Line #13 Characters/CloakAndDaggerMarvelComics


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5	!!Cloak and Dagger
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7	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/15428254674551.jpg]]
8	Cloak and Dagger are a pair of superheroes in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse. Originally appearing in ''[[Comicbook/SpiderMan Spectacular Spider-Man]]'' #64 (March, 1982), they were created by Creator/BillMantlo and Ed Hannigan. While never having been A-listers along the lines of ComicBook/TheMightyThor or ComicBook/IronMan, with their series often getting canceled after a very short period, they have a distinct cult following, which is somewhat tinted by nostalgia due to their [[TheEighties 1980s]] background. They often team-up with other superheroes, namely ComicBook/SpiderMan, who is a good friend. Before the series was cancelled, they also had a brief membership in the ComicBook/NewWarriors. Their most memorable recent appearances were in ComicBook/{{Runaways}} and [[ComicBook/DarkReign Dark]] ComicBook/XMen.
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10	Tandy Bowen and Tyrone Johnson, a pair of teenage runaways, are experimented on by the mob, who are trying to create a new drug substitute for heroin. It proves fatal to all they test it on but the pair, who gain superpowers from the event. Tandy can throw daggers of light, which can also purge unhealthy chemicals from a target as well, while Tyrone's powers were [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands originally]] to suck people into a dark dimension where he would strip them of their light. Together, they battle the drug trade while trying to balance out normal lives.
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12	In 2013, Cloak and Dagger were made part of the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel Universe when they debuted in ''[[ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan Ultimate Comics Spider-Man]]'' with a new origin story. In this world, Ty Johnson and Tandy Bowen were the student council presidents of rival schools who, en route to Prom together, were involved in a vehicular accident, and then secretly taken by the Roxxon Corporation and pumped full of [[AppliedPhlebotinum Dark Matter]], resulting in the explosive awakening of their powers. They have been members of the ComicBook/AllNewUltimates.
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14	In 2016, Creator/{{Freeform}} (part of the Creator/{{Disney}} -- Creator/{{ABC}} Television Group, and sister brand to Creator/{{Marvel}}) announced they'd ordered a television series starring the duo, starring Creator/OliviaHolt as Tandy and Aubrey Joseph as Tyrone. The series, also titled ''[[Series/CloakAndDagger2018 Cloak & Dagger]]'', premiered in 2018.
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16	!!Comics featuring them:
17	* ''Cloak and Dagger'' Vol. 1 (October, 1983-January, 1984). 4 issues.
18	* ''Cloak and Dagger'' Vol. 2 (July, 1985-March, 1987). 11 issues.
19	* ''Strange Tales'' Vol. 2 (April, 1987-September, 1988). An AnthologyComic which they shared with ComicBook/DoctorStrange, for 18 issues. The 19th (and final) issue was a [[ADayInTheLimelight spotlight issue]] for supporting character Mayhem/Brigid O'Reilly.
20	* ''Marvel Graphic Novel'' #34: ''Predator and prey'' (June, 1988).
21	* ''Cloak and Dagger'' Vol. 3 (October, 1988-August, 1991). 19 issues. The full title for most of the series was ''The Mutant Misadventures of Cloak and Dagger'', but it was shortened for the last year or so.
22	* ''Cloak and Dagger and Power Pack: Shelter From the Storm'' (1989). A crossover in graphic novel form.
23	* ''Cloak and Dagger'' Vol. 4 (May, 2010). A one-shot.
24	* ''Spider-Island: Cloak and Dagger'' (October-December, 2011). 3 issues.
25	* ''[[ComicBook/TheUltimates All-New Ultimates]]'' (April, 2014-January, 2015). 12 issues.
26	* ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015: Runaways'' (2015). 6 Issues.
27	* ''Cloak and Dagger'' Vol 5 (June, 2018). Digital Original.
28	* ''ComicBook/SpiderManLifeStory'' (2019).
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30	!!''Cloak and Dagger'' provides examples of:
31	* AbortedArc: Their ''Spider-Island'' tie-in ended with a SequelHook suggesting confrontations a cult, D'Spayre, Nightmare, travels to other dimensions, all started by Mr. Negative attempting to delay his prophesied death at Tandy's hand, which he kicked off by using his touch to switch their powers. It was only partially resolved years later when their powers were switched back in ''[[ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManDanSlott Dan Slott's Spider-Man]]'' which still left the future killing unresolved.
32	* AdultsAreUseless: Subverted in their series. With the exception of Tandy's stepfather, who is more PlayedForLaughs than anything else, most of the adults who help the duo are capable and responsible. It comes full circle in ''Runaways'' when they are the only ones who get anywhere close to helping the teens.
33	* ArmedFemalesUnarmedMales: Dagger, the female of the pairing, is able to create "daggers" of light that can achieve a variety of effects, from outright killing truly wicked people due to the shock to their system, to purging drugs and addiction from those merely led astray. Cloak, the male of the team, by comparison, is a living shadow, his "body" beneath his signature cloak a portal to another realm, one that will freeze the soul of anyone unfortunate enough to enter without the protection of Dagger's light.
34	%%* BeastAndBeauty
35	* BeautyEqualsGoodness: It's mentioned by almost every male character who lays eyes on Dagger that she looks like an angel.
36	* TheBigRottenApple: Since they were created in the early '80s and focused on combating drugs and prostitution, C&D spent a lot of time in this milieu. It's lampshaded in their ''Spider-Island'' miniseries, where the characters talk about how different New York is now and the old Holy Ghost Church is bulldozed for urban renewal.
37	* BroughtDownToNormal: This seems to happen on a regular basis if the writers think it will move the plot forward, especially to Cloak. One notable instance is when Tandy's father strips them of their powers in a HeroicSacrifice after he has a WhatHaveIBecome moment.
38	* CantLiveWithoutYou: Mild example, but they need each other's powers to survive or they could die.
39	** Some writers tend to abandon this: in the ''League of Losers'' alternate future, Dagger pursued a superhero carrier after Cloak was killed.
40	* ChristianityIsCatholic: Their base of operations is sometimes an abandoned Catholic Church. Tandy's Uncle Mike is a priest.
41	* CreateYourOwnVillain: Of the "made an existing villain worse". Shriek, who was introduced in ''ComicBook/MaximumCarnage'', is revealed in the second issue to have been a somewhat crazy drug-dealer whom was enveloped in Cloak's darkness... which activated her own latent mutant powers and rendered her homicidally insane, to the point she ended up in Ravencroft Asylum after going on a killing spree. And she gained InsanityImmunity to Cloak's powers in the process.
42	* ContagiousPowers: People directly exposed to their powers often end up getting some facsimile of them if they don't outright [[PowersAsPrograms absorb them completely]] like one story arc of ComicBook/NewMutants did. Most often occurred with Cloak [[DemonicPossession due to the nature of his powers]].
43	* DanceBattler: Tandy utilizes her [[IKnowMaddenKombat ballet training]] when fighting.
44	* DependingOnTheArtist: While Tandy gets drawn relatively consistently, the same can't be said for her partner. Cloak gets drawn looking like anything from a normal guy with his face in the shadows to a ghoulish monster that doesn't even look human anymore.
45	* EvilCostumeSwitch: When Tandy gets brainwashed evil, her entire costume, even the ring around her eye, turns black. Cloak's costume, meanwhile [[LightIsNotGood turns white]].
46	* {{Fanservice}}:
47	** MrFanservice: Tyrone [[NakedOnArrival ends up naked when he's depowered]], which tends to happen a lot.
48	** MsFanservice: Tandy has a [[SensualSpandex skin-tight costume]] with [[NavelDeepNeckline most of her navel]] and the [[{{Sideboob}} sides of her breasts]] exposed.
49	* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Especially in the duo's early days, blonde Dagger was the sweet and friendly counterpart to Cloak's harsher outlook.
50	* HorrorHunger: Cloak (or the being living inside his cloak, depending) has this for the "light" of human lives.
51	* LightDarknessJuxtaposition: Their entire motif. Cloak is a brooding dark-haired African guy in black who wields a cloak of darkness, while Dagger is a sweet blonde Caucasian woman in white who wields daggers of light. They not only work together but need each other, as Cloak hungers for light consumption while Dagger needs to constantly expel light, meaning both of them quell each other's urges.
52	* LightEmUp: Tandy's daggers are composed of pure light that can purge drug addictions.
53	* LightLiegeDarkDefender: Part of the duo's original dynamic. Both were somewhat insular and completely devoted to each other, but Dagger (the light wielder) was still an optimistic person, and fairly outgoing, which attracted the attention of other heroes willing to be friendly. Cloak, who is darkness personifies, was much less friendly and tended to be quite off-putting to other people. But the quickest way to find yourself getting sucked into the Dark Dimension that was his cloak was to be perceived as a threat to Dagger. Those who knew about Dagger's powers being used to keep Cloak's hunger for life energy in check often mistook the relationship for StockholmSyndrome, but Cloak proved repeatedly that he saw Dagger as more than just a convenience.
54	%%* LovecraftianSuperpower: Cloak.
55	* MaleMightFemaleFinesse: Cloak, a MightyGlacier type hero paired with Dagger, a FragileSpeedster type with SheFu. Cloak enfolds villains and mooks in the darkness of his cloak, wherein they come face-to-face with their own wickedness. Baddies emerge quivering, terrified wrecks. Dagger is an angelic young woman who has had ballet and dance lessons, and can fling "light-knives" that can cause villainous BSOD, or "cure" substance addiction.
56	* MoralityGuidedAttack: This is how Cloak and Dagger vanquish adversaries. Cloak can enfold them in darkness, wherein villains encounter their own wickedness face to face, which often leaves them a quivering, neurotic wreck. Dagger can fling "light knives" which can stagger {{mooks}} and paralyze villains. Interestingly, Dagger's light knives had no effect on ComicBook/DoctorDoom, who has never regarded his actions as evil, but rather as his rightful destiny.
57	* MostCommonSuperpower: Dagger fulfills this trope, but she's surprisingly better proportioned than some of the superheroines in Marvel.
58	* NightAndDayDuo: A large part of Cloak and Dagger's Motif given tandy has a command over light and healing while Tyrone can command darkness and travel vast distances within it.
59	* PowersAsPrograms: They switch powers during the ''ComicBook/SpiderIsland'' event. Their powers are also switched in ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015 Runaways''. They still keep their respective Light and Dark sources to them though.
60	* PowersViaPossession: Cloak is covertly possessed by a demonic entity from the Darkforce Dimension known only as [[NamesToRunFromReallyFast Predator]] who compels his HorrorHunger. Sometimes he'll [[ContagiousPowers grant his powers to another, more proactive host]].
61	* RoguesGallery: D’Spayre, Mr. Jip, Mayhem, Ecstasy, Night & Day, Nightmare (borrowed from Dr Strange), Shriek (borrowed from Spider-Man), and Mister Negative (also borrowed from Spider-Man).
62	* ShownTheirWork: The writers did a lot of research when Dagger was blind, using many techniques utilized by the blind in real life, and even printed the names of books and people they had interviewed in their letters page.
63	* {{Stripperiffic}}: Dagger's costume is a bodysuit with a dagger-shaped cutout that DependingOnTheArtist can give her a CleavageWindow or be a full blow NavelDeepNeckline.
64	* SuperpowerfulGenetics: Dagger seems to have partly inherited her powers from her biological father the Lord of Light/Nathan Tyler. He had the power to drain the life-force of other beings and manifest it as a blinding light.
65	* SuperSerum: They got their powers from being injected with drugs. Not the most family-friendly backstory, as was lampshaded in Runaways.
66	* TemporaryBlindness: Dagger has a lengthy case of it which lasts over a year, creating one of the more interesting story arcs. She learns to readjust to being both a blind person and superhero, and once she is cured, her spatial awareness is left heightened.
67	* VagueAge: Orginally averted, as Tandy and Tyrone were said to be 16 and 17 years old, respectively, and were around the age of the New Mutants. Now, it's a little harder to pin down exactly how old they are supposed to be, but a safe estimate is at least somewhere in their 20s.
68	* VampiricDraining: Cloak's altered physiology demands that he regularly feed on spiritual energy, or "light", from other people. Without it, he begins suffering withdrawal-like symptoms and ultimately is compelled to feed. Light, on the other hand, has the inversion of this trope, in that she ''needs'' to be drained regularly or she becomes overwhelmed by the spiritual energy she produces in endless supply, which causes her to become extremely emotion-driven, impulsive and irrational. This is why they need to stay in close proximity at all times; Cloak is nourished by Dagger's excess light, and Dagger keeps her sanity through Cloak's feeding.
69	* WillTheyOrWontThey: It's been 30 years since the pair first appeared and they ''still'' haven't fully rectified their {{UST}}. Though, to be fair, when they first started Tyrone was [[HorrorHunger prone to supernatural hunger for living light]] and Tandy [[LonelyRichKid had parental and abandonment issues.]] Even when that wasn't the case he and Tandy generally have more pressing matters or threats to contend with. As of 2012 onwards it has been confirmed they had been having an on again, off again relationship with them dating [[WorkingWithTheEx other people while working together for a period of time.]] In their last series they decided to give their relationship another try.
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72	[[folder:Cloak]]
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74	!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Tyrone Johnson
75	!!!'''Notable Aliases:''' Demon of Darkness, Dagger
76	!!!'''Nationality:''' American
77	!!!'''Species:''' Human mutate
78	!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man'' #64 (March, 1982)
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80	Tyrone Johnson is the "dark" half of the vigilante duo known as Cloak and Dagger. After a drug-related experiment awakened his powers, he became a living personification of darkness. Cloak is the Yin to his partner Dagger's Yang. Superheroes of the streets, Cloak and Dagger wage a war against dangerous drugs and drug-related crimes.
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82	* AllEncompassingMantle: Cloak's entire name comes because he looks like a disembodied face floating in a massive, void-like hooded cape. His power set revolves around literally swallowing things into his cape-body, and he even doubles as a mode of transportation.
83	%%* AntiHero: Type III-IV
84	* BadassCape: Is a cloak rather than a cape. In fact, he's nothing but a cloak. He's also otherworldly, dark, and conflicted.
85	* BlackCloak: An integral part of the character design, hence the name "Cloak".
86	* CastingAShadow: Can generate and control the Darkforce.
87	* DarkIsNotEvil: Cloak, for all his broodiness, withdrawn nature, dark look, and overall intimidating manner, is really a nice guy once people get to know him.
88	* HorrorHunger: Cloak has this for a vaguely defined kind of human Life Energy, represented as light. It's generally not an issue because his partner Dagger naturally generates an excess of the stuff, but on one occasion when she'd abandoned him he came near to killing several innocent people.
89	* LivingShadow: Cloak's "body" is literally made up of one. Made even more explicit in the Ultimate Universe, where you can see black swirling mists emanating from the edges of Cloak's form.
90	* TeleportationSickness: Cloak's teleportation cuts through the Darkforce Dimension which literally drains people physically and mentally. People who go through it usually feel some debilitating effects if Tandy's not there to ameliorate the experience.
91	* TeleportCloak: Cloak can teleport via the "Darkforce Dimension," which his cloak is a portal to. He can take passengers, but it's a pretty traumatizing ride if his partner Dagger isn't around to ameliorate the effects.
92	* TerrorHero: Cloak often takes advantage of his dark/shadow powers to intimidate criminals.
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95	[[folder:Dagger]]
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97	!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Tandy Bowen
98	!!!'''Notable Aliases:''' Lady Light, Cloak
99	!!!'''Nationality:''' American
100	!!!'''Species:''' Human mutate
101	!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man'' #64 (March, 1982)
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103	Tandy Bowen is the "light" half of the vigilante duo known as Cloak & Dagger. After a drug-related experiment awakened her powers, she became a living personification of light, with the ability to generate super-luminosity at will and use it both offensively and defensively.
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105	%%* AntiHero: Type I.
106	* BeautyEqualsGoodness: It's mentioned by almost every male character who lays eyes on Dagger that she looks like an angel.
107	* HealingShiv: In a few cases her light daggers have been shown to burn out addictions and cure other ill effects.
108	* HolyHandGrenade: Her hands become light daggers that have caused damage to any number of demonic entities.
109	* LightEmUp: Tandy’s Daggers are made of pure light.
110	* LightIsNotGood: Started out as a Spiderman villain along with Cloak. They've both matured since then and become heroes in their own right.
111	* LonelyRichKid: She used to be a lonely rich kid, but her father's enemies killed him and forced her to go on the run.
112	* NavelDeepNeckline: Her costume features quite a large dagger-shaped boob window, with a cutout that goes past her navel.
113	* SuperCuteSuperPowers: Dagger can fling "light-knives" at foes, which can pierce armor and act like scalpels to "cut" the wickedness like tumors from her targets. These light-knife attacks appear wrenching and painful on impact, however.
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116	%%!!Family
117	%%[[folder:Melissa Bowen Carlisle]]
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120	%%[[folder:Phillip Carlisle]]
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123	%%!!Allies
124	%%[[folder:Detective Brigid O'Reilly / Mayhem]]
125	%%[[quoteright:192:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2067901_mayhem_001.jpg]]
126	%%!!!'''Alter Ego:''' Brigid O'Reilly
127	%%!!!'''Notable Aliases:''' Detective O'Rielly
128	%%!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Cloak and Dagger'' #1 (July, 1983) [[note]]As Brigid O'Reilly[[/note]]; ''Cloak and Dagger'' (Vol. 2) #5 (March, 1986) [[note]]As Mayhem[[/note]]
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130	%%Brigid is a former New York City Police detective that gained the power to turn into a gas-like entity, able to release a poison gas. She also has razor-sharp nails. Mayhem has worked with Cloak & Dagger on many occasions.
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134	%%[[folder:Father Francis Delgado]]
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137	%%[[folder:Detective Rebecca "Rusty" Nales]]
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140	%%!!Enemies
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142	%%[[folder:Mister Jip]]
143	%%[[quoteright:332:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/147647_153599_mister_jip.jpg]]
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145	%%!!! '''Alter Ego:'''
146	%%!!! '''Notable Aliases:''' Usurper of Souls; Michael Bowen, Francis Delgado, unidentified others
147	%%!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Strange Tales'' (Vol. 2) #8 (November, 1987)
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149	%%An evil ancient wizard who absorbs the lifeforce of others to survive. He can assume the form of any of his past victims. He was the very first apprentice of the Ancient One, the future teacher of Dr Strange.
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153	%%[[folder:Night]]
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156	%%[[folder:Ecstasy]]
157	%%[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1060047_ecstasy__earth_616.png]]
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159	%%!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Renee Deladier
160	%%!!! '''Notable Aliases:''' Cloak, Madame Deladier
161	%%!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Doctor Strange'' (Vol. 2) #78 (August, 1986)
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163	%%The head of a criminal organization based in Marseilles, France who later obtained Cloak's powers.
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167	%%[[folder:The Grey]]
168	%%[[/folder]]
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