A list of Characters in Miracleman.
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The Miracleman Family
In General
A group of five (later six) super soldiers created by Dr. Gargunza at the behest of a Government Conspiracy called "the Spookshow", the Miracleman family are able to shift their minds between a normal human body and a superhuman one with vast Psychic Powers.
- Abandoned Catchphrase: In the original Marvelman comics, Micky Moran, Dicky Dauntless and Johnny Bates had a tendency to exclaim "Holy macaroni!" By Alan Moore's Miracleman, they do not say the phrase outside of flashbacks to their original adventures, which are revealed to have been a simulation they had been kept in to condition them for eventual warfare.
- Nigh-Invulnerable: They are invulnerable to anything that could harm an ordinary person due to their bodies being surrounded by skintight forcefields that render them impervious to pretty much anything in the universe.
Miracleman / Michael Moran
- Created by: Mick Anglo
As a young boy, Michael Moran and his friends only had to say the magic word to become Miracleman, a blonde, musclebound superhero. Years later, he has forgotten his magic word and much of his youth, but eventually he rediscovers his past and more.
- Alliterative Name: Both for Michael Moran and Miracleman.
- Anti-Hero: While not particularly malevolent, he's terrible at saving people in anything more than an immediate sense, and hesitates often enough that people die because of it.
- Classical Anti-Hero: Is continuously plagued by doubt about whether conquering the world was the right thing to do.
- Big Good: He eventually becomes this for Earth as a whole, since he's in charge of it and made life so awesome and free of pain, or freedom, that nobody can argue otherwise.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Gradually drifts away from humanity. By The Golden Age he grants wishes to those who reach him: he agrees to help a woman become an artist, but refuses to heal a young girl put in a coma by his fight in London. The supplicants struggle to understand why.
- By the Power of Grayskull!: Being originally created as a pastiche of Fawcett's Captain Marvel, Moran changes into his alter ego Marvelman/Miracleman by saying "Kimota" the same way Billy Batson becomes Captain Marvel by saying "Shazam".
- Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: The Moore/Leach version of Michael Moran was based on Paul Newman.
- Expy: Micky Moran and his alter ego Marvelman were originally created as ersatz versions of Billy Batson and his alter ego Captain Marvel (the reason he exists in fact being that publisher L. Miller & Son Ltd. couldn't continue printing Captain Marvel comics as a result of Fawcett getting sued by DC and made do by replacing Captain Marvel with a deliberately similar character), but in Moore's revision, the character is much closer to Superman (whom Captain Marvel was based on to begin with).
- Evil Costume Switch: Once Miracleman takes over the world, to prepare for a formal event by switching his superhero tights for a military-style uniform not unlike a Nazi uniform, in keeping with Moore's fascism analogy.
- The Miracle Family's suits change to reflect their minds, and by the Silver Age Miracleman's outfit has lost the 'MM' logo. Miracleman claims that's because he has "evolved" beyond his limited superhero mindset.
- Flying Brick: Though not to the extent of his daughter or Kid Miracleman.
- Implacable Man: To (most) earthly dangers. Early on, the Moore run milks this for all the horror it's worth, as the military desperately (and vainly) tries to keep him away from the bunker where he was "born".
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Miracleman can be cold and has a serious case of Blue-and-Orange Morality, but he does genuinely care about Liz Moran, and loves her even though she left him. He also cares about Young Miracleman and Johnny Bates, taking no pleasure in killing Johnny Bates in order to save everyone from Kid Miracleman — crying afterwards. He also feels bad about kissing YM when he realises that YM did not like him kissing him at all.
- Kick the Dog: He point blank refuses to heal a man's daughter who had been put into a coma by his fight with Kid Miracleman.
- King Incognito: He asks a drug-addled and apparently prophetic "spaceman" whether his decisions were right during the fifth carnival.
- Loss of Identity: Michael Moran is constantly worried about feeling useless in comparison to his awesome alter-ego. Eventually, he resolves this issue by letting Miracleman take over for good and essentially erasing himself.
- Shoot the Dog:
- When pinned down by Gargunza's hellhound after just having had two fingers bitten off, Moran stays calm enough to realise the dog's trigger word might transform it back. He then promptly smashes the neutralised puppy to death.
- He took absolutely no joy in killing Johnny Bates, but knew it was the only way to prevent his alter ego Kid Miracleman from causing any further harm and destruction.
- Superman Substitute: As a copy of a copy, given that Captain Marvel himself was originally created as a Superman pastiche. Moore brings a lot of elements to make him even closer to the Man of Steel - the Loves My Alter Ego aspects, being the same age as his Secret Identity, his status as a Big Good, and being tied to aliens.
- That Man Is Dead: Michael Moran removes his clothes on a hillside, leaves behind what is essentially a suicide note and says the magic word one final time, with tears in his eyes. After that, Michael Moran is gone forever and Miracleman has taken his place.
- Thou Shalt Not Kill: Zig-zagged. Miracleman couldn't bring himself to kill the real Johnny Bates following Kid Miracleman's first rampage. After Johnny is forced to say his magic word and Kid Miracleman goes on a far more destructive spree across London, Miracleman avoids any further disaster by snapping Johnny's neck.
- Utopia Justifies the Means: Ushers in a period of global peace and prosperity by doing away with all political institutions and installing himself as a benevolent dictator.
Kid Miracleman / Johnny Bates
The Kid Sidekick to the original Miracleman, his magic word was merely, "Miracleman".
- Ambiguous Situation: Miracleman does not know if Johnny ever truly learned that Gargunza's dreams were fake. Though Miracleman does wonder how much it would even matter to Johnny at this point.
- The Antichrist: Explicitly called such in one story.
- Ax-Crazy: A rare example who can control this urge, when he chooses to. After The Reveal, though, he doesn't bother.
- Beware the Superman: Like Miracleman, he becomes increasingly detached from humanity due to his physical and mental superiority. Unfortunately, unlike Miracleman, he likes tormenting his inferiors.
- Brains Versus Brawn: Miracleman notes that Miraclewoman has far more finesse and style in her combat compared to Kid Miracleman, however, Kid Miracleman's raw power easily conquers Miraclewoman. Though ultimately played straight as Aza Chorn is able to force Kid Miracleman to transform back into Johnny Bates by teleporting debris into his skull and chest.
- Captain Ersatz:
- Strangely, in Moore's version, Kid Miracleman actually resembles Billy Batson/Captain Marvel more than Miracleman himself (who is patterned more on Superman). Like Captain Marvel, he's a child who becomes an adult superhero by uttering a magic word.
- His story arc can also be seen as a Whole-Plot Reference to the Dark Phoenix Saga (including similar costumes), taking the Fallen Hero story to its logical conclusion, where the Phoenix story ran into
Executive Meddling and Retcons.
- Combo Platter Powers: By adulthood Kid Miracleman develops eye beams, the ability to control minds, and can summon lightning, as well as the standard Flying Brick abilities.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: He's spent his years as a secret superhero becoming an unethical businessman, although he abandons his business after being unmasked.
- Deconstructed Character Archetype:
- Of the Kid Sidekick and Kid Hero, but also Billy Batson/Captain Marvel, a child who transformed into a physical adult superhero by uttering a magic word. Moore shows that the changes in body could wreak havoc on the child's security since he ends up relying on the super-powered alter ego for strength, power and protection rather than himself, as well as filling him with an appalling level of guilt and horror when he sees what he has inflected.
- He also is a deconstruction of the standard chaos-oriented supervillains, unlike the traditional superheroes and supervillains, Kid Miracleman's Faux Affably Evil leads him to slaughter 10,000 Londoners in an hour with him quickly devolving into just trying to come up with creative ways of killing with his superpowers just to pass the time before Miracleman and company arrive. Compare that to most supervillains rarely actually killing anyone throughout the Golden and Silver Age of Comics. Also his Motive Decay of not having any motivation beyond revenge and destruction does not bother him in the slightest.
- Determinator: KM manages to kill Aza Chorn despite having a rock just teleported into his head.
- Evil Costume Switch: In the older stories, Kid Miracleman wears a yellow costume with black stripes across the chest. After he turns evil, his costume is black with yellow stripes across the chest. The "KM" emblem also appears in a jagged, lightning bolt-like font. Ironically, this makes him heavily resemble the long-dead Young Nastyman, the Evil Counterpart of his old teammate Young Miracleman.
- Evil Counterpart: To Miracleman. Mike Moran is a middle-aged out of shape freelance reporter who mostly relies on his wife Liz to make money for their household and is incredibly insecure. When transformed into Miracleman, Miracleman is erudite, a god in human form, and aloof. In contrast, Johnny Bates is a traumatized and insecure child that is frequently bullied. When transformed into Kid Miracleman he becomes a sadistic monster. Miracleman is Mike Moran made perfected, whereas Kid Miracleman is Johnny Bates devolving into a demon.
- Evil Former Friend: To the point where Young Nastyman, a lunatic rapist and enemy of the Miraclemen, comes off as sympathetic in comparison to Kid Miracleman.
- Eye Beams: The only one of the Miracleman Family to develop them, it's never explained why, although it's implied it's down to having a longer period to practice his powers in secret.
- Eye Scream: One of his favourite moves is to make eye contact with someone and then use his Eye Beams to incinerate their head eyeballs first.
- Face–Heel Turn: After realizing nobody's there to hold him to account. He keeps this a secret on the off-chance Miracleman or Young Miracleman survived.
- Faux Affably Evil: He acts very charming when he first encounters the Morans, but quickly discards the pretense.
- Flying Brick: The most powerful character depicted, Bates can No-Sell to almost every attack thrown his way over the course of the story.
- Jekyll & Hyde: Johnny has a much closer connection to his alternate state, conversing with Kid Miracleman in his coma and hallucinating him. Whether this is a genuine connection or manifestation of insanity is left unstated, but the former seems likely. But by contrast their personalities have split the most.
- Kick the Dog: The All-New Miracle Man Annual story "The October Incident: 1966" by Grant Morrison has him kill an elderly religious man in cold blood just because he could.
- Kid Sidekick: Subverted. Most of his story time is as the grown Kid Miracleman, who bitterly resents Miracleman holding him back. That being said, the original stories of the 1950s and 1960s noticeably had him still appear physically as a child in his alter ego in contrast to his contemporaries Micky Moran and Dicky Dauntless being physically older when transformed.
- Man of Wealth and Taste: His preferred look is either mod or stylish executive, depending on the era.
- Meaningful Rename: Miracleman calls his superhuman self "Bates" as an adult, rather than the no longer appropriate "Kid Miracleman".
- My God, What Have I Done?: When Johnny sees the rampage done in London by Kid Miracleman.
- My Greatest Failure: Miracelman freely admits in hindsight he failed Johnny by never checking in on him and letting him be tormented to the point that Kid Miracleman escaped at last.
- Not Quite Dead: A vision of adult Bates appears to Dicky in the Silver Age, trying to tempt him into carrying on his work, and is disproven as a hallucination just by the accuracy of its knowledge. Presumably Bates' form is aware in Subspace and reaching out despite its injuries.
- Omnicidal Maniac: Becomes this in the last leg of the Moore run; Miracleman even asks him what he plans to do when he runs out of things to break, which doesn't even make him blink.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: After horrifically killing and mutilating most of the population of London, he still feels the need to Kick the Dog by calling the African-American Huey Moon the N Word. He also refers to Miracleman using the homophobic slur "fairy".
- Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: He's never shown doing it in Moore's run, other than suggesting it to Johnny as a temptation on pubescent urges to release him. But the Apocrypha series shows him performing his first rape aged 11 after he makes a spurious decision to lose his virginity. Johnny also endures savage beatings rather than release Kid Miracleman again, but when facing rape, poor Johnny can't cope...
- Reed Richards Is Useless: Averted, it's implied that he used his superhuman intelligence and powers to help develop the computer technology that made him a millionaire.
- Saying Too Much: He is defeated in his first battle against Miracleman only because he accidentally says "Miracleman" while bragging over his victory.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: Technically, Miracleman killed Johnny Bates, dooming the evil Kid Miracleman into an inter-dimensional prison without a host. However, it's hinted in Neil Gaiman's run that Kid Miracleman is still out there somewhere and can be unleashed. Earlier than that, Miracledog is explicitly retrieved from the interdimensional prison, where other bodies are shown. While Kid Miracleman may still be crippled there, he's still there.
- Before that, Johnny Bates took it upon himself to make sure Kid Miracleman is never released again. He just didn't foresee being raped.
- Shameful Strip: When three bullies attempt to rape Johnny Bates, they remove his pants, symbolically tearing away the last vestiges of his will.
- Sole Survivor: Of the Spookshow's attempt to wipe out the Miracleman Family. (Miracleman was depowered and left amnesiac, while Young Miracleman was killed.)
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Johnny's appalled and terrified of his alter ego. Kid Miracleman was originally heartbroken when hearing that Miraclewoman was killed.
- Villainous Breakdown: Suffers one while fighting Miracleman and his team in the ruins of London, reducing him to growling threats. Subverted somewhat in that this does not weaken him but only make him more deranged and powerful."Bastards. Bastards...eat you, eat your cities, eat your children...eating life...shitting skulls..."
- Would Hurt a Child: Shows this in his first fight with Miracleman, when he throws an innocent child to his doom as a distraction, but gets far worse when he returns; becoming an indescriminate mass murderer, Kid Miracleman goes out of his way to horrifically mutilate the children in the path of his rampage through London rather than killing them outright, though he does plenty of that too. Years later, a civilian who had been a child at the time and on vacation outside London talks about watching the massacre on TV and recalls seeing a glimpse of his best friends corpse as part of a nightmarish human "quilt" Kid Miracleman had mashed together.
- Yank the Dog's Chain: Kid Miracleman tells a nurse that she was kind to him, so he won't kill her. But he then returns and punches the top of her skull off moments later. Apparently he was worried people would think he was "going soft" if he didnt massacre everyone in his way.
Young Miracleman / Richard "Dicky" Dauntless
- Alliterative Name: Dicky Dauntless. Also a Meaningful Name.
- Armored Closet Gay: Avril/Miraclewoman's opinion of the original YM, with a crush on Miracleman. Not surprising that he would be deeply closeted given the era. Mind you, it's a popular theory with textual support that Miraclewoman knows he isn't gay and is in fact actually quite homophobic (not that the two are mutually exclusive with this trope) and encourages Miracleman to kiss him in order to drive them apart.
- Break the Cutie: Throughout the first two issues of his revival, Dicky is appropriately amazed by Miracleman's utopia. However its shown when he's alone that he's also equally disturbed about what happened to his friends and the world. Throughout issue 24 it's shown that Dicky is trying to hold it together and accept how wonderful the utopia is, but after Miracleman kisses him it breaks whatever trust Dicky has in MM and he flies off frightened and confused.
- Captain Ersatz: He's a stand-in for Captain Marvel Jr. from the original Captain Marvel comics, especially given that his codename makes him appear to be a younger version of the original hero and has said hero's codename as his transformation word.
- Deliberate Values Dissonance: Along with his more understandable discomfort when encountering the world Miracleman has made, YM shows his 1960s mindset, with his disapproval of Huey Moon's race and slutshaming Miraclewoman's outfit.
- Flying Brick
- Never Found the Body: Averted. The only member of the original family, believed to be dead because they found his body. Years later, Miracleman and the Warpsmiths bring him back from the dead.
- Not So Similar: After Issue 3 of the Silver Age follows Bates' attempt to tempt Dicky round to his way of thinking after Miracleman's betrayal, it ends with Dicky forcefully rejecting his offer and banishing Bates.
- Only Sane Man / Audience Surrogate: After being revived, Dicky reacts pretty much how any normal person would to the utopia even if he's one from the Sixties. Given how Young Miracleman and Dicky both seem to have the same personality and emotions despite being two separate bodies (And thus should pretty much be two separate people), this speaks volumes.
- Nice Guy: YM, despite his understandable discomfort meeting them, is polite to the human and alien members of the pantheon he meets. His demeanour contrasts with the coldness of Miracleman, Miraclewoman and Winter; and he is not a lunatic like the adult Bates.
- Rape as Backstory: During The Silver Age arc, we find out that Dicky was sent to an orphanage where boys were routinely loaned out to "spend the evening" with lords of society, which eventually happened to him. This is the reason why Dauntless is so reserved around sex and affection, due to his own PTSD. When Meta-Maid asks to kiss him, he's more than happy to; since she was the first one to even 'ever do so.' This is what gives him the courage to go back and face Miracleman.
- Walking Spoiler: It is impossible to discuss the Silver Age arc without mentioning Young Miracleman's resurrection.
Winter Moran
- The Ageless: Unlike her younger siblings, who prefer young adult forms, Winter prefers not to physically age beyond childhood.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Liz wanted a baby with Michael. Winter was not what she expected at all.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Moreso than anyone else, she sees no reason to pretend to love her parents, indulges in sex before she's five, using an adult body (and doesn't find it interesting), and casually uses mind control. She also protects humanity and has no particularly malicious aspect to her.
- Brainy Baby: She is able to speak in complete sentences when only a week old. She claims to have been able to talk fluently since birth, but stayed silent for a while after saying "mama" due to seeing how much it upset her mother.
- Combo Platter Powers: She has flight, invulnerability, super-intelligence, super senses and mind control at least. As she gets older she learns to use her powers in even more inventive ways (similar to Kid Miracleman), such as manipulating her aura to mimic Warpsmiths' teleportation and to become invisible.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Winter, though far more cold than her father, does care about him and her mother as well, even keeping up the appearance of an normal baby so that her mother can calm down and recover from the events she went through. She only leaves when her mother left Miracleman and she parts with him on friendly terms. She comes back later to help him change the Earth and all life on it.
- Enfant Terrible: Liz finds her terrifying. She's probably right to do so.
- Goo-Goo-Godlike: Easily more powerful and intelligent by far than anyone else in the series, before her first birthday. Even by the standards of the Qys and the Warpsmiths Winter is something special, as she manages the unique feat of replicating Warpsmith technology with her aura.
- Exposed Extraterrestrials: Never shown wearing more than swaddling clothes, and she soon abandons even those. She's essentially shown with Barbie Doll Anatomy, though.
- Humanoid Abomination: Explicitly only looks human, and her power levels and understanding of them dwarfs even Kid Miracleman's, though she isn't present for any of his attacks.
- More than Mind Control: Winter used mind control to calm Liz's emotional reactions. She may even have done it in utero.
- Older Than They Look: By the events of The Silver Age, she is around 20 years old, but prefers to still take the form of a young girl.
- Pet the Dog: Despite her alien mindset, Winter is capable of individual acts of kindness, such as when she invisibly gives advice to Young Miracleman.
- Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: She is apparently self aware even as a fetus, speaks moments after her first feeding, has a disturbingly dismissive discussion with her father before she's one, has sex while wearing another body by five, and generally acts like she was never a child. Even post-ascension Miracleman finds her frightening.
Young Nastyman / Terrence Rebbeck
- Ax-Crazy: He goes insane when he breaks out of Gargunza's artificial reality, having already suffered extensive mental torture. He rampages through various ports, drinking by the barrel, brawling and raping.
- Demoted to Extra: He was Young Miracleman's Arch-Enemy in the comics. Here, they never even meet in the real world, and are both killed off long before the story even begins.
- Evil Counterpart: To Young Miracleman. Unusually there's no Nastyman shown for him to be younger than in the Alan Moore continuity, at least none shown outside the dream world. This is because in the original comics, and thus the dreamworld, Young Nastyman was from a race of Human Aliens, and the "Nastyman" in question was an evil, elderly hermit on his homeworld who gave him his powers, but never had any himself. Since Nastyman was just part of Young Nastyman's fictional backstory, he never had a real-life counterpart like the others.
- Mistaken Identity: His corpse is presumed to be Young Miracleman's.
- Not So Invincible After All: Rebbeck is an unusual example of how the superhumans's powers can weaken: he was burned alive in an Icelandic volcano, while Miraclewoman was merely uncomfortable. This weakness is implied be due to his mental degradation, as the superhumans' powers are psionic.
- Out of Focus: The only superhuman who does not appear in the present day, he only appears in flashbacks.
Miraclewoman / Avril Lear
- Created by: Alan Moore and Garry Leach.
The long-lost female member of the Miracle Family.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: More willing than Miracleman to indulge in this. As she tells Miracleman:Miraclewoman: Micheal, I don't know why you percieve the state of being human as something special. Did humans ask such agonised questions about the free will of cows or the destiny of fish?''
- Canon Foreigner: Unlike the Miracleman Family (and Young Nastyman), she's entirely an original creation of the Moore run; even the Retraux scenes meant to blend her into their backstory aren't really commentaries on classic Captain Marvel (or Superman) stories, so much as Golden Age Wonder Woman and their notorious psychosexual roots.
- Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: She is quite obviously based on Marilyn Monroe. Liz actually lampshades this, sarcastically calling her "Miracle-Monroe".
- Distaff Counterpart: Quite consciously sees herself as one.
- Expy: To Mary Marvel and Supergirl.
- Lady Macbeth: Deconstructed. She convinces Miracleman of reforming the world in their image, but also takes him to task for abusing others along the way.
- Only Sane Woman: She is extremely level headed, helping the Qys and Warpsmith come to a diplomatic solution, and the Miraclewoman and Avril Lear personalities are not very different despite both being active for years.
- Rape as Drama: Was repeatedly raped by Gargunza both in her fantasy world, and in the real world while she was unconscious. She views him as too pathetic to be seriously upset about it.
- Utopia Justifies the Means: As she explains:Miraclewoman: Besides, we're taking nothing from them. We'll give them more free will than they ever dreamed or wanted. We're going to love them Michael. We're going to make them perfect.
- Weak, but Skilled: An extremely elegant and effective fighter, Miraclewoman can grapples stronger male superhumans, and cleverly neutralises a Qys foe by crushing its voicebox. But her ability nonetheless fails when facing Kid Miracleman's overwhelming powers.
- What the Hell, Hero?: She's a Super Supremacist, but doesn't think that justifies being a dick about it - when Miracleman goes too far lording over baseline humans, she calls him out on it.
- Worf Effect: Miraclewoman has been active in the real-world longer than Johnny Bates, and Miracleman notes her as having more grace and finesse in her combat. Yet she is immediately defeated by Kid Miracleman, just establishing quickly how vast the power differential is.
Earth
Dr. Emil Gargunza
The scientist that created Miracleman, the Miracle family and the Nastymen, and the architect of their "adventures" in the virtual world (where he was a recurring villain). He reappears when Miracleman comes back in the real world and shows that he's even worst in the real world than in the virtual simulation.
- Back from the Dead: He is brought back to life several times in the Qys underworld beneath Miracleman's palace so that his genius can be properly harnessed. It always fails, no matter what, the clones always become evil.
- Big Bad: Deconstructed. While ultimately responsible for pretty much everything, good and bad, in the story, he's also shown to be pathetic and neurotic.
- Broken Ace: Very likely the smartest human being (and possibly the smartest living creature) to ever live, but his intense neuroses lead him to waste his world-changing talents.
- Bond Villain Stupidity: Had a powerless Mike Moran and Evelyn Cream at his mercy... and epically fumbles the ball by not only ordering them hunted for sport by Miracledog instead of just shooting them, but demonstrating Miracledog's change-word right in front of Mike. Really, the only reason Mike is menaced at all is because sheer blind panic prevented him from trying the word himself until the last possible minute; had Cream seen the change-word in action it's likely the whole thing would've ended there.
- Crazy-Prepared: He implants a command phrase "Abraxas" in Miracleman that transforms him back into Mike Moran for one hour. Winter guesses that he may have done the same for Miraclewoman.
- Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: His Start of Darkness came from wanting to help his mother survive on the mean streets of Brazil, and even after he's made it big he makes sure his mother is well-taken care of. In fact, it's his mother's death that inspires his obsession with gaining immortality.
- Evil Genius: Can create literal gods, but he just can't be one.
- Expy: He serves as the equivalent to Captain Marvel's enemy Dr. Sivana, to the degree that he essentially looks like Sivana if he had hair.
- Faux Affably Evil: He is scrupulously polite and hospitable to Liz while explaining how he intends to implant his own mind into her baby.
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul
- Herr Doktor: Although he's actually South American, he worked with the Nazis for a while, until he realized they were going to lose.
- Immortality Seeker: This is revealed to be his actual motivation. He's terrified of dying and desperate to find a way to live forever.
- Mad Scientist: His repeated failed resurrections implies that his genius and his malevolence are closely tied.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: He was a Nazi once and while he claims to oppose them, he still has a lot of racist and sexist views. Even after he's revived in Neil Gaiman's run from his death, he's still a major homophobe, much to Andy Warhol's dismay.
- Remember the New Guy?: He made his debut in issue 26 of Marvelman, the story in question treating him as if he were a previously encountered enemy of Marvelman.
- The Starscream: In his backstory, he was the protege of a gangster in Brazil, until the rest of the gang recognised that he was more talented than the boss, and helped him overthrow the boss.
- Unsexy Sadist: He raped Miraclewoman while she was in stasis, but he is portrayed as an impotent, pitiful figure rather than a monster. Miraclewoman doesn't even hold it against him, she thinks he's too pathetic to hate.
Evelyn Cream
A mysterious espionage agent who unexpectedly becomes allies with Mike Moran in his quest to unearth his past
- Ambiguously Evil: Clearly commits disturbing acts over his appearances, but the most evil thing he does is lie to a terrorist before killing him.
- Back from the Dead: Is brought back using the remote broadcaster invented by the Gargunza clone after Miracleman takes over the world and is given the job of overseeing the city used to house the worlds spies.
- Cutting the Knot: His job is to take out Miracleman, but his target is indestructible and if Mike Moran believes he is in serious danger he'll quickly transform. So Cream has an accomplice hand a baby over to Moran to hold for a moment, then Cream tranquilises him, as Moran cannot transform without killing the baby.
- Off with His Head!: How Cream meets his end when he's attacked by Pluto.
- Psycho for Hire: He is initially introduced as such, though quickly becomes more morally ambiguous.
- Red Right Hand: His sapphire teeth.
- Sacrificial Lion: He gets killed off just to demonstrate how dangerous and ruthless Gargunza is.
- Scary Black Man: Although in a variation on the trope, he's highly erudite and tends to Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness. He also has an inferiority complex about being black, and worries internally that his fascination with Mike/Miracleman is atavistic "irrational" mysticism.
- Scary Teeth: He has a complete set of sapphire crowns.
- The Unreveal: The reason for his trademark sapphire teeth. People wonder it often, but we never see the reason for them.
Huey Moon
Earth's only "Firedrake", a rare type of mutant that occurs when a species discovers how to harness fire, he agrees to join the Miracleman Family
- Mutant: In contrast to the rest of the comic's superbeings, who's powers are all the product of advanced technology, Huey was born with his abilities.
Liz Moran
- Created by: Alan Moore and Garry Leach.
The wife of Michael Moran.
- Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: Garry Leach patterned her face on Audrey Hepburn.
- Deconstructed Character Archetype: To long-suffering superhero love interests. Among the issues tackled are whether Liz is more attracted to Miracleman than Mike (which wreaks havoc on their marriage); how Liz interacts with what are essentially two personalities in the same body (she can't); and what happens when an everywoman like Liz is impregnated by a superhuman like Miracleman (a Humanoid Abomination).
- Expy: To superhero love interests, especially Lois Lane.
- Happily Married: To Michael Moran.
- Loves My Alter Ego: Played With and Subverted. She married Michael Moran in the years before he remembered his magic word but finds his Miracleman form more attractive and good-looking and better in bed. The fact that Miracleman makes her pregnant while Mike doesn't also makes this worse but she does so in the assumption that they are still the same person. As Miracleman begins to drift from humanity and towards Miraclewoman, she becomes embittered, especially when their child turns out to be a Humanoid Abomination and in the end, refuses to have anything to do with him, clearly longing for the old powerless Mike Moran.
- Ms. Fanservice: Appears nude in a few scenes. Is also the centerpiece of the graphic childbirth scene.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Once she's removed from Winter's mind control, she leaves Miracleman and wants nothing to do with him or any other members of the family. We don't see her again for the rest of the story, even after Miracleman transforms Earth into a utopia.
- Unfazed Everyman: Like pretty much everything else in Moore's run, brutally Deconstructed Character Archetype. She takes being kidnapped by Gargunza and all of Winter's Troubling Unchildlike Behavior in stride because Winter - even as a fetus - was mind-controlling her. When Winter finally lets up, she immediately has a nervous breakdown and tearfully breaks up with Mike.
Andy Warhol 16
One of the resurrected artists, philosophers and other historical figures that inhabit Miracleman's "underworld". Warhol 16 is one of 20 or so copies of Andy Warhol that were brought back to life and formed an art collective of sorts. 16 is the focus of one of Neil Gaimans stories, which explores the life of the people who have been brought back from the dead and how they deal with their new existance. 16 is also given the job of looking after a resurrected Dr Gargunza.
- All Love Is Unrequited: Its heavily implied on the final page that Warhol had a nascent crush on Gargunza and is very depressed when he finds out that the man doesn't like him.
- Art Shift: The story is told in the real Warhols distinctive pop art style.
- Back from the Dead: Like all the inhabitants of Hades, and all his "brothers", Warhol is an exact copy of the person he was before death.
- Follow the Leader: As a result of the small world they have to live in, the artists have a tendency to copy eachother.
- Who Wants to Live Forever?: Warhol doesn't want to die again, but has trouble with his new existence, especially living in a post-scarcity society, since he measured his success as an artist with how much money he made.
Aliens
The Qys
- Bizarre Alien Biology: Some of the bodies they wear are barely recognisable as organic forms. Their ruler resembles a giant green tumour combined with a small hill.
The Warpsmiths
One of the two superpowers who rule the universe, rivaled only by the Qys, the Warpsmiths are a humanoid race who developed extremely potent teleportation technology they implanted into their skin.
The Warpsmiths were also the subject of a very short series of backup stories in Warrior and A1 magazines, and a version of them appears in the Doctor Who audio dramas from Big Finish as the "Warpwrights" (Alan Moore wrote Doctor Who backup stories for Marvel UK early in his career and loosely tied the Time Lords or "Chronarchs" to the Warpsmiths in his unused "Quality Universe" timeline).
- The Ageless: They can live for millennia without physically changing.
- Canon Immigrant: To Doctor Who.
- Rubber-Forehead Aliens: They closely resemble humans, albeit a foot taller and with grey/white skin and four nostrils.
- Super-Reflexes: Combined with their ability to instantaneously teleport, the Warpsmiths' speed makes them incredibly dangerous combatants. Miracleman at one point says compares great speed as a concept to Warpsmiths rather than snakes or lightning bolts.
- Take a Third Option: Upon realizing the Kid Miracleman couldn't be talked down from his rampage, and that the personal forcefield surrounding him couldn't be penetrated by any physical attack, one of the Warpsmiths teleports huge chunks of debris into his skull and chest. The resultant agony was so great that Kid Miracleman was forced to revert to his human form in order to escape the pain. Knowing he was vulnerable and unable to take the risk of Kid Miracleman returning, Miracleman swiftly killed him.
- Teleportation: Capable of traversing galaxies in seconds.
