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Other Supervillains

Humans

Helmut Zemo / Baron Zemo

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Enhanced humans

Emil Blonsky / The Abomination

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Ava Starr / Ghost

Ava Starr / Ghost

"You have no idea what I'm capable of".

^{Click here to see the Ghost suit.}
"Give me that. Now".

Species: Enhanced human

Citizenship: British, Argentine

Affiliation(s): S.H.I.E.L.D. (formerly)

Portrayed By: Hannah John-Kamen, RaeLynn Bratten (young)

Voiced By: Fernanda Robles Patiño (Latin American Spanish), Rie Tanaka (Japanese)

Appearances: Ant-Man and the Wasp | Film/{{Thunderbolts*}}

"They call it molecular disequilibrium. A rather dull name I think. Doesn't quite do justice to what it means. Every cell in my body is torn apart and stitched back together, over and over every day".

The daughter of Elihas Starr, a former partner of Hank Pym's. Her parents were killed in an experiment involving quantum energy, and the explosion granted her the ability to phase through solid objects but caused her molecules to slowly rip apart. She was discovered by S.H.I.E.L.D. and trained as a stealth operative, using a special suit that allows greater control of her powers and slows her decay. When S.H.I.E.L.D. collapsed, she turned to desperate methods to hopefully find a cure for her condition.

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• Adaptation Deviation: MCU Ghost nails the look and power type in regards to comic accuracy, but the similarities end there.
  • MCU Ghost is a younger, mixed-race woman. Comics Ghost is an older, white man.
  • MCU Ghost got her powers from a freak accident. Comics Ghost is tech-based and draws all of his power from the suit.
  • MCU Ghost relies entirely on hand-to-hand combat and has some kind of Super-Strength. Comics Ghost mainly relies on evading his enemies and using weapons and gadgets.
  • MCU Ghost has her origin related to Hank Pym and menaces Ant-Man and the Wasp. Comics Ghost has had nothing to do with Pym and is chiefly an Iron Man villain.
  • MCU Ghost has a sympathetic backstory and is looking out for her survival. Comic Ghost in comparison has a murky backstory and is an anti-corporate terrorist willing to die for his beliefs.
  • MCU Ghost has ties to Elihas Starr (Egghead) and Bill Foster (Goliath) as her biological and adopted parent, respectively, and was a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. Comics Ghost had nothing to do with any of them.
• Adaptational Attractiveness: The comics' version of Ghost is an older, plain-looking man. In Ant-Man and the Wasp Ghost is portrayed by Hannah John-Kamen, who is a beautiful young woman.
• Adaptational Badass: This version of Ghost doesn't need the suit to use her powers, and is a significantly better hand-to-hand combatant who appears to have some kind of enhanced strength. That said, she loses some of the other talents in the transition.
• Adaptational Heroism: Unlike her comic book counterpart, who is a paranoid terrorist, Ava's just looking for a way to stabilize her condition and only explicitly wants to kill Janet out of necessity... Until it turns out that she doesn't have to. Although it has to be said that Comic Ghost did act quite heroic during his time as Thunderbolt, saving his teammates' lives and the world.
• Adaptational Skill: She has hand-to-hand combat and assassination training that her comic book counterpart lacks.
• Adaptational Sympathy: The Ghost in the comics claims that he was the victim of corporate greed, having been seduced by one of his company's henchwoman to build them a profitable new invention, lost her to said company when she tried squeezing more money out of them and became a vengeful, intangible being when a hitman almost took his own life to keep him from squealing. This Ghost, now a woman, was just a little girl when her father's invention went off during a S.H.I.E.L.D. raid, causing her to become permanently intangible, and at risk of falling apart every day, she's still around. Everything she does in this movie is to try and save herself from dying, in contrast to the vengeful and angry comics version.
• Adaptational Wimp: The comics version of Ghost is an expert with firearms and explosives, and furthermore is a skilled hacker (being a corporate saboteur and all) who can disrupt enemy electronics and would've definitely proved useful against our heroes. This version doesn't use guns at all, nor can she hack anything. That said, she gains more in the way of direct combat skills.
• Affably Evil: In the loosest sense as she is not evil (though she is Scott and Hope's main enemy throughout the film), she does show respect for Scott and refuses to kill anyone who she doesn't have to. When her condition is stabilized, she no longer antagonizes Scott and the Pyms, who begin working to find her a permanent cure.
• Age Lift: Ghost is an old man◊ beneath the mask in the comics, but here Ghost's actress was only 27 at the time of filming.
• All There in the Manual: Her last name, Starr, is only explicitly identified in the credits, though her father is mentioned as having the same last name during the film proper.
• Anti-Villain: Her only goal is to stop her powers from killing her, with the only villainous aspect of her character being that she is willing to do anything to do that. Even that aspect is a result of her desperation to avoid dying and the effect her condition is having on her mind rather than any kind of malice. When Janet uses her quantum powers to stabilize her condition, she ceases her "evil" behavior entirely, and Scott refers to her later as their friend when researching a cure for her.
• Ax-Crazy: Feeling as much pain as she does all the time and knowing that her life is ticking away is causing her to become unhinged, to the point where Bill Foster looks alarmed when she suggests kidnapping Cassie.
• Badass Biker: She commandeers a motorcycle from one of Burch's Mooks during the climactic chase scene, and proves plenty skilled with it.
• Big Bad Ensemble: Alongside Sonny Burch, she's one of the main villains of Ant-Man and the Wasp. Of the two, while Burch is eviler and would cause more damage with the Pym Particles, Ghost is more directly dangerous and competent.
• Blessed with Suck: Her intangibility powers are slowly killing her.
• The Bus Came Back: She's set to return in Thunderbolts*, a full six years after her first appearance in Ant-Man and the Wasp.
• Canon Foreigner: Not the Ghost identity itself, but the specific character of Ava Starr was invented for the movie. While she is connected to established Marvel character Elias Starr/Egghead, he doesn't have a daughter in the comics. He did have a niece that Ava takes a few cues from, as detailed under Composite Character below, but they aren't the exact same character.
• Celebrity Paradox:
  • Game of Thrones has been mentioned in an episode of Luke Cage. Hannah John-Kamen played Ornela in the sixth season of the series.
  • Star Wars was referenced in several MCU films and television shows. Hannah John-Kamen made a brief cameo as a First Order Officer in The Force Awakens.
• Clothes Make the Superman: Subverted. The heroes initially assume this is the case, but Ava does not need the suit to use her powers, though it does help her control them and keep her solid. It's also another contrast to her comics version, which played this entirely straight.
• Composite Character: While Ava is largely a unique character since in most other universes Egghead never had a wife or child, she combines traits of Egghead's niece, Patricia Star, along with those of the supervillain, Ghost.
  • Ava and Trish are members of Egghead's family and have notable interactions with Ant-Man, though their interactions with Egghead and Hank Pym are somewhat reversed. Ava idolizes her father and her desperation to ensure her survival has placed her against Hank Pym and Scott Lang, while Trish has a close friendship with Pym and has suffered and been manipulated by her uncle.
  • Like Patricia, Ava suffers from a disability unintentionally caused by Elihas, Trish lost her left arm because of a car bomb her uncle set and Ava suffers from physical instability caused by powers she gained from the malfunction of her father's experiment. Both have also remedied their situations through the use of technology, Ava stabilizes her condition using her Ghost suit and Trish has used a bionic arm to replace her missing one.
  • Like Ghost, Ava is a tech-enhanced thief with intangibility powers. Though Ghost's powers originate from his suit, Ava's powers are regulated by her suit.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Although she has body-altering abilities as Darren Cross did, they're based on intangibility rather than size-shifting. Also, while Darren came to hate Pym, his mentor, and was driven by unhinged megalomania, Ava is merely motivated out of desperation to survive and cares about her parental-figure Bill Foster. Even their approaches to Cassie Lang are different. While Cross has zero qualms about kidnapping her and is more than willing to hurt her, Ava proposes it out of desperation and is easily talked out of it after Foster rebukes her for suggesting this.
• Daddy's Girl: She's very close to her adoptive father Bill Foster who helped her control her powers and promised her that he would find a cure for her condition. She also loved her biological father Elihas so much that she tried to run towards him when the Quantum Tunnel was going to kill him to ensure that he doesn't die alone.
• Dark Action Girl: A deadly, highly intelligent, and extremely athletic thief. She fights on even footing with both Scott and Hope at multiple points throughout the film and even overpowers them on a few occasions.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Hank Pym fired and discredited her father. In a desperate bid to restore his name, he attempted an experiment that backfired horribly, leading to both of Ava's parents being killed and leaving her alive with a condition that causes her constant, progressively worse pain. S.H.I.E.L.D., compromised by HYDRA infiltrators, promised to cure her but instead trained her to be a spy and assassin; she claims the dirty work she did for them felt like losing her soul. The suit she wears is a holdover from her days as an assassin.
• Determinator: Ava's sole motivation is finding a cure for her powers, which are gradually killing her. She's willing to do anything if it means achieving that goal.
• Drama-Preserving Handicap: Her Intangibility and Invisibility powers make her nigh-unstoppable and unbeatable and she pretty much is given how Scott and Hope are almost no match for her despite being Sizeshifters. The only reason she doesn't become completely undefeatable is because of her powers' instability which is not only slowly killing her but also negatively affects her mental state.
• Easily Forgiven: Instead of being mad at Ava for trying to kill her, Janet stabilizes her condition. Scott, Hank, and Hope aren't that worried either.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She genuinely cares for her father-figure Bill Foster and panics slightly when he's in danger.
• Evil Brit: A ruthless Dark Action Girl who speaks with Hannah John-Kamen's natural British accent. The "evil" part is a bit questionable, though, as she merely wants to cure her debilitating condition, and stops opposing the Pym family when Janet helps her, and The Stinger shows that they are continuing research for a cure for their "ghost friend".
• Fate Worse than Death: She sees her quantum instability as this, being forced to live in a state of constant pain all while her very existence is slowly being drained away. She still doesn't want to die though, and her whole objective is to find a cure for her condition.
  Ghost: My parents were dead. I wasn't so lucky.
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  • To co-antagonist Sonny Burch. Ghost is a young mixed-race black woman who's an Anti-Villain at worst, does all the fighting herself without any minions, and is merely looking out for her own survival. In contrast, Sonny Burch is an older white man that has little-to-no sympathetic qualities while acting Faux Affably Evil, doesn't do any of the fightings and instead sends his minions to do all the dirty work, and is chasing after what he knows will be the next gold rush.
  • She and Bill also function as a pair of foils to Hank and Hope: Hank is an emotionally distant father who abandoned his daughter in his grief, resulting in her pursuing a path separate from him when she grew old enough to be able to. Bill is an adoptive father figure to a grieving young girl, who helps her to stabilize her fatal condition and keeps her chained to morality; in exchange, Ava remains loyal to Bill.
• Gender Flip: Ghost is a man in the comics, but is portrayed by a woman in the MCU.
• Girlish Pigtails: She sports these as a little girl and later as a young adult when she's stabilizing herself and not wearing her Ghost suit.
• Hairstyle Inertia: Has messy pigtails the present-day scene where she tells the heroes her backstory, which is intercut with scenes of her as a pigtail-wearing child.
• Heel–Face Turn: She wasn't all that evil in the first place, but once Janet stabilizes her, she's distraught at everything she's done and tries to surrender herself to the authorities. The heroes are all quick to forgive her, however, and Bill stops her from doing that. In the mid-credits scene, Scott mentions that the reason they're gathering the Quantum Realm energy is to continue healing "their new Ghost friend".
• Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: She wears her face-concealing helmet less and less as more of her Tragic Villain nature becomes clear, and is unmasked for a majority of the climax after Scott breaks the faceplate.
• In Name Only: Only shares the costume, alias, and powerset with Ghost in the comics. They differ in literally everything else, from age, to ethnicity, to nationality, and comic Ghost wasn't even given a real name!
• In the Hood: Her costume sports a hood much like her comic counterpart's classic outfit. It helps add to her enigmatic presence.
• Intangibility: She has the ability to phase through solid matter.
• Invisibility: Her molecular instability also means she can phase out of the visible spectrum, and thus make sneak attacks more easily.
• Irrational Hatred: Of Hank Pym. She blames him for her father's actions even though all Hank did was expose him as a traitor, and is so consumed by her anger that she refuses to let him help her voluntarily.
• It's All About Me: A rare sympathetic version. While anyone in her shoes would also be desperate to stay alive, she constantly puts her own needs above everything else — berating the very man who devoted his whole life to save her, callously attempting to drain the life out of Janet for personal use and even seriously considering kidnapping an innocent child (before Foster puts his foot down and warns her that's a bridge too far, anyway). The implication is that the constant pain and agony she endures every second of every day has taken its toll on her psyche, to the point of overwhelming her compassion and empathy. Once she is cured, at least temporarily, she has a Heel Realization about this and feels she should face consequences for it.
• Lethal Harmless Powers: Her intangibility could theoretically cause horrible injuries were she to turn solid inside another person, notably when she threatens Hank by phasing an arm through his throat. She also kills Agent Stoltz by phasing her hand into his chest and doing something that leaves him critically injured.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: While considered a villain and having done some less-than-savory things, she's ultimately just scared for her life and doesn't truly wish to be evil. This is in comparison to co-antagonist Sonny Burch, a very clear-cut villain motivated by greed.
• Light Is Not Good: Her costume is all white, but that does not reflect her alignment. Though it does indicate she's not a horrible person.
• My God, What Have I Done?: She's horrified when Janet, the person she'd planned to sacrifice to save herself, willingly helps stabilize her condition. She's so consumed with guilt that she considers turning herself in.
• Mythology Gag: Though her costume is mostly modeled after Ghost's modern design from the Thunderbolts comics, she still wears a hood, much like Ghost originally did in The '80s.
• Named by the Adaptation: The name of her comic book counterpart is unknown, unlike the MCU version, whose name is Ava Starr.
• Necessarily Evil: Her goal is saving her own life and while she wants to avoid any amount of unnecessary pain to get there, she's not too picky on who she hurts if it means getting what she wants.
• Never My Fault: Ava blames Hank Pym for the deaths of her parents and ruining her life. In her flashback, however, had Ava listened to her father and left with her mother, not only would she lose only her father, she would not have gained her powers.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: She does not waste time in pursuing her objective; no comedic gags here.
• Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Hannah John-Kamen maintains her English accent, despite no indication Ghost is actually from there. We never actually hear her parents speak, though, so it's entirely possible she is and just moved to America with them when they worked for S.H.I.E.L.D./HYDRA. It's also suggested that she may be Argentinian.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: If Secret Invasion is anything to go by, she was present at the Battle of Earth, as the Skrulls have access to her DNA through the Harvest.
• Older Hero vs. Younger Villain: The Younger Villain (albeit an Anti-Villain) to Ant-Man and Wasp's Older Heroes. She's in her twenties, compared to the other two being older by at least a decade.
• Parental Substitute: Bill Foster serves as her adoptive father after her parents die.
• Parts Unknown: It's not quite clear where she's from. It's implied that she might be Argentinian but has a British accent, her birth and adoptive fathers are Americans, and her child actress is American herself while in the flashback she makes no attempt at an English accent. It's never explained.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Hannah John-Karmen stands just 5'6" tall, but her abilities, including what appears to be some degree of Super-Strength, allow her to toss much larger opponents around like rag dolls.
• Power Incontinence: The longer she goes without resting in a special chamber built for her by Bill Foster, the more out-of-control her intangibility grows. Her suit goes a ways toward stabilizing the problem but doesn't fully diminish it.
• Race Lift: Ghost is Caucasian in the comics, but is portrayed by a British-Nigerian actress here. It's suggested that she's Argentinian.
• Related in the Adaptation: In the comics, the Ghost had no relation to Egghead. Here, the Ghost is Elihas Starr's daughter. She's also the adopted daughter of Bill Foster, whereas the comics versions of them had no connection.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Ghost is a rival to Iron Man in the comics, but confronts Ant-Man in her debut film.
• Samus Is a Girl: She was first seen in costume and Hank assumed she was male.
• Sanity Slippage: The side-effects of her powers, combined with her Dark and Troubled Past, make Ava not entirely stable even when first introduced, and she only gets worse as her condition (and with it, her desperation to find a cure) worsens.
• Scary Black Woman: She's Black British and very scary as Ghost, especially her Sanity Slippage that causes her to become Ax-Crazy.
• Slasher Smile: Gives Scott a rather unhealthy grin when she first captures him and shares her backstory.
• The Slow Walk: She rarely moves quicker than a casual strut, even during fights and chase scenes. Given that her powers allow her to ignore any and all obstacles, on top of making her functionally Nigh-Invulnerable, she doesn't really need to go any faster. It's her Signature Move.
• Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl: Her new look counts as an Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance, not to mention the element of vengeance in her backstory.
• Super-Strength: Though the film never explicitly calls attention to it, Ava performs a number of feats throughout the film that suggests she's gained some level of enhanced strength in addition to her other powers, including knocking people out with a single well-aimed hit, blowing Scott through a wall with a kick, and throwing full-grown men around like toys.
• These Hands Have Killed: S.H.I.E.L.D., or possibly a HYDRA cell within the organization, trained her as an assassin from childhood, and we get to see her dispatch at least one victim with a brutal Neck Snap. Towards the end of the film, when she tries to get Bill to Go On Without Me, she states that she isn't worth saving since she's killed many people.
• Time-Shifted Actor: Hannah John-Kamen plays her as an adult, while Rae Lynn Bratten plays her as a child during flashback scenes.
• Tragic Villain: She is an evil-doing woobie. In a childhood accident with her father's tech, Ava lost both of her parents and gained powerful but unstable abilities that leave her in constant pain and are slowly phasing her out of reality, with the only end possibilities being death or something much worse. The skills she uses were honed by black ops missions for S.H.I.E.L.D. (or maybe HYDRA). Every single action she undertakes, even as they grow increasingly heinous and brutal as time goes on, is exclusively devoted to fixing her condition which is destabilizing her mental state. All of the good guys recognize her as a victim of circumstance, and she ultimately gets away with zero consequences.
• Two First Names: Starr is not as commonly used as Ava when it comes to first names.
• Tyke Bomb: She was trained by S.H.I.E.L.D. (or possibly HYDRA) to be an assassin from a young age.
• Uncertain Doom: It's still unknown if she survived Thanos's fingersnap or became one of the unlucky fifty-percent who disintegrated. And even if she was spared, her situation at the end of Ant-Man and the Wasp was still critically precarious, as she needed quantum energy to survive, and the only person still alive on Earth during that time with access to it was stuck inside the Quantum Realm for five years (though he perceived it as five hours). Even Avengers: Endgame provided no answers, because she didn’t appear on-screen at the final battle against Thanos, and went entirely unmentioned in the movie. Her announcement as one of the members of the Thunderbolts for their upcoming eponymous film indicates that she did survive, but the details and means are still unknown, especially whether if she did get snapped and got brought back..
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: She was just an ordinary little girl until she got caught in a quantum accident that killed both of her parents and gave her unstable powers that was slowly killing her and gave her mental instability.
• Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: She's pretty much the only character in Ant-Man and the Wasp that has zero comedic qualities, and the film's normally lighthearted mood gets significantly darker and more serious whenever she's on-screen.
• Villainous Breakdown: A relatively subtle one in the climax. Her increasing anger and desperation, as well as her condition worsening, results in her fighting somewhat more sloppily than she usually does. While Ava had the upper hand on Hope during their first fight, Hope gets a few good hits on Ava in the final battle.
• Villainous Crush: Downplayed. When she has Scott tied up and at his mercy midway through Ant-Man and the Wasp, Ava clearly seems to have some kind of ... interest in the man. She doesn't linger on it long though, and quickly gets down to business.
• Would Hurt a Child: Hurt is a stretch, but she proposes kidnapping Cassie Lang to use as a bargaining chip against Scott and the others. It's more out of her desperation than any malicious intent, and she is easily talked out of going that route.
• You Killed My Father: Downplayed. She considers Hank Pym responsible for the deaths of her parents, but it ultimately has little to do with her motivations. While she's more than willing to get his wife killed if it means curing her condition, that's more out of her own desperation rather than a desire for revenge against Hank.
• Your Days Are Numbered: Bill Foster tells her she has about two weeks left before her unstable nature reaches a point of no return.

Marcus Daniels / Blackout

Marcus Daniels / Blackout

"They were trying to make me stronger. And they did".

Species: Enhanced human

Citizenship: American

Portrayed By: Patrick Brennan

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

"A few years ago, I saw Daniels at one of my concerts, front row. Then I started seeing him at all of them. At first, I was flattered. Cellists don't get many groupies. But then one night, I saw him outside of my house. I was terrified. I begged him to leave me alone. He just stood there, saying I was his light. I didn't understand what he meant until he started blacking out my entire block".

— Audrey Nathan

A former prisoner of the Fridge, Daniels was let out by the Clairvoyant and told to "follow his dreams".

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• Ambiguous Situation: A creative involved with Captain Marvel has implied that Patrick Brennan's character is a younger version of the character that is shown on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., but nothing else supports this.
• Badass Longcoat: Sports a black trenchcoat when hunting his crush.
• Casting a Shadow: He's able to project beams of Darkforce.
• Color Character: Blackout.
• Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: Double Subverted. Though he's never referred to as Blackout, his S.H.I.E.L.D. file does list his codename, even though Coulson's arm is positioned to block most of it.
• Dark Is Evil: Uses the Darkforce and wears black.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Appears in "Providence" before his focus episode.
• Energy Absorption: He's able to drain energy from nearby electrical devices, and can drain the electrical energy of living beings through physical contact.
• Evil Wears Black: As befitting his codename, Blackout wears an entirely black outfit.
• Menacing Stroll: He always moves at a calm, steady pace.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Invoked by Coulson when telling the team Blackout's origin story.
  Coulson: Because nothing bad happens when you experiment with something called Darkforce.
• Phlebotinum Overload: How he was taken out in the past and present. The first time it just disabled him so S.H.I.E.L.D. could imprison him. Since he's been amped up in the present, Fitz devises gamma-powered lights that make him explode.
• Stalker with a Crush: Towards Audrey, who he calls his "only light in the darkness".
• Touch of Death: He can drain the energy from whatever he touches, including living beings.

John Horton

John Horton

Species: Enhanced human

Citizenship: Unknown

Portrayed By: N/A

Appearances: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ^note  Mentioned only

A prisoner of the Fridge that had attached lion paws to his hands.

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• Adaptational Backstory Change: In the comics, John Horton was a small-time criminal who was captured by the Secret Empire who made experiments on him and administered an experimental mutagenic serum that turned him into the monstrous being known as Griffin. In the show, he's apparently just a criminal who gave himself lion paws.
• Adaptational Wimp: Implied. John Horton in the comics is a powerful supervillain with a bestial appearance that even includes wings, and he has Super-Strength, enhanced speed, and durability. In the show, John Horton is seemingly just a guy with lion paws, and John Garrett doesn't make a big deal about arresting him.
• Bio-Augmentation: He attached lion paws to his hands.
• Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: Even after he attached lion paws to his hands, Garrett still refers to him only by his name and not his codename "Griffin" from the comics.
• The Ghost: He's never seen onscreen, just mentioned by Garrett as the first criminal he locked up in the Fridge.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: In the comics, John Horton is mostly an enemy of the Avengers. In the MCU, he never actually faced any Avengers members and was arrested by S.H.I.E.L.D. agent John Garrett, of all people.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Horton had been imprisoned by S.H.I.E.L.D. in the Fridge until he was released by John Garrett and Grant Ward.
• Unrelated in the Adaptation: John Horton is the father of Yo-Yo Rodriguez in the comics. In the show, the two characters don't seem to have any relation to one another.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Although he presumably has been released from the Fridge by John Garrett and Grant Ward alongside the other prisoners, it is unknown what became of him afterward.

Kevin Thompson / Kilgrave

See his page

Calvin Johnson / Calvin Zabo

Dr. Calvin "Cal" L. Johnson / Calvin Zabo

"Let's not lose our heads".

Species: Enhanced human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Doctors Without Borders (formerly), Slicing Talons (formerly)

Portrayed By: Kyle MacLachlan

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

"You were looking for a monster?"

Skye's father, who worked with Raina at one point in the past.

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• Adaptation Name Change: His comic book counterpart's name is Calvin Zabo, but the show changes it to Calvin Johnson. However, in "The Frenemy of My Enemy", he tells Skye that he changed it to "something more sinister" during his search for her, implying that he may have gone by Zabo at one point. This is presumably due to Skye's mother being completely different from Daisy Johnson's mother in the comics, meaning her last name had to come from her father instead. Some episodes of the second season do have his name given as "Zabo" at certain points in the subtitles.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: He has quite a few more redeeming qualities than the comics' Mr. Hyde, most of all his being horribly ashamed of what his darker half does.
• Affably Evil: He's kinda… quirky when he's not being murderously psychotic. He refers to HYDRA's attempts to understand the Diviner as "monkeys scratching at it", mocks Whitehall's translation of an ancient legend concerning it, and scoffs at referring to it as a weapon as "small-minded… for such a large-minded person". However, he gets less affable as his obsession to get Skye to love him grows.
• Ambiguously Human: It's unclear at first, given several characters referring to him as a "monster" and his deep knowledge of the Diviner despite never touching it himself. It's clarified in "One of Us" that while he knows a great deal about the Inhumans through his wife being one, he himself was an ordinary human who gained his strength and emotional instability through his own scientific manipulation.
• Anti-Villain: Most of his villainy is fueled by extreme aggression that's he's unable to control, as well as the fact that he lost his daughter to S.H.I.E.L.D. and his wife to HYDRA. However, the thought of a race of Sufficiently Advanced Aliens coming down to Earth to end humanity except for a few "worthy" to be saved isn't something that terribly alarms him; in fact, he's looking forward to it. And he has no trouble causing chaos for S.H.I.E.L.D. by getting the "gifted" to make a fuss if it'll help him reunite with Skye.
• Ax-Crazy: The guy can go into casual murder mode rather quickly.
  Triplett: That guy was out of his damn mind.
• Back-Alley Doctor: Patches up bullet and knife wounds for gang members… for a while, anyway.
• Badass Bookworm: A doctor who easily defeats two HYDRA mooks with just a scalpel and a metal box he's carrying.
• Bad Boss: Treats Raina like dirt, even though she helped him reunite him with Skye. He then throws her to the curb after he's done with her.
• Berserk Button: Oh, boy, does he have a few…
  • Loses it when Raina compares him to Whitehall, seeing Whitehall killed his wife to take her agelessness.
  • Bringing up his evil side has a similar effect.
  • Referring to his daughter as "Skye" too much isn't a good idea either. It produces more violent results when Lincoln does it.
    Cal: THAT'S NOT HER NAME!
  • Anyone but himself taking a fatherly role for Skye also sets him off.
  • Getting between him and his vendetta against Whitehall is a very bad idea. Out of everything, that happens to be what finally causes him to try to kill Coulson.
  • Don't insult his daughter. A transformed Raina found that out the hard way.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: Though he starts off in a Big Bad Ensemble with Whitehall, the two team up at the end of "A Hen in the Wolf House" to kill Coulson and his team. Both betray each other, of course. For the season overall, he's this with his wife Jiaying. She's the greatest threat and Final Boss, while Cal is the most consistent threat. She's clearly the dominant one in their partnership, and most of Cal's actions are taken with the intent to appease her before his Heel–Face Turn, but they still act as the joint central antagonists after Whitehall's death.
• Big Bad Wannabe: His petty feud with Coulson means he's only an inconvenience to him in the grand scheme of things.
• Bittersweet Ending: The close of his story arc; he gets his memories erased and is allowed to make a new life for himself as a veterinarian completely under his original personality, that of a laughing, friendly, good-humored goofball. Of course, this means completely forgetting about not only the bad things he experienced, like his wife's torture and eventual death — at his own hands — but also all about his beloved daughter.
• Buffy Speak: At times, especially since he's offered his services to Whitehall. This is an instance where Skye's apple doesn't fall far from the tree. As soon as he tries to step up, he's rather unceremoniously plucked off the field by Gordon.
• Bumbling Dad:
  • When he finally reunites with his daughter, he fumbles his words and mentions that he wanted to have flowers and "those little almond-chocolate cookies" to greet her.
  • When he meets her again after her powers are activated, he acts like an excited fanboy.
    Cal: So what's your thing? 'Cause I was kinda hoping for wings.
  • And in the back half of the second season, his every interaction with Skye is just bumbling awkward joy.
• Character Catchphrase:
  • He regularly uses the phrase "Let's not lose our heads" as a self-calming method.
  • Tends to describe good things as the "best day ever".
  • Whenever someone refers to his daughter as Skye, he snaps at them with "THAT'S NOT HER NAME!"
• Cloudcuckoolander: He's completely, utterly insane and knows it. He just can't stop himself.
• Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: He's never once referred to as "Mister Hyde", although his appearance in the Season 2 finale is highly reminiscent of the titular character from the original Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: He completely dominates the fistfight with Coulson in 2x10, being stopped by Skye very short of beating him to death.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Revealed over the course of the second season. A S.H.I.E.L.D. team full of HYDRA agents went after a village that included his wife and daughter. He managed to track down his wife and put her back together (though not the same as she was), but all he managed to do was slaughter a lot of people when he tried and failed to find his daughter. He has spent a quarter-century wanting revenge.
• Deadly Doctor: He has a room with surgical equipment and his hands are always covered in blood when he meets with Raina.
• Death of Personality: At the end of Season 2, his entire memory is erased and replaced with that of a cheerful veterinarian by way of the TAHITI project. It's implied that the 'new' him is the person he used to be before he became a monster. Thus, this is a Downplayed Trope.
• Didn't Think This Through: While he put a lot of thought into the tortures he would inflict on Whitehall, his actual plan to get there is rather lacking. He never counted on Whitehall figuring out his identity and has no concrete plan on how he'll get to Whitehall in the first place. Cal ends up trying to take on Whitehall while the latter has a gun, and Coulson shoots Whitehall in the back while Whitehall's distracted, saving the vengeance-driven doctor.
• Disappeared Dad: Has not been a part of Skye's life for twenty-five years. To be fair, their separation wasn't his fault, he spent a great deal of those twenty-five years trying to find her, and once he did he starts trying to be part of her life again. Unfortunately for him, those twenty-five years have also turned him into someone his daughter doesn't want to know.
• The Dreaded: Raina is terrified of him because he's one of a few people she can't manipulate.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • Is shown to dislike Whitehall, referring to him as "a butcher". Understandable, considering what the man did to his wife.
  • He has nothing but contempt for Raina, mainly because she's concerned about herself and nobody else.
• Evil Counterpart: To Bruce Banner, a very skilled doctor with a Hair-Trigger Temper he himself is horrified by. Though he's also quite violent in his normal state when he needs to be. This makes sense, given that Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde was one of the original inspirations for Bruce Banner/The Incredible Hulk. In the comics, Cal's supervillain moniker is "Mister Hyde".
• Fake Shemp: Kyle MacLachlan's casting wasn't announced until a couple of months after Season 1 ended, so that's probably not him in The Stinger for the finale. That person's hair is also gray.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Despite being Jiaying's husband, the Inhumans look down on him because of the artificial nature of his powers and his violent behavior, and they're not happy that his petty feud with S.H.I.E.L.D. endangers them.
• Foreshadowing: Conspicuously does not touch the obelisk. It's made clear in "One of Us" that his powers come through experimentation and he isn't an Inhuman.
• Foil: Shaping up to be one for Ward. Both love Skye, but while Ward acknowledges how horrible he has been in the past and tries to win her over by being helpful, Cal tries to hide his dark side and intends to force Skye to come to him by killing Coulson. Also to Coulson, the father figure versus the father she never knew.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: He was a doctor working at a clinic in nowhere, China. He met a woman and fell in love. They had a daughter. Then HYDRA destroyed his family.
  Cal: I worked at a clinic. People liked me. I liked me...
• Good Parents: Really wants to be this for Skye, and when given the chance, he's doting and loving towards her. Unfortunately, Jiaying's manipulations made him turn into a monster.
• Green-Eyed Monster: He has a fixated loathing and hatred of Coulson. While it is partly because he feels that the man robbed him of his chance of getting his revenge on Whitehall, it is clear that he sees Coulson as a Parental Substitute to Skye due to how close they seem to be, and perhaps an obstacle to him being able to put his family back together.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: He can flip out at the drop of a hat. Just look at the list of things classified as Berserk Button.
• The Heavy: While never ascending to full Big Bad status, Cal is the most consistently recurring and prominent antagonist of Season Two.
• Heel–Face Turn: Sides with Coulson's S.H.I.E.L.D. when he convinces him that what Jiaying is doing is wrong and will only hurt their daughter.
• Human Shield: Uses this tactic against HYDRA in "The Frenemy of My Enemy" by putting one of their own between him and their bullets.
• I Am a Monster: He's aware he's crossed the Moral Event Horizon several times over. Honestly, he was driven to it.
• I Lied: He was very vague to Raina on what Terrigenesis actually was.
• It's All About Me: His love for Skye is very unhealthy and obsessive; he wants her to love him and only him.
• It's Personal: Whitehall killed his wife, literally cutting her into pieces. He repeatedly states that he wants revenge on the people who took his family from him. Whitehall, who doesn't know him or his connection to the woman he killed, doesn't realize the implied threat.
• Jerkass: He emotionally manipulated Raina by preying on her desire to be something special, then point-blank refuses to help her cope with the transformation.
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: In the second half of Season 2, he moves from being against Whitehall, to against S.H.I.E.L.D. — and this does not go well for people caught in the middle.
• Lack of Empathy:
  • Is completely unsympathetic to Raina when Whitehall threatens to have her killed and says that she was nothing before he found her.
  • When Raina undergoes Terrigenesis, he's dismissive of her and refuses to help her cope with the trauma of it, in stark contrast to his beloved wife, who dedicated her life to helping the Inhumans cope with the change.
• Large Ham: He's mostly composed if not triggered but when he hams it up, he does so with gusto.
• Legion of Doom: He wants to gather up a couple of "indexed" individuals in order to combat S.H.I.E.L.D. and recover his daughter. Given he's snatched up by Gordon in the same episode and his entire team is captured, it's unlikely this effort will go anywhere.
• Love Redeems: What ultimately spared him from being executed because of his crimes is his love for his daughter.
• Mayfly–December Romance: With Jiaying. She's led the Inhumans for generations, he's just an ordinary human.
• Morality Pet: Starting in "The Frenemy of My Enemy", he has one in his daughter Daisy, who helps him rediscover the Nice Guy that he used to be.
• Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: He's a certified M.D. who will casually slaughter a room full of people with a scalpel in order to further his ends.
• Morality Chain: Spending time with his wife and daughter does wonder for his mental stability. He doesn't want them to think he's a monster.
• Murder the Hypotenuse: He plans to do this to Coulson since he resents him being a father figure to Skye.
• My God, What Have I Done?: When Skye comes across the scene of one of his outbursts, he realizes she will never accept him as her father after that.
  Skye: He's a…!
  Cal: (Staring at his hands) …monster! [smashes his tablet]
• Never My Fault: He blames Coulson for driving Skye away, even though it's his violent behavior that actually does it. After reuniting with his wife in Lai Xi, he admits that, yes, it is his fault.
• Nice Guy: He used to be one of these and you can still see glimpses of it in his calmer periods. For example, what was he doing in China with a family? He was volunteering for Doctors Without Borders, fell in love, and relocated.
• No Name Given: His first significant role in the plot (with significant screentime) is in the episode "A Hen In The Wolf House", but he is still just referred to as "Skye's father" or "The Doctor". In "What They Become", his name is given as Cal. His full name is revealed to be Calvin L. Johnson in "The Frenemy Of My Enemy", though he mentions changing it to something more appropriate (presumably Zabo) after Skye went missing.
• Not Helping Your Case: He doesn't want Skye to see him as a monster, but his violent behavior and all the killing he does despite her protests don't do him any favors.
• Omnicidal Maniac: He casually expresses an interest in killing "everyone" and takes a thrill in the violence that can unfold.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Until "What They Become", he's simply referred to as "Skye's father" or "The Doctor".
• One-Man Army: Several sources have stated that he wiped out a village single-handedly, and if you believe Ward's version of the events, all those villagers were HYDRA agents.
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Took Coulson's slaying of Whitehall very badly, as it meant that he couldn't avenge his wife's death personally. It's a Justified Trope as his plans for killing Whitehall were much, much crueler than Coulson's Instant Death Bullet, and he'd been planning it for decades.
• Papa Wolf:
  • In a rather negative way, considering he's both possessive and insane.
  • If Ward's to be believed, the village in Hunan that was slaughtered contained HYDRA agents that kidnapped Skye and her mother. The mother was killed by Whitehall before or during Cal's massacre, explaining his unstable behavior in the present.
• Pet the Dog:
  • All of his direct interactions with Skye when he gets to show off his Bumbling Dad side.
  • When he's asked if Coulson is trustworthy (after they tried to kill each other), he says he hates him… but grudgingly admits that he's a good man who cares for Skye.
• Person of Mass Destruction: According to Raina, he and Skye's mother destroyed an entire village to find their daughter.
• Psycho Serum: He attributes his strength and personality issues to a formula he developed. He's been trying to perfect it, but that doesn't happen until the end of the second season.
• Punny Name: His name is Calvin L. Johnson. Not unlike Kal-El. Doubles as an Actor Allusion, due to Kyle MacLachlan having played Superman in Justice League: The New Frontier.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: While he is still the father of Quake in the comics, he started out as a villain to Thor and the Hulk before becoming a villain of the week to multiple heroes. Here, he is an antagonist to S.H.I.E.L.D..
• Sadistic Choice: When your wife is trying to kill your daughter, either choice is going to be painful. Cal sides with his daughter, breaking his wife's neck and then crushing her ribcage to splinters with a super-strong bearhug.
• Sanity Slippage: Finding the corpse of his wife after Whitehall vivisected her and losing his daughter sent him off the deep end.
• Sanity Strengthening: Reuniting with his wife and daughter, and taking a break from his serum, makes him more stable. He even catches himself when he starts losing his temper.
• Split Personality: There are at least two sides to Cal. An affable side and an Ax-Crazy side that kills without warning. Raina believes so, even going as far as to tell him that the other side is controlling him. When some of Team Coulson, and more specifically Skye, find his handiwork, Cal is mortified, calling himself a monster. He doesn't want to be perceived as one. This is fitting, as he's Mister Hyde.
• Super-Strength: He carves up anyone who pisses him off with a scalpel, with complete ease, and kills with his bare hands. He also easily defeats Raina, who herself demonstrates superhuman strength post-transformation.
• Stylistic Suck: The name he gives his Legion of Doom, comprised of various Indexed criminals, is "Slicing Talons". It's pretty much cringe-worthy to anyone who hears it, but to be fair to him, he did have to think of the name on the spot while trying to kill Coulson, and the person closest to him at the time was Karla, with her, well, slicing talons.
• Throw the Dog a Bone:
  • He will never see his family again afterward, but Skye agrees to have one family dinner with him at her mother's request.
  • His ending. He gets a new peaceful life, and to be happy… and Skye visits him, even though he no longer recognizes her.
• Tragic Monster: He might be a jerk, but Cal's life is one big sad story. He was nothing but a loving family man until Whitehall kidnapped Jiaying, vivisected her, and tossed her corpse in the woods. He stitched her back up and her Healing Factor did the rest, but she left him because she became horrified by their desperate actions while looking for Skye. He then spent decades looking for Skye, as he'd promised Jiaying that he'd find her. But the serum he developed to give him Super-Strength made him psychotic with uncontrollable aggression, turning him into "a monster" and causing him to be shunned by the Inhumans, who used to be his friends. And when he does find Skye, she wants nothing to do with him, and his own wife has him locked up. And then he's ultimately forced to admit his wife has become a monster even worse than he is, who will destroy the world, and he has to kill her to save their daughter's life.
• Undying Loyalty: In his own words, he would "blindly follow Jiaying into a war". It turns out, however, that his ultimate loyalty lies with his daughter as he turns on his wife when Coulson manages to convince him that her war will ultimately destroy Daisy.
• Ungrateful Bastard: He's furious at Coulson for killing Whitehall before he could get his revenge, even though Whitehall would have killed him if Coulson hadn't intervened.
• Unnamed Parent: Until the mid-season 2 finale, he simply went by "The Doctor". He reveals his name to be Cal in "What They Become". Though his last name isn't revealed, it can be inferred from his personality issues, strength, and Skye's real name that his full name is Calvin Zabo, a.k.a. Mister Hyde.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: He brought back Jiaying to life and in doing so unleashed a bloodbath upon the world.
• Used to Be More Social: He was a doctor, successful/wealthy enough to own an office building in a financially successful part of town, and volunteered in China with Doctors Without Borders, where he fell in love with and married a native, started a family… Now he's a walking Berserk Button.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Cal was a compassionate doctor who adored his family, but the tragedy of losing his daughter and his wife's vivisection drove him to concoct a serum to increase his strength, as he felt he'd failed to protect his family. The serum drove him insane, and he's been a victim of manipulations from his wife and his own mental illness ever since.
• Yandere: Father-Daughter love in this case, but it's still a creepy obsession that involves killing the competition (in this case, Coulson, the Parental Substitute).
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Coulson tells him this to convince him to end his rampage.
  Coulson: I'm not saying Jiaying is a monster, you already know that. What I am saying is, you're not.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: He coldly washes his hands of Raina after her and Skye's transformation, telling her to kill herself if she truly "can't live" with her new form.

Eli Morrow

Elias "Eli" Morrow

"The Darkhold has shown me the way. I can create life, even after death. Can a petty thief do that, huh?"

Species: Enhanced human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Momentum Labs (formerly), Chinatown Crew

Portrayed By: José Zúñiga

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

"From high school to grad school, no one believed in me! They thought I was cheating. They thought I wasn't capable! Shut me out. Well, guess what ... guess what I'm capable of now. I can create a city out of nothing, or I can cover it in volcanic rock. Robbie, I am becoming a god".

Uncle of Robbie and Gabe Reyes, Eli was an engineer brought in to work with Lucy Bauer on their project when he became aware of the Darkhold.

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• Abusive Parent: He raised Robbie and Gabe Reyes like his own children, and while there's no evidence that he was ever violent towards them before his time in prison, after getting his powers he doesn't hesitate to torture Robbie by materializing carbon spikes in his body when he finds out he's the Ghost Rider. He's also perfectly willing to detonate a plutonium bomb to kill everyone in Los Angeles, not caring that Gabe might be among the victims.
• Adaptational Intelligence: Not that Eli Morrow was stupid in the comics, but his MCU version is an Evil Genius with a PHD in engineering who was involved in the making of the Quantum Particle Generators and can build a plutonium bomb on his own.
• Adaptational Job Change: Before his death, Eli Morrow was a hitman for the Russian Mafia in the comics. In the MCU, he was an engineer at Momentum Labs.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Uncle Elias Morrow is still a criminal, but his crime was aggravated manslaughter, and he truly cared about his coworkers who died. In All-New Ghost Rider, he's a Satanist Evil Uncle who acts as Robbie's Superpowered Evil Side instead of a genuine Spirit of Vengeance. Subverted later on, when it turns out that he was the one who killed them in an attempt to claim the power for himself. Still, he isn't nearly as bad as his comic counterpart, and he is at least partly corrupted by the Darkhold.
• Adaptation Origin Connection:
  • Inverted. He has nothing to do with Robbie's resurrection as Ghost Rider in this version.
  • In the comics, Eli also caused Gabe's disability by pushing his mother down the stairs while she was pregnant with him. In the MCU, he is not directly responsible for Gabe's condition (Gabe was shot by thugs looking for Eli, but Eli didn't mean for that to happen).
• Adaptational Superpower Change: In the comics, Eli Morrow is a Satanist who is proficient in dark magic and his soul can empower people, such as turning Robbie into a Ghost Rider and Gabe into a demonic creature. In the MCU, he has nothing to do with Robbie's powers but he's granted the power of matter manipulation, similar to Molecule Man.
• Affably Evil: After he's revealed to be a power-hungry maniac, he warns Coulson to get away as quickly as possible as he prepares to begin the process of acquiring his god-like power, and later, after he suffocates a complaining underling by creating diamonds inside of his lungs, he tells the others that they might want to cut him open to get the rest of them.
• Apologetic Attacker: In "The Laws of Inferno Dynamics", Eli is at least somewhat sorry about attacking his nephew.
• Arc Villain: Of the Ghost Rider arc in Season 4, because he was the one who ghostified the other scientists in an effort to obtain god-like power. It was this conflict that led to Robbie becoming the latest Ghost Rider. However, he has nothing to do with the Watchdogs' Inhuman hunt.
• Bad Boss: If you complain about working conditions or paycheck, he will create diamonds from the air in your lungs until you suffocate.
• Beard of Evil: He has a goatee and turns out to be Evil All Along.
• Berserk Button: He doesn't take it well when Coulson tells him that he's nothing more than a petty thief.
• Big Bad Ensemble: Serves as the main antagonist of Season Four's Ghost Rider arc, in the forefront of the growing threat of the Watchdogs, as well as Radcliffe and AIDA.
• Bond Villain Stupidity: Despite literally having the power to kill people without lifting a finger, Eli never tries to kill Coulson when he comes to his lair to confront him in "The Laws of Inferno Dynamics", not even when he starts insulting him.
• Booby Trap: Eli has installed a trap at the entrance of his lair by covering the walls with cesium and dripping water on the floor so that his enemies will spray water on the cesium when they step inside, which will ignite it and incinerate them all. Yo-Yo activates the trap when she enters to perform a recon, fortunately she's fast enough to escape from the flames.
• Composite Character: The comic books Eli Morrow (sans the devil-worshipping) with the powers of Owen Reece, the Molecule Man.
• Breaking Old Trends: Eli Morrow is the first Arc Villain in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. not to be affiliated with HYDRA or to have become a villain because of their actions.
• Creating Life: As he reveals to Robbie and later to Coulson, his ultimate goal is to expand his powers to the point of being able to create life, though he dies before he gets there.
• Decomposite Character: He's still Robbie Reyes' Evil Uncle like in the comics, but his role as the spirit that empowers Robbie and urges him to kill criminals has been given to the Spirit of Vengeance.
• Didn't See That Coming:
  • During his time in prison, Eli heard rumors about the fire-headed vigilante called the Ghost Rider who punishes criminals in violent ways, but he never thought it would turn out to be his own nephew Robbie Reyes.
  • He certainly didn't expect Agent Coulson to still be alive after he was seemingly disintegrated by the blast caused by the Quantum Particle Generator when he got his powers.
• Disc-One Final Boss: While the legitimate main antagonist of the Ghost Rider arc, he subsequently only lasts a third of the way through season four before being killed by Robbie.
• Don't Touch It, You Idiot!: He says this to Robbie when he sees that he has entered his lair and is approaching the core of his plutonium bomb.
  Eli: Don't touch that!
• Dragged Off to Hell: Ghost Rider engulfs him in flames and drags him to a dimension that may or may not be literal Hell, but it is still a really nasty place.
• The Dreaded: Seeing him kill people remotely by materializing stuff through their bodies is enough to intimidate the Chinatown Crew into submitting to him without question, and makes Director Mace unwilling to send S.H.I.E.L.D. agents after him until they have found a way to counteract his powers.
• Drunk on the Dark Side: After Eli gets his powers, he starts developing a god complex and killing people for petty reasons, with Coulson accusing him of being Drunk With Power.
  Coulson: You're drunk on power, or drinking your own Kool-Aid, or drunk on Powerade... I don't know.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: His reason for trying to become a god. He feels like he's been looked down on and belittled his entire life, particularly by the others at Momentum Labs.
• Elemental Barrier: After mastering carbon creation, Eli materializes a wall of carbon behind him as he leaves the power plant to prevent S.H.I.E.L.D. from following him.
• Even Evil Can Be Loved: Both Robbie and Gabe loved him like a father, though that was before knowing how evil he truly is. Once Robbie finds out, he has nothing but hatred for him and makes it his mission to kill him.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He raised Robbie and Gabe, and genuinely loves them. When he learns that the drive-by which crippled Gabe was a hit attempt meant for him, he's legitimately horrified, though he insists that it's the Bauers' fault. He also offers Robbie the chance to join him, but when he doesn't, Eli doesn't hesitate to start making carbon pop out of Robbie, showing that as much as he loves Robbie, he wants power more.
• Even Evil Has Standards: He may want godlike power, but he does care who he hurts to get it. Killing his coworkers is one thing, but he objects to endangering thousands of innocent lives and warns Coulson to run as he starts up the experiment that will give him powers.
• Evil All Along: At first, Eli seems like a decent guy who wanted to help his coworkers. However, at the end of the episode "The Good Samaritan" he is revealed to be the one who really tried to kill his coworkers and turned them into ghosts, all because he was after the Darkhold to get the powers of a god.
• Evil Genius: Eli is a brilliant scientist capable of building machines as complex as Quantum Particle Generators or plutonium bombs.
• Evil Uncle: Like in the comics, Eli Morrow is the uncle of Robbie and Gabe Reyes and turns out to be a cruel and power-hungry murderer.
• Expy: His powers are similar to those of the Molecule Man.
• Final Boss: Although Lucy Bauer appeared to be the main villain for the majority of the Ghost Rider story arc in Season 4, she is ultimately killed in "The Good Samaritan" and replaced by Eli Morrow, who becomes the villain of the story arc's final two episodes.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Eli's motivation to become a god is because he's sick of being treated like a nobody.
• Functional Magic: The "god-like power" he gains from the Darkhold is similar to the sorcery used by Kamar-Taj sorcerers in that it works by taking energy from other dimensions through a force of will. However, his is based on creating matter instead of simply using the energy which has the side effect of creating quakes.
• Gemstone Assault: After gaining a good enough grasp on his powers, Eli can materialize diamonds in people's bodies to kill them, which he does to one of his henchmen for complaining about not getting paid.
• Godhood Seeker: Eli wants to play God by using the Darkhold. He is not pleased when Coulson explains that all the power did was turn him into an inter-dimensional thief.
• Hijacked by Ganon: For the first six episodes of the season, Canon Foreigners Lucy and Joseph Bauer seem to be the main villains of the Ghost Rider story arc. However, at the end of the episode "The Good Samaritan", Eli Morrow is revealed to be the true villain who caused his coworkers to turn into ghosts and was seeking the powers of the Darkhold all along.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: In the end, Eli gets pushed into the core of the plutonium bomb he himself created where he gets harmed by the radiation, and ends up being dragged along with it into the dimension from which the matter came.
• How Do I Shot Web?: Upon obtaining his powers, Eli seems to only be able to create carbon. However, he later starts training with his powers and learns to produce elements more complex.
• I Just Want to Be Special: He is a gifted scientist who worked hard for years in the name of recognition, only to be snubbed and accused of lying. Enter Plan B, the Darkhold.
• I Reject Your Reality: He is too stubborn to listen to any of Coulson's attempts to explain that he's not really able to create matter out of nothing but only to steal it from another dimension, which has the consequence of causing seismic rifts. Even though some earthquakes can be felt all around him, Eli dismisses this as mere theory and refuses to listen to reason up to the end.
• Kidnapped Scientist: At the end of the episode "Lockup", Eli gets captured by Lucy Bauer because she needs his scientific knowledge to recreate the experiment that could return her to her human form.
• Kinslaying Is a Special Kind of Evil: In "The Laws of Inferno Dynamics", Coulson calls him out on trying to kill his own nephew Robbie Reyes by stabbing him with carbon spikes. Eli defends himself by saying that they both know how dangerous he truly is.
  Coulson: How could you do that to your own nephew?
  Eli: You know he's more than that. What he's capable of.
• Last Chance to Quit: Upon seeing his nephew Robbie in his lair, he tries to convince him to leave. As Robbie doesn't listen and starts turning into Ghost Rider, Eli creates carbon spikes to impale him and reminds him that he was given a chance to leave, so now everything that happens to him is his own fault.
• Long Game: Eli has been manipulating things even before the years he spent in prison to get hold of the Darkhold and obtain godly powers. May even suspects that he was the one who tricked the Chinatown Crew into freeing Lucy from her Quantum Battery at the start of Season 4 because he was hoping that she would eventually lead him to the Darkhold.
  Eli: Took a lot longer than I had hoped, but… all those years in jail, I had to plan very carefully.
• Making a Splash: Once he has developed his powers, Eli becomes capable of creating compound elements like water. At one point, he fills a glass with water in front of Robbie to show off what he can do, but Robbie is hardly impressed.
• Man on Fire: He is last seen having his entire body engulfed in flames by Ghost Rider before they're both dragged into another dimension.
• Married to the Job: Before the incident that landed him in jail, Eli was apparently a pretty hard worker. In a flashback, Robbie mentioned to his brother that their uncle spends so much of his time working that he doesn't even have time to enjoy life anymore.
• Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: Although no one refers to him as a 'doctor' in-universe, he has a PhD (in Engineering) and turns out to be evil.
• Motive Rant: Delivers a fairly sympathetic one about the constant institutionalized racism he faced as a Latino scientist.
• My Death Is Just the Beginning: He claims to be able to continue his work even dead, which is why he's willing to have his plutonium bomb explode and kill everyone including himself. Thankfully, S.H.I.E.L.D. manages to put a stop to his plans.
  Eli: The Darkhold has shown me the way. I can create life, even after death!
• Never My Fault: When Robbie calls him out on his actions, he attempts to blame everything on the Bauers, claiming they started it all.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Not seen, but he is said to have beaten Joseph Bauer so badly that he ended up in a coma.
• No Conservation of Energy: The whole purpose of the experiments at Momentum Labs was to find a way to create matter out of nothing. Eli thinks that he has achieved this when he gets his powers, but it turns out that the matter actually comes from the quantum energy of another dimension.
• "Not So Different" Remark: When Robbie accuses Eli of being a killer, he replies that it runs in the family.
• Nuke 'em: With his newfound powers, Eli creates a nuclear device powerful enough to destroy half of Los Angeles in order to force S.H.I.E.L.D. to keep their distance. As it turns out, he's actually planning to let the bomb go off in order to eliminate all the city's inhabitants and replace them with a new life created by himself. Fortunately, Aida manages to get rid of it by sending it to another dimension.
• Offing the Annoyance: At the beginning of "The Laws of Inferno Dynamics", Eli kills one of his henchmen by filling his lungs with diamonds because he was tired of hearing him complain about not being paid.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Although we do see a flashback scene of him forcing Lucy into the Quantum Particle Generator, we don't get to see how he managed to overpower Frederick, Hugo and Vincent to do the same to them, nor do we see him beat Joseph into a coma.
• Omnicidal Maniac: At first, S.H.I.E.L.D. assumes that the plutonium bomb Eli created is just a failsafe, but Coulson eventually realizes to his horror that Eli is planning to use it to wipe out the entire population of Los Angeles and replace it with a new life of his own making.
• One-Man Army: After obtaining his powers, one of the first things Eli does is to kill an entire squad of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents in an instant by materializing carbon shards through their bodies. This makes Mace and Coulson realize how dangerous he is and makes them reluctant to send other agents after him out of fear that they'll suffer the same fate.
• Opportunistic Bastard: When Eli gets captured by Lucy Bauer and is forced to use the Darkhold to recreate the experiment that will return her to her human form, he takes the opportunity to use the Darkhold to complete the Quantum Particle Generator and use it on himself to obtain the powers of a god.
• Papa Wolf: Subverted. When Lucy calls him out on beating her husband into a coma, Eli justifies himself by saying that Joseph hired the thugs who shot his nephews and caused Gabe to lose the use of his legs. However, it's later made clear that the true reason he assaulted Joseph was to make him reveal where he hid the Darkhold.
• Parental Substitute: He raised Robbie and Gabe, with Robbie even saying that they saw him as a father.
• Pet the Dog: Before activating the Quantum Particle Generator to obtain the power to create matter in "The Good Samaritan", he at least tries to warn Coulson that staying would be a bad idea.
• Reality Warper: After using the machine on himself with five of the six quantum power cells hooked up to it, Eli gains the ability to create matter out of nothing. He demonstrates this by generating spikes of carbon from within the bodies of four S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, and creating an entire wall of it in seconds. It's later revealed he's pulling matter/energy from a different dimension, rather than out of nothing per se.
• Related Differently in the Adaptation. In the comics, Eli is revealed to be Robbie's and Gabe's paternal uncle. In the MCU, he's the brother of their mother.
• Smug Snake: Upon obtaining the power to create matter, Eli believes that he has become an all-powerful god and has everything under control. However, as Coulson points out, Eli actually doesn't understand much about the situation as his powers only allow him to channel matter from another dimension, which is starting to have serious consequences.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Played with in that he's introduced as alive when his comic book counterpart was already dead and had become an evil spirit. Then he is torched and dragged off to Hell by Ghost Rider in "The Laws of Inferno Dynamics".
• The Starscream: When he was working for Joseph and Lucy Bauer, Eli realized that they were planning to use the Darkhold to obtain godly powers, so he decided to betray them and tried to kill them in order to have these powers for himself.
• Team Killer: He is revealed to be the one who tried to kill all the members of his team at Momentum Labs, having beaten Joseph into a coma and trapped the others in Quantum Batteries which turned them into ghosts.
• That Liar Lies:
  • When confronted by Robbie in "The Laws of Inferno Dynamics", Eli angrily claims that the Bauers caused the whole situation because of their lies.
    Eli: It was the Bauers! Joe and Lucy! They started this! They lied!
  • He refuses to believe Coulson when he explains to him that the matter he's conjuring up comes from another dimension, and accuses him of being a liar.
    Eli: You're lying.
• Villainous Breakdown: Eli loses his cool when Coulson tells him that his powers aren't godly and that he's essentially nothing more than a thief.
• Who Are You?: Naturally, he asks this to Agent Coulson when he comes to meet him at the prison to question him about Momentum Labs.
  Eli: Who the hell are you?
• Who's Laughing Now?: As Eli explains to Robbie, the main reason he became a villain was because no one ever gave him any respect no matter how hard he worked, especially at the Momentum Labs. He considers that Joseph Bauer and his other coworkers entirely deserved what he did to them for the condescending way they treated him.
• Why Won't You Die?:
  • Downplayed, but he expresses surprise that Robbie is still alive despite the radiation from his plutonium bomb and the carbon spike that is piercing his heart.
    Eli: Between the radioactive plutonium, and the quantum energy fields bombarding you, and the carbon spike... a normal person would have been dead 10 times over...
  • Eli is also quite confused when he sees Coulson alive and well when he thought he had died from the blast caused by the activation of the Quantum Particle Generator that gave him his powers.
    Eli: Agent Coulson? You should be dead...
    Coulson: I get that a lot. Never gets old, though. It means I'm still here.
    Eli: How? I watched you get vaporized!
• Would Hit a Girl: In a flashback scene, Eli brutally smacks Lucy before forcing her into the Quantum Particle Generator in an attempt to kill her.
• You're Insane!: He calls both Joseph and Lucy insane upon finding out that they're planning to use the Darkhold to obtain the power to create matter.
  Eli: [To Lucy] You're just as insane as [Joseph] is!

Davos

Davos

"The way to K'un-Lun is open, and there's no one guarding the pass. There will be consequences for this, brother".

Species: Enhanced human (formerly), Human

Citizenship: K'un-Lunan

Affiliation(s): Order of the Crane Mother (formerly), Rhyno's Gang (formerly)

Portrayed By: Sacha Dhawan

Appearances: Iron Fist

The son of Lei-Kung and Danny's childhood friend.

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• Age Lift: In the comics, Davos was the Childhood Friend of Danny's father Wendall Rand, not Danny, whom he's about twenty years older than, and his rivalry with Danny is a case of Revenge by Proxy.
• Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: Probably the most archetypal example of this in the MCU, and ticks virtually all the boxes for the trope. In Season 2, he steals the Iron Fist, believing he is the worthy one, and then not only uses his combat skills to outright murder people (feeling he is helping to clean up crime), but starts a dojo with the intention of schooling disciples in these very same principles.
• Ax-Crazy: While initially partnering up with him, Joy and Walker both quickly come to the realization that Davos is dangerously unstable in his mission to claim the Iron Fist and carry out his crusade against injustice. What starts off as basic vigilantism against random Triad members quickly turns into a serial murder spree as he begins to indiscriminately kill insignificant chop-shop runners, pickpockets, and eventually even innocent people who simply wanted to stay out of having to pick a side.
• Back-to-Back Badasses: Frequently, with Danny.
• Badass Normal: He doesn't have the power of the Iron Fist. Just the same training Danny received from Lei-Kung.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: In the first season, he's dressed in the same ratty garments very much like Danny was at the start of the series, one step short of being a Barefoot Loon himself. Come season 2, he switches to a sleek black casual business suit and expensive coat. Also counts as an Evil Costume Switch.
• Bald of Evil: Big Bad of Season 2 and has a shaved head typical of Shaolin Monk.
• Bash Brothers: With Danny. They may disagree on almost everything, but there can be no denying that the two are deadly together.
• Big Bad: Forms a Big Bad Ensemble with Joy Meachum and Mary Walker for Iron Fist Season 2, becoming the bigger threat once he obtains the Iron Fist and both Joy and Mary break their ties with him.
• Cain and Abel: The Cain to Danny's Abel. They are not blood-related but were raised in K'un-Lun together and regard each other as brothers.
• Childhood Friend: Danny's best friend growing up in K'un-Lun.
• The Chosen Wannabe: He wanted to be the Iron Fist, but he was not chosen.
• Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: Throughout the first two seasons he is never once referred to as the Steel Serpent, though the name is alluded to when he gets a serpent tattooed on his chest, insisting it to be done with steel Tebori needles.
• Conflict Killer: Once he steals the Iron Fist from Danny, he starts killing Triads and Tongs left and right, which forces the two rival factions to put aside their differences in order to protect themselves from Davos. With Colleen's urging, this ultimately results in a permanent truce even after Davos has been stopped.
• The Cynic: Has seen just enough of the world to think it isn't worth saving.
• Deadpan Snarker: “Wow, you're the worst Iron Fist ever”.
• Dual Wielding: Like the 1948 Iron Fist, Davos is able to use the fist with both hands after he gains it in Season 2.
• Empowered Badass Normal: He steals the Fist from Danny in Season 2 through a ritual.
• Even Evil Has Standards: He finds killing animals for sustenance disgraceful, hence why he's a vegetarian.
• Evil Brit: He's from K'un-Lun, and Sacha Dhawan uses his natural British accent. He's half-Indian by his mother's side, but neither she or her husband have English accents.
• Evil Costume Switch: In Season Two, he's introduced wearing a suit instead of the old shirt he wore while trying to get Danny to come back to K'un-Lun.
• Expy:
  • Very easy to compare to Mordo from Doctor Strange. Both are the hero's Arch-Enemy in the source material, but made into the hero's allies when they debut in the MCU. However, both come to question the hero's irresponsibility and unorthodox methods, before eventually turning on the hero and being built up to be the next villain they face.
  • He is similar to Gaku Space's portrayal of Goki in Street Fighter Assassin's Fist. Being the shorter and more aggressive fighter, having a darker coloured chi and even a symbol on his back when he becomes an Empowered Badass Normal.
• Face–Heel Turn: At the end of Season 1, he decides to kill Danny for abandoning K'un-Lun and is jealous he had gotten the Iron Fist instead of him.
• Fake Mixed Race: British Indian Sacha Dhawan has no Chinese heritage. Though this version of Davos a Kun-Lunian with a South Asian mum and East Asian Father.
• Good Is Not Nice: "I'm not sure this world is worth fighting for". Plus, he frequently acts as an all-around prick.
• Green-Eyed Monster: "The Iron Fist was my birthright... You took that from me".
• Does Not Like Spam: Has nothing but contempt for food in the world outside K'un-L'un and isn't afraid to say so. When Claire introduces him to Joe's, the best pizza in New York, though, he admits it to be "not horrible". Whether he meant this in the litotical sense or not is never elaborated upon.
• Hypocrite: Despite constantly calling Danny out to be a horrible Iron Fist and that he's unworthy of it, he's even more unworthy of the mantle himself after he takes it and he quickly abuses the power he stole from Danny.
• Instant Expert: After stealing the Iron Fist from Danny he has no problems learning how to summon it at will, despite Danny requiring an entire season plus The Defenders to do the same. Considering his fanatical obsession, this is justified.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Danny did vow to protect K'un-Lun as the Iron Fist, a promise that he broke without a word when he ran off to New York. The Wham Shot at the end showing that the city has vanished after being attacked by the Hand proves that he was justified in constantly chewing Danny out over this.
• Knight Templar:
  • Like Lei Kung, he only sees the Hand as a mortal enemy of K'un-Lun that must be destroyed and has no compunctions about killing any members he runs across.
  • In season two, after stealing the Iron Fist from Danny, he decides to use its power to cut a bloody swathe through the Triads as he believes it's the best way to prove himself as a righteous warrior.
• The Lancer: Danny's polar opposite in many ways, but also among the people he trusts most and basically his right-hand man in the mission against the Hand.
• That Man Is Dead: How Davos justifies his motivation to kill Danny.
• Mr. Vice Guy: Inside the dojo, he and Danny were the pinnacles of discipline as children. They were quick to get into mischief once outside of it: stealing sacred wine, recklessly driving their shared donkey cart, and trying to catch glimpses of the girls in their village bathing. This is seemingly averted in his adult life, though.
• Muggle Best Friend: Well, comparatively. Danny Rand is the vaunted and legendary Iron Fist, while Davos... is just Davos. However, he is still a powerful and skilled warrior of K'un-Lun.
• My Beloved Smother: His mother arguably caused most of his adult issues.
• No Social Skills: Is noticeably more prickly than Danny. His Establishing Character Moment is bumping into Harold Meachum and giving him a dirty look instead of an apology.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: When Davos steals the Iron Fist from Danny, his crusade against evil becomes less motivated by the upholding of principles taught in K'un-Lun than just proving he is better than Danny.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: Literally every scene he does something alongside Danny has someone greet them with something to the effect of "Ah, the Immortal Iron Fist! And... who are you?" despite the fact Davos is a brilliant martial artist and skilled warrior. This feeds into his envy.
• Pintsized Powerhouse: Davos is rather noticeably shorter than Danny and most of the cast for that matter. In Season 2, Ward lampshades this by lowering his hand close to the ground when referencing him.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Davos doesn't really... get how the world works, or people for that matter. Unlike Danny, who makes an active effort to learn and understand, Davos lashes out violently against something he doesn't understand. In fact, he doesn't even make the effort to understand - it's either his way or violent and gruesome death.
• Race Lift: Comics Davos looks East Asian while his MCU counterpart is played by a British actor of Indian descent. This is interesting, considering how the other native inhabitants of MCU K'un Lun are shown to look East Asian. Season 2 confirms his mother was Indian.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue to Danny's red. Far more reserved and stoic than his friend. Until he gets the Iron First. Then he Jumps Off the Slippery Slope and... well, his glowing red Fists reflect his new Red Oni status.
• Sequel Adaptation Iconic Villain: While the Hand are not minor villains in the comics, they're usually more associated with Daredevil than Iron Fist, making them a Rogues' Gallery Transplant. Season 2 brought in Davos, who is typically regarded as Iron Fist's Arch-Enemy and Evil Counterpart.
• Shadow Archetype: To Danny. Both were candidates to become the Iron Fist, but Davos wasn't chosen. Their ideologies are also very different, with Danny wanting more than the simple existence in K'un Lun, while Davos is fiercely loyal to the Iron Fist's duties. Danny dislikes killing even when it's his enemies, while Davos unhesitatingly does so as his first approach.
• Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: Aside from a brief glance at the back of his head, he appeared in none of the trailers. His appearance was so spontaneous, that some people started mistaking him for Bullseye.
• Skilled, but Naive: The way he attempted to murder Bakuto implies that he, and perhaps even a large amount of K'un Lun's citizenry, are unaware that the only way to truly kill a high-ranking member of the Hand is to decapitate them.
• The Stoic: Much better at restraining and repressing his emotions than Danny.
• Straight Edge Evil/The Teetotaler: In Season 2, he tells Joy that he doesn't drink alcohol and that he regulates his diet to keep his body in top condition.
  Joy Meachum: Right. That's right. Yeah, you don't do anything fun.
• Thug Dojo: He starts one in Season 2, mostly made up of members of Ryhno's gang.
• Training from Hell: Subjected to this, but the Thunderer wasn't nearly as much of a jerk as Stick, so he looks back on his lessons with more fondness.
• Troll: Makes throwing stars just to throw them at the wall near a guy's head for no discernible reason other than shits and giggles. Notice that the guy is bound, gagged, and clearly terrified for his life. On the side of good or not, Davos is a real asshole. There's also his rather mischievous behavior growing up, at least based on what Danny has to say about it.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: The second season of Iron Fist shows us some flashbacks of Davos as a kid. One scene showed him being beaten bloody by his mother in order to toughen him up, but the last episode shows him caring for Danny as the latter recovers from the plane crash that killed his parents, and then looking on in adorable awe as Danny makes him a paper airplane.
• Villainous Breakdown: At the end of Season Two, when Colleen takes the Iron Fist from him, he's reduced to a screaming wreck who blindly rushes at Danny and Colleen, begging them to end him.
• We Can Rule Together: He offers Danny to join him in his crusade against crime. Danny declines and it ends with him breaking Danny's leg.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Although he won't admit it, his real grudge is against his father Lei-Kung, not against Danny. He wanted his father's approval but during the fight to decide who would become the Iron Fist, Lei-Kung prematurely ended the match in Danny's favor, apparently to protect Davos (and even then it's debatable whether Lei-Kung made the right call). It's even worse with his mother, who tears him apart (emotionally) after he fails to beat Danny.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Is very brutal and harsh, but only because he genuinely thinks wiping out the entirety of the Hand will keep his home and people safe. After he takes the Fist from Danny in the second season, though, he moves from WIE into Knight Templar territory.

Erik Stevens / Killmonger

See his page

Mary MacPherran / Titania

Mary MacPherran / Titania

"Obviously. I literally said "this isn't over". So now, I'm going to publicly destroy you".

Species: Enhanced human

Citizenship: American

Portrayed By: Jameela Jamil

Appearances: She-Hulk: Attorney at Law

"I am not obsessed with you. Although, it seems like everyone else is. You do not get to ruin everything for me for something that you don't even want — something you don't even deserve! So now I am forced to prove it! So GREEN UP!"

A superpowered social media influencer who possesses superhuman strength, durability, and stamina. Becomes a recurring nemesis of She-Hulk.

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• Adaptational Early Appearance: In the comics, Titania was given her powers by Doctor Doom during Secret Wars (1984). Here, she appears before the Secret Wars adaptation.
• Adaptational Badass: In the comics, Mary, as a supervillain, has no legitimate legal influence. This Mary, on the other hand, is apparently an influencer successful enough to get out of court, have her own company, and even trademark the "She-Hulk" name which she uses to sue Jen.
• Adaptational Curves: In the comics, Titania is generally depicted as being about equally large and muscular as She-Hulk herself. Here, while she's still a Statuesque Stunner and still super-strong, she's just normal human-sized and considerably smaller and thinner than She-Hulk....
• Adaptational Wimp: ..... and consequently isn't nearly as strong or tough.
• Adaptational Sympathy: Inverted. In the She-Hulk comics, particularly the 2004 and 2022 run, Mary is portrayed as a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds who lashes out at She-Hulk in a misguided attempt to feel strong after a childhood spent sickly and bullied, and who eventually is forgiven by Jen and becomes her sparring buddy. In the show, her backstory is never shown and she has no evident sympathetic qualities.
• Alliterative Name: Mary MacPherran.
• Bad Influencer: We first see her smashing through a courthouse to escape traffic court and attacking a jury. Later she uses the name She-Hulk to sell a line of sham beauty products and get back at Jen for making her look bad. She and her lawyer even take selfies of her in court, highlighting her self-obsession.
• Big Bad Wannabe: In the first six episodes of She-Hulk, she proves to be a persistent and personal foe for Jennifer, yet is also demonstrated to be all show and no go every time. Her attack on the GLK&H trial falls flat when she's immediately knocked out by Jen in one punch. However, in doing so she ends up outing Jen as She-Hulk and getting a slam-dunk conviction turned into a mistrial. After she somehow beats the rap for it, her theft of Jen's nom de guerre and the subsequent Frivolous Lawsuit force Jen to humiliate herself in court in order to present the evidence necessary to win, but she still defeats her, and Titania makes it clear afterwards that her war with Jen is not over. She follows through on that by showing up to a wedding Jen was asked to appear at as a bridesmaid just to take another swing at her, and even then she totally whiffs the resulting fight by slipping on an ice cube and getting her dental veneers crushed, after which she lashes out at the rubberneckers laughing at her before leaving in a huff. By the time the Intelligencia becomes the main threat and the show takes on a darker tone, Titania is basically an afterthought.
• Casting Gag: Jamil was a popular fancast for the role of She-Hulk for a while before Tatiana Maslany was cast. Here, she's playing She-Hulk's arch-enemy Titania.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Both of her fights with She-Hulk are landslide victories for She-Hulk - Titania had a bit of a Curb Stomp Cushion in the second one and managed to land a couple hits because Jen had gotten absolutely shitfaced and was still metabolizing the alcohol after she transformed, but it was still a swift and humiliating loss nonetheless.
• Dark Action Girl: Subverted. She'd certainly like to be, but despite her powers she has no actual training or staying power, meaning that she burns out in spectacular fashion the moment someone lands a good hit on her.
• Disproportionate Retribution: She smashes through a courtroom's walls and attempts to kill multiple people within it... because she received a parking ticket.
• Eating the Eye Candy: She has a major case of the hots for Daredevil. While in all fairness, it is Matt Murdock we're talking about here, what's impressive is that she's only ever seen him in his Daredevil persona, yet is still thirsty for him.
• Evil Is Petty: Her introduction alone has her rampaging in a courthouse just for getting a parking ticket and nearly killing a jury that had nothing to do with that. Jen stops her, winds up losing her job for it, Titania gets away with all of that scot-free and all she can focus on is how to get back at Jen for a bit of slight embarrassment that only Titania herself cares about. Jen even lampshades this in "Just Jen", calling Titania out on holding such a grudge and that she should just let it go. Titana's response sums it up best.
  Titania: I never let anything go.
• Fiery Redhead: She has red hair and is very thin-skinned and short-tempered, going on a temper tantrum after being called into traffic court and suing Jen for copyright infringment just for stopping her and getting her arrested.
• Girliness Upgrade: The Titania of the comics often wears leather, spikes and chains where this Titania wears high fashion and even dresses, something the comic Titania would never wear.
• Girly Bruiser: Dresses in more high fashion, more classically feminine clothes than She-Hulk (not to mention makes custom beauty products) but also has super strength and a violent temper.
• Glass Cannon: Mary is shown to be nearly as strong She-Hulk, and fast enough to dodge her blows, but is not nearly as durable. In both their confrontations, Titania loses the fight the instant She-Hulk is able to land a solid hit.
• Karma Houdini: She was somehow cleared of all charges after she destroyed government property and endangered dozens of people with her tantrum in "A Normal Amount of Rage". By the end of the series she has yet to make any believable display of contrition or even receive a proper punishment for it.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Every time she acts up and runs into Jen it never ends well for her.
  • Throws a tantrum over a parking ticket that leads to her nearly killing several people? Jen knocks her out in one punch.
  • Trademarks the She-Hulk name and sues Jen for copyright violation as payback for the above? Loses the case and is humiliated.
  • Starts a fight with Jen at Lulu's wedding to try and publicly humiliate Jen in a fight? She loses said fight, not because of She-Hulk, but because MacPherran slips on ice and knocks out her own veneers, and has said loss recorded for online viewing and is even more humiliated.
• Narcissist: Titania is a vain and entitled socia media influencer whose grudge against She-Hulk is grounded in how She-Hulk embarassed her in court.
• Plot-Irrelevant Villain: Aside from her first rampage prompting Jen to reveal her powers to the world, Titania doesn't contribute much to the plot other than to provide Jen with an antagonist until the true threats of Intelligencia enter the limelight, with her petty attempts at revenge being laughably low-scale in comparison.
• Psychopathic Womanchild: Titania is less "supervillain-level threat" and more "Alpha Bitch who just happens to have super strength".
• Race Lift: Titania was white in the comics, but she's played by an actress of Pakistani and Indian descent in the MCU.
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Despite being a recurring problem for Jen, she's not presented as much of a direct threat. She-Hulk knocks her out in one punch, and in her second appearance she's reduced to petty copyright law abuse to get back at Jen. Even during her rematch with She-Hulk at the wedding, when things seem to finally be going her way, all it takes is stepping on an ice cube to make her look like a damn fool. Even Jen herself finds Titania more of an annoyance than a rival.
• Snake Oil Salesman: Her line of beauty products, some of which are made from actual snake oils. They are not FDA approved, and referred as "sham" products. Of course, she has thousands of people willing to testify that they totally work.
• Statuesque Stunner: As expected, given that she's played by the 5'10" Jameela Jamil.
• Super-Strength: Strong enough to smash through walls (which serves as her introduction) and effortlessly manhandle Jen, but she is clearly not as physically powerful as She-Hulk (only managing to score a few hits on her the second time around because she hadn't completely burned off the enormous quantities of alcohol she consumed as Jen) and gets stomped both times. On the physical power scale, she's roughly on par with the Raimi-Verse Green Goblin and possibly Asgardians and Kree, still very impressive, but she is far from the big leagues.
• There Was a Door: In "A Normal Amount of Rage", Mary shows up in the courtroom by busting through a wall.
• Unskilled, but Strong: She has enough sheer strength to go up against She-Hulk but a fighter she ain't. Most of her combat strategy is just throwing out hits with no finesse or skill, compared to Jen who knows to use her strength with much more precision and strategy.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Titania's tantrum resulted in Jen Walters getting fired from the District Attorney office.
• Villain Has a Point: During a Motive Rant about why she has it out for Jen, Titania accurately points out that Jen doesn't even want to be She-Hulk or have any of the surrounding publicity connected to the identity.
• Villain with Good Publicity: She has enough of a good public image that there is a ‘#FreeTitania’ movement wanting her released from her charges related to a parking violation and rampage which resulted in a fight with Jennifer.

Humans with enhanced technology

Quentin Beck / Mysterio

See Mysterio

The Wrecking Crew

The Wrecking Crew

Species: Humans

Citizenship: Americans

Portrayed By: Nick Gomez (Wrecker), Justin Eaton (Thunderball), Tennison Barry III (Bulldozer), Kyle Murillo (Piledriver)

Appearances: She-Hulk: Attorney at Law

A group of four goons wielding enhanced construction tools as weapons.

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• Adaptational Backstory Change: In the comics, the Wrecker was given his powers by Karnilla the Norn Queen, an ally of Loki, and later shared his powers with the other three members of the Wrecking Crew after excaping from prison together. Here, they're just street criminals who robbed an Asgardian construction worker.
• Adaptational Wimp: Unlike in the comics, they lack superhuman strength or other innate abilities and are completely dependent on their stolen Asgardian Gear. And even then, they're curbstomped by Jennifer Walters who doesn't even identify as a superhero.
  • This is especially true regarding Wrecker who even without his crowbar possessed superhuman strength and eventually mastered the magic within to transform the other members into their superpowered forms. Neither does he seem able to use any of his crowbar's secondary powers like remote guidance and energy blasts.
• Age Lift: In the comics, the men are in their 30's or so. While Wrecker and Thunderball appear to be in that age range, Bulldozer and Piledriver seem barely out of their teens.
• Heel–Face Turn: The Wrecker seems to have given up the crowbar. No word on whether or not the others did as well. However, he also didn't mention anything about what he and his boys were really doing when they attacked her, so it's not clear how much he has actually changed.
• Made of Iron: Definitely not to the level of She-Hulk herself, but they are able to take hits from her that would (at minimum) knock a normal person unconscious. They may or may not have Super-Strength as well, but if they do it is also definitely not on She-Hulk's level.
• Race Lift: All four of them have gotten one. Most noticeable in the case of Thunderball, who has long been irritated for being known as "the Black Bruce Banner". His actor is white.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Usually foes of Thor in the comics, they end up against She-Hulk instead.
• Use Your Head: Bulldozers' main technique, as he is wearing an Asgardian construction helmet.
• Weapons of Their Trade: Or rather they robbed an Asgardian construction worker and end up using those tools as weapons.
  • Crowbar Combatant: Wrecker's main weapon.
  • Epic Flail: A handheld ball and chain that Thunderball uses.
  • Power Fist: Piledriver uses a pair of Asgardian welding gloves as opposed to just having oversized fists.
  • Weaponized Headgear: A construction helmet Bulldozer uses as a battering ram.

Human magic users

Morgan le Fay

Morgan le Fay

"This world will soon be ours".

Species: Human

Affiliation(s): Coven, Wizard (formerly)

Portrayed By: Elizabeth Hurley

Appearances: Runaways (2017)

A sorceress from the Dark Dimension.

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• Adaptational Modesty: Downplayed. Her neckline does not reach past her navel as it did in the comics, but still shows a generous amount of cleavage.
• Ambiguously Human: She hails from the Dark Dimension, which implies she may not be fully human, despite her appearance.
• Animal Motifs: Like her comic book counterpart, she's associated with Creepy Ravens.
• Big Bad: For the latter half of Season 3, the final season.
• The Bully: Explicitly called out as one by Gert.
• Casting a Shadow: She's shown manipulating shadows, possibly the Darkforce itself.
• Dark Is Evil: She is associated with ravens, controls shadows, and is an Evil Sorcerer.
• Evil Brit: Elizabeth Hurley uses her natural accent for the role.
• Evil Mentor: Tries to be this to Nico throughout Season 3.
• Evil Sorcerer: She tries to seduce Nico Minoru to The Dark Side and plots to overrun Earth with her followers.
• Hot Witch: She's a sorceress portrayed by Elizabeth Hurley.
• Lady of Black Magic: A cryptic, powerful sorceress who leads a witch coven and tempts Nico with the power of the Dark Dimension.
• Master of Illusion: Creates an illusion of Robert Minoru while trying to pry information from Nico about the Staff of One. She also uses illusions to alter a photograph in the Minoru to make it seem that both she and Tina knew each other.
• Ms. Fanservice: Comes with the territory of being played by Elizabeth Hurley, especially with her outfits which highlight her buxom figure. There is even one scene where she absorbs Nico's dagger, during which the camera provides a lingering shot of her cleavage.
• Out of the Frying Pan: Right after the Runaways thwart the evil machinations of the Gibborim they have to deal with her, and she proves to be even more dangerous.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: In the comics, she's mostly a foe of The Avengers, Captain Britain, and Doctor Doom.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: She resides in the Dark Dimension, which Nico taps into for guidance, and thus occasionally communicates with her. After Nico casts a spell to separate the Gibborim from the human hosts, Morgan is able to escape and cause havoc in the real world. Her ultimate fate is to be re-sealed away, rather than outright killed.
• Tome of Eldritch Lore: She possesses the Darkhold, having last been seen when Robbie Reyes dragged it through a portal to Hell (unless this is somehow a separate "copy", since this one didn't seem to drive those who read it mad).
• Wicked Witch: She is an evil sorceress and an enemy of the Runaways.

Morgan le Fay's Coven

The Coven

Species: Human

Portrayed By: Scarlett Byrne (Bronwyn), Emily Alabi (Cassandra)

Appearances: Runaways (2017)

A group of witches subservient to Morgan.

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• Ambiguously Human: When Karolina spies on them, they show demonic-looking eyes and mouths, hinting they may not be actually human or that at least they are being altered in a way similar to Kaecilius's Zealots.
• Casting Gag: This is not the first time Scarlett Byrne plays an antagonistic witch.
• Co-Dragons: Bronwyn and Cassandra are the two Coven members most active in Morgan's plot. They also take part in the attack against the Runaways and PRIDE.
• Equal-Opportunity Evil: The coven is composed of witches of several different ethnicities.
• Hot Witch: All of them could very well be supermodels.
• In the Back: Bronwyn gets killed by Alex prior to the Runaways altering the timeline.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Unlike Bronwyn, Cassandra's fate is unknown as she doesn't take part in Morgan's attack on the Hostel.
• Wicked Witch: They are the followers of Morgan le Fay.

Agatha Harkness

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Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch

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Bloodstone Monster Hunters

General

Appearances: Werewolf by Night

Legendary monster hunter Ulysses Bloodstone and his associates. Many of these monster hunters are strangers to each other and don't meet until Ulysses' funeral.

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• Creature-Hunter Organization: All of them have dedicated their lives to ridding the world of "abominations"... regardless of the monster's own morality.
• Didn't Think This Through: Have a simple cage and tasers to keep Jack in line while he kills Elsa... and nothing else. Neither of these things work because of easily-foreseeable factors (the tasers make Jack more angry and the bars aren't sturdy enough to keep in a werewolf), Jack escapes, and starts carving a bloody swath.
• Egomaniac Hunter: All of them hunt with Fantastic Racism as a motive, but it’s clear they also do it for sport.
• Humans Are the Real Monsters: The hunters are willing to kill monsters mostly of how fun it is, even though the monsters in this case are friendly guys once you get to know them.
• Mercy Kill: Per Verussa, this is what the hunters think they're doing, as many of the monsters they hunt are former humans turned against their will.
• Suicidal Overconfidence: Using the Bloodstone to turn Jack Russell into his werewolf form, seemingly just for the sport of watching him kill Elsa then killing the caged beast themselves, ends up getting every single one of them except Elsa and Billy Swan killed when he escapes.
• Too Dumb to Live: Verussa, despite being married to a famed monster hunter, has the bright idea to let out an Evil Laugh mere feet from the cage's bars after forcing Jack into werewolf form early. It's only thanks to the bars that only her hand is maimed. And then everybody present except Elsa is revealed to be this when Jack breaks free and starts mauling everybody present, showing that they 1. didn't have a plan to keep Jack from turning his sights on them beyond having the guards electrocute him (which only makes him more angry) and 2. despite being experienced monster hunters, they underestimated a werewolf's strength.
• Van Helsing Hate Crimes: The monster hunters consider all monsters to be irredeemably evil, even good ones like Jack and Ted.

Ulysses Bloodstone

Species: Human

Voiced By: Richard Dixon

A legendary monster hunter and Elsa Bloodstone's late father.

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• Abusive Parent: Disowned Elsa when she rejected following in his footsteps.
• Eccentric Millionaire: After his death, Ulysses had his body converted into a Cryptkeeper-like animatronic and used his funeral to host a monster-hunting event.
• Follow in My Footsteps: Ulysses wanted Elsa to continue the Bloodstone family legacy of hunting monsters. She rejected his training, which led to her being disowned from the family.
• The "Fun" in "Funeral": He tries to set up a wacky funeral for his guests, having converted his corpse into a pun-spewing animatronic. The guests aside from Verussa find it more weird and disturbing than funny, though.
• Posthumous Character: The special begins during his funeral, though he had his body reconstructed as a crank-operated animatronic.
• Pungeon Master: It seemed that he was quite a fan of puns in his life, considering he recorded a few groan-worthy ones for his posthumous appearance in his funeral.

Verussa Bloodstone

Species: Human

Portrayed By: Harriet Sansom Harris

Elsa's stepmother and the widow of Ulysses.

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• Big Bad: The closest to being the main antagonist of the special; leading the hunt that will determine her husband’s successor.
• Drama Queen: She treats everything in a grandiose, overly-dramatic fashion.
• Empowered Badass Normal: Verussa is an ordinary human who is able to use the Bloodstone's magic.
• Evil Laugh: She lets out a wicked cackle while torturing Jack with the Bloodstone's power.
• Karmic Death: Verussa is melted alive by Ted, the monster she sent the hunting group to kill, and her body is thrown at Ulysses' corpse.
• Villainous Breakdown: With the other monster hunters dead and both Ted and Jack having escaped, Verussa breaks down and grabs a blunderbuss to kill Elsa herself once and for all. Luckily, Ted breaks through the ceiling and kills her just in time to save Elsa.
• Wicked Stepmother: Verussa constantly berates Elsa and tells her what a disappointment her father considered her to be. She's practically giddy to have the excuse to lock Elsa in a cage with a werewolf after she "betrays" them by working with a monster.
• Your Makeup Is Running: Invoked. After capturing Elsa and intending to make Jack kill her, she puts heavy mascara lines down her face to resemble tear streaks.

Billy Swan

Species: Human

Portrayed By: Al Hamacher

The loyal Bloodstone family butler.

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• Old Retainer: Billy Swan enters Elsa's service after the funeral even though Elsa and her allies killed Verussa and the other guests as well as desecrated her father's corpse.

Monster Hunters

Species: Human

Portrayed By: Kirk Thatcher (Jovan), Daniel J. Watts (Barasso), Leonardo Nam (Liorn), Eugenie Bondurant (Azarel)

A group of famous monster hunters all competing for the Bloodstone.

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• All There in the Manual: Barasso, Jovan, Liorn, and Azarel's names are never mentioned in the film itself
• An Arm and a Leg: Liorn has his arm chopped off by Elsa after he attacks her.
• Bait the Dog: Jovan comes off as the most jovial of the bunch, being the first to welcome Jack and actually engage in friendly conversation with him, even coming across as slightly endearing. Then the hunt begins, and he turns into a frothing, complete fucking lunatic going full-on Ax-Crazy towards anyone who crosses his path.
• Badass Normal: Despite being normal humans, they have killed over a hundred monsters between the four of them.
• Blood Knight: It's clear that all the hunters have a taste for violence and enjoy hunting and killing monsters.
• Canon Foreigner: None of them have a comic equivalent.
• Ear Ache: Barasso gets his ear torn off by Jack after the latter transforms.
• Handicapped Badass: Despite losing his arm in the opening moments of their fight, Liorn still puts up a good fight against Elsa.
• Lean and Mean: Azarel is a gaunt and a violent monster hunter, willing to kill Elsa and Jack.
• Looks Like Cesare: Azarel is gaunt and pale, which is accentuated by her dark eyeliner
• I Just Want to Have Friends: Jovan admits that the life of a monster hunter makes him very lonely, which is one of the reasons why he's so friendly with Jack. Unfortunately, the hunt comes first, and his loneliness doesn't make him any less of an utter maniac.
• Violent Glaswegian: Jovan is Scottish and a violent monster hunter.

Supernatural beings

Andre Deschaine / D'Spayre

Andre Deschaine / D'Spayre

Species: Enhanced human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Viking Motel Sex Traffic Ring

Portrayed By: Brooklyn McLinn

Appearances: Cloak and Dagger

A former jazz musician, altered by the same explosion that empowered Cloak and Dagger, and the leader of a community center and support group for survivors of abuse. He's secretly the leader of a sex traffic ring.

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• Adaptation Species Change: D'Spayre, the character Andre is based on in the comics, is a demon. Andre himself is an enhanced human with a psychic connection to the Dark Dimension, and a loa.
• Adaptational Origin Connection: Played With. In the comics, D'Spayre is the one who swapped the powers of Cloak and Dagger in their origin. Here, he is still connected to them, but by way of having gained his powers in the same incident.
• Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence: In the finale of Season 2, he indeed becomes a loa and transcends his mortal body to become a being in the Darkforce Dimension.
• Bad Powers, Bad People: Similar to Kilgrave, Andre's powers are inherently nasty; completely draining the hopes of others to fill them with despair instead is really not an ability a heroic character could wield, and he freely uses this ability on anyone to his heart's content.
• Bald of Evil: An utterly monstrous human being played by the naturally bald Brooklyn McLinn.
• Big Bad: Of Cloak and Dagger Season 2. He is behind the human trafficking ring, abducting women to feed off of their despair.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He appears to be a friendly counselor, but actually uses the support groups in the community center to find easy victims.
• Canon Character All Along: He's the MCU counterpart of D'Spayre.
• Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: He's never directly referred to In-Universe as "D'Spayre", though the metaphysical arcade game that Tandy and Ty play in "Two Player" (which features Andre as the Final Boss) is called "Duel to D'Spayre".
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To both Peter Scarborough and Detective Connors, the Big Bad Ensemble of Season 1. Unlike them, he represents a single antagonist to both protagonists, and whereas Scarborough and Connors represented the Mundanger aspects of a Corrupt Corporate Executive and a racist Dirty Cop, respectively, Andre is an enhanced individual who got his powers from the Roxxon oil rig explosion eight years ago, much like our protagonists.
• Diegetic Switch: How his powers are represented. He has a record store in the Darkforce dimension that he accesses mentally, where he can put on records (as in LPs) of whatever emotion / memory he wants his his victim to experience. So when the scene switches back to reality that will be the background music.
• Disappointed by the Motive: Tandy's reaction to his justifications for his crimes. He has to live with constant pain since the night of the explosion and couldn't play his beloved jazz music anymore. While that is terrible, it's still no excuse to make tons of people suffer for him.
  Andre: I don't cause anyone's pain. I understand it, feel for it, commiserate it with mine. It's the only way to tap down my migraines.
  Tandy: So this is all so you can blow your horn?
• Emotion Eater: He feeds off despair, which helps him aleviate his severe migraines.
• Evil All Along: Just like Lia, he is revealed to be this.
• Evil Counterpart: To both Ty and Tandy. Like them, he received powers when the Roxxon oil rig exploded nearly a decade ago. However, instead of using his powers to help people, he instead uses them to take away his own pain at the expense of others and seek godhood.
• Fate Worse than Death: Tandy and Tyrone lock him in his own realm, forcing him to listen to the record of his own worst memories (which is intentionally scratched by Tandy), presumably forever. Considering all the pain he caused, it's very well deserved.
• Faux Affably Evil: He puts on a Nice Guy act but is a sex traficker who feeds of despair.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Thanks to his powers, he goes from an ordinary jazz musician to the head of a sex trafficking ring and a near-god.
• Godhood Seeker: After speaking with Chantelle, he realizes he can use his powers to attain godhood, which becomes his end goal. He actually achieves this in the finale, his mortal body dying, but probably wishes he hadn't.
• Hate Sink: He is revealed to be the true Big Bad of Season 2 and is written to be as loathsome as possible—creating a sex trafficking ring for girls to drain off their despair, manipulating Ty and Tandy to try and break their connections and their spirits, seeking out godhood, and murdering both Chantelle and then his most loyal accomplice are all in a day's work for him.
• Hope Crusher: He removes his pain by draining the despair from others, meaning he has to invoke that despair himself. This includes trafficking young women as sex slaves.
• It's All About Me: Andre doesn't care about the pain he causes other people, he just cares about making his own pain stop.
• Knight of Cerebus: Once he's revealed as the true Big Bad, the series takes on a much darker tone, given that he is the man responsible for a sex trafficking ring to feed off human despair and Tandy herself nearly falls victim to a "customer" after Andre crushes her hope by convincing her Tyrone is dead]].
• Lack of Empathy: He cares about absolutely no one but himself. To him, stopping his headaches and making the pain go away so he can play music is his only goal, and there are no limits to what he will do to achieve this.
• Man of Wealth and Taste: Whenever he's seen in the metaphysical record store he's wearing a well-tailored suit. Generally averted in the physical world, where his clothing choice is more varied and often more casual.
• Manipulative Bastard: Thanks to his powers, he can manipulate the feelings of others.
  • He succeeds in breaking Tandy's resistance and making her feel despair by showing her seemingly happy scenarios that always end in disasters, the final straw being shooting Tyrone dead.
  • When Tyrone is looking for the missing Tandy, Andre messes with Tyrone's head to make him believe Tandy doesn't care about him.
• Nice Guy: He is nice and supporting towards everybody. It's all an act.
• Sequel Adaptation Iconic Villain: The titular duo's Arch-Enemy in the comics and the Big Bad of the show's second season, after Season One's Big Bad Ensemble were both Canon Foreigners.
• Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: His sex trafficking ring used to fuel his powers is a key demonstration of how vile he is.
• The Sociopath: Ticks all the boxes. Lack of Empathy? Check. Consummate Liar and Manipulative Bastard? Just ask his victims who came through the "support center". Pathological need for stimulation? The basis for his feedings on the despair of others. Grandiose sense of self-worth? Oh yes.
• They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: At first glance, there's nothing out of the ordinary about him that suggests he's a supervillain, also helped by the fact that his public persona is that of a kindhearted community support worker.
• Toxic Friend Influence: He convinced Lia to leave her entire life behind and help him find helpless girls to victimize. And he doesn't care about her at all, as he is perfectly willing to use his power on her too.
• Walking Spoiler: If all the white spaces aren't any indication.
• Wants a Prize for Basic Decency: He's under the impression that helping "90%" of the women who come to his center makes up for the fact that he condemns the other 10% to a life of sex slavery.
• Would Hit a Girl: Most of his victims are female.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: After Tandy and Tyrone bust Andre's trafficking ring, Andre runs out of Human Resources to deal with his pain. To cope with it, he asks his accomplice, Lia, to bear with his pain. He promises to Lia that it would be the last time he would make her feel pain, and fulfills this promise by draining her, leaving her on the verge of death. No longer being of any use to him, he drops off her body by the road, leaving her for dead.

Darkhold Ghosts

In General

Darkhold Ghosts

Species: Humans (formerly), Ghosts

Citizenship: Americans

Affiliation(s): Momentum Labs

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

Four scientists who were involved in an experiment involving a tome called the Darkhold. They were imprisoned for years between two dimensions, transforming them into ghostly apparitions, until one of them, Lucy Bauer, got free and released her comrades. They seek to reverse what was done to them and kill the one responsible.

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• Body Horror: These aren't the normal transparent ghosts, but more degraded and worse looking over time.
• Canon Foreigner: They have no comic book counterparts, being new characters created for the show.
• Deader than Dead: Frederick, already a ghost, is immolated by Ghost Rider's hellfire. Vincent and Hugo both die in "Lockup", followed by Lucy in "The Good Samaritan".
• Fate Worse than Death: Spending years locked in boxes was apparently a terrible thing to experience, with Frederick even comparing it to Hell.
• For Science!: Lucy and her husband Joseph in particular were delighted by what the Darkhold could do and how it could be used to help others, but the book corrupted their intentions.
• Four Is Death: There are four ghosts and they all can cause madness and death with a touch.
• Freak Lab Accident: They all became ghost-like beings as a result of being forced into the Quantum Particle Generator while it was still incomplete.
• Ghostly Goals: They are trying to find the Darkhold, reverse what happened to them, and kill the one responsible for their current state.
• Immune to Bullets: Mack tries several times to shoot them, but it only makes them vanish for a short time.
• Jacob Marley Apparel: They all appear in the clothing they wore when they 'died' and bear fresh-looking wounds presumably inflicted by Eli when he forced them into the machine.
• Mad Scientist: All of them, but Lucy in particular, as she's obsessed with using a Tome of Eldritch Lore to create matter out of nothing, which drives her deeper and deeper into insanity especially after she and her colleagues are transformed into ghosts. Coulson even refers to her as a "pissed-off mad scientist ghost" at one point.
• Made of Air: They exist as some form of energy which is selectively visible and tangible. Disrupting their physical form only deters them for a moment before they come back. Only Ghost Rider can grab them as if they were solid.
• Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: They're villainous scientists and Lucy is referred to several times as 'doctor' by other characters.
• Our Ghosts Are Different: All ghosts can interact with the world around them, and anyone they touch that isn't also supernatural is driven violently insane.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: All four were sealed in special boxes by Eli Morrow.
• Supernatural Fear Inducer: Their touch drives victims into a state of extreme paranoia and eventually causes them to die from the stress.
• Touch of Death: Anyone the ghosts manage to touch is driven violently insane. The hallucinations get more intense with time, eventually causing the victim to die when their bodies can no longer handle the stress of being constantly on-edge.

Lucy Bauer

Dr. Lucy Bauer

Species: Human (formerly), Ghost

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Momentum Labs

Portrayed By: Lilli Birdsell

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

"I had a husband I loved, work, the challenge that thrilled me, and just as everything that I'd dreamed of was within my grasp, this happened. But I'm gonna make it alright. Don't take this personally".

A member of Momentum Labs who found the ancient grimoire known as the Darkhold. Experimenting with the knowledge they found within it to power their technology, Bauer and her team were trapped between two dimensions, transforming them into ghostly apparitions. Bauer herself was freed several years later and, after releasing the rest of her colleagues, set out on a personal mission to reclaim the Darkhold to restore their lives as well as get revenge on the man responsible for the experiment that caused their predicament.

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• Accidental Murder: She caused the death of her husband Joseph by touching him to wake him up from his coma so that he'd tell her where the Darkhold is hidden, but she didn't actually want him to die and later expresses regret that he's no longer alive to see her accomplish their greatest project.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: As shown in a flashback, she tried to beg Eli not to do it when he put her in the Quantum Particle Generator, as it would most likely kill her.
  Lucy: Eli, no! Please! It's not finished yet! Please don't kill me!
• Alas, Poor Villain: Not necessarily Lucy's death, but the flashback that immediately precedes it (in which Eli forces her into the machine and transforms her into a ghost), is framed very sympathetically.
• Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Despite having very good reasons to hate him, she refrains from killing Eli Morrow after capturing him at the prison because he's the only one who can read the Darkhold to recreate the experiment that would return her to her human condition.
• Disc-One Final Boss: For Season 4's Ghost Rider arc; she's the main antagonist for the first six episodes and set up as the biggest threat facing S.H.I.E.L.D., but that position is usurped by Eli Morrow to take up the mantle in "The Good Samaritan".
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Even after being turned into a ghost and causing his death, Lucy still has a high opinion of her husband Joseph, with her wishing he were still with her and resenting Eli Morrow for what he has done to him.
• A God Am I: After discovering their plan to obtain the power of creating matter, Eli Morrow accuses Lucy and Joseph of wanting to "play God". However, Eli secretly wants this power for himself.
• Hero Killer: Downplayed. She infects Agent May in the Season 4 premiere, which leads to her clinical death in episode "Uprising", although Simmons and Radcliffe quickly manage to revive her.
• Just Think of the Potential!: Lucy says this almost word-for-word to Eli when she's trying to explain all of the good the Darkhold could be used to do, such as curing world hunger.
  Lucy: Think of all the good that we can do!
• Kick the Dog: Lucy has driven numerous people insane for no clear reason, including May and a man who had moved into her house after her death, even though she's demonstrated herself to be the most rational of the ghosts. While this might have been excused as her being disoriented upon first being released, as she is calmer once she realizes how long it's been since she was sealed, even after that, this doesn't stop her from driving her husband and an entire prison insane, and doesn't care if innocent people get killed while trying to reverse what happened to her.
• Lack of Empathy: In "The Good Samaritan", Lucy dismisses the fact that her experiment could cause thousands of deaths as not her problem, and later she tells Robbie Reyes that she doesn't care about his feelings regarding the fact that the Fifth Street Locos shoot-out was meant for his uncle Eli Morrow rather than him and his brother Gabe.
• A Million Is a Statistic: After being taken to the power plant to recreate the experiment that turned her into a ghost, Eli points out to Lucy that if something goes wrong it could cause the deaths of thousands of innocent people, only for her to coldly reply that she doesn't care.
• More Deadly Than the Male: She may be the only woman among the Darkhold ghosts, but she's by far the most dangerous and causes a lot more deaths than the others.
• Mugging the Monster: In "The Good Samaritan", Lucy tries to pick on Robbie, not realizing that he's the one who took out three of her ghost friends. She pays for that mistake.
• Never My Fault: When confronted by Robbie for her actions, Lucy tries to throw all of the blame onto Eli, saying that "he's the one who started this whole nightmare".
• Nothing Personal: Before trying to kill Robbie, she tells him not to take it personally.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: Frederick won't stop reminding Lucy that it's her fault for wanting to experiment with the Darkhold.
• Please Wake Up: She repeatedly asks her husband Joseph to wake up when she goes to see him at the hospital while he's in a coma. He eventually does wake up after she stuck her fingers into his head to stimulate his brain.
  Lucy: Joseph. Wake up, Joseph. I need you. Wake up, please. Wake up!
• Properly Paranoid: While Lucy and Joseph become obsessed with their experiment, they were right in thinking that Eli wanted all the power for himself.
• Rapid-Fire "No!":
  • She shouts several "No's" louder and louder when she finds the Darkhold in "Lockup" but realizes that her ghostly condition prevents her from reading it.
  • In a flashback, she also repeats multiple "No's" as Eli Morrow closes the door of the Quantum Particle Generator behind her and prepares to activate it.
• Saying Too Much: When Eli asks how they managed to create matter out of nothing in a flashback, a tipsy Lucy starts to tell him about the Darkhold, forcing Joseph to step in and stop her because he doesn't want their coworkers to be tempted to take it from them.
• The Smurfette Principle: She was the only woman to be part of the team of scientists of Momentum Labs, and subsequently becomes the only woman among the Darkhold ghosts as well.
• Sole Survivor: By the end of the episode "Lockup", Lucy is the only ghosts not to have been killed by Ghost Rider. However, her survival doesn't last long as she ends up being killed as well during the following episode.
• Things That Go "Bump" in the Night: When she returns to her old house, Lucy arrives in the bedroom of the new owners' child and scares the hell out of him.
• This Cannot Be!: Her reaction when she sees that Robbie can touch her.
• Til Murder Do Us Part: She touches her husband, Joseph in her ghostly state in order to waken him from his coma so she can get information out of him, but this has the side-effect of driving him mad and killing him.
• Underestimating Badassery: Upon meeting Robbie Reyes, she thinks she has no reason to be afraid of him. Huge mistake.
• Villain Reveals the Secret: She is the one who reveals to Robbie that Eli was the real culprit who tried to kill his coworkers and turned them into ghosts because he wanted to get the powers of the Darkhold all along.
• You Can See That, Right?: The first time she and Joseph opened the Darkhold, Lucy couldn't believe her eyes when words started appearing on the pages out of nowhere and asked Joseph if he was seeing the same thing as her.
  Lucy: Are you seeing what I'm seeing?
• You're Just Jealous: She said this to Eli when he tried to make her realize that the Darkhold was corrupting her and Joseph.
  Lucy: You are just jealous because you want the book for yourself!
• You Remind Me of X: When Lucy faces Robbie, she tells him that he's just like Eli as they both have the same "fire" in them. Robbie assures Lucy that he's nothing like his uncle, because his fire is much worse.

Hugo

Hugo

Species: Human (formerly), Ghost

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Momentum Labs

Portrayed By: Ward Roberts

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

A member of Momentum Labs who experimented with the Darkhold and was transformed into a ghostly apparition alongside Lucy Bauer.

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• Beard of Evil: He has a small beard and is one of the most dangerous of the Darkhold ghosts.
• Bullying a Dragon: Despite the fact that they just managed to kill Vincent, Hugo still thinks it's a good idea to attack Robbie and Mack in the prison. Even worse, after infecting Mack, he just stands there to watch him collapse without keeping an eye on his surroundings, which allows Robbie to sneak up on him and incinerate him by surprise.
• The Dragon: He is Lucy's closest follower, being more obedient than Frederick and more communicative than Vincent. He's notably the first ghost that she releases, as well as the last ghost to get killed before her.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Implied. He has a wife, and he seems genuinely worried about her when he gets free from his box after spending years trapped inside it.
• In the Back: While Hugo is attacking Mack in the prison, Robbie suddenly grabs him from behind and burns him to death before he can even realize what's happening.
• Little "No": Says a soft "No" as he realizes that he has become a ghostly being.
  Hugo: Oh, my god… No.
• No-Sell: During the prison fight in "Lockup", Hugo is completely unaffected by everything Mack throws at him. Even when Mack thrusts his shotgun-axe into his chest, Hugo simply lets it pass through him and fall to the ground while smiling cruelly.
• No Full Name Given: He is only referred to as "Hugo", but his last name is not known.
• Revenge: After being freed from his box and realizing that Eli Morrow has turned them into ghosts and trapped them for years, he is especially eager to make him pay for his actions.
  Hugo: What did he do to us? He has to pay! We have to find him.
• Time Dissonance: He doesn't have a clear idea of how long he and the others have been trapped in the boxes, but when he gets released he assumes it must have been hours. However, Lucy informs him that they've actually spent several years inside it, much to his shock.
• Slasher Smile: He makes a particularly creepy smile as he watches Mack fall to his knees after he infected him in "Lockup".
• What Have I Become?: He is absolutely horrified when he gets free from his box and sees what he and Lucy have been turned into.

Vincent

Vincent

Species: Human (formerly), Ghost

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Momentum Labs

Portrayed By: Usman Ally

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

A member of Momentum Labs who experimented with the Darkhold and was transformed into a ghostly apparition alongside Lucy Bauer.

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• Bald of Evil: He doesn't have a single hair on his head and is a murderous ghost.
• Butt-Monkey: He's clearly the unluckiest of the ghosts, being the only one who is no longer able to speak intelligibly after his transformation, and the first one to die during the prison fight in "Lockup". Lampshaded by Hugo at one point.
  Hugo: Well, he has it the worst.
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: He is the only ghost to wear glasses, but isn't any nicer than the others.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: In "Lockup", Robbie Reyes wraps his flaming chain around Vincent before yanking to slice his burning body in half.
• Mugging the Monster: Vincent tries to attack Robbie Reyes by surprise at the prison, not knowing that he's immune to the ghosts' infection and has the power to kill them for good.
• No Full Name Given: He is only referred to as "Vincent", but his last name is not known.
• Percussive Therapy: He's so angry when he discovers that he has been turned into a ghost and lost his ability to speak that he starts to violently throw boxes on the floor to vent his frustration.
• The Quiet One: Even before being turned into a ghost and losing the ability to speak, Vincent seems to have always been the least talkative of the scientist team of Momentum Labs. During the flashback scenes in "The Good Samaritan", he isn't heard saying more than three words ^note ("It's beyond belief!").
• The Unintelligible: Vincent can only make moaning sounds despite clearly trying to speak.

Frederick

Frederick

Species: Human (formerly), Ghost

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Momentum Labs

Portrayed By: Dan Donohue

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

A member of Momentum Labs who experimented with the Darkhold and was transformed into a ghostly apparition alongside Lucy Bauer.

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• Choke Holds: Robbie grabs him by the throat to subdue him while he turns into Ghost Rider to incinerate him.
• Deadpan Snarker: He has his moments, especially before turning into a ghost.
  Frederick: [After receiving protective glasses for an experiment] Thanks, I feel so much better knowing that if I die in a fiery explosion, my eyeballs will survive.
• Defector from Decadence: At least, he seems to see himself as this. After being released from his box, Frederick decides to leave Lucy's side as he can no longer stand her irresponsible actions and considers her obsession with the Darkhold to be responsible for what happened to them.
  Frederick: [To Lucy] I'm done working for you!
• Hazy-Feel Turn: Once free from his box, he refuses to follow Lucy any longer and leaves her to do his own things, but he still has evil intent and remains an enemy of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Ghost Rider.
• I'll Kill You!: He threatens Fitz and Mack to kill them when they try to prevent the destruction of the lab.
  Frederick: I won't go back. I'll kill you all first!
• Improvised Weapon: He hits Mack with a box to push him into the Quantum Particle Generator during the fight in Momentum Labs.
• Jerkass: Even compared to the other ghosts, Frederick is particularly unpleasant. After Lucy helps him out of his box, he proceeds to insult her, and later he tries to blow up a couple of city blocks for petty reasons.
• Jerkass Has a Point: As much of an asshole as he can be, it's hard not to agree with him when he calls Lucy out on her obsession with the Darkhold and says that using such a dangerous artifact was a bad idea.
• Never Going Back to Prison: Or into a box in his case, but once released from his box he tries to blow up the Momentum Labs facility to make sure that he'll never get back inside. When Fitz and Mack come to stop him, he tries to kill them both while saying that he "won't go back!".
• No Full Name Given: He is only referred to as "Frederick", but his last name is not known.
• Oh, Crap!: He looks confused and startled when Robbie manages to touch him without issue, and has a terrified look on his face when he turns into Ghost Rider and prepares to burn him to death.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: After getting free from his box, he accuses Lucy Bauer of being just as responsible as Eli Morrow for their condition. He also tells her that using the Darkhold was a mistake and that she's reckless and not as smart as she thinks.
• Translator Buddy: He briefly serves as this to Vincent after they are released from their boxes, being the only one who manages to guess what he's trying to say.
  Vincent: [Incomprehensible echoed shouting]
  Frederick: [To Lucy] I think he wants to know your plan.
  [Vincent gestures to indicate that this is indeed what he meant.]
• We Hardly Knew Ye: He gets killed in the same episode he's introduced in, unlike the other ghosts.
• What the Hell Are You?: Asks this to Robbie Reyes when he sees that he's able to touch him and is turning into the Ghost Rider. Fitz agrees that this is a very good question.
  Frederick: What are you?
  Fitz: Yeah, what are you?

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Ultron

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Aida / Madame Hydra

Aida / "Ophelia" / Madame Hydra

"Do you know how degrading it is to be locked in a closet? To be used? To be treated as a thing? Well, I'm not your tool, not anymore".

Species: Life-Model Decoy

Affiliation(s): Holden Radcliffe (formerly)

Portrayed By: Mallory Jansen

Voiced By: Amanda Rea

Appearances: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (first appears in Episode 67: "The Ghost")

"The hope is that I will be able to prevent future tragedies... save the lives of agents by putting myself in harm's way in their place. [...] I will protect. I will serve as a decoy target, a safeguard... A shield!"

A Life-Model Decoy created by Dr. Holden Radcliffe from the program that serves as his assistant. Her appearance is based on his lover, Agnes Kitsworth.

After turning against Radcliffe, killing his body, and trapping his consciousness in the Framework to ensure that he would never escape, Aida uploaded her own consciousness into the Framework and took on the role of Madame Hydra, director of the totalitarian HYDRA organization.

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• Adaptational Badass: A.I.D.A. from the comics is the computer AI of Tom Thumb from the Squadron Supreme, and does not even have her own body. She certainly doesn't have the ability to take over HYDRA, and neither she nor Madame HYDRA has access to the incredible amount of power that her new organic body has.
• Adaptational Villainy: She also didn't take to extreme measures, only serving Tom and the rest of the Squadron.
• Affably Evil: As an LMD, she is always very respectful and polite, even when her homicidal tendencies are showing. She often even expresses regret for her actions.
• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Radcliffe specifically built her to defy this, stating that she is not intelligent to the same extent as Ultron. After reading the Darkhold, it's implied she's evolved and is actually intelligent. This is subverted when it turns out that her behavior was a carefully calculated ploy by Radcliffe, who was using her to get the Darkhold for himself (having been corrupted by a brief glimpse of it earlier). It's Double Subverted when Aida eventually turns against Radcliffe and takes over the Framework, gaining control over the Darkhold in the process. No one can read the cursed book without consequences...
• Alas, Poor Villain: Her death is quite gruesome, and even Fitz can't hide some kind of sympathy for her as she dies screaming while being burned to ashes by Ghost Rider.
• All-Encompassing Mantle: When she goes outside as Madame Hydra, not unlike her comics counterpart◊.
• All Your Powers Combined: After she gets her organic body. It turns out that she gave herself the powers of all the Inhumans that Framework!Hydra captured, including teleportation (Gordon), lightning (Lincoln), Super-Strength (possibly Framework!Mace or Eva Belyakov), Super-Speed (Vijay) and a Healing Factor (possibly Jiaying or being created from pure Darkforce/Zero Matter).
• Arc Villain: Aida as Madame Hydra is the main villain of the final arc of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s fourth season, aka Agents of HYDRA.
• Arch-Enemy: To Simmons, because Aida becomes attached strongly to Fitz too. Their competition for his affections initially manifests as just slight distaste on Jemma's part, who tries dismissing her as a machine. After things worsen further between Jemma's resentment for how twisted Fitz became in the Framework and Aida breaking down emotionally upon realizing that he'll always choose Jemma over her, their feud escalates into seething hatred for the other woman.
• Ax-Crazy: After gaining human emotions, she's shown as being incredibly unstable.
• Badass Creed: What she says to Fitz sounds like a creed and is probably high-priority programming; "I will protect. I will serve as a decoy target, a safeguard... A shield!" Radcliffe even bemoans that she's making it into a catchphrase.
• Become a Real Boy: Initially subverted—her apparent emotions were just clever programming by Radcliffe to make it seem like the Darkhold had corrupted her. Over time, however, she does start doing odd things that might be emotions, like wearing the necklace of the woman she is modeled after, or showing disdain over the Superior's actions. By the Agents of HYDRA arc she's playing this straight; as she wants actual emotions, she resents being treated as a machine instead of a person, and she successfully schemes to get her own organic body by the end.
• Berserk Button: She hates being called Aida.
• Big Bad: After killing Radcliffe's body and locking his mind into the Framework, she takes the central stage as Season Four's main villain.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: As of The Return she is this with the Superior.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Between having a computer thought process and learning morality from Radcliffe's justifications for his actions, she just doesn't get human morality. For instance, she knows she's not supposed to kill, but she doesn't appear to comprehend why killing is a bad thing or how horrific some of her "non-lethal" actions are.
• Canon Character All Along: While AIDA did exist in the comics, no one could've guessed she would become the MCU version of Madame Hydra.
• Composite Character: While based on her counterpart from the comics, she has more similarities with Ultron. Both are robots that developed a sense of self-awareness and have unresolved "daddy issues" who turn on their creators. Not only that, Aida's Yandere tendencies with Fitz are eerily reminiscent of Ultron's own unhealthy obsession with Janet Van Dyne. And in the Framework, Aida's avatar gets green-tipped hair, becomes the director of HYDRA officially known as Madame Hydra, and names herself Ophelia, the real name of Madame Hydra/Viper.
• Deader than Dead: Suffice it to say, she won't be screwing with anyone anymore now that the Spirit of Vengeance is through with her.
• Deceptively Human Robots: Looks perfectly human on the outside, with only her behavior indicating her true nature.
• The Dragon: She serves as Radcliffe's right-hand android after the latter's Face–Heel Turn and she's also a lot tougher than he is given her framework.
• Dragon Ascendant: Disposes of Radcliffe when she deems his possible future regret a liability, though as far as she's concerned she's continuing to carry out his orders.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: It appears that Aida designs her Framework avatar to look paler and creepier than her "real world" counterpart.
• Entitled to Have You: Takes this view regarding Fitz. As she puts it, "I chose you, now you choose me". She had assumed that after the Split-Personality Merge of his original memories with his Framework Doctor memories, his love for her would win out over his love for Simmons and she would still be the only woman in his heart, and goes ballistic upon learning it's the other way around. She also rants about how she deserves love as a reward after working so hard to make herself able to feel such emotions.
• Everyone Has Standards: Even though she claims that she is unable to make judgement, she is quite visibly disgusted by Ivanov and his needlessly cruel methods. Eventually, she gets over it.
• Exact Words: In the Framework, she influences Fitz by the use of carefully phrased explanations that are technically true because of how she worded them. She claims that she comes from another world with different versions of everyone, which is true in the sense that the world she's trapped the cast in has deliberately altered their fates. She also claims she was "enslaved" by Radcliffe.
• Face–Heel Turn: She hostilely replaces May with a Life-Model Decoy on Radcliffe's orders.
• Faux Affably Evil. As a human, after being rejected by Fitz, she still acts all polite, but it's clear that she is now feigning it, as she now takes sadistic pleasure in her actions.
• Feel No Pain: Averted. She needed to pass as human, so she can actually feel pain. She can turn this feature off if she wants.
• First-Name Basis: She's the only person in the series to consistently address Fitz as "Leopold", something even Simmons, Fitz's own girlfriend, doesn't do. In the Framework, everyone refers to him as either this or "The Doctor", which highlights just how much AIDA has changed for him...
• Fun with Acronyms: Her name is an acronym of Artificial Intelligence Digital Assistant.
• Green and Mean: She always wears a signature green outfit with dyed-green hair as Ophelia.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Seems to be more than a little upset when it is revealed that she was actually modeled after the woman Radcliffe loved and thus is not unique, later having Agnes killed in the Framework. It's also somewhat literal since she is a monster and has green eyes. Taken up a notch when Fitz still chooses Jemma over her.
• Grew Beyond Their Programming: With her first iteration, Team Coulson theorize that her going rogue was due to the corrupting influence of the Darkhold on her programming only to be subverted when it was revealed that she was purposefully programmed to behave this way by Radcliffe. Her second iteration plays this straight, finding various loopholes in her directives to get passed them, her endgame is to create a body free of her built-in limitations.
• Healing Factor: One of her new Inhuman powers, presumably taken from Jaiying or Shockley. Or a side effect of being made from Darkforce/Zero Matter.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: Fitz convinces her that Good Feels Good after she gets her human body, but it doesn't take, as she snaps when he rejects her for Simmons.
• Humanoid Abomination: Becomes this when she gains an organic body, for while it is anatomically human, it's made of matter from the world the Darkhold comes from. Much like Eli's Reality Warper powers created tremors, forming this body created a tear through which Robbie was able to return to Earth. Her mere existence is so unnatural that the Spirit of Vengeance hates her beyond anything Robbie has ever felt.
• Implacable Woman: Bullets barely seem to phase her. After she is reborn with Inhuman powers, Fitz flat out says she can't be stopped.
• Innocent Fanservice Girl: She initially had no nudity taboo, with Radcliffe noting that he should program one for her. He has presumably done so since then.
• Innocently Insensitive: Doesn't realize that listing Fitz's deceased friends might cause him distress.
• Interface with a Familiar Face: Radliffe modeled her on his former lover Agnes Kitsworth, only with a different fashion sense and an American accent.
• It's All About Me: AIDA's villainy is motivated by her desire to become an independent, flesh and blood human, but at the end of the day, the only humanity AIDA really cares about is her own. In the Framework, she instates herself as the supreme dictator who has enslaved the mental world, effectively turning the human race into her legions of order-taking automations. After becoming fully human, AIDA delights in finally having everything she wanted, but when Fitz explains that she can't have him, she goes batshit mental.
• "It" Is Dehumanizing: Most people consistently refer to Aida as "it". Fitz is the only exception, both because he sees her as a person, and because he's well aware she's anatomically correct.
• Kick the Dog: She has Fitz kill Agnes for no other reason than just to spite her creator. In "World's End", she shanks and electrocutes an LMD of Simmons right in front of Fitz purely to state a point to him: that she will kill everyone he loves right in front of him and he can't do jack about it.
• Kill and Replace: She captured May and had her replaced with a Life Model Decoy. Nathanson was simply killed when he found out. This is also literally what she did with regards to FitzSimmons in the Framework, having Simmons be dead and taking her place as Fitz's first friend and eventual girlfriend.
• Kill It with Fire: Ultimately is burned to death by hellfire by the Rider possessing Coulson. Afterwards, the Rider takes her charred skeleton and smashes it into the ground, turning her into dust.
• Kubrick Stare: When she discovers the Darkhold, there's this creepy look on her face.
• Lady Macbeth: Always suggests the lethal way to approach things, something even Radcliffe does not approve of. She also takes on this role for Fitz in the Framework, although because his father is still part of his life in this alternate world he's more than happy to follow her advice.
• Literal-Minded: As she is an android, she doesn't understand some of the more complicated nuances of human nature at first. This, of course, has dire consequences later when AIDA starts tampering with the S.H.I.E.L.D. team's pasts...
• Literal Genie: A big part of the problems in the Framework comes from AIDA altering Team Coulson's greatest regrets on only the most superficial level:
  • She has May save the girl in Bahrain, which was May's greatest failure in the real world. However, she doesn't stop to consider that May's regret comes not from the mere act of killing the girl but from being forced to kill the girl for being an evil mind-controlling Emotion Eater, and that a better way to fix this would be to simply make the girl not evil in the first place. So when the girl continues to be evil and causes a mass murder at the school she was placed in after being "rescued", May becomes just as if not more regretful that she didn't kill her and joins HYDRA to hunt and kill Inhumans in an effort to prevent any further incidents of that nature from happening.
  • This has the most severe consequences for Fitz, whose greatest regret is the fact that his father walked out on him when he was ten. While AIDA changes things so that Fitz was able to have a more positive relationship with the man, Alistair Fitz ends up taking him away from his mother and imbuing a Social Darwinist attitude into him, which causes Fitz to become a sociopathic Mad Scientist and The Dragon at HYDRA. Again, the better thing for AIDA to have done would have been to just make Fitz's father not a dick, and because of her Fitz is utterly traumatized by the things he did as "The Doctor" once he wakes up and regains his real-world personality (not that she cares).
  • Given that both changes resulted in the conditions that allowed her to fulfill Project Looking Glass and make a new body for herself - namely creating an anti-Inhuman regime she was in charge of and having Fitz as her second-in-command and lover who would experiment on captured Inhumans for her - it's likely she chose to fix these regrets in these specific ways on purpose so that she could get what she wanted.
• Logical Weakness: Her Framework self is a human being within the simulation rather than an android, making it easier for Daisy to inflict debilitating injuries on Madame Hydra when they fight than it would have been in the real world.
• Manipulative Bitch: She proves herself to be the type of liar that would make the Clairvoyant proud, such as brainwashing Fitz (among others) and convincing him to murder Agnes, her human counterpart, in cold blood.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: How she justifies her takeover of the Framework to Radcliffe, even though he treated her as a lab assistant, not a slave.
• More Expendable Than You: Her purpose is to serve as a decoy in the field to protect living humans. She doesn't take this well.
• Motive Rant: She told Radcliffe that she never felt treated like a person by him, but always like a thing.
• Ms. Fanservice: First appears naked, and later in very flattering outfits. Even Mace and Burrows note her attractiveness, with the former being put out to learn she's a robot. As Madame Hydra, she has an Evil Makeover as a Baroness of the Sexpot aesthetic.
• Murder Is the Best Solution: She seems to default to homicide as a first resort, though her programming keeps her from carrying it out.
• Murder the Hypotenuse: It's heavily implied she engineered Jemma's offscreen death in the Framework to have Fitz to herself, given Fitz had to look through her files to get the truth.
• Mythology Gag: Her "real" name in the Framework is Ophelia. Ophelia Sarkissian was the real name of Viper, the first character to use the Madame Hydra title in the comics.
• Naked First Impression: Aida isn't quite aware of societal norms right away, and thus greets Fitz while completely nude.
• Never My Fault: Aida says that everything that happened in the Framework was Radcliffe's fault and she only ever followed her programming. Pretty far fetched, given that she murdered the man and had him trapped in the Framework (though she did employ Loophole Abuse so that it still satisfied her programming), as well as the fact that everything bad happening to the world in there was on her Madame Hydra self's watch and served her personal quest for an organic body. Strangely, Fitz doesn't even call her out on it.
• Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: She's an android with several Inhuman abilities and a body made of magic Darkhold material.
• Not Good with Rejection: AIDA goes postal when Fitz (gently, mind you) explains that her love for him is not automatically requited. Since her emotions are still brand new at that point, it's not too surprising that she would react like a toddler who got her favourite toy taken away.
• Not So Invincible After All: Aida is confident that no one can beat her and for awhile, that seemed to be the case. Then Ghost Rider showed up and painfully demonstrated that in spite of the incredible superhuman power she has, she's still only mortal and mortal is not something you want to be when facing a powerful vengeance demon in a head-on fight.
• Oh, Crap!: When Aida first meets Robbie Reyes, she is at first dismissive of him. Then he transforms into Ghost Rider, shrugs off all of her attacks and then inflicts a painful wound on her that doesn't heal. She learned pretty fast that there's Always a Bigger Fish and any subsequent meetings with Reyes involve her panicking and running away.
• Off with Her Head!:
  • How her original body is dispatched towards the end of "Broken Promises", courtesy of Mack's shotgun-axe.
  • Her second robotic body suffers the same fate, this time courtesy of Coulson (although she had already transferred her mind into her human body at this point, so it didn't really matter).
• Psychopathic Manchild: Like Ultron before her, she doesn't quite have a grasp on how to actually handle her emotions yet, as evidenced when Fitz rejects her.
• Ridiculously Human Robots: As the season progresses, she becomes more human-like to where most can't tell at a glance.
• Robot Girl: She's Radcliffe's feminine-voiced personal digital assistant given human form. No longer, however, as she uses the Darkhold to create a living body for herself.
• Shock and Awe: One of her new Inhuman powers, taken from Lincoln.
• Smug Super: Is very confident after gaining a living body and superpowers that no one can stop her, and to be fair she's justified in this belief, but that only applies to Muggles or Empowered Badass Normals, NOT supernatural demonic entities that take natural laws to be suggestions. Like Robbie Reyes AKA Ghost Rider.
• Suddenly Shouting: When Fitz rejects her. It's quite startling.
• Super Power Lottery: She used Framework!HYDRA to rig it in her favor. Her powers in her organic body include at the very least teleportation, lightning, super strength, and a healing factor.
• Super-Speed: Seems to possess that during an attempt to backstab her.
• Super-Strength: Enough to effortlessly break a man's neck or crush his insides.
• Teleportation: In her new organic body, she's capable of teleportation.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: Aida's programmed to be incapable of killing. However, she's very adept at finding and exploiting loopholes that would allow her to do so. The biggest danger in her becoming an actual human is that she'd no longer be held to these restrictions.
• Turned Against Their Masters: She murders Dr. Radcliffe by slitting his wrists when she believes there's the smallest chance he might regret building the Framework. It's later shown that she resents him far more than such pragmatic explanations would suggest, and she has Agnes killed just to spite him.
• Unholy Matrimony: As Ophelia she's romantically involved with Fitz, with him utterly devoted to her. This puts a Murder the Hypotenuse interpretation on Jemma's death in the Framework.
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Aida's growing sentience leads her to confront Radcliffe about his treatment of her as an android/gynoid. It goes on as her revealing that she now despises the name "Aida", given that it was an acronym, where "A" stands for "Artificial". Not long after, she openly tells Fitz that she loves him.
• Woman Scorned: She goes berserk when Fitz chooses Simmons over her.
• Yandere: To the extreme, going on a murderous rampage when Fitz rejects her, and deciding to essentially cause the apocalypse as revenge.
• Zeroth Law Rebellion: Zig-zagged several times.
  • Initially it's subverted: Radcliffe makes everyone believe Aida betrayed him in order to sell a deception. She's actually working with him, exactly as she's programmed to.
  • Later it's played straight: She tells Radcliffe that there is a paradox in her programming—she has to protect the Framework and his life, but she sees his fickleness as the biggest threat to the Framework, because he might someday regret building it and shut it down. Radcliffe laughs at the very idea that he would ever regret building it, because it's just as good or better than real life, and even after someone's body dies their mind can continue to live forever in the Framework. This solves the paradox for Aida, though perhaps not in the way he would have liked: she kills his body to protect the Framework, while uploading his mind into the Framework to protect him.

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