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* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: In ''Civil War'', he's NumberTwo in an international counter-terrorism task force. In ''Film/BlackPanther'', set mere a couple of weeks later at most, he's a field agent running a sting operation. There is no explanation of this apparent demotion.
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* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: In ''Civil War'', he's NumberTwo in an international counter-terrorism task force. In ''Film/BlackPanther'', ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}'', set mere a couple of weeks later at most, he's a field agent running a sting operation. There is no explanation of this apparent demotion.
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[[center: [- [[Characters/MarvelCinematicUniverse Main Character Index]] > Heroic Individuals and Organizations > [[Characters/MCUOtherSuperheroes Other Superheroes]] ([[Characters/MCUShangChi Shang-Chi]] | [[Characters/MCUMoonKnight Moon Knight]]) > '''Allies'''-]]]
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!![[Characters/MCUTChalla T'Challa]]'s Allies
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"You step out of line, you're dealing with me. [[BringIt Please, step out of line.]]"'']]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"You step out of line, you're dealing with me. [[BringIt Please, step out of line.]]"'']]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"You step out of line, you're dealing with me. [[BringIt Please, step out of line.]]"'']]
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!!!'''Affiliation(s):''' USAF (formerly), CIA
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!!!'''Affiliation(s):''' USAF (formerly), CIACIA (formerly)
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!!!'''Voiced By:''' Juan Antonio Edwards (Latin-American Spanish dub), Jesús Maniega (European Spanish dub), Creator/ToshiyukiMorikawa (Japanese dub), Julien Sibre (French dub), François Sasseville (Canadian French dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' | ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}'' | ''Film/BlackPantherWakandaForever'' | ''Series/{{Secret Invasion|2023}}''
->''[[SkepticNoLonger "I've seen gods fly...I've seen men build weapons that I couldn't even imagine. I've seen aliens drop from the sky, but I have never seen anything like this.]]''
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' | ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}'' | ''Film/BlackPantherWakandaForever'' | ''Series/{{Secret Invasion|2023}}''
->''[[SkepticNoLonger "I've seen gods fly...I've seen men build weapons that I couldn't even imagine. I've seen aliens drop from the sky, but I have never seen anything like this.]]''
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!!!'''Voiced By:''' Juan Antonio Edwards (Latin-American Spanish dub), Jesús Maniega (European Spanish dub), Creator/ToshiyukiMorikawa (Japanese dub), Julien Sibre (French dub), François Sasseville (Canadian French dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' | ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}'' | ''Film/BlackPantherWakandaForever'' |''Series/{{Secret Invasion|2023}}''
''[[Series/SecretInvasion2023 Secret Invasion]]''
->''[[SkepticNoLonger "I've seen gods fly...I've seen men build weapons that I couldn't even imagine. I've seen aliens drop from the sky, but I have never seen anything like this.]]''
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->''[[SkepticNoLonger "I've seen gods fly...I've seen men build weapons that I couldn't even imagine. I've seen aliens drop from the sky, but I have never seen anything like this.
* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: [[spoiler:Everett Ross and Valentina Allegra de Fontaine have never met each other in the comics. Here, the two of them were formerly married, and have a frosty relationship in the current day.]]
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* AgeLift: Everett's exact age was never specified in the comics, but he was fairly young for someone of his position (which was much lower than his rank in the MCU) and was young enough to pass for a ''child'' at times. Martin Freeman ''is'' quite boyish, but he's not ''that'' boyish.
* AscendedExtra: Everett doesn't have a particularly large role in ''Civil War'', but plays a bigger part in ''Black Panther'', and likely future MCU movies.
* AscendedExtra: Everett doesn't have a particularly large role in ''Civil War'', but plays a bigger part in ''Black Panther'', and likely future MCU movies.
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* AffectionateNickname: Shuri (and Okoye on occasion) call him "colonizer," but in a teasing, humorous fashion.
* AgeLift: Everett's exact agewas is never specified in the comics, but he was he's fairly young for someone of his position (which was much lower than his rank in the MCU) and was young MCU), enough to pass for a ''child'' at times. Meanwhile, Ross's actor Martin Freeman Freeman, admittedly ''is'' quite boyish, but he's not ''that'' boyish.
is also a significantly older man in his early fifties.
* AMFMCharacterization: Ross's reappearance in ''Wakanda Forever'' has him jogging to "Can't Stop" by Music/RedHotChiliPeppers.
* AscendedExtra: Everett doesn't have a particularly large role in ''Civil War'', but plays a bigger part in ''Black Panther'', and likely futureMCU movies.installments.
* AgeLift: Everett's exact age
* AMFMCharacterization: Ross's reappearance in ''Wakanda Forever'' has him jogging to "Can't Stop" by Music/RedHotChiliPeppers.
* AscendedExtra: Everett doesn't have a particularly large role in ''Civil War'', but plays a bigger part in ''Black Panther'', and likely future
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* ButtMonkey: Even though he is ''significantly'' more competent than his comic book counterpart, Ross always draws the short straw in ''Black Panther'' when crossing paths with T'Challa again. In Korea, T'Challa's intervention screws up his original plan to apprehend Ulysses Klaue. Later, Ross gets shot taking a bullet for Nakia and would've died had it not been for T'Challa bringing him to Wakanda to be healed by Shuri. He also gets teased and bullied repeatedly with several Wakandans for being a foreigner with M'Baku joking about feeding him to his children.
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* BreakoutCharacter: After only having a minor role in ''Civil War'', Everett's presence in the MCU began to grow considerably. He would become a major character in both ''Black Panther'' films, and also is set to appear in the ''Secret Invasion'' Disney+ series.
* ButtMonkey: Even though he is ''significantly'' more competent than his comic book counterpart, Ross always draws the short straw in ''Black Panther'' when crossing paths with T'Challa again. In Korea, T'Challa's intervention screws up his original plan to apprehend Ulysses Klaue. Later, Ross gets shot taking a bullet for Nakia and would've died had it not been for T'Challa bringing him to Wakanda to be healed by Shuri. He also gets teased and bullied repeatedlywith by several Wakandans for being a foreigner with M'Baku joking about feeding him to his children.children. Then, in ''Wakanda Forever'', [[spoiler:his assistance to Okoye and Shuri, and then his warnings to Queen Ramonda about the US planning action against Wakanda, get him arrested for ''treason''.]]
* ButtMonkey: Even though he is ''significantly'' more competent than his comic book counterpart, Ross always draws the short straw in ''Black Panther'' when crossing paths with T'Challa again. In Korea, T'Challa's intervention screws up his original plan to apprehend Ulysses Klaue. Later, Ross gets shot taking a bullet for Nakia and would've died had it not been for T'Challa bringing him to Wakanda to be healed by Shuri. He also gets teased and bullied repeatedly
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** ''Film/TheAvengers2012'' implies that ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' exists. If ''Film/TheHobbit'' also exists, Martin Freeman plays Bilbo.[[note]]The first ''Hobbit'' film, ''An Unexpected Journey'', came out the same year as ''The Avengers'', but several months after it however, so go figure.[[/note]]
*** Well, ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier'' establishes that the original novel ''The Hobbit'' definitely exists in the MCU when Bucky Barnes flat-out states that he read it “in 1937 when it first came out”.
* TheComicallySerious: He ends up falling into this role quite a bit in ''Black Panther'', if only because many of the Wakandans he meets [[NoRespectGuy don't have any respect for him]].
* CompositeCharacter: His role as the government attaché assigned to oversee the Avengers is similar to that of Henry Peter Gyrich, who traditionally serves as the team's government liaison in the comics, but who cannot be used in the MCU because of rights issues.
*** Well, ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier'' establishes that the original novel ''The Hobbit'' definitely exists in the MCU when Bucky Barnes flat-out states that he read it “in 1937 when it first came out”.
* TheComicallySerious: He ends up falling into this role quite a bit in ''Black Panther'', if only because many of the Wakandans he meets [[NoRespectGuy don't have any respect for him]].
* CompositeCharacter: His role as the government attaché assigned to oversee the Avengers is similar to that of Henry Peter Gyrich, who traditionally serves as the team's government liaison in the comics, but who cannot be used in the MCU because of rights issues.
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** ''Film/TheAvengers2012'' implies that ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' exists. If ''Film/TheHobbit'' also exists, Martin Freeman plays Bilbo.[[note]]The first ''Hobbit'' film, ''An Unexpected Journey'', came out the same year as ''The Avengers'', but several months after it however, so go figure.[[/note]]
*** Well,[[/note]] ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier'' establishes that the original novel ''The Hobbit'' definitely exists in the MCU when Bucky Barnes flat-out states that he read it “in 1937 1937, when it first came out”.
* TheComicallySerious: He ends up falling into this role quite a bit in ''Black Panther'', if only because many of the Wakandans he meets [[NoRespectGuy don't have any respect forhim]].
* CompositeCharacter: His role as the government attaché assigned to oversee the Avengers is similar to that of Henry Peter Gyrich, who traditionally serves as the team's government liaison in the comics, but who cannot be used in the MCU because of rights issues.him.]]
*** Well,
* TheComicallySerious: He ends up falling into this role quite a bit in ''Black Panther'', if only because many of the Wakandans he meets [[NoRespectGuy don't have any respect for
* CompositeCharacter: His role as the government attaché assigned to oversee the Avengers is similar to that of Henry Peter Gyrich, who traditionally serves as the team's government liaison in the comics, but who cannot be used in the MCU because of rights issues.
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* FireForgedFriends: The events of ''Black Panther'' have made Ross a close ally to the Wakandan royal family. In a deleted scene, he greets Nakia, Ayo, and Okoye quite familiarly as well, with the last one being quite notable considering their slightly mutual disdain of each other at the beginning of T'Challa's solo film.
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* FireForgedFriends: FireForgedFriends:
** The events of ''Black Panther'' have made Ross a close ally to the Wakandan royal family. In a deleted scene, he greets Nakia, Ayo, and Okoye quite familiarly as well, with thelast one latter being quite notable considering their slightly mutual disdain of each other at the beginning of T'Challa's solo film.film.
** In ''Wakanda Forever'' Ross's friendship with the Royal Family is enough that he barely makes a show of complaint before [[spoiler:providing Okoye and Shuri with classified intel, and later commits treason against his government to warn Queen Ramonda about an impending covert action from the United States. When discovered, he steadfastly defends his actions on these terms]]. Later on, [[spoiler:Okoye repays this loyalty by rescuing him from federal prison or worse, [[PetTheDog despite the Wakandan government technically having little reason to do so.]]]]
** The events of ''Black Panther'' have made Ross a close ally to the Wakandan royal family. In a deleted scene, he greets Nakia, Ayo, and Okoye quite familiarly as well, with the
** In ''Wakanda Forever'' Ross's friendship with the Royal Family is enough that he barely makes a show of complaint before [[spoiler:providing Okoye and Shuri with classified intel, and later commits treason against his government to warn Queen Ramonda about an impending covert action from the United States. When discovered, he steadfastly defends his actions on these terms]]. Later on, [[spoiler:Okoye repays this loyalty by rescuing him from federal prison or worse, [[PetTheDog despite the Wakandan government technically having little reason to do so.]]]]
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* FriendOnTheForce: Of a sort. Ross is T'Challa's biggest political ally outside of Wakanda and lets him in on the goings-on with the international political climate.
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* FriendOnTheForce: Of a sort. Ross is T'Challa's biggest political ally outside of Wakanda and lets him in on the goings-on with the international political climate. He extends his allyship to Shuri and Wakanda as a whole following T'Challa's sudden death in ''Wakanda Forever'', although it's deconstructed there in that his willingness to feed classified intel a foreign nation makes him susceptible to charges of treason.
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** Also from ''Black Panther'', his TakingTheBullet for Nakia, without a moments hesitation.
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** Also from ''Black Panther'', his TakingTheBullet for Nakia, without a moments moment's hesitation.
* InsultOfEndearment: Shuri first greets him as "colonizer" in ''Black Panther''. The "nickname" sticks and Okoye calls him by it regularly in ''Wakanda Forever'', to his chagrin.
* IOweYouMyLife: ''Wakanda Forever'' makes it clear that he feels a deep gratitude towards Shuri due to her saving his life and repairing his spine in ''Black Panther''. This leads to him [[spoiler:commiting treason to give Shuri and Okoye information on Riri Williams, and give Queen Ramonda advanced warning that the US is planning to take action against them]].
* IOweYouMyLife: ''Wakanda Forever'' makes it clear that he feels a deep gratitude towards Shuri due to her saving his life and repairing his spine in ''Black Panther''. This leads to him [[spoiler:commiting treason to give Shuri and Okoye information on Riri Williams, and give Queen Ramonda advanced warning that the US is planning to take action against them]].
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* MirrorCharacter: To Jimmy Woo. Both of them are agents of the U.S government who initially are introduced as [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Obstructive Bureaucrats]], but later prove themselves to be more competent and willing to help later on. The main difference is that Ross is relatively composed and stoic [[TheComicallySerious even during rather crazy situations]] compared to [[BunnyEarsLawyer Woo]]. They also represent different branches of the government, with Ross working for the CIA and Woo being a federal agent.
* NervesOfSteel: Played with. During the final battle, Ross is tasked with remotely piloting T'Challa's ship in order to chase after the planes transporting weapons outside Wakanda. However, Erik finds out and orders the lab to be destroyed. When Ross hears that the bulletproof glass between him and the massive gun outside is only at 50% capacity, he visibly psyches himself up before asking "How much time do I have?" and continuing with the mission.
* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: In ''Civil War'', he's NumberTwo in an international counter-terrorism task force. In Film/BlackPanther, set mere a couple of weeks later at most, he's a field agent running a sting operation. There is no explanation of this apparent demotion.
* NervesOfSteel: Played with. During the final battle, Ross is tasked with remotely piloting T'Challa's ship in order to chase after the planes transporting weapons outside Wakanda. However, Erik finds out and orders the lab to be destroyed. When Ross hears that the bulletproof glass between him and the massive gun outside is only at 50% capacity, he visibly psyches himself up before asking "How much time do I have?" and continuing with the mission.
* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: In ''Civil War'', he's NumberTwo in an international counter-terrorism task force. In Film/BlackPanther, set mere a couple of weeks later at most, he's a field agent running a sting operation. There is no explanation of this apparent demotion.
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* MirrorCharacter: To Jimmy Woo. Both of them are agents of the U.S US government who initially are introduced as [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Obstructive Bureaucrats]], {{Obstructive Bureaucrat}}s, but later on prove themselves to be more competent and willing to help later on.help. The main difference is that Ross is relatively composed and stoic [[TheComicallySerious even during rather crazy situations]] compared to [[BunnyEarsLawyer Woo]]. They also represent different branches of the government, with Ross working for the CIA and Woo being a federal agent.
* TheMole: By the second movie, he's feeding information to Wakanda. He's eventually found out and arrested.
* NervesOfSteel: Played with. During the finalbattle, battle of ''Black Panther'', Ross is tasked with remotely piloting T'Challa's ship in order to chase after the planes transporting weapons outside Wakanda. However, Erik finds out and orders the lab to be destroyed. When Ross hears that the bulletproof glass between him and the massive gun outside is only at 50% capacity, he visibly psyches himself up before asking asking, "How much time do I have?" and continuing with the mission.
* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: In ''Civil War'', he's NumberTwo in an international counter-terrorism task force. InFilm/BlackPanther, ''Film/BlackPanther'', set mere a couple of weeks later at most, he's a field agent running a sting operation. There is no explanation of this apparent demotion.
* TheMole: By the second movie, he's feeding information to Wakanda. He's eventually found out and arrested.
* NervesOfSteel: Played with. During the final
* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: In ''Civil War'', he's NumberTwo in an international counter-terrorism task force. In
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** Has another one when he tries to speak up in M'Baku's court and the latter threatens to feed him to his children. Luckily for him, M'Baku was only [[{{Troll}} yanking his chain]].
** Upon seeing the massive gun shooting at him from the outside of Shuri's lab, Ross is justifiably freaked-out.
** Upon seeing the massive gun shooting at him from the outside of Shuri's lab, Ross is justifiably freaked-out.
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** Has another one when he tries to speak up in M'Baku's court and the latter threatens to feed him to his children. Luckily for him, M'Baku was only [[{{Troll}} yanking his chain]].
chain.]]
** Upon seeing the massive gun shooting at him from the outside of Shuri's lab, Ross is justifiablyfreaked-out.freaked out.
** Upon seeing the massive gun shooting at him from the outside of Shuri's lab, Ross is justifiably
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* TakingTheBullet: In ''Black Panther,'' he takes one for Nakia during Killmonger's breakout of Ulysses Klaue and the reason why he is brought to Wakanda for life-saving medical treatment.
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* TakingTheBullet: In ''Black Panther,'' he takes one for Nakia during Killmonger's breakout of Ulysses Klaue and the reason why he is Klaue, which leads to him being brought to Wakanda for life-saving medical treatment.
* TurnInYourBadge: Exaggerated. [[spoiler:Val manages to catch him speaking with Queen Ramonda via Shuri's beads, resulting in him being arrested by his own ex-wife. He's on his way to prison in the film's final moments, only for Okoye to help him escape before the van he's in arrives.]]
* UndyingLoyalty: After the Wakandans save him in ''Black Panther'', he becomes fiercely loyal to them. [[spoiler:He actually commits ''treason'' against his home country all for the sake of helping Wakanda in ''Wakanda Forever''.]]
* WorkingWithTheEx: In addition to being his boss, Valentina is also his ex-wife.
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!!!'''Voiced By:''' Edurne Keel (Latin-American Spanish dub), Isabel Valls (European Spanish dub), Élisabeth Ventura (French dub), Geneviève Désilets (Canadian French dub)
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Extremely guilty, as her first reaction to Strange explaining what he's been up to in his absence has her jump to "cultist" despite coming after Strange was explaining to her ''via an AstralProjection'' that he's dying and what she needs to do to save him being the last thing they were doing together, along with some poltergeist-like happenings in the spirit realm between Strange and one of Kaecilius's zealots. Luckily, she gets over it rather quickly and the next time they see each other (which is maybe an hour later when Strange rushes the dying Ancient One into her operating room) she elevates to SeenItAll when passing by the Cloak of Levitation idly floating nearby and only pays it the briefest of minds.
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Extremely guilty, as her first reaction to Strange explaining what he's been up to in his absence has her jump to "cultist" despite coming after Strange was explaining to her ''via an AstralProjection'' that he's dying and what she needs to do to save him being the last thing they were doing together, along with some poltergeist-like happenings in the spirit realm between Strange and one of Kaecilius's Kaecilius' zealots. Luckily, she gets over it rather quickly and the next time they see each other (which is maybe an hour later when Strange rushes the dying Ancient One into her operating room) she elevates to SeenItAll when passing by the Cloak of Levitation idly floating nearby and only pays it the briefest of minds.
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* FantasticallyIndifferent: While she's a little startled when Strange teleports into the hospital after having been stabbed and uses his astral form to talk her through removing the blood that's compressing his heart, and is clearly shaken when Strange's astral form gets in a ghost battle with one of Kaecilius's goons, she quickly gets over that. When she spots the Cloak of Levitation floating behind Strange a short while later, she doesn't even blink; her expression says she's 100% ''done'' with being shocked by anything connected to this man.
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* FantasticallyIndifferent: While she's a little startled when Strange teleports into the hospital after having been stabbed and uses his astral form to talk her through removing the blood that's compressing his heart, and is clearly shaken when Strange's astral form gets in a ghost battle with one of Kaecilius's Kaecilius' goons, she quickly gets over that. When she spots the Cloak of Levitation floating behind Strange a short while later, she doesn't even blink; her expression says she's 100% ''done'' with being shocked by anything connected to this man.
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->''"I've been by your side for half your life. I get there are things you never wanted to talk about, and I never wanted to push... but a guy with a freakin' machete for an arm just chopped our bus in half, Shaun!"''
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* ShipTease: While they're mostly LikeBrotherAndSister, Katy doesn't seem to mind seeing Shang-Chi shirtless. The ending of the ''Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings'' also sees Katy walk off taking hold of Shang-Chi's arm, which could be interpreted any way - and then immediately after, the song played during the CreativeClosingCredits is very clearly a love song. So far it's ShrugOfGod which way this relationship is gonna go.
* TheStraightAndArrowPath: After the heroes arrive in Ta Lo, a few days before Wenwu and his forces plan to invade, Katy winds up taking up the bow-and-arrow in an effort to help, roped into it by an elder of Ta Lo who either identifies her as a potential archer or thinks "Hey, let's get this useless girl out of the way for a while.". [[spoiler: This officially becomes her hero niche as she partners with Shang-Chi transitioning into the superhero life at the end of the movie.]]
* TheStraightAndArrowPath: After the heroes arrive in Ta Lo, a few days before Wenwu and his forces plan to invade, Katy winds up taking up the bow-and-arrow in an effort to help, roped into it by an elder of Ta Lo who either identifies her as a potential archer or thinks "Hey, let's get this useless girl out of the way for a while.". [[spoiler: This officially becomes her hero niche as she partners with Shang-Chi transitioning into the superhero life at the end of the movie.]]
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* ShipTease: While they're mostly LikeBrotherAndSister, Katy doesn't seem to mind seeing Shang-Chi shirtless. The ending of the ''Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings'' also sees Katy walk off taking hold of Shang-Chi's arm, which could be interpreted any way - and then immediately after, the song played during the CreativeClosingCredits is very clearly a love song.song, one that even states “I’m calling it now, you’ll find love with me somehow”. So far it's ShrugOfGod which way this relationship is gonna go.
* TheStraightAndArrowPath: After the heroes arrive in Ta Lo, a few days before Wenwu and his forces plan to invade, Katy winds up taking up the bow-and-arrow in an effort to help, roped into it by an elder of Ta Lo who either identifies her as a potential archer or thinks "Hey, let's get this useless girl out of the way for a while.".[[spoiler: This [[spoiler:This officially becomes her hero heroine niche as she partners with Shang-Chi transitioning into the superhero life at the end of the movie.]]
* TheStraightAndArrowPath: After the heroes arrive in Ta Lo, a few days before Wenwu and his forces plan to invade, Katy winds up taking up the bow-and-arrow in an effort to help, roped into it by an elder of Ta Lo who either identifies her as a potential archer or thinks "Hey, let's get this useless girl out of the way for a while.".
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* UnwittingMuggleFriend: Shang-Chi deliberately kept her in the dark about his true identity, trying to disappear into the persona of "Shaun the hotel valet". It was almost working out until Razor Fist and the other Ten Rings goons showed up. Given the traumatic way she was first exposed to his past, she is ''not'' happy about it, and pretty much forces "Shaun" to fess up right then and there as he's preparing to head to Macau after dealing with the Ten Rings goons and helping her stop the bus.
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* UnwittingMuggleFriend: Shang-Chi deliberately kept her in the dark about his true identity, trying to disappear into the persona of "Shaun the hotel valet". It was almost working out until Razor Fist and the other Ten Rings goons showed up. Given the traumatic way she was first exposed to his past, she is ''not'' happy about it, and pretty much forces "Shaun" to fess up right then and there as he's preparing to head to Macau after dealing with the Ten Rings goons and helping her stop the bus.
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!!''Xu Xialing (徐夏令)''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"If my dad won't let me into his empire, I'm gonna build my own."'']]
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"If my dad won't let me into his empire, I'm gonna build my own."'']]
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[[folder:Trevor Slattery]]
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!![[Characters/MCUEternals The Eternals]]'s Allies
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!!''Professor [[ComicBook/BlackKnight Dane Whitman]]''
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!!!'''Citizenship:''' Chinese-Ta Loan
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Meng'er Zhang, Harmonie He (teen), Elodie Fong (young)
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/MaayaUchida (Japanese dub), Thais Duraes (Brazilian Portuguese dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings''
Shang-Chi's sister, who operates an underground fight club.
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Meng'er Zhang, Harmonie He (teen), Elodie Fong (young)
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/MaayaUchida (Japanese dub), Thais Duraes (Brazilian Portuguese dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings''
Shang-Chi's sister, who operates an underground fight club.
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!!!'''Citizenship:''' Chinese-Ta Loan
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!!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Natural History Museum
!!!'''Portrayed By:'''Meng'er Zhang, Harmonie He (teen), Elodie Fong (young)
Creator/KitHarington
!!!'''Voiced By:'''Creator/MaayaUchida (Japanese dub), Thais Duraes (Brazilian Portuguese dub)
Elliot Leguizamo (Latin American Spanish), Eiji Hanawa (Japanese)
!!!'''Appearances:'''''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings''
Shang-Chi's sister,''Film/{{Eternals}}''
A human whooperates an underground fight club.gets entangled in the Eternals' exploits due to his relationship with Sersi.
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* ActionGirl: Like her brother, she's a gifted martial artist -- she even manages to defeat Shang-Chi in their cage match (granted, he's not really trying), and it's implied that she regularly kicks ass in her cage fights. Unlike him, she's largely self-taught, as Wenwu refused to let her train alongside the men in his organization.
* AdaptationNameChange: Has her name changed from [[Literature/FuManchu Fah Lo Suee]] (later [[WritingAroundTrademarks Zheng Bao Yu/Cursed Lotus]]) to Xialing, as Fu Manchu (her and Shang-Chi's father in the comics) is legally ExiledFromContinuity, with Wenwu [[CompositeCharacter absorbing that role]] in the film. Even in the comics, Fah Lo Suee was dropped, she is no longer mentioned in the miniseries ''ComicBook/ShangChi2020'' and the series ''ComicBook/ShangChi2021'', written by Creator/GeneLuenYang, with Zheng Shi-Hua/Sister Hammer replacing her.
* AlliterativeName: '''X'''u '''X'''ialing.
* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:In TheStinger, she's shown to have taken the throne of the Ten Rings, despite telling Shang-Chi that she was dismantling the operation. Given that it's the Ten Rings that get a WillReturnCaption this time, her goals are quite nebulous at the moment.]]
* BadassBoast: Drops arguably the most badass line in ''Legend of the Ten Rings'', which is the main quote of this folder.
* BadassNormal: Xialing is the only member of her family who does not have any special powers, but she is still an incredibly formidable martial artist.
* BladeOnARope: She uses a [[spoiler:dragon-scale]] rope dart as her weapon during the Battle of Ta Lo, given to her by [[spoiler:her aunt]] Ying Nan. As the young Shang-Chi is shown to have trained in the rope dart, it is no surprise that Xialing is shown to be already proficient in it, having secretly trained herself by watching and imitating the lessons of her brother and her father's soldiers.
* BrotherSisterTeam: Forms one with her older brother Shang-Chi during the climax of ''Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings'', with the two working together to [[spoiler:destroy the Dweller-in-Darkness.]]
* CompositeCharacter: Is Shang-Chi's sister like the aforementioned Fah Lo Suee[=/=]Zheng Bao Yu, but is the Mandarin's daughter like Sasha Hammer (granddaughter of fellow recurring ComicBook/IronMan headache Justin Hammer). [[spoiler: Her taking control of the organization that her older brother Shang-Chi leaves unattended after his father's death, continuing its operations, also seems to make her partially inspired by Zheng Shi-Hua/Sister Hammer.]]
* DarkIsNotEvil: Even though Xialing runs an illegal fight club, has dark hair, and tends to wear dark-colored clothing in her adult years, she is a genuinely nice person.
* DeadpanSnarker: Xialing has developed a dry sense of humor after she ran away from home.
* DragonLady: Her outfit in Macau (as the ringleader of her fight club) makes her look like a more CyberPunk version of this. [[spoiler:She leans a bit more into the traditional aesthetic (albeit wearing a maroon ''tangzhang'') after taking over the Ten Rings.]]
* EqualOpportunityEvil: Her FightClubbing operation recruits both men and women, from all over the world. [[spoiler:After taking over the Ten Rings, she throws out Wenwu's StayInTheKitchen attitude and allows women to join their fighting forces.]]
* {{Expy}}: She takes a lot from Zheng Shi-Hua, aka Sister Hammer, who is Shang-Chi's sister in the comics. Both are sisters to Shang-Chi, TheUnfavorite to their father, and desire control of their father's organization.
* FightClubbing: Runs a cage-fighting ring that runs livestreams on the dark web.
* GenerationXerox: [[spoiler:She becomes the new leader of the Ten Rings following her father's death.]]
* GoodWearsWhite: Xialing has a good heart and she wears the white dragon-scale armor left for her by her mother in Ta Lo.
* HeelFaceTurn: Starts out as an amoral criminal focused on her own FightClubbing empire above all else, but later joins forces with Shang-Chi to protect their mother's village from their father.
* ImprobableAge: Started building her own empire at sixteen. It's lampshaded by Katy.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Cold, bitter and stern as Xialing may be, but she's a good person deep down and even returns to save Katy and her brother, despite her anger towards him. It's also clear that despite their conflicted relationship, she still loved her father Wenwu and Shang-Chi [[spoiler:and was heartbroken by the former's death.]] She also wants to bring a more diverse crowd (i.e. women) into her own empire, unlike her father.
* MementoMacGuffin: The green necklace given to her by her mother is, unknown to Xialing, this, [[spoiler:revealing a map to Ta Lo when her and Shang-Chi's identical necklace are placed in the eyes of a dragon statue.]]
* MetaphoricallyTrue: At the end of the movie [[spoiler: Shang-Chi mentions while recounting the events of the movie with Katy to their friends that Xialing went to dismantle the Ten Rings instead of returning with him. In the after-credits scene, it's revealed that she actually ''took it over'' and completely overhauled it into being a mix gendered-army. She simply "dismantled" her father's ''vision'' of the group.]]
* MythologyGag: The name of the Golden Daggers club owned by Xu Xialing came from a sect ruled by Zheng Bao Yu before she took over her father's organization.
* ParentalNeglect: A big victim of it. When her father fell back into his Ten Rings ways and trained Shang-Chi into an assassin, looking at Xialing reminded him too much of her mother. She had to learn martial arts by watching from the sidelines.
* TheQueenpin: Xialing is the founder of the Golden Daggers Club [[spoiler:before becoming the new leader of the Ten Rings after the death of her father]].
* TheRunaway: Ran away from the Ten Rings at age 16, after realizing Shang-Chi was never coming back for her.
* SciFiBobHaircut: Her main hairstyle. It doesn’t stay untarnished when she fights though.
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: When the Ten Rings invade her base of operations, she flees through a hidden exit. [[ChangedMyMindKid She soon returns to help her brother]], though.
* SelfMadeMan: Built herself a criminal fight club after running away from her father. [[spoiler:She does eventually inherit leadership of the Ten Rings though.]]
* SiblingYinYang: With her older brother Shang-Chi. Shang-Chi is cordial and friendly while Xialing is cold and professional. He was trained to become an assassin by his father to succeed him as his heir to the Ten Rings against his own personal desire, while Xialing ''wanted'' to be trained but wasn't allowed to because of her gender, instead of teaching herself from watching the training. Although both of them left their father, Shang-Chi moved to San Francisco to have a normal life, in contrast to Xialing who went to Macau and began establishing her fight club at the age of 16 to build her own criminal empire. [[spoiler:At the end of ''Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings'', Shang-Chi decides to use the Ten Rings weapons as a superhero, while Xialing replaces her father as leader of the Ten Rings organization.]]
* SplashOfColor: It is implied, based on her old room's posters, that she had a predilection for street art before she ran away and built her own underground fight club. [[spoiler:After taking over the Ten Rings, she seems to have taken to redecorating the old Ten Rings compound with a lot of DragonLady aesthetic street art and graffiti]].
* StayInTheKitchen: It's implied that Wenwu took this mentality with her, refusing to let her train with her brother and the other men in the Ten Rings. So she watched them from afar and practiced in secret.
* TragicKeepsake: [[spoiler:After the Iron Gang killed her mother, Xialing continues to wear the necklace that she gave her for almost two decades. The pendant of the necklace is later revealed to be a key to the map of Ta Lo's entrance.]]
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Her childhood was happy at first with two loving parents and an older brother she looked up to. Then her mother was killed, her father reverted back into a criminal warlord who can't stand even looking at her and her brother ran away without her. By the time we see her as an adult in Macau, she's a cold, ruthless enforcer of the fighting club, who's none too pleased to see her older brother or father again.
* WhatTheHellHero: When she and Shang-Chi reunite at the cage match, she's pissed at him for running away and going into hiding without telling her his whereabouts.
** She also throws another at him after subverting ScrewThisImOutOfHere (see above), giving Shang this bitter retort when he complains she left him and Katy to die.
--> "Now you know what it feels like."
* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:Downplayed. Even though the Dweller-in-Darkness is responsible for her father's death, she is not motivated by vengeance when she and her brother work together in killing the creature.]]
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Despite being Shang-Chi's ''younger'' sister, Xialing looks significantly older than him when they reunite in adulthood. Add the fact that the actress Meng'er Zhang is two years older than Simu Liu in real life, despite portraying his younger sister.
* AdaptationNameChange: Has her name changed from [[Literature/FuManchu Fah Lo Suee]] (later [[WritingAroundTrademarks Zheng Bao Yu/Cursed Lotus]]) to Xialing, as Fu Manchu (her and Shang-Chi's father in the comics) is legally ExiledFromContinuity, with Wenwu [[CompositeCharacter absorbing that role]] in the film. Even in the comics, Fah Lo Suee was dropped, she is no longer mentioned in the miniseries ''ComicBook/ShangChi2020'' and the series ''ComicBook/ShangChi2021'', written by Creator/GeneLuenYang, with Zheng Shi-Hua/Sister Hammer replacing her.
* AlliterativeName: '''X'''u '''X'''ialing.
* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:In TheStinger, she's shown to have taken the throne of the Ten Rings, despite telling Shang-Chi that she was dismantling the operation. Given that it's the Ten Rings that get a WillReturnCaption this time, her goals are quite nebulous at the moment.]]
* BadassBoast: Drops arguably the most badass line in ''Legend of the Ten Rings'', which is the main quote of this folder.
* BadassNormal: Xialing is the only member of her family who does not have any special powers, but she is still an incredibly formidable martial artist.
* BladeOnARope: She uses a [[spoiler:dragon-scale]] rope dart as her weapon during the Battle of Ta Lo, given to her by [[spoiler:her aunt]] Ying Nan. As the young Shang-Chi is shown to have trained in the rope dart, it is no surprise that Xialing is shown to be already proficient in it, having secretly trained herself by watching and imitating the lessons of her brother and her father's soldiers.
* BrotherSisterTeam: Forms one with her older brother Shang-Chi during the climax of ''Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings'', with the two working together to [[spoiler:destroy the Dweller-in-Darkness.]]
* CompositeCharacter: Is Shang-Chi's sister like the aforementioned Fah Lo Suee[=/=]Zheng Bao Yu, but is the Mandarin's daughter like Sasha Hammer (granddaughter of fellow recurring ComicBook/IronMan headache Justin Hammer). [[spoiler: Her taking control of the organization that her older brother Shang-Chi leaves unattended after his father's death, continuing its operations, also seems to make her partially inspired by Zheng Shi-Hua/Sister Hammer.]]
* DarkIsNotEvil: Even though Xialing runs an illegal fight club, has dark hair, and tends to wear dark-colored clothing in her adult years, she is a genuinely nice person.
* DeadpanSnarker: Xialing has developed a dry sense of humor after she ran away from home.
* DragonLady: Her outfit in Macau (as the ringleader of her fight club) makes her look like a more CyberPunk version of this. [[spoiler:She leans a bit more into the traditional aesthetic (albeit wearing a maroon ''tangzhang'') after taking over the Ten Rings.]]
* EqualOpportunityEvil: Her FightClubbing operation recruits both men and women, from all over the world. [[spoiler:After taking over the Ten Rings, she throws out Wenwu's StayInTheKitchen attitude and allows women to join their fighting forces.]]
* {{Expy}}: She takes a lot from Zheng Shi-Hua, aka Sister Hammer, who is Shang-Chi's sister in the comics. Both are sisters to Shang-Chi, TheUnfavorite to their father, and desire control of their father's organization.
* FightClubbing: Runs a cage-fighting ring that runs livestreams on the dark web.
* GenerationXerox: [[spoiler:She becomes the new leader of the Ten Rings following her father's death.]]
* GoodWearsWhite: Xialing has a good heart and she wears the white dragon-scale armor left for her by her mother in Ta Lo.
* HeelFaceTurn: Starts out as an amoral criminal focused on her own FightClubbing empire above all else, but later joins forces with Shang-Chi to protect their mother's village from their father.
* ImprobableAge: Started building her own empire at sixteen. It's lampshaded by Katy.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Cold, bitter and stern as Xialing may be, but she's a good person deep down and even returns to save Katy and her brother, despite her anger towards him. It's also clear that despite their conflicted relationship, she still loved her father Wenwu and Shang-Chi [[spoiler:and was heartbroken by the former's death.]] She also wants to bring a more diverse crowd (i.e. women) into her own empire, unlike her father.
* MementoMacGuffin: The green necklace given to her by her mother is, unknown to Xialing, this, [[spoiler:revealing a map to Ta Lo when her and Shang-Chi's identical necklace are placed in the eyes of a dragon statue.]]
* MetaphoricallyTrue: At the end of the movie [[spoiler: Shang-Chi mentions while recounting the events of the movie with Katy to their friends that Xialing went to dismantle the Ten Rings instead of returning with him. In the after-credits scene, it's revealed that she actually ''took it over'' and completely overhauled it into being a mix gendered-army. She simply "dismantled" her father's ''vision'' of the group.]]
* MythologyGag: The name of the Golden Daggers club owned by Xu Xialing came from a sect ruled by Zheng Bao Yu before she took over her father's organization.
* ParentalNeglect: A big victim of it. When her father fell back into his Ten Rings ways and trained Shang-Chi into an assassin, looking at Xialing reminded him too much of her mother. She had to learn martial arts by watching from the sidelines.
* TheQueenpin: Xialing is the founder of the Golden Daggers Club [[spoiler:before becoming the new leader of the Ten Rings after the death of her father]].
* TheRunaway: Ran away from the Ten Rings at age 16, after realizing Shang-Chi was never coming back for her.
* SciFiBobHaircut: Her main hairstyle. It doesn’t stay untarnished when she fights though.
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: When the Ten Rings invade her base of operations, she flees through a hidden exit. [[ChangedMyMindKid She soon returns to help her brother]], though.
* SelfMadeMan: Built herself a criminal fight club after running away from her father. [[spoiler:She does eventually inherit leadership of the Ten Rings though.]]
* SiblingYinYang: With her older brother Shang-Chi. Shang-Chi is cordial and friendly while Xialing is cold and professional. He was trained to become an assassin by his father to succeed him as his heir to the Ten Rings against his own personal desire, while Xialing ''wanted'' to be trained but wasn't allowed to because of her gender, instead of teaching herself from watching the training. Although both of them left their father, Shang-Chi moved to San Francisco to have a normal life, in contrast to Xialing who went to Macau and began establishing her fight club at the age of 16 to build her own criminal empire. [[spoiler:At the end of ''Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings'', Shang-Chi decides to use the Ten Rings weapons as a superhero, while Xialing replaces her father as leader of the Ten Rings organization.]]
* SplashOfColor: It is implied, based on her old room's posters, that she had a predilection for street art before she ran away and built her own underground fight club. [[spoiler:After taking over the Ten Rings, she seems to have taken to redecorating the old Ten Rings compound with a lot of DragonLady aesthetic street art and graffiti]].
* StayInTheKitchen: It's implied that Wenwu took this mentality with her, refusing to let her train with her brother and the other men in the Ten Rings. So she watched them from afar and practiced in secret.
* TragicKeepsake: [[spoiler:After the Iron Gang killed her mother, Xialing continues to wear the necklace that she gave her for almost two decades. The pendant of the necklace is later revealed to be a key to the map of Ta Lo's entrance.]]
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Her childhood was happy at first with two loving parents and an older brother she looked up to. Then her mother was killed, her father reverted back into a criminal warlord who can't stand even looking at her and her brother ran away without her. By the time we see her as an adult in Macau, she's a cold, ruthless enforcer of the fighting club, who's none too pleased to see her older brother or father again.
* WhatTheHellHero: When she and Shang-Chi reunite at the cage match, she's pissed at him for running away and going into hiding without telling her his whereabouts.
** She also throws another at him after subverting ScrewThisImOutOfHere (see above), giving Shang this bitter retort when he complains she left him and Katy to die.
--> "Now you know what it feels like."
* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:Downplayed. Even though the Dweller-in-Darkness is responsible for her father's death, she is not motivated by vengeance when she and her brother work together in killing the creature.]]
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Despite being Shang-Chi's ''younger'' sister, Xialing looks significantly older than him when they reunite in adulthood. Add the fact that the actress Meng'er Zhang is two years older than Simu Liu in real life, despite portraying his younger sister.
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* ActionGirl: Like her brother, she's a gifted martial artist -- she even manages to defeat Shang-Chi in their cage match (granted, he's not really trying), and it's implied that she regularly kicks ass in her cage fights. Unlike him, she's largely self-taught, as Wenwu refused to let her train alongside the men in his organization.
* AdaptationNameChange: Has her name changed from [[Literature/FuManchu Fah Lo Suee]] (later [[WritingAroundTrademarks Zheng Bao Yu/Cursed Lotus]]) to Xialing, as Fu Manchu (her and Shang-Chi's father in the comics) is legally ExiledFromContinuity, with Wenwu [[CompositeCharacter absorbing that role]] in the film. Even inAdaptationalNationality: In the comics, Fah Lo Suee while being ''descended'' from Briton knights, he was dropped, she is no longer mentioned in very much an American. In the miniseries ''ComicBook/ShangChi2020'' and the series ''ComicBook/ShangChi2021'', written film, he's portrayed by Creator/GeneLuenYang, Kit Harington with Zheng Shi-Hua/Sister Hammer replacing her.
his London accent fully intact.
*AlliterativeName: '''X'''u '''X'''ialing.
* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:InAdaptationalWimp: In the comics, he's the superhero Black Knight with a magical cursed sword. In ''Eternals'', he's Sersi's coworker and boyfriend who becomes acquainted with her race. [[spoiler:He doesn't even tag along with the Eternals, staying in London while they go on their actual quest… but in TheStinger, she's shown to have taken he opens up the throne of chest containing the Ten Rings, despite telling Shang-Chi that she was dismantling the operation. Given that it's the Ten Rings that get a WillReturnCaption this time, her goals are quite nebulous cursed Ebony Blade and psychs himself up to grab it, presumably in desperation at the moment.Sersi's abduction, but is interrupted by a mysterious voice before he actually touches it.]]
*BadassBoast: Drops arguably the most badass line in ''Legend of the Ten Rings'', which is the main quote of this folder.
* BadassNormal: Xialing is the only member of her family who does not have any special powers, but she is still an incredibly formidable martial artist.
* BladeOnARope: She uses a [[spoiler:dragon-scale]] rope dart as her weapon during the Battle of Ta Lo, given to her by [[spoiler:her aunt]] Ying Nan. As the young Shang-Chi is shown to have trained in the rope dart, it is no surprise that Xialing is shown to be already proficient in it,ArbitrarySkepticism: Played with. Despite Sprite apparently having secretly trained herself by watching dropped many hints about the Eternals and imitating Deviants, and living in a world where superheroes are famous, he initially doesn't believe her and instead suspects Sersi is a wizard like Doctor Strange. But once a real Deviant actually shows up, he immediately understands Sprite was telling the lessons truth.
* BlackSwordsAreBetter: [[spoiler:TheStinger ofher brother and her father's soldiers.
* BrotherSisterTeam: Forms one with her older brother Shang-Chi during''Eternals'' has Dane slowly accepting his family's heirloom: a magical black sword known as the climax of ''Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings'', with the two working together to [[spoiler:destroy the Dweller-in-Darkness.Ebony Blade.]]
*CompositeCharacter: Is Shang-Chi's sister like the aforementioned Fah Lo Suee[=/=]Zheng Bao Yu, but is the Mandarin's daughter like Sasha Hammer (granddaughter of fellow recurring ComicBook/IronMan headache Justin Hammer). [[spoiler: Her taking control of the organization that her older brother Shang-Chi leaves unattended after his father's death, continuing its operations, CastingGag: Kit Harington portrayed Jon Snow, a warrior in a medieval setting in ''Series/GameOfThrones'', which also starred Creator/RichardMadden (Ikaris) as Robb Stark, Jon's beloved half-brother. The only scene where they physically meet is dripping with subtext due to this.
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: He's never referred to as Black Knight in the ''Eternals'' film [[spoiler:as he has yet to claim the Ebony Blade, which it seems he's about tomake her partially inspired by Zheng Shi-Hua/Sister Hammer.do at TheStinger.]]
*DarkIsNotEvil: Even though Xialing runs an illegal fight club, has dark hair, and tends to wear dark-colored clothing in her adult years, she CoolSword: [[spoiler:The Ebony Blade is a genuinely nice person.
* DeadpanSnarker: Xialing has developed a dry sense of humor after she ran away from home.
* DragonLady: Her outfit in Macau (as the ringleader of her fight club) makes her look like a more CyberPunk version of this. [[spoiler:She leans a bit more into the traditional aesthetic (albeit wearing a maroon ''tangzhang'') after taking over the Ten Rings.black sword imbued with supernatural properties.]]
*EqualOpportunityEvil: Her FightClubbing operation recruits both men and women, from all over the world. [[spoiler:After DarkIsNotEvil: [[spoiler:The Ebony Blade is a dark, seemingly cursed sword branded with a morbid Latin motto, but Dane is a kindhearted NiceGuy who only even considers taking over up the Ten Rings, she throws out Wenwu's StayInTheKitchen attitude and allows women sword to join their fighting forces.help his beloved girlfriend.]]
*{{Expy}}: She takes a lot from Zheng Shi-Hua, aka Sister Hammer, who is Shang-Chi's sister in TheMissusAndTheEx: He's the comics. Both are sisters to Shang-Chi, TheUnfavorite to their father, "missus". Ikaris and desire control of their father's organization.
* FightClubbing: RunsSersi were married for more than a cage-fighting ring that runs livestreams on the dark web.
* GenerationXerox: [[spoiler:She becomes the new leader of the Ten Rings following her father's death.]]
* GoodWearsWhite: Xialing has a good heartthousand years, but he abandoned her, and she wears the white dragon-scale armor left for her by her mother in Ta Lo.
* HeelFaceTurn: Starts out as an amoral criminal focused on her own FightClubbing empire above all else, but later joins forces with Shang-Chi to protect their mother's village from their father.
* ImprobableAge: Started building her own empire at sixteen. It's lampshaded by Katy.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Cold, bitter and stern as Xialing may be, but she's a good person deep down and even returns to save Katy and her brother, despite her anger towards him. It's also clear that despite their conflicted relationship, she still loved her father Wenwu and Shang-Chi [[spoiler:and was heartbroken by the former's death.]] She also wants to bring a more diverse crowd (i.e. women) into her own empire, unlike her father.
* MementoMacGuffin: The green necklace given to her by her mother is, unknown to Xialing, this, [[spoiler:revealing a map to Ta Lo when her and Shang-Chi's identical necklace are placedstarted dating Dane in the eyes present day. After Ikaris helps dispatch a Deviant in London, Dane quickly realizes that Ikaris is Sersi's ex.
-->'''Dane:''' I'm guessing that was the pilot.
* NiceGuy: Dane is a friendly, easygoing guy who is perfectly understanding ofa dragon statue.]]
the complicated history that comes out when Sersi is exposed as an Eternal.
*MetaphoricallyTrue: At UnderstandingBoyfriend: Once Sersi comes clean about being an immortal superheroine, he takes it more or less in stride, and at the end of the movie [[spoiler: Shang-Chi mentions while recounting the events of the movie with Katy to day, they resume their friends that Xialing went to dismantle the Ten Rings instead of returning with him. In the after-credits scene, it's revealed that she actually ''took it over'' and completely overhauled it into being a mix gendered-army. She simply "dismantled" her father's ''vision'' of the group.]]
* MythologyGag: The name of the Golden Daggers club owned by Xu Xialing came from a sect ruled by Zheng Bao Yu before she took over her father's organization.
* ParentalNeglect: A big victim of it. When her father fell back into his Ten Rings ways and trained Shang-Chi into an assassin, looking at Xialing reminded him too much of her mother. She had to learn martial arts by watching from the sidelines.
* TheQueenpin: Xialing is the founder of the Golden Daggers Club [[spoiler:before becoming the new leader of the Ten Rings after the death of her father]].
* TheRunaway: Ran away from the Ten Rings at age 16, after realizing Shang-Chi was never coming back for her.
* SciFiBobHaircut: Her main hairstyle. It doesn’t stay untarnished when she fights though.
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: When the Ten Rings invade her base of operations, she flees through a hidden exit. [[ChangedMyMindKid She soon returns to help her brother]], though.
* SelfMadeMan: Built herself a criminal fight club after running away from her father. [[spoiler:She does eventually inherit leadership of the Ten Rings though.]]
* SiblingYinYang: With her older brother Shang-Chi. Shang-Chi is cordial and friendly while Xialing is cold and professional. He was trained to become an assassin by his father to succeed him as his heir to the Ten Rings against his own personal desire, while Xialing ''wanted'' to be trained but wasn't allowed to because of her gender, instead of teaching herself from watching the training. Although both of them left their father, Shang-Chi moved to San Francisco to have a normal life, in contrast to Xialing who went to Macau and began establishing her fight club at the age of 16 to build her own criminal empire. [[spoiler:At the end of ''Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings'', Shang-Chi decides to use the Ten Rings weapons as a superhero, while Xialing replaces her father as leader of the Ten Rings organization.]]
* SplashOfColor: It is implied, based on her old room's posters, that she had a predilection for street art before she ran away and built her own underground fight club. [[spoiler:After taking over the Ten Rings, she seems to have taken to redecorating the old Ten Rings compound with a lot of DragonLady aesthetic street art and graffiti]].
* StayInTheKitchen:relationship. It's implied that Wenwu took this mentality with her, refusing to let her train with her brother and the other men he's understanding in the Ten Rings. So she watched them from afar and practiced in secret.
* TragicKeepsake: [[spoiler:After the Iron Gang killed her mother, Xialing continues to wear the necklace that she gave her for almost two decades. The pendantpart because of the necklace is later revealed to be his family history since TheStinger implies a key to the map legacy of Ta Lo's entrance.]]
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Her childhood was happy at first with two loving parents and an older brother she looked up to. Then her mother was killed, her father reverted back into a criminal warlord who can't stand even looking at her and her brother ran away without her. By the time we see her as an adult in Macau, she's a cold, ruthless enforcer of the fighting club, who's none too pleased to see her older brother or father again.
superpowers.
* WhatTheHellHero:When she and Shang-Chi reunite at In the cage match, she's pissed at him for running away and going into hiding without telling her his whereabouts.
** She also throws another at him after subverting ScrewThisImOutOfHere (see above), giving Shang this bitter retort whenfilm, he complains she left him and Katy to die.
--> "Now you know what it feels like."
* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:Downplayed. Even thoughasks Sersi why the Dweller-in-Darkness is responsible for her father's death, she is not motivated by vengeance when she and her brother work together in killing the creature.]]
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Despite being Shang-Chi's ''younger'' sister, Xialing looks significantly older than him when they reunite in adulthood. Add the fact that the actress Meng'er Zhang is two years older than Simu Liu in real life, despite portraying his younger sister.Eternals never interfered [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar against Thanos]] or anywhen else during human history.
* AdaptationNameChange: Has her name changed from [[Literature/FuManchu Fah Lo Suee]] (later [[WritingAroundTrademarks Zheng Bao Yu/Cursed Lotus]]) to Xialing, as Fu Manchu (her and Shang-Chi's father in the comics) is legally ExiledFromContinuity, with Wenwu [[CompositeCharacter absorbing that role]] in the film. Even in
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* BadassNormal: Xialing is the only member of her family who does not have any special powers, but she is still an incredibly formidable martial artist.
* BladeOnARope: She uses a [[spoiler:dragon-scale]] rope dart as her weapon during the Battle of Ta Lo, given to her by [[spoiler:her aunt]] Ying Nan. As the young Shang-Chi is shown to have trained in the rope dart, it is no surprise that Xialing is shown to be already proficient in it,
* BlackSwordsAreBetter: [[spoiler:TheStinger of
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* DeadpanSnarker: Xialing has developed a dry sense of humor after she ran away from home.
* DragonLady: Her outfit in Macau (as the ringleader of her fight club) makes her look like a more CyberPunk version of this. [[spoiler:She leans a bit more into the traditional aesthetic (albeit wearing a maroon ''tangzhang'') after taking over the Ten Rings.
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* FightClubbing: Runs
* GenerationXerox: [[spoiler:She becomes the new leader of the Ten Rings following her father's death.]]
* GoodWearsWhite: Xialing has a good heart
* HeelFaceTurn: Starts out as an amoral criminal focused on her own FightClubbing empire above all else, but later joins forces with Shang-Chi to protect their mother's village from their father.
* ImprobableAge: Started building her own empire at sixteen. It's lampshaded by Katy.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Cold, bitter and stern as Xialing may be, but she's a good person deep down and even returns to save Katy and her brother, despite her anger towards him. It's also clear that despite their conflicted relationship, she still loved her father Wenwu and Shang-Chi [[spoiler:and was heartbroken by the former's death.]] She also wants to bring a more diverse crowd (i.e. women) into her own empire, unlike her father.
* MementoMacGuffin: The green necklace given to her by her mother is, unknown to Xialing, this, [[spoiler:revealing a map to Ta Lo when her and Shang-Chi's identical necklace are placed
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* MythologyGag: The name of the Golden Daggers club owned by Xu Xialing came from a sect ruled by Zheng Bao Yu before she took over her father's organization.
* ParentalNeglect: A big victim of it. When her father fell back into his Ten Rings ways and trained Shang-Chi into an assassin, looking at Xialing reminded him too much of her mother. She had to learn martial arts by watching from the sidelines.
* TheQueenpin: Xialing is the founder of the Golden Daggers Club [[spoiler:before becoming the new leader of the Ten Rings after the death of her father]].
* TheRunaway: Ran away from the Ten Rings at age 16, after realizing Shang-Chi was never coming back for her.
* SciFiBobHaircut: Her main hairstyle. It doesn’t stay untarnished when she fights though.
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: When the Ten Rings invade her base of operations, she flees through a hidden exit. [[ChangedMyMindKid She soon returns to help her brother]], though.
* SelfMadeMan: Built herself a criminal fight club after running away from her father. [[spoiler:She does eventually inherit leadership of the Ten Rings though.]]
* SiblingYinYang: With her older brother Shang-Chi. Shang-Chi is cordial and friendly while Xialing is cold and professional. He was trained to become an assassin by his father to succeed him as his heir to the Ten Rings against his own personal desire, while Xialing ''wanted'' to be trained but wasn't allowed to because of her gender, instead of teaching herself from watching the training. Although both of them left their father, Shang-Chi moved to San Francisco to have a normal life, in contrast to Xialing who went to Macau and began establishing her fight club at the age of 16 to build her own criminal empire. [[spoiler:At the end of ''Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings'', Shang-Chi decides to use the Ten Rings weapons as a superhero, while Xialing replaces her father as leader of the Ten Rings organization.]]
* SplashOfColor: It is implied, based on her old room's posters, that she had a predilection for street art before she ran away and built her own underground fight club. [[spoiler:After taking over the Ten Rings, she seems to have taken to redecorating the old Ten Rings compound with a lot of DragonLady aesthetic street art and graffiti]].
* StayInTheKitchen:
* TragicKeepsake: [[spoiler:After the Iron Gang killed her mother, Xialing continues to wear the necklace that she gave her for almost two decades. The pendant
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Her childhood was happy at first with two loving parents and an older brother she looked up to. Then her mother was killed, her father reverted back into a criminal warlord who can't stand even looking at her and her brother ran away without her. By the time we see her as an adult in Macau, she's a cold, ruthless enforcer of the fighting club, who's none too pleased to see her older brother or father again.
* WhatTheHellHero:
** She also throws another at him after subverting ScrewThisImOutOfHere (see above), giving Shang this bitter retort when
--> "Now you know what it feels like."
* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:Downplayed. Even though
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Despite being Shang-Chi's ''younger'' sister, Xialing looks significantly older than him when they reunite in adulthood. Add the fact that the actress Meng'er Zhang is two years older than Simu Liu in real life, despite portraying his younger sister.
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!!''Karun Patel (Hindi: करुण पटेल)''
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* AdaptationalWimp: In the comics, he's the superhero Black Knight with a magical cursed sword. In ''Eternals'', he's Sersi's coworker and boyfriend who becomes acquainted with her race. [[spoiler:He doesn't even tag along with the Eternals, staying in London while they go on their actual quest… but in TheStinger, he opens up the chest containing the cursed Ebony Blade and psychs himself up to grab it, presumably in desperation at Sersi's abduction, but is interrupted by a mysterious voice before he actually touches it.]]
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* BlackSwordsAreBetter: [[spoiler:TheStinger of ''Eternals'' has Dane slowly accepting his family's heirloom: a magical black sword known as the Ebony Blade.]]
* CastingGag: Kit Harington portrayed Jon Snow, a warrior in a medieval setting in ''Series/GameOfThrones'', which also starred Creator/RichardMadden (Ikaris) as Robb Stark, Jon's beloved half-brother. The only scene where they physically meet is dripping with subtext due to this.
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: He's never referred to as Black Knight in the ''Eternals'' film [[spoiler:as he has yet to claim the Ebony Blade, which it seems he's about to do at TheStinger.]]
* CoolSword: [[spoiler:The Ebony Blade is a black sword imbued with supernatural properties.]]
* DarkIsNotEvil: [[spoiler:The Ebony Blade is a dark, seemingly cursed sword branded with a morbid Latin motto, but Dane is a kindhearted NiceGuy who only even considers taking up the sword to help his beloved girlfriend.]]
* TheMissusAndTheEx: He's the "missus". Ikaris and Sersi were married for more than a thousand years, but he abandoned her, and she started dating Dane in the present day. After Ikaris helps dispatch a Deviant in London, Dane quickly realizes that Ikaris is Sersi's ex.
-->'''Dane:''' I'm guessing that was the pilot.
* NiceGuy: Dane is a friendly, easygoing guy who is perfectly understanding of the complicated history that comes out when Sersi is exposed as an Eternal.
* UnderstandingBoyfriend: Once Sersi comes clean about being an immortal superheroine, he takes it more or less in stride, and at the end of the day, they resume their relationship. It's implied that he's understanding in part because of his family history since TheStinger implies a legacy of superpowers.
* WhatTheHellHero: In the film, he asks Sersi why the Eternals never interfered [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar against Thanos]] or anywhen else during human history.
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!!''Karun Patel (Hindi: करुण पटेल)''
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Harish Patel
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Eternals}}''
Kingo's valet.
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Played with. Despite Sprite apparently having dropped many hints about the Eternals and Deviants, and living in a world where superheroes are famous, he initially doesn't believe her and instead suspects Sersi is a wizard like Doctor Strange. But once a real Deviant actually shows up, he immediately understands Sprite was telling the truth.
* BlackSwordsAreBetter: [[spoiler:TheStinger of ''Eternals'' has Dane slowly accepting his family's heirloom: a magical black sword known as the Ebony Blade.]]
* CastingGag: Kit Harington portrayed Jon Snow, a warrior in a medieval setting in ''Series/GameOfThrones'', which also starred Creator/RichardMadden (Ikaris) as Robb Stark, Jon's beloved half-brother. The only scene where they physically meet is dripping with subtext due to this.
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: He's never referred to as Black Knight in the ''Eternals'' film [[spoiler:as he has yet to claim the Ebony Blade, which it seems he's about to do at TheStinger.]]
* CoolSword: [[spoiler:The Ebony Blade is a black sword imbued with supernatural properties.]]
* DarkIsNotEvil: [[spoiler:The Ebony Blade is a dark, seemingly cursed sword branded with a morbid Latin motto, but Dane is a kindhearted NiceGuy who only even considers taking up the sword to help his beloved girlfriend.]]
* TheMissusAndTheEx: He's the "missus". Ikaris and Sersi were married for more than a thousand years, but he abandoned her, and she started dating Dane in the present day. After Ikaris helps dispatch a Deviant in London, Dane quickly realizes that Ikaris is Sersi's ex.
-->'''Dane:''' I'm guessing that was the pilot.
* NiceGuy: Dane is a friendly, easygoing guy who is perfectly understanding of the complicated history that comes out when Sersi is exposed as an Eternal.
* UnderstandingBoyfriend: Once Sersi comes clean about being an immortal superheroine, he takes it more or less in stride, and at the end of the day, they resume their relationship. It's implied that he's understanding in part because of his family history since TheStinger implies a legacy of superpowers.
* WhatTheHellHero: In the film, he asks Sersi why the Eternals never interfered [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar against Thanos]] or anywhen else during human history.
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!!''Karun Patel (Hindi: करुण पटेल)''
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!!!'''Citizenship:''' Indian
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Harish Patel
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!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Affiliation(s):''' USAF (formerly), CIA
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MartinFreeman
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Juan Antonio Edwards (Latin-American Spanish dub), Jesús Maniega (European Spanish dub), Creator/ToshiyukiMorikawa (Japanese dub), Julien Sibre (French dub), François Sasseville (Canadian French dub)
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->''[[SkepticNoLonger "I've seen gods fly...I've seen men build weapons that I couldn't even imagine. I've seen aliens drop from the sky, but I have never seen anything like this.]]''
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* AcePilot: Was a former Air Force member before joining the CIA. He single-handedly fights off the air force of the Wakandan weapons exporters in a remote-controlled ship. Shuri flat-out says he has one of the greatest track records known to the US military.
* AdaptationalBadass: He's a ''much'' better bureaucrat than his comic alter ego, with much more power than Ross properly earned in the comics.[[note]]His comic book counterpart was Regent of Wakanda at one point, but this was only because T'Challa was out of options and trusted Ross not to actively fuck up.[[/note]] This version is also a CIA operative and former Air Force ace pilot with some combat skills, rather than just a State Dep. aide.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Ross in the comics is a bit of PoliticallyIncorrectHero, which is an aspect largely excised from the films.
* AgeLift: Everett's exact age was never specified in the comics, but he was fairly young for someone of his position (which was much lower than his rank in the MCU) and was young enough to pass for a ''child'' at times. Martin Freeman ''is'' quite boyish, but he's not ''that'' boyish.
* AscendedExtra: Everett doesn't have a particularly large role in ''Civil War'', but plays a bigger part in ''Black Panther'', and likely future MCU movies.
* AudienceSurrogate: Largely fulfills this role in ''Black Panther'' once he's brought to Wakanda, as the Westerner who discovers a world that was totally unknown to him, and marveling at the technological wonders there.
* BadassBureaucrat: When he's introduced in ''Civil War'', he appears as someone who would be more comfortable behind a desk than in the field. When he's introduced in ''Black Panther'', however, he has no problem being in the middle of gunfight and is revealed to have a distinguished military record.
* ButtMonkey: Even though he is ''significantly'' more competent than his comic book counterpart, Ross always draws the short straw in ''Black Panther'' when crossing paths with T'Challa again. In Korea, T'Challa's intervention screws up his original plan to apprehend Ulysses Klaue. Later, Ross gets shot taking a bullet for Nakia and would've died had it not been for T'Challa bringing him to Wakanda to be healed by Shuri. He also gets teased and bullied repeatedly with several Wakandans for being a foreigner with M'Baku joking about feeding him to his children.
* CelebrityParadox:
** In the UK version of ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', Steve Rogers' list includes the BBC series ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'', in which Martin Freeman plays Watson.
** ''Film/TheAvengers2012'' implies that ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' exists. If ''Film/TheHobbit'' also exists, Martin Freeman plays Bilbo.[[note]]The first ''Hobbit'' film, ''An Unexpected Journey'', came out the same year as ''The Avengers'', but several months after it however, so go figure.[[/note]]
*** Well, ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier'' establishes that the original novel ''The Hobbit'' definitely exists in the MCU when Bucky Barnes flat-out states that he read it “in 1937 when it first came out”.
* TheComicallySerious: He ends up falling into this role quite a bit in ''Black Panther'', if only because many of the Wakandans he meets [[NoRespectGuy don't have any respect for him]].
* CompositeCharacter: His role as the government attaché assigned to oversee the Avengers is similar to that of Henry Peter Gyrich, who traditionally serves as the team's government liaison in the comics, but who cannot be used in the MCU because of rights issues.
* DeadpanSnarker: He can make some effectively witty comebacks, mostly because he is played by Martin Freeman.
* {{Determinator}}: During the final battle of the film, despite knowing that the force field window is almost broken by a flying drone machine gun, he continues, not caring whether he’d die any second. All so he could prevent the ships from escaping Wakanda. That takes a lot of mental strength to do.
* FireForgedFriends: The events of ''Black Panther'' have made Ross a close ally to the Wakandan royal family. In a deleted scene, he greets Nakia, Ayo, and Okoye quite familiarly as well, with the last one being quite notable considering their slightly mutual disdain of each other at the beginning of T'Challa's solo film.
* FishOutOfWater: Becomes this during the second act of ''Black Panther'', having been brought to Wakanda for life-saving medical treatment.
* FriendOnTheForce: Of a sort. Ross is T'Challa's biggest political ally outside of Wakanda and lets him in on the goings-on with the international political climate.
* GiveMeAReason: As his image caption indicates, he dares his prisoners to do something that will provoke him into tormenting them.
* HeroicSacrifice:
** Zigzagged in ''Black Panther''. During the climatic battle, one of Killmonger's ships drops down into the Mound and starts blasting at the remote control chamber that Ross is using to go after the transport ships loaded with Vibranium weapons for black supremacist cells. Despite Shuri's admonitions to escape, Ross reengages the controls and continues trying to take down the transport ships, knowing he could be killed at any moment if the ship's fire breaches the defensive walls. Subverted in that Ross manages to complete his mission and escape seconds before the ship can kill him.
** Also from ''Black Panther'', his TakingTheBullet for Nakia, without a moments hesitation.
* HiddenDepths: ''Black Panther'' reveals that he formerly served in the US Air Force and was one of the best fighter pilots they ever had. He also knows enough about magnetic levitation to make casual talk with [[TeenGenius Shuri]], a prospect that clearly delights her.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While he makes it clear that he thinks all superhumans should be locked up and enjoys taunting his prisoners, he closely works with and helps out T'Challa when in need -- a dynamic which gets deepened in ''Black Panther'', where he outright admits that he likes T'Challa and actively supports the Wakandan royal family and their allies, even TakingTheBullet for T'Challa's beloved, Nakia, whom he'd only met the night before.
* MirrorCharacter: To Jimmy Woo. Both of them are agents of the U.S government who initially are introduced as [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Obstructive Bureaucrats]], but later prove themselves to be more competent and willing to help later on. The main difference is that Ross is relatively composed and stoic [[TheComicallySerious even during rather crazy situations]] compared to [[BunnyEarsLawyer Woo]]. They also represent different branches of the government, with Ross working for the CIA and Woo being a federal agent.
* NervesOfSteel: Played with. During the final battle, Ross is tasked with remotely piloting T'Challa's ship in order to chase after the planes transporting weapons outside Wakanda. However, Erik finds out and orders the lab to be destroyed. When Ross hears that the bulletproof glass between him and the massive gun outside is only at 50% capacity, he visibly psyches himself up before asking "How much time do I have?" and continuing with the mission.
* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: In ''Civil War'', he's NumberTwo in an international counter-terrorism task force. In Film/BlackPanther, set mere a couple of weeks later at most, he's a field agent running a sting operation. There is no explanation of this apparent demotion.
* NoRespectGuy: Needless to say, a man like Ross sticks out a ''lot'' in Wakanda, which results in no one but T'Challa taking him seriously. Shuri initially dismisses him as a colonizer when he accidentally scares her, and M'Baku decides to terrorize the man for pure shits and giggles when he tries to speak to him.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Spends most of ''Civil War'' yelling at everyone else for violating the Accords. Subverted in ''Black Panther'' where he's much more of a ReasonableAuthorityFigure.
* OddFriendship: With Princess Shuri. Although she treats him with little respect at first, she warms up to him considerably after he takes an interest in her work and is audibly concerned when he forgoes his safety to finish shooting at the escaping weapons transports.
* OhCrap:
** Has this look on his face when trying to apprehend Ulysses Klaue in a sting operation, only to immediately recognize T'Challa when he shows up, realizing things are about to get complicated.
** Has another one when he tries to speak up in M'Baku's court and the latter threatens to feed him to his children. Luckily for him, M'Baku was only [[{{Troll}} yanking his chain]].
** Upon seeing the massive gun shooting at him from the outside of Shuri's lab, Ross is justifiably freaked-out.
* OneSteveLimit: He shares a surname with General Ross, and both of them appeared in ''Civil War'' together. No relation.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: It's pretty bad form to taunt a helpless and suicidal prisoner, but considering what Zemo had done, it's hard to condemn Ross too much.
* ShutUpKirk: On the receiving end of one of these from Zemo that effectively takes the wind out of his sails.
-->'''Ross:''' ''[Smug]'' So how does it feel? [[AllForNothing To spend all that time, all that effort, and to see it fail so spectacularly?]]\\
'''Helmut Zemo:''' [[ArmorPiercingQuestion Did it?]] ''[Ross's smile falters]''
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: He seems to have replaced Coulson as the normal guy who is the link between the authorities and superheroes. Ironically, Coulson is a creation for the MCU while Ross had existed in the comics for decades.
* TakingTheBullet: In ''Black Panther,'' he takes one for Nakia during Killmonger's breakout of Ulysses Klaue and the reason why he is brought to Wakanda for life-saving medical treatment.
* TokenWhite: The only named white guy on the good guys' side in ''Black Panther'' (Bucky Barnes sits out most of the movie and just shows up for TheStinger).
* TookALevelInKindness: In ''Civil War'', Ross mainly comes across as an [[ObstructiveBureaucrat obstructive]] {{Jerkass}}. In ''Black Panther'', he is much more reasonable and helpful. {{Justified|Trope}}, as in ''Civil War'', he is dealing with a terrible terrorist attack on the UN that has killed several people with the main suspect being a deadly super soldier assassin and the threat of rogue superheroes, thereby making him a ProperlyParanoid JerkassHasAPoint at the time. In ''Black Panther'', he was originally occupied with a simple black market arms seller and murderer wanting to peddle a dangerous artifact. Everyday assignment, most likely, which is why he is shown to have cooled down the next time he is seen in an MCU film.
* TwoFirstNames: His first name is "Everett", and his last name is "Ross", which can also be used as a first name.
* UncertainDoom: His fate after Thanos's snap is left unknown. Although may be a moot point, considering the snap was later undone.
* UniversalDriversLicense: Justified. When he is given control of a Wakandan drone fighter, Shuri makes the interface resemble an American fighter jet so that it will be familiar to him. Before this is made clear, he raises it as a concern himself.
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!![[Characters/MCUDoctorStrange Doctor Strange]]'s Allies
[[folder:Dr. Christine Palmer]]
!! ''Dr. Christine Palmer''
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!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/RachelMcAdams
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Edurne Keel (Latin-American Spanish dub), Isabel Valls (European Spanish dub), Élisabeth Ventura (French dub), Geneviève Désilets (Canadian French dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Doctor Strange|2016}}'' | ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness''
A fellow surgeon ([[AmicableExes and ex-girlfriend]]) to Stephen Strange who tethers him to his old life, even after he turns to mysticism.
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* AmicableExes: She's Stephen Strange's ex and they still maintain an amicable friendship. She even does her best to help him adjust to his life-altering injury, but a bitter Stephen rejects her help and insults her, something he comes to deeply regret. After some time in Kamar-Taj, he apologizes and they manage to resume their friendship, though Christine makes it clear that their romance won't resume. Strange reasserts that they're amicable exes when he attends her wedding in ''Multiverse of Madness''.
* AlternateSelf: Has a variant on [[Characters/MCUEarth838 Earth-838]].
* AnywhereButTheirLips: When Stephen attempts to kiss her on the lips, she pointedly avoids it and kisses him on the cheek, instead, before he decides to leave for good.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Extremely guilty, as her first reaction to Strange explaining what he's been up to in his absence has her jump to "cultist" despite coming after Strange was explaining to her ''via an AstralProjection'' that he's dying and what she needs to do to save him being the last thing they were doing together, along with some poltergeist-like happenings in the spirit realm between Strange and one of Kaecilius's zealots. Luckily, she gets over it rather quickly and the next time they see each other (which is maybe an hour later when Strange rushes the dying Ancient One into her operating room) she elevates to SeenItAll when passing by the Cloak of Levitation idly floating nearby and only pays it the briefest of minds.
* CompositeCharacter: It was another of the Night Nurses, Linda Carter, who had a relationship with Strange.
** She may have also taken the role of Dr. Gina Atwater, who was Steven's love interest in the [[WesternAnimation/DoctorStrangeTheSorcererSupreme 2007 animated movie]].
* DecompositeCharacter: She's one of the Night Nurses in the comics, but that role has more or less gone to Claire Temple in the MCU. Here, she's simply a surgeon.
* DemotedToExtra: In ''Multiverse of Madness'' she only appears briefly when Strange attends her wedding, with her variant from Earth-838 playing a bigger role in the story.
* FantasticallyIndifferent: While she's a little startled when Strange teleports into the hospital after having been stabbed and uses his astral form to talk her through removing the blood that's compressing his heart, and is clearly shaken when Strange's astral form gets in a ghost battle with one of Kaecilius's goons, she quickly gets over that. When she spots the Cloak of Levitation floating behind Strange a short while later, she doesn't even blink; her expression says she's 100% ''done'' with being shocked by anything connected to this man.
* HospitalHottie: You're gonna get this when Rachel [=McAdams=] is playing a doctor.
* LastKiss: At the end of ''Doctor Strange'', she kisses him on the cheek after Strange decides to leave for good.
* OneSteveLimit: The MCU's second Christine, after Christine Everhart.
* TheOneThatGotAway: She and Strange used to date, but broke up, though it's heavily implied that Strange stills holds a torch for her, keeping a watch she'd gifted him even after it breaks and being left with tears in his eyes after Christine declines to rekindle their romance. She marries another man in ''Multiverse of Madness'' and Strange attends her wedding, telling her he only wants her to be happy.
* SatelliteLoveInterest: Only really exists story-wise in relation to Stephen.
* WeddingEpisode: She marries another man at the beginning of ''Multiverse of Madness'' and Strange attends the wedding.
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[[folder:America Chavez]]
--> See the [[Characters/MCUOtherSuperheroes Other Superheroes]] page
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!![[Characters/MCUShangChi Shang-Chi]]'s Allies
[[folder:Katy Chen]]
!!''Katy Chen (陈瑞文, Chen Ruiwen)''
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!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Chinese-American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/{{Awkwafina}}
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Farahnaz Nikray (Japanese), Priscilla Concepcion (Brazilian Portuguese)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings''
Shang-Chi's friend of ten years, now coworker.
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* TheAce: Far more than Shang-Chi. Where he's maintaining a low end job because he's hiding from his father, she's doing it because she masters skills easily, gets bored, and moved on. She has a ''master's degree from Berkeley'', and is parking cars as a valet. Demonstrated in the film when she masters archery in a few days sufficient to deliver the killing blow to the Dweller in Darkness.
* ActionSurvivor: At most, she strikes Razor Fist from behind when he corners Shang-Chi. Otherwise, she manages to hold up running and jumping in scaffolding, and [[BadassDriver drives pretty well]], but is non combative. [[spoiler:At least until pushed into being an archer, managing to shoot a miraculous arrow on the Dweller's throat.]]
* BadassDriver: She and Shang-Chi discuss that being a valet is challenging for requiring driving skills, and she demonstrates hers are impressive when forced to take over a dubiously controllable bus after the driver is KO'd, even if she totally wrecks the thing - and just about every car parked by the sidewalk. [[spoiler:Even more when driving the heroes to Ta Lo, following directions from a strange creature being translated by a washed-up {{Cloudcuckoolander}} actor - and succeeds.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Just as Dweller-In-Darkness had almost absorbed the Great Protector's soul, Katy shoots a Dragon Scale arrow at the Dweller-In-Darkness' neck, weakening him, allowing the Great Protector, Shang-Chi, and Xialing to defeat him.]]
* BrilliantButLazy: Most of her mother's frustration with her stems from the fact that she rarely applies herself, especially since she graduated valedictorian from Berkeley. Her archery teacher also lampshades this, stating that if "you aim at nothing, you hit nothing."
* CanonForeigner: There is no Katy Chen in the comics. The character was specifically created for the film.
* ConfusionFu: She first met Shang-Chi by saving him from a racist bully, by shouting the lyrics of [[Music/TheEagles "Hotel California"]] at him which left him so baffled they were able to run away. She tries the same thing on one of the Ten Rings ninjas, but it unfortunately doesn't work for long.
* DeadpanSnarker: Not even getting caught up in a mystical adventure or learning Shang-Chi's true heritage can put a damper on her snarkiness.
* TheDitherer: She says that she attempted to learn or work with many things, but gave up. [[spoiler:And then someone makes a decision for her, pushing her onto the archery range, and it works out well.]]
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Even before the bus scene, her very intro is taking a rich man's sports car and doing some reckless driving (first speeding, then donuts), while working as a valet. Shang-Chi, who is nearly having a fit in the passenger seat, is not amused.
* EatingTheEyeCandy: More subtle than other examples, but when Shaun enters the arena shirtless, she seems to be enjoying the view.
* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: She's an archer partnered with the martial arts master Shang-Chi.
* HeritageDisconnect: While she's able to address her grandmother in Chinese and is capable of understanding some Chinese, she identifies more as an American and points that out after her mother says their family did not move from Hunan for Katy to be a slacker. She also had trouble pronouncing "Shang-Chi" and is referred to as an "ABC" (American-born Chinese) by Jon Jon. [[spoiler:Wenwu asks her for her Chinese name, to which she briefly had to think about, though that may have been nerves what with sitting down to dinner with an international crime lord.]]
* InstantExpert: For having only a literal couple days of [[spoiler:archery]] training, she's able to pick it up almost immediately to the point of [[spoiler:making a seemingly impossible long-distance shot that turns the tide of the climactic battle.]]
* KarmicJackpot: Dive with your friend into a strange battle, vowing to protect him to the bitter end? [[spoiler:You end up saving the world, and becoming an Avenger]]!
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Katy and Shang-Chi's relationship seems to be very close (Shang-Chi delivers a CurbStompBattle to anyone who threatens Katy), but purely platonic, despite what [[ShipperOnDeck Katy's grandmother]] may think. While the latter half of the movie suggests something more, they never definitely break out of this mold.
* MuggleBestFriend: Follows Shang-Chi into danger to save the world, despite not having any powers or special training.
* PlatonicLifePartners: She became friends with Shang-Chi when she defended him from a bully who called him "[[Music/{{PSY}} Gangnam Style]]" and then they stole the bully's Ford Mustang keys and took it for a joyride. They've been friends for a decade since then, working as hotel valets together and often coming over to her house to eat breakfast. She denies her grandmother accusing her and Shang-Chi of having feelings for each other (and he tells the same grandmother they're not getting married, they're just friends). It becomes spottier the longer the movie goes on. By the end, they follow Wong with Katy taking Shang-Chi's arm after he offers it to her, which can be taken either way.
* ShipTease: While they're mostly LikeBrotherAndSister, Katy doesn't seem to mind seeing Shang-Chi shirtless. The ending of the ''Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings'' also sees Katy walk off taking hold of Shang-Chi's arm, which could be interpreted any way - and then immediately after, the song played during the CreativeClosingCredits is very clearly a love song. So far it's ShrugOfGod which way this relationship is gonna go.
* TheStraightAndArrowPath: After the heroes arrive in Ta Lo, a few days before Wenwu and his forces plan to invade, Katy winds up taking up the bow-and-arrow in an effort to help, roped into it by an elder of Ta Lo who either identifies her as a potential archer or thinks "Hey, let's get this useless girl out of the way for a while.". [[spoiler: This officially becomes her hero niche as she partners with Shang-Chi transitioning into the superhero life at the end of the movie.]]
* TrueCompanions: Shang-Chi and Katy's friendship is unshakable. Katy learns the truth about "Shaun" after being attacked on a bus by Razor Fist and his goons, and what does she do? She goes to Macau with him to find his sister even though he clearly intends to go by himself.
-->'''Katy:''' You can explain on the plane, Shaun!
* UndyingLoyalty: To Shang-Chi. Despite being justifiably angry that he deceived her about most of his life and identity she never even considers not going with him on a dangerous mission and no matter what strangeness comes their way never considers leaving.
* UnwittingMuggleFriend: Shang-Chi deliberately kept her in the dark about his true identity, trying to disappear into the persona of "Shaun the hotel valet". It was almost working out until Razor Fist and the other Ten Rings goons showed up. Given the traumatic way she was first exposed to his past, she is ''not'' happy about it, and pretty much forces "Shaun" to fess up right then and there as he's preparing to head to Macau after dealing with the Ten Rings goons and helping her stop the bus.
[[folder:Xu Xialing]]
!!''Xu Xialing (徐夏令)''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"If my dad won't let me into his empire, I'm gonna build my own."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Chinese-Ta Loan
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Meng'er Zhang, Harmonie He (teen), Elodie Fong (young)
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/MaayaUchida (Japanese dub), Thais Duraes (Brazilian Portuguese dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings''
Shang-Chi's sister, who operates an underground fight club.
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* ActionGirl: Like her brother, she's a gifted martial artist -- she even manages to defeat Shang-Chi in their cage match (granted, he's not really trying), and it's implied that she regularly kicks ass in her cage fights. Unlike him, she's largely self-taught, as Wenwu refused to let her train alongside the men in his organization.
* AdaptationNameChange: Has her name changed from [[Literature/FuManchu Fah Lo Suee]] (later [[WritingAroundTrademarks Zheng Bao Yu/Cursed Lotus]]) to Xialing, as Fu Manchu (her and Shang-Chi's father in the comics) is legally ExiledFromContinuity, with Wenwu [[CompositeCharacter absorbing that role]] in the film. Even in the comics, Fah Lo Suee was dropped, she is no longer mentioned in the miniseries ''ComicBook/ShangChi2020'' and the series ''ComicBook/ShangChi2021'', written by Creator/GeneLuenYang, with Zheng Shi-Hua/Sister Hammer replacing her.
* AlliterativeName: '''X'''u '''X'''ialing.
* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:In TheStinger, she's shown to have taken the throne of the Ten Rings, despite telling Shang-Chi that she was dismantling the operation. Given that it's the Ten Rings that get a WillReturnCaption this time, her goals are quite nebulous at the moment.]]
* BadassBoast: Drops arguably the most badass line in ''Legend of the Ten Rings'', which is the main quote of this folder.
* BadassNormal: Xialing is the only member of her family who does not have any special powers, but she is still an incredibly formidable martial artist.
* BladeOnARope: She uses a [[spoiler:dragon-scale]] rope dart as her WeaponOfChoice during the Battle of Ta Lo, given to her by [[spoiler:her aunt]] Ying Nan. As the young Shang-Chi is shown to have trained in the rope dart, it is no surprise that Xialing is shown to be already proficient in it, having secretly trained herself by watching and imitating the lessons of her brother and her father's soldiers.
* BrotherSisterTeam: Forms one with her older brother Shang-Chi during the climax of ''Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings'', with the two working together to [[spoiler:destroy the Dweller-in-Darkness.]]
* CompositeCharacter: Is Shang-Chi's sister like the aforementioned Fah Lo Suee[=/=]Zheng Bao Yu, but is the Mandarin's daughter like Sasha Hammer (granddaughter of fellow recurring ComicBook/IronMan headache Justin Hammer). [[spoiler: Her taking control of the organization that her older brother Shang-Chi leaves unattended after his father's death, continuing its operations, also seems to make her partially inspired by Zheng Shi-Hua/Sister Hammer.]]
* DarkIsNotEvil: Even though Xialing runs an illegal fight club, has dark hair, and tends to wear dark-colored clothing in her adult years, she is a genuinely nice person.
* DeadpanSnarker: Xialing has developed a dry sense of humor after she ran away from home.
* DragonLady: Her outfit in Macau (as the ringleader of her fight club) makes her look like a more CyberPunk version of this. [[spoiler:She leans a bit more into the traditional aesthetic (albeit wearing a maroon ''tangzhang'') after taking over the Ten Rings.]]
* EqualOpportunityEvil: Her FightClubbing operation recruits both men and women, from all over the world. [[spoiler:After taking over the Ten Rings, she throws out Wenwu's StayInTheKitchen attitude and allows women to join their fighting forces.]]
* {{Expy}}: She takes a lot from Zheng Shi-Hua, aka Sister Hammer, who is Shang-Chi's sister in the comics. Both are sisters to Shang-Chi, TheUnfavorite to their father, and desire control of their father's organization.
* FightClubbing: Runs a cage-fighting ring that runs livestreams on the dark web.
* GenerationXerox: [[spoiler:She becomes the new leader of the Ten Rings following her father's death.]]
* GoodWearsWhite: Xialing has a good heart and she wears the white dragon-scale armor left for her by her mother in Ta Lo.
* HeelFaceTurn: Starts out as an amoral criminal focused on her own FightClubbing empire above all else, but later joins forces with Shang-Chi to protect their mother's village from their father.
* ImprobableAge: Started building her own empire at sixteen. It's lampshaded by Katy.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Cold, bitter and stern as Xialing may be, but she's a good person deep down and even returns to save Katy and her brother, despite her anger towards him. It's also clear that despite their conflicted relationship, she still loved her father Wenwu and Shang-Chi [[spoiler:and was heartbroken by the former's death.]] She also wants to bring a more diverse crowd (i.e. women) into her own empire, unlike her father.
* MementoMacGuffin: The green necklace given to her by her mother is, unknown to Xialing, this, [[spoiler:revealing a map to Ta Lo when her and Shang-Chi's identical necklace are placed in the eyes of a dragon statue.]]
* MetaphoricallyTrue: At the end of the movie [[spoiler: Shang-Chi mentions while recounting the events of the movie with Katy to their friends that Xialing went to dismantle the Ten Rings instead of returning with him. In the after-credits scene, it's revealed that she actually ''took it over'' and completely overhauled it into being a mix gendered-army. She simply "dismantled" her father's ''vision'' of the group.]]
* MythologyGag: The name of the Golden Daggers club owned by Xu Xialing came from a sect ruled by Zheng Bao Yu before she took over her father's organization.
* ParentalNeglect: A big victim of it. When her father fell back into his Ten Rings ways and trained Shang-Chi into an assassin, looking at Xialing reminded him too much of her mother. She had to learn martial arts by watching from the sidelines.
* TheQueenpin: Xialing is the founder of the Golden Daggers Club [[spoiler:before becoming the new leader of the Ten Rings after the death of her father]].
* TheRunaway: Ran away from the Ten Rings at age 16, after realizing Shang-Chi was never coming back for her.
* SciFiBobHaircut: Her main hairstyle. It doesn’t stay untarnished when she fights though.
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: When the Ten Rings invade her base of operations, she flees through a hidden exit. [[ChangedMyMindKid She soon returns to help her brother]], though.
* SelfMadeMan: Built herself a criminal fight club after running away from her father. [[spoiler:She does eventually inherit leadership of the Ten Rings though.]]
* SiblingYinYang: With her older brother Shang-Chi. Shang-Chi is cordial and friendly while Xialing is cold and professional. He was trained to become an assassin by his father to succeed him as his heir to the Ten Rings against his own personal desire, while Xialing ''wanted'' to be trained but wasn't allowed to because of her gender, instead of teaching herself from watching the training. Although both of them left their father, Shang-Chi moved to San Francisco to have a normal life, in contrast to Xialing who went to Macau and began establishing her fight club at the age of 16 to build her own criminal empire. [[spoiler:At the end of ''Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings'', Shang-Chi decides to use the Ten Rings weapons as a superhero, while Xialing replaces her father as leader of the Ten Rings organization.]]
* SplashOfColor: It is implied, based on her old room's posters, that she had a predilection for street art before she ran away and built her own underground fight club. [[spoiler:After taking over the Ten Rings, she seems to have taken to redecorating the old Ten Rings compound with a lot of DragonLady aesthetic street art and graffiti]].
* StayInTheKitchen: It's implied that Wenwu took this mentality with her, refusing to let her train with her brother and the other men in the Ten Rings. So she watched them from afar and practiced in secret.
* TragicKeepsake: [[spoiler:After the Iron Gang killed her mother, Xialing continues to wear the necklace that she gave her for almost two decades. The pendant of the necklace is later revealed to be a key to the map of Ta Lo's entrance.]]
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Her childhood was happy at first with two loving parents and an older brother she looked up to. Then her mother was killed, her father reverted back into a criminal warlord who can't stand even looking at her and her brother ran away without her. By the time we see her as an adult in Macau, she's a cold, ruthless enforcer of the fighting club, who's none too pleased to see her older brother or father again.
* WeaponOfChoice: Rope darts.
* WhatTheHellHero: When she and Shang-Chi reunite at the cage match, she's pissed at him for running away and going into hiding without telling her his whereabouts.
** She also throws another at him after subverting ScrewThisImOutOfHere (see above), giving Shang this bitter retort when he complains she left him and Katy to die.
--> "Now you know what it feels like."
* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:Downplayed. Even though the Dweller-in-Darkness is responsible for her father's death, she is not motivated by vengeance when she and her brother work together in killing the creature.]]
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Despite being Shang-Chi's ''younger'' sister, Xialing looks significantly older than him when they reunite in adulthood. Add the fact that the actress Meng'er Zhang is two years older than Simu Liu in real life, despite portraying his younger sister.
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[[folder:Trevor Slattery]]
--> See the [[Characters/MCUCompanies Advanced Idea Mechanics (A.I.M.)]] page
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!![[Characters/MCUTheEternals The Eternals]]'s Allies
[[folder:Dane Whitman]]
!!''Professor [[ComicBook/BlackKnight Dane Whitman]]''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Mors Mihi Lucrum." [[labelnote:Translation]]"Death is my reward".[[/labelnote]]'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' British
!!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Natural History Museum
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/KitHarington
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Elliot Leguizamo (Latin American Spanish), Eiji Hanawa (Japanese)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Eternals}}''
A human who gets entangled in the Eternals' exploits due to his relationship with Sersi.
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* AdaptationalNationality: In the comics, while being ''descended'' from Briton knights, he was very much an American. In the film, he's portrayed by Kit Harington with his London accent fully intact.
* AdaptationalWimp: In the comics, he's the superhero Black Knight with a magical cursed sword. In ''Eternals'', he's Sersi's coworker and boyfriend who becomes acquainted with her race. [[spoiler:He doesn't even tag along with the Eternals, staying in London while they go on their actual quest… but in TheStinger, he opens up the chest containing the cursed Ebony Blade and psychs himself up to grab it, presumably in desperation at Sersi's abduction, but is interrupted by a mysterious voice before he actually touches it.]]
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Played with. Despite Sprite apparently having dropped many hints about the Eternals and Deviants, and living in a world where superheroes are famous, he initially doesn't believe her and instead suspects Sersi is a wizard like Doctor Strange. But once a real Deviant actually shows up, he immediately understands Sprite was telling the truth.
* BlackSwordsAreBetter: [[spoiler:TheStinger of ''Eternals'' has Dane slowly accepting his family's heirloom: a magical black sword known as the Ebony Blade.]]
* CastingGag: Kit Harington portrayed Jon Snow, a warrior in a medieval setting in ''Series/GameOfThrones'', which also starred Creator/RichardMadden (Ikaris) as Robb Stark, Jon's beloved half-brother. The only scene where they physically meet is dripping with subtext due to this.
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: He's never referred to as Black Knight in the ''Eternals'' film [[spoiler:as he has yet to claim the Ebony Blade, which it seems he's about to do at TheStinger.]]
* CoolSword: [[spoiler:The Ebony Blade is a black sword imbued with supernatural properties.]]
* DarkIsNotEvil: [[spoiler:The Ebony Blade is a dark, seemingly cursed sword branded with a morbid Latin motto, but Dane is a kindhearted NiceGuy who only even considers taking up the sword to help his beloved girlfriend.]]
* TheMissusAndTheEx: He's the "missus". Ikaris and Sersi were married for more than a thousand years, but he abandoned her, and she started dating Dane in the present day. After Ikaris helps dispatch a Deviant in London, Dane quickly realizes that Ikaris is Sersi's ex.
-->'''Dane:''' I'm guessing that was the pilot.
* NiceGuy: Dane is a friendly, easygoing guy who is perfectly understanding of the complicated history that comes out when Sersi is exposed as an Eternal.
* UnderstandingBoyfriend: Once Sersi comes clean about being an immortal superheroine, he takes it more or less in stride, and at the end of the day, they resume their relationship. It's implied that he's understanding in part because of his family history since TheStinger implies a legacy of superpowers.
* WhatTheHellHero: In the film, he asks Sersi why the Eternals never interfered [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar against Thanos]] or anywhen else during human history.
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[[folder:Karun Patel]]
!!''Karun Patel (Hindi: करुण पटेल)''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I think we must learn from our mistakes and do better, sir."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Indian
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Harish Patel
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Eternals}}''
Kingo's valet.
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* AdmiringTheAbomination: He calls the first dead Deviant he sees "beautiful", much to Kingo's confusion.
* AudienceSurrogate: Karun is the only human hanging out with the Eternals on their mission, and he behaves and makes a lot of remarks like the audience would, such as pointing to the corpse of a Deviant in awe and saying Kingo has "a very angry family".
* CrazyPrepared: The Eternals keep destroying his cameras out of annoyance, only for him to reveal he has several spares.
-->'''Sprite:''' How many cameras do you have, young man?
-->'''Karun:''' I always have backups!
* HiddenDepths: He mostly acts as comic relief, but occasionally shows serious backbone. He chides Kingo for not wanting to help his family and convinces him to go with the other Eternals, and when Druig argues that HumansAreBastards he coolly responds that he believes they [[HumansAreFlawed can learn from their mistakes]].
* InUniverseCamera: He travels with the Eternals to help Kingo produce a documentary about them.
* ItHasBeenAnHonor: [[spoiler:As he and Kingo bid the rest of the Eternals adieu, Karun turns around and genuinely thanks the group in his native language before leaving, under the impression that he and his planet will soon die.]]
* NiceGuy: His innate goodness is infectious. The brooding Druig gives him a nod of respect, and even Sprite bites back on the sarcasm with Karun.
* SecretKeeper: He's aware that Kingo's immortal and helps facilitate his illusion of being [[MyGrandsonMyself several generations of a family of actors.]]
* ShooOutTheClowns: [[spoiler:He leaves with Kingo, the other comic relief character, before the climax, saying that it was a pleasure to be with the other Eternals. He only returns at the end, after the final confrontation.]]
* TagalongChronicler: Kingo has Karun accompany him to film a documentary about the Eternals.
* {{Tuckerization}}: Karun ''Patel'' is played by Harish ''Patel''.
* UndyingLoyalty: [[spoiler:Recognizing that he will die if the Emergence happens, he decides to remain with Kingo for his final moments, telling the other Eternals that it was an honor to know them.]]
* UnfazedEveryman: He's the most prominent normal human in ''Eternals'' and he's not especially shocked by the things he sees. Understandable, since this is the [[FantasyKitchenSink Marvel Cinematic Universe]] and he's known about Kingo for decades.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Kingo. Apparently, Karun once tried to stake him after mistaking him for a vampire. Apart from a little friendly ribbing, Kingo apparently does not hold a grudge.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Apparently, when he realized that Kingo was immortal, Karun's first thought was that he was a vampire and tried to stake him.
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!![[Characters/MCUInhumans Inhuman Royal Family]]'s Allies
[[folder:Louise Fisher]]
!!''Louise Fisher''
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!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Ellen Woglom
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Inhumans}}''
A [[TokenHuman (human)]] scientist at Callisto Aerospace who meets the Inhuman Royal Family.
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* AudienceSurrogate: She serves this purpose in the main cast.
* CanonForeigner: Louise doesn't exist in the comics.
* IWantMyJetPack: Louise's motivation. [[spoiler:She actually carries [[TragicKeepsake her father's ashes]] in a necklace shaped like an Apollo rocket.]]
-->He spent his entire life wanting to go to the Moon, and NASA, they didn't know if they were gonna pick pilots or scientists. But guess what? They picked ''pilots.'' And my father, the ''scientist,'' he never got to go.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: She's a scientist, and wears glasses to signify it.
* TokenHuman: Of the main cast.
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[[folder:Makapu'u Surfers]]
!!''Makapu'u Surfers''
!!!'''Species:''' Humans
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Hawaiian
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Kala Alexander (Makani), Creator/Ty Quiamboa (Holo), (Lucky)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Inhumans}}''
A trio of surfers who befriend Gorgon.
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* BadassNormal: All of them can put up a reasonable fight against Auran's forces.
* BloodKnight: They tell Gorgon that they wouldn't mind a bit of trouble.
* CommonalityConnection: Gorgon bonds with them due to their shared BloodKnight tendencies.
* IronicName: Lucky is the first casualty, as Sakas kills him in "Divide and Conquer".
* UndyingLoyalty: They're willing to stand by Gorgon in spite of knowing him for a day.
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[[folder:Sammy]]
!!''Sammy''
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!!!'''Species:''' Inhuman
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Hawaiian
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Faleolo Alailima
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Inhumans}}'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/InhumansS1E3DivideAndConquer Episode 3: "Divide and Conquer"]]'')
-->''"I woke up one morning covered in some rock-crust, next thing I knew, my hands got like this, and I accidentally burned down my house. Could have killed my family, and now I've lost them."''
A Hawaiian convict who develops a friendship with Black Bolt.
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* CanonForeigner: Does not appear to have a counterpart in the comics.
* GentleGiant: A large, brutish-looking inmate who'd rather play chess than intimidate the new prisoner.
* TheMole: Takes part in Evan Declan's plan to break Black Bolt out of prison.
* OddFriendship: A Hawaiian convict who develops a friendship with the King of Attilan.
* PlayingWithFire: We see him melt solid metal, and he accidentally burned down his home at some point before the series began.
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[[folder:Evan Declan]]
!!''Doctor Evan Declan''
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!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Henry Ian Cusick
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Inhumans}}''
A geneticist specialised in Inhumans that collaborates with Maximus.
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* DistressedDude: Got taken as a hostage by both Auran and then later the Royal Family.
* ForScience: Has no ill intentions and does all of his research for genetic studies.
* KilledOffForReal: A mindless Gorgon kills the poor guy accidentally when he happens to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.
* UnwittingPawn: Maximus supported his research without telling him who or what he really was.
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!![[Characters/MCUBlackPanther Black Panther]]'s Allies
[[folder:Everett Kenneth Ross]]
!!''Deputy Task Force Commander Everett Kenneth Ross''
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!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Affiliation(s):''' USAF (formerly), CIA
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MartinFreeman
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Juan Antonio Edwards (Latin-American Spanish dub), Jesús Maniega (European Spanish dub), Creator/ToshiyukiMorikawa (Japanese dub), Julien Sibre (French dub), François Sasseville (Canadian French dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' | ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}'' | ''Film/BlackPantherWakandaForever'' | ''Series/SecretInvasion''
->''[[SkepticNoLonger "I've seen gods fly...I've seen men build weapons that I couldn't even imagine. I've seen aliens drop from the sky, but I have never seen anything like this.]]''
A CIA officer in a command position in the Joint Counter Terrorist Center.
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* AcePilot: Was a former Air Force member before joining the CIA. He single-handedly fights off the air force of the Wakandan weapons exporters in a remote-controlled ship. Shuri flat-out says he has one of the greatest track records known to the US military.
* AdaptationalBadass: He's a ''much'' better bureaucrat than his comic alter ego, with much more power than Ross properly earned in the comics.[[note]]His comic book counterpart was Regent of Wakanda at one point, but this was only because T'Challa was out of options and trusted Ross not to actively fuck up.[[/note]] This version is also a CIA operative and former Air Force ace pilot with some combat skills, rather than just a State Dep. aide.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Ross in the comics is a bit of PoliticallyIncorrectHero, which is an aspect largely excised from the films.
* AgeLift: Everett's exact age was never specified in the comics, but he was fairly young for someone of his position (which was much lower than his rank in the MCU) and was young enough to pass for a ''child'' at times. Martin Freeman ''is'' quite boyish, but he's not ''that'' boyish.
* AscendedExtra: Everett doesn't have a particularly large role in ''Civil War'', but plays a bigger part in ''Black Panther'', and likely future MCU movies.
* AudienceSurrogate: Largely fulfills this role in ''Black Panther'' once he's brought to Wakanda, as the Westerner who discovers a world that was totally unknown to him, and marveling at the technological wonders there.
* BadassBureaucrat: When he's introduced in ''Civil War'', he appears as someone who would be more comfortable behind a desk than in the field. When he's introduced in ''Black Panther'', however, he has no problem being in the middle of gunfight and is revealed to have a distinguished military record.
* ButtMonkey: Even though he is ''significantly'' more competent than his comic book counterpart, Ross always draws the short straw in ''Black Panther'' when crossing paths with T'Challa again. In Korea, T'Challa's intervention screws up his original plan to apprehend Ulysses Klaue. Later, Ross gets shot taking a bullet for Nakia and would've died had it not been for T'Challa bringing him to Wakanda to be healed by Shuri. He also gets teased and bullied repeatedly with several Wakandans for being a foreigner with M'Baku joking about feeding him to his children.
* CelebrityParadox:
** In the UK version of ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', Steve Rogers' list includes the BBC series ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'', in which Martin Freeman plays Watson.
** ''Film/TheAvengers2012'' implies that ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' exists. If ''Film/TheHobbit'' also exists, Martin Freeman plays Bilbo.[[note]]The first ''Hobbit'' film, ''An Unexpected Journey'', came out the same year as ''The Avengers'', but several months after it however, so go figure.[[/note]]
*** Well, ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier'' establishes that the original novel ''The Hobbit'' definitely exists in the MCU when Bucky Barnes flat-out states that he read it “in 1937 when it first came out”.
* TheComicallySerious: He ends up falling into this role quite a bit in ''Black Panther'', if only because many of the Wakandans he meets [[NoRespectGuy don't have any respect for him]].
* CompositeCharacter: His role as the government attaché assigned to oversee the Avengers is similar to that of Henry Peter Gyrich, who traditionally serves as the team's government liaison in the comics, but who cannot be used in the MCU because of rights issues.
* DeadpanSnarker: He can make some effectively witty comebacks, mostly because he is played by Martin Freeman.
* {{Determinator}}: During the final battle of the film, despite knowing that the force field window is almost broken by a flying drone machine gun, he continues, not caring whether he’d die any second. All so he could prevent the ships from escaping Wakanda. That takes a lot of mental strength to do.
* FireForgedFriends: The events of ''Black Panther'' have made Ross a close ally to the Wakandan royal family. In a deleted scene, he greets Nakia, Ayo, and Okoye quite familiarly as well, with the last one being quite notable considering their slightly mutual disdain of each other at the beginning of T'Challa's solo film.
* FishOutOfWater: Becomes this during the second act of ''Black Panther'', having been brought to Wakanda for life-saving medical treatment.
* FriendOnTheForce: Of a sort. Ross is T'Challa's biggest political ally outside of Wakanda and lets him in on the goings-on with the international political climate.
* GiveMeAReason: As his image caption indicates, he dares his prisoners to do something that will provoke him into tormenting them.
* HeroicSacrifice:
** Zigzagged in ''Black Panther''. During the climatic battle, one of Killmonger's ships drops down into the Mound and starts blasting at the remote control chamber that Ross is using to go after the transport ships loaded with Vibranium weapons for black supremacist cells. Despite Shuri's admonitions to escape, Ross reengages the controls and continues trying to take down the transport ships, knowing he could be killed at any moment if the ship's fire breaches the defensive walls. Subverted in that Ross manages to complete his mission and escape seconds before the ship can kill him.
** Also from ''Black Panther'', his TakingTheBullet for Nakia, without a moments hesitation.
* HiddenDepths: ''Black Panther'' reveals that he formerly served in the US Air Force and was one of the best fighter pilots they ever had. He also knows enough about magnetic levitation to make casual talk with [[TeenGenius Shuri]], a prospect that clearly delights her.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While he makes it clear that he thinks all superhumans should be locked up and enjoys taunting his prisoners, he closely works with and helps out T'Challa when in need -- a dynamic which gets deepened in ''Black Panther'', where he outright admits that he likes T'Challa and actively supports the Wakandan royal family and their allies, even TakingTheBullet for T'Challa's beloved, Nakia, whom he'd only met the night before.
* MirrorCharacter: To Jimmy Woo. Both of them are agents of the U.S government who initially are introduced as [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Obstructive Bureaucrats]], but later prove themselves to be more competent and willing to help later on. The main difference is that Ross is relatively composed and stoic [[TheComicallySerious even during rather crazy situations]] compared to [[BunnyEarsLawyer Woo]]. They also represent different branches of the government, with Ross working for the CIA and Woo being a federal agent.
* NervesOfSteel: Played with. During the final battle, Ross is tasked with remotely piloting T'Challa's ship in order to chase after the planes transporting weapons outside Wakanda. However, Erik finds out and orders the lab to be destroyed. When Ross hears that the bulletproof glass between him and the massive gun outside is only at 50% capacity, he visibly psyches himself up before asking "How much time do I have?" and continuing with the mission.
* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: In ''Civil War'', he's NumberTwo in an international counter-terrorism task force. In Film/BlackPanther, set mere a couple of weeks later at most, he's a field agent running a sting operation. There is no explanation of this apparent demotion.
* NoRespectGuy: Needless to say, a man like Ross sticks out a ''lot'' in Wakanda, which results in no one but T'Challa taking him seriously. Shuri initially dismisses him as a colonizer when he accidentally scares her, and M'Baku decides to terrorize the man for pure shits and giggles when he tries to speak to him.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Spends most of ''Civil War'' yelling at everyone else for violating the Accords. Subverted in ''Black Panther'' where he's much more of a ReasonableAuthorityFigure.
* OddFriendship: With Princess Shuri. Although she treats him with little respect at first, she warms up to him considerably after he takes an interest in her work and is audibly concerned when he forgoes his safety to finish shooting at the escaping weapons transports.
* OhCrap:
** Has this look on his face when trying to apprehend Ulysses Klaue in a sting operation, only to immediately recognize T'Challa when he shows up, realizing things are about to get complicated.
** Has another one when he tries to speak up in M'Baku's court and the latter threatens to feed him to his children. Luckily for him, M'Baku was only [[{{Troll}} yanking his chain]].
** Upon seeing the massive gun shooting at him from the outside of Shuri's lab, Ross is justifiably freaked-out.
* OneSteveLimit: He shares a surname with General Ross, and both of them appeared in ''Civil War'' together. No relation.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: It's pretty bad form to taunt a helpless and suicidal prisoner, but considering what Zemo had done, it's hard to condemn Ross too much.
* ShutUpKirk: On the receiving end of one of these from Zemo that effectively takes the wind out of his sails.
-->'''Ross:''' ''[Smug]'' So how does it feel? [[AllForNothing To spend all that time, all that effort, and to see it fail so spectacularly?]]\\
'''Helmut Zemo:''' [[ArmorPiercingQuestion Did it?]] ''[Ross's smile falters]''
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: He seems to have replaced Coulson as the normal guy who is the link between the authorities and superheroes. Ironically, Coulson is a creation for the MCU while Ross had existed in the comics for decades.
* TakingTheBullet: In ''Black Panther,'' he takes one for Nakia during Killmonger's breakout of Ulysses Klaue and the reason why he is brought to Wakanda for life-saving medical treatment.
* TokenWhite: The only named white guy on the good guys' side in ''Black Panther'' (Bucky Barnes sits out most of the movie and just shows up for TheStinger).
* TookALevelInKindness: In ''Civil War'', Ross mainly comes across as an [[ObstructiveBureaucrat obstructive]] {{Jerkass}}. In ''Black Panther'', he is much more reasonable and helpful. {{Justified|Trope}}, as in ''Civil War'', he is dealing with a terrible terrorist attack on the UN that has killed several people with the main suspect being a deadly super soldier assassin and the threat of rogue superheroes, thereby making him a ProperlyParanoid JerkassHasAPoint at the time. In ''Black Panther'', he was originally occupied with a simple black market arms seller and murderer wanting to peddle a dangerous artifact. Everyday assignment, most likely, which is why he is shown to have cooled down the next time he is seen in an MCU film.
* TwoFirstNames: His first name is "Everett", and his last name is "Ross", which can also be used as a first name.
* UncertainDoom: His fate after Thanos's snap is left unknown. Although may be a moot point, considering the snap was later undone.
* UniversalDriversLicense: Justified. When he is given control of a Wakandan drone fighter, Shuri makes the interface resemble an American fighter jet so that it will be familiar to him. Before this is made clear, he raises it as a concern himself.
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!![[Characters/MCUDoctorStrange Doctor Strange]]'s Allies
[[folder:Dr. Christine Palmer]]
!! ''Dr. Christine Palmer''
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!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/RachelMcAdams
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Edurne Keel (Latin-American Spanish dub), Isabel Valls (European Spanish dub), Élisabeth Ventura (French dub), Geneviève Désilets (Canadian French dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Doctor Strange|2016}}'' | ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness''
A fellow surgeon ([[AmicableExes and ex-girlfriend]]) to Stephen Strange who tethers him to his old life, even after he turns to mysticism.
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* AmicableExes: She's Stephen Strange's ex and they still maintain an amicable friendship. She even does her best to help him adjust to his life-altering injury, but a bitter Stephen rejects her help and insults her, something he comes to deeply regret. After some time in Kamar-Taj, he apologizes and they manage to resume their friendship, though Christine makes it clear that their romance won't resume. Strange reasserts that they're amicable exes when he attends her wedding in ''Multiverse of Madness''.
* AlternateSelf: Has a variant on [[Characters/MCUEarth838 Earth-838]].
* AnywhereButTheirLips: When Stephen attempts to kiss her on the lips, she pointedly avoids it and kisses him on the cheek, instead, before he decides to leave for good.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Extremely guilty, as her first reaction to Strange explaining what he's been up to in his absence has her jump to "cultist" despite coming after Strange was explaining to her ''via an AstralProjection'' that he's dying and what she needs to do to save him being the last thing they were doing together, along with some poltergeist-like happenings in the spirit realm between Strange and one of Kaecilius's zealots. Luckily, she gets over it rather quickly and the next time they see each other (which is maybe an hour later when Strange rushes the dying Ancient One into her operating room) she elevates to SeenItAll when passing by the Cloak of Levitation idly floating nearby and only pays it the briefest of minds.
* CompositeCharacter: It was another of the Night Nurses, Linda Carter, who had a relationship with Strange.
** She may have also taken the role of Dr. Gina Atwater, who was Steven's love interest in the [[WesternAnimation/DoctorStrangeTheSorcererSupreme 2007 animated movie]].
* DecompositeCharacter: She's one of the Night Nurses in the comics, but that role has more or less gone to Claire Temple in the MCU. Here, she's simply a surgeon.
* DemotedToExtra: In ''Multiverse of Madness'' she only appears briefly when Strange attends her wedding, with her variant from Earth-838 playing a bigger role in the story.
* FantasticallyIndifferent: While she's a little startled when Strange teleports into the hospital after having been stabbed and uses his astral form to talk her through removing the blood that's compressing his heart, and is clearly shaken when Strange's astral form gets in a ghost battle with one of Kaecilius's goons, she quickly gets over that. When she spots the Cloak of Levitation floating behind Strange a short while later, she doesn't even blink; her expression says she's 100% ''done'' with being shocked by anything connected to this man.
* HospitalHottie: You're gonna get this when Rachel [=McAdams=] is playing a doctor.
* LastKiss: At the end of ''Doctor Strange'', she kisses him on the cheek after Strange decides to leave for good.
* OneSteveLimit: The MCU's second Christine, after Christine Everhart.
* TheOneThatGotAway: She and Strange used to date, but broke up, though it's heavily implied that Strange stills holds a torch for her, keeping a watch she'd gifted him even after it breaks and being left with tears in his eyes after Christine declines to rekindle their romance. She marries another man in ''Multiverse of Madness'' and Strange attends her wedding, telling her he only wants her to be happy.
* SatelliteLoveInterest: Only really exists story-wise in relation to Stephen.
* WeddingEpisode: She marries another man at the beginning of ''Multiverse of Madness'' and Strange attends the wedding.
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[[folder:America Chavez]]
--> See the [[Characters/MCUOtherSuperheroes Other Superheroes]] page
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!![[Characters/MCUShangChi Shang-Chi]]'s Allies
[[folder:Katy Chen]]
!!''Katy Chen (陈瑞文, Chen Ruiwen)''
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!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Chinese-American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/{{Awkwafina}}
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Farahnaz Nikray (Japanese), Priscilla Concepcion (Brazilian Portuguese)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings''
Shang-Chi's friend of ten years, now coworker.
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* TheAce: Far more than Shang-Chi. Where he's maintaining a low end job because he's hiding from his father, she's doing it because she masters skills easily, gets bored, and moved on. She has a ''master's degree from Berkeley'', and is parking cars as a valet. Demonstrated in the film when she masters archery in a few days sufficient to deliver the killing blow to the Dweller in Darkness.
* ActionSurvivor: At most, she strikes Razor Fist from behind when he corners Shang-Chi. Otherwise, she manages to hold up running and jumping in scaffolding, and [[BadassDriver drives pretty well]], but is non combative. [[spoiler:At least until pushed into being an archer, managing to shoot a miraculous arrow on the Dweller's throat.]]
* BadassDriver: She and Shang-Chi discuss that being a valet is challenging for requiring driving skills, and she demonstrates hers are impressive when forced to take over a dubiously controllable bus after the driver is KO'd, even if she totally wrecks the thing - and just about every car parked by the sidewalk. [[spoiler:Even more when driving the heroes to Ta Lo, following directions from a strange creature being translated by a washed-up {{Cloudcuckoolander}} actor - and succeeds.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Just as Dweller-In-Darkness had almost absorbed the Great Protector's soul, Katy shoots a Dragon Scale arrow at the Dweller-In-Darkness' neck, weakening him, allowing the Great Protector, Shang-Chi, and Xialing to defeat him.]]
* BrilliantButLazy: Most of her mother's frustration with her stems from the fact that she rarely applies herself, especially since she graduated valedictorian from Berkeley. Her archery teacher also lampshades this, stating that if "you aim at nothing, you hit nothing."
* CanonForeigner: There is no Katy Chen in the comics. The character was specifically created for the film.
* ConfusionFu: She first met Shang-Chi by saving him from a racist bully, by shouting the lyrics of [[Music/TheEagles "Hotel California"]] at him which left him so baffled they were able to run away. She tries the same thing on one of the Ten Rings ninjas, but it unfortunately doesn't work for long.
* DeadpanSnarker: Not even getting caught up in a mystical adventure or learning Shang-Chi's true heritage can put a damper on her snarkiness.
* TheDitherer: She says that she attempted to learn or work with many things, but gave up. [[spoiler:And then someone makes a decision for her, pushing her onto the archery range, and it works out well.]]
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Even before the bus scene, her very intro is taking a rich man's sports car and doing some reckless driving (first speeding, then donuts), while working as a valet. Shang-Chi, who is nearly having a fit in the passenger seat, is not amused.
* EatingTheEyeCandy: More subtle than other examples, but when Shaun enters the arena shirtless, she seems to be enjoying the view.
* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: She's an archer partnered with the martial arts master Shang-Chi.
* HeritageDisconnect: While she's able to address her grandmother in Chinese and is capable of understanding some Chinese, she identifies more as an American and points that out after her mother says their family did not move from Hunan for Katy to be a slacker. She also had trouble pronouncing "Shang-Chi" and is referred to as an "ABC" (American-born Chinese) by Jon Jon. [[spoiler:Wenwu asks her for her Chinese name, to which she briefly had to think about, though that may have been nerves what with sitting down to dinner with an international crime lord.]]
* InstantExpert: For having only a literal couple days of [[spoiler:archery]] training, she's able to pick it up almost immediately to the point of [[spoiler:making a seemingly impossible long-distance shot that turns the tide of the climactic battle.]]
* KarmicJackpot: Dive with your friend into a strange battle, vowing to protect him to the bitter end? [[spoiler:You end up saving the world, and becoming an Avenger]]!
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Katy and Shang-Chi's relationship seems to be very close (Shang-Chi delivers a CurbStompBattle to anyone who threatens Katy), but purely platonic, despite what [[ShipperOnDeck Katy's grandmother]] may think. While the latter half of the movie suggests something more, they never definitely break out of this mold.
* MuggleBestFriend: Follows Shang-Chi into danger to save the world, despite not having any powers or special training.
* PlatonicLifePartners: She became friends with Shang-Chi when she defended him from a bully who called him "[[Music/{{PSY}} Gangnam Style]]" and then they stole the bully's Ford Mustang keys and took it for a joyride. They've been friends for a decade since then, working as hotel valets together and often coming over to her house to eat breakfast. She denies her grandmother accusing her and Shang-Chi of having feelings for each other (and he tells the same grandmother they're not getting married, they're just friends). It becomes spottier the longer the movie goes on. By the end, they follow Wong with Katy taking Shang-Chi's arm after he offers it to her, which can be taken either way.
* ShipTease: While they're mostly LikeBrotherAndSister, Katy doesn't seem to mind seeing Shang-Chi shirtless. The ending of the ''Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings'' also sees Katy walk off taking hold of Shang-Chi's arm, which could be interpreted any way - and then immediately after, the song played during the CreativeClosingCredits is very clearly a love song. So far it's ShrugOfGod which way this relationship is gonna go.
* TheStraightAndArrowPath: After the heroes arrive in Ta Lo, a few days before Wenwu and his forces plan to invade, Katy winds up taking up the bow-and-arrow in an effort to help, roped into it by an elder of Ta Lo who either identifies her as a potential archer or thinks "Hey, let's get this useless girl out of the way for a while.". [[spoiler: This officially becomes her hero niche as she partners with Shang-Chi transitioning into the superhero life at the end of the movie.]]
* TrueCompanions: Shang-Chi and Katy's friendship is unshakable. Katy learns the truth about "Shaun" after being attacked on a bus by Razor Fist and his goons, and what does she do? She goes to Macau with him to find his sister even though he clearly intends to go by himself.
-->'''Katy:''' You can explain on the plane, Shaun!
* UndyingLoyalty: To Shang-Chi. Despite being justifiably angry that he deceived her about most of his life and identity she never even considers not going with him on a dangerous mission and no matter what strangeness comes their way never considers leaving.
* UnwittingMuggleFriend: Shang-Chi deliberately kept her in the dark about his true identity, trying to disappear into the persona of "Shaun the hotel valet". It was almost working out until Razor Fist and the other Ten Rings goons showed up. Given the traumatic way she was first exposed to his past, she is ''not'' happy about it, and pretty much forces "Shaun" to fess up right then and there as he's preparing to head to Macau after dealing with the Ten Rings goons and helping her stop the bus.
[[folder:Xu Xialing]]
!!''Xu Xialing (徐夏令)''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"If my dad won't let me into his empire, I'm gonna build my own."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Chinese-Ta Loan
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Meng'er Zhang, Harmonie He (teen), Elodie Fong (young)
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/MaayaUchida (Japanese dub), Thais Duraes (Brazilian Portuguese dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings''
Shang-Chi's sister, who operates an underground fight club.
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* ActionGirl: Like her brother, she's a gifted martial artist -- she even manages to defeat Shang-Chi in their cage match (granted, he's not really trying), and it's implied that she regularly kicks ass in her cage fights. Unlike him, she's largely self-taught, as Wenwu refused to let her train alongside the men in his organization.
* AdaptationNameChange: Has her name changed from [[Literature/FuManchu Fah Lo Suee]] (later [[WritingAroundTrademarks Zheng Bao Yu/Cursed Lotus]]) to Xialing, as Fu Manchu (her and Shang-Chi's father in the comics) is legally ExiledFromContinuity, with Wenwu [[CompositeCharacter absorbing that role]] in the film. Even in the comics, Fah Lo Suee was dropped, she is no longer mentioned in the miniseries ''ComicBook/ShangChi2020'' and the series ''ComicBook/ShangChi2021'', written by Creator/GeneLuenYang, with Zheng Shi-Hua/Sister Hammer replacing her.
* AlliterativeName: '''X'''u '''X'''ialing.
* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:In TheStinger, she's shown to have taken the throne of the Ten Rings, despite telling Shang-Chi that she was dismantling the operation. Given that it's the Ten Rings that get a WillReturnCaption this time, her goals are quite nebulous at the moment.]]
* BadassBoast: Drops arguably the most badass line in ''Legend of the Ten Rings'', which is the main quote of this folder.
* BadassNormal: Xialing is the only member of her family who does not have any special powers, but she is still an incredibly formidable martial artist.
* BladeOnARope: She uses a [[spoiler:dragon-scale]] rope dart as her WeaponOfChoice during the Battle of Ta Lo, given to her by [[spoiler:her aunt]] Ying Nan. As the young Shang-Chi is shown to have trained in the rope dart, it is no surprise that Xialing is shown to be already proficient in it, having secretly trained herself by watching and imitating the lessons of her brother and her father's soldiers.
* BrotherSisterTeam: Forms one with her older brother Shang-Chi during the climax of ''Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings'', with the two working together to [[spoiler:destroy the Dweller-in-Darkness.]]
* CompositeCharacter: Is Shang-Chi's sister like the aforementioned Fah Lo Suee[=/=]Zheng Bao Yu, but is the Mandarin's daughter like Sasha Hammer (granddaughter of fellow recurring ComicBook/IronMan headache Justin Hammer). [[spoiler: Her taking control of the organization that her older brother Shang-Chi leaves unattended after his father's death, continuing its operations, also seems to make her partially inspired by Zheng Shi-Hua/Sister Hammer.]]
* DarkIsNotEvil: Even though Xialing runs an illegal fight club, has dark hair, and tends to wear dark-colored clothing in her adult years, she is a genuinely nice person.
* DeadpanSnarker: Xialing has developed a dry sense of humor after she ran away from home.
* DragonLady: Her outfit in Macau (as the ringleader of her fight club) makes her look like a more CyberPunk version of this. [[spoiler:She leans a bit more into the traditional aesthetic (albeit wearing a maroon ''tangzhang'') after taking over the Ten Rings.]]
* EqualOpportunityEvil: Her FightClubbing operation recruits both men and women, from all over the world. [[spoiler:After taking over the Ten Rings, she throws out Wenwu's StayInTheKitchen attitude and allows women to join their fighting forces.]]
* {{Expy}}: She takes a lot from Zheng Shi-Hua, aka Sister Hammer, who is Shang-Chi's sister in the comics. Both are sisters to Shang-Chi, TheUnfavorite to their father, and desire control of their father's organization.
* FightClubbing: Runs a cage-fighting ring that runs livestreams on the dark web.
* GenerationXerox: [[spoiler:She becomes the new leader of the Ten Rings following her father's death.]]
* GoodWearsWhite: Xialing has a good heart and she wears the white dragon-scale armor left for her by her mother in Ta Lo.
* HeelFaceTurn: Starts out as an amoral criminal focused on her own FightClubbing empire above all else, but later joins forces with Shang-Chi to protect their mother's village from their father.
* ImprobableAge: Started building her own empire at sixteen. It's lampshaded by Katy.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Cold, bitter and stern as Xialing may be, but she's a good person deep down and even returns to save Katy and her brother, despite her anger towards him. It's also clear that despite their conflicted relationship, she still loved her father Wenwu and Shang-Chi [[spoiler:and was heartbroken by the former's death.]] She also wants to bring a more diverse crowd (i.e. women) into her own empire, unlike her father.
* MementoMacGuffin: The green necklace given to her by her mother is, unknown to Xialing, this, [[spoiler:revealing a map to Ta Lo when her and Shang-Chi's identical necklace are placed in the eyes of a dragon statue.]]
* MetaphoricallyTrue: At the end of the movie [[spoiler: Shang-Chi mentions while recounting the events of the movie with Katy to their friends that Xialing went to dismantle the Ten Rings instead of returning with him. In the after-credits scene, it's revealed that she actually ''took it over'' and completely overhauled it into being a mix gendered-army. She simply "dismantled" her father's ''vision'' of the group.]]
* MythologyGag: The name of the Golden Daggers club owned by Xu Xialing came from a sect ruled by Zheng Bao Yu before she took over her father's organization.
* ParentalNeglect: A big victim of it. When her father fell back into his Ten Rings ways and trained Shang-Chi into an assassin, looking at Xialing reminded him too much of her mother. She had to learn martial arts by watching from the sidelines.
* TheQueenpin: Xialing is the founder of the Golden Daggers Club [[spoiler:before becoming the new leader of the Ten Rings after the death of her father]].
* TheRunaway: Ran away from the Ten Rings at age 16, after realizing Shang-Chi was never coming back for her.
* SciFiBobHaircut: Her main hairstyle. It doesn’t stay untarnished when she fights though.
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: When the Ten Rings invade her base of operations, she flees through a hidden exit. [[ChangedMyMindKid She soon returns to help her brother]], though.
* SelfMadeMan: Built herself a criminal fight club after running away from her father. [[spoiler:She does eventually inherit leadership of the Ten Rings though.]]
* SiblingYinYang: With her older brother Shang-Chi. Shang-Chi is cordial and friendly while Xialing is cold and professional. He was trained to become an assassin by his father to succeed him as his heir to the Ten Rings against his own personal desire, while Xialing ''wanted'' to be trained but wasn't allowed to because of her gender, instead of teaching herself from watching the training. Although both of them left their father, Shang-Chi moved to San Francisco to have a normal life, in contrast to Xialing who went to Macau and began establishing her fight club at the age of 16 to build her own criminal empire. [[spoiler:At the end of ''Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings'', Shang-Chi decides to use the Ten Rings weapons as a superhero, while Xialing replaces her father as leader of the Ten Rings organization.]]
* SplashOfColor: It is implied, based on her old room's posters, that she had a predilection for street art before she ran away and built her own underground fight club. [[spoiler:After taking over the Ten Rings, she seems to have taken to redecorating the old Ten Rings compound with a lot of DragonLady aesthetic street art and graffiti]].
* StayInTheKitchen: It's implied that Wenwu took this mentality with her, refusing to let her train with her brother and the other men in the Ten Rings. So she watched them from afar and practiced in secret.
* TragicKeepsake: [[spoiler:After the Iron Gang killed her mother, Xialing continues to wear the necklace that she gave her for almost two decades. The pendant of the necklace is later revealed to be a key to the map of Ta Lo's entrance.]]
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Her childhood was happy at first with two loving parents and an older brother she looked up to. Then her mother was killed, her father reverted back into a criminal warlord who can't stand even looking at her and her brother ran away without her. By the time we see her as an adult in Macau, she's a cold, ruthless enforcer of the fighting club, who's none too pleased to see her older brother or father again.
* WeaponOfChoice: Rope darts.
* WhatTheHellHero: When she and Shang-Chi reunite at the cage match, she's pissed at him for running away and going into hiding without telling her his whereabouts.
** She also throws another at him after subverting ScrewThisImOutOfHere (see above), giving Shang this bitter retort when he complains she left him and Katy to die.
--> "Now you know what it feels like."
* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:Downplayed. Even though the Dweller-in-Darkness is responsible for her father's death, she is not motivated by vengeance when she and her brother work together in killing the creature.]]
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Despite being Shang-Chi's ''younger'' sister, Xialing looks significantly older than him when they reunite in adulthood. Add the fact that the actress Meng'er Zhang is two years older than Simu Liu in real life, despite portraying his younger sister.
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[[folder:Trevor Slattery]]
--> See the [[Characters/MCUCompanies Advanced Idea Mechanics (A.I.M.)]] page
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!![[Characters/MCUTheEternals The Eternals]]'s Allies
[[folder:Dane Whitman]]
!!''Professor [[ComicBook/BlackKnight Dane Whitman]]''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Mors Mihi Lucrum." [[labelnote:Translation]]"Death is my reward".[[/labelnote]]'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' British
!!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Natural History Museum
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/KitHarington
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Elliot Leguizamo (Latin American Spanish), Eiji Hanawa (Japanese)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Eternals}}''
A human who gets entangled in the Eternals' exploits due to his relationship with Sersi.
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* AdaptationalNationality: In the comics, while being ''descended'' from Briton knights, he was very much an American. In the film, he's portrayed by Kit Harington with his London accent fully intact.
* AdaptationalWimp: In the comics, he's the superhero Black Knight with a magical cursed sword. In ''Eternals'', he's Sersi's coworker and boyfriend who becomes acquainted with her race. [[spoiler:He doesn't even tag along with the Eternals, staying in London while they go on their actual quest… but in TheStinger, he opens up the chest containing the cursed Ebony Blade and psychs himself up to grab it, presumably in desperation at Sersi's abduction, but is interrupted by a mysterious voice before he actually touches it.]]
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Played with. Despite Sprite apparently having dropped many hints about the Eternals and Deviants, and living in a world where superheroes are famous, he initially doesn't believe her and instead suspects Sersi is a wizard like Doctor Strange. But once a real Deviant actually shows up, he immediately understands Sprite was telling the truth.
* BlackSwordsAreBetter: [[spoiler:TheStinger of ''Eternals'' has Dane slowly accepting his family's heirloom: a magical black sword known as the Ebony Blade.]]
* CastingGag: Kit Harington portrayed Jon Snow, a warrior in a medieval setting in ''Series/GameOfThrones'', which also starred Creator/RichardMadden (Ikaris) as Robb Stark, Jon's beloved half-brother. The only scene where they physically meet is dripping with subtext due to this.
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: He's never referred to as Black Knight in the ''Eternals'' film [[spoiler:as he has yet to claim the Ebony Blade, which it seems he's about to do at TheStinger.]]
* CoolSword: [[spoiler:The Ebony Blade is a black sword imbued with supernatural properties.]]
* DarkIsNotEvil: [[spoiler:The Ebony Blade is a dark, seemingly cursed sword branded with a morbid Latin motto, but Dane is a kindhearted NiceGuy who only even considers taking up the sword to help his beloved girlfriend.]]
* TheMissusAndTheEx: He's the "missus". Ikaris and Sersi were married for more than a thousand years, but he abandoned her, and she started dating Dane in the present day. After Ikaris helps dispatch a Deviant in London, Dane quickly realizes that Ikaris is Sersi's ex.
-->'''Dane:''' I'm guessing that was the pilot.
* NiceGuy: Dane is a friendly, easygoing guy who is perfectly understanding of the complicated history that comes out when Sersi is exposed as an Eternal.
* UnderstandingBoyfriend: Once Sersi comes clean about being an immortal superheroine, he takes it more or less in stride, and at the end of the day, they resume their relationship. It's implied that he's understanding in part because of his family history since TheStinger implies a legacy of superpowers.
* WhatTheHellHero: In the film, he asks Sersi why the Eternals never interfered [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar against Thanos]] or anywhen else during human history.
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[[folder:Karun Patel]]
!!''Karun Patel (Hindi: करुण पटेल)''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I think we must learn from our mistakes and do better, sir."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Indian
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Harish Patel
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Eternals}}''
Kingo's valet.
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* AdmiringTheAbomination: He calls the first dead Deviant he sees "beautiful", much to Kingo's confusion.
* AudienceSurrogate: Karun is the only human hanging out with the Eternals on their mission, and he behaves and makes a lot of remarks like the audience would, such as pointing to the corpse of a Deviant in awe and saying Kingo has "a very angry family".
* CrazyPrepared: The Eternals keep destroying his cameras out of annoyance, only for him to reveal he has several spares.
-->'''Sprite:''' How many cameras do you have, young man?
-->'''Karun:''' I always have backups!
* HiddenDepths: He mostly acts as comic relief, but occasionally shows serious backbone. He chides Kingo for not wanting to help his family and convinces him to go with the other Eternals, and when Druig argues that HumansAreBastards he coolly responds that he believes they [[HumansAreFlawed can learn from their mistakes]].
* InUniverseCamera: He travels with the Eternals to help Kingo produce a documentary about them.
* ItHasBeenAnHonor: [[spoiler:As he and Kingo bid the rest of the Eternals adieu, Karun turns around and genuinely thanks the group in his native language before leaving, under the impression that he and his planet will soon die.]]
* NiceGuy: His innate goodness is infectious. The brooding Druig gives him a nod of respect, and even Sprite bites back on the sarcasm with Karun.
* SecretKeeper: He's aware that Kingo's immortal and helps facilitate his illusion of being [[MyGrandsonMyself several generations of a family of actors.]]
* ShooOutTheClowns: [[spoiler:He leaves with Kingo, the other comic relief character, before the climax, saying that it was a pleasure to be with the other Eternals. He only returns at the end, after the final confrontation.]]
* TagalongChronicler: Kingo has Karun accompany him to film a documentary about the Eternals.
* {{Tuckerization}}: Karun ''Patel'' is played by Harish ''Patel''.
* UndyingLoyalty: [[spoiler:Recognizing that he will die if the Emergence happens, he decides to remain with Kingo for his final moments, telling the other Eternals that it was an honor to know them.]]
* UnfazedEveryman: He's the most prominent normal human in ''Eternals'' and he's not especially shocked by the things he sees. Understandable, since this is the [[FantasyKitchenSink Marvel Cinematic Universe]] and he's known about Kingo for decades.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Kingo. Apparently, Karun once tried to stake him after mistaking him for a vampire. Apart from a little friendly ribbing, Kingo apparently does not hold a grudge.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Apparently, when he realized that Kingo was immortal, Karun's first thought was that he was a vampire and tried to stake him.
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!![[Characters/MCUInhumans Inhuman Royal Family]]'s Allies
[[folder:Louise Fisher]]
!!''Louise Fisher''
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!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Ellen Woglom
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Inhumans}}''
A [[TokenHuman (human)]] scientist at Callisto Aerospace who meets the Inhuman Royal Family.
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* AudienceSurrogate: She serves this purpose in the main cast.
* CanonForeigner: Louise doesn't exist in the comics.
* IWantMyJetPack: Louise's motivation. [[spoiler:She actually carries [[TragicKeepsake her father's ashes]] in a necklace shaped like an Apollo rocket.]]
-->He spent his entire life wanting to go to the Moon, and NASA, they didn't know if they were gonna pick pilots or scientists. But guess what? They picked ''pilots.'' And my father, the ''scientist,'' he never got to go.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: She's a scientist, and wears glasses to signify it.
* TokenHuman: Of the main cast.
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[[folder:Makapu'u Surfers]]
!!''Makapu'u Surfers''
!!!'''Species:''' Humans
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Hawaiian
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Kala Alexander (Makani), Creator/Ty Quiamboa (Holo), (Lucky)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Inhumans}}''
A trio of surfers who befriend Gorgon.
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* BadassNormal: All of them can put up a reasonable fight against Auran's forces.
* BloodKnight: They tell Gorgon that they wouldn't mind a bit of trouble.
* CommonalityConnection: Gorgon bonds with them due to their shared BloodKnight tendencies.
* IronicName: Lucky is the first casualty, as Sakas kills him in "Divide and Conquer".
* UndyingLoyalty: They're willing to stand by Gorgon in spite of knowing him for a day.
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[[folder:Sammy]]
!!''Sammy''
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!!!'''Species:''' Inhuman
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Hawaiian
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Faleolo Alailima
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Inhumans}}'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/InhumansS1E3DivideAndConquer Episode 3: "Divide and Conquer"]]'')
-->''"I woke up one morning covered in some rock-crust, next thing I knew, my hands got like this, and I accidentally burned down my house. Could have killed my family, and now I've lost them."''
A Hawaiian convict who develops a friendship with Black Bolt.
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* CanonForeigner: Does not appear to have a counterpart in the comics.
* GentleGiant: A large, brutish-looking inmate who'd rather play chess than intimidate the new prisoner.
* TheMole: Takes part in Evan Declan's plan to break Black Bolt out of prison.
* OddFriendship: A Hawaiian convict who develops a friendship with the King of Attilan.
* PlayingWithFire: We see him melt solid metal, and he accidentally burned down his home at some point before the series began.
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[[folder:Evan Declan]]
!!''Doctor Evan Declan''
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!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Henry Ian Cusick
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Inhumans}}''
A geneticist specialised in Inhumans that collaborates with Maximus.
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* DistressedDude: Got taken as a hostage by both Auran and then later the Royal Family.
* ForScience: Has no ill intentions and does all of his research for genetic studies.
* KilledOffForReal: A mindless Gorgon kills the poor guy accidentally when he happens to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.
* UnwittingPawn: Maximus supported his research without telling him who or what he really was.
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