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Axis Mundi Character Sheet:

The Terran Goodwill Society:

Taylor Lucian Forsyth:

• Chaotic Good
• The Hero
• Idiot Hero (but he gets better...)
• The Messiah
• Friend to All Living Things
• Beware the Nice Ones
• Half-Human Hybrid (half-celestial, to put it simply)
• Elemental Powers (Light & Life)
• Chivalrous Pervert
• Heroic BSOD (after his first encounter with Starling, as well as after Paul's Face Heel Turn and after Vanessa leaves the team)
• Genre Blind (but he gets better...)

Paul Xavier Zheng:

• Neutral Evil
• The Lancer
• Token Evil Teammate (subverted; he gets away with quite a lot...)
• Manipulative Bastard
• Tarot Motifs (his main power)
• Anti-Hero
• Anti-Villain (yes, he somehow manages to be both-often at the same time...)
• Deadpan Snarker
• Troubled, but Cute
• Fallen Hero
• Start of Darkness
• Dangerously Genre Savvy

Sarah Jane McPherson:

• Neutral Good
• The Big Guy
• Team Mom
• Expy (of Sailor Jupiter)
• Most Common Superpower (Gotta get the culturally illiterate dollar somehow...)
• Boobs of Steel
• Soapbox Sadie
• Straw Feminist (averted)
• Boisterous Bruiser
• Badass Normal
• Charles Atlas Superpower (after the final battle with Starling)

Vanessa Corinne Huang:

• Anime Chinese Girl
• Lawful Neutral
• The Smart Guy
• Ojou
• Deadpan Snarker
• Shoot the Dog
• Foil (to Taylor and Sarah)
• Tsundere
• Dark Magical Girl
• Elemental Powers (Darkness)
• Dark Is Not Evil
• Yin Yang Bomb (along with Taylor)

A.J. Reinman:

• Chaotic Neutral
• The Chick (He IS their best practitioner of Social Fu...)
• Jumped at the Call
• Ascended Fanboy
• Cloudcuckoolander
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
• Bond One-Liner
• Odd Job God (of fandom and all it entails)
• Genre Savvy
• Squishy Wizard

Big Bads:

The Memester:

• Chaotic Neutral
• Anti-Villain
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
• Well-Intentioned Extremist (wants to find a home for the abandoned memes under his care to prevent them from disappearing forever)
• Villainous Harlequin
• Even Evil Has Standards
• Worthy Opponent (especially after the end of his story arc)

Papillon:

• Chaotic Neutral
• Meaningful Name
• Hidden Agenda Villain
• The Chessmaster
• Masquerade Motifs (If this trope didn't exist before, it does now!)
• Reverse Mole
• Evil Uncle (averted)
• Stealth Mentor
• Sink or Swim Mentor
• The Man Behind the Man (during The Memester's arc)
• Secret Identity (Henry C. Zheng)

Col. James N. Ratherton:

• Lawful Neutral
• Punch Clock Villain
• The Men in Black (along with the entire Terran Homeworld Defense League)
• Colonel Badass
• Fallen Hero
• Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!
• Officer and a Gentleman
• A Father to His Men
• Well-Intentioned Extremist (trying to protect reality from attackers from the realms of fiction)
• I Did What I Had to Do
• Shoot the Dog
• Heel Face Turn

H.D. Starling, III:

• Lawful Evil
• Light Is Not Good
• Playing with Fire (always paired with Light Is Not Good in my universe)
• Affably Evil
• Well-Intentioned Extremist (wants to save Western culture from what he perceives as an attack)
• Knight Templar
• Freudian Excuse
• Even Evil Has Standards
• Deus Exit Machina
• Fallen Hero
• Wicked Cultured
• Man of Wealth and Taste
• Worthy Opponent
• Enemy Mine (subverted; Starling tries for this against Paul, but gets told off by the TGS)
• Make Me Wanna Shout

Paul Xavier Zheng:

• Chaotic Evil
• Face Heel Turn
• Dual Wielding (Tarot decks)
• Medium Awareness
• Ax Crazy
• The Unfettered
• Even Evil Has Standards (subverted and parodied)
• Magnificent Bastard
• Übermensch
• The Starscream (to Ravenstahl)
• Wrath
• Revenge
• Card-Carrying Villain
• Bloodstained Glass Windows
• Karma Houdini

Lord Nothing:

• Neutral Evil
• Man Behind the Man (for all the other villains in the show comic)
• Eldritch Abomination
• Anthropomorphic Personification (of emotional numbness, as well as sorrow and agony)
• As Long as There Is Evil
• Evil Is Not a Toy
• Nietzsche Wannabe (basically their god)
• Gondor Calls for Aid (how the TGS responds after he whoops their kiesters)

Supporting Cast:

Jerome David Forsyth

• Chaotic Good
• Retired Badass
• Deadpan Snarker
• The Mentor
• Badass Biker
• Hidden Depths (has forgotten more about video games, anime, and other such topics than 99% of people ever learn)
• Ensemble Darkhorse (expressly designed to be one)
• The Woobie (after we learn what he went through to become such a badass)

Cherice Claire Du Lac:

• Neutral Good
• The Messiah
• Cloudcuckoolander
• Lethal Chef (good thing she and Jerome are rich, huh?)
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
• Magical Girl

Henry C. Zheng:

• Chaotic Neutral
• Badass Longcoat
• Stealth Mentor
• Trickster Mentor
• Sink or Swim Mentor
• The Philosopher
• Secret Identity (Papillon)
• I Did What I Had to Do
• Laughably Antiheroic
• Reverse Mole (as Papillon)

G.K. Ravenstahl/Revenant:

• Lawful Evil
• Amoral Attorney
• Ambulance Chaser
• Big Bad Wannabe (to the point of it being a Running Gag)
• Smug Snake
• Superpowered Evil Side
• Meaningful Name
• Manipulative Bastard
• Dirty Coward

Aratuz:

• Neutral Evil
• Odd Job God (of the dark side of shipping)
• The Legions of Hell
• The Brute (the position he tends to hold in evil ensembles)
• Genius Bruiser
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
• Small Name, Big Ego
• Unknown Rival (to Taylor)

Erin Chantille Kerr:

• Lawful Evil
• Dark Magical Girl
• Shock and Awe
• Psycho Electro
• Blow You Away
• Well-Intentioned Extremist (wants to end all conflict in both worlds by finding and empowering a lost narrative that includes all people that ever were, are, and will be, thus stripping everybody of their free will)
• Rival Turned Evil
• Ineffectual Loner
• Dating Batman (to Taylor)
• Enemy Mine (against Zheng, then she sticks around when Gondor Calls for Aid against Lord Nothing)

The Chessmaster:

• True Neutral
• The Hero/Big Bad (depending on which is needed to preserve the balance; also applies to the kings)
• The Chessmaster (well, DUH!!)
• Wild Card
• Chess Motifs
• Balance Keeper
• Anthropomorphic Personification (of strategy and tactics)
• Stupid Neutral
• More than Mind Control (the method by which he acquires his pieces)
• Redshirt Army/Quirky Miniboss Squad (the pawns)
• The Big Guy/The Brute (the rooks)
• The Smart Guy/Evil Genius (the bishops)
• The Chick/Dark Chick (the knights)
• The Lancer/The Dragon (the queens, referred to as "councillors" by The Chessmaster; also applies to the White and Black Fairies)

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