| 1 | This is the character page for ''ComicBook/{{Crossed}}'' and all its spin-offs, specials, and limited series. Beware of possible spoilers in later arcs! |
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| 3 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 4 | |
| 5 | ! Recurring characters |
| 6 | |
| 7 | [[folder:Smokey]] |
| 8 | |
| 9 | -> Appearances: ''Crossed: Badlands'' - arc ''Quisling''[[note]]Issues 29-32[[/note]], issues 93-100\ |
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| 11 | One of the few named Crossed in the series, Smokey has far greater intellect than the rest of his brethren, making him a "super-Crossed". Attempting to build a Crossed society under his rule, his efforts are documented through multiple story arcs, making him a "protagonist" of sorts and the single most recurring character in the ''Crossed'' universe. \ |
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| 15 | * AxCrazy: Subverted. Smokey just has ''enough'' restraint to delay gratification, which makes him even scarier to the humans he targets. |
| 16 | * BlessedWithSuck: His intelligence. He is one of the smartest Crossed of his time, and one of the few with the ability to fully understand that they are a DyingRace. Unfortunately, this also means he's likely the only one who ''cares'' about this, while his fellows are content to murder each other in blissful ignorance. And while he is intelligent, he's not intelligent enough to actually do anything about it himself, leaving him dependent on human quislings who despise him. The whole mess means that he ends up being one of the only Crossed we see [[IntelligenceEqualsIsolation who can actually be genuinely miserable.]] |
| 17 | * BlueAndOrangeMorality: Smokey is just as sadistically driven as the rest of the Crossed are, but he is smart enough to understand the importance of self-care, to delay gratification so he can drag out the suffering of his victims, and ultimately, try to fight back against the self-destructive nature of the Crossed by establishing an enduring society. |
| 18 | * BreakoutCharacter: Originally just the antagonist of the ''Quisling'' storyline, Smokey became popular enough to come back for the final 8 issues of ''Badlands'' as a VillainProtagonist. |
| 19 | * CharacterDevelopment: A unique case, even more impressive regarding his nature as a Crossed. He starts out as crueler and more sadistic than all of the other Crossed, then becomes obsessed with the idea of establishing a Crossed society, until time erodes his confidence enough to make him far more jaded/cynical, to the point he doesn't enjoy torturing humans anymore... while still remaining a murder machine all the way through. |
| 20 | * CruelMercy: He shows this to his first two quislings Oliver and Cody. He keeps them from being kills or brutalized by his horde of infected, but also seeks to purposely humiliate them and forces them to take actions that undermine their morality for the sake of his own amusement. [[spoiler: However, this is averted for his final quisling whom he actually tries to protect from extreme suffering.]] |
| 21 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: Gets one in each of the arcs he appears in. |
| 22 | ** In his first appearance in ''Quisling'', he's shown to be smart enough to deduct that a fallen convoy has victims to torture inside, and even more impressive, the ability to delay gratification so he can maximize his fun regardless of how much mental anguish he inflicts on his prisoners. |
| 23 | ** When he is introduced in the final ''Badlands'' arc, he quickly finds a periscope, communicates with humans hiding underground and then clogs all three air vents which lead to the bunker, including the one that would be normally impossible to destroy with a thrown rock. This shows that Smokey is not stupid like the rest of his horde and, just like above, can be extremely patient when waiting for the victims to emerge. |
| 24 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler: Finds himself unable to kill his own child - which, for the Crossed, is an outright rarity - and after enough time, he comes to regard one of his human assistants as his single best friend.]] |
| 25 | * FatalFlaw: [[AmbitionIsEvil His ambitions]], which also serves as a Deconstruction. His unrelenting desire to have the Crossed thrive as a functioning society ends up collapsing, as he wishes to expand and settle down despite the other Crossed being uanble or unwilling to act in a way that allows long-term survival. This ambition to break his kind free of their nature leads to [[spoiler: his wives and child attempting to murder him so they can simply engage in their desired hedonism regardless of how self-destructive it is.]] |
| 26 | * HulkSpeak: He's not as eloquent as some of the other super-Crossed in the series, [[spoiler: which earns him derisive comments from the twins once he meets them]]. |
| 27 | * MadeOfIron: Manages to endure a ''lot'' of stuff thrown at him, including a pistol exploding right in his face. [[spoiler:He also survives being gunned down and then thrown into the river by his wives in the final issue of ''Badlands'', even though one bullet is explicitly shown to hit him right in the head]]. |
| 28 | * MercyKill: [[spoiler: In issue 100, he gives his human assistant a quick and painless death to prevent other Crossed from torturing him]]. |
| 29 | * TheQuietOne: Unlike most Crossed who spend their time uttering profanities and nonsense, Smokey saves his words. He only talks when it's practical (such as demonstrating his authority to his Crossed underlings, or to strike up deals with humans), or when it's guaranteed to emotionally hurt a victim the most. |
| 30 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: Is depicted a couple of times with his eyes bloodshot. |
| 31 | * ScaryBlackMan: He's of a noticeably darker shade than the rest of the cast and is one of the tallest Crossed to date. |
| 32 | * VillainProtagonist: Of the last two arcs where he's present, with his attempts to rebuild some sort of Crossed society finally paying off. |
| 33 | |
| 34 | [[/folder]] |
| 35 | |
| 36 | [[folder:Harold Lorre]] |
| 37 | |
| 38 | -> Appearances: ''Crossed: Psychopath'' / ''Crossed: Badlands'' - arcs ''Yellow Belly''[[note]]Issues 10-13[[/note]], ''Breakdown''[[note]]Issues 33-36 [[spoiler: as an illusion only]][[/note]] \ |
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| 40 | The titular psychopath of the ''Crossed: Psychopath'' storyline, Harold Lorre is one of the nastiest characters in the ''Crossed'' setting. A cowardly, depraved, and manipulative maniac, Harold nonetheless thrives in the ''Crossed'' universe, because in this sort of setting, being like this is what is necessary to remain alive. \ |
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| 42 | ----- |
| 43 | * AxCrazy: Harold is this to the ''fullest.'' |
| 44 | * TheCameo: Appears for two issues in the Badland ''Yellow Belly'' arc to give some evil advice to Edmund on C-Day. |
| 45 | * CrazyJealousGuy: Gets absolutely obsessed over any women he becomes attracted to. And when they inevitably aren't as enthusiastic, he gets violent. |
| 46 | * DepravedBisexual: [[spoiler: Rapes, tortures and kills both Claire and Rick.]] |
| 47 | * EvilCripple: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] as Harold injured his left leg falling into a large crevice causing him to require crutches to reliably move around. |
| 48 | * HateSink: Lorre has absolutely no redeeming qualities. He's a self-serving coward that [[spoiler: tortures, rapes and kills the people that rescued him. Even his self-professed love for Lori was just a fabricated delusion.]] |
| 49 | * KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Ultimately never gets punished onscreen aside from a telling-off from Amanda, bitten off lips (which he manages to sew back on anyway) and failing to get another woman under his thumb.]] However, considering the world he's in, it's unlikely he'll live long. |
| 50 | * ILoveTheDead: Harold [[spoiler: coerces Edmund into having sex with Nicole's body with him and wraps Claire's severed lips around his genitals.]] |
| 51 | * InformedAttribute: Early on he mentions that surviving in the ''Crossed'' universe requires you to do two things; learning to listen to even the smallest sound, and staying quiet. You wouldn't know the second one from how much he likes to loudly monologue all over ''Psychopath''. |
| 52 | * {{Jawbreaker}}: [[spoiler:Breaks Rick's jaw by pistol-whipping him so that it would be easier to rape him afterwards.]] |
| 53 | * LeanAndMean: Harold is one of the most horrific non-Crossed characters in the entire series and is incredibly thin and scrawny. |
| 54 | * MadonnaWhoreComplex: An extreme example, as he swings back and forth between liking women for their kindness and hating them for having sexuality that doesn't involve ''him''. |
| 55 | * MurderTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler:Kills both Darwin and Rick because of their feelings for Amanda, and in the case of the latter, outright having sex with her.]] |
| 56 | * PsychologicalProjection: Harold has a tendency to justify his actions by accusing them of the exact sorts of things he's done. Chiefly among them, he deludes himself that Rick is a rapist for having sex with Amanda and "defiling" her "purity". [[{{Hypocrite}} This, mind you, was after he'd raped Claire and even taunted her about it]]. |
| 57 | * QuestionableConsent: His previous "girlfriend" Lori was a customer and acquaintance who happened to end up in his company after C-Day. After the two had officially teamed up, he revealed just how intense his feelings were towards her, and she decided she'd let him have sex with her, but clearly only because she thought he'd help her survive, remaining completely still during the act and crying a little after. In the ''Yellow Belly'' arc, having caught a glimpse of Lori in Harold's van, Edmund remarks to himself that she looked "dead," giving a strong hint as to the nature of Harold's "relationship" with her. |
| 58 | * TheSociopath: A consummate liar, that lacks empathy towards the people that rescued him from a ditch, and has a grandiose sense of importance regarding [[spoiler: his "girlfriend" Lori and Amanda, thinking Amanda is "pure" and hence immune to the Crossed virus.]] |
| 59 | * StartOfDarkness: When given the chance, he coerced his crush Lori into having sex with him. Then he left their hideout briefly and when he found her again, the bloodskin Crossed had found her first. |
| 60 | * TeenyWeenie: After turning crossed, Lori lets rip into Harold and tells him he has a pencil dick. [[RapeAsDrama She would be in a position to know]] and whether this is true or if Crossed!Lori just wanted to hurt him, Harold didn't deny it. |
| 61 | * TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: Owned a party supplies store before C-Day and had even been married with three kids, although he was divorced at the time and didn't have custody. |
| 62 | * UngratefulBastard: [[spoiler: The group decides to help Harold and take him with them, but he decides to kill them anyway. Even he admits he starts to have second thoughts of killing them due to their trust although that doesn't stop him.]] |
| 63 | * VillainProtagonist: Of the ''Psychopath'' series. The story is about him worming his way in a group of survivors, [[spoiler: then killing them off one-by-one until only Amanda remains]]. |
| 64 | |
| 65 | [[/folder]] |
| 66 | |
| 67 | [[folder:Amanda]] |
| 68 | |
| 69 | -> Appearances: ''Crossed: Psychopath'' / ''Crossed: Badlands'' - arcs ''The Livers''[[note]]Issues 21-24[[/note]], ''Breakdown''[[note]]Issues 33-36[[/note]] \ |
| 70 | |
| 71 | The deuteragonist of ''Psychopath''. Amanda is a kind, cute med student that wants to make the world better and tries to hold the group to a higher moral standard. Unfortunately for her, the ''Crossed'' world is anything but fair... \ |
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| 74 | |
| 75 | * AnArmAndALeg: Ends up cutting one of her hands off breaking out of Harold's restraints, but manages to bandage it and recover. |
| 76 | * BreakingSpeech: Gives one to Harold at the end of the ''Psychopath'' series, telling him that no girl he's liked has ever liked him back, because he's fucking crazy. |
| 77 | * BreakTheCutie: She's the one that convinces her group to save Harold Lorre... for all the fat lot of good it did to them.[[spoiler: Not only does everyone except Amanda end up dead, but she also loses a hand and, eventually, her sanity. All thanks to Lorre.]] |
| 78 | * DownerEnding: After everything she's gone through, [[spoiler: she gets paranoid, guilty, and unhappy enough that she ends up hallucinating Harold, killing all her peers, and sealing herself back in her crawlspace out of guilt, presumably starving to death.]] |
| 79 | * MadonnaWhoreComplex: A victim of Harold's. While he thinks of her as "pure", she has sexual relations with Rick and others, and tells him she "has plenty of ugly in her". [[AnAesop Harold is a fool to think that all that makes you pure is your sexuality.]] |
| 80 | * NoFullNameGiven: We only know her by her first name, "Amanda". |
| 81 | * SanitySlippage: Starts going crazy during the ''Breakdown'' arc after all the losses she's endured. |
| 82 | * WideEyedIdealist: Starts out thinking that compassion and love are what separates the Crossed from the living, and refusing to compromise on that belief. [[spoiler: Until Lorre eventually breaks her.]] |
| 83 | |
| 84 | [[/folder]] |
| 85 | |
| 86 | [[folder:Harry]] |
| 87 | -> Appearances: ''Crossed: Badlands'' - arcs ''The Fatal Englishman''[[note]]Issues 25-28[[/note]], ''The Thin Red Line''[[note]]Issues 50-56[[/note]] \ |
| 88 | |
| 89 | An English soldier who used to be part of the Prime Minister's security detail. After C-Day, he and his fellow bodyguards develop a plan to rid the British Isles of the Crossed for good. |
| 90 | |
| 91 | * AbusiveParents: Not ''him'', but his inner monologue implies that his own father was an abusive alcoholic. |
| 92 | * AllForNothing: Arguably much of his work in ''The Thin Red Line.'' While he helps make sure that nuclear armageddon is averted, his efforts to protect Gordon Brown ultimately fail and Britain falls to the Crossed soon after. It also does not appear his plan to have himself, Paddy, Jock and Taff save their loved ones before meeting up again panned out by the time of ''The Fatal Englishman.'' |
| 93 | * BlueBlood: Claims to be descended from old Norman nobility who arrived in England with [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfNormandy William the Conqueror.]] Whether this is true or not, he's definitely a posho. |
| 94 | * BruiserWithASoftCenter: Has a soft spot for kids and explicitly says the only reason he isn't acting furiously towards Father Dennis for his idiocy is due to not wanting to scare the children he's with. |
| 95 | * CulturedWarrior: Harry is quite philosophical and also a stellar soldier and Crossed-killer. |
| 96 | * DeathGlare: Sends one towards Alistair when he urges the execution of the infected John Duff and his team in a callous manner. |
| 97 | * ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: Not outright stated but its' heavily implied that Harry and his squad used to be in the SAS. |
| 98 | * FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler: Leaves Porton Down to face the Crossed alone with a stiff upper lip.]] |
| 99 | * TheGunslinger: Par for the course as he's an Special Forces soldier, but he's noted to be the best of his squad with a pistol in particular. [[spoiler: Which comes in handy when he needs to gun down his own men quickly before they can react.]] |
| 100 | * TheLeader: Of the team of soldiers consisting of himself, Paddy, Jock and Taff. |
| 101 | * HeroicLineage: Given the nature of the British Empire, "Heroic" might be putting it loosely but Harry claims that his family dates back to the Norman Conquest and that he has a direct ancestor who has fought in nearly every major British war since. |
| 102 | * MercyKill: [[spoiler: Inflicts this on Paddy, Jock and Taff after they decide not to unleash the bioweapons in Porton Down on the Crossed rather than see them killed or infected in a LastStand against the Crossed, and on his wife and kids in a flashback]]. |
| 103 | * MetaphoricallyTrue: Tells Father Dennis when he questions his plan to unleash bioweapons on the Crossed that he has encountered multiple groups with working radios and biohazard equipment. [[spoiler: In the final discussion with the rest of his team at Porton Down, it's revealed he meant there were two of the former and that evacuating is less likely to save them then he implied.]] |
| 104 | * OddNameOut: He is the only member of his squad who doesn't go by a nickname that reflects a slang term for someone from that part of Britain. |
| 105 | * OneSteveLimit: Averted, he's not even the only British soldier named Harry to show up in Badlands (the other one being the possible Prince Harry from ''Of the World and Its Becoming''.) |
| 106 | * PatrioticFervour: Of the MyCountryRightOrWrong variety. He has an encyclopaedic knowledge of British military history and displays nostalgia for the former British Empire, even identifying his own mission with past British conflicts. However, he holds no illusions as to the empire's brutal, self-serving nature and acknowledges its worst along with its best. |
| 107 | * StiffUpperLip: English to the core and proud of it, with this attitude to match. He remains unflappable for pretty much his entire time onscreen with only two notable exceptions; [[spoiler: his family's deaths]] and [[spoiler: his decision to preform a mercy kill on his own men rather then let them die at the hands of the Crossed]] |
| 108 | * UncertainDoom: [[spoiler: Is last seen facing a horde of Crossed alone outside of Porton Down, but is never shown being killed or infected. It's likely that's his ultimate fate though.]] |
| 109 | [[/folder]] |
| 110 | |
| 111 | ! Survivors |
| 112 | |
| 113 | [[folder:''Crossed'': ''The Original Series'']] |
| 114 | |
| 115 | !! Stan |
| 116 | [[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/stan_4.jpg]] |
| 117 | |
| 118 | The main protagonist and narrator of the original series. |
| 119 | ---- |
| 120 | * AmbiguousSituation: At the very beginning of the series, Stan mentions that before C-Day he got stranded in rural Kansas after running out of cash and got stuck with a bar tending job. His narration implies he was wandering around or running from something. Whatever it was quickly became irrelevant when C-Day hit. |
| 121 | %% * TheAntiNihilist: Ultimately comes around to this perspective. |
| 122 | * ActionSurvivor: Not especially badass or skilled at the start, but manages to survive the outbreak fairly well and gains additional skills along the way. |
| 123 | * PetTheDog: Literal example, he finds a dog that managed to survive the outbreak and takes it in despite suspecting it will be a liability. |
| 124 | * PragmaticHero: He's not one to take chances or risk his life for sentiment. At one point he explicitly says it was a good thing the Crossed brutalized an ex-Marine formerly in his group so rapidly so he didn't get a chance to reveal he was hiding 20 feet away. |
| 125 | * TrueCompanions: Eventually, with Cindy. |
| 126 | |
| 127 | !! Cindy |
| 128 | The de facto leader of the core group of survivors. |
| 129 | ---- |
| 130 | * AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler: She only ever says she 'got rid' of Patrick's abusive father. Whether that means she killed him or simply left him and hid is never shared.]] |
| 131 | * ActionMom: Very dedicated mom, very much a badass. |
| 132 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler: She was subject to DomesticAbuse by Patrick's father and had to move around a lot with Patrick after dealing with the problem.]] |
| 133 | * TheLeader: Leads the original group, and came up with the plan to trek to Alaska, where there are fewer people and the elements will kill most Crossed quickly. |
| 134 | * MamaBear: ''Very'' committed to protecting her son Patrick. |
| 135 | * ProfanityPolice: At least when Patrick is in earshot and awake. When he's out of earshot, asleep or [[spoiler: dead]], she's more tolerant. |
| 136 | |
| 137 | !! Thomas |
| 138 | A member of Cindy and Stan's group. He is a gay man who was planning on leaving town before the Crossed hit. |
| 139 | ---- |
| 140 | * HeroicSuicide: [[spoiler: Kills himself and Kelly in the moments before he turns so neither he nor any Crossed stragglers can do anything to her.]] |
| 141 | * PlatonicLifePartners: With Kelly, he acts as her eyes. |
| 142 | * TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: Kills Horsecock by tearing out his throat with his teeth, taking out the Crossed warlord at the cost of guaranteeing his own infection.]] |
| 143 | * VitriolicBestBuds: With Stan. They often engage in exchanges of saying 'fuck you' to each other in a way clearly meant to be banter. |
| 144 | |
| 145 | !! Kelly |
| 146 | A woman in Cindy and Stan's group, who had the misfortune of being blinded on C-Day. |
| 147 | ---- |
| 148 | * BlindedByTheLight: Permanent instance, as Kelly was rendered blind by directly witnessing [[ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics Wolf Creek undergo a meltdown]]. |
| 149 | * HandicappedBadass: Unfortunately averted, she explicitly notes she gained no heightened senses from being blinded or anything like that. |
| 150 | * NiceGirl: Generally very nice and wants to see the best in others. She even originally [[spoiler: doubts Geoff's confession is serious.]] |
| 151 | * TheLoad: Sympathetic example. She tries to contribute to the group but given her blindness she inevitably struggles to contribute. |
| 152 | * PlatonicLifePartners: With Thomas who helps her navigate around while being unable to see but has no romantic feelings for her, as he is attracted to men. |
| 153 | |
| 154 | !! Kitrick |
| 155 | A member of Cindy and Stan's group who has in many ways already given up. |
| 156 | ---- |
| 157 | * AscendedExtra: Originally gets very little dialogue or characterization, but gets more backstory and character shared [[spoiler:just in time [[ADeathInTheLimelight to be killed off.]]]] |
| 158 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: On C-Day, Kitrick watched the Crossed kill his wife and children on the beach while he was out in the water. This is a key reason why he's now a... |
| 159 | * DeathSeeker: Doesn't have much of a motive to keep on surviving. Cindy explicitly states that he might die in the Rockies because he is not eager enough to live. [[spoiler: At the end he attempts to save Thomas and Kelly at the cost of his own life precisely due to this.]] |
| 160 | * HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Tries to do one of these by serving as bait for Horsecock's horde of Crossed while hoping Thomas and Kelly can escape. Unfortunately, it doesn't work.]] |
| 161 | |
| 162 | !! Brett |
| 163 | A survivalist who joins Cindy and Stan's group later in the arc. |
| 164 | ---- |
| 165 | * AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Is shot and killed by Stan after he kicks the dog (literally) one too many times. By this point he's already shown how big a prick he is by mocking Patrick's death and regularly bullying other members of the group.]] |
| 166 | * CrazySurvivalist: Implied to be why he's made it this long and why he had such a big stockpile of supplies. |
| 167 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: While the survivor group isn't exactly all 'friends' per se, Brett is definitely the most hated member of the group as he has so few redeeming qualities. |
| 168 | * {{Jerkass}}: Almost everything he says is done to antagonize the group in some capacity. |
| 169 | * KickTheDog: Literally. He kicks Stan's dog for getting too close to him. [[spoiler:It's this action that finally pushes Stan to shoot him]]. |
| 170 | |
| 171 | !! Patrick |
| 172 | Cindy's son. |
| 173 | ---- |
| 174 | |
| 175 | * AndThenJohnWasAZombie: [[spoiler: Horsecock's group of Crossed manage to infect Patrick, turning him into one of the Crossed.]] |
| 176 | * CheerfulChild: Generally remains upbeat despite the situation. |
| 177 | * ChildrenAreInnocent: Cindy takes steps to ensure this is the case and Patrick is genuinely a kind boy-for instance he gives up some of his own food for Arwen when she is starving. [[spoiler: This unfortunately stops when he is infected.]] |
| 178 | * ImprobableInfantSurvival: Patrick outlives a lot of adult characters, [[spoiler: but [[AvertedTrope not all of them]].]] |
| 179 | |
| 180 | !! Geoff |
| 181 | An older man who is part of Cindy and Stan's group. Pre-apocalypse, he was an outsider and loner. |
| 182 | ---- |
| 183 | |
| 184 | * DueToTheDead: Buries some bones outside one of the houses the group stays in. Unfortunately, this helps makes the Crossed aware of their presence. |
| 185 | * HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Depending on how you view his post-C-Day actions and statements, he may have turned over a new leaf after C-Day. Of course, given [[SerialKiller his crimes]] it's hard to trust him, and indeed the group quickly disposes of him the second they learn about his true past]]. |
| 186 | * HorrifyingTheHorror: [[spoiler: On C-Day, he picks up one of the Crossed and when he tries to torture and kill it the Crossed in question encourages him, which freaks him out enough he bails on the plan.]] |
| 187 | * MistakenForGay: Thomas originally thinks Geoff is going to come out as gay when he talks about being lonely and isolated pre-outbreak. [[spoiler: He actually was confessing to being a serial killer.]] |
| 188 | * NiceGuy: Comes off as this for the most part, being very polite and soft-spoken, attempting to provide the desecrated corpses of the Crossed's victims a proper burial and advocating for the group to take Ms. Cooke's kids with them rather than leave them or kill them. [[spoiler: This all rings somewhat hollow when it's revealed what he did pre-C-Day.]] |
| 189 | * RedemptionRejection: He seens to have made a very real effort to turn over a new leaf. Unfortunately for him, he doesn't live long after the truth comes out. |
| 190 | * SerialKiller: [[spoiler:This was who he was before C-Day]]. |
| 191 | * UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:After he confesses to who he really was before C-Day, Kitrick takes him on a walk to cool down. Only Kitrick comes back.]] |
| 192 | |
| 193 | !! Sheena |
| 194 | A woman who joins Cindy and Stan's group. |
| 195 | * BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler: Willingly falls off the edge of a collapsed bridge rather than let herself get caught by Horsecock's horde.]] |
| 196 | * SoleSurvivor: Of her original group, mostly firefighters and cops who made the [[TooDumbToLive fatal mistake]] of trying to ''interrogate'' a Crossed into revealing what they wanted. |
| 197 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler: Is killed in issue 4 without getting much characterization or backstory.]] |
| 198 | |
| 199 | !! Randall |
| 200 | A lone survivor who meets Cindy and Stan's group and travels with them briefly. |
| 201 | ---- |
| 202 | |
| 203 | * MrExposition: Serves to describe the state of New York City and Texas as well as the state of the Canadian border, while also giving Stan a chance to muse on other things heard from survivors. |
| 204 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: It was his plan to go to Alaska and the journey there [[spoiler: kills all but two of the group]]. That said, it may still have been the right idea. |
| 205 | * ZombieInfectee: [[spoiler: Is shot with a semen-laced bullet so the infection sneaks up on him slower than it usually does.]] |
| 206 | |
| 207 | !! Scott |
| 208 | A paramedic who is the main medical provider to Cindy and Stan's group. |
| 209 | ---- |
| 210 | |
| 211 | * KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler: By Randall right after he turns.]] |
| 212 | * SoleSurvivingScientist: The group's only medic. [[spoiler: Him dying is a huge blow to the group.]] |
| 213 | |
| 214 | !! Joel |
| 215 | A family man who along with his wife and daughter join Cindy and Stan's group. He and Stan do not get along very well. |
| 216 | ---- |
| 217 | |
| 218 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: He is simultaneoulsy raped and disemboweled by the Crossed. To make matters worse, he's forced to watch them rape Amy and dismember Arwen.]] |
| 219 | * EstablishingSeriesMoment: The [[spoiler:death of his family]] show what this comic's about - there is no SupernaturalRepellent, getting caught will 100% result in a FateWorseThanDeath, and trying to be TheSmartGuy gets you killed. |
| 220 | * InstantlyProvenWrong: His belief the Crossed are fatally allergic to salt does not survive more than one issue. [[spoiler: Neither does he.]] |
| 221 | * PetTheDog: After getting into a heated argument with the rest of the group, he shows tenderness to Amy and Arwen, showing that while he's a bit of a dick he does care about his family. |
| 222 | * TooDumbToLive: Ignores both Stan and his wife about the ineffectiveness of salt. [[spoiler:He, his wife, and his daughter all get one of the most gruesome deaths in the comic.]] |
| 223 | * WrongGenreSavvy: Is called out for this by his groupmates. He believes the Crossed outbreak has a solution (like [[WeaksauceWeakness a fatal allergy to salt]]) that will enable survivors to retake the planet. [[spoiler:He is proven wrong in the worst way possible.]] |
| 224 | |
| 225 | !! Amy |
| 226 | Joel's patient wife. |
| 227 | ---- |
| 228 | |
| 229 | * AffectionateNickname: Refers to Joel as 'sweetie' a lot of the time. [[spoiler: She notably isn't nearly so affectionate when the Crossed get ahold of them and Arwen due to Joel's stupidity.]] |
| 230 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: After spraining her ankle and failing to get Joel to leave her and take Arwen, she is raped, hit with a blunt object in the head and has to watch the Crossed inflict similar torments on her husband and daughter.]] |
| 231 | * HeroicSacrifice: Attempts to pull this to save Arwen and Joel, telling her husband to take their daughter and leave her for the Crossed after she sprains her ankle. Unfortunately, Joel doesn't listen. |
| 232 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Amy is generally patient with her husband and tries to be understanding. [[spoiler: Needless to say, the whole family getting caught and brutalized by the Crossed is enough to make this run out, her last words are a vicious curse towards Joel for his stupidity.]] |
| 233 | * WomenAreWiser: is more level-headed than her husband. |
| 234 | |
| 235 | !! Arwen |
| 236 | Amy and Joel's daughter. |
| 237 | ---- |
| 238 | |
| 239 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: Is dismembered by the Crossed in front of her parents. However, at least she isn't raped.]] |
| 240 | * DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler: She is killed horrifyingly in the story.]] |
| 241 | * MeaningfulName: Is named after a character from Franchise/LordOfTheRings. This is less meaningful for her but shows that Joel is an avid fantasy fan and thus is likely to seek a magic bullet solution for the Crossed. |
| 242 | |
| 243 | |
| 244 | !! Officer Thomas |
| 245 | A police officer who is the first to bring much of the group together. |
| 246 | ---- |
| 247 | |
| 248 | * BerserkButton: The Crossed prisoner he has in the back taunting him about what his wife is suffering at the hands of the Crossed really enrages him. |
| 249 | * ByTheBookCop: At least to start, Officer Thomas refuses to execute a Crossed prisoner. He does ultimately begin threatening him to divulge what he wants. This is what ultimately does him in. |
| 250 | * CassandraTruth: His claims that his Crossed prisoner knew things about his wife he shouldn't know is disputed by Cindy, who claims the Crossed prisoner he has just made some inferrences. However, '''The Thin Red Line''' makes his claims more plausible when Patient Zero turns out to genuinely know things he was not present for. |
| 251 | * DecoyProtagonist: Admittedly it's clear he won't last long given he only appears in flashbacks and not the present, but from the chronological start seems like he will lead the group. He doesn't even last halfway through the flashbacks. |
| 252 | * PosthumousCharacter: For most of the comic. He is killed in the first days of the outbreak after getting infected and most of the arc takes place months after his death. |
| 253 | * SlasherSmile: Quicky gets one after succumbing to the C-Virus. |
| 254 | * TooDumbToLive: Even while getting right in the face of a Crossed even when handcuffed ''really'' isn't the brightest idea, he really should have killed the prisoner straight away instead of keeping it. |
| 255 | * ZombieInfectee: Gets spat on by his Crossed prisoner and turns quickly. |
| 256 | |
| 257 | !! Ann Cooke |
| 258 | A kindergarten teacher who resorts to drastic measures to protect and care for her students. |
| 259 | ---- |
| 260 | |
| 261 | * AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:As vile as her means of survival may have been, her death and the deaths of her students is portrayed in a tragic light, especially when those students are shown crying and begging Stan and Cindy not to kill her.]] |
| 262 | * AllForNothing: [[spoiler: The lengths she went to to protect and provide for her class end up being this, as despite her pleas to Cindy's group to look after them Stan and Cindy ultimately kill all of her students.]] |
| 263 | * AntiVillain: All she really wants is to protect her students, even if it means eating other survivors. |
| 264 | * BadassTeacher: While we don't see much of it, she manages to protect a group of kindergarteners from the Crossed and other survivors, even hunting down the latter for food. She manages to take out one member of Cindy's group by surprise. |
| 265 | * ChildrenAreInnocent: Invokes this trope when discussing what she did after being fatally injured, arguing her kids should not be punished as they didn't fully grasp what they were doing. |
| 266 | * HeroOfAnotherStory: Ms. Cooke manages to save several elementary schoolers from the Crossed and keep them safe on C-Day and in the early days of the outbreak. This is never shown however, and by the time she appears in the volume she has [[FaceHeelTurn been driven to hunting other survivors for food]]. |
| 267 | * NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: Resorts to killing and cannibalizing other survivors to sustain her kindergarteners and herself. [[IDidWhatIHadToDo She's not proud of it, but defends it as necessary]]. |
| 268 | * SadisticChoice: Ends up forcing this on Cindy's group when she is fatally wounded. The group has to consider whether to stretch their supplies thin to take her students with them, leave them where they are without any adults where they'll either become easy prey for the Crossed or continue targeting survivors for food or kill them. [[spoiler: Cindy ultimately does the last option]]. |
| 269 | * VillainOfAnotherStory: Cindy's group is not the first one she targeted to provide food for her students and likely many others were killed by them before she was taken down. |
| 270 | |
| 271 | !! Captain Michael Juneaux |
| 272 | A member of the US military given a significant mission in the aftermath of C-Day. |
| 273 | ---- |
| 274 | |
| 275 | * ApocalypticLog: His journal entry qualifies as this. |
| 276 | * ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: Was the leader of a US Army ODA team tasked with shutting down key nuclear facilities during the early weeks of the outbreak. Justified given the nature of the operation and downplayed judging by his narration that his job was never that glamourous even before the Crossed. |
| 277 | * FaceDeathWithDignity: He accepts his fate after his helicopter crashes, even forcing his compatriots to leave him there. Probably helps that his death was from the elements rather than the barbarity of the Crossed and knowing his wife and son most likely are dead as well. |
| 278 | * HeroOfAnotherStory: His work to ensure most American nuclear plants are shut down so they don't undergo meltdowns is mostly done offscreen with only brief snippets between missions being shown. |
| 279 | * IDidWhatIHadToDo: Explains his role in his unit massacring the nuclear physicists and technicians after they had shut down their share of the nuclear power plants in this manner; [[HeKnowsTooMuch they could not take the risk of them causing nuclear meltdowns, either coerced or willingly as Crossed]]. Even so, it's clear that this act distressed him along with everything else that happened and may have contributed to his decision to FaceDeathWithDignity. |
| 280 | * MrExposition: His journal explains why there weren't a large number of nuclear accidents and also gives insight into the fall of the US military and government. |
| 281 | * PosthumousCharacter: By the time Stan reads his diary, he's been dead for a while. |
| 282 | |
| 283 | [[/folder]] |
| 284 | |
| 285 | [[folder:''Crossed: Family Values'']] |
| 286 | |
| 287 | [[/folder]] |
| 288 | |
| 289 | [[folder:''Crossed: Psychopath'']] |
| 290 | |
| 291 | [[/folder]] |
| 292 | |
| 293 | [[folder:''Crossed: Badlands'']] |
| 294 | |
| 295 | !''Of the World in Its Becomings'' |
| 296 | |
| 297 | !!Ian Cowley |
| 298 | The protagonist and narrator of Badlands' first arc. Formerly a bookshop employee. |
| 299 | |
| 300 | * BolivianArmyEnding: [[spoiler: Is last seen holding a hand grenade, telling himself to pull the pin after being splashed with Crossed blood and surrounded by the infected.]] |
| 301 | * DeathByIrony: [[spoiler: Ends up infected the same way his girlfriend did - by being splashed with the Crossed blood.]] |
| 302 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Couple of examples. |
| 303 | ** He cheats on Penny a lot pre-outbreak but when C-Day hits tries to escape with her and mourns her quite a bit. |
| 304 | ** He argues with his group that it would be best to abandon Anya when she's giving birth as it makes them vulnerable to the Crossed. When he is outvoted, he nonetheless sticks around through her birth. |
| 305 | * TheLostLenore: Penny is this for him, though he did notably cheat on her repeatedly. |
| 306 | * ScrewThisImOutOfHere: Pulls this with his first group when the squabbling gets too much. |
| 307 | |
| 308 | !!John |
| 309 | A former oil rig worker who became Ian's right hand man. |
| 310 | |
| 311 | * CoolOldGuy: He is the oldest member of Ian's group. |
| 312 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Despite advocating for Anya and her baby to be left behind in the second issue, he feels ashamed of it in the next one, coldly telling Ian that he had not forgotten what he did.]] |
| 313 | |
| 314 | !!Rob |
| 315 | Alec's best friend who happens to share most of the latter's comic relief traits. |
| 316 | * ThoseTwoGuys: Along with Alec. |
| 317 | |
| 318 | !!Alec |
| 319 | A somewhat clownish, but entertaining member of the group. |
| 320 | |
| 321 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Is introduced as a clown and jokester, but ultimately is the one who ensures the group survives their encounter with the Crossed in the first issue by tricking the leader of a trio of Crossed into turning on the other two and then having Ian off the sole survivor by drowning it, thus avoiding drawing in more of the horde with gunshots. |
| 322 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: Is introduced attempting to get the chance to fish using a gun or a hand grenade, despite the obvious risks that poses. |
| 323 | * ThoseTwoGuys: With Rob. |
| 324 | |
| 325 | !!Mark |
| 326 | Anya's brother and main defender in Ian's group. |
| 327 | |
| 328 | * BerserkButton: Doing anything to harm his sister. He is incensed when Ian suggests abandoning her [[spoiler: and when the Crossed uncover her body and take it with them.]] |
| 329 | * BigBrotherInstinct: Has this for his sister. |
| 330 | * GrossUpCloseUp: [[spoiler:Is openly shown being raped and infected by a Crossed woman, complete with a closeup on his face, giving a subtle hint about what happened to the rest of Ian's companions.]] |
| 331 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: If he hadn't [[spoiler: reacted so extremely to the Crossed taking Anya's corpse]], then the Crossed wouldn't have necessarily been able to find him and Ian and they might've [[spoiler: recovered Harry's gun successfully]]. |
| 332 | * RevengeBeforeReason: [[spoiler: On seeing the Crossed have taken Anya's corpse, he immediately flies into a rage and begins shouting at them and firing his shotgun (wasting one shot on Ian out of spite), despite it confirming to the Crossed where he and Ian are and bringing the horde down on him when he doesn't have enough ammo.]] |
| 333 | * TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:While seeing your own sister's corpse dug out and carried by the Crossed is indeed a tragic and gruesome sight, showing yourself in the open with a shotgun with just two shells (one of which he wastes on shooting Ian) is ''never'' a good idea. Sure enough, he gets infected immediately afterwards.]] |
| 334 | |
| 335 | !!Ricky |
| 336 | A former paramedic who has become the closest thing Ian's group has to a doctor. |
| 337 | |
| 338 | * CombatMedic: Used to be a medic before the C-Day and is good with a shotgun. |
| 339 | * HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:After falling down due to the snow giving way below, he stands and fight the Crossed with his shotgun to give time for Ian and Mark to get away. It does not work, and he is seen to have caught up to Ian with the rest of his former comrades once he got infected.]] |
| 340 | * WhatTheHellHero: He openly call Ian out on his idea to [[spoiler: ditch the pregnant Anya and her brother.]] |
| 341 | |
| 342 | !!Harry |
| 343 | A heavily scarred and bandaged man who is also a crack shot with a rifle, Harry is a major asset to his group. Additionally may also be a member of the Royal Family. |
| 344 | |
| 345 | * AmbiguousSituation: The group is not sure whether he actually is Prince Harry, as though he does resemble him his face is heavily scarred. [[spoiler: Neither the audience nor the group figure it out before his death.]] |
| 346 | * BandagedFace: His scarred face is covered with bandages, adding further complexity to his true identity. |
| 347 | * CelebritySurvivor: Assuming he's telling the truth about being Prince Harry, he qualifies as this. |
| 348 | * FriendlySniper: Is a good shot with his assault rifle. |
| 349 | * {{Fingore}}: [[spoiler: Gets a finger bitten off while being bisected.]] |
| 350 | * HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler: How he is killed by the Crossed.]] |
| 351 | * HistoricalDomainCharacter: Possibly. |
| 352 | |
| 353 | !!Anya |
| 354 | A pregnant woman accompanying the group despite her condition. |
| 355 | |
| 356 | * BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Ian accused the rest of the group of subscribing to this. [[spoiler: It's averted when both Anya and her baby die during the process of childbirth.]] |
| 357 | * DueToTheDead: Is buried by her brother Mark. [[spoiler: The Crossed unfortunately dig her up.]] |
| 358 | |
| 359 | !!Pat |
| 360 | A member of the group viewed as useless by Ian. |
| 361 | |
| 362 | * AintTooProudToBeg: When the group decides to leave him behind as bait for the Crossed after stealing a biscuit. |
| 363 | * TheLoad: Ian calls him useless, and the comic shows that he has a point doing so. |
| 364 | * TearOffYourFace: His ultimate fate at the hands of the Crossed. |
| 365 | |
| 366 | !!Penny |
| 367 | Ian's girlfriend who died at the start of the Crossed pandemic. |
| 368 | |
| 369 | * CarFu: Ends up run over by a car after being infected. |
| 370 | * PosthumousCharacter: Appears alive only in flashbacks and is long dead by the time of the main plot. |
| 371 | * TheLostLenore: Becomes one for Ian after she dies. |
| 372 | * ZombieInfectee: Gets infected with a Crossed baby being torn apart right in front of her. |
| 373 | |
| 374 | !''Homo Superior'' |
| 375 | |
| 376 | !! Gregory Matthew Costello |
| 377 | |
| 378 | !! Steve |
| 379 | |
| 380 | !! Ashley |
| 381 | |
| 382 | !! Ashlynn |
| 383 | |
| 384 | !! Leon Long |
| 385 | |
| 386 | !! Clint |
| 387 | |
| 388 | !''Yellow Belly'' |
| 389 | |
| 390 | !!Edmund Wickenthorpe |
| 391 | The titular "Yellow Belly", a high school student who graduated shortly before C-Day. |
| 392 | |
| 393 | * CassandraTruth: His claims about circus [[NotUsingTheZWord "geeks"]] get rebuked by his hometown until it's too late. |
| 394 | * DirtyCoward: His constant habit is to run away at any sight of danger and abandon others. Though given the circumstances behind most of these moments, it can be justified. |
| 395 | * ForcedToWatch: Is secluded by his dad and forced to watch as his dad is raped, turns, and then pulls his brother out of hiding to rape him ... before mercifully passing out. |
| 396 | * ILoveTheDead: [[spoiler:Edmund gets coerced by Harold Lorre into having sex with a woman he just shot by accident. This leads to a chain of events which end with Edmund himself dead.]] |
| 397 | * NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: [[spoiler:At the end of his arc, Edmund finally braves up and saves Donna... only to get his face caved in with a rock by her when the night comes.]] |
| 398 | * ShaggyDogStory: The whole story is about him trying hard to overcome his reputation as the yellow belly, [[spoiler: only for him to do some unforgivable things in the course of doing so and getting killed in vengeance.]] |
| 399 | |
| 400 | !!Joanne Wickenthorpe |
| 401 | Edmund's mother. |
| 402 | |
| 403 | * MamaBear: Upon Edmund finally spilling the beans at what happened to his father and Eli, she finally consoles him and tells that he did the right thing by escaping to tell the story. [[spoiler:When the Crossed invade the house seconds later, she makes sure Edmund gets to safety... at the cost of her life.]] |
| 404 | * HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Spends her final moments sending Edmund upstairs and staying behind to face the Crossed freaks. This does not end well for her.]] |
| 405 | |
| 406 | !!Eli Wickenthorpe |
| 407 | Edmund's younger brother. |
| 408 | |
| 409 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Both he and his father end up impaled with a javelin after turning Crossed. |
| 410 | * SacrificialLamb: Gets killed fairly early on along with his father at the carnival. |
| 411 | |
| 412 | !!Edmund's father |
| 413 | Edmund's father who accompanies him and Eli to the carnival. |
| 414 | |
| 415 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Despite being described as a "meek" guy, he puts his children in barrels the second the C-Day hits and charges at the Crossed clown with a wooden plank, successfully knocking him down. Too bad he did not see two more clowns lunging at him from behind. |
| 416 | * ExtremeDoormat: Never stood up to anyone, not even his own wife. Until C-Day, that is. |
| 417 | * FailedASpotCheck: When he tries to kill a Crossed clown, he fails to notice more coming from behind until it's too late. |
| 418 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Both he and Eli end up impaled with a javelin after turning Crossed. |
| 419 | * NoNameGiven: Is the only member of the Wickenthorpe family to not have his first name mentioned. |
| 420 | * PapaWolf: He manages to hide Edmund and Eli in barrels before trying to confront a Crossed on his own. This ends poorly. |
| 421 | |
| 422 | !!Sweeney |
| 423 | |
| 424 | The redneck who had been bullying Edmund through most of high school. Described as a "big asshole." |
| 425 | * BloodKnight: Joins Hank and his fellow classmates out of sheer desire to strike out at the Crossed for killing his father and causing a mayhem at his neighborhood. [[spoiler:Even when most of his companions at the gun store are dead, he still decides to fight the Crossed and tries to force Edmund into doing the same thing. It doesn't end well for him.]] |
| 426 | * BlownAcrossTheRoom: [[spoiler:Edmund ends up blasting him with a shotgun basically at point blank.]] |
| 427 | |
| 428 | !!Mac |
| 429 | One of Edmund's classmates, a redneck. Described as a "medium asshole." |
| 430 | |
| 431 | !!Stevie |
| 432 | One of Edmund's classmates, a redneck. Described as a "small asshole." |
| 433 | |
| 434 | !!Hank Smith |
| 435 | A member of the school Football team, the coach's son. |
| 436 | |
| 437 | * GenreBlind: His idea to hole up in the gun and fishing store is shortsighted and eventually leads to [[spoiler: most of his friends dying to the Crossed, including Hank himself.]] |
| 438 | * JerkJock: Was quite a jerk to Edmund during their school years, though he mellows down a bit during the Crossed outbreak. |
| 439 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In the gun shop, he apologizes to Edmund and admits he was right about the circus Crossed coming to the town, in spite of bullying him much earlier. |
| 440 | |
| 441 | !!Jim Morgan |
| 442 | A member of the school Football team. |
| 443 | |
| 444 | !!Bobby [=McCann=] |
| 445 | A member of the school Footbal team, son of the town sheriff. |
| 446 | |
| 447 | !!Joe Rigg |
| 448 | |
| 449 | A member of the school Football team, described as "tough as nails." |
| 450 | * MonsterClown: [[spoiler:Gets put in a carnival attire sometime off-panel after being infected during the gun shop siege]]. |
| 451 | * BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:How Edmund kills him. With a shotgun, to boot.]] |
| 452 | |
| 453 | !!Katie Wiener |
| 454 | * ClassPrincess: Is popular enough with her peers people don't make fun of her unfortunate last name-to her face anyway. |
| 455 | |
| 456 | !!Shawna Prentis |
| 457 | |
| 458 | !!Betty Ford |
| 459 | |
| 460 | !!"Tricky" Ricky |
| 461 | The biker gang leader. |
| 462 | |
| 463 | * BaldOfAuthority: He is bald, yet very good at leading and fighting back. |
| 464 | * BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:When the Crossed cops ambush the biker group, he is shot in several spots of his body, including his head.]] |
| 465 | * CoolShades: Wears those in most of his panel time. |
| 466 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Manages to organize other biker gangs in Lakeside in no time at all and manages to keep his cool through most of the comic. |
| 467 | |
| 468 | !!Jock |
| 469 | |
| 470 | !!Nuggets |
| 471 | |
| 472 | !!Nicole |
| 473 | |
| 474 | !!Nico |
| 475 | |
| 476 | !!Donna |
| 477 | |
| 478 | * SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:Implied to be the only surviving member of the whole biker army of Lakeside by the end of the comic.]] |
| 479 | |
| 480 | !!Sheriff [=McCann=] |
| 481 | |
| 482 | !!Boris |
| 483 | The ringleader of the circus that Edmund and his family visit. |
| 484 | |
| 485 | !!Barry |
| 486 | |
| 487 | * NiceGuy: He is polite to Henry when the latter starts complaining about having to deal with a rattlesnake. Similarly, when a Crossed man shows up at the changing room, he calmly tries to tell him to leave, in contrast to Henry shouting at him in a fit of rage. |
| 488 | |
| 489 | !!Henry |
| 490 | |
| 491 | * TheAlcoholic: Gets served "all the free booze" he wants after the performance, also implied to having been homeless prior to joining the circus. |
| 492 | |
| 493 | !''Quisling'' |
| 494 | |
| 495 | !! Oliver Dauphinais |
| 496 | The protagonist and narrator of the arc, who also is the titular character. |
| 497 | |
| 498 | * AintTooProudToBeg: When he is caught by the Crossed, he does this to Smokey, whom he has noticed has more intelligence and restraint than the rest. Oliver's pleading that he can lead Smokey to other survivors is received by the Super-Crossed, as his subsequent promise he can continue to find uninfected humans to torture, kill and rape when his original group is wiped out. |
| 499 | * ApocalypticLog: His journal seems like it's this. However, he lives long enough to see it get its first other reader ([[spoiler: Smokey]]) and he decides to destroy it. |
| 500 | * AwesomenessByAnalysis: His main asset to the group he begins the arc with is that his observation of the Crossed helped enable them to sneak around the hordes (see PretendWereDead below). |
| 501 | * BadassTeacher: Averted. While he was an anthropology teacher before the outbreak, his survival mainly rests on guile, stealth and, ultimately, betraying other humans. |
| 502 | * TheChewToy: The arc is '''not''' kind to him. He is in constant danger of being killed by the Crossed and, in order to stave off this fate, Smokey regularly makes sure he is humiliated. |
| 503 | * DealWithTheDevil: Agrees to help Smokey find uninfected humans to attack and brutalize to save his own skin. |
| 504 | * DirtyCoward: Is this and is very self-aware about it. He is not happy with this aspect of himself and [[spoiler: ultimately sacrifices his life to prevent Smokey gaining access to nuclear secrets]]. |
| 505 | * PretendWereDead: Discovered how to pull this with the Crossed (namely, by drawing the rash on one's face in blood). It's enabled the group he's in to sneak by the Crossed unharmed as of the story's start. |
| 506 | * RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: Deliberately infects himself knowing it will likely lead to his death in order to prevent Smokey from finding all the secrets of Cheyenne Mountain.]] |
| 507 | * TheQuisling: There's a reason the arc is titled this. |
| 508 | * SympathyForTheDevil: Oliver has a moment of this for a white supremacist militia he leads Smokey to, largely owing to their CruelAndUnusualDeath at the hands of Smokey's horde. |
| 509 | * TreacherousAdvisor: On at least two occassions, Oliver tries to get Smokey killed by leading him to targets he thinks will be too powerful for his horde-the first time a group of National Guardsmen and the second time the US government's continuity-of-government base at Cheyenne Mountain. Both attempts fail, though the second time does see Oliver succeed at his secondary objective of making sure Smokey can't get ahold of America's nuclear secrets. |
| 510 | |
| 511 | !''Five Bloody Fingers'' |
| 512 | |
| 513 | !! Satoshi |
| 514 | The main protagonist and narrator of the arc. |
| 515 | |
| 516 | * {{Acrofatic}}: His weight doesn't seem to slow him down too much during the outbreak. |
| 517 | * GeekPhysiques: On the chubbier side. |
| 518 | * HeroOfAnotherStory: He is a minor character in '''Gore Angels''' and gets his own story told here. |
| 519 | * TookALevelInBadass: Despite being a nerd and artist more comfortable in front of a computer and having no prior combat experience, he proves capable of taking on the Crossed. |
| 520 | |
| 521 | !! Hazuki |
| 522 | Hazuki is Boss Yamada's daughter and only child. Naturally, he wants her to carry on his legacy despite her preferring to be with her friends. |
| 523 | |
| 524 | * ActionGirl: Fights the Crossed using her cosplay weapons. |
| 525 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler: After becoming infected, she refuses to attack her friends who she considers her true family. She instead encourages them to become Crossed and join her in fighting the other Crossed outside.]] |
| 526 | * MafiaPrincess: The daughter of a yakuza ''oyabun''. |
| 527 | * SpoiledSweet: Despite being the daughter of a ruthless mafia boss, Hazuki cares deeply about her friends and uses her comparative wealth to look out for them. [[spoiler: She doesn't even lose this trait after being infected, though she does try to contemplate having sex with Usama before being subdued by force.]] |
| 528 | * ZombieInfectee: [[spoiler: Gets infected while fighting the Crossed]]. |
| 529 | |
| 530 | !! Koki |
| 531 | A strong, well-built young man who works for Yamada. |
| 532 | |
| 533 | * BloodOath: Is the one to suggest it to his friends. |
| 534 | * BodyguardBetrayal: Inflicts this on Boss Yamada when he goes along with Satoshi's plan to abandon Yamada to save Hazuki. |
| 535 | * {{Fingore}}: To make up for his betrayal of Yamada, he is forced to let his finger be cut off. |
| 536 | * TheHeavy: Is the physically strongest member of the Five Bloody Fingers and a criminal enforcer after reaching adulthood. Notably in a flashback before the outbreak, it is Koki who drives off the creepy guys at the cafe by stabbing their leader. |
| 537 | |
| 538 | |
| 539 | !! Miku |
| 540 | A goth girl who is a member of the Five Bloody Fingers. She also sometimes goes on compensated dates with men and robs them. |
| 541 | |
| 542 | * ActionGirl: Takes on the Crossed with her cosplay weapons. |
| 543 | * CompensatedDating: Did this as her profession pre-outbreak. She sometimes would rob her clients. |
| 544 | * {{Goth}}: Physically looks to be this trope. |
| 545 | |
| 546 | |
| 547 | !! Taro |
| 548 | A member of the Five Bloody Fingers who is an avid gamer. |
| 549 | |
| 550 | * ButtMonkey: He is taken the least seriously of the group. |
| 551 | * GeekPhysiques: Small and scrawny edition. |
| 552 | * PluckyComicRelief: Has the most humorous moments of the group. |
| 553 | |
| 554 | !! Boss Yamada |
| 555 | A yakuza ''oyabun'' and Hazuki's father. |
| 556 | |
| 557 | * AbusiveParents: To Hazuki. |
| 558 | * TheBeastmaster: To Usama [[spoiler: until the end.]] |
| 559 | * CrazySurvivalist: Not crazy per se but does have a survival bunker ready. |
| 560 | * DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: His ultimate fate.]] |
| 561 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Risks his life and those of his men to save his daughter. |
| 562 | * TheStoic: Remains unflappable [[spoiler: until Hazuki, after turning, calls him out for his abuse.]] |
| 563 | |
| 564 | !! Usama |
| 565 | Yamada's pet lion. |
| 566 | |
| 567 | * AndroclesLion: [[spoiler: Shows more loyalty to Hazuki, who showed him kindness, than to Yamada, who abused the animal]]. |
| 568 | * CurbStompBattle: Inflicts these on the Crossed owing to his immunity to the virus. |
| 569 | * UndyingLoyalty: To Yamada, not attacking unless he orders it. [[spoiler: Until Hazuki overrules him.]] |
| 570 | * TeamPet: [[spoiler: For the Crossed Five Bloody Fingers]]. |
| 571 | |
| 572 | |
| 573 | !''Shrink'' |
| 574 | !! Jack |
| 575 | A therapist living in a remote rural town. He's Clancy's older brother. |
| 576 | |
| 577 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: In the final issue of the arc, it's revealed Clancy's obnoxious {{Jerkass}} tendencies were largely a result of Jack molesting him when they were children. When Jack's girlfriend finds out about it, he throws her outside to the Crossed.]] Even before that, he was showing signs of not being as benevolent as he wants to seem, lusting over the woman he's sheltering in his home and abandoning his neighbor to the Crossed when they show up. |
| 578 | * CainAndAbel: The Abel to Clancy's Cain, both in the past and present. Originally it's due to being a level-headed kindhearted person while Clancy is an obnoxious asshole, later though it's because he's human and Clancy is one of the Crossed. [[spoiler: Turned on its head with the revelation Clancy was only so fucked up because Jack molested him.]] |
| 579 | * CaughtWithYourPantsDown: Has apparently been caught masturbating at least three separate times in his life; once by his mother, once in Summer Camp by a camp counselor and once by his aunt...while he was masturbating over a picture of ''her''. |
| 580 | * FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:Or rather, face infection with dignity. After throwing Tiffany out to certain death, he takes the boards off Clancy's room and resignedly agrees to have sex with him.]] |
| 581 | |
| 582 | !! Clancy |
| 583 | Jack's brother, a screwed-up, dysfunctional mess of a person who decides to deliberately infect himself with the Crossed virus in the hopes Jack can figure out something to help deal with them. |
| 584 | |
| 585 | * TheAtoner: Seems to have infected himself in the hopes of contributing something to humanity after a life of being a useless asshole. |
| 586 | * CainAndAbel: The Cain to Jack's Abel, both before and after becoming Crossed. [[spoiler:At least until what Jack did to him is revealed]]. |
| 587 | * FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:He's an asshole because Jack had been molesting him in private.]] |
| 588 | * SirSwearsALot: Always was this and becoming Crossed only makes his vocabulary worse. |
| 589 | |
| 590 | [[/folder]] |
| 591 | |
| 592 | [[folder:''Crossed: +100'']] |
| 593 | |
| 594 | !! Archivist Future Taylor |
| 595 | An archivist traveling the east coast with a group of friends. |
| 596 | |
| 597 | * ApocalypticLog: It's part of her job to record the comings and goings of the daily life of the future. Sometimes it's more of a coping mechanism to help with dealing with the horrors the Crossed bring. |
| 598 | * InterspeciesAdoption: Sort of. She ends up taking in a Crossed baby girl and raised her as her own. |
| 599 | * LittleHeroBigWar: ''ComicBook/{{Crossed}} + 100'' follows the Salt Clan launching strikes against human enclaves, which work to defend themselves and then regain ground, but most of this story is told through the [=POV=] of Future, a historian and librarian who focuses on learning about the origins and methods of her enemies more than facing them on the battlefield, and is frequently poised to make better tactical decisions than her leaders. |
| 600 | * TheProtagonist: The main character of 100+ |
| 601 | * StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: Like everyone else in the future, she speaks in a strange dialect to the point where even abbreviations and cuss words are a part of normal vocabulary. |
| 602 | |
| 603 | !! Now |
| 604 | The aforementioned Crossed baby. |
| 605 | |
| 606 | * OrcRaisedByElves: [[spoiler:Surprisingly, Future and her husband's experiment actually seems to work–being from the more high-functioning breed of Crossed, Now does genuinely love her parents and has no interest in infecting them. For all intents and purposes, she's a normal little girl.]] |
| 607 | |
| 608 | [[/folder]] |
| 609 | |
| 610 | [[folder: ''Crossed +100: Mimic'']] |
| 611 | |
| 612 | !!Archivist Julie |
| 613 | |
| 614 | An archivist for Fort Casper when Fleshcook's betrayal occurs on the 100th anniversary of C-Day. She becomes his main liaison with the humans there. |
| 615 | |
| 616 | * RapeAndRevenge: The soldier Fleshcook assigns her to kill is the one who raped her repeatedly, so she finds it easy to do. |
| 617 | * SympathyForTheDevil: She ultimately allies with Fleshcook, as Fort Casper has become a place where the soldier class demean and even habitually rape the support class, and she has reason to think it'll only stay the same or get worse if they retake Casper. |
| 618 | -->'''Julie:''' Crossed sex you a day, a month, a week. Soldiers sex your whole life. |
| 619 | |
| 620 | !! Fleshcook/Thomas Preiss |
| 621 | |
| 622 | The Crossed infiltrator of Fort Casper, who disguised his rash with lion claw scars and now commands the Crossed that have taken over it. Unlike every other Crossed we see, he pursues a strategy of peaceful alliance with select humans. |
| 623 | |
| 624 | * CantHaveSexEver: The Crossed removed his genitals before he was sent in as a sleeper agent, to make sure he couldn't or wouldn't even be tempted to break his cover by having sex (his fluids would expose him as a Crossed). The same applies to his relationship with Julie, as any sort of unshielded intimacy would result in her turning Crossed, which is something that he doesn't want for her. |
| 625 | * EnemyMine: His long-term theory is that humanity and the Crossed will always have a third party of either group to unite against, as long as they're willing to try. |
| 626 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Sincerely loved his mentors Happy and Bashful, though he doesn’t understand it as such at first. |
| 627 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: Downplayed. Being born Crossed, concepts such as love and mercy are alien to him, but Julie teaches him these concepts, and he seems to understand them just fine. |
| 628 | * IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: He gives the support staff of Fort Casper a test - you can stay alive and unharmed with your kids, but you have to kill a captured human soldier right now. Anyone who doesn't gets taken to [[ImAHumanitarian the pens]]. |
| 629 | * PragmaticVillainy: Like Salt, he knows the Crossed race can't survive even another century as is, and is desperately trying to create human-Crossed alliances that can last long-term, and has concluded the best way to do that is to sincerely not hurt or terrorize the people he wants to charm, something no Crossed has ever done. |
| 630 | |
| 631 | !! Ballsack |
| 632 | |
| 633 | The other leader of the Crossed. She's less patient than Fleshcook and wants to move to other settlements as soon as possible. |
| 634 | |
| 635 | * MasterRace: Believes that while Crossed can co-exist with humans, humans will only ever be worthy of being their slaves. |
| 636 | |
| 637 | !! Commander in Chief Nathan |
| 638 | |
| 639 | The current leader of Fort Casper after the invasion, who left with other officers down a secret escape route and is planning to take it back. |
| 640 | |
| 641 | * HeroAntagonist: Is a violent thug, but ultimately [[WellIntentionedExtremist is the one fighting to reclaim a human home from the Crossed]]. In most every other story, he'd be the protagonist. |
| 642 | |
| 643 | [[/folder]] |
| 644 | |
| 645 | [[folder:''Crossed: Wish You Were Here'']] |
| 646 | |
| 647 | !Cava |
| 648 | |
| 649 | !!Shaky |
| 650 | |
| 651 | An aspiring writer who managed to escape London during the C-Day and now resides on Cava Island with fellow survivors. |
| 652 | |
| 653 | * CowardlyLion: Despite being quite cowardly during tense situations, he manages to get over it from time to time. |
| 654 | * DoomMagnet: Often brings trouble down not just on himself, but on other people as well from time to time. [[spoiler:The final screw-up is what finally convinces Rab to leave him behind as a liability]]. |
| 655 | * IgnoranceIsBliss: Does not really bother thinking about certain things and trying to find out the truth behind them. His own mantra seems to put it straight. [[spoiler:He finally drops it by the end of the story after realising just how much it screwed everything up]]. |
| 656 | ->''Mysteries, mysteries, mysteries, ignore, ignore, ignore.'' |
| 657 | * ManipulativeBastard: Often manipulates other people to achieve his goals, even if they more often than not are well-intentioned. It all comes back to bite him in one form or another. |
| 658 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: We never find out his real name. |
| 659 | * TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:He and Aoileann both choose to drown themselves after having sex on the island]]. |
| 660 | |
| 661 | !!Theresa (a.k.a. Aoileann) |
| 662 | |
| 663 | !!Rab Harcus |
| 664 | |
| 665 | !!Skip |
| 666 | |
| 667 | !!Selene |
| 668 | * CowardlyLion: She's prone to fear and bumbling, at least in the first half, but is a competent member of the rifle firing line that gets deployed against the Crossed and takes several risks for the group, [[spoiler:ending in a HeroicSacrifice with a claymore mine]]. |
| 669 | * ForcedToWatch: She has to watch the Crossed butcher the people at the fort on the mainland while she's kept alive, and it does a number on her. |
| 670 | * TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:How she ultimately goes out, as a part of Rab's plan.]] |
| 671 | |
| 672 | !!Jamie |
| 673 | |
| 674 | !!Andrew Frazer Jackson |
| 675 | |
| 676 | A former SBS soldier who found himself a nice place in the post C-Day UK. |
| 677 | |
| 678 | * AteHisGun: [[spoiler:His ultimate fate.]] |
| 679 | * CloudCuckooLander: Not really the sanest person in Cava, to say the least. Nonetheless, he is surprisingly good at surviving alone without problems. [[spoiler:Even his last words do not have much sense, doesn't stop them from being memorable.]] |
| 680 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Might be abrasive to certain people (most notably, Shaky), but ultimately is a good-hearted man who even leads the Driftfleet towards Cava as an act of kindness. |
| 681 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:While killing Don was done with good intentions, Jackson did not count on the Driftfleet baby slipping down on the ship floor from his hands, leading to said baby dying and ruining the relationship between the Driftfleet and Cava residents for good.]] |
| 682 | * ViolentGlaswegian: Was born in Scotland and is very efficient at killing both humans and Crossed alike. |
| 683 | |
| 684 | !!Elisa |
| 685 | |
| 686 | !!Don |
| 687 | |
| 688 | !!Maria |
| 689 | |
| 690 | !!Des |
| 691 | |
| 692 | !!Jon |
| 693 | |
| 694 | !!Viceroy |
| 695 | |
| 696 | !!"The Boy" |
| 697 | |
| 698 | The mute young teenager who made it to Cava alongside several others. |
| 699 | |
| 700 | * NoNameGiven: We never find out what his name was before (and after) he is turned. |
| 701 | * SilentAntagonist: Upon becoming infected, he does not emit a single sound even when trying to kill Rab. |
| 702 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: In spite of not being significant enough to the plot per se, Shaky does give his infected self enough of use in order to win himself a spot in the sortie mission. |
| 703 | |
| 704 | !!Tabitha |
| 705 | |
| 706 | !!Vincent |
| 707 | |
| 708 | A 18-year old youth who is described by Shaky as a "daydreamer". |
| 709 | |
| 710 | * BoomHeadshot: After getting infected, he is put down this way by Shaky. |
| 711 | * HopeSpot: Gets one after he falls over the boat for the first time. He manages to puke the infected water out of his esophagus and avoids becoming infected. Too bad two gunshots fired straight from Cava alert a whole group of other Crossed maniacs which easily outrun Vincent and turn him. |
| 712 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: Gets introduced and killed in the very first issue. |
| 713 | |
| 714 | !!Roshan Masoud |
| 715 | |
| 716 | !!Mr. Masoud |
| 717 | |
| 718 | !!Aminah Masoud |
| 719 | |
| 720 | !!Mr. Masoud's son |
| 721 | |
| 722 | !Jasper's Group |
| 723 | |
| 724 | !!Jasper |
| 725 | |
| 726 | !!Miranda |
| 727 | |
| 728 | !!Richie |
| 729 | |
| 730 | !!Mark |
| 731 | |
| 732 | !!Dolores |
| 733 | |
| 734 | !!Barry |
| 735 | |
| 736 | !Shaky's Flashback |
| 737 | |
| 738 | !!Moses White |
| 739 | A former Perth church vicar who had been living with children shortly after the C-Day hit. |
| 740 | * DragonWithAnAgenda: [[spoiler:Had been conspiring against Aoileann for quite a while before finally supplanting her as the final villain of ''Wish You Were Here'']]. |
| 741 | * FromNobodyToNightmare: Goes from an ordinary vicar to one of Aoileann's most ruthless lieutenants and even [[spoiler:gets to backstab her]]. |
| 742 | * ScaryBlackMan: He is dark-skinned and incredibly savage. |
| 743 | * SinisterMinister: Used to be a vicar at the church and keeps his religious habits even after becoming Crossed. |
| 744 | * TheStarscream: [[spoiler:Overthrows Aoileann shortly before the final confrontation when she shows her affection for Shaky over the radio.]] |
| 745 | |
| 746 | !!Mr. Tooley/The Gamekeeper |
| 747 | A bald old man who had been working for the Thackerys before the C-Day. |
| 748 | * AmputationStopsSpread: [[spoiler:Had his foot slashed off by Aoileann when the infected Moses bit him. Later on, he is forced to amputate his hand after Moses attacks him once again.]] |
| 749 | * BaldOfAuthority: Becomes the group's leader in Shaky's flashback. Also doubles as BaldOfEvil considering how tyrannical he is. |
| 750 | * EvilIsPetty: Having been working for Lloyd and Agnes Thackery, he started to despise them, and when C-Day comes, what does he do? Humiliate Lloyd and rape Agnes at every single opportunity. Especially bad since the Thackerys were shown to be nice and humble, thus making the Gamekeeper's grudge anything ''but'' a deserved payback. |
| 751 | * EvilOldFolks: He is old, gruff, unpleasant and spiteful. Shaky himself speculates that he is at least a millenium older than he truly is, judging by his soulless eyes. |
| 752 | * EyeScream: [[spoiler:Got his right eye pecked out by a bird after Shaky left him behind]]. |
| 753 | * HandicappedBadass: [[spoiler:Manages to knock out the infected Moses with a single punch to the face, despite being blind in one eye and missing a leg. ''Then'' he is immediately forced to amputate his hand after it gets splashed with infected blood.]] |
| 754 | * HateSink: Is presented with little if any redeeming qualities, just a power-drunk psychopath with a certain degree in pettiness. |
| 755 | * IgnoredEpiphany: He becomes shaken and withdrawn after Agnes kills herself and Aoileann stands up to him and spends the next couple of months behaving himself and helping or avoiding the others, but his guilt and fear gradually go away, and he returns to his raping, murdering, bullying ways. |
| 756 | * IndispensableScoundrel: A horrific deconstruction - the Gamekeeper knows that other members of his crew won't last long without him and thus has them tolerate all the horrific deeds he does. |
| 757 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Refers to Ashoke as "Paki" while treating him not much better than the rest of his group and also [[spoiler:uses racial slurs regarding Moses while telling his story to Shaky in the final volume]]. |
| 758 | * PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler:Subverted. While we are initially led to believe that Shaky killed him in one of the flashbacks, the Gamekeeper still turns up alive by the end of Volume 3]]. |
| 759 | * RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Had been subjecting Agnes to one just to spite her husband Lloyd. [[spoiler:After Agnes hangs herself, he forces himself on Aoileann later on and finally gets shot in the back for his troubles. It does not kill him though.]] |
| 760 | * SinkOrSwimMentor: His first appearance has him toss a loaded gun to Shaky while an infected girl is about to attack him. Only when Shaky proves to be able to kill her, does the Gamekeeper allow him to be a part of his crew. |
| 761 | * TranquilFury: [[spoiler:He noticeably tries to hold himself from lashing out when talking to Shaky via the radio in the fourth volume]]. |
| 762 | * UnsexySadist: Is considerably uglier than other characters Shaky comes across and is just as into rape and humiliation as pretty much any Crossed in the comic. |
| 763 | |
| 764 | !!Ashoke |
| 765 | |
| 766 | !!Agnes Thackery |
| 767 | |
| 768 | !!Lloyd Thackery |
| 769 | |
| 770 | !!Sarge |
| 771 | |
| 772 | !!Stace |
| 773 | |
| 774 | [[/folder]] |
| 775 | [[folder:''Crossed'': ''Dead or Alive'']] |
| 776 | !!Richie |
| 777 | * AbhorrentAdmirer: To Lauren. While he lusts after her, she apparently does not like nor trust him. Richie thinks he reminds her of an ex-boyfriend. |
| 778 | * BetterToDieThanBeKilled: He wisely chooses to shoot himself with a pistol that Joe left him when a group of Crossed have him cornered with a broken leg. [[spoiler: Too bad he forgot about Joe's advice about an empty chamber.]] |
| 779 | * BringMyBrownPants: Notably pissed himself during C-Day. |
| 780 | * ColdSniper: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. He would certainly love to ''think'' he's this and while he has the weapon and the [[TheSociopath attitude]], he does not possess the marksmanship or survival skills to really embody this archetype. The one time we see him in action, he misses all his shots. |
| 781 | * CrossingTheBurntBridge: [[spoiler: Has the gall to beg his former group for another chance even after he deliberately tried to set them up and leave them to die.]] |
| 782 | * DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the typical VillainProtagonist endemic in ''Crossed'' stories. Usually, these protagonists are the MisanthropeSupreme who take advantage of the collapse of society to indulge in their worst impulses, [[BewareTheLiving with or without the infection]], and [[KarmaHoudini usually get away with it due to having some survival skills or leverage over their own group]]. These people are normally framed as hardened and deadly survivalists who are unburdened by anything resembling morality. Richie is essentially this archetype, but without the competence to back it up. He displays little to no practical survival skills, is a poor shot with his hunting rifle and he feels no bonds of solidarity with his fellow survivors. [[spoiler: His [[TheSocialDarwinist Social Darwinist]], misanthropic beliefs don't make him a deadly survivalist like Stevie or the Gamekeeper and his hidden disdain for his group was so transparent that they aren't even all that shocked at what he tried to do. He really only made it as long as he had due to dumb luck and he learns far too late that he needs other people far more then they need him.]] |
| 783 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: [[spoiler: Even if he hadn't run straight over a cliff, Richie's "plan" amounted to just knocking Carl out, running in the opposite direction, wander on his own for a bit and start again with a new group. How he would find a new group or survive on his own is not brought up.]] |
| 784 | * {{Hypocrite}}: [[spoiler: Despite having previously urged his group to leave Justin for the Crossed due to his sprained ankle, he still begs them to take him with them despite having his leg broken.]] |
| 785 | * MoralMyopia: [[spoiler: Rages at his former group for looting him and leaving him to die...which he had just tried to do to ''them'' only minutes earlier.]] |
| 786 | * NothingIsScarier: [[spoiler: We never see what the Crossed do to him, but it could not have been quick.]] |
| 787 | * SmugSnake: Holds the belief that all humans, including his own group, are suicidal idiots at best or selfish betrayers at worst and is planning to abandon them at first opportunity. [[spoiler: These beliefs go right out the window when ''he's'' the one being abandoned.]] |
| 788 | * TheSociopath: Holds no love or any kind of strong emotion for his fellow man and cares only for himself. |
| 789 | * UnreliableNarrator: Near everything we know about the cast comes from Richie, but considering he is justifying to himself why he's abandoning them it is hard to say how much of it is true. |
| 790 | * VillainProtagonist: Is the main POV character for this story. |
| 791 | !!Carl |
| 792 | * TheLeader: Keeps the group going and makes most of their plans. |
| 793 | * SemperFi: Was a US Marine before the outbreak and has the combat training to match. While Richie respects his combat abilities, he believes his Marine "Leave-No-Man-Behind" mentality to be a liability. |
| 794 | !!Joe |
| 795 | * GunNut: Is the group's armourer and taught them all how to handle weapons, including Richie. |
| 796 | * LeaveBehindAPistol: [[spoiler: Despite what Richie nearly did to them, he had the grace to give Richie the means to die quickly and cleanly rather then leave him for the Crossed, with the groups' agreement.]] |
| 797 | !!Tabitha |
| 798 | * ArmourPiercingResponse: [[spoiler: After his failed betrayal, and Richie starts [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech whining about his group leaving him for dead]], Joe [[LeaveBehindAPistol leaves him a revolver]] and Tabitha gives Richie a short but succinct dressing down which instantly deflates whatever conceptions Richie had about himself, his group and human nature in general.]] |
| 799 | --> '''Tabitha''': [[spoiler: Who do we think we are, Richie? Honestly, I have no idea. These days I don't think anyone does. But I do know we're not ''you.'']] |
| 800 | * MysteriousPast: Richie believes she is deliberately hiding something about her past, which greatly annoys him. |
| 801 | * TeamMom: Is the oldest of the group and apparently acts this way, which also annoys Richie. |
| 802 | !!Lauren |
| 803 | * DoesNotLikeGuns: While she keeps a Glock for her own safety, Richie notes she has an obvious distaste for it. |
| 804 | * LustObject: For Richie, likely due to her being the only young woman in the group. |
| 805 | !!Luke |
| 806 | * {{Expy}}: A clear one of Kitrick from the original series: A quiet and depressed black man who also apparently watched his family die. Unlike Stan however, Richie shows him NoSympathy. |
| 807 | * TheVoiceless: The only character in the story without any lines. |
| 808 | !!Justin |
| 809 | * BabyOfTheBunch: Visibly the youngest of the group. |
| 810 | * TwistedAnkle: Has a ''sprained'' ankle but the trope still applies. Richie urges that he'd just slow them down and that they leave him for the Crossed, but a sprained ankle will recover relatively quickly, [[spoiler: unlike Richie's broken leg.]] |
| 811 | |
| 812 | |
| 813 | |
| 814 | [[/folder]] |
| 815 | |
| 816 | [[folder:''Annual'' and ''Special'' survivors]] |
| 817 | |
| 818 | [[/folder]] |
| 819 | |
| 820 | ! The Crossed |
| 821 | |
| 822 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 823 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_crossed_virus.jpeg]] |
| 824 | The titular antagonists of the series. The Crossed are people who were infected with the [[TheVirus C-Virus]], [[HatePlague causing them to act out their most insane and violent thoughts]]. They are called such due to a cross-like rash that appears on their faces upon infection. |
| 825 | ---- |
| 826 | * AlwaysChaoticEvil: To the extreme. Their only true goal is to brutalize the uninfected. Downplayed later on in Crossed +100 and Mimic. While Crossed’s are mostly unchanging, several of them Manage to gain [[PragmaticVillainy pragmatic qualities]] to themselves, mostly due to the harsh conditionings of the Crossed endured, and they even manage to have redeeming qualities and empathy at times. |
| 827 | * AttackAttackAttack: Crossed simply place no value whatsoever on their own lives. A lone Crossed will gladly sprint across open ground against a dozen people with machine guns, and they've been seen using tactics that are full-on suicidal, such as cutting their own throats in the name of spilling their blood on someone. Quite a few stories have noted that stealth or even picking their battles is something Crossed on their own simply aren't capable of. |
| 828 | * AxCrazy: The Crossed, bar the occasional "Super" ones, are ''all'', and by that we mean '''every single one''', utterly ''barbaric'', [[TheSociopath sociopathic]], [[StupidEvil near-unthinking]] sadomasochists who commit any and all acts of violence they are able to. |
| 829 | * BodyHorror: |
| 830 | ** A Crossed's skull also has a cross-shaped hole where the rash would be. |
| 831 | ** There’s also how they find their “fun”. Aside from mutilating uninfected humans, many Crossed sport grievous, disgusting wounds that would send sane humans into shock. While able to ignore them to a degree due to their high pain tolerance and propensity for masochistic behavior, the flipside is that blood loss and infection will eventually do them in, and that’s not mentioning the fact that they intentionally agitate their wounds for a laugh. |
| 832 | * ColdBloodedTorture: Most crossed "just" maim, rape and kill their prey. The more restrained and creative ones however engage in this in order to draw out their victims' suffering. |
| 833 | * CombatSadomasochist: The Crossed get off on violence, regardless if they're on the giving or receiving end. |
| 834 | * DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the HatePlague TechnicallyLivingZombie and the AlwaysChaoticEvil fantasy race. While the Crossed are indeed a nightmarish threat, many stories show that a population composed entirely of hyper-aggressive sociopaths is simply unsustainable. By the time of ''+100'', humanity has heavily outnumbered the infected population, and the only reason they have not been wiped out already is the occasional "fresh" infection [[spoiler: and Salt's manipulations]]. |
| 835 | * DyingRace: Due to not caring about their own self-preservation, the Crossed are dying off a century after C-Day and uninfected humans are making a comeback. |
| 836 | * EnemyCivilWar: Depending on the variant of Crossed in the story, they will eventually turn against each other when there are no prey or victims available for them to attack. This is what allows the uninfected humans to reclaim the Earth, the Crossed had no self-preservation and killed each other. |
| 837 | * EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: If there’s a joke in poor taste to be made, they’ll make it and laugh their homicidal asses off. |
| 838 | * {{Expy}}: The Crossed share their MO with [[Series/{{Firefly}} the Reavers]] both of whom rape, kill, eat and skin their victims (in that order if they're lucky). There's also a bit of a resemblance to the [[Film/TwentyEightDaysLater Rage Virus Infected]], with both sharing an unyeilding and almost animalistic savagery against their victims. |
| 839 | * ExtremeOmnisexual: The Crossed will violently rape anyone, any animal, and anything they come across. |
| 840 | * FatalFlaw: The disease compels them to act on their most violent and depraved urges but that is also their greatest weakness, as they follow their urges even if it's against their survival and instinct for self-preservation. |
| 841 | ** The Crossed are still human so they are just as vulnerable as anyone else, the only reason they have succeeded so far is because of overwhelming numbers, competent leadership (in Smokey's case), and the element of surprise. |
| 842 | ** If there's nobody to kill or to guide them, then they will mutilate themselves and even kill each other in fits of boredom and insanity. |
| 843 | ** They can also be found naked and/or underdressed, more importantly, they won't even be dressed for the Earth's elements so they are vulnerable to those conditions. |
| 844 | * ForTheEvulz: Zig-zagged. On the one hand, due to being a malevolent virus, one can’t say the Crossed are committing atrocities by choice, being compelled to do so by the infection. On the other hand, it’s the infection that convinces them that being the worst version of yourself is HILARIOUS. |
| 845 | * FullFrontalAssault: The most common Crossed outfit by far is no outfit at all, and that number increases if you include Crossed who wear clothes but don't cover their genitalia. This appears to be for, er... easy access. It's brought up a few times as a weakness, as they've been known to wander through ''snow'' without so much as a T-shirt, and more often than not they do not last long. |
| 846 | * GangOfHats: The Crossed will band together and form roaming gangs of murderous rapists. In "Badlands" the Crossed form a circus theme, in "Psychopath" the Crossed wear severed faces, and in other comic series the Crossed dress in Japanese outfits. Generally, Crossed clans are formed either around a previous occupation (one gang driving around an ambulance enjoyed a medical theme, another made of nuns, priests, and monks followed a bizarre religious doctrine) or around a favored method of torture, mutilation, or other form of defilement (wearing skins, bloody warpaint, etc.) |
| 847 | * HairTriggerTemper: A lot of infighting between the Crossed happens pretty easily due to the fact that the plague makes victims extremely irritable and confrontational. |
| 848 | * HatePlague: A textbook example. The C-virus causes its infected to become aggressive, sociopathic and sadomasochist. |
| 849 | * HumansAreTheRealMonsters: A recurring theme with the Crossed. A character notes that the Crossed don't really do anything nomal humans aren't capable of doing too. |
| 850 | * IAmAHumanitarian: The Crossed often engage in cannibalism. Not due to a zombie-like hunger for human flesh, mind you, but because they get sadistic joy from eating their victims raw or [[StewedAlive cooking them]] while they're still alive to scream and feel pain from being eaten. It's also a matter of pragmatism, since [[TechnicallyLivingZombie they need to eat anyway]]. |
| 851 | * ItCanThink: For all of their inclinations towards [[StupidEvil mindless barbarism,]] THIS trait is what makes them so bloody dangerous in comparison to more "typical" zombies, besides just how quickly victims turn once exposed to direct contact with Crossed bodily fluids. They're smart enough to use tools, set traps, and band together if it means that getting to [[CruelAndUnusualDeath (and subsequently violating/murdering in excruciating fashion)]] an entrenched group of survivors becomes that much easier in the short run. |
| 852 | * LaughingMad: Boy, are they having fun. |
| 853 | * LogicalWeakness: It's been noted quite a few times in the series that there is no "magic bullet" solution to Crossed, but they do have a lot of exploitable issues that survivors make use of, all of which flow from their personality and behavior. |
| 854 | ** Crossed are not actually zombies, just incredibly violent humans. They can keep fighting through injuries that would leave a normal person disabled from shock and pain, but they'll still succumb to anything that would outright kill a person. People who are aware of this can get very good results simply by keeping "aim for head or center mass" in mind. |
| 855 | ** Crossed spend most of their time wandering around in small bands, feeding on whatever they can catch (human or otherwise) and making no use of any medical technology more complex than bandages. Consequently, many Crossed that we see after the first few months are visibly malnourished and sickly-looking, which explains why small groups of survivors with proper equipment who know what they're doing can wipe out ''dozens'' of Crossed singlehandedly. This is exacerbated by the fact that Crossed prefer to wear little to no clothing, leaving them ExposedToTheElements and unarmored to attack. |
| 856 | ** Crossed, barring a few savants, do not have the patience to use any kind of stealth tactics, or even to realize when a foe is too great for them to handle. Many survivors exploit the reduced need for setting watches or lure them into traps. |
| 857 | ** Lastly, Crossed struggle to grow their numbers outside of infecting people. They have a lot of sex, but their lifestyle is anything but conducive to helping a pregnant woman carry a baby to term. Even if they do manage to pop out a baby, their impulsiveness means that the mother is highly liable to kill her own child. When combined with the high-lethality lifestyle mentioned above, Crossed numbers are in a steep decline with few signs of improvement. |
| 858 | * MoodSwinger: They can switch between sadistic glee and frothing rage at the drop of a hat. |
| 859 | * RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Not really a "special" kind of evil, as much as one of their favorites. |
| 860 | * {{Sadist}}: The Crossed have a pathological drive to commit any and all acts of violence they can, on anyone they can. And they enjoy every second of it. |
| 861 | * SirSwearsALot: Their speech is often ridden with profanities. |
| 862 | * TheSociopath: The Crossed, with no exception bar the ''super'' ones, are utterly [[LackOfEmpathy devoid of empathy]] and remorse, lack self-restraint and any form of selflessness ''including'' PragmaticVillainy, and are pathologically violent and immoral. |
| 863 | * StupidEvil: The Crossed are actually pretty intelligent. Anything a normal person can do, they can do it too, including driving vehicles, using weapons and tools, etc. However, their AxCrazy nature plays heavily against them on both short-term and long-term. |
| 864 | * TalkativeLoon: A defining attribute of the Crossed is an inability to shut up. They’re charged up 24/7, so consequently they voice whatever depraved fantasy comes to their frenzied minds aloud, if they don’t just devolve into incoherent mumbling and giggling. |
| 865 | * TheVirus: Transmitted by bodily fluids in general. Bites, sexual contact (i.e rape) or just getting splashed with blood is more than enough to get you infected. |
| 866 | * TokenGoodTeammate: |
| 867 | ** The one Crossed we've seen resist the general impulses of the virus for the sake of loved ones is Hazuki from ''Five Bloody Fingers,'' who refuses to attack her friends who she considers her real family and simply persuades them to renew their blood oath and go down fighting a horde of the other Crossed once infected. |
| 868 | ** Another example, albeit a bit downplayed one, is Mathias from ''Conquers All''. He is not really interested in most Crossed festivities, opting to find Serena first. |
| 869 | ** Now from ''+100'' is the most straightforward example we get. She was raised by Future Taylor and her husband, and doesn't show any urges to do anything the rest of the Crossed would do. By all appearances, she's a normal little girl. |
| 870 | ** Future Taylor’s group also meet Crossed who is completely normal, albeit anti-social and cooperates with the group just fine, promptly getting him killed by his other, less reasonable Crossed friends. |
| 871 | ** Fleshcook from ''Mimic'' also qualifies to an extent, being explicitly capable of love for not only fellow members of the Salt Clan but for at least one uninfected human [[spoiler:(Julie)]]. However, he is also downplayed as he does still seem to be keen on torture and killing. |
| 872 | * TooKinkyToTorture: If you were to wound the Crossed, they'll often scream, "More! Hurt me more!" |
| 873 | * WhatYouAreInTheDark: A recurring theme with the Crossed. It's often assumed, by people in and out of universe, that the virus doesn't ''make'' anyone do anything, as much as it rids the person of their inhibitions which prevent them from doing so. |
| 874 | * WouldHurtAChild: The Crossed are willing to engage in rape and brutal, gory murder not only against children but also '''babies'''. Hell, there are even cases where they'll kill unborn fetuses. |
| 875 | * XMarksTheHero: All Crossed have a large cross-shaped scar/rash on their faces, yet most of them are ''far'' from heroic. |
| 876 | * ZergRush: As befitting a pseudo-zombie apocalypse story, the first-resort Crossed tactic is to get a whole bunch of Crossed and charge the enemy with whatever weapons they have to hand, relying on sheer numbers and ferocity to win the day. This is a tactic that works alarmingly well, given that even a single poorly-placed splash of blood can quickly turn the tide of battle, though it does mean that Crossed also take heavy casualties in almost any encounter. |
| 877 | [[/folder]] |
| 878 | |
| 879 | [[folder:Super-Crossed]] |
| 880 | Crossed individuals that maintain a level of sanity and regular human behaviour. [[EliteZombie This often makes them exceptionally dangerous]], [[SanityHasAdvantages as they can achieve things the regular infected can't]]. |
| 881 | ---- |
| 882 | * AxCrazy: Subverted. While most Super-Crossed are hostile to humans to some extent, they retain enough "sane" traits to function as individuals, survive in the long-term, and achieve highly complex action. |
| 883 | * DisabilitySuperpower: While what creates the Super-Crossed is never explained, it's heavily implied that they are what happens when someone who is neuroatypical or mentally ill gets infected. Several known had some mental or neurological illness. For example, Aoilean had epilepsy, Mattias had his brain chemistry altered by ketamine abuse, [[SerialKiller Salt]] was TheSociopath, and there is mention of an autistic individual in Montreal. |
| 884 | * EliteZombie: Of the "Horde Master" variety. |
| 885 | * TokenGoodTeammate: In the "Crossed + 100: Mimic" storyline, a Crossed manages to fall in love with an uninfected girl, but they both know they can't actually requite it without her becoming infected. The closest thing they can is by having her wear full body armor. |
| 886 | |
| 887 | !! Horsecock |
| 888 | -> Appearances: ''Crossed: Volume One'' |
| 889 | The leader of a band of Crossed who terrorizes Cindy and Stan's group. |
| 890 | |
| 891 | * AllBikersAreHellsAngels: The patches on his vest indicate he was either part of a 1% biker gang or stole the vest from one. |
| 892 | * BadBoss: Thinks nothing of routinely bludgeoning his underlings with his namesake weapon of choice. |
| 893 | * BigBad: The main antagonistic Crossed of Volume One, with his heightened intelligence and persistence being the main threat to the group in the last few issues. |
| 894 | * CardCarryingVillain: Leads his horde in singing about being 'the very best at being bad guys' at one point. |
| 895 | * EvilLaugh: Has one, like many of the Crossed. |
| 896 | * ImprobableWeaponUser: His namesake is the weapon. |
| 897 | * IShallTauntYou: Laughs at Cindy's group over the radio after [[spoiler: sending an infected Patrick back to them]]. |
| 898 | * ItCanThink: Is the first Crossed to show the ability to delay gratification for the sake of inflicting greater pain. He first demonstrates this by preventing members of his gang from raping some survivors before dumping them in a cage with others who were brutalized and thus will turn shortly. |
| 899 | * LaughablyEvil: Well, he does use a literal horsecock as a weapon. Besides that, he goes out of his way to lead his horde in singing a song from ''Film/BugsyMalone'' for no real reason. |
| 900 | * SuperPersistentPredator: Pursues Cindy and Stan's group of survivors over the Rockies, across the desert and into Canada after running into them just outside of Denver. |
| 901 | * VillainousLegacy: Seemingly is keen on imparting his way of doing things in the other Crossed in his horde. [[spoiler: Luckily for humanity, Cindy and Stan make sure this doesn't take.]] |
| 902 | * VillainSong: Leads his horde in a rendition of 'We Could Have Been Anything' from ''Film/BugsyMalone'' about how they're so great at being bad guys. |
| 903 | |
| 904 | !! Beauregard Salt |
| 905 | -> Appearances: ''Crossed: +100'' |
| 906 | A serial killer prior to turning, Salt was already enough of a sadistic psychopath the Crossed virus does nothing but give him a rash. After seeing how the Crossed seem poised to burn themselves out, he comes up with a plan to ensure their survival. |
| 907 | |
| 908 | * CultOfPersonality: The Salt Clan forms shrines dedicated to him that include photos, journal entries and literal piles of salt. |
| 909 | * EvilCounterpart: Parallels are made between Salt and [[Literature/FoundationSeries Hari Seldon]]. Both are leaders of secretive groups making long-term plans for the future based on projections. The difference is Salt's plan is to ensure the Crossed perpetuate at the expense of humankind. |
| 910 | * EvilPlan: Salt sought to lay the groundwork for the Crossed to endure and overcome their own self-destructive impulses. |
| 911 | * {{Foil}}: To Smokey. |
| 912 | ** Smokey regularly makes use of human collaborators as quislings. Salt does not do so (at least in his own time) and instead focuses on finding other intelligent Crossed to serve as lieutenants. |
| 913 | ** Smokey is regularly betrayed by his collaborators, both human and Crossed. Salt commands absolute loyalty from his seven core lieutenants and the only one to break rank from him only gets himself killed by doing so. |
| 914 | ** Every time Smokey attempts to build a Crossed society, it ends in failure. On the other hand, Salt's efforts create a force of Crossed that is able to persist a century after C-Day to a point where humanity has let their guard down thinking the Crossed are now relegated to the past. |
| 915 | ** Smokey tends to be quite terse and has very poor grammar when speaking. Salt appears to be quite eloquent even after turning, judging from his journal entries. |
| 916 | * GoneHorriblyRight: [[spoiler: Probably how he would view the outcome of his plan. The Salt clan reemerges as he hoped 100 years after C-Day, but Sneezy, who rejects the PragmaticVillainy of his original plan in favor of [[FinalSolution finishing off mankind]] is the main beneficiary. Even Fleshcook's success with the Merge likely wasn't what Salt had hoped for as an outcome of his efforts.]] |
| 917 | * GreaterScopeVillain: Ultimately is the root of the main problems the characters in +100 face but is never faced directly due to being dead. |
| 918 | * TheMentallyDisturbed: Even before Salt became a Crossed, there was something so deeply fundamentally wrong with him that, during C-Day, he was depicted as being almost totally oblivious to the fact that the world had gone insane, calmly going about his daily routine while everyone around him raped, tortured, and murdered each other, only realizing that something was amiss when he got home, looked in the mirror, and noticed that he had become one of the Crossed ([[InsanityImmunity not that this affected him in any way]]). |
| 919 | * MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: Is long dead by the time of +100, but ThePlan he developed is the main driving force behind the plot. |
| 920 | * PragmaticVillainy: Salt recognizes the need to delay gratification and that the Crossed cannot completely overwhelm humanity or they will ultimately die out. |
| 921 | * RetiredMonster: Not retired per se but some of the entries in his journal Future uncovers are from a period where he is too old to do much more than hope his plan works. |
| 922 | * SerialKiller: Before becoming infected, Salt was this, dubbed 'the Phonebook Killer.' |
| 923 | * ShoutOut: |
| 924 | ** Names the smart Crossed he recruits as lieutenants after [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs the Seven Dwarves]]. |
| 925 | ** His plan is basically an evil version of [[Literature/FoundationSeries the Seldon plan]]. |
| 926 | * TearsOfJoy: Cries them on seeing a Crossed wearing babies as shoes, because the world finally sees things as he does. |
| 927 | * TheSociopath: Fits this to a T (or should we say +?). He was such an unfeeling bastard before the outbreak, he remained pretty much the same after getting Crossed. |
| 928 | * TheSnackIsMoreInteresting: On C-Day, Salt is more interested in having breakfast at a cafe while reading the newspaper than the carnage of the Crossed. |
| 929 | * VillainOfAnotherStory: While he is the true BigBad of +100, Salt's crimes as the Phonebook Killer and any tortures he inflicts on the uninfected as a Crossed are not shown or discussed in depth. His villainy is mostly carried out in the form of laying the groundwork for members of his clan as of the present (like Jokemercy) to act. |
| 930 | * VillainousLegacy: He sought to build a world where the Crossed and their cruelty can persist indefinitely without being wiped out by the uninfected or their own stupidity. |
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