A character page for the Nixonverse Retold. Beware of spoilers.
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Alice Avenue
Alice Avenue
"Listen. To. The. People!"
A notable reporter for the World Nightly, who, as her canon counterpart, is mainly seen reporting on the superheroes roaming around the world. She is also seen to be engaged with the Last Son of Alcatraz.—Alice Avenue
- Adaptation Expansion: More personal details of Alice's life are shown in the Starverse, including but not limited to being married to the Last Son, being close friends with the D-Day Knight and being implied to be aware of Wonderland.
- Blatant Lies: She rated Everett's book with a five stars, her only comments on the matter being that she's "not just saying that because she worked on it!"
- Expy: Of Lois Lane, much more than her canon counterpart.
- Happily Married: To the Last Son of Alcatraz, naturally.
- Hidden Depths: She's shown to be a talentful artist, being the main artist for Everett's book, "Through the Looking Glass and what Everman found there."
- Secret-Keeper: She is very aware of Ellis' true identity as James Dean, even congratulating him for meeting his young Alternate Self.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Much like pretty much everybody else, she is outraged at the US Government after they capture and arrest the Last Son of Alcatraz for attempting to save an innocent life.
Molly Avenue
Molly Avenue
"Memories are like burnt photographs, so easy to warp and destroy. Even then, I will not let history be lost. I will engrave it into the world."
Alice Avenue's granddaughter, who, like her canon counterpart, documents various events going on in the world.—Molly Avenue
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: When she is going over the Lunarians and, more specifically, Nixon, she states that the Rockefeller Corporation came for his eye and that we "know the rest".
- Ms. Exposition: She does this a bit. She is shown discussing the Lunarians and how they came to be in ALL-STAR ALCATRAZEAN and in D-DAY AND KNIGHT she is the one who wraps up the story of the Miracle Children.
Morlin Industries
Everett Morlin
Everett Morlin/Everett Arnoldson/The D-Day Knight
"I am guilty."
"Really makes me wonder what we would've done to the good old D-Day Knight if he was still around."
—Everett Morlin
Everett Morlin, originally known as Everett Arnoldson, is the CEO of Morlin Industries. Being the supposedly unborn child of Virginia Arnoldson and Leonard W. Morlin, Everett remained inside of Wonderland after the events of WASHINGTONWONDERLAND, eventually growing up to become the very same man that would protect his mother in ROCKEFELLERTREETRAGEDY. After failing to keep his promise of always protecting her, Everett was eventually teleported by the Rockefeller Corporation into the Starverse, where he would protect those around him as both the super-heroic D-Day Knight and the millionaire philantrophist Everett Morlin.
- The Atoner: One of the reasons he adopts the Rockefeller Center Miracle Children, one of whom is Virgnia, is because he wants to protect a Virginia and give the children what he didn't have: a normal childhood.
- Alternative-Self Name-Change: After his retirement, he changes his name from "Everett Arnoldson" to "Everett Morlin" possibly in part due to the existence of an alternate branch of the Arnoldson family, but also to pay homage to both Virginia and Leonard at the same time.
- Batman Parody: Granted, the canon D-Day Knight was already this, but this version of him plays it straighter. He's an orphan who lost his parents at a very young age, which he considers his greatest failure, and remains broken throughout his entire career because of it. He eventually grows to be a millionaire philantrophist who does his best to protect others. His friendship with the Last Son and Alice Avenue is also heavily emphasized in D-DAY AND KNIGHT.
- Clark Kenting: After his helmet was blown off in during D-Day, the soldiers he had saved catched a glimpse of his face. One of them recognizes him in his memorial statue years later, thanking him for his service and promising to keep his identity secret.
- Composite Character: In a similar vein as The Last Son being James Dean, the D-Day Knight in the Starverse isn't Frank Sinatra, but rather Everett Arnoldson, who after failing to keep Virginia safe was pulled from Wonderland into the Starverse by Rockefeller's Thinking Machine.
- Elaborate Underground Base: Apparently has his own version of the Batcave beneath his manor, which he used during his days as the D-Day Knight.
- My Greatest Failure: He very clearly regrets his inability to save and protect Virginia, feeling as if he broke the promise he made her.
- My Greatest Second Chance: He eventually gets a second chance to ensure (a) Virginia is able to live a normal, happy life like he had originally intended.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: He explicitly states that he still dreams of Wonderland and of his mother, all of which would feel like they lasted over 500 years. It's unknown whether this is some sort of telepathic manifestation of Wonderland or a just a symptom of his PTSD.
- Retired Badass: He's by all intents and purposes retired from being a superhero by the time we meet him, and it's likely that it stayed that way until his death. This doesn't mean that he has stopped doing heroics in other ways, however, as he's shown to be contributing to society as a philantrophist.
- Single Specimen Species: He suspects that due to the nature of his parent's relationship and the extremely specific circumstances of his birth, he's unique in the multiverse and therefore has no Alternate Self or equivalent in any universe.
- Two Aliases, One Character: D-DAY AND KNIGHT reveals very early on that he and the D-Day Knight are one and the same.
Secretary Selena
Secretary Selena
"I'm glad you were able to get all that off your chest."
"Some strange things have been going on lately in the news and stuff, really odd things."
Everett's secretary, who he apparently trusts enough to reveal his secret identity and origins. She was created by Mims.—Secretary Selena
- Deadpan Snarker: When talking about Everett's Elaborate Underground Base, she calls it the "armory, or whatever [he's] calling [his] basement now."
- Five-Second Foreshadowing: Mere minutes before her proper presentation, you can see a note from Everett telling a friend that "Selena says hi." Seconds later, in his narration, you can see Everett reading a file on her.
- Glowing Eyes: Whether it be a photography error carried on from her source image or not, she apparently has these in the only picture that we see of her.
- Hidden Depths: Besides being a secretary, she also took care of the Miracle Children as shown in a photography.
- Secret-Keeper: Much like Alice to the Last Son, she is very aware of Everett's secret identity as the D-Day Knight and his extradimensional origins.
- Meaningful Name: It's likely that her name is meant to be a reference to Selina Kyle, AKA Catwoman.
The Miracle Children (Spoilers Ahead)
The Miracle Children/Rockefeller Tree Tragedy Children
Together.
"Picture is undated. From what I remember, they got their happy ending. I think."
Eleven children that mysteriously appeared at Rockefeller Center after a flash of light that's later discovered to be related with the Project Gateway. They are regarded as a miracle by the inhabitants of the Starverse, but were however to be thrown to the abusive Orphanage of Fear that is Elohim Campground Orphanage by Rockefeller regardless. Before the children were put there however, Everett started an orphanage of his very own and adopted the children to give what he considers His Greatest Failure a happy ending.—Molly Avenue
- Alternate Self: They're all alternate versions of the Rockefeller Tree Tragedy children we see in ROCKEFELLERTREETRAGEDY.
- Everybody Lives: So has Everett ensured. After they arrived to the Starverse, they were to be put in what's implied to be the very same abusive orphanage their Deanverse and Nixonverse counterparts went to, only for Everett to interfere and adopt them to ensure they live a normal and happy life.
- History Repeats: Thankfully subverted. Rather than be sent to the Elohim Campground Orphanage, implied to be the same orphanage their Deanverse and Nixonverse counterparts were sent to, Everett intervenes and adopts all of them.
- My Greatest Second Chance: They serve as this to Everett. After he forgave himself for not being able to save his version of Virginia and the rest of the children, a cosmic coincidence makes it so he can finally make a difference in their life.
Organizations
The Rockefeller Corporation
The Rockefeller Corporation
"With the war in Korea coming to a close, we turn our attention to the Overman."
"The U.S. government has deemed the Overman a problem. The Rockefeller Foundation shall provide a solution."
—The Rockefeller Corporation
The Rockefeller Corporation is a company founded by John D. Rockefeller, initially tasked with creating a portal to the Deanverse. After the Last Son arrived and caused the D-Day Knight and Wonderlander to breach containment, however, they ended up becoming one of the Knight's most common adversaries.
- Evil, Inc.: While initially they started off as Rockefeller and a group of scientists' attempts to open a gateway to a fallen world, their repeated showdowns with the Knight show that they've become a lot less morally grey.
- Rule of Three: When Everett recounts the times he's saved the day both before and after D-Day, three of the adversaries he faced (Rockefeller's Walking Center, the Rockefeller Corp Collective Consciousness, and Rockefeller and his artificial special trees) tie back to the Rockefeller Corporation in some capacity.
- Secret Secret-Keeper: It's implied that they're this for Everett and his identity as the D-Day Knight. In the presentation seen in ALL-STAR ALCATRAZEAN, the unmasked D-Day Knight seems to have the very same curly hair that Virginia used to draw him with.
Others
Chris Arnoldson
Chris Arnoldson
"I never said that it was a good idea!"
"Do you understand what your actions could have caused? The simple fact is that you risked our troops' lives in this war with your stunts, a war in which, I remind you, that YOU ARE BY NO MEANS INVOLVED IN."
—Chris Arnoldson
Chris Arnoldson is a member of the United States Army. After the Last Son was captured following the Korean War, he represented the Army in The Last Son of Alcatraz v. the United States Army.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: He can't seem to process the fact that the Last Son did all the good he did during the Korean War out of the goodness of his own heart and believes that he had an ulterior motive.
- Evil Uncle: From a certain point of view, he's the really, really distant uncle of Everett Arnoldson who constantly antagonizes the Last Son of Alcatraz to the point of being listed in his Rogues Gallery.
- For Want Of A Nail: D-DAY AND KNIGHT reveals that his whole existence is this. He belongs to an alternate Arnoldson family that diverged four entire generations before the one seen in the Deanverse and Nixonverse.
- Hate Sink: An unapologetic Jerkass who spends both his appearances being a complete dick to the people he's speaking to.
- Kangaroo Court: He really doesn't give the Last Son much of a chance to defend himself while he's on trial.
- Lack of Empathy: Openly admits that he thinks that the Death of a Child in the middle of the battlefield should be shrugged off as nothing, as well as refusing to believe that the Last Son is doing his heroics out of the goodness of his heart.
John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller/Mr. Rockefeller
"The young man and the stretched man that we had captured in our facility had escaped during the explosion. I curse myself for unleashing them into this world."
—John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller, instead of being president, is the founder of the Rockefeller Corporation in the Starverse. After witnessing the Deanverse's destruction, he became obsessed with the "Many Worlds" theory and attempted to learn as much as he could about the fallen universe.
- Admiring the Abomination: He becomes obsessed with the "Many Worlds" theory after witnessing the mirage of the Deanverse's destruction, eventually becoming even more obsessed with the Eldritch Location that is Wonderland.
- Expy: An evil millionaire that runs an Evil, Inc. and constantly antagonizes a Superman Substitute and a Batman Parody? Stop me if you've heard this one before.
- Lack of Empathy: His response to the Miracle Children suddenly appearing at the Rockefeller center is to send them to the Elohim Campground Orphanage, an orphanage that does not exactly have a good reputation.
- Mythology Gag: Once again, Rockefeller ends up getting involved with an incident involving anomalies and quickly comes to regret it, even saying "Forgive me".
- My God, What Have I Done?: Rockefeller very clearly regrets accidentally allowing the D-Day Knight (really Everett) and Wonderlander to breach containment following the Last Son's arrival into the Starverse.
- Sanity Slippage: Implied. He was shown to be remorseful for failing to contain the three superpowered men and being directly involved in the incident that put them out in the wild in his first appearance, but later on, he's shown to be a megalomaniac that antagonizes both the D-Day Knight and the Last Son.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Again, implied. While he definitely wasn't always a paragon of heroism - he did contain Everett after all - he at least had a somewhat justifiable reason for doing so and expressed regrets for locking him up. However, after the three superpowered men breached containment, he regularly antagonized both Everett and the Last Son, with the former having fought three adversaries connected to Rockefeller and the Rockefeller Corporation.
Anomalies
Superheroes
The Last Son of Alcatraz
The Last Son of Alactraz/"Ellis"/James Dean
"You are not going to use me as an excuse again!"
Click here to see him in the 1940s
"I have Alice and you, but you... I feel like you forget that you have us too, sometimes.""But I am involved! We are all involved!"
James Dean, in his homeworld, a renowned actor that became one of the most beloved and influential presidents of all time. In this world, a Superman Substitute under the alias of "The Last Son of Alcatraz." In this new-found home, James Dean, now living under the alias of Ellis, protects America in a new kind of way by fighting off supervillains and assisting the military in wars.—The Last Son of Alcatraz
After an incident in the Korean War leads to him being accussed of treason, he is captured and brainwashed by the Rockefeller Corporation into becoming "Jesus".
- Alternate Self: After a fight with Ultra-Lincolnite, he coincidentally meets with the Starverse version of his father and younger self. The young Jimmy even tells him that he wants to be an actor once he grows up!
- Alternative-Self Name-Change: Takes upon the name of "Ellis," possibly in reference to Ellis Island, after his arrival to the Starverse in order to not interfere with his Alternate Self's fate.
- Beta Outfit: Pictures of him in the 1940's show him sporting a costume that seems to be made out of cheaper materials than the one seen during his trial. His Chest Insignia is also seen to be slightly altered. D-DAY AND KNIGHT implies that this isn't even his first costume, and that he had one where his Chest Insignia was merely a question mark.
- The Cape: Just like both of his canon selves, He's shown to be not only to have a great moral compass, not thinking twice to save a child in the middle of the battlefield, but to also be a supportive friend to Everett.
- Clark Kenting: Justified. Due to operating long before his Starverse native self has any resemblence to him, he believes there's no need to hide his identity by using a mask.
- Composite Character: As a result of the series being formed out of interpretations and theories of the original Nixonverse, James Dean and the Last Son of Alcatraz were turned into the same character.
- Dimensional Traveller: Much like most super-powered beings, James Dean travelled directly from the Deanverse to the Starverse following the former's destruction.
- Eye Scream: After being hit by several high-power nuclear bombs, his left eye is shown to straight up pop out of it's place. Ouch.
- I Have Many Names: James Dean, Jimmy, "Satan," Ellis, Last Son of Alcatraz, Last Son, "Jesus." You name it!
- Manly Tears: Appears to be crying in the picture taken of him after being hit by the military's nukes.
- Meaningful Name: The name he gives himself in the Starverse, Ellis, both references Ellis Island and sounds like LS, the abbreviation for "Last Son."
- Meaningful Rename: In the Starverse, his transformation into "Jesus" doesn't reference him being an extension of Nixon like in canon, but rather references him being brainwashed using the Lunarian God Nixon's eye. It may also reference him being previously nicknamed "Satan" by the ADA.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Attempting to save a child's life during the Korean War leads to him being nuked multiple times and brainwashed into believing that he is Jesus.
- Universally Beloved Leader: Virtually everyone in the United States, barring the Rockefeller Corporation and the Army, love the Last Son, so much so that upon news of his sentencing, hundreds of thousands of letters were written, and protests broke out.
Supervillains
Wonderlander
Wonderlander
Rockefeller's first attempt to retrieve a human being from Wonderland via the Thinking Machine. Being tasked to bring a man who could win WW2 and a natural-born leader, the Machine instead brought a superpowered man in the process of becoming a Climber. Monstrous and insane, Wonderlander would eventually escape imprisonment in the Rockefeller Corporation after the arrival of the Last Son, who he would base his entire identity around and constantly antagonize him.- Body Horror: As a result of being pulled to the Starverse in the middle of the process of becoming a Climber, Wonderlander isn't only utterly insane but also extremely disfigured and stretched out to inhuman proportions.
- Expy: He's the Bizarro to James Dean's Superman.
- Fight Unscene: In a newspaper in D-DAY AND KNIGHT, it's described how the Last Son put him away after a fight. The fight is never seen or even acknowledged after this, though.
Mr. Corner Joe
Mr. Corner Joe
"Now, we don't exactly have a name for him, but I like to call him Joe. He looks like a "Joe" to me."
"In the corners of their photographs, there seemed to be a small blurry figure that seemingly beared, oddly enough, a bowler hat!"
One of the notable visitors of the Starverse after the 1948 oddity accident was the enigmatic Mr. Corner Joe, a Cornerfolk that was first identified after dozens of families reported sightings of him in their photographs. Mr. Corner Joe, a title given to him due to his bowler hat, was shown to be a notable member of the Last Son's Rogues Gallery.—Enthusiastic Announcer
- Dastardly Dapper Derby: His defining quality and what sets him apart from other Cornerfolk is his distinguished bowler hat.
- Dimensional Traveller: Naturally, as a Cornerfolk, Joe is able to use corners to teleport between different dimensions.
- Hand Blast: In the Rockefeller Corporation's drawing of him, he's shown to be able to use his appendages to shoot what appears to be laser beams.
- A Lizard Named "Liz": He's a Cornerfolk named "Mr. Corner Joe."
Lunarians
In General
Lunarians/Homo Lunaris
"I don't know what happened to the others, either."
"We still haven't figured out why it happens, but Americans seem to make up the majority."
Humans that were lucky, or rather beautiful enough, for "Her" to choose for ascension into "something beyond human." As their name implies, they inhabit Earth's moon.—Molly Avenue
- Bizarre Alien Biology: As in canon, their biology has magical properties.
- Deity of Human Origin: The dictionary defines them as "Aphoteosized humans, usually found on the Moon."
- Fantastic Racism: In the receiving end. Among the various dictionary definitions for Lunarians, the derrogatory term "Moonies" appears.
- Richard Nixon, the Used Car Salesman: Their higher ranks are mostly conformed of famous individuals, such as Alan Turing, Donyale Luna, Dolly Parton, etc.
- Was Once a Man: Just as canon implies, Lunarians are former humans turned a complete new species. Their scientific definition describes this process as them reaching a state similar to that of godhood.
Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon
"They came for his eye since he was so powerful. You probably know the rest."
"He was chosen like many other Americans. He became a God, ruling over those like him."
In the Starverse, Richard Nixon wasn't a failed candidate for presidency and the Friendly Rival of James Dean. He was instead chosen by "Her" to rule over the other Lunarians as their god.—Molly Avenue
- Adaptational Species Change: This Nixon isn't a refugee of the Deanverse given superhuman powers, but rather implied to be his own Starverse self that became a Lunarian.
- Richard Nixon, the Lord and Savior: While likely not as almighty as his canon counterpart, he's still considered as the Lunarian God instead of a president.
- That Man Is Dead: Implied. Molly says that they used to know him as Richard Nixon.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Being so powerful made him into a target for the Rockefeller Corporation to extract his eye in order to brainwash the Last Son of Alcatraz, causing the implied genocide and conversion of Vietnam.
Other
Lobert the Lobster
Lobert the Lobster
"Truly, this handsome fellow has rocked the marine biology world to it's core!"
"It seems to look like a lobster, sure, but everything else is wrong, from the molecular structure to its whole biology."
An anomalously bright crystaline lobster that was washed off the coast of Miami after the 1948 oddity, nicknamed the "Crystal Lobster." It was created by Amygdalum.—Marine Biological Laboratory International Center
- Bioluminescence Is Cool: And indeed it is!
- Charm Person: Implied. The Marine Biological Laboratory states that he might have mental metaproperties, and its sole presence was able to set several marine biologists into an investigation to find out the nature and reason of his bioluminescence.
- Self-Applied Nickname: "Lobert" is stated to not be a name given to him by biologists, but a name he telepathically "told" the biologists to call him.
Myg
Myg
"FIGURE, VOICE, AND WORDS SEEN IN RECORDING WAS NOT DETECTED BY ON-SITE PERSONNEL."
"It would be blind not to make such decisions when you don't know the eyes that might be watching."
A strange being that shortly appeared after the second Project Gateway activation, whose presence encouraged the personnel into activating the gateway in full capacity, thus leading to the 1948 Oddity Event. They were created by Amygdalum.—Myg
- Non-Human Non-Binary: In the words of their creator, they're The Nixonverse Retold's very own "They/Them Creature."
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Their invervention in the Project Gateway testings led to the personnel becoming confident enough with the project to set the next test to maximum capacity.
The Penrose
Anomalies
Star Sovereign
Star Sovereign
"Infinity is a funny thing."
"There's an infinite amount of numbers between 1 and 2, but none of them is 3."
An enigmatic being that lives in the Penrose and introduces the audience to the Starverse as a concept. It's implied that he's some sort of narrator or guide to the viewer. He was created by Spamrock.—Star Sovereign
- Alliterative Name: Star Sovereign.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: Despite his voice and gender being specified to be masculine, he notably has a feminine body.
- Expy: His Opening Narration and overall role in the story are quite reminiscent of Uatu The Watcher in Marvel's What If…? (2021).
- Identical Stranger: Well, not identical identical. But his design and name are clearly meant to mirror the Crescent King.
- Non-Human Non-Binary: Word of God states that he uses both he/him pronouns and they/them pronouns.
