Characters / Crossed

This is the character page for Crossed and all its spin-offs, specials, and limited series. Beware of possible spoilers in later arcs!

Recurring characters

Smokey

Appearances: Crossed: Badlands - arc Quisling^note Issues 29-32, issues 93-100

One of the few named Crossed in the series, Smokey has far greater intellect than the rest of his brethren, making him a "super-Crossed". Attempting to build a Crossed society under his rule, his efforts are documented through multiple story arcs, making him a "protagonist" of sorts and the single most recurring character in the Crossed universe.

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• Ax-Crazy: Subverted. Smokey just has enough restraint to delay gratification, which makes him even scarier to the humans he targets.
• Blessed with Suck: His intelligence. He is one of the smartest Crossed of his time, and one of the few with the ability to fully understand that they are a Dying Race. Unfortunately, this also means he's likely the only one who cares about this, while his fellows are content to murder each other in blissful ignorance. And while he is intelligent, he's not intelligent enough to actually do anything about it himself, leaving him dependent on human quislings who despise him. The whole mess means that he ends up being one of the only Crossed we see who can actually be genuinely miserable.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Smokey is just as sadistically driven as the rest of the Crossed are, but he is smart enough to understand the importance of self-care, to delay gratification so he can drag out the suffering of his victims, and ultimately, try to fight back against the self-destructive nature of the Crossed by establishing an enduring society.
• Breakout Character: Originally just the antagonist of the Quisling storyline, Smokey became popular enough to come back for the final 8 issues of Badlands as a Villain Protagonist.
• Character Development: A unique case, even more impressive regarding his nature as a Crossed. He starts out as crueler and more sadistic than all of the other Crossed, then becomes obsessed with the idea of establishing a Crossed society, until time erodes his confidence enough to make him far more jaded/cynical, to the point he doesn't enjoy torturing humans anymore... while still remaining a murder machine all the way through.
• Cruel Mercy: He shows this to his first two quislings Oliver and Cody. He keeps them from being kills or brutalized by his horde of infected, but also seeks to purposely humiliate them and forces them to take actions that undermine their morality for the sake of his own amusement. However, this is averted for his final quisling whom he actually tries to protect from extreme suffering.
• Establishing Character Moment: Gets one in each of the arcs he appears in.
  • In his first appearance in Quisling, he's shown to be smart enough to deduct that a fallen convoy has victims to torture inside, and even more impressive, the ability to delay gratification so he can maximize his fun regardless of how much mental anguish he inflicts on his prisoners.
  • When he is introduced in the final Badlands arc, he quickly finds a periscope, communicates with humans hiding underground and then clogs all three air vents which lead to the bunker, including the one that would be normally impossible to destroy with a thrown rock. This shows that Smokey is not stupid like the rest of his horde and, just like above, can be extremely patient when waiting for the victims to emerge.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Finds himself unable to kill his own child - which, for the Crossed, is an outright rarity - and after enough time, he comes to regard one of his human assistants as his single best friend.
• Fatal Flaw: His ambitions, which also serves as a Deconstruction. His unrelenting desire to have the Crossed thrive as a functioning society ends up collapsing, as he wishes to expand and settle down despite the other Crossed being uanble or unwilling to act in a way that allows long-term survival. This ambition to break his kind free of their nature leads to his wives and child attempting to murder him so they can simply engage in their desired hedonism regardless of how self-destructive it is.
• Hulk Speak: He's not as eloquent as some of the other super-Crossed in the series, which earns him derisive comments from the twins once he meets them.
• Made of Iron: Manages to endure a lot of stuff thrown at him, including a pistol exploding right in his face. He also survives being gunned down and then thrown into the river by his wives in the final issue of Badlands, even though one bullet is explicitly shown to hit him right in the head.
• Mercy Kill: In issue 100, he gives his human assistant a quick and painless death to prevent other Crossed from torturing him.
• The Quiet One: Unlike most Crossed who spend their time uttering profanities and nonsense, Smokey saves his words. He only talks when it's practical (such as demonstrating his authority to his Crossed underlings, or to strike up deals with humans), or when it's guaranteed to emotionally hurt a victim the most.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Is depicted a couple of times with his eyes bloodshot.
• Scary Black Man: He's of a noticeably darker shade than the rest of the cast and is one of the tallest Crossed to date.
• Villain Protagonist: Of the last two arcs where he's present, with his attempts to rebuild some sort of Crossed society finally paying off.

Harold Lorre

Appearances: Crossed: Psychopath / Crossed: Badlands - arcs Yellow Belly^note Issues 10-13, Breakdown^note Issues 33-36 as an illusion only

The titular psychopath of the Crossed: Psychopath storyline, Harold Lorre is one of the nastiest characters in the Crossed setting. A cowardly, depraved, and manipulative maniac, Harold nonetheless thrives in the Crossed universe, because in this sort of setting, being like this is what is necessary to remain alive.

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• Ax-Crazy: Harold is this to the fullest.
• The Cameo: Appears for two issues in the Badland Yellow Belly arc to give some evil advice to Edmund on C-Day.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: Gets absolutely obsessed over any women he becomes attracted to. And when they inevitably aren't as enthusiastic, he gets violent.
• Depraved Bisexual: Rapes, tortures and kills both Claire and Rick.
• Evil Cripple: Downplayed as Harold injured his left leg falling into a large crevice causing him to require crutches to reliably move around.
• Hate Sink: Lorre has absolutely no redeeming qualities. He's a self-serving coward that tortures, rapes and kills the people that rescued him. Even his self-professed love for Lori was just a fabricated delusion.
• Karma Houdini: Ultimately never gets punished onscreen aside from a telling-off from Amanda, bitten off lips (which he manages to sew back on anyway) and failing to get another woman under his thumb. However, considering the world he's in, it's unlikely he'll live long.
• I Love the Dead: Harold coerces Edmund into having sex with Nicole's body with him and wraps Claire's severed lips around his genitals.
• Informed Attribute: Early on he mentions that surviving in the Crossed universe requires you to do two things; learning to listen to even the smallest sound, and staying quiet. You wouldn't know the second one from how much he likes to loudly monologue all over Psychopath.
• Jawbreaker: Breaks Rick's jaw by pistol-whipping him so that it would be easier to rape him afterwards.
• Lean and Mean: Harold is one of the most horrific non-Crossed characters in the entire series and is incredibly thin and scrawny.
• Madonna-Whore Complex: An extreme example, as he swings back and forth between liking women for their kindness and hating them for having sexuality that doesn't involve him.
• Murder the Hypotenuse: Kills both Darwin and Rick because of their feelings for Amanda, and in the case of the latter, outright having sex with her.
• Questionable Consent: His previous "girlfriend" Lori was a customer and acquaintance who happened to end up in his company after C-Day. After the two had officially teamed up, he revealed just how intense his feelings were towards her, and she decided she'd let him have sex with her, but clearly only because she thought he'd help her survive, remaining completely still during the act and crying a little after. In the Yellow Belly arc, having caught a glimpse of Lori in Harold's van, Edmund remarks to himself that she looked "dead," giving a strong hint as to the nature of Harold's "relationship" with her.
• The Sociopath: A consummate liar, that lacks empathy towards the people that rescued him from a ditch, and has a grandiose sense of importance regarding his "girlfriend" Lori and Amanda, thinking Amanda is "pure" and hence immune to the Crossed virus.
• Start of Darkness: When given the chance, he coerced his crush Lori into having sex with him. Then he left their hideout briefly and when he found her again, the bloodskin Crossed had found her first.
• Teeny Weenie: After turning crossed, Lori lets rip into Harold and tells him he has a pencil dick. She would be in a position to know and whether this is true or if Crossed!Lori just wanted to hurt him, Harold didn't deny it.
• They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: Owned a party supplies store before C-Day and had even been married with three kids, although he was divorced at the time and didn't have custody.
• Ungrateful Bastard: The group decides to help Harold and take him with them, but he decides to kill them anyway. Even he admits he starts to have second thoughts of killing them due to their trust although that doesn't stop him.
• Villain Protagonist: Of the Psychopath series. The story is about him worming his way in a group of survivors, then killing them off one-by-one until only Amanda remains.

Amanda

Appearances: Crossed: Psychopath / Crossed: Badlands - arcs The Livers^note Issues 21-24, Breakdown^note Issues 33-36

The deuteragonist of Psychopath. Amanda is a kind, cute med student that wants to make the world better and tries to hold the group to a higher moral standard. Unfortunately for her, the Crossed world is anything but fair...

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• An Arm and a Leg: Ends up cutting one of her hands off breaking out of Harold's restraints, but manages to bandage it and recover.
• Breaking Speech: Gives one to Harold at the end of the Psychopath series, telling him that no girl he's liked has ever liked him back, because he's fucking crazy.
• Break the Cutie: She's the one that convinces her group to save Harold Lorre... for all the fat lot of good it did to them. Not only does everyone except Amanda end up dead, but she also loses a hand and, eventually, her sanity. All thanks to Lorre.
• Downer Ending: After everything she's gone through, she gets paranoid, guilty, and unhappy enough that she ends up hallucinating Harold, killing all her peers, and sealing herself back in her crawlspace out of guilt, presumably starving to death.
• Madonna-Whore Complex: A victim of Harold's. While he thinks of her as "pure", she has sexual relations with Rick and others, and tells him she "has plenty of ugly in her". Harold is a fool to think that all that makes you pure is your sexuality.
• No Full Name Given: We only know her by her first name, "Amanda".
• Sanity Slippage: Starts going crazy during the Breakdown arc after all the losses she's endured.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: Starts out thinking that compassion and love are what separates the Crossed from the living, and refusing to compromise on that belief. Until Lorre eventually breaks her.

Harry

Appearances: Crossed: Badlands - arcs The Fatal Englishman^note Issues 25-28, The Thin Red Line^note Issues 50-56

An English soldier who used to be part of the Prime Minister's security detail. After C-Day, he and his fellow bodyguards develop a plan to rid the British Isles of the Crossed for good.

• Abusive Parents: Not him, but his inner monologue implies that his own father was an abusive alcoholic.
• All for Nothing: Arguably much of his work in The Thin Red Line. While he helps make sure that nuclear armageddon is averted, his efforts to protect Gordon Brown ultimately fail and Britain falls to the Crossed soon after. It also does not appear his plan to have himself, Paddy, Jock and Taff save their loved ones before meeting up again panned out by the time of The Fatal Englishman.
• Blue Blood: Claims to be descended from old Norman nobility who arrived in England with William the Conqueror. Whether this is true or not, he's definitely a posho.
• Bruiser with a Soft Center: Has a soft spot for kids and explicitly says the only reason he isn't acting furiously towards Father Dennis for his idiocy is due to not wanting to scare the children he's with.
• Cultured Warrior: Harry is quite philosophical and also a stellar soldier and Crossed-killer.
• Death Glare: Sends one towards Alistair when he urges the execution of the infected John Duff and his team in a callous manner.
• Elites Are More Glamorous: Not outright stated but its' heavily implied that Harry and his squad used to be in the SAS.
• Face Death with Dignity: Leaves Porton Down to face the Crossed alone with a stiff upper lip.
• The Gunslinger: Par for the course as he's an Special Forces soldier, but he's noted to be the best of his squad with a pistol in particular. Which comes in handy when he needs to gun down his own men quickly before they can react.
• The Leader: Of the team of soldiers consisting of himself, Paddy, Jock and Taff.
• Heroic Lineage: Given the nature of the British Empire, "Heroic" might be putting it loosely but Harry claims that his family dates back to the Norman Conquest and that he has a direct ancestor who has fought in nearly every major British war since.
• Mercy Kill: Inflicts this on Paddy, Jock and Taff after they decide not to unleash the bioweapons in Porton Down on the Crossed rather than see them killed or infected in a Last Stand against the Crossed, and on his wife and kids in a flashback.
• Metaphorically True: Tells Father Dennis when he questions his plan to unleash bioweapons on the Crossed that he has encountered multiple groups with working radios and biohazard equipment. In the final discussion with the rest of his team at Porton Down, it's revealed he meant there were two of the former and that evacuating is less likely to save them then he implied.
• Odd Name Out: He is the only member of his squad who doesn't go by a nickname that reflects a slang term for someone from that part of Britain.
• One-Steve Limit: Averted, he's not even the only British soldier named Harry to show up in Badlands (the other one being the possible Prince Harry from Of the World and Its Becoming.)
• Patriotic Fervour: Of the My Country, Right or Wrong variety. He has an encyclopaedic knowledge of British military history and displays nostalgia for the former British Empire, even identifying his own mission with past British conflicts. However, he holds no illusions as to the empire's brutal, self-serving nature and acknowledges its worst along with its best.
• Stiff Upper Lip: English to the core and proud of it, with this attitude to match. He remains unflappable for pretty much his entire time onscreen with only two notable exceptions; his family's deaths and his decision to preform a mercy kill on his own men rather then let them die at the hands of the Crossed
• Uncertain Doom: Is last seen facing a horde of Crossed alone outside of Porton Down, but is never shown being killed or infected. It's likely that's his ultimate fate though.

Survivors

Crossed: The Original Series

Stan

The main protagonist and narrator of the original series.

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• Ambiguous Situation: At the very beginning of the series, Stan mentions that before C-Day he got stranded in rural Kansas after running out of cash and got stuck with a bar tending job. His narration implies he was wandering around or running from something. Whatever it was quickly became irrelevant when C-Day hit.
• Action Survivor: Not especially badass or skilled at the start, but manages to survive the outbreak fairly well and gains additional skills along the way.
• Pet the Dog: Literal example, he finds a dog that managed to survive the outbreak and takes it in despite suspecting it will be a liability.
• Pragmatic Hero: He's not one to take chances or risk his life for sentiment. At one point he explicitly says it was a good thing the Crossed brutalized an ex-Marine formerly in his group so rapidly so he didn't get a chance to reveal he was hiding 20 feet away.
• True Companions: Eventually, with Cindy.

Cindy

The de facto leader of the core group of survivors.

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• Ambiguous Situation: She only ever says she 'got rid' of Patrick's abusive father. Whether that means she killed him or simply left him and hid is never shared.
• Action Mom: Very dedicated mom, very much a badass.
• Dark and Troubled Past: She was subject to Domestic Abuse by Patrick's father and had to move around a lot with Patrick after dealing with the problem.
• The Leader: Leads the original group, and came up with the plan to trek to Alaska, where there are fewer people and the elements will kill most Crossed quickly.
• Mama Bear: Very committed to protecting her son Patrick.
• Profanity Police: At least when Patrick is in earshot and awake. When he's out of earshot, asleep or dead, she's more tolerant.

Thomas

A member of Cindy and Stan's group. He is a gay man who was planning on leaving town before the Crossed hit.

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• Heroic Suicide: Kills himself and Kelly in the moments before he turns so neither he nor any Crossed stragglers can do anything to her.
• Platonic Life-Partners: With Kelly, he acts as her eyes.
• Taking You with Me: Kills Horsecock by tearing out his throat with his teeth, taking out the Crossed warlord at the cost of guaranteeing his own infection.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Stan. They often engage in exchanges of saying 'fuck you' to each other in a way clearly meant to be banter.

Kelly

A woman in Cindy and Stan's group, who had the misfortune of being blinded on C-Day.

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• Blinded by the Light: Permanent instance, as Kelly was rendered blind by directly witnessing Wolf Creek undergo a meltdown.
• Handicapped Badass: Unfortunately averted, she explicitly notes she gained no heightened senses from being blinded or anything like that.
• Nice Girl: Generally very nice and wants to see the best in others. She even originally doubts Geoff's confession is serious.
• The Load: Sympathetic example. She tries to contribute to the group but given her blindness she inevitably struggles to contribute.
• Platonic Life-Partners: With Thomas who helps her navigate around while being unable to see but has no romantic feelings for her, as he is attracted to men.

Kitrick

A member of Cindy and Stan's group who has in many ways already given up.

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• Ascended Extra: Originally gets very little dialogue or characterization, but gets more backstory and character shared just in time to be killed off.
• Dark and Troubled Past: On C-Day, Kitrick watched the Crossed kill his wife and children on the beach while he was out in the water. This is a key reason why he's now a...
• Death Seeker: Doesn't have much of a motive to keep on surviving. Cindy explicitly states that he might die in the Rockies because he is not eager enough to live. At the end he attempts to save Thomas and Kelly at the cost of his own life precisely due to this.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Tries to do one of these by serving as bait for Horsecock's horde of Crossed while hoping Thomas and Kelly can escape. Unfortunately, it doesn't work.

Brett

A survivalist who joins Cindy and Stan's group later in the arc.

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• Asshole Victim: Is shot and killed by Stan after he kicks the dog (literally) one too many times. By this point he's already shown how big a prick he is by mocking Patrick's death and regularly bullying other members of the group.
• Crazy Survivalist: Implied to be why he's made it this long and why he had such a big stockpile of supplies.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: While the survivor group isn't exactly all 'friends' per se, Brett is definitely the most hated member of the group as he has so few redeeming qualities.
• Jerkass: Almost everything he says is done to antagonize the group in some capacity.
• Kick the Dog: Literally. He kicks Stan's dog for getting too close to him. It's this action that finally pushes Stan to shoot him.

Patrick

Cindy's son.

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• And Then John Was a Zombie: Horsecock's group of Crossed manage to infect Patrick, turning him into one of the Crossed.
• Cheerful Child: Generally remains upbeat despite the situation.
• Children Are Innocent: Cindy takes steps to ensure this is the case and Patrick is genuinely a kind boy-for instance he gives up some of his own food for Arwen when she is starving. This unfortunately stops when he is infected.
• Improbable Infant Survival: Patrick outlives a lot of adult characters, but not all of them.

Geoff

An older man who is part of Cindy and Stan's group. Pre-apocalypse, he was an outsider and loner.

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• Due to the Dead: Buries some bones outside one of the houses the group stays in. Unfortunately, this helps makes the Crossed aware of their presence.
• Heel–Face Turn: Depending on how you view his post-C-Day actions and statements, he may have turned over a new leaf after C-Day. Of course, given his crimes it's hard to trust him, and indeed the group quickly disposes of him the second they learn about his true past.
• Horrifying the Horror: On C-Day, he picks up one of the Crossed and when he tries to torture and kill it the Crossed in question encourages him, which freaks him out enough he bails on the plan.
• Mistaken for Gay: Thomas originally thinks Geoff is going to come out as gay when he talks about being lonely and isolated pre-outbreak. He actually was confessing to being a serial killer.
• Nice Guy: Comes off as this for the most part, being very polite and soft-spoken, attempting to provide the desecrated corpses of the Crossed's victims a proper burial and advocating for the group to take Ms. Cooke's kids with them rather than leave them or kill them. This all rings somewhat hollow when it's revealed what he did pre-C-Day.
• Redemption Rejection: He seens to have made a very real effort to turn over a new leaf. Unfortunately for him, he doesn't live long after the truth comes out.
• Serial Killer: This was who he was before C-Day.
• Uncertain Doom: After he confesses to who he really was before C-Day, Kitrick takes him on a walk to cool down. Only Kitrick comes back.

Sheena

A woman who joins Cindy and Stan's group.

• Better to Die than Be Killed: Willingly falls off the edge of a collapsed bridge rather than let herself get caught by Horsecock's horde.
• Sole Survivor: Of her original group, mostly firefighters and cops who made the fatal mistake of trying to interrogate a Crossed into revealing what they wanted.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Is killed in issue 4 without getting much characterization or backstory.

Randall

A lone survivor who meets Cindy and Stan's group and travels with them briefly.

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• Mr. Exposition: Serves to describe the state of New York City and Texas as well as the state of the Canadian border, while also giving Stan a chance to muse on other things heard from survivors.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: It was his plan to go to Alaska and the journey there kills all but two of the group. That said, it may still have been the right idea.
• Zombie Infectee: Is shot with a semen-laced bullet so the infection sneaks up on him slower than it usually does.

Scott

A paramedic who is the main medical provider to Cindy and Stan's group.

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• Killed Offscreen: By Randall right after he turns.
• Sole Surviving Scientist: The group's only medic. Him dying is a huge blow to the group.

Joel

A family man who along with his wife and daughter join Cindy and Stan's group. He and Stan do not get along very well.

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• Cruel and Unusual Death: He is simultaneoulsy raped and disemboweled by the Crossed. To make matters worse, he's forced to watch them rape Amy and dismember Arwen.
• Establishing Series Moment: The death of his family show what this comic's about - there is no Supernatural Repellent, getting caught will 100% result in a Fate Worse than Death, and trying to be The Smart Guy gets you killed.
• Instantly Proven Wrong: His belief the Crossed are fatally allergic to salt does not survive more than one issue. Neither does he.
• Pet the Dog: After getting into a heated argument with the rest of the group, he shows tenderness to Amy and Arwen, showing that while he's a bit of a dick he does care about his family.
• Too Dumb to Live: Ignores both Stan and his wife about the ineffectiveness of salt. He, his wife, and his daughter all get one of the most gruesome deaths in the comic.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: Is called out for this by his groupmates. He believes the Crossed outbreak has a solution (like a fatal allergy to salt) that will enable survivors to retake the planet. He is proven wrong in the worst way possible.

Amy

Joel's patient wife.

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• Affectionate Nickname: Refers to Joel as 'sweetie' a lot of the time. She notably isn't nearly so affectionate when the Crossed get ahold of them and Arwen due to Joel's stupidity.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: After spraining her ankle and failing to get Joel to leave her and take Arwen, she is raped, hit with a blunt object in the head and has to watch the Crossed inflict similar torments on her husband and daughter.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Attempts to pull this to save Arwen and Joel, telling her husband to take their daughter and leave her for the Crossed after she sprains her ankle. Unfortunately, Joel doesn't listen.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Amy is generally patient with her husband and tries to be understanding. Needless to say, the whole family getting caught and brutalized by the Crossed is enough to make this run out, her last words are a vicious curse towards Joel for his stupidity.
• Women Are Wiser: is more level-headed than her husband.

Arwen

Amy and Joel's daughter.

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• Cruel and Unusual Death: Is dismembered by the Crossed in front of her parents. However, at least she isn't raped.
• Death of a Child: She is killed horrifyingly in the story.
• Meaningful Name: Is named after a character from Lord of the Rings. This is less meaningful for her but shows that Joel is an avid fantasy fan and thus is likely to seek a magic bullet solution for the Crossed.

Officer Thomas

A police officer who is the first to bring much of the group together.

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• Berserk Button: The Crossed prisoner he has in the back taunting him about what his wife is suffering at the hands of the Crossed really enrages him.
• By-the-Book Cop: At least to start, Officer Thomas refuses to execute a Crossed prisoner. He does ultimately begin threatening him to divulge what he wants. This is what ultimately does him in.
• Cassandra Truth: His claims that his Crossed prisoner knew things about his wife he shouldn't know is disputed by Cindy, who claims the Crossed prisoner he has just made some inferrences. However, The Thin Red Line makes his claims more plausible when Patient Zero turns out to genuinely know things he was not present for.
• Decoy Protagonist: Admittedly it's clear he won't last long given he only appears in flashbacks and not the present, but from the chronological start seems like he will lead the group. He doesn't even last halfway through the flashbacks.
• Posthumous Character: For most of the comic. He is killed in the first days of the outbreak after getting infected and most of the arc takes place months after his death.
• Slasher Smile: Quicky gets one after succumbing to the C-Virus.
• Too Dumb to Live: Even while getting right in the face of a Crossed even when handcuffed really isn't the brightest idea, he really should have killed the prisoner straight away instead of keeping it.
• Zombie Infectee: Gets spat on by his Crossed prisoner and turns quickly.

Ann Cooke

A kindergarten teacher who resorts to drastic measures to protect and care for her students.

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• Alas, Poor Villain: As vile as her means of survival may have been, her death and the deaths of her students is portrayed in a tragic light, especially when those students are shown crying and begging Stan and Cindy not to kill her.
• All for Nothing: The lengths she went to to protect and provide for her class end up being this, as despite her pleas to Cindy's group to look after them Stan and Cindy ultimately kill all of her students.
• Anti-Villain: All she really wants is to protect her students, even if it means eating other survivors.
• Badass Teacher: While we don't see much of it, she manages to protect a group of kindergarteners from the Crossed and other survivors, even hunting down the latter for food. She manages to take out one member of Cindy's group by surprise.
• Children Are Innocent: Invokes this trope when discussing what she did after being fatally injured, arguing her kids should not be punished as they didn't fully grasp what they were doing.
• Hero of Another Story: Ms. Cooke manages to save several elementary schoolers from the Crossed and keep them safe on C-Day and in the early days of the outbreak. This is never shown however, and by the time she appears in the volume she has been driven to hunting other survivors for food.
• No Party Like a Donner Party: Resorts to killing and cannibalizing other survivors to sustain her kindergarteners and herself. She's not proud of it, but defends it as necessary.
• Sadistic Choice: Ends up forcing this on Cindy's group when she is fatally wounded. The group has to consider whether to stretch their supplies thin to take her students with them, leave them where they are without any adults where they'll either become easy prey for the Crossed or continue targeting survivors for food or kill them. Cindy ultimately does the last option.
• Villain of Another Story: Cindy's group is not the first one she targeted to provide food for her students and likely many others were killed by them before she was taken down.

Captain Michael Juneaux

A member of the US military given a significant mission in the aftermath of C-Day.

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• Apocalyptic Log: His journal entry qualifies as this.
• Elites Are More Glamorous: Was the leader of a US Army ODA team tasked with shutting down key nuclear facilities during the early weeks of the outbreak. Justified given the nature of the operation and downplayed judging by his narration that his job was never that glamourous even before the Crossed.
• Face Death with Dignity: He accepts his fate after his helicopter crashes, even forcing his compatriots to leave him there. Probably helps that his death was from the elements rather than the barbarity of the Crossed and knowing his wife and son most likely are dead as well.
• Hero of Another Story: His work to ensure most American nuclear plants are shut down so they don't undergo meltdowns is mostly done offscreen with only brief snippets between missions being shown.
• I Did What I Had to Do: Explains his role in his unit massacring the nuclear physicists and technicians after they had shut down their share of the nuclear power plants in this manner; they could not take the risk of them causing nuclear meltdowns, either coerced or willingly as Crossed. Even so, it's clear that this act distressed him along with everything else that happened and may have contributed to his decision to Face Death with Dignity.
• Mr. Exposition: His journal explains why there weren't a large number of nuclear accidents and also gives insight into the fall of the US military and government.
• Posthumous Character: By the time Stan reads his diary, he's been dead for a while.

Crossed: Family Values

Crossed: Psychopath

Crossed: Badlands

Of the World in Its Becomings

Ian Cowley

The protagonist and narrator of Badlands' first arc. Formerly a bookshop employee.

• Bolivian Army Ending: Is last seen holding a hand grenade, telling himself to pull the pin after being splashed with Crossed blood and surrounded by the infected.
• Death by Irony: Ends up infected the same way his girlfriend did - by being splashed with the Crossed blood.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Couple of examples.
  • He cheats on Penny a lot pre-outbreak but when C-Day hits tries to escape with her and mourns her quite a bit.
  • He argues with his group that it would be best to abandon Anya when she's giving birth as it makes them vulnerable to the Crossed. When he is outvoted, he nonetheless sticks around through her birth.
• The Lost Lenore: Penny is this for him, though he did notably cheat on her repeatedly.
• Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: Pulls this with his first group when the squabbling gets too much.

John

A former oil rig worker who became Ian's right hand man.

• Cool Old Guy: He is the oldest member of Ian's group.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Despite advocating for Anya and her baby to be left behind in the second issue, he feels ashamed of it in the next one, coldly telling Ian that he had not forgotten what he did.

Rob

Alec's best friend who happens to share most of the latter's comic relief traits.

• Those Two Guys: Along with Alec.

Alec

A somewhat clownish, but entertaining member of the group.

• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Is introduced as a clown and jokester, but ultimately is the one who ensures the group survives their encounter with the Crossed in the first issue by tricking the leader of a trio of Crossed into turning on the other two and then having Ian off the sole survivor by drowning it, thus avoiding drawing in more of the horde with gunshots.
• Establishing Character Moment: Is introduced attempting to get the chance to fish using a gun or a hand grenade, despite the obvious risks that poses.
• Those Two Guys: With Rob.

Mark

Anya's brother and main defender in Ian's group.

• Berserk Button: Doing anything to harm his sister. He is incensed when Ian suggests abandoning her and when the Crossed uncover her body and take it with them.
• Big Brother Instinct: Has this for his sister.
• Gross-Up Close-Up: Is openly shown being raped and infected by a Crossed woman, complete with a closeup on his face, giving a subtle hint about what happened to the rest of Ian's companions.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: If he hadn't reacted so extremely to the Crossed taking Anya's corpse, then the Crossed wouldn't have necessarily been able to find him and Ian and they might've recovered Harry's gun successfully.
• Revenge Before Reason: On seeing the Crossed have taken Anya's corpse, he immediately flies into a rage and begins shouting at them and firing his shotgun (wasting one shot on Ian out of spite), despite it confirming to the Crossed where he and Ian are and bringing the horde down on him when he doesn't have enough ammo.
• Too Dumb to Live: While seeing your own sister's corpse dug out and carried by the Crossed is indeed a tragic and gruesome sight, showing yourself in the open with a shotgun with just two shells (one of which he wastes on shooting Ian) is never a good idea. Sure enough, he gets infected immediately afterwards.

Ricky

A former paramedic who has become the closest thing Ian's group has to a doctor.

• Combat Medic: Used to be a medic before the C-Day and is good with a shotgun.
• Heroic Sacrifice: After falling down due to the snow giving way below, he stands and fight the Crossed with his shotgun to give time for Ian and Mark to get away. It does not work, and he is seen to have caught up to Ian with the rest of his former comrades once he got infected.
• What the Hell, Hero?: He openly call Ian out on his idea to ditch the pregnant Anya and her brother.

Harry

A heavily scarred and bandaged man who is also a crack shot with a rifle, Harry is a major asset to his group. Additionally may also be a member of the Royal Family.

• Ambiguous Situation: The group is not sure whether he actually is Prince Harry, as though he does resemble him his face is heavily scarred. Neither the audience nor the group figure it out before his death.
• Bandaged Face: His scarred face is covered with bandages, adding further complexity to his true identity.
• Celebrity Survivor: Assuming he's telling the truth about being Prince Harry, he qualifies as this.
• Friendly Sniper: Is a good shot with his assault rifle.
• Fingore: Gets a finger bitten off while being bisected.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: How he is killed by the Crossed.
• Historical Domain Character: Possibly.

Anya

A pregnant woman accompanying the group despite her condition.

• Babies Make Everything Better: Ian accused the rest of the group of subscribing to this. It's averted when both Anya and her baby die during the process of childbirth.
• Due to the Dead: Is buried by her brother Mark. The Crossed unfortunately dig her up.

Pat

A member of the group viewed as useless by Ian.

• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: When the group decides to leave him behind as bait for the Crossed after stealing a biscuit.
• The Load: Ian calls him useless, and the comic shows that he has a point doing so.
• Tear Off Your Face: His ultimate fate at the hands of the Crossed.

Penny

Ian's girlfriend who died at the start of the Crossed pandemic.

• Car Fu: Ends up run over by a car after being infected.
• Posthumous Character: Appears alive only in flashbacks and is long dead by the time of the main plot.
• The Lost Lenore: Becomes one for Ian after she dies.
• Zombie Infectee: Gets infected with a Crossed baby being torn apart right in front of her.

Homo Superior

Gregory Matthew Costello

Steve

Ashley

Ashlynn

Leon Long

Clint

Yellow Belly

Edmund Wickenthorpe

The titular "Yellow Belly", a high school student who graduated shortly before C-Day.

• Cassandra Truth: His claims about circus "geeks" get rebuked by his hometown until it's too late.
• Dirty Coward: His constant habit is to run away at any sight of danger and abandon others. Though given the circumstances behind most of these moments, it can be justified.
• Forced to Watch: Is secluded by his dad and forced to watch as his dad is raped, turns, and then pulls his brother out of hiding to rape him ... before mercifully passing out.
• I Love the Dead: Edmund gets coerced by Harold Lorre into having sex with a woman he just shot by accident. This leads to a chain of events which end with Edmund himself dead.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: At the end of his arc, Edmund finally braves up and saves Donna... only to get his face caved in with a rock by her when the night comes.
• "Shaggy Dog" Story: The whole story is about him trying hard to overcome his reputation as the yellow belly, only for him to do some unforgivable things in the course of doing so and getting killed in vengeance.

Joanne Wickenthorpe

Edmund's mother.

• Mama Bear: Upon Edmund finally spilling the beans at what happened to his father and Eli, she finally consoles him and tells that he did the right thing by escaping to tell the story. When the Crossed invade the house seconds later, she makes sure Edmund gets to safety... at the cost of her life.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Spends her final moments sending Edmund upstairs and staying behind to face the Crossed freaks. This does not end well for her.

Eli Wickenthorpe

Edmund's younger brother.

• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Both he and his father end up impaled with a javelin after turning Crossed.
• Sacrificial Lamb: Gets killed fairly early on along with his father at the carnival.

Edmund's father

Edmund's father who accompanies him and Eli to the carnival.

• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Despite being described as a "meek" guy, he puts his children in barrels the second the C-Day hits and charges at the Crossed clown with a wooden plank, successfully knocking him down. Too bad he did not see two more clowns lunging at him from behind.
• Extreme Doormat: Never stood up to anyone, not even his own wife. Until C-Day, that is.
• Failed a Spot Check: When he tries to kill a Crossed clown, he fails to notice more coming from behind until it's too late.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Both he and Eli end up impaled with a javelin after turning Crossed.
• No Name Given: Is the only member of the Wickenthorpe family to not have his first name mentioned.
• Papa Wolf: He manages to hide Edmund and Eli in barrels before trying to confront a Crossed on his own. This ends poorly.

Sweeney

The redneck who had been bullying Edmund through most of high school. Described as a "big asshole."

• Blood Knight: Joins Hank and his fellow classmates out of sheer desire to strike out at the Crossed for killing his father and causing a mayhem at his neighborhood. Even when most of his companions at the gun store are dead, he still decides to fight the Crossed and tries to force Edmund into doing the same thing. It doesn't end well for him.
• Blown Across the Room: Edmund ends up blasting him with a shotgun basically at point blank.

Mac

One of Edmund's classmates, a redneck. Described as a "medium asshole."

Stevie

One of Edmund's classmates, a redneck. Described as a "small asshole."

Hank Smith

A member of the school Football team, the coach's son.

• Genre Blind: His idea to hole up in the gun and fishing store is shortsighted and eventually leads to most of his friends dying to the Crossed, including Hank himself.
• Jerk Jock: Was quite a jerk to Edmund during their school years, though he mellows down a bit during the Crossed outbreak.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In the gun shop, he apologizes to Edmund and admits he was right about the circus Crossed coming to the town, in spite of bullying him much earlier.

Jim Morgan

A member of the school Football team.

Bobby McCann

A member of the school Footbal team, son of the town sheriff.

Joe Rigg

A member of the school Football team, described as "tough as nails."

• Monster Clown: Gets put in a carnival attire sometime off-panel after being infected during the gun shop siege.
• Boom, Headshot!: How Edmund kills him. With a shotgun, to boot.

Katie Wiener

• Class Princess: Is popular enough with her peers people don't make fun of her unfortunate last name-to her face anyway.

Shawna Prentis

Betty Ford

"Tricky" Ricky

The biker gang leader.

• Bald of Authority: He is bald, yet very good at leading and fighting back.
• Boom, Headshot!: When the Crossed cops ambush the biker group, he is shot in several spots of his body, including his head.
• Cool Shades: Wears those in most of his panel time.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Manages to organize other biker gangs in Lakeside in no time at all and manages to keep his cool through most of the comic.

Jock

Nuggets

Nicole

Nico

Donna

• Sole Survivor: Implied to be the only surviving member of the whole biker army of Lakeside by the end of the comic.

Sheriff McCann

Boris

The ringleader of the circus that Edmund and his family visit.

Barry

• Nice Guy: He is polite to Henry when the latter starts complaining about having to deal with a rattlesnake. Similarly, when a Crossed man shows up at the changing room, he calmly tries to tell him to leave, in contrast to Henry shouting at him in a fit of rage.

Henry

• The Alcoholic: Gets served "all the free booze" he wants after the performance, also implied to having been homeless prior to joining the circus.

Quisling

Oliver Dauphinais

The protagonist and narrator of the arc, who also is the titular character.

• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: When he is caught by the Crossed, he does this to Smokey, whom he has noticed has more intelligence and restraint than the rest. Oliver's pleading that he can lead Smokey to other survivors is received by the Super-Crossed, as his subsequent promise he can continue to find uninfected humans to torture, kill and rape when his original group is wiped out.
• Apocalyptic Log: His journal seems like it's this. However, he lives long enough to see it get its first other reader ( Smokey) and he decides to destroy it.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: His main asset to the group he begins the arc with is that his observation of the Crossed helped enable them to sneak around the hordes (see Pretend We're Dead below).
• Badass Teacher: Averted. While he was an anthropology teacher before the outbreak, his survival mainly rests on guile, stealth and, ultimately, betraying other humans.
• The Chew Toy: The arc is not kind to him. He is in constant danger of being killed by the Crossed and, in order to stave off this fate, Smokey regularly makes sure he is humiliated.
• Deal with the Devil: Agrees to help Smokey find uninfected humans to attack and brutalize to save his own skin.
• Dirty Coward: Is this and is very self-aware about it. He is not happy with this aspect of himself and ultimately sacrifices his life to prevent Smokey gaining access to nuclear secrets.
• Pretend We're Dead: Discovered how to pull this with the Crossed (namely, by drawing the rash on one's face in blood). It's enabled the group he's in to sneak by the Crossed unharmed as of the story's start.
• Redemption Equals Death: Deliberately infects himself knowing it will likely lead to his death in order to prevent Smokey from finding all the secrets of Cheyenne Mountain.
• The Quisling: There's a reason the arc is titled this.
• Sympathy for the Devil: Oliver has a moment of this for a white supremacist militia he leads Smokey to, largely owing to their Cruel and Unusual Death at the hands of Smokey's horde.
• Treacherous Advisor: On at least two occassions, Oliver tries to get Smokey killed by leading him to targets he thinks will be too powerful for his horde-the first time a group of National Guardsmen and the second time the US government's continuity-of-government base at Cheyenne Mountain. Both attempts fail, though the second time does see Oliver succeed at his secondary objective of making sure Smokey can't get ahold of America's nuclear secrets.

Five Bloody Fingers

Satoshi

The main protagonist and narrator of the arc.

• Acrofatic: His weight doesn't seem to slow him down too much during the outbreak.
• Geek Physiques: On the chubbier side.
• Hero of Another Story: He is a minor character in Gore Angels and gets his own story told here.
• Took a Level in Badass: Despite being a nerd and artist more comfortable in front of a computer and having no prior combat experience, he proves capable of taking on the Crossed.

Hazuki

Hazuki is Boss Yamada's daughter and only child. Naturally, he wants her to carry on his legacy despite her preferring to be with her friends.

• Action Girl: Fights the Crossed using her cosplay weapons.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: After becoming infected, she refuses to attack her friends who she considers her true family. She instead encourages them to become Crossed and join her in fighting the other Crossed outside.
• Mafia Princess: The daughter of a yakuza oyabun.
• Spoiled Sweet: Despite being the daughter of a ruthless mafia boss, Hazuki cares deeply about her friends and uses her comparative wealth to look out for them. She doesn't even lose this trait after being infected, though she does try to contemplate having sex with Usama before being subdued by force.
• Zombie Infectee: Gets infected while fighting the Crossed.

Koki

A strong, well-built young man who works for Yamada.

• Blood Oath: Is the one to suggest it to his friends.
• Bodyguard Betrayal: Inflicts this on Boss Yamada when he goes along with Satoshi's plan to abandon Yamada to save Hazuki.
• Fingore: To make up for his betrayal of Yamada, he is forced to let his finger be cut off.
• The Heavy: Is the physically strongest member of the Five Bloody Fingers and a criminal enforcer after reaching adulthood. Notably in a flashback before the outbreak, it is Koki who drives off the creepy guys at the cafe by stabbing their leader.

Miku

A goth girl who is a member of the Five Bloody Fingers. She also sometimes goes on compensated dates with men and robs them.

• Action Girl: Takes on the Crossed with her cosplay weapons.
• Compensated Dating: Did this as her profession pre-outbreak. She sometimes would rob her clients.
• Goth: Physically looks to be this trope.

Taro

A member of the Five Bloody Fingers who is an avid gamer.

• Butt-Monkey: He is taken the least seriously of the group.
• Geek Physiques: Small and scrawny edition.
• Plucky Comic Relief: Has the most humorous moments of the group.

Boss Yamada

A yakuza oyabun and Hazuki's father.

• Abusive Parents: To Hazuki.
• The Beastmaster: To Usama until the end.
• Crazy Survivalist: Not crazy per se but does have a survival bunker ready.
• Driven to Suicide: His ultimate fate.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Risks his life and those of his men to save his daughter.
• The Stoic: Remains unflappable until Hazuki, after turning, calls him out for his abuse.

Usama

Yamada's pet lion.

• Androcles' Lion: Shows more loyalty to Hazuki, who showed him kindness, than to Yamada, who abused the animal.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Inflicts these on the Crossed owing to his immunity to the virus.
• Undying Loyalty: To Yamada, not attacking unless he orders it. Until Hazuki overrules him.
• Team Pet: For the Crossed Five Bloody Fingers.

Shrink

Jack

A therapist living in a remote rural town. He's Clancy's older brother.

• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: In the final issue of the arc, it's revealed Clancy's obnoxious Jerkass tendencies were largely a result of Jack molesting him when they were children. When Jack's girlfriend finds out about it, he throws her outside to the Crossed. Even before that, he was showing signs of not being as benevolent as he wants to seem, lusting over the woman he's sheltering in his home and abandoning his neighbor to the Crossed when they show up.
• Cain and Abel: The Abel to Clancy's Cain, both in the past and present. Originally it's due to being a level-headed kindhearted person while Clancy is an obnoxious asshole, later though it's because he's human and Clancy is one of the Crossed. Turned on its head with the revelation Clancy was only so fucked up because Jack molested him.
• Caught with Your Pants Down: Has apparently been caught masturbating at least three separate times in his life; once by his mother, once in Summer Camp by a camp counselor and once by his aunt...while he was masturbating over a picture of her.
• Face Death with Dignity: Or rather, face infection with dignity. After throwing Tiffany out to certain death, he takes the boards off Clancy's room and resignedly agrees to have sex with him.

Clancy

Jack's brother, a screwed-up, dysfunctional mess of a person who decides to deliberately infect himself with the Crossed virus in the hopes Jack can figure out something to help deal with them.

• The Atoner: Seems to have infected himself in the hopes of contributing something to humanity after a life of being a useless asshole.
• Cain and Abel: The Cain to Jack's Abel, both before and after becoming Crossed. At least until what Jack did to him is revealed.
• Freudian Excuse: He's an asshole because Jack had been molesting him in private.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: Always was this and becoming Crossed only makes his vocabulary worse.

Crossed: +100

Archivist Future Taylor

An archivist traveling the east coast with a group of friends.

• Apocalyptic Log: It's part of her job to record the comings and goings of the daily life of the future. Sometimes it's more of a coping mechanism to help with dealing with the horrors the Crossed bring.
• The Hero: The main character of 100+
• Interspecies Adoption: Sort of. She ends up taking in a Crossed baby girl and raised her as her own.
• Strange-Syntax Speaker: Like everyone else in the future, she speaks in a strange dialect to the point where even abbreviations and cuss words are a part of normal vocabulary.

Now

The aforementioned Crossed baby.

• Orc Raised by Elves: Surprisingly, Future and her husband's experiment actually seems to work–being from the more high-functioning breed of Crossed, Now does genuinely love her parents and has no interest in infecting them. For all intents and purposes, she's a normal little girl.

Crossed +100: Mimic

Archivist Julie

An archivist for Fort Casper when Fleshcook's betrayal occurs on the 100th anniversary of C-Day. She becomes his main liaison with the humans there.

• Rape and Revenge: The soldier Fleshcook assigns her to kill is the one who raped her repeatedly, so she finds it easy to do.
• Sympathy for the Devil: She ultimately allies with Fleshcook, as Fort Casper has become a place where the soldier class demean and even habitually rape the support class, and she has reason to think it'll only stay the same or get worse if they retake Casper.
  Julie: Crossed sex you a day, a month, a week. Soldiers sex your whole life.

Fleshcook/Thomas Preiss

The Crossed infiltrator of Fort Casper, who disguised his rash with lion claw scars and now commands the Crossed that have taken over it. Unlike every other Crossed we see, he pursues a strategy of peaceful alliance with select humans.

• Can't Have Sex, Ever: The Crossed removed his genitals before he was sent in as a sleeper agent, to make sure he couldn't or wouldn't even be tempted to break his cover by having sex (his fluids would expose him as a Crossed). The same applies to his relationship with Julie, as any sort of unshielded intimacy would result in her turning Crossed, which is something that he doesn't want for her.
• Enemy Mine: His long-term theory is that humanity and the Crossed will always have a third party of either group to unite against, as long as they're willing to try.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Sincerely loved his mentors Happy and Bashful, though he doesn’t understand it as such at first.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Downplayed. Being born Crossed, concepts such as love and mercy are alien to him, but Julie teaches him these concepts, and he seems to understand them just fine.
• If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten!: He gives the support staff of Fort Casper a test - you can stay alive and unharmed with your kids, but you have to kill a captured human soldier right now. Anyone who doesn't gets taken to the pens.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Like Salt, he knows the Crossed race can't survive even another century as is, and is desperately trying to create human-Crossed alliances that can last long-term, and has concluded the best way to do that is to sincerely not hurt or terrorize the people he wants to charm, something no Crossed has ever done.

Ballsack

The other leader of the Crossed. She's less patient than Fleshcook and wants to move to other settlements as soon as possible.

• Master Race: Believes that while Crossed can co-exist with humans, humans will only ever be worthy of being their slaves.

Commander in Chief Nathan

The current leader of Fort Casper after the invasion, who left with other officers down a secret escape route and is planning to take it back.

• Hero Antagonist: Is a violent thug, but ultimately is the one fighting to reclaim a human home from the Crossed. In most every other story, he'd be the protagonist.

Crossed: Wish You Were Here

Cava

Shaky

An aspiring writer who managed to escape London during the C-Day and now resides on Cava Island with fellow survivors.

• Cowardly Lion: Despite being quite cowardly during tense situations, he manages to get over it from time to time.
• Doom Magnet: Often brings trouble down not just on himself, but on other people as well from time to time. The final screw-up is what finally convinces Rab to leave him behind as a liability.
• Ignorance Is Bliss: Does not really bother thinking about certain things and trying to find out the truth behind them. His own mantra seems to put it straight. He finally drops it by the end of the story after realising just how much it screwed everything up.

Mysteries, mysteries, mysteries, ignore, ignore, ignore.

• Manipulative Bastard: Often manipulates other people to achieve his goals, even if they more often than not are well-intentioned. It all comes back to bite him in one form or another.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: We never find out his real name.
• Together in Death: He and Aoileann both choose to drown themselves after having sex on the island.

Theresa (a.k.a. Aoileann)

Rab Harcus

Skip

Selene

• Cowardly Lion: She's prone to fear and bumbling, at least in the first half, but is a competent member of the rifle firing line that gets deployed against the Crossed and takes several risks for the group, ending in a Heroic Sacrifice with a claymore mine.
• Forced to Watch: She has to watch the Crossed butcher the people at the fort on the mainland while she's kept alive, and it does a number on her.
• Taking You with Me: How she ultimately goes out, as a part of Rab's plan.

Jamie

Andrew Frazer Jackson

A former SBS soldier who found himself a nice place in the post C-Day UK.

• Ate His Gun: His ultimate fate.
• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Not really the sanest person in Cava, to say the least. Nonetheless, he is surprisingly good at surviving alone without problems. Even his last words do not have much sense, doesn't stop them from being memorable.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Might be abrasive to certain people (most notably, Shaky), but ultimately is a good-hearted man who even leads the Driftfleet towards Cava as an act of kindness.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: While killing Don was done with good intentions, Jackson did not count on the Driftfleet baby slipping down on the ship floor from his hands, leading to said baby dying and ruining the relationship between the Driftfleet and Cava residents for good.
• Violent Glaswegian: Was born in Scotland and is very efficient at killing both humans and Crossed alike.

Elisa

Don

Maria

Des

Jon

Viceroy

"The Boy"

The mute young teenager who made it to Cava alongside several others.

• No Name Given: We never find out what his name was before (and after) he is turned.
• Silent Antagonist: Upon becoming infected, he does not emit a single sound even when trying to kill Rab.
• Small Role, Big Impact: In spite of not being significant enough to the plot per se, Shaky does give his infected self enough of use in order to win himself a spot in the sortie mission.

Tabitha

Vincent

A 18-year old youth who is described by Shaky as a "daydreamer".

• Boom, Headshot!: After getting infected, he is put down this way by Shaky.
• Hope Spot: Gets one after he falls over the boat for the first time. He manages to puke the infected water out of his esophagus and avoids becoming infected. Too bad two gunshots fired straight from Cava alert a whole group of other Crossed maniacs which easily outrun Vincent and turn him.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Gets introduced and killed in the very first issue.

Roshan Masoud

Mr. Masoud

Aminah Masoud

Mr. Masoud's son

Jasper's Group

Jasper

Miranda

Richie

Mark

Dolores

Barry

Shaky's Flashback

Moses White

A former Perth church vicar who had been living with children shortly after the C-Day hit.

• Dragon with an Agenda: Had been conspiring against Aoileann for quite a while before finally supplanting her as the final villain of Wish You Were Here.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Goes from an ordinary vicar to one of Aoileann's most ruthless lieutenants and even gets to backstab her.
• Scary Black Man: He is dark-skinned and incredibly savage.
• Sinister Minister: Used to be a vicar at the church and keeps his religious habits even after becoming Crossed.
• The Starscream: Overthrows Aoileann shortly before the final confrontation when she shows her affection for Shaky over the radio.

Mr. Tooley/The Gamekeeper

A bald old man who had been working for the Thackerys before the C-Day.

• Amputation Stops Spread: Had his foot slashed off by Aoileann when the infected Moses bit him. Later on, he is forced to amputate his hand after Moses attacks him once again.
• Bald of Authority: Becomes the group's leader in Shaky's flashback. Also doubles as Bald of Evil considering how tyrannical he is.
• Evil Is Petty: Having been working for Lloyd and Agnes Thackery, he started to despise them, and when C-Day comes, what does he do? Humiliate Lloyd and rape Agnes at every single opportunity. Especially bad since the Thackerys were shown to be nice and humble, thus making the Gamekeeper's grudge anything but a deserved payback.
• Evil Old Folks: He is old, gruff, unpleasant and spiteful. Shaky himself speculates that he is at least a millenium older than he truly is, judging by his soulless eyes.
• Eye Scream: Got his right eye pecked out by a bird after Shaky left him behind.
• Handicapped Badass: Manages to knock out the infected Moses with a single punch to the face, despite being blind in one eye and missing a leg. Then he is immediately forced to amputate his hand after it gets splashed with infected blood.
• Hate Sink: Is presented with little if any redeeming qualities, just a power-drunk psychopath with a certain degree in pettiness.
• Ignored Epiphany: He becomes shaken and withdrawn after Agnes kills herself and Aoileann stands up to him and spends the next couple of months behaving himself and helping or avoiding the others, but his guilt and fear gradually go away, and he returns to his raping, murdering, bullying ways.
• Indispensable Scoundrel: A horrific deconstruction - the Gamekeeper knows that other members of his crew won't last long without him and thus has them tolerate all the horrific deeds he does.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Refers to Ashoke as "Paki" while treating him not much better than the rest of his group and also uses racial slurs regarding Moses while telling his story to Shaky in the final volume.
• Posthumous Character: Subverted. While we are initially led to believe that Shaky killed him in one of the flashbacks, the Gamekeeper still turns up alive by the end of Volume 3.
• Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Had been subjecting Agnes to one just to spite her husband Lloyd. After Agnes hangs herself, he forces himself on Aoileann later on and finally gets shot in the back for his troubles. It does not kill him though.
• Sink or Swim Mentor: His first appearance has him toss a loaded gun to Shaky while an infected girl is about to attack him. Only when Shaky proves to be able to kill her, does the Gamekeeper allow him to be a part of his crew.
• Tranquil Fury: He noticeably tries to hold himself from lashing out when talking to Shaky via the radio in the fourth volume.
• Unsexy Sadist: Is considerably uglier than other characters Shaky comes across and is just as into rape and humiliation as pretty much any Crossed in the comic.

Ashoke

Agnes Thackery

Lloyd Thackery

Sarge

Stace

Crossed: Dead or Alive

Richie

• Abhorrent Admirer: To Lauren. While he lusts after her, she apparently does not like nor trust him. Richie thinks he reminds her of an ex-boyfriend.
• Better to Die than Be Killed: He wisely chooses to shoot himself with a pistol that Joe left him when a group of Crossed have him cornered with a broken leg. Too bad he forgot about Joe's advice about an empty chamber.
• Bring My Brown Pants: Notably pissed himself during C-Day.
• Cold Sniper: Averted. He would certainly love to think he's this and while he has the weapon and the attitude, he does not possess the marksmanship or survival skills to really embody this archetype. The one time we see him in action, he misses all his shots.
• Crossing the Burnt Bridge: Has the gall to beg his former group for another chance even after he deliberately tried to set them up and leave them to die.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of the typical Villain Protagonist endemic in Crossed stories. Usually, these protagonists are the Misanthrope Supreme who take advantage of the collapse of society to indulge in their worst impulses, with or without the infection, and usually get away with it due to having some survival skills or leverage over their own group. These people are normally framed as hardened and deadly survivalists who are unburdened by anything resembling morality. Richie is essentially this archetype, but without the competence to back it up. He displays little to no practical survival skills, is a poor shot with his hunting rifle and he feels no bonds of solidarity with his fellow survivors. His Social Darwinist, misanthropic beliefs don't make him a deadly survivalist like Stevie or the Gamekeeper and his hidden disdain for his group was so transparent that they aren't even all that shocked at what he tried to do. He really only made it as long as he had due to dumb luck and he learns far too late that he needs other people far more then they need him.
• Didn't Think This Through: Even if he hadn't run straight over a cliff, Richie's "plan" amounted to just knocking Carl out, running in the opposite direction, wander on his own for a bit and start again with a new group. How he would find a new group or survive on his own is not brought up.
• Hypocrite: Despite having previously urged his group to leave Justin for the Crossed due to his sprained ankle, he still begs them to take him with them despite having his leg broken.
• Moral Myopia: Rages at his former group for looting him and leaving him to die...which he had just tried to do to them only minutes earlier.
• Nothing Is Scarier: We never see what the Crossed do to him, but it could not have been quick.
• Smug Snake: Holds the belief that all humans, including his own group, are suicidal idiots at best or selfish betrayers at worst and is planning to abandon them at first opportunity. These beliefs go right out the window when he's the one being abandoned.
• The Sociopath: Holds no love or any kind of strong emotion for his fellow man and cares only for himself.
• Unreliable Narrator: Near everything we know about the cast comes from Richie, but considering he is justifying to himself why he's abandoning them it is hard to say how much of it is true.
• Villain Protagonist: Is the main POV character for this story.

Carl

• The Leader: Keeps the group going and makes most of their plans.
• Semper Fi: Was a US Marine before the outbreak and has the combat training to match. While Richie respects his combat abilities, he believes his Marine "Leave-No-Man-Behind" mentality to be a liability.

Joe

• Gun Nut: Is the group's armourer and taught them all how to handle weapons, including Richie.
• Leave Behind a Pistol: Despite what Richie nearly did to them, he had the grace to give Richie the means to die quickly and cleanly rather then leave him for the Crossed, with the groups' agreement.

Tabitha

• Armour Piercing Response: After his failed betrayal, and Richie starts whining about his group leaving him for dead, Joe leaves him a revolver and Tabitha gives Richie a short but succinct dressing down which instantly deflates whatever conceptions Richie had about himself, his group and human nature in general.
  Tabitha: Who do we think we are, Richie? Honestly, I have no idea. These days I don't think anyone does. But I do know we're not you.
• Mysterious Past: Richie believes she is deliberately hiding something about her past, which greatly annoys him.
• Team Mom: Is the oldest of the group and apparently acts this way, which also annoys Richie.

Lauren

• Does Not Like Guns: While she keeps a Glock for her own safety, Richie notes she has an obvious distaste for it.
• Lust Object: For Richie, likely due to her being the only young woman in the group.

Luke

• Expy: A clear one of Kitrick from the original series: A quiet and depressed black man who also apparently watched his family die. Unlike Stan however, Richie shows him No Sympathy.
• The Voiceless: The only character in the story without any lines.

Justin

• Baby Of The Bunch: Visibly the youngest of the group.
• Twisted Ankle: Has a sprained ankle but the trope still applies. Richie urges that he'd just slow them down and that they leave him for the Crossed, but a sprained ankle will recover relatively quickly, unlike Richie's broken leg.

Annual and Special survivors

The Crossed

In General

The titular antagonists of the series. The Crossed are people who were infected with the C-Virus, causing them to act out their most insane and violent thoughts. They are called such due to a cross-like rash that appears on their faces upon infection.

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• Always Chaotic Evil: To the extreme. Their only true goal is to brutalize the uninfected. Downplayed later on in Crossed +100 and Mimic. While Crossed’s are mostly unchanging, several of them Manage to gain pragmatic qualities to themselves, mostly due to the harsh conditionings of the Crossed endured, and they even manage to have redeeming qualities and empathy at times.
• Attack! Attack! Attack!: Crossed simply place no value whatsoever on their own lives. A lone Crossed will gladly sprint across open ground against a dozen people with machine guns, and they've been seen using tactics that are full-on suicidal, such as cutting their own throats in the name of spilling their blood on someone. Quite a few stories have noted that stealth or even picking their battles is something Crossed on their own simply aren't capable of.
• Ax-Crazy: The Crossed, bar the occasional "Super" ones, are all, and by that we mean every single one, utterly barbaric, sociopathic, near-unthinking sadomasochists who commit any and all acts of violence they are able to.
• Body Horror:
  • A Crossed's skull also has a cross-shaped hole where the rash would be.
  • There’s also how they find their “fun”. Aside from mutilating uninfected humans, many Crossed sport grievous, disgusting wounds that would send sane humans into shock. While able to ignore them to a degree due to their high pain tolerance and propensity for masochistic behavior, the flipside is that blood loss and infection will eventually do them in, and that’s not mentioning the fact that they intentionally agitate their wounds for a laugh.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: Most crossed "just" maim, rape and kill their prey. The more restrained and creative ones however engage in this in order to draw out their victims' suffering.
• Combat Sadomasochist: The Crossed get off on violence, regardless if they're on the giving or receiving end.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of the Hate Plague Technically-Living Zombie and the Always Chaotic Evil fantasy race. While the Crossed are indeed a nightmarish threat, many stories show that a population composed entirely of hyper-aggressive sociopaths is simply unsustainable. By the time of +100, humanity has heavily outnumbered the infected population, and the only reason they have not been wiped out already is the occasional "fresh" infection and Salt's manipulations.
• Dying Race: Due to not caring about their own self-preservation, the Crossed are dying off a century after C-Day and uninfected humans are making a comeback.
• Enemy Civil War: Depending on the variant of Crossed in the story, they will eventually turn against each other when there are no prey or victims available for them to attack. This is what allows the uninfected humans to reclaim the Earth, the Crossed had no self-preservation and killed each other.
• Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: If there’s a joke in poor taste to be made, they’ll make it and laugh their homicidal asses off.
• Expy: The Crossed share their MO with the Reavers both of whom rape, kill, eat and skin their victims (in that order if they're lucky). There's also a bit of a resemblance to the Rage Virus Infected, with both sharing an unyeilding and almost animalistic savagery against their victims.
• Extreme Omnisexual: The Crossed will violently rape anyone, any animal, and anything they come across.
• Fatal Flaw: The disease compels them to act on their most violent and depraved urges but that is also their greatest weakness, as they follow their urges even if it's against their survival and instinct for self-preservation.
  • The Crossed are still human so they are just as vulnerable as anyone else, the only reason they have succeeded so far is because of overwhelming numbers, competent leadership (in Smokey's case), and the element of surprise.
  • If there's nobody to kill or to guide them, then they will mutilate themselves and even kill each other in fits of boredom and insanity.
  • They can also be found naked and/or underdressed, more importantly, they won't even be dressed for the Earth's elements so they are vulnerable to those conditions.
• For the Evulz: Zig-zagged. On the one hand, due to being a malevolent virus, one can’t say the Crossed are committing atrocities by choice, being compelled to do so by the infection. On the other hand, it’s the infection that convinces them that being the worst version of yourself is HILARIOUS.
• Full-Frontal Assault: The most common Crossed outfit by far is no outfit at all, and that number increases if you include Crossed who wear clothes but don't cover their genitalia. This appears to be for, er... easy access. It's brought up a few times as a weakness, as they've been known to wander through snow without so much as a T-shirt, and more often than not they do not last long.
• Gang of Hats: The Crossed will band together and form roaming gangs of murderous rapists. In "Badlands" the Crossed form a circus theme, in "Psychopath" the Crossed wear severed faces, and in other comic series the Crossed dress in Japanese outfits. Generally, Crossed clans are formed either around a previous occupation (one gang driving around an ambulance enjoyed a medical theme, another made of nuns, priests, and monks followed a bizarre religious doctrine) or around a favored method of torture, mutilation, or other form of defilement (wearing skins, bloody warpaint, etc.)
• Hair-Trigger Temper: A lot of infighting between the Crossed happens pretty easily due to the fact that the plague makes victims extremely irritable and confrontational.
• Hate Plague: A textbook example. The C-virus causes its infected to become aggressive, sociopathic and sadomasochist.
• Humans Are the Real Monsters: A recurring theme with the Crossed. A character notes that the Crossed don't really do anything nomal humans aren't capable of doing too.
• I Am a Humanitarian: The Crossed often engage in cannibalism. Not due to a zombie-like hunger for human flesh, mind you, but because they get sadistic joy from eating their victims raw or cooking them while they're still alive to scream and feel pain from being eaten. It's also a matter of pragmatism, since they need to eat anyway.
• It Can Think: For all of their inclinations towards mindless barbarism, THIS trait is what makes them so bloody dangerous in comparison to more "typical" zombies, besides just how quickly victims turn once exposed to direct contact with Crossed bodily fluids. They're smart enough to use tools, set traps, and band together if it means that getting to (and subsequently violating/murdering in excruciating fashion) an entrenched group of survivors becomes that much easier in the short run.
• Laughing Mad: Boy, are they having fun.
• Logical Weakness: It's been noted quite a few times in the series that there is no "magic bullet" solution to Crossed, but they do have a lot of exploitable issues that survivors make use of, all of which flow from their personality and behavior.
  • Crossed are not actually zombies, just incredibly violent humans. They can keep fighting through injuries that would leave a normal person disabled from shock and pain, but they'll still succumb to anything that would outright kill a person. People who are aware of this can get very good results simply by keeping "aim for head or center mass" in mind.
  • Crossed spend most of their time wandering around in small bands, feeding on whatever they can catch (human or otherwise) and making no use of any medical technology more complex than bandages. Consequently, many Crossed that we see after the first few months are visibly malnourished and sickly-looking, which explains why small groups of survivors with proper equipment who know what they're doing can wipe out dozens of Crossed singlehandedly. This is exacerbated by the fact that Crossed prefer to wear little to no clothing, leaving them Exposed to the Elements and unarmored to attack.
  • Crossed, barring a few savants, do not have the patience to use any kind of stealth tactics, or even to realize when a foe is too great for them to handle. Many survivors exploit the reduced need for setting watches or lure them into traps.
  • Lastly, Crossed struggle to grow their numbers outside of infecting people. They have a lot of sex, but their lifestyle is anything but conducive to helping a pregnant woman carry a baby to term. Even if they do manage to pop out a baby, their impulsiveness means that the mother is highly liable to kill her own child. When combined with the high-lethality lifestyle mentioned above, Crossed numbers are in a steep decline with few signs of improvement.
• Mood-Swinger: They can switch between sadistic glee and frothing rage at the drop of a hat.
• Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Not really a "special" kind of evil, as much as one of their favorites.
• Sadist: The Crossed have a pathological drive to commit any and all acts of violence they can, on anyone they can. And they enjoy every second of it.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: Their speech is often ridden with profanities.
• The Sociopath: The Crossed, with no exception bar the super ones, are utterly devoid of empathy and remorse, lack self-restraint and any form of selflessness including Pragmatic Villainy, and are pathologically violent and immoral.
• Stupid Evil: The Crossed are actually pretty intelligent. Anything a normal person can do, they can do it too, including driving vehicles, using weapons and tools, etc. However, their Ax-Crazy nature plays heavily against them on both short-term and long-term.
• Talkative Loon: A defining attribute of the Crossed is an inability to shut up. They’re charged up 24/7, so consequently they voice whatever depraved fantasy comes to their frenzied minds aloud, if they don’t just devolve into incoherent mumbling and giggling.
• The Virus: Transmitted by bodily fluids in general. Bites, sexual contact (i.e rape) or just getting splashed with blood is more than enough to get you infected.
• Token Good Teammate:
  • The one Crossed we've seen resist the general impulses of the virus for the sake of loved ones is Hazuki from Five Bloody Fingers, who refuses to attack her friends who she considers her real family and simply persuades them to renew their blood oath and go down fighting a horde of the other Crossed once infected.
  • Another example, albeit a bit downplayed one, is Mathias from Conquers All. He is not really interested in most Crossed festivities, opting to find Serena first.
  • Now from +100 is the most straightforward example we get. She was raised by Future Taylor and her husband, and doesn't show any urges to do anything the rest of the Crossed would do. By all appearances, she's a normal little girl.
  • Future Taylor’s group also meet Crossed who is completely normal, albeit anti-social and cooperates with the group just fine, promptly getting him killed by his other, less reasonable Crossed friends.
  • Fleshcook from Mimic also qualifies to an extent, being explicitly capable of love for not only fellow members of the Salt Clan but for at least one uninfected human (Julie). However, he is also downplayed as he does still seem to be keen on torture and killing.
• Too Kinky to Torture: If you were to wound the Crossed, they'll often scream, "More! Hurt me more!"
• What You Are in the Dark: A recurring theme with the Crossed. It's often assumed, by people in and out of universe, that the virus doesn't make anyone do anything, as much as it rids the person of their inhibitions which prevent them from doing so.
• Would Hurt a Child: The Crossed are willing to engage in rape and brutal, gory murder not only against children but also babies. Hell, there are even cases where they'll kill unborn fetuses.
• "X" Marks the Hero: All Crossed have a large cross-shaped scar/rash on their faces, yet most of them are far from heroic.
• Zerg Rush: As befitting a pseudo-zombie apocalypse story, the first-resort Crossed tactic is to get a whole bunch of Crossed and charge the enemy with whatever weapons they have to hand, relying on sheer numbers and ferocity to win the day. This is a tactic that works alarmingly well, given that even a single poorly-placed splash of blood can quickly turn the tide of battle, though it does mean that Crossed also take heavy casualties in almost any encounter.

Super-Crossed

Crossed individuals that maintain a level of sanity and regular human behaviour. This often makes them exceptionally dangerous, as they can achieve things the regular infected can't.

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• Ax-Crazy: Subverted. While most Super-Crossed are hostile to humans to some extent, they retain enough "sane" traits to function as individuals, survive in the long-term, and achieve highly complex action.
• Disability Superpower: While what creates the Super-Crossed is never explained, it's heavily implied that they are what happens when someone who is neuroatypical or mentally ill gets infected. Several known had some mental or neurological illness. For example, Aoilean had epilepsy, Mattias had his brain chemistry altered by ketamine abuse, Salt was The Sociopath, and there is mention of an autistic individual in Montreal.
• Elite Zombie: Of the "Horde Master" variety.
• Token Good Teammate: In the "Crossed + 100: Mimic" storyline, a Crossed manages to fall in love with an uninfected girl, but they both know they can't actually requite it without her becoming infected. The closest thing they can is by having her wear full body armor.

Horsecock

Appearances: Crossed: Volume One

The leader of a band of Crossed who terrorizes Cindy and Stan's group.

• All Bikers are Hells Angels: The patches on his vest indicate he was either part of a 1% biker gang or stole the vest from one.
• Bad Boss: Thinks nothing of routinely bludgeoning his underlings with his namesake weapon of choice.
• Big Bad: The main antagonistic Crossed of Volume One, with his heightened intelligence and persistence being the main threat to the group in the last few issues.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Leads his horde in singing about being 'the very best at being bad guys' at one point.
• Evil Laugh: Has one, like many of the Crossed.
• Improbable Weapon User: His namesake is the weapon.
• I Shall Taunt You: Laughs at Cindy's group over the radio after sending an infected Patrick back to them.
• It Can Think: Is the first Crossed to show the ability to delay gratification for the sake of inflicting greater pain. He first demonstrates this by preventing members of his gang from raping some survivors before dumping them in a cage with others who were brutalized and thus will turn shortly.
• Laughably Evil: Well, he does use a literal horsecock as a weapon. Besides that, he goes out of his way to lead his horde in singing a song from Bugsy Malone for no real reason.
• Super-Persistent Predator: Pursues Cindy and Stan's group of survivors over the Rockies, across the desert and into Canada after running into them just outside of Denver.
• Villainous Legacy: Seemingly is keen on imparting his way of doing things in the other Crossed in his horde. Luckily for humanity, Cindy and Stan make sure this doesn't take.
• Villain Song: Leads his horde in a rendition of 'We Could Have Been Anything' from Bugsy Malone about how they're so great at being bad guys.

Beauregard Salt

Appearances: Crossed: +100

A serial killer prior to turning, Salt was already enough of a sadistic psychopath the Crossed virus does nothing but give him a rash. After seeing how the Crossed seem poised to burn themselves out, he comes up with a plan to ensure their survival.

• Cult of Personality: The Salt Clan forms shrines dedicated to him that include photos, journal entries and literal piles of salt.
• Evil Counterpart: Parallels are made between Salt and Hari Seldon. Both are leaders of secretive groups making long-term plans for the future based on projections. The difference is Salt's plan is to ensure the Crossed perpetuate at the expense of humankind.
• Evil Plan: Salt sought to lay the groundwork for the Crossed to endure and overcome their own self-destructive impulses.
• Foil: To Smokey.
  • Smokey regularly makes use of human collaborators as quislings. Salt does not do so (at least in his own time) and instead focuses on finding other intelligent Crossed to serve as lieutenants.
  • Smokey is regularly betrayed by his collaborators, both human and Crossed. Salt commands absolute loyalty from his seven core lieutenants and the only one to break rank from him only gets himself killed by doing so.
  • Every time Smokey attempts to build a Crossed society, it ends in failure. On the other hand, Salt's efforts create a force of Crossed that is able to persist a century after C-Day to a point where humanity has let their guard down thinking the Crossed are now relegated to the past.
  • Smokey tends to be quite terse and has very poor grammar when speaking. Salt appears to be quite eloquent even after turning, judging from his journal entries.
• Gone Horribly Right: Probably how he would view the outcome of his plan. The Salt clan reemerges as he hoped 100 years after C-Day, but Sneezy, who rejects the Pragmatic Villainy of his original plan in favor of finishing off mankind is the main beneficiary. Even Fleshcook's success with the Merge likely wasn't what Salt had hoped for as an outcome of his efforts.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Ultimately is the root of the main problems the characters in +100 face but is never faced directly due to being dead.
• The Mentally Disturbed: Even before Salt became a Crossed, there was something so deeply fundamentally wrong with him that, during C-Day, he was depicted as being almost totally oblivious to the fact that the world had gone insane, calmly going about his daily routine while everyone around him raped, tortured, and murdered each other, only realizing that something was amiss when he got home, looked in the mirror, and noticed that he had become one of the Crossed (not that this affected him in any way).
• My Death Is Just the Beginning: Is long dead by the time of +100, but The Plan he developed is the main driving force behind the plot.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Salt recognizes the need to delay gratification and that the Crossed cannot completely overwhelm humanity or they will ultimately die out.
• Retired Monster: Not retired per se but some of the entries in his journal Future uncovers are from a period where he is too old to do much more than hope his plan works.
• Serial Killer: Before becoming infected, Salt was this, dubbed 'the Phonebook Killer.'
• Shout-Out:
  • Names the smart Crossed he recruits as lieutenants after the Seven Dwarves.
  • His plan is basically an evil version of the Seldon plan.
• Tears of Joy: Cries them on seeing a Crossed wearing babies as shoes, because the world finally sees things as he does.
• The Sociopath: Fits this to a T (or should we say +?). He was such an unfeeling bastard before the outbreak, he remained pretty much the same after getting Crossed.
• The Snack Is More Interesting: On C-Day, Salt is more interested in having breakfast at a cafe while reading the newspaper than the carnage of the Crossed.
• Villain of Another Story: While he is the true Big Bad of +100, Salt's crimes as the Phonebook Killer and any tortures he inflicts on the uninfected as a Crossed are not shown or discussed in depth. His villainy is mostly carried out in the form of laying the groundwork for members of his clan as of the present (like Jokemercy) to act.
• Villainous Legacy: He sought to build a world where the Crossed and their cruelty can persist indefinitely without being wiped out by the uninfected or their own stupidity.

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