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!!Jerry Cornelius
Our main character, though sometimes he takes a background role in his own stories.
* ActionFashionista[=/=]AgentPeacock: Everything he wears is described in CostumePorn-level detail.
* AntiHero: On his ''good'' days he's Unscrupulous; usually he's Nominal.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Jerry loves his sister Catherine (his brother Frank is the other leg in a SiblingTriangle).
** ParentalIncest: He describes himself as "the last of the truly innocent mother-fuckers" in "The Swastika Set-Up". And means it.
* {{Crossdresser}}: Sometimes by choice, sometimes [[DraggedIntoDrag not.]] AttractiveBentGender in either case.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: From time to time.
* [[ILetGwenStacyDie I Let My Sister Die]]: In fact, he shot her (by accident, but still).
* MusicalAssassin: Usually he favors guns of some sort, but Norman Spinrad's "The Last Hurrah of the Golden Horde" arms Jerry with an electric violin with built-in amps which make the high notes ultrasonic, the low notes infrasonic, and the audible frequencies suppressed. When Jerry pops in his earplugs and plays various songs (ranging from "Wipeout" to "God Save the Queen") weird things happen to the minds of his audience.
-->''Seven hundred chanting kindergarten children achieved satori and began to eat a huge American flag drenched in soy sauce.''
* ThePornomancer: In a ''literal'' sense - sex is magic, magic is sex to Jerry Cornelius.
* SignificantMonogram
** SignificantAnagram: Other characters in Moorcock's Multiverse have "Jerry Cornelius" (or the alternate first name "Jeremiah") as the basis of their names, such as J'osui C'reln Reyr in ''[[Literature/TheElricSaga The Sailor on the Seas of Fate]]'' and Literature/{{Corum}} Jhaelen Irsei.
* TricksterArchetype: Jerry starts out as [[CommediaDellArte Harlequin]], but over the course of the first four novels finds that he may be TheFool and finally settles into the role of [[CommediaDellArte Pierrot.]]

!!Catherine Cornelius
Jerry's beloved sister, and something of a tragic figure.
* AscendedExtra: She gets more to do in stories where she's paired with Una Persson.
* CloserToEarth: Catherine functions as [[CommediaDellArte Columbine]]. It's more obvious in the "real-world" portions of ''The Condition of Muzak.''
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold when she doesn't have black hair like her brother (though she's no less sweet as a brunette).
* SatelliteLoveInterest: She generally exists just to be someone for Jerry to moon over. She only appears in the first novel to become TheLostLenore after the first fifty pages.

!!Frank Cornelius
Jerry's brother, out for what he can get.
* AmbitionIsEvil and Frank is Power Hungry. That power, or at least recognition, comes so easily to Jerry (such as when he becomes King of England in ''The Condition of Muzak'', though really just as a figurehead) really pisses Frank off.
* CainAndAbel: Frank is definitely Cain to Jerry's Abel, though he's more likely to die than kill.
* HonestJohn: Frank's always hustling-- drugs, fenced goods, faked goods, probably even sex workers.
* TheResenter: Oh yeah. He's perpetually irritated with his station in life.
* SmugSnake: Often even when he does have a triumphant moment it'll quickly get yanked out from under him.

!!Honoria Cornelius
The domineering mother of the Cornelius clan. Survives just about everything life throws at her.
* ApronMatron: Though a rather more distant parent than most, she has the forceful personality and physical presence.
* BigEater: She's even eaten herself sick sometimes and doesn't let that slow her down.
** LadyDrunk: She also packs away the booze.
* BigFun: She enjoys picnics, fun fairs, and such delights.
* FunetikAksent: Mrs. C is Cockney an' just fine wiv that, luv.
* GoldDigger: Well, she might just luck into it.
* IWasQuiteALooker: According to Colonel Pyat, anyway. If Catherine takes after her it certainly was true.
* [[KavorkaMan Kavorka Woman]]: She's fat, aging gracelessly, more than a bit of a slob and tends to overdo it with the hair and makeup, but it doesn't set her back significantly.
-->''"I've never gone short o' beaux," she said. "Whatever else 'as 'appened ter me."''
* MyBelovedSmother: One of the few people Jerry is genuinely scared of-- and [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/stormbringer/images/c/c0/MrsC2.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20160831195109 not without reason.]] Apparently her mere presence can neutralize enemies and reduce her own offspring to children (at least in that comic; in the books she does tend to make her children feel like, well, children again, and the one time she confronts one of the major baddies, she simply humiliates her before going her own way).
* TrashOfTheTitans: She has a hoarding tendency.

!!Una Persson
First appearing in ''A Cure For Cancer'', she is a heroic revolutionary and supporter of Jerry.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Whether she's a lesbian or bisexual depends on the story.
* AscendedExtra: She becomes more prominent in ''The Adventures of Una Persson and Catherine Cornelius in the Twentieth Century'' (1976) and is the central figure in ''The Entropy Tango'' (1981)
* TheChanteuse: This aspect of her is seen more in ''The English Assassin.''
* DistaffCounterpart: To Jerry. They both share Catherine as a lover, and she eventually becomes Harlequin when he becomes Pierrot.
* IFightForTheStrongestSide: Inverted-- Una routinely gets infatuated with underdogs only to have the shine wear off as they acquire power. This is from being a...
* RebelliousSpirit: Even more so than Jerry.

!!Miss Brunner
Jerry's opposite number, big on order and authoritarianism (especially in the later stories).
* EvilRedhead: Her hair color is distinctive regardless of any other aspect of her looks.
* FoeRomanticSubtext: In ''The Final Programme'' she makes a point of seducing Jerry [[spoiler: and ultimately fuses with him sexually.]]
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: In the 1990s stories, "Baroness" Brunner becomes a blatant caricature of UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher.
* VampiricDraining: She's capable of bodily absorbing her sex partners in ''The Final Programme''.

!!Bishop Beesley
Another of Jerry's enemies, though more greedy and less formidable.
* BlackComedyCannibalism: During the peace talks party in ''The English Assassin'', he takes a ex-nun off to a bedroom for some private fun, which involves covering her with chocolate to lick off. Things get out of hand...
* FatBastard: The largest character in the books, probably even fatter than Mrs. C.
* SinisterMinister: Assuming he is not, in fact, defrocked.
* SinisterSweetTooth: He'll even snort sugar like it was cocaine, and it's just part of his generally gross nature.
* VillainousGlutton: Hell, his first reaction at a peace talks party is to gush about the food.

[[folder:Other Persons of Interest]]
Most of these characters show up in works after ''The Final Programme.'' They're listed in alphabetical order rather than order of appearance.

!!Sebastian Auchinek
A theatrical agent/music producer and sometimes antagonist to Jerry.
* AgingWouldBeHipster: Comes off this way in the "real-world" parts of ''The Condition of Muzak,'' especially when trying to get Jerry to come up with a more radio-[=/=]''Series/TopOfThePops''-friendly sound.
* YouHaveToHaveJews: He's the only character in any of the stories routinely and clearly described as Jewish.

!!Mitzi Beesley
Bishop Beesley's amazingly unpleasant daughter.
* DaddysLittleVillain: Just as rotten as he is, and more inclined to be violent.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Cute, blonde, and more than a bit gun-happy.
* ParentalIncest: She's seen pegging her dad in ''A Cure For Cancer''.

!!"Shaky" Mo(ses) Collier
A drinking (snorting, shooting, smoking) buddy of Jerry's. Also a demolitions expert and sometimes roadie.
* BombThrowingAnarchist: He loves his explosives.
* CanonImmigrant: Mo was actually a creation of author M. John Harrison.

!!"Flash" Gordon Gavin
* [[EarnYourTitle Earned His Title]]: Gordon's got a bit of a exposure habit. (And shows up as Lady Godiva (!!) at a Christmas costume ball.)

!!Professor Hythloday Hira
* BollywoodNerd: Possibly the UrExample given his work on the supercomputer in ''The Final Programme''. Otherwise very much the StereotypicalSouthAsianEnglish (though not an immigrant as such).

!!Spiro Koutrouboussis
%%* UpperClassTwit

!!Doctor Karen von Krupp
%%* DepravedDentist
%%* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor

!!Prinz Lobkowitz
%%* AristocratsAreEvil, or at least unreliable.

!!Major Nye
%%* OldSoldier

!!Colonel Pyat
* AscendedExtra: Eventually got his own tetralogy (The Pyat Quartet).
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