Line #7 Characters/EarthTwentySevenMinutemen


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5	[[folder:In General]]
6	* AscendedExtra: While an important part of ''Watchmen'' backstory, it was more focused on their Crimebusters' successors. Here they even have a team of Legacy Characters.
7	* BadassCrew: Deconstructed. The Minutemen, while they can fight well, they are also very dysfunctional, and their relationships to each other varies from respect to apathy to outright hatred.
8	* BadassNormal: Unlike the Crimebusters, they were all normal humans.
9	* BreakingTheFellowship: After Silhouette is murdered and her death is avenged, the Minutemen break up. With many of its members either retiring or dying.
10	* TheCape: Deconstructed. Most of the Minutemen, despite their good intentions, included bigots, glory hounds and even an attempted rapist among their members.
11	* CelebritySuperhero: Many of them got into heroism more for the publicity than helping people. Dollar Bill got a movie franchise and Silk Spectre got a snuff film. Silhouette even became an LGBT and feminism symbol in the 21st century.
12	* CompositeCharacter: They take traits from the original comic, movie, and the ''Before Watchmen'' comics.
13	* DoubleStandard: Silhouette is kicked out of the Minutemen after being exposed as a lesbian. Two of the male members of the team were also homosexual, but did not ever get called out for this, presumably because their relationship was never made public.
14	* DwindlingParty: Starting with the death of Silhouette, the Minutemen slowly drop like flies, with everyone but Sally and Byron being murdered or dying in an accident.
15	* LegacyCharacter: They seem to have inspired a series of successors who have taken on their old identities, but if they're canon characters or OC's, it's unknown for now.
16	* NaziHunter: As the were created during WWII, they were often recruited to fight Nazis and Nazi sympathizers. One of their enemies is called Captain Axis.
17	* PosthumousCharacter: Many of them were already dead by the time of the Manhattaning, and by the modern day it is very unlikely any of them remain alive.
18	* PrecursorHero: They are the predecessors of the Crimebusters, who are the predecessors of nearly all heroes who came after.
19	* SlaveToPR: They were forced by Laurence to not deal with crimes like child trafficking because it wasn't "cheerful enough".
20	* TwoGirlsToATeam: Silhouette and Silk Spectre were the only two females of the original Minutemen.
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23	!!Original Members
24	[[folder:Captain Metropolis (Nelson Gardner)]]
25	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/captain_metropolis_classic_earth_27.jpg]]
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27	A former Marine who applied his knowledge of military strategy to crime-fighting. A very insecure and nervous person. Remained active until 1974, when he was decapitated in a car crash.
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29	* AuthorityInNameOnly: By the time he created the Crimebusters, he was too out of shape and practice to be an effective leader, forcing his second-in-command Ozymandias to step up as the true leader.
30	* {{Blackmail}}: It has been suggested that Nelson received high-marks in the military without promoting due to blackmailing key officers, perhaps by seducing them and then threatening to expose their affair. It has also been suggested that he used similar ploys to secure military contracts to acquire his fortune.
31	* BoomerangBigot: Was very conservative and reactionary like many white Americans of the 1950s...in spite of the fact that his being gay would be detested by such a group. He voted Ursula Zandt out of the Minutemen for having been revealed to the public as a lesbian as well.
32	* BrokenAce: In his prime, he was a confident leader and an ideal hero, being handsome, intelligent, charismatic and a skilled fighter and tactician. He was also a neurotic mess who was tortured by internalized homophobia and keeping his sexuality a secret and had to see his dream of heroes changing the world for the better die before him.
33	* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: An "M" on his chest, though its significantly more subtle than most examples.
34	* TheCape: Of all the characters, both first generation and second, he is one of the least cynical. To the point of {{Deconstruction}}, actually, as he [[WideEyedIdealist naively believed]] that superheroes and teams could be a force for positive social change, when most people regarded them as fad celebrities at best. His idea of positive social change [[NobleBigotWithABadge is also a bit reactionary, to say the least.]]
35	* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Bigotry aside, he did genuinely want to help people.
36	--> ''"Please! Don't all '''leave'''...Somebody has to do it, don't you see? '''Somebody''' has to save the world..."''
37	* {{Determinator}}: {{Deconstructed\|Trope}}. Continued attempting to uphold justice as a masked crimefighter well into middle-age, long after the other surviving Minutemen had retired after acknowledging their obsolescence or, in the Comedian's case, allowed cynicism to crush their pretensions of being a hero. While his doing this is presented as being admirable to a degree, it's mostly used to emphasize how ineffectual trying to be a superhero is at resolving the world's problems.
38	* DidNotThinkThisThrough: The massive societal and political problems of TheSixties are not going to be affected by some superheroes dressing up and taking on a supervillain, as the Comedian points out to him.
39	* GloryDays: Part of the reason he formed the Crimebusters was to recapture the glory of the Minutemen.
40	* HauledBeforeASenateSubcommittee: Was forced to testify and reveal his true identity to the HUAC. Thanks to his military record, he was cleared almost immediately.
41	* HeroicBuild: In his day. Toward the end of his career, he went to seed.
42	* HideYourGays: Because of the prejudices of the time, his relationship with Hooded Justice remained ambiguous, although it is very likely they were a thing.
43	* TheLeader: Was implicitly this for the Minutemen, being the one responsible for uniting them in the first place as well as the only one among them with the strategic knowhow to coordinate a team. By the time he attempted to form the Crimebusters, though, he had long since decayed to the point of being a LeaderWannabe.
44	* MilitarySuperhero: He was in the Marines which is where he learned both his combat skills and tactical skills.
45	* NeverFoundTheBody: It has been proposed that Nelson did not die in his car accident and used a body double to feign his death. The order to have his body cremated prevents any scientific dispelling of this theory.
46	* NobleBigotWithABadge: Racist and hidebound, but he means well enough.
47	* NonIndicativeName: In spite of taking the name Captain Metropolis, he was actually only a Lieutenant when he was in the Marines. Of course, "Lieutenant Metropolis" doesn't sound as catchy.
48	* PosthumousCharacter: Died in a car accident where he ended up decapitated.
49	* PrimaryColorChampion: His outfit was mostly red and blue.
50	* RelatedInTheAdaptation: His brother Lance Gardner is a dancer and model from the Wonder Woman comics. He's the great-uncle of Guy Gardner and his siblings Mace and Gloria Gardner through their father Roland Gardner. His great-niece Alexandra Gardner was the roommate of Caitlin Fairchild.
51	* SexSells: The reason he recruited Silk Spectre and Silhouette was ultimately to use them as MsFanservice to attract attention for the team and his cause.
52	* SicklyChildGrewUpStrong: Asthmatic and sickly as a child, but overcame it has he grew up, eventually joining the Marines.
53	* SmallStepsHero: Deconstructed. He wanted to use the Crimebusters to fight street-level crimes, hoping it would have a big impact on the world. Comedian flat out tells him that it won't help since they're on the verge of a nuclear apocalypse.
54	* StraightGay: Had an affair with Hooded Justice.
55	* SuperheroesWearCapes: He's got one.
56	* SuperZeroes: Probably the most conventional example in the story; a racist washed-up loser whose biggest scene is as a paunchy has-been desperately trying to claim that his moderate fighting skills will solve all the ills of America.
57	* ThrowTheDogABone: While he failed to keep the Crimebusters together, his actions helped inspire a new generation of heroes, including a second generation of Minutemen.
58	* UndignifiedDeath: Getting beheaded in a car accident is likely not the way a man who presented himself as TheCape would want to go out.
59	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: He accidentally inspired Ozymandias to commit the Manhattaning in the first place.
60	* WhiteDwarfStarlet: Captain Metropolis is a borderline male example; clinging to his heroic past and trying to organize a new team in the late 60s, despite the fact that where [[IWasQuiteALooker he was once dashing and handsome, he has since become a neurotic, paunchy mess]] whose prejudices have come to the fore.
61	* WideEyedIdealist: He honestly believes he and the new heroes of the 1960's can work together to solve society's issues and is heartbroken at realizing how powerless they and him especially really are.
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64	[[folder:Silk Spectre I (Sally Jupiter)]]
65	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/silk_spectre_classic_earth_27.jpg]]
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67	A founding member of the Minutemen and mother to Laurel Jane Juspeczyk (Silk Spectre II).
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69	* AbusiveParents: Her home life was so toxic, that she ran away at 16.
70	* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Whereas canon!Sally only had sex with The Comedian one time after Silhouette's funeral, this one had a continued affair with him until Laurie left the Crimebusters and they moved back to California.
71	* AwfulWeddedLife: Her affair with Eddie Blake and giving birth to his child didn't do any favors for her marriage with Larry Schexnayder, even after they had two children of their own, leading to their divorce in 1956.
72	* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Averted and deconstructed. She attempted this with Larry, but it failed and they still divorced in 1956.
73	* TheBeard: She was apparently in a relationship with the Hooded Justice to hide the affair between HJ and Captain Metropolis.
74	* BecomingTheBoast: A rare-third person example. Her first fights were staged, but she eventually learned how to genuinely fight.
75	* BrokenBird: She's a typical superstar tragedy story, except she's also coping with a failed marriage to her former agent, an estranged daughter, and a barely thwarted rape by a former comrade (and her subsequent self-loathing for later having his daughter).
76	* {{Burlesque}}: After lying about her age, she worked as a waitress and burlesque dancer after running away from home.
77	* CivvieSpandex: It's a showgirl costume.
78	* CompositeCharacter: Her history is a combination of the original comic and ''Before Watchmen'', while her appearance is based off of the film.
79	* ConsummateLiar: Laurie was known to claim her mother lied as easily as fish swim.
80	* DistractedByTheSexy: As part of her fighting style, Sally used her looks to distract her opponents.
81	* FakeDangerGambit: Sally's career consisted almost entirely of staged heroics by thwarting staged shop robberies using hired actors, which the stores usually go along with it for the free publicity.
82	* FashionableAsymmetry: Sally was known to wear a long black glove on her right arm as Silk Spectre. Even in her more revealing photo-shoots, Sally always kept her right arm covered or hidden. This was done to conceal scars from acid burns on her forearm and elbow, inflicted on her in her youth in Poland.
83	* FauxActionGirl: She started out as this since all her early fights were staged. Fortunately, [[TookALevelInBadass she grew out of this]] and became a true ActionGirl.
84	* FieryRedhead: When she was active, she was a real firecracker.
85	* GloryDays: A major reason for her pushing Laurie to become the next Silk Spectre was to recapture the excitement of her glory days.
86	* TheHeart: She served as this along with Lawrence Schexnayder, as all the members (except Silhouette) were very fond of her and the group fell apart after they left.
87	* HidingYourHeritage: Changed her name from Juspeczyk to cover up her Polish heritage.
88	* {{Hypocrite}}: She told Laurie to stay away from the Comedian, while continuing to have an affair with him.
89	* IDidntMeanToTurnYouOn: A dark example. Judging from dialogue and a couple of pictures, she and Eddie can be said to have been a bit flirtatious with each other while he was with the Minutemen, but she never took the flirtations seriously. However, he ''very clearly'' thought there was more going on there than there actually was and acted horribly upon it.
90	* KnightTemplarParent: Sally really wants Laurie to succeed at being a superhero, even at the cost of Laurie's personal life. Laurie feels that Sally is projecting on her.
91	* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The light to the Silhouette's dark in her Minutemen days.
92	* LegacyCharacter: Not only to her daughter, but her actions led to inspiring Laurel Drake to become Songbird and her daughters becoming the Black Canary and White Canary respectively.
93	* MsFanservice: What her role on the Minutemen equated to. Her costume showed off both her breasts and [[LegFocus legs]].
94	* MultiMeleeMaster: Sally was a capable fighter in the use of weapons such as lassos, brass knuckles, and knives.
95	* MyBelovedSmother: Laurie feels her mother put a lot of pressure on her to follow in her footsteps.
96	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: She voted to expel Ursula from the Minutemen when her sexuality was exposed, and she showed a lot of guilt when she was found murdered.
97	* NeverASelfMadeWoman: Sally's career was aggressively built by her husband/manager.
98	* NoodleIncident: How she got the scar right arm is unknown, even after her death. It is implied that her parents are responsible for it, which would explain why she never talked about it and why she ran from home in the first place.
99	* NominalHero: Sally is, as ever, in it for the publicity. This puts her at odds with many of her teammates, particularly Ursula, who willingly takes on difficult and unglamorous cases.
100	* PassFail: Changed her name from Juspeczyk to cover up her Polish heritage.
101	* PosthumousCharacter: While she was alive at the time of the Manhattaning, she passed away of natural causes at age 86 in 2006.
102	* ProudBeauty: She takes quite a bit of pride in her MsFanservice status, she wasn't even that bothered by her first film being an adult film.
103	* RelatedInTheAdaptation: With her husband Laurence Schexnayder she's the mother of Loren Jupiter, making her grandmother of Jarrod Jupiter and Lilith Clay.
104	* SilverFox: She's implied to have been this, since she could still fit into her old costume at 80.
105	* SlaveToPR: Sally refuses to help with depressing cases, because she wants the team's name (and her own) to be associated with happy, triumphant things in the minds of the public: Gang bosses, terrorists, or some new super-villain named... Moloch.
106	* StageMom: Coached her daughter to take up her profession.
107	* StockingFiller: She wears stockings and suspenders as Silk Spectre.
108	* ThrowTheDogABone: While still not quite the household name she once was, she still retains more of the fame she held from her super hero career than he canon-self did, making celebrity appearances at charity events and such. She's also implied to have [[SilverFox aged more gracefully]] than her canon-self did. She's also the only confirmed deceased Minutemen not to have been murdered, instead passing due to natural causes.
109	* TookALevelInBadass: Although her first fights were staged, she had to learn how to fight properly as a member of the Minutemen. Over the years, Sally became skilled in hand to hand combat using trickery, deception, and her overall agility to overcome opponents. She trained extensively in grappling and utilizing such methods as wrestling, jujitsu, judo, and kickboxing.
110	* WorldsMostBeautifulWoman: She was once called "The Most Beautiful Woman in Europe".
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113	[[folder:Nite-Owl I (Hollis Mason)]]
114	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nite_owl_classic_earth_27.jpg]]
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116	One of the first superheroes to fight crime, and a former police officer, Hollis Mason has since retired, revealed his identity and written an autobiography that provided dramatic insights into the world of superheroes.
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118	* AbusiveParents: After telling his father that he saw a friend of his kissing a man, his father beat him up and nearly killed him.
119	* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Animal Alias variety. Other than the color and some aesthetics, his outfit didn't look owl-like.
120	* BoxingBattler: His primary fighting style. He took down dozens of high profile criminals and even threats to national security during his years as a crimefighter.
121	* TheCape: Here, he's the original example, before even Superman.
122	* CoolOldGuy: He was always the nicest and most level-headed of the Minutemen, and he's only gotten better with age.
123	* DefiantToTheEnd: When goons attacked him, he managed to scare off all but one of them, who killed him.
124	* DominoMask: Wore one back in the day.
125	* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Motivated Byron to get his act together before he drank himself to death.
126	* HonoraryUncle: He's considered to be like an uncle to Laurie.
127	* IncompatibleOrientation: Developed a crush on his teammate Ursula, but she only liked him as a friend and couldn't reciprocate his feelings.
128	* LegacyCharacter: Not only did he inspire Dan to become the second Nite-Owl, he also serves as a partial inspiration for Batman.
129	* LovedByAll: Hollis becomes this by his life's end. His good work ethic and honesty made him a local hero out of uniform and in-uniform he became one of the most well liked heroes, even having a parade thrown for him in the end when he rescues a missing child. He's one of the only Minutemen to survive with his health and reputation intact, having escaped many of the scandals that claimed his companions.
130	* MentorArchetype: After his retirement, he took Dan under his wing to become the next Nite-Owl.
131	* MistakenIdentity: Killed because the second Nite-Owl broke Rorschach out of jail, and one guy in a drugged-up gang of top knots knows where "Nite-Owl" lives.
132	* OldSuperhero: He retired long before the Manhattaning occurred.
133	* OnlyFriend: Of Byron Lewis, being his constant partner and the one who kept the Mothman functioning, at least for a time.
134	* ParentalSubstitute: His mentor Moe Vernon, who helped inspire him to become a crime-fighter, especially after his own father Robert Mason beat Moe for being homosexual, driving him to commit suicide.
135	* PassingTheTorch: He retired and gave his codename to Dan Dreiberg.
136	* PrecociousCrush: As a kid, he had a crush on his English teacher Ms. Albertine.
137	* PlatonicLifePartners: He became close friends with Ursula Zandt, even revealing his identity and continuing her crusade against child trafficking after her murder.
138	* RelatedInTheAdaptation: His brother is Philip Mason, making him great-uncle of Hunter "Hun" Mason. His nephew Robert III Mason is the father of Rex Mason/Shift, and his great-niece is Courtney Mason/Anima. His niece Myra Mason is the wife of Charles [=McNider=]/Dr. Midnight. His nephew Gil Mason was a corrupt deputy commissioner from ''Batman: The Animated Series''.
139	* RetiredBadass: Even in his old age, he managed to fight off most of the top-knots that broke into his workshop until the last of them beat him to death.
140	* SecondLove: For Sally Jupiter, entering a long distance relationship with her and they were on one of their phone dates when he was attacked and killed at his workshop.
141	* InSpiteOfANail: It is believed if he hadn't been killed by gangsters, he just would've been killed in The Manhattaning.
142	* WhiteDwarfStarlet: Downplayed. While he's surrounded by his own memorabilia and has nothing to do but tell Dreiberg stories of his past exploits, he seems to have mostly made peace with his obsolescence.
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145	[[folder:Dollar Bill (William "Bill" Brady)]]
146	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dollar_bill_classic_earth_27.jpg]]
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148	A former star college athlete from Nebraska who was hired by a bank to be their in-house superhero. Died in 1947, when during an attempt to foil a bank robbery, his cape got caught in the door and he was shot.
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150	* AdaptationalHeroism: In canon, when he found out about Silhouette's death, he wrote it off as a punishment for being gay. Here, he regretted the role he played in her death and sought to avenge her.
151	* AllAmericanFace: He was designed to play this up. His background as a small-town college athlete definitely helps.
152	* AlliterativeName: '''B'''ill '''B'''enjamin '''B'''rady.
153	* TheCape: Both the attitude, and personified by the actual cape on his costume which gets him killed.
154	* CapeSnag: While attempting to stop a raid upon a National Bank, William's cape became entangled in the bank's revolving door and he was shot at point-blank range by the fleeing robbers before he could free it.
155	* CaptainPatriotic: His outfit has red and white stripes on a blue background, likely intended for this image by his sponsors.
156	* CareerEndingInjury: During the final game of the 1938 football season, while trying to sell his abilities, an opponent fell on his knee, ending his career before it could start.
157	* CorporateSponsoredSuperhero: He was made to wear a garish costume as one of the conditions of his sponsorship. The cape was caught in a revolving door, trapping him long enough for a crook to shoot him dead as he tried to stop a bank heist.
158	* FarmBoy: Grew up as one in the town of Waymore, Nebraska.
159	* FatalFlaw: Besides his costume, Bill's biggest flaw was his recklessness, which not only led to the end of his football career, it made him rush to the bank were he would be killed.
160	* GoodOldFisticuffs: After being roughed up, Dollar Bill underwent intense physical conditioning and hand-to-hand combat training. By 1942, he was considered on par with most professional boxers.
161	* HeroStageShow: Dollar Bill's day job is performing in a heroic stage show to entertain kids and promote a bank. At one point, he convinced Nite-Owl to join him.
162	* ImpracticallyFancyOutfit: The bank who sponsored him insisted that he wore the cape that led to his untimely death.
163	* LastDisrespects: After discovering The Liquidator's corpse, he spat and cussed at it. Can't say the creep didn't deserve it though.
164	* LightningBruiser: The fastest of the Minutemen and the strongest after Hooded Justice.
165	* MeaningfulName: "Bill" is part of his superhero name as well as his real name. His middle name is Benjamin, another slang term for money.
166	* NominalHero: He is more of an advertising ploy than an actual superhero.
167	* RelatedInTheAdaptation: His father was Benjamin "Wing" Brady, a pilot and later secret agent of the Foreign French Legion.
168	** His nephew Randall Brady was an editor for the Daily Planet in the ''Smallville'' series.
169	** His great-niece Emmaline "Mary" Brady-West is the mother of Wally West.
170	** His other great-niece Grace Brady, is the niece of John Sargent/Sargon the Sorcerer.
171	** His great-nephews Gabriel and Theodore "Teddy" Brady originate in the Wildstorm universe.
172	** Through his great-niece Eva Brady, he's the great-granduncle of Finnbar "Finn" Brady, the son of of Cheryl Constantine.
173	* SuperheroesWearCapes: Deconstructed, just like canon. His death showed how impractical wearing a cape is, and how wearing a cape led to his death.
174	* TookALevelInBadass: Despite being an actor, and afraid of getting shot, Bill follows Nite Owl and Hooded Justice into one of the banks he supported to fight the robbers. After that, he compares his experiences to playing football in college, and how the adrenaline got him going.
175	* UndignifiedDeath: Got shot up by a random bank robber after getting his cape stuck in a revolving door.
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178	[[folder:Mothman (Byron Lewis)]]
179	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mothman_classic_earth_27.jpg]]
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181	A self-made millionaire with a love of flight who decided to become a superhero both out of a desire to add spice to his life and out of guilt over his privileged lifestyle. Ultimately, his alcoholism turned him into a shell of his former self, and was eventually committed to a sanitarium.
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183	* AdaptationOriginConnection: On the day he suddenly awoke from his catatonic state, he motivated his cellmate, a twenty-one year old Drury Walker, to continue with his legacy.
184	* TheAlcoholic: Eventually committed to a sanitarium due to his alcoholism.
185	* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: ''Animal Alias'' variety, with moths as his theme.
186	* BatmanGrabsAGun: He grabbed a gun for the first time in his life to save Hollis from a Japanese soldier. He is so traumatized by what he did, he ends up being shot himself.
187	* BrokenBird: A male version of this trope. He wanted to make the world a better place, but injuries, the loss of his teammates and his alcoholism took a heavy toll on his mind and body.
188	* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In Earth-27 Byron Lewis died in an asylum and his last words were about going into the flame. In ''Doomsday Clock'' he dies by walking into a burning asylum.
189	* HauledBeforeASenateSubcommittee: Averted. Unlike the original comic, he isn't forced to testify before Congress, because he was already institutionalized at the time.
190	* IncompatibleOrientation: Developed a crush on his teammate Ursula, but she only liked him as a friend and couldn't reciprocate his feelings.
191	* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: At the ending of ''Hell Hath No Fury'', [[spoiler:he stays behind at the Soul Collection so Unity and Angie can escape Charaxes.]]
192	* LastOfItsKind: Officially at least, he was the last of the original Minutemen to die, passing away of a stroke in Arkham at age 94.
193	* LegacyCharacter: He accidentally inspired Drury Walker to become Killer Moth and his technology was later used by Nite-Owl II and Batman.
194	* MilitarySuperhero: Not as obvious as most examples, but he was an army medic before he became Mothman.
195	* NonActionGuy: He was never a fighter, and the only time he used a gun was to save Hollis from a Japanese saboteur, leaving him rattled at having taken a life.
196	* NotQuiteFlight: Thanks to the wings on his costume.
197	* PassingTheTorch: Helped Hollis mold Dan Dreiberg into a worthy successor of both of them, before committing himself to a sanatorium.
198	* SpiritAdvisor: His soul was preserved by Drury Walker in his soul collection, occasionally advising him when he's at The Dreaming.
199	* TokenGoodTeammate: Besides the Nite-Owls and Silhouette, he is the closest to a traditional hero in the Minutemen.
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202	[[folder:Silhouette (Ursula Zandt)]]
203	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/silhouette_earth_27.jpg]]
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205	The first female superhero and first openly gay one. She became a hero after she lost her family to Nazis.
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207	* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Unlike canon, where she snarked at Sally for being Polish, in this version she tells her to embrace her heritage.
208	* BlindedByRage: She was so determined to get revenge on her sister's killer, she nearly got herself and her girlfriend murdered by Nazi soldiers.
209	* BuryYourGays: Not long after being kicked out of the Minutemen, she was murdered in a hotel room alongside her girlfriend Gertrude by an old foe.
210	* DarkAndTroubledPast: She watched her parents get murdered by Nazis and she and her sister were kidnapped by fascists. Years later, she saw her sister get tortured and murdered by a Nazi too.
211	* DoomedMoralVictor: As the LGBT movement picked up steam and a culture of tolerance and acceptance took root in America and global popular culture, Ursula Zandt was resurrected -- as an icon of feminism and a pioneer of the LGBT movement.
212	* DudeMagnet: Both Hollis and Byron were attracted to her. Unfortunately for them [[IncompatibleOrientation she's gay]].
213	* DueToTheDead: Sally Jupiter felt genuinely saddened by her death and visited her grave during her birthday and the anniversary of her death. Byron also kept the location of their graves secret, to keep them away from those [[HeteronormativeCrusader who would defile it]].
214	* FriendToAllChildren: Her primary motivation for crimefighting is to protect children and made her debut fighting child abductors.
215	* TheGunslinger: Ursula learned to use handguns with remarkable accuracy in Europe and in her early days as a crimefighter. She maintained this proficiency until her death.
216	* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The dark feminine to the first Silk Spectre's light.
217	* LikeBrotherAndSister: She treated a young Eddie Blake almost like a younger brother, and it's very likely the Comedian was the one who avenged her.
218	* LipstickLesbian: Feminine-looking enough not to qualify as a ButchLesbian.
219	* MsFanservice: Like Sally, she was recruited for her sex appeal. Her hero costume shows off much of her chest. Her using a [[WhipOfDominance whip]] only increased her status as a Sex Symbol, given their association with the BDSM subculture.
220	* OfficialCouple: She was in a secret, but happy relationship with Gertrude Gruber.
221	* PetTheDog: Ursula is hardly a villain, but she's still closed-off and none too friendly with her fellow masked adventurers. She goes out of her way to combat child abuse and child trafficking in particular — it's not glamorous compared to catching wartime saboteurs and stopping bank robberies, but somebody has to think of the children. She also considers Hollis and Byron her friends.
222	* PlotTriggeringDeath: Her expulsion and later murder indirectly led to the dissolution of the Minutemen in the subsequent years.
223	* SacrificialLamb: When her sexual orientation (officially) became common knowledge, Laurence Schexnayder, the Minutemen's publicist, pushed hard to have her kicked off the team, as it would have hurt the group's image at a time when superheroes were falling out of favor.
224	* StatuesqueStunner: 5'9"/175cm tall, and was very beautiful.
225	* TakeUpMySword: Hollis Mason and Byron Lewis continued her crusade against child traffickers to honor her.
226	[[/folder]]
227
228	[[folder:The Comedian (Eddie Blake)]]
229	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/comedian_classic_earth_27.jpg]]
230	-> See the ''[[Characters/EarthTwentySevenCrimebusters Crimebusters]]'' page
231	[[/folder]]
232
233	[[folder:Hooded Justice]]
234	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hooded_justice__earth_27__variant_by_roysovitch_ddt4i2j_fullview.jpg]]
235
236	Hooded Justice was the first masked vigilante. Never appearing without his mask, his identity was a mystery to even his fellow Minutemen.
237	----
238	* AffectionateNickname: Sally called him "HJ" for short.
239	* AmbiguouslyBi: His sexuality is officially listed as Bisexual? He was at least in a relationship with Captain Metropolis.
240	* TheBerserker: In his first ever case as a vigilante, HJ beat up three street thugs so bad they lost the use of their legs for the rest of their life.
241	* TheBigGuy: The largest, strongest member of the Minutemen. Hooded Justice was known to be a world-class hand-to-hand combatant. His skills even seemed to dwarf those of the very talented Comedian, who many Minutemen believed to be afraid of Hooded Justice.
242	* BondageIsBad: His outfit invokes this and he is one of the most brutal vigilantes.
243	* TheBrute: An anti-heroic version. His fellow Minutemen claim they saw him kick men through brick walls on several occasions.
244	* TheCowl: He is a really intimidating vigilante by size alone and his beatings are savage.
245	* TheDreaded: Many criminals were known to have wet themselves when confronted by Hooded Justice. Several others immediately confessed to crimes when Hooded Justice approached them, even before he asked a question.
246	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: As extreme as he was, he did seem to genuinely care about [[TheBeard Sally]], and immediately came to her aid when he witnessed Blake attempting to force himself on her.
247	* GoodIsNotNice: He would have been a straight up villain if he didn't prey mostly on rapists and criminals.
248	* LightningBruiser: He was 6'4"/193cm tall, yet he was fast enough to beat and cripple three robbers with ease.
249	* MinorMajorCharacter: Hooded Justice is a fairly insignificant character within the conventions of the main plot, but is responsible for the setting branching off into an AlternateHistory through his actions as the world's first masked crimefighter.
250	* ShroudedInMyth: He might have been a circus strongman by the name of Rolf Muller. The implication is strong, but still somewhat ambiguous.
251	* TheSpook: His identity was never known and he promptly disappeared when people started asking questions, never to be seen again.
252	* StealthExpert: Hooded Justice was known to be highly elusive, able to enter and escape buildings even when they were highly guarded or surrounded. Hooded Justice would often startle his teammates by suddenly stepping out of a shadow and leaving them wondering if he had supernatural powers.
253	* SuperheroesWearCapes: Played with. His cape is decidedly more villainous-looking than the others, but he's still ultimately a (anti)hero.
254	* UncertainDoom: No one's sure if Hooded Justice is still alive.
255	* WifeBasherBasher: Seeing women hurt gets him furious. His first appearance involved him stopping a rape (crippling one of the attackers in the process), he beat the Comedian severely following his attack on Sally Jupiter.
256	[[/folder]]
257
258	!!Successors
259	[[folder:Captain Metropolis II]]
260	[[/folder]]
261
262	[[folder:Silhouette II]]
263	[[/folder]]
264
265	[[folder:Dollar Bill II]]
266	[[/folder]]
267
268	[[folder:Mothman II]]
269	[[/folder]]
270
271	[[folder:Hooded Justice II]]
272	[[/folder]]
273
274	[[folder:Rorschach II]]
275	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rorschach_ii_earth_27.jpg]]
276	The mysterious new Rorschach and member of the restored Minutemen.
277	----
278	* AffirmativeActionLegacy: A woman taking the mantle of a man.
279	* AmbiguousSituation: Her relation to Walter Kovacs, if any, is unknown.
280	* BadassLongcoat: A nice looking leather coat in better condition than the one Walter Kovacs used.
281	* CombatPragmatist: Rorschach appears to prefer to avoid fights whenever necessary though. When cornered, Rorschach is fond of using improvised weaponry to devastating effect.
282	* ExpressiveMask: Unlike the original Rorschach mask, she can consciously alter the image on the mask in place of its usually free-floating shifting.
283	* GeniusBruiser: Rorschach speaks in a manner that presents education. She also has shown proficiency in psychoanalysis, chemistry, biology, neurology, electronics, forensic pathology, and advanced mathematics.
284	* GoodOldFisticuffs: Rorschach is a capable close-quarters fighter, roughly equivalent to a SWAT Officer or Special Forces Military Operative.
285	* StealthExpert: Rorschach is quite stealthy and able to enter and exit secure facilities with relative ease.
286	* StrongAndSkilled: In contrast to her predecessor, she appears to have proper training in combat and investigation.
287	[[/folder]]

Context Characters / EarthTwentySevenMinutemen