Characters sheet for Captain Britain and MI13
Main Characters
MI:13
Dane Whitman / Black Knight
Notable Aliases: D.W., Eobar Garrington, Gann Josin, The Pendragon
Nationality: American
Species: Human
First Appearance: Avengers #47 (December, 1967)
Eric Brooks / Blade
Notable Aliases: Blade: The Vampire Hunter, Bill, Daywalker, Dhampir, Edge, Hannibal Francis "Frank" Blade, Ronin, Sorcerer Supreme, Spider Hero, Subject AA 1, Switchblade, Wesley
Nationality: British, English
Species: Dhampir
First Appearance: Tomb of Dracula #10 (July, 1973)
Dr. Roderick "Rory" Campbell
Notable Aliases: Famine, Ahab
Nationality: American
Species: Human mutate
First Appearance: Excalibur #72 (December, 1993)
Brian Braddock / Captain Britain
Notable Aliases: Bee, "Britain", Britanic, Black Bishop, Black Knight, Cap, Captain Britain, Captain Britain-616, Captain Wakanda, C.B., Custodian, Fast Buck, "Jungle Man", King of Otherworld, Lionheart of Avalon, "Lord Fancy-Crack, Ponce Protector Of The Shire", Merlinson, Prince Brian, "Stranger", Squire, The Young Lion Of London, Captain Avalon
Nationality: English
Species: Half-Otherworlder, Half-human
First Appearance: Captain Britain #1
Sid Ridley / Captain Midlands
Nationality: British
Species: Enhanced Human
First Appearance: Wisdom #1 (January, 2007)
The English equivalent of an aged Captain America. He works for MI-13 under Pete Wisdom.
- Catchphrase: "You can't stop Captain Midlands!"
- Expy: He's a spoof version of Captain America, with the same origin story and a shield (and a helmet reminiscent of Ultimate Cap), but as an irritable old git instead.
- Shotgun Wedding: He implies that he was forced to marry a girl after he "got her knocked up".
- Funetik Aksent: Very Funky, the writers probably had some fun with writing it.
Constance
Species: Human
First Appearance: House of M The Day After #1 (January, 2006)
Constance was an MI:13 agent who told Pete Wisdom that he had kept his mutant powers intact after M-Day
- Only One Name: Her full name was never revealed.
Shevaun Haldane / Dark Angel
Notable Aliases: Hell's Angel
Nationality: British
Species: Human Mutate
First Appearance: Hell's Angel #1 (July, 1992)
Shevaun Haldane became the hero known as Dark Angel shortly after witnessing her father's death at the hands of Mephisto and discovering Mys-Tech's occult ties.
Minion / Death's Head
Notable Aliases: Blue, D.H., Death’s Head, Hood, Outlaw
Species: Human cyborg
First Appearance: Death's Head II #1 (March, 1992)
Created in the year 2020 by Dr. Evelyn Necker of A.I.M., Death's Head II's psyche consists of over a hundred different personalities - including the mind of the original Death's Head robot.
Jonathan Bryant / Digitek
Notable Aliases: 'The Singularity'
Nationality: British
First Appearance: Digitek #1 (December, 1992)
Jonathan Bryant was shot when the program he was working for was besieged by unknown operatives, he was somehow transformed when the project was hit with a stray bullet.
Faiza Hussain / Excalibur
Nationality: English
Species: Human mutate
First Appearance: Captain Britain and MI-13 #1 (July, 2008)
Faiza Hussain is a British Pakistani Muslim doctor who gained super powers when hit by a Skrull laser whilst attending the wounded on the streets of London during the Skrull invasion of Earth. These powers appear to give Faiza a huge amount of control over matter at a sub-atomic level. So far she has shown the ability to completely deconstruct a human body into its base parts while keeping the person alive. She was also able to stop the motor functions of several Skrulls at once in order to assist Black Knight in a fight.
- Audience Surrogate: She’s supposed to represent the audience viewpoint.
- Cool Sword: She wields the legendary sword Excalibur.
- Healing Hands: The primary use of her powers, though potentially also a subversion: she has control over living organisms; so she could use her powers to kill if she wanted.
- Jumped at the Call: All she had to do was convince her parents...
- Light Is Good: Her clothes are usually white and she's a kind person and a good doctor.
- The Medic: She's a doctor and she has super powers that can be used to heal.
- Most Common Superpower: Averted. She's not particularly busty.
- Not Wearing Tights: Faiza sticks to civilian clothes.
- Until she started wearing knightly armour, of course
- Superhero Sobriquets: "The sword that heals".
- Technical Pacifist: She won't use her powers or her sword to kill. Demons don't count.
- They're called Mindless Ones for a reason.
- Twofer Token Minority: Although her creator, Paul Cornell, insists that he doesn't like the way superheroes are forced to be "standard bearers for whole communities" and he wants to make more of her than just another Captain Ethnic.
Farissa
Nationality: British
Species: Human
First Appearance: House of M: The Day After #1 (January, 2006)
A Muslim member of MI:13.
- One-Shot Character: Only appeared in one issue and has never reappeared.
John the Skrull
Nationality: Skrull Empire
Species: Skrull
First Appearance: Wisdom #1 (January, 2007)
John the Skrull was an alien invader who was sent to Earth when Beatlemania was at its height, intending to use their enormous popularity to Take Over the World. Things got a bit out of hand, and the Skrull Beatles found that their lives were turning into an Affectionate Parody of the lives of The Beatles, complete with their version of Yoko Ono (Captain Boko of the Kree Liberation Army) and eventually disbanded. Naturally, John the Skrull soon found himself warming to humanity and decided that he rather liked this Insignificant Little Blue Planet. He joined MI:13 to try and protect the Earth (specifically the UK) from paranormal threats. He was killed during the Skrull invasion of Earth.
- Defector from Decadence: Defector of the Skrulls.
- Humanity Ensues: Time with humans made him moral and compassionate.
- Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: From the Skrull perspective, anyway.
- Shapeshifter: Like his race he is this.
- Shapeshifter Weapon: What he can turns his form into.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: No involuntary shifting in his shapeshifting.
- We Hardly Knew Ye
Julius Mullarkey / Killpower
Nationality: Hell
Species: Transgenic Human
First Appearance: Motormouth #1 (June, 1992)
Killpower was genetically engineered by Mys-Tech's mad scientist Dr. Oonagh Mullarkey as a prototype fast-growing, throwaway super-soldier; tough, strong and not too bright, Motormouth's friendship made him a hero.
Meggan Braddock, née Puceanu / Gloriana
Notable Aliases:
Nationality: English
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: Mighty World of Marvel Vol 2 #7 (December, 1983)
Scott Wright / Micromax
Notable Aliases: Microjerk, Mr. Right, Tom Thumb
Nationality: British
Species: Human Mutant
First Appearance: Excalibur #44 (November, 1991)
Micromax, with his mastery of self size-manipulation, teamed up with Excalibur for a short time. More recently he became a part of Vanguard; a black ops anti-terror squad.
Rana Mousabi
Nationality: Indian, British
Species: Human
First Appearance: New Excalibur #4 (April, 2006)
A member of MI:13.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Introduced and killed on the same issue.
Harley Davis / Motormouth
Nationality: British
Species: Human cyborg
First Appearance: Motormouth #1 (June, 1992)
A British superhero with an attitude.
Oliver Orwell / O
Nationality: British
Species: Human
First Appearance: Wisdom #1 (January, 2007)
The quartermaster for Britain's MI:13.
- Alliterative Name: Oliver Orwell.
Maureen Raven
Nationality: British
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: Wisdom #1 (January, 2007)
Maureen is a clairsentient working for MI-13 under Pete Wisdom.
Lady Jacqueline Falsworth-Crichton / Spitfire
Nationality: British
Species: Human vampire mutant
- See the Invaders: WWII Recruits page.
Alistaire Stuart
Notable Aliases: Stewart
Nationality: British
Species: Human mutate
First Appearance: Excalibur #6 (March, 1989)
Alistaire Stuart is the twin brother of Alysande Stuart, and ally of Excalibur.
Tangerine
Nationality: British
Species:
First Appearance: Captain Britain and MI-13 #15 (September, 2009)
A British superhuman of unknown origin, Tangerine was a member of MI13 auxiliary. After battling the Mandarin, she was called in for the conflict with Dracula and his lunar vampire hordes.
- Canon Immigrant: She's the Prime Universe version of two Tangerines that were introduced during both Days of Future Past and Days of Future Tense
- Color Character: Tangerine, which is a shade of orange.
- Cool Shades: All her versions are seen wearing shades.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: She's only known as Tangerine.
- Punny Name: Not in isolation, but writer Paul Cornell was clearly amused by the citrus-pun of Tangerine fighting the Mandarin.
Tinkabelinos Hardleg / Tink
Nationality: Avalon (Otherworld)
Species: Fairy
First Appearance: Wisdom #1 (January, 2007)
Tink is a fairy dissident working for MI-13 under Pete Wisdom. Tink is the daughter of the fairy king Oberon. She was cast out of her home of Avalon to live amongst humans. In Earth realm, she joined Pete Wisdom's superhuman team MI:13, as one of the original members of the team
- Amicable Exes: Took them some time but she and Pete eventually become this.
- The Bus Came Back: After an absence of over a decade, she returns in a 2022 issue of Shang-Chi and the Ten Rings.
- Cool Shades: More than once she's been seen with sunglasses.
- Fashionable Asymmetry: She only wears a spiked shoulder-pad on her right shoulder.
Peter "Pete" Paul Wisdom
Nationality: English
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: Excalibur #86 (February, 1995)
Pete Wisdom was an agent for the British government organization Black Air, a group that conducted research and investigation of supernatural phenomena. Now Pete is the director of MI13, the department of the UK government that handles supernatural threats.
- Alternate Company Equivalent: There's an old fan theory that he was an attempt to make Marvel's equivalent to John Constantine. In terms of personality, this isn't far off. In terms of position, however, he's closer to Maxwell Lord prior to his Face–Heel Turn, or as Director MI13, Amanda Waller.
- Author Avatar: Of Warren Ellis while he was writing him. Probably why no one else could quite write him the same afterwards.
- The Atoner: For his Black Air days.
- Badass in a Nice Suit: Before and after he ditches the trench-coat.
- Badass Longcoat: He eventually ditches it, to become a Badass in a Nice Suit.
- Character Development: Pete Wisdom has abandoned the trenchcoats and the cigarettes, given up the drinking and womanising (well... mostly) and most of the cynical attitude. He comes across as having been shaken by his experiences; he's gotten more professional, wiser and sadder than he was before. There were signs of this in the Pryde/Wisdom limited series and this has continued into Captain Britain and MI:13. He reverts a little during his appearances in Gambit, though this probably has a lot to do with having to deal with the titular character, who enjoys winding people up.
- Deadpan Snarker: Pete Wisdom started off as a jaded, cynical snarker. During Tieri's short run on New Excalibur he became the butt of the humour. In the Wisdom miniseries and Captain Britain and MI: 13 he gets a few snappy lines but for the most part he seems to be playing Straight Man to the weirdness of the rest of the team.
- Eyepatch of Power: When he got one in X-Force, though it turned out that he didn't need it. He was only wearing it to invoke this trope. And for its effect on the ladies.
- Faking the Dead: His friends saw him get shot in the head. They mourned him and held a funeral for him. He turned up, months later, Not Quite Dead. Apparently, it was all some kind of trick.
- Famed In-Story: Gambit notes before they meet that while he doesn't know Wisdom personally, he's heard a lot of stories - which usually involve someone dying and Wisdom walking away. During Vampire State, Norman Osborn states that he considers Wisdom 'a fellow player'. Wisdom is not in the slightest bit pleased.
- Handsome Lech: Frank Tieri flanderized him into a Kavorka Man.
- Heartbroken Badass/Hitman with a Heart: He used to be part of an amoral government-funded Black Ops organization, until he decided that they had crossed the Moral Event Horizon, and that he had to quit. His employers weren't exactly pleased with this.
- Knight in Sour Armour: He's grumpy, foul-mouthed and somewhat amoral, but he is ultimately dedicated to the defense of the realm.
- The Lancer: To Brian, being more collected and pragmatic to Brian’s straight up hero.
- Manipulative Bastard: He plays Dracula like a harp in Vampire State.
- May–December Romance: With Kitty Pryde. She was approximately 18 at the time, but he's (apparently) older than Colossus, so the large age gap is still there.
- Not Wearing Tights: Everyone else can wear what they like, but Pete Wisdom sticks with his suit.
- Nineties Antihero: This faded away over time, during his time with Excalibur.
- Playing with Fire: His mutant power to to create knifelike spouts of flame from his fingertips.
- Really Gets Around: A downplayed example, but save for when he's dating Kitty, he's rarely seen with the same woman twice.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: He tolerates Gambit and grudgingly believes him when he says he was being compelled to help steal MI13's arsenal (the evidence of the explosive cuff with a listening device attached to his leg helped).
- Secret Public Identity: His name is public but his real identityis a secret.
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: Exceptionally foul-mouthed, which contrasts him with the relatively clean-cut X-Men.
- Smoking Is Cool: He eventually ditched the cigarettes.
- Suddenly Bilingual: In the Wisdom miniseries he gives a scathingly xenophobic speech, in English, in a Welsh bar, deliberately provoking a brawl with Drake and his gang. Then, once the fighting's delegated to Shang-Chi, he wanders outside and drops into fluent Welsh to chat to Dai Thomas.
- The Spymaster: Runs MI13, Britain's superhuman branch of the secret service.
- Trenchcoat Brigade: In the original Excalibur series.
Joseph Chapman / Union Jack III
