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Cube Warden
- "And our youth become killers...perhaps we do have a war on our hands."
- Battle Trophy: He wanted to keep the alien members of the Runaways and the Young Avengers as trophy since they had no legal standing in the United States.
- Brainwashing for the Greater Good: In a twisted way, he brainwashed Noh-Varr to capture the Runaways because Maria Hill asked him to work for the pro registration side in the civil war of super heroes. He actually didn't care one bit.
- Mad Doctor: He brainwashes Noh-Varr and was going to keep the alien members of the Young Avengers and the Runaways to experiment on them if he had won.
- Metaphorgotten: While explaining his thoughts on humans to Maria Hill with maggots. Hill lost him in the middle.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: He extracted Noh-Varr from the battlefield just when he was about to kill Nico, Chase and Kate Bishop.
- Psycho for Hire: Couldn't care less about Hill's motives for capturing the Runaways and the Young Avengers.
Chrell
- "Always remember, when you face a superior opponent, learn their weaknesses. Exploit them. That is the Skrull way."
Former teacher in the Super-Skrull Training Program turned commander in the Skrull invasion force. A strong believer in the Skrull invasion, he aims to capture Teddy and Xavin, both runaway Skrull royals.
- The Dreaded: Xavin is terrified of him, with good reason.
- The Fundamentalist: He believes on the Skrull Queen and the Skrull invasion prophecy. Anyone who believes in other prophecies, specially the one about Teddy, should die.
- Sadistic Choice: He gave Xavin from the Runaways the choice between killing Teddy or watch his fellow Runaways die.
- The Sociopath: If him threatening to kill all the Runaways if Xavin didn't kill Teddy doesn't convince you of him being this, his willing to go Nova and kill everyone, including himself, will.
- Training from Hell: His methods for training are quite ruthless.
Mother
- "Everyone agreed it's best you and my lovely boy come home with me so I can feed on your souls until you're nice and dead inside."
- Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: Turns out that Loki tricking her was a really bad idea for the world.
- Eldritch Abomination: She comes from another dimension and as of now, it's formless but she is described as a parasite by Kid Loki.
- Faux Affably Evil: Aside from the fact she wants to kill the Young Avengers and their world, she acts in a totally normal worried mother behavior.
- The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: In issue #10 she grabs the narration box and eats it, while the narrator begs the readers to save him.
- Humanoid Abomination: Or rather, Humanoid-Skrull abomination. She takes control of other humans though, so that counts.
- Make an Example of Them: In the third volume, after being outsmarted and taunted by Loki she intends to attack entire world and leave it scarred, as a message to the Multiverse she's not to be played with.
- Mass Hypnosis: Every time the Young Avengers get close to her or their parents, she will automatically take control over them and the people around them.
- Killed Off for Real: Ultimately destroyed by Wiccan tapping into the power of the Demiurge with Hulkling's help.
- Odd-Shaped Panel: Weaponized.
- One Bad Mother: She's called "Mother" in-series, and is the primary villain of volume 2.
- Painting the Medium: The main indicator of how bizarre Mother and her home dimension are. She basically exists in the space outside panels, can turn panel borders into tentacles, and EATS the narration box.
- Stepford Smiler: She smiles quite a lot for an interdimensional parasite who wants to kill everyone.
- Villain Team-Up: Briefly with Fake Patriot. And now with both him and Leah.
Fake Patriot
- "Tic-Toc. Tic-Toc."
- Animated Armor: There's nothing visible under the suit.
- The Assimilator: He consumed Speed after defeating him.
- Black Speech: His speech bubbles are drawn this way to emphasize his odd nature.
- Catchphrase: "Denial.", "Tic-Toc", "No one escapes".
- Creepy Monotone: The very few lines he says are repeated in a clear monotone way.
- Dimensional Traveler: He leads the Young Avengers through many dimensions where they go bad.
- Eldritch Abomination: Assumed to be this.
- Good All Along: He is a Young Avenger who left his humanity behind and traveled to the past to ensure the good future came to pass. For this, he took Tommy hostage to ensure David would join the Young Avengers and then lead them across many dimensions where they go bad to show them how they would probably end if they ever decide to go bad. Finally, he leads them to Mother's dimension so they stop escaping and confront her.
- Hidden Agenda Villain: He was this during all of Young Avengers vol.2. We didn't know why he was using Patriot's likeness, why he wanted Tommy or what he is in general. We still don't know much about him but it was revealed in #15 that he isn't really a villain. The patriot costume probably was to infiltrate the Ex-Men easily.
- Humanoid Abomination: When he's manifesting into his patriot armor.
- Mind Rape: Subjected Speed to one.
- Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: Mother passes up the chance to eat him, because something tells her it might be a trap.
- Villain Team-Up: Teams up with Mother as a part of his plans. And then again with Mother and Leah.
- Was Once a Man: Prodigy deduced that Fake Patriot was once a human, particularly one of the Young Avengers, but he sacrificed his humanity to make sure the Young Avengers follow the correct path in the past. The one who sacrificed himself is David himself in the future, according to his own theory. Fake Patriot neither denied nor agreed so the answer is in the air for now.
Ex-Men
- "Some people harbor the most terrible grudges."
Group of superpowered teenagers who were at one point in relationship with a member of Young Avengers. Gathered and lead by Leah of Hel, the team includes Ultimate Nullifier and Noh-Varr's three ex-girlfriends, Meree, Exterminatrix and Annie. And Fake Patriot. Aside from Fake Patriot, it turns out they're all manifestations of Loki's guilt specifically tailored to each hero.
Note: Here goes all the tropes about Leah in Kieron Gillen's run on Young Avengers. For Leah outside of this run go here.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: She isn't the real Leah. She was created from Loki's subconscious wish to have Leah back when he held Billy's power. However, she was corrupted by Loki's self-loathing, making her obsessed with destroying him.
- Noh-Varr is willing to let Kate go for a chance to be with Exterminatrix again. Too bad she isn't real either unlike Kate.
- Broken Bird: Leah.
- Enemy Without: Except for Fake Patriot, they're all manifestations of Loki's guilt that are tailored to the Young Avengers.
- Expy: A group of young people previously in a relationship with assorted Young Avengers? Turned evil? Sounds pretty much like, well, The League of Evil Exes. Lampshaded in one of the "yamblr" recaps.
- Evil Mentor: Leah was one temporarily to Hulkling.
- Face–Heel Turn: Most of them were heroes last time we seen them. They probably still are because these versions of them aren't real.
- Goth: Leah of Hel. Kieron Gillen says it's a pure coincidence, but she looks like the type of goth girlfriend he dreamed of at the age of twenty.
- Quirky Miniboss Squad: In their focus issue, they're shown to be teenagers with various degrees of normalcy.
- She's All Grown Up: Leah and Annie. Subverted, since both are magical creations from Loki's guilty mind. The real ones are not older yet.
- The Psycho Rangers: Respectively, based on whom they fight
- Leah of Hel - Loki
- Ultimate Nullifier - Miss America
- Meere and Annie - Hawkeye
- Exterminatrix - Noh-Varr
- Fake Patriot - Prodigy
- Mother - Billy
- Tranquil Fury: Leah manifests this everytime she talks about Loki.
- Yandere: Except for Fake Patriot, all of them show some signs towards the Young Avengers, but Exterminatrix really takes the cake. (Even Meree and Annie think Exterminatrix is going overboard.)
Bad Ideas
- "We've seen astounding sights that catch my breath and will haunt me for life. Mayfly dimensions full of horrors craving to be more than a tiny fragment of time. Desperate dimensions full of fears, all time running out. The interndimensions, hungering after what we were lucky enough to be born into."note
An army of Evil alternate counterparts of Young Avengers.
- Bald of Evil: Many monsters but particularly some bald Davids.
- Evil Makes You Monstrous/Evil Makes You Ugly: There's not a single evil version of the Young Avengers who isn't horribly scarred, completely disfigured or a straight monster.
- Evil Twin: All of them.
- Evil Versus Evil: Young Avengers tricked them into attacking Mother in her home dimension.
- Expendable Alternate Universe: On a meta level it seems to be the reason why Mother considers them no more than a snack.
- Eyepatch of Power: One of alternate Noh-Varrs.
- Genuine Human Hide: An evil Loki is wearing what looks like a human mask.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: Nazi Kate, eye patch Noh-Varr and bald Prodigy. Also Doom-Wiccan is probably horribly scarred behind that mask quite like the original Doom.
- Mooks: Mother used them as such to invade the earth in order to teach a lesson to the Young Avengers.
- Putting on the Reich: One of alternate Kates wears Nazi uniform.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: Devil Wiccan.
- Red Right Hand: Most of the evil versions are either scarred or missing limbs.
- Redshirt Army: Immediately after launching their assault, they all end up curb stomped and imprisoned by Mother.
- Villainous Rescue: Their attack distracted Mother, allowing Young Avengers to rescue Teddy and David from her clutches.
