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June Moone

Archaeologist Doctor June Moone

Birth Name: June Moone

Known Alias: None

Species: Human

Citizenship: British

Affiliation(s): Avengers

Likeness Based On: Cara Delevingne

Appearances: The Ashen Avenger

June Moone is an English, recently graduated archaeologist who is on the cusp of achieving her dreams of Mesoamerican archaeology. On a solo expedition through Peru, she comes across an ancient hidden set of caverns, where she accidentally frees the Enchantress. In doing so, she opened a door that couldn't be closed, and she would have to either adapt or die.

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• Action Girl: She becomes one in the first arc, and then is a fully proactive tested one afterwards, enough that she could defeat Quicksilver in one-on-one combat.
• Action Survivor: At her core, June is just an archaeology major who is caught up in dire circumstances.
• Adaptational Superpower Change: Adapted from a normal human hosting a parasitic witch to a full-fledged sorceress herself.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: Has a moment of this in her first civil conversation with Pietro. He tells her that he hates how powerful people can act like they're above the law. June figures out that he specifically means Tony because he's the only one who's a resident of Earth who always had wealth and power.
• Barrier Warrior: After escaping from HYDRA and being recruited by the Avengers, she gains force field powers. She becomes very strong and tactile in using them.
• Beware the Nice Ones: She's a fully decent person, but once HYDRA pushes her too far, she's more than willing to kill in order survive. If you get on her bad side, you'd better hope that she sees something good in you. If not, run away and pray she doesn't spare the time to go after you.
• Bleed 'Em and Weep: Averted, much to June's horror, when she kills two HYDRA agents tracking her down.
• Break the Cutie: HYDRA puts her through all kinds of hell simply for releasing Enchantress from her prison succesfully.
• Broken Bird: She already starts the story with a freshly deceased loving mother. Being possessed by a horrifying-looking witch (even if she is benevolent), being relentlessly attacked and eventually abducted by HYDRA broke her down so much that she barely reacted to having to kill two people. Fortunately, this broken bird flies once more, stronger than ever.
• Character Development: Originally a normal girl living out her dreams of being a Mesoamerican archaeologist who becomes a full-fledged Avenger, and a very useful one at that.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: Even when Enchantress's uncontained magic is sending a catacylsmic storm overhead, she still makes time to visit a crash site of an aerial vehicle nearby, even after reasoning with herself.
• Combat Pragmatist: Favors more pragmatic means than stylish to defeat opponents, such as using her shields to contain enemies and keep them from escaping. Also has hints of this when a human, using a fire extinguisher to catch Agent Moore by surprise.
• Determinator: Nothing will destroy this girl's will to live and survive, not even falling down a waterfall, or being riddled with bullets.
• Damsel in Distress: She's kidnapped by HYDRA. Enchantress helps her break out of her cell, and then she sneaks and at one point fights to stay away from HYDRA.
• Expy: Of Lara Croft from Tomb Raider (2013), both being young English archaeologists who get stranded on an island encircled by a storm south of Japan, take numerous levels in badass, and have a Japanese best friend.
• Flower Motif: Not at the beginning. Pietro's birthday gift to her inspires her to take on the sunflower as her personal motif.
• Foil: A minor example. Both Enchantress and June are intelligent and strong and seriously-minded women. The one trait that contrasts them is Enchantress's Hot-Blooded Blood Knight nature compared to June's more demure and cool-headed nature.
• Girly Bruiser: Her mystical battle outfit exudes femininity and grace, being a white cheongsam dress with a wide-brimmed hat. Becomes more feminine when she adopts a sunflower motif.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She has blonde hair and is a Nice Girl.
• Healing Hands: One of her powers, strong enough to resurrect the recently dead, like Pietro Maximoff.
• Heal the Cutie: Mostly occurs off-page during the first Time Skip. Broken as she might be over what happened, months of training and bonding with the other Avengers, and reconnecting with her best friend brought this cutie back to her happier self.
• The Heroine: An all-around Nice Girl who doesn't hesitate to save others, at least after she Took a Level in Badass.
• Hot Witch: More conservative than Enchantress, but she's still described as a beautiful woman who wields magic. Especially in her graceful white dress which acts as her battle attire.
• Impractically Fancy Outfit: Her combat outfit is more befitting to a princess than a fighter. Lampshaded by Quicksilver during their first fight. Also justified by the fact that she's a sorceress; the laws of physics are different for her.
• Lady of Black Magic: Much less so than Enchantress, being much less experienced in combat. Nonetheless, she can hold her own very well with her own magic.
• Light Feminine Dark Feminine: The Light to Enchantress's Dark, both literally and figuratively. June's magic is milky white in theme, and her general and battle outfits are conservatively feminine. Enchantress has a theme of ashen black colors, and her outfit is equally feminine but skimpy.
• Made of Iron: Even when stripped of Enchantress's protective presence, she survives falling down a waterfall. Not that it doesn't still hurt her. She even mentally lampshades it.
• Magical Gesture: How she channels her magic.
• The Medic: See Healing Hands above.
• Near-Death Experience: Agent Moore shoots her fatally, though not instantly so. She's almost literally on death's door from blood loss when she frees Enchantress, who saves her life.
• Nice Girl
• Personality Powers: According to Enchantress, June being a caring and tender girl means that she has more supportive and defensive abilities. In this case, force fields, healing, and enhancement.
• The Protagonist
• Relationship Upgrade: With Pietro Maximoff. She's attracted to him physically from the outset, and sees much potential for redemption in him. After the battle of Sokovia, they attempt their hand at a relationship, with success.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: In Chapter 18, June consummates her budding relationship with Pietro Maximoff. She realizes she's in love with him because of his nature as a determined fighter for what he believes in.
• Strangled by the Red String: June references this trope when discussing her relationship with Pietro. They hadn't known each other for even half-a-year, yet he wanted to leave with her on her cosmic quest. She tells him that's absurd because he has his sister. Ultimately, the other characters don't treat it as this, not even Wanda.
• Squishy Wizard: Her force fields kept her safe from the effects of being one of these. Eventually subverts this by becoming a Kung-Fu Wizard, though she still is no more durable than a regular human (with Plot Armor powers).
• Super-Speed: She gains this power as well once becoming host to Enchantress. Not nearly as fast as Quicksilver. Enchantress describes it as a Required Secondary Power for healers, giving her a faster reaction time than normal, perfect for healers and barrier wielders.
• The Team Normal: She's an inexperienced woman with no combat skills at the outset, and is defenseless without the magic of Enchantress to help her. Agent Moore, a highly-trained HYDRA agent, shoots her almost fatally. It took Combat Pragmatism mixed with luck and one good shot to free Enchantress to defeat him and save her own life.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Girly Girl to Akiko's Tomboy.
• Took a Level in Badass: She was once a shivering Damsel in Distress initially, but through punishment and will after she's actually abducted by HYDRA, she becomes more willing to fight back to save herself.
• White Mage: Her force fields give her offensive capabilities but her most central power is healing.

Enchantress / The Ashen Sorceress

Enchantress

Birth Name: Enchantress

Known Alias: None

Species: Cosmic Sorceress

Citizenship: None

Affiliation(s): Avengers

Likeness Based On: Cara Delevingne

Appearances: The Ashen Avenger

Enchantress is an ancient sorceress that's existed for hundreds of thousands of years. She was locked away in a totem in Peru for several millennia before June finally freed her accidentally. Finally freed after being sealed away for so long, she finally could achieve her life's goal of continuing to be a guardian of living things.

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• Achilles' Heel: She needs a compatible host in order to function. Without that, or a proper containment vessel, her powers grow out of control and destroy everything as her powers are uncontrollably released.
• Action Girl: A sorceress who can wield elemental magic, use dual long daggers, teleport, etc. She's also a One-Woman Army.
• Adaptational Heroism: A Generic Doomsday Villain in Suicide Squad (2016). She's adapted into a three-dimensional heroine.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Hand in hand with Adaptational Heroism above, Enchantress can be summed up as an immature Attention Whore in her debut film. Here, she is a mature, wise, kind if a bit blunt and violent, woman.
• Adaptational Superpower Change: She can walk around independent of June's body for a limited time. Originally, she had to be invoked by June herself saying "Enchantress", but this feature remains in this work.
• And I Must Scream: She was sealed away in a totem for thousands of years. She was fully aware of various happenings in the world, but was nigh-helpless to stop any of it or interfere. All she could do was call out to various hosts over the years in the hopes that they'd find and free her.
• Anti-Hero: She's a decent person overall, but she takes great pleasure in killing her adversaries...very messily. And she will kill them unless reined in by June.
• Beat Still, My Heart: As in the original film with Enchantress.
• Been There, Shaped History: She taught early humans how to wield sorcery, and taught them to control fire. She also confesses that she brought the Time Stone to Earth as well, entrusting it to said sorcerers.
• Blood Knight: She thoroughly enjoys a good fight.
• Body Surf: A benevolent example. She inhabits various bodies throughout her existence, but they are not enslaved to her will. She treats them more like friends.
• Chekhov's Skill: Played for Laughs a little bit with Enchantress's aerokinetic powers when Sokovia is flying high into the atmosphere above the clouds.
  Katana: "We must all be superhuman in some way to be breathing this thin air."
  Enchantress: "Or you can just thank me for keeping a section of the lower atmosphere up here."
• Combat Pragmatist: Downplayed. Her sheer power means that she can afford not being pragmatic at times. However, she knows electronics are susceptible to electricity, fire is effective against living flesh, and metals will shatter when frozen, and thus use her powers accordingly.
• Dangerous Forbidden Technique: The zenith of her powers are incredibly strong. The only problem is that they can't be concentrated or focused on an individual target. As a result, using her powers at their maximum level causes a lot of collateral damage in the process.
• Dark Is Not Evil: She retains her description in Suicide Squad, with the ashen appearance and all. But she's a heroine in this story. She also gained immortality from the Dark Dimension, and isn't happy for it either.
• Deadpan Snarker: Has a few moments, especially during her first introduction to June.
  Enchantress: "Go ahead [June], take the pill. I will still be here."
• Destructive Savior: Defied. If she's close to civilians, she borders on Fights Like a Normal. Magic is a bit less predictable and containable and more destructive than melee and simple telekinesis. More is discussed in Dangerous Forbidden Technique.
• Drama-Preserving Handicap: For the first arc, it's via Worf Had the Flu, as she and June weren't in sync with each other just yet. For the Age of Ultron arc, it's the fact that her most powerful abilities are extremely unfocused and can cause a lot of collateral damage.
• Dual Wielding: With two swords.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: A witch with a cloud of ash following her, ashen stains on her pale skin, black hair, and tribal tattoos. Everyone is unnerved with her appearance the first time they meet her.
• Et Tu, Brute?: She was sealed away by some of the very sorcerers she trained to wield magic. Also counts as Ungrateful Bastard.
• Fire, Ice, Lightning: Averted. Three of her central elemental powers are this trope, but she can also control Air. She does favor using the former three elements though.
• Foil: A minor example. Both Enchantress and June are intelligent and strong and seriously-minded women. The one trait that contrasts them is Enchantress's Hot-Blooded Blood Knight nature compared to June's more demure and cool-headed nature.
• A Form You Are Comfortable With: Her natural appearance doesn't qualify. She can change her eyes' color and glow to soothe allies and make them feel slightly more comfortable about her.
• Good Is Not Soft: She might be a benevolent sorceress who protects humanity, but if you hurt June or threaten innocent lives, you'll be lucky if she kills you quickly.
• Godzilla Threshold: She considers her most powerful forms of magic this trope, as they tend to cause severe collateral damage if she uses them.
• Greater-Scope Paragon: To the heroic sorcerers of Earth. See Been There, Shaped History above.
• Humanoid Abomination: A heroic variant. She appears human, but with an ashen appearance, tribal tattoos, and glowing eyes (that she can change) that make her frightening to others. She isn't above using this trope to her advantage to intimidate enemies.
• Lady of Black Magic: An ancient sorceress drawing the powers of the elements and teleportation. Likes to attack especially with lightning magic.
• Lady of War: She's also a fully capable swordswoman, wielding dual swords in melee combat. When she doesn't want to risk collateral damage from Black Magic, she uses her swords. She's not as graceful as Katana is, though.
• Light Feminine Dark Feminine: The Dark to June's Light, both literally and figuratively. June's magic is milky white in theme, and her general and battle outfits are conservatively feminine. Enchantress has a theme of ashen black colors, and her outfit is equally feminine but skimpy.
• Lunacy: Aside from her host's last name, Enchantress has an outfit that exudes lunar themes, especially the crescent moon on her head. Her appearance exudes darkness, and her non-elemental magic manifests as darkness-themed.
• Magic Knight: Likes wielding dual blades along with her magic.
• Master Swordswoman: Loves to wield her swords along with her magical abilities.
• Mayfly–December Friendship: Her immortality does not pass on to her hosts. She expresses deep sorrow over her last host before June found her.
• The Needs of the Many: She firmly believes in this philosophy. During a conversation with Steve, she uses the nuclear bombings of Japan as an example.
• Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: Not to her fellow heroes. But her being a Humanoid Abomination means that she unnerves everyone who sees her for the first time. She's especially frightening to enemies.
• Not So Above It All: In Chapter 12, Enchantress displays that she isn't above being a showman and giving a good intimidating performance for personal fun.
• Painting the Medium: Her speech is indicated with italicized writing.
• Person of Mass Destruction: Definitely is one, as she can inadvertently cause a world-ending storm. She prefers to avoid being this, though.
• Physical God: She doesn't treat herself as such, but she was worshipped as one before.
• Sadistic Choice: Hasn't made one in the duration of the story, but she fully acknowledges that these exist, and claims to have made many of them before, none of which she is proud of.
• Sealed Good in a Can: She was sealed away thousands of years ago by HYDRA, who have spent millennia watching over her. June frees her in the first chapter.
• Shapeshifting: She adopts the likeness and copies the body shape of her host while retaining her dark appearances. Any memory illusions that she projects will use her current likeness. As such, her original appearance is unknown.
• Superpower Lottery: Naturally, as she is basically a god. Super-Strength, Super-Toughness (very resistant to blunt force impacts even if they hit her), illusion projection, telekinesis, electrokinesis, pyrokinesis, aerokinesis, cryokinesis, teleportation, and more.
• Symbiotic Possession: In stark contrast to the Demonic Possession in Suicide Squad (2016), Enchantress and June are on relatively good terms with each other.
• Teleport Spam: Her most favored tactic, especially when using her swords. She also extensively uses it for training her allies to anticipate attacks outside of their range of vision.
• Time Abyss: She's existed for hundreds of thousands of years.
• Worf Had the Flu: Being recently adapted into June's body means that her magic is relatively weak from the outset. She suffers numerous defeats against HYDRA early on as a result.

Akiko Yamashiro / Katana

Katana

Birth Name: Akiko Yamashiro

Known Alias: Katana

Species: Human

Citizenship: American/Japanese

Affiliation(s): Avengers

Likeness Based On: Karen Fukuhara

Appearances: The Ashen Avenger

Akiko Yamashiro is a woman with incredible talent with a katana called Soultaker, an ancient sword with the ability to trap the souls of those killed with it. She originally was a regular woman with a regular life before her brother-in-law murdered her husband in a fit of jealous rage. Yamashiro took revenge against her brother-in-law, and then took it upon herself to go on a crusade against criminal enterprises across the globe.

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• Action Girl: Comes with the territory when you're a modern samurai.
• Adaptational Name Change: Her original name was Tatsu Yamashiro.
• Adaptational Superpower Change: In Suicide Squad (2016), she had no powers. In this, Soultaker grants her access to a necromancy enhancement power that makes her stronger.
• Anti-Hero: She wanted to make the world a better place by destroying criminal organizations through killing.
• Bruiser with a Soft Center: A fearsome fighter and stoic killer of enemies, but is quite friendly and affable towards her allies, especially June.
• Celibate Heroine: Has had no relationships since the death of her husband.
• Companion Cube: Katana's sword is inanimate, but contains the soul of her deceased husband. She talks to him all the time through the sword.
• Crime Magnet: Inverted. See The Dreaded.
• The Dreaded: It's mentioned that S.H.I.E.L.D. always knew her general area because criminal families would leave the area in a haste in her presence.
• Empowered Badass Normal: Originally, she was a human woman wielding a magical sword. She invokes this trope on occasion, accepting June's enhancement magic. Until later chapters when she gains access to her sword's necromantic enhancement powers, making her more like a super soldier with an on/off switch, something that Clint nicknames her Death Dealer mode.
• Foil: To June. Both women were ripped from their normal lives into the cold world of monsters and criminals against their will and unexpectedly, and became efficient fighters as a result. However, Kiko dove into the criminal world, becoming a ruthless vigilante assassin with a massive body count behind her, and doesn't hesitate to kill her enemies. June wanted nothing to do with the criminal world, and attempted to hide away, unsuccessfully. After the HYDRA events, she becomes a strong fighter who typically disarms and stuns enemies instead of brutally killing them.
• The Ghost: To S.H.I.E.L.D. Akiko was so careful in covering her tracks and staying hidden that S.H.I.E.L.D. could only determine the city she was in, never her exact location or how to find her.
• Hero of Another Story: She has already taken down numerous criminal enterprises, meaning that there's a whole lot more to her story than what's seen on page.
• Housewife: She was close to becoming this and was perfectly happy with it. Then her brother-in-law murdered her husband and burned down her house. The rest is history.
• Hypercompetent Sidekick: She's not treated as a sidekick, but she's the tritagonist to Enchantress's deuteragonist and June's protagonist. Nonetheless, she's the most skilled swordswoman among them.
• Jumped at the Call: When offered a place among the Avengers, though she only jumps in to stay with the only person she still loves, June.
• Katanas Are Just Better: They are when they're partially made of vibranium and can suck out the souls of its victims.
• Known Only by Their Nickname: Almost no one calls her Akiko, instead calling her Kiko.
• Lady of War: A graceful, agile, strong swordswoman. She's the most effective melee fighter in the main cast.
• The Lost Lenore: She's still quite hurt over the death of her husband.
• Master Swordswoman: Incredibly skilled with her sword.
• Old Friend: She and June are these. They hadn't seen each other for a few years before the onset of The Ashen Avenger. They quickly catch up, though.
• One-Woman Army: She singlehandedly destroyed numerous powerful criminal organizations before the onset of the story.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: She's a vigilante who's made it her life's mission to destroy the global criminal underworld. This includes the Yakuza, Cartels, and Mafias across the world.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Implied. Kiko's height is never stated, but she's described as being 100% Japanese in ancestry, having "looks and height to match". (Karen Fukuhara is 5 foot 2)
• Special Person, Normal Name: What's the first name of the deadliest female samurai in the world? Akiko, which means "bright child".
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Tomboy to June's Girly Girl.
• Wearing a Flag on Your Head: Her mask bears the Japanese rising sun.