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!!The Stylers
[[folder:In General]]
!!''The Stylers''
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''
The DarkerAndEdgier and YoungerAndHipper offshoot of the Yardies.
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* EqualOpportunityEvil: In contrast to the Stokes family's use of exclusively male foot soldiers, the Stylers have both men and women among their soldiers. They also have no problem with hiring American-born blacks, Latinos and even a handful of whites into their organization.
* FromBadToWorse: As D.W. puts it, if the Yardies are Al-Qaeda, the Stylers are ISIS.
* ImprobablyCoolCar: The gang use heavily-modified lowrider cars that are stereotypically suitable for drive-by shootings. Though this does give them an intimidation factor, Misty is eventually able to use this to track their movements.
* ItsPersonal: Played for laughs but they dislike Luke Cage because of a comment about him being faster than Usain Bolt.
* RuthlessForeignGangsters: They seem to have this reputation among the Harlem gangs, especially when decapitation becomes a regular thing for them. Ironically, as ruthless as they are under Bushmaster, Mariah proves to be ''far'' more willing to cross the line.
* SharpDressedMan: Many of the higher-ups wear business suits. To quote Bushmaster, "A Styler must style".
* TheYardies: They are an offshoot of the original Yardies, formed by a younger generation.
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!!!Leadership
[[folder:John "Bushmaster" [=McIver=]]]
!!''John "Bushmaster" [=McIver=]''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Harlem, is not yuh yard bwoy, it's ''mine''."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Enhanced human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Jamaican-American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MustafaShakir
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''
->''"Life has taught me this. You can't drown sorrow with tears. If you want to erase sorrow, you must burn it."''
A Jamaican gangster new to Harlem, who proves capable of taking on Luke Cage by himself.
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* AdaptationalCurves: Inverted. He lacks the exaggerated physique of his comic counterpart.
* AffablyEvil: Oddly enough, yes. The man might decapitate people and stick their heads on pikes, but he's generally fairly polite to friends and enemies alike, sincerely thanks Luke when he saves someone he cares about (which Luke points out he did because it was the right thing and [[spoiler: Bushmaster's aunt]] was just a civilian caught in the crossfire), and remarks on several occasions that he and Luke could have 'brethren' in another life.
* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:As soon as he finally defeats Mariah for good, he has to flee back to Jamaica due to the huge manhunt out for him.]]
* AnimalThemeNaming: Subverted, in the comic he is named after the type snake (in the same vein as Diamonback and Cottonmouth) but here it's an AppropriatedAppelation tangentially related to the snake.
* AntiVillain: His methods are incredibly brutal and he harbors aspirations for dominating Harlem's criminal underworld, but otherwise Bushmaster is only slightly worse than extreme anti-hero the Punisher, and possesses just as many redeeming qualities. It doesn't hurt that his primary goal is to murder a woman who slowly comes into her own as a monster far worse than him.
** Combined with VillainRespect in his relationship with his Uncle Anansi. Anansi pretty much hates everything John is doing and calls him out for it at every step, refusing to take money from him ''publicly''. Not only does John not deal with Anansi as brutally as he does others, he even shows shame when Anansi calls him out. ... Doesn't stop him, though.
* AppropriatedAppelation: [[spoiler:His street name comes from the rum his father invented, the same rum in the Molotov cocktail that Mama Mabel's assassins used to kill his mother.]]
* AscendedExtra: Bushmaster is a rather low-tier villain in the comics. He's the main antagonist of Season Two, alongside Mariah Dillard and Shades Alvarez.
* BadassBoast: He's got plenty, but his MicDrop as he walks away after having knocked Luke out cold in their first fight stands at the top.
-->'''D.W. Griffith''': What's... what's...\\
'''Bushmaster''': Mi name? Dem call mi Bushmaster.\\
'''D.W.''': Who are you?\\
'''Bushmaster''': ''Di stone di builders refused''.
* BadassInANiceSuit: He’s a powerful fighter who’s often decked out in nice suits, although his tend to be somewhat flashier and more colorful than the ones worn by Cottonmouth or Fisk.
* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: [[spoiler: He kills Cockroach, freeing up Luke from his legal troubles and saving C.J. and Drea Powell from his DomesticAbuse]].
* BerserkButton: Two major buttons in fact:
** It's Mariah ''Stokes'', '''not''' Dillard. He will repeatedly correct you on this, and angrily.
** Saying (or hearing) that Luke Cage is faster than Usain Bolt. To be fair, Luke ''himself'' didn't say this, but he [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten isn't about to let him live it down regardless.]]
* BigBadEnsemble: With Mariah in Season 2. They are on [[EvilVersusEvil opposing sides]] and Luke Cage is trying to stop both of them at different points in the season.
* BlasphemousBoast: Gives a good one when Anansi unknowingly echoes the words of Reverend Lucas.
-->'''Anansi:''' Vengeance belong ti di Lord.\\
'''Bushmaster:''' Well, di Lord can have it back when mi done wit it.
* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: [[spoiler: His attempts to kill Mariah do a number on his body because of the continued use of Nightshade.]]
* ByronicHero: Bushmaster is the scion of the [=McIver=] family, who were betrayed and murdered by the Stokeses over rights to Harlem's Paradise. His quest for vengeance and his birthright puts him in conflict with both Black Mariah and Luke Cage. His own allies think his methods are too brutal, but his own code of honour pushes him forward. In any other show, he would be considered a VillainProtagonist at worst. That may even be the case here, considering how much worse Mariah becomes after Luke stifles his assassination attempt.
* CharacterTic: Has a tendency to suck his teeth at the end of a sentence from time to time.
* ChildhoodFriends: He and Sheldon have known each other since they were eleven.
* CombatPragmatist: When his second round with Luke is going badly (because Luke is ready for him this time), he whips out a paralysing powder.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Unlike Cottonmouth, he's able to fight Luke one-on-one. Unlike Diamondback, he doesn't need mechanical aids to do so.
* CulturalPosturing: A minor example, when he takes ''serious'' offence to Luke Cage claiming he's faster than Usain Bolt (he didn't, but the lie becomes truth faster than he can correct it).
* DanceBattler: Has a Capoeira fighting-style.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler: Effectively gets dropped from the running as the Big Bad after he goes into a coma. While he by no means stops being a major player, by the time he’s on his feet again Mariah has consolidated her forces and killed many of his supporters. The only reason Luke and others continue to oppose him is because they want Mariah to face justice legally]].
* TheDreaded: Once people see the brutality of [[DecapitationPresentation the results]] of his decapitations, coupled with the video of him defeating Luke Cage on the street, they know he isn't someone to be messed with.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: [[spoiler:Even as a boy, he proved uncommonly strong and resilient when he alone managed to live through being poisoned with a faulty vaccine that poisoned hundreds of other children; when using Nightshade, his body is absolutely flooded with "cold energy", rendering him faster, stronger, and able to fight through getting peppered with bullets. Also deconstructed, as the drug slowly becomes more ineffective and the very thing wearing him down, while his natural physical strength is what keeps his body from deteriorating too quickly and prevents him from dying in agony during the healing process.]]
-->'''Sheldon:''' [[spoiler: Nightshade don't give. Nightshade ''reveal.'']]
* EnemyCivilWar: He's involved in a major gang war with Mariah Dillard for control of Harlem at the same time that he's at war with Luke Cage.
* EnemyMine: [[spoiler: ''Very'' briefly teams up with Luke towards the end of the season.]]
* EqualOpportunityEvil: His gang the Stylers includes female enforcers, and unlike any number of the show's villains, he never shows any sign of treating women as anything but equals.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: He really loves his mother. [[spoiler: That's his primary motivation for taking revenge against the Stokes clan.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Loved his mother dearly, and is also very fond of his uncle and aunt.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He teams up with Luke to stop the drug trade under his name, orchestrated by Mariah, especially to protect the children of Harlem.
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: Along with JustForPun. He doesn't quip too often, but he ''does'' [[ActuallyPrettyFunny kind of enjoy it when it does.]]
-->'''''Luke:''''' ''I'm looking for Nigel, man.''
-->'''''Bushmaster:''''' ''Him gone. [[DecapitationPresentation Headed]] [[ExactWords elsewhere]]. (laughs)''
* EvilIsPetty: The first time he fights Luke is to publically humiliate him because Luke's fans boasted that Luke was faster than Usain Bolt.
* FatalFlaw: Pride. No matter how many people tell him to end his crusade while he's ahead, no matter how many times he's told to stop using [[spoiler:Nightshade before it catches up with him and destroys his body]], he adamantly refuses to back down from killing Mariah, crushing the Stokes family, and avenging the [=McIver=] family name. [[spoiler:He gets his wish, but at the cost of everything else; by the end, his actions have destroyed the Stylers and left most of his friends dead, caused Anansi's horrific murder, and completely and most likely irrevocably crippled him due to his overuse of Nightshade, and he didn't even get to kill Mariah directly - Tilda did it first.]]
* FinalBoss: While it’s only in the penultimate episode, and Luke still has to clean up the power vacuum left from Mariah’s arrest, Bushmaster is his last real opponent in the series.
* FriendToAllChildren: He gets along rather well with the local kids in his neighborhood.
* GlassCannon: Only compared to Luke. He is [[LightningBruiser faster than Luke, equally strong]] [[StrongAndSkilled and an excellent martial artist]], but he can't take the same kind of punishment as [[MightyGlacier Luke]]. It's why he almost loses to Luke in their second fight: he lands more punches than Luke, but what few hits Luke gets in cause far more damage, and Bushmaster has to resort to his paralysis powder to win. Also, bullets ''can'' hurt him; they embed themselves half an inch in his skin like Kevlar rather than bouncing off harmlessly. This causes them to leave wounds, and it's implied that enough bullets will kill him.
* InsistentTerminology: He utterly refuses to accept Mariah's married name, angrily correcting it to "Stokes" every single time.
* ItsPersonal: He's here to settle an old score with Mariah, and the Stokes family.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Played with. Season 2 ends with Bushmaster managing to escape back to Kingston and his crimes go unpunished. However, his crusade has cost him most of his remaining family and left his body and mind a hollow shell of their former selves.]]
* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:Murders Cockroach, who was a truly awful human being with absolutely no redeeming traits whatsoever.]]
* KnightTemplar: He's aware of the brutality of his methods and (while he won't admit it to anyone) [[spoiler:the likelihood that he's going to pay for his Nightshade abuse]], but he's so consumed by his quest for vengeance and desire to restore the honor of the [=McIver=] family name that he will employ any method and pay any price he deems necessary to achieve his ends. He's unusually accepting of the input of others, however, as he is clearly deeply shaken by Anansi's harsh and unequivocal rebuke of his crusade and rationale, but he still refuses to abandon it or soften his approach.
* LeanAndMean: He has a thinner profile compared to Luke.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: The crimelord that decapitates people proved to be more sympathetic than Mariah by the end. To the point Luke partners up with him to take out drugs on the streets that Mariah let roam.
* LightningBruiser: He has martial arts skills to rival Danny Rand, ''and'' can put Luke on his ass with just a couple hits.
* MadeOfIron: John was always remarkably hard to kill, with Nightshade enhancing his resistance. Unlike Luke who is NighInvulnerable to almost anything a human being can throw at him Bushmaster can be injured by bullets and explosions.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It is left vague if Bushmaster is an enhanced individual, or using a form of HollywoodVoodoo. Needlessly to say, he packs enough punch to defeat Luke with ease first time round - and then give him a good fight the next couple of times - and able to take several bullets without them entering his body. As it is turns out, he gains his enhancement from [[spoiler:Nightshade]], but he is naturally able to weather its use in ways other aren't for reasons that are kept mysterious.
* MirrorCharacter: Luke Cage and Bushmaster are compared many times regarding their anger issues and how they protect the ones they care about. And even with their respective abilities too, it comes off that Bushmaster is basically the kind of person Luke Cage would be if he was much more brutal in dealing with his enemies.
* OlderThanHeLooks: He is roughly the same age as Mariah, but looks more around Luke's age.
* PowerAtAPrice: Bushmaster's enhanced strength and durability comes from a chemical cocktail that uses Nightshade as it source which allows him to go toe-to-toe with Luke Cage. [[spoiler:However the more he uses it the less effective its powers become and they wear off faster. Not only that it also does damage to Bushmaster's mind and body the more he uses it. By the end of the season, after injecting himself with a concentrated source of Nightshade, he ends up almost completely catatonic and has to be send back to Kingston to try and fix what's left off his body and mind.]]
* PyrrhicVillainy: By the end of ''Luke Cage'' season 2 Bushmaster's reign of terror ends with [[spoiler:Mariah and the Stokes household being destroyed just as he wanted. But his desire for revenge ended with Anansi, one of his few remaining family members, dead, his gang and influence in shambles, and his body and mind damaged possibly beyond repair due to Nightshade overdose. He doesn't even get the satisfaction of killing Mariah like he wanted he has to settle on Tilda doing the deed for him.]]
* RevengeBeforeReason: It doesn't matter if he has reclaimed his birthright that was taken from him, that he has millions of dollars as well as vast power in the Harlem criminal world and that every use of the [[spoiler:Nightshade]] is doing more and more damage to his body. He will ''never'' stop until Mariah is dead.
* RuthlessForeignGangsters: Though born in Brooklyn, he grew up in Jamaica, and setting up shop in Harlem, putting him at odds with Mariah and Shades.
* SlidingScaleOfVillainThreat: He's far more dangerous than both his predecessors Cottonmouth and Diamondback, being able to take on Luke in a fight and come out victorious.
* StrongAndSkilled: His biggest asset - he's almost as strong as Luke (though their second and third fight reveal that in a grapple, Luke's got the upper-hand, and he's not quite as invulnerable, as bullets manage to embed themselves in his skin rather than harmlessly bouncing off) but he's faster and has the fighting skills to better use his strength.
* VillainDecay: At the start of Season 2 of ''Luke Cage'', he seems effectively unstoppable, and mid-season he appears to hold all the cards. However, after that he starts taking some heavy losses and ends up looking almost like a VillainousUnderdog. Justified in that [[spoiler: the only thing letting him go toe to toe with Luke is his use of nightshade, which is both hard to get hold of in the US and gets less and less effective the longer you use it.]]
* VillainousRROD: He is warned all throughout the season that his use of nightshade will inevitably take a dangerous toll on his body. Regardless, he continues to use it because [[HourOfPower the power boost he gets from it]] is the only possible way he can defeat Luke and overcome Mariah's [[HomeFieldAdvantage entrenched power in Harlem]], eventually taking an incredibly high, super concentrated dose in a last ditch effort to defeat his foes. [[spoiler:The attempt backfires, as the injuries he receives and the effects of the nightshade turn him into a physical wreck as soon as the effects wear off. In his last scene he's so broken and feeble he needs help to simply get out of one car and into another, and perhaps isn't even able to speak.]]
* VillainRespect: He develops a genuine respect for Luke, both for his strength/fighting ability, and his principles, sincerely thanking him for [[spoiler: protecting his aunt after she survived Mariah's massacre.]]
* WeCanRuleTogether: Makes this offer to Luke once. It's unclear whether he means it, as he seems to regard Harlem as his birthright, but it's notable that on several occasions he remarks that in another life, he and Luke could have been brethren.
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!!!Lieutenants
[[folder:Sheldon]]
!!''Sheldon''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lukecagesheldon.png]]
[[caption-width-right:300:"Me like fish."]]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Jamaican-American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Kevin Mambo
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''
Bushmaster's right hand man.
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* ChildhoodFriends: He and Bushmaster have known each other since they were eleven. Sheldon is one of the few people that call him "John".
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Sheldon is in tears when he learns that Anansi and Stephanie are dead.
* HonestAdvisor: Much like Anansi, he sometimes questions Bushmaster's decisions. Unlike Anansi, however, he never questions his motivations and means, and even displays a "kill them just to be sure" mentality with some people.
* KarmaHoudini: He and Bushmaster don't get to enjoy the view at the top of the hill, having to flee the country after getting their revenge on the Stokes gang. However he also gets no comeuppance for their various deeds (including multiple murders of prominent people) and it's implied that they manage to successfully escape back to Jamaica.
* NervesOfSteel: Sheldon shows nothing but contempt towards Cage when Luke tries to get information out of him with a HighAltitudeInterrogation. He even ''does the countdown for Luke'', daring Luke to go through with the threat.
* NumberTwo: Right hand of Bushmaster.
* UndyingLoyalty: He's been with Bushmaster since they were kids, and stays by his side even when others take issue with his methods.
* VillainRespect: His last appearance has him show up at Pop's Barbershop, tell Luke and Co. they heard about Mariah's death, and tell them to "walk good" before leaving. No threats, no grudges, just respectful acknowledgement.
[[/folder]]
!!!Members
[[folder:Gideon Shaw]]
!!''Gideon Shaw''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Jamaican-American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' R.A. Guirand
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''
A childhood friend of Bushmaster and Sheldon and member of the Stylers.
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* ChildhoodFriends: With Bushmaster and Gideon. He even refers to Bushmaster as [[AffectionateNickname "John-John"]].
* FelonyMisdemeanor: He faces deportation after being pulled for a broken tailight and a gram of weed.
* TheIllegal: He ended up at an ICE facility because he didn't have papers at the time of his arrest.
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!!!Underlings
[[folder:Stephanie Miller]]
!!''Stephanie Miller''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Jamaican-American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Tarah Rodgers
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''
Sheldon's younger cousin and an acquaintance of Bushmaster's family and gang.
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* BoomHeadshot: How Mariah kills her at Gwen's
* HoneyTrap: Mariah uses her to blackmail Higgins.
* JanitorImpersonationInfiltration[=/=]TheMole: She gets herself hired on by Mariah at Harlem's Paradise to spy on them for Bushmaster.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Despite being a relatively minor character, her role as a mole within Harlem's Paradise enables Bushmaster to have the upper hand on Mariah and make several strikes against her organization without her being able to exact much retaliation, including their severed head display as well as killing Piranha.
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!!!Collaborators
[[folder:Anansi]]
!!''Paul "Anansi" Mackintosh''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Jamaican-American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Sahr Ngaujah
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''
Bushmaster's uncle and co-owner of Gwen's in Brooklyn.
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* BrutalHonesty: As said under HonestAdvisor, he is not afraid to speak his mind to anyone, even if Mariah holds him hostagehe will still make it clear he thinks he might have been wrong in reining John in his revenge.
* DefiantToTheEnd: He raves in Mariah's face even after she douses him in alcohol and lights him on fire, and refuses to just die, so she decides to just shoot him. This proves to be Mariah's undoing, as [[spoiler:the bullet connects Mariah's signature gun to the death of Candace Miller and becomes the key piece of evidence that puts her away.]]
* DisapprovingLook: Rarely has anything good to say about what John is doing, and expresses that verbally and physically.
* DyingCurse: He gives one to Mariah, while he's burning alive.
-->''"I'm going to haunt you for the rest of your days. You can eat, but you won't taste. You can sleep, but you won't rest! Everything you love, you're going to lose! You hear me?! You hear me?! You hear me?!"''
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Supports his nephew but does take issue with John's RevengeBeforeReason. Once Mariah kidnaps him and he gets a chance to meet her, he decides that maybe John had a point. However he finds DecapitationPresentation distasteful.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Even his own wife calls him Anansi. The audience doesn't learn his full name until "The Creator", after he's dead.
* HonestAdvisor: He's not afraid to question John's decisions and tactics. Bushmaster said that anyone else who questioned him like that would have at least gotten roughed up, but Anansi says that if he's afraid to speak his mind, God strike him dead.
* JustShootHim: He wants Bushmaster to just kill Mariah and be done with it instead of his long and barbaric crusade that makes the Jamaicans living in Harlem look bad. He won't deny Mariah doesn't have it coming but she is not worth John ruining his body with Nightshade and the police arresting any black man with dreads because they think he beheads people.
* ManOnFire: Mariah lights him on fire, then shoots him as he's burning up.
* MoralityChain: He ''tries'' to be this to his nephew John, often pointing out that he's going way too far in his crusade, but John usually rebuffs him and his arguments. While they still clearly love each other, Anansi is worried to see him going down a dark path.
* ParentalSubstitute: He and Ingrid took John in after Gwen was killed. He also served as a father-figure to Sheldon Shaw, given how torn up he is by his death.
* ReformedCriminal: Though he has a record in Jamaica, in NY he was an upstanding, law-abiding immigrant and worker.
* RetiredMonster: He has a record in Jamaica, but by all accounts he's been on the straight and narrow since coming to New York. He only gets involved with the Stylers more out of loyalty to John than any criminal intent.
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: Refuses Bushmaster's offered money, as he doesn't want any ill-gotten gains. Ingrid, however, is more than happy to take the money.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tilda Johnson]]
!!Matilda "Tilda" Maybelline Johnson (neé Dillard)
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I have a feeling for healing people. And not just with medicine, but by using the earth the way it was intended."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Jamaican-American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/GabrielleDennis
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''
->''"Being in the middle of nowhere, I just became fascinated with holistic medicine, and Mother Earth's unfiltered power. So I melded together ancient and modern medical practice into Mother's Touch. Mother Nature's Touch."''
Mariah Dillard's estranged daughter, the owner of holistic health store in Harlem, and eventually comes to Bushmaster's aid in his vendetta against her mother.
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* AdaptedOut: Needless to say, this version of the character never seems to have turned [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica anybody]] into a werewolf... yet.
* AntagonisticOffspring: [[spoiler:Becomes this to Mariah]].
* AntiVillain: Like many other antagonists in the MCU, Tilda isn't strictly ''evil'', but more a victim of circumstance. She's certainly more nuanced than her counterpart in the comics, who eventually does undergo a [[HeelFaceTurn heel-face turn]] to join ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}'s "Occupy" ComicBook/{{Avengers}}, and become the new Nighthawk, a vigilante superhero.
* ChildByRape: [[spoiler:Her birth father is Uncle Pete (her great-granduncle), who sexually abused Mariah when she was young]].
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: She doesn't actually call herself '(Deadly) Nightshade" in ''Luke Cage'', but she does use the nightshade flower to create the concoction that heightens Bushmaster's abilities.
* DisappearedDad / MissingMom: She didn't have much of a relationship with either of her parents growing up.
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler:After being used by her mother and being told that she was never loved (on top of countless utter horrible things), Tilda poisons Mariah]].
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: [[spoiler: She starts styling her fair into two afro puffs after the [[FaceHeelTurn face-heel turn]]]].
* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: [[spoiler: The man she grew up believing to be her father, Jackson Dillard, wasn't. She's actually the biological daughter of Pistol Pete (who was also her great-granduncle), which Mabel and Mariah covered up by sending her to live with their cousins, the Johnsons]].
* GreenEyedMonster: Despite Tilda's claims that she wants nothing more to do with the Stokes family, [[spoiler:she's clearly furious when she learns that Mariah bequethed Harlem's Paradise to Luke instead of her and her last appearance in Season Two has her looking at Luke in envy of his position.]]
* KissOfDeath: [[spoiler:How she administers the poison that kills Mariah]].
* {{Irony}}: She named her business the ''very'' {{freudian|excuse}} Mother's Touch.
* LastOfHerKind: Much as she would like to deny it, [[spoiler:as of the end of season 2, she is the last remaining member of the Stokes family.]]
* MythologyGag: [[spoiler:When [[https://static3.cbrimages.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/tilda-finale.jpg?q=35&w=864&h=432&fit=crop&dpr=1.5 we last see her in season two]], she resembles [[https://static0.cbrimages.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/nightshade.png?q=35&w=864&h=560&fit=crop&dpr=1.5 her comic book counterpart]] quite closely]].
* OlderThanSheLooks: If Mariah had her as a teen, Tilda is ''at least'' in her mid/late forties.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: In the comics, Tilda has no blood relation to either Black Mariah or Cottonmouth.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Despite being the daughter of the show's primary antagonist, she's never mentioned in the first season of ''Luke Cage'', but it's explained and [[JustifiedTrope justified]] after she first appears.
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler: Poisons her own mother]].
* ShedTheFamilyName: As a reflection of her fraught relationship with Mariah, she rechristens herself as Tilda ''Johnson'', in respect for the relatives who raised her as child.
* SnakeOilSalesman: Subverted. Mariah describes her as such, peddling holistic "cures" to people, but she really does have chemist know-how and aids Bushmaster in taking down both Luke Cage ''and'' Mariah.
* StockholmSyndrome: She gets accused of this after [[spoiler: she willingly helps Bushmaster try to kill her mother after he previously had kidnapped and threatened her]], at one point she's even referred to as "Harlem's own Patty Hearst."
* VillainousLineage: [[spoiler:The daughter of two criminals, she ends up murdering her own mother]].
* WhiteSheep: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. [[spoiler: All in all, she's far less villainous than the rest of the Stokes clan, and is often horrified by everything her mother does...which causes her to ''kill'' her mother, pushing her into HeWhoFightsMonsters territory. She also seemed to have a cordial relationship with Cornell, though she didn't know the extent of his criminal dealings (she knew he was a criminal, but never knew about his {{Arms Deal|er}}ing).]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ingrid Mackintosh]]
!!''Ingrid Mackintosh''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Jamaican-American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Helena Alicia Simms
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''
Bushmaster's maternal aunt, wife of Anansi and co-owner of Gwen's, named after her late sister.
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* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: Calls the DecapitationPresentation barbaric, not knowing her nephew is behind it.
* ParentalSubstitute: She and Anansi took John in after Gwen was killed.
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Despite knowing how John likely got that money, she isn't too proud to accept it.
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: After he husband is murdered, her restaurant becomes a crime scene, and with her nephew half dead, Ingrid just opts to take Bushmaster and Anansi's body back to Kingston.
[[/folder]]
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!!The Stylers
[[folder:In General]]
!!''The Stylers''
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''
The DarkerAndEdgier and YoungerAndHipper offshoot of the Yardies.
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* EqualOpportunityEvil: In contrast to the Stokes family's use of exclusively male foot soldiers, the Stylers have both men and women among their soldiers. They also have no problem with hiring American-born blacks, Latinos and even a handful of whites into their organization.
* FromBadToWorse: As D.W. puts it, if the Yardies are Al-Qaeda, the Stylers are ISIS.
* ImprobablyCoolCar: The gang use heavily-modified lowrider cars that are stereotypically suitable for drive-by shootings. Though this does give them an intimidation factor, Misty is eventually able to use this to track their movements.
* ItsPersonal: Played for laughs but they dislike Luke Cage because of a comment about him being faster than Usain Bolt.
* RuthlessForeignGangsters: They seem to have this reputation among the Harlem gangs, especially when decapitation becomes a regular thing for them. Ironically, as ruthless as they are under Bushmaster, Mariah proves to be ''far'' more willing to cross the line.
* SharpDressedMan: Many of the higher-ups wear business suits. To quote Bushmaster, "A Styler must style".
* TheYardies: They are an offshoot of the original Yardies, formed by a younger generation.
[[/folder]]
!!!Leadership
[[folder:John "Bushmaster" [=McIver=]]]
!!''John "Bushmaster" [=McIver=]''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lukecage2john.png]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"Harlem, is not yuh yard bwoy, it's ''mine''."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Enhanced human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Jamaican-American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MustafaShakir
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''
->''"Life has taught me this. You can't drown sorrow with tears. If you want to erase sorrow, you must burn it."''
A Jamaican gangster new to Harlem, who proves capable of taking on Luke Cage by himself.
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* AdaptationalCurves: Inverted. He lacks the exaggerated physique of his comic counterpart.
* AffablyEvil: Oddly enough, yes. The man might decapitate people and stick their heads on pikes, but he's generally fairly polite to friends and enemies alike, sincerely thanks Luke when he saves someone he cares about (which Luke points out he did because it was the right thing and [[spoiler: Bushmaster's aunt]] was just a civilian caught in the crossfire), and remarks on several occasions that he and Luke could have 'brethren' in another life.
* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:As soon as he finally defeats Mariah for good, he has to flee back to Jamaica due to the huge manhunt out for him.]]
* AnimalThemeNaming: Subverted, in the comic he is named after the type snake (in the same vein as Diamonback and Cottonmouth) but here it's an AppropriatedAppelation tangentially related to the snake.
* AntiVillain: His methods are incredibly brutal and he harbors aspirations for dominating Harlem's criminal underworld, but otherwise Bushmaster is only slightly worse than extreme anti-hero the Punisher, and possesses just as many redeeming qualities. It doesn't hurt that his primary goal is to murder a woman who slowly comes into her own as a monster far worse than him.
** Combined with VillainRespect in his relationship with his Uncle Anansi. Anansi pretty much hates everything John is doing and calls him out for it at every step, refusing to take money from him ''publicly''. Not only does John not deal with Anansi as brutally as he does others, he even shows shame when Anansi calls him out. ... Doesn't stop him, though.
* AppropriatedAppelation: [[spoiler:His street name comes from the rum his father invented, the same rum in the Molotov cocktail that Mama Mabel's assassins used to kill his mother.]]
* AscendedExtra: Bushmaster is a rather low-tier villain in the comics. He's the main antagonist of Season Two, alongside Mariah Dillard and Shades Alvarez.
* BadassBoast: He's got plenty, but his MicDrop as he walks away after having knocked Luke out cold in their first fight stands at the top.
-->'''D.W. Griffith''': What's... what's...\\
'''Bushmaster''': Mi name? Dem call mi Bushmaster.\\
'''D.W.''': Who are you?\\
'''Bushmaster''': ''Di stone di builders refused''.
* BadassInANiceSuit: He’s a powerful fighter who’s often decked out in nice suits, although his tend to be somewhat flashier and more colorful than the ones worn by Cottonmouth or Fisk.
* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: [[spoiler: He kills Cockroach, freeing up Luke from his legal troubles and saving C.J. and Drea Powell from his DomesticAbuse]].
* BerserkButton: Two major buttons in fact:
** It's Mariah ''Stokes'', '''not''' Dillard. He will repeatedly correct you on this, and angrily.
** Saying (or hearing) that Luke Cage is faster than Usain Bolt. To be fair, Luke ''himself'' didn't say this, but he [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten isn't about to let him live it down regardless.]]
* BigBadEnsemble: With Mariah in Season 2. They are on [[EvilVersusEvil opposing sides]] and Luke Cage is trying to stop both of them at different points in the season.
* BlasphemousBoast: Gives a good one when Anansi unknowingly echoes the words of Reverend Lucas.
-->'''Anansi:''' Vengeance belong ti di Lord.\\
'''Bushmaster:''' Well, di Lord can have it back when mi done wit it.
* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: [[spoiler: His attempts to kill Mariah do a number on his body because of the continued use of Nightshade.]]
* ByronicHero: Bushmaster is the scion of the [=McIver=] family, who were betrayed and murdered by the Stokeses over rights to Harlem's Paradise. His quest for vengeance and his birthright puts him in conflict with both Black Mariah and Luke Cage. His own allies think his methods are too brutal, but his own code of honour pushes him forward. In any other show, he would be considered a VillainProtagonist at worst. That may even be the case here, considering how much worse Mariah becomes after Luke stifles his assassination attempt.
* CharacterTic: Has a tendency to suck his teeth at the end of a sentence from time to time.
* ChildhoodFriends: He and Sheldon have known each other since they were eleven.
* CombatPragmatist: When his second round with Luke is going badly (because Luke is ready for him this time), he whips out a paralysing powder.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Unlike Cottonmouth, he's able to fight Luke one-on-one. Unlike Diamondback, he doesn't need mechanical aids to do so.
* CulturalPosturing: A minor example, when he takes ''serious'' offence to Luke Cage claiming he's faster than Usain Bolt (he didn't, but the lie becomes truth faster than he can correct it).
* DanceBattler: Has a Capoeira fighting-style.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler: Effectively gets dropped from the running as the Big Bad after he goes into a coma. While he by no means stops being a major player, by the time he’s on his feet again Mariah has consolidated her forces and killed many of his supporters. The only reason Luke and others continue to oppose him is because they want Mariah to face justice legally]].
* TheDreaded: Once people see the brutality of [[DecapitationPresentation the results]] of his decapitations, coupled with the video of him defeating Luke Cage on the street, they know he isn't someone to be messed with.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: [[spoiler:Even as a boy, he proved uncommonly strong and resilient when he alone managed to live through being poisoned with a faulty vaccine that poisoned hundreds of other children; when using Nightshade, his body is absolutely flooded with "cold energy", rendering him faster, stronger, and able to fight through getting peppered with bullets. Also deconstructed, as the drug slowly becomes more ineffective and the very thing wearing him down, while his natural physical strength is what keeps his body from deteriorating too quickly and prevents him from dying in agony during the healing process.]]
-->'''Sheldon:''' [[spoiler: Nightshade don't give. Nightshade ''reveal.'']]
* EnemyCivilWar: He's involved in a major gang war with Mariah Dillard for control of Harlem at the same time that he's at war with Luke Cage.
* EnemyMine: [[spoiler: ''Very'' briefly teams up with Luke towards the end of the season.]]
* EqualOpportunityEvil: His gang the Stylers includes female enforcers, and unlike any number of the show's villains, he never shows any sign of treating women as anything but equals.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: He really loves his mother. [[spoiler: That's his primary motivation for taking revenge against the Stokes clan.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Loved his mother dearly, and is also very fond of his uncle and aunt.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He teams up with Luke to stop the drug trade under his name, orchestrated by Mariah, especially to protect the children of Harlem.
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: Along with JustForPun. He doesn't quip too often, but he ''does'' [[ActuallyPrettyFunny kind of enjoy it when it does.]]
-->'''''Luke:''''' ''I'm looking for Nigel, man.''
-->'''''Bushmaster:''''' ''Him gone. [[DecapitationPresentation Headed]] [[ExactWords elsewhere]]. (laughs)''
* EvilIsPetty: The first time he fights Luke is to publically humiliate him because Luke's fans boasted that Luke was faster than Usain Bolt.
* FatalFlaw: Pride. No matter how many people tell him to end his crusade while he's ahead, no matter how many times he's told to stop using [[spoiler:Nightshade before it catches up with him and destroys his body]], he adamantly refuses to back down from killing Mariah, crushing the Stokes family, and avenging the [=McIver=] family name. [[spoiler:He gets his wish, but at the cost of everything else; by the end, his actions have destroyed the Stylers and left most of his friends dead, caused Anansi's horrific murder, and completely and most likely irrevocably crippled him due to his overuse of Nightshade, and he didn't even get to kill Mariah directly - Tilda did it first.]]
* FinalBoss: While it’s only in the penultimate episode, and Luke still has to clean up the power vacuum left from Mariah’s arrest, Bushmaster is his last real opponent in the series.
* FriendToAllChildren: He gets along rather well with the local kids in his neighborhood.
* GlassCannon: Only compared to Luke. He is [[LightningBruiser faster than Luke, equally strong]] [[StrongAndSkilled and an excellent martial artist]], but he can't take the same kind of punishment as [[MightyGlacier Luke]]. It's why he almost loses to Luke in their second fight: he lands more punches than Luke, but what few hits Luke gets in cause far more damage, and Bushmaster has to resort to his paralysis powder to win. Also, bullets ''can'' hurt him; they embed themselves half an inch in his skin like Kevlar rather than bouncing off harmlessly. This causes them to leave wounds, and it's implied that enough bullets will kill him.
* InsistentTerminology: He utterly refuses to accept Mariah's married name, angrily correcting it to "Stokes" every single time.
* ItsPersonal: He's here to settle an old score with Mariah, and the Stokes family.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Played with. Season 2 ends with Bushmaster managing to escape back to Kingston and his crimes go unpunished. However, his crusade has cost him most of his remaining family and left his body and mind a hollow shell of their former selves.]]
* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:Murders Cockroach, who was a truly awful human being with absolutely no redeeming traits whatsoever.]]
* KnightTemplar: He's aware of the brutality of his methods and (while he won't admit it to anyone) [[spoiler:the likelihood that he's going to pay for his Nightshade abuse]], but he's so consumed by his quest for vengeance and desire to restore the honor of the [=McIver=] family name that he will employ any method and pay any price he deems necessary to achieve his ends. He's unusually accepting of the input of others, however, as he is clearly deeply shaken by Anansi's harsh and unequivocal rebuke of his crusade and rationale, but he still refuses to abandon it or soften his approach.
* LeanAndMean: He has a thinner profile compared to Luke.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: The crimelord that decapitates people proved to be more sympathetic than Mariah by the end. To the point Luke partners up with him to take out drugs on the streets that Mariah let roam.
* LightningBruiser: He has martial arts skills to rival Danny Rand, ''and'' can put Luke on his ass with just a couple hits.
* MadeOfIron: John was always remarkably hard to kill, with Nightshade enhancing his resistance. Unlike Luke who is NighInvulnerable to almost anything a human being can throw at him Bushmaster can be injured by bullets and explosions.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It is left vague if Bushmaster is an enhanced individual, or using a form of HollywoodVoodoo. Needlessly to say, he packs enough punch to defeat Luke with ease first time round - and then give him a good fight the next couple of times - and able to take several bullets without them entering his body. As it is turns out, he gains his enhancement from [[spoiler:Nightshade]], but he is naturally able to weather its use in ways other aren't for reasons that are kept mysterious.
* MirrorCharacter: Luke Cage and Bushmaster are compared many times regarding their anger issues and how they protect the ones they care about. And even with their respective abilities too, it comes off that Bushmaster is basically the kind of person Luke Cage would be if he was much more brutal in dealing with his enemies.
* OlderThanHeLooks: He is roughly the same age as Mariah, but looks more around Luke's age.
* PowerAtAPrice: Bushmaster's enhanced strength and durability comes from a chemical cocktail that uses Nightshade as it source which allows him to go toe-to-toe with Luke Cage. [[spoiler:However the more he uses it the less effective its powers become and they wear off faster. Not only that it also does damage to Bushmaster's mind and body the more he uses it. By the end of the season, after injecting himself with a concentrated source of Nightshade, he ends up almost completely catatonic and has to be send back to Kingston to try and fix what's left off his body and mind.]]
* PyrrhicVillainy: By the end of ''Luke Cage'' season 2 Bushmaster's reign of terror ends with [[spoiler:Mariah and the Stokes household being destroyed just as he wanted. But his desire for revenge ended with Anansi, one of his few remaining family members, dead, his gang and influence in shambles, and his body and mind damaged possibly beyond repair due to Nightshade overdose. He doesn't even get the satisfaction of killing Mariah like he wanted he has to settle on Tilda doing the deed for him.]]
* RevengeBeforeReason: It doesn't matter if he has reclaimed his birthright that was taken from him, that he has millions of dollars as well as vast power in the Harlem criminal world and that every use of the [[spoiler:Nightshade]] is doing more and more damage to his body. He will ''never'' stop until Mariah is dead.
* RuthlessForeignGangsters: Though born in Brooklyn, he grew up in Jamaica, and setting up shop in Harlem, putting him at odds with Mariah and Shades.
* SlidingScaleOfVillainThreat: He's far more dangerous than both his predecessors Cottonmouth and Diamondback, being able to take on Luke in a fight and come out victorious.
* StrongAndSkilled: His biggest asset - he's almost as strong as Luke (though their second and third fight reveal that in a grapple, Luke's got the upper-hand, and he's not quite as invulnerable, as bullets manage to embed themselves in his skin rather than harmlessly bouncing off) but he's faster and has the fighting skills to better use his strength.
* VillainDecay: At the start of Season 2 of ''Luke Cage'', he seems effectively unstoppable, and mid-season he appears to hold all the cards. However, after that he starts taking some heavy losses and ends up looking almost like a VillainousUnderdog. Justified in that [[spoiler: the only thing letting him go toe to toe with Luke is his use of nightshade, which is both hard to get hold of in the US and gets less and less effective the longer you use it.]]
* VillainousRROD: He is warned all throughout the season that his use of nightshade will inevitably take a dangerous toll on his body. Regardless, he continues to use it because [[HourOfPower the power boost he gets from it]] is the only possible way he can defeat Luke and overcome Mariah's [[HomeFieldAdvantage entrenched power in Harlem]], eventually taking an incredibly high, super concentrated dose in a last ditch effort to defeat his foes. [[spoiler:The attempt backfires, as the injuries he receives and the effects of the nightshade turn him into a physical wreck as soon as the effects wear off. In his last scene he's so broken and feeble he needs help to simply get out of one car and into another, and perhaps isn't even able to speak.]]
* VillainRespect: He develops a genuine respect for Luke, both for his strength/fighting ability, and his principles, sincerely thanking him for [[spoiler: protecting his aunt after she survived Mariah's massacre.]]
* WeCanRuleTogether: Makes this offer to Luke once. It's unclear whether he means it, as he seems to regard Harlem as his birthright, but it's notable that on several occasions he remarks that in another life, he and Luke could have been brethren.
[[/folder]]
!!!Lieutenants
[[folder:Sheldon]]
!!''Sheldon''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lukecagesheldon.png]]
[[caption-width-right:300:"Me like fish."]]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Jamaican-American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Kevin Mambo
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''
Bushmaster's right hand man.
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* ChildhoodFriends: He and Bushmaster have known each other since they were eleven. Sheldon is one of the few people that call him "John".
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Sheldon is in tears when he learns that Anansi and Stephanie are dead.
* HonestAdvisor: Much like Anansi, he sometimes questions Bushmaster's decisions. Unlike Anansi, however, he never questions his motivations and means, and even displays a "kill them just to be sure" mentality with some people.
* KarmaHoudini: He and Bushmaster don't get to enjoy the view at the top of the hill, having to flee the country after getting their revenge on the Stokes gang. However he also gets no comeuppance for their various deeds (including multiple murders of prominent people) and it's implied that they manage to successfully escape back to Jamaica.
* NervesOfSteel: Sheldon shows nothing but contempt towards Cage when Luke tries to get information out of him with a HighAltitudeInterrogation. He even ''does the countdown for Luke'', daring Luke to go through with the threat.
* NumberTwo: Right hand of Bushmaster.
* UndyingLoyalty: He's been with Bushmaster since they were kids, and stays by his side even when others take issue with his methods.
* VillainRespect: His last appearance has him show up at Pop's Barbershop, tell Luke and Co. they heard about Mariah's death, and tell them to "walk good" before leaving. No threats, no grudges, just respectful acknowledgement.
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!!!Members
[[folder:Gideon Shaw]]
!!''Gideon Shaw''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Jamaican-American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' R.A. Guirand
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''
A childhood friend of Bushmaster and Sheldon and member of the Stylers.
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* ChildhoodFriends: With Bushmaster and Gideon. He even refers to Bushmaster as [[AffectionateNickname "John-John"]].
* FelonyMisdemeanor: He faces deportation after being pulled for a broken tailight and a gram of weed.
* TheIllegal: He ended up at an ICE facility because he didn't have papers at the time of his arrest.
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!!!Underlings
[[folder:Stephanie Miller]]
!!''Stephanie Miller''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Jamaican-American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Tarah Rodgers
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''
Sheldon's younger cousin and an acquaintance of Bushmaster's family and gang.
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* BoomHeadshot: How Mariah kills her at Gwen's
* HoneyTrap: Mariah uses her to blackmail Higgins.
* JanitorImpersonationInfiltration[=/=]TheMole: She gets herself hired on by Mariah at Harlem's Paradise to spy on them for Bushmaster.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Despite being a relatively minor character, her role as a mole within Harlem's Paradise enables Bushmaster to have the upper hand on Mariah and make several strikes against her organization without her being able to exact much retaliation, including their severed head display as well as killing Piranha.
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!!!Collaborators
[[folder:Anansi]]
!!''Paul "Anansi" Mackintosh''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Jamaican-American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Sahr Ngaujah
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''
Bushmaster's uncle and co-owner of Gwen's in Brooklyn.
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* BrutalHonesty: As said under HonestAdvisor, he is not afraid to speak his mind to anyone, even if Mariah holds him hostagehe will still make it clear he thinks he might have been wrong in reining John in his revenge.
* DefiantToTheEnd: He raves in Mariah's face even after she douses him in alcohol and lights him on fire, and refuses to just die, so she decides to just shoot him. This proves to be Mariah's undoing, as [[spoiler:the bullet connects Mariah's signature gun to the death of Candace Miller and becomes the key piece of evidence that puts her away.]]
* DisapprovingLook: Rarely has anything good to say about what John is doing, and expresses that verbally and physically.
* DyingCurse: He gives one to Mariah, while he's burning alive.
-->''"I'm going to haunt you for the rest of your days. You can eat, but you won't taste. You can sleep, but you won't rest! Everything you love, you're going to lose! You hear me?! You hear me?! You hear me?!"''
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Supports his nephew but does take issue with John's RevengeBeforeReason. Once Mariah kidnaps him and he gets a chance to meet her, he decides that maybe John had a point. However he finds DecapitationPresentation distasteful.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Even his own wife calls him Anansi. The audience doesn't learn his full name until "The Creator", after he's dead.
* HonestAdvisor: He's not afraid to question John's decisions and tactics. Bushmaster said that anyone else who questioned him like that would have at least gotten roughed up, but Anansi says that if he's afraid to speak his mind, God strike him dead.
* JustShootHim: He wants Bushmaster to just kill Mariah and be done with it instead of his long and barbaric crusade that makes the Jamaicans living in Harlem look bad. He won't deny Mariah doesn't have it coming but she is not worth John ruining his body with Nightshade and the police arresting any black man with dreads because they think he beheads people.
* ManOnFire: Mariah lights him on fire, then shoots him as he's burning up.
* MoralityChain: He ''tries'' to be this to his nephew John, often pointing out that he's going way too far in his crusade, but John usually rebuffs him and his arguments. While they still clearly love each other, Anansi is worried to see him going down a dark path.
* ParentalSubstitute: He and Ingrid took John in after Gwen was killed. He also served as a father-figure to Sheldon Shaw, given how torn up he is by his death.
* ReformedCriminal: Though he has a record in Jamaica, in NY he was an upstanding, law-abiding immigrant and worker.
* RetiredMonster: He has a record in Jamaica, but by all accounts he's been on the straight and narrow since coming to New York. He only gets involved with the Stylers more out of loyalty to John than any criminal intent.
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: Refuses Bushmaster's offered money, as he doesn't want any ill-gotten gains. Ingrid, however, is more than happy to take the money.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tilda Johnson]]
!!Matilda "Tilda" Maybelline Johnson (neé Dillard)
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I have a feeling for healing people. And not just with medicine, but by using the earth the way it was intended."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Jamaican-American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/GabrielleDennis
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''
->''"Being in the middle of nowhere, I just became fascinated with holistic medicine, and Mother Earth's unfiltered power. So I melded together ancient and modern medical practice into Mother's Touch. Mother Nature's Touch."''
Mariah Dillard's estranged daughter, the owner of holistic health store in Harlem, and eventually comes to Bushmaster's aid in his vendetta against her mother.
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* AdaptedOut: Needless to say, this version of the character never seems to have turned [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica anybody]] into a werewolf... yet.
* AntagonisticOffspring: [[spoiler:Becomes this to Mariah]].
* AntiVillain: Like many other antagonists in the MCU, Tilda isn't strictly ''evil'', but more a victim of circumstance. She's certainly more nuanced than her counterpart in the comics, who eventually does undergo a [[HeelFaceTurn heel-face turn]] to join ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}'s "Occupy" ComicBook/{{Avengers}}, and become the new Nighthawk, a vigilante superhero.
* ChildByRape: [[spoiler:Her birth father is Uncle Pete (her great-granduncle), who sexually abused Mariah when she was young]].
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: She doesn't actually call herself '(Deadly) Nightshade" in ''Luke Cage'', but she does use the nightshade flower to create the concoction that heightens Bushmaster's abilities.
* DisappearedDad / MissingMom: She didn't have much of a relationship with either of her parents growing up.
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler:After being used by her mother and being told that she was never loved (on top of countless utter horrible things), Tilda poisons Mariah]].
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: [[spoiler: She starts styling her fair into two afro puffs after the [[FaceHeelTurn face-heel turn]]]].
* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: [[spoiler: The man she grew up believing to be her father, Jackson Dillard, wasn't. She's actually the biological daughter of Pistol Pete (who was also her great-granduncle), which Mabel and Mariah covered up by sending her to live with their cousins, the Johnsons]].
* GreenEyedMonster: Despite Tilda's claims that she wants nothing more to do with the Stokes family, [[spoiler:she's clearly furious when she learns that Mariah bequethed Harlem's Paradise to Luke instead of her and her last appearance in Season Two has her looking at Luke in envy of his position.]]
* KissOfDeath: [[spoiler:How she administers the poison that kills Mariah]].
* {{Irony}}: She named her business the ''very'' {{freudian|excuse}} Mother's Touch.
* LastOfHerKind: Much as she would like to deny it, [[spoiler:as of the end of season 2, she is the last remaining member of the Stokes family.]]
* MythologyGag: [[spoiler:When [[https://static3.cbrimages.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/tilda-finale.jpg?q=35&w=864&h=432&fit=crop&dpr=1.5 we last see her in season two]], she resembles [[https://static0.cbrimages.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/nightshade.png?q=35&w=864&h=560&fit=crop&dpr=1.5 her comic book counterpart]] quite closely]].
* OlderThanSheLooks: If Mariah had her as a teen, Tilda is ''at least'' in her mid/late forties.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: In the comics, Tilda has no blood relation to either Black Mariah or Cottonmouth.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Despite being the daughter of the show's primary antagonist, she's never mentioned in the first season of ''Luke Cage'', but it's explained and [[JustifiedTrope justified]] after she first appears.
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler: Poisons her own mother]].
* ShedTheFamilyName: As a reflection of her fraught relationship with Mariah, she rechristens herself as Tilda ''Johnson'', in respect for the relatives who raised her as child.
* SnakeOilSalesman: Subverted. Mariah describes her as such, peddling holistic "cures" to people, but she really does have chemist know-how and aids Bushmaster in taking down both Luke Cage ''and'' Mariah.
* StockholmSyndrome: She gets accused of this after [[spoiler: she willingly helps Bushmaster try to kill her mother after he previously had kidnapped and threatened her]], at one point she's even referred to as "Harlem's own Patty Hearst."
* VillainousLineage: [[spoiler:The daughter of two criminals, she ends up murdering her own mother]].
* WhiteSheep: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. [[spoiler: All in all, she's far less villainous than the rest of the Stokes clan, and is often horrified by everything her mother does...which causes her to ''kill'' her mother, pushing her into HeWhoFightsMonsters territory. She also seemed to have a cordial relationship with Cornell, though she didn't know the extent of his criminal dealings (she knew he was a criminal, but never knew about his {{Arms Deal|er}}ing).]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ingrid Mackintosh]]
!!''Ingrid Mackintosh''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Jamaican-American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Helena Alicia Simms
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''
Bushmaster's maternal aunt, wife of Anansi and co-owner of Gwen's, named after her late sister.
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* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: Calls the DecapitationPresentation barbaric, not knowing her nephew is behind it.
* ParentalSubstitute: She and Anansi took John in after Gwen was killed.
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Despite knowing how John likely got that money, she isn't too proud to accept it.
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: After he husband is murdered, her restaurant becomes a crime scene, and with her nephew half dead, Ingrid just opts to take Bushmaster and Anansi's body back to Kingston.
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!!The Stylers
[[folder:In General]]
!!''The Stylers''
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''
The DarkerAndEdgier and YoungerAndHipper offshoot of the Yardies.
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* EqualOpportunityEvil: In contrast to the Stokes family's use of exclusively male foot soldiers, the Stylers have both men and women among their soldiers. They also have no problem with hiring American-born blacks, Latinos and even a handful of whites into their organization.
* FromBadToWorse: As D.W. puts it, if the Yardies are Al-Qaeda, the Stylers are ISIS.
* ImprobablyCoolCar: The gang use heavily-modified lowrider cars that are stereotypically suitable for drive-by shootings. Though this does give them an intimidation factor, Misty is eventually able to use this to track their movements.
* ItsPersonal: Played for laughs but they dislike Luke Cage because of a comment about him being faster than Usain Bolt.
* RuthlessForeignGangsters: They seem to have this reputation among the Harlem gangs, especially when decapitation becomes a regular thing for them. Ironically, as ruthless as they are under Bushmaster, Mariah proves to be ''far'' more willing to cross the line.
* SharpDressedMan: Many of the higher-ups wear business suits. To quote Bushmaster, "A Styler must style".
* TheYardies: They are an offshoot of the original Yardies, formed by a younger generation.
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!!!Leadership
[[folder:John "Bushmaster" [=McIver=]]]
!!''John "Bushmaster" [=McIver=]''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Harlem, is not yuh yard bwoy, it's ''mine''."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Enhanced human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Jamaican-American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MustafaShakir
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''
->''"Life has taught me this. You can't drown sorrow with tears. If you want to erase sorrow, you must burn it."''
A Jamaican gangster new to Harlem, who proves capable of taking on Luke Cage by himself.
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* AdaptationalCurves: Inverted. He lacks the exaggerated physique of his comic counterpart.
* AffablyEvil: Oddly enough, yes. The man might decapitate people and stick their heads on pikes, but he's generally fairly polite to friends and enemies alike, sincerely thanks Luke when he saves someone he cares about (which Luke points out he did because it was the right thing and [[spoiler: Bushmaster's aunt]] was just a civilian caught in the crossfire), and remarks on several occasions that he and Luke could have 'brethren' in another life.
* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:As soon as he finally defeats Mariah for good, he has to flee back to Jamaica due to the huge manhunt out for him.]]
* AnimalThemeNaming: Subverted, in the comic he is named after the type snake (in the same vein as Diamonback and Cottonmouth) but here it's an AppropriatedAppelation tangentially related to the snake.
* AntiVillain: His methods are incredibly brutal and he harbors aspirations for dominating Harlem's criminal underworld, but otherwise Bushmaster is only slightly worse than extreme anti-hero the Punisher, and possesses just as many redeeming qualities. It doesn't hurt that his primary goal is to murder a woman who slowly comes into her own as a monster far worse than him.
** Combined with VillainRespect in his relationship with his Uncle Anansi. Anansi pretty much hates everything John is doing and calls him out for it at every step, refusing to take money from him ''publicly''. Not only does John not deal with Anansi as brutally as he does others, he even shows shame when Anansi calls him out. ... Doesn't stop him, though.
* AppropriatedAppelation: [[spoiler:His street name comes from the rum his father invented, the same rum in the Molotov cocktail that Mama Mabel's assassins used to kill his mother.]]
* AscendedExtra: Bushmaster is a rather low-tier villain in the comics. He's the main antagonist of Season Two, alongside Mariah Dillard and Shades Alvarez.
* BadassBoast: He's got plenty, but his MicDrop as he walks away after having knocked Luke out cold in their first fight stands at the top.
-->'''D.W. Griffith''': What's... what's...\\
'''Bushmaster''': Mi name? Dem call mi Bushmaster.\\
'''D.W.''': Who are you?\\
'''Bushmaster''': ''Di stone di builders refused''.
* BadassInANiceSuit: He’s a powerful fighter who’s often decked out in nice suits, although his tend to be somewhat flashier and more colorful than the ones worn by Cottonmouth or Fisk.
* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: [[spoiler: He kills Cockroach, freeing up Luke from his legal troubles and saving C.J. and Drea Powell from his DomesticAbuse]].
* BerserkButton: Two major buttons in fact:
** It's Mariah ''Stokes'', '''not''' Dillard. He will repeatedly correct you on this, and angrily.
** Saying (or hearing) that Luke Cage is faster than Usain Bolt. To be fair, Luke ''himself'' didn't say this, but he [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten isn't about to let him live it down regardless.]]
* BigBadEnsemble: With Mariah in Season 2. They are on [[EvilVersusEvil opposing sides]] and Luke Cage is trying to stop both of them at different points in the season.
* BlasphemousBoast: Gives a good one when Anansi unknowingly echoes the words of Reverend Lucas.
-->'''Anansi:''' Vengeance belong ti di Lord.\\
'''Bushmaster:''' Well, di Lord can have it back when mi done wit it.
* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: [[spoiler: His attempts to kill Mariah do a number on his body because of the continued use of Nightshade.]]
* ByronicHero: Bushmaster is the scion of the [=McIver=] family, who were betrayed and murdered by the Stokeses over rights to Harlem's Paradise. His quest for vengeance and his birthright puts him in conflict with both Black Mariah and Luke Cage. His own allies think his methods are too brutal, but his own code of honour pushes him forward. In any other show, he would be considered a VillainProtagonist at worst. That may even be the case here, considering how much worse Mariah becomes after Luke stifles his assassination attempt.
* CharacterTic: Has a tendency to suck his teeth at the end of a sentence from time to time.
* ChildhoodFriends: He and Sheldon have known each other since they were eleven.
* CombatPragmatist: When his second round with Luke is going badly (because Luke is ready for him this time), he whips out a paralysing powder.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Unlike Cottonmouth, he's able to fight Luke one-on-one. Unlike Diamondback, he doesn't need mechanical aids to do so.
* CulturalPosturing: A minor example, when he takes ''serious'' offence to Luke Cage claiming he's faster than Usain Bolt (he didn't, but the lie becomes truth faster than he can correct it).
* DanceBattler: Has a Capoeira fighting-style.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler: Effectively gets dropped from the running as the Big Bad after he goes into a coma. While he by no means stops being a major player, by the time he’s on his feet again Mariah has consolidated her forces and killed many of his supporters. The only reason Luke and others continue to oppose him is because they want Mariah to face justice legally]].
* TheDreaded: Once people see the brutality of [[DecapitationPresentation the results]] of his decapitations, coupled with the video of him defeating Luke Cage on the street, they know he isn't someone to be messed with.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: [[spoiler:Even as a boy, he proved uncommonly strong and resilient when he alone managed to live through being poisoned with a faulty vaccine that poisoned hundreds of other children; when using Nightshade, his body is absolutely flooded with "cold energy", rendering him faster, stronger, and able to fight through getting peppered with bullets. Also deconstructed, as the drug slowly becomes more ineffective and the very thing wearing him down, while his natural physical strength is what keeps his body from deteriorating too quickly and prevents him from dying in agony during the healing process.]]
-->'''Sheldon:''' [[spoiler: Nightshade don't give. Nightshade ''reveal.'']]
* EnemyCivilWar: He's involved in a major gang war with Mariah Dillard for control of Harlem at the same time that he's at war with Luke Cage.
* EnemyMine: [[spoiler: ''Very'' briefly teams up with Luke towards the end of the season.]]
* EqualOpportunityEvil: His gang the Stylers includes female enforcers, and unlike any number of the show's villains, he never shows any sign of treating women as anything but equals.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: He really loves his mother. [[spoiler: That's his primary motivation for taking revenge against the Stokes clan.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Loved his mother dearly, and is also very fond of his uncle and aunt.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He teams up with Luke to stop the drug trade under his name, orchestrated by Mariah, especially to protect the children of Harlem.
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: Along with JustForPun. He doesn't quip too often, but he ''does'' [[ActuallyPrettyFunny kind of enjoy it when it does.]]
-->'''''Luke:''''' ''I'm looking for Nigel, man.''
-->'''''Bushmaster:''''' ''Him gone. [[DecapitationPresentation Headed]] [[ExactWords elsewhere]]. (laughs)''
* EvilIsPetty: The first time he fights Luke is to publically humiliate him because Luke's fans boasted that Luke was faster than Usain Bolt.
* FatalFlaw: Pride. No matter how many people tell him to end his crusade while he's ahead, no matter how many times he's told to stop using [[spoiler:Nightshade before it catches up with him and destroys his body]], he adamantly refuses to back down from killing Mariah, crushing the Stokes family, and avenging the [=McIver=] family name. [[spoiler:He gets his wish, but at the cost of everything else; by the end, his actions have destroyed the Stylers and left most of his friends dead, caused Anansi's horrific murder, and completely and most likely irrevocably crippled him due to his overuse of Nightshade, and he didn't even get to kill Mariah directly - Tilda did it first.]]
* FinalBoss: While it’s only in the penultimate episode, and Luke still has to clean up the power vacuum left from Mariah’s arrest, Bushmaster is his last real opponent in the series.
* FriendToAllChildren: He gets along rather well with the local kids in his neighborhood.
* GlassCannon: Only compared to Luke. He is [[LightningBruiser faster than Luke, equally strong]] [[StrongAndSkilled and an excellent martial artist]], but he can't take the same kind of punishment as [[MightyGlacier Luke]]. It's why he almost loses to Luke in their second fight: he lands more punches than Luke, but what few hits Luke gets in cause far more damage, and Bushmaster has to resort to his paralysis powder to win. Also, bullets ''can'' hurt him; they embed themselves half an inch in his skin like Kevlar rather than bouncing off harmlessly. This causes them to leave wounds, and it's implied that enough bullets will kill him.
* InsistentTerminology: He utterly refuses to accept Mariah's married name, angrily correcting it to "Stokes" every single time.
* ItsPersonal: He's here to settle an old score with Mariah, and the Stokes family.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Played with. Season 2 ends with Bushmaster managing to escape back to Kingston and his crimes go unpunished. However, his crusade has cost him most of his remaining family and left his body and mind a hollow shell of their former selves.]]
* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:Murders Cockroach, who was a truly awful human being with absolutely no redeeming traits whatsoever.]]
* KnightTemplar: He's aware of the brutality of his methods and (while he won't admit it to anyone) [[spoiler:the likelihood that he's going to pay for his Nightshade abuse]], but he's so consumed by his quest for vengeance and desire to restore the honor of the [=McIver=] family name that he will employ any method and pay any price he deems necessary to achieve his ends. He's unusually accepting of the input of others, however, as he is clearly deeply shaken by Anansi's harsh and unequivocal rebuke of his crusade and rationale, but he still refuses to abandon it or soften his approach.
* LeanAndMean: He has a thinner profile compared to Luke.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: The crimelord that decapitates people proved to be more sympathetic than Mariah by the end. To the point Luke partners up with him to take out drugs on the streets that Mariah let roam.
* LightningBruiser: He has martial arts skills to rival Danny Rand, ''and'' can put Luke on his ass with just a couple hits.
* MadeOfIron: John was always remarkably hard to kill, with Nightshade enhancing his resistance. Unlike Luke who is NighInvulnerable to almost anything a human being can throw at him Bushmaster can be injured by bullets and explosions.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It is left vague if Bushmaster is an enhanced individual, or using a form of HollywoodVoodoo. Needlessly to say, he packs enough punch to defeat Luke with ease first time round - and then give him a good fight the next couple of times - and able to take several bullets without them entering his body. As it is turns out, he gains his enhancement from [[spoiler:Nightshade]], but he is naturally able to weather its use in ways other aren't for reasons that are kept mysterious.
* MirrorCharacter: Luke Cage and Bushmaster are compared many times regarding their anger issues and how they protect the ones they care about. And even with their respective abilities too, it comes off that Bushmaster is basically the kind of person Luke Cage would be if he was much more brutal in dealing with his enemies.
* OlderThanHeLooks: He is roughly the same age as Mariah, but looks more around Luke's age.
* PowerAtAPrice: Bushmaster's enhanced strength and durability comes from a chemical cocktail that uses Nightshade as it source which allows him to go toe-to-toe with Luke Cage. [[spoiler:However the more he uses it the less effective its powers become and they wear off faster. Not only that it also does damage to Bushmaster's mind and body the more he uses it. By the end of the season, after injecting himself with a concentrated source of Nightshade, he ends up almost completely catatonic and has to be send back to Kingston to try and fix what's left off his body and mind.]]
* PyrrhicVillainy: By the end of ''Luke Cage'' season 2 Bushmaster's reign of terror ends with [[spoiler:Mariah and the Stokes household being destroyed just as he wanted. But his desire for revenge ended with Anansi, one of his few remaining family members, dead, his gang and influence in shambles, and his body and mind damaged possibly beyond repair due to Nightshade overdose. He doesn't even get the satisfaction of killing Mariah like he wanted he has to settle on Tilda doing the deed for him.]]
* RevengeBeforeReason: It doesn't matter if he has reclaimed his birthright that was taken from him, that he has millions of dollars as well as vast power in the Harlem criminal world and that every use of the [[spoiler:Nightshade]] is doing more and more damage to his body. He will ''never'' stop until Mariah is dead.
* RuthlessForeignGangsters: Though born in Brooklyn, he grew up in Jamaica, and setting up shop in Harlem, putting him at odds with Mariah and Shades.
* SlidingScaleOfVillainThreat: He's far more dangerous than both his predecessors Cottonmouth and Diamondback, being able to take on Luke in a fight and come out victorious.
* StrongAndSkilled: His biggest asset - he's almost as strong as Luke (though their second and third fight reveal that in a grapple, Luke's got the upper-hand, and he's not quite as invulnerable, as bullets manage to embed themselves in his skin rather than harmlessly bouncing off) but he's faster and has the fighting skills to better use his strength.
* VillainDecay: At the start of Season 2 of ''Luke Cage'', he seems effectively unstoppable, and mid-season he appears to hold all the cards. However, after that he starts taking some heavy losses and ends up looking almost like a VillainousUnderdog. Justified in that [[spoiler: the only thing letting him go toe to toe with Luke is his use of nightshade, which is both hard to get hold of in the US and gets less and less effective the longer you use it.]]
* VillainousRROD: He is warned all throughout the season that his use of nightshade will inevitably take a dangerous toll on his body. Regardless, he continues to use it because [[HourOfPower the power boost he gets from it]] is the only possible way he can defeat Luke and overcome Mariah's [[HomeFieldAdvantage entrenched power in Harlem]], eventually taking an incredibly high, super concentrated dose in a last ditch effort to defeat his foes. [[spoiler:The attempt backfires, as the injuries he receives and the effects of the nightshade turn him into a physical wreck as soon as the effects wear off. In his last scene he's so broken and feeble he needs help to simply get out of one car and into another, and perhaps isn't even able to speak.]]
* VillainRespect: He develops a genuine respect for Luke, both for his strength/fighting ability, and his principles, sincerely thanking him for [[spoiler: protecting his aunt after she survived Mariah's massacre.]]
* WeCanRuleTogether: Makes this offer to Luke once. It's unclear whether he means it, as he seems to regard Harlem as his birthright, but it's notable that on several occasions he remarks that in another life, he and Luke could have been brethren.
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!!!Lieutenants
[[folder:Sheldon]]
!!''Sheldon''
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[[caption-width-right:300:"Me like fish."]]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Jamaican-American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Kevin Mambo
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''
Bushmaster's right hand man.
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* ChildhoodFriends: He and Bushmaster have known each other since they were eleven. Sheldon is one of the few people that call him "John".
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Sheldon is in tears when he learns that Anansi and Stephanie are dead.
* HonestAdvisor: Much like Anansi, he sometimes questions Bushmaster's decisions. Unlike Anansi, however, he never questions his motivations and means, and even displays a "kill them just to be sure" mentality with some people.
* KarmaHoudini: He and Bushmaster don't get to enjoy the view at the top of the hill, having to flee the country after getting their revenge on the Stokes gang. However he also gets no comeuppance for their various deeds (including multiple murders of prominent people) and it's implied that they manage to successfully escape back to Jamaica.
* NervesOfSteel: Sheldon shows nothing but contempt towards Cage when Luke tries to get information out of him with a HighAltitudeInterrogation. He even ''does the countdown for Luke'', daring Luke to go through with the threat.
* NumberTwo: Right hand of Bushmaster.
* UndyingLoyalty: He's been with Bushmaster since they were kids, and stays by his side even when others take issue with his methods.
* VillainRespect: His last appearance has him show up at Pop's Barbershop, tell Luke and Co. they heard about Mariah's death, and tell them to "walk good" before leaving. No threats, no grudges, just respectful acknowledgement.
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!!!Members
[[folder:Gideon Shaw]]
!!''Gideon Shaw''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Jamaican-American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' R.A. Guirand
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''
A childhood friend of Bushmaster and Sheldon and member of the Stylers.
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* ChildhoodFriends: With Bushmaster and Gideon. He even refers to Bushmaster as [[AffectionateNickname "John-John"]].
* FelonyMisdemeanor: He faces deportation after being pulled for a broken tailight and a gram of weed.
* TheIllegal: He ended up at an ICE facility because he didn't have papers at the time of his arrest.
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!!!Underlings
[[folder:Stephanie Miller]]
!!''Stephanie Miller''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Jamaican-American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Tarah Rodgers
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''
Sheldon's younger cousin and an acquaintance of Bushmaster's family and gang.
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* BoomHeadshot: How Mariah kills her at Gwen's
* HoneyTrap: Mariah uses her to blackmail Higgins.
* JanitorImpersonationInfiltration[=/=]TheMole: She gets herself hired on by Mariah at Harlem's Paradise to spy on them for Bushmaster.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Despite being a relatively minor character, her role as a mole within Harlem's Paradise enables Bushmaster to have the upper hand on Mariah and make several strikes against her organization without her being able to exact much retaliation, including their severed head display as well as killing Piranha.
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!!!Collaborators
[[folder:Anansi]]
!!''Paul "Anansi" Mackintosh''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Jamaican-American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Sahr Ngaujah
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''
Bushmaster's uncle and co-owner of Gwen's in Brooklyn.
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* BrutalHonesty: As said under HonestAdvisor, he is not afraid to speak his mind to anyone, even if Mariah holds him hostagehe will still make it clear he thinks he might have been wrong in reining John in his revenge.
* DefiantToTheEnd: He raves in Mariah's face even after she douses him in alcohol and lights him on fire, and refuses to just die, so she decides to just shoot him. This proves to be Mariah's undoing, as [[spoiler:the bullet connects Mariah's signature gun to the death of Candace Miller and becomes the key piece of evidence that puts her away.]]
* DisapprovingLook: Rarely has anything good to say about what John is doing, and expresses that verbally and physically.
* DyingCurse: He gives one to Mariah, while he's burning alive.
-->''"I'm going to haunt you for the rest of your days. You can eat, but you won't taste. You can sleep, but you won't rest! Everything you love, you're going to lose! You hear me?! You hear me?! You hear me?!"''
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Supports his nephew but does take issue with John's RevengeBeforeReason. Once Mariah kidnaps him and he gets a chance to meet her, he decides that maybe John had a point. However he finds DecapitationPresentation distasteful.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Even his own wife calls him Anansi. The audience doesn't learn his full name until "The Creator", after he's dead.
* HonestAdvisor: He's not afraid to question John's decisions and tactics. Bushmaster said that anyone else who questioned him like that would have at least gotten roughed up, but Anansi says that if he's afraid to speak his mind, God strike him dead.
* JustShootHim: He wants Bushmaster to just kill Mariah and be done with it instead of his long and barbaric crusade that makes the Jamaicans living in Harlem look bad. He won't deny Mariah doesn't have it coming but she is not worth John ruining his body with Nightshade and the police arresting any black man with dreads because they think he beheads people.
* ManOnFire: Mariah lights him on fire, then shoots him as he's burning up.
* MoralityChain: He ''tries'' to be this to his nephew John, often pointing out that he's going way too far in his crusade, but John usually rebuffs him and his arguments. While they still clearly love each other, Anansi is worried to see him going down a dark path.
* ParentalSubstitute: He and Ingrid took John in after Gwen was killed. He also served as a father-figure to Sheldon Shaw, given how torn up he is by his death.
* ReformedCriminal: Though he has a record in Jamaica, in NY he was an upstanding, law-abiding immigrant and worker.
* RetiredMonster: He has a record in Jamaica, but by all accounts he's been on the straight and narrow since coming to New York. He only gets involved with the Stylers more out of loyalty to John than any criminal intent.
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: Refuses Bushmaster's offered money, as he doesn't want any ill-gotten gains. Ingrid, however, is more than happy to take the money.
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[[folder:Tilda Johnson]]
!!Matilda "Tilda" Maybelline Johnson (neé Dillard)
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I have a feeling for healing people. And not just with medicine, but by using the earth the way it was intended."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Jamaican-American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/GabrielleDennis
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''
->''"Being in the middle of nowhere, I just became fascinated with holistic medicine, and Mother Earth's unfiltered power. So I melded together ancient and modern medical practice into Mother's Touch. Mother Nature's Touch."''
Mariah Dillard's estranged daughter, the owner of holistic health store in Harlem, and eventually comes to Bushmaster's aid in his vendetta against her mother.
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* AdaptedOut: Needless to say, this version of the character never seems to have turned [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica anybody]] into a werewolf... yet.
* AntagonisticOffspring: [[spoiler:Becomes this to Mariah]].
* AntiVillain: Like many other antagonists in the MCU, Tilda isn't strictly ''evil'', but more a victim of circumstance. She's certainly more nuanced than her counterpart in the comics, who eventually does undergo a [[HeelFaceTurn heel-face turn]] to join ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}'s "Occupy" ComicBook/{{Avengers}}, and become the new Nighthawk, a vigilante superhero.
* ChildByRape: [[spoiler:Her birth father is Uncle Pete (her great-granduncle), who sexually abused Mariah when she was young]].
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: She doesn't actually call herself '(Deadly) Nightshade" in ''Luke Cage'', but she does use the nightshade flower to create the concoction that heightens Bushmaster's abilities.
* DisappearedDad / MissingMom: She didn't have much of a relationship with either of her parents growing up.
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler:After being used by her mother and being told that she was never loved (on top of countless utter horrible things), Tilda poisons Mariah]].
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: [[spoiler: She starts styling her fair into two afro puffs after the [[FaceHeelTurn face-heel turn]]]].
* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: [[spoiler: The man she grew up believing to be her father, Jackson Dillard, wasn't. She's actually the biological daughter of Pistol Pete (who was also her great-granduncle), which Mabel and Mariah covered up by sending her to live with their cousins, the Johnsons]].
* GreenEyedMonster: Despite Tilda's claims that she wants nothing more to do with the Stokes family, [[spoiler:she's clearly furious when she learns that Mariah bequethed Harlem's Paradise to Luke instead of her and her last appearance in Season Two has her looking at Luke in envy of his position.]]
* KissOfDeath: [[spoiler:How she administers the poison that kills Mariah]].
* {{Irony}}: She named her business the ''very'' {{freudian|excuse}} Mother's Touch.
* LastOfHerKind: Much as she would like to deny it, [[spoiler:as of the end of season 2, she is the last remaining member of the Stokes family.]]
* MythologyGag: [[spoiler:When [[https://static3.cbrimages.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/tilda-finale.jpg?q=35&w=864&h=432&fit=crop&dpr=1.5 we last see her in season two]], she resembles [[https://static0.cbrimages.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/nightshade.png?q=35&w=864&h=560&fit=crop&dpr=1.5 her comic book counterpart]] quite closely]].
* OlderThanSheLooks: If Mariah had her as a teen, Tilda is ''at least'' in her mid/late forties.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: In the comics, Tilda has no blood relation to either Black Mariah or Cottonmouth.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Despite being the daughter of the show's primary antagonist, she's never mentioned in the first season of ''Luke Cage'', but it's explained and [[JustifiedTrope justified]] after she first appears.
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler: Poisons her own mother]].
* ShedTheFamilyName: As a reflection of her fraught relationship with Mariah, she rechristens herself as Tilda ''Johnson'', in respect for the relatives who raised her as child.
* SnakeOilSalesman: Subverted. Mariah describes her as such, peddling holistic "cures" to people, but she really does have chemist know-how and aids Bushmaster in taking down both Luke Cage ''and'' Mariah.
* StockholmSyndrome: She gets accused of this after [[spoiler: she willingly helps Bushmaster try to kill her mother after he previously had kidnapped and threatened her]], at one point she's even referred to as "Harlem's own Patty Hearst."
* VillainousLineage: [[spoiler:The daughter of two criminals, she ends up murdering her own mother]].
* WhiteSheep: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. [[spoiler: All in all, she's far less villainous than the rest of the Stokes clan, and is often horrified by everything her mother does...which causes her to ''kill'' her mother, pushing her into HeWhoFightsMonsters territory. She also seemed to have a cordial relationship with Cornell, though she didn't know the extent of his criminal dealings (she knew he was a criminal, but never knew about his {{Arms Deal|er}}ing).]]
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[[folder:Ingrid Mackintosh]]
!!''Ingrid Mackintosh''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Jamaican-American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Helena Alicia Simms
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''
Bushmaster's maternal aunt, wife of Anansi and co-owner of Gwen's, named after her late sister.
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* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: Calls the DecapitationPresentation barbaric, not knowing her nephew is behind it.
* ParentalSubstitute: She and Anansi took John in after Gwen was killed.
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Despite knowing how John likely got that money, she isn't too proud to accept it.
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: After he husband is murdered, her restaurant becomes a crime scene, and with her nephew half dead, Ingrid just opts to take Bushmaster and Anansi's body back to Kingston.
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* KnightTemplar: He's aware of the brutality of his methods and (while he won't admit it to anyone) [[spoiler:the likelihood that he's going to pay for his Nightshade abuse]], but he's so consumed by his quest for vengeance and desire to restore the honor of the [=McIver=] family name that he will employ any method and pay any price he deems necessary to achieve his ends. He's unusually accepting of the input of others, however, as he is clearly deeply shaken by Anansi's harsh and unequivocal rebuke of his crusade and rationale, but he still refuses to abandon it or soften his approach.
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* FatalFlaw: Pride. No matter how many people tell him to end his crusade while he's ahead, no matter how many times he's told to stop using [[spoiler:Nightshade before it catches up with him and destroys his body]], he adamantly refuses to back down from killing Mariah, crushing the Stokes family, and avenging the [=McIver=] family name. [[spoiler:He gets his wish, but at the cost of everything else; by the end, his actions have destroyed the Stylers and left most of his friends dead, caused Anansi's horrific murder, and completely and most likely irrevocably crippled him due to his overuse of Nightshade, and he didn't even get to kill Mariah directly - Tilda did it first.]]
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* PyrrhicVillainy: By the end of ''Luke Cage'' season 2 Bushmaster's reign of terror ends with [[spoiler:Mariah and the Stokes household being destroyed just as he wanted. But his desire for revenge ended with Anansi, one of his few remanning family members, dead, his gang and influence in shambles, and his body and mind damaged possibly beyond repair due to Nightshade overdose. He doesn't even get the satisfaction of killing Mariah like he wanted he has to settle on Tilda doing the deed for him.]]
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* PyrrhicVillainy: By the end of ''Luke Cage'' season 2 Bushmaster's reign of terror ends with [[spoiler:Mariah and the Stokes household being destroyed just as he wanted. But his desire for revenge ended with Anansi, one of his few remanning remaining family members, dead, his gang and influence in shambles, and his body and mind damaged possibly beyond repair due to Nightshade overdose. He doesn't even get the satisfaction of killing Mariah like he wanted he has to settle on Tilda doing the deed for him.]]
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-->'''D.W. Griffith''': What's... what's...
'''Bushmaster''': Mi name? Dem call mi Bushmaster.
'''D.W.''': Who are you?
'''Bushmaster''': Mi name? Dem call mi Bushmaster.
'''D.W.''': Who are you?
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-->'''D.W. Griffith''': What's... what's...
what's...\\
'''Bushmaster''': Mi name? Dem call miBushmaster.
Bushmaster.\\
'''D.W.''': Who areyou?you?\\
'''Bushmaster''': Mi name? Dem call mi
'''D.W.''': Who are
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* BadassBoast: He's got plenty, but his MicDrop as he walks away after having knocked Luke out cold in their first fight stands at the top.
-->'''D.W. Griffith''': What's... what's...
'''Bushmaster''': Mi name? Dem call mi Bushmaster.
'''D.W.''': Who are you?
'''Bushmaster''': ''Di stone di builders refused''.
-->'''D.W. Griffith''': What's... what's...
'''Bushmaster''': Mi name? Dem call mi Bushmaster.
'''D.W.''': Who are you?
'''Bushmaster''': ''Di stone di builders refused''.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:Murders Cockroach, who was a truly awful human being with absolutely no redeeming traits whatsoever.]]
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* {{Foil}}: To Frank Castle. Both are after the people who killed their families, both have an EnemyMine with a main superhero (Matt and Luke), and both even comment to said superhero about how they'd be good comrades in another world. Bushmaster's a little bit more ruthless in his methods than Frank is and doesn't have problem taking over organized crime, seeing Harlem as his birthright.
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* NotSoDifferent: Luke Cage and Bushmaster are compared many times regarding their anger issues and how they protect the ones they care about. And even with their respective abilities too, it comes off that Bushmaster is basically the kind of person Luke Cage would be if he was much more brutal in dealing with his enemies.
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* NotSoDifferent: MirrorCharacter: Luke Cage and Bushmaster are compared many times regarding their anger issues and how they protect the ones they care about. And even with their respective abilities too, it comes off that Bushmaster is basically the kind of person Luke Cage would be if he was much more brutal in dealing with his enemies.
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-->''"Being in the middle of nowhere, I just became fascinated with holistic medicine, and Mother Earth's unfiltered power. So I melded together ancient and modern medical practice into Mother's Touch. Mother Nature's Touch."''
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