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The Invisible College
In General
The Invisible College is both an organisation (Well, not exactly, it's more like a psychic extradimensional union) working for the Harlequinnade and the name of one of the two universes intersecting to create our reality. It serves as the Big Good during the whole story, even though we only visit it twice.
- Acid-Trip Dimension: Looks like something that Victor Moscoso would have panited.
- Anarchy Is Chaos: They venerate chaos to messianic degrees and share a lot of traits with anarchist societies like the King Mob, the Situationist International or the Cabaret Voltaire.
- Bad Boss: The Harlequinnade isn't above threatening to kill Fanny and Jack, but it's justified in that it comes with Blue-and-Orange Morality.
- Big Good: All the heroes work for it.
- Bizarrchitecture: The Invisible College looks... quaint.
- Eldritch Location: Of the benevolent kind, sort of.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Can dip into this, sometimes.
- Five-Man Band: Tends to favor this, since it aligns with the five elements (Fire, water, earth, wind and spirit).
- Greater-Scope Paragon: For the Invisibles.
- Grey-and-Black Morality: As the series progresses, it's shown that the Invisible College isn't as squeaky clean as they present themselves, doing some very unsavory things that sound pretty fascistic if you think about it. However, compared to the eldritch horror that is the Outer Church, they're firmly the best option.
- Lesser of Two Evils: Sure, while they might partake in morally dubious actions, it's not like they're alien Nazis.
- Order Is Not Good: Firm believers in this.
"Leaders"
Barbelith (ALL SPOILERS UNMARKED)
"I love you. Have always loved you. Will always love you."
An entity or concept refered as "Barbelith" is alluded through the entire comic, usually represented by a red dot and green text. Bit by bit, we eventually are told that it's an artificial sentient satellite found on the dark side of the moon that works as an interface between the Invisible Collge and our dimension, and it's tasked to train Dane MacGowan into the bringer of the apocalypse.
- Apocalypse Wow: It helps the Earth ascend on an ontic scale, which is both very very uncanny but also groovy.
- Beast of the Apocalypse: Satellite in this case. After it's found by NASA, it pops like a bubble, triggering the beginning of the birth of humanity. It's a benevolent example, though.
- Benevolent Abomination: It helps humanity collectively achieve Nirvana, all while mentioning how much it loves us.
- Big Good: The ending heavily implies it's the leader of the Invisible College, or at least the leader of its subdivision on Earth.
- Bizarro Apocalypse: Gainax Ending at its finest, gents!
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: It doesn't seem to operate under our moral guidances, but Invisible ones. For example, it pretty much forces Dane to absorb the collective suffering on Earth, leaving it with pretty much no other choice but to become a Messiah.
- Enigmatic Empowering Entity: Its at least responsible for part of the Invisible's psychic powers and spiritual awakenings, but that's pretty much what most of them know.
- Expy: Of VALIS.
- It also seems to be one for Danny the street, both being a Genius Loci with vague origins who help a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits and ultimately bring vital change to the world.
- Genius Loci: A sentient moon.
- Good Is Not Soft: The above mentioned example of it forcing Dane to become the messiah.
- Mayan Doomsday: It pops on the 21/12/2012.
- Mind Screw: It somehow manages to be specially surreal, even among all the chaos of the book. We aren't even told what exactly this "Barbelith" thing everyone refers to is until the final issues, and it apparently has something to do with the eclipse that took place on the Moonchild's coronation. It's described as our universe's placenta, but also sort of looks like a red globe, which raises up a lot of questions. Finally, it pops when it's discovered by NASA, which is a Continuity Nod to a phrase Dane said on volume two (If our words are circles, theirs are bubbles), which is in itself a reference to a line from Mictlantecuhtli during Fanny's initiation (Time isn't a river. It's more like a bubble, but is to a bubble what a circle drawn on the ground is to a bubble),
which is on itself a reference to the B-Theory of time. - No One Sees the Boss: Zig-zagged. The Invisibles share an unconscious psychic link with it, and they can certainly feel it, but not directly interact with it.
- Painting the Medium: Its caption boxes are always in green, and its text in black.
- Shout-Out:
- It's name is a combination of Barbelo, which in Gnosticism is the first emanation of God, and Bethel, a sacred city.
- It's heavily based on VALIS. At one point in the book we even hear "The empire never died".
- It being found on the dark side of the moon is naturally a reference to Dark Side of the Moon.
The Harlequinnade/Yellow King
A group of androgynous harlequins dressed in BDSM gear who seem to help the Invisible College, and exist outside of linear time. They also are able to manifest in the guide of an entity called the King in Yellow.
- Affably Evil: As a result of their Blue-and-Orange Morality, they explain things that could be quite evil in a very non-chalant and friendly fashion, most notably discussing how they could force Dane and Fanny to do Rape by Proxy.
- Ambiguous Gender Identity: Are they crossdressers? Agender? Genderfluid? Transgender? Camp Straight?
- Ambiguously Related: Refer to one of them as Fanny and Jack's "sister".
- Big Good: It's hinted that the Harlequinnade are the true leads of the Invisible College, implanting subconsciously missions in their agents' minds to help humanity achieve Nirvana through Barbelith.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Even in a book full of beings exhibiting this, they are particularly hard to figure out. Them being willing to exchange the Hand of Glory for seeing Dane and Hilde dance is just the tip of the iceberg.
- Bondage Is Bad: Zig-Zagged. They dress in leather gear and appear vaguely menacing towards Dane and Fanny, but they never outright harm them and are pretty friendly.
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: They're definetly not here, but to them, "here" probably means nothing.
- Hand of Glory: They're the guardians of it, although it's implied they were only keeping it until Jack Frost took it back.
- Hive Mind: The three of them share a same mind.
- Humanoid Abomination: They might look human but they're "as alien as the air between [our] fingers", and seem to be the true headmasters of the Invisible College. Their King in Yellow form also counts.
- Non-Linear Character: They exist outside time and space, and they give back Dane the Hand of Glory, which can warp time.
- Starfish Language: The Harlequinn mentions when Jack Frost and Lord Fanny that they're "talk in emotional aggregates", the same thing Mason Lang claims the alien who abducted him spoke with. The implications are... puzzling, to say the least.
- Time Master: They have shades of this, since they tend to crop during time travels.
- Two Aliases, One Character: They exist as both the Harlequinnade and the King in Yellow, and maybe even Barbelith.
The Invisibles
Dane MacGowan/Jack Frost
"Our sentence is up."
A rebellious juvenile criminal from Liverpool and the main character of the book... for like eight issues. He is the newest recruit in the cell we follow, trained by Tom O'Bedlam after being freed from Harmony House for trying to burn the school.
- Accidental Murder: After being freed from Harmony House, he is informed by King Mob that while Gelt might appear to be dead, his mind must have been relocated to an insect while they build him another human body, and that they should be careful for his return. Dane then steps on a bug that is implied to be Gelt.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: A case of Early-Installment Weirdness. It's stated by Jon Six in the first issue that Dane is actually quite intelligent but doesn't do anything with his skills aside of petty crimes. We see him, for example, disarm an alarm in a car in two minutes, making Molotov cocktails and it's shown he actually is savvy in Russian history. However, this disappears after the first issue.
- Characterization Marches On: As stated above, his Brilliant, but Lazy attitude vanishes after the first number.
- Decoy Protagonist: After the introductory arc, he is pretty much made less relevant with each volume. Subverted in the last issue though, which once again brings him to the front.
- End-of-Series Awareness: A very rare serious example played completely straight. Dane breaks the fourth wall in the final issue of volume #3.
- Foreign Culture Fetish: He is a lot into African-American culture.
- Fourth-Wall Observer: He directly talks to the reader during the last issue.
- Hand of Glory: It is implied that the Hand of Glory is his own hand wearing a glove, which he uses to bend and manipulate time.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He deep down likes his friends, he is just rough around the edges. Very rough.
- May–December Romance: Begins dating Boy just after hitting 18.
- Naïve Newcomer: He is a rookie Invisible.
- New Powers as the Plot Demands: His exact powers are vague, but he is confirmed to have psychic powers, chronokinesis and Reality Warper-bordering telekinesis.
- Pet the Dog: His sparing of Sir Miles' life.
- Politically Incorrect Hero: He is initially pretty hostile to Lord Fanny and uses the wrong pronouns. He gets better. He is also uses the N-Word a couple times, although in a non-racist context.
- Pretty Fly for a White Guy: A white English teen who's into gangsta music and african american culture. Boy isn't impressed.
- Rookie Red Ranger: A Naïve Newcomer who is also a Reality Warper messiah.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Zig-Zagged. On one hand, he ''is'' the Messiah, but even with all that power he still is a cocky teenager.
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: Probably the character in the book who swears the most. His first words uttered in the series are "FUUUUUCK!"
- Split Personality Take Over: The Jack Frost persona he created to deal with his abusive mother slowly consumed him. He later learns that is it limiting his growth and abandons it, in favour of the more benign Dane MacGowan.
- Tarot Motifs: The Fool. It represents the beginning of a journey like his initiation into Invisiblim. Him jumping from Canary Wharf resembles the Fool diving off a mountain, which represent challenges. He then awakens before Barbelith, symbolic of the knowledge-giving sun found on the card.
- Took a Level in Kindness: Dane starts as a transphobic foul-mouthed punk who is dismissive of Fanny's gender orientation to actually respecting and becoming close to her. He is still a foul-mouthed punk though.
- Took a Level in Badass: And pretty quick he does, that is. He rapidly begins to master his Messiah powers, and by the end of the first volume he is able to kill the King-In-Chains, by the end of the second volume has had a conversation with Satan and by the end of the third volume he is pretty much organizing the birth of our universe alongside Barbelith.
- Vitriolic Best Buddies: With Fanny and previously with Tom.
- Watch the World Die: A rare positive case. Dane spends the last moments of his universe calming his dying friend, dancing and finally adressing the reader.
Gideon Starorzewski/King Mob
"I did it Jackie. I saved the world."
The leader of the Invisibles during its first arc, named after the Situationist group of the same name. A slick Jerry Cornelius-like character and ex-writer, and The Ace of the team, he is the closest we have to a main character during the second volume. During the third one, he ditches firearms and killing in favour of non-lethal martial arts. Also, he is an Author Avatar for Morrison, but in a weirder way that you'd expect.
- The Ace: An excellent martial artist and gunslinger who is also very well read and is the second greatest chaos magician in the group, only surpassed by Fanny.
- Ambiguously Bi: Very flamboyant and mumbles something about a boyfriend during his torture session, but it's not explicitly clear.
- Animal Motifs: Scorpions.
- Ascended Fanboy: A fan of spy novels and superhero comics who found himself as a countercultural fighter. He deliberately modelled himself after his idols.
- Author Avatar: Morrison believes they and Gideon possess some sort of conection. Which might explain why KM spends all volume two balls deep on Ragged Robin.
- Awesome, but Impractical: He considers violent anarchism this. Sure, it's awesome and it looks cool but what exactly are you accomplishing by just killing whoever doesn't think like you? He comes to the realisation of in issue 22 of the second volume and from then on, stops using firearms.
- Bomb Throwing Anarchist: Deconstructed. As stated above, killing your enemies and blowing up things at random won't accomplish anything and will make you look like the villain.
- Bond One-Liner: As part of his super-spy persona.
- Cool Shades: He wears these constantly, being a trademark of his along his multiple piercings.
- Crazy-Prepared: Keeps a bomb on his car in case someone tries to steal it.
- Taken further in "Entropy in the UK", where he has a shield personality to protect himself against psychic attacks.
- Does Not Like Guns: After his Heroic BSoD he sticks to physical combat.
- Empowered Badass Normal: A Badass Normal who can tap on various sources of magic and energy to become also one far out mage.
- Hell-Bent for Leather: Apparently the leader of the team tends to dress in leather, so he spends the first volume wearing that.
- Jack of All Stats: While the other Invisibles are more focused on a particular skill set, like Fanny and her magic or Boy and her martial arts, KM has a more diverse set of skills, being a good fighter like Boy but also a low-grade psychic like Rags and a magician like Fanny.
- Kick the Dog:
- Killing Bobby on the first issue, although if he deserved to die is left to the reader.
- Blowing up Mason's mansion.
- The Leader: During the first volume. The team chooses leader's randomly to avoid stagnation.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Some of his lines could imply that he is somewhat aware on some level of being a comic book characters.King Mob: "This is what happens in comics - the story starts to take over."
- Legacy Character: The second King Mob after Ronald Tolliver.
- Mr. Fanservice: The reader gets to see him naked or shirtless a lot.
- Not So Stoic: A couple, as part of the deconstructive nature of his character.
- During his torture scene in the MI-6, he breaks down and begins crying and pleading for help. Although it is later revealed that it was a cover personality, not the real Gideon, which muddies it all a bit.
- Further zig-zagged in that later he confesses to Robin that he really was close to breaking, and is still traumatized by the experience more than a year later.
- During the assault on Dulce, after seeing what they're doing to the prisoners like Bambi, he is shown to be horrified. In the same base he also has an emotional breakdown upon seeing the Outer Church's treatment of the magic mirror thing/God they have locked there.
- He is clearly distraught over Ragged Robin's departure to the future.
- During his torture scene in the MI-6, he breaks down and begins crying and pleading for help. Although it is later revealed that it was a cover personality, not the real Gideon, which muddies it all a bit.
- Recursive Reality: To hide his secret identity he uses various stories-inside-stories to make psychic attacks almost imposible.
- Round Hippie Shades: Combined with Cool Shades
- Sex God: He spends most of his sabbatical time in Mason's mansion either training or banging Ragged Robin.
- Stealth Hi/Bye: Does this to Dane on the first issue.
- Took a Level in Kindness: Becomes less violent as the story goes forward (or backwards, or inwards)
- Wacky Cravings: After the final battle left him bleeding to death, he wakes up on a hospital, where he is informed by Bobby's wife that he was asking for salt and vinagre crisps and baby carrots.
- What Measure Is a Mook?: One issue focuses on the entire life of one Myrmidon that Gideon killed during the first issue. It is discussed further in the series in similar scenarios, ultimately culminating in KM becoming a pacifist.
Lucille Butler/Boy
"What kind of name is "Boy" anyways?"
An "ex-cop, ex-New Yorker" who discovered about the Invisibles after her partner (who was an Invisible) saves her from being killed in a battle between the Outer Church and her brother, who was also an Invisible, and was subsequently recruited by an Invisible cell. She later becomes the mentor and trainer of Jack Frost, and they even date for a while. During the second volume she quits the Invisibles, although it is mentioned in the ending that she's been keeping in touch with Gideon.
- Atrocious Alias: In-Universe, Dane finds her codename awful.
- All for Nothing: Boy joined the Invisibles to help her rescue her brother Martin from the Outer Church, but upon discovering that they can't help her, she quits the Invisibles.
- Double Reverse Quadruple Agent: During "American Death Camp" she is brainwashed by the Outer Church into realising all this time she was working for them as The Mole. Then she is revealed to be a Double Agent. Then a tripe one. Subverted as it was all a deprogramming and while having been infected by the Outer Church, never actually worked for them.
- Fan Disservice: We see her in her underwear while she is receiving a brutal brainwash to deprogram her that is making her doubt everything she knows.
- Informed Attribute: Boy is described as an expert martial artist fluent in multiple combat styles. While she is a skilled combatant and is responsible for training Jack Frost, she is shown to not be nearly as good as fellow Invisibles King Mob or Jolly Roger.
- Insectoid Aliens: During her deprogramming she is led to believe she is actually an insect-human hybrid working for the Outer Church. Subverted in that she is just a regular woman and that was all part of a Mind Screw-y deprogramming by fellow Invisibles.
- Magically Inept Fighter: Boy isn't a messiah or a bruja, just an ex-cop with a lot of combat training.
- May–December Romance: She begins a relationship with Dane shortly after he becomes 18.
- N-Word Privileges: She disproves of her brother Eezy D using the N-word.
- Her codename is a mild racist slur.
- Out of Focus: She is the Invisible to receive the least character development, even if she has a couple stories dedicated entirely to her.
- Sassy Black Woman: Downplayed. She has her moments of snark, but is much more subdued than, say, Fanny, and in general doesn't really behave like the stereotype.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Leaves the team after finding out it is impossible to save her brother Martin.
- Starfish Language: She is taught this during her deprogramation.
- Straight Man: The most level headed of all the characters.
- That Woman Is Dead: The comic refers to her as "Ex-cop, ex-New Yorker".
- Token Black: The only african american member of the cell we follow
Ragged Robin
"I'm nuts."
Ragged Robin is the team's psychic, and is described as "nuts" (Although don't try to find an example of that). She becomes more relevant during the second volume, in which she is made leader of the team and also reveals she comes from the future, and her mission is to make sure the right steps are made for her timesuit to be created.
- Affectionate Nickname: She is called "Rags" by her friends.
- Amazonian Beauty: Robin is built like a bodybuilder, yet is a Ms. Fanservice.
- Big Damn Kiss: Shares this when she reunites with KM on the Mayan Doomsday.
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Is not quite here.
- Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: Modeled after Jill Thompson, her own artist.
- Cyborg: Her psychic powers derive from implants in her head.
- Deadpan Snarker: She has her moments. For example, when KM asks what's her period (refering to when was she born.)Ragged Robin: It's something ladies have once a month. You'll learn about it when you get older.
- Expy: Of Crazy Jane. They're both named Kay, they have powers related to the mind, they are both a Cloud Cuckoo Lander, they have Rape as Backstory by Abusive Parents (Although Robin's was a false memory to lure Quimper) and they must separate from their love interest to complete their mission.
- Fiery Redhead: Downplayed, in that she is one of the most laid back Invisibles.
- Fish out of Temporal Water: She is actually from the year 2012.
- Get Back to the Future: As much as she loves Gideon, Rags must go back to the future once her mission is completed.
- Hell-Bent for Leather: Apparently a tradition among leaders.
- Informed Flaw: As much as she says she is nuts, she appears as one of the most normal and funtional member of the team, compared to lads like King Mob or specifically Jim Crow.
- The Leader: She becomes this during volume 2.
- Metafiction: She rewrote the book Sir Miles made exposing the Invisibles and added herself there. Or she literally travelled to the fictional world using a drug called "Sky". At least that's what we got.
- Most Common Superpower: She's pretty well-stacked. Her costume even seems to have actual boob socks.
- Ms. Fanservice: Spends half of volume 2 dressed in something even Black Canary would call too inmodest. She spends the other half naked.
- Our Time Machine Is Different: The timesuit looks like a black giant origami suit that uses liquid software and the Hand of Glory to move the time traveller through the time dimensions (ie: The same way there are three dimensions in space, there are also different dimensions in time.)
- Progressively Prettier: She looks pretty scrawny and odd-looking during the first volume, wearing pretty conservative dresses and her hairdo unkept. In volume 2 she now looks like a dominatrix wearing a leather leotard and is much more attractive.
- Psychic Powers: She has vaguely defined psionic powers, although she is less Charles Xavier and more Morpheus.
- Self-Insert Fic: It is implied that the whole story is a self insert Ragged Robin did to the book Sir Miles wrote to expose the Invisibles and she's been jumping in and out of the story using the drug "sky".
- Shameless Fanservice Girl: One of her outfits literally has her wearing an open coat exposing her bra, but she doesn't really care.
- Shout-Out: Her design and name are based on the Raggedy Ann doll.
- Stable Time Loop: Ragged Robin's mission is to travel back in time using a timesuit and use that same timesuit as a prototype to make sure time travel is invented.
- Stocking Filler: She wears fishnet stockings after becoming leader.
- Tarot Motifs: The Moon card. It represents femininity (She's the most traditionally feminine member of the team), insanity (She admits she's "nuts") and secrets (She comes from the future).
- Walking Spoiler: It's difficult to talk about her without mentioning she's a time traveller.
Hilde Morales/Lord Fanny
"I'm the girl of your dreams."
A transgender bruja from Mexico. Born biologically a man in a family of witches, she was Raised as the Opposite Gender (although even if she hadn't it's pretty clear Hilde would've wanted to become a woman from the start. After a meeting with Mictlantecuhtli and Tlazoteotl during her magical initiation, she struck a deal with the latter: She would be able to use her magical powers in exchange of becoming her priestess (And since Tlazoteotl is the godess of filth, that means Fanny must become a prostitute). After a brutal rape and beating by some shady businessmen, she considered suicide, but was approached by John-A-Dreams and offered to join the Invisibles.
She is also an Author Avatar for Morrison, who practices transvestite magic and in 2020 came out as non-binary.
- Ambiguously Bi: Flirts with both men and women, but is only seen explicitly dating men.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Fanny is a lovely individual who'd prefer to dance, but as Orlando discovered, she is still the most powerful magician in the Invisibles and has direct line with the Aztec pantheon.
- But Not Too Black: Mexican, but you wouldn't realise it since she looks as white as her English friends. Possibly justified in that she uses makeup, since when we see her as a child she looks more brown skinned.
- The Capital of Brazil Is Buenos Aires: Parodied, her backstory initially has her in Brazil in a spanish speaking family talking about Cortés, but she is later revealed to be originally from Mexico.
- Deadpan Snarker: Like most of the crew.
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: After Orlando rips one of her fake breasts she becomes a Humanoid Abomination by letting herself be possesed by the Aztec pantheon and banishes the demon to Mictlan.
- Formerly Fit: In the Distant Finale, she had apparently spent the intervening years since helping thwart the Outer Church absolutely ballooning in size.
- Genki Girl: A very energetic and kind woman.
- Hollywood Voodoo: While captive in MI-6, she uses Sir Miles' handkerchief to create a voodoo doll to control him.
- Hooker with a Heart of Gold: As part of her deal with Tlazoteotl.
- Latino Is Brown: Adverted, she is a light skinned mexican.
- Ms. Fanservice: She's very attractive and usually wears very flattering dresses.
- Naughty Nurse Outfit: One of her outfits is this.
- Nice Girl: Probably the nicest most chipper member of the crew.
- Non-Linear Character: During her initiation, she saw every moment of her life infront of her, from being drugged in a drag club to her rape to her eventual death.
- Our Mages Are Different: She comes from a line of female-only brujas able to harness the power of magic mirror and that must travel to Mictlan to complete their initiation.
- Parental Substitute: She and Jack become very close over the course of the story, with Fanny providing him guidance and quality time that the other Invisibles are too distant or busy to provide.
- Progressively Prettier: Inverted. and downplayed. She's shown in 2012 to have gained a lot of weight, but she still looks quite attractive.
- Rape as Backstory: She was a sexual worker in Brazil during her youth, as part of her deal with Tlazoteotl, godess of filth. She was raped and beaten by some men in animal masks, which lead to her almost killing herself.
- Sex Magic: She uses masturbatory magic to create a hailstorm in Dulce.
- Supernaturally-Validated Trans Person: Only the women in Hilde's family qualify to be shamans. The spirits will only accept women. Fortunately for the family lineage of shamans, trans women qualify.
- The Tease: Oh, constantly.
- Vitriolic Best Buddies: Her relationship with Dane. When they first meet, he mis-genders her on purpose and is shown to be transphobic. As the story progresses, he becomes closer to him, going from Politically Incorrect Hero to a more benign Innocently Insensitive, and later they become close friends, to the point that they're the two only remaining members after the team dissolves.
- Wholesome Crossdresser: Although she's obviously transgender, the comic refers to her as transvestite. It otherwise treats her as a woman rather than a crossdressing man, e.g. Dane is depicted as in the wrong for deliberately referring to her as male.
Other Invisibles and Allies
Jim Crow
"Kekekekeke!"
A rap musician and Houngan who is also the priest of the voodoo loa Papa Ghede. He initially is invoked by an elder voodoo priestess to investigate some particularly gruesome murders in the neigborhood. He later assists Ragged Robin on the assault in MI6, and colaborates with the Invisibles a couple more times. In the future he is implied to be a religious leader of his own church in Chicago.
- Ax-Crazy: When possessed by Papa Ghede he becomes crazy enough to almost kill all the South East coast with a supervirus.
- Ambiguous Situation: Where does Jim Crow end and Papa Ghede begin? The series never draws that line, and is entirel possible Jim's just a flesh suit Ghede uses.
- Animal Motifs: Shares Gideon's scorpion themes. Justified, since the King borrowed some of his powers from Baron Zaraguin (Or rather, an Australian avatar of Zaraguin on the Dreaming), who is family with Jimbo.
- Animorphism: Briefly shapes into a hybrid athropod to speak with Baron Zaraguin. It would be pretty rude to not do so.
- Blackface: Turns the entire Unitol Pharmacy crew into a cannibalistic Minstrel Show.
- Blood Knight: The most violent and amoral of all the good guys, to the point it's even a bit of a stretch to call him a good guy.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Sees nothing wrong with killing thousands if not millions to satisfy Ghede's hunger and kill a bunch of Red Shirts.
- Cast from Calories: His zozo bone gun causes him to become hungry and horny.
- Chekhov's Gunman: We're introduced to him in a one shot early one, but he doesn't become more important until much later.
- Distracted by the Sexy: When guiding Ragged Robin to the MI6 base they've locked KM and Fanny, he admits in a drunk stupor that she is letting her first to stare at her ass.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: One of the first issues mentions he has an Invisibles cell in Haiti. While it could be possible for him to be Haitian, even though his dialogue seems to imply West African ancestry, we never see it and Jim spends most of his time in the US with his band, who show no signs of being Invisibles themselves.
- Evil Laugh: Kekekekekeke!
- Hollywood Voodoo: Completley averted. Jim's voodoo rituals are actual voodoo practices, including proper venerations, lwa riding and such.
- Nightmare Fetishist: By his own admision, he loves it when things get creepy.
- Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: A oungan priest for Papa Ghede who is also a rap artist and an Invisible ally and who in the future will become a church leader.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: His main trait.
- Powers via Possession: His connection with Papa Ghede gives him powers over the dead. He briefly trades Ghede for Oppenheimer.
- Shout-Out: He quotes Monty Python's "Bring out your dead!"
- His clock around his neck is a reference to Flavour Flav.
- There Are No Coincidences: Discussed. Damn, I say damn, what a happy coinkidink that his first toure in Europe took place just right when Boy and Rags needed his help to battle the MI6.
- Token Evil Teammate: Much more willing to do stain his hands with blood than his friends.
- Trademark Favourite Food: Cake (He seems to particularly enjoy fudge) and the cheapest, dirtiest, nastiest rum you can find.
Jolly Roger
"I'm here to make Mr. fucking Bones dance like John Travolta. And let me tell you something: My tits would easily win against yours."
A fellow Invisible who trained along King Mob. She lead an all-lesbian cell called "the Toxic Pussies", who were all captured by Friday while trying to steal from him the vaccine for AIDS. She later helps the team a couple more times, and after Boy leaves she replaces her.
- A Pirate 400 Years Too Late: Her design is vaguely pirate-like. She wears an eyepatch, swears a lot, carries big guns and has a very stereotypical pirate name.
- Badass Biker
- BFG: She's cuckoo for guns.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Quimper possessed a piece of her after her failed attempt to assault Dulce.
- Butch Lesbian: A pretty masculine lesbian with cropped hair.
- Bury Your Gays: All the Toxic Pussies died off-screen. Finally, Roger dies too during the Moonchild coronation.
- Deadpan Snarker: Tons of it, she is one of the snarkiest characters in the Invisibles' World of Snark
- Eyepatch of Power: As part of her pirate loook. We never learn what injured her eye.
- Killed Off for Real: She dies during the last battle between the Outer Church and the Invisibles.
- Lady Swears-a-Lot: Maybe even more than Dane!
- Not So Stoic: Her cool and smooth facade completley breaks after seeing what they did to Bambi.
- Psychic Powers: She can use something called the "White Flame" that allows her to realise the complexity of the oneself, which she uses to briefly kill Quimper.
- Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Apparently has one with Fanny, but read Informed Flaw above.
- Vitriolic Best Buddies: She and King Mob usually argue a lot but it's pretty clear they respect each other and she regards him as a good friend.
- She also supervises Dane's training in Africa, and while still combative it's implied they actually enjoy each other's company.
Elffayed
A middle eastern Invisible who serves as something of a teacher. He makes sporadic appearances through the volumes.
- Cool Teacher: He seems like a pretty nice person.
- Mentor Archetype: One of the teachers in the Invisible Academy in North Africa, along Mr. Six.
- Non-Action Guy: He never really acts directly in battle, since he is more of the intellectual kind.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He is the one that helps Dane end his Messiah training.
- Training from Hell: How does he teach Dane to fly a plane? By making him wake up in a flying plane!
- Two Aliases, One Character: He wears the white suit tied with John-A-Dreams, hinting that he is one aspect of him.
Lady Edith Manning
"I shall become invisible and do outrageous things" (Current day Eddie)
(1920s Eddie)
Edith Manning was a sexually liberated Flapper during The Roaring '20s who doubled as an Invisible in a 1920s cell, along her cousin Freddie. After helping a time travelling King Mob to acquire the Hand of Glory, she spent a couple more years with her cell until she semi-retired as a member during the 40s (Although she still helped Gideon). She died on 1999 at 99 years old from natural causes.
- Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence: She ends up like this, probably.
- Convenient Miscarriage: All the sex and drugs of the 20s sadly rendered her unable to have kids.
- Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?: Had apretty friendly exchange with the Harlequinnade and Barbelith.
- The Ditz: Sometimes she was recklessly daring.
- Flapper: Down to a "t", man.
- Foreign Culture Fetish: She was a big fan of both New York City and India. Subverted in that her understanding in Hindu culture is only very superficial and was doing it mainly for the exoticness. Double subversion when she comes back to India to die, and she appears much more knowledgable in its mythology.
- I Was Quite a Looker: She was gorgeous as a young lady, but that was a long time ago.
- May–December Romance: Zig-zagged. She had a brief fling in the with a time travelling Gideon, who wouldn't be born until 1961. However, at the time, she was in her early twenties, making it more normal.
- Ms. Fanservice: Her young self was a very sexy flapper who we get to see in very elegant and/or revealing dresses.
- Really Gets Around: She was a pretty sexually liberated woman, specially for the standards of middle 20s society.
- Retired Badass: You wouldn't guess this sweet old lady helped on the retrieving of one of the most dangerous artefacts in the universe, the Hand of Glory.
- Rule of Symbolism: She died during the last months of 1999 at 99 years old, meaning she was born in 1900. This could be interpreted as Edith representing the 20th century (More specifically the revolutionary spirit of the era), and her death signifying the transition between the 20th and 21st century, and a new way of Invisiblism.
- Stable Time Loop: King Mob was introduced to The Invisible College by an elderly Edith Manning, who recognised him as a time traveller from her youth. After entering the college, he is taught to Time Travel, which results in him going back and meeting her as a young woman
- Starfish Language: She codifies the instructions of the Hand of Glory in her vaginal mucus during sexual intercouse with King Mob.
Frederick Harper-Seaton/Tom O'Bedlam
A homeless man who used to be an Invisible during the 20s, and helps train Jack Frost before ultimately killing himself. He is the cousin of Edith Manning.
- Cool Old Guy: On his best days. Sometimes... not so much.
- But Now I Must Go: A very dark example. After he finishes training Jack Frost, he kills himself.
- Daddy Issues: He was quite rebellious towards his old one, but took his death very bad and he repented his attitude.
- Driven to Madness: The ritual with the Hand of Glory ends with him becoming mad... just like his namesake.
- Driven to Suicide: He ends up killing himself by jumping from Canary Wharf.
- Higher Understanding Through Drugs: Subverted, the drugs he gave Dane were actually mold.
- Jedi Mind Trick: Tom managed to make a policeman chasing Dane believe Dane wasn't right infront of him.
- Kissing Cousins: He was in love with Edith, but she didn't reciprocate, since she "had to draw the line somewhere".
- Mentor Archetype: He could be interpreted as the Trickster archetype, teaching Dane through tricks and riddles and such.
- Mentor in Sour Armor: Tom regularly insults and belittles Dane, and goes as far as to physically assault him.
- Mistaken for Gay: Edith believed he was "an invert", unaware that he was pinning for her.
- The Power of Language: He should've known choosing a name like "Tom O'Bedlam" couldn't mean anything good...
- Riches to Rags: From a wealthy socialite who travelled around the world to a dirty old homeless trickster.
- Shout-Out: To Edgar, from King Lear, who also diguised himself as Mad Tom O'Bedlam.
- Wisdom from the Gutter: One of the most knowledgable Invisibles, and a homeless man at that. Subverted, as in he used to be a very rich WASP.
Mr. Six
"The sixties never ended."
Dane's history teacher, who is later revealed to be Jon Six, a high ranking Invisible and member of Department-X.
- The Ace: Six considered the best agent working for the Invisible College, enough to gain the attention of the King in Yellow.
- Ascended Extra: Goes from a secondary character to arguably one of the main characters of volume 3.
- Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence: His ultimate fate after rejoining the Harlequinnade.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: When rejoining the Harlequinnade in a similar manner to Lady Manning, he briefly stretches his hand towards the reader, and is implied to almost break the barrier of reality.
- Cool Teacher: Deconstructed. Despite him trying to reach out to Dane, the kid was just too filled with anger to pay atention to him and he felt he was treating him with Condescending Compassion, culminating in McGowan leaving him to die on the school fire.
- Early-Bird Cameo: He appears on the first issue as a teacher in Jack Frost's classroom, but gains prominence later.
- Manchurian Agent: If the Harlequin's perception of time isn't messing with them, Jon Six used to be a Harlequinn himself.
- Makes sense when you consider that everyone at some point or another has been a Harlequinn. They're supposed to represent everyone ever.
- Major Injury Underreaction: Downplayed. After he gets shot by George Harper, while he admits it hurts he is more worried that he is going to bleed to death infront of Sir Miles, a high ranking member of the British government. It also doesn't make him less talkative.
- Mr. Exposition: He gives big info dumps during "The Invisible Kingdom"
- Paranormal Investigation: Department X's specialty.
- Shout-Out: He is both a reference to Number Six and Jason King.
- He could also be a reference to one of De Sade's letters written from prision, where he refered to himself as "Mr. Six" (He was locked in cell #6).
- Super-Intelligence: One of the most knowledgable persons in the whole universe.
Mason Lang
"Everywhere I go, the conversation keeps turning to menstruation."
The Team Benefactor of the Invisibles, a billionaire who seeks to create liquid software. As a child he was abducted by aliens and shown the Holy Grail. It's revealed he was, to some degree, responsible for Ragged Robin entering the team.
- Alien Abduction: Had one as a kid, which introduced him to mysticism.
- The Team Benefactor: He is implied to finance the whole Invisibles.
- Benevolent Boss: He is shown to be pretty friendly to his workers, like Takeshi.
- Honest Corporate Executive: Subverted, he is one, but not his entire family.
- Non-Action Guy: Doesn't partake in any of the action.
- Red Herring: We are lead to believe he works for the Archons, which later turns out to be false.
Olga Tannen/Helga
"BEHOLD THE BLACK GRAIL"
A Scandinavian linguist/computer code expert who creates a language program for the Invisibles to use against the Outer Church, and a "cut and paste" (partially photography-based) grimoire that is essential to take control over the Moonchild ritual. She serves as the 11th-Hour Ranger for the team during their final mission.
- 11th-Hour Ranger: Joins the team only on their last mission.
- Aloof Ally: mostly goes at her own pace, though that doesn't mean she is ineffective. No, sir.
- Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Before she cuts it down.
- Ambiguously Christian: She uses some Christian iconography, such as the Black Grail, and Six compliments her intellect as "cruel, calvinist", but he could be refering to her birthplace, Sweden. Besides...
- Ambiguously Jewish: Tannen is a Jewish Slavic name, but there's no other indication that she's Jewish.
- Break Them by Talking: Literally. She tortures Sir Miles using Key-23 and an alien language.
- Brown Note: An alien alphabet seems to have that effect on people. In her case, one letter made her sick to the point of vomiting, while the other send her for some hours to a Hell-like dimension
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: She basically lives in her own world and is incredibely strange to others, doing things like photographing toilets. On the other hand, she is also one of the most competent members of the organization and her knowledge of alien languages makes her an incredibely dangerous enemy.
- Casual Kink: She was aroused by Gideon reading her a medical journal, and he later pleasured her with a potato. An ayrshire blue.
- Cunning Linguist: Her whole shtick. She's a professional linguist to the point she's experimenting with alien hyper-alphabets.
- Early-Bird Cameo: She briefly appears on the Invisible College in issue 6 of volume 2 wearing 4D armour.
- Home Nudist: When she's alone (or when she isn't) she wears only a bra and panties.
- Mind Screw: The nature of the Key series (Key-16, 17, 23, 32, 64..) It's a serum that makes written words appear as reality (ie: The word "dog" appears as a dog). By injecting herself with it and reading an alien alphabet she's transported to a Hell with beings mining words who claim they want to free "them" but they don't understand. She claims she does.
- They're the Machine-Elves from Terrence McKenna's works, and they're trying to free us from the constricting alphabet we use.
- Ms. Fanservice: A very attractive and intelligent woman who spends most of her time in her underwear or toppless.
- Playful Hacker: One of the most computer-smart Invisibles.
- Really Gets Around: Offhandedly mentions having shagged King Mob, even when she was dating Jon Six.
- Starfish Language: Her specialty, since she's experimenting with a super-alphabet with more letters.
Reynard
Fuck u
An Invisible from the future member of Dane's new Invisible cell. She has a memeplex of different personalities to use.
- Boring, but Practical: Her initiation consisted in two years working as an accountant, which while less flashy than living as a homeless kid or hanging from a telephone pole for days, did make her able to think like a person already subdued by the forces of opression and comfort.
- Out of Focus: Justified, since she is only introduced in the last issue.
- Tomboy: From what little is shown of her, she appears to be one.
The Outer Church
In General
The Outer Church is both an organisation serving the Archons and the name of one of the two universes intersecting to create our reality. It serves as the Big Bad and Greater-Scope Villain during the whole story, until it's revealed it's part of an even larger conspiracy to train humanity for its evolution on the 21st of December.
- Being Tortured Makes You Evil: This seems to be a favored method of recruitment for the Outer Church. Mentioned in Colonel Friday's backstory, and explicitly shown in Mr. Quimper's. Possibly played with for Gelt and Mrs. Dwyer. Their transitions to evil involved some pretty hideous tortures, but it's not clear if they became evil because they were tortured.
- Big Bad: Every antagonist in the book is directly or indirectly related to it.
- Bondage Is Bad: The designs of the Archons, Myrmidon and Ciphermen bring this to mind. Funnily enough, the true leaders of the Invisible College also seem to be dressed for some spanking.
- The Conspiracy: They seek to rule our reality by infiltrating key positions of power.
- Eldritch Location: Their realm looks like a mix of Hell and North Corea that was populated by Biblical monstruosities. A look into the other realities they've conquered shows that they tend to turn Earth into something like this.
- Greater-Scope Villain: Every enemy works for it.
- Mook: The Myrmidon accomplish that role. In real life, the Myrmidon were a Greek population famous for their loyalty.
- Elite Mook: The ciphermen are this, since they're sent in more dangerous missions (Such as Time Travel hits) and are taken special care with radio frequences to be extra mindless.
- Order Is Not Good: They want to destroy free will as an abstract concept.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: A fascistic organisation that hates homosexuals and tranvestites and has tyings to Nazism and other right-wing governments.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: A very few of their members at their best are this. The others though merely are power hungry or do it For the Evulz.
Leaders
The Archons
The Bringer of the Black Eon. The Leader of all that can be measured, weighed and counted. The King of this World.
- Animal Motifs: Insects.
- Bad Boss: The Archons obviously don't care on the slightest for their subordinates.
- Big Bad: The leaders of the Outer Church who seek to control Earth into a death camp of fascism.
- Bondage Is Bad: Hinted by the King-In-Chains, who has a BDSM-like name and forces Gelt to knee down him and lick his filthy fingers.
- Brown Note Being: They give skin cancer to everyone not properly prepared.
- The Conspiracy: They actually founded it.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Dane, a juvenile punk delinquent, claims to have "eaten" the King Archon, a centuries old monstruous abomination.
- Dark Is Evil: They look like shadows and one of the titles of the King Archon is "Black Archon".
- Demiurge Archetype: Fitting, for a book so influenced by Gnosticism. They hold a great amount of power but are only one half of the true thing.
- Dystopia Justifies the Means
- Eldritch Abomination: A group of ancient extradimensional demons and Brown Note Beings who look like insectoid shadows and can destroy reality merely by entering it.
- Flat Character: Justified, since they're essentialy the Anthropomorphic Personification of a monotonous, fascistic Crapsack World.
- The Ghost: We never see the King Archon, and maybe it doesn't even exist.
- God of Order: Played for Horror, they're demonic dictators that destroy realities merely by making them more in line with their specifications.
- Gratuitous Latin: Ocasionally speak in that language, and one of their titles is Rex Mundi. Makes sense, Rome is where fascism was born.
- I Have Many Names: They're refered by a lot of names through the comic book, including "Demon Gods", "Bringers of Shadows", "Black Aeon" and such.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: The final issue strongly imply that the Archons are just how the time suits appear from the perspective of a comic book character, hinting at the Archons coming from the real world.
- More than Three Dimensions: Five, to be precise. That's why they can't directly enter the Earth, and need the Outer Church and the Moonchild to have an influence there.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: King-In-Chains, King-Of-All-Tears, King-Of-This-World.
- Necessary Evil: It is revealed that the Archons are just training for humankind to be able to overcome to forces of evil and be able to born.
- Order Is Not Good: As it is common with the Archons.
- Our Archons Are Different: These archons represent the forces of tyranny and absolute enthropic order, and look like jagged slimy insectoid shadows.
Members of the conspiracy
Sir Miles Delacourt
"I want him castrated, lobotomized and working for us as a Cipherman. Chop chop."
An ex-beatnik who was cohereced to work for the Outer Church. Despite initially being part of the Big Bad Ensemble, he progressively begins to doubt his fascistic ways.
- Alas, Poor Villain: His death is this, strangely enough.
- Ambiguously Bi: Very subtly implied, but even though we know he has a wife and a daughter, when Fanny flirts with him in issue #17 he slightly blushes.
- Aristocrats Are Evil: Duh!
- Armored Closet Gay: He most definetely is transphobic and homophobic, but he could be a closeted bisexual. Read Ambiguously Bi above.
- Beatnik: Used to be one of these, until he got MKUltra-ed.
- Big Bad Wannabe: He is ultimately this, in the grand scheme of things.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: Inflicts this on King Mob in one of the most famous arcs of the comic.
- It's implied an MKUltra-like project turned him from a beatnik into a fascist.
- The Conspiracy
- Debt Detester: Part of the reason of his eventual betrayal for the Outer Church is that he was moved by Jack Frost sparing his life.
- The Dragon: To Miss Dwyer and the Archons as a whole.
- Driven to Suicide: He ends up hanging himself while singing the Eton rower song. Olga uses the Black Grail to collect his shit and spunk.
- Establishing Character Moment: He is first seen complaining about King Mob having escaped and riding an expensive car, all the while belitting his assistent. Then he casually mentions how much he hates the poor, and how he will enjoy hunting them through the forest to reduce unemployment.
- Evil Brit: A Jerkass English gent who wants to sell the world to the machine.
- Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humour: Is never seen laughing.
- Evil Old Folks: A grumpy classist servant of devil-gods from another dimension.
- Faux Affably Evil: A proper English gentleman who is willing to torture and hunt everyone who oposes him or his masters.
- Heel–Face Door-Slam: Jon Six and Helga coldly reject his attempts at working with them.
- Higher Understanding Through Drugs: After he is drugged by Jon Six, Helga and George Harper, with LSD and Key-32, the facade he has put all his life begins to slip down.
- Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: Hunts the poor dressed as a British hunter to feed the Moonchild.
- If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten!: He killed Queen Mab to show his willigness to serve The Conspiracy.
- Kill the Poor: And feed them to the Moonchild.
- Nice to the Waiter: He is very polite to the plump servant offering some tea while he is torturing KM, and even sheepishly asks for food like if he was in a nice cozy bar.
- "Not Wearing Pants" Dream: Subverted. During a dream talk with Friday, the colonel mentions how Miles isn't wearing pants, to which he replies it's a common dream that makes comunication easier.
- Pet the Dog: He truly loved Queen Mab, and was geniuenly heart-strucked to have to kill her for his initiation.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Hates the poor, transvesitites, other religions and is implied latinos and blacks too.
- Sanity Slippage: By volume 3 his mental health has increasingly decayed, sweating constantly and being much more anxious, as well as constantly mistaking his new assistant for Pennington, his old dead one and losing the notion of time.
Colonel Friday
A high ranking military leader and one of the first cyborgs made by the Outer Church, all the way back in 45. He is their most devout zealot, and supervises the Dulce base.
- Ambiguously Related: He and Gelt look oddly similar, but considering the fact that they were both altered beyond recognition by the Outer Church to become better servants, it could be that that look is a common one amongst high-ranking drones. It even makes more sense, considering that the Outer Church hates individuality.
- Armies Are Evil: Kind of his thing.
- Ax-Crazy: It's hinted that his decaying state of mind is the result of all the implants.
- Bad Boss: Has no troubles with Quimper killing one of his men to prove a point.
- Dark Is Evil: His 4D armour makes him look like a living shadow.
- Eagleland: Type 2
- Faux Affably Evil: He is very jovial and snarky, and even compliments Sir Miles for English media, finding it hilarious. Also, a racist, a homophobe, a psycho, an ultranationalist colonel and a Humanoid Abomination.
- Foil: To Sir Miles. Both are high ranking government agents who also work for The Conspiracy, but while Miles is English, joyless, sports hair and stache and is sometimes dubious of the morality of his actions; Friday is American, Faux Affably Evil and a Deadpan Snarker, is bald and is undyingly loyal to his superiors.
- General Ripper: Almost to parodic levels.
- Hidden Depths: Enjoys Charles Chaplin and Mr. Bean.
- Humanoid Abomination: When he is using his 4D armour.
- Lamprey Mouth: When using his 4D armour.
- Older Than They Look: He is implied to have participated on the dropping of the Fat Man and Little Boy.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Speaks dismissively of Asians and deliberately hid the vaccine against AIDS to wipe out the queer population.
- Shout-Out:
- His armour makes him look like Venom.
- His pose in the picture above is clearly a mirror to the classic "Uncle Sam wants you" recruitment posters.
- Sinister Shades: Always wears those. When using his 4D armour they change to Scary Shiny Glasses.
- You Have Out Lived Your Usefulness: Once he commits too a-many mistakes, the Outer Church kills him.
Gelt
"Do you have dreams, my boy? Do you ever... see things?"
A fat caretaker of Harmony House who tries to lobotomise and brainwash Dane into a government drone.
- Ambiguously Related: To Col. Friday. Read above for more info.
- Big Bad Wannabe: He tries to present himself as an equal to King Mob, but he is not the one holding the gun.
- Brainwashed: He extracts the souls of kids to leave them empty and ready to serve the Man.
- Dean Bitterman: In charge of Harmony House, a juvie where young punks get re-educated, and brainwashed into mindless servants for the Black Aeon.
- Death Is Cheap: Subverted. Tries to pull of this by reincarnating in a bug until the Outer Church can make him a new body but is offhandedly stepped on by Dane without even realising it.
- Fat Bastard: Kinda looks like a Nazi George Costanza.
- Faux Affably Evil: Tries to put on a friendly compassionate facade and act as the Reasonable Authority Figure. "Tries" being the key word.
- Foil: To King Mob, another bald character who tries to snatch Dane into their side of the war.
- Groin Attack: He was castrated during his transformation in a cyborg able to withstand the Archon's presence.
- Lobotomy: What his brainwashing amounts to.
- Meaningful Name: A gelt is a castrated horse. Guess what his nuts look like.
- Pædo Hunt: It's very strongly hinted that he has Perverse Sexual Lust for the kids in HH, but considering what happened to his genitals he probably can't do nothing physically.
- Perverse Sexual Lust: Towards kids and the King-In-Chains.
- Sinister Shades: Sports a pair of these, to contrast King Mob's Round Hippie Shades.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Dies on his first appearence, but he kick starts Dane's journey to become Jack Frost.
- Soft-Spoken Sadist: He seems about to cream his pants everytime he is surrounded by misery.
- Warm-Up Boss: For Dane, showing him how the Outer Church opperates.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Gets killed on the first issue before we see more of him.
Mrs. Dwyer
"Welcome to Harmony House"
A soldier-nun for the Archons and a superior of Sir Miles. She is one of the most loyal members of the Outer Church, and as such is also one of the deadliest too.
- Animal Motifs: Scarabs.
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: Her suit makes her look and behave like a giant robotic beetle.
- Body Horror: The modifications made to her not only left her as little more than a skin suit with machinery inside but also castrated her and made her breasts look blue and rotten.
- Early-Bird Cameo: She first appears as the probation officer of Dane in issue #1.
- Eldritch Abomination: Her combat armour shares traits of a Mechanical Abomination, an Animalistic Abomination and a Humanoid Abomination. She is a nearly unkillable insectoid beast armed with 4D armour who eats people and works for the Archons of the Outer Church.
- Fan Disservice: An infamous scene of the comic consists of her breast-feeding the elder Sir Miles with her disgusting blue tits. Her combat armour also has boob socks with nipples and all that, but it's not very pretty when the rest of her body looks like a metallic BDSM beetle.
- If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten!: It's implied she had to kill her father to enter the Outer Church
- It Can Think: Inverted. In her combat form she is much more animalistic and instint driven, instead of the cold stoic woman she normally appears as.
- Sinister Shades: Like most Outer Church high ranking members she sports a pair of these.
- Super-Senses: With her armour, she can sense new colours or fragances.
- Super-Toughness: She can absorb the impact of attacks and use the kinetic energy to power herself.
- The Stoic: She never emotes and is always unnervingly calm.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: She doesn't get much characterisation before getting killed.
Orlando
"I've been with Simon Pennington's girlfriend... I cut off her mouth and stapled it to the dog."
A Psycho for Hire for the Outer Church and an escaped demon from Mictlan who has a nasty habit of wearing the flayed skin of his victims as clothing. He is under the delusion that he is the Aztec god Xipetotec.
- Back for the Finale: After seemingly being vanished once and for all to Mictlan again, he is present on the third volume again, for some reason.
- Fate Worse than Death: Being sent back to Hell certainly counts.
- Faux Affably Evil: He is very flamboyant and enjoys music a lot, but don't let that distract you from his psychopathy and violence.
- Genuine Human Hide: He wears the skin of his victims, usually as a mask. This is a reference to the real life Aztec ritual for Xipetotec.
- A God Am I: He believes himself to be Xipe Totec, Aztec god of fertility.
- Humanoid Abomination: He appears as a very sinister man with a scribbled face and with a penchant for skinning and eating people. His true form in Mictlan is that of a gigantic smoky demon.
- I Am a Humanitarian: Also a reference to Aztec practices.
- Psycho for Hire: A hired knife for the Outer Church.
- Sadist: If you haven't guessed by now.
- Two Aliases, One Character: His white suit hints he could be an aspect of the John-A-Dreams being.
- Would Hurt a Child: He has no problems torturing the teenage Jack Frost and had previously massacred a whole family, down to their kids.
Mr. Quimper (Spoilers for the character)
"Beyond the gate is the Machine."
Quimper used to be a ciuatete who lived on "the edges of human dreams", but was captured and forced to witness the rape of Fanny in Rio, all the while being beaten. This led to his eventual transformation into the depraved Quimper, a Mind Virus pornographer and The Dragon to Col. Friday.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: Alongside Friday.
- Dragon with an Agenda: While he does work for Friday, it's clear he is only doing it to further his own goals.
- Facial Horror: Quimper's face looks like a mass of flesh, tumours and tendrils, not unlike Johnny Sorrow's.
- Gonk: An overweight hunched depraved dwarf.
- Humanoid Abomination
- Mind Virus: An interesting take on the idea that is tied to the Outer Church's ideas of submission, he doesn't mind control you as much as he forces you to give control of your mind by making painful memories overtake you.
- Perverse Sexual Lust: He's a specially depraved little fucker, who enjoys making alien snuff flicks and tries to exploit Ragged Robin's (fake) memories of being raped by her father.
- Two Aliases, One Character: His white suit and the fact that he apparently used to be called John seems to imply he is also a part of John-A-Dreams, most likely what remained of him after Philadelphia.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: "I was once a little light".
- Villain in a White Suit: He used to be called John, after all.
- Was Once a Man: A weird case. Even though we know that he used to be a ciuatete who was corrupted after Fanny's rape, the series also seems to imply that he also is what remains of John-A-Dreams after he Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence.
- White Mask of Doom: Always wears one, and after posessing Robin it begins to appear on the backgrounds.
The Moonchild
"Perhaps an age of darkness demands a true king of terror. A king such as this, who cannot be gazed upon without revulsion."
A blend of Archon and human DNA who was supposed to mate with Princess Di. It lives in a mirror, and is fed with the corpses of the poor. On 1999, he will be coronated king of England and will be used as an avatar for the Rex Mundi to finally take control of Earth.
- Ambiguously Evil: Despite being an instrumental figure on the Archons' plan, and feeding on people, it doesn't seem to be more intelligent than a small child, and during its coronation it has to be lead to the altar with a stick, like cattle, and doesn't actually do nothing during the following ruckus.
- Body Horror: Looks deformed, with a tentacled face, blank eyes and oversized limbs.
- Genetic Abomination: A grotesque colossal 200 year old creature who lives in a mirror and has the DNA of Eldritch Abominations.
- I Am a Humanitarian: It's fed with the corpses of the homeless and the poor. The rulers are feeding off the less fortunate.
- Shout-Out: To the Monster of Glamis and the moonbeast from Lovecraft.
Other characters:
John-A-Dreams
"In my right hand: magic mirror - Condensed space-time. In my left, anti-mirror. Perfect. Each mutually opposed."
An ex-Invisible who disappeared under unclear circumstances in a church in Philadelphia in 1992. King Mob suspects he turned to the Outer Church, but the truth is much more complex than it appears.
- Ambiguously Evil: He appears allied with the Outer Church during the Moonchild's coronation, but he never outright does anything evil and during the battle he simply observes.
- Ambiguously Human: After his ascension it's not clarified what has he become. On one hand, he could've simply achieved enlightenment, since he never shows any direct supernatural abilities that couldn't be done by a regular Invisible. On the other hand, it's implied that every character in a white suit shares a piece of him, including the Blind Chessman. Considering he stepped outside of time, he could've involved himself with the Harlequinnade. The timesuit he found on it could mean he is now an Archon too. Finally, his passion for voodoo could mean he is now much more loa and much less John.
- Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence: In 1992, he and Gideon found in a church a weird Elder Things-like Botanical Abominations that were being used as avatars by aliens. John tried to cross the rift they had made in space-time and he was never seen again. When he reappears he seems to be extremely knowledgable of the intricacies of the universe and shows signs of omnipotence. It's implied he found a timesuit with which he moved a dimension up and now is a fiction suit that represents the reader themself.
- Back for the Finale: His most prominent appearence is during the finale, where he seems to be the only one knowing what the hell's going on.
- Colour Motifs: He is associated with the colour white. Every character with a white suit is just an aspect of him, it seems.
- Double Reverse Quadruple Agent: Did he go rogue? Is he still working as an undercover Invisible? Is he working for himself but actually working against the Invisible College? It's never made clear.
- Dragon with an Agenda: During the coronation, he claims to work for the Archons, but it couldn't be more obvious he is working for himself.
- Meta Fiction: A possible interpretation of the character is that after he crossed the tear in Philadelphia, he found a timesuit and ascended to the fifth dimension, aka imagination, and became a fiction suit that represented different POV characters and the connection between the reader and the book.
- Mind Screw: One of the biggest in all of comic books.
- Round Hippie Shades: An homage to John Lennon after all.
- Villain in a White Suit: More like "ambiguous villain in a white suit". It seems that every character with a white suit through the series is an aspect of him.
- Walking Spoiler: Due to his complex multifaceted nature, everytime he appears something happens.
- Wild Card: You can't guess what he'll do next.
The Blind Chessman
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Jacqui
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Marquis De Sade
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