| 1 | Members of Stingray Industries, as well as the Stingray Security Services, which operates in [[Fanfic/CoreLine the Core Timeline]]. |
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| 7 | [[folder: Stingray Industries (As A Whole)]] |
| 8 | !!'''STINGRAY INDUSTRIES''' |
| 9 | --->'''(Working To Improve Your Future)''' |
| 10 | |
| 11 | One of various [[MegaCorp Mega-Corporations]] which has risen from the ashes of the Pre-Vanishing world, S.I. has a particular clash: it is very much on the side of angels, but a lot of it carries the look of an Eighties Cyberpunk corporate joint. Led by an Alternate version of Sylia Stingray (of the 2033/Eighties version of "Anime/BubblegumCrisis"). Runs a private security army, "Stingray Security Services", of which the Champions are a sub-division of. |
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| 13 | '''Tropes For Stingray Industries As A Whole''' |
| 14 | |
| 15 | * CorporateWarfare: See down on "SillyReasonForWar". The result: S.I. has become quite good at it. |
| 16 | * HeroesRUs: They are a major supplier of heroes equipment and supplies. |
| 17 | * MegaCorp: Well, ''duh''. There are many tropes on this page that should tell you that. |
| 18 | * PrivateMilitaryContractors: Stingray Security Services. |
| 19 | * SillyReasonForWar: Sylia had to wage a [[CorporateWarfare mini-corporate war]] against [[ComicBook/IronMan Stark International and Stane International]] early on because, as far as both of the jerks running those companies cared, [[ThereCanBeOnlyOne There Could Be Only One]] company with "S.I.". The big war stopped, but the occasional a-hole version of Stark and Alternate of Stane come out of the woodwork to try to keep it going. |
| 20 | * UndyingLoyalty: Says a lot when the "ScrewThisImOuttaHere" plan of one security team is to prevent the company from being besmirched from any potential acts they need to do to protect it (and it's not the only team with such a plan in place). Whatever else the Company may be believed to be just because it's a MegaCorp, employees willing to abandon it when all shit is piling up is ''not'' one of them. |
| 21 | * WeHaveBecomeComplacent: The "Reipe" (the first contact with the ''Fanfic/NobodyDies'' universe, which had their version of Rei running around doing goofy, highly humiliating (for the company's personnel) stuff and then got worse, ending with SSS being deployed to NERV for some muscle-flexing for the sake of intimidating the Ikaris into giving Rei ''some'' kind of punishment and essentially ending up re-enacting [[Film/BlackHawkDown the Battle Of Mogadishu (with SSS as the Americans)]]) was the first time in a while that S.I. had been put through the wringer (and for a double-whammy, the first time in a while that an encounter with NERV was a full-on borderline CurbStompBattle on NERV's favor). Sylia swallowed her pride, apologized to the Ikaris, and vowed to do her damnedest so it didn't happened again. |
| 22 | ** The events of one story have Genom taking over multiple members of The Champions via mass-cloned variants of Fanfic/ShinjiIkiryo. Some of the following stories show that protocols have since been set in place to trigger a manhunt for potentially missing members if they don't make contact or arrive from patrol in a certain period of time. |
| 23 | * WeSellEverything: Firearms, cybernetics, lighters, cars... you name it, S.I. builds it. |
| 24 | |
| 25 | !!'''Sylia Stingray ("The Chief")''' |
| 26 | --->''You don't have to worry. Leave it all to us.'' |
| 27 | |
| 28 | An Alternate of [[Anime/BubblegumCrisis the 2033 (OVA) version of Sylia Stingray]], who is now the CEO of her self-named MegaCorp. The boss of many of the characters introduced so far, she remains (for the most part) as mysterious as her canonical counterpart, with an aim to help the world. |
| 29 | ---- |
| 30 | * [[AFatherToHisMen A Mother To Her Men]]: Provides full benefits to her employees. [[BerserkButton Willing to go to war on anybody who dares even scare them]] (hence why "The Reipe" went FromBadToWorse). |
| 31 | * BerserkButton: The standard CorruptCorporateExecutive "money-before-human-lives" sociopath tactics and "WeHaveReserves" mentality regarding use of soldiers (while she is pragmatic enough to accept that casualties will happen when (not ''if'') Murphy shits on ASimplePlan no matter how many countermeasures are thought of, she is ''not'' willing to simply toss away people's lives like they were nothing, nor lying to said people who will be put at risk for the sake of manipulating them into accepting the mission (see Coulson's reaction to Hand sending agents (''his'' agents) on an apparent SuicideMission on the ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' episode ''Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E7TheHub'' for an example of how Sylia would act)). |
| 32 | %%* BenevolentBoss: |
| 33 | %%* BigGood: |
| 34 | * BorrowedCatchPhrase: She has had no issue giving out explicit orders to [[Anime/{{Hellsing}} "search and destroy"]] some problem. |
| 35 | * CompositeCharacter: Has elements of her OVA self (both ''Crisis'' and ''Crash'') and the Adam Warren ''Grand Mal'' comic-book, with some crossover elements of another character played by Creator/YoshikoSakakibara, [[Anime/{{Hellsing}} Sir Integra Wingates Hellsing]]. |
| 36 | * {{Foil}}: Again, thematically, to Sir Hellsing: while Integra is one to bark out her orders to her soldiers (in a fashion that detractors accuse of being a (possibly unwilling) LargeHam), Stingray delivers them in a TranquilFury fashion. And then there's the "people who dislike her think she's a demented KnightTemplar that has allowed her attack dogs to pull lots of [[VanHelsingHateCrime Van Helsing Hate Crimes]]" vs. "people who dislike her think she's a CorruptCorporateExecutive just biding her time to do something that will prove them right". |
| 37 | * GoodIsNotSoft: She is on the side of angels. Wants to help save the world. She is an IronLady coming from a hard-core Cyberpunk universe, and thus is not afraid to deploy her private army to do so, nor play around with other "stereotypical Cyberpunk Evil MegaCorp" tactics to obtain the better results for a happy ending if necessary (and she is thankful that it has not become ''''that'''' necessary constantly). |
| 38 | * HandicappedBadass: Is a paraplegic ([[MysteriousPast the reasons for this not yet explored]]), needing a wheelchair to move around. Leads one of the more powerful corporations in the world, and not even Batman nor Alucard can scare her. |
| 39 | * HonestCorporateExecutive: As much GoodIsNotNice as she could get, she is ''not'' the sociopathic profit-seeker that is people like, say, Quincy (or Mason) or the Weyland family (or Tony Stark at his most Jerkass). Or as slaughter-happy as Sir Hellsing (well, when it's not ''justified'', at least...). |
| 40 | %%* IronLady: |
| 41 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: She is mentioned in passing on "Legends Of The Fourth Of July" to have not allowed The Champions to get a bar on their headquarters (while the Infinite Avengers Tower has one on ''every other floor''). The reason? People like J. Jonah Jameson are constantly hunting for reasons to drive the team's PR through the floor (on top of constant blasting for them being a CorporateSponsoredSuperhero group), and knew that said bar (with a well-known (if now trying to cut down) alcoholic being Commander of the division, among other people) would be the equivalent to swallowing active uranium (that bar on every other floor thing? Mostly used by Starks. And the Starks who ''don't'' drink have an uphill battle to get good PR because of this). |
| 42 | * SuperWheelchair: ''A Day In The Life of Sylia Stingray'' has the Forge giving her one of these, that can transform into a ''Series/{{MANTIS}}'' style PoweredArmor that allows her to walk again when active. |
| 43 | |
| 44 | !!'''Ahsoka Simmons (nee Tano)''' |
| 45 | --->''I'm sorry, but The Chief is not available to hear your little terrorist threats.'' (ignites lightsabers) ''Maybe I can help you, instead...?'' |
| 46 | |
| 47 | Alternate version of [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars Ahsoka Tano]] who has become the personal assistant of Sylia Stingray. Retired from the Jedi Order, she still has the experience of having waged one of the ugliest wars (her) Galaxy had ever fought, knowledge of training in the ways of the Jedi and a pretty rambunctious temper that waging said war did not ''completely'' wiped out... |
| 48 | ----- |
| 49 | * ActionGirl: A retried Jedi General and war veteran. |
| 50 | * AlternateSelf: Among other things, this version of Ahsoka made it all the way to General and stayed with the Jedi Order up until Order 66 (still decided to quit the Jedi Order in the aftermath of arriving to the Core Timeline and other events happening). |
| 51 | * AmazonianBeauty: In comparison to her regular design, [[AdaptationalCurves she showcases some pretty hefty gym time results]]. |
| 52 | * AppropriatedAppellation: She once called Sylia "The Chief" as a one-shot gag ShoutOut to ''Series/GetSmart''. Soon enough, everybody in the corporation is calling her that. |
| 53 | * APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: She is ''not'' evil, but you can guess some of the more hard-core Alternates of her friends still on the Order don't see it that way... |
| 54 | * BattleButler: Personal assistant to Sylia Stingray. Still knows how to use lightsabers and Force Push and blasters and high explosives and has ''no'' problem using any of that to protect her. |
| 55 | * CombatMedic: Minor version: She bolstered what medical skills she got from Jedi training (and some particularly harrowing experiences during the Clone Wars) with some teaching from Matt. She is good at treating wounds... or inflicting them with efficiency. |
| 56 | * DeadpanSnarker: Typical trait of a Franchise/StarWars character. |
| 57 | * DivergentCharacterEvolution: InUniverse, in the light of her canonical personal timeline (as seen in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' and ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'') and her ''own'' personal timeline being different, to not mention what both Ahsokas did upon retiring from the Order. |
| 58 | * DualWielding / GunAndSword / GunsAkimbo: As needed during combat. |
| 59 | * InformationBroker: [[spoiler:Turns out that she has used the grand confusion that came from the multiple Alternates of Ahsoka Tano running around on both the Milky Way and 'Wars' Galaxies to build her own, smaller version of [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels the Fulcrum network]], which she has used for both business (providing officially 'under-the-table' intel to SSS operatives and support for them on missions on the GFFA) and personal (getting GFFA-native stuff that would be *very* hard to get otherwise for The Chief) motives.]] |
| 60 | * InterspeciesRomance: She married a Chicago paramedic called Matthew Simmons (a human). |
| 61 | * TheMaidenNameDebate: Uses her maiden name as a "StageName" for work and operations-some of the more hard-core Jedi would give ''even more'' grief upon finding out that she is married, and she doesn't wants to paint a big(ger) target on Matt's back for her enemies to shoot at. |
| 62 | * TheNicknamer: Typical of Ahsoka Tano. Ever her own boss got a nickname pinned by her. |
| 63 | * PopCulturedBadass: Been binging on Coreline and GFFA fiction like crazy. Result... for starters, there is the origin of "The Chief" nickname. Or the jokes about the Creator/LucasArts and Marvel purchase by Disney. And pointing out every cliché on the SW movies with pin-point accuracy. |
| 64 | * SuperSenses: Force-augmented senses and a Togruta's native augmented spacial awareness and hearing. Kinda comes in handy when she needs to pretend to be [[Series/{{MASH}} Radar]]. |
| 65 | |
| 66 | !!Michael Garibaldi |
| 67 | ---> (After being asked 'what's the situation?' in the middle of a CHIMERA attack): “[[AskAStupidQuestion What’s it look like?]] [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs We’re under attack and the wall’s been breached!]]” |
| 68 | |
| 69 | An Alternate version of [[Series/BabylonFive Michael Garibaldi]] that is the Chief Of Perimeter Security of the Stingray Industries Chicago campus. First appears on the fourth chapter of "[[Fanfic/CorelineOperationEndgame Operation: ENDGAME]]". |
| 70 | ----- |
| 71 | * DaChief: Amongst the Stingray Security Services forces on Chicago. |
| 72 | * DeadpanSnarker: The quote above is his EstablishingCharacterMoment. |
| 73 | * InformationBroker: He has a pretty extensive list of contacts, out on the streets, on pretty secretive places, and within Stingray Industries' personnel rosters. If he wants to find information on someone, he ''will'' find information on someone. |
| 74 | * OldSoldier: Definitely fits, after going through the whole mess that was the ''Series/BabylonFive'' MythArc... |
| 75 | |
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| 77 | |
| 78 | !!'''"Lufy "Riff-Raff" Hawkins, Callsign 'Attacker'".''' |
| 79 | --->''"Coming in hot, fellas!"''. |
| 80 | |
| 81 | An Alternate version of [[Anime/GallForce Lufy]] (from a universe inspired by Fred Herriot's "Gall Force: The Day After" fan fiction, with some crossover with ''Manga/GunsmithCats'') that is part of Stingray Security Forces, both as a driver and pilot. Chases, tactical defense, bombing runs, starfighter encounters, dropship driving and armed combat -- she's your gal. |
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| 83 | * EightiesHair: A "punk" hairdo with a natural green fleck. |
| 84 | * ActionGirl: A veteran ace pilot with a hundred and fifty registered starfighter kills ''before'' the beginning of ''Anime/GallForce'' and a hell of a lot more (including a Death Star rip-off) by the time the first OVA trilogy ended. She's gotten many more since. And on the ground she's no pushover, either. |
| 85 | * AlwaysSomeoneBetter: [[ComicBook/GoldDigger Kevin "Ace" Koss]] is her "someone better". But considering that the man is Fred Perry's AuthorAvatar... |
| 86 | * AnimalMotifs: The wolf. Dangerous solo, even more dangerous as part of a pack. Fights fiercely for anybody she has decided to protect, but for those she considers TrueCompanions she's gonna rip apart entire armies or die trying. |
| 87 | * BadassDriver: Very impressive as a tactical driver. Normally used for getaways. |
| 88 | * CoolCar: Her modified 1966 AC (or "Shelby") Cobra 427. |
| 89 | * CompositeCharacter: Of two characters with the very same design made by Creator/KenichiSonoda: Lufy the Solnoid Attacker (from ''Anime/GallForce'') and "Riff-Raff" the courier (from ''Anime/GallForce''). There's a little bit of the ''Battlestar Galactica'' reimagining's Kara "Starbuck" Thrace and Corporal Colette Ferro from ''Film/AlienS'' in there, too. |
| 90 | * OneWomanArmy: To showcase, she once managed about twenty enemy casualties on the first film of the ''Gall Force'' series while wearing a PoweredArmor that is essentially her star-fighter's ''EjectorSeat''. Put her behind the controls of a plane or a powered armor and watch all hell break loose. |
| 91 | [[/folder]] |
| 92 | |
| 93 | [[folder: Stingray Security Services (SSS)]] |
| 94 | |
| 95 | !!'''STINGRAY SECURITY SERVICES (SSS)''' |
| 96 | --->'''[[BadassCreed "Nos Nemo Impune Lacessit (No one attacks us with impunity)"]].''' |
| 97 | |
| 98 | Stingray Industries' private security force-slash-army, they are the sledgehammer and the dagger to The Champions' (and on a previous life of Ms. Stingray, the Knight Sabers') sword and shield. Applied effectively, taken from all walks of life, trained (and sometimes ''re''trained) to their full potential as [[OneManArmy One-Man Armies]], the SSS may be seen by the Corporation's nay-sayers as a typical MegaCorp RedshirtArmy... and in doing this, they are very, ''very'' mistaken. |
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| 100 | |
| 101 | '''Tropes For SSS As A Whole:''' |
| 102 | |
| 103 | * BadassArmy: Each member is a SuperSoldier that're armed with mech suits that can make them {{Elite Mook}}s. |
| 104 | * BadassCreed: "Nos Nemo Impune Lacessit (No one attacks us with impunity)" (which is based on Scotland's RealLife BadassCreed) and "Terror For Foe, Honor For Friend." |
| 105 | * BadassCrew: Any of the Services' Teams-even the damn ''accountants'' and ''lawyers'' have combat training, because it's unknown when they will need to pull their weight in the middle of a gunfight. |
| 106 | * CrazyPrepared: There are SSS dead-drops, bolt-holes and "secondary" depots of equipment and information all over the place. |
| 107 | * FunWithAcronyms: '''S'''tingray '''S'''ecurity '''S'''ervices. Those who are detractors of the company (like some Alternates of the Knight Sabers) add the "I" of "Industries" to the acronym to make it "S.I.S.S-ies". (crosses over with LameComeback / GiverOfLameNames, because SSS is a well-demonstrated BadassArmy). |
| 108 | * MyGreatestFailure: "The Reipe" is this (again, a re-enacting of ''Film/BlackHawkDown'' with SSS standing in for the Americans ''and the ''Fanfic/NobodyDies'' version of Tokyo-3 standing for Mogadishu''). [[spoiler:The events of ''Rise Of The Extraordinary Avengers'' imply that the events of ''Legends Of The Fourth Of July'' are also this for the group in general (and The Champions in (POV-wise) specific).]] |
| 109 | * PrivateMilitaryContractors: They're a company that employs an army of {{Super Soldier}}s and are privately employed for military services. |
| 110 | * SquadNickname: Rather common. Some have a peculiar punny reason to exist (like the "Winter Soldiers", which are led by an Alternate of "Bucky" Barnes) while others are just there for RuleOfCool. |
| 111 | * StandardSciFiArmy: High-numbers ''Corporate Army'', standard soldier could be considered an EliteMook, application of combined-arms warfare (with the caveat that on this setting the term "armored cavalry" has started to apply to Mecha) with various types of vehicles and the occasional superpowered being. |
| 112 | * SuperSoldier: Although there are many examples of SSS soldiers being pretty much this in spirit via being equipped with top-notch tech and being from badass Fiction races, a more regular example of this Trope exists in the Hellsoldier Project. |
| 113 | * UndyingLoyalty: SSS soldiers would die before abandoning the company (the "Ghost Protocol" mentioned below is a typical plan amongst SSS teams... and it's there to prevent the Company from being any more besmirched with any acts that may need be done to protect the Company or if/when "ItsPersonal" has been stretched to its most brutal limits). This obviously means that people who diss S.I. think of the Services as a bunch of fanatical madmen. |
| 114 | [[/folder]] |
| 115 | |
| 116 | [[folder:The Watchers]] |
| 117 | |
| 118 | !!'''"THE WATCHERS"''' |
| 119 | --->''"Vive la mort, vive la guerre, vive le sacre mercenaire." ("(Long) live death, (long) live war, (long) live the blessed mercenary."'' (unofficial motto, cribbed from "Literature/TheDogsOfWar"). |
| 120 | |
| 121 | Stingray Security Services Assault Team Seven (SquadNickname "The Watchers") is just one of the Teams that the SSS fields... a collection of twelve Badasses, split in three Fireteams, willing and able to kick ass. |
| 122 | ----- |
| 123 | '''Tropes For The Watchers As A Whole:''' |
| 124 | * AdaptationalBadass: This needs to be mentioned again: ''every single one'' of the men on this team, regardless of their canonical badassery (and some were pretty badass) can now be classified as a ''OneManArmy''. |
| 125 | * BadassCrew: 12 men who were veterans in raising some serious hell even before banding together. |
| 126 | * BerserkButton: A pretty big one by all of them is the Services being insulted. You may be able to push your luck if they like you and you show some respect (ex. you point out some snafu and then point out what was done right), but if you are a JerkAss that doesn't heeds their request to stop... |
| 127 | * BodyBackupDrive: They all have [[Literature/TakeshiKovacs cortical]] [[TabletopGame/EclipsePhase stacks]] implanted (some of them already had them ''before'' entering SSS, some got them afterwards) and get external backups done pretty much religiously. |
| 128 | * [[BunnyEarsLawyer Bunny Ears Lawyers]]: Some of them are ''certified lunatics'', for example. They still can shut down the crazy (even if for a moment) when asked to/it's needed and are ''extremely'' lethal soldiers ''always''. |
| 129 | * CrazyPrepared: They have dead-drops and bolt-holes ''everywhere'' in Chicago ''at least''. The short story ''[[http://www.deviantart.com/art/CLINE-Shooting-Skeets-at-Night-196616511 Shooting Skeets At Night]]'' showcases the maintenance of one of these. |
| 130 | * FireForgedFriends: They have served together long enough to consider themselves friends and even FamilyOfChoice for some of them. |
| 131 | * FourIsDeath: The team is divided on three fire teams, "Able", "Baker" and "Charlie", with all of them being (officially) four-man teams. However, the actual number of each individual team may vary from mission to mission and the members switched around. As for the regular bad-luck implications of the trope, that is true... [[BadassBoast for the enemy, that is]]. |
| 132 | * HomeBase: Stingray Industries Headquarters in Chicago (as with the rest of SSS), "[[http://marcoasalazarm.deviantart.com/art/CORELINE-Notes-On-Location-The-Bookstore-557206497 The Bookstore]]" (one of the aforementioned "[[BlackSite secondary depots]]", used for information and equipment storage. |
| 133 | * MultinationalTeam: Three Americans, various Japanese (one of them a naturalized citizen of the United Kingdom), others born on places other than Earth (but ethnically from countries like Scotland and Italy). |
| 134 | * RagTagBunchOfMisfits: A "professional" variant (of the "they are the ones who volunteer to the plans CrazyEnoughToWork" type, sometimes the "play the obvious ObfuscatingInsanity of the group for a cover". It's even a BerserkButton for them to deal with groups that cannot at least tone down the "misfit" part if asked to/becomes inconvenient to the plan or [[DisabilityAsAnExcuseForJerkassery are using the "Rag-Tag" part as a reason to be colossal]] {{Jerkass}}sea). |
| 135 | * ShoutOut: |
| 136 | ** The Squad Nicknames below have a couple. |
| 137 | ** "The Bookstore" is meant to be one of the abandoned library used on Seasons 1-4 of ''Series/PersonOfInterest'', mixed with a bit of ''Series/Warehouse13'' and the Men Of Letters Bunker of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' in visuals. |
| 138 | ** The "Ghost Protocol" idea was very much cribbed from ''Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol'' InUniverse. |
| 139 | * SquadNickname: Kind-Of-Official is "The Watchers", although other nicknames applied to the unit have included "The Twelve Angry Men", "Literature/TheDogsOfWar" (hence the cribbed motto) and "The Madmen Of The Bookstore". |
| 140 | * StillWearingTheOldColors: Mostly of the "abandoned the group when the group changed its ideals" variety: many of them still wear their old pilot uniforms (with Stingray Security Services insignia) or have their old unit patches sewn on their uniforms. |
| 141 | * TurnInYourBadge: The team has devised what they called "Ghost Protocol" (term gleefully cribbed from the ''Film/MissionImpossible'' film): If for whichever reason the whole team or an individual agent of the team needs to pull a mission so dirty that Stingray Industries ''will'' be sullied in connection (quite needlessly, but that is the way the GuiltByAssociationGag works), or if the situation becomes [[ItsPersonal so personal]] that it's going to get horrifyingly dirty in response (and, again, this will besmirch S.I.), the Protocol is for them to resign from S.I. and become [[RogueAgent Rogue Agents]] for the duration. [[PlausibleDeniability If they are killed, Stingray can always say that they went bad and is even free to deploy agents to try to stop them for the sake of the cover]]. Bear in mind, ''not even Stingray knows this Protocol exists''... ''yet''. |
| 142 | * UndyingLoyalty: To each other and the Services. |
| 143 | %%* WeDoTheImpossible: |
| 144 | |
| 145 | !!'''"Captain" Grey Leonidas Shard (Lunarian Army, Retired), Callsign "Big Tin", "Watcher One".''' |
| 146 | --->''Just so we're clear and nobody's confused-'''are you listening?''' Good!- : We didn't started this mess... you can be damn sure we are going to '''end''' it''. |
| 147 | |
| 148 | A former member of the Rival Relief Office (one of various "[[Manga/AhMyGoddess relief offices]]" on Asgard, with the duty of fulfilling the wishes and helping those who were worthy), Shard is a veteran of a great many, ''many'' years in various fields of "grey" and "black" ops, anything from infiltration to outright war. |
| 149 | |
| 150 | And he got sick of being the ButtMonkey of his little corner of the multiverse. So when he arrived to The Line and entered SSS, his mission in life was "never again"-by any means necessary. So far, he has succeeded. |
| 151 | |
| 152 | Commanding Officer of The Watchers, leader of Fireteam Able. |
| 153 | |
| 154 | Adapted from the "Bet" story series by Gregg "Metroanime" Sharp. |
| 155 | ---- |
| 156 | * AceCustom: Uses a ''highly'' modified cyborg body, a mixture between the [[http://starshiptroopers.wikia.com/wiki/XM-550 SICON Mobile Infantry XM-550]] [[http://starshiptroopers.wikia.com/wiki/Cybernetic_Humanoid_Assault_System C.H.A.S.]] and the [[TabletopGame/{{RIFTS}} TRIAX VX-500 "Manhunter"]], with some [[Anime/BubblegumCrisis Boomer]] added to it. |
| 157 | * TheBigGuy / TheLeader: He is almost 20 feet tall and loaded for bear, and is the team's CO. |
| 158 | * BerserkButton: {{Cosmic Plaything}}s, and those that have forced people into this role. Also those who use a person's sense of duty (sworn or otherwise) as a chain to yank them around. And hurt his unit or friends, and ''[[DeaderThanDead die]]''. There is also not much love between him and the more cold-heart versions/members of the [[Franchise/SailorMoon Sailor Senshi]]. |
| 159 | * ComicBookFantasyCasting: "Voiced" by Creator/PeterCullen. Shard [[InvokedTrope chose this voice pattern]] [[InUniverse for his vocal implants]] in order to try to draw more respect out of people. |
| 160 | * CorporateSamurai: He considers professionalism a strong virtue. |
| 161 | * HollywoodCyborg: Of the ''Eclipse Phase'', "VirtualGhost-running-a-body" type. |
| 162 | * MeaningfulRename: A long time ago, the "L." was a MysteriousMiddleInitial (not even ''Gray'' could recall what it stood for, after many years). He changed it to "Leonidas" because he, [[Film/ThreeHundred like the legendary king]], would take a stand. If the forces who had made him a CosmicPlaything for so long wanted to make him one ''again'', they would either need to kill him or he would kill them, but there was ''no way in Hell'' that he would just willingly return to his role. |
| 163 | * MightyGlacier: His design is capable of running fast (and has an integral JumpJetPack), but in the end is not as fast as, say, someone with FlashStep and thus his strategy comes down to tanking whatever the other guy tosses while delivering ''tremendous'' amounts of MoreDakka for area denial. |
| 164 | * OldSoldier: He has been serving various masters for at least 500 years. |
| 165 | * ProHumanTranshuman: Has been a cyborg and doing the ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase''-style "[[DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist resleeving]]" trick for so long back on his universe that he can only be considered "human" anymore in the legal sense. Pretty much keeps fighting for humanity out of a sense of duty and love for his "fellow man" (and the underdog). |
| 166 | * TiredOfRunning: Well, more like "tired of being the ButtMonkey", but his decision to change his life was within the mentality of this particular Trope and not something like, say, RageBreakingPoint because it has been just ''that'' long and ''that'' unrelenting a humiliation. |
| 167 | * WalkingArmory: His body includes (among other weapons) two arm-mounted deployable ''[[GatlingGood miniguns]]'', arm-mounted flamethrowers, shoulder-mounted mortar and machine gun, back-mounted missile launcher, chest-mounted ''heavier-caliber'' mortar, deployable blades on the arms and hands... |
| 168 | |
| 169 | !!'''"Lieutenant" Roger Nathan Hackett (Hellsoldier Unit 001), Callsign "Hardware", "Watcher Two". [[spoiler:Real Name: Simon Peters.]]''' |
| 170 | --->''What is that "Rupture" spell supposed to do, kill me? That's not going to work. I know. '''We tested that'''.'' |
| 171 | |
| 172 | A man who got a bad rap and pissed off a very powerful individual, the man known as "Roger Hackett" (so the name said on his forged papers) was killed on a one-star hotel on Las Vegas while he tried to escape to Los Angeles and a safe place (a ''[[Film/TheRunningMan Running Man]]'' Bet) alongside his fiancee. |
| 173 | |
| 174 | Fate, unfortunately, had other plans. As a carrier of the newly-appeared "[[http://marcoasalazarm.deviantart.com/art/CORELINE-INFORMATION-PACKET-THE-PARIAH-GENE-579094276 Pariah Gene]]" (an incredibly powerful PowerNullifier mutation), "Roger" was taken by Stingray Industries as the prototype of its "[[OperationBlank Hellsoldier Project]]", attempting to create a SuperSoldier with the most advanced mixture of equipment that Fiction made possible (and also trying to find out how many implants could be placed within a Pariah Gene carrier before the Gene started losing power... which turned out to be on the level of "persists even after full body replacement"). |
| 175 | |
| 176 | The resulting prototype of the "Hellsoldier" series was placed on the newly formed Team Seven, and Roger Hackett now roams the streets as a soldier of fortune. |
| 177 | |
| 178 | Executive Officer of The Watchers, leader of Fireteam Baker. |
| 179 | ----- |
| 180 | * ArtificialLimbs: While the case could be made that his entire body is this by now, the Trope fits better with Roger's left arm, which is highly reinforced, capable of punching at five ''[[MegatonPunch tons]]'' of strength, has a [[RocketPunch rocket-propelled]] GrapplingGun and [[SwissArmyAppendage can be switched with various mission-specific gadgets]]. |
| 181 | * ArtificialZombie: A TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}-style "Cyber-Zombie", with a brain made of nanophages (from the ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis'' Dark Horse comic ''Grand Mal'', by Adam Warren). |
| 182 | * BerserkButton: |
| 183 | ** Hurting people he has decided to protect is this, '''BIG TIME'''. He's also quick to react to people doing sexual harassment of others in a pretty nasty way. Insulting people who serve to protect in general, and Stingray Security Services in specific, is also this. |
| 184 | ** He is an UnabashedBMovieFan and insulting him because of this leads to lots of pain. He is, however, very specific about this one. Making fun of the film because it's got flaws in general is not an insult (ex. "the Disney ''Franchise/StarWars'' trilogy has a lot of plot holes", "that flying bike sequence in ''Film/{{Megaforce}}'' is one of the dumbest green screen effects I have ever seen"), using the film as ammunition to insult him/others is (ex. "You/your friends have got to be [censored insult about mental faculties] for [[FandomHeresy having anything good to say]] about/dare to like the Disney Star Wars/Megaforce"). |
| 185 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Minor example. The stories that showcase his point of view have an occasional Creator/QuentinTarantino-esque SeinfeldianConversation 'train of thought' moment. Like a Tarantino character, the fact that he takes an (InUniverse) nanosecond to allow his thoughts to wander about something like how much the situation makes him recall a film scene is supposed to show he's occasionally teetering on the edge of GivingUpOnLogic. |
| 186 | %%* CorporateSamurai: |
| 187 | * ImplacableMan: The objective of the Hellsoldier Project is to augment people with the Pariah Gene so as to turn them into this (and thus resist conventional attacks from superpowered threats long enough to deliver mortal damage, or create ''immense'' chaos behind enemy lines). Demonstrated on the [=Gideon020=] stories [[http://gideon020.deviantart.com/art/Swamp-Rats-112161400 "Swamp Rats"]] (where he gets his limbs get blown/cut off and impaled to a cargo container and he's still trying to fight) and [[http://gideon020.deviantart.com/art/Eraser-Part-2-164092048 "Eraser, Part 2"]] (where he gets set on fire with ''thermite'', bound in RazorWire, shot repeatedly with a high-caliber gun, set on fire again with Black Napalm (think ''comic-book super-science Napalm'') and then tossed around a room by a pseudo-Terminator, and he remains functional afterwards). |
| 188 | * TheMovieBuff: And the story [[http://www.deviantart.com/art/A-CORELINE-STORY-BLIZZARDS-AND-BOOKSTORES-524792712 "Blizzards And Bookstores"]] show that he's an UnabashedBMovieFan. |
| 189 | * PapaWolf: ''The Gravity Falls Run'' has him protecting Alternates of [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls The Pines Twins]] that have been unwillingly dragged into the situation. He is pretty willing to wage war against Bill and a cell of a cult that worships him and threaten brutal violence on an Alternate of Stanford Pines that chose the ''wrong'' moment to be his usual StrawVulcan InnocentlyInsensitive [[KnightTemplarParent for the sake of said protection]]. |
| 190 | * PastimesProvePersonality: A man assigned to look over a warehouse full of media that has watched and read it all, even having a quirk of letting movies run uninterrupted on the background as relaxation noises, has an apparent [[UnabashedBMovieFan fondness of B-movies]], and has given praise to his cover work because it's let him see a myriad ways that the "DifferentWorldDifferentMovies" trope has manifested on the Core Timeline? Definitely a [[Literature/ReadyPlayerOne James Halliday-slash-Parzival]]-slash-[[Film/BabyDriver Baby]]-slash-Creator/QuentinTarantino-style geek with an undying love for pop culture... only tempered with the fact that this knowledge is also useful for those times he has to ''kill people''. |
| 191 | * PintSizedPowerhouse: (Standard) size is five feet two inches. Still is ''very'' dangerous. |
| 192 | * PowerNullifier: The Pariah Gene. It nullifies even The Force. |
| 193 | %%* ProHumanTranshuman: |
| 194 | * RasputinianDeath: How he originally died: MultipleGunshotDeath (with various calibers of gun and ''railgun''), KillItWithFire, HumanPincushion with a ''big'' sword and extensive torture. |
| 195 | * SmartPeoplePlayChess: SubvertedTrope "Blizzards and Bookstores" reveals that he ''knows'' how to play chess, but 1) he learned only to do something nice to HAL (because it's his favorite game) and 2) even after thousands of hours of studying chess manuals he's (by HAL's standards) mediocre at best (to the point that HAL has to rig his game to be sub-par as well, else he will drive Roger away from the sheer amount of {{Curb Stomp Battle}}s). |
| 196 | * SuperSoldier: The prototype of the "Hellsoldier"-Class Package. |
| 197 | * {{Transhuman}}: Like Grey, Roger is of the HollywoodCyborg school of this. |
| 198 | * ShoutOut: |
| 199 | ** The name "Roger Hackett" is pretty much a shout-out to various origins: |
| 200 | *** Roger: [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit Roger Rabbit]], [[Film/LethalWeapon Detective Roger Murtaugh]], [[Film/DeadHeat Detective Roger Mortis]] and [[WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest the real first name of "Race" Bannon]]. |
| 201 | *** Hackett: [[Film/ExtremePrejudice Major Paul Hackett]], [[Series/{{Wings}} the Hackett brothers]], [[Franchise/MassEffect Admiral Steven Hackett]]. |
| 202 | ** [[spoiler:The name "Simon Peters" is supposed to be similar to "[[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime Simon Petrikov]]". An additional parallel is Peters being a fan of ''Series/{{Wings}}'' (to the point he took the name "Hackett" in homage), while Petrikov was a fan of ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' (created by the same people and within [[TheVerse the same universe]]).]] |
| 203 | * UnabashedBMovieFan: It takes one of these to play ''Film/{{Megaforce}}'' as a memetic concentration/calming down method. |
| 204 | |
| 205 | !!'''"Corporal" Shinji Ikari (United Nations Special Agency NERV, Retired), Callsign "Misery", "Watcher Three".''' |
| 206 | ---> ''"I am... '''crazy'''. It's '''official'''. There's '''paperwork''' on it. There's graphs and tests and records that I got my brain poked through and everything. And let me tell you, it's a real load off my mind. Being insane allows me to be who I want to be. There are no longer any rules..."'' |
| 207 | |
| 208 | Formerly a Pilot (a "Child") for NERV, Shinji Ikari suffered like few people suffered, by being forced to loop, to live his life again and again, unable to do anything to make his life (nor that of anybody he loved) any better. |
| 209 | |
| 210 | And oddly enough, when he arrived to the Core Timeline, the fact that he had been driven ''out'' of the loop was what completely broke him. He spent a long time on a mental asylum in upstate New York, the so-called "[[Literature/DocSavage Crime College]]", and it was here where Sylia Stingray found him. She managed to speak to him on one of his brief returns to sanity to offer to personally foot the Psychosurgery and therapy bills, with his approval. If he wanted to afterwards, she would be interested in him entering her Security Services, but if he refused, well... he would be back to sanity, and he could probably be able to find a life to live outside the College's walls. |
| 211 | |
| 212 | Shinji accepted her proposal and entered the Security Services, unhesitatingly. And then went through the most hellish training that he could get his hands on-multiple fields of HumongousMecha and PoweredArmor piloting, survival skills, infantry warfare techniques... |
| 213 | |
| 214 | The result: a specialist in armored cavalry, a Mecha and PoweredArmor pilot that could deliver exactly what he promised, be it a time for a HoldTheLine action or the exact thing he was called for... |
| 215 | ---- |
| 216 | * AcePilot: He knows how to ''fly'' planes (well, the whole group does, with various levels of skill), but his particular specialty lies in HumongousMecha and PoweredArmor: if he can get inside one, he ''will'' be able to use it, and ''will'' perform multiple kills with it. |
| 217 | * BerserkButton: There is certainly no love for Alternate versions of his father (although he is willing to let it slide for "good guy" (read "lovable IdiotHero a la ''Manga/ShinjiIkariRaisingProject''") versions) and versions of those he normally likes that are equally manipulative/secretive/asshole-ish (like, for example, ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' as of 3.0) don't get any pity, either. |
| 218 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: Again, a ''certified madman'' of an Alt of Shinji. But if you want a more deadly Evangelion pilot? Get one of those that are mainlining [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Simon]]. And ''this'' guy probably could kick their asses ''outside'' of an Eva. |
| 219 | * CloudCuckooLander: Surviving the Angel War did not made him all that sane. |
| 220 | * CompositeCharacter: Pretty much primarily his Manga version (with some add-ons from the original Anime), and probably some of Kensuke's crazy got into him in the end. There is also a bit of [[Series/TheATeam "Howling Mad" Murdock]] in him... |
| 221 | * CrazyEnoughToWork: When he says a plan probably is this, well, takes one to know one... |
| 222 | * CrazySurvivalist: He likes to take long walks and just set a campfire somewhere for a sleepover under the stars. |
| 223 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: People take a look at him and think he's like the other Shinji Ikari Alternates out there (and he has no problem making them think he is, hell, he probably will even amp the niceness just because). [[BewareTheSillyOnes He is a trained killer]], a OneManArmy, [[BewareTheNiceOnes and an absolute holy terror of an]] AcePilot. |
| 224 | * DespairEventHorizon: In his backstory, he got one bad enough to drive him right into a mental institution and ''needed brain surgery'' to get out. |
| 225 | * {{Determinator}}: When he has a mission to accomplish, it will probably take his death to make him ''stop''. This determination is also strong enough that he can turn any Mecha he is driving into an ImplacableMan through sheer drive and piloting skills. |
| 226 | * ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: He got trained to the level of a [[VideoGame/{{Titanfall}} Titan Pilot Full Combat Certification]]. Meaning, he is up to the skill level of a modern-day ''Tier-One Special Forces operative''. |
| 227 | * FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: A heroic version. |
| 228 | * FriendToAllChildren: Probably because he's goofy. |
| 229 | * IGaveMyWord: He takes his word pretty seriously, that is why he doesn't likes to give it. Also may go for ExactWords if you piss him off (so [[Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion if you make him swear to never pilot an Eva again]]? You may want to raise security at the armory and any Power Loaders lying around...). |
| 230 | * ImprobablePilotingSkills: With HumongousMecha and PoweredArmor. |
| 231 | %%* InnocentBlueEyes: |
| 232 | * LunaticLoophole[=/=]ObfuscatingInsanity: He is a ''literal'' certified madman. The parts of the (adapted) Music/DoctorSteel quote not said above? It's the Doc saying that being bonkers gives him a reason to act crazy whenever he feels like it [[ItAmusedMe because it's fun, and he can get away with it]]. |
| 233 | * MeaningfulName: His callsign. He ''suffered'' endless misery, and he is absolutely unafraid of ''delivering'' it to his enemies. His ''real'' name is not one to sneeze at, either, if you know your Japanese. |
| 234 | * NiceGuy: |
| 235 | * {{Otaku}}: Military version, minor. He has a liking for anime with cool gadgets, too. |
| 236 | * TheReliableOne: Compared to other "Superpowered CrazyIsCool" versions of him running around The Line (like, for example, the ''Fanfic/NobodyDies'' version of him), he sometimes (oddly enough) is this. Put him in a battlefield, give him a plan to follow, and he will do his damnedest to fulfill it. Ask him to HoldTheLine for whatever time you need, and he ''will'' hold it for that long (and longer, if you need him to). |
| 237 | * ShellShockedVeteran: [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion The Angel War]] was not kind on him (and multiple instances of it were even worse). Although how much "shock" he may be showing at any given time (and whether or not he is actually ''feeling'' any shock for real) varies... |
| 238 | * ShoutOut: |
| 239 | ** His inspiration, as mentioned, includes a bit of [[Series/TheATeam "Howling Mad" Murdock]]. |
| 240 | ** The quote above is paraphrased from an "[[AllThereInTheManual interview]]" with Music/DoctorSteel. He is a fan. |
| 241 | * SupremeChef: One of the things he is unequally better at than any other member of The Watchers, even with stuff like [[TastesLikeFeet MREs]] and field scavenging. Because of this, he is also the TeamChef. |
| 242 | * TalkativeLoon: He at least can shut up if ordered. Then again, he could be ordered to ramp it up, which he does with gusto. |
| 243 | * TheOnlyOne: While the rest of the team have some training with the systems of an Evangelion ([[CrazyPrepared in case they are ever able to use one]]), he is officially the only able to make them do anything more sophisticated than walking (even in theory). |
| 244 | * UnstoppableRage: Almost one of his signatures on the battlefield, changing between the regular "screaming and frothing at the mouth" type and TranquilFury with ease (it is ''always'' "unstoppable"). Do yourself a favor and ''don't piss him off''. |
| 245 | * UnusualUserInterface: In order to pilot some of the more radical types of mecha around, Shinji got himself some implants with which to do so, such as nano-tech to drive [[Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico Aestivalis]] and "[[BrainComputerInterface datajacks]]" to allow him to use stuff like ''WesternAnimation/ExoSquad''-verse E-Frames and [[TabletopGame/CthulhuTech Engels]]. |
| 246 | |
| 247 | !!'''"Sergeant" Ranma Saotome (Astra Militarum/Imperial Guard, Retired), Callsign "Witch-Hunter", "Watcher Four"''' |
| 248 | ->''"You have just insulted my girlfriend, so I expect you to apologize. Choose your next words ''and'' actions with '''exceptional''' care, [[Characters/LoveHina Miss Aoyama]]. [[ImpliedDeathThreat You don't want them to go to waste]]."'' |
| 249 | |
| 250 | An Alternate version of [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Ranma Saotome]], born and raised on a [[MirrorUniverse Bright]][[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 hammer]] universe, trained as a Storm Trooper by his father and the Imperial Guard of his home planet (a Fortress World). While he is (as many other members of the Brighthammer universes) much more open-minded about things, he still is a member of the Imperial Guard, and he fights for Stingray with the same unrelenting temerity as his battles against the enemies of the God-Emperor... |
| 251 | ---- |
| 252 | * BadassNormal: In comparison to other Alternate versions of him (which could easily be described as "SupernaturalMartialArts [[PhysicalGod Physical Gods]]"), ''this'' version of Ranma makes do with top-of-the-line equipment, being ProperlyParanoid, using [[CombatPragmatist unrelentingly brutal combat tactics]], and having a will of iron (and utter fearlesness) in the face of absurd odds, imminent death, and unearthly horror). |
| 253 | * BayonetYa: Has a preference for long-guns with a bayonet option. |
| 254 | * BerserkButton: While Brighthammer-verse Fictions are more open-minded about things, there is still a line drawn in the sand. And with him... |
| 255 | ** You ''do not'' insult anybody he likes (like his girlfriend), you ''no not'' insult his unit (or Stingray Security Services in general), and you ''do not'' insult the God-Emperor of Mankind (you ''may'' get away with it if you insult the Alternate and "False" Emperors like the Canon and the [[Fanfic/ShinjiAndWarhammer40K S&40K]] "Emperor". Still, you may with to choose your wording with ''exceptional'' care... |
| 256 | ** And try to do what ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf''[='s=] [[Characters/RanmaOneHalfTheKunos Tatewaki Kunō]] does and denigrate Ranma's victories over you by labeling them as the work of "witchcraft". [[KillItWithFire Go ahead]], ''[[BurnTheWitch please]]'' [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill try]]. |
| 257 | ** And needs be said: do '''NOT''' even ''think'' of summoning the Ruinous Powers around him. |
| 258 | * ChainsawGood: This Ranma is a master chainswordsman, and on those occasions where a Chainsword is not heavy-hitting ''enough'' (or probably too AwesomeButImpractical), he has a [[EnergyWeapon Power Sword]] lying around. |
| 259 | * {{Determinator}}: Par on the course for an elite Imperial Guardsman. Also look at "NotAfraidToDie" and "WhatDoesSheSeeInHim" below-this is a man willing to raise all kinds of hell before accepting that what he has with his girlfriend may be a bad case of StarCrossedLovers. |
| 260 | * InsistentTerminology: Calling hostile aliens "Xenos" is normal for him (example: [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Xenomorphs]]). He may use the term as MaliciousMisnaming if the alien (or believed-to-be-alien) in question is a complete asshole (example: Haruo Nijima). |
| 261 | * ItsRainingMen: Full Drop-Trooper certification (the whole team is, [[CrazyPrepared in case of "deep-strike" operational necessity]], but part of his CombatPragmatist mentality comes from trying to figure out how to do the most destruction with the less resources wasted (like the Elyisian Drop Troops)). Not really weird to see him carrying around a JumpJetPack or a Grav Chute just in case, either. |
| 262 | * KatanasAreJustBetter: AvertedTrope: Regular Imperium sword designs lean more towards the European fashions, and his custom weapons mostly resembles a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps_noncommissioned_officer%27s_sword Marine Officer's Sword]]. |
| 263 | * MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: More like "My Species Protests That Its Parent Species Is Too Damn Brutal In Its Protesting." |
| 264 | * NotAfraidToDie: This is a guy who could (and has) call(ed) an artillery strike on a martial arts bout, turning it into a game of chicken (first to run away from the incoming explosion and leave the fight zone, loses). Battlefield actions don't differ much, either. |
| 265 | * OddFriendship: From the POV of a regular, "canon"-verse 40K-er, Ranma has this. His unit alone is '''loaded''' with heretics, mutants, Xenos and what are essentially Heretek servitors. And then there's Miu... |
| 266 | * OfficerAndAGentleman: His particular brand of ChickMagnet. |
| 267 | * ProperlyParanoid: He pretty much also has the "Paranoid" Talent (read: ''benefit'') on his ''TabletopGame/DarkHeresy'' sheet. With threats like Alternate versions of every enemy Ranma Saotome has ever had (and Miu Furinji has ever had) coming out of the woodwork to get him, as well as other threats on and off-duty, and being brought up on ''the freaking Imperium Of Man'' (a ''nicer'' version, and yet ''still''), can you blame him? |
| 268 | * ReligiousBruiser: He's willing to be open-minded and a NiceGuy, but be a servant of Chaos (or just plainly a colossal asshole) and you ''will'' see what even the ''nice'' version of the Imperium Of Man can breed in terms of warriors... |
| 269 | * SeenItAll: This kid pretty much has the "Insanely Faithful", "Jaded" and "Unshakeable Faith" Talents on his ''TabletopGame/DarkHeresy'' character sheet. The only way that the Ryōzanpaku "Scare Off With Sudden Burst Of Killing Intent Aura At Full Power" trick would get a rise out of him would be if it suddenly turned them into Daemons... and he would just try to fight them, nevertheless. |
| 270 | * SergeantRock: He's a veteran soldier and martial artist and doesn't scares easily. |
| 271 | * SwordAndGun: Typical CQC package for him. |
| 272 | * WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: His girlfriend is an [[AlternateSelf Altenate]] of [[Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple Miu]] [[Characters/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple Furinji]]. He is (by all means and purposes) a ProfessionalKiller and an OldSoldier. She is... ''not'' (in all seriousness, they would look ''less'' of an OddCouple if he was more like his canon self, and even then most of her Alternates are Kenichi-sexual). Her family knows this, and have done their damnedest to scare him off. His response was to challenge them for the right to date her and then pull off the artillery stunt mentioned above (he won, by the way. By the very specific rules of the [[ImpossibleTask challenge]], [[WorldsStrongestMan Hayato]] "[[RedBaron The Invincible Superman]]" Furinji was the first to ''flinch''). They are still planning on scaring him off (and pairing her with Kenichi or Ikki or even Sho (Kano)), but knowing how far he could go to protect her... |
| 273 | * WouldHitAGirl: Some of the deadliest monsters on his home universe (and the Core Timeline) are female. He knows this. If there is a threat, he takes care of the threat, by any means necessary-and to Hell with what the threat's sex was. |
| 274 | |
| 275 | !!"Corporal" Jack Lauren, (United Nation Special Agency NERV, Retired), Call Sign "Swamp Wolf", "Watcher Five" (Formerly Kaworu Nagisa/Tabris). |
| 276 | |
| 277 | A bad reincarnation, stuck on a post-apocalyptic hell-hole a hundred-plus years after WorldWarThree (on ''Louisiana'', no less)... bad things for the former Angel of Free Will. There were some blessings, though: not recalling his previous life and the hell it was, loyal companions, a nice man that he could (in a way) call "father", a wife, a kid... all of it brutally taken from him, be it by the raiders or by appearing on the Core Timeline. |
| 278 | |
| 279 | Appearing on The Line brought him more issues: his Angelic powers reappearing, the better part of his memories as Tabris/Kaworu coming back with the roar of a nuclear explosion, his family coming back to him, his child now a half-Angel, needs that he didn't had to deal with before (like paying the bills)... he entered the Stingray Security Services out of need, not duty. |
| 280 | |
| 281 | At least at first. He has forged himself a group of loyal Companions again. And it will be hell on Earth if he is forced to lose them again... |
| 282 | |
| 283 | |
| 284 | ---- |
| 285 | * AntiAntiChrist: The threats that come out of the woodwork looking for Tabris think he will just lie down and let them try to pull a takeover of the Angels with him as their puppet (or worse yet, that he is a walking Impact risk). He will definitely demonstrate he is not... most normally by killing them. |
| 286 | * BarrierWarrior: Uses his A.T. Field in a variety of offensive and defensive methods (like creating DeployableCover for his teammates). |
| 287 | * CompositeCharacter: Mostly his [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion original Anime interpretation]], with the ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' voice actor, a bit of the ''Rebuild'' Fanon (and kinda-canon earlier by way of ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'') of having suffered some kind of multiversal reincarnating loop... and most importantly, [[FusionFic fusioned]] with the ''Literature/{{Deathlands}}'' book series. And a bit of [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 The Spy]]. And maybe a bit of [[VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance Raiden]][=/=][[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Jack The Ripper]]... |
| 288 | * CrazyPrepared: He takes the [[Series/{{NCIS}} Marine rule of "Always Carry A Knife"]] and takes it up a notch, for starters. |
| 289 | * CrazySurvivalist: One of the best (if not ''the'' best) survival experts of the team. |
| 290 | * {{Determinator}}: Had to be one to survive as long as he did on the Literature/{{Deathlands}}, let alone not going psycho from the reincarnation loop before that. |
| 291 | * DeviousDaggers: ''Always'' carries with him about a dozen knives of various types (throwing, daggers, a small machete or two). |
| 292 | * HappilyMarried: And with a kid. |
| 293 | * HandCannon: His favorite sidearm is a [[http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Colt_Python .357 Colt Python revolver]] with six-inch barrel, Satin Stainless finish and rubberized grips. The gun almost looks comically big on his hands... ''[[BlownAcrossTheRoom almost]]''. |
| 294 | * HumanoidAbomination: Technically, he already was this on canon. He has no problem boosting the "abomination" presentation (probably by imitating a [[HillbillyHorrors demented hillbilly]] or TheFundamentalist-by way of-''Film/CapeFear'') for intimidation purposes. |
| 295 | * ScarilyCompetentTracker: Of the "can do a SherlockScan of your spoor and find your tracks even on concrete" type. |
| 296 | * ScarsAreForever: Has a scar on his face that twists the right side of his mouth into a slight "smile". |
| 297 | * SouthernFriedGenius: Born and raised on Louisiana. Changes with ease between simple southern wit (and survivalist mentality) and sophisticated knowledge. Slight Southern accent, too. |
| 298 | * SoftSpokenSadist: Maintains the ''Rebuild'' borderline-HAL-9000 manner of talking (when he needs to talk a lot). Is an absurdly brutal stealth assassin. Gets a lot less "soft-spoken" if pissed off, though. |
| 299 | * ThatManIsDead: In ''theory'', he wishes fervently for Kaworu/Tabris to be considered this. In ''practice'', the Core Timeline is loaded with threats that will not let it stay... |
| 300 | * WalkingArmory: The knives alone put him on this spot. And then there's his [[HandCannon Colt Python]], other secondary pistols he may carry, a long arm within easy reach, the portable survival gear on his pockets which may be adapted as an ImprovisedWeapon... |
| 301 | |
| 302 | !!"Gunnery Sergeant" Ryōga Hibiki (United States Marine Corps, Retired/Direct Action, Retired), Callsign "Bulldozer", "Watcher Six". |
| 303 | ---> ''"Any problem on Earth can be solved with the careful application of high explosives. The trick is not to be around when they go off."'' |
| 304 | |
| 305 | An Alternate of [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Ryōga Hibiki]] that comes from a timeline crossing over with the ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'' Role-Playing Game. Without the capacity (or at least the knowledge) for Ki powers that his other closer-to-canon Alternates had access to, he became a {{Transhuman}}, a citizen of the United States, and then a [[SemperFi Marine]], in that order. And everything looked good for him... until [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt The Fall]] happened. Killed in action, re-sleeved off-world, poor, he became a member of the mercenary group "Direct Action" and performed quite a lot of unsavory things for the sake of keeping the peace throughout the Solar System for some time... |
| 306 | |
| 307 | ...and he appeared on the Core Timeline, entering the Stingray Security Services for the sake of doing what he knew best, but for someone unquestionably on the side of angels. |
| 308 | |
| 309 | An expert in the art of demolitions and "leg-breaking" tactics, he is a real (and literal) one-man wrecking crew. |
| 310 | |
| 311 | |
| 312 | ---- |
| 313 | * BecauseImGoodAtIt: Essentially why he entered Stingray Security Services and is still a "mercenary". |
| 314 | * BerserkButton: Like other members of The Watchers, a good way to piss him off is if you insult or harm any other member of his team (and other people he likes) or the Services as a whole. He is also not a man who tolerates people insulting the Marines. |
| 315 | * BoisterousBruiser: A minor-key version. He's pretty prone to growled-out {{Badass Boast}}s in combat, but is not the "holler them constantly" type that is normal of the Trope. |
| 316 | * CompositeCharacter: Mostly his anime interpretation (which exposed the "heart of gold" part of JerkWithAHeartOfGold more often) and some of the less-brutal fanon stuff (like his lack of sense of direction being a kind of weird curse). He also has [[FusionFic some elements of]] [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 The Demoman]], [[Anime/GhostInTheShell Batou]] and [[Characters/GIJoeCOBRA Firefly]] (or at least the ''Film/GIJoeRetaliation'' (played by Creator/RayStevenson) version of him). |
| 317 | * DemolitionsExpert: While the other members of the team know how to use high explosives, he's pretty much the primary "expert" because of his immense experience and almost supernatural sense of where to place them for better use. |
| 318 | * {{Determinator}}: Give him an assignment. Not even death is going to stop his ass from trying to complete it. |
| 319 | * GeniusBruiser: Has a pretty high IQ and a pretty high knowledge of the regular technology of his time and stuff like computer hacking. |
| 320 | * IHitYouYouHitTheGround: His ''second'' most regular type of BadassBoast. ''First'' type is DontMakeMeDestroyYou. |
| 321 | * JustInTime[=/=]BigDamnHeroes: Turns out that his canonical lack of direction (at least for ''his'' family line) was a kind of curse that exchanged the capacity to find his direction on regular circumstances with the capacity to ''always'' be where he was needed the most in a time of dire need. The CurseEscapeClause was completed with his [[BrainUploading destructive uploading]] into his first {{Transhuman}} body, and now the good part of the spell remains. |
| 322 | * MadBomber: ''[[ProfessionalKiller Professional]]'' MadBomber. |
| 323 | * {{Nanomachines}}: Rather fond of using nano tech demolition drones to take out personnel/hyper-precision demo work (for ''less'' precise, demo work... well, that is why TNT was invented). |
| 324 | * NotAfraidToDie: When DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist for him, why ''would'' he? |
| 325 | * NoSenseOfDirection: AvertedTrope. See above. |
| 326 | * OddFriendship: With Ranma (an [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Imperial Guardsman]], even if "ex" and from a LighterAndSofter MirrorUniverse). Borderline HeterosexualLifePartners. |
| 327 | * ProHumanTranshuman: He's a member of a post-Singularity Fiction franchise and a pretty friendly fellow. |
| 328 | * SemperFi: Former Marine. Some of those who dislike him would like to apply the "Ex-" prefix for him, though. |
| 329 | * SergeantRock: He's a veteran soldier and he's very hard to scare. |
| 330 | %%* StuffBlowingUp: His . |
| 331 | * {{Transhuman}}: Of the ''Eclipse Phase'' type, with all that entails (such as DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist and [[BodySurf Body Surfing]]). |
| 332 | |
| 333 | !!"Private" Mackenzie "Mackey" Stingray (Knight Sabers, Retired), Callsign "Top Gear", "Watcher Seven" |
| 334 | ---> ''"Oh, man, what did you do '''now'''? The poor thing's suffering! Park it over there, will ya? I wanna see what I can do to fix it."'' |
| 335 | |
| 336 | An [[AlternateSelf Alternate]] version of [[Anime/BubblegumCrisis Mackey Stingray]] (the "2040" Voomer version of him) who has entered the Services. While Sylia feels enough of a connection to him to not wish him harm, nevertheless his luck has been to find himself on the regular adventures of a front-line combat unit, whether she tries to reassign the unit to "low stress" situations or not. His powers of "machine whispering" have made him the unit's primary mechanic. |
| 337 | |
| 338 | |
| 339 | ---- |
| 340 | |
| 341 | * AccidentalPervert: Happens to him often. At the very least, he's been (so far) quite capable of showing that it's ''accidental'' rather than him actually looking to do lecherous things. |
| 342 | * AdaptationNameChange: It's "Mack'''ey'''," ''not'' "Mackie" (the 2032/1980's OAV version's nickname). |
| 343 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: So prone to this (and so ''lethal'' at this) that he seems to have inherited his sister's bipolar disorder (he ''didn't''. Doesn't stops this from being the most regular "joke" reaction). |
| 344 | * {{Geek}}: Mechanical version. Doesn't helps that the Machine Whispering makes him feel things from the engines that your regular motor head can't. |
| 345 | * GlowingEyesOfDoom: When he's using the Machine Whispering at high power. |
| 346 | * IdenticalStranger: His passing resemblance to [[Anime/ElHazardTheMagnificentWorld Makoto Mizuhara]] and [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Shinji Ikari]] (to not mention ''[[Creator/SpikeSpencer sounding]]'' like Shinji Ikari) has been used for infiltration missions and decoy purposes a few times. |
| 347 | * MrFixit: The unit's primary field mechanic. As expected of his role, the one who most consistently pulls miracle repair jobs. |
| 348 | * RidiculouslyHumanRobot: A "Voomer" (bio-mechanical robot), pretty much near-unrecognizable from a regular human teen except for some things like being unable to grow up or the occasionally glowing eyes or how Boomers seem to have "Do Not Shoot This Guy" hard-wired into their brains. |
| 349 | * {{Technopath}}: Called "Machine Whispering" by the rest of the unit. The main difference between his version and Tieria's version is that Mackie's version works with any mechanical machine, regardless of whether it has computers or not-and depending on the circumstances probably won't be able to "hack" it, but will ''definitely'' know the best way to fix it for optimum performance. It also pretty much insta-hacks Boomer C.P.U.s and has a constant "invisibility" passive effect, which is kind of handy when the enemy deploys the things. |
| 350 | |
| 351 | !!"Warrant Officer" Nicol Amarfi (Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty, Retired), Callsign "Piano Man", "Watcher Eight". |
| 352 | --->''"Well, this looks like a pretty good crowd for a Saturday..."'' (DramaticGunCock) ''"Let's play."'' |
| 353 | |
| 354 | An Alternate version of [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED Nicol Amarfi]] who, after surviving nearly being cut in half by a Mecha-sized LaserBlade, both Valentine Wars and all miscellaneous kinds of hell, appeared on the Core Timeline and quit the ZAFT Armed Forces. |
| 355 | |
| 356 | ...alas, combat was a drug for him, and while he had seen the horrors that man could inflict on man for the sake of the stupidest of causes, he didn't wanted to (''completely'') quit, so he entered the Stingray Security Services. |
| 357 | |
| 358 | As a Coordinator, and a former ZAFT "Red Coat", Nicol is one of various members of the team who knows how to use HumongousMecha, the so-called "Gundams". |
| 359 | |
| 360 | Third-Generation Italian immigrant to the P.L.A.N.T.s, Second-Generation Coordinator of his family line. |
| 361 | |
| 362 | ---- |
| 363 | |
| 364 | * AcePilot: One of the "Red Coats" and former member of Le Creuset Team, who got a kill count of ''hundreds'' of enemies throughout two Bloody Valentine Wars (and his personal count includes ''an asteroid base fortress''). |
| 365 | * AttackDrone[=/=]TheTurretmaster: The team's primary drone user, of all types from the fully-sized "drop a blockbuster on you" Predator drones to the [[{{Nanomachines}} nanotech]]-sized surveillance and assassination variants to the HumongousMecha who require a remote control to be driven around. |
| 366 | * BadassLongcoat: [[StillWearingTheOldColors His ZAFT Red Coat]]. |
| 367 | * BerserkButton: Aside from the ones he shares with the rest of the team, he is also very tired of people insulting his home universe, his race, and he has also inherited [[Franchise/FullmetalAlchemist Edward's]] dislike for people insulting his size (you may get a pass if you called him "small" as a knee-jerk reaction, but if you are like Mustang and like to do it to rile his goat... well, there ''is'' such a thing as GoneHorriblyRight). |
| 368 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: As mentioned above on his backstory, he suffers a pretty minor bout of BloodKnight-hood. |
| 369 | * CoolHouse: Interior resembles that of Jerome's house on ''Film/{{Gattaca}}'', with a fancy upper floor and a lower MadScientistLaboratory for his drone engineering work. [[GattacaBabies The irony]] is not lost on him. |
| 370 | * CompositeCharacter: While he is mostly Nicol, there are some elements of [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 The Engineer]], [[Characters/MacrossFrontier Luca Angelloni]] and even a very tiny pinch of [[Franchise/FullmetalAlchemist Edward Elric]] mixed into him (courtesy of him and Ed [[ActorAllusion being voiced by]] Creator/RomiPark). |
| 371 | * EvilCounterpart: While "evil" may be stretching it, ''"Two Men And A Lightning Rod"'' appears to establish that he has something like this going on with Luca Angelloni (TheRuntAtTheEnd, [[PrivateMilitaryContractors mercs]], funny hairdo, AttackDrone user). |
| 372 | * GratuitousItalian: Occasionally belts out a phrase in Italian, [[PrecisionFStrike most probably an insult]] [[ClusterFBomb (or barrage of insults) of some type]]. |
| 373 | * NiceGuy: Genuinely a very nice person to meet. [[BewareTheNiceOnes Not a good idea to piss him off, though]]. |
| 374 | * TheRival: The short story ''[[http://www.deviantart.com/art/TWO-MEN-AND-A-LIGHTNING-ROD-119063291 Two Men And A Lightning Rod]]" seems to be setting [[Characters/MacrossFrontier Luca Angelloni]] as one. |
| 375 | * SparedByTheAdaptation: InUniverse example: he survived his HeroicSacrifice on (his timeline's version of) the first ''SEED'' series and went on to keep fighting throughout it and ''Destiny''. |
| 376 | * WickedCultured: Master piano player and composer. Knows some of the best stuff in life. Probability of him calling a drone strike on your head while he is listening to some Richard Clayderman... ''high''. |
| 377 | |
| 378 | !!"Warrant Officer" Rusty [=MacKenzie=] (Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty, Retired), Callsign "Hawkeye", "Watcher Nine". |
| 379 | --->''"Got it, Big Tin. Target sighted. Damn, he's moving FAST..."'' ('''BLAM!''') ''"Eliminated. Piece of cake."''. |
| 380 | |
| 381 | An Alternate version of [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED Rusty MacKenzie]] that appeared on The Line after the gunshot that supposedly killed him on the first episode of the show (to the point that he did not know at first whether he was dead or alive). Eventually he adapted, got some additional training, decided to make his own path (finding some issues with ZAFT)... and also developed a knack for impressive marksmanship, equal to that of the assassin "Bullseye" or some versions of "Hawkeye". |
| 382 | |
| 383 | The team called him the latter, much to his initial displeasure. |
| 384 | |
| 385 | Currently, he's the team's primary sniper (with a bit more experience in dealing with the Grid than the rest of them, as well), and has developed a rapport with team-member Tieria "Vowels" Erde. He has also married an Alternate version of Quorra. |
| 386 | |
| 387 | Third generation Scottish immigrant to the [=PLANTs=], second-generation Coordinator of his family line. |
| 388 | |
| 389 | ---- |
| 390 | |
| 391 | * AcePilot: Has less of a Mecha-on-mecha kill count that the rest of the Mecha pilots on the team, however he is still highly qualified with Mobile Suits. |
| 392 | * BadassLongcoat: A more regular raincoat on green colors on normal days, his ZAFT coat when he feels like wearing a "honor uniform". |
| 393 | * BraveScot: This version of Rusty has a (kind of faint) Scottish accent when he talks, and is a third-generation ''space'' Scotsman. Can become a ViolentGlaswegian if you piss him off ''too'' much. |
| 394 | * EmbarrassingNickname: At least at first, he was not keen to "Hawkeye" (expecting issues with Alternates of Barton). His wanted callsign, "Bullseye", probably would have brought the same trouble (so very snarky asshole vs. murderous psycho... the lesser of two evils, most probably. A real big one). |
| 395 | * {{Expy}}: InUniverse, people notice facts about him (his UK descendancy, his sniping expertise, his friendship with an Alternate of Tieria Erde) and ''immediately'' think "[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Lockon Stratos]]" (usually in the way of "Tieria is using him as a ReplacementGoldfish", which ''pisses the whole team off''). |
| 396 | %%* FieryRedhead |
| 397 | * FriendlySniper: He's a Hawkeye-style "aw, shucks" kind of guy, and he can put a round between your eyes all the way from Earth orbit. |
| 398 | * HappilyMarried: With an Alternate of [[Film/TRONLegacy Quorra]] (who first appears on the short story ''"[[http://www.deviantart.com/art/CLINE-Shooting-Skeets-at-Night-196616511 Shooting Skeets At Night]]"''). |
| 399 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: With Tieria and the rest of the ex-Le Creuset Team members. |
| 400 | * ImprobableAimingSkills: How "improbable"? He has an orbital marksmanship qualification -- meaning that he can shoot things ''on'' and ''from'' Earth orbit, at the ''closest'' (depends greatly on things like available weaponry, of course). He can also kill things with anything he can throw or flick, even fingernails. |
| 401 | * OCStandIn: There are exactly seven things that are known about the canonical Rusty [=MacKenzie=]: that he was a Red Coat, that he was part of the Le Creuset Team, that he was a redhead, that he had blue eyes, that he was a NiceGuy, that he got some of the highest marksmanship scores of the team (and on some versions, ''the'' highest), [[WeHardlyKnewYe and that he was the first of the team to buy it, all the way on the Heliopolis raid/first episode of SEED]]. This is TheConstant between versions of Rusty throughout the Multiverse-''everything else'' can change. And this version of Rusty is not exempt. |
| 402 | |
| 403 | !!"Warrant Officer" Tieria Erde (Celestial Being, Retired), Callsign "Vowels", "Watcher Ten". |
| 404 | --->''"Greetings, Nabiki Tendo. I just hacked your computer, so unless you want to lose everything you have been working on for the last year and a half, and make sure people believe you are not worthy to be a human being, I will ask you to at least bother to listen to what I have to propose..."''. |
| 405 | |
| 406 | An Alternate version of [[Characters/MobileSuitGundam00GundamMeisters Tieria Erde]] who defected from Celestial Being and became a member of Stingray Security Services, "Vowels" (as he was nick-named) is incredibly loyal to his team. Being cut off from the VEDA super-computer in punishment for his betrayal came with an unforeseen fringe benefit: it kicked in a mutation that turned him into a Technopath, capable of hacking computers with his mind. |
| 407 | |
| 408 | Currently dating an Alternate of [[Literature/LostUniverse Canal Vorfeed]]. |
| 409 | |
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| 411 | |
| 412 | * AcePilot: And now pretty damn deadly ''outside'' of the Gundam, too. |
| 413 | * AdaptationalCurves: TrainingFromHell to be up to the level of other frontline members of the Stingray Security Services and qualify for soldier work means that he has gained some more muscle on his frame that the regular Tieria Erde Alternate (although he remains pretty wiry-think Creator/BruceLee). Has not done much to stop him from looking "girly", though. |
| 414 | * ArtificialHuman: An Innovade (vat-grown gene-modified humanoids meant for the Schenberg Plan). |
| 415 | * AscendedFanon: InUniverse, the usage of his FanNickname as his Watchers callsign. |
| 416 | * AttractiveBentGender: Has used his (admittedly girly) looks as infiltration material a few times. |
| 417 | * CursedWithAwesome: Having no connection to VEDA is seen as a FateWorseThanDeath by Innovades like Ribbons and a lot of Alternate versions of Tieria. He gained powerful {{Technopath}} abilities out of the deal. |
| 418 | * BadassBookworm[=/=]GeniusBruiser: He's one of the best-read members of the team, and an AcePilot qualified with (and having caused ''countless'' kills with) the [[http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/GN-005_Gundam_Virtue GN-005 Gundam Virtue]] and the [[http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/GN-008_Seravee_Gundam GN-008 Seravee Gundam]] (which would be better described as "[[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 The Heavy's]] Dream Gundam" if not for the existence of the [[http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/XXXG-01H_Gundam_Heavyarms Heavyarms]] and its variants). |
| 419 | * BerserkButton: While he is distrustful of Celestial Being nowadays, he ''still'' believes in its cause of world peace (like many ''Gundam'' characters do) and BloodKnight, "the world is better if it's an eternal battlefield where Humans Can Be Bastards Forever"-types will get a punch to the gut or at least a DeathGlare. Also, for the love of '''God''', do '''not''' insult Neil Dylandy (or his memory-not even being his brother will get you a pass). Like the rest of The Watchers, threatening the safety of each other or SSS is a good way for them to close ranks. |
| 420 | * DeathIsCheap: Like the other members of the team, he has an implanted Cortical Stack, has his memory backed up, and his Technopath powers guarantee that his mind will be entering any computers nearby if killed. His typical route to resurrection (memory going to VEDA) is cut off to him. |
| 421 | * TheDeterminator: He doesn't quits easy. |
| 422 | * FullNameBasis: Or "rank and last name" basis. Takes being acknowledged as a friend to change from being called in this fashion ''all'' of the time. |
| 423 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: With Rusty [=MacKenzie=] and the rest of the team. Sometimes shoots into OddCouple territory (as demonstrated in the story "''[[http://www.deviantart.com/art/TWO-MEN-AND-A-LIGHTNING-ROD-119063291 Two Men And A Lightning Rod]]''"). |
| 424 | * HunterOfHisOwnKind: Hunts down Alternate versions of Ribbons on his spare time (at the very least, by providing information of their whereabouts to other people). This Trope has expanded to having to occasionally deal with Celestial Being (and Alternate versions of ''himself'') during operations. |
| 425 | * PlayfulHacker: To his team. To his enemies (''especially'' to his enemies), he's TheCracker (and ''proud'' of it). |
| 426 | * ProHumanTranshuman: He was engineered from birth to be one of the next steps of human evolution and help the rest of mankind get there. |
| 427 | * RealMenWearPink: He still wears his pink cardigan when on civilian clothes and still wears his purple Celestial Being piloting suit (with some additional modifications like concealed armor plating). |
| 428 | * TheSpock: One of the members of the team more driven to maintain a logical mindset at all times (although not to the point of being a "cold son-of-a-bitch", though. Just play "Devil's Advocate", as expected of the FreudianTrio Trope (with the rest of the group switching between TheKirk and TheMcCoy, depending)). |
| 429 | * SupernaturalGoldEyes: Eyes glow gold when he's using his Technopath powers. |
| 430 | * {{Technopath}}: The power he (technically) had in the series with his connection to VEDA, now expanded into a full-blown example of this Trope after being cut off ''from'' VEDA. |
| 431 | |
| 432 | !!"Warrant Officer" Suzaku Kururugi (Britannian Army, Retired), Callsign "Wildcard", "Watcher Eleven". |
| 433 | --->''"[[Film/InsideMan Respect is the ultimate coin]]. All the power and respect of being Zero was not worth much if I couldn't face myself in the mirror. Sooner or later I'm definitely going to see the price for what I have done... before that, though, you'll forgive me if I decide to not sit around wallowing in my misery. Who knows? Maybe I'll make myself useful."'' |
| 434 | |
| 435 | An Alternate of [[Characters/CodeGeassMainCharacters Suzaku Kururugi]] (Post-"Zero Requiem") who appeared on the Core Timeline and defected to the United Kingdom (becoming a naturalized citizen), eventually being hired by Stingray Security Services. Formerly Knight Of Seven, Knight of Zero, and then Zero himself, he's the team's prime source of knowledge on Lelouch Lamperouge and Britannian hardware (and prime ''procurer'', with some contacts with Alternates of Lelouch and the Britannian underground), as well as a brutal close-quarters combat expert and a Geass/Code "dowsing rod". |
| 436 | |
| 437 | His mentality is... complicated. For the most part, he has left behind most of the things that (he felt) made him a horrible human being from his time as a Britannian (emphasis here, "''most''"). On the other hand, he has sacrificed a lot because of it, and he knows pretty well that (whether he wants to or not), ''someone'' or ''something'' will bring him to task for the sins he committed (as is wont to do on places like this)... to not mention still compartmentalizing Lelouch and Zero as a friend and a foe (made easier/harder because of the many Alternates of Lelouch ''and'' Zero running around, some good as a whole, some ''very'' evil). |
| 438 | |
| 439 | ---- |
| 440 | |
| 441 | * AcePilot: Behind the wheel of any Knightmare Frame (''especially'' a ''Lancelot''-Class), he is a terror worthy of his RedBaron nickname, the "White Grim Reaper". |
| 442 | * AntiHero: Sliding Scale Level 2.5, (KnightInSourArmor, PragmaticHero on justified events). |
| 443 | * TheAtoner: He knows pretty well that he has bloody hands. Doesn't stops him from trying to do good. |
| 444 | * BerserkButton: Racism in general (and "social" racism in specific (read: how "Elevens" were treated)) anger him. He also gets angry with people mistreating the Lamperouge siblings and Euphemia (if they are "good" Alternates). |
| 445 | * ByronicHero: Reardless of specifics, he has a few big sins and smaller stupid decisions to atone for. |
| 446 | * CompositeCharacter: Has some backstory elements of the TV Series and the "Suzaku Of The Counterattack" manga (killed father, man was thinking of making the Japanese fight to the last... but to buy time to save his own skin). |
| 447 | * CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Impressively powerful on a physical level. It is still unknown how much of this is just absurd training in general, SupernaturalMartialArts, good genes or some influence of the Geass (it varies from Suzaku to Suzaku, anycase). |
| 448 | * DeathSeeker: No longer ''actively'' looking for it, but he pretty much acknowledges that the TheoryOfNarrativeCausality ''may'' force him into RedemptionEqualsDeath whether he wants to or not. |
| 449 | * TheDeterminator: Tell him to do something and he'll do it, even if it kills him. |
| 450 | * DrillSergeantNasty: The group can be this any time they want, but Suzaku uses "old-school British" rules: HatesEveryoneEqually, ClusterFBomb, calling the TrainingFromHell "trying to give you a heart attack", etc. |
| 451 | * EmpoweredBadassNormal: On top of the insane physical skills he has, the "connection to the Geass" that the first season of ''Code Geass'' seemed to imply (although it became an AbortedArc by the second season) activated upon arrival [[MySignificanceSenseIsTingling as a "sense" that allows him to detect Geass and Code users (and people affected by the Geass) in a limited range]]. Also he has gotten his "Live!" Geass erased and rewritten, so he cannot be compelled by Geass again (unless this new Geass is removed by means like the Geass Canceller) and it no longer has the "commit war crimes to survive" part. This has happened to some other Alternates of Suzaku. |
| 452 | * IdenticalStranger: He resembles the [[Manga/CardcaptorSakura two]] [[Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle versions]] of Syaoran Li ([[spoiler:three, if we count the clone]]) and [[Characters/TheIrregularAtMagicHighSchool Masaki Ichijou]]. This has been used for infiltration repeatedly by the team. |
| 453 | * KnightInSourArmor: ''Surviving'' the events of ''Anime/CodeGeass'' does not a saint make. Still tries to fight the good fight-''someone'' has to, after all. |
| 454 | * ToKnowHimIMustBecomeHim: In being Zero for an unknown amount of time, he became knowledgeable of all of Lelouch's tricks. He ''cannot'' out-think Lelouch if he goes into XanatosSpeedChess mode, but he certainly has a good guess (and sometimes, the ''best'' guess) of what tricks he may pull when the team encounters him. |
| 455 | * TheMcCoy: The other members of the team may do what their hearts and minds tell him, but he's the one who is most prone to espouse the "HonorBeforeReason", "ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight" part of the equation (if nothing else, because ''someone'' has to play "Devil's Advocate" to it). |
| 456 | * NiceGuy: Has become much nicer since appearing on The Line. |
| 457 | * NoodlePeople: He is very thin (he was designed by CLAMP, after all-this thinness is normal amongst CLAMP Fictions, as well) but ''absurdly'' wiry with muscle (think Creator/BruceLee). |
| 458 | * PlayingCardMotifs: The Ace of Spades (his Britannian AcePilot status), the King of Hearts (the "Suicide King", for his (former) DeathSeeker mentality) and the Joker (TheFool), his call sign representing himself as a "WildCard". Deliberately changed into this motif to get away from the ChessMotifs of ''Code Geass'' canon. |
| 459 | * PoweredArmor: Classified for use of Centurions Assault Weapons Systems. |
| 460 | * RedemptionDemotion: InvokedTrope, with him starting to use his old rank as a Warrant Officer (when the Watchers bother to try to use rank and not seniority) rather than the "Knight" he climbed all the way up to in Britannia. |
| 461 | * StillWearingTheOldColors: His piloting outfit (and standard A.W.S. Exo-Suit) shares color designs/schemes with his old Lancelot pilot suit. |
| 462 | * TallDarkAndHandsome: 5 feet 9, MrFanservice in CLAMP way. |
| 463 | * TranslationConvention: InUniverse - On ''his'' version of the ''Anime/CodeGeass'' universe (as well as some others), the whole "Great Britain Conquers The World" thing means that everybody who speaks English speaks with ''The Queen's'' English. In his case, he speaks with a Received Pronunciation accent. It's a double-barreled convention: Japanese to English and ''differing types of English''. |
| 464 | * YouAreNumberSix / IronicNickname: He's the eleventh member of The Watchers (in order of becoming part of the team). The ''[[BerserkButton only]]'' way he will accept being called "Eleven" is if you are referring to this alternate callsign. |
| 465 | |
| 466 | !!"Commander" Athrun Zala (Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty, Retired/ORB Union Defense Forces, Retired), Callsign "The Judge","Watcher Twelve". |
| 467 | --->''"You know, I am not here to discuss about the rights and wrongs of war. Where I come from, people have discussed that hard and long enough to fill entire books."'' -phht!- ''"Entire '''LIBRARIES!'''. I am sure of one thing at this moment: We want peace to come, we want to try our best for '''peace''' to come? Then kicking your ass all over this fucking room will be a '''good start!'''" |
| 468 | |
| 469 | An Alternate of [[Characters/MobileSuitGundamSEED Athrun]] [[Characters/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Zala]], survivor of two Bloody Valentine Wars and coming to a world that provided him with no peace in body or mind and even less resources to survive. In a bit of desperation, he signed off to work for [[Series/{{Dollhouse}} the Rossum Corporation]], where he worked on its "dollhouses" until it was smashed on a Corporate War against Arasaka and the subsequent clean-up operation by the Los Angeles government. With his memories back (and checked thoroughly that he did not had "presents" left behind), he entered Stingray Security Services. |
| 470 | |
| 471 | The time as a Doll left behind a peculiar bonus: photographic reflexes and an incredible capacity for mimicry and being used to BodySurf technology, as well as an ease to learn other skills which he has adapted into a mastery in disguises and tactical adaptation, becoming an [[Literature/TakeshiKovacs Envoy]]. |
| 472 | |
| 473 | Third-Generation Hungarian immigrant to the [=PLANTs=], Second-Generation Coordinator of his family line. Leader of Fireteam Charlie. |
| 474 | ---- |
| 475 | * AcePilot: One of the deadliest pilots that both Bloody Valentines had (although there were even ''more'' deadly ones, without the benefit of a Gundam, in their defense). Skills have not been lost ''at all''. |
| 476 | * AppropriatedAppellation: His callsign, "The Judge", is because two out of his three signature Gundams had the word "Justice" on the name. |
| 477 | %%* AwesomenessByAnalysis: |
| 478 | * BioPunk: Out of the whole group, he's the biggest sufferer (for good and bad) of the genre, starting with his genetically modified Coordinator body and the Rossum BodySurf technology, continuing with ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'' and ''Literature/TakeshiKovacs''-verse techs that have made death absurdly cheap for him... |
| 479 | * TheDeterminator: Already has pretty high on this in canon, Envoy training has made him this to the point of resisting all but the most inhuman (or applied-by-OP-empowered-people) of tortures. |
| 480 | * GadgeteerGenius: Good with gizmos, Envoy training has made him deadly with MacGyvering. Unusually enough, canonically he has invented various "drones" (The Haros, Torii) and yet on The Watchers he's not the drone specialist. Turns out that he's got a liking for robots with Artificial Intelligence... and sometimes in combat the word for drone use is "ZergRush" (expendable, cheap, unthinking). |
| 481 | * TheGrinch: Unusually, he (sometimes) is this, but for ''Valentine's Day''. JustifiedTrope-both ''SEED''-verse wars were called ''"Bloody Valentines"'' for a reason-and he lost his mother on that day, as well. |
| 482 | * KnightInSourArmor: He fights on the side of angels. God knows he tries to be happy about it constantly. |
| 483 | * LeitMotif: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKA6lHblSbE "The City Surf"]]'', by Jamin Winans. |
| 484 | * MasterOfDisguise: His capacity for mimicry and additional training has turned him into the team's primary "face". |
| 485 | * NotAfraidToDie: DeathIsCheap for him now, so why worry? |
| 486 | * MrFanservice: Well, the ''SEED'' canon doesn't shies from showing his good looks (and there ''is'' a reason why he was hired by Rossum for the Dollhouse). He has lost most of his shyness about using said looks to achieve what he needs. |
| 487 | * PowerCopying: His memory allows him a version of the Taskmaster's ability to copy people's moves (although it takes some time for him to analyze the move (a few seconds to minutes to hours, depending on how complicated the move is and other factors like whether it is a Ki attack)-it is not immediate). |
| 488 | * PhotographicMemory: Athrun holds a more "regular" photographic memory that assists him on his infiltration missions. |
| 489 | * ProHumanTranshuman: Ironically, he's even more of a transhuman than Nicol and Rusty (also Coordinators) nowadays. |
| 490 | * TheScrounger: The whole team has expertise with "field acquisitions", but Athrun has an uncanny ability for it that has made him the primary specialist in this of the group. |
| 491 | * ShellShockedVeteran: Although has recovered from it nicely... still has no problem playing the "borderline demented vet" card if needed for an infiltration, though. |
| 492 | * SuperMode: S.E.E.D. ('''S'''uperior '''E'''volutionary '''E'''lement '''D'''estined) Mode. |
| 493 | * VoiceChangeling: His capacity for mimicry includes a capacity to change his voice and copy another person's (although he sometimes uses more regular gadgetry because it may approach that person's voice closer with advanced voice recognition, it is a skill useful to have on an emergency). |
| 494 | |
| 495 | [[/folder]] |
| 496 | |
| 497 | [[folder:Stingray Industries-Other Personnel]] |
| 498 | |
| 499 | !!'''Doctor Leonard "Bones" [=McCoy=]''' |
| 500 | --->'''[[ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder I am a Doctor, not a miracle worker!]]''' |
| 501 | ---- |
| 502 | |
| 503 | An Alternate version of [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Leonard "Bones" McCoy]] that is one of the chief doctors of the Stingray Industries Chicago Headquarters' Medical section. As is typical of Alternates of him, he is cantankerous and belligerent and doesn't particularly likes the fact that he has to deal with people who get hurt a lot and are going to remain in harm's way no matter how much he orders them not to. |
| 504 | |
| 505 | Not really that different from his Starfleet days, actually... and just like always, medical miracles are his specialty. Even if he would like all of his times saying otherwise to be true. |
| 506 | |
| 507 | First appears on the third chapter of ''Fanfic/RiseOfTheExtraordinaryAvengersCoreline''. |
| 508 | ---- |
| 509 | * ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: His EstablishingCharacterMoment's crowning line (and kind of a CatchPhrase, yes). As the TropeNamer, he certainly sees much use of it. |
| 510 | * {{Irony}}: His EstablishingCharacterMoment line is up there. The reason he was hired by Stingray Industries was precisely because of his reputation amongst Starfleet physicians of... well, being a miracle worker. And he still has not disappointed. |
| 511 | * TheMcCoy: He's the TropeNamer. |
| 512 | * SouthernFriedGenius: Born in Georgia, got his doctorate in Mississipi, is acknowledged to be one of the best doctors to have ever served in Starfleet. |
| 513 | * SuperDoc: S.I. would not entrust the medical welfare of the personnel of North American Headquarters, let alone people like The Champions, to any quack. |
| 514 | |
| 515 | !!Quorra [=MacKenzie=] |
| 516 | --->'''[[BorrowedCatchPhrase It's all]] [[Film/{{TRON}} in the wrist]]''' |
| 517 | ---- |
| 518 | |
| 519 | An Alternate of [[Film/TRONLegacy Quorra]], currently married to SSS Team Seven ("Watchers") member Rusty [=MacKenzie=] and who works for S.I.'s IT department. Her personal timeline is no different from that of the canon Quorra, up until the point she entered the IO beam with Sam Flynn and left the Grid... appearing on the Core Timeline instead. |
| 520 | |
| 521 | First appears on the short story ''[[http://www.deviantart.com/art/CLINE-Shooting-Skeets-at-Night-196616511 Shooting Skeets At Night]]''. |
| 522 | ---- |
| 523 | * ActionGirl: Pretty good Video Fighter, and a natural shooter as well. |
| 524 | * AffectionateNickname: "Q". |
| 525 | * ArtificialHuman: Real-World Manifested I.S.O. All TRON-verse Programs are this, when they are on the Real World. |
| 526 | * BadassBookworm: Likes to read "strong" stuff like Fyodor Dostoevsky. Can take on hostile programs by the dozen in close-quarters combat. |
| 527 | * BorrowedCatchPhrase: [[Film/{{TRON}} Kevin Flynn's]] "it's all in the wrist" at the end of "Shooting Skeets". |
| 528 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: CLU's coup and the thousand cycles up to the events of ''Film/TRONLegacy''. Showcased when she compares the equipment bolt-hole central to her introductory story with those of the anti-CLU Resistance. |
| 529 | * DeadlyDisc: Her Identity Disc is one of her signature weapons, alongside her LaserBlade. |
| 530 | * DualWielding, GunsAkimbo, SwordAndGun: Her preference to use weapons, as necessary. |
| 531 | %%* HappilyMarried: To Rusty. |
| 532 | * InstantExpert: ''"Shooting Skeets At Night"'' showcases that this even includes firearms (after some brief firearms safety instruction). |
| 533 | %%* JeanneDArchetype: |
| 534 | * LastOfHerKind: With the influx of many TRON-verse Fictions, including I.S.O.s, no longer the case. |
| 535 | * OlderThanTheyLook: She is a thousand-plus cycles old. Looks like a twenty-something girl. |
| 536 | * SciFiBobHaircut. |
| 537 | |
| 538 | !!Britanny Elin Diggers ("Cheetah/Autogirl"). |
| 539 | --->'''"[[PreAssKickingOneLiner You're soooooo NEXT!]]"''' |
| 540 | ---- |
| 541 | |
| 542 | An Alternate version of [[ComicBook/GoldDigger Britanny Elin Diggers]] that was/is Roger's girlfriend (and now is "alpha haremette"). Killed alongside Simon Peters, her soul was literally ripped out of Heaven several years after the fact and placed inside of a [[VideoGame/HostileWatersAntaeusRising Soulcatcher Chip]] manufactured by [[TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}} Aztechnology]], which was then put in an "Eraser"-a Franchise/{{Terminator}}-style infiltrator. Once said Eraser body was destroyed, the Soulcatcher was placed inside of a mini-computer and reunited with Simon (now called "Roger Hackett"). She is Roger's appointed "Muse"-an assistant Artificial Intelligence that helps him run his many cybernetic augmentations and provides battlefield intelligence, as well as [[DoubleEntendre other types of support]]. |
| 543 | |
| 544 | First appears on [=Gideon020=]'s stories (most important being "Eraser", parts one and two), followed by "[[Fanfic/CORELINETheGravityFallsRun The Gravity Falls Run]]" and onwards. |
| 545 | ---- |
| 546 | * ActionFashionista: Downplayed Trope--the 'fashionista' part has given way to a more 'action'-based outlook (meaning outfits that still look good (on her or her friends) but are either cheaper (and thus easier to replace when inevitably damaged in battle) or justify their price tag for having practical utilities (like a Saville Row Huntsman [[Film/KingsmanTheSecretService and Kingsman]] suit that costs thousands of Euros, but is a virtually indestructible yet stylish full-body armor)). |
| 547 | * AmazonianBeauty: Seven feet tall and (apparently) two hundred-plus pounds of pure shapely muscle. |
| 548 | * BattleCouple: With Roger, after their rebirths. |
| 549 | * DeadpanSnarker: She's okay with unleashing the occasional barb. |
| 550 | * DigitizedHacker: One of the side-augmentations of her digitization was an addition of skills and capabilities for hacking. |
| 551 | * InUniverseNickname: "Cheetah" (or "Cheets"-because of her being a were-cheetah), "Autogirl" (because of her [[ProjectedMan Projected Woman]] status and some additional powers resembling those of ''Series/{{Automan}}''. |
| 552 | * LightningBruiser: Strength tops normally at five tons, can move about as fast as Mach One (normally), and even ''before'' becoming a [[ProjectedMan Projected Woman]] it took pretty unconventional means of warfare (by ''Gold Digger''-verse {{Muggle}} standards, that was) to make significant (let alone fatal) damage. |
| 553 | * MsFanservice: Seven-foot AmazonianBeauty cheetah CatGirl with a propensity for very tight outfits (with her standard nowadays being a ''Tron''-style FutureSpandex) that can change between them in the blink of an eye (including [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 Head-Six's]] slinky red outfit) and is a pretty good definition of the term "ActionGirlfriend". |
| 554 | * NotSoImaginaryFriend: Connected to Roger's mind as she is, she has the capacity to appear to Roger alone, like [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 Head-Six]]. |
| 555 | * OppositesAttract: In reality it was more of a relationship built under fire, but Roger is quick to point out that who he was before dying (a total geek) just didn't had a chance in hell of getting even a one-night stand with ''Britanny'' Diggers (a grade-A hunk-chaser), let alone a relationship (probably would have made some head-way with ''Gina'' Diggers with the geekiness, but his looks weren't up to Gina's (even more man-crazy) standards). |
| 556 | * OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: A Were-Cheetah. |
| 557 | * OvershadowedByAwesome: She acknowledges that, despite her increased intelligence after becoming a digital being, she's still no match for Gina's scientific abilities or knowledge. |
| 558 | * PlayfulHacker: Her "upgrades" for becoming a Program included ''military-grade'' (by Post-Vanishing standards, which means it's capable of fighting super-hackers like [[Anime/GhostInTheShell Motoko Kusanagi]] and [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 the Cylons]], even if victory is not 100% assured) Information Warfare sub-routines and the knowledge of how to use them. |
| 559 | * ProjectedMan: Projected Woman. Her regular way to interact with the world is to project a HardLight hologram that is about as strong as she was (capability of lifting five tons), a ''hell'' of a lot faster than she was (alive, she could go supersonic for short periods of time, now that she is ''literal light''...) and allows her to instantly change clothing and [[ShockAndAwe electrocute people by touch or from a distance]], among other things. |
| 560 | * ProHumanTranshuman: Became a digital being and still likes to save the world. |
| 561 | * RobotsThinksFaster: Like most A.I., Brit perceives time much faster than most, especially since she was a speedster when she was organic. By her own account, 9 hours in '''4 days''' to her. |
| 562 | * ShoutOut: Look up on her InUniverseNickname. As well, her appearance most of the time resembles a ''Franchise/{{TRON}}''-style Program. |
| 563 | ** The "muses" are an important part of a ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'' character (since they are supposed to have grown alongside the Muse and all). |
| 564 | * SleepModeSize: Her human form (when she feels like using it) is five-foot-two in height ([[TinyGuyHugeGirl which is about the same height Roger normally has--even at total height expansion, she still towers a little over Roger's potential six-foot-eleven]]). |
| 565 | * StatuesqueStunner: Again, ''seven feet tall''. |
| 566 | * TronLines: Pretty much a constant on her outfits nowadays, being a Program and all. And of a nice golden color, too! |
| 567 | * VirtualGhost: She was literally yanked out of heaven and digitized. |
| 568 | * VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Her role in missions, when she is not projecting herself to assist in kicking ass. |
| 569 | |
| 570 | !!'''HAL-9000''' |
| 571 | ---> '''I'm sorry. I'm afraid I can't do that.''' |
| 572 | |
| 573 | An Alternate version of the [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey HAL-9000 computer]] that is the [[MasterComputer Administrative Artificial Intelligence]] of Stingray Industries Secondary Depot #46 (a.k.a. "The Bookstore"). First appears on the short story ''[[Fanfic/BlizzardsAndBookstores Blizzard And Bookstores]]''. |
| 574 | |
| 575 | * AIISACrapshoot: DefiedTrope: Knowing pretty well what he did on its home universe, an important part of Washu's modifications went into making damn sure that he ''would not'' be able to do that, including giving it the capacity to handle the need to not be truthful all of the time (otherwise the constant need to lie in order to keep The Bookstore's cover would drive him ''crazy''). |
| 576 | * CreepyMonotone: Like in the movie/universe it came from, HAL's voice is constantly calm and polite, which may sound pretty creepy at times, but relaxing in others. |
| 577 | * ComputerEqualsTapeDrive: It's mentioned that HAL's processing unit has a tape drive on the story he first appears on. Highly advanced tape ([[VideoGame/{{Fallout}} Holo-Tape]]), sure, but ''tape''. |
| 578 | * TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: InvertedTrope on his first story: after making an extensive analysis of Roger's mediocre performance at chess (by HAL's standards, including a LudicrousPrecision projection of how many games it would take for Roger to improve), he decides that [[RageQuit driving Roger to quit in frustration because of his inability to win]] would be bad (noticing that Roger started trying to play chess to be nice to HAL) and so he decides to "worsen" his game a little more. |
| 579 | * CyberCyclops: The lone red camera lens is still a central part of its core processing system. |
| 580 | * Expositron9000: He literally has "9000" in his name and he provides plenty of data on the status of the Bookstore. |
| 581 | * MasterComputer: His official designation as part of the Bookstore's personnel is "Administrative Artificial Intelligence". |
| 582 | * SapientShip: "Sapient bunker in the middle of Chicago", actually, but it still kind of fits. |
| 583 | * ServileSnarker: Even with his constantly polite tone of voice and vocabulary, occasional acts of Trolling may ensue (his first story has him delivering his iconic line to Roger in response to a request and waiting a {{Beat}} before explaining that he ''[[ExactWords literally]]'' cannot do that because of a malfunction). |
| 584 | * SmartPeoplePlayChess: "Blizzards and Bookstores" explains that it is HAL's favorite game, and being a super-computer, it is ''incredibly'' good at it. |
| 585 | * TouchedByVorlons: Does "Modified out the ears by [[Anime/TenchiMuyo Washu Hakubi]]" counts as this? |
| 586 | * WhatAPieceOfJunk: The highly modified HAL-9000 processing unit is described as a "Frankensteinian" hodge-podge of computer technology from all over the real-world and Fictional technological levels, anything from holographics and 3D Printers up to ''punch cards and clockwork''. Still, the result is a version of HAL that is more advanced than the standard 9000-series computer by leaps and bounds. |
| 587 | ** It also turned out that said Frankensteinian hodge-podge of computer systems saved him from being hacked by PROGENY, because many of them had literally hard-wired computer code and thus were impossible to corrupt. |
| 588 | |
| 589 | [[/folder]] |
| 590 | |
| 591 | [[folder:Stingray Industries-The Forge]] |
| 592 | !!'''THE FORGE''' |
| 593 | |
| 594 | A Stingray Industries facility that specializes in research and development, as well as experimenting with salvaged artifacts that have landed in the Core Timeline. Overseen by Susan Ivanova, there's no telling what exactly will be created by the geniuses who work at the Forge. All that can be certain is that...you wouldn't want to be on the wrong end of it. |
| 595 | |
| 596 | ---- |
| 597 | |
| 598 | !!'''Susan Ivanova''' |
| 599 | An Alternate of [[Series/BabylonFive Susan Ivanova]], who is in charge of the Forge. It's her responsibility to keep track of the many projects and experiments the scientists working there are cooking up. And while her former duties on Babylon 5 prepared her for some very strange things...she still finds herself baffled by the innovations being made on her watch.. |
| 600 | ---- |
| 601 | * BeleagueredBureaucrat: Has experience as one because of her time working for Earthforce, but it gets really annoying for her having to deal with all of the comic-book super-mad-science that Forge experiments create... and cause damage with. |
| 602 | * IronLady: Pretty much a necessity in her current position. Especially since she never knows what innovation her people are going to come up with next. Let alone what will happen if it doesn't work quite right. |
| 603 | |
| 604 | ---- |
| 605 | |
| 606 | !!'''Dr. Benton Quest''' |
| 607 | An Alternate of [[WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest Dr. Benton Quest]] that is Head Scientist of the Forge. He puts his considerable intellect to reverse-engineering alien technology, combining various sciences, and overall coming up with various technological miracles for the benefit of Stingray Industries. Sadly... they don't always work out as envisioned. |
| 608 | ---- |
| 609 | * BadassBookworm: He might be more comfortable working in a lab than being out in the field, but he's no stranger to being in physical peril. And using his considerable smarts to get out of it. |
| 610 | * OmnidisciplinaryScientist: It probably would be easier to list the amount of scientific fields he ''doesn't'' has at least some knowledge about (let alone is good at). |
| 611 | * PapaWolf: Seriously, ''don't'' ever try to hurt his son Jonny (or any other kid he's come to like). He'd probably be three-quarters of the day into going Heisenberg on your ass before he actually starts feeling doubtful. |
| 612 | |
| 613 | ---- |
| 614 | |
| 615 | !!'''Kanami Yuta''' |
| 616 | An Alternate of [[Anime/{{Scryed}} Kanami Yuta]] who lives at the Forge. Her Alter power was mutated, giving her the ability to dream of artifacts that will eventually arrive in the Core Timeline. As such, she's kept away from the world as much as possible, because her power makes her a tempting target for the greedy and cruel. |
| 617 | ---- |
| 618 | * DreamingOfThingsToCome: She has this power in addition to her canonical abilities, and can predict when things of value are about to arrive in the Core Timeline. |
| 619 | * NiceGirl: A little girl that is pretty lonely and says so, but still is pretty polite and soldiers on. |
| 620 | |
| 621 | ---- |
| 622 | |
| 623 | !!'''Jeremie Belpois''' |
| 624 | An Alternate of [[WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko Jeremie Belpois]] who lives at the Forge. |
| 625 | ---- |
| 626 | * AffectionateNickname: The InSeriesNickname of "Einstein" or "Brainiac". He certainly prefers to be called any of them over being called a "nerd". |
| 627 | * BadassBookworm: He is a pretty skilled ScienceHero with heavy experience as a PlayfulHacker and VoiceWithAnInternetConnection MissionControl, and has had to survive the occasional physical XANA threat. |
| 628 | * ForeheadOfDoom: He has a pretty large forehead. It's part of his character design. |
| 629 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Notably blonde-haired and the BigGod of his canon series. |
| 630 | * PlayfulHacker: Extremely good hacker and quite heroic. |
| 631 | * TakeUpMySword: One of his current assignments as a member of the Forge is find ways to make Franz Hopper's research beneficial for all mankind. |
| 632 | * TheSmartGuy: It's pretty much recognized that the brain between his ears is a much more precious resource for Stingray Industries than all of the guns and ammo a fire team can carry. |
| 633 | * TeenGenius: He's still in his teens and nevertheless is good enough on his field to become a member of S.I.'s top R&D team, with all the fringe benefits that it provides. |
| 634 | * TheShortGuyWithGlasses: In his defense, he's still pretty young. |
| 635 | * ShorterMeansSmarter: He's four-feet-ten and probably would be a teacher of computer science if he felt like it (and, at least in his home universe, it was actually legal). |
| 636 | |
| 637 | ---- |
| 638 | |
| 639 | !!'''Roger "Race" Bannon''' |
| 640 | An Alternate of [[WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest "Race" Bannon]] that is one of the assistants, best friends, and chief bodyguards of Dr. Quest. Veteran spy, soldier, pilot, and all-around badass, Bannon is someone you want on your side in a scrape. |
| 641 | ---- |
| 642 | * BrainsAndBrawn: He's the brawn to Benton Quest's brains. |
| 643 | * PapaWolf: His own kid Jessie and Jonny and Hadji primarily, as well as any other kid he's befriended. He will kick ass on their behalf and he's '''very''' good at it. |
| 644 | * RedShirt: As defied as it can get. His signature clothes include a fire-bus-red shirt and he's an immense badass that has survived a lot of crazy stuff even before being Dr. Quest's bodyguard ''or'' Emerging on the Core Timeline. |
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