The Ultimate Evil / Characters

A list of characters appearing in the Jackie Chan Adventures fanfic The Ultimate Evil.

For any character tropes exhibited by the gang that were in the original show, please go here.

Warning: This page contains some major spoilers, so tread carefully.

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The Protagonists

Valerie Payne

A seemingly ordinary university student who takes a job as a shop assistant in Uncle's Rare Finds. She turns out to be Shendu's Other and becomes the target of his Villainous Crush and later his wife. She's 23 years old in The Ultimate Evil and 24 in The Stronger Evil.

Action Survivor: She's not an adventurer/fighter as much as the Chans, but she gets by with her resourcefulness.
Affectionate Nickname: Her father's childhood nickname for her was "chicken".
Arbitrary Skepticism: After everything she's experienced, Valerie doesn't believe Uncle that a comet shower could herald an awakening of dark chi. She afterwards berates herself for tempting fate.
Batter Up!: If Valerie isn't using a broom as a weapon, her preferred weapon is a baseball/cricket bat.
Berserk Button: She doesn't take kindly to disrespectful treatment of books.
Beware the Nice Ones: She displays several times utter fury that can rival that of Shendu, and it shocks not only others but herself as well.
Big Sister Instinct: Jade's safety is one of the quickest ways to get her to act. She's even ready to offer herself to Shendu in exchange for his help in rescuing Jade.
Both Sides Have a Point:
- In The Stronger Evil, Jackie's completely unwilling to accept Valerie's proposal to ally with Shendu and Drago against Tarakudo, calling the two demons untrustworthy for what they've done to them in the past. Valerie in turn argues that Tarakudo threatens them all and together they'd have a better chance to defeat him.
- While she and Shendu are stranded in the Rocky Mountains, Shendu says that honesty isn't Valerie's strongest point. When she retaliates by bringing up his Chronic Backstabbing Disorder, he retorts that he latches onto her so hard because she keeps pushing him away despite his gestures of affection. This makes her realize that neither of them truly trust each other, just like the Guardian of the Book of Ages observed only moments ago.
Brainwashed: In the rewritten reality, Valerie's memories are altered like with the other humans (excluding Jade), making her believe that she has lived her adulthood as Shendu's betrothed and away from human contact. As it is, she's shown interacting with Shendu in an affectionate way, and by the time Jade is placed in the new reality, Valerie and Shendu are only a few days from being married.
Broomstick Quarterstaff: She has a habit of picking up a broom as an improvised weapon.
But Now I Must Go: At the end of The Ultimate Evil, she sets out back to Toronto both to sort out her mixed feelings and catch up with her mother, promising to return to Uncle's Rare Finds someday. She fulfills that promise in the beginning of The Stronger Evil.
Combat Pragmatist: She doesn't have much combat training, so she uses whatever she can to get by, like biting Tohru's neck in order to free herself from his bear hug or striking Hak Foo and Shendu (or actually Valmont) below the belt.
Conflicting Loyalty: She becomes stuck between a rock and a hard place in the sequel with her role as Drago's future mother and learning about Shendu's mommy issues. On the one hand, she doesn't want to turn on the J-Team and end up to the dark side like Jade's future self insinuates. On the other hand, she doesn't think it's right not to try to make Shendu and Drago see the error of their ways and repent.
Cowardly Lion: Even though she's scared of the bad guys and the dangerous situations the Chans always end up in, she still does her best to help out.
Cute Bookworm: This becomes combined with Badass Bookworm over time.
Daddy's Girl: She was much closer to her father than her mother, and her father's death has affected her greatly.
Deadpan Snarker: She is often quite sarcastic.
Disappeared Dad: Her father was killed one year before the beginning of The Ultimate Evil, and she's still devastated by it.
Doppelgänger Replacement Love Interest: Subverted. When Shendu tells Valerie what transpired between him and Lo Mei, she asks if he developed feelings for her because of her resemblance to Mei. He insists that he came to love Valerie for the person she is and Mei never held his interest the same way she does.
Facepalm: She does this whenever a member of her extended family says or does something that doesn't help with the situation in hand.
Family Eye Resemblance: She has the crystal blue eyes of Lo Pei's daughter Lo Mei but looks nothing like her otherwise. The red eyes of her half-demon son Drago are, according to Shendu, shaped exactly like hers.
Fatal Flaw: She has a tendency to be dishonest with those closest to her and keep secrets if not outright lie whether because she feels it's better if they don't know the truth, or just because she's embarrassed. Jade is very displeased when she learns Val hid the knowledge of Jade being Hsi Wu's Other, and in The Stronger Evil, Jackie begins questioning his trust in Valerie due to her history of dishonesty.
Guile Hero: Something she has in common with Jade.
Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She has wheat-colored hair and is one of the main protagonists.
Hate at First Sight: The moment Valerie first sees Valmont, she strongly dislikes the sleazy crimelord.
Heroic Lineage: Played With, as she's the descendant of Lo Pei, the chi wizard who ended Shendu's tyranny over Ancient China by turning him to stone.
History Repeats: It's eventually revealed in The Stronger Evil that this has happened to her and Shendu in the Bad Future which Drago and Future-Jade come from. Valerie has been killed, and her death has driven Shendu to the brink of madness, which is exactly what happened to Shendu's mother Tiamat when her husband and Other Apsu was killed long ago.
I Am Not Pretty: She insists she's not as beautiful and interesting as other women. Shendu admits she's not the most beautiful or sexy woman he's ever seen, but he still thinks there's an untamed beauty to her.
Innocent Blue Eyes: Her crystal blue eyes spark like clear water in a similar way to the eyes of Lo Pei's daughter Lo Mei.
In-Series Nickname: Jade quickly takes to calling Valerie "Val".
Intergenerational Friendship: She forms a sisterly bond with Jade who's over a decade younger than her.
Locked Out of the Loop:
- Inverted in the first story. She keeps it a secret that she's Shendu's Other from her friends until Po Kong has been banished. She still leaves it untold how deep her "relationship" with Shendu exactly is.
- In the sequel, she returns to San Francisco at the end of the Noble Animals arc, and thus has a lot of catching up to do.
Mirror Character: As the stories progress, Valerie exhibits some similarities with Shendu. Even though she trusts the Chans, she continuously lies to them in regards to herself and Shendu. She can also be frightening in anger and willing to do anything in her determination. She also shares Shendu's immense dislike of Valmont's haughty demeanor and shortsighted greed. Considering they're Others, the similarities make sense.
Morality Chain: Although Shendu does gradually grow to genuinely care about Valerie, he remains just as cruel and spiteful as in canon, and it's shown in the Bad Future that Valerie's death has, if anything, caused Shendu to become even worse than he was before (albeit partly because it's explained the death of one's Other causes the first person to go insane).
Morality Pet: While Shendu's largely as cruel and vile as in canon, he does at times go out of his way to make Valerie happy, like helping rescue Jade. In The Stronger Evil, Valerie eventually decides to try being one to Drago as well.
Ms. Vice Girl: While a heroic character, Valerie tends to hide some important things from the Chans. Those things include her relationship with Shendu and Jade's status as Hsi Wu's Other.
My Significance Sense Is Tingling: In addition to her and Shendu's Synchronization, she hears Tiamat's musical voice in her head in The Stronger Evil.
Only Sane Woman: She feels at times that her extended quirky family will turn her grey before she reaches her thirties.
Psychoactive Powers: She's mainly able to use her Other powers in times of emotional distress.
Save the Villain: She saves Shendu from drowning by pulling an Underwater Kiss on him in Embarcadero Station.
Scars Are Forever: The scar along the length of her left hand from her and Shendu's binding ceremony in the Demon World due to its magical nature.
Shared Family Quirks: It takes only one conversation with her for Shendu to note similarities between her ancestor Lo Pei and herself; namely inquisitiveness, righteousness and learnedness.
She Cleans Up Nicely: She shows several times a rather fabulous side to herself with dresses and makeup. She lampshades it in the first story by calling it the "Cinderella-effect".
Shock and Awe: She's able to shoot lightning out of the scar on her palm.
The Smart Girl: Valerie is a bookworm and logical in general. When Jade first assembles the J-Team, she outright states that Val shares the brain role with Uncle.
Sympathy for the Devil: At the end of The Ultimate Evil, Valerie cannot help but feel sorry for Shendu who's trapped in the Netherworld as a lifeless spirit, for she acknowledges that while he has done horrible things, he loves her and committed some of his acts for her.
Synchronization: She can feel Shendu's pain due to them being Others even before their binding ceremony. The scar gained from that ceremony tends to flare in pain when something significant happens.
There Is No Cure: In The Stronger Evil, she approaches Shendu to ask about severing the Other-binding between the two of them, only for Shendu to inform her that once a pair of Others are bonded, nothing can ever undo it. Indeed, the first story's ending demonstrated that not even the Book of Ages' power could undo a binding between Others.
This Is Unforgivable!: When her altered self in the Demon World overhears Shendu's confessing his alterations to the timeline, she's beyond furious. In the second story, she still somewhat holds this against him.
Took a Level in Badass: The more time she's involved in the Chans' adventures, the better she becomes at holding her own. She eventually gets Jackie to teach her martial arts. When she takes matters into her own hands to rescue Jade from Hsi Wu, she realizes how much she has changed in the six months she has been with the Chans; instead of bursting into tears like she might have done before, she's now acting with determined anger.
Unkempt Beauty: Shendu lampshades that Valerie is beautiful in a wild and untamed way.
Virgin in a White Dress: In the rewritten reality, Shendu makes Valerie wear a white wedding dress for their upcoming wedding instead of the red version used traditionally in China because he likes to apply the Western symbolism of the bride's virginal purity in her.
Vitriolic Best Buds: Uncle can get on Valerie's nerves with his nagging, but they still care for each other. She also becomes this with Nat.
"Well Done, Daughter!" Gal: One of Valerie's main grievances with her mother is the fact that Stephanie isn't good at showing her love since Valerie was mostly raised by her father while Stephanie focused on her career.
Valerie: You're a success, you've made your point! But I don't want a lawyer, I want a mother!
Woman Scorned: The alternate reality version of Valerie is loyal to Shendu, but when she overhears his confession of having altered both the reality and her memories, she confronts him in righteous anger that unnerves him for a moment.

Shendu

A draconic Demon Sorcerer aligned with the element Fire, and Valerie's Other. He formerly ruled Ancient China before being imprisoned in stone by Lo Pei.

Abusive Parents: In the Bad Future, he's become one to Drago after Valerie's death drove him to the brink of madness.
Drago: [...] a father I barely knew, a dragon who'd only gotten colder and unforgiving in those seven years. And no matter what I did, nothing was good enough for him.
Adaptational Nice Guy: Don't get us wrong, Shendu is still as vile and ruthless as ever, but towards Valerie he's much more honorable and kind.
And Now You Must Marry Me:
- Once he's first restored to his true form, he returns to his old fortress in Hong Kong and takes Valerie with him with the intention of making her his queen after he's had his revenge. He later makes her his willing betrothed in the rewritten reality and marries her while binding himself to her. Though this marriage is undone when history is restored, they remain bound.
- He also forcibly took Lo Mei as his bride nine centuries ago, prompting Lo Pei to raise up the rebellion that led to Shendu's petrifaction.
Antagonist Title: He's called "the Ultimate Evil" by Lo Pei.
At Least I Admit It: Played With. Valerie thinks as much about Shendu when deciding he and Valmont are Not So Similar.
Badass Boast: Gives Tarakudo one during their Beam-O-War.
Shendu: Do you feel it – shadow-worm?! That is a smidgen of the force of true power! Savour this small glimpse of hope you have. For it is only this stone casing which restricts me from tearing you asunder. If I were free of this skin, you would be in trouble.
Berserk Button: Don't mess with his "belongings", including Valerie. That includes something so little as kissing her.
Big Bad: Just like in the show, the Chan family is trying to stop the resurrection of him (without knowing it) and later the release of his siblings to the mortal world in The Ultimate Evil.
Crazy Jealous Guy: He comes close to attacking Valerie's friend David for kissing her and is stopped only when Valerie pushes David away.
Demonic Possession: He does this to Jade and Valmont in accordance to the canon plot. He later does this to Valerie in order to get to the Book of Ages.
Demon Lords and Archdevils: Like his siblings, he is one of these.
Disappeared Dad: He never knew his father, the demon Typhon whose physical form collapsed shortly after the eighth Demon Sorcerer was born. Shendu honestly isn't particularly broken up about it because he really doesn't have a high opinion of this guy.
Entitled to Have You: He considers himself to have the exclusive right over his Other Valerie.
Et Tu, Brute?: He's deeply pissed off when, during his spirit's banishment in Hong Kong, he misinterprets the Chan Clan's betrayal as a sign that Valerie betrayed him, and thus when he possesses her, he makes it clear that he'll make Valerie watch as he kills her family if she tries to stop him and that he's inflicting all this on her partly out of vengeance. It ebates to genuine regret once Shendu learns that she genuinely didn't betray him as he thought she did.
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Played With, as it's clear he has some unresolved abandonment issues with his mother Tiamat. He's also genuinely disgusted by what his Disappeared Dad Typhon did to his mother (though given how Drago observes Shendu would be wholly capable of committing rape on any human other than Valerie, it's likely Shendu only cares in this case because it's his mother and not someone else).
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Shendu develops genuine affection towards Valerie, and he does at times go out of his way for her.
Even Evil Has Standards:
- While he has in the past forced himself sexually on many mortal women, his growing love towards Valerie leads to him wanting her to give herself to him by her own will.
- Though Shendu detests Jade, he finds Hsi Wu's attempt to merge with her rather distasteful, though Valerie's distress over the girl is also a factor.
Evil Overlooker: He's featured overlooking Valerie through flames in the original cover of The Ultimate Evil.
Evil Sorcerer: And a demon one at that.
Evil Versus Evil: He fought with his siblings against Tarakudo and his Shadowkhan armies before imprisoning the Oni King to the Shadowrealm. Following Tarakudo's release, Shendu becomes one of his targets.
Evil Virtues: Valerie admits in the sequel that she secretly admires Shendu's determination. She only wishes he wouldn't be so heedless of others' welfare while pursuing his goals.
Foil:
- To his brother Hsi Wu. Besides their shared relation and early life as Tiamat's children by Typhon, they both discover they respectively have a good-aligned human Other in one of the Chan Clan, and both actively seek to bind themselves to their Other, initially against that Other's will. But whereas Shendu seeks to make Valerie fall in love with him and slowly comes to love her in turn, Hsi Wu doesn't care about Jade's feelings or welfare, only about how much power she can grant him. Furthermore, whereas Shendu binds himself to Valerie the natural way, Hsi Wu eventually resorts out of desperation to performing an unnatural perversion of the binding in order to merge with Jade.
- To Valmont. They're both devious masterminds who are willing to use underhanded methods to get what they want and are at least capable of some kind of superficial charm, but there are also differences between them, as lampshaded by Valerie's Not So Similar note. They both have some affinity for gold and treasure, but Shendu craves power whereas Valmont is blinded to the bigger picture by his greed for money; Valmont is generally considered more cowardly than Shendu; and whilst both of them are not above Kicking the Dog, Shendu's evil is a case of At Least I Admit It compared to Valmont's haughty demeanor; Shendu is if anything a Smug Super whereas Valmont is a mortal man who underestimates Shendu. In a sense, Valmont is a reflection of Shendu, but with all of Shendu's admirable and vaguely honorable qualities removed.
- To his son Drago, as it turns out. They're both technically half-demon hybrids (Shendu's father was a demon whilst his mother was a primordial divine goddess, and Drago is a Half-Human Hybrid demon), and they both have unresolved issues involving a Missing Mom whom they have definitively more emotion for than their fathers. They've also both shown signs of developing a romantic attraction towards a human woman respectively, and Valerie is something of a Morality Chain or Morality Pet for both demons. Interestingly, Drago being treated lovelessly by the maddened, embittered future version of Shendu and used by him as a weapon is a case of History Repeats in regards to what Shendu's own mother did to him and his siblings. It's heavily suggested that Drago was born of a loving union between Shendu and Valerie, whereas Shendu was born of a loveless union between Tiamat and the demon Typhon and was intended to be a Tyke Bomb from the start. Shendu and Drago are both motivated by revenge against the Chan Clan (Shendu for them defeating and humiliating him, Drago for the apparent death of his mother in the Bad Future). Whereas Shendu exhibits a borderline sociopathic Lack of Empathy for everyone except Valerie, Drago has shown signs of a deep-seated need for meaningful emotional relationships which Shendu lacks, and Drago's love for his mother Valerie is more pronounced than Shendu's unresolved issues with his own mother.
- And to Tarakudo. After Shendu has successfully binded himself to Valerie, Shendu and Tarakudo are both intelligent, regal and sophisticated demons who are practically Physical Gods by the standards of the setting's supernatural world, and who were once great rulers of the ancient world. They're also both driven by revenge on the one(s) who previously defeated them, and both of them respectively try to entice a female member of the Chan Clan over to their side and later in some way make that member of the Chan Clan a supernaturally powered protégé who's part of their forces. But whereas Shendu attempts to patiently seduce Valerie to join him and Valerie does eventually bind herself to him of her own consent (albeit when she was partly brainwashed), Tarakudo just takes a shortcut by forcibly transforming Jade back into her Superpowered Evil Side.
Hates Their Parent: One of them, at least. Whilst he genuinely seems to have unresolved abandonment issues towards his mother, there is flat-out no love lost towards his Disappeared Dad, who took advantage of the raw grief of Shendu's mother.
Hidden Depths: Valerie is in the sequel surprised how soothing she finds Shendu's singing voice to be.
History Repeats: It's eventually revealed in The Stronger Evil that Shendu and Valerie are at risk of this in the Bad Future which Drago and Future-Jade came from. In that world, Valerie is dead, and Shendu has gone borderline insane as a metaphysical result of his Other-half's destruction, which is exactly what tragically happened to Shendu's mother Tiamat and her husband/Other Apsu. Shendu's future self has even treated his and Valerie's son without love and used him as a weapon, just like what Tiamat did to Shendu and his siblings.
Hot in Human Form: In The Stronger Evil, his human disguise is a 6'9'' half-Asian man with a roman nose who largely looks like an attractive humanization of Shendu's true form.
Hypocrite: He betrayed his siblings long ago by leaving them imprisoned to the Netherworld, yet he expresses anger towards his son for daring to turn on his own kin.
I Gave My Word: While as deceitful as ever, Shendu keeps for the most part the promises he gives Valerie.
I Love You Because I Can't Control You: Despite his annoyance at how resistant Valerie is to his manipulative skills, Shendu likes the way she's bold enough to exchange verbal barbs with him. The interactions with her rewritten, more demure version make him realize he misses her spunk.
Jabba Table Manners: He tells Valerie that she'd feel sick if she saw how and what he eats in his normal form.
Lack of Empathy: Like in canon. Valerie gradually becomes the exception to the rule for him, but towards the Chan Clan and most others, he remains devoid of any empathy.
Laser-Guided Tyke-Bomb: He and his siblings are revealed to have been birthed by Tiamat to bring destruction upon the humanity as revenge for the death of her husband and Other Apsu. Though they did that to please her, she afterwards went into exile out of shame.
Missing Mom: His mother Tiamat originally birthed him and his seven siblings to be her Laser-Guided Tyke-Bombs, but she was so horrified upon seeing what atrocities her children were capable of that she abruptly abandoned them and went into hiding. Shendu claims he doesn't care about it, but it's pretty clear that he isn't over it.
Mr. Exposition: While imprisoned during The Stronger Evil, Shendu provides the heroes information on Tarakudo and the Oni.
Never Gets Drunk: Shendu is type 3; as a demon of fire, he literally burns off the human liquor before it has a chance to soak in.
One Myth to Explain Them All: He says as much in The Stronger Evil by noting that the older any mythical story is, the more likely it has some truth in it. It's indicated that he and his siblings inspired the myth of Tiamat's eleven monstrous offspring.
The One Thing I Don't Hate About You: Though he wouldn't say it out loud, Shendu mentally admits by the time of the sequel that the one thing in Jade Chan he can admire is her bravery.
Perverted Sniffing: He takes his moments to enjoy Valerie's scent.
Physical God: A successful binding with Valerie empowers Shendu beyond not only the J-Team's ability to handle, but his own siblings. Bai Tza is barely given a chance to try to kill Valerie before she is flown across the chamber and bound by Shendu.
Really 700 Years Old: He eventually reveals that if his memory is correct, he'll be 1500 years old in a decade or two.
Scars Are Forever: Like Valerie, he gains a permanent scar along the length of his left hand from their binding ceremony. It's notable in his case since he has never before received scars thanks to the Horse Talisman, and the scar is present in the new body Daolon Wong creates for him.
Sealed Evil in a Can: He's sealed in his statue form for the first third of The Ultimate Evil and returns to this status soon after his resurrection in The Stronger Evil. This ends thanks to unintentional aid from Valerie.
Shock and Awe: Like Valerie, he's able to shoot lightning out of the scar on his palm.
Single-Target Sexuality: His growing love towards Valerie makes him unwilling to have sex with any other woman.
Sins of Our Fathers: As per canon, he wants to destroy all of Asia as revenge for being imprisoned by his subjects nine centuries ago. Also, he's initially interested in Valerie only because she's an opportunity to exact revenge on her ancestor Lo Pei. However, the discovery of her being his Other makes Shendu abandon this motive.
Sizeshifter: When he has his true form, Shendu is able to make himself larger or smaller to a degree with his magic.
Sorcerous Overlord: Was this in Ancient China and returns to this after rewriting history.
Stalker with a Crush: While he's sealed in his statue form, he makes it a habit to use the Sheep Talisman to wander around in his astral form and keep an eye on Valerie.
Synchronization: He can feel Valerie's pain due to them being Others even before their binding ceremony.
Took a Level in Badass: Becoming bound to Valerie makes Shendu even more powerful than he already was to the point that good magic no longer hurts him, and he's able to fight against his siblings and Tarakudo even when he's a spirit or a statue.
Villainous Crush: The one he has on Valerie drives the main plot of the stories.
Villainous Rescue: He pulls this on Valerie multiple times.
Villain Protagonist: He's one of the main characters, and his POV gains attention as much as those of Valerie and the Chans.
Wicked Cultured: Shendu is highly knowledgeable and makes it a habit to write Valerie love letters, something he calls a fading art in the modern age. He doesn't tend to read just for fun, but he does read some of the classics he stole for Valerie when he had her in the fish cannery.
Would Hurt a Child: He attempts to kill Jade by squeezing her in the climax of The Ultimate Evil.

Good Guys

Nataline "Nat" Homato

A member of a Japanese demon hunter family who takes interest in the Chans' conflict against the Demon Sorcerers.

Action Girl: She has been trained by her family to fight against demons.
Arbitrary Skepticism: Despite being raised by Japanese demon hunters, Nat didn't believe in the existence of the Oni due to their millennium of absence.
Valerie: The Japanese demon slayer thought Japanese demons were a myth?
Nataline Homato: Yes, blondie. Irony isn't lost on me.
Badass Normal: Much like the Chans, she's a normal human who's trained in combat and uses magically enhanced equipment against supernatural threats.
Boots of Toughness: She wears combat boots to complete her image as a hard-ass demon hunter.
The Bus Came Back: She leaves at the end of the Demon Portal arc and returns in the seventh chapter of The Stronger Evil.
But Not Too Foreign: She doesn't look Asian, but she became a member of her Japanese family due to her biological father being adopted.
But Now I Must Go: After all the eight Demon Sorcerers have been resealed in the Netherworld, Nat parts ways with the Chans, but promises to assist if they need help against demons in the future. She makes good of that promise in the sequel.
Chain Pain: One of her weapons is a chain from which protective symbols dangle. It intimidates the demon she faces in her introduction scene, but it has no effect at all on the Demon Sorcerers.
Dead Person On Display: In the rewritten reality, Nat's body hangs from Hong Kong's wall as a warning to any human slave who thinks about rebelling against Shendu and his siblings.
Fire-Forged Friends: She's at first tense with Valerie and the Chans until they've successfully stopped Bai Tza from flooding San Francisco.
Hell-Bent for Leather: She dresses in black and loose leather clothes.
Hunter of Monsters: She's described by Valerie as the long lost cousin of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
It's What I Do: She says that hunting and killing demons to protect people is her cause when she refuses to go and let the Chans deal with the Demon Sorcerers by themselves. She says this again in the sequel when she confirms she'll be staying for the demon chi hunt.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's unused to teamwork, quick to jump to conclusions, argumentative, and willing to kill without mercy. However, she's dedicated to keeping the world safe from demons, has warm ties to her family, and soon warms up to the Chans and Valerie.
Katanas Are Just Better: She uses a katana as her main weapon. When she returns in the sequel, it has been coated with anti-demon magic.
Lethal Chef: She's so horrible at cooking that she nearly sets Valerie's apartment on fire.
Neat Freak: She's shown to be this when she's staying at Valerie's flat; she insists on doing every night cleaning and constantly complains that Valerie misses a spot.
Pragmatic Hero: She doesn't rule out killing humans if she thinks that will help keep the world safe from demons.
Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: An anti-heroic demon hunter with red hair and green eyes.
Sixth Ranger: She teams up with the Chans when they're trying to imprison Bai Tza and returns during the quest for the Demon Chi.
Snark-to-Snark Combat: She makes it a habit to compete with Valerie in sarcasm.
Tomboyish Ponytail: This Action Girl wears a ponytail.
Walking Armory: As a demon hunter, she requires more than one weapon to be at reach.

Jade Chan

Jackie Chan's young niece, whom Valerie has a sisterly relationship with. She is Hsi Wu's Other and formerly the Queen of the Shadowkhan.

Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: She holds a much more personal animosity with Hsi Wu because they're Others.
Armor-Piercing Question: She gives one to the rewritten Valerie about Shendu's oppression of humanity by asking if it's enough for Val to try and convince Shendu to ease off once he has married her. Silence is her only answer.
Berserk Button: She really, really has an ugly reaction when she learns Valerie didn't tell her about her being Hsi Wu's Other, and her future self has nothing but contempt and hatred towards the present Valerie due to Val's future self supposedly betraying them.
Deal with the Devil:
- She makes one with Hsi Wu when she's trapped in the Netherworld, giving them both a chance to escape via Shendu's portal, with the agreement that if they both make it through, then she's to perform the blood ritual that'll bind them as Others. Hsi Wu brings it up when they meet again in the Demon World, as they're on the same side of the portal.
- After she's reverted to her Shadowkhan self by Tarakudo, he convinces her to swear loyalty to him with promises of tutorship in dark powers.
Defiant to the End: Being about to be squeezed to death by the empowered Shendu doesn't prevent her from denouncing him in a dareful way for what he has done both to Earth and Valerie.
The Dragon: She's briefly this to Tarakudo when he turns her back into her Shadowkhan self.
Et Tu, Brute?: She feels this way about Valerie not telling her she was Hsi Wu's Other. She comes to regret reacting this way.
Fatal Flaw: Shendu states in the sequel that Jade constantly endangers herself and meddles with magic in favor of an adrenaline rush and needs her family to bail her out.
Intergenerational Friendship: With Valerie who's about a decade older than her.
Loophole Abuse: She and her Other are mutually fond of this, including when it comes to a deal they make with each other in the first story.
My God, What Have I Done?: She's left feeling guilty of her anger towards Valerie when Shendu possesses Val before Jade has a chance to properly make up with her.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Everyone is surprised when she, due to feeling unwell because of what Hsi Wu has done to her, asks to be allowed to go home instead of tagging along.
Pragmatic Hero: Her alternate future self is willing to try and kill Valerie in order to prevent her from giving birth to Drago, but has enough sense to stay focused on her actual purpose for coming back in time.
Pride: Her ego and yearning for personal glory often land her in trouble. When she has to give up a part of herself in order to banish Hsi Wu from her body, she chooses her pride.
Superpowered Evil Side: In The Stronger Evil, she redraws Tarakudo's mark on herself in an attempt to turn the Shadowkhan against him, only for him to use it to painfully transform her back into the Queen of the Shadowkhan. Furthermore, Tarakudo ensures the mark is much more difficult to remove than it was the first time.
We Used to Be Friends: Her alternate future self doesn't care for Valerie, and can barely look at the present version of Val with anything other than loathing due to the future Val supposedly betraying them to Shendu.

Jackie Chan

An archaeologist affiliated with Section 13 in the fight against the Dark Hand and demonic forces.

Black-and-White Morality: To the point of being a Fatal Flaw. In the second story, he's the most close-minded out of the heroes that demons like Drago and Shendu are wholly evil and can't change their ways.
Blunt "Yes": When he demands Jade make things up with Valerie in the first story regarding Valerie's act of not telling about Jade's status as Hsi Wu's Other.
Jade: Val lied to us! She lied to me! Am I supposed to just forgive that?!
Jackie: Yes.
Both Sides Have a Point: His argument with Valerie in The Stronger Evil (see her folder).
Hot-Blooded: Downplayed. It only comes out when he's really angry, but when it does, he tends to act irrationally and jump to biased conclusions.
Hypocrite:
- He's completely mistrustful of Drago in Enemy Mine situations, yet he berates the young half-demon for his lack of trust in the team.
- When Valerie tells Jackie that her father believed in giving criminals a chance for rehabilitation, he agrees with it. However, when she tries to use it as an example as to why Shendu and Drago should be given a chance to redeem themselves, he firmly rejects the idea by saying demons aren't capable of good. Furthermore, when Valerie tells how unforgiving she felt towards her father's killer, Jackie acknowledges that her personal feelings were blinding her to the boy's humanity, but his own bad history with Shendu and Drago is clearly rendering him unwilling to see anything but evil in them.
Took a Level in Jerkass: He's showing increasing signs of this towards Valerie in The Stronger Evil by growing increasingly suspicious of her connection to Shendu and Drago and of her past history of compulsive lying to her friends.
She Is Not My Girlfriend: Valerie is mistaken to be Jackie's girlfriend by Uncle and the Enforcers when both parties first meet her.

Uncle

An elderly Chi Wizard and the patriarch of the Chan Clan.

Arbitrary Skepticism: About the idea that the Shadowkhan are related to Oni on account of the latter not being Chinese, like in canon.
Hypocrite: While initiating his Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure with Valerie in the first story, he claims she's undisciplined, bad-mannered and badmouthed — even though he's much more rude and tactless.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He proves to be this like in canon. He's irritable towards Valerie, but shows he cares about her deeply after she's briefly kidnapped by Shendu and when the Chan Clan briefly splits over how to neutralize Tarakudo.
The Medic: Knows how to concoct a healing broth that hastens one's healing process.
Out-Gambitted: He expects Shendu to double-cross the J-Team while they're trying to rescue Jade from the Netherworld, and already has a plan in place to banish him before he has a chance to do so. Ironically, Shendu's subsequent interactions with Valerie when he possesses her imply he genuinely wasn't going to leave any strings attached when upholding his end of the bargain.
Technologically Blind Elders: Valerie attempts to show him how to do online shopping, but he soon throws a fit about it and claims he needs no other technology than a phone and a radio.
Vitriolic Best Buds: With Valerie (see her folder).
Would Hit a Girl: He uses his trademark two-finger hit several times on Valerie, including when she finally tells the Chans about her Other-connection with Shendu.

Tohru

A Dark Hand enforcer who ends up switching his loyalties to the Chans.

Took a Level in Kindness: Valerie lampshades this at the end of The Ultimate Evil by wondering how Tohru could have once been her enemy and turned into such a Gentle Giant. Jackie makes the same note in The Stronger Evil while Tohru takes care of the gravely ill Jade.

Lo Pei

A sacred warrior of the Ling Dynasty who overthrew, imprisoned and depowered Shendu nine hundred years ago when his daughter Lo Mei was forced to become Shendu's bride. His bloodline continued through his son Lo Shun down to Valerie.

Ascended Extra: He's a more significant character than in the cartoon due to being an ancestor to one of the heroes.
Badass Bookworm: He was a chi wizard who turned Shendu to stone, and he was an inquisitive and learned man, a trait the demon notes Valerie to share with Pei.
Heartbroken Badass: His wife died in childbirth, leaving him to raise by himself their two children under a demon's tyrannical rule. His beloved daughter was forcibly taken as a bride by said tyrant, so Pei gathered an army to try and save her. While he managed to overthrow Shendu and imprison him, he couldn't save Mei in time.
Outliving One's Offspring: Pei's daughter died right before he turned Shendu into a statue.
Papa Wolf: Shendu's act of forcibly taking his daughter as a bride was what prompted Pei to gather an army and go up against the tyrant.
Parents Know Their Children: Pei's Living Statue refers to this trope by saying that any father can know his beloved child anywhere when he believes Valerie to be Mei who's concealing herself with magic. He's not entirely mistaken though; Valerie is Pei's descendant by thirty-six generations.
Posthumous Character: His influence to the present is bigger than in the source material due to him being an ancestor to one of the protagonists.
Pyrrhic Victory: His successful overthrow and imprisonment of Shendu was sour because his beloved daughter died in the process.
Related in the Adaptation: The canonical Lo Pei most likely has no connection to Drago, but this version is Drago's ancestor.
Shared Family Quirks: It takes only one conversation with Valerie for Shendu to note similarities between her and Lo Pei; namely inquisitiveness, righteousness and learnedness.

Guardian of the Book of Ages

A powerful entity who guards the Book of Ages. He appears as an old aboriginal shaman.

Berserk Button: When Shendu accuses the Guardian of lying, the latter accentuates his anger with glowing white eyes and a booming voice.
The Bus Came Back: He leaves the story when the Demon World arc ends. It's justified by the fact that he allows the temple's gate to be lost to time. In the 16th chapter of the sequel, Shendu and Valerie contact him for information about the whereabouts of Tiamat.
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Is known only as the Guardian.
Good Is Not Soft: The Guardian is a gentle and wise man, but he won't go easy on evil entities who'd abuse the Book's power.
Glowing Eyes of Doom: His eyes glow white twice in the sequel; first when Shendu's accusation of him lying angers him, and secondly when he sends Valerie and Shendu to the Rocky Mountains.
Lean and Mean: Inverted. He's tall and skinny, but not evil at all.
Loincloth: Wears nothing but a loincloth and a red headband.
MacGuffin Guardian: He tests all who enter the temple of the Book before allowing them to inspect the Book. Anyone who'd use it for ill purposes will be killed.
Pragmatic Adaptation: The Guardian himself is this to correct the canon lack of a guardian you'd think a powerful artifact like the Book of Ages should have.
Reality Warper: He's apparently powerful enough to erase from existence anyone who'd use the Book for evil purposes, including the Demon Sorcerers. After the reality is restored, he uses the Book to make the temple's gateway lost to time and spirits unable to travel from the Netherworld.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: He gives in the sequel a short yet concise one to Shendu and Valerie about how little they trust each other even though they're bonded as Others.
The Guardian: You claim to be completed. But neither of you are willing to be one. It seems your journey to Tiamat must start with yourselves.
The Shadow Knows: His second test to Valerie has him turning his staff into an inland taipan. She passes the test by noticing that his shadow is holding a staff instead of a snake.
The Three Trials: He screens this way everyone who enter the temple. He first inspects Valerie's heart through touch. He then tests her mind by presenting her a snake that's only an illusion. And finally, he tests her spirit by having her look into his fire and see something. With Valerie having passed the tests, he allows her to go to the Book, giving Shendu a chance to tamper with it before he can be stopped.
Time Abyss: Being the guardian of the book that has recorded everything since the dawn of time, he's obviously even older than he looks like. He also knew Tiamat personally.
Tribal Face Paint: He has white and grey facepaint as a part of his aboriginal appearance.
Unwilling Suspension: After Shendu has rewritten the world, the Guardian is left imprisoned in the Book's temple and suspended by chains.

Bad Guys

The Dark Hand

In General

A criminal organization who are rather reluctantly in Shendu's service.

Demoted to Extra: Compared to their presence in The Ultimate Evil, they only appear in the first couple chapters of The Stronger Evil and are presumably still in prison due to Daolon Wong's death.
Put on a Bus: After the quest for the Noble Animals is over, the Enforcers are incarcerated, and the plot alterations caused by Daolon Wong's death prevent them from serving as Drago or Tarakudo's henchmen. Nothing's heard of Valmont either after Shendu's exorcised from his body.

Hak Foo

Anime Hair: Valerie lampshades that Hak Foo's hair is like out of Sonic the Hedgehog.
Calling Your Attacks: Like in canon. Valerie finds it extremely annoying.
Cold-Blooded Torture: Endures this from Shendu as punishment for attacking and nearly killing Valerie.
Kick the Dog: When Hak Foo believes the Demon Archive to be in Valerie's apartment, he attacks her there, injures her severely, and callously leaves her to die.
Laser-Guided Karma: He beats Valerie so viciously and severely that her skull and ribcage are almost completely destroyed, and then he leaves her for dead. When Shendu finds out what he did, he literally breaks more than a few of Hak Foo's bones and then leaves his mangled but alive body huddling immobile in a corner.

Finn, Chow and Ratso

Even Evil Has Standards: They're shocked to realize how deeply Shendu is interested in Valerie.
Jerkass Has a Point: When Shendu's taken by the corrupted Jade's Shadowkhan, Valerie demands the Enforcers to bring her to the girl. Unsympathetic to her worry over Jade, they refuse to risk Shendu's wrath by taking her away from the fish cannery and lock her up. However, Finn rightly points out that they don't even know where the Shadowkhan have taken Shendu, and considering that they had to witness Hak Foo's painful punishment, they can't be blamed for not wanting to earn Shendu's ire through disobedience. Besides, Valerie was still recovering from her wounds, so it wouldn't have been wise for her to accompany Shendu to the confrontation in Section 13.
Manchild: Ratso, like in canon. Shendu jokingly suspects that the big thug is a child in the skin of an adult.
Named by the Adaptation: Downplayed. They're given no surnames in canon, but judging by the package Valerie delivers to Ratso during her brief stint as a mail-girl, his surname is apparently Muris.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: As per canon, they leave Valmont and Shendu when Bai Tza decides to flood San Francisco.

Valmont

Even Evil Has Standards: He expresses disgust at Shendu being interested in a woman who is technically centuries younger than the demon. Subverted, as he only really cares because his body is being used against his will to put the moves on a woman he's not himself attracted towards.
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: He fails to understand what Shendu sees in Valerie, whom Valmont considers to be a plain-looking bookworm. When he sees Valerie in a black dress, he mocks her by claiming it to almost help him understand Shendu's lust, prompting her to slap him for regarding Shendu to be so petty.
Foil: To Shendu. See his folder for details.
Kick the Dog: Upon first meeting Valerie, he injures her with the Dragon Talisman when he's about to blast Jackie and she comes between them to plead.
Not So Similar: When he starts commenting he can see why Shendu lusts after Valerie, it prompts the enraged woman to slap him and chastise him for daring to compare himself to Shendu, who she feels has some semblance of honor:
She didn't know what had possessed her to say those words in her current company […] but she couldn't stand the thought of Valmont comparing himself to Shendu. In her eyes – she didn't know whether it had always been so, or if this was something new – Valmont was a scumbag criminal who would stoop to any means and do anything and everything just for a little money. But Shendu, despite being a lying, murderous and evil demon, had at times shown some form of honour, and he was more sophisticated and regal than Valmont. Valmont hid what he was behind an air of aristocracy and superiority that made her blood boil, but Shendu let you know up-front what you were dealing with. That little shred of honesty, no matter how vile in its using, still made Shendu more worthy to Valerie than Valmont could ever hope to be.

Hsi Wu

The Demon Sorcerer aligned with the element Sky, and Jade Chan's Other.

Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: He has a much more personal relationship with Jade because she's his Other.
Annoying Younger Sibling: He seeks stimulation in the Netherworld by annoying his siblings before he senses Tarakudo corrupting Jade's chi.
Big Bad Ensemble: In the second story, he's this with Tarakudo and his mother Tiamat.
The Bus Came Back: After he's imprisoned again during the Demon World arc, he enters The Stronger Evil a couple of times in Jade's dreams before he returns in flesh and blood in the eleventh chapter.
Catchphrase: His canon line "Say Chi-spell!", which he uses twice in the first story like in canon. He continues using it two times more in the sequel as mockery towards Jade.
Evil Counterpart: To Jade in their mischievousness and affinity for Loophole Abuse. Quite literally, considering they're Others.
Evil Sorcerer: Is fluent in magic like his siblings, and there's his spell in the second story which links his chi to Jade.
Foil: To Shendu. See his folder for details.
Hot in Human Form: Not to the reader unless they're either a kid or a creep, but In-Universe, he aims to invoke this trope against Jade when designing his human child disguise to get close to her. He gives his Seymour disguise brown eyes of "the kind that he knew mortal females had a certain weakness for".
It's What I Do: He invokes this to Jade in the Netherworld.
Jade: You lied to me! You used me!
Hsi Wu: Hint is in the word demon.
Lack of Empathy: Much like Shendu, Hsi Wu doesn't care about the physical or emotional damage he leaves behind, and unlike his brother, he never starts caring about the feelings of his Other.
My Significance Sense Is Tingling: He feels through his Other-bond with Jade when she's turned back into the Queen of the Shadowkhan.
Sadist: He relishes in trying to cause Jade emotional pain such as when he reveals that Valerie knew they're Others and didn't tell her.
Sealed Evil in a Can: He's trapped in the Netherworld alongside Shendu's other siblings, but on top of their attempts to escape like in canon during the first story, Hsi Wu in the second story is plotting to in some way use Jade to escape.
Synchronization: Partly with Jade since he's her Other. He's not exactly happy when he senses her being turned into the Queen of the Shadowkhan again; to him it feels like he has lost something he never knew he had.
The Trickster: He's acknowledged to be cunning and mischievous, and he has a history of deceiving mortals for his own amusement.

Drago

The half-human and half-demon future son of Shendu and Valerie, who seeks to collect the Demon Chi in the present.

Abhorrent Admirer: Invoked; Drago flirts with Nat because he likes grossing her out. He does develop a genuine crush on her over time, though.
Adaptational Early Appearance: He first appeared in one of the fourth season's filler episodes long after Tarakudo made his first appearance. In The Stronger Evil, he appears before the Oni King, and his Demon Chi arc commences before the Oni Mask arc.
Antagonistic Offspring: Zig-Zagged. Though Drago worked for Shendu's future self, he makes it clear that he's so bitter he'd happily pulverize his father's present self if not for his own conception. However, he's unable to emotionally distance himself from his mother's present self even though she's firmly on his enemies' side and isn't technically the woman who raised him in his own time, leading to him having an uneasy consensus with her and reluctantly giving her a chance when she decides to help him seek redemption.
Dark and Troubled Past: Drago tells Nat that he last saw the mother of his own time when he was ten and barely knew his father until he was seventeen. He was raised by his grandfather (later implied to be the one on his father's side) for those seven years and afterwards tried in vain to gain the approval of the father who had become colder and more unforgiving.
Enemy Mine: Drago fights with the J-Team against Tarakudo, and he later forms with them an uneasy alliance to make sure Shendu isn't doing anything bad to Valerie.
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Apparently, he has no ill memories of his mother Valerie and had a genuinely good relationship with her alternate future counterpart in his time. He avoids hurting her present version and even leaps to save her during fights, and she's one of the only people whom he'll actually hear out without any tension.
Evil Is Not a Toy: Drago tries to summon the Shadowkhan and ends up releasing Tarakudo.
Family Eye Resemblance: His eyes are said to be shaped exactly like those of his mother.
Foil: To Shendu. See his folder for details.
Freudian Excuse: As Shendu notes, Drago has carried to the present the bitterness he has experienced in his own time, and now he's trying to claim the Demon Chi to prove something.
Half-Breed Angst: Part of the reason he's trying to become more powerful is to show everyone that being a Half-Human Hybrid doesn't make him weak.
Human-Demon Hybrid: While it's never been a secret that Drago's father is the Demon Sorcerer of Fire, he's given a human mother in this version.
Hybrid Power: According to Shendu, Drago's natural balance between light and dark chi (the result of being an offspring of paired Others) makes him able to absorb and use his aunts and uncles' chi without being warped or overwhelmed. He's also immune against spells meant to ward off beings who are fully made of dark chi.
Irony: Shendu tells Valerie in The Ultimate Evil that he decided to father a legacy through a human female because any offspring a demon or any other supernatural entity would give him might become powerful enough to surpass him. When their future son Drago comes along, he's revealed to, despite being a half-demon, have a natural balance of light and dark chi that makes him able to bond with his uncles and aunts' chi without being overwhelmed by them (the result of being an offspring of two bonded Others). He also exhibits interest in using the Demon Chi to challenge his grandmother Tiamat over her divine place on Earth.
Never My Fault: After he accidentally releases Tarakudo and is berated by Shendu for his shortsightedness, Drago blames his father for not telling anyhow that using demon blood would be the catalyst needed to free the king of all Shadowkhan.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: After Tarakudo takes the Ice Crew for himself, Drago breaks into Section 13 to demand answers from his father and completely ignores the Demon Chi, surprising the entire J-Team.
The Power of Blood: While trying to summon the Shadowkhan, Drago uses the power provided by his demon blood — the very thing needed to release Tarakudo. He later uses his blood in a locator spell to find his mother.
Raised by Grandparents: After his mother died when he was a child, his paternal grandfather Typhon apparently stepped in to rear him.
Related in the Adaptation: He's a descendant of Lo Pei from his mother's side, something his canon version probably isn't.
"Well Done, Son" Guy: Apparently has a very poor relationship with Shendu in his own time. And doesn't have a better one with him in the present, either.
Yin-Yang Bomb: His chi is exceptionally potent due to him being the child of paired Others.

Other Demon Sorcerers

Shendu and Hsi Wu's other brothers and sisters — Dai Gui, Xiao Fung, Tso Lan, Bai Tza, Po Kong and Tchang Zu — who represent the elements Earth, Wind, Moon, Water, Mountain and Thunder respectively. They are locked in the Netherworld.

The Bus Came Back: After they're imprisoned again at the end of the Demon World arc, they return in the 21st chapter of The Stronger Evil when Shendu contacts them.
Demon Lords and Archdevils: Together they're essentially one of the greatest evils of the world, representing the darkness of Bagua and having been opposed by humans.
Disappeared Dad: Their father Typhon died shortly after the youngest of them was born. Since he never attempted to form attachments with them, they probably don't care about him anymore than Shendu does.
Elemental Rivalry: They wield different elements and can hardly get along with each other. The rivalry between Shendu and his twin sister Bai Tza is particularly intense.
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good:
- Tso Lan says that while the other Demon Sorcerers are not pleased with the existence of Shendu's human Other, they might be able to understand if their brother just wanted to bind Valerie to himself or even bed her once or twice. His deeper attachment and decision to marry her are what's escaping their comprehension.
- When Shendu informs them in the sequel that he's looking for their mother Tiamat, they immediately assume he wants to challenge her in order to replace her when he actually wants to get answers from their long-gone mother.
Evil Sorcerer: Runs in the family.
Evil Versus Evil: After Tarakudo conquered Japan from Po Kong with his Shadowkhan armies, she and the rest of the Demon Sorcerers fought against him, culminating in his imprisonment to the Shadowrealm.
Fantastic Racism: They consider humans to be below them in every way. Bai Tza and Tchang Zu in particular are disgusted to learn that Shendu's Other is a human female and are eager to eliminate Valerie before their brother can claim her.
Horrifying the Horror: As powerful and evil as they are, they themselves both revere and utterly fear their mother Tiamat, as their Oh, Crap! reaction shows.
Hypocrite: When Tchang Zu says that Shendu had better not desire more than power from Valerie, Hsi Wu remarks that the Thunder Demon has engaged in carnal desires as well.
It's What I Do: Stating it's in their nature is pretty much their universal justification for their own evil and wretchedness.
Jabba Table Manners: Valerie of the rewritten reality finds Tso Lan's eating habits to be as nauseating as Shendu's, even though she has gotten used to them.
Laser-Guided Tyke-Bomb: They were birthed by Tiamat and cast into the world to spread destruction as revenge for the death of her husband and Other Apsu. They were happy to please their mother this way, but she afterwards went into exile out of shame.
Missing Mom: Their mother Tiamat hid herself out of shame after they first started wreaking havoc in the world on her behalf. They all apparently searched for her initially after her disappearance.
My Significance Sense Is Tingling: They feel the activation of their chi fragments in the form of powerful chi waves that reach the Netherworld.
Never My Fault: They've spent their time in the Netherworld blaming Shendu and each other ever since the Demon World arc.
No-Sell: Bai Tza is not affected anyhow when Nataline tries to ward her off with her chain adorned with symbols or hurt her by touching her with a crucifix.
Oh, Crap!: They're all horrified when Shendu informs them that their mother Tiamat is waking up — even Tso Lan looks frightened.
One Myth to Explain Them All: It's indicated in The Stronger Evil that the Babylonian myth of eleven monsters sired by Tiamat to do war with the gods was in fact based upon them.
Pet the Dog: Unlike the others, Tso Lan doesn't feel that threatened or repulsed by the existence of Shendu's human Other and holds no interest in trying to actively kill Valerie (though he wouldn't mind making her collateral damage of his own plans). He's actually more curious about her and treats her civilly while meeting her in the rewritten reality, which is more than can be said about her encounters with Shendu's other siblings.
Really 700 Years Old: They were all born with Shendu and Hsi Wu about 1500 years ago, with only a year or two between each of their births.
Sealed Evil in a Can: Just like in canon, they're trapped in the Netherworld.
Sibling Rivalry: All of them become competitive if they fear one of them gaining an advantage over the other, and Tarakudo lampshades the self-destructiveness of it. Shendu and Bai Tza have a particularly antagonistic relationship in regards to bettering each other.
Sorcerous Overlord: Again, they were textbook examples of the trope in the ancient world, only to get opposed and sealed off by the Eight Immortals. They return to power in the history rewrite.
This Cannot Be!:
- Bai Tza reacts this way when she learns that Shendu has found his Other in the form of a human female.
- They all have this as their general reaction when they learn from Shendu that their mother is about to return to the world.
To Serve Man: Po Kong, of course. In addition to that, Xiao Fung exhibits interest in eating Valerie for snatch.

Daolon Wong

A Dark Chi Wizard whom Shendu deceives into resurrecting him.

Adaptational Early Appearance: He first appeared in one of the second season's filler episodes that took place after the Demon World duology. In The Ultimate Evil, he makes a cameo appearance during the Demon World section.
The Cameo: He makes a brief appearance in the Demon World part of The Ultimate Evil as the monk who oversees the binding ceremony between Shendu and Valerie.
Cruel and Unusual Death: He's slammed into the ground repeatedly until he's a bloody pulp, and then what's left is teared in half.
Death by Adaptation: He's killed by Shendu before the Demon Sorcerer's turned back to stone at the ending of the Noble Animal quest.
Evil Is Petty: He tries to kill a woman he met only hours earlier just to have revenge on Shendu.
Evil Makes You Ugly: It's stated that Wong looks like he does because the constant use of dark magic has drained and twisted his body.
Karmic Death: Wong is killed by the very demon he resurrected and whose wrath he ignited by trying to kill Valerie as revenge.
Too Dumb to Live: Wong brings his death upon himself through his lack of foresight. After losing his powers, he steals a gun and shoots Valerie in front of the fully powered Shendu while standing in plain view atop a van. Instead of trying to use the resulting shock from everyone's part to make an escape attempt, he gloats in the Demon Sorcerer's face, leading to the enraged Shendu telekinetically grabbing him and mauling him to death.

Tarakudo

The King of the Shadowkhan and Lord of all Oni who was imprisoned in the Shadowrealm by the Demon Sorcerers a millennium ago.

Adaptational Badass: The original Tarakudo wasn't known to have conflicted with any of the Demon Sorcerers. In this series' backstory, he and his army managed to wrestle the control of Japan from Po Kong, and the Demon Sorcerers deemed his growing influence threatening enough for all eight of them to unite against him. After he weakened himself by getting rid of his physical form, Shendu was lent power by his siblings to fight and banish the Oni King into the Shadowrealm.
Adaptational Late Appearance: He appeared before Drago and the Ice Crew in canon, but The Stronger Evil makes him appear after them.
Affably Evil: He views Jade trying to steal the control over the Shadowkhan through his mark not as competition but as an opportunity to christen a potential protégé into dark forces.
Big Bad Duumvirate: With Hsi Wu and Tiamat in The Stronger Evil, though unlike them, he enters the story for a shorter time.
Demoted to Extra: His entire Oni Mask arc, which had the entirety of the shows's fourth season, ends up consisting of only four chapters before he is sealed in his mask.
Evil Versus Evil: Tarakudo brought upon himself the combined might of the Demon Sorcerers by conquering Japan from Po Kong, culminating in his imprisonment. When he's freed by Drago, he makes Shendu's son his enemy by stealing the Ice Crew from him. Also, as soon as he learns about Shendu's current predicament, he decides to have his revenge on the Fire Demon.
Foil: To Shendu. See his folder for details.
Manipulative Bastard: After he forcibly turns Jade back into the Queen of the Shadowkhan through his mark, he convinces her to swear allegiance to him by playing on her perceptions of being held back and ignored that have been amplified by dark magic.
Physical God: He's apparently one by the setting's standards. His power matches that of Shendu after the latter has bound himself to his Other Valerie, and he states the only equal he's ever had is Tiamat.
Psychic Strangle: He uses his telekinetic powers to give Valerie this during their first encounter, with Drago's interference saving her.
Sealed Evil in a Can: Following his Generals' imprisonment inside the Oni Masks, Tarakudo was sealed in the Shadowrealm by the Demon Sorcerers a millennium ago. He's freed when Drago uses the very thing needed to release him — demon blood — to summon the Shadowkhan. He and his subordinates end up being sealed in his mask as per canon.

Other characters

John Lawson

Valerie's posthumous father who was a police detective in Washington. He was killed one year before the start of The Ultimate Evil.

Back from the Dead: He's temporarily resurrected for the Demon World arc due to Shendu erasing his death from the Book of Ages.
Brainy Brunette: He had brown hair and passed his deductive skills to his daughter.
Deceased Parents Are the Best: Valerie has nothing but fond memories of him, while her relationship with her mother is much more strained.
Disappeared Dad: A recently killed one to Valerie.
Knight in Sour Armor: John was not blind to the harsh realities, but he believed in giving criminals a chance to rehabilitate themselves even though he knew not everyone can be redeemed. Even his Demon World version is acknowledged by Shendu to be a fighter for justice who compromises his principles only when it comes to his daughter's fate.
Meaningful Name: Since he was a dedicated policeman, it's fitting his last name was Lawson.
Posthumous Character: A recurring plot point is Valerie's still fresh grief over his death.
Specs of Awesome: He wore large round glasses and arrested many criminals before his death.

Stephanie Payne

Valerie's mother. She chose to pursue her career as a lawyer and moved to Toronto when Valerie was little. The death of Valerie's father has left mother and daughter with a lot of catching up to do.

Strong Family Resemblance: Valerie has inherited most of her appearance from her mother.
When You Coming Home, Dad?: Stephanie is still busy with work to make time to visit her daughter in San Francisco.

Lo Mei

Lo Pei's daughter whom Shendu took as a bride against her will. Though Lo Pei led a rebellion against Shendu and turned him to stone to rescue her, she died in the process.

Affectionate Nickname: Her father used to call her "his (little) may-flower".
Daddy's Girl: Lo Pei's reanimated statue says that Pei and Mei were as close as father and daughter can be.
Driven to Suicide: Shendu forced Mei to watch as he killed her lover, and her grief was so great that as the rebels faced the demon off, she impaled herself with a sword.
Family Eye Resemblance: Her eyes are the only physical trait she shares with her distant niece Valerie. It's one of Shendu's first clues that they're related, and it's the reason Lo Pei's reanimated statue mistakes Valerie for Mei.
Flowers of Femininity: She was a sweet beauty who loved spending her time in gardens.
Innocent Blue Eyes: She had crystal blue eyes and is described to have been an embodiment of innocence by Shendu and Lo Pei's reanimated statue.
The Lost Lenore: Played with. While Shendu mostly wanted to father a legacy through Mei and now feels hatred for her indirect role in the events that led to his imprisonment, he admits he regrets losing the kind of a future he intended to share with her and now wants to share with Valerie. When Valerie asks if her resemblance to Mei is the reason he desires her, though, he tells her that Mei never had the same lasting impression on him as Valerie does.
Posthumous Character: Shendu is still seething at Mei for "causing" his downfall and imprisonment nine centuries after her death. It's also Mei's connection to Valerie that makes him interested about Val in the first place.

David

Valerie' classmate at the history course in San Francisco's university who has a crush on her.

Dogged Nice Guy: Valerie likes David as a friend but can't bring herself to start a relationship with him.
Keet: He's quite a positive guy. Sometimes Valerie finds him to be too energetic.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When he expresses his sympathies towards Valerie for being in a car accident (the cover story for being beaten up by Hak Foo), he's unusually calm and sincere. He explains that he experienced one as a kid.

SPOILER CHARACTER

Tiamat

The primordial goddess of oceans, storms and all chaotic forms of nature from Babylonian mythology. After Apsu, her husband and Other, was killed by humans, she conceived the eight Demon Sorcerers with Typhon as tools of her revenge, but the results horrified her so much that she hid herself from the world for centuries. In The Stronger Evil, the meteor shower that activates the Demon Sorcerers' chis also heralds Tiamat's return, which would mean the destruction of the current world.

Anti-Magic: The earthquakes caused by her awakening make the Shadowkhan vanish in two instances. Tarakudo reveals this is because Tiamat's presence banishes any magic that's not from that world.
Been There, Shaped History: She's responsible for every major extinction event in Earth's history. Her anger caused the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, and her marital spats with Apsu resulted in the breaking of the Pangea supercontinent.
Composite Character: When Valerie learns that Tiamat copulated with Typhon to birth the Demon Sorcerers, she notes that Tiamat has similarities with Echidna, Typhon's mate who birthed his monstrous offspring, indicating that the two figures are the same character in this universe.
Creepy Blue Eyes: Her brilliant blue eyes are the first physical feature revealed about her, and long before her identity is revealed, it's made clear she's so powerful even Shendu is intimidated by her.
Crusading Widow: She birthed the Demon Sorcerers for Typhon in order to avenge Apsu's death at the hands of humans. The results didn't bring her satisfaction.
Dragons Are Divine: The author's fanart of Tiamat depicts the goddess to be draconic in appearance.
The Dreaded: Even her demonic offspring are afraid of her might and anger.
God Couple: Like in the original myth, she was Apsu's wife before his death.
Missing Mom: She cut off all contact with the Demon Sorcerers after the destruction they wrought upon humans in her name ashamed her. They searched for her for some time, and when she starts awakening, Shendu sets out to find her with Valerie's help.
Monster Progenitor: Like her original counterpart, though the monstrous offspring were in this case the eight Demon Sorcerers she had with Typhon.
Nature Is Not Nice: When she decides it's time to make room for new lifeforms, she'll remove without hesitation all the currently living creatures on Earth.
The Older Immortal: Shendu states that Tiamat is one of the oldest of gods and possibly the most powerful of them all. The Guardian of the Book of Ages, who personally knew her, confirms that she was one of the beings of creation who was present at the dawn of time when the Book was first written.
Spared by the Adaptation: Tiamat of the Mesopotamian Mythology is slain, but this one is very much alive.
Vagueness Is Coming: Her return is heralded in the early chapters of The Stronger Evil, but it's not until the fifteenth chapter that Shendu reveals her identity and what her return entails.
Walking Spoiler: Her identity and connection to Shendu and the strange weather patterns around Earth are major spoilers in The Stronger Evil.

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