| 1 | [[WMG:[[center:[-''Series/GenV'' '''[[Characters/GenV Main Character Index]]'''\ |
| 2 | [[Characters/TheBoys2019TheBoys The Boys]] | [[Characters/TheBoys2019Supes Supes]] ([[Characters/TheBoys2019TheSeven The Seven]], [[[Characters/TheBoys2019Homelander Homelander]], [[Characters/TheBoys2019Starlight Starlight]], [[Characters/TheBoys2019Stormfront Stormfront]]], [[Characters/TheBoys2019SoldierBoy Soldier Boy]]) | [[Characters/TheBoys2019VoughtInternational Vought International]] | '''Godolkin University''' | [[Characters/TheBoys2019Other Others]]-]]]]] |
| 3 | ! Godolkin University |
| 4 | !! Character page for the setting of ''Series/GenV''. For the characters from ''Series/TheBoys2019'', see [[Characters/TheBoys2019 here]]. |
| 5 | |
| 6 | |
| 7 | ---- |
| 8 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 9 | |
| 10 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 11 | ->''"What kind of super are you?'''' |
| 12 | \ |
| 13 | The number one university for aspiring Superheroes. |
| 14 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ff4ff602_ab7a_403f_9caf_b026dbcd43be.png]] |
| 15 | ---- |
| 16 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: ''Slightly''. If only because God U's comic counterpart isn't even really a school, but a front for a cult that its founder, John Godolkin runs while sexually abusing and brainwashing all his "students". |
| 17 | * AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: As of now, God U isn't connected to the G-Men (who are confirmed to exist within the show's universe), despite the fact that G-Men and the comic version of the school are direct parodies of the X-Men and Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, respectively. |
| 18 | * AdaptedOut: |
| 19 | ** The namesake of the school, John Godolkin, is nowhere to be seen in the series. |
| 20 | ** Godolkin University does not appear to have any connection to the G-Men, G-Wiz, or Pre-Wiz groups, who do not appear to exist in this series. The G-Men have been mentioned in ''The Boys'' proper, but seem to be worldbuilding elements more than anything. |
| 21 | * AnswersToTheNameOfGod: The most common abbreviation for the university in the series is "God U"; this may serve to reinforce the AGodAmI attitude several older supes, namely Homelander, possess. |
| 22 | * CorruptedCharacterCopy: {{Downplayed|Trope}} - while Godolkin is a SuperheroSchool like the Charles Xavier Institute from ''ComicBook/XMen'', and has ''plenty'' of dark secrets, the students and staff don't appear to be dog-kicking baby eaters or a paedophilic cult as they were in the comics, instead coming off as a university with issues exacerbated by the students having super powers. |
| 23 | * DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The education at God U is eerily similar to the Division I college sports programs that serve as the gateway to professional sports careers in the United States. The young supes are constantly pitted against each other, put under pressure and build up their brands on the side, all in the hopes of being one of the few to eventually get drafted into a superhero team. And just like in college sports, there's no shortage of scandals, from students getting killed or maimed to the university covering up the crimes of their stars. |
| 24 | * DramaticIrony: The students of Godolkin are all working toward joining hero teams, unaware that Vought is creating adult-compatible Compound V that, if successful, will render them completely obsolete. |
| 25 | * LighterAndSofter: Even within the confines of the comic, Godolkin was infamous for being a cover for its founder to indulge in his paedophilic desires. [[DamnedByFaintPraise Anything that isn't a one-to-one adaptation of the organization would be softer than what was featured in the comics]]. |
| 26 | [[/folder]] |
| 27 | |
| 28 | !!Faculty |
| 29 | [[folder:Indira Shetty]] |
| 30 | !!Indira Shetty |
| 31 | [[quoteright:537:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/547a311c_1d7f_4589_9748_cb03e525dc72.jpeg]] |
| 32 | [[caption-width-right:537:]] |
| 33 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/ShelleyConn |
| 34 | |
| 35 | Dean of Godolkin University. |
| 36 | ---- |
| 37 | * AssholeVictim: She's [[spoiler:pretty much genocidal and put many young Supes, Cate and Sam included, through heavy abuse. The aforementioned Cate uses her powers to compel Shetty to [[PsychicAssistedSuicide off herself]], with Sam's encouragement.]] |
| 38 | * BigBad: Of ''Gen V'', being responsible for everything going on in The Woods. |
| 39 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: She treats Marie with sympathy and respect, but she personally oversees [[spoiler:an experiment on Sam that was meant to potentially paralyze him, coerced Cate into mind wiping her friends' memories to stop them from investigating the Woods by convincing her that she's "protecting" them, and is overseeing the creation of a Supe-killing virus]]. She sees it as a credit to herself that God U had "barely any" suicides after Compound V was revealed to the world. |
| 40 | * ConnectedAllAlong: [[spoiler: Her husband and child were killed in Flight 037.]] |
| 41 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: |
| 42 | ** [[spoiler:Cares very much about her daughter and husband that died on Flight 37.]] |
| 43 | ** Before [[spoiler:Cate makes her kill herself, Shetty tells her that she loves her. Cate, who can hear everyone's thoughts even without trying to, says that she knows Shetty loves her. (Though she still makes her kill herself.) The fact that Cate hears everyone's thoughts and said that Shetty ''does'' love her seems to indicate that, for all her manipulations, Shetty did come to love Cate.]] |
| 44 | * EvilPrincipal: She has full knowledge of what goes on in The Woods, but outwardly presents herself as a decent person who tries to help Marie navigate Goldokin U's social climate. |
| 45 | * FantasticRacism: [[spoiler:All Supes, but her students are under her direct care and she has absolutely no qualms about having them mentally and physically tortured both in and out of The Woods as part of her plan to make a virus to exterminate all Supes.]] |
| 46 | * FinalSolution: [[spoiler:This is her ultimate goal for Supes. She wants to use the virus for genocide.]] |
| 47 | * FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: [[spoiler:Homelander caused the death of her daughter and husband, so now she wants to wipe out all Supes. Everyone who's aware of this and not in on the plot rejects that as a justification.]] |
| 48 | * LaserGuidedKarma: Luke killed himself [[spoiler:because of the guilt he felt about his brother Sam being held captive by Shetty and her scientists.]] [[spoiler:Cate eventually uses her CompellingVoice to make Shetty do exactly that -- kill herself.]] |
| 49 | * LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler:Ultimately, the Flight 37 incident which caused the death of her daughter and husband led her to pursue a supe genocide.]] |
| 50 | * MirrorCharacter: She's pretty much the female version of Billy Butcher from the main show, as [[spoiler:both display FantasticRacism towards supes, and both have a FreudianExcuse where Homelander did something to their respective loved ones (In Billy's case, it's Homelander raping Becca, and in Shetty's case, it's her daughter and husband dying on Flight 37).]] Grace Mallory even made an implied comparison between her and Billy. |
| 51 | * {{Muggles}}: She's a normal human being who's in charge of a university full of supes. |
| 52 | * NonActionBigBad: Justified, given how she is just a {{Muggle}}. |
| 53 | * OutlivingOnesOffspring: [[spoiler: Her daughter and husband died on Flight 37, leaving her with a deep hatred towards superhumans.]] |
| 54 | * ParentalSubstitute: She puts on the act of a concerned mother to gain the trust of kids who have a troubled relationship with their parents (or no parents at all), and uses it to control them. She nearly manages to pull this off with Marie, [[spoiler:and successfully pulled this off with Cate]]. |
| 55 | * SlashedThroat: [[spoiler:Cate [[PsychicAssistedSuicide makes her kill herself]] this way.]] |
| 56 | * TragicBigot: [[spoiler:She wants to kill all Supes because Homelander, a Supe, was responsible for the death of her loved ones.]] |
| 57 | * VillainousLegacy: [[spoiler:Even after she died, Billy Butcher ends up being personally after the virus she created that would kill all supes. This ties into part of the main plot for Season 4 of the Boys.]] |
| 58 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: While experimenting on innocent Supes for the purpose of creating a virus that could kill them all off is undoubtedly evil and paints her as [[FantasticRacism a bigot towards Supes]], her primary motivation for committing genocide against Supes is to ensure that they wouldn’t harm more innocent humans, since her husband and daughter were victims of Supe negligence]]. |
| 59 | [[/folder]] |
| 60 | |
| 61 | [[folder:Coach Brink]] |
| 62 | !!Richard “Brink” Brinkerhoff |
| 63 | [[quoteright:500:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/richard_brinkerhoff.jpg]] |
| 64 | [[caption-width-right:500:]] |
| 65 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/ClancyBrown |
| 66 | |
| 67 | A renowned professor at Godolkin. |
| 68 | ---- |
| 69 | * AffectionateNickname: Almost everyone calls him "Brink." |
| 70 | * CastingGag: One of Clancy Brown's best-known roles as a voice actor is Lex Luthor in the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse; like Lex, Brinkerhoff is a wealthy VillainWithGoodPublicity and is considered a philanthropist, with the general public ignorant of what his ''actual'' involvement with superheroes is. |
| 71 | * DeadlyHug: [[spoiler:Luke is hugging him as he's set on fire.]] |
| 72 | * DeadStarWalking: [[spoiler:He's played by well known actor Clancy Brown and seems like he'll be a major character, only to be killed in the first episode by Luke]]. |
| 73 | * EarlyBirdCameo: First mentioned in ''The Boys'', episode 5 of season 3, where Blue Hawk mentions that both he and A-Train were trained by Brink. |
| 74 | * FictionalFieldOfScience: He is apparently the world's expert on superhero studies, with three doctorates on the subject. We don't know what they entail exactly. |
| 75 | * TheMentor: Seems to have been this for Luke and Jordan; in the past, he's also acted as one to A-Train, Queen Maeve, and Blue Hawk. |
| 76 | * PetTheDog: Zig-zagged. When the main characters discover that Brinkerhoff was in on the evil conspiracy, Jordan insists that he was good to them, giving them a prestigious position despite the controversy around them. The others insist that he was only ''friendly'' to Jordan while using them for his own purposes. |
| 77 | * PoliticallyCorrectVillain: For all of his faults, he does treat the bi-gender Jordan with far more respect than their parents, or any other member of Godolkin's board of trustees, do. |
| 78 | [[/folder]] |
| 79 | |
| 80 | [[folder:Polarity]] |
| 81 | !!Polarity |
| 82 | |
| 83 | [[quoteright:831:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fd65cfa7_d93e_47a4_a51b_234201b4a0e2.jpeg]] |
| 84 | [[caption-width-right:831:]] |
| 85 | |
| 86 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/SeanPatrickThomas |
| 87 | |
| 88 | Andre's father and a member of the board of trustees at Godolkin U. |
| 89 | ---- |
| 90 | * CastFromHitPoints: [[spoiler: It's revealed that his and his son's superpowers gave them irreparable brain damage.]] |
| 91 | * EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: He's referred to solely as "Polarity" by everyone else in the series, or "Dad" by Andre. |
| 92 | * {{Jerkass}}: He's a supe of Homelander's generation, so this is almost expected at this point. He dismisses Marie as a nobody whose blood powers make her a magnet for lawsuits and [[spoiler:gets visibly angry when Andre reveals he knows about "the Woods".]] |
| 93 | * MagnetismManipulation: His powers, hence his codename. |
| 94 | * PowerIncontinence: [[spoiler: During his interview with Cam Coleman, he suddenly loses control of his powers and destroys the set.]] |
| 95 | [[/folder]] |
| 96 | |
| 97 | !!Student Body |
| 98 | [[folder:Marie Moreau]] |
| 99 | !!Marie Moreau |
| 100 | [[quoteright:828:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/9e6ba4ba_d0ca_4e71_a98b_9358470f7192.jpeg]] |
| 101 | [[caption-width-right:828:]] |
| 102 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/JazSinclair, Jaeda [=LaBlanc=] (young) |
| 103 | |
| 104 | A freshman with the [[BloodyMurder ability to control blood]] who aspires to be the first black woman in the Seven. She accidentally killed her parents when her powers awakened during her first period, leaving her sister, Annabeth, the only survivor. She hopes to attain fame as a Supe in the Seven in order to reconnect with Annabeth. |
| 105 | ---- |
| 106 | * AccidentalMurder: Marie accidentally killed her parents when her powers awakened and went out of her control. |
| 107 | * AlliterativeName: Marie Moreau. |
| 108 | * AmbiguouslyBi: The "ambiguous" part causes Jordan to push her away [[spoiler:after they sleep together for the first time and wake up with Jordan in their female form]]. For her part, Marie never says out loud what her sexuality is, but it quickly becomes clear that she is attracted to Jordan both in their male form and their female form. |
| 109 | * AnonymousBenefactor: [[spoiler:Shetty reveals that someone outside of God U is sponsoring Marie, and apparently they have enough influence that Shetty is comfortable vetoing Cardosa's request to experiment on her. The benefactor is later revealed to be Victoria Neuman.]] |
| 110 | * AtrociousAlias: Andre tries giving her two different ones after they meet, "Bloody Marie" and "Coagula". She rejects both of them.[[note]]Funnily enough, there's already a Coagula, a ComicBook/DoomPatrol member, who can solidify or liquify objects.[[/note]] |
| 111 | * BadPowersGoodPeople: BloodyMurder is generally not a power associated with heroic characters, but Marie has a similar attitude to Annie[=/=]Starlight from the original show, believing that she can do good despite the inherent awfulness of Supe society. |
| 112 | * BeautyIsBest: Indira cites to Ashley that one of the reasons Marie became one of the most popular supes at Godolkin in a shot time, is because people find her beautiful, making in clear that her attractiveness is one of her most valued attributes. |
| 113 | * BelligerentSexualTension: With Jordan. It gets resolved in episode 4. |
| 114 | * BloodyMurder: She can manipulate blood; most commonly, she uses her own blood as a weapon, but she can control other people's blood as well. |
| 115 | * CommonalityConnection: |
| 116 | ** With Cate, as both her and Cate lost close family members of theirs when they awakened to their powers for the first time. |
| 117 | ** With [[spoiler:Victoria Neuman]], as they have the same powerset, they killed their parents in accidents related to the use of their powers, and ended up being sent to the Red River Institute. |
| 118 | * ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: If we treat this as a sequel to ''Series/TheBoys:'' |
| 119 | ** In contrast to Hughie Campbell: like Hughie, the catalyst for her life was a tragedy caused by superpowers. However, she's a Supe herself who became a SelfMadeOrphan, and is gradually realizing just how vapid and corrupt Supes as a whole are, vs. Hughie having his eyes opened all at once by Robin's death. |
| 120 | ** In contrast to Annie January[=/=]Starlight: Annie at least grew up with her mother, and thanks to her powers and appearance making her incredibly marketable, she was able to join the Seven without ever enrolling in Godolkin U. Because Marie is black, was raised in the [[OrphanageOfFear Red River Institute]], and has powers that would more likely be attributed to a supervillain than a hero found on the Seven, she has to work her ass off to even get a ''chance'' at joining. |
| 121 | * DarkSecret: Marie doesn't like letting people at Godolkin know that she killed her parents and is estranged from her sister because of it. She fabricates having a brother after a slip of the tongue to Emma, and Shetty outright tells her to lie about having parents who are still alive in order to score herself an agent. [[spoiler:Her opening up to Cate about this in Episode 3 allows them to commiserate over shared trauma.]] |
| 122 | * EarlyBirdCameo: Marie made her first appearance on ''The Boys'', episode 2 of Season 3, in a photo, being advertised as available for adoption. |
| 123 | * {{Foil}}: |
| 124 | ** Overlapping with GoodCounterpart, Marie is shaping up to one to [[spoiler:Victoria Neuman. Both have blood bending powers, both grew up in Red River and both have trauma related to killing their parents with their powers.]] The difference becomes clear in their first meeting and when one views their actions over their appearances. While Marie stays resolute in her desire to help others, rejects Vought and using the system for self-gain after seeing how broken it is, and refuses to use her powers to kill. [[spoiler:Neuman]] has only ever used hers for her own self-interest first and foremost and during their first meeting advises Marie to do the same to the latter’s disgust. |
| 125 | ** To Cate. For starters, they lost at least one closed loved one of theirs when they awaken to their superpowers, as Marie killed her parents while Cate's brother disappeared, and wasn't found since then. Their powers also have something to do with the human body, as while Marie [[BloodyMurder can control blood]], Cate [[{{Telepathy}} can control minds]]. [[spoiler:By the Season One finale, Marie ends up becoming a GoodCounterpart to Cate as well, as despite them having similar circumstances, Marie ends up not going through a FaceHeelTurn because of her upbringing like Cate did.]] |
| 126 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: In a moment of fright, she makes Rufus's penis [[{{Pun}} cock-splode]] when he's about to rape her, despite never having shown the capacity of use her blood powers to that degree. [[spoiler:It makes sense when you consider she and Victoria Neuman share the same powers.]] |
| 127 | * GoodScarsEvilScars: Marie has a nasty scar on her left palm that she's repeatedly opened due to her SelfHarmInducedSuperpower; its harsh red coloring codes it as evil, but it's more meant to illustrate how Marie sees herself as a monster for her role in her parent's deaths. |
| 128 | * GrassIsGreener: After accidentally killing her parents as a child, Marie lived several years at the Red River Institute with other abandoned Supes. In episode 1, she is desperate to get admitted to Godolkin University, believing anything is better than the orphanage, and for a while it is how she believes it. She manages to enter the top 10 in the student rankings, gets promoted and makes friends with unexpected people, until reality hits her hard in the face and realizes Godolkin is a {{Crapsaccharine|World}} place. By episode 6 already, she comes to see that Godolkin is not different from the place she grew up in. |
| 129 | * HopelessWithTech: ZigZagged. A major disadvantage Marie has at the start of the series is a complete lack of social media presence, due to her growing up in the Red River Institute, where she had to schedule access to a basic desktop computer. She doesn't even have a ''phone'' until the Godolkin U's social media manager gives her one. She had a phone as a kid, but doesn't know how to play the clout "game" that is necessary to get a presence among young supes. |
| 130 | * LovecraftianSuperpower: She can create weapons from her own blood. |
| 131 | * MenstrualMenace: Oh boy, if you thought your first period was bad, you’ve got nothing on Marie Moreau. She found out she could weaponize blood when she had her first period, and accidentally killed her parents with it. |
| 132 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: If she and Andre had just stood by and let [[spoiler:Sam]] escape, it's likely that Luke would still be alive. |
| 133 | * NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: When Andre accidentally cuts a woman’s throat at a night club, causing her to bleed out, Marie uses her powers to save her while Andre and the others bail. Brink decides to expel her as she was caught on camera to cover for Andre. [[spoiler:Fortunately, Brink's subsequent death at the hands of Golden Boy prevents this from going through]]. |
| 134 | * PubertySuperpower: Her blood powers manifested with her first period at age twelve. It is implied that most Supes get them earlier. |
| 135 | * PowerMisidentification: Initially, it's assumed that Marie's control over blood is confined to blood that's exited a body, like from a wound for example. However, [[spoiler: it's gradually reveled that she is able to control ''all blood'', and that her abilities are an undeveloped version of Victoria Neuman's "head-popping" power]]. |
| 136 | * RedIsHeroic: She is styled for her appearance on a TV interview in a scarlet pantsuit. Later, she wears a red ball gown to the Brink memorial. |
| 137 | * SearchingForTheLostRelative: Marie's main motivation for joining the Seven is to be able to reconnect with her sister, Annabeth, the last surviving member of her family. |
| 138 | * SelfMadeOrphan: She accidentally killed both her parents when her powers first manifested. |
| 139 | * SuperpowerLottery: While her ability seems rather specific at first glance, Cardosa refers to Marie as one of the potentionally most powerful supes ever created, which gets apparent the more she explores the full extent of her bloodbending over the season. She starts out being able to merely use her own blood as a whip or projectile, but over the events at God U she discovers that she can manipulate blood in both combative and healing natures: |
| 140 | ** She can reverse or slow massive blood loss in wounded bystanders. |
| 141 | ** Much like [[spoiler:Victoria Neuman]], [[spoiler:she can also explode body parts.]] |
| 142 | ** She can detect anomalies and foreign bodies inside other people's blood. |
| 143 | ** If she feels she has to, she can even kill living people, even fellow Supes, in a similar manner to cardiac arrest. This potentially makes her the most potent stealth killer in the show's universe, given how common heart attacks are. |
| 144 | ** She adds arrows to her blood-weapon arsenal, raining swarms of them on an opponent. |
| 145 | * ToBeAMaster: She wants to be the number one hero at Godolkin so she can be the first black female in the Seven. |
| 146 | * TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: When her blood powers first manifested, she was having her first period and lost control over them, which accidentally killed both of her parents. |
| 147 | [[/folder]] |
| 148 | |
| 149 | [[folder:Emma Meyer]] |
| 150 | !!Emma Meyer / Little Cricket |
| 151 | [[quoteright:829:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/9389cdc8_7c73_4cb9_961d_48fd0d3ff7e8.jpeg]] |
| 152 | [[caption-width-right:829:]] |
| 153 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/LizzeBroadway |
| 154 | |
| 155 | Marie's roommate, a sizeshifter. |
| 156 | ---- |
| 157 | * AlwaysSecondBest: She is well aware that her power isn't useful for crimefighting and that the best she can use it for is to make funny videos, and that she isn't particularly popular in school. This leads her to hook up with a random guy and even perform an act she didn't feel comfortable doing just to feel wanted. |
| 158 | * BrokenBird: Emma at first is a LovableSexManiac, but as the episodes continue, she reveals HiddenDepths as a traumatized, scared, and complex hero, with an emotionally abusive mother. |
| 159 | * ButtMonkey: In the first two episodes she is used for sex and discarded and then humiliated when a classmate exposes the method of accessing her superpower on social media. |
| 160 | * CastFromCalories: If dialog from Emma's mother is to be believed, her height is directly proportional to how much she consumes; [[spoiler:she has to purge herself in order to shrink, but to return to normal size, she has to eat. She can also grow larger by gorging herself.]] |
| 161 | * DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: |
| 162 | ** Emma's shrinking ability involves [[spoiler:vomiting to make herself smaller. She has to force it herself rather than it happening automatically, strongly evoking bulimia.]] However, Emma herself repeatedly insists that it is nothing like [[spoiler:bulimia]]. |
| 163 | ** A NoodleIncident at [[SuckECheeses Buster Beaver's]] led to Emma discovering she can also [[spoiler:increase in size by gorging]]. Her mother called her a monster and made her swear never to do it again. This is reminiscent of the stigma against [[spoiler:women who are perceived as {{Big Eater}}s]]. |
| 164 | * DontYouDarePityMe: Emma may have gone through a lot of bad shit, but she really, really ''hates'' being pitied. |
| 165 | * EmbarrassingSuperpower: Her size changing abilities are triggered by actions that are identical to an eating disorder. |
| 166 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: Emma is introduced as she's about to put on a boxing match with her pet gerbil for the sake of her livestream; immediately after returning to normal size, she's quick to offer Marie a variety of intoxicants. |
| 167 | * LethalHarmlessPowers: In "[=#ThinkBrink=]" her shrinking ability proves lethal to [[spoiler:a guard at the Woods when she goes into one ear and out the other.]] |
| 168 | * MoralityChain: Becomes this for [[spoiler:Sam]]. |
| 169 | * NiceGirl: She’s incredibly sweet and welcomes Marie with open arms, even offering her clothes to wear at social outings. Her kindness unfortunately leads to her being mistreated by others. |
| 170 | * PowerIncontinence: [[spoiler:Her size is directly proportional to her calorie intake; this means that if she gets too small, she becomes too weak to move from starvation. Her purging constantly to use her power is also causing her to lose the enamel on her teeth. Though, after a fight with Sam, she shrinks without having to purge, hinting that there's some kind of emotional component to her power she hasn't discovered yet.]] |
| 171 | * PowerPerversionPotential: In the pilot Emma [[{{Sizeshifter}} shrinks herself]] into a minuscule size at her partner's request to slide up and down his penis, as he has a fetish for this. |
| 172 | * SadClown: She acts peppy and goofy a good deal of the time, but it's meant to mask her immense social anxiety and inferiority complex. |
| 173 | * {{Sizeshifter}}: She has the ability to shrink, but unlike Termite's similar power hers comes with [[ShapeshifterBaggage a complication]]: [[spoiler:she has to force herself to vomit in order to reduce mass before she can change.]] However [[spoiler:if she gorges on food she can get considerably bigger, enough to subdue Sam.]] |
| 174 | * WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: She feels as if she's useless at fighting crime "at the size of a pickle", an attitude not helped by comments on her [=YouTube=] channel saying much of the same. Except that then she [[spoiler:kills a security guard by going through his ear and brain and then reveals that she can become huge if she gorges on food.]] |
| 175 | [[/folder]] |
| 176 | |
| 177 | [[folder:Cate Dunlap]] |
| 178 | !!Cate Dunlap |
| 179 | [[quoteright:829:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/4de7869d_035a_4720_97ed_2ca41f701aed.jpeg]] |
| 180 | [[caption-width-right:829:]] |
| 181 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' Maddie Phillips, Violet Marino (young) |
| 182 | |
| 183 | A young woman with a CompellingVoice, and Golden Boy's girlfriend. |
| 184 | ---- |
| 185 | * AbusiveParents: Her parents injected her with Compound V and when her powers manifested she accidentally caused her brother to go missing. Her [[NeverMyFault mother blamed her]] and kept her [[MadwomanInTheAttic locked away in her room for nine years]], treating her like a monster. This leaves Cate ripe for manipulation by Indira Shetty. |
| 186 | * AccidentalMurder: She inadvertently killed her little brother as a girl when he'd been annoying her by telling him to go into the woods and never come back. This happened to be the moment her CompellingVoice manifested, and so he did. He was never found. |
| 187 | * AntiVillain: [[spoiler:Cate has been a member of the conspiracy the whole time, though she was manipulated into participating and doesn't understand its full goals until later. Even when she goes genocidal on humans, she insists that she's trying to help her friends and fellow supes]]. |
| 188 | * AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: Marie makes her arm explode when she tries to push Jordan.]] |
| 189 | * BadPowersBadPeople: Zig-zagged. Cate has mind control powers, which is a common evil power, but seems to a pretty upstanding and sympathetic member of our heroes. Then [[spoiler:it's revealed that she's been in an on the conspiracy, making her a villain, though she's ultimately an AntiVillain]]. |
| 190 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: She is generally a nice person, but piss her off, and the results can be unpleasant. |
| 191 | ** When she hears Rufus making fun of [[spoiler:her boyfriend's death]] in "God U.", she [[MindRape directs him]] ([[TranquilFury without raising her voice]]) to go buy himself a baseball bat, and hit himself in the testicles with it every hour on the hour. |
| 192 | ** Later in "First Day", when rescuing Andre when he gets caught by a security guard, she compels the guard to perform oral sex on his partner's flashlight, and orders him to put it [[AssShove up his ass]] afterward (which isn't shown onscreen). |
| 193 | ** In "Sick", [[spoiler:she murders Shetty by [[PsychicAssistedSuicide compelling her to slit her own throat]] after getting her to divulge all the details of her plot to commit Supe genocide.]] |
| 194 | * CastFromHitPoints: Overusing her powers have dire consequences on her brain with seizures and potential aneurysms. |
| 195 | * CommonalityConnection: With Marie, as both her and Marie lost close family members of theirs when they awakened to their powers for the first time. |
| 196 | * CompellingVoice: She can do this provided she can make physical contact with the person. |
| 197 | * DragonAscendant: [[spoiler: She ends up murdering Shetty through forced suicide in episode 7, quickly taking the role as BigBad by the end of the first season.]] |
| 198 | * {{Foil}}: To Marie. For starters, they lost at least one closed loved one of theirs when they awaken to their superpowers, as Marie killed her parents while Cate's brother disappeared, and wasn't found since then. Their powers also have something to do with the human body, as while Marie [[BloodyMurder can control blood]], Cate [[{{Telepathy}} can control minds]]. [[spoiler:By the Season One finale, Cate ends up becoming an EvilCounterpart to Marie, as despite them having similar circumstances, Marie ends up not going through a FaceHeelTurn because of her upbringing, while Cate did.]] |
| 199 | * FindingJudas: In Episode 5, the main characters suspect Rufus of using his psychic powers to wipe the main their memories after discovering the truth about the Woods and Sam. They are convinced he is working with Dean Shetty to keep them from discovering the truth only to learn from Sam [[spoiler:that it was Cate all along.]] [[spoiler:It is revealed she was working with Dean Shetty from the very beginning. Her reasons are sympathetic enough, as she believed she truly was doing the right thing, and was herself manipulated by Shetty.]] |
| 200 | * GladToBeAliveSex: [[spoiler:After she saves Andre from campus security and spends some time passed out due to her PowerIncontinence, she and Andre have sex.]] |
| 201 | * HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: [[spoiler:At first, Cate was actually working with Shetty, but it was made clear that she was actually a RegretfulTraitor, and ultimately decides to help the heroes to take down Shetty for good. However, after she kills Shetty, she then pulls a FaceHeelTurn, and starts a school riot with Sam along with the other supes within The Woods.]] |
| 202 | * HighClassGloves: She wears stylish leather gloves so that she doesn't accidentally affect people with her CompellingVoice. |
| 203 | * ImaginaryFriend: Due to being locked in her room from when she was 9 until she was 18, she created a version of Soldier Boy to be her imaginary friend and boyfriend. |
| 204 | * MemoryWipingCrew: [[spoiler:She's capable of erasing chunks of other people's memories piecemeal, with Shetty and Brink having her repeatedly wipe Luke's memories so he doesn't know about what's going on with his brother. She also wipes the rest of her friends' memories in "Welcome to the Monster Club" at Shetty's request following a confrontation with Sam at Dr. Cardosa's house, though she reverses the memory wipe after her friends figure out what happened.]] |
| 205 | * MirrorCharacter: She grows into a somewhat similar role to Homelander by the end of Season one, if as a sympathetic anti-villain opposite to a sociopath with zero moral qualms. Cate herself is the resident blue-eyed platinum blond supe with a StoryBreakerPower, was kept closed in her own room for 9 years and abused by both her parents and Shetty, not different from how Homelander was kept in the dark room and abused his whole childhood. She grows to seriously resent humanity for the abuse she suffered, served as TheDragon to Indira, only to kill her surrogate mother for lying to her, similar to why Homelander kills Madelyn. |
| 206 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: [[spoiler: Gradually begins to resent non-powered individuals due to the abuse she suffered at the hands of Shetty or her parents. This culminates on the finale, where she justifies and leads a riot against innocent non-Supes.]] |
| 207 | * PosterGalleryBedroom: Cate's parents kept her isolated for years in a beautiful bedroom with girly decorations, posters of the Seven... and a blast door so she could not get out. |
| 208 | * PowerIncontinence: Needs to wear gloves to keep her hypnotic powers in check. [[spoiler: It's later revealed she also takes medication to dull her mind reading abilities too.]] |
| 209 | * RegretfulTraitor: [[spoiler:Shetty is pressing her to erase her friends' memories to keep them from looking too deeply into the Woods. It's obvious that Cate hates doing it but has been convinced by Shetty that she's "helping" them. She eventually chooses to confess to being the traitor and restore their memories]]. |
| 210 | * ShadowArchetype: [[spoiler:To Marie. Both of them caused family members to either die or disappear due to their TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening, and the family members that still remained alive and well wanted nothing to do with them. Cate represents if Marie were to lash-out, and develop a hatred for non-supes due to her upbringing.]] |
| 211 | * StrongerThanTheyLook: [[spoiler: She initially only seems to possess touch-based hypnotic powers, but "Jumanji" reveals she is actually a much more powerful telepath who not only can read thoughts, but even traps everyone (even Dusty) inside her mind.]] |
| 212 | * TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: Cate's parents never touched her again after she told her little brother in annoyance to go into the woods and never come back, unaware this would be the moment her CompellingVoice manifested itself. Caleb did just that, with them never finding him afterward. |
| 213 | * TwoTimingWithTheBestie: [[spoiler:Turns out she was sleeping with Andre long before Luke died. It’s unclear if Luke actually knew as his dying words were telling Andre how much he loved him.]] |
| 214 | * VillainWithGoodPublicity: [[spoiler: Her status in the finale. Despite leading a riot that killed dozens of humans, Vought covers her by claiming it was her who stopped the evil rampage Marie, Andre, Emma and Jordan caused.]] |
| 215 | [[/folder]] |
| 216 | |
| 217 | [[folder:Andre Anderson]] |
| 218 | !!Andre Anderson |
| 219 | [[quoteright:828:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/d4e12cbc_238f_4370_bb3b_5d6b69864f33.jpeg]] |
| 220 | [[caption-width-right:828:]] |
| 221 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/ChancePerdomo |
| 222 | |
| 223 | A high-ranking supe with MagnetismManipulation powers, and the son of the metal-controlling supe Polarity. |
| 224 | ---- |
| 225 | * AlliterativeName: Andre Anderson. |
| 226 | * AmbiguouslyBi: He never describes himself as bi, but he mentions in the first episode having a crush on A-Train from when he was younger, and he seems to show interest in both men and women. |
| 227 | * AmbiguousSituation: Andre has the same powerset as his father, but it's not clear if it's because he got dosed with Compound V as an infant and they just happened to share a powerset because of genetics or luck, or if Andre is a "natural-born Supe" like Homelander's son Ryan. |
| 228 | * BlackAndNerdy: Downplayed; he doesn't display stereotypical nerd interests that we've seen so far, but his ability to be a {{Technopath}} allows him to fulfill the role of the PlayfulHacker in the story. |
| 229 | * BoringButPractical: He has magnetic powers aren't as show-offy as blood manipulation or a CompellingVoice, but they can be used from a distance, are both useful offensively and [[MundaneUtility in non combat situations]] and allows for limited technopathy, which are far safer than a CompellingVoice that requires physical contact, less [[CastFromHitPoints harmful]] than blood manipulation and more useful than sizeshifting. [[spoiler: Subverted when it's revealed his powers are giving him brain damage.]] |
| 230 | * CastFromHitPoints: [[spoiler: Just like with his father, repeated usage of his powers will result in brain hemorrages.]] |
| 231 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: With Luke/Golden Boy. Though subtext implies that the only reason it didn't go beyond this was that Luke was dating Cate. |
| 232 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Andre has his rough edges and questionable decisions, but he has a good heart and genuinely wants to do what's right. |
| 233 | * LegacyCharacter: His father hopes to one day pass on the name "Polarity" to his son. Andre seems less enthusiastic about living in his father’s shadow. |
| 234 | * MagnetismManipulation: He can control magnetism, which he inherited from his father. |
| 235 | * SuperStrength: Downplayed. Whilst not to the extent of Sam, Luke or even Jordan, Andre's file mentions he can bench 200 pounds which whilst not beyond human capacity, is still incredibly strong for someone of Andre's size and build, who doesn't exercise regularly or take part in weight training. Andre likewise shows that he's able to effortlessly restrain ordinary people and choke Rufus with one hand. |
| 236 | * SuperToughness: Whilst the overall limits are presently unclear, Andre possesses enhanced durability. Whilst disabling and painful, he can take blows from [[spoiler: Sam]] that would flat-out kill ordinary human beings, without causing any permanent damage. His father flat-out tells him “...we’re made of steel.” |
| 237 | * {{Technopath}}: His MagnetismManipulation makes him a borderline case of one, since he can use it to override magnetic locks and even fingerprint readers. |
| 238 | * TwoTimingWithTheBestie: [[spoiler: Episode 6 reveals that Andre was sleeping with Cate long before Luke died. It’s also unclear if Luke actually knew as his dying words were telling Andre how much he loved him.]] |
| 239 | [[/folder]] |
| 240 | |
| 241 | [[folder:Jordan Li]] |
| 242 | !!Jordan Li |
| 243 | [[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/49419c7f_5e81_4bc0_ab3f_30b5d3e78f13.jpeg]] |
| 244 | [[caption-width-right:1000:]] |
| 245 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' Derek Luh (male form), London Thor (female form) |
| 246 | |
| 247 | A gender-shifter. Ranked #2 at Godolkin University at the start of the series, they serve as Brink's T.A. and are fiercely loyal to them. |
| 248 | ---- |
| 249 | * BelligerentSexualTension: With Marie. It gets resolved in episode 4. |
| 250 | * BoringButPractical: Their powers are pretty generic compared to their friends': SuperStrength, [[NighInvulnerable invulnerability]], SuperReflexes, SuperSenses and [[HandBlast shooting energy from their hands]], but they're reliable, easy to use, don't have any drawbacks, offer melee and close quarters options and go hand in hand with Li's martial arts training. This is best exemplified during Golden Boy's meltdown, where they are the one who manages to hold Luke for a while, and [[spoiler: the attack at Dr. Cardosa's house]], where while Andre is incapacitated pretty quickly, Cate can't get close enough, Marie can just slow him down [[spoiler: and Emma needs to sneak away to be able to grow in size and only stops Sam because of his feelings]], Jordan is able to last longer in direct combat. |
| 251 | * DudeWheresMyRespect: Jordan resents Marie for taking the credit for stopping Golden Boy's rampage, when Jordan is the one that does all the fighting. They also tend to be ignored and overlooked by Vought's marketing team and talent scouts due to the fact their gender makes them unviable in more conservative areas despite having an actually useful powerset. |
| 252 | * EasySexChange: Justified. Jordan is bigender and they can switch between their male and female forms in the blink of an eye, thanks to their superpowers. |
| 253 | * GuileHero: Whilst highly capable in a fight, Jordan is likewise very cunning and adaptable. Requiring [[WeNeedADistraction a distraction]] to allow Marie to talk to Victoria Neuman in episode 7, Jordan starts a brawl that escalates into multiple students fighting, then casually slips away unseen when security arrives to break it up. |
| 254 | * GoodIsNotNice: They're sulky and abrasive, but a decidedly good and heroic person. |
| 255 | * HandBlast: Their female form can project blasts of energy from the palm of their hands. Jordan can control the intensity of these blasts, ranging from using them to simply stun and disorientate individuals, to at full intensity flat-out kill opponents and send the likes of [[spoiler: Luke and Sam]] flying backwards quite a distance. |
| 256 | * InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Whilst working as Brink’s assistant and in their first meeting with Marie, Jordan comes across as aloof, apathetic, and overall smug towards her. However, throughout the rest of the season, it revealed that this is merely a front they project, and Jordan truthfully possesses multiple deep-seated insecurities, relating in large part to their struggles of getting people to accept and respect their bi-gender status and fears that people only want one side of them. As well as being very aware of the fact that despite how hard they work and train, and how useful their powers are overall, their gender identity along with their race and sexuality severely limit their chances of ranking high in Vought’s system due to not marketing well in more the conservative areas. |
| 257 | * ImmuneToDrugs: Justified as their enhanced durability and resilience also applies to narcotics and alcohol. During the party at the club, Jordan ingests large amounts of cocaine and molly, along with several drinks, yet comes across only somewhat high. They likewise don’t seem to have any issues with developing addictions, treating the affair as simply relaxing on a night out. |
| 258 | * InsecureLoveInterest: They aren't sure if Marie likes their female form, in addition to their male form. (There's ample evidence she does, though.) As they confided in Maverick, at least one previous partner had been unable to accept them in both their forms, with them fearing Marie would be the same. It is heavily implied these lingering insecurities are the reason for their previous preference for casual sex. |
| 259 | * LightningBruiser: In contrast to their male form, Jordan’s female form possesses enhanced speed, agility, and reflexes, to the point of being able to casually dodge attacks even from other supes. Likewise, they still possess superhuman strength and durability (though less than their male form) meaning their own blows land with the force capable of causing Golden Boy to stagger. |
| 260 | * LogicalWeakness: |
| 261 | ** Whilst still superhumanly durable, only Jordan’s male form is invulnerable. As such any damage they take whilst female will carry over to their male form. Accumulating too much will overwhelm them. |
| 262 | ** Whilst Jordan’s male form is invulnerable to damage, it does nothing to protect them from strangulation or suffocation as they still need to breathe. [[spoiler: At the end of their fight with Luke, when too weakened to break free, Luke nearly manages to choke them to death.]] |
| 263 | * LongHairIsFeminine: Jordan Li's female form has longer hair than their male form. It's {{downplayed}} though since this is only slightly longer and not in a very feminine style. |
| 264 | * MagicPants: Jordan's clothes also change with them when they switch sexes. |
| 265 | * MightyGlacier: In contrast to their female form, Jordan’s male form is invulnerable and even stronger. However, they are overall slow and inflexible (at least compared to their female form), making the form great for defence but not so effective in offence save at close range. |
| 266 | * MultipleDemographicAppeal: They drop in rankings after Golden Boy's death specifically because they ''don't'' have this, with multiple people saying that a bigender Asian individual wouldn't test well in Texan and Floridian markets. |
| 267 | * NighInvulnerable: Their male form exhibits this, being bulletproof and resisting the attacks of [[spoiler: Golden Boy]] and [[spoiler: Sam.]] |
| 268 | * RequiredSecondaryPowers: Jordan’s invulnerability manifests in them flat out absorbing any physical force used against them, rending them next to immovable to attacks. Bullets harmlessly drop to the floor, and even direct blows from Golden Boy or Sam are unable to knock them down. |
| 269 | * SexShifter: They can shift between male and female forms which have different powers. This is also tied to their identity as they're bigender. |
| 270 | * StanceSystem: Very rare non-video game example. Jordan's male form is stronger and has SuperToughness, while their female form is faster and has HandBlasts. |
| 271 | * SuperStrength: In both forms, Jordan possesses superhuman strength (although their male form is stronger). Capable of casually breaking through locked doors, breaking bones, and even landing blows that cause Golden Boy to stagger. [[spoiler: Notably during the campus brawl, it took two other Supes and constant eye blasts from a third to hold them down, and Jordan was able to unintentionally strangle another Supe without even realising they had done so.]] |
| 272 | * SuperToughness: Whilst not flat-out invulnerable like their male form, Jordan’s female form is still incredibly durable. [[spoiler: During their fight, Golden Boy threw them into a concrete pillar with enough force to cause the pillar to crack and it still only left them stunned. Likewise, being hit by the full intensity of another Supe’s eye beam that incinerates ordinary people on contact only caused them pain with no noticeable damage.]] |
| 273 | * TeachersPet: They are Brink's teacher's assistant, and it's shown that Brink greatly cares for them and helped shield Jordan from the marketing problems their gender usually causes with Vought's practices, and he's even willing to throw Marie under the bus to protect them. [[spoiler:It's telling that barely a day after Brink's death Jordan gets immediately dropped from Rank 2 to Rank 5 and suddenly dropped hard by Vought's marketing people due to how inviable they are with middle America.]] [[spoiler: It's revealed in "Jumanji" that he offered them the position as a bribe in exchange for their silence about Golden Boy's mental state.]] |
| 274 | * TestosteronePoisoning: Jordan ''wants'' to embrace their gender, which is both female and male. However, they clearly struggle with some internalized toxic masculinity. They seem to think that being seen as a man will make others take them more seriously (which probably isn't wrong -- Brink certainly treats them more seriously when they're in male form). Marie even calls them out for this in Episode 7, telling them they should stop "turning into a dude whenever you wanna make a point to us." |
| 275 | * TransRelationshipTroubles: They tried to change themself for their ex-girlfriend Jenny, who wanted them to present as a guy all the time. This is also why they initially try to suppress their feelings for Marie, assuming that she wants only one part of them (the guy side), not all of them. |
| 276 | * TransTribulations: Their parents are {{Heteronormative Crusader}}s who think that they only take on their female form (which they prefer Jordan did not use as Jordan was originally assigned male at birth) in order to piss them off. What's more, their gender has caused Vought (who owns Godolkin U) to brand them as basically unmarketable to "middle America", meaning their chances of ever becoming anything higher than a D-lister are slim. |
| 277 | * {{Tsundere}}: Is initially very dismissive and snarky toward Marie, with her returning the favour after being snubbed. They eventually fall for one another. |
| 278 | * TwoferTokenMinority: When a scandal rocks Godolkin University, Vought hesitates to spotlight Jordan even though they were the real hero of the hour because being both East Asian and bigender makes them a hard sell to middle America. Vought instead pushes Andre and Marie (who are black), although they did little more than stand by, because they're considered more palatable and will score points with the NAACP. |
| 279 | * WeakButSkilled: Downplayed. Jordan’s powers are reasonably impressive and well-rounded, however, they come across as decidedly mid-tier especially compared to the feats Luke, Marie, Clare, Sam, and Andre are capable of. However, Jordan’s main advantage is that unlike the others (and most Supes in general) they’re both highly trained in hand-to-hand combat and highly skilled in properly utilizing their powers to their full potential, with them expertly shifting forms in rapid sequence to use both power sets at their most advantageous. Thus, making them one of the most physically capable members of the main cast. |
| 280 | * WhatYouAreInTheDark: Despite showing an intense dislike of Marie in the first episode, they still become very protective of her when Luke goes on his grief-induced rampage, telling her to run and taking over the fight. |
| 281 | * WorkHardPlayHard: When it comes to their schooling Jordan is studious and dedicated to the point of near obsession. However, when they are off the clock they utterly love to party, as demonstrated whilst relaxing at the club to the point of casually consuming large amounts of cocaine and molly to unwind. |
| 282 | [[/folder]] |
| 283 | |
| 284 | [[folder:Luke Riordan]] |
| 285 | !!Luke Riordan / Golden Boy |
| 286 | [[quoteright:827:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/22342f3d_51b8_4c92_a055_52fe5880cf24.jpeg]] |
| 287 | [[caption-width-right:827:]] |
| 288 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/PatrickSchwarzenegger |
| 289 | |
| 290 | A pyrokinetic, and the top-ranked student on campus when the series starts. |
| 291 | ---- |
| 292 | * TheAce: Was Number One Ranking at Godolkin and a straight guarantee for the Seven. |
| 293 | * AllLovingHero: He seems to have been a genuinely good person and caring among supes, which is definitely a rarity among their vapid, fame-hungry community. He doesn't even blame his parents for injecting him and Sam with Compound V, the revelation of which drove some Supes to suicide. |
| 294 | * AmbiguouslyBi: Cate mentions a drawer of dildos got removed from his room, and he says he loves both Cate and Andre. |
| 295 | * AmbiguousSituation: It's not made clear if he knew about [[spoiler: Cate cheating on him with Andre]], though his reaction before he killed himself may indicate that he had no idea. [[spoiler: His appearance inside Cate's mind seemed to have been more of a representation of her guilt about it.]] |
| 296 | * BrokenAce: He was pretty good-looking, popular with his peers and set up to join the Seven. However, as the series progresses it's revealed he had some serious issues and was especially concerned about the wellbeing of [[spoiler:his brother Sam before learning of his suicide (which was a lie)]]. |
| 297 | * DrivenToSuicide: After finding out the dark secrets about Godolkin, he has a serious breakdown, kills Brink and almost goes on a rampage before Andre calms him down enough to realize what he’s done. He then flies up into the air and blows himself up. |
| 298 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: His fight with a much larger opponent in the stadium shows that he's both powerful and popular; sure, he [[AnArmAndALeg rips off his opponent's arms to end the fight]], but he knew his opponent had a HealingFactor that allowed his limbs to be reattached. |
| 299 | * FlyingBrick: He can fly and has super strength and durability. |
| 300 | * FlyingFirePower: He can do this, although it's less of a Superman-style and more akin to a rocket. |
| 301 | * InadequateInheritor: He's being groomed into becoming the eventual replacement of the now unstable and highly controversial Homelander. As a human being, he's inarguably a better person, but he doesn't appear to have quite the same diverse range of powers, let alone powers on the same level as Homelander's. [[spoiler:Then he goes off the rails, ends up publicly killing himself and gets written off as yet another rising star who didn't get to live up to his potential.]] |
| 302 | * LovableJock: While he's a supe and the "big man on campus" as it were, he's most definitely ''not'' {{Jerkass}} and manages to be the first character that Marie opens up to about her parents being dead. |
| 303 | * MrFanservice: [[FemaleGaze Aside from the obvious]], he is this also InUniverse, since his powers cause him to show a massive amount of skin every time he activates them. Brink even jokes about this when he reveals that Vought is making a suit that can handle his pyrokinesis. |
| 304 | -->'''Brink:''' No more showing your balls to America. |
| 305 | * TheNudifier: He burns his clothes off every time he uses his powers. An expensive unburnable suit was being worked on as part of his admission into The Seven. |
| 306 | * PlayingWithFire: He could turn into a flaming form similar to the Human Torch. |
| 307 | * PlotTriggeringDeath: His death in the first episode kicks off the plot of the rest of the series. |
| 308 | * PosthumousCharacter: More continues to be learned about him, what he had learned, and what he was like after his demise. |
| 309 | * RequiredSecondaryPowers: Downplayed. Of course he is immune to his own flames, but his clothes are not. |
| 310 | * SuperStrength: He was strong enough to tear The Incredible Steve's arms off. |
| 311 | * TranquilFury: How Luke acts when he confronts Brink, completely ignoring a comment Jordan makes about having a cocaine hangover. |
| 312 | * WalkingShirtlessScene: As a consequence of his powers, a ''lot'' of shots of Luke are nude from the waist up, showing off Schwarzenegger's physique. |
| 313 | [[/folder]] |
| 314 | |
| 315 | [[folder:Rufus]] |
| 316 | !!Rufus |
| 317 | |
| 318 | [[quoteright:828:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/d2e78674_f0e0_4e66_b3e8_78bd7383664e.jpeg]] |
| 319 | [[caption-width-right:828:]] |
| 320 | |
| 321 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/AlexanderCalvert |
| 322 | |
| 323 | A sleazy student from Godolkin University with psychic powers. |
| 324 | ---- |
| 325 | * AssholeVictim: It's hard to feel sorry for him when he is cracking insensitive jokes at best and [[spoiler: raping women]] at worst. |
| 326 | * BadPowersBadPeople: He has mind control powers, but unlike Cate, he's an all-around horrible person. |
| 327 | * ButtMonkey: Almost every time he appears on screen something bad happens to him. |
| 328 | * TheCorrupter: He introduces an impressionable Sam to SuperSupremacist rhetoric. |
| 329 | * DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: |
| 330 | ** Him using his powers to [[spoiler:try raping Marie]] is pretty reminiscent of a date rape, with her [[spoiler: blacking out and waking up confused with him exposing himself.]] |
| 331 | ** He wears a red-and-white baseball cap that looks suspiciously like a MAGA cap while leading the chant of a slogan only slightly modified from the infamous Unite the Right chants of white supremacists. |
| 332 | * FantasticRacism: Believes that Supes can do whatever they want, and humans are trying to oppress them. |
| 333 | * GroinAttack: Is on the receiving end of one, twice, once by Cate (who forces him to do it to himself) and once by Marie [[spoiler: who makes his penis explode after he tries to rape her.]] |
| 334 | * HateSink: He’s not the main villain of the story but [[spoiler: he’s a serial rapist who speaks ill of people who committed suicide and is in general a manipulative coward.]] |
| 335 | * PowerPerversionPotential: Rufus uses his power to induce LaserGuidedAmnesia in an attempt to rape Marie, and he has done this to other students. |
| 336 | * {{Psychometry}}: One of his powers. |
| 337 | * PunnyName: An incredibly dark example; Jordan calls him [[spoiler:"walking Rufenal", which is a pun on the date rape drug Rohypnol]]. |
| 338 | * RapeAsDrama: He uses his psychic powers to control women to have sex with him. |
| 339 | * RedHerring: [[spoiler: We're initially led to believe he is working with Indira to wipe the group's memories, partly as revenge for Marie blowing up his cock, but when confronted on it, says it couldn't have been him because his powers only work when he is near people. Cate is actually TheMole.]] |
| 340 | * SerialRapist: He nearly raped Marie, and it's revealed he'd raped Cate in the past, while it's likely they're far from the only ones. |
| 341 | [[/folder]] |
| 342 | |
| 343 | [[folder:Justine Garcia]] |
| 344 | !!Justine |
| 345 | [[quoteright:609:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/c01a2116_f00a_4703_8060_6db4181b6e96.jpeg]] |
| 346 | [[caption-width-right:609:]] |
| 347 | |
| 348 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' Maia Jae Bastidas |
| 349 | ---- |
| 350 | * AlphaBitch: She's a popular girl who uses her influence to tear down other women and draw clout off them. |
| 351 | * BadInfluencer: Boy is she. She will use anyone for social media clout, even if it means humiliating them by exposing their embarrassing secrets. |
| 352 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: She is initially very friendly and tries to help Emma towards gaining more self-confidence... and then casually betrays her by revealing to everyone her powers force her to behave like a bullimic. |
| 353 | * GoodThingYouCanHeal: She has a healing factor, which is revealed when Jordan cold clocks her with super strength breaking her jaw. She shakes it off and heals, giving Jordan a bitchy look. |
| 354 | * {{Hypocrite}}: In her video exposing [[RhymesOnADime Cricket's secret]] she tries to paint herself as against the insane body standards that society puts on women... While doing it entirely to gain Clout, all the while betraying a secret her friend had told her and causing Emma even more body issues, |
| 355 | * JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: She seems to have a nicer side when she tries to apologize to Emma for publicly revealing how she has to purge herself to use her shrinking powers, but then Emma notices Justine has her friend Harper recording the whole apology, and [[RejectedApology walks away]], realizing that Justine's simply apologizing for the sake of social media clout and to make herself look good. |
| 356 | * SkewedPriorities: While she is scared of [[spoiler: the superhuman riot happening on campus]], she really loses her mind when the wifi dies. |
| 357 | * {{Typecasting}}: She complains about it with Emma, citing she tended to get saddled with the role of MsFanservice who ends up killing the father. |
| 358 | [[/folder]] |
| 359 | |
| 360 | [[folder:Harper]] |
| 361 | |
| 362 | [[quoteright:602:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/7815d8a1_c0a0_4866_b45d_81ff09468324.jpeg]] |
| 363 | [[caption-width-right:602:]] |
| 364 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' Jessica Clemont |
| 365 | A student at Godolkin and friend/wingwoman of Justine's. |
| 366 | * BetaBitch: She’s Justine’s right hand. |
| 367 | * * {{Fetish Retardant}}: In-universe, she considers fellating her own tail for Internet views pretty disgusting, but Justine claims it's sexy. |
| 368 | * PrehensileTail: She has a long rodent like tail that she can move at will. |
| 369 | * SkewedPriorities: Just like Justine, she's more horrified of the wifi dying than [[spoiler: the bloody riots outside campus.]] |
| 370 | [[/folder]] |
| 371 | |
| 372 | [[folder:Maverick]] |
| 373 | !!Maverick |
| 374 | [[quoteright:828:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/8b85cbaa_2d10_49fd_878e_e5e6f8329381.jpeg]] |
| 375 | [[caption-width-right:828:]] |
| 376 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/NicholasHamilton (voice only), Curtis Legault (naked form) (''Gen V'') / Charles Altow (''The Boys'') |
| 377 | |
| 378 | Translucent's son, who serves as an R.A. at Godolkin. |
| 379 | ---- |
| 380 | * AscendedExtra: Was only very briefly seen during ''The Boys'' but here he is a minor recurring character. |
| 381 | * BestialityIsDepraved: [[AmbiguousSituation Maybe?]] He is seen being dragged by an alpaca simply refered to as Sloane, and exchanges some ambiguously flirty banter with it. Is he dating the alpaca? Or is he dating a shapeshifter who has a fixation on turning on an alpaca? Alternatively, he is dating a shapeshifter specifically so they can satisfy his fetish for alpacas. |
| 382 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: Gives some very helpful personal advice to Jordan and seems to be a well-liked RA in general, despite being a perverted nudist. |
| 383 | * CasualKink: At Dusty's, an alpaca is seen leading him by a dog leash. The only reaction this gets is a casual "Hey, Sloane" from Andre. Later, Maverick casually reveals to Jordan that he [[spoiler:uses his invisibility power to spy others at the showers (men AND women).]] Then he warns Jordan not to kink shame him. |
| 384 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Most of the time he is harmless, and is content with creepily wanking on the locker rooms, [[spoiler: but during the final battle he almost defeats Marie in a scene meant to paralel the Translucent vs. Butcher fight from all the way back to ''The Boys'' season one.]] |
| 385 | * DepravedBisexual: Admits to peeping on both men and women. Also seen fooling around with an alpaca. |
| 386 | * ExtremeOmnisexual: Episode 5 reveals that he spies on both women and men in the showers. And he is dating someone who's taken the form of an alpaca. Assuming of course that Sloane is a shapeshifter and [[BestialityIsDepraved not an actual alpaca]]... |
| 387 | * InvisibleStreaker: Wears nothing but his hat and glasses most of the time, shedding them to go undetected. |
| 388 | * PowerPerversionPotential: Just like his father. |
| 389 | * SuperpowerfulGenetics: Like his father, he can turn invisible. |
| 390 | * SuperToughness: Averted, [[spoiler: as the final battle shows]] he didn't inherit his father's invulnerable skin. |
| 391 | [[/folder]] |
| 392 | |
| 393 | [[folder:Incredible Steve]] |
| 394 | !!Steve |
| 395 | [[quoteright:562:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/f4d27529_aef6_4634_a356_0fbc28a56b6f.jpeg]] |
| 396 | [[caption-width-right:562:]] |
| 397 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' Warren Scherer |
| 398 | |
| 399 | * GoodThingYouCanHeal: To demonstrate how skilled and powerful Golden Boy is, Steve has his arms ripped off by the schools [[TheAce ace]] during a match. Luckily the can reattach, which Golden Boy helps him do. |
| 400 | * GroinAttack: Downplayed and zig-zagged. he description for one of the episodes claims someone stole his penis, and he is looking to retrieve it, but he obviously can reatatch it and seems more annoyed than anything. |
| 401 | * ScaryBlackMan: Subverted. He’s a large imposing man but after the match he's shown to be on good terms with his opponent. |
| 402 | [[/folder]] |
| 403 | |
| 404 | [[folder:Steve]] |
| 405 | !Steve |
| 406 | [[quoteright:360:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fbf81fd4_04e1_48eb_9d26_116e156c2867.jpeg]] |
| 407 | [[caption-width-right:360:]] |
| 408 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' Adrian Pavone |
| 409 | |
| 410 | * AnIcePerson: Has control over ice which he usually uses to create ice slides in the dorm halls for parties. |
| 411 | [[/folder]] |
| 412 | |
| 413 | [[folder:Tyler Oppenheim]] |
| 414 | !!Tyler Oppenheim |
| 415 | [[quoteright:732:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/43fec86f_458d_4a85_b412_931bddc643e4.jpeg]] |
| 416 | [[caption-width-right:732:]] |
| 417 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' Siddharth Sharma |
| 418 | * {{Intangibility}}: He can walk through walls. |
| 419 | [[/folder]] |
| 420 | |
| 421 | |
| 422 | !!"The Woods" |
| 423 | [[folder:The Captive (UNMARKED SPOILERS)]] |
| 424 | !!Sam Riordan |
| 425 | |
| 426 | [[quoteright:668:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/e3b29028_ee39_47e6_a8f6_8ae84c7bd0b1.jpeg]] |
| 427 | [[caption-width-right:668:]] |
| 428 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' Asa Germann, Cameron Nicoll (Young) |
| 429 | |
| 430 | Luke's little brother, whom he believes to be dead. In reality, his death was faked and he was moved into "The Woods", a facility underneath Godolkin University. |
| 431 | ---- |
| 432 | * AxCrazy: Compound V and torture has left Sam incredibly violent and dangerous and it didn’t take much to radicalized him into a weapon against non Supes. |
| 433 | * ElementalMotifs: Sam has a subtle water motif. His favorite film is ''Film/{{Waterworld}}'', and the first hallucination we see from his perspective involves a muppet version of the Deep, one of the only aquatic heroes known to exist in this universe. He also invokes an AliceAllusion when discussing Emma's powers, and the segment he's referencing with the size-changing food ends with Alice crying so much she causes a flood. |
| 434 | * FaceHeelTurn: Ultimately, thanks to Rufus corrupting him, he pulls one at the Season One Finale, as he, Cate, and the supes within The Woods participate in a school riot. |
| 435 | * FakingTheDead: His suicide was faked so he could be moved to the Woods for unknown reasons. |
| 436 | * HeroicBSOD: After Emma tells him Luke committed suicide, he has a breakdown. |
| 437 | * HeWhoFightsMonsters: He suffers horribly at the hands of Indira Shetty, who wants to genocide all the Supes. But eventually he starts falling into the ''opposite'' side of extremism, believing that Supes are inherently superior to non-powered folks. |
| 438 | * ImaginaryFriend: Towards the end of the first season, Sam’s reluctance, and guilt over him becoming radicalised and following Clate, manifests in him hallucinating Luke. Who acts as his loving older brother and acts as his conscience encouraging him to do the right thing. Unfortunately, Sam’s own self-loathing convinces him to ignore Luke’s advice, and he accepts Clate’s offer to remove said feelings, causing him to also fade. |
| 439 | * ImmuneToBullets: The high calibre machine gun fire utilised by the Vought security team dispatched to handle him was utterly ineffectual even at point blank range, to the point that Sam flat out hallucinated that their guns were merely firing popcorn at him. |
| 440 | * InASingleBound: His enhanced strength grants him the ability to cover impressive distances in a single jump. Andre flat-out states his ability is comparable to Queen Maeve’s. |
| 441 | * InsaneEqualsViolent: Zigzagged. It’s made apparent that Sam’s intense violent nature is not linked to his schizophrenia or emotional instability. Being instead the result of the torture and trauma, he was subjected to during his imprisonment. However, his mental illness does feed into his overall confusion, anguish, and trauma, all of which go towards making him all the more violent. |
| 442 | * TheJuggernaut: Thanks to his strength and durability, once Sam gets going, he’s virtually unstoppable, with him casually tearing through a team of heavily armed soldiers like they were tin foil. |
| 443 | * TheMentallyDisturbed: He has schizophrenia, which he blames on his parents administering him Compound V. He thinks Emma is a hallucination when she comes to scout his location. |
| 444 | * MoodSwinger: Sam's emotional instability manifests like this. Sam can go from calmly talking to people, to homicidally angry the second something triggers him (even something as minor as an offhand comment). |
| 445 | * MoralityPet: Following forming a bond with her, Sam develops this towards Emma (along with them developing feelings towards each other), with Emma being the only one (except Luke) who can talk Sam down when going through his emotional instability and rage. Unfortunately, in the season one final, Sam ends up [[KickTheMoralityPet rejecting Emma]], having convinced himself that Emma must have an ulterior motive and not really care for him. With him committing himself to Cate’s super-supremacist agenda. |
| 446 | * {{Muppet}}: These seem to be a frequent feature of his hallucinations. He hallucinates a Muppet version of the Deep talking to him on ''Avenue V'' alongside Creator/JasonRitter, telling him to kill Dr. Cardosa. He also accuses the main cast of all being puppets. It's revealed in later episodes that he sometimes hallucinates people as puppets while under stress, such as when he massacres a squad of guards sent to retrieve him, and Emma when he's having sex with her. |
| 447 | * MrFanservice: Played by the very attractive Asa Germann and his PrettyBoy appearence, and gets plenty of shirtless scenes. |
| 448 | * PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Shows shades of becoming this, since after the rally at campus he begins to think that being a superhuman makes him superior than regular people, and he is being oppressed. It's hinted that his time being tortured on The Woods is a partial motivation for this. Confirmed during the finale where he is TheDragon to Cate's riot. |
| 449 | * PrettyBoy: Sam has more boyish and delicate looks than his older brother, has a slightly gaunt appearance, his shirtless scenes show he has a pack of muscles despite being incarcerated in many sanatoriums for years and Emma considers him hot. |
| 450 | * SuperStrength: Seems to be his primary power, as he's powerful enough to dent metal. Shetty says he's actually stronger than his brother, and she, Brink, and Cardosa were even transfusing Luke with Sam's blood to make him stronger. It's heavily implied that Sam is one of the strongest natural Supe’s in existence. |
| 451 | * StrongerSibling: PlayedWith. Whilst Sam lacks Luke’s other powers, in terms of raw strength he’s stated to be stronger than his brother by several times. |
| 452 | * TragicBigot: Non-powered humans kept him captive, experimented on him, and subjected him to extreme cruelty. He later ends up getting radicalized, believing that [[FantasticRacism normal humans are inherently inferior to supes]]. |
| 453 | * UnskilledButStrong: Sam possesses no formal combat training and limited emotional control, thus during fights he simply flails around striking whoever is closest. His incredible strength and durability mean this is rarely an issue, with him able to casually rip through multiple opponents without being in danger of sustaining any damage. However, it hits a fault when he comes up against Jordan, who is both strong enough to take his attacks and skilled enough to fight back. Whilst he still doesn't outright lose (due to the fight being interrupted), he is notably unable to hurt Jordan and is sent flying by their energy blast. |
| 454 | * UnwittingTestSubject: He's being experimented on by the staff at God U for currently unknown reasons. |
| 455 | * WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Sam, at least, believes he wouldn't have schizophrenia if he hadn't been dosed with Compound V. |
| 456 | [[/folder]] |
| 457 | |
| 458 | [[folder:Edison Cardosa]] |
| 459 | !!Dr. Edison Cardosa |
| 460 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/edison_cardosa_gen_v.png]] |
| 461 | [[caption-width-right:350:]] |
| 462 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' Marco Pigossi |
| 463 | |
| 464 | The doctor in charge of the experiments in the Woods. |
| 465 | ---- |
| 466 | * AffablyEvil: He's very much fine with torturing innocent college kids ForScience, but he's also a level-headed man with a thoroughly genteel and normal demeanor. |
| 467 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Dr. Cardosa is very protective of his husband and daughter when Sam invades their home in the final scene of "The Whole Truth". |
| 468 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler: He's appalled at Shetty's decision to create an airborne virus that could potentially wipe out all superhumans, although it seems he's actually more worried about what could happen to him if he was discovered to be involved rather than any real moral concerns.]] |
| 469 | * ForScience: He considers his experiments to be the key to "humanely" controlling Supes. He also doesn't mind if innocent young people get tortured to achieve this goal of humane control. |
| 470 | * HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler:Just when he is about to leak everything going on within The Woods, Victoria ends up making his head explode.]] |
| 471 | * StraightGay: He is married to another man and is raising a daughter with him. Neither fall into gay stereotypes. |
| 472 | * TwoferTokenMinority: He's gay and played by a Brazilian actor, who speaks English with a Brazilian accent. |
| 473 | * YourHeadAsplode: [[spoiler:Victoria kills him this way after he tries to leak what's happening at The Woods to the government, not realising she's in league with Vought.]] |
| 474 | [[/folder]] |
| 475 | |
| 476 | !!Others |
| 477 | [[folder:Sloane]] |
| 478 | !!Sloane |
| 479 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' Unknown |
| 480 | |
| 481 | A black-and-white alpaca... or possibly not. |
| 482 | ---- |
| 483 | * AmbiguouslyHuman: It's not made specifically clear if she is a human shapeshifter or an actual animal. |
| 484 | * AmbiguousSituation: Is she an actual alpaca? A shapeshifting Supe whose default shape is an alpaca? A Supe alpaca? Not much info is presented and she’s never seen as anything but an alpaca who walks the campus grounds and hooks up with Maverick. |
| 485 | * FantasticallyIndifferent: No one really bats an eye at there being an alpaca on campus who seems to be dating a student. |
| 486 | * PhraseCatcher: Everyone always greets her with a casual "Hey, Sloane". |
| 487 | [[/folder]] |
| 488 | |
| 489 | [[folder:Dusty]] |
| 490 | !!Dusty |
| 491 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' Andy Walken |
| 492 | [[quoteright:361:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dusty_37.png]] |
| 493 | [[caption-width-right:361:]] |
| 494 | A 28-year-old supe whose power is deaccelerated aging. A former student of Godolkin, Dusty is known for throwing off-campus parties. |
| 495 | ---- |
| 496 | |
| 497 | * TheLoad: When he gets sucked into [[spoiler:Cate]]'s mind, he has trouble keeping up with the others. |
| 498 | * NiceGuy: He’s a decent enough person, albeit a little annoying. |
| 499 | * OlderThanTheyLook: He is 28 years old, but his appearance is that of a 12 year old. |
| 500 | * {{Slimeball}}: Just a tad. He throws parties for college students where he hooks up underage drinkers with booze despite being 28 himself, which is more than a little sleazy. The main cast all seem to regard him as untrustworthy. |
| 501 | * TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: He is constantly drinking. Justified on account of his real age of 28. |
| 502 | * UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:He's blown up by the memory of Golden Boy when he's dragged into Cate's mindscape, but we've yet to receive confirmation that YourMindMakesItReal, so it's uncertain whether he's alive]]. |
| 503 | [[/folder]] |
| 504 | |
| 505 | [[folder:Imaginary Soldier Boy]] |
| 506 | !!"Soldier Boy" |
| 507 | ->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/JensenAckles |
| 508 | [[quoteright:995:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/soldier_boys_cameo___gen_v___prime_video_2_33_screenshot_1.png]] |
| 509 | [[caption-width-right:995:]] |
| 510 | Cate's childhood imaginary boyfriend, who she based on Soldier Boy. For information on the real Soldier Boy, go [[Characters/TheBoys2019SoldierBoy here]]. |
| 511 | ---- |
| 512 | |
| 513 | * CessationOfExistence: ''Presumably'' what happens to him. Cate's seizure erases completely erases him from her mind, which is about as dead as an imaginary entity can get. |
| 514 | * CrazyJealousGuy: Downplayed, but he seems to dislike Andre for dating Cate. |
| 515 | * ImaginaryFriend: Cate's, to be precise. Although he's more like an imaginary friend with benefits. |
| 516 | * JerkAss: To rival the genuine article. |
| 517 | * ManChild: Since he was made by the mind of a young girl, he pretty much acts like a 14-year-old. |
| 518 | * MrExposition: Explains to the crew that Cate's mind is collapsing and her memories are being wiped right before dying. |
| 519 | |
| 520 | [[/folder]] |
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