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| 15 | !! Spoilers for all works set prior to the end of ''Avengers: Endgame'' are unmarked. |
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| 20 | !!Stark Industries |
| 21 | |
| 22 | [[folder:Obadiah Stane / Iron Monger]] |
| 23 | !!''Obadiah Stane / Iron Monger'' |
| 24 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/stane_obadiah.jpg]] |
| 25 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"We're iron mongers; we make weapons."'']] |
| 26 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see the Iron Monger suit]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/iron_monger.jpg[softreturn]''"I've never really had a taste for this sort of thing, but I must admit I'm deeply enjoying the suit!"'']][[/labelnote]] |
| 27 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 28 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 29 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Stark Industries |
| 30 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JeffBridges |
| 31 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/PatrickFloersheim (European French), Creator/JoseLuisOrozco (Latin-American Spanish dub), Salvador Vives (European Spanish dub), Júlio Chaves (Brazilian Portuguese dub) |
| 32 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan1'' | ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'' [[note]]Flashback with archive footage from ''Iron Man''[[/note]] |
| 33 | |
| 34 | ->''"For thirty years, I've been holding you up! I built this company from nothing! And nothing is gonna stand in my way -- least of all, '''you...!'''"'' |
| 35 | |
| 36 | The CEO of Stark Industries, taking over after his friend Howard Stark died. His friendly image hides an amoral and sinister mind who seeks to use the Iron Man armor for his own ends. |
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| 38 | * AdaptationOriginConnection: In the MCU, Obadiah is a long-term business partner to both Tony Stark and his father. His betrayal is what leads to the creation of Iron Man. In the comics, he has no connection to Tony's origin, being simply a rival arms manufacturer. |
| 39 | * AdaptationalJerkass: He's worse in the novelization of the film (and ironically, closer to his original depiction in the comics). |
| 40 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: While still a ''very'' corrupt man who wants to destroy Tony's life and use his creations for the sake of a new grade of weapons, Stane bears a more polite demeanor compared to his vehement, obsessively hate-driven personality in the comics, does not drag Tony through sadistic mind games (instead just trying to get rid of him to save his skin, before fighting him head-on as the Iron Monger), and his troubled childhood is not implied to exist in the [=MCU=]; making him look much less of a brutal monster seeing life as a game that must be won at all costs, and far more like just a regular guy that let the power get to his head a long time ago. |
| 41 | * AlternateSelf: Has one on [[Recap/WhatIfS1E6WhatIfKillmongerRescuedTonyStark Earth-32938]] who never became Iron Monger and was instead exposed for his crimes and arrested. |
| 42 | * ArmCannon: The Iron Monger suit has a [[GatlingGood minigun]] mounted on the right forearm and a rocket launcher on the left. |
| 43 | * AxCrazy: Became one at the end of the movie. To clarify, he tries to kill Pepper and starts a violent rampage. He's willing to kill anyone, even children. |
| 44 | * AwesomeButImpractical: Even prior to Tony building other armors, the Iron Monger armor had many key weaknesses that were taken advantage of. It's larger size meant it wasn't suited for going through doors or other smaller openings, which allowed Pepper to escape him, as well being unable to see behind in time for a sneak attack. Most of its weaponry and wiring were also on the exterior, which would make it easier to disarm. And despite how durable it is, its bulky size made it slow to keep up with Tony at first and the metal it was made of wasn't as resistant to icing at high altitude. A lot of this can be justified as it was built to be a tank with legs and being more for ground combat, but since Tony was able to make armors that could take hits from beings like the Hulk or Thanos at such smaller sizes, Stane's armor was more a rough prototype than the ideal version. |
| 45 | * BadassBoast: |
| 46 | -->'''Iron Monger:''' And nothing is gonna stand in my way. Least of all... '''you'''. |
| 47 | * BaldOfEvil: Jeff Bridges was reported to be looking forward to shaving his head to portray Stane with this. |
| 48 | * BeardOfEvil: A well-groomed one, in contrast to Tony's goatee. |
| 49 | * BigBad: His attempts to take over Stark Industries drive the plot of ''Iron Man''. |
| 50 | * BigBadFriend: He's something like Tony's HonoraryUncle in the first film and plotted to have him killed. |
| 51 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: Pretends to be like Tony's cool mentor / uncle, looking out for him and his company, but turns out to have been behind the attack on him that started the whole film. |
| 52 | * BlackMarket: His source of income is [[ArmsDealer selling weapons to anyone with the money for them]]. His plot to have Tony killed is so he can engage in his dealings without someone watching over his shoulder. |
| 53 | * BondVillainStupidity: |
| 54 | ** Not cleaning out his inbox, for a start. |
| 55 | ** Leaving Tony alone in anguish and dying without his heart. (Though admittedly, Stane barely had enough time to do a victory jig as Coulson and Pepper were rapidly closing in.) |
| 56 | * BrokenArmorBossBattle: In Tony's duel with him, the massive Iron Monger suit is completely impervious to Tony's attacks. After an attempt to disable it with cold weather fails, Tony goes for an exposed power line on its neck, shutting off its visual systems and forcing Stane to open the armor and expose himself so he can aim. |
| 57 | * CarFu: He tries to crush Tony under an SUV. When that fails, he grabs a motorcycle and bats him away with it. |
| 58 | * CelebrityParadox: Thor's appearance after the first act in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' resembles [[Film/TheBigLebowski the Dude]] so much that Tony Stark even acknowledged this InUniverse in one scene by snarkily calling him "Lebowski". No mention of how Stane was portrayed by the Dude himself. |
| 59 | * TheChessmaster: He orchestrated the hit on Tony in Afghanistan and later locks him out of the company to continue his EvilPlan. |
| 60 | * ChewingTheScenery: Just that memetic line he delivered in the movie. (See LargeHam entry) |
| 61 | * ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Everyone he works with will eventually find themselves paralyzed and their stuff stolen. |
| 62 | * CigarChomper: It goes nicely with the corrupt businessman thing he has going. |
| 63 | * CorruptCorporateExecutive: He handed over Stark weaponry to the Ten Rings in exchange for using them on Tony's convoy. Tony is aghast when he finds out, as it means his uber-patriotic company has been "double-dealing" to terrorists and U.S. armed forces alike. |
| 64 | * CreateYourOwnHero: Tony's origin story began with Stane trying to assassinate him. Had Stane not bothered, Tony might well have stayed the apathetic ArmsDealer he was at the start of the movie. |
| 65 | * CutLexLuthorACheck: His motivation in the third act -- he sees the vast potential in the arc reactor and armor Tony has designed and plans to reproduce the technology and use it to create a new generation of weapons. |
| 66 | * DarkIsEvil: Stane's Iron Monger armor is primarily dark gray in color, and he deeply enjoys using it to inflict harm on those around him. |
| 67 | * DeadpanSnarker: The most obvious thing he and Tony have in common is witty banter. |
| 68 | * DisneyVillainDeath: Faceplants directly into the prototype arc reactor, causing the plant to blow up. |
| 69 | * DrunkOnTheDarkSide: Normally calm and AffablyEvil, Obadiah loses his cool after becoming the Iron Monger, and even [[LampshadeHanging realizes it]]: "I must admit, [[EvilFeelsGood I'm deeply enjoying the suit]]!" |
| 70 | * EvilChancellor: Not royalty or even part of the government, but still fills the role due to his position in Stark Industries. He was basically the company's regent. |
| 71 | * EvilCounterpart: |
| 72 | ** He turned the Mark I Iron Man suit into his Iron Monger suit, literally making him an evil Iron Man. |
| 73 | ** In their civilian identities, he and Tony were weapons manufacturers, except Tony realized the harm his work was doing and aimed to do good, while Obadiah was intentionally selling his weaponry to terrorists. |
| 74 | * EvilGloating: "''This'' is your legacy. A new generation of weapons, with this at its heart." |
| 75 | * EvilIsBigger: The Iron Monger suit is gigantic compared to the Iron Man suit, towering over Tony during their fight. Obadiah himself even acknowledges this: |
| 76 | -->'''Obadiah:''' I wish you could see my prototype. It's not as... ah, well not as ''conservative'' as yours. |
| 77 | * EvilKnockoff: His Iron Monger suit is this to Tony's Iron Man suit; a deliberate attempt to back-engineer a more powerful weapon from Tony's scrap-built first suit, prioritizing more conventional weaponry and power over the trial-and-error perfection that gives even the under-powered Iron Man some advantages over a fully charged Iron Monger. |
| 78 | * EvilMentor: He tries to steer Tony over to his line of thinking; "We're Iron Mongers". |
| 79 | * EvilPlan: He arranged for Tony's murder and the takeover of Stark Industries. Later, he adds "stealing Tony's prototype armor and repurposing it" to that plan. |
| 80 | * EvilSoundsDeep: The Iron Monger makes his voice sound deeper and more menacing when he's got the helmet on. [[EvilIsHammy And a hell of a lot hammier, too.]] |
| 81 | -->'''Iron Monger:''' '''IMPRESSIVE! YOU'VE UPGRADED YOUR ARMOR! ''I'VE HAD SOME UPGRADES OF MY OWN!''''' |
| 82 | * FauxAffablyEvil: He's a double-dealing arms trader who initiates a coup against Tony with the board of directors to lock him out of the company. On the other hand, he's a jovial wise-cracker who brings Tony pizza from New York (Tony lives in Malibu), rides around on a Segway, and [[NiceToTheWaiter treats his employees well]] (unless he's in a bad mood). In the film's climax, he compliments Tony's arc reactor design even as he casually mentions ordering a hit on Tony, and takes the arc reactor from his chest and leaves him for dead. |
| 83 | * FlawedPrototype: Claims his suit is more advanced than Tony's in every way. However, he's talking about terms of strength and endurance. Tony did some testing of his own and knows about a few design flaws Obi didn't. |
| 84 | -->'''Tony:''' How'd you solve the icing problem?\ |
| 85 | '''Obadiah:''' ''[as his suit shuts down from the cold]'' Icing problem?\ |
| 86 | '''Tony:''' Might wanna look into it. |
| 87 | * GreenEyedMonster: Definitely a part of his motivation. He thinks he's been "holding [Tony] up" for almost three decades and resents being pushed into the background since he took over the company (literally, in the montage of magazine posters shown at the beginning of the film). |
| 88 | * LargeHam: |
| 89 | ** EvilIsHammy, after all. Best exemplified by the PunctuatedForEmphasis gem of a quote he gives to one of the scientists at Stark Industries that was so over the top and memorable, it reappeared in a flashback [[spoiler:with said scientist]] in ''Spider-Man: Far From Home'' which came out ''eleven years'' after ''Iron Man'': |
| 90 | --->'''Stane:''' Tony Stark was able to build this IN A CAVE!...''WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!!'' |
| 91 | ** His ham becomes an ExaggeratedTrope once he gets the Iron Monger suit and practically every line has him shouting at the top of his lungs. Though in fairness, this could partially be due to him speaking over the loud noises of his and Tony’s suits along with all of the mayhem going on during their battle. |
| 92 | --->'''Stane:''' HOW IRONIC TONY! TRYING TO RID THE WORLD OF WEAPONS, YOU GAVE IT ITS BEST ONE EVER! AND NOW, I’M GONNA KILL YOU WITH IT! |
| 93 | * ManipulativeBastard: Manipulates Tony out of the company and uses and discards the Ten Rings when they are no longer useful. |
| 94 | * MeaningfulName: |
| 95 | ** Tony often refers to his mentor/father figure as "Obie". Obie = Obi = [[Franchise/StarWars Obi-Wan]]. |
| 96 | ** "Monger" is an archaic English word for seller or dealer, which survives in words like "fishmonger" but now often has a negative connotation as in "warmonger" or "gossipmonger". |
| 97 | * MightyGlacier: [[DownplayedTrope Relatively speaking]], the Iron Monger isn't quite as fast or agile as Tony's Mark III armor (even its flight takeoff starts out slow, but soon gains speed afterward) but completely surpasses it in both firepower and durability. |
| 98 | * MiniMecha: The Iron Monger suit is closer to this than PoweredArmor. |
| 99 | * MirrorCharacter: To Darren Cross. Both of them are {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s who attempt to take control over the company that they worked for out of jealousy of the man running it. They also both end up fighting against the main character of their respective movies in a knockoff of their similarly powered suit. |
| 100 | * NiceJobFixingItVillain: Had Stane not ordered the hit on Tony, Iron Man never would have been created, and the MCU would have been doomed as a result. Without Iron Man, [[Film/TheAvengers2012 New York would have been nuked, possibly without stopping the Chitauri invasion]], [[Film/IronMan3 Killian would have easily succeeded]], [[Film/AvengersEndgame and Thanos's snap couldn't have been undone]]. And that's without getting into the ripple effect of how other heroes and their movies would have been affected. All this and more had Stane not ordered the hit on Tony. |
| 101 | * NoHonorAmongThieves: Perturbed by Raza's refusal to kill Tony, which came about because he short-changed them, Stane later meets with him in the desert to talk terms. However, Raza no longer has any collateral with which to bargain, and Stane simply disposes of him and his goons. |
| 102 | * NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Stane loves getting very close to people and putting his arm around them, whether he's trying to butter them up or intimidate them. |
| 103 | * PetTheDog: When he's berating William Ginter Riva over the failed attempt at making the Iron Monger suit functional and Riva tells him bluntly that he ''isn't'' Tony Stark (for context, he had just been told that Tony had built his own first suit in a cave with a box of scraps), Stane simply calms down and tells William to stop worrying and get some rest, because, despite his best efforts, the only one capable of getting the suit to work is, indeed, Tony Stark. |
| 104 | * PlayingBothSides: As the man running the day-to-day operations of Stark Industries, he sold cutting-edge weaponry to the U.S. Military ''and'' the terrorists and rival nations they were fighting. |
| 105 | * PragmaticVillainy: It didn't stop him from trying, but he admits to having worried that having Tony killed would be like "killing the golden goose". |
| 106 | * PreMortemOneLiner: Though interrupted. |
| 107 | -->'''Iron Monger:''' Your services are no longer required. |
| 108 | * TheResenter: Stane grew too comfortable running the company during Tony's adolescence, and was pissed after Tony decided to take control once he came of age. |
| 109 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: He's small-time as far as MCU villains go. A one-off corrupt businessman whose big goal is selling BlackMarket weapons. But without him trying to wax Tony, Iron Man never becomes a thing. So in a roundabout way, [[spoiler:he helps save the universe.]] |
| 110 | * StarterVillain: For Iron Man, and the first BigBad of the MCU. |
| 111 | * SuddenlyShouting: Stane is initially civil and composed in his conversation with Riva about the latter's inability to recreate a miniaturized Arc Reactor. However, his patience grows thin very quickly and starts shouting about how Tony Stark was able to build a miniaturized Arc Reactor in a cave with a box of scraps. |
| 112 | * SuperPrototype: The Iron Monger Armor is basically Tony's Mark I Armor repurposed into a MiniMecha. |
| 113 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: Midway through the film, Stane buys some pizza from New York while waiting for Tony to return to his Malibu mansion. The latter implies that Stane does this whenever something business-related goes bad. |
| 114 | * TreacherousAdvisor: Already a major early villain from the comics, Obadiah was retooled as having co-founded Stark Industries with Tony's dad, who then served as a mentor to Tony and the [[NumberTwo second-in-command of his company]] when the elder Stark died and Tony inherited the company. Naturally, this being an adaptation, Obadiah turns out to be more villainous than he lets on. |
| 115 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: He is indirectly responsible for a MistreatmentInducedBetrayal that happened years later and has potentially long-lasting implications. [[spoiler:The scientist he yelled to about Tony Stark making an Arc Reactor "in a cave with a box of scraps" went on to join a group of disgruntled former Stark Industries employees to help create Mysterio. This in turn indirectly lead to a near collapse of the multiverse that was only stopped by erasing all knowledge of Peter Parker's identity.]] |
| 116 | * UriahGambit: He sends Tony on a sales trip to Afghanistan to demonstrate Stark Industries' latest missile technology to the American military and hires the local Ten Rings cell to attack his convoy and kill him, so Stane can take full control of the company. The plan fails when Stark survives the attack (barely), and the Ten Rings figure out who he is, keeping him alive to build weapons for them while demanding more money from Stane. |
| 117 | * VillainHasAPoint: Up until the third act where he steals Tony's arc reactor and leaves him for dead (not to mention all his subsequent actions), Stane's reasons for his villainy are rather understandable. |
| 118 | ** Although ordering a hit on him takes things too far, Stane is absolutely correct in pointing out Tony is irresponsible and difficult to work with - blowing off events where he is the guest of honor and letting the business side of things be handled squarely by Stane for years, all while spending money on idle luxuries. [[DownplayedTrope That being said,]] a lot of the companies' success could also be attributed to Tony's work as an engineer in the first place. [[NiceJobFixingItVillain Also, Stane's way of dealing with Tony pretty much made him realize these flaws and do something about them.]] |
| 119 | ** When Tony returns from Afghanistan, Stane shuts Tony off from the board of directors and tries to convince him to let their scientists have a look at the arc reactor. Though Stane is definitely still scheming, when Tony came back he announced he was shutting down the weapons development division of Stark Industries (which has been the company's cornerstone for decades) and admitted in the same sentence he isn't sure what path the company should take instead. And then after the press conference where he made this announcement, Tony spent most of his time after refining his Iron Man suit refusing to let anyone see what he's doing, and in the meantime the company's reputation and stock price plummeted. To everyone else who doesn't realize his motives, Tony essentially blew up the company and left Stane to clean up the mess while he went home and hid in his garage with a mystery project. Little wonder Stane would want to marginalize his influence on the company after that. |
| 120 | ** Stane keeps trying to convince Tony to let some of the Stark scientists take a look at the arc reactor, but is refused, and he later mocks Tony for thinking he could keep it to himself. While Stane's intentions for the arc reactor are to use it to build "a new generation of weapons", he's correct that it is a revolutionary technological innovation, and there's an argument to be had over if Tony should share it with the world or not. That conflict - trying to use his technology to benefit the world in a safe and responsible manner, and people stealing or replicating his technology without his knowledge - is a recurring theme with Tony throughout the MCU. |
| 121 | * VillainWithGoodPublicity: Implied in ''[[Series/Hawkeye2021 Hawkeye]]''. The clocktower that Kate Bishop accidentally destroys is shown to be named after him, indicating that the general public still hasn't found out the truth of who he really was after S.H.I.E.L.D covered up his death over a decade ago. |
| 122 | * VillainousBreakdown: Everything he does after Pepper steals the evidence of his terrorist dealings and hands them over to S.H.I.E.L.D., including the well-known "Box of scraps" scene. Even his final gambit is nothing more than a desperate, insane bid to drag Tony down with him. |
| 123 | * VisionaryVillain: He presents himself as one to the arc reactor team just before their failed attempt to construct his custom Iron Monger suit. |
| 124 | * WarForFunAndProfit: His ultimate goal is to revolutionize the U.S. military with arc-powered weapons and suits. Each is patented and trademarked by Stark Industries, of course. |
| 125 | * WickedCultured: This guy is great on the piano, but the hidden message was less well-meaning. |
| 126 | * WouldHurtAChild: He throws a car full of them at Tony. He was looking directly into the windshield and could see them screaming, so he was well aware of what he was doing. |
| 127 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: |
| 128 | ** As soon as Raza and his Ten Rings cell hand over the pieced-together remains of Tony Stark's first Iron Man suit as a gift, Stane has them all murdered. |
| 129 | ** Later on, he paralyzes Tony and rips the Arc reactor out of his chest, leaving him to die while he installs it in his own Iron Monger suit, with the long-term plan of building and selling new weapons based on the technology. Subverted, in that Tony survives and comes after him. |
| 130 | ** Another subversion is when Stane attempts to kill Pepper with his Iron Monger suit and tells her that her services are no longer required after she brought Coulson and several S.H.I.E.L.D. agents to arrest him, only for Tony in his Iron Man suit to swoop in just in time to fight him. |
| 131 | [[/folder]] |
| 132 | |
| 133 | [[folder:Quentin Beck / Mysterio]] |
| 134 | -> See [[Characters/MCUMysterio Mysterio]] |
| 135 | [[/folder]] |
| 136 | |
| 137 | !!Cross Technologies |
| 138 | |
| 139 | [[folder:Darren Cross]] |
| 140 | -->See [[Characters/MCUDarrenCross here]]. |
| 141 | [[/folder]] |
| 142 | |
| 143 | !!Meachum Family & Associates |
| 144 | |
| 145 | [[folder:Harold Meachum]] |
| 146 | !!''Harold Meachum'' |
| 147 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/harold_meachum.png]] |
| 148 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"I have no idea what an Iron Fist is. Sounds like a sex toy."'']] |
| 149 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 150 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 151 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/DavidWenham |
| 152 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' |
| 153 | |
| 154 | Wendell's business partner, and father of Joy and Ward Meachum. |
| 155 | ---- |
| 156 | * AbledInTheAdaptation: Harold's legs were amputated in the comics. |
| 157 | * AbusiveParents: He treats Ward like a henchman and a whipping boy rather than his own son and he is not afraid of physically disciplining him to get that across. It's very telling that Ward says the last time he was happy was when Harold died (Ward was 15 years-old at the time). Harold also had one in his own father, who used to beat him with his belt all the time. When Bakuto is preparing to (try to) decapitate him, Harold's last words to his children are to express how much of a disappointment Ward has been to him and glorifying Joy for being the better choice. |
| 158 | * AdaptationalBadass: In the comics, Harold was an crippled and broken old man who lost his legs. Not only is he much younger, able-bodied and capable of fighting, but he is [[spoiler:also TheAgeless as result of his ties with the Hand]]. |
| 159 | * AdaptationalJerkass: [[spoiler:While Harold was involved in the death of Danny's parents in the comics, he had absolutely no involvement with the Hand and was instead motivated by jealousy, as he was in love with Danny's mother. Harold in the show is also a more active threat than his comic book counterpart, who was much more passive and wanted to be put out of his misery by Danny]]. |
| 160 | * AffablyEvil: He acts polite and reasonable to those he's talking to and even when angry, he still keeps the same calm tone. However... |
| 161 | ** FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler:After Ward kills him]], his politeness becomes more of an act as he starts to lose traces of his humanity. |
| 162 | * TheAgeless: [[spoiler:Since dying, he hasn't aged a day in thirteen years.]] |
| 163 | * AgeLift: A great deal younger than his comic counterpart, who is depicted as an [[EvilOldFolks old man]]. See TheAgeless above. |
| 164 | * BadBoss: Though he initially tries to paint himself as a BenevolentBoss in his introductory scene by teaching the values of appreciating and rewarding employees to his son, they aren't particularly impressive as he demonstrate it by giving his assistant Kyle a day off...when it's about to hit midnight. His subsequent appearances show him being very condescending towards him which leads to [[spoiler:Harold brutally murdering him in a fit of madness caused by resurrection after Kyle declines the fancy ice creams Harold bought for him and asks for vanilla]]. |
| 165 | * BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler:With Madame Gao and Bakuto for Season 1 of ''Iron Fist''. While the weakest of the three in terms of overall threat, and Gao and Bakuto are fighting to control him, Harold is responsible for the events of the series: he made a deal with Madame Gao's Hand faction to resurrect him after his cancer reached a terminal state, in exchange for using Rand Enterprises to move Gao's heroin over the world. When Wendell began getting suspicious, Harold got poison from Gao to kill the pilots of the Rands' plane, which resulted in the deaths of Wendell and Heather, as well as Danny heading to K'un-Lun. And ultimately, Harold is the last one of the three to be dealt with to end the season.]] |
| 166 | * BrooklynRage: A martial arist and brutal fighter from New York. |
| 167 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: Harold is a pretty quirky guy to say the least, and his SanitySlippage doesn't help. It doesn't make him any less of a ManipulativeBastard. |
| 168 | * CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:Every death and resurrection makes him a little less human and more prone to violence.]] |
| 169 | * CompositeCharacter: The more villainous qualities of Ward in the comics have instead gone to him. |
| 170 | * ContrastingSequelAntagonist: While Wilson Fisk, Kilgrave, Cottonmouth, and Diamondback were all defined by their horrible childhoods, Harold serves as a sinister patriarchal role to both his children [[spoiler:and Danny.]] |
| 171 | * CorruptCorporateExecutive: A very shady businessman. |
| 172 | * DealWithTheDevil: Made a deal shortly before dying. [[spoiler:It was to make him Immortal, but a puppet of the Hand.]] |
| 173 | * DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler:He's the main antagonist for the first part of the first season of ''Iron Fist''. Subverted, though, in that he returns in the finale to be Danny's last opposition.]] |
| 174 | * DragonAscendant: He served as TheDragon to the Hand, but once Gao and Bakuto are out of the way, he takes his place as the FinalBoss that Danny has to deal with. |
| 175 | * EvilAllAlong: He wasn't exactly a nice guy to begin with, but one could mistake him for simply being extreme but well-meaning early in the season. He's eventually revealed to be a cold-blooded murderer and just as bad as the Hand he serves, having been screwing with Danny's life even before his resurrection. |
| 176 | * ExactWords: When Joy asks that he assure her that he did not have Lawrence killed, he truthfully answers that he did not. [[spoiler:Because he did it himself.]] |
| 177 | * FaceDeathWithDignity: When it looks like [[spoiler:Bakuto]] has him dead to rights, he does his best to console a [[spoiler:wounded Joy and assure her how everything will be okay. Though it's tempered a bit by the fact that his intended last words are "Ward, you are the greatest disappointment in my life."]] |
| 178 | * FakingTheDead: [[spoiler: The world thinks he died of cancer, but he's actually alive and well. [[ResurrectiveImmortality Technically, both are true.]]]] |
| 179 | * FantasyForbiddingFather: In Season 2, Joy tells Walker that Ward used to draw until Harold told him to stop because he saw it as a "distraction". |
| 180 | * FinalBoss: Once Gao and Bakuto had been dealt with, he rises as the final threat to Danny for Season 1. |
| 181 | * {{Fingore}}: Gao's thugs try to amputate one of his fingers as a lesson on foolishness. After Danny blows his cover and he's forced to kill them, Harold amputates his finger anyway to keep Gao from raising suspicion. It apparently grows back as part of Harold’s resurrection, as all ten of his fingers are plainly visible afterwards. |
| 182 | * FireKeepsItDead: [[spoiler:He's cremated to prevent resurrection.]] |
| 183 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Ward openly says that the only person Harold really cares about is himself. |
| 184 | * KingpinInHisGym: He is frequently shown going to town on his punching bag or sparring with a physical trainer, to help establish that he's [[GeniusBruiser a physical threat in addition to a corporate criminal]]. |
| 185 | * LikeASonToMe: Towards Danny, [[spoiler:[[FauxAffablyEvil it's not genuine]].]] |
| 186 | * ManipulativeBastard: Harold spends most of the show manipulating Danny, his children, and even [[spoiler:the Hand]]. |
| 187 | * TheNothingAfterDeath: How he describes the afterlife to [[spoiler:a recently murdered Kyle.]] He goes into more detail as to what it's like to pass on when he [[spoiler:reunites with Joy.]] |
| 188 | * OrcusOnHisThrone: Initially played straight; he's been publicly dead for several years [[spoiler:seemingly due to the involvement of the Hand]]. Danny Rand's return to New York City forces him to directly involve himself in the world again. |
| 189 | * PapaWolf: [[spoiler:Seeing a bruise on Joy's face leads him to slice the owner of the offending fist...vertically. Only extends to his daughter, since he clearly despises and denigrates his own son Ward every chance he gets]]. |
| 190 | * ParentalFavoritism: Blatantly prefers Joy over Ward. |
| 191 | * PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler:AvertedTrope. The Hand resurrected him when he died from cancer 13 years ago, and is pulling the strings of Rand Enterprises in secret.]] |
| 192 | * RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler:He's impaled on rebar, shot, falls off of a skyscraper, and is cremated to prevent him from resurrecting.]] |
| 193 | * ResurrectiveImmortality: [[spoiler:When he dies, he wakes up three days later fully healed.]] |
| 194 | * SanitySlippage: Thanks to the [[spoiler:Hand resurrection techniques]], and since he wasn't a very stable or terribly kind person to start with, he didn't have far to fall. |
| 195 | * SupernaturallyYoungParent: JustifiedTrope--[[spoiler:Harold died 13 years ago but was subsequently revived by The Hand, and a side effect of the resurrection is him [[TheAgeless retaining the appearance of the age at which he first died]]]]. |
| 196 | * ThatManIsDead: Ward considers Harold to have died 13 years ago. The man before him who looks like his father is a monster who had part of his soul left in the grave. |
| 197 | * WickedCultured: As benefiting a top businessman, he's seen enjoying fine alcoholic beverages and when he [[spoiler:returns to Rand Enterprises]], he shows up wearing a sharp three-piece suit. |
| 198 | * YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:Killed Danny's parents because they discovered his illicit dealings with The Hand.]] |
| 199 | [[/folder]] |
| 200 | |
| 201 | [[folder:Joy Meachum]] |
| 202 | !!''Joy Meachum'' |
| 203 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mcu_joy_meachum.png]] |
| 204 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 205 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 206 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JessicaStroup |
| 207 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' |
| 208 | |
| 209 | Harold's daughter, running Rand Enterprises with her brother Ward when Danny Rand returns to New York. |
| 210 | ---- |
| 211 | * BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler:With Mary Walker and Davos in Season 2 of ''Iron Fist''. She starts off working with Davos to undermine Danny, hiring Mary to achieve this, but then she has a HeelRealization and [[HeelFaceTurn gradually turns against Davos]], while Mary becomes a WildCard with her own agenda]]. |
| 212 | * BrokenPedestal: Walks away from Harold when she realizes what a monster he is. Unfortunately her relationship with Ward and Danny has also been destroyed, causing her to become an antagonist in Season 2. |
| 213 | * DaddysGirl: Issues notwithstanding, she adored and looked up to her father. [[spoiler: Joy becomes DaddysLittleVillain shortly after learning of his resurrection]]. |
| 214 | * DaddyIssues: Joy is flat out stated to have this. Even joining with Harold despite his unwillingness to explain his absence for 13 years and her protectiveness towards him despite being affiliated with the Hand. Ward even calls her out on this for using him as a replacement for her acceptance because she couldn't get the same from her father. |
| 215 | -->'''Ward:''' I didn't ask to be the heir to your daddy issues, so grow up, and stop begging for my approval! It's cliche; it's pathetic! |
| 216 | * DefrostingIceQueen: |
| 217 | ** She's ''very'' cold to Danny when he returns but starts warming to him quicker than Ward does, especially once she realizes who he really is. |
| 218 | ** In Season 2 she rejects Ward's attempts to reconcile with her, but does hold out the possibility of doing so at some point in the future. After Davos nearly kills her and Ward turns up to rescue her, she's able to put aside much of her animosity towards him. |
| 219 | * {{Determinator}}: Once Joy has a goal, she won't stop until it's achieved whether it's getting back into Rand, [[spoiler:destroying Danny, or stopping Davos.]] |
| 220 | * EvilCostumeSwitch: In Season 2, she's introduced wearing dark clothing and having switched the executive skirt for [[DarkIsEvil black]] [[HellbentForLeather leather pants]]. |
| 221 | * EvilIsNotAToy: Forms an alliance with Davos to steal the Iron Fist from Danny, only to find that Davos won't let her go afterwards, aiming to use her for influence and wealth for his own schemes. She then calls in Walker to take down Davos, only to find herself in the same position with Walker. |
| 222 | * FaceHeelTurn: In Season 2 she allies herself with Davos' plan to get the Iron Fist, seeking to humiliate Danny as she blames him for everything that went wrong after he came back. |
| 223 | * {{Hypocrite}}: |
| 224 | ** Joy states that she's more open-minded than her brother's BlackAndWhiteMorality. But at the end of the day, she's as obstinate as Ward in her opinions and is all too willing to side with her untrustworthy father despite Ward warning how dangerous Harold is, while spitting excuses for his behavior. |
| 225 | ** When she starts working with Davos, Ryhno says he thought she was his girlfriend, and she chides him for being "sexist and reductive," but that was the ''exact'' story she told Danny and Colleen. |
| 226 | * HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Joy starts season 2 siding with Davos to hurt Danny but when she realizes Davos' instability, she finds and delivers the key to stopping him without the help of any of the heroes (who have no idea she's even doing this). She later insists it was just because Davos had to be stopped, not to help the others, but Ward doesn't buy it.]] |
| 227 | * LockedOutOfTheLoop: [[spoiler:She isn't aware that her father is alive, not at first]]. |
| 228 | * LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler:Joy loves her father and [[WellDoneSonGuy wants to please him]], so much that she is willing to become more and more corrupted to keep up with Harold's immorality.]] |
| 229 | * MoralityPet: Serves as one to Ward and Harold. [[spoiler:Possibly also to Walker.]] |
| 230 | * RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: Her counterpart in the comics is Ward's niece, but they're siblings here. |
| 231 | * SelfMadeMan: Her ultimate goal. |
| 232 | * SiblingYinYang: While Ward is very obstinate and unfeeling, Joy is more reasonable and willing to listen. The pendulum then swings by the end of the season. |
| 233 | * VengeanceFeelsEmpty: [[spoiler:Her expression when she receives the video of Danny's defeat indicates this.]] |
| 234 | * WhatTheHellHero: In season 2, she calls out both Danny and Ward for repeatedly lying to and manipulating her and points out that Ward had pretty much their entire life to come clean but never did. |
| 235 | [[/folder]] |
| 236 | |
| 237 | [[folder:Ward Meachum]] |
| 238 | !!''Ward Meachum'' |
| 239 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mcu_ward_meachum.png]] |
| 240 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 241 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 242 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/TomPelphrey |
| 243 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' |
| 244 | |
| 245 | Harold's son, running Rand Enterprises with his sister Joy when Danny Rand returns to New York. |
| 246 | ---- |
| 247 | * AdaptationalHeroism: [[spoiler: He gets to have a HeelFaceTurn whereas his comic counterpart did not. Up until that point, however, he's as bad as his comic counterpart was.]] |
| 248 | * AdaptationDyeJob: Ward Meachum is blonde in the comics, while here his hair is black. |
| 249 | * AgeLift: He goes from being Harold's brother to Harold's son. |
| 250 | * AgentScully: He will always refuse to believe any of the fantastical stories accompanied by Danny including; the homeless man who walks in is Danny Rand back from the dead, Danny's story on Rand being used to smuggle heroin, The Hand holding a girl hostage in one of Rand's warehouses. He finally has a HeelRealization after he sees the [[YouHaveFailedMe decapitated head of a Hand member who failed to stop Danny]]. |
| 251 | * ArbitrarySkepticism: He suffers a bad case of this at first: despite living in a city of ninjas, bulletproof men and mind-rapists, not to mention ''[[Film/TheAvengers2012 a full-on extra-terrestrial invasion]]'', Ward has trouble believing Danny, officially stated as deceased, may actually be who he says he is. Though in his defense, he has problems admitting that because of how troublesome it would have been to his position in Rand Enterprises, it can get ridiculous that he still doesn't entertain the notion while speaking with [[spoiler: his own father Harold, who was brought back to life by an evil ninja cult and whom Ward has been forced to serve as lackey]]. |
| 252 | * TheAtoner: Thanks to his CharacterDevelopment, Ward tries hard to be a good guy in Season 2. While he successfully makes amends with Danny, Joy blows him off. He lapses back into addiction (this time getting shitfaced drunk in the morning) and starts atoning again. |
| 253 | * BigBrotherInstinct: |
| 254 | ** While Ward has many flaws, he genuinely cares and wants to protect Joy even at personal cost. |
| 255 | ** In season 2, he also starts acting more protective and brotherly towards Danny, outright referring to Danny as his brother at several points. Seeing what Davos did to Danny drives Ward to get himself piss-drunk and pick a losing fight with a bartender twice his size. |
| 256 | * BlackAndWhiteMorality: Joy describes his worldview as being this way. |
| 257 | * BullyTurnedBuddy: When they were children, Ward bullied Danny. In season 1, when the long-lost adult Danny returns, Ward doesn't seem to think their relationship was that antagonistic, and by the time season 2 starts, they've become close friends. |
| 258 | * ButForMeItWasTuesday: He doesn't remember any of what he and Danny did together, including the bullying he did growing up, seemingly because it was so commonplace he doesn't care to remember. |
| 259 | * ButtMonkey: Ward does not catch a break at all. He's consistently being manipulated, kicked around, and forced to play second-fiddle to both Danny and Joy. |
| 260 | * CharacterDevelopment: Goes through some extreme changes, to the point he's almost unrecognizable at the end of the season then as the person we're first introduced to. |
| 261 | * CryingWolf: He lied to Joy about everything from the purpose of business deals to [[spoiler:their father's death, so by the time he tries to tell her about how dangerous Harold is, she doesn't believe him and it contributes to her FaceHeelTurn.]] |
| 262 | * TheDragon: [[spoiler:To his father, Harold]]. |
| 263 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: Literally the first childhood flashback Danny has of childhood with Ward is Ward refusing to follow the rules of the game they're playing when he starts to lose, kicking Danny in the balls, throwing all of the game pieces off of the table, and then blaming Danny for it when his parents show up a minute later. [[spoiler: Danny helps him grow out of his {{Jerkass}}-ness by the end of the first season.]] |
| 264 | * EveryoneHasStandards: He's quite disdainful of the trust fund babies in New York City who live off their parents' money and don't work. While he too was born into a life of privilege, he and his sister actually run the day-to-day operations of the company their father helped build and earn their own salaries. |
| 265 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: Tells a reporter all about Danny's decision to have the company sell medicine at cost without realizing this actually makes Danny look good. |
| 266 | * FaceHeelRevolvingDoor: Ward is a weak man who is full of ConflictingLoyalties and deeply desires to be his own man. As he tries to deal with the events of season one, he makes various deals and compromises with both the heroes and the villains and it is hard at times to figure out whose side he is on. [[spoiler: By the end of the show, he's settled on "Face".]] |
| 267 | * FatalFlaw: Ward has a laundry list of flaws, but the top one is his hatred of his father, and more specifically his childish reaction to being ordered around. His biggest problems are caused when Harold orders him to back Joy on the Danny apologizing scandal, and Ward refuses to. Ward has been considering it until Harold orders him to go along with it. |
| 268 | * FreudianExcuse: It becomes obvious early on that all of Ward's problem come from being treated like crap by his powerful and sadistic father while simultaneously getting very ruthless life philosophy beat into him by his father since childhood, and the stress of having to secretly deal with his father in the present day. |
| 269 | * FunctionalAddict: He pops pain pills like they're candy, but otherwise seems to not be affected too much. [[spoiler:Until he ends up hooked on the Hand's tainted heroin, that is, and he's forced to get detoxified.]] |
| 270 | * GenerationXerox: Plays with it with his hair. Mimics his dad's hairstyle. Shows how he's mimicking Harold's ethics. |
| 271 | * GoodHairEvilHair: His slicked-back hairstyle can be seen as shady. |
| 272 | * GrewASpine: He starts season one as a weak minion of his father, but gets CharacterDevelopment and starts to assert himself. He finally has enough and [[spoiler: stabs his father to death]]. He has a HeelFaceTurn when he finally has the courage to do the right thing and stick with it. |
| 273 | * HateSink: He was ''initially'' depicted as this, being a bully as a child and a CorruptCorporateExecutive as an adult. He does grow out of it after a HazyFeelTurn. |
| 274 | * HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:By the end of the show, he has made a complete 180 and even offers to work with Danny as equals "the way our fathers should have".]] |
| 275 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: Halfway through the second season of Iron Fist, Ward starts referring to Danny as his brother, caring for him as he convalesces from the shit Davos did to him. By the end of the season, they're traveling together, full partners. |
| 276 | * {{Irony}}: Early in the season he has Danny incarcerated in Birch Psychiatric Hospital where he was treated as a mental patient by Paul Edmonds. Later on, Ward in the season he is sent to the exact same institute for being an addict and interrogated by the same psychiatrist. |
| 277 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's a colossal dick as a kid and isn't much better as an adult but he gradually shows a softer side and becomes far more likable as a result. |
| 278 | * KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Downplayed. While he ends up in a good position despite repeated attempts to murder Danny, it's hard to argue the sheer amount of suffering he goes through over the whole season isn't punishment enough, plus he ends up a genuinely better person because of it.]] |
| 279 | * MommyIssues: Is accused of having these by Joy in season 2. |
| 280 | * OneSteveLimit: Averted, as he's the second character in the MCU who answers to the name "Ward", alongside [[Characters/MCUHYDRALeadership Grant Ward]] from ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''. |
| 281 | * {{Patricide}}: [[spoiler:Ward kills Harold in "Felling Tree With Roots". [[ResurrectiveImmortality It doesn't stick]]. The first time, anyway.]] |
| 282 | * RageQuit: Danny's first childhood flashback shows Ward refusing to follow the rules of Monopoly when he starts to lose, then throwing all of the pieces on the floor. |
| 283 | * RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: He's Harold's son in the show whereas he was his brother in the comics. |
| 284 | * SanitySlippage: Throughout the first season, the stress of Danny's return, his father's sociopathic controlling over him, his increasing addiction to pain meds (and withdrawal when they are thrown away) and his inability to tell Joy - the only person he could ever confide in - slowly erodes his fried nerves, eventually leading to [[spoiler:him killing his father when he takes all of his money when Ward tries leaving the country]]. He eventually gets better when Joy learns the truth behind everything nd he learns to trust Danny. |
| 285 | * SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp: Although not directly from the schoolyard, Ward is no less of a self-involved prick to Danny than from when they were kids. Their first on-screen interaction of them as kids had Ward cheating him out of Monopoly money; years later, Ward would grow up to [[spoiler:embezzle millions of dollars from Rand Enterprise's pension fund.]] |
| 286 | * SelfMadeOrphan: He kills his father, Harold, twice. The first time by stabbing him to death after being fed up with being abused as his father's underling. This doesn't last since Harold [[ResurrectiveImmortality returns from the dead]]. The second time he shoots an already impaled Harold off a building then had his body cremated to prevent resurrection. |
| 287 | * SiblingYinYang: While Joy is slightly more empathetic and reasonable, Ward is less forgiving and stuck in his ways. At first. |
| 288 | * SlasherSmile: He gives one after he murders Harold, finally being freed of his abusive father. |
| 289 | * SmugSnake: He's ''very'' condescending toward Danny upon his return, and doesn't immediately believe it's him. |
| 290 | * TallDarkAndHandsome: He's 6'2 with black hair and is quite easy on the eyes. |
| 291 | * TookALevelInKindness: He goes through some serious development during the first season and ends a ''much'' better person than he was at the start, een becoming genuine friends with Danny. |
| 292 | * UsedToBeASweetKid: {{inverted}}. Under his seriously shitty dad, he bullied Danny, grew into a seriously troubled adult, and eventually had a HeelFaceTurn. |
| 293 | * VillainousBreakdown: His constant state for almost the entire first season, with the strain of Danny's return and having to keep Harold's state of being alive a secret. The drugs don't help. |
| 294 | * VitriolicBestBuds: He has become this with [[spoiler:Danny]] by the start of season 2. |
| 295 | * WellDoneSonGuy: Was always treated worse then Danny by Harold, which he responded to by bullying Danny. [[spoiler:This continues even to the present, with Harold welcoming Danny with open arms]] |
| 296 | * WrittenInAbsence: He's on a business trip during ''The Defenders''. |
| 297 | * WrongGenreSavvy: Ward would be a pretty effective villain in a corporate espionage thriller, but the poor bastard has no idea how far over his head he is, in a comic book superhero story. |
| 298 | * {{Yuppie}}: He has the look and personality down to a tee; he's a ruthless business man in a three-piece suit and a comb-over haircut ripped straight from [[Literature/AmericanPsycho Patrick Bateman]]. He runs a tech and pharmaceutical company [[spoiler:that he embezzles from]] in a lucrative position inherited to him by his abusive, controlling father, he focused more on the profits of his company over ethical ramifications and keeps himself together with a steady diet of addictive pain meds and alcohol. |
| 299 | [[/folder]] |
| 300 | |
| 301 | [[folder:Lawrence Wilkins]] |
| 302 | !!''Lawrence Wilkins'' |
| 303 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lawrencewilkins.jpg]] |
| 304 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"Don't expect anyone here to be listening to a kid who got his MBA from a Himalayan monastery."'']] |
| 305 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 306 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 307 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Clifton Davis |
| 308 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' |
| 309 | |
| 310 | A member of the Rand Enterprises board of directors. |
| 311 | ---- |
| 312 | * BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:Harold Meachum shoots him in the head, and stages his death to look like a suicide.]] |
| 313 | * CanonForeigner: There's no Lawrence Wilkins in the comics. |
| 314 | * CorruptCorporateExecutive: He is embezzling from Rand and hires prostitutes with company money. He also wanted to sell a life-saving medicine at ten times the production cost. |
| 315 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Despite having some skeletons of his own, Lawrence has kids, and a nephew in the hospital, all of whom he loves. Harold actually asks if he wants to preserve his image as a loving uncle/father before capping him in the head. |
| 316 | * FatalFamilyPhoto: Has a photograph of his son on his desk. |
| 317 | * {{Irony}}: Tries to offer Joy and Ward a severance package in the same amount that they had tried to buy Danny out for. |
| 318 | * NeverSuicide: [[spoiler:Harold covers up his murder of him by staging it to look like suicide. Everyone buys it.]] |
| 319 | * OfficeGolf: Has a putt-putt hole in his office. |
| 320 | * SmugSnake: A backstabbing, swindling, no-good man that was all smiles and polite belittling of Danny and anybody that was against the bottom line. |
| 321 | * TrespassingToTalk: On the victim end of this, courtesy of Harold Meachum. |
| 322 | [[/folder]] |
| 323 | |
| 324 | [[folder:Kyle]] |
| 325 | !!''Kyle'' |
| 326 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 327 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 328 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Alex Wyse |
| 329 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' |
| 330 | |
| 331 | A young assistant attending to Harold Meachum's every whim. |
| 332 | ---- |
| 333 | * ApologizesALot: He does this to Harold a lot, who mocks him for it. |
| 334 | * ButtMonkey: Harold likes to torment him in an indirect casual way, like giving him the day off when it's almost midnight. |
| 335 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Is killed by Harold with an ice cream scoop.]] |
| 336 | * DisproportionateRetribution: Perhaps one of the most extreme examples: [[spoiler:Harold brutally kills him with an ice cream scoop. What incurred this violent punishment? Asking if there was any vanilla ice cream in the selection of gourmet flavors Harold bought for him.]] |
| 337 | * ExtremeDoormat: He is so passive and submissive to Harold that he can't even stop apologizing about it even as Harold mocks him about doing so. |
| 338 | * ManChild: Somewhat. When asked what he would hypothetically do with an immortal life, all he can come up with is eating ice cream for every meal consequence-free. |
| 339 | * MoralityPet: ZigZaggedTrope. For most of the show, Harold is nothing but a rude and dismissive BadBoss toward Kyle. [[spoiler:After dying and resurrecting again he makes a genuine effort to bond with him, but this is when he winds up murdering the poor kid. Given that Harold's resurrection method causes its subjects turn on their closest loved ones first, in an incredibly perverse way the fact that Kyle was his first recent victim proves that Harold did care for him like a family member all along.]] |
| 340 | * SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler:His sudden death at Harold's hands is the first sign that resurrection is destabilizing Harold's mental state.]] |
| 341 | * SecretKeeper: [[spoiler:One of the few people besides the Hand and Ward to know that Harold is alive.]] |
| 342 | * SweetTooth: Again, ice cream. |
| 343 | * YesMan: Harold has him hanging on his every word. |
| 344 | * UndyingLoyalty: Takes Harold's abuse without a single complaint. |
| 345 | [[/folder]] |
| 346 | |
| 347 | [[folder:Shannon]] |
| 348 | !!''Shannon'' |
| 349 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 350 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 351 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Esau Pritchett |
| 352 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' |
| 353 | |
| 354 | The head of security at Rand. |
| 355 | ---- |
| 356 | * TheDragon: Not only is he the head of security at Rand, he's Ward's main enforcer in the early episodes. |
| 357 | * ScaryBlackMan: A tall and imposing African-American that acts as a thug for his employer. |
| 358 | [[/folder]] |
| 359 | |
| 360 | [[folder:Kevin Singleton]] |
| 361 | !!''Kevin Singleton'' |
| 362 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 363 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 364 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Ramon Fernandez |
| 365 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' |
| 366 | |
| 367 | A bodyguard and enforcer for Harold. |
| 368 | ---- |
| 369 | * TheBrute: He fills this role to Harold's BigBad and Ward's TheDragon. He's tasked with destroying Danny Rand's hospital records and gets into a physical confrontation with him. |
| 370 | * NoodleIncident: He mentions a task he performed for Harold Meachum in Miami that turned messy. |
| 371 | [[/folder]] |
| 372 | |
| 373 | !!Hammer Advanced Weapons Systems |
| 374 | |
| 375 | ->See [[Characters/MCUHammerAdvancedWeaponsSystems Hammer Advanced Weapons Systems]] |
| 376 | |
| 377 | !!Advanced Idea Mechanics (A.I.M.) |
| 378 | |
| 379 | ->See [[Characters/{{MCUAIM}} A.I.M.]] |
| 380 | |
| 381 | !!Roxxon Corporation |
| 382 | |
| 383 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 384 | !!''Roxxon Corporation'' |
| 385 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/c90gedgv0aasg64.jpg]] |
| 386 | !!!'''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]] |
| 387 | |
| 388 | One of the largest oil conglomerates, founded by Hugh Jones and active at least since the 1940s. In 1952, it absorbed Isodyne Energy. |
| 389 | ---- |
| 390 | * BigBad: Of the first season of ''Series/{{Cloak And Dagger|2018}}''. |
| 391 | * CompanyTown: The town of Haven Hills, Alabama, is owned by Roxxcart in the future. |
| 392 | * CorruptCorporateExecutive: All of the Roxxon executives shown so far are involved with some corrupt activity or a criminal enterprise. |
| 393 | * 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.]] |
| 394 | * 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. |
| 395 | [[/folder]] |
| 396 | |
| 397 | [[folder:Hugh Jones]] |
| 398 | -->See the [[Characters/MCUCriminalsTerroristsOrganizations Criminal & Terrorist Organizations]] page |
| 399 | [[/folder]] |
| 400 | |
| 401 | [[folder:Thomas Richards]] |
| 402 | !!''Thomas Richards'' |
| 403 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 404 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 405 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/TomVirtue |
| 406 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/IronMan3'' |
| 407 | |
| 408 | A high-level accountant for Roxxon kidnapped by "the Mandarin". |
| 409 | ---- |
| 410 | * 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. |
| 411 | * FakingTheDead: He goes along with his own fake execution. |
| 412 | [[/folder]] |
| 413 | |
| 414 | !!!Asano Robotics |
| 415 | |
| 416 | [[folder:Associates]] |
| 417 | ->See the [[Characters/MCUTheHand Hand]] page for Hirochi and Stan Gibson. |
| 418 | [[/folder]] |
| 419 | |
| 420 | !!!Roxxon Gulf |
| 421 | |
| 422 | [[folder:Peter Scarborough]] |
| 423 | !!''Peter Scarborough'' |
| 424 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 425 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 426 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Wayne Pére |
| 427 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Cloak and Dagger|2018}}'' |
| 428 | |
| 429 | The Chief Executive of Risk Management for the Roxxon Corporation and ''de facto'' head of Roxxon Gulf based in New Orleans. |
| 430 | ---- |
| 431 | * AmbitionIsEvil: One of his hopes, as discovered by Tandy, is getting more money, even if he gets his employees killed in the process. |
| 432 | * 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. |
| 433 | * 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. |
| 434 | * 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. |
| 435 | * 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.]] |
| 436 | * CanonForeigner: Has no basis in the comics, though corrupt Roxxon executives are a dime a dozen. |
| 437 | * 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. |
| 438 | * 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.]] |
| 439 | * {{Narcissist}}: His greatest desire is to be God itself. |
| 440 | * 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.]] |
| 441 | * 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. |
| 442 | [[/folder]] |
| 443 | |
| 444 | [[folder:Nathan Bowen]] |
| 445 | !!''Nathan Bowen'' |
| 446 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 447 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 448 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/AndyDylan |
| 449 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Cloak and Dagger|2018}}'' |
| 450 | |
| 451 | A scientist at Roxxon and father of Tandy Bowen. |
| 452 | ---- |
| 453 | * 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.]] |
| 454 | * AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: In the comics, he can control the Lightforce. In the MCU he's a regular human. |
| 455 | * AdaptationNameChange: In the comics, his name is Nathan Tyler, with Tandy's surname being that of her mother. |
| 456 | * BrokenPedestal: Tandy idolizes him until [[spoiler:she discovers that he was was a domestic abuser towards her mother.]] |
| 457 | * DeceasedFallGuyGambit: Roxxon pins responsibility of their rig explosion on him after his death. |
| 458 | * DomesticAbuse: He [[spoiler:repeatedly beat Melissa]]. |
| 459 | * EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: A type of inversion, [[spoiler: Even Bad Men Love Their Children.]] |
| 460 | * PosthumousCharacter: He's dead by the time the main events of the series take place. |
| 461 | * WouldntHurtAChild: [[spoiler:He abused Melissa, but treated Tandy well.]] |
| 462 | [[/folder]] |
| 463 | |
| 464 | [[folder:Ivan Hess]] |
| 465 | !!''Ivan Hess'' |
| 466 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 467 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 468 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Tim Kang |
| 469 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Cloak and Dagger|2018}}'' |
| 470 | |
| 471 | Senior Engineer in Fluid Dynamics for Roxxon. He's been catatonic ever since the rig explosion. |
| 472 | ---- |
| 473 | * AndIMustScream: Trapped in an endless mental loop for nearly 8000 years. He has to abandon most of his memories just to cope. |
| 474 | * HonestCorporateExecutive: Unlike his higher-ups, he's a humble man who works hand-by-hand with workers under his authority. |
| 475 | * OrpheanRescue: Tyrone and Tandy go into his mind to try to break him out of his catatonia. |
| 476 | * UnwittingPawn: Doesn't know how truly corrupt Roxxon really is. |
| 477 | [[/folder]] |
| 478 | |
| 479 | [[folder:Mina Hess]] |
| 480 | !!''Mina Hess'' |
| 481 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 482 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 483 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/AllyMaki, Hannah Hardin (young) |
| 484 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Cloak and Dagger|2018}}'' |
| 485 | |
| 486 | An enviromental engineer for Roxxon, following in her father's foodsteps. |
| 487 | ---- |
| 488 | * 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.]] |
| 489 | * NatureLover: Comes with the territory of being an environmental engineer. Tandy's vision of her greatest hopes shows her tending a very beautiful garden. |
| 490 | * 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. |
| 491 | * UnwittingPawn: Doesn't know how truly corrupt Roxxon really is. |
| 492 | [[/folder]] |
| 493 | |
| 494 | [[folder:Stan Bartlett]] |
| 495 | !!''Stan Bartlett'' |
| 496 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 497 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 498 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Preston Vanderslice |
| 499 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Cloak and Dagger|2018}}'' |
| 500 | |
| 501 | An employee at Roxxon. |
| 502 | ---- |
| 503 | * PointyHairedBoss: He is an incompetent low-level executive that prefers to cut corners. |
| 504 | [[/folder]] |
| 505 | |
| 506 | [[folder:Ashlie]] |
| 507 | !!''Ashlie'' |
| 508 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 509 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 510 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Vanessa Motta |
| 511 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Cloak and Dagger|2018}}'' |
| 512 | |
| 513 | A hitwoman in the employ of Peter Scarborough. |
| 514 | ---- |
| 515 | * BeneathNotice: She uses the guise of a water delivery worker to approach her targets without arising suspicion. |
| 516 | * TheDragon: She's Scarborough's go-to hitwoman to eliminate those he deems as threats. |
| 517 | * ProfessionalKiller: She's a contract killer under the guise of a water delivery woman. |
| 518 | [[/folder]] |
| 519 | |
| 520 | !!Cybertek |
| 521 | |
| 522 | [[folder:Carlo Mancini]] |
| 523 | !!''Carlo Mancini'' |
| 524 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 525 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 526 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' T.J. Ramini |
| 527 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' |
| 528 | |
| 529 | The Cybertek head of security transporting. |
| 530 | ---- |
| 531 | * CorruptCorporateExecutive: He's a corporate executive collaborating with the similarly corrupt Ian Quinn. |
| 532 | * YouHaveFailedMe: The Clairvoyant (John Garrett) has Mancini executed by Deathlok after Mancini's men unwittingly attracting S.H.I.E.L.D.'s attention. |
| 533 | [[/folder]] |
| 534 | |
| 535 | [[folder:Sofia]] |
| 536 | !!''Sofia'' |
| 537 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 538 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 539 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Emily Baldoni |
| 540 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' |
| 541 | |
| 542 | A member of Mancini's team. |
| 543 | ---- |
| 544 | * NumberTwo: To Mancini. |
| 545 | * YouHaveFailedMe: The Clairvoyant (John Garrett) orders Deathlok to kill her after Mancini's men unwittingly attracting S.H.I.E.L.D.'s attention. |
| 546 | [[/folder]] |
| 547 | |
| 548 | [[folder:Kyle Zeller]] |
| 549 | !!''Kyle Zeller'' |
| 550 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 551 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 552 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Josh Daugherty |
| 553 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' |
| 554 | |
| 555 | A Cybertek forced employee used by John Garrett as Deathlok's handler. |
| 556 | ---- |
| 557 | * IHaveYourWife: Or as Cybertek calls it, the "Incentives Program": his wife has been kidnapped to ensure his cooperation. |
| 558 | * MissionControl: Forced to act as Deathlok's handler and mission control. |
| 559 | * PunchClockVillain: He serves Garrett not out of villainy or corruption, he simply wants to keep his wife alive. |
| 560 | [[/folder]] |
| 561 | |
| 562 | [[folder:Joseph Getty]] |
| 563 | !!''Dr. Joseph Getty'' |
| 564 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 565 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 566 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Mark Fite |
| 567 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' |
| 568 | |
| 569 | A scientist forcibly recruited into Cybertek to do research into Gravitonium. |
| 570 | ---- |
| 571 | * ForcedIntoEvil: He was forced to collaborate with HYDRA. |
| 572 | * IHaveYourWife: HYDRA threatened his family to ensure his cooperation with Cybertek. |
| 573 | [[/folder]] |
| 574 | |
| 575 | !!Isodyne Energy |
| 576 | |
| 577 | [[folder:Calvin Chadwick]] |
| 578 | -->See the [[Characters/MCUCriminalsTerroristsOrganizations Criminal & Terrorist Organizations]] page |
| 579 | [[/folder]] |
| 580 | |
| 581 | [[folder:Jason Wilkes]] |
| 582 | -->See the Stark Industries entry in the [[Characters/MCUCompanies Companies]] page |
| 583 | [[/folder]] |
| 584 | |
| 585 | [[folder:Jane Scott]] |
| 586 | !!''Jane Scott'' |
| 587 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 588 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 589 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' |
| 590 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentCarter'' |
| 591 | |
| 592 | A particle physicist at Isodyne. |
| 593 | ---- |
| 594 | * TheMistress: She had an affair with Calvin Chadwick. |
| 595 | * 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. |
| 596 | [[/folder]] |
| 597 | |
| 598 | !!Anvil Security |
| 599 | -->See the [[Characters/MCUOperationCerberus Operation Cerberus]] page |
| 600 | |
| 601 | !!Cheng Consulting & Risk Management |
| 602 | |
| 603 | [[folder:Pryce Cheng]] |
| 604 | !!''Pryce Cheng'' |
| 605 | [[quoteright:294:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vlcsnap_2018_03_14_21h55m44s588.png]] |
| 606 | %%[[caption-width-right:294:]] |
| 607 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 608 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 609 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/TerryChen |
| 610 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}'' |
| 611 | |
| 612 | 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. |
| 613 | ---- |
| 614 | * TheAce: He's a very accomplished Private Investigator, self-made man and former Marine. |
| 615 | * ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: He isn't seen again in ''Jessica Jones'' Season 3 and Malcolm works for Hogarth instead of him, with no explanation given. |
| 616 | * FantasticRacism: Hates Jessica just for being a super. |
| 617 | * {{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. |
| 618 | * 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. |
| 619 | * {{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. |
| 620 | * JerkassHasAPoint: |
| 621 | ** 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). |
| 622 | ** 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. |
| 623 | * {{Revenge}}: Tries assassinating Jessica [[spoiler:(only her mother actually)]] after his friend, Nick, was murdered. |
| 624 | * SemperFi: He's a former Marine Corps captain. |
| 625 | * SmugSmiler: Even gets mentioned by Jessica. |
| 626 | * SmugSnake: Jessica even describes him as such due to his unrepentant jerkassery and insistence. |
| 627 | [[/folder]] |
| 628 | |
| 629 | [[folder:Nick Spanos]] |
| 630 | !!''Nick Spanos'' |
| 631 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 632 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 633 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Maceo Oliver |
| 634 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}'' |
| 635 | |
| 636 | One of Pryce Cheng's fixers and best friends. |
| 637 | ---- |
| 638 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: Alisa kills him by throwing him in the back of his van, beating him senseless, and tearing off one of his arms. |
| 639 | * TheFixer: He's sent by Cheng to steal files and information from Jessica's apartment. |
| 640 | * SemperFi: He served in the Marines alongside Cheng. |
| 641 | [[/folder]] |
| 642 | |
| 643 | [[folder:Malcolm Ducasse]] |
| 644 | ->See Characters/MCUCitizensNewYorkCity |
| 645 | [[/folder]] |
| 646 | |
| 647 | !!Momentum Labs |
| 648 | |
| 649 | [[folder:Joseph Bauer]] |
| 650 | !!''Joseph Bauer'' |
| 651 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 652 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 653 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Momentum Labs |
| 654 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Kerr Smith |
| 655 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' |
| 656 | |
| 657 | The head of Momentum Labs and the husband of Lucy Bauer. |
| 658 | ---- |
| 659 | * 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. |
| 660 | * BloodFromEveryOrifice: Like all victims of the ghost infection, he has blood coming out of his eyes and nostrils just before he dies. |
| 661 | * CanonForeigner: He has no comic book counterpart. |
| 662 | * 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. |
| 663 | * 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. |
| 664 | * 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. |
| 665 | * {{Flatline}}: We can hear the flatline sound right after he dies in the hospital from the ghost infection. |
| 666 | * 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. |
| 667 | * 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. |
| 668 | * 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. |
| 669 | * 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.]] |
| 670 | * GoMadFromTheRevelation: He became increasingly corrupted after reading the Darkhold. |
| 671 | * 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. |
| 672 | -->'''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… |
| 673 | * 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. |
| 674 | * 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. |
| 675 | * MindRape: He's awakened by Lucy Bauer and suffers from the same paranoia effect that infected May until he dies. |
| 676 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Shortly before his death, he admits that he shouldn't have used the Darkhold because it only resulted in ruining lives. |
| 677 | -->'''Joseph:''' It was a mistake! We never should have taken it, we should've left it buried! |
| 678 | * ProperlyParanoid: While Joseph and Lucy became obsessed with their experiment, they were right in thinking that Eli wanted all the power for himself. |
| 679 | * 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. |
| 680 | * 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. |
| 681 | * 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. |
| 682 | -->'''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. |
| 683 | * 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. |
| 684 | * 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. |
| 685 | -->'''Joseph:''' You're too late. She knows. |
| 686 | [[/folder]] |
| 687 | |
| 688 | [[folder:Others]] |
| 689 | * [[Characters/MCUOtherSupervillains Lucy Bauer]] |
| 690 | * [[Characters/MCUOtherSupervillains Hugo]] |
| 691 | * [[Characters/MCUOtherSupervillains Frederick]] |
| 692 | * [[Characters/MCUOtherSupervillains Vincent]] |
| 693 | * [[Characters/MCUOtherSupervillains Eli Morrow]] |
| 694 | [[/folder]] |
| 695 | |
| 696 | !!Midland Circle Financials |
| 697 | |
| 698 | [[folder:Alexandra Reid]] |
| 699 | ->See the [[Characters/MCUTheHand Hand]] page |
| 700 | [[/folder]] |
| 701 | |
| 702 | !!Vistacorp |
| 703 | |
| 704 | [[folder:Geoff Zorick]] |
| 705 | !!''Geoff Zorick'' |
| 706 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 707 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 708 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' N/A |
| 709 | !!!'''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]] |
| 710 | |
| 711 | The CEO of Vistacorp. |
| 712 | ---- |
| 713 | * 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. |
| 714 | [[/folder]] |
| 715 | |
| 716 | !!Testament Industries |
| 717 | |
| 718 | [[folder:Anderson & Eliza Schultz]] |
| 719 | !!''Anderson & Eliza Schultz'' |
| 720 | !!!'''Species:''' Humans |
| 721 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 722 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/CorbinBernsen (Anderson) & Creator/AnnetteOToole (Eliza) |
| 723 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Punisher|2017}}'' |
| 724 | |
| 725 | The married heads of Testament Industries. |
| 726 | ---- |
| 727 | * 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.]] |
| 728 | * BigBadEnsemble: With Billy Russo in ''The Punisher'' Season 2, while in a BigBadDuumvirate with each other with Pilgrim as their DragonInChief. |
| 729 | * 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.]] |
| 730 | * BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:Frank shoots Eliza in the head before she can stab Amy with a table knife in the Season 2 finale.]] |
| 731 | * 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. |
| 732 | * CanonForeigner: The two have no counterparts in any of the comics. |
| 733 | * 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. |
| 734 | * CorruptCorporateExecutive: The two use the wealth their company provides to buy politicians and outright murder anyone who stands in the way of their family. |
| 735 | * 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.]] |
| 736 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Despite how monstrous they are, the two truly love each other. |
| 737 | * GreaterScopeVillain: The duo behind Pilgrim who want Amy dead, but they doesn't get involved with the hunt for her themselves. |
| 738 | * HeteronormativeCrusader: Self-righteous and extremely disapproving of their son's orientation. |
| 739 | * 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. |
| 740 | * 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. |
| 741 | * 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.]] |
| 742 | * UnholyMatrimony: The two are married and force Pilgrim to be their assassin. |
| 743 | [[/folder]] |
| 744 | |
| 745 | [[folder:Robert / John Pilgrim]] |
| 746 | !!''Robert / John Pilgrim'' |
| 747 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/177555_1548144967_4.jpg]] |
| 748 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 749 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 750 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JoshStewart |
| 751 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Punisher|2017}}'' |
| 752 | |
| 753 | A born-again hitman who does the dirty work for the Schultz family. |
| 754 | ---- |
| 755 | * AdaptationalCurves: Inverted. His comic counterpart, the Mennonite, is much larger and better built. |
| 756 | * AdaptationalNameChange: His comic counterpart's name isn't revealed. |
| 757 | * 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. |
| 758 | * 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. |
| 759 | * 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. |
| 760 | * AsTheGoodBookSays: He's fond of quoting and referencing scripture. He tends to paraphrase or draw comparisons more often than outright speak the gospel verbatim. |
| 761 | * 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. |
| 762 | * ChurchgoingVillain: Despite committing horrible crimes in service of the Schultz family, he is very sincere in his faith. |
| 763 | * CombatPragmatist: Par for the course for the series, Pilgrim is quick to fight dirty. |
| 764 | * 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.]] |
| 765 | * 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. |
| 766 | * 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. |
| 767 | * 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.]] |
| 768 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He is entirely devoted to his wife Rebecca and his sons Michael and Lemuel. |
| 769 | * 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. |
| 770 | * 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. |
| 771 | * 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. |
| 772 | * HeelFaceTurn: He [[HeelFaithTurn had one when he found religion]], [[spoiler:and has another when Frank spares his life and rescues his children.]] |
| 773 | * 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]]. |
| 774 | * KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Despite all the bodies he left behind, Frank lets him go in the end to look after his two sons.]] |
| 775 | * 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. |
| 776 | * 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]].]] |
| 777 | * OneManArmy: Pilgrim may be one of the few people capable of matching Frank Castle in sheer lethality and badassery. |
| 778 | * 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. |
| 779 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He was a member of the neo-Nazi gang known as the Aryan Brotherhood. |
| 780 | * 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. |
| 781 | * 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. |
| 782 | * 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.]] |
| 783 | * 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.]] |
| 784 | * TheStoic: Nothing really phases him, even injuries and wounds he has sustained. |
| 785 | * StraightEdgeEvil: Since his conversion, he gave up alcohol, drugs and random sex. |
| 786 | * 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. |
| 787 | * 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. |
| 788 | * ThoseWackyNazis: Prior to his conversion, he was a member of the Aryan Brotherhood. |
| 789 | [[/folder]] |
| 790 | |
| 791 | !!!Associates |
| 792 | |
| 793 | [[folder:Marlena Olin]] |
| 794 | !!''Marlena Olin'' |
| 795 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 796 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 797 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Teri Reeves |
| 798 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Punisher|2017}}'' |
| 799 | |
| 800 | A mercenary tasked by John Pilgrim to search for Amy Bendix. |
| 801 | ---- |
| 802 | * AssholeVictim: No one's gonna miss her when [[spoiler:Pilgrim murders her sorry ass after she broke free from her jail cell]]. |
| 803 | * 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.]] |
| 804 | * TheBrute: She leads the mercenaries hired by Pilgrim. |
| 805 | * ItsPersonal: After going up against Castle on two separate occasions she develops a personal animosity towards him. |
| 806 | * {{Jerkass}}: "Arrogant bitch" is putting it mildly. |
| 807 | * 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. |
| 808 | * PrivateMilitaryContractors: After leaving the United States Army she became a mercenary and isn't particularly picky about choosing her employers. |
| 809 | * 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. |
| 810 | * 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]].]] |
| 811 | [[/folder]] |
| 812 | |
| 813 | [[folder:Marlena Olin's crew]] |
| 814 | !!''Marlena Olin's crew'' |
| 815 | !!!'''Species:''' Humans |
| 816 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 817 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Adrian Alvarado (Eddie), Todd Jones (Davy) |
| 818 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Punisher|2017}}'' |
| 819 | |
| 820 | A team of mercenaries under Olin's command. |
| 821 | ---- |
| 822 | * EqualOpportunityEvil: Marlena hires both men and women in her crew. |
| 823 | * {{Mooks}}: Their purpose in the story is to give Frank a bunch of nobodies to fight and kill. |
| 824 | * NoNameGiven: There's no mention of a particular name, so they are identified as Marlena Olin's crew because she's their leader. |
| 825 | * PrivateMilitaryContractors: Their job. |
| 826 | [[/folder]] |
| 827 | |
| 828 | [[folder:Ferrara]] |
| 829 | !!''Ferrara'' |
| 830 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 831 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 832 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Michael Pemberton |
| 833 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Punisher|2017}}'' |
| 834 | |
| 835 | A Michigan police detective that collaborates with John Pilgrim to cover up his and Olin's string of dead bodies. |
| 836 | ---- |
| 837 | * 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. |
| 838 | * 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. |
| 839 | * KarmaHoudini: He never gets any comeuppance or punishment from his collaboration with Pilgrim. |
| 840 | [[/folder]] |
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