthony.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Despite being pleasant and professional, Hammer is not above bombings, prison breaks, and keeping people prisoner.
* GreenEyedMonster: Even though he's wealthy like Tony, he definitely envies Tony's talent and success. His technology throughout the film is described as a joke and a failed knock-off of Stark's. His jealousy is even shown when he's talking to Stark or mentioning him. Heck, most of his motivation in the film is to upstage Stark.
* HiddenDepths: He shows himself to be a rather capable dancer at the Stark Expo when making his introduction.
* IgnoredEnemy: Despite his efforts, Tony barely acknowledges Hammer as a fellow industrialist, let alone a rival.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: His efforts at being either a respected businessman or a crafty villain are both such EpicFail, it would be hard not to feel sorry for the poor schmuck, except for...
* {{Jerkass}}: ...The fact that he's one of the oiliest, most dickish characters in 21st century movies.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: He's not as smart as he makes himself out to be.
* LargeHam: Being an EvilCounterpart of Tony, he still needed to be a man full of himself. ''All Hail the King'' even has Hammer complaining about Slattery stealing the spotlight from him too -- both represent how EvilIsHammy, but Hammer does it without effort to overact!
* MadeOfExplodium:
** His "Ex-Wife" miniature bunker-buster projectile is supposedly extremely explosive. Emphasis on ''supposedly'', because it doesn't work ''at all''. Though FridgeLogic can be applied here, as a bunker-buster relies on the momentum from being fired from a range to bury itself into a target, while Rhodey fired it at close range, hence why it was unable to penetrate Vanko's armor.
--->'''Hammer:''' These are the Cubans, baby. This is the Cohibas, the Montecristos. This is a kinetic-kill, side-winder vehicle with a secondary cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine RDX burst. It's capable of busting a bunker under the bunker you just busted. If it were any smarter, it'd write a book, a book that would make ''Ulysses'' look like it was written in crayon. It would read it to you. This is my Eiffel Tower. This is my ''Rachmaninoff's Third''. My ''Pieta''. It's completely elegant, it's bafflingly beautiful, and it's capable of reducing the population of any standing structure to zero. [[ICallItVera I call it "The Ex-Wife."]]
** ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}'' shows us that the Judas bullet has exceeded the "Ex-Wife" by penetrating otherwise impervious materials due to being forged out of Chitauri metal.
* MoreDakka: His armors and drones are equipped with massive ammunition. Tony lampshades it about Rhodey's War Machine armor that Hammer outfitted.
-->'''Tony:''' You ''have'' a [[{{BFG}} big gun]], you aren't ''the'' big gun. \\
'''Rhodey:''' Tony, don't be jealous. \\
'''Tony:''' No, it's subtle, all the bells and whistles. \\
'''Rhodey:''' Yeah, it's called being a Badass.
* MotorMouth: Often speaks in fast and rambling sentences in imitation of Tony's own MotorMouth but his own version is just rambling useless facts and trivia.
* NeverMyFault: As he's being dragged to jail for attempting to kill Tony Stark and allying himself with [[BigBad Vanko]], he accuses Pepper Potts of ruining his career and reputation.
* PointyHairedBoss: It is strongly implied that it is through his managing that Hammer Industries is the IncompetenceInc that it is made out to be in ''Film/IronMan2''. He is obviously not as tech-savvy as Tony and not as business savvy as Pepper, cutting corners a lot in his tech and his managerial decisions ([[TooDumbToLive like hiring the clearly deranged Ivan Vanko to build his dangerous weapons for him with minimal oversight]]) that usually causes more problems down the line. The fact that he has Tony and Stark Industries [[AlwaysSecondBest to compare him to unfavorably in the eyes of the public]] certainly does not help. It is not until years after Justin is sent to prison (as well as the influx of alien technology from "[[Film/TheAvengers2012 The Incident]]") that Hammer Industries is able to make weapons that ''actually work''.
* {{Pride}}: It's his sin, he wants to be recognized and admired as the top arms dealer, before Tony.
* PutOnAPrisonBus: Arrested by the authorities after his complicity with Vanko's crimes was exposed. He is sent to Seagate Penitentiary and remains there ever since, making only a brief cameo in ''Film/AllHailTheKing'' short.
* RedemptionPromotion: The Ex-Wife doesn't work in ''Iron Man 2''. In the ''Iron Man 3'' Prelude comic, an Ex-Wife is launched at War Machine and temporarily disables it. This is the one ''Tony'' made, not the Hammer-downgraded one. Looks like he had something on it after all.
* ReplacementFlatCharacter: In a sense, Hammer represents everything Tony Stark was before his CharacterDevelopment in [[Film/IronMan1 the first movie]], being just as arrogant and showy of an ArmsDealer, except with [[KnowNothingKnowItAll none of the intelligence to back his ego up]].
* SinisterSweetTooth: Admits as much. He's eating ice cream when he meets up with Ivan and sucking on a lollipop while presenting weapons to Rhodes (pictured above) and confessed to Ivan that "he likes his dessert first".
* SmugSnake: He has the same ego as Tony, but none of the genius to back it up.
* UnknownRival: To Tony. It was emphasized thoroughly in the second film.

!!!Employees

[[folder:Jack]]
!!''Jack''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jack_3.bmp]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"It's a beautiful bird!"'']]

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Jack White
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan2''

Justin Hammer's personal assistant and butler.

* AscendedExtra: His actor [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0970642/ Jack White]] was originally hired as the food stylist who prepared and served the salmon carpaccio to Vanko in the aircraft hangar, but he ended up appearing in several scenes as Hammer's assistant.
* CanonForeigner: He isn't based on any characters from the comics.
* TheDanza: He shares his first name with the actor who portrayed him, Jack White.
* EvilCounterpart: Being Justin Hammer's assistant and butler, he can be considered as one to either Pepper Potts or Happy Hogan. [[PunchClockVillain He isn't that much evil, though]].
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: He may be working for Hammer, but he doesn't do anything really evil himself and come across as a pretty pleasant guy.
* NonActionGuy: He doesn't appear to have any combat skills, and doesn't intervene at all when his boss get tackled by Natasha Romanoff and later taken in custody by police officers.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted. There are plenty of other characters named Jack (or similar names) within the MCU ([[Film/IronMan3 Jack Taggart]], [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier Jack Rollins]], [[Series/Daredevil2015 Jack Murdoch]]...).
* OldRetainer: It's not clear how long he has been working for Hammer, but he's quite older than him and seems entirely loyal to him.
* OnlyOneName: His last name is never mentioned, he's only referred as "Jack" throughout the movie, even in the credits.
* PersonalMook: He serves as Justin Hammer's personal assistant, butler, waiter, porter and possibly driver as well.
* PunchClockVillain: While he has apparently no problem with the fact that his boss has organized the escape of a dangerous criminal which resulted in several people's death, he doesn't seems particularily evil, just happening to work for the wrong person.
* SatelliteCharacter: He is Justin Hammer's assistant, and that's pretty much all there is to say about him. He barely interacts with anyone else during the movie except Vanko on brief occasions.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: On Hammer's orders, he tried to to fit his head into that of a drone, even though it had no openings and was clearly too small. Predictably, it didn't work.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He's last seen running away from the premises after Justin Hammer got arrested. It's unknown what happened to him afterwards, and if he got arrested for his complicity or not.
* YesMan: He tends to agree with everything his boss says even when he's blatantly lying, notably when he tried to pass off some random bird as Vanko's pet and (falsely) complimented it.
-->'''Vanko:''' This is not my bird. \\
'''Hammer:''' What do you mean? That's the bird! This is the bird! Yeah! I pulled a lot of strings to get this bird. This is a great bird! \\
'''Jack:''' It's a beautiful bird! \\

[[folder:Hammer's henchmen]]
!!''Hammer's henchmen''
!!!'''Species:''' Humans

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan2''

Two henchmen of Justin Hammer.

* BagOfKidnapping: After taking Vanko's bird, they put it in a bag.
* BloodlessCarnage: Partially averted, as we can see blood on Vanko's hands after he killed them.
* DeadGuyOnDisplay: After killing them, Vanko hangs them in the control room. Their dead bodies are later found by Black Widow and Happy Hogan when they come to arrest Vanko.
* GiantMook: They are both beefy guys, and Hammer thinks they're strong enough to deal with [[HuskyRusskie Ivan Vanko]]. He's wrong, though.
* GoryDiscretionShot: Their deaths were apparently quite bloody, thankfully they only happen offscreen.
* InformedAbility: According to Justin Hammer, they are tough guys that Vanko shouldn't try to mess with. However, Vanko didn't seem to have much trouble killing them.
* KickTheDog: On Hammer's order, one of them takes Vanko's bird from him in a brutal manner.
* KilledOffScreen: Both of them are killed by Vanko, but their deaths aren't shown onscreen.
* NoNameGiven: We don't get any name for either of them.
* PokeThePoodle: Hammer orders them to take Vanko's pillows. Both of them. And his shoes.
* TheVoiceless: Neither of them has any lines of dialogue.

[[folder:Hammer Technician]]
!!''Hammer Technician''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Brian Schaeffer
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan2''

A technician of Hammer Industries.

* EnemyMine: When the drones start wreaking havoc at Stark Expo, he's willing to help Pepper Potts find a solution, even though she works for a rival company.
* NoNameGiven: His name is never said during the film.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: He wears a huge pair of glasses and seems to be one the few Hammer Industries employees to be somewhat competent at their job.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Despite working for Hammer Industries, he does his best to help Pepper stop the drones' attack and tells her everything he knows.
* YouLookFamiliar: His actor Brian Schaeffer played other minor roles in several MCU films.

[[folder:Hammer Security Guards]]
!!''Hammer Security Guards''
!!!'''Species:''' Humans

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan2''

The security guards at the Hammer Industries facility.

* BlindedByTheLight: At one point, Black Widow uses flash bombs to temporarily blind two guards before attacking them.
* BoxingBattler: Happy Hogan engages in a crude boxing match against one of the guards.
* CherryTapping: After beating all the others in pretty awesome ways, Black Widow ends up defeating the last security guard with a pepper spray, [[OffhandBackhand without even looking]].
* ConservationOfNinjutsu: While it's very easy for Black Widow to defeat a large number of guards, Happy Hogan struggles to fight a single one of them.
* CurbStompBattle: All the guards who confront Black Widow are defeated without any difficulty. Averted with the one fighting Happy Hogan, who manages to put quite a hard fight.
* EarAche: When fighting one of the guards, Happy eventually gains the upper hand after biting his opponent's ear.
* GroinAttack: Black Widow neutralizes a guard by hitting him in the groin.
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: It's ridiculously easy for Happy Hogan and ''especially'' Black Widow to break into their building and defeat all of them.
* AHandfulForAnEye: During the fight against Black Widow, two guards are blinded by the smoke of her flash bombs, and another one gets pepper-sprayed in the eyes shortly after.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Black Widow steals a guard's pepper spray at some point, and then uses it to defeat another guard.
* LawmanBaton: At least one of them uses a baton to attack Black Widow.
* TheManTheyCouldntHang: One of the guards ends up hanged, but he struggles so much that he apparently manages to survive.
* {{Mooks}}: They are Justin Hammer's minions, and their only purpose in the movie is to be defeated in various ways by Black Widow in order to show how badass she is.
* MookChivalry: For the most part, they only try to fight Black Widow one or two at a time. To be fair, those hallways are rather narrow.
* PunchClockVillain: The only reason the security guards oppose Black Widow and Happy Hogan is because they did broke into the building they are supposed to protect. Technically, the guards are just doing their job.
* WouldHitAGirl: None of them appear to have issue with fighting Black Widow. In their defense, she's the one who attacked first.

!!!Products

[[folder:Hammer Drones]]
!!''Hammer Drones''
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!!!'''Species:''' Drones
!!!'''Citizenship:''' None
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' N/A
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan2''

An army of drones created by Hammer Industries to be sold to the military. They started as {{Powered Armor}}s similar to Iron Man's suits, but Ivan Vanko was recruited to work on them and decided to change them to drones in order to hack them and use them in his plans to take revenge on Tony Stark.
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* ActionBomb: They're revealed to be this at the end of the final battle, when it turns out all the drones (as well as Whiplash's armor) have a SelfDestructMechanism that Vanko is planning to use as [[TakingYouWithMe a last attempt to kill the heroes]].
* AirborneMook: All the drones are able to fly, but the Air Force Drones are the best example as they primarily attack the hero while flying in mid-air, whereas the other drones usually attack from the ground.
* AlienBlood: Every time they are torn apart by the heroes, they bleed oil. Justified, since they are robots after all.
* AllThereInTheManual: Some details about the Hammer Drones not shown in the movie are revealed in the ''Guidebook to the Marvel Cinematic Universe'', such as the facts that the Navy Drones have fixed-point coil lasers, the Air Force Drones have thermal vision vortex ring guns, and the Marine Drones have high-definition cameras.
* AmericanRobot: Subverted. At first, Justin Hammer tries to pass them off as this. The drones were built to serve in the U.S. Armed Force, they come in [[RealRobotGenre Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine]] models, and every model has a specialist weapon or device attached to it (an autocannon for the Army, missile launchers for the Navy, high-speed flight systems for the Air Force, and close-range machine guns for the Marines). Too bad [[RenegadeRussian Ivan Vanko]] has different plans for them...
* AnimatedArmor: Initially, they were created to be simple [[PoweredArmor armors]] that have to be piloted by someone inside of them. However, when Ivan Vanko was recruited to work with Hammer, he decided to turn the armors into drones capable of moving on their own, without needing any pilots.
* AntiAir: This is pretty much the Army Drones' job, as they are the ones charged with firing at Iron Man while he's flying in the air. They fail to actually hit him though, but they accidentally shoot down one of the Air Force Drones.
* AntiClimax: After [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Justin Hammer]] and [[EvilGenius Ivan Vanko]] spent a large part of the movie building an army of robots supposedly capable of challenging Iron Man, you'd be forgiven for expecting an epic showdown between them and the heroes during the climax... Instead, after the (admittedly pretty cool) ChaseScene, Iron Man and War Machine manage to [[CurbStompBattle easily defeat all of them in less than a minute]].
* ArmCannon: The drones all have machine guns mounted in their arms, as well as missile launchers in the case of the Air Force and the Marine Drones, and also multigrenade launchers for the Army Drones.
* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: All the drones have their weapons fully loaded, despite the fact that they weren't expected to perform any live fire demonstrations during the presentation. Granted, this was probably Vanko's doing, but it's still odd that nobody involved in transporting them to the expo tried to check first.
* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: Even though they are supposed to be "the new face of the United States Military", there are only four different lines of drones (one for the U.S. Army, one for the Navy, one for the Air Force and one for the Marine Corps), while there are five branches of the U.S. Armed Forces. For some reason, the United States Coast Guard is the only one that was not included (maybe Justin Hammer simply forgot it even existed?).
* AttackAttackAttack: Once they are activated, they do nothing but attack Iron Man over and over, no matter what. Even when one of them crashes into an advertising screen, it immediately gets up and keeps attacking the hero like nothing happened. Justified, as it's in their program to specifically target Iron Man.
* AttackDrone: They are an army of fully weaponized drones created for combat, and at the climax of the movie, [[BigBad Ivan Vanko]] remotely controls them to attack the heroes.
* BackpackCannon: The Air Force Drones have machine guns mounted on their back, allowing them to shoot at their target while flying.
* BadassArmy: They are an army of flying robots armed with missile launchers and autocannons that are supposed to replace the U.S. militaries. Slightly subverted in that they're not badass enough to defeat Iron Man and War Machine, though (admittedly, this is not exactly an easy task).
* {{BFG}}: ''All'' the Army Drones have a shoulder-mounted autocannon that is certainly big enough to qualify.
* TheBlank: Unlike Iron Man's and Whiplash's armors, or even their previous design, the Hammer Drones lack anything resembling a human face, eyes or a mouth.
* BoomHeadshot / YourHeadASplode: During the battle inside the Oracle Dome, War Machine blows off one of the Marine Drones' head with his guns before spraying the rest of its body with bullets.
** Just before, Iron Man breaks a Marine Drone's head into pieces by kicking it with his knee, then crushes its remaining corpse with his elbow.
* BottomlessMagazines: Kind of justified, actually. Even though they fire an astonishing number of bullets at the heroes, the fact that they were converted into drones without pilots inside them means the recovered space could have been used to provide them with more ammunition.
** In addition, the trope is partially averted as the Navy Drones eventually run out of missiles, and the Army Drones never use their autocannons during the battle inside the Oracle Dome, implying they are short of ammunition. Plus, it can be easily assumed that all the drones that tried to fight the heroes hand-to-hand did so because they were out of bullets.
* BulletSparks: In the final battle, they fire plenty of bullets on the heroes, which make lots and lots of sparks.
* CannonFodder: It's implied the drones' real purpose is to get destroyed by Iron Man and War Machine's weapons so that they will be out of ammo when Whiplash arrives.
* ChaseScene: The Air Force Drones have a pretty memorable one near the end of the film, where they pursue the protagonist all around Stark Expo, until they get all destroyed thanks to some {{Wronski Feint}}s.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: The drones have repulsors that leave a blue-ish trail when they are activated, making it easier to differentiate them from Iron Man and War Machine (who both have brighter colors) in scenes where they are all flying.
** In addition, each of the four line-up of drones has a different color, which also helps a bit to tell them apart.
* ConservationOfNinjutsu: Averted. When the Hammer Drones attack in great numbers, Iron Man and War Machine manage to deal with them without too much trouble, and when faced against a single drone, they can defeat it just as easily, as seen with the one that tried to shoot a child.
* CoolGuns: Of course, they are all filled with cool guns of all kinds. In particular, the Army Drones have an autocannon mounted on their shoulders that is based on the M242 Bushmaster.
* CranialProcessingUnit: Destroying their heads seems to be a pretty effective way to kill them, as seen on several occasions during the final fight.
* CurbStompBattle: They didn't do particularly well against Iron Man and War Machine, to say the least. During the battle inside the Oracle Dome, they all end up destroyed in barely a minute.
* CyberCyclops: All of them have a rectangular camera on their face that they use to see, making them look like this trope.
* DarkIsEvil: They have rather dark colors, and serve as the BigBad's army.
* DefeatEqualsExplosion: Played with. They all explode shortly after being defeated, however it's due to Vanko activating their SelfDestructMechanism rather than because of the defeat in itself (that being said, he activated it because he and his drones lost the battle...).
* DiagonalCut: After Iron Man used his Death Blossom lasers to kill the last drones, a couple of them remain standing for a few seconds before collapsing, sliced in half.
* DisastrousDemonstration: Invoked. Vanko deliberately waits until the Hammer Drones are being displayed at Stark Expo as a big event before taking control of them and letting them cause mayhem.
* EleventhHourRanger: The Marine Drones stay dormant during the majority of the chase scene and are only activated near the end of it, just in time to join the other drones for the final fight against Iron Man and War Machine in the Oracle Dome.
* EliteMooks: While they are still defeated without too much trouble by the heroes, the drones are definitely far more powerful and dangerous compared to the Hammer security guards. Heck, with all the firepower at their disposal, they're arguably some of the strongest and most destructive {{Mooks}} within the entire MCU.
* EveryoneChasingYou: All the Air Force Drones plus War Machine chase Iron Man for several minutes during the finale, and later the other drones follow him to the Oracle Dome as well.
* EvilIsBigger: Downplayed compared to [[Film/IronMan1 Iron Monger]], but the drones are at least one full head taller than human beings, including the heroes when they wear their {{Powered Armor}}s.
* EvilKnockoff: The Hammer Drones are low-quality knockoffs of Iron Man's armors, designed to compete with him.
* EyeLightsOut: Downplayed. Some, but not all, of the drones have the light of their arc reactor fading off when they get killed.
* FacelessGoons: In comparison to Iron Man and War Machine, they have particularly non-human faces, which serves to dehumanize them and make sure that the audience won't empathize too much with them or feel too bad when they are violently massacred.
* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: In the battle towards the end of the movie, the drones get slaughtered by the heroes in rather brutal ways, such as having their head blown off, getting cut in half or being smashed into pieces. Even if they are not flesh-and-blood, the way their oil is splattering every time they get hurt still makes it look like a bloodbath and can be a little disturbing to watch...
* FakeUltimateMook: Despite being supposed to "make Iron Man look like an antique", they all get beaten by him fairly easily, and are shown to have less efficient firepower and cannot take nearly as much damages as him.
* {{Flight}}: All of them have flight capability due to being designed with repulsor flight technology. The Air Force models in particular are skilled enough to effectively chase Iron Man throughout Stark Expo for a long period of time.
* FlyingFirepower: In addition to having the ability to fly, they all have machine guns built in their wrist and are equipped with missile launchers, autocannons, grenade launchers and other firearms of all kinds.
* FourIsDeath: There are four different lines of drones, each representing a branch of the U.S. Armed Force ([[ArtisticLicenseMilitary even though there are actually five branches...]]), and they all are equally deadly {{Killer Robot}}s.
* FriendlyFire: One of the Army Drones accidently shoots down an Air Force Drone that was chasing Iron Man, while targeting the latter. Shortly afterward, it happens again in the battle inside the Oracle Dome, where one of the drones fires a missile at Iron Man and hits the Marine Drone that was behind him.
* GlowingMechanicalEyes: The rectangular cameras on the drones' faces that serve as their eyes are constantly glowing in blue light.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Justin Hammer insisted to Vanko that he wanted the drones to steal the show. Well, they did... by wreaking havoc and causing panic at Stark Expo. Probably not the way he intended, but at least he can be sure that every newspaper is going to talk about it.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: From Justin Hammer's point of view at least, the drones presentation didn't exactly go as planned. From Ivan Vanko's view, on the other hand, everything went perfectly according to his plans.
* GrenadeLauncher: The Army Drones all have a multigrenade launcher installed on their wrist.
* GeoEffects: When the drones arrive in the Oracle Dome, they surround Iron Man and War Machine from a much more elevated position, which according to Rhodey give them the advantage over the two of them in the ensuing battle. Subverted, as the drones loose the fight anyway.
* GrievousHarmWithABody: During the final battle, some drones' parts are used by Iron Man to do this to other drones
* GuiltFreeExterminationWar: Being robots, they obviously feel nothing about killing the heroes, and unsurprisingly, [[JustAMachine neither do the heroes have any guilt about destroying them]].
* HackYourEnemy: They started off as Hammer Industries' products, but Vanko easily manages to hack them to make them become his own {{Mooks}}.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: At the end of the battle inside the Oracle Dome, all the remaining drones get sliced in two by Iron Man and his Death Blossom lasers.
* HeartLight: Just like Iron Man's, Iron Monger's, War Machine's and Whiplash's armors, the Hammer Drones have a glowing arc reactor installed in their chest that powers them.
* HeavilyArmoredMook
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: At least one of the Air Force Drones gets blasted out of the sky by a misplaced shot from an Army Drone.
** It happens quickly, but during the final fight we can see in the background one of the Marine Drones being blown up by another drone's missile that missed Iron Man.
* HollywoodHacking: Ivan Vanko managed to hack into their system with incredible ease. Apparently, Hammer's security systems are just the worst. Lampshaded by Vanko:
-->'''Ivan Vanko:''' Software shit.
* HomingProjectile: The Navy Drones and Air Force Drones both have guided missile launchers mounted on their arms. During the chase scene in the carpark, one of the Air Force Drones fires two of its missiles at Iron Man, only for him to manage a HighSpeedMissileDodge.
* ImmuneToBullets: Surprisingly averted, unlike Iron Man's and War Machine's and even the second Whiplash's armors, they are totally vulnerable to bullets. Rhodey is notably able to take down several of them with any of his different types of guns in the final battle.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Downplayed, as they actually manage to hit the heroes when they're firing normal bullets with their machine guns, but they completely miss every time they try to use a weapon that may have a chance to seriously hurt them such as the autocannon or missile launchers. Of course, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome one of them requires the Drone to lock itself into a fixed angle before firing and another is designed to lock onto and hit much larger targets than a man-sized Iron Man armor.]]
* IncrediblyObviousBomb: They become these in the end, with their arc reactors ticking and flashing red light faster and faster, making it clear to everyone ([[IdiotBall except Pepper Potts, surprisingly]]) that they are going to self-destruct.
* InformedAbility: According to Justin Hammer, the drones are supposed to "make Iron Man look like an antique" and to be capable of replacing not only him, but also the U.S. militaries. However, they are clearly shown to be far less powerful than any of Iron Man's armors, and they can't even withstand bullets particularly well, making Hammer's claims ''extremely'' doubtful at best.
* InfraredXrayCamera: Apparently, some of the drones have thermal vision cameras.
* InSeriesNickname: Tony Stark refers to them as "Hammeroids" at one point. The term became very popular among fans.
-->'''Tony:''' I will formally apologize when I am not fighting off a Hammer-oid attack.
* InstantAwesomeJustAddMecha: They are the first humanoid-shaped robots of large size introduced in the MCU, but [[Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron certainly not the]] [[Series/AgentsOfShield last ones]].
* ItsRainingMen: Near the end of the movie, the drones go after Iron Man and War Machine inside the Oracle Dome. Once there, they all drop from a certain height and land around the two heroes one-by-one, surrounding them. Since they are robots made of metal and they slightly used their RocketBoots to slow down their descent, the fall doesn't hurt them at all.
* JobStealingRobot: Justin Hammer is planning to make them replace the U.S. militaries in order to reduce human casualties (he still says he consider human presence as necessary though, but he's only talking about men in {{Powered Armor}}s), as well as Iron Man himself. In a sense, when they are turned into drones they also technically stole the job of whoever was supposed to pilot them as {{Powered Armor}}s.
* KillerRobot: They are heavily armed robots designed for the sole purpose of destroying their enemies.
* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: Even though they have similar technology to Iron Man, who has [[PowerPalms Repulsors]], ChestBlaster and [[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser Beams]] , and were created by Vanko, who is capable of creating Electro-whips, the drones only use relatively common weapons, such as machine guns, missiles and grenade launchers. [[SubvertedTrope It didn't really help them win against the heroes during the climactic battle, though.]]
* LawOfInverseRecoil: Justified. The Army Drones utilize rather excessive 25mm Bushmaster autocannon, but they manage to avoid being RecoiledAcrossTheRoom every time they shoot by using foot-mounted anchor spikes that serve as outriggers.
* LetsSplitUpGang: While chasing Iron Man through the carpark, a few Air Force Drones split up from the others in order to lure him back to Stark Expo. Also, when the four lines of drones are activated they all go on separate directions, with the Air Force Drones following Iron Man through the sky, the Navy Drones going at the exit to fire their missiles, the Army Drones accompanying them outside and placing themselves at the stairs to shoot at Tony, and the Marine Drones staying where they are.
* LightIsNotGood: Despite having a HeartLight and a glowing camera on their face, they are definitely ''not'' good guys. Instead, they're dangerous {{Killer Robot}}s used by the BigBad to try to kill the heroes.
* LosingYourHead: Due to them being robots, Hammer can remove one of the drones' head and shows it to Vanko when asking what it was without it being a problem. Vanko himself did the same thing the first time he comes face-to-face with them, while they were still {{Powered Armor}}s.
-->'''Justin Hammer:''' What is that? Ivan...What’s this? Is that a helmet? It doesn’t look like a helmet to me. How are you supposed to get a head in there? Jack, could you put your head in there? Try to put your head in there. Go ahead. Try to put your head in there. See, Ivan? He can’t put his head in there. That’s...That's... That’s not a helmet. It’s a head.
* MachineBlood: The way their oil is spurting every time they are injured during the fight against Iron Man and War Machine makes it very reminiscent of blood.
* MacrossMissileMassacre: This trope is the Navy Drones' speciality, as they all have two shoulder-mounted missile launchers, each of them carrying six missiles, plus three others mounted in a pod on each of their arms, making a total of eighteen missiles per drones. The Air Force Drones and the Marine Drones also have missiles inside their arms.
* MadeOfPlasticine: Compared to Iron Man's and War Machine's as well as Whiplash's armors, at least. During the final battle, the two heroes manage to tear them apart as easily as if they were made of cardboard.
* MechaMooks: The Hammer Drones are a typical example of this trope. They are non-sentient robots sent by the BigBad to kill the heroes, attack them in large number, but are quite easily destroyed in various manners. Good thing Vanko made them drones rather than men in {{Powered Armor}}s, this way the audience has no problem when they are brutally slaughtered by the heroes.
* MilitarySalute: Vanko tells Justin Hammer that "make salute" is the only thing they are ready do for now. Of course, he was lying and the drones can do much more than that, but it turns out they can indeed make a military salute and they all do one at the same time in response to Rhodey's during the presentation at Stark Expo.
* MissileLockOn: Vanko locked all of them on Iron Man, causing the Air Force Drones and War Machine to chase him unrelentingly through Stark Expo while the other drones are firing at him from the ground.
* MistakenIdentity: One of them mistakes a kid wearing an Iron Man mask for the real deal and tries to shoot him. Fortunately, the real Iron Man shows up just in time and blast the drone down as it realises its mistake.
* MookCarryover: Sort of. They were first created by [[BigBadWannabe Justin Hammer]] (as {{Powered Armor}}s) and were supposed to be utilized by ''him'', however when [[BigBad Ivan Vanko]] was hired to work on them, he ended up taking control of them and using them to fulfill his own goals.
* MookChivalry: When some of the drones try to fight the heroes hand-to-hand, for the most part they only go one at a time. Though the others continue to shoot, at least.
* MoreDakka: They all have machine guns mounted in their wrist (and also in their back in the case of the Air Force Drones) that they use to strafe their enemies with plenty of bullets.
* MundaneUtility: They are high-tech robots equipped with all kinds of weaponry. What does Justin Hammer use them for? Decorate his presentation and respond to War Machine's salute. Justified, as Vanko told him it was the only things they could do.
* MurderByMistake: Due to their high number, some of the Hammer Drones that tried to shoot at Iron Man end up killing other drones behind him instead.
* UsefulNotes/NavySeals: The Navy Drones, of course, are supposed to become the new Navy [=SEALs=].
* NoisyRobots: Similar to Iron Man's armors, the Hammer Drones make a lot of sounds whenever they move or when they adjust their weapons.
* OneDimensionalThinking / TwoDSpace: When Iron Man flew through the Stark Expo's Unisphere, all the Air Force Drones followed him inside rather than simply flying over it, even though he was already out by the time they arrived. [[TooDumbToLive This caused all of them to get destroyed]].
* OneHitPointWonder: Any of them can be killed with only one of Iron Man's repulsor blasts, one of his missiles, or even with just a punch.
* ThePawnsGoFirst: If he had wanted to, Vanko could have joined the drones in the battle against Iron Man and War Machine, but he deliberately chose to wait until they're all destroyed instead. Presumably, he wanted them to soften the two heroes before he fights them himself.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Not as much as Iron Man or War Machine, but they are still capable of causing a great deal of havoc. Especially the Navy Drones, which provoke a lot of destruction in Stark Expo with their missiles.
* PlotHole: Even though there were only eight drones per branches of the U.S. military during their presentation, making it a total of of thirty-two drones, they are clearly much more numerous than that a few moments later during the battle against Iron Man and War Machine.
** Also, the Air Force Drone 0303 apparently gets destroyed twice according to Vanko's computer, the first time when it's accidently shot down by the Army Drones, and the second time when two drones collides with each other and crash into a pillar in the carpark.
* PoweredArmor: They started off as this, but Vanko decided to turn them into drones because, as he explains to Hammer, "drones better".
* PricelessPaperweight: Each of them is a high-tech robot worth tens of millions dollars, but when Vanko pretends they are not combat-ready, Justin Hammer decides to only use them as little more than background decoration for his presentation. He even refers to them as "overpriced paperweights" at one point.
-->'''Justin Hammer:''' And now your overpriced paperweights are gonna look like a backdrop to my demonstration.
* QuantityVsQuality: Vanko clearly focused them on quantity, while focusing his second armor on quality. Though great in number, the drones have relatively weak firepower compared to the likes of Iron Man and War Machine and are rather easy to defeat, whereas Vanko's second armor is a single model but is way stronger and tougher than all the drones combined.
* RealRobotGenre: The Hammer Drones mostly qualify as Real Robots. They are mass-produced units built by a weapons manufacturing company, they only use normal firearms (unlike Iron Man or Whiplash), they were given some tests (as seen in the video during the Congress), and they are supposed to be sold to the U.S. militaries to fight during wars.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: It's not their eyes, but each drones' arc reactors turn red when Vanko activates their SelfDestructMechanism, warning the heroes (and the audience) they are about to explode.
* ReplacementMooks: At first, Justin Hammer tried to have henchmen wearing {{Powered Armor}}s, but they turned out to be rather ineffective (not to mention dangerous for their own pilots). As a result, Vanko decided to replace them with more capable drones, justifying himself by saying that "People make problem. Drone better." (in reality, he mostly wanted to be able to hijack them and send them after Iron Man).
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Due to the recoil created by their autocannons, the Army Drones have anchor spikes mounted on their feet that they can use to stabilize.
* RoboCam: We're given several shots of their vision, notably when one of them nearly kills a kid with an Iron Man mask.
* RobotNames: As shown on Vanko's computer, each individual drone has a name, which starts with some figure that is followed by the diminutive of the branch of the U.S. Armed Forces to which it belongs and a number:
** The Army Drones are referred as lozenge - ARM - 0101 up to 0108.
** The Navy Drones are referred as barred square - NAV - 0301 up to 0308 (oddly, there are no number 0201 to 0208),
** The Air Force Drones are referred as triangle - AIR - 0301 up to 0308.
** The Marine Drones are referred as star - MAR - 0401 up to 0408.
** Whilpash is referred as a big triangle - HSD - 001.
** War Machine (whose suit is also known as Variable Threat Response Battle Suit) is referred as a green lozenge - VTRB - 0001.
** Iron Man is referred as a white circle - IRM - 0001.
* RobotSoldier: They are an army of robots created to be used by the militaries to fight during wars in place of human soldiers. Although Vanko has other plans for them, but it still involves them participating in a battle.
* RobotsAreJustBetter: This is basically the reason given by Vanko to make them {{Attack Drone}}s rather than {{Powered Armor}}s (although the real reason is that he's secretly planning to use them for himself).
-->'''Ivan Vanko:''' Drone better.\\
'''Justin Hammer:''' What? Drone better? Why is drone better? Why is drone better?\\
'''Ivan Vanko:''' People make problem. Trust me. Drone better.
* RocketBoots: Much like Iron Man, they all have those in their foot. The Air Force Drones also have reactors in their back in order to help them fly better.
* UsefulNotes/RussianLanguage: After the drones are hijacked by Vanko, their systems are written in Russian. In addition, some of them are apparently communicating in Russian language.
-->'''Hammer Technician:''' Each set of drones is... is communicating in its own unique language.\\
'''Pepper Potts:''' Choose one and focus on that.\\
'''Justin Hammer:''' Have you tried Russian? Why don't you try Russian?
* SapientTank: Downplayed as they are still machines, but the Army Drones are essentially humanoid tanks and have a robotic intelligence.
* SeeingThroughAnothersEyes: Everything the drones are seeing through the cameras on their faces is also seen by Ivan Vanko on his computer.
* SelfDestructMechanism: At the end of the battle, it turns out all the drones have one that Whiplash activates as [[TakingYouWithMe a last attempt to kill the heroes]].
* SemperFi: The Marine Drones, being huge robots equipped with machine guns, missile launchers, repulsors and everything. That being said, they are not particularly stronger that the other drones...
* SendInTheClones: The Hammer Drones are of course inspired by Iron Man. Just like several countries were trying to do, Justin Hammer wanted to create mass-produced Iron Men. So, at the movie's climax, the hero basically has to fight an army of knockoffs of himself.
* SequelEscalation: At the end of the first film, Tony only had to fight one guy in PoweredArmor (Iron Monger). In the second film, he and Rhodey naturally have to fight an entire army of robots plus another guy in PoweredArmor (Whiplash).
* SetAMookToKillAMook: At two different points, Iron Man dodges the shots of some drones, causing them to hit other drones behind him.
* ShootingSuperman: They keep trying to kill Iron Man and War Machine by firing normal bullets at them, even though it clearly has little to no effect on their armors. Granted, from time to time they also use heavier weapons that have better chances to actually harm them, such as autocannons and missiles, [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy but they tend to miss every time they shoot those ones...]]
* ShoulderCannon: The Army Drones have an autocannon mounted on their shoulder.
* SlidingScaleOfRobotIntelligence: They are straight Bricks, only capable of obeying their programming and not much more.
* SomebodySetUpUsTheBomb: Without anyone knowing it, Ivan Vanko installed a powerful SelfDestructMechanism inside the drones before they were sent to the expo. He ends up activating it near the end of the film, and the ensuing explosions cause a lot of destruction within Stark Expo, but fortunately the protagonists manage to get to safety.
* SpaceMarine: Or rather, robot Marines, in the case of the Marine Drones.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: They ruthlessly hunt down Iron Man and will never stop, ''ever'', until they manage to kill him. Justified, since they are robots and have been programmed to target him.
* StompyMooks: They make quite a lot of noise when they are walking, when they land on the ground, or even [[NoisyRobots when they're just moving]].
* SuicidalOverconfidence: Even though they are quite clearly outmatched, the drones keep attacking Iron Man and War Machine over and over, until all of them are destroyed. To be fair, this is only due to their programming, not because they really believed they could win.
* SuperiorSuccessor: While nowhere near as effective as Tony Stark's armors, the drones are still working ''much'' better than Hammer's previous {{Powered Armor}}s.
* SuperPersistentMissile: The Air Force Drones act like this during the finale, relentlessly following Iron Man all across Stark Expo no matter what's on their way. They don't even let the mere fact of crashing into obstacles (like when one of them bump into an advertising screen) stop them from pursuing him.
* SuperpoweredMooks: Similar to the heroes, the drones have an arc reactor powering them and are equipped with repulsors that allow them to fly, and more importantly with a vast array of weapons that include machine guns, missile launchers and autocannons among others, all of which making them a force to be reckoned with.
* SuperWeight: They are Type 4, just like Iron Man, War Machine, and Whiplash with his second suit.
* SuperWristGadget: All of them have machine guns, missiles and other types of weapons built into their wrists.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Naturally, the Army Drones' autocannons have a lot of recoil, hence why they need to use their foot-mounted anchor spikes in order to stabilize when they shoot with it.
* TakingYouWithMe: Just like Whiplash's second armor, they blow themselves up after their defeat as a last attempt to kill the heroes. Needless to say, it doesn't work. While the ensuing explosions cause lots of collateral damages, the heroes manage to escape in time.
* TankGoodness: Again, the Army Drones have a shoulder-mounted autocannons that they use againt Iron Man.
* ThatPoorCar: During the climactic chase scene, the Air Force Drones (and War Machine) follow Iron Man through a carpark and they set off almost all the cars' alarms.
* ThreePointLanding: Surprisingly, averted. During the climactic battle in the Oracle Dome, they all land in a standing posture. Presumably, having a good dozen {{ThreePointLanding}}s in a row would diminish the drama. Also, as drones, they have higher g-tolerances than humans, and don't need to cushion their landings.
* ThrowTheMookAtThem: It's easy to miss, but shortly before all the drones get destroyed by the Death Blossom laser during the final fight, one of them gets grabbed by Iron Man and then thrown on another drone, destroying both of them.
* TimeBomb: Become this after Vanko activated their SelfDestructMechanism. While no precise time limit is given, it takes them approximately 30 seconds of movie time to blow up, forcing Iron Man to hurry up to go pick Pepper and put her into safety before the explosions kill her.
* TinCanRobot: Downplayed, but their overall appearance looks a bit like this trope.
* TooDumbToLive: Following Iron Man inside the Stark Expo's Unisphere wasn't really a good idea, and led to the destruction of roughly all the Air Force Drones. The other drones don't seem to have a particularly good sense of self-preservation either, as [[SuicidalOverconfidence they keep attacking the heroes, including by trying to fight them hand-to-hand, even when it's obvious they don't stand a chance]]. Justified though, as they are programmed to act this way.
* VictoryByEndurance: It's heavily implied the reason Vanko sent them after Iron Man and War Mar Marchine is to force the heroes to burn most of their energy and ammunition against them (notably Iron Man's one-time use Death Blossom lasers) before he goes fight them himself.
* VillainOverride: They are victims of this during the expo, in which Vanko takes control of all of them to go after Iron Man.
* WalkingArmory: Much like Iron Man's and War Machine's armors, all the drones are equipped with a huge amount of weaponry:
** The Army Drones have machine gun and multigrenade launcher on their wrists, and a autocannon on their shoulder.
** The Navy Drones also have machine gun on their wrist, plus two missile launchers on their shoulders and missiles mounted in a pod on each arm.
** The Air Force Drones have machine guns on their wrist and their back, and two wrist-mounted missile launchers.
** The Marine Drones have machine gun as well as missile launcher on their wrists.
* WalkingTank: The Army Drones. They are basically walking tanks with a humanoid shape.
* WeHaveReserves:
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Due to them being drones, the heroes have absolutely no issues with destroying them in violent ways. Considering they're basically mindless machines, it's hard to blame them.
* WhyAmITicking: As it turns out, Vanko installed a SelfDestructMechanism in every drones and activates it at the end, causing all of them to explode after half a minute of ticking.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: The one that tried to kill the kid certainly didn't hurry to actually fire, which gave Iron Man enough time to show up and blast it into pieces. In addition, when the drones start landing in the Oracle Dome, they wait until all of them have arrived and even allow Iron Man and War Machine to close their helmets before attacking.
* WouldHurtAChild: During the climax, one of the drones tries to kill a child with an Iron Man mask [[note]]apparently a young Peter Parker[[/note]]. In its defense, it genuinely thought he was the real (and very adult) Iron Man.
* WronskiFeint: Most of the Air Force Drones get victims of this tactic during the climactic chase scene, with some of them following Iron Man in a carpark and crashing into pillars, another one colliding with an advertising screen a few moments later (although this one manages to recover pretty quickly), and finally all the remaining ones being destroyed after trying to follow Iron Man in the Stark Expo's Unisphere.
* YouAreNumberSix: As shown on Vanko's computer, each individual drone has a number assigned to it that follows a figure symbolizing its branch from the U.S. Armed Forces and the diminutive of the branch's name:
** The Army Drones are referred as lozenge - ARM - 0101 up to 0108.
** The Navy Drones are referred as barred square - NAV - 0301 up to 0308 (oddly, there are no number 0201 to 0208),
** The Air Force Drones are referred as triangle - AIR - 0301 up to 0308.
** The Marine Drones are referred as star - MAR - 0401 up to 0408.
** Whilpash is referred as a big triangle - HSD - 001.
** War Machine is referred as a green lozenge - VTRB - 0001.
** Iron Man is referred as a white circle - IRM - 0001.
* ZergRush: They are clearly a lot weaker than Iron Man and War Machine, with their only advantage being that they vastly outnumber them. Therefore, they try to use sheer number to overwhelm the two heroes in the final battle. This might have worked if Iron Man didn't have the Death Blossom lasers...
[[/folder]]

!!!Associates

[[folder:French Prison Guard]]
!!''French Prison Guard''

!!!'''Citizenship:''' French
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Karim Saleh
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan2''

A French prison guard who helped Justin Hammer to get Ivan Vanko out of jail.

* BilingualBonus: All of his lines of dialogue are in French.
* CorruptCop: Or prison guard, in his case. Justin Hammer bribes him to break out Ivan Vanko and bring him to him.
* FrenchJerk: He is french, and is a CorruptCop.
* IgnoredExpert: He's aware of Vanko's unpredictable nature and tries to warn Justin Hammer about it, but Hammer dismisses it.
* JailBake: He helps Ivan Vanko to escape from his cell and fake his death by giving him a meal tray with some plastic explosives hidden in place of the potatoes.
* KarmaHoudini: Despite his complicity in Vanko's prison break, which led to the deaths of at least two people, he's never seen receiving any comeuppance.
* NoNameGiven: His actual name is unknown.
* OnlySaneMan: He seems to be the only associate of Justin Hammer who realizes just how dangerous Ivan Vanko really is.
* WardensAreEvil: He's a prison guard, and has no problem with letting a prisoner escape and sacrificing another.
* YoureInsane: Tells Justin Hammer that Vanko is crazy, in the latter's presence.
-->'''French Prison Guard:''' Je te laisse pas avec lui, il est ouf ![[labelnote:Translation]]''"I'm not leaving you alone with him, he's crazy!"''[[/labelnote]]

[[folder:Ivan Vanko / Whiplash]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUOtherSupervillains Other Supervillains]] page.

!!Advanced Idea Mechanics (A.I.M.)

[[folder:In General]]
!!''Advanced Idea Mechanics''
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan3'' | ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings''

A scientific research and development company founded and owned by Aldrich Killian. They are the developers of Extremis, an advanced form of gene therapy that heals and regenerates injuries, deformities, and even psychological damage.

* ActionBomb: The Extremis soldiers can turn themselves into living explosives.
* AdaptationalWimp: The organization responsible for the creation of such powerful beings such as the Super-Adaptoid, MODOK, and the Cosmic Cube are reduced to a more easily defeated terrorist group albeit with a dangerous formula at their disposal, military subjects and the US Vice President as a mole.
* BiotechIsBetter: The Extremis soldiers are able to easily rip apart Tony's armors.
* BlessedWithSuck: Extremis makes you virtually unkillable, but it also seems to make you a violently unstable drug addict and you might explode if you're not careful.
* BodyHorror: Those who take Extremis have their skin basically turn into magma.
* BurningWithAnger: Extremis grants its users fire powers, with Killian being able to actually ''breath'' it.
* TheCameo: An Extremis soldier appears as a fighter in Xialing's fight club.
* CorporateConspiracy: A.I.M. is behind various terrorist attacks falsely attributed to the Ten Rings so Killian can own the War on Terror.
* DemotedToExtra: A.I.M. in the comics is one of Marvel's premiere villain groups. In the MCU they spotlight as major villains for one movie, their role as Iron Man's usual enemy organization being taken by the Ten Rings.
* {{Elite Mook}}s: The Extremis soldiers, more dangerous than the average henchmen.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: They have soldiers of both genders and various races among their ranks.
* FalseFlagOperation: Their ultimate plan, faking attacks by the Ten Rings to gain power within the U.S. government.
* FlawedPrototype: Extremis can grow back limbs, but also turn people into living bombs.
* {{Foil}}: To Tony Stark's Iron Man technology, PoweredArmor of a modular design that can be fitted with a multitude of weapons. Extremis is an organic superhuman enhancement meant to heal injuries with its RequiredSecondaryPowers serving as weapons.
* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: Killian intends to sell Extremis for military purposes.
* HealingFactor: The objective of Extremis is to imbue this onto its subjects up to and including regrowing limbs. Extremis-powered agents invoke this to make themselves superhuman (along with being sentient nuclear reactors).
* HumanWeapon: The purpose of Extremis; subjects are superhumanly strong, fast, resistant to damage, and can generate enough heat to melt steel. Killian is so powerful he can breathe fire. Unfortunately, three out of four people end up losing control of their powers and just explode. Human weapon can also mean human bomb.
* IncendiaryExponent: Extremis, whuch grants its users fire powers.
* MagicPants: The Extremis soldiers' cloths seem to magically stay unburned.
* NoConservationOfEnergy: The Extremis regeneration works even when the body doesn't have any obvious source of mass to replace destroyed tissue, let alone possess the required amount of energy to do so and release such an immense amount of heat that can melt metal. Extremis users are never seen eating piles of food or taking in some kind of fuel to sustain them.
* NotWearingTights: The organization's iconic beekeeper suits are completely absent from their portrayal here.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Killian and, on a lesser scale, Extremis soldiers can do a lot of damage to a town.
* PlayingWithFire: People upgraded with Extremis can generate enough heat to melt metal. One of them can breathe fire.
* PowerGlows: Extremis superpowers cause users to glow red, lighting up their skeleton and internal organs. At lower power levels, it can look like VolcanicVeins.
* PowerIncontinence: ZigZagged. Some Extremis users lose control of their powers due to incompatible genes and/or a willpower deficiency and explode (with their deaths then being explained as Mandarin attacks). Others can control their powers with no such risk.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: One of the effects of Extremis, crossed with GlowingEyesOfDoom.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Extremis is just a tissue-regeneration mechanism whose side effects result in extreme durability and heat generation as requirements for said body-part regeneration. Heat is released by all biological processes (which is the source of living body heat as well as the elevated temperatures of a fever) and the heat that would be released by the body as it is regenerating an entire limb in seconds would be tremendous. Similarly, a body physically capable of generating that kind of heat and withstanding the temperatures would be naturally very durable, which lends the Extremis soldiers their strength and toughness on top of tissue regeneration. So in this case, the RequiredSecondaryPowers become the primary powers of the Extremis troops.
* SociopathicSoldier: All the Extremis goons are former soldiers who lost limbs and more than a few of them are rather psychotic. It's never stated whether it's some kind of long-term side effect of Extremis (Pepper doesn't go nuts), or Killian deliberately sought out this kind of person.
* SuperPowerMeltdown: Some of those exposed to Extremis are at risk of exploding.
* SuperSoldier: The Extremis soldiers.
* SuperStrength: One of the benefits of Extremis.

!!!Leadership

[[folder:Dr. Aldrich Killian / "The Mandarin" (Usurper)]]
!!''Dr. Aldrich Killian''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/akillianprofilepic.png]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"I'll own the War on Terror."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Enhanced human

!!!'''Affiliation(s):''' A.I.M.
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/GuyPearce
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Alfredo Gabriel Basurto (Latin-American Spanish dub), Luis Posada (European Spanish dub), Masato Obara (Japanese dub), Lionel Tua (French dub), Frédéric Paquet (Canadian French dub), Viktor Neumann (German dub), Duda Ribeiro (Brazilian Portuguese dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan3''

->''"As I looked out over that city, nobody knew I was there, nobody could see me, no one was even looking. I had a thought that would guide me for years to come: anonymity, Tony. Thanks to you, it's been my mantra ever since. Right? You simply rule from behind the scenes. Because the second you give evil a face--a [[UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden bin Laden]], a [[UsefulNotes/MuammarGaddafi Gaddafi]], a Mandarin--you hand the people a target."''

The founder and CEO of A.I.M., who steals the name of the Ten Rings' legendary leader for his own selfish and shortsighted ends. Seeking revenge against Tony Stark after being stood up by him, Killian crafts an elaborate plan of revenge against Stark that will bring the United States into an international conflict and make A.I.M. the most sought-after company in the defense industry.

* NinetyPercentOfYourBrain: Downplayed, but still there. When showing off the "live feed" of his brain, he makes a point to show off a small chunk of his brain that doesn't seem to be used very much. At least, not while he isn't using any Extremis powers.
* AdaptationOriginConnection: A vengeful scientist that Tony was a massive dick to in the past. Lampshaded when Tony points out that one of the major themes of the movie is how we all create our own demons.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: He's way better looking here than he is in the comics.
* AdaptationalBadass: Never had powers in the comics.
* AdaptationalVillainy: In the comics, Aldrich Killian felt guilty about creating Extremis and killed himself at the start of the story. In the movie, he is instead the very much alive founder of the villainous A.I.M. organization and impersonating the MCU version of the Mandarin.
* AnimalMotifs: Dragons. He has them tattooed on his chest and he can breathe fire like one.
* AscendedExtra: Aldrich Killian was a minor character written out within the first few pages of the "Extremis" arc in the comics. The ''Iron Man 3'' version is the main antagonist.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The leader of A.I.M., and the only Extremis SuperSoldier who fights Tony to a stand-still in the FinalBattle.
* AxCrazy: Only when his blood is really up. Normally, he's rather friendly and calm.
* BadassBoast: Near the end of the film, Killian gives us this (albeit he's lying):
--> "No more false faces. You said you wanted 'The Mandarin'...you're looking right at him. It was always me, Tony, right from the start. '''I AM THE MANDARIN!'''"
* BadassBookworm: He was always a brilliant scientist, but he also became an outstanding martial artist after embarking on his quest. He also has super-strength from Extremis.
* BadassInANiceSuit: After his rise to power, Killian takes to wearing business suits.
* BeardOfEvil: Had one during the early stages of Extremis trials, as video evidence shows.
* BeneathTheMask: Killian managed to rebuild himself, both physically and psychologically, into a good-looking, wealthy, confident ubermensch. In the scene where he admits [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty Pepper is imprisoned as his trophy]], the mask slips, and we briefly see the nervous, weak StalkerWithACrush he's always been.
* BigBadDuumvirate: Subverted. At the beginning of the third film, it's not clear how much he is working with the Mandarin, but they clearly both have the same general "destroy Tony Stark" goal. In reality, while the Mandarin does exist (as revealed in ''All Hail the King''), the one we see here is a fake, and Killian is behind the whole thing, using the fake Mandarin to cover up his illegal experiments.
* BigNo: Twice. First, when Tony Stark seals him in the Mark 42 armor to blow him up. Second, his last words as Pepper sends one of Tony's missiles at him.
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: Played with. He ''does'' call himself the Mandarin, but he's an impostor, and only one of three people known to use the name. He's much closer to Mallen, but never uses that name.
* CompositeCharacter:
** He invents Extremis like comics Aldrich Killian, but also has the fiery powers of Mallen (the villain of the "Extremis" storyline), and the dragon tattoos, martial arts skills, and SocialDarwinist mindset of the Mandarin's modern comic book incarnations.
** His blonde hair and elitist attitude also bear many similarities to Edwin Cord, Simon Krieger, and [[ComicBook/TheUltimates Gregory Stark]]. In the earliest drafts of the movie, he was actually meant to ''be'' Krieger (with Edwin Cord assisting him much like Vice President Rodriguez does in the final film), but his name was ultimately changed to Aldrich Killian.
** A few aspects of his character come from M.O.D.O.K., head of A.I.M. in the comics. Fittingly, in [[VideoGame/IronMan3TheOfficialGame the non-canon video game sequel]], he becomes M.O.D.O.K. after his "death" in the film.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Unlike Stane and Vanko who relied on advanced suits of armor to kill Tony Stark in the previous ''Iron Man'' films, Killian utilized the Extremis virus that granted him superhuman powers.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: What with being the founder of A.I.M. (terrorist sponsor!) and all.
* CreateYourOwnVillain: It's Tony Stark's petty joke back in 1999 that sets Killian on his StartOfDarkness.
* DiabolicalMastermind: The true mastermind of the film, leading the criminal organization A.I.M. in drumming up fake terrorist attacks.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: He is killed by an Extremis-afflicted Pepper Potts, while in the comics, Killian's death is a suicide.
* DisproportionateRetribution: His whole vendetta is because Stark blew him off once thirteen years ago. His real crime spree is more of a combined cover-up for the failures of A.I.M.'s Extremis technology and scam/racket to create demand for the super-soldiers A.I.M. can supply. Tony's decision to investigate and openly oppose him brings him even more directly into the line of fire.
* TheDogBitesBack: It's not Tony who finishes him off. It's ''Pepper'', whom he kidnapped and injected with Extremis.
* EvilCounterpart: Killian is a brilliant and arrogant weapon designer like Tony Stark, who is attracted to Pepper and has experimented on his own body. However, he uses his creations for evil instead of atoning for past mistakes. Also, in contrast, Killian was insecure and fragile, whereas Tony was just a jerk and so full of himself that he didn't notice his glaring problems.
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: He's obviously trying to be the kind of villain who has a horribly and memorably sadistic sense of humor. The problem is that his jokes are [[StylisticSuck dull and labored]], even given their sadism.
* EvilIsBurningHot: Can generate temperatures of up to 3000 degrees with his skin (see TouchOfDeath below) and in one scene [[BreathWeapon he breathes fire]].
* EvilIsPetty: Goes to extreme lengths to spite Tony just because the guy was a jerk to him back on New Year's Eve of 1999.
* EvilMakeover: Became ''much'' more sharp-dressed after his StartOfDarkness.
* EvilPlan: The payoff of his plotting in ''Iron Man 3'' is to monopolize the War on Terror by supplying both terrorists and the military that hunts them. On a personal level, he wants Pepper to be his trophy and Tony to suffer.
* {{Expy}}: His status as a character who steals the mantle of the Mandarin makes him one of Xin Zhang from ''WesternAnimation/IronManArmoredAdventures''.
* FanservicePack: Thanks to the Extremis, he's gotten buff.
* FauxAffablyEvil: His initial charming demeanor only makes his true spiteful insanity all the more disturbing.
* {{Foil}}: Tony is incredibly smooth, born into wealth, and has a heart of gold. Killian used to be a loser, had to work his way up to the top, and is a sociopath.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Goes from being a nerd to a CorruptCorporateExecutive who's the head of A.I.M., and it turns out that this trope is the MO of his plan -- to everyone besides the audience and Tony, he's still just a nobody.
* GeniusCripple: Before he co-created Extremis, he needed a cane to walk.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Averted with regards to the ''Iron Man'' trilogy. Co-writer Drew Pearce revealed that Killian's line "It was me, from the very start." just refers to his being the mastermind of the Extremis scheme. He was never the real Mandarin -- he stole the name from the Ten Rings.
* GreenEyedMonster: His hatred for Tony comes from his jealousy over Stark's successes.
* HealingFactor: The main power given to him by Extremis. It's powerful enough that he can regrow limbs in seconds and can even recover, albeit severely weakened, from being caught in an explosion.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: His development of Extremis backfires big time when Pepper offs him for good.
* IHaveYourWife: He kidnaps Tony's girlfriend Pepper, and the President so that the heroes will stay out of the way.
* KarmicDeath: He is killed by Pepper, who was given Extremis powers because of him.
* KickTheDog: He murders Maya, his chief Extremis researcher, for no reason other than to pile more misery on Tony.
* LightningBruiser: Is this due to Extremis. During the final battle, he's able to keep up with an armored-up Tony in hand-to-hand combat (and at one point, dodge a rapid-fire barrage of repulsor blasts from Shotgun, Tony's fastest armor, with ease), and strong enough to easily rip Tony's armors apart with nothing but his red-hot hands.
* LoonyFan: He was Tony's big fan back in 1999, but Tony saw him as a nuisance. He wasn't actually loony, but Tony, being a jerk at the time, just blew him off.
* TheManBehindTheMan: He's been preparing for this role for years, ever since Tony snubbed him. His ego means it's pretty clear from the start that he's behind some of the things happening to Tony. In fact, he's the real BigBad behind all of the things that happen to Tony in ''Iron Man 3'', and assumes the mantle of the Mandarin at the climax (though he's actually not the real one). The apparent Mandarin is just an actor he hired.
* MeaningfulName: A Mandarin was the name for an ancient Chinese "advisor to the King". As "the power behind the throne", this makes the name sort of fitting for Killian, even though he turns out in ''All Hail the King'' to have merely stolen it from the ''real'' Mandarin. He was likely aware of the meaning behind the name and decided that it suited him well.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: His last name sounds like "Kill" + "Villain" and his first name sounds like "Eldrich".
* NightmareFace: After surviving getting blown up by the Mark 42 armor, his face is horribly burnt with GlowingEyesOfDoom and ThroatLight.
* PlayingWithFire: Killian is the closest thing to a fire-elemental supervillain in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse thus far, which is especially notable given that past ''Film/IronMan'' villains tended to have no superpowers and instead used PoweredArmor, [[EvilCounterpart much like Tony]].
* PsychopathicManchild: When you think about it, Killian dragging the entire world into his petty vendetta against Tony resembles a kid setting someone's house on fire for stealing his favorite toy.
* RaceLift: He's a Caucasian man based on modern incarnations of the Mandarin, who's half-Chinese and half-white, although ''All Hail the King'' reveals that he himself was never actually the Mandarin.
* RevengeBeforeReason: He targets Tony Stark in retaliation for Stark's scorning of him and his projects in 1999, even though it's to the detriment of his main plans.
* SharpDressedMan: After his StartOfDarkness, he starts wearing business suits.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Pepper didn't recognize him at first; he says he spent five years with a personal trainer. Except that he actually gave himself a SuperSerum makeover with Extremis.
* ShrinkingViolet: Originally, he was a shy and socially awkward guy.
* TheSociopath: The only clear-cut one in the ''Iron Man'' series. Charming, in a superficial, FauxAffablyEvil way. Manipulative, lack of morals or empathy (just look what he did to poor Maya). Grandiose sense of self-worth? The guy was trying to own the War on Terror and in a sense [[AGodAmI thought himself a god]]. Poor impulse control? He had that largely under control until Tony kinda blew him up -- then again, poor Maya.
* SuddenlyShouting: During his last words: '''"I AM THE MANDARIN!!!"''' Though he's really not.
* SuperPrototype: He uses one against Tony. Specifically, himself. The A.I.M. videos Tony watches imply Killian was the first human test subject of Extremis. Later, Killian is the only one who manages to take Iron Man one-on-one.
* TattooedCrook: He has a set of dragon tattoos on his chest.
* ThrowingOffTheDisability: He doesn't need his cane to walk in the present day, thanks to over a decade of physical therapy and/or his Extremis upgrades.
* TookALevelInBadass: Went from a meek cripple to an [[TheUnfettered unfettered]] VisionaryVillain and a fire-breathing OneManArmy.
* TwoDecadesBehind: In 1999, he has [[TheSeventies hippie-esque long hair and John Lennon glasses]]. In 2013, he wears a plaid suit and [[TheNineties slicked-back shoulder-length hair]].
* TheUsurper: He steals the identity of the Mandarin for himself and conducts terrorist attacks under the mantle of the Ten Rings. Needless to say, the real Mandarin is ''not'' happy about this.
* VillainousBreakdown: Goes from a calm ManipulativeBastard to a raging madman who screams, '''[[BlasphemousBoast "I AM THE MANDARIN!!!"]]'''
* VillainousCrush: Has a thing for Pepper, who previously shunned him but now finds him charming.
* VisionaryVillain: Claims he wants to use the dangerous Extremis virus to change science, medicine, and war as we know them.
-->'''Tony:''' You're a maniac...\\
'''Killian:''' No. I'm a visionary. But I do own a maniac, and he takes the stage tonight.
* WarForFunAndProfit: What he's trying to accomplish by offloading his deeds onto a fake terrorist. He seeks to insert himself [[PlayingBothSides between the two conflicting sides]] and profit from the gains he can create via manipulation.
* WickedPretentious: He tries to play the part of a worldly, urbane businessman, but it's undermined by his tacky clothes and tattoos, his failure to understand Slattery's Shakespearean background, his general PsychopathicManchild tendencies coming out when challenged, and most importantly, his bastardized depiction of the Mandarin.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Downplayed considering the petty, sociopathic asshole we see in the film, but he has shades of this, especially during the flashback to 1999, where he was shown as a WideEyedIdealist who wanted to use his genius to aid the world, but his nervous, awkward demeanour and crippled physique made most people blow him off as a loser or a nuisance. It's not hard to imagine how difficult his life was up to that point and it's heavily implied to have fed into his StartOfDarkness. He even recalls to Tony that after [[DespairEventHorizon he realized he was never going to meet him on the rooftop,]] he was seriously contemplating committing suicide then and there.
--> '''Killian:''' If you think back to Switzerland, you said [[BlatantLies you'd meet me on the rooftop]] right? Well, for the first 20 minutes, I really thought you'd show up. And for the next hour... [[DrivenToSuicide I considered taking that one-step shortcut to the lobby.]]
* WouldHitAGirl: He doesn't hesitate to murder Maya when she's about to perform a HeelFaceTurn. He also tries to kill Pepper, despite his feelings for her, when she breaks free from his control. Unfortunately for him, he's too slow.

!!!Scientists

[[folder:Dr. Maya Hansen]]
!!''Dr. Maya Hansen''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/maya_hansen_im3_3628.png]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"Look, if we want to launch product next year, I need Stark!"'']]

!!!'''Affiliation(s):''' MIT, A.I.M.
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/RebeccaHall
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Graciela Gámez (Latin-American Spanish dub), Esther Solans (European Spanish dub), Kanako Tojo (Japanese dub), Marie Zidi (French dub), Pascale Montreuil (Canadian French dub), Manja Doering (German dub), Maíra Góes (Brazilian Portuguese dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan3''

->''"See, we all begin wide-eyed. Pure science. And then the ego steps in, the obsession. And you look up... you're a long way from shore."''

A scientist Tony Stark met (and slept with) in 1999. Her genetic research with plants helped create Extremis.

* AntiVillain: She worked with Killian in the hopes that she could create a stable version of Extremis to be used for medical purposes.
* BrainyBrunette: She helped create Extremis, after all.
* DeadpanSnarker: A bit.
-->'''Tony:''' Please don't tell me there's a twelve-year-old kid wating in the car that I've never met.\\
'''Maya:''' He's thirteen.
* DeathByAdaptation: She survived in the original "Extremis" storyline from the comics. Here, Killian murders her when she gets rebellious. She did, however, die in the comics too in a later storyline.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: She is killed by Aldrich Killian's Extremis, but in the comics, she's killed by an unnamed A.I.M. goon afflicted with Extremis.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Once she sees how far Killian is going regarding Tony and Pepper, [[HighHeelFaceTurn she threatens to kill herself if Killian doesn't free them]]. Unfortunately, [[RedemptionEqualsDeath Killian opts to just shoot her]].
* EvilGenius: No matter what Killian says, she's the actual brains behind Extremis. She's willing to go along with his EvilPlan for the most part, barring her brief EvenEvilHasStandards moment.
* FaceHeelTurn: She helped develop Extremis and stayed to work out the kinks, but she seemed to be okay with the whole "fake terrorism" scheme.
* GreenThumb: Downplayed. She's no ComicBook/PoisonIvy, but her plants do demonstrate unusual powers, such as healing, exploding, and feelings that include disliking being touched.
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: After learning that Killian injected Pepper with the Extremis, [[HighHeelFaceTurn Maya starts to have a change of heart and tries to free Tony]]. Unfortunately, Killian puts a bullet in her in response.
* NerdsAreSexy: Otherwise Tony wouldn't be interested in her research, [[NotStayingForBreakfast even leaving her some notes while escaping]].
* NotThatKindOfDoctor: While she is a scientist, Maya is referred to as a botanist, due to her work being using plants to experiment on. She doesn't mind the term being used, mainly because her actual job is quite a mouthful: a biological DNA coder running a team of 40 out of a privately funded think-tank.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Maya never says her age, but unless she is supposed to be a TeenGenius in the 1999 flashback, she has to be [[VagueAge at least five to six years older]] than Creator/RebeccaHall (Hall was born in May of 1982, and would have been 17 at the time of the 1999 flashback scene; and was 30 years old at the time of filming for the movie).
* ProfessorGuineaPig: Averted. She never injected herself with Extremis, as shown when she suffers a cut on her forehead and it doesn't heal immediately, as Extremis gives its carriers a HealingFactor. She might have saved herself if she did.
* StopOrIShootMyself: When she makes her HeelFaceTurn, she threatens to inject herself with a fatal overdose of Extremis unless Killian lets Tony and Pepper go. Unfortunately, Maya had already reached the limits of her own ability to improve Extremis and needed Tony to make any more progress. Killian was aware of this, and since he now already had Tony as his prisoner, he just shoots Maya himself.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: She holds out hope to be able to create a stable version of Extremis for medical purposes.
* WorkingWithTheEx: What her reunion with Tony in the present is for, although she was only a one-night-stand, to begin with. By the time they meet again, he's in a committed relationship.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Why her StopOrIShootMyself moment fails, although Killian probably would've let her live if she hadn't made herself a liability by making a HeelFaceTurn just then.

!!!Operatives and Test Subjects

[[folder:Eric Savin]]
!!''Eric Savin''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/savin_eric_0.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"You should've pressed the panic button."'']]
[[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see him impersonating Iron Patriot]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/iron_patriot_im3_2512.png[[/labelnote]]]]
!!!'''Species:''' Enhanced human

!!!'''Affiliation(s):''' US Army, A.I.M.
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JamesBadgeDale
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Carlo Vázquez (Latin-American Spanish dub), Toni Mora (European Spanish dub), Takuya Kirimoto (Japanese dub), Jean-Baptiste Marcenac (French dub), Louis-Philippe Dandenault (Canadian French dub), Léo Rabelo (Brazilian Portuguese dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan3''

An Extremis-powered henchman working for Aldrich Killian.

* AdaptationalVillainy: In the comics, he's the cybernetic AntiHero known as Coldblood. Here, he's Killian's second-in-command and enforcer.
* BaldOfEvil: Notably, he's one of the only bald characters in ''Iron Man 3'', and sadistically cruel.
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: He doesn't go by the Coldblood alias like in the comics. However, he poses as the Iron Patriot.
* CompositeCharacter: While based on Coldblood, he is given physical traits and powers akin to Mallen just like Killian was.
* CharacterTics: Often chewing gum when wreaking havoc.
* TheDragon: Serves as the villainous Killian's right-hand man.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: An ex-soldier turned Extremis supersoldier. Then he wears the Iron Patriot armor on top of it all.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Savin could be engaging in brutal combat while joking around, as such in the case when he asked Harley what he wanted for Christmas while holding him hostage, ready to kill him.
* HealingFactor: Courtesy of Extremis. Doesn't save him when Tony blasts his midsection with a Unibeam.
* OralFixation: Gum. He's almost always chewing it unless he needs to speak.
* SlasherSmile: He quite clearly enjoys fighting.
* SlouchOfVillainy: Seated in the Stark Industries building, he has one leg dangling over one armrest and his head leaning on the other.
* SmugSnake: He's quite arrogant, to say the least.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: When using his Extremis powers.
* TorsoWithAView: Tony inflicts this on him via ChestBlaster.
* TouchOfDeath: His Extremis powers let him generate temperatures in excess of 3000 degrees Celsius from his skin, allowing him to destroy anything he touches.
* WouldHurtAChild: Casually takes Harley hostage to get something from Tony.

[[folder:Ellen Brandt]]
!!''Ellen Brandt''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"That's all you got? A cheap trick and a cheesy one-liner?"'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Enhanced human

!!!'''Affiliation(s):''' US Army, A.I.M.
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/StephanieSzostak
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Gwendolyne Flores (Latin-American Spanish dub), Mar Nicolás (European Spanish dub), Miki Yamazaki (Japanese dub), Audrey Sablé (French dub), Catherine Hamann (Canadian French dub), Gabriella Bicalho (Brazilian Portuguese dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan3''

A war veteran who becomes an assassin after her exposure to Extremis.

* AxCrazy: She doesn't even bother to hide the fact that killing people is a ton of shits and giggles for her.
* BloodKnight: She refers to "the smart way" and "the fun way." Her "fun way" is gruesomely murdering anyone who prevents her from capturing Tony.
* BlownAcrossTheRoom: Is sent flying into a power line after Tony causes an explosion by microwaving a pair of dog tags in a room with an open gas valve.
* ChekhovsGunman: Tony accidentally walks into her five minutes before they meet again to deal each other more injuries.
* DarkActionGirl: She's quite efficient when it comes to hand-to-hand combat.
* DeadpanSnarker: She lampshades Tony's own snark with more snark.
-->'''Ellen Brandt:''' That's all you got? A cheap trick and a cheesy one-liner?\\
'''Tony Stark:''' Sweetheart, that could be the name of my autobiography!
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: An ex-soldier turned Extremis supersoldier.
* EvilRedhead: Her hair's scarlet, and she's definitely got the evil part down. [[FieryRedhead "Fiery" could be a more accurate word.]]
* GoodScarsEvilScars: If you look closely enough at the above image, you can see a scar on the side of her mouth.
* MythologyGag: The scars are probably a reference to her face in the comics having been burned off by Comicbook/ManThing.
* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: She tries to impersonate Homeland Security after "arresting" Tony. Once the local sheriff doubts her, she decides to screw it and show her true colors.
* NightmareFace: After she walks through a fire started by Tony, especially since she took far more damage than her boss. [[https://www.turboimagehost.com/p/59187406/7556682.jpg.html Sweet]] [[https://www.turboimagehost.com/p/59187408/EGZWVw.gif.html dreams]].
* OffScreenTeleportation: Somehow manages to move from several feet outside the coffee shop to right next to Tony, who was behind the counter inside the shop, in seconds.
* OhCrap: It takes a minute for her to realize what Tony's planning before she and the building go boom.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: When using her Extremis powers.
* ScarsAreForever: The scars on her face are still there despite Extremis giving her a HealingFactor powerful enough to regrow her lost hand. [[NightmareFetishist Maybe she wanted to keep them around.]]
* {{Sadist}}: Takes a moment to burn the sheriff's face before killing him.
* SuperStrength: [[TorsoWithAView Punches a hole in the Rose Hill sheriff's body]] when he gets in her way
* TouchOfDeath: Her Extremis powers let her generate temperatures in excess of 3000 degrees Celsius from her skin, allowing her to destroy anything she touches.

[[folder:Jack Taggart]]
!!''Jack Taggart''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Yes, I can regulate."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Enhanced human

!!!'''Affiliation(s):''' US Army, A.I.M.
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/AshleyHamilton
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan3''

A U.S. Army veteran who becomes addicted to Extremis.

* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: He doesn't go by Firepower, his alias in the comics.
* RaceLift: In the comics, Jack Taggart is African American. In the MCU, he's caucasian.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: His Extremis powers flare when angered or alert.
* SuperPowerMeltdown: Consumes several doses of Extremis at the same time, causing him to explode and die in the process.
* TouchOfDeath: His Extremis powers let him generate temperatures in excess of 3000 degrees Celsius from his skin, allowing him to destroy anything he touches.

[[folder:Unnamed sweat shop agent]]
!!''Unnamed sweat shop agent''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Savin, I've acquired the Iron Patriot armor."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Enhanced human

!!!'''Affiliation(s):''' A.I.M.
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/RebeccaMader
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan3''

An A.I.M. agent.

* DisguisedHostageGambit: Invoked. She poses as a worker at a sweat shop in Pakistan to capture Rhodey Rhodes and get the Iron Patriot armor.
* EvilRedhead: She has red hair and had no problem murdering Rhodey Rhodes to get the Iron Patriot armor.
* NoNameGiven: She goes unnamed and is credited only as "Sweat Shop Agent".
* RedEyesTakeWarning: When she activates her Extremis powers, her eyes flare orange red.
* TouchOfDeath: Her Extremis powers let her generate temperatures in excess of 3000 degrees Celsius from her skin, allowing her to destroy anything she touches.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Her whereabouts after acquring the Iron Patriot armor for A.I.M. are unknown. She's never seen afterward.

!!!Collaborators

[[folder:Trevor Slattery / "The Mandarin" (Usurper)]]
!!''Trevor Slattery / "The Mandarin"''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/stmb_specialod_4825x72_trevor_slattery_v4_sm.png]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"Don't hurt the face, I'm an actor!"'']]
[[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see him as the Mandarin]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mandarin_poster.png ''"Some people call me a terrorist. I consider myself a teacher. America, ready for another lesson?"''[[/labelnote]]]]

!!!'''Citizenship:''' British, Ta Loan
!!!'''Affiliation(s):''' A.I.M. (formerly), Ta Lo
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/BenKingsley
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/PacoMauri (Latin-American Spanish dub), Mario Gas (European Spanish dub), Creator/{{Mugihito}} (Japanese dub), Féodor Atkine (French dub), Vincent Davy (Canadian French dub), Sérgio Fortuna (Brazilian Portuguese dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan3'' | ''Film/AllHailTheKing'' | ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings'' | ''Series/WonderMan''

A washed-up British actor whom Aldrich Killian hires to impersonate the mysterious leader of the international terrorist organization known as the Ten Rings. In his persona as the Mandarin, after years of plotting in the shadows, he seems to come after Tony personally in ''Film/IronMan3''.

* ActingInTheDark: In-universe, he wasn't told the full details of Killian's plot. From what he tells Tony, while the latter is holding him at gunpoint, he was simply a struggling actor in need of a breakthrough role, and he was given a range of luxuries, including various drugs, to keep him ignorant of the true situation. Until Tony explains that the attacks were real, Trevor simply believes that he's on a film set.
-->'''Trevor:''' The producer told me he worked for the BBC but, ironic twist, it turns out he in fact ''was'' a terrorist, and I wasn't playing a character at all.
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: [[Characters/MCUTheMandarin The true Mandarin]] originally wanted to kill him for such a ridiculous impersonation, but after capturing him, realized that an insane British thespian impersonator was really more ridiculous than insulting, and kept him as a sort of Court Jester.
* AddledAddict: His acting career, such as it was, got derailed by his drug and alcohol problems which led to him falling into working for Killian. He eventually got clean while in prison, although he's still a massive CloudCuckoolander.
* AdaptationalMundanity: In the comic, the Mandarin's rings are alien weapons that give him various superpowers. In the movie, they're just regular rings that serve no purpose except to look cool. Although it is a bit justified since Trevor Slattery is not the real Mandarin and he is just an actor, and the ten rings that he wears are fake and only part of his acting, and also the true ten rings of the Mandarin appear in ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings''.
* AdaptationalWimp: He's missing his magic rings from the comics, and overall comes across as a NonActionGuy. This is because he's just a figurehead set up by Killian, and Trevor is a coked-up narcoleptic drunken actor. From what we hear in ''All Hail The King'', the ''real'' Mandarin was insulted by how useless this guy was as an impostor, although ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings'' reveals that he was still impressed at the effect he had on the States.
* AffablyEvil: Trevor turns out to be pretty friendly, if kooky as hell and more than a tad amoral.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: In-universe, no one is quite sure about his ethnicity, since his name, tactics, clothes, and accent all come from markedly different cultures. Justified; he's deliberately designed to be the embodiment of what Americans consider an evil anti-American terrorist. While this trope still applies even after TheReveal, due to Kingsley's mixed heritage, one can say that the false Mandarin's mishmash of various cultural motifs was meant to play on this trope.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Befitting his immature personality, Trevor has a really short attention span. He falls asleep all the time and promptly interrupts his own reveal of A.I.M.'s plot to Tony and Rhodey to cheer on the soccer game he's watching on TV.
* AttentionWhore: As should be expected of someone who appears on TV to threaten an entire country. He can be seen waving to his "fans" even as he's taken away by the police at the end.
* BaitAndSwitchBoss: All the buildup to fighting Killian is thrown out the window when Tony breaks into the Mandarin's hideout, skipping the middleman and going straight for the top. However, it's revealed "the Mandarin" is just an actor playing a fictional terrorist to keep the good guys distracted. Killian ''is'' the real DiabolicalMastermind and BigBad.
* BeardOfEvil: Has one very much styled like Colonel Gaddafi or Osama bin Laden. It also doesn't look like it's been well maintained, which makes even more sense once you find out that he's just a drug-addicted actor working for Aldrich Killian, and Slattery generally doesn't look after his health as well as he should.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: He invokes this early on with his "WhatIsEvil" moment. It somewhat applies when he's out of character, as the only things that really matter to him are his acting, drugs, and women. It barely seems to occur to him that he's doing something wrong.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: He can be silly when he's not being threatening. This is because he's an actor, but he's talented enough that Aldrich Killian is willing to overlook that. [[spoiler:In ''Shang-Chi'', he's still a somewhat scatterbrained loon, but is able to understand [[TheUnintelligible Morris]] and successfully guide the heroes to Ta Lo]].
* TheBusCameBack: Reappears in ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings'', nearly eight real-world years (and at least ten in-universe, as ''Shang-Chi'' takes place post-[[Film/AvengersEndgame Blip]]) since ''All Hail the King''. [[spoiler:Surprisingly, he's still alive, and even helps guide Shang-Chi and company to Ta Lo.]]
* CanonForeigner: Trevor Slattery doesn't exist in the main Marvel comics universe. Even before he was revealed as a fake, how this Mandarin related to the comics Mandarin was up for debate. He ''seemed'' like he should be considered the same character, but his blurrier origin story made it questionable at best.
* CatchPhrase: Tends to exclaim, "Bloody hell!" when he gets surprised, which is something that "the Mandarin", as he's presented, would ''never'' say.
* ClassicallyTrainedExtra: Referenced by him in his speech to Tony. It's explained later that Trevor was quite a respected Shakespearean actor back in England. As Killian says, "His Lear was the toast of Croydon, [[PopCulturalOsmosisFailure whatever that means]]." This was presumably before drug addictions made him nigh-impossible to handle. More likely this is a case of SmallNameBigEgo, since whilst Croydon, a large town in South London, ''does'' have a theatre scene, it would be [[StealthInsult considered much lower in terms of prestige]] than playing King Lear onstage in Stratford or even London's own West End; compare the difference between On and Off-Broadway.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Outside of the Mandarin persona, he's a drug-addicted loon. [[spoiler:Several years later, he's gotten clean thanks to his time in prison, but is still a bit of a weirdo when Shang-Chi, Xialing, and Katy meet him. In particular, he genuinely believes that the ape characters in ''Film/{{Planet of the Apes|1968}}'' were portrayed by real apes, and he's relieved when others confirm to him that Morris (a faceless furball with wings that speaks in cute chirping sounds) [[NotSoImaginaryFriend is, in fact, real]].]]
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When he was a child his mother told him that what happened on ''Film/{{Planet of the Apes|1968}}'' was not real, but acted, what Trevor understood is that apes were actors.
* CoolShades: In some of his videos, he wears sunglasses that make him look like an eccentric warlord in the vein of Muammar Gaddafi. The poster of him reclining with them on looks a lot more hilarious after TheReveal, at which point it just looks like Trevor had too much fun the night before and was still a bit high or drunk when he came in to pose for the photo.
* CourtJester: [[spoiler:The real Mandarin spares his life because he found him funny. After hearing this, Shang-Chi compares him to a jester.]]
* DecompositeCharacter: Trevor's "Mandarin" design is taken from the comics, where he wears mostly green and has ten rings on his fingers. The real Mandarin wears more utilitarian clothes and the real Ten Rings are a set of heavy metal bracers that line his forearms.
* DecoyLeader: Despite pretending to be the Mandarin, he's nothing more than a patsy Killian created to distract everyone from himself.
* DiabolicalMastermind: The self-styled leader of the terrorist organization known as the Ten Rings -- [[RedHerring except he's not.]] There ''is'' a Mandarin who is the head of the Ten Rings, and he's not happy that Trevor stole his identity.
* DirtyOldMan: He enjoys hiring prostitutes. He [[DisposableSexWorker offers them]] to Tony in a desperate attempt to save his own ass.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Played up as the mastermind behind events, but actually a total patsy who barely qualifies as a villain. The true mastermind is Aldrich Killian.
* DisneyDeath: During the final battle in ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings'', [[spoiler:Trevor appears to have been killed, with his companion Morris beginning to mourn, only for Trevor to briefly wake up and reveal that he's playing dead. He then tells Morris to do the same.]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Any of his broadcasts could count, but his "I consider myself a teacher" is the big one; however, that's just a role he plays. Trevor's real moment is when he rushes out of the bathroom, giggling like a kid, and tries to impress his prostitutes with the trivia about how fortune cookies aren't Chinese.
* EvilBrit: While he's really more amoral than evil, Trevor ''is'' a British actor who sports a Scouse accent and uses colloquialisms when not acting as the Mandarin.
* EvilSoundsDeep: He sports a deep, booming, gravelly voice. It's just the voice Trevor uses as the false Mandarin; in reality, he has a stereotypical "crazy old man" voice with a Scouse accent.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Despite how politely he may speak, he still engineers terrorist attacks, plane crashes, and the burning of Tony's home to the ground -- or so it seems. All of the aforementioned weren't his idea, and he turns out to be more AffablyEvil.
* GeniusDitz: This appears to be his real personality. Despite being a washed-up substance-abusing mess, Trevor is a skilled enough actor to at least play the role of a DiabolicalMastermind convincingly.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Subverted. The Mandarin is the leader of the Ten Rings, who are antagonists in the first ''Film/IronMan1'' movie, but he doesn't get mentioned by name, let alone seemingly confront Tony, until the third movie. However, Trevor Slattery is not the Mandarin, leaving the real one still in the shadows.
* HiddenDepths: There's a lot more to him than is visible at first glance. Or a lot ''less'', depending on your point of view. Regardless of his copious flaws, he certainly is an ''astonishing'' actor.
* HookersAndBlow: He tries to tempt Tony this way; it makes sense, as Killian tempted Trevor himself with drugs and prostitutes.
* InTheHood: Wears an ornate hooded coat when he's in-character as the Mandarin.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Zigzagged. On the one hand, he was imprisoned for his complicity in Killian's plot and being the face for a new terrorist group. Both Tony and Rhodey scared the bejeebers out of him, and his prostitutes. He also received international attention for it because people ate up his performance and complimented it. Then a journalist who comes to interview him is revealed to be a DoubleAgent for the ''real'' Mandarin. Norris says the boss is not pleased about the impersonation. Said agent proceeds to hold him at gunpoint and kidnap Trevor, where he is then brought before Xu Wenwu and nearly executed.
* KnightTemplar: His Mandarin persona oozes this mindset: "Some people call me a terrorist. I consider myself a teacher."
* LargeHam: Creator/BenKingsley at his best and Killian lampshades it. A JustifiedTrope, since he's a stage actor in-universe. [[spoiler:It's even a plot point in ''Shang-Chi'': when he was about to be executed by the actual Mandarin and the Ten Rings, Trevor started doing a hammy performance of ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'', and everyone loved it so much they decided to just keep him prisoner, doing regular shows for their entertainment.]]
-->'''Trevor:''' ''[as the Mandarin] You'lll neverrr seee meeeee cominggggg.''
* MasterActor: He's an ''incredibly'' talented actor when he wants to be. This is why he was chosen to play the role of the Mandarin persona in the first place, as the propaganda he spews legitimately terrifies Tony Stark and the U.S. government. [[spoiler:Even after being imprisoned by Xu Wenwu for several years in ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings'' hasn't dulled his edge, as he successfully manages to play dead and fool Morris into believing he didn't make it until he clarifies it for him.]]
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: In-universe example. Outside of the Mandarin persona, he's harmless and fairly friendly. {{Subverted}} in the short ''All Hail The King'', where it's revealed that he missed his own mother's funeral because he was waiting for his "big break" in America, cheerily admits to being a pathological liar, acts completely self-absorbed, and overall comes across as an amoral idiot. [[spoiler:However, by ''Shang-Chi'', it seems he TookALevelInKindness]].
* MouthOfSauron: He's a mouthpiece for Killian, who writes his scripts to help inflame the US State Department's [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror war on terror]] fears.
* NeverTrustATrailer: The Mandarin gets ''many'' lines in trailers and ads that are never said during the actual film. This is most likely to hide his true nature ''even further'', and implies that the Mandarin footage that we saw in the trailer is just BRoll footage that Killian has filmed for the video packages he then broadcasts on the air. Oh, and by the way, have you seen his EvilOverlooker status for the movie's poster in the main page of ''Film/IronMan3''? It's also to make you believe he is the BigBad.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: He has the name of an imperial Chinese official, a samurai-style haircut, a Middle Eastern-looking beard, brown skin, wears East Asian clothing, wields modern weapons, and talks like a Baptist preacher. Apparently, his tactics are a mishmash of Chinese Art of War, South American guerillas, and Middle-Eastern terrorism, essentially being a hybrid of all of America's enemies in modern history. This is because, as an actor, he's taking cues from various movies. (the ''Iron Man 3'' writers even noted the character's nature as a mishmash of threatening foreign archetypes created by a think tank)
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed:
** [[UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden A Middle Eastern anti-American terrorist who was formerly under the US's employ, leads an extremist rebel band, sends video broadcasts, and views himself as a cleanser of evil.]] In-universe, in fact; Trevor's Mandarin is supposedly Killian's attempt to directly draw on his influence.
** Trevor Slattery himself seems an awful lot like an older Creator/RussellBrand.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Both inverted and played straight. Trevor is a scatterbrained nobody who ''pretends'' to be a terrorist mastermind. However, a deleted scene on the Blu-ray disc shows that Trevor's smarter than he acts (though still not very bright), and also wrote some of his own dialogue.
* ObliviouslyEvil: He makes use of this more than once. He uses the fact that "the Mandarin" is just a role to beg for mercy; he honestly had no idea that people were being killed. This is probably why he's in a low-security prison in ''All Hail the King''.
* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings'' implies that Trevor does regret portraying the Mandarin as a generic Middle-Eastern terrorist when he discusses what he did to the man's son. Notably, he never tries to pretend to be the fake Mandarin at all during the film.
* OopNorth: As stated in ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings'', Trevor is from Liverpool, even sporting a Scouse accent in the movie.
* OldShame: InUniverse. By the events of ''Shang Chi'', Trevor has come to regret his time playing the Mandarin persona, noting that it was a facile and offensive caricuature even before he found out that he was working for real terrorists.
* PlayingPossum: [[spoiler:While Shang-Chi and his allies are battling the Dweller-in-Darkness and the Soul Suckers, Trevor pretends to be among the people who had their souls sucked out to throw off attention from himself. Morris follows his lead after discovering him.]]
* PluckyComicRelief: After TheReveal, he serves up comedy to contrast with Killian taking center stage. [[spoiler:It's also the case in ''Shang-Chi'', as the protagonists are forced to get his help, and he's gotten so wacky that even the quirky Katy Chen looks perfectly reasonable next to Trevor.]]
* PuppetKing: It's believed that some of the earlier Ten Rings leaders served as this to him, but it proves to be more the inverse. He's just a figurehead used to divert attention from Killian's plans, and the real Mandarin is still out there.
* RaceLift: In the comics, the Mandarin is half-British and half-ethnic Mongolian, while Ben Kingsley is half-white and half-Indian. Subverted, however; this Mandarin is just an actor impersonating the ''real'' one.
* RedHerring: He's just a patsy hired to divert attention from the real threat, Killian. Once a poor, struggling alcoholic actor, Trevor merely poses as the Mandarin [[PunchClockVillain in exchange for all sorts of amenities from Killian, including a mansion and a speedboat]]. Although he's an amoral sleazebag, he's far from truly evil. He even lends his speedboat to Tony and Rhodey, albeit through force.
* TheReveal: The Mandarin as he makes it doesn't exist; he's a RedHerring for Killian, who claims to be the ''real'' Mandarin. However, in ''All Hail the King'', it's revealed that both Trevor ''and'' Killian only stole the Mandarin's name. The real one, Wenwu, is still out there.
* RingOfPower: Invoked with his ten rings. In the comics, they give him alien technological energy attacks. In this version, they serve as a symbol of his leadership over the terrorist organization the Ten Rings. In truth, they are merely part of his costume.
* RogueAgent: Claims to be a former Western intelligence officer who ran morally questionable ops on behalf of the West, before he went "off the reservation" and started his own private war against America. He's actually a British actor.
* TheScapegoat: Technically, Trevor wasn't responsible for the Extremis plot; it was Killian who came up with the idea to play on people's racism and fear of terrorists. The real Mandarin, however, doesn't care; apparently he was insulted by the fact that a drunk and AddledAddict was stealing his name, and image. He sends Jackson Norris to kidnap Trevor and reassure him that he's not going to die, not now at least… but he'll be wishing he was dead.
* ScheherezadeGambit: [[spoiler:After being captured by the Ten Rings and slated for execution, he managed to impress Wenwu with a spontaneous rendition of ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'', enabling him to survive as the Ten Rings' court jester.]]
* ShooOutTheClowns: Once he is revealed just to be a drunk, washed-up actor and Tony gets information about Killian from him, the comedy leaves with him for the rest of the movie, which changes the format drastically. [[spoiler: This also applies to his role in ''Shang-Chi'', where Trevor doesn't take part in the intense final battle and spends it playing dead]].
* ShortHairWithTail: He has very short hair except for a topknot, which, surprisingly, he retains even when he's not in-character.
* StupidEvil: In ''All Hail The King'', this is how he comes across. He is superficially charming but incredibly shallow and self-absorbed, doesn't seem to be bothered by the deaths of those around him (including his own mother), and is genuinely clueless as to why anyone would want to kill him ''even after they explain their reasons to his face''. "Evil" might be a stretch, perhaps, but Trevor is certainly, at the very least, a {{Jerkass}} at his core.
* TookALevelInJerkass: In ''All Hail the King'', he's let fame go to his head and becomes an egotistical in-house celebrity with an attitude. It comes back to bite him hard. [[spoiler:To the point years as a prisoner of the Ten Rings make him return to being a nice person when he's brought back.]]
* TookALevelInKindness: [[spoiler:Being imprisoned by the actual Ten Rings for over a decade seems to have made Trevor a significantly kinder person, as he acts quite chummy with Shang-Chi and his friends when they meet him and serves as a TranslationBuddy for Morris, thus helping them find his mother's village.]]
* TooKinkyToTorture: For a drunken British actor, he's remarkably composed and unfazed even while being repeatedly threatened with a gun shoved in his face. All the alcohol and drugs he's taken probably helped with that.
* VillainEpisode: He's featured as the lead character of the Marvel One-Shot ''All Hail the King'' (an extra feature on the ''Thor: The Dark World'' Blu-Ray), taking place after the events of ''Iron Man 3''.
* VisualPun: At one point, he's seen with a fruit bowl full of, you guessed it, Mandarin oranges.
* WalkingSpoiler: Knowing too much about him spoils the reveal that he's just an actor whom Killian hired to serve as a RedHerring. [[spoiler:And he's still a surprise presence when brought back in ''Shang-Chi'', as the trailers and posters didn't want to even hint at it.]]
* WhatIsEvil: He pulls the moral relativism card during his ultimatum in the first trailer.
-->'''"The Mandarin":''' Lesson number one: Heroes. There is no such thing.
* WickedCultured: He's quite cultured for a terrorist. It's not really surprising, since he's just an actor. Then again, he spends most of his time worrying not about intelligent matters, but about drugs, alcohol, sex, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and football games]]...
* WouldHurtAChild: Subverted. In his first appearance as the Mandarin, he mentions that his attack on the air base in Kuwait specifically targeted the spouses and children of military personnel who were away on orders. Trevor himself doesn't know that this attack actually happened, since he's only acting, and he shows no indication of wanting to harm children as his true self.

[[folder:Vice President Rodriguez]]
--> See the [[Characters/MCUUnitedStatesGovernment United States Government]] page

!!Roxxon Corporation

[[folder:In General]]
!!''Roxxon Corporation''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/c90gedgv0aasg64.jpg]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan1'' | ''Film/IronMan2'' | '' Film/IronMan3'' | ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' | ''Series/AgentCarter'' | ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' | ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' | ''Series/{{Cloak And Dagger|2018}}'' | ''Series/{{Loki|2021}}'' [[note]]As Roxxcart[[/note]]

One of the largest oil conglomerates, founded by Hugh Jones and active at least since the 1940s. In 1952, it absorbed Isodyne Energy.
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* BigBad: Of the first season of ''Series/{{Cloak And Dagger|2018}}''.
* CompanyTown: The town of Haven Hills, Alabama, is owned by Roxxcart in the future.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: All of the Roxxon executives shown so far are involved with some corrupt activity or a criminal enterprise.
* CuttingCorners: This is a recurring problem with Roxxon and the {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s running it. They skimped on extra safety equipment that Tandy's father and Ivan Hess requested, which led to the Rig exploding, and in the present, a junior executive relocates a crucial valve to an unsafe location simply so he does not have to spend the money on a crane. What makes this really stupid is that if they ever manage to successfully tap into the new fuel source under the seabed, they stand to make billions. However, they sabotage themselves to save a few thousands dollars. [[spoiler:By the end of the season, this comes back to bite them when their unsafe practises cause the valves to release the pent up Darkforce and Lightforce they were harvesting, which infect the citizens of New Orleans and almost destroyed the city. Once the city is saved, the company is held responsible and put under investigation.]]
* EvilInc: Roxxon was tied to the Council of Nine through its founder Hugh Jones. In the present day they are employed by the Hand to cover some of its illicit activities. They also have ties to A.I.M. through its accountant, Thomas Richards. They also countersue a former employee who developed cancer after working at a Roxxon plant, because he shared information about the plant to the doctor treating him, arguing that the man had violated Roxxon patents.

[[folder:Hugh Jones]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUCriminalsTerroristsOrganizations Criminal & Terrorist Organizations]] page
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Thomas Richards]]
!!''Thomas Richards''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/TomVirtue
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan3''

A high-level accountant for Roxxon kidnapped by "the Mandarin".

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: After the transmission of his execution ends, he stands up and shakes hands with the Mandarin, showing he's aware that the whole thing is a ploy to undermine President Warren Ellis.
* FakingTheDead: He goes along with his own fake execution.

!!!Asano Robotics

[[folder:Associates]]
->See the [[Characters/MCUTheHand Hand]] page for Hirochi and Stan Gibson.
[[/folder]]

!!!Roxxon Gulf

[[folder:Peter Scarborough]]
!!''Peter Scarborough''
!!!'''Species:''' Human

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Wayne Pére
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Cloak and Dagger|2018}}''

The Chief Executive of Risk Management for the Roxxon Corporation and ''de facto'' head of Roxxon Gulf based in New Orleans.

* AlternateSelf: Has a variant named Lloyd Emerson in another world's [[Characters/SSUSanFrancisco San Francisco]].
* AmbitionIsEvil: One of his hopes, as discovered by Tandy, is getting more money, even if he gets his employees killed in the process.
* BadBoss: The other executives at Roxxon Gulf hate ''him''. One of them fantasizes of getting served by him, another of getting serviced (sexually), and a third one of killing him.
* BigBadEnsemble: Of ''Cloak and Dagger'' Season 1, along with Connors. Scarborough was responsible for the platform that Tandy's father Nathan Bowen designed, and when it collapsed, he placed the blame on Nathan, causing Tandy and Melissa's lives to go into a downward spiral. The explosion also caused Connors to startle and shoot Tyrone's brother Billy. So while ultimately responsible for both Tandy and Tyrone's problems, he isn't connected with Connors.
* BigBadWannabe: Scarborough's pathological inability to not cut corners and TooDumbToLive character traits mean that most of his threat comes from pure incompetence, as his screw-ups create increasingly bigger problems to deal with.
* BullyingADragon: He knows full well that Tandy has superpowers and when they met she effortlessly kidnapped and nearly killed him. [[spoiler:So naturally, he decides the best thing to do is to send a hitwoman after her mother.]]
* CanonForeigner: Has no basis in the comics, though corrupt Roxxon executives are a dime a dozen.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Probably the most evil executive at Roxxon within the MCU, and given Roxxon was a tool of both [[Series/AgentCarter the Council of Nine]] and [[Series/Daredevil2015 the]] [[Series/TheDefenders2017 Hand]], that's an accomplishment. Even if using Nathan Bowen as a scapegoat for his CuttingCorners wasn't bad enough, his deepest hope is to get at whatever Roxxon was drilling for, even if it means murdering every one of his employees.
* LaserGuidedKarma: His fate at the end of season 1 of ''Cloak and Dagger'' is very fitting: [[spoiler:his reckless cost cutting measures led to the Rig exploding, drove most of his employees there insane and trapped Ivan Hess into a mental loop for eight years. At the end of the season Tandy uses her powers to trap Scarborough in the very same mental loop leaving him catatonic. And even if he does escape his loop, thanks to New Orleans almost being destroyed thanks to Roxxon's actions, he will almost surely be arrested for life if he wakes up.]]
* {{Narcissist}}: His greatest desire is to be God itself.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler:Tandy was all set to give up on investigating Roxxon and take his deal, since she no longer cared about clearing her father's name. But then Scarborough decides that's not enough and tries to kill her and her mother to cover it up, and Tandy is back in the game.]]
* TooDumbToLive: He is seemingly incapable of putting a project together without cutting corners. [[spoiler: He was responsible for the original oil rig explosion because he didn't want to foot the bill for the heat shielding and now he's done the same thing all over again with the pipes except all over the city.]] For further examples, see BullyingADragon above.

[[folder:Nathan Bowen]]
!!''Nathan Bowen''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/AndyDylan
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Cloak and Dagger|2018}}''

A scientist at Roxxon and father of Tandy Bowen.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Painfully subverted in that while he's not a supervillain and has a loving relationship with his daughter, [[spoiler:he was physically and verbally abusive towards Tandy's mother.]]
* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: In the comics, he can control the Lightforce. In the MCU he's a regular human.
* AdaptationNameChange: In the comics, his name is Nathan Tyler, with Tandy's surname being that of her mother.
* BrokenPedestal: Tandy idolizes him until [[spoiler:she discovers that he was was a domestic abuser towards her mother.]]
* DeceasedFallGuyGambit: Roxxon pins responsibility of their rig explosion on him after his death.
* DomesticAbuse: He [[spoiler:repeatedly beat Melissa]].
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: A type of inversion, [[spoiler: Even Bad Men Love Their Children.]]
* PosthumousCharacter: He's dead by the time the main events of the series take place.
* WouldntHurtAChild: [[spoiler:He abused Melissa, but treated Tandy well.]]

[[folder:Ivan Hess]]
!!''Ivan Hess''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Tim Kang
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Cloak and Dagger|2018}}''

Senior Engineer in Fluid Dynamics for Roxxon. He's been catatonic ever since the rig explosion.

* AndIMustScream: Trapped in an endless mental loop for nearly 8000 years. He has to abandon most of his memories just to cope.
* HonestCorporateExecutive: Unlike his higher-ups, he's a humble man who works hand-by-hand with workers under his authority.
* OrpheanRescue: Tyrone and Tandy go into his mind to try to break him out of his catatonia.
* UnwittingPawn: Doesn't know how truly corrupt Roxxon really is.

[[folder:Mina Hess]]
!!''Mina Hess''
!!!'''Species:''' Human

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/AllyMaki, Hannah Hardin (young)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Cloak and Dagger|2018}}''

An enviromental engineer for Roxxon, following in her father's foodsteps.

* FriendToBugs: She likes bumblebees, having written her thesis on colony collapse and makes a point of looking out for them on her walks. [[spoiler:When Tandy starts taking people's hopes, including Mina's, the first sign of how badly this affects them is Mina immediately killing a bee.]]
* NatureLover: Comes with the territory of being an environmental engineer. Tandy's vision of her greatest hopes shows her tending a very beautiful garden.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Her new drilling system is spread out across the entire city rather than one concentrated spot, making it safer to use and more environmentally friendly than the original rig. Unfortunately, her Roxxon superiors don't care about her precautions and cut corners on vital parts of it, and now the entire city is at risk.
* UnwittingPawn: Doesn't know how truly corrupt Roxxon really is.

[[folder:Stan Bartlett]]
!!''Stan Bartlett''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Preston Vanderslice
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Cloak and Dagger|2018}}''

An employee at Roxxon.

* PointyHairedBoss: He is an incompetent low-level executive that prefers to cut corners.

[[folder:Ashlie]]
!!''Ashlie''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Vanessa Motta
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Cloak and Dagger|2018}}''

A hitwoman in the employ of Peter Scarborough.
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* BeneathNotice: She uses the guise of a water delivery worker to approach her targets without arising suspicion.
* TheDragon: She's Scarborough's go-to hitwoman to eliminate those he deems as threats.
* ProfessionalKiller: She's a contract killer under the guise of a water delivery woman.
[[/folder]]

!!Cybertek

[[folder:Carlo Mancini]]
!!''Carlo Mancini''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' T.J. Ramini
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''

The Cybertek head of security transporting.
----
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: He's a corporate executive collaborating with the similarly corrupt Ian Quinn.
* YouHaveFailedMe: The Clairvoyant (John Garrett) has Mancini executed by Deathlok after Mancini's men unwittingly attracting S.H.I.E.L.D.'s attention.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sofia]]
!!''Sofia''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Emily Baldoni
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''

A member of Mancini's team.
----
* NumberTwo: To Mancini.
* YouHaveFailedMe: The Clairvoyant (John Garrett) orders Deathlok to kill her after Mancini's men unwittingly attracting S.H.I.E.L.D.'s attention.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kyle Zeller]]
!!''Kyle Zeller''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Josh Daugherty
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''

A Cybertek forced employee used by John Garrett as Deathlok's handler.
----
* IHaveYourWife: Or as Cybertek calls it, the "Incentives Program": his wife has been kidnapped to ensure his cooperation.
* MissionControl: Forced to act as Deathlok's handler and mission control.
* PunchClockVillain: He serves Garrett not out of villainy or corruption, he simply wants to keep his wife alive.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Joseph Getty]]
!!''Dr. Joseph Getty''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Mark Fite
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''

A scientist forcibly recruited into Cybertek to do research into Gravitonium.
----
* ForcedIntoEvil: He was forced to collaborate with HYDRA.
* IHaveYourWife: HYDRA threatened his family to ensure his cooperation with Cybertek.
[[/folder]]

!!Isodyne Energy

[[folder:Calvin Chadwick]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUCriminalsTerroristsOrganizations Criminal & Terrorist Organizations]] page
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jason Wilkes]]
-->See Stark Industries
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jane Scott]]
!!''Jane Scott''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Portrayed By:'''
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter''

A particle physicist at Isodyne.
----
* TheMistress: She had an affair with Calvin Chadwick.
* PosthumousCharacter: She first appears as a corpse. She died after being exposed to Zero Matter a.k.a. the Darkforce, at the Isodyne particle acelerator.
[[/folder]]

!!Anvil Security
-->See the [[Characters/MCUOperationCerberus Operation Cerberus]] page

!!Cheng Consulting & Risk Management

[[folder:Pryce Cheng]]
!!''Pryce Cheng''
[[quoteright:294:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vlcsnap_2018_03_14_21h55m44s588.png]]
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!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/TerryChen
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}''

The head of Cheng Consulting Management. He's a private investigator who wants to absorb Alias Investigations and hire Jessica Jones to attract superhuman cases.
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* TheAce: He's a very accomplished Private Investigator, self-made man and former Marine.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: He isn't seen again in ''Jessica Jones'' Season 3 and Malcolm works for Hogarth instead of him, with no explanation given.
* FantasticRacism: Hates Jessica just for being a super.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Calls Jessica out on breaking the law to get results then immediately resorts to just that when Jeri won't help him sue Jessica.
* IWasBeatenByAGirl: Implied to be the main reason he escalates things with Jessica. When he wants to sue Jessica for his injuries Jeri tells him to get over the fact that a woman managed to manhandle him like Jessica did, hinting that he simply can't stand the idea of getting outdone in any way by women given his being TheAce.
* {{Jerkass}}: Extremely full of himself. Decides to put Jessica out of business just because she refuses to work with him and promptly starts poaching her clients, makes fun of her trauma to her face, and then has one of his people break into her office and steal all her files and even her P.I. certification.
* JerkassHasAPoint:
** As much as an asshole he might be, he correctly points out that Jessica has some serious issues, and not the cleanest of slates (as opposed to him).
** He also is right when he tells Jessica to turn in [[spoiler:her mother for murder.]] He quickly forgives Jessica for kidnapping him (though he earlier accidentally shot her, so they are even), but he can't ignore the person that killed his partner. Jessica eventually agrees and calls the police.
* {{Revenge}}: Tries assassinating Jessica [[spoiler:(only her mother actually)]] after his friend, Nick, was murdered.
* SemperFi: He's a former Marine Corps captain.
* SmugSmiler: Even gets mentioned by Jessica.
* SmugSnake: Jessica even describes him as such due to his unrepentant jerkassery and insistence.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Nick Spanos]]
!!''Nick Spanos''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Maceo Oliver
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}''

One of Pryce Cheng's fixers and best friends.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Alisa kills him by throwing him in the back of his van, beating him senseless, and tearing off one of his arms.
* TheFixer: He's sent by Cheng to steal files and information from Jessica's apartment.
* SemperFi: He served in the Marines alongside Cheng.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Malcolm Ducasse]]
->See Characters/MCUCitizensNewYorkCity
[[/folder]]

!!Momentum Labs

[[folder:Joseph Bauer]]
!!''Joseph Bauer''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Momentum Labs
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Kerr Smith
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''

The head of Momentum Labs and the husband of Lucy Bauer.
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* BadBoss: Acquiring the Darkhold caused him to become more and more aggressive towards his employee Eli Morrow, to the point that he eventually ordered a hit on him out of fear that he would try to steal it from him.
* BloodFromEveryOrifice: Like all victims of the ghost infection, he has blood coming out of his eyes and nostrils just before he dies.
* CanonForeigner: He has no comic book counterpart.
* ConvenientComa: Joseph was left in a deep coma after suffering a violent beating from Eli Morrow. Years later, he is awakened by his wife Lucy when she touches him in her ghostly state so that she can question him about the Darkhold. Unfortunately, her infection ends up killing him shortly after.
* DeceasedFallGuyGambit: Comatose rather than deceased, but the principle is the same. After trapping his coworkers in the Quantum Batteries and beating Joseph into a coma, Eli Morrow claimed that Joseph was the one who killed their coworkers, as he won't be able to deny the accusation in his condition.
* DecompositeCharacter: He essentially takes the role of Calvin Zabo from the ''ComicBook/AllNewGhostRider'' comics as the one who sent the thugs who shot Robbie Reyes before he was resurrected as Ghost Rider.
* {{Flatline}}: We can hear the flatline sound right after he dies in the hospital from the ghost infection.
* ForScience: Lucy and him were delighted by what the Darkhold could do and how it could be used to help others, but the book corrupted their intentions.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: He wears a pair of glasses and his exposure to the Darkhold made him increasingly unstable and dangerous, so much so that he hired criminals to try to kill his coworker Eli Morrow.
* GetOut: When Eli tries to talk to him about the Darkhold, Joseph gets angry and repeatedly yells at him to get out while throwing things at him.
* AGodAmI: After discovering their plan to obtain the power of creating matter, Eli Morrow accuses Joseph and Lucy of wanting to "play God." [[spoiler: However, Eli secretly wants this power for himself.]]
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: He became increasingly corrupted after reading the Darkhold.
* IfMyCalculationsAreCorrect: He says this sentence word-for-word when he describes the possible uses of the Quantum Particle Generator to his coworkers in a flashback.
-->'''Joseph:''' Well, before we publish, we're gonna need to replicate the cube and scale up the chamber, but [[IfMyCalculationsAreCorrect if my calculations are correct]], I mean, we're gonna be able to eventually create complex compounds, and then organic materials, wheat, rice…
* MadScientist: As a result of the Darkhold's corruption, he becomes more and more obsessed with creating matter using the information gained from the tome.
* TheManBehindTheMan: As it turns out, he is the one who hired the Fifth Street Locos to assassinate Eli Morrow, which led to Robbie and Gabe Reyes getting shot by mistake.
* MindRape: He's awakened by Lucy Bauer and suffers from the same paranoia effect that infected May until he dies.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Shortly before his death, he admits that he shouldn't have used the Darkhold because it only resulted in ruining lives.
-->'''Joseph:''' It was a mistake! We never should have taken it, we should've left it buried!
* ProperlyParanoid: While Joseph and Lucy became obsessed with their experiment, they were right in thinking that Eli wanted all the power for himself.
* RedHerring: For most of the ''Ghost Rider'' arc in Season 4, Joseph Bauer appears to be the one responsible for turning the members of Momentum Labs into ghosts, before the end of the sixth episode reveals that it was [[EvilAllAlong Eli Morrow]] who did it.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Joseph Bauer doesn't have that big of a role in Season 4 compared to his wife, as he mostly appears in a few flashback scenes and during the present he's only awakened from his coma for one scene before dying. However, he's eventually revealed to be the one responsible for the shoot-out that caused Gabe Reyes to lose the use of his legs and Robbie Reyes to die, which means that without him Robbie would never have become Ghost Rider.
* StrongerThanTheyLook: Eli describes him this way for having been able to get beat up into a coma without ever revealing where the Darkhold was hidden.
-->'''Eli:''' He was a lot tougher than he looked. I beat the hell out of him, he never gave up where he hid that book.
* TortureIsIneffective: No matter how hard Eli beat him up, Joseph still refused to tell him anything about the Darkhold before he fell into a coma.
* YouAreTooLate: When the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents come to see him after he has woken up from his coma to ask him where the Darkhold is, Joseph tells them that it's too late because he has already revealed it to Lucy earlier and she must probably have it in her possession by now.
-->'''Joseph:''' You're too late. She knows.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Others]]
* [[Characters/MCUOtherSupervillains Lucy Bauer]]
* [[Characters/MCUOtherSupervillains Hugo]]
* [[Characters/MCUOtherSupervillains Frederick]]
* [[Characters/MCUOtherSupervillains Vincent]]
* [[Characters/MCUOtherSupervillains Eli Morrow]]
[[/folder]]

!!Midland Circle Financials

[[folder:Alexandra Reid]]
->See the [[Characters/MCUTheHand Hand]] page
[[/folder]]

!!Vistacorp

[[folder:Geoff Zorick]]
!!''Geoff Zorick''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' N/A
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Ant-Man - Scott Lang: Small Time'' | ''Newsfront With Christine Everhart'' (''Film/AntMan1'' viral marketing) [[note]] Mentioned only [[/note]] | ''Film/AntMan1'' [[note]] Mentioned only [[/note]]

The CEO of Vistacorp.
----
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: He knows that the Vistacorp payment systems are illegally overcharging Vistacorp's clients and wants to keep it so, even ordering Scott Lang not to install the update that would fix the bug.
[[/folder]]

!!Testament Industries

[[folder:Anderson & Eliza Schultz]]
!!''Anderson & Eliza Schultz''
!!!'''Species:''' Humans
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/CorbinBernsen (Anderson) & Creator/AnnetteOToole (Eliza)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Punisher|2017}}''

The married heads of Testament Industries.
----
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Anderson's one redeeming trait was caring for his son and John Pilgrim's kids. When he holds Pilgrim's kids hostage and kills himself because he's so ashamed of his son, that one redeeming factor disappears and nobody misses him.]]
* BigBadEnsemble: With Billy Russo in ''The Punisher'' Season 2, while in a BigBadDuumvirate with each other with Pilgrim as their DragonInChief.
* BigBadWannabe: While certainly dangerous, the two are only a threat with Pilgrim doing their dirty work. [[spoiler:Once he [[HeelFaceTurn turns on them]], Amy and Frank quickly track them down and kill them.]]
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:Frank shoots Eliza in the head before she can stab Amy with a table knife in the Season 2 finale.]]
* BullyingADragon: Anderson knows all too well what Frank Castle is capable of, and he still thinks it's a good idea to berate and threaten him.
* CanonForeigner: The two have no counterparts in any of the comics.
* ChurchgoingVillain: In contrast to her husband, Eliza appears to actually believe in her conservative Evangelical Christian faith. This does not stop her from ordering horrible crimes.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The two use the wealth their company provides to buy politicians and outright murder anyone who stands in the way of their family.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Anderson shoots himself with a pistol, using a bullet and gun Frank left behind [[LeaveBehindAPistol for that exact purpose]] after Frank shoots Eliza and drives him [[DespairEventHorizon into despair]] in ''The Punisher'''s Season 2 finale.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Despite how monstrous they are, the two truly love each other.
* GreaterScopeVillain: The duo behind Pilgrim who want Amy dead, but they doesn't get involved with the hunt for her themselves.
* HeteronormativeCrusader: Self-righteous and extremely disapproving of their son's orientation.
* HidingBehindReligion: In public, Anderson is a deeply religious conservative Evangelical Christian and uses this to manipulate John Pilgrim. In private, however, he values power and his own family’s status and image above all else.
* LadyMacbeth: While Anderson is by no means a pushover, Eliza is significantly more ruthless, often making the hard decisions that he won't, as well as being more likely to keep her cool.
* LeaveBehindAPistol: [[spoiler:Frank leaves a pistol and one bullet with Anderson in the Season 2 finale after killing Eliza, telling him he needs to die and end his influence over his son. Anderson obliges and shoots himself as Frank and Amy leave.]]
* UnholyMatrimony: The two are married and force Pilgrim to be their assassin.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Robert / John Pilgrim]]
!!''Robert / John Pilgrim''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/177555_1548144967_4.jpg]]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JoshStewart
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Punisher|2017}}''

A born-again hitman who does the dirty work for the Schultz family.
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* AdaptationalCurves: Inverted. His comic counterpart, the Mennonite, is much larger and better built.
* AdaptationalNameChange: His comic counterpart's name isn't revealed.
* AdaptationalVillainy: The Mennonite was a mafia hitman in the past, while Pilgrim was a white supremacist. Following their respective Heel–Faith Turn, the Mennonite became a pacifist for years who only took a job for the mafia as his wife was dying, and even then tried to adhere to his religious edicts to not use firearms, while Pilgrim was a member of the Aryan Brotherhood before working for the Schultzes.
* AffablyEvil: He's impeccably polite, speaks softly and treats everyone including his victims with courtesy. He's also a loving husband and father, does not enjoy any of his work and bears his targets no ill will. In fact, he absolutely hates his job and would prefer living a peaceful life with his family if the Schultzes weren't practically holding them hostage to begin with.
* AntiVillain: Type IV. Only does Anderson and Eliza's dirty work because they were funding his wife's medical treatment and later it turns out were implicitly holding his sons hostage.
* AsTheGoodBookSays: He's fond of quoting and referencing scripture. He tends to paraphrase or draw comparisons more often than outright speak the gospel verbatim.
* BigBadEnsemble: With Billy Russo in Season 2. While John is merely TheHeavy working for a GreaterScopeVillain, he poses the greatest danger to Frank and his associates in the first 6 episodes of the season and remains in the shadows as Russo becomes more and more of a threat in the later episodes. They are more or less on equal footing as the season draws to a close.
* ChurchgoingVillain: Despite committing horrible crimes in service of the Schultz family, he is very sincere in his faith.
* CombatPragmatist: Par for the course for the series, Pilgrim is quick to fight dirty.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: With Billy Russo. Russo is handsome and charismatic, whereas Pilgrim is plain, soft-spoken, and somewhat awkward. Russo is defined by his close relationship with Frank, while Pilgrim was a total stranger with no connection to him at all and never even talks to him until the last episode. Russo used to be a good person before turning bad, Pilgrim is a RetiredMonster trying to make amends. [[spoiler:And while Russo is unable to give up on his vendetta with Frank, ultimately costing him his life, Pilgrim eventually makes a HeelFaceTurn and parts ways with Frank amicably.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: As dark as his work for the Schultz family can get, it is still peanuts compared to the life he used to live before his conversion.
* TheDeterminator: On a level rivaling the likes of Frank and Billy. He seeks and chases leads for his mission relentlessly and patiently, and takes a beating nearly as well as the Punisher to boot.
* DragonInChief: Anderson Schultz's main enforcer and hitman. He's the one actively hunting down Amy and fighting Castle, and is the only reason the Schultzes are an immediate threat. [[spoiler:Tellingly, once he [[HeelFaceTurn turns on the Schultz family]], they're killed off in short order.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He is entirely devoted to his wife Rebecca and his sons Michael and Lemuel.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: There's one of the moments when Pilgrim is annoyed to have the police lieutenant clean up the mess at the bar when Marlena caused an unnecessary bloodbath while she was suppose to retrieve Amy; also, he seems to be sincere when he offers to spare the Sheriff and Deputies if they handed Amy over.
* ForcedIntoEvil: He is a reformed criminal who wants to devote his life to God and to take care of his family. But his wife's illness and the Schultzs threats against his sons forces him to become their hitman.
* TheHeavy: Of the Testament Industries conspiracy portion of the plot. He may simply be a hitman on retainer, but his masters remain in the background and keep their hands clean. Pilgrim does the legwork, the information gathering, puts out the bounties, and does all of the dirty work.
* HeelFaceTurn: He [[HeelFaithTurn had one when he found religion]], [[spoiler:and has another when Frank spares his life and rescues his children.]]
* HitmanWithAHeart: Zig-zagged. He has no qualms with maiming or killing anyone in his way, yet he seems to find doing so unpleasant. He does not enjoy or take pride in his work, but accepts his lot and makes no excuses for it. He only does the work he does for the love of his family, and tells [[spoiler:both Curtis and Amy that he'd prefer not to have to hurt them, and if he had a choice, he would be leaving them alone]].
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Despite all the bodies he left behind, Frank lets him go in the end to look after his two sons.]]
* NothingPersonal: He holds no animosity for his targets, let alone the people he interrogates along the way, and often says as much. He is completely civil and non-violent with anyone who cooperates or stays out of his way. But when he finds his targets or meets opposition, he doesn't hesitate to harm or kill.
* OffTheWagon: He's heavily implied to be have been pretty wild in the past, but now is clean, sober, and faithful in marriage. But after [[spoiler:a serious beating, a confrontation with his past demons, and the mounting stress of his line of work and his wife's condition, he goes on a bender with [[HookersAndBlow booze, cocaine and prostitutes]].]]
* OneManArmy: Pilgrim may be one of the few people capable of matching Frank Castle in sheer lethality and badassery.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: He is based on the Mennonite, who was never named. His real first name is given as Robert, and has taken the name John after his religious rebirth.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He was a member of the neo-Nazi gang known as the Aryan Brotherhood.
* PunchClockVillain: He's only hunting down Frank and Amy because he was ordered to. He takes no pleasure in it, holds no grudges against the two, and even says that he doesn't want to do this. He also has a family back home and wants to be reunited with them after he completes his mission.
* ReformedBully: He was once a proud white supremacist and BloodKnight, and admits more than once that he used to hate people for the color of their skin and hurt others for his own desires. He may still be a killer, but he takes no pleasure in it and only wants to get his work over with.
* ResignationsNotAccepted: [[spoiler:When he runs into his old friends from the Aryan Brotherhood, he tells them he put that life behind him. Unfortunately, that answer doesn't sway the Brotherhood's intolerance for defectors.]]
* RetiredMonster: The fact that he still qualifies despite doing wet work for the Schultz family is a clear indication of just how bad he was back in the day. [[spoiler:Even moreso since Pilgrim used to be a member of the Aryan Brotherhood before he found religion.]]
* TheStoic: Nothing really phases him, even injuries and wounds he has sustained.
* StraightEdgeEvil: Since his conversion, he gave up alcohol, drugs and random sex.
* StrongerThanTheyLook: He has an unassuming physique, somewhat paunchy and slim compared to other fighting men like Frank, Curtis, and Billy. But he can take down an entire gang single-handedly and go toe-to-toe with Frank while severely wounded.
* SuppressedRage: When Eliza insists that he continue his mission of hunting Frank instead of returning home to his family, John has an ImagineSpot where he trashes the room in a blind rage while in reality he is quietly agreeing with Eliza.
* ThoseWackyNazis: Prior to his conversion, he was a member of the Aryan Brotherhood.
[[/folder]]

!!!Associates

[[folder:Marlena Olin]]
!!''Marlena Olin''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Teri Reeves
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Punisher|2017}}''

A mercenary tasked by John Pilgrim to search for Amy Bendix.
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* AssholeVictim: No one's gonna miss her when [[spoiler:Pilgrim murders her sorry ass after she broke free from her jail cell]].
* ButtMonkey: Nothing seems to go well with her when she was brutally beaten by Castle in a fistfight, knocked out by again by Castle, and shot in the leg outside of the Motel. [[spoiler:By the time she was broke free from her jail cell, she ends up getting choked to death by Pilgrim due to her failures.]]
* TheBrute: She leads the mercenaries hired by Pilgrim.
* DarkChick: Better-than-average skills in gunfighting and close combat, though not as good as she thinks she is. The only reason she survives the Tides Motel ambush is that Frank needed a live prisoner to question.
* ItsPersonal: After going up against Castle on two separate occasions she develops a personal animosity towards him.
* {{Jerkass}}: "Arrogant bitch" is putting it mildly.
* MoralMyopia: She has the audacity to say Pilgrim and his methods give her the creeps, and she'd much rather solve the "Castiglioni" problem on her own so she doesn't have to involve him, even if it means turning a bar into a bloodbath.
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: After leaving the United States Army she became a mercenary and isn't particularly picky about choosing her employers.
* SmugSnake: Thinks she can tango with Frank when she is way out of her league and overestimating her usefulness given her failures to deal with Frank and capture Amy, [[spoiler:which ends up getting herself killed in the process.]] She is thoroughly condescending to everyone she meets in an "I can kill you if I feel like it" kind of way.
* YouHaveFailedMe: She really doesn't seem to know her place when she's been given a specific task when she was suppose to retrieve Amy unscathed, but ends up getting into a fight with Castle and causing a massive shootout within the bar that killed several innocent bystanders, and failed to retrieve her the second time which landed her in a jail cell and the moment she got free, just as she is planning on going to get a third round against Castle, [[spoiler:she ends up being unceremoniously killed by Pilgrim, who has had it with both her failures [[EvenEvilHasStandards and her messy collateral damage]].]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Marlena Olin's crew]]
!!''Marlena Olin's crew''
!!!'''Species:''' Humans
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Adrian Alvarado (Eddie), Todd Jones (Davy)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Punisher|2017}}''

A team of mercenaries under Olin's command.
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* EqualOpportunityEvil: Marlena hires both men and women in her crew.
* {{Mooks}}: Their purpose in the story is to give Frank a bunch of nobodies to fight and kill.
* NoNameGiven: There's no mention of a particular name, so they are identified as Marlena Olin's crew because she's their leader.
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: Their job.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ferrara]]
!!''Ferrara''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Michael Pemberton
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Punisher|2017}}''

A Michigan police detective that collaborates with John Pilgrim to cover up his and Olin's string of dead bodies.
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* BaldOfEvil: No hair on his dome and he is complicit in the cover-up of several murders committed by Pilgrim as well as other hired killers.
* DirtyCop: He's a corrupt police detective helping with the cover up the string of murders carried out by a hitman and a group of mercenaries.
* KarmaHoudini: He never gets any comeuppance or punishment from his collaboration with Pilgrim.
[[/folder]]