Line #115 Characters/YTheLastMan


1	%%Administrivia/HandlingSpoilers Do not conceal the name of the trope in a list of trope examples.
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3	Characters from ''ComicBook/YTheLastMan''
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5	For the characters the TV Adaptation [[Characters/YTheLastMan2021 go here]]
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7	[[foldercontrol]]
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9	[[folder: Main Characters]]
10	!! Yorick Brown
11
12	%%* AboveTheInfluence
13	* ActionSurvivor: The series-long theme. His specialities are English, prestidigitation and ''failing'' to train helper monkeys: his world is in the midst of an apocalypse.
14	* AmIJustAToyToYou: To Beth II.
15	* AnimalMotifs: Monkeys
16	* CelibateHero: Initially. And what he would like to be, in spite of his one-night stand with Beth II.
17	* CoolOldGuy: Has traces of this in the final issue when speaking with his young clone and not busy with being an EmptyShell.
18	* DeathSeeker: He grows out of it, though, thanks to an intervention.
19	%%* DidNotGetTheGirl
20	* EmptyShell: Still being alive over sixty years after the gendercide along with the deaths of 355, Dr. Mann and Ampersand has left Yorick a bitter shell of his former self.
21	* EscapeArtist: Pretty much his schtick when he isn't trying to get himself killed.
22	* FeigningIntelligence: At least from Hero's point of view.
23	* GasMaskLongcoat: How the last man on Earth gets by on a world full of women that either wanted to kill him or screw him. The mask becomes something of a ChekhovsGun in the final volume.
24	* GrammarNazi: "You split more infinitives than Creator/GeneRoddenberry."
25	* GrowingUpSucks: His CharacterArc in a nutshell.
26	* TheImmune: The event that wiped out every other man missed him.
27	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Yorick can be a real dick, but generally means well and cares for others.
28	* LastOfHisKind: At least, so it would seem.
29	* ManChild: Make no mistake, Yorick is a trooper who travels the world, faces all kinds of danger and is clearly more mature by the end of the series. However, for most of the series, the more you get to know Yorick the more you begin to realize, well.....he's kind of a dweeb.
30	%%* TheMcCoy
31	* MeaningfulName: This was intentional. His parents were English majors and fans of 'the Bard'.
32	* MiseryBuildsCharacter: [[spoiler: He urges one of his clones to get his heart broken as soon and completely as he can.]]
33	* NightmareDreams: Boy, does he have them.
34	%%* NonActionSnarker
35	* PaperThinDisguise: He doesn't try particularly hard to make himself look more feminine. At one point, he even lets himself grow a goatee.
36	%%* PrepositionsAreNotToEndSentencesWith
37	* RapeAsBackstory: Was sexually assaulted by another boy when he was young, he received therapy and for the most part seems to have recovered from the trauma.
38	%%* SadClown
39	%%* StealthHiBye
40	* StepfordSmiler: [[spoiler: It takes a brutal intervention for him to admit that he's suicidal.]]
41	* SuicideByCop: Because he can't do it himself, he gets himself into situations where somebody could do it for him. Though it doesn't last.
42	* SurvivorGuilt: As he is the last man on Earth, he feels guilty for some reason.
43	* TheOneGuy: The ''last'' guy.
44	* TeenyWeenie: The reaction shots of the few women who end up in this situation are CringeComedy. We eventually see for ourselves and it is indeed quite unimpressive.
45	%%* TookALevelInBadass
46	* UnwantedHarem: Savagely deconstructed.
47
48	!! Agent 355
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50	%%* ActionGirl
51	* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Nobody ''ever'' has fond memories of living in an orphanage.
52	%%* BodyguardCrush
53	* BrokenBird: As a teenager.
54	* CodeName: 355 isn't her actual name. We never get to learn it, though she whispers it in Yorick's ear.
55	%%* {{Determinator}}
56	* ItGetsEasier: "Too easy."
57	* InseriesNickname: "355" is the designation for the Culper Ring's top female agent.
58	* MeaningfulRename: To signify her induction into the Culper Ring.
59	* NoNameGiven: Averted by WordOfGod, the hint was in the panel where Yorick carves her name on a tree. [[spoiler: It was "Peace".]]
60	* OrphansOrdeal: [[spoiler: Her parents and sisters were killed in a car accident.]]
61	* OvertOperative: Having a number for a name doesn't help you blend in anywhere. Especially when you introduce yourself to everyone as such.
62	* PopculturalOsmosisFailure: She doesn't watch [=TV=] and hardly ever gets Yorick's constant pop culture references.
63	%%* StraightMan
64	* TelescopingStaff: Her weapon of choice is an extendable baton.
65	* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: [[TextileWorkIsFeminine Knits]] as a stress reducing activity.
66	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[EpilepticTrees Possibly]], the moment the plague struck, Agent 355 removed the sacred Amulet of Helene from the nation of Jordan. The amulet carried a warning that if it was ever taken from its homeland, it would create a tragedy greater than the Trojan War. It is also suggested that the wedding ring Yorick bought for Beth may have protected him from the effect of this curse.
67	* YouAreNumberSix: She's called 355.
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69	!! Dr. Allison Mann
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71	* AllAsiansKnowMartialArts: Discussed and averted.
72	** Later played with when she wields a Jian as an improvised rapier. She demonstrates decent skill but is outclassed by a professional
73	* AsianAndNerdy: She's Asian and a doctor.
74	* BrokenBird: Her college girlfriend left her rather jaded about love, to the point she denies it exists.
75	%%* DressedToHeal
76	%%* DrJerk
77	* GayRomanticPhase: Dated another woman in college, until it turned out that the other woman was not gay and was basically going through this. Said other woman thought that lesbians weren't real and the only reason women would date other women was to piss of their parents. Allison obviously disagreed.
78	* LoveHurts: Saying she had a pretty crappy love life may be an understatement but her opinion on love changes when she eventually meets Rose.
79	--> '''Rose:''' I ''like'' you. I think I...
80	-->''(Allison gives her a [[ShutUpKiss shut up kiss]] and hugs her, smiling warmly and clearly happier than she had ever been)''
81	--> '''Mann:''' Just quit while you're ahead, okay?
82	** Then it starts to hurt all over again when it's revealed that Rose [[spoiler:was spying on them for the Royal Australian Navy]]. She forgives her, though.
83	* MeaningfulRename: Her original name is Ayuko Matsumori, but gave herself a new name based on, of all things, Mann's Chinese Theatre. She did it to piss off her dad: in her own words, "I wanted something kitschy and faux-Asian to insult my father."
84	* TheMedic: She's a geneticist, but she's the closest they have to a medical doctor so she takes this role.
85	* ShockValueRelationship: Her father interpreted her newfound sexuality as "lesbian until graduation".
86	** Also her college girlfriend.
87	--> '''Mercedes:''' Look, I am sorry, but we graduate in three weeks. It's time we at least start pretending that we are adults. I hate my old man just as much as you hate yours. But there are less juvenile ways to get revenge. Date a black guy or something.
88	--> '''Mann''': This isn't a game for me! I liked girls since I was ''four!''
89	* StraightGay: So straight gay that Yorick didn't figure it out until after a year of traveling together, and only ''then'' after she gave him a hint that she was into girls.
90	* TrulySingleParent: Gave birth to her own clone at the moment of the gendercide, and believed it was the cause of it.
91	* WhenSheSmiles: She only ever smiles, like, twice in the entire series but when she does...wow.
92	* YourDaysAreNumbered: An unforeseen side-effect of trying to [[spoiler:clone herself was the development of several tumors in her womb. The womb was removed however, saving her life. She eventually dies anyway.]] It is suggested in the final story arc set several years from the previous one that she was sick.
93	[[/folder]]
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95	[[folder: Secondary Characters]]
96	!! Beth Deville
97
98	* BettyAndVeronica: The Betty to [[spoiler: 355's Veronica]]
99	%%* LivingMacGuffin
100	* PairTheSpares: Ultimately ends up with Yorick's sister Hero because, sure why not?
101
102	!! Hero Brown
103
104	* TheAtoner: After being deprogrammed, Hero feels intense guilt and regret for what she did as an Amazon.
105	* ActionGirl: In contrast to her brother.
106	* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: How she joined up with the Amazons in the first place.
107	* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Joined the Daughters of the Amazons for a time.
108	* BrokenBird: Which made her more easily controlled by Victoria. She was molested as a child, engaged in sex while still underaged and [[IJustWantToBeLoved jumps from one affair to another as an adult]], finally ending up with a man she likes only to see him die in front of her during the Gendercide.
109	* BrokenPedestal: Yorick is horrified of her after she murders Sonia.
110	* CoolBigSis: From Yorick's perspective; she believed she was TheUnfavorite.
111	* DarkActionGirl: During her time with the Amazons.
112	* IJustWantToBeLoved: Her CharacterArc is her learning to love herself.
113	* IronicName: Hero the Murderous Misandrist Cultist.
114	* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Her pre-gendercide boyfriend was this. His death sent her straight to the Daughters.
115	* LoveMakesYouUncreative: She gave up writing to be a paramedic with her current boyfriend.
116	* PairTheSpares: It's nice that Hero found redemption and happiness, but ending up with Yorick's Beth really came out of nowhere.
117	* RapeAsBackstory: She was molested by her grandfather.
118	* TomboyishName: Hero instead of heroine.
119	* StevenUlyssesPerhero: Or in this case: Hero
120
121	!! Rose Copen
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123	* ActionGirl: Shares the role of Yorick's protector with 355 after joining him and the rest of the group. As it turns out, however, Rose was also spying of them on behalf of the Royal Australian Navy.
124	* ButchLesbian: Hooks up with Dr. Mann shortly after meeting her. Eventually [[spoiler: becomes her widow]].
125	* CrusadingWidow: It's never outright stated that she and Allison get married in the future but they were still very much together, and after Allison [[spoiler:passes away]] Rose takes up her torch, as it were, and [[spoiler:works with "Dr. Men" in finding a cure to the gendercide.]]
126	* EasilyForgiven: By Yorick anyway, after she accidentally reveals to Allison that she was [[spoiler: spying on them]]. 355 comes around soon after, however, but Allison understandably took it the hardest. She does eventually forgive her, though.
127	* EyepatchOfPower: She lost her eye in a firefight sometime before she is introduced.
128	* FireForgedFriends: Literally.
129	* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:After [[LoveRedeems falling in love with]] [[InLoveWithTheMark Allison]].]]
130	* TheMole: She was a spy for the Royal Australian Navy while working on a pirate ship. Then, when she joins up with Yorick and the gang, [[spoiler:she is still spying for the Navy. It doesn't last long after she falls in love with Allison, however.]]
131	* SurvivorGuilt: Not her, but her [[spoiler:real]] crewmates expected her to die and can't even look her in the eye after she returns to them.
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133
134	!! Natalya Zamyatin
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136	* CassandraTruth: The Amazons dismiss her as yet another lunatic when she explains there are men in space. Turns out it was a case of [[spoiler: ButWhatAboutTheAstronauts]]
137	* EloquentInMyNativeTongue: Her English skills can most charitably be described as "trying". She herself knows it; when she finds someone who speaks Russian, she admits she sounds like an absolute idiot in English (using a less politically-correct word).
138	%%* FriendlySniper
139	* NamedWeapon: Her rifle "Rodya", named after her husband.
140	* ShoutOut: Her surname, "Zamyatin", is one to Yevgeny Zamyatin, author of {{Literature/We}}, the novel which directly inspired both Huxley to write ''Literature/BraveNewWorld'' (although he denied it), and for Orwell to write ''1984'' (in [[http://www.orwelltoday.com/weorwellreview.shtml a review of WE]], Orwell called Huxley out for it)
141	[[/folder]]
142
143	[[folder: Antagonists]]
144	!! Victoria
145	A self-proclaimed chess master and cult leader, she started the Daughters of the Amazon. While she claims to be helping women who were victimized by men, in reality she's just taking advantage of emotionally devastated women to exploit them. She dies early on, but the damage she has done, especially to Hero, lingers long afterwards.
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147	* BigBad: Subverted. She's built up as a recurring villain, and with her minor army of Amazons, she looks to be a real threat. Then an ex meth-addict puts an ax into her head.
148	* TheCorrupter: She sure does a number on Hero during the first year post-gendercide.
149	* DoesNotLikeMen: Let's start with the fact that she blames men for not being able to compete in a public chess tournament...
150	* DroppedABridgeOnHer: Is killed soon after she's introduced in a painful, but well-deserved, manner.
151	%%* EvilRedhead
152	%%* FourEyesZeroSoul
153	* InformedAttribute: Insists that she's a genius chess prodigy who beat the legendary Bobby Fischer in a handful of moves. We never see her play chess at any point in the comic, and it's implied that she made the whole thing up to better manipulate her brainwashed minions.
154	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Towards men in general, but is only able to make it a "you" instead of "they" when Yorick's around.
155	* StarterVillain: She's the first threat that Yorick must contend with. She get's 86'd five issues after her introduction.
156	%%* StrawFeminist
157	* StrawHypocrite: Depending on whether you believe her stories about her being able to defeat world-renowned chess champions [[ChildProdigy at 13]] but having been banned from public competition because she was a woman or not, she may be this. But she definitely plays it straight by applauding the death of the male gender for the way they oppressed women and twisted feminine virtues against them when she does ''exactly the same thing''. It gets worse when you consider how she runs the Daughters like a cult and the horrific emotional manipulation she employs on many of the women who were victims of abuse or rape, making her no different than the men that hurt them.
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159	!! Alter Tse'elon (Yedida)
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161	* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: The depiction of this Jewish tradition/superstition is correct, except that "Alter" is the ''male'' form of "the old one", the female form would be "Alte".
162	** This is shown to be a subversion later, when, in a flashback, her commanding officer comments on her family's choice to name her old '''man'''. She insists it's what her father felt she looked like upon birth.
163	* BadassIsraeli: The [[spoiler:insane]] variation.
164	* BigBad: Arguably the biggest bad, at least as far as the comic series goes.
165	%%* DarkActionGirl
166	* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler: For all of the tragedy and heartbreak she has endured throughout her life, Alter seeks to die at the hands of the last man on earth.]]
167	--> '''Alter:''' [[spoiler: This isn't suicide. This is ''war''. After everything I've been through? Everything I've ''sacrificed''? I deserve to die in ''battle!'']]
168	* FemaleMisogynist: She wants to die a soldier's death, but believes it would be dishonorable to do so at the hands of a woman.
169	%%* GeneralRipper
170	* HeroKiller: Almost literally. Whenever she appears expect a sympathetic character to die.
171	* HonorableWarriorsDeath: [[spoiler:Seeking this turns out to be her main motivation; she wants to die in combat and at the hands of a man.]]
172	* ItRunsInTheFamily: Being a soldier runs in the blood for her family. Her grandmother operated behind enemy lines in the Israeli War of Independence, and her grand-mother was a member of a all-female Battalion of Death during the Russian Revolution.
173	** Averted with her older sister who was a pacifist and died in an accident while protesting the war. Alter lies she was killed by Palestinians.
174	* NoNameGiven: Her parents kept her name secret, so that Death [[IKnowYourTrueName could not find her]]. [[spoiler: Her true name is Yedida ("friend" in Hebrew).]]
175	* SuicideByCop: [[spoiler:She tries, but it turns out she [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim underestimated Yorick]]]].
176	* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:When Yorick refuses to kill her.]]
177	-->'''Alter''': It has to be ''you'' godammit! Fucking fight me! Why won't you act like what you are? [...] My name is not Alter, it's [[spoiler:Yedida]], sister of Rachel. And I am finished...finished running from the Angel of Death!
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179	!!Toyota
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181	* ArrogantKungFuGuy: A killer ''and'' a JerkAss.
182	%%* DarkActionGirl
183	%%* {{Ninja}}
184	%%* PsychoForHire
185	%%* SmokeOut
186	%%* ToThePain
187
188	!! Dr. Matsumori
189
190	%%* ArchNemesisDad
191	* BigBad: Subverted. Again. Doctor M is indeed the closest thing the series has to a true BigBad but [[spoiler: is defeated before the story's actual climax.]]
192	%%* TheImmune
193	%%* MadScientist
194	* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: He's a doctor and a bad guy.
195	%%* ThereIsAnother
196	%%* WalkingSpoiler
197	%%* TrulySingleParent
198
199	!! The Setauket Ring
200	* EvilCounterpart: To the Culper Ring.
201	* HidingInAHijab: Their 'uniform,' as it were. Not that any of them are Muslim.
202
203	!! The Sons of Arizona
204	* RightWingMilitiaFanatic: They believe that the federal government was the one that caused the Gendercide, so they have decided to rebel violently.
205	[[/folder]]
206
207	[[folder: Minor Characters]]
208	!! Beth II
209
210	* OneSteveLimit: Averted, as she shares a name with Yorick's girlfriend. And then she [[spoiler:names her daughter Beth Jr.]]
211	* ReplacementGoldfish: Deconstructed with her relationship with Yorick.
212
213	!! The Hartle Twins
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215	* InformedJudaism: On two occasions they mention that they are Jewish. [[spoiler: In both cases it was to avoid being mistreated by the Israeli troops of Alter Tse'elon.]] It does not work.
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217	!! Agent 711
218	* EarnYourHappyEnding: Her final words to Yorick: "Happy endings have to be ''earned''."
219	* HeartbrokenBadass: Is an agent with the Culper Ring and misses her late husband.
220	* {{Hypocrite}}: Not that she was looking but after curing Yorick of his [[spoiler:[[SuicideByCop suicidal]] tendencies]] the last thing she did before dying was to thank the Setauket Ring for killing her, [[SuicideByCop implying that she wanted somebody to kill her]].
221	* SuicideByCop: Implied.
222	* TortureTechnician: How she manages to stop Yorick from trying to get himself killed, to the point of [[MindRape mind raping]] him by forcing him to dredge up some extremely harsh memories.
223	** She even threatens to rape him at one point, was close to doing it and then afterward admits to him that she would have done it, too.
224
225	!! "Dr. Men"
226	* AsianAndNerdy: All of them, even the really punky one.
227	* NotAsYouKnowThem: They are all as smart as [[spoiler:their progenitor]] was but [[spoiler:the original]] Yorick later comments that without Allison's "asshole dad" pushing them, they will never have her ''mind''.
228	[[/folder]]

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