History Characters / AChampionInEarthBet

The ace SuperTeam of France's Irréductibles whom they call on to handle the worst threats, effectively the equivalent of the Protectorate's Triumvirate. The Avatar assists Irréductibles leader Victoire and Surdoué to convince France's government to give them associate status with the Brigade and allow them to assist in other countries.

* {{Flight}}: L'As de Carreau has 360° vision, SuperReflexes and hypersonic flight... [[RequiredSecondaryPowers but doesn't make her tough enough]] to ''survive'' flying at such speeds. Her armor fixes that by making her [[LightningBruiser tough]] enough to not only fly at her max speeds, but also protects her from harm if she collides with anything or anyone, especially while impaling them with her [[BladeOnAStick spear]].

* {{Expy}}: As a CaptainGeographic SuperSoldier with a WeaponOfChoice made of a {{Fantasy Metal|s}}, he's a clear reference to ComicBook/CaptainAmerica.

* {{Expy}}: As a {{Mutant}} with a HealingFactor and WolverineClaws, he's a clear reference to ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, if much more politically-minded.

* {{Expy}}: Is taken from the Fighting Fantasy game-book ''Literature/AppointmentWithFear'', having once faced the Fear Syndicate and its cybernetic leader Titan.

* {{Expy}}: Cryokinetic? Ice castle? Isolation? Hello, [[Franchise/{{Frozen}} Elsa]].

* {{Expy}}: Hello, [[Anime/FateZero Iskander]].

* {{Expy}}: Hello, [[Anime/FateZero Gilgamesh]].

* BenevolentAI: A 12-foot-tall {{Robot}}, designed to be a hero, and has all the benefits that come with such, such as [[HealingFactor self-repairing systems]] and being ImmuneToMindControl.

* HandBlast: His cosmic bolts are his main source of firepower, and they're immensely powerful; in Earth-Gimel's history, the nukes used in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII were explicitly compared to ''them''. Moreover, they resonate across many different planes, which makes them exceedingly effective at [[ArmorPiercingAttack bypassing armor]] - even the interdimensional flesh of an Endbringer.

* DisabilityImmunity: [[spoiler: Can withstand the immense pain his power leaves him in enough to function in every day society without anyone the wiser, [[AMindIsATerribleThingToRead but anyone that tries to read his mind is exposed to the full, constant agony he is experiencing]] which they invariably cannot handle]], giving him a potent psychic defense.

* MasterOfDisguise: If observers expect to see their leader, their friend or their confidante wherever she is, that's who they'll see when they look at her.
* TheNondescript: Her Stranger power makes her look like whoever the observers most expect to see, allowing for easy infiltration.
* {{Troll}}: Has a penchant for humiliating villains.

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[[folder: The European Brigade]]
A parahuman organization that was supposed to be an international alliance of superheroes across Europe, but the Simurgh effectively rendered the project stillborn, with only a few token heroes in its roster. With the Avatar's arrival and [[spoiler: his triumph over the Simurgh]], the project has been given new life, with new recruits being chosen.

!!Napoleon
A Polish superhero.

* CombatClairvoyance: His Thinker power generates tens of thousands of predicted scenarios of the future within a minute, painting him the most likely scenario of what's to come and the best course of action to take.
* FalseFlagAttack: In his first scene where he's caught on the wrong side of a five-on-three villain face-off, after using his powers to come up with a plan, he gives an order to one of the five villains to distract them all for a crucial moment.
* PragmaticHero: Shows shades of this. He won't hesitate to go for kill shots against villains he faces, especially if one of his teammates is injured.
* SuperheroPackingHeat: Carries a sidearm since his power isn't the most offensive.

!!Ice Queen
An independent parahuman from Italy, and one of the strongest parahumans in Europe. The Avatar asks her to consider associate membership with the European Brigade.

* AnIcePerson: Her control over ice and snow, as well as alter its physical properties, is second-to-none. And considering she's effectively used it against ''[[MakingASplash Leviathan]]'', that's saying something.
* {{Expy}}: Cryokinetic? Ice castle? Isolation? Hello, [[Franchise/{{Frozen}} Elsa]].
* ImNotAHeroIm: Doesn't care for her Ice Queen moniker given by the media, preferring her astronomer credentials as Dr. Esposito.
* TheHermit: Is incredibly antisocial, and prefers to live alone in her ice observatory on a mountaintop.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: The Avatar tells her as much, considering that despite her preference to being alone, she still comes down from her mountain to defend humanity against A and S-class threats.

!!Peur-de-Rien
A French independent parahuman team that strives for heroic panache in their deeds, who holds significant prestige in the country. The Avatar asks them to consider being associate members of the European Brigade, if not full members.

* JobSystem: A winner of the SuperpowerLottery in that his [[GadgeteerGenius Tinker]] specialization is ''variable''; he can change it once a day to any specialization he wants, from [[TonkaTough robustness]] to [[TimeMaster chronotech]]. The latter has proven immensely valuable to cancelling [[AndIMustScream Grey Boy loops]].

* TonkaTough: Prochnost's Tinker specialization is robustness, and most of his Tinker creations require far less maintenance than other Tinkers. His skills are frequently used to improve other Tinkers' work.

The ace SuperTeam of France's Irréductibles whom they call on to handle the worst threats, effectively the equivalent of the Protectorate's Triumvirate. The Avatar assists Irréductibles leader Victoire and Surdoué to convince France's government to give them associate status with the Brigade and allow them to assist in other countries.

* {{Flight}}: L'As de Carreau has 360° vision, SuperReflexes and hypersonic flight... [[RequiredSecondaryPowers but doesn't make her tough enough]] to ''survive'' flying at such speeds. Her armor fixes that by making her [[LightningBruiser tough]] enough to not only fly at her max speeds, but also protects her from harm if she collides with anything or anyone, especially while impaling them with her [[BladeOnAStick spear]].

* PlayingCardMotif: Natch. Their four members are named L'As de Coeur (Ace of Hearts), L'As de Trefle (Ace of Clubs), L'As de Carreau (Ace of Diamonds) and L'As de Pique (Ace of Spades).

* SupernaturalFearInducer: Her parahuman power.

* StoutStrength: Given his power to both [[NoSell ignore physical effects on his body]] and [[SuperStrength exert irresistible pushing force on anything he touches]], he certainly has the "strength" part, and he Invoked the "stout" part by making his cape image that of a masked sumo wrestler named after Mount Fuji. Ironically, he has no actual background in SumoWrestling.

* VampiricDraining: His powers effectively drain the LifeEnergy of people around him, slowly killing them with fatigue and exhaustion, and the more life he drains, he develops a smorgasbord of ComboPlatterPowers to go with it, GatheringSteam until he's said to be in Eidolon's class.

* AntiMagic: Her Tinker speciality is energy cancellation, and she has used it to great effect through devices like light-cancelling darkness generators or heat-cancelling freeze bombs. There's a reason she's one of the few people worldwide rated Tinker 8.

* HeroicWillpower: [[spoiler: Banner's powers burn his body up from the inside and leave him in perpetual agony - it's just that he can take the pain through sheer, stubborn willpower and not even show it in everyday life. Every other recipient of the treatment was empowered, but they were so overcome by the pain that they all committed suicide.]]

* StayInTheKitchen: Zigzagged. On the one hand, she is one of the world's premier scientists, sorceresses and superheroines, part of the world's greatest SuperTeam, presumably all of her own choice. On the other, she still has a traditionalist streak and a husband that is a little insecure both about her scientific reputation and her job as a Global Champion.

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[[folder: The Pentagon]]
Kenya's elite SuperTeam, five capes that have great power synergy between them. They're the main reason Kenya is relatively stable compared to the rest of Africa.

!!Radar

* BerserkButton: As Kaiser in a WhatIf scenario finds out, don't be a Nazi on the same continent as him.

* {{Expy}}: Is taken from the Fighting Fantasy game-book Literature/AppointmentWithFear, having once faced the Fear Syndicate and its cybernetic leader Titan.

* GutFeeling: [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration His original game-book mechanics are replicated]] via a precognitive Thinker power called his Trail of Crumbs, enabling him to get hunches on times and places to travel to, in order to find clues to accomplish a specific objective.

** [[spoiler: The Man of Might kerfuffle was one that he [[DidntSeeThatComing didn't see coming]], and his intervention was the turning point that allowed the heroes to defeat him (shoot the Man of Might from orbit via a Venture City station and have Venture Industries take the credit). Moreover, after the global hero population was cut in half, he decided to shore up their ranks by building Thermakron]].

* TheParagon: He always strives to inspire good and heroic behavior in others - as the God of Heroism, he can do no less. Without him as a symbol, the introduction of mutants into Earth-Gimel's society would have been a lot uglier.

* TheParagon: In addition to his credentials as the IdealHero and TheCape, he puts a lot of emphasis in inspiring others to do good. It's what allowed him to influence the rise of mutants into the rise of superheroes, and something he espouses a lot on Earth-Bet.

* ArchEnemy: His main nemesis is the AffablyEvil GentlemanThief Baron Midnight.
* HandBlast: His secondary power after his speed, way past the level of heavy artillery.
* HardboiledDetective: Straight out of a Noir novel, and has the skills to back it up.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Is characterized as the most {{Antihero}}ic member of the Champions, acting like a complete asshole and being hard to work with on many occasions. However, no-one denies his incorruptibility and dedication to justice, just like his comrades.
* MugglePower: Got frustrated as an ordinary police detective that the force couldn't deal with superhuman villains and needed superheroes to do the work, so he decided to become one himself.

* ArchEnemy: Has one in Valerius, magical vampiric mastermind and [[LegionOfDoom Global Might]] member.

* {{Swashbuckler}}: One of his main characterizations.

* ArchEnemy: Has one in the Druid, an EcoTerrorist.

* HeatWave/ColdSnap: His Shaker power makes him immune to heat and allows him to instantly raise or lower the temperature of everything in a spherical globe around him.

* FlyingFirepower[=/=]FlyingBrick: A mix; his core powerset is {{Flight}}, [[EnergyWeapon immensely powerful cosmic energy blasts]], and SuperToughness, only lacking in SuperStrength. He makes up for that with MindOverMatter.

* {{Expy}}: As a CaptainGeographic SuperSoldier with a WeaponOfChoice made of a FantasyMetal, he's a clear reference to ComicBook/CaptainAmerica.

* AntiHero: Is characterized as an asshole, to say the least.

* LightningBruiser:
Has SuperStrength, NighInvulnerable, and yet is more agile than anything its size should be.

* TheMedic: Of a fashion; her power to transfer injuries to and from others have made her invaluable to the Guild, especially when paired with regenerators.

* DestructiveSavior: Since his heat-increasing ability is quite indiscriminate, concerns about collateral damage and lethal applications have been raised. As a result, he doesn't get to do much in his Protectorate branch and does more work with the Guild.
* HeatWave: His Shaker power makes him immune to heat and allows him to instantly raise the temperature of everything in a spherical globe around him.

* TheresNoPlaceLikeHome: Her one dream is to return to her home of the Ivory Coast, after the Tinker warlord Swarm chased her out of it.

* StatusBuff[=/=]StatusAilment: Is a Shaker that generates "entropy zones", which make everything and everyone in them harder or easier to damage.

* FlyingFirepower[=/=]FlyingBrick: A mix; his core powerset is {{Flight}}, [[FrickinLaserBeams immensely powerful cosmic energy blasts]], and SuperToughness, only lacking in SuperStrength. He makes up for that with MindOverMatter.

* TeleportersAndTransporters: A lot of capes under his command have this power, all the better to get out of range of his power when he starts feeding.

* TeleportersAndTransporters: She can teleport herself and anything she touches to any clear space within a few hundred feet. When she triggered during Leviathan's sundering of Kyushu, her power proved integral to evacuation efforts.

* LightningBruiser: SuperStrong, NighInvulnerable, yet is more agile than anything its size should be.

* MasterSwordsman: He was a world-class fencer before he became a SuperSoldier.

* ComesGreatResponsibility: As a {{Mutant}}, he believes that {{Transhumanism}} is the future and those born with powers like him have the responsibility to make their world a good one. Which shows given how invested he is in politics.

* HealingFactor: His mutant control over his own biology has given him one, and it's a very potent one.

* FlashStep: Her power is essentially to turn into an energy form that moves at light speed for a split second - which is more than enough to cross a good chunk of distance and impart a large amount of force.

* OldSuperhero: Downplayed. He was a founder of the Indonesian superhero team Red White. Now he's past his 40s and still going strong, but the years have worn on him and, while they haven't turned him cynical, have definitely shrunk his dreams for the future.

* FalseFlagAttack: In his first scene where he's caught on the wrong side of a 5-3 villain face-off, after using his powers to come up with a plan, he gives an order to one of the five villains to distract them all for a crucial moment.

* StoutStrength: Given his power to both [[NoSell ignore physical effects on his body]] and [[SuperStrength exert irresistible pushing force on anything he touches]], he certainly has the "strength" part, and he Invoked the "stout" part by making his cape image that of a masked sumo wrestler named after Mount Fuji. Ironically, he has no background in sumo wrestling.

* DoNotGoGentle: Once she heard that the Avatar was gunning threats like her, she was willing to do as much damage to the Kolwezi populace before she went down.

* LesserOfTwoEvils: The Greater Evil in comparison to the Triple Alliance, three warlords in control of the ''rest'' of the Congo, who use her as the worse choice to allying with them.

* {{Expy}}: Cryokinetic? Ice castle? Isolation? Hello, [[Disney/{{Frozen}} Elsa]].

* SeenItAll: As he's been around since the dawn of humanity, he's seen all of what it had to offer, from the amazing to the horrible. When he witnesses the villain Blood Count using cages of prisoners to [[VampiricDraining drain for power]], he stoically thinks that the sight doesn't even come close to his top 10 of horrors.

* SuperSoldier: An experimental procedure on his brain's motor centers gave him SuperReflexes, super agility, and super dexterity.

* SuperPrototype: The Techno-Paladin armor was this, since it was supposed to be a prototype for mass-producible power armor to allow ordinary SWAT teams to defeat supervillains. This is why Lewis considers the Techno-Paladin armor to be his biggest ''[[CreatorBacklash failure]]'', as although it made him one of the top superheroes in the world, it was ''impossible'' to mass-produce.

* LittleMissBadass: How she started out, triggering as a 7-year-old girl when she [[TakingTheBullet took bullets]] meant for her mother. Her tenure with the Protectorate is filled with A and S-class encounters, including Endbringers and the Slaughterhouse Nine, and one of her go-to tactics is ''stabbing herself'' to transfer injuries to her targets.

* SuperToughness: La Matraque Bleue, in addition to her own strength and durability, can reinforce other objects with the same toughness, like her [[DropTheHammer warhammer]] WeaponOfChoice.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: They never really set out to conquer the whole city, but when they clashed with the big dogs of the country, even the hero Invencible, [[TheBadGuyWins they were the ones standing tall at the end]].

* MyCountryRightOrWrong: He is an ultranationalist to say the least. Said terrorist scandal was linked to attacks against Korean businesses in Japan, an he now controls a "foreigner-free" part of Tokyo while trying to be the face of the ultranationalist movement.

* UnfortunateNames: He's a Vietnamese parahuman who named himself after [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar white phosphorus]]. According to the author, he suffers from self-loathing

* {{Omniglot}}: Living as long as he did, he's picked up a lot of languages. Every time he's talked to someone from another country, he can flawlessly communicate with them in their native tongue.

* TheSmartGuy: When people call you "the smartest man in superheroics", it's usually not for show.

[[folder: Weaver/Taylor hebert]]
A young parahuman from Brockton Bay who circumstances forced into villainy. After some support and sponsoring from the Avatar, her old dream of heroism was reawakened and she joined the Wards in Boston.

* MadeOfIron: After the Avatar's arrival, she has constructed a suit made of omni-metal that the Avatar provided.
* WorldsStrongestMan: Between the power, versatility, and output of her tech, she is the only Tinker 9 in the world, with none having a higher rating.

A member of the Los Angeles Protectorate branch and part-time Guild member.

* BadassAdorable: How she started out, triggering as a preteen girl when she [[TakingTheBullet took bullets]] meant for her mother.

* GatheringSteam: With every unarmed strike to a living target she deals, her personal force field increases in durability and brightness, and her strikes gain the power of ''every'' strike she dealt before. By the end of long engagements, she can be glowing like a star and [[LightningBruiser hitting like a steamroller]].

* ShockAndAwe: His Tinker specialty is electric fields and their applications, both electrostatic and electromagnetic.

A Tinker cape from the Ivory Coast and a Cauldron cape, recruited alongside the Avatar.

A German cape from Die Deutscheritters, recruited after the Skylance operation.

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: His incredible charisma at convincing his defeated foes to flock to his banner is a main reason he's so dangerous.

* FailureGambit: Skylance tries to enact one when the Guild comes for her head, planning to surrender herself for the good of her people, make herself a martyr, and get enough public support to pressure the government to release her. Unfortunately, Fuji-Sama crashes the party and keeps that narrative from being spun by labeling her a coward.

* ThinkingUpPortals: Her parahuman power allows her to create portals that are stationary relative to each other, but not to the world. And she has a brutal range; she can launch streams of lava by establishing a portal beneath the Earth's surface on the other side of the planet (which is moving in the opposite direction to her current location).

[[folder: Weaver]]

* YoungConqueror: Was only in her teens when she Triggered, and promptly used her new capabilities to eliminate the warlord that took over her village.

A dimensional traveler who has clashed many times with the Avatar and the Global Champions, and the MadScientist to end all mad scientists. He's the one who threw the Avatar into Earth-Bet in the first place.

The divine avatar of Adeltom, the God of Heroism, the Avatar has been around since the 1920s as Earth-Gimel's very first and most powerful superhero. He is the leader of the Global Champions, his earth's premier superhero team, who was dropped into Earth-Bet by Madman to solve a potential interdimensional threat. He joins the Guild to best handle international A-Class threats.

* SuperSoldier: An experimental procedure gave him SuperReflexes, super agility, and super dexterity.

* NoSell: Her secondary and most useful power is her ability to become immune to the direct effects of other parahuman powers. She'd tried to keep it a SecretWeapon by dodging attacks instead of taking them, but after the Argentinian cartels found out about it, they'd publicized it and largely reduced her effectiveness, since now they'd use mundane heavy weapons on her instead of parahuman powers.

* GatheringSteam: With every unarmed strike to a living target she deals, her personal force field increases in durability and brightness, and her strikes gain the power of ''every'' strike she dealt before. By the end of long engagements, she can be glowing like a star and hitting like a steamroller.

* OldSoldier: He was a founder of the Indonesian superhero team Red White. Now he's past his 40s and still going, but the years have worn on him and, while they haven't turned him cynical, have definitely shrunk his dreams for the future.

* FullBodyDisguise: Wears a full-body costume to avoid leaving DNA evidence behind; a requirement in the cloak-and-dagger cartel-laden environment that is Argentina's cape scene.

* LiquidAssets: He can "steal" speed from others by touch, slowing them down while speeding himself up, and can also [[StatusBuff give the speed to others]]. However, [[HeroicRRoD overuse can burn him out and leave him in pain]].

* OlderThanTheyLook: She's used a lot of Kinesis's SuperSpeed over the years to develop and maintain her equipment, and the Avatar can't help thinking that she's aged a lot more than her birth certificate would imply.

* {{Nanomachines}}: Her Tinker specialty; her greatest weapon is her smart gel made up of millions of drones that can assemble into any configuration imaginable.

* ToWinWithoutFighting: Skylance tries to use this tactic when the Guild comes for her head, planning to surrender herself for the good of her people, make herself a martyr, and get enough public support to pressure the government to release her. Unfortunately, Fuji-Sama crashes the party and keeps that narrative from being spun by labeling her a coward.

!!Other
[[folder: The King's Men]]
The United Kingdom's premier parahuman organisation, headed by Lord Walston.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Between the Simurgh's attack on London, the effective decapitation of the country's leadership, and the lack of international aid that resulted in Britain seceding from the European Union, the country has been through a lot of problematic times.
* IgnoredExpert: One scene has Johnny Kong, a teamwork Thinker, advising Lord Walston on keeping some capes out of a future operation to prevent possible future unrest, only for Walston to ignore his advice on account of viewing half-measures against scum (dissidents) as weakness.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Lord Walston, head of the King's Men, has become effectively an ultranationalist, who advocates order and stability over personal rights.
** Johnny Kong is also of the opinion that disloyalty to one's country and superiors is a vice above all else, even blind obedience.
* MakeMeWannaShout: Lord Walston's parahuman powers, which give him full awareness of all sound in his radius, making him a [[BigBrotherIsWatching very effective clairvoyant]].
* StealthPun: Johnny Kong styles himself as a [[Creator/{{Confucius}} neo-Confucianist]]. In Mandarin, Confucius was called "Kong zi" (Master Kong), and in Chinese tradition, his name was "Zhongni".
* TeamSpirit: Johnny Kong, a member of the King's Men, is a Thinker specializing in teamwork and synergy.

[[folder: Madman]]
A dimensional traveler who has clashed many times with the Avatar and the Global Champions, and the MadScientist to end all mad scientists. He's the one who threw the Avatar into Earth-Bet in the first place.

* IdealHero: Charismatic, altruistic, selfless, inspirational and steadfast, he literally embodies the heroic ideal in a way no human can. [[spoiler: It's how Tattletale figures out that he's not a natural human- he's ''too perfect'' a hero.]]

* FightsLikeANormal: With no overtly offensive powers, he uses his brains and skills to more than make up for them.
* RoyalRapier: His WeaponOfChoice; a MonomolecularBlade made of omni-metal, which can cut through tanks like butter.
* SuperSoldier: An experimental procedure gave him SuperReflexes, super agility, and coordination.

* PestController: Can control all invertebrates in her range with extraordinary skill and coordination.

An [[SuperTeam international parahuman organization]] dedicated to facing the worst A and S-class threats around the world. It recently picked up steam after it went on an international recruiting effort, including adding the Avatar to its ranks.

* GutFeeling: [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration His original game-book mechanics are replicated]] via a Thinker power called his Trail of Crumbs, enabling him to get hunches on times and places to travel to, in order to find clues to accomplish a specific objective.

* TheSmartGuy: His powers make him particularly apt at being this, since they literally make him the smartest guy in the room - no matter which room he's in.

* LevelScaling: An inversion where ''he'' is the enemy; he is a Brute that gets stronger and tougher based on his opponent's strength.

* NoSell: Her secondary and most useful power is her ability to become immune to the direct effects of other parahuman powers. She'd tried to keep it a SecretWeapon by dodging attacks instead of taking them, but after the Argentinian cartels found out about it, they'd publicized it and largely reduced her effectiveness.

* OldSoldier: He was a founder of the Indonesian superhero team Red White. Now he's past his 40s and still going, but the years have worn on him and, while they haven't turned him cynical, had definitely shrunk his dreams for the future.

* [[BigBrotherIsWatching Big Sister Is Watching]]: She can put people she touches on a mental list; it only has so many spaces, but she can talk to them, see through their eyes and hear through their ears regardless of distance and without them even knowing it.

* PowerCopying: His Tinker specialty is creating equipment that mimics the powers of parahumans he's observed, a lot of which he's modularised and put into his PoweredArmor. However, like most Tinkers, maintenance limits the number of powers he can have on hand.
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler: Entered a backroom deal with Prochnost and the PRT, helping them replicate useful powers like Tattletale's and Flechette's. However, he doesn't know that he's actually making deals with the Queen of Black and White and Cauldron.]]

** This changes when the Avatar tells him about a potential Brigade Tinker from Spain that specializes in [[{{Hammerspace}} pocket dimensions]].

* RealityWarping: Within his range, Wyld Hunter has full control over his surroundings: making monsters appear, turning day into night, dropping lightning, even surviving in a vacuum. [[spoiler: That last part is important when the Avatar [[TheExile exiles]] him to the moon.]]

A [[FantasticRacism neo-Nazi]] organisation in Europe, which holds a lot of power through racist rhetoric and ultranationalist leanings.

* ManipulativeBastard: Rhetor, the organisation's leader, whose Thinker power enables him to know exactly the right things to say and how to act to convince others.

* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: When Poseedor cornered Espectro after the latter stole from him, he found the kid's power too tempting to ignore, so he offered him a partnership.

** Johnny Kong is also of the opinion that disloyalty to one's country and superiors is a vice above all else.

* StealthPun: Johnny Kong styles himself as a [[UsefulNotes/{{Confucius}} neo-Confucianist]]. In Mandarin, Confucius was called "Kong zi" (Master Kong), and in Chinese tradition, his name was "Zhongni".
* TeamSpirit: Johnny Kong, a member of the King's Men, is a Thinker specialising in teamwork and synergy.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: The embodiment of the abstract concept of heroism. Or rather, his soul and power are- the physical form is one he made based on what people thought of at the time (strong caucasian male with muscles and a cape) represented heroism. He shows some regret on choosing that form (thinking that it's not very racially inclusive), and thinks that if he could do it again he might choose differently.

Although the Avatar was the member of the Global Champions selected as the quest's protagonist, the author gave the possibility of any of the other members of the Global Champions to go instead. [[AllThereInTheManual Their profiles are detailed in the quest's first chapter]].

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: The embodiment of the abstract concept of heroism.

* IdealHero: Charismatic, altruistic, selfless, inspirational and steadfast, he literally embodies the heroic ideal in a way no human can.

** This changes when the Avatar tells him about a potential Brigade Tinker from Spain that specialises in [[{{Hammerspace}} pocket dimensions]].

* BodySurf: Poseedor's main power is to jump into the body of the nearest person when he is killed, [[DemonicPossession possessing them]], wiping out their mind and completely taking over their body.

* EnergyBeing: An alien being from the stars, [[{{Intangiblity}} intangible to virtually all matter]] and almost always [[{{Invisibility}} invisible]]. He usually appears as a ball of light to communicate with others.

* WindsOfDestinyChange: The Avatar can influence the winds of fate and change destiny as he sees fit, and it's the one tool in his powerset that cannot be predicted by precognitives. However, his use of it is very restricted.

* HeroicLineage: She's the daughter of a super cop and the granddaughter of a SuperSoldier.

* SizeShifter: Her mutant powers allow her to change size at will, augmenting her already-impressive strength and toughness.

* RoyalRapier: His WeaponOfChoice; a MonomolecularBlade made of omni-metal, which is able to cut through tanks like butter.

* ComesGreatResponsibility: As a mutant, he believes that those born with powers like him have the responsibility to make their world a good one. Which shows given how invested he is in politics.

* GadgeteerGenius: With how much capability his armor gives him, he is definitely this.
* HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic: Since his armor protects him by generating an invulnerability field that covers his entire body (and the armor itself), the lack of helmet doesn't actually put him at risk.

* EnergyBeing: An alien being from the stars, able to [[{{Intangibility}} pass through matter]] and [[{{Invisibility}} turn invisible]].

* BenevolentAI: A 12-foot-tall robot, designed to be a hero, and has all the benefits that come with such, such as [[HealingFactor self-repairing systems]] and being ImmuneToMindControl.
* LightningBruiser: [[SuperStrength Super Strong]], NighInvulnerable, yet [[ImpossiblyGracefulGiant is more agile than anything its size should be]].

* InNameOnly: He differs quite a bit from his canon counterpart Ben Cothran, who was a jovial Protectorate hero with immovability powers.

* BareFistedMonk: How she fights given that her power works with unarmed strikes, and also because she fought in national kung-fu tournaments.

* StanceSystem: A winner of the SuperpowerLottery in that his [[GadgeteerGenius Tinker]] specialisation is ''variable''; he can change it once a day to any specialisation he wants, from [[TonkaTough robustness]] to [[TimeMaster chronotech]]. The latter has proven immensely valuable to cancelling [[AndIMustScream Grey Boy loops]].

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Despite their hateful rhetoric, their movement has a lot of steam, especially among [[MyCountryRightOrWrong ultra-nationalists]], and they have many child organisations around the world, such as the Empire 88.

* ShadowArchetype: Is this to the canon Undersiders, as a team of villains with good power synergy who ended up conquering the city after clashing with authority and winning the escalation game.

* MagicVersusScience: Taken the third option and combined both her profession of physics with the phenomena of magic, making her an extremely powerful sorceress.

* HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic: Since his armor protects him by generation an invulnerability field that covers his entire body (and the armor itself), the lack of helmet doesn't actually put him at risk.

!!Phantom

* BenevolentAI: A 12-foot-tall robot, designed to be a hero, and has all the benefits that come with such.

* InstantKill: His power: If he can see someone, they die. No ifs, ands or buts about it, heedless of Breaker or Brute powers.

* PowerIncontinence: Which really ''blows'' when your power is StuffBlowingUp.
* StuffBlowingUp: His body uncontrollably emits explosions that damage, push away and blind everyone and everything that comes close to him.

!!Laser Fist
A superhero from Seoul.

A French independent parahuman team that strives for heroic panache in their deeds, who holds significant prestige in the country. The Avatar asks them to consider being associate members, if not full members.

* HumongousMecha: The last surviving founding member and current leader, Goldorak, is a Tinker who specialises in giant robots. Unfortunately, limitations to his teleporter tech means he can't actually operate outside Paris.

* StanceSystem: A winner of the SuperpowerLottery in that his [[GadgeteerGenius Tinker]] specialisation is ''variable''; he can change it once a day to any specialisation he wants, from robustness to [[TimeMaster chronotech]]. The latter has proven immensely valuable to cancelling [[AndIMustScream Grey Boy loops]].

* ComboPlatterPowers: What he develops the more LifeEnergy he absorbs with his powers, from {{Flight}} and a HealingFactor at the low end to a DangerSense, [[ShockAndAwe electric discharges]], [[BarrierWarrior force fields]] and SuperSpeed at the higher end, and who knows what else.

* FlyingFirepower[=/=]FlyingBrick: A mix; his core powerset is {{Flight}}, [[FrickinLaserBeams immensely powerful cosmic energy blasts]], and SuperToughness, only lacking in SuperStrength.

The leader of the Guild.

A Japanese parahuman and far-right political figure. He was once a member of the Yamato Party and in line to be elected to the Japanese National Diet until a terrorist scandal crushed his career and caused him to trigger.

!!Other
[[folder: The King's Men]]
The United Kingdom's premier parahuman organisation, headed by Lord Walston.