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3	[[folder:The Alphas as a Group]]
4	The Alpha group of students, including Otto, Laura, Wing, Shelby, Franz, Nigel, Lucy, Tom, and Penny.
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7	* AlmightyJanitor: Have been called on in emergency to complete tasks or protect the school. [[spoiler:Turns out this is the real purpose of the Alpha program: to feed into Zero Hour, an army that can be called in an emergency in case a G.L.O.V.E. council member goes truly evil.]]
8	* AntiHeroTeam: if any of them haven't committed at least one felony by the time they joined the cast, they committed one soon after joining.
9	%%* BadassBookworm: Most of them.
10	%%* BadassCrew
11	* BerserkButton: They will each defend the others with their lives if you so much as insult another.
12	* BigDamnHeroes: When [[spoiler:Otto, Franz, Wing, and Shelby save the entire Alpha stream.]] Along with many other occasions.
13	* CharacterMagneticTeam
14	* {{Determinator}}: all of them so far, except [[spoiler: Penny, who pretty much gives up after Tom's death.]]
15	%%* FourTemperamentEnsemble: with the original four: Shelby as Sanguine, Otto as Choleric, Wing as Melancholic, Laura as Phlegmatic, Lucy rounding it out later as Leukine
16	%%* FireForgedFriends
17	%%* GenderEqualEnsemble: the original four.
18	%%* GossipyHens: Some of them can devolve into this if not enough plot is around.
19	* HypocriticalHeartwarming: They all drive each other insane, but mess with one of them and get the wrath of all of them.
20	%%* IChooseToStay: [[spoiler:All]] of them, one by one. [[spoiler:Except Penny.]]
21	* IHaveYourWife: All of them are pretty pathetically manipulated by putting each other in danger.
22	* MultinationalTeam: Otto, Penny, and Tom are from England. Laura is Scottish, Shelby is American, and Wing is Chinese raised in Japan. Franz is German, Raven is Russian, Lucy is Italian, and Nigel's nationality isn't mentioned.
23	%%* QuirkyHousehold
24	%%* TrueCompanions:[[spoiler:except for Penny.]]
25	* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Most of the girls refer to everyone else on the team by their last name. If they call anyone by a first name, it's usually a dire or emotionally-charged situation.
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29	[[folder:Otto Malpense]]
30	The main character, an Alpha in the same year as many of the other characters.
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32	* ActOfTrueLove: [[spoiler:After Laura's betrayal in ''Aftershock'', he gets himself expelled and spends the next several months trying to find her.]]
33	%%* AlwaysSaveTheGirl
34	* AnticipatoryBreathSpray: [[spoiler:Before entering Laura's room in the Glasshouse, he takes off his helmet and straightens his hair. It seems he was anticipating a much... happier reunion than the one he got.]]
35	* ArsonMurderAndLifesaving: The reason he and Laura aren't thrown out by Nero in ''Deadlock.''
36	* AssKickingPose: Attempts one to look intimidating after he accidentally [[spoiler:knocks Wing out]] when fighting Block and Tackle in book one. It doesn't work.
37	* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Can watch a bullet fly by and know where the shooter is.
38	%%* BadassBookworm
39	* BecomingTheMask: Despite trying to escape the Island in book one, he [[spoiler: ultimately decides that the H.I.V.E. is his home.]]
40	* BerserkButton: Harming any of his friends. The biggest immediately following [[spoiler:Lucy's death]].
41	** And again after [[spoiler:the Alphas are taken to the Glasshouse.]] He kills [[spoiler:Matt Rodney without remorse,]] and then shows a terrifying side when he kills [[spoiler:Zero, his clone.]]
42	** More and more, his BerserkButton seems to be messing with Laura. He threatens [[spoiler:Cole, Block, and Tackle,]] and kills [[spoiler: Matt Rodney and Zero]] after going on a [[spoiler:several month long mission to find the Glasshouse.]]
43	* BewareTheNiceOnes: The speech to Block in ''Deadlock.''
44	--> '''Otto:''' And if you ever touch me, or Laura, or any of my friends again, it won't be Nero you have to worry about. I'll reach inside that thick skull of yours and just switch you off. I'm not even sure I could really do it; maybe I'll just put you in a vegetative state. Maybe you'll be just conscious enough to feel the nurse shoving pudding into your stupid fat face. I don't know what would happen. But I'm willing to find out.
45	* BirdsOfAFeather: With [[spoiler:both of his love interests. He and Lucy both have superpowers, and he and Laura are both TheSmartGuy with similar personalities.]] Averted with Wing, whom he shares little in common with despite the two being inseparable.
46	* BirthDeathJuxtaposition: [[spoiler:At the climax of ''Bloodline'', H.I.V.E.mind forceably removes Otto from his Animus-infested, irradiated body and sends him to a cloning vat in the Cradle, which is in Siberia. As the school explodes, and the rest of the cast watches it fall into the sea, the cloning vat begins to fill with liquid and count down until his rebirth.]]
47	* BlackEyesOfCrazy: In ''Rogue'', and again later [[spoiler: at the end of Bloodline, when he uses irradiated Animus residue for a DeadlyUpgrade.]]
48	* BlessedWithSuck: He has pretty awesome super powers, but they put everyone he loves at risk and he'd much rather be normal.
49	%%* BodyBackupDrive: [[spoiler: how he survives the end of the series.]]
50	%%* BrainsAndBrawn: with Wing.
51	* CannotSpitItOut: [[spoiler: In ''Aftershock'', he spends half of a page trying to confess his love to Laura.]]
52	%%* CartwrightCurse: See [[spoiler:FatalAttractor]]
53	%%* ChildhoodFriends: Tom and Penny.
54	%%* ChildProdigy: He was one in flashbacks.
55	* CluelessChickMagnet: Until [[spoiler:''Zero Hour''. He isn't much to look at, but the fact that he's nice to everyone who's nice to him gets him pretty far.]]
56	* CrushBlush: Does quite his share of blushing in Laura's presence. His wikia page even notes that the amount of blushing he does may be harmful to his cardiovascular system.
57	* {{Determinator}}: After [[spoiler:Laura, Nigel, Tom, and Penny are taken to the Glasshouse,]] Otto gets himself [[spoiler:expelled and spends the next several months in the outside world with Raven, H.I.V.E.mind, and Diabolus searching for them.]] Ultimately, he uses his abilities to try to break through the encryption on [[spoiler:Gretchen's transmitter,]] which he knows has a such a high chance of killing him that he doesn't let Wing or Shelby even be in the room.
58	** During book five, he spends several months [[spoiler:trapped inside his own head, locked in a struggle for his own body with Overlord despite being explicitly designed to be taken over by him. He eventually overcomes it, but Overlord takes over after Otto passes out. Laura ends up shooting him to evict Overlord from the device.]]
59	* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler:At the end of ''Zero Hour,'' due to Lucy's death.]]
60	* TheDividual: Many of their friends see Otto and Laura as this, but when they are alone things are much less synergistic.
61	* DoomedMoralVictor: [[spoiler:At the end, he realizes he can't defeat Anna without using a powerup in the form of Animus residue collected from the site of Lucy and Overlord's death by nuclear bomb. He knows using it will kill him, so he waits until it's apparent he'd otherwise die, and after that, well, he does.]]
62	%%* DoorstopBaby
63	%%* DorkKnight
64	* TheDulcineaEffect: Promises to help Laura get off the Island during ''their very first one-on-one conversation.''
65	* DyingDeclarationOfLove:[[spoiler: Averted with a NotQuiteDead in ''Rogue'', but he still confesses his love to Laura immediately before falling unconscious]].
66	** And again in ''Bloodline'', [[spoiler: when he's actually dying, except that he and Laura have been dating for some time.]]
67	---> '''Otto:''' [[spoiler: Love you Laura, love you all.]]
68	* EarnYourHappyEnding: And ''how''. After [[spoiler: Growing up with a FriendlessBackground in an orphanage run by a woman who is clearly FosteringForProfit, he finally finds true happiness and companionship at H.I.V.E., only to find out he's only there to be a spare body for an [[AIIsACrapshoot omnicidal AI]], and intended to die at the age of roughly 15. He saves the United States from the eruption of Yellowstone, and is rewarded by being taken into custody by a government organization that is really a front for the same evil A.I., and has his body taken over. For several months, he's forced to kill people for this organization while being a prisoner in his own body, all while Overlord grows and tries to kill him in his head. He's rescued by his friends after this, but suffers from post-traumatic stress for the rest of the series. Things start to look up for him when teammate Lucy takes a romantic interest in him, but she sacrifices herself for him roughly 36 hours later in the final fight with Overlord. This gives Otto a bit of a complex about romance and people sacrificing themselves for him, so he pulls away from Laura in the following book, only to realize he missed the fact that she was being blackmailed into betraying H.I.V.E. right under his nose. She is captured by Anastasia Furan, so he drops out of school and spends the next several months trying to find her. When they are finally reunited, he finds out that someone has been cloning him to try to make their own army of people with his unique abilities, except far more powerful. He gets to relax and be happy with Laura for what looks like roughly a year before the final volume, but once the next clone breaks loose, it's clear they're in a losing battle, and the only way for them to win is if he uses a DeadlyUpgrade that will give him the power to kill both himself and the clone. This is only achieved after she has killed hordes of people and rendered the island uninhabitable. So, right as the island is about to be nuked to contain the clone, Otto lies dying in the data room, and H,I.V.E.mind pulls his consciousness from his body, sending it to a cloning vat where he can be regrown over the course of a year. After a year passes, and almost everyone has moved on with their lives in various ways, Otto wakes up and goes to find Laura in Scotland so he can finally live in peace. In ''the final sentence'' of the entire series.]]
69	%%* ElectronicTelepathy
70	* EatingTheEyeCandy: At least once per volume [[spoiler:except ''Zero Hour'']] he must spend at least a few sentences describing how Laura looks, either at that time or when he is imagining her.
71	%%* EveryoneCanSeeIt: With Laura.
72	%%* EvilGenius: Sometimes, though like most of the good guys he's more AffablyEvil.
73	* FatalAttractor: [[spoiler: His first girlfriend dies 36 hours after getting together with him, his second girlfriend is kidnapped and taken to the Glasshouse only a few minutes after their first kiss..... poor guy.]]
74	* FirstKiss: [[spoiler:With either Laura or Lucy. It's unclear because he seemed to kiss Laura in ''Escape Velocity'', but this is never mentioned again. He later kisses Lucy, and then Laura in ''Aftershock,'' but that's never mentioned again either. He kisses Laura yet again in ''Deadlock.'' [[OfficialCouple It sticks.]]]]
75	* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:Not only does Overlord/Number One want to do this to Otto, but he does get taken over by the Animus at the end of Dreadnought. It's the entire purpose of his powerset.]]
76	%%* HeartbrokenBadass: At [[spoiler: the end of ''Zero Hour.'']]
77	%%* TheHero
78	%%* HeterosexualLifePartners: with Wing.
79	%%* HypercompetentSidekick: to Raven in the later books.
80	%%* ILetGwenStacyDie: Develops a nasty case of this after [[spoiler: Lucy's death.]]
81	%%* [[spoiler:IUhYouToo
82	%%* TheLeader: Among the kids.
83	* LikeBrotherAndSister: With Shelby. They bicker, they argue, and she's the first to run to him when he returns from [[spoiler:expulsion.]]
84	%%* LikeFatherLikeSon: liable to become pretty drunk on power.
85	%%* LoveMakesYouDumb: basically the entire point of book seven.
86	* LukeIAmYourFather: Sort of. He's actually [[spoiler: Number One's clone.]]
87	* MagikarpPower: His abilities were mostly useless at first and only really allowed him to type and really really quickly while getting awful nosebleeds and/or passing out, but he eventually uses them to [[spoiler:control computers, then entire networks, then hold AI in his head, and then control people's actual muscles.]]
88	* MeaningfulName: People try to kill, stop or derail Malpense, but he keeps turning up. Like a bad penny.
89	* MorallySuperiorCopy: While he never becomes truly heroic, or lawful good, or anything like that, he's miles more morally righteous than [[spoiler:Overlord/Number One]].
90	%%* TheNapoleon
91	%%* NerdActionHero
92	%%* OfficialCouple: With Laura.
93	* OfficialCoupleOrdealSyndrome: He and Laura go through hell several times over, including [[spoiler:more than six captures of Laura, Otto finding out he is only somewhat human, Otto's brief almost-relationship with Lucy Dexter, Laura's betrayal of the H.I.V.E. and subsequent stay at the Glasshouse for several months, and then her torture and MindRape by Otto's clone]] before they [[spoiler:finally get together at the end of book eight.]]
94	%%* PairTheSmartOnes: with Laura
95	%%* PintSizedPowerhouse
96	* ThePowerOfFriendship: Later in the series, he and H.I.V.E.mind call on this for attacks. ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext.
97	%%* PreAssKickingOneLiner: "She's not going to kill you. I am."
98	%%* PsychicNosebleed
99	* PursuedProtagonist: Books [[spoiler:three, four, six, seven, and eight.]]
100	* RoaringRampageOfRescue: He and H.I.V.E.mind go on one to save [[spoiler: Laura, Nigel, Tom, and Penny]] from the end of ''Aftershock'' to the end of ''Deadlock''.
101	* SiblingTeam: [[spoiler:Depending on whether H.I.V.E.mind would be considered his brother or his uncle, the two share a body for most of the second half of the series, are close friends, and work together to accomplish most everything they achieve.]]
102	* ShootTheHostageTaker: When [[spoiler:Zero tries to get him to shoot Laura]], he turns the gun on him.
103	* SociallyAwkwardHero: His social awkwardness is directly proportional to the attractiveness of the girl he is talking to.
104	%%* StudentAndMasterTeam: with Raven at some point in almost every book.
105	* SuicidalOverconfidence: Due to his knack with computers, Otto believes he can pilot anything if he can get his hands on it. Despite his teammates' wariness, the entire escape plan in book one hinges on this to escape via submarine(and later, a helicopter, after a change of plans). In ''Aftershock'', it's revealed that [[spoiler:he is actually really, really bad at flying helicopters. Comically so.]]
106	--->'''Laura:''' The instructor said something about a fiery ball of exploding death.
107	* SwordAndSorcerer: the Sorcerer to Wing's Sword.
108	* TeenGenius: The series starts on his thirteenth birthday, just pushing him into this territory.
109	* ThePowerOfFriendship: How he and H.I.V.E.mind fight together.
110	* ThickerThanWater: He and Wing refer to each other as "brothers" despite being British and Chinese, respectively. [[spoiler: Ironically, they are actually kinda related. Wing's parents programmed Overlord, making him Otto's uncle, even if not biologically.]]
111	* ToAbsentFriends: Dedicates the shutting down of [[spoiler:Echelon]] to [[spoiler:Lucy.]]
112	%%* TookALevelInBadass: from ''Rogue'' onward.
113	* TranquilFury: Shown most during the scene in ''Deadlock'' with Matt Rodney, but it's implied that's the state he's been in since the end of Aftershock.
114	* UndyingLoyalty: At the end of ''Aftershock'', he takes the majority of the blame for [[spoiler:the massacre of the Alpha stream, so that the last three members can stay at the H.I.V.E. after his expulsion.]]
115	* UnreliableNarrator: Gets a more and more acute case of this as the series goes on. In book 6, he has a lot of internal struggle, but in books 7 and 8, it's clear he's become very good at not thinking about things he doesn't like to, such as [[spoiler: Lucy's death, and the fact that he thinks Laura died through most of ''Deadlock'', which he only mentions once near the end in his internal narration.]] In Bloodline, [[spoiler: Anna forceably starts making him think more and more about Lucy's death, but what we don't see until the very end of the book is that he decided he would die about halfway through it. We see him express fear and worry in private, but he keeps a brave face around others and in his thoughts.]]
116	* WasJustLeaving: After Shelby's MomentKiller for him and Laura in ''Aftershock.'' Notably, [[spoiler:had they kissed here, and Laura trusted him with the real purpose of the mission, several dozen teenage lives would have been saved.]]
117	%%* WhosLaughingNow: gives a speech to Block and Tackle in book eight.
118	* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: After [[spoiler:connecting his internal computer to the internet, he has to stop himself constantly from dwelling on the temptation to take over.]]
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122	[[folder:Wing Fanchu]]
123	Otto's roommate, who is Chinese but raised in Japan. He has an oddly extensive knowledge of weapons and martial arts. He is also Otto's best friend.
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125	* AwesomenessByAnalysis: In Book one:
126	-->'' "There are twenty-three ways of combatting an assailant armed with a blunt object from this position. Four of them will kill you, twelve of them will permanently disable you and the remaining seven will cause injuries that, while being extremely painful, you will at least recover from. In all of them I take that pipe from you and use it on you." ''
127	* BabiesEverAfter: A variation. At the end of the series, [[spoiler:he and Shelby start an orphanage.]]
128	* BecomingTheMask: Despite trying to escape the Island in book one, he [[spoiler: ultimately decides that the H.I.V.E. is his home.]]
129	%%* BetaCouple: with Shelby
130	* BelligerentSexualTension: With Shelby from book two onward.
131	* TheBigGuy - Shelby even calls him this, although he's actually very intelligent.
132	%%* BrainsAndBrawn: with Otto.
133	* TheChosenMany: Is a member of the [[spoiler:Zero Hour]] program.
134	* ConverseWithTheUnconscious: Reads to [[spoiler:Otto]] every day after school while the latter is in a coma at the end of Book 5.
135	* DatingCatwoman
136	%%* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: only his mom. His dad is/[[spoiler:was]] a jerk.
137	* DeadGuyJunior: A weird example. In the epilogue, [[spoiler: the orphanage he and Shelby run is full of children who share names with dead characters from earlier in the series.]]
138	* {{Determinator}}: stays on the Island despite having the opportunity to leave so he can find his mother's killer.
139	%%* EveryoneCanSeeit: With Shelby.
140	* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: Two major examples:
141	** Is the son of [[spoiler:Cypher/Wu Zhang and Xui Mei Chen]], the former of whom [[spoiler:pretended to execute him in book two.]]
142	** Is the uncle of [[spoiler:Otto, whose father, Overlord, was created by his parents]]. Considering he's a clone, this may make Wing technically his brother.
143	* GentleGiant
144	* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Otto.
145	* ICantDoThisByMyself: Gives a speech of this to Otto in book one.
146	* LikeFatherLikeSon: Wing's father loved his mother very intensely, and dedicated his life to her after she died by [[spoiler:[[LoveMakesYouEvil killing people.]]]] Wing adores Shelby absolutely in a way reminiscent to his father's love for his mother. We're hoping with all of our hearts nothing happens to Shelby.
147	* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Both of Wing's parents were engineers behind the creation of Overlord, praised for being genius computer scientists. Wing, on the other hand is typically the brawn to Otto and Laura's brain.
148	* NoSenseOfHumor: Shelby calls him out on this on multiple occasions.
149	* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler:With Shelby in book six]].
150	* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: The Savvy Guy to Shelby's Energetic Girl.
151	* TheSneakyGuy
152	* TheStoic
153	* SwordAndSorcerer: the Sword to Otto's Sorcerer.
154	* TallDarkAndHandsome: Just ask Shelby.
155	* TokenGoodTeammate: None of the main characters are ''evil'', but Wing certainly seems to have more of a conscience than the others. He's the only one of the main four who didn't break the law before coming to HIVE.
156	* ThickerThanWater: He and Otto refer to each other as "brothers" despite being Chinese and British, respectively. [[spoiler: Ironically, they are actually kinda related. Wing's parents programmed Overlord, making him Otto's uncle, even if not biologically.]]
157	* TranquilFury
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162	[[folder:Laura Brand]]
163	A "spunky computer genius" who is the only person who has ever been able to outcode Otto. She is also his primary love interest. She is Shelby's roommate and best friend, as well as a kind of personal assistant to Professor Pike. She tends to prefer AI to people.
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165	* ArsonMurderAndLifesaving: She and Otto in ''Deadlock.''
166	* BadassPacifist
167	* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: The Brains of the three-girl team consisting of her, Shelby (Brawn) and Lucy (Beauty).
168	* BecomingTheMask: Despite trying to escape the Island in book one, she [[spoiler: ultimately decides that the H.I.V.E. is her home.]]
169	* BigDamnReunion: In ''Bloodline'', [[spoiler:her reunion with Otto after the loss of his first body and the destruction of the school is the final sentence of the entire series.]]
170	* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:Very much so in ''Aftershock'', when she is forced to betray the H.I.V.E. and cause the death of almost all of the Alpha stream]].
171	* BuffySpeak: "Fiery ball of exploding death."
172	* ChallengeSeeker: She and Otto compete to steal the exam answers so often that [[spoiler:she uses this excuse in ''Aftershock'' to get the location of the Hunt grounds]].
173	* CinderellaCircumstance: [[spoiler:As one of the greatest programmers on the planet, she's sent to the Glasshouse to train to fight and forbidden from using the computers. It's later revealed she's really only there to be Anastasia's plaything.]]
174	* {{Claustrophobia}}: First demonstrates this in ''Escape Velocity''.
175	* CombatPragmatist: How she gets away with being one of two non-badasses in the main or supporting cast. In book one, she protects the occupants of block seven with a ''fire extinguisher,'' and is CrazyPrepared to the point of having uploaded viruses to a private storage vault on the internet that she can access anywhere. She needs to have this skill, too, because she's a DefiantCaptive who frequently pisses off her captors.
176	* TheCommiesMadeMeDoIt: [[spoiler:Played straight. Pretty much the whole point of Aftershock. They use her brother.]]
177	* CrushBlush: Most non-combat (or hacking-related) situations with Otto cause her to turn pink. [[spoiler:Averted after their first kiss.]]
178	* CuteBookworm: How many times does Otto find her in the library?
179	* DefiantCaptive: She is captured or kidnapped in every single volume, and on every occasion she uses her DeadpanSnarker status to piss off her captors, nearly getting her killed on numerous occasions.
180	* DesignatedVictim: Is captured or held hostage in every single volume. However, she can take care of herself, and is almost always involved in her own rescue, usually coordinating with someone else who is also being held at the time.
181	* {{Determinator}}: When she is taken to the [[spoiler:Glasshouse,]] it is noted that she is the only Alpha who hasn't [[spoiler:been "broken". She eventually, after months of solitary confinement, is able to formulate a plan that ultimately alerts Nero to their location.]] Even after [[spoiler:hours of torture and MindRape at the hands of Zero, she still decides to stay in the Alpha program.]]
182	* TheDividual: Many of their friends see Otto and Laura as this, but when they are alone things are much less synergistic.
183	* DramaticDrop: [[spoiler:In the final paragraphs of the series, she drops the cup she was holding when she realizes Otto, thought long dead, is at her front door in Scotland.]]
184	* EveryoneCanSeeIt: With Otto.
185	* GirlishPigtails
186	* GreenEyedMonster: [[spoiler:After she finds out about Otto and Lucy's relationship in ''Zero Hour'']].
187	* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Played with. [[spoiler:Of the two times she gave up valuable information to Anastasia Furan, once was to save her family and the other was because she was under mind control.]]
188	* HomeSweetHome: [[spoiler:Her epilogue shows her having left the rest of the cast behind and returned to Scotland to be with her family after Otto's death, doing her best to think nothing of the events of the series that came before.]]
189	* HostageForMacGuffin: [[spoiler:The location for the Hunt in exchange for the life of her family.]]
190	* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: [[spoiler:The Contessa is her favorite teacher.]]
191	* HypnotizeTheCaptive: [[spoiler:After successfully writing a virus that brings the H.I.V.E. forces to her (and the other Alphas') rescue in ''Deadlock'', Zero uses his mind control on her to find out about their forces and plans. When Otto comes to rescue her, she's dazed and implied to be heavily brain damaged.]]
192	* IHaveToWashMyHair: When [[spoiler:Otto confesses his love to her a second time,]] she tells him she'll talk to him after exams are over. [[spoiler:Justified in that she's extremely distracted by her family being held hostage.]]
193	* InvisibleParents: She talks about her parents a lot, but Andrew and Mary Brand aren't introduced [[spoiler:until book seven.]]
194	* LapPillow: Is one to Otto in ''Rogue''.
195	* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: Laura and Lucy spend quite a bit of time together in ''Rogue'' and ''Zero Hour'', during which time Laura is the Light Feminine and Lucy is the Dark Feminine.
196	* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Is this more and more to Otto as he begins to spiral towards the end of the series. It's not depicted as unhealthy, as they have always relied on each other.
197	--> '''Otto''': You make me more human.
198	* LockingMacGyverInTheStoreCupboard: At the [[spoiler:Glasshouse]], she isn't allowed to access computers. However, there are drones floating around the facility at all times. Nice one, [[spoiler:Anastasia Furan.]]
199	* MissionControl
200	* MotivationalKiss: Gives one to [[spoiler:Otto]] in ''Aftershock.'' Turned out it was a [[spoiler:NowOrNeverKiss because she knew he'd find out she was the leak.]]
201	* NerdActionHero
202	* NowOrNeverKiss: [[spoiler:see MotivationalKiss]]
203	* PairTheSmartOnes: [[spoiler:With Otto]].
204	* OddFriendship: With Shelby.
205	* UnfinishedUntestedUsedAnyway: Let's count. The EMP device she and Otto build in book one, the virus she accesses from her old dropbox in book four, the Hackbox, the [[spoiler:virus that alerts Otto of her location in ''Deadlock'']], and most notably the gun she gets from [[spoiler:Cypher]] in book five, which uses the [[spoiler:ying-yang necklaces to evict Overlord from Otto's body.]]
206	* UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}}: She is Scottish, and it shows in her speech.
207	* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead
208	* SpotTheImposter: Confuses [[spoiler:Otto and Zero]]. Justified in that she has just been [[spoiler:tortured.]]
209	* TeenGenius
210	* TemporarilyAVillain: [[spoiler:In book seven, because her family was bring threatened. ]]
211	* {{Deuteragonist}}: Otto as the Protagonist, Nero as the Deuteragonist, Raven as the Tritagonist; and Laura as the Tetragonist.
212	* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: athe tomboy to Shelby's girly girl.
213	* {{Tsundere}}: More 'dere' than 'tsun', but she has her moments.
214	* VillainCorner: [[spoiler:In ''Aftershock'', she conspicuously does not narrate until after TheReveal.]]
215	* WhatBeautifulEyes: With Otto as a narrator, it's impossible to forget how pretty he thinks her green eyes are.
216	* WomenAreWiser: States multiple times that she is always right. In ''Aftershock'', Otto tells her everything will be all right, and she should believe her because "I'm always right, remember?" [[spoiler: This disregard for her previous statements proves Otto wrong, as less than ten minutes later all hell breaks loose.]]
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220	[[folder:Shelby Trinity]]
221	A girl in Otto and Wing's year who at first appears to be a stereotypical Valley Girl, but who is revealed to be a world-famous jewel thief. She is obsessed with challenges, and she and Otto share a rivalry that becomes more friendly over the course of the series. She shares a room with Laura and is dedicated to protecting her, and serves as a love interest to Wing.
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223	* TheAce
224	* ActionFashionista
225	* ActionGirl
226	* AllAmazonsWantHercules: She and Wing spend much of their time together in the early part of the series practicing their combat skills.
227	* AlphaBitch - She initially seems to have the characteristics of one, but it is quickly revealed to be an act.
228	** LovableAlphaBitch
229	* AngerBornOfWorry: She frequently chides [[DoesntLikeGuns Wing]] if he refuses to take a gun into combat despite knowing he can take care of himself.
230	* AnythingYouCanDoICanDoBetter
231	* ArsonMurderAndLifesaving: How she isn't expelled in ''Rogue'' after [[spoiler: helping Wing escape.]]
232	* BabiesEverAfter: A variation. [[spoiler:In the epilogue, she and Wing have founded and are running an orphanage.]]
233	* BadLiar
234	* BattleCouple: [[spoiler:Played straight with Wing beginning in ''Zero Hour'', after five and a half books of ShipTease]].
235	* BeautyBrainsandBrawn: The Brawn to Laura's Brains and Lucy's Beauty.
236	* BecomingTheMask: Despite trying to escape the Island in book one, she [[spoiler: ultimately decides that the H.I.V.E. is her home.]]
237	* BetaCouple: [[spoiler:with Wing]]
238	* BerserkButton: Messing with Laura or Wing will get you in serious trouble.
239	* BigDamnHeroes: Her entire attitude during the [[spoiler:rescue mission in ''Deadlock.'']]
240	* BlondesAreViolent
241	* TheChosenMany: Is a member of the [[spoiler:Zero Hour]] program.
242	* CommonLawMarriage: [[spoiler:At the end of the series, she and Wing live together and are raising at least ten children at the orphanage they founded, but they aren't married. Yet?]]
243	* DamselOutOfDistress: Every time she is captured in the series, she either rescues herself or works with someone else she is captive with to escape.
244	* DeadGuyJunior: A weird example. In the epilogue, [[spoiler: the orphanage she and Wing run is full of children who share names with dead characters from earlier in the series.]]
245	* DeadpanSnarker: Seems to be in this mode permanently. Until she starts laughing at herself.
246	* {{Determinator}}: After Wing's [[spoiler:apparent death]] in book two, she actually [[spoiler:''breaks through the Contessa's mind control to attack her'' in revenge.]] Impressive.
247	* EveryoneCanSeeIt: with Wing.
248	* FinalGirl: Quite literally, as she is the last [[spoiler:female Alpha at the end of ''Aftershock'']].
249	* FlirtingUnderFire: Averted. Even though she is very flirtatious otherwise, Wing notes she drops the funny-gal act the moment she enters the ring.
250	* FriendlyTickleTorture:[[spoiler: In Aftershock, Wing says she does this to him if she thinks he's lying.]]
251	* FriendlyWar: With Otto. Over ''everything.'' See LikeBrotherAndSister.
252	* TheGlomp: She gives Otto one upon his return from [[spoiler:expulsion]] in ''Deadlock.''
253	* TheHeart
254	* LikeADuckTakesToWater: Shelby seems to be an excellent candidate for H.I.V.E., even more so than most of the others.
255	* LikeBrotherAndSister: She and Otto are very close, but act like the siblings each of them never had and have never done anything to suggest a possibility of romance.
256	* MasterOfUnlocking
257	* MinoredInAsskicking
258	* MistakenForCheating: When [[spoiler:Tom]] enters the scene in ''Aftershock'', she is pretty DistractedByTheSexy. Wing, understandably, is concerned, especially when [[spoiler: the flirting continues a few days later.]]
259	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Performs a MomentKiller in book seven that causes tension between Otto and Laura. Had she not done this, [[spoiler:Laura may have told Otto about Dekker, and Tom, Cole, and the rest of the Alphas might still be alive.]]
260	* NotAMorningPerson: Especially in book one.
261	* OddFriendship: With Laura.
262	* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler:with Wing in book six]].
263	* PopularIsDumb: Subverted. She comes across as the preppy, ValleyGirl type, but is fairly intelligent in her own right.
264	* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: the Energetic Girl to Wing's Savvy Guy.
265	* ShipperOnDeck: To Otto and Laura for just about every book [[spoiler: until ''Zero Hour'' when she drops the occasional Otto/Lucy comment.]]
266	* ShippingTorpedo: When she finds out about [[spoiler:Otto and Lucy,]] she does everything she can to embarrass both of them as much as possible and cause a rift between them for [[spoiler:Laura's]] sake.
267	* TeamMom: Moreso with each installment.
268	* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: the girly girl to Laura's tomboy.
269	* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend
270	[[/folder]]
271
272	[[folder:Nigel Darkdoom]]
273	The small, athsmatic son of the late Diabolus Darkdoom, one of the world's most successful supervillains. Although his teachers expect him to excel in leadership and combat strategy, his real talent lies in the field of biology. This causes him to appear to be a failure, although Nero finds his scientific prowess quite impressive. He lives with Franz, and is pretty much the group's OnlySaneMan.
274
275	* BigGuyLittleGuy: with Franz.
276	* FatAndSkinny: with Franz.
277	* OddFriendship: With Franz
278	* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: the Sensitive Guy to Franz's Manly Man.
279	* ShrinkingViolet: [[{{Pun}} don't you agree?]]
280	* TheTeamNormal
281
282	[[/folder]]
283	[[folder:Franz Argentblum]]
284	The heir to a German chocolate magnate who has an eye for financial fraud. He is morbidly obese and obsessed with food, but also manages to be a mild badass in hand-to-hand combat and a prodigy with a sniper rifle. He lives with Nigel, whom he protects even more obsessively than his chip stash. Four and a half years since coming to the H.I.V.E., he still has trouble with his English.
285
286	* {{Acrofatic}}
287	* [[spoiler:AloneAmongTheCouples]]: lampshades this in Zero Hour to Nigel.
288	%%* BigGuyLittleGuy: with Nigel.
289	%%* BigEater: You don't say.
290	* BadLiar: Demonstrated hilariously in book six when attempting to hide the fact that [[spoiler: Otto and Lucy had kissed]] from Shelby.
291	--> '''Franz:''' We were just talking about something.... that is ''not'' secret...
292	* BerserkButton: Don't mess with Nigel. ''Don't'' mess with Nigel.
293	* CorneredRattlesnake: won't attack-- ''ever''-- unless you mess with [[BerserkButton Nigel.]]
294	* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Is becoming this more and more.
295	%%* FatAndSkinny: with Nigel.
296	* FunnyForeigner: Three plus years after leaving Germany to attend the H.I.V.E., he still can't speak proper English.
297	* GeniusDitz: He's the only person in the group who understands economics, but whether he understands anything else at a given time is a toss-up.
298	%%* IntentionalEngrishForFunny.
299	* JustEatHim: In Dreadnought, Colonel Francisco tells the class that whoever had Franz on their team for the 93%-er would certainly survive, because he provides enough meat for everyone.
300	* LargeHam: "Do not be worrying, Nigel! Franz will turn you into a real man!"
301	%%* LethalJokeCharacter
302	* LetsGetDangerous: taking out [[spoiler: Colonel Francisco]] in book two.
303	* TeamChef: not chef, per se, but always has food to offer.
304	%%* TheCasanova: [[spoiler: in book 9, after he loses weight.]]
305	* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: the Manly Man to Nigel's Sensitive Guy.
306	%%* OddFriendship: With Nigel.
307
308	[[/folder]]
309	[[folder:Lucy Dexter]]
310	A mysterious, attractive girl who joins the Alpha stream two and a half years after the others. The team adopts her, and she is quickly assimilated into a tight bond with Laura and Shelby. She is revealed to be [[spoiler: the last surviving member of the Sinistre family, and is therefore psychic. She avoids using her abilities, however, because she believes it may drive her to evil like the rest of her family.]] She also holds a romantic interest in Otto.
311
312	* BadPowersGoodPeople: she dislikes using her [[spoiler:hypnosis]] because she believes it is evil.
313	* BeautyBrainsandBrawn: The beauty, with Shelby as Brawn and Laura as Brains.
314	%%* BewareTheSillyOnes
315	%%* BloodFromTheMouth
316	%%* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: Only after she decides to use her abilities about halfway through Dreadnought.
317	* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: The Gentle Girl to Otto's Brooding Boy [[spoiler:during their very brief relationship in ''Zero Hour''.]]
318	%%* CompellingVoice
319	%%* DeathOfTheHypotenuse
320	%%* DyingDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler:To Otto, at her death. He doesn't return it.]]
321	* TheFace: Serves as this on the team due to her hypnotic abilities, which she uses very similarly to Obi Wan in the famous "not the droids you're looking for" scene.
322	%%* FalseSoulmate: to Otto.
323	%%* eroicSacrifice: In ''Zero Hour''.
324	%%* KilledOffForReal: so far.
325	* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: Laura and Lucy spend quite a bit of time together in ''Rogue'' and ''Zero Hour'', during which time Laura is the Light Feminine and Lucy is the Dark Feminine.
326	%%* LonerTurnedFriend: to the Alphas.
327	%%* LoveAtFirstSight: to Otto.
328	* MassHypnosis: Uses her Voice on more than one person at a time for the first time in [[spoiler:''Rogue''.]]
329	%%* MindManipulation
330	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Her full name is [[spoiler:Vicontessa Lucia Sinistre.]]
331	* PlugNPlayFriends: A bit awkward with the rest of the group.... until we find out [[spoiler: she has hypnotic abilities.]] She immediately becomes as familiar with the rest of the group as those who have already attended the HIVE for the past three years.
332	%%* RomanticFalseLead: Inverted, as she is this to Laura, not Otto.
333	* TakingTheBullet: Again, ''Zero Hour''.
334	* TokenMagicalTeammate: While everything else in this series is at least handwaved with something scientific, [[spoiler:Lucy's psychic abilities are neither questioned nor explained.]]
335	* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler: The huge twist that comes twenty pages after her introduction kind of necessitates this.]]
336	%%* WhiteMagicianGirl
337	* YouAreNotAlone: Gives a speech about this to [[spoiler:Otto, about the fact that they both have superhuman abilities.]]
338	[[/folder]]
339
340	[[folder:Tom Ransom]]
341	A childhood friend of Otto, and Penny's partner in crime.
342
343	%%* KindheartedCatLover: and he'll never live it down.
344	%%* KilledOffForReal: so far.
345	%%* LivingEmotionalCrutch: to Penny.
346	%%* PlatonicLifePartners: with Penny.
347	%%* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome
348	[[/folder]]
349
350	[[folder:Penny Richards]]
351	A childhood friend of Otto, and Tom's partner in crime.
352
353	%%* CorruptTheCutie
354	%%* PlatonicLifePartners: with Tom.
355	%%* RoseHairedSweetie
356	%%* SixthRangerTraitor: Implied by the ending to book eight.
357	%%* VillainCorner
358	[[/folder]]
359
360	[[folder:Cole Harrington]]
361	An older, dickish Political/Financial student who thinks himself invincible.
362	* IHaveYourWife: after seeing Otto and Laura eating lunch together at the beginning of Aftershock, he correctly guesses she's the key to manipulating Otto. He uses this to get [[spoiler: H.I.V.E.mind's source code. It doesn't last, though.]]
363	[[/folder]]
364
365	[[folder:Block and Tackle]]
366	Two Henchmen whom Otto accidentally pick a fight with on their first day, and they never get over it.
367
368	%%* BitPartBadGuys
369	%%* ButtMonkey: They get this sort of thing quite a lot.
370	%%* DumbMuscle
371	%%* IgnorantMinion: Sometimes. Other times they're fully aware that they're doing the wrong thing, such as [[spoiler:trying to throw Otto and Laura off a high building.]]
372	%%* GoldfishPoopGang
373	%%* ThoseTwoGuys
374

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