The Uniques is a superhero comic series featuring a large cast, so to make things easier, the character sheet will be organized by Cast Herd.
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New Wave
Hope Sage/Telepath
Hope Sage is the daughter of famed superheroes Mentor and Kinetic and the series' central character. The series begins when she awakens from a two-year coma she'd gone into after the psychic shock of feeling her parents die in the destruction of New York City in 1994. As she comes to terms with everything she's lost, she sets out to build her own superhero team to pick up where her parents left off.
- Child Soldier: She began her superhero career at the age of 13.
- Closet Geek: She collects superhero cards.
- Convenient Coma: Was in one for 2 years, and the series begins right when she wakes up.
- Conveniently an Orphan: Her parents are killed off before the start of the series.
- Experienced Protagonist: She was already an expert psion and highly trained combatant before the coma.
- Mind over Matter: One of her powers, which she inherited from her parents.
- Psychic Nosebleed: It's unknown whether she gets these normally, but the shock of feeling so much during the destruction of Manhattan causes her to feel psychic Blood from Every Orifice!!!
- Reluctant Fanservice Girl: She worries about being sexualised in collectible cards, particularly with her curvy figure.
- Super Powerful Genetics: Has the exact same power set as both of her parents.
- Telepathy: Her primary superpower and the source of her superhero name.
Nikki Carter/Motherboard
Hope's best friend and mission control for their budding superhero team. A child prodigy in computer programming, she spends her free time away from the team as part of a table top role playing game group.
- Badass Bookworm: Serves as the team's mission control for a reason.
- Badass Normal: Appears to be the only regular human on the team, since Scout is eventually revealed to have a minor power in an author Q&A.
- Big Beautiful Woman
- Child Prodigy: She and her brother were able to figure out the inner workings of alien technology as toddlers when teams of adult scientists couldn't figure out how they worked.
- Deadpan Snarker
- Empowered Badass Normal: There are neural implants on her arm that allow her to operate her computers at the speed of thought.
- Generation Xerox: Her parents filled the same role for the League of Seven that she does for Hope.
- Voice with an Internet Connection: She fills this role for Hope and her budding Super Team.
Katie Flynn/Kid Quick
One of hope's friends, Katie is the daughter of famed speedsters Speed and Celerity and one of the first people Hope recruits for her team.
- Adorkable
- Genki Girl
- Missing Mom: Celerity was killed in the bombing of New York City.
- Motor Mouth: Frequently talks at superspeed.
- Ship Tease: She and Scout get a hefty dose of this in Volume 2. [[spoiler: They Kiss in Issue #10)
- Super-Speed: Her powers.
Scout/ Matt Smith
The enigmatic sidekick for the mysterious vigilante known as Ghost.
- Badass Normal: Initially seems to be the case, but is subverted as of one of the Q&A segments. His power gives him the ability to find equilibrium on any surface, which means he can balance on just about anything. He notes that although it is not flashy, it is helpful for his work.
- Expy: Of Robin.
- Kid Sidekick: Fills this role to Ghost.
- Legally Dead: The reason he's more cautious about his identity than his teammates is that he was believed to have died in a fire.
- Secret Identity: The only member of the team who bothers having one, even keeping his identity a secret from his own teammates. When not in uniform, he uses the alias "Guy". His real name is revealed to be Matt Smith, and the reason he's so paranoid about his identity is a combination of the fact that he's legally dead, and that the number of corrupt politicians he's taken down would get him arrested on sight if he registered for his hero license.
Michael Collins
Grandson of the retired superhero Archangel. After his grandfather died in the psychic backlash of the attack on New York, he moved to Madison City to try to follow in his footsteps.
- Acquired Poison Immunity: One of his secondary powers is developing an immunity to anything - whether it be poison or a Compelling Voice - the more he's exposed to it.
- Adorkable
- Animal Eyes: It's unclear just what kind of eyes they are but they aren't human.
- Go-Go Enslavement: Stripped completely naked while a prisoner of the Pryde Foundation.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Implied that his family is part human, part winged alien.
- Meaningful Name: The angelic wings make it obvious.
- No Social Skills: Comes from being raised away from modern civilization.
- Winged Humanoid: big, white, and feathered.
Jack/Quake
A teenager from California looking to make the world a better place one bar fight at a time. He and Singe aspire to be heroes like Mentor and Kinetic, but have made little progress until Hope comes along.
- Big Brother Mentor: To Singe.
- Dishing Out Dirt: His main power is controlling vibrations, but he can often cause Earthquakes.
- How Do I Shot Web?: Had trouble controlling his powers prior to joining the team thanks to having no idea how they actually worked.
- Mr. Fanservice: A very attractive man who's often drawn to emphasise this fact.
- Rebellious Spirit: Hates the government and makes no secret of it.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: His battle outfit in season one features a jacket and no shirt. In season 2 he starts wearing chest armor, but still manages to find plenty of opportunities to go shirtless or wear shirts that are barely buttoned up while off duty.
Jason Klyne/Singe
Jack's protege and surrogate younger brother.
- A Day in the Limelight: He and Katie get more focus in Issues 6 and 7.
- Playing with Fire: His main power.
- Required Secondary Powers: Immune to fire. Unfortunately, they didn't manifest at the same time as his fire powers. See below.
- Scars Are Forever: Has burn scars on his hands because his immunity to fire didn't kick in right away and he accidentally burned himself a few times before they finally did.
- Tattoo as Character Type: Has tattoos on both of his arms.
The League of Seven
Paul Hart/Countryman I
John Sage/Mentor
Hope's father and one of the founding members of the League of Seven.
- Battle Couple: He and Kinetic were one before they died.
- Childhood Friend Romance: With his wife, Sue, according to Word of God. The twist is that because both of them are telepaths, they became friends while communicating with their minds for years before they ever met in person.
- Disappeared Dad: Killed off at the start of the series, leaving his two daughters orphaned.
- Expy: He and his wife were inspired by Professor X.
- Good Parents: He and his wife genuinely love their daughters.
- Killed Off for Real
- The Leader: He and Kinetic were the leaders of the League of Seven.
- Posthumous Character: Everything the audience knows about him comes from flashbacks and Word of God.
Sue Sage/Kinetic
Hope's mother and one of the founding members of the League of Seven.
- Battle Couple: With her husband before their deaths.
- Childhood Friend Romance: With the added twist that she and Mentor were telepathic pen-pals long before they ever met in person.
- Expy: She and her husband both bear plenty of similariies to Professor X.
- Good Parents: She and her husband genuinely love their daughters.
- Killed Off for Real: Before the first issue even starts.
- Madwoman in the Attic: Was shunted off to a mental asylum by her parents when her powers started to manifest.
- Missing Mom: Technically dead but the impact is the same.
- Posthumous Character: Everything known about her comes from flashbacks, conversations, and Word of God.
Robert Flynn/Speed
Katie's father and one of the founding members of the League of Seven.
- Battle Couple: With his wife when she was still alive.
- Good Parents: To Katie.
- Happily Married: He and Celerity were this.
- Survivor's Guilt: His wife died in the New York disaster.
Eva Flynn/Celerity
Katie's mother and one of the founding members of the League of Seven.
- Battle Couple: She and Speed were this even before they started dating.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: Flashbacks reveal that she survived long enough to evacuate survivors before succumbing to radiation poisoning in her husband's arms.
- Good Parents: To Katie.
- Happily Married: To her husband and crime fighting partner, Speed.
- Killed Off for Real: In the first issue. Flashbacks reveal that, rather than dying in the explosion, she used her powers to evacuate as many people as she could in the span of a few seconds before the radiation finally killed her.
- The Lost Lenore: To her husband and daughter.
- Missing Mom: Like Sue Sage, she died in the attack on New York.
- Posthumous Character: Just like everyone else who died during the New York bombing.
- Super-Speed: Her main power.
Jim Gavin/Virtue
One of the original members of the League of Seven. He was at ground zero when New York City was destroyed, and only survived thanks to his alien biology.
- Expy: Of Superman
- Honorary Uncle: To Hope, Constance, and Nikki
- Human Alien: In spite of his appearance.
- Survivor's Guilt: Over being the only one of the League of Seven besides Speed to survive the New York disaster.
Teen Force 3
The Group as a whole
A thre-person team of Corporate-sponsored superheroes created by multi-billionaire John White to boost public morale in the wake of the tragic attack on New York City. Although originally created as a beacon of hope for the people, the constant stream of merchandising tie-ins has lead many to see them as little more than a blatant marketing tool.
- Beneath the Mask: Shardzz is disgusted by the personality that he's forced to put on for the cameras, while Gravity Girl and Energyze have to pretend to be dating after the paparazzi misinterprets an overheard conversation.
- Corporate-Sponsored Superhero: A whole team of them
- Expy: They have a superficial resemblance to Brittany Spears, Justin Timberlake, and Sisqo.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Issue 7 reveals that despite their celebrity status and bickering off camera, they do genuinely want to make the world a better place.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: There are hints of this when they're away from the cameras.
Mandi Lee/Gravity Girl
Chris Williams/Shardzz
- Beneath the Mask: He despises the public persona he's forced to play for the team's marketing, but tries to tell himself that it's a necessary sacrifice to be able to make a difference in the world.
- Cultural Stereotypes: He acts like several black stereotypes on camera.
- Stereotype Flip: Whenever he's not in front of the press.
- Token Minority: The only African-American member of the team.
Robbie Mason/Energyze
The Task Force
The Group
A superhero team under the direction of the United States Government.
- Speak Ill of the Dead: Because Hope and Michael are the only ones who know that they were brainwashed and didn't attempt a coup against the US government of their own free will, the fallen team members are remembered by the public as traitors.
Shawn Redman/Countryman III
Former protege of the previous Countryman who took the mantle after his mentor was killed in the attack on New York. He's revealed in the first issue to be a mole for the unnamed conspiracy that engineered the attack.
- Career Versus Man: Had to choose between becoming a superhero and being with the guy he'd been in love with since middle school.
- Dying as Yourself: Makes Telepath kill him after she momentarily frees him from the Big Bad to keep the man from retaking control.
- Expy: Of Captain America, like everyone else to wear the Countryman mantle.
- Fighting from the Inside: Periodically breaks free of the Big Bad's mind control. He uses it to plant the suggestion to form her team in Hope's mind so that she'll be in the right place at the right time to stop him.
- Legacy Character: He's the third person to wear the costume and identity of Countryman.
- The Lost Lenore: To his ex-boyfriend Bill after his death in Issue 10.
- Manchurian Agent: He and his entire team are brainwashed pawns of the Big Bad.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: He and Bill were in love, but they were both gay men in the early 90s, and as Countryman, Shawn was expected to embody a traditional, heteronormative image of America.
- Straight Gay: He and Bill used to date.
Faith
One of the superheros of the Task Force
- Religion As Magic: How her powers appear to work in Issue 10.
Juggernaut
Agent One
A clone of the superhero Liberty.
Paul Reviere
A superhero who takes his name after the historical figure
Manifest Destiny
An android who works alongside the Task Force
The Pryde Foundation
Tabitha Wentz/Covet
The ringleader of the girls from Jacquelin Pryde's orphanage. She can duplicate the powers of other Uniques.
- Dark Action Girl: Wears black and can beat people at their own game.
- The Dragon: To Jaquelin Pryde
- Power Duplication: Her superpower.
Jeannie Barber/Siphon
Covet's second-in-command among the girls from the Pryde Foundation. She can absorb energy and redirect it as lightning.
- Dark Action Girl
- Energy Absorption
- Shock and Awe: What she does with the energy she absorbs
D'Esiree Harris/Rage
One of the girls from the Pryde Foudnation.
Dana Sutton/Shriek
One of the girls from Jacquelin Pryde's orphanage. She can produce an ultrasonic scream
Clyde Walker/Idle
The only boy from the Pryde orphanage. He can slow the movements of everyone around him.
- Bullet Time: He does this every time he uses his powers, since everyone else is now moving in slow motion while he moves normally.
- The Smurfette Principle: A male example
Traysi Park/Venus
One of the girls from Jacquelin Pryde's orphanage who developed superpowers. She uses her voice to enthrall the men around her.
- Compelling Voice: Her main power
- Power Perversion Potential: Given the fact that Michael was the only male member of the team who'd been stripped naked before being chained up, if she hadn't already raped him before the escape, she clearly planned to.
Jacquelin Pryde
Noted philanthropist and head of the Pryde Foundation. She vehemently opposes teen superhero teams, And uses the actions of both Hope's team and the TF 3 to further her agenda.
- Arc Villain: Set up as the villain of the first "season".
- Big Bad: Of the first season.
- The Chessmaster
- Muggle: Unlike her wards, she has no powers.
- Starter Villain: Along with Annihilgator, she's one of the first villains the team faces.
- Villain with Good Publicity: Only the heroes know that she's involved with the actions of her wards, and all their evidence was destroyed when Jack brought the building down on them.
Other Villains
Killaton
- The Bad Guy Wins: Accomplished his goal of destroying the U.N. headquarters and killing everyone inside.
- Pyrrhic Victory: Kills himself in order to destroy New York City
- Small Role, Big Impact: Only appears once, in a flashbacks, but it's his actions that set up the beginning of the series.
- Starter Villain: Sort of. He's the one who set the plot in motion by blowing up the U.N. building but has no other significance to the story.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Blows himself up in his first and only appearance.
Current
A mysterious and enigmatic Unique who advocates superhuman isolationism. His agents are responsible for the destruction of New York City, but there is debate among the public over whether or not he had anything to do with the attacks.
- Ambiguously Evil: His underlings carried out the bombing of New York City in 1994, but other superhumans insist that he had nothing to do with them and that reports blaming him for the attack are lies.
- Issue 9 reveals that the reports that he was responsible were indeed lies, and he was killed to prevent him from proving his innocence.
- Expy: of Magneto
- The Ghost: Has yet to appear in person, but his allies are responsible for the terrorist attacks on New York City. Finally appears in Issue 9 via Flashback.
- Posthumous Character: Was killed shortly after the attack on New York to prevent him from revealing the truth.
- We Used to Be Friends: Was close friends with Mentor and Kinetic during their early years of being heroes, but like Magneto and Professor X, they split apart over ideological differences.
The First Psion
A mysterious figure seen in the first issue giving orders to Countryman. He leads an Ancient Conspiracy towards an as-yet unknown goal. In Issue 10, he identifies himself as The First Psion, and is revealed to have telepathically brainwashed several heroes to carry out his bidding.
- Big Bad: The first season sets him up as this.
- Hidden Agenda Villain: His goal is still a mystery to the audience.
- I Have Many Names: Since he's been alive for almost a century, he's gone by many identities. His current one is US Vice President Hollis Richards.
- Older Than They Look: By his own admission, he's several decades old, having been alive since at least the 1940s during the day of the original Countryman.
- Telepathy: Can control the minds of others.
- Walking Spoiler: Almost all tropes related to him are spoilers.
Other Uniques
Conscience Sage
Hope's younger sister. Conscience has been living with the Carters ever since her parents died.
- Happily Adopted: She's Hope's adopted sister.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Her superpower.
Humans
Bill Carter
Nikki's older brother. He currently works as a government agent.
- Badass Bookworm: He's as smart as his sister is.
- Child Prodigy: Just like his sister.
- Straight Gay
