Child of the Storm: Civilians / Characters

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Civilians

Not part of a team or a notable organisation, these individuals who are more ordinary in terms of personal/political power. Yet in many ways, they're even more extraordinary because of it.

Lex Luthor

Alexander 'Lex' Luthor

Actually, I was going to offer the services of my lawyers.

Young, bald super genius with few friends. Largely based off his Smallville incarnation, and currently a good guy. That said, he is kind of terrifying if someone bothers/upsets Carol. As in, you'll be put on a flight to Guantanamo Bay. Needless to say, he requires a Morality Chain, every now and then.

Abusive Parents: Everything anyone has to say depicts Lionel as a total Jerkass. His mother is unmentioned.
Adaptational Heroism: Like on the early seasons of Smallville, but somewhat more moral since he's got a few more friends than that incarnation, particularly Carol, who acts as his Morality Chain. The fact Clark doesn't lie to him about what he can do helps (as does the fact that Lex's differing experiences meant he figured it out). That said, he specialises in Disproportionate Retribution and as the second book hints, has a worrying Lack of Empathy towards those he doesn't see as 'his' people.
Deadpan Snarker: He's good enough to keep up with both Carol and Harry in Snark-to-Snark Combat, so he's no slouch.
Disproportionate Retribution: As part of his Knight Templar Big Brother shtick.
The Gadfly: Enjoys teasing Carol, Clark, and Harry, particularly in the sequel.
Healing Factor: A very downplayed one, but due to the radiation from the meteor shower, he never gets sick and thinks that he heals from wounds a little faster than normal.
I Owe You My Life: Says this to Clark, and with the associated Declaration of Protection.
Knight Templar Big Brother: Towards Carol, and later develops this attitude towards Clark. Its effectiveness is deconstructed, as is the attitudes it implies - Clark, for instance, starts worrying about what Lex might do to his father if Lionel moved against him [Clark].
Lack of Empathy: While he's extraordinarily loyal to/protective of 'his' people, Harry notes that he has a worrying degree of this to people outside that circle.
Like Brother and Sister: Acts as Carol's slightly morally detached Knight Templar Big Brother, to her occasional chagrin.
Likes Older Women: Ends up dating Sue Storm, who's a few years older than him, after Harry contrives to set them up.
Morality Chain: Carol serves as this, due to the above, as does Clark, to a lesser extent.
Moral Myopia: See Lack of Empathy. If you're one of his, you're more than fine. If not, his attitude is likely to be affable indifference, at best.
Non-Action Guy: In comparison to pretty much all of Harry's friends and family, who range from Badass Normal to Cosmic Entity, his physical abilities are pretty average, nor does he have any superpowers beyond a (possible) slight Healing Factor.
Once Done, Never Forgotten: The Guantanamo Bay one-way trip incident. When he proposes to help Harry with some problems, Carol immediately forbids him to put anyone on a plane, only for him to protest he was going to suggest loaning Harry his lawyers instead.
Shipper on Deck: For Clark/Lana. Harry notes that this is more out of a desire for Clark to be happy than close analysis.
The Smart Guy: He's conversant in the hard sciences on the same rough level as Tony Stark, Jane Foster, Hank Pym, T'Challa, Susan Storm and Reed Richards. Jean-Paul cites this to the Kents as why there's no point in trying to conceal Clark's powers from him after Clark saved him from drowning.
Super-Intelligence: See above. His intellectual chops earn him serious respect from Loki, which is all that needs to be said.
Technically a Smile: Harry inwardly notes after seeing the smile in question that most people would do whatever the smile said so long as it left them alone. Even toned down in Ghosts, it still has "too many teeth for comfort."
Terror Hero: A mild variant - not only is he protective of Carol, but it's noted that, on her various escapades, there's usually someone that needs scaring and that he rather enjoys it. And then there was the incident with the one way trip to Guantanamo Bay. He extends the same kind of protectiveness to Clark, who at one point uneasily wonders just how far Lex might go to protect him from Lionel.
"Well Done, Son" Guy: Subtle, but there. Lionel Luthor is not a good father, and consequently Lex goes looking for approval from the likes of Tony Stark, Brigadier Jack O'Neill, and Loki.

Waldo Butters

A mortician who sometimes helps out Harry Dresden when he gets hurt, and plays a minor part in the Bloody Hell arc alongside Magneto and Harry Dresden, working as Sue's drummer.

Adapted Out: Very nearly, due to most of Dead Beat being reduced to an Offscreen Moment of Awesome. See Bit Character.
Bit Character: Has only one scene, in chapter 32, and a non-speaking cameo in the following chapter.
Nice Guy: In stark contrast to most Marvel citizens, when he finds out about magic and mutants, he's not scared of them - well, he's scared of the Necromancer who tried to capture him, but he's fascinated by the whole thing otherwise.

Ivan Petrovich

Ivan Petrovitch

An old friend, mentor and Parental Substitute to Natasha, and a fellow defector from the Red Room, as well as a fellow recipient of the Infinity Formula. Formerly in retirement in Reykjavik, he later comes to live in New York, and is an excellent intelligence analyst and information broker. With the possible exception of Natasha, he is the authority on the Red Room.

Adaptational Heroism: This version doesn't look like going insane any time soon.
The Ageless: Thanks to the Infinity Formula. He's over a hundred years old and he doesn't look a day over forty.
Cool Old Guy: This is the guy who can affectionately snark at Natasha and give her relationship advice without fearing for life and limb.
Crazy-Prepared: Let's just say that Natasha came by her preparedness honestly.
Deadpan Snarker: From time to time.
Information Broker: Even in retirement he keeps up with current affairs and is usually several steps ahead of the game - so much so that both HYDRA and the Red Room want to forcibly recruit him (or in the case of the Red Room, reclaim him) and are willing to kill him rather than risk him being taken by the enemy.
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: A non-romantic example, as he urges Natasha to let someone into her heart and stop being afraid of losing them, as she did the Winter Soldier and nearly lost Clint.
Mr. Exposition: Serves as this to explain the history and aims of the Red Room.
Nerves of Steel: Nothing especially fazes him, not even an angry Thor. It is therefore a mark of how bad things could get when the mention of Project Krasnyy Syn being resurrected makes him go white as a sheet.
Parental Substitute: To Natasha, who he refers to as Natalia and who he can read like a book - something that makes him unique among the cast. He not only snarks at her affectionately from time to time, but gives her relationship advice and gets away with it.
Small Role, Big Impact: Only has a few appearances, but they serve to provide a lot of vital information about the Red Room.
The Smart Guy: Of the ex-Red Room personnel. He's got a near Eidetic Memory and he's a master Information Broker, being amongst those who trained Natasha.
Undying Loyalty: The Red Room recognised this, but didn't realise that it was exclusively to Natasha, not to them.

Bruce Wayne

The teenage heir to Wayne Enterprises and fearsomely intelligent apprentice to Harry Dresden. While he has no magic of his own, his intellect, gift for investigation and knowledge of magical theory more than make up for it. Word of God claims that he isn't going to be Batman, a claim that has been treated with deep scepticism.

The Ace: He's a highly skilled hand to hand combatant, extremely talented investigator and expert on magical theory.
Amazon Chaser: In terms of his crush on Murphy, his terrifying tiny martial arts teacher.
Awesome Ego: His online persona of Mr Knight is described as this by Chloe Sullivan - he's got an ego, yes, but he's got the brains and know-how to back it up.
Badass Bookworm: While he's showing signs of developing into a Genius Bruiser, his intellect is emphasised over his physical skills (because he's still a relatively slight teenager). By the time he's 15, he's figured out how to buffer technology against magical interference and Harry Thorson compares his grasp of thaumaturgy to a fully fledged member of the White Council. Oh, and he's apparently capable of summoning Mab, despite not having any magical abilities of his own.
Badass Normal: Doesn't have any powers, and as far as he's concerned, he doesn't need them either. Considering that in the sequel, he's mentioned as running off an exceptionally powerful necromancer and her combat trained ghoul with just a flashbang, you can see why.
Black Knight: Picks this for his avatar picture online, as a Visual Pun to go with his Online Alias. Clark Kent thinks it's a bit much.
Car Fu: Deploys the Tumbler to excellent effect against the Mabdhara.
Deadpan Snarker: Usually at Dresden's expense.
Didn't Think This Through: In the first book. By the sequel, he's mostly got over this - while he does still take on a powerful necromancer and her pet ghoul to protect Dresden, he at least uses a flashbang to do it. Additionally, in his online 'Mr Knight' persona, he warns Chloe Sullivan about doing something similarly risky in the Mirror Image arc after he figures out what's going on.
Hot for Teacher: Dresden observes that he's got a crush on Karrin Murphy, his martial arts teacher.
In Harm's Way: Seems to like putting himself in this, partly because he's an adrenaline junkie, partly, as Wanda observes, because he doesn't really know how bad it can get and thinks it's a grand adventure and partly, it is implied, as marker of the Knight Errant that he will become.
Lighter and Softer: Is considerably more sane than his canon counterpart since his parents are alive (thanks to Dresden). Because of this, Word of God has insisted (somewhat unconvincingly) that he isn't going to be Batman.
Online Alias: Refers to himself as 'Mr Knight' online, appearing in that capacity during Harry and Clark's mini-arc in the sequel to provide a few theories and suggestions.
Refuge in Audacity: He once tried to whistle up Mab (Queen of the Winter Court of the Fae, who even Thor and Loki tread lightly around) because he wanted to have a chat.
Sarcastic Devotee: To Dresden, though he always listens to Dresden when it matters and wants his approval.
Stealth Hi/Bye: Of course. Dresden observes that unless carefully observed, Bruce can vanish from under even the most observant of noses. Even Thomas, a vampire capable of this himself, is surprised at how quietly he can move, and the only one who can reliably catch him at it is Murphy.
Tall, Dark, and Handsome: He's noted to be growing into this in the first book.
Teen Genius: Invented a method for shielding technology from magical disruption, something previously only achieved by SHIELD and Tony Stark (though it took him rather longer).

Oracle

A mysterious and extremely talented young hacker who is first mentioned being mentored by Skye, a very skilled hacker in her own right, with a specific interest in high-end tech and organised crime. She's mentioned from time to time throughout the second half of Child of the Storm and Ghosts. Her identity is so far unknown - however, it has been implied that she is, in fact, Barbara Gordon.

Age Lift: If she is Barbara Gordon herself, the fact that she's a contemporary of Bruce Wayne means that she's several years older than in the comics, where she was around the same age as Bruce's first adopted son.
The Ghost: Mentioned in passing about halfway through Child of the Storm as Skye's protege, a very talented young hacker who she's keeping on the straight and narrow. She is mentioned from time to time thereafter, but doesn't appear onscreen (and even then, only through a computer screen), until chapter 57 of Ghosts.
Good Is Not Soft: Though we don't know much about her, the fact that she was both willing and able to help Skye wage electronic warfare against the Red Room says quite a lot.
Playful Hacker: Most of the time, though it's demonstrated on several occasions that she's pretty dangerous - she's mentioned as being involved in dismantling the Red Room, and gets access to some US government proposals on how to contain superpowered individuals with frightening ease.
Teen Genius: She's indicated to be a world-class hacker, at least on par with her notably brilliant mentor, Skye. She's also part of a forum of them, which is how she makes her debut.

Peter Parker

The boy who will (probably) one day become Spider-Man, a teenager in Carol's class, and stated by Word of God to more or less have "the worst luck in the story." Considering that this is a story including Harry, Doom Magnet by design, this is really saying something. In Unfinished Business, he gets his spider-powers.

Adaptation Origin Connection: Here, his powers as Spider-Man don't entirely come from a spider bite. After being part-turned by the Grey Court, and having the vampire part of him burned out by drinking Harry's blood due to the Phoenix fire in it, some traits lingered. Unfinished Business then reveals that being bitten by a magic super spider from Project Pegasus - which was trying to create Super Soldiers - the remnants of his vampirism were reactivated, making him more closely resemble Spider-Man 2099.
Badass Bookworm: During Bloody Hell, after being freed of Mind Control by first Syrus, his sire, then Dracula, he's not only willing to get involved in fighting the Grey Court, but, being a Dhampyr, surprisingly effective. He's also very studious, implied to be 'Shutterbug', part of an online group of teen geniuses, and it's hinted that he retained at least some Grey Court related abilities after the vampire in him was burned out - at the very least, he no longer needs glasses.
- In Unfinished Business he gains spider-powers mixed with vampire traits; a mix of normal 616 abilities and Spider-Man 2099. He then does surprisingly well in the ensuing mess, but his inexperience is highlighted and brutally exposed.
Bad Liar: He is absolutely terrible at it, though he's just about good enough to fool Ned with a semi-plausible explanation. Up to a point.
Beware the Nice Ones: A glimpse of this appears in chapter 7 of Unfinished Business, after it's discovered that Nimue has turned Carol into a tree, something presumed at the time to have killed her. Monica's point of view notes that while even the re-emergence of his vampiric traits following the spider-bite didn't faze anyone other than him very much, now she can see why he was scared of what he might have become.
Brainwashed and Crazy: Under Syrus' control. Dracula just outright possesses him.
But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Inverted. While Bloody Hell was just one dramatic experience among many for Harry (and to a lesser extent, for Carol), it was literally the worst experience of Peter's life and leaves a mark on him months later.
Butt-Monkey: Carol inwardly and sympathetically refers to him as being the "class kickball."
Composite Character: He resembles a mixture of his Ultimate, 616, and MCU counterparts.
Cosmic Plaything: He gets picked on constantly at school, and is nearly turned into a vampire, only being saved by Harry's intervention. Then it gets very literal in Unfinished Business, when the Green Lantern Ring decides to involve him.
Crush Blush: A little, when Gwen Stacy teases him over how she apparently smelled like hot cocoa when he was a Dhampyr.
Deadpan Snarker: As per usual, once he's freed of his Mind Control. It's partly compensation, as Unfinished Business reveals that he's still somewhat traumatised by what the transformation was doing to him.
Demonic Possession: At the hands of Dracula.
Dhampyr: Was one of these during Bloody Hell, before being cured, and was less than a day from turning fully. The lingering after-effects still qualify him, more or less.
Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: As a Dhampyr, and a little bit afterwards.
Foreshadowing: As a Dhampyr under Dracula's control, at one point the narration describes him as clinging to a wall 'like a spider.' Hmm.
The Glasses Gotta Go: He doesn't actually need them... or so it seems. It turns out in Unfinished Business that he does need them, or contacts, to conceal his very reddish coloured eyes.
He's All Grown Up: After becoming a Dhampyr and being cured, with the residual effects, he's noted by some of Carol's team-mates to be quite cute.
Hidden Depths: While he seems like a normal teenager with a Motor Mouth, he's actually very brave (still terrified of monsters, for good reason, but willing to go up against them anyway) and highly intelligent.
Horror Hunger: As a Dhampyr, he was developing the vampiric hunger for blood - which, in various people, had various different scents and tastes. This included his best friends, his aunt and uncle, and Ada, which led to the understandable reaction of wanting to vomit despite being tempted.
Mind Control: Is controlled first by Syrus, who turned him, then by Dracula.
Motor Mouth: He apparently makes Harry, an example in his own right, look positively serene and stoic by comparison. In Unfinished Business, we get confirmation of this in a scene from his point of view - his levels of mental gabble are incredible.
Nice Guy: Most of the time, he's about as sweet and gentle as they come.
Not Distracted by the Sexy: While he acknowledges that she's very attractive, he's one of the few straight guys not attracted to Carol because thanks to Bloody Hell and events prior to the series (when he caught her on a bad day) he's a bit scared of her.
Not Quite Back to Normal: Unfinished Business reveals that while Harry's blood cured him, it left him with low-level Super-Senses (including excellent night-vision), slightly-more-than-human abilities (which later turn out to be strong enough to crater concrete), and a taste for very rare meat. Oh, and decidedly reddish eyes, which he usually hides with contact lenses. He's not entirely comfortable with any of it. Then he gets the Spider Bite.
Online Alias: In the sequel he's hinted to go by 'Shutterbug', and part of an online group of Teen Geniuses that includes 'Mr Knight' (Bruce Wayne), 'Oracle' (Barbara Gordon), 'Science Queen' (Unknown), 'Torchbearer' (Chloe Sullivan), 'Shadowcat' (Kitty Pryde), as well as their former mentor, 'Skye' (Daisy Johnson).
Scars Are Forever: His burn scar from contact with Carol's shield is splayed across his chest and only very slowly fading.
Unskilled, but Strong: As a Dhampyr and after, he's got no training, and he's pretty much running off raw instinct - instinct augmented by predator reflexes and spider-sense from Unfinished Business onwards. While this usually serves him well, his inexperience is brutally exposed when he's up against a symbiote.
Super-Senses: He had serious super-senses as a Grey Court Dhampyr. As revealed in Unfinished Business, this included the ability to hear heartbeats from a distance, near Vein-o-Vision, and other people smelling very strongly of certain kinds of food, something which made him both very uncomfortable and hungry. Unfinished Business implies that he kept some of the senses, including enhanced hearing and night-vision and they get firmly amplified after the bite, with his Spider-Sense manifesting much like contact with a spider's web.
Teen Genius: As per canon, and part of an online group of them.
Took a Level in Badass: As a Dhampyr, before partly declining again after he's cured (he's Not Quite Back to Normal), and then in Unfinished Business he becomes Spider-Man, with powers influenced by Spider-Man 2099.
Vein-o-Vision: Explains that he was developing this as a Dhampyr.

Monica Rambeau

One of Carol's classmates at Midtown High and teammate on its women's football team, she's arguably Carol's Muggle Best Friend. However, events call into question just how much of a 'muggle' she really is...

Ambiguously Human: Her mother was involved with Project Pegasus and she's on the Index, being name-dropped by Alexander Pierce as a potential Young Avenger. Unfinished Business reveals that she has powers, albeit being decidedly vague on how they work - though it's confirmed that the very least, she can break spells even by heavyweight practitioners fairly easily and proves capable of detaching Pandora's Box from the rift at the heart of Pegasus and sealing that rift, depowering Nimue.
Brutal Honesty: She's arguably even more prone to this towards Carol than Carol is towards Harry, which takes some doing.
Deadpan Snarker: She's one of Carol's best friends, and easily snarky enough to not only keep up with her, but leave her genuinely flustered - something even Jean-Paul rarely manages.
Early-Bird Cameo: In the first book, she's name-dropped in passing by Alexander Pierce as a candidate for the Young Avengers Initiative. It's still unclear why - while she does have powers, they aren't very obvious. Unfinished Business, however, reveals that they have vast potential as she's ultimately the one who cuts off Nimue's powers and seals Project Pegasus for good, and Harry indicates that that's only the tip of the iceberg once he realises just how got them: she's empowered by the Tesseract. The last person empowered by an Infinity Stone was Doctor Strange.
Female Gaze: Has no compunction about checking out Harry and commenting that while he doesn't obviously look like his father, "that ass is literally divine." Cue a mortified shriek from Carol. This may have been the intended result.
The Gadfly: She enjoys winding Carol up, especially regarding her friendship (relationship) with Harry.
Heart Is an Awesome Power: As far as she initially understands it, her powers are basically unlocking things and hotwiring cars. They're actually derived from the Tesseract, and have potentially vast applications, with direct comparisons being made to Doctor Strange, who was also altered by an Infinity Stone - and given what his powers have made him capable of, there's a good reason for Harry's stunned reaction when he realises the connection.
Lovable Coward: Played for Laughs, when she drily finishes Carol's semi-serious warning that if they're "attacked by super ghost planes..." (It Makes Sense in Context) with "... then I'll be heading over the hills and far away." As it turns out, her actual reaction is quite the opposite.
Master of Unlocking: How her powers initially manifest, though they're closer to a Semantic Superpower.
Only Sane Woman: In Unfinished Business, though she rolls with the weirdness remarkably well.
Semantic Superpower: Implied. While she initially thinks that all she can really do with her powers is unlock things, it's proven on several occasions that 'unlock' can be applied in many, many ways. These include hot-wiring motorbikes, revealing hidden features in enchanted objects, breaking very powerful spells, and ultimately sealing the rift at the heart of Project Pegasus for good. Also, according to Word of God, she can separate mantles of power from their bearers, subtracting the 'im' from an 'immortal'. This perhaps makes more sense given that magic is involved and they're eventually confirmed to be derived from the Tesseract.
Simple, yet Awesome: Her powers of unlocking and separating things don't sound that awesome... until you realize that "things" can range from motorbikes to magic spells. She's barely begun to scratch the surface of her abilities.
Spanner in the Works: To Nimue's plans in Unfinished Business, by Strange's design - her arrival prevents the heroes from being taken off the board early on, and the mysterious nature of her powers is critical to both getting into/through Pegasus and saving the team's lives twice.
Vitriolic Best Buds: With Carol, who occasionally questions why they're actually friends.
Monica: Don't ask me. It's like the universe said, 'here's this girl with more prickles than a cactus. Go and give her a hug'.
The Watson: In her appearances in Ghosts and especially in Unfinished Business, she's the one the others explain things to.

Jonathan and Martha Kent

The very understanding and morally upright adoptive parents of Clark Kent, who were specifically selected by Jor-El for their good character. They prove to be excellent choices, rolling remarkably well with the weirdness that their son attracts.

Almighty Mom: Both of them, really, with Clark behaving impeccably for them, and Jean-Paul, Lex, and Harry moderating their behaviour (the latter two go through some entertaining verbal contortions to avoid swearing).
Good Parents: To Clark, as Alison notes, taking all the weirdness and challenges of raising a teenage alien with aplomb and raising him to be The Cape.
- In the Clark and Harry mini-arc in the sequel, their response to Clark's travails and risks (and Harry's, though he's much better able to handle himself) is to ensure that before they go out to fight evil, they dress up warm and eat vast bowls of chicken soup. Harry finds this both heartwarming and hilarious.
Happily Married: They love each other dearly.
Incorruptible Pure Pureness: They're not totally perfect, but they're pretty damn close - this inherent decency was why they were selected to be Clark's parents.
Muggle Foster Parents: As usual. They're human, Clark is Kryptonian.
Open-Minded Parent: Both of them, more than most necessarily expect, especially with Jonathan, who's Smallville born and bred (unlike the more cosmopolitan Martha). He lampshades it when he thinks the very Camp Gay Jean-Paul is about to admit feelings for Clark, and he's fine with it. As it happens, Jean-Paul's attitude to Clark is closer to Big Brother Instinct and he consequently finds the assumption hilarious.
- While Jonathan and Lionel Luthor loathe each other, unlike Smallville canon, Jonathan has nothing against Lex - probably because Lex has proved he can be trusted.
Parental Substitutes: They're among the very best.
Team Mom/Team Dad: They're demonstrated playing this role, not just to their actual son, but to Jean-Paul and Harry.
Upbringing Makes the Hero: Invoked by Jor-El (though his immediate concern was foster-parents who would love Clark) and later by Alison Carter.

Chloe Sullivan

Best friend of Clark Kent, talented amateur hacker, and extremely driven young journalist with a passion for uncovering the world of the weird (which, naturally, is rather uncomfortable for Clark). However, it turns out that she's a much better Secret-Keeper than you'd think...

Action Survivor: She's a would-be intrepid journalist who's constantly in the middle of meteor mutant related trouble in Smallville - even with Clark watching her back, this is just about the only way she'd survive. She demonstrates this in the Clark and Harry mini-arc in Ghosts.
Badass Bookworm: She's not a fighter, but she's very intelligent and very brave.
Character Development: In her very first appearance, she was obsessed with reporting on 'meteor freaks'. After secretly seeing Clark demonstrate his powers and assuming that he's mutated the same way, she re-examines her previous opinions and consciously refers to them as 'meteor mutants' instead.
Childhood Friend Romance: She'd like to have one of these with Clark. Clark is unfortunately oblivious to anyone who isn't Lana Lang... and possibly Lois Lane. Chloe's cousin. Oh dear.
Interspecies Friendship: With Clark, though she'd like it to be an Interspecies Romance.
Online Alias: She favours 'Torchbearer'.
School Newspaper Newshound: She is the very active editor and chief reporter of Smallville High's 'Torch' newspaper, to the point where it's part of her Online Alias. In her first appearance, preserving the Torch is her first concern, despite the fact that she's in a burning a building.
Secret Secret-Keeper: After discovering Clark's powers by chance on Red Sky Day, she keeps her mouth shut, even to him (though she assumes he's a sane meteor mutant).
Skewed Priorities: In her first appearance, she's much more concerned with preserving the Torch and the Wall of Weird than, say, the fact that she is also in a burning building.
Teen Genius: She's a talented hacker and is noted to be a very gifted researcher. She's also a very quick thinker under pressure, as the entry under Victoria's Secret Compartment demonstrates.
Undying Loyalty: To Clark, even after discovering his secret.
Victoria's Secret Compartment: After quickly going over Reynolds' office, she realises that she can't read his entire journal in time, just skimming it, for fear of being caught. So she rips out the used pages and stuffs them down her bra, before returning the journal to its hiding spot. Harry is deeply impressed.

Marie Danvers

Mrs Marie Danvers

Daughter of Alison Carter, sister of Jack O'Neill, aunt of Sharon Carter and mother of Carol, Steven and Joe junior, she's the token Non-Action Guy of the family. This and her marriage to a man who could be politely called old-fashioned in his attitudes has led many, including (especially) her daughter, to dismiss her as dim and weak-willed. This, as it turns out, is quite a long way from the truth.

Almighty Mom: Harry notes that she seems to have the same air of command that her daughter does and uses it for domestic purposes.
The Anti-Nihilist: Of a sort. She saw all the horrors of the world and decided that instead of fighting evil, she would 'make good', by raising her children peacefully and happily, away from all the horror that engulfed the rest of her family. Her mother admits that she arguably succeeded.
Extreme Doormat: Downplayed. She's depicted as such by Carol, but the truth is far more nuanced than that. That being said, it's notable that she never confronted her husband for his psychological abuse until he attempted to have their daughter mind-raped. It's implied that it was a case of rose-tinted glasses/boiling a frog, as even Alison begrudgingly admits that Joe was genuinely good with the children when they were younger (and before the older two started defying his expectations). The attempted Mind Rape incident shook the scales from Marie's eyes.
The Gadfly: Rarely, but she's Jack O'Neill's big sister. This was inevitable.
Generation Xerox: She's much, much more like her daughter than either is initially willing to admit. On a sadder note, her issues with Carol are lampshaded as the exact inverse of those Marie had with her own mother. Thankfully, she comes to her senses much quicker.
The Ghost: Like her mother, despite being repeatedly mentioned, she doesn't appear at all until (ironically) Ghosts.
Good Parents: Of the Parents as People variety. She most certainly isn't perfect, but she loves her children fiercely and would do anything to protect them. While she's scared to death of the sort of her trouble her daughter gets into, she ultimately resolves to be proud of her. Unfinished Business also reveals that she's consulted on calorie requirements for growing Super Soldiers and tailored Carol's diet to fit, even giving her daughter an extra allowance to bulk out what the school will provide on a trip (though she's resigned to the fact that most of it will probably be junk food), and Carol suspects that a trend of enforced seconds and healthy snacks shows when Marie noticed that her Super-Soldier genes had manifested.
Hidden Depths:
- Prior to appearing, Carol somewhat grudgingly notes that Marie got her artistic middle child a set of paints despite the fact that her husband greatly disapproved, and named said middle child Steven, hinting that she knew about her heritage (she later reveals that she figured it out years ago).
- More generally, the woman is scarily observant. She easily spots that Harry and Carol communicate a lot telepathically from simple observation, makes a very astute assessment of Harry's character after knowing him for all of a couple of hours, immediately realises that her husband conveniently falling asleep outside was caused by Harry (and makes a fair stab at why), and is comfortable confronting him with this fact. She also reveals that she'd figured out that Carol's Super-Soldier heritage had manifested, possibly before anyone but Carol herself, just by noticing a damaged doorknob and a broken bag.
- In chapter 20, it's revealed that on finding out from her mother just what her husband wanted Harry to do to Carol, she left Joe to Alison. In fact, not only does Alison note that Marie would be the only one able to stop her at this point, she also suggests that if Marie had heard about it first, she might have done something worse.
Housewife: Generally assumed to be the Extreme Doormat version. This is a mistaken assumption.
Hyper-Awareness: The woman is scarily observant. She can spot telepathic communication by reading body language, makes a very astute assessment of Harry's character despite only having met him a couple of hours before, and deduce that her husband suddenly taking a nap had something to do with an argument between him and Harry. Oh, and she's possibly the first person barring Carol herself to figure out that Carol's Super-Soldier powers had manifested - despite the fact that, post-Mountain Incident, she was under observation - just by noticing a split bag and a damaged doorknob.
Mama Bear: While a Non-Action Guy as a rule, it is telling that Alison - her mother, a terrifying super-spy - remarks to Joe, Carol's father, that he should be very glad that it was her who first found out about what he wanted Harry to do to Carol, rather than Jack or Marie. For context, Jack once threatened to kill General Ross with his bare hands for rather less, and it's implied Marie would have done worse.
The Medic: Unfinished Business reveals that she used to be a nurse and she's updating her license. It's implied that this is another way in which she takes after her father, who is mentioned in passing as having often patched up Alison after missions.
Non-Action Guy: In contrast to just about all of the rest of her family, though not for lack of courage. As Alison implies, it was a very good thing that she found out about what Joe Danvers tried to get Harry to do to Carol before Marie did...
Open-Minded Parent: Unlike her husband, she's much more open-minded than her daughter realises or gives her credit for. Eventually, Carol comes to realise it and they reconcile.
Parents as People: Lives and breathes this trope, as her mother did.
Parental Neglect: On the receiving end from her mother, though Alison did eventually realise how she was screwing up her kids after seeing how Howard Stark was treating Tony, and tried to make amends. Marie's also guilty of a certain amount of this herself, turning a blind eye to her husband's abuse until he crossed a line she couldn't ignore.
Refused the Call: Implied, then confirmed in Ghosts. This led to a sizeable rift with her mother, who lived by the Comes Great Responsibility mantra, and later Carol, who Jumped at the Call, though she managed to repair both rifts.
Super-Soldier: Like the rest of her blood family, she has the potential, though it's all but dormant in her.
Wanted a Gender-Conforming Child: Subverted. Carol believed this of her until Ghosts explains that Marie doesn't care about her daughter being a tomboy, she's just terrified (and with good reason) of where her danger-seeking ambitions might take her - though eventually, she just resolves to be proud of Carol.

Joe Danvers

Mr Joseph 'Joe' Danvers

Father of Carol Danvers, with whom he most definitely does not see eye to eye. A Standard '50s Father living in the wrong century, and while he does love his children, his concept of what is good for them is both very traditional and very much not in line with what they might actually want. He's ignorant rather than malicious, but ignorance is arguably far more dangerous.

Abusive Parents: Psychologically abusive, trying to force his older two children into being what he thinks they should be (i.e. brash, Action Girl Carol into a Proper Lady or a Girl Next Door, and quiet, artistic Stevie into The All-American Boy). He genuinely believes that this is for their own good, though Word of God observes that he's the type who's all nice and friendly until things stop going his way. This behaviour, leading up to him trying to get Harry to alter Carol's mind, ultimately gets him dealt with by Alison in chapter 20.
Bullying a Dragon: A recurrent habit with him. He tries it on Harry, despite knowing that he's a demigod and a powerful telepath, he tries it on Alison even after finding out that she's an ex-SHIELD Agent and being put in an effortless one-handed arm-lock, and he tries it on Carol. In the last case, he at least had the excuse of not knowing how dangerous she was - and has the good sense to be afraid when she effortlessly demonstrates the strength difference between a middle-aged man in average-to-decent shape and a Super-Soldier.
Determinator: His wife indicates that Carol gets her stubbornness from him, though she would never admit it. The evidence suggests that there might be something to this - though stubbornness isn't exactly in short supply on the other side of the family, either.
Face–Heel Turn: Alison implied he was a more loving father when his children were younger, before Carol and Stevie began going outside his standards.
The Ghost: Like his wife, he's only heard of through Carol's bad-mouthing until Ghosts.
Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance: Alison notes that while his request of Harry was completely unacceptable, Joe also doesn't understand just how bad Mind Rape actually is, and how much of a violation of trust it would be for Harry. This is the only reason that his wife and mother-in-law restrict themselves to getting him Kicked Upstairs and de facto separated from his children.
Karmic Butt-Monkey: Whenever he appears, bad things are usually about to happen to him - though he usually deserves them.
Kicked Upstairs: Alison arranges this in the space of a morning after finding out that he tried to have Harry manipulate Carol's mind for his own ends, and makes sure that his job is well away from the rest of his family.
Laser-Guided Karma: Deserving of his fate — see Abusive Parents for why. While Harry restrains himself to scaring him and telepathically knocking him out, Alison arranges for him to be Kicked Upstairs by his company and given a job out of state, giving him a calm, firm talk to the tune of 'you will do what I say or I will make you wish that I had killed you', while nearly breaking his arm with a twist of her wrist, while seated and sipping her tea, when he tries to start blustering.
- He later tries to verbally bully Carol after a family meeting where it's made clear that Marie is divorcing him, kicking him out, and there is next to no chance he's getting custody. She pins him to a wall and makes him listen, demonstrating how much stronger she is than him, then punctuates this by pinning him to the ceiling and dropping him.
Lineage Comes from the Father: Subverted. While he would like this to be the case with all his children, only his youngest is really shown to take after him in nature - though it's hinted that Carol (who later effectively disowns him) got more of his stubbornness than she wants to admit. When he goes on about how his quiet and arty son will naturally and inevitably show the world "what a Danvers man can do", as Harry telepathically snarks, it'd probably be a bad moment to point out that the athletic prowess actually comes from the Carter family.
Miles Gloriosus: He's not a fighter and doesn't portray himself as such, but he does consider himself a 'manly man', and much more than he is, when he is in fact a very small fish in a very large pond, surrounded by a bunch of veritable leviathans, none of whom like him very much. This includes trying to play the dominant alpha male. With Harry. Bad idea.
Put on a Bus: It's doubtful that, after having been Kicked Upstairs, he will appear much more in the plot.
Standard '50s Father: Heavily implied to be the Stepford Smiler variant.
Staring Down Cthulhu: Whatever else there is to say about him, he's no coward when he stands up to an enraged Harry (who internally notes that under other circumstances, he might actually be impressed). He then does the same to Alison in chapter 20, though this is presented as delusional bluster, and she is very much not impressed.
Villainous Valour: Not exactly villainous, but as noted above, even Harry is grudgingly willing to admit that he's got courage. He also stands up to Alison, who is less impressed, coldly advising him not to bluster, as she always found it one of his least appealing traits - while having him in an extremely painful wrist-lock.
Wanted a Gender-Conforming Child: In spades regarding both his older children in terms of a very narrow view of gender roles, wanting his older son to be an assertive and go-getting sportsman, and his daughter, his oldest child, to be quiet, demure, and traditionally feminine. He got the exact opposite. This didn't stop him trying to force it, to his son's misery and Carol's violent resentment.
What the Hell Are You?: Has this reaction to Carol after he confronts her and she loses her temper, with what is a relatively mild but unmistakeable demonstration of Super-Soldier strength. The subtext is clear, and both upsets and infuriates her even more.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: He really does want what he thinks is best for his children. He's just unwilling to consider/uncaring of their own opinions of what that is, and willing to resort to Mind Rape to get it (that being said, it's also made clear he doesn't understand how bad this is). Harry, needless to say, erupts with fury. When his wife and mother-in-law find out the details, they aren't too pleased either.

Lois Lane

You've got me? Who the fuck has you?

Daughter of General Samuel Lane, she is rescued from falling out of an airplane by a mysterious red-and-blue figure calling himself "Kal-El." A self-described Army brat, with a foul mouth and a number of bad habits, there's more to her than meets the eye.

Alliterative Name: One of the classic examples.
Big Sister Instinct: Her first on-screen appearance has her risking her own life to save her little sister and belt her up while the plane they're in is going down, something that nearly gets her killed. She also mentions that she's been putting off her problems in order to help her sister.
Brainy Brunette: She's got brown hair and serious deductive skills when she actually bothers to put her mind to it.
Bratty Teenage Daughter: Plays the part well, though part of it's Obfuscating Stupidity.
Cigarette of Anxiety: From time to time. She tries to wheedle Clark into playing living lighter again after an emotionally heavy discussion, but he refuses; they're bad for her, his parents would lecture him if they smelled cigarette smoke, and he's not a novelty lighter.
The Confidant: She's a surprisingly good listener, being sympathetic and insightful, and even before she works out his secret identity, Clark is willing to open up to her somewhat as 'Kal'. After, she's one of the very few people besides his parents who knows his secret (and Lex, at least, is frequently under surveillance by his father).
Connected All Along: She's Chloe Sullivan's cousin, and has heard all about Clark Kent.
The Cynic: She is deeply cynical, at a contrast to Clark's firm optimism, something suggested to stem from her dysfunctional relationship with her father.
Daddy Issues: As she admits, half wry, half bitter, the source of most of her issues answers most easily to 'General Lane'.
Deadpan Snarker: Even in the midst of a World of Snark, she stands out.
Eating the Eye Candy: With 'Kal' in full Superman gear.
Establishing Character Moment: Her Precision F-Strike establishes that this is a rather less varnished Lois Lane than you might expect.
The Gadfly: She enjoys cracking jokes at Clark's expense.
Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Lois is a good person, but the smoking is presented as a flaw - she's perfectly aware that it's bad for her, but mostly does so for stress relief and to keep up her teen rebel image.
Hidden Depths: Under a bucket-load of issues and insouciant snark there's a razor sharp intellect, and every now and then she chooses to remind those around her of it.
Hidden Heart of Gold: While it's buried underneath all the snark, she does care deeply about her little sister, and readily agrees to keep 'Kal''s secret.
The Lad-ette: Rude, blunt, prone to smoking, drinking, and generally independent minded, self-sufficient, and not all that classically feminine.
The Lois Lane: Of course, and with an amusing twist - she has, of course, heard all about the chronically oblivious Clark Kent from her obviously crushing cousin, Chloe Sullivan, and has decided that he's obviously a moron. Kal-El, on the other hand, is a different matter. In this case, she figures it out very quickly, because she's not stupid, and Clark doesn't have his disguise yet (also, he is phenomenally bad at keeping a secret identity) and he's implied to spend a significant amount of time vainly trying to avoid her as a result..
Military Brat: Self-described army brat, having been dragged around after her father, a US Army General.
Missing Mom: Her mother died years ago, and as she reveals in an outburst, it and her distant father affect her more than she usually lets on.
Obfuscating Stupidity: She acts like an irritable and slightly bratty teenager mostly just interested in sloping off for a smoke or a drink to her father's aides, but she's able to deduce Harry Thorson's involvement in the Battle of Smallville from the observed evidence, can easily tell that 'Kal' is just starting out as a hero, and points out that if she comes back into the hotel room smelling of cigarette smoke, her father's aides won't question what she's been doing. She also understands just why 'Kal' is so sensitive about his identity and powers.
Odd Friendship: On the surface, the worldly, sarcastic, somewhat foul-mouthed military brat has almost nothing in common with the adorably sweet, somewhat sheltered farmboy who always believes the best in people. Yet they do bond very swiftly, in part because of Lois' Hidden Heart of Gold and Clark's equally sharp wit.
Precision F-Strike: See the folder quote. She's got quite a foul mouth, which isn't exactly surprising - army brat.
Rescue Romance: Seems to be heading this way with Clark.
Secret-Keeper: For Clark, not telling anyone about his rescue of her.
Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Hinted to be why she's attracted to 'Kal'.
Smarter Than You Look: See Obfuscating Stupidity - she's got a razor sharp mind, when she chooses to use it.
Stepford Snarker: As is common in this fic, her snark covers a lot of pain.
The Tease: Enjoys flirting with Clark (not that she knows he's the Clark she's heard so much about, of course...) and calling him "Pretty Boy." She keeps this up even after discovering who he is, though she seems a little conflicted given her cousin's blatant crush on him. Clark is fairly oblivious until it's explicitly pointed out to him.
They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: It's "Lois." Not "Miss Lane." Naturally, Clark does just that.
When She Smiles: She has a dazzling smile which leaves Clark a little punch-drunk.

Emma Frost

Emma Frost a.k.a. the White Queen a.k.a. the Lady Imperial

An exceptionally powerful telepath, cold as ice and agelessly beautiful, with an extensive and complicated history with the X-Men, Emma Frost has risen to the top of the Hellfire Club through cunning, patience, and utter ruthlessness. However, there is more to her than meets the eye.

Abusive Parents: Her parents were neglectful at best. Recognising the same traits in herself was part of why she left Alex Summers and their son, Christopher.
Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: As opposed to Scott Summers' Love Interest, she's his grandmother.
Always a Bigger Fish: Found this out very suddenly when she encountered a time-travelling Harry, back in the 60s. While she could contend with a young Charles Xavier, then the world's most powerful ever telepath, he was an entirely different matter. That, sensing something of the Phoenix on him, and Jean Grey's violent first manifestation of her powers resolved her to never get involved with that family.
Breaking the Cycle of Bad Parenting: She was at best neglected by her parents who found her a social appendage at best. As a result, she left Alex Summers and their son, Christopher, when she realised that she was beginning to feel more or less the same distaste and frustration towards her son that her parents had felt towards her, wanting to spare her son the same treatment.
Elemental Motifs: Ice, naturally, at a direct contrast to the the Fire motif of the Grey Twins and Harry, who she warns her grandsons against on the grounds that in the 60s she brushed up against just the memory of the Phoenix when she encountered a time-travelling Harry, who psychically handled her like a child and scorched her metaphorical fingertips as a warning.
Emotionless Girl: Subverted. She's very good at coming off as this, to the point where Scott furiously calls her out on it (and not apparently caring about her son and grandson's death). However, the fact that she immediately and reflexively turns to diamond indicates how hard this hit.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She's more morally ambiguous, but she did love her son, even if she was terrible at showing it (and actually left because she loved him and didn't want to screw him up the way her parents did), and to all appearances she genuinely cares for and is concerned about her grandsons.
Evil Parents Want Good Kids: Granted, she's more Morally Grey Grandparent, but she seems very pleased that Scott has been raised to be a morally upright young man, rather than a schemer like her.
Genius Bruiser: She rose to the top of the Hellfire Club and stayed there, artfully avoiding deposition or being wiped out by a wrathful Magneto, and in her diamond form she's a physically formidable opponent.
Hazy-Feel Turn: She's long since dropped the semi-genocidal Super Supremacist outlook of Sebastian Shaw, but as the head of the Hellfire Club, she's not exactly Mother Theresa and she's entirely realistic about it.
I Am What I Am: She's realistic about who she is, but she does take steps to try and stop it hurting her loved ones and she's pleased that her grandsons are better people than she is.
I Hate Past Me: She has a dim view of her past allegiance to Shaw, wondering why she ever thought it was a good idea to take part in a scheme that would have at best led to her leadership of "the cast of The Time Machine".
In the Blood: She notes that Scott has "a touch of Frost" in his logical turn of mind, and that her other grandson, Remy, has taken very heavily after her.
Irony: She left her husband and son to avoid causing the latter the same kind of emotional damage her parents gave her. As Scott lampshades, this then left them with a different kind of emotional damage.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: It is deeply buried, but it is there - though it only shows itself, in a not very helpful fashion, for family.
Know When to Fold 'Em: It's implied that she went to Xavier for help after noticing something very big and very bad, implied to be Surtur or one of his proxies, is performing a hostile takeover of the Hellfire Club. She also resolved never to get involved with the Grey family after encountering a time-travelling Harry and nearly having her brain fried when Jean's powers first emerged.
Long-Lived: She most definitely does not look her age, something implied, like the comics, to be because she spends a lot of time in diamond form, where she doesn't age.
Mama Bear: She is distantly protective of Scott and Remy, though recognises that the latter, at least, really does not need protecting.
Not So Stoic: When Scott rips into her for abandoning the family, even after his father died, the emotional shock sends her snapping into diamond form to cope.
Psychic Powers: She's a formidably powerful telepath, in roughly the same class as Charles Xavier - the most powerful mortal psychic in history until the emergence of Jean Grey - and capable of countering him through experience and cunning. By her own account, this made it a very nasty surprise when she ran into a time-travelling Harry, who was in an entirely different weight-class and capable of handling her like a child.
Rich Bitch: Albeit with significant Hidden Depths and a buried heart of gold.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: This is her reaction to anything to do with the Phoenix (which is also implied to be part of why she's left the Hellfire Club by the time she turns up onscreen) or the Grey family, after an encounter with a mere memory of it via a time-travelling Harry, and after Jean's powers first emerged.
The Spock: She's exceptionally logical and practical by her own admittance, and isn't very good at expressing emotions.
Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Though only her grandchildren can really find any of the sugar.
Took a Level in Badass: In the 60s incarnation of the Hellfire Club, she was little more than Shaw's powerful and pretty minion, and then subordinate to Magneto. Most of half a century later, she's skilfully manoeuvred herself into rule of the Hellfire Club, carefully avoiding baiting Magneto as other factions have, and neatly picking up the pieces.

Vernon and Petunia Dursley

Harry Potter’s horrible magic-hating aunt and uncle who cruelly abused him while they were forced to raise him, doing the bare minimum for him. Eventually, their abuse of Harry was made public in all of England, and they were hated by the public and arrested and put in prison, where they stayed there since.

Adaptational Karma: While the two suffered misfortunes because of Harry’s magic, they were never punished for their abusive action and left a story to hide in a safe house. At the same time, it’s implied that they will never see Harry again. In this story, they are threatened by Harry’s friends and guardians; their crimes are revealed to all of England, getting them to hatred of their neighbors and all of England's citizens, and the two are arrested, where they will remain in prison for the rest of their lives.
Adaptational Sympathy: Inverted. While Petunia wasn’t given much sympathy for her actions in the story and never redeemed herself, there was a little sympathy in the fact that it was implied that deep down she’s regretful about how her relationship with her sister went, that they had a great relationship before her sister got magic. Petunia let her jealousy destroy her relationship with her sister and the fact that even at her worst, she would never let Harry die, even if she could never bring herself to say she loves her sister and apologize to Harry openly. In this story, that sympathy is thrown out the window because everyone is appalled at how she treated Harry all his life all because of her jealousy for her sister, and while never stated, it’s implied that her parents favored her sister over her. However, we don’t know to what extent, and it’s clear from the flashback that she is fed and well clothes, that favoritism was nothing compared to the abuse she did to Harry. This story makes it clear that Petunia's parents were both good people who loved her and her sister equally, and she just hated them because her parents treated her sister well when she wanted them to favor her. Every single character sees Petunia as a pathetic woman child who never grew up and married a horrible man. Petunia and her husband are sent to jail, and they, aside from a few appearances, are mostly forgotten.
Black Sheep: Despite Petunia's obsession with being average, it turns out that she is the black sheep of her family, much to her denial. Her parents were normal, good, hard-working people, and her sister was a heroic person; Petunia grew up to be a petty, jealous, cruel woman child who spoils her son and encourages him to be a bully and abuses her nephew over her jealousy of her sister. It’s revealed that Petunia has an extended family who all hate her husband and son and would’ve adopted Harry had the circumstances not kept them from doing that. Eventually, when Petunia and her husband's crimes were revealed, everyone, including her extended family, was not surprised and was disgusted with her. Petunia and her husband were arrested, and they were forced to spend the rest of their life in jail with their reputation and lives destroyed.
Broken Bird: Petunia Dursley becomes this when her life is destroyed. She tries to keep her arrogance when she is confronted by her actions by Harry's angry guardians for the way she abused him, and when she and her husband's crimes are revealed to all of London, gaining the hatred of the public where she an abandon by her neighbors and friends. She and her husband quickly lost their arrogance when they were arrested for their crimes and sent to a private prison. Prison broke Petunia's confidence quickly, and when M summoned her, she meekly asked how long she and her husband were going to be imprisoned; she was utterly broken when M informed her that she and her husband were going to be in prison for life and how they embarrass this country with their actions and when M told her that she knew her parents and they would be disappointed in her Petunia just depressedly accepted her fate and return to her cell to live out the rest of her life in prison.
Hated by All: The Dursleys are hated by nearly everyone in the story; Harry and his guardians and friends and family all hate them for their horrible treatment of Harry growing up; their crimes are reported to all of England, gaining the contempt of the whole public. Their neighbors and friends all abandoned them. Everyone in Harry’s circle of friends and family hates them, even villains and gods hate them; it gets to the point where Jesus Christ himself believes that the Dursleys are beyond redemption.
Laser-Guided Karma
- The Dursleys abuse Harry all his life, trying to stamp out the magic out of him well, doing the bare minimum to raise him. They value their reputations for being normal. Eventually, their abuse of Harry was made public to their neighbors and all of England, and their reputation was destroyed with their friends and neighbors abandoning them. They get the contempt of Harry’s friends and guardians, who are keeping themselves from hurting them, and eventually, they are sent to life in prison with their life and reputation destroyed, where they will spend the rest of their lives in jail.
- Vernon and Petunia Dursley are obsessive about appearing normal while they raise their son to be a spoiled bully who believes he’s entitled to anything he wants. Because of their horrible parenting, their son eventually becomes a mutant and later a vampire who does horrible crimes to get what he wants. It’s fitting that for all their obsession with appearing to be normal and how they raise their son, their son willingly, because that’s what they would view as a freak and a monster because of the way they raised him.

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Alexander 'Lex' Luthor

Waldo Butters

Ivan Petrovitch

Bruce Wayne

Oracle

Peter Parker

Jonathan and Martha Kent

Chloe Sullivan

Mrs Marie Danvers

Mr Joseph 'Joe' Danvers

Lois Lane

Emma Frost a.k.a. the White Queen a.k.a. the Lady Imperial

Vernon and Petunia Dursley

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Oracle

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Jonathan and Martha Kent

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Mr Joseph 'Joe' Danvers

Lois Lane

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