History Characters / SkulduggeryPleasant

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:Sacrificing someone else's soul to turn off the Accelerator would have been a real dick move if it wasn't Ravel.]]

* ShootTheDog: Arguably with [[spoiler: Remus Crux]], given that he's hopelessly insane. On the other hand, he's also a phenomenal AssholeVictim, so it could be considered a case of KickTheSonOfABitch.

* CruelMercy: [[spoiler:How Darquesse deals with Ravel.]] [[KickTheSonOfABitch Everyone agrees it's appropriate.]]

* AffablyEvil: He's a future version of [[spoiler: Skulduggery]], with the same kind of personality that was revealed when the latter was corrupted by Smoke. Accordingly, he's friendly, charming, and very likely to stab you in the back with no warning.

* CantLiveWithoutYou: He can't kill [[spoiler:Skulduggery]] without wiping himself from existence. At least, until [[spoiler: the Activation is sent out]]. After that, all bets are off.
* CombatClairvoyance: Can see possible futures which helps him in fights. However, he has one or two blindspots...

Valkyrie's younger sister.

* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:It turns out she came back to life without a soul.]]

* DoNotCallMePaul: Tells Valkyrie to call her Malice instead of Alice in the BadFuture.
* FaceHugger: Desmond once walked around with baby Alice stuck to his face, pretending she was a xenomorph from the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' franchise.

* FutureBadass: [[spoiler:Valkyrie gets a premonition of a 16 year old Alice getting ready to have a final showdown with some enemy.]]

* StatuesqueStunner: In the future she grows to be quite attractive and taller than Valkyrie - who's already six foot.

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: She stays happy during a kidnapping and when her pet dies.

* TheChessmaster: She easily outplays the resident MagnificentBitch, China Sorrows in ''Death Bringer''.

* AxCrazy: While he seems perfectly normal (aside from the obvious lack of flesh and organs) a few people, including Skulduggery himself, have alluded to him becoming a bit of psycho after his family died. It started to show after ''Dark Days''. [[spoiler: Lord Vile definitely fits this - and fittingly, his experiences and return in ''Dark Days'' caused him to snap, just a bit, leading to the Vile persona reanimating the armour.]]

* CreepyGood: He's a living skeleton with a somewhat quirky personality and a terrifying capacity for soft-spoken rage.

* TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget: More a case of [[spoiler: [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge rage will make you hate indiscriminately]] and join your enemies just so you have more targets to kill]].

* TheDreaded: With only a very few exceptions, such as Kenspeckle Grouse, everyone seems to either respect him or be terrified of him. Or both. Skulduggery points this out as part of why he would be a truly ''terrible'' choice for an Elder.

* ElementalPowers: He can manipulate all four elements, and starts teaching Valkyrie as well.

*** [[spoiler: It went so badly that he switched sides with the sole motivation of being able to kill things. Mevolent's other generals believed that bring back the faceless ones was the correct thing to do. Vile wanted them back so he could try and kill a God]]

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Normally, he never shuts up. If he's not making snarky remarks, the situation is pretty serious. But if he stops talking altogether? ''Run for your fucking life''.

* TheRedMage: [[spoiler:Was capable of using Necromancy even before he died and can use it even without Lord Vile's armour.]]

* TheseusShipParadox: It's not clear how much of the original Skulduggery is actually left. His skull at the start of the series isn't his original one and he has a room full of spare bones he can add to himself to replace damaged or lost ones.

%%* PsychoSupporter: Pre- first book.

* AlternateSelf: Another Lord Vile is still active in the Leibniz Universe. [[spoiler: Then, Valkyrie vaporises him with the Sceptre of the Ancients at the end of ''Seasons of War'']].

* FaceHeelTurn: He's the SuperpoweredEvilSide of [[spoiler: Skulduggery Pleasant]], who snapped after all that had happened to him - though as even he admitted, Abyssinia gave him a hearty shove [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope over the edge]].

* GoneHorriblyWrong: He's at least partially the result of [[spoiler: Auron Tenebrae's]] GambitRoulette and experiment, which [[spoiler: Tenebrae]] gloats about. Given Vile's [[TranquilFury general temperament]], this probably means it's a good thing that Melancholia killed [[spoiler: Tenebrae]] first.

* MysteriousPast: InUniverse, the number of people who know who he really is and where he really came from can be counted on both hands with finges to spare. As Ghastly puts it bluntly, he popped up out of nowhere, became the most feared man in the war and one of Mevolent's Generals, then vanished, all in the space of five years. A little less mysterious as of ''Death Bringer'', though bits are still being unfolded right up to the penultimate book, ''Dead or Alive''.

* {{Necromancer}}: Barring Darquesse - who is only very technically a necromancer - he's the single most powerful one in the series. It took a constantly looped Surge to get the Deathbringer even close to his level, and she's a) unstable power-wise, b) not even remotely a match for him in a fight. It's very strongly implied that Valkyrie could have done it, as her development was tracking with his, despite being pre-Surge, plus his experience, genius intellect, and [[spoiler: being ''dead'']], but Darquesse forced her to pull a DiscardAndDraw. The Leibniz version is even more powerful, brutally curbstomping his main counterpart simply because that Vile had only been Vile for a few years - the Leibniz version had been Vile for centuries (though being powered up by a ZombieApocalypse probably helped).

* OurLichesAreDifferent: [[spoiler:They wear magic armor and are seemingly driven by rage.]]

* StrictTeacher: While Omen sees him as a SadistTeacher, he comes off as more this trope, being strictest with those that he does not believe are living up to their potential. In Omen's case, because he's a self-deprecating daydreaming slacker with vast unrealised potential (who became so because he's OvershadowedByAwesome and realised that hard work wouldn't get his parents to give him the time of day, let alone love him), and to an extent with Valkyrie. While she's not his student, he knows very well who she is, and likely that she's done the bare minimum in respect to training her vast post-Surge power set (though in her case, that's a wariness of what might happen if others try to replicate it).

* CoolBigSis: Replaces Tanith as this for Valkyrie [[spoiler: after Tanith is possessed by a remnant]]. [[{{AwfulTruth}} It hits something of a hiccup]], but in the absence of Tanith she's arguably the predominant female figure in Valkyrie's life and more than willing to give her sisterly/motherly advice.

* [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes Even Morally Ambiguous Pragmatists Have Loved Ones]]: Despite attempting to murder him several times, she does love Mr Bliss. She's also fond of Valkyrie and [[spoiler:in love with Skulduggery.]] And, despite her many flaws, she really did love [[spoiler: Caisson]].

** [[spoiler:HeroicSuicide]]

* PetTheDog: Acts this way towards Valkyrie every now and then, who is arguably her main soft spot, as she seems to see as something of a mentee/surrogate daughter. China being China, her emotional reserves aren't overflowing, but she always tends to make time for Valkyrie and her advice, while often ruthlessly practical, is kindly meant. [[spoiler: She even hesitates in killing Darquesse.]]

%%* TheTease

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Non-sexual variant. [[spoiler: Remnant Tanith knows that Valkyrie is Darquesse and like all Remnants sees her as a messiah. Valkyrie is understandably freaked out]]

* CoolBigSis: A surrogate sister for Valkyrie.

* DudeMagnet: Fletcher, Ghastly, Sanguine, Ravel, Saracen Rue (who at least appreciates the view), Fergus (whose eyes pop out on stalks), Frightening Jones, Oberon Guile, and even ''[[DemBones Skulduggery]]'' finds her head-turningly attractive... albeit when he's forced to possess what he grumpily refers to as "a meat-puppet" and is hit by - among other things - a functioning libido for the first time in over 300 years. She's a little smug about it.

* FaceMonsterTurn: [[spoiler: Spends half the series as a bad guy because of that remnant, but undergoes a HeelFaceTurn in ''The Dying of the Light'', shortly before losing her Remnant.]]

* MagicKnight: Where most of the mages in the series use their powers as direct offense, Tanith tends to get in close and chop things up with her sword. Mr Bliss (another example) comments on this in her first appearance, noticing that even most Adepts don't go for such physical disciplines.

* OlderThanTheyLook: While this applies to all sorcerers, given her close relationship with Valkyrie, she's one of the most startling examples of this. That is to say, she looks and acts like a young woman in her twenties, with a sometimes giggly sisterly friendship with a teenager, then twenty-something. Or, as Valkyrie puts it, she looks 22 and acts about 4. When we meet her, she's actually in her late ''seventies''. She lampshades this in her internal monologue, noting that she knows from her personal experience that [[ImmortalImmaturity with sorcerers, teenage years can extend well into someone's fifties.]]

* UnholyMatrimony: With [[spoiler: Sanguine]], when she's [[spoiler: merged with a remnant]]. Tragically, he really did fall in love with her, and actually started [[spoiler: acting as her conscience, encouraging her to be a better person again, pointing out that she wanted to be]].

* HotTeacher: Becomes a Teacher at Corrival Academy in Phase Two.

* LastOfHisKind: He's the only surviving Teleporter as of ''The Faceless Ones'' but ends up teaching a class on it at Cortical Academy.
* LivingMacGuffin: In ''The Faceless Ones'', the Diablerie need him in order to open a gateway to the Faceless ones dimension.

* NonActionGuy: He begrudgingly acknowledges he's the gang's mode of transport rather than a true member.

%%* SlapSlapKiss: With Valkyrie.

* TookALevelInBadass: Becomes increasingly more competent and independent as the series goes on, eventually choosing to leave Valkyrie and Skulduggery's inner circle and find his own. Best demonstrated at the end of ''Death Bringer'' when he effectively fights a vampire. Later, none other than ''Darquesse'' considers him the greatest threat on the battlefield, and he successfully overloads Nero, a rival teleporter.
* TeleportSpam: He's capable of this both to troll people, demonstrated early on with Valkyrie, and for more deadly purposes when fighting a vampire.

* AmbiguouslyBi: Mostly feels attraction to women, but his genderfluid friend Never makes him question this. He's entirely unbothered, just puzzled, as this is fairly standard for sorcerers (per WordOfGod, "after four hundred years, there ''is'' no straight.").

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: As is pointed on more than one occasion, he got all the training his brother did, and while a lot of it was serving as a punchbag, being able to take a hit is one of the key components in fighting. He's also considerably smarter than he seems. The main problem is his catastrophically low self-esteem related to being the brother of the ChosenOne. Auger is a genuinely great brother, and very supportive. Unfortunately, Omen gets [[ParentalNeglect zero attention from his parents]] save to a) tell him he's screwed up, b) pass on a message to Auger (who in turn gets treated as a cash cow by his parents). This means that once he realised that his parents wouldn't pay attention to him, he stopped trying. Once he's persuaded to make an effort, he's remarkably competent.

* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Owing to the lack of respect shown to him by most everyone who meets him, Omen tends to put himself down a lot. One of his friends points out to him in ''Midnight'' that he doesn't think of himself as "someone worth worrying about".

* MoralityPet: [[spoiler: To Crepuscular]], of all people.

* TookALevelInBadass: Finding himself in trouble forces him to become reasonably formidable - though mentorship from Crepuscular Vies helps.

* CursedWithAwesome: [[spoiler:The Obsidian Blade shard that's killing him]] makes him immune to Cadaver's clairvoyance.

* HeroOfAnotherStory[=/=]NoodleIncident: Gets up to various shenanigans off-page.
* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler:At the end of ''Dead Or Alive'', he becomes "Obsidian" where his entire body is jet black, including his eyes and the inside of his mouth.]]
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Looks forward to having a normal life when his fight against The King of The Darklands is over.

* SuperSpeed[=/=]SuperStrength: Gets these alongside his PlotArmour as part of being the ChosenOne.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Is uncharacteristically nasty to Valkyrie, responding to her admittance of suicidal thoughts by telling her she should have killed herself. Given what Darquesse did to Never's family, however, it's understandable.

* TokenHeroicOrc: She's a [[CastingAShadow necromancer]], but is quite pleasant and [[spoiler: dates Valkyrie in ''Bedlam''.]]

* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: [[spoiler:The responsible to Skulduggery's foolish, berating him for confronting his father and getting three of their other siblings captured.]]
* HiddenDepths: Saves Omen when he falls out a window and [[spoiler: was apparently friends with Ghastly]].
* SadistTeacher: According to Omen.
* SiblingYinYang: Of all the candidates to be [[spoiler: Skulduggery's]] brother, he is the absolute ''least'' likely.
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[[folder:Miss Wicked]]

Psychic teacher at Corrival academy. Ex-girlfriend of Militsa. Hasn't moved on.
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