Casual Kink: His superhero obsession is presented as such. Unusually for such a... weird fetish (but in line with the trope), it's shown to be a healthy outlet for his fantasies, since said fantasies involve community activism and an altruistic outlook on life and society.
Determinator: The comic zigzags on whether this is a product of stupidity and nihilism or Heroic Willpower, but it tends to be to his benefit.
Did Not Get the Girl: After finding out that Dave was pretending to be gay, Katie's reaction in the comic is a lot more likely to happen than her hooking up with him in the film.
Memetic Bad Ass: An in-universe example. Even though the clip clearly shows him being terrible at being a superhero, because he refuses to give up the fight, he becomes so popular that he inspires a comic based on himself as a legitimate superhero along the lines of Green Arrow or Batman.
The Messiah: Like many other superheroes in the movement, he enjoys doing good for the sake of doing good, both on the level of vigilantism and basic social work.
Parental Abandonment: His mother died of aneurysm some time before the start of the story. His father is later killed by Red Mist's goons after claiming to be Kick-Ass in order to prevent Dave from going to prison
Super Zeroes: At least initially. He does toughen up however.
Took a Level in Badass: Goes from being absolutely pathetic in a fight in Volume 1, to able to single handedly take on several thugs and win in Volume 2.
Weapon of Choice: Two large unfortunately dildo-like batons, which, if lost, he'll sometimes appropriate from the surrounding environment (like chair legs or plywood) and occasionally modify with nails to make them more like a mace.
Big Daddy/ Damon McCready
Based on a Great Big Lie: It turns out that the story he told Dave is complete bullshit, and that he kidnapped his own daughter & raised her as a killer in order to play vigilante.
Captain Ersatz: Of Punisher, minus the skull. And tragic backstory, it turns out.
Which almost becomes Hilarious in Hindsight when you take into account that the actor who played Big Daddy in the movie once famously sold his comic collection for a ton of money.
Big Damn Heroes: Twice. Once when Kick-Ass is about to be sliced open by Razul, and again when he and Big Daddy are just about to be set ablaze by Frank D'Amico's men.
Reality Ensues: Unlike other Tykebomb-turned-superheroes in other media, Mindy is clearly damaged by her upbringing as Hit-Girl, escalating into disturbing hallucinations of her Father still giving her orders and advice.
Sanity Slippage: Issue #5 of Hit Girl shows Mindy having Hallucinations of Big Daddy, who advises her to go out and slaughter Ralpie Genovese and the rest of his men in the horrifying ways that she'd been planning.
True Companions: With Kick-Ass, after her dad died. He's pretty much the only person she opens up to at all, and cares dearly for his well-being. He's also her go-to sidekick in the second volume.
Big Bad Wannabe: Dave initially scoffs at the idea of Red Mist being out for vengeance against him. Holy shit, was this trope ever averted. So far he's raped Katie, arranged the murder of Dave's father, and is now planning to bomb the entire city of New York.
Not altogether averted, however, in that when it comes down to it he's still just hiding behind his hired bodyguard. When he and Kick-Ass finally fight against each other in Volume 2 he gets his ass handed to him yet again.
Laser-Guided Karma: After being revealed as The Mole, Kick-Ass soundly beats the shit out of him the first chance he gets, and without much effort to boot. And this is pre-Took A Level In Bad Ass Kick-Ass, for those keeping track.
Follow the Leader: Marty becomes Battle Guy after being inspired by Kick-Ass, before finding out that his best friend Dave is Kick-Ass; they later bring Todd in on the action & he keeps coming up with names derivative of "Kick-Ass", which Dave & Mart call him out on.
Memetic Bad Ass: An in-universe example. Even though the clip clearly shows him being terrible at being a superhero, because he refuses to give up the fight, he becomes so popular that he inspires a comic based on himself as a legitimate superhero along the lines of Green Arrow or Batman.
The Messiah: Dave finds it fucked-up that nobody cares enough to protect his fellow man, and became Kick-Ass to do something about it.
Mistaken for Gay: Although, it works out much better for Dave in the film than in the comic.
Took a Level in Badass: He is much better in his final fight, where he uses a jetpack to block almost all Chris's attacks, while in the first he just swings his batons around, hoping that thugs will run into them.
I Just Want to Be Special: Heavily averted, prior to being framed by Frank D'Amico, he had no consideration of becoming a vigilante men. He had a happy, normal life. At least, until Frank D'Amico tears his family apart.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: As much violent, deranged and merciless he might be, he's quite clear he has still an hidden morality left and he's able to distinguish his potential targets from innocent bystanders. It's also implied that once he would have accomplished his personal vendetta he would have sent Mindy to school and giving her a childhood like every ordinary girl.
Big Damn Heroes: Twice. Once when Kick-Ass is about to be sliced open by Razul, and again when he and Big Daddy are just about to be set ablaze by Frank D'Amico's men.
The Worf Effect: Played straight, twice. She's a human killing machine, going through Mooks like they were nothing. However, during her Roaring Rampage of Revenge at the end of the film, she is almost killed when she runs out of ammo and was about to be killed by a rocket launcher when Dave/Kiss Ass came out to help with the jetpack they modified with mini-guns. And then, during her fight with Frank D'Amico, it was a Curb-Stomp Battle that nearly killed her and was only lucky because Dave/Kiss Ass was able to grab the rocket launcher from before and use it to kill D'Amico. If it wasn't for Dave, she would have been dead both times.
Even Evil Has Standards: After he learned that Dave is nothing in the grand scheme of things, Chris wanted him spared. Unfortunately for him, his father is adamant on having him killed to give a message to other would-be superheroes.
Evil Costume Switch: After being revealed as The Moleand his father's death, Chris switches to a new costume. It's pretty much the same, but with a more menacing mask, the Anime Hair toned down, & the red switched to a creepy orange.
Sliding Scale of Antagonist Vileness: Significantly less vile than his father in the first film, but it remains to be seen if he remains this way in the sequel.
At the very least it's been confirmed that while Chris will be the Big Bad he's not going to go so far as to rape Katie.
Villainous Breakdown: Has one increasing steadily throughout the movie. He executes someone in broad daylight, goes batshit at his henchmen and starts doing cocaine (which was implied he kicked several years before).
Would Hit a Girl / Would Hurt a Child: He has no qualms in giving a roundhouse kick to an eleven year old girl's face and then giving her a thorough vicious beat down. Though in his defense she is also an unstoppable killing machine who single handedly slaughtered his entire building full of mooks.
Big Joe
Gentlemen...time to die.
Played By: Michael Rispoli
Affably Evil: He seems like such a nice guy when not murdering people on behalf of his boss.
Cold-Blooded Torture: Well, it is torture. But it seems pretty passionate in its execution.
Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Her relationship with Dave. And she dated Rasul because she thought he was a kind woobie before realizing he was far from it.
Jailbait Wait: After seeing Hit Girl save Kick-Ass & Big Daddy, Todd exclaims that he thinks he's in love with her, only for Marty to point out that she's around 11. He then declares he'll save himself for her.
Pair the Spares: Subverted, Marty winds up hooking up with Erica but Todd is still single at the end of the film.
Even Evil Has Standards: He appears a little disturbed by the live online feed of Big Daddy and Kick-Ass being tortured. Not that he lifts a single finger to do anything or ever complains to Frank.
