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Other Superheroes

Humans

Xu Shang-Chi

See his own page.

Kate Bishop / Hawkeye II

See her own page

Riri Williams / Ironheart

Riri Williams / Ironheart

"To be young, gifted, and black though, right?"

^{Click here to see Riri in the Ironheart suit.}
"LET'S GO!!"

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): MIT

Portrayed By: Dominique Thorne

Voiced By: Saori Hayami (Japanese dub)

Appearances: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever | Ironheart

"My stepfather was an auto mechanic. He wanted to build airplanes. He'd give me these tools and let me, just, work it out."

A Child Prodigy who created her own homemade Iron Man armor. She caught the attention of Talokan after the US government stole her design for a device that could detect Vibranium, and the Wakandans stepped in to protect her life.

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• Age Lift: Like Kate Bishop, Riri is only in high school when she created her first armor in the comics. In Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, she is first introduced at the age of 19. Though she does mention that she's been working on her proto-Ironheart armor for years, so the first part at least might still be true.
• Ascended Extra: Riri debuts as a supporting character in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever before starring as the primary protagonist of her own series.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: She manages to find a spy drone and shoot it down in such a way it'll crash and take out a police blockade in Okoye and Shuri's path before it's even been set up.
• Beta Outfit: Her first armor is built in a simple workshop, using simple parts she scavenged. Both Okoye and Shuri are skeptical of it but the suit functions well and allows Riri to escape from the feds. The original suit ends up getting totaled in the chase, and Riri builds a much more advanced version in Wakanda, though she's forced to leave it in Shuri's lab at the end of the film.
• Black and Nerdy: Riri is African-American and a genius inventor studying at MIT.
• Child Prodigy: At the age of 19, she becomes the first person since Tony to create a functioning Iron Man armor, using what few parts she can find, something the US military and other organizations have been failing to do for 20 years. She also reveals that she created an airplane when she was just 3 years old.
• Deadpan Snarker: When Shuri tells her that Wakanda currently has no Black Panther for the first time in their history, Riri snidely remarks on the timing of this when she's taken captive.
• Elite School Means Elite Brain: Of course, the Child Prodigy would be found attending MIT. Though it's indicated that her brain may actually be too elite even for MIT.
• Establishing Character Moment: Her introduction is her hassling a fellow college student for not having paid her yet for the paper he hired her to write for him and received high marks for, establishing that she's a strong-willed genius, but also has a disregard for the rules and a bit of a blind spot to the possible consequence of her actions.
• Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: She initially has a nerdgasm when she meets Shuri, geeking out over her and gleefully answering her questions about the Vibranium detector she constructed...and then realizes why Wakanda might not have taken the nicest interest in her for it. Then she subsequently learns that it's not just Wakanda that's unhappy with her.
• For Science!: Tony built his armor first to escape captivity, then to make amends for his arms-dealing, and then for superheroing. The various knock-offs over the years were built to serve as weapons. Meanwhile, Riri seems to have built her armor just because she could.
• Heads-Up Display: The advanced suit she builds in Wakanda uses a heads-up not dissimilar to the one used in the Iron Man, War Machine, and Rescue suits, including the famous "close-up on the actor's face from inside the suit" shot.
• Mirror Character: To N’Jadaka/Erik Stevens. Both are working-class, African-American scientific geniuses educated at the MIT. Unlike N’Jadaka, Riri was protected by the leaders of Wakanda, with her skills praised and nurtured. N’Jadaka’s spirit bitterly points out that before him, Wakanda would never have protected someone like her.
• Misblamed: Talokan wants her dead for building a machine that can detect Vibranium. It turns out she had built it as a school project, and didn't even know that the government had appropriated her design and were using it to mine Vibranium from the ocean floor.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Had she run for her life as ordered, she quite possibly wouldn't have gotten caught up in Namor's water bomb and needed to be saved by Ramonda at the cost of her life.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: When Ramonda asks her to run with Namor about to attack again, Riri initially complies before stopping and refusing to leave without the Queen. This causes both of them to get caught in Namor's flood and indirectly results in Ramonda having to sacrifice her life to save the girl.
• Powered Armor: Her Ironheart armor is similar to Tony's, except hers doesn't require an Arc Reactor to function. Her homebuilt suit is quite advanced for being made of scrap parts, and the Wakandan version is reminiscent of Tony's pre-nanotech suits.
• Primary-Color Champion: Her armor is primarily red with blue and gold accents.
• Red Is Heroic: Her armor's primarily colored red.
• Replacement Flat Character: To Shuri. Riri embodies a lot of what Shuri was like in the first Black Panther film, being expressive and willing to voice her opinion, while Shuri is put through a Trauma Conga Line that leaves her much more reserved and melancholic in comparison.
• Sassy Black Woman: She has her moments like this, especially when she's frustrated. Most poignantly, when Okoye reveals her spear and cuts the speaker Riri threw at her in half, she still has the guts to snark at Okoye's makeup.
• A Taste of Power: After her first scrap-metal suit is ruined, she builds a new, extremely advanced Ironheart armor with Wakandan technology. Riri's forced to leave it behind in Wakanda though and start over again, since Shuri doesn't want a civilian running around with Vibranium tech.
• Tragic Keepsake: Her 1972 Plymouth Hemi Barracuda belonged to her late father.
• Undying Loyalty: It starts with I Owe You My Life, but leads to this. Queen Ramonda essentially sacrifices her life to protect Riri and save her from Namor. Riri does not forget it. Her first words when going into battle against Namor's troops say it all.
  "For the Queen."
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: She invented a machine that could detect Vibranium as a simple school project. This winds up kicking off an international crisis as the United States decides to use it to find Vibranium in the ocean, which provokes Talokan into deciding to declare war on the surface world, starting with Wakanda if they do not agree to have her killed.

Elsa Bloodstone

Elsa Bloodstone

Species: Human

Citizenship: Unknown

Portrayed By: Laura Donnelly

Appearances: Werewolf By Night

"I came to get the stone 'cause I want to be rid of my dad, my stepmother, all of this for good."

The estranged daughter of famous monster hunter Ulysses Bloodstone, and an acclaimed monster hunter in her own right.

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• Action Girl: She is a female monster hunter. She manages to fight off one of her opposing hunters by cutting off his arm with an axe before impaling him with a crossbow bolt, and later on she duels another hunter to the death.
• Adaptational Dye-Job: Elsa’s hair colour has changed several times in the comics, but these days is famously depicted as a Fiery Redhead. However, she has brunette hair here. The full-color version of the special reveals she has a few red streaks in her hair.
• Adaptational Modesty: Elsa in the comics has an outfit that showed off her generous cleavage. Here, she dresses conservatively.
• Age Lift: In the comics, her age is never definitively stated, but she's likely around her mid-twenties. Here, she's apparently in her early forties, as her stepmother mentions that she's been gone for several decades, and Laura Donnelly herself is in her early forties.
• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Has brown hair in this setting and she has a rather flippant attitude.
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Elsa only has a slice cut on her forehead by the end of ‘’Werewolf by Night’’, despite at one point having her face smashed into stone three times, among other things she goes through.
• Deadpan Snarker: She's known to snark often, particularly around Jack.
• Deuteragonist: She's the secondary protagonist in Werewolf by Night.
• Establishing Character Moment: Two:
  • She shows up to her father's funeral/competition announcement late, and loudly drags a chair in the middle of Verusa talking so she can sit in the center of the room. This sets up her blasé attitude towards her father and monster hunting in general, as well as her hatred for her stepmother.
  • During her battle with one of the hunters, she slices off his hand that is trapped between the doors, straddles him and starts punching him in the face before trying to choke him out, and immediately goes to retrive his wrist-mounted crossbow off the severed hand when she sees a good opportunity, kills him with it, and isn't bothered in the slightest as he chokes on his own blood. This establishes her casual brutality and pragmatic ruthlessness in combat, as well as her utter lack of compunctions with taking lives.
• Good Is Not Nice: She's A Lighter Shade of Black compared to her family and the other monster hunters, but that doesn't make her a caring person. She still has a flippant attitude towards human life, especially when the first thing she does after claiming the Bloodstone for herself is to order the family butler to clean up all the dead bodies in the room while she lounges there. She's also extremely violent and brutal in combat situations and won't even think twice about trying to kill her opponents as quickly as possible.
• The Grappler: Her fighting style makes heavy use of fluid submission holds and joint locks, and she's not above repeatedly punching a pinned opponent in the face.
• Grappling-Hook Pistol: She steals a grappling claw from her aunt's tomb, which she uses to pull the Bloodstone off of Ted's back and later to save Jack from Verussa.
• Hell-Bent for Leather: She wears a red leather jacket.
• Inadequate Inheritor: Due to not wanting to follow in his footsteps of being a monster hunter, Ulysses Bloodstone had disinherited Elsa from getting the actual Bloodstone that they share their family name with. Her objective during Werewolf By Night is to get it back regardless.
• Irony: Elsa is considered unworthy of the Bloodstone due to distancing herself from her father. By the end of the special she ends up becoming the inheritor after everyone else has died and by showing compassion to both Jack and Man-Thing as opposed to killing them on sight.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's cold, aloof, openly disrespectful to people she doesn't like, and ruthless in combat, but she does help Jack get Ted to safety and genuinely seems to like and care about Jack in general.
• Karmic Jackpot: By helping Ted escape per Jack's request, Man-Thing pays her back in kind by immolating Verusa and then leaving her to go seek out Jack (who was forced to transform into his werewolf form due to the Bloodstone). This enables her to claim not only the Bloodstone, which she was after, but the entire family estate.
• Knight in Sour Armor: She's hostile, abrasive, irreverent, and is openly rude and disrespectful towards people and institutions she has a problem with, but she is also a genuinely compassionate person and will go out of her way to help and protect people and beings she has taken a liking to.
• Last of Their Kind: With her father already dead and her step-mother disposed of by Man-Thing, she's the last remaining member of the Bloodstone bloodline.
• Made of Iron: Has her head violently and repeatedly slammed into a wall at one point, but she easily shrugs it off like nothing. She also has her Achilles tendon sliced in battle with a hunter, but only momentarily winces and doesn't seem to suffer any lasting effects (granted, her boots were thick and likely armored enough to keep it from penetrating too deep).
• Not So Stoic: Despite her rather unflappable demeanor around Jack and the other monster hunters, Elsa is nothing short of completely terrified when Jack is forced to transform into a werewolf right in front of her.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: She's known to be calm, albeit somewhat aloof, throughout the special. Even seeing Man-Thing use his acid on a hunter doesn't make her freak out. When she starts crying out in fear and is terrified for her life when Jack is forced to turn into his werewolf form, it's a sign that things are going straight to Hell.
• Parental Sexuality Squick: She openly cringes when Verussa describes Ulysses as "a lover without equal".
• Red Is Heroic: Her coat is red once the color returns to the film.
• Tears of Fear: As Verussa begins forcing Jack Russel to transform into a werewolf against his will, Elsa starts shedding tears out of sheer terror as he groans and screams.
• Use Their Own Weapon Against Them: She kills Liorn with his own crossbow gauntlet.

Cassie Lang

Cassandra "Cassie" Lang

"It's never too late to stop being a dick."

^{Click here to see her as a child}
"I wish I could fight bad guys, like you."

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Portrayed By: Abby Ryder Fortson (Ant-Man, Ant-Man and the Wasp), Emma Fuhrmann (Avengers: Endgame), Kathryn Newton (Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania)

Voiced By: Frida Camila Castro (Latin-American Spanish); Isa Cavalcante (kid), Sicilia Vidal (teen) (Brazilian Portuguese), Rikako Ohta (Japanese, 1-Endgane), Rie Takahashi (Japanese, Quantumania)

Appearances: Ant-Man | Ant-Man and the Wasp | Avengers: Endgame | Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

"We need to look out for the little guy. My dad taught me that."

Scott Lang's daughter.

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• Abled in the Adaptation: In her childhood, which was pivotal to Scott becoming the second Ant-Man, Cassie suffered from a congenital heart defect. Thus, Scott was motivated to steal the Ant-Man suit so he could rescue the one woman who could save her. Here, she is just fine, and Scott becoming Ant-Man has nothing to do with her being ill.
• Adaptational Angst Downgrade: In three, later four cases.
  • Cassie is perfectly healthy here, and thus any trauma she could've had from being nearly terminally ill is completely avoided.
  • Her relationship with both her mother and her step-father is much better than in the comics, which helps that the two aren't nearly as mean as the source. In the comics, she ran away from them after Scott's death to be a superhero, which was fueled by the high tensions that were between them.
  • For five years, Scott was listed as being a victim of the Snap. He wasn't, and Cassie got to welcome him back in open arms. In the comics, Scott did die in the opening of the Avengers Disassembled event, and remained dead for eight real-world years, during which Cassie became Stature as a Spin-Offspring with her father dead and her mother is not on speaking terms. When he came back, Cassie soon died, but was eventually brought back. Here, all of this is avoided.
• Adaptational Intelligence: While Cassie isn't dumb in the comics, she surely doesn't have a genius-level intellect. During the five years after Thanos' Snap, Cassie manages to learn quantum physics all by herself and is further tutored by Hope and Hank after they Blipped back. By the time of Quantumania, not only has she invented a satellite to the Quantum Realm, she also can reopen a portal to there in the final act, something that took the Pyms decades to succeed.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: She's blonde in the comics. Here, she's a brunette. That said, it does match her father going from being a redhead to also having dark hair in this adaptation.
• Adapted Out: In the comics, Cassie took part in the Civil War as Stature. In the MCU version of the event, she doesn't, as she's not yet a superhero by that point.
• Affectionate Nickname: Scott calls her "Peanut".
• Age Lift: In the comics, she became Stature at the age of 14 (though Artistic Age made it hard to tell). In the MCU, she's 16 and hasn't yet become Stature by the time of Endgame. At 18, she officially takes on the role (though not yet the name) in Quantumania.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Like her dad, Cassie is capable of becoming a giant, with the same side effects.
• Brutal Honesty: She's incredibly blunt, in a way that might even be taken as sarcasm if she wasn't evidently being totally honest.
• Cast from Calories: Like her father, her first attempt at becoming big tires her after a while and she requests some lime. Subverted as she manages to get back on her feet shortly and becomes big once more time to fight Kang, likely running on adrenaline.
• Cheerful Child: A very bright and lively little girl.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Kevin Feige stated that Cassie was put in the Ant-Man movies to plant seeds for the future like they always do. Though he didn't go into further detail, many have long held the belief that Cassie will either become the hero Stature or Stinger.
• Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: In Quantumania, she doesn't go by "Stature" or "Stinger" though promotional material refers to her as the former.
• Composite Character: Promotional material of Quantumania refers Cassie as Stature though her suit resembles to that of Stinger, her later identity (although said suit doesn't have wings). In terms of her powers, Stature was initially the result of Cassie being exposed to Pym Particles but as Stinger, the powers come from the suit.
• Cop Hater: In the first two movies, Cassie is openly resentful of her stepfather (at first) and Jimmy Woo due to them being law enforcement officers who are restricting and antagonizing her dad all the time. By the time of Quantumania, it's gotten to the point where she's gotten arrested by the police at least twice due to her rebellious nature. The fact that she's apparently been shrinking cop cars doesn't help.
• Daddy's Girl: If there's one person Scott can always count on to be rooting for him, it's Cassie. She thinks her dad is a hero before he becomes Ant-Man. She was also ecstatic to see him at her birthday party and sad to see him leave. This continues in Ant-Man and the Wasp, as Cassie is the only one who consistently roots for her father the whole way through. In Endgame, she welcomes Scott with open arms after he went missing for five years, when it was believed he was Decimated by Thanos.
• Deuteragonist: Arguably steals the role from Hope in Quantumania, as she is learning to use her suit, and find her footing in the Super-Heroics alongside her father and his girlfriend. Likewise she is the one that gives the rally cry to the Quantum Realm to rise up against Kang.
• Family Theme Naming: With her mother Maggie. They also have same letters before their similar ones.
• Fan of Underdog: Always roots for and believes in her father, even when he appears to be in the wrong. Scott's main motivation for being a better person is so that he can be worthy of her admiration.
• First Father Wins: Downplayed. Cassie still very much loves Paxton and supports his relationship with her mom. However, she nonetheless clearly prefers Scott and roots for him against Paxton in the first movie, and is a Shipper on Deck for him and Hope.
• Genius Bruiser: In Quantumania, she is shown to have a natural aptitude for quantum physics, being able to build a device that can send signals to the Quantum Realm under Hank's supervision. As a superhero, she's Unskilled, but Strong, being able to pick up on fighting with her Stinger suit pretty quickly.
• Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: In Ant-Man, she wears a sparkly purple dress and tiara for her birthday party and has pink pajamas and a pink-themed bedroom, but is also a Nightmare Fetishist for creepy toys and bugs. In Ant-Man and the Wasp, she plays soccer and often wears camo-styled clothes while still sporting pink accessories; at one point, she pairs camo leggings with a frilly pink tutu and flowery headband, while aspiring to fight bad guys like her dad when she's older.
• Instant Expert: Quantumania is Cassie's first superhero outing and other than failing to punch someone properly (which she eventually rectifies), she is able to use the suit's shrinking function well such as sliding into vents and setting up ambushes, something that took her father several days of training. She also manages to turn gigantic on her first try while her father "nearly tore himself in half" on his first attempt. It's downplayed as Hank and Hope have been helping her, and the tech has improved a lot since Scott first turned gigantic.
• Intergenerational Friendship: Between the events of Endgame and Quantumania, she's developed a bond with Hank Pym, learning how to build quantum-tech under his tutelage and affectionately calls him "grandpa".
• Like Parent, Like Child: Much to Scott's chagrin, by the time of Quantumania Cassie has become just like him in that she's vigilant about helping others in need, even if it means breaking the law and getting arrested to do so.
• Mythology Gag: She wears purple clothes in her first appearances in Ant-Man and Endgame, a reference to the color of her Stinger suit in the comics.
• Nice Girl: Like Parent, Like Child. Cassie is a very sweet girl, and after five years where her father was presumed dead, this hasn't changed.
• Nightmare Fetishist: Adores things that are creepy or otherwise considered ugly, like the hideous rabbit doll Scott gifted her. At the end of the first Ant-Man movie, she adopts a giant ant.
• Parent-Child Team: Cassie wishes she was Ant-Man's partner, so she can help people. When she talks about her father needing a partner, she is visibly disappointed that he thinks of Hope instead of herself, but she accepts Hope as Scott's partner.
• Rebellious Spirit: After hitting her teen years, Cassie begins participating in protests in San Francisco, which culminates her getting arrested at least twice. When down in the Quantum Realm, Cassie immediately sympathizes with the freedom fighters who are combating Kang, and insists to Scott that they need to help them, even when they don't know how to get home themselves.
• Secret-Keeper: She's the only person not involved with the Pym laboratory heist in Ant-Man and the Wasp who knows that her father has returned to being Ant-Man and helps him to keep it a secret from Paxton, her mother and the FBI.
• She's All Grown Up: It's quite a contrast to see Cassie as a teenager, but she is still as a big of a charm as ever.
• Shipper on Deck: Cassie supports the relationships her parents have with Paxton and Hope, respectively.
• Sizeshifter: Like her father and Hope, Cassie has her own suit that allows her to change size.
• Sticky Fingers: Played for laughs in the beginning of Quantumania, where she apparently has been stealing things from the cops who have jailed her while she was at a protest (by shrinking them).
• Teen Genius: At the age of sixteen, she is already an expert in Quantum Physics and knows as much (if not more) than Hank Pym about the Quantum Realm. Among her achievements include building a subatomic satellite to study the Quantum Realm (with Hank's help) and opening a portal to there, something that took the Pyms decades to succeed.
• Time-Shifted Actor: Abby Ryder-Fortson plays her as a kid, while Emma Fuhrmann and Kathryn Newton play her as a teen. Justified due to the five-year Time Skip between Ant-Man and the Wasp and Avengers: Endgame
• Took a Level in Badass: In the first two movies, Cassie is just a young girl who loves her dad, but isn't able to do much other than cheer him on. By the time of Quantumania, not only is she much older, but is just as skilled and determined a hero as her father is.
• Turn the Other Cheek: Surprisingly has this for Darren Cross, the man who tried to kill her as a child and attempts to do so again in Quantumania. After managing to incapacitate him, Cassie tells Darren that he doesn't have to be a dick anymore, which ultimately culminates in him making a Heel–Face Turn.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Cassie building a Quantum device that sends a signal down to the Quantum Realm allows for M.O.D.O.K to pick it up, allowing him to pull the Langs and Pym-Van Dynes into the Quantum Realm, kicking off the plot of the third movie.
• Younger Than They Look: 16 years old after the Time Skip, but could pose as a young adult.

Maya Lopez / Echo

Maya Lopez / Echo

"Remind me. Who's in charge?"

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Tracksuit Mafia (formerly)

Portrayed By: Alaqua Cox, Darnell Besaw (young)

Appearances: Hawkeye | Echo

"You know what my father meant to me."

A high-ranking member of the Tracksuit Mafia and a deaf martial artist who holds a deep grudge against Ronin.

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• 11th-Hour Ranger: Maya is the last person to participate in the final battle against the Tracksuit Mafia at the Rockefeller Center.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
  • In the comics, Maya was romantically involved with Clint Barton at one point. In the MCU, Maya and Clint are enemies due to the latter being manipulated into killing her father.
  • Echo and Daredevil are closely linked together in the comics, where they became close allies after realizing that Kingpin was manipulating both of them, and often teamed up to stop various threats. In the MCU, Maya only encounters Daredevil once during the five-year Snap period, having a brief skirmish during a raid Fisk organizes.
• Adaptational Backstory Change:
  • In the comics, her father was killed by Wilson Fisk, who later lied to her that it was actually Daredevil who did it. In the MCU, her father was killed by Clint Barton, who later confesses that Maya's boss wanted her father killed when Ronin was given a lead by one of his men, making Kingpin indirectly responsible instead.
  • Echo in the comics is named after her photographic reflexes that let her copy an opponent's fighting moves. While she still has this ability in the MCU, the name Echo instead comes from the echoes of her ancestors resounding within her.
  • In the comics, Maya is Cheyenne, in the MCU she's Choctaw.
• Adaptational Superpower Change: In the comics, she only has the superhuman reflexes and photographic memory. The MCU gives her enhanced strenght and psychic abilities to recall the memories of her female ancestors and enter the memories of others.
• Adaptational Villainy: In the comics, she becomes a superheroine after learning about how her uncle, the Kingpin, murdered her father. In the MCU, she is one of the main antagonists of Hawkeye, with Clint Barton having killed her father in front of her, leading her down a path of villainy. However, the last episode of Hawkeye implies that she wants to turn over a new leaf and have a better life away from the Kingpin, who was indirectly responsible for leading Ronin to kill her father.
• Affectionate Nickname: Her father tends to call her "little dragon".
• An Arm and a Leg: She lost her right leg to a car accident orchestrated by her father's enemies which also killed her mother.
• Annoying Arrows: She gets hit in the chest by one of Kate's arrows in episode 4 of Hawkeye, but she treats it as more of an annoyance than anything.
• Anti-Hero: In the aftermath of Hawkeye, she's turned to the much more noble goal of demolishing Fisk's criminal empire, although (at least initially) so that she can takeover as the Queenpin. She's also perfectly willing to murder and use domestic terrorism, and she ropes her cousin Biscuits into her scheme. Her goals shift in a more outright heroic direction when Kingpin resurfaces and threatens her family directly, and she ultimately chooses her family over a criminal empire at the end of the series.
• Artificial Limbs Are Stronger: During one fight, she roundhouse kicks her opponent and sends him flying a dozen feet. Note: roundhouse kicks don't work that way. Fisk may have given her something special.
• Badass Biker: Maya rides a motorcycle that she uses as a weapon against the Tracksuit Mafia following her Hazy-Feel Turn.
• Badass Driver: Maya drives a 1972 Dodge Challenger while pursuing Clint Barton and Kate Bishop through the streets of New York, evading most of their trick arrows until it gets wrecked at the end of the chase.
• Badass Native: A Native-American woman who's a master martial artist despite her deafness and need of a prosthetic leg.
• Broken Pedestal: Towards Kingpin, who basically was her father figure after her real father died. She realized Fisk was the one who set up her father's death and confronted him about it with a gun. While she didn't end up killing Fisk, she sure as hell doesn't want anymore to do with him when he tries to reinsert himself into her life. Whatever semblance of a connection they still had, that being their parents taken from them, is completely shattered when she learns that Fisk is a Self-Made Orphan.
• Bullying the Disabled:
  • An unusual case. Upon meeting Clint face-to-face, Maya berates him for using a hearing aid, feeling that he would do better without it, and makes it a point to smash it in front of him once she knocks it out (although, this is more to hinder Clint rather than bully him so that she can subdue him more easily). Seeing as though she herself is completely deaf, Maya's criticisms are less about Clint suffering from hearing loss, and more that he's reliant on a hearing aid to help him in day-to-day life.
  • Echo has Maya experience a much straighter example with the ice cream vendor who mocks her deafness when she can't order properly.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: Having trained in martial arts at a young age in spite of her deafness, Maya proves to be a very tough enemy for Clint in hand-to-hand combat.
• Co-Dragons: Played With. She's the clear leader of the Tracksuits and is held with higher regard by her boss, but her own Dragon, Kazi, helped him arrange the death of her father, putting him on somewhat equal authority.
• Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: Maya has never been referred to as "Echo" throughout her appearances in Hawkeye. The name is alluded to in her series with Chula telling her about the ancestors echoing within her and her mother appearing as a Spirit Advisor and signing her the word Echo.
• Cool Car: She owns and drives a 1972 Dodge Challenger that both Clint Barton and Kate Bishop admire. Unfortunately, it gets banged up quite badly after an intense car chase.
• Create Your Own Villain: She holds a vendetta with Ronin after the latter killed her father, and it is later revealed that it was all orchestrated by her boss Wilson Fisk.
• Daddy's Girl:
  • Maya had an extremely close and loving relationship with her father, who encouraged her to be more than just her disabilities. It was him that inspired her to become the woman she is now and she was heartbroken by his death. Much of her motivation throughout the show is to track down Ronin, who she knows killed her father. As Clint later confirms, he did indeed kill him, but under the direction of Kingpin.
  • Echo (2024) shows that she had this kind of relationship with her Honorary Uncle Wilson Fisk, whom she worked diligently for and was eager to impress him. Even after everything that happened between them, part of her still genuinely loves him.
• Dance Battler: One of the main martial arts she uses is Capoeira, which incorporates dance and acrobatics.
• Dark Action Girl: Maya is a martial artist and a high-ranking member of the Tracksuit Mafia who tends to wear dark clothing, even until she decides to turn against them.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Echo (2024) delves a bit deeper into Maya's upbringing and it is marred by pain. Her father was a criminal with ties to Fisk, which led to her mother getting killed in front of her by Fisk's enemies in a car crash, which caused Maya to have an injury that led to the loss of her right leg. Her grandmother disowned them in grief, forcing them to leave her home and become estranged from her family. Then she was bought up by Kingpin who nurtured her sorrow and anger and made her into a criminal. Then, her father died in her arms when Ronin found their compound, leaving her completely alone.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Although Maya is a dark-haired criminal who is often seen in black clothing, she has a moral compass, which is proven when she decides to fight against the Tracksuit Mafia after learning that Kingpin is the true mastermind of her father's death.
• Deadpan Snarker: Despite her deafness, she sometimes can make sarcastic remarks via ASL. Also somewhat counts as a Silent Snarker as she lets her expressions do the talking for her half the time.
  Kazi: You don't have to pretend it doesn't hurt with me.
  Maya: (completely stone faced) It hurts. There. I opened up. Shared my feelings.
• Death by Origin Story: Her father was killed by Ronin during the Snap.
• Disabled in the Adaptation: Maya is not an amputee in the comics, but is one here. This is due to her actress actually having a prosthetic leg in real life.
• The Dragon: To the actual leader of the Tracksuit Mafia, the Kingpin. It also fits figuratively with her nickname "little dragon".
• Dragon with an Agenda: While she's loyal to Kingpin (at least until she discovers that he got Ronin to kill her father), her main motivation in Hawkeye is to get revenge on Ronin for murdering her father.
• Empowered Badass Normal: Already an expert martial artist and marksman, in times of extreme danger Maya can all upon her ancestors for their power, becoming strong enough to separate two train cars and turn a fight against Fisk and an entire room of enforcers into a Curb-Stomp Battle in her favour.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: "Evil" might be too strong of a word, but she is a hardened criminal who still adored her father and clearly cares for her second-in-command, Kazi. She also legitimately loves her remaining family, especially Bonnie, whom she kept a distance from out of a desire to protect her from Fisk's criminal activity. It's also confirmed in Echo that she genuinely loves Fisk himself as an uncle and father figure, even though she doesn't want to be a part of his crime ring anymore.
• Foil:
  • To Kate Bishop. Kate was raised as Old Money, lost her father while she was still a child, looks up to Clint Barton as Hawkeye, and is new to being a hero. Maya, on the other hand, was poor enough as a child that her desire to be able to afford to go to a special deaf-only school was up in the air, lost her father as an adult, hates Ronin (and therefore unknowingly Clint) for killing him and is an experienced criminal.
  • To Yelena Belova. Both of them are competent female martial artists who were trained and raised by shady organizations, and they are both seeking to avenge the deaths of their beloved family members by killing Clint Barton. However, Yelena learns that Clint did not kill Natasha and leaves her grudge behind. Maya's case is slightly more ambiguous since Clint did kill her father through Kingpin's manipulation (though she seems to have re-targeted her wrath to Kingpin himself in the finale). Yelena is a more professional assassin who is equipped with high-tech gadgets to help her in her missions. Maya does not have such luxuries so she tends to rely on her subordinates to do her bidding. Also, Yelena is a blonde with a short to average stature while Maya is dark-haired and taller.
  • She's also one to Matt Murdock/Daredevil. Both of them are Handicapped Badass fighters with clear Blood Knight tendencies and highly skilled in martial arts, as she demonstrates when she's able to hold her own in their fight, which impresses Fisk. Both have sensory disabilities (which, incidentally, make it impossible for them to communicate directly — she can't hear him speak and he can't see sign language). Both of them were orphaned at a young age, and were raised by ruthlessly manipulative mentor figures who sought to turn their skills to their own ends.^note Funnily, their actors even share the same last name, though they're obviously not related. However, while Matt is a vigilante who seeks to make the streets safe for ordinary people, Maya is (initially) driven by revenge and has ambitions of becoming The Queenpin, though she eventually begins to embrace her destiny as a hero and the defender of her people. And while both are enemies to Wilson Fisk, their dynamics with him are very different. Matt seeks to bring Fisk down because he's a crime lord, while Maya was raised by him, viewing him as her Honorary Uncle, and was long a loyal enforcer for him before learning about his role in her father's death and is primarily concerned with getting revenge for this. For his part, Fisk still views her as family and seeks to bring her back into the fold. He eventually realizes it's not going to happen, and is enraged at what he considers a personal betrayal.
• Generation Xerox: Just like her father William, Maya becomes a high-ranking member of the Tracksuit Mafia who encounters Clint Barton. However, William was killed by Clint while Maya survives and has a Hazy-Feel Turn.
• Genocide Survivor: She survived the Snap, as a flashback scene in Hawkeye shows her witnessing Rōnin slaughter multiple Tracksuits including her father sometime after The Snap and before The Blip.
• Handicapped Badass: She is a deaf martial artist who can mimic the physical movements of others. Just like her actress, she is also an amputee who uses a prosthetic leg.
• Hazy-Feel Turn: Maya turns against Wilson Fisk upon learning he pinpointed Ronin to kill her father and drive her to a life of crime under his employment. It's unknown if she really did have a change of heart, but she tries to convince Kazi to leave New York with her to start a new life, but he refuses purely out of fear. In the end, Maya finally gets her closure by confronting an injured Fisk with a pistol pointed at him. Echo confirms that she wants her own crime ring now that Fisk is out of the picture, though her Character Development lets her see the folly of this.
• Healing Hands: One of the powers she inherited as a descendant of the first Choctaw is the ability to heal people by touching them with her palms. However, the recipient has to be willing to be healed, so Maya's attempt to heal Fisk's inner turmoil didn't work.
• Heartbroken Badass: A force to be reckoned with in any scenario and provides a genuine challenge even for Clint and Kate, but it's clear she's still heartbroken by her father's death and wants nothing more than to find closure for it. She's later also devastated at having to kill her only friend Kazi because he refused to leave his life of crime in fear of Fisk.
• The Heavy: Fisk is the Big Bad behind the Tracksuits, but Maya escalates the conflict of Hawkeye through her obsessive hunt for the Ronin.
• Hell-Bent for Leather: She sports a leather jacket and riding pants in her first appearance.
• Kick Chick: Due to being trained in karate, kickboxing, and capoeira, her fighting style mostly consists of kicks. Because of her prosthetic leg, kicks from her right leg are excruciating.
• Knight of Cerebus: The incredibly jolly Hawkeye takes a far more serious turn when she shows up, as not only is she considerably more dangerous than her ridiculous henchman, she also has one hell of a grudge against Barton and wants him very dead. Tellingly, none of her scenes are remotely comedic; even her sarcasm comes across as more bitter than anything else.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: She leaves the fight against Yelena, Kate, and Clint when it becomes clear to her that it's an unwinnable battle.
• Lightning Bruiser: As a martial artist, she hits fast, she hits hard, and she can take a lot of punishment while doing so, as seen when she get hit by one of Kate's arrows and only treating it as an annoyance.
• Morality Pet: To Fisk. He may be a ruthless crime lord but he's genuinely fond of Maya and can't bring himself to harm her even when she's turned on him.
• One-Steve Limit: She shares her first name with Maya Hansen.
• Perpetual Frowner: Even as a child Maya usually looks solemn and rarely smiles. When grown up she mostly shows little emotion, looking morose or angry if emotional at all most often.
• Please, Don't Leave Me: She begs her father to not die on her. Unfortunately, he signs back that he's already gone. She later does this to Kazi, but he's too scared of the Kingpin to leave their life of crime with her.
• The Queenpin: She is a high-ranking member of the Tracksuit Mafia, but defects after learning her boss manipulated Ronin into killing her father. Later in her own series she aspires to become the literal Queenpin until she finds out Wilson Fisk is alive.
• Revenge Before Reason: Kazi says as much when he tries to get her to stop going after Ronin - he's an incredibly dangerous man, and it doesn't matter how good a reason she has for trying to kill him, she's going to cost a lot of people their lives in the process.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: In the comics, she is more of a Daredevil villain-turned-hero. In the MCU, she faces off against Hawkeye, with her hero status still in the air.
• Second Episode Introduction: She makes her first appearance at the end of the second episode of Hawkeye.
• Silent Antagonist: Maya is initially the antagonist to Clint and Kate, who doesn't speak at all. Justified, as Maya has been deaf all her life, and thus has little reason to talk. She does communicate through ASL though, with Kazi translating for Clint and Kate. In Echo (2024) Maya speaks a little, but quite softly so it's hard to discern. However, by this point, she is the protagonist.
• Team Member in the Adaptation: She has no involvement with the Tracksuit Mafia in the comics.
• Twofer Token Minority: Maya is a female Native American who's deaf and an amputee, while she's the only character with all of those traits. Even in Echo (2024) after she visits her home Choctaw community she's still the only disabled character.
• Tyke Bomb: Maya was raised and trained by the Tracksuit Mafia and its leader Wilson Fisk to become one of the organization's strongest enforcers.
• Use Their Own Weapon Against Them: Maya would have killed Clint with his own sword if Kate did not arrive just in time to save him.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: She was an adorable child who believed in dragons and grew up to be a formidable martial artist. Then she saw Ronin kill her father. Although her solo series reveals that, even as a child, she displayed some violent tendencies, which the Kingpin deliberately cultivated.
• The Voiceless: Maya, who's deaf, communicates entirely through American Sign Language initially during Hawkeye (2021). In Echo (2024) though she speaks quietly a little, but secondary to signing.
• When She Smiles: Maya's face looks very lit up on the rare occasions when she smiles, as she's got a broad and charming grin that's a deep contrast with her usual grim or emotional appearance.
• Would Hurt a Child: Strongly implied when Clint Barton and Kate Bishop discover that after their fight with Maya, she has been listing the names and ages of Clint's wife and children. Clint later decides to personally confront Maya about potentially targeting his family.
• You Don't Look Like You: Maya Lopez in the MCU so far lacks the white handprint across her face that she had in the comics. However, her father did give her a temporary handprint across her face with his own blood shortly before dying in her arms on the night when Ronin killed him.
• You Killed My Father: The one reason why she wants to kill the Ronin. She later learns that her boss, the Kingpin, is the true perpetrator, and shoots him in the face for it.

The Red Daggers

In General

Red Daggers

Appearances: Ms. Marvel

A secret society tasked with protecting the people of Pakistan from supernatural threats.

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• Adaptational Backstory Change: In the comics, there's just one Red Dagger, a street level vigilante who mainly deals with crime and social problems that affect everyday life in Karachi. Here, it's an entire secret society dedicated to battling magical enemies. In this way, they draw on another Ms. Marvel ally, Fadi Fadlalah/Amulet, who does not appear in the series.
• Benevolent Conspiracy: They are based in Pakistan, but track magical troubles across the globe. They also, evidently, have some presence on the Eastern Seaboard of the United States as they are able to put an extraction team together for Kamran within a matter of hours.
• Good Is Not Nice: The Red Daggers protect Pakistan from supernatural threats. But if Kareem is any indication, they also have several outstanding warrants.
• Hero of Another Story: According to Kamran. They hunted the Clan Destine for decades.
• Oddly Small Organization: Despite being a secret society that has existed for decades, and have enough resources to have a relatively impressive Elaborate Underground Base, the only daggers we ever see are Waleed and Kareem. Not even a single red-dagger-shirt is in sight, background or otherwise.
• The Order: They are a team of warriors devoted to protect Pakistani society.

Waleed

Waleed

"Our function is simple. To protect our people from threats of the unseen."

Species: Human

Citizenship: Pakistani

Affiliation(s): Red Daggers

Portrayed By: Farhan Akhtar

Appearances: Ms. Marvel

"Though we may not have fancy armor, you should know, there is history in every thread of this fabric, so you always remember where you came from. You're not alone."

The leader of the Red Daggers.

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• Badass Normal: Waleed has no superpowers, but is an extraordinarily skilled fighter and has deep knowledge of the extra-dimensional.
• In the Back: Is killed by Najma from a knife to the back.
• Mentor Occupational Hazard: He gets killed in the latter half of "Seeing Red".
• Mr. Exposition: What his role essentially amounts to. He explains to Kamala the purpose of the Red Dagger mantle and goes into more detail about the Noor dimension being her main source of power, among other things.
• Nice Guy: A very friendly and patient man. Unlike the Clandestine, his affability is completely genuine.
• Papa Wolf: He is incredibly protective of both Kareem and Kamala, to the point that he gives his life for them.

Kareem / Red Dagger

Kareem / Red Dagger

"Welcome to the Red Daggers."

Species: Human

Citizenship: Pakistani

Affiliation(s): Red Daggers

Portrayed By: Aramis Knight

Appearances: Ms. Marvel

"Sometimes you have to look beyond what's right in front of you."

A member of a secret Pakistani society who befriends Kamala Khan.

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• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Strictly speaking, comic book Kareem has never come out and told Kamala that he is the Red Dagger, though it is implied she has figured it out. Here the secret identity is never an issue, and he meets her before she even officially takes on the Ms. Marvel mantle.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: He first appeared in the comics in Ms. Marvel volume 4 issue 12, which is Kamala's 31st solo issue and more than two years after her debut. Here, he debuts before Kamala even has her proper costume.
• Adaptational Job Change: Red Dagger is no longer Kareem's personal vigilante persona to dole out justice in Karachi, but a centuries-old secret society concerned with paranormal threats.
• Badass Biker: He is able to get Kamala away from the Clandestines with a dismembered auto rickshaw, which means he makes his escape on one wheel. With a passenger.
• Badass Driver: He drives an auto rickshaw with Kamala and Waleed in the back during the Karachi road chase scene in "Seeing Red".
• Badass Normal: He has no powers but what he does have are spectacular fighting skills and acrobatics. He's able to fight an admittedly inexperienced Kamala to a standstill and contend with and even kill one of the Clandestines.
• Bash Siblings: He becomes one with Kamala as they fight the Clandestines in the streets of Karachi together.
• Call on Me: Kareem offers this to Kamala before leaving in "Time and Again", though he notes that he has several warrants out for his arrest.
• Color Character: The Red Dagger.
• Come with Me If You Want to Live: Kareem says this to a confused Kamala so that their battle will not draw too much attention. And then he giddly tells her that he always wanted to say that line.
• Deadpan Snarker: Kareem immediately has a Snark-to-Snark Combat with Kamala during their first encounter in "Seeing Red".
• Dual Wielding: He's sometimes shown wielding a dagger in each hand.
• Hero of Another Story: Heavily implied with him already having arrest warrants in the US.
• Highly-Visible Ninja: Kareem wears a red scarf over the lower half of his face and has a Red Dagger emblem on his left arm.
• I Always Wanted to Say That: Kareem convinces Kamala to come with him by saying "Come with me if you want to live", and then sheepishly admits he just always wanted to say that.
• In the Back: Kareem kills Aadam by stabbing him in the back.
• Legacy Character: Kareem is the most recent individual to take up the Red Dagger mantle.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Usually ties it up in a knot or bun. But outside his Red dagger work. He keeps it down and ain't a bad looking guy.
• Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: He claims to have found Kamala because he "sensed the Noor". What he meams and how he does this is not clear and never explained either.
• McNinja: He's Pakistani who fights with Japanese weapons and techniques.
• Nice Guy: Kareem's a rather friendly and sociable guy once you get to know him.
• Noodle Incident: The United States government may or may not have an arrest warrant on him. He never clarifies on what he did to piss them off.
• Red Is Heroic: He is a warrior of The Order who wears a red scarf and wields daggers with red handles, and his name is Red Dagger.

Enhanced humans

Monica Rambeau

Monica Rambeau

"Don't use the last five years as an excuse to be a coward."

^{Click here to see Monica as a child}
"You have a chance to fly the coolest mission in the history of missions. And you're going to give it up to sit on the couch and watch Fresh Prince with me? I just think you should consider what kind of example you're setting for your daughter!"

Known Aliases: "Geraldine"

Species: Enhanced human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): S.A.B.E.R., S.W.O.R.D. (formerly)

Portrayed By: Teyonah Parris, Akira Akbar (eleven-years-old), Azari Akbar (five-years-old)

Appearances: Captain Marvel | WandaVision | The Marvels

"I lost the person closest to me, too. The worst thing I can think of has already happened to me and I can't change it. I can't undo it. I can't control this pain anymore. And I don't think I want to, because it's my truth."

Maria Rambeau's daughter, who considered Carol Danvers to be her honorary aunt. She eventually followed in her mother's footsteps, becoming an agent of S.W.O.R.D. Some time after The Blip, she found herself investigating the anomalous town of Westview. A series of events lead to her inadvertently entering the Hex before being forcibly ejected, which permanently altered her biology. Reentering the Hex completed the transformation, granting her light-based powers of her own. She later joined the S.A.B.E.R. space program.

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• 11th-Hour Superpower: While protecting Tommy and Billy from Hayward's gunshots in the final episode of WandaVision, Monica inadvertently unlocks a new power of intangibility, which causes the bullets to phase through her body before slowing down.
• Accent Relapse: Her jive accent slips throughout Episode 3 of WandaVision, especially when she's nervous. This is because it's not her actual one.
• Action Girl: As an agent of S.W.O.R.D., Monica receives extensive combat training that allows her to incapacitate several people effortlessly. And that is before she acquires her powers.
• Adaptation Origin Connection: In WandaVision, Monica develops superpowers as a result of Wanda's Hex rewriting her DNA. In the comics, she gained powers in an incident involving an energy weapon that had nothing to do with the Scarlet Witch. Furthermore, this version of Monica was a member of S.W.O.R.D. before gaining powers, as opposed to a member of the New Orleans harbor patrol.
• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Her father is a total non-presence in her life, whereas with comic Monica her father was alive, well and loving right into her adulthood.
• Adaptational Job Change: From an officer of the New Orleans harbor patrol to an astronaut.
• Adaptational Wimp: In the comics, Monica Rambeau is one of the most brokenly powerful heroes in the Marvel Universe, due to being able to transform into any wave on the electromagnetic spectrum, letting her attack at the literal speed of light. Her MCU incarnation is much less powerful, being capable thus far of intangibility, flight, energy absorption, and laser beam attacks.
• Adorably Precocious Child: Uses this status to convince her mother to accompany Carol, Fury, and Talos on a mission to save the refugee Skrulls. She even asks her mother "what sort of example she'd be setting" for her daughter if she didn't go.
• Affectionate Nickname: She is nicknamed "Lieutenant Trouble" by Carol.
• Age Lift: Monica Rambeau in the comics is around the same age as Carol. Here, she is introduced as an eleven-year-old kid instead of an adult, setting her up for a sequel in the modern day. She returns as an adult in WandaVision and The Marvels.
• Amnesia Missed a Spot: What clues Wanda gain to her outsider nature. "Geraldine" knows who Pietro and Ultron are, part of Monica's real identity breaking through the brainwashing.
• And I Must Scream: When she's sucked into Westview, Monica's actual identity is suppressed by Wanda's power until she's booted out. And she was aware of it.
• Ascended Extra: In-Universe as "Geraldine" within the Hex. After getting pulled in, Darcy spots her as a background character on the show. By the time the show advances to The '60s she has a speaking role, and in The '70s she seems to have graduated to a main cast member before Wanda realizes who she really is and ejects her from the Hex.
• Aura Vision: One of her powers after the Hex rewrites her genetic structure. She can sense energies on other spectrums, demonstrated when she sees Agatha's magical energy in the entrance to her basement and on the necklace that she uses to enslave Ralph.
• Back from the Dead: She's one of the victims of Thanos's Badass Fingersnap in Infinity War before she is resurrected during Endgame. Unlike most of those snapped away, her resurrection is actually seen onscreen during the first moments of Episode 4.
• Badass Normal: As shown when she takes on the S.W.O.R.D. goons with Jimmy Woo in Episode 6, Monica is perfectly capable of holding her own in a fight without any superpowers whatsoever. Becomes an Empowered Badass Normal later on.
• Blue Is Heroic: Monica wears a blue outfit whenever she is on a S.W.O.R.D. field mission, and her body emits a blue glow when she uses one of her powers.
• Broken Pedestal: By the time of WandaVision, Monica does not want to talk about her godmother Carol with Jimmy and Darcy, which strongly suggests that the two had a falling out. The Marvels fully clarifies what happened: Monica is upset with Carol for never coming back for thirty years, and supposedly missing Maria's death.
• The Bus Came Back: Nebulous, and definitely rides the line between this trope and Remember the New Guy?, but debatable. Although her first appearance as a child in Captain Marvel and her first appearance as an adult in WandaVision are only separated by 2 years (2019-2021), which is very little time, MCU-release wise, there are 23 years of Monica's life (not counting the five years she was dead thanks to Thanos) left unaccounted for in-universe between those two entries, and she hasn't appeared in any MCU movies or shows between those two points.
• Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: Despite the Running Gag throughout The Marvels hanging a Lampshade on this by having Kamala trying to pick one out for her, she is still never properly identified by any of her superhero codenames by the end of the movie.
• Composite Character: She is one with Katherine "Kit" Renner, who has Carol as an Honorary Aunt and goes by Monica's nickname "Lieutenant Trouble" in the comics.
• Decomposite Character: Some of her comics characteristics have been given to her mother, such as Maria using the callsign "Photon", which was one of her codenames after giving up the Captain Marvel title in the comics.
• Determinator: Even after being mind-raped by Wanda in her sitcom world and then violently thrown out of it, she is willing to reenter Westview to continue the investigation. When Wanda arrives outside of Westview, seething with Tranquil Fury, Monica is visibly frightened but still steps forward and attempts to talk Wanda down. Later on, in Episode 7, she just pushes her way through the Hex barrier on nothing more than sheer willpower, despite knowing there's a good chance it could kill her.
• Die or Fly: Early in The Marvels she is forced to use her powers to fly independently for the first time to save Kamala from falling to her death in the early confusion of Monica, Carol, and her own's Swap Teleportation.
• Disappeared Dad: She was raised mostly by her mother with help from Carol, with the whereabouts of her father unknown.
• Don't Touch It, You Idiot!: The swapping problem in The Marvels starts because she and Carol both thought it was a good idea to investigate the weird glowing jump point.
• Dressing as the Enemy: Along with Jimmy and Darcy, she is able to sneak back into the S.W.O.R.D. base with the uniform of one of the incapacitated S.W.O.R.D. agents.
• Drop-In Character: She has no existence in Westview outside of her friendship with Wanda. Agnes notices that "Geraldine" does not have a family, a house, or any other tether to a life outside of Wanda. When Wanda catches on, she expels her from Westview. This is because she was sucked in by the Hex after the fact, rather than being part of Westview's narrative from the start — the field changed Monica's appearance but didn't whip up an actual house.
• Early-Bird Cameo: She's a long way from being Spectrum when we meet her in Captain Marvel, and in WandaVision she's worked her way up to the rank of Captain in S.W.O.R.D..
• Empowered Badass Normal: On top of being a highly trained S.W.O.R.D. agent, she eventually starts gaining her comic book powers in Episode 7 of WandaVision, courtesy of Wanda's Hex rewriting her DNA and unlocking her superpowers. This includes visually processing normally extrasensory energy, Energy Absorption, and being able to transform her body into pure energy.
• Energy Absorption: After receiving her powers, Monica is able to absorb kinetic energy.
• Energy Being: In the finale of WandaVision, Monica can transform her body into pure energy that prevents bullets from harming her and those behind her.
• Fish out of Water: Like Wanda, she feels out of place among the other neighborhood homemakers.
• Foil: For Wanda, as a woman who has been handed a lot of trauma, and instead of hiding in delusions, she owns it.
• Forgiveness: After spending years avoiding Carol due to resentment over her never once showing up when Monica came back from the Blip, she learns Carol has been spending the interim as The Atoner for her shortsighted destruction of the Supreme Intelligence. She quickly reconciles and the two put the past behind them again.
• Funny Afro: Has one as part of her 1970s appearance in WandaVision.
• Generation Xerox: Just like her mother, Monica swiftly form bonds with enhanced individuals before and after S.W.O.R.D. was founded.
• Genius Bruiser: A superpowered woman and former astronaut with a lot of scientific knowledge. More than once in The Marvels she has to tone down the technobabble for Carol and Kamala.
• Glowing Eyes: Exhibits these after powering through the Hex a third time, signaling the awakening of her powers. Furthermore, it appears as though her eyes glow a different shade for each kind of energy she uses: blue for the standard Aura Vision, purple for when she's sensing magical energy, and golden for when she's using intangibility.
• Good Wears White: Monica's S.W.O.R.D. uniform is white and blue, and she is a legitimately good person.
• Hero Antagonist: In WandaVision, Monica is unfalteringly dedicated to helping Wanda (the Villain Protagonist) face her grief and take down the Hex, but Wanda wants none of her help and tries to expel her from Westview for her trouble.
• Heroic Sacrifice:
  • She throws herself in the line of fire between Tommy, Billy, and Hayward as the latter tries to mercilessly gun them down. Fortunately, this is averted as her newly found powers prevent the bullets from reaching their targets, rendering Monica herself unharmed. Furthermore, Billy casually catches the last bullet as Hayward runs out of ammo.
  • Again in The Marvels, she closes the rift between realities opened by Dar-Benn clashing the bangles together, at the cost of having to stranding herself in the adjacent reality to close it fully.
• Heroic Willpower: This is how she awakens to her powers, as she forces herself back into the Hex both to overcome the grief she herself had endured because of her mother's death and to save Wanda and the people of Westview.
• How Do I Shot Web?: While versed in some of her powers, she never focuses on her ability to fly until it becomes necessary to save Kamala from falling to her death.
• Intangibility: This is one of Monica's powers. In the finale of WandaVision, Monica is able to phase through multiple gunshots inflicted on her by Hayward when the latter tried to kill Tommy and Billy.
• Interrupted Cooldown Hug: She tries to reach Wanda. She might've succeeded if not for Agatha.
• Jive Turkey: Has elements of this in the third episode of WandaVision (which is "set" in the 1970s), although it's later revealed to be partly an act, and partly the result of Wanda's Mind Rape powers.
• Made of Iron:
  • She's blasted through Wanda's house, across Westview, and back through the forcefield into the outside world in Episode 4 of WandaVision, but doesn't seem too worse for wear afterward. However, she attributes this to Wanda protecting her from any serious damage. Furthermore, the 1960s outfit that she wore was made mostly out of kevlar, which further helped with her survival.
  • In Episode 7, she gains her powers which allow her to absorb energy, and allows her to survive Wanda slamming her into the ground. Instead of splattering all over the sidewalk, she instinctively absorbs the force of the impact and executes a perfect Three-Point Landing. This demonstrates that she has gained a form of Super-Toughness.
• Mama Bear: After helping Wanda and Vision in delivering Tommy and Billy, Monica has developed a protective streak for the twins, even to the point of placing herself between them and Hayward when he attempted to shoot them down, regardless if she is aware of her power's capabilities.
• Master Actor: Downplayed in WandaVision. While it's clear that part of this is due to being under the Hex's influence, Monica is still capable of convincing Wanda that she's a regular, friendly citizen of Westview who's willing to participate in the show's sitcom shenanigans. The only clues to her real identity are the fact that she doesn't have a home in Westview, the S.W.O.R.D. pendant she wears in the third episode, and her namedropping of Ultron.
• Mirror Character: To Agatha Harkness. Both of them are strangers to Westview who are attempting to understand the intricacies of the Hex while simultaneously trying to be the "best friend" to Wanda in her sitcom reality. However, while Monica is trying to assist Wanda out of pure altruism and concern for her as a human being, Agatha only cares about Wanda's Reality Warper abilities and couldn't care less about her actual trauma. They also have very different backgrounds, with Monica initially being an ordinary astronaut that later gains superpowers while trying to help Wanda, while Agatha has been a powerful witch for over 350 years.
• Mythology Gag:
  • The S.W.O.R.D. jumpsuit Monica wears under the spacesuit (and which she stays in for the latter half of the series after getting her powers) is a Civvie Spandex approximation of her Spectrum outfit.
  • During The Marvels, she briefly gets an outfit with the trailing sleeves of her comic counterpart's original costume. She doesn't like them.
• Nepotism: It's implied several times that she could have been made the new director of S.W.O.R.D. after her mother's passing had the Blip not happened. It's downplayed, though, as she's shown to be a fairly competent member of the organization. Plus, had she not been blipped, she would've had several more years of experience.
• Nice Girl: Even after getting sucked into Wanda's world, with her mind and personality replaced with one created by Wanda's powers, and then getting blasted back out of it, Monica still sympathizes with and wants to help her.
• Nice, Mean, and In-Between:
  • Monica is the In-Between to Jimmy's Nice and Darcy's Mean. While she is rarely as snarky as Darcy, she's also not as timid as Jimmy. While genial to anyone who shows her mutual respect, she also can be surprisingly icy if she has been sufficiently aggravated (which we see firsthand in her response to Hayward cruelly pressing her Relative Button).
  • In The Marvels she becomes the In-Between again, with Kamala and Carol as Nice and Mean respectively.
• No Body Left Behind: Episode 4 of WandaVision reveals that Monica was among the Snapped, dusted in her sleep while waiting for her mother's surgery in a hospital. When she learns about her mother's death shortly after being resurrected five years later, it's not difficult to tell the shock that is overwhelming her.
• "Not So Different" Remark: She admits that if she had Wanda's power, she might have done something similar to get her mother back.
• Only Sane Woman: She's by far the most level-headed of the S.W.O.R.D./F.B.I. coalition as she's not as gung-ho about stopping Wanda as Hayward and doesn't get caught up in the sitcom plotlines like Jimmy and Darcy.
• Primary-Color Champion: The shirt that Monica wears in Captain Marvel is red, blue, and yellow in color, which inspired Carol Danvers to keep the current color scheme of her uniform. As a S.W.O.R.D. agent, Monica wears a blue shirt in the field, and her body emits blue and yellow glow whenever she uses her powers.
• Punched Across the Room: More like poked across the room by Ralph/Fake Pietro in Episode 9 of WandaVision.
• Purple Is Powerful: Monica's eyes glow purple when she detects magical energy.
• Rebuilt Pedestal: After learning the full circumstances behind Carol's years away, she is able to forgive and understand Carol's choice and the two reconcile.
• Satellite Character: Due to entering the Hex after it was created, "Geraldine" has no existence other than her friendship with Wanda.
• Saved for the Sequel: Compared to being a minor character in Captain Marvel, she is one of the main characters alongside Captain Marvel and Kamala Khan aka Ms. Marvel in the sequel.
• Sigil Spam: She wears the S.W.O.R.D. insignia on her necklace in episode three. This appears to be her actual badge transmogrified by entering the bubble.
• She's All Grown Up: A child during the events of Captain Marvel, an adult by the time of WandaVision. Justified, the former is set in the 90s while the latter is set in the 2020s, nearly three decades after the fact.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: While Wanda is still the most sympathetic part of the Big Bad Ensemble of WandaVision, Monica gives a very apt one to her when Wanda gets sick of her "lies" and attacks her, only for Monica to tank it.
  Monica: The only lies I've told are the ones you put in my mouth.
• Stepford Smiler: In WandaVision, she's having to deal with the fact her mother died, and unlike Wanda, there's nothing she can do to change it. She tries putting a brave face on it, but she does make it clear that the pain is still very fresh.
• Supernatural Gold Eyes: Monica's eyes glow golden when she uses her intangibility.
• Team Member in the Adaptation: Monica has never been affiliated with the S.W.O.R.D. organization in the comics, but is revealed to be one of their top astronauts here.
• This Is Going to Suck: After she realizes she is trapped in an alternate world in The Stinger of The Marvels, she reacts to her predicament with flat but disappointed resignation.
  Monica: Ah, shit...
• Time-Shifted Actor: In Captain Marvel, she appears as a five-year-old in Carol's flashbacks to before her memory loss and as an eleven-year-old upon her return to Earth, portrayed by sisters in the time period. Teyonah Parris plays her as an adult in WandaVision.
• Took a Level in Badass: Monica has grown into quite of a badass when she becomes an agent of S.W.O.R.D. in her adult years. She takes a larger level in badass after gaining superpowers in Episode 7 of WandaVision.
• Trapped in Another World: After the climax of The Marvels, she is trapped in an alternate reality with no obvious way to get back. The situation is made more optimistic by the fact she is in the care of the Mutants, including Beast and an alternate version of her mother, who are willing to help her understand her predicament.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Unlike her mother, Monica doesn't seem to be shocked to see Carol is still alive or at the existence of shape-shifting aliens. She even hits it off with Talos and Soren's daughter, who's around her age.
• Unwitting Muggle Friend: She and Wanda hit it off quickly, and "Geraldine" unexpectedly finds herself in the climactic trick of Wanda and Vision's magic act. Later, she struggles to find a rational explanation as Wanda's pregnancy causes her powers to go bonkers.
• Verbal Business Card: She provides one of her own after Jimmy says his.
  Monica: Monica Rambeau, S.W.O.R.D.
• We Used to Be Friends: When Jimmy mentions Captain Marvel, Monica looks uncomfortable and immediately steers the conversation back to Wanda.

Jane Foster / Mighty Thor

See her own page.

Jennifer Walters / She-Hulk

Jennifer Walters / She-Hulk

"I just want to be a normal, anonymous lawyer."

^{Click here to see Jennifer as She-Hulk.}
"That's what Hulks do. We smash things. Bruce smashes buildings. I smash fourth walls and bad endings. And sometimes Matt Murdock."

Species: Enhanced human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): UCLA (formerly); Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg and Holliway

Portrayed By: Tatiana Maslany

Voiced By: Marina Inoue (Japanese), Patt Souza (Brazilian Portuguese)

Appearances: She-Hulk: Attorney at Law

"Oh, I'm not a superhero. That is for billionaires and narcissists. And adult orphans for some reason."

After being critically injured at the same time as her cousin Bruce Banner / The Hulk in a dangerous car accident, Jennifer Walters, an attorney involved in the budding field of superhuman law, is infected by his blood spill, which saves her life... by granting her with her own version of Bruce's abilities, transforming her into She-Hulk.

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• Action Girl: She's a Hulk after all, able to shake cliffs with a punch. In her first fight against Titania she outclasses her superhumanly-strong opponent without much effort.
• Adaptational Backstory Change: In the comics, Jennifer acquires her She-Hulk powers via blood transfusion with her cousin Bruce in a hospital after being shot by an underling of a crime boss. However, the first episode shows that both Jennifer and Bruce get wounded in a car accident, with Jennifer being inadvertently exposed to Bruce's radioactive blood in the process. That said, her original backstory is referenced as a Mythology Gag when a reporter asks Jen if she got shot by a mob boss when going in to meet with Emil Blonsky.
• Adaptational Personality Change: In the comics, Jennifer absolutely loved being She-Hulk, and would avoid spending time in human form due to finding her regular life rather underwhelming overall. Here, Jen is rather upset that her life gets upended by transforming into a Hulk, and she gets very frustrated with the fact that people prefer She-Hulk over her regular form. We do, however, see Jennifer gain more confidence in appearing as She-Hulk throughout the series.
• Adaptational Modesty: Nowhere near as much of a Shameless Fanservice Girl than the original, and maintains her whole suit when she transforms instead of destroying all her clothes like the comics.
• Adrenaline Makeover: Jennifer starts out as a normal lawyer before she gains superpowers as She-Hulk.
• Affectionate Nickname: Her cousin Bruce calls her "Fuzzball", even having her listed under that name on his phone.
• The Alcoholic: Jennifer enjoys drinking quite a bit of hard liquor while not on the job.
• Always Someone Better:
  • In power control. Jennifer masters her Hulk powers a lot faster than Bruce does and seemingly doesn't have to deal with a Split Personality.
  • Subverted in strength. Although she initially appears to be slightly superior to Bruce at throwing boulders, when Bruce decides to stop holding back he ends up throwing a boulder over the horizon.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: She has the same vibrant gamma-green skin as her cousin when she's transformed.
• Amazonian Beauty: Jennifer's towering and muscular She-Hulk form is more than enough to attract several men and women.
• Appropriated Appellation: She didn't quite like being called "She-Hulk", but the name stuck so she doesn't care anymore. But then Episode 4 ends with Titania slapping a lawsuit on her on the grounds that she had the name trademarked, which she ends up having to resolve.
• Atrocious Alias: Jennifer really does not like the name She-Hulk, finding it uninspired and tacky to the regular Hulk's name. She only adopts it out of convenience since the public more-or-less gave her that name.
• Big Sister Instinct: Inverted and with her cousin Bruce. After getting in the car crash, her first reaction is to make sure Bruce is okay and help him get out of the vehicle.
• Blessed with Suck: Being a Hulk with no rage-monster alter-ego sounds nice on paper, but for Jen, being an enhanced individual living out in the open makes her a walking magnet for all sorts of trouble. When she "comes out" and saves a jury, it gets her case thrown out, her fired from her job and makes her unhirable due to the potential risks of having her around, meaning the only job she can get is being a lawyer for Fantastic Legal Weirdness, attracting even more trouble. Being She-Hulk, she at best is treated like a living prop by entitled chauvinists, at worst is targeted with by a invoked Hatedom of Straw Misogynists who sees her as some sort of violation by virtue of being a woman with powers, with unseen forces using them for their own nefarious ends.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: Jennifer speaks directly to the audience throughout the show, harkening back to the early days of the character. In "Whose Show Is This?" she breaks through the Disney+ interface to get to the show's writers and demand a better climax to the episode.
• Bridal Carry: Inverted since Jennifer is the one who carries her date as She-Hulk in episode 4.
• Buffy Speak: Jennifer pulls one in episode 4 when she tells Wong that she is a lawyer who do things by the book of "American laws" after she informs him they cannot simply slap Donny Blaze with a cease and desist because his oath to use magic was verbal only.
• Casting Gag: This is not the first time Tatiana Maslany plays a character with different identities.
• Clashing Cousins: Downplayed in her relationship with Bruce. They get into a fight when she gets fed up with his attempts to coach her on how to manage being a Hulk. Specifically because she wants to avoid the fact that she is one at all now that she can control her transformation, and he insists that she can't ignore it either way while also pushing her to be a superhero. Otherwise, good friends.
• Clothing Damage: Hulking Out is guaranteed to rip any clothing she wears and destroy whatever footwear she has on because of the massive increase in size, so she takes off her shoes before she transforms. Bruce, who's no stranger to this, suggests that she starts wearing spandex. Jen also starts wearing formal clothes that are more fit for her She-Hulk form, since she goes into work as such, and Luke Jacobson eventually designs her a wardrobe made of stretchable fabric that fits either form.
• Cute Monster Girl: Despite being tall and strong, Jennifer is slimmer and much less muscular than Bruce.
• Deadpan Snarker: Jennifer shares her cousin Bruce's dry sense of humor. Eclipses him even.
• Effortless Amazonian Lift: Jennifer performs this as She-Hulk with her date in episode 4.
• Emerald Power: Like her cousin Bruce, her skin, eyes, and hair turns green when she transforms and becomes a powerful Lightning Bruiser in the process.
• Even the Girls Want Her: In the episode "Just Jen", the rest of Lulu's bridesmaids fawn over Jen's She-Hulk form, saying that she has an amazing body, and an even better ass.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: Jennifer's hair is normally a frizzy cut down to about her chin. When she hulks out, It's down below her shoulders, smooth and full bodied.
• Eye Color Change: Like her cousin Bruce, her hazel eyes become green when Hulking Out.
• Flipping the Bird: Jennifer gives Bruce the finger as she's falling off the cliff he pushed her down.
• Fourth-Wall Observer: Becoming She-Hulk also apparently made Jen aware of the fourth wall, which she casually talks directly to the audience through. The first time she does it chronologically, she looks back at the camera confused at what just happened while Bruce glances back at her equally confused.
• Genius Bruiser: Jennifer retains all her intelligence and skill as a lawyer as She-Hulk, and becomes an Amazonian Beauty capable of tossing boulders around.
• Green and Mean: Subverted. Jennifer is more confident as She-Hulk but not as aggressive as her cousin Bruce when he Hulks out (though Jennifer does take it very badly when Bruce triggers her transformations by threatening her with buzzsaws and waking her up with an airhorn). She explains it is because she already has to keep her emotions constantly in check for professional reasons (see Workplace-Acquired Abilities below).
• Ground Punch: She-Hulk's superhuman strength allows her to create a small earthquake with a single punch to the ground.
• Healing Factor: Jen's unique genetic makeup grants her incredible healing properties that the Hulk lacks. A sample of her blood is able to cure Bruce's arm in just a few hours, which still had heavy burns from the Infinity Gauntlet for months previously.
• Hello, Attorney!: She's a lawyer who is very attractive as both Jen (despite what some of her dates seem to think) and She-Hulk.
• Hulking Out: Bruce points out that Jennifer will transform into She-Hulk if she is angered or becomes afraid, unlike Bruce who can only Hulk out when he's angry.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Jennifer admits to her friend that she wants to be an average, "off-the-radar" attorney, and makes it clear to Bruce that she has no interest in superheroing or delving into her being a Hulk.
• In a Single Bound: She-Hulk can match the Hulk's impressive jumping distance. After Bruce pushes her off a cliff, she casually jumps right back up to him.
• Legacy Character: Jennifer is bestowed the name "She-Hulk" by the media and the public (presumably to distinguish her from Bruce) in the aftermath of her courtroom incident. It went viral fast enough that people are beginning to use it when she visits her usual bar—to her embarrassment.
• Lightning Bruiser: Despite not being at the same level as her cousin, Jennifer is someone very strong, durable and fast.
• Magic Pants: Lampshaded in the first episode of her series with Bruce coaching Jennifer on how spandex is now her best friend. Downplayed elsewhere, as some of her outfits rip when she transforms, but nowhere near to the degree they should based on how much mass she gains, and since she joins GLK&H in episode 2, her suit stays intact when she Hulks out, since they're sized to fit her larger form.
• Meta Guy: Like in the comics, Jen is prone to turning to the audience and directly talking to them, often acknowledging that she is in a show and the kind of tropes and cliches she has to put up with.
• Most Common Superpower: Downplayed. Jen gets noticeably, but not excessively, more curvaceous as She-Hulk than she is as Jennifer Walters.
• Motor Mouth: Jen can talk extremely fast, shown in episode two where she rattles off all her problems to Bruce, and Bruce barely has time to answer.
• Ms. Fanservice: The trailer shows Jennifer wearing some alluring clothing as She-Hulk. At work, though, she still wears the same drab-looking grey suits, much to Nikki's chagrin (because of Jennifer's figure, in more ways than one).
• Never Gets Drunk: Played with. She-Hulk never gets drunk due to her fast metabolism, but Jennifer will suffer the ill-effects if she transforms back before her body has had time to process the alcohol, such as getting hangovers the next day or immediately becoming drunk if she shifts in the middle of a night of drinking. Conversely, if she becomes She-Hulk while drunk, she immediately becomes sober again.
• No-Sell: One of Leap-Frog's henchgoons tries to hit her on the head with a baseball bat, which is about as effective as if he hit a brick wall. She just turns around to look at him.
  She-Hulk: It's sad you thought that would work.
• One-Man Army: Being a gamma mutate like her cousin, Jen is naturally this. She mows through a team of Disney security guards like it's nothing.
• Power Dyes Your Hair: Her hair becomes dark green when transforming into She-Hulk.
• Power Makes Your Hair Grow: Transforming into She-Hulk makes her hair longer, straighter, and more voluminous. Discussed when someone suggests Jennifer ought to change her hairstyle so she's more recognizable when untransformed.
• Practically Different Generations: Jennifer was born in either the 1980s or 1990s, while her cousin was born in 1969. Tatiana Maslany was born in 1985 which makes her eighteen years younger than Mark Ruffalo, so if Jennifer has the same age as her actress (she does confirm she's in her thirties in episode 4) that makes about sixteen years younger than her cousin.
• Prefers Going Barefoot: Harkening back to her comic roots, and the footsteps of her cousin, Jen definitely shows a preference for being barefoot once she Hulks-out. While it's initially for practical reasons so as not to damage her expensive business shoes, even after she gains a pair of stretchy sneakers as part of her superhero ensemble, she still visibly prefers to keep things simple from time to time. Jury's out on whether this had any influence on Matt Murdock's walk of shame/stride of pride following their boink.
• Really Gets Around: Downplayed considerably, especially in comparison to her comic counterpart, but once she gains new confidence and embraces her She-Hulk persona, she becomes much more open with her sexuality. While she only sleeps with three men including Daredevil (and pretty much all of it off-screen), she's still one of the more overtly sexually active characters in the MCU.
• Remember the New Guy?: Bruce having a cousin was never mentioned in any MCU projects before the She-Hulk series.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: The show likes to emphasize how gorgeous Jen, as She-Hulk, looks when she dresses formally.
• Shockwave Clap: The first episode reveals that Jennifer can use this to knock Bruce several feet away; she has to do it several times for it to be effective, however, and her claps aren't as strong as Bruce's due to Bruce having bigger hands. She later uses it to disorient Daredevil, which is extremely effective against his Super-Senses.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: All three of the men she dates in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law appear to be kind and sensitive types when she meets them, and the one she is still dating at the end also happens to be a superhero.
• Split Personality: Averted. Unlike Bruce, Jennifer doesn't have to deal with any other personalities trying to fight for control in her head, allowing her to master her She-Hulk form much quicker and easier.
• Statuesque Stunner: She's several feet taller when she is She-Hulk. In Episode 6, she gets compliments from her friends over how fantastic she looks.
• Suddenly Sober: As Episode 6 of her show demonstrates, Jennifer transforming into She-Hulk makes all the alcohol in her system disappear, allowing her to become sober almost instantly. The downside is that the inverse of this is also true.
• Super-Strength: Naturally, she gains incredible strength when transformed into She-Hulk. Jennifer is strong enough to crush a metal wall covered in buzzsaws then bust through a reinforced door, casually throw boulders and punch cliffs apart during her Training Montage.
• Super-Toughness: As She-Hulk, her durability is completely superhuman. Normal needles can't puncture her skin, a baseball bat or even Asgardian weapons do nothing to her, and blows from Titania, who has Super-Strength herself, are nothing but mild inconveniences to her.
• Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Jennifer towers over her dates as She-Hulk, best shown when she picks one of them up and takes him to bed (literally) in episode 4.
• Took a Level in Badass: The trailer shows that Jennifer is slowly overcoming her everyday struggles, as well as gaining more confidence and courage after becoming She-Hulk.
• Training from Hell: While trying to work out what triggers her transformations, Bruce puts her in a chamber with an Advancing Wall of Doom covered in buzzsaws. Jen duly transforms, smashes the wall and rips the door off the chamber to get out and confront him.
• Unstoppable Rage: When Jennifer is angry as She-Hulk, she can efficiently push a metal wall of buzzsaws and break a reinforced door with her bare hands.
• Unusual Euphemism: Episode 4 has Jennifer and her date deciding to "split fries to go", and in their next scene, they're at her house.
• Weirdness Magnet: Being an enhanced makes you a walking, talking beacon for trouble, something that Bruce tries warning her about. The fact that the only job she can get is being a lawyer for a firm specializing in Fantastic Legal Weirdness just compounds the issue further.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Jennifer freaks out at Bruce locking her in a chamber with a closing wall of buzzsaws to trigger her transformation, before breaking out from the containment unit to ask what's wrong with him. She also calls Bruce out for triggering her She-Hulk transformation by waking her up abruptly with an airhorn and flipping the bird after he pushed her off a cliff. She also calls superheroes in general "narcissists", implying she has this view towards all heroes.
• With Great Power Comes Great Hotness: Not that Jennifer was unattractive before getting a gamma blood transfusion, but after said transfusion, she became an Amazonian Beauty and a Statuesque Stunner. This does unfortunately have the downside of attracting men that are only interested in She-Hulk and don't want her while she's in Jen form.
• Workplace-Acquired Abilities: Jen already possesses near total control over her abilities because, in her words, she's had to control her anger her entire life, on account of being surrounded by guys who either cat-call her or explain her job to her and not having the luxury to lash out because the Double Standard would cause her to be either written off as "difficult" or put into a potentially life-threatening situation.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: She wants the show to be a "lawyer show" where her status as a Hulk is incidental. Doesn't work out.
• You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry!: She is a Hulk, after all. When she flips out at the Gala, her anger is terrifying, resulting in a snarling beast woman, not unlike her cousin.

Ted Sallis / Man-Thing

Dr. Theodore Sallis / Man-Thing

Species: Enhanced human

Citizenship: American, Sakaaran

Portrayed By: Carey Jones

Voiced By: Jeffery Ford

Appearances: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ^note Mentioned only | Thor: Ragnarok ^note Sculpture | Werewolf By Night

A scientist who became a Swamp Monster. He became friends with Jack Russell at some point, and the two often save each other.

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• Acid Attack: He secretes an extremely strong acid that violently reacts with organic tissue and can reduce a human to a charred skeleton in seconds if he touches them.
• Adaptational Intelligence: In the comics, Man-Thing is essentially a clever animal, with no trace of Ted Sallis' personality left. Here, not only does he respond to "Ted" and is capable of conversation of a sort, he's seen playing Solitaire at the end.
• Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: In the comics, Man-Thing is only an ally of Werewolf by Night because the latter doesn't show any fear towards him, and he's not really capable of considering anyone a friend. Here, he is intelligent enough to be a mutual friend of Jack's, to the point where Jack considers Ted family and he returns the feeling.
• Badass in Distress: According to Jack, Ted needs to be rescued fairly often. However, he effortlessly immolates the one hunter who does stumble across him almost perfunctorily.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Ted is a perfectly nice chap, for being a 9-foot tall plant monster...as long as he sees you as a friend.
• Big Damn Heroes: He saves Elsa from her step-mother armed with a shotgun.
• The Cameo: Was mentioned by Maria Hill in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and a sculpture of his head also appears decorating the façade of the Grandmaster's palace.
• Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: Exclusively referred to as "Ted" in Werewolf By Night, though Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. did refer to him as Man-Thing. Played With in regards to the usual reason this trope is employed however, since calling the lumbering swamp monster Ted is a lot sillier than saying Man-Thing.
• Creepy Good: A Swamp Monster that looks similar to Cthulhu, but he's a real good person as he saves Elsa from her stepmother.
• Cthulhumanoid: The tentacle-like roots hanging from his face and lack of a nose or mouth give him a Cthulhu-esque appearance.
• Dark Is Not Evil: He's a 9-foot tall swamp creature with an acid attack...and he's also sweet and endearingly first introduced by giving Jack a hug!
• Establishing Character Moment: He wraps his arms around Jack and is greeted with a sigh of relief, showing that he's a gentle giant of a swamp monster. He then showcases his acid powers when one of the hunters approaches him, showcasing that he's not one to trifle with if you manage to piss him off.
• Facepalm Of Doom: Kills a hunter in seconds by wrapping his huge hand around the man's head and burning it with acid.
• Fluffy the Terrible: He's a giant swamp creature made of plants who likes to be called... Ted.
• Gentle Giant: He's a sweetheart when unprovoked. When provoked, it's not a pretty sight.
• Hero of Another Story: His cameos in previous MCU media show that he lived a pretty interesting life prior to his debut in Werewolf By Night, from being imprisoned by S.H.I.E.L.D. until he was freed by John Garrett to somehow ending up a gladiator on Sakaar before returning to Earth where he's been captured numerous times and Jack has had to rescue him.
• Hollywood Acid: Largely subverted, surprisingly - it's way stronger than any naturally occurring substance and can reduce a body to a charred skeleton in seconds, but it violently reacts with organic tissue and gives off a great deal of heat (and even appears to briefly light victims on fire), rather than melting it.
• Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: The contest to obtain the bloodstone is to have the monster hunters slay "a monster unlike any you have ever faced", which turns out to be Ted.
• Intelligible Unintelligible: He only speaks in grunts and growls, but Jack is still able to understand him and translate for the audience. The closest we get to understanding him is when he utters a distorted "thank you" to Elsa when she points him in the direction of where Jack went.
• Noodle Incident:
  • How did he end up on Sakaar and become one of the Grandmaster's favorite gladiators (shown by his likeness being carved into his palace), and then escape? Who knows?
  • How did he and Jack meet up? Not only that, but Jack hints that Man-Thing has often been in danger before which has forced Jack to save his life in the past.
  • In general, how Ted Sallis ended up transforming into the Swamp Monster that he is now is a complete mystery.
• Odd Friendship: The only similarity he has with Jack Russel is that they are both monsters that are hunted. Jack however is a werewolf who has methods to control his condition while Ted is a swamp monster who has to hide from the rest of the world.
• Pet the Dog: Despite having ran away from the scene early on, Ted comes back to rescue Elsa from her stepmother when she's at her mercy. Of course, the fact that Verussa was responsible for capturing him and setting the hunters to kill him in the first place, he probably didn't need much encouragement to dissolve her into nothingness.
• Plant Person: He's a mobile bundle of plants in a vaguely-humanoid shape.
• Psychoactive Powers: Inverted; his powers rely on the fear of his targets. As the phrase goes, "Whosoever knows fear, burns at the touch of the Man-Thing."
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Ted does have red eyes and , while Ted is not really evil per se, his Touch of Death makes him still dangerous enough as a warning not anger him.
• Super-Strength: He effortlessly lifts Verussa Bloodstone while burning her to death and tosses her corpse across the room into Ulysses' casket hard enough to break it.
• Touch of Death: Let him grab you when he's pissed off, and you will be reduced to a smoking skeleton in seconds.
• Unseen No More: Man-Thing was mentioned for the first time in Season 1 of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. in 2014, but he doesn't make an actual appearance on-screen until the 2022 film Werewolf by Night.
• Was Once a Man: He used to be a human scientist before being trapped in his current form.

Super Soldiers

Isaiah Bradley

Isaiah Bradley / Subject #02656

"You know what they did to me for being a hero? They put my ass in jail for 30 years!"

Species: Enhanced human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): US Army (formerly)

Portrayed By: Carl Lumbly

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

"They will never let a black man be Captain America. And even if they did, no self-respecting black man would ever wanna be."

An African-American super-soldier created during the Korean War whose existence is covered up by his own country's government.

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• Abled in the Adaptation: The serum in the comics deteriorated Isaiah's mind into a childlike state and left him unable to speak. Here, his mental faculties are intact, but he's also bitterly aware of how the government abandoned him.
• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: In the comics, Bradley was imprisoned for 17 years and was formally pardoned by the President, allowing him to live in peace with his wife and children and gain the respect of the black community. This version of Bradley lost his wife during his 30-year imprisonment and was only released due to being declared legally dead, which forced him to live in obscurity with his only grandson. Mentally speaking in the comics, he's blissfully unaware of his trauma and happy while in the show, his experience has left him a bitter shell of a man.
• Age Lift: In the comics, he fought in WWII. In the show, he was an operative during the Korean War.
• "Angry Black Man" Stereotype: He's left embittered by his mistreatment for his race and then demanded Sam and Bucky to Get Out! after they pressed on the subject. Then after Sam visits him again, Isaiah starts insulting Steve and tells Sam that "no self-respecting black man" would ever want to be Captain America along with assuming that Sam believes that Isaiah deserved to be jailed because he's carrying a "white man's shield". This is what causes Sam to decide that it wouldn't be right to stop fighting for what's right because of one man's experiences and convinces him to train with the shield and embrace it (along with the mantle of Captain America) instead of being unsure of it.
• Big Good: He's the closest The Falcon and the Winter Soldier has to one on a personal level for Sam in relation to its themes in regards to race. Not only do Bucky and Sam initially go to him for help with their mission until his vehement refusal in the second episode, the fifth episode definitely established him to be this for the latter which motivated Sam to accept being Steve's successor after a heart-to-heart mentor-to-protege-like conversation.
• Casting Gag: This is not the first time Carl Lumbly plays a character with superpowers who feels temporarily ostracized in the world he lives in.
• Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: In spite of being given the super-serum and virtually filling the role, he's not referred to as a previous Captain America. This is justified because there is no mention of Isaiah ever getting the title, and he himself notes that the world still isn't ready for a black Captain America when talking with Sam.
• Cool Old Guy: Not only a Korean War veteran super soldier and a caring grandfather towards Eli, but he later became a Mentor in Sour Armor of sorts for Sam after mellowing out.
• Deadpan Snarker: Isaiah is more than capable of throwing a few shades at Sam and Bucky.
• Defrosting Ice King: In Episode 6, he loses a lot of his bitterness after Sam successfully takes up the Captain America mantle and takes Isaiah to the Smithsonian where he shows him a new exhibit dedicated entirely to his story.
• Deliberate Values Dissonance: A victim of this. Whereas the white Steve Rogers got hailed as America's greatest war hero during World War II, the other, black Super Soldier, Isaiah Bradley, was Unpersoned and used as a Guinea Pig after The Korean War.
• Disobeyed Orders, Not Punished: Averted, as one of several African-American Super Soldiers deployed to Korea, he snuck out of his base to rescue two of his men whose prison camp was to be bombed to hide the evidence of more Super Soldiers. Soon after arriving back to base, the other men died from complications from the Super Serum, and for his actions, Bradley was court-martialed for insubordination and disobeying direct orders, and was locked up and experimented for thirty years, until a sympathetic nurse helped him fake his death and escape.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: At the end of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, a new exhibit at the Smithsonian's Captain America wing is opened, honoring Isaiah's military service and the unjust hardships the government forced him and his unit to endure. For the first time in decades, the old man is genuinely happy and hugs Sam with Tears of Joy flowing down his cheeks.
• Faking the Dead: Isaiah Bradley is officially dead and he now lives a quiet anonymous life in Baltimore. His death was faked for him by a nurse who took pity on him, and he wishes to remain anonymous because he expects that the government will eliminate him if Sam reveals what has happened to him.
• A Father to His Men: Isaiah was the leader of the unit of black soldiers chosen as guinea pigs for testing on a super serum. When several of his men were captured and he heard the brass talking about destroying the POW camp to get rid of his men before the serum in their veins could be extracted, Isaiah disobeyed a direct order to stand by and went to free his soldiers. Unfortunately, it didn't make much of a difference because they died anyway and he was imprisoned for it.
• Good Is Not Nice: At first when he makes his debut and when Bucky and Sam first go to visit him for his help, only to be vehemently refused, but not without good personal reason.
• The Greatest Story Never Told: At the start of The Winter Soldier's career, when he was just starting to make his legendary reputation and at his physical prime as the "fist of HYDRA", a lone American operative was sent to deal with him in the Korean War… and walked away after tearing his cybernetic arm off. But because he was black, the world never heard the legend of Isaiah Bradley, who was imprisoned and experimented on afterward. Sam, understandably, is pissed.
  • The actual event that got him sent to jail is even nobler: He broke out of the facility that was housing him and the other experiment super soldiers to save those who had become POWs. He got to become a guinea pig for his trouble, since he was the only one whose serum didn't kill him.
  • In the closing moments of the finale, Sam sees to it that this gets subverted, by having Isaiah's story and a statue of him memorialized in the Smithsonian alongside Steve's exploits as Captain America, ensuring that his life of pain and suffering won't be forgotten or covered up any longer.
• Grumpy Old Man: Left an embittered shell of his younger idealistic and patriotic self by the time of the show.
• Hero of Another Story: Unlike Cap, his story was erased by the US government. Bucky knows it only because he fought Isaiah during his time as the Winter Soldier.
• Human Resources: During his imprisonment, he was forcibly used by the CIA — as well as HYDRA infiltrators — as a blood donor in order to obtain samples of the super-soldier serum.
• Irrational Hatred: During his second conversation with Sam, with his judgment clouded by his bitterness, he insults Steve even though the man had nothing to do with what happened to him and would have been appalled by Isaiah's treatment had he known about it.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite being reduced to an angry black man who was initially inhospitable and non-cooperative towards Bucky and Sam when they visited him in his debut and later cursing out Steve Rogers and Sam when the latter visited him again, he's still a loving family man who deeply loved his late wife and grandson Eli, cared for his late brothers-in-arms whom he served with and later became more open and confiding towards Sam when revealing more of his backstory the next time he visits him. After Sam established an exhibit dedicated to him at the Smithsonian, he becomes absolutely grateful with Tears of Joy towards Sam, hugging him as a thank you for vindicating his actions for everyone to know.
• Knight in Sour Armor: He is a Korean War Hero who ended up embittered by his mistreatment at the hands of the American government he served.
• Mentor in Sour Armor: Despite his bitterness stemming from his painful past and initially non-cooperative in his debut, he eventually acts as this for Sam in regards to if an African-American can take on the Captain America mantle in the fifth episode.
• Military Superhero: Isaiah is a super-soldier who fought in the Korean War, but his existence is kept a secret until Sam Wilson steps into the picture.
• Old Soldier: He still retains his super-strength, even at his advanced age.
• Older Than They Look: He was a soldier around the time of the Korean War which would put him at about 90 but he looks at least 20 years younger. No doubt side-effects of the serum.
• Oppressed Minority Veteran: During the Korean War, two of his men were captured, and when he heard that the POW camp, where they were held, would be firebombed to "erase the evidence," he snuck out of his base and rescued them. It was All for Nothing as the men died from complications from the Super Serum, and for insubordination, he was sent to prison. Since he was the only subject that didn't die, he was experimented on for thirty years, and to make sure no one asked questions, his wife was told he died in prison. When a sympathetic nurse helped fake his death, he went into hiding, believing that the government would try to recapture him if they found out he was still alive.
• Parental Substitute: Despite parenting his grandson Eli, he gradually becomes this to Sam especially starting from their second meeting, acting like the crusty father Sam never had and developing a father-son-like relationship between themselves.
• Restored My Faith in Humanity: When we first meet Isaiah, he is a broken man who responds to Sam and Bucky's presence with fury, and when Sam offers to tell his story, Isaiah refuses on the grounds that it will only end badly. When Sam takes up the Captain America mantle in spite of Isaiah's advice, there is a glint of pride in his eye, and when he finds out that Sam had an entire exhibit dedicated to him, Isaiah cries Tears of Joy and hugs him.
• Retired Badass: Isaiah managed to defeat the Winter Soldier during the Korean War, and now lives in seclusion under the care of his grandson, Eli.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He only had three minutes of screen time in his debut, but he manages to make a deep impact on the narrative and a rift between Bucky and Sam.
• Sole Survivor: Like in the original comic, he wasn't the only black man who got the serum. What he was, on the other hand, was the only one whose specific formula didn't end up killing him.
• Stealth Mentor: While his assertions out of his bitterness towards Sam that no self-respecting black man should helm the mantle of Captain America nor the country would accept such a hero can come across as discouraging Sam from taking up the mantle, it instead does the opposite effect and encourages Sam to embrace taking up Steve's mantle.
• Super-Soldier: The second American super-soldier created (or third American by birth if you count the Winter Soldier, but then his allegiance wasn't to the US). And the first African-American one.
• Super-Strength: Despite being in his 90s, Isaiah can still throw a tobacco tin hard enough to embed it in a wall... with one hand.
• Tested on Humans: Instead of being celebrated as a hero, Isaiah was imprisoned and used as a test subject by the government, including S.H.I.E.L.D.'s HYDRA infiltrators.
  • His initial dose of the serum wasn't even revealed to him to be a serum; he was told it was a tetanus shot.
• Took a Level in Kindness: In Episode 5, aside from insulting Steve's memory and accusing Sam of thinking about how he deserved to be jailed because he's carrying a "white man's shield", he's more open and cordial in the fifth episode than when he was first introduced. Then in Episode 6, his faith in the country he served is completely restored and he loses his bitterness once Sam ensures Isaiah's military service gets honored through an exhibit dedicated to him that brings a genuine smile to his face complete with Tears of Joy and giving Sam a hug as a thank you.
• Tragic Hero: A Korean War hero who was instead jailed for thirty years and experimented on by the government and HYDRA in return for his service.
• Two First Names: "Isaiah" and "Bradley" can both be used as given names.
• Unperson: Once his time as a soldier was over, his existence was essentially wiped clean: name, residence, professional status, not a single hint of his existence remained. This is averted when the Smithsonian sets up an exhibit to honor his heroic deeds.
• Walking Spoiler: Both out- and in-universe, due to being kept in secret for decades and still being unknown by the public. Falcon is shocked to learn of him and that even Cap was unaware of his existence.
• When He Smiles: It's an emotional and earnest one upon seeing a museum exhibit dedicated to him to honor his sacrifices and giving him complete public recognition.
• Worthy Opponent: A former and tragic example with The Winter Soldier. Isaiah and Bucky clearly have respect for each other's capabilities because they faced off when Isaiah was a young super-soldier. Unlike some examples, the fact they were enemies is emphasized here, as Isaiah isn't friendly towards Bucky at all, merely respectful and curious... until a nerve is struck.
• You Are Number 6: He was denominated "Subject 02656" when he became a guinea pig.

Alexei Shostakov / Red Guardian

Alexei Shostakov / Red Guardian

"All business, huh? Little Natasha, all indoctrinated into the Western agenda."

Species: Enhanced human

Citizenship: Russian

Affiliation(s): Soviet Armed Forces (formerly)

Portrayed By: David Harbour

Voiced By: Ricardo Tejedo (Latin American Spanish dub), Akio Ōtsuka (Japanese dub), César Marchetti (Brazilian Portuguese dub)

Appearances: Black Widow | Thunderbolts

"You both have killed so many people. Your ledgers must be dripping, just gushing red! I couldn't be more proud of you."

A Russian intelligence agent and a former superhero with a shared past with Natasha Romanoff.

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• Accent Slip-Up: While undercover in Ohio in the mid-'90s, Alexei speaks with a distinct midwest American accent (the same one New York native Harbour uses for Stranger Things). Once they touch down in Cuba, however, he starts slipping back into his natural Russian accent while begging to get back into action as the Red Guardian, before quickly switching back to his American voice to comfort Natasha and Yelena before they're taken to the Red Room.
• Acrofatic: Alexei is surprisingly fast and agile despite the weight he gained over the years.
• Action Dad: Not only is he a superhero created by the Soviet Union, but he is also the adoptive father of Natasha Romanoff and Yelena Belova.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: He's a redhead in the comics, but has his actor's brown hair in the MCU.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: He was Natasha's husband in the comics, his presumed death making her a literal widow. This aspect is transferred to Melina in the movie, and he's more of a father figure to Natasha.
• Adaptational Badass: Alexei Shostakov has no powers in the comics, while he's a Super-Soldier in the MCU.
• Adaptational Curves: Inverted. In the comics, Alexei has a traditional Heroic Build, while in the MCU he is severely overweight.
• Age Lift: Fought in WWII in the comics as a pilot. In the film, his age is very unclear but he was probably born in the '50s at the earliest.
• Ambiguous Situation: It's unclear if his stories about a rivalry with Captain America have any basis in truth, given the incompatible timelines for such a thing to happen. (Alexei tells a story about one conflict between them in the mid-'80s when Steve didn't get out of the ice until 2011) The U.S. government was still working on Super Soldier projects for decades after World War II (as seen in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) so it's not impossible he may have encountered someone taking the Captain America mantle at the time, especially given this would have been during the Cold War. And of course, Avengers: Endgame ended with Steve going back in time. Word of God has it that Alexei genuinely believes that he had a rivalry with Cap but it's not clear if that's a case of buying into his own stories or if he actually did meet Captain America in some form.
• Animal Motif: Pigs, more specifically boars. He's big, jovial, perverted, he smells, and he's smart where it counts. His beard looks like the scruff around a pig's mouth, and even the way he laughs sounds a lot like oinking and huffing. Melina names a pig after him and even he can't argue the comparison.
• Battle Couple: He and Melina Vostokoff genuinely care for one another, even during the most precarious times.
• Believing Their Own Lies: Although his supposed fight against Captain America seems like an obvious lie to impress the other prisoners when he meets Natasha, he genuinely asks if Captain America has talked about him, so he actually seems to believe that he fought against the real Captain America.
• Berserk Button: While arm-wrestling other prisoners, Alexei boasts about his past accomplishments as Red Guardian, including fighting Captain America. When one opponent at the table expresses doubt, knowing Captain America was still frozen while Red Guardian was active, Alexei is so pissed off that he breaks his opponent's wrist.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Alexei may appear as a comical oaf at times, but he is still a super-soldier who can give his enemies a painful bruising.
• Bewildering Punishment: He speculates that he was thrown in prison because Dreykov didn't like a comment Alexei made about his appearance, but he clearly doesn't know if that's true or not.
• Blatant Lies:
  • Alexei tells Natasha and Yelena that they'll be fine in the Black Widow program because they're tough and they'll take care of each other.
  • Downplayed when Alexei is introduced telling his fellow inmates in prison a story where he fought and defeated Captain America. However, his time as the Red Guardian would have had to have been before 1991 (the year the Soviet Union collapsed), long after Rogers went into the ice, and long before he was unearthed in the 2010s. When one of the inmates points this out, Alexei breaks his wrist. On the other hand, there are numerous ways this claim could turn out to actually be true: Alexei never specified what Captain America he was talking about, and it is possible that he fought a Captain America that wasn't Steve Rogers; it's also possible he fought the real Steve Rogers after all, whom we know to have access to Time Travel.
• Blood Knight: He enjoys fighting quite a lot. When he accompanies Melina during the infiltration of the Red Room Academy, he even complains that there is no one for him to fight, and is quite happy when Taskmaster comes to confront him.
• Boisterous Bruiser: He's a proud and loud fighter, who also doesn't care if his behavior is very unpleasant to others.
• The Brute: Pretty much his role under General Dreykov and Melina Vostokoff. Though reasonably savvy in his prime he still admits to being reliant on others for the planning, and in the present day, he's painfully naive and frequently blinded by ego.
• Butt-Monkey: In Black Widow, he gets his ass-handed to him and made fun of more than any other character.
• Captain Geographic: His suit and superhero name all evoke Mother Russia.
• Captain Patriotic: He was the U.S.S.R.'s answer to Captain America. These days, however, he's largely been forgotten by the same state that made him a superhero.
• Casting Gag:
  • This is not the first time David Harbour plays a loving adoptive father who has a certain experience with people from Russia.
  • In the Japanese dub, Akio Ōtsuka previously voiced some super soldiers: Solid Snake, his father Big Boss when he was young, and Solidus Snake.
• Chummy Commies: He's a Big Fun Boisterous Bruiser who also genuinely believes in the communist ideals of the Soviet Union. At the same time, he also embodies the "bottoms-up" criticism many people living in such communist societies may carry (i.e. government officials being either humorless or hypocritical), which adds a bit of tragic edge to the fact that his ideological loyalty was rewarded by decades of prison time.
• Color Character: The Red Guardian.
• Composite Character: With Ivan Petrovich who was Natasha's mentor and father figure in the comics.
• Contrasting Replacement Character: Alexei is this to his American Super-Soldier counterparts thus seen in the MCU so far, especially with how the context of Soviet Russia treats and disposes of its personnel in about the same level of callousness the Americans do.
  • Like Isaiah Bradley, Alexi was given the super-soldier serum at one point during his military career before being unjustly imprisoned later on where he grew resentful and disillusioned with the very government he once valiantly fought for. The difference is that Isaiah got the shorter end of the stick due to having been incarcerated for three decades, during which he was experimented on like a lab rat by both the U.S. government and HYDRA until being freed by a sympathetic nurse, and was never given any recognition for his duty due to the government's fear of public backlash over a black man taking up the Captain America mantle until Sam had the Smithsonian acknowledge Isaiah's service, and generally looks back upon his days in the army with bitterness and resentment. Alexei, on the other hand, was genuinely regarded as a hero to the people of the Soviet Union, enough that his most loyal fans still send him mail during his imprisonment, until he was thrown into a Russian gulag with him having no idea what he did to deserve it and looks fondly back on his "glory days", as well as being all too happy to get back into action once his surrogate daughters free him.
  • Like John Walker, Alexei seems to have enjoyed the high profile of being the Red Guardian, with the action figure of him suggesting he was given the same level of endorsement and public reception John did at the start of his tenure as a state-sponsored Captain America. They share an obsession with the reverence their respective mantles supposedly entitle them to and appear to perform well at their jobs (be it the public side or the black-ops side of it), but while John is all grim-and-business about it off-camera (thinking of his tour in Afghanistan as "the worst day of his life"), Alexei shows relish both in the glamour of being a state mascot and being involved in the morally-shady dealings of Dreykov and the Red Room. That said, whereas Walker took matters into his own hands when he was disavowed by his government, Alexei seems to have taken his imprisonment lying down until Natasha and Yelena broke him out.
  • And, of course, to Steve Rogers himself. Whereas Alexei will always make the time to hype himself up as the Red Guardian to anyone he meets (despite his Glory Days being behind him, and he comes off more as a Miles Gloriosus than anything), Steve obviously never demanded such a thing from anyone he meets, always maintains his being a Humble Hero (even trying to keep children who recognize him silent about it), and lets his actions and moral authority convince people to either stand up with him or follow him. The fact that Natasha grew up with Alexei as the closest thing she has to a father figure and then having spent a bulk of her time as an Avenger with Steve probably also contributed to the closeness of their relationship — with Steve probably reminding Natasha of Alexei's best traits, as well as demonstrating what he could have been if he had indeed been a better person. On a more cosmetic note, whereas Steve was also disavowed by his government and grew a beard during that period, he never let go of his physique (apparently still doing Avengers-level work before finding asylum in Wakanda and being confronted by the threat of Thanos), whereas Alexei definitely let himself go inside prison (with the facilities of the gulag he's in looking in pretty decrepit shape, it made sense).
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Taskmaster absolutely stomps him, though it is likely that he knew he'd get destroyed since he just missed fighting strong opponents, and he also knew that his main goal was to stall for time while the other three did their thing.
• Deadpan Snarker: Alexei can be full of dry humor during certain conversations. Natasha and Yelena must have taken their levels of snark after him.
• Deliberate Values Dissonance: As a Soviet relic who spent decades in prison, Alexei carries a lot of the attitudes you would expect someone like him from that era to carry, with his lavishing praise on Natasha and Yelena for their careers and particularly for their kill counts, then being unable to understand why they aren't proud of it and are clearly uncomfortable discussing the subject being a perfect example.
• The Ditz: He's not the world's brightest superhero (though he has sufficient Hidden Depths to maintain a cover in the US for three years), which he's entirely aware of, stating that he was always just the muscle — Melina was the brains. He's also got the tact of a baseball bat to the skull. However, for all his oafish behavior, he's friendly and affectionate.
• Dumb Muscle: He has Super-Strength, but intelligence isn't exactly his strong point. He even admits to himself that he's just "the muscle" compared to Melina.
• Enemy Eats Your Lunch: The two guards in the mail room in the Russian prison mockingly eat a cake one of Alexei's fans had sent him when Alexei comes to collect his mail. They even tell him to tell his fans to use more butter next time. They soon regret this.
• Failed Attempt at Drama: Alexei keeps trying — and failing — to give dramatic heart-to-heart speeches. He succeeds, once, when he stops trying to act dramatic and just acts normal by sharing a song with Yelena. He eventually gives up, presumably because he realizes it's not his name on the posters.
• Fauxreigner: Alexei and Melina both put on American accents during their time undercover in Ohio.
• Feel No Pain: His reintroduction in the prison sees him holding a long conversation and beating several other men in a row in arm-wrestling, all while an elaborate tattoo is being inked onto his back.
• Formerly Fit: His statement that his costume still fits as well as Melina's comment about him putting on weight implies he used to be in much better shape.
• Glory Days: Alexei clearly misses the days when he was looked up to with the same kind of reverence as Steve. He still has his fans both in and out of jail, who still send him fan mail, baked goods (that the guards steal), and other memorabilia, but the look on his face as he holds a Red Guardian doll emphasizes his bitterness of seeing that the hero of the people has been reduced to a prisoner in an overcrowded gulag.
• Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: Averted. While he barely wears his helmet, Alexei doesn't leave it behind at any point.
• Hidden Depths: Dumb as a box of rocks, as tactful as said rocks, and successfully maintained a flawless cover as an American family man in Ohio for three years.
• Husky Russkie: Stout Strength and wearing Soviet Red in case he couldn't be a crystal clear example.
• In a Single Bound: Much like every other Super-Soldier, he can jump and leap much higher than a normal human.
• Innocently Insensitive: He expresses pride over how his girls have grown into Black Widows, completely unaware of all the pain and misery that training in the Red Room entailed. He's also very vocal about how much he hated his undercover job in America, which causes Natasha and Yelena to think that he never cared about them when in truth he did.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While Alexei is very arrogant about his time as Red Guardian, frequently mentioning how much he hated being assigned the role of "American family man", he does genuinely care for the girls that he and Melina raised, and is ultimately willing to take on his former superiors to protect them.
• Just Toying with Them: Alexei is seen arm-wrestling a string of opponents in prison, easily beating them aside from one he teasingly pretends might be a match for him. Then his last opponent makes the mistake of irritating Alexei, who shows how much he's holding back by effortlessly breaking the con's wrist.
• Knuckle Tattoos: Has "KARL" on his right hand and "MARX" on his left hand.
• Large Ham: Alexei does not hold back his glee when he gets into the action, and the fact that he is played by David Harbour is a bonus.
• Lightning Bruiser: There's no denying his superhuman strength as he knocks down a steel door that still has chunks of concrete fixed to it. And despite having a sizable gut, he's almost as fast as he is strong as he rapidly climbs walls and leaps onto ladders back in jail.
• Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Like Steve Rogers, Alexei used to have a shield of his own during his Glory Days as the Red Guardian. When he and Melina are fleeing from the crumbling Red Room, Alexei picks up Taskmaster's shield and throws it at one of Dreykov's henchmen who attempts to stop them from escaping via helicopter.
• Military Superhero: Red Guardian was the pride of the Soviet Armed Forces and the Soviet Union as a whole, but his fame has withered into almost nothing during the modern era.
• Mirror Character: He is the Russian equivalent of Steve Rogers/Captain America. While Steve is humble and retains recognition to the present day, Alexei is more arrogant and only has a handful of people who still admire him.
• Mysterious Past: Unlike the others of his "family", Alexei seems not to be a product of the Red Room. How did he come to serve the Soviet Union? How did he acquire super-soldier-like qualities? For how long was he Red Guardian, and what did he do in that function? We can only speculate. We don't even know why exactly Dreykov threw him in jail, as Alexei himself claims not to know.
• Mythology Gag: At one point Yelena sarcastically calls him the Crimson Dynamo. In the comics, Crimson Dynamo is a Russian Iron Man villain who created his own suit of Powered Armor (not unlike Ivan Vanko).
• Nice Guy: He seems to be a relaxed, jovial kind of guy, especially for someone who's spent time in a Russian prison; while he initially treated his family cover as a chore and went along with sending his adopted daughters to be trained in the Red Room, the distinction is that he loved his family (he just found the work boring), and genuinely thought that sending them to the Red Room was what was best for them.
• No Social Skills: Between being a Cold War relic with a lot of the attitudes that you would expect someone from that era to have and languishing for decades in a Russian prison, he is often unthinkingly insensitive, tactless, rude, and inappropriate.
• Nostalgia Filter: For the U.S.S.R..
  Alexei: I just wanted the communist party to go back to being a party.
• The One Guy: He's the only guy to be part of Natasha's "family".
• One-Sided Arm-Wrestling: In the present day, Alexei is reintroduced while arm-wrestling other prisoners, who get in line to challenge him. Since he's a Super-Soldier, he beats them easily.
• "Open!" Says Me: He kicks down the steel door of the Seventh Circle Prison during his escape.
• Outside Ride: During the opening scene of Black Widow, he spends a lot of time hanging on the wing of a plane taking off.
• Papa Wolf: Though Natasha and Yelena are not his biological daughters, he considers them his and is ultimately revealed to be fiercely protective of them. Among his many prison tattoos, he has both of their names written in Cyrillic on his right arm.
• Politically Incorrect Hero: Somewhat, asking a resentful and irritated Yelena if she's on her period. She and Natasha proceed to go into detail about why this isn't possible because of their hysterectomies (in a way that Crosses the Line Twice), which leaves him both Squicked and more than a little horrified.
• Pop the Tires: During the opening scene, he manages to shoot the tire of a S.H.I.E.L.D. car, causing it to crash into another car.
• Plucky Comic Relief: Alexei's enthusiasm and clumsiness make him the main source of levity in an otherwise dark film.
• Primary-Color Champion: Alexei's costume is red and white.
• Red Is Heroic: He is the first superhero of the Soviet Union, his costume is red and white, and his name is Red Guardian.
• Reimagining the Artifact: The comic book character was created at the height of the Cold War as a foil to Captain America, and usually served a villainous role. Since Black Widow is set long after that conflict ended (which Captain America was frozen for the whole time), Alexei Shostakov is instead reimagined as a former Soviet hero who lost his job once the USSR collapsed, and he subsequently lost part of his Heroic Build, and he also remains a heroic character.
• Related Differently in the Adaptation: In the comics, Alexei Shostakov was Natasha's ex-husband. Here, he's her sort-of adoptive father.
• Resentful Guardian: Zigzagged. He's very loud about how much he hated being undercover for the three years he was in America but it's less that he hated what the role needed of him and more that he preferred being on the front lines fighting. He also cares for Natasha and Yelena deeply, even in the present day, so his griping is meant to be more that he's grumbling about a bad time at work than anything else. The girls however do treat his complaints as though he regarded them as burdens, which Alexei is remorseful about when Yelena calls him out on it. This is also noted in a subtle detail: despite all of his talk, a sufficiently sharp-eyed viewer can notice he has the name of his daughters tattooed on his shoulder.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Alexei frequently boasts of his various accomplishments as the Red Guardian, even claiming to his fellow inmates that he once defeated Captain America (he actually retired from being Red Guardian long before Cap resurfaced). While Red Guardian was seemingly popular in Russia at the time, enough to get his own action figure, he's casually dismissed by most people he interacts with now, and it's indicated that no one outside of Russia has even heard of him.
• So Long, Suckers!: After Natasha and Yelena helped Alexei in escaping prison, he yells a variation of this in Russian at the guards and the inmates who are buried in the avalanche that Yelena inadvertently triggered with her bazooka.
  Alexei: Прощайте, мудаки!^EnglishFarewell, douchebags!
• So Proud of You: When he sees his two "daughters" Natasha and Yelena again, he tells them that he is very proud of them for being assassins who killed a lot of people. Neither is impressed.
• Soft Glass: He gets tossed through a glass wall during his fight against Taskmaster, and survives without any serious injury. Granted, the fact that he is a Super-Soldier may have something to do with it.
• Stout Strength: He's put on noticeable weight since his prime but he's still quite muscular and very strong, able to fight Taskmaster (almost) evenly. He's husky even in the opening sequence, so either he was always that way, or he'd gone soft in his three years out of action. He's still strong enough to flip a heavy trailer out of the way with little effort even then.
• Super Prototype: As Black Widow goes on, it becomes clear Steve Rogers was this compared to Alexei. Whatever the process was that gave Alexei his strength and durability, it did not come with the massive boost in agility and speed that Erskine's process also provided to Steve.
• Super-Reflexes: Thanks to his augmented physical abilities, Alexei is able to rapidly react to his opponents' movements, such as when he successfully knocks away Taskmaster's shield mid-air.
• Super-Soldier: He calls himself the Soviet Union's only super soldier and he has the superhuman strength to back up his claim.
• Super-Strength: He possesses superhuman strength that allows him to break a person's arm effortlessly and push away vehicles that are several times his weight.
• Talk to the Fist: Alexei's last arm-wrestling opponent smugly points out that his tales of fighting Captain America don't really make sense. Rather than argue the point, Alexei breaks the man's wrist.
• Tattooed Crook: Alexei has several accurate prison tattoos indicating what he'd been incarcerated for during the time between being an icon for the Soviet Union and falling out of favor with the new regime. The meaning of most of them can be found here.
• Tempting Fate: Alexei, taking a tranquilizer dart in the chest, pulls it out and contemptuously scoffs, "They think that..." He is immediately hit with a dozen more.
• Throwing Your Shield Always Works: Alexei throws Taskmaster's shield at a henchman of Dreykov who tries to stop him and Melina from escaping the exploding Red Room via helicopter.
• Time-Passage Beard: He was clean shaven in the prologue of Black Widow, but in the present-day he has a shaggy beard and longer hair.
• Transatlantic Equivalent: In-universe, he's a Captain Ersatz of Captain America, but he was specifically created to serve as a superhero for the Soviet Union. The mask of his suit, shown in the film's poster, is quite similar to that of Cap, except that it's red instead of blue. Interestingly enough, while the Soviet Union wanted their own version of Steve Rogers, Alexei ended up having much more in common with America's less celebrated super-soldiers.
  • Like John Walker, Alexei seems to have enjoyed the high profile of being the Red Guardian, with the action figure of him suggesting he was given the same level of endorsement and public reception Walker did at the start of his tenure as a state-sponsored Captain America. They share an obsession with the reverence their respective mantles supposedly entitle them to and appear to perform well enough on their jobs (be it the public side or the black-ops side of it). Unlike Walker, Alexei relishes both the glamour of being a state mascot and being involved in the morally-shady dealings of Dreykov and the Red Room.
  • Like Isaiah Bradley, Alexei's country "thanked" him for his service by throwing him in prison for decades for no reason. However, Isaiah eventually manages to get the recognition he deserves.
• Token Super: Being a Super-Soldier, he's the only member of Natasha's "family" who has superpowers.
• Undercover as Lovers: He and Melina pretended to be a married couple during their mission in Ohio, passing off Natasha and Yelena as their daughters. They're still quite flirtatious with each other in the present, though the film doesn't explicitly clarify whether or not they've ever actually been romantically involved, he does have a tattoo of her face above the word "love" in Cyrillic.
• Unknown Rival: Regards Captain America as his sworn rival, despite the fact that Steve has not only never met him, but probably never knew he even existed.
• Vague Age: He talks about the Soviet Union and its party politics as if he lived through it and was already an established super-soldier in the '80s. David Harbour was born in 1975, so this would make Red Guardian significantly older by at least a few decades, if not more. Then there's his friendship with Dreykov, who is visibly much older (though that could be an Intergenerational Friendship). Adding to the uncertainty of it is that he has a version of the super-soldier serum in his veins, which may have altered his age.
• The Worf Effect: Taskmaster absolutely demolishes him with ease during their fight. If it weren't for Melina's intervention, he would have been killed.

The Divine Pairing

Tyrone Johnson / Cloak

Tyrone Johnson / Cloak

"One second I was in the city, the next I was here... in the middle of nowhere..."

Species: Enhanced human (Darkforce empowered)

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): St. Sebastian's Preparatory School (formerly)

Portrayed By: Aubrey Joseph

Appearances: Cloak & Dagger | Runaways

"Even if I do everything perfect they still could come after me. So why be perfect? Why not stand up for the world the way it should be?"

A young man with the ability to teleport and control fears.

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• Adaptational Attractiveness: He doesn't have the Blank White Eyes his comic self has.
• Adaptational Mundanity: This version of Cloak is just an ordinary kid with powers he can (mostly) turn on and off. As such, he is more of an equal to Dagger. He is much more human than his classic comic book version, in which his body was permanently turned into a shadowy substance, and that suffered from an uncontrollable hunger for the "light" of human souls.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Mostly due to his transformation being less extreme (see above), he is a nice kid even when he becomes obsessed with avenging his dead brother. The comic book version of Cloak is a lifeforce vampire that urges Dagger to be a ruthless vigilante because that is the only life he can have. In this version, if anything, he is nicer than the more cynical, con artist Dagger.
• "Angry Black Man" Stereotype: Deconstructed severely. Part of the reason he's so traumatized by Billy's death and hell-bent on Revenge is that everyone around him is encouraging him to suppress what happened to him rather than fall into this trope, rather than helping him deal with it.
• Bad Powers, Good People: If you were to give boogeyman powers to a teenage pre-Serum Steve Rogers, you would end up with someone like Tyrone Johnson. Tyrone is kind-hearted and tries to see the good in others, but his connection to the Darkforce allows him to see the fear in others as well, a process that always leaves the subject disoriented, and even his very touch can prove deadly. Also, he can trap you in a fear dimension.
• Bash Siblings: When the two of them get into fights, Tandy's the one on offense while Tyrone mostly evades or redirects his opponents onto Tandy.
• Black Cloak: An integral part of the character design, hence the name "Cloak". This incarnation was started by Billy before he died.
• Born Unlucky: Aside from the obvious tragedy of losing a sibling in his childhood, Tyrone is often taking a beating from someone or getting the short end of the stick in a situation.
• Cannot Talk to Women: He's awkward around women and his conversation with Tandy heavily implies he's a virgin.
• Casting a Shadow: He can manipulate the Darkforce, mostly when his life is in danger and when wearing his late brother's cloak as a Magic Feather.
• Cowardly Lion: Not an entirely straight example. His fear mixed with anger is his early defining characteristic, angry and lashing out at the world for his brother, but also afraid to really fight to fix things like his parents. With Tandy backing him up, however, he gets the courage he needs to face the world and fight to save it.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Cloak may look intimidating, but he's still a superhero.
• Deadly Dodging: Since his powers aren't as offense-based as Tandy's, he mostly uses them to dodge or evade blows, usually setting himself up to redirect them into the nearest wall or Tandy's knives.
• Death Seeker: What Tandy accuses Tyrone of being deep down since she saw a lot of Suicide by Cop scenarios in his mind.
• Fatal Flaw:
  • His anger and inability to give up on a lost cause. Even after he manages to catch Connors, he still feels empty and angry.
  • His feelings of having to live up to his brother's legacy, as well as society's and his parents' expectations of him. Tyrone always feels like he has to be "perfect". A part of his character development is accepting that he doesn't need to be.
• The Idealist: He's a firm believer in justice and tries to see the good in others.
• I Know What You Fear: He can sense people's fears or traumatic experiences when they're touching.
• I Let Gwen Stacy Die: He blames himself for Billy's death because he stole the radio so Billy wouldn't have to.
• Living Emotional Crutch: Tyrone is Tandy's. His presence in her life shows her how real people act, that the world isn't supposed to be abusive and that things can and should be better than they are.
  • In Season 2, when Andre puts Tandy in a Lotus-Eater Machine to make her feel despair, he shows her many potential scenarios where Tandy lives her life which always ends in disasters, but Tandy manages to get through because the one who gives her hope is Tyrone. When Andre makes her believe that he killed Tyrone, she breaks down and is left in despair, no longer being able to summon her daggers because she has no hope left in her.
• Living Shadow: His powers let him move through and control shadows.
• Nice Guy: In sharp contrast to Dagger's more anti-heroic tendencies.
• An Odd Place to Sleep: He sleeps in a bed but doesn't always wake up in one.
• Real Men Love Jesus: Tyone's both a choir boy and a superhero in the making. Subverted, however, since he later tells Delgado that he doesn't really believe in God.
• Revenge: More than anything else, he wants to kill the policeman who (accidentally) killed his brother, as he believes doing so will finally free his family from the trauma that's weighed on them for eight years.
• Stealthy Teleportation: Mostly played straight — his teleportation is silent and has no visual effect when he disappears, though his reappearance comes with black smoke. It makes him effective at getting around stealthily.
• Survivor's Guilt: He feels guilty for getting to live when Billy died. In Tandy's journey through his mind, she sees a young Tyrone practically drowning in checks but crying because he doesn't feel he deserves any of it, and she implies that every good thing that happens to him is tainted by the fact that Billy can't share in it.
• Teleport Cloak: Seems to be invoked, as every time he teleports he has to use something nearby as a cover to disappear into, sort of like Shadow Walker. His Black Cloak works like this, but he's also used nearby blankets, curtains, a small towel, and even a garbage bag.
• Terror Hero: Kind of inevitable with his fear and shadow powers. It's unintentional at first, but he learns to exploit it to his benefit.
  • Scary Black Man: Goes along with his powers, but is ultimately subverted. Tyrone is a rather shy, quiet boy, far more The Heart than The Big Guy.
• Tragic Keepsake: In this incarnation, the cloak originally belonged to his brother Billy.
• Trauma Button: Justifiably, he gets very nervous around cops.
• Weaponized Teleportation: One of Cloak's powers. Though primarily defensive in nature, Tyrone can use it for combat, usually by harrying his opponents or moving them into harm's way, usually in the path of one of Tandy's daggers.

Tandy Bowen / Dagger

Tandy Bowen / Dagger

"Judge less or leave poor."

Species: Enhanced human (Lightforce empowered)

Citizenship: American

Portrayed By: Olivia Holt

Appearances: Cloak & Dagger | Runaways

"The world has stolen from me my whole life. My dad, his name, our money. Maybe I have this thing so I can steal some of it back."

A young woman with the ability to call hopes and make daggers made of solid light.

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• Abusive Parents: Her mother's a drug addict who steals her money and is at the very least emotionally abusive.
• Action Girl: Tandy proves herself to be a competent fighter with her powers.
• Adaptational Badass: In the comics, her daggers were only psychic and couldn't do actual damage to flesh, the worst being draining them of vitality. Here, they function like any other knife.
• Adaptational Dye-Job: She's usually depicted with blue eyes, but they're brown here.
• Adaptational Jerkass: She is much more cynical, abrasive, and world-weary than her comic book self that was The Ingenue. She still develops into a heroic character, though.
• Angelic Beauty: Her Dagger costume is white, the illumination that the daggers have and she's also very pretty, so she tends to give off this vibe. Lampshaded by Deschaine.
• Bash Siblings: When the two of them get into fights, Tandy's the one on offense while Tyrone mostly evades or redirects his opponents onto Tandy.
• Classy Cat-Burglar: Tandy uses her background in the upper class to blend in with rich people and take them for all they're worth.
• Con Artist: So much so and for so long that the idea of doing things honestly just never crosses her mind.
• Consummate Liar: One of her biggest strengths is her ability to weave a convincing lie, though "Funhouse Mirrors" shows that she's not as good at it as she thinks. That episode also deconstructs the trope by showing that she's been doing it so long that lying and conning is now her first instinct, even when she could more easily get what she wanted by just telling the truth.
• Cowardly Lion: While her first instinct is to run away, she can climb, run, balance, and fight when the chips are down.
• The Cynic: She starts out that way, but as the more time she spends with Tyrone and sees other people's hopes the more she finds in herself. Reverts back to this in season 2, when she sees how people treat other people and what they're doing to themselves.
• Daddy's Girl: Her father doted on her, which is why his death and her life subsequently took a dive, while her mother neglected Tandy, which weighed heavily on her. This is eventually subverted, as Tandy realizes that she willingly ignored the signs that her father abused her mother.
• Dance Battler: Tandy tends to use moves that are reminiscent of ballet when fighting. Considering she took ballet dance lessons as a child (and again at the start of Season 2), this is not too surprising.
• Deadpan Snarker: Tandy's wit is as sharp as her daggers, as seen by her quip to a forger that she's negotiating with for a fake ID:
  Tandy: If we fail, you still profit. Ain't that America?
• Death Seeker: But can never go through with it. And just when she actually does attempt suicide, her powers kicked in and saved herself.
• Drugs Are Bad: She snorts some kind of pills to numb the pain. In the penultimate episode of Season 1, she starts using her powers as a drug, sucking away people's hopes in a desperate attempt to feel better.
• Functional Addict: She's addicted to several prescription drugs, which she snorts, but so far the only dependency seems psychological and it hasn't yet taken a toll on her body or cognition.
• Emotion Eater: She learns she can not only see people's hopes but also steal them.
• Fatal Flaw: She runs away from her problems and can't face anything. Her journey is learning how to stop running.
• Good Powers, Bad People: She has the power to bring great hope and happiness to anyone she touches. Unfortunately, she sees herself as a "screwed-up bitch" and insists on acting accordingly to everyone around her, up to and including stealing their hopes to get high. Thankfully, she's better than she thinks she is.
• Good Wears White: She tends to wear white clothing.
• Hope Bringer: Tandy's light powers are derived from hope. She can also give others their hope back, which is a crucial ability against Andre Deschaine, who takes other people's hope away and causes them despair to relieve his pain.
• Hope Crusher: As Tandy can see other people's hopes, she can also take them away, giving her an emotional rush. She eventually stops doing it, realizing how wrong it is.
• Kamehame Hadouken: In season 2, she learns to create a ball of light that she can launch. Upon contact, it explodes into blinding white that causes complete distortion of anyone caught in it.
• Laser Blade: She eventually learns to expand her knives into daggers and then, into entire swords.
• Light 'em Up: Her powers manifest as white light daggers.
• Light Is Good: Tandy invokes this trope with her light-based powers and growing compassion.
• Living Emotional Crutch: Tandy is this for Tyrone, showing him that the "Perfect" society keeps pushing for only makes things worse and people worse. In short, she brings out the best in him.
• Loveable Rogue: Tandy's a cunning schemer and thief, but she's also incredibly charming.
• Manic Pixie Dream Girl: The concept is played through her character arc with Tyrone. She does serve to bring Tyrone out of his brooding and sheltered existence, but she is far too much her own person with goals and hopes and Character Development. She's Tyrone's equal partner and best friend, not his lesser in any way and it's never suggested that she should be.
• Parental Issues: In Season 1, Tandy mostly has issues with her mother, who is an alcoholic and drug abuser, who also neglects her daughter and takes her daughter's money to get more drugs. Tandy eventually realizes that her father is a major reason why her mother became this way, as he emotionally and physically abused Melissa. A big part of Season 2 involves Tandy overcoming her pent-up frustration and fear toward her father.
• Spontaneous Weapon Creation: She can form knives made of light. Since she never runs out of "ammo", she can freely throw as many knives as she likes.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Season 1 is this for her with the penultimate moment coming in episode 10 with Tandy Taking A Level In Idealism and stating out loud that she wants to learn how to care.
• Your Heart's Desire: She can sense people's dreams and hopes.

Supernatural beings

Eric Brooks / Blade

Eric Brooks / Blade

Species: Dhampyr (human-vampire hybrid)

Citizenship: Unknown

Portrayed By: Mahershala Ali

Voiced By: Mario Filio (Latin American Spanish dub), Jun'ichi Suwabe (Japanese), Andrio Cândido (Brazilian Portuguese)

Appearances: Eternals ^note In The Stinger, voice only | Blade

"Sure you're ready for that, Mr. Whitman?"

A vampire hunter who himself is half-human/half-vampire.

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• All There in the Manual: His role in Eternals is an uncredited off-screen cameo, so unless you have a good ear for voices, the only way to know this character's identity is to find interviews that discuss the cameo appearance.
• Baritone of Strength: His Voice-Only Cameo in Eternals is delivered in Ali's trademark baritone, and shows him as a confident man familiar with the supernatural.
• Early-Bird Cameo: He is planned to be formally inducted into the MCU with his own movie in the near future.
• Half-Human Hybrid: He's part-human and part-vampire.
• The Unseen: The final scene of Eternals cuts to black before his identity is revealed.

Jack Russell / Werewolf by Night

Jack Russell / Werewolf by Night

"I would never hurt you or hurt any one of them. And any hunting that I do is done by a part of me that is not me."

Species: Werewolf

Citizenship: Unknown

Portrayed By: Gael García Bernal

Appearances: Werewolf By Night

"I can tell you my family was very different. But all families have something in common. They follow us, for good, for bad, they stay, like they become an atmosphere. And sometimes we think that by doing something very specific, we can change everything and not be like them."

A man cursed with lycanthropy who has an Odd Friendship with Ted Sallis.

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• Adaptational Nationality: In the comics, Jack Russell was the Romanian son of a Transylvanian baron, originally born as Jacob Russoff. In the MCU, he's played by the Mexican Gael García Bernal, with no indications that he's from Eastern Europe.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Begs Verussa to not use the Bloodstone to hasten his werewolf transformation.
  "Please don't do this..."
• Ambiguous Situation: Verussa claims that Jack has killed a hundred monsters, but this is presumably a cover story Jack made so he can sneak in and rescue Man-Thing. When confessing to Elsa, however, he does state that his m/o is to go near a target when a full moon is approaching and then letting his werewolf form do its thing, suggesting that at least some of those kills actually happened.
• The Berserker: In werewolf form, he's a flash of unthinking feral rage whose fighting style boils down to ripping everything he sees limb from limb.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Exaggerated to the extreme. Easily one of the kindest and sweetest characters in the MCU - if not the shining example - even when compared to the likes of Steve Rogers and Phil Coulson. ...For 29-and-a-half days per month. When the moon is full (or he's turned by a meddlesome thing like the Bloodstone), however, he's a nigh-unstoppable feral killing machine who will, at the least, rip everyone and everything in front of him to bloody pieces until all that's left barely resembles a human shape. He is literally the nicest, and most vicious, character in the franchise thus far all rolled into one.
• Calacas: Jack is wearing skeletal makeup as an homage to his ancestors and a throwback to his Mexican heritage.
• Composite Character: He uses the name of the original Werewolf by Night, but he's Mexican like Jake Gomez. His friendship with Man-Thing also gives him traits of Jennifer Kale.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Once he transforms, suffice to say, the hunters are all turned into a bloodtastic Mook Horror Show, with most of them reduced to just stains. Calling what the Werewolf does to them a Curb-Stomp Battle is an extremely generous way of putting it.
• Dark Is Not Evil: He turns into a werewolf, but Jack is a friendly guy who would risk his hide to save Man-Thing from trouble. Even when he does turn into a werewolf, he only fights and kills due to not being able to control his werewolf side, not out of acutal malice. His character quote encapsulates the trope perfectly.
• Don't Make Me Destroy You: An unwilling one. He can't control his werewolf form and knows how powerful it is, and tries to warn Verussa against turning him just to get the kill.
  "Just kill me as I am. Otherwise there will be no mercy, I promise."
• Endearingly Dorky: Despite trying to maintain a cover with the rest of the hunters as being as ruthless as they come, the moment he's forced to interact with Elsa his cover completely falls apart. He's awkward, clumsy, uncoordinated, has no idea what he's doing, is an absolute sweetheart, and it's all to help out a friend. Even the incredibly cold and aloof Elsa starts to defrost a good bit hanging around him for only less than an hour.
• Establishing Character Moment: He awkwardly enters the funeral of Ulysses Bloodstone and acts in awe of what he sees, showing that he's completely out of place amongst the circle of monster hunters. Upon meeting the monster, he acts happy to see them because he's friends with them.
• Facial Markings: He has makeup around his eyes and decorating his face, which he says is to honour his ancestors.
• Forced Transformation: When exposed to the Bloodstone, he's forced to transform into his werewolf form even without the full moon (as he told Elsa that it was only five days away).
• A Friend in Need: He's participating in the hunt so he can save Man-Thing and he's always been there to rescue Ted from the numerous times he's been captured.
• Fur Against Fang: Alluded to, when he points to a mounted vampire head in the Bloodstone Manor and says that he's fought that one many times.
• Hero of Another Story: He's apparently fought a vampire — whose head is mounted in the Bloodstone Manor — a few times and he's also befriended Man-Thing (and had to pull him out of a lot of scrapes). Verussa also claims he's killed a hundred monsters.
• Killing in Self-Defense: In werewolf form, he only kills the monster hunters to defend himself.
• Lightning Bruiser: Extremely fast, strong, and tough in werewolf form, as he can rip metal bars apart, casually manhandle and maul average humans, and shrug off cattle prod shocks. He's at least on par with super soldiers and probably a good deal more powerful.
• Magic Pants: Most of his clothes rip off when he transforms into a werewolf, but his pants remain.
• My Instincts Are Showing: When he's stuck in the crypt with Elsa, he moves in a circle before sitting on the ground, like a canine does. He also scratches behind his ear when he confesses to Elsa in the cage that he's not completely human, shortly before dropping all pretense and madly sniffing her to try and remember her scent.
• Nice Guy: Jack's a generally friendly guy when he's not in his werewolf form, only going on this monster hunt so he can save Man-Thing.
• Nighttime Transformation: Well, he is a Werewolf by Night after all. In his case, he only transforms on a full moon normally — with him stating the next full moon was five days away — but he does change back in the daylight after the Bloodstone forced him to transform.
• Noodle Incident:
  • As he starts taking in the scent of Elsa's jacket, he notes that this helped him out...once.
  • Also how he knows Ted and what other situations he's needed to save him from.
• Odd Friendship: The only similarity he has with Ted Sallis is that they are both monsters that are hunted. Jack however is a werewolf who has methods to control his condition while Ted is a swamp monster who has to hide from the rest of the world.
• Our Werewolves Are Different: Werewolf by Night has a classic Wolf Man design as a throwback to Universal monster movies as well as his early appearance in the comics, as opposed to having more pronounced canine features like most modern werewolves.
• Painful Transformation: His Bloodstone forced transformation into a werewolf is shown to be painful with bones cracking and his terrified screams.
• Race Lift: This version of Jack is strongly implied to be of Mexican descent. In addition to speaking with a pronounced accent and referring to the other hunters as "esbirros" (Spanish for "goons"), he claims that the skull-inspired makeup he wears to the event is meant to honor his ancestors, which indicates he's likely mestizo to some degree but otherwise largely of Spanish, Italian, and/or Lebanese-Mexican descent.
• Steven Ulysses Perhero: A Jack Russell Terrier is a breed of dog. Fitting for a lycanthrope.
• True Companions: Despite the special's short runtime, it's established fairly quickly that Jack and Ted are near inseparable, and have been for a long time. The Bloodstone Hunt is merely the latest scrape Jack had to get the Man-Thing out of, and Ted claims to have saved Jack's ass a few times as well.
• Two First Names: Both "Jack" and "Russell" are applicable as first names.
• Unskilled, but Strong: He has no real sense of strategy or finesse in his werewolf form and his "tactics" are just pure predatory instinct, but he's so ridiculously fast, strong, and tough that it isn't an issue.

Ghost Riders

"Johnny Blaze" / Ghost Rider I

"Johnny Blaze" / Ghost Rider

Species: Human (Demon possessed)

Citizenship: American

Portrayed By: Tom McComas

Appearances: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

"And you're right. There was someone there when I came to. But it wasn't a Good Samaritan. It was the Devil."

— Robbie Reyes

The "Devil" who made Robbie Reyes a Spirit of Vengeance in exchange for saving Robbie's younger brother from a burning car. He sports the appearance of the classic Johnny Blaze version of Ghost Rider.

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• All There in the Manual: The "devil" is never named during the series, but actor Gabriel Luna said in an interview that this demon is in fact Johnny Blaze.
• Ambiguous Situation: While heavily implied to be Johnny Blaze, it's never actually explicitly confirmed that he is.
• Anti-Hero: Ghost Rider passed the Spirit of Vengeance onto Robbie, who calls him the Devil, but he did resurrect Robbie and pull Gabe from the wrecked car before making the deal.
• Badass Biker: This is another strong implication that he is truly Johnny Blaze — he rides an impressive Hydra-Glide Chopper.
• Bait-and-Switch: Robbie's insistence that the entity with whom he made a pact was the Devil himself initially leads one to believe that it had to do with Mephisto, who's usually treated in the Marvel Universe as the equivalent of the Devil, or some other entity. As it turns out, he caught a previous Ghost Rider on a good day (though a pact with him was still a part of the deal).
• Boring, but Practical: He managed to keep the Darkhold from S.H.I.E.L.D., HYDRA, and a multitude of interested parties by keeping it buried in his house.
• The Cameo: He only appears in Robbie and Gabe's flashback of the night Robbie got his powers, but he makes quite an impression.
• Cool Bike: This GR comes with a chopper-style Hell Cycle, Johnny Blaze's favorite mode of transportation in the comics.
• Cursed with Awesome: What he did to Robbie, and what was also done to him. Coming back from the dead is nice and all, but having to constantly contend with the will of a vengeance demon? Not so much.
• Dark Is Not Evil: The character is a classic case of Bad Powers, Good People, dressed in black leather but being on the side of good. Coulson's testimony suggests that this assessment holds true.
• Dem Bones: He's got a skull for a head, and it's on fire.
• Deal with the Devil: He saved Robbie's life and gave him the power of the Ghost Rider in exchange for Robbie taking on the burden of exacting vengeance on wrongdoers as the new Ghost Rider.
• Escaped from Hell: Unsurprisingly, Ghost Rider went to Hell at one point and later escaped. Coulson apparently witnessed it.
• The Faceless: Although we do see his skull on fire as Ghost Rider, we don't get to see his actual human face.
• Flaming Skulls: Well, he is a Ghost Rider.
• Hell-Bent for Leather: He wears a leather jacket, not unlike the one Johnny Blaze would wear in the comics.
• Hero of Another Story: Coulson is revealed to be familiar with him — and explicitly played a role in the adventure where he managed to escape the underworld. Along with that, the basement in which the Darkhold is found is all but stated to be Johnny's.
• Mistaken Identity: Robbie is persuaded that he must be the Devil.
• Mythology Gag:
  • One of the hints that this is Johnny Blaze and not another iteration of the Ghost Rider character is the bullet dent in his skull. In the comics, Blaze was once briefly killed (again) after being shot in the head by a holy bullet that sent him along with his Spirit of Vengeance to Hell.
  • Additionally, his skull is cloaked in fire instead of being black and charred as if it's on fire, like the version portrayed by Nicolas Cage.
• No Name Given: While heavily implied to be Johnny Blaze, he hasn't explicitly been identified as such as far as "The Good Samaritan".
• Precursor Hero: He was the previous Ghost Rider who was serving justice before Robbie Reyes.
• Scars Are Forever: He sports a very notable bullet indention in the upper left side of his skull.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Only has a passing cameo, but it's only because of him that Robbie Reyes became the Ghost Rider in the first place.
• Truer to the Text: While Robbie's design is accurate to his comic book counterpart — albeit substantially less metallic and more bone-shaped — it is still a departure from the original. Now we know why — it's because this Ghost Rider's appearance is more in line with the original Johnny Blaze.
• The Voiceless: He doesn't say a single word during his brief appearance, though Robbie apparently heard his voice in his head.
• Wham Shot: His burning skull entering the scene during Robbie's Origin Episode. Alternately, for more comic-familiar viewers, the Wham Shot is the presence of his Cool Bike pulling up, to begin with, as that's a tip-off to who the "Good Samaritan" really is.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: It's unknown what happened to him after his deal with Robbie.

Robbie Reyes / Ghost Rider II

See his own page.

Avatars of the Ennead

Marc Spector / Steven Grant / Moon Knight / Mr. Knight

See their own page.

Layla El-Faouly / Scarlet Scarab

Layla Abdallah El-Faouly / Scarlet Scarab

"I don't need protection. What I need is honesty."

^{Click here to see her as the Scarlet Scarab}
"All right, show me what you got."

Species: Enhanced human

Citizenship: Egyptian

Affiliation(s): Taweret

Portrayed By: May Calamawy

Appearances: Moon Knight

"I don't steal. They've already been stolen. That's what people forget. I take them off the black market and return them to their rightful owners. I might keep a few to pay the bills."

Marc Spector's estranged wife who ends up getting drawn back into his life when Steven finds Marc's old phone.

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• Action Girl: She dispatches one of Arthur's cultists, and assists Steven/Mr. Knight in battling a monstrous jackal creature who is invisible to her. There is a good reason why Khonshu has his eyes on her as his next host...or not. However, she does get to show her superpowered stuff when she becomes Taweret's avatar.
• Adaptational Backstory Change: Not for the character, who's still the daughter of an archaeologist murdered by one of Marc's colleagues, but for the Scarlet Scarab, who in the comics owed its powers to an artifact, the Ruby Scarab, but here is empowered by being an avatar of the goddess Taweret.
• Adventurer Archaeologist: Layla is an archaeologist like her father, as well as being an Action Girl.
• Affectionate Nickname: Her father called her "little scarab."
• Alliterative Name: Her identity as Taweret's avatar is Scarlet Scarab.
• Alternate Company Equivalent: She, being the Egyptian wife of Moon Knight, who is an avatar of an Egyptian deity, as well as becoming an Avatar of an Egyptian Goddess herself, makes her the MCU equivalent to Adrianna Tomaz, wife of Black Adam and Avatar of Egyptian Goddess Isis. ^note  she was oringally planned to be the Avatar for Isis before changed to the Avatar of Tarawet
• Amazonian Beauty: She is pretty and her outfit as Tawaret’s Avatar reveals that her arms are very muscular, especially in comparison with most female heroes in the franchise.
• Animal Motif: Scarabs. Her father used to call her his little scarab, and she sewed scarabs on a scarf she gave him. Noticeably, when Taweret empowers her as her avatar, a crimson-colored scarab is in the middle of her chestplate.
• Arsenal Attire: When Layla and Marc visit Anton Mogart, she is seemingly unarmed, but wears a rather unusual necklace — which turns out to house twin blades that Layla wields to great effect once the situation goes downhill.
• Attack Reflector: The wings that come with her Scarlet Scarab costume allow her to redirect attacks back to their sender, which she does with Harrow's attack to send him flying.
• Battle Couple: She's implied to have been this in the past with her husband Marc. She is an excellent fighter, she references their "adventures", and she's seen him as Moon Knight in action before. "Gods and Monsters" has her, Marc, and Steven kick the asses of multiple cultists.
• Brainy Brunette: Layla has brown hair and is a talented archaeologist.
• Canon Character All Along: Played with. She's a combination of Marc's comic love interest/wife Marlene Alraune and a genderswapped version of Mehemet Faoul, the second Scarlet Scarab from the comics. Her father, Abdullah El-Faouly, is also a Composite Character between Peter Alraune, Marlene's archaeologist father, and Abdul Faoul, the Scarlet Scarab, who was an occasional ally of the Invaders.
• Color Animal Codename: Her codename Scarlet Scarab is this as scarlet is a shade of red while scarab is a type of beetle.
• Color Character: The Scarlet Scarab.
• Color Motif: Red. In particular, "The Tomb" associates her with flares that burn red. This is fitting, given she is the MCU's version of the Scarlet Scarab.
• Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: After becoming Taweret's avatar, she never goes by the Scarlet Scarab alias. She just gets called "Egyptian superhero" by a little girl.
• Composite Character: Of Moon Knight's canon girlfriend/wife Marlene Alraune, and Mehemet Faoul, the second hero known as the Scarlet Scarab.
• Cultured Badass: Layla, in addition to being a certified Action Girl, is a skilled and accomplished archaeologist with a fondness for French poetry.
• Daddy's Girl: She was very close to her father Abdullah, he inspired her to become an archaeologist just like him and he referred to her as his "little scarab". His death left her devastated and she spends a bit of the series trying to uncover the events that led up to when he was killed, as she long suspected there was more to it than what she was told.
• Deadpan Snarker: Not as big as Marc and Steven, but she has some moments.
• Dressing as the Enemy: In "Gods and Monsters", Layla disguises herself as one of Arthur Harrow's followers to sneak into Giza.
• Dual Wielding: The necklace she wears in "The Friendly Type" hides twin blades. She wields two swords in each hand as the Scarlet Scarab in "Gods and Monsters".
• Empowered Badass Normal: Layla's a proper Action Girl in her own right, but this gets taken up a notch when she partners with Taweret and becomes the Scarlet Scarab.
• Foreshadowing: Layla was referred to by her father as his "little scarab". She becomes the MCU version of the Scarlet Scarab.
• Fake Mixed Race: Inverted. Layla is 100% Egyptian. May Calamawy is half Egyptian, half Palestinian.
• Fragile Speedster: As the Scarlet Scarab, Layla can fly at incredible speed, but she still has to protect her human body from gunfire, suggesting she doesn't share Moon Knight's ability to regenerate from harm.
• Gender Flip: She is essentially the comics Mehemet Faoul, but as a woman.
• Genius Bruiser: Aside from being an accomplished archaeologist, she is also a resilient Action Girl.
• Gold and White Are Divine: Taweret gives Layla an armor with gold and white coloration when the latter becomes the Scarlet Scarab.
• Gold-Colored Superiority: Her Scarlet Scarab armor has gold elements that possess offensive and defensive capabilities.
• Grievous Bottley Harm: As Mr. Knight is being thoroughly thrashed by a jackal, she sneaks up behind and throws a bottle into its face. Unfortunately, it doesn't accomplish much but let her See the Invisible for a few seconds.
• Improvised Weapon: She has used a glass bottle, shards of glass, flares, and the mask of a Heka priest as weapons throughout Moon Knight.
• Instant Expert: Layla is incredibly adept in utilizing her Scarlet Scarab armor and equipment despite having only been Taweret's avatar for a few minutes.
• Karmic Thief: She locates stolen artifacts that end up on the black market and steals them back — usually to return them to their rightful owners, but occasionally also to cover her own expenses.
• Leitmotif: She gets one after transforming into the Scarlet Scarab.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Marc kept Layla in the dark about being part of a DID system throughout their marriage, making it a big surprise for her when she finds her estranged husband living under a different name with a totally different accent and personality, and with no idea who she is. Also, while she's aware of Marc's powers as Moon Knight, she doesn't know that it comes from his service to Khonshu, something Marc is very keen to keep hidden, since Khonshu (supposedly) has his eyes on Layla to become his next avatar.
• Meaningful Name: Layla means "night" in Arabic. She married the avatar of an Egyptian moon god.
• My God, You Are Serious!: When Steven accidentally calls her on the phone, she doesn't believe that Steven is real and tells Marc to drop the fake accent and tell her where he's been before hanging up in frustration. Once they meet in person, Layla is still pissed at him for what she sees as him playing dumb, like him not knowing how to ride a motorcycle with her or reciting her favourite poem but claiming that it's actually his favourite, and she laughs at him and says she's not buying it. Once they're both in a life-or-death situation and Steven still doesn't break character or transform into Moon Knight, she realises that there really is something going on. After witnessing Steven mentally switch with Marc, she finally accepts that there really are two people in the same body.
• Non-Indicative Name: The MCU's version of Scarlet Scarab dresses primarily in Gold and White Are Divine.
• Noodle Incident: She has some history with Anton Mogart that isn't expanded on further then Bek mentioning some encounter in Madripoor that apparently didn't go in Anton's favour.
• Omniglot: Layla is fluent in Arabic, English, French, and Ancient Egyptian.
• People Puppets: She very briefly becomes one when Taweret speaks through her just before making Layla her avatar.
• Poor Communication Kills: She repeatedly tells Steven to "summon the suit". What she's trying to say is "turn into Moon Knight", but Steven hears it as "put on a nice dapper suit", which results in the creation of Mr. Knight. Downplayed, because Layla appears not to realize that Steven is a different person from Marc, and couldn't know Steven wouldn't know what she means.
• Primary-Color Champion: Layla's Scarlet Scarab armor is red and yellow/gold in color.
• Race Lift: The writer's room downright discarded keeping Marc Spector's wife as a Caucasian blonde for diversity's sake, hence Layla is Egyptian.
• Razor Wings: The suit Taweret makes for her includes metallic wings that she can use to fly or as weapons or shields. Curiously enough, these wings do not correspond to any of Taweret's motifs, having been traditionally associated with the goddess Hathor or Isis instead. However, when Layla and Taweret are talking after Layla agrees to become her avatar, Taweret does say she has "a fabulous costume" in mind, suggesting that Taweret is simply borrowing design elements she's fond of rather than going for a theme related to her specifically.
• Red Is Heroic: Her Scarlet Scarab armor has red coloration.
• Relative Button: She does not like it when someone tries to get under her skin by mentioning her father's death.
• Super-Reflexes: As the Scarlet Scarab, Layla can quickly anticipate the movements of her enemies.
• Super-Strength: She can stop a moving van from hitting a group of civilians as the Scarlet Scarab.
• Took a Level in Badass: Layla is already a badass in the beginning, and she becomes even more badass when she becomes Taweret's avatar.
• Two-Person Love Triangle: She appears to develop a variant of this with Marc and Steven (two bodies, three people) over the course of the series. When conversing with Marc, Layla is a cold and stoic Consummate Professional who openly remarks how she feels that she barely knows who her husband is anymore. While she initially has the same attitude towards Steven when she first meets him, due to believing that he's merely Marc getting deep into a new identity, she gradually softens up to him once she realizes he's an entirely separate person, and is much more open with him as they work together to stop Harrow.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Layla's status isn't mentioned after Harrow's defeat, and, while she originally insisted that her time as Taweret's Avatar would be temporary, it's not shown if she held to that decision.
• What the Hell, Hero?: She calls out Marc several times for constantly keeping her in the dark against her will and randomly dropping off the face of the Earth without a word of notice. She's also furious when he admits he only first met her and fell in love because he wanted to ease his conscience regarding her father's death.
• Wing Shield: Her wings are bulletproof, and she uses them to protect herself and other from gunfire.
• You Killed My Father: Averted, since Marc reveals to Layla that his partner Raoul Bushman was the one responsible for her father's death.

Mutants

Kamala Khan / Ms. Marvel

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Wade Wilson / Deadpool

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James "Logan" Howlett / Wolverine

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Aliens

Love

"Love" / Gorr's Daughter

"Got it. Protect the nice ones."

Species: Enhanced alien of unknown species

Citizenship: Unknown, possibly Asgardian

Affiliation(s): Asgard, Thor

Portrayed By: India Rose Hemsworth

Appearances: Thor: Love and Thunder

Gorr's deceased daughter, resurrected by Eternity as his dying wish.

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• Action Girl: She becomes Thor's sidekick and adoptive niece in their adventures.
• Adaptational Attractiveness: Two of the characters she's adapted from are of a species who had Twi'lek-esque head protrusions and Voldemort-esque pale skin and noseless faces. Here, she looks like a human with some markings on her skin.
• Ambiguous Situation: It's clear that she's not quite a mortal girl after her resurrections but what she is exactly is anyone's guess. Is she merely empowered by Eternity? Is she Eternity's avatar (given her reflection) that allows the cosmic entity to interact with the world? Is she Gorr's daughter at all or some sort of Eldritch Abomination Eternity created to comfort the dying father? Korg's narration called her "born of Eternity" which doesn't clear up any confusion.
• Back from the Dead: She returns to life thanks to her father using his wish from Eternity.
• Bully Hunter: What Thor is teaching his adoptive niece to become; honoring his mother Frigga's teachings to be a generous and compassionate God who protects and shows kindness to the less fortunate, unlike his tyrant half-sister Hela, and the gods who failed Love's father.
• Came Back Strong: Being resurrected by Eternity seems to have brought her back more than mortal. She demonstrates Eye Beams and can keep up with Thor in battle.
• Canon Character All Along: Zigzagged; her reflection on the water's surface post-resurrection by Gorr suggests she's the MCU version of the Cosmic Entity "Singularity". Alternatively, she may be the MCU version of Mistress Love. As Mistress Love is also known by the alias/nickname "Love".
• Celestial Body: After being resurrected, her true form is a silhouette made of stars, like Eternity.
• Composite Character: As Gorr's child who dies and prompts him onto his deicidal crusade, she takes the role of Gorr's last living son, Agar. Being a female and the closest living thing to Gorr, she takes the place of Gorr's dead wife, Arra, who was never shown or mentioned in the movie. Her reflection, which looks like a feminine Eternity, alongside her cosmic powers, could make her the MCU's equivalent of Singularity, a sentient pocket-dimension creature.
• Character Title: She's Love, Thor is Thunder.
• Eye Beams: Her resurrection grants her these, and possibly other powers. Thor really doesn't like it when she literally glares through the cookery.
• Gender Flip: In the comics, Gorr had a son called Agar instead of a daughter.
• Generation Xerox: Much like her adoptive uncle Loki, Love is adopted (as a niece, in her case) by an Asgardian king after they defeated and made peace with their respective fathers.
• Little Miss Badass: Unleashes her Eye Beams while arguing with Thor about whether she can wear her slippers into battle, and then goes into that battle wielding Stormbreaker.
• The Mirror Shows Your True Self: Her reflection in the water reveals that she looks like (or possibly is) Eternity.
• No Name Given: We are told that she is known to the wider galaxy as "Love" to Thor's "Thunder". Unless that actually is her name, then we never learn it.
• Purple Is Powerful: After being resurrected by Eternity, she gains the ability to shoot purple laser beams from her eyes. She also wears a purple jacket while fighting in the end of "Thor: Love and Thunder".
• Rubber-Forehead Aliens: Looks like a normal young human girl with the exception of the markings on her skin.
• Small Role, Big Impact: She's only present in the first and final few minutes of Thor: Love and Thunder, but her death is what sets Gorr on the path to becoming the God Butcher, and her resurrection signifies him giving up his crusade and dying at peace.
• Walking Spoiler: Her resurrection happens in the climax of Thor: Love and Thunder, and her subsequent characterization is discovered in the movie's epilogue, thus making it hard to talk about her without spoiling Gorr's death or Eternity's involvement.

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