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In their various quests to protect their cities, worlds, and even their universe, the Avengers utilize various allies to help ensure their victory.

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Tony Stark and James Rhodes' Allies

    Happy Hogan 

Harold "Happy" Hogan

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"Let me tell you something, you know what happened when I told people I was Iron Man's bodyguard? They would laugh in my face. I had to leave while I still had a shred of dignity."

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Stark Industries, Salvation Army

Portrayed By: Jon Favreau

Voiced By: Andrés García (Latin-American Spanish dub), Miguel Marquillas (European Spanish dub), Takeharu Onishi (Japanese dub), Mário Tupinambá (Brazilian Portuguese dub)

Appearances: Iron Man | Iron Man 2 | Iron Man 3 | Spider-Man: Homecoming | Avengers: Endgame | Spider-Man: Far From Home | Spider-Man: No Way Home

"You're not Iron Man. You're never gonna be Iron Man. Nobody could live up to Tony. Not even Tony. Tony was my best friend. And he was a mess. He second-guessed everything he did, he was all over the place. The one thing that he did that he didn't second-guess was picking you. I don't think Tony would have done what he did... if he didn't know that you were gonna be here after he was gone."

Tony Stark's loyal bodyguard and chauffeur, and eventually promoted to head of security at Stark Industries by the events of Iron Man 3. He is soon assigned to serve as Peter Parker’s main point of contact for Tony, coming to respect and love the boy for his good heart and heroism.


  • Ace Pilot: Downplayed, when he flies the plane to save Peter Parker's friends in Far From Home through an active combat zone occupied by countless drones. He sticks the landing but his jet is blown up in the chaos, which forces him to make a new plan.
  • Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: The MCU version of Happy Hogan has a very close relationship with Spider-Man, to the point of appearing in all three movies in his first trilogy. In the comics, Happy and Peter don't know each other at all.
  • Alliterative Name: First and last name start with an H.
  • Amnesiac Resonance: Although he had his memories of Peter Parker erased by Doctor Strange's second spell, Happy seems to feel some familiarity with the boy while talking to him about May's legacy at her grave.
  • Amusing Injuries: His fight with a single guard in Iron Man 2 has him mostly getting his butt kicked, though he eventually wins. Earlier, he also gets an airbag to the face, and Black Widow wipes the floor with him in boxing.
  • Ascended Extra: In the first Iron Man movie, he's little more than an extra. He has more to do in his following appearances.
  • Badass Driver: His Monaco run must be seen to be believed; slaloming against the direction of the incoming race cars at top speed note  — much of it one-handed because Pepper is desperately trying to get the Mark V uncuffed from his arm, with the key in his pocket.
  • Battle Butler: Practices boxing. While not nearly as badass as Black Widow, he does try. His real skill is driving.
  • Badass Normal: Deconstructed, he throws a good punch on Savin but it means fuck all when Hogan is Overshadowed by Awesome.
  • Bodyguarding a Badass: He doesn't consider it a real job after Tony becomes a superhero.
    Happy: "...You know what happened when I told people I was Iron Man's bodyguard? They would laugh in my face."
  • Boxing Battler: In his few fight scenes, he uses boxing.
  • Butt-Monkey: Comic relief is his thing. He (mostly) loses it in Endgame and in Far From Home, when he really steps up for Tony's kids, both biological (Morgan) and spiritual (Peter).
  • Creator Cameo: Jon Favreau directed the first two Iron Man movies.
  • Decomposite Character: He takes on more characteristics of Comic!Jarvis in his later appearances, going from chauffeur to general assistant to butler, and then becomes a supporting character to other heroes, while also being a Love Interest to Aunt May (albeit only temporarily) much like Jarvis was in the entire period leading up to Mark Millar's Civil War.
  • Genocide Survivor: The promotional materials for Endgame confirmed that he survived the Snap.
  • Guile Hero: When he sees Savin, he immediately follows his car, and attempts to spy on him and Taggart in 3. He goes pretty well too, up until he gloated to Savin about stealing a piece of an Extremis vial. Although, that could be attributed to the fact that he never considered Savin fighting back in public.
  • Guilt by Association Gag: In No Way Home, Matt Murdock — investigating Mysterio's frame-up — clears Peter Parker of potential criminal litigation, but warns Happy to lawyer up since the feds are investigating the Stark tech Mysterio used that he presently manages.
    Happy: I'm under investigation? I thought [Peter] was— I thought, he would— I could say "advice of counsel, I refuse to answer the question respectfully because it could incriminate me"— same as GoodFellas, what's the thing they say in GoodFellas?
    May: I know what you're thinking, but calm down... let's see what he has to say.
    Matt: You're gonna need a really good lawyer.
  • Heel Realization: After Spider-Man saves Happy's ass by stopping the Vulture from making off with an entire ship of the Avengers' tech, Happy realizes he was being a real jerk to him and treats Peter with a lot more kindness from then on.
  • Hidden Depths: No Way Home reveals he has "Native New Yorker" by Odyssey as his ringtone.
  • Honorary Uncle: Following Tony's death, Happy has come to love Peter as a nephew, partially out of obligation to a friend and brother who loved him like a son, but moreso because he sees in the boy the same noble heart that Tony once had. Happy's face practically glowed with love and pride as he watched Peter construct The Upgraded suit in a manner uncannily similar to how Tony constructed his Mark III armor, symbolically inheriting the legacy of Stark's heroic soul. He also tries to date Aunt May, in the hopes that he could become Peter's official uncle one day as well, but the two end up splitting by the events of No Way Home.
  • Hopeless Suitor: His actor confirms that Happy is in love with Pepper, but she and Tony have feelings for each other. Though Far From Home shows that he's had a lot more luck with May Parker, by the next movie, he and May break up, putting him back at square one. Sadly, he is not able to make it work once more, as May is killed in No Way Home.
  • Insistent Terminology: In Spider-Man: Far From Home, he has to correct Flash in that he works with Spider-Man and not for Spider-Man.
  • I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Though Word of God from Jon Favreau confirms that he's secretly in love with Peppernote , he's still a Shipper on Deck for her and Tony, and doesn't even make a big deal out of it.
  • I Was Quite a Fashion Victim: During the very late 90s, Happy wore a goatee and much longer hair, as seen during the Switzerland 1999 New Years party in Iron Man 3. When a photo of him from that time is plastered on a news broadcast in Spider-Man: No Way Home, Happy is visibly cringing from embarrassment.
  • Jerkass Ball: In Spider-Man: Homecoming, Tony has Happy act as the point guy for his "mentorship" to Peter. Happy is pretty jerkish towards Peter throughout the movie, including ignoring him, not taking anything he says seriously on the occasions he doesn't ignore him, and hanging up when Ned tries to tell him about Toomes's hijack plan at the climax. A lot of it is implied to be because he's currently still recovering from Iron Man 3 and is much more of a workaholic than before, but needless to say, Happy's jerkiness causes some of the movie's plot to occur. After Peter saves the day (and Happy's job), Happy apologizes and acts much nicer to him from thereon.
    • He already picked it in Iron Man 3. After becoming the head of security of Stark Industry, he becomes excessively obsessed with following protocol, scolds every employee and visitor not wearing their badge, suggests Pepper in firing all janitorial staff and replace them with robots, and is proud of the fact that staff complaints have risen to a shocking level because of him.
  • Made of Iron: While he was put in a coma from it, he still survived a close-range explosion in Iron Man 3 which killed everyone else with no long-lasting injuries.
  • New Job as the Plot Demands: Downplayed, as it follows a normal promotional ladder. He starts as Tony's bodyguard and driver, becomes Stark Industries' security chief in Iron Man 3, and becomes head of Asset Management for Spider-Man Homecoming.
  • Non-Action Guy: Played with. He was actually Stark's bodyguard and is a pretty good boxer himself. Thing is, he's so constantly Overshadowed by Awesome that he usually ends up taking non-combatant and support roles, making him look like one next to all the badass superheroes of the setting.
  • Older Sidekick: He's this to Spider-Man come Far From Home, being his non-combatant help and assistant. Though, he will have you know, that he works with Spider-Man, not for him.
  • Overshadowed by Awesome: He is a pretty good boxer, unfortunately, he happens to live in a World of Badass. Black Widow easily defeated him in their training in Iron Man 2. He complains about it in Iron Man 3, hence why he switched to his new job as head of security.
  • Papa Wolf:
    • In Far From Home he more or less becomes one to Peter, Ned, MJ, Betty, and Flash. In the latter four, he does everything in his limited power to keep out of harm's way during the attack in London.
    • In No Way Home, he allows May and Peter to move in with him due to the fallout of the latter's outing. He later valiantly draws the attention of the Damage Control troops despite them being heavily armed, just to give Peter a chance to escape capture.
  • The Peeping Tom: While driving, he can't resist looking through the rear-view mirror and getting a peek at Black Widow changing into her Spy Catsuit. Unfortunately, he should have been thinking more about driving.
  • Promoted to Love Interest: Inverted. In the comics, he is Pepper's love interest, and eventually her husband. In the films, he isn't, and instead supports Pepper and Tony being together. There remains one hint of his attraction to Pepper, though; note the Downton Abbey scene he's seen watching. Happy tries to play this trope straight with May Parker in Far From Home, but by No Way Home, he is once again single, and he gets no chance to rekindle the relationship, as May dies at the hands of Green Goblin.
  • Properly Paranoid: His suspicion about Killian and his men leads him to follow the trail of their plot.
  • Rules Lawyer: After becoming head of Stark Industries security, he's an incredible stickler for protocol, namely everyone wearing their ID badges visibly on their torso. He takes a 300% increase in HR complaints as a sign of accomplishment.
  • Sharp-Dressed Man: He always wears a suit because he's a high-ranking member of Stark Industries. He has to look professional.
  • Shipper on Deck:
    • Calls Pepper "the best thing that's ever happened to [Tony]", and is concerned about her possibly falling for Killian if Tony continues to neglect her. In Spider-Man: Homecoming, it's revealed that he's been carrying around an engagement ring for Tony to give to Pepper since 2008. That was before they even became a couple!
    • For Peter and MJ as well. Before the final fight in London in Far From Home, Peter asks him to deliver the black dahlia necklace he bought for MJ to her in case something happens to the former. Happy refuses, insisting Peter's going to be just fine and wanting him to give it to her instead. Circumstances do eventually lead to him giving MJ the necklace offscreen, though, and it turns out to be the final piece needed to finally prod her to confess her feelings for Peter. In No Way Home, when he walks in on Peter and MJ apparently about to have sex (they weren’t, MJ was trying to calm Peter down while he was changing in a panic), Happy immediately averts his eyes and awkwardly insists he didn’t see anything, and like May, encourages them to carry on safely.
  • Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: To Peter for most of Homecoming, as it is quite clear he does not like playing babysitter. He becomes friendlier after Peter incidentally saves his job.
  • Spanner in the Works: Before he slips into a coma, he points towards the dogtags of the exploded Extremis soldier, thus giving Tony a lead on why the bombs the Mandarin uses leave no trace.
  • Spared by the Adaptation: In the comics, he was rendered brain dead during the events of Civil War and was mercy killed. While he does fall into a coma as a result of an Extremis-fueled explosion in Iron Man 3, he recovers and is still alive after the MCU's version of Civil War.
  • Time-Passage Beard:
    • Inverted. In 1999, he had a beard and longer hair, but shaved off both in the present.
    • Played Straight come Endgame, where he's shown with a goatee following the 5 year Time Skip.
  • Too Much Information: When everyone else is sharing personal information, thinking they're about to die, Happy confesses that he's in love with Spider-Man's aunt. Cue everyone giving him weird looks in silence. It mainly stems from the fact that it is both weird to say out loud, and that nobody knew him until then.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: In regards to Peter. Initially, he was apathetic to Peter at best, and outright mean to him at worst, and the climactic fight between him and Vulture only happened because he refused to listen him. When it turned out that Peter was right and was sincerely trying to warn him, and following the events of Infinity War and Endgame, Happy is much more reasonable and kind to Peter and helps him and his classmates out when possible. He even becomes a surrogate father to him, and had a chance to become his uncle.
  • Transplant: From Tony's supporting cast to Peter's. Initially, he was an obstruction more than anything, but come Far From Home, he's a full example. In essence, he shifted from his boss to his boss' protégé.
  • Watching the Reflection Undress: When Black Widow changes into her Spy Catsuit in the back of his car. Happy spies on her with the rear view mirror and nearly crashes the car. She catches him and tells him to keep his eyes on the road.

    J.A.R.V.I.S. 

J.A.R.V.I.S.

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Species: Artificial Intelligence

Affiliation(s): Stark Industries, Avengers

Voiced By: Paul Bettany, Milton Wolch (Latin-American Spanish dub), Víctor Iturrioz (European Spanish dub), Yasuyuki Kase (Japanese dub)

Appearances: Iron Man | Iron Man 2 | The Avengers | Iron Man 3 | Avengers: Age of Ultron

"As you wish, sir. I've also prepared a safety briefing for you to entirely ignore."

An extremely advanced A.I. developed by Tony Stark. J.A.R.V.I.S. assists Tony in just about everything the billionaire develops, has complete functional control of various terminals and robots Tony owns, and in a lot of ways is Tony's house. J.A.R.V.I.S. also serves as the operating system for the Iron Man suit through an up-link, essentially making him the other half of Iron Man.

For tropes relating to the Vision, see MCU: Vision.


  • Adaptation Distillation: The "Tony's A.I. butler" concept dates back to Iron Man: The Animated Series. So he goes through two alternate media before making his way to the comic books.
  • A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Averted. Not only is J.A.R.V.I.S. both competent and eloquent, he's constantly having back and forth banter with Tony.
  • A.I. Roulette: One of his robots (supposedly, Tony's first) is incredibly incompetent. Tony describes it as a "tragedy".
  • Animated Armor: In a pinch, he can take direct control of Tony's armor. During the climax of Iron Man 3, Jarvis controls most of Tony's suits on his own; since Tony isn't wearing them or controlling them directly, they speak and behave with Jarvis' own voice and personality.
  • Benevolent A.I.:
  • Came Back Strong: Invoked. After Ultron destroys J.A.R.V.I.S., his salvaged personality is uploaded into Vision.
  • Canon Character All Along: When he becomes the Vision.
  • Canon Immigrant: Eventually his popularity got him into the comics.
  • Clone by Conversion: Inverted. Vision's body was originally created for a copy of Ultron's mind to inhibit, but J.A.R.V.I.S's mainframe being uploaded into it instead transforms the synthezoid into a brand-new individual separate from Ultron's personality traits.
  • Composite Character: Though he was originally created as a modernized version of Edwin Jarvis, his role as Tony's A.I. is also similar to H.O.M.E.R. from the 1990s comics. He also gains the traits of another character when he becomes the Vision.
  • Dead Guy Junior: Revealed in the canon tie-in comics and Agent Carter: J.A.R.V.I.S. is named and programmed after the personality/voice of a once real-life Jarvis that served the Stark family when Tony was a child.note  Tony privately admits that the human Jarvis was the only one who was ever really there for him growing up.
  • Deadpan Snarker:
    [Shows Tony a gold Mark III render]
    Tony: A little ostentatious, don't you think?
    Jarvis: What was I thinking? You're usually so discreet.
    Tony: Tell you what, throw a little hotrod red in there.
    Jarvis: Yes, that should help you keep a low profile.
  • Death of Personality: In a sense. Once J.A.R.V.I.S is uploaded into the synthezoid body and is given lightning power by Thor to come to life, J.A.R.V.I.S ceases to exist as his code merges with the Mind Stone and becomes part of a new being known as the Vision.
    Vision: I'm not Ultron. I'm not...J.A.R.V.I.S. either. I am.
  • Decomposite Character: Initially, J.A.R.V.I.S. was written as a modernized version of the character of Edwin Jarvis. Later on in the setting, it was revealed that Edwin was actually a butler for both Howard and Tony Stark, and though he passed away, J.A.R.V.I.S. was created in his memory.
  • Fun with Acronyms: His name stands for "Just A Rather Very Intelligent System".
  • Gadgeteer Genius: He's a computer A.I., fully capable of engineering components himself and carrying out other complex tasks.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: The majority of his programming is destroyed when he tries to stop the seconds-old Ultron, and he dedicates the rest of it to keeping Ultron away from every nuclear launch code in the world. The little that remains is then made into the Vision.
  • Hive Mind: Whenever he's controlling robots directly, they all function as one entity, even speaking in unison at one point. He's even able to operate forty of Tony's Iron Man armors at once.
  • The Jeeves: He's basically a digital British butler.
  • Legacy Character: The appearance of the real Edwin Jarvis strongly hints the A.I. is this to him.
  • Master Computer: J.A.R.V.I.S. assists in just about every aspect of Tony's life. Averted in that J.A.R.V.I.S. is generally nice and compliant, albeit sarcastic as hell and prone to questioning his creator's more reckless stunts.
  • Mythology Gag: The name references Edwin Jarvis, the Avengers' butler in the comics.
  • Nice Guy: Fiercely loyal to Tony, as shown when he asks him if he'd like to call Pepper before heading for what looks like certain death.
  • Servile Snarker: He's quite sarcastic, no doubt about it, but loyal to Tony nonetheless.
  • Shipper on Deck: For Tony and Pepper. When Tony is apparently about to die in The Avengers, it's J.A.R.V.I.S. who suggests that he call Pepper to say goodbye.
  • Took a Level in Badass: In the third movie, Tony gets J.A.R.V.I.S. to operate an entire legion of Iron Man armors. They have their own advantages for being unmanned Animated Armor, thus reducing the disadvantage of their Conservation of Ninjutsu status. Their parts can be detached and re-attached at J.A.R.V.I.S.'s will anytime. Heck, they can still move and kick asses even after some of them are beheaded!

    F.R.I.D.A.Y. 

F.R.I.D.A.Y.

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Species: Artificial Intelligence

Affiliation(s): Stark Industries, Avengers

Voiced By: Kerry Condon, Cony Madera (Latin-American Spanish dub), Danai Querol (European Spanish dub), Eri Yasui (Japanese dub)

Appearances: Avengers: Age of Ultron | Captain America: Civil War | Spider-Man: Homecoming | Avengers: Infinity War | Avengers: Endgame

F.R.I.D.A.Y. is Tony Stark's new artificial intelligence computer system. She was first used during the Battle of Sokovia.


  • Affectionate Nickname: She called Tony "Boss" rather than "Mr. Stark" as J.A.R.V.I.S. did.
  • Artificial Intelligence: Tony uses her as his new A.I. to run his armor after J.A.R.V.I.S. is uploaded into Vision. And as of Endgame, she operates as the A.I. for Rescue.
  • Awesomeness by Analysis: During the climactic fight of Civil War, F.R.I.D.A.Y. scans Cap's fighting style and finds an opening for her boss to exploit in a matter of seconds. This turns the tide of the fight for Tony.
  • Benevolent A.I.: Just like J.A.R.V.I.S. she is a helpful and heroic artificial intelligence.
  • Consummate Professional: She is much less snarky than JARVIS and isn't really adorkable like Karen, and does most of her boss's orders professionally like an actual Girl Friday.
  • Creepy Monotone: While normally fairly animated, she briefly slips into this when telling Tony that "Sokovia is going for a ride...", to chilling effect.
  • Deadpan Snarker: As a female counterpart of J.A.R.V.I.S., this is to be expected.
  • Distaff Counterpart: She's J.A.R.V.I.S. with the voice of a woman.
  • Fun with Acronyms: Female Replacement Intelligent Digital Assistant Youth.
  • Girl Friday: She's literally called F.R.I.D.A.Y., and in the comics, she's named after this very term.
  • Mythology Gag: In Civil War, Tony mentions that he pictures her as a redhead. In the comics, F.R.I.D.A.Y. is able to project a holographic avatar of herself, and sure enough, she's a redhead.
  • Replacement Goldfish: Tony seems to regard her as one for both J.A.R.V.I.S. and Pepper, what with the Girl Friday name and picturing her as a redhead, and also with the word "replacement" literally being part of her name.
  • Servile Snarker: Much like J.A.R.V.I.S., while she snarks at Tony, she is also completely loyal to him.

    Dum-E 

Dum-E

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Species: Artificial Intelligence (Robot)

Affiliation(s): Stark Industries

Portrayed By: N/A

Appearances: Iron Man | Iron Man 2 | Iron Man 3 | Spider-Man: Homecoming | Spider-Man: No Way Home

"If you douse me again and I'm not on fire, I'm donating you to a city college."
Tony Stark

A mechanized arm robot with a primitive sentient A.I. Tony built while at MIT that functions as a shop assistant to build his armors.


  • Artificial Intelligence: Not nearly as advanced as J.A.R.V.I.S or F.R.I.D.A.Y. It can't talk, it has trouble following instructions and isn't particularly brilliant (hence Tony calling it "Dum-E"), but it's nonetheless capable of showing feelings like disappointment and joy, following orders and has the initiative to save Tony by handing him his arc reactor. Overall, Dum-E is more akin to a loyal dog than a butler.
  • The Cameo: Briefly appears in Spider-Man: Homecoming.
  • Good Old Robot: Though its technology is definitely primitive compared to the progressively complex, grandiose and revolutionary tech Tony came up with later in his life, he kept this robot around, despite regularly threatening to scrap it.
  • Improbable Infant Survival: Just like how the trope can apply to pets, it applies to Dum-E, who is shown at the end of Iron Man 3 in a trailer behind Tony's car, having survived the collapse of the house. He's operational again in Spider-Man: Homecoming.
  • Just in Time: He saves Tony when Stane takes his reactor out of his chest. Tony collapses before he can grab his original reactor. As it looks like Tony won't make it, Dum-E presents to him the reactor it grabbed off the table.
  • Punny Name: Its name is clearly a pun on "Dummy." Tony even gives it an Dunce Cap in Iron Man 3.
  • Robot Buddy: Functions as sort of one for Tony, especially when he's working in his workshop.
  • Running Gag:
    • In the first film, Dum-E manning the fire extinguisher while Tony works on his armors and being way too enthusiastic about spraying him with it.
    • A darker running gag is it being a victim of the location it's in getting blown up. First in Iron Man 3 when Tony's house is destroyed by AIM, but Dum-E is shown to have survived and been salvaged in Spider-Man: Homecoming as part of the Avengers supplies being shipped from the Tower to the new Avengers Compound... which was bombed into rubble by Thanos in Avengers: Endgame. Dum-E survived THAT as well, making it to Happy's apartment in Spider-Man: No Way Home. Which is ALSO blown up by Green Goblin. Its current fate is unknown although given how Dum-E survived two OTHER home bombings...
  • Those Two Guys: With U, a similar robot arm.
  • The Unintelligible: It "speaks" via various hums that make its mood and intent known.

    Dr. Ho Yinsen 

Dr. Ho Yinsen

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"Don't waste it... don't waste your life, Stark."

Species: Human

Citizenship: Afghan

Portrayed By: Shaun ToubForeign voice actors 

Appearances: Iron Man | Iron Man 3 note 

"So, you're a man who has everything, but nothing."

An Afghan physicist who saves Tony Stark's life, and brings out his true potential.


  • A-Team Firing: It's justified because he's a doctor and likely has no combat experience. The novelisation explains because he's a doctor and holds life as precious even in the hellhole he's in.
  • Adaptation Name Change: A minor one. In the comics Ho is his family and Yinsen was his given name. They switched it for the film.
  • Adaptational Nationality: He's Vietnamese in the comics, but is an Afghan here. Justified in a case of Real Life Writes the Plot - at the time the comics were written, the Vietnam War was the major conflict on Americans' minds, whereas the Afghanistan War and the War on Terror were the big issues of the 2000s and the early New Tens.
  • Age Lift: He's visibly much younger than his comics counterpart who's an old man.
  • Call-Forward: Appears in the opening scene of Iron Man 3, a flashback to New Year's Eve 1999. He tries to introduce himself to Tony at a party but is brushed off — an event he referenced during their first conversation in Iron Man.
  • Death by Origin Story: The only difference between the film version of Iron Man and the various comic origins is that Dr. Yinsen is now a Pashtun. He's still a respected colleague, and he still sacrifices himself to allow Tony to escape.
  • Death Seeker: Wanted to die so he can be reunited with his family, but not before helping Stark escape and become a better man.
  • Doomed Hometown: Yinsen mentions hailing from a village called Gulmira. Guess where Raza decides to test his brand new Stark Industries toys?
  • Firing in the Air a Lot: When he and Tony make their escape attempt, he does this to buy Tony more time. He's not even aiming at the terrorists, he just shoot his guns skywards while screaming and running after them. Once they realize he has no intention of firing at them...
  • Heroic Sacrifice: He sacrifices himself to buy Tony time to activate his first Iron Man suit.
  • Last-Name Basis: With Tony. Justified in that he never tells Tony his first name in the first film. In Yinsen's cameo at the start of Iron Man 3 he tells him his first name is "Ho", but Tony doesn't remember the meeting years later.
  • The Medic: He's a skilled and resourceful field surgeon. He is capable to remove much of the shrapnel from Tony Stark's body, and helped keep him alive long enough to build an electromagnet piece in his chest to keep the remaining shrapnel from entering his heart.
  • MacGyvering: Gerry rigged an electromagnet out of a car battery for Tony's heart. It won't last long, but it gives Tony enough time to patch together a unique upgrade.
  • Mentor Occupational Hazard: He teaches and inspires Tony when he was at his lowest. He later dies to ensure Tony would live.
  • Nice Guy: An upstanding doctor.
  • Outliving One's Offspring: He had a child who was killed alongside his wife by terrorists.
  • The Paragon: He is the main reason for Tony's Heel–Face Turn.
  • The Power of Acting: How he keeps Tony alive for a while when they are in captivity, acting as though he were on the side of the Ten Rings when the members are present.
  • Race Lift: He's Vietnamese in the comics, even when Tony's origin isn't tied to the Vietnam war. Amusingly, this means the MCU Yinsen still has an East Asian name despite being of Middle Eastern descent (Shaun Toub is Iranian).
  • Small Role, Big Impact: Major. He only appeared for a small part of the original Iron Man and made a brief cameo in Iron Man 3. He shares almost as much responsibility for the creation of Iron Man (and by extension the entire MCU) as Tony himself- not only by keeping Tony alive, but by driving him to become a better person. This one man led to Tony Stark turning to the side of heroes, which helped kickstart The Avengers and gave Tony the courage to make that final snap. Tony Stark saved the universe, but Ho Yinsen made it possible.
  • Together in Death: In his final moments, Yinsen expresses hope that he will reunite with his family in the afterlife.

    Harley Keener 

Harley Keener

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"Admit it, you need me. We're connected."
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Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Portrayed By: Ty SimpkinsForeign voice actors 

Appearances: Iron Man 3 | Avengers: Endgame

A kid Tony meets in Rose Hill, Tennessee, who lets him use his garage/workshop to hide the Iron Man armor.


  • Batman in My Basement: Or Iron Man in his garage.
  • The Bus Came Back: He reappears 6 years after his first appearance in Avengers: Endgame, which is chronologically 10 years after the events of Iron Man 3. He's one of the 40-odd people at Tony Stark's funeral.
  • Canon Foreigner: He had no comic book counterpart at the time the movie came out.
  • Canon Immigrant: Harley made his comic book debut in 2021 in W.E.B. of Spider-Man #1.
  • Child Prodigy: While not as smart as Tony or later Peter, there are hints that Harley is fairly intelligent and technologically inclined for his age. His potato gun is impressive for something he built by himself and he suggests improvements to the Iron Man suit.
  • Deliberately Cute Child: Harley unsuccessfully tries to manipulate Tony into staying by comparing Tony to Harley's disappeared father and then saying in a cute voice that he's cold.
  • Disappeared Dad: He went out for lottery tickets six years ago. He must've won because he never came back.
  • From the Mouths of Babes: He says a lot of things that Tony would normally be angry at people for, especially repeatedly invoking his Shell-Shocked Veteran panic attacks. However, since he's a kid, Tony mostly takes it in stride as best as he can, and it is Harley's help that allows him to break through the aforementioned Shell-Shocked Veteran status. Basically, Harley gives Tony a taste of his own medicine in regards to Tony's constant pushing the envelope of acceptable behavior (like lightly zapping Dr. Banner in The Avengers).
  • Human Shield: Gets captured and used as one by Eric Savin. With some prompting by Tony, he breaks out by using a Chekhov's Gun flashbang Tony gave him earlier in the movie.
  • Innocently Insensitive: Even after he sees how badly Tony reacts to it, he repeatedly pushes Tony to tell him about New York.
  • Kid Sidekick: He provides assistance to Tony when he's off-the-grid but when it really gets dangerous, Tony tells Harley to go home and not put himself at risk. He does reward Harley for his help, however, with an upgraded potato gun and an upgraded workshop to go with it.
  • Mouthy Kid: Gives Tony a taste of his own medicine in the banter and snarkiness department.
  • Parental Substitute: According to Ty Simpkins, Tony and Harley kept in touch after the events of Iron Man 3 and Harley grew to see Tony as a father figure, which explains why he was at Tony's funeral.
  • Tag Along Kid: Defied. Harley tries to guilt-trip Tony to leave Tennessee with him, but he mocks the idea and drives away.

Steve Rogers, Bucky Barnes and Sam Wilson's Allies

    WWII 

    Lt. Joaquín Torres 

First Lieutenant Joaquin Torres

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"So, I don't know how jurisdiction works here, but I'm gonna have to place you under arrest!"

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): USAF

Portrayed By: Danny Ramirez

Appearances: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier | Captain America Brave New World

Falcon's man on the ground in the Air Force.


  • Adaptational Nationality: Possibly. In the comics, Joaquín is Mexican and came to the United States as a child, but never gained legal citizenship. Here, it's not clear if he's still a DREAMer like the comics or if he's a full-fledged US Citizen.
  • Adaptational Job Change: Is a USAF intelligence officer. He had no military connections in the comics, and was actually pretty against the military and police.
  • Age Lift: He's a teenager in the comics, but is an adult here.
  • Ambiguous Situation: His interest in the Flag-Smashers, particularly his comment about how you can "understand why people would agree with them". He pointedly says that they're wrong about how the world was better during the Blip and is working to bring them down, but it's possible to interpret his aforementioned comment as a sign that he does agree with their ideals; he just doesn't think that their goals justify their means. His comic self would have agreed with them, which adds some fuel to it.
  • Bulletproof Vest: He wears this as part of his standard military armor.
  • Dressing as the Enemy: Pretends to be part of the Flag-Smashers in the first episode of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier by putting on one of their masks to discover what's going on. He attempts to arrest who he thinks is the leader of the group, but is easily subdued—a loss justified by the fact that he was completely unaware that the Flag-Smashers are actually a group of radical Super Soldiers.
  • Eye Scream: His attempt to arrest a Flag-Smasher in the first episode gets him knocked out by getting stomped in the head so hard that his orbital bone got broken.
  • Genocide Survivor: He survived the Snap, which is why he disagrees with the Flag-Smashers' belief that the world was a better place before the Blip brought back half the universe's population.
  • Legacy Character: Sam leaves his damaged wingsuit with Joaquín, setting the stage for him to take up Sam's old mantle as he goes on to become Captain America.
  • Nice Guy: He's fairly close to Sam Wilson, to whom he acts as a hyperactive little brother of sorts; greets Bucky in a friendly manner and expresses how happy he is that Bucky survived his parachute-less skydive; and goes out of his way to inform Sam about the threat the Flag-Smashers pose.

Thor Odinson's Allies

    Jane Foster / Mighty Thor 

    Dr. Darcy Lewis 

Dr. Darcy Lewis

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"Myeuh-muh? What's Myeuh-muh?"

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Culver University (formerly)

Portrayed By: Kat DenningsForeign voice actors 

Appearances: Thor | Thor: The Dark World | WandaVision | Thor: Love and Thunder

"I am not dying for six college credits!"

A political scientist and intern with astrophysicists Jane Foster and Erik Selvig. Later becomes an astrophysicist herself.


  • Alternate Self: On Earth-72124.
  • And I Must Scream: Much like everyone else within the Hex, Darcy's personality is overwritten as she's "cast" as an escape artist. Thankfully, Vision undoes Wanda's control over her minutes after she's reintroduced.
  • Ascended Fangirl:
    • Downplayed, but in WandaVision, Darcy admits she's a big fan of Monica Rambeau's while working alongside her.
    • She also becomes this to Wanda and Vision when she gets sucked into their Show Within a Show, admitting to Vision that she was hoping for a "guest shot" on the show and revealing herself as a Shipper on Deck for the couple.
  • Audience Surrogate:
    • In WandaVision, she, Woo, and the other Agents of S.W.O.R.D. essentially take on this role when observing the titular sitcom, asking some of the same questions the real life audience has been asking. However, both she and Woo become the most invested in the sitcom aspect, especially when Wanda gives birth to twins.
    • In the first two Thor films, she is The Watson and Shipper on Deck, tying into this (see listings below).
  • Bespectacled Cutie: In the Thor films, she sometimes wears glasses, which adds to her dork-y nature. As of WandaVision, she wears glasses full-time with slightly thicker-looking frames, which could also now very well make her a case of Blind Without 'Em.
  • Big Damn Kiss: Has one of these with Ian after he saves her from Dark Elves by smashing them with a Convergence-affected car. Ends up dropping him when Jane sees them.
  • Brainy Brunette: Like Jane she's a scientist, albeit a political one. Then WandaVision revealed she switched majors in the intervening ten years and she's now got a PhD in astrophysics. Hilariously, this means she has two degrees just like Jane.
  • Brutal Honesty: She tends to say whatever she thinks without worrying about it.
    Darcy: [trying to comfort Jane about Thor having left] He's gonna come back. Except, you know, last time he was gone for like two years.
  • Bunny-Ears Lawyer: As WandaVision shows, she's become a highly competent astrophysicist, easily figuring out what's going on with Westview. The doctorate seems to have had no effect on her personality, though; she's still the Deadpan Snarker Plucky Comic Relief she was in the Thor films.
  • The Bus Came Back:
    • Darcy makes her first MCU appearance in eight years in 2021's WandaVision as an astrophysicist consulting for S.W.O.R.D; the character was last seen in 2013's Thor: The Dark World.
    • She and the other human supporting characters of the Thor-franchise were not included in the third movie. She makes a quick cameo in Thor: Love and Thunder near the beginning of the movie showing she's still friends with Jane.
  • Canon Foreigner: Darcy was an original character created for the films. She eventually became a Canon Immigrant, with a Marvel Universe comic version appearing in Scarlet Witch - but that was over a decade after her first appearance in Thor.
  • Car Fu: She takes out Hayward in the finale of WandaVision by ramming his jeep with the circus van she stole.
  • Combat Pragmatist: She doesn't wait for Thor to finish his boast; she tases him immediately.
    What?! He was freaking me out!
  • Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Coupled with Badass Adorable. Because Darcy is mostly a nerdy and cute comic relief character, we can forget she's one of the few humans who was able to get down the Norse thunder god and king-to-be of Asgard Thor with just a taser ironically. Also in WandaVision, she gives a mean punch to a circus strongman.
  • Deadpan Snarker: On occassion, usually as a reaction to Jane's For Science! attitude. She still has this in spades by the events of WandaVision, too.
    Darcy: I am not getting stabbed in the name of science.
  • Defensive "What?":
    • After she tases Thor and Jane and Erik react with horror, she retaliates with: "What?! He was freaking me out!"
    • In WandaVision when Jimmy Woo gives her a disbelieving look at her emotional reaction to Wanda giving birth to twins, she says this.
      Darcy: What? I'm invested!
  • Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: She hits Physical God Thor with a taser. Bonus points for the irony. Although, of course, Thor was depowered at the time.
  • The Dog Bites Back: In WandaVision Episode 7, after she's sucked into the Hex, she punches out the very same agent, now a circus strongman, that handcuffed her to the car before Wanda expanded it.
  • Dramatic Drop: A cup of noodles slips from her hands when she sees Monica playing the role of "Geraldine" within the Hex.
  • Dressing as the Enemy: She takes the uniform of one of the S.W.O.R.D. agents knocked out by Jimmy and Monica to sneak back into the S.W.O.R.D. base.
  • Expert Consultant: S.W.O.R.D. recruits her to examine the Westview anomaly because of her talent as an astrophysicist.
  • First-Name Basis: She's only referred by her first name in the Thor films. Subverted in WandaVision, where she is referred to by her last name several times.
  • Fun Personified: Most of her scenes have her nonchalantly doing or saying something funny.
  • Genius Ditz: Doesn't get most of what Jane and Eric talk about, but she's the one to point out that primitive humans could have mistaken people like Thor for gods. Darcy is also the one who spots the Thor-shaped silhouette in Jane's pictures of the Bifrost opening.
  • Genocide Survivor: Her actress reveals that the producers of WandaVision told her that she survived the Snap.
  • In-Series Nickname: She is the one who comes up with the "Hex" name for the barrier around Westview, inspired by its hexagonally patterned shaping.
  • Last-Second Word Swap: She likely meant to say "fuck" before entering the Hex, but it got turned to "fudge" before she could finish her sentence.
  • Malaproper: She's completely unable to pronounce "Mjölnir."
  • Moment Killer: She has a habit of interrupting Jane whenever she's trying to have a romantic moment. She is perfectly aware of it and finds it quite funny.
  • Nice, Mean, and In-Between: For the trio in WandaVision, she best fits the Mean. While (except for Hayward) she doesn't actively antagonize most people, she always has an unnecessary smart remark prepared. Best exemplified when she gladly throws out an insult towards Hayward in response to Jimmy deciding to relent from doing so. That being said, she is still a moral character beyond her outer layer of snark.
    Jimmy: I try not to speak ill of people...
    Darcy: Then allow me. Hayward's a di-
  • Not That Kind of Doctor: She was a student majoring in political science, not astrophysics (she became Jane's assistant because she was the only one who applied for the job). Not so much the case anymore as of WandaVision, where it's revealed that she eventually got a doctorate in astrophysics herself, and is helping S.W.O.R.D figure out what's happening in Westview.
  • Odd Friendship:
    • Has this with Jane in the Thor films, the calmer and yet also more hotblooded astrophysicist.
    • WandaVision has her hitting it off with FBI agent Jimmy Woo, getting invested in the Show Within a Show together, while simultaneously working to find out what's going on in Westview.
  • Oh, Crap!: Has this reaction when she's sucked into The Hex at the end of Episode 6.
    Darcy: Oh, fudge--!
  • Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Has degrees in both political science and astrophysics.
  • Plucky Comic Relief: From the tasing to the "pretty cut" line, she has comedy covered.
  • Shipper on Deck: Dennings described her as such:
    Kat Dennings: She loves Jane, she really wants Jane and Thor to be together. It's almost like her own little soap opera that she watches.
    • Also in WandaVision where Darcy slowly gets invested in the show being broadcasted of the two. She even coos at the twins after Wanda gives birth. When she meets Vision after getting enveloped by the Hex and he manages to recover her memories, Darcy assures him that despite his confusion over his own lost memories, the love he and Wanda have for one another is definitely genuine.
  • Smart People Wear Glasses: Averted. She's the only character who wears glasses, but whenever something scientific needs to be explained she's never the first person anyone turns to since her field of study is political science. Later played straight in WandaVision, as she's since become a doctor of astrophysics, and is the one to figure out how to see what's going on in Westview.
  • Static Stun Gun: Tases a Brought Down to Normal Thor.
  • Took a Level in Badass: In the decade between Thor: The Dark World and WandaVision, Darcy chose to double major and is an astrophysicist in addition to her earlier work, becoming the go-to person for S.W.O.R.D. where dimensional shifts are concerned. It reaches its peak when she arrives in the nick of time to stop Hayward from escaping the town square after his attempted murder of Monica, Billy, and Tommy.
  • The Watson: As she's a student of political science, she requires Selvig and Jane to explain the Techno Babble to her for the audience's benefit. Ends up being reversed in WandaVision, where she ends up being the one to explain things to everyone else, including Vision himself.
  • They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: In WandaVision when Agent Monti refers to her as "Ms. Lewis", she is quick to correct him to Dr. Lewis.
  • Two First Names: "Darcy" and "Lewis" are both viable to be used as given names.

    Dr. Erik Selvig 

Dr. Erik Selvig

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"There is nothing more reassuring than realizing that the world is crazier than you are."

Species: Human

Citizenship: Norwegian-American

Affiliation(s): Culver University (formerly), University of London (formerly), S.H.I.E.L.D.

Portrayed By: Stellan SkarsgårdForeign voice actors 

Appearances: Thor | The Avengers | Thor: The Dark World | Avengers: Age of Ultron | Spider-Man: Far From Home note  | Thor: Love and Thunder

"It's not a bad thing finding out that you don't have all the answers. You start asking the right questions."

An astrophysicist and college professor working with Jane Foster on studying wormhole anomalies. He suspects Thor of being crazy because he recognizes all of his stories from childhood, but in the end, Selvig helped him out — specifically by creating a fake identity for him as "Donald Blake." Was brainwashed by Loki in The Avengers, and is shown to be still affected by the experience in The Dark World.


  • Agent Scully: Never believed any of the supernatural aspects of Thor because they sounded too much like the stories he heard as a child. Repeatedly points this out to Jane. His expression when he sees Thor reclaim his powers has to be seen to be believed.
  • Alternate Self: On Earth-72124.
  • Ambiguous Situation: Following the events of Avengers: Infinity War, his status of being dead or alive was left unclear, and he is listed among those missing in Avengers: Endgame. However, a tie-in novel explains that he was spared by Thanos, and his "missing" status is like Scott Lang's in that it's for reasons other than being killed by Thanos's snap.
  • Bad Liar: In Thor, when he explained "Dr. Donald Blake" to Coulson, you can tell that Son of Coul easily sees through all his lies.
  • Big Damn Heroes: At the end of Dark World, saves Thor and Jane from being crushed by Malekith's ship by using the tech he invented to open a portal above them. As an added bonus, he ends up teleporting it right on top of Malekith, finishing him off for good. Not bad for a guy who had to be busted out of a psychiatric hospital earlier that day.
  • Brainwashed and Crazy: Loki somehow influences his actions in the stinger of Thor, then gives him the full Chitauri scepter treatment in The Avengers. When he "wakes up", he's very unhappy.
  • The Bus Came Back: After being last seen in Avengers: Age of Ultron he has a quick cameo in Thor: Love and Thunder via video calling with Jane.
  • Canon Foreigner: He didn't exist in the comics prior to being introduced in the first Thor film.
  • Canon Immigrant: He was incorporated into the comics in Avengers Standoff.
  • Can't Hold His Liquor: Double subverted. He can definitely hold his liquor, but getting into a drinking contest against Thor himself, the God of Boisterous Bruisers, even when the latter is Brought Down to Badass? You lose that one.
    Thor: We drank, we fought. He made his ancestors proud!
  • Cloudcuckoolander: He became cooky and silly in Dark World due to his experiences in The Avengers.
  • Cool Old Guy: As shown by his behavior when at the bar with Thor.
  • Evil Genius: Of Loki's group in The Avengers, though not by choice.
  • Fighting from the Inside: Was doing this when under Loki's control, making his scepter the key to closing the Chitauri portal, as he explains to Black Widow after being broken out by Iron Man.
  • For Science!: Under Loki's influence, Selvig takes an interest in the Tesseract when Fury comes to recruit him for S.H.I.E.L.D, and is thoroughly fascinated by its behavior and abilities.
  • Go Mad from the Revelation: Becomes unhinged in The Dark World as a result of being brainwashed by Loki, which had the specific effect of dumping a massive amount of knowledge on him. On a more mundane level, the undoing of it (getting thrown 30 feet by a small explosion and hitting his head really hard) on a man likely in his sixties probably helped make it worse.
  • Hourglass Plot: In both The Avengers and Thor: The Dark World, his experience with cosmic happenings has taken him far away from his rationalist origins.
  • Irony: Started as a rationalist, down-to-earth scientist skeptical about mythical resonances to cosmic events, then he eventually becomes a Cloudcuckoolander with his reputation in tatters (though it seems to have recovered by Age of Ultron - getting his sanity back probably helped). He has a speech about it in Thor: The Dark World after which he becomes functional again.
  • Killed Offscreen: Endgame reveals that he was among the billions killed by the Snap as seen when his photo and info were among the casualties list in the Avengers Compound.
  • Last-Name Basis: Gets referred to as Selvig more than Erik.
  • Mad Scientist: When he's brainwashed by Loki, Selvig goes from being calm and rational to gleeful and fanatic about the Tesseract's abilities. When Iron Man confronts him at Stark Tower, Selvig outright brags that it's too late to stop the Chitauri Invasion, and expresses eagerness to see "a brand new universe".
  • Mentor Archetype: To Jane, and later to Thor in Thor as he guides both of them in different ways.
  • Naked Nutter: Left unhinged as a result of Loki's brainwashing, he ends up getting arrested - on camera - at Stonehenge after stripping down naked and loudly haranguing tourists.
  • Naked People Are Funny: In The Dark World he runs around Stonehenge without a scrap of clothing.
  • Papa Wolf: Has shades of this towards Jane such as telling Thor not to hurt her. He's also this to Darcy.
  • Parental Substitute: He is this to Jane, who lost both her parents at a very young age.
  • Put on a Bus: Doesn't appear in Thor: Ragnarok, despite prominent roles in the first two films. The same applies to all of the human cast of the Thor movies, with Jane just getting a quick mention.
  • Reluctant Mad Scientist: When mind-controlled by Loki to work on the Chitauri portal.
  • Sanity Slippage: In The Dark World due to the effects of Loki messing with his mind.
  • Sanity Strengthening: He's back to his old self by the time of Age of Ultron.
  • The Smart Guy: Recruited by Fury to be a big thinker for S.H.I.E.L.D. and Loki took advantage of this by poaching him for his own team.

    Ian Boothby 

Ian Boothby

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Species: Human

Citizenship: British

Portrayed By: Jonathan HowardForeign voice actors 

Appearances: Thor: The Dark World

Darcy's intern in Thor: The Dark World. Mostly gets dragged around with no idea of what's going on and made to carry things.


    Valkyrie 
See the MCU: Asgard page

    Korg 

Korg

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"Hey man. I'm Korg. This is Miek. We're going to jump on that spaceship and get out of here. Wanna come?"

Species: Kronan

Citizenship: Sakaaran, Asgardian

Affiliation(s): Asgard, Revengers, Guardians of the Galaxy (formerly)

Portrayed By: Taika WaititiForeign voice actors 

Appearances: Thor: Ragnarok | Avengers: Endgame | Thor: Love and Thunder

"The revolution has begun!"

A Kronan gladiator who is imprisoned alongside Thor. After aiding Thor and his forces, Korg would become an honorary Asgardian.


  • Action Dad: He makes a son with another Kronan named Dwayne at the end of Love And Thunder.
  • Adaptation Dye-Job: He's yellow in the comics but bluish-gray in the films, likely to make him resemble the Kronan marauder that previously appeared in Thor: The Dark World, and possibly to make him look less like the Thing.
  • Adaptational Comic Relief: This version of the character is more of a goofball compared to his Cultured Warrior-self in the comics and provides a lot of comic relief in the movies.
  • Adaptational Heroism: Downplayed, but in the comics, he was one of Thor's first opponents. However, he was also a close ally of Hulk in the comics, but in Ragnarok the two barely interact.
  • Adaptation Personality Change: In the comics, he is much more serious and down-to-earth than the goofball he is in the movie.
  • Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: Korg started out as an ally to the Hulk in the Warbound, and only fought Thor. Here the two rarely interact and instead he becomes a close friend of Thor.
  • Alien Arts Are Appreciated: In Avengers: Endgame he's shown playing Fortnite.
  • Aliens of London: He has a thick New Zealand accent, despite being a rock alien.
  • Ascended Extra: Korg has a much larger role in Thor: Love and Thunder than previous films, being The Narrator and one of Thor's companions with both the Guardians of the Galaxy and for most of the movie.
  • Badass Adorable: A sweet and cuddly teddy bear and a goofball who may not like violence, but if given the need to he is still a giant rock monster who can fight Cull Obsidian (the strongest of Thanos's children) to a draw.
  • Bash Siblings: He, Thor, Valkyrie, and Jane Foster become this, as shown in Love and Thunder.
  • Beware the Silly Ones: Korg's a goofball, that's for sure, but he's still a former Sakaaran gladiator. He holds his own against Hela's Berserker army and even after five years of sitting around eating junk food and playing Fortnite, he's on the front lines during the Battle for Earth and even slugs Cull Obsidian in the face.
  • Bizarre Alien Reproduction: In Love and Thunder, he explains to Valkyrie that Kronans reproduce by holding hands over a fire until a new Kronan is formed. They're also capable of Homosexual Reproduction since he has two dads and has a kid with another male Kronan at the end of the movie.
  • Blue Is Heroic: He is bluish-gray and he is a good guy who will fight by his friends' side.
  • Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Korg's laid-back quirkiness can make it easy to forget he's still a trained warrior, but he's quick to remind you when it counts, like the final battle against Hela or the Battle of Earth.
  • Captain Oblivious: He never seems to realize what's going on.
  • Carry a Big Stick: His weapon of choice is a mace that doubles as a blaster rifle.
  • Character Catchphrase: He greets everyone with a nonchalant "Hey man."
  • Cloud Cuckoolander: Possesses a permanently spacey, laid-back, and nonchalant demeanour — even in the midst of battle. He also has a really hard time telling if someone is dead or not, thinking Doug is still alive when he's a half-smashed apart corpse, but telling Thor he accidentally killed Miek when the alien is just passed out in his arms.
  • Creator Cameo: He's portrayed by Taika Waititi, the director of Thor: Ragnarok and Thor: Love and Thunder.
  • Crisis Makes Perfect: Korg claims Thor's goats can be summoned by a special whistle but he can't do it but he successfully managed to summon them by whistling during the fight in Omnipotence City.
  • Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass:
    • Korg is something of a Cloud Cuckoolander and ended up stuck in The Grandmaster's games due to failing to spark a revolution (only his mum and her boyfriend showed up)... but he's lasted long enough in the games to give Thor an idea of what to expect and when given a second opportunity to incite a revolt, actually succeeds.
    • In Endgame, he participates in the final battle against Thanos and even tangles with Cull Obsidian, landing quite an impressive hit with the help of Drax before Giant-Man crushes Cull Obsidian underfoot for them.
  • Everyone Has Standards: Korg might be willing to let Thor spiral into an unhealthy depression because of his failure to stop Thanos, but he gets very uncomfortable when Professor Hulk and Rocket try to discuss the topic to get Thor back to the Avengers compound. Even he knows how painful that moment was for his friend.
  • Four-Fingered Hands: He has four-fingers on each hand which is most visible when he waves at other people.
  • Friend to All Children: The Framing Device of Love and Thunder is him telling the story to a group of kids, and when Thor states he's building a team to rescue the kidnapped Asgardian kids, he calls Korg, "Uncle Korg", implying he's become an Honorary Uncle to them.
  • Freud Was Right: When Thor says he flew when his hammer "pulled me off the ground", Korg replies with a shocked "Oh my God. The hammer pulled you off?" and then shortly after tells Thor "Sounds like you had a pretty special and intimate relationship with this hammer and that losing it was almost comparable to losing a loved one."
  • Gaydar: Korg seems to know that Valkyrie is bisexual, and seems to know that she was in a relationship with a woman previously.
  • Genocide Survivor: Endgame reveals that he not only survived Thanos and The Black Order culling half of the inhabitants inside the Statesman but also survived the Snap.
  • Gentle Giant: He's very kind and friendly despite his monstrous appearance. Taika Waititi based his performance on Polynesian bouncers outside New Zealand nightclubs, who were such big men that they didn't need to act aggressive, and so could afford to be friendly and mild-mannered.
  • Gladiator Games: He was a gladiator in the Contest of Champions, forced to warm up the crowd in fights to the death.
  • Homosexual Reproduction: He's the result of this thanks to Kronan biology and Love and Thunder ends with him deciding to have a child with another male Kronan.
  • Honorary Uncle: Has become this to New Asgard's children, based off of Thor calling him "Uncle Korg".
  • Lethal Joke Character: Korg's such a goofy and friendly guy that it can be hard to remember at times that he's still a ferocious and deadly gladiator.
  • Lightning Bruiser: He's a large Kronan but he’s able to run fast enough to be among the Avengers on point during the charge against Thanos’s army, keeping up with Steve, Thor, T’Challa, and fellow Lightning Bruisers M'Baku and Bruce.
  • Losing Your Head: His body is destroyed by Zeus' Thunderbolt, but fortunately he can survive as just a face.
  • Manchild: On Earth, he acted like a college frat boy who plays video games while eating junk food and drinking beer and is easily offended when a boy calls him a dickhead on Fortnite.
  • Manifesto-Making Malcontent: Played for laughs. He was jailed for trying to incite a revolution and says said revolution failed because he didn't make enough pamphlets, so the only people who showed up were his mum and her boyfriend (who he hates).
  • Nice Guy: What makes him stand out among his fellow Kronans who, as seen in Thor: The Dark World and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, are quite violent. It's to the point where when a Fortnite player trash-talks him in Endgame, he's unable to return fire and simply tells Thor to respond in his stead when he recognizes the guy.
  • No Biochemical Barriers: In spite of not possessing a mammalian metabolism like Thor does, Korg along with Miek (sentient rock/stone and insect respectively) are able to get intoxicated by and therefore enjoy alcohol, allowing them to keep Thor company in his five-year drinking and video game binge of grief.
  • Noodle Incident: In the (presumably non-canon) video in which he and Deadpool watch the Free Guy trailer together, Korg claims he was raised by avocados.
  • Only Mostly Dead: Korg appears to die after getting struck by Zeus' Thunderbolt, but it turns out the only part of a kronan essential to their survival is their mouth. As Korg's face survived his body's destruction, he spends the rest of the movie as a talking head and regrows the rest of his body in the epilogue.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In Endgame, he grows noticeably stern when Professor Hulk mentions Thanos in front of Thor, advising him not to say the Mad Titan's name.
  • Parent with New Paramour: He offhandedly mentions that he hates his mom's new boyfriend.
  • Plucky Comic Relief: His quirky personality and Motor Mouth making him one in all his appearances.
  • Primary-Color Champion: Korg is bluish-gray and Thor: Love and Thunder shows him wearing red and blue pants with a yellow/gold belt buckle that is shaped like the head of a goat.
  • Retcon: Korg previously noted that he had a mother in Ragnarok, who was dating a man that he couldn't stand. In Love and Thunder however, Korg apparently was conceived by two Kronan males.
  • Rock Monster: He's made of rocks, but you shouldn't let that intimidate you; unless you're made of scissors.
  • Shoo Out the Clowns: Avengers: Infinity War takes place immediately after Thor: Ragnarok, but he's nowhere to be seen. Initially, his absence led to speculation that he was among the refugees who were murdered by Thanos. Thankfully, it was later revealed that he evacuated the Statesman with the other half of the refugees. He returns in Avengers: Endgame when the drama and violence of Thanos’s blitz had passed, and is in a mostly lighthearted scene when Thor is reintroduced after the Time Skip, and then next appears at the cathartic climactic battle against 2014 Thanos when the mood has improved significantly.
  • Stealth Pun: He's a rock monster whose revolution failed because he didn't make enough pamphlets, and who accidentally crushed his knife-handed friend. In other words, rock beat scissors but lost to paper. Also doubles as a Brick Joke, given that the pamphlet comment happened at the beginning of the second act while the scissors gag happened at the very end of the movie.
  • Those Two Guys: Korg and Miek are rarely seen apart from each other.
  • Toxic Friend Influence: Not intentionally, as he's just too nice and laid-back to be that sort of person. But as shown in Endgame, this same laid-back and nonplussed demeanor actively enables Thor's spiraling into inaction, depression, alcoholism, and...well, dietary slips. Korg simply wants to hang out with his two best friends and play some video games, when Thor needed someone who will say hard truths and snap him back to reality and lead his people.
  • Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Perhaps because of hanging out with Thor, or perhaps just due to his own extremely laid-back nature, his reaction to seeing his god, Ninny of the Nonnie, in Thor: Love and Thunder, is remarkably subdued, more akin to just noticing something that's kind of interesting rather than meeting the literal deity that his people worship.
  • Vocal Dissonance: He has a very soft, gentle voice despite his massive size. Waititi says he based his performance on huge, soft-voiced Maori bouncers he knew back in New Zealand.

    Miek 

Miek

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Species: Sakaarannote 

Citizenship: Sakaaran, Asgardian

Affiliation(s): Asgard, Revengers

Portrayed By: Stephen Murdoch, Carly Rees

Appearances: Thor: Ragnarok | Avengers: Endgame | Thor: Love and Thunder

A Sakaaran gladiator imprisoned alongside Thor and Korg. After aiding Thor and his forces, Miek would become an honorary Asgardian.


  • Action Girl: Revealed to be female in Thor: Love and Thunder, retroactively making all of her prior gladiatorial experience as well as fending off both Hela and Thanos's forces with Thor a testament of her ability.
  • Adaptational Heroism: In the comics, Miek grew into a vengeful Blood Knight who allowed Hulk's ship to explode and devastate Sakaar, setting the events of World War Hulk into motion. None of that happens here, thanks in large part because she's The Voiceless and mostly just follows Korg around.
  • Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: Miek in the comics started out as a friend to Hulk before his Blood Knight tendencies led to them becoming enemies. Here she never interacts with Hulk and is instead a friend of Thor.
  • An Arm and a Leg: Is briefly seen getting both her suit's legs hacked off by Hela's undead warriors.
  • Artificial Limbs: Has robotic arms and legs thanks to her exoskeleton.
  • Beware the Silly Ones: Miek's a maggot in a metal suit, but she's still a former Sakaaran gladiator. She holds her own against Hela's Berserker army and even after five years of sitting around eating junk food and playing Fortnite, she's on the front lines during the Battle for Earth.
  • Blade Below the Shoulder: The arms on her exoskeleton have this.
  • Bunny-Ears Lawyer: The humor in Miek being a squishy maggot makes it easy to forget she's still a trained warrior, but she's quick to remind you when it counts, like the final battle against Hela or the Battle of Earth.
  • Demoted to Extra: After being one of Those Two Guys with Korg for most of their appearances, she's reduced to just a few short scenes in Love and Thunder since she's now working in New Asgard rather than adventuring with Thor.
  • Disney Death: Korg assumes she died when he accidentally stepped on her in battle. Thankfully, she just passed out and wakes up soon after Korg explains her "death" to Thor.
  • Dual Wielding: Uses two bladed limbs in combat.
  • Gender Flip: Miek is male in the comics, and was initially assumed as such due to lines in Thor: Ragnarok and Avengers: Endgame, but Thor: Love and Thunder confirms Miek to be female in the MCU continuity by mention of Valkyrie addressing her as such.
    • This is actually a significant diversion from the comics, in which Miek's race was dying out due to the extinction of their females.
  • Gladiator Games: She was a gladiator in the Contest of Champions, forced to fight to the death.
  • Formerly Fit: Granted, Miek is actually a squishy tardigrade-like creature shoved into an exoskeleton to get her fighting ready, but in Avengers: Endgame she's shown to have become a complete couch potato surrounded by snack foods, and her already puffy frame bloated to capacity as she plays Fortnite with Korg and Thor. The entire time she was on-screen, a pizza slice was hanging out her mandibles.
  • Genocide Survivor: Endgame reveals that she not only survived Thanos and The Black Order culling half of the inhabitants inside the Statesman but also survived the Snap.
  • No Biochemical Barriers: In spite of not possessing a mammalian metabolism that Thor possesses, Miek along with Korg (insect and sentient rock/stone respectively) are able to get intoxicated by and therefore enjoy alcohol, allowing them to keep Thor company during his five-year drinking and video game binge of grief (notably, alcohol is lethal to insects, making Miek's enjoyment of said beverage all the more shocking and hilarious).
  • Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Even while using an exoskeleton to walk and fight, she's still diminutive. Despite this, she's a hardened gladiator who helped fight against Hela and Thanos' invasions.
  • Purple Is Powerful: Along with being a powerful warrior, Miek is colored purple.
  • Samus Is a Girl: Thor: Love and Thunder confirms that despite Korg referring to Miek by male pronouns in Ragnarok, is actually female and confirmed as such by Valkyrie.
  • Satellite Character: Aside from being Korg's best friend as well as being a formidable fighter, there isn't much to talk about Miek.
  • Shoo Out the Clowns: Like Korg, Miek takes a backseat in Infinity War and Endgame, but unlike Korg she stays on the sidelines in Love and Thunder, having taken an administrative roll in New Asgard.
  • Those Two Guys: Miek and Korg are rarely seen apart from each other. This changes in Love and Thunder, where Miek decides to stay on New Asgard while Korg goes adventuring with Thor and his friends.
  • The Voiceless: Doesn't talk, even though she does in the comics, and instead makes squealing noises.
  • You Don't Look Like You: Her design is drastically different from the one in the comics, going from a skinny insect-like humanoid (that later metamorphoses into a hulking insect-like humanoid) to a tardigrade-like alien piloting a suit of arms and legs.

Bruce Banner's Allies

    Dr. Betty Ross 

Dr. Elizabeth "Betty" Ross

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"In the cave, I really felt like it knew me. Maybe your mind is in there, it's just overcharged and can't process what's happening."

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Harvard University (formerly), Culver University

Portrayed By: Liv TylerForeign voice actors 

Appearances: The Incredible Hulk | Captain America Brave New World

Daughter of General Ross, and Bruce's confidant and love interest. She was one of the leading scientists on Bruce's experiment and feels partially responsible for his condition. Has an understandably terrible relationship with her father.


  • Action Girl: It's shown she knows combat when fighting off soldiers to go rescue Bruce in Culver. She effortlessly knocks them down.
  • Action Survivor: Inevitable when one follows a Destructive Savior.
  • Alternate Self: Has one on Earth-51825.
  • Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Somehow, all that fire after the helicopter she was in crashed never touched Betty's long, beautiful hair.
  • The Bus Came Back: She is set to return in Captain America: New World Order more than a decade after her last appearance.
  • Bus Crash: According to the Russo Brothers, she was one of the many offscreen casualties of Avengers: Infinity War. Naturally, the events of Avengers: Endgame mean that she returned.
  • Brainy Brunette: She's a scientist.
  • Celebrity Paradox: In The Avengers, Tony Stark mockingly calls Hawkeye "Legolas", suggesting that The Lord of the Rings movies exist in the MCU. Tyler played Arwen in those movies.
  • Cooldown Hug: Provides one for the Hulk during his rampage at Culver, though unlike most instances in the comics it doesn't cause him to start turning back to normal.
  • Dating What Daddy Hates: Her dad has a low opinion of scientists. It's incredibly ironic when you think about it, considering that Betty herself is a scientist.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Downplayed but present. When Bruce turns out her purse and says they can't use anything in it because it can be tracked she responds, "Can they track my lip gloss?"
  • Long Hair Is Feminine: It also may or may not be fireproof.
  • Hot Teacher: Teaches at Culver University.
  • Killed Offscreen: The Russo Brothers confirmed that she was killed by Thanos' Badass Fingersnap in Avengers: Infinity War. She would later be resurrected by Bruce Banner five years later in Avengers: Endgame.
  • Missing Mom: Her mother died of unknown causes. She wears her necklace as a Tragic Keepsake.
  • Morality Pet:
    • To the Hulk. She's the only one that he won't attack and feels she still sees Bruce in him. After they reunite, she invokes Morality Chain by keeping his attention focused on her because she knows he isn't going to attack her.
    • To General Ross as well. His only redeeming quality is that he won't hurt Betty, physically at least. Even when Ross arrests Bruce and takes Betty into custody, he doesn't handcuff her as well and says it's because she's his daughter.
  • Nice Girl: She's the opposite of her dad in that she is tolerant and forgiving.
  • Put on a Bus: After The Incredible Hulk, it's implied that Bruce is deliberately staying away and/or he's completely given up on her for her own sake. She is been replaced by Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow as Bruce's love-interest in Age of Ultron.
  • Statuesque Stunner: She's a beautiful woman who's 1.78m/5'10".
  • There Are No Therapists: Averted. She's dating one, Dr. Samson.
  • Tragic Keepsake: She wears a necklace that belonged to her deceased mother. She would later sell it so she and Bruce can travel to Harlem to see Samuel Sterns but Bruce would later buy the necklace off a pawn shop and return it to her.
  • Two First Names: Betty and Ross.
  • Violently Protective Girlfriend: Normally not, but when the two end up in a taxi driven by the world's most reckless cabbie ever, she EXPLODES at the driver for endangering them.
    Betty Ross: ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?! What is wrong with you?!
    Driver: It's nothing, baby. You don't like my driving?
    Betty Ross: [screams and kicks the taxi door] ASSHOLE!!
    Bruce Banner: You know, I know a few techniques that can help you manage that anger very effectively...
    Betty Ross: You zip it. We're walking!
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: There's no mention of her when Bruce takes up with Black Widow in Age of Ultron. Considering that Bruce had been on the run for years by the time he met up again with Betty, that he has a less-than-ideal relationship with her father, and that he has a genuine fear of the Hulk hurting those he cares about, it's likely that he's deliberately staying away and/or he's completely given up on her for her own sake.
  • Wide-Eyed Idealist: Everyone, including Bruce, thinks the Hulk is a monster. Betty is the only one who thinks it can be tamed.

Natasha Romanoff's Allies

    Rick Mason 

Rick Mason

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Species: Human

Citizenship: British

Portrayed By: O-T Fagbenle

Voiced By: Tomokazu Seki (Japanese dub)

Appearances: Black Widow | Secret Invasion

An international smuggler, private contractor and collaborator of Natasha Romanoff and Nick Fury.


  • Advertised Extra: Despite getting his own character poster, Mason only shows up in a few short scenes of Black Widow.
  • The Bus Came Back: When he reappears in Secret Invasion to support Nick Fury, after most of a decade in-universe since the events of Black Widow (as well as the concurrent Civil War).
  • The Fixer: Introduced having brought Natasha supplies and a set of fake IDs. He later appears in Secret Invasion to lend Fury an airplane to Finland.
  • Race Lift: In the comic books, Rick Mason is Caucasian, whereas the MCU version is black.
  • Red Herring: Before Black Widow's release, some fans theorized that he was the true identity of Taskmaster, which was backed up by a number of the few scenes Rick appeared in. Turns out, they were wrong, as Taskmaster turns out to actually be a woman.
  • Two First Names: "Rick" and "Mason" are both popular given names.
  • Unrelated in the Adaptation: In the comics, Rick Mason is the son of Phineas Mason aka the Tinkerer. No evidence of that is present here, and indeed, given Rick's Race Lift and the fact that their actors are of similar ages, it's probably not the case.

Clint Barton's Allies

    Kate Bishop / Hawkeye II 

Scott Lang's Allies

    The Pym family 
See the Families page

    Luis 

Luis

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"Are we the good guys?"

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): X-Con Security Consultants

Portrayed By: Michael PeñaForeign voice actors 

Appearances: Ant-Man | Ant-Man and the Wasp

"Oh no, no, Daddy don't get scared."

Scott's friend and former cellmate. Later, the head of X-Con Security Consultants.


  • The Alleged Car: It becomes a Running Gag in the franchise for people to call his van ugly.
  • Badass Normal: Has no superpowers but is a reliable sidekick to Scott. He even gets to be a Badass Driver operating a shrinking car in the sequel.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: He's one of the cheeriest, nicest ex-cons you'll ever meet. He's also got one hell of a right hook.
  • Bumbling Sidekick:
    • Subverted; despite how silly he is, he's more than capable of holding his own, and is useful — his only issue during the heist being that he didn't know who the security chief was, and takes him out anyway.
    • He's far more useful in the sequel, even getting into a car chase where he uses a shrinking car.
  • Canon Immigrant: Originated in the MCU, but made his way into the mainstream comics.
  • Chekhov's Gun: Luis owns a 1972 Ford Ecoline with a horn that plays La Cucaracha which initially serves as the Wombats' getaway vehicle before it was fitted with a Quantum Tunnel by the Pyms.
    • Subverted twice in Endgame that while it becomes a basis for the Avengers' time-traveling plan, it was not used in favor of a more advanced version created by Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, and Rocket Raccoon. After the other one was destroyed by a time-traveling Thanos, the Avengers attempted to use the one in Luis' van but moments before Captain Marvel can reach it, Thanos destroys the van as well.
  • Chekhov's Skill:
    • Claims to be the only person to have knocked out Peaches, a hulking convict that not even Scott could meaningfully harm. This seems to be a lie for most of the movie, but come the heist he quickly knocks out several of Cross's guards when he gets the chance.
    • In the sequel, when he gets injected with a Truth Serum, he's able to get around being unable to lie by using his Motor Mouth habit to tell a long story with the implications being he was trying to buy time for it to either wear off or for the criminals using it on him concluding that he doesn't know anything. Unfortunately, he gets cut off before he can progress far enough and is forced to admit the information.
  • Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: The guy may be a Motor Mouth goofball, but he has a really mean punch and is a rather good driver, using the streets of San Francisco and Hank Pym's tech to evade Sonny Burch and his men.
  • Cultured Badass: When not punching out people in a single hit, he frequents wine tastings, art museums with abstract expressionism exhibits (though he's more of a Neo-Cubist kind of guy), and so on.
  • Derailed for Details: Does this to himself whenever he's telling stories, often interjecting with details that aren't relevant to the matter at hand, usually requiring whoever's listening to ask (or just tell) him to get back on track.
    Scott: Wrong details, wrong details. It has nothing to do with this story.
  • Exact Words: Gets asked where Scott Lang is while under truth serum, so he goes on a long story about how he met Scott and ends up explaining where Scott was emotionally at.
  • Good Feels Good: Feels "weird" more like, but he still enjoys being the "good guy" for once. Come the sequel, he and the gang have created a business and swore off criminal activity, and help out Scott when they can because they want to.
  • Heterosexual Life-Partners: He is Scott's longest and most trusted friend.
  • Hidden Depths: Enjoys wine tasting and modern art when not committing crimes, specifically expressing an admiration for neo-cubism and the abstract expressionist painting Untitled (black on maroon) by Mark Rothko. The sequel also shows that he has surprisingly good leadership skills despite being a bit rough about office rules.
  • Knows a Guy Who Knows a Guy: His signature scenes are about him chatting with a friend who chatted with a friend who...
  • Leitmotif: Roy Ayers' "Escape" is played whenever he is story telling.
  • Motor Mouth: He can talk really fast when he gets excited. If anything, he's even faster when he's answering questions under Uzman and Burch's (chemical that they insist is not) truth serum, no doubt due to being forced to be accurate about his stories.
    Dave: You put a dime in 'im, you gotta let the whole song play out.
    Kurt: He like human jukebox.
  • Nice Guy: He may be a thief, but he is very nice to his friends.
  • One Degree of Separation: All those stories of his are a chain of people and rumors.
  • One-Hit KO: Luis can knock out a man with one punch, and does so repeatedly during the Pym Tech heist and against Sonny Burch.
  • Perpetual Smiler: He is remains cheerful and always keeps a smile on his face even during dire situations.
  • Pet the Dog: Goes back to save the guard he knocked out so he doesn't die in the Pym Tech implosion.
  • Phrase Catcher: His stories tend to be go on such twisty tangents that after he is done the only thing anyone has to say is "What".
  • The Pollyanna: Part of his Establishing Character Moment in his first scene: since he got out of prison his girl left him, his mother died, and his father got deported. But he got the van! The guy's eternally upbeat.
  • Put on a Bus: Alongside the rest of the Wombats, he doesn't appear in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, owing to director Peyton Reed feeling that he didn't fit the larger scale of the film. Though considering he hasn't been seen since before the Snap, one has to wonder what happened to him...
  • Reformed Criminal: He opens a security consultant company in Ant-Man and the Wasp with Scott, Dave and Kurt.
  • Shipper on Deck: While he also says she's beautiful, he refers to Hope as Scott's girlfriend.
  • Shout-Out: His stories with people lip-syncing his exact words is exactly how Drunk History tells stories.
  • Team Chef: No, really. Belgian waffles count, right?
  • Toxic Friend Influence: Played straight and inverted. At first, he tries to get Scott (who had just gotten out of prison and was determined to not go back) to join him in a burglary. Eventually, Scott makes him realize Good Feels Good.
  • Uncertain Doom: His fate after Thanos' Badass Fingersnap was left unclear. However, considering he never retrieved his van from storage over the five-year Time Skip, he was most likely snapped out of existence. While the events of Endgame brought everyone back, he has yet to reappear.
  • Unreliable Narrator: He has a tendency to... embellish his stories, often having the characters in them (who are all people he knows) speak exactly like he does.
  • Verbal Tic: Has a tendency to use the phrase "You know what?" during his tall tales.
  • Wicked Cultured: Downplayed since he's a basically good guy, but he is a former criminal who enjoys art galleries and wine tastings.

    Kurt 

Kurt Goreshter

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"Eyes in the sky."

Species: Human

Citizenship: Russian, American

Affiliation(s): X-Con Security Consultants

Portrayed By: David DastmalchianForeign voice actors 

Appearances: Ant-Man | Ant-Man and the Wasp

"That's Kurt. He was Folsom for five years. He's a wizard on that laptop."
Luis

A friend of Scott Lang and Luis. A hacker and computer expert.


  • Alternate Self: On Earth-89521.
  • Big Damn Heroes: He and Dave save Luis from Sonny by knocking out his men.
  • Canon Foreigner: Like Luis, he was created specifically for the Ant-Man film.
  • Everyone Has Standards: He is downright insulted that Luis expects him to eat oatmeal packets to keep their food budget down.
  • Meaningful Name: All his lines tend to be short and direct, or in a word, curt.
  • Mother Russia Makes You Strong: Inverted; he's got the deep Eastern-European accent, but he's a skinny technician.
  • Playful Hacker: His role during the heist is breaking into computers, summed up as "eyes in the sky".
  • Poirot Speak: Kurt will occasionally speak with imperfect grammar to emphasize his Russian origins.
  • Politically Incorrect Hero: Downplayed. During his freakout over learning about the Ant-Man suit, Kurt declares its abilities "the work of Gypsies". "Gypsy" is a slur for the Romani people that has been used to persecute them for a long time. However, Kurt is genuinely a good person, so his use of the term either comes from ignorance or small-town superstition rather than from genuine racism.
  • Reformed Criminal: He opens a security consultant company in Ant-Man and the Wasp with Scott, Dave, and Luis.
  • Tattooed Crook: Has a circle tattoo on the back of his hand.
  • Those Two Guys: He is rarely seen without Dave at his side.
  • Uncertain Doom: His fate after Thanos' Badass Fingersnap is left unclear. Considering neither he nor Dave retrieved Luis's van from storage during the Time Skip however, they were likely both erased until being brought back by the Blip.

    Dave 

Dave

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"Wheels on the ground."

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): X-Con Security Consultants

Portrayed By: Tip "T.I." HarrisForeign voice actors 

Appearances: Ant-Man | Ant-Man and the Wasp

"There was a black guy who looks exactly like me knocked us out and locked us in the back of this disgusting van!"

A friend of Scott Lang and Luis who served as the driver in charge of the getaway vehicle. Later joined X-Con Security.


  • Awesomeness by Analysis: Upon spotting a Crown Vic parked in front of Pym Technologies, he immediately knows that it is a car commonly used by undercover cops.
  • Big Damn Heroes:
    • Distracts Paxton and his partner by hijacking their car, preventing Hank from getting arrested.
    • In the second movie, he and Kurt knock out Sonny's men right before they kill Luis.
  • Canon Foreigner: Like Luis, he was created for the film.
  • Getaway Driver: He's the "wheels on the ground". He can also hijack other people's cars.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Immediately after successfully giving the cops the slip, he accidentally hits the very distinctive "La Cucaracha" horn of the van, revealing his and Kurt's position to the cops and their identities to Paxton.
  • Out of Focus: Due to Luis having his storytelling segments and Kurt's obsession with Baba Yaga and getting starring role in What If...?, Dave is left with the least amount of importance in the Wombats.
  • Reformed Criminal: He opens a security consultant company in Ant-Man and the Wasp with Scott, Luis and Kurt.
  • Those Two Guys: He is rarely seen without Kurt at his side.
  • Uncertain Doom: His fate after Thanos' Badass Fingersnap is left unclear. Considering neither he nor Kurt retrieved Luis's van from storage during the Time Skip, it's likely they were erased as well as Luis until the Avengers returned everyone in Endgame.

Peter Parker's Allies

    Ned Leeds 

Edward "Ned" Leeds

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"You can take the Guy out of the Chair, but you can't take the Chair out of the Guy!"

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Midtown School of Science & Technology, MIT

Portrayed By: Jacob BatalonForeign voice actors 

Appearances: Spider-Man: Homecoming | Avengers: Infinity War | Avengers: Endgame | Spider-Man: Far From Home | Spider-Man: No Way Home

"Okay, okay, okay, okay okay, okay, I'll level with you: I don't think I can keep this a secret, this is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me, Peter!"

Peter Parker's best friend in high school.


  • Achievements in Ignorance: In Spider-Man: No Way Home, he's capable of using a Sling Ring and summons both the Raimi and Webb-verse Peter even though he's never had formal training, and later frees Doctor Strange from the Mirror Dimension. It's implied that it's because magic runs in his family.
  • Adaptational Nice Guy: While he is not a villain in the comics (though he was temporarily made out to be the Hobgoblin, but this was retconned as him being Brainwashed and Crazy after he was killed), he was a bit of a Jerkass and certainly wasn't an ally of Spider-Man. Here, he is Peter's best friend and when he discovers he is Spider-Man, saves his life at one point and helps him track down and battle the villains as Mission Control.
  • Adaptational Skill: His comic book counterpart doesn't have any hacking skills.
  • Adaptation Dye-Job: As a result of a Race Lift, he has brown eyes instead of blue.
  • Age Lift: In the comics, Ned was an adult reporter who worked at the Daily Bugle before Peter even got a job there. Here, he's Peter's age.
  • Amicable Exes: On the plane ride back from England, he and Betty break up with apparently no ill will towards one another.
  • Asian and Nerdy: He's of Asian descent (his actor is Filipino-American) and he has nerdy interests like Star Wars, LEGO, superheroes, and video games.
  • Audience Surrogate: Once he discovers Peter's secret, he's absolutely giddy about the fact his best friend is a superhero and bombards him with fanboy questions.
  • Back from the Dead: He explicitly mentions he was one of the victims of Thanos's Badass Fingersnap in Infinity War and then resurrected as a result of Endgame.
  • Badass Bystander:
    • When Spider-Man is about to be finished off by Schultz, Ned picks up the dislodged web shooter and fires it at Schultz. It's a direct hit and gives Spidey the chance to grab the web line and use it to defeat him.
    • Even more in No Way Home with the help of Doctor Strange's ring, where he opened portals to the other displaced Peter Parkers, allowing both Webb-verse and Rami-Verse Peters to come help the Peter of his own universe and leading to a Spider-Man team-up. And that was mostly unintentionally. The ring allows him to have a more proactive role in the final battle as well.
  • Bad Liar: Almost as bad as Peter, usually leading him to Digging Yourself Deeper or coming off as Suspiciously Specific Denial.
  • Big Fun: He's quite rotund (for the first two films at least) and is the primary comic relief of his films.
  • The Cameo: Makes a brief appearance in Avengers: Infinity War where he creates a distraction for Peter to sneak off their field trip bus by alerting their class to the alien ship. He gets another in Avengers: Endgame, where he greets Peter Parker after the world returns to normal (as it's revealed that he was also a casualty of the Snap).
  • Character Development: He goes from being enamored over the idea of Peter as a vigilante to cautiously concerned about how being Spider-Man is slowly eroding his friend's life at school and at home.
  • Composite Character: While he may be named after Ned Leeds, his role, mannerisms, and looks are more related to Ganke Lee, the best friend of another Spider-Man, Miles Morales. Far From Home gives him a little more in common with his namesake by pairing him up with Betty Brant. Interestingly, this isn't the first time Ned Leeds got an Asian Race Lift.
  • Crack Ship: In-Universe, Peter has no idea what to make of Ned's sudden romance with Betty.
  • Curtains Match the Window: He has brown hair and brown eyes.
  • Demoted to Extra: He's reduced to appearing in small cameos outside the Spider-Man films.
  • Eagleland: He's under the impression that Europeans love American visitors, and that he'd be able to re-invent himself as a ladies' man during his two weeks in Europe.
  • Elite School Means Elite Brain: He's a computer science expert who got accepted into MIT.
  • Embarrassing Cover Up: When a teacher catches Ned being Peter's "Guy In The Chair" during the homecoming dance, he pretends he's using the library computers to look up porn.
  • Fat Best Friend: Due to Composite Character, he is this to Peter here.
  • Formerly Fat: In a case of Real Life Writes the Plot, Ned is shown to be significantly slimmer in No Way Home, due Jacob Batalon losing weight after Far From Home.
  • Genius Ditz: Ned can come across as a bit... silly, but he's an excellent hacker, and repeatedly breaks into Stark tech without batting an eye. He's also capable of opening portals using a Sling Ring in No Way Homenote  whereas it took Strange nearly dying in the Himalayas to master it.
  • Heterosexual Life-Partners: He's this with Peter Parker.
  • How Do I Shot Web?: Ned finds out that he's capable of using Doctor Strange's Sling Ring during the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home, which excites him given that he was certain magic runs in his family. Unfortunately, he has no idea how to properly use it yet, which causes him to randomly create portals to places without much control, and he also can't figure out how to close them.
  • Instant Expert: Played with in the case of his ability to open portals with Strange's sling ring. While he manages to do it almost by complete accident (something which had taken being stranded on top of the Himalayas for Strange to achieve) and soon manages to do it at will, which actually impresses Doctor Strange when he learns about it, it is very clear that he has only minimal control over their destinations and, more importantly, is unable to close them on command, which proves crucial in the climax.
  • Instant Sedation: In Far From Home, Nick Fury (actually Talos impersonating him) shoots him with a tranquilizer dart that instantly renders him unconscious.
  • Killed Offscreen: Endgame reveals that he was also among the trillions killed by Thanos, as evidenced by him reuniting with Peter, who was killed onscreen, in Midtown and being the same age as him.
  • The Millstone: On some occasions, his attempts to "help" Peter or attempt to cover for him end up making situations worse, such as opening him up to humiliation when he randomly blurts out that Peter knows Spider-Man in Homecoming (and then blaming Peter for the party not going well afterwards when Ned was the one claiming Spider-Man would show up), or on the plane trip to Europe in Far From Home when his attempt to get Betty to swap seats with Peter by saying Peter has a perfume allergy causes Peter to have to sit next to Mr. Harrington, and then coming up with the Atrocious Alias "Night Monkey" while attempting to persuade Betty that Spider-Man is not in Europe with them. No Way Home is notably the first time where (apart from screwing up in an interrogation early on) he's almost entirely helpful.
  • Muggle Best Friend: He's Peter's best friend who has no superpowers and is completely human. It's subverted in No Way Home where it turns out he can conjure portals using Doctor Strange's Sling Ring, but it's double subverted as Doctor Strange takes his sling ring back in the final battle.
  • Mythology Gag: His romance with Betty in Far From Home alludes to their comics counterparts, who are husband and wife.
  • Nice, Mean, and In-Between: From a multiversal point of view in regard to Peter Parker's best friend, Ned Leeds is the nice to the mean of Earth-120703's Harry Osborn and the in-between of Earth-96283's Harry Osborn. He is Peter's best friend, sidekick, and supporter, never interferes in his relationship with Michelle Jones-Watson, and promises to never betray Peter. Unfortunately, their friendship is erased from existence by Doctor Strange to save the universe from countless interdimensional dangers.
  • Odd Couple: With Betty Brant in Far From Home. They're Sickeningly Sweethearts in spite of having nothing in common which bewilders the hell out of Peter.
  • Oh, Crap!: Upon seeing aliens in New York, Ned's first – and only – words in Avengers: Infinity War is to panic about how they're all about to die. Endgame confirms that he was one of the casualties of the snap before being resurrected five years later.
  • Older Than They Look: As a result of being killed by Thanos' Badass Fingersnap, Ned is physically five years younger than his actual age.
  • Out of Focus: After a prominent role in Homecoming, Ned's prominence to the story takes a backseat in Far From Home in favor of MJ getting a larger part. He gets focus again in No Way Home, being the one who summons the Raimi and Webb-verse Peter Parkers via a Sling Ring.
  • Platonic Life-Partners: Becomes this with Michelle Jones in Far From Home, to the point where in the new reality where Peter is forgotten, they still remain close friends.
  • Playful Hacker: Ned is pretty talented with computers, being able to override the "Training Wheels" protocol in Peter's suit and act as mission control in the school's computer lab during the climax.
  • Proud to Be a Geek: He absolutely delights in his less-than-mainstream interests like Lego, fedoras, and PC gaming. However, while cornered in the Tower of London and fearing that he's about to die, Ned admits that, on some level, he's worried that he's wasting too much of his life on these things.
  • Race Lift:
    • White in the comics, Filipino in the MCU. Ned's lola (grandmother) even makes an appearance in No Way Home where her mostly Tagalog dialogue is translated by Ned on-screen.
    • If we're looking past the name and into the Composite Character aspect of his personality, Ganke Lee (his inspiration) is Korean-American, while Ned is played by Filipino-American Jacob Batalon.
  • Randomly Gifted: Despite looking like a seemingly normal student with nothing special, he is capable of using magic with a sling ring. He explains that his lola has talked about magic running through their family line and uses it to not only bring in both Peter-2 and Peter-3 but finally free Doctor Strange from the Mirror Dimension after being stuck there for twelve hours.
  • Secret-Keeper: Peter unwittingly takes off his mask while Ned is present. Ned's at least a decent enough guy to keep Peter's Secret Identity an actual secret. Ironically, Ned does a better job of keeping Peter's secret than Peter himself.
  • Sickeningly Sweethearts: He and Betty go all in on all the lovey-dovey stuff in Far From Home.
  • Sidekick: He's essentially Spider-Man's closest ally who helps him out in any way he can, even when no else can/will.
  • Spanner in the Works: In Spider-Man: No Way Home. By all means, Green Goblin won by killing Aunt May and with Doctor Strange gone, though MJ was planning to send them all back to die in their universes. Then, with the Sling Ring on his hand, Ned wished to see Peter again...
  • Tears of Joy: In Avengers: Endgame, he's seen tearfully greeting Peter Parker when they both go back to school.
  • Teen Genius: Ned is a member of his magnet school's academic decathlon team, with an aptitude for programming and engineering. He's a crucial aid in Peter's missions by analyzing one of Vulture's hybrid weapons, hacking into Stark technology, and uncovering sightings of the Multiversal visitors. He is able to apply Doctor Strange's Sling Ring in battle with a little practice, and gets accepted into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  • Thinking Up Portals: He finds out that he can conjure portals with Doctor Strange's Sling Ring in the third act of No Way Home.
  • Third Wheel: On the roof in the third film, Peter and Michelle hold each others' hands in a heartfelt moment. Ned thinks it's time for a Team Hand-Stack and puts his hand on top of theirs, thus creating an awkward moment.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Him getting Peter invited to Liz's party and taking the explosive Chitauri energy core with him for safekeeping during his academic decathlon team's tour of the Washington Monument provide Toomes with humongous clues as to Spider-Man's identity, as Liz innocently brings up how Peter was conspicuously absent during both these instances when the wall-crawler was in those areas.
  • Vocal Evolution: Ned's voice is significantly deeper in Far From Home than it was in Homecoming and Infinity War. Justified, as both Ned and his actor are growing older, even after being dead for five years.
  • Voice with an Internet Connection: Or as he and Peter refer to it, "The Guy in the Chair." Ned initially wants to be this in Spider-Man: Homecoming, but is refused by Peter already having Happy and Karen. Later in the climax, when left without both, Peter has Ned assist him by cellphone while Ned is on two computers getting important information like tracing Peter's phone and finding the headlight button in Flash's car.

    Michelle Jones 

    "Karen" 

"Karen"

Species: Artificial Intelligence

Affiliation(s): Stark Industries

Voiced By: Jennifer Connelly, Erica Edwards (Latin-American Spanish), Kikuko Inoue (Japanese)

Appearances: Spider-Man: Homecoming

An A.I. Tony Stark installed in Spider-Man's suit, to be activated after the completion of his training. Peter winds up disabling the suit's training mode out of frustration, activating her and the suit's advanced functions early. Since she has no pre-set name, he nicknames her "Karen".
  • Artificial Intelligence: Even if the suit is less mechanical than the Powered Armor Iron Man wears, the gadgets require an A.I..
  • Awesomeness by Analysis: One of her attributes, given all sorts of scanners and gadgets in the suit. Though it isn't always positive: Peter is not so pleased to hear "XX seconds to catastrophic damage" and "you were 98% successful".
  • Benevolent A.I.: Just like J.A.R.V.I.S. and F.R.I.D.A.Y., she's helpful and heroic.
  • Chekhov's Classroom: In Spider-Man: Homecoming, Karen informs Peter that his suit has an "Instant Kill" function when he plans to subdue two small-time robbers, which initially horrifies the webslinger, due to his commitment to Thou Shalt Not Kill. Once he's surrounded by Thanos's Outriders in Avengers: Endgame however, Peter finally crosses the Godzilla Threshold and activates it to save himself.
  • Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Even though Peter gets his Stark tech suit after it's confiscated by Tony in the climax of Homecoming, Karen never reappears in vocal form in Spider-Man's later MCU appearances, nor is she ever brought up by anyone else. With Peter crafting a new suit in Spider-Man: No Way Home and all of his ties to Stark being lost via Doctor Strange's second spell, there's a very high chance that Karen's gone for good.
  • The Comically Serious: Unlike J.A.R.V.I.S., she's not a snarker, but given that Karen is blunt and at times obvious, most of what she says ends up funny.
  • Darker and Edgier: Played with. Like Jarvis to Tony, she's helpful, definitely on Peter's side, and overall has a very friendly disposition, but she will ask to activate the Instant Kill mode in a heartbeat. It almost seems to be her default, as she often asks to activate in situations where it is completely uncalled for, like when Peter is merely observing some bad guys and in absolutely no immediate danger. The dark and edgy is take up another notch when you stop to think that Tony put this function into a suit he made for a 15-year-old boy... However, considering Ned hacked past the Training Wheels protocol, it's likely Tony figured that completing the Training Wheels protocol would take years and Peter would have matured into adulthood by then.
  • Dissonant Serenity: Tells Peter that because he hasn't reinstalled his parachute, a fall from the top of the Washington Monument would most likely be lethal, all in a pleasant, even tone as if she's commenting on the weather.
  • Distaff Counterpart: She's J.A.R.V.I.S. with the voice of a woman. In fact, she's voiced by Jennifer Connelly, the wife of J.A.R.V.I.S.'s own voice actor Paul Bettany.
  • Exposition Fairy: An especially required case given Peter doesn't know a tenth of what Tony has put in the suit.
  • Funny Robot: Is this at times, showing her recording of Peter talking to himself on the mirror despite him protesting because she found it funny, and later trying to serve as The Matchmaker regarding Peter and his crush Liz.
  • Heroic Comedic Sociopath: Not to an extreme degree, but she will activate the Instant Kill Protocol at the drop of a hat.
  • Nice Girl: Unlike the other A.I.s Stark has developed, she appears to lack a snarky sense of humor and is instead cheerful, kind, and helpful. She also seems to genuinely like Peter and tries to help him out in any way she can.
  • Mentor Archetype: She spends more time teaching and encouraging Peter in both superhero and civilian aspects in two days than her creator does in two months.
  • No Name Given: Unlike the Iron Man armor A.I.s, she doesn't come with a preset name. Peter finds it awkward to call her "Suit Lady", and nicknames her Karen.
  • One-Steve Limit: Averted. She's the second character in the MCU with the name "Karen", after Karen Page in the Netflix shows.
  • Parental Substitute: She's so personable and intelligent that she basically becomes a motherly figure to Peter, helping him in non-superhero things like his upcoming Spanish quiz or advancing his crush on a classmate.
  • Put on a Bus: Karen exits the movie when Stark takes away the suit, and has yet to be heard from again even after getting it back. Peter activates Instant-Kill mode in Endgame by a voice command, as he did when having Karen change his web-shooter settings in Homecoming, but Karen is not heard responding. She isn't heard at all in Far From Home, with her role in the story filled in by the E.D.I.T.H. A.I., and given Peter's situation at the end of No Way Home, it is very unlikely that she will make another appearance in the near future.
  • Shipper on Deck: For Peter and Liz, giving him advice and urging him to kiss her when he has the chance.
  • Shoo Out the Clowns: Peter wears the Stark tech suit when he first appears in Infinity War. It can be assumed that Karen is also implemented into the Iron Spider. However, due to the darker tone, she is not heard talking to Peter at all. Considering that Tony immediately lost the connection to F.R.I.D.A.Y when he left Earth, it's more than likely that Peter was on his own with that handicap as well.
  • Uncertain Doom: While not directly stated, the Stark suit was last seen packed inside Peter's luggage in Far From Home which was contained in the bus Peter's schoolmates and teachers were riding that got destroyed in the climax.

    E.D.I.T.H. 

E.D.I.T.H.

Species: Artificial Intelligence

Affiliation(s): Stark Industries

Voiced By: Dawn Michelle King

Appearances: Spider-Man: Far From Home | Spider-Man: No Way Home note 

For the next Tony Stark,
I trust you.
P.S. Say Edith.
- TS
— Handwritten note provided with E.D.I.T.H. glasses.

A StarkTech A.I. connected to a secret global defense grid of military drones and surveillance equipment, housed in Tony Stark's iconic glasses. At Tony's request, she was bequeathed to Spider-Man.


  • Artificial Stupidity: She's nowhere near as strong an A.I. as Karen and lacks sapience. She takes Peter's commands too literally and doesn't offer any suggestions beyond safety warnings.
  • Cool Shades: A very powerful Kill Sat housed in a sunglasses.
  • Fluffy the Terrible: Yet considering this (and what is a more classically-feminine name), E.D.I.T.H. is the A.I. responsible for a technology grid of massive firepower not even J.A.R.V.I.S. (who was incorporated into every Iron Man suit before he was integrated into Vision) commanded.
  • Fun with Acronyms: E.D.I.T.H. stands for "Even Dead, I'm The Hero".
  • Kill Sat: Can access a satellite full of Attack Drones that can fly to anywhere on Earth.
  • Put on a Bus: Confiscated by Damage Control in the opening act of No Way Home.

    Peter-2 and Peter-3 
See their folders under Peter Parker Variants

Carol Danvers' Allies

    Cap. Monica Rambeau  
See the Other Superheroes page

    Cap. Maria Rambeau 

Captain Maria "Photon" Rambeau

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mariarambeaucaptainmarvel.png
"Higher, further, faster, baby."

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): USAF (formerly), S.H.I.E.L.D. (formerly), S.W.O.R.D.

Portrayed By: Lashana Lynch

Appearances: Captain Marvel | WandaVision note  | The Marvels note 

A US Air Force pilot and single mother. She was one of Carol Danvers' best friends in the 1990s.


  • Ace Pilot: Naturally, being in the Air Force. In the climax, she takes on Minn-Erva in an Aerial Canyon Chase and wins.
  • Action Girl: She is a pilot and a soldier in the Air Force who can throw several punches.
  • Action Mom: Maria is a pilot in the Air Force and the mother of Monica Rambeau.
  • Adaptational Badass: Maria wasn't an Air Force pilot in the comics.
  • Adaptational Hairstyle Change: She has curly hair in the comics, but her hair is straight here.
  • Adaptational Job Change: In the comics, Maria was originally a seamstress, though her backstory was altered to have also been in an unknown branch of the U.S. military after the movie. This is followed by her becoming the co-founder and Director of S.W.O.R.D.
  • Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: She was never best friends with Carol in the comics as they never even met.
  • Adaptation Origin Connection: Maria being friends and comrades in arms with Carol is new to this adaptation.
  • Alliterative Family: With her daughter Monica.
  • Alternate Self: Has a variant on the Illuminati who became Captain Marvel instead of Carol, as well as a variant who became the superhero Binary.
  • Ascended Extra: At best, Maria is one of her daughter Monica's supporting characters in the comics.
  • Boyish Short Hair: Wears her hair in a short-cropped style that was popular for women in the early-mid 90s, but also compliant with airman's regulation for the military.
  • Composite Character: In addition to her comics self, the movie character's includes aspects of Michael Rossi, Carol's USAF colleague, and Carol's single-parent friend Marina Renner. WandaVision adds an element from Tracy Burke, an old friend and former colleague of Carol's at Woman Magazine, on to her. In the fact that both characters eventually succumb to cancer.
  • Death by Adaptation: She dies of cancer two years after the Snap while her comic book counterpart was last seen alive.
  • Decomposite Character: In a sense. Her callsign in the Air Force is "Photon", which is one of the many aliases used by her daughter in the comics.
  • Distaff Counterpart: She becomes one to Nick Fury, albeit offscreen. WandaVision reveals that eventually became Director Maria Rambeau of S.W.O.R.D., and was also its co-founder. This makes her the second black character who directed (until her death) a major division acronymized with the name of an ancient combat weapon.
  • Genocide Survivor: WandaVision reveals that she survived the Snap but died of cancer two years afterwards.
  • Heterosexual Life-Partners: Prior to Carol's disappearance, she and Maria were best friends, inseparable in the skies and in civilian life. Notably, when Carol was believed to be dead, her possessions are given to the Rambeau family.
  • Hero of Another Story: WandaVision reveals that she helped co-found S.W.O.R.D., and acted as its director, a role she played until her death three years before the events of Avengers: Endgame.
  • Improbable Piloting Skills: She was already an Ace Pilot in Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. matched only by Carol herself, but she was also able to learn and master the Quadjet with enough skill to outfly seasoned Star Force pilots and engage in a high-speed Aerial Canyon Chase through ridiculously tight passages with hairpin turns.
  • Killed Offscreen: The fourth episode of WandaVision reveals that she died of cancer three years prior to the Blip. Monica, a victim of the Snap, disappeared around the time her cancer went into remission.
  • Mama Bear: She's quite protective of her daughter Monica, as shown during her first encounter with Talos and Norex.
  • The Not-Love Interest: In Captain Marvel. She's Carol's best friend and squadmate. Maria (and by extension, Monica as the child they're raising) is emblematic of the life Carol left behind on Earth since she wasn't too close with her own family.
  • Outliving One's Offspring: Zigzagged. Around the time of Avengers: Infinity War, Maria is shown to have just fought off cancer when her daughter Monica is killed by Thanos's Badass Fingersnap. Monica is eventually resurrected by Professor Hulk during the events of Avengers: Endgame, but Maria had passed away three years earlier when her cancer returned.
  • Posthumous Character: Of a sort. Although Maria has been dead since 2020, she co-founds S.W.O.R.D, which begins to play a big part in the MCU's fourth phase.
  • Sassy Black Woman: She gets really sassy when men patronize her. Both Talos and Nick Fury got a taste.
  • Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Peggy Carter. She's a woman who helped co-found a major governmental apparatus during times when minorities still had major struggles. For Peggy, it was solely her gender. For Maria, it was a mixture of being a black person and a woman.
  • Team Member in the Adaptation: Maria was definitely not a member of S.W.O.R.D. in the comics, much less its co-founder and one of its directors.
  • Theme Naming: WandaVision reveals that she co-founded another military/intelligence-oriented governmental apparatus called the Sentient Weapon Observation Response Division, acronymized as S.W.O.R.D. This makes it the second governmental apparatus to bear the name of an ancient combat weapon.

    Mar-Vell / Dr. Wendy Lawson 
See the Kree page

    Goose 

Goose

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/goosecaptainmarvel.png

Species: Flerken (disguised as a red, mackerel tabby domestic short-haired cat)

Citizenship: Kree Imperial, American

Affiliation(s): Mar-Vell (formerly), Nick Fury, Carol Danvers

Portrayed By: Reggie, Gonzo, Rizzo, Archie, Nemo, Tango

Appearances: Captain Marvel | The Marvels

"Aren't you the cutest little thing?"
Nick Fury, Captain Marvel

A mysterious cat that gets entangled with Carol Danvers and S.H.I.E.L.D. in the 1990s.


  • Adaptation Name Change: In the comics, Captain Marvel's cat is named Chewie in a Shout-Out to Star Wars.
  • Adaptation Origin Connection: She was originally owned by Mar-Vell instead of Carol.
  • Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Goose is Carol's pet in the comic, but in the movie she's the original Mar-Vell's, and later stays with Fury, while Carol remains mostly indifferent to her. Though The Marvels shows that at some point, Carol ended up picking up Goose from Earth and taking her on her space adventures.
  • Alien Animals: Can easily blend in as an Earth cat.
  • Amplified Animal Aptitude: Although we have no idea how intelligent Flerkens typically are, there are times where Goose seems to be more aware of things than one would expect for a cat. When Carol and Fury are debating over how to transport the Tesseract, Goose very quickly responds by eating it, even though she has little reason to do so at the moment. She also is rather good at identifying allies versus enemies, which she also demonstrates by eating a bunch of Kree soldiers with little provocation after Maria's gun jams.
  • Animalistic Abomination: Is actually a Flerken, a species of catlike aliens who have pocket dimensions in their stomach and can extend an array of tentacles larger than most other species out of her mouth to attack and send things into it. Also claws that carry potent infections.
  • Badass Adorable: The Kree were frozen with terror the moment they scanned her; restraining her and fitting her with a muzzle, prompting Fury to shout "Hey, it's a cat, not Hannibal Lecter." The fact that she can sprout a Kraken's worth of tentacles out of said mouth and drag entire grown-men into it more than justifies said restraints.
  • Berserk Button: Goose tolerates all of the affection and handling Fury gives her...up until he shoves his head in her face, to which she immediately responds with hissing and blinds his left eye with one swipe.
  • Big Eater: Played for Laughs, she can devour grown men in seconds like they were M&Ms. She won't eat friendly people, though. Which is why she won't eat Talos when he's taken the form of a Kree soldier. She also didn't even hesitate to eat the Tesseract for safekeeping.
  • Bigger on the Inside: It would be anatomically impossible for Goose's cat-sized body to contain that huge mass of horrifying tentacles without some dimensional warping going on.
  • Black-Hole Belly: Goose's stomach is capable of holding grown men and Infinity Stones inside of her. Although she coughs up the latter during The Stinger.
  • The Bus Came Back: Was last seen in Captain Marvel which is set during the early 1990s and doesn't appear again until The Marvels which is set in the 2020s. The latter reveals that Goose was looked after by Maria Rambeau before she died from cancer, and was taken in by Carol afterwards.
  • Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": Subverted. Nick Fury is amused by how absolutely terrified the Kree and Skrulls are of the "flerken", because she appears to be nothing more than a perfectly normal adorable widdle kitty cat. She is not just a perfectly normal widdle kitty cat.
  • Cross-Cast Role: She is portrayed by four male cats, since a vast majority of orange cats are male.
  • Cute Creature, Creepy Mouth: She looks like a normal cat, until she unfurls a ton of tentacles to swallow things.
  • Cuteness Proximity: Nick Fury, of all people, starts cooing over how cute Goose is when they first cross paths.
  • The Dog Is an Alien: The cute cat is in fact a flerken, a rare and dangerous alien species.
  • A Dog Named "Cat": A cat/flerken named Goose.
  • The Dreaded: The Kree and the Skrulls are mortifyingly scared of her. Kamala Khan is freaked out when she met Goose and the first thing the latter does is devouring two mooks. As she's a Flerken, it's justified. She's essentially one of the Marvel universe's bedtime horror stories - though only if you are mean. If she judges you as a friendly, she's just an adorable kitty with above-average intelligence.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: Keen-eyed fans noticed her silhouette in the corner of the teaser poster.
  • Eating Solves Everything: Need to dispose of some people trying to kill you? Goose will swallow them right up. Need a safe place to hold an object of limitless power? Her stomach is just the right place. Need to evacuate a few hundred people from a space station and you've only got a handful of escape pods? Goose and her offspring are there to help. Turns out they can swallow people without harming them if they want to.
  • Eating the Enemy: Goose swallows up several Kree soldiers while Nick Fury is holding her in Talos's satellite.
  • Evil-Detecting Dog: Cat to be more precise, she will not harm anyone who is deemed friendly like Talos.
  • Explosive Breeder: In The Marvels, she lays a lot of eggs on the S.A.B.E.R. station that quickly hatch into an enormous litter.
  • Extreme Omnivore: She eats fully armed Kree soldiers. Then she eats The Tesseract (albeit puking it up later like it's a hairball.)
  • Gender Equals Breed: Averted. She's a female orange tabby.
  • Getting Eaten Is Harmless: Goose can consume and then vomit up living beings completely unharmed, at least if she chooses to/hasn't has time to digest them. In The Marvels, Goose vomits up two Kree she had swallowed after a rough Swap Teleportation ride with Kamala, and this fact is later exploited to store the entire crew of the SABER station in the bellies of her kittens when most of the Escape Pods fail.
  • It Can Think: While the characters are figuring out what to do with it, Goose eats the Tesseract to keep it safe, showing that she may in fact understand what they're saying.
  • Killer Rabbit: Adorable she may be, but Goose is a Flerken, an alien that can spring tentacles at a moment's notice and hold entire pocket dimensions within them.
  • Logical Weakness: Since her Combat Tentacles come from her mouth, simply muzzling her to keep it shut will nullify the threat.
  • Long-Lived: Goose was already a fully grown cat in 1995, yet barely looks to have aged at all when we see her again in the late 2020s. Of course, it's entirely possible that Flerken lifespans aren't the same as regular household cats, but it's still surprising that Goose is still at her prime over 30 years later.
  • Lovecraftian Superpower: She can extend a huge mass of fleshy tentacles larger than herself from her mouth, use them to swallow things far bigger than her, and even swallow the Tesseract without any ill effects.
  • Mysterious Past: How she ended up on Earth is not revealed, other than she was originally owned by Mar-Vell, who might've gotten her from somewhere in the galaxy.
  • Not So Harmless: Goose actually takes a bit of comical abuse during the flight in the Quadjet, before she's revealed to be The Dreaded at the same level as Hulk or Groot!
  • Older Than They Look: To the casual observer, Goose looks like a cat in the prime of her life. But she is actually decades old.
  • Overly-Long Tongue: Her mouth tentacles are essentially this taken up to eleven.
  • Phlebotinum-Handling Equipment: When Fury adamantly refuses to grab the Tesseract with his bare hands, Goose immediately gobbles it up, ending the argument. Since she's immune to the object's effects, she becomes a safe and handy Stomach of Holding for it until she finally coughs it up on Fury's desk, several days later, with all the dignity and grace of hacking up a hairball.
  • Shout-Out: Her name has been changed to Goose as a reference to the character in Top Gun.
  • Small Role, Big Impact: She is the one directly responsible for Nick Fury's iconic eyepatch; when he annoyed her too much by playing with her chin one times too many, she scratched his left eye blind in one swipe. This allowed Fury to assign different security files to each of his eyes, allowing him to disable the encryption in Winter Soldier.
  • Stomach of Holding: Is able to swallow things much bigger than herself. When Fury and Maria Rambeau discuss how to keep the Tesseract safe, Goose promptly swallows it and coughs it back up again when the threat is long over.
  • Troll: If her waiting until a scientist realized she and one of her kittens are there before letting her kitten eat her is of any indication, Goose is this.
  • Truly Single Parent: Goose gives birth to a large litter of kittens during the climax of The Marvels, despite there being no indication that there was a male Flerken that she mated with beforehand.
  • Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Pukes up the Tesseract in a Post-Credits Scene.
  • Weaksauce Weakness: Goose's terrifying Combat Tentacles are easily nullified by putting a muzzle on her. And since she's usually friendly or at least neutral at first sight (despite Lawson's claims) until you actually threaten her, it's a simple matter to grab her and muzzle her.
  • Whale Egg: Flerkins reproduce by laying fleshy eggs that hatch into the equivalent of month-old kittens in a couple of days.
  • Wound That Will Not Heal: Flerken scratches don't heal. Fury being a bit too affectionate with her cost him his eye.

    Talos and Norex 
See their folders under Skrulls

Organizations

The Avengers as a whole also work closely with several heroic organizations when necessary, especially regarding the threat the Mad Titan Thanos posed to the whole universe. While not officially considered Avengers, these groups are trusted to fight with them should they be needed.


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