History Characters / WildCATsWildStorm

!!Yohn Kohl

* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: Of ComicBook/{{Gambit}}, being the LovableRogue of the group and also having a BadassLongcoat.

* BadassNormal: He's one in ''ComicBook/TheWildStorm'', having no powers but his marksman skills untouched (or at least [[TheUnreveal until now]]).

* CainAndAbel: Grifter and his brother Max A.K.A. Condition Red fall into this from time to time, particularly due to Cole being TheUnfavorite.
-->[Grifter and Condition Red level their guns at each other] '''Grifter:''' Y'know, we could go get a drink and talk. Want to?\\

-->'''Grifter:''' [[SymbolSwearing @#%&]] you. It's not over. I'll come back from hell if I have to.

-->[Grifter and Condition Red level their guns at each other] '''Grifter:''' Y'know, we could go get a drink and talk. Want to?
-->'''Condition Red:''' No. [Both lower their weapons] But I guess it beats killing each other. Barely.

-->'''Molly Ingram:''' We never practiced this at the police academy!
-->'''Grifter:''' It's not a "practice makes perfect" sort of lifestyle.

** At least one issue (the one-off written by Grant Morrison) states that Grifter's smoking habit is basically one drawn-out suicide attempt. [[BlackComedy He even threatens to sue the Surgeon General for failing to deliver on his warnings]]. [[spoiler: Of course, since he's undercover as essentially a washed-out version of himself at the time it's debatable how genuine that is.]]

-->'''Lynch:''' I paid for Leningrad. We all paid. You can't blame Slayton.
-->'''Cole:''' If you say he was just following orders, I swear I'll--!

* WallOfWeapons: Cole has one of these in {{ComicBook/The Wild Storm}}.

--> '''Grifter''': ''The choice [[SomethingElseAlsoRises isn't the only thing that's hard.]]''

* AdaptationSpeciesChange: Sadly when he was [[CanonWelding Canon Welded]] into the DC Universe, the Kherubim mythology was thrown out the window and now he's just a human who was experimented on

* ShutUpHannibal: when TAO tries his manipulative shtick on him, Majestic sums him up with one word before [[spoiler: burning him to ashes]] - he calls TAO an "abomination." [[spoiler: TAO came back that time but that doesn't make the moment any less epic.]]

A crimina lfrom an abusive home who after being gravely injured in a shootout was turned into a cyborg.

!!! '''Species''': Kherubim
!!! '''First appearance''': ''[[ComicBook/WildCATsWildStorm WildC.A.Ts]]'' #1 (August, 1992)

''Zealot'' is a superhero created by Creator/JimLee and Brandon Choi, originally appearing in ''[[ComicBook/WildCATsWildStorm WildC.A.Ts]]'' before getting her own short-lived series written by Creator/RonMarz.

!!'''Grifter/Deadeye'''
!!!Cole Cash

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[[caption-width-right:350:Luck? Never heard of it.]]

''Grifter'' is a comic-book character created by Creator/JimLee and Brandon Choi. He first appeared in ''[[ComicBook/WildCATsWildStorm WildC.A.Ts]]'', back when it was still being published by Creator/{{Wildstorm}}, then had a succession of solo series, the most recent of which saw him officially join the Creator/DCComics universe during ''ComicBook/New52''.

In the original Wildstorm continuity, Cole Cash was a former soldier in US Special Forces who later joined ComicBook/Team7, a notorious black ops unit, fighting alongside such luminaries as ComicBook/{{Deathblow}} and [[Characters/StormwatchBacklash Backlash]]. Later, he joined the [=WildC.A.T.s=], alongside ex-girlfriend [[Characters/WildCATSZealot Zealot]].

In the ''New 52'' continuity, Cole Cash is a former soldier who deserted and became a con artist before a run-in with the Daemonites makes him aware of their attempts to infiltrate the world. After slaughtering several Daemonites disguised as humans, he becomes [[TheMostWanted a wanted man and has to go on the run]]. For more details on that series specifically, see ''ComicBook/Grifter2011''.

Another version of Grifter appears in ''ComicBook/TheWildStorm'', as a member of Jacob Marlowe's wild Covert Attack Team alongside new versions of Void, Spartan, and Savant. Different from other versions, here Cole Cash appeas as a normal human instead of having a mutation that gave him superpowers as in other versions.

In any continuity, Grifter is a man who is good with guns and hard to kill.

!!'''Voodoo'''
!!'''Priscilla Kitaen'''
!!!'''Species''': Daemonite-Kherubim-Human hybrid
!!!'''First appearance''': ''[[ComicBook/WildCATsWildStorm WildC.A.Ts]]'' #1 (January 1992)

''Voodoo'' is a superhero created by Creator/JimLee and Brandon Choi, originally appearing in ''[[ComicBook/WildCATsWildStorm WildC.A.Ts]]'' before getting her own short-lived series written by Creator/AlanMoore.

In 2011, Voodoo was given a new series as part of the ComicBook/New52 line of books. This series is a complete overhaul of the character and information about it can be found in ''ComicBook/Voodoo2011''.

Another version of Priscilla Kitaen appears in ''ComicBook/TheWildStorm''.

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!!'''Mr. Majestic'''
!!'''Lord Majestros of Khera'''
!!!'''Species''': Kherubim
!!!'''First appearance''': ''[[ComicBook/WildCATsWildStorm WildC.A.Ts]]'' #11 (June 1994)

''Mr. Majestic'' is a superhero from the Creator/{{Wildstorm}} universe, originally created by Creator/JimLee and H.K. Proger. Originally appearing in back-up stories in ''[[ComicBook/WildCATsWildStorm WildC.A.Ts]]'', he eventually got his own series, written by Creator/JoeCasey and drawn by Ed [=McGuiness=].

An alternate version of Majestic appears in the ComicBook/{{New 52}} series ''ComicBook/{{Team 7}}'', in which he is James Bronson, a normal human soldier who gains superhuman powers from a government experiment.

* FunWithAcronyms: TAO stands for '''T'''actically '''A'''ugmented '''O'''rganism.

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[[caption-width-right:208:Powerful crossbreed with the Sight]]

[[folder:Grifter/Deadeye]]

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[[caption-width-right:250:Fierce Kherubim Warrior]]

[[folder:Zealot]]
See [[Characters/WildCATSZealot her own page]]
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[[folder:Grifter]]
See [[Characters/WildCATSGrifter his own page]]
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[[folder:Lord Emp]]
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Emp is one of several Kherubim that were stranded on Earth over a millenia ago. After losing and later regaining his memory, he started the [=Wild=]C.A.T.S to fight Daemonites.

* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: In volume 3 Lord Emp was becoming a High Kherubian Lord and wanted his arch-nemesis Kenyan to kill him as part of the ascension process. His body had become child-sized and shriveled but he didn't care because he was about to transcend mortal concerns.
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Emp was Napoleon at some point.
* CrimefightingWithCash: Marlowe has used the money and resources of HALO to make things easier for his team, even more in the cartoon than the comics.
* LargeAndInCharge: Inverted - as Jacob Marlowe, Emp is the multi-millionaire financier as well as the team leader. He's also shown to be rather far below average height. (Four feet tall wouldn't be far off, though with scales being what they are in comics, it's sometimes hard to say.)
* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: Lord Emp needs to ditch his corporeal body in order to complete his ascension into an Energy Being, but the rules dictate that he can't do it himself. Because the process of ascending releases enough energy to incinerate the killer, Emp tries to trick his long-time nemesis Kenyan into killing him, thereby killing two birds with one stone. However, it turns out Kenyan is apparently so obsessively attached to their ongoing rivalry that, unable to accept the situation, he kills himself instead, so Emp moves on to plan B, getting the Nigh Invulnerable Spartan to do the deed instead.

[[folder:Warblade]]
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[[caption-width-right:318:Metamorphing Crossbreed Warrior]]
Reno Bryce, a green-haired freelance artist whose parents were killed by Daemonites. Lord Emp discovered him and revealed Bryce had half-Kherubim heritage, inviting him to join their team. His heritage gives him the ability to reshape his molecular structure, turning any part of his body into steel at will.

* AbsurdlySharpBlade: His claws or any other bladed form he gives his hands.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Reno is an earth-born descendant of a member of the Kheran Shapers' Guild.
* ShapeshifterWeapon: He can change his hands into many shapes. He mostly turns them into claws and blades, but gets more creative after training on Khera.

[[folder:Void]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:The Living Metallized Super-Entity]]
Originally the Russian cosmonaut Adrianna Tereshkova, she gained powers when she was bonded to one of Omnia's Orbs of Power. Tereshkova is granted teleportation and precognition by the Void entity, allowing her to transport her team and predict their battles. Having predicted the need for them, she formed the [=Wild=]C.A.T.s by reawakening Lord Emp.

* ChromeChampion: Her only non-shiny part is her face.
* FamousNamedForeigner: Void's real name is Adrianna Tereshkova, just like Valentina Tereshkova, who was a cosmonaut (and the first woman to be sent to space) just like Adrianna before becoming Void.
* LegacyCharacter: Similar to the case of ComicBook/TheSpectre, this is a legacy where the powerful entity remains but its human hosts change. After Adrianna gets separated from Void, the entity merges with Spartan, and after leaving him, with Nikola Hanssen.
* MissionControl: Void's role is to find about threats and send the C.A.T.s against them.
* TeleportersAndTransporters: Void can teleport herself and others when needed.

[[folder:Voodoo]]
See [[Characters/WildCATSVoodoo her own page]]

[[folder:Maul]]
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[[caption-width-right:304:Massive Crossbreed Warrior]]
Dr. Jeremy Stone is a human-titanthrope hybrid. He's a Nobel-prize winning scientist that can grow to great size at the cost of intelligence, or grow smaller to get even smarter.

* DumbMuscle: Maul actually gets dumber as he gets bigger. He once got so big he forgot how to return to normal size. He is a bizarre case: while his power is that he can swap brains for brawn, in his "normal" form he's a nobel laureate so, when he doesn't grow too much, he retains enough smarts to be more like a GeniusBruiser.
* GeniusBruiser: Maul is a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who gets dumber as he uses his powers to get larger and stronger. For a while, he was also able to make himself smarter by shrinking, but that turned out to leave him weakened as a side effect.
* HalfHumanHybrid: His alien ancestor was a titanthrope native to Khera.
* HulkMashUp: He is a Nobel-winning scientific genius who can increase his size, bulk and strength, but at the cost of reducing his intelligence. His color scheme is also the exact inverse of the Hulk--purple skin with green outfits.
* HulkingOut: Maul has the power to grow in size and strength at the cost of intelligence. If seriously provoked he sometimes forgets himself and grows past the point where he can tell friend from foe.
* LogicalWeakness: As his powers work by manipulating mass, someone that can manipulate atoms that can depower him. When he fought Captain Atom, Atom used his powers to manipulated his mass and turn him back into Jeremy.
* PurpleIsPowerful: His skin turns purple when he changes size.
* SuperStrength: Maul's strength fluctuates with his size.

!Additional Members
[[folder:Condition Red]]
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* ReplacementGoldfish: After Grifter refuses to join Savant's team, she recruits Max since he's Grifter's brother with similar gun skills.
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[[folder:Mr. Majestic]]
See [[Characters/WildCATSMrMajestic his own page]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Savant]]
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Savant is the daughter of Zealot and Mr. Majestic. She was raised as Zealot's sister and for most of her life (thousands of years) was unaware of her parentage. She and Majestic started the [=Wild=]C.A.T.S replacement team after the original team was thought dead.

* AdventurerArchaeologist: Over the years she eventually developed a love of history and became a pioneer in the field of archeology.
* BagOfHolding: She also came into possession of a mystic bag that seemingly has no bottom called the Tesseract Tote. She uses the bag to store many of her treasured finds, which usually she can somehow find and pull out of the bag's opening no matter what size or length the item inside seems to be.
* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: She's the daughter of Majestic and Zealot, but was raised as Zealot's sister.
* LikeMotherUnlikeDaughter: While Zannah loves fighting and bloodshed, Kanesha always preferred knowledge.

[[folder:TAO]]
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A test-tube grown super-intelligent man who once joined and then fought the [[ComicBook/WildCATsWildStorm WildC.A.T.S]].

* ArtificialHuman: His "mother" was a Petri dish.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: TAO's grasp of tactical, strategic thinking has achieved a seemingly transcendent level which utterly surpasses normal human consciousness.
* BoomHeadshot: How [[spoiler:Grifter]] ultimately deals with him.
-->''"[[ShutUpHannibal Ah, shaddup.]]"''
* BreakThemByTalking: TAO's specialty.
* CatchPhrase: "Let us reason together ..."
* TheChessmaster: He just needs to manipulate a single villain to create a chain of events that cause a gang war.
* CompellingVoice: His inhuman perception allows him to see a persons deepest secrets and flaws after a few glancing moments or a conversation.
* DeathByIrony: During the whole crime war arc he at one point mentions that every time he's in the same room as [[spoiler:Grifter]] he expects a bullet to the back of the head. [[spoiler:No points for guessing how he eventually dies and who does him in.]]
* DecoyGetaway: When pursued by the Wild C.A.T.s, TAO has the Daemonite shapeshifter Mr White replace him, so he is the one incinerated by Majestic.
* FunWithAcronyms: TAO stands for '''T'''actically '''A'''ugmented '''O'''rganism.
* ManipulativeBastard: Usually TAO manipulates circumstances so that he has no need to fight. TAO's ability to manipulate others not only allows for a personal army to fight for him, but rarely do his enemies find themselves able to lift a finger against him.
* MindRape: TAO can quickly manipulate people using his words, forcing them to do what he wants or erasing specific memories. At one point he is shown completely undermining Stormwatch-member Fuji's self-confidence, rendering him nearly catatonic merely by having a short conversation with him.
* MoreThanMindControl: Uses {{logic|Bomb}} on his smarter targets and [[EmotionBomb emotional trauma]] on his simpler ones.
* PsychoticSmirk: Occasionally blossoms into full-on SlasherSmile.
* SmugSnake: TAO's a bona-fide superhuman genius, make no mistake, but he has one glaring flaw - he does NOT know when to shut up. [[spoiler:He managed to talk Holden Carver into ripping his tongue out, Majestic into incinerating him with eye beams (it didn't stick but still), and Grifter into shooting him in the head (this one DID stick, if only because it came about at the tail-end of Wildstorm's existence).]]
* SuperIntelligence: TAO is superhumanly intelligent, especially when it comes to predicting and manipulating human behavior. His mind has been said to have entered a conceptual territory so far above from conventional humans that one might as well attempt explaining quantum physics to an ant. His I.Q. is said to be immeasurable by any human test and was said to have absorbed all of human knowledge by the time he was physically a teenager.
* WickedCultured
* WithholdingTheCure: TAO claims to have the cures for AIDS and all forms of cancer, as well as a genetic patent on a strain of corn that will end world hunger forever. He uses these as bargaining chips when he gets in trouble. Majestic doesn't care.

[[folder:Ladytron]]
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* AlliterativeName: '''Ma'''xine '''Ma'''nchester.
* BookDumb: Both a strength and a fault, Maxine Manchester isn't very bright nor is she all that levelheaded an individual, often charging recklessly into distressing situations without pause for thought.
* OddFriendship: Ladytron regards Majestic as a surrogate father figure and for his part Majestic humors her. Their interactions are actually quite touching (and usually hilarious given that Majestic's as straight a StraightMan as they get whereas [[AxCrazy Ladytron]][[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} ... isn't]].) and [[spoiler:when TAO's manipulations cause Ladytron's nuclear power source to explode, Majestic [[PapaWolf makes]][[RoaringRampageOfRevenge him]] [[KillItWithFire pay]].]]
* DatingCatwoman: After a fight against Overtkill (at the time when Wildstorm was part of a wider Image Universe), they decide to go to watch a movie together.
* RoboticPsychopath: Ladytron is basically the world's most annoying teenage girl with robotic death cannons installed.
* TooDumbToFool: When TAO tries his manipulation tricks on Ladytron, they simply don't work. She spells it out for him: He can influence the way rational people think, but she's a violent, stupid criminal -- anything but rational. It's then immediately subverted when he switches tactics and uses effective emotional manipulation on her just long enough to take her out.

[[folder:Olympia]]
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* TokenHeroicOrc: She is a Daemonite in the side of good.

[[folder:Backlash]]
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* AffirmativeActionLegacy: She took her father's identity.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Her father is a half-Kherubim, making her a quarter Kherubim.

[[folder:Nemesis]]
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[[folder:Mythos]]
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[[folder:Kenyan]]
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* CanonImmigrant: He debuted as an antagonist in an IntercontinuityCrossover with the X-Men.
* DrivenToSuicide: Emp tries to trick Kenyan into killing him to ascend, because the process of ascending releases enough energy to incinerate the killer, thereby killing two birds with one stone. However, it turns out Kenyan is apparently so obsessively attached to their ongoing rivalry that, unable to accept the situation, he kills himself instead.
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!Antagonists
[[folder:Helspont]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Ruler of the Cabal]]
One of the most powerful Daemonites in existence thanks to the Acuran body that he stole. He is leader of the Cabal and an enemy of the [=Wild=]C.A.T.s as well as Mr. Majestic.

* ArchEnemy: He hates Majestic over any other C.A.T.
* BigBad
* TheHeavy: Helspont is not the only big bad in the series but is the most prominent.
* SkullForAHead: Helspont has a flaming horned skull for a head due to his possession of an Acuran host.

[[folder:Daemonites]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Savage Alien Foe of the Wild C.A.T.S]]
* AliensAreBastards: Daemonites are bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.
* PuppeteerParasite: They possess human bodies to infiltrate society.

[[folder:Pike]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Chief Enforcer of the Cabal]]
* TheApocalypseBringsOutTheBestInPeople: Pike turns a new leaf after World's End, protecting survivors with a team of young legacy heroes.
* TheDragon: He is Helspont's main field agent, and remains working as such for the Cabal after Helspont's presumed demise.
* HalfHumanHybrid: He is a half-human, half-Kherubim hybrid.
* MeaningfulName: Pike seems to be a good codename to a villain carrying a baton or "pike" as his Weapon of Choice, but then we find his father's name is Daniel Pike, therefore "Pike" is the character's surname.

[[folder:The Troika]]
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A trio of super-powered mercenaries who work for other villains. They are Attica, H.A.R.M. and Slag.
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* CaptainObvious: H.A.R.M. loves to point out the obvious, although it was probably hardcoded into his AI. When transformed into a hover-like craft: "Entering vehicle mode!". Get hit by a Wild C.A.T.: "Damage!".
* ComfortingTheWidow: After H.A.R.M.'s death, Attica clearly tries this by impressing his widow Irene, to no avail.
* MagmaMan: Slag.
* UnRoboticReveal: Only to the readers, as the heroes seemed to know beforehand, but when Ladytron takes H.A.R.M.'s helmet out, his organic brain is revealed. Likely Creator/AlanMoore retconned him from a robot into a cyborg so he could be killed.
* VillainousFriendship: Attica sees the Machinist as a friend and offers him a spot when he joins Defile's gang.

[[folder:Kaizen Gamorra]]
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The dictator of the Asian island Gamorra (formerly Parousia) and a world terrorist. He actually is John Colt (or at least his body after his mind was transferred to the Spartan body), who replaced the actual Kaizen as part of Miles Craven's machinations. After his death, the real Kaizen Gamorra resurfaced in the pages of ComicBook/StormWatch.
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* DragonWithAnAgenda: He was put into office by Miles Craven, but follows his own plans, and when he works alongside Craven again, is more akin to an equal partner.
* MagicPlasticSurgery: Averted. While plastic surgery gave him features similar to the actual Kaizen, he still wasn't identical and had to cover that "Kaizen" had recieved the surgery due to injuries.
* MechaMooks: His hunter-killers are technically cyborgs, but since their organic parts are corpses, they are mostly automatons with organic parts, save for some elite soldiers who keep their minds.
* TheParagonAlwaysRebels: John Colt was the greatest hero of Team One, and became an evil dictator.
* SplitPersonalityTakeover: An interpretation of Colt turning evil is that he had an evil second personality trying to arise, and he asked Majestic to kill him before that happened. However, the body regenerated after Majestic's eye beams burned it, with the evil personality in full control.

[[folder:Black Razors]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Emergency Tactical Response (ETR) Team]]
* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: They are mostly good guys who pursue the heroes for their vigilante actions.
* WhatMeasureIsAMook: Subverted when Emp shoots a Razor's knee. The aforementioned Black Razor, Benito Santini, gets more fleshed out in later issues and hates Emp for what he did.

[[folder:Lord Entropy]]
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* LukeIAmYourFather: He is Emp's brother, though in a variation, they both know and the surprise is for Void and the readers.
* SelfServingMemory: Entropy remembers that Emp killed his wife, but he refuses to acknowledge that she was possessed by a Daemonite at the time and Emp killed her to save Entropy.

[[folder:Tapestry]]
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* ArchEnemy: To Zealot, who she had enslaved for a century at one point.
* EvilSorcerer: One who hailed from Atlantis.
* NavelDeepNeckline: Her outfits tend to expose all the way to her navel.
* SecondaryColorNemesis: In contrast to Zealot's red outfit, her outfits are usually purple.
* WarriorVersusSorcerer: Her archnemesis is the Kherubim warrior Zealot. As Zealot is a WonderWomanWannabe, this arguably makes Tapestry the Wildstorm equivalent of Circe, who is also an EvilSorceress and one of Wonder Woman's major enemies. Both even have a purple ColorMotif.

See [[{{ComicBook/Grifter}} his own page]]

A test-tube grown super-intelligent man who once joined and then fought the [[ComicBook/WildCATSWildStorm WildC.A.T.S]].

* DeathByIrony: During the whole crime war arc he at one point mentions that every time he's in the same room as [[spoiler: Grifter]] he expects a bullet to the back of the head. [[spoiler: No points for guessing how he eventually dies and who does him in.]]

* MoreThanMindControl: Uses [[LogicBomb logic]] on his smarter targets and [[EmotionBomb emotional trauma]] on his simpler ones.

* SmugSnake: TAO's a bona-fide superhuman genius, make no mistake, but he has one glaring flaw - he does NOT know when to shut up. [[spoiler: He managed to talk Holden Carver into ripping his tongue out, Majestic into incinerating him with eye beams (it didn't stick but still), and Grifter into shooting him in the head (this one DID stick, if only because it came about at the tail-end of Wildstorm's existence).]]

* OddFriendship: Ladytron regards Majestic as a surrogate father figure and for his part Majestic humors her. Their interactions are actually quite touching (and usually hilarious given that Majestic's as straight a StraightMan as they get whereas [[AxCrazy Ladytron]][[CloudCuckoolander ... isn't]].) and [[spoiler: when TAO's manipulations cause Ladytron's nuclear power source to explode, Majestic [[PapaWolf makes]][[RoaringRampageOfRevenge him]] [[KillItWithFire pay]].]]

* UnroboticReveal: Only to the readers, as the heroes seemed to know beforehand, but when Ladytron takes H.A.R.M.'s helmet out, his organic brain is revealed. Likely {{Creator/Alan Moore}} retconned him from a robot into a cyborg so he could be killed.

See [[{{ComicBook/Voodoo}} her own page]]

* BigBadWannabe: While he is a credible threat and smart leader, in the greater scheme of the Wildstorm universe he has been outsmarted and defeated by other villains like the Gnome, Defile and TAO.

See [[ComicBook/MrMajestic his own page]]

See [[{{ComicBook/Zealot}} her own page]]

Spartan was born Yohn Kohl, a flesh and blood Kherubim and member of the Pantheon class on Khera. Yohn was trained as a warrior from birth. He was respected as a war lord and warrior that to honor him the Kherubim created the Spartan Guards, using his likeness as the template.

* ArtificialHuman: He's a bio-synthetic Android.

* GeniusBruiser: Each Spartan has a "brain" more powerful than any other computer (on Earth or otherwise), is programmed to be able to use any technology it comes across. His body is controlled by a highly advanced silicon-based neurotronic brain. High speed CPU processors functioning at literally the speed of light, extensive files and combat data. They can also download data on his combat foes to best determine their weaknesses and defeat them.

* SuperStrength: Spartan possesses massive superhuman strength capable of benching 60 tons of weight with seldom difficulty and nearly 70 tons with due effort. After a series of upgrades his strength level had increased by staggering amounts, initially through receiving a new kheran model body he proved capable of pumping 80 tons with minimal effort then 115 tons with exertion.
* {{Technopathy}}: Spartan could wirelessly connect with any computer system and bend it to his will. He could even link up to telephone lines and answer phone calls or radio transmissions via Wi-Fi in his networking. After the world's end event, Spartan's interfacing ability was largely diminished now he could only make machine contact with telephone and radio transmissions and could only control the few remaining Spartan guards which survived Armageddon.

* CrimefightingWithCash: Marlowe has used the money and resources of HALO to make things easier for his team, even more in the cartoon tan the comics.

* ShapeshifterWeapon: He can change his hands into many shapes. He mostly turns them into claws and Blades, but gets more creative after training in Khera.

* MissionControl: Void's role is to find about threats and sending the C.A.T.s against them.

Dr. Jeremy Stone is a human-titanthrope hybrid. He's a Nobel-prized scientist that can grow to great size at the cost of intelligence or grow smaller to get even smarter. He's a member of [=Wild=]C.A.T.S.

* HalfHumanHybrid: his alien ancestor was a titanthrope native from Khera.

Savant is the daughter of Zealot and Majestic. She was raised as Zealot's sister and for most of her life (thousands of years) was unaware of her parentage. She and Majestic started the [=Wild=]C.A.T.S replacement team after the original team was thought dead.

* AdventurerArchaeologist: Over the years she eventually began a love of history and became a pioneer in the field of archeology.

* DeathByIrony: during the whole crime war arc he at one point mentions that every time he's in the same room as [[spoiler: Grifter]] he expects a bullet to the back of the head. [[spoiler: No points for guessing how he eventually dies and who does him in.]]

* OddFriendship: Ladytron regards Majestic as a surrogate father figure and for his part Majestic humors her. Their interactions are actually [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments quite touching]] (and usually [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments hilarious]] given that Majestic's as straight a StraightMan as they get whereas [[AxCrazy Ladytron]][[CloudCuckoolander ... isn't]].) and [[spoiler: when TAO's manipulations cause Ladytron's nuclear power source to explode, Majestic [[PapaWolf makes ]][[RoaringRampageOfRevenge him]] [[KillItWithFire pay]].]]

* BigBadWannabe: While he is a credible treath and Smart leader, in the greater scheme of the Wildstorm universe he has been outsmarted and defeated by other villains like the Gnome, Defile and TAO.

* TheApocalypseBringsOutTheBestInPeople: Pike turns on a new leaf after World's End, protecting survivors with a team of young legacy heroes.

* DragonWithAnAgenda: He was put into office by Miles Craven, but follows his own plans, and when he Works alongside Craven again, is more akin to an equal partner.

* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: They are mostly good guys who pursue the héroes for their vigilante actions.

* SelfServingMemory: Entropy remembers that Emp killed his wife, but he refuses to acknowledge that she was possessed by a Daemonite at the time and Emp killed her to sabe Entropy.

* AbsoluteCleavage: Her outfits tend to expose all the way to her navel.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Her hair is blue.

[[folder:Tao]]

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Tao's grasp of tactical, strategic thinking has achieved a seemingly transcendent level which utterly surpasses normal human consciousness.

* BreakThemByTalking: Tao's specialty.

* DecoyGetaway: When pursued by the Wild C.A.T.s, Tao has the Daemonite shapeshifter Mr White replace him, so he is the one incinerated by Majestic.

* ManipulativeBastard: Usually Tao manipulates circumstances so that he has no need to fight. Tao's ability to manipulate others not only allows for a personal army to fight for him, but rarely do his enemies find themselves able to lift a finger against him.
* MindRape: Tao can quickly manipulate people using his words, forcing them to do what he wants or erasing specific memories. At one point he is shown completely undermining Stormwatch-member Fuji's self-confidence, rendering him nearly catatonic merely by having a short conversation with him.

* SuperIntelligence: Tao is superhumanly intelligent, especially when it comes to predicting and manipulating human behavior. His mind has been said to have entered a conceptual territory so far above from conventional humans that one might as well attempt explaining quantum physics to an ant. His I.Q. is said to be immeasurable by any human test and was said to have absorbed all of human knowledge by the time he was physically a teenager.

[[quoteright:311:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zealot_6.png]]
[[caption-width-right:311:Fierce Kherubim Warrior]]
Zealot is a deadly Kherubim warrior and super-hero in the Wildstorm Universe. She is a long-living High Lord of Khera with superhuman physique and a mastery of hand-to-hand weapons. Stranded on Earth for centuries after a battle with the Daemonites, she would go on to join the super-hero team [=Wild=]C.A.T.s.

* ActionMom: She's the mother of Kenesha (Savant), and it's implied that Winter of Stormwatch is her and John Colt's son.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Former Majestrix of the Coda, and the best fighter among them.
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: The Coda inspired the myth of the Amazons.
* HealingFactor: She can regenerate damaged or destroyed bodily tissue with far greater speed and efficiency than an ordinary human. She can regenerate from anything, even injured tissue, brain cells (nerves), missing limbs and organs. Gunshot and stab wounds, cuts, and broken bones can perfectly heal in a few minutes.
* LadyOfBlackMagic: For one hundred years, Zealot was in service of the weaver of souls Tapestry. During that time, Tapestry attempted to subvert Zealot into her own image. In that time Zealot became a powerful enchantress with skills and powers nearly on the scale of her teacher; along with the potential to be among the most powerful magic users on the planet.
* MultiMeleeMaster: Her skills with weapons mainly focus on the use of bladed weapons such as the Coda Clef blade and the katana blade; as well as the one and two handed sword. She is also an expert marksman, though not on the scale of Grifter. She is skilled in the use of throwing objects, such as daggers and the bladed weapons connected to the back of her armored costume.
* ThisMeansWarPaint: Zealot always wears warpaint in combat, in the shape of a spot on the forehead and three lines on each cheek.
* WonderWomanWannabe: A DarkerAndEdgier take on this trope; she is a superpowered swordswoman from an all-female warrior sect, who is a tough soldier who shows no hesitation about dicing her enemies.
* WorldsBestWarrior: With weapons that are older then some civilizations and a status that placed her as the head of an order of warrior women. Zealot has literally been described as one of, if not the deadliest assassin on the planet. Her fighting abilities are unmatched among the coda, with and without a blade. And she can hold her own against virtually anyone, including those physically better then her, in one on one and even group combat.

[[folder:Grifter]]
See [[{{ComicBook/Grifter}} his own page]]

[[folder:Lord Emp]]
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lord_emp.jpg]]
Emp is one of several Kherubim that were stranded on Earth over a millenia ago. After losing and later regaining his memory, he started the [=Wild=]C.A.T.S to fight Daemonites.

* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: In volume 3 Lord Emp was becoming a High Kherubian Lord and wanted his arch-nemesis Kenyan to kill him as part of the ascension process. His body had become child-sized and shriveled but he didn't care because he was about to transcend mortal concerns.
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Emp was Napoleon at some point.
* CrimefightingWithCash: Marlowe has used the money and resources of HALO to make things easier for his team, even more in the cartoon tan the comics.
* LargeAndInCharge: Inverted - as Jacob Marlowe, Emp is the multi-millionaire financier as well as the team leader. He's also shown to be rather far below average height. (Four feet tall wouldn't be far off, though with scales being what they are in comics, it's sometimes hard to say.)
* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: Lord Emp needs to ditch his corporeal body in order to complete his ascension into an Energy Being, but the rules dictate that he can't do it himself. Because the process of ascending releases enough energy to incinerate the killer, Emp tries to trick his long-time nemesis Kenyan into killing him, thereby killing two birds with one stone. However, it turns out Kenyan is apparently so obsessively attached to their ongoing rivalry that, unable to accept the situation, he kills himself instead, so Emp moves on to plan B, getting the Nigh Invulnerable Spartan to do the deed instead.

[[folder:Warblade]]
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[[caption-width-right:318:Metamorphing Crossbreed Warrior]]
Reno Bryce, a green-haired freelance artist whose parents were killed by Daemonites. Lord Emp discovered him and revealed Bryce had half-Kherubim heritage, inviting him to join their team. His heritage gives him the ability to reshape his molecular structure, turning any part of his body into steel at will.
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* AbsurdlySharpBlade: His claws or any other bladed form he gives his hands.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Reno is an earth-born descendant of a member of the Kheran Shapers' Guild.
* ShapeshifterWeapon: He can change his hands into many shapes. He mostly turns them into claws and Blades, but gets more creative after training in Khera.

[[folder:Void]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/void_9.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:The Living Metallized Super-Entity]]
Originally the Russian cosmonaut Adrianna Tereshkova, she gained powers when she was bonded to one of Omnia's Orbs of Power. Tereshkova is granted teleportation and precognition by the Void entity, allowing her to transport her team and predict their battles. Having predicted the need for them, she formed the [=Wild=]C.A.T.s by reawakening Lord Emp.

* ChromeChampion: Her only non-shiny part is her face.
* FamousNamedForeigner: Void's real name is Adrianna Tereshkova, just like Valentina Tereshkova, who was a cosmonaut (and the first woman to be sent to space) just like Adrianna before becoming Void.
* LegacyCharacter: Similar to the case of ComicBook/TheSpectre, this is a legacy where the powerful entity remains but its human hosts change. After Adrianna gets separated from Void, the entity merges with Spartan, and after leaving him, with Nikola Hanssen.
* MissionControl: Void's role is to find about threats and sending the C.A.T.s against them.
* TeleportersAndTransporters: Void can teleport herself and others when needed.

[[folder:Voodoo]]
See [[{{ComicBook/Voodoo}} her own page]]

[[folder:Maul]]
[[quoteright:304:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/maul_8.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:304:Massive Crossbreed Warrior]]
Dr. Jeremy Stone is a human-titanthrope hybrid. He's a Nobel-prized scientist that can grow to great size at the cost of intelligence or grow smaller to get even smarter. He's a member of [=Wild=]C.A.T.S.

* DumbMuscle: Maul actually gets dumber as he gets bigger. He once got so big he forgot how to return to normal size. He is a bizarre case: while his power is that he can swap brains for brawn, in his "normal" form he's a nobel laureate so, when he doesn't grow too much, he retains enough smarts to be more like a GeniusBruiser.
* GeniusBruiser: Maul is a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who gets dumber as he uses his powers to get larger and stronger. For a while, he was also able to make himself smarter by shrinking, but that turned out to leave him weakened as a side effect.
* HalfHumanHybrid: his alien ancestor was a titanthrope native from Khera.
* HulkMashUp: He is a Nobel-winning scientific genius who can increase his size, bulk and strength, but at the cost of reducing his intelligence. His color scheme is also the exact inverse of the Hulk--purple skin with green outfits.
* HulkingOut: Maul has the power to grow in size and strength at the cost of intelligence. If seriously provoked he sometimes forgets himself and grows past the point where he can tell friend from foe.
* PurpleIsPowerful: His skin turns purple when he changes size.
* SuperStrength: Maul's strength fluctuates with his size.

!Additional Members
[[folder:Condition Red]]
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* ReplacementGoldfish: After Grifter refuses to join Savant's team, she recruits Max since he's Grifter's brother with similar gun skills.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mr. Majestic]]
See [[ComicBook/MrMajestic his own page]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Savant]]
[[quoteright:166:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/savant.jpg]]
Savant is the daughter of Zealot and Majestic. She was raised as Zealot's sister and for most of her life (thousands of years) was unaware of her parentage. She and Majestic started the [=Wild=]C.A.T.S replacement team after the original team was thought dead.

* AdventurerArchaeologist: Over the years she eventually began a love of history and became a pioneer in the field of archeology.
* BagOfHolding: She also came into possession of a mystic bag that seemingly has no bottom called the Tesseract Tote. She uses the bag to store many of her treasured finds, which usually she can somehow find and pull out of the bag's opening no matter what size or length the item inside seems to be.
* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: She's the daughter of Majestic and Zealot, but was raised as Zealot's sister.
* LikeMotherUnlikeDaughter: While Zannah loves fighting and bloodshed, Kanesha always preferred knowledge.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tao]]
[[quoteright:181:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tao_8.jpg]]
A test-tube grown super-intelligent man who once joined and then fought the [[ComicBook/WildCATSWildStorm WildC.A.T.S]].
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[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mister_majestic.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Maverick Kherubim Master]]
Known as Majestros of the Kherubim, he was stranded on Earth thousands of years ago during his people's war against the Daemonites and devoted his life in fighting against evil in all its forms.

* FlyingBrick: Majestros's body possesses a high degree of resistance to physical injury. He is nigh invulnerable and can survive bullets, explosions, lasers, nukes and the like without injury.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Majestic is very conescending towards humans, but he also has a genuine desire to protect them.
* KryptoniteFactor: Shown by Majestic, the Kusar Blades forged by the Kheran craftsmen are capable of rending beings of such high invulnerability levels as Superman and even Majestic himself.
* NighInvulnerability: Majestic's body possesses a high degree of resistance to physical injury. He is nigh invulnerable and can survive bullets, explosions, lasers, nukes and the like without any injury.
* ParentalSubstitute: Ladytron essentially adopts him as her father figure. Why Majestic goes along with it is anyone's guess, but he does and he's actually [[PapaWolf quite serious about it]].
* ShutUpHannibal: when TAO tries his manipulative shtick on him, Majestic sums him up with one word before [[spoiler: burning him to ashes]] - he calls TAO an "abomination." [[spoiler: TAO came back that time but that doesn't make the moment any less epic.]]
* SupermanSubstitute: He's obviously a parallel for Superman and has the alien origin and the role as a BigGood for the [=Wild=]C.A.T.s.

[[folder:Savant]]
[[quoteright:166:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/savant.jpg]]
Savant is the daughter of Zealot and Majestic. She was raised as Zealot's sister and for most of her life (thousands of years) was unaware of her parentage. She and Majestic started the [=Wild=]C.A.T.S replacement team after the original team was thought dead.

* AdventurerArchaeologist: Over the years she eventually began a love of history and became a pioneer in the field of archeology.
* BagOfHolding: She also came into possession of a mystic bag that seemingly has no bottom called the Tesseract Tote. She uses the bag to store many of her treasured finds, which usually she can somehow find and pull out of the bag's opening no matter what size or length the item inside seems to be.
* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: She's the daughter of Majestic and Zealot, but was raised as Zealot's sister.
* LikeMotherUnlikeDaughter: While Zannah loves fighting and bloodshed, Kanesha always preferred knowledge.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tao]]
[[quoteright:181:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tao_8.jpg]]
A test-tube grown super-intelligent man who once joined and then fought the [[ComicBook/WildCATSWildStorm WildC.A.T.S]].
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[[quoteright:208:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/voodoo.png]]
[[caption-width-right:208:Powerful crossbreed with the Sight]]
Priscilla Kitaen was an exotic dancer before being rescued by the [=Wild=]C.A.T.s from the Daemonites. Voodoo possessed a unique ability known as "The Sight", which allowed her to perceive a being possessed by a Daemonite and exorcise it from its host body. She was therefore important to both sides in the war. Upon joining the [=Wild=]C.A.T.s she developed more significant and powerful psychic abilities as well as animalistic powers.

See ''ComicBook/{{Voodoo}}'' for more details.
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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: She was an exotic dancer before joining the team.
* HumanAlienDiscovery: Voodoo was an exotic dancer saved by the Wild C.A.T.s who has the "gift" of knowing who was possessed by a Daemonite and who is not, also splitting the alien from the host. After joining the team and got in a coma by a bullet, she and his friends discovered the truth: she was a descendant of Daemonites with Kherubin roots.
* {{Robosexual}}: Voodoo when it comes to her relationship with Spartan/Jack Marlowe. She's a half-breed stripper from Florida and he's an alien android construct. Their relationship could be a homage to the relationship between the Vision and Scarlet Witch from Marvel due to Jack's continuous doubt of his humanity and Voodoo's continuous reassurance of him being the man she loves.
* SuperZeroes: Her ability to spot people possessed by the evil aliens was actually pretty useful, but countered by her lack of the most basic combat skills. Zealot gave her some Coda training to change this.

* ArtificialHuman: He's a bio-synthetic Android. The cartoon changes him into a {{Cyborg}} instead.

* DumbMuscle: Maul actually gets dumber as he gets bigger. He once got so big he forgot how to return to normal size. He is a bizarre case: while his power is that he can swap brains for brawn, in his "normal" form he's a nobel laureate so, when he doesn't grow too much, he retains enough smarts to be more like a GeniusBruiser. The cartoon drops this aspect of his character, preferring him to get more enraged as he grows instead of getting dumber.