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* AllegoricalCharacter:[[invoked]] Of the "British Invasion" of UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks that was rampant in TheEighties thanks to writers like Creator/NeilGaiman, Creator/GrantMorrison, Creator/MarkMillar, Creator/WarrenEllis himself and, quite specifically, Creator/AlanMoore. Also like those authors, Carter expresses disdain for people remaining hung up on the so-called glory days of the 80s without realizing the RealitySubtext behind why things were so dark and cynical back then, deciding to fake his death so he can start a new life with a new look away from those days.
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* AllegoricalCharacter:[[invoked]] Of the "British Invasion" of UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks MediaNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks that was rampant in TheEighties thanks to writers like Creator/NeilGaiman, Creator/GrantMorrison, Creator/MarkMillar, Creator/WarrenEllis himself and, quite specifically, Creator/AlanMoore. Also like those authors, Carter expresses disdain for people remaining hung up on the so-called glory days of the 80s without realizing the RealitySubtext behind why things were so dark and cynical back then, deciding to fake his death so he can start a new life with a new look away from those days.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Their opponents during their final battle are blatant parodies of the Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica, symbolizing how pulp heroes eventually faded into relative obscurity and were supplanted by modern superheroes. Brass's survival and the fact that several of them have surviving children reflects how the pulp heroes are still fondly remembered and have heavily influenced many modern reinterpretations of their archetypes.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Their opponents during their final battle are blatant parodies of the Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica, ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica, symbolizing how pulp heroes eventually faded into relative obscurity and were supplanted by modern superheroes. Brass's survival and the fact that several of them have surviving children reflects how the pulp heroes are still fondly remembered and have heavily influenced many modern reinterpretations of their archetypes.
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* {{Expy}}: Is very obviously supposed to be Franchise/GreenLantern, most likely Abin Sur specifically.
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* AlternateSelf: In the regular ''Planetary'', they were assumed to simply be pastiches of DC Comics' Amazons and Franchise/WonderWoman, but the ''Terra Occulta'' crossover with Justice League outright reveal that the women we see are indeed the ''Planetary'' universe's versions of Diana Prince and Hippolyta.
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* AlternateSelf: In the regular ''Planetary'', they were assumed to simply be pastiches of DC Comics' Amazons and Franchise/WonderWoman, ComicBook/WonderWoman, but the ''Terra Occulta'' crossover with Justice League outright reveal that the women we see are indeed the ''Planetary'' universe's versions of Diana Prince and Hippolyta.
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* AntiHero: Elijah Snow is grumpy, world-weary and quite ruthless, especially during his quest for revenge against the Four.
* CombatPragmatist: Elijah Snow isn't hesitant to [[GroinAttack kick someone in the unmentionables]], or to use his cold power to simply freeze an opponent solid. Or do both at the same time, resulting in an opponent's crotch region smashed off their body entirely -- as Dracula found out first-hand. And that was when Elijah was still a kid. If anything, he's gotten more ruthless with age.
* GoodWearsWhite: Elijah Snow dresses in white and has white hair. [[spoiler:His white clothes foreshadow his status as the amnesiac BigGood.]]
* CombatPragmatist: Elijah Snow isn't hesitant to [[GroinAttack kick someone in the unmentionables]], or to use his cold power to simply freeze an opponent solid. Or do both at the same time, resulting in an opponent's crotch region smashed off their body entirely -- as Dracula found out first-hand. And that was when Elijah was still a kid. If anything, he's gotten more ruthless with age.
* GoodWearsWhite: Elijah Snow dresses in white and has white hair. [[spoiler:His white clothes foreshadow his status as the amnesiac BigGood.]]
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* ImmortalGenius: Elijah Snow is a Century Baby, a superhuman with extraordinary skills and powers including immortality... and he also happens to be a natural born genius, particularly in business and archaeology.
* StevenUlyssesPerhero: Elijah ''Snow'', who has the power to freeze things.
* StevenUlyssesPerhero: Elijah ''Snow'', who has the power to freeze things.
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* BadassLongcoat: Jakita's regular outfit is a thigh-length black coat over her SpyCatsuit.
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* GroundShatteringLanding: Jakita's SuperToughness is first demonstrated in a scene where she jumps out of a helicopter without a parachute, landing unharmed and leaving two sets of radiating cracks in the rock where her feet made contact.
* HellBentForLeather: Jakita Wagner's standard outfit is a black leather bodysuit with red trim.
* HellBentForLeather: Jakita Wagner's standard outfit is a black leather bodysuit with red trim.
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* InTheBlood: Jakita Wagner claims that she works with Planetary mainly because it's never boring and she hates being bored. Issue #17 is a full-issue flashback to an adventure involving her parents, and shows that her father had the same trait, which she apparently inherited from him even though she's never actually met him.
* JumpedAtTheCall: Jakita Wagner.
* LightningBruiser: Jakita Wagner is durable enough to survive being defenestrated from a skycraper without harm, strong enough to "...''drop-kick a rhino over the Grand Canyon''" and fast enough to out-run trigger-pulls.
* SpyCatsuit: While Jakita Wagner is not a spy, it is ''definitely'' a catsuit.
* SuperToughness: Jakita is largely impervious to damage; the fact that William Leather is able to draw blood during their first depicted fight is a major sign of how dangerous he is.
* JumpedAtTheCall: Jakita Wagner.
* LightningBruiser: Jakita Wagner is durable enough to survive being defenestrated from a skycraper without harm, strong enough to "...''drop-kick a rhino over the Grand Canyon''" and fast enough to out-run trigger-pulls.
* SpyCatsuit: While Jakita Wagner is not a spy, it is ''definitely'' a catsuit.
* SuperToughness: Jakita is largely impervious to damage; the fact that William Leather is able to draw blood during their first depicted fight is a major sign of how dangerous he is.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: The Drummer.
* TheDragAlong: The Drummer tends to complain if he has to accompany the field team into a dangerous situation, because his information-gathering powers aren't the most useful in a fight.
* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: First name: The, last name: Drummer
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: The Drummer. "First name ''The'', second name ''Drummer''."
* StatOVision: This is how The Drummer sees the world.
* SuperCellReception: The Drummer receives a cell call while on the Authority's spaceship/headquarters - located ''outside of the universe!''. Possibly justified in that The Drummer's superpower is control over information and information transmission.
* {{Technopath}}: The Drummer has nebulous powers related to "information flow", which apparently include sensing magic (the "cheat codes of the universe"), but he's usually employed as a super-hacker and living Electronic Counter-Measures device (disrupting security systems, monitoring or jamming enemy communications and such).
* TheDragAlong: The Drummer tends to complain if he has to accompany the field team into a dangerous situation, because his information-gathering powers aren't the most useful in a fight.
* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: First name: The, last name: Drummer
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: The Drummer. "First name ''The'', second name ''Drummer''."
* StatOVision: This is how The Drummer sees the world.
* SuperCellReception: The Drummer receives a cell call while on the Authority's spaceship/headquarters - located ''outside of the universe!''. Possibly justified in that The Drummer's superpower is control over information and information transmission.
* {{Technopath}}: The Drummer has nebulous powers related to "information flow", which apparently include sensing magic (the "cheat codes of the universe"), but he's usually employed as a super-hacker and living Electronic Counter-Measures device (disrupting security systems, monitoring or jamming enemy communications and such).
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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] and weaponized. Ambrose Chase, originally a member of the group, had the bad fortune to come across a character who had the ability to make HorrorTropes the laws of physics, explicitly including this one. Of course, they NeverFoundTheBody. In the final issue, [[spoiler:the above example is subverted; it's revealed he activated his time field and is currently preserved exactly a moment before his actual death, allowing Elijah to save him]].
* GunsAkimbo: Ambrose.
* MonochromePast: After Ambrose is shot, he has a two-page montage of his life flashing before his eyes in grayscale.
* MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes: After Ambrose is shot, there's a two page montage covering the key points of his life and career, which also serves to inform the audience about those things since he was only introduced a dozen pages earlier.
* RealityWarper: Ambrose Chase's power is a "selective physics distortion field" which allows him to warp reality in small ways in his immediate vicinity.
* SuperheroPackingHeat: Ambrose Chase has minor reality warping powers, but the effects are not entirely predictable, so he also dual-wields pistols.
* TimeStandsStill: One of the effects that Ambrose Chase is able to produce with his RealityWarper powers. [[spoiler: This is also how he saves himself from dying after being shot in the first issue he appears in, only to be rescued in the finale by being broken out of his area of frozen time.]]
* GunsAkimbo: Ambrose.
* MonochromePast: After Ambrose is shot, he has a two-page montage of his life flashing before his eyes in grayscale.
* MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes: After Ambrose is shot, there's a two page montage covering the key points of his life and career, which also serves to inform the audience about those things since he was only introduced a dozen pages earlier.
* RealityWarper: Ambrose Chase's power is a "selective physics distortion field" which allows him to warp reality in small ways in his immediate vicinity.
* SuperheroPackingHeat: Ambrose Chase has minor reality warping powers, but the effects are not entirely predictable, so he also dual-wields pistols.
* TimeStandsStill: One of the effects that Ambrose Chase is able to produce with his RealityWarper powers. [[spoiler: This is also how he saves himself from dying after being shot in the first issue he appears in, only to be rescued in the finale by being broken out of his area of frozen time.]]
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A club of extraordinary gentlemen, including Literature/SherlockHolmes, Literature/{{Dracula}}, and [[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Dr. Victor Frankenstein's creature]].
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* GroinAttack: Dracula gets frozen solid and kicked in the crotch, which is broken off in a huge chunk.
* ItIsDehumanizing: Dracula refers to Elijah as "it". It's not known if he simply views humans as animals beneath him or if he's vaguely referring to Elijah's status as a Century Baby.
* TheMentor: Sherlock Holmes personally mentors Elijah in detective work.
* PrecursorHeroes: They predate the Secret Society and even Planetary, and operated in Europe throughout the 19th century.
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* GroinAttack: Dracula gets frozen solid and kicked in the crotch, which is broken off in a huge chunk.
* ItIsDehumanizing: Dracula refers to Elijah as "it". It's not known if he simply views humans as animals beneath him or if he's vaguely referring to Elijah's status as a Century Baby.
* TheMentor: Sherlock Holmes personally mentors Elijah in detective work.
* PrecursorHeroes: They predate the Secret Society and even Planetary, and operated in Europe throughout the 19th century.
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A hidden village in Africa that's frequented by Kevin Sack. It's also home to Elijah's TrueLove.
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* {{Afrofuturism}}: Has some of this going on; the means by which it isolates itself from the world is through what appears to be complex machinery.
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A mysterious gigantic object that houses its fair shares of mysteries.
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* {{Expy}}: There's some hints that the corpse is meant to be Planetary's take on ComicBook/{{Galactus}}.
* HereThereWereDragons: There's a corpse of an absolutely enormous humanoid being laying dead in the main section of the Object.
* RiddleForTheAges: There's a lot of questions to be asked about the interior of the Object, including what exactly the giant was, why there seems to be an entire viable ecosystem inside, and what exactly that throne-like structure indicates. None of this would be answered, as Elijah pragmatically uses it to imprison Jacob Greene and exile him into outer space.
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* {{Expy}}: There's some hints that the corpse is meant to be Planetary's take on ComicBook/{{Galactus}}.
* HereThereWereDragons: There's a corpse of an absolutely enormous humanoid being laying dead in the main section of the Object.
* RiddleForTheAges: There's a lot of questions to be asked about the interior of the Object, including what exactly the giant was, why there seems to be an entire viable ecosystem inside, and what exactly that throne-like structure indicates. None of this would be answered, as Elijah pragmatically uses it to imprison Jacob Greene and exile him into outer space.
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A trio of people who had been wronged by Planetary and seek to free humanity from their dystopian regime. They feature in ''Planetary/JLA: Terra Occulta''.
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* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Some of those who were experimented on were turned into giants. Some other parts of their bodies didn't grow, leaving them in horrific, deformed pain.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: Planetary is briefly attacked by giant ants that were lurking in the desert floor.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: Planetary is briefly attacked by giant ants that were lurking in the desert floor.
* DeconstructiveParody: Of the BMovie sci-fi genre of TheFifties. All the victims of Science City Zero are put through experiments that transform them into the monsters commonly seen in these types of films, but these transformations are confirmed to either be fatal or extremely agonizing. Furthermore, the victims are all Communist sympathizers or at least accused of being one, and thus had their human rights stripped away so they could be subjected to inhumane experiments.
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* {{Expy}}: Of ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk.
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* {{Expy}}: Of ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk.AmbiguouslyEvil: For unknown reasons, the transformed Paine went on a rampage and battled the military over the course of twenty four days.
* AndIMustScream: Paine died from starvation and dehydration after the military trapped him five miles underground with no food or water.
* BodyHorror: Paine had transformed himself into something that could survive the Integral Design Bomb, but couldn't revert back. [[NothingIsScarier We don't see what exactly he turned into]], but his skin turned grey, became covered in veins, and his toenails became talons. His physiology was so seismic that even breathing apparently shook the ground.
* HulkMashUp: Paine is obviously ''Planetary'''s take on ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk, only using theoretical physics rather than gamma radiation.
* ItIsDehumanizing: The general Planetary interrogates about Paine took to referring to Paine's new form as "it".
* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: Turns out only Paine could understand his own notes on Integral Design, resulting in no more further attempts to recreate his experiments.
* AndIMustScream: Paine died from starvation and dehydration after the military trapped him five miles underground with no food or water.
* BodyHorror: Paine had transformed himself into something that could survive the Integral Design Bomb, but couldn't revert back. [[NothingIsScarier We don't see what exactly he turned into]], but his skin turned grey, became covered in veins, and his toenails became talons. His physiology was so seismic that even breathing apparently shook the ground.
* HulkMashUp: Paine is obviously ''Planetary'''s take on ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk, only using theoretical physics rather than gamma radiation.
* ItIsDehumanizing: The general Planetary interrogates about Paine took to referring to Paine's new form as "it".
* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: Turns out only Paine could understand his own notes on Integral Design, resulting in no more further attempts to recreate his experiments.
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* MultipleChoicePast: Similar to how Franchise/{{Godzilla}} has had multiple origins, Jakita exposits that everything from radioactive mutation (which she believes is stupid), mutagen, doors to parallel realities, or just outright aliens have been theorized to be reasons for these creatures' existence.
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* MultipleChoicePast: Similar to how Franchise/{{Godzilla}} has had multiple origins, Jakita exposits that everything from radioactive mutation radiation (which she believes is stupid), mutagen, doors to parallel realities, or just outright aliens have been theorized to be reasons for these creatures' existence.
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!!Justice League
A trio of people who had been wronged by Planetary and seek to free humanity from their dystopian regime.
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* AdaptationalWimp: Clark Kent can usually survive in space for however long writers want him to. Here, getting sent out the airlock kills him.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Not the League, but their ArchEnemy in this universe is a villainous version of Planetary that basically became their version of the Four.
* AlternateSelf: Of their DC Comics counterparts.
* CrazyPrepared: Bruce Wayne deflects many of Elijah's attacks by repeatedly reiterating that he's spent twenty years training for this moment.
* SoleSurvivor: Besides Clark still being the last Kryptonian, Diana is also now the last Amazon due to Planetary destroying Themyscira with a KillSat.
* LegacyCharacter: They aren't necessarily called the Justice League, but Bruce mentions that his parents and a couple of Earth's brightest and most powerful minds attempted to form such a league before Elijah Snow had the Waynes murdered. With this trio, Bruce is picking up where his parents left off.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: The Kents were supposedly killed in a natural disaster, but Bruce points out how floods don't usually cause bullet holes.
!!Others
[[folder:Justice League]]
!!Justice League
A trio of people who had been wronged by Planetary and seek to free humanity from their dystopian regime.
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* AdaptationalWimp: Clark Kent can usually survive in space for however long writers want him to. Here, getting sent out the airlock kills him.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Not the League, but their ArchEnemy in this universe is a villainous version of Planetary that basically became their version of the Four.
* AlternateSelf: Of their DC Comics counterparts.
* CrazyPrepared: Bruce Wayne deflects many of Elijah's attacks by repeatedly reiterating that he's spent twenty years training for this moment.
* SoleSurvivor: Besides Clark still being the last Kryptonian, Diana is also now the last Amazon due to Planetary destroying Themyscira with a KillSat.
* LegacyCharacter: They aren't necessarily called the Justice League, but Bruce mentions that his parents and a couple of Earth's brightest and most powerful minds attempted to form such a league before Elijah Snow had the Waynes murdered. With this trio, Bruce is picking up where his parents left off.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: The Kents were supposedly killed in a natural disaster, but Bruce points out how floods don't usually cause bullet holes.
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* LukeIAmYourFather: Lord Blackstock is revealed to be Jakita's biological father.
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!!Science City Zero
A secret laboratory run by Randall Dowling and Anna Hark where they experimented on American citizens accused of communism.
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* BodyHorror: A lot of what happens to the experiments result in horrific deformities. One guy had the Multiversal Snowflake manifesting out of his brain, and another who grew to enormous size had to deal with his brain not growing with his body.
A secret laboratory run by Randall Dowling and Anna Hark where they experimented on American citizens accused of communism.
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* BodyHorror: A lot of what happens to the experiments result in horrific deformities. One guy had the Multiversal Snowflake manifesting out of his brain, and another who grew to enormous size had to deal with his brain not growing with his body.
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A scientist who pioneered Integral Design Theory and attempted to create a reality-altering bomb. Circumstances caused him to be caught in the test blast which turned him into a rampaging monster until he could be put down.
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* {{Expy}}: Of ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk.
* RealityWarper: His Integral Design Theory was used to create a bomb that could alter reality.
A scientist who pioneered Integral Design Theory and attempted to create a reality-altering bomb. Circumstances caused him to be caught in the test blast which turned him into a rampaging monster until he could be put down.
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* {{Expy}}: Of ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk.
* RealityWarper: His Integral Design Theory was used to create a bomb that could alter reality.
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!!Angels
A trio of mysterious angel-like beings who are biologically programmed to record information.
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* AngelicAbomination: They have this vibe thanks to their appearance as blank humanoids with wireframe butterfly wings.
* ConstantlyCurious: Their purpose in existence is to record as much information as possible before returning to their place of origin. As a result, they don't care how they are treated or where they're going so long as they have something to explore and catalogue.
* {{Expy}}: Appearance-wise, they are angelic versions of the ComicBook/SilverSurfer. They later even encounter a massive corpse that looks suspiciously a bit like ComicBook/{{Galactus}}.
A trio of mysterious angel-like beings who are biologically programmed to record information.
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* AngelicAbomination: They have this vibe thanks to their appearance as blank humanoids with wireframe butterfly wings.
* ConstantlyCurious: Their purpose in existence is to record as much information as possible before returning to their place of origin. As a result, they don't care how they are treated or where they're going so long as they have something to explore and catalogue.
* {{Expy}}: Appearance-wise, they are angelic versions of the ComicBook/SilverSurfer. They later even encounter a massive corpse that looks suspiciously a bit like ComicBook/{{Galactus}}.
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* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: Notable parts of the planet's surface includes giant metallic human faces that shoot fire out of their mouths.
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* AllegoricalCharacter: Of the "British Invasion" of UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks that was rampant in TheEighties thanks to writers like Creator/NeilGaiman, Creator/GrantMorrison, Creator/MarkMillar, Creator/WarrenEllis himself and, quite specifically, Creator/AlanMoore.
* CerebusRetcon: Parodied. Carter's killer turns out to be a superhero who discovered the AwfulTruth that his SuperheroOrigin was a load of horse crap and killed Carter after going insane. Apparently instead of getting his powers from a transcendent science-mentor, he was grown from the DNA of Aryan super-athletes and Hitler's personal sex midgets.
* CerebusRetcon: Parodied. Carter's killer turns out to be a superhero who discovered the AwfulTruth that his SuperheroOrigin was a load of horse crap and killed Carter after going insane. Apparently instead of getting his powers from a transcendent science-mentor, he was grown from the DNA of Aryan super-athletes and Hitler's personal sex midgets.
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* AllegoricalCharacter: AllegoricalCharacter:[[invoked]] Of the "British Invasion" of UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks that was rampant in TheEighties thanks to writers like Creator/NeilGaiman, Creator/GrantMorrison, Creator/MarkMillar, Creator/WarrenEllis himself and, quite specifically, Creator/AlanMoore.
Creator/AlanMoore. Also like those authors, Carter expresses disdain for people remaining hung up on the so-called glory days of the 80s without realizing the RealitySubtext behind why things were so dark and cynical back then, deciding to fake his death so he can start a new life with a new look away from those days.
* CerebusRetcon: Parodied. Carter's killer turns out to be a superhero who discovered the AwfulTruth that his SuperheroOrigin was a load of horsecrap crap, went insane, and killed Carter after going insane.he took incriminating photos. Apparently instead of getting his powers from a transcendent science-mentor, he was grown from the DNA of Aryan super-athletes and Hitler's personal sex midgets.
* CerebusRetcon: Parodied. Carter's killer turns out to be a superhero who discovered the AwfulTruth that his SuperheroOrigin was a load of horse
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* TakeThat: Carter's evolution from ComicBook/JohnConstantine to [[ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}} Spider Jerusalem]] was written to be Warren Ellis's way of telling comic fans and writers to get over Alan Moore.
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* TakeThat: Carter's evolution from ComicBook/JohnConstantine to [[ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}} Spider Jerusalem]] (Ellis actually wrote for Carter to change into [[ComicBook/TheInvisibles King Mob]] but John Cassaday pulled a fast one on him) was written to be Warren Ellis's way of telling comic fans and writers to get over Alan Moore.
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The sole survivor of a doomed planet, rocketed to Earth by his parents. Unfortunately, he was intercepted by William Leather and didn't make it that far...
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!!TheLast Son
The sole survivor of a doomed planet, rocketed to Earth by his parents. Unfortunately, he was intercepted by William Leather and didn't make itMan from Planet Fiction
A fictional character thatfar...stowed away on a vessel returning from an expedition into a fictional world.
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* BizarreAlienBiology: His species seems to have glowing mathematical formulas floating on their skin.
* DeathOfAChild: Had basically only ''just'' been born when he lands on Earth, but the first people to lay eyes on him included William Leather, who incinerates him.
* LastOfItsKind: Was supposed to be this, having survived the destruction of his planet, but The Four intercepted his crash landing and promptly had him killed in order to steal his spacecraft.
* SupermanSubstitute: Is very obviously a play on the classic Superman origin story as a baby alien rocketed to safety from an exploding homeworld. Whether or not this baby would ''become'' like Superman is never brought up, as he's immediately killed by William Leather as soon as he touched down.
* DeathOfAChild: Had basically only ''just'' been born when he lands on Earth, but the first people to lay eyes on him included William Leather, who incinerates him.
* LastOfItsKind: Was supposed to be this, having survived the destruction of his planet, but The Four intercepted his crash landing and promptly had him killed in order to steal his spacecraft.
* SupermanSubstitute: Is very obviously a play on the classic Superman origin story as a baby alien rocketed to safety from an exploding homeworld. Whether or not this baby would ''become'' like Superman is never brought up, as he's immediately killed by William Leather as soon as he touched down.
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* BizarreAlienBiology: His species seems CreatorProvincialism: The vessel initially crashed into a farmhouse upon return to have glowing mathematical formulas floating on their skin.
* DeathOfAChild: Had basically only ''just'' beenthe real world. The team running the experiment discovered that a member of the creative team was born when he lands on Earth, but in that very farmhouse and probably imprinted its location onto the first people to lay eyes on him included William Leather, who incinerates him.
mission matrix.
*LastOfItsKind: Was supposed to be this, having survived NothingIsScarier: We never get a good look at the destruction Fictional Man, just a vague outline of his planet, but underlit face. We also never know exactly how he kills his victims, he just leaves a bloody mess.
* RageAgainstTheAuthor: When he arrives into the real world, he slaughters almost everybody who was involved in his and his world's creation.
* ShoutOut: Issue #9 is dedicated to Creator/GrantMorrison, who is known for their own comic stories dealing with how our fiction affects our reality and vice versa.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Planetary's attempt to intervene in the experiment is what gets Ambrose Chase seemingly killed, thus impacting all the characters greatly.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: TheFour intercepted his crash landing and promptly had him killed in order to steal his spacecraft.
* SupermanSubstitute: Is very obviously a play on the classic Superman origin story as a baby alien rocketed to safety from an exploding homeworld. Whether or not this baby would ''become'' like SupermanFictional Man is never brought up, heard from again after Issue #9, simply referred to as he's immediately killed by William Leather as soon as he touched down."still at large."
* DeathOfAChild: Had basically only ''just'' been
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* RageAgainstTheAuthor: When he arrives into the real world, he slaughters almost everybody who was involved in his and his world's creation.
* ShoutOut: Issue #9 is dedicated to Creator/GrantMorrison, who is known for their own comic stories dealing with how our fiction affects our reality and vice versa.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Planetary's attempt to intervene in the experiment is what gets Ambrose Chase seemingly killed, thus impacting all the characters greatly.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The
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A humanoid alien implanted with a mystical blue lamp with unknown powers. The alien was the newest recruit of an intergalactic peacekeeping corps and was sent out into the cosmos to "be the light in blackest night."
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A humanoid alien implanted with a mystical blue lamp with unknown powers. The alien was the newest recruit of an intergalactic peacekeeping corps and was sent out into the cosmos to "be the light in blackest night."
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!!TheBlue Lamp
A humanoid alien implanted with a mystical blue lamp with unknown powers.Last Son
Thealien sole survivor of a doomed planet, rocketed to Earth by his parents. Unfortunately, he was the newest recruit of an intergalactic peacekeeping corps intercepted by William Leather and was sent out into the cosmos to "be the light in blackest night."didn't make it that far...
!!The
A humanoid alien implanted with a mystical blue lamp with unknown powers.
The
* BizarreAlienBiology: His species seems to have glowing mathematical formulas floating on their skin.
* DeathOfAChild: Had basically only ''just'' been born when he lands on Earth, but the first people to lay eyes on him included William Leather, who incinerates him.
* LastOfItsKind: Was supposed to be this, having survived the destruction of his planet, but The Four intercepted his crash landing and promptly had him killed in order to steal his spacecraft.
* SupermanSubstitute: Is very obviously a play on the classic Superman origin story as a baby alien rocketed to safety from an exploding homeworld. Whether or not this baby would ''become'' like Superman is never brought up, as he's immediately killed by William Leather as soon as he touched down.
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[[folder:The Blue Lamp]]
!!The Blue Lamp
A humanoid alien implanted with a mystical blue lamp with unknown powers. The alien was the newest recruit of an intergalactic peacekeeping corps and was sent out into the cosmos to "be the light in blackest night."
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* DeathOfAChild: Had basically only ''just'' been born when he lands on Earth, but the first people to lay eyes on him included William Leather, who incinerates him.
* LastOfItsKind: Was supposed to be this, having survived the destruction of his planet, but The Four intercepted his crash landing and promptly had him killed in order to steal his spacecraft.
* SupermanSubstitute: Is very obviously a play on the classic Superman origin story as a baby alien rocketed to safety from an exploding homeworld. Whether or not this baby would ''become'' like Superman is never brought up, as he's immediately killed by William Leather as soon as he touched down.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Blue Lamp]]
!!The Blue Lamp
A humanoid alien implanted with a mystical blue lamp with unknown powers. The alien was the newest recruit of an intergalactic peacekeeping corps and was sent out into the cosmos to "be the light in blackest night."
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* SpontaneousWeaponCreation: The daughter's braces here can create magical constructs shaped like any weapon she chooses to manifest.
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* SpontaneousWeaponCreation: The daughter's braces here can create magical constructs shaped like any weapon she chooses to manifest.
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!!Jack Carter
An OccultDetective that operated in London at the height of TheEighties. He supposedly dies, leading to Planetary attending his funeral in London.
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* TheAce: Jakita's descriptions of him paint him as one of the coolest guys you will ever encounter.
* AllegoricalCharacter: Of the "British Invasion" of UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks that was rampant in TheEighties thanks to writers like Creator/NeilGaiman, Creator/GrantMorrison, Creator/MarkMillar, Creator/WarrenEllis himself and, quite specifically, Creator/AlanMoore.
* CerebusRetcon: Parodied. Carter's killer turns out to be a superhero who discovered the AwfulTruth that his SuperheroOrigin was a load of horse crap and killed Carter after going insane. Apparently instead of getting his powers from a transcendent science-mentor, he was grown from the DNA of Aryan super-athletes and Hitler's personal sex midgets.
* FakingTheDead: It turns out he didn't die, just faked everything to lure his killer out and shoot him in the stomach.
* OccultDetective: He regularly solved cases of the supernatural persuasion throughout the 80s, including one adventure we see a glimpse of where Carter had to deal with a ghost's attempt to murder a prostitute that's pregnant with what might be the Second Coming.
* TakeThat: Carter's evolution from ComicBook/JohnConstantine to [[ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}} Spider Jerusalem]] was written to be Warren Ellis's way of telling comic fans and writers to get over Alan Moore.
* TrenchcoatBrigade: Carter is more than a little obvious pastiche of ComicBook/JohnConstantine.
An OccultDetective that operated in London at the height of TheEighties. He supposedly dies, leading to Planetary attending his funeral in London.
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* TheAce: Jakita's descriptions of him paint him as one of the coolest guys you will ever encounter.
* AllegoricalCharacter: Of the "British Invasion" of UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks that was rampant in TheEighties thanks to writers like Creator/NeilGaiman, Creator/GrantMorrison, Creator/MarkMillar, Creator/WarrenEllis himself and, quite specifically, Creator/AlanMoore.
* CerebusRetcon: Parodied. Carter's killer turns out to be a superhero who discovered the AwfulTruth that his SuperheroOrigin was a load of horse crap and killed Carter after going insane. Apparently instead of getting his powers from a transcendent science-mentor, he was grown from the DNA of Aryan super-athletes and Hitler's personal sex midgets.
* FakingTheDead: It turns out he didn't die, just faked everything to lure his killer out and shoot him in the stomach.
* OccultDetective: He regularly solved cases of the supernatural persuasion throughout the 80s, including one adventure we see a glimpse of where Carter had to deal with a ghost's attempt to murder a prostitute that's pregnant with what might be the Second Coming.
* TakeThat: Carter's evolution from ComicBook/JohnConstantine to [[ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}} Spider Jerusalem]] was written to be Warren Ellis's way of telling comic fans and writers to get over Alan Moore.
* TrenchcoatBrigade: Carter is more than a little obvious pastiche of ComicBook/JohnConstantine.
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* AmnesiacHero: He has several gaps in his memory.
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[[folder:Shek Chi-Wai]]
!!Shek Chi-Wai
A Hong Kong detective who was murdered by his treacherous partner. He was then brought back as a ghost that haunts and patrols the streets, seeking vengeance on those who killed him.
[[folder:Island Zero]]
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[[folder:Shek Chi-Wai]]
!!Shek Chi-Wai
A Hong Kong detective who was murdered by his treacherous partner. He was then brought back as a ghost that haunts and patrols the streets, seeking vengeance on those who killed him.
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!!Shek Chi-Wai
A
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* AbnormalAmmo: He can set his bullets aflame to explode some fools.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: "Why are you scared, Mok? This is old Chi-Wai. Chi-Wai never shot an unarmed man, never put bullets in a criminal's back. Good old Chi-Wai."
* {{Expy}}: Of ComicBook/TheSpectre by way of Creator/JohnWoo.
* HeroicBloodshed: An AllegoricalCharacter meant to embody Hong Kong cinema. He even goes GunsAkimbo like in a Creator/JohnWoo film on the cover of Issue #3.
* LegacyCharacter: It's posited that there have been other phantom cops that were killed and brought back before, and Chi-Wai is the latest incarnation simply waiting for the next poor soul to be killed and take his place.
* TheNothingAfterDeath: Chi-Wai's death made him realize that there is no true afterlife, no Heaven to reward those who have been good or Hell to punish the killers and rapists. He reasons that this is why he and other cops keep coming back, because there's no other way to punish those people.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: "Why are you scared, Mok? This is old Chi-Wai. Chi-Wai never shot an unarmed man, never put bullets in a criminal's back. Good old Chi-Wai."
* {{Expy}}: Of ComicBook/TheSpectre by way of Creator/JohnWoo.
* HeroicBloodshed: An AllegoricalCharacter meant to embody Hong Kong cinema. He even goes GunsAkimbo like in a Creator/JohnWoo film on the cover of Issue #3.
* LegacyCharacter: It's posited that there have been other phantom cops that were killed and brought back before, and Chi-Wai is the latest incarnation simply waiting for the next poor soul to be killed and take his place.
* TheNothingAfterDeath: Chi-Wai's death made him realize that there is no true afterlife, no Heaven to reward those who have been good or Hell to punish the killers and rapists. He reasons that this is why he and other cops keep coming back, because there's no other way to punish those people.
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* AbnormalAmmo: He can set his bullets aflame CastOfExpies:
** Hark is Literature/FuManchu.
** The Spider is a combination of Radio/TheGreenHornet and Radio/TheShadow.
** Kevin Sack, Lord Blackstock, is Literature/{{Tarzan}}.
** Jimmy is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operator_No._5 Operator #5]].
** Edison is Literature/TomSwift.
** The Aviator appears toexplode some fools.
be a simple distillation of various AcePilot characters from aviation fiction.
*BewareTheNiceOnes: "Why DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Their opponents during their final battle are you scared, Mok? This is old Chi-Wai. Chi-Wai never shot an unarmed man, never put bullets in a criminal's back. Good old Chi-Wai."
* {{Expy}}: Of ComicBook/TheSpectre by wayblatant parodies of Creator/JohnWoo.
* HeroicBloodshed: An AllegoricalCharacter meant to embody Hong Kong cinema. He even goes GunsAkimbo like in a Creator/JohnWoo film onthe cover of Issue #3.
* LegacyCharacter: It's positedFranchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica, symbolizing how pulp heroes eventually faded into relative obscurity and were supplanted by modern superheroes. Brass's survival and the fact that there several of them have surviving children reflects how the pulp heroes are still fondly remembered and have heavily influenced many modern reinterpretations of their archetypes.
* EndOfAnEra: Their final battle against the invading superheroes effectively ended their generation of heroes and adventurers.
* ProtoSuperhero: All of them are pastiches of famous pulp heroes.
* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Their attempt to defy this led to their deaths. They understood the ramifications of attempting to directly guide history's trajectory so they invented The Brain to calculate a game plan to end World War II using the Multiversal Snowflake to observe various universes. One such universe was on a brink of destruction, caught sight of the Society's Earth, and invaded in order to save their own world, leading to major casualties on both sides.
* TrueCompanions: From what's seen of Brass's reminiscing of their glory days, the Society was a tight-knit group that have beenother phantom cops that were killed and brought back before, and Chi-Wai is the latest incarnation simply waiting for the next poor soul to be killed and take his place.
* TheNothingAfterDeath: Chi-Wai's death made him realize that there is no true afterlife, no Heaven to reward those who have been good or Hell to punish the killers and rapists. He reasons that this is why he and other cops keep coming back, because there's no other way to punish those people.through almost everything together.
** Hark is Literature/FuManchu.
** The Spider is a combination of Radio/TheGreenHornet and Radio/TheShadow.
** Kevin Sack, Lord Blackstock, is Literature/{{Tarzan}}.
** Jimmy is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operator_No._5 Operator #5]].
** Edison is Literature/TomSwift.
** The Aviator appears to
*
* {{Expy}}: Of ComicBook/TheSpectre by way
* HeroicBloodshed: An AllegoricalCharacter meant to embody Hong Kong cinema. He even goes GunsAkimbo like in a Creator/JohnWoo film on
* LegacyCharacter: It's posited
* EndOfAnEra: Their final battle against the invading superheroes effectively ended their generation of heroes and adventurers.
* ProtoSuperhero: All of them are pastiches of famous pulp heroes.
* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Their attempt to defy this led to their deaths. They understood the ramifications of attempting to directly guide history's trajectory so they invented The Brain to calculate a game plan to end World War II using the Multiversal Snowflake to observe various universes. One such universe was on a brink of destruction, caught sight of the Society's Earth, and invaded in order to save their own world, leading to major casualties on both sides.
* TrueCompanions: From what's seen of Brass's reminiscing of their glory days, the Society was a tight-knit group that have been
* TheNothingAfterDeath: Chi-Wai's death made him realize that there is no true afterlife, no Heaven to reward those who have been good or Hell to punish the killers and rapists. He reasons that this is why he and other cops keep coming back, because there's no other way to punish those people.
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!!Island Zero
An island off the coast of Japan that was once inhabited by mighty, giant creatures.
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* HereThereWereDragons: Island Zero is littered with the corpses of giant monsters that bear suspicious similarities to some iconic {{Kaiju}}. As it turns out though, not all of them are dead.
* {{Kaiju}}: The monsters we see are all Expies of Creator/{{Toho}}'s lineup of movie monsters.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: The island's backstory reflects the at the time real world reputation and waning popularity of Japanese {{Kaiju}} movies. The appearance of the Rodan {{Expy}} at the end of Issue #2 gives a hopeful nod that the genre still has a chance to regain its former glory thanks to a thriving loyal audience.
* MultipleChoicePast: Similar to how Franchise/{{Godzilla}} has had multiple origins, Jakita exposits that everything from radioactive mutation (which she believes is stupid), mutagen, doors to parallel realities, or just outright aliens have been theorized to be reasons for these creatures' existence.
* RuleOfSymbolism: Island Zero had been left alone by official governments and organizations so the remains of its inhabitants could serve as a warning to those who wish to try any of the possible reasons for their existence.
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!!The Last Son
The sole survivor of a doomed planet, rocketed to Earth by his parents. Unfortunately, he was intercepted by William Leather and didn't make it that far...
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Fictional Character]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Last Son]]
!!The Last Son
The sole survivor of a doomed planet, rocketed to Earth by his parents. Unfortunately, he was intercepted by William Leather and didn't make it that far...
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[[folder:The Fictional Character]]
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!!The Last Son
The sole survivor of a doomed planet, rocketed to Earth
!!Shek Chi-Wai
A Hong Kong detective who was murdered by his
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* BizarreAlienBiology: His species seems to have glowing mathematical formulas floating on their skin.
* DeathOfAChild: Had basically only ''just'' been born when he lands on Earth, but the first people to lay eyes on him included William Leather, who incinerates him.
* LastOfItsKind: Was supposed to be this, having survived the destruction of his planet, but The Four intercepted his crash landing and promptly had him killed in order to steal his spacecraft.
* SupermanSubstitute: Is very obviously a play on the classic Superman origin story as a baby alien rocketed to safety from an exploding homeworld. Whether or not this baby would ''become'' like Superman is never brought up, as he's immediately killed by William Leather as soon as he touched down.
* DeathOfAChild: Had basically only ''just'' been born when he lands on Earth, but the first people to lay eyes on him included William Leather, who incinerates him.
* LastOfItsKind: Was supposed to be this, having survived the destruction of his planet, but The Four intercepted his crash landing and promptly had him killed in order to steal his spacecraft.
* SupermanSubstitute: Is very obviously a play on the classic Superman origin story as a baby alien rocketed to safety from an exploding homeworld. Whether or not this baby would ''become'' like Superman is never brought up, as he's immediately killed by William Leather as soon as he touched down.
to:
* BizarreAlienBiology: His species seems AbnormalAmmo: He can set his bullets aflame to explode some fools.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: "Why are you scared, Mok? This is old Chi-Wai. Chi-Wai never shot an unarmed man, never put bullets in a criminal's back. Good old Chi-Wai."
* {{Expy}}: Of ComicBook/TheSpectre by way of Creator/JohnWoo.
* HeroicBloodshed: An AllegoricalCharacter meant to embody Hong Kong cinema. He even goes GunsAkimbo like in a Creator/JohnWoo film on the cover of Issue #3.
* LegacyCharacter: It's posited that there haveglowing mathematical formulas floating on their skin.
* DeathOfAChild: Had basically only ''just''been born when he lands on Earth, but the first people to lay eyes on him included William Leather, who incinerates him.
* LastOfItsKind: Was supposed to be this, having survived the destruction of his planet, but The Four intercepted his crash landing and promptly had himother phantom cops that were killed in order to steal his spacecraft.
* SupermanSubstitute: Is very obviously a play on the classic Superman origin story as a baby alien rocketed to safety from an exploding homeworld. Whether or not this baby would ''become'' like Superman is neverand brought up, as he's immediately back before, and Chi-Wai is the latest incarnation simply waiting for the next poor soul to be killed by William Leather as soon as and take his place.
* TheNothingAfterDeath: Chi-Wai's death made him realize that there is no true afterlife, no Heaven to reward those who have been good or Hell to punish the killers and rapists. He reasons that this is why hetouched down.and other cops keep coming back, because there's no other way to punish those people.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: "Why are you scared, Mok? This is old Chi-Wai. Chi-Wai never shot an unarmed man, never put bullets in a criminal's back. Good old Chi-Wai."
* {{Expy}}: Of ComicBook/TheSpectre by way of Creator/JohnWoo.
* HeroicBloodshed: An AllegoricalCharacter meant to embody Hong Kong cinema. He even goes GunsAkimbo like in a Creator/JohnWoo film on the cover of Issue #3.
* LegacyCharacter: It's posited that there have
* DeathOfAChild: Had basically only ''just''
* LastOfItsKind: Was supposed to be this, having survived the destruction of his planet, but The Four intercepted his crash landing and promptly had him
* SupermanSubstitute: Is very obviously a play on the classic Superman origin story as a baby alien rocketed to safety from an exploding homeworld. Whether or not this baby would ''become'' like Superman is never
* TheNothingAfterDeath: Chi-Wai's death made him realize that there is no true afterlife, no Heaven to reward those who have been good or Hell to punish the killers and rapists. He reasons that this is why he
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[[folder:The Blue Lamp]]
!!The Blue Lamp
A humanoid alien implanted with a mystical blue lamp with unknown powers. The alien was the newest recruit of an intergalactic peacekeeping corps and was sent out into the cosmos to "be the light in blackest night."
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* BoomHeadshot: His corpse has a gaping hole in his face when we see him being dissected by Dowling.
* {{Expy}}: Is very obviously supposed to be Franchise/GreenLantern, most likely Abin Sur specifically.
* KilledOffscreen: Was apparently shot and killed near Jupiter.
* LightIsGood: What his Blue Lamp was meant to symbolize, to be a light in the darkest of times just like the corps' progenitor carried a Blue Lamp as his world was crumbling into ruin.
* SpaceCop: He was inducted into this position by the leader of his Corps and implanted with a Blue Lamp of unknown mind-based powers.
!!The Blue Lamp
A humanoid alien implanted with a mystical blue lamp with unknown powers. The alien was the newest recruit of an intergalactic peacekeeping corps and was sent out into the cosmos to "be the light in blackest night."
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* BoomHeadshot: His corpse has a gaping hole in his face when we see him being dissected by Dowling.
* {{Expy}}: Is very obviously supposed to be Franchise/GreenLantern, most likely Abin Sur specifically.
* KilledOffscreen: Was apparently shot and killed near Jupiter.
* LightIsGood: What his Blue Lamp was meant to symbolize, to be a light in the darkest of times just like the corps' progenitor carried a Blue Lamp as his world was crumbling into ruin.
* SpaceCop: He was inducted into this position by the leader of his Corps and implanted with a Blue Lamp of unknown mind-based powers.
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!!The Blue Lamp
A humanoid alien implanted with a mystical blue lamp with unknown powers. The alien was the newest recruit of an intergalactic peacekeeping corps and was sent out into the cosmos to "be the light in blackest night."
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* BoomHeadshot: His corpse has a gaping hole in his face when we see him being dissected by Dowling.
* {{Expy}}: Is very obviously supposed to be Franchise/GreenLantern, most likely Abin Sur specifically.
* KilledOffscreen: Was apparently shot and killed near Jupiter.
* LightIsGood: What his Blue Lamp was meant to symbolize, to be a light in the darkest of times just like the corps' progenitor carried a Blue Lamp as his world was crumbling into ruin.
* SpaceCop: He was inducted into this position by the leader of his Corps and implanted with a Blue Lamp of unknown mind-based powers.
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[[folder:The Wonders]]
!!Amazons
An all-female "offshoot of a Grecian civilization", this race of mysterious women live on an invisible island near an American coast. The daughter of the matriarch was about to set off into the outside world to be an ambassador of peace until The Four caught wind of their existence...
!!Amazons
An all-female "offshoot of a Grecian civilization", this race of mysterious women live on an invisible island near an American coast. The daughter of the matriarch was about to set off into the outside world to be an ambassador of peace until The Four caught wind of their existence...
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[[folder:Science City Zero]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:TheWonders]]
!!Amazons
An all-female "offshootFictional Character]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Last Son]]
!!The Last Son
The sole survivor of aGrecian civilization", this race of mysterious women live on an invisible island near an American coast. The daughter of the matriarch doomed planet, rocketed to Earth by his parents. Unfortunately, he was about to set off into the outside world to be an ambassador of peace until The Four caught wind of their existence...intercepted by William Leather and didn't make it that far...
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[[folder:The
!!Amazons
An all-female "offshoot
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Last Son]]
!!The Last Son
The sole survivor of a
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* AlternateSelf: In the regular ''Planetary'', they were assumed to simply be pastiches of DC Comics' Amazons and Franchise/WonderWoman, but the ''Terra Occulta'' crossover with Justice League outright reveal that the women we see are indeed the ''Planetary'' universe's versions of Diana Prince and Hippolyta.
* CanonCharacterAllAlong: ''Terra Occulta'' reveals that the apparent WonderWomanWannabe is fully Wonder Woman herself, as it displays an AlternateUniverse where her entire race is assassinated rather than her and she's fully referred to as Diana Prince.
* KilledOffscreen: The daughter is apparently assassinated by a KillSat operated by The Four as a warning to the other Amazons to remain isolated.
* OurClonesAreIdentical: Dowling theorizes that the Amazons sustained their civilization through cloning procedures.
* NoNameGiven: Neither the "Wonder" or her mother are named in the main series, but ''Terra Occulta'' confirm they are versions of Diana Prince and Hippolyta themselves.
* SpontaneousWeaponCreation: The daughter's braces here can create magical constructs shaped like any weapon she chooses to manifest.
* WonderWomanWannabe: Appears to be the case at first due to ''Planetary'' having a CastOfExpies, but the Justice League crossover (where Warren Ellis is allowed to use the characters themselves) reveal the daughter is a version of Diana Prince herself.
* CanonCharacterAllAlong: ''Terra Occulta'' reveals that the apparent WonderWomanWannabe is fully Wonder Woman herself, as it displays an AlternateUniverse where her entire race is assassinated rather than her and she's fully referred to as Diana Prince.
* KilledOffscreen: The daughter is apparently assassinated by a KillSat operated by The Four as a warning to the other Amazons to remain isolated.
* OurClonesAreIdentical: Dowling theorizes that the Amazons sustained their civilization through cloning procedures.
* NoNameGiven: Neither the "Wonder" or her mother are named in the main series, but ''Terra Occulta'' confirm they are versions of Diana Prince and Hippolyta themselves.
* SpontaneousWeaponCreation: The daughter's braces here can create magical constructs shaped like any weapon she chooses to manifest.
* WonderWomanWannabe: Appears to be the case at first due to ''Planetary'' having a CastOfExpies, but the Justice League crossover (where Warren Ellis is allowed to use the characters themselves) reveal the daughter is a version of Diana Prince herself.
to:
* AlternateSelf: In the regular ''Planetary'', they were assumed BizarreAlienBiology: His species seems to simply be pastiches of DC Comics' Amazons and Franchise/WonderWoman, have glowing mathematical formulas floating on their skin.
* DeathOfAChild: Had basically only ''just'' been born when he lands on Earth, but the''Terra Occulta'' crossover with Justice League outright reveal that first people to lay eyes on him included William Leather, who incinerates him.
* LastOfItsKind: Was supposed to be this, having survived thewomen we see are indeed the ''Planetary'' universe's versions destruction of Diana Prince and Hippolyta.
* CanonCharacterAllAlong: ''Terra Occulta'' reveals that the apparent WonderWomanWannabe is fully Wonder Woman herself, as it displays an AlternateUniverse where her entire race is assassinated rather than her and she's fully referred to as Diana Prince.
* KilledOffscreen: The daughter is apparently assassinated by a KillSat operated byhis planet, but The Four intercepted his crash landing and promptly had him killed in order to steal his spacecraft.
* SupermanSubstitute: Is very obviously a play on the classic Superman origin story as awarning baby alien rocketed to the other Amazons to remain isolated.
* OurClonesAreIdentical: Dowling theorizes that the Amazons sustained their civilization through cloning procedures.
* NoNameGiven: Neither the "Wonder"safety from an exploding homeworld. Whether or her mother are named in the main series, but ''Terra Occulta'' confirm they are versions of Diana Prince and Hippolyta themselves.
* SpontaneousWeaponCreation: The daughter's braces here can create magical constructs shapednot this baby would ''become'' like any weapon she chooses to manifest.
* WonderWomanWannabe: Appears to be the case at first due to ''Planetary'' having a CastOfExpies, but the Justice League crossover (where Warren EllisSuperman is allowed to use the characters themselves) reveal the daughter is a version of Diana Prince herself.never brought up, as he's immediately killed by William Leather as soon as he touched down.
* DeathOfAChild: Had basically only ''just'' been born when he lands on Earth, but the
* LastOfItsKind: Was supposed to be this, having survived the
* CanonCharacterAllAlong: ''Terra Occulta'' reveals that the apparent WonderWomanWannabe is fully Wonder Woman herself, as it displays an AlternateUniverse where her entire race is assassinated rather than her and she's fully referred to as Diana Prince.
* KilledOffscreen: The daughter is apparently assassinated by a KillSat operated by
* SupermanSubstitute: Is very obviously a play on the classic Superman origin story as a
* OurClonesAreIdentical: Dowling theorizes that the Amazons sustained their civilization through cloning procedures.
* NoNameGiven: Neither the "Wonder"
* SpontaneousWeaponCreation: The daughter's braces here can create magical constructs shaped
* WonderWomanWannabe: Appears to be the case at first due to ''Planetary'' having a CastOfExpies, but the Justice League crossover (where Warren Ellis
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!!The Blue Lamp
A humanoid alien implanted with a mystical blue lamp with unknown powers. The alien was the newest recruit of an intergalactic peacekeeping corps and was sent out into the cosmos to "be the light in blackest night."
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* BoomHeadshot: His corpse has a gaping hole in his face when we see him being dissected by Dowling.
* {{Expy}}: Is very obviously supposed to be Franchise/GreenLantern, most likely Abin Sur specifically.
* KilledOffscreen: Was apparently shot and killed near Jupiter.
* LightIsGood: What his Blue Lamp was meant to symbolize, to be a light in the darkest of times just like the corps' progenitor carried a Blue Lamp as his world was crumbling into ruin.
* SpaceCop: He was inducted into this position by the leader of his Corps and implanted with a Blue Lamp of unknown mind-based powers.
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[[folder:The Conspiracy]]
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[[folder:Opak-re]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Gun Club]]
!!Gun Club
A group of astronauts from the 1800s who, impatient about waiting for technology to advance until they could get to that point, devised an early means of space travel in an attempt to go to the moon. Basically, they created a giant cannon to launch a inhabited pod into space.
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!!Gun Club
A group of astronauts from the 1800s who, impatient about waiting for technology to advance until they could get to that point, devised an early means of space travel in an attempt to go to the moon. Basically, they created a giant cannon to launch a inhabited pod into space.
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[[folder:The Conspiracy]]
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[[/folder]]
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!!Gun Club
A groupWonders]]
!!Amazons
An all-female "offshoot ofastronauts from a Grecian civilization", this race of mysterious women live on an invisible island near an American coast. The daughter of the 1800s who, impatient matriarch was about waiting for technology to advance set off into the outside world to be an ambassador of peace until they could get to that point, devised an early means The Four caught wind of space travel in an attempt to go to the moon. Basically, they created a giant cannon to launch a inhabited pod into space.their existence...
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!!Gun Club
A group
!!Amazons
An all-female "offshoot of
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* AmbiguousSituation: Elijah theorizes that they must've figured out some way to bypass getting turned to mush by the launch discharge, but there's no way to be sure considering how many pieces of the pod might be lost in orbit during the hundred or so years it's been in space.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: There's a horrifying possibility that if they managed to survive getting launched into space, they ended up stuck in orbit with not much means of returning to Earth until they all died for one reason or another.
* RefugeInAudacity: These guys from 1851 tried to go the moon by being shot out of a humungous cannon.
* ShoutOut: To ''Film/ATripToTheMoon'', where the portrayed means of space travel was also portrayed as a bunch of guys entering what amounted to a giant bullet to be shot at the moon.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: There's a horrifying possibility that if they managed to survive getting launched into space, they ended up stuck in orbit with not much means of returning to Earth until they all died for one reason or another.
* RefugeInAudacity: These guys from 1851 tried to go the moon by being shot out of a humungous cannon.
* ShoutOut: To ''Film/ATripToTheMoon'', where the portrayed means of space travel was also portrayed as a bunch of guys entering what amounted to a giant bullet to be shot at the moon.
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* AmbiguousSituation: Elijah AlternateSelf: In the regular ''Planetary'', they were assumed to simply be pastiches of DC Comics' Amazons and Franchise/WonderWoman, but the ''Terra Occulta'' crossover with Justice League outright reveal that the women we see are indeed the ''Planetary'' universe's versions of Diana Prince and Hippolyta.
* CanonCharacterAllAlong: ''Terra Occulta'' reveals that the apparent WonderWomanWannabe is fully Wonder Woman herself, as it displays an AlternateUniverse where her entire race is assassinated rather than her and she's fully referred to as Diana Prince.
* KilledOffscreen: The daughter is apparently assassinated by a KillSat operated by The Four as a warning to the other Amazons to remain isolated.
* OurClonesAreIdentical: Dowling theorizes that the Amazons sustained their civilization through cloning procedures.
* NoNameGiven: Neither the "Wonder" or her mother are named in the main series, but ''Terra Occulta'' confirm theymust've figured out some way are versions of Diana Prince and Hippolyta themselves.
* SpontaneousWeaponCreation: The daughter's braces here can create magical constructs shaped like any weapon she chooses tobypass getting turned to mush by the launch discharge, but there's no way manifest.
* WonderWomanWannabe: Appears to besure considering how many pieces of the pod might be lost in orbit during case at first due to ''Planetary'' having a CastOfExpies, but the hundred or so years it's been in space.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: There's a horrifying possibility that if they managedJustice League crossover (where Warren Ellis is allowed to survive getting launched into space, they ended up stuck in orbit with not much means of returning to Earth until they all died for one reason or another.
* RefugeInAudacity: These guys from 1851 tried to gouse the moon by being shot out of a humungous cannon.
* ShoutOut: To ''Film/ATripToTheMoon'', wherecharacters themselves) reveal the portrayed means daughter is a version of space travel was also portrayed as a bunch of guys entering what amounted to a giant bullet to be shot at the moon.Diana Prince herself.
* CanonCharacterAllAlong: ''Terra Occulta'' reveals that the apparent WonderWomanWannabe is fully Wonder Woman herself, as it displays an AlternateUniverse where her entire race is assassinated rather than her and she's fully referred to as Diana Prince.
* KilledOffscreen: The daughter is apparently assassinated by a KillSat operated by The Four as a warning to the other Amazons to remain isolated.
* OurClonesAreIdentical: Dowling theorizes that the Amazons sustained their civilization through cloning procedures.
* NoNameGiven: Neither the "Wonder" or her mother are named in the main series, but ''Terra Occulta'' confirm they
* SpontaneousWeaponCreation: The daughter's braces here can create magical constructs shaped like any weapon she chooses to
* WonderWomanWannabe: Appears to be
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: There's a horrifying possibility that if they managed
* RefugeInAudacity: These guys from 1851 tried to go
* ShoutOut: To ''Film/ATripToTheMoon'', where
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!!John Leather/The Dead Ranger
A Texas Ranger, John Leather was shot and left for dead by the Dowling Gang. "Resurrected" by a shady Native American medicine man from the Potawatomi tribe, Leather caught a glimpse of the Multiversal Snowflake via an intense hallucination and was reborn as the Dead Ranger. Armed with silver bullets tipped with mercury, Leather painted his eyes with ashes and launched a reign of terror against the Dowling Gang
!!John Leather/The Dead Ranger
A Texas Ranger, John Leather was shot and left for dead by the Dowling Gang. "Resurrected" by a shady Native American medicine man from the Potawatomi tribe, Leather caught a glimpse of the Multiversal Snowflake via an intense hallucination and was reborn as the Dead Ranger. Armed with silver bullets tipped with mercury, Leather painted his eyes with ashes and launched a reign of terror against the Dowling Gang
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!!John Leather/The Dead Ranger
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!!Gun Club
ATexas Ranger, John Leather was shot and left for dead by the Dowling Gang. "Resurrected" by a shady Native American medicine man group of astronauts from the Potawatomi tribe, Leather caught a glimpse 1800s who, impatient about waiting for technology to advance until they could get to that point, devised an early means of space travel in an attempt to go to the Multiversal Snowflake via an intense hallucination and was reborn as the Dead Ranger. Armed with silver bullets tipped with mercury, Leather painted his eyes with ashes and launched moon. Basically, they created a reign of terror against the Dowling Ganggiant cannon to launch a inhabited pod into space.
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* DoingInTheWizard: Many believed that those who survived an encounter with the Dead Ranger died of shame, but the reality was that John had laced the tips of his silver bullets with mercury, implicitly poisoning those he hadn't managed to kill.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: After cleaning up much of Texas, John eventually met a woman he fell in love with, wiped the ashes from his face, and retired from being the Dead Ranger. He became rich off the silver mine from which he shaped his bullets and fathered Bret Leather, who would later become The Spider.
* {{Expy}}: Of Franchise/TheLoneRanger.
* NominalHero: What we see of him shows that he does not care if his enemies are unarmed and surrendering.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: After cleaning up much of Texas, John eventually met a woman he fell in love with, wiped the ashes from his face, and retired from being the Dead Ranger. He became rich off the silver mine from which he shaped his bullets and fathered Bret Leather, who would later become The Spider.
* {{Expy}}: Of Franchise/TheLoneRanger.
* NominalHero: What we see of him shows that he does not care if his enemies are unarmed and surrendering.
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* DoingInTheWizard: Many believed AmbiguousSituation: Elijah theorizes that those who survived an encounter with they must've figured out some way to bypass getting turned to mush by the Dead Ranger died of shame, launch discharge, but there's no way to be sure considering how many pieces of the reality was pod might be lost in orbit during the hundred or so years it's been in space.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: There's a horrifying possibility thatJohn had laced the tips of his silver bullets with mercury, implicitly poisoning those he hadn't if they managed to kill.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: After cleaningsurvive getting launched into space, they ended up stuck in orbit with not much means of Texas, John eventually met a woman he fell in love with, wiped the ashes returning to Earth until they all died for one reason or another.
* RefugeInAudacity: These guys fromhis face, and retired from 1851 tried to go the moon by being shot out of a humungous cannon.
* ShoutOut: To ''Film/ATripToTheMoon'', where theDead Ranger. He became rich off portrayed means of space travel was also portrayed as a bunch of guys entering what amounted to a giant bullet to be shot at the silver mine from which he shaped his bullets and fathered Bret Leather, who would later become The Spider.
* {{Expy}}: Of Franchise/TheLoneRanger.
* NominalHero: What we see of him shows that he does not care if his enemies are unarmed and surrendering.moon.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: There's a horrifying possibility that
* EarnYourHappyEnding: After cleaning
* RefugeInAudacity: These guys from
* ShoutOut: To ''Film/ATripToTheMoon'', where the
* {{Expy}}: Of Franchise/TheLoneRanger.
* NominalHero: What we see of him shows that he does not care if his enemies are unarmed and surrendering.
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!!"Another Earth"
An alternate Earth populated by malevolent superentities that Randall Dowling came into contact with before The Four's fateful space expedition. Fifty years prior to the events of the series, Dowling had sold out his Earth to them in exchange for power. They await further messages from Dowling before they begin their incursion on a world stripped of the wondrous, natural defenses it should've had.
!!"Another Earth"
An alternate Earth populated by malevolent superentities that Randall Dowling came into contact with before The Four's fateful space expedition. Fifty years prior to the events of the series, Dowling had sold out his Earth to them in exchange for power. They await further messages from Dowling before they begin their incursion on a world stripped of the wondrous, natural defenses it should've had.
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!!"Another Earth"
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* DoingInTheWizard: Many believed that those who survived an encounter with the Dead Ranger died of shame, but the reality was that John had laced the tips of his silver bullets with mercury, implicitly poisoning those he hadn't managed to kill.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: After cleaning up much of Texas, John eventually met a woman he fell in love with, wiped the ashes from his face, and retired from being the Dead Ranger. He became rich off the silver mine from which he shaped his bullets and fathered Bret Leather, who would later become The Spider.
* {{Expy}}: Of Franchise/TheLoneRanger.
* NominalHero: What we see of him shows that he does not care if his enemies are unarmed and surrendering.
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!!"Another Earth"
An alternate Earth populated by malevolent superentities that Randall Dowling came into contact with before The Four's fateful space expedition. Fifty years prior to the events of the series, Dowling had sold out his Earth to them in exchange for power. They await further messages from Dowling before they begin their incursion on a world stripped of the wondrous, natural defenses it should've had.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: After cleaning up much of Texas, John eventually met a woman he fell in love with, wiped the ashes from his face, and retired from being the Dead Ranger. He became rich off the silver mine from which he shaped his bullets and fathered Bret Leather, who would later become The Spider.
* {{Expy}}: Of Franchise/TheLoneRanger.
* NominalHero: What we see of him shows that he does not care if his enemies are unarmed and surrendering.
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!!"Another Earth"
An alternate Earth populated by malevolent superentities that Randall Dowling came into contact with before The Four's fateful space expedition. Fifty years prior to the events of the series, Dowling had sold out his Earth to them in exchange for power. They await further messages from Dowling before they begin their incursion on a world stripped of the wondrous, natural defenses it should've had.
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!!Shek Chi-Wai
A Hong Kong detective who was murdered by his treacherous partner. He was then brought back as a ghost that haunts and patrols the streets, seeking vengeance on those who killed him.
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* AbnormalAmmo: He can set his bullets aflame to explode some fools.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: "Why are you scared, Mok? This is old Chi-Wai. Chi-Wai never shot an unarmed man, never put bullets in a criminal's back. Good old Chi-Wai."
* {{Expy}}: Of ComicBook/TheSpectre by way of Creator/JohnWoo.
* HeroicBloodshed: An AllegoricalCharacter meant to embody Hong Kong cinema. He even goes GunsAkimbo like in a Creator/JohnWoo film on the cover of Issue #3.
* LegacyCharacter: It's posited that there have been other phantom cops that were killed and brought back before, and Chi-Wai is the latest incarnation simply waiting for the next poor soul to be killed and take his place.
* TheNothingAfterDeath: Chi-Wai's death made him realize that there is no true afterlife, no Heaven to reward those who have been good or Hell to punish the killers and rapists. He reasons that this is why he and other cops keep coming back, because there's no other way to punish those people.
A Hong Kong detective who was murdered by his treacherous partner. He was then brought back as a ghost that haunts and patrols the streets, seeking vengeance on those who killed him.
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* AbnormalAmmo: He can set his bullets aflame to explode some fools.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: "Why are you scared, Mok? This is old Chi-Wai. Chi-Wai never shot an unarmed man, never put bullets in a criminal's back. Good old Chi-Wai."
* {{Expy}}: Of ComicBook/TheSpectre by way of Creator/JohnWoo.
* HeroicBloodshed: An AllegoricalCharacter meant to embody Hong Kong cinema. He even goes GunsAkimbo like in a Creator/JohnWoo film on the cover of Issue #3.
* LegacyCharacter: It's posited that there have been other phantom cops that were killed and brought back before, and Chi-Wai is the latest incarnation simply waiting for the next poor soul to be killed and take his place.
* TheNothingAfterDeath: Chi-Wai's death made him realize that there is no true afterlife, no Heaven to reward those who have been good or Hell to punish the killers and rapists. He reasons that this is why he and other cops keep coming back, because there's no other way to punish those people.
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* KilledOffscreen: Was apparently shot and killed near Jupiter.
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!!Amazons
An all-female "offshoot of a Grecian civilization", this race of mysterious women live on an invisible island near an American coast. The daughter of the matriarch was about to set off into the outside world to be an ambassador of peace until The Four caught wind of their existence...
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* AlternateSelf: In the regular ''Planetary'', they were assumed to simply be pastiches of DC Comics' Amazons and Franchise/WonderWoman, but the ''Terra Occulta'' crossover with Justice League outright reveal that the women we see are indeed the ''Planetary'' universe's versions of Diana Prince and Hippolyta.
* CanonCharacterAllAlong: ''Terra Occulta'' reveals that the apparent WonderWomanWannabe is fully Wonder Woman herself, as it displays an AlternateUniverse where her entire race is assassinated rather than her and she's fully referred to as Diana Prince.
* KilledOffscreen: The daughter is apparently assassinated by a KillSat operated by The Four as a warning to the other Amazons to remain isolated.
* OurClonesAreIdentical: Dowling theorizes that the Amazons sustained their civilization through cloning procedures.
* NoNameGiven: Neither the "Wonder" or her mother are named in the main series, but ''Terra Occulta'' confirm they are versions of Diana Prince and Hippolyta themselves.
* SpontaneousWeaponCreation: The daughter's braces here can create magical constructs shaped like any weapon she chooses to manifest.
* WonderWomanWannabe: Appears to be the case at first due to ''Planetary'' having a CastOfExpies, but the Justice League crossover (where Warren Ellis is allowed to use the characters themselves) reveal the daughter is a version of Diana Prince herself.
An all-female "offshoot of a Grecian civilization", this race of mysterious women live on an invisible island near an American coast. The daughter of the matriarch was about to set off into the outside world to be an ambassador of peace until The Four caught wind of their existence...
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* AlternateSelf: In the regular ''Planetary'', they were assumed to simply be pastiches of DC Comics' Amazons and Franchise/WonderWoman, but the ''Terra Occulta'' crossover with Justice League outright reveal that the women we see are indeed the ''Planetary'' universe's versions of Diana Prince and Hippolyta.
* CanonCharacterAllAlong: ''Terra Occulta'' reveals that the apparent WonderWomanWannabe is fully Wonder Woman herself, as it displays an AlternateUniverse where her entire race is assassinated rather than her and she's fully referred to as Diana Prince.
* KilledOffscreen: The daughter is apparently assassinated by a KillSat operated by The Four as a warning to the other Amazons to remain isolated.
* OurClonesAreIdentical: Dowling theorizes that the Amazons sustained their civilization through cloning procedures.
* NoNameGiven: Neither the "Wonder" or her mother are named in the main series, but ''Terra Occulta'' confirm they are versions of Diana Prince and Hippolyta themselves.
* SpontaneousWeaponCreation: The daughter's braces here can create magical constructs shaped like any weapon she chooses to manifest.
* WonderWomanWannabe: Appears to be the case at first due to ''Planetary'' having a CastOfExpies, but the Justice League crossover (where Warren Ellis is allowed to use the characters themselves) reveal the daughter is a version of Diana Prince herself.
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!!The Last Son
The sole survivor of a doomed planet, rocketed to Earth by his parents. Unfortunately, he was intercepted by William Leather and didn't make it that far...
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* BizarreAlienBiology: His species seems to have glowing mathematical formulas floating on their skin.
* DeathOfAChild: Had basically only ''just'' been born when he lands on Earth, but the first people to lay eyes on him included William Leather, who incinerates him.
* LastOfItsKind: Was supposed to be this, having survived the destruction of his planet, but The Four intercepted his crash landing and promptly had him killed in order to steal his spacecraft.
* SupermanSubstitute: Is very obviously a play on the classic Superman origin story as a baby alien rocketed to safety from an exploding homeworld. Whether or not this baby would ''become'' like Superman is never brought up, as he's immediately killed by William Leather as soon as he touched down.
The sole survivor of a doomed planet, rocketed to Earth by his parents. Unfortunately, he was intercepted by William Leather and didn't make it that far...
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* BizarreAlienBiology: His species seems to have glowing mathematical formulas floating on their skin.
* DeathOfAChild: Had basically only ''just'' been born when he lands on Earth, but the first people to lay eyes on him included William Leather, who incinerates him.
* LastOfItsKind: Was supposed to be this, having survived the destruction of his planet, but The Four intercepted his crash landing and promptly had him killed in order to steal his spacecraft.
* SupermanSubstitute: Is very obviously a play on the classic Superman origin story as a baby alien rocketed to safety from an exploding homeworld. Whether or not this baby would ''become'' like Superman is never brought up, as he's immediately killed by William Leather as soon as he touched down.
!!The Blue Lamp
A humanoid alien implanted with a mystical blue lamp with unknown powers. The alien was the newest recruit of an intergalactic peacekeeping corps and was sent out into the cosmos to "be the light in blackest night."
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* BoomHeadshot: His corpse has a gaping hole in his face when we see him being dissected by Dowling.
* {{Expy}}: Is very obviously supposed to be Franchise/GreenLantern, most likely Abin Sur specifically.
* LightIsGood: What his Blue Lamp was meant to symbolize, to be a light in the darkest of times just like the corps' progenitor carried a Blue Lamp as his world was crumbling into ruin.
* SpaceCop: He was inducted into this position by the leader of his Corps and implanted with a Blue Lamp of unknown mind-based powers.
A humanoid alien implanted with a mystical blue lamp with unknown powers. The alien was the newest recruit of an intergalactic peacekeeping corps and was sent out into the cosmos to "be the light in blackest night."
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* BoomHeadshot: His corpse has a gaping hole in his face when we see him being dissected by Dowling.
* {{Expy}}: Is very obviously supposed to be Franchise/GreenLantern, most likely Abin Sur specifically.
* LightIsGood: What his Blue Lamp was meant to symbolize, to be a light in the darkest of times just like the corps' progenitor carried a Blue Lamp as his world was crumbling into ruin.
* SpaceCop: He was inducted into this position by the leader of his Corps and implanted with a Blue Lamp of unknown mind-based powers.
!!Gun Club
A group of astronauts from the 1800s who, impatient about waiting for technology to advance until they could get to that point, devised an early means of space travel in an attempt to go to the moon. Basically, they created a giant cannon to launch a inhabited pod into space.
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* AmbiguousSituation: Elijah theorizes that they must've figured out some way to bypass getting turned to mush by the launch discharge, but there's no way to be sure considering how many pieces of the pod might be lost in orbit during the hundred or so years it's been in space.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: There's a horrifying possibility that if they managed to survive getting launched into space, they ended up stuck in orbit with not much means of returning to Earth until they all died for one reason or another.
* RefugeInAudacity: These guys from 1851 tried to go the moon by being shot out of a humungous cannon.
* ShoutOut: To ''Film/ATripToTheMoon'', where the portrayed means of space travel was also portrayed as a bunch of guys entering what amounted to a giant bullet to be shot at the moon.
A group of astronauts from the 1800s who, impatient about waiting for technology to advance until they could get to that point, devised an early means of space travel in an attempt to go to the moon. Basically, they created a giant cannon to launch a inhabited pod into space.
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* AmbiguousSituation: Elijah theorizes that they must've figured out some way to bypass getting turned to mush by the launch discharge, but there's no way to be sure considering how many pieces of the pod might be lost in orbit during the hundred or so years it's been in space.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: There's a horrifying possibility that if they managed to survive getting launched into space, they ended up stuck in orbit with not much means of returning to Earth until they all died for one reason or another.
* RefugeInAudacity: These guys from 1851 tried to go the moon by being shot out of a humungous cannon.
* ShoutOut: To ''Film/ATripToTheMoon'', where the portrayed means of space travel was also portrayed as a bunch of guys entering what amounted to a giant bullet to be shot at the moon.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: John eventually met a woman who he fell in love with, wiped the ashes from his face, and retired from being the Dead Ranger. He became rich off the silver mine from which he shaped his bullets and fathered Bret Leather, who would later become The Spider.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: After cleaning up much of Texas, John eventually met a woman who he fell in love with, wiped the ashes from his face, and retired from being the Dead Ranger. He became rich off the silver mine from which he shaped his bullets and fathered Bret Leather, who would later become The Spider.
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* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: Despite his usual demeanor, Elijah's general response to most of the things he witnesses while with Planetary nothing short of awe and wonder. Which just serves to supremely piss him off when he realizes The Four had been keeping all these wondrous things for themselves and away from humanity, preventing them from advancing into the greatness they should be destined for.
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!!"Another Earth"
An alternate Earth populated by malevolent superentities that Randall Dowling came into contact with before The Four's fateful space expedition. Fifty years prior to the events of the series, Dowling had sold out his Earth to them in exchange for power. They await further messages from Dowling before they begin their incursion on a world stripped of the wondrous, natural defenses it should've had.
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!!"Another Earth"
An alternate Earth populated by malevolent superentities that Randall Dowling came into contact with before The Four's fateful space expedition. Fifty years prior to the events of the series, Dowling had sold out his Earth to them in exchange for power. They await further messages from Dowling before they begin their incursion on a world stripped of the wondrous, natural defenses it should've had.
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* DoingInTheWizard: Many believed that those who survived an encounter with the Dead Ranger died of shame, but the reality was that John had laced the tips of his silver bullets with mercury, implicitly poisoning those he hadn't managed to kill.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: John eventually met a woman who he fell in love with, wiped the ashes from his face, and retired from being the Dead Ranger. He became rich off the silver mine from which he shaped his bullets and fathered Bret Leather, who would later become The Spider.
* {{Expy}}: Of Franchise/TheLoneRanger.
* NominalHero: What we see of him shows that he does not care if his enemies are unarmed and surrendering.
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!!"Another Earth"
An alternate Earth populated by malevolent superentities that Randall Dowling came into contact with before The Four's fateful space expedition. Fifty years prior to the events of the series, Dowling had sold out his Earth to them in exchange for power. They await further messages from Dowling before they begin their incursion on a world stripped of the wondrous, natural defenses it should've had.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: John eventually met a woman who he fell in love with, wiped the ashes from his face, and retired from being the Dead Ranger. He became rich off the silver mine from which he shaped his bullets and fathered Bret Leather, who would later become The Spider.
* {{Expy}}: Of Franchise/TheLoneRanger.
* NominalHero: What we see of him shows that he does not care if his enemies are unarmed and surrendering.
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!!"Another Earth"
An alternate Earth populated by malevolent superentities that Randall Dowling came into contact with before The Four's fateful space expedition. Fifty years prior to the events of the series, Dowling had sold out his Earth to them in exchange for power. They await further messages from Dowling before they begin their incursion on a world stripped of the wondrous, natural defenses it should've had.
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!!The Strange World
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!!"Another Earth"
An alternate Earth populated by malevolent superentities that Randall Dowling came into contact with before The Four's fateful space expedition. Fifty years prior to the events of the series, Dowling had sold out his Earth to them in exchange for power. They await further messages from Dowling before they begin their incursion on a world stripped of the wondrous, natural defenses it should've had.
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* {{Expy}}: None of its inhabitants are shown, but the pillars of fire erupting from the planet's surface and its populace's desire for multiversal conquest makes it clear that this Alternate Earth is a pastiche of [[ComicBook/NewGods Apokolips]].
* GreaterScopeVillain: They are the ones who empowered The Four in exchange for their Earth to conquer.
!!Planetary Allies
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!!The Strange World
[[folder:The Secret Society]]
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[[folder:Dowling's masters]]
!!"Another Earth"
An alternate Earth populated by malevolent superentities that Randall Dowling came into contact with before The Four's fateful space expedition. Fifty years prior to the events of the series, Dowling had sold out his Earth to them in exchange for power. They await further messages from Dowling before they begin their incursion on a world stripped of the wondrous, natural defenses it should've had.
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* {{Expy}}: None of its inhabitants are shown, but the pillars of fire erupting from the planet's surface and its populace's desire for multiversal conquest makes it clear that this Alternate Earth is a pastiche of [[ComicBook/NewGods Apokolips]].
* GreaterScopeVillain: They are the ones who empowered The Four in exchange for their Earth to conquer.
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[[folder:Elijah Snow]]
!!Elijah Snow
A Century Baby with the ability of Heat Subtraction, Elijah Snow was conscripted into Planetary to help uncover the secret history of the world. Along the way, his discovery of the hidden wonders of the world and the people who hid those wonders slowly but surely unlock memories and solve mysteries that had been plaguing him for a good chunk of his life.
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* AnIcePerson: He can't actually manipulate ice or cold, but rather is able to subtract heat from various objects, allowing him to freeze whatever he wants.
* GrumpyOldMan: Matches this to a t, especially when the Drummer and others of his age try to mouth off at him.
* HiddenDepths: Violent and angry as he might be, Elijah admits to Jakita at one point that he actually hates killing people. The Four's undermining of humanity's evolution and potential is enough to make him truly homicidal for once.
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[[folder:Jakita Wagner]]
!!Jakita Wagner
An unnaturally strong and beautiful young woman with an aversion to boredom. Jakita is the muscle of the Planetary field team, often being the one to physically wrestle and fight with hostile threats during Planetary's expeditions.
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* AmazonianBeauty: Jakita has SuperStrength and superhuman agility, and her beauty is repeatedly commented on.
* BloodKnight: She really enjoys a good fight. When Batman seems to be more than a match for her, Jakita outright asks if he's single.
* ForWantOfANail: If Sack hadn't gotten to her mother first, she could've been Elijah's daughter.
* HeroicLineage: It's later revealed that she's actually the daughter of [[Literature/{{Tarzan}} Kevin Sack]], who was once a member of Axel Brass's Secret Society.
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[[folder:The Drummer]]
!!The Dummer/Little Drummer Boy
A young man with the ability to perceive, detect, and absorb information as well as communicate with any machinery. Once the lone survivor of Randall Dowling's experiments with children to infect the internet, the Drummer was rescued and recruited by Planetary to become MissionControl and then some, often relaying whatever information he can uncover at the site to aid Planetary's archaeology.
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[[folder:Ambrose Chase]]
!!Ambrose Chase
A member of the Planetary field team with the ability to distort reality. Long ago during a mission, Ambrose was mortally wounded and disappeared from reality. His apparent death would haunt the main characters for much of the series.
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[[folder:The Fourth Man '''(SPOILERS)''']]
!!Elijah Snow
The mysterious leader of Planetary and the writer of the Planetary Guides is in fact Elijah Snow himself. His memory blocked by inhibitors implanted by Randall Dowling, the amnesiac Snow was sent into hiding until Jakita decided to bring him back, much to his chagrin. With his memories restored, Elijah officially declared war on The Four.
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* AFatherToHisMen: He begrudgingly agreed to the memory blocks to protect his team from The Four.
* PapaWolf: Is protective over Jakita as though she was his own daughter. And she almost could've been, as Elijah was in love with her mother before boredom led her to conceive Jakita with Kevin Sack instead.
* MyGreatestFailure: Ambrose's supposed death lingers over him greatly. His restored memories only made the guilt worse. He's eventually able to rectify this by bringing Ambrose back in the final issue.
* WalkingSpoiler: TheReveal that the Fourth Man was actually Elijah all along is a plot twist that happens halfway through the series.
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!!The Four
[[folder:Randall Dowling]]
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[[folder:Kim Suskind]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:William Leather]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Jacob Greene]]
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!!Planetary
[[folder:Elijah Snow]]
!!Elijah Snow
A Century Baby with the ability of Heat Subtraction, Elijah Snow was conscripted into Planetary to help uncover the secret history of the world. Along the way, his discovery of the hidden wonders of the world and the people who hid those wonders slowly but surely unlock memories and solve mysteries that had been plaguing him for a good chunk of his life.
----
* AnIcePerson: He can't actually manipulate ice or cold, but rather is able to subtract heat from various objects, allowing him to freeze whatever he wants.
* GrumpyOldMan: Matches this to a t, especially when the Drummer and others of his age try to mouth off at him.
* HiddenDepths: Violent and angry as he might be, Elijah admits to Jakita at one point that he actually hates killing people. The Four's undermining of humanity's evolution and potential is enough to make him truly homicidal for once.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Jakita Wagner]]
!!Jakita Wagner
An unnaturally strong and beautiful young woman with an aversion to boredom. Jakita is the muscle of the Planetary field team, often being the one to physically wrestle and fight with hostile threats during Planetary's expeditions.
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* AmazonianBeauty: Jakita has SuperStrength and superhuman agility, and her beauty is repeatedly commented on.
* BloodKnight: She really enjoys a good fight. When Batman seems to be more than a match for her, Jakita outright asks if he's single.
* ForWantOfANail: If Sack hadn't gotten to her mother first, she could've been Elijah's daughter.
* HeroicLineage: It's later revealed that she's actually the daughter of [[Literature/{{Tarzan}} Kevin Sack]], who was once a member of Axel Brass's Secret Society.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Drummer]]
!!The Dummer/Little Drummer Boy
A young man with the ability to perceive, detect, and absorb information as well as communicate with any machinery. Once the lone survivor of Randall Dowling's experiments with children to infect the internet, the Drummer was rescued and recruited by Planetary to become MissionControl and then some, often relaying whatever information he can uncover at the site to aid Planetary's archaeology.
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[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ambrose Chase]]
!!Ambrose Chase
A member of the Planetary field team with the ability to distort reality. Long ago during a mission, Ambrose was mortally wounded and disappeared from reality. His apparent death would haunt the main characters for much of the series.
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[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Fourth Man '''(SPOILERS)''']]
!!Elijah Snow
The mysterious leader of Planetary and the writer of the Planetary Guides is in fact Elijah Snow himself. His memory blocked by inhibitors implanted by Randall Dowling, the amnesiac Snow was sent into hiding until Jakita decided to bring him back, much to his chagrin. With his memories restored, Elijah officially declared war on The Four.
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* AFatherToHisMen: He begrudgingly agreed to the memory blocks to protect his team from The Four.
* PapaWolf: Is protective over Jakita as though she was his own daughter. And she almost could've been, as Elijah was in love with her mother before boredom led her to conceive Jakita with Kevin Sack instead.
* MyGreatestFailure: Ambrose's supposed death lingers over him greatly. His restored memories only made the guilt worse. He's eventually able to rectify this by bringing Ambrose back in the final issue.
* WalkingSpoiler: TheReveal that the Fourth Man was actually Elijah all along is a plot twist that happens halfway through the series.
[[/folder]]
!!The Four
[[folder:Randall Dowling]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Kim Suskind]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:William Leather]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Jacob Greene]]
[[/folder]]