| 1 | [[center:[-[[Characters/ChildOfTheStorm Main Character Index]] | [[Characters/ChildOfTheStormHarryThorson Harry Thorson]] | [[Characters/ChildOfTheStormHarrysFriends Harry's Friends]] ([[Characters/ChildOfTheStormCarolDanvers Carol Danvers]]) | [[Characters/ChildOfTheStormAvengersAndAssociates Avengers and Associates]] | '''Other Heroes and Allies''' | [[Characters/ChildOfTheStormTheMagicalWorlds The Magical Worlds]] | [[Characters/ChildOfTheStormCivilians Civilians]] | [[Characters/ChildOfTheStormGodsAndCosmicEntities Gods and Cosmic Entities]] | [[Characters/ChildOfTheStormXMen X-Men]] | [[Characters/ChildOfTheStormVillainousGroups Villainous Groups]] | [[Characters/ChildOfTheStormNonAlignedVillains Non-Aligned Villains]]-]]] |
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| 3 | This page lists tropes associated with Other Heroes and Allies of the Avengers in ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm''. |
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| 5 | '''Beware: Spoilers for''' '''''Child of the Storm''''' '''are''' '''''unmarked.''''' |
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| 7 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 9 | [[header:S.H.I.E.L.D.]] |
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| 11 | Founded from those parts of the SSR that didn't go on to become the modern [=MI13=] by Peggy Carter, Howard Stark and Colonel Chester Philips, and run by Director Nicholas Fury, SHIELD is the BigGood backing the Avengers, and ''the'' NGOSuperPower. Pity about the HYDRA infestation. |
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| 13 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 14 | * BadassNormal: Most of its Agents qualify as this, especially the 'Special Agent Division', which mostly consists of super-agents or examples of this trope so badass that they can mix it with superhumans. Examples include Black Widow, Hawkeye, and the various Agents 13. |
| 15 | * BigGood: At least in theory. They try, anyway. |
| 16 | * CloakAndDagger: Operate primarily on this trope, though they are indicated to do a lot of the more boring stuff behind the scenes - Coulson alludes to 'SHIELD Accountants'. |
| 17 | * GoodIsNotNice: They're good guys, but they're capable of being incredibly dangerous and very ruthless. And that's the bits that ''aren't'' secretly working for HYDRA. For this reason, Jean Grey doesn't totally trust them - as she points out, HYDRA managed to blend in amongst them for decades. |
| 18 | * HeroesRUs: Train and equip heroes, most prominently the Avengers. They also have plans for a 'Young Avengers' program... |
| 19 | * HeWhoFightsMonsters: HYDRA were pushing them this way and Jean Grey points it out as the root of her trust issues. |
| 20 | * TheMenInBlack: Formerly. In a semi [[TheUnMasquedWorld Unmasqued World]], they're a bit more open. |
| 21 | * NGOSuperPower: They're arguably the most powerful non-governmental organisation on the planet, before being briefly pipped to the post by HYDRA. After the end of ''Child of the Storm'', they've lost a large chunk of their power and influence, but they're still a force to be reckoned with. |
| 22 | * NotSoDifferentRemark: What Alexander Pierce believed and HYDRA were attempting to coax SHIELD towards. Jean Grey cites this, and her uncertainty about how deep it goes, as why she distrusts SHIELD, pointing out that even if HYDRA were purged, they still managed to hide ''in plain sight'' in SHIELD for over half a century. |
| 23 | * RogueAgent: As with all sprawling spy organisations, it has more than a few questionable elements (including the fact that about a third of its members are HYDRA, prior to the big purge at the end of ''Child of the Storm''), but they're still broadly the good guys. |
| 24 | * StateSec: A good guy version of this. Most of the time. |
| 25 | * UnitedNationsIsASuperpower: Backed by the UN, it is at least nominally an international agency and has all the power associated with this trope. Practically speaking, however, it's primarily American funded and dominated, having been founded during the Cold War, though its leadership includes (at least) British, Chinese, Indian, and French representatives. In general, it's more like NATO for the supernatural and the superhuman. |
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| 28 | [[/folder]] |
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| 30 | [[folder:Nick Fury]] |
| 31 | |
| 32 | !!Director Nicholas Joseph Fury of SHIELD |
| 33 | |
| 34 | -->''Do you really think that I would get within ten feet of that thing, let alone stand still while you monologue at me?'' |
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| 36 | [[UsedToBeASweetKid Was once a cheerful, friendly]] NiceGuy, a former Army Ranger and SHIELD liaison to the Order of the Phoenix, big brother figure to Lily Potter and drinking buddy of Sirius Black and John Constantine. The death of the Potters, however, drove him to become the Director of SHIELD within a decade and gain a reputation as one of the most powerful, dangerous and feared men on the planet. While he's a good guy and ultimately heroic, he is ''the'' master spy and will stop at nothing to protect humanity from the monsters. Is the SecretKeeper for the rumoured 'Lost Omega', [[spoiler: a.k.a. Clark Kent]] and has gone to great lengths to protect him. |
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| 39 | [[hardline]] |
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| 41 | * ArchEnemy: Lucius Malfoy. |
| 42 | * AntiHero: He is ultimately fighting for the protection of humanity against those, mundane or superhuman, who would abuse them and [[KarmaHoudini face no consequences]], but make no mistake, he is cold, deadly and ruthlessly manipulative. |
| 43 | * BatmanGambit: Employs an extremely effective one against Baron Von Strucker in chapter 42, who swiftly finds himself OutGambitted. |
| 44 | * BattleAmongstTheFlames: Fought Lucius Malfoy in one of these after the attack on Godric's Hollow and beat him, before leaving him to die in the burning ruins of Malfoy Manor. It cost him his eye and Lucius Malfoy his wand and full use of one of his legs (it is implied that the fight left further marks on Lucius that he concealed). |
| 45 | * BestServedCold: It's revealed that by the start of the story he's been waiting for a chance to get at the Ministry, the Death Eaters, and Lucius Malfoy in particular for over 10 years. |
| 46 | * BigBrotherInstinct: Had this towards Lily. |
| 47 | * BigGood: To the Avengers, SHIELD and most of the world. |
| 48 | * BrokenPedestal: A number of his former Order acquaintances, including Thor once he regains his memories as James, are shocked and horrified [[UsedToBeASweetKid by the change in Fury.]] This doesn't seem to bother him in the slightest. |
| 49 | * TheChessmaster: One of the better ones in the setting, capable of ultimately outplaying Lucius Malfoy and Alexander Pierce. |
| 50 | * CynicismCatalyst: The war against Voldemort in general seems to have been one for him, but the crowner was Lily and James' deaths (though James, as it would turn out, was NotQuiteDead) and what happened to Harry afterwards. |
| 51 | * DeadpanSnarker: Notes when first meeting Harry after about a decade that he had hoped it would be under better circumstances. |
| 52 | * DemotedToExtra: After the first book, where he played a fairly important role, he mostly goes offstage, busy with the purge of HYDRA moles and the chaos that followed first their fall, then that of [[spoiler: the Red Room]]. |
| 53 | * EyepatchOfPower: Oh yes. |
| 54 | * FriendToAllChildren: Downplayed but present, much to the surprise of most ([[spoiler: Alison]], on the other hand, [[BatmanGambit had him bang to rights]]). He did his best to protect Harry, unhesitatingly ran through fire while nursing a ruined eye to save his worst enemy's infant son, played a key role in protecting Clark Kent, and provided no more than token resistance to the idea of [[spoiler: Maddie]], who for all her genuine HeelFaceTurn is a theoretically incredibly dangerous {{Tykebomb}}, undergoing gentle rehabilitation at the Xavier Institute. |
| 55 | * FromNobodyToNightmare: To the enemies of humanity, going from a talented young SHIELD Agent to one of the most feared and powerful men on the planet in about a decade. It gets to the point where Malfoy thinks of Fury as the most dangerous man in the Western hemisphere, if not the world, and suspects that [[MagnificentBastard Doctor]] [[{{Seers}} Strange]] arranged his posting as liaison to the Order of the Phoenix specifically to bring this about. |
| 56 | * {{Foil}}: To Lucius Malfoy. |
| 57 | * FourStarBadass: As best displayed in chapter 42. It also serves to mark him out from Lucius, who's a DiabolicalMastermind and prefers to avoid doing his own dirty work whenever possible. |
| 58 | * TheGwenStacy: Lily was this to him and [[CynicismCatalyst her death, as well as the status of the Order as greatly outmatched underdogs during the Voldemort War,]] drove him to become Director of SHIELD in an effort to ensure that humanity could defend itself from the supernatural and bring down powerful figures like Lucius Malfoy who could previously buy their way out of justice. |
| 59 | * HandicappedBadass: He nearly killed Lucius Malfoy in single combat in the backstory, permanently crippling him (at the cost of an eye), before running through the flames of a burning house while nursing said ruined eye to save Draco (still a toddler), and he beats down Baron Strucker. |
| 60 | * HiddenHeartOfGold: The man believes in heroes. He was also persuaded by Agent Coulson to leave an infant Kal-El in the custody of the Kents and went to a great deal of trouble to conceal his existence. In fact, [[spoiler: it was Alison Carter was counting on it]]. He also definitely cares for Harry (being close to Lily) and according to Draco, after the above BattleAmongstTheFlames with Lucius and [[EyeScream nursing a ruined eye,]] Fury noticed that the infant Draco was trapped at the top of the stairs. He immediately ran through the flames and carried Draco to safety. |
| 61 | * IDidWhatIHadToDo: His motive for getting his hands dirty with all that he does. |
| 62 | * KillItWithFire: Tried to do this to Lucius Malfoy. With ''napalm''. The results left most of Malfoy Manor a smoking ruin. |
| 63 | * MarriedToTheJob: Alexander Pierce indicates this, remarking that he's known Fury for years, they work forty floors away and it takes a global crisis to make him put in an appearance. |
| 64 | * ManipulativeBastard: He's very, very good at this. Not as good as some, but he clearly learned well from Alison Carter, and was able to catch Alexander Pierce red-handed at the end of ''Child of the Storm'' by playing on Lucius Malfoy's personality. Even as a young man, he gave much more experienced [[ManipulativeBastard fellow spymaster]] Lucius a decent fight as TheSpymaster for the Order of the Phoenix. |
| 65 | * NervesOfSteel: After everything he's been through, it takes a lot to faze him. Even an angry demigod with an ultimatum doesn't make him blink. Nor, as it turns out, does a giant stone hand briefly crushing his Helicarrier or engaging in a dogfight with a Super Star Destroyer construct with said Helicarrier, simply snapping at his subordinates to, since the Helicarrier is listing, ''use the damn list'' and get them in a position to where they can fire on the enemy engines. Gravemoss armed with the Darkhold and using ''veidrdraugr'' to destroy [=MI6=] manages, though. |
| 66 | * NotSoStoic: Shows up to the Avengers' Christmas party in a festive sweater, to the vocal surprise of Tony and Dresden. |
| 67 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Though he's not shy of throwing around the occasional curseword, his HairTriggerTemper in chapter 22 of [=CoS=] shows just how rattled he is by the revelation that HYDRA is back, with the Winter Soldier no less, and having destroyed [=MI6=] and [=MI13=]. |
| 68 | * OverrankedSoldier: He's 43 at the beginning of the story. That's still at least five years younger than any Director of a major intelligence agency ever, and he's been Director of SHIELD for several years. Possibly a JustifiedTrope considering Alexander Pierce (and possibly Strange)'s involvement in his rise to the Directorship, Alison Carter's mentoring him, and the Bogota Incident. |
| 69 | * OutOfFocus: After the end of ''Child of the Storm,'' he fades into the background and makes only a few appearances, busy with the chaos that the [[spoiler: Red Room]] and its rise and fall stir up, as well as purging the remnants of HYDRA's forces. |
| 70 | * ProperlyParanoid: The fact is that he plays his cards not so much close to his chest, but behind his sternum, including the setting up of the same dam based hideout as in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', and the Shadow Initiative. |
| 71 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: To Petunia Dursley, after Thor has gotten his memories as James back, and he, Tony, and Fury have exposed the Dursley's abuse of Harry to all of Britain via the national papers. |
| 72 | -->"I only need one eye to see you for what you are: a jealous little girl who turned into a bitter middle-aged woman who married a man who puts the ass in jackass. You didn't grow up, Petunia. You just got older." |
| 73 | * SecretKeeper: For the Lost Omega, a.k.a. Clark Kent, - and, indirectly, Jean Grey, since the Lost Omega rumours conflated Clark's arrival with her violent power-manifestation at the age of 6. He also knows about Hermione's true parentage, thanks to his closeness to Lily and the fact that he's been keeping a close eye on Harry (and, indirectly, his friends). |
| 74 | * SeenItAll: As he muses in ''Unfinished Business'', a giant Super Star Destroyer constructed animated by a rotted fragment of the ArcVillain's soul isn't the strangest thing he's seen, even when it develops a face - all that does is make shooting it in said face significantly more satisfying. |
| 75 | * ShipperOnDeck: A little towards Carol/Harry, because he thinks she'll be a stabilising influence on Harry. [[spoiler: When he sees Carol distract a cosmically powerful Nimue by cold-cocking her, kicking her in the groin so hard she flies six feet in the air, and screaming, "Meep-Meep!", before accelerating away as fast as her powers will carry her, all as part of ThePlan, he muses on this and decides that "BirdsOfAFeather might flock together, but those two maniacs ''deserved'' each other."]] |
| 76 | * TheSpymaster: As Tony put it, he is ''the'' spy. His secrets have secrets. |
| 77 | * TheStoic: Following Lily's death. Alexander Pierce comments that Fury's been pretty bad with emotions ever since they first got to know each other. |
| 78 | * StraightManAndWiseGuy: The exasperated Straight Man to, in particular, Tony Stark and Harry Dresden, who both enjoy winding him up. |
| 79 | * TerrorHero: As Thor observes, he casts a very long shadow. He seems to like it that way. |
| 80 | * TookALevelInBadass: He went from a crippled and embittered young Agent who'd lost everything to the Director of SHIELD and the most powerful man in the Western hemisphere in barely a decade. It's safe to say he took ''many.'' |
| 81 | * UsedToBeASweetKid: He was a much more cheerful and relaxed guy until Godric's Hollow, with the events of the Wizarding War and the number of people who walked free rendering him ''extremely'' cynical. Since he cut ties with the Order pretty shortly afterwards, his current demeanour comes as a very nasty shock to his former compatriots. |
| 82 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: A heroic variant. He'll stop at nothing to protect humanity. ''Nothing.'' Though it should be said that even at his most ruthless, he doesn't even come ''close'' to Peter Wisdom, his former protégé, who's effectively TheUnfettered. |
| 83 | [[/folder]] |
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| 85 | [[folder:Phil Coulson]] |
| 86 | |
| 87 | !! Agent Phillip 'Phil' Coulson |
| 88 | |
| 89 | -->''I have quite literally given my life to SHIELD, Miss Grey. I am loyal without question to what it represents: a shield, protecting the weak from the strong. If it becomes like the Red Room or HYDRA, then it becomes a hammer, beating the weak down. In which case, Miss Grey, it isn't SHIELD any more and it is instead the sort of thing that I've worked my entire life to destroy. Under which circumstance, I would act accordingly.'' |
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| 91 | Nick Fury's right-hand man and "one good eye." Kind, gentle (most of the time), and not to be underestimated. [[CompositeCharacter Also a Squib, to everyone's surprise - turns out that Molly Weasley's "second cousin who's an accountant" isn't actually an accountant]]. While not a regular cast member, he has recurring and deceptively important roles in both ''Child of the Storm'' and ''Ghosts of the Past''. |
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| 93 | [[hardline]] |
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| 95 | * AscendedExtra: From the perspective of the ''Harry Potter'' side of things, Coulson is revealed to be Molly's squib second cousin Ron mentioned in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone''. |
| 96 | * AscendedFanboy: As per canon, Dresden mentions that he's a huge Captain America fan. |
| 97 | * AwesomenessByAnalysis: He cracks Narcissa Malfoy by judging what kind of cues would make her respond better to him. |
| 98 | * BadassNormal: He shot Loki with a {{BFG}}, is a crack SHIELD agent, and expert martial artist. According to Dresden, [[NoodleIncident he also once took out three muggers]] [[NoodleImplement with a paper clip.]] |
| 99 | * BadassInANiceSuit: A very capable fighter when required to be, usually wearing what most characters - even teenagers - recognise as well-cut suits. |
| 100 | * BashBrothers: With Fury, when they were younger. |
| 101 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Phil is a [[NiceGuy genuinely warm and kind man.]] He's also a high-ranking agent of SHIELD, and you don't get to be that way without being dangerous. |
| 102 | * TheCharmer: He does this to Narcissa Malfoy to get her to open up. |
| 103 | * DeadpanSnarker: Downplayed, but it's there. |
| 104 | * FatherToHisMen: Do ''not'' mess with his team. He will not take kindly to it. He's also a ParentalSubstitute to Skye. |
| 105 | * FriendOnTheForce: As of chapter 34 of ''Ghosts'', following his redeployment as SHIELD Commander for the Midwest, he states his intention of being this to Clark Kent, who's started dabbling in heroism, and hopefully helping to conceal Clark's existence for a little longer. Given that Chicago is also under his purview, he will presumably be this for [[VitriolicBestBuds Harry Dresden]] as well. |
| 106 | * FriendToAllChildren: He's very good with children and teenagers, as best shown during the [[InMediasRes interview portions]] of ''Forever Red'', where he modulates his approach to be considerably gentler with younger interviewees. This trait was a key part of why [[spoiler: Alison Carter arranged for him and Fury to be the first SHIELD Agents to encounter a young Clark Kent after the Smallville Meteor Shower]]. |
| 107 | * GoodCopBadCop: Usually plays the "Good Cop" to Fury's (and in ''Ghosts'', Harry's) "Bad Cop". |
| 108 | * GoodIsNotSoft: Just because he's a nice guy doesn't mean he's naive, or a pushover. Among other things, [[ManipulativeBastard he's a highly accomplished manipulator]] who plays on Dresden's ChronicHeroSyndrome to get him to take a job - though he feels guilty afterwards, especially when it looks like Dresden's been killed - and plays Narcissa Malfoy like a violin. |
| 109 | * TheHeart: To Fury, who admires him for being able to maintain it, and refers to him as his "one good eye." In ''Ghosts'', it's revealed that this and Fury's HiddenHeartOfGold were [[spoiler: why Alison Carter manoeuvred them into position to be the first SHIELD agents to run across Clark Kent.]] |
| 110 | * ManipulativeBastard: Plays both Dresden and Narcissa like violins to get what he wants. |
| 111 | * MuggleBornOfMages: Remember Molly's "second cousin who's an accountant"? Turns out he's not actually an accountant. |
| 112 | * NiceGuy: Subtle, but it's there - he's very gentle with [[spoiler: Maddie]] during the [[InMediasRes debriefing interviews]] at the end of ''Forever Red''. He's also kind to Clark. |
| 113 | * NoodleIncident: |
| 114 | ** He worked alongside Harry Dresden once or twice before, including watching the latter take on three mountain trolls at once and win. Dresden, meanwhile, remarks that he once saw Coulson take out three muggers with a paperclip. He's also worked alongside Alan Scott and Charles Xavier, back in the day, and he was at Project Pegasus when Scott locked it down. |
| 115 | ** He implies in the first book that he trusted someone in the magical world and they betrayed him. He's also gone up against Death Eaters before, and did ''not'' enjoy the experience. |
| 116 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: Not stupidity, exactly, but he does a great "harmless bureaucrat" impression. Those who know him well (or in the case of a suspicious Clark Kent, have reason to look past it) don't fall for it. |
| 117 | * OnlyMostlyDead: Strange had a hand in bringing him back. |
| 118 | * PopCulturedBadass: Implied to be this, recognizing Dresden's reference to him as "[[Franchise/MenInBlack Agent C]]." Though given his exasperated reaction, it's probably not the first time he's heard that joke. |
| 119 | * RankUp: By Chapter 34 of ''Ghosts'', he's been promoted SHIELD's Regional Director for the Midwestern US. |
| 120 | * SecretKeeper: For Clark Kent - he even arranged for Clark's adoption records and birth certificate. |
| 121 | * SharpDressedMan: He wears very nice suits. |
| 122 | * UndyingLoyalty: As he explains to Jean in the folder quote, it's not so much to SHIELD as to what it represents - protecting the vulnerable and innocent from the monsters who would prey on them. In fact, should SHIELD itself veer from those goals, he would help to bring it down. He reiterates this to the Kent family later on. |
| 123 | * VitriolicBestBuds: Is this to a certain extent with both Fury and Dresden. |
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| 125 | [[/folder]] |
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| 127 | [[folder:Agent 13]] |
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| 129 | !!Sharon Carter a.k.a. Agent 13 |
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| 131 | Mentioned every now and then as Carol's cousin and Jack O'Neill's daughter, before finally appearing near the end of Book I, undercover as the British Prime Minister's personal secretary and secret bodyguard. |
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| 134 | [[hardline]] |
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| 136 | * ActionGirl: She wasn't dispatched to be the Prime Minister's bodyguard for her looks, and she kicks arse with the best of them. |
| 137 | * BadassFamily: She's got one hell of a heroic pedigree and it shows. |
| 138 | * BigSisterInstinct: Towards Carol, remarking how seeing her in the heat of battle was not a fun experience, as well as being very happy to tease her. Alison notes that when they were younger, they could have passed for sisters, which neither minded - and neither did Sharon's father, Jack, come to that, in part because Carol's father did. |
| 139 | * CombatPragmatist: Once she has the Red Hood on the floor, she has no compunctions about stamping on his knee and kicking him in the groin before making ready to execute him, to ensure that he can't get up again. |
| 140 | * EveryoneLovesBlondes: The PM notes that she's rather attractive and that [[DirtyOldMan his Chancellor]] tends to check out her arse, filing the latter away for blackmail material for the next time the latter tries a leadership bid. [[note]] The Prime Minister is just the leader of the leading party and Ministerial posts are filled by powerful [=MP=]s, especially the Chancellor. Therefore, internal coups are common - only 1 of the last 6 [=PM=]s (David Cameron) actually got the job in an election, though 2 of the others (Theresa May and Boris Johnson) won later elections. [[/note]] [[AmazonChaser Harry]], for his part, goes a little red when he sees her in a [[UnkemptBeauty battered and torn]] SpyCatsuit. |
| 141 | * GenerationXerox: She looks more like Peggy than her grandmother Alison does, but other than that, the two seem to be birds of a feather - it helps that Alison was the original Agent 13. |
| 142 | * GroinAttack: As the Red Hood found out, she's not above resorting to this. |
| 143 | * NotSoStoic: Steve relates that when they met, she barely kept from jumping up and down in delight. |
| 144 | * OutOfFocus: Gets the least amount of narrative focus of her entire family. |
| 145 | * SexySecretary: Goes undercover as this, to the British Prime Minister. |
| 146 | * SpyCatsuit: Wears a combo of this and military tactical gear, with [[DeadpanSnarker the PM]] inwardly noting that if [[DirtyOldMan the Chancellor]] saw her in it, he'd probably die a happy man. [[HormoneAddledTeenager Harry]] also seems to appreciate it. |
| 147 | * SuperSoldier: Judging by Carol, she is one to a greater or lesser extent. |
| 148 | * UncannyFamilyResemblance: In personality, but she's a dead ringer for Peggy Carter. In appearance, she resembles an older Carol and wears a practical SpyCatsuit, something which Harry [[HormoneAddledTeenager notices]]. |
| 149 | * UnkemptBeauty: After the battle of London. Harry, once again, notices. |
| 150 | * YouAreNumberSix: Goes by Agent 13 for a reason. |
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| 152 | [[/folder]] |
| 153 | |
| 154 | [[folder:Alison Carter]] |
| 155 | |
| 156 | !!Deputy Director Alison 'Ali' Carter, formerly O'Neill |
| 157 | |
| 158 | -->''If you fuck with my family, I will end you in ways that would give several gods of my acquaintance either ideas or nightmares.'' |
| 159 | |
| 160 | Former Deputy Director of SHIELD, and the first Agent 13 of SHIELD. She's a RetiredBadass when we first meet her in ''Ghosts of the Past'' - albeit for a rather dubious value of 'retired' ([[spoiler:and following ''Forever Red'', she's been reinstated alongside Maria Hill]]). She's also the daughter of Peggy Carter and Steve Rogers, passed off as the much younger sister of the former. Additionally, she's Tony Stark's godmother, who he refers to as his 'Aunt Ali', Carol Danvers' grandmother, and the matriarch of [[BadassFamily the Carter-Danvers]] clan. Like her granddaughter, she's more emotionally screwed up than is immediately apparent. Also a sort of godmother to [[spoiler: Clark Kent.]] In general, she is very much her mother's daughter. |
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| 163 | [[hardline]] |
| 164 | |
| 165 | * ActionMom: She was the original Agent 13, one of SHIELD's most dangerous combat agents in her day, mother of two, godmother to Tony Stark, and grandmother of another four (formerly five). |
| 166 | * AdaptationalHeroism: She shares an origin with the Ultimate Red Skull, who was the son of that universe's Captain America, including the SomeoneToRememberHimBy aspect. Unlike him, though, Alison's mother was able to keep her pregnancy (and thus Alison) a secret, preventing her from being raised as a LivingWeapon the way Ultimate Skull was, and raised her into a young woman determined to do good. However, like him, her DaddyIssues do influence events right through to the present day, if far less dramatically and more indirectly. |
| 167 | * AlmightyMom: She can get Tony, her godson, and Jack, her son, to snap to simply by [[FullNameUltimatum using their full names.]] Think about that: she can consistently make ''[[MilitaryMaverick Jack O'Neill]]'' and ''[[InsufferableGenius Tony]] [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny Stark]]'' shut up and listen. Mother and ParentalSubstitute or not, that should count as a superpower. |
| 168 | * AmbitionIsEvil: Or at least, Unfettered Ambition Will Make You Neglect Your Kids, by her own account. |
| 169 | * BadassBoast: |
| 170 | ** Gives three rather good ones in chapter 20 of ''Ghosts'', when laying out an ultimatum of the 'do as I say or suffer' variety. One is the folder quote, the other two are below. |
| 171 | ** When her target [[spoiler: her son-in-law, Mr Danvers, who had previously tried to have Harry alter Carol's mind more to his liking]] tries to bluster. |
| 172 | --> I was running black ops missions before you were born, sonny. I went toe to toe with the Black Widow back in the bad old days. I dandled Tony Stark on my knee. Half the Chiefs of Staff owe me favours and the other half know to damn well pay attention when I call, even if they don't like what they hear. |
| 173 | ** And then when he tries again. |
| 174 | --> Think back a few minutes. I made your company president, a man I have never met, do what I want, and I did it this morning. You know I did, because your boss made it clear to you just now, and I'm sure you would be allowed to check your company's records that will show that your promotion went through just before lunch. I did that after my morning run, during breakfast. ''Imagine what I could do if I was actually trying.'' |
| 175 | * BatmanGambit: Used this to play a young Fury and Coulson like a harp, in relation to [[spoiler: Clark Kent and the Smallville Meteor Shower]], and did it so well that they didn't even know that she was even ''involved.'' |
| 176 | * BlaseBoast: She gets off a couple of good ones regarding then-SHIELD Director Jim Woo, stating that he would do what she wanted regarding [[spoiler: the adoption of baby Kal-El]]. Whether he was fully onboard with the idea or not. |
| 177 | * ComesGreatResponsibility: One of her driving motivations, and the one that arguably destroyed her relationship with her daughter who RefusedTheCall (they eventually patched things up). Said daughter ascribes it to feeling that she had to live up to her parents' legacy. |
| 178 | * TheCreon: Played With. She preferred to remain as Deputy Director of SHIELD, mentoring a young Nick Fury, rather than going for the Directorship herself. The World Security Council were wary of the kind of power and influence a Director with the Carter name could command - also, she didn't want the likes of Alexander Pierce taking too close a look at her background and her family. However, a flashback shows she could easily play TheWomanBehindTheMan to actual Director Jim Woo if she wanted to, and that in a confrontation, she would win. |
| 179 | * CulturedBadass: She's a very well-dressed lady with the manners of the old British officer class, and gets references to Russian mythology. She's also one of the most terrifying people alive, and only gets more so as she officially comes out of retirement. |
| 180 | * DaddyIssues: Very understated, but present, and it had knock-on effects through her whole family. See FreudianExcuse. |
| 181 | * DeadpanSnarker: It soon becomes clear that Jack and Carol came by their snark honestly. |
| 182 | * {{Determinator}}: Like the rest of the family, she has absolutely no concept of giving up. This has its upsides and its downsides. |
| 183 | * DisappearedDad: Steve. It affects her much more than she lets on. |
| 184 | * DotingGrandparent: Cares deeply for and mentors her grandchildren, consoles Peter Parker when it looks like [[spoiler: he might be turned into a Grey Court vampire]], coos over a picture of baby [[spoiler: Kal-El]] and treats the teenage version like one of her own grandchildren. |
| 185 | * {{Expy}}: She's heavily influenced by the canon version of Agent 13/Sharon Carter, being Peggy's blonde and blue-eyed 'sister' and a prominent and powerful SHIELD Agent with a tendency to wear white, both in skill and capacity for ruthlessness. |
| 186 | * FamilyEyeResemblance: She has the same cornflower blue eyes as Carol, Sharon and her father, Steve. |
| 187 | * TheFettered: As a young woman, she was the extremely driven version of this, obsessed with succeeding at SHIELD and living up to her parents' respective legends, to the point where it skewed into [[ParentalNeglect neglecting her children]]. [[JerkassRealization She came to realise this]] and reeled back on the ambition to spend more time with them (though as she laments, it might have been too late). |
| 188 | * FourStarBadass: She was the Deputy Director of SHIELD back in the day, and has implied she only retired because Pierce and others were looking a little too hard at her past. Now that Pierce is gone, she's back in the job. |
| 189 | * FreudianExcuse: The fact that she grew up both without her father and to an extent, in his shadow didn't help. However, it is implied that her mother vanishing in 1962, when she was 17, hit her much harder. More than one character notes that she modelled herself very heavily on Peggy, single-mindedly dedicating herself to SHIELD in an attempt to live up to her parents' legacy - which led to neglecting her children. She tried to make up for it, but frankly admits that she was 'a much better spy than a mother' and by pushing them towards SHIELD and related careers, caused her rift with her daughter. |
| 190 | * FullNameUltimatum: Uses it on Tony, her godson, as it's one of the few ways of getting him to hear and obey that she cares to use. It seems to run in the family, considering how her son (Jack O'Neill) used it on her granddaughter/his niece, Carol. Ironically, he is the target of it when he fails to inform Alison of [[spoiler: Carol's kidnapping]], though her ire is also aimed at Steve and, though he doesn't notice it, Tony. |
| 191 | * GenerationXerox: Carol takes ''very'' heavily after her, in both looks and, to an extent, attitude. Sharon looks a little less like her, being built more like Peggy, but has pretty much the exact same attitude. For Alison's part, she takes after Steve in body and Peggy in mind. |
| 192 | * TheGhost: She's referred to several times before she actually appears, usually by Tony as his 'Aunt Ali'. |
| 193 | * GoodCounterpart: Judging by her codename of 'White Widow' and the hints we get, it's implied that for a while, she was this to Natasha. |
| 194 | * GoodIsNotNice[=/=]GoodIsNotSoft: Straddles both tropes. She neglected her children to pursue her duty (or in her mind, Duty), and while she tried to rectify it after a JerkassRealization, she was too late. She's also ruthlessly [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]], entirely willing to use a JackBauerInterrogationTechnique without batting an eye, and is, when required to be, a self-admitted "callous bitch." |
| 195 | * IAmVeryBritish: Being Peggy Carter's 'sister', and therefore from a well-to-do British family, this is inevitable. Her accent is standard RP, though occasionally described as being flavoured by many years in the US, particularly New York. She's actually half Irish-American, through her father, Steve. |
| 196 | * IronLady: She's warmer than most examples, but she is a forceful, formidable personality, and when she wishes, downright terrifying. |
| 197 | * JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: As she puts it in ''Ghosts'', with one hand holding the subject of her wrath's wrist in a firm arm-lock and the other holding a mug of tea... |
| 198 | --> Now, I am going to ask questions, and you are going to answer them, swiftly and concisely. If you fail to do so, I will have a sense of humour failure and you will have a broken arm and several torn ligaments. |
| 199 | * JerkassRealization: When she saw how Howard's distant treatment of Tony was affecting the latter, she realised how her prioritisation of her career/desire to live up to the family legend was affecting her children and resolved to spend more time with them. Though as she admits, it might have been too little, too late. |
| 200 | * LadyOfWar: She takes ''very'' heavily after Peggy, who instilled this trait in her. She's got the manners of the old British officer class, and combat skills that would do both mother and father proud. |
| 201 | * LineageComesFromTheFather: Zig-Zagged. Looks a ''lot'' like Steve, and her SuperSoldier abilities come from there too, but her mannerisms are entirely Peggy. |
| 202 | * MamaBear: See the folder quote. She personally led the raid to free her son when he was captured in the Gulf, played a key part in the raid on the Red Room in ''Ghosts''. When she [[spoiler: finds out about what Mr Danvers tried to get Harry to do to Carol and then during her breakfast the next morning, arranges for him to be KickedUpstairs, away from his family save for supervised social occasions, and coolly informs him that he will comply or suffer the consequences]]. |
| 203 | * ManipulativeBitch: She spent most of her professional life as a high level SHIELD Agent, and is a self-described "callous bitch" when required to be. And as ''Ghosts'' reveals, she's far better than most... |
| 204 | * MissingMom: To her children when they were young. Oh, she was around... [[FamilyVersusCareer just not much]]. |
| 205 | ** Her own mother vanished when she was 17, with exactly what happened to her being an ongoing mystery - and while it is implied that Alison is one of the few people who knows exactly what happened, it is clear that trying to fill the gap her mother left had a strong and not entirely positive effect on her psyche. |
| 206 | * MumLooksLikeASister: She looks closer to her children's age (early forties), even with ageing make-up, than her actual age (early sixties). Without it, she could pass as her oldest granddaughter's sister, apparently not having aged since her late twenties. She is very much not happy about this, observing that this must be what it was like for her father, when he came out of the ice, but in slow motion. |
| 207 | * NervesOfSteel: She isn't in the slightest bit fazed by anything, and we mean ''[[WorldGoneMad anything]]''. The most that happens is that her tone gets a little more clipped. |
| 208 | * NeverMessWithGranny: She's a warm, kindly grandmother who dotes on and teases her grandchildren and pseudo-godson, [[spoiler: Clark Kent]], having learnt from her mistakes as a parent. She's also a SuperSoldier, an incredibly experienced super-spy, having counted pre HeelFaceTurn Natasha as a [[DeadlyEuphemism 'sparring partner']]. She also takes a very effective part in the raid on the Red Room when she's well into her sixties. |
| 209 | ** Additionally, she can silence both Jack O'Neill and Tony Stark (her son and godson, respectively), as well as '''Deadpool,''' verbally break Alexander Pierce in the space of five minutes (admittedly, she had a trump card in [[TheDreaded the Red Son]] being loose) and in the space of a morning she arranges for her errant son-in-law to be KickedUpstairs, stay away from his family, and do nothing to resist or rock the boat. If he doesn't, she'll make him ''wish'' she'd killed him. When he tries to bluster, she effortlessly takes his wrist in one hand and twists his arm to breaking point, while seated, drinking tea, and not missing a beat. |
| 210 | * NoodleIncident: She's got a very long and complicated history. |
| 211 | ** Apparently, she found out the truth about her heritage after she was kidnapped by 'the Red Room and their alien allies' for the serum in her blood as a child. She later reveals that Mar-Vell, Piotr Rasputin a.k.a. Colossus, Howard Stark, a teenage Charles Xavier, and a young Jor-El were all involved. |
| 212 | ** Whatever happened in Jacksonville, which included Deadpool getting a look at her rear in SHIELD spandex, straying a bit too close to some explosives, and owing her a favor. |
| 213 | ** According to Clint, she was heavily involved in the mission that displaced Magneto from his rule of Madripoor in the 80s, teaming up with the Red Room - specifically, Natasha - to do it. |
| 214 | * OldMaster: She's one of the oldest spies in the game, and with the possible exception of Alexander Pierce, indisputably the best - and she managed to crack him in less than five minutes. As is noted, even without explicitly knowing of HYDRA within SHIELD, she managed to keep them dancing for decades, hiding the secret of her heritage (and thus that of her descendants) from them, and while they at least ensured that she never became Director, she [[TheWomanBehindTheMan controlled SHIELD from behind the scenes for over a decade]]. She also spent her retirement keeping ''anyone'' from getting anywhere near [[spoiler: Clark Kent]] without even Fury or Coulson, both also heavily involved, having a clue that she was involved. Really, it's unsurprising that she seamlessly reclaimed her rank at SHIELD on merit. |
| 215 | * OlderThanTheyLook: Thanks to her inherited serum, she looks in her forties as opposed to her sixties - and that's after ageing make-up is applied. Tony complains that she's starting to look younger than he does. If anything, she already does. |
| 216 | * ParentalAbandonment: On the receiving end, with her father disappearing before she was born, and her mother vanishing when she was in her late teens. This is implied by her daughter to have left her with significant issues that took her most of her life to overcome, namely a driving impulse to live up to her parents' legend, no matter what. |
| 217 | * ParentalNeglect: She admits to Carol that she was a very imperfect parent, choosing her career over her children for much of their early childhood, only realising her mistakes when she saw how Howard treated Tony. At that point, she realised that she was looking in a mirror and decided that she didn't like what she saw, setting out to make amends - though as she sadly admits, by that point the damage was already done. |
| 218 | * ParentalSubstitute: To Tony, given that both of his parents were often absent. |
| 219 | * ParentsAsPeople: Admits to Carol, and later, [[spoiler: the Kent family]], that she was 'a much better spy than a mother'. She was single-minded in her desire to succeed at SHIELD, to be the best and live up to Peggy's (and Steve's) legacy. It wasn't until Tony was born and she saw how Howard treated him [[WellDoneSonGuy (and the effect that had)]] that she realised her mistakes. However, as she laments, she was arguably too late, and even after trying to be better, she still unconsciously tried to mould her children in her image, which resulted in pushing her daughter away. Alison acknowledges her mistakes, observes that she hopes she's a decent grandmother because she's learned from them, and she and Marie seem to have since reconciled. |
| 220 | * RedBaron: |
| 221 | ** Ivan Petrovitch calls her 'Vasilisa', after a heroine from Russian myth known for her cleverness. Her amused response of "Flatterer" suggests she knows exactly what he's talking about. |
| 222 | ** During the Cold War, she was known as 'the White Widow'. |
| 223 | * RetiredBadass: [[RunningGag Though apparently retirement is boring.]] Going by her interview of Pierce, it certainly hasn't left her rusty. After ''Forever Red'' , [[spoiler: she doesn't even pretend to be retired any longer.]] As of chapter 34, it's revealed that even while retired, she had people keep an eye on Harry as a courtesy, since his grandparents were SHIELD Agents (like other observers, however, they were prevented from blowing the whistle by [[spoiler: Sinister]], which leads to Alison noting that she owes them an apology for chewing them out), and she was also still [[spoiler: secretly arranging for the protection of Clark Kent]]. |
| 224 | * SecretSecretKeeper: She's known about her heritage since she was eight. Additionally, she's simultaneously known about [[spoiler: Clark Kent and arranged for his protection,]] and has managed it so secretly that even [[spoiler: Fury and Coulson, who she manipulated into being the first SHIELD Agents to encounter a young Clark Kent [[BatmanGambit on the grounds that she knew exactly how they'd react]], who also took measures to protect him, had no idea she was involved until she told them.]] |
| 225 | * SilkHidingSteel: She's an immaculately dressed and glamorous woman, a loving grandmother, and is noted by Clark Kent to look like a 'suburban soccer mom from central casting', albeit of the upper class 'ladies who lunch' variety. She's also a master spy with a core of solid adamantium, who can play the likes of Nick Fury and Phil Coulson like a harp and used to go up against the Black Widow herself in 'the bad old days'. At one point, she twists [[spoiler: her son-in-law's]] arm almost to the breaking point with one hand, while sipping tea with the other. All in all, this is one aspect of her personality where she very definitely takes after her mother. |
| 226 | * SilverVixen: As one would expect, going by the rest of her family [[spoiler: and the fact that under her disguise, she hasn't aged past her late twenties.]] |
| 227 | * StealthHiBye: Has been noted to occasionally do this [[TheGadfly in order to mess with her father or granddaughter]]. |
| 228 | * SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: A super spy that successful isn't going to have had much time for her children, and it's not surprising that someone growing up in the shadow of Captain America and one of the founders of SHIELD would have trouble accepting a child who doesn't want to live up to that legacy. |
| 229 | * TheSpock: Despite her emotional fixation on her family having a Duty, she's this in relation to Jack's TheKirk and Marie's TheMcCoy. Alternatively, she's this in relation to Steve's TheMcCoy and Carol's TheKirk. |
| 230 | * TheSpyMaster: As most of the rest of the folder demonstrates, she was brilliant at this, and only ruled herself out of the running for Director of SHIELD because of SHIELD politics and because she wanted to avoid further examination of her family's past - and even then, as she hints in a flashback, she could effectively overrule the then Director if she wanted to. |
| 231 | * StepfordSmiler: She's hiding a lot of pain under the cool grandma facade. |
| 232 | * StiffUpperLip: She remains calm and in control at all times. |
| 233 | * SuperSoldier: Three guesses where it came from, and the first two don't count. |
| 234 | * ToBeLawfulOrGood: An odd example, in that her opting for Good was both the catalyst to her trying to make up for her ParentalNeglect, and also a key part of the rift with her daughter, with the latter characterising the stubbornness with which she opted for Good and her unyielding mentality of ComesGreatResponsibility as part of the problem. |
| 235 | * WellDoneDaughterGal: It's not immediately obvious, what with her cool, confident and classy demeanour, but it underpins her character. What with the fact that her father was the then believed dead Captain America, and her mother was Peggy Carter, a legend at the SSR/early SHIELD, who disappeared when Alison was 17, she was left feeling she needed to fill the gap they left, fulfill 'the Duty', and get her children (who she at first neglected to fulfil said duty) to follow in her footsteps. One did, the other didn't, creating a major rift between the two of them (though one that has since been patched up). |
| 236 | * TheWomanBehindTheMan: Heavily implied to have been this at SHIELD. While she never rose above Deputy Director for a number of reasons, she bluntly states to Jor-El in a flashback that the actual Director, Jim Woo, will listen to her, and if it comes to it, she can overrule him as her roots in SHIELD run deeper than his do. |
| 237 | * YouAreNumberSix: She was the first Agent 13. |
| 238 | |
| 239 | [[/folder]] |
| 240 | |
| 241 | [[folder:Peggy Carter]] |
| 242 | |
| 243 | !!Deputy Director Margaret 'Peggy' Carter |
| 244 | |
| 245 | Formerly one of the SSR's elite agents during WWII, as well as confidant, friend, and ultimately lover of Steve Rogers, she was one of the key founders of SHIELD, and one of its leading members as the Deputy Director up until her [[UncertainDoom unexplained disappearance]] in 1962. Her life up to that point was extremely eventful one. Aside from her association with Steve, Howard, the Commandos, and thus Namor, Albus Dumbledore and Minerva [=McGonagall=], she also made a very good impression on Captain Mar-Vell, went toe to toe with the Red Room for the sake of her daughter, helped a young Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr form the First Class of X-Men, and befriended a young Jor-El. As a result of this, she casts a long shadow over the plot. |
| 246 | |
| 247 | ---- |
| 248 | [[hardline]] |
| 249 | |
| 250 | * ActionMom: Of Alison, though she pretended that it was more along the lines of BigSisterInstinct. |
| 251 | * BigSisterInstinct: What her attitude to her daughter was assumed to be, thanks to her careful concealment of Alison's origins. |
| 252 | * ExactWords: A reason that many suspect that she might not be dead - whenever the subject comes up, the people in a position to know tend to avoid coming out and saying that she's dead. |
| 253 | * HeroOfAnotherStory: She did a lot of extremely badass things back in the day, but has been missing presumed dead for half a century. |
| 254 | * InTheBlood: Arse-kicking is clearly genetic, going by Alison and the rest of her family. |
| 255 | * LadyOfWar: She was raised a proper lady of the old English officer class with all the appropriate manners, and could kick arse with the best of them, both of which she passed on to Alison. |
| 256 | * TheLostLenore: To Steve. |
| 257 | * MamaBear: Implied to have unleashed one hell of a can of arse-kicking on the Red Room and their Kree allies when they kidnapped an eight-year-old Alison. |
| 258 | * MySecretPregnancy: Kept her pregnancy as secret as possible and passed Alison off as her little sister, knowing exactly how even the nominal good guys would want to study the daughter of Steve Rogers. |
| 259 | * NeverFoundTheBody: The strongest supporting factor behind suggestions that she isn't dead. |
| 260 | * PosthumousCharacter: [[AmbiguousSituation Possibly]] - she hasn't been seen for nearly 50 years, but the hints are that she isn't dead. Of those who know (Strange, Alison, Magneto, and the rest of the 'First Class' of X-Men), only Strange has said anything on the subject - apparently, it's "wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey". |
| 261 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: She never actually appears in the story, but even leaving aside the fact that she's Alison's mother, her actions have a massive impact on the plot. |
| 262 | * TheUnsolvedMystery: Her disappearance is one, with some speculating on who might have killed her. Candidates include HYDRA, the Hellfire Club, Namor, and a young Magneto (who came to prominence just as she vanished). Others suggest that she might be the mysterious Lady Knight. What exactly happened is as yet unconfirmed, though it is hinted that Doctor Strange, Alison, and the First Class of X-Men all know what happened, and are keeping it a secret. |
| 263 | * VillainRespect: Pierce notes that he met Peggy once as a young Agent and found her to be a very formidable and impressive woman, later needling Alison, her 'sister', about not matching up to her. [[BullyingADragon This was not one of his better ideas.]] |
| 264 | |
| 265 | [[/folder]] |
| 266 | |
| 267 | [[folder:Alan Scott]] |
| 268 | |
| 269 | !! Alan Scott a.k.a. Green Lantern I |
| 270 | |
| 271 | -->''My name is Alan Scott. [[PosthumousCharacter In life, I was an Agent of SHIELD and I used to wield that ring you're wearing.]] And I'm going to give you a crash course in how to use it.'' |
| 272 | |
| 273 | Agent of SHIELD, chief opponent of Magneto, and the first wielder of the Green Lantern Ring in the modern era. Retired in the late 1990's, before being killed in the Battle of New York. [[PosthumousCharacter Several years dead]] by the time of the story, he nevertheless makes an appearance courtesy of Death to teach Carol the basics of ring slinging. Has two children, both of whom are currently attending Hogwarts. |
| 274 | |
| 275 | ---- |
| 276 | [[hardline]] |
| 277 | |
| 278 | * ActionDad: A father and a superhero, taking on Magneto single-handedly back in the day, and handling any of SHIELD's Omega level problems, such as Project Pegasus. |
| 279 | * TheBigGuy: He was SHIELD's big gun, one they have yet to adequately replace. |
| 280 | * TheCameo: At the end of the first book. |
| 281 | * TheChosenOne: The Green Lantern Ring chose him, literally - as it demonstrates, it very definitely has a mind of its own. |
| 282 | * ComboPlatterPowers: With the Ring. In addition to flight, energy blasts, and hard light constructs, he was able to use it to teleport, heal, change his size, and much, much more. As it turns out, its powers are functionally limitless. |
| 283 | * FamedInStory: As the Green Lantern, he had name recognition across the supernatural world. |
| 284 | * TheGenericGuy: In appearance, being described as being of average height, with sandy blond hair and brown eyes. This strikes a dramatic contrast to his towering reputation. |
| 285 | * HeroicWillpower: [[VillainRespect Magneto referred]] [[WorthyOpponent to him]] as [[ShoutOut "the man who wrote the book on willpower."]] Unsurprising, really, given it's required to wield the ring. |
| 286 | * ImaginationBasedSuperpower: Wielded the original Green Lantern Ring. |
| 287 | * NiceGuy: His post-mortem cameo has him shown with a kind smile and he immediately helps Carol with the ring. |
| 288 | * NoodleIncident: |
| 289 | ** What happened at Project Pegasus, the last attempt by the US government to meddle with magic. While ''Unfinished Business'' explains a good deal of what was going on, it still leaves a lot of gaps as to what exactly happened. |
| 290 | ** How did his fight with Magneto in Madripoor go, back in the 80s? What happened in the mission around it, designed explicitly to lure Magneto out? We don't know, but we ''do'' know that he put Magneto, of all people, in the ICU for ''months''. |
| 291 | ** It's implied that he also worked alongside Magneto at least once. |
| 292 | * OffScreenMomentOfAwesome: Inevitable, since he's dead, but he's mentioned with respect by Magneto as having been his chief sparring partner and a WorthyOpponent, whose ring he often saw up close, usually because it was coming at his face along with the rest of Scott's fist. Once, Scott actually put him in the ICU, for ''months''. Considering what Magneto has been demonstrated to be capable of even when holding back, this is crazy impressive. |
| 293 | ** Also mentioned as having sealed Project Pegasus. Considering what we see of Pegasus in ''Unfinished Business'', and confirmation that not only are the main characters avoiding the worst of what's there, and that they're far less formidable than the monsters Scott cleared out when he cleansed Pegasus, then what we see when the ArcVillain fully unleashes it... that is incredibly impressive. |
| 294 | * PosthumousCharacter: Dead for several years by the time of the story, though he appears as a ghost. |
| 295 | * RetiredBadass: Gave up the Ring and retired after the 'Smallville Situation' ended and all seemed quiet - and, implicitly, because the Ring tends to bend people towards its way of thinking after a while (which is concerned with protecting the Earth and its magic, rather than little things like 'humans' or 'collateral damage'). |
| 296 | |
| 297 | [[/folder]] |
| 298 | |
| 299 | [[folder:Remus Lupin]] |
| 300 | |
| 301 | Joined SHIELD after his teaching career at Hogwarts fell through. For his folder, see the entry under [[Characters/ChildOfTheStormAvengersAndAssociates Avengers and Associates]]. |
| 302 | |
| 303 | [[/folder]] |
| 304 | ---- |
| 305 | |
| 306 | [[header:[=MI13=]]] |
| 307 | |
| 308 | The modern version of an organisation that has existed for centuries, the modern version was formed out of British elements of the SSR and was essentially the British answer to SHIELD, HYDRA, and the Red Room. |
| 309 | ---- |
| 310 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 311 | |
| 312 | * ArchEnemy: |
| 313 | ** HYDRA function as this throughout ''Child of the Storm'', after they make a manful attempt at wiping [=MI13=] out entirely. [[NiceJobFixingItVillain All they succeeded in doing was making them far, far more dangerous.]] |
| 314 | ** The Death Eaters were this during the Voldemort War. |
| 315 | * CameBackStrong: HYDRA's attack during the events of ''Child of the Storm'' results in a leaner, more efficient and much more deadly organisation under the stewardship of Peter Wisdom, one that is increasingly influential in British politics. By the sequel, they have a monstrously powerful helicarrier, HMS ''Valiant'', with Stark-tech engines and [[spoiler: vibranium armour]], which can go toe to toe with the kind of monsters that give [[PhysicalGod Thor]] a hard time. |
| 316 | * CapeBusters: Meant to be a benevolent variant, hunting down monsters and protecting Britain from superhuman/supernatural bad guys. However, Dresden indicates that a lot of the magical community lives in fear of at least some of their members, especially its current leader, Peter Wisdom, who Dresden describes as making InspectorJavert look like Mother Theresa. Certainly, the British Ministry of Magic is somewhat terrified of them from ''Ghosts'' onwards, though that's based on Wisdom's ambition and grudge against Fudge. |
| 317 | * CloakAndDagger: Even more so than SHIELD, since they're even more secretive, they employ more heavyweight superpowered personnel, and a resurrected James Bond as a form of, in Wisdom's words, 'techno-zombie'. |
| 318 | * TheDreaded: To varying extents, especially to the British Ministry after Peter Wisdom takes charge. The amount of superhuman power they can bring to bear, their ruthlessness, plus the fact that unlike SHIELD, they still operate mostly in the shadows, means that they're this for good reason. |
| 319 | * GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: A straighter version than SHIELD, since they actually are run by the British government (though following Wisdom's ascension to the Directorship, more than a few people suspect that it's actually the other way around...) |
| 320 | * HeroesRUs: They train and equip the Excalibur squad, here depicted as a government superhuman strike team composed of [[PsychicPowers Betsy Braddock,]] Banshee, [[RazorWings Archangel,]] [[MasterSwordsman Black Knight,]] [[MagnificentBastard John Constantine]] (because he owed Wisdom a favour), [[ComicBook/SpiderWoman Jessica Drew]] (also Deputy Director of [=MI13=]), and Wanda Maximoff (once, and only because Wisdom blackmailed her). |
| 321 | * InterServiceRivalry: The general consensus of the other military and intelligence organisations in Britain is that [=MI13=] (or possibly just their new boss, Peter Wisdom) are creepy and weird and far too powerful for anyone's comfort. |
| 322 | * MadScientist: They employ quite a few, according to both Wisdom and Betsy. |
| 323 | * TheMenInBlack: Function as this even more than SHIELD do, even in a semi [[TheUnMasquedWorld Unmasqued World]], with Wisdom himself being a prime example - though unlike most examples, he is perfectly happy to show emotion [[SirSwearsALot through an impressive barrage of foul language.]] |
| 324 | * NotWearingTights: For the most part, their Excalibur squad sticks to practical armour or a SpyCatsuit at most. |
| 325 | * PintSizedPowerHouse: As compared to multinational scale peers and rivals like SHIELD, HYDRA, and the Red Room. |
| 326 | * SpyCatsuit: Sometimes worn by the likes of Jessica Drew. |
| 327 | |
| 328 | [[/folder]] |
| 329 | |
| 330 | [[folder:Peter Wisdom]] |
| 331 | |
| 332 | !!Director Peter Wisdom a.k.a. Regulus Black |
| 333 | |
| 334 | -->''We're [=MI13=], we break the laws of nature for a living.'' |
| 335 | |
| 336 | Agent, later Director, of [=MI13=], mutant, wanded wizard and protégé of Nick Fury. [[GoodIsNotNice 'Hero' might be stretching it.]] Like his canon counterpart, he has a tendency to wear suits, smoke and snark. Resourceful, immensely driven, [[ManipulativeBastard calculating, manipulative]] and utterly ruthless, he will allow ''nothing'' to stand in the way of the defence of the realm. Essentially Fury with additional superpowers, a total disregard for his own life, and a surgically removed conscience.\ |
| 337 | In ''Ghosts'', he's unchallenged in Muggle Britain and is leveraging more and more power over the Ministry. |
| 338 | ---- |
| 339 | [[hardline]] |
| 340 | |
| 341 | * TheAtoner: Pretty much his raison d'etre. |
| 342 | * AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: His brother, Sirius, reliably brings out his very limited human qualities. |
| 343 | * BadassBoast: |
| 344 | ** On behalf of his agency in when resurrecting James Bond as a kind of techno-zombie. |
| 345 | -->"We're [=MI13=], we break the laws of nature for a living." |
| 346 | ** Gives one to the Ministry in ''Ghosts'', backed up by three beefed up Quinjets. |
| 347 | --> I am the Director of [=MI13=] and because you lot are incapable of policing yourselves, it is now ''my'' job. If the cockroaches are going to crawl out of the shadows, I'm the one who's going to turn on the lights. I have the authority of the Crown behind me on this, so I assure you, Diggory, that right now I can do whatever the hell I like, and ''god help whoever gets in my way!'' |
| 348 | * BadassInANiceSuit: Albeit a somewhat rumpled one. While wearing it, he went toe to toe with the Winter Soldier and survived the experience. |
| 349 | * BadassLongCoat: Occasionally wears one over the suit. |
| 350 | * BerserkButton: Assuming that he'll put himself ahead of his country tends to put him into a cold, murderous rage. T'Challa presses it at the end of ''Child of the Storm'' by accident, and Thor nearly presses it in ''Ghosts'', before neatly changing tack. |
| 351 | * TheChessmaster: His treatment of Warren bears more than a few hallmarks of this trope, much to Cassidy's disgust. |
| 352 | * CombatPragmatist: He's a no-nonsense fighter, always willing to attack from behind or the shadows, though he doesn't lack courage in a straight up fight, having one on one with the Winter Soldier. Out of direct combat, he will always go for whatever option (he believes) is best for Britain. No matter what. |
| 353 | * CompositeCharacter: Of Marvel's Peter Wisdom and Regulus Black. WordOfGod also vaguely wonders at the end of Book I if he's starting to gain a few character traits from [[Literature/{{Discworld}} Sam Vimes]]. |
| 354 | * ControlFreak: Thor notes this about him and Wisdom doesn't deny it. Betsy outright states it in the sequel. |
| 355 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: He used to be Regulus Black, a Death Eater. His attitude to this is ThatManIsDead. |
| 356 | * DeadpanSnarker: Occasionally, with a somewhat dark twist. |
| 357 | * DeathSeeker: Less 'Seeker', more 'Entirely Indifferent to the Prospect'. [[TheUnfettered It's one of the things that makes him so terrifyingly dangerous.]] |
| 358 | * TheDreaded: Pretty much everyone who's heard of him is scared of him, or at least, what he might do. Karkaroff is even more scared of him than he was of Moody in canon (though that's also suggested to be because he recognises who Wisdom used to be). Given that he's essentially a more superficially sane version of Mad-Eye Moody with more abilities, fewer ethics, and by the sequel, the resources of a powerful nation behind him, this is entirely justified. |
| 359 | * ElaborateUndergroundBase: When he takes control of [=MI13=], he converts abandoned and disused portions of the London Underground into a series of bases to operate out of. |
| 360 | * FamedInStory: Not to any great extent at first, but he's known and feared. Dresden notes that he has a reputation for making InspectorJavert look like Mother Theresa. By the start of ''Ghosts'', his reputation has grown dramatically. |
| 361 | * {{Foil}}: To T'Challa. They're both supernaturally gifted, born to privilege and after a traumatic NearDeathExperience, are shocked out of their comfort zone. They both love their respective nations with a passion, [[NotSoDifferentRemark sharing a moment when they both remark on how they were seduced by their countries in early adulthood]] and both are pragmatic and highly capable political operators, though for the time being, Wisdom is better at it. However, while T'Challa, educated away from Wakanda in the sciences, embraces the mystical traditions of his people, Wisdom rejects his own mystical upbringing and embraces the sciences and the mundane world. Oh, and T'Challa is a noble man with a good heart. Wisdom is not noble, and doesn't have much of a heart. |
| 362 | * FourStarBadass: On his promotion to the Directorship of [=MI13=], fighting on the front lines, having previously gone one on one with the Winter Soldier and survived to make his escape. |
| 363 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: Very few people know where he comes from and consequently, don't trust him. Even those who do know find his cynical, misanthropic and ruthlessly manipulative personality unsettling at best. The PM likes him, though, mostly because he finds his confidence reassuring. |
| 364 | * GoodIsNotNice: Good is stretching it. Much like his mentor, Nick Fury, he's grumpy, snarky and ruthless, and he won't blink an eye before manipulating a genuinely good person into doing what he wants. There's a difference, though: Fury wants heroes. Wisdom wants soldiers. |
| 365 | ** When talking to Pepper about Stark Industries building Britain two Helicarriers and revamping the current one and notes how he expects Tony to slip in something just in case and approves. He also adds that if he was going to fight Tony, he wouldn't use Helicarriers. The implied threat does not go unnoticed. |
| 366 | ** At the World Cup, he threatens Crouch and Amos Diggory alike with (among other things) three large and heavily armed quinjets, taking the former into custody. It is also implied that the quinjet that effectively vaporised Mulciber did so on his orders. |
| 367 | ** After ''Forever Red'', he allows Harry back to Hogwarts after Thor persuades him - at Hogwarts, he can keep a close eye on Harry, and if [[spoiler: he goes Dark Phoenix]], then it makes no difference whether he's on Earth or Asgard. However, he then flatly states that he's doing this because he thinks that it's the best option for Britain. If that was putting a bullet through Harry's skull instead, he'd do it (though he admits that he'd feel guilty). |
| 368 | ** On a lighter note, psychologically torturing Fudge is described as the closest thing he has to a hobby. |
| 369 | * GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Notes to Jackie Falsworth that he picked the habit up from John Constantine. |
| 370 | * HeelFaceTurn: He used to be a Death Eater before he realised what they were really like. Of course, it's up for debate how much of a 'Face' he really is, but he's pointed in the right direction. Probably. |
| 371 | * InspectorJavert: According to Harry Dresden, he made the TropeNamer look like Mother Teresa. Everything seen so far has only confirmed this impression. |
| 372 | * InterServiceRivalry: M doesn't like or trust him and he's intent on picking a fight with the Ministry, planning to supplant them as chief handlers of the supernatural in Britain. |
| 373 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: It's there. Somewhere. Buried deep, ''deep'' down. |
| 374 | * KnightInSourArmour: The armour isn't quite impenetrable, but it's pretty thick. |
| 375 | * ManipulativeBastard: He's a master of the art, unsurprisingly. |
| 376 | ** Successfully blackmails Wanda into being his ace in the hole by threatening to tell her daughter, Hermione, that Wanda is her mother. As is pointed out in-universe, doing it this way maximises emotional damage while minimising civilian casualties-very much his MO. |
| 377 | ** He also sets up Warren - either his experience at Hogwarts will draw him out of his shell, or, if Hogwarts was attacked, he'd be forced to use his wings and start killing or risk the lives of all the children in the castle, leaving him ready to be moulded into a soldier. Cassidy's reaction is one of fury and utter disgust. |
| 378 | ** He's also playing the Ministry like a harp, exploiting their confusion following their losses, their fear of him (which is why Fudge is still in office - no one wants to have to deal with Wisdom), and his own firepower advantage, to slowly supplant them. WordOfGod is that he actually doesn't mind Fudge being Minister because: a) he already controls the parts of the Ministry that he absolutely ''needs'' to and b) Fudge is too incompetent to notice that Wisdom is slowly taking the rest. |
| 379 | * ManOfTheCity: A national level variant. His only - and we mean ''only'' - concern is the protection of Britain from threats, mystical or mundane. Any implication that he might put his own interests ahead of his country's really upsets him. Unfortunately, this also makes him TheUnfettered, as there's practically nothing he ''won't'' do to protect his country. |
| 380 | * MarriedToTheJob: As far as he's concerned, his job is the only reason he still exists, and he has no life outside of it. It's hinted in his brief ShipTease with Jessica Drew that he once thought otherwise, but he put his job first. |
| 381 | * MoralityChain: Part of the reason he keeps Cassidy around as his ''de facto'' third-in-command, after himself and Jessica Drew, is because he knows that Cassidy will stop him from going too far - by killing him if needs be. |
| 382 | * MyCountryRightOrWrong: Surprisingly, for all his copious cynicism, he's actually a genuine patriot and expresses absolute ''fury'' at the suggestion that he might put his own interests ahead of those of his country. Indeed, this is arguably what makes him so very dangerous. |
| 383 | * MysteriousPast: InUniverse. Very few people know where he came from, which is why most of his peers don't trust him. Even knowing who he is, however, the details of how he was saved from dying, developed his mutation, and ended up as Fury's protege, are unclear. |
| 384 | * NervesOfSteel: Isn't in the least fazed by a furious Sean Cassidy, despite knowing exactly how dangerous the man is. Once he 'died' thirteen or so years ago, everything thereafter, every chance to undo the evil he helped create, is simply a bonus. An angry and [[PapaWolf paternally protective]] Thor barely makes him glance up from his paperwork. |
| 385 | * NotWearingTights: Sticks to the same constantly rumpled suit. |
| 386 | * NotSoAboveItAll: In one of his earlier appearances, he sends his accent wandering all over Britain just to annoy Fury (probably because they both know his rough Estuary accent is an affectation). He also enjoys psychologically torturing Fudge, which is described as the closest thing he has to a hobby. |
| 387 | * NotSoStoic: Actually starts drooling when Strange transforms a volcano into a [[spoiler: mithril/vibranium mine]]. This becomes something of a RunningGag. |
| 388 | * OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: He managed to go toe to toe with the Winter Soldier in single combat and get out with little more than a few bruises and one or two other injuries. |
| 389 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: No one can imagine him smiling, and when he's cheerful after the First Task, more or less everybody else is thoroughly creeped out. |
| 390 | * OohMeAccentsSlipping: He affects a rough Estuary accent, but when he gets particularly stressed, his more refined upper class accent peeks out. |
| 391 | * OverRankedSoldier: Even more than Nick Fury - he becomes Director of [=MI13=] at ''31''. [[JustifiedTrope This, however, is because he's one of its few surviving senior Agents. And as M admits, he's very good at his job.]] |
| 392 | * PerpetualFrowner: His default is grim and grumpy. If he's smiling, it's usually a sign that something unpleasant is happening to someone deserving. When he starts ''genuinely'' smiling and acting cheerful after the ''Of Dungeons and Dragons'' arc in ''Ghosts'', ''everyone'' finds it disturbing - Betsy remarks that she didn't know he even ''did'' happy, and T'Challa is perversely reassured when he reverts to his usual grim and grumpy self. |
| 393 | * PetTheDog: He gets a few. |
| 394 | ** It's stated that, even though he doesn't particularly care about having heroes in his service, he still believes in them. |
| 395 | ** His immediate reaction to the possibility that Sirius might be injured is one of brief but serious worry. Sirius is also one of only two people who he lets call him Regulus (albeit grudgingly), the other being Kreacher, because he thinks that the shock of discovering that 'Master Regulus' had entirely abandoned the Black name would kill the elderly house elf. |
| 396 | ** He also seems genuinely sympathetic to both T'Challa and the Weasleys regarding the death of their respective fathers, calling Arthur in particular "a good man." |
| 397 | ** Subverted when he bluntly disabuses Thor and Sirius of any notion that he's letting Harry return to Hogwarts after the [[spoiler: Dark Phoenix]] Incident out of sentiment. Rather, it's because they persuaded him that it's just about the best option - if killing him was a better option, he'd do that instead. That being said, he is genuinely sympathetic to what Harry went through. |
| 398 | * PlayingWithFire: His hot knives. |
| 399 | * PragmaticHero: On his better days. On his worse days, he veers closer to [[PragmaticVillainy Pragmatic Anti-Villain.]] |
| 400 | * PreMortemOneLiner: To a luckless HYDRA Agent, part of a team lured into a trap. |
| 401 | --> I'll let you in on a little secret, sunshine. That intel? It wasn't good. |
| 402 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Betsy describes him as being this in ''Ghosts,'' noting that while he's not exactly the kind of boss one would want to take out for a drink after work, he is a good leader who trusts his subordinates to do what they need to do. |
| 403 | * ReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives a vicious one, combined with a BadassBoast, to the Ministry in ''Ghosts of the Past.'' |
| 404 | --> The Dark Mark is in the sky. The Death Eaters are up to their old tricks. The security of Britain is threatened. All because you stupid bastards didn't do your job at the end of the fucking War! You just let them all slip away, didn't you, with excuses like 'a big Death Eater made me do it and ran away'! And now they're back. Maybe not organised, maybe nothing but drunks out for a bit of fun, but now all the cockroaches are scuttling out of the shadows and that's a problem because you know what? Voldemort's back too! He's back and he's using them as fucking puppets! I am the Director of [=MI13=] and because you lot are incapable of policing yourselves, it is now ''my'' job. If the cockroaches are going to crawl out of the shadows, I'm the one who's going to turn on the lights. I have the authority of the Crown behind me on this, so I assure you, Diggory, that right now I can do whatever the hell I like, and ''god help whoever gets in my way!'' |
| 405 | * RedOniBlueOni: The cold, calculating and merciless Blue, to Sirius' HotBlooded HonourBeforeReason Red. |
| 406 | * ShipTease: Briefly with his right hand woman, [[ComicBook/SpiderWoman Jessica Drew]]. Subverted, though, as his POV section makes reference to his realising that he'd have to pick between dating and having the two of them be separated at work or putting the feelings aside and picking the latter. |
| 407 | * TheSociopath: [[SubvertedTrope Not quite]], but sometimes it's very hard to tell that he actually has the withered remains of a conscience, buried deep down inside. |
| 408 | * SociopathicHero: By ''Ghosts of the Past'', he's evolved entirely into this. |
| 409 | * StepfordSnarker: Considering everything he's been through, this isn't too surprising. |
| 410 | * TallDarkAndHandsome: Much like his brother, Sirius Black. |
| 411 | * TallDarkAndSnarky: Much like his canon counterpart and his other canon counterpart's brother. |
| 412 | * ThatManIsDead: Hints at this attitude in regard to his past life when he remarks that he feels that he died over a decade ago and everything since has simply been a bonus. |
| 413 | * TokenEvilTeammate: Even including Loki and Fury, he's by far the most ruthless and at times, downright amoral, of the good guys. Wanda compares him to a pre HeelFaceTurn Magneto, and he makes it abundantly clear (to Harry's father and godfather, the latter being ''his brother'') that if he thought that putting a bullet through Harry's head would be the best option for Britain, he'd do it without blinking twice, divine wrath notwithstanding with only a side-note that he'd feel a bit guilty. |
| 414 | ** On the milder end of things, it's mentioned that making [[ButtMonkey Fudge]] suffer is pretty much his one pleasure in life. |
| 415 | * TookALevelInBadass: Went from being an average Death Eater to having a mutation and being Fury's protege and one of the most powerful people in Britain, capable of surviving an encounter with the Winter Soldier. |
| 416 | * TrenchCoatBrigade: A card-carrying member of this. |
| 417 | * UnexpectedCharacter: While Peter Wisdom isn't exactly that much of a stretch to include, no one saw him being Regulus Black coming. |
| 418 | * TheUnfettered: Imagine Nick Fury with superpowers, and a surgically removed (or at least, suppressed) conscience, and you've got Wisdom. His dialogue with Cassidy makes it very clear that he is this trope, and Wanda later compares him to her father [[HeelFaceTurn 'before he went soft.']] It's a large part of what makes him so terrifyingly dangerous. |
| 419 | * WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Intentionally invokes this on one occasion to annoy Fury. His default is a rough East London accent with a hint of class beneath it, though his natural RP creeps through when he loses concentration. |
| 420 | * WolverineClaws: He can use his 'hot knives' as these, to gruesome effect. |
| 421 | * WouldHurtAChild: He makes it very clear in ''Ghosts'' that if he thought putting a bullet through Harry's skull would better protect Britain, he'd do it. He wouldn't want to and he'd feel guilty about it, but he'd do it in a heartbeat and take the guilt and vicious divine vengeance as it came. As he notes, he doesn't plan to, though, as he knows very well that a) it wouldn't work, b) it would have the exact opposite of the intended effect. |
| 422 | [[/folder]] |
| 423 | |
| 424 | [[folder:Sean Cassidy]] |
| 425 | |
| 426 | !!Sean Cassidy a.k.a. Banshee |
| 427 | |
| 428 | -->''Most people are a little reluctant to employ a former spy.'' |
| 429 | |
| 430 | One of the First Class of X-Men who has since led a peripatetic career as an Intelligence Officer during the Vietnam War, an Interpol Detective a teacher and bodyguard for the Hogwarts student body, along with his protégé, Warren Worthington III, and most recently, an Agent of [=MI13=]. Currently looks about thirty despite being well into his sixties. The reasons for this have, as yet, only been alluded to. |
| 431 | ---- |
| 432 | [[hardline]] |
| 433 | |
| 434 | * AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Averts this, despite having more reason to angst. |
| 435 | * AdaptationalBadass: While no slouch to begin with, this version is considerably more dangerous than either his comic or film selves. One reviewer described him as Black Bolt-lite, power wise, and for good reason. |
| 436 | * AntiHero: For all that he's a ReasonableAuthorityFigure and a NiceGuy, he is shown to be capable of spectacularly vicious revenge and is more than willing to keep secrets and lie by omission. |
| 437 | * TheAntiNihilist: Despite everything he's been through, he remains kind, cheerful and upbeat. However, he isn't entirely unmarked by his experiences, having developed a taste for {{Revenge}} that he has to be careful to control. |
| 438 | * BadassTeacher: In ''Child of the Storm'', and specifically recruited for his badassery. His teaching (of hand to hand combat) is just to officially justify his presence at Hogwarts. |
| 439 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: He's kindly, friendly and funny, a classic ReasonableAuthorityFigure. However, he's also one of the most dangerous men alive, is described by [[TheDreaded Peter Wisdom]] as 'a scary, scary man' and god help you if you threaten or worse, hurt, his students. If you're lucky, he'll take you apart. If you're unlucky, he'll shatter every bone in your body and leave you as a twitching bag of meat. |
| 440 | ** Then there's whatever it was he did to the IRA cell that killed his wife. It's not elaborated upon, but the fact that he still gives ''Nick Fury'' occasional nightmares, many years later, says all that needs to be said. |
| 441 | * BigBrotherMentor: Expresses regret that he didn't get the chance to be this to his younger cousin, Black Tom, who doesn't seem to be a mutant - though his mutant powers are alluded to when Sean comments that [[GreenThumb he's 'good with plants']]. |
| 442 | * BloodKnight: See the aforementioned taste for {{Revenge}}. |
| 443 | * BoxingLessonsForSuperman: Mentions that he learned aikido to invoke this trope, and teaches these to the Hogwarts students, specifically focusing on Harry, Ron, and Hermione (and mainly Harry). In the sequel, he starts - somewhat reluctantly - teaching Ron in earnest. |
| 444 | * BraveScot: Or perhaps Brave Generically Celtic might be more accurate, thanks to his being Irish-American, having lived in Scotland and Ireland for much of his life, and spent over two decades sparring with the IRA. |
| 445 | * CombatPragmatist: Espouses this philosophy and ruthlessly practises what he preaches. |
| 446 | * CompellingVoice: Part of his power set. He apparently used it on the IRA cell that killed his wife in ways that still give Nick Fury nightmares. |
| 447 | * CoolOldGuy: He's well past 60, but he quickly becomes a favourite teacher at Hogwarts with his charm, open attitude, and easy sense of humour, and becomes a good mentor to first Harry, then Ron. |
| 448 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He generally seems to be a fairly happy-go-lucky sort of guy. He's also a Vietnam vet, one of the First Class of the X-Men and considered by Nick Fury, Peter Wisdom, Lucius Malfoy, and the Red Room to be very dangerous indeed. |
| 449 | * CrusadingWidower: A surprisingly cheerful, happy go lucky variant. However, it is stated that he's had over a decade to grieve, whatever he did with his CompellingVoice during his RoaringRampageOfRevenge still occasionally gives Nick Fury nightmares and he's got a taste for {{Revenge}}, one that he does his bet to keep a lid on. Also [[BewareTheNiceOnes you]] ''[[BewareTheNiceOnes really]]'' [[BewareTheNiceOnes don't want to cross him]]. |
| 450 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: Despite his [[TheAntiNihilist almost purposefully cheerful demeanour]], there's more than a few shadows in his past. His wife's death at the hands of the IRA and his resultant RoaringRampageOfRevenge are just the most notable - he's dealt with enough similar cases to identify abuse and the methods of a sexual predator. |
| 451 | * DemotedToExtra: In ''Ghosts'' he goes from supporting character to an extra, getting the occasional cameo, though [[TheBusCameBack he gets a bit more focus after the action returns to Hogwarts.]] |
| 452 | * FatalFlaw: {{Revenge}}. More implied than stated, but he's hinted that he got a taste for it during his RoaringRampageOfRevenge after his wife's death, though he's fully aware that it's not a good thing and tries to suppress it. |
| 453 | * GlassShatteringSound: He can do this to glass and many other materials by hitting their resonant frequency. [[NightmareFuel Like bone.]] |
| 454 | * GoodIsNotSoft: He is a patient and wise ReasonableAuthorityFigure with a good sense of humour and a kind heart. He is also capable of doing things that give Nick Fury recurrent nightmares when he needs to. |
| 455 | * FunetikAksent: Occasionally, depending on choice and stress. |
| 456 | * HotTeacher: Looks about thirty for unrevealed reasons and happens to be very attractive, as most of the school (and not just the girls) notices. |
| 457 | * InterGenerationalFriendship: With Warren, who notes that Sean is old enough to be his grandfather, [[VitriolicBestBuds 'just refuses to have the decency to look it']]. |
| 458 | * TheLancer: To Wisdom. If Jessica Drew is his right-hand, Sean is his left. He's a classical hero to Wisdom's ruthless spy, and doesn't trust Wisdom one inch. The main reason that he's at [=MI13=] is to keep an eye on Wisdom, and it's even implied that he'll kill him if necessary. However, Wisdom is implied to be okay with this idea, and he's also a highly competent and experienced spy. This, combined with his integrity, means that Wisdom trusts him to run [=MI13=]'s Hogwarts/Triwizard/[[spoiler: Vibranium-Mithril mine]] business while he and Drew are elsewhere. |
| 459 | * LivingLieDetector: He can hear someone's heartbeat change. |
| 460 | * MakeSomeNoise: On top of his canonical powers of flight and creating sonic waves, he can, among other things, [[BrownNote hit the frequency resonance of absolutely anything]] and can cancel sound waves to move in total silence. |
| 461 | * ManlyTears: When he finds Luna's body. |
| 462 | * ManOfAThousandVoices: He can mimic a voice perfectly and speak in just about any kind of accent that he chooses. |
| 463 | * TheMentor: To Harry in ''Child of the Storm'', before becoming one to Ron in ''Ghosts'', while remaining as this and a ParentalSubstitute to Warren in both. |
| 464 | * OccultBlueEyes: Is noted as having remarkable sea blue eyes. |
| 465 | * OldSoldier: He's over sixty (though he doesn't look it), one of the founding members of the X-Men, is a Vietnam veteran and took on the IRA as a detective for Interpol. He was also sounded out by Nick Fury for the Avengers Initiative, picked by Peter Wisdom for his Excalibur squad and regarded by Lucius Malfoy to be a serious threat. |
| 466 | * OlderThanTheyLook: No one's quite sure why he looks about thirty, but it's [[NoodleIncident suggested to be something to do with a living island called Krakoa...]] |
| 467 | * OohMeAccentsSlipping: In-universe example. Part of his powers means [[ManOfAThousandVoices that he can imitate any accent perfectly]] and usually settles on a slightly Irish brogue. It thickens significantly under stress or when he gets angry. [[BewareTheNiceOnes This is generally a good time to start running.]] |
| 468 | * PapaWolf: Don't hurt kids under his protection. Just don't. |
| 469 | * ParentalSubstitute: To Warren and Ron, offering emotional support that both young men desperately need. |
| 470 | * PietaPlagiarism: With Luna's dead body. |
| 471 | * PutOnABus: For most of the first 40 chapters of ''Ghosts'', being a background figure at best, [[TheBusCameBack before reappearing]] as a somewhat reluctant teacher for a very driven Ron. |
| 472 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Is remarkably tolerant of Harry's snark, gently pointing out that while he found it funny, not everyone would and that he shouldn't go looking for more trouble (Harry visibly takes this on board) and of Harry's investigating into his painful past. However, you shouldn't push him too far. |
| 473 | * RedBaron: The Banshee. Even the Red Room know [[VillainRespect and respect]] it. |
| 474 | * RevengeBeforeReason: More than once warns against this trope, knowing the consequences [[DarkAndTroubledPast from personal experience.]] |
| 475 | * RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Against the IRA cell that killed his wife. It was, apparently... creative. He repeated the trick in chapters 70 and 71 when HYDRA attacked the school and he found Luna's corpse. |
| 476 | * {{Scotireland}}: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by the fact that he's lived in Ireland and Scotland for a considerable portion of his life and, to complicate matters further, is originally Irish-American. |
| 477 | * SecretKeeper: Implied to be this for the Angel of Cuba and, like the rest of the First Class, regarding whatever actually happened to Peggy Carter. |
| 478 | * SourSupporter: He neither likes nor trusts Wisdom, which he goes to no trouble to hide. Indeed, he is fully prepared to kill him if he thinks that the other man is going too far. However, he continues to work for [=MI13=] int the sequel because he thinks it's a job that needs doing, because he wants to protect Warren, and because he wants to be around to rein in Wisdom. |
| 479 | * StealthHiBye: Can pull this off well enough to startle [[NobleWolf Freki and Geri]], thanks to his audiokinesis, which, among other things, allows him to dampen sound around him. |
| 480 | * SuperSenses: Thanks to his powers, he's got enhanced hearing, strong enough to use as sonar. |
| 481 | * TeamDad: To the Excalibur squad, being the oldest member, and playing ParentalSubstitute to Warren and later, to a certain extent, Ron. |
| 482 | * VitriolicBestBuds: With [[InterGenerationalFriendship Warren.]] |
| 483 | * WhoWatchesTheWatchmen: As noted above, his job at [=MI13=] in large part involves reining in/keeping an eye on Wisdom. |
| 484 | * WouldHitAGirl: Doesn't distinguish between gender when killing HYDRA Agents. |
| 485 | [[/folder]] |
| 486 | |
| 487 | [[folder:Warren Worthington]] |
| 488 | |
| 489 | !!Warren Worthington III a.k.a. Archangel |
| 490 | |
| 491 | -->''No one ever said that being a hero came with the requirement to be nice.'' |
| 492 | |
| 493 | A very handsome Anglo-American mutant in his late teenage years who's estranged from his family and is monumentally depressed. The reasons for this lie in his very beautiful, [[RazorWings very deadly metal wings.]] After chapter 70, he seems to have snapped and lost all compunctions about hurting people with his wings when required, embracing his nature as 'an Angel of Death'. Considering his comic book counterpart's past, this is... worrying. |
| 494 | ---- |
| 495 | [[hardline]] |
| 496 | |
| 497 | * AbsurdlySharpBlade: His wings. |
| 498 | * AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Is very gloomy and miserable, something for which he is gently teased by other characters, but not without reason - his father fed him Hank [=McCoy=]'s mutation suppression serum against the latter's advice when he was a child, causing his previously feathery wings to turn into metal. |
| 499 | * BreakTheCutie: He was fairly broken beforehand, but judging by chapter 72, the events of chapter 70 [[HeroicBSOD all but destroyed him.]] |
| 500 | * ByronicHero: Is explicitly described by Dumbledore as 'more Byronic than Byron'. |
| 501 | * CantHaveSexEver: Because of his RazorWings, he's twitchy about even hugging someone. This fear of intimacy is cited as the reason he broke up with Jean Grey and is a significant contribution to his angst. |
| 502 | * ColorCodedEyes: Warren epitomises both the original epitome of grey-colored eyes for [[PrettyBoy beauty]], the marksmanship association due to his inhumanly good vision. It's suggested that as a child, he also embodied the innocent association, but those days are long gone. |
| 503 | * CharacterDevelopment: Prior to HYDRA's attack on Hogwarts (in which he is forced to slaughter a HYDRA aerial assault force), he's bitter and afraid of his wings, but still relatively innocent. Not so afterwards. While he's OutOfFocus after that, in ''Ghosts'' he's dating Betsy, meaning he's gotten over his fear of intimacy. |
| 504 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He acts like a typical mopey teenager. He's also a OneManArmy SuperSoldier with RazorWings capable of taking down zombie dragons with ease and he will not hesitate to show it if he feels the need. |
| 505 | * CursedWithAwesome: The development of his mutation gave him RazorWings which, while impediments to his social life, allow him to exceed the speed of sound. He also got SuperStrength greater than Captain America - enough to, according to Sean, 'bench press a troll' and equivalent durability, a powerful HealingFactor and SuperSenses. |
| 506 | * TheCynic: Explicitly says that he thinks that cynics are cute and is such as a result of his powers and his family's rejection of him. |
| 507 | * CynicismCatalyst: |
| 508 | ** The development of his wings into RazorWings as a by-product of his father trying to get rid of his mutation. |
| 509 | ** The events of Book 1, in which he decides IAmWhatIAm, could also just as easily indicate a StartOfDarkness. |
| 510 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: Those wings - the metallic part, anyway - didn't come naturally. |
| 511 | * DeadpanSnarker: Has quite a sharp wit. |
| 512 | * DopeSlap: Belts Sean around the head when he's busy blaming himself for the Pensieve Incident. |
| 513 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: He's much more cheerful prior to turning up at Hogwarts, though a lot of that is indicated to be adrenaline and HeroWorship for Rhodey. |
| 514 | * EvenTheGuysWantHim: Sean comments that past experience would suggest this. |
| 515 | * FemaleGaze: Attracts this in great quantities, with even ''[=McGonagall=]'' commenting on his looks. As she puts it, [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments "I'm old, not dead."]] |
| 516 | * FlyingBrick: A relatively limited example, but still terrifying - he's strong enough to bench-press a troll, tough enough that minigun bullets from a HYDRA Quinjet barely bother him, and can fly well enough to earn ''Namor's'' respect (being mentored by Sean Cassidy probably had something to do with it). |
| 517 | * GoodIsNotNice: Frequently, as best summed up by the folder quote. |
| 518 | * HasAType: Given that his ex is Jean Grey and he's currently dating Betsy Braddock, he seems to have a bit of a thing for strong psychic women. |
| 519 | * HeroicBSOD: After brutally killing HYDRA's aerial attack force. |
| 520 | * HotTeacher: Though he's more of a teaching assistant. |
| 521 | * HumansAreBastards: He seems to have long since decided this, though how much is grumpy emo-tendencies and how much is genuine belief is up for debate. Either way, [[KnightInSourArmour you can rely on him to do the right thing.]] |
| 522 | * IAmWhatIAm: He seems to have decided this by the end of Book I. Whether this is [[EpiphanyComeBack for good]] or [[StartOfDarkness ill]] is yet to be revealed - though ''Ghosts'' suggests that thanks to a relationship with Betsy, he's just quieter and a bit more cynical. |
| 523 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: See his folder quote. He's a grumpy bugger, most of the time. |
| 524 | * KnightInSourArmour: Harry identifies him as this, saying that for all the things he says, at heart he's 'a knight in shining feathers'. Warren finds this faintly amusing but doesn't deny it. |
| 525 | * MaleGaze: Has noticed Betsy, like just about everyone and everything else that's even considered being interested in women. In Book 1, he started taking topless flights when she's around, much to her appreciation. |
| 526 | * OutOfFocus: In ''Ghosts'', he mostly fades in the background, having been mentioned only three times in the entire book. |
| 527 | * PrettyBoy: Is ridiculously good looking, with Harry's first comment towards him being that the girls are going to eat him alive. |
| 528 | * RazorWings: Like his then current comics incarnation on his introduction, he has these without the rest of the Archangel/Death appearance. |
| 529 | * ShipTease: With Betsy. They are officially in a relationship by the time of the Yule Ball. |
| 530 | * TheSociopath: Comes off as worryingly cold and ruthless following his offscreen revelation of IAmWhatIAm. |
| 531 | * StepfordSnarker: Somewhat. His cynical outlook on life and sense of humour come, in large part, from his RazorWings. |
| 532 | * SuperStrength: Noted as being strong enough to 'bench press a troll' and when he gives Sean a DopeSlap, the narration notes that when he smacks something, it stays smacked. |
| 533 | * ThouShaltNotKill: Part of his absolute terror of accidentally hurting someone with his wings. Monsters, like zombified dragons, are fair game, but humans aren't. This is why his tearing apart HYDRA's aerial assault leaves him [[HeroicBSOD barely functional]] for some time afterwards. |
| 534 | * TranquilFury: When he discovers that the Ravenclaws have been bullying Luna, he [[BewareTheQuietOnes speaks in a very quiet voice.]] |
| 535 | * {{Wangst}}: Was considered to be indulging in this InUniverse by [=McGonagall=]. Her attitude changes to understanding and sympathy after seeing a demonstration of how sharp his wings really are and finding out that he's had them since he was a child. Others occasionally tease him for his miserable attitude. |
| 536 | * WingedHumanoid: The wings bother him. Not so much because they're wings, but because of what they're made of and the crimp that puts on his life, as well their role in his DarkAndTroubledPast. |
| 537 | [[/folder]] |
| 538 | |
| 539 | [[folder:Betsy Braddock]] |
| 540 | |
| 541 | !!Lady Elizabeth 'Betsy' Braddock a.k.a. Psylocke |
| 542 | |
| 543 | A rebellious [[IdleRich socialite]] who ReallyGetsAround, she's a former student of Charles Xavier and a powerful psychic full of unrealised potential. This is spotted by Peter Wisdom, who persuades her to answer his call to arms, swiftly becoming his [[NumberTwo right-hand woman]] in the field and one of [=MI13's=] most powerful assets. She also proves to be a kind and effective teacher to Harry and counsellor to Ginny. |
| 544 | |
| 545 | ---- |
| 546 | [[hardline]] |
| 547 | |
| 548 | * AdaptationalWimp: A mild case - unlike her comics counterpart, she doesn't have ninja skills. On the other hand, her powers are more consistent. |
| 549 | * AnimalMotif: Butterflies, with images of them appearing on her face when using her psychic powers, and wearing a dress to the Yule Ball that is described as "shimmering like a butterfly's wing." |
| 550 | * BattleCouple: With Fandral. |
| 551 | * BirdsOfAFeather: With Fandral. As she explains, it's why they get on very well, but aren't inclined to date - they're too much alike for that to work out. |
| 552 | * BlueBlood: A member of the aristocracy. |
| 553 | * CoolBigSis: Takes this attitude to Harry and Ginny, and happily to teases the former about his crush on her in the first book. In the sequel, she steps back, partly because Harry's old enough to seriously look for a relationship, partly because her behaviour could be misinterpreted (especially by Rita Skeeter) - instead, she remains a friend and confidant. |
| 554 | * DanceBattler: Literally, with Fandral, entering the Battle of the M4 to the strains of English folk dance. |
| 555 | * DeadlyUpgrade: Using the Cerebro uplink while exhausted would have been this if the Shadow King hadn't retreated, with Betsy explicitly noting that she'd have been in danger of her mind being destroyed by the strain of such power. |
| 556 | * DyeHard: Unsurprisingly, her hair is not naturally purple. |
| 557 | * EthicalSlut: Likes sex and doesn't apologise for it, while also being a kind and deeply ethical woman who takes pains to avoid even the implication of a TeacherStudentRomance. |
| 558 | * FemaleGaze: She's not shy of eyeing up Warren or Fandral, and ends up sleeping with both. |
| 559 | * TheGadfly: The second time she drops the ModestyTowel in front of Wisdom (the first time being to get his measure since she couldn't read his mind) is just to annoy him. |
| 560 | * GoodBadGirl: She ReallyGetsAround prior to hooking up with Warren, and is generally very sexually liberated, somewhat foul-mouthed, thoroughly dirty-minded, mischievous, and rebels against her aristocratic upbringing. She's also kind, courageous, and deeply ethical (both sexually and otherwise). |
| 561 | * GoodFeelsGood: Remarks on how teaching and helping other people with their powers feels good. |
| 562 | * GracefulLadiesLikePurple: Quite graceful - if not quite as much as her canon counterpart - and fond of purple. |
| 563 | * HandsOnApproach: Her preferred method of performing delicate and long-term procedures involves her sitting behind her subject, with her fingers on their temples. This, as [[HormoneAddledTeenager Harry]] is acutely aware, means that she's very close to him and her breasts are pressed against his back. Since he has a crush on her, this is mortally embarrassing for him and mildly amusing for her. |
| 564 | * HiddenDepths: Even before she TookALevelInBadass, when she notes Wisdom's psychic bafflers, [[MustBeInvited she doesn't verbally invite him in]], then drops her ModestyTowel to judge his reaction. She also proves to be a very competent Agent of [=MI13=], with excellent tactical judgement, and also surprises herself by not only being good at both teaching and leading, but enjoying it. T'Challa remarks that there was always far more to her than there seemed, having known her through her brother. |
| 565 | ** Additionally, in the sequel she carefully steps back on her contact with Harry in 4th year, noting that she's wary of Rita Skeeter and what rumours she might start spreading about the nature of their relationship - which Skeeter has alluded to before. She also provides incisive analysis of Harry's visions, balancing discretion with judgement regarding what the likes of Wisdom or Professor Xavier might need to know. |
| 566 | * HomeNudist: She happily ambles around her house in the nude. |
| 567 | * HotTeacher: Once she starts teaching Harry the psychic ropes, he develops a bit of a crush on her, which thanks to her powers and the intimate nature of teaching psychic abilities, she's very aware of. She finds it adorable. Harry finds it mortifying. |
| 568 | * IdleRich: Seems to have been this before Wisdom recruits her. |
| 569 | * JumpedAtTheCall: Despite initial reluctance, she required very little convincing to join [=MI13=]. |
| 570 | * LadyOfWar: A beautiful, badass member of the aristocracy who uses butterflies as her chief motif. |
| 571 | * TheMentor: Counsels Ginny over her [[MindRape experiences while under Riddle's thrall]], and teaches Harry both psychic skills and ethics, as well as serving as a sounding board for his analysis of his visions from the Norns. |
| 572 | * MindOverManners: Careful about this, and praises the attitude in Harry, stating that telepaths have a responsibility to use their power carefully and wisely. That said, she is willing to be flexible if the situation requires it. |
| 573 | * MundaneUtility: It's suggested that she uses her abilities to know who'd be amenable to being propositioned and, in battle, to play backing music for her and Fandral's [[DanceBattler 'dance']]. And this is before one considers the occasionally alluded to PowerPerversionPotential. |
| 574 | * MySkullRunnethOver: Risked this when she used a remote Cerebro uplink to bluff the Shadow King. |
| 575 | * NiceGirl: Is very sweet to both Harry and Ginny, helping them through their respective problems. |
| 576 | * PowerPerversionPotential: Fandral states that she used her powers so she'd know exactly what he'd like in bed. She also later hints at this to Harry, suggesting that one day he'll be able to use his powers to make some nice girl ''very'' happy. Going on some accidental mutual DirtyMindReading between him and Carol over their PsychicLink, she's probably right. |
| 577 | * ProperLady: She ''can'' be this if she wants to - she just [[RebelliousPrincess generally doesn't.]] She's therefore able to advise Harry on [[FlowerMotifs floriography]] [[spoiler: when asking Carol to the Yule Ball]]. On her advice, he settles on Viscaria, which means 'will you dance with me?' |
| 578 | * PstandardPsychicPstance: Takes this just as [[spoiler: Voldemort]] fries her brain. |
| 579 | * PsychicNosebleed: Is on the receiving end courtesy of [[spoiler: Voldemort]] in ''Ghosts of the Past''. |
| 580 | * PsychicPowers: She's a powerful psychic, one of the strongest on the planet - though as she observes, Harry is in a whole different weight-class. |
| 581 | * PurpleIsPowerful: Her psychic powers glow purple (and form butterfly patterns on her face) when she uses them. |
| 582 | * ReallyGetsAround: Prior to hooking up with Warren in ''Ghosts''. WordOfGod notes that she turned 'a lot more [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Faith-like]]' than he'd expected. |
| 583 | * ReluctantHero: Initially. While she pretty quickly joins [=MI13=], shortly after she's inwardly complaining that fighting monsters is really not her thing. By ''Ghosts'', however, she's pretty comfortable with the idea. |
| 584 | * SarcasticDevotee: She's not afraid to snark at her boss, Peter Wisdom, who puts up with it because she's extremely competent and easily his most powerful asset. |
| 585 | * SexGoddess: Has sufficient sexual prowess to impress Fandral, a millennia old Asgardian who ''[[ReallyGetsAround Really]]'' [[ReallyGetsAround Gets Around]]. It helps that she actually [[PowerPerversionPotential uses her powers in bed]] to know exactly what her lovers will like. |
| 586 | * SexyMentor: She's about ten years older than Harry and very attractive, leading to [[HormoneAddledTeenager a crush]]. Since she's his psychic teacher, she's entirely aware of it. He is mortified, she finds it adorable and teases him about it. However, in ''Ghosts'', she firmly steps back on the teasing, on the grounds that he's old enough that even though both of them know better, it might be interpreted as a nascent TeacherStudentRomance (especially by Rita Skeeter), which [[EthicalSlut she is very firmly against.]] |
| 587 | * ShamelessFanserviceGirl: She has nothing to be ashamed of and she [[ProudBeauty knows it]]. She walks around her [[HomeNudist home in the buff]] and drops her ModestyTowel in front of Peter Wisdom in order to gauge his reaction [[HiddenDepths (and thereby get some idea of what he's like, since she can't read his mind).]] And does it ''again'' later, [[TheGadfly but that's just to annoy]] [[NotDistractedByTheSexy him]]. |
| 588 | * ShipTease: With Warren, before they eventually start a relationship. |
| 589 | * SiblingYinYang: Betsy's brother Brian is, according to Albus Dumbledore and T'Challa, a genius, with T'Challa noting a gift for melding magic and particle physics that would have fitted perfectly in Wakanda. According to Betsy, he's noble, compassionate and good-hearted, but also a little holier than thou, with a large stick up his arse. While Betsy is smart, also noble, compassionate etc, she's got a much more relaxed attitude to morality and social mores. |
| 590 | * SpotlightStealingSquad: Why she became an AscendedExtra. WordOfGod says that he hadn't originally intended to introduce her anywhere near as early as he did, much less give her such a prominent role. As it was, she's become an important secondary character and mentor to Harry. |
| 591 | * TeacherStudentRomance: Averted, firmly. While Harry had a crush on her in the first book - one that, in ''Ghosts'', he notes isn't quite dead - and she was [[TheTease fond of teasing him]] to make him blush, she steps back in ''Ghosts'', on the grounds that he's of dating age. Therefore, not only could even innocent teasing could be interpreted (particularly by Rita Skeeter) as the beginning of love affair, but she doesn't want to get in his way. |
| 592 | * TheUnfavourite: Some of her dialogue implies that she's this in comparison to her twin brother, Brian - who's more conventional, more academic, and much better behaved. |
| 593 | * VerbalTic: Calling people 'love'. |
| 594 | * TheWorfEffect: Subject to this from Voldemort - though, to be fair, he caught her off-guard. |
| 595 | [[/folder]] |
| 596 | |
| 597 | [[folder:James Bond]] |
| 598 | |
| 599 | !!James Bond a.k.a. 007 |
| 600 | |
| 601 | An MI-6 agent under the command of M, with a penchant for womanising, martinis and one-liners. Said to be one of one of M's best, he's one of the very few ever to have got the drop on the Winter Soldier. It didn't help, and he's later resurrected as a kind of 'techno-zombie' by [=MI13=]'s mad science department at Porton Down. |
| 602 | ---- |
| 603 | [[hardline]] |
| 604 | |
| 605 | * TheAce: In terms of espionage, he's said to be next-best to [[ComicBook/BlackWidow Natasha]] and [[ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} Barton]]. |
| 606 | * BackFromTheDead: Resurrected by Peter Wisdom at the end of the first book as a 'techno-zombie', and now works for [=MI13=]. |
| 607 | * BondOneLiner: Deconstructed, as that's what allows the Winter Soldier to kill him. |
| 608 | * BrainUploading: His mind was effectively downloaded from his corpse into his new body several months later. Whether this means that he's a literal ghost in a machine or not is unclear, but he doesn't really seem to care. |
| 609 | * TheCameo: He's had two appearances so far, both of which were quite short, as well as being referenced in chapter 53 of the sequel. [[OneSceneWonder Both, though, catch the eye.]] |
| 610 | * EmpoweredBadassNormal: One of the best spies in the world, good enough to get the drop on the Winter Soldier, and now in a resurrected body that gives him some enhanced abilities. |
| 611 | * GagPenis: Alluded to, when Betsy remarks - on seeing him naked in his second body - that either he was, ahem, naturally gifted, or there are worrying things to be said about the mad science department. |
| 612 | * {{Magitek}}: His new body is described as a synthesis of magic and bio-technology, capable of self-repair and at least a certain amount of VoluntaryShapeshifting. |
| 613 | * MyCountryRightOrWrong: His first question after he establishes what's happened to him is how he can serve his country. |
| 614 | * SacrificialLion: Was killed off to show how deadly the Winter Soldier is. |
| 615 | * TheStoic: He goes from freaked out to calm very quickly after his resurrection, despite the fact that his preserved corpse was on a bed next to his new body. |
| 616 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: Presumably not to, say, Plastic Man levels, but he can change his appearance at will--rather a useful tool for a spy. |
| 617 | [[/folder]] |
| 618 | |
| 619 | |
| 620 | [[folder:Dane Whitman]] |
| 621 | |
| 622 | !!Sir Dane Whitman a.k.a the Black Knight |
| 623 | |
| 624 | The teenage heir to the Black Knight legacy. A spectacularly talented swordsman who is perhaps a tad overconfident and a recruit for Peter Wisdom's Excalibur team. |
| 625 | ---- |
| 626 | [[hardline]] |
| 627 | |
| 628 | * BabyOfTheBunch: To Excalibur, being the youngest member. While he's only a matter of months younger than Warren, the latter is Xavier-trained and has more experience than Dane. |
| 629 | * BlackKnight: A DarkIsNotEvil variant. Or, to be more specific, he's not evil, but his sword is very much evil and looking to take control of his brain. |
| 630 | * BlackSwordsAreBetter: Though 'more effective' might be [[EvilWeapon a more accurate description...]] |
| 631 | * BloodKnight: In battle, thanks to his EvilWeapon. |
| 632 | * CoolSword: Evil, but cool. |
| 633 | * EvilWeapon: His sword. How much it influences his judgement is up for debate. |
| 634 | * HormoneAddledTeenager: Trails around after [[AmazonianBeauty Jessica]] [[SpyCatsuit Drew]] in a lovelorn daze, to the amusement of his older colleagues. |
| 635 | * HotBlooded: How much of it is him and how much is [[EvilWeapon the sword]] is up for debate. |
| 636 | * KidSamurai: Fits this trope perfectly, and only survives his first battle because of literal divine intervention. |
| 637 | * TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: A literal example - he asks Michael Carpenter for his autograph in the middle of a battle. It should be noted that he's injured and high on endorphins at the time. |
| 638 | * MasterSwordsman: Not on Sif or Fandral's level, but he's very good. |
| 639 | * OutOfFocus: He gets less character moments than most of the other members of Excalibur. |
| 640 | [[/folder]] |
| 641 | ---- |
| 642 | |
| 643 | |
| 644 | |
| 645 | [[header:Senior Officials]] |
| 646 | |
| 647 | Government Officials, Heads of State, and other important individuals or entities who don't fall into any of the previous categories. |
| 648 | ---- |
| 649 | [[folder:President Ellis]] |
| 650 | |
| 651 | !!President Matthew Ellis |
| 652 | |
| 653 | -->''What did they '''do''' to you, son?'' |
| 654 | |
| 655 | The President of the United States, a ReasonableAuthorityFigure and as Book I proves, possessed of balls of solid titanium. |
| 656 | |
| 657 | ---- |
| 658 | [[hardline]] |
| 659 | |
| 660 | * DayInTheLimelight: Chapter 70 of the first book gives him one. |
| 661 | * FacingTheBulletsOneLiner: Gives a good one to the Winter Soldier. |
| 662 | --> Remember this, son. They can make you do things, but they can't make you choose them. |
| 663 | * HumansAreFlawed: Implied to be this, with critics pointing to increased use of War Machine and the increased mandate given to SHIELD to operate in the US. He is, however, broadly a good man. |
| 664 | * NervesOfSteel: Faces down the Winter Soldier with no fear. For a look at how big that is: the Stark family security squad's plan for this guy was "Die as slowly as possible to buy time for the Starks to get away", while Tony himself nearly wet himself when facing down the Winter Soldier without his armour [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome (though he still stood his ground).]] |
| 665 | * NiceGuy: Whatever else he is, he shows himself to be a genuinely kind man in his treatment of Bucky, a.k.a. the Winter Soldier. |
| 666 | * OurPresidentsAreDifferent: President Personable, with a dash of President Iron. |
| 667 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Depicted as this, emphasising the Winter Soldier's nature as a victim of the Red Room and HYDRA. |
| 668 | |
| 669 | [[/folder]] |
| 670 | |
| 671 | [[folder:The Prime Minister]] |
| 672 | |
| 673 | !!The British Prime Minister |
| 674 | |
| 675 | -->''[[EatenAlive I read about what those things did,]] [[BodyHorror about what that necromancer was supposed to be capable of.]] [[DueToTheDead If we get out of this, I would like their personal details. To tell their families. To make sure that they are honoured.]]'' |
| 676 | |
| 677 | The British Prime Minister, heavily implied to be the one from the Harry Potter series, intentionally left fairly faceless - though some of the dialogue and the time frame implies that he's a mix of John Major and Tony Blair. He's a bit beleaguered by all the superhuman antics, and thus eager to rely on Peter Wisdom, but is broadly a good man. Later, he turns out to be a target for HYDRA. |
| 678 | ---- |
| 679 | [[hardline]] |
| 680 | |
| 681 | * CompositeCharacter: Of RealLife British Prime Minister UsefulNotes/JohnMajor and his successor, UsefulNotes/TonyBlair, having the former's well-meaning but slightly beleaguered attitude, and the latter's personable nature and [[TheStarscream ambitious Chancellor,]] who in turn is hinted to be a partial {{Expy}} of Tony Blair's Chancellor and later successor, UsefulNotes/GordonBrown. |
| 682 | * CondescendingCompassion: He resents being on the receiving end of this from Fudge and takes a certain degree of vindictive pleasure in knowing that Wisdom is making Fudge's life a misery. |
| 683 | * DeadpanSnarker: A little - when Agent 13 uses SHIELD tech to instantly change into a SpyCatsuit, he inwardly notes that if [[DirtyOldMan the Chancellor]] was present, he'd have died a happy man. |
| 684 | * DueToTheDead: Once it becomes apparent that his two [=MI13=] bodyguards who stayed behind to buy Agent 13 time to get him out are going to die and die horribly, as well as possibly being enslaved by Gravemoss, he asks Agent 13, formerly undercover as his secretary, to get him the details of the bodyguards so he can tell their families what they died doing and to ensure that they are honoured, remarking that if what they did isn't going above and beyond the call of duty he doesn't know what is. |
| 685 | * EveryoneLovesBlondes: Notes that his blonde secretary (actually Agent 13) is rather attractive and is happy to use the Chancellor's same interest as blackmail material. |
| 686 | * KnowWhenToFoldEm: In the first book's epilogue, Wisdom reveals that once cleanup from the FinalBattle is over, the Prime Minister is planning on resigning with dignity, rather than wait for an election he's bound to lose after everything that happened on his watch. |
| 687 | * ManipulativeBastard: Willing to use the Chancellor's checking out of his secretary as blackmail material in case the man tries a leadership attempt. He is, after all, a career politician. |
| 688 | * NiceGuy: He seems pretty nice, mild and totally understandable resentfulness towards being condescended to by Fudge aside, and totally out of his depth in all this superhuman chaos. Notably, he demands to know the identities of his bodyguards in order to honor them for going above and beyond. |
| 689 | * NonActionGuy: He freezes a couple of times when faced by bombings and HYDRA attacks, having to be chivvied along by Agent 13, and his entirely sensible response to her and the Red Hood duking it out in the other carriage of the Tube train is to drop flat on the floor. |
| 690 | * [[OurPresidentsAreDifferent Our Prime Ministers Are Different]]: Prime Minister Personable and Prime Minister Target - he comes off as a NiceGuy in a completely insane situation, doing his best. That said, his internal dialogue about having noticed how [[TheStarscream the Chancellor]] checks out an undercover Agent 13 and filing it away for blackmail material shows that he isn't soft. His reliance on Wisdom also shows hints of Prime Minister Focus Group. |
| 691 | [[/folder]] |
| 692 | |
| 693 | |
| 694 | [[folder:Jack O'Neill]] |
| 695 | |
| 696 | !!Brigadier Jonathan 'Jack' O'Neill |
| 697 | |
| 698 | -->''"If it works, it'll get this absolute horror show over as quickly as possible. Then, I can hug my niece, tell her off, and then drink myself under the table."'' |
| 699 | |
| 700 | Uncle of Carol Danvers, father of [[ComicBook/{{Agent13}} Sharon Carter]] (she took Peggy's surname when she joined SHIELD), and all-round badass. He was added to the story simply for RuleOfCool purposes, while the rest of the [[Franchise/StargateVerse Stargate universe]], a few characters excepted, is implied not to exist. |
| 701 | |
| 702 | ---- |
| 703 | [[hardline]] |
| 704 | |
| 705 | * AcePilot: Loves to fly, and is apparently very, very good at it, something confirmed in ''Unfinished Business'' when he takes charge of [[spoiler: a construct of the ''Millennium Falcon'']]. |
| 706 | * ActionDad: To Sharon Carter. |
| 707 | * AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: [[RunningGag He keeps getting upstaged by his mother]], who has been known to use the FullNameUltimatum on him. Considering that said mother used to be [[FourStarBadass Deputy Director of SHIELD]], [[RunningGag thinks retirement is boring]], and is every bit TheGadfly that he is, this isn't entirely surprising... but it's still embarrassing. |
| 708 | * AscendedExtra: He jumps from background character to secondary character in ''Ghosts of the Past''. |
| 709 | * BadassFamily: Part of one. His grandparents are Peggy Carter and Steve Rogers, his mother was a SHIELD Special Agent (the original Agent 13, as it happens) and Deputy Director of SHIELD before she "retired", his daughter is also a SHIELD Special Agent and one of their best, and his niece is well on course to be one of the greatest superheroes the world's ever seen, having been chosen to wield the Green Lantern Ring by the Sorcerer Supreme himself. His daughter explicitly describes super-spy stuff and heroics as 'the family business.' |
| 710 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: He's a snarky, irreverent goofball who names his pet wolf-dog Bucky just to annoy his grandfather, is noted by his sister as letting his niece have or do pretty much anything that her father says that she can't have or do out of petty spite, and gets up to some downright strange things with Deadpool. He's also a highly decorated special forces soldier who reached the rank of Brigadier-General a full decade before most soldiers even come close and takes on unearthly abominations without batting an eyelid. |
| 711 | * BirdsOfAFeather: Snarky, disrespectful towards authority, with ChronicHeroSyndrome and a love for flying? You could just as easily be describing his niece. |
| 712 | * ChronicHeroSyndrome: It runs in the family. |
| 713 | * CoolUncle: To Carol. She both looks up to him and quite obviously takes after him. |
| 714 | * DangerDeadpan: He very rarely loses his cool, and never on the battlefield - and, fittingly, he's an AcePilot, skills he demonstrates when this trope is most on show. |
| 715 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: It's heavily implied that he lost his son roughly the same way as his canon counterpart. He was also captured during Desert Storm, during which his sister states that he was [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured]]. |
| 716 | * DeadpanSnarker: He wouldn't be Jack if he wasn't. |
| 717 | * EmpoweredBadassNormal: Went from incredibly skilled soldier and AcePilot with latent super-soldier genes to full-fledged SuperSoldier. |
| 718 | * EveryoneLovesBlondes: Seems to have his canon attraction to Samantha Carter. Since here, however, his mother Alison is blonde and her maiden name is also Carter (though they're almost certainly not related), this is probably an example of LikeParentLikeSpouse, though also a little odd. |
| 719 | * FourStarBadass: That's Brigadier General Badass to you. Also the son of another example of this trope. |
| 720 | * FullNameUltimatum: Uses this on Carol and has it used on him in turn by his mother. |
| 721 | * TheGadfly: It's Jack O'Neill. This was inevitable. |
| 722 | ** Possibly the crowning example is his response to Carol foisting one of Freki/Geri's half-wolf puppies on him - once she finally talks him into taking the dog, he decides to mess with his grandfather, Steve, by naming it 'Bucky', ostensibly after the dog from ''Literature/TheCallOfTheWild''. |
| 723 | * GoodParents: Shown to be this for his daughter, and also to his niece, who sees him as a father figure and who he's extremely protective of. After the events of the finale, his daughter reports to her cousin, Carol, his exact words, born of parental worrying - "[[FullNameUltimatum Carol Susan Jane Danvers,]] you have no idea how much trouble you're in." |
| 724 | * HotBlooded: Like his niece, though he can control his temper much better than she can. |
| 725 | * ImprobableAge: A downplayed example, since he's a Brigadier in his early forties. The broad explanation is WritersCannotDoMath. The more detailed version is that the author planned to have Carol as the great-granddaughter of Peggy Carter and Steve Rogers, making Jack the grandson of Steve, and only realised too late that he was trying to squeeze one generation too many into too short a time span. In any case, while the average age of a Brigadier General is 50, Jack is canonically an exceptionally skilled soldier. Additionally, since his latent SuperSoldier genes make him more physically able and probably give him an increase in tactical skills as well, this isn't the most egregious of cases. |
| 726 | * NervesOfSteel: Nearly as much as his mother, which is saying something. |
| 727 | * NoodleIncident: |
| 728 | ** The raid on the Red Room is, apparently, not his first excursion to the 'world of the weird', though he declines to elaborate. |
| 729 | ** According to Deadpool, they were both on a mission to East Berlin in '88 that ended up involving a swimming pool full of black market Ben & Jerrys, a lot of vodka, half a dozen Stasi Agents, and him and Deadpool singing Abba in some capacity that involved the Hellfire Club (but not its high-quality leather drag, apparently), which left Jack with a trick knee and Deadpool with threats that he'd be shot into orbit if Jack ever saw him again. |
| 730 | * NotSoAboveItAll: He tries to present himself as a relatively level-headed OnlySaneMan with a proclivity for [[DeadpanSnarker snark]]. He also grudgingly admits that yes, he is enjoying being Han Solo (ItMakesSenseInContext) and ends up resolving a dispute with Deadpool by a dance-off adjudicated by a group including ''the Hulk'' - though, granted, it is implied that he is ''very'' drunk at that point. Really, it's not hard to see where Carol got her silly streak from. |
| 731 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The only time he ever shows strong emotion throughout the story is when his niece is being threatened. |
| 732 | * PapaWolf: When Ross expresses interest in getting Carol, his niece, in for testing after she briefly gets powers, he makes it very clear that it will be over the other man's rotting corpse. When [[spoiler: she's kidnapped by the Red Room in ''Forever Red'']], he joins the strike team to get her back, and is perfectly willing (though his grandfather shoots down the idea) to kick down the doors of the Kremlin. |
| 733 | ** By ''Unfinished Business'', he's mellowed out a little bit, revealing that he is still worried but he's got the discipline to keep up with his part of the mission and knows that Carol can look after herself. |
| 734 | * ParentalSubstitute: To Carol. WordOfGod has even remarked that he's basically the father Carol deserves. |
| 735 | * PuppyDogEyes: Carol implies that he's susceptible to this. O'Neill, for his part, [[BlatantLies maintains]] that her puppy-dog eyes, effective as they are, [[SuspicouslySpecificDenial never stopped him telling her that she couldn't have more]] [[TrademarkFavouriteFood ice cream.]] |
| 736 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Will run interference for Carol with her parents at a moment's notice, all the while grumbling about how she has him wrapped around her little finger (she kind of does). |
| 737 | * ShipTease: As in, Carol quite literally teases him about his canonical attraction to Major Samantha Carter (no relation). |
| 738 | * SilverFox: Something that Noriko notices, to Carol's inward [[ParentalSexualitySquick embarrassment/disgust.]] As, possibly, has a certain Sam Carter. |
| 739 | * SuperSoldier: Thanks to his heritage, he has the potential. [[spoiler: In ''Ghosts of the Past'', he reluctantly has the Serum activated, as the alternative was long-term nerve damage.]] |
| 740 | * SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Carol's PuppyDogEyes never stopped him from telling her that she couldn't have more ice cream. |
| 741 | * UnexpectedCharacter: There's absolutely no indication that he might appear before he does. |
| 742 | [[/folder]] |
| 743 | |
| 744 | |
| 745 | [[folder:T'Challa Udaku]] |
| 746 | |
| 747 | !!T'Challa Udaku of Wakanda a.k.a. the Black Panther |
| 748 | |
| 749 | -->''You say that you drive mankind’s progress, but what you are is a manifestation of its most base instincts and darkest impulses, a lust for power, dressed up in a veneer of civilisation and sophistication. Can you not see what you are doing is monstrous?'' |
| 750 | |
| 751 | The Crown Prince of Wakanda until chapter 70, and thereafter its King. He was sent abroad by his father to study, with a view to leading the isolationist Wakanda's re-engagement with the world. Still a young man, he is a brilliant and respected scientist who is still feeling his way into his totemic powers as the Black Panther, and his political and diplomatic role as Prince (then King) of Wakanda. |
| 752 | |
| 753 | ---- |
| 754 | [[hardline]] |
| 755 | |
| 756 | * AdaptationalWimp: A mild case - his canon counterpart is a badass who puts Batman in the shade, fights Captain America evenly, and has the brains to match Tony Stark. This version is a work in progress, being somewhat overconfident and getting thrashed by Baron Zemo for his pains. However, he rapidly adjusts, [[TookALevelInBadass making his next fight with Zemo a much more even one]], and quickly develops his canon counterpart's political acumen. |
| 757 | * BadassBookworm: Not yet to the extent of his canon counterpart, but he's a physicist with multiple degrees, a genius intellect and an in-depth knowledge of magic. He's also operating on the level of a SuperSoldier, twice goes toe to toe with Baron Zemo and not only survives but, the second time, gives him a real run for his money (though admittedly in both cases, it's stated that Zemo let him live because he was a WorthyOpponent) and takes apart pretty much anyone else foolish to take him on in a blur. |
| 758 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: As GoodIsNotSoft shows, pushing him is a bad idea. |
| 759 | * BlackAndNerdy: He's a bona fide genius and he's also a SuperSoldier level badass. |
| 760 | * {{Blackmail}}: He tries to pull this on Peter Wisdom to get Wakanda's stolen vibranium back (which, after the fall of HYDRA at the Battle of London, has been claimed as spoils of war/reparations by the British government) by threatening to reveal his secret past as Regulus Black. [[BlackmailBackfire All it succeeds in doing is pissing Wisdom off.]] |
| 761 | * CharacterDevelopment: He's a bit cocky to begin with, relying over-much on his abilities. An encounter with Baron Zemo who [[spoiler: kills his father and]] absolutely crushes him, cures him of this. In their rematch, Zemo himself [[VillainRespect remarks that he's growing from 'complacent cub' to 'fearsome cat'.]] |
| 762 | ** In ''Ghosts'', some of his negotiations with Wisdom over [[spoiler: vibranium]] are shown, and it's clear that he's evolved into an expert statesman and skilled political negotiator, even if he doesn't enjoy it. |
| 763 | * CrazyPrepared: After being caught out in chapter 70 by being underprepared, he starts becoming this. |
| 764 | * CulturedBadass: Master warrior, brilliant scientist, graduate of both Oxford and Cambridge, and eloquent speaker of multiple languages, he fits this trope like a glove. |
| 765 | * EmperorScientist: On course to become a benevolent version of this trope. |
| 766 | * FrontlineGeneral: Often serves as this, though the downsides are demonstrated in chapter 70, when Zemo beats him to a pulp. |
| 767 | * GogglesDoSomethingUnusual: He sometimes wears a pair of glasses which give him a full view of the electromagnetic spectrum, including, he implies, magic. They also [[ShoutOut double as]] [[Series/DoctorWho 'brainy specs.']] |
| 768 | * GoodIsNotSoft: On his first appearance in Book 1, he tries to politely get [[DirtyOldMan a Roxxon Executive]] to back off (from Harry and Carol). When said executive calls him a 'self-righteous NWordPrivileges son of a bitch', he flattens him in a matter of moments. He also calmly explains near the end of ''Child of the Storm'' and in ''Ghosts'' the advantages of befriending Harry, aside from the fact that he's genuinely likeable - he tends to be the nexus of major events, and is thus 'someone to watch' in every sense of the word. |
| 769 | * HeroOfAnotherStory: While Harry was busy in ''Ghosts'', T'Challa had to handle the events of ''Film/BlackPanther2018''. |
| 770 | * LeeroyJenkins: At first, he is this. A CurbStompBattle from Zemo and watching his father be murdered breaks him of the habit. |
| 771 | * NiceGuy: He's kind to both Harry and Carol, helping the former with his totem related DADA homework, even if, in Harry's case, there's an element of politics behind it. |
| 772 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: His first appearance features him stepping in to assist Harry and Carol with [[DirtyOldMan a Roxxon Executive]] and he later proves quite happy to help Harry with his totem related DADA homework. However, as he later observes there are many personal and political advantages in befriending Harry, something he later repeats to [[Film/BlackPanther2018 Nakia]] in ''Ghosts'', underlining it by pointing out events revolve around Harry. |
| 773 | * RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: He and his father are this in spades, with T'Challa in particular being a FrontlineGeneral. |
| 774 | * TookALevelInBadass: After his over-confidence results in Zemo thrashing him, he starts becoming the CrazyPrepared badass of canon. |
| 775 | * WarriorPrince: As the Black Panther and Crown Prince. |
| 776 | * WisePrince: By the time the first book's finale rolls around, the finishing touches have been applied. |
| 777 | * YouKilledMyFather: Baron Zemo did. |
| 778 | [[/folder]] |
| 779 | |
| 780 | |
| 781 | [[folder:M]] |
| 782 | |
| 783 | !!M |
| 784 | |
| 785 | Head of [=MI6=], one of the few survivors of Gravemoss' attack on its headquarters. Currently tracking down the 'mysterious force' that discouraged investigation of the Dursley family and messed with Mrs Figg's mind to keep the extent of Harry's mistreatment secret. |
| 786 | ---- |
| 787 | [[hardline]] |
| 788 | |
| 789 | * BitCharacter: Only has a couple of appearances, though they're eye-catching. |
| 790 | * CoolOldLady: Is more than a match for Nick Fury, who quite comfortably dominates a room full of his fellow intelligence chiefs. |
| 791 | * GoodIsNotNice: Cold, sharp and not the sort to suffer fools. Also verbally twists the knife a little during her interrogation of Petunia. |
| 792 | * IronLady: Is tough as nails. |
| 793 | * MyCountryRightOrWrong: Suggested to hold this attitude, with the thing that infuriates her the most about Harry's abuse by the Dursleys after the abuse itself is the damage it did to Britain's reputation. |
| 794 | * ReasonYouSuckSpeech: Delivers a short and brutal one to Petunia. |
| 795 | * TheUnsolvedMystery: Digs into one of these - though 'uninvestigated' might be a better way to put it - at Fury's request. Complies because, as she puts it, she has little better to do. |
| 796 | [[/folder]] |
| 797 | |
| 798 | [[folder:Magneto]] |
| 799 | |
| 800 | !!Erik Magnus Lensherr a.k.a. Magneto |
| 801 | |
| 802 | -->''I do what I must, because the alternative would be worse.'' |
| 803 | |
| 804 | Father to Wanda Maximoff, FriendlyEnemy to Charles Xavier, and leader of the Brotherhood of Mutants. He doesn't make an appearance until his DynamicEntry in chapter 77 of ''Child of the Storm'', but even before, his well-earned reputation as a semi-dormant global scale nightmare casts a significant shadow over events. Following his sincere HeelFaceTurn, he appears as a nobly inclined, affable, even grandfatherly figure, and he takes on a recurring role as a secondary supporting character in ''Ghosts of the Past.'' But as he does, there are occasional signs that the old Magneto isn't as gone as some people would like to think... |
| 805 | ---- |
| 806 | [[hardline]] |
| 807 | |
| 808 | * ActionDad: To Wanda, Pietro [[spoiler: and Lorna Dane]]. |
| 809 | * AmbiguouslyHuman: His sheer power and the fact that he's still in his physical prime at around eighty (thanks to [[NoodleIncident 'the Krakoa Incident']]) has led more than a few factions to believe he's not human, with Luccio noting that within the White Council alone, "there are several competing schools of thought on what he actually is." However, he is human. Mostly. |
| 810 | * AntagonisticOffspring: Wanda really does not like him and is sceptical of his HeelFaceTurn, having apparently gone up against him. However, she becomes somewhat less so following their talk after the Battle of London, calling on him for help during the ''Bloody Hell'' arc. |
| 811 | * ArchEnemy: His chief sparring partner back when he was a bad guy was Alan Scott, a.k.a. the Green Lantern, though Magneto, [[VillainRespect for his part, deemed]] Alan a WorthyOpponent. |
| 812 | * BadassBookworm: He's a badass in Thor's weight class for raw power who can take the likes of the Red Son while holding back. He's got multiple degrees in hard sciences, including from Oxford (which with his powers, only make him ''more'' badass), and has a ''very'' [[TheDreaded well-earned reputation]] amongst the supernatural and supernaturally-informed community. |
| 813 | * BadassFamily: His daughter is Wanda Maximoff and his son, Pietro a.k.a. Quicksilver, has also been alluded to (according to Wanda, he's her teenage half brother and a brat), [[spoiler: and his other daughter, Lorna Dane, appears in chapter 8 of ''Ghosts'']]. Also, there's Hermione, Wanda's daughter, and Harry, who's practically Wanda's son, making Magneto a kind of honorary grandfather. |
| 814 | * BeenThereShapedHistory: Apparently the Manson family ran into him when they went after Sharon Tate. They did not survive the experience. |
| 815 | * BigDamnHeroes: When he finally shows up in chapter 77, he does so just in time to destroy the ''Dreadnought'' before it can wipe out the heroes. |
| 816 | ** In Chapter 31 of ''Ghosts'', he saves Dresden from Cassius's ColdBloodedTorture. |
| 817 | * TheCasanova: Wanda speculates he became this after he was rejuvenated, leading to her half-siblings. |
| 818 | * TheCharmer: In an urbane sort of way, both in the platonic and (judging by Wanda's half-siblings) romantic senses. Dresden even remarks that he's quite friendly - terrifying, but friendly. |
| 819 | * ColorCodedEyes: Steel grey, referencing his powers, and his adamant resolve. |
| 820 | * CruelMercy: Seems to have developed a taste for this post HeelFaceTurn - Natasha remarks that the only real reason he spared any of the Winter Guard (save [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Shapandar]] and [[TokenGoodTeammate Shostakov]]) was that he felt that [[spoiler: Thor]] might want a go. Given what he did, it would probably have been kinder to let them die. |
| 821 | * CulturedBadass: As per canon, he is a brilliant scientist, exceptionally well-read scholar, fluent in multiple languages, highly familiar with multiple religious traditions, and one of the most terrifying people on the planet. |
| 822 | * CurbStompBattle: Xavier describes him as having absolutely crushed three successive Inner Circles of the Hellfire Club, and he goes through the Winter Guard (sans the Red Son) in under two minutes. When he attacks Cassius, the latter doesn't even get the chance to throw a spell - and even Voldemort, a much more powerful and dangerous mage than Cassius, was at his non-existent mercy in a split-second. |
| 823 | * DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: As he lays out to Wanda, not for the first time, he didn't have much choice - he had to give her up. Of course, this is only one of many, many issues she has with him. |
| 824 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: He lost his family in the Holocaust, and spent several years in a concentration camp. It doesn't get much more troubled than that. |
| 825 | * DarkMessiah: He's mostly reformed, but in ''Ghosts'' he's namechecked as this, being referred to as 'mutantkind's DarkMessiah'. |
| 826 | * DeadpanSnarker: Has a very dry wit, as shown in response to Tony's going from nought to dick jokes in about ten seconds after Chthon is defeated. |
| 827 | --> And he's supposed to be one of the greatest minds of our age. God help us all. |
| 828 | * {{Determinator}}: As he notes, willpower is something he never lacked - and he used to go toe-to-toe with [[Characters/GreenLantern1941 the man]] [[ShoutOut who wrote the book on it.]] |
| 829 | * DisappearedDad: Honestly believed that Wanda was dead. It's uncertain whether he's caring for Pietro or not. [[spoiler: Going by Lorna's own remarks, he didn't seem to have any idea that Lorna existed.]] |
| 830 | * TheDreaded: Almost everyone on the Dark Side from Sebastian Shaw II to HYDRA (yes, all of it), to Narcissa Malfoy fear him. Even Loki and Nick Fury speak of him with guarded respect, the latter saying that "HYDRA wouldn't cross him. They wouldn't ''dare.''" As his appearances thus far have demonstrated, this is for good reason. |
| 831 | ** It isn't limited to the Dark Side, either. In ''Ghosts'', Anastasia Luccio, tough as nails Commander of [[BadassArmy the Wardens]], pale with horror, namechecks him as one of the greatest terrors the Earth has seen since the Frost Giant Wars. |
| 832 | * FriendlyEnemy: To Xavier, though it's now more like Friendly {{Foil}}. They're not really on opposite sides anymore, and Magneto protects the Xavier Institute in Book 2. Both he and Xavier refer to one another as "old friends," and both are willing to use his reputation as a TerrorHero to frighten off enemies. That being said, he's more proactive than [[BadassPacifist Xavier]] in eliminating threats to mutant-kind. |
| 833 | * TheGhost: Prior to his full bow, there's only a teeny tiny indirect hint of his on-screen presence, and a fair bit of talking. |
| 834 | * GlowingEyesOfDoom: When he really flexes his magnetic muscles. |
| 835 | * GoodIsNotSoft: He may have pulled a sincere HeelFaceTurn, but holy hell, you do ''not'' want to cross him, as he demonstrates in ''Ghosts'', crushing the Winter Guard. [[CruelMercy The only reason]] he didn't kill all of them save [[spoiler: Red Son!Harry]] was because he thought that a few others might like a piece of them too (and he might have recognised Omega Sentinel as a MindControl victim). |
| 836 | ** After Cassius makes the mistake of trying to torture Harry Dresden, Magneto paralyzes him, pins his mouth shut with his own knife, and calmly discusses whether or not to kill him with Dresden. |
| 837 | * HeelRealization: Had this some time in the late eighties/early nineties after he realised how far he'd fallen. It's still not common knowledge, though as Luccio notes in ''Ghosts'', he ''has'' dialled back on his activities in general. |
| 838 | * HeWhoFightsMonsters: He is commonly cited as an example how a good person fighting evil can go bad, though he has reportedly mellowed in recent years - something [[AntagonisticOffspring Wanda]] at first treats with scepticism. |
| 839 | * IOweYouMyLife: Remarks to Natasha that he owed Steve his life for liberating him from Auschwitz. |
| 840 | * LightEmUp: Thanks to his manipulation of electromagnetism, he can manipulate light to cloak himself from view, and, it would seem, unleash a WaveMotionGun. In ''Ghosts'', he reveals that he's also capable of using it to create holograms and illusions, and reflect vast amounts of light around the world |
| 841 | * MadeOfIron: While he rarely has to, when fighting the Red Son he reveals that he can take a real beating. |
| 842 | * MagnetismManipulation: His main power, on a literally godlike level. |
| 843 | * MartialPacifist: Specifically says to both Namor and Natasha that he's not seeking war, quite the opposite - however, if pushed, he will remind those who push him exactly what he's capable of. Later, he follows through. |
| 844 | * MyNameIsInigoMontoya: Introduces himself to the Winter Guard before utterly flattening them. |
| 845 | * NaziHunter: A truly effective and highly prolific one, and according to Moody, didn't merely restrict himself to mundane Nazis. |
| 846 | * NotSoDifferentRemark: Wanda once accused him of being just like the bigots who tormented both him and her. He didn't take it well. Wanda herself, despite her attempts to distance herself from him, is much more like him than she wants to admit, to the point where both [[AmicableExes Clint]] and [[spoiler: Sinister]] take note of it in ''Ghosts'' - and eventually, she tacitly admits it. |
| 847 | * OddFriendship: With Howard Stark, sufficient that when Howard and his wife were murdered, he led a particularly vicious purge of the Hellfire Club, with Sean Cassidy describing his own not inconsiderable anger as being "like a firecracker next to the atom bomb of Erik's rage." |
| 848 | * OffScreenMomentOfAwesome: SHIELD's chief countermeasure to him in the bad old days was Alan Scott a.k.a. the Green Lantern. While the latter is, by the time of the story, a PosthumousCharacter, the sheer idea of the two going toe to toe is awesome. |
| 849 | ** In ''Ghosts'' he goes through the Winter Guard like a hot knife through an overused cliche in under two minutes, without any discernible effort. |
| 850 | ** His duel with fellow PhysicalGod Selene is also mostly offscreen, but it's clear that he, at the very least, held his own against her while she was [[VoluntaryShapeshifting in the form of a gigantic dragon]]. |
| 851 | ** It's implied that this wasn't the first time they've crossed swords, either, as he tells Dresden that he knows very well how dangerous she is before they fight. |
| 852 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Dresden notes that in contrast to Magneto's usual TranquilFury, he goes absolutely ''berserk'' when he sees Voldemort again. This is not surprising, given that Riddle was responsible for the his wife's death and (for over a decade) his daughter's presumed death, as well as their estrangement. |
| 853 | * PapaWolf: Challenged pretty much every single superhuman power broker in the Europe, and possibly the world, to protect Wanda when her powers manifested. And to say that he is displeased by what happened to [[spoiler: Lorna and]] and Harry at the hands of the Red Room would be putting it mildly. |
| 854 | ** He even extends this to Harry Dresden, coldly incapicating and murdering Cassius for the crime of harming his daughter's beloved. |
| 855 | * PetTheDog: He is quite kind, in between being terrifying. |
| 856 | ** Remarks that Carol seems a worthy successor to Alan Scott, temporary though it was. |
| 857 | ** Goes out of his way to protect civilians during his brawl with the Red Son. |
| 858 | ** When he subjects the Winter Guard to a CurbStompBattle, he leaves Shapandar and Shostakov, who were ForcedIntoEvil and at most [[PunchClockVillain mildly villainous]] respectively, more or less unharmed, even destroying Shapandar's emotional inhibitor to restore her conscience (though considering what she was made to do, that's CruelMercy in its own right). This is in striking contrast to what he does to the other, more villainous members of the Winter Guard, [[BodyHorror who don't get off nearly so easily.]] |
| 859 | ** Strikes up a friendship with Harry, based on their mutual connection to Wanda and how both feel that they owe the other - Harry saved his younger daughter from [[spoiler: the Red Room]], while Magneto was able to stop [[spoiler: him during the Red Son rampage]]. |
| 860 | ** Adopts and cares for a girl called Ruth when her newly-manifesting powers (specifically, manifesting just as [[spoiler: Harry and Maddie]] go toe to toe and send psychic shockwaves around the world) drive her mad, also getting Doctor Strange to come in and help her, to the point where they call each other "zayde" and "aynikl" (grandfather and granddaughter). |
| 861 | ** He delivers his own warning on the corrupting nature of an obsession with {{revenge}} to Ron, while also adding that he suspects he has been told this before and therefore he won't belabour the point, simply saying that he hopes Ron learns that [[Film/XMenFirstClass "killing will not bring you peace"]] faster than he did. He also remarks that Ron underestimates himself, noting that his power, skill, intelligence, resourcefulness, and UndyingLoyalty would have made him a prime candidate for his own recruitment back in the day. |
| 862 | ** He immediately strikes up a congenial relationship with his granddaughter, Hermione, after she finds out about her heritage, and the two get along very well. |
| 863 | * PhysicalGod: Well into this category. Dresden explicitly compares him to a force of nature, while Strange explicitly notes that he's in Thor's weight class for raw power. |
| 864 | * PreAsskickingOneLiner: Gives a sufficiently [[TranquilFury cold and murderous sounding one]] to the Winter Guard in ''Ghosts'' after they've walked straight into what is basically the lion's den. |
| 865 | --> Good evening. [[MyNameIsInigoMontoya My name is Magneto.]] You kidnapped [[spoiler: my daughter.]] You kidnapped [[spoiler: my daughter's godson]]. I would like to [[DeadlyEuphemism discuss this.]] And once we are done, if you are ''very'' lucky... [[CruelMercy I might actually allow some of you to live.]] |
| 866 | * PsychicAssistedSuicide: While not psychic, his trademark as a NaziHunter was to make his targets shoot themselves, or each other. |
| 867 | * PsychicRadar: Has developed a limited version of this by [[SwissArmySuperpower extending his electromagnetic powers]]. |
| 868 | * RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Led a truly savage one on behalf of the late Howard and Maria Stark against the Hellfire Club. |
| 869 | ** Goes on another one in ''Ghosts'' against the Red Room for what they did to [[spoiler: Lorna]] and Harry. |
| 870 | * SecretKeeper: For Wanda, in respect to Hermione being her daughter. |
| 871 | * ShadowArchetype: Of Xavier. While both are dedicated to mentoring and protecting mutant-kind, Xavier is known for his kind and gentle nature, never fighting unless there's great need. Magneto, on the other hand, makes even hardened veteran Wardens centuries old turn pale at the mention of his name, and for ''very'' good reason. |
| 872 | * ShockAndAwe: While he notes subtle WeatherManipulation is beyond him, this is definitely part of his repertoire. |
| 873 | * SinkOrSwimMentor: Subverted. It looks like this when he drops a large piece of wreckage on Harry's head to test his reactions, but it turns out that it's actually a hologram (which Harry instinctively catches anyway), intended to demonstrate to Harry that he's not half as limited as he thinks he is. |
| 874 | * SkilledAndStrong: He's in Thor's weight class when it comes to raw power, and has had decades of experience training himself to master many applications of those abilities. Natasha also states that he's dangerous for reasons that have nothing to do with his powers. |
| 875 | * SternTeacher: He's an excellent teacher who's not only [[GeniusBruiser brilliant]] but capable of explaining his lessons to someone ''without'' multiple degrees in the hard sciences, and innovative in his training methods, opening Harry's mind to the possibilities of his abilities. He's somewhat brusque during lessons, expects a lot of Harry (because he knows he's able), and doesn't hesitate to point out Harry's mistakes, but softens the criticism with praise where he feels it is deserved. |
| 876 | * TranquilFury: Very calmly informs the Winter Guard that he would like to "discuss" their having kidnapped and tortured [[spoiler: his younger daughter and his older daughter's godson,]] making the latter into a BrainwashedAndCrazy slave. Later on, after he saves Dresden from Cassius, he's noted as having eyes "seething with power and fury," while calmly discussing whether or not to kill him. |
| 877 | * TwerpSweating: Subverted. He looks as if he's about to have an IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer chat with Dresden when they meet. Dresden promptly, and hilariously ineffectually, tries to hide behind Wanda, who cuts him off with a glare and a single sentence: "Father, don't you dare." Magneto, amused, acquiesces and remarks that since he's not John Constantine, that's already a point in his favour. |
| 878 | * VillainRespect: Accorded the late Alan Scott this, holding him in high regard. Though he's not a villain anymore, he also possesses a certain respect for Harry Dresden, as well, and is something of a FriendlyEnemy to Xavier. |
| 879 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: Wants to protect mutants from humans who would exploit them and doesn't believe that mutants and humans can live in peace. These days, however, he's more interested in separatism than domination. |
| 880 | * WorthyOpponent: Regarded the late Alan Scott as one, and Xavier as another. |
| 881 | [[/folder]] |
| 882 | |
| 883 | [[folder:Namor]] |
| 884 | |
| 885 | !!King Namor [=MacKenzie=] of Atlantis |
| 886 | |
| 887 | -->''Well, you're only human.'' |
| 888 | |
| 889 | Namor the ComicBook/SubMariner, King of Atlantis. Broadly benevolent - or at least, opposed to the likes of HYDRA - but pursues his own agenda in the form of protecting his kingdom (and protecting the surface world ''from'' his kingdom). Also a bit of a dick. |
| 890 | ---- |
| 891 | [[hardline]] |
| 892 | |
| 893 | * AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: He's the King of Atlantis and he commands all life in the seas (which, as he demonstrates, includes sea serpents and sea ''dragons''), he can fly, and he's strong enough to comfortably stabilise and lower a plummeting helicarrier into the water, ''one handed.'' He also went toe to toe with the First Class of X-Men and the so-called 'Angel of Cuba' in the 60's and came out on top, particularly impressive since the Angel is heavily implied to be [[spoiler: a time travelling Harry]]. |
| 894 | * AwesomeEgo: Incredibly arrogant, and as the Battle of London demonstrates, at least almost as badass as he thinks he is. |
| 895 | * TheBeastmaster: Commands all the creatures of the sea. ''All of them.'' To say that this is unfortunate for those who piss him off is a gross understatement. |
| 896 | * BigDamnHeroes: When he bails out the SHIELD Helicarrier, Steve, Natasha, Clint, and Rhodey in the first book. |
| 897 | * BlingOfWar: He wears gold fringed greenish-black chainmail, a departure from his canon counterpart's UnderwearOfPower. |
| 898 | * CasualDangerDialogue: Has a friendly, if serious, chat with Magneto whilst in the midst of an incredibly violent pitched battle. |
| 899 | * DeadpanSnarker: His default setting is SarcasmMode, so this isn't exactly surprising. |
| 900 | * DynamicEntry: Into HYDRA's base on the back of a colossal sea serpent during the Battle of London. |
| 901 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: Catching the SHIELD Helicarrier and safely lowering it into the Hudson, gently putting down Rhodey (showing his HiddenHeartOfGold), while also snarking at the latter and Steve. |
| 902 | * FlyingBrick: The primary aspect of his power-set, and a large part of what makes him so formidable. |
| 903 | * HeroOfAnotherStory: He has his own affairs in Atlantis and he took part in the battles against HYDRA and Grindelwald in World War II. |
| 904 | * HotBlooded: More than happy to settle a grudge Colonel Summers has in the middle of a meeting. |
| 905 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's not half as callous as he likes to pretend, and is actually rather impressed by Rhodey keeping the listing Helicarrier afloat. |
| 906 | * LargeHam: Two words - "IMPERIUS REX!" |
| 907 | ** The fact that they're bellowed from atop a gigantic sea serpent just underlines the point. Strange, unsurprisingly, [[LampshadeHanging Lampshades]] it. |
| 908 | --> "He is ''such'' a ham." |
| 909 | * LongLived: Well over a century old. |
| 910 | * MakingASplash: According to Colonel Summers, he can create tidal waves. |
| 911 | * NoodleIncident: ''Something'' happened in Cuba involving him, the First Class of X-Men, and the mysterious Angel of Cuba, something he did that left Colonel Summers holding a significant grudge most of fifty years later. According to him, he apologised. He's also worked with Magneto before and genuinely respects him. |
| 912 | * OddFriendship: The snarky, anti-social, hot-blooded King of Atlantis has this with Steve Rogers, going back to their days fighting side by side in [=WW2=]. |
| 913 | * OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: King of Atlantis, charged with defending his realm from all sorts of undersea threats. |
| 914 | * OlderThanTheyLook: He's well over a century old and he most certainly does not look it. |
| 915 | * OutOfFocus: A JustifiedTrope, since he's usually dealing with undersea problems and isn't especially sociable. |
| 916 | * {{Protectorate}}: Atlantis is his, which is why he doesn't get involved in surface affairs too much. |
| 917 | * ProudWarriorRaceGuy: More than a little bit. |
| 918 | * RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Fully intends to embark on one on Steve's behalf after he's captured by HYDRA. |
| 919 | * RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Oh yes. |
| 920 | * SnarkToSnarkCombat: With Logan and, surprisingly [[NiceGuy Steve]]. |
| 921 | * SuperStrength: Short of the strongest Asgardians and the Hulk, he's probably currently the physically strongest character in the setting. He effortlessly lowers a listing helicarrier into the ocean with one hand and Logan notes that he can rip a battleship in half. |
| 922 | * VillainousFriendship: More AntiVillain than Villain, but he was friends with Magneto back before the latter mellowed out, and regards him as a peer, feeling out an alliance against humanity if humanity comes after them. Magneto demurs. |
| 923 | * VitriolicBestBuds: With Steve, and with more emphasis on the vitriolic, Logan. |
| 924 | |
| 925 | [[/folder]] |
| 926 | ---- |
| 927 | |
| 928 | [[header:Miscellaneous]] |
| 929 | |
| 930 | Other heroes and superpowered beings who don't fall under any of the other categories. |
| 931 | ---- |
| 932 | |
| 933 | |
| 934 | [[folder:The Lady Knight]] |
| 935 | |
| 936 | !!The Lady Knight a.k.a. Julie Maupin a.k.a. Julie d'Aubigny a.k.a. Phryne Fisher |
| 937 | |
| 938 | -->''The bitch is back.'' |
| 939 | |
| 940 | An oft-referred legend of mysterious origins and even more mysterious everything else. Among other things, she trained Sif and Fandral, the two [[WarGod greatest]] [[MasterSwordsman swordsmen]] in Asgard. All that is really known about her is that she is a time traveller, she has no control over it, and that she hasn't been seen since the 17th century. May or may not also have been the first Spitfire. |
| 941 | |
| 942 | Finally appears in person in ''The Phoenix and the Serpent'', adding to the mystery of her true identity and goals. By necessity, she is a WalkingSpoiler, so the vast majority of spoilers are '''UNMARKED'''. |
| 943 | ---- |
| 944 | [[hardline]] |
| 945 | |
| 946 | * TwentiesBobHaircut: Has one in line with her general 20s aesthetic on Sakaar. As she notes, while it was far from without flaws, she ''did'' like the styles of that particular decade. |
| 947 | * TheAce: Explicitly the best of Arthur's court. Thor implies, and Harry states, that she's ''still'' better than Sif and Fandral, who have thousands of years of experience and are the two greatest swords-masters in the Nine Realms. |
| 948 | * ActionGirl: Quite possibly the greatest sword-fighter in history, trainer of a ''significant'' number of downright legendary [[MasterSwordsman Master Swordsmen (and Swordswomen)]], and competed with gods and godlike beings despite her human origins. Yup, she qualifies. |
| 949 | * TheAgeless: She's explicitly described as having this sort of appearance. What with the time-travelling, no one's entirely sure how old she is other than the fact that she doesn't look it, and Harry's remark that humans don't live long enough to get as good with a sword as she is (which she doesn't deny). |
| 950 | * AmazonianBeauty: She's one of the greatest fighters in history, and Thor remarked that when he met her, he thought she was very beautiful, an assessment [[HasAType Harry]] [[EatingTheEyeCandy agrees with]] - she's described as tall, slender, and leanly muscular, and she effortlessly beats [[ComicBook/BlueBeetle a Scarab Warrior]] to a pulp. |
| 951 | * AmbiguousGender: InUniverse. Whether at the time or in retrospect, she was referred to as Sir Bedivere when she was in Camelot, though it seems that no one at the time doubted her gender. |
| 952 | * BadassNormal: Most of the time. In her baseline state, she has no powers, but she does have a lot of very sophisticated nanobots in her body that she can mentally activate to enhance her and transmute more or less any materials around her or on her person. However, [[HoldingBackThePhlebotinum she couldn't use them except in conflicts like the Frost Giant War]] when the tech level would blend in (and even then, she states she was holding back). |
| 953 | * BadassTeacher: According to Thor, she's the single greatest swordswoman he's ever seen, and as seen under BeenThereShapedHistory, she's trained many of history and mythology's biggest badasses. When she appears, she demonstrates just ''why'' she's a LivingLegend, and ends up having a talk with a rather awed Harry about swordsmanship about other things that a half-listening Hal Jordan sums up as 'teaching class', inwardly comparing it to [[AcePilot Chuck Yeager]] lecturing at the Air Force Academy. |
| 954 | * BeenThereShapedHistory: Trained Sif and Fandral, served Merlin and was 'the best of Arthur's court', fought in the Last Great Frost Giant War, trained [[KnightInShiningArmour William the Marshal]], [[WroteTheBook Johannes]] [[{{Literature/Blossfechten}} Liechtenauer]], [[Literature/TheSongOfRoland Roland of Roncesvalles]], [[MasterSwordsman Gerard Thibault]] [[WroteTheBook d'Anvers]], [[WroteTheBook Ridolfo Capo Ferro]], [[Characters/CelticMythology Chu Culainn]], [[Characters/ClassicalMythologyMortalsAndDemigods Atalanta and 'most of the Argonauts']], cross-trained with UsefulNotes/MiyamotoMusashi, and that's apparently not a complete list. Oh, and she ''was'' UsefulNotes/JulieDAubigny. |
| 955 | * BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: She was UsefulNotes/JulieDAubigny, among many, many other identities. |
| 956 | * TheChanteuse: Acts as this and a KnowledgeBroker in her very twenties themed club, Maupin's, on Sakaar. Apparently she liked the decade's aesthetics. |
| 957 | * ChekhovMIA: She's alluded to a few times in the first book, and a couple of times in the second, mostly in passing, with it being implied that there is a ''reason'' for her disappearance. Finally, she pops up as TheChanteuse in ''The Phoenix and the Serpent''. |
| 958 | * CompositeCharacter: Among ''many'' other identities, she was both UsefulNotes/JulieDAubigny and [[Series/MissFishersMurderMysteries Phryne Fisher]]. Later legends combined her with Nimue, who is a very distinct individual. She also may (or may not) be Spitfire I, Peggy Carter, and/or others. |
| 959 | * ContraltoOfStrength: An excellent singer with a comparatively deep voice (though she's got the range to hit a perfect soprano when she feels like it) and a literal LivingLegend in combat. |
| 960 | * CoolTeacher: She's friendly, charming, and plain cool. She also has a long conversation with Harry discussing swordsmanship, which Hal notes is a textbook example of "teaching class" and compares both her presence and the way Harry's hanging off her every word to [[AcePilot Chuck Yeager]] giving a lecture at the Air Force Academy. |
| 961 | * CosmicPlaything: She's on a quest not entirely of her own choosing through time and space, and has absolutely no control over it. She wasn't particularly happy about it, with Thor noting that she seemed very sad when he met her, though by the time she pops up on Sakaar she seems to cheered up a bit - probably because its atemporal nature means she can settle down a little [[spoiler: and remove and repair the time machine]]. |
| 962 | * CurbstompBattle: She hands out a brutal one to a Beetle, neutralising its higher weapons and carving it up without taking a scratch, before casually impaling the Scarab itself to disarm it. |
| 963 | * {{Cyborg}}: She's got a lot of nanobots inside her, though most of the time, they're dormant, leaving her at baseline human state. When they're not they can make her minimally capable of matching the speed and strength of a Scarab Warrior. She also had [[spoiler: a malfunctioning time machine of unknown origins implanted in her, explaining her periodic time jumps - if she tried to fiddle with it, she'd jump on. On Sakaar, however, she could remove it freely]]. |
| 964 | * DeadpanSnarker: More on the snark than the deadpan, though she's capable of that, too. |
| 965 | * DualWielding: Her own blade and the Sword of Gryffindor, no less, during the Last Great Frost Giant war. |
| 966 | * DudeMagnet: She shagged over a third of the Round Table, and that seems to be pretty normal by her standards. [[ChickMagnet And it isn't just the guys, either.]] Her conquests include [[spoiler: Han Solo and Princess Leia]]. Multiverse travel was, apparently, involved. |
| 967 | * {{Expy}}: WordOfGod has noted that she's the product of a lot of influences, but pinpointed [[Series/MissFishersMurderMysteries Phryne Fisher]] as played by Creator/EssieDavis as the primary one, being the source of her appearance, 20s aesthetic, and a great deal of her personality. This is further complicated by the fact that she technically ''was'' Phryne. |
| 968 | * EmpoweredBadassNormal: When her nanobots are activated and set to enhancing her, she can become as strong as a Greater God like Thor and Loki. For most of her history, however, they've done nothing of the kind as she's tried to pass relatively beneath notice (or at least be underestimated). |
| 969 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: Casually rearranges her nightclub to move Harry and Hal out the way, transforms her mike/stand into a sword with a semi-sonic screwdriver hilt, her clothes into a suit of light battle armour, while declaring that she doesn't like trouble in her club unless she's starting it, before casually beating the crap out of a Beetle on the dancefloor and giving it a message for its master and then crippling it. |
| 970 | -->''Tell him the bitch is back''. |
| 971 | * EternalHero: Thanks to her time travelling, her heroism can be traced back at least three thousand years, back to when freaking ''Hercules'' was young. And an Eternal Teacher of Heroes, no less. |
| 972 | * EthicalSlut: As demonstrated in her life as Phryne Fisher, she ReallyGetsAround, but she also seems to genuinely care for her exes. Despite shagging over a third of the Round Table, Merlin, and Morgana, she implies that her connection with Arthur (who was married) was strictly platonic, and refers sympathetically to Lancelot's unrequited love for Gwen. And when telling Hal about her adventures in a version of [[spoiler: Star Wars]] universe (which included [[spoiler: sleeping with Han Solo and Princess Leia]]), she states she does not get between married couples - at least, [[AThreesomeIsHot not without invitation.]] |
| 973 | * EvenTheGirlsWantHer: As her life as Julie D'Aubigny demonstrated. Morgana's among them, apparently - she's smoking hot and she knows it. |
| 974 | * TheFogOfAges: Subverted. She remembers ''everything'' - something implied to have a lot to do with her nanotech enhancements. |
| 975 | * TheGadfly: She's many things, and very serious when matters are serious, but she's also chock full of mischief. |
| 976 | * GadgeteerGenius: And good enough at it to stun several of these, including the classic example of Reed fricking Richards, and startle Sunniva, who as an extremely well-travelled royal Asgardian Phoenix host, has almost SeenItAll. At one point she spends an entire chapter mostly in the background casually using her nanotech to redesign and reprogram the Future Foundation's portals so they, a) actually work, b) with enough power and a big enough processor, can transport the entire population of Sakaar - problems she also has answers to, with [[spoiler: her clutch TARDIS and Sunniva]]. |
| 977 | * GeniusBruiser: She's best known for her incredible swordsmanship, but she's also demonstrated to be a technological genius with a vast command of nanotechnology and the ability to casually disable the advanced weapons on a Beetle's armour. Oh, and she turned her clutch purse into [[spoiler: a TARDIS]]. You know, as you do. |
| 978 | * GirlyBruiser: Legendary Warrior. Swordswoman without compare. Great lounge singer who accessorises fantastic retro outfits and whose clutch purse is actually [[spoiler: a TARDIS]]. |
| 979 | * GuileHero: She's also a scientific genius, and as Harry notes to his mild disgruntlement, she's perfectly capable of leading even him around by the nose with next to zero effort. |
| 980 | * HasAType: Idealistic, courageous brunettes, apparently. |
| 981 | * HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic: When she does armour up against a Beetle, she doesn't bother with a helmet. [[CurbstompBattle She doesn't need one.]] |
| 982 | * IAmVeryBritish: She has the accent of a 1920s British aristocrat, inflected with something else, though given how old she is and her MysteriousPast, there's no way of telling if this is even close to her original accent. |
| 983 | * IHaveManyNames: Offhandedly notes that Julie and Maupin are by no means her real name, and she's had many aliases - though that is one of her favourites. |
| 984 | * ImmortalGenius: She's apparently TheAgeless and brilliant at more or less whatever she turns her hand to, nanorobotics included. She also turned her clutch purse into [[spoiler: a TARDIS]]. |
| 985 | * ImpossibleThief: She picks Harry's dimensional pocket to get at [[CoolSword Curtana]] and his Galahad armour, [[spoiler: unlocking additional functions on the former to turn it into a lightsabre, and apparently altering the latter into a flawless mimic of Obi-Wan Kenobi's Clone Wars armour]]. Without him noticing. |
| 986 | * ImmortalityBisexuality: Implied by her past life as Julie D'Aubigny, and confirmed by WordOfGod. Apparently she has a very extensive little black book, one that does not discriminate based on sex or gender. Or universe, it would seem. |
| 987 | * InconspicuousImmortal: On the one hand, very little about her is inconspicuous, and even during her two centuries plus of explicitly fading into the background, this included a stint as a socially scandalous upper class lady detective in 1920s Melbourne. On the other hand, she went to a great deal of trouble to conceal who and what she really was, entirely successfully, even Heimdall didn't spot her when she didn't want to be found, and no one had any idea where she'd ended up. |
| 988 | * JumpedAtTheCall: According to [[spoiler: Buri]], while she's not a fanatic, she's dedicated to her somewhat enigmatic duty of preserving the timeline like nothing he's ever seen - and while she gets attached and likes to have fun, the mission always comes first. |
| 989 | * KickingAssInAllHerFinery: Played With. On the one hand, she's wearing a very fancy dress when she starts her fight with the Beetle. On the other hand, she's using nanotech to turn it into light battle-armour. |
| 990 | * KnightErrant: Largely due to her unwilling time travel jerking her from one point in history, usually without any warning. Apparently even Odin couldn't help her, not without risking unravelling Time itself. She finally figured out how to solve it herself, though she seems to still be at it - and working for Strange. |
| 991 | * KnightInShiningArmour: She was apparently the best of Arthur's court, and trained one of the greatest real life examples, William the Marshal. |
| 992 | * KnowledgeBroker: This is one of the main attributes of her reputation on Sakaar, apparently. As she soon reveals, she is much, much more than that. |
| 993 | * LikeASonToMe: According to Loki's researches, William the Marshal, 'who she treated like a son', and Atalanta - she actually raised the latter, apparently. |
| 994 | * LivingForeverIsAwesome: She's a very cheerful immortal, as these things go, despite having experienced incalculable personal tragedy - including losing loved ones who only she remembers even existing. Unlike Strange, who not only absolutely [[WhoWantsToLiveForever does not want to live forever]], but [[CosmicPlaything never did]] and [[DeathSeeker just wants to die]], she looks on the bright side. |
| 995 | * LongLived: At the very least. It's very heavily implied that time travel aside, she's lived far longer than any human should have been able to, with Harry stating after watching her fight that humans simply ''don't live long enough'' to get as good as she is, something she does not deny. [[spoiler: Buri]] later tacitly confirms this, implying that they're at least in similar age categories - and he's somewhere between four and eleven thousand years old. |
| 996 | * MasterSwordsman: |
| 997 | ** As a master of the sword and a teacher of masters, she's got a good claim to be ''the'' greatest example of this in the setting. [[WarGod Sif]] and [[LivingLegend Fandral]]'s sheer skill is explicitly put down to the fact that ''she'' trained them. And Harry states after watching her fight that even as good as those two have become over fifteen hundred plus years, she's ''still'' better than they were. Separately, she was stated to be the best of Arthur's court. |
| 998 | ** When we finally meet her in person, she goes toe-to-toe with a Blue Beetle, something that gave a passively Phoenix-boosted Harry Thorson a significant fight when it was ''holding back'', and defeats it without more than a couple of hairs out of place. An astounded Harry, who's already pretty talented with a blade, notes that for a swordsman, watching her in action is like a musician listening to Mozart or Doctor Strange. |
| 999 | * MeaningfulName: She alludes to a number of these, and then mentions that she used to go by Phryne when she was living [[Series/MissFishersMurderMysteries as an upper-class PI in 20s Melbourne]], and the name was appropriate. While Harry misses it, the historical Phryne was an ancient Athenian courtesan who, according to legend, was accused of blasphemy by the Athenian courts and responded by flashing them, moving them to vote not guilty - implying that she's ''that'' gorgeous, that she knows it, and that she's more than willing to use her looks when necessary. |
| 1000 | * MirrorCharacter: To Strange. Both are {{Immortal Genius}}es, exceptionally musically talented, ''the'' standard to live up to in their chosen fields, both have had many names over many lives and the name they use now is most certainly not their original, both are intimately connected to Camelot and time, both are mischievous with a [[TheGadfly puckish sense of humour]], and both are shaped by tragedy. The difference is that where Strange manipulates, she teaches and guides, being relatively open and inviting people to figure her out where Strange actively obscures his past, and she cherishes her past and those she's lost while he runs away from them. He's a study in bitter self-hatred at what he has become, whereas she's perfectly happy with who she is. More to the point, [[LivingForeverIsAwesome she enjoys her immortality]], even with the downsides, while [[DeathSeeker he just desperately wants to be allowed to finally die.]] |
| 1001 | * MistakenIdentity: Her stint at Arthur's court, and possibly her relationship with time, led to her being mixed up with Nimue. |
| 1002 | * MysteriousPast: No one has any clue where she came from, or even what her name is ([[IHaveManyNames by her own admission, she has had many]]), with one persistent speculation being that she's Peggy Carter. WordOfGod has hinted that she's the equally mysterious Spitfire I, but no one really knows anything about ''her'', either, not even what she looked like. |
| 1003 | * NiceGirl: When we finally meet her, she turns out to be kind and supportive, inspiring hope in both Harry and Hal Jordan. |
| 1004 | * NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Time-travelling bisexual tech-genius KnowledgeBroker ex-opera singer ex-PI cyborg master swordswoman. Among many other things. |
| 1005 | * NomDeGuerre: She's only known as the Lady Knight, though it's implied that she's been given - or has taken - others. Later reveals that she was once known as Julie D'Aubigny and Lady Maupin. |
| 1006 | * OhCrap: She's genuinely concerned by the arrival of 'Midnight', whoever they are, disguised as Darth Revan. This is an order of magnitude beyond the detached amusement that most situations have drawn from her. |
| 1007 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: [[ComicBook/BlueBeetle A Scarab Warrior?]] A brief amusement and a messenger. The Grandmaster? A concern, but no more. Harry in the arena? Popcorn entertainment. When someone arrives disguised as Darth Revan? Someone she recognises? ''Now'' she's concerned. As it turns out, she has reason to be. |
| 1008 | * PalmOnCheekPose: Rests a hand on the cheek of a very tired and world weary Hal Jordan, when gently commiserating with him/admiring him over how hard he's fought without hope of reward. |
| 1009 | * PlatonicLifePartners: Has this dynamic with [[spoiler: Buri]], who explains to Harry that no, they've never been more than friends. He's not interested in that sort of thing any more, and per him, even if he was, it would make no difference, as both are too old to go calf-eyed over a simple roll in the hay. |
| 1010 | * ProudBeauty: She's kind, compassionate, and wise, as well as being frighteningly intelligent, and the gold standard for swordsmanship. She's also gorgeous and entirely aware of it. |
| 1011 | * RavenHairIvorySkin: Her implied baseline form, described as dropdead gorgeous, with a black bob haircut and alabaster pale skin, qualifies. |
| 1012 | * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: It's not entirely clear how old she is, given the intermittent time travel, but she was long in the game by the time she raised Atalanta and knew a young Hercules. Buri implies they're of similar ages, while Harry flat out states that humans don't live long enough to get as good at swordsmanship as she is. |
| 1013 | * ReallyGetsAround: And proud of it. |
| 1014 | ** [[spoiler: Buri]], who knows her better than most, wryly remarks that he reckons her main ambition in life is to shag her way through time and space, adding that if someone's attractive, interesting, and interested, she'll go for them. He then offhandedly mentions that if Harry was a few years older and unattached, he'd be just her type. Cue furious blushing. |
| 1015 | ** In the next chapter, she cheerfully lists off some of [[{{Series/Merlin2008}} the Knights of the Round Table and associates]] that she slept with. The list includes Merlin, Morgana (before she went mad), Lancelot (who was very sweet, but hung up on Guinevere, "poor thing"), Gwaine, and Percival. According to her, the total was a little over a third - and she implies that at the very least, she modelled nude for Leonardo da Vinci, and happily confirms that she's shagged most of history's all-stars. As she quips to Hal, if you want to get good at something, "practice, practice, and practice some more." Hal is largely lost for words, still adjusting to the casual reveal that King Arthur is real, then eventually resolves to stick with what he knows and fist-bump her. |
| 1016 | ** Given that time travel and multiverse travel are, apparently, "much of a muchness, really", she's also got [[spoiler: Han and Leia]] under her figurative belt. Simultaneously. She is extremely smug about it. Hal, once again, is flabberghasted. |
| 1017 | * RedBaron: Mixed with SpellMyNameWithAThe - she's ''the'' Lady Knight. No ifs, no buts, no qualifiers. Harry later compares her to the TropeNamer, to give [[AcePilot Hal Jordan]] some context as to just how ludicrously good a swordswoman she is. |
| 1018 | * RenaissanceWoman: ''The'' [[MasterSwordsman Master Swordswoman]], a GadgeteerGenius and OmnidisciplinaryScientist who leaves some of the smartest people in the universe in awe, an InformationBroker of unparalleled influence on Sakaar, a singer of quite extraordinary talent, and a literal example - she modelled nude for Da Vinci. All while being an agent of Doctor Strange, fighting his temporal war. Of course, being around [[TheAgeless as long as she has]] rather helps. |
| 1019 | * RippleEffectProofMemory: Even if people she's trying to protect, especially those she cares for, are erased from history, she remembers them - and is usually the only one who does. Harry thinks about this, imagines how he'd cope, then very quickly concludes that it would drive him insane and wonders how the hell she manages. |
| 1020 | * SelfProclaimedKnight: She may have been knighted at some point, but she was well into her career by the time things like knighthood existed, so it's quite possible that she never formally got around to it. By all accounts, she was an exemplary knight and trained many superb knights. |
| 1021 | * ShroudedInMyth: Even ''Odin'' has no idea who she is, and he has access to a million years of Asgardian records - as did Loki when he did some digging on Sif's behalf. |
| 1022 | * TheSlowPath: She was stuck on a cruel mixture of this and time travel, thanks to a malfunctioning time machine being lodged in her arm - she'd spend a long time in one era, then suddenly be yanked along without warning (and any attempt to fix it, pre Sakaar, would just make the jump). It's implied she ended up on Sakaar on purpose, precisely so she could fix it and remove it without impediment. |
| 1023 | * StraightManAndWiseGuy: The Wise Girl to Hal Jordan's perpetually baffled Straight Man. |
| 1024 | * StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: While her base form is that of a peak level human, when empowered by her nanobots, she can enhance herself to an unknown but significant degree, sufficient at least to keep up with Greater Gods (which are beings on the power level of Thor and Loki). All the sword skill in the world means naught without the power to back it up, and her victorious fight in the last Frost Giant War against a Greater God level being like Byleistr (whose magical powers were compared to Loki's), would not have been remotely possible without enough enhancement to keep up. |
| 1025 | * SpellMyNameWithAThe: She's ''the'' Lady Knight. |
| 1026 | * TheTease: Even when she isn't actively pursuing someone, she's more than a little bit of a flirt, being gorgeous, entirely aware of it, and totally unashamed. One does not have to think too hard about where Fandral got it from. |
| 1027 | * TimePolice: Apparently this is her job, in a subtle fashion, as she's meant to protect the timeline - and it's heavily implied that like [[spoiler: Buri]], she's working for Doctor Strange. |
| 1028 | * TwoAliasesOneCharacter: Possibly. WordOfGod has hinted that she's the mysterious Spitfire I, who was supposedly one of the Winter Soldier's earliest victims - except they NeverFoundTheBody, just her explosion-crumpled gear. Which raises the question of whether (if it was her), this caused another jump in time, or this caused her ''first'' jump in time. |
| 1029 | * UncertainDoom: She hasn't been seen for at least three hundred years, and while Thor raises the possibility that she's changed her alias, he also does not state that it is very possible that she's dead. Then, she pops up, alive and apparently thriving in ''The Phoenix and the Serpent'', explicitly having avoided all notice for over two hundred years before winding up on Sakaar. |
| 1030 | * UnseenNoMore: She finally pops up in ''The Phoenix and the Serpent'', having been referenced long before as someone who had vanished centuries ago. |
| 1031 | * WithholdingTheirName: Implied, since her real name was - and remains - a matter of speculation. |
| 1032 | * WorldsBestWarrior: Her status as ''the'' greatest swordfighter in history is more or less unquestioned - and when it comes to it, she more than lives up to her rep. |
| 1033 | * WroteTheBook: Not her, so far as we know, but several of her students would go on to write some of the greatest treatises of western swordsmanship. She also crosstrained with Miyamoto Musashi, who did the same in the East. |
| 1034 | |
| 1035 | [[/folder]] |
| 1036 | |
| 1037 | [[folder:Karrin Murphy]] |
| 1038 | |
| 1039 | !! Karrin Murphy |
| 1040 | |
| 1041 | Head of the [[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Chicago PD's Special Investigations]] unit, intended to solve supernatural crimes (not as glamorous as it sounds, as InUniverse until the [[Film/TheAvengers2012 Battle of New York]] saying you saw the supernatural was grounds for getting fired or sent to a psychiatrist). Roughly five feet tall, has no superpowers, and will knock your teeth in if you imply this makes her weak. All canon tropes up to ''Literature/ProvenGuilty'' apply here. |
| 1042 | |
| 1043 | ---- |
| 1044 | [[hardline]] |
| 1045 | |
| 1046 | * BadassNormal: Phil Coulson says that he actually offered her a job as a SHIELD agent, and reckons that she's probably a better hand-to-hand combatant than he is. |
| 1047 | * BestFriend: To Dresden, exchanging affectionate snark with him and giving Wanda an IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHim speech. She's also the one he turns to in order to unload on during the below-mentioned HeroicBSOD about the extent of Strange's manipulations of his - and Thomas' and their mother's - lives ([[spoiler: Margaret [=LeFay=] was his apprentice and he explicitly arranged Dresden and Thomas' very existences]]), comforting him and telling him that YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre. During the same incident, she's also noted as looking like if she ever meets Strange, he won't get away without at least one broken bone. |
| 1048 | * ByTheBookCop: Does not approve of people taking the law into their own hands. This has formerly caused some tension with Dresden. It's also part of what makes her profoundly wary of/angry at/disturbed by Doctor Strange, who regards laws as amusements at best, to be respected when convenient and - as Dresden explains to her - has either had a hand in every event of the last few thousand years at ''minimum'' or in something that impacted it. |
| 1049 | * IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHim: Tells Wanda after she starts going out with Harry that she will not be happy if she hurts him. Dresden's mortified, but Wanda's fine with it. |
| 1050 | * FriendOnTheForce: For Harry Dresden, and latterly, Wanda Maximoff. |
| 1051 | * HeadbuttingHeroes: Downplayed, but she's rather wary of Coulson due to his position with SHIELD. |
| 1052 | * TheLeader: Of SI, mostly Levelheaded, though with shades of Headstrong and Charismatic. |
| 1053 | * TheMentor: Dresden mentions that she's been teaching him and Bruce Wayne staff-fighting and martial arts. |
| 1054 | * PintSizedPowerhouse: Described as being like [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]] with "none of the powers and all of the badass." |
| 1055 | * PutOnABus: She doesn't appear in the ''Bloody Hell'' arc because she was on a romantic getaway with [[OneManArmy Kincaid]] in Hawaii. It remains to be seen how much she'll be involved with Dresden's further adventures. |
| 1056 | * RespectedByTheRespected: It's explicitly stated that Coulson affords her the same level of professional respect he affords ''the Black Widow.'' |
| 1057 | ** Doctor Strange also genuinely respects her and her values, enough that Dresden explicitly states that if not for her principles, he would have killed [[spoiler:Rudolph]] without a second thought to prevent him from being [[spoiler: a key factor in her possible death]] rather than simply arranging for his - justified - arrest and jailing for corruption. |
| 1058 | * VitriolicBestBuds: With Harry Dresden, whenever they see each other. She was vastly amused by Harry going {{Squee}} when he saw Wanda. |
| 1059 | * YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Tells this to Dresden in ''Ghosts'' when he's in a HeroicBSOD about Strange manipulating his life. |
| 1060 | [[/folder]] |
| 1061 | |
| 1062 | [[folder:Michael Carpenter]] |
| 1063 | |
| 1064 | !!Sir Michael Carpenter a.k.a. the Fist of God |
| 1065 | |
| 1066 | -->''In the name of Almighty God, step away from that boy.'' |
| 1067 | |
| 1068 | A Knight of the Cross and wielder of ''Amoracchius'', the Sword of Love, better known as Excalibur. A carpenter in his day job and devoted family man, he's a devout Catholic (but not a dogmatist) and a literal and metaphorical KnightInShiningArmour. All canon tropes up through ''Literature/ProvenGuilty'' apply here. |
| 1069 | ---- |
| 1070 | [[hardline]] |
| 1071 | |
| 1072 | * ActionDad: Father of a large family/small clan - he has seven children in canon, and acts as Harry Dresden's CoolUncle. |
| 1073 | * BadassCape: Wears a white one, embroidered with a red cross. |
| 1074 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Very kind, and usually very gentle. If he's not being gentle, it's probably because you're a monster that's hurt/is about to hurt innocents. This is a Very Bad Idea--he's known as "The Fist of God" for a ''reason''. |
| 1075 | * BigBrotherMentor: Is this to Thomas and Wanda in the main story, and has been to Harry Dresden in canon. |
| 1076 | * BigDamnHeroes: Arrives in the nick of time to save Dane Whitman. |
| 1077 | * TheCape: He even wears one. It is suitably [[BadassCape badass]]. Morally speaking, he's probably the most [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism idealistic]] character in the entire series, aside from Clark and Captain America. |
| 1078 | * ChurchMilitant: A nice version. He's even prepared to be polite to a [[SuccubiAndIncubi White Court Vampire]] (albeit one who'd proved both helpful and uncommonly decent in the past). |
| 1079 | * CoolSword: The archetypal example; his sword ''Amoracchius'' was one of the two blades that went by the name of freaking ''Excalibur''. |
| 1080 | * CurbstompBattle: Takes on the undead warrior that beat Dane to a pulp and destroys it in three moves. |
| 1081 | * ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter: He's pretty shrewd, noticing how Thomas doesn't behave like an ordinary White Court vampire - and unlike most uninformed observers, figuring out that there's more to his closeness to Dresden than mere self-interest. He's also worked out just ''why'' they're so close (as he says, he knows what it looks like when siblings argue). |
| 1082 | * FamedInStory: He's recognized, and respected, across the supernatural world. |
| 1083 | * FlamingSword: ''Amoracchius'' burns with white flames, and in the right situation, is one of the most powerful weapons in the Nine Realms. |
| 1084 | * GoodIsNotSoft: He is kindly, friendly and forgiving. He'll give even undead abominations a chance to surrender (though in this context, it just means die quickly). However, if you face him on the battlefield and turn down his offer of your own free will, he will give no quarter. |
| 1085 | * KnightInShiningArmour: A very literal (as well as metaphorical) example. |
| 1086 | * TheMentor: It would be easier to list the characters he ''doesn't'' serve as a role model/confidant/source of advice to. |
| 1087 | * NiceGuy: Even when severely worried about his [[MissingChild missing daughter]], he takes the time to be polite to Thomas (even though as a White Court vampire, he's still understandably suspicious of him) and to be concerned for Wanda, who's been [[DrowningTheirSorrows drinking to cope]] with [[spoiler: Hermione's reaction to her]]. |
| 1088 | * NoodleIncident: He's apparently met Wanda a few times, including before she met Dresden. |
| 1089 | * OneManArmy: As part of the StrongAsTheyNeedToBe thing the Knights have. |
| 1090 | * ThePaladin: Fulfils this trope in every way - he's kind, he's noble, and completely morally upright. Even when he's worried about his [[MissingChild missing daughter]], he remains entirely polite and strictly observes the speed limit. He also didn't earn the nickname 'the Fist of God' by collecting bottle-caps. |
| 1091 | * PopCulturedBadass: References ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' to Harry Dresden, pointing out that Creator/CSLewis was a theologian. |
| 1092 | * PreAsskickingOneLiner: "In the name of Almighty God, step away from that boy." |
| 1093 | * RedBaron: He's also known as 'the Fist of God'. |
| 1094 | * SecretSecretKeeper: By his second appearance, he's figured out that Thomas and Harry are half-brothers. |
| 1095 | * StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: A total badass by himself, but like the other knights, he gets stronger in proportion to the threat faced (or depending on how you look at it, the threat is brought down to be as strong as them. It may vary depending on who they're fighting). |
| 1096 | |
| 1097 | [[/folder]] |
| 1098 | |
| 1099 | [[folder:Thomas Raith]] |
| 1100 | !!Thomas Raith |
| 1101 | |
| 1102 | -->''[You are] someone who wishes to help. Someone who was given every reason to be a monster, but chose to be better. Someone who is cursed, and who found a cure he could never take. Someone who risks everything, time and time again, for his brother.'' |
| 1103 | |
| 1104 | The TokenGoodTeammate to the White Court of Vampires, one of the only good vampires known on Earth, and Harry Dresden's older half-brother. All canon tropes up to ''Literature/ProvenGuilty'' apply here. |
| 1105 | ---- |
| 1106 | [[hardline]] |
| 1107 | |
| 1108 | * AbusiveParents: His father, Lord Raith. Even the most truncated account, specifically regarding the hiding of the truth about what he was to, like all young Raiths, make him more malleable after transforming, has [[TheParagon Michael Carpenter]], a man of saintly forgiveness, on the verge of drawing his sword, marching up to Chateau Raith and stabbing Lord Raith through the heart. |
| 1109 | * BadassFamily: His mother was FamedInStory amongst the magical community (and was [[spoiler: an apprentice of Doctor Strange]]), his father is (or was) the King of the White Court, his half-brother is [[LivingLegend Harry Dresden]], and his half-sister on the other side is the power behind the throne of the White Court. |
| 1110 | * BashBrothers: He and Harry snark a lot, but they also know that they can trust each other to watch their backs in a fight. |
| 1111 | * BigBrotherInstinct: He's protective of Harry, which is part of how Michael figures out that he's Harry's older brother. The other part is that Michael has seven children and knows what it looks like when siblings squabble. |
| 1112 | * BlatantLies: He tells Wanda and Michael he has no magical talent, when in fact he's fairly decent at thaumaturgy. In his defence, hiding one's true abilities is second nature for the White Court (especially with his father routinely trying to kill him), and with Wanda present, there's no actual need for him to use them. |
| 1113 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Apparently a lazy, snarky slob who happens to be loyal to his friends but otherwise sees no further than the end of his nose. Actually a skilled politician, deadly fighter, emotionally insightful confidant, and low-level magical practitioner who's done some extensive study and put a great deal of thought into pre-emptively inoculating nascent White Court vampires against their demons - successfully. When he reveals the latter to Michael and tacitly confirms his shocked response that this information could destroy the White Court, the other man wonders in shock how he could ''ever'' have underestimated Thomas. |
| 1114 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: He's not particularly communicative about it, but his mum escaped his controlling (literally) father when he was six, he discovered what he was only after killing his first lover on his first feed, his father routinely tried to have him killed, and his best efforts to protect his younger half-brother met with mixed success. |
| 1115 | * DeadpanSnarker: More than equal to his brother in SnarkToSnarkCombat. |
| 1116 | * FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Probably the only vampire in the story who's actually friendly, as opposed to being AffablyEvil (the Welshman is a good guy, but by all accounts he's really not friendly). Michael explicitly notes that he's got a number of very unusual traits for a vampire, and what seals his judgement is the fact that when Wanda's drowning her sorrows, she trusts Thomas around her, and Thomas spends his time ensuring she moderates her drinking rather than taking advantage of a prime opportunity to get psychic hooks into one of the most personally powerful and well-connected people on the planet (which literally any other vampire would do). |
| 1117 | * HiddenDepths: While Michael suspects his better nature, he figures out its extent at the end of ''Ghosts''. He's also much, ''much'' smarter than he pretends to be - this is someone who figured out how to successfully inoculate a nascent White Court vampire against their hunger demon, something that could ''destroy'' the White Court. When Michael realises this, he wonders in shock how he could ''ever'' have underestimated Thomas. |
| 1118 | * HunterOfHisOwnKind: He fights fellow vampires, yes, but more indirectly, he's figured out how to stop a Hunger Demon taking hold during the first feeding, something that Michael notes in shock could potentially wipe out the White Court. Thomas doesn't seem displeased at the idea. |
| 1119 | * MistakenForGay: Michael is neither the first nor the last person to assume he's been feeding on Harry before Wanda came along. He finds it hilarious (and isn't shy of using it to obscure their true connection). |
| 1120 | * NiceGuy: Quips and snark aside, he's a genuinely good person, at one point sitting and drinking with Wanda when she's in the process of [[DrowningMySorrows drowning her sorrows]] to ensure that the considerably smaller woman with the ordinary metabolism paces herself. This actually earns him Michael's genuine respect, the other man having been previously on the fence about him. |
| 1121 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: He pretends to be a fairly louche, slobbish, and childish [[TheGadfly gadfly]], and he's good enough at it that even people who know he's more than he seems tend to underestimate him. For one thing, he's quite possibly the only person to have worked out how to kill a White Court Hunger demon before it manifests, knowledge that could destroy the White Court, an established and ancient supernatural power. |
| 1122 | * OddFriendship: He and Clint Barton, of all people, are said to have hit it off. This may actually be an example of BirdsOfAFeather--both of them are pleasant, somewhat silly, good-looking guys on the surface, but are much smarter, much more ruthless, and far more dangerous than they might appear. |
| 1123 | * OutOfFocus: He's only shown up in person during ''Chaos Reigns'', and doesn't appear in the main story outside a couple of cameos until late in the second book. His lack of appearances during the ''Bloody Hell'' arc is an InvokedTrope, though - Thomas and Harry have to stay away from each other while the Wardens are around, because their sibling relationship is a necessary secret. |
| 1124 | * SmarterThanYouLook: Like his deceptively intelligent brother, he's much, much smarter than [[ObfuscatingStupidity he pretends to be]] - and it's implied that he's easily the smarter of the two. It's practically a survival tactic in the White Court, most of whom couldn't avoid backstabbing each other if they tried. |
| 1125 | * StarCrossedLovers: With his girlfriend Justine, who he is in deeply and mutually in love with. And since he was exiled by the White Court, and the touch of someone who is in true love is harmful to them, and Justine works for (and spies on for him) his older sister Lara, he barely ever gets to see her. |
| 1126 | * SuccubiAndIncubi: As a White Court vampire, this is a given. However, he tries not to harm anyone he feeds off of, taking as little as possible. |
| 1127 | * {{Troll}}: He has his moments. When Michael drops by to find Harry and is greeted by a mostly dressed Thomas and hears a feminine groan, he jumps to the inevitable conclusion and looks disapproving. Thomas just looks amused, then pointedly calls for Wanda. Wanda, hungover, appears and both her and Michael marinate in embarrassment as she realises what he assumed. Thomas? |
| 1128 | --> The vampire ''smirked''. |
| 1129 | |
| 1130 | [[/folder]] |
| 1131 | |
| 1132 | [[folder:Gambit (SPOILERS)]] |
| 1133 | |
| 1134 | !!Remy [=LeBeau=] a.k.a. Gambit a.k.a. [[spoiler: Remy Summers]] |
| 1135 | |
| 1136 | -->''Want me to deal y'in,'' '''''homme?''''' |
| 1137 | |
| 1138 | A powerful mutant, master-thief and ladies man from New Orleans, [[ObfuscatingStupidity who is much, much smarter than he pretends to be.]] He first appears in ''Ghosts'' working for Sinister to pay off a debt, though his actual agenda [[WildCard is initially a mystery]]. He's also an artificially aged clone of Scott Summers. He is always charming, always friendly, and always, ''always'' dangerous. Given the nature of his identity and his scheming, he's WalkingSpoiler, so spoilers for ''Ghosts'' are UNMARKED. |
| 1139 | |
| 1140 | ---- |
| 1141 | [[hardline]] |
| 1142 | |
| 1143 | * AmazonChaser: By his own admission. He draws the line at [[HairTriggerTemper Yelena]] [[AxCrazy Belova]], however. |
| 1144 | * AmbiguouslyHuman: Possibly. After studying his DNA, Hank concludes that he's a clone or even an ArtificialHuman. It's later revealed that he's a clone of Scott Summers, albeit one who's been given a few tweaks. |
| 1145 | * ArtificialFamilyMember: He's a tweaked and partially rapid-aged clone of Scott Summers, who he initially ironically, the later seriously, refers to as his brother. Scott reciprocates, despite being initially weirded out by having been cloned, and [[spoiler: their grandmother, Emma Frost, seems to have no problem whatsoever with his origins]]. |
| 1146 | * TheAtoner: He's out to atone for his previous inaction, having turned a blind eye to the depravities of the Red Room and Sinister while working for the latter, and his failure in this 'verse's version of the Morlock Massacre. His main means of this is by trying to save the prisoners, especially Maddie. He ultimately succeeds. |
| 1147 | * BadassLongcoat: He wears his canon tatty brown coat and even by SuperSoldier standards, he's a OneManArmy. |
| 1148 | * BadassTeacher: One of the most dangerous characters on Earth and becomes this at the Xavier Institute, teaching very popular classes in escapology, combat, and other thief related skills. His Danger Room classes are less popular when it's discovered that he's even more inventively sadistic at scenario construction than ''Logan''. |
| 1149 | * BadPowersGoodPeople: His powers are, potentially, horrifyingly lethal and incredibly destructive, even without being in the hands of one of the most ruthlessly intelligent people in the series. However, he is a good man. |
| 1150 | * BecomingTheMask: His romance with Maddie. Initially, it was faked, to get leverage and freedom from Sinister, but he realised that she was just as much of a victim as him, and came to care for her. Now, they seem to be AmicableExes, though WordOfGod has summed their relationship status up as "It's Complicated." |
| 1151 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: A charming flirt with a FunetikAksent, a fairly laidback attitude and a card related gimmick, he doesn't exactly come off as dangerous, even with his powers. Of course, what makes him dangerous has very little to do with his powers - and those powers are much greater than they seem, and much, ''much'' more dangerous. He successfully ran a con on both Sinister and the Red Room, coaxing Maddie away and serving as Natasha's mole right under their noses, with only Maddie realising any of it (and even her information was limited). Carol later uses this to illustrate to Monica just how dangerous he is, and why she likes him but doesn't entirely trust him. |
| 1152 | * BigBrotherInstinct: In the ''Unfinished Business'' arc, he rapidly develops this towards Monica Rambeau and Peter Parker. |
| 1153 | * {{Blackmail}}: Sinister fixed a flaw in his powers that was killing him and uses this to control him. |
| 1154 | * TheBusCameBack: Invoked by Doctor Strange, who ensured that Gambit would be in place to assist Carol, Stevie, and Peter Parker against the Grey Court vampires who were hunting them. |
| 1155 | * CaneFu: With his bo staff. |
| 1156 | * TheCasanova: Subverted, surprisingly enough. While he's charming and has a flirtatious manner, he's only mentioned as being in two relationships, and in the one we see, despite his [[TheVamp original intentions]], he's absolutely loyal to his girlfriend - Maddie - and when they do break up, it's amicable and he sticks around for long enough to ensure that she was fine. |
| 1157 | * TheCharmer: Frequently. At one point, Carol claims his charm isn't working on her, then she notes to her own disgust that it kind of is. It later turns out that he's capable of using his powers to amplify this effect on physical contact, though he positively loathes the idea. |
| 1158 | * CharmPerson: He's got a version of his canon charm power, though it's suggested to work by physical contact and stimulating nerves and pleasure centers in the brain. It's also very strongly suggested that he does ''not'' like doing it. |
| 1159 | * ChickMagnet: And he knows it. And he still manages to be likeable. |
| 1160 | * CloneAngst: Strongly hit by this after TheReveal he's actually Scott Summers' clone, feeling that he's a bad copy of a better man. |
| 1161 | * ClonesArePeopleToo: Steadily sought to inculcate this attitude in Maddie, eroding her belief that she was ''just'' a LivingWeapon, showing her that she could be a ''person'' too. Ironically, it turns out that ''he's'' the clone, and ''she's'' the real human. After a very nasty initial shock, he develops this attitude, even ironically (and later more sincerely) referring to Scott as his "brother". |
| 1162 | * CompositeCharacter: With the third Summers brother, Gabriel a.k.a. Vulcan, but he's actually a tweaked clone of Scott rather than a naturally-born sibling. |
| 1163 | * CoolBigBro: Namechecked as this when he joins up with the Xavier Institute, as he's younger than the teacher and more relaxed about rules than Jean and Scott - something most of the teachers don't mind, as him being the one the students turn to for aid in inevitable teenage mischief means that it'll be carefully judged and safe. |
| 1164 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: He grew up on the streets with no idea of where he'd come from, was adopted into the [=LeBeau=] crime family (though he apparently had a happy upbringing), then seems to have killed his girlfriend's brother in self-defence, which accounts for the dark. It gets mysterious after the revelations that he's a lot YoungerThanHeLooks, having been created whole, most probably by Sinister, before the process was interrupted when he was seven and that he's a clone of Scott Summers. |
| 1165 | * DeadpanSnarker: A bit, first shown in a very dark, grim way when talking to Agent Coulson. It develops into something more playful with time. |
| 1166 | * DeathDealer: His cards are his signature weapon and extremely dangerous. |
| 1167 | * DefusingTheTykeBomb: Slowly worked this on Maddie/Rachel, with genuine success. |
| 1168 | * {{Deprogramming}}: He tried to do this to Maddie/Rachel, to get her out from under Sinister's thumb as part of DefusingTheTykeBomb, and ultimately succeeded. |
| 1169 | * DistractedByTheSexy: He has this effect on people, especially heterosexual women - Carol is charmed against her own better judgement, and Jean has to keep reminding herself that she has a boyfriend and that he's sort of dating her sister when he comes up in conversation. |
| 1170 | * EnigmaticMinion: To Sinister. He's actually Natasha's mole, and trying to help out the heroes, being mostly focused on trying to free Maddie/Rachel. |
| 1171 | * EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench: Carol tells him that it won't work on her, since [[CampGay Jean-Paul]], also calls her 'cherie'. To her internal disgruntlement, [[TheCharmer Gambit]] being [[ChickMagnet Gambit]], it works anyway. |
| 1172 | * ForcedIntoEvil: His involvement with Sinister and the Red Room boils down to this. He doesn't take it lying down. |
| 1173 | * FunetikAksent: As per canon, though it's suggested that he can dial it up and down as he chooses. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Lukin inwardly complains about its impenetrability.]] |
| 1174 | * TheGambler: Retains his canon persona's use of cards and tendency to take chances - though unlike canon, they tend to be very carefully judged ones. He's also cheerfully entirely willing to rig a betting pool on Scott and Jean's potential relationship in exchange for a substantial commission. |
| 1175 | * GratuitousForeignLanguage: As per canon. [[BlatantLies Carol informs him that the 'cherie' thing won't work on her.]] |
| 1176 | * HavingABlast: He blows things up, primarily, though he's got more than a few other tricks up his sleeves. |
| 1177 | * HeelFaceDoorSlam: Offscreen, some time previously, he was involved in this 'verse's version of the Morlock Massacre, and tried to save some Morlocks by collapsing a tunnel behind them. While he succeeded, Sinister was not pleased and... ''[[MindRape punished]]'' him. Unusually, [[{{Determinator}} this merely made him more cautious.]] |
| 1178 | * HeroicBSOD: After realising that his attempt to get Maddie out failed. |
| 1179 | * HeroicSeductress: A rare male example. He originally set out to seduce Maddie as a means of getting leverage on Sinister and escaping, [[TheVamp playing on her relative youth and inexperience.]] As he admits, he isn't proud of it, and changed his mind when he realised that she was as much a prisoner as him, trying to coax her away from Sinister, and encouraging her to think for herself. As it turns out, she figured it out what he was up to pretty quickly (being a powerful telepath helps), but went along with it because it was the first time that someone had even ''pretended'' to care. Gambit is horrified. |
| 1180 | * IGaveMyWord: His justification for working for Sinister, remarking - like Strange - that his word is all he has. As the rest of the folder indicates, he's lying. |
| 1181 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: By Dudley, with half his own staff. |
| 1182 | * ImprobableWeaponUser: His favoured playing cards. |
| 1183 | * InTheBlood: It's noted by [[spoiler: Emma herself]] that his talents for scheming, charming, and manipulating, using one's looks to best effect and disguising true intelligence come straight from her. |
| 1184 | * {{Irony}}: |
| 1185 | ** When he realized how much Maddie had been messed up by her conviction she being a clone meant she would amount to nothing more than a LivingWeapon, he did her best to show her that she still was a ''person''. Unbeknownst to both of them, Maddie was the "real", naturally born human while Gambit was the clone. |
| 1186 | ** There's also a certain irony in the man most famous for blowing up pretty much everything he touches being the one to steadily and carefully [[DefusingTheTykeBomb defuse the Tyke Bomb.]] |
| 1187 | ** The character who very firmly believes in the importance of choices, and taking responsibility for them, also has powers that can be (and, it's implied, has been) used to influence others' emotions. On the other hand, it's implied that this is precisely why he loathes that facet of his abilities. |
| 1188 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Downplayed. The facade of jerk is only presented in the Red Room, and evaporates once Carol realises very quickly that he's not the soulless mercenary douche that he'd like to appear to be. |
| 1189 | * LetsGetDangerous: When he drops the flirting and gets business-like, things tend to get very messy indeed. |
| 1190 | * LovableRogue: Roguish, nominally working for the bad guys when he first appears, and very, very hard not to like (especially if one is at all attracted to men). Even after his official HeelFaceTurn, he's still a master thief and has absolutely no shame about making an under the table deal with Bobby Drake, betting shark of the Institute, about rigging the betting pool for the timing of Jean and Scott ''finally'' twigging to their mutual feelings. |
| 1191 | * TheMagicTouch: He can make anything he touches explode. He can also zap people back into consciousness and turn a vampire corpse to dust. It's later revealed in ''Unfinished Business'' that he can control his charge, delaying its detonation, charging something through another substance, and he's even capable of charging air and water molecules - and it's indicated that [[SwissArmySuperpower this is only the tip of the iceberg]]. It turns out that the precise control comes from his grandmother, [[spoiler: Emma Frost]]. |
| 1192 | * ManipulativeBastard: He's a benevolent variant, but he's capable of playing Sinister, the Red Room, the heroes, and technically Maddie/Rachel as part of DefusingTheTykeBomb - originally, he was straight up playing her, but changed his mind when he realised that she was a victim too (though it turns out that she knew) at once. On their reunion, Carol is a little wary of him as a result, now knowing what he can do. [[spoiler: Emma Frost, his grandmother]], who knows all about his skills in this department remarks with dry amusement that he'd not only take to the Hellfire Club like a duck to water, but the inhabitants of that particular pond would soon find that they were not dealing with a duck, but a sea serpent. |
| 1193 | * MeaningfulName: he's prone to taking serious, but carefully calculated, gambles. Carol, a fluent French speaker, also lampshades the meaning of his surname, teasing that he must think a lot of himself. Gambit just laughs, says it's his real name and that he's adopted, then Gambit being Gambit, adds: |
| 1194 | --> But it fits, ''non''? |
| 1195 | * MinionWithAnFInEvil: While working for the Red Room and Sinister. He wasn't evil to begin with, and by the time he appears, he's actively undermining them as Natasha's mole and steadily defusing Maddie. |
| 1196 | * NervesOfSteel: Powers or no, staring down [[AxCrazy Yelena]] [[ComicBook/BlackWidow Belova]] without blinking takes stones. Even more so since he's Natasha's mole inside the Red Room, who are noted to be hard enough to cross, even without telepaths - these are the people who ''scare HYDRA''. |
| 1197 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: No one who knows him is really in any doubt that he's dangerous, but it's suggested that his PoirotSpeak and flirty, irreverent attitude is a disguise for just how smart he is. |
| 1198 | * OneManArmy: As ''Unfinished Business'' shows, he can take on a baker's dozen of armed low-budget SuperSoldier berserkers in close quarters and come out unscratched. Indeed, Carol's first impulse on seeing the fight is to note that she almost feels sorry for them. |
| 1199 | * OutdatedOutfit: Deadpool snarkily calls him "thrift-store [[Film/TheMatrix Neo]]." Even Harry, not exactly known for his fashion knowledge, notices. However, he also notes that Gambit has the confidence to carry it off. Considering how many female viewpoint characters are practically drooling over him (primarily, Carol, Jean, and Maddie), he's not wrong. |
| 1200 | * PersonOfMassDestruction: While his use of his powers is usually surprisingly subtle, he's capable of casually obliterating powerful [[{{ComicBook/Venom}} Symbiotes]] and charging a very large cloud of mist sufficient to flatten a small forest and blow the roof off of Project Pegasus in a blast visible from miles away. It's also implied that this is far from his limit. |
| 1201 | * PinnedToTheWall: The floor, to be exact, by Dudley. With his own bo staff, to add insult to injury. |
| 1202 | * PlayingCardMotifs: Unusually, unlike canon (where he opts for the Joker or the Ace of Spades), his favoured card is the Jack of Hearts. It's still apt - the Jack is usually ManipulativeBastard-y, and also known as the Knave, with the Knave of Hearts being a thief who [[UnusualEuphemism "stole the Queen's tarts"]], most famously referenced in ''Literature/AliceInWonderland''. |
| 1203 | * PoirotSpeak: His first language is English, his Cajun background just means that he mixes in French words. However, it's also shown to diminish dramatically when he's getting serious, suggesting that it's ObfuscatingStupidity. |
| 1204 | * PowerIncontinence: How he fell under Sinister's control - he lost control of his powers, accidentally killed his girlfriend's brother (the fact that they were part of FeudingFamilies didn't help), and fled New Orleans, before Sinister performed surgery that gave him control of his powers, but put Gambit in his debt. |
| 1205 | * PreAsskickingOneLiner: Gives a pretty good one to Harry. |
| 1206 | -->'''Gambit''': Want me t' deal y' in, ''homme''? |
| 1207 | * PrettyBoy: Carol and Jean outright call him a pretty man. Indeed, Carol spends a lot of her time in his presence EatingTheEyeCandy (and trying, often unsuccessfully, to IgnoreTheFanservice). |
| 1208 | * PsychicBlockDefense: He's had one implanted (presumably by [[spoiler: Maddie]]) that's good enough that Harry notes that it would take him a while to dismantle - he could go straight through, but that would just fry Gambit's brain. |
| 1209 | * PunchClockVillain: Characterises himself as such when working for Sinister to pay off a debt. In fact, he's running a game on the Red Room and Sinister, stabing them in the back to free Maddie and the prisoners. |
| 1210 | * RaginCajun: As per canon. |
| 1211 | * RescueRomance: Of a sort. There's a romance between him and [[spoiler: Maddie/Rachel]], though it's part of his steadily working on DefusingTheTykeBomb, and they more or less break up afterwards, and fairly amicably at that. |
| 1212 | * TheMole: He's Natasha's mole inside the Red Room. |
| 1213 | * SiblingYinYang: His genetic template Scott Summers is sweet and awkward, while Remy is described by one reader as "a Weapon of Mass Seduction". When the two spend more time together at the Xavier Institute, the narrative remarks that a number of the students have realised that they're effectively twins and are thoughtfully reassessing Scott in light of this. |
| 1214 | * SirSwearsALot: He's mentioned as having an impressive repertoire of foul language. |
| 1215 | * SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: As he repeatedly states, he believes that people should be free. If there's one thing he's truly passionate about, it's that people have to be able to make their own choices. |
| 1216 | * SouthernGentleman: He's got the mannerisms, and Carol's a bit charmed against her better judgement. |
| 1217 | * StreetSmart: Very much so, as an ex StreetUrchin and current GuileHero. |
| 1218 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: Once Jean got past the eyes and speech pattern, she easily guessed he was Scott's clone because of his looks and the way he moved. |
| 1219 | * StuffBlowingUp: His main use of his powers, but by no means the only one. |
| 1220 | * SwissArmySuperpower: You wouldn't think that charging stuff up would be that flexible, but he makes it do a lot of work. Notable uses (aside from the obvious) include jolting people awake, setting things on fire, shorting out electronics, boosting leaps, charged cane strikes, and dusting vampires - and it's implied that this is just the tip of the iceberg. |
| 1221 | * SympatheticMurderBackstory: He accidentally killed his girlfriend's brother after a case of PowerIncontinence. |
| 1222 | * TallDarkAndHandsome: Which Carol, Jean, and Maddie, along with most of the Xavier Institute, most definitely notice. |
| 1223 | * TeamChef: Becomes this at the Xavier Institute. |
| 1224 | * TechnicolourEyes: Red on black, as per canon. It's one of the things that initially throws people off his resemblance to Scott. |
| 1225 | * TelescopingStaff: He uses an extendable bo staff in combat. |
| 1226 | * TokenGoodTeammate: For the Red Room. He's a fairly decent guy, as Carol observes, while his colleagues are [[AxCrazy Belova]], [[MadScientist Sinister]], [[GeneralRipper Lukin]], and [[spoiler: Maddie]], who's not precisely malicious but a bit... ''off'', and Dudley, probable murderer and definite rapist who enjoys hurting people. It transpires that he's Natasha's mole and TheAtoner, ultimately out to save both the prisoners and Maddie. |
| 1227 | * TouchOfDeath: One of the many, ''many'' more subtle applications of his powers. It's implied that he's had to use it, and he found it utterly sickening. |
| 1228 | * TwangHello: And then it explodes. |
| 1229 | * UnderhandedHero: As per canon, he's an acrobatic thief and brilliant manipulator and con-man. It's why Carol later doesn't entirely trust him. She likes him, yes. But she doesn't always trust him. |
| 1230 | * UnreliableNarrator: Claims at first that he's helping Harry because Thor stopped Hurricane Katrina before it hit New Orleans. Gambit being Gambit, this is rather less than the truth. |
| 1231 | * WildCard: Initially teased as this. He's sided with the heroes all along. Thereafter, however, he remains this, as it's not entirely clear where he's going to turn up next, or what he'll do. |
| 1232 | * XanatosSpeedChess: Forced into this after Carol informs him just who was kidnapped along with her. |
| 1233 | * YoungerThanTheyLook: Intensive tampering with his genetic material by Sinister had this effect, with Hank implying he was actually "born" as a seven-year-old. Xavier hypothesises that he was being artificially grown by Sinister, programmed in the process, and something went wrong at the lab, and the young Gambit escaped in the power cut. He has absolutely no idea about this, at least at first. |
| 1234 | [[/folder]] |
| 1235 | |
| 1236 | |
| 1237 | [[folder:Jor-El]] |
| 1238 | |
| 1239 | !!Jor-El |
| 1240 | |
| 1241 | -->''We must wait until the very last moment. And calculate when that last moment will be to ensure that Kal has the best chance of survival. Anything less would put him at greater risk than needed. Neither I, nor Lara, will countenance that.'' |
| 1242 | |
| 1243 | The birth father of Clark Kent a.k.a. Kal-El, husband of Lara Lor-Van, and the most brilliant scientist on Krypton. He figured out that Krypton was doomed, and after his warnings were ignored, with his wife, he took measures to protect their only son, planning on sending him to Earth, [[NoodleIncident a world he'd visited several times before.]] This included soliciting [[spoiler: Alison Carter]] for help. Despite being long dead, his actions continue to affect the world. He is heavily implied to have been [[spoiler: the source for this world's version of Bizarro.]] |
| 1244 | |
| 1245 | ---- |
| 1246 | [[hardline]] |
| 1247 | |
| 1248 | * BadassBookworm: A brilliant and thoughtful scientist, and a powerful 'high blood' Kryptonian, he was apparently more than capable in a fight when required to be. |
| 1249 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: He's a gentle, kindly pacifistic scientist, a genius by the standards of the most advanced society in the mortal universe. However, as a 'high blood' Kryptonian, he's a FlyingBrick on par with Thor when under a 'yellow' sun. WordOfGod has it that he overpowered a young Colossus and demonstrated his displeasure with [[SuperSoldier Omega]] [[SociopathicSoldier Red]] by dropkicking him up through Mount Yamantau. Not over. ''Through.'' [[GoodThingYouCanHeal Good thing he can heal, eh?]] |
| 1250 | * BrokenAce: By the time of Krypton's near destruction, all his efforts to save his world having come to nothing, and it's almost broken him - he's entirely focused on saving his son by any means necessary. |
| 1251 | * BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Part of the reason he chooses the Kents as adoptive parents for his son is because Hiram Kent once [[NoodleIncident cleared him of a murder charge]] and Jonathan seemed to be 'cut from the same cloth.' |
| 1252 | * CameBackWrong: After a fashion, [[spoiler: with Sinister cloning an imperfect version of him as this world's Bizarro to use as a bodyguard. [[TheWorfEffect It promptly gets frozen in place by a vengeful Doctor Strange, then after punching the Dark Phoenix into the Moon from high Earth orbit, vaporised by the individual in question.]]]] |
| 1253 | * TheCassandra: As per canon, almost no-one on Krypton believed him. |
| 1254 | * CrazyPrepared: As Book II demonstrates in a flashback, he built as many redundancies and back-ups as was imaginable or conceivably possible into his plan to save his son. He indicates that this is something that he and his wife, Lara, had in common. |
| 1255 | * DidntSeeThatComing: He didn't predict Clark's ship dragging a lot of debris with it, causing the Smallville Meteor Shower and making the landing a much bigger event than he'd hoped (making it harder to completely conceal Clark), and creating a much bigger problem for Clark in terms of 'meteor freaks' and the fact that KryptoniteIsEverywhere. |
| 1256 | * FlingALightIntoTheFuture: His only son, Kal-El/Clark Kent, believed to be the LastOfHisKind. He also left several artefacts with [[spoiler: Alison Carter]] for when Clark was ready. |
| 1257 | * FlyingBrick: He was this on Earth, unsurprisingly, on par with Thor. |
| 1258 | * GoodCannotComprehendEvil: [[spoiler: Alison]] notes shades of this in his character going by his horror, bafflement, and misery at what his earnest attempts at warning his people of disaster unleashed (a brutal civil war after an attempted military coup led by General Zod, and a violent 'Cult of the Eradicator', both of which venerated him). He's also troubled by a glimpse of [[spoiler: Alison's]] ruthless streak. |
| 1259 | * HappilyMarried: To Lara, a practical minded military woman. |
| 1260 | * IgnoredExpert: As per canon in regards to Krypton's doom. |
| 1261 | * InterspeciesFriendship: Had this with Peggy and Alison Carter, Charles Xavier, possibly with Loki, and also, it's hinted, with Captain Mar-Vell. |
| 1262 | * MartialPacifist: Not a fighter by inclination or training, but also more than handy in a battle when necessary. |
| 1263 | * ItRunsInTheFamily: After his first appearance during a flashback in ''Ghosts,'' it's very clear to see where Clark got not only his looks and powers, but also his nature, as a NiceGuy who doesn't like fighting, but [[BewareTheNiceOnes shouldn't be underestimated]]. Jonathan and Martha Kent also [[WhenHeSmiles note that Clark has his smile.]] |
| 1264 | * MrExposition: Explains the Dheronian attack on Krypton and his reasons for sending his son where and when he does to Alison. |
| 1265 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: His reaction to those Kryptonians who believed his warnings - Zod started a civil war to depose the ruling council, and the Cult of the Eradicator, an apocalypse cult, venerated him as their prophet. |
| 1266 | * NiceGuy: Described as being very kind, and something of a HumbleHero who only wanted the best for his people. |
| 1267 | * NoodleIncident: On Earth, he was once falsely accused of murder, though Hiram Kent helped clear him of it. Separately, Loki respected him personally, judging by his remarks about [[spoiler: the Bizarro clone]]. |
| 1268 | * OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: He's mentioned to have been active on Earth on multiple occasions, including getting involved in the incident that involved the Red Room trying to get Alison Carter's blood. |
| 1269 | * PapaWolf: His own life is completely irrelevant to him, as long as his son is safe. |
| 1270 | * PosthumousCharacter: He's been dead for over a decade by the time the story starts, appearing only in a flashback. |
| 1271 | * UncannyFamilyResemblance: As a young man, he looked startlingly like his son, Clark. |
| 1272 | * WhenHeSmiles: Is noted to have the same dazzling smile as his son. |
| 1273 | |
| 1274 | [[/folder]] |
| 1275 | |
| 1276 | |
| 1277 | [[folder:Deadpool]] |
| 1278 | |
| 1279 | !!Wade W. Wilson a.k.a. Deadpool |
| 1280 | |
| 1281 | -->''"I'm the special guest star. Last minute addition to the cast by the author, I can understand why you didn't get the memo. Basically, it's just a cameo – I come, I see, I stab. Him, to be exact. In the process, I throw out a few quips, make some references, and a good time is had by all. Except him, because he's dead, but you can't please everybody."'' |
| 1282 | |
| 1283 | Mercenary, mutant (in line with the [[Film/{{Deadpool|2016}} films]]), assassin, and surprisingly chirpy soldier of fortune. Has an incredibly powerful HealingFactor, may be immortal, and is definitely completely insane. After eight years of [[Creator/NimbusLlewelyn the author]] refusing to include him, he finally appears in ''Unfinished Business''. |
| 1284 | |
| 1285 | ---- |
| 1286 | [[hardline]] |
| 1287 | |
| 1288 | * ActorAllusion: He jokingly claims to be "a clone of Ryan Reynolds" until he was "bitten by a radioactive Shar-Pei". This is also a ShoutOut to ''ComicBook/CableAndDeadpool'', where Deadpool explicitly described himself as looking "like Ryan Reynolds crossed with a shar-pei." He reckons that since his [[Film/GreenLantern2011 super-suit]] isn't [[Film/{{Deadpool|2016}} green or animated]], he came out ahead. |
| 1289 | * AffablyEvil: Though "evil" might be overstating it. He's mostly a PunchClockVillain, seeing the mercenary business as a job - targeting Gambit is NothingPersonal. Gambit appreciates this, but doesn't appreciate being targeted in the first place. |
| 1290 | * AmbiguouslyBi: HappilyMarried to Vanessa, eulogises both Alison and Jack O'Neill's asses, refers to Remy as 'Mr Seductive Funky Accent', and hits on [[YoungerThanTheyLook Carol]] once or twice [[EveryoneHasStandards before finding out she's under-age.]] |
| 1291 | * BlackComedy: He's a HeroicComedicSociopath, for a given value of heroic. |
| 1292 | * BodyHorror: Standard for [[GoodThingYouCanHeal Deadpool]] - for instance, in ''Unfinished Business'', Gambit charges Carol's shield and hurls it straight into his body, blasting him through a wall, through a lower roof, and halfway through a VW Beetle. Mostly, he just seems mildly annoyed. Magical ''cordyceps'' is more of a problem, however. |
| 1293 | * BreakingTheFourthWall: He claims he's allowed a statutory number of fourth wall breaks per chapter. Which is itself a fourth wall break, after he complained about not getting an appearance for eight years (and that only in a side-story), and how only a year or so had passed InUniverse. |
| 1294 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: He's crazy and he has the attention span of a toddler, but he's almost indestructible, he's got extensive black ops training, and no discernible sense of caution. This makes him a very effective mercenary. |
| 1295 | * CloudCuckooLander: He's... ''odd'', to say the least. |
| 1296 | * FacialHorror: In spite of having seen more than a few truly disgusting wounds, Carol is very much appalled when she gets to see him unmasked. |
| 1297 | * EveryoneHasStandards: He's a little horrified to find out that Carol, who he's been half-jokingly hitting on, is not even 16, as she's YoungerThanSheLooks. When everyone else stares at him in disbelief, he complains that while he may be a mercenary, he does have standards. |
| 1298 | * GenreSavvy: Given that he's constantly LeaningOnTheFourthWall, this isn't surprising, and it comes in useful when he immediately realises that [[spoiler: Carol can be saved and they have all that they need to do it]]. |
| 1299 | * HappilyMarried: To Vanessa. It is a strange and unconventional relationship, but it works for them. |
| 1300 | * HealingFactor: As in canon, his is stupidly powerful. |
| 1301 | * HeroicComedicSociopath: For a given value of heroic. His every other line is BlackComedy. |
| 1302 | * HeroicSelfDeprecation: He's entirely happy to make fun of his own appearance, stating at one point that he used to be a clone of [[ActorAllusion Ryan Reynolds]], but he was bitten by a [[ShoutOut radioactive]] Shar-Pei. He also separately remarks that he has the skin of a baked potato. |
| 1303 | * HiddenDepths: Under the many layers of easily bored smart-mouthed loon there is an extremely experienced and skilled black ops expert. |
| 1304 | * HitmanWithAHeart: He's devoted to his wife, Vanessa, and he's possibly the most affable mercenary you're ever likely to meet. |
| 1305 | * IGaveMyWord: He takes his markers seriously, so when Alison calls one in, he complains, but goes with it. |
| 1306 | * KavorkaMan: Completely disfigured yet married, and if judging from his lurid comments, he enjoys a passionate sex life with Vanessa. |
| 1307 | * LampshadeHanging: It's Deadpool. This happens, frequently. |
| 1308 | * MoralityChain: Vanessa - per Strange, by some unknown means that even he does not understand, she's the one person who can reliably make Deadpool behave for more than five minutes. |
| 1309 | * MotorMouth: Again, Deadpool. He's known as 'the Merc with a Mouth' for a reason. |
| 1310 | * NoodleIncident: |
| 1311 | ** Jacksonville, like in the films (though here, we find out that he ended up in a coma and a full body cast because he strayed a little ''too'' close to some explosives while getting a good look at Alison's ass. Apparently it was WorthIt) and he owes Alison a marker for it. |
| 1312 | ** There was also a mission with Jack O'Neill in East Berlin in '88. Excessive amounts of vodka, a swimming pool full of black market Ben & Jerrys, half a dozen Stasi agents, and Jack and Deadpool doing karaoke as Abba as part of their cover that somehow involved the Hellfire Club. |
| 1313 | ** After the East Berlin mission, Jack apparently swore to fire him into space if he saw him again. According to Deadpool, he'd preferred to avoid that because "re-entry stings like a bitch." How he knows ''that'' is so far unknown. |
| 1314 | * NothingPersonal: Says this word for word about the hit that's been called in on Gambit. |
| 1315 | * ObfuscatingInsanity: In the best traditions of this trope, some of his insanity is definitely a mask to disguise his intelligence and expertise, though how much is debatable. |
| 1316 | * OddFriendship: As in canon, he gets along disturbingly well with Peter Parker. He also develops into a kind of VitriolicBestBuds with Gambit. |
| 1317 | * OhCrap: Realises mid-sentence, just before it happens, that Gambit's charged up Carol's shield and is about to throw it at him. |
| 1318 | -->'''Deadpool''': Oh chocolate sprinkled fucksicles. |
| 1319 | * OldSoldier: It's hard to tell how applicable ageing really is for him, but he's certainly older than he appears. Plus, he's been running black ops, then working as a mercenary, for most of twenty five years, including missions in East Berlin and Yugoslavia. [[NoodleIncident And Jacksonville]]. This does not count whatever more ordinary military experience he'd have had before he went into black ops, either. |
| 1320 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When he gets serious and stops joking, things are generally pretty bad. |
| 1321 | * PopCulturedBadass: Just as fond of pop culture as he is of weapons. |
| 1322 | * PunchClockVillain: He's just a guy, doing his job. Which happens to be killing people. Though he believes in really committing to the job, and refuses to be regarded as just another notch on the bedpost. |
| 1323 | * SadClown: Strange identifies him as this, remarking sadly that sometimes humour is there to cover up pain - and Deadpool has a lot of pain to cover up. |
| 1324 | * SmarterThanYouLook: It's not entirely clear whether he's simply pretending to be an idiot or, often enough, ''is'' an idiot. However, underneath the idiot there is a competent strategist with enough experience and GenreSavvy to pick up on what Strange is up to [[spoiler: when Carol has been turned into a tree]] even before Gambit does. |
| 1325 | * TakeThat: He takes jabs at the author's slow update schedule and large amounts of "this is reality" moments. |
| 1326 | * TakeOurWordForIt: There's no real description of his face, but Carol's horrified reaction says everything. |
| 1327 | |
| 1328 | [[/folder]] |
| 1329 | |
| 1330 | [[folder:Karima Shapandar]] |
| 1331 | |
| 1332 | !!Karima Shapandar/The Sentinel |
| 1333 | |
| 1334 | A police officer from India, who after an unexplained accident, became a cyborg, likely through the Red Room's technology. Through further unclear circumstances, Karima became an "associate" of the Winter Guard and the Red Room (in other words, she had her personality suppressed in a way similar to the Red Son/[[spoiler:Harry]]). |
| 1335 | ---- |
| 1336 | [[hardline]] |
| 1337 | |
| 1338 | * BitCharacter: Appears with the rest of the Winter Guard, then goes offscreen after the ''Forever Red'' arc, being mentioned by Loki as being repaired and in counselling. |
| 1339 | * {{Cyborg}}: She's one of these due to an unexplained "accident", and is apparently capable of interfacing with and controlling technology, among other things, as a result. |
| 1340 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: In Chapter 17 of ''Ghosts'', Loki implies that the Avengers intend to expand their roster, and that she's been identified as a very likely candidate for membership. |
| 1341 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After Magneto destroys her [[RestrainingBolt emotional ]][[InvertedTrope inhibitors]], all she does for a while is fall to her knees, crying BrokenTears. It's mentioned afterwards by Loki that she's currently receiving medical treatment (and likely psychiatric aid). |
| 1342 | * MysteriousPast: It's not exactly clear how she ended up as a Red Room cyborg, but Loki implies that it happened with the connivance of the Indian government. |
| 1343 | * RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Loki suggests to the Indian Prime Minister that she and Nagraj Shah, a fellow former prisoner of the Red Room, should be allowed to go on one of these against the Red Room's Indian base. |
| 1344 | * SoleSurvivor: While her being a part of the Winter Guard was unwilling on her part, she is as far as we know the only one of the Red Room's top brass who's not imprisoned or dead. |
| 1345 | * {{Technopathy}}: Her main ability, thanks to her UnwillingRobotization. |
| 1346 | * TokenGoodTeammate: "Teammate" is a bit of a strong word given that Karima's not a willing ally of the Red Room. She was either kidnapped by the Red Room, or (possibly unwittingly) handed over to them by the Indian government. |
| 1347 | * UnwillingRobotization: Appears to be why she was captured by the Red Room, but the exact details on how this happened aren't clear, given the current lack of a Sentinel project in the ''Child of the Storm'' universe (as far as we know). |
| 1348 | * YouWillBeSpared: Compared to the rest of the Winter Guard, who he tears to shreds, Magneto doesn't really hurt her besides destroying aforesaid inhibitors (probably due to said UnwillingRobotization). |
| 1349 | [[/folder]] |
| 1350 | |
| 1351 | |
| 1352 | [[folder:Shou-Lao]] |
| 1353 | |
| 1354 | !!Shou-Lao the Undying |
| 1355 | |
| 1356 | -->'''''I am He Who Is Undying. I am He Who Holds The Burning Heart. I am He Who Said 'No More'. I am the Last Test of The Iron Fist, the Judge of the Worthy. I am Life, and I am Fire. I am Shou-Lao.''''' |
| 1357 | |
| 1358 | One of the Elder Wyrms who chose to break with Surtur and make a better, more peaceful existence as guardians, guides, and protectors. His chosen method is as the source of the power of the Iron Fist, in the mysterious mystical city of K'un L'un... |
| 1359 | |
| 1360 | ---- |
| 1361 | [[hardline]] |
| 1362 | |
| 1363 | * AdaptationalBadass: In the comics, he could be beaten by the Iron Fist, which means he definitely wasn't a full-blown PhysicalGod, somebody who could likely fight Thor at full power and have a non-zero chance to win. |
| 1364 | * AdaptationalIntelligence: It's a bit ambiguous how intelligent Shou-Lao is in the comics, but this version quickly makes clear that he is very, very smart indeed. |
| 1365 | * AlwaysABiggerFish: While he keeps it under control, he's more than a little wary of Harry losing control, knowing that a truly uncontrolled Phoenix host is out of even his league. Indeed, after helping contain Harry as he purges his anger, he's visibly concealing a limp. |
| 1366 | * TheAtoner: Started out wanting to burn down the universe, and now spends his time leading, protecting, and mentoring. |
| 1367 | * BadassBoast: Bordering on BadassCreed, his folder quote serves as one, illustrating who and what he is. |
| 1368 | * TheChooserOfTheOne: He's the "Last Test of the Iron Fist, the Judge of the Worthy". In the comics, the Iron Fist got their powers by defeating him - given this Shou-Lao is easily a PhysicalGod, here he simply decides if a candidate is worthy of being empowered by him, judging them primarily on their self-awareness and reasons for wanting the Iron Fist power. |
| 1369 | * ColdHam: He's very dramatic, but he never "raises" his voice (although considering how big he is and how Dave could shatter castle windows of Hogwarts from miles away by yelling, that's definitely a good thing). |
| 1370 | * DefectorFromDecadence: At some point, he decided to turn against his father, Jormungandr, and their creator, Surtur. Why and when are still unknown. |
| 1371 | * EvilIsBigger: Inverted. He's the GoodCounterpart of 'Dave' and he's much, ''much'' bigger. |
| 1372 | * {{Expy}}: |
| 1373 | ** To Dalek Caan from ''Series/DoctorWho'', as a formerly high-ranking member of an army of monsters who wanted to destroy the universe, then said "No More" and pulled a HeelFaceTurn, using his powers to help the heroes. Though thankfully, Shou-Lao is much more sane. |
| 1374 | ** As acknowledged by WordOfGod, his personality also owes more than a little bit to a more or less benevolent [[Franchise/StarWars Count Dooku]]. |
| 1375 | * GentlemanSnarker: Seems to have a bit of this going on, given how he reacts to Harry. |
| 1376 | * GoodCounterpart: To Vandlat a.k.a. 'Dave', the Elder Wyrm of Hogwarts. One wants to blow up the world, the other wants to protect it. One eats or enslaves humans, the other empowers them. One tries to kill and/or manipulate Harry, while the other helps teach him. |
| 1377 | * GoodIsNotSoft: He's fairly nice under the cool snark, but he's also [[BrutalHonesty brutally honest]], ruthless and uncompromising - as he makes clear, if someone keeps going in the Test of the Iron Fist, he ''will'' kill them. |
| 1378 | * HeelFaceTurn: During or after (the implication is the former) the war against Surtur, he turned against his creators for undisclosed reasons. |
| 1379 | * HiddenDepths: He's not exactly a sweetheart, but he is fairly kind and quite a good therapist, willing to help Harry work through his issues and understand himself and the Phoenix better. |
| 1380 | ** Sunniva notes that he's genuinely proud of K'un L'un and the people in it--not in the way a farmer is proud of his flock, but the way a leader is proud of his company. |
| 1381 | * IHaveManyNames: One thing he has in common with his sibling, 'Dave'. |
| 1382 | --> '''I am He Who Is Undying. I am He Who Holds The Burning Heart. I am He Who Said "No More".''' |
| 1383 | * {{Kaiju}}: Put it this way. 'Dave' was the size of a small mountain with a head as long as a Hogwarts house table, and was observed to be capable of eating Godzilla like a bar snack. Shou-Lao, when passing through clouds, is mistaken for a ridgeline, and has a head the size of a battleship. |
| 1384 | * TheMentor: He teaches Harry in ''The Phoenix and the Serpent'', helping him through his issues and teaching him how to wield, not just control, the Phoenix. |
| 1385 | * NiceGuy: Sweet and vivacious he is not, but he does have a sense of true compassion, and is genuinely angered on Harry's behalf by what was done to him by the Red Room (which, as he and Sunniva note, is no small thing, given the kinds of things Shou-Lao has seen). |
| 1386 | * NoodleIncident: Strange mentions training in K'un L'un, which means that they've presumably met at some point. Certainly, a passing mention in Book III implies that Shou-Lao is familiar with him and his methods. |
| 1387 | * NotSoAboveItAll: For all his exasperation at Harry's quips, he's got the same proclivity for dramatics as his evil relatives. |
| 1388 | * OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: He tells Harry that he's slain some of his own kin. It's still a bit of a sore spot. |
| 1389 | * OurDragonsAreDifferent: Inverts 'Dave', being the wise teacher type of Eastern tradition, residing in a magical city that appears in a Chinese mountain range, but designed after the fashion of Western dragons, wings and all. |
| 1390 | * PhysicalGod: He's an Elder Wyrm and consequently a planet-cracker, and is considerably more powerful than the one we've seen so far. When testing Harry (who went toe to toe with the previous example and killed it without being pushed too hard), he weathers the latter's best attacks with ease, being only mildly wounded and forced to work up a sweat to make it clear how utterly outmatched Harry is. |
| 1391 | * ResurrectiveImmortality: Hence the name 'Undying'. The power of the Iron Fist itself is involved. |
| 1392 | * SeenItAll: As Harry notes, Shou-Lao isn't impressed very easily, since he's been around for quite a while. |
| 1393 | * TheStoic: Very rarely shows much emotion. |
| 1394 | * StraightManAndWiseGuy: The somewhat exasperated Straight Man to Harry's Wise Guy, going by the snapshot of his appearance in the teaser for ''The Phoenix and the Serpent''. |
| 1395 | * TimeAbyss: He was born during the War for the Dawn, and hundreds of millennia later, is still hale and hearty. |
| 1396 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: Can take the form of a human man, though some draconic traits remain (most likely he could hide those as well if he really wanted to, though). And as he reveals, it's a significant mistake to assume that a human-looking form means the same arrangement of internal organs, which he exploits ruthlessly. |
| 1397 | |
| 1398 | [[/folder]] |
| 1399 | |
| 1400 | [[folder: Hal Jordan]] |
| 1401 | |
| 1402 | !!Harold 'Hal' Jordan a.k.a. Green Lantern III |
| 1403 | |
| 1404 | An AcePilot of legend mentioned from time to time in ''Child of the Storm'', including as a candidate for the Green Lantern Ring, he vanishes after the Battle of London, having fallen through a crack in time and space. He eventually reappears on Sakaar, determined to bring law and justice to a chaotic world as best he can, even if his equipment is cobbled together and the closest thing to a god in the area is aligned against him... |
| 1405 | |
| 1406 | ---- |
| 1407 | [[hardline]] |
| 1408 | |
| 1409 | * AcePilot: He's a brilliant pilot, and adept at flying with his gauntlet. |
| 1410 | * AuraVision: After his gauntlet gets recharged, he finds himself developing this, much to his bemusement - one that covers [[ComicBook/GreenLantern the Emotional Spectrum.]] |
| 1411 | * BadassLongcoat: Wearing one in his first appearance, with WordOfGod noting that the whole scruffy trenchcoat gauntlet backpack look was heavily modelled off the ''Renegade'' arc of the New 52 ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'' run. |
| 1412 | * BeyondTheImpossible: He shouldn't have been able to get a ring to spark up with so little power, let alone do what he has with it for so long, even if he did have a genius jury-rig the gauntlet arrangement. |
| 1413 | * CoolCar: Drives a black flying sports car. Harry approvingly considers this a sign that Hal is a man of taste. |
| 1414 | * CowboyCop: He's a self-appointed cop, this is more or less inevitable. He's doing his best, though. |
| 1415 | * {{Determinator}}: He is quite literally the only person who even managed to make an almost dead Lantern Ring spark, and Harry explicitly notes that he's spent the equivalent of a decade and a half feeding his gauntlet and battery with his raw willpower, forcing it to work through sheer stubbornness. And then there's the fact that he's entirely sure that there is no real point to what he's doing, thanks to the [[EldritchLocation fundamental nature]] of [[CrapsaccharineWorld Sakaar]], but he's doing it anyway. |
| 1416 | ** It's also worth noting that only one of these could ever get a Ring to work at all in the first place, he's just taking it to a whole new level. |
| 1417 | * DeterminedDefeatist: He firmly believes that a) [[WretchedHive Sakaar is a hellhole]] and will remain that way no matter what he does, b) Harry and 'Julie' are going to pull something that could bring down the wrath of the Grandmaster and absolutely won't work and he has no way of stopping them, c) he's damned if he's giving up, either on trying to do some good, to help them out, or to just protect the people in his sector. Then, Harry restores his faith in miracles. |
| 1418 | * EarlyBirdCameo: Appeared and was mentioned a couple of times in ''Child of the Storm.'' |
| 1419 | * EmeraldPower: His motif, though it mostly just sputters and glows dimly unless he's really mad until Harry recharges him. Then, you should beware. |
| 1420 | * {{Expy}}: As a tired and cynical cop in an absolutely bonkers, bizarre city, fighting crime and corruption simply because it's the right thing to do, even if his idealism has almost entirely faded, before an idealistic young hero comes along and restores his faith, he bears more than a little resemblance to [[Literature/{{Discworld}} Samuel Vimes]]. |
| 1421 | * GlowingEyesOfDoom: When he gets genuinely angry, his eyes burn emerald green. |
| 1422 | * HeroicSpirit: How he can use his gauntlet, and to a degree that severely impresses both Harry (an example in his own right), and 'Julie' (who has seen all the heroes come and go, and trained a fair few of them). |
| 1423 | * HeroicWillpower: His deeply impresses Harry, who's near enough to a poster boy for the trope in his own right. It's strong enough to make a jury-rigged Lantern gauntlet run on dregs for the equivalent of about fifteen years. |
| 1424 | * HeroOfAnotherStory: The man's had a lot of adventures on Sakaar. |
| 1425 | * IronWoobie: He's spent the equivalent of fifteen years in an insane reality where nothing makes sense, no one ages, no one is born [[spoiler: supposedly]], and the only way out is by dying - also, time doesn't exist unless you walk into a puddle of it - fighting crime and corruption with a cobbled together weapon he barely understands because it's the right thing to do. It attracts Julie's respect and sympathy. |
| 1426 | * KnightInSourArmour: He's amiable enough, he's just exhausted and fairly convinced that it's AllForNothing, wearily saying that he wishes he could believe. [[HopeBringer Harry]] promptly gives him reason to do so. |
| 1427 | * NoodleIncident: What, exactly, happened with him, Clint, Agent Sitwell, and a bungee cord? |
| 1428 | * PhysicalGod: After getting fully charged, Julie estimates that he's in the same weight-class as the Silver Surfer, and when angry he casually exerts planet busting levels of power without even noticing. |
| 1429 | * ReallyGetsAround: Before Sakaar, at least, he was a "skirt chaser extraordinaire." |
| 1430 | * SpacePolice: His self-appointed role, though he's entirely aware that there should be a Lantern Corps. |
| 1431 | * TimeyWimeyBall: Aside from all of Sakaar being this, while he's contemporary with Harry, more or less, he vanished when there was just one Ring and the Battery was buried under Project Pegasus. Despite that, he has five rings, one battery, and implies that there are a hell of a lot more. Which leads to the inevitable questions of where those came from. |
| 1432 | * TookALevelInBadass: Originally, he was 'just' a strong-willed AcePilot considered for the Green Lantern but dismissed thanks to his proclivity for wacky hijinks. Then he became a veteran space cop capable of casually losing a tail with a highly lucrative potential bounty with nothing more than a flying car and staring down [[ComicBook/BlueBeetle a Scarab]] and someone who outclasses him by so much it isn't even funny just to keep the peace and protect the people of his sector, with just a jury-rigged gauntlet. And then, Harry fully recharged his battery and all five rings of his gauntlet. |
| 1433 | * TookALevelInCynic: While we don't see him before he turns up on Sakaar, he's described as having got up to some pretty wacky hijinks and refers to getting involved with the Battle of London as being allowed to "join the party." After a long time on Sakaar, he's a lot more tired and cynical, resigned to disaster at the Grandmaster's whim and inclined to just do his best to mitigate it. Then, Harry restores his faith in miracles. |
| 1434 | |
| 1435 | [[/folder]] |
| 1436 | |
| 1437 | [[folder: The Thing]] |
| 1438 | |
| 1439 | !!Benjamin 'Ben' Grimm a.k.a. the Thing |
| 1440 | |
| 1441 | After exposure to energy implied to be from the Negative Zone during the Battle of London, along with the rest of the proto Fantastic Four, he became the ever lovin' blue-eyed Thing, and ended up as a gladiator in the Contest of Champions on Sakaar. The idol o' billions, he's become reconciled to his rocky form, but he'd much rather be at home. |
| 1442 | ---- |
| 1443 | [[hardline]] |
| 1444 | |
| 1445 | * {{Adorkable}}: After stunning Lobo for Harry to finish off, he actually blushes and says he always wanted to fight alongside [[spoiler: a Jedi - Harry's disguised as Obi-Wan at this point, ItMakesSenseInContext]]. |
| 1446 | * EarlyBirdCameo: He makes a brief appearance in human form, keeping an eye on Johnny at the Battle of London, and then is glimpsed in vision fighting the Silver Surfer on Sakaar in ''Ghosts''. |
| 1447 | * NiceGuy: He's friendly and welcoming to Sunniva from the start and has an excellent relationship with a group of his fellow gladiators. |
| 1448 | * SuperStrength: As per usual, though he keeps a pretty close control on it--Sunniva affectionately notes that he makes an effort not to squash her hand when they shake, though if anything, even without the Phoenix ''[[PhysicalGod she]]'' is the one who should be worrying about squashing ''his'' hand. |
| 1449 | |
| 1450 | [[/folder]] |
| 1451 | |
| 1452 | [[folder: The Future Foundation]] |
| 1453 | |
| 1454 | !!The Future Foundation |
| 1455 | |
| 1456 | Operating out of Kadesh base in Earth-Town on Sakaar, the Future Foundation is a bunch of scientists who are rather more than they seem. It's where the denizens of Sakaar take the Ultimate Problems for the Ultimate Solutions. And they're working on ''the'' Ultimate Problem: getting off Sakaar... |
| 1457 | |
| 1458 | !!Doctor Adam Brashear |
| 1459 | |
| 1460 | A brilliant scientist who vanished in the 1970s after experimenting with knowledge from the Mar-Vell Files, he wound up on Sakaar. Despite spending the equivalent of eighty years there, he has yet to Fade or to lose hope. He is also the one responsible for rigging up Hal Jordan's Green Lantern Gauntlet. |
| 1461 | ---- |
| 1462 | [[hardline]] |
| 1463 | |
| 1464 | * AdaptationalWimp: Possibly. It's unclear how much of his truly ''vast'' canonical power-set he has. He has something like his canon senses, given that he can study people without scientific apparatus, however, and his energy projection abilities are strong enough to make a noticeable difference to backing Sunniva's power-up of the teleportation matrix, while Sunniva herself suggests in passing that he's at least as powerful as canon. |
| 1465 | * BlackAndNerdy: He's black and he's off the charts brilliant, figuring out how to - among other things - figure out a time system for a realm without time, and to jury-rig a working Lantern substitute out of five rings and a battery and Hal Jordan's HeroicWillpower. |
| 1466 | * {{Foil}}: The optimist to Hal's DeterminedDefeatist; their moralities and ideals are similar, but their attitudes are studies in contrast. |
| 1467 | * LongLived: Since he was middle-aged before he ended up on Sakaar, he's at least 130. |
| 1468 | * MyGreatestFailure: Some 'time' ago in Sakaar, he built a series of suits designed to try and explore the dimension and possible ways out, while also attempting to arrest the Fading effect. It WentHorriblyRight, and attracted the interest of the Grandmaster, who tested it on what Adam was informed were willing volunteers, because the juxtaposition of Fading/Not Fading generated significant power. Needless to say, the Grandmaster lied, and while only one - [[spoiler: Mar-Vell]] - was used, he became the Grandmaster's mind-controlled slave and iron fist, the Darkstar. |
| 1469 | * NiceGuy: Very friendly and good-natured. |
| 1470 | * OlderThanTheyLook: Like everyone on Sakaar, he's much older than he appears. Of course, they technically don't age... |
| 1471 | * ThePollyanna: Despite all he's been through, he's not lost any of his sense of hope and optimism, or his scientific curiosity. |
| 1472 | |
| 1473 | !!Doctor Susan Storm |
| 1474 | |
| 1475 | Another brilliant scientist (specifically a Quantum Physicist), an acquaintance of Harry's, and last seen dating Lex Luthor, she worked on Jane Foster's project to force HYDRA out of hiding at the end of ''Child of the Storm'', leading to the Battle of London. Along with Reed Richards, Ben Grimm, and her little brother, Johnny Storm, she was exposed to bizarre radiation, and vanished shortly after. At the start of ''The Phoenix and the Serpent'', she reappears on Sakaar, around fifteen years of relative time later, with superpowers, a husband, and a secret she's trying very hard to keep... |
| 1476 | ---- |
| 1477 | [[hardline]] |
| 1478 | |
| 1479 | * BadassBookworm: She keeps her nerve at the Battle of London, she fought off her father at thirteen when he tried to murder her little brother, and like the rest of the Future Foundation, she's scheming against the Grandmaster to save as many people on Sakaar as possible. |
| 1480 | * BigSisterInstinct: She fought off a grown man, her father, to protect her baby brother as a teenager, and she's very protective of him. |
| 1481 | * TheBusCameBack: Last seen near the end of ''Child of the Storm'', reappears during ''The Phoenix and the Serpent'', published in April 2023, approximately ''seven years later''. Her last shared scene with Harry had been back in chapter 39 of ''Child of the Storm'', in fact, about ''nine'' years earlier. As the author said with some satisfaction, everything, and everyone, comes back eventually. |
| 1482 | * GoodParents: With Reed, and a little help from Adam, she's managed to raise one of the most well-adjusted children imaginable under impossible circumstances. 'Good' barely describes it. |
| 1483 | * MamaBear: Towards her little brother, who she's guardian of. [[spoiler: Also towards her son, the only natural born child on Sakaar]]. She even has a few instincts in this direction towards Harry. |
| 1484 | * MysticalPregnancy: [[spoiler: Her child is literally impossible]]. |
| 1485 | * NiceGirl: She's a warm and kind person, as she demonstrates in all her appearances, and remembers Harry instantly despite not having seen him from - from her point of view - fifteen or so years. When he pops up on Sakaar, her first reaction is delight, to hug him, and then horror as she realises that he's trapped there with them (or so she thinks). |
| 1486 | * OhCrap: When she realises that Harry's presence means that he's trapped too (or so she thinks) and when she realises that Harry [[spoiler:has sensed the presence of her son in his little dimensional hiding spot]]. |
| 1487 | * OlderThanTheyLook: Thanks to her time on Sakaar, she looks in her early to mid 20s, when mentally, she's actually closer to 40. |
| 1488 | |
| 1489 | !!Doctor Reed Richards a.k.a. [[spoiler: Doctor Fate]] |
| 1490 | |
| 1491 | One of ''the'' geniuses, Reed is a legendarily intelligent man with an occasionally absent-minded demeanour that makes him seem distant and uncaring when he is anything but. Largely a background figure in his appearances and the least mentioned of the Fantastic Four, that is changing on his reappearance, partly thanks to his possession of [[spoiler: the Helm of Nabu]]... |
| 1492 | ---- |
| 1493 | [[hardline]] |
| 1494 | |
| 1495 | * AbsentMindedProfessor: A textbook example, with said absent-mindedness disguising how much he cares, something Hal notes via his AuraVision to his surprise. |
| 1496 | * TheAce: One of the smartest people on the planet, and a fair player for one of the smartest in the trans-temporal/universal nightmare that is Sakaar, backed up by [[spoiler: the magical knowledge of a former Sorcerer Supreme]]. |
| 1497 | * AmplifierArtifact: [[spoiler: The Helm of Nabu gives him magical perception, if not full-fledged magical powers]]. |
| 1498 | * BadassBookworm: Like his wife, he held his nerve at the Battle of London, he's plotting against the Grandmaster, he has his canon powers, and [[spoiler: the considerable powers granted by the Helm of Nabu]]. |
| 1499 | * GoodParents: He's often distracted and a bit odd, but he's a caring father. |
| 1500 | * {{Irony}}: While his canon counterpart often has problems accepting something as magic, and his ultimate counterpart even had trouble with the more 'magical' laws of nature of the former's reality, this one has no problem studying magical phenomena [[spoiler: with the Helm of Nabu]]. Of course, given who's tutoring him, that might not be a good thing. |
| 1501 | * MentalFusion: With [[spoiler: Nabu, when wearing the Helm]]. Sue thinks this is a bad idea, and Harry very much agrees, pointing out the kind of influence this sort of personality merge tends to have. |
| 1502 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: More like his Ultimate Counterpart, he's not just a RubberMan, but capable of growing eyes on his fingers to get a better look at something. It is profoundly disturbing. |
| 1503 | |
| 1504 | !!Francis Benjamin Storm-Richards |
| 1505 | |
| 1506 | A WalkingSpoiler of the highest order, he's the son of Sue Storm and Reed Richards, and the first and only natural born child on Sakaar. Thanks to his impossible birth and the fact that, somehow, he ages, he's a subject of great interest from those precious few who know about him... and a secret that is kept very, very close to the chest. |
| 1507 | ---- |
| 1508 | [[hardline]] |
| 1509 | |
| 1510 | * AdaptationNameChange: Sue and Reed's son is canonically named ''Franklin'', but this iteration of him has been called ''Francis'' instead. WordOfGod says that this is because Franklin Storm, his canon namesake, murdered his wife and tried to murder his son - though he's also indicated that this may have been a frame-up. |
| 1511 | * CheerfulChild: He's about six and isn't remotely afraid of Harry, despite likely having stranger danger drilled into him from birth and the latter plucking him out of a pocket dimension. Instead, he's absolutely ''fascinated'' by him. |
| 1512 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: He's blonde, like his mother and uncle, and so far as we can see, he's a total sweetie. |
| 1513 | * OurPhlebotinumChild: He is quite literally impossible. Given that Sakaar's timeless nature prevents little things like ageing, no one - not even [[SeenItAll Sunniva]] - has a clue how the hell he was conceived, much less how he continues to grow at an apparently normal rate (though it's hinted that Julie has a fairly good idea of what he is). |
| 1514 | |
| 1515 | [[/folder]] |
| 1516 | |
| 1517 | [[folder: Johnny Storm]] |
| 1518 | |
| 1519 | !!Jonathan 'Johnny' Storm |
| 1520 | |
| 1521 | Current favourite at the Grandmaster's court, he appears to be a pretty, vapid, and pretty vapid eternal teenager, an influencer style celebrity and sycophant. However, as becomes quickly apparent, appearances deceive - after all, he's lasted this long, hasn't he? |
| 1522 | ---- |
| 1523 | [[hardline]] |
| 1524 | |
| 1525 | * AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: Unlike almost every canon version of him, Johnny's powers are not fire-related, but light related - much like his sister's, in fact. However, the Grandmaster implies that there's still some similarity, stating that he's a "matter-energy shifter", implying he can become living light. This is later confirmed and demonstrated to provide (among other things) SuperSpeed. |
| 1526 | * CompositeCharacter: Of his 616 and Ultimate selves, being a teenager (more like the latter) and having amber eyes. Then, [[spoiler: he gets forcibly composited with the soul of ''Anakin Skywalker'', of all people]]. |
| 1527 | * DistressedDude: He's an eternal teenager forced to effectively be the Court Jester for a capricious and easily bored EldritchAbomination, one that sometimes turns him into an art installation of living light that mixes past and present and makes his souls scream. That's pretty damned distressed. |
| 1528 | * FateWorseThanDeath: He's either required to be constantly amusing for a cosmic scale narcissist and RealityWarper who's known to kill ''billions'' in his tantrums, or he's a living art installation, the fabric of his energy form warped into a sculpture where his very soul is screaming. |
| 1529 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: As Harry very quickly realises, Johnny's very good at giving the Grandmaster what he wants, and extremely quick on the uptake. |
| 1530 | * RoyalFavorite: Subverted. Superficially, this is his dynamic with the Grandmaster, leading Harry to suspect the historical sexual associations - and to make it quite clear that if this ''is'' the case, he'll repeat his trick of making "an Elder God scream". As it is, that isn't the case, but the truth is arguably worse - he's more like a court jester, entertaining the Grandmaster to survive, or spending time as an abstract installation of living art which makes his soul scream. |
| 1531 | * SmarterThanYouLook: Given that he's survived the equivalent of fifteen years in the Grandmaster's immediate proximity, when the Grandmaster is a CosmicEntity with the attention span and impulse control of a toddler, it's pretty safe to say that he's not the brainless youth he pretends to be. |
| 1532 | * SuperSpeed: He can shift into living light, coming with this. Since he's spliced with a MasterSwordsman, [[spoiler: Anakin Skywalker]], when he reveals this, the combination is a fearsome one. |
| 1533 | * TheWatson: He serves as a dark variant of this to the Grandmaster, being the one that the Grandmaster likes to explain things to/talk at in order to hear blind assurance that his ideas are great. |
| 1534 | * TookALevelInBadass: Powers aside, the brief glimpses of him in Book I and the mentions depicted him as a fairly ordinary and impulsive teenager with zero brain to mouth filter. Despite the fact that he's not physically aged (mentally is more complicated), fifteen years on Sakaar in the DeadlyDecadentCourt of the Grandmaster has made him an excellent actor who knows just how far he can push the Grandmaster's amusement, can quickly pick up on a situation and manipulate it at least somewhat in his favour, and endure some pretty horrible fates. He's also implied to be exceptionally powerful. |
| 1535 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: Capable of this to a truly remarkable extent... which is exploited by the Grandmaster, both as an art installation and when he [[spoiler: splices the soul of Anakin Skywalker onto him]]. |
| 1536 | |
| 1537 | [[/folder]] |
| 1538 | |
| 1539 | [[folder: '''SPOILER CHARACTER''']] |
| 1540 | |
| 1541 | !!Anakin Skywalker |
| 1542 | |
| 1543 | No, we really aren't kidding. Immediately post-Mustafar, pre-suit, Anakin's soul was grabbed on a whim by the Grandmaster and pulled into Sakaar and forcibly spliced onto Johnny Storm, whose VoluntaryShapeshifting was abused to turn him into a perfect replica of Anakin's form. Both a deadly Sith Lord, fresh from his first atrocities, and a scared, manipulated boy in far over his head, it's extremely unclear where his path is going to go next. |
| 1544 | ---- |
| 1545 | [[hardline]] |
| 1546 | |
| 1547 | * AdaptationalBadass: Possibly because thanks to a little EpiphanyTherapy from Harry he can go full Mortis mode more or less at will, at least on Sakaar, he can at least briefly reach the galaxy shaking height of his powers and take on the Grandmaster's main avatar directly. |
| 1548 | * AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: By proxy of Harry's shapeshifting into and imitation of Obi-Wan, and being knocked out of his Fall, it's demonstrated a few times that he really does still love his old Master. |
| 1549 | * BerserkButton: In Sith mode, being mocked, because he desperately wants/needs to be taken seriously. Which Harry does, relentlessly. |
| 1550 | * CooldownHug: On the receiving end from Harry. It helps that SuperStrength makes it very hard for Anakin to squirm out of his grip. |
| 1551 | * ColorCodedEyes: Bloodshot gold equals Sith. Blue equals confused Jedi. |
| 1552 | * DualWielding: Takes up Curtana when Harry is temporarily down and out alongside his own lightsabre. |
| 1553 | * EpiphanyTherapy: Receives some of this from Harry, who passes on some of the lessons he's learned about handling emotions, helping Anakin at least temporarily overcome his demons and tap into his full potential. |
| 1554 | * EyeColorChange: His eyes change as Harry's CooldownHug takes effect. |
| 1555 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Under the darkness, he is fundamentally a good person, and spliced with Johnny Storm, another example. |
| 1556 | * HeroicRematch: A villainous variant, with the Grandmaster doing over the Duel on Mustafar ForTheLulz. This gives Harry the opportunity to break the cycle of violence. |
| 1557 | * MasterSwordsman: As per canon. However, Harry can match him blow for blow once he gets past the shock, and is controlling the fight, and even when the two of them are working in perfect psychic synchrony against Midnight, the best they can do is destroy one of their lightsabres - and the Lady Knight explicitly says that Midnight is toying with them. |
| 1558 | * MeditationPowerUp: Repeats his Mortis feat, tapping into his full potential after a bit of EpiphanyTherapy and a reminder from Harry, with the resultant power-levels sticking for a little while and giving him the ability to challenge - and actually ''atomise'' - the main avatar of the Grandmaster. |
| 1559 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Notices that 'Obi-Wan' is behaving oddly even through his wild rage and is worried about it. |
| 1560 | * PhysicalGod: Borders on this at his height, taking on the Grandmaster, shrugging off an exploding star like a match, and being compared to the Silver Surfer and a fully charged Hal Jordan. |
| 1561 | * PowerGlows: When he really revs up, he starts shimmering with blue light. |
| 1562 | * PsychicPowers: Derived from the Force, which in turn is implied to be related to/analogous to the Power Cosmic - which in turn is implied to be where the Fantastic Four's powers come from. |
| 1563 | * RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: He's wearing black and his lightsabre is, courtesy of the Grandmaster, suddenly red. Harry, in a fashion typical of both him and Obi-Wan, points this out and mocks the aesthetic - and states that red ''really'' isn't Anakin's colour. After the CooldownHug, he tweaks the lightsabre back to blue. |
| 1564 | * SpottingTheThread: Even out of his mind on the Dark Side, he can spot the inconsistencies in his situation and in 'Obi-Wan'. |
| 1565 | * TragicVillain: This aspect is emphasised in Harry's compassion for him. |
| 1566 | * UnexpectedCharacter: Literally ''no one'' expected him to turn up, least of all him. It helps that after Nathan, he's the first character explicitly from another universe - and one outside the 'local' multiverse, at that. |
| 1567 | * VoiceOfTheLegion: In Mortis mode, albeit a little less dramatically than last time, snarking at the Grandmaster. |
| 1568 | * WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Harry immediately pegs him as this, and recognises the parallels, ending up giving him a CooldownHug. |
| 1569 | |
| 1570 | [[/folder]] |
| 1571 |
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