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    Jean-Paul 

Jean-Paul Beaubier

Everyone blames themselves, mon cher. Even when they shouldn't.

Camp Gay mutant speedster, who is kind, friendly, and will flirt with anything male that moves. He is also much sharper and much, much more dangerous than he lets on. Of the teens, he's the most mature and usually plays the role of Only Sane Man. He's also the most ruthless and by far the most enigmatic, with an unknown agenda of his own, and perhaps best summed up by Harry who describes him as "a male Black Widow with Super-Speed." He's also, eventually, a wielder of the Speed Force.



  • Adaptational Badass: Canon Jean-Paul is fast and capable enough, but as a de facto Flash, this Jean-Paul is one hell of a lot stronger, and given his nature as a Spear Counterpart to Natasha, he's dangerous for reasons that have very little to do with his powers. Harry explicitly states in Ghosts that he'd rather fight Dracula (who comfortably almost killed him, twice) again than fight Jean-Paul - and not because they're friends.
  • Adaptational Nationality: Canon Jean-Paul is French-Canadian, while this version is French.
  • Adaptational Superpower Change: In the comics, Jean-Paul could fly and had some photokinetic abilities. There's no sign of them here. Then again, he doesn't really seem to need them, either.
  • Afraid of Their Own Strength: After he taps into the Speed Force. Doctor Strange eventually talks him into embracing it.
  • Agent Peacock: Very Camp Gay, classically effeminate and very pretty. Also capable of almost absently performing a Sherlock Scan on someone he barely knows, a Combat Pragmatist who knows the value of a well-aimed rock thrown at mach speeds, and by the end of the first book he's one of the deadliest members of the cast who isn't a cosmic entity.
  • Aloof Ally: A downplayed version, and unusual in that he's not initially the most powerful - until he's wielding the Speed Force. He'll be there when matters get serious and is definitely part of the friendship group, but he's a Non-Action Guy by inclination and has his own concerns. He also tends towards being rather enigmatic, and when the group is together, he tends to stand at a slight remove to the others. Lex observes that he plays his cards close to his chest, while Harry compares him to Natasha. He's also the most mature, dirty jokes aside, and by far the most ruthless when required to be.
  • Badass Boast: References Kingdom Come after being warned by Frigga that Chthon will see him coming and catch him.
    I live between the ticks of the second, ma reine. I'd like to see him try.
  • Beauty Is Never Tarnished:
    • His Healing Factor helps with this. This is also used to underline how incredibly dangerous he is.
    • It gets to the point where Clark knows that something is wrong just by the way that Jean-Paul isn't his usual impeccably turned out self.
  • Beneath the Mask:
    • Though only a few glimpses are offered, he's much smarter and much, much more dangerous than he lets on.
    • The finale of the first book reveals the extent of the latter. It's sufficient that even the Hot-Blooded Harry, in the midst of Tranquil Fury, makes a note to never get on his bad side. Likewise, Harry doesn't refer to him as Natasha's Spear Counterpart because he's pretty.
  • Beware the Silly Ones: He looks and acts harmless. Like the woman he's essentially a younger Spear Counterpart to, Natasha Romanova, he is anything but.
  • Bilingual Bonus: His little comments in French occasionally qualify.
  • Birds of a Feather: With Draco in Book II. Both recognise this, and neither entirely trusts the other as a result - though they do come to an understanding.
  • Brutal Honesty: Every now and then. He all but tells Draco that if he thought he was a threat to his friends, he'd have already killed him.
  • Bullet Time: He's able to bring others into this by sharing his connection to the Speed Force.
  • Camp Gay: Very, very much so. How much of this is an affectation is up for debate.
  • Chessmaster Sidekick: Definitely. Despite his pretense, he's by far the most ruthless and cunning of the teens (and after accessing the Speed Force, probably the most dangerous under any circumstance short of Harry going Dark Phoenix). There's a reason that Harry would rather fight Dracula than him, and it ain't friendship. However, he has Undying Loyalty to Harry and Carol.
  • Chivalrous Pervert: The moment he notices Harry expressing discomfort at being flirted with, he immediately stops and apologises.
  • Combat Pragmatist: In a fight, he'll use pretty much any weapon he can lay hands on to inflict maximum damage.
  • Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: If you see the Badass part, then you'd better pray you're on his side. If you're not, there's a very good chance that it is the last thing you will ever see - if you even have the chance to do so.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: More "dark and troubled present." His sister is pretty much insane and he's the only one she responds to.
  • Didn't See That Coming: As he ruefully admits, he most certainly didn't expect Harry to figure out Clark's existence. While part of it was pure chance, as he observes, Harry is much, much smarter than most people realise.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse: Becomes this towards the end of the first book, and then in the sequel, when he gets a slightly more prominent role in the ongoing Clark subplot.
  • Expy: Cheerful, friendly, flirtatious persona covering a ruthless, razor-sharp mind, and far more dangerous than he appears? He's basically Captain Jack Harkness, swapping the immortality and centuries of experience for super-speed (the only differences are that Jean-Paul is only into men and Jack will go for anything with the ability to consent).
  • Eye Scream: Inflicts this on a giant werewolf with a rock flung at mach speed, demonstrating that even before he Took a Level in Badass, he is not to be trifled with.
  • The Gadfly: His primary role in Harry's friend group, greatly enjoying verbally poking others for his own amusement. Sometimes, it serves a deeper purpose, when he uses it to get people's measure.
  • Gay Best Friend: Appears to be Carol's at first, and it is implied that he plays up to this image to ensure that people underestimate him.
  • Good Is Not Soft: Jean-Paul is, for the most part, a genuinely nice person. But if he even thinks that his friends are being threatened, he'll kill you without a word.
  • Hidden Depths: He is considerably more than a harmless flirt - he's capable of being far more serious and insightful than he usually appears, actually pulling a Sherlock Scan on Harry and later Draco, and on other occasions proves that he's capable of killing without blinking twice.
  • Lethal Joke Character: Even before he gained the degree of Required Secondary Powers required to make him really effective against superhuman opponents. For instance, you don't want to get in the way of a rock thrown at mach speeds. Especially if it's aimed at your eye.
  • Let's Get Dangerous!: When he starts playing for keeps, people die. Quickly. Usually leaving only Pink Mist behind.
  • Little Brother Is Watching: He, like Lex and Harry after him, tones down his more ruthless tendencies around Clark, who serves as his true Morality Pet.
  • Martial Pacifist: He's a very skilled, very powerful and utterly lethal fighter, he just greatly prefers to avoid fights wherever possible. When he does fight, however, he goes to the wall, enough that even Harry explicitly states he would rather not fight him for reasons that have nothing to do with their friendship.
  • Megaton Punch: During the Final Battle of the first book, he hits the Chthon-possessed Gravemoss with an Infinite Mass Punch, either destroying his body or launching it past Jupiter.
  • Morality Pet: Most of his friends serve as this to one degree or another, but the real example is Clark Kent. Unlike the others, who're used to ruthlessness (and, particularly in Harry's case, not short of it themselves), Clark is a relatively Naïve Newcomer and an otherwise sweet and normal kid. Accordingly, Jean-Paul considerably tones down his darker side and is as honest and gentle as he gets around Clark.
  • Obfuscating Stupidity: He acts the part of a Pretty Boy Camp Gay airhead, but he's one of the most insightful, ruthlessly intelligent, and downright dangerous characters in the series. Not for nothing is he described as a Spear Counterpart to the Black Widow. If you find this out beyond a vague sense that he's more than he's pretending to be, it's usually either because he trusts you, or because you're about to die.
  • Only Sane Man: Plays this role to the other teens, often being the one to lampshade how strange things are getting and to offer the sensible solution.
  • Pass the Popcorn: Actually uses his speed to swipe some when a conversation between Harry and Carol looks to be getting interesting (i.e. entertainingly awkward).
  • Pink Mist: Harry notes that all he can see of the Extremis powered Super-Soldier who was fighting Jean-Paul is a few splatter marks. Jean-Paul himself doesn't have a hair out of place. Immediately afterwards, Harry makes a note not to piss off Jean-Paul.
  • Pragmatic Hero: While unquestionably a good guy, Jean-Paul can be rather ruthless, as examples above show - the comparisons to the Black Widow are not made without reason. He also notes to Jonathan Kent that he hoped to let the villains focus on Harry, who's well-connected, experienced, and combat-trained, and give Clark time to grow into his own strength.
  • Pretty Boy: To the point where the otherwise straight and not even faintly interested Harry observes that the only appropriate adjective to describe him is beautiful.
  • Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: A textbook example, though he verges on Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette at times.
  • Secret-Keeper: For Clark in Ghosts, until Harry figures it out.
  • Sherlock Scan:
    • He almost absent-mindedly performs one on Harry.
    • Later, he is able to deduce quite a bit about Draco - though as Draco points out, this has as much to do with the fact that they're Birds of a Feather than anything else.
  • Ship Tease: With Uhtred. They wind up dating.
  • Spear Counterpart: Harry sums him as Natasha's, with additional superpowers. It's considered surprisingly accurate, in and out of universe, as well as downright ominous, given the implications.
  • The Spock: Usually takes this role between him, Harry, and Carol, with the other two being The McCoy and The Kirk respectively, though they interchange (and Carol has notable Spock traits, even if she doesn't like them).
  • Super-Speed: A genuine speedster and an initially latent user of the Speed Force. As of Ghosts, he can go at Mach 10, or even faster in a pinch, despite the strains that the Battle of London placed upon him.
  • Super-Strength: Downplayed - he's not exactly Captain America, but he's got a lot more upper body strength than someone his size should.
  • They're Called "Personal Issues" for a Reason: Carol notes in Ghosts that there's still so much he refuses to reveal, and even Harry's famed knack for getting under people's skin only gets him so far.
  • Thou Shalt Not Kill: Averted; he has absolutely no problem killing if he deems it necessary, at one point informing Draco that if he thought he was really a threat, they wouldn't be having their current conversation.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: With Carol.
  • Willfully Weak: Usually keeps himself below Mach 10 to avoid burning himself up (of course, that's not saying much).

    Uhtred 

Uhtred Ullrson

Come, foul beasts! Come and test yourselves against Uhtred Ullrson, Oathman of the firstborn son of Thor, Prince of the House of Odin! Test yourselves and be broken!

An Asgardian teenager who happens to be Sif's protégé, and for good reason. At first appears to be set up as The Rival to Harry, but after Harry saves his life, Uhtred swears loyalty to him, becoming his Sworn Sword (something that he takes considerably more seriously than Harry does) and effectively his right hand man, later displaying gifts as The Blacksmith. Currently dating Jean-Paul.



  • The Ace: He's the best Asgardian combatant of his generation and Sif's protégé, while also being a sufficiently talented blacksmith to impress Tony Stark. This is balanced out by, initially, some raging insecurities.
  • Ambiguously Bi: Flirts with older girls and with Jean-Paul with equal ease, winding up dating the latter.
  • Animal Motifs: He's themed along bear-like lines, which adds a certain irony when he winds up fighting a vampire that's transformed into one.
  • Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: At first, though it's cover for an inferiority complex.
  • The Bear: He's bi, he's a big lad to begin with and his adult self is about two metres tall, fairly hairy, and conveniently, explicitly described as being 'built like a bear' (though the description refers to the animal).
  • The Big Guy: In physical power, he alternates with Diana, though she's about half his size.
  • Birds of a Feather: Uhtred notes this of himself and Ron. Both are the youngest sons of well-known families, who held a certain amount of resentment towards Harry for his celebrity status. Both of them have Hidden Depths, and once they get over their resentment, they are True Companions to Harry.
  • The Blacksmith: Has serious talent in this direction, enough to forge a Cool Sword and impress Tony Stark.
  • Blade Enthusiast: By Ghosts, according to Jean-Paul, he apparently has an alarming number of knives in an even more alarming number of places.
  • Blood Knight: Gleefully throws himself into combat during the first book's Final Battle, wielding an axe in one hand and a demon's spine in the other.
    Carol: He has problems. Useful problems, but still problems.
  • Blunt Metaphors Trauma: He doesn't necessarily get Earth metaphors, though he catches on fast.
  • Boisterous Bruiser: Loves a good fight, and reacts with interest when informed of the Acromantula colony in the Forbidden Forest.
  • Bully Turned Buddy: At first an Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy who picked on Harry because he was The Resenter (though this mostly just mildly annoyed Harry than anything else), he later transitioned to become one of Harry's closest Fire-Forged Friends.
  • Casual Danger Dialogue: When he informs the others that he's being attacked by a supercharged, supersized werewolf, his tone is more one of mild irritation that they're not paying attention to how badass he's being.
  • Character Development: Goes from an Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy to a loyal friend to Harry with significant Hidden Depths.
  • The Comically Serious: In contrast to his friends, who, Diana excepted, snark as they breathe. However, he's a much lighter and more cheerful example than many examples of this trope.
  • Cutting the Knot: Or in this case, the neck. Specifically, Gravemoss' neck. It doesn't work, but you have to give him credit for trying.
  • Determinator: Nearly as much as Carol, which is saying something.
  • Dude, Where's My Respect?: At first, driving his antagonism towards Harry.
  • Eye Patch Of Power: Gets a temporary one, in Ghosts, which is noted to lend him a piratical look and draw a lot of appreciative attention.
  • Eye Scream: One of his eyes is almost totally destroyed by Vampire!Dudley. Thanks to his Asgardian Healing Factor and access to advanced healing magic, it'll grow back in time. In the meantime, he's enjoying his Eye Patch Of Power and its effect on Jean-Paul.
  • Fire-Forged Friends: With Harry and Diana and, to a lesser extent, with Carol and Jean-Paul.
  • The Gadfly: Maybe. It's repeatedly implied that he plays up the servility aspect of his oath to Harry simply because he knows that Harry finds it deeply irritating.
  • Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Once he gets over himself, sure.
  • Hidden Depths: He can set bones, he's a talented tracker, he has a surprising grasp of tact and it's repeatedly hinted that he plays up his oath and servility to Harry just to wind him up. Like most of Harry's friends, he's also quite a bit more insightful than one might immediately realise.
    • As Ghosts reveals, he's also a talented enough blacksmith to impress Tony. Which, as Diana notes, is saying something.
  • Hot-Blooded: A fair bit. See Blood Knight.
  • Incoming Ham: Combines this with Pre Ass Kicking One Liner in chapter 31 of Ghosts, as he dives into a group of Grey Court vampires:
    HAVE AT THEE, FOUL WRAITHS! TASTE THE FURY OF ASGARD!
  • I Gave My Word: He takes his oath of service to Harry very seriously, somewhat to Harry's embarrassment - though how much of this is genuine and how much is because he knows it annoys Harry is an open question.
  • I Owe You My Life: The reason he swore loyalty to Harry in the first place.
  • Large Ham: When his blood is up, he's one of the largest in the cast. A cast, which, it should be remembered includes Thor.
  • Lighter and Softer: After his Character Development, he goes from Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy to being much more kind and cheerful, as a result of being secure in himself.
  • Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards: The Linear Warrior to the rest of the group's (particularly Harry, Jean-Paul, and partially Diana) Quadratic Wizard - originally, their power levels are relatively equal, before the other three go through the roof.
  • Literal-Minded: Tends not to get metaphors, though this is mostly a product of the fact that he's not from Earth and most of the characters are.
  • Manly Facial Hair: Surprising sensitivity aside, he's the most manly character in the younger cast, being a relatively bulky Boisterous Bruiser and The Blacksmith. When temporarily aged up, he becomes even larger than Thor, with a deep voice, and has the beard to match.
  • Manly Gay: He flirts with boys and girls alike, winds up sort of dating Jean-Paul, is an all-action axe wielding young warrior and protégé of Sif, and from a background which is the Asgardian answer to a Mountain Man or a Marcher Lord. He's also fancast as Sean Bean and said to be, when temporarily an adult, about two metres tall, with a beard and built like a literal bear. That's about as goddamn manly as you're going to get. Oh, and he even knows how to forge a sword.
  • Off with His Head!: Beheads an Extremis Super-Soldier and later Gravemoss. The latter doesn't work quite as well as might be wished, but you have to give him credit for trying.
  • Original Character: Completely invented and has proved to be moderately popular.
  • Overshadowed by Awesome: He is twice bested in a short period of term after a long period of being the best of his age. Since the people who bested him are Harry, who's the son of Thor and a master of the Indy Ploy and Diana, a pre-teen version of Wonder Woman trained by Athena herself, this isn't exactly surprising. He gets to strut his stuff several times afterward. Carol even comments on it in Ghosts, while Uhtred is busy going toe-to-toe with a giant vampiric bear that even Bucky, the former Winter Soldier, was at a loss for how to deal with.
  • Proud Warrior Race Guy: In spades. He's the most classical example of an Asgardian warrior in the cast, gleefully flinging himself into battle with abandon.
  • Respected by the Respected: Ironically, he gets this once he stops craving it. In the second book, his skill in forging a sword is said to have impressed Tony Stark, and his combat prowess in defeating a vampire which turned into a giant bear deeply impresses none other than Bucky Barnes.
  • Scarily Competent Tracker: The actual tracking part isn't difficult. The fact that he can tell that a patch of ice isn't natural simply from examining it and tapping it with his bare hands in Chapter 58 counts.
  • Servile Snarker: Subtly to Harry, via his emphasis on his oath-sworn loyalty and the servile implications. Harry finds the former embarrassing and the latter annoying, especially when it happens around other people - which just so happens to be usually when Uhtred does it.
  • Ship Tease: With Jean-Paul in Book I, with a fair amount of flirting. They wind up dating.
  • Straight Man and Wise Guy: The Straight Man to Jean-Paul or Harry's Wise Guy, most of the time.
  • Super-Strength: As an Asgardian teenager, this naturally comes into play, though he's noted as being strong even by Asgardian standards - his adult self is up there with Volstagg who is generally considered to be the physically strongest Asgardian outside of the House of Odin and possibly Heimdall.
  • Undying Loyalty: He swore it to Harry after getting captured by the Disir, and takes it very seriously. How much of that is just to irritate Harry is unclear.

    Diana 

Diana Herculeis of Olympus

I am Diana Herculeis. Daughter of Hercules and Hippolyta. Granddaughter of Zeus Panhellenios. I have always known I would be powerful.

An Olympian and a Ward of Asgard, she's the daughter of Hercules and Hippolyta and therefore a preteen Wonder Woman. She's much more dangerous and much wiser than her appearance would have most believe, proving Worthy of Mjolnir for a short while. Of Harry's group of friends, she's usually the most thoughtful and level-headed. In the sequel, she ends up dating Ginny Weasley.



  • Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: A nicer variant than most - she's mostly just fairly quiet and reserved. This reserve decreases as time goes on, though she can dial it up to full Ice Queen levels when she wants to.
  • Ambiguously Bi: As time goes by she notes that Harry is growing into someone rather attractive (though she may have been teasing), as well as 'getting an eyeful' of Carol a couple of times. She's also, in Ghosts, mutually attracted to Ginny Weasley, something that Harry gleefully fans the flames of, and they eventually get together.
  • A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: Implied to be a problem with her empathic powers.
  • Badass Adorable: She's sweet, initially tiny (Carol literally uses her as a teddy bear at one point), and very pretty. She's also capable of one-shotting the same kind of monster that took orbital bombardment, being rammed by a jet-powered tank, heavy demolition charges, and a considerable chunk of a major metropolitan city's electricity to its vitals to take out.
  • The Berserker: Hinted at, then finally shown in chapter 60, and holy crap is it scary.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: She is the kindest, sweetest person this side of Steve Rogers and Bruce Banner. The latter comparison should give you a clue as to why it isn't a very good idea to piss her off.
  • The Big Gal: She's tiny (at first), but she's got the physical power for it.
  • Blood Knight: It's In the Blood. After all, her dad is Marvel's Hercules and provides the trope image. Her mum's no slouch in that department, either. She goes to some lengths to suppress these tendencies.
  • Boys Have Cooties: Initially. Early in the first book, she observes that her mother told that she'd once enjoy the sight of two handsome boys wrestling, but cannot understand the appeal. Some months later, however, she admits that Harry is kind of cute.
  • Break the Cutie: Defied. While most of her life has been a drawn out Trauma Conga Line, it hasn't broken her yet.
  • Brutal Honesty: One of the many ways in which she resembles a considerably less spaced out Luna Lovegood.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: She comes off as this at first, partly due to her Brutal Honesty and insight drawn from her empathic abilities, though it fades somewhat with time.
  • Children Are Innocent: A curious example. As an Empath, she's got a very good idea of what goes on inside people's heads. Yet, this is also the girl who impulsively hugged the Winter Soldier to thank him for saving her friend's life and because he felt like he needed one. She later gives Doctor Strange (who is exponentially more dangerous and far less sane) one for similar reasons.
  • Cute Bruiser: She's small (to begin with), adorable and very sweet. She's also an extremely skilled warrior who will one day be about as strong as Thor and the Hulk and is already a fair bit of the way there.
  • Creepy Child: Frequently comes off as this, largely thanks to her Empathic abilities and the insight they grant her, which makes her resemble a more down to earth Luna Lovegood. Somewhat subverted, though, once people get to know her.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: Definitely. Because of the identities of her parents, Hera has frequently attempted to murder her. Her father then reached out to Athena and Loki, who between them concocted the solution of having her be fostered in Asgard.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Rarely, but she's capable of it, as her father notes. As he also notes, it can also be extremely hard to tell when she's doing it.
  • Dissonant Serenity: Is entirely calm at almost all times, including when she's just pulled a Neck Snap on a HYDRA Super-Soldier.
  • The Empath: Though she's not a telepath, she's an expert at reading and understanding others' emotions. Unfortunately, the Power Incontinence leads to trouble a few times in Book 1, before she receives bracers to channel and suppress her abilities during the finale.
  • Flying Brick: She's not exactly a heavyweight yet, but she can fly and definitely possesses Super-Strength, with her aged up self boxing the same weight class as Thor and the Hulk. She's also cited by Harry as an example of what Clark should be capable of in the sequel.
  • The Gadfly: Occasionally, such as when she tells Tony and Sirius that she and Harry are Just Friends... but looks him up and down and admits that he is kinda cute, or when she and Hermione tease him about his completely obvious denial of his UST with Carol.
  • Grievous Harm with a Body: During the melee in HYDRA's headquarters, Harry at one point sees her beating a troll to death with its own severed arm.
  • Half the Man He Used to Be: When aged up, partly pulls this on one of the supersized werewolves and then fully on Project Ultimatum.
  • I Am Having Soul Pains: Her empathic powers are largely untrained and impossible to turn off, meaning that she's vulnerable to a psychic freak out, whether it's by Harry or a Genius Loci.
  • Innocent Blue Eyes: Sort of. They're blue, and she's undoubtedly one of the sweetest and kindest characters in the cast, but they're also described as 'slate-blue', a little more greyish, suggesting that her innocence has been tarnished.
  • In the Blood: Heroism and Super-Strength run in the family. Unfortunately, so do severe Blood Knight tendencies.
  • Lady of War: A increasingly less pocket sized example, being graceful, well-mannered and calmly polite at (almost) all times, as well as being capable of taking almost any opponent to pieces. Unusually for this trope, however, she's not remotely inclined towards She-Fu, preferring the notably brutal wrestling form of pankration. After all, her dad invented it.
  • Late-Arrival Spoiler: Her identity.
  • Lipstick Lesbian: Or rather, bisexual, as revealed in the sequel - though she has a few tomboyish elements too.
  • Little Miss Badass: See above.
  • Motor Mouth: Has a bit of this, especially at first.
  • Mythology Gag: The bracers she gets in the first book's epilogue are obviously based on one of her canon counterpart's most iconic costume items.
    • In chapter 60 of Book I, she briefly uses a length of rope as a lasso. In the same chapter, Lucius very subtly refers to her as a "woman of wonder."
    • In chapter 76 of Book I, she briefly wields Mjolnir, as her canon counterpart did in the Marvel/DC Amalgam series.
  • Neck Snap: Pretty heavily implied to have killed her opponent this way in the fight with the Extremis HYDRA mooks.
  • Only the Chosen May Wield: Briefly wields Mjolnir in the finale of Book I.
  • Only Sane Woman: At times, though this role usually falls to Jean-Paul.
  • Pint Sized Power House: She's tiny (at first), but she can still kick your ass.
  • Proud Warrior Race Girl: Subtle, more subtle than, say Uhtred, but it's there - she gets outright affronted when Harry seems to intervene in her fight.
  • Psychic Nosebleed: She gets this twice in the first book - once when Harry has a minor Angst Nuke moment with his own latent Psychic Powers, and the second time when she accidentally tunes in to a very powerful and very angry Genius Loci.
  • Psychic Powers: An Empath and involuntarily Wise Beyond Their Years because of it.
  • The Quiet One: She talks more than most examples of this trope, but less than those around her, and when she does speak, she tends to be very insightful.
  • Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Like her canon counterpart, she's an exceptionally pretty young woman and her adult self is literally jaw-dropping. Her personality and uncomfortably insightful nature, though, can lead to people seeing her as an Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette.
  • Royal Blood: She's the granddaughter of Zeus, after all, with the expected Royalty Superpower.
  • Sensor Character: Her empathic abilities mean she can do this.
  • She Cleans Up Nicely: She's generally in more casual clothing, though less scruffy than Carol, but when she really does dress up, you can see that she's related to Aphrodite.
  • Shock and Awe: While wielding Mjolnir.
  • Silk Hiding Steel: She's a well-trained, classy and graceful young lady. She can not only kick your head off without trying, but without dirtying her dress.
  • Slasher Smile: Gives a good one after picking up Mjolnir. Considering her usual demeanour, this is disconcerting to say the least.
  • Sliding Scale of Beauty: Type II. She is noted as being jaw-droppingly, legendarily beautiful as an adult, and even at 13 at the Yule Ball, most of the school is struck silent. And, well, she's Wonder Woman.
  • Statuesque Stunner: Noted to be growing into this, and when She Cleans Up Nicely for the Yule Ball, passing for a slim 16, she has most of the school staring at her.
  • Super-Strength: She will one day be batting in the Thor/Hulk power range and her adult self proves capable of, under stress, ripping Project Ultimatum, a robot based on the Destroyer in half. As it is, she's already got an undefined, but considerable, amount of physical power to call upon, which allows her to hit harder than a precisely aimed piece of space junk.
  • Town Girls: The Neither to Carol's Butch and Hermione's Femme.
  • Unkempt Beauty: In chapter 60 of the first book, though more 'Blood Drenched Warrior-Goddess Beauty'.
  • Warrior Princess: As expected of the Princess of Themyscira.
  • Wise Beyond Their Years: As a product of her empathic powers.
  • Wrestler in All of Us: She is a particularly skilled practitioner of pankration. Considering that she's the daughter of Hercules, inventor of the art, this is hardly surprising. She's good enough as a preteen to beat Uhtred, quite a bit taller and stronger than her and Sif's protégé to boot.

    Hermione 

Hermione Jean Granger

One of Harry's oldest friends at Hogwarts and fellow apprentice to Loki. Supportive, but her attempted adjustment to the new status quo has met with mixed success. Is also unaware that she is the daughter of Wanda Maximoff and John Constantine, also making her the granddaughter of Magneto himself. When she finds out, she is less than pleased. A bit of a Walking Spoiler as a result.



  • Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: She and Krum are a couple following the Yule Ball.
  • Always Second Best: Has this with Harry as his instinctive skill with magic (which basically means that he picks up spells quickly), particularly fire magic, and the power gap between the two becomes more obvious. In the sequel, the power gap closes with her development of Chaos Magic and later her X-Gene, but both are very hard to master and the former at least goes against all of her instincts. Then there's the fact that she thinks (and not entirely without reason) that her biological mother prefers Harry, her godson.
  • Ambiguously Jewish: Discussed between her and Magneto. According the Orthodox tradition that follows matrilineal inheritance, Wanda's Romani mother would disqualify her and therefore Hermione, but the Reform tradition would accept them. In both cases, she can ask for Israeli citizenship.
  • Badass Family: Not that she's aware of it until near the end of Book II, but her biological mother is the Scarlet Witch, her biological father is John Constantine, her biological mother's boyfriend is Harry Dresden, her biological grandfather is Magneto, and Polaris and Quicksilver are (despite being about her age) her aunt and uncle. That is a lot of badass.
  • Belligerent Sexual Tension: Has this in spades with Ron, to the point that Harry's usual response to them arguing is to tune it out and consider telling them to get a room.
  • Boxing Lessons for Superman: A naturally talented and knowledgeable witch already, she gets lessons in advanced magical theory and chaos magic from Loki and Wanda Maximoff, and learned some aikido from Sean Cassidy.
  • Broken Pedestal: Towards Harry after she figures out both that she's Wanda's daughter and that he's known for months (and willingly, if reluctantly, kept it from her). The fact that he's also totally unapologetic doesn't help.
  • Can't Catch Up: Harry decides her and Ron just aren't cut out for combat, despite Hermione's power jump in the sequel. Since neither is a natural fighter - though they can fight, and well, when they need to - and neither particularly wants to fight, Ron's vengeful HYDRA obsession aside, he's admitted to have a point.
  • Day in the Limelight: Gets two in Ghosts, as she tries to figure out what's happened to Harry in the wake of Forever Red, and during the Fortress arc, when she's possessed by the Spirit of the Fortress and figures out her heritage.
  • Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?: She literally has tea with a mental projection of Lily while she's inside Harry's mind. She spends most of the time, understandably, rather nervous - while Lily's perfectly friendly, she could incinerate Hermione with a stray thought.
  • The Gadfly: Not usually, but she does enjoy winding up Harry when he accidentally implies that he has a crush on Ron while trying to avoid discussing his crush on Carol, and more than once has teased Harry over his and Carol's very obvious Ship Tease.
  • Green-Eyed Monster: A little bit. She's quietly envious of/irritated by Harry's raw power and instinctive grasp of magic - she has to work as hard as, well, she does to get the same results that Harry gets by barely trying. While, as Harry points out, she understands theory in a way he never will, she'll never match his instinctive talents - not even when her raw power catches up. However, this is not what becomes an issue in their friendship... though an implied resentment towards perceived Parental Favouritism by Wanda towards Harry (it's complicated) might be a part of it.
  • Happily Adopted: Not that she's aware of it until late in Ghosts, and she would much rather have stayed that way.
  • Hard Work Hardly Works: As noted above, she's frustrated by the fact that she spends ages studying theory, and Harry comes along and understands things instinctively, as well as (at first) being much more powerful than her.
  • Horrible Judge of Character: Subverted, most of the time. Of Harry's Hogwarts associates, she's the one who really picks up on how he's changing - and not always for the better. However, in Ghosts, Carol rather firmly sets her straight on the full extent of what Harry's capable of.
  • In the Blood:
    • She gets red magic, an initially inactive (mostly) talent for messing with the fabric of reality (it starts becoming much more active in the sequel), and, as Thor notes, increasingly her looks from her mother, Wanda.
    • At one point, Harry observes her "tone of detached ruthlessness" wouldn't sound out of place coming from Magneto. And, in Chapter 64 of Ghosts, her mutant powers awaken.
  • Just Friends: With Harry. The very concept of them dating makes her laugh.
  • Locked Out of the Loop: Increasingly with regards to Harry, who for a for a number of reasons isn't the most talkative about what he goes through, save with people who were present at the time - and even then, he tends to confine his confiding to Carol and his father. Also due to the fact that he has to keep secrets. While she accepts the necessity of his doing so, she doesn't always like it - and when she finds out that he knew about her heritage, she takes it very, very badly.
  • Meaningful Name: She notes (correctly) that her first name means 'earthly'. Her middle name, meanwhile, runs in Lily Potter's family. This is important because Lily was her mother's best friend (and mother of Hermione's best friend, as it would turn out), her godmother and one of very few who knew the truth of her origins. The name was Wanda's oblique way of honouring her friend.
  • Nice Girl: While she occasionally has her doubts and is slightly intimidated by the sheer scale of the power that Harry's heir to (which is hardly surprising), she's consistently supportive of Harry through his numerous emotional crises and does her best to help him, even when his budding Psychic Powers and trauma make this an extremely hazardous endeavour.
  • Oblivious Adoption: She had no idea until she finally puts it together in chapter 66 of Ghosts, despite a lot of clues. Given the circumstances, she is not pleased.
  • Person of Mass Destruction: As her Chaos Magic and X-Gene develop in the sequel, all the more so for her very limited control. As someone very focused on control, she is not at all happy about this.
  • Physical God: Not yet, but Wanda and Dumbledore seriously speculate that once she really grows into her powers, she'll be roughly Harry's equal for raw power.
  • Platonic Life-Partners: She and Harry are very close friends, but nothing more. As Loki points out, Harry's about as attracted to her as he is to mould, and rarely notices that she's actually female. Hermione affirms that the feeling is mutual in Ghosts, explicitly stating that they're Just Friends, scoffing at the very concept of dating him.
  • Power Glows: When she starts using her wandless magic, it glows red. This is part of what tips Loki off to the fact that she's Wanda's daughter.
  • Power Incontinence: Even once she learns about her chaos magic, it takes a while for her to master it. Usually it's Played for Laughs, such as when she turns a chair into an orca whale or accidentally dissolves Harry's jeans while hugging him. Other times... not so much.
  • Rage Breaking Point: After all she went through in the Fortress arc, figuring out that she's Wanda's daughter - and that by inference, her parents and several other people she loves and trusts have been lying to her face for months, if not years - causes her to snap in chapter 66.
  • Reality Warper: Via Chaos Magic and as of chapter 64 of Ghosts, her mutation. Wanda starts training her during Ghosts, though Hermione has a long way to go and is very wary about using it. Later, she gets possessed, and we get a look at just what she's capable of. It's kind of terrifying.
  • The Smart Girl: It's a mark of how smart she is that Harry, who lives with his uncle, Jane, Natasha, Pepper, Tony and Bruce, all geniuses in their own fields, still assumes that she knows everything and expresses wonder at it. In the sequel, he notes that her mind is "scarily well organised", complete with an actual filing system.
  • The Spock: Pragmatic, intelligent and places great value on knowledge gained from books, which can occasionally trip her up. On the other hand, it does also making her grudgingly willing to accept Carol and Draco's warnings of Harry's festering dark side. However, it hits its limit when she finds out about her true heritage - understandable, given the context. Even then, she does eventually think it through and understand it... which is not even remotely the same as coming to terms with it.
  • Strong, but Unskilled: With regards to her chaos magic in the sequel - it makes her arguably as powerful as Harry, whose own raw power is suggested to be beyond pretty much everyone human bar Merlin and Wanda. However, she's very reluctant to use it, much less embrace it, and she's temperamentally very ill-suited to it - though Wanda's tutelage does, slowly, help.
    • Ditto her mutation, again, thanks to a lack of training.
  • Technician vs. Performer: She's the Technician, while Harry's the Performer. She has the technical knowledge, he has the instinctive skill. When they manage to combine the two in chapter 65 of the sequel, the results impress even Dumbledore.
    • Loki compares the two to Reed Richards and Tony Stark: Harry and Tony intuitively leaping from one mad inspiration to another, while Reed and Hermione try to figure things out logically. However, despite her cleverness, Hermione lacks Reed's sheer one in a billion brilliance.
    • This also hobbles her when her chaos magic starts manifesting, since she's very logical and by definition it's... not.
  • Territorial Smurfette: Subverted. It looks like she's going to go this route with Carol, but after a rocky moment or two, they get on just fine.
  • Town Girls: Of Harry's female friends, she's the Femme, in comparison to Carol's Butch and Diana's Neither.
  • Traumatic Superpower Awakening: More like traumatic flare-up in the case of her Chaos Magic, which she's deeply wary of (and not without reason). Her X-Gene based powers of spatial manipulation are a textbook case during the Fortress arc, if mostly because of the circumstances.
  • The Un-Favourite: She believes that she is this to Wanda, as compared to Harry, Wanda's godson. Him, Wanda scooped up at first opportunity. Her, Wanda avoided as much as possible and had to be arm-twisted by Strange into getting involved prior to The Reveal. While Harry protests this (anonymity protected Hermione, it wasn't an option for him), the general consensus is that there's some truth to it: Wanda does love them equally and bitterly regrets her own cowardice in not fronting up sooner, but she also finds Harry easier to love than Hermione, who's a living reminder of several of the most painful times in her life.
  • Unrelated in the Adaptation: As mentioned, Hermione is actually an adopted child of the Grangers and her biological parents are Wanda and Constantine.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: She and Harry were this up through their third year, then move back into this after Harry begins to get over his Red Room-inspired PTSD.
  • Weak, but Skilled: Initially, magically compared to Harry, with a far greater understanding of theory and memory for spells - and when the two combine their skills in Book II, the results are deemed to be utterly breathtaking. Later, her chaos magic makes her arguably every bit as powerful as he is (if not more so). Her lack of control, experience, and willingness to embrace it mean she actually Inverts the trope, though she's slowly getting better thanks to Wanda Maximoff's tutelage.
  • Wide-Eyed Idealist: At first, to an extent - she's completely blindsided by Carol's revelation of Harry's dark side. While she's tangentially aware of it, she's completely shocked at what he's capable of, despite presumably seeing his antics with the HYDRA assault team in New York on the news. However, she's certainly not naïve, as her discussions with Harry in Ghosts show. She gets considerably more cynical later on.
  • Wise Beyond Her Years: She tends to be the most insightful of Harry's Hogwarts friends, and one of his most insightful friends full stop, especially considering that unlike the others, she isn't The Empath (like Diana) and doesn't have a Psychic Link to Harry (like Carol). Jean-Paul leaves her in the dust in that regard, but he does that with pretty much everyone, literally and figuratively.

    Ron 

Ronald Bilious Weasley

One of Harry's oldest and best friends. Has a rather laid back attitude to life and his feet are quite firmly set on the ground. However, by Ghosts of the Past, he's become considerably more focused, and has an occasionally hinted at darker side to his nature, as grief festers into a bitter hatred of HYDRA and their ilk following the Winter Soldier's Mercy Kill of his father. While he remains entirely loyal to Harry, it is not without reason that he is warned about the danger of becoming He Who Fights Monsters. And then there's the inconvenient fact that the person who gave Ron that warning is none other than Harry's bodyguard and confidant, Bucky Barnes a.k.a. the Winter Soldier himself...



  • Action Survivor: Initially. As he later elaborates to Uhtred, he doesn't necessarily like getting into insane scrapes with Harry, but he would like the choice, rather than being excluded for his own protection.
  • Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Hermione, to the point where a telepathic and more worldly Harry repeatedly considers telling them to get a room.
  • Best Friend: To Harry, though he worries that he's been replaced. This is at least partly justified.
  • Big Eater: As per canon, he enjoys his meals.
  • Book Dumb: Knows considerably less than the others about magical theory and the muggle world, but as per canon, he knows much more about the Wizarding World than either Harry or Hermione and as noted by both Thor and Bucky, he's a talented strategist when he puts his mind to it and capable of an impressive Enemy Scan.
  • Boxing Lessons for Superman: Starts taking these from Sean Cassidy and Sirius Black at Carol's suggestion, to direct his anger, with the intent of joining SHIELD and avenge his father.
  • Broken Pedestal: Towards Harry in Ghosts after the revelation of a) Hermione's ancestry, b) the fact that Harry knew, kept it a secret for months, and wasn't remotely apologetic about doing so. It'd been building for a while, given Harry's increasingly secretive nature (partly negative Character Development, partly thanks to becoming a Secret-Keeper to a lot of people), but that was the tipping point.
  • Can't Catch Up: Somewhat aware of (and worried by) this.
  • Character Development: Following his father's death, he seems to have matured a lot faster, though not always positively. For instance, he sincerely vows to kill the Winter Soldier and is dead-set on hunting HYDRA. He also doesn't trust Harry as much - though the fact that Harry's flat-out admitted that he'll lie to him if necessary means that this isn't exactly surprising.
  • Cynicism Catalyst: The Winter Soldier killing his father, Mercy Kill or not.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Less obvious than most of the other snarkers in the cast (which isn't saying much), but it's there.
  • Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Does not want pity towards his desire for revenge for his father's death.
  • Enemy Scan: His strategic talents sometimes manifest as this, as shown in the Fortress mini-arc of Ghosts when he performs one on Harry, immediately noticing that he's not fighting the way he normally does.
  • The Everyman: By magical standards. Consequently, he worries about being left behind by Harry, whose legend grows exponentially. It doesn't help that his next-oldest brothers and other best friend are getting advanced magical lessons from three of the greatest living magical practitioners, leaving him the only "normal" one.
  • Green-Eyed Monster: When Hermione and Krum get together, naturally, though a timely intervention from Sean Cassidy prevents the canonical blow-up.
  • Heroic Self-Deprecation: He doesn't think much of himself, particularly since Harry has now found new and interesting ways to outshine him. Harry, and others, hold him in much higher esteem, with none other than Magneto telling him that given his power, intellect, loyalty, and courage, he'd have considered him a prime recruit in the past - and Xavier still would.
  • He Who Fights Monsters: Bucky warns him about this trope after he shows a bit too much relish at the thought of the Phoenix roasting HYDRA's raiders alive. Likewise, Magneto, who knows more than a little about the downsides of this trope, also gives him a warning along these lines. Unlike the others, though, he more or less expects it to fall on deaf ears and merely observes that he hopes Ron figures things out more quickly than he did.
  • Hidden Depths: He's got talent as a strategist, which Thor explicitly mentions, something which starts appearing in the sequel.
  • Hormone-Addled Teenager: Displays more of these tendencies than Harry, in part because he's a bit further into puberty, in part because Harry is the grandmaster of emotional repression and in part because Harry generally has bigger things to worry about.
  • I Just Want to Be Special: Averted. He's decided that he doesn't envy Harry's life, considering what he goes through as a result. However, he does resent Harry's habit of keeping him Locked Out of the Loop.
  • Innocently Insensitive:
    • As per canon, leading to Hermione haranguing him on more than one occasion. By this point, Harry's started tuning it out and wondering when they'll get a room.
    • In Ghosts, this emerges again with the "can I see Uranus too" joke. Canon Harry didn't seem to note it as anything out of the ordinary. This version of Harry, however, has grown up a lot faster, is close friends with multiple people often on the end of sexual harassment, was outright raped as the Red Son, got the 101 on modern feminism from Darcy, and has a much shorter temper. He promptly tears a strip off Ron in public, effectively forcing him to apologise, which leads to a brief rift between the two.
    • When Maddie comes to him and Hermione, she drops hints that Harry was abused during his time in the Red Room. Hermione puts the pieces together, though Ron, understandably, doesn't, leading to another spat.
  • The Kirk: Evolves into this from The McCoy thanks to his Character Development, while Harry's own Character Development takes him in the other direction.
  • Locked Out of the Loop: As Harry, for a number of reasons doesn't talk about the things he goes through to people who weren't there at the time - and even among those people, he tends to confine his confiding to Carol and his father. Also due to the fact that he has to keep secrets, such as the fact that Bucky was the Winter Soldier (especially from Ron, because Bucky snapped his father's neck. While it was a Mercy Kill, he doesn't know that). Also, Harry eventually admits that he's never going to let Ron in on the kind of trouble he gets into.
  • Male Gaze: To the point that it's remarked on by Christine Everhart in her article on the Avengers, written when Harry, Ron, Hermione and the Twins were in the Tower. He is, after all, a Hormone-Addled Teenager.
  • Nerves of Steel: Less so than Harry, but he keeps his composure through some truly horrifying experiences.
  • Only Sane Man: With Harry developing new and exciting powers, near death experiences and emotional issues on a bi-weekly basis and Hermione generally being absent mindedly nose first in a book, he's the down to earth one of the trio.
  • Open Mouth, Insert Foot: Suffers from a bad case of this. Fairly justified in that he's in his early teens, and unlike, say, Harry, he doesn't have the reserve and telepathic senses to make up for it. Unfortunately, following the Forever Red arc, Harry has a Hair-Trigger Temper. A good mix this does not make for.
  • Out of Focus: Gets the least attention of Harry's expanded circle of friends until after chapter 40 of Ghosts, when his issues over his father's death and Harry's Character Development come to the fore.
  • Overshadowed by Awesome: By Harry and Hermione - one's a Living Legend and Person of Mass Destruction who seems to develop a new superpower practically every other week, the other the most brilliant witch of her age and an Omega Class powerhouse ( twice over). He's 'just' a wizard. But as more than one person points out, he's a powerful wanded wizard, with a gift for strategy, above-average intelligence, buckets of courage, Undying Loyalty, and he has repeatedly survived the madness that follows Harry around like a bad smell, despite lacking either Harry or Hermione's advantages. As a result, both SHIELD and MI13 have him on their 'to recruit' lists, and Magneto remarks that in the old days, both he and Xavier have deemed Ron a prime recruit.
  • Perpetual Poverty: As per canon, it clearly bothers him.
  • Red Heads Are Uncool: Feels that this applies to himself, at least among Harry's circle of friends in Book 1, and to a lesser extent in Book 2. It doesn't help that most of Harry's friends, old and new, are variously extraordinarily talented, fearsomely powerful, notably charismatic, brilliantly intelligent, and stunningly good-looking - or some combination of the above. Ron, by contrast, feels like The Everyman, which he is, to an extent. However, a number of the adults, and Harry, feel that he has considerable Hidden Depths.
  • The Resenter: Actually averts this trope, inwardly resolving that all Harry's fame and money isn't worth it based on what he goes through on a regular basis. Harry explicitly notes this in Ghosts, and he and Uhtred discuss it when they meet.
    • However, this characteristic is not helped by Harry brushing off his offer to help in Ghosts during the Bloody Hell arc, as he wouldn't stand a chance. While true, it still doesn't do his self-esteem much good at all - especially when Bucky demonstrates it, and it's revealed that Harry had actually left halfway through the conversation. It gets worse when Harry finally admits that he's not going to 'open the door' to Ron and Hermione regarding his more dangerous exploits.
    • Further not helping the matter is the fact that Hermione is taking lessons with Living Legends Loki and Wanda Maximoff, while Harry's now a student of Doctor Strange himself and persistently not confiding in him the way he used to. This understandably makes him feel left out, and is explored in chapter 53 ('A Path Divided'), which focuses entirely on the Trio, showing his thoughts on the matter. This makes him easy prey for 'Adam Black', a disguised Voldemort.
  • Revenge Myopia: He's repeatedly hinted to be at risk of this in the second book, with his obsession over the death of his father at the hands of the Winter Soldier (which was a Mercy Kill, not that he knows it), and while he believes the Soldier is dead, he's dead set on going after HYDRA. Voldemort, as 'Adam Black', seems out to exploit this from chapter 53 onwards. More than one person tries to warn him of the risks, causing him to snap at Harry when he does it. He also distinctly does not appreciate Harry's following dark elaboration from personal experience on where this can lead.
  • Sarcastic Devotee: He's remarkably loyal to Harry, as noted elsewhere. However, this doesn't stop him from snarking at Harry and complaining about the latter's Secret-Keeper tendencies.
  • Sir Swears-a-Lot: As per canon.
  • The Slacker: Initially, and it bothers Harry slightly on his behalf, but Cassidy reckons that Ron will come around in time. Ron's reaction to his father's death proves him right, with chapter 53 having another wizard, Adam Black, compare his drive to Wisdom's. Unfortunately, Adam Black is actually Voldemort.
  • Start of Darkness: His father's death may or may not be this. Certainly, when he reappears in Ghosts, and shows a certain unnerving relish over the memory of the death of the HYDRA agents at the hands of the Phoenix when they attacked Hogwarts. Bucky quietly takes him to task for it, and Ron seems to concede the point, but there's still a bit of something dark in him, which is noted by Wanda and Cassidy - and it's why everyone from Harry to Magneto himself tries to warn him (though in Magneto's case, he's more or less resigned to the fact that Ron won't listen, and simply remarks that he hopes Ron will learn more quickly and less painfully than he did that revenge will not bring him peace).
  • The Strategist: Has talents in this direction, as noted by Thor.
  • Took a Level in Badass: Is aiming for this in Ghosts, training in martial arts with Sean, and Wanda guesses that he's getting advanced magical combat training from Sirius Black as well.
  • Undying Loyalty: Displays this towards Harry, with the latter noting in Ghosts that Ron has adjusted remarkably well to the way he's been left behind, and in chapter 30, is willing at a moment's notice to follow Harry into the middle of his latest violent mess - since he now knows what Harry's been through and the effect it has on him, this is no small thing. Harry recognises it, and reciprocates it... mostly.
    • Both Clint and Magneto point out that the downside of this trope is that, because of how loyal Ron is to his friends, he expects this kind of loyalty in return. This becomes a significant source of tension throughout Book II, as Harry starts to be less than honest and forthcoming with him.
  • The Un-Favourite: Feels that he's this, though less so after a talk with Uhtred.
  • Who Would Be Stupid Enough?: He can believe that Voldemort has returned, but is initially sceptical of Voldemort attacking Harry, Fred, and George at the World Cup since, as he says, the Avengers were all present at the time and they would all be happy to torture or kill him on sight.
  • You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Gets one from Uhtred (who understands Ron's jealousy and feeling of inferiority), and another from Harry in Ghosts, who tells Ron that even though his haring off to rescue Hogsmeade refugees was ill-conceived, it was heroic, and promises that no matter who he becomes or what he does, he will always be his friend.
    • Receives another from Magneto, of all people, who recognizes his skills and abilities and compliments them.

    Jean 

Jean Elaine Grey

The Significant Green-Eyed Redhead and Omega Class Psychic - though until the end of Book I, she's not one of the few people who knows how powerful she is/will be. Kind, sweet-natured and described as big sister to the world, she's generally absolutely lovely, with the beauty to match. Also Harry's second cousin and protected him from Dudley when her family came to visit when Harry was seven. Thanks to Sinister's intervention, she, Harry and their families forgot this and they never saw each other again, though the block finally breaks down, and boy is she pissed when it does. Thereafter, she treats him as the little brother she never had, much to his mingled joy and, because she's 'disconcertingly attractive', consternation.



  • Academic Athlete: Like her X-Men: Evolution counterpart, she's captain of the Bayville High women's football team and a straight-A student. Combined with other factors, the pressure of maintaining this starts to get to her in Ghosts.
  • The Ace: She's smart, beautiful, has excellent control of her vast powers, is well-liked, well-organised, strong-willed, and a naturally gifted athlete. This is balanced by a fiery temper, tendencies towards smothering, occasional profound obliviousness and taking on more responsibility than anyone should expect her to, burning out as a result.
  • All-Loving Hero: Deconstructed. As Harry puts it, Jean's "love and support is the sort you can balance planets on." Her Big Sister Instinct towards Harry and Maddie is epic, and she extends it to a lesser degree for the rest of the Institute's students. However...
    • Maddie, dealing with her own self-esteem issues, worries that Jean is too perfect and won't understand the things she's dealing with.
    • In Ghosts, the pressure of the above, being de facto head girl of the rapidly expanding Institute, her Go-Getter Girl obligations, being The Ace, and keeping up a normal façade, finally gets to her. She finally snaps when Maddie reveals that her boyfriend is cheating on her at exactly the wrong moment. Carol, in a similar position with her little brothers (and Harry), notes it was coming.
  • Anger Born of Worry:
    • When she scolds Scott for slipping on the stairs. The narration notes that she'd probably have been considerably angrier if she knew it had happened because he'd been distracted by her butt.
    • All but explodes with this kind of fury after Harry is kidnapped and she was not informed.
  • Astral Projection: Does it for the first time in Book I. Since she manages to project herself into Asgard, with a little helping hand from Huginn and Muninn, it goes without saying that she's got a knack.
  • Battle Aura: An amber-red one, which sometimes collapses around her, making her resemble an energy being.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: She's noted to have a good deal of resemblance to an angel, being beautiful, sweet, and kind. Piss her off, however, and you will not like the results.
  • Big Sister Instinct: See Cool Big Sis. Harry suggests that when they met, she protected him from Dudley and her immediate reaction when her memories of him come back is to drop everything to find him. Immediately after Forever Red, she tells Coulson that she doesn't trust SHIELD and if they even breathe the wrong way towards Harry and Maddie, she'll bring the organisation down around his ears.
  • Buxom Beauty Standard: Implied, when both Harry and Carol separately snark that if she's anything to go by, a gender-flipped version of him would (for starters) need baggier t-shirts.
  • Cool Big Sis: Described as being this to the world, and particularly to Harry and Maddie (and to a lesser extent the rest of the younger X-Men), even though she and Maddie are twins, shading into Team Mom territory - though the pressure eventually gets to her.
  • Cute, but Cacophonic: When her emotions really get the best of her, for good or ill, she gets so loud that anyone too close by (e.g. Steve or Maddie) is left with a persistent ringing noise in their ears.
  • Deadpan Snarker: It's rarer than with most of her family, but still there.
  • Dude Magnet: As Dresden observes, she's already this trope to her peers. She's dated Warren, a Chick Magnet in his own right (and Even the Guys Want Him), has Scott Summers wrapped around her little finger (not that she realises it), and is dating the Big Man on Campus (until it's revealed that he was cheating on her). Even Harry, her little cousin, initially finds her very attractive, much to his dismay, given her behaviour.
  • Ethereal White Dress: In chapter 60 of Ghosts, Jean and Maddie appear in Harry's mindscape wearing pure white dresses (their psychic forms having previously merged into a pure white gestalt), emphasising their unearthly nature and purity. Here, they're unambiguously benevolent (unlike most examples), doing their best to help Harry heal.
  • Family Eye Resemblance: Has the exact same eyes as Lily Potter and Harry Thorson. They're also identical to the Girl With Glowing Blue Eyes, when said eyes aren't glowing, Maddie Pryor/Rachel Grey, her twin sister.
  • Fiery Redhead: She has an explosive temper when roused. It's In the Blood and shared by Harry and Lily.
  • Friend to All Living Things: Seems to be this, judging by the way that Dresden notes she spoiled his dog, Mouse.
  • Go-Getter Girl: In the sequel, being a positive version along with the burdens of her vastly expanded powers and being a Living Emotional Crutch to Maddie and Harry (both horribly traumatised) and de facto Head Girl to the Xavier Institute leads to a breakdown.
  • The Heart: Serves as this to Harry's friends (along with Diana), and to the Xavier Institute in general - though after Forever Red in the sequel, this is deconstructed when she opts to be a Living Emotional Crutch to Harry and her twin sister Maddie, both horribly traumatised, and generalised Cool Big Sis to all the new Institute students - it takes a heavy emotional toll.
  • I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!: Dresden implies that Jean could probably make most young men do what she wanted without recourse to her psychic powers because of this, something that goes double for Scott because of his unrequited love for her.
  • In the Blood: Red hair and green eyes run in the family. So do psychic powers, it seems, with Harry inheriting them from his mother, whose aunt was Jean's grandmother. Sean mentions a shared explosive temper and mentally notes that she and Harry also seem to share a taste for revenge. Also, her Mama Bear instincts are certainly quite reminiscent of Lily's. On a more minor note, it's repeatedly noted that when Harry smiles, he looks a great deal like Jean.
  • Just Friends: States this of herself and the hopelessly devoted Scott, though quite literally Everyone Can See It.
  • Lovable Jock: Captain of the Bayville High women's football team, and kind and considerate to everyone.
  • Mama Bear: As Team Mom, particularly where her little cousin, Harry, is concerned.
  • Martial Pacifist: Is rarely shown fighting, and despite - or perhaps because of - her explosive temper, her displays of power tend to be related to helping, containing, or healing people. However, she certainly can and will fight if pressed, and when she does, you'd better not be in the way...
  • Mental Fusion: Does a long distance version of this with Harry and Maddie Pryor, lending him her power via Psychic Link to help fight off Chthon's possession.
    • Ends up doing one at close range with the same participants in Ghosts, having a psychic chat.
    • And again, with Maddie, into a true fusion, before another psychic chat. They do it once again at the climax of Unfinished Business, when taking on Nimue's monstrously powerful soul-fragment and ripping it in half with a colossal phoenix construct that effortlessly destroys most of the Arc Villain's back-up - and it is worth noting that it only took one soul-fragment of the same kind each to steadily overpower the Summer and Winter Courts of Faerie.
  • Mind over Matter: Her favoured power. She uses it for carrying luggage. By Ghosts, Harry, not known for hyperbole, states that she's capable of smashing the city they're in (Bayville) straight down into the heart of the planet.
  • My Significance Sense Is Tingling: Senses Harry being possessed by the Phoenix, which briefly reacts with her own connection to it. This happens repeatedly, to the point where Carol notices Jean having this sort of reaction and immediately deduces that Harry's in trouble.
  • Nice Girl: Everyone who knows her (except Warren, her ex-boyfriend), mentions her as this, and her every appearance lives up to it - she is a genuinely lovely person.
  • Not Hyperbole: When she hears that Harry got kidnapped, she literally hits the roof. And then goes through it.
  • Oblivious to Love: Her first appearance makes it extremely obvious that she doesn't have the faintest idea how badly Scott is in love with her. Xavier wonders how it's even possible for someone that smart and psychically powerful to miss something so obvious. The One-Shots establish that there's a thriving betting pool at the Institute on when she'll finally figure it out, and even the teachers are in on it.
  • Physical God: In Ghosts, Strange observes that the difference between her and a god is a matter of semantics. Given that she quite literally reaches out and rips a hole through space to the Red Room's base in the Nevernever, a feat that Fix says he'd expect from Titania, the Summer Queen, and is still just about strong enough to contain the battle between Harry and Maddie, her only nominal peers, it's justified.
  • Power Glows: A nice shade of orange-gold/amber-red, to be precise.
  • Psychic Powers: On course to be the most powerful psychic in history (if she isn't already). The only possible exception is Maddie, her twin, and even then, it's hinted that Jean might be marginally stronger. Her psychic outburst of distress at the age of six was felt all around the world.
  • Psycho Active Powers: Like Harry, though she has a far better handle on them, at least to begin with - later, he gets the hang of controlling them and her powers take a significant hike, which means that she has to readjust her control.
  • Significant Green Eyed Red Head: As per usual, for many of the canon reasons and a few more besides.
  • Sliding Scale of Beauty: Type II. Even without make-up, she's described as an Angelic Beauty, and compared favourably with goddesses.
  • Stepford Smiler: Retrospectively noted as having been this between the end of Forever Red (around chapter 18 of Ghosts) and chapter 49 of the same, as various pressures, some circumstantial, some self-imposed, increasingly weighed down on her, until she finally snaps in chapter 49 after Maddie chooses the worst possible moment to tell her that her boyfriend is cheating on her.
  • Talking the Monster to Death: Favours this approach, and is good at it.
  • Team Mom: To the young X-Men and younger generation in general, being the sweet, nurturing, with the traditional shades of All-Loving Hero, giving a young Bobby Drake a worried maternal scolding over putting himself in danger, favouring the Cooldown Hug/Talking the Monster to Death approach when dealing with Dark Phoenix!Harry. She's also violently protective of Harry and Maddie, her Separated at Birth twin sister, in particular, coolly informing Coulson and SHIELD that if they even blink the wrong way towards her family, she'll bring SHIELD down around their ears. However, the pressure of acting like this, among other things, leads to her cracking under the strain.
  • Telepathy: Another of her powers, as usual, on a colossal scale.
  • Uncanny Family Resemblance: Lucius Malfoy is visibly shocked by how much she looks like Lily Potter. Later subverted, as while there's a definite resemblance, Lucius never really knew Lily all that well and overstated the resemblance, focusing on their shared (and admittedly, striking) hair and eyes. Sean, meanwhile, is loudly shocked when he sees Harry's eyes, which look exactly like Jean's - though it's also hinted to be because he met a time-travelling Harry nearly fifty years earlier.
    • She and Harry don't normally have this, eyes excepted, but when he smiles, they're noted to look remarkably alike.
  • Unhappy Medium: Her telepathic powers, like those of her canon counterpart, have caused her a fair bit of grief over the years.

    Clark 

Clark Joseph Kent a.k.a. Kal-El

I might be the last, but I'm not alone. You showed me that. I don't know what's happened, what's wrong, but it doesn't matter. Because as long as I'm around, you aren't alone either.

The Last Son of Krypton. Currently a teenage resident of Smallville, Kansas and blissfully unaware of his ancestry - though what with all these superhumans running around, he is aware that he's not one of a kind and suspects that he isn't human, a suspicion confirmed when he sees Harry, practically his doppelganger, on television. Starts popping up in Ghosts, chatting to/being assessed by Jean-Paul, who keeps him from the others to protect him. Eventually, he steps up to fully acknowledge his heritage.



  • Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Initially, and inevitably, since he's based on the Smallville incarnation, prior to Season 1 - he's shown desperately wanting to meet other young superhumans, so he won't feel so alone. Once he strikes up a friendship with Jean-Paul, this tendency diminishes somewhat.
  • Adaptational Wimp: Initially, in line with early Smallville. This is lampshaded, with it being noted that his powers are nowhere near where they 'should' be. As it turns out, this is because of long term Kryptonite exposure leading to a build-up in his body that limited his access. The fact that Reynolds had been draining his life energy, thus weakening his abilities, over an extended period of time also didn't help. Once both are resolved, he starts growing into his powers for real, able to fly at multi-mach speeds, carry an airplane on his back and deliver punches in the "Iron Man/Loki range."
  • The All-American Boy: A classic example - ironic, considering that he's from halfway across the galaxy, at least.
  • All-Loving Hero: As the quote demonstrates, this is perhaps where he's truest to his canon roots.
  • Badass in Distress: For the Mirror Image mini-arc he shares with Harry in the sequel, as his powers are being drained by Doctor Reynolds via Sympathetic Magic, then he gets kidnapped while Harry is distracted.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: He's an archetypal Nice Guy. He's also a powerful Flying Brick and a surprisingly vicious in-fighter.
  • Bizarre Alien Senses: As per canon, once his X-Ray Vision pops up in Book 2. It's drastically magnified when he gets super-charged and the Kryptonite in his system is purged, with the result being this crossed with Sensory Overload.
  • Bullet Time: Can drop into this, though all it really does is mean that he sees the blur that is Jean-Paul disappear a little slower.
  • Butt-Monkey: Downplayed, but if Harry, Jean-Paul, or Lois is in a scene with him, gentle mockery is almost sure to follow.
  • The Chosen One/The Chosen Many: He's prophesied alongside Harry as one of three people whose emergence shall 'herald the coming of the Heroic Age'. The second is Madelyn 'Maddie' Pryor aka Rachel Grey. The third is currently unknown.
  • Combat Pragmatist: Rather than confront "meteor freaks" head on, Clark often simply uses his Super-Speed to sneak up on them and give them a Tap on the Head. Further, when fighting Reynolds a.k.a. the Void, it's shown that Clark is a vicious in-fighter (including elbows, biting, and a brutal Groin Attack).
  • Contrived Coincidence: He looks a lot like Harry, despite their very different backgrounds. It's implied that Odin patterned Thor's appearance as James Potter off of the House of El's general 'look', resulting in both Harry and Clark inheriting the same looks from two different fathers.
  • Definitely Just a Cold: In the sequel, Harry immediately picks out Clark's persistent cold/flu type illness as this, on the grounds that his Healing Factor should give him Perfect Health.
  • Dogged Nice Guy: To Lana Lang, aided, abetted, and encouraged by Lex, yearning after her and (according to Word of God) arranging date-like occasions for her. Since he's Wrong Genre Savvy, he thinks they're Star-Crossed Lovers. Harry calls him on it.
  • Endearingly Dorky: He drops cans of Coke whenever he's sure Jean-Paul will turn up just to watch him catch them at Super-Speed, is utterly clueless about girls, and is a bit of a Naïve Newcomer. Everyone finds him adorable, with Chloe and Lois Lane crushing on him, Alison treating him like one of her own grandchildren, and Harry, Lex, and Jean-Paul (who run the spectrum from somewhat to extremely cynical) are all genuinely very fond of him in an older-brotherly sort of way and are careful to moderate their behaviour for his sake. When he appears in Unfinished Business, despite being a strapping six-footer and immensely powerful Flying Brick in smooth alien armour, which mostly masks his face, it's noted that this tendency - evident even in his body-language - completely diminishes any intimidation factor.
  • Even the Guys Want Him: Jean-Paul flirts with him, albeit mostly just to tease him.
  • Farm Boy: Classic Kansas farm boy, raised if not born.
  • Flying Brick: After chapter 58 of the sequel, the power drain is stopped, and he becomes this trope in earnest, though he still has a ways to go - he is a hilariously bad flier.
  • Foil: To Harry, as is lampshaded and shown in Mirror Image. Both are orphans, adopted after their parents sacrificed themselves to save them, both are caught between their human and non-human sides, both are incredibly powerful and require serious self-control as a result, and both are tied up by destiny. Even their future love interests are similar, being tough, no-nonsense abrasive Deadpan Snarkers who are smarter and kinder than they seem, related to prominent military men, and have Daddy Issues.
  • Future Badass: Word of God and various prophecies have heavily hinted that he has a great destiny ahead. We wonder why.
  • The Gadfly: Drops a can of coke when he knows Jean-Paul's arriving, just to see him catch it at super speed. Going by Jean-Paul's exasperated reaction, he does this a lot.
  • Good Is Not Dumb: He's The Idealist, willing to extend a second chance even to Doctor Reynolds, who previously drained him of his powers and proved willing to experiment on him. However, once it becomes clear that the above is beyond redemption, he shows no hesitation in going all out.
  • Groin Attack: Delivers a super-fast, super-strong one to Reynolds' in orbit. The narration notes that while in space, no one can hear you scream, this wasn't for lack of trying.
  • Happily Adopted: Loves his adopted parents to bits, and his fears of being distanced from them is a major part of why he's reluctant to explore his Kryptonian heritage.
  • Healing Factor: Which makes his persistent cold in the sequel so suspicious.
  • Hero of Another Story: Unsurprisingly.
  • Hidden Depths: In Ghosts, it's clear that Lex and Jean-Paul have been rubbing off on him, and he's almost instantly able to see through Coulson's (and, as soon as she drops it, Alison's) "harmless bureaucrat/soccer mum" acts, respectively. He's also a "vicious in-fighter", when it comes to it.
  • Hope Bringer: Trelawney's second prophecy cites him as "a beacon [...] that waits to be lit". After Harry 'lights' him, encouraging him to become who he was meant to be, he emerges as this - as Superman.
  • How Do I Shot Web?: Once his full powers come through - admittedly very suddenly - it's made clear that he's not totally competent with them. His flying, for instance, leaves much to be desired (though admittedly, this is contrast to Harry, a natural and experienced flyer). However, it has to be said that he learns quickly.
  • Human Alien: Looks human, acts human, isn't even close.
  • Hybrid Power: Not strictly a hybrid, but Word of God has confirmed that the House of El and the House of Odin intermixed a little tens of thousands of years ago and this makes Clark a teeny bit more resistant to magic than most Kryptonians - it'll still ruin his day, however.
  • Hypocrite: He doesn't like being deceived, while concealing his powers and true nature - though it's suggested that this is because he knows how easily people can lie.
  • Identical Stranger: Harry, initially, somewhat to Clark's bemusement when he finds out. When they finally meet in the sequel, enough of Lily's features have emerged in Harry that they now 'merely' look like brothers rather than twins, but Clark is still startled by the uncanny resemblance.
  • I Just Want to Have Friends: As is hinted on Smallville, and shown more here thanks to the proliferation of superhumans not out to kill him or those he cares about, he wants to meet people like him. This tendency is so strong that he rockets off after Jean-Paul in the midst of the world collapsing, and he's promptly called on it - though it's more understandable considering that he'd just missed Jean-Paul a few chapters earlier.
  • Innocent Aliens: He arrived as a toddler, and is generally noted to be one of the sweetest and most innocent members of the cast. While he's far from stupid, and often surprisingly perceptive, he also comes across as a Naïve Newcomer compared to most of the other young characters in the sequel (who by this point have Seen It All and are Shell Shocked Veterans to one extent or another). Emphasised during the Mirror Image arc, where his similarities to Harry are notable, but the contrasts are alternately jarring and downright hilarious.
  • Innocent Blue Eyes: As per usual. He's generally seen as one of the most innocent members of the cast, which is why Jean-Paul keeps him out of the superpowered community and Harry, on deducing his identity, opts to stay away from him until Strange almost literally drops him on Clark's head.
  • It's All About Me: Downplayed. Clark is in the general sense selfless to a fault, but more specifically, his main flaw is that his desires sometimes get in the way of his consideration for others - though it's out of thoughtlessness rather than malice. He tends to be immediately repentant when he realises what he's done, usually after someone calls him on it.
  • Last of His Kind: As per usual, for the time being at least, since there's no sign of Kara. However, Odin's foster brother of the same name might still be around and the House of Odin has a little bit of Kryptonian blood in it, as the House of El has a teeny bit of Asgardian blood in it.
  • Little Brother Is Watching: Harry, Jean-Paul, and Lex all have pretty flexible morals, and a decided ruthless streak. All of them behave much more classically morally around Clark, being very conscious of his innocence and not wanting to disappoint him.
  • Living Battery: In the Mirror Image arc, to his surprise (it was done relatively subtly, at night, via magic). It's very much Played for Drama, with the perpetrator referring to Clark as his 'source'. Not because he doesn't know Clark's name - quite the opposite - but because that's all he deems Clark to be.
  • Locked Out of the Loop: By Jean-Paul to begin with, though the other boy eventually lets him in on much of what he needs to know. Even then, he's still very under-informed until he meets Harry in Ghosts.
  • Long-Lived: Previous Asgardian remarks about Kryptonians suggest that he'll live for thousands of years.
  • Love Makes You Dumb: As is noted, Clark is very intelligent and quite observant, if a touch naïve. Where Lana is concerned, he tends to be blind to the obvious, i.e. that she has a boyfriend and hasn't shown real signs of interest in him, despite their Lex-backed dates.
  • Love Triangle: In one with Lana Lang and her boyfriend, Whitney Fordman - or so he thinks. As Harry points out, by Clark's own account Lana has never actually shown any overt signs of interest in him, and if Clark continues pursuing her, he'll end up forcing her to choose between them - which at best would be deeply unkind of him.
  • Man Bites Man: As Harry notes, for all his morals and idealism he's a vicious in-fighter when pushed, resorting to this (among other things) when fighting Reynolds/the Void. As a Kryptonian, it's a lot less risky for him than it would be for a human.
  • Moe: His youth, emotional vulnerability (considering that he's the Last of His Kind), and relative innocence inspire reactions along these lines from Harry, Lex, and Jean-Paul, with all of them being decidedly protective of him and treating him as a Morality Pet. However, it should be noted that he's remarkably resilient and much more insightful than most immediately realise.
  • Morality Pet: To Harry, Jean-Paul, and Lex, to varying degrees. He's pure, sweet, and naïve (by their somewhat jaded standards) enough that they want to at least partly live up to his morals to avoid disappointing him.
  • Naïve Newcomer: He's far from an idiot, but for all of his power, he is still very much a normal teenager in many respects, and his lack of experience is especially apparent when interacting with Harry, Jean-Paul, and Lex.
  • Nice Guy: Quite possibly the archetypal example, and one of the reasons everyone finds him adorable rather than intimidating.
  • Odd Friendship:
    • A wholesome Wide-Eyed Idealist Kansas farm boy who wears his heart on his sleeve, sticks to his principles, and just so happens to be from another planet and a cynical, foul-minded, reserved, ruthless, deceptive Camp Gay French city boy who'll discard principle in a heartbeat. Not two people you'd expect to hit it off, but they do - partly thanks to knowing what it's like to keep secrets and be different from everyone else.
    • He's also struck up a friendship with Lex Luthor, having saved the other young man from drowning. Whether it will last, given that their canon counterparts are practically archetypal arch-enemies, is unknown.
    • He and Harry also seem to be a study in contrasts at first glance, despite their physical resemblance, but it's quickly observed and demonstrated that at heart, they're very much alike.
  • Out of Focus: In the first book, as very few members of the regular cast even know he exists. This is rectified in the second book, as Jean-Paul visits him semi-regularly, and after Bloody Hell, thanks to chance, some deduction, and a few informed guesses, Harry figures it out - though he leaves him be, explaining to Jean-Paul that he agrees that Clark is better off that way, and only gets involved in Clark's life after Strange forces his hand by almost literally dropping him on Clark.
  • Please, Don't Leave Me: Says words to this effect to Jean-Paul, because he's missed him once and he's desperate to know someone like him. He is at first dressed down for his monumentally bad timing, since the world is basically ending all around them and Clark could be helping to save people, though Jean-Paul becomes a little more sympathetic when Clark explains his reasons, and later comes back to visit.
  • The Pollyanna: No matter what he goes through, a little wariness and caution aside, he consistently believes in the goodness of other people. And one downcast moment in the sequel, he thinks it makes him an idiot and a soft target - a view Harry firmly rejects, telling him that it's a mark of courage and that Rousseau Was Right (though he does advise Clark to be a bit more Properly Paranoid).
  • Pretty Boy: Lois Lane explicitly refers to him as this in Ghosts.
  • Primary-Color Champion: Strange and Harry both lampshade his tendency towards red and blue.
  • Properly Paranoid: Justly wary of anyone discovering his secret, which initially leads to a bit of tension with Phil Coulson.
  • Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: When fighting Reynolds in the Mirror Image arc.
  • Refusal of the Call: At first, when Alison gives him the crystals from his parents, Clark decides not to find out more about his Kryptonian heritage, as he feels that it will only increase the pain of being Last of His Kind. As he later explains to Harry, he is afraid of changing into something he doesn't recognise. Harry's counter-argument is that people change every day, and that even then, they remain who they were. Eventually, after chapter 58 of Ghosts, he accepts it.
  • Reluctant Warrior: As per canon, he really prefers not to fight, and chooses to talk things out when he can. However, when he does fight, he doesn't pull many punches.
  • Revealing Skill: Going into Super-Speed to chase Jean-Paul inadvertently reveals his powers to Chloe - and, more importantly, to Jean-Paul.
  • Save the Villain: He always tries this, both with standard "meteor freaks" and Reynolds in Mirror Image, repeatedly offering mercy to the latter. This strikes a contrast with Harry, who is less merciful (but nevertheless admires Clark's capacity to Turn the Other Cheek).
  • Sensory Overload: Suffers this in chapter 58 of Ghosts, thanks to a sudden super-charge burning away the previous Kryptonite residue in his system that had been blocking his powers, the surge of which blasts apart his normal filters, forcing Harry to step in and restore them.
  • Something Else Also Rises: His heat vision is triggered by anger and arousal, something that's alluded to a couple of times - such as when he wakes up, powers newly boosted, and accidentally triggers his X-Ray Vision, inadvertently getting a good look at the naked form of Alison Carter. Cue his eyes jerking away very quickly, two holes burned into his wall, and Harry, telepathically aware of this, laughing hysterically downstairs.
  • Starcrossed Lovers: He thinks that he and Lana are this. Harry then asks the inconvenient question: has Lana ever actually shown any real sign that she's interested in Clark? Answer: no.
  • Stress Vomit: He throws up after he sees Harry kill thirteen ghouls downright casually. While Clark has already seen his share of death, the narrative makes the point that this is the first time he's seen someone/something killed in cold blood. Harry's resemblance to him doesn't help.
  • Super-Speed: Starts faster than a Formula One car, and later gets a great deal faster.
  • Super-Strength: It's Superman (or will be). What do you expect?
  • Tangled Family Tree: His adopted father's adopted older sister was Edith Barton, previously Edith Kent, born Edith Barnes McGonagall, meaning that Clark is Clint's first cousin - making this a little less coincidental is the fact that it's implied that Strange had a hand in this. Also, he's distantly related to the House of Odin (extremely distantly by blood, 'watered down to the point of homeopathy', and fairly distantly by adoption, with his ancestor, Kal-El I being Harry's adopted great-uncle). Harry just ballparks the relationship at 'cousin' and has done with it.
  • Turn the Other Cheek: He has a truly astonishing capacity for grace and forgiveness. Unfortunately, it's not always accepted, in which case, he demonstrates that Good Is Not Soft.
  • Unskilled, but Strong: Played With. He's not yet had any Boxing Lessons for Superman or training in how to use them effectively - as Harry points out, he probably can't even throw a decent punch. However, Harry also points out, Clark's control of his Super-Strength is much greater than his own (despite the fact that Harry's hardly above Super-Soldier strength on a normal basis) and is arguably on par with Thor and Loki's, even though they've had over 1500 years of practise. Once his other powers suddenly come in (along with a power-boost), he adjusts very quickly - after Harry helps him with the initial shock. However, he is hilariously bad at flying (in fairness, he's completely inexperienced and a fairly quick learner).
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: Becomes this with Harry.
  • Wake Up, Go to School & Save the World: He's an ordinary high school student who protects his hometown from "meteor mutants."
  • Wide-Eyed Idealist: He's not an idiot, by any means - he knows the world is an imperfect place. But he believes that Rousseau Was Right, that there's goodness everywhere, in everyone, and he will always try to help people. Despite, or even because, of the cynical setting, it earns him a lot of admiration and a prophetic allusion to being a Hope Bringer.
  • With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: He holds himself to this principle, and (mostly) succeeds in doing so.
  • Wrong Genre Savvy: Romantically, he thinks he's Starcrossed Lovers with Lana Lang, the nice guy protagonist who will eventually win out in the Love Triangle (though he admits that whatever issues he has with Whitney, Whitney's good to Lana). Harry, after briefly considering Whitney as a suspect for what's going on with Clark, points out that actually, he's more the selfish jerk who's trying to force Lana to choose between two guys she cares for - which, as he points out, is not the sort of person Clark is. Clark, being very well-meaning and essentially sweet-natured, is embarrassed and ashamed.
  • X-Ray Vision: Begins to develop it in the second book. The spectrum vastly broadens in chapter 58 when Harry super-charges him and purges him of the built up Kryptonite. Since he's a Hormone-Addled Teenager and his control is imperfect, this can be embarrassing for him, and hilarious for, say, Harry.

    Spoiler Character 

Madelyn 'Maddie' Pryor a.k.a. Rachel Anne Grey

"I am no longer your experiment, your weapon, or your slave. I and I alone am the Mistress of my fate, the Captain of my soul. You have no power over me, Doctor Essex. Not any more."

A psychic equalled for power only by Jean Grey, she is Sinister's 'hound in chains' and his chief weapon, shaped as such since birth. Appears to have her canon origin of a clone of Jean by Sinister. As it happens, she's actually Jean's twin sister, Rachel, stolen at birth by Sinister - he would have taken Jean too, but Strange jumped him and forced him to cut and run. She becomes decidedly curious about Harry and, thanks to his and Gambit's influence, begins to question Sinister and eventually, Curiosity Causes Conversion.



  • Animal Motifs: She's Sinister's Hound, initially, and is described in a number of dog-like ways (some less complimentary than others), down to the Quizzical Tilt. She also has a few cat-like traits, such as the aforementioned Quizzical Tilt, the classically feline reserve, a propensity for curling up (particularly when upset), and a persistent curiosity, to the point where Curiosity Causes Conversion.
  • Astral Projection: Her abilities in this regard deserve special mention, given the contrast with Harry. While he can barely project an effective astral form through Carol, even despite their mental link (and that form was gold, white, and not even slightly disguised), she can casually project astral forms so realistic that even Harry has to be in touching distance to recognise them as such. Hermione independently notes the extraordinary realism, right down to the play of shadows on her face - and this is when she's doing it from across the Atlantic, and not even paying full attention.
  • The Atoner: From partway through Forever Red onwards.
  • Badass Adorable: Appears to be a very pretty teenage girl. Is a very pretty teenage girl. Is also the joint most powerful psychic in human history, capable of devastating the planet at the tender age of 17, and trained in the psychic arts by an expert.
  • Beautiful Slave Girl: Subverted. While she technically qualifies in that she's beautiful and initially enslaved, Sinister doesn't even seem to notice this aspect, regarding her as a Living Weapon. And when Dudley made a move on her, she almost melted his brain and Sinister had a little chat with him. The details are unclear, but it left Sinister as one of the few people Dudley actually fears, and Maddie, at least, as someone that he's wary of.
  • Big Sister Instinct: She develops this towards Harry as early as chapter 11 of Ghosts, though she doesn't know who they are to each other, and it develops with time. By chapter 60, she's taking point on emergency psychic therapy.
  • Bodyguarding a Badass: A major part of her duties pre-Heel–Face Turn was guarding Sinister, even though he's usually more than capable of looking after himself. This is implied to be because he sees physical violence as beneath him.
  • Boring, but Practical: She's not very good at being original with her powers, and has trouble at first adapting to Harry's tactics during their battle. However, she's also tied with Jean as the most powerful human psychic ever born, and while her tactics may be predictable, she's so good at guarding herself and controlling her powers that being able to predict her attacks is, for most people, about as helpful as being able to predict the path of an avalanche when you're in its way.
  • Break the Cutie: Her entire life has conspired to cause this.
  • Broken Ace: She's an immensely powerful psychic who can comfortably overpower Harry, himself one of the strongest psychics of all time when she catches him off-guard, and with the skill to use that power effectively. She's also at a polar opposite to the warm, happy, outgoing Jean. Even after she and Harry escape from the Red Room, the emotional scars are very visible. It's because of this that she takes the lead when helping Harry open up and deal with his trauma from Belova raping him as the Red Son.
  • Broken Bird: A lifetime of being raised as a weapon by an Evilutionary Biologist will do that to you.
  • Brutal Honesty: She's pretty tactless, though out of ignorance rather than malice - Sinister raised her with No Social Skills.
  • Character Development: In spades, going from stoic, detached, and dehumanised Punch-Clock Villain and Living Weapon, to a fumbling but formidable and well-meaning heroine who's struggling to adjust to the emotions and relationships involved in actually being a person, to a firm, confident and compassionate young woman in the space of 50 chapters (only a few months in-universe).
  • The Chosen One/The Chosen Many: She's prophesied alongside Harry as one of three people that will 'herald the coming of the Heroic Age'. One of the others is Clark Kent. The third is, as of Book III, unknown.
  • The Comically Serious: Post-Heel–Face Turn. She has No Social Skills (though she's learning), is prone to Spock Speak, and tends to be quite Literal-Minded - though she sometimes plays it up for deadpan effect.
  • Composite Character: Of Maddie Pryor and Rachel Grey, having aspects of the former's backstory and association with Sinister, and the latter's background as mutant 'hound' and much of her look, too.
  • Conditioned to Accept Horror:
    • She honestly believed that Sinister's dehumanising treatment of her (as hunting hound/bodyguard/experiment) was normal and appropriate. However, there were flickers of an independent mind in there, coaxed into life by Gambit. In chapter 11, she starts seriously questioning for the first time, and twice steps forward to protect Harry. Unfortunately, Sinister uses a Trigger Phrase and shuts her down, but it ends up triggering her true Heel–Face Turn. After her Heel–Face Turn, the way in which she's largely indifferent to horror, but confused and overwhelmed to the point of tears by basic decency and affection, is played for tragedy.
    • By chapter 60, she has come to see what was done to her was horrific (and more to the point, that none of it was her fault), preemptively rebutting the same attitude in Harry.
  • Cultured Badass: Like her Evil Mentor. She starts spouting poetry once she's free of him (mostly as a retort), with Dresden vaguely wondering if he's just walked into a poetry slam.
  • Curiosity Causes Conversion: This drives her Character Development, even prior to her first appearance, and even helps trigger her Heel–Face Turn.
    • Prior: She goes along with Gambit's affection for her and his coaxing her into experiencing things for herself/making her own path despite being entirely aware that it was initially feigned.
    • After: She wonders about Harry (whose power is approaches her own and has green eyes just like hers) and Jean (who looks exactly like her, and matches her power), which results in greater interaction with Harry, engaging his Magnetic Hero tendencies and his belief in a better nature she didn't know she had. She's also puzzled by Mjolnir, and when it initially rebuffs her as 'Not Worthy', her instant response is to enquire 'what is Worthy?', which both shows her what it is to be Worthy, and that she has performed Worthy actions in the past - trying to protect Harry from the Red Room - which had been erased from her memory.
  • Curious Qualms of Conscience: Starts developing these in Forever Red, thanks to Gambit's steadily Defusing the Tyke-Bomb, and Harry's appeal to a better nature she didn't even know she had.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: She was raised as a Living Weapon by a sociopath who ensured that she was Conditioned to Accept Horror. It's pretty safe to say that she qualifies.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Shows a flicker of this early on, to Harry's delight and her bafflement. It happens more and more often post-Heel–Face Turn, with her being arguably the most deadpan character in the cast.
  • Defusing the Tyke-Bomb: Both Gambit and Harry try this, and thanks to the former, the latter makes a great deal of headway. After her Heel–Face Turn, Jean and Jono are both playing a significant part in this.
  • Deprogramming: Gambit had been quietly trying to do this on her prior to Forever Red, as part of Defusing the Tyke-Bomb, and while Harry's actions provide the final straw, it's repeatedly indicated that he pushed her to the tipping point.
  • Desperately Craves Affection: A Downplayed example; she's not clingy, and perfectly self-sufficient. However, it also speaks volumes that she didn't let on about knowing that Gambit was initially feigning affection as a means to an end (his motives changed after he realised that she was a victim too), because that was the closest she'd ever experienced to actual love. Having people actually care for her knocks her for a loop. When Jean lashes out at her after cracking under a number of different pressures (Maddie revealing at the worst possible moment that Jean's boyfriend was cheating being the tipping point), she's reduced to miserable tears.
  • The Dragon: To Sinister. She initially believes that she was explicitly made for that purpose.
  • The Dreaded: To those who know who and what she really is - Carol, who's faced down the likes of Gravemoss without fear, has a spectacular Oh, Crap! reaction to her.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: Several, as the 'Blue-Eyed Girl' (nicknamed for the colour her powers glow).
  • Ethereal White Dress: Maddie and Jean appear in Harry's mindscape wearing pure white dresses (their psychic forms having previously merged into a pure white gestalt), emphasising both their unearthly nature and purity. Unlike many examples of the trope, they're unambiguously benevolent, doing their best to help Harry heal.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: For a given value of evil, she does genuinely care for Gambit even before her Heel–Face Turn.
  • Evil Twin: Of Jean, looking almost exactly like her - Harry actually confuses the two of them. And, well, she's working for Sinister. At first.
  • Expy: In her backstory (having been kidnapped at birth and raised specifically as a Living Weapon), powers, and lack of social skills, she greatly resembles an older version of Eleven from Stranger Things.
  • Facial Markings: Her distinctive tattoos, magically applied. Notably, they're an early sign that she has some independence/interests of her own, as she chose them (Gambit having introduced her to the concept).
  • Forced into Evil: She's not especially evil pre-Heel–Face Turn, but nevertheless... fact is, she doesn't know anything different, and the closest thing to a conscience in her life is a semi-amoral thief.
  • Glowing Eyes of Doom: Like her relatives, though hers glow an eerie electric blue.
  • Good Costume Switch: Goes from a black trench-coat and grey banded shirt to green and gold armour when wielding Mjolnir against the Red Room and sealing her Heel–Face Turn. After that, while she still favours darker colours, she adds blue jeans to her ensemble and ditches the trench-coat and banded shirt.
  • Grew Beyond Their Programming: Under Gambit's influence then, to an extent, Harry's and Jono's.
  • Happiness in Slavery: Appears to have this, at first, though after Harry's Armour-Piercing Question, the answer is more 'indifference because she doesn't know anything else'. Once she starts to question it, she becomes increasingly unhappy with her situation.
  • Heel–Face Turn: On the verge of one in chapter 10, but decided against it. In chapter 11, she seems to be about to pull a Face Turn in earnest, but Sinister shuts her down with a Trigger Phrase before she can. Finally, in chapter 12 she pulls one for good and starts working to protect Harry's mind.
  • Hell-Bent for Leather: She's referred to as 'gorgeous-in-black-leather-trousers' by Jono, wearing tight black trousers and a black leather trench-coat prior to her Heel–Face Turn.
  • Heroic Self-Deprecation: Post-Heel–Face Turn, she's crippled by doubt, primarily out of fear that people, including her family, will compare her to the apparently perfect Jean and that she'll inevitably come off worse. Jean tries to reassure her that this isn't going to happen, but it doesn't really take, since Maddie sees it as a platitude, and that while her love and support is utterly sincere and 'the kind you can balance planets on', she's almost too loving. She doesn't see or understand. Hence why Maddie turns to Harry, who states honestly that because Maddie looks so much like Jean being her twin and all, Jean will be the Grey family's immediate reference point... but they will come around and see her as her own (amazing) person. Additionally, he can listen to her worries and actually understand them from the point of view of someone who's both family and has been through/done very similar things
  • Hero with an F in Good: Post-Heel–Face Turn, she's not always very good at being helpful, or realising where certain boundaries are at - unsurprising, given her purposefully skewed moral education, only recently corrected, and that mainly by a semi-amoral thief who was busy figuring out the new headings on his own moral compass. However, under the guidance of Jean and Charles Xavier, she's getting better at it.
  • Hope Spot: At the start of chapter 11, when she makes a Sudden Principled Stand. Sinister's Trigger Phrase puts a stop to it.
  • Hunter Of Her Own Kind: As Sinister's 'hound.'
  • I Am Not a Gun: While Harry and Jean helped start off her Heel–Face Turn along with Remy, she was the one who made the last steps away from being a Living Weapon, all by herself.
  • Leg Focus: Noticed by Harry when, in a night-time psychic conversation, she's wearing a nightie. Since he's her cousin, he promptly tries to ignore it. It's later revealed that he failed.
  • Long Lost Sibling: To Jean and the other Grey siblings, not that anyone initially knows it.
  • Literal-Minded: To Jono's occasional frustration.
  • Master of Illusion: She's good at it and tries it on Harry. Since Harry's uncle is Loki, however, the response is basically 'Lol, nope'.
  • Mind over Manners: Prior to her Heel–Face Turn, it's a fairly alien concept to her. Post-Heel–Face Turn, she's honestly trying to get it right, bless her, but she has very little idea of where the lines are drawn.
  • Mind over Matter: She focuses on her telepathy, in direct contrast to Jean and Harry, but she's also a monstrously powerful telekinetic.
  • Mind Probe: Tries this on Harry. Once he's on his guard, it doesn't work very well.
  • Mind Rape: Pre-Heel–Face Turn, she has absolutely no compunction about mind-controlling people. This is unsurprising, because that's what she was taught.
  • More Deadly Than the Male: Played With. She's considerably more powerful than Harry is, far more skilled in psychic combat, and they both know it - which is why he spends their entire fight evading and avoiding a direct contest of power. She's also trained to be ruthless and efficient when executing Sinister's instructions, with a moral framework that verges on Blue-and-Orange Morality. However, she's pretty straightforward, whereas Harry is the conniving schemer of the two, and arguably, much more dangerous when he puts his mind to it.
  • More than Mind Control: Sinister's hold on her consists of personality conditioning, though also more conventional mind control.
  • Mythical Motifs: The Phoenix, specifically the Slavic Firebird. See The Phoenix.
  • No Social Skills: She's not very good at social interaction.
  • Only the Chosen May Wield: Aspires to be Worthy of Mjolnir during her Heel–Face Turn, and seals it by wielding it against the Red Room.
  • The Phoenix: More than Jean (surprisingly) and less than Harry (unsurprisingly), she has an affinity for the motif. Aptly (given that she appears with the Red Room), her variant resembles the Slavic Firebird myth - she's initially 'beautiful but dangerous, showing no sign of friendliness', to quote The Other Wiki, she picks up a Phoenix feather that's both a blessing and a curse. She was also captured by an evil immortal for their own ends - something which, as with most who capture the Firebird, spectacularly backfires.
  • Power Glows: Blue-White, to be exact.
  • Psychic Powers: She's tied with Jean for strongest human-born psychic ever. The only reason Harry's able to keep up for so long is because he never directly engages and instead uses hit and run tactics, acutely aware that she'd crush him in a straight fight.
  • Punch-Clock Villain: Prior to her Heel–Face Turn, she's just behaving as she believes she's meant to.
  • Quizzical Tilt: Pre-Heel–Face Turn, she does this when facing down Harry in the Red Room, after being surprised by how he broke her hold on the other Red Room prisoners. Considering that she serves as Sinister's Hound, and is described in a mixture of dog and cat-like ways, it's strangely apt.
  • "Reason You Suck" Speech: Post-Heel–Face Turn she reveals a gift for these, giving one first to her erstwhile master, then in the form of a Shut Up, Hannibal!, to Lukin.
    Maddie: 'If I'm design'd yon lordling's slave, By Nature's law design'd, Why was an independent wish, E'er planted in my mind?' I am no longer your experiment, your weapon, or your slave. I and I alone am the Mistress of my fate, the Captain of my soul. You have no power over me, Doctor Essex. Not any more.
    Maddie: Hear me, Lukin. As I told Doctor Essex; I am not his servant, weapon, or slave. I do not belong to him. And Harry does not belong to you. I never erased his mind - I hid it. And now, I am going to restore it. I am going to take him from you. He will never be your weapon, or your slave, ever again. Your power is broken, old man. And if no one else does, I will ensure that it stays that way. For now you have nowhere to run.
  • Redemption Demotion: A strange example. Before her Heel–Face Turn, she had no real doubts, acting with ruthless efficiency and total confidence. After, she's often stumbling over trying to be a good guy and stumbling over her lack of knowledge of basic things like Mind over Manners, and being crippled by doubt.
  • Redemption Promotion: However, post-Heel–Face Turn, she can actually think for herself, including thinking outside the box - and she proves Worthy of wielding Mjolnir, which is always a plus.
  • Rescue Romance:
    • She's got a rather complicated and semi-romantic relationship with Gambit, who tries, subtly, to get her to set herself free, and ultimately succeeds. Monica later notes that she's a 'semi ex' girlfriend.
    • Gender-flipped with Jono - she rescued him, and he's got a bit of a crush on her.
  • Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training: She's incredibly powerful, and incredibly skilled at using her power effectively, but she's also not especially good at thinking outside the box, being chronically Literal-Minded. Her inter-personal skills aren't that great, either.
  • Scarily Competent Tracker: As Sinister's Hound. It's specifically noted by the narration that she can instinctively hone in on a psychic burst in a way that would take even the likes of Charles Xavier a few moments to adjust to.
  • Sensor Character: How she hunts. She's also particularly sensitive to especially major uses of psychic power by Harry, or uses of the Phoenix.
  • Separated at Birth: From Jean, in the neonatal unit, no less, swapped with a dead baby as a decoy. Sinister would have grabbed Jean too, but Strange was hot on his heels and he only managed to escape with one of them. The events of this, and the failure to cover them up, tips the heroes off to who and what she really is.
  • Shut Up, Hannibal!: Gives a brief but glorious example of this trope to a near frothing Lukin, who denigrates her as nothing more than "a prize bitch".
    Maddie: Perhaps. But I am Worthy. And you are not.
  • Sibling Yin-Yang: With Jean, her twin. While Jean is an All-Loving Heroine who plays big sister to everyone, Maddie is The Spock who is just beginning to get used to the idea of a family, let alone the idea of unconditional love.
  • Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: A very significant one.
  • Sliding Scale of Beauty: Shares Jean's Type II (Divine Beauty) good looks, but her harder life and curious tattoos give her a touch of Level VI (Good-Looking But Uncanny).
  • Speak in Unison: Has a moment of this with Jean in chapter 10 of Ghosts, which is amusing, since they're actually twins. It happens again in chapter 60, where their psychic forms actually merge, signifying that they're working in concert.
  • The Spock: She's not very good with words, or feelings, and she's both analytical and logical in her outlook. This is at a direct contrast to Jean, who generally qualifies as The McCoy, and Harry, who generally qualifies as The Kirk (though he and Jean sometimes swap roles). However, she moves out of this with time.
  • Spock Speak: Her internal monologue is along these lines, and her dialogue tends to default to this, both pre-Heel–Face Turn, and post if she's nervous or under tension.
  • Stoic Woobie: She usually keeps her emotions locked down, even after her Heel–Face Turn, though cracks do periodically emerge in the facade.
  • Sudden Principled Stand: Pity it only gets her brainwashed again. but it's the thought that counts. It's revealed that this was a stand of such significance that the guiding intelligence behind Mjolnir deems it to be Worthy, and that Maddie therefore has the potential to be Worthy.
  • Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Post-Heel–Face Turn, she's a textbook example, having been raised as a Tyke Bomb and a Living Weapon, suffering enough emotional abuse to leave her utterly certain that this was all she was meant to be. As a result, she often defaults to Spock Speak and an apparently cool, emotionless, and brusque demeanour, but has a softer and sweeter side that tends to emerge around Remy, Jean, Jono, and Harry.
  • Sympathetic Sentient Weapon: She was raised to be a Living Weapon and it's incredibly hard not to feel sorry for her, especially when she's compared to Jean.
  • Talented, but Trained: Not only is she an Omega-class psychic, she's also been taught by an expert, and beats Harry in a telepathic duel (although not without effort). Now that she has the chance to swap tricks and learn from Jean, Harry, Xavier, and Nathan, she's even better.
  • Technician Versus Performer: The Technician to Harry's Performer. This mindset leaks through to other aspects of her life, as she's not very good at making plans on the fly, or adjusting when they go off the rails.
  • Throw the Dog a Bone: A somewhat meta example - Maddie's life is an utter wreck in Marvel canon, and Strange notices that a large number of potential futures wound up going incredibly badly for her. With that said, Strange here has gone out of his way to be sure Maddie's life is a happy one after she's freed from Sinister's clutches, nearly driving himself insane in the process.
  • Troubled Fetal Position: Curls up in one in a mental construct of an armchair.
  • Tyke Bomb: She's a textbook case.
  • Undying Loyalty: To Harry and Jean, post-Heel–Face Turn.
  • Villain Respect: Prior to her Heel–Face Turn she extends this to Harry, being wary of his capacity to challenge her on her own level, which combined with his adaptability and the ability for magic to change the game, makes him a dangerously unpredictable opponent.
  • Weak-Willed: Of a sort. She's not all that used to being independent, as Sinister kept her under his thumb all her life. However, Gambit slowly coaxes her towards it, and she does eventually break free of Sinister's programming.
  • Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Strange states that, if Gambit/Remy hadn't gone to Essex and the Red Room, she would have had a very high chance of becoming this.
  • Worthy Opponent: Sees Harry as this, pre-Heel–Face Turn.

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