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| 13 | [[center: [- [[Characters/MarvelCinematicUniverse Main Character Index]] > Heroic Organizations > '''The Runaways''' -]]] |
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| 15 | !!{{Spoiler}}s for all works set prior to the end of ''Avengers: Endgame'' are unmarked. |
| 16 | !!''The ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' |
| 17 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/runaways_3.png]] |
| 18 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Runaways|2017}}'' |
| 19 | |
| 20 | ->'''Karolina:''' We were friends because our parents were friends. We were just kids. We were always gonna grow apart.\ |
| 21 | '''Gert:''' Plus, it's kind of hard to stay friends with someone when all they care about is being the perfect church girl.\ |
| 22 | '''Karolina:''' Better than the insufferable social justice warrior.\ |
| 23 | '''Alex:''' Or a dumb jock.\ |
| 24 | '''Chase:''' Yeah, or Molly... I've got nothing against you. You're really nice. |
| 25 | |
| 26 | A group of friends who discover that their parents are committing murders for an unknown purpose, and resolve to stop them. |
| 27 | |
| 28 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 30 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 31 | * BashSiblings: This band of runaway teenagers and [[ActionSurvivor Action Survivors]] becomes a formidable team and TrueCompanions after fighting alongside one another against their own parents, aliens, and interdimensional beings. |
| 32 | * BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:The rest of the Runaways save Alex just as he is about to be brought into a plane by his dad.]] |
| 33 | * BreakingTheFellowship: [[spoiler: Chase leaves the Runaways to reunite with his family. And in the Season 2 finale, Gert and Old Lace are kidnapped by Dale while Karolina is captured by Jonah and trapped in stasis to serve as an eventual sacrifice for himself and his family.]] |
| 34 | * ChildhoodFriends: They were close as children. Played realistically, as pointed out; they eventually grew apart as they were different people who were only friends because their parents were friends, although Amy's death and Alex's not attending the funeral are the last straws that broke them apart. |
| 35 | * ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: |
| 36 | ** Thus far, none of them besides Old Lace have used any codenames - but then they barely used them in the source material either as part of the book's NotWearingTights approach. |
| 37 | ** The kids actually discuss that they never came up with a name for their group in "Doomsday". Alex suggested that they call themselves "the Runaways" in honor of the kids who were sacrificed, but the others rejected it as "too dark". [[spoiler:Ironically, by the end of Season One, the kids do in fact run away, which would make it more fitting.]] |
| 38 | * DeadpanSnarker: They ''are'' teenagers. |
| 39 | * FamilyOfChoice: By the end of the first season, they come to see each other as more of a family than their actual parents. |
| 40 | * FiveTokenBand: They're comprised of Alex (black male), Gert (neuroatypical Jewish female), Chase (white male), Karolina (lesbian white-[[NotQuiteHuman appearing]] female), Nico (bisexual Japanese-American female), and Molly (Latina female). |
| 41 | * HatesTheirParent: While some members of the titular team continue to try and make excuses for them for certain, Alex and Nico definitely hate their parents after finding out who they really are, [[spoiler:with Alex's season 2 arc ultimately culminating in him having his parent's arrested.]] |
| 42 | * KidHero: A group of high school students set on thwarting their parents’ plans. |
| 43 | * LoveDodecahedron: Alex and Nico show mutual interest in one another. Gert has a crush on Chase, who is far from indifferent but is trying to start something with Karolina, who is more into Nico [[spoiler: who later reciprocates.]] Molly has no part in this at all. |
| 44 | * OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: The six are regular (albeit privileged) students at a private school called Atlas Academy -- until they begin to discover the secrets their parents have been hiding. |
| 45 | * TheRunaway: By the end of the first season. |
| 46 | * TeethClenchedTeamwork: Not even finding the truth about their parents can stop them from bickering over the same issues that drove them apart in the first place. |
| 47 | * TwoGirlsToATeam: Inverted. Alex and Chase are the only boys in the group. |
| 48 | * WeUsedToBeFriends: The kids are ChildhoodFriends who grew apart following the death of Nico's sister. |
| 49 | [[/folder]] |
| 50 | |
| 51 | !!Members |
| 52 | |
| 53 | [[folder:Alex Wilder]] |
| 54 | !!''Alex Wilder'' |
| 55 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/alex_wilder_s3.png]] |
| 56 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"If we want to survive and stay together, we can't come out of every situation with clean hands."'']] |
| 57 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 58 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 59 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/RhenzyFeliz, Creator/KrystianAlexanderLyttle (young) |
| 60 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Runaways|2017}}'' |
| 61 | |
| 62 | ->''"Look, I know that it's been a shitty couple of weeks, but, we're friends again, and I didn't think we ever would be. I wouldn't want to save the world with any other crew." '' |
| 63 | |
| 64 | The only son of Geoffrey and Catherine Wilder, Alex is both computer-savvy and an unabashed pop culture nerd. After burying himself in his laptop following the death of his friend Amy, Alex starts feeling the absence of his childhood friends and tries to get the band back together - with consequences no one could possibly predict... |
| 65 | ---- |
| 66 | * AdaptationalHeroism: In the comics, Alex was secretly working with his parents the whole time and betrayed the rest of his friends. His betrayal is adapted, but instead of having been working with PRIDE, his 'betrayal' is [[spoiler:knowing details about Amy's death that he didn't share with Nico.]] The person to actually betray them to PRIDE instead seems to be [[spoiler:Chase.]] Additionally, in the comics he cared nothing for the other Runaways (apart from Nico) and was only using them for personal gain. His MCU counterpart however shows he's very much friends with them and desperate for them to reunite. Also unlike his comic counterpart who cared only for power and his own ambitions, the MCU version is determined that the parents pay for the lives they took or destroyed. |
| 67 | * AdaptationPersonalityChange: This Alex seems more vulnerable and open with his friends than his comic book counterpart. Notably, in the comics Alex was actively against hanging out with the others prior to them learning about their parents, while here, he's very desperate to bond with them. His prior friendship with [[CanonForeigner Amy]] likely played a role. |
| 68 | * AmbiguouslyEvil: Out of all of the Runaways, his motivations and actions are the most morally questionable despite being TheLeader and TheHeart of the team. |
| 69 | ** Out of all of his friends, he is the most insistent and obsessed with having their parents arrested, motivated by his desire to get revenge for Darius's death and the various other crimes they are guilty of. |
| 70 | ** [[spoiler:In Season 2, he becomes possessed by the Magistrate's son, who is described as being nothing short of a total psychopath. It is left vague how much of his more questionable actions are Alex or the Son.]] |
| 71 | ** After spending an undetermined amount of time in the Dark Dimension under AWOL's boot-heel, he is eventually driven to killing his mother ([[AmbiguousSituation or the Dark Dimension's manifestation of her, maybe]]) to save his team. [[spoiler:When Tandy grabs his arm on their way out, she catches a glimpse of his biggest hope: himself, standing alone over Los Angeles, in possession of all of his teammate's equipment and powers.]] |
| 72 | * AmicableExes: With Nico. |
| 73 | * BlackAndNerdy: He's a black teen who enjoys nerdy endeavors. He even has a big pair of glasses just to ensure there's no confusion. |
| 74 | * CallingTheOldManOut: He calls out his father after learning about his past "Fifteen". "Metamorphosis" has shown that he has ''not'' let up on him. |
| 75 | -->'''Alex:''' For as long as I can remember... whenever I was with you, I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. You weren't just my father, you were my best friend. But the more I learn about you... the more I realize that you're just not a good person. |
| 76 | * DecompositeCharacter: As far as the first season goes, his role as the surprise traitor is instead given to [[spoiler:Frank Dean]]. |
| 77 | * DidNotGetTheGirl: |
| 78 | ** As of the end of Season 1, Nico dumped him after she was angry at him for keeping secrets about Amy's death. |
| 79 | ** His luck (or lack thereof) continues in Season 2, where he's forced to abandon his new girlfriend because said [[KnightTemplarBigBrother girlfriend's sister]] threatened him to stay away from them after they are almost killed by AWOL on PRIDE's behalf. |
| 80 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: Lampshaded by Alex, who first acts as if he didn't think things through when he walks up to AWOL alone. [[spoiler: But then he lures him into a trap, which results in AWOL getting captured.]] |
| 81 | * DistressedDude: He's kidnapped by his father's old associates in "Fifteen" but is rescued by the team in "Kingdom." |
| 82 | * GreenEyedMonster: Discussed. The Runaways argue if Alex didn't want to save Karolina because [[spoiler: she just hooked up with Nico, but Alex rebuffs it by saying that he didn't even know that [[OfficialCouple Karolina and Nico]] are a thing.]] |
| 83 | * TheHeart: He is the one who gets all his friends to start hanging out again, boosts their morale as a group, and even comes up with their team name: "Runaways". |
| 84 | * HollywoodHacking: Has a history of hacking, all of which seems to be done from his laptop. In "Metamorphosis" he manages to retrieve data from the Wizard server, which is one of the most secure in the world. |
| 85 | * IJustWantToBeBadass: In Season 2. |
| 86 | * IJustWantToHaveFriends: While the other Runaways feel more thrown together by circumstance, Alex actively wants to be close with them, notably this is a departure from his comics counterpart, who hated the idea, and only hung out with them because he had to. |
| 87 | * JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: [[spoiler: Alex briefly tortures AWOL with Chase's fistigons, much to the horror of the rest of the group. This could be a sign of his possession by the cruel son of the Magistrate.]] |
| 88 | * TheLeader: Slowly shaping up to be the teens' leader; lampshaded in "Metamorphosis" when they look to him for a plan. |
| 89 | -->'''Gert:''' Okay, Alex, what's the plan?\ |
| 90 | '''Molly:''' Yeah, Alex?\ |
| 91 | '''Chase:''' Why does everyone assume Alex has a plan? Someone else might have a plan.\ |
| 92 | '''Alex:''' Great. Lets hear it.\ |
| 93 | '''Chase:'''(''{{Beat}}'') I was just speaking hypothetically. |
| 94 | * LikeFatherLikeSon: Geoffrey is a smart and ruthless man who was always [[MagnificentBastard "one step ahead of everyone"]] in his street days, but who also got one of his friends to take the fall for him and then stiffed him on the return favour and broke off all connections with him. Alex is, as per above, [[TheSmartGuy the man with the plan]] among the Runaways, but also the one who [[spoiler: argued in favour of abandoning Karolina when she got captured and who distanced himself from his friends for years rather than admit that he knew something about Amy's [[NeverSuicide supposed suicide]].]] |
| 95 | * LonelyRichKid: While all the protagonists are fairly well-off, Alex in particular has been a loner at school since Amy's death. |
| 96 | * TheLostLenore: All signs point to him still being in love with Amy. [[spoiler:Subverted when it turns out that while he and Amy were friends and gamed together, she knew him well enough to have spotted his years-long crush on Nico.]] |
| 97 | * LoveMakesYouCrazy: Once Livvie gets involved in Season 2, he starts going over the deep end. |
| 98 | * OfficialCouple: With Nico and Livvie in Season 1 and Season 2 respectively. Neither couple ends up [[DidNotGetTheGirl well]], however. |
| 99 | * RevengeBeforeReason: In Season 2, [[spoiler:he's so revenge driven after Darius gets murdered he starts doing some really reckless things to bring his parents down.]] |
| 100 | * SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Has this dynamic with Chase, being the introspective and quiet Sensitive Guy to Chase's abrasive and blunt Manly Man. |
| 101 | * TheSmartGuy: His role on the team as the tech expert and planner. [[spoiler:This is highlighted after he leaves the group after a disagreement. But the group brings him back into the fold as they miss him, and need him to come up with actual plans. However in season two the group and others notice that Alex is [[IDidWhatIHadToDo more willing to take shortcuts or make questionable deals all in his obsession to punish his parents]]]]. |
| 102 | * SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:He survives until the end of the series, whereas he was killed shortly after revealing himself as TheMole in the comics at the end of the first arc]]. |
| 103 | * TheTeamNormal: He's the only one of the Runaways not to have superpowers of some kind, either innately or through some kind of enhancement. He still manages to be the de-facto leader for much of the series due to his status as TheSmartGuy, however. Leads to a few moments of IJustWantToBeSpecial, but for the most part Alex seems reasonably happy being the more down-to-earth technical and logistical guy on the crew. |
| 104 | * TooCleverByHalf: He suffers from a major case of this in Season 2. [[spoiler:Despite everyone telling him that getting mixed up with AWOL in trying to take his parents down was a bad idea, he still went with it. The net result was them getting majorly screwed over, and at one point Tamar just suggests he drops being clever and just shoot them.]] |
| 105 | * TookALevelInBadass: Despite some set backs in season two. Alex is more proactive and focused in his mission. He impresses his father with his hacking ability and has taken up quite easily to breaking and entry as well as car theft. Out of all of the Runaways [[spoiler: he's the only one at the end of the season who ends up beating his parents, without any personal emotional cost or loss like Nico.]] |
| 106 | [[/folder]] |
| 107 | |
| 108 | [[folder:Nico Minoru]] |
| 109 | !!''Nico Minoru'' |
| 110 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nico_minoru_s3.png]] |
| 111 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"Whatever I am now, it's not Amy. Sorry to disappoint you."'']] |
| 112 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 113 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Japanese-American |
| 114 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/LyricaOkano |
| 115 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Runaways|2017}}'' |
| 116 | |
| 117 | ->''"Some people hide behind makeup, others behind a smile. It's still hiding."'' |
| 118 | |
| 119 | A goth teen who is experimenting with magic and the occult after the death of her sister Amy. The younger daughter of Robert and Tina Minoru. |
| 120 | ---- |
| 121 | * ActionGirl: Even without the Staff of One, she's a trained martial artist who can hold her own against much larger adults. ''With'' the Staff, she's easily the most powerful of the Runaways in a fight. |
| 122 | * AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Even before she learns the truth about her parents, this version of Nico is already mourning the death of her sister. |
| 123 | * AdaptationalSexuality: Downplayed, as she goes from merely AmbiguouslyBi to explicitly bi. However, as of Issue 12 of [[ComicBook/RunawaysRainbowRowell the revived comic]], it's no longer ambiguous. |
| 124 | * AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: Nico's superpowers were altered, likely to avoid comparisons to self-harm. When casting a spell, the staff instead spring-loads a small needle attachment to prick the skin for a drop of blood[[note]]justified via ClarkesThirdLaw, as the Staff of One is actually a piece of technology that is using the blood to analyse the user's DNA so as to avoid being used by anyone besides Tina or Nico[[/note]], rather than needing her to self-harm. |
| 125 | * AlternateSelf: A Variant of her is set to appear in ''Spider-Man: Freshman Year'' as one of Peter's classmates. |
| 126 | * AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Nico's dead sister Amy, who has sporting trophies and seems to have been her mother's favourite. |
| 127 | * AmicableExes: With Alex. |
| 128 | * BlowYouAway: In "Last Rites", Nico uses the staff's power to escape the dig site by ''riding on a hurricane''. |
| 129 | * BoomStick: She's slowly learning how to use the Staff of One, which is a long staff with a circle that fires magic at the end. |
| 130 | * ClosetKey: [[spoiler:To Karolina, as Karolina said after kissing her that she's wanted to do that for a long time. Karolina may be this for Nico as well, assuming Nico never had a relationship with another girl before.]] |
| 131 | * CynicismCatalyst: It's implied that Nico's gothic fashion and surly personality developed after Amy's death, as the two of them were close. |
| 132 | * DaddysGirl: She has better relationship with her father than her mother. |
| 133 | * DarkIsNotEvil: A goth girl who wears mostly black ElegantGothicLolita but uses the powers of the Staff of One for good, [[spoiler:even if it taps into the energy of the Dark Dimension.]] |
| 134 | -->'''Karolina:''' Have you thought that maybe your darkness is you? Your power? |
| 135 | * DeadpanSnarker: Emphasis on both "deadpan" and "snarker". The Runaways have a lot of witty repartee amongst themselves, but Nico's quips tend to stand out thanks to her incredibly dry tone and dark sense of humor. |
| 136 | * EatingTheEyeCandy: [[spoiler:Stops to watch Karolina change clothes in the back of the van.]] |
| 137 | %%* ElegantGothicLolita: Downplayed, but her personal style can still be considered this. |
| 138 | * EyeScream: [[spoiler:When Nico is taken over by the Staff of One, the areas around her eyes appear like dark purple craters in a way that's disturbingly similar to [[Characters/MCUDimensions Kaecilius and the Zealots]].]] |
| 139 | * GenderBlenderName: Nico is an infrequent (though often unisex) given name, while "Minoru" is a Japanese given name usually assigned to men. |
| 140 | * GoodIsNotNice: She will do the right thing when push comes to shove, but she still acts very distant and downright abrasive most of the time, even to some of her friends. |
| 141 | * {{Goth}}: PlayedWith. She dresses the part and seems to abide by some of the stereotypes (like trying to conduct a ritual to contact her dead sister), but Alex's picture of the group in the past shows Nico with much longer hair and more "normal" clothing, suggesting that she started acting goth to cope with her grief over Amy's death. |
| 142 | * GothGirlsKnowMagic: Played with. She acts like a goth and is interested in magic, but while she tries to cast incantations from Wiccan spell books, they accomplish nothing. She only actually performs magic once she has the Staff of One. |
| 143 | * HeroicSecondWind: [[spoiler:After being defeated by her parents in hand-to-hand, Nico once again (unwillingly) taps into the powers of the Dark Dimension and knocks them out with a powerful blast.]] |
| 144 | * HotWitch: What she aspires to be. She's an attractive girl who catches the attention of Alex and [[spoiler:Karolina]], and eventually uses magic through the Staff of One. |
| 145 | * HeadphonesEqualIsolation: In the pilot, she taps on her earphones while talking to Alex to indicate to him that she doesn't care what he has to say. |
| 146 | * HowDoIShotWeb: |
| 147 | ** Struggles to actually control the Staff of One through most of the first season. The first time Nico makes use of it, she accidentally creates a snowstorm in her mom's study while reminiscing over one of her sister's snowflake paper crafts. |
| 148 | ** She's gotten better control of it by the second season, but is still working on getting around [[ItOnlyWorksOnce its limitations]] and struggles to maintain spells for long periods. She finally manages to tap into the staff's full power in "Hostile Takeover", [[spoiler: at [[TheseHandsHaveKilled significant]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone cost]].]] |
| 149 | * InTheBack: [[spoiler:She kills Jonah by stabbing him with the Staff of One from behind.]] |
| 150 | * InTheBlood: Her parents are also involved in the occult, [[spoiler: with the third season strongly implying that her mother's relatives are or were sorcerers of Kamer-Taj]], though she's initially unaware of it and independently came to magic. However, she doesn't get real magic until she obtains her mother's Staff of One. |
| 151 | * ItOnlyWorksOnce: The second season establishes that the Staff of One has the same limitation that it does in the comics- outside of simplistic effects, it can only cast a spell triggered by a particular command word once. Trying to use "Block" twice in a row during a training session gets her accidentally blasted by Chase, and she needs to come up with a new command when the team needs to hot-wire a car for a second time. |
| 152 | * KungFuWizard: She's a capable martial artist in addition to wielding the Staff of One. In "Split Up", she's able to fight her parents while incapable of tapping into the Staff due to PRIDE's dampening tech, and in season 3 [[spoiler: she takes on Jonah and later the Magistrate's Daughter in hand-to-hand after the Staff is destroyed, doing pretty well both times.]] |
| 153 | * LadyOfBlackMagic: One in training. She's an attractive, fashionable young woman with a dark, icy demeanor who likes to dress in black goth dresses, and learning to use magic through the Staff of One. |
| 154 | * TheLeader: Takes over as the group's leader when Alex's extended absences at the start of Season 2 forces somebody else to step up. She relinquishes the role back to him after [[spoiler: Darius is killed]], but maintains her position as the team's field leader in missions. |
| 155 | * LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The dark to Karolina's light; Nico is a surly brunette goth who cares about appearances and fashion. |
| 156 | * MindOverMatter: |
| 157 | ** After some time she can call the Staff of One to her hand willingly. |
| 158 | ** She can cast blast of telekinetic energy that sends Topher flying several feet back. [[spoiler:When using the power of the Dark Dimension, it's strong enough to destroy the PRIDE office and knock out her parents.]] |
| 159 | * MundaneUtility: First thing she does after accidentally activating the Staff of One for the first time? Use it to crank a stuck drawer open. |
| 160 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Nico is horrified after [[spoiler:killing Jonah.]] |
| 161 | * OfficialCouple: With Alex in Season 1, and later [[spoiler: Karolina.]] |
| 162 | * PromotedToLoveInterest: [[spoiler: For Karolina. At the time the series aired, the comics had only suggested Nico might have feelings for her, and then only after [[GreenEyedEpiphany Xavin showed up.]] Here, Nico kisses Karolina back at the first opportunity and season one ends with them in a relationship.]] |
| 163 | * ShootTheMageFirst: Her magical powers are by far the most problematic for AWOL due to their versatility, and he tries to take her out first during his [[spoiler:attack on the Hostel.]] |
| 164 | * SquishyWizard: She can cast spells with the Staff of One, but has only the regular physical strength of a girl of her age and build. The second season establishes that she ''does'' have some martial-arts training, but is still a lightweight in a physical confrontation compared to Chase or Molly. |
| 165 | * StepfordSnarker: Despite reacting to events with either indifference or dripping sarcasm, she breaks down crying in the bathroom after staring at Amy's trophies. |
| 166 | * SummonToHand: After witnessing her mother perform this trick with the Staff of One in "Doomsday", she manages to pull it off herself in "Last Rites". |
| 167 | * SuperpowerLottery: The Staff of One allows her to do pretty much anything so long as she can think of the right words to make it happen. The only things really stopping Nico from solving every conflict in a blink is the Staff's built-in limitations and her own inexperience with using it. [[spoiler:That and the fact that the staff has been trying to control her.]] |
| 168 | * TokenWizard: While the rest of her team is either a BadassNormal or their powers are a product of {{science|Hero}} or [[SuperpowerfulGenetics genetics]], Nico is the only member of the team who's powers are overtly magical in nature. She is prominently reliant on the Staff of One in casting spells, [[spoiler:though in "[[Recap/Runaways2017S03E10CheatTheGallows Cheat the Gallows]]", the version of her from that alternate future learns how to practice sorcery without it.]] |
| 169 | * {{Tsundere}}: She gives Alex a hard time and tells him to not read anything into her calling him for help, or into her covering up their activities through a FakeoutMakeout, and assures him that she definitely didn't want him to kiss her goodnight... and then she starts grinning goofily the moment she turns around. |
| 170 | * TwoferTokenMinority: A bisexual Japanese-American. |
| 171 | * TwoFirstNames: "Nico" and "Minoru" are both given names in Japan. |
| 172 | * TheUnfavourite: Has a strained relationship with her mother, who bans her from entering Amy's room. |
| 173 | [[/folder]] |
| 174 | |
| 175 | [[folder:Karolina Dean]] |
| 176 | !!''Karolina Dean'' |
| 177 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/karolina_dean_s3.png]] |
| 178 | [[caption-width-right:300: ''"Rebelling. What's it like?"'']] |
| 179 | !!!'''Species:''' Human-Gibborim hybrid |
| 180 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 181 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/VirginiaGardner, Creator/ValentinaGordon (young) |
| 182 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Runaways|2017}}'' |
| 183 | |
| 184 | ->''"It's just... everything my whole life has been for my mom and the church. Then I learned that what I thought was the ultimate good is somehow a part of the worst thing imaginable. And what if what I do is connected to that? What does that make me?"'' |
| 185 | |
| 186 | The daughter of Leslie Dean, leader of the Church of Gibborim, and former teen star Frank Dean. She is seen as the youth face of the church, but Karolina resents the restrictions her status gives her and struggles with her identity in more ways than one. |
| 187 | ---- |
| 188 | * AdaptationSpeciesChange: [[spoiler: She is half a Gibborim instead of a Majesdanian, though the Gibborim here are basically the MCU's version of the Majesdanians]] |
| 189 | * AllTheOtherReindeer: Implied to be a victim of bullying at school, largely due to her membership in the setting's ChurchOfHappyology. Later, after her near-rape, it's shown more up-close with her being accosted for her being a 'lightweight slut' and people spreading rumours about her. |
| 190 | * AttemptedRape: Is nearly sexually assaulted by Chase's lacrosse buddies after passing out at a party. Chase saves her. |
| 191 | * CainAndAbel: Unbeknownst to her she has a nasty half-sister and an ''extremely'' nasty half-brother. |
| 192 | * ClosetGay: She realizes that she's gay in the first episode, but tries to cover it up, because she's from a religious family where that's frowned upon. She eventually stops hiding it after realizing that Nico returns her feelings. |
| 193 | * ComingOutStory: Just like in the comics, it takes time before she reveals her sexuality. She reveals it by kissing Nico, [[TheBigDamnKiss who kisses her back]]. |
| 194 | * DaddysGirl: Unlike the other kids, she's quite close with her father. It's why she [[spoiler:tells him about the team's discoveries. Unfortunately, this trust is misplaced, as he proceeds to rat them out to Jonah]]. |
| 195 | * DrowningMySorrows: In "Metamorphosis," starts drinking before the party and doesn't stop until she [[spoiler: flies after falling off the roof.]] |
| 196 | * DrivesLikeCrazy: Her taking the team to rescue Alex is clearly the first time she's ever driven a car. |
| 197 | * EverythingsBetterWithRainbows: When her bracelet is removed, her entire body glows like a rainbow. |
| 198 | * {{Flight}}: She discovers that she can fly in the sixth episode, much to [[TheJoyOfFirstFlight her delight]]. |
| 199 | * FlyingFirepower: As her abilities develop, she learns to fly and eventually manages to upgrade her light blasts into [[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser Beams]], giving her the same role on the team as her comic counterpart. |
| 200 | * {{Glamour}}: Her bracelet appears to function as this, as she looks like a regular human girl when she wears it. Her powers come out when she takes it off. |
| 201 | ** By the second season she's learned to suppress her powers even when not wearing her bracelet, thanks to [[spoiler: Jonah's tutelage]]. |
| 202 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Thanks to Chase's AdaptationalDyeJob, she's now the token blonde of the group, and aside from Molly is definitely the nicest of the bunch as well. She also flatly refuses to assume their parents are evil at face value and is determined to give them the benefit of the doubt. |
| 203 | * HalfHumanHybrid: Her mother is human, [[spoiler: while her father is the alien Jonah.]] |
| 204 | * HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Her glowing power doesn't seem to actually ''do'' anything offensively, though it at least makes for a nice distraction in battle. She ''can'' fire energy beams, however, as well as fly, so its not like its her only ability. |
| 205 | * HumanAliens: She appears human when wearing the bracelet that contains her true form. |
| 206 | * HybridPower: Her father is interested in her because she's capable of using Gibborim powers without burning out her body. |
| 207 | * IAmNotLeftHanded: In "Radio On" Karolina reveals that she now ([[spoiler:after her training with Jonah]]) doesn't need her bracelet anymore to control her powers. |
| 208 | * IJustWantToBeNormal: Her lofty social status is made worse when she discovers her powers and her mother’s activities. |
| 209 | * INeedAFreakingDrink: Her reaction to all the drama in episode six. |
| 210 | * JustFriends: Completely uninterested in Chase romantically, but that has nothing to do with Chase himself. Just that she [[LipstickLesbian prefers women]] instead. |
| 211 | * LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The light to Nico's dark, as she's a sunny blonde who dresses in fashionable clothing and is the TokenReligiousTeammate. |
| 212 | * LipstickLesbian: |
| 213 | ** She's very feminine, and is all but stated to be into women. She watches two girls kissing with interest in the pilot, shows zero interest in Chase's advances, and in "Metamorphosis" she all but tells Nico that she has feelings for her. |
| 214 | ** Then, in "Doomsday", [[spoiler: Karolina gets to kiss Nico. Who kisses her back!]] |
| 215 | * LongingLook: Before she came out, there are many occassions where Karolina just stares or glances at Nico, some of which are done in a subtle way. |
| 216 | * LukeIAmYourFather: Tuns out [[spoiler:Jonah is her biological father.]] |
| 217 | * MoralMyopia: [[spoiler:She blames Nico for the death of her father, conveniently forgetting that he murdered her sister.]] |
| 218 | * NotQuiteHuman: ''Something'' is up with her biology that her bracelet is implied to suppress; when she takes it off her body starts glowing like a rainbow. |
| 219 | * OfficialCouple: [[spoiler: With Nico, as of the end of season one.]] |
| 220 | * OneHeadTaller: Than Nico, [[spoiler: who she has to lean down to kiss.]] |
| 221 | * PowerLimiter: Her bracelet hides her powers. |
| 222 | * PromotedToLoveInterest: [[spoiler: For Nico.]] |
| 223 | * SlutShaming: Subject to this by [[AlphaBitch Eiffel]] in "Fifteen," who blames Chase's falling out with the lacrosse team on Karolina's promiscuity. Especially egregious since the "promiscuity" she's referring to was Karolina being a victim of AttemptedRape. |
| 224 | * StepfordSmiler: In contrast with the rest of the group, who have all become emotionally withdrawn in various ways, Karolina copes with her problems by putting on a happy face and compulsively posting positive images on social media. Nico succinctly sums up that she hides behind makeup the same way Karolina hides behind her smile. |
| 225 | * SuperCuteSuperpowers: Her body becomes rainbow colored and glittery, and she can fire very weak projectiles of the same colors. Lampshaded by Darius, who dismissively calls her abilities "cute." |
| 226 | * TokenReligiousTeammate: She belongs to a church and is very open about her faith, but it's more in the vein of [[ChurchOfHappyology Scientology]] than any major world religion. It's apparently a positive enough influence that she's depicted as being the most open-minded and positive member of the group, in-spite of Gert's initial bitterness towards her, and she despairs at the thought that her faith is likely tied up with PRIDE's misdeeds. |
| 227 | * TwoferTokenMinority: She's a half-alien lesbian. |
| 228 | * WhiteSheep: She's the only genuinely heroic member of The Gibborim Magistrate's family, possibly along with her infant sister born in season 3. For that matter, she's also the most heroic member of either side of her human families too. |
| 229 | * YouAreInCommandNow: [[spoiler: Leslie tells Karolina that with her power display in front of the Church in "Earth Angel", she is gonna be their new messiah now. Karolina is not happy to hear it and refuses to take it over.]] |
| 230 | * YouKilledMyFather: Despite everything he did, Karolina is not happy after [[spoiler:Nico kills Jonah.]] |
| 231 | [[/folder]] |
| 232 | |
| 233 | [[folder:Gertrude "Gert" Yorkes]] |
| 234 | !!''Gertrude "Gert" Yorkes'' |
| 235 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gert_yorkes_s3.png]] |
| 236 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"When someone like me walks through a door, no one really turns my way. Unless I just barfed orange juice onto my shoes."'']] |
| 237 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 238 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 239 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ArielaBarer |
| 240 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Runaways|2017}}'' |
| 241 | |
| 242 | A "[[SoapboxSadie social justice warrior]]" who masks her insecurities with causes. The daughter of Dale and Stacey Yorkes. |
| 243 | ---- |
| 244 | * AdaptationalCurves: Though not quite Amazonian here, she's a bit thinner than her counterpart in the comics. |
| 245 | * AdaptationExplanationExtrication: Subverted. While [[ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames she doesn't actually refer to herself as "Arsenic"]] in the series, an advertisement for a local showing of ''Film/ArsenicAndOldLace'' prompts Gert to compare herself and the dinosaur to their cinematic namesakes, along with other famous twosomes in pop culture. "Old Lace" eventually sticks for the dinosaur. |
| 246 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: In the comics, Gert often acted like an irritable jerk to everyone, while this version of Gert is more approachable and nicer with her snarky comments coming off as more playful than biting like Comics!Gert. |
| 247 | * TheBeastmaster: Forms a [[BondCreatures bond connection]] with Old Lace, her parents' genetically-engineered dinosaur, allowing the two to communicate empathically and Gert to control Old Lace with mental commands. |
| 248 | * BigSisterInstinct: While she'll be sarcastic with Molly like with everyone else, Gert cares a lot for her adopted sister. |
| 249 | * ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: Invoked when she refers to her pet deinonychus as "the Old Lace to my Arsenic", referencing her comic book codename, which itself is a ShoutOut to the play ''Theatre/ArsenicAndOldLace''. |
| 250 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: She chastises Molly for wanting to join their school's cheerleading squad [[StrawFeminist in the name of feminism]]. |
| 251 | * GreenEyedMonster: She verbally lashes out at Karolina a few times after she realizes that Chase has a crush on her. |
| 252 | * {{Hypocrite}}: Karolina calls her out on tearing other women down more than anyone, despite claiming to be all about female empowerment. Also, she is entirely unapologetic about [[PowerPerversionPotential using a pair of X-ray goggles to look through Chase's clothes,]] even though that flies in the face of every feminist principle of anti-objectification and bodily autonomy. In fairness, she's a teen who is just discovering feminism, not the perfect poster child of the movement, and he didn't seem bothered by it, though he does call out the DoubleStandard of her donning a lead apron before lending him the goggles. |
| 253 | * InformedJudaism: Or at least her parents are, why she objects to them being part of the Gibborim cult. |
| 254 | * JerkassBall: Justified. In Season 2 Gert is extremely on the edge as a result of withdrawal from her antidepressants. |
| 255 | * TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: She's initially freaked out by the empathic link she shares with Old Lace, but quickly comes around to how cool it is. |
| 256 | * RaceLift: Subverted. Though she's portrayed by a Latina actress, there's no indication that this version of the character shares that background.[[note]]The actors who portrayed her parents aren't of Latin descent, either. Instead, her father's actor is Jewish-American and her mother's actress is Irish-American.[[/note]] However, as a possible nod to Ariela Barrer's Latin heritage, Gert is able to speak Spanish fluently. |
| 257 | * RelatedInTheAdaptation: In the show, Gert is Molly's adoptive sister. |
| 258 | * SanitySlippage: It's revealed in the second season that she has an unidentified psychiatric disorder, and is now without access to meds thanks to the team being on the run. Her behavior gets more and more erratic and unstable as time goes on, [[spoiler: until she finally snaps and checks in at a hospital in a desperate bid for medicine, ultimately resulting in an uncomfortable encounter between Chase and his mom.]] |
| 259 | * ShipperWithAnAgenda: She encourages Karolina to act on her feelings for Nico, at least in part because this would encourage Chase to stop mooning over Karolina. |
| 260 | * SiblingYinYang: Gert is an unpopular pessimist, while Molly is a well-liked optimist. |
| 261 | * SingleGirlSeeksMostPopularGuy: Her crush on Chase is ''very'' obvious. |
| 262 | * SoapboxSadie: She's very invested in social issues (particularly on the subject of feminism and the modern patriarchy), much to the chagrin of those around her. |
| 263 | * SpeaksFluentAnimal: She's somehow able to communicate perfectly with Old Lace the deinonychus, which is a complete surprise to her parents. |
| 264 | * StrawFeminist: Played with. Though she plays up every cliché and stereotype, Gert is portrayed as more akin to someone who just discovered feminism and has found in it a way to vent her insecurities and frustrations. Though she genuinely believes in her ideals, she's still an insecure teenager who often lashes out at girls she deems prettier, like a lot of girls her age. Karolina outright calls her out on how her behaviour flies in the face of what feminism is meant to be. She does, however, support Karolina after it is revealed two members of the Lacrosse team tried to rape her while passed out and Eiffel engages in UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming and SlutShaming. Later, she is the one who notices Karolina's struggle with her sexuality and reaches out. |
| 265 | [[/folder]] |
| 266 | |
| 267 | [[folder:Chase Stein]] |
| 268 | !!''Chase Stein'' |
| 269 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chase_stein_s3.png]] |
| 270 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"Calc's boring. I like practical applications."'']] |
| 271 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 272 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 273 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/GreggSulkin |
| 274 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Runaways|2017}}'' |
| 275 | |
| 276 | ->''"As messed up as things are right now, at least we know the truth, who our friends are, who our parents are. It might suck, but it's real."'' |
| 277 | |
| 278 | The son of Victor and Janet Stein, Chase is a very capable engineer but chafes under his father's high expectations; he'd rather play lacrosse or tinker with personal projects than keep his grades up. |
| 279 | ---- |
| 280 | * AdaptationalDyeJob: Has blond hair in the comics, but is brown-haired here. |
| 281 | * AdaptationalIntelligence: Chase is seen designing and attempting to build the [[TrickedOutGloves fistigons]], unlike his comics counterpart who just happened to pick them up. He later helps his father build the final version. |
| 282 | * AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler:Downplayed. Although Chase does join up with PRIDE eventually, they're portrayed as a bit more sympathetic compared to Alex's EvilAllAlong reveal in the comics and his own motivation for doing so is also fairly sympathetic. However he still ends up being the traitor to the team. When he organises a meet with his former friends, lying that PRIDE was unaware that they were meeting. Putting them in a secluded area where they can be picked off. While he was unaware that PRIDE where using him to get to the Runaways, he still used their trust in him to set up a meet, leading to their capture.]] |
| 283 | * AmbiguouslyJewish: Stein is Jewish surname and his actor is Jewish, but his ethnicity isn't mentioned or referenced nonetheless. |
| 284 | * AntagonisticOffspring: Among the kids, he has the worst relationship with his parents, and is by far the fastest to assume the worst about whatever PRIDE is up to. This changes in Season 2, where Alex is the most antagonistic and even manages to trick the Wilders into be arrested. |
| 285 | * TheBGrade: Struggling to earn good grades in Spanish class, which puts him at odds with his extremely education-focused dad. |
| 286 | * BigManOnCampus: He's a star lacrosse player in his high school, and quite popular because of it. |
| 287 | * BrilliantButLazy: He's as smart as his father but prefers to learn about practical uses and applications. If he feels that it has no real use in the real world, he doesn't give a shit. |
| 288 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: [[spoiler: As the Future!Runaways disappear after they save Gert, it's entirely possible that ''Chase'', out of all the other genuises and SufficientlyAdvancedAlienRaces that have tried it, is the first to discover ''actual'' time travel, rather than the Quantum Realm variation that just creates branched timelines]]. |
| 289 | * CompositeCharacter: [[spoiler:He ends up betraying the team for PRIDE, like Alex does in the comics]]. |
| 290 | * DrivesLikeCrazy: To the point where Alex uses ''two'' seatbelts just to be safe. |
| 291 | * DumbJock: Subverted. Although he's introduced as a lacrosse player with slipping grades, he's [[ObfuscatingStupidity smarter than he lets on]]. As he mentions in "Kingdom", he's not so much BookDumb as favoring practical applications of his studies. |
| 292 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: Alex catches him designing what will become his "[[TrickedOutGloves fistigons]]", causing Chase to lash out defensively. |
| 293 | * GadgeteerGenius: He's the one who invented the Fistigons in this continuity. He also fixes up a derelict car for the team to drive around in Season 2, and is generally Alex's go-to assistant for tech work. |
| 294 | * GeniusBruiser: He's a heavily-muscled athlete and handy in a scrap, and if his work with the Fistigons are anything to go by, he's definitely inherited at least some of his dad's technical acumen. |
| 295 | * HopelessSuitor: [[LipstickLesbian Karolina]] is utterly uninterested in his advances. |
| 296 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: [[spoiler: Despite the horrible things their parents have done. Including multiple murders spanning over a decade. Chase still decides to return to PRIDE out of love for his father. Then he organizes a meeting with his former friends at PRIDE's request. This leads an ambush and capture of Karolina and Gert .]] |
| 297 | * JerkJock: Subverted. He plays lacrosse and ''acts'' like an entitled douchebag, but wasn't always that way. He starts making an effort to be nicer after the group reunites, and quits the team in "Fifteen". |
| 298 | * JustFriends: Ultimately this to Karolina. She's completely uninterested in him romantically despite his advances, but it's not because of Chase himself, but because she just doesn't [[LipstickLesbian swing that way]] romantically. |
| 299 | * MrFanservice: His introduction is working out shirtless in his room, and he frequently wears tight clothing that highlights his buff physique. Even gets an (exceedingly brief) nude scene in "Destiny" when Gert accidentally gets an eyeful of him while using the x-ray goggles. Chase seems to consider himself this InUniverse as well, referring to himself as a "strapping lacrosse player" in a conversation with Gert. |
| 300 | * MouthOfSauron: After [[spoiler:joining PRIDE, he becomes their envoy to the Runaways, trying to convince them to follow in his steps to become the new heads of the organization]] |
| 301 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: Chase organizes a meet with the Runaways at the direction of PRIDE. Lying to his former friends that he is meeting them without PRIDE's knowledge. When he fails to convince them to return to PRIDE, the Runaways are in a secluded spot. All in one place ready to be picked off by their parents [[KryptoniteFactor by drones equipped to take them down.]] |
| 302 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: He pretends to be dumber than he actually is. Partially, it's to fit in with the cool jocks at school, and partially to low-key rebel against his father. |
| 303 | * OnlySaneMan: Starts shaping up to be this in Season 2, where his own CharacterDevelopment in the first season highlights the need for more of the same among the rest of the team, particularly opposite Gert's SanitySlippage. |
| 304 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Quits the lacrosse team because of how it tolerates the boys who attempted to rape Karolina. |
| 305 | * SympathyForTheDevil: In "Last Waltz", much to everybody else's frustration, Chase keeps making excuses for their parents. [[spoiler: It culminates with him leaving the group and then agreeing to join PRIDE.]] |
| 306 | * SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The athletic, blunt, and popular Manly Man to Alex's nerdy and introverted Sensitive Guy. Subverted in that Alex is the more ruthless and driven of the two. |
| 307 | * TrickedOutGloves: The Fistigons, which he and his father build in "Kingdom", are a high-tech pair of gloves that can fire projectiles. |
| 308 | * WellDoneSonGuy: His father is an abusive genius. Chase strives desperately to be TheAce because of it. However, he only gets a genuine emotional connection with his father when said father walks in on him tinkering with his Fistigons in papa's workroom. |
| 309 | --> '''Victor:''' That thing is... work of a child. You got ahead of yourself. Don't worry about the execution. Not, not yet. Just tell me your idea. Everything. What it does. How it feels. How it makes you feel. Right now it is perfect in your mind, and that is where you need to live while we build this thing. Take me there. What is this thing called?\ |
| 310 | '''Chase:''' ... Fistigons. |
| 311 | * WhatYouAreInTheDark: When he sees his buddies carrying an unconscious Karolina to an upstairs bedroom at a WildTeenParty, and goes after them. When he sees what they're planning to do, he immediately launches himself at them and spends several episodes hiding what he'd done from the rest of the Runaways. |
| 312 | --> '''Jock:''' It's been all weekend, and still no apology?\ |
| 313 | '''Chase:''' And you're not going to get one. |
| 314 | [[/folder]] |
| 315 | |
| 316 | [[folder:Molly Hernandez]] |
| 317 | !!''Molly Hayes Hernandez'' |
| 318 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/molly_hernandez_s3.png]] |
| 319 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"You try lifting an SUV with your bare hands. It's exhausting."'']] |
| 320 | !!!'''Species:''' Enhanced human |
| 321 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 322 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/AllegraAcosta, Creator/EvelynAngelos (young) |
| 323 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Runaways|2017}}'' |
| 324 | |
| 325 | ->''"That's what I love about you Molly. Our parents are killers, the cops are crooked and we almost got killed by some gang members. But you see it as everything is going great."'' |
| 326 | -->-- '''Karolina Dean''' |
| 327 | |
| 328 | {{The baby of the bunch}} who wants to find her place in the world. The daughter of Gene and Alice Hernandez; following their deaths, she was adopted and raised by the Yorkeses. |
| 329 | ---- |
| 330 | * AdaptationDyeJob: Has brown hair in the comics, but black hair in the show, reflecting her RaceLift. Her eyes also glow gold instead of [[PurpleIsPowerful reddish-purple]] when her powers are in use. |
| 331 | * AdaptationNameChange: Played with. Her name in the comics is Molly ''Hayes''. Presumably, the change is to accommodate her RaceLift. Hayes is still her middle name, as revealed in "Last Waltz". |
| 332 | * AdaptationPersonalityChange: Molly's a bubbly GenkiGirl in the comics; this Molly is a bit shyer and more withdrawn, though her original personality is still there. |
| 333 | * AdaptationSpeciesChange: She's a mutant in the comics, but since mutants were {{exiled from continuity}} in the [=MCU=], she will not be one in the show. During season 1 it's left ambiguous as to where her power comes from, and the Yorkeses speculate as to if she ''always'' had her powers (which ''would'' make her a mutant), or if it's the result of something that happened prior to the fire. [[spoiler:It is later revealed her powers come from being exposed to rocks that her biological parents were researching, making her a mutate instead of a mutant.]] |
| 334 | * AdaptationalUpbringingChange: Molly was orphaned at an early age and thus was adopted by Gert's family, whereas her [[ComicBook/{{Runaways}} comic-book counterpart]] had her own family. The result is a much closer bond between the two of them than existed in the comics. |
| 335 | * AdaptationalWimp: This version of Molly can only use her SuperStrength for a couple seconds at a time, and it's [[CastFromHitPoints extremely tiring for her to do so]]. Furthermore, said super strength only allows her to pull trucks or rips walls open with great effort. While this makes her the strongest of the Runaways, it absolutely pales in comparison to Molly Hayes from the comics. In the source material, she can use her powers much more freely, and while it does drain her it's not nearly to this extent. And that super strength dwarfs this version of Molly, considering she can bench press 25+ tons with ease. For reference, this version of Molly can pull trucks if she tries ''really hard'', while comics Molly can [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CqFY83nUIAEVt5m.jpg lift a similar-sized vehicle over her head as if it were nothing]]. |
| 336 | * AgeLift: A slight example. While she's introduced in the comics as a pre-teen, here she's in high school with the rest of her friends. |
| 337 | * TheBabyOfTheBunch: She's the youngest of the group, and is treated as such by the others. She actually manages to exploit this trope, as she complains that nobody takes her seriously to [[spoiler:deflect Catherine's suspicions about what she and the other kids were up to the night they discovered PRIDE's activities; as the Wilders previously suspected her because she dropped her hairclip by the entrance to the lair]]. |
| 338 | * BadLiar: In "Metamorphosis," she accidentally lets slip that [[spoiler:she saw PRIDE's activities to Catherine]]. |
| 339 | * CallingParentsByTheirName: She refers to the Yorkeses as "Dale" and "Stacey," because even after living with them for years she doesn't consider them her real parents. |
| 340 | * CastFromHitPoints: Using her powers for more than a couple of seconds at a time is extremely draining, to the point that she passes out in an alley in "Fifteen" after tearing out part of a wall in an attempt to escape Mrs. Wilder. |
| 341 | * CuteBruiser: Her super-strength is contrasted by her bubbly personality and young age. |
| 342 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: {{Inverted}}. The group has all grown apart since Amy's death, and while most of them are antagonistic towards each other, everybody still seems to like Molly. When the group is lashing out at each other in the pilot, Chase gets to Molly and admits that he actually does not have anything against her. |
| 343 | * GlowingEyesOfDoom: Her eyes glow [[SupernaturalGoldEyes gold]] when using her powers, as can be seen in the picture. Played with in the sense that she's actually a very nice person and hasn't yet made any attempt to use her strength to hurt people. |
| 344 | * HappilyAdopted: She's been with the Yorkeses since her parents died, but doesn't show much angst over it. |
| 345 | * MenstrualMenace: Played with. The manifestation of her super-strength appears very much like a young girl's first period, and other characters assume it to be that. |
| 346 | * NiceGirl: The sweetest and most optimistic of the kids, making her very well-liked by the older ones. |
| 347 | * NotNowKiddo: The other kids dismiss her claims of being "super strong" until Molly lifts an [=SUV=] in "Kingdom." They're understandably impressed afterwards. |
| 348 | * ThePollyanna: Even with her adoptive parents' secrets looming over her, Molly is always friendly, upbeat, and optimistic. Lampshaded in "Refraction". |
| 349 | -->'''Molly:''' Maybe my true superpower is my positive attitude. |
| 350 | * RaceLift: Is portrayed by Latina actress Allegra Acosta, and has an AdaptationNameChange to "Hernandez". |
| 351 | * RealityIsUnrealistic: Allegra Acosta can pass for older, but she was fourteen years old at the time of the series' release; Molly's AgeLift is actually rather slight. |
| 352 | * RelatedInTheAdaptation: In the show, Molly is Gert's adopted sister. |
| 353 | * SiblingYinYang: Molly is a well-liked optimist, while Gert is an unpopular pessimist. |
| 354 | * SupernaturalGoldEyes: Her irises glow gold whenever her powers come to light. |
| 355 | * SuperStrength: A power she shares with her comic counterpart. She's still developing her abilities, but proves to be strong enough to crush metal with only pressure from her fingers, break down a locked door the rest of the group combined couldn't open, and even rip a concrete window block clean out of a wall. |
| 356 | * TragicKeepsake: She greatly treasures a cat hair clip that her mother gave her, and literally rips her room apart when it goes missing. |
| 357 | * TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: {{Downplayed}}, but the initial sign of her powers manifesting are painful cramps that everybody else assumes to be her first period. They continue to resurface as her strength develops. |
| 358 | ** More seriously invoked when it's revealed [[spoiler:that an early onset of her powers manifested during the fire that killed her parents, protecting her from the blaze.]] |
| 359 | * WhatTheHellHero: She calls out Nico for [[spoiler:never having trusted Topher and being responsible for his possible death. She even compares her to her mother.]] |
| 360 | [[/folder]] |
| 361 | |
| 362 | [[folder:Old Lace]] |
| 363 | !!''Old Lace'' |
| 364 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mcu_old_lace.png]] |
| 365 | [-[[caption-width-right:300:'''Stacey Yorkes:''' We created it for your protection. For our protection.]]-] |
| 366 | !!!'''Species:''' ''Deinonychus'' |
| 367 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 368 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' N/A |
| 369 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Runaways|2017}}'' |
| 370 | |
| 371 | ->''"We have a connection. [[Creator/AbbottAndCostello You're the Costello to my Abbott.]] [[Creator/MarxBrothers The Harpo to my Groucho.]] [[MythologyGag The Old Lace]] [[Theatre/ArsenicAndOldLace to my Arsenic.]]"'' |
| 372 | -->-- '''Gertrude "Gert" Yorkes''' |
| 373 | |
| 374 | A genetically engineered ''Deinonychus'' created by the Yorkeses to protect their children. She winds up becoming Gert's "emotional support dinosaur" and partner in crime. |
| 375 | ---- |
| 376 | * AdaptationExplanationExtrication: In the comics, her name went with Gert's codename "[[Theatre/ArsenicAndOldLace Arsenic]]". In "Hostile," Gert refers to her as "the Old Lace" to her "Arsenic" after seeing an advertisement for a local showing of their namesake play; it eventually sticks for the former. |
| 377 | * BadassAdorable: She's a terrifying raptor monster, but her interactions with Gert and Molly are surprisingly endearing. |
| 378 | * BondCreatures: With Gert, which Dale and Stacey are quite surprised by. [[spoiler:This gets turned against them when a Gibborm-possessed Stacey poisons Old Lace and what she experiences gets passed along.]] |
| 379 | * ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: Played straight until "Hostile", when Gert starts formally referring to her as Old Lace, much to the initial confusion of their friends. |
| 380 | * EmpathyPet: Like the emotionally guarded Gert, Old Lace is aloof bordering on hostile around the other teens. Around Gert's sister Molly on the other hand, the dinosaur is sweeter than a kitten. Their psychic bond is so strong that when [[spoiler:Old Lace is poisoned, Gert also suffers the symptoms.]] |
| 381 | * FluffyTheTerrible: She's a vicious dinosaur named after a classic Hollywood film. |
| 382 | * KidsLoveDinosaurs: Gert and Molly are understandably thrilled to have one in their basement, once she's under control. |
| 383 | * MusicSoothesTheSavageBeast: It's implied that she bonded with Gert after hearing her sing a lullaby. |
| 384 | * RaptorAttack: Although she's certainly a more realistic depiction of ''Deinonychus'' than [[Film/JurassicPark1993 Jurassic Park]]'s ''"Velociraptor"'', ''Deinonychus'' was much more feathered than depicted here, and likely had full, hawk-like wings on its arms, as well as having bird-like eyes. |
| 385 | [[/folder]] |
| 386 | |
| 387 | !!Associates |
| 388 | |
| 389 | [[folder:Topher]] |
| 390 | !!''Topher'' |
| 391 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/topher.png]] |
| 392 | %%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 393 | !!!'''Species:''' Enhanced human |
| 394 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 395 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JanLuisCastellanos |
| 396 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Runaways|2017}}'' |
| 397 | |
| 398 | A crafty runaway who schools the kids on their street game. |
| 399 | ---- |
| 400 | * AdaptationalSpeciesChange: Topher in the comics is a vampire. Because vampires haven't yet been introduced in the MCU, here he's an enhanced human with the same powers as Molly. |
| 401 | * AddledAddict: [[spoiler:Contrary to his claims, Topher is extremely addicted to the alien rocks, to the point where he murders a guard on the dig site over it.]] |
| 402 | * TheAgeless: [[spoiler:Turns out that the night that Molly's parents died, Topher was there on guard duty, and the alien rocks he found after the explosion apparently halted his aging process.]] |
| 403 | * CompositeCharacter: This version of Topher seems to combine him with Victor Mancha. His role as a street smart older kid who joins the team, [[spoiler:turns on them, and is accidentally killed]] comes from the former. His Latino heritage is taken from the latter. |
| 404 | * GratuitousSpanish: Almost to the point of it being a VerbalTic. |
| 405 | * InNameOnly: He has practically nothing in common with the comics version of Topher, outside of his name. |
| 406 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:When Topher hurls a big container at the Runaways, Chase blasts it away with his Fistigons and it nearly lands on the car with Gert inside. Topher is horrified at the sight and pushes the car away, getting squashed by the container himself in the process.]] |
| 407 | * RaceLift: His comic counterpart is white, but this version is Latino. |
| 408 | * SeparatedAtBirthCasting: Molly points out that they look alike. |
| 409 | * ShipTease: With Molly. |
| 410 | * UnreliableExpositor: [[spoiler:Topher's version of why his family kicked him out is later shown to be wrong, as they kicked him out after he accidentally put his father in a wheelchair.]] |
| 411 | [[/folder]] |
| 412 | |
| 413 | [[folder:Xavin]] |
| 414 | !!''Xavin'' |
| 415 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/xavin.png]] |
| 416 | %%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 417 | !!!'''Species:''' Xartan |
| 418 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' None |
| 419 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ClarissaThibeaux |
| 420 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Runaways|2017}}'' |
| 421 | |
| 422 | An alien from the planet Xartan with connections to Karolina. |
| 423 | ---- |
| 424 | * AdaptationalSpeciesChange: Xavin is a Skrull in the comics, but this version of the character is from a more obscure race in the comics, the Xartan. |
| 425 | * AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Xavin mentions previously not having a mouth or even being familiar with the concept of eating, so it's implied she took a human form after arriving on Earth. Invoked verbatim when she takes Karolina's form hoping Leslie will be comfortable with her. |
| 426 | * GenderFlip: Sorta. Xavin in the comics was a {{gender bender}} who would switch between male and female forms, but is presented as female here, though there's some implication that Xavin's people have a more complicated view of gender than humans. |
| 427 | * LastEpisodeNewCharacter: Sort of. While Xavin ''is'' referenced a bit earlier in season 2 and appears sporadically in the background in the last few episodes, it isn't until the season 2 finale that they are properly introduced and join up with the rest of the kids. |
| 428 | * TimeAbyss: Is millions of years old. |
| 429 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: Though it's unclear if shapeshifting is a biological feature of the Xartan, or just unique to Xavin. |
| 430 | [[/folder]] |
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